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TALE  OF  AN  ADVENTURESS.
There is no greater menace  to  society 
in general,  and to the peace  and comfort 
of individuals in particular,  than  a  bad 
woman.  To be  such  a  menace  to  the 
fullest  extent  she  must  be  young,  at­
tractive and shrewd.

There will  be some among my  readers 
who will remember the case  of the wom­
an known as Belle  Clifton,  although her 
career closed a quarter of a century  ago. 
I had heard  and  read  of  her  for  five 
years before she  got  her  ten-year  sen­
tence to the prison in which  I  was  dep­
uty warden,  and therefore had  consider­
able interest in her.  Had one been able 
to gather together the  handsomest  girls 
in four of the largest cities of the United 
States  this  Belle  Clifton  would  have 
been the queen of  beauty  among  them. 
She began her career at  14,  and  she was 
entered on the  prison  records  as  being 
19 years of age.  With facial  beauty  she 
combined a wealth of golden  hair,  small 
feet,  dainty hands,  and  a  voice  of won­
derfully magnetic  powers.  No  man  or 
woman could  look  into her  face  and  be­
lieve her  guilty.  But  for  a  bungling 
piece of business on the part  of her law­
yer she might  not  have  been  convicted 
when she  was. 
In hopes  to conceal  her 
identity,  he brought her  into  court with 
her  face  bandaged  up,  and  declared 
she was  suffering  with  neuralgia,  and 
the jurors  saw nothing  of  her  beauty. 
Before telling you of her career in prison 
let me relate some  of her  outside  expe­
riences.

As  near  as  could  ever  be 

learned, 
Belle Clifton was born in  Chicago.  She 
was taken to a town in  Iowa when three 
months old and  deserted  in  a  railroad 
depot.  She was  adopted  by  a  family 
named Clifton, and  they  gave  her  both 
her names.  As a baby,  a  child,  and  a 
young  girl,  her  beauty  gave  her  local 
fame.  While she  obstinately refused to 
attend school she picked  up a great deal 
of general knowledge,  and  without  any­
one to advise her  she  fell  into ways  to 
make the most of her influence  on  man­
kind. 
In opposition to her  bringing  up 
and  general  surroundings  she  deliber­
ately selected  the  career  of  an  adven­
turess. 
It was  probably  in  the  blood. 
At the age of  14  she  disappeared  from 
home and went to St.  Louis.  The  story 
she told at  one  of  the  hotels  enlisted 
sympathy.  She had  prepared  her  yarn 
in  advance,  and  although  every  state­
ment was false she made  everybody  be­
lieve that every word was  gospel  truth. 
No less  than  three  prominent  families 
offered to adopt  her.  She  accepted  the 
offer  of  one,  and  began  her  career. 
There was a son who was to  be  married 
soon,  and when  Belle  had  been  in  the 
house less than a month she laid  certain 
charges at  his door.  They  were  false, 
but rather than  have  any  talk  the  girl 
received a sum of money and was told to 
go.  She departed  for  Cincinnati  and on 
her arrival  sought  out  a  prominent  di­
vine, claiming to believe  that  he  could 
give her information about her relatives. 
Here is the  story  the  good  man  after­
ward told the police:

“I was favorably  impressed  with  her 
I never saw a  more  truth­
appearance. 
ful,  honest  face.  Her  voice  charmed 
me.  She was  but  a  child,  and  all  my 
sympathies were at  once  roused. 
I  re­
ceived her  in  my  study,  as  I  did  all 
others.  She was there for about  twenty 
minutes,  telling me a story which  I  im­
plicitly  believed,  but  which  was  en­
tirely false.  When she arose  to  go  she 
demanded $500 of me,  threatening  to  go 
before a judge and swear  out  a warrant 
against me if I  didn’t  hand  it  over.  1 
was at first  dumb  with  surprise.  Then 
I defied  her  and  threatened 
in  turn. 
She was  perfectly  calm,  and while  ad­
mitting  my  entire  innocence,  she  ar­

for  on 

interview. 

gued  that  I  could  not  afford  to  be 
dragged  Into  court  and 
scandalized. 
The result was that I gave her  the  mon­
ey.  Had  she  been  a woman  I  would 
bave defied her to the  end.  A  child  of 
her years possessed of  such  attractions, 
would have carried public  sympathy  by 
storm.”
Miss Clifton’s beauty attracted men by 
the score,  but she had no  use  for  them. 
She  detested  compliments,  and  would 
permit no one to  make  love  to  her,  ex­
cept to further  her  purposes.  While  in 
Cincinnati she claimed to be  looking  up 
the history of her  mother,  who  she  said 
died in a hospital  under  another  name. 
She not only  told  a  straight  story,  but 
even  employed  a  private  detective  to 
search for information.
Four  weeks  after  blackmailing  the 
minister she spread  her net for the  pres­
ident of a bank.  She had never seen the 
man  when  she  entered  the  bank  and 
asked 
Strangely 
enough,  he  had  returned  from  Europe 
only two days before.  She did not know 
whether he  was married  or  single,  but 
took  her  chances  on  that  point.  His 
story  was as follows:
“I was  very busy,  but  supposing  her 
to be fatherless  or  an  orphan  who  had 
come  on  bank  business,  I  asked  her 
into  my private  office.  She  did  not  sit 
down,  as I ,of course,  asked her  to,  but, 
standing with one hand on  my desk,  she 
looked me straight in  the  eyes  and  said 
that if I did not give her a thousand dol­
lars  in  cash,  she would  tell  the  whole 
story to my wife. 
I listened like  one  in 
a  dream. 
I could  not  comprehend  her 
meaning  until  she  bad  repeated  her 
words.  There  was  a  sad  smile  on  her 
beautiful face;  there  were  tears  in  her 
big blue eyes.  There  she  stood,  an  or­
phan of fifteen,  and her  very pose  called 
I had just returned from 
for sympathy. 
Europe,  and I had never set eyes  on  her 
before.  She had no hold on me. 
If  she 
went to my wife or to the courts  I  could 
prove  her  a  liar  and  blackmailer,  and 
yet I handed  her over that thousand  dol­
lars.  Why?  Well,  because it was  busi­
ness. 
If a j ury had cleared me  of  every 
taint and sent her to prison  besides,  the 
general  public  would  never  have  been 
quite  satisfied.  She  thanked  me,  pock­
eted the greenbacks, and walked out, and 
you can be  sure  that  I  had  nothing  to 
say to  anyone.”
When Belle  Clifton  arrived  in  Balti­
more she went to board  with  a  widow to 
whom she had been  recommended.  She 
claimed to be an  English  girl  in  search 
of 
information  regarding  her  father, 
who had  been  a  soldier  in  the  Confed­
erate service  and  died  under  that  flag. 
In  no time at all she had a score of people 
ready  to assist her,  and to carry  out  her 
plans she frequently went to Washington 
and employed special clerks to dig among 
the records in the archives.  No trace of 
her father could  ever  be  found  among 
the  captured  records. 
In  Baltimore  at 
that time was a  man  about  30  years  of 
age,  who was posessed of a large fortune. 
He had fallen in  love with  the  daughter 
of a Cleveland millionaire and they  were 
to  have  been  married  within  a  short 
time.  Miss  Clifton  heard  of  this  case 
through  a lady  who called on the widow. 
She made a few cautious inquiries, ascer­
tained  that the gentleman was in  bis of­
fice from 2 to 4 o’clock every  afternoon, 
and one  day she  set  out  to  pay  him  a 
visit.  What happened is  best told in his 
own  words:

“Her excuse for desiring a  private  in­
terview was that she  came  from  Cleve­
land and was  well  acquainted  with  my 
betrothed. 
I  thought  her  one  of  the 
loveliest and most charming girls  I  ever 
saw.  She  gave her name as Miss Chris­
tian,  and  claimed to  have  been  a  dear 
friend of my  betrothed for three  or  four

it. 

into  a 

court  of 

years. 
I was  expecting  her  to  deliver 
some message when she  suddenly looked 
up and  remarked  that  not  a  cent  less 
than  $2,000  would  settle 
I  was 
stunned.  Settle  what? 
I  was  wond­
ering  whether I  was",‘awake  or  asleep 
when she said that if I did not hand over 
the money she would  swear to a warrant, 
drag  me 
justice, 
and even  if the jury cleared  me  my affi­
anced  would  break  the  engagement. 
When  I  discovered  her  purpose  I  was 
terribly indignant and boldly defied  her, 
but five minutes  later  I  took  a  different 
view of things.  While I cursed  her and 
could  hardly  keep  my  hands  off  her 
throat,  I paid her  the  money.  My good 
name and future happiness were at stake.
For  five  years  Belle  Clifton’s  career 
was  unchecked.  There  were  two  reas­
ons  for  this—first,  because  she  worked 
entirely  alone,  and,  secondly,  she  made 
no mistake  in  her victims.  She  did  not 
ask for exorbitant sums,  and though  she 
had no hold  whatever  on  any  man,  each 
one paid  the money  rather than be  scan­
dalized.  The “job” for which the woman 
was convicted and sentenced was planned 
and carried  out in Boston.  She invented 
excuses to go to the  office  of  a  wealthy 
broker  several  times  and  to  bave  him 
call on her  at  least  twice.  He  was  a 
widower,  but soon  to  be  married  again. 
She  demanded  $5,000  of  him,  and  be 
stood up and defied her to  do  her  worst. 
She made the mistake of taking him  into 
court,  probably  being  angered  over  bis 
defiant  attitude.  The woman  he  was  to 
marry at once broke the engagement, and 
he was the subject  of  much  public  and 
private scandal.  This  made  him  thirst 
for  revenge.  He got the case put off and 
set  detectives at work,  and in  the course 
of time he traced the girl  clear  back  to 
the home from  which she had  run  away. 
When the  trial  came  on  she  stood  un­
masked,  and after his acquittal he caused 
her  arrest,  and did  not  let  up  until  the 
doors of a State prison had closed behind 
her.

to 

Prison officials are not easily beguiled, 
but I must admit that Belie Clifton  pull­
ed the  wool over our eyes in  fine  shape. 
She hadn’t been  with  us two weeks  when 
we began to look upon  her  as  a martyr. 
She told her  story  in  such  a  way  that 
you  felt yourself believing every word of 
it.
She  won  the heart  of  the  matron  in a 
week,  and  in  less  than  a  month  was 
treated more like a guest than a prisoner. 
Our prison was open to  the public  sever­
al  hours each  day,  and  everybody  who 
came  wanted 
see  “the  beautiful 
prisoner.” 
In  one  month  six  different 
men offered to marry her in case she  was 
pardoned,  and nine-tenths of  the  female 
visitors gave  her  their  sympathies. 
I 
should not tell tales out of school, but to 
show you  the  strange  power  she  pos­
sessed I will state that the prison doctor, 
the chaplain,  the warden,  a turnkey  and 
a guard  were all  “soft”  on  Miss  'Clifton 
at the same time,  and yet  all  were  mar­
ried men.  You  will want  to  know  how 
I stood.  Well,  I  was  courting  a  good- 
looking girl at the time and  so  escaped 
the epidemic,  though  I  won’t  deny  that 
I thought her innocent,  and  would  have 
signed a petition for her  release.
The matron of the prison  had  a  sister 
living about half a mile from the  prison. 
After Belle Clifton had been  with us five 
months this sister was taken ill,  and  the 
matron  was  in the habit of running  over 
there after breakfast  and  after  sqpper. 
One evening I was coming up from  town 
in  a buggy and encountered  the  matron 
on the  highway.  We  nodded 
to  each 
other,  but after I had passed on it struck 
me that  the good  woman,  whose  weight 
was 160 pounds had  suddenly  lost  flesh. 
When 1 turned  to look,  I  was certain that 
I
some one had  borrowed  her  clothes. 

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turned about and overtook  her,  and  be­
hold it  was  Belle  Clifton!  1  took  her 
back and made  an  investigation,  and  it 
did not surprise  me  overmuch  to 
learn 
that the matron  was  in  the  plot.  She 
believed the girl innocent and  was  will­
ing  to help her get away.  The  political j 
situation  was  rather  ticklish  just  then, 
and so nothing was done that  the  public 
heard  of.  A  month  later  the  Governor 
of the State dropped in one  day  and  in­
quired for Belle  Clifton.  He  had  been 
appealed to  by a  score  of outsiders  who 
did not believe her  guilty.  The  matron 
and myself were present at the interview. 
The Governor had the record of her trial, 
and  he started  in  without a doubt of  her 
guilt,  but two  hours  later  he  was  very 
much in doubt.  She not  only  glibly ex­
plained  away  the points bearing  hardest 
against her,  but  accused  the  Bostonian 
so circumstantially that it seemed  to  be 
a case where he  had evoked the  power of 
the law to uphold  his  wrongdoing.  She 
spoke  without  halting  or  hesitating. 
She seemed to anticipate  every  question 
and  have an answer  ready. 
It  was  not 
alone her way of telling it,  but she knew 
just where to smile,  just where to drop  a 
tear,  just where to  look  so sad and heart­
broken that  you  wantea  to  pat  her  on 
the head and tell her  to  put  on  her  hat 
and walk out. 
It may be  a  mean  thing 
to give the Governor away,  but  I’ll  bet 
boots to buttons he  was a  bit  “soft”  on 
the girl himself when  he left the  prison.
I don’t  know  how  things  would  have 
turned out  in  the  matter  of  securing  a 
new trial  or a pardon or  a  commutation 
of sentence had not  something  occurred 
to  render  further  proceedings  useless. 
The Doctor’s wife  was  an  almost  daily 
caller at the  prison,  and  of  course  she 
had the run of the place.  She was great­
ly interested 
in  Belle  Clifton,  but  not 
foolish enough to be  willing to  help  her 
escape. 
It amounted to about  the  same 
thing,  however.  The  Doctor’s  wife 
brought  laudanum to cure toothache, and 
in  return  Belle Clifton gave her a dose of 
it in  something  they  were  drinking  to­
gether 
in  the  matron’s  private  room. 
When the drug had taken effect,  the  fair | 
angel  dressed  herself  as  the  Doctor’s | 
wife and passed the guards and got  safe-| 
ly away. 
It’s  my  private  opinion  that 
at least two of the guards knew  her,  but 
were glad  to  see  her  get  away.  The 
search for  her  was half-hearted,  and  she 
made good  her  escape,  and 
later  on  1 
heard that she  was  living 
in  England. 
Her escape created a prison  scandal,  and 
several men were  bounced,  and the  Gov­
ernor was so cut up over  being  taken  in 
and done for that he made it  hot  for  all 
hands for the  next  year.  Neither  as  a 
private individual,  a business man,  nor a 
public official do I want  anything  what­
ever to do with  handsome  women. 
I  re­
gard them as  more  dangerous  than  the 
bombs of the Anarchists.

Ja c k so n   'G rocers  A fter  th e   P edtilers.
J ackson,  Feb.  23—1  mail  you  under 
separate  cover  copy  of  the  Patriot  to 
show you  we are still  after  the  peddler. 
Twice before  our  petition  died  in  the 
hands  of  the  Ordinance  Committee. 
This year we went to  the City  Attorney 
and paid  him  to  draft  a  form  of  ordi­
nance,  when  our  Committee  took  it  to 
the President  of  the  Council  (Brewer), 
and  he  presented  it  with our  petition  at 
the last  meeting.  Our  Committeee  are 
now 
laboring  with  the  aldermen,  and 
the prospects are that it will  pass  at  the 
next meeting of the Council. 
If  we  can 
accomplish this,  I  shall  feel  our  Asso­
ciation has not been  in  vain.

D.  S.  F lem ing,  Pres.

The newspaper  article  to  which  th e. 

writer refers is as follows:

Several  attempts  have  been  made  by 
the grocers and dealers in fruits and vege­
tables to  have  an  ordinance  passed  re­
quiring persons engaged  in  peddling  on 
the streets to pay a license.  The regular j 
dealers claim,  and  justly  too,  that  they I 
are taxed on  their stocks to aid in  paying 
the  running  expenses  of  the  city  and 
that it is no more  than  right  that  those 
engaged  in direct competition  with  them 
should bear their  proportion  of  the  ex-1 
pense. 
It is  not the idea of  the  grocers I 
or anyone else  to  tax  persons  who  sell 
only their own products,  such as farmers |

stand,  stall, 

or gardeners,  but  simply those who  buy 
of  the  producers  or  wholesalers  and I 
hawk  these goods  about the streets.
At  the  last  meeting  of  the  council 
Alderman  Brewer  introduced  an  ordi- 
| nance  which is intended as a  solution  of 
this  problem.  The  provisions  of  the 
ordinance are  in  substance as follows:
Section  1  provides  that  no  person  or 
persons shall engage  in  the  business  of 
hawking,  pack or  other  peddling  in  the 
streets  or  other  public  places,  or  from 
door to door in the city of Jackson  with­
out  first  procuring  a  license  from  the 
city  recorder.
Section 2 provides  that  it  shall  not  be 
lawful  for any person  or  persons  to  en­
gage  in  the  business  of  selling  fruits-, 
vegetables,  produce  or  other  articles 
whatsoever,  from 
cart, 
wagon,  pack,  basket,  or  in  any  manner, 
on  any  of  the  public  streets,  parks, 
grounds,  places,  or  alleys  in  said  city 
without first  having  obtained  a  license 
from the city  recorder.
Section 3 provides that  any person  de­
siring to  engage  in  the  above  business 
shall make  application  to  the  recorder 
for a license,  stating the goods  to be sold 
and  the  place  and  manner  of  selling 
them,  and whether on  foot  or  with  one 
animal or more.
Section 4 merely  outlines  the  manner 
in  which the license is to be secured.
Section 5 provides that  all such licens­
es  issued  shall  continue  in  force  until 
the  31st  day  of  May  following.  The 
rates  for  licenses  are  fixed  as  follows: 
For every huckster,  hawker  or  peddler 
who travels  on  foot  and  carries  fruits 
vegetables,  produce  or  other  goods  in 
band-cart,  wagon or  basket,  $20  for  one 
year.  For every  one  who  travels  with 
one horse or other animal, $30; for every­
one who travels with two  or more horses 
or  other  animals,  $50.  At  the  end  of 
each three  months after the  31st  day  of 
May a corresponding  reduction  shall  be 
made in  the amount  but in no  case  shall 
the  amount  charged  be  less  than  one- 
fourth the  full sum.
Every  person  engaging  in  such  busi­
ness  with  a wagon,  cart or  other  vehicle 
shall  have his name and  the  number  of 
his  license printed on  the  outside  of  bis 
vehicle,  in  letters and figures of not  less 
than one inch in  length.
Persons licensed must  not  occupy  the 
street or sidewalk in such  manner  as  to 
interfere with or interrupt travel.
It is made  the  duty  of  every  person 
securing such license to preserve and ex­
hibit the same to any  policeman or  other 
person  whenever requested to do so.
The penalty for  violating  the  provis­
ions of this ordinance is a fine of not less 
than the license  fee  and  not  to  exceed 
$100,  besides costs of prosecution, or im­
prisonment in the county jail  not  to  ex­
ceed three months, or both such  fine and 
imprisonment.
Section 12 provides that this ordinance 
shall not be construed so as  to  apply  to 
any  person or  persons  coming  into  the 
city  with  teams or  otherwise  with  any 
produce to sell to dealers,  or to  any  per­
son selling vegetables or berries or other 
produce of their own farms or  premises, 
or to mechanics who sell  articles of their 
own  manufacture or construction.
the 
committee on ordinances,  and  will  prob­
ably  come up for final  action at the  next 
meeting of the council.________________

The  ordinance  was  referred  to 

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at  the office of my agents, provided  the head is 
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Where  the  head  is  shiny or  the  pores  closed, 
there is no cure.  Call and  be examined  free of 
charge.  If you cannot  call, write to me.  State 
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handling these brands,  and  any  dealer can  do  the same.

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THE  ABOVE  BHANDS,

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Are sold with our personal  guarantee.

If you are not now handling any of our brands, we solicit  a  trial order, confident that the ex­
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regular customer.

Correspondence  solicited. 

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A B S O L U T E   T E A .

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THK  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,

UNIONISM.

or Business.

invention  of 

Always Evil, Whether Applied to Labor 
Competition—free,  open  and  active— 
is the very soul of business.  It originates, 
developes and perfects ideas  which  crys- 
talize  into improved  practice.  Necessi­
ty is said to be the  mother  of  invention, 
and competition,  of the free  sort,  neces­
sitates  the 
labor-saving 
machinery and the evolution of  business 
methods which  will  have  the  greatest 
tendency to  check  losses  arising  from 
waste  and 
leakages,  curtail  expenses, 
and increase  profits.  True  competition 
is the test which  proves  the  value of  in­
dividuality.  Nature  ordains  that  none 
but the fittest can survive; that none  but 
those who possess superior skill, patience 
and endurance  can  expec*  to  win;  and 
comperition,  free and unfettered,  is  na­
ture’s plan for  applying  the  test.  This 
plan may not seem  a  just  one  to  those 
who fall by the way,  but it is the inevita­
ble law of nature and natural  ways  and 
means are always the best. 
It weeds out 
incompetence;  deals  out  retribution  to 
the vicious and dishonest,  and  prevents 
the indolent and  improvident  from  ris­
ing above the level of the common  herd. 
It is the only true  key  to  progress  and 
human advancement,  and  by  its  virtue 
alone can  man’s greatest  possibilities  in 
self-development be drawn out.

In  these modern  times men  are  prone 
to  overlook  these  truths.  Nature  and 
nature’s 
laws  are  looked  at  from  the 
same standpoint  that  our  grandfather’s 
laws are looked at,  and  one  is  consider­
ed to be quite as amendable  and  repeal- 
able as the other.  The  “survival  of the 
fittest”  may  have  been  all  right  when 
our great-grand-fathers burned  nervous, 
hysterical old  women  under  the  impres­
sion that they were  witches;  but  in  this 
year of grace it is looked upon as  an  ex­
ploded idea. 
In the evolution of modern 
thought a grand scheme has been devised 
whereby not only the fittest may survive, 
but all, regardless of Individual  skill  or 
ability,  may 
survive.  This  modern 
scheme which  is to  frustrate  the  design 
of  the  Creator  and  revolutionize  the 
forces of nature is called unionism.

If 1 lose control of my  pencil  before  I 
get through with this article,  and  write 
some plain words,  the  reader  will  con­
sider where it comes from and mercifully 
overlook  it. 
In  order  to  avoid  “vain 
repetitions,”  I shall use the term “union­
ism” as meaning  “combined  effort,”  re­
gardless of any  particular  name  it  may 
be known by in  the  business  world. 
It 
will be understood, of course, that I do not 
mean combined efforts for  doing  good— 
such as the  suppression  of  vice  or  the 
advancement  of  morals—but  for  the 
gratification  of  selfish 
inclinations  by 
combining for  the  purpose  of  gagging 
competition in view  of  increased  gains.
Unionism was  born in greed,  and,  like 
every other thing of so mean a parentage, 
it has been the fruitful  source  of  strife 
and turmoil ever since its  birth. 
It  has 
pitted class  against  class  and  placed  a 
gulf between capital and  labor  so  wide 
and so deep that it has become  the  great 
problem of the day how to bridge over  it 
in safety to  the  commonwealth. 
In  its 
effort to remove the  penalty  of  violated 
natural law from  the  individual,  it  has 
given a community representing  a  trade 
or interest a  degree  of  power  which  it 
could not otherwise obtain,  and which  is 
made use of by  enforcing  tribute  from 
It  has  read­
other trades  or  interests. 

justed values on a false and unjust  basis 
and  swallowed  up 
individuality.  Of 
what use is superior skill or  a  more  ex­
pert artisanship on the part of  the  indi­
vidual unit  in  unionism?  None  what­
ever,  so far, at least,  as the  price  of  his 
labor  is  concerned.  What  consummate 
nonsense it is to assume that the labor of 
any one man for a given  time  is  worth 
no more than that of any  other  man  for 
the same space of time!  What nonsense, 
I say; and yet this is  pure  unionism,  as 
put  into  practice.  The  veriest  block­
head  knows 
labor  of  one 
mechanic may be  worth  double  that  of 
another; yet unionism fixes a price which 
governs  each,  thereby  knocking  excel­
lence  on  the  head  for  the  purpose  of 
propping up inferiority.  Where labor is 
paid for  by the  piece,  or  according  to 
quantity—like type-setting, for instance— 
the injustice is  no  less  observable,  for 
quality cuts  fully  as  great  a  figure  in 
regulating the  true  value  of  labor  as 
quantity.

that 

the 

Unionism may,  in  theory,  have  some­
thing about it that  sounds  like  benevo­
lence and brotherly love; but,  as  put into 
practice,  it  is  nothing  but  usurpation, 
It 
senseless  greed  and  base  tyranny. 
usurps  prerogatives  which 
lie  entirely 
beyond its own legitimate  rights,  dicta­
ting where it has no right to dictate,  and 
enforcing its dicta by cowardly  intimida­
tion, in various forms and  by brute force, 
in  utter disregard of the rights of others. 
It  was  conceived 
in  greed,  as  before 
stated,  and every act of its miserable  ex­
istence is the outcome of greedy motives. 
Its constituent  parts were once free  men 
who proudly boasted of  their  individual 
liberty in  the struggle for  life; but when 
increased  competition  demanded  a 
an 
corresponding 
individual 
capabilities,  they  dodged  the  issue  by 
merging  their individualities into union­
ism in order to enforce,  by  intimidation 
and otherwise,  a support  to  which  they 
were not entitled  and a reward  for  per­
sonal  services  fixed  arbitrarily  without 
any regard to  individual  merit.  These 
once free men are  no longer free.  Their 
greedy cowardice overcame them.  Their 
individual liberty  has  been  burned  to 
ashes on the altar of unionism,  and  now 
they are nothing but spokes in  a  wheel, 
or hairs  in  a  dog’s  tail  that  “ waggeth 
when the dog  listeth.”

increase  of 

In practice,  unionism is tyranny of the 
basest kind. 
It is said that  all  men are 
born equal,  but this is not true except as 
to the origin of life and  the  manner  of 
being  born.  No  two  men  are  exactly 
similar in size,  shape,  temperament,  dis­
position or ability;  and no two  men  cul­
tivate,  develop and make use  of the  nat­
ural  talents  they  possess,  in  a  similar 
manner,  either  for their  own  benefit  or 
that of their fellow men. 
In this  sense, 
therefore,  all men  are  not  born  equal. 
We find  that some men are born into the 
world  with  only  one  poor  little  talent, 
while others are blessed  with  many  tal­
ents,  all of which are  of  greater  magni­
tude; yet,  by dint of hard, patient,  perse­
in  self-improvement,  we 
vering 
often 
the  man 
the 
talent  better  able 
cultivated  dwarf 
to  cope  with 
life 
than  his  more- highly -favored-by- na­
ture brother who  has  neglected  his  op­
portunities.  Now,  what  is  the  use  of 
cultivating  the  brain  which  God  has 
given us if it will not lessen the struggle 
for existence or add to the  sum  total  of 
it  does  have  this
happiness?  And 

the  obstacles  of 

labor 
find 

with 

if 

effect,  then is it not reasonable to assume 
that it will place  us in  an  advantageous 
position?  And what advantage  would it 
give us  in  open  competition  with  our 
fellow men,  if  it  did  not  add  value  to 
services rendered by us,  or enable us  in 
some way to secure a greater reward  for 
our  labors?

