VOL.  11.

GRAXD  R A PID S,  FE B R U A R Y   21,  1894.

NO.  544

SEED  HERCHANTS  AND  JOBBERS  OF

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Write or Wire for Prices  on  Round  Lots.

Grand.  Rapids,  Mich•
WHOLESALE  DEALERS 
IN 
AND  MANUFACTURERS  OF

Full  Line  ofConfectionery,

Extensive  Handlers  Of

FOREIGN  NUTS,
DATES,  FIGS,  ETC.

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SEE  QUOTATIONS.

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ilanufacturers’  Agent.

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every color.  Sign of big spectacles.

THE  BOGUS  MINE.

“This is a queer turn  of  affairs,  sure! 
To have been walking  Broadway  only  a 
week ago,  wearing civilized  clothes,  and 
now to be here in this sandy  little  town 
called Cactus  City,  on  the  very  edge  of 
Arizona, dressed like a cowboy!”

While  he  made  this  little  speech  to 
himself, Ben  Trumbuli was  gazing  into 
the small  and  uncertain  mirror  in  his 
room in the  Gold  Nugget  Hotel  in  Cac­
tus City, trying to admire by sections his 
broad sombrero hat, his red flannel  shirt, 
and the pair of new revolvers in the  belt 
at  his waist.

Incidentally, he  also  saw  reflected  in 
the glass a handsome boyish face,  a  pair 
of  gray eyes that had  looked  oat  upon 
the world  for  eighteen  years  or  there­
abouts,  and  wavy  chestnut  hair  that 
positively  refused  to  be  brushed  into 
smoothness.

“But the costume is  not  the  queerest 
part of it,” he  went on.  “To think  that 
such a  youngster as I should  have  been 
selected for such an important  and  diffi­
cult job.  And to be actually in  the  ser­
vice  of  the-----.  Well,  in  my 
first
twenty-four hours  here  I’ve  made  one 
good move  in  getting  acquainted  with 
‘Deadshot’  Horton. 
I  feel  half  sorry 
for him,  too, though I suppose  if  1  un­
earth the gang he’ll have to go  with  the 
rest.  But  he  talks  so  much  about  his 
folks  up  in  Nebraska,  and  thinks  so 
much of them, there must be  some  good 
in  him. 
It’s  about  time  he  was  here, 
too.”

The  words  were  hardly  out  of  his 
mouth before there came a heavy  rap  at 
the door, and when it was opened “Dead- 
shot” Horton walked  in.  He  was  con­
than  Ben  Trumbull, 
siderably  older 
probably 
ten  years  older,  and  much 
heavier, and  was  muscular.  But  not­
withstanding his  cowboy  dress  and  the 
very large revolvers in his  belt  and  the 
long spurs on his boots he  looked  like  a 
man to be trusted.

“If you can  assay  these  nuggets  for 
me, Mr. Trumbull,” were his  first words, 
after they had shaken hands,  “you’ll  be 
doing me a big  favor—the  biggest  kind 
of a favor.  And I don’t  doubt  you  can 
do it,  since you  say  you  can—only  you 
seem such a young chap  to  be  equal  to 
that kind of work.”

“There’s nothing  difficult about that,” 
Ben 
laughingly  replied,  “even  for  a 
young chap.  You know 1  am  fresh  out 
of  the School of Mines in New  York,  as 
I told you; and if I couldn’t  assay  a  bit 
of silver I’d have a poor chance  of  mak­
ing a fortune down here in Arizona.”

Ben had  brought with  him  from  the 
East an  assaying  outfit  and  in  a  short 
time was able to announce that the  nug­
gets contained  nearly  75  per  cent,  of 
pure silver.

Horton  let  himself  drop  back  into 
his chair,  and  Ben  saw 
that  his  eyes 
were moist.  For some moments he could 
not speak.

“It’s not for  myself  1  care  so  much, 
Mr. Trumbull,” he said,  at  length,  in  a 
husky voice.  “It’s such grand  news for

just 

the folks  at  home,  for  mother  aud  my 
little sisters.  And  it’s  good  news  for 
you,  too, Mr. Trumbull; for,  as 1 said,  I 
must  have a partner, lad.”

“Well, if you put  it  that  way,” Ben 
answered,  “you must tell  me  something 
about  it.  1  don’t  ask  you,  of  course, 
where your claim is.”

eight  miles 

and 
two  miles 

“It is this way,  lad,” Horton  said,  his 
voice still a  little  unsteady.  “You  see 
I’m working here for the Santa Maria Sil­
the
ver  Mining  Company, 
mines  are 
across 
the  border,  in  Mexico—that  makes 
them 
from  Cactus
City.  The Santa Maria is one of the old- 
time  Mexican  mines,  gone  into  new 
hands.  My business is  to guard the  sil­
ver ingots that they cast at the mine and 
send over here to Cactus City  every  day 
in a mule  wagon,  locked  up  in  a  big 
chest.  The silver goes  into  the  Cactus 
City bank, and I  get  my  receipt  for  it. 
Next day it is sent to Fairbauk,  the near­
est  railroad  station,  and  so  on  east. 
Every  evening I guard  that  chest  of  in­
gots till it  is locked up in the  bank,  and 
every  morning  I  see  the  chest  taken 
back to the mine.”

“Empty?” Ben asked.
“No. not empty,’’Horton replied;“ filled 
with  chemicals,  quicksilver,  all  sorts 
of mine  supplies.  Well,  in  going  over 
that eight miles twice every day,  I  have 
time to  look  ’round a  bit;  and  one  day 
while  the  mules  were  resting,  I  made 
my find.  That  was  nearly  two  months 
ago,  but I’ve not been sure  till  this  day 
that I’d struck the real stuff, for I’m  not 
an  educated  man  like  yourself,  Mr. 
Trumbull, and I was afraid  to  have  my 
metal  assayed  here 
in  Cactus  City 
Anyhow, I bought the land  for  a  song— 
it’s just over the border  in  Mexico—and 
I can hardly  believe even  now  that  it’s 
all  true.”

“Every day you bring in this  chrst  of 
ingots from  the  Santa  Maria,  do  you?” 
Ben  asked.

“Every blessed  day,  sir,”  Horton  re­
plied,  “Sundays and holidays included.”
“They must  be  making  money,” Ben 
suggested.  “I should like to go out with 
you some  day  and  have  a  look  at  the 
mine.”

“I’m sure I’d like to have you go, sir,” 
Horton answered,  “but it’s not  possible. 
They don’t allow  any  visitors  to go into 
the mine, nor to come about the place  at 
all.”

It was  late  that  night  before  Horton 
left  Ben’s room, and when he did go Ben 
was in possession of ail  the  information 
about the Santa Maria mine that his com­
panion  could  give  him.  Somehow  Ben 
seemed to take more interest in the Santa 
Maria mine than  in Horton’s great  find.

“I think I know an honest face when I 
see one,” Ben said to  himself  before  he 
went to bed, “and if it’s possible I’ll save 
that man, but I’ll  make sure of his inno­
cence first.

For the next  two  weeks  Ben  and  his 
new friends were  together  nearly  every 
night, for  Horton  slept  in  Cactus  City; 
but every day Ben was  out  attending  to

business,  “looking  for  some  chance  in 
the mining way,” as  he  said, meanwhile 
keeping an eye on the  Cactus  City  bank 
and the people who  visited  it,  and  mak­
ing  many  acquaintances—imbibing  in­
formation from them all,  without  giving 
much  about  himself.  Several times  he 
found it necessary to  ride  over  to  Fair- 
bank,  where the ingots were  shipped  by 
rail, and at one  time  he  disappeared en­
tirely for three days.

“Horton,  I want you to come up to my 
room before you start  in  the  morning,” 
he said to his friend, soon  after his mys­
terious  disappearance.  “Don’t fail  me, 
will  you?  It’s  very  important  for  us 
both.”

Horton  promised,  and  shortly  after 
daylight  the  next  morning  he  was  in 
Ben’s  room,  where  Ben  was  still  lying 
in bed.

“I’m going to ask you to do a very sur­
prising  thing  for  me, old  fellow.”  Ben 
said, sitting up in bed.  “There’s pencil 
and paper on the  table. 
I  want  you  to 
send  a  note  to  the  Cactus  City  Bank 
people, saying that you  are  not  able  to 
go out to the mines to-day,  and that  they 
must send somebody else in your place.”
“Not able to go to the mines!”  Horton 

exclaimed.  “Why,  lad, you know—”

“Yes, I know,” Ben  interrupted,  “but 
I want you to do it as a  particular  favor 
to me. 
I must have a long talk with you 
to-day.  You can trust me, can’t you?”

“I’m sure I can,  lad, but—”
“Hold on, then,”Ben interrupted again. 
“I’ll put  it  another way.  You  think  a 
great deal of  your  mother  aud  sisters,  I 
know.  For  their  sake,  sit  down  and 
write the note.”
Wonderingly Horton  obeyed, and  in  a 
few minutes  the  note  was  written  and 
sent.  But  with  all  his  questioning  he 
could  get  no  explanation  from  Ben  be­
fore  breakfast.  After  the  early  meal, 
when they had returned to the room, Ben 
carefully closed  the  door  and  unfolded 
his important business.
□ “I am going to give  you  a  plan, Hor­
ton,” he said,  “that will put  money into 
both  of  our  pockets. 
I  suppose  you 
know that, although the present value of 
silver is very low, stili a  silver  dollar  is 
worth a hundred cents. 
If  you  sell  the 
silver  from  your  projected  mine  by 
weight you  will  get  say  sixty  cents  an 
ounce for it. 
If you coin  it  into  dollars 
you get a dollar an ounce.”

“But that would be—”  Horton  inter­

rupted.

“Hold on!  Hear me out,” Ben contin­
ued.  “That  would  be counterfeiting, as 
you were about  to  say, even  though  we 
made  the  dollars  of  pure  silver. 
It 
would be in this country,  where  there  is 
a special law against it.  But your silver 
lies  just  across  the  border  in  Mexico, 
where American  dollars  could  be  made 
with  comparative  safety.  We  could 
make them at the  mine,  and  then  every 
day you could bring over a chest of  your 
own silver  dollars  instead of  a  chest  of 
somebody else’s silver ingots.  Just think 
how we could heap up the money!  Think 
of it, man!”

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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

“Deadshot” Horton sat with  his  head 

in his hands and made no reply.

“Think  of  it!”  Ben  repeated.  “Mil­

lions!  Millions!”

For more  than  a  minute  Horton  did 
not answer;  then he raised his  head and 
replied:

“You know it  is  not  for  myself, lad, 
that I want to make  money.  You know 
who it  is  for.  And  how  could  I  take 
money to my mother and my  sister  that 
I’d  made  by  counterfeiting?  No,  my 
lad, I couldn’t do  it,  and  what’s  more, 
you musn’t do it.  You're a smarter man 
than I am,  my boy,  and  you’ve  a  great 
deal  more  education,  but  I’ve  been  in 
the world longer than you  have  and I’ve 
had more experience;  and  take my word 
for  it,  money  made  that  way  is  not 
worth  having.  No,  Mr.  Trumbull,  I 
couldn’t do it;  and  you  mustn’t  either.” 
A pity it is  that there was  no  one  in 
the room to take a snap  shot  at  Ben  as 
he sprang forward  and  seized  Horton’s 
hand.

“Horton,  old  fellow,”  he  exclaimed, 
“you’re as good as gold. 
I was sure of it 
before,  but  since  I’ve  tried  you  I  am 
doubly sure. 
I  knew  you  wouldn’t  do 
such a thing no more  than  I  would, not 
for all the millions there might be  in  it. 
But I want to ask you a  question or two. 
Did you ever notice that when  you  took 
the chest back to the mines in  the morn­
ing it was always as  heavy as when  you 
brought it back here full of silver?”

“I’ve noticed  sometimes,” Horton  re­
plied,  “that  it  seemed  pretty  heavy. 
But  there’s  quicksilver 
in  it;  that’s 
heavy, you know.”

Ben went to  the  window  and  looked 

out.

“Now, I don’t have  to  be  mysterious 
any  longer,”  he  said;  “look  at  this 
crowd in the street.  They  are following 
the Cactus  City  Bank  people,  who have 
just been  arrested.  All  the  people  on 
this side the border who had  anything to 
do with the Santa Maria  mine  are wear­
ing  handcuffs  except  yourself. 
I  was 
sure  you were  innocent,  even  before  I 
tried to  tempt  you  a  moment  ago, and
that was  why  1  wanted  you  here with 
me  to-day. 
If  you  had  gone  to  your 
work you  would  be  wearing handcuffs, 
too.  But 1 couldn’t let you  go  out  and 
be arrested,  Horton, old fellow.” 

“Arrested!”  Horton  exclaimed.  “Is 
it for smuggling?  The stuff has all gone 
over  the  border without  paying  duty,  I 
suppose;  but that is not my fault.” 

“Much worse than that,”  Ben replied. 
“It’s  for  counterfeiting.  There  is  no 
Santa Maria Mine,  Horton.  Your entire 
company is nothing but a gang  of  coun­
terfeiters.  1  may  as  well  tell  you  at 
once that I am a secret service officer.” 

“You,  lad!”  Horton  exclaimed.  “Such 

a boy as you a detective!”

“Yes,” Ben laughed,  “such a boy as I. 
The government often selects  young fel­
lows to do  such work in  cases where old 
detectives  would  be  easily  recognized. 
1 was satisfied when I first got  here  that 
you had nothing  to do with it,  and  that 
you were working honestly for  the  com­
pany.  But the company is  nothing  but 
a gang of counterfeiters.  The  old  mine 
was  exhausted  centuries  ago,  and  all 
they mine there now is rock, just  for ap­
pearances. 
I ought to  know,  for  I have 
worked in the mine three days this week. 
And  the  Cactus  City  Bank  is  only  a 
blind.  All its  officers  are  members  of 
the gang—I have  thorough  evidence  of 
it.  What you  just now  indignantly  re­

fused  to  do  with  your  eyes  open, you \ 
have  been  doing  blindly  for  the  last j 
year.  These fellows get no  silver  from j 
their mine, but  they  have  been  buying \ 
silver in this country,  and you  have car- j 
ried  a  chestful  of  American  silver  to I 
them every  morning.  They  have  made 
this into silver  dollars,  real  silver  dol­
lars, and  you  have  brought  it  back  at 
night.  The  bank  people were  all  con­
federates. 
It  was  one  of  the  greatest 
counterfeiting  gangs  ever  organized. 
A party  of  United  States  officers  have 
been in  the  neighborhood  for  a  week, 
waiting for me to give  them  the  signal, 
and 1 gave it  last  night.  Those  of  the 
gang that are over  the  border will  come 
later,  but all who are in this  country are 
in custody.”
“And you have saved me from prison!” 
Horton exclaimed, seizing both  of  Ben’s 
hands.

from 

Molasses.

“No;  only  saved  you 

some 
trouble,”  Ben  answered.  “Your  inno­
cence could have  been  proved  in  time. 
But come, it is safe  for  us  to  go  now. 
To-morrow I  am  off  for  the  East,  to 
raise capital to open up  ‘Deadshot’  Hor­
ton’s (and  my)  silver  mine, and  make 
some honest money for us both.”
Attempt to Prevent the Adulteration  of 
N ew   Or lea n s,  La.,  Feb.  15—The 
Board of Health is out with an announce­
ment,  warning molasses factories  that  it 
proposes  to  prosecute parties  who  are 
engaged in  adulturating  molasses  with 
deleterious  and  poisonous  chemicals. 
These  substances  are  put  into 
the 
molasses to bleach it  and  give  a  bright 
color, and in  consequence  of  the  desire 
to  furnish  a  showy  article,  attractive 
to the eye,  there  appears  to  be  a  com­
plete  and  reckless  indifference  to  the 
wbolesomeness of the molasses.
The  molasses of Louisiana has  a  high 
reputation all  over the Union,  and until 
a recent  date  it  was  maintained  in  a 
condition of established  purity  and  ex­
cellence.  When, a  few  years  ago, 
the 
light-colored glucose syrup,  pretty tothe 
eye, but so deficient in  saccharine  quali­
ties as to be of little worth  as  an  edible 
sweet, came into notice, it suggested  the 
practicability of mixing it with the dark, 
rich Louisiana molasses, so  as to  gain  a 
brighter and more attractive syrup.
This mixing was  largely  done  at  the 
north, and  great  numbers  of  Louisiana 
cypress  molasses  barrels  were  shipped 
there to assist in  palming off the mixture 
as pure  Louisiana  molasses.  The  mix­
ing of  molasses  with  glucose,  provided 
the latter article  be pure, is not  deleter­
ious to health; but it was an  attempt  to 
pass  off  a  mixed  substance 
for  a 
pure  Louisiana  syrup,  and  thereby  a 
fraud is  practiced.  To  prevent  this,  a 
statute of Louisiana requires,  under pen­
alties, that the mixed  molasses  shall  be 
so marked.
But the mixing with glucose is not  the 
end of the efforts  to  deceive  purchasers 
of molasses. 
It is known that  the  addi­
tion of certain  chemicals  to  a  dark  or 
otherwise ill-colored  molasses  will  ren­
der it fair and showy,  but the substances 
so added are poisonous.  A good deal  of 
this sort of adulteration  has  been  prac­
ticed lately and several  months  ago  the 
Sugar  Exchange,  by  a  resoluion,  de­
nounced this  poisonous  bleaching  pro­
cess, and  requested the police  to  arrest 
all parties caught in the crime.
Commends Emancipation  from  Thrall- 
dom.
From the Vermontriile Echo.
We most heartily commend the  action 
of T h e  Mic h ig a n T radesm an in  its de­
termination to run its own business inde­
pendent of labor unions, strikes  or  boy­
cotts.  When labor unions  undertake  to 
monopolize the business of their employ­
ers and prevent the running  of  printing 
offices, factories or  trains, it is time that 
they  were  taught  that  their  employers 
have  rights  which  they  are  bound  to 
respect.

J O B B E R S   • - K

Groceries and Provisions,

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

Note  these  prices:

Butcher’s,  80-pound  Tubs..........................................................  10£
Butcher’s, Tierces.......................................................................   10£
Choice  P u re...........................................................................  9

WESTERN  MICHIGAN  AGENTS  FOR

6.  e.  HAMMOND  CO’S  SUPERIOR  BDTTERINE. 
A B S O L U T E   T E A .

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

SOLD  ONLY  BY

TELFER  SPICE  CO.,
M l ,   WriiM  &  Go’s

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

F I N E

C O F F E E S .
Royal Java,
Royal Java and Mocha, 
Aden  Mocha,
Mocha and Java Blend, 
White  House  Mocha  and 

Java,

Golden Santos,
Ex.  Golden  Rio,
No.  37  Blend.

We  have  trebled  our  coffee  business  since we  have  been 

handling these brands,  and  any  dealer can  do  the  same.

OLNEY I JUD8QN GROCER GO

Agents  Western  Michigan,  Grand  Rapids.

WOMEN  DEPOSITORS.

Bank  Cashier.

Interesting'  Experiences  of  a  Leading 
In  a  bank, a  few  days  ago,  a  woman 
sat in tbe cashier’s private office in earn­
est conversation with him.  A male  cus­
tomer waited  five, ten,  twenty  minutes. 
Then  she  left—slowly  and  with  many 
brief  returns, as is the way  of  women— 
and got into a handsome  carriage,  which 
stood in front of  the bank.  The  cashier 
wore a weary expression.

“That  is  one  of  our  depositors,”  he 
said.  “She came down town in response 
to  a  notice  that  her  account  is  over­
drawn.  She is  quite sure  that it is  not. 
Women are always right,  you  know, and 
the bank is always wrong.  She  has  her 
checkbook with tier, and she  showed  me 
that she ought  to  have  several  hundred 
dollars  to  her  credit  according  to  the 
balance there. 
I know that she  has not, 
but 1 have not  been  able  to  prove  it  to 
her.  She  has  probably  carried  an  old 
balance  over  from  one  stub  to  another 
without  deducting  the  amount  of  the 
checks on one stub. 
I ought  to  tell  her 
to hunt  np the  mistake  for  herself,  but 
that would not do.  She would be offended. 
So  I have  told  her  to  come  back  later, 
and I will spend my evening  at the office 
going  over  the  account.  You  cannot 
treat women as you would men.

“Women do not deposit  money for the 
purpose of saving  it.  They  never  in- 
crease their accounts by  small  deposits. 
This, of  course, excludes from consider­
ation the savings banks which are estab­
lished to encourage the habit  of  saving. 
With few exceptions the  bank  accounts 
of women are maintained  by  their  hus­
bands for the purpose  of  providing  for 
household expenses.  The  manjdoes not 
want  to  be  worried  with  household 
affairs, so he lets  his  wife  worry  away 
her life over  a  bank  account  while  he 
keeps his business  balance  down  town. 
Usually  the  husband  gives  his  wife  a 
certain sum each  month  which  she  de­
posits in her bank and draws upon.  This 
custom has become very common of  late
years.

“The  usual  deposit  is  about  $200  or 
perhaps $500 a month,”  said the cashier 
of one bank which handles  a  great  deal 
of  women’s  business.  Some  accounts 
run up to $750 a month.  This is intended 
simply  for  household  expenses  and 
spending  money.  Nearly  all  of  it  is 
drawn out before the month is up.  Does 
it pay to  handle  these  transient  sums? 
Ob,  yes. 
If  the  woman  starts  in  with 
$500 and draws out the  money  in  small 
amounts  her  balance  will  average  very 
well for the month.  And women are  no 
worse than men in this.  Very  few  men 
keep a heavy balance at the bank.”

“Is not the woman’s  business  a  great 
reporter 

source  of  annoyance?” 
asked.

“Very  great,”  he  answered  with  a 
sigh.  “Women want the  most  impossi­
ble and unbusinesslike  things  done  for 
them.  Nine women in ten have  not  the 
faintest idea of what they  have  a  right 
to ask of a bank official,  apparently  act­
ing on the assumption that he has nothing 
to do but cater to the whims and caprices 
of a few women.”

“And to refuse?”
“Is impolitic, if it is not impossible.  I 
have  learned  from  a  long  experience 
with  women  that  you  cannot  tell  them 
that they are imposing on  you. 
I  make 
it  a  rule  always  to  do  what  a  woman

the 

THE  MICMIGAJSr  TRADESMAN

8

asks of me if possible,  and  then  to  tell 
her that she  had  no  right  to  ask  it.  I 
know that the woman  has  no  idea  that 
she is asking what  is  not  right.  When 
you tell her that what she has asked was 
not a part of your duties,  she  is  always 
very  sorry—sometimes  very  unhappy 
about  it.  Women  are  usually  open  to 
reason if you approach them in the right 
way.  They  are  no  more  unreasonable 
than many men.”

Genius Appreciated.

“Say,”  said  the  business  man  to  the 
detective,  “some fellow has been running 
around through the country representing 
himself  as  a  collector of ours.  He has 
been taking in more money than  any  of 
the men we have, and I want him collared 
as quick as you can.”
“All right. I’ll have him in jail in less 
than a week.”
“Great Scott,  man!  I  don’t  want  him 
put in jail. 

I want to hire him.”

Out of a man’s mouth  may  come  two 
different stories at  tbe  same  time.  His 
words may  assert  that  he is out of work 
through misfortune;  his  breath  may tell 
that he is out of work through whisky.
Make good character before  you  com­
mence to make money.

H.  E.  GRAND-GIRARD. 

G rand-G irard.  &   Co.

M a n u fa ctu rin g  

P h a r m a c ists,

BELDEN  REAGAN,  M.  D.

DRUG  STOCKS  BOUGHT  AND  SOLD. 

DRUG  CLERK’S  EMPLOYMENT  BUREAU.

DRUG  BROKERS  AND  MANUFACTURERS’  AGENTS.

PORTER  BLOCK,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

Correspondence  Solicited. 

Promptness  Assured.

Michael  Kolb  &  Son,

Wtiolesale-i-ßlothiers

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

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

WM,  CONNOR,

MARSHALL,  MICH.

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of  tl)c  Uniteti  States  of America,

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To

H I 5 2 V K Y   K O C H ,   your  o l e r k s i ,   attorneys,  ager.j, 
s a l e s m e n   and  workmen,  and  all  claiming  or 
holding  through  or  under  you,

g r e e t i n g  :

Uîl)creas, ¡,

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

ENOCH  MORGAN'S  SONS  COMPANY,

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

How, (Lljcrcforc, we  do  strictly command and  perpetually  enjoin  you,  the  said  HENRY

KOCH,  your  clerks,  attorneys,  agents,  salesmen  and  workmen,  and  all  claiming  or  holding  through  or  under  you, 
unde^th^I>ain^**n^^penaUie^^whicl^ma2^^al^^JjJor^^oi^^*n(^^jach^o^jrou  ‘n  case  of  disobedience,  that  you  <! > 
absolutely  desist  and  refrain  from  in  any  manner  unlawfully  using  the  word  “ SAPOLIO,”  or  any  word  or  words 
substantially  similar  thereto  in  sound  or  appearance,  in  connection  with  the  manufacture  or  sale  of  any  scouring 
soap  not  made  or  produced  by  or  for  the  Complainant,  and  from  directly,  or  indirectly,

By  word  of  mouth  or  otherwise,  selling  or  delivering  as 

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

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

in  any  way  using  the  word  “ SAPOLIO”  in  any 

W i t a t is s ,

The  honorable  Melville  W.  F uller,  Chief  Justice  of 
United  St:  “s  of  America,  at  the  City  of  Trenton, 
Jersey,  this 
in  the  year  of 
eight  hundred  and  ninety-two.

i6th  day  of  December, 

[ s i g n e d ]

[ s e a l ]

ROWLAND  COX,

Complainant' •  Solicitor

the  Supreme  Court  of  the 
in  said  District  of  New 
thousand,
our  Lord,  one 

S.  D.  OLIPHANT,

Clerki

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.
Ironwood—The firm of H. Keese & Co., 
dealers in general merchandise,  and  one 
I of  the largest concerns  in  the  city,  has 
I dissolved, and T.  D.  Tates,  of  Chicago 
has taken  charge of the business for  the 
creditors and will convert the  stock  into 
cash. 
It is expected that all the creditors 
will be paid  in full.  The liabilities  are 
I $25,000, and the assets $50,000.

ization.

AMONG  THE  TRADE.

AROUND  THE  STATE.

Ovid—J. J. Bowen has sold his grocery 

stock to Florence Bowen.

Manton—Geo.  Thomas  has  embarked 

in the flour and feed business.

Saginaw—C. J.  May, of  the  hardware 

firm of C. J. May  & Co., is dead.

Saginaw—Fred  Jasper  succeeds  John 

Scheitberger in  the grocery business.

