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G RA.ND  R A P ID S ,  F E B R U A R Y   28,  1894.

NO .  545

CANDY.

M U S K E G O N   B A K E R Y

U n it e d   S t a t e s   B a k in g   C o., 

CRACKERS,  BISCUITS,  CAKES.

O rigin ators  o f  th e  C elebrated  C ake,  “ M U SK E G O N   B R A N C H .’

H A R R Y   F O X ,  M a n a g er,

MUSKEGON,  MICH.

SEED HERCHANTS  AND  JOBBERS  OF

ALFRED J.  BROWN  CO.,
CALIFORNIA  ORANGES,
FLORIDA  AND 
24 &  26  NORTH  DIVISION STREET,

Write or Wire for Prices  on  Round  Lots.

Grand  Rapids,  M ich.
WHOLESALE  DEALERS 
IN 
AND  MANUFACTURERS  OF

A  Full  Line  ofConfectionery,

E xtensive  H andlers  Of

FOREIGN  NUTS, 
DATES,  FIGS,  ETC.

THE  PUTNAM  CANDY  COflPANY.

T
EXTRACTS

S E E   Q U O T A TIO N S.

GRAND  RAPIDS 

BRUSH  GOMP’Y,
ERS OF B R U S H E S GRAND  RAPIDS, 

O ar  Good,  are  sold  by  all  Michigan  Jobbing  House*.

MICli.

MANUFACTUR­

M O S E L E Y   B R O S .,

Seeds, Beans, Fruits and ProdtiGB,

J O B B E R S   O F

If  yon  have any BEANS,  APPLES,  POTATOES  or  ONIONS  to  sell, 
state  how many  and will try and trade with you.

26,  28,  30  and  32  Ottawa  Street.

To increase your Sales Buy

ABSOLUTELY  PURE  GOODS

OF

A .  E.  B R O O K S   &   CO.

OYSTERS.

A N C H O R   B R A N D

Are the best.  . All  orders will  receive  prompt  attention  at  lowest  market  price.

F .  J.  D E T T E N T H A L E R .

Rindge, 
Kalmbach 
&  Co.,

ONE  OF  OCR  SPECIALTIES

12,  14  &  16  Pearl  Street.
Our Spring lines are now ready.  Be  sure and see them be* 
fore placing your orders.  We  can  show you the cleanest line 
on the road,  both  in  black and  colored  goods.  We  have the 
finest assortment  of Oxfords we ever  carried.  Our  styles and 
prices are right.  We are in  it.  Come  and see us.

B O S T O N   R U B B E R   S H O E   CO.

AGENTS  FOR  THE

A  Large  and  Well  Assorted  Line  of.

Prints,
Outings,
Percales,

WASH  GINGHAMS,  INDTGO  WIDE  PRINTS,  8ATTNES  (In  plain  black 
and fancies).  COTTONS, COTTON  FLANNELS  and  STAPLE  GINGHAMS 
(both  Amoskeag and  Lancaster), at low  prices.  SAMPLES  SENT ON  AP­
PLICATION.

S te lc e te o  &  S o n s,

P. 

FLORIDA  ORANGES

Are  now in  their  prime  and  are being 
sold  at very  close prices.  Order  of  us 
and  we will  guarantee to please you.

T h e  P U T N A M   C A N D Y
S prin g & Com pany,

IMPORTERS  AND  WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

R ib b o n s, 

D ress  G oods,  S h a w ls ,  C loak s, 
N o tio n s, 
H o siery , 
G lo v es,  U n d e r w e a r ,  W o o le n s , 
F la n n e ls,  B la n k e ts,  G in g h a m s, 
P r in ts  a n d   D o m estic  C otton s

We invite the attention of the trade to  our complete  and  well 

assorted  stock at lowest  market  prices.

S p r in g  &  C o m p a n y.

W H O L E S A L E

Dry  Goods, Carpets and Cloaks,

W e  Make a Specialty of  Blankets, Quilts and  Live 

G eese  Feathers.

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

OVERALLS  OF  OUR  OWN  MANUFACTURE.

P E R K I N S   &  H E S S ,

Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow,

DEALERS  IN

Nos.  122  and  124  Louis  Street,  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.

WE CARRY A STOCK  OF CAKE  TALLOW  FOR  MILL USE.

H.  B.  G RAND-GIRARD.

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P h a r m a c i s t s ,

DRUG  STOCKS  BOUGHT  AND  SOLD. 

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DRUG  BROKERS  AND  MANUFACTURERS’  AGENTS.

BEU  EN  REAGAN,  M.  D.

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A G A I N  

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P.  &  B.  O Y S T E R S .
THE:  PUTNAM  :  GANDY:  GO.

The  Lenten  season  will  soon  be  here 
and  this  class  of  goods  will  be  just 
what  is  wanted.

Voigt, im oM eier & Go., 

G rand  R a p id s.

y   *

STANDARD  OIL  CO

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.

DEALERS  IN

Uluminating and Lubricating

NAPTHA  AND  GASOLINES.

•mice, Hawkins Block. 

Works, Bntterworth ÀT9

BULK  WORK8  AT

i B i n n  B A PID t 
3IG RAPIDS, 
iLLEGAN. 

MANISTEE,

MUSKEGON, 
GRAND HAVKN,
HOWARD CITY, 

PETOSKKY,
HIGHEST  PRICE  PAID  FOR

CADILLAC,
LTIDINGTON.

EMPTY  CARBON  X  GB80LIN17  BARRELS

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

Manilfaetilrera  of  Show  Gases  of  Every  Description.

k  *

FIRST-CLASS  WORK  ONLY.

0 8   a n d   0 8   C an al  St.,  G rand  R a p id s,  M ich .

WRITE  FOR  PRICES.

I M P O R T E R S   A N D

Wholesale  Grocers

G ra n d   R a p id s .

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G R A N D   R A P ID S ,  W E D N E S D A Y ,  F E B R U A R Y   28,  1894.

NO .  545

DESMAN

Buy  Direct  of  the  Manufacturers.

ARTHUR  G.  GRAHAM,
PftPER,  TWINES,  ROPE.

Hanufacturers’  Agent.

3 Canal  Street.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Samples and Prices on  application.

L a w y e r ’s ,

HATCH  &  WILSON, 
Rooms  25, 26,27 
WiddicomD  Building,
We do a general law business  throughout  West­

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

ern Michigan.  Refer to any Bank or 

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Judge in  the city.

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'  oStates,  Canada,  the  European  continent,
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Commercial reports and collections.  Legal ad­
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1 a test 1 mproved methods.  Glasses In every style 
at  moderate  prices.  Artificial  human  eyes  of 
every color.  Sign of big spectacles.

BAKERS’  BREAD  VS.  HOME-MADE 

BREAD.

Mr.  Owen  appears  to  be  very  much 
exercised  over  the  name  applied 
to 
“home-baked  bread”  in  my  article  on 
the  bread  question  which  appeared  in 
a  recent  issue  of  T h e  T radesm an. 
While I think  that  the  name  aptly  de­
scribes much of  the  bread  baked  in  the 
homes of the people generally,  I  wish  to 
remind Mr.  Owen that we were  not  dis­
cussing the bread  made  by  his  wife,  or 
that made by “your wife,  gentle reader,” 
but we were discussing the relative value 
and cost of baker’s bread and  that  made 
by what  are  termed “home-bakers”  and 
offered for sale in  the  grocery  stores  of 
this city;  and  I  repeat  what  I  said  in 
that article, that, considering the  mater­
ials which enter into the  composition  of 
each kind of bread, comparison is impos­
sible.  The  bread  made  by  the  home 
bakers is  cheap  in  every  sense  of  the 
word  except  in  price.  The  “formula” 
used is the simplest known—flour, water, 
yeast,  salt,  and  sometimes  potatoes. 
The cost of making is  hardly  worth con­
sideration,  rent,  fuel,  and  labor  being 
practically  free.  The bread is  delivered 
to grocers in a basket or push cart.  The 
flour  used  is  generally 
the  cheapest 
grade.  They  take  no  chances  on  the 
sale of  their  goods,  selling  outright  to 
the  grocers,  who must  stand  the  loss  if 
a portion  of  the  bread  remains  unsold 
on their hands.

I have been at some  pains  to  get  figr 
ures from three of the leading  bakers in 
the city as to what it costs them  a  week 
to do their baking. 
I was allowed access 
to the books in each case,  and the figures 
may  be  considered  authentic,  notwith­
standing  Mr. Owen  says,  I “only  know 
what  the bakers are pleased to tell me.” 
The following figures were secured in the 
three  shops visited:
per  week....................
Wages 
......
“ 
Rent 
Heat and light  “ 
....................
Milk 
“ 
..........
Horse 
“ 
...........

SBOP MO.  l.
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

......  *78 00
......   24 00
o on
....... 
8 CO
3 oo
Total...... ...... $122 00

Wages
Rent
Fuel
Milk
Horses

shop mo. 2.

per w eek.................................$166 00
“  
“ 
“ 
“  

.......................................................  12  00
 
3 00
 
52 20
....................................................  12  00

“  
“ 
“ 
“  

 
 

 
 

s h o p  n o . 3.

Wages
Rent
Fuel
Milk
Horses

Total...................$245 20
per w eek................................. $140 00
“  “ 
..........................   12 00
5  00
 
•* 
“ 
“ 
•* 
..............................   60 00
“ 
“ 
 
25 00
Total..............$242 00
These figures do not include insurance, 
taxes,  repairs,  loss  on  stock,  and  the 
many  other  expenses inseparable  from 
such a business,  which  would  add  fully 
10 per  cent,  to  the  total  in  each  case. 
The  lard,  butter, sugar  and  yeast  used 
in these bakeries are omitted  also;  they 
are large  items,  amounting  to  upwards 
of $25  per  week.  At  the  present  time 
bakers are doing  only about  half  of  the 
business done in  the summer time; if ex­
penses  decreased  with  the  business,  it 
would not be  so  bad,  but  they  do  not. 
The principal items of  expense,  snch  as 
wages,  rent, fuel, light,  and  horse  feed,

vary but little  throughout  the  year;  in 
fact it costs more to keep a  horse  in  the 
winter than it does  in  the  summer,  and 
it takes much more fuel  to heat  an  oven 
in  cold weather  than  it  does  in  warm 
weather.  Mr.  Owen says, or  would lead 
his readers to infer, that bakers  pay but 
$1.35 per cwt.,  or about $2.70 per  barrel, 
for their  flour.  The  flour  used  in  the 
larger bakeries  costs  a  dollar  more  per 
barrel 
than  the  flour  quoted  in  T h e 
T radesm an as  “baker’s.”  Why they do 
not use  Michigan  flour is a  question  for 
them  to answer,  and one which  they are 
perfectly willing to answer.  It is the use 
of this flour together with milk, lard  aDd 
sugar, in  its composition,  that makes the 
difference  between  baker’s  bread  and 
homebaked bread. 
(Is  it  necessary  for 
me to repeat that, when  I speak of home- 
baked bread, 1 mean that which is offered 
for sale by the grocers?)  Once more 1 re­
peat that bakers  do  not  receive  8  cents 
per loaf for  their  bread,  5  and  G  cents 
being the  prices  at  which  they  sell  95 
per cent,  of  their  output.  When  bread 
is sold at 8  cents,  the  price  is  made  by 
the  grocers.  As  to  the  weight  of  the 
bread,  I “scaled” several  loaves of home- 
baked  bread 
in  different  stores,  and 
found 
the  weight  to  be  generally  22 
ounces,  never  higher  than  23  ounces, 
and  going  as  low  as  20  ounces.  The 
reason  for  the  variation  is  that  these 
people do  not  weigh  the  loaves  in  the 
dough,  but guess at the weight  by  their 
size.  So many pounds of Hour will make 
so many loaves  of  bread;  but,  as  flour 
will not  always  “hold”  the  same  quan­
tity of  water,  and,  as  some  loaves  will 
dry out more in the baking  than  others, 
there  must,  of  necessity,  be  a  consid­
erable  variation  in  the  weight  of  the 
loaves when  baked.  Baker’s  bread  uni­
formly weighed  22 ounces,  the variation 
from that figure  being  slight  and  infre­
quent. 
of 
the  home-baked  article  is  22  ounces, 
and 
the  average,  weight  of  baker’s 
bread is the same.  One  is a  mixture  of 
flour,  water,  yeast,  and  salt,  while  the 
other is  composed  of  flour,  milk,  yeast, 
lard  and  sugar.  Which  is  the  more 
nutritious?  1 did not say that Mr.  Owen 
attributed the difference between the two 
kinds of bread to the use of alum,  by the 
bakers,  but, if be did so attribute it—and 
he says he did—then he is most egregiously 
mistaken,  for alum is not used  in  bread­
making at  all.  Mr.  Owen  is  absolutely 
right when  he  says that  this  was  ignor­
ance  on  his  part;  he 
is  also  right 
when he  says  that  he  knows “ precious 
little about  the  baker’s  business,”  and 
some people are wondering why,  if  he is 
aware of his ignorance,  he does not learn 
something  about  the  facts  in  the  case 
before “rushing into print.” 
I object to 
Mr.  Owen  measuring  my  knowledge 
by his  ignorance  on  this  or  any  other 
subject.  As a general thing, I  endeavor 
to  post  myself  concerning  any  subject 
upon which  I write.

average  weight 

The 

Mr.  Owen  compares  Canadian  bread 
with bread made on this side  of  the  line, 
and concludes that, because wheat is 2 or

3 cents dearer over there,  we  ought to be 
able  to make  as cheap bread as they do. 
Flour  cuts  a  very  small  figure  in  the 
cost of bread,  though  to  Mr.  Owen 
it 
seems to be the only item of importance. 
Wages are about half what they are in this 
country, and the bread  is  more  cheaply 
“constructed,” and delivery is  made  di­
rect to  the  consumer. 
the 
price of bread fluctuates whth  the  price 
of wheat, proving that flour is  the  prin­
cipal  ingredient  in  the  bread—a  sure 
sign of “cheap”  bread.

In  Canada 

Mr.  Owen says:  “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 
consumers of  bread,  let  us  give  them 
credit, etc.”

This is the merest twaddle, and sounds 
like the  frothy  mouthing of  a  unionist 
agitator,  and has none of the sober sense 
which ought  to  characterize  the  utter 
ances of a man of Mr.  Owen’s  years  and 
experience. 
I  repeat  what  I  have  al­
ready said,  that the  bakers do not fix the 
retail price of bread;  that is done  by the 
grocers who sell 95 per cent, of  the  out­
put  of  the  bakeries.  The  bakers  sell 
their bread for 5 and 6  cents  a  loaf  to 
the grocers,  who make an  average profit 
of  25  per cent.

I think enough has been said  to  show 
that the bakers are not getting  rich  out 
of their  bread  business,  and  also  that 
there  is  absolutely  no  comparison  be­
tween the bread made by  the bakers and 
that made by the  “home”  bakers;  and, 
if anyone is in doubt as  to  the  correct­
ness of my figures and  conclusions, I re­
fer them to  the  bakers,  who, contrary to 
the insinuation  of  Mr.  Owen,  are  per­
fectly willing tq  give the  facts  as  they 
are. 

Da n ie l  Abbott.

A  G eorgia  M ountain  G rocery.

A  correspondent  of 

the  American 
Agriculturist,  has discovered that  a  vil­
lage store in the  mountains usually con­
tains  an  interesting  variety. 
There 
are  some  bright  pieces  of 
tinware; 
some gaudy-colored shawls;  there  is  an 
oil barrel; there is coffee; there  is a good 
deal of “plug” tobacco;  there  are  many 
cans of  baking soda,  for every mountain 
woman makes hot biscuit  three  times  a 
day,  and not merely warm,  as commonly 
served  in  the  Northern  States.  There 
are numberless  little  cans  of  snuff,  be­
cause  “dipping snuff”  is the great diver­
sion  and  recreation  of  almost  every 
mountain  woman  and  girl.  The  men 
chew tobacco; the women dip snuff.  But 
it must not be thought that  the  snuff  is 
applied to the nose.  Instead, it is rnbbed 
on the teeth  with  a  short  stick,  which, 
after  being  used  for  a  short  time,  be­
comes splintered at the end like a brush. 
The women sit and dip and rub,  hour by 
hour, or if both  hands  are  busy  let  the 
stick project from a corner of the mouth, 
like a cigar. 
It cannot  be said that it is 
an  attractive  habit,  and  yet  there  are 
many attractive-looking women  who  in­
dulge in it.  There are many queer char­
acters to be met  with  among  the  moun­
taineers,  and often one of  the  oddest  is 
the man who  keeps  the  little  mountain 
grocery.

THR  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

BUSINESS  FAILURES IN  1893.

though  not  unprecedented, 

The contrast between the  present con­
dition of the country, in all  departments 
of business,  and that  which  prevailed  a 
year  ago  at  this  time, is a phenomenon 
which, 
is 
none the less remarkable and interesting. 
From a condition of  feverish activity  we 
have  passed  into  one  of  comparative 
stagnation; and, instead of  an  irrepress­
ible enterprise reaching out  in  every di­
rection, we have merely necessary indus­
try  restricted  to  the  smallest  possible 
limits.  Not  only are numbers of  work­
ing people out  of  employment,  but  the 
surplus of production over  consumption 
is small,  and this,  in turn, diminishes the 
machinery  and 
for 
production.  The  natural  result  of  the 
process, if it should go  on  long  enough, 
would be that  production  would  barely 
equal consumption, no new capital would 
be created to  aid  industrial  expansion, 
population  would no longer increase,  and 
a  period  of  national  decay  would  set 
in.

the  opportunities 

Happily,  as experience  has  shown  on 
every previous  similar occasion, our peo­
ple have too  much elasticity of character 
to allow this temporary torpor to become 
permanent. 
It is only  a question of how 
long it shall  last,  and  how  soon  it  shall 
be  broken. 
Some  enterprises  may  be 
given  up as  unprofitable,  but  new  ones 
will  be invented to take their places, and 
the rest,  which  are  now  sluggishly  car­
ried on,  will  receive new  life.  We  are 
going  through  what  may  be  called  a 
financial  and commercial  winter;  when 
spring arrives the snow will  vanish,  the 
green  grass  will  reappear,  shrubs  and 
trees will  clothe themselves  afresh with 
verdure,  the birds will  begin  to sing, and 
by and  by the usual  harvest  will  reward 
our  toil.

The revulsion from  which  we are suf­
fering  is  the  result,  as we all know, of 
the injudicious investment  of  capital  in 
undertakings which have  not  proved  to 
be profitable.  An  excessive  facility  in 
borrowing led to  a  correspondingly  ex­
cessive  extravagance  in  spending,  and 
millions  of  dollars  have  thus been  lost 
irretrievably. 
If  the  money  had  be­
longed to those  who spent it,  the  conse 
quences  of  their  error  would  have  af­
fected  none but themselves;  but,  unfor 
tunately,  under  our  system  of  compli 
cated and  ramified credits, every financial 
catastrophe spreads over a wide area and 
affects a multitude who were  apparently 
remote from its influence. 
It  remains to 
be seen  whether we  shall  profit  by  this 
latest lesson and act  more  prudently  in 
the future.  With the revival of business 
activity will come,  also, the necessity  for 
considering the proper  amount of  credit 
to be given to applicants  for money, and 
for  discriminating  between  enterprises 
which  deserve  to  be  assisted  and those 
which do not.  Capitalists,  remembering 
the 
incurred 
through their own errors  of judgment  in 
this respect, or through  those of persons 
upon whom they relied,  will,  indeed,  for 
some time yet  be  shy  of  would-be  bor­
rowers.  The  borrowers,  knowing  this, 
will,  on  their  part,  be cautious in  mak­
ing their propositions,  and  will endeavor 
to  deserve  the  confidence  they ask for. 
Success in one  case  will,  however,  lead 
to  fresh  attempts,  and  these  again  to 
others,  until the series of operations will 
gradually gain headway  and  finally  will 
be going at full  speed.  When the  next 
crash  comes,  as  it  will  come sooner or

losses  they  have 

lately 

later,  people will again  be  asking  them­
selves,  as they are now,  whether on  the 
whole this trading with borrowed  money 
is profitable,  and whether  it had not bet­
ter be stopped altogether.

A  little  pamphlet  recently  published 
by  the  Bradstreet  Company,  gives  an 
analysis of the causes of  the  15,508  fail­
ures in business  which  occurred  during 
the year 1893.  They are:  Incompetence, 
2,546; inexperience, 940; lack  of  capital, 
5,194;  unwise  credits,  726;  failures of 
others,  446;  extravagance,  198;  neglect. 
481;  competition,  191;  disaster,  3,463; 
speculation,  181,  and  fraud,  1,142.  Of 
the causes thus  assigned  it  will  8e  ob­
served that  incompetence,  inexperience, 
unwise  credits,  extravagance,  neglect, 
speculation  and fraud are defects  of  an 
intellectual and  moral  nature,  and  the 
failures  attributed  to  them  amount  to 
6,214, or two-fifths  of  the  whole,  while 
failures of others,  competition  and  dis­
aster  are  responsible  only  for 4,100,  or 
less than one-third,  the remaining 5,194, 
ora little more than one-third,  being  due 
to lack of  capital.

This total of 15,508  failures  it  should 
be  mentioned,  includes  only  those  in 
which the assets proved  to  be  less  than 
the  liabilities,  the firms  and  individuals 
who during the year simply dropped  out 
of business from  inability to succeed, but 
who ultimately paid their  debts  in  full, 
being reckoned  at  about  100,000  more. 
On the other hand,  the  total  number  of 
firms and  individuals  doing  business  in 
1893 was 1,059,806,  so  that while the dis­
astrous failures were about 15 in the 1,000, 
or 1)4  per  cent,  of  the  whole,  those  re­
sulting  only in  loss  to  the  persons  or 
firms failing were nearly  one  in  ten, or 
one-tenth of the whole.  At this rate  the 
number  of  business  failures  from  all 
causes  would  in  the course of nine years 
equal  the  total  number  of  successes— 
which  seems  to  support  the  assertion 
frequently made, that less than one-tenth 
of the men who embark in  business  suc­
ceed permanently.

Of course,  last  year  was  exceptional, 
both  in the number of failures and in the 
amount of  liabilities  involved  in  them. 
Still,  while in  1893 the bad  failures were 
15,508 in  number,  and  the  total  amount 
of  liabilities  $382,153,676,  the  bad  fail­
ures in  1892 were  10,270 in  uutnber  and 
the liabilities $108,595,248, the same kind 
of failures in 1891  being 12,394  in  num­
ber  with  liabilities  to 
the  amount  of 
$193,178,000.  This shows  the  last  year 
was remarkable not so much  for  the  in­
creased  number  of  bad  failures  as  for 
the greater average amount of the liabili­
ties involved.  During the  twelve  years 
preceding 1891 the average  annual  num­
ber of reported business  failures  in  the 
strict sense in  which the word is used by 
the Bradstreet Company,  was  9,256,  and 
that of mere failures to succeed,  96,000.

Explanations  are  wanting  of 

the 
causes  which led to the failures of  those 
who retired honorably from  the  field  of 
business action,  nor is there  any compu­
tation of  the  losses they suffered,  but it 
may  reasonably  be  inferred  that  their 
want of success  was due  principally to a 
want of business ability.  Of  the  15,508 
failures in  1893 the causes of which  have 
been  mentioned,  it  appears  that,  while 
6,214 were owing  to  personal  unfitness, 
5,194  are  ascribed  to  lack  of  capital, 
which indicates that  in  5,194  cases  the 
business was undertaken  either without 
an  adequate  knowledge  of  its  require-

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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Aden  Mocha,
Mocha and Java Blend, 
White  House  Mocha  and 

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We  have  trebled  our  coffee  business  since  we  have  been 

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

OLNEY 4 JUDSON GROCER  CO
C .   G. A .  V O IG T   &  CO.

Agents  Western  Michigan,  Grand  Rapids.

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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ment*, or else without regard  to  the  in­
terests of  those  from  whom  credit  was 
solicited and  obtained.  The  bankrupts 
threw upon their  creditors  a  risk  they 
had no right to make them  take,  and  to 
that extent were dishonest.

The extent of the losses by the failures 
of private  persons  and  firms  which  we 
have been considering is, however,  small 
in  comparison  with  the  hundreds  and 
thousands of  millions  which  have  been 
swallowed up  in the bankruptcy  of  cor­
porations.  The  amount  of 
railroad 
bonds  on which  interest  was  defaulted 
during the last three years is very nearly 
if  not  quite  $1,500,000,000,  and  that  of 
the  railroad  stocks  which  have  either 
been greatly depreciated  in  value or ren­
dered worthless must  be  as  great.  Not 
less than  $100,000,000  may  be  added  to 
these  sums for  the  baukruptcies, or,  at 
least,  failures to  earn  dividends,  of  the 
great  industrial  enterprises  for  which 
corporations have been formed  and their 
stocks and  bonds  distributed  among  in­
vestors.  Besides  these,  too,  are numer­
ous  little  ventures  by  manufacturing 
and  mining  corporations,  which  have 
practically borrowed  their  capitals  and 
sunk them  where they can  never  be  re­
covered.

In  one  respect,  however,  the  money 
lost by these  failures,  corporate  as  well 
as  private,  although  those  who  lent  it 
or  invested  it  may  never  get  it  back 
again,  is not entirely wasted. 
It  is  the 
price which in business affairs,  a  sin all 
other  departments  of  human  activity, 
must be paid for the wisdom which comes 
only  through experience.  We  have  not 
yet arrived at that pitch  of  intelligence 
at which we can  infallibly  judge  in  ad­
vance of  the  results which  will  follow 
any  given  line  of  conduct,  and 
there 
never  yet  was  any  business  enterprise 
which exactly  fulfilled  the  hopes  of  its 
projectors. 
In  a  few  rare  cases  those 
hopes  are  exceeded;  in  most  they  are 
disappointed,  and  in  all  the  result  is 
more or  less  different  from  that which 
was intended.  Besides it  may justly  be 
said that,  if before embarking our money 
we required  to  have  its  safety  and  the 
profits of  its  employment  demonstrated 
beyond a peradventure,  we  should  have 
to accept the low  rate  of  compensation 
for its use which is paid upon  that  kind 
of assurance. 
If  every speculation  was 
as sure as a  Government  bond,  it  would 
yield only the rate of interest yielded  by 
a  Government  bond.  The  excess  of 
profit  beyond  that  rate  represents  the 
extra  risk  incurred,  and  without  that 
risk there would be no such excess.

Ma tth ew   Ma r sh a ll.

N o t  Up  to   8nuff.

A tobacconist shop  burned out in New 
York a few nights since,  the  fireman not 
being able to save it, because  they  were 
not up  to  snuff.  When  they  arrived on 
the scene they speedily effected  an entry 
into the premises,  but the fire had gotten 
at some packages of snuff,  and the fumes 
of it were  more  than  the  firemen  could 
stand.  They  all  fell  to  sneezing  vio­
lently, and  had  to  run  out  of  the  shop 
and let the fire have its way.

Once there was a grocer named  Berry. 
He sent in a bill  before  it was  due,  and 
the person who received  it wrote  in  re­
ply:  “Berry,  you’ve  sent  in  your  bill 
Berry  before  it  was  due-Berry.  Upon 
my feelings you are a rasp-Berry.  Your 
father,  the elder-Berry,  would  not  have 
been  such  a  goose-Berry.  But  you 
needn’t look  so  blue-Berry, for  I  don’t 
care  a  straw-Berry,  and  if  you  write 
again before  June-Berry,  I’ll  maul  you 
till you are black-Berry.

ra m   MIGEDGA-N  THAJDBSMAISr.
REPRESENTATIVE  RETAILERS.