There was a time in the history of  this 
country  when  the only  thing  necessary, 
in order to win an approving  smile  from 
the goddess  of  fortune,  was  simply  to 
“manifest”  a desire  for it and get into a 
proper position to receive it;  but  this  is 
no longer  the case.  These positions  are 
all  occupied  and  overcrowded  with  a 
surging  mass  of  devotees,  pinching, 
struggling and clamoring  for  the slight­
est  recognition,  but  their 
importuning 
brings not  the  coveted  smile.  Has  the 
Goddess turned a deaf  ear to  her  admir­
ers?  No; she is said to be a  fickle  jade, 
but the charge of fickleness  arises  from 
the  fact that she is  constantly  changing 
her standard  of  personal  merit,  raising 
it higher  and  higher  as  competition  in­
creases.  Fortune’s  favors  are  few 
in 
number.  She  bestows  them  upon  the 
fittest  one in a  100 and frowns  upon the 
ninety and  nine.  Unionism  may  storm 
her castle en  masse; but the walls of that 
castle are impregnable and the  treasures 
it contains are guarded  by  the  immuta­
ble laws of  our  being  and  will  be  dis­
tributed according to the test  of  individ­
ual merit only.

for 

for 

It 

the 

it  possible 

common  whole 

Unionism, as applied to business,  is  as 
unjust and unnatural,  and  as  detrimen­
individual 
tal  to  the  development  of 
capabilities  as  when  applied  to 
labor. 
It is the merging  of  individualities  into 
one 
the  pur­
strangling  competition  and 
pose  of 
thereby  making 
the 
whole to  succeed. 
is  simply  an  at­
tempt to do  an  impossibility.  As  well 
might men join  hands in a  vain  attempt 
to reach a  good,  ripe  old  age  by  over­
coming the possibilities of  accident  and 
disease!  A combined  effort of this  kind 
would be as efficacious in removing  con­
stitutional  weaknesses and avoiding pre­
mature physical collapse  as  a  combined 
effort on the part of business men  would 
be in destroying  the effect  of  individual 
incompetency and avoiding  business col­
lapse.  Ask the white headed old veteran 
of  85  to  tell  you  of 
friends  of 
his youth, and learn the story of business. 
He will tell  you that only  two  or  three 
remain  out  of  the  one  hundred  of  his 
class who  started  together  on  the  jour­
ney of life,  each bouyant  with  hopes  of 
reaching the goal of a  ripe  old  age;  but 
the pathway was so beset with dangerous 
places and  frowning,  formidable  obsta­
cles,  that on  either  side  all  along  the 
way were  to  be  found  the  bleaching 
bones of those who  lacked  the  physical 
stamina to withstand the test.  Unionism 
will not cure physical weaknesses, neith­
er will it overcome  individual  incompe­
tency in the  struggle  for  business  suc­
cess.

The  aim  of  unionism,  in  any  of  its 
forms,  is to rob ccmpetition of  its  legiti­
mate  prey  by  the  arbitrary  fixing  of 
prices,  whether it be labor,  merchandise 
or the raw  material  or  product  of  the 
manufacturer.  The principle is precise­
labor, 
ly the  same,  whether  applied  to 
merchandising  or  manufacturing. 
It  is 
a union,  or  merging  of individualities, 
which are  assumed to be equal  in  force, 
into one body, thereby securing a concen­
tration  of power which  can  be  wielde

the 

in  other  words, 

8
by the body  for  the  mutual  benefit  of 
each of its  constituent  parts.  The  sum 
of  this  new  power  which  unionism 
creates is certainly equal to  the  sum  of 
all of its constituent  parts;  but,  as  the 
parts are not equal  in  power,  the benefit 
derived by each will  be measured accord­
ingly; 
individual 
member will  find  that his success in busi­
ness depends,  not on  his  loyalty  to  un­
ionism,  but  on his own  personal  qualifi­
cations—hence,  we  find  that  business 
failures  are  not  checked  in  the  least, 
even  where  unionism  prevails 
in  its 
most perfect form. 
Indeed, any business 
man who does  not  possess  sufficient  in­
dividual  capacity to  cope  with  his  fel­
low men in  an open  field,  will  find  that, 
by losing  his  identity  in  unionism,  he 
subjects himself to the dictation of others, 
and  this  dictation  does  not  and  can­
not make success  easier  for  him. 
If  it 
comes  from  those who,  by virtue of their 
superior advantages,  are on  the  road  to 
success it will do him  no good;  and  if  it 
comes from those  who are  weaker  than 
himself,  as  it  frequently  does, 
it  will 
handicap his efforts  and do  him  a  posi­
tive injury.  A  man  who  possesses  su­
perior skill  can  command  and  receive 
more for his labor than  one  less  skilled; 
and the retail  merchant  who  possesses 
the necessary capital  and  business quali­
fications;  who  knows  how  to  buy,  and 
what and  when  to  buy,  will  sell  more 
goods and realize a larger profit  on sales 
than  his  incompetent  rival  across  the 
street.  Adaptation,  thorough  training, 
close  application and  unyielding  perse­
verance is the  highway  to  success,  and 
unionism  will  prove a curse to any  man 
who is able to  walk  therein.  Thus  we 
see that  unionism injures the  competent 
and  cannot save the incompetent.

The only excuse for  unionism  is  that 
of self  defense  and  mutual  protection. 
This  has  some  force  now  that  it  has 
gained a foothold; and class  has  become 
pitted  against  class;  but  no excuse can 
be offered for its .conception.  Wholesal­
ers are  united  for  the  regulation  and 
maintenance  of  prices  and  business 
methods,  and retailers join hands for the 
protection of  their  interests.  Manufac­
turers  and 
capitalists  erect  barriers 
about their interests, and labor retaliates 
in  the same  manner for the protection of 
its own  interests.  And  so  we  find  the 
various interests of the country in arms— 
for  that is  what unionism means—for the 
enforcing of  what  they  are  pleased  to 
claim as  their  rights.  Every  combined 
effort of  this  kind  acts  as  a  standing 
menace  to everything outside  of  it,  and 
the new power thus  gained  is  made  use 
of  arbitrarily and without  the  least  re­
gard  to 
intrinsic  values  or  the  laws 
which govern  supply and demand,  in the 
fixing of prices which are quite often  un­
reasonable,  unnatural and unjust.

in  practice.  Any 

Organization for the purpose of mutual 
aid  and  mutual  improvement  is  com­
mendable;  but  combined  efforts  for the 
purpose of gagging  free  and  open  com­
petition by  bolstering  up  prices  or  en­
forcing  unnatural  trade  regulations 
is 
wrong in  principle,  selfish in theory  and 
combined 
unjust 
movement  whose  objects  and  purposes 
are purely  mercenary  will  work  an 
in­
justice to all  interests outside  of  it  dur­
ing its  miserable existence.  Self  is  the 
only  vehicle  that  ever  carried  a  man 
through to  success.  Cultivate,  develop 
and strengthen  it,  therefore,  and  see  to 
it that it  breaks  not  down  by  the  way- 
side through a  lack of knowledge  as  to 
the best means of  avoiding  an  obstruc­
tion in the highway. 

E.  A. Owen.

AMONG  THE  TRADE.

AROUND  THE  STATE.

J.  A.  Baker in the grocery busines.

Rapid  River—Baker & Darrow succeed 
Clifford—J.  W.  Buffum  has  purchased j 

the general stock of  G.  YV.  Perry.

Menominee—J.  Powell  succeeds  Jos. 

Huilicka in the grocery business.

Mendon—Fred  Engel  has  purchased 
the boot and shoe stock of W. W. Bishop.
Bay  City—The  Ueberoth  Crockery  & 

Wallpaper Co.  succeed,  Ueberoth  &  Co.
Muskegon—August  Clug,  of  the  gro­
cery  firm  of  Van  Zant,  Clug  &  Co.  is 
dead.

Delton—Boynton  &  Norwood  succeed 
Geo.  R.  Main  in  the  grocery  and  meat 
business.

Lansing—Hunt &  Loyd,  grocers,  have 
dissolved,  Eberhard  Hunt continuing the 
business.

Menominee—M.  Telot & Co.  have  pur­
chased  the meat business  of  Hastings  & 
Pellant.

Plainwell—S.  H.  Link  has  closed  his 
clothing  store  and  moved  the  stock  to 
Kalamazoo.

Rochester—Woodward  &  Lintz  suc­
ceed Platt  M.  Woodward  in  the  furni­
ture  business.

Baraga—J.  Gottliebson  has  removed 
his general  stock  from  Michigamme  to 
this  place.

Escanaba—Ed.  Erickson  succeeds  Er­
ickson  Bros.  &  Blanche«  in  the  cloth­
ing business.
hardware  dealer,  is  succeeded  by  the 
Bliss  Hardware Co.

Constantine—The  late  Sheldon  Bli 

Battle Creek—The  Battle Creek  Hard­
ware  Co.  has  sold  its  stock  of  goods  to 
L.  D.  Brocket & Son.

Daggett—The Wesmton Lumber Co. has 
sold its general  stock  of  merchandise  to 
Westmon  &  Dunham.

Reed City—William &  Niergartb,  gen 
era!  dealers,  have  dissolved,  Henry  R 
Niergarth succeeding.

Kalamazoo—J.  H.  Roenneau  &  Co. 
grocers,  have dissolved, J.  H.  Roenneau
continuing  the business.
Detroit—Major &  Isham,  produce  and 
commision  dealers, have  dissolved,  Geo. 
I.  Major & Son succeeding.

Pewamo—W.  H.  Triphagen has opened 
a grocery  store  here.  W.  J.  Gould  & 
Co.  furnished the  stock.

Detroit—Edw.  A.  Gott  has  been  ap 
pointed receiver  for Win.  Brown  &  Co. 
dealers in  trunks,  bags,  etc.

Otsego—Henry  Sperry  has  purchased 
the  interest  of  his  partner,  Joseph Der 
hammer  in  their  grocery  store. 
□Wayne—Steers  &  Kingsbury,  general 
dealers,  have dissolved, C.  H.  Kingsbury 
continuing the business.

Saranac—Otis  & Winslow, agricultural 
implement  dealers,  have  disolved,  L. L. 
Winslow  continuing  the  business.

Detroit—Hodgson  &  Howard,  dealers 
in hardware and house furnishing goods, 
are succeeded by the  Hodgson  &  Howard 
Co.

Traverse City—Wm. J.  Hobbs has pur­

Eastlake—M.  J.  Pulcher, who has been 
identified  with the  general  store  of  the 
Michigan Trust Co.  (R.  G.  Peters  Salt  & 
Lumber Co.)  for several  years,  has  sev­
ered his  connection  with  that  corpora­
tion  and embarked  in  the  shoe  business 
on bis own  account.

Cadillac—Herbert Snider  and  William 
Hoag  have  formed  a  copartnership  in 
the  grocery  business  which 
they  will 
carry  on  in  the  store  now  occupied  by 
John  Carr’s  bazaar.  They  have  pur­
chased  so  much  of  Mr.  Carr’s  stock  of 
goods  as  will  be  available  in  their  line 
of  trade,  but  in  the  grocery  and  pro­
vision  line  will  put  in  an  entirely  new 
tock.
Zilwaukee—W.  H.  Routier,  who  has 
conducted a general  store  here  for  the 
past three years,  has  become  financially 
embarrassed and filed  chattel  mortgages 
to  different  relatives,  the  amount  of 
which  aggregate  $1,935.  A  real  estate 
mortgage for the same amount was given 
at the same  time,  thus  covering  all  his 
property.  For  some  time  Routier  has 
been slow in  meeting  obligations,  and at 
present be is indebted to Saginaw whole- 
ale  houses  to  the  extent  of  $4,000  or 
$5,000.

Muskegon—The  Wm.  D.  Hardy  Co. 
has made another  addition  to  its  stock 
and  April  1,  the  shoe  store  of  C.  L. 
Dearborn now  connected,  but  in  reality 
separate from the Hardy store,  will  be  a 
part  thereof.  Mr.  Dearborn  will  retire 
from the  business and  Frank  McGough, 
for a long time connected  with  the  Chi­
cago  shoe  house  as  manager,  will  be 
manager  of  this  store.  The  Chicago 
shoe house will discontinue  business  by 
that time.

Howard  City—The  contemplated  cold 
storage warehouse,  which W. H. Bradley, 
of  Greenville,  and  C.  F.  McGeorge  of 
this  place,  intended  to  build  at  Green­
ville this  spring, for the  accommodation 
of their wholesale egg and  butter  trade, 
has been abandoned.  They will do busi­
ness  this  season,  however,  under  the 
new  firm  name,  Bradley  &  McGeorge, 
Mr.  Bradley  continuing  to  reside 
in 
Greenville  to  look  after  the  business 
there,  while McGeorge will  have  charge 
of this end of the line.

MANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

Lake  George—The  Lovejoy  sawmill, 
recently  purchased  by  W.  S.  Winegar, 
started last week.  The  mill  has  2,000- 
000 feet of logs on hand.

Bay City—Tierney &  Fisk  are  arrang­
ing to erect a  factory  for  the  manufac­
ture of  cigar  boxes,  which  will  employ 
thirty hands.

Harrison—The Clarence  Lumber Co. is 
operating a lumber  and  shingle  mill,  a 
logging railroad and  a  general  store  at 
Clarence,  ten  miles  east  of  this  place. 
thousand
The  company  owns  several 

chased the interest of his partner  in  the | acres of land.
hardware firm of Austin & Hobbs and will 
continue 
name. 

Ray  Mills—The  Hall  &  Munson  Co. 
the  business  under  his  own  recently received two car loads of yellow 
lumber  for  the  manufacture  of
It came all the  way  round  from 
stock of dry goods to Holmes  &  Dancer, | Pensacola to Boston  by  sea,  and  thence 
of  Stockbridge,  who  have  moved  it  to , to the Soo by rail.
th at  place.  Chelsea  now  has  only  two j  Ludiugtou—Repairs  on  all  the  saw-
dry goods stores. 

Chelsea—Geo.  U.  Kempf  has  sold  his  doors. 

pine 

forward j  Rujid  a fence  anywhere,  and  the  first
Butternut—C.  Cross  has  retired  from | rapidly,  so that they  shall  be  ready  for | Boy who comes along will  want  to  climb 

j mills  here  are  being  pushed 

the  firm  of  Cross  &  Isham,  dealers  in  an  early  start.

The  new  mill  of  the ! it.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,

I general merchandise and boots and shoes.  Cartier  Lumber  Co.  and  Butters  & 
The remaining partner,  W.  Isham,  has  Peters will be  among  the  first  to  open
formed  a  copartnership  with  his  father 
and  the business will  be  continued  un­
der the style of A.  R.  Isham  &  Son.

the sawing season.

Detroit—The  Detroit  Cash  Register 
Co.  has been incorporated with  a capital 
stock  of  $50,000.  The  amount  paid  in 
consists of  patents contributed  by  Will­
iam T.  and  Homer  McGraw  and  legal 
services contributed by Israel  T.  Cowles 
and  Thos.  S.  Jones.  They  are  the  in­
corporators.

Sidnaw—Marion  B.  Boyd,  who  had 
been  logging  here  for  G.  A.  Bergland, 
recently left for the east,  leaving several 
items of indebtedness unpaid. 
It is said 
he  owed  Mr.  Bergland  $5,000  and  the 
Twohy  Mercantile  Co.  over  $600,  and 
several other creditors  various  amounts. 
Boyd came to Sidnaw from  Cadillac.

Menominee—The  Bay  Shore  Lumber 
Co.  will operate its mill the  coming  sea­
son  only 10 hours  a  day  instead  of  12 
hours,  as has  been  the  practice  in  past 
years.  This  will  necessitate  a  curtail­
ment of the lumber cut of about 2,000,000 
feet.  Reports from this  company’s  log­
ging operations are that two weeks’ more 
work will complete  the  cut.  Only  15,- 
000,000 feet will be  put  in  this  winter, 
about 5,000,000 feet less than was banked 
last|season.  Last spring the mill had about 
8,000,000 feet of  logs left over from  1892 
to  begin  work  on,  which  amount  was 
considerably  larger than the surplus now 
on hand.

Manistee—There is  a  decidedly  better 
tone to the lumber  market. 
It  looks  as 
though manufacturers had  had  some  in­
formation of  late  that  braced  them  up 
somewhat,  as they feel  decidedly stiff  as 
to  prices.  The prevailing idea seems  to 
be that green  piece stuff is going to  open 
at $10.50 to $11  with dry at the  usual  ad­
vance  over that  figure.  Hemlock  piece 
stuff is quite firm at $6.50  on  dock  here 
and common  inch is held at  from  $11.50 
to $12.50,  according to the grade  of  logs 
from which it is cut, while a better grade 
ranges from $16 to $18,  according  to  the 
amount  of  pickings.  About  shingles, 
there is little doubt at present as to  how 
they are going to  open, but  the  general 
opinion is that there will  be a  good  deal 
better market this season than  there was 
last.  Notwithstanding  the  low  prices 
obtained last season  there is not the  sur­
plus on hand  that one  would  imagine.

Marquette—A few days  ago  the  Dead 
River Mill Co.,  which is the name of  the 
branch of the Cleveland Sawmill & Lum­
ber Co.  here,  purchased from  the  Muni­
sing Iron  Co.  all  of  its  pine  timber  in 
Alger  county.  A  conservative  estimate 
of the  timber  would  be  30,000,000  feet 
and the price paid exceeds slightly $100,- 
000.  The  Munising  Iron  Co.  was  orig 
inally  formed  for  the  manufacture  of 
charcoal pig  iron,  and  purchased  about 
60,000  acres  of  hardwood  lands,  which 
are  undoubtedly as fine a  body of  hard­
wood timber as can be found on the  Up 
per Peninsula.  The pine timber is large 
and very choice,  and most of it  scattered 
through  the  hardwood  can  be  cheaply 
put into the Au Train  river.  The  Dead 
River  Co.  proposes  building  a  spur  to 
the timber from the Duluth,  South Shore 
&  Atlantic  Railway,  and,  if  these  ar 
rangements  are perfected,  work will  be 
gin on the  branch  early  in  the  spring 
and  lumbering will be carried on  during 
the summer,  the logs coming to  the  mill 
in this city.

The  Hardware  Market.

General  Trade—With 

the  beautiful 
spring  weather  that  ushers  in  March 
has  caused  quite  a  brisk  trade  in  all 
lines  of  spring  goods.  This  came  very 
acceptable  to  the  trade,  as  February 
was  quite  a  disappointment  in  the  vol­
ume  of  business  done.  The  trade  for 
the  month,  while  it  might  be  called 
good  for  the  present  times,  is  much be­
low  that  of  1893.  There  is  no  special 
change  to  note  in  any  prices,  as  wire 
nails,  barbed  wire,  window  glass,  bar 
iron,  rope  and  all  staple  lines  remain 
as  last  week.  Buying,  however, is done 
much  more  freely,  as  dealers  who  had 
not  already  placed  their orders  for wire 
and  nails  are  now  anxious  to  get  in  at 
the  old  quotations,  but 
find  it  hard 
work  to  do  so;  consequently, 
they  are 
covering  their  wants  at  present  prices, 
as  it  does  seem  as  though  some  things 
must be  higher.  The  appearance  of  an 
early  spring  has  cansed  a  very  active 
demand  for  agricultural  tools,  such  as 
rakes,  hoes,  forks,  etc.,  and  if  it  does 
not  come  off  cold  again, they  will  came 
in  good  play.

The Drug Market.

Opium is  a  little  less  firm  but  un­

changed.

Morphia is expected to  advance  again 

in  a short  time.

Nitrate of  silver  has  declined,  on  ac­

count of lower price of the metal.

Linseed oil  has  advanced.
Turpentine is lower.
Kuttnauer,  Rosenficld & Co., wholesale 
dealers of Detroit,  will  hereafter confine 
themselves to Men’s  Furnishing  Goods, 
having  closed  out their stock of notions. 
They  have  recently  put  in  a large man­
ufacturing  plant  and  already  have  se­
cured  a  great  many  orders  on  their 
celebrated  “Monroe”  brand  of  pants, 
shirts  and  overalls.

Perseverance can  accomplish  wonders, 

but it cannot make a bad egg hatch.

PRODUCK  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 strong, 
with  increasing  demand.  Handlers  pay $1.30 
for  country  cleaned  and  $1.40 
for  country 
picked, holding  city  cleaned  at  $1.55 in carlots 
and $1.63 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. for home grown.  Florida 
stock  is  coming  in  freely,  being  quoted at $3 
per crate holding from 3 to 4 doz.

Cranberries—Jerseys  are slow sale, command 

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

Celery—Home  grown  commands  15©18c  per 

doz.

Eggs—Dealers  pay  12tfc  for  strictly  fresh, 

holding  at 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@15c per lb., 

dark  buckwheat  brings  12c.

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

Hickory nuts, $1.10 per bu.

Onions—Handlers  pay  53c,  holding  at  GJe 

per bu.  Cuban stock commands $3  per  bu.

Potatoes—Handlers still pay 40c for white stock 
holding  at  50c,  but  there  is  no  twang to the 
market, as everyone is looking for  lower  prices 
and no one wants to get caught when the  slump 
come.

Radishes—Cincinnati stock  commands 35c per 

doz. bu.

Spinach—75c per bu. crate.
Tomatoes—Florida  stock  is  in  light request 

and demand at $i. 25  per 6 basket crate.

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5

tablished business.  No  trade.  Good opening 

GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

The Star Mills  (C.  G.  A. Voigt  &  Co.) 
are again rnnning full  time and to  their 
full capacity.  The  mill  has  received  a 
thorough overhauling.

C.  Brownell has opened  a  bakery  and 
grocery  store  at  238  South  Division 
street.  The  Ball-Barnhart-Putman  Co. 
furnished the grocery stock.

C.  Dogger has  sold  his  grocery  stock 
at  the  corner  of  Lyon  and  Houseman 
streets  to  Willard  Purchase,  who  will 
continue the business at  the  same  loca­
tion.

It  is  reported  that  the  Crosby  estate 
is  withdrawing  its  interest in the Valley 
City  Milling  Co.,  being taken by Messrs. 
Swensberg,  Rowe  and  employes  of  the 
company.

A.  J.  Giddings will shortly  efhbark  in 
the  laundry  business under  the  style  of 
the Palmer Laundry.  He will  have  his 
office at 24 Pearl street and is  fitting  up 
a laundry in  the  brick  building  at  the 
corner of North Front and West Leonard 
streets.
The 

tan  bark  market  will  probably 
rule  about  50  cents  a  cord  below  the 
prices  paid  last  year,  as  tanners  have 
more  bark  on  hand  than  usual  this 
spring,  owing  to  the  fact  that  few  of 
them run to  their  full  capacity  during 
the past year.

N.  B.  Clark  has  purchased  the  stock 
holdings  of  W.  A.  and  C.  A.  Phelps  in 
the  Michigan  B  rk  &  Lumber  Co., 
which  makes  him  almost  sole  pro­
prietor  of  the  business.  The  new  di­
rectors  and  officers  of  the  corporation 
have  not  yet  been  decided  upon.

Jacob H.  Vanden Bosch has  embarked 
in  general trade at Lucas.  Foster,  Stev­
ens  &  Co.  furnished 
the  hardware, 
Rindge,  Kalmbach  &  Co.  supplied  the 
boots and  shoes,  Voigt,  Herpolsheimer 
& Co.  put in the dry goods and  the Olney 
&  Judson  Grocer  Co. 
the 
groceries.

furnished 

D. C.  Scribner has sold  his  drug  stock 
to John  D.  Muir and  Albert  Stonehouse, 
who  will form  a  copartnership  for  the 
purpose  of  continuing 
the  business. 
The firm name has not yet  been  decided 
upon.  Mr.  Muir  will  give  his  personal 
attention  to 
the  business,  conducting 
his  Canal  street  store  by  proxy.  The 
purchase  gives  Mr.  Muir  an  interest  in 
two  drug  stores,  while  Mr.  Stonehouse 
is  owner  and  part  owner  of 
three 
pharmacies.