Elsie—H. G.  Pearce has  purchased the 

harness business of J.  W. Chamberlin.

Mason—Camden &  Mehan  succeed  C. 

R.  Henderson in the clothing business.

Sherman—A.  Bennett  &  Co.  succeed 
Morrell & Co.  in the  hardware  business.
Carson City—Wm.  C.  Smith  has  pur­
chased the meat market of G. C.  Culver.
Constantine—Litzenberger &  Browna- 
the  Constantine  Milling 

well  succeed 
Co.

Lansing—T. J. Champion  has removed 
his  boot  and  shoe  stock  to  Paulding, 
Ohio.

Bay  City—George  Washington  &  Co. 
have purchased the  grocery  stock  of  E. 
O’Connor.

Cheboygan—A.  D.  St.  John  has  sold 
his undertaking  establishment  to  J.  B. 
Bourrie.

Hudson—Pixley & Sweezy are succeed­
ed by Maynard & Sweezy in  the  grocery 
business.

Petersberg—Rouch & Elder  have  pur­
chased the  general  stock  of  George  P. 
Huntley.

Kalamazoo—N.  E.  Leighton  has  sold 
his drug stock to Dr. Nelson Abbott, late 
of Lima,  Ind.

Manistee—Ziemkoski  Jk  Jarka  will 
open a boot and shoe  and  clothing  store 
here March  15.

Coldwater—Phillips &  Marks  succeed 
Nana (Mrs.  Louis,  Jr.)  Phillips  in  the 
clothing business.

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

Menominee—The Delaware  &  Hudson 
Canal Co.  succeed  Underwood  &  Coman 
in the wholesale lumber business.

Mayville—Lawrason  &  Dawson,  boot 
and shoe  dealers,  have  dissolved, J.  H. 
Lawrason continuing the business.

Edmore—Geo.  D.  Lunn  has  sold  his 
drug stock to Frank E.  Heath, brother of 
Fred L.  Heath,  the Hastings druggist.

Mnskegon—Andrew Wierengo has con­
tracted with  Hancock  &  Son,  of  Grand 
Haven, for  1,000 cases of tomatoes, to  be 
delivered Oct.  1.

Charlotte—Church  &  Fenn  have  sold 
their grocery stock to  E.  S.  Rogers,  of 
Detroit,  who will  continue  the  business 
at the same location.

Saginaw—W.  F.  Twelvetrees  &  Co., 
dealers  in  stationery,  wall  paper  and 
fancy  goods,  have  dissolved,  W.  F. 
Twelvetrees continuing the business.

Wayland—Frank E.  Pickett  has  sold 
his interest in the produce  firm of  H. J. 
Slade & Co.  to Hiram Hudson.  The firm 
name will  remain the same as it has been 
heretofore.

Baldwin—M.  L.  Parker  has  sold  his 
interest in  the  firm  of  Parker  &  Son, 
proprietors of  the City  Meat  Market, to
B.  F. Cashion, and  the  business will  be 
continued under the  style  of  Parker  & 
Cashion.

Fennville—Raymond  &  Hutchinson 
have  obtained 
judgment  against  the 
Peach Creamery  Co.  to  the  amount  of 
$500,  for borrowed money, and the facto­
ry will probably be sold by the sheriff  to 
satisfy the claim.

Woodville—A. V.  Young, who has con­
ducted  a shoe business  at Big Rapids for 
eight years past,  has purchased  the  gen­
eral stock belonging to the West Michigan 
Lumber  Co.,  and will continue the busi­
ness in the store building which has been 
known  as  the  “company  store”  for  a 
dozen years past.  Mr.  Young  will con­
tinue the shoe  business  at  Big  Rapids, 
dividing  his  time  between  Big  Rapids 
and this place.

Vanderbilt—Harris & Savage  recently 
assigned their drug and grocery stock  to 
A.  Van  Auken. 
It  was  subsequently 
discovered that the assignment was void, 
when the firm uttered a mortgage  on  the 
stock and fixtures for $1,623.16, being the 
amount of the merchandise indebtedness, 
naming the R. P. Gustin Co., of Bay City, 
as trustee.  The  trustee  is  now  in  pos­
session and offers the stock, amounting to 
$2,200, at a considerable reduction.  The 
opening is a good one for a live man.

Dowagiac—A price war has  been  rag­
ing  between  the  retail  grocerymen  of 
Dowagiac, and one  dealer  recently  took 
advantage of  his  neighbor’s  low prices. 
The latter  procured  a  large  amount  of 
granulated sugar and  advertised  to  sell 
24 pounds for $1,  which was less than the 
wholesale  price.  A  competitor,  who 
knows a good  thing,  had  a  lot  of  boys 
buy his neighbor’s sugar and bring  it  to 
his store.  He emptied it into  his  barrel 
and sells 22 pounds for a $1.

Alpena—A. B.  McKenzie,  the  Alpena 
grocer, was taken to Bay  City  last  week 
by United States Deputy Marshal Weeks, 
having been  arrested on a  charge of sell­
ing  oleomargarine for dairy butter.  His 
examination  was  beguu before  Commis­
sioner McMath,  and,  after  several  wit­
nesses had been heard,  further  proceed­
ings were  postponed  for  10  days.  Mc­
Kenzie pleads  net  guilty  to  the  charge 
and says if any oleo was  sold  for  butter 
at his  store,  it  was  a  mistake  of  the 
clerks.  He has  sold  the  manufactured 
article for years, and  has  always  had  a 
license.

MANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

St.  Charles—Willis  &  Slawson,  are 
purchasing elm hoop  logs  and  paying $6 
and $7 a thousand.  They  are  also  pur­
chasing basswood logs for heading.

Detroit—The  Clover  Condensed  Milk 
Co.  has  increased  its  capital  stock  to 
$40,000,  of  which  $28,000 has been paid 
in,  with preferred stock to  the  value  of 
$15,000.

Saginaw’—The Cook Shingle Mill  Co.’s 
mill,  at  Blissville,  is  running  steadily, 
cutting 45,000 daily.  The stock  is being 
piled up for  future  shipment.  There  is 
a large amount of timber tributary to the 
mill.

Detroit—The Michigan  Stove  Co.  has 
amended its articles of association  so  as 
to vest the management and control of its 
business in a board of directors,  to  con­
sist  of not less than three nor more  than 
nine  stockholders.

Vernon—The Partition Box and  Pack­
ing Co.’s plant is meeting with  flattering 
success.  The people of  the  town  gave 
the  company a bonus of $12,000 to locate

here, and the pay roll aggregates $3,000 a 
month.  The  company  has  secured  one 
contract for  packing boxes that  will  re­
quire a car load every  day in 1894
Petoskey  Grocers  United  by  Organ­
P eto sk ey,  Feb.  14—The retail grocers 
and butchers of this  city have  organized 
an association to be  known  as  the  Gro­
cers’ Union of Petoskey.  The objects of 
the organization are to foster the highest 
commercial  integrity  and  increase  ac­
quaintanceship  among  members;  to  se­
cure immunity  from  inferior  and  adul­
terated goods, short weights and misrep­
resentation;  to enforce the  collection  of 
debts and guard against unnecessary  ex­
pansions of credits to unworthy  persons.
The  charter  members  of  the  associ­
ation are as follows:  J. Van  Zolenberg, 
L.  J.  Pettingill,  C.  C.  Hamiil  &  Co., 
Chas. Lang, J. W. Lott & Son, J. E. Del- 
zenne.  Geo.  W.  Bump,  S.  A.  Wilson, 
Rose &  Shafer,  G.  W.  Delzenne,  D.  N. 
White,  Major & Lyons, A.  D. Fochtman,
C.  A.  Bacon,  S.  Pettingill,  W.  H.  Van 
Gordon, Bert Wilson, Max  Spangenberg.
The officers of  the  Union  are  as  fol­
lows:
President—Geo. W.  Bump.
Vice-President—J. Van  Zolenberg and 
Secretary—J. W.  Lott.
Treasurer—Chas.  Bacon.
I shall take pleasure in forwarding you 
reports of our  meetings  regularly  here­
after for publication.

Wm. Major.

J. W.  L ott, Sec’y.

The Dry Goods Market.

There has been  another  sharp  cut  in 
American Blue prints to  4 % c.  This  is 
M c lower than the goods have ever been 
sold before, and retailers  would  do  well 
to order an assortment, as the  goods  can 
now be retailed at 6 c with a good margin.
Shirting prints are still 3% c.
Toile-du-Nords  and A.  F. C.  ginghams 
are still selling freely at 8)4 fc.
Outing flannels in qualities to retail  at 
8,  10 and 12%c are in good demand.
Bleached  and  brown  cottons  are  low 
with demand steady.
Sateens,  percales,  prints  and  fancy 
woven dress goods at popular prices  find 
ready sale.
Scrims, dotted Swiss muslins  and  dra­
peries are selling well,  with prices rang­
ing from 4 c to 15 c.
Dress  goods,  all  wool,  40  inch  cash­
meres, formerly sold at 38 and  40  c,  are 
now being jobbed  at  35 c.  Jobbers  are 
now selling 36 inch 25 c  goods  at  17>£ c, 
which is the lowest  price  ever  made  on 
these goods.

It isn’t  the  biggest  horn  that  makes 

the best music.

PRODUCE  M ARKET.

Apples—So scarce as to be  practically unquot­
able.  Handlers  pay  $1.50  per  bu.  for all offer­
ings of Spys and Baldwins, holding at $1.75.

Beans—Pea and medium are active and strong, 
with  increasing  demand.  Handlers  pay  $1.30 
for  country  cleaned  and  $1.40 
for  country 
picked, holding  city  cleaned  at  $1.55 in carlots 
and $1.6u in  less quantity.

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

Cabbage—'75c@$l per doz.
Cranberries—Jerseys  are slow sale, command 

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

Celery—Home  grown  commands  15@l8c  per 

doz.
Eggs—Dealers  pay  I3@14c  for strictly  fresh, 

holding  at  14@14c.

Field Seeds-Medium or mammoth clover, $5.75; 
Timothy, $2.10; Red Top, 90c; Orchard  grass  $2; 
Alsyke, $8.50.

Grapes— Malaga  are  in  moderate  demand  at 

$4.50 per keg of 55  lbs.  net.

Honey—White clover commands 14@15c per lb., 
dark  buckwheat  brings  12c.  Both  grades  are 
very scarce and hard to get.

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

Hickory nuts, $1.10 per bu.

Onions—Handlers  pay  45c,  holding  at  55c 

per bu.  Spanish are about out of market.

Potatoes—Handlers pay 40c for white stock and 
4  c for red, holding  at  10c  per  bu  above  those 
figures.

0 ;

Interest to Bootaprs.

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

WM.  H.  ALLEN,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.
Big D r iv e
IN ALL  SILK  (SAT.  EDGE)  RIBBONS.

A  

1  *  »

Having purchased  a  large  lot of 
All  Silk  Ribbons  at  the great per­
emptory sale in  New York for cash, 
we are enabled  to offer you the fol­
lowing bargains:
No.  5................................40c
No.  7................................52c
No.  9............................... 6 8 c
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 
mail orders.

Corl,  Knott &  Co.,

20-22  No  Division  St.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  HICH.

Owing to the  general  desire  of  merchants  to 
buy late this spring, we  will  continue to manu­
facture all staple lines up till  May 1. thus Insur­
ing  you  a  complete  line  to  select  from.

I

Our  Goods 

Are

Perfect  Fitters,

THOROUGHLY  MADE,  LOW  IN  PRICE.

H.  H.  COOPER  &  CO.
Men’s, Boys' dm man

Manufacturers of

UTICA,  N  Y .

Write J.  H.  WEBSTER,  State  Agent, 

OWOSSO,  MICH.

X  4

Paper  Packed 

Screw.

Manufacturers  and  Jobbers  of

PIECED  END  STAMPED  TINWARE,
GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH
Telephone«40. 

260  SOUTH  IONIA  ST., 

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

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GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

Pegler & Swartout  succeed  F.  Pegler 
in the meat business at 21 South Division 
street.

Scribner & Aldworth,  druggists  at  73 
Monroe  street,  have  disolved,  D.  C. 
Scribner continuing the business.

John Wormnest has opened  a  grocery 
store at 88 Grandville avenue.  The Lem­
on  &  Wheeler  Company  garnished  the 
stock.

Frank Gaskill,  of  the  former  firm  of 
Gaskili & Goss,  has  purchased  the  gro­
cery stock of G. O.  Emmons  at  202  East 
Bridge street.

Wm. VanZee has opened agroecry store 
at  the  corner  of  Lake avenue and Pack­
ard  street.  The Musselman Grocer  Co. 
garnished the stock.

The Champion  Cash  Register  Co.  has 
leased the  second  floor  of  the  Bissell 
block on Erie street,  and is  equipping  it 
with the  necessary  machinery  and  pat­
terns to  manufacture  metal  cash  regis­
ters under the patents  taken  out  by  H. 
M. Geiger.

Gripsack Brigade.

W.  U.  Ingham,  traveling  representa­
tive for L. C.  Wachsmuth & Co., clothing 
manufacturers of Chicago,  was  in  town 
one day last week.

F. G. Aldworth,  formerly  of  the  firm 
of Scribner & Aldworth,  has  re-engaged 
with John Wyeth & Sons,  with whom  he 
was identified  prior  to  his  engaging  in 
the  retail  business.  His  territory com­
prises the  States  of  Wisconsin,  Minne­
sota and South Dakota.

A. S.  Doak  (Hawkins & Co.)  has  been 
confined to his bed  for  two  weeks  with 
gastric fever and is likely to  be  laid  up 
for some time yet.  His  route  is  being 
covered in the meantime by Jas. Mclnnes, 
whose trade is being visited  by  Randall 
Hawkins.

The Star Accident Insurance  Co.  hav­
ing refused  to pay the  policy  issued  on 
the  life  of  George  Bcenhlein,  the  drug 
salesman who was killed in the Harmonie 
fire at Detroit, suit  has been brought  by 
the beneficiary,  Mr.  Boehnlein’s  mother, 
to  recover  the  amount  of  the  policy, 
$5,000.

Thos.  McLeod and  John  McLean  will 
arrive in  Grand  Rapids  Friday  and  re­
main over Sunday in the interest  of  the 
Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Associa­
tion.  They will meet the local traveling 
men for a friendly visit during their stay 
here, probably at the Morton  House  Sat­
urday evening.

Byron S.  Davenport was at Paris  most 
of last week,  attendant  upon the  bedside 
of his mother,  Mrs.  J.  Davenport,  who 
died Thursday evening from  the  results 
of la grippe.  The deceased was 72 years 
of age and had lived in Barton township, 
Newaygo county,  thirty-six years,  being 
one of the first settlers of that  township. 
The  deceased  leaves  five  children,  all 
men grown, four of whom were  constant 
attendants  at  her  deathbed  and  were 
present at her funeral,  which  was  held 
Saturday  forenoon  at  Paris,  the  inter­
ment being made in the Davenport ceme­
tery in Barton township.  Deceased  was 
a  most  estimable  person  and  will  be 
mourned by a large circle of  friends.

Hides,  Pelts  and Furs.

Hides—Prices were supposed  to  be  at 
the bottom, but the  close  last week  left 
them  at  worse  than  panic  figures.  A 
fall was predicted last week  and  it  has 
come.  No one can say,  at  present, just 
how low  they  will  go,  but  still  lower 
prices are  anticipated.  The  local  mar­
ket  remains  stationary,  as  prices were 
put down  in  expectation  of  the  slump 
which has occurred.

Pelts—Are steady at former prices.
Furs—Small business  for  the week at 

last week’s prices.

Purely Personal.

A.  Eckstine, general  dealer  at  Maple- 
ton, died Feb.  11, as the result of paraly­
sis.

C. G. A. Voigt &  Co.’s  Star  Mills  are 
closed for  repairs.  Grinding will  be  re­
sumed in about ten days.

Albert  Retan,  formerly  engaged 

in 
trade at Muir and St.  Johns,  bnt  now  a 
prosperous banker and real  estate dealer 
at Little  Bock,  Arkansas,  was  in  town 
several days last week.

No More Cutting at Manistee.

For some months  past the druggists  of 
Manistee have been by the ears and have 
been  cutting prices on patent  medicines. 
On  the occasion of L.  M.  Mills’  last visit 
to that city, he got the druggists together 
and persuaded them to sign an agreement 
to  put up a forfeit of $25,  to  be  covered 
into the treasury of the  Manistee  Indus­
trial  Home  In  case  any  party 
to  the 
agreement breaks  it.  All  the  druggists 
at Manistee, fifteen in  number,  are  par­
ties to the agreement.

.

Cutting on Patents at Lansing. 
The Homer  D. Luce drug stock,  which 
was recently taken on foreclosure sale by 
Mr. Clear,  is  being  closed  out  by  that 
gentleman  with  little  regard  for  the 
ethics of  trade  or  the  established  price 
for patents.  As a  result  of  the  break, 
C.  Alsdorf  & Son, That Thompson  Phar­
macy and Hedges & Gibson  (North  Lan­
sing) are meeting  the  cut.  The  other 
druggists  are  all  maintaining  prices, 
realizing  that  such  competition  is  not 
likely to last long.

Grains  and  Feedstuffs.

Wheat—The  market  fluctuated  some­
what last  week,  but  settled back  to  the 
previous  week’s  price  at  the  close,  at 
which figure  it  opened  this  week.  The 
local market  is  quiet,  farmers  holding 
for a raise,  the  present  price  50c  being 
no  temptation to  sell.

Flour—Unchanged,  but  as  stocks  are 
decreasing,  a change may be  expected in 
the near future.

Shakespeare  in  Court.

Downtown  Magistrate—“Now  what 
have you to say?  Did this man  hit  you 
first?”
Prisoner—“Yes,  yer  Honor;  ’twas  a 
hit, a palpable hit, as Shakespeare says.”
Magistrate—“Never mind what Shake­
speare  says.  He will  be  summoned  to 
testify for himself if he knows  anything 
about the case.”

Not  Adapted to the  Business.

won’t do at all.

Grocer—The  boy  you  recommended 
Customer—What has he been up to?
Grocer—I gave him a  sign to stick up, 
“All  the Delicacies  of  the  Season Will 
Be Found Inside,” and pasted  it  on  the 
garbage box.

It is more blessed to  be in  debt with a 
clear conscience than to  have  an abund­
ance of property cleared of  indebtedness 
by dishonest transactions.

It won’t do  any good  to  pray  for  the 
South Sea Islander as long  as  you won’t 
speak to the man who  lives  in  the  next 
bouse.

such 

zation of the B. M.  A.

Sensible Suggestions on  the  Reorgani­
Boyne City,  Feb.  13—You  ask  me  to 
define my  position  relative  to  the  reor­
ganization  of  the  Michigan  Business 
Men’s Association.  1 have felt for a long 
time that it was an organization of much 
value to  the average  business  man  and 
one that should be kept  intact.  1  think 
that it has some  very  business-like'  fea­
tures in  its system  of  collection  of  ac­
counts;  and,  for  all  its errors, it  must 
be  given  credit  for  the  collection  of 
thousands of dollars that would probably 
have remained to  this  day  on  the  ‘Dr.’ 
side of many a ledger had  it not been for 
its  Blue  Letter  system.  There  is  no 
doubt  that 
the  Blue  Letter,  while  it 
worked detriment in one seuse and caused 
many an ill  feeling  between  debtor  and 
creditor, had the beneficial effect of  stop­
ping many a  dead-beat from  contracting 
any further debts.  Right here let me di­
gress a little and pay a passing tribute to 
what 1 believe to be an erroneous  law on 
our statute books—I refer  to the  exemp­
tion of property from execution for honest 
debts.  While  the  framers  of  the law 
intended it to  benefit  certain  classes of 
laboring men, to prevent persecution and 
distress, it is altogether too general in  its 
operation  and fosters a  system  of  dead- 
beatism  little  less  reprehensible  than 
midnight  robbery.  The 
law  should 
that 
be 
shall 
every  man 
know  that,  when  he  buys  his  neigh ■ 
bor’s  goods  on 
time,  or  contracts 
an  honest  debt,  no  property  or  pos­
sessions of  his shall be  exempt,  or  any 
assignment tolerated,  until that  debt  is 
paid.  Give us such a law  and  we  shall 
see the dawn of the  reign  of  peace  and 
prosperity for the business man; and  for 
this let the battle rage until  our Legisla­
ture shall pass such a law  as  will  make 
men honest,  just  and  true,  instead  of 
educating  them  to  scouudrelism,  who 
would be honest if  the  law  would  make
hem so.
1 think  the  B.  M.  A.  should  be  re­
organized on  what  may  be  termed  the 
“county” or “district”  plan.  Let  every 
city and village in the county be subordi­
nate  to the county  association  and  that 
be auxiliary to the State, or parent organi­
zation.  The one great object of  this  or­
ganization should be a perfect system for 
the collection  of  debts  and  to  foster  a 
more  fraternal  and  kindly  relation  be­
tween all branches of trade, and between 
producer and consumer.  Let  each  asso­
ciation  elect  its  collecting  agent  and 
make it obligatory on the membership  to 
report to this agency every  thirty,  sixty 
or ninety days all uncollected or past due 
accounts and bills  to  be  collected  on  a 
commission  such  as  each  association 
might agree upon. 
I would advise  regu­
lar monthly meetings and quarterly meet­
ings  of  the  county  board,  and  annual 
meetings of  the  State  or  parent  board. 
Let the  State  or  parent  association  be 
composed  of  representatives  from  the 
county boards, based on a numerical sys­
tem.  At the quarterly county  meetings, 
every association in the county should be 
represented,  and  all  bills  of  accounts 
which are three months past due and are 
uncollectible  by process  of  law  should 
then and there be placed on a  list  to  be 
furnished  every  society  in  the  county 
and  adjoining  counties  and  no  further 
credit  be  extended 
the  parties 
whose names are on the list,  until all  ac­
counts  for  which  their  names  appear 
therefor  are paid. 
If such an  organiza­
tion could  be  effected  and  all  business 
men  heartily  co-operate  with  it,  I  be­
lieve it would be the  means  of  bringing 
about  great changes for the better in  all 
branches of trade; but in order to be  suc­
cessful  it must be universal and support­
ed by all.
There are many other things that might 
be added to profit,  but 1  have  written  a 
long letter—probably too  long—and will 
close  here  and  let  some  more  able 
speaker “have the floor.”

to 

F.  M. Chase.

The Drug’ Market.

Gum opium is steady  at  the  advance.
Morphi a is unchanged.
Quinine is firm.
Ammonias  have  all  advanced,  as  a 
large demand is looked for for use  in  ice 
manufacture.

Will Be Kept Informed.

Ei.mdale, Feb, 16—We note an  article 
in your issue of Feb.  14 in regard  to  the 
arrest and prosecution  of  a  peddler  for 
selling goods without a license  by  C.  K. 
Hoyt, of Hudsonville.  Will  you  kindly 
inform us through your paper  of  the  re­
sult.  as we are interested  in  the  matter 
and should  like  to  know if  the  law  is 
finally held constitutional.
We like your paper very much  and  do 
not see how we could  get  along without 
it. 

L.  E.  L o t t   & Bno.

FOR SALE,  WANTED,  ETC.

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

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

561

566

568

569

560

505.

TF YOU HAVE  A STOCK OF MERCHANDISE, 
A  a  farm,  or city property,  and desire  to  sell 
or exchange, we  can find  you  a  deal  at  once. 
We make a speialty of exchanges, both  In  farm 
property  ana  merchandise.  Address  Brisbin’s 
Real  Estate  &  Traders’  Exchange  Place, 
Lansing, Mich. 

FOR  SALE—CLEAN  GROCERY  AND  PRO- 

vision  stock  on  best  business  stand  in 
thriving  manufacturing 
In  Northern 
Michigan.  Excellent  opening  for  bakery  and 
crockery in connection.  Address  No.  561,  care 
Michigan Tradesman. 

town 

igan Tradesman. 

F or  sa le- a  w el l-se l e c t e d   stock

of merchandise  and  fine  farm,  pleasantly 
located,  store building and dwelling on  farm— 
a  choice  piece  of  property.  Address  No  566, 
care Michigan Tradesman 
ANTED—BANK STOCK  IN  ANY GRAND 
” »  Rapids  bank.  Must  be  cheap.  E.  A. 
Stowe, 100 Louis St. 
1 WANT  TO  BUY  A  LARGE  STOCK  OF 
A  merchandise  doing  extensive  paying  busi­
ness  Would pay cash if  stock  and  price  suit. 
G. W. Sharp. Stanton. Mich. 

FOR  EXCHANGE—IMPROVED  FARMS FOR 

merchandise.  Address No. 559, care  Mich­
559
AITANTE D—SITUATION  AS  GROCERY 
▼ v  Clerk.  Have had seven years’ experience. 
Good  references.  Address  C.  J.  Clark,  1003 
South Division street. Grand  Rapids. 

ence  strictly  confidential.  Address  222  N. 

erty for stocks of merchandise.  Correspond­

IHOR  EXCHANGE—FARM  AND CITY PROP- 
FOR  SALE—DRUGGIST’S  FIXTURES  SUi’H 

as bottles, drawers,  prescription  ease, etc., 
very  cheap.  Address,  Drawer  75,  Bangor, 
Mich. 
r p o   RENT—A  22x80  ROOM 
IN  BH1CK 
A.  block:  fine  location  for  clothing  store; 
good country trade.  Rent reasonable.  Address, 
H. D.  Harvey, Bangor. Mich 

Washington ave., Lansing. Mich. 

I  HAVE  $4.1X10 WORTH  OF DRY GOODS AND 
■  CLEAN  STOCK  OF  HARDWARE  DOING 

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. 
558
Conklin, 26 Madison ave., Grand  Rapids. 
a paying  cash  business  for  sale, 
lnven 
on  time.  Don’t  write  unless  you  have  the 
money and mean business.  Address Casn Hard­
ware, care of Michigan Tradesman. 
A1TANTED—STOCK  OF  GROCERIES  OR 
v V 
boots and shoes  in  exchange  for  Grand 
Rapids  real  estate.  State  size  of  stock  and 
where located.  Address  No. 554  care Michigan 
Tradesman. 
/"'IASH  FOR  STOCK  OF  MERCHANDISE' 
KJ  Must  be  cheap.  Address  No.  849,  care 
Michigan Tradesman. 
OR 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
fTlO  RENT—AFTER  FEBRUARY  1,  1894, 
-A  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. 

849

553

555

556

557

844

819

830

$2,500. 
ville,  Mich. 

factory  making  chamber 

SITUATIONS  WANTED.

Address S. S. Burnett, Lake  Ann, Mich. 