F ra n k   S m ith, 

Frank  Smith, 

th e   L ero y   G eneral 
D ealer.
the  hustling  general 
dealer  of  Leroy,  Osceola county,  Mich., 
was born at Newton Falls, Ohio,  in  1855. 
His father, Noah Smith,  was a carpenter 
in Frank’s native town. 
In  1862 he for­
sook the  saw and  plane  and  opened  a 
general store,  which he conducted with a 
fair measure of success for twelve years. 
The financial storm of  1873-5,  however, 
swept away his business  and  compelled 
him to return to his old  calling  to  sup­
port  his  family.  Frank,  who  at  this 
time was  about 19 years old, was thrown 
on his own  resources,  and went  to work 
as a farm hand.  Later,  he  came to this 
State,  and  made  his  home  in  Leroy, 
working in  a  sawmill  for  about 
two 
years.  He then accepted the position of 
General  Manager  for  Gray  &  Spires, 
lumbermen,  of  Sunrise Lake,  which  he 
held for four  years.  He  then  returned 
to Leroy  and  bought J.  E.  Bevin’s stock 
of  general  merchandise  and  embarked 
upon  the treacherous  sea  of  mercantile 
life.  Frank 
is  a  hustler,  no  matter 
what he  undertakes,  and  he  hustled  so 
successfully as a merchant that  the  bus­
in 
iness  soon  outgrew 
which it  was 
the  Smith

the  building 

located,  and 

Council for six years,  and last  year  was 
elected  President  of  the  Village.  He 
had a  narrow  escape  from  being  post­
master under the present  adminstration. 
He  does  not  particularly  care  for  the 
office,  but it was  the way  by  which  he 
did not get  it  that  hurts  Frank’s  feel­
ings, and it may be safely  predicted that 
Dan  Campau will,  from  this  time  on, 
have no better friend  in  Michigan.  He 
does not believe  “a  little  bit” 
in  the 
referee system for dispensing patronage. 
Mr.  Smith owns 160 acres  of as fine land 
as there is in Osceola county, is Treasurer 
of the Leroy Creamery Co., of  which  he 
is also a director, and a most  useful  cit­
izen and all-around good  fellow.  He  is 
a member of the “chain  gang,”  was  be­
set by  robbers  on  the  lonely  and  dan­
gerous road that leads  from  Jericho  to 
Jerusalem and robbed of  everything but 
his smile,  and the envious  Saul  has  cast 
his javelin at  him  with  murderous  in­
tent—in other words,  he  is  an  Oddfel­
low.  Frank is a soldier of  no  mean  re­
pute,  having  engaged 
the  “three 
years’ warfare”  of  the  Maccabees.  He 
has a little society of  his  own,  however, 
which he prizes  more  than all his  other 
affiliations—he is  a  married  man  with 
an interesting  family,  and it is  needless 
to say that he is  a  model  husband  and

in 

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largely 

block,  a  two-story  brick,  24x80  feet, 
with 
basement  and  storeroom,  was 
erected.  Here,  with the perennial smile 
and  genial  courtesy  which  have  con­
tributed 
to  his  success,  Mr. 
Smith  meets  his  host  of  customers. 
Frank has been a member of  the Village
rp H B Y A B B   S A Y

father.  The  portraits  of  two  of  his 
children  appear with  their  father’s  in 
connection  wjth this sketch.

Don’t  hesitate  to  give  expression  to 
your honest convictions.  The  world ad­
mires a brave man  whether he is right or 
wrong.

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Paper  PaGked 

Screw.

Manufacturers  and  Jobbers  of

PIECED  END  STUMPED  TINWARE,
GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH
Telephone 640. 

260  SOUTH  IONIA  M ., 

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.

Our  Goods 

Are

Perfect  Fitters,

THOROUGHLY  MADE,  LOW  IN  PRICE.

H.  H.  COOPER  &  CO.,

Manufacturers  of

in

UTICA,  N  Y.

Write J.  H.  WEBSTER,  State  Agent, 

OWOSSO,  MICH.

CHEAP  SAP  BUCKETS.

IX Tin, 10 qt.................................... *10.80 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  FUR 
NISHED  BY  THE

TRADESMAN  COMPANY

GRAND  RAPIDS.

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

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

Is 
it  n o t  th e   p u b l i c ?   T h e   m a n u f a c t u r e r s  
b y   c o n s t a n t   a n d  
j u d i c i o u s   a d v e r t i s i n g  
b r i n g   c u s t o m e r s   to  y o u r   s to r e s   w h o s e  
v e r y   p r e s e n c e   c r e a te s   a  d e m a n d  
for 
o t h e r   articles.

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.THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,

AMONG  THE  TRADE.

ABOUND  T H E   STA TE.

Shepherd—W. Meek  has  purchased the 

stock of the F.  D. Howe Drug Co.

Eaton  Rapids—C.  W.  Vaile  has  sold 

his  harness  business to C.  D.  Moore.

Butternut—A.  Conklin  succeeds Conk­
lin  &  Phillips  in  the  drug and  grocery 
business.

Shepherd—The  store of  R.  M.  Meade, 
general  dealer,  has  been  closed  on  at­
tachment.

Perrinton—A.  Y.  Sessions will  soon re­
move his general  stock  at  this  place  to 
Carson City.

Rochester—Woodward  &  Lintz 

suc­
ceed  Platt  M.  Woodworth  in  the  furni­
ture  business.

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

Grand  Haven—C.  Van  Zylen  is  suc­
ceeded  by Stap  &  Arkema  in  the  flour 
and  feed  business.

Homer—Wm.  H.  Harmond  has  retired 
from the clothing  and  boot and  shoe firm 
of O.  L.  Linn  & Co.

Way land—A  new  clothing  store  will 
be opened here about  April  1  by  C.  W. 
Thompson,  of  Kalamazoo.

Hickory  Corners—Edwin  Bissell  suc­
ceeds Bissell  & Flansburg in the grocery, 
drug and crockery  business.

Mattawan—C.  G.  Goodrich  succeeds 
G.  H.  Goodrich  in the hardware and  agri­
cultural  implement business.

Athens—Allen  Bros.,  dealers  in  dry 
goods  and  groceries,  have  dissolved, 
Ethan  Allen  continuing the business.

Saranac—Allen  & Gamble, of Portland, 
have leased  a  store  here  and  put  in  a 
stock of clothiug  and  men’s  furnishing 
goods.

Bay City—The  Miller  Hardware  Co., 
incorporated,  succeeds  W.  H.  Miller  & 
Co.  in the  wholesale  and  retail  hardware 
business.

Kalamazoo—The  wholesale 

grocery 
firm  of J.  E.  Doyle  &  Co.  has  dissolved 
partnership and  will be  succeeded  J.  B. 
Doyle & Co.

Hamilton—M.  B.  Kolk,  of  Muskegon, 
has  purchased  some stock in  the  Hamil­
ton Milling  Co.  and  been  elected  Secre­
tary of  the corporation.

Perrinton—C.  Christler  has  sold  his 
general  stock to  Stroup  &  Carmer,  late 
of Lansing,  who will continue  the  busi­
ness at the same location.

Traverse City—Ernst Bros.,  who  came 
here  from Oscoda and put in  a  bazar  on 
Union Street just  before Christmas,  have 
discontinued their business here.

Perrinton—A.  Pettit  will  shortly  re­
move his grocery stock from  his  sawmill 
near  Middleton 
this  place,  having 
leased  the  “ Red  Front”  store  for that 
purpose.

to 

Manton—A.  Alvin  is  cutting  an  arch­
way  between  his dry goods store and  the 
next  store adjoining it  on  the  north,  in 
which  he proposes to embark in  the  gro­
cery  business.

Kalkaska—The Smith  Lumber Co.  has 
purchased 
the  T.  D.  Hobbs  grocery 
stock  and  the  B.  W.  Hodgeman  &  Co. 
dry goods stock  and  will conduct  a  sup­
ply store at this  place.

Calumet—The Tamarack  co-operative 
store  made  more  money  the  past  year 
than  has  the  mine itself. 
It will  divide 
among 
its  stockholders  $35,000  as  the 
profits on  last year’s  business.

Clifford—Two  attachment  suits  have 
been  begun against G.  W.  Perry, general

dealer  at  this  place.  One  was  by  W. 
J.  Gould  & Co., of Detroit;  the  other by 
Burnham, Stoepel & Co., of Detroit.

Sheridan—Mr  Gray,  the oldest  grocer 
at this place,  has made an  assignment to 
j Dr.  Wm.  H.  Budd.  His  assets  are 
largely  doubtful 
accounts,  and  are 
thought  to  be  less  in  amount than his 
liabilities.

Cheboygan—Dan  McDonald,  who  has 
long  been  connected  with  the  grocery 
department  of  W.  & A.  McArthur  Co.’s 
general store,  and Geo. Rittenhouse have 
formed  a  copartnership  and  will  soon 
open  a  grocery  store  in  the  Paquette 
building.

Mancelona—The  attachment  cases  of 
the Antrim County  State  Savings  Bank 
and of the Lemon  &  Wheeler  Company 
against  the  goods  and  chatties  of  H. 
Freeman, on  the  Feburary  calendar  of 
the  Antrim  Circuit  Court  have  been 
amicably settled.

Carson City—Kelley  &  Cadwell  have 
made a deal  with  S.  W.  Webber,  taking 
his one-third interest in the bank and post 
office block here,  twenty village lots here 
and three at Middleton in exchange for the 
brick block and drug stock of Dr  Kelley, 
at Lyons,  and sixteen village lots  at that 
place.

Detroit—While Henry  A.  Newland  & 
Co.  will  retire  those  of  their traveling 
salesmen who have  been  handling  furs< 
the  business  will  be  still carried on by 
the  firm  and  furs  sold  at wholesale to 
any  intending purchaser who happens to 
wish  that  class  of goods. 
The  whole­
sale hat business  will  be  continued  the 
same as heretofore.

Detroit—Retail  dealers 

in  flour  and 
feed are complaining at  the  practice  o^ 
wholesale  dealers  in  selling  to any and 
all  customers  at  wholesale  prices,  and 
frequently  for  a  less  price,  where  the 
purchaser  does  his  o •» n  hauling.  The 
matter  has  been 
informally  discussed 
among  a  number  of  retailers,  and  a 
movement is now on  foot to  call  a  gen­
eral meeting,  inviting  all  retailers to  be 
present,  with a view to forming an  asso­
ciation which would have  for  its  object 
the  protection  of  all  retail  dealers 
in 
flour and  feed.

MANUFACTUBING  MATTERS.

Kalamazoo—The  Columbia  Sled  Co. 
and the  Page  Manufacturing  Co.  have 
been  merged  into one concern  under the 
style of the Kalamazoo  Sled  Co.  H.  P. 
Kauffer will  be manager  of the business.
Detroit—The Automatic  Music Turner 
Co.  has  filed  articles  of  incorporation 
with a capital stock  of  $3,000.  The  in­
corporators are  James  Miller,  Harry  A. 
Clapp and Eugene Gregory, and they will 
manufacture a patent device for  turning 
music  leaves.

Cadillac—The machinery and stock be­
longing to the Cadillac Veneer  and  Bas­
ket Works was sold Friday  on  a  chattel 
mortgage given  by  D. F.  Diggins,  of this 
city,  and H.  F.  Marsh,  of  Allegan,  and 
was bid in  by  J.  B.  Gardner  for  $500. 
Gardner is one  of  the  principal  stock­
holders in the company  and  expects 
to 
reorganize and operate the plant.

Detroit—The  Michigan  Electro-Auto­
matic Telephone Co.  is  now fully organ­
ized and ready  for  business. 
It  has  a 
capital  stock  of  $500,000,  of  which 
$300,000 has  been  paid  in,  and  has  re­
ceived  from  the  Strowger  Automatic 
Telephone Co., of Chicago,  a  license  for 
the Lower Peninsula.  The city  of  Bat­

tle Creek his already  been  asked  for  a j the importers anything, 
It will  be wise 
franchise.  The  company  has  not  yet  to buy sparingly at present,  as  all  fruit 
decided  whether it shall establish all the  which  has  been  in  transit  to  western 
plants desired or sell  its rights  to  local j markets during past weeks is  very  liable 
to  have become frosted more or less  and 
concerns.
effect  will  become  manifest  in  short 
order after setting in a warm store.

Grains  and  Foodstuffs.

Wheat—The  situation  is  unchanged, 
but  conditions  are  developing  which 
may  make  this  the  worst  year wheat- 
growers have ever  known.  Farmers are 
holding on to their wheat,  notwithstand­
ing  that  there  is  in  the country  some­
thing over 200,000,000 bushels  yet  to  be 
disposed of,  with  the  next  harvest  less 
than sixteen weeks off and exports  down 
to  2,000,000  bushels  per  week.  This 
ought to be  enough  to  bring  out  every 
grain of wheat in the country,  but added 
to it is the  approaching opening  of  Rus­
sian  ports,  which  will  put  millions  of 
Russian wheat on  the  market.  Foreign 
countries are taking less American wheat 
every year,  and will cease taking it  alto­
gether just as soon as their supply  is  as­
sured  from  other  countries.  Australia 
and  India  are  coming  to  the  front  as 
wheat raising countries and  the  time  is 
not far distant  when  American  farmers 
must raise  wheat for  home  consumption 
only.  The  vast  quantity  of  wheat 
in 
store and  invisible  will  assure  the  con­
tinuance of low prices  and may result  in 
a further  decline.

Hay—The past year has been  a  pecul­
iar one in the bay trade and one  of  great 
disappointment  to  those  engaged  in  it. 
It began with high  prices  and  favorable 
promises,  continuing  until  June,  when 
Europe reported  a short crop  because  of 
drouth.  Wide circulation of  the  report 
caused a scale of prices to  be established 
in the United  States  and  Canada  based 
upon European panic  prices.  Men  who 
went  into  the  new  speculation  under­
stand little of hay  areas and  were  aston­
ished at  the  quantity  brought  forward, 
not  alone  from  the  United  States  and 
Canada,  but  from  Australia,  Argentine 
and other countries, quickly satisfying the 
needs of Europe.  A break in prices  fol 
lowed and the  year  ended  with  prices 
below the profit figures.  Until  the  new 
crop is available,  the prospect for higher 
prices is dubious,  since  the  markets  are 
well  supplied  now.  A  large  crop  this 
year  will  send  prices  still  lower  than 
they are.  A reorganization  must  be ef­
fected in some way, or  hay will  be  more 
discouragin g in  the  future  than  it  has 
been in the past.  Even if the ’94 crop  is 
not over large, the  increasing  consump­
tion of rough forage  by farm  stock  will 
make  the  supply  of  hay  available  for 
market quite large should prices advance.

The  Grocery  Market.

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be 

Sugar—The market is featureless.  The 
demand  is moderate and  stocks  are  ac­
cumulating in refiners’ hands.  Until the 
tariff agitation  is  settled,  the  country 
will 
that  extent 
that  dealers  will  not  know  whether 
to carry large or small stocks. 
If a duty 
is coming,  they want large stocks;  if  no 
duty is to  be  levied, 
they  want  small 
stocks.

disturbed 

Bananas—The extremely cold  weather 
two  weeks  has 
ruling  for  the  past 
brought  traffic  in  bananas  to  a  stand­
still,  especially  in  this  section  of  the 
country.  The fruit being very  sensitive 
to cold  it  cannot  be  handled  with  any 
degree of safety at present.

Lemons—The  situation  remains  un­
changed.  Present quotations  are  about 
| as low as  can well  be  made  and  allow

Oranges—Florida fruit  keeps  advanc­
ing as the stock  becomes  scarcer,  and  it 
will soon be at a premium.  The first ar­
rivals of Californias have put  in  an  ap- 
pearauce and are being offered  at  prices 
slightly under those asked  for  Floridas. 
Quality  is  fully  up to first  arrivals  of 
previous  seasons.  Navels  are  plenty 
and  held  nearer  to  price  of  seedlings 
than ever before.

Figs—Box  goods  are  easy  at 

last 
week’s prices,  while  bag  stock  has  ad­
vanced  Me to %c per pound.

PRODUCE  MARKET.

Apples—Not  enough  in  market  to  furnish a 
basis for quotations.  Holders can get most any 
price for fancy fruit.

Beans—Pea and medium are active and Btrong, 
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 $1.6 > in  less quantity.
Butter— Dealers  pay  18c  for  choice  dairy, 
holding  at  20c.  Creamery  is  dull  and  slow 
sale at 25c.

Cabbage—$1 per doz.
Cranberries—Jerseys  are slow sale, command 

ing  12  per  t u.  and $5.75 per bbl.
Celery—Home  grown  commands  15@18c  per 
doz.
Eggs — Dealers  pay  13®lie  for  strictly  fresh, 

holding  at  14@14c.

Field Seeds-Medium or mammoth clover, $5.75; 
Timothy,$1.10; Red Top  75c¡Orchard grass$1.75; 
Alsyke, $8.50.

Grapes—Malaga are  in  moderate  demand  at 

$4.50 per keg  of 55  lbs.  net.

Honey—White clover commands 14®l5c 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 
Onions—Handlers  pay  45c,  holding  at  55c 

Hickory nuts, $1.10 per bu.

per bu.  Cuban stock commands $3  per  bu.

Potatoes—Handlers pay 40c for white stock and 
5c for red, holding  at  10c  per  bu  above  those 
figures.

Potatoes—Handlers  have  ceased  buying  red 
stock, as the demand for such stock for  seeding 
purposes  has ceased.  Outside  consuming  and 
distributinii markets are weak,  but  local  hand­
lers continue to pay 40c for  white verities, hold­
ing at  50c.

CRACKER  BAKERY  TO  LEASE.
2 Reel  Ovens,  Engine,  Boiler,  ¡Shaft­
ing,  Pulleys,  Belting,  Office  Furniture, 
Safes, etc.  This  is  the best opening in 
the State.  The only Cracker Bakeries in 
the city are operated by the  Trust.  For 
particulars  address Robert Morton,  care 
Morton Baking Co., Detroit  Mich.

A  B ig  D r iv e
IN ALL  SILK  <SflI.  EDGE)  RIBBONS.

■   No.  9.............................6 8 c

Haying 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:
\ J /   No.  5.................................40c
No.   7.................................52c
—
No.  12.................................84c
Or we will  assort yon a box each 
of Nos. 5, 7, 9 and  12, at  52¡4c  aver­
age, and  you  can  select  your own 
colors.
We make  a  specialty of  Ribbons, 
and you will  find  that we  have the 
largest and  most complete  stock of 
these goods in the State.
We  solicit  your  inspection  or 
mall orders.
C o r l ,   K n o t t   &   C o . ,

20-22  No.  Division  St.,

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GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

T.  D. Cutler,  grocer  at  Nottawa,  has 
put in  a grocery  stock  at  Delton.  The 
Musselman  Grocer  Co. 
the 
s tock.

furnished 

G.  A.  Luther & Co.  have  embarked  in 
the  shoe  business  at  Bellaire.  The 
The Herold-Bertsch Shoe  Co.  furnished 
the stock.

J.  A. Gerard,  general dealer  at  Yuma, 
has  added a boot  and  shoe  stock.  The 
goods  were  furnished  by 
the  Herold- 
Bertsch Shoe Co.

S. A.  Howey,  hardware  and  furniture 
dealer at Lake  City,  has  opened a hard 
ware store at  McBain.  Foster,  Stevens 
&Co.  furnished  the  stock.

The Beaverton Mercantile  Co.,  general 
dealers at Beaverton,  has added a line of 
Jboots  and  shoes.  The  Herold-Bertsch 
Shoe Co.  furnished the stock.

E.  L.  Merritt  has  opened  a  boot  and 
shoe and  men’s furnishing goods store at 
Mulliken.  The  shoe  stock  was 
fur­
nished by the Herold-Bertsch Shoe Co.

Negotiations are pending for  the  con­
solidation  of  the  Automatic  Car  Brake 
Co.,  of this city,  and the  Jenison  Manu­
facturing Co., of  Jenisonville,  under an­
other corporate name.

James Meeusen  recently  sold  his drug 
stock  at  758  South  Division  Street  to 
Dr. C.  H.  White,  of Reed  City,  who sub­
sequently transferred  the  stock  to F.  A. 
Sanford,  who will continue the  business 
at the same location.

Cornelius  DeFree,  formerly  of 

the 
drug firm 5f Meeusen &  DePree, of  this 
city,  but  for  the  past  year  employed 
as prescription clerk  for Geo.  McDonald, 
at  Kalamazoo,  has  arranged  to  embark 
in the  drug  business  at  Holland.  The 
Hazeltine  &  Perkins  Drug  Co.  has  the 
order for the stock.

The McCarger-Littlerteld Co.  will here­
after be known as the McCarger  Novelty 
Co.  Joseph  R.  McCarger  will  be  Presi­
dent of the new  corporation  and  E.  D. 
Whitlock will serve  the company  in  the 
capacity  of  Secretary  and  Treasurer, 
having  severed  his connection  with  the 
Grand Rapids Brass Co.  for that purpose. 
The corporation is occupying quarters in 
the  building  of 
the  Bissell  Carpet 
Sweeper Co.  and  will soon be in  the mar­
ket with a  full  line  of  artistic  jewelry 
cases and fancy boxes.

The  Moseley  &  Stevens Co.,  Limited, 
has  been  organized  by  H.  E.  Moseley, 
Geo.  F.  Stevens and  Arthur  C.  Denison 
with a capital  stock  of  $8,000,  one-half 
contributed by Mr.  Denison and the other 
half equally  divided  between  the  other 
partners.  Mr.  Stevens has  been identi­
fied with  Moseley Bros, for the past eleven 
years,  latterly  as a partner.  The  new 
firm will remain at 130 Oakes street for a 
month or six weeks,  when it will  remove 
to the present location  of C. N.  Rapp  & 
Co., 9 North Ionia street.
E. Crofton  Fox has  adopted  plans  for 
the erection of a  four-story brick  build­
ing  on  the  corner  of  North  Ionia  and 
Louis streets, adjoining T he  T radesm an 
office on the southeast.  The building will 
have 100  feet  frontage  on  Ionia  street 
and be 112 in depth,  with a 20 foot  alley 
and  driveway  in  the  rear. 
It will be 
divided  into  five  apartments, each four 
stories and basement,  with  elevator  for 
each apartment,  so  arranged that a  ten­

ant  can occupy one or  more  apartments 
and  use  one  or  more  elevators,  as de­
sired.  The  building will  be plain in ap­
pearance but substantial  in  construction 
and  will be an important accession to the 
jobbing portion of the city.

The  peddlers  have  broken  out  in  a 
new place. 
It is not an uncommon sight 
for from two to six men to be seen accom­
panying one wagon.  The man in charge 
of the wagon  generally has a license, but 
those who accompany it have not.  These 
men  take baskets,  and,  getting their sup­
plies from the  wagon,  proceed to dispose 
of their goods in  the neighboring houses. 
To say  that they  are  unmolested  by  the 
police would  hardly  be correct.  Several 
have been cited before the  Police  Court, 
but every case, so far,  has been dropped. 
Whether this has been  because of  insuf­
ficient evidence, or ‘‘for  charity’s  sake” 
is not known;  but the result has been to 
discourage the efforts of the police to enj 
force the ordinance. 
If the  intention  is 
to  permit these people to  earn  a  living, 
the fact should  be frankly  stated, 
if  it 
is because of any  weakness  in  the  ordi­
nance,  the weak spot  should  be  pointed 
out,  and,  if possible,  remedied.  It would 
be nothing strange to  find  a  flaw  in  an 
ordinance framed  by the  City Attorney. 
He  has never yet  prepared  one  that  he 
has not  afterwards  declared  was  faulty. 
The Superior  Court  has  already  passed 
upon the  peddlers’ ordinance  favorably, 
however,  and any case  submitted  under 
it ought to result in  a  conviction, 
it  is 
hardly  to be supposed that  the  Judge  of 
the Police Court would, on  his  own  re­
sponsibility,  dismiss  any  case  brought 
before him if the evidence  was  sufficient 
to secure a  conviction. 
If  the  City  At­
torney’s  office  is  responsible  for  such 
reprehensible  leniency,  that  will  prob­
ably  be  the  end  of  the  matter,  as  the 
City Attorney is  in  the  habit  of  doing 
pretty much as he  pleases  and  very sel­
dom  as  the law provides.  As things  are 
it is useless for the police to make arrests 
when they are certain that no convictions 
will  follow.

The  H a rd w a re   M arket.

General Trade—As yet, is light.  Deal 
ers  are  slow  to  anticipate  their  wauts 
and  manifest  a  disposition  to buy only 
what they are obliged to have. 
In some 
lines there is a shortage  and  the  conse­
quence is just wbat the dealer wants and 
he makes a great  cry  about  not  getting 
it.  We don’t blame him  very much,  for 
if  there  is  anything  a  person  wants to 
buy, the  dealer does not  want  to  disap­
point him.

Wire Nails—The demand  is very large 
and  prices  have advanced  at  the  mill  15 
20c  per  keg.  A  very  large  volume 
of  nails  has  been ordered for  March 1 
shipment  and  one  mill  writes a jobber 
here that it is  145,000 kegs  behind its or­
ders. 
If many mills are in the same pre­
dicament,  somebody  will be disappointed 
in getting their nails.

Barbed  Wire—The  same  conditions 
exist  in  wire  as in nails.  March  1 
to 
April  1  is  the  time  everybody  sets for 
getting in his spring stock,  and the mills 
find it impossible to store  stock sufficient 
to fill  all  orders  promptly.  Wire  has 
advanced at the mills 15c per 100 pounds. 
From  stock  jobbers  have  not,  as  yet, 
made  any  change.  We  quote  $2.20 for 
painted and $2.60 for galvanized.
is  plenty  of 
glass  for  anybody  who  wants  it,  and 
prices remain low.  The  tariff  agitation

Window  Glass—There 

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and the business  depression have a  very 
marked  effect  on 
this  product.  We, 
however,  believe this  is a  good  time  to 
buy glass. 
It  certainly cann  t go much 
lower and must react as soon  as  the  de­
mand comes.

Shot—Still  in the  decline.  Nothing to 
hunt—so nobody wants  it  at  any  price. 
We  quote  $1.35  for  drop  and $1.60 for 
buck shot.

P u re ly   P erso n al.

Thomas M.  Sloan,  the  veteran  Dimon­
dale merchant,  was in  town  several  days 
last week.  He was  accompanied  by  his 
wife.

Frank  Hamilton, 

Wm.  H.  Hoops, well  known in Western 
Michigan  as a traveling salesman, whole­
sale grocer and  lumberman,  is  now man­
ager of  the  Cosmopolitan  Safe  Deposit 
Co.,  45  Monroe  street,  Chicago.  Mr. 
Hoops is  an  exceptional  organizer  and, 
if given full swing,  will  work  up  a  luc­
rative business for the new establishment.
the  Traverse  City 
clothier,  was  in  town  over  Sunday  on 
his way  home  from  Boston,  where  he 
had been  for a couple of weeks, selecting 
spring goods.  While in the city  he  first 
learned of a serious mishap  which occur­
red at his store  last  Friday  night.  The 
pipe  connected  with 
the  water  motor 
used  for running his electric  sign  froze, 
burst and flooded the  attic,  soaking  the 
ceiling of nearly all the upper  rooms  of 
his  block.  The  water  found  its  way 
through the ceiling floor of the storeroom 
and  ran down in  streams over  his  cloth­
ing  stock, 
loss  of  about 
$2,500.

incurring  a 

G ripsack B rigade.

Byron S. Davenport  drew a cottage or 
gan  in a raffle  at  Hubbardston  one day 
last week.  He  has  had  several oppor 
tunities to present  it to organizations  of 
lady  Maccabees, etc.,  but has sinister de­
signs as to the disposition of  the  animal 
which  he refuses to disclose.

A Grand  Rapids traveling man  was  at 
Ewen last Sunday and  participated  in a 
somewhat  varied  program. 
Saturday 
evening  a  prize  fight  was  held  in  the 
only hall in the place,  which  was.located 
over  a  saloon. 
Sunday  morning  the 
sawdust was  hurriedly  swept up so that 
religious  services  could  be  held  in the 
hall.  As  the  saloon  was  open all day 
Sunday, the service  was  frequently  dis­
turbed by the click of billiard  balls  and 
the course  ejaculations  of  excited  card 
players.

H ides,  P elts  a n d   F u rs.

Hides—With the demand  and  receipts 
light,  and  prices  steady,  as  they have 
been for some time,  the  market  remains 
unchanged.  Calfskins  are  the  weakest 
features in the market,  wax  tanners hav­
ing  persistently  refused  them  for some 
time.  The  local  market  remains  un­
changed.  Offerings  are very small and 
readily taken at nominal  prices.