C.  N.  Rapp  &  Co. received  a  car load 
of  Florida  oranges 
in  bulk  Monday. 
The  fruit  came  through  in  good  shape, 
showing little  more  effects  from  the trip 
than  does  the  boxed  fruit.  They  are 
being  sold  by  the  thousand  at  an aver­
age  price  of  $15.  These  are  the  first 
“bulk  oranges” received in  this  market, 
although  three  carloads  have  reached 
Detroit.  The  old  method of boxing  and 
papering  the  fruit  did  not,  with  the 
present  low  prices,  leave  anything  for 
the  shippers,  who  will  adopt bulk  ship­
ments  altogether  if  the  present  experi­
ment  proves  a success.

“If ever anything was run  to  death  it 
is the trick of  putting  tiny  photographs 
of  actresses 
into  cigarette  packages,” 
remarked  a cigar  dealer,  the  other  day. 
“My customers  fling  them  on  the  floor 
without looking  at  them.  A  couple  of

years ago people used  to  save  them  be­
cause the children  were  making  collec­
tions to see who  could  get  the  most  of 
them;  but good  Lord!  even  the children 
have got sick  of  them. 
It  seems  queer 
that human  ingenuity should  run to seed 
as 
it  has  with  cigarette  advertising. 
The manufacturers  started with  actres­
ses’ photographs,  and then  tried  colored 
pictures  of  birds  and  animals  and  In­
dians  and  Kings.  Suddenly they came 
back  to actresses again.  But it’s no use. 
The pictures  are  too  small.  The  faces 
are never large enough to be of any value 
as portraits,  and as for the tights and leg 
displays—which  is  all  the  pictures  are 
printed  for—there’s such a  possibility as 
getting too much of one thing, especially 
when you get a fresh  one  every day  for 
fifteen years,  and everyone  reminds  you 
of all the  others. 
It’s  my  opinion  that 
cigarette  pictures  have made  the  whole 
country  tired.”

Purely  Personal.

Geo.  I).  Luun,  formerly engaged  in the 
drug business at Edmore,  is  now  identi­
fied with a produce  commision  house  at 
Toledo.

Fred  H.  Ball  left  Monday for  Toledo, 
where he  will  meet  the  Secretaries  of 
the Wholesale  Grocers’  Associations  of 
Ohio  and  Indiana.

M.  B.  Carrier,  junior  member  of  the 
firm of  Northrop,  Robertson  &  Carrier, 
manufacturers of baking  powder,  spices 
and  grocers’  sundries  at  Lansing,  was 
in town  last  Saturday,  interviewing  W. 
T.  Barnard,  the  local  representative  of 
the house.
Saginaw 

Evening  News:  Eugene 
Welch  and  Will  McSweeney,  two  as 
jolly and hale fellows as one would meet 
in a day’s  walk,  spent Sabbath  in  town. 
They  come  from  Kalamazoo,  but  are 
metropolitan  and  cosmopolitan  enough 
to hail  from  the  world  at  large.  They 
carry  huge  bundles  of  sunshine  with 
them,  which they generously  scatter  at 
the  feet  of  their  friends.  They  are 
never  troubled  with  dyspepsia  or  the 
blues  and  must  have  discovered 
that 
place  in  Arcadia  where  the  wheel  of 
perpetual  joy  whirls unceasingly.  The
ext time these gentlemen  visit this city 
they should be prevailed upon to  give  a 
disquisition on  how to  laugh  and  grow 
corpulent.

Frank Jewell, of the  I.  M.  Clark  Gro­
cery Co., is a sportsman.  This fact  may 
have  escaped  the  notice of many of  his 
friends,  but he is one of the most  ardent 
of Nimrod’s  followers.  He  will take his 
gun  and  go  fox  hunting  when 
the 
weather is such that if a fox were caught 
out in it  he ought to  be  shot.  One  day 
last week he started out bright and early 
with  his gun  on  bis  shoulder  and  his 
faithful dog  at his  heels.  “The  shades 
of night were falling fast”  when  he  re­
turned  footsore and  weary,  as becomes  a 
hunter,  to  the  shelter  of  his  own  vine 
and fig  tree.  That  doesn’t  read  much 
like a hunting story,  but it is true, which 
most  hunting  stories  are  not.  Frank 
was at his desk not  far  from  the  usual 
time the next morning,  and,  when a  lull 
in  business  permitted,  Sumner  Wells 
asked  him,  “Well,  Frank,  what  did  you 
get yesterday?”  “1 got home,”  answer­
ed Frank.  When Sumner recovered con­
sciousness,  Frank  was  leaning  back  in 
his  chair  smoking  quietly,  as  though 
nothing had happened.

The report that  Phil  M.  Roedel  pro­
poses to retire from the banking business

at White Cloud is confirmed by that  gen 
tleman,  who writes  The  Tradesman as 
follows:  “The information you  had was 
correct and  there  is  very  little  to  add, 
except to say that I  shall  locate  at  San 
Mateo, Cal.,  where I  have  completed ar­
rangements  to  organize  a  commercial 
bank,  which,  I  trust,  by  careful,  con­
servative methods and  persistent  effort, 
can be made not  only a successful  insti­
tution but one that shall  merit  the confi­
dence  and  esteem  of  the public.  My 
reasons for making the change are partly 
influenced by the attractions  of  climate, 
scenery,  beautiful  home  surroundings, 
etc.,  and  not  wholly  from  a  business 
standpoint,  as  during 
seventeen 
years I have been  here  my  business  re 
lations have  been  exceedingly  pleasant 
and  the  thought  of  severing  the manj 
valued  business  relationships,  which 
have been a source of  help  and  inspira­
tion in  past successes,  as well as through 
the shadows that at times cross all paths, 
cause feelings of the  deepest regret. 
1 
assure you  the future can never  dim  the 
pleasant  memories  of  the  business  ac­
quaintances and associations that I  shall 
leave in dear old Michigan.”

the 

A.  J.  Elliott, 

the  grocer,  has  been 
going about for some  time with his head 
and both hands in a sling.  He accounted 
for his  dilapidated  condition  by  alleg­
ing that  he  fell  down  cellar.  Mr.  El­
liott’s native modesty is  responsible  for 
that story.  The truth of the matter is  as 
follows:  He  (Mr.  Elliott)  has  a  friend 
who has always reposed  the  utmost con­
fidence in him and  never,  until recently, 
had even the shadow of a  reason  to  be­
lieve that Mr.  Elliott  regarded  him  with 
any but  the  warmest  feeling  of  friend­
ship.  He 
is  undeceived  now,  which 
proves  how unreliable is  human  friend­
ship.  He entered  Mr.  Elliott’s  place  of 
business  one  morning,  fully  expecting 
the  usual  friendly  greeting;  but,  con­
trary to his  expectations,  Mr.  Elliott  ap­
proached him with his  never-failing and 
trade-winning  smile  and  asked  him  if 
he had noticed the purity of  the oxygen, 
how inspiriting and  exhilirating  it was. 
“Oxygen,” replied  his  friend,  “oxygen?
“Why,”
Why,  really, 
interrupted Mr.  Elliott,  “it’s  the  great­
est  thing  in  the  country  for  delicate 
people—miles  ahead  of  Holland  gin.” j 
Thus  was the friendship of years  rudely 
shocked,  and  the wonder  is  that  he  es­
caped with his life.  But  he did,  though 
he wears a skull cap now,  and  is  other­
wise  disfigured.  This  account  is  au­
thentic. 

I  hadn’t----- ” 

^ ______
From Out of Town.

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

W.  J.  Barnum,  Velzy.
J.  D.  Noah,  Moline.
A.  J.  White,  Bass River.
J.  H.  Van den  Bosch,  Lucas.
J.  R.  Harrison,  Gooding.
C.  K. Hoyt & Co.,  Hudsonville, 
Northrop,  Robertson  &  Carrier,  Lan­

sing. 

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Now  Handle  "Green  Seal.”

The  Hazeltine  &  Perkins  Drug  Co. 
has  been  compelled  to  follow  the  ex­
ample  set  by  several  other 
jobbing 
houses  and  put  in  a 
line  of  “Green 
Seal”  cigars,  owing  to  the  keen  de­
mand  for  this  brand  at  the  hands  of 
the  retail  trade.  This  is  a  strong  trib­
ute  to  the  merits  of  the  goods

Tolman’s Jumbo  Java  is  unequalled. 

’Phone J.  P.  Visner,  Bridge St.  House.

FOR  SALE,  WANTED,  ETC. 

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

'  BUSINESS  CHANCKS.

575

T  HAVE A VALUABLE PATENT  FOR  SALE 
A  for cash, real estate or merchandise.  Prompt 
attention given  correspondence  Must  realize 
immediately.  Address  No.  573,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. Grand Rapids,  Mich. 
573
F or  SALE—my  stock  o f  t e a , c o f f e e 
and groceries'and lease  of  store.  Old es­
for right man.  Good  reasons  for  selling.  Ad 
dress  Shaw  Tea  Store,  107  Canal  St., Grand 
Rapids, Mich. 
V17TLL BUY  A  STOCK  OF  MERCHANDISE 
tv  Address  box  44,  Early,  Sac  County, 
Iowa. 
570
IF YOU IIAVF, A STOCK OF MERCH ANDISE, 
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  &  Traders’  Exchange  Place, 
Lansing, Mich. 
585.
F OR 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. 
OR  SALE—A  WELL-SELECTED  STOCK 
of merchandise  and  fine  farm,  pleasantly 
located.  Store building and dwelling on farm— 
a  choice  piece  of  property.  Address  No.  .'66, 
care Michigan Tradesman. 
ANTED—BANK  STOCK  IN  ANY GRAND 
Rapids  bank.  Must  be  cheap.  E.  A. 
Stowe, 100 Louis St. 
568
F OR  EXCHANGE—IMPROVED FARMS FOR 
merchandise.  Address No. 559, care  Mich­
559
igan Tradesman. 
rTIO  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. 
844
■   CLEAN  STOCK  OF  GROCERIES  FOR 
Sale;  good  trade,  cheap  for  spot  cash; 
the only delivery wagon In  town.  Stock  about 
$2,500. 
Investigate.  Address  box  15,  Centre- 
820
ville,  Mich. 
SITUATIONS  WANTED.

town 

566

581

577

574

TTTANTED—A  POSITION  AS  FOREMAN 
V i 
in a general  store.  Seventeen  years ex­
perience.  Best of references.  Address Room 10 
Twamley block, Grand Rapids, Mich. 
SITUATION  WANTED—BY  AN  EXPERT 
accountant  and  book-keeper.  Was  book­
keeper three years for  West  Michigan  Lumber 
Co., at Park City, Mich., and the  last  five  vears 
with Mitchell, Lewis  & Staver  Co., of  Portland, 
Ore.  Can furnish the best of references. 
I. D. 
Lovejoy, Big Rapids,  Mich. 
576
VT7ANTED— THOROUGHLY  COMPETENT 
TV 
and  experienced  young  man would  like 
position as book-keeper, cashier  or  other  office 
work  with  jobbing  or  manufacturing house. 
Address “H” care The Tradesman 
VUTANTED—FOREMA N  FOR  FURNITURE 
Vv 
factory  making  chamber  suits,  beds, 
tables, and desks.  Mud be competent to handle 
eighty men to advantage and  have some knowl­
edge of designing  and  drafting.  Apply  imme 
dlately to E. A. Stowe, ICO Louis St. 
567
ANTED—A  PLACE TO  WORK  BY  THE 
month or year on a farm by a steady mar­
ried man.  Please address ‘ Reuben.” care Mich­
igan Tradesman. 
TXT ANTED—POSITION  BY  EXPERT  AC- 
VV  countant.  Books opened or closed.  Bal­
ances rendered.  Partnerships adjusted and any 
other work of similar cha-acter  promptly  done. 
Address No. 578, care The  Tradesman. 
-\T r ANTED—SITUATION  BY  PRACTICAL 
TV  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, Gobleville, Mich.  564 
SAY,  MISTER,  CAN  YOU  GIVE  ME A JOB 
by the day or month on  your farm?  1 know 
my business.  Address 49  Dudley  Place,  Grand 
Rapids, Mich. 

562

563

578

H ALL  «

A   B ig  D r iv e
  (SAT.  EDGE)  RIBBONS.
Having purchased  a  large  lot of 
All  Silk  Ribbons  at  the  great per­
emptory sale in  New York for cash, 
we are enabled  to offer you the fol­
lowing bargains:
No. 
  40c
No.  7...................................52c
No.  9 ...................................68c
No.  12..................................84c
Or we will  assort you 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 
mail orders.

5.......................... 

Corl,  Knott &  Co.,

20-22  No.  Division  St.,

¡GRAND  RAPIDS,  niCH.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.
Dry Goods Price Current.

DEMINS.

The  W ool  M ark et.

Manufacturers of  woolen goods  report 
business fairly  active for  the  week  and 
a good number of  orders  booked.  Buy­
ers  have,  apparently,  begun  to  realize 
that the market is down  to  rock  bottom, 
and  they also  realize  that  their  orders 
must be placed  soon  if  they  would  get 
their samples on  time.  Now that buying 
has  commenced,  however,  the  extent  of 
the  shrinkage  in  business  is  painfully 
apparent.  Manufacturers  will  not  take 
orders unless upon the  condition  that  a 
certain number of orders are in  hand  by 
the 15th;  in  other  words,  they  want  to 
be sure that there is something  in  it  for 
them;  and then there are many  factories 
which  will not start up  at  all.  The  re­
duction in prices  of  many  lines  is  an­
other effect of the shrinkage.  The effect 
of this reduction  has been  to force  some 
lines out of the  market  entirely,  and  to 
completely  obliterate  the  classification 
of many other  lines.  Altogether, though 
business  in  woolen  goods  is  “looking 
up,”  it is  still  in  a  badly  demoralized 
condition.  The  low  prices which  have 
prevailed  for  months  past  have  dis­
counted  the  effect  of  the  Wilson  Bill 
should  it  become  law.  They  have  re­
sulted in a sweeping reduction  in  wages, 
in  forcing  many  manufacturers  into  re­
tirement and many others into temporary 
stoppages,  and  with  wool  down  to  an 
export basis,  the condition of the market 
can  hardly  be worse.  Boston  reports  an 
increased movement in  wool  for the  past 
week,  chiefly in  fine  medium  and  med­
ium.  Buying,  however,  has  been  con­
fined  almost  entirely  to  order  require­
ments,  and  next  week  may  develop  a 
retrograde movement.  Pulled wools have 
been  the  attractions  for  buyers  in  the 
New York market  the  past  week.  The 
worsted  men have been the heaviest buy­
ers,  and  a  significant  fact  is  that  they 
have taken  wools which  a year  ago  they 
would not touch.  The tone of  the  mar­
ket  has  measurably  improved  and  in­
dications point to  better business for the 
future.  The  Philadelphia  market 
is 
bearish and  manufacturers  are  waiting 
the outcome of the tariff decision  in Con­
gress.  They are buying  merely  for  im­
mediate wants.

Though  the wool  clip  of  the  United 
States  for  1893  was  much  larger  than 
that of the previous year,  there  is  much 
less wool in stock than a year ago, which 
shows that growers are “holding on”  for 
a  raise;  but  with  wool  down  to 
free 
trade prices now and  much  of  the  clip 
still in  the hands of  growers  it  is  some­
what difficult to imagine upon  what  the 
expectation of a  raise  is  based.  Terri­
tory  wools  will soon  be coming  forward, 
the woolen goods  business  is  away  be­
hind its usual  volume,  so that, instead of 
better prices,  it would not be  strange  if 
they went still lower.

To Dam the Ocean.

A novel engineering scheme is now be­
ing talked of in England,  and  it  is  said 
that the prospect of putting it through is 
very good. 
It  is  to  build  an  immense 
dam  across the northern entrance  to  the 
Irish  sea,  where  the  tide  flows  very 
strong and high,  and to  utilize the power 
by  means of water  wheels  in  the  dam. 
The dam would  have to be  fifteen  miles 
long,  and some 300 feet  wide at  the  top. 
The material  for  it  would  be  obtained 
from the high cliffs  on  the  Irish  shore, 
and it is estimated that  the  work  could 
be done  in  three  years  for  $10,000,000. 
The depth of water  is  474  feet  in  mid­
channel.

Use Tradesm an or Superior Coupons.

UNBLEACHED  COTTONS.

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BLEACHED  COTTONS.

Adriatic.................  7
Arrow Brand  4k 
Argyle....................  55£
“  World Wide.  8
Atlanta AA.............6
“  LL............... 4%
Atlantic A..............  6%
Pull Yard Wide...... 6k
Georgia  A..............  6)4
“ 
H..............  6*
“ 
P ............   5
Honest Width........  6
“ 
D..............  6
Hartford A  ............ 5
'*  LL...... .........4%
Indian Head...........  5k
Ring A  A................. 614
Amory....................   6k
Archery  Bunting...  4 
King E C .................  5
Beaver Dam  A A ..  4%
Lawrence  L L........  414
Blackstone O, 33__  5
Madras cheese cloth 6k
Black Crow............   6
Newmarket  G........  5 k
Black  Rock  ...........  59S£
B........   5
Boot, AL................  7
X........ 6k
Capital  A ...............   514
DD___5k
Cavanat V ..............5k
X ....... 6k
Noibe R..................  5
Chapman cheese cl.  3k
Clifton  C R ............   514
Our Level  Best...... 6
Comet.....................   6
Oxford  R...............   6
Dwight Star............  6k  Pequot....................  7
Clifton CCC...........  5k Solar.......................   6
¡Top of the  Heap__7
Geo. Washington...  8
A B C ......................8k
Amazon.................. 8
Glen Mills.............   7
Arnsburg.................6
Gold Medal............   714
Art  Cambrie...........10
Green  Ticket......... 8k
Blackstone A A......714
Great Falls.............   6k
Beats All.................  4
Hope......................... 7k
Boston..................   12
Just  Out......   4k@ 5
Cabot......................   6k
King  Phillip...........  7k
Cabot,  % ................   6k
OP......7k
Charter  Oak...........  514
Lonsdale Cambric.. 10
Conway W..............  7klLonsdale...........  @  8k
Cleveland.............  6  Middlesex........   @5
Dwight Anchor 
No Name................   7k
shorts  8
Oak View......  ...... 6
Edwards................. 6
Our Own................   5k
Empire
Pride of the West... 12
Farwell....................7k ¡Rosalind...................7k
Fruit of the  Loom.  8  I Sunlight..................  4k
Fitchville
Utica  Mills.............. 8k
First Prize...... .......6
“  Nonpareil  ..10
Fruit of the Loom k- 7k
Vlnvard..................  8k
Fairmount.....  ........<k
White Horse...........6
Full Value..............6k
“  Rock............ 8k
Cabot......................  6k I Dwight Anchor
..  8
Farwell.................. 7k I

HALF  BLEACHED  COTTONS.

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CANTON  FLANNEL.

Bleached.

Unbleached.
Housewife  A ...
....5 k Housewife  Q........ •  6k
“ 
B.  .
R ........
....5k
....6
“ 
C...
S........ •7k
“ 
D...
T ........ ..8k
...6 k
....7
“ 
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U........ -  »k
•* 
F ...
V......... .10
w ...
" 
G  ..
....7k
• 10k
X........ • Ilk
“ 
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....7k,
Y........ -12k
“ 
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....8k
“ 
j ...
Z......... • 13k
...  8k
“ 
K...
•  9k
...10
“ 
L.  ..
“  M__ ...10k
N __ ...11
“ 
O.... ....21
“ 
P .... ....14k
“ 
CARPET WARP.
...17
.  ..18k
D R ESS ROODS.
...  9
.................10U
...20  '
...16
........- ....18

.18
colored ..19 White Star............ .17
U  U colored. .19
.20
-2R
.30
• 32k
.35

Peerless, white..
Integrity...........
Hamilton.......... ....  8 Nameless

G G  Cashmere..
Nameless........

Integrity colored.

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CORSETS

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PRINTS.

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CORSET  JEANS.

long cloth B.  9k 
“  C.  7k
century cloth 7
gold seal......10k
green seal TRlOk 
yellow seal.. 10k 
serge.............Ilk
Turku/ red  . 10k

Corallne.................19 50!Wonderful..........  84  50
Schilling's...............  9 00 Brighton................4 75
Davis  Waists  —   9 00 Bortree’s ...............  9 00
Grand  Rapids......   4 50|Abdominal.............15 00
Armory..................   6k INaumkeag satteen..  7k
Androscoggin.........7k Rockport....................6k
Biddefora...............  6  Conestoga.................7k
Brunswick............. 6k I Walworth.................. 6k
Allen turkey  reds..  5k
Berwick fancies 
5k
robes.............5k
Clyde Robes —
pink a purple  5k
Charter Oak fancies 4k 
DelMarlne cashm's.  5k 
buffs............  5k
pink  checks.  5k
mourn’g  5k 
staples  .........  5
Eddystone fancy...  5k 
shirtings ...  3k
chocolat  Sk
American fancy—   5 k 
rober__  5k
American Indigo...  5k 
sateens..  5k 
American shirtings.  3k 
Hamilton fancy.  ...  5k
Argentine  Grays...  6 
staple__5k
Anchor Shirtings...  4 
Manchester fancy..  5k 
Arnold 
....  6
new era. 6k 
Arnold  Merino......6
Merrimack D fancy.  5k 
Merrlm’ck shirtings.  4 
“  Repp furn .  8k
Pacific fancy..........5k
robes............  6
“ 
Portsmouth robes...  6k 
Simpson mourning..  5k
greys........  5k
solid black.  5k 
Washington Indigo.  6k 
“  Turkey robes..  7M 
“  India robes  ...  7# 
“  plain Tky X k 8k 
“ 
“  X...10
“  Ottoman  Tur­
key red.................   6k
Martha Washington
Turkeyred k ......7k
Martha Washington
Turkeyred..........   9k
Rlverpolntrobes....  Sk
Windsor fancy........6k
Indigo  blue......... 10k
Harmony.................  4k
Amoskeag A C A.... 12k
AC A....................12k
Hamilton N  .............7
Pemberton AAA__16
D............8
York....................... 10k
Swift River............   7k
A w n in g .. 11
Farmer................... 8
Pearl River............12
First Prize..............10k
W arm ................... 12k
Lenox M ills.......... 18
Cono.doga..............16
.............8
Atlanta,  D..............6k|8tark  A. 
Boot........................ 6k No  Name................. 7k
Clifton, E ...............7 
¡Top of Heap...........   9

Ballou solid black..
“  colors.
Bengal blue,  green, 
red and orange  ..  6 
Berlin solids...........  5k
oil blue...... 6
.. 6
“  green 
Foulards  .. 5k
red k
“  X .........
9k
“  4 4  ...... 10
“ 
“ 3 4XXXX 12
Cocheco fancy........  5
“  madders...  5 
“  XXtwills..  5 
“ 
solids........5

gold  ticket

COTTON  DRILL

TICKINGS.

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Amoskeag................ 12
9os...... 14
brown .14
Andover................. ilk
Beaver Creek AA... 10 
B B ...9
C C ...
Boston MfgCo.  br..  7 

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bine  8k 
“  d a  twist 10V4 

Columbian XXX br.10 
XXX  bl.19
Amoskeag................ 6k
“  Persian dress  6k 
Canton ..  7
“ 
AFC........   8k
“ 
Teazle... 10k
“ 
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Angola.. 10k
“ 
Persian..  7
Arlington staple —   6k
Aragapha  fancy__4k
Bates Warwick dres  7k 
staples.  6
Centennial............   10k
Criterion...............10k
Cumberland  staple.  5k
Cumberland........... 5
Essex...................... 4k
Elfin.......................  7k
Everett classics......8k
Exposition............... 7k
Glenarie.................  6k
Glenarven.............. 6k
Glenwood.................7k
Hampton.................5
Johnson Chalon cl 
k  
Indigo blue 9k 
zephyrs__16
GRAIN
Amoskeag...............14  I
Stark.....................   19
American...............14 

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Lancaster,  staple...  5k 

Columbian brown.. 12
Everett, blue.......... 12k
brown.......12k
Haymaker blue......7k
brown...  7k
Jeffrey.................... Ilk
Lancaster  .............. 12k
Lawrence, 9 os........13 k
No. 220....13 
No. 250....Ilk  
No. 280....10k

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GINGHAMS.
fancies —   7
“ 
“  Normandie  7
Lancashire...........  6
Manchester............   5k
Monogram..............  6k
Normandie.........   7
Persian.................  7
Renfrew Dress........7k
Rosemont................. 6k
Slatersvllle............6
Somerset................ 7
Tacoma  ................. 7k
Toll  duNord.........   8k
Wabash...................  7k
seersucker..  7k
Warwick.............  6
Whlttenden..........  8

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heather dr.  7k 
indigo blue 9 
Wamsutta staples...  6k
Westbrook............  8
....................10
Wlndermeer.........  5
York  ......................6k
BAGS.
Georgia.................14
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THREADS.

Clark’s Mile End.... 45  IBarbour's................95
Coats’, J. & P .........45  Marshall’s ................90
Holyoke..................22kl
White.  Colored. 
6 
.. ..33 
8____ 34 
10.......35 
12......... 36 

White. Colored
42
43
44
45

No.  14......... 37 
“ 
16......... 38 
**  18......... 39 
“  20____  40 

KNITTING  COTTON.

No.

38
39
40
41
CAMBRICS.

Slater......................  4
White Star............   4
Eld Glove.  ............  4
Newmarket.............. 4

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

BED  FLANNEL.

Firem an...,........... 32k
Creedmore..............27k
Talbot XXX........... 30
Nameless................27k

T W...................  ..22k
F T ............. 
32k
J R F , XXX...............35
Buckeye.................32k

NIXED  FLANNEL.

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DOXET  FLANNEL.