Saw Mill, with good power, to locate here. 

Sale;  good  trade,  cheap  for  spot  cash; 
Investigate.  Address  box  15,  Centre- 

suits,  beds, 
eighty men to advantage and  have some knowl­
edge of designing  and  drafting.  Apply  imme­
diately to E. A. Stowe, 100 Louis St. 

■  CLEAN  STOCK  OF  GROCERIES  FOR 
WANTED-WOODEN WARE  FACTORY  OR 
■WANTED—FOREMAN  FOR  FURNITURE 
K a n t e d—po sitio n  as  w in d o w   t r im -
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
W ANTED—A  PLACE  TO  WORK  BY  THE 
month or year on a farm by a steady mar­
ried man.  Please address “Reuben.” cate Mich­
562
igan Tradesman. 
■ ANTED—SITUATION  BY  PRACTICAL 

druggist; registered;  married;  thirty-five 
Would take care of  paying  store  for  share  of 
profits.  Address Box 85, Gobleville. Mich.  564
T  SAY.  MISTER,  CAN  YOU  GIVE  ME A JOB 
J.  by the day or month on  your farm?  I know 
my business.  Address 49  Dudley  Place,  Grand 
Rapids, Mich. 

563

567

554

the only delivery wagon In  town.  Stock  about 

Substantial  aid will  be  given  the  right  party 

tables, and desks.  Must be competent to handle 

tories *3,i 00. will sell for$2,00 (spotcash  balance 

years  of  age,  and  experienced  as  manager. 

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REPRESENTATIVE RETAILERS.

General Dealer.

Jacob  Heeringa,  tbe  East  Saugatuck 
Jacob Heeringa, general dealer atKast 
Saugatuck,  like so many of tbe best  citi 
zens of this  part  of  Michigan, is  a  Hoi 
lander, having first seen the light of  day 
in  that wonderful  little  country  called 
the Netherlands, in 1840.  When he  was 
7 years old the family emigrated to Amer­
ica. taking up their residence in Albany, 
N  Y.  Here they  remained  nine  years. 
During  a  considerable  portion  of  this 
period  Jacob  was  employed in  the Pre­
mium Coffee and Spice Mills, at that time 
owned by John Thomas, Jr. 
In 1856 bis 
parents came  to  this  State,  locating  on 
Government land in Lake Town, Allegan 
county.  The boy remained at  home  for 
three  years  after  coming  to  Michigan. 
When 19 years of age  he  left  home  and 
went to work in a sawmill at Saugatuck, 
his  earnings  materially assisting  in  the 
support of  the  family.  Twelve  dollars 
a  mouth  was  sawmill  wages  in  those 
early days, and that meager  amount  had 
to be  taken  in  trade.  High  prices  and 
low wages  made  it  peculiarly  hard  for 
early settlers.

In  September,  1861,  he  enlisted  in 
Company  A, 3d  Michigan  Cavalry,  and 
was First  Sergeant  of  his  company  for 
two years.  He re-enlisted  in  February, 
1864, and participated in  all  the  battles 
in which the veteran 3d Cavalry was  en­
gaged.  The hard service  of  the “Fight­
ing Third” proved, in the  end, too  much 
for  his  constitution,  and  he  was  sent 
home from  San  Antonio, Texas, on  sick 
furlough,  in  October.  1865,  being  mus­
tered out of service in April,  1866.

In the  same  year  he  was  married  to 
Miss  Ida Allen,  of  Grand  Haven.  He 
built a home  for  himself  in  Saugatuck, 
where he  resided  until  December,  1873, 
when he  purchased a small store “in the 
woods,” at East Saugatuck, where he has 
since resided.  The small store  has  long 
since disappeared and a larger  one,  well 
filled with  a  complete  stock  of  general 
merchandise, has  taken  its  place.  Mr. 
Heeringa also  owns  a  second  store,  lo­
cated about a mile from  the  first  estab­
lishment.

That  he  possesses  the  confidence  of 
the  community  in  which  he  resides  is 
abundantly shown  by  the  fact  that  for 
eighteen years he has been  a  member  of 
the School Board of his district, for fifteen 
years he has been a Justice of the  Peace, 
and  postmaster for fourteen  years.  Mr. 
Heeringa is not a rich man—he says him­
self he never  will be; but success  in  the 
truest and best  sense  is  not  gauged  by 
the amount of  a  man’s  bank? account— 
it is not a matter  of  dollars  and  cents. 
He may be as rich as  Croesus  and  yet  his 
life be an  utter  failure. 
In  this  sense 
Jacob Heeringa is not a rich man, but he 
has gained  a competence for himself and 
family;  has earned  and  retains  the  re­
spect and good will of the people  among 
whom he  has  lived, and  with  whom  he 
has done business for over twenty years, 
and, above all, is contented with  his lot. 
This is the best and  most  enduring  suc­
cess.

Mr.  Heeringa is a member  of  the  Hol­
land  Christian  Reformed  Church,  of 
which he is also an elder.

UNBLEACHED  COTTONS.

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BLEACHED  COTTONS.

B.........................5

“  Arrow Brand 4k
Adriatic.................  7  I 
Argyle....................  b%\ 
“  Worldwide.  6
“  LL..................414
Atlanta A A.............6 
Atlantic A..............  6*  Full Yard Wide...... 6)4
H...............6)4 Georgia  A.............. 6M
P ............   5  Honest Width........  6
D.............   6  Hartford A .............6

.  “  LL............. 4)4 Indian Head.............  5 ¡4
Amory.....................  65^ King A  A..................6*
Archery  Bunting...  4  [King E C ...............  5
Beaver Dam  A A..  43i|Lawrence  L L ........  4%
Blackstone O, 32—   5  ¡Madras cheese cloth 6?k
Black Crow............ 6  Newmarket  G..........5V
Black  Rock  ...........“ 
614
N 
Boot, AL................  7 
Capital  A ................514 
DD’.’."   5V
Cavanat V..............5)4 
X  .  . 
6V
Chapman cheesed.  33i Nolbe R..................  5
Clifton  C R ............ 5% Our Level  Best........ 6
Comet..................... 6  Oxford  R..................  6
Dwight Star............  SViPequot....................   7
Clifton CCC...........5% Solar.........................   6
¡Top of the  Heap 
7
ABC..................8Î4
Geo. Washington...  8
Amazon.................. 8
Glen Mills.............   7
Amsburg.................6
Gold Medal............ 7%
Art  Cambric..........10
Green  Ticket......... 8)4
Blackstone A A......  7)4
Great Falls.............   6)4
Beats All................   4
Hope......................... 7)4
Boston...................  12
Just  Out......   4J£@ 5
Cabot......................   63£
King  Phillip...........7k
Cabot,  %.................
OP.....  7)4 
Charter  Oak...........5)4
Lonsdale Cambric.. 10
Conway W..............  7)41 Lonsdale...........  @ 8V
Cleveland.............  6 
i Middlesex........   @5
Dwight Anchor__   8  No Name..................   7)4
shorts  8 ¡Oak View........ ....... 6
Edwards................. 6  Our Own.................... 5)4
Empire...................  7  ¡Pride of the West... 12
Farwell....................7)4 ¡Rosalind.....................7)4
Fruit of the  Loom.  8 ¡Sunlight.................... 4)4
Fltchvllle  ............  ?
Utica  Mills............ 8)4
First Prize..............  6
“  Nonpareil  ..10
Fruit of the Loom 
7)4
Vlnyard..................  8)4
Falrmount..............  4)4
White Horse...........6
Full Value..............6*
8)4
Cabot......................   6KI Dwight Anchor
Farwell...................7*41

Rock.
HALT  BLEACHED  COTTONS.

CANTON  FLANNEL.

Bleached.
....5)4 Housewife  Q...
-...5)4
H...
-.6)4
T ...
U ...
V ...
w ...
X...
Y...
Z  ...

Unbleached.
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Housewife  A...
B...
c . . .
D...
E ... --- 7
F ...
G  ..
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H...
....744
I.... ....8)4
J . . . ...  8)4
K ...
9*
L.  ..
...10
.10)4 
..11 
..21 
-14)4
CARPET  WARP.

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.6)4
-.7
• ■8)4 
• 8* 
.10 IO* 
.11)4 
.12)4 
13)4

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Integrity  colored..
White Star............

Peerless, white....... r
colored — 19 
Integrity................. 18)4
“ 
Hamilton................   8DRESS  SOOD8.
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G G  Cashmere........20
Nameless  ...............16
................18

“  colored. 19
Nameless............... 20
.................25
.................27)4
.................30
.................32)4
.. 
......... 35

10)4

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PRINTS.

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CORSET  JEANS.

COBS
Corallne..................89 50
Schilling's............... 9 00
Davis  Waists___  9 00
Grand  Rapids.........4 50
Armory...................6)4
Androscoggin.......... 7)4
Blddeford..............  6
Brunswick..............6)4
Allen turkey  reds..  5)4¡Berwick fancies 

ETS.
Wonderful............84 50
Brighton......................4 75
Bortree’s ...................  9 00
Abdominal.................15 00
Naumkeagsatteen..  7)4
Rockport...................6)4
Conestoga.................7)4
Walworth................ ¿M
5)4
robes...........  5)4 Clyde Robes...........
pink a purple 5)4 Charter Oak fandes 4)4
buffs...........  5)4 DelMarine cashin g.  5)4
monrn’g  5)4
pink  checks.  5)4 
staples  ........  5  ¡Eddystone fancy...  5)4
chocolat  5)4
shirtings...  34i 
American fancy....  5* 
rober  ...  5)4
sateens..  5)4
American Indigo...  5J* 
American shirtings.  8)4 Hamilton fancy.  ...  5)4
staple__ 5)4
Argentine  Grays...  6 
Anchor Shirtings...  4  Manchester fancy..  5)4 
Arnold 
“  —   6 
new era.  5)4
Arnold  Merino.  ...  6  ¡Merrimack D fancy.  5)4 
long doth B.  9)4 Merrlm’ck shirtings.  4 
“  Repp fura .  8)4
century cloth  7
Padfic fancy..........5)4
gold seal......10)4
“ 
Portsmouth robes...  6)4 
green seal TR10)4 
yellow seal.. 10)4
Simpson mourning..  544
se rg e .........11)4
grey»........5*
Turkey red. . 10)4
solid black.  544 
Washington indigo.  6)4 
“  Turkey robes..  7M
“  India robes__7)4
“  plain T’ky X k   8)4 
“ 
“  X...10
“  Ottoman  Tur­
key red.................. 6)4
Martha Washington
Tnrkeyred \ ........ 7)4
Martha Washington
Turkey red..........   9)4
Rlverpolnt robes...  5)4
Windsor fancy........  6)4
Indigo  bine.........10)4
Harmony................  4)4
ENGS.AC A...................... 12)4
Pemberton AAA__16
York....................... 10)4
Swift River............   7)4
Pearl River............12
Warren................... 12)4
Conostoga..............16
.........7«
9

Ballon solid black..
“  colors.
Bengal bine,  green, 
red and  orange...  6
Berlin solids...........  5)4
”  oil bine..  ...  6
■1  11  green  ..  6
"  Foulards 
...  5)4
“ 
red %__ 
7
“  “  X ...........9)4
“  4 4  ......... 10
“ 
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“  3-4XXXX 12
Cocheco fancy........  5
“  madders...  5  I
“  XX twills..  5
“ 
solids......... 5

Amoskeag A C A.... 12)4
Hamilton N  .............7
D..............8
Farmer......................8
I First Prize..............10)4
..18
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M^N^Name 

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

gold  ticket

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longer you put of the mending the  more I j^ x 'lu ils 
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Dry Goods Price Current»

DXMINS.

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Columbian  brown.. 12
Everett, blue...........12)4
brown....... 12)4
Haymaker blue......   744
brown...  744
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

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“ 
fan d es__7
“  Normandie  7
Lancashire............. 6
Manchester............   544
Monogram..............  6)4
Normandie............  7
Persian...................   7
Renfrew Dress........7)4
Rosemont............... 6)4
Slatersvllle............ 6
Somerset...... ..........7
Tacoma  ................. 7)4
Toll  dnNord.........   8)4
Wabash.................. 7)4
seersucker..  7)4
Warwick...............   6
Whlttenden............   8
heather dr.  7)4 
indigo blue 9 
Wamsutta staples...  644
Westbrook..............  8
..............10
Wlndermeer...........  5

.......   644

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Amoskeag.

...........12
9os.......14
brown .14
Andover..................11)4
Beaver Creek AA... 10 
BB...  9
CC....
Boston MfgCo.  br..  7 

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"  d * twist 10)4 
Columbian XXX br.10
“  XXX  bl.19
Amoskeag................6)4
“  Persian dress  6)»
Canton
“ 
AFC........8)4
“ 
Teazle.. .10)4 
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Angola.. 10)4 
“ 
Persian

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Arlington staple__6)4
Arasapha  fancy__444
Bates Warwick dres  7)4 
staples.  6
Centennial............   10)4
Criterion.................10)4
Cumberland staple.  5)4
Cumberland...........5
Essex........................4)4
Elfin........................   1%
Everett classics......8)4
Exposition................7)4
Glenarle..................   6)4
Glenarven................ 644
Glen wood................. 7)4
Hampton...................5
Johnson Chalon cl 
)4 
Indigo blue 9)4 York 
zephyrs__16  I
DRAIN  BADS.
Amoskeag.................14 ¡Georgia
Stark......................19  _____   .
American.................14 
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KNITTING  COTTON.

Clark’s Mile End....45  ¡Barbour's............... %
Coats’. J. 4 P .........45  Marshall’s ................90
Holyoke..................22)4 i
White.  Colored.
38 No.  14... ....87
39
“  16... ....38
40
“  18...
...39
41
“  20...
...40
CAMBRICS.

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

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

No.

White.  Colored
42
43
44
45
4 Edwards................  4
Lockwood................ 4
Wood’s ..................   4
Brunswick...........   4
[T W ........................ 22)4
F T .........................32 Vi
J R F , XXX............ 35
Buckeye................. 82)4

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

RED  FLANNEL.

MIXED  FLANNEL.

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Brown.
10)4
11)4
12
20

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

Red 4  Blue,  plaid..40
Union R .................22)4
Windsor.................18)4
6 oz Western..........20
Union  B.................22)4! Manitoba
DOMET  FLANNEL.
Nameless...... 8  ®  9)41 
8)4@10  I 

Grey SR W.............17)4
Western W  .............18)4
DR P ............ ......... 18)4
Flushing XXX........ 23)4
-23)4
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12)4
Slate. Brown. Black. Slate
Black.
9)4
9k 10)4
10) 4
10)4
10)4 11)4
11) 4 
11)4
11)4 12
12 
12)4
12)4 20
20
DUCKS.
Severen, 8 oz............  9)4
West  Point, 8 oz__ 10)4
May land, 8 oz..........10)4
“ 
10 oz  ...12)4
Greenwood, 7)4 os..  9)4
Raven, lOox.............13)4
Greenwood, 8 oz__11)4
Stark 
13)4
 
Boston, 8 oz.............10)4
Boston, 10 os........... 12)4
White, dos..............25  ¡Per bale, 40 dos__ 88 50
Colored,  dos...........20  ¡Colored  “ 
............750
Slater, Iron Cross...  8 
Pawtucket...............10)4
Red Cross....  9
Dundle....................  9
Best.............10)4
Bedford...................10)4
Best AA......12)4
Valley  City.............10)4
L............................. 7)4
K K ......................... 10)4
G..............................8)4
Cortlcelll, dos.........85  [CortlceUl  knitting,

8ILBS1A8.

SEWING  BILK.

WADDINGS.

2 
8 

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per )4oz  ball........30

twist,dos..4C 
50yd,dos..40  I
HOOKS AND ETES— PER GROSS.
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No  1 Bl’k A White..10 
..12 
“ 8 
“ 
..20
..25
..12  I  »  10 
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|
‘  8-18, S C ...........45 
COTTON  TAPE.
|No  8 White A Bl’k  20 
No  2 White A Bl’k..12 
“ 10 
“ 
..15 
.28
..26
..18  I  “  12 
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SAFETY  PINS.
No 2.
....28  IN0 8 ..
NEEDLES—PNB  X.

A. James..............1 401 Steamboat.............  40
Crowely’s............... 1 85 Gold  Eyed.............. 1 so
Marshall’s.............. 1 OOjAmerlcan................1  00
15—4....1  66  6—4...280
6—4....  1  75  6—4... 

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Cotton Sail Twine..28
Crown.................... 12
Domestic............... 18)4
Anchor...................16
Bristol.........   ........18
Cherry  Valley"....... 15
I X L....................... 18)4
Alabama................. 6k
Alamance................6)4
Augusta...................7)4
A r sapha................6
Georgia................. 6)4
G ranite..................  544
Haw  River.............  5
Haw  J .................8

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

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Mount  Pleasant__ 6)4
Oneida....................  5
Prymont................  5M
Randelman.............6
Riverside................  5k
Sibley  A.................6M
Toledo 
Otis checks.............744

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Menthol  later

Catarrh, 
H a y  F e v e r , 
Headache,
Neuralgia,  Colls,  Sere  Tirol.

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

Prevents and cures

On cars or boat.

Sea  Sickness
Tbe  cool  exhllerating  sensation 

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

H. D.  CUSHMAN,  M anufacturer, 
Three  Rivers, Mich.

^ ' “Guaranteed  satisfactory.

Tradesman  Company,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

EATON,  LYON  &  CO.,

NEW  STYLES  OF

20  &  22  Monroe  St.,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

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

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MI0H.

Your  Bank Account Solicited.

Kent  County Sayings Bank,

GRAND  RAPIDS. ,MICH.

J no.  A. CovoDEjPres.

Henry Idexa, Vlce-Pres.

J.  A.  S.  Vebdieb,  Cashier.

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

Transacts a General Banking  Business. 

Deposit«.
DIRECTORS:
?• A. Blodgett,  E. Crofton Fox,
?• Bowne,  Henry Idema,
J. A. S. Verdier.

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Financial  Panics and Their  Origin.

E. A. Stevens in  Fame

There are successful business men who 
about a year ago  predicted  that  panics 
were a thing of the past.  That the busi­
ness world had begun  to  know  how  to 
deal with such affairs and  to avert them. 
Nevertheless, the panic came.  The busi­
ness world  attributed  the  last  crash to 
the purchase of silver by the government, 
to lack of confidence  in  the  administra­
tion, and to various causes, ail of  which 
combined would  have  failed to  produce 
the result.  Yet  nearly every student  of 
political or social  economy could, and in 
many instances did, foretell the approach 
of disaster; that somewhere between 1891 
and  1895  a  panic  would  occur.  Why 
should the student  comprehend the situ­
ation better than the business man?  Be­
cause  one  deals with  effects,  the  other 
with causation, and  for  the further rea­
son that financial panics  have  been  and 
will come  with  periodic  regularity. 
In 
England  they come  about  once  in  ten 
years;  in  this  country  about  half  as 
often.  Those who understood  the panic 
of  1873,  predicted  this  crash  in  ’93  or 
thereabouts.  Then  the  situation  was 
charged to  overproduction,  while  thou­
sands  needed, but  could  not  purchase, 
the stocks that filled  the  great marts  of 
trade.
Now, what is the “cause of the causes?” 
The  way  in  which  people  spend  their 
money.  When money  is  spent in chan­
nels of reproduction and advancement of 
the arts, mechanics  or  the household,  it 
is beneficial.  When  it  is  spent  for the 
deterioration or  degradation of  the arts, 
mechanics and the  household,  it  is  not 
only an immediate  loss,  but  in  time  is 
detrimental and disastrous.
The  spirit  of  “make-believe”  is  the 
most potent and  dangerous  to  general 
prosperity.  Let me illustrate.  A  little 
while ago an excellent article was put on 
the market for the manufacture  of  port­
manteaus, pocket-books, etc., out of alli­
gator skins, and for a time  it  bad splen­
did success. 
It was  neat,  durable, and, 
to use a  common  phrase,  “tony.”  The 
success of  that article had the effect—as 
it has everywhere—to produce a lot of in­
ferior  imitations,  made  either  of  poor 
leather  or  paper, and,  in  consequence, 
the trade in  the  best  article was practi­
cally ruined.  The  make-believe was  so 
useless  and  unsatisfactory  and  became 
so common, that people did not purchase 
the best because it looked so like  the in­
ferior.
Everyone who has purchased a piece of 
furniture for solid  mahogany or walnut, 
only  to find  after  awhile  that  the  thin 
veneer has cracked and  the  cheap wood 
is exposed,  has to  some  extent  realized 
the utter uselessness of  his expenditure, 
and that possibly in his anxiety to secure 
a bargain the biter  has been bit.
An eastern  representative  of  a  great 
linen house says that he desired to do bis 
business on a  strictly honest  basis,  and 
issued  orders  to  his  agents  that  they 
should properly mark  all goods that had 
a  mixture  of  cotton  as  “union” goods, 
and explain  to  the purchaser the reason 
for the mark—that they were mixed. 
In 
consequence he had no trade for that sea­
son in that line  of  goods, as  the dealers 
would  not  purchase  them  unless what 
was well known to  them  as  a  mixture 
was  marked “pure  linen”  to  hoodwink 
the consumer.  The “make-believe” atti­
tude here was favorable to deterioration.
Outside of  all financial considerations, 
just  for  a  moment  consider  the  moral 
degradation this sort of  thing has on the 
employes—those engaged  in  putting up 
those  imitation  goods.  Can  it  be  ex­
pected that those  who  are  employed  to 
perpetrate business  frauds  will  in turn 
be honest to those whom they serve?  The 
daily revelations of crime  give the unal­
terable  verdict.
Then, who is to blame for all this?  Not 
always the manufacturer, for  he is often 
forced into this  imitation  business by  a 
fancied demand  for  cheaper grades. 
It 
is the pernicious spirit of make-believe— 
of shoddy and  sham—that makes the al­
ready poor  purchaser  so  much  poorer; 
that necessarily  deteriorates the general 
excellency of  the  artisan,  and,  in com­
pelling him  to  make  cheaper  grades of 
goods,  to  slight  his  work  because  of 
poorer  pay, and  so  on  percolating  all

through society will  be found an evil in­
fluence—a reduction  of  pay—to produce 
something that is practically worthless— 
and all imitations  are  that.  Finally,  to 
elevate  the  inventor  or  perpetrator  of 
fraud at the expense of  the  masses. 
In 
short,  to pay out so much  of  the wealth 
of the nation for poor returns.  To stand 
in the path  of  progress,  excellence and 
lasting benefit.  To waste the  wealth  of 
the world  by  demoralizing  the  laborer, 
financially and morally.  There is scarce­
ly an article of  real merit manufactured 
that has not got  a  score of  cheap imita­
tions—ali tending to degrade production, 
artistically and  financially. 
In  the last 
analysis,  it  is  the  foolish,  unthinking 
way people spend their money that clogs 
trade, makes goods  unsalable,  the  deal­
ers’ margins smaller, and  the producers’ 
labor  bring  less,  which  more than any­
thing else brings on our periodical panics, 
which  if  not  corrected will be repeated 
much more  often.

Regulating the Use of Business Names.
New York and Louisiana have statutes 
forbidding any person  to  transact  busi­
ness. using the name  as  partner  of  one 
not  interested  with  him  as  partner  or 
using the designation  “A  Company”  or 
“& Co.,” when no actual partner or part­
ners  are  represented  thereby. 
In  the 
former State  the  penalty  of  doing it is 
imprisonment for not exceeding one year 
or a fine of not more  than $500, or  both. 
In the  latter,  there  is  a  fine  of  not  to 
exceed  $1,000.  Exception  is  made  in 
New York  under  certain  conditions for 
the continuance  of  an  established  busi­
ness by  a  successor,  survivor  or  other 
person.  Commercial  copartnerships  lo­
cated  and transacting business in foreign 
countries  are  also  exempted.  These 
statutes, it has  been  held,  do  not  inter­
fere  with the  use  by  an  individual  of 
fanciful names, such  as “Union  Towing 
Company,” “Eureka Company,”  or  “Al­
derney Manufacturing  Company,” nor of 
“& Co.,”  when it represents the  wife  of 
the partuer named,  though she cannot in 
reality be her husband’s partner in busi­
ness.
Georgia has a law which makes  it  un­
lawful for any partnership  to  insert  in 
their firm name or style the name of  any 
individual not  actually  a  copartner,  or 
to continue  in  such  firm  name  or  style 
the name of a retired partner, the penalty 
therefor being the  forfeiture of $100  for 
every  day’s  violation  of  the  law,  the 
same to be recovered by any  person who 
may prosecute  therefor.
In California,  Arizona and the Dakotas 
it  is  provided  that  every  partnership 
transacting  business in the State  under 
a  fictitious  name  or  a  designation  not 
showing the names of  the  partners must 
file and publish a  certificate  giving  the 
names and residences of the real partners, 
and until this is done  they  will  be  dis­
qualified from maintaining any  action in 
the State courts on any  account  for con­
tract made or  transactions  had  in  their 
partnership name.
Maine  and  Massachusetts  forbid  the 
use  within  their  respective  borders  of 
the  name  of  a  former  partner,  either 
alone or in connection  with others,  with­
out  his  written  consent,  or,  if  he  is 
deceased, that of his representatives.

Hardware  Price Current.

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AXIS.

AUGURS AND BITS. 

These  prices  are  for cash  buyers,  who 
pay prom ptly  and  buy in  fu ll  packages.
dig.
60
Snell’s...........................................................  
Cook’s ........................................................... 
40
J enningg’, genuine....................................... 
25
Jennings’,  Imitation....................................50*10
First Quality, S. B. Bronze.......................... $ 7 00
D.  B. Bronze............................  is 00
8. B. S. Steel..............................  8 00
D. B. Steel................................  13 50
Railroad  .................................................... $ 14 00
Garden  ................................................  net  80 00
Stove.............................................................. 50*10
Carriage new list.......................................... 75*10
Plow.............................................................. 40*10
Sleigh shoe  ...................................  
70
Well,  plain  ................................................. I 3 50
Well, swivel  ..................................................  4 00
dig.
Cast Loose Pin, figured.................................70*
Wrought Narrow, bright 5aat Joint.............. 604,0

BUTTS, CAST. 

BABBOWS. 

BUCKETS.

bolts. 

dlB.

dig.

 

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

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BLOCKS.

Ordinary Tackle, list April  1892.

60*10

CBOW  BARS.

CAPS.

5
66
60
35
60

Cast Steel........................................... per 1b 
Ely’s 1-10............................................ per m 
“ 
Hick’s C. F ........................................... 
G. D ......................................................  “ 
Musket................................................. 
“ 
Rim  Fire—  
50
Central  Fire...........................................dis. 
25
d ig .
Socket Firmer.............................................75*10
Socket Framing............................................ 75*10
Socket Corner............................................... 75*10
Socket Slicks............................................... 75*10
Butchers’ Tanged Firmer..................... 
40

CARTRIDGES.