Pelts—Nothing  of  importance  to  say 
about green pelts.  Prices are steady and 
unchanged.

Furs—Unchanged,  with 

in 
good demand,  and a  decreasing  demand 
for  rats.

skunks 

Tallow—Steady  demand,  with  equal 
receipts; 4%c is the prevailing  price  for 
No.  1,  and 3}£c for No. 2.

The  W ool  M arket.

If there  has  been  any  change  during 
the  week,  it has  been  for the  worse.  The 
manufacturers  are  making  only  spot 
sales,  and these at prices which preclude

in 

all idea of  profit.  Agents  find  clothing 
buyers very  shy,  their orders being  very 
light and almost all  in the standard lines. 
Many mills are  closing  down,  and 
the 
prospects are  gloomy 
the  extreme. 
The bad state of affairs among  manufac­
turers  has  naturally  reacted  upon 
the 
wool market,  the  tone of  which  is  very 
much heavier in consequence.  The local 
market reflects the  condition  of  the  big 
centers  and 
is  absolutely  featureless. 
Prices are steady of course.  There is no 
reason  why  they should  change.

From  O ut o f Tow n.
received 

Calls  have  been 

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

J.  R.  Harrison & Co.. Gooding.
Bates  &  Traut.man,  Moline.
A.  Y.  Young,  Woodville.
Adam Newell,  Burnip’s Corners.
Henry Meijering,  Jamestown.
E.  R.  Phillips,  Bay City.
A.  B.  Schumacher,  Grand  Ledge.
T.  M.  Sloan,  Dimondale.
E.  W.  Pickett.  Wayland.

FOR  SALE,  W ANTED.  ETC. 

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

H liSIN K SS  C H A N C E S .

567

SITUATIONS  WANTED.

factory  making  chamber 

■ ANTED—FOREMAN  FOR  FURNITURE 

suits,  beds, 
tables, and desks.  Must be competent to handle 
eighty men to advantage and  have some knowl­
edge of designing  and  drafting.  Apply  imme- 
dlately to E. A. Stowe, 100 Louis St. 

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

■ ANTED—POSITION  AS  WINDOW  TRIM- 
■ ANTED—A  PLACE  TO  WORK  BY  THE 

month or year on a farm by a steady mar­
ried man.  Please address ‘'Reuben.” caie Mich­
igan Tradesman. 
ANTED—SITUATION  BY  PRACTICAL 
druggist; registered;  married;  thirty-five 
years  of  age,  and  experienced  as  manager. 
Would take care of  paying  store  for  share  of 
profits.  Address Box 85, Qoblevllle, Mich.  564

I SAY.  MISTER,  CAN  YOU  GIVE  ME A JOB 
by the day or month on  your farm?  I know 
my business.  Address 49  Dudley  Place,  Grand 
563
Rapids, Mich. 

829

562

581

555.

town 

For e x c h a n g e—135 acre fa rm  io m ile s

from city, for clean merchandise or  smaller 
farm, time  on  balance.  Address  390  N.  Ionia 
Street,  Grand  Rapids.
ANTED—TO  EXCHANGE,  CITY  LOTS 
for good grocery stock.  Address  M.  R 
571
OF  MERCHANDISE. 
Early,  Sac  County,

care  Michigan  Tradesman. 
VSTILL BUY  A  STOCK 
i t   Address  box  44, 
Iowa.

IF YOU HAVE A STOCK OF MERCHANDISE 

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  and  merchandise.  Address  Brisbin’s 
Real  Estate  &  Tiaders’  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. 
TJIOR  SALE—A  WELL-SELECTED  STOCK 
-1-  of merchandise  and  fine  farm,  pleasantly 
located.  Store building and dwelling on farm— 
a  choice  pipce  of  property.  Address  No.  F66, 
care Michigan Tradesman 

■ ANTED—BANK  SToCK  IN  ANY GRAND 

Rapids  bank.  Must  be  cheap.  E  A. 
Stowe, 100 Louis St. 
I WANT  TO  BUY  A  L URGE  STOCK  OF 
I  merchandise  doing  extensive  paying  busi­
ness  Would pay cash if  stock  and  price  suit. 
G.  W. Sharp, Stanton. Mich. 

f lOR  EXCHANGE-IMPROVED  FARMS  FOR 

merchandise.  Address No. 559, care  Mich­
igan Tradesman. 
TXT ANT ED—SITUATION  As  GROCERY 
v v  Clerk.  Have had seven years’ experience. 
Good  references.  Address  C  J.  Clark,  1003 
South Division street. Grand Rapids. 

I  HAVE  #4,000 WORTH  OF DRY GOODS AND 

notions which I wish to exchange for stock 
of shoes, groceries, or  good  farm.  Can  reduce 
stock  or  trade  part of  it,  if  necessary.  O.  F. 
Conklin, 26 Madison ave., Grand Rapids. 
558
r p o   RENT—AFTER  FEBRUARY  1,  1894, 
X   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. 

■   CLEAN  STOCK  OF  GROCERIES  FOR 

Sale:  good  trade,  cheap  for  spot  cash; 
the only delivery wagon In  town.  Stock  about 
Investigate.  Address  box  15,  Centre- 
#2,506. 
ville,  Mich. 
ANTED—WOODEN WARE  FACTORY  OR 
Saw Mill, with good power, to locate here. 
Substantial  aid will  be  given  the  right  party 
Address S. S. Burnett, Lake  Ann. Mich. 
819

560

820

566

569

568

844

559

S heep  in  th e   G rocery.

A  very  amusing  event  happened  in 
Cincinnati the other day,  but it was suffi­
ciently serious to the parties  directly  in­
terested.  A drover was  driving  a  flock 
of seventeen  sheep  through  the  street, 
when, unfortunately, a collision occurred 
between  an electric car and  a wagon  just 
in front of a grocery.  Of course a crowd 
collected immediately, and the street was 
blockaded as the sheep came along.  The 
old  wether which  led the  flock,  in  alarm 
at the crowd,  made a break  for  the  first 
avenue  of  escape  that  he  saw,  which 
happened to be the open door of the gro­
cery,  where  the  groceryman  stood con­
templating  the  disaster.  “ Look  out!” 
shouted the drover,  “they’ll all  go  in!” 
“No,  they won’t!”  responded the grocer, 
and  he  grabbed  the  third  sheep 
that 
came along.  The animal bolted forward 
to follow its leader in true sheep fashion, 
and  the grocer was  jerked  off  his  feet, 
while the whole  flock vaulted gracefully 
over him  and  entered  the  store.  Once 
there they began  quietly to  regale them­
selves on the cabbages and lettuce which 
they found, aud  when the drover entered 
the irate  grocer  demanded  payment  of 
damages before the sheep  should  be  re­
moved from  the store.  While  they were 
arguing the question one  of  the  animals 
knocked over a  can  of  cayenne  pepper, 
and the sheep began to plunge about like 
mad,  and presently  made a  rush  for  the 
door  and 
tore  off  furiously  down  the 
street,  leaving the grocer and  the drover 
sneezing at the  catastrophe.

The  C o u n try   M erchant.

*

F rom  H a rp e r’s M agazine. 
The  country  storekeeper  is  in  some 
sort a public character.  He finds himself 
used in a dozen different ways—as  bank­
er,  oracle,  referee,  newspaper, directory, 
intelligence  man, etc.—almost before he 
is  aware.  Gossip  and  small  talk  he 
should  retail  with  the  same  graceful 
alacrity with which  he dispenses macca- 
boy and perpermint  drops.  Thoroughly 
democratic as an institution,  “the store” 
recognizes no caste,  and  its  door swings 
freely open to all  who come, whatever be 
their errands.  An  inviting haunt for all 
the idle ones  among  us,  its  fireside  on 
stormy or impracticable  days  draws  to­
gether its little circle,  that  is ever shift­
ing its character and  its  subjects as dif­
ferent persons come and  go.  Sometimes 
the conversation  has all the interest that 
native humor and  penetration  can  give 
it.  But not  infrequently will  it subside 
into the  veriest  twaddle.  Few  and  al­
most commonplace as are the occurrences 
of rural  life, yet  the social  requirements 
of the village demand that these be made 
the most of, that no one may  be guilty of 
so indecorous  a  thing  as  silence in  his 
neighbor’s presence.

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“  World Wide.  6
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Pull Yard Wide...... 6Vi
Georgia  A..............  654
Honest Width........  6
Hartford A  ............ 5
Indian Head...........  SVi
Ring A  A................6V4
King EC.................5
Lawrence  L L........  4Vi
Madras cheese cloth 6H 
Newmarket  G... '... 5*
B.........   5
N.........614
DD....  5Vi
X ........ 6 Vi

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Adriatic
Argyle....................  5J£
Atlanta AA.............6
Atlantic A..............  6K
H..............  6*
“ 
“ 
P ............   5
D..............  6
“ 
“  LL..............4 Vi
Amory....................   63k
Archery  Bunting...  4 
Beaver Dam  A A ..  43k
Blackstone O, 32__5
Black Crow............ 6
Black  Rock  ...........  53k
Boot, All................  7
Capital  A ................5 Vi
Cavanat V..............554
Chapman cheese cl.  35k
Clifton  C R ............ 5V4
Comet..................... 6
Dwight Star............  6 Vi
Clifton CCC...........  5*

BLEACHED  COTTONS.

Nolbe R..................5
Our Level  Best...... 6
Oxford  R ...............   6
Pequot....................   7
Solar....................... 6
Top of the  Heap__7
Geo.  Washington...  8
A B C ......................834
Amazon.................. 8
Glen Mills..............  7
Gold Medal............   7V4
A m s b u r g ........................6
Green  Ticket......... 8)4
Art  Cambrlc...........10
Blackstone AA......7Vi
Great Falls............. 6>4
Hope....................... 7J4
Beats AU................   4
Just  Out........4V£@ 5
Boston....................12
King  Phillip...........  7*
Cabot......................   6Vi
OP....... 7 Vi
Cabot,  X.................  65k
Charter  Oak...........5Vi
Lonsdale Cambric.. 10
Conway W..............  75* ¡Lonsdale...........  @  83k
Cleveland.............  6  ¡Middlesex........   @5
Dwight Anchor—   8 
No Name................   7 Vi
shorts  8
Oak View...............   6
Our Own.................. 5Vi
Edwards................. 6
Pride of the WeBt.. .12
Empire...................  7
Farwell....................7V4;Rosallnd.....................7)4
Fruit of the  Loom.  8  ¡Sunlight................  4Vi
Utica  Mills............ 8Vi
FitchvUle  ............  7
“  Nonpareil  ..10
First Prize..............  6
Vlnyard..................  8 Vi
Fruit of the Loom 
7 Vi
White Horse...........6
Falrmount..............  414
“  Rock............ 8Vi
Full Value..............  6*
8
Cabot......................  6Vi I Dwight Anchor
Farwell...................7h |

HALF  BLEACHED  COTTONS.

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CANTON  FLANNEL.

Unbleached. 

Housewife  A...........5)4

Bleached.

Housewife  Q........... 6V4
R..........7
S  ..........75£
T ..........8 Vi
U............#J4
V........... 10
W..........1054
X..........llVi
Y..........12V4
Z........... 13V4

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G G  Cashmere.

Peerless, white... 
colored.

Integrity  colored... 18 
White Star..............17
.  ..18V4
“  colored.. 19
DBE88 GOODS.
...  8 Nameless................20
“ 
.................25
...  9
.  -10)4
“ 
.................27)4
...20
................ 30
“ 
...16
“ 
.................32)4
“ 
.................35
...18
Coraline..................19 SOlWonderful......... $4 50
Schilling’s .............   9 00 Brighton..................... 4 75
Davis  Waists  ....  9  00 Bortree’s ..................  9 00
Grand  Rapids......  4  501 Abdominal............15 00
Armory..................   6Vi|Naumkeagsatteen..  7Vi
Androscoggin.........7)41 Rock port.................... 6vi
Blddeford.............  6  Conestoga.................7V4
Brunswick..............6V4|Walworth.................. 654
Allen turkey  reds..  5V4IBerwick fancies—   5Vi

COBSET  JEANS.

COBS ETS.

PRINTS.

To C o rn er C olum bian  S tam ps.

It is reported  that  an  effort  is  being 
made on  the  quiet  to  get  a  corner  on 
some of  the  rarer  issues  of the  Colum­
bian  stamps, 
in  view  of the suspension 
of their publication,  to  make  collectors 
pay a big price for  them  in  the  future. 
It is said that some  time  ago  when  the 
government  was about to discontinue the 
issue  of  10-cent  stamped  envelopes,  a 
smart New York dealer undertook to run 
a corner  on  them,  and  ascertaining  by 
surreptitious means,  when the issuing of 
the envelopes would cease, he bought the 
whole  stock  on  hand,  some  10.000 and 
issued a circular  notifying  dealers  that 
after  a  certain  date  these  envelopes 
could be had  only from him,  and  at  an 
exhorbitant price.  So many  complaints 
reached the  Department  that it ordered 
the printing ot  another  issue of  50,000, 
and notified the  complainants  that  they 
could get all  they  wanted  from  the De­
partment at the usual price.  The enter­
prising  worker  of  the  corner  spent  a 
good  while  kicking  himself 
for  not 
having sense enough to keep  his  mouth 
shut.

M oney  N eeded  on   B oth Sides.

From the Town  Topics.

Old  Lawyer—It  won’t  pay you to try 
Young  Lawyer—Bat  it  is  valid,  and 
Old  Lawyer—Bnt the creditor has noth­

to collect that  debt.
the debtor is wealthy.
ing.

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Eink * purple 5Vi Charter Oak fancies 4Vi

robes...........  5 Vi Clyde  Robes...........
tiffs 
pink  checks.  5V4| 
staples........5
shirtings 
American  fancy 
American indigo 
A m e r ic a n  shirtings.  8Vi I Hamilton fancy.
Argentine  Grays 
I Anehor Shirtings..  4 
“  —   6
1 Arnold 
Arnold  Merino 
...  6 
“ 
long cloth B.  9Vi 
“  C.  7Vt
“ 
“  century cloth  7
“  gold seal. 
.. lOVi
“  green seal TR lOVi 
“  yellow seal..10)4
“  serge.............U *
“  Turk<.„’ red .  lOVi
•« 

.........  5Vi|DelMarine cashm’s.  5Vi
mourn’g  5Vi
Eddy stone  fancy...  5V4
chocolat  5V4
rober  ...  5Vi
s a teen b..  5V6
5X
s t a p l e ___ 5 vi
Manchester  fancy..  5Vi 
new era.  5V4 
Merrimack D fancy.  5Vi 
Merrim’ck shirtings.  4 
Repp furn .  8Vi
Pacific fancy  .........5Vi
robes............  6
Portsmouth robes...  6Vi 
Simpson mourning..  554
greys........  554
solid black.  554 
Washington Indigo.  6Vi 
B a llo n   s o lid   D la c k ..
colora.
“  Turkey robes..  7M
“  India robes__ 7 Vi
Bengal blue,  green, 
“  plain Tky X Vi  8Vi 
rea and  orange  ..  6
Berlin solide..........   5Vi
“ 
“  X...10
“  Ottoman  Tur­
“  oU bine....... 66
« 
“  green
key red  ...............  6 vi
Martha Washington
“  Foulards 
5Vt
Turkeyred 54___7V4
7 
“ 
red 54  ...
9Vi I Martha Washington
“  X  ...
“ 
•• 
“  44 
.
Turkeyred.......... 9Vi
10
Rlverpomtrobes....  5Vi
“ 
“  8-4XXXX 12
Windsor fancy........6Vi
Cocheco fancy........  5
“  madders...  5
“  XXtwills..  5
Indigo blue.........10V4
Harmony................  4V4
“ 
solids.........5
AC A....................12)4
Amoakeag A C A.... 12Vi
Pemberton AAA— 16
Hamilton N  .............7
York.......................lOVi
D..............8
Swift River............   7Vi
Awning.. 11
Pearl  River............12
Farmer......................8
Warren...................12)4
First Prise..............10)4
Con os tog a ............. 16
Lenox M ills........... 18
Atlanta,  D..............  654¡Stark  A 
........... 8
Boot........................  654 No  Name............... 7Vi
9
Clifton, K...............   7  ¡Top of Heap 

gold  ticket

COTTON  DRILL.

TICKINGS.

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T H h!  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.
Dry Goods Price Current.

DEVINS.

UNBLEACHED  COTTONS.

“ 

Amoskeag................ 12
9os....... 14
brown .14
Andover..................... 11 Vi
Beaver Creek AA... 10 
BB...  9
CC....
Boston Mfg Co. b r..  7 

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blue  8Vi 
“  d a  twist lOVi 
Columbian XXX br.10 
XXX  bl.19

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Columbian  brown.. 12
Everett, blue..........12 Vi
brown......12Vi
Haymaker bine..... 754
brown...  754
Jeffrey................... llVi
Lancaster  ..............12 Vi
Lawrence, 9 os.......13 Vi
»  No. 220....13
“  No. 250. ...11V4
»  No. 280-...10V4

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Lancaster,  staple...  5V( 

Amoskeag................ 6)4
“  Persian dress  6V»
Canton ..  7
“ 
AFC.........8 Vi
“ 
Teazle... lOVi 
“ 
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Angola. 10 Vi 
“ 
Persian..  7
Arlington staple__654
Arasapha  fancy__454
Bates Warwick dres  7Vi 
staples.  6
Centennial............   10 Vi
Criterion  ...............10)4
Cumberland  staple.  5)4
Cumberland........... 5
Essex........................4Vi
Elfin.......................   7Vi
Everett classics......8Vi
Exposition................7V4
Glenarie.................  614
Glenarven................ 654
Glenwood.................7)4
Hampton.................5
Job nson Chalon cl  Vi 
Indigo blue 9Vi 
zephyrs__16  i

GINGHAMS.
fancies ....  7 
“ 
“  Normandie  7
Lancashire.............   6
Manchester............   554
Monogram..............  6 Vi
Normandie............  7
Persian...................   7
Renfrew Dress........7V4
Rosemont...............   6Vi
Slatersville............ 6
Somerset.................7
Tacoma  .................7V4
Toll  dnNord.........   8Vi
Wabash.................. 7V4
seersucker..  7*
Warwick...............   6
Whlttenden............   8
heather dr.  7Vi 
Indigo bine 9 
Wamsutta staples...  654
Westbrook..............8
............10
Wlndermeer...........   5
York  ......................654

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GRAIN  BAGS.

Amoskeag................14
Stark......................  19
American.................14  |  ..............................

¡Georgia.................. 14

THREADS.

Clark’s Mile End....45  ¡Barbour's.................95
Coats’, J. & P .......... 45  Marshall’s.................90
Holyoke..................22Vil
White.  Colored.
38 No.  14... ....37
“  16...
39
38
...39
40
“  18...
“  20... ....40
41

White.  Colored
42
43
44
45

KNITTING  COTTON.

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

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

No.

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

Edwards................  4
Lockwood................ 4
Wood’s ..................   4
Brunswick...........   4

RED  FLANNEL.

Fireman................. 32 Vi
Creedmore..............27Vi
Talbot XXX........... 30
Nameless................27 Vi

T W ........................22 Vi
F T ............ ............. 82 Vi
J R F ,  X X X ............... 36
Buckeye.................82Vt

MIXED  FLANNEL.

“ 

CANVASS  AND  F  ADDINO.
9)4 
10) 4 
11) 4 
12) 4

Grey SR W............17VÍ
Red & Blue,  plaid. .40
Western W  .............18*
Union R ................. 22Vi
D R P ............ .........18VÍ
Windsor..................18VÍ
Flushing XXX.......23 Vi
6 oz Western...........20
Union  B.................22V4lManitoba................ 23Vi
DO VET  FLANNEL.
“ 
......   9  @10V4
Nameless...... 8  @  9Vi| 
“ 
8Vi@10  I 
...... 
12VÍ
Black.
Slate
Brown.
Brown.  Black.
10) 4
10)4
954
10)4
10)4
11) 4 
1D4
11*12
UK
12
12
12)4 20 
20
20
DUCKS.

Slate.
9Vi
10)4
11) 412) 4
Severen.8 oz..........   9)4
May land, 8 oz......... 10)4
Greenwood, 7V4 oz..  9)4 
Greenwood, 8 oz — 11)4 
Boston, 8 oz.............10)4
White, doz..............25  ¡Per bale, 40 doz__ 18 50
Colored, doz...........20  ¡Colored  “ 
..........7 50
SILKSIAB.
8 
Pawtucket...............10)4
Slater, Iron Cross 
9
Dandle...................   9
“  Red Cross.
Bedford.................. 10)4
“  Best................10)4
Valley  City.............10)4
“  Best  AA........ 12)4
K K ......................... 10)4
L ................................7)4
G ................................ 8)4
CortlceUl, doz..........86  ¡Cordcelll  knitting,

West  Point, 8 oz— 10)4 
10 oz  ...12)4
“ 
Raven, lOoz.............13)4
 
13)4
Stark 
Boston, 10 oz........... 12)4

SEWING  BILK.

WADDINGS.

..12 
8 
..12  I “  10 

tw ist,doz..40 
50yd,doz..40  I
HOOKS AND ETNS—PER GROSS.
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per )4oz  ball........ 30
No  1 Bl’k A White..10  ¡No  4 Bl’k A White..15 
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..20
•• 
.  25
|No4—15  J   8)4......... 40
PINS.
N o 2—20, M C.......... 50 
•  8-18, S C ............45 
|
COTTON  TAPE.
|No  8 White A Bl’k.,20 
No  2 White A Bl’k.,12 
“ 
..15 
“  10 
.28
..18  I “  12 
..26
“ 
SAFETY  FINS.

No 2...........................28  INoS............................36

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2 
8 

4 
6 

NEEDLES— PER  V .

A. Jam es.................. 1  40| Steamboat.................  40
Crowelv’s.................1  85 Gold  Eyed......................1 50
M arshall's................1 OOjAmerican........................1 00
5—4 ....  1  75  6—4... 

|5—4 —  1  65  6—4...2 30

TABLE  OIL  CLOTH.

COTTON TWINES.

Cotton Sail Twine.. 28
Crown................... 12
Domestic...............18*
Anchor..................16
Bristol...................18
Cherry  Valley.......15
I XL...................... 18)4
Alabama...................65k
Alamance.................6)4
Augusta...................7)4
Ar  sapha 
Georgia.....................6)4
G ranite..................  55k
Haw  River............ 5
Haw  J ....................  6

...........6

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

Mount  Pleasant__ 6)4
Oneida....................5
Prymont...............   55k
Randelman.............6
Riverside...............   5)4
Sibley  ▲.................  6)4
Toledo 
Otis checks.............75k

..........

PLAID  OSNABURGB

M enti  Maler

Catarrh, 
Hay Fever, 
Headache,
Neuralgia,  Colds.  Sore  Threat.

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

Prevents and cures

On cars or boat.

Sea  Sickness
The  cool  exhllerating  sensation 

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

H.  D.  CUSHMAN. Manufacturer.
Guaranteed  satisfactory.

Three  Rivers,  Mich.

In  large  or 
small quan­
tities. Guar- 
anteedright 
in  every re­
spect.
Tradesman  Company,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

c

EATON,  LYON  &  CO,

NEW STYLES  OF

w  a  •

r   *  y

w  *

Ge Sint

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,  MICH.

Your  Bank Account Solicited.

Kent  County  Savings Bank,

GRAND  RAPIDS. ,MICH.

J no.  A. CovoDsJPres.

H e n r y   I d e v a , Vice-Pres.

J.  A.  S.  V e r d ie b ,  Cashier.

K. V an H o f, Ass’t C’s’r. 

Transacts a General Banking  Business. 

Interest  Allowed  on  Time  and  Sayings 

Deposits.

DIRECTORS:

Jno. A. Covode, D. A. Blodgett,  E. Crofton Fox, 
T. J. O’Brien,  A. J. Bowne,  Henry Idema, 
Jno.W. Blodgett,J. A. McKee, 
J. A. S. Verdier.
Deposits  Exoeed  One {Million  Dollars.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,

7

THE  QUESTION OF  PAINTS.

Written for Thb Tradesman.

The hardware man is, to-day,  expected 
to  carry a  stock  of  paints  and  oils—at 
least  a  few  staples  such  as white lead 
ground  in  oil,  whiting,  putty,  linseed 
oil,  and  the  more  common  colors. 
In 
most  communities,  however,  he carries 
more than these few  simples; he handles 
a line  of  ready-mixed  paints,  and also 
the usual  brushes and  other  implements 
needed for  their  proper  application  at 
the  hands  of  either  professional  or 
amateur painters.

This ready-mixed paint busiuess is the 
natural  outgrowth  of  modern  business 
methods,  whereby  the  various processes 
formerly performed  by  each  individual 
for  himself  are  now  done by  some effi­
cient  manufacturer,  who,  by  means of 
improved 
increased  skill, 
and  the handling of  large  quantities,  is 
enabled  to  produce  better  results with 
less cost of time and  labor,  the  product 
being  more  uniform,  of  better quality, 
and of smaller  price.

appliances, 

The  usual  rules  of  trade  prove  that 
demand prompts supply. 
In  the case of 
ready-mixed paints,  however,  it is more 
the  case  of  supply  creating  demand. 
There have been,  and  always will  be,  in 
every  community,  a  large  number  of 
people  who,  from one motive  or another, 
prefer  to  do  their  own painting.  For­
merly,  they  went  to  the paint  shop for 
their  supplies.  There  they  got  their 
color  mixed  to  a  tint  somewhere about 
what  they  wanted,  and  borrowed  the 
pots and  brushes with  which  to  do  the 
work

To-day,  the  facility  with  which  one 
can  obtain  paint  of  the  proper  consist­
ency, just the right tint,  and  in conven­
ient  packages  ready  to  use,  has  stim­
ulated  an  ever-increasing  demand  for 
these goods.

Use sometimes  brings  abuse—it has in 
this  case.  The first ready-mixed  paints, 
it is safe  to  say,  were  honest,  durable 
paints,  in  proper  oils,  and  rightly  pro­
portioned and blended.  There was value 
in them—value of the  materials,  of  the 
work, of the skill, and  of  the  manufac­
turer’s capital.  They  cost  money,  and 
as  the  trade  grew  in  proportions  the 
teudency increased to cheapen the  qual­
ity  if,  by  so  doing,  the  price could be 
lowered to a point below that of  compet­
ing manufacturers.

them 

to  recommend 

the  user  except  their 

Then adulterations came into use, and, 
to-day,  there  are  paints  which  have 
to  the 
nothing 
dealer  or 
low 
price.  They neither look  well nor wear 
well,  hut they sell  well—that’s the point. 
The wily  manufacturer,  by  cheapening 
his product, can  afford to put a gorgeous 
label upon the can, can  make  his  pack­
ages attractive,  and  can  advertise  them 
extensively—that's the  story.  He  gives 
his goods some  high-sounding name,  and 
he advertises them. 
Possibly  his goods 
will not bear out one-fifth  of the  praises 
aud  promises  printed on  the  labels  and 
in  the  newspapers,  but  that  makes  no 
difference—they sell well.

The  question  for the hardware dealer 
to decide  is  this: 
“Shall I carry a  line 
of ready-mixed  paints which are well  ad­
vertised but of questionable  quality,  or, 
shall I carry a good grade of pure  paints 
which  perhaps  are  not  so.  well  adver­
tised?” 
That  is  the  way  a  hardware 
man  put it  recently.  The  answer  was 
given  in  true Yankee  style—it  was this: 
.‘Are you in business for  a year,  or for a |

lifetime?  Are you  working  for  money 
or for reputation?”

The man  who sells the cheapest goods 
will  always  command  the  trade of  the 
cheapest people. 
Is  this cheapest trade 
desirable? 
If so, get poor quality goods, 
if  they  can  be  sold at a less price than 
others.  Are  you  catering  for trade on 
the principle that you  must  cheat  your 
man this time for  you’ll  never  see  him 
again? 
If so, get  gaudy packages of un­
reliable paints.  Are  you in  business  for 
this year only?  Then carry some widely- 
advertised but  comparatively  worthless 
goods.