Red & Blue,  plaid..40
Grey SR W.............17k
Western W  .............18k
Union R .................22k
D R P ......................18k
Windsor................. 18k
Flushing XXX........23k
6 oz Western.......... 20
Union  B.................22k Manitoba................ 23k
Nameless......8  @  9k I 
...... 9  @10k
12k
......  
...... 8k@10  I 
Brown. Black.
10k
Ilk
12
20

CANVASS  AND  PADDING.
9k
10k
Ilk
12k

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Slate. Brown. Black. 81 ate
9k 10k
9k
lok Ilk
10k
ilk 12
Ilk
12k 20
12k
DUCKS,
Severen, 8oz..........   9k
May land, 8 oz......... 10k
Greenwood, 7k os..  9k 
Greenwood, 8 os— Ilk  
Boston, 8 oz.............10k

West  Point, 8 oz —  10k 
10 os  ...12k
“ 
Raven, lOos.............13k
Stark 
.............13k
Boston, 10 os........... 12k

10k
H k
12
20

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WADDINGS.

SILESIAB.

SEWING  BILK.

Best A A 

White, doi............. 25  IPer bale, 40 dos__ 88 50
Colored, dos.......... 20  ¡Colored  “ 
.......... 7 50
Slater, Iron Cross...  8 
Pawtucket...............10k
Dundle...................   9
“  Red Cross....  9
Bedford...................10k
10k
“  Best 
Valley  City.............10k
" 
12k
K K ......................... 10k
L......................................7k
G............................. 8k
Cortlcelli, dos.........85  [Cortlcelll  knitting,

per kos  ball........30

twist,dos..4P 
50yd,doz..40  I 
HOOKS AND ETBS—FEB GROSS.
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No  1 Bl’k A White..10  INo  4 Bl’k A White..15
“ 
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“ 
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No 2-20, M C........ 50  INO 4—15  J  3 k .........40
••  8-18,8 0 ...........45 
No  2 White A Bl’k.,12  INo  8 White A Bl’k..20 
.28
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..12  " 8  
..12  I “  10 

COTTON  TAPE.
..15  “  10 
..18  I “  12 
SAFETY  PINS.

FINS.

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6 

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NO 8........................ 28 

|No8..........................86

NEEDLES—PER  M.

A. James.................1  401 Steamboat...............  
to
Crowely’s.............. 1  85 Gold Eyed................1 50
Marsh all’s ...............1 OO'American.................1 00
15—4 —  1  66  6—«...280
5 -4 ....  1  75  6—4... 

TABLE  OIL  CLOTH.

COTTON TWINES.

Cotton Sail Twine. .28
Crown.................... 12
Domestic............... 18k
Anchor...................16
Bristol.........   ........18
Cherry  Valley........15
I XL....................... 18k
A la b a m a ...........................6%
Alamance................6k
Augusta...................7k
Ar- sapha................6
G eorgia................6k
G ranite....................5k
Haw  River.............5
Haw  J ....................  5

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

Moant  Pleasant__ 6k
Oneida....................  5
Prymont  ...............   5k
Randelm&n.............6
Riverside................  6M
Sibley  A...........  ...  0k
Toledo....................
Otis checks. •......... 7k

PLAID  OSNABURGS

ÄTLBS 80ÄP

MANUFACTURED  ONLY  BY

HENRY  PR880LT,
SAGINAW,  MICH.

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

leader  wherever 

Hentbol  M aler

CURBS

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»  *»

Catarrh, 
May Fever, 
Headache,
is ,  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 
lng 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, M anufacturer, 
Three  R ivers,  M ich.

{ ^ “’Guaranteed  satisfactory.

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

Tradesman  Company,

GRAND  RAPID S.

EATON, LION l CO.,

NEW  STYLES  OF

20  &  22  Monroe  St.

GRAND  RAPIDS.

Your  Bank Account Solicited.

GRAND  RAPIDS.  ,MIOH.

J no.  A.  Covodb  Pres.

Henry  Idem a, Vlce-Pres.

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

K. Van Hof, Ass’t Cs’r. 

Transacts a General B ank ing  B usiness. 

Interest  A llow ed  on  Tim e  and  Sayings 

D eposits.

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  8. Verdier.

DepoaltsSBxeeed  One  M illion  D ollars,

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WARRANTING  EDGE  TOOLS.

My experience bas  been  that  it  does 
not pay the  dealer  to  warrant  an  edge 
tool of any  kind.

There are a great many pocket  knives 
sold that are warranted  by the  manufac­
turer to the dealer who in  turn  warrants 
these knives to  the  customer,  and  the 
customer in many cases brings  back  the 
knife simply  from some  little  imperfec­
tion in the handle,  or  because  he  may 
think it is too hard or too soft.

In nineteen cases  out  of  twenty  the 
knife is as good as any,  but  it  does  not 
just suit the fancy of the  customer,  and 
since it is  warranted  he  brings  it  back 
and selects another.  Of course the deal­
er he bought it  from  will,  in  order  to 
please his customer,  give  a  fresh  knife 
although he  has  doubts  about  the  first 
knife  being  defective.

Finally this good  knife,  as lots of them 
are,  which are  returned to different deal­
ers,  is  sent  back  to  the  manufacturer, 
who is the real  loser  in  the  deal  if  he 
permits the return.

to 

lose  his 

I know personally of  one customer  re­
turning to  me  four different knives in  as 
many months.  The first  one  I  changed 
because I thought it was really  bad;  the 
next two 1 had my doubts  about,  and,  of 
course,  naturally exchauged them,  as the 
customer was a free buyer and  I  did not 
want 
trade.  When  he 
brought the last and  fourth knife  back  I 
investigated the matter  thoroughly,  and 
found that the four  knives  he  had  re­
turned were really all  right,  at  least they 
would have been  in  a  mechanic’s  hand. 
The customer himself did not  just  know 
why he was not suited,  said  he  thought 
some of  them  too  hard  and  others  too 
soft,  but the fact  of  the  matter  was  he 
wanted to have a new knife any  time  he 
felt disposed  at  some other  person’s  ex­
pense.

I do not wish to be  understood  as  stat­
ing that  all  men  returning  knives  are 
like the customer mentioned,  for  a  good 
mechanic rarely returns a tool except for 
just cause,  but  there  are  so  manyithat 
are  continually  changing  that  a  great 
many  knives  are  returned  every  year 
simply because they don’t suit the  fancy 
of the  customer  after  they  have  used 
them. 
In some cases they  are  returned 
because they can’t  rip  the  siding  off  a 
house,  tear up the  floor,  and  pry  corks 
out  of  bottles  with  them.  This  kind 
of  customer,  when  questioned  as 
to 
the nature of the  defect,  will  only com­
mit himself so far as to  insist  that  “the 
knife is no good.’’

because the dealer,  backed by  the manu­
facturer,  supplied 
them  free  by  ex­
changes.

1 think there is only one  way  to  stop 
ail  this and that is by taking the warran­
tee off of all edge tools, of all  kinds  and 
descriptions.  Let the tools sell on  their 
own  merits  and  the  judgement  of  the 
buyer and  there  will  be  just  as  many 
tools sold. 
It would be a much better ar­
rangement for the  manufacturer,  easier 
for the dealer,  but not quite such a  snap 
for a certain class of trade.

Then let the manufacturer forge ahead 
on  the  merits—actual  merits—of  the 
tools he makes,  and  not  leave  the  way 
open for chance to play  such  an 
impor­
tant part in  their selection.

Of course  there are some  tools  return­
ed  that rightfully  should  be  exchanged, 
but they are in the minority,  and  if  the 
warrantee was off these tools  the  manu­
facturer  would  be more careful and there 
would be less  defective  tools,  for  the 
reputation  of  the  maker  would  be  at 
stake. 

E.  P.  Mit c h e ll.

Flfty-Cent  Wheat.

In  Mr.  Owen’s recent article on  bread, 
he refers to “50-cent  wheat”  and  alleges 
that it is  from  flour  made  from  wheat 
for  which  the  farmers  receive  but  50 
cents a bushel  that  bakers  in  this  city 
make  their  bread. 
1  have  alieady 
pointed out that bakers do not  use  Mich­
igan  flour to any considerable extent, and 
I  wish  to supplement  that  statement  by 
the further one  that  very  little  of  the 
wheat ground in  Grand  Rapids  mills  is 
bought for  50  cents  a  bushel. 
It  is  a 
long timq since the farmers  of  Michigan 
have supplied anywhere near the amount 
of wheat required by the  mills, the  bulk 
of  the  supply  coming 
from  outside 
points,  so that, even  if  the  price  at  the 
point of purchase was  50  cents,  freight 
rates must be added  to  the  cost.  Most 
of the wheat  used comes from a distance 
and costs all  the way from  3  to  7  cents 
per bushel  more  than  wheat  bought  at 
the mills,  to  which  must  be  added,  of 
course,  the  cost  of  carriage.  There  is 
so  little  50  cent  wheat  ground  that  it 
makes no appreciable impression  on  the 
mi!l price of flour.  The 2 or 3 cents  dif­
in  the  price  of  wheat  here 
ference 
and 
in 
favor  of 
as 
wheat is actually cheaper there than here. 
The price of wheat at any milling point is 
not  necessarily  the  price  paid  by  the 
mills  for  the  wheat  ground,  unless 
enough  wheat is  received  to  supply  the 
mills.  Evidently  Mr.  Owen  was  una­
ware of this fact. 

after  all, 
the  Canadian  baker, 

Da n ie l  A bbott.

in  Canada 

is, 

Hardware Price Carrent.

This same thing has  been  and  is  being 
practiced  with ail  other edge tools,  par­
ticularly  chisels,  axes,  adzes and  plane 
irons. 
I  have  known  men  that  would 
change a carpenter’s chisel every  month, 
regularly,  because  it  was  “no good,” and 
they had the system  down  so  fine  that 
they would  hand  it to a different clerk so 
as to  avoid  suspicion.  No  fair-minded 
person can  say  that this customer  would 
get  a poor chisel all the  time,  and  it  is 
simply a case of the dealer or the  manu­
facturer keeping this  individual  in  new 
tools.

Saws are sold and they  are treated just 
the same  way,  as well  as  axes.  Why,  I 
once heard  of  a  man  who  made  it  his 
boast  that he chopped  down  trees in  the 
woods  a!l  winter,  and  when  the  spring 
arrived he came out of the  woods,  as  he 
went in,  with a new axe.  This is another 
case where a man  worked several months 
and his tools did not  cost  him  anything

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These  prices are  for cash,  buyer»,  who 
pay prom ptly  and  buy in  fu ll  packages.

A.UOUB8 AND BITS. 

dlS.

60
Snell’s........................................................... 
Cook’s ........................................................... 
40
'25
Jennings’, genuine....................................... 
Jennings’,  Imitation....................................50*10
First Quality, S. B. Bronze............................... $7 00
D.  B. Bronze.... .......................  iz 00
  8 00
S.B.S. Steel......................... 
D. B. Steel....................................  13 50

AXES.

1 ‘ 
‘ 
■ 

BARROWS. 

dig.

bolts. 

Railroad  ....................................................$ 14 00
Garden  ................................................  net  30 00
Stove.  ........................................................... 50*10
Carriage new list.......................................... 75*10
Plow...... ........................................................40*10
Sleigh shoe................................................... 
70
Well,  plain  ................................................. I 8 50
Well, swivel................................ :...............   4 00
dig.
Cast Loose Pin, figured...........  ...................70*
Wrought Narrow, bright 5aat Joint.............. 604,0

BUTTS, OAST. 

BUCKXTS.

 
dig.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

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

....................................... 
BLOCKS.
Ordinary Tackle, list April 
CRADLES.

1892.............60*10

Grain......................................................dis. 50*02

CROW BARS.

Cast Steel............................................ per lb  5
Ely’s 1-10............................................ per m 
Hick’s C .F .........................................  
“ 
G. D ....................................................   “ 
Musket................................................ 
“ 

65
60
35
60

CARTRIDGES.

56
Rim  Fire...................................................... 
Central  Fire............................................dis. 
25
dis.
Socket Firmer.............................................  75*10
Socket Framing.................:....................75*16
Socket Corner................................................75*10
Socket Slicks................................................ 75*10
Butchers’ Tanged Firmer............................ 
40

chisbls. 

40
Curry,  Lawrence’s...................................   . 
Hotchkiss.................................................... 
25
White Crayons, per  gross............. 12©12)4 dis. 10

dis.

COMBS. 

CHALK.
COPPER.

“ 

Planished, 14 oz cut to size........per pound 
14*52,14*56,14*60 ....................... 
Cold Rolled, 14*56 and 14*60.......................  
Cold Rolled, 14*48........................................  
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.

75

dlS.

EXPANSIVE BITS. 

piles—New List. 

Com. 4  piece, 6 in ........................... dos. net 
Corrugated....................................................... dis 40
Adjustable....................................................... dis. 40*10
Clark’s, small, #18;  large, 826...................... 
30
Ives’, 1, #18:  2, #24;  3,#30............................  
25
Disston’s ......................................................60*10
New American  ............................................60*10
Nicholson’s .................................................60*10
Heller’s.........................................................  
50
Heller’s Horse Rasps  .................................. 
50
Nos.  16  to  20;  22  and  24;  25  and  26;  27 
28
16 
17
List 
dis.
dis.

13 
Discount, 60

14 
gauges. 

GALVANIZED IRON.

dis.

12 

15 

dis.

diS.

MATTOCKS.

locks—door. 

MAULS. 
bulls. 

MOLASSES GATES. 

knobs—New List. 

50
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s...................... 
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.................... 
55
Door,  porcelain, Jap. trimmings................. 
55
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.............. 
55
Door,  porcelain, trimmings........................  
55
70
Drawer  and  Shutter, porcelain................... 
55
Russell *  Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new l is t.........  
55
Mallory, Wheeler  *   Co.’s ............................ 
55
Branford’s ................................................... 
Norwalk’s ....................................................  
55
Adze Bye.......................................... #16.00, dis. 60
Hunt Bye.......................................... #15.00, dis. 60
Hunt’s...................................... #18.50, dis. 20*10.
diS.
60
Sperry A Co.’s, Post,  handled...................... 
dis.
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s ...................................  
40
40
“  P. 8. &W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleable«.... 
“  Landers,  Ferry *  Cls rk’s.................  
40
“  Enterprise 
.....................................  
30
Stebbln’s Pattern..........................................60*10
Stebbln’s Genuine.........................................60*10
Enterprise, self-measuring..........................  
25
Advance over  base,  on  both  Steel  and Wire.
150
Base
10
25
25
35
45
45
50
60
75
90
1  20
1 60
160
65
75
90
75
90
1  10
70
80
90

Steel nails, Dase................................................... 1 SO
Wire nails, base.................................... 
60.................................................... Base 
50......................................................  
40...................................................... 
30......................................................  
20.........  
 
16......................................................  
12...................................................... 
10...................................................... 
8.......................................................  
7 * 6 .................................................. 
4.......................................................  
8.......................................................  
2.......................................................  
FineS............................................... 
Case 10............................................. 
“  8............................................. 
“  6............................................. 
Finish 10..........................................  
“  8...........................................  
6...........................................  
“ 
Clinch? 10.......................................... 
“ 
8..........................................  
6..........................................  
“ 

NAILS

PLANES. 

Barren %.................................................. 
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy................................  040
Sdota Bench.............................................  ©50
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy.........................  ©40
Bench, first quality......................................   ©40
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s  wood........... 50*10
Fry,  Acme............................................ dls.60—10
Common,  polished................................ dis. 
70
dlS.
Iron and  Tinned.......................................... 
40
Copper Rivets and Bnrs............................... 50—10

RIVETS. 

dlS.

 

 

PATENT PLANISHED IRON.

“A” Wood’s patent planished. Not. 24 to 27  10 20 
“B” Wood’s pat planished, Nos. 25 to 27...  9 20 

Broken packs Ko per ponnd extra.

HAMMERS.

d is .

HINGES.

HANGERS. 

HOLLOW  WARE.

H OUSE  F U R N ISH IN G   GOODS.

May dole  * Co.’s....................................dis. 
2
Kip’S...................................................... dis. 
25
Yerkes A Plumb’s..................................dis. 40*10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel........................80c llBt 60
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steel  Hand__30c 40*10
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2, 3 ............................. dls.CO&lO
State........................................... per do«, net, 2 50
Screw Hook  and  Strap, to 12 in. 4)4  14  and
3)410
X........... ............ net
X........... ............ net
SX
X ........... ............ net
7X
%........... ............net
7X
Strap and T ......
50
...........dis.
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track__50*10
Champion,  anti friction.............................  60*10
Kidder, wood track.....................................  
40
Pots................................................................60*10
Kettles...........................................................60*10
Spiders  .........................................................60&1C
Gray enameled..............................................40*10
Stamped  Tin Ware...............................new list 70
Japanned Tin Ware..................................... 
26
Granite Iron W are..................... new list 33)4*10
Btlght...................................................  70*10410
Screw  Eyes.............................................70*10*10
Hook’s .
.70*10*10
Gate Hooks and Eyes............
70*10*10
LEVELS.
dis.7o
Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s ....................
ROPES.
Sisal, )4 inch and larger............................
Manilla.......................................................
Steel and Iron............................................
Try and Bevels...........................................
Mitre..........................................................
Com.  Smooth.
Nos. 10 to  14.....................................#4 05
Nos. 15 to 17.....................................4 05
Nos.  18 to 21...................................   4 05
Nos. 22 to 24 .....................................  4 05
Nos. 25 to 26 .....................................  4 25
No. 27 ................................................  4  45
wide not less than 2-10 extra
List acct. 19, ’86  .....................................dis. 
Silver Lake, White A.............................. list 
“ 
Drab A..................................  “ 
“  White  B................................   > 
“ 
Drab B...................................  “ 
“  White C.................................. “ 

Com. 
#2 95 
3 05 
3 05 
3  15 
3 25 
8 35
All  sheets No. 18  and  lighter,  over 30  Inches 

SAND PAPER.
SASH CORD.

wire g o o d s. 

50
50
55
50
55
85

SHEET IRON.

SQUARES.

dis.

fX

Discount, 10.

SASH WEIGHTS.

dis.

dis.

wire. 

saws. 

traps. 

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

Solid Byes............................................ per ton #26
“ 
20
Silver Steel  Dia. X Cuts, per foot..............  70
50
“  Special Steel De* X Cuts, per foot__ 
“  Special Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot.... 
30 
“  Champion  and  Electric  Tooth  X
Cuts,  per  foot............................................   30
Steel, Game................................................... 60*10
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ...............  
35
Oneida Community, Hawley a Norton’s _______ 70
Mouse,  choker....................................18c per dos
Mouse, delusion............................... #1.50 per dos
dis.
Bright Market..............................................   65
Annealed Market......................................... 70—10
Coppered Market.........................................   60
Tinned Market............................................   62)4
» red  Spring  Steel................................  
50
d  Fence, galvanized..............................   2 60
“ 
painted....................................  2 20
An  Sable.........................................................dis. 40*10
Putnam.......................................... 
dis. 05
N orthwestern................................ 
dis. 10*10
dis.
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.................... 
30
Coe’s  Genuine............................................. 
50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,..................... 75
Coe’s  Patent, malleable............................  .75*10
dig.
Birdcages................................................... 
50
Pumps, Cistern........................................  
75*10
Screws, New List.......................................... 70*10
Casters, Bed a  d Plate...........................50*10*10
Dampers, American..................................... 
40
Forks, hoes, rakes  and all steel goods....... 65*10

MISCELLANEOUS. 

HORSE NAILS.

WRENCHES. 

METALS,
PIG TIN.

6X
7

26c
28c

ZINC.

SOLDER.

Pig  Large....................................................  
Pig Bars.......................................................  
Duty:  Sheet, 2)4c per pound.
680 pound  casks........................................... 
Per pound.......................................  ........... 
)4©)4.................................................................. 16
Extra W iping................................................ 
is
The  prices  of  the  many  other  qnalltles  of 
solder in the market indicated by private brand» 
vary according to composition.
ANTIMONY
Cookson............   .........................per  ponnd
Hallett’s......................................  
TIN—MXLTN GRADE.
10x14 IC, Charcoal...........  ...........................#7  50
7  50
14x20 IC. 
10x14 IX, 
9  25
14x20 IX, 
9 25

Each additional X on this grade, (1.75.

18

" 

 
 
 

 
 
 

“ 
“ 
“ 
TIN—ALLA WAY GRADE.
“ 
“ 
“ 

 
 
 

75
6 75
8 25
9 25

Bach additional X on this grade 11.60.

10x14 IC,  Charcoal......................................  
1 75
14x20 IC, 
10x14 IX, 
I  14x20 IX, 

 
 
 
ROOFING PLATES
Worcester..........................  6  60
.........................  8  50
13  50 
6 00 
7 50
..................  12 50
..................  15 50

14x20 IC, 
14x20 IX, 
20x28 IC, 
14x20 IC, 
14x20 IX, 
20x28 IC, 
20x28 IX,
14x28 IX.............................................................114 00
14x81  IX............................................................  15 00
14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boiler«, 1 
14x60 IX, 

“ 
“ 
BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE.

Allaway  Grade.

11 |  per ponnd 

,n no
10 00

„ „ „ „  

“  9 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

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U chiganI I a d esm a n

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Best  Interests  of  Business  Men.

Published at

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E.  A. STOWE. Editor.

W EDNESDAY,  MARCH  7,  1894.

THE  WEAKNESS  OF  THE  NAVY.
Although the United States  has  spent 
considerable  money  in  recent  years in 
providing new ships for the  navy,  there 
are  many  evidences  that,  although  we 
now  possess a number  of  splendid  ves­
sels and  will  soon  have  more,  there  are 
yet many additions needed  to  make  our 
navy  an 
ideal  establishment.  Of  the 
new vessels already  built  or  in  process 
of construction,  there is  a liberal  supply 
of large size cruisers,  some  battle-ships 
and coast defense vessels,  but  very  few 
small cruisers or gunboats.

There is no denying  that  the  eouutry 
needs all  the  large  cruisers  and  battle­
ships  now  possessed  by  the  Navy De­
partment,  and  many  more  besides, 
to 
properly  protect our coasts and  growing 
foreign  commerce. 
Large  vessels  are 
also needed  in cases  where  foreign  wars 
imperil  American  interests,  as,  for  in­
stance,  in  the existing  war in  Brazil; but 
for ordinary cruising  purposes in distant 
waters,  small  size cruisers and  gunboats 
are  wanted.

So 

limited  is  the  present  supply  of 
such  vessels  that  many  important  sta­
tions  are  left  practically  unprotected, 
because there  arc no suitable ships.  The 
loss of the old  Kearsarge,  while  on  her 
way  to  the  scene  of  the  revolution  in 
Central  America, 
leaves  the  Navy  De­
partment  without  a  suitable  vessel  to 
supply  her place.  A  light-draft ship is 
needed for such service.  One  or  more 
vessels should be always stationed in  the 
Gulf of Mexico ready to  proceed  to  any 
point in  Mexico,  Central  America,  the 
West  Indies,  or northern coast  of  South 
America,  where trouble may  exist or the 
presence of an American  war  vessel  may 
be  needed  to 
look  after American  in­
terests.

Quite  a  fleet of  light-draft  vessels  is 
needed in Chinese  waters and  along  the 
coast of  Asia  to  look  after  American 
commerce in  those portions of the  world. 
Behring  Sea  also  needs  one  or more 
small  cruisers.  On  the  whole,  a  very 
much larger number of  these small ships 
are needed  than  the  Navy  Department 
d o w   possesses  or will  possess  when  all 
those now  building  will  be completed.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

The advantages  of  these  small  ships 
over larger vessels  for  cruising  in  dis­
tant waters are many. 
In the first place, 
they  can  easily  enter  shallow  harbors 
and navigate  rivers;  secondly,  they  re­
quire 
less  repair;  thirdly,  they  need 
smaller  crews,  and,  finally,  are  more 
economical to maintain.  When  provided 
with  a  high-power  modern  armament, 
these small  vessels  can  be  made  very 
formidable,  and, for the ordinary duty of 
protecting  commerce  and  maintaining 
respect  for the flag,  they  serve  quite  as 
well as the larger and more costly  ships, 
which,  being built  with a view  solely to 
their  fighting  qualities,  are  naturally 
neither  economical  nor  adapted  to ser­
vice in  shallow waters.

The last Congress realized the  need  of 
small  vessels, and provided  for  the  con­
struction of three  additional  gun-boats, 
or light cruisers.  The present Congress, 
while authorizing one or  more  big  ships, 
would  do  well  to  also  authorize a few 
more  small  size  cruisers  or gunboats. 
Such  vessels can  be rapidly  constructed, 
and they  will  fill  what is  now  the  most 
pressing need of  the navy.

cents a pound on pork  would mean a  tax 
of §4 per barrel.  That no trading would 
be possible under such a tax  is  obvious, 
hence to claim that the  bill is  a  revenue 
measure is perfectly absurd.

That the bill is  unconstitutional  there 
can be not  the  smallest  doubt. 
In  the 
first  place,  it is  an  attempt  to  regulate 
public morals,  a duty  which  belongs  to 
the States alone; and,  in  the second,  it  is 
strictly class  legislation,  as  there  is  a 
clause  in  the  bill  which  provides  that 
□one  of  its  provisions  shall  apply  to 
farmers or planters.

As  The  Tradesman  has  already  re­
marked in previous articles it is extremely 
unfortunately that the  business  interests 
of the  country  should  be  harassed  by 
such a succession of  hostile measures as 
have been initiated  by  the  present  Con­
gress.  The anti-option  bill is  calculated 
to do great harm,  and,  should it pass,  in­
stead of improving prices,  as  its  promo­
ters claim,  it will  be  certain  to  add  to 
the depression  existing  in  agricultural 
products.