CHISELS. 

 

 

combs. 

 
dig.

40
as
...12Q12* dls. 10

“ 

Curry,  Lawrence’B....................................... 
Hotchkiss..................................................... 
CHALK.
White Crayons, per  gross__
COPPER.
Planished, 14 oz cut to size..
14x52, 14x56, 14x60
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60
Cold Rolled, 14x48...............
Bottoms..............  ..............
DRILLS.
Morse’s  Bit  Stocks.....................................  
Taper and straight Shank............................ 
Morse’s Taper Shank...................................  
Small slzeB, ser pound................................. 
Large sizes, per pound................................  

per pound 
................. 

DRIPPING PANS.

28
26
23 
23 
25
50
50
50

07
6)4

dis.

ELBOWS.

15 

12 

dls.

dls.

dig.

28
17

if iTTArira

LOCKS—DOOR. 

MAULS. 
mills. 

EXPANSIVE BITS. 

piles—New List. 

GALVANIZED IRON.

knobs—New List. 

14 
GAUGES. 

13 
Discount, 60

Com. 4  piece, 6 In............................dos. net 
76
Corrugated.............................................dls 
40
Adjustable.............................................dls. 40*10
Clark’s, small, 818;  large, 826...................... 
30
Ives’, 1, 818:  2, 824;  3,830  ............................ 
25
DIsston’s .......................................................60*10
New American  ............................................ 60*10
Nicholson’s ..................................................60*10
Heller’s .........................................................  
50
Heller’s Horse Rasps  ..................................  
50
Nos.  16  to  20;  22  and  24; 25  and  26;  27 
16 
List 
dls.
dls.

60
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s...................... 
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings....................  
55
55
Door,  porcelain, jap. trimmings................. 
55
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.............. 
Door,  porcelain, trimmings........................  
55
Drawer  and  Shutter, porcelain................... 
70
Russell * Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new list  .........  
55
Mallory, Wheeler  *   Co.’s............................ 
55
Branford’s ...................................................  
55
Norwalk’s ................................................... 
55
Adze Bye.................................  
816.00, dis. 60
Hunt Bye..........................................815.00,  dls. 60
Hunt’s...................................... 818.50, dls. 20*10.
dig.
Speiry *  Co.’s, Post,  handled...................... 
50
dls.
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s ...................................  
40
40
“  P. 8. *  W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleable«___  
“  Landers,  Ferry *  Cls rk’s.................. 
40
“  Enterprise 
.....................................  
30
Stebbln’s Pattern.......................................... 60*10
Stebbln’s Genuine.........................................60*10
Enterprise, self-measuring..........................  
25
Advance over  base,  on  both  Steel  and Wire.
Steel nails, Dase.............................................150
Wire nails, base............................................. 1  50
60.....................................................Base 
Base
50......................................................  
10
40......................................................  
25
25
30......................................................  
35
20.........  
 
16......................................................  
45
45
12......................................................  
50
10...................................................... 
8.......................................................  
60
7 * 6 .................................................. 
75
4.......................................................  
90
1 20
8........................................................ 
2.......................................................  
1 60
1 60
Fine 3............................................... 
65
Case  10............................................. 
8............................................. 
75
6............................................. 
90
75
Finish 10........................................... 
8............................................ 
90
6...........................................  
1 10
Clinch; 10.......................................... 
70
80
8.......................................... 
6................ 
90
Barrell %.......................................... 
175
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy.................................  ©40
Sclota Bench..............................................  
nso
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy.........................  ©40
Bench, first quality.......................................  ©40
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s  wood........... 50*10
Fry,  Acme.............................................dls.60—10
70
Common,  polished................................ dls. 
Iron and  Tinned.......................................... 
40
Copper Rivets and Burs.............................   50—10

 
planes. 

MOLASSES GATES. 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
** 

rivets. 

NAILS

PANS.

dig.

dls.

dls.

 

 

PATENT PLANISHED IRON.

“A” Wood’s patent planished. Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
“B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 26 to 27...  9  20
Broken packs Ho per pound extra.

‘  packs'

HAMMERS.

“ 

“ 
“ 

HINGES.

HANGERS. 

HOLLOW WARE.

HOUSE  PURNIBHING  GOODS.

Maydole *  Co.’*....................................dls. 
25
Kip’S..............................................  
dis. 25
Yerkes *  Plumb’s..................................dls. 40*10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel...............  
80c list 60
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steel  Hand__30c 40*10
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2, 3 ........  .................... dls.60&10
State........................................... per do*, net, 2 50
Screw Hook  and  Strap, to 12 ln. 4)4  14  and
3V«
longer........................................................ 
Screw Hook and  Eye, %....................... net 
10
%.........................net  8)4
“ 
X .........................net  7)4
%....................... net 
7)4
Strap and T ............................................dls. 
50
dls.
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track... .50*10
Champion,  antl-frlctlon.............................   60*10
Kidder, wood track.....................................  
40
Pots................................................................60*16
Kettles.......................................................   60*10
Spiders  ......................................................... 60*10
Gray enameled..............................................40*10
Stamped  Tin Ware............................  .new list 70
Japanned Tin Ware.....................................  
25
Granite Iron W are......................new list83M&10
dig.
Bilght...................................................  70*10*10
Screw  Eyes............................................. 70*10*10
Hook’s .....................................................70*10*10
Gate Hooks and Eyes...................... 
70*10*10
dls.7o
Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s .....................
Sisal, )4 Inch and larger............................ 
Manilla..................................................... 
Steel and Iron..............................................  
Try and Bevels............................................. 
M itre............................................................  

75
go
26
Com.  Smooth.  Com.
82 95
3 05
3 05
8 15
3 25
3 35
All  sheets No. 18  and  lighter,  over 30  Inches 

Nos. 10 to  14...................................... 84 05 
Nos. 15 to 17........................................4 05 
Nos.  18 to 21...................................   4 05 
Nos. 22 to 24........................................4 05 
Nos. 25 to 26........................................4 25 
No. 27................................................4 45 
wide not less than 2-10 extra
List acct. 19, ’86  .....................................dls. 
Silver Lake, White A..............................list 
Drab A.................................  “ 
White  B...............................  • 
DrabB............................... 
White C.................................“ 

50
50
55
50
  “  55
85

SAND PAPER.
SASH COBD.

levels. 
ROPES.

WIRE GOODS. 

SHEET IRON.

SQUARES. 

  n
dlS.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

7)4

Discount, 10.

SASH WEIGHTS.

dls.

saws. 

TRAPS. 

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

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

Solid Eyes............................................ per ton «26
20
70
50
80
30
Steel, Game................................................... 60*10
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ...............  
85
Oneida Community, Hawley a Norton’s __ 
70
Mouse,  choker....................................18c per do*
Mouse, delusion............................... 81.50 per do*
dls.
Bright Market..............................................   65
Annealed Market.......................................'.'.70—10
Coppered Market.........................................   60
Tinned Market............................................   62)4
50

Ä red  Spring Steel................................  

d  Fence, galvanised...............................  2 60
“ 
painted.....................................  2 20

wire. 

dls.

HORSE NAILS.

.8750

WRENCHES. 

Au  Sable......................................................... dls. 40*10
Putnam..........................................  
dls. 06
dls. 10*10
Northwestern................................  
dis.
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.................... 
80
Coe’s  Gennlne............................................. 
50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,..................... 75
Coe’s  Patent, malleable............................... 75*10
dig.
Bird Cages.........................  
50
Pumps, Cistern........................................  
75*10
Screws, New List.......................................... 70*10
eastern, Bed a  d Plate...........................50*10*10
Dampers, American..................................... 
40
Forks, hoes, rakes  and all steel goods....... 65*10

MISCELLANEOUS. 

 

METALS,
PIG TIN.

is

“ 

6X
7

26c
28c

ZINC.

BOLDER.

Pig  Large....................................................  
Pig Bars.......................................................  
Duty;  Sheet, 2)4c per pound.
680 pound  casks...........................................  
Per pound....................................................  
H © * ...................................................................16
Extra Wiping.................................................   ©
The  prices  of  the  many other  qualities  of
solder In the market lndloated by private brands 
vary according to composition.
ANTIMONY
Cookson........................................per  pound
Hallett’s......................................  
TIN—MBLYN GBADN.
10x14 IC, Charcoal..........................  
14x20 IC, 
10x14 IX, 
14x20 IX, 

..........................................  7 50
..........................................   9 25
..........................................  9 25

“ 
“ 
“ 
TIN—ALLAWAY GBADN.
10x14 IC, Charcoal........................... 
“ 
14x20 IC, 
10x14 IX, 
“ 
14x20 IX, 
“ 

75
..........................................   6  75
..........................................   8 25
..........................................   9 25
BOOTING PLATES

Each additional X on this grade, 81.75.

Each additional X on this grade 81.50.

“ Worcester................................  6 56
14x20 IC, 
.............................  8  50
“ 
14x20 IX, 
“ 
20x28 IC, 
...........................  18  50
“  Allaway Grade................  
14x2010, 
6  00
7  50
*• 
14x20 IX, 
“ 
12 50
20x28 IC, 
20x28 IX, 
“ 
15  50
BOILEB SIZE TIN PLATE.
14x28 IX....................................................... 814  00
14x31  IX.......................................................16 00
14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers, I ___
r P6f pound....  10 00
14x60 EX,  “  h  9 

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WEDNESDAY ,  FEBRUARY  21,  1894.  ]

GERMAN  LOYALTY.

It is remarkable that the old-fashioned 
sentiment of loyalty  remains  so  potent 
an  influence  as it  does  in  modern  Ger­
many.  Nothing  that  occurred  in  the 
whole history of the reconciliation of the 
German  Emperor  and  Prince Bismarck 
was  more  impressive  than  the  demon­
stration of this singular fact. 
It is  easy 
to understand why  the  Ex-Chancellor is 
greeted with  enthusiastic  applause  and 
every tribute of  admiration  and  esteem 
wherever  he  goes,  and it  was a  matter 
of course that he  would  receive a grand 
ovation in Berlin;  butthe plaudits which 
hailed  his arrival  in that city,  the  other 
day. meant vastly more  than  a  popular 
outburst of good  will  to  him.  Germans 
rejoiced that day all  over  Germany  be­
cause the Kaiser and  the  Ex-Chancellor 
would henceforth be friends.  There was, 
we may suppose,  very  little  expectation 
that the  old  statesman  would  be  called 
again to  office.  The  occasion  was  sen­
timental  merely;  but  when  the  Kaiser 
took the initiative in restoring cordial re­
lations  between  himself  and  his  most 
distinguished  subject,  the  people  felt 
that he  had  done  what was  due  to his 
own station,  as well as  what was  due to 
Bismarck’s service.

When  the  breach  occurred  between 
these two eminent  personages,  the  peo­
ple  remained  faithful 
to  the  Kaiser. 
They did not espouse the quarrel of their 
favorite hero.  When,  from the  seat  of 
his  retirement,  he  opened  fire,  so  to 
speak,  through the press,  upon the  new 
administration of the empire, the general 
feeling seemed to be that  he  was  going 
to far.  The Kaiser had exercised,  after 
all, only  a  constitutional  right—a  right 
which  Bismarck himself  had  acknowl­
edged.  And certainly no German states­
man  bad  ever  gone  further  than  Bis­
marck  had  gone  under  other  circum­
stances in insisting upon the inviolability 
of regal  and  imperial  perogatives.  The 
Kaiser had acted  within  the limits of his 
authority,  and  it  did  not  become  Bis­
marck to strike at l.is sovereign over the 
shoulders  of  that sovereign’s  ministers. 
Moreover,  there was another side  to  the 
story. 
If  Bismarck had  given unity  to 
Germany  and  imperial  dignity  to  the j

Hohenzollerns, he, on his part,  had been 
rewarded with wealth and with the high­
est honors  within  the  gift  of  those  he 
served.  He  had  been  for  many  years 
the arbiter  of  the  destinies  of  Europe, 
and he  had rarely been at pains to cover 
his iron  hand  with  a  velvet  glove.  A 
young and high-spirited  sovereign could 
hardly be expected  to sink into  the  in­
significance of  a  mere  figurehead  when 
at any moment  he could dismiss  his  ty­
rannical minister  with  a  word.  Every 
one was ready to  admit  that the  Kaiser 
could probably do no better than to  take 
Prince  Bismarck’s  advice  in  regard  to 
any question of  doubt  or  difficulty;  but 
Bismarck  was not willing to consult with 
the  Kaiser. 
It  was his  role  to  act  with 
absolute  independence,  leaving  to  the 
titular head of  the empire  nothing  more 
than  the perfunctory task of signing  his 
Chancellor’s decrees.

The people never did forget Bismarck’s 
pre-eminent ability. 
It  was  impossible 
to admire any man  more  than  they  ad­
mired  him.  But,  on  the  other  hand, 
their attachment to  the  throne  was  un­
diminished. 
In  regard  to  intellectual 
power, as well as in regard to actual serv­
ice,  there could  be  no  comparison  be­
tween the two  men.  Bismarck  was  im­
measurably the  superior.  But  the  Kai­
ser stood for more  than  his own  person­
ality and personal history.  He  was  the 
head of  an ancient and famous  family— 
Frederick the Great was  one  of  his  an­
cestors.  And if Bismarck was the author 
of German  unity,  the Kaiser was its sym­
bol.  It was, therefore, a national affliction 
that these two  should  stand  apart,  and 
the  Kaiser  had  the wisdom  to  compre­
hend this feeling.  He took the first step 
forward,  and  Bismarck  met  him  half 
way.  When  they  embraced,  the  hero 
worship of the  German  people  was  rec­
onciled  with  their  loyalty.  The  event 
had, in our  judgment,  very little,  if  any 
other, significauce.  But, even thus  lim­
ited, its meaning is profound. 
It  is that 
the imperial  prerogative  in  Germany  is 
not  maintained  solely  by  an  immense 
standing  army,  and  that,  great  as  are 
the  inroads  which  have  been  made  by 
socialism in that couutry, the body of the 
German people are  still  attached  to  the 
conservative  traditions of  their  magnif­
icent past.
OPERATING  GOVERNMENT  RAIL­

WAYS.

While there is  considerable  socialistic 
demand in this  country  for  the  Govern­
ment  to own and control all the railways, 
the experiment is being  tried  elsewhere, 
and it does not appear to be satisfactory.
Sweden is a country in  which the Gov­
ernment  operates  the  railways.  There 
the furnace owners  and  ironmasters  are 
making  loud  complaints  of  the  State 
railway for  the  high  rates  charged  for 
transportation of iron ore, coal and char­
coal.  They have presented  to  the  King 
a petition  in  which  they  set  forth  that 
the Swedish iron  industry has  for  many 
years past  been in a depressed condition, 
and that  the  diminution  in  profits  has 
become more marked, year by year.  The 
petitioners  have  come  to the  conclusion 
that  the  causes  of  the  depression  are 
mainly to be found in  the  increased  and 
increasing  production,  and 
improved 
methods  of 
iron  manufacturing 
countries, especially England and Amer­
ica.  The  petition  bears  the  names of 
eighty mine owners andiron manufactur­
ers, and asks for the  sweeping  reduction

the 

of 50  per  cent,  on  the  majority  of  the 
articles enumerated.  They contend that 
if the necessary diminution in the cost of 
production is to be effected at all, it must 
be under the heading of railway freights, 
as all the other  expenses  are  as  low  as 
they can be, and a reduction of the wages 
of  the workmen  is  entirely  out  of  the 
question at the present time.

reduction  of 

It may be taken  for  granted  that  the 
Swedish Government endeavors  to  make 
its  railways  self-supporting,  but  if,  for 
any reason, they do not pay expenses the 
deficiency must come out  of  the  pockets 
of the taxpayers.  The ironmasters have 
railway 
demanded  a 
freights.  Suppose, 
the 
farmers also demand a reduction on their 
products, and the lumbermen of  Sweden 
shall also demand a reduction  on  theirs; 
the final result will be that  the  railways 
will  be  operated  at  a  loss,  and  these 
people who  are  responsible  for  it  must 
make up the difference  by paying  taxes. 
This gives a fair idea  of  how  a  govern­
ment railway is operated.

in  addition, 

In the United  States,  where  so  many 
of the private  railways  are  operated  at 
a loss  and  are  thrown  into  bankruptcy 
and are sold out for what they will bring, 
inflicting vast losses on stockholders and 
other  creditors,  what would  be  the  con­
dition of these roads were they owned by 
the Government?  Why, the Government 
would have  to pay the  stock  and  bond­
holders  and  other  creditors,  and  the 
enormous deficits would have to be made 
up  by  the  taxpayers.  These  deficits, 
which amount  to  thousands  of  millions 
of dollars, would soon drive  the  taxpay­
ers to  desperation  and  revolution.  The 
Government could not  make  money  out 
of  the American  railroads  if  it  should 
take  them  without  compensation, from 
the owners, and  then  repudiate  all  the 
debts resting on  them,  because  it  would 
put them in the  hands  of  a  lot  of  poli­
ticians to be managed and operated.
Men of  Thought and  Men  of  Action.
Alexander Dumas,  in one  of  his  cele­
brated  Guardsmen  series  of  romances, 
puts into the mouth of Mazarin, the Min­
ister of  Louis XIV, the  expression  that 
one who had passed the age  of  40  years 
is too old to be a man of action.

Doubtless there is a good deal of  truth 
In the remark,  but  it  is far from formu­
lating a rule, if  action  means  war, as it 
commonly does  in the affairs of nations. 
Mazarin,  who,  however,  was  never  a 
man of  action,  had  turned  50  when the 
observation attributed  to him was made, 
felt at least that  his best vigor had been 
lost, and  he  judged  others by himself. 
But while he stated  a  sort  of  general 
truth, it  is  by no  means  an  invariable 
one.

The  records  show  some  interesting 
facts  regarding  the  ages  and  achieve­
ments of men.  Alexander the Great was 
doubtless the youngest of all the world’s 
greatest soldiers.  He was  only  22 years 
old when he crossed the  Bosphorus with 
40,000 Greek troops to make the conquest 
of Asia.  Charles XII, of Sweden, one of 
the most daring soldiers of modern times, 
was 25 when he invaded  Russia.  Napo­
leon was 27 when he was  made commau- 
der-in-chief of  the French army in Italy. 
Hannibal, perhaps the most brilliant sol­
dier that ever marshaled an army, was 28 
years old when  he  crossed the Alps into 
Italy,  and  for  thirteen  years  held  the 
vast  military  power  of  the  Roman  re­
public in defeat  and  submission, so that

its ablest general, Fabius, dared do noth­
ing more for a long period than to retreat 
and avoid battle with  the  victorious  in­
vader.

From this it will  be  seen that some of 
the greatest warriors  who ever  stood on 
this planet  gained  their  grandest victo­
ries and made their most celebrated cam­
paigns before  they had  reached  middle 
age, or 35 years.  But  there were  many 
other soldiers of  the  greatest  eminence 
who won their  triumphs long after  they 
had passed that  limit.  Stonewall  Jack­
son’s campaigns were  all  made after 35, 
and he died on a victorious field when he 
was 39  years  old.  Frederick  the  Great 
won his  most  signal  victory  of  Leuthe 
over  the  Austrians  when  he  was  45. 
Washington  was  44  when  he took com­
mand  of 
the  Revolutionary  armies. 
Julius Caesar, who stands  at  the head of 
the  world’s  war  chiefs, commenced his 
celebrated conquest of Gaul when he was 
42.  Wellington  was  46  when  he  won 
Waterloo.  Grant  was  45  when  he  re­
ceived the sword  of  Robert  E.  Lee, and 
Lee  himself was 59 when he surrendered 
his historic blade.  Marlborough, who was 
one of  the  greatest captains of any age, 
was 54 when he won the celebrated battle 
of  Blenheim.  Our  own  Old  Hickory 
Jackson was 58 when  he saved  New Or­
leans from foreign  conquest.  Columbus 
was 52 when he discovered America, and 
his bold adventure  marks  him as a man 
of action of  the highest order.  Ghengis 
Khan, the first of  the Tartar conquerors, 
was 51 when  he  started  on  his  bloody 
career,  and  Tamerlane,  his  sanguinary 
descendant,  was  62  when  he  overran 
Asia.

These facts are enough to show that 40 
is not  by  any  means  the  age when the 
fires of  human  energy grow  cold, but it 
is true that after 40  men grow more pru­
dent and thoughtful.  When  it comes to 
statesmanship, eminence  in  letters, sci­
ence and  art, the greatest triumphs have 
been won by men who have  passed  mid­
dle age,  and  commonly  by men over 40.
It wopld be useless to offer examples, be­
cause the men  of  thought who  have  at­
tained great  distinction  at  an early age 
make up  the  few  exceptions  to a great 
general  rule.  The  mind  grows, opens, 
increases its  power  and  spiritual  ken, 
only after  the  Immaturity  of  youth  is 
past.  Men of thought are seldom young.

Help Yourself.

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

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

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Is the Bread  Our Wives  Make  Nothin* 

but  “Stuff”?

Number 542 of  T h e  T radesm an  con­
tains  an article from the pen of associate 
editor,  Daniel  Abbott,  under  the  head
,  “Baker’s Bread vs. the Homemade Stuff,” 
which purports  to  be  a  criticism  of  a 
former article of mine, wherein I pointed 
out the discrepancy existing between the 
price of wheat  and  the  price  of  bread. 
I  gave  facts  and  figures  which  proved 
that the baker’s  pound  and  a  half  loaf
t  (those  weighed  in  my  presence  lacked 
about two ounces  of  this weight)  was  a 
flagrant  imposition  and  downright  ex­
tortion viewed from an economical stand­
point,  when  sold  at  eight  cents  a  loaf. 
The true value of these facts and  figures 
may be ascertained  by anyone  who  will
take the trouble to investigate.

^ 

Mr.  Abbott puts in a plea for the  bak­
ers.  He says  that  the  general  price  is 
seven cents and that I ought to  know  it.
I certainly ought to know, and do  know, 
what the price of  bread  is, as  I  bought 
bread for some time  before  Mr.  Abbott 
came to  the  city. 
I  have  bought  it  at 
different  grocery stores, and  I  do  know 
that, if not changed since 1 left the  city, 
the general price is  eight  cents, and  not 
seven cents as  Mr.  Abbott  asserts.  Bu 
Mr.  Abbott  cannot  defend  the  baker« 
without  insulting  my  wife,  your  wife, 
gentle reader, and the wife  of  every  re
*  tail  merchant  in  Michigan  who  makes 
her  own  bread,  for  he  does  not  even 
honor  it  with  the  name of  bread—he 
calls it “homemade stuff.”  This  “stuff 
Mr.  Abbott thinks is a cheap  mixture  of 
“flour, water,  yeast  and  salt,” whereas 
real  bread,  such  as  the  bakers  make 
contains milk and lard. 
I  feel  grateful 
to Mr. Abbott for this bit of information
*  I  know  that  there  is  a  difference  so 
marked that the ordinary mortal,  wheth­
er dining at home or in  a  hotel  a  thou­
sand miles from home, will never feed on 
baker’s  bread if  the  domestic  article  is 
within  his  reach;  but  I—ignorantly,  it 
seems—attributed this  difference  to  the
-  use, on the part  of  the  bakers, of  alum 
or some other  deleterious  and  unknown 
ingredient.  Milk and  lard  are valuable 
compounds,  but  if  the  bakers  cannot 
make a pound and a  half  loaf  of  bread 
out of $1.35  baker’s  flour  (price  quoted 
by T h e  T ra desm a n),  and put  it  on  the
.  market  without  putting  into  it  such  a 
quantity of milk and lard  as  to warrant 
its  selling  price  eight  cents,  then  all  I 
have to say is that, in the  light  of  com­
parison with  the  “homemade  stuff,”  the 
milk and  lard,  valuable as  they  are  for 
other  purposes,  are  absolutely  thrown 
away.

I  have  no  quarrel  to  pick  with  the 
bakers. 
In these days of  trades  unions, 
trusts and  combinations,  the  bakers  are 
simply looking  after  their  own  fences; 
and, if the bakers  of  Grand  Rapids  are 
now,  and  have  been  for  some  time, 
wringing  sweat  money out  of  the  con­
sumers of bread,  let us give  them  credit 
for  working  so  successfully  the  very 
thing for which we are all striving.

Mr. Abbott  says  that  I  am  the  only 
man in the  city  who  thinks  that  bread 
does not cost anything.  What  a  bloom­
ing idiot  I  must  be!  No, Mr.  Abbott, I
‘do not believe that baker’s  bread  gently 
falls upon our  tables  from  heaven  like 
the manna of old, free of  cost;  but  I  do 
believe  that,  if  our  Heavenly  Father 
were to feed us in this way,  it would not 
be the “milk  and  lard” kind  of  manna, 
but -more  like  the  “stuff”  our  wives

make.  Strange as it may appear  to  Mr. 
Abbott, I  know  that  bakers’  loaves  do 
cost something;  but the cost to the baker 
doesn’t appear to cut  any figure  in  reg­
ulating the  cost  to  the  consumer.  Mr. 
Abbott says that, at the time I  wrote  the 
article  in  question,  no  baker “of  any 
consequence”  in  the  city  was  making 
any money. 
I do not know why he adds 
this  qualifying  phrase.  Surely,  if  no 
baker “of  any  consequence”  was  mak­
ing money, how could  one  of  no  conse­
quence  make  money?  Probably he  was 
thinking of  some  of  the “stuff” makers 
whom the “hard times” had  driven  into 
the “stuff” making business, all  because 
they “did not know how to sew.”