There  is  a  temptation  to  follow this 
advice  in  the  particular  line  of  goods 
of which  this  article  treats,  because  it 
requires  some  time  to  show the worth­
lessness  of  paints.  The  poor  tool  is 
quickly  proved  valueless,  but  paint  is 
bought for wear,  and  it  may  not  show 
its good-for-nothingness for some months, 
a time  long enough  to  be  mistaken,  by 
some people,  for eternity.  The steadfast 
merchant  will  choose  the  other  kind— 
those brands upon  which he can  rely.  He 
is in business for keeps.  He knows that 
poor goods are a  delusion  and  a  snare, 
dear  at any price.  He knows that fool­
ing the public never  pays;  so  he  ascer­
tains,  by careful enquiry,  what is a good 
brand  of  ready-mixed  paints,  with the 
guarantee of the manufactures.  Having 
chosen  such  a  brand,  he  sticks  to  it, 
guarantees  it,  and builds up trade upon 
it.

This article might end here,  and  with 
the usual  moral; but a well-known  hard­
ware man in a large city claims that both 
sides  of  this  question are proper,  prac­
ticable and profitable.  There are many 
dealers who carry two brands,  he claims 
—one  which  can  be  guaranteed,  and 
another  which  is  likely  to sell  well on 
account  of  its  cheapness.  With  two 
such  brands  the  dealer  can sell  which­
ever  the  customer  prefers—good goods 
or cheap goods.  He can honestly recom­
mend  one,  or  will  sell  the other,  if the 
customer’s purse and judgment are  both 
slim.

This last course is not advised from an 
ethical  standpoint,  but,  as  a  matter of 
business,  it  has  its advantages.  Strad­
dling the fence may not  be graceful,  but 
may serve to maintain  a  firmer  founda­
tion than any other position.

Geo.  E.  B.  P utnam.

Boston,  Mass.
Starting to heaven on  a  gravestone  is 

risky business.

If every man  would  commence  to  re­
form  the  world  by  reforming  himself, 
the  work  would  be  ac­
how  quickly 
complished.

Hardware Price Current.

AUGURS AND BITS. 

These  prices are  for cash  buyers,  who 
pay promptly  and  buy in  full  packages.
Snell’s ................................................................  
60
Cook's................................................................  
40
Jennings’, genuine..........................................  
25
Jennings’,  Im itation....................................... 50410
First Quality, S. B. Bronze............................. $700
D.  B. Bronze............................ as 00
S. B. S. Steel..................................  8 00
D. B. Steel.....................................   13 SO

AXES.

“ 
* 
* 

dig.

BARROWS. 

dig.

dig.

bolts. 

........................................................$  14 00
Railroad 
Garden 
.................................................   net  80 00
Stove.................................................................... 50410
Carriage new list 
........................................... 75410
Plow..................... 
40410
Sleigh shoe........................................................ 
70
Well,  plain  ...................................................... $ 8  50
Well. *w*vi»i 
4 00
dig.
Cast Loose Pin, figured....................................704
Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint................004.0

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

BUTTS. CAST. 

BUCKETS.

 

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

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

Ordinary Tackle, list April  1893................60410

Grain......................................................dig. 50408 I

CRADLES.

CROW BARS.

Cast Steel............................................ per lb 
5
Bly’s 1-10.............................................per m  66
Hick’s C. F .........................................  
60
“ 
G. D ....................................................   “ 
85
Musket................................................ 
" 
60

CARTRIDGES.

Rim  Fire...................................................... 
Central  Fire..........................................dls. 

50
25

dls.

dls.

chisels. 

combs. 

Socket Firmer.............................................  75410
Socket Framing............................................75410
Socket Corner............................................... 75410
Socket Slicks............................................... 75410
Butchers'Tanged Firmer............................ 
40

Curry,  Lawrence’s ...................................   . 
40
Hotchkiss..................................................... 
25
White Crayons, per  gross..............12©12* dls. 10

CHALK.

COPPER.

“ 

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

drills. 

 

dls.

DRIPPING pans.

Small sizes, ser pound................................  
Large sizes, per  pound................................  

28
26
23
23
25
50
50
50

07
6)4

elbows.

Com. 4  piece, 6 In............................doz. net 
75
Corrugated........................................... dls 
40
Adjustable............................................ dls. 40410
dls.
EXPANSIVE  BITS.
Clark’s, small, $18;  large, $26......
30
Ives’, 1, $18:  2, $24;  3,$30.............
25
files—New List.
dls.
Dlsston’s .......................................
.60410
New American  ............................
.60410
Nicholson’s ..................................
.60410
Heller’s .........................................
50
Heller’s Horse Rasps  ..................
GO
GALVANIZED IRON.

13 

12 

15 

dls.

28
17

Discount, 60

locks—door. 

knobs—New List. 

14 
gauges. 

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

Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s ........................ 
50
Door, mineral, jap. trim m ings...................... 
55
55
Door,  porcelain, jap, trimming«................... 
55
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings...............  
Door,  porcelain, trimmings........................... 
55
70
Drawer  and  Shutter, porcelain....................  
Russell 4  Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new l i s t ..........  
55
55
Mallory, Wheeler  4   Co.’s ..............................  
55
Branford’s ........................................................ 
Norwalk’s ......................................................... 
  55
Adze Bye.............................................$16.00, dls. 60
Hunt Bye.............................................$15.00, dls. 60
Hunt’s ..........................................$18.50, dls. 20410.
dls.
so
Speiry 4  Co.’s, Post,  handled........   ............  
dls.
40
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s ....................................... 
“  P. S. 4  W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables__  
40
“  Landers,  Ferry 4  Cle rk’s ................... 
40
“   Enterprise 
.........................................  
80
Stebbln’s  Pattern..............................................60410
Stebbln’s Genuine............................................ 60410
BnterprlBe, self-measuring............................. 
25
Advance over  base,  on  both  Steel  and Wire.

MOLASSES GATES. 

MAULS. 
mills. 

MATTOCKS.

NAILS

dls.

Steel nails, Dase........................................................ 1 50
Wire nails, base........................................................ 1 50
Base
60......................................................... Base 
SO...........................................................  
10
40...........................................................  
25
25
30...........................................................  
20...........................................................  
35
16...........................................................  
45
12...........................................................  
45
50
10........................................................... 
60
8............................................................. 
7 4 6 ......................................................  
75
90
4............................................................. 
1  20
8............................................................. 
1  60
2............................................................. 
Fine 8 ............................................................ 
Case  10................................................. 
65
75
8.................................................  
90
6........................................ 
75
Finish 10..............................................  
90
8................................................ 
6........................................................ 
70
Clinch; 10.............................................. 
80
8.............................................. 
90
6.............................................. 
Barrel! %......... 
175
 
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fan cy ...................................   ©40
Sdota  Bench.................................................  
S 50
Sandusky Tool  Co.’s, fancy...........................   ©40
Bench, first quality..........................................  ©40
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s  wood............ 50410
Fry,  Acme.................................................dls.60—10
70
Common,  polished................................... dls. 
Iron and  Tinned.............................................. 
40
Copper Rivets and Burs................................  50—10

1 
1 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

PLANES. 

rivets. 

PAMS.

dls.

dlS.

 

 

PATENT PLANISHED IRON.

“A” Wood’s patent planished. Nos. 24 to 27  10 2u 
“B” Wood’s  pat. planished,N os.25 to 27...  9 20 

Broken packs s o  per pound extra.

HAMMERS.

“ 
“ 

dls.

,  „  

HINGES.

HANGERS. 

HOLLOW WARE.

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS.

2»
Maydole  4  Co.’s........................................dls. 
25
KIP’S............................................................dig. 
Yerkes 4  Plumb’s .....................................dls. 40410
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.......................... 80c list 60
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steel  Hand.  ..80c40410
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2, 3 .................................dls.60410
State............................................... per doz. net, 2 50
Screw Hook  and  Strap, to 12 In. 4)4  14  and
3*
longer............................................................. 
Screw Hook and  Bye, 14.......................... net 
10
%...........................net 
8)4
%...........................net 
7)4
%...........................net 
_ 
7)4
Strap and T ................................................dls. 
50
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track__ 50410
Champion,  antl-frlctlon................................  60410
Kidder, wood tra c k ......................................... 
40
Pots.....................................................................60416
Kettles......................................................... 
  60410
Spiders  .............................................................. 60410
Gray enameled..................................................40410
Stamped  Tin W are..................................new list 70
Japanned Tin W are.................................... 
25
Granite Iron W are....................... new list 38)4410
B lig h t......................................................  70410410
Screw  Byes................................................. 70410410
Hook’s ..........................................................70410410
Gate Hooks and Byes........................ 
70410410
<Hs.7n
Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s ........................
Sisal, )4 Inch aud la rg e r................................  
7)4
Manilla..............................................................  
jj
dls.
Steel and  Iron..................................................  
Try and Bevels..................................... 
 
M itre..............................................................;; 
_  
Nos. 10 to  14..........................................$4  05 
Nos. 15 to 17...........................................4  05 
Nos.  18 to 21.......................................  405 
Nos. 22 to 24...........................................4  05 
Nos. 25 to 26...........................................4  25 
N o.27.................................................. 4  45 
wide not less than 2-10 extra
List acct. 19, ’86  ........................................dls. 
Silver Lake, White A ............................ 

75
«0
80
Com.  Smooth.  Com.
$2 95
8 05
8 05
8  15
825
8 85
All  sheets No. 18  and  lighter,  over 30  Inches 

SAND PAPER.
SASH CORD.

levels. 
ROPES.

wire goods. 

SHEET IRON.

squAREs. 

dls.

 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Drab A ....................................  “ 
White  B ..................................   • 
D rabB .....................................  “ 
White C.................................... ** 

50
list  50
55
50
55
35

Discount, 10.

SASH WEIGHTS.

dls.

saws. 

traps. 

H and............................................  

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

8olld Byes.................................................per ton $25
20
70
50
80
30
Steel, Game........................................................60410
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ........................85
Oneida  Community, Hawley a Norton’s 
70
Mouse,  choker....................................... 18c per doz
Mouse, delusion.................................. $1.50 per doz
diS.
Bright M arket...................................................  55
Annealed Market..................................... '..'..".70—10
Coppered M arket........................................ 60
Tinned Market........................................................."  62)4
Coppered  Spring  Steel...........................................go
Barbed  Fence, galvanized................................ 2 60

WIRE. 

dig.

painted........................................  2 20

“ 

HORSE NAILS.

wrenches. 

40410
Au  Sable................................................dls. 
dls.  06
.........................................  
dls. 10410
Northwestern...................................  
dls
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled...................... 
30
Coe’s  G enuine................................................. 
50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought........  
75
Coe’s  Patent, malleable..................................75410
dls.
Bird C ages.......................................................  
50
Pumps, Cistern............................................ 
75410
70410
Screws, New List....................................... 
Casters, Bed  a  d Plate.............................50410416
Dampers,  American........................................  
40
Forks, hoes, rakes  and all steel goods.......  65410

MISCELLANEOUS. 

METALS,
PIG TIN.

26c
28c

uno.

SOLDER.

Pig  Large.........................................................  
Pig Bars............................................................  
Duty:  Sheet, 2)4c per pound.
680 pound  casks...............................................  
gv
Per  pound........................................................] 
7
)4© H..........................................................................
Extra W iping...................................................... 
jj
The  prices  of  the  many  other  qualities  of 
solder In the market Indicated by nrivate brand» 
vary according to composition.
ANTIMONY
1 60
Cookson............................................per  pound
Hallett’s .......................................... 
TIN—MELYN GRADE.
10x14 IC, Charcoal............................................$  7 50
“ 
14x20 IC, 
............................................  7 5j
10x14 IX,  « 
............................................  g 26
1 10
14X20IX, 
“ 
.....................................   ...  9 25
TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE.
“ 
“ 
“ 

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

Bach additional X on this grade, $1.75.

75
6  75
8  25
9  25

Bach additional X on this grade $1.50.

13

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ROOFING PLATES

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“  Worcester.................... ........  6  Go
14x20IC, 
.............................  8  50
“ 
14x20 EX, 
“ 
20x28 IC, 
...........................   13  50
6  00
"  Allaway  Grade................. 
14x2010, 
7  50
“ 
14x20 IX, 
" 
12  50
20x28 IC, 
20x28 IX, 
“ 
15  50
BOILER SIZE TIE FLATS.
14x28 IX ...............................................................$14 00
14x81  IX........................................... 
16  00
^
14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers, I 
' >per pound....  10 00
14x60IX,  “ 

“  9 

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8

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

tive institutions at  Harvard  University, 
I the University  of  Pennsylvania,  Johns 
Hopkins,  Princeton,  the  University  of 
I Michigan,  the  universities  of  Virginia, 
Nebraska,  and  Wisconsin, Cornell,  Yale 
and Vassar.  At none  of these,  it would 
appear,  has tne panic of  1893  served  to 
prevent an  increase of attendance.

It is held by prominent  educators who 
who have given attention to  college  sta­
tistics,  both  in this country  and  in  Eu­
rope,  that  periods  of  financial  depres­
sion are rather favorable  than otherwise 
to attendance at educational institutions.
If this be  so,  it  is  in  all  probability 
due to the conviction by many  men that, 
in  view of the fleeting  nature  of  riches 
and  the  extremely 
insecure  basis  and 
conditions  of  many  sorts  of  financial 
business, an education is  the  most  cer­
tain and  reliable  legacy  a  father  can 
In many respects this is 
leave his suns. 
a wise view of the subject,  and 
it  is  to 
be hoped that the  young  men will  profit 
by 
the  advanteges  given  them  in  the 
premises.

THE  OUTBREAK  OF  ANARCHY.
“ Reform”  is a  favorite word with  all 
who wish good to  the  human  race, 
to I 
their country,  to  their  fellows,  in 
the 
State and city.  “ Reform” is  echoed  by 
the professional  politician,  who  seeks, 
by using a pretense of virtue  and  bene­
faction,  to forward  his  own  personal 
schemes.

to  advance 

Never  was there a  term  which  means 
something good and honest  more abused 
and  prostituted.  To effect  a  reform  of 
human society,  of  methods  of  govern­
ment, of the administration of  civil  and 
criminal  laws, of political  and  financial 
systems,  and 
the  general 
good of the laboring classes,  and to  mit­
igate the miseries of the poor,  have ever 
been the most desired objects  of  philan­
thropists and statesmen of  the  broadest 
views. 
In order to carry  them  out,  all 
sorts  of  socialistic  schemes  involving 
equality  and  community  of  property 
and rights  have  been  proposed.  They 
have been either purely  secular, or they 
have been  mixed  with  religious  tenets. 
Some of  them  have  been  imbued  with 
the  highest  morality,  and  some  have 
been utterly gross  and  licentious.  The 
history of political economy is  a history 
of  wrecked  schemes  for  the  ameliora­
tion of the human condition and  for  es­
tablishing human equality.

A1J such attempts have  been  wretched 
reformer 
failures.  Every  great  social 
has, if he  lived  long  enough,  seen 
the 
downfall of all  his  noble  plans.  They 
commenced  twenty-odd  centuries  ago 
with the  Greek  Plato’s “Republic,”  and 
to-day the world is  full  of  injustice, of 
poverty, of crime and of  selfishness,  and 
so extreme is  the  dissatisfacton  at  ex­
isting conditions that  now  the  Anarch­
ists and the Nihilists in  Europe  and  in 
this country are seeking  to  destroy  so­
ciety  in despair of being able  to  reform 
it. 
In some countries  they are trying to 
kill off monarchs and  princes;  in France 
their anger and  resentment  are  leveled 
at  the  middle  class. 
In  this  country 
rich men and public officials are the com­
mon objects of their hate.

The causes of this failure, of  this vast 
succession of failures, in  a philanthropic 
work have always  been  the  same. 
In­
ordinate  and  universal  human  selfish­
ness is at the  bottom  of  every wrecked 
scheme.  Men are not  equal  in  respect 
to their talents,  abilities,  and  qualities,

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W EnSElDAT.  FEBHC1RV  28.  1894.
CORRUPT  TAX  ASSESSMENTS.
The Chicago Times is engaged in a  war 
upon  the tax assessors of the Windy City. 
It claims that the  assessors  appraise tfce 
property  of  rich  men  at  a  tenth  to  a 
twentieth of  its value,  while the proper­
ty of poor men  is assessed  at  one-fourth 
to one-half its  value.

The  charges  of  the  Times  are  illus­
trated  with object  lessons  from  the  tax 
rolls,  cuts  of  the  property  in  question 
being given.  One of  these  examples  is 
the Masonic Temple,  an enormous build­
ing. twenty stories  high  and  covering  a 
block of ground. 
Its actual  value  is de­
clared  to be 84.000.000.  but it is  assessed 
for taxation at 8250,000, one-sixteenth of 
its real  worth.  Contrasted  with  it  is  a 
building  said  to  be  worth  84,500,  but 
assessed  for  taxation  at  81,100,  about 
one-fourth of its  real  value.  The  Times 
declares that the above is  a  fair  picture 
of the assessment  books of that city,  and 
expresses 
the  belief  that  bribery  and 
perjury  mark  every  page  of- those  tax 
rolls. 
It avers that  the wealthy  classes 
are not  paying  one-third  of  their  just 
proportion  of 
the  taxes,  while  small 
property  owners  are  paying  from  one- 
half to one-third more than their propor­
tion.

The  Times  expresses  the  belief  that 
these evils can only  be  remedied  by the 
abolition  of 
town  assessors,  the  cre­
ation of a board of revision having power 
to givover and  revise  individual  assess­
ments,  and  the creation of penalties that 
will  make  perjury  and  bribery  in  the 
making  out  of  tax  returns  exceedingly 
unfashionable  and  dangerous.  When 
tax assessors go into  office  poor,  and  at 
the end of one  term  come  ont  rich,  bri­
bery and corruption must be  rife  among 
them.
PANIC  YEARS  AND  EDUCATION.
It is claimed, on  the  basis  of  a  state­
ment published in the  Ann  Arbor  Uni­
versity  Record, that  the  attendance  at 
the leading  educational  institutions  of 
the  United  States  for  the  session  of 
1893-4 has  not been  noticeably  affected 
by the fact that  the year has been one of 
unusual financial  panic.

This conclusion is said to be  based  on 
definite statistics from  such  representa-1

I and there is  no  reason  to  believe  that 
they ever can be.  What is more  to  the 
purpose,  nobody  wishes  them  to  be. 
Even  the  reformers  themselves  do  not 
propose to raise the entire race  to  their 
own level,  but to that of some other per­
son.  The  apostles  of  reform  wish  to 
occupy superior places, positions of con­
trol.  Every  scheme  of  socialism  pro­
poses that there shall  be a superior,  des­
potic domination  somewhere.  Men  can 
only be governed  by  force,  not  by  ap­
pealing to their sense of  right  and  jus­
tice, or  by  recognizing 
to 
some sort of equality.

their  title 

In every social system 

there  must  be 
men who refuse  to work, or  to  contrib­
ute anything  to  the  common  welfare. 
In every human society  there  are  crim­
inals and people  of  criminal  tendency, 
who  are  constantly  blots,  ulcers,  and 
terrible moral diseases on the  body  pol­
itic.  A socialistic scheme  that  did  not 
i /  de  a means of forcing the  idlers  to 
work, or to punish  and restrain  the  de­
praved classes,  would be at  their mercy. 
No means have been  proposed  to  make 
all the men and women  honest,  virtuous 
and industrious.  These are  the  drones 
that destroy  every  extended  system  of 
social  equality  aud  co-operation.  An 
iron despotism of penal  law is  required 
to keep these  classes  in  restraint,  and 
then  it  is  unreliable,  because  the  ad­
ministrators of  the laws  and  the wield- 
ers of authority are too often on the  side 
of the criminal  and depraved.

rise 

into 

Then  there  are  personal  talents,  en­
ergies  and  ambitions  that  operate  ex­
tensively  to  overthrow  socialistic  con­
ditions.  Men 
intellectual 
prominence, 
into  wealth  and  political 
position  over  their  fellows,  violating 
every day the  cherished  notion  of  per­
sonal  equality.  Under  these  facts  of 
human nature,  any  system  of  pure  so­
cialism is impossible,  and  the  dreamers 
are  coming  to  that  conclusion.  The 
Christain  religion  was,  doubtless,  in­
tended, and in spirit is  able, to make all 
men good  and  virtuous,  and worthy,  at 
least, to be equals;  but  as  it  has  been 
administered in the  past  eighteen  hun­
dred years it has not  attained  any  such 
happy result.

This extraordinary outburst of anarch­
ism is the last  expression  of  the  disap­
pointment and indignation at the failure 
of all social  reform. 
It is  the  result  of 
many thousand years of hopeless  waiting 
for the better  time which  never  comes. 
It is the despair of the  geni of  the  Ara­
bian story who was imprisoned  by  King 
Solomon in  a  copper  flask  and  thrown 
into the sea.  For  centuries  the  miser­
in  hope,  promising 
able captive  lived 
enormous  benefactions 
to  any  who 
should  release  him.  Finally,  through 
ages  of waiting,  hope was  extinguished 
and despair took its  place,  and  then the 
desperate spirit  denounced  all  manner 
of calamity upon  whomsoever  should be 
so unfortunate as to rescue him  from his 
prison 
in  the  deep.  Human  nature, 
after so many ages of  waiting  and  hop­
ing for a betterment of its condition,  has 
grown 
desperate,  and  denounces  de­
struction where heretofore  benefits  had 
been  promised.

THE  BEHRING SEA  PROBLEM. 

According  to  the  dispatches 

from 
Washington  the  United  States  cruiser 
Bennington,  now  doing  duty  on 
the 
European stations,  has  been  ordered  to 
proceed to Behring  Sea. 
It  is  assumed

v

A

%

§

V

that the presence of the cruiser  in  Beh­
ring Saa is for the  purpose  of  guarding 
the interests of the United  States in that 
part of the world during the approaching 
fishing season.

As  the  Arbitration  Commission  has 
decided that the United States  possessed 
no exclusive jurisdiction in Behring Sea, 
the Government no longer has the  power 
to exclude sealer  from the  hitherto  for­
bidden  waters.  Great  Britain  and 
the 
United States have failed to come to  any 
agreement  as  to  the  protection  of  the 
seals and it is doubtful if any such agree­
ment could be made effective  unless  the 
other martitime  powers  became  parties 
to  it.  There  is  now  hardly  sufficient 
time  to  arrange  such  an  agreement, 
hence there is  every  prospect  that  the 
seal herds of the Behring Sea will be  ex­
posed  to  unusual  attacks  during  the 
coming  summer,  aud  the  value  of  the 
fisheries will be much damaged in  conse­
quence, 
quence.

It is much to be regretted that  a  more 
serious attempt  has  not  been  made  to 
give effect to the recommendations of the 
Behring Sea commission  with  respect  to 
the preservation of the seals,  but at  this 
late date it is difficult to see  how  an  in­
ternational agreement  can  be  arranged.

ON  DANGEROUS  GROUND.

If General Master Workman Sovereign, 
the new head of  the  Kuights  of  Labor, 
is working to bring  the  order  into  con­
tempt,  he is certainly on  the right  track. 
Judge  Jenkins,  of 
the  United  States 
Circuit Court,  enjoined  Sovereign  from 
ordering a strike on the Northern Pacific 
when  the recent reduction  in wages  was 
ordered on that  road.  At  a  meeting  of 
the  “general executive board” of  the  K. 
of L.,  held in Des Moines,  Iowa,  Feb.  25, 
Sovereign referred  to Judge Jenkins and 
his injunction in  the following terms:

“On Tuesday  and  Wednesday  I  shall 
be in St.  Paul and Minneapolis to talk  to 
the  Northern  Pacific  employes,  and  as 
sure as there is a God  in  heaven  I  will 
violate that injunction of Judge Jenkins’. 
It  is  infamous  and  an  outrage  on  all 
workingmen.  He would be  a poor  rep­
resentative of organized labor who would 
not have backbone to do what he pleases 
against this disgrace,  and would  deserve 
the condemnation of all  honest working­
men.  Who  is  Judge  Jenkins  anyhow? 
Simply a man with a soul to damu and  a 
posterior to kick.  1  fear  no  courts. 
If 
there is  a  United  States  marshall  here 
let him serve his process.”

This is dangerous  talk for any man  to 
indulge in.  Judge Jenkins  decision  was 
based on law and is sound common sense 
as well; and  to speak in  that  contempt- 
ous manner of  the  law is  to  degrade  it 
in the  estimation  of  the  people. 
It  is 
bolding up  to  contempt  the  men  upon 
whom devolves the interpretation  of  the 
country’s laws, and is in harmony with the 
revolutionary spirit of  anarchism. 
It is 
the  kind  of  talk  upon  which  anarchy 
feeds  and  thrives,  and,  coming  from  a 
man  occupying  Sovereign’s  prominent 
position,  is calculated to do an  immense 
amount of harm. 
In  the  end,  however, 
the evil may be expected  to  re-act  upon 
the man who uttered  the words  and  the 
order  which  applauded  his  utterances. 
The sober second thought  of  the Ameri­
can  people  will  lightly  estimate  the 
spirit  which  prompted  the  words,  and 
will  understand  that  a  body  of  men 
which  deliberately  starts  out  with  the 
fixed purpose of defying  the  law  of  the 
land is  a  menace  to  American  institu­
tions,  destructive  of  American  liberty

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TTHDE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

9

To Clothing  Merchants.  -

The  wholesale  clothing  manufacturers  have  made 
UP  light stocks this season,  but  we  made  up  about our 
usual  Spring  line,  in  the  Newest  Styles  and  Patterns, 
Long  and  Medium  Frock  Skirts  regular,  cutaway and 
Double-breasted  Sack suits.  Elegant  Spring  Overcoats, 
cut  long. 
See  our  splendid  line  of  imported  Clay 
Worsteds  Frock and  Sack  Coats,  Vests and  in Suits, from 
$7.00 up.  Our Staple line, so  well  adapted  for Farmers’ 
trade, is fully  up to the standard.  No  better goods made 
and  prices in  reach  of all.

Write our Michigan agent,  WM.  CONNOR,  box 346,  Marshall,  Mich.,  to  call 
upon  you  at  any  time,  or  meet  him  at  Sweet’s Hotel,  Grand  Rapids, Mich., on 
Thursday and Friday,  March 8th  and 9th.  Customer’s expenses allowed.  Mail or­
ders promptly attended to.  E stab lish ed   37  years.

Michael  Kolb  &  Son,  ..  Clothing
JIKIL  OIL  TAJIKS
Cost Money

ROCHESTER,  N.  Y.

Manufacturers.

AND

Earn  Honey.

Earn  More Money  Than  They  Cost 

—A  Good  Deal  More.
W e p r o v e

WM.  NEIL a co.,

Sole Manufacturers, 11 and 13  Dearborn 

Street, CHICAGO.

ilGme Hand Potato Planter

SIMPLE,  DURABLE,  PRACTICAL.

Works perfectly in Clay,  Gravel or  Sandy Soil, 

Sod or  New Ground.  Plants  at  any and 

uniform depth in moist soil.

Makes  Holes,  Drops  and 
Covers  at  One  Operation.

A  DEMONSTRATED  SUCCESS.