The unpopularity of the recent raise in 
insurance rates is not confined to this city, 
it seems,  but  is  as  general  as  was  the 
raise itself.  From all parts of the  coun­
try complaints are coming in of  the  un­
fairness  of the  action of  the  boards  of 
underwriters  in  apparently discriminat­
ing against the  more desirable classes of 
risks in  favor of the undesirable  classes. 
The  “howl”  is not  alone  “from  the  in­
surance (?)  editors  of  country  papers,” 
as asserted  by the Detroit Indicator,  nor 
is 
it  “to  protect  the  interests  of  the 
‘dear  people’ from  the bloated insurance 
trusts and monopolies.”  So far  as  this 
journal 
is  concerned,  the  compliants 
have  come  from  prominent  business 
men,  who are the heaviest insurers in the 
city  and  who  have  complained,  not  so 
much of the raise itself,  which  appeared 
to  be  inevitable,  but  of  the  inequality 
and  unfairness of  the  raise.  They  are 
men  who know the  value  of  insurance, 
what it ought to  cost  and  what  consti­
tutes desirable or undesirable insurance. 
They insure,  not to  make money out  of 
the  insurance  companies, but to protect 
themselves against loss, and it  is  to  be 
presumed  that,  in  a majority of cases,  at 
least,  are  anxious  to  do  everything  to 
protect the risk as  well as their property. 
A good risk can always  get  more  insur­
ance,  and at a lower  rate,  than  a  poor 
one,  and this fact is  known  as  well  by 
those  who  carry 
insurance  as  by  those 
who  write it.  Moreover, the owner  of  a 
risk  is  more  concerned  about  keeping 
up the  character of  the risk than  is the 
agent who writes the policy,  whose chief 
concern  appears  to  be  his  commission. 
It is a well-known fact that  agents  have 
time and  again refused to represent  cer­
tain  companies  that  objected  to  the 
character of some of the  risks  taken  by 
the  agents.  The  companies  must  take 
the poor with the good, or  take  none  at 
all.  The reason is  obvious—the  agent’s 
commission is larger on  the poor than on 
the good  risk,  the  rate  being  higher. 
This indiscriminate  writing  of  risks  by 
the agents is responsible for  a  consider­
able percentage of the losses sustained by 
the companies,  which  losses  it  is  now 
proposed  to  make up by  a  general  raise 
of rates on all classes of risks.  Just why 
the 
desirable  risks  are  taxed  to  pay 
losses  on  undesirable,  or  why 
the 
undesirable  risks  are  not  compelled  to 
carry  their  burden,  now  is  not  known.

It Is very certain,  however,  that  desira­
ble property can  always  get  all  the  in­
surance it needs without paying  rates on 
firetraps,  and  it may be  taken  for  gran­
ted that this fact  will be  impressed  upon 
the  minds  of 
insurance  men.  Policy 
holders are not  “howling”  against a  just 
and equitable rate,  but they do  object  to 
paying big  premiums  on  good  risks  to 
make up the losses on  bad  ones.

liabilities  of 

So much  has been said and  written  in 
recent years in denunciation  of National 
banks,  that it is of  interest  to  note  the 
relative effect of the panic  on  the  three 
classes of banks  doing  business  in  this 
country—National,  State  and private in­
stitutions.  The  total  number  of bank 
failures during 1893 amounted to 534.  To 
this  total  National  banks  contributed 
154,  State banks 184,  and  private  banks 
196.  The  total 
liabilities  of  the sus- 
pened National  banks  was  §68,687,000, 
while the total  liabilities  of  both  State 
and  private banks  was  but  §61,000,000. 
The  fact  that  the 
the 
National  institutions  was  in  excess  of 
the liabilities of  both  State and  private 
banks is accounted for by  the  great  ex­
cess of capital  controlled by the  former 
over  the 
latter.  When the number of 
suspended National  banks  which  were 
enabled  to  reopen  their  doors  is com­
pared  with  the  number  of  the  other 
classes of banks which resumed business, 
the figures will  be  seen to  be  largely  in 
favor of  the  former.  Of  the  154  sus- 
pendedjNational  banks,  nir.ety-seven, or 
about 66 per cent.,  resumed  business by 
Jan.  1; of  the  184  State  banks  which 
closed their doors,  fifty-two, or  about  33 
per cent.,  resumed;  while of the  196 pri­
vate bank suspensions, only thirty-six, or 
20 per cent,  of the whole,  resumed.  The 
proportion  of  liabilities  of  suspended 
banks to the whole  will  be found  to  be 
about  the  same  percentage. 
In other 
words,  fully two-thirds of the  suspended 
National banks  were soon  on  their  feet 
again,  while only about one-third  of  the 
State banks and less than one-fifth of the 
embarrassed private banks were  enabled 
to resume.  Whatever may be the reason 
for it National  banks,  according  to  the 
above showing,  possess much the greater 
recuperative  power,  a  fact  worthy  of 
consideration  and  one  which 
is  com­
mended to the attention of those who  de­
nounce the governmental banking system 
as an  unmixed evil.

The  employes  of  the  Pittsburg,  Fort 
Wayne & Chicago  Railway at Fort Wayne 
felt very comfortable last Saturday when 
they  were  paid  off  in  nice,  crisp,  new 
bills  issued  by  the  Youngstown,  Ohio 
National  Bank.  They  felt  differently, 
however,  Monday,  when they  undertook 
to spend some of their  nice  new  money. 
People to  whom  it  was  offered,  finding 
that the signature  of  the  cashier  of  the 
Bank was missing from the bills,  refused 
It occasioned a great deal 
to take them. 
of trouble,  but  it was remedied. 
It  was 
just a  careless  mistake  of  the  cashier, 
and as soon  as it was  called to his  atten­
tion he hastened  to  make  arrangements 
to redeem the defective money.

Legality of the State Peddling Law.
The State statute relative  to  peddlers 
and hawkers will be put to a test  in  the 
Ottawa  Circuit  Court at  Grand  Haven 
March 12,  when the  case  of  the  People 
vs.  Martin Van der«Leas,  appealed  from 
justice  lcourt  at  Hudsonville  will  be 
tried.

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THE  HATCH  ANTI-OPTION  BILL.
Representative Hatch,  of Missouri,  has 
succeeded  in  having the anti-option  bill, 
introduced  by  him  some time ago,  trans­
ferred  from  the  Ways  and  Means  Com­
mittee to the  Agricultural Committee  by 
a direct  vote  of  the  House.  As 
is 
purported  to  be  a  revenue  measure,  it 
should  properly have gone  to  the  Ways 
and Means Committee,  but the House  by 
a large majority decided otherwise.

With the biil in  the  hands of the  Agri­
cultural Committee,  of  which  Mr.  Hatch 
is Chairman,  a  favorable  report  to  the 
House is  practically certain,  and  if  the 
vote given on the subject of reference  be 
accepted  as a test vote,  the  measure will 
pass  by  a  large  majority. 
is  not, 
however,  safe to assume  that  the  mem­
bers  who  vote  for 
reference  to  Mr. 
Hatch’s committee will  vote for  the  bill 
on  final  passage.  Besides many develop­
ments are possible before the bill  is  fin­
ally disposed of by the lower house.

Mr.  Hatch evidently  bad  his confidence 
severely shaken  as to the  constitutional­
ity  of  his  pet  bill.  During 
the  last 
Congress  the  measure  was  urged  as 
a  prohibitive 
law,  pure  and  simple. 
Now  Mr.  Hatch  has  changed  front  and 
disclaims any 
intention  of  prohibiting 
trading iu futures and  options,  claiming 
that his bill  is a revenue  measure,  pure 
and  simple.  To  make  this  illustration 
more plausible,  the  bill  is  accompanied 
by minute provisions as to the  use of  in­
ternal  revenue stamps,  the character and 
amount  of taxes  to  be  imposed  on  the 
different  sorts of contracts.

No one is likeiy to  be  at  all  deceived 
by claims set up by  Mr.  Hatch  that  his 
bill is a revenue measure.  The fact that 
he  was  unwilling to  have  it  referred  to 
the  Ways  and  Means  Committee, 
the 
body to which revenue bills properly  be­
long,  is  conclusive proof that he  himself 
distrusts its merits  as  a  revenue  meas­
ure.  That it is  really  prohibitive  will 
be readily seen  by  an  analysis  of  the 
taxes it proposes to impose.

In  the first place,  the bill demands that 
every dealer in  options  or  futures  shall I 
file  a  bond  with  the  Government  of 
§10,000.  Secondly,  a tax of  2  cents  per 
pound  is  levied  upon every  pound of cot­
ton or pork,  and 10 cents on every bushel I 
of  grain  sold  for  future  delivery.  Two

the  enterprises 

in a moment,  could not be restored  until 
after  the  lapse  of  years.  They  knew 
that 
that  had  been 
crushed out and  the  industries  that  had 
been destroyed  could  not,  save  by  slow 
degrees,  be rebuilt and rehabilitated.

THE!  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,
Century,  the  American  style  is,  as has 
been said,  of the square-box  type,  ten  to 
Built  in  the fash­
twenty stories high. 
ion  of  a  mercantile  packing  case, 
to 
prove its commercial  inspiration,  it  sets 
forth the aspiring and ambitious  nature 
of our people  to  get higher  in  the  world 
than  any other  race. 
Standing  square 
against the buffeting  of  wind  and  rain, 
raising its lofty roof to  the  sun,  all  its 
lines  are  perpendicular;  there 
is  no 
taper; there are no  curves; all  its  forms 
are rectangular.  Beautiful in no sense, 
there is still a sort of insolent majesty in 
their  loftiness,  and  an  expression  of 
sturdy  stubbornness 
in  their  eternal 
squareness.  These,  after all,  are Amer­
ican  characteristics. 
They  defy  the 
storm,  conflagation and  the  earthquake; 
nevertheless they are by  no  means  safe 
from either.

The supposition  that  as  soon  as  the 
suspended  and  closed  banks  should  re­
open  their’■doors  and  recommence  the 
payment of what  they owed  to  deposit­
ors  and  other  creditors,  that  of  itself 
would restore confidence, was a vain one. 
The hopes  built upon it  were  all  disap­
pointed,  and  to-day,  in  every  large  city 
of the North and  West,  enormous  public 
charities are maintained to keep the army 
of  the  unemployed  from  freezing  and 
starving. 
In New York,  Chicago,  Phila­
delphia,  Boston  and  many  other  cities 
the chief topic  of  interest  is  the  main­
tenance of these charities.  The  amount 
dispensed in  this  work  is  not  less  than 
$1,000,000 a week for the whole  country, 
and this,  let it  be  understood,  Is  in  ad­
dition to the  ordinary demands  that  are 
made every  winter  for  help  to  the  suf­
fering.

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AMERICAN  ARCHITECTURE.

The  present  age  of  civilization  has 
often been charged with its  inability  or 
failure to  originate  a  style  of architect­
ure.  and  this is cited as a  special  mark 
of artistic weakness.

The  reproach  is  just no longer.  The 
stilted or climbing style is  the architect­
ure of the Twentieth Century.  Born in 
the  last  years  of  the  Nineteenth,  the 
Twentieth  Century  will  be  ushered  in 
with its sun shining on  the  summits  of 
rectangular  buildings  which  mount 
higher into the sky than did the  obelisks 
and  spires  of  the  earlier ages.  This 
lofty,  square-box  house  construction  is 
wholly American.

Architecture is a race evolution rather 
than art outgrowth. 
It is an expression 
of  the  ruling  desire  of a people  backed 
by  their force and energy. 
It is more or 
less tempered by  the  taste  and  culture 
of  the  race,  but  people  do  not build 
merely for the display of their art.  The 
grand object is  shelter.  They first em­
ploy the material simplest and  easiest to 
procure, and they work in  that.  When 
costlier material and  higher  art  obtain, 
they  work  upon  the  original  models, 
only they idealize them.

The  architecture  of  the  Chinese  is 
doubtless a reproduction  of  the  tent  in 
universal use among  the  Tartars  of the 
great  steppes,  but it  is wrought  out  in 
wood, stone or porcelain,  The  temples 
of India,  pyramidal  or conical,  with in­
numerable pinnacles,  covering  vast  in­
terior vaults,  whose roofs  are supported 
by  colossal  images  of  men  and beasts, 
simulate the  mountain  peaks  and  cav­
erns of the towering Himalayas.  Possi­
bly  the early  inhabitants  of  India  were 
troglodytes,  or  cave-dwellers.  When 
their  art  was  transported  to  Egypt,  it 
was repeated in  the  pyramids,  and  the 
low,  cavernous  stone  temples  of  Abou 
Simbel and Earnak.

The Greeks borrowed  their  architect­
ure from Egypt,  but their purer  art  and 
freer  spirit  lightened  and  idealized  it. 
They  exchanged  the  dark  granite  for 
white marble; they made the roofs  loftier 
and lighter,  the columns  taller and more 
slender,  and  they substituted  the  volute 
of a shell and the acanthus  leaf  for  the 
lotus  capital  of  the  Egyptians.  The 
Romans,  who invented nothing—a nation 
of robbers having  ravished  every  coun­
try of its wealth and art—took the Greek 
styles in architecture,  as  they  took  the 
Greek mythology in  religion,  and  made 
them both more gross and  more  simple. 
The Roman builders eliminated the  oval 
and epicycloid curves of Greek architect­
ure,  and introduced in  their  places  the 
arcs of circles,  while  they  reduced  the 
refined sociability of  the Greek Olympus 
to the level of a  bagnio.

The  Gothic  architecture is said  to  be 
modeled on a forest  of  lofty  trees  with 
arching branches.  So, too,  is the Arabic 
or  Saracenic.  Those  children  of  the 
desert,  dreaming  of  shady  groves  and 
sparkling springs of water,  wrought out 
their desires in  the multitudinous pillars 
of their mosques and palaces, supporting 
low arches,  under  which  there  was  al­
ways a jetting fountain.  The old Goths 
and Germans, dwelling in the vast forests 
of  northern  Europe,  might  well  have 
drawn from them the inspiration of their 
lofty,  arching 
clustered  columns  and 
branches,  among  which 
the  sunlight 
glimmered as through the  dim  windows 
of a venerable  cathedral.

But the architecture of the  Twentieth

No wild tornado has yet been  faced by 
these  lofty  structures.  They  have  not 
yet made their  record  against  fire.  As 
for the earthquake,  it  has  not  been  con­
sidered in  their construction.  The oscil­
lation of a fraction of an inch  at the sur­
face of the earth will  be  multiplied  into 
feet  at  the  height  of  ten  or  twenty 
stories.  “But there are no earthquakes,” 
we are told. 
It may be,  notwithstanding 
the  records  of  California  and  the New 
Madrid convulsions in  the  heart  of  the 
Mississippi valley,  in  the  beginning  of 
the century,  that earthquakes  are  not to 
be  expected  in  the  regions  where  the 
lofty box-houses of New  York  and  Chi­
cago  stand  so  thickly.  Nevertheless, 
there is no guarantee against  the  earth­
quake.  There is no country  with a  his­
tory that has escaped.  Our  annals  ex­
tend  to  four  centuries,  but  they  are 
wholly  fragmentary  for  most  of  that 
time.  The  testimony  of  ancient  and 
most  tremendous  convulsions  is seen in 
many localities.  What has  happened is 
again possible.  Apropos  of this,  Prof. 
Falb,  of Vienna,  supposed  to be a scien­
tific connoiseur,  is said  to have  foretold 
terrible earthquakes for New  York  next 
August.  Probably  this  prognostication 
is  not  to  be  considered seriously; but, 
nevertheless, 
earthquakes  are  always 
possible.  There are  buildings in Europe 
and Asia that have stood  for  many  cen­
turies.  Not so in America.  The square- 
box  architecture  of  to-day  has  yet  to 
make its record of  stability.

ARMY  OF  THE  UNEMPLOYED.
Never  before  in  the  history  of  this 
country have the demands of charity been 
so exacting and been met  so  generously 
as during the past winter.  A million  of 
men and women  who  have  been  accus­
tomed heretofore to earn  an honest  live­
lihood by their  labor  have  been  in  the 
position of paupers,  compelled to depend 
on  charity,  where  formerly they had en­
joyed the privilege of living by the work 
of their hands.  To-day there is no  work 
for them,  because  a vast  number of fac­
tories,  mills and  mines  were  closed  by 
the  financial  panic  of 
last  summer. 
Since then there has  been  no general re­
vival  of trade.

It  was generally  hoped,  as it  had  been 
given out,  that in  a few weeks, or months 
at  most,  the  trouble  would  all  be  over 
and business  resume  its  ordinary chan­
nels.  Those who  remembered  the  dis­
astrous 
financial  convulsion  of  1873 
knew from experience that  any prospect 
of an early recovery from  the  effects  of 
the late panic was  hopeless.  They knew 
that the  public  confidence,  overthrown

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dropped out of business;  the speculating 
bubbles burst,  and  the  finances  had  to 
come to a  gold  basis,  which  was  called 
“resumption.”

The  country  cannot come  out  of  its 
present stagnation save  by slow  degrees, 
and  it should be the  aim  of  every  good 
citizen  to do all that lies within his power 
to  hasten  the  return  of  prosperity by 
buying as freely  as  possible,  employing 
as much  labor  as  possible  and  continu­
ally  “singing the  song  of  good  times,” 
instead  of  brooding  over  the  present 
distress and looking  towards  the  future 
with gloomy  forebodings.

“Do you take  this  man  for  better  or 
for worse?”  asked  the minister.  “1 can’t 
tell  until  I  have  had  him  for  a  little 
while,”  returned the bride.

Some of the  best  friends the devil has 

belong to church.

Before  You  Buy

SEE  THE  SPRING  LINE  OF  FINK 
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! VillAlways Give Full MartetValue

WE  WANT  THEM  ALL,
NO  MATTER  HOW  MANY.

It seems to  be  a  providential  dispen­
sation that at  this  moment  of  supreme 
distress the price of flour  is  remarkably 
cheap.  Never  in  the  history  of  this 
country has wheat reached as  low  a  fig­
ure  in  the  markets.  This  is,  in  one 
sense,  a  great  blessing,  because  every 
charity dollar is  able to buy just so much 
more  than  ever  before  of  the  staff  of 
life;  but low prices  are  not,  and  never 
were,  a  sign  of  prosperity.  They  only 
advertise the inability  of  the  people  to 
buy. 
It makes no difference  bow  cheap 
commodities  are  when  the  people  have 
no  money  with  which  to  buy. 
Low 
prices of  staple  products  are  always  a 
sign of  general  distress.  They  declare 
the fact that a great body  of  the  people 
are earning little or no  money,  and  this 
is the greatest misfortune that  can  come 
to them.

loaded  with 

its  debts  would 

the  nation’s  creditors 
be  paid 

There  is no decrease in the amount  of 
money  in  the  country.  The  banks  are 
stuffed  and 
it;  but  the 
trouble  is, it  is not invested in trade. 
It 
is not placed where the people can get it. 
And it is not  likely  that  any  laws  that 
Congress can pass will  change  the  situ­
ation.  The repeal of the Sherman silver 
law did  not,  as  some  sanguine  people 
hoped it  would,  restore  financial  confi­
dence and  promote prosperity,  any more 
than  it can  be  held  responsible  for  the 
general distress that pervades  the  coun­
try.  What  the  repeal of  the  Sherman 
law did was  to  put  the  country,  which 
had been drifting to a silver  basis,  upon 
It 
a gold money standard.  This  is  all. 
that 
assured 
in 
all 
gold, 
good 
as  gold;  but 
fact  does  not 
stimulate  commerce.  Something  else is 
required.  Probably  there  never  was  a 
time  when  business  was  so  active  and 
fortunes  were made  with  such  rapidity 
as during the last years of the  civil  war, 
and for several years  afterwards.  That 
was  a time when the paper money of the 
Government was  only worth  from  $2.80 
to $1.40  for  $1  in  gold.  The  vast  war 
contracts had enormously stimulated  in­
dustries and commerce. 
It  was  the  ex­
traordinary  activity of  business,  not  the 
quality of the money  with  which  it  was 
done,  that  produced  results.  But  the 
money  standard 
finally  asserted  itself. 
The  wonderful  stimulus  of 
the  war 
ceased  to  operate.  Finally  the  bottom

be  maintained 

that 

or 

as 

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TTTÏC  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

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Of Interest  to Bookkeepers.

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 cau  be located  in the  ac­
count in which it has occurred. 
No  book keeper  should  be 
without this system, as it saves 
weeks of  labor each  year.  No 
new  books  or  slips required. 
It can  be taken  up at any  time 
without change of books.
Also my system  of  keeping 
Accounts P a y a b l e Account, 
which  saves  opening  an  ac­
count  on  the  ledger  of  those 
from  whom  goods  are bought.
Price  for  both  system s 

$5.00.

WM.  H.  ALLEN,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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260  SOUTH  IO NIA  ST„ 

THE  UNIVERSAL PROVIDER. 

The  name  of  William  Whiteley is  a 

tire to restore themselves with  “the  cup
¡th at  ChC6rS.”
From  th e Dry  Goods  E conom ist. 
There  is  a  restaurant  attached  also, 
household  word 
in  the  West  End  of  but this is in quite a different part of the 
London.  There  are  bigger  and  finer  building and is reached by a passage and 
stores than  his in  Paris  and  New  York,  across a yard  (not  by  a  subway,
some other  London  shops),  where  hat 
but the actual  parallel of William White- 
and cold luncheons and early dinners are 
ley’s establishment does not exist  on  the 
served.  Parly to avoid  giving  umbrage 
globe.  His is neither a  dry  goods  store 
to the Blue Ribbonites aud partly to save 
nor a mazasin d e  twuveautes; the  word 
taking out a special  license,  wine,  beer 
draper does not apply to him;  he  is  just 
and spirits are not  included  in the bill of 
what he  describes  himself—a  universal 
fare;  but as Mr.  Whiteley is  a  dealer  in 
provider.
alcoholic liquors, persons who  are in the 
1  have labored  hard to  find  something 
secret will purchase  bottles  of  beer  or 
that  the  Universal  Provider  does  not 
wine at one end of the shop  and consume 
provide,  and 1  have not  been  successful.  I 
their own  property at the other,  after an 
He takes you  at your birth  and  provides 
accommodating  waiter has  removed  the 
for you throughout  your  life,  from  the 
cork.
cradle  to the grave.
Vast kitchens underlie a portion of the 
He will clothe you  from  head  to  foot 
premises,  for the  supply  of  the  restau­
(this goes  without  saying)  in  silks  or 
rant  and the daily meals of hundreds  of 
satins,  broadcloth  or  fustian.  He  is 
assistants,  and also for cooking  the  din­
draper,  silk mercer, milliner,  tailor,  hat­
ners, suppers and  separate  dishes,  bak­
ter,  shoemaker,  furrier, dealer in calicoes 
ing the pastry and making the ices which 
and  linens,  haberdasher,  hosier,  dress­
are among the many things the public  is 
maker,  glover,  all in one.
wont to demand at the hands of the  Uni­
He provides the  layette for  the  “little 
versal  Provider.  As  you 
imbibe  your 
stranger,”  the 
schoolboy’s  outfit,  the 
afternoon tea  the scent of  sweet  flowers 
if  you  are 
girl’s  wedding  trousseau, 
is  wafted  toward  you.  Beneath  tall 
bound for the colonies,  be  will  sell  you 
palms in the adjoining  conservatory  the 
clothes and firearms, seeds and agricultur­
flowers of  the  season  are  retailed,  or 
al  implements;  take  your  berth  in  the 
deft-fingered  damsels  twine  them  into 
next ship  which sails to the antipodes  or 
gay  garlands  and  posies,  or  the  sad 
elsewhere; pack and forward your trunks, 
crosses  aud  wreaths  we  pile  on  the 
and insure your life on sea and on shore.
coffins  of  our  departed  relations  and 
When you marry and settle he gets you 
friends.  Mr.  Whiteley  not  only under­
a house and  will furnish it,  from  attic  to 
takes mourning  wreaths  and  mourning 
basement.  Of course,  he  has  provided 
raiments,  he  also  furnishes  the  pomp 
your  mother-in-law  with  the  wedding 
and circumstances of funerals.
breakfast and  that  superb  erection,  the 
Nor would his store be complete  with­
wedding cake.  He  has printed  the  invi­
out a drug department any  more  than  if 
tations,  and  made  the  boquets  for the 
he left out  scents  and  soaps,  cosmetics 
bride  and  bridesmaids.  He  makes  a 
and  hair dyes  from  his 
list.  He  will 
specialty of wedding presents.
measure you for a  wooden  leg or  a  wig; 
Through his intervention you  can  rent 
nothing comes  amiss  to  him.  Barbers 
a lodging or a villa wherein  to pass  your 
are in readiness to shave the chin  of  the 
honeymoon. 
If on traveling intent,  there 
male and an elegant hair-dressing  saloon 
is  an  office  for  the  sale  of 
tourists’ 
is open for feminine customers,  who  may 
tickets to every part of the world.
afterwards  turn 
into  the  photograph 
You  can  stock  your  cellar  with  his 
studio and  get  their  fair  countenances 
coal  and  wood,  his wines and beers.  He 
perpetuated on  paper or ivory.
will lay 
in  gas  or  electricity;  put  up 
1 have no doubt Mr.  Whitely  would  be 
lightning  conductors,  and  cowls  on 
quite equal to  the  task  of  providing  a 
smoky chimneys.  Of course,  he  sweeps 
parvenu with a  gallery  of  well-authen­
chimneys,  beats  carpets,  paints  bouses 
ticated old masters,  and even family por­
inside and  out,  puts  in  ranges,  throws 
traits at a pinch;  but  iu  a  general  way 
out conservatories, lays out gardens,  and 
art  is  represented  by  engravings  and 
sees to your drains.
lithographs  and  hand-decorated  knick 
You  bank  with him,  and  with  him  in­
knacks—just  now 
there— 
i'ure  your  house  against  fire.  He  will 
though all  the appliances of art work can 
build you a carriage or  a  boat;  he  sells 
be obtained and every  branch  of  indu 
and loaus  pianos  and  other  musical  in­
trial art flourishes in  the grove.
struments;  he  will  remove  your  goods 
All the great  centers  of  industry  are 
and chattels from one house  to  another, 
I represented:  Sheffield  and  Birmingham 
or 
to  another. 
send  their cutlery  and  hardware;  Geneva 
There is eveu  a servants’  and governesses 
and  Besaticon,  clocks and  watches; Dres­
registry  attached  to  the  establishment.
den, Vauxhill  and  Yeddo,  porcelain  and 
Should you  want to give a dinner  par­
pottery; Daghestan  and Smyrna,  carpets 
ty or a ball,  Whiteley  undertakes  to  do 
and  hangings;  Paris  and  Vienna  supply 
everything  in  the  best  style.  He  has 
fans and knick-knacks; St.  Sabain,  mir­
waiters on  hand and neat-handed  parlor­
rors:  London,  high  art furniture;  Limer­
maids for the coffee and tea  department.
ick,  Bruges  and  Brussels,  lace;  Venice 
It is even  whispered that he  will  pro­
and  Bohemia, glass;  India, carved ivories; 
vide dancing men at so  much  per  head, 
and  metal  work,  and  so on,  and so on.
warranted  stylish,  but  1  cannot  vouch 
These  and  many  other  things  afford 
for the truth  of the report.  One of  your 
endless interest to the  public.  They  are 
staff,  who happened to be in  London  this 
set out with taste in  the windows aud  on 
week,  asked  me if there was  a  matrimo­
the counters  within, where at the present 
nial  department,  and  if  the  Universal 
time those  specially  adapted  to  Christ 
Provider undertook to  provide  wives  for 
mas and New  Year’s gifts are  particular­
bachelors and  husbands for  spinsters  at 
ly  prominent.  Although  the  show  of 
a valuation.  Well,  1  have  no  doubt  he 
toys cannot vie with  those of the Parisian 
would do it at a pinch.
magazins,  it is nevertheless  pretty  com­
One of the  most  remarkable  divisions 
plete,  and I never saw a more varied  ex­
of the establishment  is  that  where  the 
hibition of  dainty  trifles  at  reasonable 
fresh provisions are sold;  where  lie  fish 
prices  than  was  afforded  by  Whiteley’s 
fresh from ocean  and  river;  where  hang 
Christmas Bazar.
the carcasses of beeves  and  sheep,  pigs 
and calves,  fattened on the Whiteley pas­
turages;  where cheeses perfume the air— 
British cheeses,  French Rochefort,  Swiss 
gruyere  and  Italian  gorgonzola;  where 
there are new-laid eggs,  milk  and  cream 
from  Whiteley’s dairy,  poultry  from  his 
farm,  and  vegetables  from  his  market 
gardens.
Alongside of it  runs  the  grocery  and 
bakery  departments.  Fruits of the  East 
and the West Indies are sold  at the upper 
end,  and down  by the door a  division  is 
railed off for the sale of  tobacco  and  ci­
gars.