Now,  Mr.  Abbott  doesn’t  know  any 
more about the  baker’s  business  than I 
do—and that is precious  little.  All  we 
know about the composition and  cost  of 
the baker’s loaf is simply what  they  see 
fit to  tell  us.  On  the  other  hand,  we 
who have wives who  know how to  bake, 
or we who  keep  store  in  country  ham­
lets and on  lonely  crossroads  where the 
baker and baker’s union do not  exist, do 
know all about the composition  and cost 
of  the  “homemade  stuff.”  We  know 
how many pounds of “stuff” fifty pounds 
of flour  will  make,  and  just  what  the 
“stuff” costs per pound.  And  we know, 
further,  that the  majority  of  men  will 
choose the “homemade stuff”  when  they 
can  get  it,  in  preference  to  baker’s 
bread, or  “real  bread,”  as  my  friend 
would put it.  Surely, it is not  unfair to 
gauge the  baker  by  these  facts.  With 
his  superior  skill  and  scientific  appli­
ances he must  be  able  to  get  as  many 
pounds of bread out of a  given  quantity 
of flour as the home  baker  does;  and, as
he buys his materials at wholesale prices, 
and makes a lighter loaf and  sells  it  at 
the same price, it is but  fair  to  assume 
that the cost is less and the profit greater 
than in the case of the  domestic  article.
Mr.  Abbott  has  either  been  misin­
formed by some city baker,  or  else there 
is something wrong in  Denmark. 
I am, 
at present, located in a brisk little incor­
porated  village  of  about  1,000  popula­
tion.  There  are  two  bakeries  in  the 
village.  The provincial statute provides 
that  a  baker’s  loaf  shall  weigh  two 
pounds,  and  any  baker who  sells  short 
weight is liable to fine or  imprisonment. 
This  law  is  observed  here,  as, indeed, 
most of the laws  are  in  Her  Majesty’s 
Dominion.  Now,  this  two  pound  loaf 
sells, and  is  delivered  anywhere  inside 
of the  corporation,  for  four  cents—just 
one-half  the  price  of  Grand  Rapids 
bread.  Wheat ranges from one  to  three 
cents  higher  than *in  Grand  Rapids. 
The bakers  here are  making  money, al­
though they have to pay  more  for  their 
material  and  only  receive  one-half  as 
much for their product as the  bakers  do 
there;  and, yet,  Mr. Abbott would  have 
us believe that our Grand Rapids bakers, 
poor fellows, were imposed upon because 
we kick at eight cents a loaf.  Of course, 
this is a small country  place where rents 
and fuel are cheap.  Light  (that  means 
kerosene)  is  nearly  double  what  it  is 
with us, and, even  in  the 
large  towns 
and  cities  where  rents  and  fuel  are 
higher, bread  sells  for  four  and  five 
cents. 
It may  be  said  that  labor  and 
the cost of living are lower in  this coun­
try.  That is true,  but ncrt  enough lower 
to make up the  difference.  Why, if  our 
Grand  Rapids  bakers  gave  us  a  two- 
pound  loaf,  according  to  Mr.  Abbott’s 
defense,  they  would  have  to  receive

9
First one heard  from,  man  whipped  his 
wife  for running  him  in  debt,  and  a 
divorce case is on call; second,  very  an­
gry man  wanted to whip me for  sending 
him  a dun—l expect to answer to a  case 
of  assault  and  battery.  With  ninety- 
eight to hear from, I  remain,  yours  re­
—
spectfully 
P.  S.—One  more  heard  from—Have 
$4.70  to send  you by next mail.
The Wool  Market.

The market is  very  dull.  Prices  are 
fairly  steady  and  well  sustained,  all 
things considered.  Sales  this  year  are 
11,000,000 pounds less than  for the same 
period  last  year.  Manufacturers  have 
shown so little interest  in  the  situation 
that they have ceased to  be  a  factor  in 
fixing prices.  Dullness is the prevailing 
characteristic  of the market.  The local 
market is unchanged.

People are scarce who  think  that  the 
folks  in  the  next  house  have  religion 
enough.

nearly eleven cents a  loaf  in  order  to 
keep soul and body  together;  and, if the 
bakers  here  were  allowed  to  sell  the 
same weight as their  brothers  in  Grand 
Rapids, they  could  sell  their  loaves  at 
three cents and make  the  money  out  of 
it they now do.

I attribute  this  mighty  difference  in 
the cost—to the  consumer—of the “staff 
of life” 
to  competition  and  trade  un­
ionism.  A  healthy  competition  is  the 
life and soul of  business. 
It weeds  out 
indolence,  improvidence,  and  incompe­
tence, and brings out the best that  is  in 
a man;  but,  when  carried  to  a  point 
where it is  no  longer  profitable  to  do 
business,  it becomes necessary to  gag  it 
by organized effort on  the  part  of  both 
capital and labor.  This denotes an over­
done  condition  of 
things—two  many 
competitors,  too  much  for  labor,  too 
high a price for  the  commodity,  and  no 
money 
in  the  business.  This,  in  my 
opinion, is the key to  the  mystery.  Let 
us pray that  our  wives  may  be  spared 
from the curse of unionism, and that the 
“homemade  stuff”  may  remain  within 
our reach. 

E. A.  O wen.

He Stirred ’Em Up.

A wholesale house in this city recently 
sent a statement of account to a  country 
creditor who had made  the  plea  that  he 
could not  collect  what  was  due  him. 
He was exhorted  to  “Stir ’em  up”  and 
he would  have no trouble to pay  his bill. 
He sent the following  reply:
to  your  statement  of  Feb­
ruary 3,  1894, to  send  you  some  money 
and also to “Stir  ’em up,” will  say  that 
I  have stirred ’em up, if 1  did  not  send 
the  money.  Please  note  the  effect  of 
stirring  ’em  up.  One  hundred  state­
ments  sent out, cost  $1.20  for  postage.

In  reply 

D A N D R U F F   C U R E D .

N O   M U S T A C H E ,
N O   PAY.

N O   C U R E , 
N O   PAY. 
1 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. 
W here  the  head  is  shiny  or  the  pores  closed, 
there  is   no cure.  Call  and  b e   e x a m i n e d   free of 
charge. 
If  you cannot  call  write to  me.  State 
tho exact  condition of  t h e   s c a l p   and  your occu­
pation. 
R ° o m   1011  Masonic T< tuple,  C h ic a g o

PROF.  G.  ItIK K H ol.Z,

Why Not Use the Best?
“ S u n lig h t 
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Drugs & Medicines»

State  Board  of Pharm acy.

O ne  T ear—O ttm ar E berbach, Ann  Arbor.
T wo  Y ears—G eorge G undram . Ionia.
Three  T ears—C. A. B arb ee.  Cheboygan.
Pour Y ears—8. E. P ark ill, Owosso.
F ive Y ears—F. W. R. P erry, D etroit.
President—O ttm ar Eberbach, Ann Arbor.
8 ecretary—S tanley E. P ark ill, Owosso.
T reasu rer—Goo. Gundram. Ionia.
N ext M eeting—Grand Rapids. March 6  and 7. 
Subsequent  M eetings—Star  Island,  June  25  and  26, 

H oughton, Sept. 1; L ansing. Nov. 6 and 7.
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President—A. B. Stevens, Ann Arbor. 
Vice-President—A. F. P arker, D etroit.
T reasurer—W. D upont,  D etroit.
Secretary—8. A. Thom pson, D etroit.
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P re sid e n t, W alter K. Schm idt;  Sec*y, Ben. Schrouder.
How  To  Meet  Cut-Rate  Competition.
W ritte n  f o r  Th e Tradesman.
The cut-rate evil is still to  the fore  in 
drug circles, and complaints of  the  mis­
chief it is doing are constantly heard.

“What am  I  to  do?”  asked  a  retail 
druggist  of  the  writer,  one  day  last 
week.  “Every day people come  in  here 
and tell me how cheap they can  get  cer­
tain remedies. 
‘I can buy such  a  medi­
cine  25  cents  cheaper  than  that,’ said 
one customer,  when I  told him my price. 
Am I to let all that trade  go  away  from 
my  store?  Wouldn’t  it  be  better  for 
druggists if they would  just  meet  those 
low prices and sell  at  the  cutter’s  own 
figures?  It sometimes  seems to me as if 
that would  be  the  better  course, as  it 
might make the cutter’s  trade in patents 
so unprofitable that he would be  glad  to 
go out of the business. 
I  don’t want  to 
be the only one to do this,  although  I am 
sometimes  strongly 
tempted  to  do  it. 
Can’t you advise me?”

Of course,  it is the  easiest thing in the 
world to give advice,  but  this  is  one  of 
those questions of the merits  of which it 
is  difficult  for  an  outsider  to 
judge. 
How  easy  it  would  have  been, for  in­
stance,  to  have  said  to  the  gentleman 
whose words are quoted.  “Pay  no  atten­
tion to cutters.  Hold your goods  at  the 
regular price, even if you do  uot  sell  as 
many as you would by meeting  the  cut­
ter’s  prices.  Don’t  let  the  cutter  run 
your business—run it  yourself.”

That sounds all right,  and is.  possibly, 
the proper  thing  to  do;  but,  when  a 
dealer sees trade going past his door and 
entering  the  stores  of  his  natural  en­
emies—the  department  store  man  and 
other cutters—it  sounds very  much like 
cold comfort.  But,  after  all,  is  it  not 
the best thing to  do  for  all  concerned? 
The  department  store  man  cannot  be 
driven out of the drug business  by  ligit- 
imate druggists  lowering  prices  to  his 
figures.  He does not sell patents  for the 
profit  there  is  in  them,  but  merely  to 
draw  people  into  his  store; 
in  other 
words, he  uses  them  as  leaders.  That 
being th e  case,  he  could  sell  them  be­
low cost without a  paug.  and  the  lower 
the price, the better it  pays  him  in  the 
long  run.  He  reasons  that  he  might 
better give the people low  prices than to 
spend his moDey in  newspaper advertis­
ing.  Retail  druggists  are  notoriously 
poor  advertisers. 
If  their  names  are 
seen in the papers at  all,  it  is  generally 
at the bottom of a patent medicine “ad,” 
and usually at  someone  else’s  expense. 
Whether it is  considered  bad  form  for 
druggists to advertise  their  business, or 
whatever may be  the  cause, they  spend 
very little money in  “printer’s  ink.” 
It 
might be well for  druggists  to  consider 
this point,  and see whether some portion 
of the evil might not  be  removed  by  a 
somewhat greater  liberality  in  this  di­
rection.

THE  MICHIGAN'  TRADESMAN,

To return to the  question  propounded 
at  the  beginning  of  this  article,  the 
wisest and safest course  for retail  drug­
gists to pursue in regard  to  the  cutting 
evil is to  ignore  it  as  far  as  possible. 
The trouble is now in a  fair way  of  be­
ing removed.  The Detroit Plan is work­
ing admirably, and  the  lines  are  being 
drawn tighter and tighter  about the cut­
ters, and the time is not far distant when 
they will  be  unable  to  make  a  paying 
advertisement  out  of  proprietary  rem­
edies.  The  matter  may  be  confidently 
left  in  the  hands  of  the  jobbers  and 
manufacturers,  who  are  doing  all  in 
their power to enforce the  provisions  of 
the Plan.  The work is necessarily slow, 
as there are a great  many  details  to  be 
arranged, which must  be  done  by  cor­
respondence.  Druggists  in all  parts  of 
the country are waking  up to the impor­
tance of the  subject,  and  are  speaking 
in no uncertain  terms  in  favor  of  the 
Plan.  At a recent meeting  of the Inter­
state Retail  Druggists’  League,  held  In 
New York City,  which  was  largely  at­
tended, the Detroit  Plan  was  fully  de­
bated.  Henry  Canning, of  Boston, pre­
sided,  and  Robert  J.  Frick,  of  Louis­
ville, Ky.,  was the secretary.  The  Plan 
was  adopted,  except  that  resolutions 
were  passed restricting  the manufactur­
ers to selling to wholesale jobbers in drugs 
only.  By this means the large dry goods 
dealers who retail and  the  grocery  con­
cerns who  wholesale  drugs would  have 
their supply cut off.  This new plan was 
called  the  “League  Plan,”  which  also 
favors that portion of  the  Detroit  Plan 
by which 80 per cent, of the druggists in 
any one  town  may  make  prices which 
must  be  maintained.  The  druggists 
who refuse to abide by  these  prices  are 
blacklisted  and  jobbers will  refuse  to 
sell to them. 
In  order that the cut rate 
stores may  not  procure  stocks  through 
others, a  system  of  private  marks  has 
been adopted, and all possible  steps  are 
being taken to wipe  out  the  cutter. 
If 
druggists  who  suffer  from  the  cutting 
canker  will  but  possess  their  souls 
in patience, they  shall  see  the  end  of 
the trouble,  and that in  the  not  distant 
future. 

Daniel Abbott.

The Utility of the Business Sign.
Two merchants,  with  stores  on one of 
the most  prominent  business  thorough­
fares of a leading city,  were  dealers  in 
the  same  line  of  goods.  They  were 
located but three blocks apart, yet  while 
one had been in the  business  for  years, 
his competitor,  the younger  of  the  two, 
was  apparently  doing  a  more  thriving 
trade.

“I cannot  tell,”  said  the  veteran  one 
day, in the course of conversation with a 
valued personal friend,  “how it  is  that, 
although  I  have  been  established  here 
for years, during  the  last  decade  there 
has keen a perceptible falling off  in  my 
out-of-town trade,  while my  rival  down 
the street tells me that country customers 
were never more numerous.”

“Why,  my  dear  man,”  answered  his 
friend,  “that  is  very  easily  explained. 
The times have got ahead  of  you.  You 
must  remember  that  new  generations 
make new  customers;  when  you  began 
business  years  ago,  you  had  a  good 
country trade;  the  buyers  of  that  time 
have passed away,  and a new generation 
with bright,  progressive  ideas  has  suc­
ceeded  the  old  one;  and  the  present 
buyers do not know  where to find you.”
“Well,”  growled  the  old ^merchant,

“they ought to; the store has  been  here 
long enough.”

“Have you anything to  attract  them? 
Do you put forth any effort  to  let  them 
know where you  are?  Now, look at that 
dark,  uninviting  window.  While  such 
an exhibition of  slovenliness might have 
suited  the  tastes  of  the  old-fashioned 
fathers, it is absolutely repugnant to the 
sight  of  the  sons.  Now,  come  to  the 
door and I will show you why these sons 
do not patronize you.”

Across the front of  the  building  was 
an  old  weather-beaten  sign, 
the  wood 
cracked and warped, and with the letters 
in a state  of  semi-obliteration,  and  en­
tirely undecipherable.

“Look  at  your  sign, 

then  at  your 
neighbor’s, and then note  the difference. 
That is the solution to  the  problem  you 
have so long been  trying  to  determine. 
You need to modernize yourself,  and get 
ahead of  the times—not the times ahead 
of you.”

“By Jove,  Harry,” said  the merchant, 

thoughtfully,  “there’s logic in that.”

It was not many days before  the  win­
dow  put  on  an  attractive  appearance, 
and  a  new,  bright  sign supplanted the 
old one.

Another incident of the utility  of  the 
sign  as  a  valuable index to buyers:  A 
merchant  decorated  his  window  with 
most exquisite taste, and  placed  therein 
an 
interchangeable  or  magic  sign, 
mounted on two fancy  trestles. 
It gave 
his name and also that  of  two  specialty 
articles.  One  day  a  buyer  from  the 
rural  districts  happened  along, and in­
cidentally  glanced  at  the window.  He 
was astonished as he read  the  sign  first 
one  way  and  then  the  other.  He  re­
solved on  an  investigation.  He went in, 
made  a  purchase,  and  had  the  modus 
opcrandi courteously  explained  to  him 
by the clerk.  He went home and  adver­
tised that store  all  over  the  village  by 
telling about the  “tarnal  curis  sign  he 
seed,” and the consequence  was that the 
merchant gained a valuable  and  perma­
nent custom from that village through the 
medium  of  that silent but potent way of 
inviting trade.

The merchant must not delude himself 
with  the  hallucination that any kind of 
sign is going  to  attract  trade,  and  that 
because the antique stencil  sign  guided 
the father to his store the  son  will  still 
look for it.  No,  indeed!  The  brain  of 
inventive  genius  is  too  prolific  in  the 
production of  sign novelties in this pro­
gressive age; the stencil  has  been  rele­
gated  to the past as a business sign, and 
the  wide-awake,  active  merchant  has 
abandoned the primeval methods  of  ad­
vertising,  whether it be on a sign or in a 
newspaper.  A  walk along our business 
thoroughfares or a glance at  the  papers 
attests the proof of this.

There are a thousand and  one  designs 
—neat, tasty  and  attractive,  and  there 
are many conspicuous  for  their  beauty 
and uniqueness, evidence of  the  artist’s 
skill and intelligence.  Some have carved 
models of some specialty or  a  landscape 
or  marine  scene,  with lettering of sym­
metrical beauty  and  exquisite  blending 
of  colors.  One  particularly  noticeable 
sign  represents  four 
fence  rails,  so 
placed  as  to imitate a huge frame,  with 
fifty  or  more  frail  pendants tinted in a 
delicate white,  in imitation of stalactites. 
The whole is  painted  in  blue  and  gold 
pricked with white, presenting a striking 
combination of color that  is  at  once  at­
tractive  to  the  eye.  Window lettering, I

too, is coming prominently in vogue, and 
some handsome signs,  in script,  in  gold 
and black or a combination of  red,  blue 
and  gold,  are  observed,  although  the 
white  letters  of  china are predominant 
at present,  and when set artistically and 
symmetrically  produce  a  very effective 
attraction.

The intelligent artist who understands 
punctuation,  who can set his letters with 
skill  and  judgment,  and  who  has  the 
capacity for introducing originality  and 
novelty  into  his  work  is  sure  to  win 
custom for every wide-awake  merchant. 
But a poorly executed piece  of  work  is 
worse  than  no  sign at all.  The letters 
may be well set and the  painting  neatly 
executed, but if the spacing is  irregular 
and the punctuation incorrect, the beauty 
is marred at once.  The idiosyncrasies of 
human nature are  peculiar.  The  tastes 
are governed according as the object pre­
sented is repugnant  or  pleasant  to  the 
sight.  While a sign executed in  a  high 
state of art—one where  the colors blend 
harmoniously, where every attention has 
been paid to symmetry of  space and let­
tering,  and the spelling and punctuation 
correct,  the  person  of  aesthetic  tastes 
will grow  enthusiastic  over  it.  On  the 
other hand, one painted  by an unskilled 
workman,  with no regard  to the impera­
tive  requirements  of  the  details  noted 
above, will exert  just  a  contrary  influ­
ence upon the observer and cause him to 
turn away in utter disgust.  For instance, 
a sign reading like this:

JOHN.  WALSH.

W h o l e s a l e .  C a s h .  G r o c e k .

is  neither  artistic  nor  elegant,  but  de­
velops  an  inexcusable  and  . palpable 
ignorance  on  the  part  of  the  painter. 
Another sign in the same category is one 
painted on canvas,  and  for  the  sake  of 
economizing space, or in  a spirit of mis­
taken judgment, flaunted it  on  the awn­
ing posts:

620HATS AND  BONNETS620

jumbled  together  in  such  inextricable 
confusion that no one could  decipher  it 
at  a  casual  glance.  Yet  such  signs 
as the above actually  exist  in  this  city.
To  the  careful  observer  who  studies 
the  signs  on  business  houses,  there  is 
much to interest and  amuse,  for,  while 
he will find many  exquisite  and  unique 
productions  of  the  artist’s  brush,  and 
many of  real merit executed by the ordi­
nary painter, he will  also discover many 
amusing  oddities  interspersed, and  that 
there are still a great many merchants who 
in this age of artistic  sign  painting  and 
unique newspaper advertising, are  iden­
tical  with  the  old  merchant  mentioned 
above,  who think their  customers  ought 
to  find  them  by  the  light  of  the  anti­
quated  tallow  candle,  while  they  are 
unconsciously hiding their  electric light 
under the traditional bushel measure.
J.  F. P ennington.

After Many Days.

George  Hanselman, the wholesale con­
fectioner of Kalamazoo, writes as follows 
to T iie  T radesman in regard to  a  curi­
ous incident in connection with the Dead 
Letter Office:
I have just received  from Washington 
a letter I mailed Dec. 20, 1879,  addressed 
to Franklin  Bros., West  Haven,  Ct. 
It 
was found in  a  former clerk’s desk, and 
the Dead Letter Office  returns  it  to  me 
now, over  fourteen  years  from  date  of 
the  letter. 
It  contained  60  cents  in  1 
cent stamps.

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Wholesale P rice  Current.

Advanced—Aqua Ammonia

Declined—

75@1 00

Acetlcum.................
8® 10
Benzolcum  German.. 65® 75
Boraclc 
....................
2f
Cartoli cum ..............
20® 30
Citrlcum...................
52® 55
Hydrochlor................
3® 5
Nltrocum 
.................
10® 12
Oxallcum..................
10® 12
Phosphorium dll........
20
30@1  70 
Sallcyllcum. 
13i@ 
Sulphuricum.
Tannicum__
40@1  60 
30®  33
Tartari cum...

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.2 00@2 25
.  80@1  00
.  45® 50
.2 50@3 00

4® 6
Aqua, 16  deg...........
6® 8
20  deg...........
. 
Carbonas  ............... ■  12® 14
.  12® 14
Chlorldum..............
ANILINE.
Black.......................
Brown......................
Red..........................
Yellow....................
BACCAS.
Cubeae (po  36)......
Juniperus...............
Xantnoxylum .  . 
..
BALSAMUM
Copaiba.................... .  45® 50
@1  90
Peru..........................
Terabln, Canada  — CO® 65
Tolutan.................... .  35® 50

25® 30
8® 10
.  25® 30

CORTEX.
Abies,  Canadian —
Casslae  ....................
Cinchona F la v a ......
Enonymus  atropurp.
Myrlca  Cerlfera, po..
Primus Vlrglnl.........
Quill ala.  grd............
Sassafras  .................
Ulmus Po (Ground  15).......

18
11
18
30
20
12
10
12
15

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EXTRACTUM
•  24® 25
Glycyrrhlza  Glabra.. 
.  33® 35
po.........
Haematox, 15 lb. box..  11® 12
Is............ .  13® 14
)4*........... .  14® 15
14*........... .  16® 17
FERRU
© 15
@3 50
80
<a 50
® 15
.9® 2
© 7

Carbonate Preclp......
Citrate and Qulnla.  .
Citrate  Soluble.........
Ferrocvanldum Sol...
Solut  Chloride.........
Sulphate,  com’l ........ . 
pure...........

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FLORA.

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FOLIA.

Arnica......................
Anthemls.................
Matricaria 

Barosma 
.................
Cassia  Acutifol,  Tin
nivelly...................
Alx
Salvia  officinalis,  Ms
and  )4s...................
Ura Ursl 
.................
OUMMI.

18® 20
3f@ 35
— 50® 65
18® 50
25® 28
35® 50
15® 25
8® 10
@ 60
Acacia,  1st  picked... 
@ 40
2d 
...
© 30
3d 
...
@ 20
sifted sorts..
60® 80
po...............
50® 60
Aloe,  Barb, (po. 60)..
© 12
“  Cape, (po.  20)..
© 50
Socotri. (po.  60)
Catecbn, Is, ()4s, 14 >41,
@ 1
16)..........................
60
55®
Ammonlae...............
40® 45
Assafetida, (po. 85)..
50® 55
Bensolnum................
50® 55
Camphor».................
35® 10@2
Euphorbium  po  ......
50
7b
70®
Gamboge,  po............
@ 3o
Gualacnm,  (po  35)  ..
@1 15
Kino,  (po  1  10)........
© 80
M astic......................
© 40
Myrrh, (po. 45)
Opll  (po  4 20@4 30) . 3 40@3 50
15® 42
Shellac  .. 
...........
33® 35
bleached......
40® 1 00
Tragacanth ..............
Absinthium..............
Eupatorlum..............
Lobelia......................
Majoram...................
Mentha  Piperita......
“  V ir..............
Rue...........................
Tanacetum, V ...........
Thymus,  V...............
MAGNESIA.
Calcined, Pat............
Carbonate,  Pat.........
Carbonate, K. &  M...
Carbonate, Jennlng5.
Abslnthlnm.............. 3 50@4 00
45® 75
Amygdalae,Dale  ..  . 
Amy aalae, Amarae...
8 00@8 25
A nlsl......................... 1  70® 1  80
Aurantl  Cortex......... 2 30@2 40
Bergamll  ................. 3 25®3 50
60® 65
Cajiputl....................
75® 80
Caryophylll.........
Cedar  .......................
35® 65
Chenopodll..............
@1  60
Clnnamonil............
1  10@1  15
Cltronella.................
© 45
Conlum  Mae.............. 36® 65
Copaiba  ................ 80® 90

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n e r b a —In ounce packages.

55® 60
20® 22
20® 25
35® 36

25
20
25
28
23
25
30
22
25

OLEUM.

Cubebae......................  @300
Exechthltos..............  2 50@2 75
Erlgeron................... 3 00@3  10
Gaultheria................2 00@2  10
Geranium,  ounce....   @  75
Gossipll, Sem. gal......   70®  75
Hedeoma  .................. l 25@1  40
Jumperl.......................   50@2 00
Lavendula...................  90@2 00
Llmonls............... ......2 40@2 60
Mentha Piper.............2 85@3 60
Mentha Verld........... 2 20@2 30
Morrhuae, gal........... 1  00@1  10
Myrcia, ounce............   @  50
Olive............................  90@3 00
Plcls Liquida, (gal. .35)  10®  12
Ricini.......................  1  22@1  28
Rosmarini.................  
Rosae, ounce.............6 50@8 50
Succlnl.......................  40®  45
Sabina.........................  90@1 00
San tal  .......................3 50@7 00
Sassafras....................  50®  55
SlnaplB, ess, ounce 
  @ 65
Tlglfi..........................   @  90
Thyme.......................   40®  50
r 
opt  ...............   @ 60
Theobromas...............  15®  20

POTASSIUM

is®  18
BICarb....................... 
bichromate...............   13®  14
Bromide.................... 
40®  43
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.............. 
7®  9
Prusslate....................  28®  SO
Sulphate  po...............   15®  18

RADIX.

Aconitum...................  20®  25
Althae.........................  22®  25
Anchusa....................  12®  15
Arum,  po....................  @  25
Calamus......................  20®  40
Gentiana  (po. 12)...... 
8®  10
Glychrrhiza, (pv. 15)..  16®  18 
Hydrastis  Canaden,
(po. 35)...................  @  so
Hellebore,  Ala,  po__  15®  20
Inula,  po....................  15®  20
Ipecac, po...................1  60®)  75
Iris plox (po. 35@38) ..  35®  40
Jalapa,  pr..................   40®  45
Maranta,  14s ..............  @  35
Podophyllum, po........  15®  18
Rhel............................  75@1  00
"  cut......................  @1  75
Spigella......................  35®  38
Sangulnarla,  (po  25)..  @ 20
Serpentarla.................  30®  32
Senega.......................  55®  60
Simllax, Officinalis,  H  @ 40 
M  @ 25
Sclllae, (po. 35)...........  10®  12
Symplocarpus,  Fcetl-
dns,  po....................  @  35
Valeriana, Eng. (po.30)  @  25
German...  15®  20
Ingiber a .................... 
18® 20
Zingiber  J................... 
18® 20

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SBMBN.
..  @ 15
Anlsum,  (po. 20).. 
Aplum  (graveleons)..  15®  18
Bud, Is  .................... 
4®  6
Carul, (po. 18)..............   10® 12
Cardamon....................1 00@1  25
Corlandrum.................   10® 12
Cannabis Satlva.........   4® 
5
Cvdonlnm....................   75®1 00
Cnenopodlom  ............   10® 12
Dlpterlx Odorate.........2 25®2  50
Foenlculum...............  @  15
Foenugreek,  po.........   6®  8
U n i............................4  @ 4V
Llnl, grd.  (bbl. 3V4)...  3)4®  4
Lobelia.........................  35® 40
Pharlarls Canarian__  3  @ 4
Rapa.............................  6®  7
Slnapls  Albn............ 7  @8
r  Nigra...........  11®  12

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8PIRITU8.
Frumentl, W., D.  Co. .2 00@2 50
D. F. R ......1  75@2 00
 
1  25@1  50
Junlperls  Co. O. T ___1 65®2 00
“ 
............1  75@3 50
Saacharum  N.  B.........1 75@2 00
Spt.  Vlnl  Galll............1 75@6 50
Vlnl Oporto.................1 2S@2 00
Vlnl  Alba....................1 25@2 00

BPONSBB.