As necessary to Farmers as a Corn  Planter.

ation.

tention to the  department  store.  Leave 
the people to find  out  that  cheap  goods 
are the dearest  in  the  long  run,  which 
they will do sooner or later. 
In time the 
department  store  men  will  settle  down 
to business and  do  their  advertising  in 
some other way than  by cutting prices.
Grand  Rapids  Retail  Grocers’  Associ­
At the Regular meeting  of  the  Grand 
Rapids Retail  Grocers’  Association,  held 
at Hrotective Brotherhood Hall  on  Mon­
day  evening,  Feb.  19,  Daniel Vergiver 
presided.
Chairman Brink, of the  Committee  on 
Oil,  reported that the Standard  Oil Com­
pany is retailing gasoline  at  the  whole­
sale price and selling it at Reeland  for  1 
or 2 cents per gallon;  also that the  com­
pany is now offering a rebate  of  % cent 
a gallon in 100  gallon lots.
A. J.  Elliott stated that the  cut  in  the 
price of gasoline was due  to  a  determi­
nation on the part of the Standard people 
to drive out  of  business  those  peddlers 
who  cut  the  price,  to  the  end  that  a 
reasonable profit  may  be  assured.  The 
matter was discussed at some length  and 
referred back to the Committee,  with  in­
structions to report  more  fully  thereon 
at the next meeting.
Chairman Schuit, of the Committee  on 
Crackers,  was given  further  time  to  re­
port.
Chairman Elliott, of the Committee  on 
Food  Exposition,  introduced  a  number 
of reoent letters  from  manufacturers  of 
food products,  and stated that it was the 
sense of the Committee that  it would  be 
undesirable  to  attempt  to  hald  a  food 
exposition at  this  time.  On  motion  of 
Mr.  Van  Aurooy,  the  subject  was  laid 
on the table until next fall,  when  it  will 
be taken  up and pursued aggressively.
Geo.  Mclnnes suggested  a  method  by 
which the peddlering of scheme  tea  and 
baking  powder  could  be  circumvented 
that arrangements  be  made  with  the 
daily  newspapers  to  publish  series  of 
liners  reading,  “Beware  of  scheme  tea 
and  baking powder,” etc.  The  suggest­
ion  was well  received  and  discussed  at 
some  length,  when  it  was  laid  on  the 
table,  to be taken  up  at  the  next  meet­
ing.
On motion  of  J. Geo.  Lehman,  it  was 
unanimously  resolved 
to  discontinue 
handling  Soapine,  owing  to  the  unfair 
method  pursued  by  the  manufacturers 
selling  it  to the consumer at a less price 
than  the dealer can buy it at wholesale.
E. J.  Herrick  called  attention  to  the 
fact that  some  of  the  produce  wagons 
bearing license cards were doing business 
on a co-operative  basis—as  many as  six 
men  accompanying  one  wagon  around 
the city, selling  goods  therefrom  under 
one license.  On motion of Mr.  Lehman, 
the Secretary was instructed to look  into 
the matter and report thereon at the next 
meeting.
Mssrs. Witters  and  Van  Anrooy  then 
presented their report  as  cateres  in  the 
shape of warm coffee, cakes and oranges. 
At the  conclusion  of  the  repast,  hearty 
votes of tnanks  were  tendered  the  com­
mittee,  the  New  York  Biscuit  Co.  and 
the Alfred  J.  Brown  Co.  and  the  Com- 
mitee was instructed to  repeat  the  pro­
gramme at the next meeting.

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and  an  insult  to American intelligence 
and  citizenship.  By whatever  name  it 
may be known,  unionism is only another 
name for anarchy, which seeks to destroy 
laws and goverments,  and this  utterance 
of the  General  Master Workman  of  the 
Knights of Labor bears  testimony to  the 
fact.

In  all 

ambition. 

W ritte n  fo r T h« T radesman.

the  modern  establishment 

Antiquity of the Department  Store.
Department stores  are  not  a  modern 
institution  by  any  means.  They  have 
existed for hundreds of years in  Europe, 
and make  a  chapter  in  the  mercantile 
history of the Greek and Roman empires. 
The department store of  to-day  is  a  de­
velopment of the method  adopted  by the 
ancient  would-be  monopolist who in one 
booth  offered  for  sale  fish,  in  another 
meats,  in another  animals  for  sacrifice, 
in  another  fruits,  in  another  clothing 
fabrics,  and  so on,  the  number  of  “de­
partments”  being  limited  only  by  his 
monopolistic 
es­
sential  characteristics  it  was  the  pro­
totype of the department store of to-day, 
the difference  being  in  matters  of  con­
venience  and  business  methods.  Of 
course, 
is 
much  larger than  its  ancient  progener, 
perhaps  because  there  are more  people 
to  patronize  them,  and,  also,  perhaps, 
because transportation facilities  are bet­
ter.  Such establishments as Boucicault’s 
in  Paris,  Whiteley’s  in  London,  Macy’s 
in  New York,  Wannamaker’s  in  Phila­
delphia,  and Marshal Field’s  in  Chicago, 
were  out  of  the  question  in  the  days 
when  everything  had  to  be  carried  on 
mule  or  camel  back,  when  street  cars 
and  omnibusses  were  unknown,  and 
when  the  purchases  had  to  be  carried 
home  by  the  purchasers.  The  ancient 
institution was,  however,  as  complete as 
circumstances  would  permit,  and 
the 
modern department store is no more than 
that.  We  may  safely  assume  that  the 
department store of olden  times  was  re­
garded  by  other  retail  dealers  pretty 
much the  same as is its antetype to-day, 
although there  is  no  evidence  to  show 
that in those days the  profits  in  one  de­
partment were  sacrificed  in  advertising 
the  business  as  a  whole.  Antagonism 
was  probably  excited  then,  as  now,  no 
doubt,  by  so  many  and  incongruous 
“lines” being handled by one man.  Per­
haps the department store man of classic 
Athens,  or  the  garlic-eating monopolist 
of  sacred  Thebes, the  City of  the  Sun, 
or  the  vulgar  mereatans  of  Imperial 
Rome  did  offend  the “legitimate”  deal­
ers of their day by offering  certain  lines 
as  “leaders”  at  “cut-rate”  prices,  al­
though the fact does not happen to  be  a 
part of  recorded  history.  One  thing  is 
certain—the department store is at  least 
3,500  years  old, is  in  existence  to-day, 
and must be considered  a  factor  in  the 
mercantile  life  of  the  country.  While 
some may  regard  it  as  merely  an  inci­
dent  in  present-day  trade, 
the  more 
thoughtful regard  the  department  store 
as permanent. 
Its  methods  may not  be 
in accord with the accepted code of busi­
ness ethics  and  its  success  may  be  the 
outcome of its ruinous  cut-rate proclivi­
ties,  but there are few  people  who  will 
find fault with the department store man 
for selling his goods  cheap,  unless  it  be 
dealers who  must  meet  his  low  prices. 
This can only  be done by lowering prices 
to  his  level,  which  course  would  only 
result  in  loss.  The  proper  course  to 
pursue  is  for  each  dealer  to  sell  his 
goods  at the regular price, paying no at­

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One  Year—Ottraar Eberbaeh, Ann  Arbor.
Two  Years—George Oandrmn, Ionia.
Three  Yean»—C. A  Buarbee. Cheboygan.
Poor Y ean—8. E. Parkill, Owosso.
Five Y ean—F. W. R. Perry, Detroit.
President—Ottmar Eberbaeh, Ann Arbor.
Secretary—Stanley E. Parkill, Owosso.
Treasurer—Geo. Gandrum, Ionia.
Next Meeting—Grand Rapids. March 6  and 7. 
Subsequent  Meetings—Star  Island,  June  25  and  26. 

Houghton, Sept. 1; Lansing, Nov. 6 and 7.
Michigan  State  Pharmaceutical  Ass’n, 
President—A. B  Stevens, Ann Arbor. 
Vice-President—A. F. Parker, Detroit.
Treasurer—W. Dupont,  Detroit.
Secretary—8. A. Thompson. Detroit.
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for 

BREADMAKING  IN  HISTORY.

Whether the brewer or the baker came 
first in the world’s history it is somewhat 
difficult  to  determine.  Egypt,  which 
anticipated  most modern  inventions,  in­
cluding  the  penny-in-the-slot  machine, 
knew them both;  at least,  we have sound 
authority for believing  that  malt  liquor 
was  coeval  with 
the  Pyramids,  and 
Moses left  it  on  record  that  the  baker 
was a person of some consideration  even 
the  court  of  Pharaoh.  There  are 
in 
some who go farther back even  than  the 
Egyptian  Empire  and  claim 
the 
Chaldeans the credit of  having  been  the 
earliest breadmakers,  as the term is  now 
understood.  However that may be,  it  is 
certain that loaf bread  was  unknown  to 
the patriarch^.  Their bread was  simply 
unleavened  cakes,  until 
the  Epyptian 
captivity,  when the Israelites  acquired a 
knowledge of leavened dough  and  baked 
bread.  The Romans  were  breadmakers 
and  breadeaters,  and  their  knowledge, 
which came to them through the  Greeks, 
was  by  them  spread  throughout  the 
countries 
they  conquered,  so  that,  in 
Southern Europe,  breadmaking  has  ever 
since been  general,  while,  in  the  north­
ern countries,  the farther one  gets  away 
from  the  line  of  Roman  conquest,  the 
less  general  do  we  find  bread making, 
even to this day.  Fiadbrok,  in  Norway, 
and rye cakes,  in Sweden, take the place 
of loaf  bread. 
In  Scotland,  both  high­
lands  and  lowlands,  the  oat  cake  was 
ever the staple bread;  it was the aborig­
inal  food;  and,  when  the  Romans  came 
to Scotland,  they  found  the  savage  na­
tives baking their cakes of oats on a ring 
of flat stones planted around  their  fires. 
These stones the Romans called grerdiol; 
hence  the  peculiar  significance  of  the 
word girdle in  the  Scottish  vocabulary. 
The  Scottish  housewife’s  girdle  has  a 
place by itself in history.  According  to 
Froissart,  so deep  seated was  the  faith­
fulness  of  the  wild  Scot  to  his  native 
fare that even  the  Scottish  mercenaries 
carried the girdle with  them  as  part  of 
their  accoutrements, 
together  with  a 
wallet of  meal,  “ tli''  purpose whereof,” 
he  says, 
“ When  a  Scottish 
soldier hath eaten of  flesh  so  long  that 
he begins to loathe  the same,  he  casteth 
his plate into  the  fire,  he  moisteneth  a 
little  of  his  meal  in  water,  and,  when 
the plate is  heated,  he  layeth  his  paste 
thereon  and  maketh  a  little  cake,  the 
which he eateth  to comfort his  stomach. 
Hence,” our author infers,  with  a  some­
what  bold  anticipation  of  modern  the­
ories on the force  value  of  foods,  “it  is 
no marvel that the Scots should  be  able 
to make longer marches than other men.” 
The oat cake,  in  its native purity, is not, 
however,  for  all  tastes,  though  Robby 
Burns is  the  authority  for  saying  that 
“oatmeal  cakes  kneaded  out  with  the 
knuckles and  toasted over the red embers 
of wood, on a  gridiron,  are  remarkably 
fine  and  a  delicate  relish  when  eaten 
warm  with  ale.  On  winter  nights  the 
landlady  heats 
them  and  drops  them 
into the quaigh to warm the ale.”
In some  old  Welsh  farmhouses  there 
existed, some thirty years ago, a form  of 
the Scotch girdle  in  the  shape  of  the 
“ bakestone,”  a flat circular iron plate on 
which bread  was  baked  over  the  fire. 
“Bakestone”  bread  was  of  the  shape, 
size  and thickness of a small cart  wheel, 
close and heavy,  but by no means bad  by 
way of a change.
England  is doubtless  indebted  to  the 
Romans for the knowledge of the art and 
mystery  of  loaf  breakmaking,  and  for 
many centuries it seems to  have  been  a j

is  this; 

THE  ]VIICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,

purely domestic pursuit,  for  the  public 
baker  bad  no  place  in  a  community 
where  every  household  baked  its  own 
bread.  This was the  case,  not  only  in 
country districts,  bat  also  in  tolerably 
populous towns,  for even Manchester did 
not possess a single public baker  as  late 
as  1804,  and  probably  other  towns  of 
equal magnitude were in the  same  posi­
tion.  To the amateur  of  bread  the  de­
cline of home breadmaking is a matter of 
deep regret,  for  the  place  of  the  good 
old-fashioned farmhouse  loaf,  baked  in 
the wood-heated oven,  is hardly filled  by 
the best of  the  modern  London  baker’s 
productions, greatly as his  methods  and 
appliances have improved of  late  years. 
Early English breadmaking was probably 
a good deal  hampered  by the poverty  of 
the material,  for wheaten  bread  was  a 
luxury,  enjoyed  by  the  rich  only. 
In 
Harrison’s  “Description  of  England,” 
published in  1576,  it  is  stated;  “The 
poor in some shires are enforced  to  con­
tent themselves with rye  or  barley—yea 
and in time of dearth,  many  with  bread 
made either of peas,  beans  or oats  or  of 
all together,  with some acorns among,  of 
which scourge the poor do soonest  taste, 
sith they are least able  to provide  them­
selves of better.  Such  a  price  of  corn 
continues in each town and  market  that 
the artificer and a poor labouring man are 
not able to reach to it,  but are driven  to 
ontent themselves with beans, peas, oats, 
cares and lentils.”
Among Scottish household  breads  the 
wheaten loaf never had a  place. 
It  was 
known as  "baker’s bread,” and was only 
to be had  in  the  principal  towns.  Ac­
cording  to  Fynes  Morrison,  wheaten 
bread  was bought chiefly by “gentlemen, 
courtiers, and the best kind  of  citizens.” 
It was  enacted  that  sixteen  ounces  of 
fine bread—no doubt wheaten—should be 
supplied to Queen Mary’s attendants  for 
four pennies  (Scots) during her  visit  to 
Jedburgh in  1566; but even  so late as the 
middle of the  last  century  the  wheaten 
loaf  was  but rarely  used  in  gentlemen’s 
j country honses.  “Cakes or  bonnocks of 
barley and peasemeal  formed  the princi­
pal household  bread,”  says  Dr.  Somer­
ville,  and 
families  of  the  middle 
class  on  ordinary  occasions  no  other 
bread  was  thought  of.”  Thus,  when 
railways  were  unknown  and  means  of 
communication difficult throughout  Scot­
land,  there was a marked  difference  be­
tween town  and country in respect to the 
bread in general use; even in the 60’s loaf 
bread  was a luxury  in  certain  districts, 
and  the staple was still oats and peas.
The earliest instructions in  breadmak­
ing.  which,  on  broad  principles,  are 
hardly to be improved  upon even  in  the 
present  day,  are  contained  in  Thomas 
Cozan’s  “The Haven of  Health,”  which 
was published  in  1596.  Mr.  Cozan,  of 
Oxford,  who was  “Maister  of  Arts  and 
Bacheler  of  Physicke,” claims  the  fol­
lowing five  properties  for  good  bread: 
“It must be  well  leavened,  for  without 
leaven it is good for no man; it  ought  to 
be light,  for thereby the clamminess will 
be gone; it ought to be well baked, other­
wise it is  indigestible;  it  must  be  tem­
perately salted,  for bread oversweet  is  a 
stopper,  and  bread  oversalt  is  a  drier; 
finally,  this ideal  bread  should  be  made 
of wheat—harde,  thicke,  heavie,  yellow, 
bright,  full,  ripe,  cleane,  growne  in  a 
fatte soyie.” 
In essentials  Mr.  Cozan’s 
attributes of good  bread  are  very  much 
what we look for in the present  day. 
It 
must be remembered,  however, 
that  he 
wrote before  the  uses  of  yeast  became 
known in connection  with  breadmakiug, 
and bis insistence upon  the  necessity  of 
bread being well  leavened  involved  the 
necessity of  well  working the flour,  and 
leaving the paste  in a  warm  place  until 
fermentation  set  in,  by  which  carbon 
and  oxygen,  re-combining,  formed  car­
bonic acid gas,  which was arrested in  its 
efforts to  escape  by  the  gluten  which 
rendered the dough adhesive and  left the 
bread light and  full of air holes.
Yeast  came  into  use  about  the  year 
1834,  and  with it the  inauguration  of  a 
new era in breadmaking.  Like  all new 
introductions,  it  excited  opposition  at 
first,  and  in  Paris  the medical faculty 
declared it prejudicial to health,  so  that 
at the end of the seventeenth century,  we 
find  its  use  prohibited  under  a severe 
Such foolish prejudices,  how-
penalty. 

in 

ever,  were soon overcome,  and the value 
of yeast became too well  recognized  for 
its  importance  to  the  baker  to be ever 
again called in question.  Other ferment­
ative  agents  are  now  frequently  em­
ployed.  Carbonate  of  ammonia  is the 
standard  ingredient  in  the  best-known 
baking  powders. 
It is  entirely dissipa­
ted by the heat of the  oven,  and  cannot 
be  detected  in  the bread by either taste 
or smell,  while  it  makes  bread  porous 
and digestible.  Muriatic  acid  and car­
bonate of soda,  and tartaric acid and car­
bonate of  soda,  in  carefully  calculated 
proportions,  are  also  employed.  The 
system of breadmaking  invented  by  Dr. 
Dauglish  claims  to  be  one  of the most 
perfect in existence;  it  has  the merit  of 
cleanliness,  for the  bread  is  untouched 
by the hands throughout the whole proc­
ess; it is expeditious,  also,  and  the  uni­
formity of bread  made under the process 
is remarkable.  With all this,  however, 
it must be admitted that to  many people 
aerated bread is  insipid,  and  its  contin­
ued popularity  is  probably less  depend­
ent upon its actual  merits  than upon the 
success of the  restaurant  business  car­
ried on by the  company  which  uses  the 
process.
That,  notwithstanding  coal  strikes, 
trade depression,  bank  failures  and  in­
different  harvests,  wheaten bread—good, 
wholesome,  well  made  on 
the  whole, 
and,  in the main,  free from noxious adul­
terants—should  be  everywhere obtain­
able  at a  price  which  makes  the  most 
nutritious article of our  diet  absolutely 
the  cheapest,  is  a  blessing  which free 
trade, cheap ocean carriage  and  the  ex­
tension of railways  have  made  possible 
in our times.
The dismal condition of affairs  indica­
ted  by  Harrison,  when acorns eked out 
the scanty corn supplies,  one  may,  per­
haps,  regard  with  philosophy,  seeing 
that  this  chronicle  refers  to the far-off 
times of the sixteenth century,  but  dear 
bread and  scarce  was  a  constantly  re­
curring experience in  much  later  days. 
With restrictions  on  the  importation of 
wheat,  it only needed a war and a couple 
of bad harvests to bring  bread to famine 
prices in  England  at  any  time.  Wars 
were plentiful  in the last  century and in 
the earlier part of the  present,  and  bad 
harvests, also,  were not few.  Soon after 
the  accession  of  Geo.  Ill,  in  1776, the 
quartern loaf was sold at eighteen pence. 
Its rise continued, and  a few years later 
the general distress was so  great,  owing 
to the short supply of bread at any price, 
that a pledge was signed by a large num­
ber of members of both Houses ot Parlia­
ment,  to  reduce  by  one-third  the  con­
sumption  of  bread  in  their own house­
holds,  and to use their  best endeavors to 
secure a like pledge  from  their  friends. 
In  the year 1800, 
Still the rise went on. 
the  quartern loaf  rose to a fraction over 
one shilling and eleven  pence. 
In  Feb­
ruary  of  that  year,  a bill,  promoted by 
Lord  Hawkesbury,  was  rushed  through 
the House of Commons in one day,  which 
prohibited  the  sale,  or  the  offering for 
sale,  of  any  bread  which  had not  been 
baked  for  at  least  twenty-four  hours. 
The summers had been,  for  some  years, 
cold, gloomy and  wet,  so  that  the  corn 
rotted  in  the  fields  and the bread made 
from it was unwholesome.  No Canning 
had  yet  called  a  new  world  into exist­
ence to redress the  balance of the old,  so 
far as the supply of breadstuffs  was con­
cerned,  and  the  result was misery, dis­
tress  and  sickness,  which 
the  worst 
years of modern  industrial pressure hap­
pily fails to realize.
It is no mere figure of  speech by which 
bread is called the “staff of life.”  Liebig 
tells  us  that,  looking  at  its  nutritive 
value,  wheat  is  the  cheapest  article of 
food which Mother Nature  has  provided 
for  man. 
In  England,  at  least this is 
I believed  and  the belief acted  up  to,  for 
England is pre-eminently the  bread  eat­
ing nation of the world,  if  statistics  are 
to be trusted.  The  French  bakers  are 
by  repute  the  best,  and  each  Parian, 
alive to his advantage, consumes annually 
over 300 pounds of bread,  but his record 
sinks  into  insignificance  beside  that of 
I the average Englishman,  who  totals  the 
| big  figure  of  450  pounds  per  bead per 
annum.

line Tradesman Coupon Books.

Growth  of  the  Banana  Trade.

C.  N.  Rapp  &  Co. 

furnish  T h e 
T radesm an  with  a  table  showing  the
importations of bananas into  this  coun­
try during 1893,  figured  by  bunches,  as
follows:
..1,180,878 
Baltimore__
-.1,88 ,010 
Boston.........
...  613,444
Mobile.........
.......31,800
Montreal......
......87.173
Norfolk  ......
.  .8,121,435 
Philadelphia.
...4,•’80 139 
New York__
...5,035,217 
New Orleans. 
Savannah__
.......120,000
Total.............................................. 15,344,526
The importations of  1893 were 12,695,- 
increase  of 

386  bunches,  showing  an 
2,649,140 bunches.

If you wear  religion  as  a  cloak  your 

soul may freeze to death.

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

$5.00.

WM.  H.  ALLEN,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

WALTER BAKER & GO.
f  ,  $  
-—

The  Largest 
Manufacturers Of

COCOA and 

CHOCOLATE

IN  THIS COUNTRY,

have  received  from  the 
Judges  of the

W orld’s 
Colum bian 
Exposition
The  Highest Awards
(Medals and Diplomas) 
on  each  of  the  following  articles, 
namely:
BR EAKFAST  COCOA,
PREM IUM   NO.  I  CH O C O LATE, 
GERM AN  SW EET  CH O C O LA TE, 
VAN ILLA  CH O C O LATE,
COCOA  BUTTER,

For “ purity of material,” “ excellent 
flavor,”  and  “ uniform  even  composi­
tion.” 
SOLD  BY  CROCER8  EVERYWHERE.

________

|  W alter  Baker  &  Co.,1

D O RCH ESTER,  M ASS.

BALD
HEADS

NO  CU R E. 

D AN D RU FF  CURED.

frr-n ri
NO  M U S T A C H E .
NO  PAY.

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

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TETE  MICHIGAN  TEADE8MAN.

W holesale  P r ic e   C u rren t•

Advanced—Morphia

Decllned-

ACIDUM.
Aceti cum .................
65®
Benz oleum  German.
Boraclc 
...................
Carbolicum................   20®
Cltrlcum.....................   52®
Hydrochlor................  3®
Nltrocum 
...................  10®
Oxalic urn....................   10®
ruuflpuuiiuui u ii.......
Sallcyllcum............... 1  3o@i  70
Sulphurlcum.............
IX®  5
Tannlcum .................. 1  40@1  60
Tartarlcum.................
30®  33
AMMONIA.
Aqua, 16  deg..............
20  deg.............
Carbonas  ...................
Chlorldum .................
ANILINE.

4®  6
6®  8
12®  14
12®  14

Black........................... 2 00®2 25
80@1  00
Brows.........................
45®  50
Red..............................
Y ellow ........................ 2 50®3 00

“ 

25®  30
8®  10
25®  30

BAGCAS.
Cubeae (po  36).........
Ju n íp eras..................
Xantnoxylum............
BAL8AMUM.
45®  50
Copaiba........................
®1  90
Peru..............................
60®  65
Terabln, C an a d a __
T olutan........................ 35®  50

OOBTBX.

Abies,  Canadian......... .........  18
Casslae  ....................... .........  11
Cinchona F la v a ......... ..  .  .  18
Euonymus  atropurp...........  30
Myrica  Cerifera, p o ... .........  20
Prunus Vlrglnl............ ........   12
Quill ala,  grd............... .........  10
Sassafras  .................... .........  12
Ulmus Po (Ground  15) ........   15

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

BXTBACTUM.
24®  25
Glycyrrhlza  G labra... 
33®  35
PO............
11®  12
Haematox, 15 lb. box..
13®  14
IB...............
14®  15
V4i.............
Ms.............. 16®  17
TIBRU
®  15
®3 50
®  80
@  50
®  15
.9®  2
®  7

Carbonate Precip........
Citrate and Qulnia —
Citrate  Soluble............
Ferrocy anidum Sol —  
Solut  Chloride............
Sulphate,  com’l ..........
....

pure... 

u 

FLORA.

FOLIA.

18®  20
A rnica.........................
A nthem ls.................... ST®  35
50®  65
Matricaria 
.......

Barosma 
....................
Cassia  Acutlfol,  Tin-
nlvelly......................
Salvia  officinalis,  Us
and  )4s......................
Ura Ur si 
.....................

18®  50
25®  28
Alx. 35®  50
15®  25
8®  10

“ 

“ 

GUMMI.

“ 
“ 

“ 
•• 
“ 
“ 

®  60
Acacia,  1st  ploked —  
@  40
2d 
....
@  30
3d 
....
@  20
sifted sort»..
60®  80
p o .........  .....
Aloe,  Barb, (po. 60)... 
50®®
“  Cape, (po.  20)... 
®
Socotri, (po.  60). 
Catechu, la, (Via, 14 fea,
®
16)..........................
55®
Ammonlae  — ...........
Assaioetlda, (po. 85)..
40®
oeusomum.................
50® 55
Camphors.................
35®
Euphorbium  po  ......
in50
@2
Galbanum.................
Gamboge,  po.............. 70® 7b
® 3u
Guala cum,  (po  35)  ..
@1 15
Kino,  (po  1  10).........
Mastic....................... @ 80
@ 40
Myrrh, (po  45)
Opll  (po  4 2)@4 30)  .3 40@3 50
45® 42
Shellac  .....................
33® 35
bleached......
40® 1  00
Tragacanth  ...............

“ 
HBBBA—In ounce packages

25
20
25
28
23
25
80
22
25

Absinthium...............
Eupatorium...............
Lobelia.......................
Majorum....................
Mentha  Piperita........
“  V lr...............
Rue.............................
Tanacetum, V............
Thymus,  V.................
MAGNESIA.
55® 60
Calcined, Pat.............
Carbonate,  Pat........... 20® 22
Carbonate, K. &  M — 20® 25
Carbonate, Jennlng5.. 35® 36

OLMUM.

70@1 8«
26®3 50

Absinthium............... 3 50®4 00
Amygdalae, Dale........  45®  75
Amyaalae, Amarae___8 00®8 25
Antal............................1 
Anrantl  Cortex...........2 30@2 40
Bergamll  ...................3 
Cajlputl.................... 
60®  65
Caryophylli...............   75®  80
Cedar.........................  35®  65
Chenopodll................  ®1  60
Cinnamon 11.................1 
Cltronella...................  ®  45
Conlnm  Mao..............  35®  65
Copaiba  ....................  80®  90

10® 1 15

STBUPS.

Accacla...............................  50
Zingiber  .............................   50
Ipecac..................................  60
Ferrl  Iod.............................   50
Aurantl  Cortes....................   50
Rhel  Arom..........................   50
Slmllax  Officinalis..............  60
Co........  50
Senega................................   50
Sclllae..................................  50
“  Co.............................   50
Toiatan...............................  50
Pranas  vlrg.........................  50

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

v  

TIKCTUBBS.