In enumerating the different trades ex­
ercised by William Whiteley, I have omit­
ted  to  mention  that  tie  is  a  dyer  and 
cleaner as  well as a jeweler; that he sells 
hay  and oats and every  requisite  for  the 
stable,  besides saddles and harness:  that 
he keeps a good  selection  of  dogs,  cats, 
singing  birds  and  talking  parrots 
in 
stock; exchanges  foreign  money,  prints 
circulars,  hangs  wall-papers  and  bells, 
binds books  and  frames  pictures;  is  in 
telephonic connection  with all  the  Lon­
don theatres and can  book  seats  at  any 
one of  them;  is  prepared  to  warehouse 
any  amount of furniture and  luggage  in 
his new depository at Morningside  Park; 
will sell your goods and chattels by  auc­
tion  or  pack  them 
transmission 
abroad;  and finally,  has  lately  added  an

Confectionery and  sweetmeats  occupy 
the next  gallery,  and  very  bright  and 
pretty it looks in all  the  bravery  of  its 
Christmas decorations. 
It  opens  into  a 
tea room,  where exhausted customers re-

swarming 

from 

one 

county 

for 

found 

American manicure and chiropodist to the 
number of his  employes,  Formerly  his 
establishment used to  be  famed  for  the 
beauty of  its  female  assistants;  but  it 
was 
impolite  to  provide  rash 
youths  and  impressionable  elders  with 
pretty faces to  fail in love  with,  so  this 
item has been withdrawn  from the  stock 
in  trade of the Universal Provider.
How  a  Yankee  Sold  His  Salted  Mine.
Judge Stevens,  of  Iron wood,  is a good 
story teller,  and one evening,  when  the 
thermometor  was below zero at Ironwood 
and the wind was whistling outside of  a 
cosy room  where was burning a cheerful 
fire  he  related  a  tale  of  a  Yankee’s 
shrewdness.  The  judge is an old miner 
and  went  out  West  with  the  rush  for 
gold.  Near a claim where the judge was 
working,  was a thin,  angular  New-Eng- 
lander,  who just kept shovelling ore and 
paid no attention to any  one  else.  One 
day some capitalists came along and cas­
ually picked up a  few  chunks  from  the 
Yankee’s  output.  When  they  got back 
to town  they had them essayed,  and they 
yielded  wonderful  results.  The capital­
ists  jumped  in  the  air  for  joy.  Then 
they  went  back  and  there  was  the  old 
fellow shovelling the  same  as  ever  and 
not  saying a word.
“You’ll never do anything  this  way,” 
remarked one of the capitalists.
“ Well,  I’ll  get  on,”  remarked  the 
Yankee,  plying  his  pick  with  renewed 
energy.
“You  should  interest  capital  to  help 
you  develop  that  hole  in  the  ground,” 
continued the capitalist.
“Can develop it  myself,  I guess,”  said 
the Yankee.
“Think you got anything?”
,‘Not yet.  Nothing in sight.”
Then the gentlemen  took several  more 
pieces of  rock  and  went  back  to  town. 
These essayed even richer than  the  first 
samples,  and  the  capitalists  went  wild 
with excitement.  They  went  back  the 
following day  to  see  the  old  man,  who 
gazed upon  them with unconcern  as they 
approached.  He  was  a  taciturn  indi­
vidual,  with an honest face, and he looked 
as  though  he  would  rather  die  than 
wrong any  one.
“My friend,”  said one of  the  capital­
ists,  “what  will you sell out  for?” 
“Wouldn’t sell out.”
“But we  want to buy.”
“What do you  want to buy for?  There 
is nothing here yet.  May  be  some  day, 
but  this hole ain’t  worth  anything.”
“ We want  to buy it, though,  aud  will 
give you 810,000.
“It ain’t worth  10 cents.”
“Will you  sell  it?”
“Nope.”
“Give you $20,000.”
“Nope.”
Finally $60,000 was offered.
“Well,”  said  the  Yankee,  “you  cau 
have it if  you  want,  but  1  tell  you  its 
nothing but a hole in  the  ground.  May 
be worth a lot some day,  but now it ain’t 
worth 60 cents.”
But the money  was  paid and the  capi­
talists  received the hole.  The Yankee’s 
assertions were  correct.  The  hole  was 
not  worth  60  cents,  but  the  taciturn 
Yankee had spread  a  few  rich  samples 
around and then  waited for some  fish  to 
bite.  He had an honest face,  but human 
nature is sometimes deceptive.

Statistics are said  to show  that young 
men do not, on  the  average,  attain  full 
physical  maturity  until  they  arrive  at 
the age of twenty-eight years.  Professor 
Scheiller, of Harvard,  asserts,  as the re­
sult of his observations,  that young men 
do  not  attain  the  full measure of their 
mental faculties before twenty-five years 
of age.  A shrewd observer bas said that 
“most men are boys until they are thirty, 
and  littie  boys  until  they  are  twenty- 
five,”  and this accords  with the standard 
of  manhood  which  was  fixed  at  thirty 
among  the  ancient  Hebrews  and  other 
races.

Have good  aims,  but see that your gun 
is loaded  with  the  cartridge  of  energy 
and education.

The more you  drink to  other  people’s 
health the more you  drink to  the ruia of 
your own.

JVUCBilQ^JSr  TEADESMAIv,

11

Why  Some  Women  Succeed  in  Busi­

ness  Where  Others  Fail.

The appearance of women in eve ry de­
partment of business has  resulted in the 
discovery that a woman can  do  business 
along business lines  and  by  recognized 
methods;  also  in  another  discovery— 
that,  unless obliged to  do so  by  her  en­
vironment,  she  generally does  conduct 
her business affairs in  a  somewhat  slip­
shod manner.
No permanent success  is  possible  ex­
cept according to  strict  business  meth­
In large affairs  this  becomes  evi­
ods. 
dent so soon  that  either  the  worker  is 
forced  into  conformity  or  the  business 
disappears of its own  weight.  There is 
little need to give  hints  in  such  cases; 
either they are superfluous  or  they  are 
useless.  But the possibility  of self-sup­
port along new  lines  has  suggested  a 
large  number  of  new  occupations  to 
young  women  who  are  establishing 
themselves everywhere 
in  small  enter­
prises.  The  eventual  success  of  these 
enterprises  depends  very  largely  upon 
the spirit and method  with  which  they 
are  entered  into.  And  to  these  ener­
getic and  enterprising  young  women  a 
few hints may  be valuable.
It should never be forgotten that “bus­
iness”  and  “philanthropy”  are  two  dif­
ferent  things.  Both  buyer  and  seller 
frequently confound the two. 
It may  be 
questioned  whether  half  the 
failures 
in  business ventures by young women do 
not arise from  this simple  fact. 
In  like 
manner,  the woman  who goes  into  busi­
ness exchanges the  privileges  of special 
courtesy  to  her  sex  for  independence 
and  business  reciprocity.  Here,  again, 
a mistake is too frequently made.
A  business woman  must  not  consider 
the weather or a headache.
Her family can no longer  take a para­
mount place with her.

She cannot afford  to be  pleasant  only 
when she feels  well,  and glum  or  unac­
commodating  when  she  has  had  bad 
news.  The  public 
is  merciless,  and 
cares nothing for her,  body or soul.
If she needs a cashier  or  a clerk,  it is 
not enough  for her that she  has  au  idle 
brother or that  her  mother  might  take 
the place.  The  first  question  for  her 
consideration is .the  efficiency  of  those 
relatives for the vacant position.
Because the debtor is  a woman  it is no 
reason  why  she  should  receive  special 
financial accomodation.
The fact that she  is  personally  needy 
is no  reason  why she should not  pay her 
debts when they  fall due.
It seems impossible to pluck out of the 
mind of a woman  the idea  that  her  per­
sonal  maintenance  ought  to  be  taken 
into account in  settling her  business  af­
fairs.  And curiously  enough  this  idea 
has corrupted  the  business  mind  of  the 
other sex. 
It is by  no  means  unknown 
for a man  to go on paying interest to  his 
female client  whose  funds  have  disap­
peared  in  bad  investments;  or,  on  the 
other hand,  to expect considerable finan­
cial charity  from  her as to  the  principal 
of  these  investments;  neither  of  these 
expectations  would  survive  a  moment 
between two men.

Probably the very  first  lesson  for  the 
would-be  business  woman  to  learn  is 
that she should expect  no  consideration 
whatever on account  of  her  sex  or  her 
personal circumstances—and should give 
none.  The exact filling of contracts and 
the  exact  requirement  of  dues  is  the 
foundation of all good  business.
Likewise it should  be one of  her early 
lessons that the exact filling of  contracts 
refers both to time and quality.
Perhaps the most common of all faults 
in  women  who  engage in  small  enter­
prises is the feeling  that  if  they cannot 
do the work  now,  or  furnish  the  goods 
today,  next  week  will  do  just  as  well. 
And if called to account for these delays, 
they consider the customer unreasonable.
Equally unreliable are they as to qual­
ity of work. 
If  the  job  is  done  some­
how,  that is enough  for  too  many  busi­
ness  women. 
In 
large  establishments, 
where the work  is done  under  a  system 
and  there  is  a  reputation  to  preserve, 
this fault Is  measurably remedied.  But 
this paper  is  dealing with women—pre­
sumably  young  women—working 
for 
themselves, or controlling their  business 
if they do not perform all the work.

Another  curious  peculiarity 

in  the 
business  relations  of  women,  resulting 
directly from  her too often  inexact  habit 
of mind,  is her treatment  of  errors. 
In 
the view of many  new  business  women, 
any  mistake made iD  the goods,  in orders 
procured,  in  work done,  must  come  out 
of the customer.
Now  if  a  customer  gives  a  definite, 
plain order,  and  the dealer  does  not  fill 
that order,  it  is the  fault  of  the  dealer 
and should be borne  by her.  This  fault 
is  by no means confined  to  women,  it  is 
true,  but it is especially prevalent among 
them. 
The order should be  exact  and 
definite—in  writing if need  be—but once 
given it is  the  dealer’s  place  to  till 
it. 
And  mistakes are the  loss  of  the  dealer 
not of the customer.  The fact that  such 
a mistake is a dead  loss to the dealer and 
eats up all or  more  than  her  profit  has 
nothing  whatever to  do with the matter.
Whether it  is a  question  of  material, 
of work,  of time, or payment,  an  agree­
ment should be met  to  the  letter.  Just 
exactly  such  quality  of  work  as  was 
guaranteed for  the  price,  whether  that 
be  first  or  second-class,  and  the exact 
fulfilment of the contract as to time,  will 
make any  woman’s  business  a  success. 
And  without these she does  not  deserve 
it.  In  all  the various lines of small enter­
prises upon  which women are now enter­
ing,  and some of which they  are  invent­
ing,  much  depends  upon  the  way  the 
young business woman  meets the would- 
be customer.
A  cardinal  principle  should  be to do 
anything  that  anyone  desires. 
Some 
way  must  be  found  to  do even the im­
possible.

Let no possible customer disappear  be­
cause  you  could  not  find  some  way to 
Send  for  the 
meet his or  her  wishes. 
goods  wanted,  or even go to the  city  af­
ter them if it be  only  $1  worth!  Take 
the strange job if it have even  the  most 
remote connection  with  your  enterprise, 
and  do  it  though  you  must  privately 
sublet it.  But let  the  customer  always 
find  you  ready  and  always  sure  to do 
what is  wanted.  This insures his reap­
pearance.  But  if  you  cannot  meet  his 
wishes the first time,  he  will  find  some 
other person or place where they  can  be 
met,  and that is a fatal discovery.
Be ready  in  expedient.  There  is  no 
business,  even  the 
largest  and  most 
systematic,  that  is  not  always  running 
against  a  wall  of  some  kind,  and  the 
ability  to quickly,  and sometimes  imme­
diately,  find a new way out is  the  ques­
tion  of success or failure.

It you cannot do a thing one  way  do  it 
If  the  conditions  will not al­
another. 
low of the end  desired,  change  the  con­
ditions and that on  the  spot. 
She  who 
hesitates is lost in these days.  Yet  look 
before you leap.  A  woman’s natural  im­
pulses  must  not  be  trusted 
too  far. 
“Readiness  in  Expedient” 
is  not  only 
readiness,  but readiness is  expedient.  To 
think quickly  aud closely,  to  determine 
that some difficult  requirement  shall  be 
met and to see along  what  lines,  if  not 
all the details,  and to  confine  these  two 
lines of thought at  the  moment,  is to se­
cure success in any line of business.
Another quality  which  will  especially 
conduce  to  the  success  of  the business 
woman  who proposes to  herself  to  work 
for others, is to do the  work in  her  cus­
tomer’s  own  way. 
If  that  customer 
wishes it done at  unheard  of hours,  or in 
curious  ways  or  under  difficult  condi­
tions, it is business policy  to  do  it  thus 
and  do  it  well. 
It  is easier to change 
these  arrangements  when  you  have se­
cured your customer than  it  is  to  get  a 
new one.

Never let a possible customer  go  any­
where else for goods or  work.  However 
great a customer’s interest 
in  the  indi­
vidual or  the enterprise,  she  will not go 
on  patronizing  either if she does not get 
what she  wants.  She  cannot,  in fact,  for 
time and money are valuable to  her also. 
And if she must go and go  again  to  dis­
cover  any  wares  she  can  buy,  if she 
must  have  the  work  done by some one 
else, if she must find some  other  person 
to fulfil  half her requirement,  or if she is 
compelled to suit herself to the habits of 
the dealer in arranging  her  affairs,  she 
must and  will  go  elsewhere.  Neither 
she nor her  friends  can  help  support a 
shaky business. 

Anna  L.  Dawes.

How  it 

Has Grown.
1883
1884
1885
1886 
1881
1888
1890
1891

Summarized  History:

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- 

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Business  Established 

1883 - 
1885  -  - 
1888 
- 
1894 

Special  Machinery  Introduced 
- 
-  Removal  to  Laryer  Quarters 
Largest Coupon Book  Plant in the World

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

'T ra d esm a n   C o m p a n y ,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  fllCH.

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T H E   MICH1GA1S 

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telegram informing her husband that she 
cannot keep  her appointment is no sooner 
delivered  to the  operator  than  it  is  on 
the wire,  and at least five minutes before 
he  would  be likeiy to leave  his  office the 
telegram is delivered  and  all  cause  for 
criticism is avoided.
Then  there  is  the  branch  postoffice. 
While my  lady is resting in  the  parlor it 
is very  likely  that she may  want to write 
one or two of  the  many  letters  that  she 
has had in mind  for a  week or more;  but 
it is  a  nuisance  to  carry  letters  around 
when your arms and  hands  and  pockets 
are full  of  small  parcels,  anyhow.  The 
envelope is sure  to  be  creased,  and that 
dear friend  to whom it  is  addressed will 
surely  make  remarks.  The  foresight 
and desire to  please  evinced  by the  dry 
goods men  makes  such an  unpleasant re­
sult unnecessary.  A  postal  department 
has been provided,  stamps of  every kind 
are at hand,  and  the  clerk  is  fully sup­
plied  with  information  with  which  to 
answer satisfactorily any questions  that 
may be asked her.  This is also  a  great 
convenience when the  shopper wishes to 
send any  article by mail.  Formerly that 
was  practically impossible  where  there 
was any question as to the rates  of  post­
age,  and the customer was put to  the in­
convenience  of  having  the  article sent 
home or of  carrying  it  to  the  postoffice 
before she could mail it.
City directories,  railroad  and  steam-

boat  guides,  and  other  sources  of  in­
formation as to the  city  and  the  means 
of getting from one place to another,  are 
now  provided  by  every  well-regulated 
metropolitan drygoods store.  That they 
are  of  practical  value  to  the  stores,  in 
adding to  the completeness of their serv­
ice, cannot  be doubted.  There is no rea­
son  why most of these should  not  be in­
corporated  in  the dry goods  stores of ev­
ery city in  the  country, especially as the 
cost  is very trilling.

The Stilton  Cheese  in History.

From th e  Loudon  T elegraph.

Our fathers used to play  on  their own 
account  a  great  many  fantastic  tricks 
with  their rare old  Stiltons.  Glasses  of 
port  or  of  burgundy  were  frequently 
poured  into  the  cheese,  and  sometimes 
the article was  placed  under the  tap  of 
a cask of strong ale,  so as  to  imbibe  the 
droppings  thereof,  and  there  are  even 
cases.on  record  in  which  unscrupolous 
butlers  have  striven  to  enhance 
the 
mouldy aspect of the cheese  by  pushing 
into it  corking-pins  of  brass or  copper, 
thus engendering  the  perilous  presence 
of verdigris. 
It is not  quite  impossible 
that some reason  for  the  decline in  the 
popularity  of  Stilton  may  be  due  to 
the  circumstance  that  it  was  formerly 
almost  invariably  eaten  to  the  accom­
paniment of port wine.
“A gentleman,” observed  Beau  Brum-

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mel,  always ports with  his cheese,” and, 
port  wine  having gone to a  great  extent 
out of fashion  since smoking after dinner 
became general  at the  very  best  tables, 
Stilton  may  have shared  for a time in the 
temporary  obscuration  which  darkens 
the  bright  chronicle  of the  vintage  of 
It 
Oporto. 
is  a  curious  fact,  never­
that  whenever  a  parcel  of 
theless 
remarkably fine port comes on the market 
it is at once eagerly  purchased;  and with 
regard  to  Stilton,  who  shall  say  that 
there  are  not  yet  secluded  temples  of 
gastronomy  where hoary adepts treat the 
fine old  cheese  with  all  its  traditional 
rites, 
the  moistenings  by 
means of  port  wine and strong  ale,  but 
steruly prohibiting,  it is to be hoped,  the 
reprehensible  practice  of 
sticking  a 
ripening cheese with corking-pins?

including 

The devil never keeps  out  of  a  home 
simply because there is a handsome Bible 
on the parlor table.

PHOTO
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HALF-TONE
Buildings,  Portraits,  Cards  and  Stationery 

Headings, Maps, Plans  and  Patented 

Articles.
TRADESM AN  CO., 

Grand Rapids, Mich.

CONVENIENCES  FOR  CUSTOMERS.
What Some of the Big New York Stores 

do  for  Their Patrons.

From th e Dry G oods C hronicle.

One of the chief duties of  the superin­
tendent  of  a  big  New  York  dry  goods 
store is to discover new  ways  of  making 
his store attractive to customers.  He is 
supposed  to  be  ever  revolving  in  his 
mind the question,  “What  more  can  be 
done  to  please  our patrons?”  His eyes 
are presumed  to be ever roving in  search 
of some evidence which may  suggest  an 
idea tor the improvement of  the  service 
furnished to customers,  and his ears  are 
believed to  be ever open  for  chance  re­
marks that may indicate  a  new  method 
of securing approval.  With active brain 
and sight and  hearing,  the very  pores of 
his skin open for suggestions,  the  high- 
class superintendent  has  become  so  re­
ceptive  that  he  acquires  by 
intuition 
ideas that have  not  yet  been  expressed 
by those who formulated them.
As a result the big dry goods stores  of 
the  metropolis  contain  many  conveni­
ences  unheard  or  undreamt  of  a  few 
years  ago.  Some of these are a source of 
additional  profit,  while  others  do  not 
provide  any  direct 
financial  returns. 
Among  the  former  may  be  classed  the 
lunchroom.  That this is a great conven­
ience  is  not to be doubted.  The super­
intendent  of  one  of  the  largest  of  the 
metropolitan  stores said to  me  recently:
“It frequently happens that customers 
get so tired  that  they  haven’t  even  the 
ambition  to hunt around for a restaurant. I 
Many shoppers in the excitement of their 
pursuit for the articles they  desire,  for­
get  all  about  their  luncheon until they 
are reminded of their physical  needs  by  I 
overpowering weakness.  At such a time | 
the average  woman  is  indisposed to hunt 
around for a place  to  eat.  When,  how­
ever,  such  a  place 
is  provided  by  the 
store in  which she is,  and the only  exer­
tion required  to get to it is a ride  in  the 
elevator, she does not consider it  such  a 
hardship.  The  fact,  too,  that  most  of 
the lunch  rooms in dry  goods stores sup­
ply a very rapid service  makes  them  an 
additional  convenience  and  attraction. 
Ninety  per  cent,  of  the  women  who 
are out for a day’s shopping are  hnrried 
from  the moment  they  leave their homes 
until they  return.  The  delays in an or­
dinary restauraut are  very  irritating  to 
them,  and  I have no doubt that  most  of 
them feel  grateful  for  the  service  sup­
plied by us,  which  is  designed  to  meet 
their  wants. 
In  fact,  I  have  heard  a 
number  of  them  say  so.  At  the  same 
time a well-conducted lunch room should 
always be profitable.  1 know of  several 
attached to dry goods stores in  this  city 
that  make  a  very  nice  showing  every 
year,  even  though  the  prices  are  very 
low.”

i j f   t l) c   U n i t e t i   S t a t e s   o f   A m e r i c a ,

To

H R N R Y   K O C H ,  your  o l e f l r s ,   attorneys,  ager.j, 
s a l e s m e n   and  workmen,  and  all  claiming  or 
holding  through  or  under  you,

U l e r e a s ,

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

to  be  relieved 

the  matters 

touching 

ENOCH  MORGAN’S  SONS  COMPANY,

Complainant,  is  entitled  to  the  exclusive  use  of 

the  designation  “ SAPOLIO”  as  a  trade-mark  for  scouring  soap.

f l o r o ,   ( D j c r c f o r e , we  do  strictly  command  and  perpetually  enjoin  you,  the  said  HENRY
KOCH,  your  clerks,  attorneys,  agents,  salesmen  and  workmen,  and  all  claiming  or  holding  through  or  under  you, 
under  the  pains  and  penalties  which  may  fall  upon  you  and  each  of  you  in  case  of  disobedience,  that  you  do 
absolutely  desist  and  refrain  from  in  any  manner  unlawfully  using  the  word  “ SAPOLIO,”  or  any  word  or  words 
substantially  similar  thereto  in  sound  or  appearance,  in  connection  with 
the  manufacture  or  sale  of  any  scouring 
soap  not  made  or  produced  by  or  for  the  Complainant,  and  from  directly,  or  indirectly.

By  word  of  mouth  or  otherwise,  selling  or  delivering  as 

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

that  which 
false  or  misleading  manner.

is  not  Complainant’s  said  manufacture,  and  from 

in  any  way  using 

the  word  “ SAPOLIO ”  in  any 

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eight  hundred  and  ninety-two.

ROWLAND  COX.