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.  ................ 
%
Grass sheeps’ wool car­
riage  ....................... 
65
Hard for  slate  use__ 
75
Yellow Reef, for  slate 
u se.......................... 
1  40

SYRUPS.

Accacla...............................  50
Zingiber  .............................   50
Ipecac..................................   60
Ferrl Iod.............................   50
Aurantl  Cortes................  
  50
  50
Rhel  Arom...............  
 
Simllax  Officinalis..............  60
Co........  50
Senega................................   50
Sclllae..................................  50
M  Co.............................   50
Toidtan...............................  50
50
Prunas  vlrg  ................. 

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Morphia, S.  P. A W.  2 25@2 50 
C.  Co....................  2  15@2 40
Moschus Canton........  @ 40
Myiistlca, No  1 ........  65®  70
Nux Vomica, (po 20)..  @ 10
Os.  Sepia....................  15®  18
Pepsin Saac, H. A P. D.
Go............................  @2 00
Plcls Llq, N.»C., )4 gal
doz  .........................  @2 00
Plcls Llq., quarts......  @1  00
pints.........   @  85
PH Hydrarg,  (po. 80)..  @ 50
Piper  Nigra, (po. 22)..  @ 1
Piper Alba,  (po £5)....  @  3
Plx  Burgun...............   @  7
Plumbl A cet..............  14®  15
Pulvis Ipecac et opll. .1  10@1  20 
Pyrethrum,  boxes  H
A P. D.  Co., do*......   @1  25
Pyrethrum,  pv...........  20®  30
Quasslae....................   8®  10
Qulnla, S. P. A W.......34*039*
S.  German__  27®  37
Rubia  Tlnctoram......   12®  14
Saccharum Lactls pv. 
20®  22
Saladn........................2 00®2 10
Sanguis  Draconls......   40®  60
Sapo,  W......................  12®  14
“  M.......................   10®  12
“  G.......................   @  15

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Seldlltz  Mixture.. 
_
@  20 
Slnapls....................  @
18 
“  opt...............  @
®  30
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  De
Voes.......................  @  35
Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes  @  35
Soda Boras, (po. 11).  .  10®  11 
Soda  et Potass Tart...  27®  30
Soda Carb.................  1)4@  2
Soda,  Bl-Carb............   @  5
Soda, Ash..................   3)4®  4
Soda, Sulphas............   @  2
Spts. Ether C o...........  50®  55
“  Myrcia  Dom......  @2 25
“  Myrcia Imp........  @3 00
‘  Vlnl  Rect.  bbl.
...7........................ 2  25@2 85
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Strychnia  Crystal...... 1 4C)@1  45
Sulphur, Subl............   2V@ 3
Roll..............  2  @2)4
Tamarinds................. 
8®  10
Terebenth Venice......   28®  30
Theobromae..............45  @  48
Vanilla......................9 00@16 00
.  7® 8

Bbl. Gal
Whale, winter.
.  70
70
Lard,  extra__
.  80
85
Lard, No.  1...............   42
.  42
45
Linseed, pure raw
50
53

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Linseed,  boUed.........  53 
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
Spirits Turpentine....  38 

56
strained..................  65  70
40
lb .
Red Venetian..............144  2@8
Ochre, yellow  Mars__ 1%  2@4
“ 
Ber........144  2@8
Putty,  commercial....2R  2)4@8
“  strictly  pure.....2)4 2M®8
Vermilion Prune Amer­
ican .......................... 
13@16
Vermilion,  English.... 
65®70
Green,  Peninsular......   70@75
Lead,  red.....................  6  @6)4
“  w hite................. 6  @6)4
Whiting, white Span...  @70
Whiting,  GUders’........  @90
White, Paris  American 
1  0
Whiting,  Paris  Eng.
cliff.......................... 
1  40
Pioneer Prepared Paintl  20@1  4 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared
Paints.....................1 00@1  20

VARNISHBB.

No. 1 Turp  Coach.... 1  10@1  20
Extra Turp................160@1  70
Coach  Body...............2 75@8 00
No. 1 Turp Furn.......1  00@1  10
EutraTurkD am ar....l  56@1  60 
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 
70® 7 5
Turp......................... 

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TINCTURES.
Aconltum  NapelllBR. 
F.
Aloes..........................
and  myrrh........
A rnica.......................
Asafcstlda...................
Atrope Belladonna__
Benzoin...................
“  Co.................
Sangulnarla...............
Barosma....................
Cantharides...............
Capsicum...................
Ca damon...................
Co...............
Castor.........................
Catechu....................
Cinchona...................
Co............... .
Columba....................
Conlum.......................
Cubeba.......................
Digitalis....................
Ergot...........................
Gentian.......................
“  Co...................
Gualca....................... .
ammon............
“ 
Zingiber.....................
Hyoscyamus...............
Iodine..........................
“  Colorless...........
Ferrl  Chlorldum.........
K ino............................
Lobelia........................
Myrrh..........................
Nux  Vomica...............
°fiU,Camphorated...............
“  Deodor.........................2
Aurantl Cortex....................
Quassia...............................
Rhatany.......................
Rhel.....................................
Cassia  Acutifol...................
Co...............
Serpentaria...........  ...........
Stromonlum.........................
Tolutan...............................
Valerian.............................
Veratrum Verlde.................

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MISCELLANEOUS.

JEther, Spts  Nit, 3 F..  28®  30
“  4 P ..  32®  34
Alumen......................  2K® 3

ground,  (po.

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squlbbs  @125

7)  ............................  3®  4
Annatto......................  55®  60
Antlmonl, po.............. 
4®  5
et Potass T.  55®  60
Antlpyrln..................   @1 40
Antlfebrln.................   @  25
Argentl  Nltras, ounce  @  51
Arsenicum................. 
5®  7
Balm Gilead  Bud....  38®  40
Bismuth  S.  N............ 2 20@2 25
Calcium Chlor, Is, (54s
12;  14s,  14)..............  @  11
Cantharldes  Russian,
po............................  @1  00
Capslcl  Fructus, a f...  @  26
po....  ®  28
B po.  @ 20
Caryophyllus, (po.  15)  10®  12
Carmine,  No. 40.........   ®8 75
Cera  Alba, 8. & F ......  50®  55
Cera Flava.................  38®  40
Coccus  .....................   @  40
Cassia Fructus...........  @  25
Centrarla....................  @  10
Cetacieum  .................  @  40
Chloroform...............   60®  68
Chloral HydCrst......1  50®1  80
Chondrus  .................  20®  25
Clnchonldlne, F.  A  W  15®  20 
German  3)4®  12
Corks,  list,  dis.  per
cent  ...................... 
75
Creasotum.............. 
@  35
Creta, (bbl. 75)......  
@  2
prep............  
5®  5
preolp......... 
9®  11
Rubra...............   @  8
Crocus......................  50®  65
Cudbear......................  @  24
Cuprl Sulph... 
__   5 @  6
Dextrine........ 
10@  12
Ether Sulph...............   70®  75
Emery,  all  numbers..  @
_   “ 
po..................   @  6
Ergota, (po.)  75 .........   70®  75
Flake  White..............  12®  15
Galla..........................   @  23
Gambler......  ............   7  @8
Gelatin,  Cooper.........   @  70
French..........   40®  60
Glassware  flint, by box 80.
Less than box 75.
Glue,  Brown............  
9®  15
“  White...............   18®  25
Glycerlna...................  14®  20
Grana Paradlsl...........  @  22
Humulus....................  25®  55
Hydraag Chlor  Mite..  @  85 
“  Cor 
..  @ 80
Ox  Rubrum  @  90
Ammonlatl..  @1  00 
Unguentum.  45®  55 
Hydrargyrum. 
@ 64
Ichthyobolla,.
Am..  ..1 25@1  50
Indigo.........................  75@1 00
Iodine,  Resubl..........3 80®3 90
Iodoform....................  @4  70
Lupulin......................  @2 25
Lycopodium..............  70®  ’S
M ad s.........................  70®  75
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy-
efrarg Iod.................  @  27
Liquor Potass Arslnltls  10®  12 
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
Xannla,  S. F ............   60®  08

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

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

Sap Sago....................  ©21
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domestic  —   ©14

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COUPON  BOOKS.

CATSUP.

•• 

Blue Label Brand.
__  
Triumph Brand.

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

CLOTHES  PINS.

5 gross boxes..................44©45

COCOA  SHELLS.

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

 

COFFEE.
Green.
Rio.

Santos.

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

Maracaibo.

Mocha.

Java.

■  Roasted.

To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add 14c. per lb. for roast­
ing and 15 per  cent,  for shrink­
age.
M cLaughlin’s  XXXX..  23 95
Bunola  ...........................   23 45
Lion, 60 or 100 lb.  case__  23 95

Package.

Extract.

Valley City 14 gross........... 
75
......... 1  15
Felix 
Hummel’s, foil, gross.......   1  65
“ 
........  2 85

“ 

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tin 
CHICORY.

Bulk...
Red

CLOTHES  LINES.

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

“ 
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“ 
“ 
Jute 
“ 
CONDENSED  MILK. 

.per do*,  l 25 
1 40
1 60
1 75
1 90
85
1 00

“ 
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“ 
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4 doz. in case.

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

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

gross
6 00
7  ro
5 50
9 00
7  fO
6 00

BAKING  POWDER.

“  2  “ 

U lb. cans. 3  doz..............
45
75
44 lb.  “ 
2  “  ..............
1  60
1  “  ...............
1 lb.  “ 
10
Bulk..................................
Arctic.
55
*  lb cans 6 doz  case........
........ 1  10
"44 #>  “  4 doz  “ 
........ 2 00
1  lb  “  2 doz  “ 
5  tb  “  1 doz  “ 
........ 9 00
Fosfon.
5 oz. cans. 4 doz. in case. .  80
.2 00
“
16  “ 
40
Red Star, 44 lb  cans.........
75
“ 
.........
“ 
1  40
.........
Teller's.  *  lb. cans,  doz.
45
85
“ 
“ 
“  . 1  50
45
75
“ 
1  50
“ 
per doz 
Dime cans..  95
..1  40
“ 
4-oz
.  2 GO
“ 
6-oz
. .2 SO
“ 
8-oz
“ 
..3 90
12-oz
16-oz
“ 
. .5 Oil
12 00
254-lb “ 
“  18 25
4-lb
“  22 75
5-lb
10-lb
“  41  80

44 lb  “ 
1  lb  “ 
44 lb.  “
lib.  “ 
Our Leader, 34 lb cans...
44 lb  cans......
1 lb cans 
...
TVr. Price’s.

0?PRICE’s
CREAM
iAKiNg
N wder

BATH  BRICK.
2 dozen in case.

English...............................  90
Bristol..................................  90
Dom'-stic.............................   70

BLUING.  Gross

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8 02 

Arctic, 4 os  ovals..............  3 60
“ 
..............  6 75
“  pints,  round...........  9 00
“  No. 2, sifting box...  2 75 
“  No. 3, 
...  4 00
“  No. 5, 
...  8 00
“  1 OS baU  .................  4 50
Mexican Liquid, 4 oz.......   3 60
“ 
8 os.........   6  80

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BROOMS.

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

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BRUSHES.

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

CANDLES.

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

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CANNED  GOODS. 

Fish.
Clams.

“ 

“ 

“ 

Little Neck,  1 lb................

21b 
Lobsters.

“  2 lb...............   I  90
Clam Chowder.
Standard, 3 lb...................  2 25
Cove Oysters.
Standard,  1 lb....................   75
...............  1  s5
Star,  1  lb..........................   2 45
“  2  lb........................... 8 50
Picnic, l lb..........................2 no
“ 
21b..........................2 90
Mackerel.
Standard, 1 lb.....................l  io
2  lb................... 2  10
Mustard,  21b.....................2 25
Tomato Sauce,  2 lb ............ 2 25
Soused, 2 lb........................2 25
Salmon.
Columbia River, fiat..........1  80
“  tails........... 1  65
Alaska, Red........................1  25
pink........................ 1  10
Kinney’s,  flats................... 1  95
American  Ka.................444® 5
T  _ “ . _.  ,A *...................644© 1
Imported  141....................  ©to
Mi.....................15@16
Mustard  *■......................  7©8
Boneless..........................  
21
Trout.
Brook, 3 1b............  
..........2 50

Sardine*.

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Fruits.
Apples.

Gages.

1  10
3 25

Peaches.

Cherries.

Apricots.

3 lb. standard............ 
York State  gal* on* —  
Hamburgh
Live oak.....................  
1 40
Santa Crus................  
1  40
1  50
Lusk’s ......................... 
1  10
Overland.......... ........ 
Blackberries.
F. A  W....................... 
90
Red............................  1  10@1 25
1  75
Pitted Hamburgh...... 
W hite........................  
1  50
Erie  ..........................  
1  80
Damsons. Egg Plums and Green 
E rie............................ 
1  20
California................... 
1  40
Gooseberries.
1  25
Common.................... 
P ie............................ 
90
Maxwell.................... 
1  25
Shepard’s ..................
California..................   16031  75
Monitor 
...............
O xford......................
Pears.
Domestic.........•..........  
1  25
Riverside.................... 
1  75
Pineapples.
Common..................... 1  00@1  30
Johnson’s  sliced........ 
2 50
2 75
grated........ 
Booth’s sliced............  @2 51
grated...........  @2 75
Quinces.
Common.................... 
1  10
Raspberries.
1  10
Red............................. 
Black  Hamburg......... 
1  50
1  20
Erie, black 
Strawberries.
1  25
Lawrence................... 
Hamburgh................. 
1  25
1  20
Erie............................ 
Terrapin....................... 
1  05
Whortleberries.
Blueberries............... 
85
Corned  beef  Libby’s ..........1  95
Roast beef  Armour’s ..........1  80
Potted  ham, *4 lb................1  40
“  54 lb.................  85
tongue, H lb............. 1 35
54 lb.........   85
95
chicken, M lb.........  

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Vegetables.

Meats.

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“ 
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Beans.

“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
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“ 
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Peas.

Corn.

Hamburgh  stringlees..........l  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 85
Picnic Baked........................l 00
Hamburgh...........................1 40
Livingston  E den................1 20
Purity..................................
Honey  Dew..............................1 40
Morning Glory...................
Soaked............................... 
75
Hamburgh  marrofat  ..........1  35
early June........
Champion Eng. .1  50
petit  pois............1 75
fancy  sifted. 
..1 90
Soaked.................................  75
Harris standard...................  75
VanCamp’s  marrofat..........1  10
early June.......1  30
Archer's  Early Blossom__ 1  25
French.................................2  15
French.....  ...................... 19®21
Erie.................................  ..  85
Hubbard............................. 1  15
Hamburg............................. 1 40
Soaked............ 
85
Honey  Dew..........................1 50
E rie......................................1  35
Hancock.............................. 1  15
Excelsior......... ..................
Eclipse.................................
Hamburg............................
Gallon.......................   .......8 50

Mushrooms.
Pumpkin.
Squash.
Succotash.

Tomatoes.

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CHEESE.

CHOCOLATE.
German Sweet................  
23
37
Premium........................... 
Breakfast Cocoa.............. 
43
Amboy.......................   ©13*
Acme..........................  1244©13
Lenawee....................   ©12 44
Riverside..................  
1344
Gold  Medal...............   ©11*4
6© 10
Skim..........................  
Brick..........................  
U
Edam  ........................  
1  00
23
Leiden.......................  
Llmburger.................   ©10
Pineapple...................  ©25
Roquefort..................   ©85 

Foreign.
Currants.

1,  In barrels............
2
in  44-bbls..............
-M
in less quantity 
.
¡144
cleaned,  bulk........
5
cleaned,  package.. 544
Citron, Leghorn. 25 lb. boxes  12' 
Lemon 
8
Orange 
10

25  “ 
25  “ 

Peel.

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“ 
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Raisins.
Ondnra, 29 lb. boxes 
“ 
Sultana, 20 
Valencia, 30  “

©  714
©  8

Prunes.

10

..8

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California,  100-120 ..............  6*
90x100 25 lb. bxs.  6*
80x90 
814
70x80 
60x70 
.  9

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

No. 1,  614  ......................  *1  75
No. 2.614 
1  60
No. 1,  6..........................  1  65
No. 2,  6..........................  1  50

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XX  wood, white.

No. 1,  614  .......................  1  35
.......................  1  25
No. 2.614 

Manilla, white.

614  ...................................  1  00
6........................................ 
95

Coin.

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

Farina.
Hominy.

Oatmeal.

Lima  Beans.

100 lb. kegs................... 
3*
Barrels  ............................... 2 75
Grits  .................................. 3 CO
Dried........ 
a®S*
Maccaronl and Vermicelli.
Domestic, 12 lb. box__  
56
Imported.....................1014®. 1
Barrels  200 .......................  4  25
Half barrels 100................  2 25
Kegs..................................   214
Green,  bu.........................  1 25
Split  per l b ................. 
Barrels  180.................  @4 25
Half  bbls 90..............  @2 25
German.............................   414
Bast India..........................   5
Cracked..............................  3*

Pearl Barley.

Rolled  Oats.

Wheat.

Sago.

Peas.

3

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

FISH—Salt.

Bloaters.

Cod.

Pollock..........................
Whole, Grand  Bank......5®514
Boneless,  bricks.............. 6@8
Boneless, strips................6®8
Smoked......................... U@1214

Holland, white hoops keg 

70 
bbl  9 50

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Norwegian.......................
Round, 14 bbl 100 lbs........  2 40
*   “  40  “ 
-  “ 
........  1  25
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

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Sardines.

Trout.

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

No. 1,14 bbls., lOOlbs...........6 25
No. 1 *  bbl, 40  lbs..............2 80
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs.................   80
No.  1,81b  kits....................  65
Family 
14 bbls, 100 lbs..........87 50 13 50
14  “  40  “  ..........  3 50  1 65
101b.  kits..................  
90  50
75  45
................... 
8 lb.  “ 

Whlteflsh.

No. 1

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

Souders’.

Regular
Grade
Lemon.

doz
2 oz  — t  75 
4 oz......  1  50

Regular 
Vanilla.

doz
2 oz........*1 2u
4 OZ.........2 40
XX Grade 
Lemon.
2 oz........*1 50
4 oz.......  3 00
XX Grade 
Vanilla.
2 oz........II 75
4 oz.........3 50

Jennings.
Lemon. Vanilla
2 oz regular panel.  75
1  20
4 oz 
...1  50
2 00
6 oz 
.. .2 00
3 00
No. 3  taper.......... 1  35
200
No. 4  taper...........1  50
2 50

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GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.

Choke Bore—Dupont's.

Eagle Duck—Dupont’s.

Kegs.............................  ... .3 25
Half  kegs  ......................... .1  90
Quarter  kegs............ ....... .1  10
1  lb  cans............................ .  30
44 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
Madras,  5 lb. boxes  ........
55
S. F., 2, 3 and 5 lb. boxes..
50
17  lb. palls. 
@  40 @  70
30  “ 
Pure.....................................   80
Calabria...............................  25
Sicily....................................  12

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LICORICE.

INDIGO.

HERBS.

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

MATCHES.

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MINCE  MEAT.

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

case...................... 

 
MEASURES.
Tin, per dozen.

1  gallon  ..........................  *1  75
Half  gallon......................  1  40
Q uart..................  
70
P int.................... 
45
Half  pint  .......................  
40
Wooden, for vinegar, per doz.
1 gallon............................  7 00
Half gallon  ... 
4 75
Q uart...............................  3 75
Pint..................................   2 25

 
 

MOLASSES.
Blackstrap.
Sugar house................—.. 
Cuba Baking.
Ordinary.............. 
Porto Rico.
Prim e...............................  
Fancy........................ 
 
New Orleans.
F air..................................  
Good........................... 
 
Extra good........................ 
Choice.............................. 
Fancy_____   _____ 
One-half barrels, 8c extra.

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20
30
18
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*2 
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* 3 
4 00
* 5 
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810 
6 00
120 
7 00
Above prices on coupon books 
are  subject  to  the  following 
quantity discounts:
200 books or over..  5  per  cent 
.10 
500 
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COUPON  PASS  BOOKS. 
[Can  be  made to represent any 
denomination  from *10  down. |
20 books....................... *  1 00
2 00
50 
3 00
100 
6 25
250 
500 
10 00
1000 
17 50

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CREDIT  CHECKS.

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

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Butter.

CRACKERS.
Seymour XXX................
Seymour XXX, cartoon.
Family  XXX.................
Family XXX,  cartoon..
Salted  XXX...................
Salted XXX,  cartoon  ..
Kenosha 
....................
Boston...........................
Butter  biscuit..............
Soda, XXX..........................  5 ¡4
Soda, City............................  714
Soda,  Duchess.  ...................814
Crystal Wafer......................1014
Long  Island Wafers  ..........11
8. Oyster  XX X ...................  514
City Oyster. XXX...................514
Farina  Oyster....................   6

Oyster.

Soda.

CREAM  TARTAR.

Strictly  pure......................  30
Telfers  Absolute..............  30
Grocers’...........  ........— 15@25

7
7*
11 
14
1414
8

DRIED  FRUITS. 

Domestic.

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Peaches.

Apples.
quartered 
Apricots.

Blackberries.
Nectarines.

Sundried. sliced in bbls. 
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes 
California In  bags........ 
Evaporated In boxes.  .. 
In  boxes........................... 
70 lb. bags.......................10
251b. boxes.....................1014
Peeled, In  boxes...........
Cal. evap.  “ 
“ 
In bags.......10
Pears.
California In bags 
IQ
Pitted Cherries.
Barrels..........................
50 lb. boxes...................
25  “ 

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

...........1014

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Loose Muscatels in Boxes.

2 crown.............................   1  20
“ 
3 
............................. 1  60
Loose Muscatels in Bags.
2  crown.............................. 4
..............................6
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Peerless Evaporated Cream.

PICKLES.
Medium.

Barrels. 1,200 count...  @4  50
0 2   7r.
Half bbls, 600  count.. 
5 50
Barrels, 2,400 count. 
Half bbls, 1,200 count 
3 25

Small.

PIPES.

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

POTASH.

48 cans in case.

Babbitt's..........................  3 7B
PennaSalt  Co.’s..............  3 00

RICE.
Domestic.

Carolina bead..................... g
“  No. 1......................5)4
“  NO. 2......................  5
Broken...............................   4

Imported.

Japan, No. 1........................ 5)4
~   No. 2.........................5
g
Java............................ .. 
Patna..................................  5)4

SPICES.

Whole Sifted.

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Allspice..........................
Cassia, China In mats__
Batavia In band.
Saigon In rolls...
Cloves,  Amboyna...........
Zanzibar............
Mace  Batavia.................
Nutmegs, fancy..............
“  No.  1.................
“  No. 2 
Pepper, Singapore, black... 
“ 
white...
“ 
shot......................
“ 
Pure Ground In Bulk.
Allspice.............................
Cassia,  Batavia.... ............
and  Saigon
Saigon...............
Cloves,  Amboyna..............
Zanzibar..............
Ginger, African.................
Cochin.
Jam aica...........

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Mace  Batavia....................
Mustard,  Kng. and Trieste.
Trieste..................
Nutmegs, No. 2 ..................
Pepper, Singapore, black__
“  white......
“ 
Cayenne..............
Sage.....................................
•‘Absolute” In Packages.
Allspice......................  84
Cinnamon...................  84
Cloves.........................  84
Ginger,  Jamaica.......   84
“  African  .........   84
Mustard......................  84
Pepper.......................   84
Sage...........................  84

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8 
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.32 
.22 
11)4 
.80 
.75 
.70 
.60 
10 
.20 16
.15
18
.25

16
24
20
20

1  55 
1  55 
1  55 
1  55 
1  55 
1  55 
1  55

8AL  SODA.

Kegs...................................  1%
Granulated,  boxes..............  1%

SEEDS.

A nise.........................  @15
Canary, Smyrna......... 
4
Caraway....................  
8
Cardamon, Malabar... 
90
Hemp,  Russian.........  
43£
Mixed  Bird  .............. 
5@6
10
Mustard,  white.........  
Poppy......................... 
9
Rape..........................  
5
Cuttle  bone...............  
80
STARCH.

Corn.

 

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20-lb  boxes..........................   5v
40-lb 
5*4
Gloss.
1-lb packages.......................  5
3-lb 
.......................  5
6-lb 
6)4
 
40 and 50 lb. boxes..............  314
Barrels................................   314

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SNUFF.

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

SODA,

Boxes................................... 5
Kegs, English........................444

SALT.
 
 

100 3-lb. sacks......................... 62 15
2 00
60 5-lb.  “ 
2810-lb. sacks...................  1  85
1  80
2014-lb.  “ 
24 3-lb  cases.  ...................  1  50
56 lb. dairy in linen  bags.. 
32
281b.  “ 
drill  “  16  18

 

Warsaw.

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

Ashton.

.. 

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HigglnB.

Soiar Rock.

56 lb. dairy In linen  sacks. 

75 

56 It.,  sacks.......................   25

Common Fine.

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

75
75

SALERATUS.

Packed 60 lbs. In box.

Church’s ...........................   5)4
DeLand’s ............................  5?*
Dwight’s............. ................5%
Taylor’s ...............................  5

80 AP.
Laundry.

Allen B. Wrlsley’s Brands.

Proctor & Gamble.

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

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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..$4 00 
plain...  2 94 
N.  K.  Falrbank & Co.’s Brands.
Santa Claus.......................  4 00
Br jwn, 60 bars.................... 2 40
“ 
80  b a rs...................3 25
Lautz Bros. & Co.’s Brands.
Acme.................................  3 76
Cotton Oil.......................... 6 00
Marseilles..........................  4 00
Mafter  .................................4 00

Thompson & Chute Brands.