Cnbebae......................  @ 3 00
Exechthltos..................   2 50@2 75
Brlgeron.....................a 00@2 10
Aconitum Napellls R.........   60
..  “ 
F .........   50
Gaultherla......................2 00@2 10
Aloes...................................   60
Geranium,  ounce......   @  75
“ 
and myrrh.................  60
Gosalpli, Sem. gal......   70®  75
A rnica.................................  50
Hedeoma  ...................l  25@i  40
Asafoetlda.............................  0
Jumper!......................  50®2 00
A trope Belladonna..............  60
Lavendula.................  90@2 00
Benzoin...............................  60
Llmonla.......................... 2 40®2 60
“  Co..........................   50
Mentha Piper...................2 85@3 60
Sangulnarla.........................  50
Mentha'Verid................. 2 20@2 30
Barosma............................  50
Morrhuae, gal..................1  00@1 10
Cantharides...................... 
75
Myrcla, ounce............   @  50
Capsicum..........................  .  50
Olive..........................  90@3 00
Ca damon..........................  
75
Plcla Liquida, (gal..35)  10®  12
Co.........................  75
Ricini.......................   1  22@1  28
Castor.................................. 1 00
Roamarlnl............  
75®1  00
Catechu...............................  50
Roaae, ounce...................6 50@8 50
Cinchona....................... 
  50
Succlnl.......................   40®  45
_ 
.  Co.........................  60
Sabina.......................   90@1  00
San tal  ........................8 50@7 00
Conium...............................  so
Sassafras....................   50®
Cubeba............................ 
50
Slnapls, ess, ounce__  ®
Digitalis...............................i  so
Tlglfl..........................   @
Ergot...................................   50
Thyme.......................   40®
Gentian...............................  50
o p t....   ..........  ®
“  Co..........................    60
Theobromas...............   15®
Gualca................................   50
“ 
ammon....................." 60
POTASSIUM.
is®
BI Carb.......................  
Zingiber.............................   50
bichromate...............   13®
Hyoscyamus.......................   50
Bromide.................... 
40®
Iodine..................................  75
Carb............................  12®
“  Colorless...................... 75
Chlorate  (po  23@25)..  24®
Ferrl  Chlorldum.................  35
K ino....................................  so
Lobelia................................   so
Myrrh.................................     50
Nux  Vomica.......................   50
OpU.....................................  85
“  Camphorated...............   50
“  Deodor.........................2 00
Aurantl Cortex....................   50
Quassia...............................  50
Rhatany.............................   50
Rhel.....................................  50
Cassia  Acutlfol...................  50
Co..............  50
Serpentarla.........................  50
Stromonlum.........................  60
Tolutan...............................  60
Valerian.............................   50
VeratrumVerlde.................  50

Potassa, Bitart,  pure. 
Potassa, Bitart, com..
Potass  Mitras, opt__
Potass Nitras............
Prusslate..................

Arum,  po.
Gentiana  (po. 12)......
Glychrrhlza, (pv. 15).. 
Hydrastis  Canaden,
ieflelHellebore, Ala, po.

(po. 35) 

“ 

2  90@3 00
27® 30
© 15
8® 10
7® 9
28® 30
15® 18
20® 25
22® 25
12® 15
@ 26
20® 40
8® 10
16® 18
® 30
15® 20
15® 20
1  60@) 75
35® 40
40® 45
® 35
15® 18
75@1 00
@1 75
75@1 35
35® 38
© 20
30® 32
55® 60
© 40
© 25
10© 12
© 35
i  © 25
15© 20
18© 20
18© 20

Iris plox (po. 35®38).
Jalapa,  pr.................
Maranta,  14s...........

cut....................
Spigella . . . . . . . .....Y. 
Sanguinarla,  (po  25).

* 

Slmllax, Officinalis,  H 
M
Post!

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

Zingiber  J.

■ 

..  ©  15
Anlsum,  (po.  20).. 
if®  is
4®  6
Bird, Is...................... 
Carol, (po. 18)............   10®  12
Cardamon..................1 00®1  25
Corlandrum...............   10®  12
Cannabis Satlva.........   4© 
5
Cydonlum................. 
75® 1  oo
Cnenopodlum  ...........  10©  12
Dlpterlx Odorate.......2 25®2 50
Foenlculum..............  ©  15
Foenngreek,  po.........   8®  8
L ini................. 
4  © 4M
Lini, grd.  (bbl. 3)4)...  3)4© 4
Lobelia.......................  35®  40
Pharlarls Canarian__  3  ® 4
Rapa.......................... 
6®  7
Slnapls  Albu............   7  ® 8
r  Nigra...........  11®  12

“ 

SPIBITUB.
Frumenti, W., D.  Co. 
2 00®2 50 
D. F. R  ...
1  75®2 00 
1  25®1  50 
1  65®2 00 
Junlperls  Co. Ö. T ...
1  75©3 50
Saacharum  N.  B.......1  75©2 00
Spt.  Vini  Galli.......... 1  75®6 50
Vini Oporto...............1  25®2 00
Vini  Alba..................1  2S®2 00

Florida  sheeps’  wool
carriage..................2  50©2 75
Nassau  sheeps’  wool
carriage  .................
2  00 
Velvet  extra  sheeps’
wool  oarrlage.........
1  10
Extra  yellow  sheeps’
oarrlage...................
Grass sheeps’ wool car­
riage  .......................
Hard for  slate  use__
Yellow Reef, for  slate 
use..........................

1  40

“ 

cent 

Æther, Spts  Nit, 3 F..  28®  30 
“  4 F ..  32®  34
Alumen.....................   2)4® 3

MISCBLX.AMEOUS.
u 
ground,  (po.

* 
“ 

7).............................   3®  4
Annatto......................  55®  60
Antlmonl, po.............. 
4®  5
et Potass T.  55®  60
Antipyrin..................   @1  40
Antifebrln..................  ©  25
Argentl  Nitras. ounce  ©  51
Arsenicum................. 
5®  7
Balm Gilead  Bud....  38®  40
Bismuth  S.  N............ 2 20©2 25
Calcium Chlor, Is, ()4s
12;54s.l4)..............  ®  11
Cantharides  Russian,
®1 00 
po............................
Capsid  Fructus,af...
®  26 
®  28 
(po.
®  20 
Caryophyllus, (po.  15) 
_
10®   12
Carmine,  No. 40.........   ®3 75
Cera  Alba, 8. & F ......  50®  55
Cera Flava.................  38©  40
Coccus  .....................   ©  40
Cassia Fructus...........  ©  25
Centraria.......... .......  
©  10
Cetaceum  .................  ©  40
Chloroform...............  60®  68
squibbs 
©1  25
Chloral Hyd Crst 
..1  50©1 80
Chondrus 
...............   20©  25
Clnchonidlne, P.  A  W  15®  20
German  8)4©  12
Corks,  list,  dls.  per
75
.................... 
Creasotum..............
35
Creta,  (bbl. 75)......
© 2
prep............
5® 5
precip.........
9® 11
Rubra........
® 8
50® 55
® 24
5 © 6
10® 12
70® 75
®
® 6
70® 75
12® 15
® 23
7  @ 6 
©  7i 
40®  6

Crocus 
Cudbear...................
Cuprl Sulph
Dextrine.................
Iph............
Bmery,  all  numbers 
po  ..............

Flake  V$Ilte ?5. !
Galla.......................
Gambler...................
Gelatin,  Cooper......
French  ......
Glassware  flint, by box 86 
Less than box 75.
Glue,  Brown.............. 
9®
“  White...............   13®
Glyoerlna...................  14©
Grana Paradis!...........  ©
Humulus....................  25®
Hydraag Chlor  Mite..  ®
©
“  Cor 
. 
Ox Rubrum  ®
Ammonlatl 
®1  DO 
Unguentum.  45®  55
Hydrargyrum............  ®  64
.1  25@1 50
Ichthyobolla, Am. 
Indigo.........................  75@1 00
Iodine,  Resubl...........3 80@3 90
Iodoform. 
70 
Lupulin.
@2 25
Lycopodium..............  70®  "D
M ads.........................  70®  75
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy­
drarg Iod.................  @  27
Liquor Potass Arslnltls  10®  12
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
Manilla,  S. F ............   60®  68

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

.........

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

S.  N. Y. Q.  A

Morphia, S. P. A W.  2 35@2 60 
C.  Co....................  2 25@2 50
Moschus Canton___.  ®  40
Myrlstlca, No  1 ........  65®  70
Nux Vomica, (po 20)..  @ 10
Os.  Sepia....................  15®  18
Pepsin Saac, H. A P. D.
Co............................  @2 00
Plcls Llq, N.»C., V4 gal
doz  .........................  @2 00
Plcls Llq., quarts......  @100
pints.........   @  85
Pll Hydrarg,  (po. 80)..  @ 50
Piper  Nigra, (po. 22)..  @ 1
Piper Alba, (po si)__  @  3
Plx  Burgun...............   @  7
Plumbl A cet..............  14®  15
Pulvis Ipecac et opil.. 1  10@1  20 
Pyrethrum,  boxes  H
A P. D.  Co., doz......  @1  25
Pyrethrum,  pv...........  20®  30
Quasslae.................... 
8®  10
Qulnia, 8. P. A W......34W@39)4
8.  German....  27®  37
Bubla  Tlnctorum......   12®  14
Saccharum Laetis pv. 
20®  22
Salacln.......................2 00@2 10
Sanguis  Draconls......   40®  50
Sapo,  W......................  12®  14
11  M.......................  10®  12
“  G.......................  @  is

“ 

Seldllts  Mixture........  ©  20
Slnapls...........................  @ is
,r  opt..................   @  30
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  De
Voes.......................  @  35
Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes  @  35 
Soda Boras, (po. 11).  . 
io@  11 
Soda et Potass Tart...  27®  30
Soda Carb.................  154®  2
Soda,  Bl-Carb............   ®  5
Soda, Ash..................   3)4®  4
Soda, Sulphas............   @  2
Spts. Ether C o...........  50®  55
“  Myrcla  Dom......   @2 25
“  Myrcla Imp........  @3 00
*'  Vlnl  Rect.  bbl.
• •••7........................ 2 25@2 85
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Strychnia  Crystal......1  40@1  45
Sulphur, Subl............   2M@  3
“  Roll..............  2  @ 2)4
Tamarinds................. 
8®  10
Terebenth Venice......  28®  30
Theobromae..............45  @  48
Vanilla......................9 00@16 00
Zlnd  Sulph...............   7®  8

00.8.

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

Bbl.  Gal
70
85
45
53

“ 

p a i n t s . 

Linseed,  boUed.........  53 
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
strained...............   65 
SplrltsTurpentlne....  38 
b b l. 

11
56
70
40
l b .
Red  Venetian..............144  2@8
Ochre, yellow  Mars...  Hi  2@4
Ber........Hi  2@3
“ 
Putty,  commercial__2)4  2)i®3
“  strictly  pure......2)4  2V@8
Vermilion none Amer­
ican..........................  
13®16
Vermilion,  English.... 
66@70
Green,  Peninsular...... 
70@75
Lead,  red....................   6  @6)4
" ...  w hite................6  @6)4
Whiting, white Span... 
@70
Whiting,  Gilders’. ...... 
@90
White, Paris  American 
1  0 
Whiting.,  Paris  Bng.
cliff.....................   .. 
140
Pioneer Prepared Palntl  20@1  4 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared 
Paints..................... 1 00@1  20
No. 1 Turp  Coach.... 1  10@1  20
Extra Turp.................160@1  70
Coach  Body............... 2 75@3 00
No. 1 Turp Furn____1  00@1  10
Eutra Turk Damar.... 1  56@1  60 
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 
70® 7 5
Turp......................... 

VARNISHES.

Grand  Rapids, flich.
w

$ 9 -5 <> 

For
$4.00

WE  WILL  SEND

FREE.

ONE=HALF DOZ. 
2 5=CENT  EXTRACT 

With  Each  Pint of

E a stm a n ’s  C rab  Apple 

B lossom   Extract.

D y es

G erm a n   E a ster 

OUTFIT  NO.  3.—Contains  2 
I Dozen  Jim  Crow  Corn  Salve,  2 
Dozen  Crow  Toothache  Remedy, 
50-5 cent  Packages  Dyes,  German 
Contains 6 Colors, and  is  War-  and  English  Window  Hangers, 

E 3 0
EACH 5 CENT  PACKAGE
ranted to Color 8  to  10 

Price $2.75.

Dozen  Eggs,  also  German  and 

English Window  Hangers.
OUTFIT  NO.  1.- 

5  cent  Packages  Dyes, 
and  English  Window 
Price $1.25.

Contains  50- 
German 
Hangers.

goods

The  4  doz.

in  above  are 
for  the
sold at regular  price,  $2.75 
4  doz. and  Outfit No.  1  is  included 
free  of charge. 
This  outfit retails 
for  $7.30;  affording  you  165  per 
cent,  profit.

OUTFIT  NO.  2.—Double  size 

The  improvement  made  in  Ger- 
No.  1. contains  100—5  cent Packages  man  Easter  Egg  Dyes  this season 
Dyes,  German  and  English  Win-  make  them  superior  to  all  others, 
dow Hangers.  Price  $2.50. 

'  Your order  solicited.

i8 8 o ==i8 9 4 ,

long experience  and readiness to adopt  all  improvements  made  possible 
through science and machinery,  enables the makers  of

P M 8  DYES  To  claim  them  to  b8  THE  BEST  IN  EVERY  WAY.

PRICE  LIST:—One-half Gross  Boxes  (72  Packages),  $2.00.  One-quar­
ter Gross Boxes  (36  Packages), $1.00.  Per.  doz., .35.
ors and designs, and contains striking window display matter.  Please send us your orders.

Tablets, Paper or Liquid.  Each box is handsomely labeled, showing someof the  various  col­

HflZELTINE 

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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,

G RO CERY   PR IC E   CU RREN T.

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

Sap Sago....................   ©21
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domestic  __   ©14

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OOUPON  BOOKS.

AXLE  GREASE.
doz 
Aurora 
......  65
........
Castor Oil...... ---   60
Diamond.......
......   50
Î5
Frazer’s ......... __  
......  65
...........
Mica 
......  55
Paragon 
..  ..

gross 
6 00
7 f 0
5 50
9 00
7  fO
6 00

BAKING  POWDER. 

Acme.

“  2  “ 

*  lb. cans. 3  doz................
mb.  “  2  “  ..............
75 
1 60 
1 lb.  “ 
1  “  ..............
Bulk................................
10
Arctic.
*  ft cans 6 doz  case......
55 
......
*   ft  “  4 doz  “ 
1  10 
1  lb  “  2 doz  “ 
.......
2  00 
5  a   “ 
i do?  “ 
......
9 00
Foefon.
5 oz. cans, 4 doz. in case 
.  80
.. .2 00
16  “ 
“ 
40
Red Star, la ft cans  ......... 
“  
7a
...............  
“ 
...........  1  40
45
Teller’s,  14 lb. cans, doz. 
85
“ 
“  .. 
“ 
“  ..  l  50
Our Leader, 14 lb cans...... 
45
“ 
“ 
1  50
per doz
Dime cans..  95 
4-oz 
l 40 
“ 
. 2 OP 
6 oz
S-oz
..2 60 
..3 90 
12-oz
16-oz
..5 00 
214-lb
12 00 
1-lb
18 25 
Vlb
22 75 
10-lb
41  80

p«mcrs
CREAM
Ba k in g
Bowden
**» mamaf*

54  f t  
“  
1 ft  “ 
*  lb.  “ 
1 lb.  “ 
54 lb cans
1 lb cans
Dr. Price’s.

^ 

BATH  BRICK.
! dozen in case.

English
Bristol__
Domestic.

“ 

8oz 

B L U IN G .

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

“ 
BROOMS.
.40.2 Hurl.........
No. 1  “ 
.........
No. 2 Carpet......
No. 1 
“ 
......
Parlor Gem........
Common Whisk 
Fancy 
Warehouse........

‘ 

1  75
2  00 2 25 
2 50
2 75 
80
1  00
3 00

BRUSHES.

“ 

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

CANDLES.

Hotel. 40 lb. boxes
Star  40 
...........
Paraffine..............
Wieking  .......................

“ 

10
9
.  10
.  24

CANNED  GOODS.

Fish.
Clams.

“ 

“ 

" 

Utile Neck  l lb........
“  2  lb.........
Clam Chowder.
Standard. 8 lb..............
Cove Oysters.
Standard,  lib . 

.2  20
1  90
.2 25
.
7*?
21b...............
145
Lobsters.
Star,  1  lb..............
2 45
“  2  lb...................
3 50
Picnic, 1 lb.................
.2 oc
“ 
21b...............
..2 30
Mackerel.
Standard. 1 lb.................
.1   10
2  lb........
.2  10
Mustard,  21b.........
.2 25 
Tomato Sauce,  2 lb.
.2 25 
Soused. 2 lb...........
.2 25
Salmon.
Columbia River, flat 
.1  80 
.1 65 
“ 
tails
Alaska, Red............ .
.1  25 
pink............
1  10 
Kinney’s,  fiats.........
.1  96
Sardines.
American 
...........
4 * 0   5 
“ .  AS....................... „
, 
6 * 0  ,7
Imported  <41....................
*§.....................is@i6
Mustard  * a ......................  7©8
Boneless...................... 
«
Brook, 8 lb.................. ........ .2 so

Trout.

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Gages.

1 10 
3 25

Fruits.
Apples.
3 lb. standard............
York State  gallons  ..
Hamburgh
Apricots.
Live oak.....................
1 40 
Santa  Crus  ...............
1  40 1 50 
Lusk’s
1  10
Overland 
................
Blackberries.
F. A  W  .....................
90
Cherries.
Red...........................   1  10@1 25
Pitted Hamburgh...... 
1  75
White  .......................  
1  50
Erie  ......... 
1  SO
Damsons, Bgg Plums and Green 
E rie............................
1  20 
California...................
1  40
Gooseberries.
Common....................
1  25
Peaches.
Pie ...........................
90 
Maxwell....................
i  25
Shepard’s ..................
California..................   160O1  75
...............
Monitor 
Oxford  ......................
Pears.
Domestic.................... 
1 2:
Riverside.................... 
1  75
Pineapples.
Common..................... 1  00@1  30
2 50 
Johnson's  sliced
grated.......
2 75 
Booth’s sliced............
@2 51 
@2 “
grated........
Quinces.
Common....................
1  10
Raspberries.
Red  ............................
1  10 
Black  Hamburg.......
1  50 
Brie, b lack ...............
1  20
Strawberries.
Lawrence..................
1  25 
Hamburgh..............
1  26 
Brie............................
1  20 
Terrapin 
1  05
Blaeberries...............
85 
Corned  beef  Libby’s......... .  _
.1  96
Roast beef  Armour’s ......... 180
Potted  ham, *   lb............... 1 10
tongue.  *  lb......  ..135
541b.........  85
chicken, 54 lb.................  96

.....................
Whortleberries.

“  *  lb

“ 
Vegetables.

M e a ts .

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

Beans.

 

“ 

“ 

“ 
“ 

.1  40

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Peas.

Corn.

Hamburgh  stringless........... 1 25
French style....... 2 25
Limas.......................1 35
Lima, green.......................... 1 25
soaked.......................  65
Lewis Boston Baked................1 35
Bay State  Baked...................... 1 35
World’s  Fair  Baked. . . . .   1 35
Picnic Baked..........................   1 00
Hamburgh............... 
Livingston  Eden.....................1 30
Purity
Honey  Dew......................... j  40
Morning Glory...................
Soaked............................ 
75
Hamburgh  marrofat...........l  36
early Ja n e..........
Champion Bug.. 1  50
petit  pois........... 1 75
fancy  sifted___ 1 90
Soaked.................................  75
Harris standard...................  75
VanCamp’s  marrofat......  .1  10
early Jane....... 1 30
Archer’s  Early Blossom  ...1   25
French.......................
...2 15 
Mash rooms.
Prench..................
• 19©21
Pumpkin.
 
Erie...................  
85
Sqaash.
Hubbard...................................1 15
Succotash.
Hamburg...................................1 40
Soaked...... ............ 
Honey  Dew.............................. 1 50
Erie.......................................... 1 35
Hancock............................  1  15
Excelsior  . ...........................
Eclipse................................
Hamburg.......................
Gallon...........................
CHOCOLATE.
23
German Sweet................  
Premium..........................  
37
Breakfast Cocoa.............. 
43
Amboy...........................  ©13*
Acme..........................  12 *©13
Lenawee....................   ©12*
Riverside..................  
J314
Gold  Medal  ..............  ©11*
Skim...........................  6©i0
Brick..........................  
n
1 00
Edam  ........................  
Leiden .  ....................  
23
Llm burger  ...............  
©15
Pineapple...................  ©25
Roquefort.................  ©35

CHEESE.

Tomatoes.

Baker’s.

.8 50

85

 

 

CATSUP.

Bine Label Brand.

“ 

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

Triumph Brand.

CLOTHES  PINS.

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

COCOA  SHELLS.

351b  bags.....................   ©3
........  ©3*
Less quantity 
Pound  packages........... 6X©7

 

COFFEE.
G r e e n .
Rio.

Santos.

Fair.................................... >8
Good...................................19
Prime................................. 21
Golden................................21
Peaberry............................23
Pair........................   ......... 19
Good...................................20
Prime................................. 22
Peaberry  ............................23
Mexican and Guatemala.
Pair.................................... 21
Good....................................   . .22
Fancy................................. 24
Prime................................. 23
M illed................................24
Interior.............................. 25
Private Growth..................27
Mandehling.......................28
Imitation........................... 25
Arabian.............................. 28

Maracaibo.

Mocha.

Java.

Roasted.

To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add *c. 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 *  gross 
75
1  15
Felix 
Hummel’s, foil, gross.......   1 65
“ 
“  ------  2 85

“ 

. 

tin 
CHICORV.

Bulk..............................  
Red  ..............................  

5
.  7

CLOTHES  LINES.

Cotton,  40 ft......... per dot.  1  25
1 40
1  60
1 75
1 90
8b
1  00

“ 
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“ 
“ 
Jnte 
“ 
CONDENSED  MILK.

50ft.......... 
60 f t.......... 
70 f t.......... 
80«..........  
60«  ...... 
7 2 « ......... 

“ 
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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
...........................4  25
Magnolia 
Dime........ 
3 35

 

Peerless Evaporated Cream.

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

Sonders’.

Regular
Grade
Lemon.

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

Regular 
Vanilla.

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

“ 
“ 

2 00
2 50

Jennings.
Lemon. Vanilla 
1  20
2 oz regular panel .7 5  
4 os 
...1  50 
2 00
60s 
...2 00 
3 00
No. 3  taper............ 1  35 
No. 4  taper............ 150 
GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.

Kegs......................................... 3 25
Half  kegs  ...........................1  90
Quarter  kegs...........................1 10
1  lb cans..............................  30
*  lb  cans............................ 
is
Choke Bore—Dupont’s.
Kegs......................................... 4 25
Half  kegs.................................2 40
Quarterkegs..........................   1 35
1 lb cans......... ....................... 34

Eagle Duck—Dupont’s.

Kegs........................................n  00
Half  kegs  ...........................5 75
Quarter kegs..........................   3 00
1  lb  cans............................  60
Sage.................................... 15
Hops....................................is

HERBS.

INDIGO.

Madras,  5 lb. boxes  ........ 
55
S. F., 2, 3 and 5 lb. boxes.. 
50
JELLV.
17  lb. pails.................  ®  49
30  “ 
................  @  70
Pure.....................................   so
Calabria...............................  25
Sicily....................................  12

“ 
LICORICE.

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

MATCHES.

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MINCE  MEAT.

Foreign.
Currants.

“ 
“ 

Patras,  In barrels............ 
2
In  *-bbls...............   2*
2*
In less quantity___ 
cleaned,  bulk........  5
cleaned,  package.. 
5* 

Citron, Leghorn. 26 lb. boxes  12 
Lemon 
8
Orange 
10

“  “ 
“ 

Peel.
“ 
25 
25 “ 
“ 
Raisins.
Ondnra, 29 lb. boxes 
“ 
Sultana, 20 
Valencia, 30  “

©  8
©  8*

10

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Prunes.
California,  100-120........   5*
90x100 25 lb.  bxs. 6
“  ..7
80x90 
70x80 
7*
“ 
.  8
“ 
60x70 
Tnrkey.........................
Silver.......................... 
Sultana...............................
...................
French,  60-70 
70-80......................
80-90......................
90-10  ....................
ENVELOPES.
XX rag, white.

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No. 1, 6*  ........................   81  75
1  60
No. 2. 8* 
No. 1, 6  .......................... 
1  66
No. 2.6.................. 
1  50
 
XX  wood, white.

No. 1, 6*  ........................   1  3f
No. 2,6*  ........................   1  25

Manilla, white.

6*  ...................................   1 00
6........................................ 
95

Coin.

Mill  No. 4.........................  1  00
FARINACEOUS  GOODS. 

Farina.
Hominy.

Oatmeal.

33K
..............................2 75
Lima  Beans.

100 lb. kegs................... 
Barrels 
Grits........................................ 3 00
Dried............................  3©SJ4
Maccaronl and Vermicelli.
Domestic, 12 lb. box__  
55
Imported.................... 10*©. 1
Barrels 200 .......................  4  25
Half barrels 100....................  2 25
Kegs..................................  2*
Green,  bu.............. 
1  25
 
Spilt  per l b .................  
3
Barrels  180.................  @4  26
Half  bbls 90..............  ©2 25
German ... 
East India.
Cracked... Wheat.

Pearl Barley.

Rolled  Oats.

...  4*

Sago.

Peas.

...  3*

Yarmonth..........................

FISH—Salt.

Bloaters.

Cod.

Pollock..........................
Whole, Grand  Bank......  5©5*
Boneless,  bricks.............. 6®8
Boneless, strips...............  6@8
Smoked....................... 9*@12*

Halibut.
Herring.
“ 
“ 

Holland, white hoops keg 

70 
bbl  9 50

Norwegian  ......................
Round, *  bbl 100 lb s ......  2 50
*   “  40  “  .........  1 30
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 60
No. 2, 10 lbs 
Family, 90 lbs...........................6 00

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

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

55

Sardines.

Trout.

No. 1, *  bbls., lOOlbs........... 6 25
No. 1 *  bbl, 40  lbs...................2 80
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs.................   80
No  1, 8 lb  kits....................  65
Family 
*  bbls, 100 lbs.......... 87 50 83 50
H  “  40  “ 
 
......3 5  165
10 lb.  kits..................  
90  50
8.1b,  •> 
...........   75  45

Whlteflsh.

No. 1

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

MEASURES.
Tin, per dozen

1  gallon 
.........................   $1  75
Half  gallon.......................   1  40
70
Q u a it..................................  
P in t....................  
45
 
Half  pint  .......................... 
40
Wooden, for vinegar, per doz.
1 gallon..............................   7  00
....  ..........   .  4 73
Half gallon 
Q u art..................................  3  76
Pint.................  
2  25

 

 
MOLASSES.
Blackstrap.
Cuba Baking.
Porto Rico.

Sugar house................. —.. 
O rdinary............................. 
P rim e..................................  
Fancy..................................  
F a ir...................................... 
Good....................................  
Extra good.......................... 
C hoice................................. 
Fancy................................... 
One-half barrels, 3c extra.

New Orleans.

14
16
20
80
18
22
27
32
40

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.  2 50
t  2
8 3 
.  8 00
8 6 
..  800
•10 
..  4 00
820 
..  5 00
1  1 books, per hundred .  2 50
..  3 00
8 2 
8 8 
..  3 50
8 5 
..  400
810 
..  5 00
820 
6 00

“Superior.”
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1  1  books, per hnndred .  83 00
8 2
..  3 50
8 3 
..  4 00
8 5 
..  5 00
810 
6 00
820 
7 00
Above prices on coupon books 
are  subject  to  the  following 
quantity discounts:
200 books or over..  5  per  cent 
500  “ 
1000  “ 
COUPON  PASS  BOOKS. 
(Can  be  made to represent any 
denomination  from 810. down. |
20 books.........................8 1  00
2 00
50 
100 
3 00
6 25
250 
500 
10 00
1000 
17 50

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CREDIT  CHECKS.

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

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CRACKERS.

Butter.

Seymour XXX......................5*
Seymour XXX, cartoon......  6
Family  XXX .....................   6*
Family XXX,  cartoon........  6
Salted XXX...........................5*
Salted XXX,  cartoon  ........  6
Kenosha 
.......................  7*
Boston..................................  7
Butter  biscuit....................  6
Soda, XXX.........................  5*
Soda, City............................  7*
Soda,  Dnchess......................8*
Crystal Wafer......................10*
Long  Island W afers..........11
S. Oyster  XXX....................  5*
City Oyster. XXX...................5*
Farina  Oyster....................   6

Oyster.

Soda.

CREAM  TARTAR.

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

DRIED  FRUITS. 

7
7*
11
14
14*
8

Domestic.

Apples.

“ 

Peaches.

Apricots.

quartered  “ 

Snndried. sliced In  bbls 
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes 
California in  bags........ 
Evaporated In boxes.  .. 
Blackberries.
In  boxes...................... 
Nectarines.
70 lb. bags......................10
251b. boxes.................... 10*
Peeled, In  boxes..........
Cal. evap. 
“ In bags..............10
“ 
California In bags  —   10 
Pitted Cherries
Barrels..........................
50 lb. boxes...................
26 •• 
...............10
Prnnellee.
301b.  boxes.................. 15
Raspberries.
In barrels......................
501b. boxes....................
......................
25 lb.  “ 
Raisins.