Complainant's  Solicitor

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

S.  D.  OLIPHANT,

Clerk,

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The latest additions to the conveniences 
for customers furnished by the dry goods 
stores include telegraph offices and postal 
departments.  Both  of  these have been 
found  of  inestimable  service.  A large 
majority of the women who are out shop­
ping  make  appointments  before  they 
start,  based  on  calculations  of  time, | 
which are  not  verified.  When  the woman  | 
who expected to  finish  her  shopping at j 
Macy’s  at  noon,  with  the  intention  of i 
meeting her husband  at  the Vienna cafe 
half  an  hour  later,  finds  that  it  is  12 | 
o’clock,  and  she  still  has  half  a  dozen 
different  departments  to  visit,  she 
is 
naturally annoyed, 
if  Macy &  Co.  had 
not considered the probability of  such  a 
dilemma,  she  would be  reduced  to  des­
peration.  The  nearest  telegraph  office 1 
from Macy’s is nearly  half  a mile  away. 
Before she could  reach that her  husband 
would have left his store or  office and be 
on  his  way  to  keep  the  appointment. 
The result would be very unpleasant up­
on  her  arrival  home.  Husbands  who 
find their wives an hour  or  two  late  are 
always inclined  to  find  fault,  and  when 
a woman is tired out with shopping, crit­
icism 
is  especially  annoying  to  her. 
Why,  the divorce  courts  have  been  ap­
pealed to for less things than that!
But now my lady need not  be  worried. 
A special telegraph  office  has  been  pro­
is  at  her very 
vided  by  the  firm  and 
elbow.  There being  no  other  business 
to attend to,  the operator  is  always  pre­
pared  to  send  messages  “rush.”  The

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A Word  in  Season.

It may be taken  for granted  by the  re­
tail grocers of the city that if the  city  is 
not to be overrun by peddlers during the 
coming summer,  to the  detriment  of  le­
gitimate trade,  they  must  take  time  by 
the forelock aud begin  now  their  agita­
tion  for  the  enforcement  of  the 
law. 
The experience of the past  proves  that, 
if left to themselves,  the city  authorities 
will do nothing; they must be urged  and 
coaxed constantly. 
It  ought  not  to  be 
so,  for the  peddling  ordinance  is  plain 
and emphatic,  both as  a  regulative  and 
restrictive law,  and it is the duty  of  the 
city  officials  to  see  that 
it  is  obeyed. 
The spirit of philanthropy  which  seems 
at present to  inspire  the  officers  of  the 
law,  from the  judge down,  while  having 
any amount  of  sentiment  at 
its  back, 
must not be carried  to  an  extreme.  To 
the average mind the leniency which has 
been extended to these  people  for  some 
time seems to  be  justified  by  the  strin­
gency of the times.  The winter has been 
a hard one  for poor people,  and many  of 
them have been compelled to ask the city 
for enough to keep  themselves and  their 
families alive.  No one will  be  disposed 
to find fault if  a  few  poor  people  have 
been able to provide  the  necessaries  of 
life for their families  by  peddling  fruit 
or vegetables,  even  though they  had  no 
license;  but  peddling without  a  license 
is a violation of the law,  and  to wink  at 
such  violation, although it be from  phil­
anthropic  motives,  is  wrong  in  princi­
ple and mischievous in results. 
It would 
have been much  better  if  the  operation 
of the ordinance had  been  suspended for 
the winter  months,  which  would  have 
prevented  violation of the law and saved 
the police force from considerable annoy­
ance  and  extra  work.  Now,  however, 
that  the winter is nearly  over,  the  gro­
cers must vigorously  prosecute the  work 
of  enforcing  the  ordinance.  Splendid 
work  was  done  last  summer,  but  with 
the experience gained  during  that  cam­
paign,  next fall should show even  better 
results.

It has been suggested that a horizontal 
fee,  based on an  average  of  the  present 
schedule,  would  be  an 
improvement. 
While it might not satisfy those who  are 
paying the lower fees,  it  would  put  an 
end to the contention  that  the  payment 
of the highest fee entitled the peddler to 
sell  everything named  in  the  schedule. 
If a  level  rate  were  charged 
it  would 
then be plain even to a peddler that  one 
license would permit of the selling of but 
one article or one class.

seem  to  be  poorly 

The  inspection  clauses  of  the  ordi­
nance should  be  more  rigidly  enforced 
this year than  they  were last  year.  The 
officers who had  charge  of  this  depart­
ment of the work  seemed  to  have  little 
idea as to what their  duties  were.  Just 
what  makes  fruits  and  vegetables  un­
wholesome is a point on which the police 
force 
instructed. 
They  must  be  rotten  and  “smell  to 
heaven”  before  the  average  policeman 
would condemn  them.  Perhaps it would 
be well if the inspecting officers were  un­
der the direction of the Board of  Health, 
as is the case in  some  other  cities.  The 
inspection of the goods  sold  is as  vital  a 
feature of the ordinance as is  the  taking 
out of a license under it,  and  it  will  do 
as much or even more to curtail the  ped­
dling evil as the imposition of a  fee.

Now is the time to begin.  Discuss  the 
question  in  the  Association  meetings. 
If any grocer has an idea,  or  thinks  the

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C.  M.  Northrop will operate the  Lake- 
view  creamery  to  its  fullest  capacity 
next season.
An honest man possessing a fair degree 
of legal  lore and with sufficient manhood 
to enable  him  to  transact  a  legitimate 
business will find  Lakeview  an  inviting 
field  to practice in.
C.  F.  Braden  is now moving  his  stock 
of drugs from the  Decker Hotel  block  to 
Bissell’s brick store,  on the opposite side 
of the street.  Efforts  are  being made  to 
get another druggist to locate in Braden’s 
old quarters.
Dr. John W. Kirtland,  druggist, former 
postmaster and  physician,  is  decidedly 
the most systematic and  accommodating 
post-office  official  this  village  has  ever 
had,  and Mrs.  Kirtland  is  entitled  to  a 
big share of this praise.
A man with a liberal amount of capital 
and imbued  with a spirit of common fair­
ness  towards  his  fellow  man,  and  a 
knowledge  of  live-and-Iet-live  banking 
methods,  would  be  welcomely  received 
here by  our people, including those  who 
got bit by Mather and  Kennedy.
Max Mills  was in  town  yesterday  dis­
pensing smiles, congratulations and hand­
shakes  with  his  many  warm  friends. 
Everybody  likes  Max  and  he  pleases 
everyone.  Even  the  big  school  girls 
have been known  to  go to  the  depot  to 
meet him and  receive  his  well  wishes 
We  all  vote  Mills  the  most  popular 
drummer that makes  this  or  any  other 
Michigan town.
John T.  Butler will soon  open  a  gro­
cery store here.
B.  F.  Hungerford has added a stock  of 
groceries to his stock of boots and shoes.
The Cato Novelty  Works  has changed 
its name to the  Stebbins  Manufacturing 
Co.  E.  B.  Stebbins,  the head  and  front 
of the concern,  is a young man of energy 
and aggressiveness.
John  S.  Weidman  has purchased  3,000 
acres of timber lands in Isabella  county 
and will at once erect a big new  sawmill, 
thereon.  Twenty  years  ago  Weidman 
was a poor boy,  but by pluck, energy and 
push he now stands  at the  very  head  of 
live Lakeview business men.

H ig h e r  P ric e s   fo r  S a lt. 

Sa g in a w ,  March  2—For  months  salt 
has been quoted in the  Michigan  market 
at 45 cents a barrel  for No.  1  and  pack­
ers’  grades.  This  was  owing  to  sharp 
competition,  large  stocks on  hand  and 
hard  times.  Of  late  stocks  have  been 
worked  off  quite  freely,  and  there  has 
been  manifested  a  disposition  on  the 
part of  manufacturers,  both  in  and  out 
of the Michigan  Salt Co.,  to get together. 
At the annual  meeting of  the  company, 
held  last  month,  a  committee  was  ap­
pointed to bring them together,  and  it is 
said that in the main this has  been  suc­
cessful.  One of the results is  the action 
of the company in  putting  up  the  price 
10 cents a barrel,  the price now being  55 
cents.

G rip s a c k  B rig a d e .

B.  G.  Van  Leuven  was  laid  up  last 
week with a series of sties on  both  eyes.
Geo. A.  Newhall  (I.  M.  Clark Grocery 
Co.)  is  entertaining  his  father,  Joseph 
Newhall,  of Boston,  Mass.

Frank  H.  White  has  arranged  to 
handle the line  of  J.  Weaver  &  Co.,  of 
Kalamazoo,  in  connection with  that  of 
his own.

The March social party of  Post  E will 
beheld at Elk’s Hali Saturday evening  of 
this  week.  Dancing  will  begin  at  8 
o’clock  sharp,  the  usual 
lunch  being 
served about 11  o’clock.

G ra in s  a n d   F e e d stu ff's.

Wheat—Was comparatively active and 
steady during  the  week.  Exports  were 
over a million bushels  in  excess  of  the 
previous  week.  The  week  closed  lc 
higher than a  week  ago,  but  there  will 
be no great change either way  until  fore­
casts for next crop are  received.

Flour—Prices  are  slightly  off  on  all 
grades, except Bakers—an extra discount 
which  will  be  appreciated  by  dealers. 
The market is fairly active.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

ordinance ought to be amended in any of 
its provisions,  he owes it to the  trade  to 
make it known.  One  thing 
is  certain, 
the  peddlers  have  rich  and  powerful 
friends who may  be expected to leave  no 
stone unturned  to  break  the  ordinance. 
They spent time and money last  summer 
in the  same  endeavor,  and  will  make 
even more strenuous  efforts  during  the 
coming  season.  That  they  failed  last 
year was  due  to  the  vigilance  of  the 
Municipal Committee of the  Association. 
That vigilance must not  be  relaxed,  but 
doubled if possible.

Aggressive  Action  on  the  Part  of 

Jackson  Grocers.

Jackson,  March  1—At  the  regular 
meeting of the  Jackson  Retail  Grocers' 
Association,  held  this  evening,  there 
was a very good  attendance.  The  prin­
cipal subject  for  consideration was  the 
ordinance now pending in the City Coun­
cil,  relating to  peddlers  and  hucksters, 
which  was  presented  to  the  Council 
about  two  weeks  ago,  and  passed  its 
first and  second  reading  and  comes  up 
for final action at the meeting  next Mon­
day evening.  The Committee  of the As­
sociation reported having seen  over  half 
of the aldermen  and that  the outlook for 
the passage of the  ordinance was  favor­
able. 
It was resolved to  send a circular 
letter to every grocer in the  city,  asking 
them to do all  they  could,  in  their  own 
interest,  and to be present  at  the  Coun­
cil  rooms  on  Monday  evening  to  give 
their support by  their  presence.  A  re­
monstrance has  been circulated  by those 
opposed to the ordinance,  and it requires 
vigilance on the part  of the  Association 
to keep  the  aldermen  in  line.  Messrs. 
Haefner,  Helmer,  Robbins,  Mosher,  the 
President and others expressed the opin­
ion that we would succeed  in  getting  it 
passed,  if we kept to work with a will.
W.  H.  P o b t e r,  Sec’y.

The circular letter to which Mr. Porter 
refers is as follows:
Jackson,  March  2—At  the  regular 
meeting of the  Jackson  Retail  Grocers’ 
Association,  held last  evening,  the  mat­
ter of the Hucksters and  Peddlers’  ordi­
nance now before  the  City  Council,  re­
ceived considerable attention and discus­
sion,  and  it  was  unanimously  decided 
that as this was a  matter  in which every 
grocer in the city  is  directly  interested, 
we issue an  urgent appeal  to  every  man 
engaged  in the grocery  business  in  this 
city,  to attend the  meeting  of  the  Com­
mon  Council  next  Monday 
evening, 
March 5,  at  which  time  the  ordinance 
will be brought  up for  final action.
If our interests are largely represented 
at that meeting,  it will not  only have its 
influence  with  the  council,  but we will 
know just where  each  alderman  stands 
in the matter and be  better  prepared  to 
exert our influence in the right  direction 
at the coming spring election. 
It is high 
time the  interests  of  the  grocers,  who 
have  contributed  more 
in  the way  of 
taxes,  rents and labor for the  welfare  of 
the city  than  any  other  one  branch  of 
mercantile business,  should receive some 
attention at the hands of our city govern­
ment.  As this is  a  matter  of  as  much 
benefit to  the  city  as  to  ourselves,  we 
think if  the  matter  is  properly  placed 
before the aldermen they cannot  but  be 
in sympathy with it.  They  must under­
stand that we do not want  to  antagonize 
the farmers or  mechanics  offering  their 
own  products  for  sale,  but  merely  the 
hucksters and peddlers  who come  in  di­
rect competition with  us.
is  a  remon­
there 
strance  being  circulated  by  peddlers 
around the residence portion of  the city, 
and  that  signatures  are  being  obtained 
by  representing  that,  if  this  ordinance 
passes,  it will  stop  all  vegetable  men 
peddling, etc.,  while the facts  are it will 
protect the  legitimate  peddler  quite  as 
much  as it will  the grocer.
Now is the time  to  do  effective work, 
and it ought to be  done  before  Monday 
night.  Let every one do his duty, and all 
turn out to  the Council  meeting Monday 
night.  Where two or more are interested 
in  the same firm,  let every man turn out.

We  understand 

W.  H.  P o rter,  Sec’y.

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugar—The  advance  in  raws has been 
checked  and  prices  reacted  from  1-8  @ 
3-16c.  Refined,  however,  is  strong  and 
an advance is  hourly  expected.  This is 
because of the  expected  duty  which will 
probably  be  imposed  by  the  Senate  be­
fore the tariff bill passes that body.  The 
demand  has  considerably improved  and 
refiners are running full  force  and  time, 
although former accumulations  have  not 
yet been worked off.  Granulated is now 
held  at  4.17c by the refiners, and the pro­
posed  duty  of  lc  per pound will  make it 
5.17c.  The demand incident to the  prob­
able  change  in  the  tariff  will,  undoubt­
edly, hasten  the  rise,  although  the  duty 
will not go into effect for some  months.

up. 

away 

Naturally, 

Pork—About  three  weeks  ago  it  was 
asserted  that  there  would  be  a  scarcity 
of  hogs,  and,  as  a  consequence,  prices 
went 
this 
brought  the  grunters  to  the  front  with 
a  rush,  and  now,  so  far  from  there  be­
ing  a  scarcity,  the  market  has  hard 
work  to  take  care  of  them.  As  one 
dealer  puts  it,  “The  country  seems  to 
be  alive  with  hogs.”  Prices  are  on 
the  down  grade,  every  week  showing  a 
considerable  reduction.

Oranges—Floridas still  have,  and will 
continue to have,  the call over any  other 
variety,  as long as they are offered.  The 
crop is nearing the  end  and  the 
large, 
and for that  reason  heretofore  undesir­
able,  sizes  find  ready  sale.  The  few 
growers  who still  have  uncut  fruit  are 
holding out for good  figures  and  buyers 
are forced to  meet  their  views,  as  the 
consuming public do not  take  kindly  to 
California oranges  on  account  of  their 
acidity,  pithiness,  and  general  poor 
quality thus early  in  the  season.  Two 
carloads of this latter variety  have  been 
received by the Putnam  Candy  Co.  and 
The  Alfred  J.  Brown  Co.  respectively, 
who state  that  they  are  no  better  than 
the usual first  cuttings  and  are  bought 
mainly—at  present—by  peddlers  and 
such  dealers  as  desire  to  make  a  little 
sum on them on account  of  their  cheap­
ness.  Each  succeeding  shipment  will 
show 
in  quality  and  a 
month hence  will be in  their  prime  and 
as popular with the trade of Floridas are 
now.  Valencias in  large  cases,  together 
with some  Rodi  and  Catania  fruit  may 
be offered from  this  market  in  the  near 
future.

improvement 

Bananas—The local market is still bare 
of shipping  stock,  and  will  be  for  a few 
days.  A car  is  due  to  reach here  about 
the middle of the week from  Philadelphia 
and as  mild weather  has  been  ruling  it 
is  believed  that  the  fruit  will  arrive  in 
good  order. 
In  another  month  several 
firms  will  be  securing  regular  weekly 
shipments  and  the  season  will  be  well 
opened.

Lemons—Demand 

fairly  active 
though  no 
large  purchases  are  being 
made,  it being a little unsafe to  buy  for 
future wants as all the offerings  are  apt 
to be  touched  by  the  frost.  Western 
wholesalers are quoting  very low  prices 
but the  majority  of  them  are  conserva­
tive about stocking up,  as there is plenty 
of fruit afloat and nothing  to  warrant an 
advance for some  time.

is 

Lakeview Local  Laconics.

L a k ev ie w ,  March  3—This  burg 

is 
wagging along in  pretty fair  shape  dur­
ing these dull times.
sawmill  and  McAfee’s 
stave  factory  have  each  secured 
large 
stocks, on  which they will run steady all 
the coming season.

Macomber’s 

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Drugs 0  Medicines«

State Board  o f P harm acy.

One  T ear—O ttm ar Eberbnch, Ann  Arbor.
Two  T ears—G eorge Gundrum. Ionia.
Three  T ears—C. A. B nebee, Cheboygan.
Four T ears—8. E. P ark in, Owosso.
F ive Tears—F. W . R. P erry, D etroit.
President—Ottm ar Eberbach, Ann Arbor.
S ecretary—Stanley E. P ark lll, O wosso.
T reasurer—Geo. G ondrum. Ionia.
N ext M eeting—Grand Rapids. March 6  and 7. 
Subsequent  M eetings—Star  Island,  June  25  and  26, 

H oughton, Sept. 1: L ansing, N ov. 6 and 7.________
M ichigan  State  Pharm aceutical  Ass’n. 
President—A. B. Stevens, Ann Arbor. 
Vice-President—A. F. Parker, D etroit.
Treasurer—f f .  Dupont,  Detroit.
Secretary—S. A. Thom pson, D etroit.
Grand  Rapids  P harm aceutical  Society. 
President, W alter K. Schm idt;  Sec’y, Ben. Schrouder.

C ou n ter-P rescrib in g.

From  th e W estern D ruggist.
Special attention  has  been  drawn  re­
cently  to  what  the  medical  fraternity 
term  “counter-prescribing,” by the  death 
of a number  of  those  in  whose  behalf 
the advice of the pharmacist was sought, 
resulting in  an  examination  before  the 
legal authorities.
It is a satisfaction to  be  able  to  state 
at the outset that in no case has the com- 
Llaint against the druggist  for  ignorant 
or careless advice been proven;  and,  be­
fore discussing the subject  further,  it  is 
in order to inquire  what constitutes  pre­
scribing.  When,  in  the  opinion  of  the 
law,  does the  pharmacist  prescribe?  If 
the contention of the  medical  fraternity 
be admitted  as  to  what  constitutes  pre­
scribing,  it may be said  that  probably  a 
majority of the druggists in business  en 
joy a large practice. 
Is  the  recommen 
dation of a powder for a headache,  a pill 
for indigestion, or a mixture  for  a  cold 
prescribing?  In  a  certain  sense  it  is 
and assuming that it is wibhin the  limit 
of professional advice,  may not  the  fact 
be established that the educated pharma­
cist is quite as capable of  prescribing  in 
such cases as the  physician?  It  has  not 
been charged that  any  druggist  has  a 
sumed  to  advise  in  a  case  considered 
serious, except temporarily  in  an  emer­
gency. 
It cannot be  claimed  that  their 
suggestions in  such  instances are  alway 
the  best  that  could  be  made;  but  the 
same may  be said of medical  advice,  and 
the  intelligent  pharmacist  merits  little 
censure for errors committed.
'  It appears to  have  been  lost  sight  of 
by those who attack  counter-prescribing 
as a public danger that  it  is  the  public 
which has brought the  practice  into  ex­
istence.  Pharmacy  laws  have  been  en­
acted  by  the  representatives  of 
the 
people,  for  the  benefit  of  the  people, 
under which the man who aspires to con­
duct a drug store is compelled to conform 
to  high  standards  of  technical  knowl­
edge.  Thus  qualified,  the  druggist  has 
popular confidence to do all those  things 
which custom  has assigned  as  his  privi­
lege and  duty.  The  public  knows  that 
in every well-appointed  pharmacy  there 
are  various  prepared  remedies  recom­
mended  for trivial  ailments.  They  may 
have a preference for one  in  particular, 
and express  it,  or  the  decision  may  be 
left to the pharmacist. 
In such case the 
law has not been violated in either letter 
or spirit.

to 

some 

Phenol.

The  Cause  o f  the  Bed  Coloration  of 

The cause of the turning red of phenol 
has,  from time to time,  been  the subject 
of investigation,  but  the  published  re­
sults  are  both  vague  and  conflicting. 
While the balance of opinion has favored 
the  view  that  the  coloration  is  to  be 
traced 
impurity—generally 
metallic—present in  the  phenol,  others 
have traced the  coloration  to  the  pres­
ence  of  cresol,  which 
in  combination 
with phenol  is  supposed to  give  rise  to 
the formation of  rosolic  acid.  More  re­
cently, Fabini  has stated  that  the  color 
formed is produced by the  combined  ac­
tion  of hydrogen peroxide, metallic salts, 
and ammonia,  and that all three reagents 
must be simultaneously  present  for  the 
coloration to ensue.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.
these  various  reagents  upon  purified 
phenol is the fact that  the  pure  product 
obtained by each of the  above  processes 
does of  itself  become  colored  when  ex­
posed to  ordinary  moist  air.  The  col­
oration,  which  gradually  deepens  from 
pale  pink  or  brown  to  red,  is  always 
accompanied by the absorption  of moist­
ure,  and the reddening is  especially con­
spicuous in the  partially  liquefied  parts 
of the sample.  This coloration  does not 
take  place  in  the  dark, nor  under  red 
glass;  it  is  the  work  of  the  more  re­
frangible rays of  light only.
As  has  often been observed,  sublimed 
phenol does not redden  as rapidly as  the 
distilled  product;  in  fact, according  to 
Bidet,  it does not color at  all  on  expos­
ure when thus  purified.  This,  however, 
is  not  the  case;  the  sublimed  product 
becomes colored quite as  quickly  as  dis­
tilled phenol  when in solution;  and  that 
it is slower in turning pink  when  in  the 
solid state  is  due  to  the  fact  that  the 
crystals obtained by sublimation are less 
hygroscopic  than  the  distilled product. 
In absence  of  moisture,  under  all  con­
ditions,  no coloration ensues;  hence the 
appearance of the color in those portions 
of the  sample which  have  become  par­
tially  liquefied.  Phenol placed in  vacuo 
can be exposed to light for months  with­
out becoming red, nor does it color either 
in presence of  moisture when  air  is  ab­
sent, or in presence of air when perfectly 
dry.  Both  air  and moisture  are  neces­
sary  for  the  coloration  to  take  place. 
The  similarity  between 
the  colored 
product formed  by  the  action  of  moist 
air  and  phenol  and  that  produced  by 
hydrogen peroxide  naturally  led  one  to 
look  to the latter as the real factor in the 
oxidation.  That  such  is  the  case  has 
been conclusively shown  by Dr.  A.  Rich­
ardson,  who has  succeeded  in  detecting 
hydrogen  peroxide  in  reddened  phenol, 
both  by  the  chronic  acid  and  by  the 
titanic  acid  test.  Dr.  Richardson  very 
kindly communicated his  results  to  me, 
as I  had myself not succeeded  in  detect­
ing the presence  of  this  body with  cer­
tainty;  a  fact  due,  as  1  subsequently 
ascertained, to the exposures having been 
made under conditions in  which  the  hy­
drogen  peroxide formed  was  used  up  for 
the oxidation of the phenol  as  rapidly as 
it was produced.  Dr. Richardson further 
ascertained that the  blue  rays  of  light, 
and not the red,  are the active  agents  in 
thejproduction of.hydrogen peroxide when 
phenol is exposed;  a  fact which  further 
emphasizes the relation of  its  formation 
to the coloration.

Since  alkalies  (especially  ammonia) 
metallic salts, and oxidizing agents  play 
an important part in the  turning  red  of 
phenol, their separate and  combined  ac­
tions  on  specially  purified  phenol  has 
been investigated.  The purest  commer­
cial  phenol,  known as “absolute phenol.” 
was used in a portion of the experiments; 
in the  remainder,  a  specially  purified 
sample prepared  by  C.  Lowe  of  Man­
chester.  This  phenol was  first  purified 
by repeated  distillation  from  glass  ves­
sels.  the first and  last  portions  of  each 
distillate  being  rejected.  The  distilled 
product was then tested  with  Hydrogen 
peroxide,  ammonia,  caustic  potash,  iron 
and copper salts,  after one,  six, nine and 
fifteen  distillations  respectively.  The 
tests were carried out by placing  2—3  c. 
c.  of the melted  phenol  in  a  test  tube 
and adding one or two  drops  of  the  re­
agent or mixtures of  the  reagents.  The 
reagents  were  employed 
various 
strengths.

Under all conditions  a  coloration  was 
found to  result,  even  with  the  fifteen 
times distilled  product,  while  compara­
tive tests showed that no  further  purifi­
cation  had been effected  after the second 
distillation.  Ammonia  in  concentrated 
solution produces a deep blue coloration 
identical with Phipson’s  “phenol  blue,’ 
and probably the same  product  as  phe 
nol-quinone-imide.  The 
formation  of 
this color  has  long  been  known,  and 
seems to have been quite  overlooked  by 
Fabini in his statement that,  in  addition 
to ammonia,  metallic salts and  hydrogen 
peroxide are also necessary  for a  colora 
tion to be formed.  Very dilute ammonia 
in common  with hydrogen peroxide, caus 
tic potash, hydrogen peroxide in presence 
of  ammonia,  or of caustic  alkali,  metals 
or metallic salts,  with or without  hydro 
gen peroxide,  produces  a reddish colora 
tion.  The Intensity and tint of  the  col 
ors produced  by these  different  reagent 
vary considerably,  but  in  most instance 
it  inclines  to  red—the  color  usually 
formed  in commercial  phenol.  Whilst it 
is not likely  that these colors  are  identi­
cal,  it is  probable  that  they  are  closely 
allied  products,  and  the  conditions  of 
their formation  point to their  being  oxi 
dation  products of phenol.  Gentle  heat 
ing in all  cases  aids  the  formation  of 
these colorations.