Silver.................................. 3 ,,5
Mono............................ ” ” 
Savon Improved.............."  2 50
Sunflower.........................   3 05
«olden  .............................: 
Economical  .......................  2 25

3 35

3 25

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

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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 belter criterion of the  market 
than to quote New York  prices 
exclusively.
Cut  Loaf............................ $5 67
Powdered..............................   5 11
Granulated 
...................... 4  ,-4
Extra Fine Granulated...  4 86
Cubes.......................................g 11
XXXX  Powdered..................   5 48
Confec. Standard  A........... 4 61
No. 1  Columbia A..............   4 55
No. 5 Empire  A  ................. 4  42
No.  6....................................4  36
No.  7.................................... 4 30
No.  8....................................4  17
No.  9.............................. 
No.  10.................................   4 (15
No.  11.................................. 3 99
No.  12.................................  3 92
No.  13.................................   3 86
No 14..................................   3 74

 

4 11

SYRUPS.

Corn.

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

Pure Cane.

TABLE  SAUCES.

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

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TEAS.

japan—Regular.

SUN CUBED.

BASKET  FIRED.

F air...............................   @17
Good..............................  @20
Choice..........................24  @26
Choicest...................... 32  @34
Dust...... .....................10  @12
F air...............................   @17
Good..............................  @20
Choice..........................24  @26
Choicest...................... 32  @34
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. 
IMPERIAL.

ENGLISH BREAKFAST.

YOUNB HTSON.

GUNPOWDER.

TOBACCOS.

Fine Cut.

Private Brands.

P. Lorillard & Co.’s Brands.
Sweet Russet..............30  @32
Tiger..........................  
31
D.  Scotten & Co’s Brands.
60
Hiawatha................... 
Cuba........................... 
34
Rocket.......................  
30
Spaulding & Merrick’s  Brands.
Sterling.
30
Bazoo.........................
@30
Can  Can......................
@27
Nellie  Bly................. 24
@25
Uncle Ben..................24
@25
McGinty....................
“  % bbls..........
25
Dandy Jim.................
29
Torpedo
24
in  drums__
23
Yum  Yum  ...............
28
1892............................
23
“  drums....  
........

Plug.

Sorg’s Brands.

Finzer’s Brands.

Lorlllard’s Brands. 

39
40
26
38 
34
40
32
39 
30

Spearhead .................
Joker.........................
Nobby Twist.................
Scotten'B Brands.
Kylo............................
Hiawatha...................
Valley C ity...............
Old  Honesty..............
Jolly Tar. 
........
Climax (8 oz., 41c)...
Green Turtle..............
Three Black Crows...
J. G. Butler’s Brands.
Something Good........ 
38
Out of  Sight................... 
Wilson ci McCaulay’s Brands.
Gold  Rope...................... 
Happy Thought.........  
37
Messmate........................ 
No Tax..................... 
31
Let  Go.......................  
27
Smoking.

Catlln’s  Brands.

Kiln  dried........................17@18
Golden  Shower................... 19
Huntress  ........................... 26
Meerschaum  ................... 29@30
American Eagle Co.’s Brands.
Myrtle Navy........................40
Stork 
...........................30@32
German............................... 15
F rog...................................'33
Java, *s foil....................... 32
Banner Tobacco Co.’s Brands.
Banner.................................ie
Banner Cavendish.............. 38
Gold Cut 
...........................28

ae
43
32

Scotten’s Brands.

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

Brands.

Leidersdorf’s Brands.

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

Spaulding & Merrick.

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

VINEGAR.

40 gr.. 
50 gr.

@8@9

61 for barrel.

YEAST.

WET  MUSTARD.
Bulk, per gal  ................... 
so
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
Full 
.................  @ 3)4
Dry............................. 4  @ 5
Kips,green  ...............   2  @3
‘‘  cured....................   @ 4
Calfskins,  green........  4  @ 5
Deacon skins............ .10 ~@25

cured........5v*@

Hinss.

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No. 2 hides *  off.
PELTS.

WOOL.

M ISCELLANEOUS.

Shearlings................. 5 @  20
Lambs 
.................... .25 @  60
Washed.................... .12 @ 16
Unwashed_______ .  8 @12
Tallow..................... .  4 ©  4)4
Grease  butter  ......... .  1 © 2
Switches.................. •  1)4©  2
Ginseng.................... .2 0i @2 50
Badger.......................  80@1  00
B e ar.......................15 00@25 00
Beaver............................3 00@7 00
Cat, wild....................  50@  75
Cat, house.................  10@  25
Fisher.  ....................  3 00@6 00
Fox,  red.........................1 00@1 40

PURS.

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Fox, cross....................... 3 00@5 00
Fox,  grey....................   50® 70
Lynx................................1  00@2 50
Martin, dark...................1  00@3 00
pale*yellow.  75@1  00
Mink, dark...................  25@1 00
Muskrat........................  3@ 13
Oppossum.....................  5@ 15
Otter, dark  ..............5 00@10 00
Raccoon......................  30® 75
Skunk  .......................1 0U@1  25
W olf................................1 oo@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

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Tubs,No. 1...................  600

INDURATED  WARE.

Baskets, market............  35

Pails, No. 1, two-hoop.. 
Bowls, 11 inch....................

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“ 
“ willow cl’ths, No.l 
“ 
11 
“ 
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“  No. 2..............................  5 50
“  No. 3..............................  4 50
1  30
“  No. 1,  three-hoop__  1  50
13  “ 
“ 
....................   90
....................  1  25
15  “ 
“ 
17  “  ....................   1  SO
“ 
 
“ 
19  “ 
2 40
21  “ 
...................
shipping  bushel.. 1  15
full  hoop  “ 
.. 1  25
5 25
“  No.2 6 25
“  No.3 7 25
splint  “  No.l  3 75
“  No.2 4 25
“  No.3 4 75
Pails..................................  3 15
Tubs,  No.  1............................ 13 50
Tubs, No. 2............................. 12 00
Tubs, No. 3............................. 10 50
10C0
No.  1...........................  
60 2  10
No  2............................ 
70 2 45
No.  3...........................   SO 2 80
No.  5.........................  t  00  3 50
Universal..........................2  25
No. Queen.........................2  50
Peerless Protector.............. 2  40
Saginaw Globe...................  1 75
Water Witch......................2  25
Wilson............................... 2  50
Good Luck.........................2  75
Peerless.............................   2 85
GRAINS and FEEDSTUFF8

Butter Plates—Oval.
250 

W ashboards—single.

Double.

WHEAT.

50 
50

MEAL.

FLOUR  IN  SACKS.

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

13 00
16 50
16 50

MILLSTUFFS.

Less
Car lots  quantity
$16 00
16 00

Bran.............. 815 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

CORN.

OATS.

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

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FISH  AND  OYSTERS.
F.  J.  Dettenthaler  quotes as

@  9
©   9
@15
@  5
@15
20
10
@10
@  8
@9
12
12)4

follow s:
PBESH  PISH.
W hitefisb 
....................
T rout  .............................
Black B ass....................
H alib u t...........................
Ciscoes or H erring __
B luefish.........................
F resh lobster, per lb ..
C od..................................
No. 1 P ickerel..............
P i k e . .............................
Smoked  W h ite............
Red  Snappers...............
Colum bia  River  Sal-
m o u .............................
M ackerel.......................
F alrhaven  C ounts__
F . J. D.  S elects...........
S e le c ts...........................
F. J. D.............................
A nchors.........................
S tan d ard s......................
Favorite.........................
1  75
E x tra Selects..per gal.
S ele cts...........................
1  40
S tandards.....................
1  03
C o u n ts...........................
2  20
Scallops.........................
1  50
Shrim ps  .......................
1  25
C la m s..... .......................
1  25
SHELL  HOODS.
Oysters, per  100...........1  25@1  50
Clams, 
...........
75@1  00

20@25
@35
@30
@23
@23
@20
@18
@16

OYSTERS—Bulk.

oysters—Cans.

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PROVISIONS.

 

 

PORK  IN  BARRELS.

The Grand Rapids  Packing  and Provision Co. 

quotes as follows:
Mess............................ 
13 25
Short c u t........................................................13 75
Extra clear pig, short cut....................... 
15 50
Extra clear,  heavy.....................................
Clear, fat  back...................... 
14  50
Boston clear, short cut...........................  14  75
Clear back, short cut...................................   14 75
15 (to
Standard clear, short cut. best............... 
Pork, links...
T54
Bologna...... .
5)4
Liver...........
6
Tongue ........
8)4
Blood ...........
Head cheese
Summer........
10r*
Frankfurts...
„  
Kettle  Rendered..........................
SS£
Granger.......................  
 
*2
fam ily.. 
........................................................ &
Compound......................................  
«2
Cottoline.................................. . . . . . . . . . .......7v
50 lb. Tins,  *c advance.
201b. palls,  )4c 
* c
101b.  “ 
51b.  “ 
£c 
31b.  " 
l c

LARD.

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BEEF  IN  BARBELS.

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smoked  meats—Canvassed or Plain.

Extra Mess, warranted 200 lbs.....................   7 50
Extra Mess, Chicago packing......................  7 00
Boneless, rump butts....................................  to 00
Hams, average 20 lbs..................................  ..  91,4
16 lbs................................   9M@iu
12 to 14 lbs..........................  
10
Picnic...................................................  6!/
best boneless...................... 
9
Shoulders..................................  .............."   §
Breakfast Bacon  boneless............................  10
Dried beef, ham prices................................  10
Long Clears, heavy..............
Briskets,  medium..................  
r

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Hlfht..................................................8)4

•• 

DRV  SALT  MEATS.

TRIPE.

PICKEED  PIGS’  FEET.

BUttS.......................   .................... ... 
q
D. S. Bellies....................... ...........................   to 1/
Fat Backs..................................... 10  *
Barrels.............................................................  00
Kegs..............................................................  1  90
Kits, honeycomb...........................  
75
Kits,premium................................................... 65
BEEF  TONGUES.
Barrels............................................. 
22 m
Half barrels......................11  00
Per pound........................................................... 11
BCTTERINE.
Dairy, sold packed...................................  
14
Dairy, rolls....................................................
Creamery, solid packed...................................igyt
Creamery, rolls.......................................  ’''  19

FRESH  BEEF.

e  @ 6)4

Carcass...................................................  5  © 7
Fore  quarters........................................4)4@ 5
Hind quarters..................................... 
Loins No. 3............................................ ...  @10
g lb8- v ...................................................  7  @9
Bounds........................................  ...... 5  @ 6
4V4
Chucks............................................... 
Plates...................................................; 
¡§ 4*
Dressed.................................................   6*06)4
Loins...................................................... 
7*
Shoulders................................. 
«u
Leaf Lard..................................49
Carcass................................................   g
Lambs...........................................
Carcass

FRESH  PORK.

@ 6)4 @ 6

MUTTON.

VEAL.

CROCKERY  AND  GLASSWARE.

LAMP  BURNERS.

No. 0 Sun..............................................  
45
N0.1  “ ......................................................;;  50
No. 2  “  .........................................................   75
Tubular...........................................................  75

LAMP  CHIMNEYS.  P er bOX.

6 doz. In box.

Pearl top.

First quality.
;; 
XXX Flint.
“ 
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No. 0 Sun..........................................................  75
No.l  “  .........................................................1  88
No. 2  “  .........................................................     70
No. 0 Sun, crimp  top...................................... 2  10
ko. i  ;; 
; ; ....................................... 225
No.2 
“  .......................................3 25
No. 0 Sun, crimp top...................................... 2 60
“  ...................................... 2 80
No. 1  “ 
No. 2  “ 
“  .......................................3 80
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and  labeled....................3 70
No.2  “ 
...................470
No. 2 Hinge,  “ 
....................488
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb,  per doz.......................1  25
No. 2  “ 
....................... iso
No. 1 crimp, per doz....................................... 1  35
No.2 
........................................160
“ 
No. 0, per  gross..............................................   23
28
No. 1, 
No  2, 
38
No. 3, 
75
Mammoth, per doz.........................................   75

La Bastle.

LAMP WICKS.

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STONEWARE—AKRON.
Butter Crocks,  1 to 6 gal.............................   06
“ 
)4 gal. per  doz......................  60
Jugs, )4 gal., per doz...................................   70
•‘  1 to 4 gal., per gal................................   07
Milk Pans, h gal., per dot..........................   60
.........................  72
“ 
Butter Crocks, 1  and 2 gal.........................  07
Milk Pans, )4 gal.........................................   65
........................................   IS

1  “ 
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14:

THE  ADVANCE  INEVITABLE.

Further Reasons for the Recent  Action 

of the Insurance  Companies. 

Further  interviews  have  been  had 
with a number of  business  men  on  the 
insurance question, the result of which is 
given below.  There  are  many  business 
men who do not feel at liberty to express 
just what they  feel  on  this  subject,  at 
least for publication.  This  is  not  alto­
gether from fear of antagonizing  the  in­
surance  companies,  but  because  it  is 
thought  to  be  useless  to  protest.  No 
matter how  vigorous  the  kick  or  how 
loud the protest, the companies  will  fol­
low  their  own  course;  so,  rather  than 
speak their minds  without  effect,  many 
prefer to say  nothing.

The  interview  with  Mr.  McBain 

is 
given in full, and will be  found  interest­
ing.  As  he  does  not  touch  the  main 
point in last  week’s  article  (which  was 
the discrimination in rates),  his  silence 
may be taken as  a  confession  that  such 
discrimination  exists. 
Its  existence  is 
plain—at least to everyone but an  insur­
ance man—while the reason for  it  must 
remain a  mystery. 
It may be the  result 
of anxiety to get  business,  of  ignorauce 
on  the part of the  underwriter,  or  of 
dozen different causes.  Whatever be the 
reason, insurance men do not  seem  anx­
ious to discuss the point.

Mr. McBain  does  not  think  that  the 
management of insurance companies  can 
be criticised,  because  “the  losses  have 
been upon  the  so-called  desirable  class 
of risks.”  That losses have been  gener 
ally  upon  this  class  of  risks  is  not 
affirmed,  but  only  that  Mr.  McBain’s 
company lost more heavily on  this  class 
than upon any  other.  Even  if  it  were 
true that more  and  greater  losses  were 
sustained last year on desirable  than  on 
hazardous risks, it would prove only that 
last year was an  exceptional  one  in  in 
snrance business.  No provision has been 
made  by 
the  companies  for  a  recur 
rence of  last  year’s condition  except  as 
a  possible  contingency.  Anything  fur­
ther than this would mean a complete re 
vision of the classification of risks, which 
it  has  taken  insurance  experts  many 
years to compile.  “But,” says  Mr.  Me 
Bain,  “we admit that  the companies  are 
somewhat to blame for  the  present  con 
dition of their  business, owing chiefly  to 
the  general  prevailing  demoralization 
growing  out  of  competition  caused  by 
greed  for  premiums.”  Mr.  McBain' 
frankness  is  commendable,  though  un 
expected.  As this is a concession  of  all 
that was urged against  the  management 
of insurance business in the  past,  noth 
ing  further need be said  on  that  point 
Mr.  McBain  also  admits  that  expenses 
have  been too high.  After that, he  may 
be  expected to admit  the  discrimination 
in  rates,  in which case it will  leave  the 
co-insurance  clause  as  the  only  casus 
belli between the companies and the poli­
cy holders. 
It is taken for granted  that 
the  companies, 
admitting  the 
abuses, will take immediate and vigorous 
measures  to  correct  them,  and,  if  the 
work of reform  necessitates  a  readjust­
ment of  rates on an  equitable  basis,  no 
objection will be made;  but  the  kind  of 
rating  which  prevails  at  present  can 
hardly be termed  equitable. 
If  readers 
will give the interview with Mr.  McBain 
a  careful  perusal,  especially  that  part 
relating to the  co-insurance  clause,  the 
force of the arguments on both sides will 
be more plainly manifest.

after 

C. 6 . A. Voigt,  (Star Mills):  Our  rates 
have not been raised. 
It may be because 
we are pulling out of the  stock  compan­
ies and placing  our  insurance  with  the 
millers’ mutuals.  They tried to force the 
co-insurance  clause  on  us,  but  we 
wouldn’t have it, and now  we  have very 
little  insurance  in  the  old  companies.
It is probably true that most of the  com­
panies have been losing money for sever­
al  years,  and especially during 1893;  but 
they are not  the  only  people  who  lost 
money last year, though  they  are  about 
the only ones  who have raised  prices  in 
order to make  up  their  losses. 
I  have 
no doubt that this action of the insurance 
companies will  force  many  people  into 
mutual insurance,  which I  consider  just 
as safe as, and which is considered much 
cheaper  than  stock  company insurance 
John Jamieson  (Trankla,  Jamieson  & 
Co.):  We,  in  common  with 
the  rest, 
have been  raised,  and  we  consider  that 
it  was  done  without  sufficient  reason 
But a protest would be useless.

Charles D. Lyon  (Eaton,  Lyon  &  Co.) 
Our rates were raised 30 per cent., which 
we  think  unwarranted,  either  by  any­
thing in the risk itself or by the  necessi 
ties of  the  insurance  business.  So  far 
as the co-insurance clause  is  concerned 
we would insure to  our full  valuation  if 
we  could;  80  per  cent,  is  the  best  we 
can get at present, so  we  take  what  we 
can get.

W.  Fred  McBain  (Secretary  Grand 
Rapids Fire Insurance Co.):  The reason 
for  the  advance  of  insurance  rates  it 
Grand Rapids and  throughout  the  coun­
try is simply the  result  of  absolute  ne 
cessity on the part  of  the  companies,  in 
order to furnish the public the indemnity 
for which  they  pay. 
It  is  a  matter  of 
record that there has been less than  one 
half of one  per  cent,  profit  on  the  un­
derwriting of the leading insurance com 
panies  of  the  country  in  the  past  ten 
years.  Although  many  show  a  much 
larger profit  on  their  investments,  it  is 
not due to  the  underwriting  but  to  the 
banking  feature  of  the  business,  and 
were it not for the  income  derived  from 
the investments,  rates would  necessarily 
have to be much higher than  they are  at 
present.  Liquidation  and  the  general 
shrinkage in values going on in the  com 
mercial and financial world have run the 
loss ratio  up  to  an  unprecedented  per­
centage.  For this the companies are not 
responsible.  Had the losses in  the  past 
few years been upon property paying tne 
highest rates  and  considered  fire  traps, 
or specially hazardous  by  reason  of  the 
nature of the  business, the  management 
of insurance  companies  might  be  criti­
cised;  but it is a matter of fact  that  the 
losses have been  upon  the  so-called  de­
sirable  class  of  risks,  such  as  brick 
mercantile  buildings,  stocks,  dwelling

THE  MICHIGLAJSr  TRADESMAN.
Paul  Steketee  (P.  Steketee  &  Sons): 
Our rates have been raised very material- 
in the last six months.  We have been 
told that we are a good risk in our  class, 
and that our facilitiesfor fighting fire  are 
good, and yet we are  compelled  to  sub­
mit  to  an  increase  in  insurance  rates, 
and compelled, in addition, to insure un­
der the co-insurance clause. 
I don’t like 
compulsion—we had enough  of  that  be­
fore coming to America. 
It smacks very 
much of Old  Country customs  and  laws 
to say  that  we  must  take  out  so  much 
insurance.  We will take out all  we  can 
afford to carry,  and  we  are  in  a  better 
position than the insurance companies to 
know how  much we can  afford.

Post’s 
Eureka 
Sap Spouts.

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OVER  20,000,000  SOLD.

'T h e s e  S p o u ts  w ill n o t L e a k

Highest  Award  of  Merit  from  the 
World’s  Industrial  Exposition.

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

break like hangers cast on the spout.

P atent  I mproved—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.

F oster^ tevens
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Our  “Oak”  Grain.

MO N R O *

ST.

MANUFACTURED  ONLY  BY

HENRY  PH880LY,

SAGINAW,  MICH.

GUARANTEED  SOLID  THROUGHOUT.

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

SEND  FOR  A  SAMPLE  DOZEN.

IS  A  14  Lyon  St., 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

w
*   * 

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65C
75 c

THE  MICHIGAN  TBADESMA '¡N.

houses,  household 
furniture,  public 
buildings,  etc.  The  classification  of 
risks written  by  the  Grand Rapids Fire 
Insurance  Co.  for  the  past  two  years 
(and  we  do  a  conservative  business) 
shows that our money  has  been  lost  on 
the  so-called  best  risks,  fully demon­
strating that rates  have been  too  low  to 
pay  the losses and expenses.  We  admit 
that the companies are somewhat to blame 
for the present  condition  of  their  busi­
ness, owing  chiefly  to  the  general  pre­
vailing  demoralization  growing  out  of 
competition, caused by greed  for  premi­
ums;  yet the public have  their  share  of 
the blame to bear  in  patronizing  Cheap 
John,  wildcat companies, whose  policies 
they  accept  and  then  use  as  a  lever­
age against the local agent of a responsi­
ble compauy to get  their  rates  lowered. 
This, together  with  onerous  State  tax­
ation and  unjust  legislation,  has  some­
thing to  do  with  the  present  increase. 
We also admit that  the  expense  of  con­
ducting  our  business  is  too  high,  and 
companies are  recognizing  the  fact  that 
they have obligations  to  the  assured  in 
giving them indemnity at the lowest pos­
sible  rates,  which  cannot  always  be 
maintained at a point to furnish profit to 
companies whose expenses are  high, and 
they are wisely using the  pruning  knife 
in  this  direction.  People  not  familiar 
with the workings of  an  insurance  com­
pany cannot understand why the  rate on 
their own risk, or the rates in the city  in 
which  they  reside  (which, we will  say, 
show  a  small  loss  to  the  companies) 
should  be  increased  because  the  losses 
on the whole have been  heavy.  A  com­
munication  received  from  a  competent 
underwriter on this subject might be  in­
teresting.  He says:  “We will  consider 
an individual risk:  The amount insured 
is $2,500;  the  premium  paid, $20, hence 
the insurance would have  to  be  contin­
ued at this rate for 125  years  without  a 
loss before the premium  would  be  suffi­
cient to pay  the  loss, should one  occur. 
This  is  without  allowing  anything  for 
expenses (amounting to, at the lowest, 33 
per cent, of the premium), and  you  will 
see that the risk would have to stand 185 
years  in  order  to  make  the  company 
good.  Considering liability to accidents, 
even with the  best  ownership  and  most 
careful management,  the danger of care­
lessness on the part  of  employes, explo­
sions, and numerous other causes contin­
ually working to produce  fires, you  will 
hardly  be prepared to  assert  the  proba­
bility of the  continuance of  this, or any 
other single  risk  of  like  character,  for 
the  long  term  required.  You  may  say 
we leave out computation of interest, but 
a loss is  as  likely  to  occur  the  first  or 
tenth year as  the  last  year,  so  interest 
cannot be considered unless  you  can  in­
sure the life of a risk for a given number j 
of years.  This calculation leaves nothing 
whatever for profit to the company.  But, 
of course, risks cannot be considered sole­
ly by themselves.  Insurance is based up­
on  a different theory,  and in fixing  rates 
we must consider the average probability 
of a given number of risks of like charac­
ter.”  Leaving the question of profit out 
of  consideration,  you  will  see  that  it 
would require 185 risks of this  kind,  in­
sured  for  like  amount,  and  paying  a 
like premium, to enable  the  company  to 
pay the loss  of  one  in  any  given  year. 
You may now be  prepared  to  assert,  in 
view  of  the  existing  dangers  to  every 
risk,  that it is  probable  that  of  the  185 
risks at least one of them would not burn

every year.  The record  is  against  such 
a conclusion.  Again, you  may  say  that 
185 risks as good as you  own  could  not 
be found;  but 185 owners of risks can be 
found  who  will  assert  that  their  risks 
are  as  good  as  yonrs,  and  who  would 
claim that, in the  calculation,  they must 
have  equal  consideration.  Our  calcu­
lation must be  based  upon  the  average 
character and probable results,  and  it  is 
the  duty  of  the  companies  to  demand 
figures which contemplate a much  short­
er  average  term  of  existence  than  the 
above  figures would  give.  Neither  can 
the rates be fixed  upon  the  record  of  a 
given town for any short term  of  years, 
although such records should not be  left 
entirely  out  of  consideration. 
If  this 
city should be overtaken to-morrow with 
a  sweeping  conflagration,  consuming 
all and more  than  the  companies  have 
heretofore realized in  the  way  of  profit 
by writing its  risks,  you  would  hardly 
expect that the  rates  to  be  charged  by 
companies  doing  business  here  in  the 
future should be based  on  such  misfor­
tune and advanced accordingly.  Such  a 
rule would, in that event, place  rates  so 
high as to be prohibitory and  drive  mer­
chants and property holders out of  busi­
ness.  Every town has to be treated as  a 
common  whole,  and  rates  have  to  be 
based upon the average experience of  an 
entire  State  or  section.  There  is  no 
business where the interests of the seller 
and buyer are so mutual as the  relations 
existing  between 
insurance  companies 
and their patrons.  We  may  buy  a  suit 
of  clothes  of  our  tailor  at  a  price  at 
which we  know  the  seller  cannot  live, 
and we  can  wear  the  clothes  whatever 
becomes of the  seller.  Not  so  with  in­
surance;  there we must pay a price  suf­
ficient to  enable  the  seller  to  meet  his 
obligations,  for we only wish  to  use  the 
goods when the  day  of  calamity  comes, 
and it is  then  we  are  interested  in  the 
seller’s solvency.  Every insurer  should 
be interested  equally with  the  company 
in paying such rates  as  will  enable  the 
companies to  live  and  meet  their  obli­
gations, and it will be conceded also that 
the  companies  are  entitled  to  add  an 
amount  to  enable  them  to  reap  some 
profit for the risks to which their capital 
is  subjected. 
In  regard  to  the  80  per 
cent, co-insurance clause, which has been 
slandered and  abused  both  by  property 
owners and  agents,  1  think  it  will  soon 
obtain recognition  as a good friend, once 
its meaning and  merits  are  understood. 
This  clause  does  not  mean,  as  some 
people  interpret  it,  that  the  insurance 
company is liable  for  only  80  per  cent, 
of the loss in any event, for, on the  con­
trary, the  companies  are  liable  for  the 
full amount of the  loss, no  matter  what 
it may be, so long as  the  insurance  car­
ried is 80 per cent, or more of  the value, 
which the assured guarantees  in  accept­
ing the clause  in  the  policy. 
It  is  an 
equitable and scientific  basis  for  rating 
property and  places  all  upon  an  equal 
basis.  Here is an illustration of  the ap­
plication of  the  clause:  A & B  occupy 
two adjoining stores;  the  stores  are  ex­
actly similar and both  men  are  engaged 
in the boot and shoe business; each stock 
is worth  $10,000.  A  carries  a  policy  of 
$8,000,  covering  80  per  cent,  of  his 
stock;  his premium at  one  per  cent,  is 
$80;  the  insurance  is  divided  equally 
among four companies, so that each com­
pany gets a  $20  premium.  B  carries  a 
policy of $2,000, 20 per cent, of his stock, 
all in  one  company;  at  1  per  cent, his

total  premium  expense  is  $20.  A  fire 
occurs and each store is  damaged  to  the 
extent  of  $2,000.  Without  the  80  per 
cent, clause B’s one company would have 
to  pay $2,000,  while  A’s  loss would  be 
split  up  among  four  companies,  each 
paying  $500.  Thus  B’s  company would 
be obliged to pay $2,000 on  a  $20  prem­
ium,  while A’s four companies would  be 
out only $500  each  on  a  $20  premium. 
With the 80 percent, co-insurance clause 
there would be no change  respecting  A, 
but B, carrying only 20  per  cent, of  in­
surance, would himself become an insur­
er to the extent of 75  per  cent.  His  in­
surance being only one-fourth  of  80  per 
cent.,  he would get but one-fourth of the 
amount of his policy from the  company, 
or $500. 
It  will  readily  be  seen  that, 
with the 80 per cent, clause,  more  insur­
ance will be  carried, companies  will  re­
ceive  more  premiums  and, in  the  end, 
the clause will  be  a  rate  reducer.  The 
clause is not  compulsory—a  person  can 
take a 50, 60 or 70  per  cent, clause,  but 
must pay a rate in proportion.