“ 
 
Pears.

10*

“ 

Loose  Muscatels In Boxes.

2 crown............................... j  ie
“ 
8 
............................. 1  20
4  “ 
1  45
Loose Muscatels In Bags.
2  crown...............................3v
..............................4*
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PICKLES.
Medium.
Barrels, 1,200 count... 
Half bbls, 600  count.. 
Barrels, 2,400  count. 
Half bbls, 1,200 count 

Small.

@4 50
@2 75
5 50

3 25

PIPES.

Clay, No.  216.............................1 70
Cob, No.  8.................................1 20

“  T. D. full count...........  70

POTASH.

48 cans In case.

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

4 00

RICE.
Domestic.
Carolina head...................... 6
NO. 1.....................5V4
No. 2....................  5
Broken...............................  4

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Imported.
Japan, No. 1......................... stc
No. 2.....................5
Java....................................  6
Patna..................................  5)4

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SPICES.

Whole Sifted.

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Allspice................................   9*4
Cassia, China In mats........  8
Batavia In bund__ 15
Saigon In rolls.........32
Cloves,  Amboyna...............22
Zanzibar.................11%
Mace  Batavia.....................80
Nutmegs, fancy..................75
“  No.  1...................... 70
“  No.  2...................... 60
Pepper, Singapore, black__10
“ 
“  white...  .20
shot....................... 16
“ 
Pure around In Bulk.
Allspice.............................. 15
Cassia,  Batavia..................18
and Saigon.25
“ 
“ 
Saigon...................35
Cloves,  Amboy na...............22
“  Zanzibar................18
Ginger, African.................. 16
r‘  Cochin...................  20
“ 
.22
Mace  Batavia..................... 65
Mustard,  Eng. and'Trieste..22
“  Trieste...................25
Nutmegs, No. 2 .................. 75
Pepper, Singapore, black__16
“ 
“  white......24
“  Cayenne.................20
Sage.....................................20
“Absolute” in Packages.

Jam aica............ 

«H
Allspice.....................
84 1  55
Cinnamon..................
84 1  55
Cloves......................... 84 1  55
Ginger,  Jam aica......
84 1 55
“  African........... 84 1  55
Mustard...................... 84 1  55
Pepper .......................
84 1  55
Sage...................
84

SAL  SODA,
Kegs...........................
1)4
Granulated,  boxes....
■  1*
SEEDS.
A nise......................... @15
Canary, Sm yrna............
4
C a ra w a y ..........................
8
Cardam on, Malabar...
90
4%
Hemp,  Russian.........  
Mixed  Bird  .............. 
5@6
10
Mustard,  white.........  
9
Poppy......................... 
Rape..........................  
5
Cuttle  bone...............  
30
STARCH.

Corn.

“ 

20-lb  boxes...........................  55»
40-lb 
..........................   5H
Gloss.
1-lb packages........................  5
8-lb 
.......................5
6-lb 
6)4.
 
40 and 50 lb. boxes..............  3)4
Barrels.................................   3)4

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SNUFF.

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

SODA,

Boxes................................... 5h
Kegs, Bngllsh.......................4\

SALT.
 
 

100 3-lb. sacks..................... 12 15
2 00
60 5-lb.  “ 
28 10-lb. sacks...................  1  85
1  80
2014-lb.  “ 
24 3-lb  cases......................   1 50
56 lb. dairy In linen  bags.. 
32
28 lb.  “ 
drill  “  16  18

 
 

Warsaw.

“ 

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

Ashton.
Higgins.

.. 

Soiar Rock.

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

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

Common Fine.
 
SALERATCS.

Packed 60 lbs. In box.

Church’s ...............................5)4
DeLand’s .............................  5J4
Dwight’s......... 
....'.........  554
Taylor’s............ .-................ 5

75
75

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

1 3

SOAP.
Laundry.

Allen B. Wrlsley’s Brands.

Proctor & Gamble.

Old Country,  80  l-lb...........3  20
Good Cheer, 601 lb.............. 3 go
White Borax, 100  5£-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.

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Single box...........................3  95
5 box lots, delivered......... 3 85
10 box lots, delivered........  3 75
Jas. S. Kirk & Co.’s  Brands. 
American  Family, wrp'd..$4 00 
plain...  3 94
N.  K.  Fairbank & Co.’s Brands.
Santa Claus.......................  4  00
Brjwn, 60 bars.................... 2 40
“ 
80  b a rs................. 3 25
Lautz Bros. & Co.’s Brands.
Acme.................................  3 75
Cotton Oil..........................6 00
Marseilles......... ................   4 00
Mafter  ................................ 4 00

Thompson & Chute Brands.

r

SILVER 
SOAP J
  —... -.... ii
a  

Silver.................................. 3 06
Mono.................................. 3 35
Savon Improved......... ....  2 50
Sunflower...........................3 05
Golden  ............................... 3 25
Economical  ........................2  25

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

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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 
freight.  The  same  quotations 
will not apply to any town where 
the freight rate from New York 
is  not  30  cents,  but  the  local 
quotations will, perhaps, afford 
a better criterion of the  market 
than to quote New York  prices 
exclusively.
Cut  Loaf............................ $5 67
Powdered............................5  11
Granulated 
.................... 4  ,-4
Extra Fine Granulated...  4 86
Cubes  ...............................5  ix
XXXX  Powdered..............  5 48
Confec. Standard  A........... 4 61
No. 1  Columbia A..............   4 55
No. 5 Empire  A ................. 4 4-3
No.  6................................... 4  36
No.  7.................................... 4 30
No.  8................................... 4  17
No.  9.........................  
No.  10.................... 
No.  11.................................. 3  99
No.  12.................................  3 go
No.  13.................................. 3 86
No 14.............................  
3 74

SYRUPS.

Corn.

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

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.

j a p  an —Regular.

SUM 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  fall...........25  @35
Extra fine to finest___50  @65
Choicest fancy............75  @85
@26
Common to fair.......... 23  @30
Common to  fair...........23  @26
Superior to fine............30  @35
Common to fair...........18  @26
Superior to  fine...........30  @40
F air.............................18  @22
Choice..........................24  @28
Best.............................40  @60

ENGLISH BREAKFAST.

GUNPOWDER.

T O U N 8  HYSON.

IMPERIAL.

o o l o n g . 

TOBACCOS.

Fine Cut.

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

)4 bbls.......... 

In  drums__ 

23

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27
29
24
28
23
22

Plug.

Sorg’s Brands.

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

39
27
40
26
38
34
40
32
39
30

26
43
32
31
27

Smoking.

Catlin’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.’a Brands.
Banner.................................io
Banner Cavendish.............. 38
Gold Cut 
...........................28

Scotten’s Brands.

Brands.

Warpath.............................. 15
Honey  Dew......................... 26
Gold  Block......................... 30
F. F. Adams Tobacco Co.’s 
Peerless................................26
Old  Tom..............................18
Standard..............................22
Globe Tobacco Co.’s Brands.
Handmade...........................41
Rob  Roy..............................36
Uncle Sam.....................28@32
4 (15
Red Clover...........................a*

Leidersdorf’s Brands.

Spaulding & Merrick.

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

VINEGAR.

4 11

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

tl for barrel.

HIDES.

YEAST.

WET  MUSTARD,
Bulk, per g a l................... 
30
Beer mug, 2 doz In case...  1  75 
Magic,.................................1  00
Warner’s  ............................1 00
Yeast Foam  .......................l  00
Diamond.............................   75
Royal..................................   90
HIDES  PELTS  and  FURS 
Perkins  &  Hess  pay  as  fol­
lows:
Green............................  2@2H
3
Part Cored. 
@ 3)4 
Full  “ 
Dry.
4  @ 5
Kips,green  ...............   2  @ 3
“  cored.................  @ 4
Calfskins,  green........  4  @ 5
cored........4  y»@  6
Deacon skins....... ......10' @25
No. 2 hides X  off.
PELTS.
Shearlings..................5 ®  20
Lambs 
.............. ......25 @  60
Washed.............. ......12 @16
Unwashed......... ......  8 @12
Tallow.......................  4 @  4 /t
Grease  butter  __......  1 @ 2
Switches............. ......  1)4® 2
Ginseng.............. ......2 0<!@2 50
Badger.......................  80@1  00
B ear.......................15 00@25 00
Beaver............................3 00@7 00
Cat, wild......................  50@ 75
Cat, house  ...............  
io@  25
Fisher............................. 3 00@6 00
Fox,  red......................... 1 00@1 40

MISCELLANEOUS.

WOOL.

FURS.

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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@l  00
Mink, dark.................  25@1  00
Muskrat......................  3@  13
Oppossum..................   5@  15
Otter, d a rk ..............5 00@10 00
Raccoon....................  30®  75
Skunk  ...................... 1 00@1  25
W olf..........................1 00@2 00
Beaver  castors, lb__  @5 00
Above  prices  are  for  No.  1 
furs only.  Other grades at cor­
responding prices.
Thin and  green............  
Long gray, dry.............. 
Gray, dry 
................... 
Red and Blue, dry.......  
WOODENWARE.

deerskins—per pound.

10
10
15
25

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

Tubs,No. 1.........................  600
No. 2......................   5 50
No. 3......................   4 50
1  30
No. 1,  three-hoop ...  1  50
13 “  ....................  90
15 “  ................... 1  25
...................   1  90
17 “ 
...................2 40
19 “ 
21  “ 
...................
Baskets, market.................   35
shipping  bushel..  1  15 
..  1  25
full hoop  “ 
No.2 6 25

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“  No.3 7 25
splint  “  No.l 3 75
“ 
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No.2 4 25
No.3 4 75

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INDURATED  WARE.

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

Butter Plates—Oval.

250  10C0

Washboards—single.

No.  1...........................  
60  2 10
No  2...........................   70  2 45
No. 3 ...........................  
80  2 80
No. 5.........................  1  00  3 50
Universal...............................  2 25
No. Queen............................... 2 50
Peerless Protector....................2 40
Saginaw Globe.......................   1 75
Water Witch..........................  2 25
Wilson..................................... 2 50
Good Luck............................... 2 75
Peerless.................................... 2 85
GRAINS and  FEEDSTUFF.«

Double.

WHEAT.

MEAL.

FLOUR  IN  SACKS.

50 
No. 1 White (58 lb. test) 
No. 2 Red (60 lb. test) 
50
Bolted.................................  1 40
Granulated.........................  1 65
•Patents.............................   2 15
•Standards.........................   3 65
•Straight............................   1 55
Bakers’...............................  1 »5
•Graham..  ........................  1 60
Rye.....................................  1 60
•Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour In bbls., 25c per bbl. ad­
ditional.

MILLSTUFFS.

Less

*16 00
13 00
16 00
16 50
16 50

Car lots  quantity

CORN.

Bran.............. 115 00 
Screenings....  12 50 
Middlings......  15 00 
Mixed Feed...  16 01 
Coarse meal  ..  15 50 
Car  lots.............................. 38*4
Less than  car  lots.............42
Car  lots  ..............................32)4
Less than car lots............... 35
HAY.
No. 1 Timothy, car lots__11  <X)
ton lots....... 12 50
No.l 

OATS.

“ 

F.  J.  Dettenthaler  quotes as

follows:
FRESH  FISH.
Whltefiflh 
............  .. @  9
Trout  ......................... @ 9
Black Bass.................
12)4
Halibut....................... @15
Ciscoes or Herring__ @  5
Bluefisb...................... @15
Fresh lobster, per lb ..
20
Cod.............................
10
No. 1 Pickerel............ @10
P ik e .......................... @ 8
Smoked White........... @9
Red  Snappers............
12
Columbia  River  Sal-
m on........................
12)4
Mackerel.................... 2G@25
Falrhaven  Counts__ @35
F. J. D.  Selects......... @30
Selects....................... @23
F. J. D......................... @23
Anchors.....................
@20
Standards..................
@18
Favorite..................... @16
oysters—Bulk.
Extra Selects..per gal.
1  75
Selects.......................
1  40
Standards..................
1  00
Counts.......................
2 20
Scallops............   ......
1  50
Shrimps  ....................
1  25
Clams........................
1  25
SHELL GOODS.
Oysters, per  100......... 1 ’5@1  50
.........
Clams, 
75@1  OO

oysters—Cans.

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PROVISIONS.

SAUSAGE.

The Grand Rapids  Packing  and Provision Co. 

PORK  IN  BARRELS.
.................................... 

quotes as follows:
13 25
Mess..............  
Short c u t.......................................... YYYYY  13 75
Extra clear pig, short cut....................... 
15 50
Extra clear,  heavy......................................
'  34  50
Clear, fat  back......................................  
Boston clear, short cut...............................  14  75
Clear back, short cut............................ 
14 75
Standard clear, short cut. best............... . 
15 00
Pork, links...
Bologna.......
Liver...........
Tongue ........
Blood ...........
Head cheese
Summer........
10
Frankfurts...
1)4
Kettle  Rendered............................  
iir
G ranger...................................  
.................s*
Fam ily..................................................................
Compound..................................’ ’ ....................g
Cottoliue................................... ................   .......
501b. Tins, 34c advance. 
20 lb.  pallB, )4c 
“  ¿ c  
101b. 
“  Tic 
51b. 
3 lb. 
‘  1  c

................................  *

LARD.

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BEEF  IN  BARRELS.

 

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Extra Mess, warranted 200  lbs.......................   7 50
Extra Mess, Chicago packing....................  
7 00
Boneless, rump butts...................................!  10 00
smoked  meats—Canvassed or Plain.
Hams, average 20 lbs..........................................

16lbs..................................  9X@!0
12 to 14 lbs.......... 

H)
picnic............................................ 
 
best boneless................................  
Shoulders.........................................YYYYY.........  8
10
 
Breakfast Bacon  boneless...............  
Dried beef, ham prices....................... ... ’ 
jq
Long Clears, heavy.......................
Briskets,  medium.................................... 
lig h t........................Y. YYYYY. YYYYY.  8)4

DRY  SALT  MEATS.
ButtS.................................................... 
d . s.  Beiiies....................... Y.y. y. y. y.
Fat Backs................................................‘'' “  ’ ’  jp
PICKEED  PIGS’  FEET.
s 001  90
Barrels............................................
K egs..........................................
Kits, honeycomb............................................ 
Kits, prem ium ........................................................65
Barrels.................................... 
.»  m
Half, barrels.......................................................TT  m
Per pound.................................................................jj
Dairy, sold packed.........................   .  . 
14
Dairy, rolls......................................... ..............
Creamery, solid packed__ ..............................
Creamery, ro lls........................... 

BEEP  TONGUES.

BUTTE BINE.

............  19

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

TRIPE.

 

FR E SH   B E E F .

Carcass..................
Fore quarters  . 
Hind quarters..
Loins N o .  3 .........
Ribs.................
Rounds...........
Chucks............
piates..................................s i™
FRESH  PORK.
Dressed...........
Loins...............
Shoulders...............   ............. 
Leaf Lard......
Carcass...........
Lambs......................................... 
Carcass...........

MUTTON.

VEAL.

a  Oh

•••  ■  4)4@ 5
ftfi  ftiz
'  • * *  u  «4*  «71 
.  8  @10
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----- 5   @ 6

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CROCKERY  AND  GLASSWARE. 

LAMP BURNERS.

 

 

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Pearl top.

La Bastle.

NO. 0 Sun.........................................  
45
; ; ............................................................ 50
N0.1 
No. 2  “  ........................................... 
75
Tubular..................................................YYYY.  76
LAMP CHIMNEYS.  Per box.
6 doz. in box.

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

First quality.
“ 
“ 
XXX Flint.
“ 

No. 0 Sun...................................   .........  
17«
"’.188
“  ................................................ 
No.2  11  .........................................................    70
No. 0 Sun, crimp  top.................................. 
2  10
“ 
........0 »
No. 1  “ 
• • .......................Y.YYYYY.»»
No. 2  “ 
No. 0 Sun, crimp top............................. 
2 60
“  ..................................YY.2 80
N o.l  “ 
No.2  “ 
 
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and  labeled.........................3 70
.................” 4 70
“ 
No.2  “ 
No. 2 Hinge,  “ 
..................   4  ¿8
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb,  per doz....................  1  25
No. 2  “ 
....................... iso
No. 1 crimp, per doz....................................... 1  35
No. 3 
“ 
....................................!.l  60
No. 0, per  gross..............................................  23
No. 1, 
...............   ..........................I  28
No  2, 
 
38
No.3, 
 
76
Mammoth, per doz.........................................   75
STONEWARE—AKRON.
Butter Crocks,  1 to 6 gal.............................  do
“ 
)4 gal. per doz......................  60
Jugs, )4 gal., per (loz...................................   70
“  1 to 4 gal., per gal................................  07
Milk Pans, )4 gal., per doz..........................  60
“ 
.........................  72
Butter Crocks, 1  and 2 gal.........................  07
Milk Pans, )4 gal.........................................   65
........................................  78

1  “ 
STONEWARE—BLACK GLAZED.

LAMP WICKS.

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THE  MICTHGAJSr  t u a d e s m a n

A tlas  S oup

MANUFACTURED  ONLY  BY

HENRY  PA880LT.

SAGINAW,  MICH.

alleged employers.  Alas  for  the  weak­
ness  of  human  nature!  His  silvery 
tongue  too  often  draws  reluctant  coin 
from  the  drawer  of  many  a  naturally 
shrewd dealer, and the bell of  awakened 
consciousness afterward  clangs  the  sig­
nal to remind him that he is sold  again.

These episodes  grow less  frequent  as 
one counts the scars of  past  experience. 
Happy is he who so  keeps  his  ears  and 
eyes open to the possibility of fraud that 
he  is  able  to  treat j ustly the  customer 
who  deserves  consideration,  and  at the 
same time detects counterfeits and  confi­
dence  men  with  their  “ways  that  are 
dark and tricks that are vain.”

S.  P.  Whitm a k sh.
TD  Cr1 f ''' X Z   > O   HEADACHE
-L 
i - J W I V   O   P O W D E R S
Pay the best profit.  Order from your jobber.

CONFIDENCE  MEN  AND  THEIR 

Written tor The Tradesman.

W AYS.

Of all who  live  by  preying  upon  the 
earnings of others,  outside  of  the  gam­
bling fraternity,  the  confidence  man  is 
oftenest  brought to the  attention of  the 
public.  He  is shown  up in detail  by the 
press at  every  opportunity,  in  the  hope 
that each notice  will  be  a  timely warn­
ing to lessen the number of  his  possible 
victims.  But,  like  many  other  well- 
meant attempts to improve the conditions 
of society,  most of them prove a  failure, 
from the  fact  that  most  people  prefer 
lessons  taught  by  personal  experience 
(be they ever so harsh)  to  the  warnings 
that  come by example  or  precept.  Not 
all  confidence  men  are  under  the  sur­
veillance of the police as criminals; some 
of  them  pose  as  politicians  of  decent 
reputation,  and  all defend  their  practi­
ces as regular and legitimate business.

Their schemes  and  specialties  are  as 
varied as are different types of humanity, 
but each schemer is actuated by the same 
inordinate  desire 
to  beat  somebody, 
somehow,  by fraud or pretense,  and  get 
safely away  with  the  proceeds. 
In  all 
dealings between  honest men and  rogues 
the  latter  have  a  decided  advantage, 
since they are the aggressors and can cal­
culate coolly the most favorable time for 
the assault;  the  former  cannot  contin­
ually keep up a tension  of  watchfulness 
and  resistance,  and  that  is why the  de­
signs of the dishonest portion  of  society 
so often succeed.

The man who sells  unassessable  stock 
in some inaccessible  mine  knows  where 
to look for  men  who  have  cash  capital 
they are willing to  exchange  for  exper­
ience.  The  one who offers for one-tenth 
of its value an heirloom  in the  shape  of 
a  fine  chronometer, 
that  he  may  get 
means to reach the deathbed of a darling 
child  hundreds  of  miles  away,  seldom 
fails  to  find  someone  whose  sympathy 
runs away  with his  judgment.  There is 
also  the  man  who  calls  you  by  name, 
asks about your neighbors in  a way that 
seems  to  show  intimate  acquaintance, 
using up an hour of  your valuable  time, 
oblivious to the fact that banks  close  at 
3 p.  m.,  and  who ten  minutes  later  finds 
he has a check that  should  be  cashed— 
and  “Would you let him have the trifling 
matter  of  $50  and  keep  the  check  as 
security  until  to-morrow?”  Though  of 
course you wouldn’t,  he succeeds in  bag­
ging his game at the next  attempt,  with 
many curses at  your  suspicious  refusal 
and the time lost in “working the bloke.” 
These  and thousands of like ilk  are con­
stantly plying their vocation in the high­
ways and byways of trade and travel, al­
ways  keeping  a  watchful  eye  on  the 
guardians of the  peace,  but  occasionally 
falling into the clutches of the  law,  and 
furnishing a morsel of news  to  the  ever 
alert reporter.

Anyone  who  thinks  that  the  class 
above  described  constitute 
the  only 
chevaliers  dTIndustrie  of  this  land  can 
easily be induced to.change  his  opinion 
after a few years’ experience  as a dealer 
in some small  town  or  village. 
It  will 
depend  upon  his  knowledge  of  human 
nature and  upon  bis  native  shrewdness 
how  many times he  will  be a victim  in  a 
game  that is played  quite  as  often  and 
effectually by rural  amateurs  as  by  ex­
perts 
If  one  takes 
pains to note  how  many  such  cases  he 
meets in a given number of years, he will 
wonder at the large proportion there  are

in  a  wider  field. 

in  any  community  who  practice  confi 
dence  schemes,  in  a small way,  without 
the incentives usually supposed to govern 
their confreres who  make  it  a  lifelong 
profession.  Some  of  these  compound 
freaks will even pay cash for  purchases, 
through  months  of  square  dealing,  at 
the  sacrifice  of  dearest  inclination,  for 
the express  purpose  of  lulling  the  sus­
picions of the merchant,  if  they can  but 
succeed  in  cheating  him  out  of  a  few 
dollars in the end.

The practice  of  promiscuously giving 
credit for small sums  to  customers  who 
appear honest,  as  a  matter  of  courtesy 
and good feeling, opens the way for such 
creatures  to  start  an  account  without 
making  preliminary statements  of  their 
financial  condition.  For  a  time  they 
only seem  to  be  careless  as  to  prompt 
payment, often apologizing  for a default 
long before  the  dealer  himself  has  no­
ticed  it.  This is  a  delicate  morsel  to 
placate  the  creditor  and  give  him  the 
impression that his  customer  has  a  ten­
der  conscience  concerning  debts,  and 
that he considers honesty a prime virtue.
The  majority of  confidence  men  who 
prey on the country dealer  are  transient 
in 
their  habits.  Many  are  employed 
temporarily at farm  work,  and,  in  fact, 
scarcely one is  ever  in  a  condition  that 
makes  it  necessary  to  ask  for  credit. 
They  trade  in  their  own  peculiar  way 
until the forbearance of the good-natured 
creditor is  worn out, and they “fold their 
tents,  like  the  Arabs,  and  as  silently 
steal away” to pastures new.

Some  may  suggest  that  the  merchant 
is  himself  in 
fault  for  giving  them 
credit without a  positive  proof  of  good 
faith  or without  ample  security.  That 
would  be  true 
if  mercantile  business 
were not subject to  such  strong  compe­
tition.  Whoever puts money into  goods 
to sell again takes a certain  risk, even  if 
he never sells a dollar’s worth on  credit. 
But,  when credit is a  necessary factor in 
carrying  on  trade, one  who  deals  with 
the  business  public  must  accept  the 
increased chances as  they are,  not  as he 
would  like  them  to  be.  So  a  certain 
class of  rogues  are  enabled  to  artfully 
and 
legitimate 
trade,  because no dealer  is  mind  reader 
enough  to  always  distinguish  the  true 
from the false.  He can  only  be  guided 
by  the  fact  that  his  customers  show 
prima fade  evidence  of  honest  inten­
tion.  Fortunately, the  losses  from  the 
dishonest element are not,  in most cases, 
large enough to be  seriously felt  by  one 
who has  a  capital  proportionate  to  the 
volume of business. 
It is often  the slow 
payers among responsible customers who 
keep the  dealer  awake  nights, harassed 
by anxiety as  to  how  he  shall  maintain 
his commercial standing.

intentionally  prey  on 

But  dishonest  customers  are  not  the 
only ones for  whom  a  merchant  should 
keep  a  watchful  eye. 
In  some  hour 
when  the world  goes  easy with  him  he 
is likely to meet  a  straggling  agent  ac­
credited  from  nowhere,  who  talks  with 
such  eloquent  persuasiveness  that  the 
store  fairly glows with  the  halo  of  en­
chantment.  He expatiates on  the merits 
of his  wonderful  plan  to  increase  sales, 
make  larger  collections,  or  work  some 
miraculous improvement  in  methods  of 
conducting business. 
It  may  be  an  ad­
vertising agent promising such  large  re­
sults  from  a  most  insignificant  outlay 
that the wonder is how  he can afford the 
amount  expended  in  canvassing,  and 
where the profit is to come for himself or

This  brand  has  now  been  on 

the 
market three  years,  and  has  come  to be 
leader  wherever  intro- 
regarded  as  a 
puced.  See quotations in  Price Current.

Post’s 
Eureka 
Sap Spouts

OVER  20,000,000  SOLD.

T h e  s e  S p o u ts  w ill n o tL ,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 a t e n t  I m pr o v e d—Sugar makers acknowledge  a very large increase 
in the flow of Sap by the use of the Self-Sealing Air Trap in the Improved 
Eurekas, as claimed for them.

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

Write for prices.

Fmter&tevehs
I   & ( °

MONROfc

ST.

The 

science  and 

introduction  of 

SUPPLY  AND  DEMAND  FOR  GOLD.
Gold has,  from the earliest times,  in all 
civilized countries,  been an object  of in­
terest and of  use.  The  author  of  the 
Mosaic account of the  Garden  of  Eden, 
man’s first abode of which  there  is  any 
record,  thought  enough  of  the  yellow 
metal to mention it.  Gold was first  used 
in all  countries  for  the  personal  orna­
ments of royalty,  and  for  adorning  the 
statues  and temples of the  gods  of  the 
various  religions. 
It  is not strange that 
an  article  of  such  generally  recognized 
value  should  come  to  be  adopted  as 
money,  or  as  a general  medium  of  ex­
change,  among  all  the  nations that are 
acquainted  with it.
Gold  is  obtained  from  various  coun­
tries,  and an account is always  carefully 
made,  so that  the  yearly  production  of 
each  is  pretty  well  known. 
From  the 
figures  prepared  by  the  Director of the 
United  States  Mint,  supplemented  by 
other  official  statistics, 
the  gold  pro­
duction of 1892 is given as  follows:  Aus­
tralia,  $33,870,000;  United  States,  $33,- 
000,000; Africa. $25,101,054;  Russia, $24,- 
709,362;  China,  $3,000,000;  other  coun­
tries, $18,331,049.
These make up a total of  $138,000,000. 
From these  figures  it  is  seen  that  Aus­
tralia stands at the head  of  the  world’s 
gold producers; the United  States comes 
second,  with  nearly  an  equal  amount; 
while  Africa  is  third,  and  Russia  is 
fourth.  There  is  no  other  large  pro­
ducer,  China,  Mexico,  the  South  Ameri­
can countries, Japan and India all afford­
ing some  gold.
improved proc­
esses  of  extraction,  and  the  discovery 
of  some  new  sources  of  supply  in  the 
United  States  and  Australia,  are  ex­
pected to increase considerably  the  out­
put in  the early future; but Africa is the 
only country that is supposed to  possess 
great  undeveloped  sources. 
It  is be­
lieved  that in the  equatorial  regions  of 
the Dark Continent there are  gold  fields 
of  vast importance,  and no  great  period 
will elapse before they  can  be developed 
by  European 
industry. 
South  Africa  is  also  growing  into de­
cided prominence.  A writer in  the Feb­
ruary Forum notes that South Africa has 
been a producer only since 1887,  when its 
output amounted to less than  $2,000,000. 
Before that time  its  production  was  of 
no  importance.  After  1S87  the  yield 
was  as  follows:  1888,  $4,400,000;  1889, 
$8,800,000; 1890, $10,859,400;  1891,  $15,- 
428,000; 1892, $25,101,000.  These figures 
vary  considerably  from 
those  of  the 
Director of the Mint,  but  they are based 
on official returns published by  the  Min­
ing Chambers and the Ministry  of Mines 
in the Transvaal. 
For  1893  the official 
reports  published  by 
the  Chamber of 
Mines at Johannesburg for  the  first  ten 
months show  an  increase  over  1892  of 
200,000 ounces, and,  should  this  ratio be 
kept up for the rest of the  year,  the  re­
sult  for  South  Africa  will,  therefore, 
probably be  $30,000,000.
The  returns  for  1893  have  not  been 
made  up,  but  it  is  estimated  that  they 
will  probably  be  $148,000,000,  divided 
as  follows:  United  States,  $35,000,000; 
Australia,  $35,000,000;  South  Africa, 
$30,000,000;  Russia,  $25,000,000;  India, 
$4,000,000;  China,  $3,000,000;  other 
countries. $16,000,000.  The  figures  will 
likely go up  to $150,000,000.
The withdrawal  of  gold  from  money 
purposes into the arts has been  made the 
subject  of  conjecture.  Prof.  Soetbeer, 
of  Germany,  high authority  on  the  sta­
tistics  of  gold,  estimated  that,  of  the 
gold  produced  in the  celebrated  decade, 
1851-1860,  fully 80 per cent,  was used  as 
money,  but that  of  the  smaller  product 
of the half decade,  1881-1885, only 25 per 
cent,  was  used  as  money,  75  per  cent, 
having been  hoarded or used in  the  arts. 
The most  accurate  estimate  is,  that  of 
the total  product in 1892, of $138,000,000, 
about $75,000,000 was  used  in  the  arts, 
leaving  for  monetary  uses  $63,000,000, 
and  it  is  estimated  that  one  five-hun­
dredth  part of all  the  gold  in  existence 
disappears every  year by this  use,  as  in 
gilding,  wear and tear of golden articles, 
abrasion of coin, etc.
it should be understood  that  the  gold 
that goes into watches, jewelry and such 
like articles is not lost from the  common 
stock;  but that which Is used in gilding,

You  prophesy midnight. 

either  by  electroplate  processes  or  by 
spreading on  the  thin  leaves,  is wholly 
lost and cannot be recovered. 
If  75  per 
cent,  of the yearly product  of  gold  goes 
into the arts,  and no  large  new supplies 
are made  available,  the  time  will  come, 
at  no very distant  day,  when  gold  will 
go out of use as money;  but  that  era  is 
yet too remote to give  cause  for any  im­
mediate  anxiety.  There  will  be  gold 
enough for several  generations  to  come. 
After that  the  men  of  the  present  day 
will  have little reason  for concern.
Dr.  Talmage  on  the  Business  Outlook.
The nation is only a man  on  a  larger 
scale. 
If you  want to prostrate business 
and keep  it prostrated  talk  in  dolorous 
tones and  keep on  talking.  Let  all  the 
merchants  sigh  and  all  the  merchants 
prognosticate a hard  winter,  and  all  the 
ministers  groan  in  the  pulpit. 
In  the 
great orchestra  of  complaint  those who 
play the loudest trombones are those who 
have the  fullest  salaries  and  the  com- 
pletest  wardrobe.
The  land  is  full  of  prophets,  and  1 
have as much  right  to  prophesy  as  any 
I  prophesy that we  are  coming to­
one. 
ward the  grandest  temporal  prosperity 
we have ever witnessed in  this  country. 
Mechanics  are  going  to  have  larger 
wages.  Capitalists  are  going  to  have 
larger dividends.  The factories that are 
now  closed  are  going  to  run  day  and 
night to meet demands.  Stores are going 
to be crowded  with customers,  impatient 
to get  waited on.
I  prophesy 
midnoon.  You  pitch  your  tent toward 
I  pitch  my tent 
universal  bankruptcy. 
toward  national  opulence.  “ What  are 
your reasons?” you say. 
I give  you one 
dominant  reason—God’s  evident  deter­
mination  to  shower  prosperity on  this 
nation.
In these days  let  all  the  comfortable 
classes  exchange  the 
lamentations  of 
Jeremiah for the exultant  psalms of Da­
vid,  and we will have a different state of 
things  in  this  country. 
I  wish  there 
might be  a  conspiracy formed.  1 would 
like  to  belong  to  it,  a conspiracy made 
up  that  ail  the  merchants  and  editors 
and ministers of religion  in  this country 
agree that they would have  faith in God 
and  talk  cheerfully, and  there would be 
a revival of business immediate  and  tre­
mendous  and  glorious.  Stop  singing 
“Naomi” and  “Old Wyndom,”  and  give 
us  “Mount  Pisgah” and  “Coronation.”
Store  Locked  for  Twenty-five  Years.
From the St. Louis Olobe Democrat.
One of the curiosities  to  be  found  in 
Southern Ohio,  not far  from Chillicothe, 
is a country store which has remained  as 
it now is for  over  thirty  years  without 
the change  of  a  single  article.  When 
the war broke  out,  the  man  who  owned 
the store had a  son.  The father  was in­
tensely loyal and  persuaded  the  son  to 
enlist,  promising  the  son 
that  if  he 
should enlist, the store and  its  contents 
should be  his  when  he  returned.  An­
other call  for troops  came,  and  the  old 
man locked up the store  and  shouldered 
a  musket.  He  remained  in  the  Army 
until peace  was  declared,  and  then  re­
turned to his home.  His wife  had  died 
in  the  meantime,  and  uo  tidings  had 
ever  been  received  from  the  son.  The 
father  worked  a  small  farm  that  he 
owned,  but never entered  the  store,  say­
ing  that  it  should  be there  as  it  was 
when the son came home to claim  it.  A 
quarter of  a  century  has  gone,  but  no 
word yet from  the missing  son,  and  the 
store  stands locked just  as  it  was  over 
thirty years ago,  the old man,  now in his 
dotage,  refusing  to  allow  anyone  to 
enter it.

When the employes  in an Indiana fur­
niture factory operated  by a German re­
cently struck for eight hours’ work a day 
he granted it;  but  when they wanted ten 
hours’  pay  for  eight  hours’  work  he 
called  them  up  and  said:  “My frien’s, 
maype  I do  as you  like.  1 haf an order 
for  ten  dozen  shairs. 
from  Shecago 
Vhill,  I’ll shoop  him  eight  dozen  and 
bill him for ten. 
If he doan kick on me, 
it  shows  me  dot  der  rule  works  both 
vhays,  und ve vos all right.”  It is need­
less to add that the idea didn’t work, and 
that the men  are  receiving  eight  hours’ 
pay.

A

Lemon  & Wheeler Company,

Agents,  Grand  Rapids.

SEND  US  YOUR

B E A N S ,
WillAIways Give Full MartetYalie

WE  WANT  THEM  ALL,
NO  MATTER  HOW  MANY.

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

REEDER  BROS. SHOE  CO ,

Grand Rapids, Hlch.

Before  You  Buy

SEE  THE  SPRING  LINE  OF  FINE 
GOODS  MANUFACTURED  BY

DETROIT,  MICH.

A  FEW  OF  OUR  NEW  SPECIAL 
TIES  IN  OXFORDS  ARE:

The  Juliet  Bootee,  Three  Large 

Button  Newport,  Southern 

Tie and  Prince Alberts.

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

M i c h i g a n  (T e n t r a i

“  The Niagara Falls R oute’*

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

•Daily.  All others daily, except Sunday.

Arrive. 
Depart
10 20d m...........Detroit  Express  ...  __ 7 ooam
5 30am  — »Atlantic and  Pacific......1  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  7:0)a m;  re 
turning, leave Detroit 4:55 pm, arriving at Grand 
Rapids 10:20 p m.
Direct  communication  made  at  Detroit  with 
ail through  trains east  over  the  Michigan Cen 
tral Railroad (Canada Southern  Division.»
A.  Almcjuist, Ticket  Agent,
CHICAGO

F E B .  11,  1894
AND  WEST  MICHIGAN  R’Y. 
GOING  TO  CHICAGO.

Union  Passenger station.

TO  AND FROM   M USKEGON

TR A V ER SE  C ITY ,  CH ARLEVOIX  AND  PETO SK EY .

RETURNING  FROM  CHICAGO.

hv. G’d Rapids............   7:25am  1:25pm  *11 :?0pm
Ar. Chicago 
.  1:25pm  «:50pm  *6:30am
»  - 
..............7:85am  4:55pm  *11:30pm
Ar. G d Rapids............ 2:30pm  10:20pm  *6:10am
Lv. Grand Rapids  ......  T:25am  1:25pm  5:45pm
Ar. Grand Rapids....... 10:55am  2:30pm  10:20pm
3'15pm
 
Lv. Grand  Rapids.. 
7:30am 
Ar.  Manistee...........  12:20pm 
8’15pm
.... 
Ar. Traverse City....  12:40pm 
.........   8:45pin
11:10pm
 
3:15pm 
Ar. Charlevoix  ...... 
Ar.  I etoskey 
3:45pm 
 
ll:4opm
Arrive  from  Petoskey,  etc.,  1:0»  p  m  and 
10:00p. m.
Local train to White Cloud  leaves Grand Rap­
ids 5:45 p. m., connects  for  Big Rapids mid  Fre­
mont  Returning,  arrives  Grand  Rapids  11:20 
a. in.
PA RLO R  AND  SL E E PIN G   CARA.
ToChicago.lv. G. R..  7:25am  1:25pm *11:3!pm
To Petoskey ,lv.G. R ..  7:30am  3:15pm 
.........
To G. R.  lv. Chicago.  7:35am  4:55pm *11:30pm
ToG. R..lv. Petoskey  5:Ooam  1:30pm 
...........
•Every day.  Other trains week days only.
DETROIT, 
FEB- »■1894
_________ LANSING &  NORTHERN  R.  R.

 
 

 

GOING  TO  DETROIT.

TO  AND  FROM  SAG IN A W ,  ALMA  AND  ST.  LOUIS.

RETURNING  FROM  DETROIT.

Lv. Grand Rapids........  7:00am *1:20pm  5:25pm
Ar. Detroit.................. li :40am  *5:30pm  10:10pm
Lv.  Detroit..................   7:4'am *1:1  pm  6:00pm
Ar. Grand Rapids  ......12:40pm *5:15pm  10:45pm
Lv. G R 7:40am 5:00pm  Ar. G It  11:40am 10:55pm
Lv. Grand Rapids  .........  7:00am  1:20pm 5:25pm
Ar.from Lowell..............12:40pm  5:15pm  ..........
Parlor  Cars on all trains  between  Grand Rap 
Ids and Detroit.  Parlor car to Saginaw on morn 
ing train

THROUGH  CAR  SERVICE 

TO  LOW ELL  VIA  LOW ELL  Sc  HASTINGS  R .  It

WAUKEE  Railway.
EASTW ARD.

3 25pm
4 27pm
5 20pm
6 05pui 
8 00pm 
8 37pm
7 < 5pm
8 50pm 
8 25pm 
925pm

10 20am
11 25am 
1217pm
1 20pm
3 45pm
4 35pm
3 45pm 
6 50pm 
305pm
4 05pm

•Every da.,.  Other trains  week days only.
GEO. DkIIAVKN, Gen.  Pass’r Ag’t
D ETKOlT,  GRAND  HAVEN  A  MIL­
Trains Leave
+No.  14 tNo.  16 tNo.  18•No.  82
G’d  Rapids,  Lv
6 45am
10 45pm 
Ionia...........Ar
7 40am
12 27am
8t.  Johns  ...Ar
8 25am
1 45am
O w o s s d ......  Ar
9 00am
2 40am
E.  Saginaw  Ar 
10 50am
6 40am
Bay City  .... Ar
11 32am 
7 15am 
F lin t.........Ar
10 o5am
5 4  am 
Pt.  Huron... Ar
12 05pm
7 30am 
Pontiac....... Ar
10 53am
5 37am 
Detroit........ Ar
11 50am
7 00am
W ESTW ARD.
•No. 81 tNo. 11 ItNo. 13.
7 00am
1  UOpm  4 55pm
8 20am
2  10pm 1  6 00pm

...  Lv 
...  Ar
tDaily except  Sunday. 
Trains  arrive  from  the  east,  6:35 a.m.,  12:60 
Trains  arrive  from  the  west, 10:10 a. m., 3:15 
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.
______________.I a s .  C a m p b e l l . City T'cket Agent.

G’d Rapids........
G’d  Haven........

Trains Leave

»Daily.

G rand  R apids  S t Ind ian a.

TRAINS  GOING  NORTH.

L e a v e  g o in g  
North.
For Traverse City,  Mackinaw City  and Sag...  7.40am
For  Traverse  City and Mackinaw  C ity ...........  4  00pm
For  Saginaw............................................................5:00 pra

TRAINS  GOING  SO U TH .

Leave going 
South.
For  Cincinnati.......................................................  6:50 am
For Kalamazoo and  Chicago.............................. 12 05 pm
For Fort Wayne and 
the  East.......................... 3:35 p m
For  Kalamazoo  and  Chicago............................ 11:20 pm

C h ica go  v ia  G.  R.  &  I.  R.  R.

11:20 p m
7:40 a m
12:05 p  m  train  solid  with  Wagner  Buffet  Parlor 
11:20  pm   train  daily,  through  coach  and  Wagner 
9:35 pm
7:25 a m
4:00  p  m solid with  Wagner  Buffet  P arlor  Car  and 
9 35 p m  train daily, through Coach and 

Lv Orand Rapids..........................12:05 p m 
Arr  Chicago..................................6:30 p m  
Car.
Sleeping Car.
Lv  Chicago 
Arr Grand Rapids 
Dining Car. 
Wagner Sleeping  Car.

6 50 am   4:00 p m  
2:15 p m  9  15 p m 

For Muskegon—Leave. 

7:35 am  
5:40 p m 

a a k e g o n , G ra n d   R a p id *  & I n d ia n a .
9:40am
6:20p m
O. L. LOCKWOOD,

From Muskegon—Arrive

General Passenger and Ticket Agent.

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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

GOTHAM  G O SSIP.

News  from  the  Metropolis— Index of 

the  Markets.

Special Correspondence.

New York, Feb. 24—The tone of the gro­
cery  market daring the week has steadily 
improved,  and  jobbers  generally  are  in 
quite  a  comfortable  frame  of  mind. 
Nearly every one called upon  reported  a 
satisfactory week, all things  considered, 
and,  while  prices  are  not  materially 
higher,  they show firmness such  as  they 
have not exhibited for some  time.  This 
does not apply  to  all 
things,  however, 
and canned goods,  in particular, are dull, 
while dried fruits also languish.  Buyers 
have not been  present in  great  numbers 
and  Thursday  was  quite  generally  ob­
served as a holiday.  Some Lenten goods 
have been in good demand and fish of  all 
sorts is held  at firm  rates.
The coffee trade is slow,  both for  spot 
and in a speculative way.  No.  7  Rio  is 
selling at the moment  at  17%c.  Future 
trading shows a slight falling  off  in  the 
total amount passing and  a slight decline 
in  price,  Feb.  closing  at  15.S5@15.90c; 
March 15.65@15.70c.  The total stock  in 
this city aggregates 238,000 bags,  and the 
supply in the  country  altogether  is  set 
down at  268,611  bags.  For  the  milder 
sorts,  including  Java,  Maracaibo,  etc., 
prices are very  well held and the outlook 
is good for their continuance  to  a  point 
at least  as high as  at  present  for  some 
time.  Good Malang Java is  worth  from 
21>i@22c; Maracaibo,  18@22c; Savanilla, 
21@23%c;  Mexican,  21@22>^c;  Central 
American,  18K@22%c.
Teas are weak and show  scarcely  any 
signs of life or  snap.  Buyers  attending 
the auction do  so for fun, and in the  ab­
sence of any speculative  movement,  the 
trade at large is in a lethargic  condition.
Sugars  have  moved  slowly  all  the 
week, and prices of refined have remained 
as  usual  at  4% @4 7-16c  for granulated 
and 5@5 3-16c for crushed.  Raw sugar is 
dull and transactions are few and far be­
tween,  pending Congressional action,  the 
Trust is waiting to  see  what  will  turn 
up.
Molasses  and  syrups  both  drag,  the 
amount of business being small.  Foreign 
grades  are  unchanged.  New  Orleans, 
ll@17c,  as to quality, with choice  up  to 
22c.  Syrups 14@20c the latter for prime 
centrifugal sugar goods;  open kettle,  25 
@30c.
Spices are selling  slowly,  the  demand 
being altogether of  an  everyday charac­
ter.
Dried fruits show  slight  improvement 
in  some lines,  particularly  for  currants 
and  California raisins.  The  low  prices 
at which the latter have been offered  are 
stimulating buyers,  and, though  there  is 
still a  greater  advance  needed  to  place 
the business on a profitable basis, holders 
feel  slightly  encouraged.  California 
prunes,  too,  are  doing  better  and  the 
orders  are  becoming  quite  numerous 
from all  sections.  Turkish  and  French 
prunes are unchanged.
For beans the market is dull and prices 
have been  shaded  somewhat  during  the 
week.  For choice  white pea beans $1.75 is 
about the top of the market, with medium 
practically the same.
Canned goods are dull  and  nothing  in 
the  list  is  active.  Corn  and  tomatoes, 
especially,  are  drooping.  Dried  fruit 
seems to have the “call” at  the  moment, 
and,  while  most  attractive  prices  are 
made for the canned stuff,  no  one  seems 
to  be  particularly  anxious  to  load  up 
with it.
Butter is fairly steady, yet  the market 
lacks animation.  Top notch for Western 
creamery is  27c Western  firsts, 24@25c. 
From this prices are down to 2I@22c.
Cheese  is  moderately  active  and  the 
market is generally  steady, some  marks 
being fractionally higher.
Fresh fruits, foreign and domestic,  are 
selling well, although shipments are very 
cautiously  made  during 
severe 
cold.  Lemons are  steady at  a  range  of 
$1.75@2.50;  Sicily oranges,  $1.75@2.50; 
Florida oranges, $1.25@2.50.  Apples are 
out of sight.  What few are arriving sell 
at $4.50@6.  Apples are more  of  a  lux­
ury than oranges.  Cranberries are firm, 
within the  range  of  $6@8  per  bbl  for 
sound fruit. 

Jat.

the 

“ Wie viel kosten die Muetzen?”
“Heh?” said the girl.
“ Wie  viel  kosten  die  Hauben?” said 
the  German  lady,  pointing to the coun­
ter.

“Oh, the hats'  These are a dollar and 

those are a dollar and a half.”

“Aber!”  exclaimed  the German lady, 

“sprechen Sie nicht  Deutsch?”

“Oh,” said the girl  briskly,  “ we sprek- 
ken  Deutsch  pretty  well,  but  we’d  a 
good deal rather sprekken English.”

F in an cial  N otes.

It  is  stated  that  Phil. M.  Roedel, the 
White  Cloud  banker,  will  close out his 
business at  that  place  and  remove  to 
California.

Frank  Willison,  assignee  of  the de­
funct Pond bank at  Climax,  was  in  the 
city  a  few  days  ago  and is reported as 
having  stated  that  $8,000,  the  amount 
necessary for a payment of  55  per cent, 
of the  outstanding  liabilities,  had  been 
collected and  was  ready  for  depositors 
to  draw  upon.  He  thought  that  ulti­
mately a full settlement  would  be  made 
and that Mr.  Pond  would  resume  busi­
ness.

The  D ru g M arket.

Gum opium is very firm at the advance 

and higher prices are looked for.

Morphia  has  advanced 10c  per  ounce 
and another advance is  expected  by the 
first of March.

Quinine is steady.
There are no  other  changes  of impor­

tance.

Tolman’s Jumbo  Java  is  unequalled. 
street 

’Phone  J.  P.  Yisner,  Bridge 
House.

A   M atter  o f  Sh irts.

One of the most peculiar men on the road 
I is Frank M. Bemis, who has  traveled sev­
eral years  for  the Grand  Rapids  School 
Furniture Co.  His most marked character­
istic is  his  disposition  to  load  himself 
down with clothing,  both undergarments 
and  overcoats,  until  locomotion  is  ap­
parently very difficult.  When not on the 
road,  Mr.  Bemis  resides  with  his sister 
at Columbus,  Ohio,  who says her brother 
is sometimes so  absent minded about his 
clothing that be does  not seem to realize 
when  he  changes  his  clothes.  On  the 
occasion of a recent trip she  packed  his 
valise for  him,  including  a  half  dozen 
new  shirts.  When  he  had  returned 
from the  trip, she  examined  the  valise 
and found it  empty.  She  said,  “ Why, 
Frank,  where are your shirts?”

“I don’t know;  aren’t  they there?”  he 

replied.

“No,”  she  said.  “ Your  valise  has 
none in  it, and when you  left  here  you 
had half a dozen.”

“I don’t know what  became of them,” 
remarked  Mr.  Bemis.  But  that  night 
upon disrobing for  bed,  he  found  that 
the whole  six  shirts  were  on  his  own 
person.

A   M islead in g 1  P la c a rd .

In the window of a West Side millinery 
store a placard is displayed  which reads 
thus:

x------------------------------ x
x  Hier wird Deutsch gesprochen.  x
x-------------------------------------------x
This led the wife  of a German  brewer 
to  go  into  the store one day. 
She saw 
no one who looked  like a  German,  but, 
approaching a young saleswoman  behind 
a pile of bonnets, she  inquired:

n . J.  ROQAN,

Representing

BILL l GflLDWELL,

NKW YORK,

W ill  h a v e   h is  s a m p le   lin e   o f  H ats, C aps 
a n d   S tr a w   G oods  on   v ie w   M o n d a y   a n d   T u e s­
d a y   n e x t,  M a rch   8 th   a n d   6 th   at

Kalamazoo House, Kalamazoo•

Mr.  Rogan  will  pay  the  expenses of merchants coming 

from  a distance to see  him.

6 
6 
6 

Bbls.  Palls.
7
7
7
8*4

Palls.
6*4
6*4
7*4
8
8
8
8
8*4
9
13
.........   8*4
.........  8
Palls.
........  8*4
........  9*4
........  12
........  12*4
........  5
........  7*4
........  8*4
........  10
Per Box
......... 50
......... 50
......... 60
......... 75
......... to
......... 40
...... 1  00
......... 80
...........60
......... 65
...........60
...........70
...........55
...........55
. . . ,85@95
......... 80
...........90
...........60
........1  00
...........60
........  34
........  51
........  28

 

3 25

i 50
2 50

4 00

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

STICK  CANDY.
Cases

Standard,  per  lb...........
“  H.H...............
Twist  ............
“ 
Boston Cream...............
3ut  Loaf.......................
Extra H.  H..................

8*4
.  8*4
MIXED CANDY.

Standard........................
Leader..........................
Royal............................
Nobby..........................
English  Rock..............
Conserves....................
Broken Taffy...............
Peanut Squares............
French Creams............
Valley  Creams............
Midget, 30 lb. baskets..
Modern, 301b. 
....

.. 

“

“ 
FANCY—In bulk

Bbls.
.5*4
.5*4
-6 *4
.7
.7
7*4

•' 

“ 

fancy—In 5 lb. boxes.

Lozenges, plain...........
printed........
Chocolate Drops...........
Chocolate Monumentale............
Gum Drops...................
Moss Drops...................
Sour Drops..................
Imperials....................
Lemon Drops..............
Sour Drops......   ..........
Peppermint Drops........
Chocolate Drops...........
H. M. Chocolate Drops.
Gum Drops..................
Licorice Drops..............
A. B. Licorice  Drops...
Lozenges, plain............
printed........
Imperials......................
Mottoes.........................
Cream Bar....................
Molasses Bar...............
Hand Made  Creams....
Plain Creams...............
Decorated Creams........
String  Rock.................
Burnt Almonds............
Wlntergreen  Berries...
CARAMELS.
No. 1, wrapped, 2 lb.  boxes......
No. 1, 
No. 2, 
Florldas,  126....................................................  2 50
150-176.........................................   2 75
California», 250-288 St.  Michaels...................   3 00
80-96-112  Novels 
.....................  2 75
126-1 0-176 
126 Riverside Seedlings...........  2 75
...........  2 50
10 
120-200-216-226............................  2  75

“
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ORANGES.

“ 
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“ 

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2 

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“ 
BANANAS.

 

“ 

“ 
“ 

LEMONS.

“  50-lb.  “ 

“ 
“  extra 
“ 
“ 

Small........................................................... 
Large.........................................................  
Extra choice 300 ............................................   3 50
Extra choice 360.............................................   3 25
Extra fancy 300...............................................  4 00
Extra fancy 360................................  
OTHBK  FOREIGN  FRUITS.
Figs, fancy layers, 6ft..............................  @13
“  10f t..........................   @13
“  14ft..............................  @15
Dates, Fard, 10-lb.  box..............................  @ 7
..........................   @ 5*4

Persian, 50-lb.  box......................  @  5
@16
@15
®
©10*4
@11
@13
@10
@12
@12
@11 
@ 7*4
1  25 
4  00
@  5 
@ 6V4 
@ 5 
®  6* @  4 
@ 5*4

NUTS.
Almonds, Tarragona............
Ivaca......................
California............
Brazils, new..........................
Filberts..................................
Walnuts, Grenoble.  .............
French.....................
Calif......................
Table  Nuts,  fancy................
choice..............
Pecans. Texas, H.  P.,  .........
Chestnuts...............................
Hickory Nuts per bu..............
Cocoa nuts, full sacks............
PEANUTS.
Fancy, H.  P., Suns...............
“  Roasted
Fancy, H.  P., Flags..............
“  Roasted...
Choice, H. P.,  Extras...........
**  Roasted.
O IL S .

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BARRELS.

The  Standard  Oil  Co.  quotes  as
Eocene..............................................
XXX W.  W. Mich.  Headlight.........
Naptha..............................................
Stove Gasoline..................................
Cylinder...........................................
E ngine............... .............................
Black, 15 cold  test............................
FROM  TANK  WAGON.
Eocene 
...........................................
XXX  W. W.  Mich.  Headlight........

LIVE.

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

DRAWN.

follows:

.27
.13

8*4
@ 6*4 
@ 7* 
@36 
@21 
® 8*4

5

•  8  @8*4 
.  7  @ 8 
.  6  @ 6*4 
.  8  @ 9 
.  8  @ 9
.10  @11 
.10  @11 
9  @10 
.10  @11 
.10  @12
9  @ 9*4 
7*4® 8 
6*4®   7 
8  ® 9 
8  @ 9

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SOLD  BY  ALL  FIRST-CLASS  GROCERS

MANUFACTURED  BY

MAIN  OFFICE:

CHICAGO,  270  KINZIE  STREET.

MICHIGAN  AGENCY:

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Address  all  communications  to  THE  FERMENTUM  CO.

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MANUFACTURERS  OF

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GraGkBrs  and  Fine  Sweet  Good.

•JOBBERS  OF

Groceries and Provisions,

W E constantly have the  interests of the 

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

Our  BUTCHER’S  LARD  is a  Pure Leaf  Kettle Rendered 
If  you  want  something  cheaper  try  our  CHOICE 

Lard. 
PURE,  in  tubs  or  tins,  and  guaranteed  to  give  satisfactic 

Note  these  prices:

The  Continued  Patronage  of  the  Oldest  Established  Grocery 

Houses  in  the  State  is  our  BEST  TESTIMONIAL.

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

 

 

 

 

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.

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We  also  take  Orders  for  the  Celebrated  KENNEDY  BISCUIT, 

made  at  onr  Chicago  Factory.

S.  .A.  SJBAJRS,  Manager,

GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICH.

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The  New York Condensed  Milk  Company takes  pleasure  in  announcing that the trade is 
now prepared to supply you with
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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 
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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 $  
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