Mr.  McBain  does  not  make  it  quite 
clear  how  the  co-insurance  clause is  a 
benefit  to  insurers.  Certainly the  com­
panies must pay  the  full  amount  when 
the loss equals  the  face  of  the  policy, 
with or without the co-insurance  clause. 
If B pays a rate  on a $2,000  policy equal 
to A’s rate on an $8,000 policy, is he  not 
entitled  to  equal  indemnity with A,  the 
loss on equal stocks being the  same?  If 
B’s loss is  $2,000 and A’s  loss  is  $2,000, 
both should, in  equity, receive  an  equal 
amount  of  indemnity.  B  has  been  led 
to suppose that his stock was  insured  to 
the  amount  of  $2,000;  he  has  paid  a 
premium on that amount, and  it  matters 
not at all whether it is 80  per cent, or 20 
per cent, of his stock. 
If the companies 
can find  a  man who  is willing  to  insure 
his stock for $2,000, and then, in case  of 
a loss equal to  that  amount, accept  $500 
as  full  payment  of  his  policy,  that  is 
their  business;  but  they  will  have  to 
work hard to convince the  public  that  a 
$2,000 policy is worth but $500.  The  80 
per  cent, clause  is, beyond  question,  a 
good thing  for  the  companies, as, if  in­
surers submit to it, must result in  large­
ly increased premiums.  That  it will  be 
a “rate reducer,” according to  the  confi­
dent  prediction  of  Mr.  McBain,  is  a 
question  which time only can decide.

CHEAP  SAP  BUCKETS.

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

H.  LEONARD  &  SONS,
ARE  THE  TIMES  HARD?

GRAND  RAPIDS.

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

TRADESMAN  COMPANY

G RA ND  R A PID S.

Michigan (Tentra!

“  The Niagara Falls Route.’*

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

♦Daily.  All others daily, except Sunday.

Arrive. 
Depart
10 20d in...........Detroit  Express........... 7 00am
5 30am  ....»Atlantic and  Pacific......11  20pm
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 is t , Ticket Agent,

Union Passenger Station.

C H IC A G O  

IB
.1")v: 1,1 “"*
AND  WEST  MICHIGAN  R’V. 
GOING  TO  CHICAGO.

Lv. G’d Rapids............ 7:30am  1:25pm  *11 :?0pm
Ar. Chicago.................1:45pm  6:50pm  *6:30am

RETURNING  FROM  CHICAGO.

 
 
 
 

TO AND FROM  MUSKEGON.

Lv.  Chicago.................7:45am  4:55pm  *11:30pm
Ar. G’d Rapids............ 2 30pm  10:20pm  *6:10am
Lv. Grand Rapids.......   7:30am  1:25pm  5:45pm
Ar. Grand Rapids........0:55am  2:30pm  10:20pm
TRAVERSE CITY,  CHARLEVOIX  AND  PETOSKEY.
 
Lv. Grand  Rapids .. 
3:15pm
7:30am 
Ar.  Manistee...........  12:10pm 
8:15pm
 
.........   8-45pm
  12:40pm 
Ar. Traverse City 
Ar. Charlevoix.......  
3:15pm 
11:10pm
 
Ar.  Petoskey 
3:45pm 
 
11:40pm
Arrive  from  Petoskey,  etc.,  1:00  p.  ra.  and 
10:00p. m.
Local train to White Cloud  leaves Grand Rap­
ids 5:45 p. m., connects  for  Big Rapids »nd Fre­
mont.  Returning,  arrives  Grand  Rapids  11*30 
a. m.
PARLOR  AND  SLEEPING  CARS.
ToChicago.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.
D E T R O I T , 

N0V- ">■lm
LANSING  S   NORTHERN  R.  R.
GOING  TO  DETROIT.

TO  AND FROM  SAGINAW,  ALMA  AND  ST.  LOUIS.

RETURNING  FROM  DETROIT.

Lv. Grand Rapids........7:00am *1:20pm  5:40pm
Ar. Detroit..  ..............11:40am  *5:25pm  10:25pm
Lv.  Detroit..................   7:45am  *1:45pm  6:00pm
Ar. Grand Rapids........12:45pm  *5:40pm  10:45pm
Lv. GR 7:40am 4:50pm  Ar. G R  11:40am 10:5opm
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
ing train.

TO  LOWELL VIA  LOWELL  A  HASTINGS  R.  R.

T H R O U G H   C A R   S E R V IC E .

♦Every da>.  Other trains  week days only.

GEO. DeHAVEN, Gen.  Pass’r Ag’t.

■ETROIT,  GRAND  HAVEN  &  MIL­

Depot corner Leonard  St. and Plainfield Av

WAUKEE  Railway.

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

EASTWARD.

tNo.  14 tNo.  16 tNo.  18 ♦No.  82
6 45am
10 45pm 
7 40am
12 27am
8 25am
1 45am
9 00am
2 40am
10 50am
6 40am
11 32am
7 15am 
10 05am
5 4  am 
12 05pm 
730am 
1053am
537am 
11 50am
7 00am
WESTWARD.

1020am
11 25am
12 17pm 
1 20pm
3 45pm
4 35pm
3 45pm
5 50pm 
305pm
4 05pm

325pm
4 27pm
5 20pm 
o OSpin 
8 00pm 
837pm
7 05pm
8 50pm 
8 25pm 
925pm

Trains Leave

♦No. 81 tNo. 11 ItNo. 13.
G’d Rapids............ Lv 7 (Mam 1  U0pm|  4 55pm
G’d  Haven............ Ar 8 20am 2  10pm j  6 00pm

»Daily.

tDaily except  Sunday 
Trains  arrive  from  the  east,  6:35  a.m.,  12:50 
Trains  arrive from  the  west, 10:10 a. m., 3:16 
Eastward—No. 14  has  Wagner  Parlcr  Buffet 
Westward — No. 11 Parlor Car.  No. 15 Wagner 

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

J a b. Ca m p b e l l . City T*cket Agent.

23 M onroe Street.

Grand  Rapids  & Indiana
Schedule  In  effect Dec. 81,1898.

TRAINS  GOING  NORTH.

Arrive from   L eave g o in g  

North.
7:40am
4:50 p m
10:25  p m

South. 
For M’kinaw.Trav. C ity and Sag. 7:20 a m  
For C adillac and S agin aw ..........  2:15 p m 
For  P etoskey A M ackinaw ..........8:10 p m 
From K alam azoo............................. 9:10 a  m
From C hicago and K alam azoo..  9  50 p m 
daily.  Others trains d aily excep t Sunday.

TRAINS  GOING  SOUTH.

Trains arrivin g  from  sou th  a t  7:20 a  m  and  9:10 a  m 

Arrive from   Leave g oin g 
South.
6:50  a m
10:40  a m
8:00 p m
6:00  p m
11:20  p m

N orth. 
For  C in cinn ati....... ............................................ 
For K alam azoo and  C h icago........................ 
For F ort W ayne and th e  E a st..  11:40 a  m 
For  C incinnati................................  6:15 p m 
For K alam azoo  A  C h icago........10:56 p m 
From Saginaw ..................................  11:40 a m
From  Saginaw ..................................10:55pm
d a lly ;  a ll  o th er  train s  d aily excep t Sunday.
Chicago via G.  R.  <& I. R.  R.

Trains lea v in g  south  at  6 :00  p m  and  11:20 p.  m. run 

11:20 p m
7:05&m

2  00 p m  
9:00 p m  

10:40 a m  
4:00 p m  

Lv Grand  Rapids 
Arr Chicago 
10:40  a  m  train   solid  w ith  W agner  Buffet  P arlor 
Car.
11:20  p m   train   d aily,  through  coach  and  W agner 
S leeping Car.
11:40p m
Lv  C hicago 
Arr Grand Rapids 
7:20  a m
4:15  p  m solid w ith  W agner  Buffet  P arlor  Car  and 
D ining Car.  11:40 p m  train d aily, through Coach and 
W agner S leeping  Car.

6:5 0 a m  
2:15 p m  

4 :15p m  
9:60 p m  

For M uskegon—Leave. 

M n a k eg o n , G ran d   R a p id *  &  In dian a«
9:4 0 a m
7:35  a m  
5:40  p m 
6:20 p  m

From M uskegon—Arrive

Sunday train  leaves  for  M uskegon  a t  7 :45 a   m , ar­
rivin g a t  9:15  a   m .  R eturning,  train   leaves  Muske 
gon a t  4:30 p m, arrivin g a t Grand  Rapids a t  6:50 p m.

General  Passenger and T icket Agent.

O. L. LOCKWOOD,

x d   c r  r *  JjC   > q l  
h e a d a c h e
P O W D E R S
I T   L—i V_y X Y   O  
Pay the best profit.  Order from your jobber.

16

GOTHAM GOSSIP.

News  from  the  Metropolis—Index  of 

the  Markets.

S pecial Correspondence.

New  Y ork,  Feb.  17—Trade during the 
past  week  has  perhaps  been  about  as j 
good as at any time  since  Jan.  1  and  in 
some  lines  has  been  all  that  could  be 
hoped  for.  This  is  not  saying  much, 
however,  and it is  to  be  regretted  that 
all hands are not busy from morning un­
til  night.  Prices  are  very  unstable on 
some lines of canned goods  and  a  little 
firmer on others.  Local trade has doubt­
less been retarded  somewhat  by  the  se­
vere  weather  conditions,  which  have 
quite  seriously delayed  shipments.  Re­
turning salesmen  report  only  the  usual 
everyday trade and  say  that  in  no  sec­
tion is there anything like a  full volume 
of trade being done.  Of course, there is 
no speculation in anything.  Breadstuffs 
have experienced  the  lowest  point  ever 
touched and we are  inquiring where  the 
end is to be.  The one redeeming feature 
in the general  situation  is  the  resump­
tion of more mills and factories through­
out the Union, and  with  each  one  goes 
a heartfelt wish for its future prosperity.
There are very  few  failures  occurring 
throughout  the  trade,  which  is  another 
source of  consolation.  Our  wholesalers 
are  putting  forth  every effort  to  make 
the  most  of  such  opportunities  as  are 
offered, and it is  a pleasure  to  record  a 
sound condition all around.
The action  of Congress upon the sugar 
question is awaited with a  good  deal  of 
interest—even  with  some  anxiety—and 
the refineries are working  the  wires  for 
all they are worth to lead victory to perch 
upon their banners.
The buyer of  a  big  Chicago  bazar  is 
advertising  his  presence  in  town  this 
week and soliciting big  offers of  grocer­
ies.
It can hardly be said that coffee is  any 
higher, but there is a little firmer feeling 
apparent  among  jobbers  and  importers 
and it is quite confidentially thought that1 
retailers  will  soon  begin  to  buy  more 
freely. 
In fact, they  are  already  doing 
so, and transactions  are  becoming  more 
frequent.  A higher price than lTJgc  for 
Rio No. 7 seems  hardly  warranted,  but 
at  this  the  market  is  decidedly  firm. 
Mild sorts are well held, but it is bard to 
give quotations with exactitude.  A good 
Java coffee can  be  bought  for  23c  and 
from this the range is up to 29@30c.
For lemons, oranges and foreign  green 
fruits  generally  there  is  a  very  quiet 
market,  and  at  the  moment  sales  are 
confined almost exclusively to  a  strictly 
local  region.  Supplies  of  lemons  are 
seemingly  ample  and  prices  are  low. 
No  inducement  is  sufficient  to  create 
more  than  the  ordinary  everyday  de­
mand.  Havana oranges are worth  §2  @ 
2.50 per box.  Bananas may be purchased 
at a range of from $1 @ 1.25 for the  first 
run.  Florida oranges have been in quite 
free receipt and prices  are  low;  quota­
tions are about  nominal.  Apples are  in 
demand  for  strictly  sound  fruit  and, 
when such is found, it  is worth  $4.50  @ 
5.00 per bbl.
Domestic dried fruits are meeting with 
limited sale and very low quotations  are 
made without  finding  purchasers,  being 
quotable at 10 @ 12c.  California raisins 
and prunes seem to be doing a  little bet­
ter than a week ago, and  the  quotations 
prevailing for  the past few days indicate 
a  firm  feeling.  Sultana  raisins,  5  @ 
6Xc.  Figs, dates, prunes  and  nuts  are 
quiet.  Raisins are  selling  at  lj^c,  but 
even this price is  not  productive  of  any 
greater sales being made.
Butter is dull  and  the  supply  ample 
enough to preclude  any  immediate  rise, 
unless the cold  snap  should  be  of  long 
duration.  For  the very best  creamery, 
Elgin  brands,  and  the  same  grade  of 
Pennsylvania,  27}£c  seems  to  be  top. 
From  this, the range is down to  22@23c 
been  obtained.  Eggs  are  in  good  de­
mand. and prices show  some  hardening. 
For Western firsts, 20c might be obtained 
without trouble, although  this  is  about 
the range of nearer by stock.
Beans are selling  pretty well, and  the 
market is  not over abundantly supplied. 
Pea beans are worth  from  $1.80 @ 1.90, 
and medium, $1.80.
Potatoes and vegetables begin to  come

in  freely  from  the  Bermudas  and  the j 
South,  and  with  free  arrivals 
from 
abroad  also the market is well supplied. 
New Bermuda potatoes, $5 @ 6  per bbl., 
old domestic, $1.50 @ -2.25.
The week closes upon a market scarce­
ly different from that of a week ago, and 
with no particular cheer in  the  outlook. 
With every day spring is coming  nearer, 
however: and, finally,  we  shall  see  day­
light.  As  one  man  puts  it,  “You  will 
see the greatest  era  of  prosperity  ever 
known  inaugarated  before  Cleveland 
finishes his  term  as  President”—a  con­
summation devoutly to  be wished.

J a y .

The Grocery Market.

Sugar—Despite  the  talk  about  high 
prices in sugar,  the usual  Monday  morn­
ing  advance  failed  to  materialize  this 
week.  Refiners appear to be as much  at 
sea over the outcome of the tariff legisla­
tion as the smallest dealer,  some  of  the 
shrewdest  political  prognosticators  de­
clining to attempt to  predicate  the  out­
come.

Lemons—Prices  at  the  Eastern  auc­
tions have dropped  to  a very low  point. 
This has been brought  about  by free  ar­
rivals and because  the Western  markets 
are well  supplied  and  are  not  placing 
orders for any more stock than is needed 
for two weeks  at  a  time.  There  is  no 
reason why they should do so, as the crop 
is large and the  fruit of excellent quality 
and arrivals  regular.  Prices  may  fluc­
tuate a little both ways, but,  until  warm 
weather, there will  be  no  necessity  for 
—or  money  made  in—laying  in  more 
stock  than  is  required  from  week  to 
week.

Oranges—Florida fruit is  held  consid­
erably firmer  by  local  wholesalers,  and 
the prospects are that prices will  be  ad­
vanced 25  c per  box  all  around  during 
the  coming  week.  Buyers  from  this 
market  nave  been  getting  fruit  below 
Chicago quotations  for  some  time,  and, 
even now,  can  secure  needed  stock  as 
low as from any market in  the  country. 
Advices from Florida state that  many of 
the groves are cleaned up and the last of 
the crop will soon  have  to  be  shipped. 
As  a  natural  consequence,  demand  is 
spirited, and the  balance  of  the crop  is 
and  will  be  held  firm  and  remaining 
shipments will pay the  growers  a  profit 
—which is as it should be.

Bananas—No change to note this week. 
The  extremely  cold  weather  is  detri­
mental to safety in handling, and outside 
dealers  are  very  chary  about  ordering 
when the chance of loss is so great.

Foreign Nuts—The market on all vari­
eties is practically unchanged, excepting 
Brazils, which have declined a trifle.

Poultry—Firm,  without  change.  Of­
ferings  were  small, and the week closed 
with everything cleaned  up.  Lent  usu­
ally has a quieting effect on  the  poultry 
market, and this year  will,  probably,  be 
no exception.

Pork—A  slight  drop  in  all  kinds  of 
barreled pork may be noted  if  the  mar­
ket report is referred to.  This is due, no 
doubt, to the opening of  the  lenten  sea-

The Prevailing Craze.

Customer—How  many  yards  in  the 
piece?
Clerk—This is a whole bolt; not a yard 
has been cut off, and there is not another 
piece of goods like it in the  stock;  it-----
Customer—Well, then,  you’ll  have  to 
show me something else.  1 want enough 
for  sleeves.

Flyers in Toiman’s canned  goods  this 
week.  Phone  J.  P.  Visner  at  Bridge 
Street House.

6
6

Bbls. Palls.
7
7
7
8*

1

STICK CANDY.
Cases

Standard,  per  lb.........
“  H.H...............
Twist  ...........
“ 
Boston  Cream..............
8*
Cut  Loaf......................
Extra H.  H.................. ..  S*

. 

MIXED CANDY. Bbls.
.5*
.5*
.6*
.7
,7
.. baskets
. .* 
7*

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Standard......................
Leader..........................
Royal............................
Nobby..........................
English  Rock..............
Conserves....................
Broken Taffy...............
Peanut Squares............
French Creams............
Valley  Creams............
Midget, 30 lb. baskets..
Modern, SO lb. 

“
FANCY—-In bulk

“ 

“ 
“ 

3 
2 

CARAMELS.

“ 
“ 
ORANGES.

f a n c y —In 5 lb. boxes.

Lozenges, plain...........
printed........
Chocolate Drops...........
Chocolate Monumentala............
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...........
WIntergreen  Berries...
No. 1, wrapped, 2 lb.  boxes...............
...............
No. 1, 
No. 2, 
. ..............
Russets,  96..........................................
Russets,  126....................................... .
Russets,  150.......................................
Brights,  126...............   ......................
Brights,  138...................................... .
Brights,  176-200-216............................
Small..................................................
Large.................................................
Extra choice 300...............................
Extra choice 360................................
Extra fancy 300..................................
Extra fancy 360............ ...................
OTHER  FOREIGN  FRUITS.
Figs, fancy layers, 6B>.......................
“  10B>.......................
“  141b.................. .
Dates, Fard, 10-lb.  box......................
......................
Persian, 50-lb.  box.................
Almonds, Tarragona.........................
Ivaca..................................
California.........................
Brazils, new.......................................
Filberts.............................................
Walnuts, Orenoble............................
French................................
Calif...................................
Table Nuts,  fancy............................
choice..........................
Pecans. Texas, H.  P.,  ......................
Chestnuts...........................................
Hickory Nuts per bu..........................
Cocoanuts, full sacks.......................
Fancy, H.  P.,Suns.................................  @ 5
“  Roasted....................   @ 6*
Fancy, H.  P., Flags................. .............  @5
“  Roasted...................   @ 6*
Choice, H. P„  Extras............................  @ 4
“  Roasted.................  @ 5*

1  50
2 50
..  3 25 
3 00 
.  4  10 
..  4  10
@13 
@13 
@15 
@ 7 
@   5 *  @  5
@16
@15
@
@ 1 0 *
@11
@13
@ lo
@12
@12
@11 
@   7 *
1  25 
4  00

“ 
“  extra 
“ 
“ 

“  50-lb.  “ 

BANANAS.

PEANUTS.

“ 
“ 
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“ 
“ 
“ 

LEMONS.

NUTS.

“ 
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“ 
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BARRELS.

The  Standard Oil  Co.  quotes  as  follows:

Eocene...................................................  
8*
XXX  W.  W. Mich.  Headlight.............. 
7
Naptha...................................................  @  6*
Stove Gasoline.......................................  @  tsl
Cylinder................................................27  @36
E ngine..................................................18  @21
Black, 15 cold  test  ...............................  @  8K
FROM  TANK  WAGON.
Eocene 
..........................................  
7
XXX  W. W.  Mich.  Headlight............. 
5

POULTRY. 
Local dealers pay as follows :

LIVE.

DRAWN.

Turkeys..................................................8  @  8*
Chickens................................................  7  @ 8
Fowls.....................................................6  @  6H
Ducks.................................................... 8  @  9
Geese.....................................................  8  @9
Turkeys................................................... 10 @11
Chickens................................................. 10 @11
Fowl.......................................................   9 @10
Ducks...................................................... 10 @11
Geese...................................................... 10 @12
Turkeys..................................................9  @  9*
Chickens................................................  7*@ 8
Fowls.....................................................6%@  7
Ducks........................................................8 @ 9
Geese.............. 
8  @  9

UNDRAWN.

 

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

Pails.
6*
7*
8
8
8
8
8V4
9
13
....  8*
....  8
Palls.
...  8*
...  9*
...  12
...  12*
...  5
...  7*
...  8*
...10
Per Box
....50
....50
....60
....75
....80
...4 0
..1  00
....80
....60
....65
....60
....70
....55
....56
85@95
....80
....90
....60
..1 00
....60
34
51
28
1  75
2 25 
2 50 
2  00 
2 25

Before  You  Buy

SEE  THE  SPRING  LINE  OF  FINE 
GOODS  MANUFACTURED  BY

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DETROIT,  MICH.

A  FEW  OF  OUR  NEW  SPECIAL­
TIES  IN  OXFORDS  ARE:

The  Juliet  Bootee,*  Three  Large 

Button  Newport,  Southern 

Tie and  Prince Alberts.

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

A  LADY’S

GENUINE  :  VICI  :  SHOE,
Plain toe In opera and  opera  toe and C. S. heel. 
D and E and E E widths, at 81.50.  Patent leather 
tip,  31.55.  Try them,  they are  beauties.  Stock 
soft and fine, flexible and elegant  fitters.  Send 
for sample dozen.

SEED ER  BROS.  SHOE  CO ,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

SEND  US  YOUR

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WE  WANT  THEM  ALL,
NO  MATTER  HOW  MANY.

Lemon  & Wheeler Company,

Agents,  Grand  Rapids.

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trade  in  view  by  introducing  new 
novelties and  using the  best  of  material 
in  the manufacture of a  superior  line of 
«roods.

The  Continued  Patrouage  of  the  Oldest  Established  Grocery 

Houses  in  the  State  is  our  BEST  TESTIMONIAL.

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  our  Chicago  Factory.

S.  jVm  SEARS,  Manager,

GRAND  RAPIUS,  MICH.

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OUR  LEADING  BRANDS  ARE

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SOLD  BY  ALL  FIRST-CLASS  GROCERS.

MANUFACTURED  BY

MAIN  OFFICE:

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CHICAGO,  270  KINZIE  STREET.

MICHIGAN  AGENCY:

GRAND  RAPIDS,  106  KENT  STREET.

Address  all  communications  to  THE  FERMENTUM  CO.

If  so,  and  you  are  endeavoring  to  get  along  without  usirg  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 
books  in  the  countrv,  hav'ng  special  machinery  for  every  branch  of the  business.  SAMPLES  FREE.

TRADESflAN  COMPANY,  g r a n d   r a p i d s ,  m i c h .

R E F R IG E R A  TO R S.

The Leonard. Cleanable

EXCELSIOR  LINE.

DO  YOU Handle Refrigerators? 

If  so,  why  not  carry 
the best—The LEON-
ARD  CLEANABLE?  They  cost no more money than poorer 
makes, and are always sure to give  your customer the best of 
satisfaction.

The Leonard Cleanable

CHALLENGE  LINE.

IF YOU  NEVER Have sold Refrigerators why don’t 

you?  They pay a good profit when 

you  can  buy  them  direct  from  the  manufacturers.

W e  Manufacture

All our Refrigerators, so in  buying  from  us  you  buy  direct  and 
pay no jobbers profit,  but get the  benefit  of  the  lowest manufac­
turers  prices.

STYLE  OF  NO  273.

W R IT E   U S Por  Catalogne  and 

Discount  B-4  buy-

ing  your  Refrigerators  for  the  coming  season.

STYLE  OF  NO.  215.

I I .   L E O N A R D   &   S O N S ,   Grand.  R a p id s ,  M ich .

Manufacturers  of  THE  LEONARD  GLEANABLE  REFRIGERATORS

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The  New York Condensed  Milk  Company takes  pleasure  in  announcing that the trade is 

now prepared to supply you with

Borden’s  Peerless  Brand  Evaporated  Cream,
UNSWEETENED;  guaranteed  to  keep  under  all  conditions of  temperature.  The  process 
used  is far in advance of any other method of preserving milk without sugar.  Our new plant is 
constructed especially for this branch of business, and is unequaled in equipment for the various #! 
processes employed.  Having thoroughly tested all the important points in connection with the S| 
milk referred to, we are now prepared to offer the trade, through the  jobbing houses, Borden’s $ 
Peerless  Brand  Evaporated  Cream,  unsweetened, with entire confidence that it will prove, 
like our celebrated  Gail  Borden  Eagle  Brand  Condensed  Milk,  to have  no  Equal. 
It  is X 
thoroughly guaranteed in every respect, and  this  guarantee is substantial, as  every one  knows.  X

Prepared by the New Vork Condensed Milk Co.

Fo r   Q u o t a t io n s  S e e   P r ic c   C o l u m n s.