This same color  is  produced, together 
with a complexity  of  other  substances 
when  phenol  is electrolyzed in acid  solu 
tion.  The nature  of  the  colored  prod 
uct formed is  still  under  investigation, 
and not until  the  coloring  matter  itself 
is more completely studied  can  any  con­
clusion be drawn as to the course  of  the 
oxidation.  Meanwhile 
that 
phenol,  when  perfectly  pure,  does  pos 
sess the intrinsic  power  of  turning  red 
when exposed to ordinary moist air is  of 
some  technical  importance,  and  points 
to the futility of the  numerous processes 
proposed for preventing such  coloration, 
as well as to the conditions under  which 
the product can be  prepared and  kept so 
as to impede the formation of the color 
Chas. A.  Kohn,  P h.  D.

fact 

the 

in 

the 

Among the humblest classes of citizens 
the  extent 
the  tendency  to 
increase 
of  counter-prescribing  is  very  strong. 
They  have  confidence  in 
the  knowl­
the 
and 
edge  of 
to 
pharmacist, 
avoid 
_ 
expense  of  engaging 
physician,  the  pharmacist 
is  often 
besought  to  give  medicine.  He  fre­
quently does  so,  and  he  probably  more 
frequently declines.
Through  the trust reposed  in  him  by 
the public,  made all the more  significant 
by  statutory  regulations, each  pharma­
cist must be left to determine for himself 
when he is  assuming  the  duties  of  the 
physician, and  has justification  for doing 
so.  That he  has  a  legal  as  well  as  a 
professional  right to dispense drugs over 
the counter  cannot  be  gainsaid,  and  so 
long as  the  pharmacy  fills  the  place  it 
does now,  counter-prescribing will  be an 
established practice,  in a  greater  or less 
degree,  notwithstanding  the  constant 
agitation of a certain class of physicians, 
and their efforts to  fasten  popular  cen­
sure upon pharmacists for fancied illegal 
acts.

for  metallic 

The phenol,  both after nine  and  after 
fifteen distillations,  was  carefully  test­
ed 
impurities  and  was 
found to be  quite  free  from  the  same. 
Further,  in  order  to  test  whether  iron 
and  copper  salts  were  readily  cairied 
oyer by phenol when  distilled,  the  pro­
duct was distilled after  the  addition  of 
these metals and their salts,  with the  re 
j  suit that after  two  careful  distillation^ 
from  glass  vessels  the  distillate  was 
quite free  from  metallic  contamination.
That pure  phenol  behaves as described 
with the  above  reagents was  confirmed 
by  applying  the  same  tests  to  phenol 
purified by sublimation,  and also  to that 
obtained by the  saponification  and  su' 
sequent decomposition of gaultheria oi 
The incorrectness of  Fabini’s  view 
the cause bf the coloration was thus fully 
confirmed.  The  complete  concordance 
in  the behavior of  the  phenol  prepared 
from such different sources,  and  purified 
by different  methods,  shows that the  re­
distilled  “absolute”  phenol is  in  reality 
a pure product,  and  the  color  reactions 
observed with  it are not to  be  traced  to 
the presence  of  hidden  impurities.  Of 
greater  importance  than  the  action  of

B u sin e ss  a n d  B io g ra p h y .

The  object  of  business  is  to  make 
money. 
It is  not  undertaken  for  pur 
poses of recreation, or adopted as  means 
of getting  through 
life  without  being 
suspected of being a drone  in  the  busi 
ness hive.

Business men as a rule are not made of 
It  may  be  necessity 
that  material. 
rather than  virtue  that  keeps  them 
i 
mental  perspiration and in  the daily har­
ness of routine business,  but let the shoe 
fit as it may on  the  foot,  the  primal  in­
stinct  and the avowed  object is the mak­
ing of money.

In pursuit of this golden  prize  no  one 
need be  selfish,  or  greedy,  or  so  com­
pletely absorbed in  feeling his pocket  as 
to make a bank shovel of his soul.

>   I

I "t

Where,  however,  this 

is  the  result, 
and the business biography  is  bound  up 
in a ledger, it  is simply  a case of  sliding 
into moral death  and a 6-foot hole in  the 
ground,  as a dried pea  passes  through a 
tin tube.

There  are  such  men  carrying  dead 
souls in  respectable bodies and fine linen, 
who  by  degrees  have  unconsciously 
reached  the point of  moral  suicide  and 
are simply nivoluntary or automatic dies 
for  legal coinage.  For  such  there  may 
be  a  fortune,  a  palatial  mansion  and  a 
nigh seat in the synagogue,  where a com­
mercial  success 
is  the  presiding  deity 
and golden calves its  little gods.

Be  that as it  may,  the end thereof,  no 
matter the dignity  of  the  funeral,  is  a 
lost and wasted life.

As before said,  this is not  a  necessary 
process  or an  unavoidable  sequel  to  a 
business career. 
It may not, in point  of 
fact,  be so common an event as some sup­
pose.  There may  be  more  souls  than 
skeletons in  office  wardrobes  than  the 
pessimistic census  taker  puts  down  on 
his  black-boarded  tablet.  We  believe 
there  are.  Biography is not at all  arith­
metic,  even where ledgers  are  the  only 
literature,  nor 
is  humanity  petrified 
where facts and not sentiment have  pos­
session of an office. 
In fact,  if  there  is 
any man more faithfully tapped of finan­
cial blood  for public charities and  enter­
prises it is the man of business,  who  by 
some is supposed to be  a choice camping 
ground for leeches and such like.

If any  suppose  the  commercial  heart 
to be nothing  but sponge,  or  as hard as 
an ivory button,  he knows nothing of the 
crowd whose tin cups are  dipped  in  the 
water flowing from a  supposed  rock 
in 
the desert.
We have an  historic  example  of  the 
truly noble and human  spirit  that  may 
be royally active in  a business  life in the 
person and acts  of  the  late  George  W. 
Childs.  He  was a business  man  of  the 
practical  and successful type. 
In sagac­
ity and executive skill he  was  a  master 
in his chosen  field  of  work.  He  never 
budged from duty nor swerved  from  the 
integrity and industry that had its reward 
in a brilliant financial  success.

In all  these things he was  granite  rib­
bed and steady.  There was no weakness 
in  his business make  up. 
It  was  vigor­
ous,  consistent,  wise  and  inflexible,  and 
yet his humanity was  as broad as human 
wants, with the finer and higher instincts 
of life,  tender as the  bloom  of  a  flower 
and  true  as the  course  of  a  star.  His 
heart never stopped  growing.  No  frost 
benumbed his human activities,  nor  did 
his life,  fragrant  with  kindness,  wither 
in  the atmosphere of an office  or  drop  a 
yellow leaf on his ledger or his desk.

From  the  newsboy  to  the  statesman, 
in garrets and abbeys,  in  his  own  land 
and in others, his  name  was  music  and 
his money a benediction.

We look for  such  men  in  books,  and 
search for gems of a  like  nature  not  in 
the dust of an office,  but  in  the  niches 
where history has placed its  consecrated 
memories.

To such as are money-dried  and  soul- 
shrivelled, or in danger of getting so, the 
biography  of George  W.  Childs  is a prac­
tical satire on their folly. 
It is one thing 
to be busy  and another to be a slave; one 
thing  to  make  money  and  another  to 
rightly use it.

if  any  man  question  which  is  best, 
let  the business  philanthropist of Phila­
delphia answer the question.

Fbed Woodrow.

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Myrica Cerlfera, po.............  30
Primus Vlrgini....................  12
Qulllala,  grd.......................   10
Sassafras  ............................  12
TJlmns Po (Ground  15)........  15

EXTKACTUM.

Glycyrrhlza  Glabra...  24®  25
“ 
po...........  33®  35
Haematox, 15lb. box..  11®  12
is..............  13®  14
“ 
tts ............   14®  15
16®  1'
“  Mi....
FERUTI
Carbonate Preclp... 
Citrate and Qulnla.
Citrate  Soluble......
Ferrocyanidum Sol.
Solut  Chloride......
Sulphate,  com’l __
.
pare... 

®  15 
®3 50 
®  80 
®  50 
®  15 
.9®  2
®  7

“ 

Arnica...............   18® 
Anthemis...........  30® 
Matricaria 

20
35
......  50®  %

FOJ.1A.

Barosma 
Cassia  Acutlfol,  Tin-
nivelly.............  25® 
Salvia  officlnaliB,  Ms
and  Hs............   15® 
Ura TJrsl 

...................  18®  50
28
“  A lx.  35®  50
25
...................  8®  10

“ 

ouxxr.

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Acacia, 1st  picked__   ®  60
®  40
2d 
.... 
3d 
®  30
.... 
®  20
sifted sorts... 
p o ................  60®  80
50® 60
Aloe,  Barb, (po. 60)... 
® 12
“  Cape, (po. 20)... 
Socotrl, (po.  60). 
® 50
Catechu, Is, (Ms, 14 Ms,
16)....................   ® 
1
AounuaiM..............
40® 45
Assafetida,  (po. 85).
.  50® 55
Bensolnnm..............
Camphors...............
55
Euphorbium  po  — .  35® 10
@2 50
Galbanum...............
.  70® 75
Gamboge,  po...........
@ 30
Gualacum,  (po  35)  .
@1 15
Kino, (po  1  10)........
M astic............ .........
@ 80
@ 40
Myrrh, (po. 45).........
Opii  (po  4 20@4 30) .3 40®3 50
Shellac  .................... .  45® 42
33® 35
Tragacanth  .............. .  40® 1  00

“ 
nerba—In ounce packages

bleached......

25
20
25
28
23
25
30
22
25

Absinthium..............
Bupatorinm..............
Lobelia......................
Majorum...................
Mentha  Piperita......
“  V ir............
Rue............................
Tanaoetum, V ...........
Thymus,  V................
MASNBSIA.
Calcined, Pat.............   55®  60
Carbonate,  Pat...........  20®  22
Carbonate, K. A  M__  20®  25
Carbonate, Jennings..  35®  36

OLEUM.

Absinthium................ 3 50@4 00
Amygdalae, Dole____  45®  75
Amydalae, Amarae___8 00@8 25
Anlsl............................1 70@1 80
Aurantl  Cortex...........2 30@2 40
Bergamli  ...................3 25®3 50
Cajlputl.................... 
60®  65
Caryophylli................  75®  80
Cedar.........................  35®  65
Chenopodii...............   @1  60
Clnnamonll.................1  10@1 15
Cltronella...................  ®  45
Conium  Mac..............  35®  65
Copaiba  ....................  80®  90

Cubebae......................  @3
Exechthltos..............  2 50®2
Erigeron.....................2 00@2
Ganltheria................. 2 oo@2
Geranium,  ounce......   @
Gossipi!,  Sem. gal......  70®
Hedeoma  .................. 1 2S®1
Juniperl......................  50@2
Lavendula.................  90@2
Limonls......................2 40@2 „
Mentha Piper.............. 2 85@3 60
Mentha Verld.............2 20@2 30
Morrhuae, gal.............1  00@1  10
Myrcla, ounce............   @  50
Olive..........................  90®3 00
Picis Liquida, (gal. 35)  10®  12
Ricini............................  1  22@1 28
Rosmarini............  
75@1  00
Rosae, ounce.............. 6 50@8 50
Succlnl.......................   40®  45
Sabina.......................   90@1  00
San tal  ........................8 50@7 00
Sassafras....................  50®  55
Slnapis, ess, ounce__  ®  65
TigUi..........................  @  90
Thyme.......................   40®  50
„ . 
opt  ...............   @  60
Theobromas......  ......   15®  20
p o t a s s iu m .
Bi Carb....................... 
is®  is
bichromate...............  
is®  14
Bromide....................  40®  43
Garb......  
.................    12®  15
Chlorate  (po  23@25)..  24®  26
Cyanide......................  50®  55
Iodide..............................2 98@3 00
Potassa, Bitart, pure..  27®  30 
Potassa, Bitart, com...  @  15
Potass Ultras, opt......   8®  10
Potass Nltras..............  7®
Prusslate....................  28®  80
Sulphate  po................  15®  18

RADIX.

“ 

P V ................................. 

Aconitum...................  20®  25
Althae.........................  22®  25
Anchusa....................   12®  15
Arum,  po....................  @  25
Calamus......................  20®  40
Gentiana  (po. 12)......   8®  10
Glychrrhlza, (pv. 15)..  16®  18 
Hydrastis  Canaden
(do. 35)................. 
@  30
elleboro,  Ala,  po  ...  15®  20
Inula,  po....................  15®  20
Ipecac, po.................. 1 60® 1
Iris plox (po. 35®38)..  35®  40
Jalapa,  pr...................  40®  45
Maranta,  Me..............  @  35
Podophyllum, po........  15®  18
Rhei............................  75@l  00
H  cut......................  ®1 75
75@1  35
Splgella......................  35®  38
Sanguinaria, (po  25)..  ®  20
Serpentaria.................  30®  32
Senega.......................  55®  60
Slmllax, Officinalis,  H  @ 40
M  @ 25
Scillae, (po. 85)...........  10®  12
Symplocarpus,  Fceti-
dus,  po....................  ®  35
ralerlana, Eng. (po.30)  ®  25
German...  15®  20
lngiber a ................. 
IS®  20
Zingiber  j ...............  
18®  30
Anlsum,  (po.  20).
®  IS 
.plum  (graveleons)
15®  18
rad, Is...................... 
4®  6
Carni, (po. 18)..............   10® 12
Cardamon.................. 1  00® 1  25
Corlandrum.................   10® 12
Cannabis Sativa.........   4® 
5
Cy doni um...................  ?5@1  00
Cnenopodium  ...........  10®  12
Dipteri! Odorate........2 25®2 50
Foenlculum................  ©  15
Foenugreek,  po.........   6®  8
U n i..........................   4  O 4%
Uni, grd.  (bbl. 8H)...  3)4®  4
Lobelia.......................  86®  40
Pharlarls Canarian__  3  ® 4
Rapa..........................   6®  7
Slnapis  Albn............ 7  ® 8
Nigra...........  11®  12

“ 

f 

s p i b i t u s .
Frumentl, W., D.  Co..2 00@2 50
D. F. R.........1  75©2 00
.................1  25®1  50
Junlperis  Co. O. T....1  65@2 00 
1  75®3 50
Saacharam  N.  B........1  75®2 00
~ pt.  Vinl  Galll...........1 75®6 50
ini Oporto...............1  25@2 00
Vinl  Alba..................l  25®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’
carriage...................
Grass sheeps’ wool car­
riage  .......................
Hard for  slate  use__
Yellow Reef, for  slate 
use..........................

1  40

STRUTS.

A ccada...............................  50
Zingiber  .............................   50
Ipecac..................................  60
Ferri  I od.............................   50
Aurantl Cortes....................  56
Rhei  Arom...............  
  50
Slmllax  Officinalis..............  60
Co........  50
Senega................................   50
Scillae..................................   50
“  Co.............................   50
Toiatan...............................  50
Friuras  vlrg  .....................  
50

“ 

“ 

 

TINCTURES.

Aconltum Napellis  R ........  60
F .........   50
Aloes....................................  go
and myrrh.................  60
A rnica................................   50
AsafcBtlda...................... ” ”  0
Atrope Belladonna..............  60
Benzoin..............................     60
“  Co..........................    50
Sanguinaria.........................  50
Barosma..........................'  50
Cantharides............................ 75
Capsicum........................... !  50
Ca damon........................ 
  75
_  “ 
Co.......................!  75
Castor......................... 
1  no
Catechu............................”   50
Cinchona............................... 50
_  , “  .  Co.........................  60
Colomba.............................   50
Conium............... ....... 
’  50
Cubeba.........................’  "   50
Digitalis.................................50
Ergot......................................... ; 50
Gentian...............................  50
Gualca................................   50
ammon....................... 60
Zingiber.............................   50
Hyoscyamus.................... "  
Iodine..................................  75
Ferri  Chlorldum...............   35
K ino.............................  
50
'  50
Lobelia............................  
Myrrh.............................. ..!  50
Nux  Vomica................... 
50
O pii.....................................  85
Camphorated...............   50
Deoaor.........................2 00
Aurantl Cortex....................  50
Quassia...............................  50
Rhatany  ........................  
¡0
Rhei.....................................  50
Cassia  Acutlfol...................  50
„  “ 
Co..............  50
Serpentarla...........  ...........  50
Stromonlum.........................  60
Tolutan...............................  60
ValeriaD.............................!  50
VeratrumVeride.................  50

“  Co......................60
“ 

“  Colorless......................!.. 75

“ 

 

MISCELLANEOUS.

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

ground,  (po.

* 
“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

« 

7).............................   3®  4
Annatto......................  55®  60
Antimoni, po..............  4®  5
et Potass T.  55©  60
AnMpyrln...................  @1 40
Antlfebrln..................  @  25
Argenti  Nltras, ounce  @  49
Arsenicum.................  5®  7
Balm Gilead  Bud  ...  38®  40
Bismuth  S.  N............ 2 20@2 26
Calcium Chlor, Is, (Ms
12;  Ms,  14)..............  @  11
Cantharides  Russian,
po............................
@1  00 
Capslci  Frnctus, af...
@  26 
@  28 
rp o  .
@  20 
Caryophyllus, (po.  15)  ( _   „
10®   12
Carmine,  No. 40.........   ©3 75
Cera  Alba, 8. & F ......   so®  55
Cera Flava.................  38®  40
Cocoas  .....................   ®  40
Cassia Frnctus...........  ©  25
Centrarla....................  @  10
Cetaceum..................   ©  40
Chloroform................  60®  68
squibbs ..  @1  26
Chloral Hyd Crst........1  50®1  80
Chondrus..................   20®  25
Cinchonldlne, F.  A  W  15®  20 
German 3M@  12 
Corks,  list,  dls.  per
cent  .....................
75 
Creasotnm..............
@  35 
Creta, (bbl. 75)......
@  2 
prep............
5®  5
preclp.........
9®  11 
Rubra...............
® 
8 
Crocus .......
50®  55 
Cudbear......
@  24 
Capri Sulph. 
5 @  6
Dextrine.
10®   12
Ether Sulph...............   70®  75
Emery,  all  numbers..'  @
_   “ 
PO..................   @  6
Brgota, (po.)  75 .........   70®  75
Flake  White..............  12®  15
Galla..........................  ©  23
Gambler.....................   7  @8
Gelatin,  Cooper.........   @  70
French...........  40®  60
Glassware  flint, by box 80.
Less than box 75.
Glne,  Brown..............  9®  15
“  White...............   13®  25
Glyoerlna...................  14©  20
Grana Paradisi...........  ©  22
Humnlus....................  25®  ~
Hydraag Chlor  Mite
@  85 
“  Cor 
@  80 
Ox Rubrum
@  90 
Ammonlatl.. 
@1  00 
Unguentum.
45®  55 
Hydrargyrum
@  64 
Ichthyobolla, Am.
1  25@1 50
Indigo...........................  75@1 00
Iodine,  Besubi...........3 80®3 90
Iodoform....................   @4  70
Lupulln......................  @2 25
Lycopodium................  70®  15
Macis...........................  70® 75
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy­
Liquor Potass Arslnltls  10®  l*o 
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
Mannla,  8. F ...............  60® 08

drarg Iod....................   @ 

ISO............................  2M© 4

“ 
“ 
11 
“ 

“ 

“ 

8.  N. Y. Q.  &

Morphia, 8. P. & 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.................... 
is®  18
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D.
Co............................  @2 00
Picis Uq, N.»C., *  gal 
doz  .........................  @200
Picis LIq., quarts......  @1  00
pints.........   @  85
Pll Hydrarg,  (po. 80)..  @ 50
Piper  Nigra, (po. 22)..  @ 1
Piper Alba, (po g5)....  @  3
Pix  Burgun...............   @  7
Plumbi A cet..............  14®  15
Pulvis Ipecac et opii.. 1  10®1  20 
Pyrethrum,  boxes  H
& P. D.  Co., doz......  @1  25
Pyrethrum,  pv...........  20®  30
Quassiae....................  8®  10
Qulnia, 8. P. A W......34Vi@39M
S.  German__  27®  37
Rubla  Tinctorum......  12®  14
Saccharum Lactls pv. 
20®  22
Salacln.......................2 00®2  10
Sanguis  Draconis......  40®  50
Sapo,  W......................  12®  14
M....................... 
io®  12
6 .......................  @  15

“ 

Seldlltz  Mixture........  @  20
Slnapis.......................   @  18
,r  opt..................   ©  30
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  De
Voes.......................  @  35
Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes  @  35 
Soda Boras, (po. 11).  .  10®  11 
Soda  et Potass Tart.  .  27®  30
Soda Carb.................  1V4®  2
Soda,  Bi-Carb............   @  5
Soda, Ash..................   3M@  4
Soda, Sulphas............  @  2
Spts. Ether C o..........   50®  55
“  Myrcla  Dom......  @2 25
“  Myrcla Imp........  @3 00
r 
• •-•7..............................2 25@2 35
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Strychnia  Crystal......1  4P@1  45
Sulphur, Subl.............. 2M@ 3
Tamarinds................. 
8®  10
Terebenth Venice......  28®  30
Theobromae.................... 45  @ 48
Vanilla......................9 00@16 00
Zlnci  Sulph.
7®  8

“  Roll....................  2  @ 2%

vinl  Rect.  bbl.

Bbl.  Gal
Whale, winter........ . 
70 
70
Lard,  extra............
85
.  SO 
Lard, No.  1.........
.  42 
45
Linséed, pure raw.. ..5 2  
55

Linseed,  boiled.........  55
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
strained...............   65
SplritsTurpentine__  37

“ 

paints. 

bbl.  lb.
Red  Venetian........................144 2@s
Ochre, yellow  Mars__13£  2@4
“ 
Ber........im  2@3
Putty,  commercial__2M  2H®3
“  strictly  pure...... 2M  2v®3
Vermilion Prime Amer­
13@16
ican ..........................  
\  ermilion, English. . .  
65@70
Green,  Peninsular...... 
70@75
Lead,  red...............................  6 @6M
“  w hite..........................  6 @6V4
Whiting, white Span.  .  @70
Whiting,  Gliders’. 
. ..  @90
White, Paris  American 
1  0
Whiting,  Paris  Eng.
Cliff.......................... 
1  40
Pioneer Prepared Palntl  20@l  4 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared 
Paints.......... .  ...... 1  00@1  20
No. 1 Turp  Coach.... 1  !0@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  55@1  60 
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 
Turp........................  
70® 7 5

VARNISHES.

’ 50

! ! HR 11

Grand  Rapids, Hich.

OFFER FOR IMMEDIETE

OR FUTURE  DELIVERY,

Q uality  and  Price  Guaranteed,

F O W E D R E D  
W H IT E  

H E L L E B O R E ,

I N S E C T

P O W D E R ,

P A R I S

G R E E N ,

L O N D O N

P U R P L E ,

P O W D E R E D

B L U E

V IT R O L .
it  will  be  when the Demand

Price 

is  Lower  now 

P I E L Y P  

27

than 
Gommences.
 
PERKINS 

i

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

DRUG 

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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  o 
greatest  possible  use  to  dealers.

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

MEASURES.
Tin, per dozen.

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

 

 

Sardines.

Trout.

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

No. 1, 54 bbls., lOOlbs........... 6 28
No. 1 M bbl, 40  lbs.............. 2  80
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs..................  80
No. 1,81b  kits....................  65
Family 
54 bbls, 100 lbs..........17 50 S3 50
M  “  40  “  ..........  3 50  1 65
10 lb.  kits................... 
90  50
18.1b.  “ 
...................  75  45

Whltefish.

No. 1

4.  >

MOLASSES.
Blackstrap.
Sugar house................. 
Cuba Baking.
Ordinary..........................  
Porto Rico.
Prim e...............................  
Fancy...............................  
F air................................... 
Good................................. 
Extra good........................ 
Choice.............................. 
Fancy................................ 
One-half barrels, 3c extra.

New Orleans.

14
16
20
30
18
22
27
32
40

p 

it  a

V 

-

Uv

«  —'

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

Souders’.

Regular
Grade
Lemon.

doz
2 oz  ....(  75 
4 oz...... 1  50

Regular
Vanilla.

doz
2 oz..... (1  20
4 oz..... 2 40
XX Grade 
Lemon.
2 o z ......... I I   50
4 oz......   3 00
XX Grade 
Vanilla.
2 oz.......(1  75
4 OZ.........  3  50

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

2 00
2 50

“ 
“ 

2 00
3 00

GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.

Choke Bore—Dupont's.

Kegs......................................... 3 25
Half  kegs................................. 1 90
Quarter  kegs...........................1 10
1  lb  cans.............................   30
54 lb  cans............................  18
Kegs......................................... 4 25
Half  k e g s .............................................. 2  40
Quarter kegs...........................  1 35
1 lb cans............ 
34
Kegs........................................ 11 00
Half  kegs  .........................  5  75
Quarter kegs............................ 3 00
60
1  lb  cans.
Sage..
Hops.

 
Eagle Duck—Dupont’s.

HERBS.

 

INDIGO.

Madras, 5 lb. boxes  ......
S. F., 2,3 and 5 lb. boxes. 
JELLY.
17  lb. palls.................
“ 
...............
30  “ 
LICORICE.
30
Pure............................
Calabria...............................  25
Sicily....................................  12

©

“ 

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

MATCHES.

MINCE  MEAT.

COUPON  BOOKS.

©21
©24
©14

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

gross 
6  00 
7 CO
5 SO 
9 00 
7  EO
6 00

B A K IN G   P O W D E R . 

“  2  “ 

Teller’s,  54 lb. cans, do*. 

54 lb  “ 
1 fi>  “ 
% lb.  “ 
l lb.  “ 

Acme.
u  lb. cans, 3  doz...............   45
2  lb.  “ 
2  “  ................  75
1 lb.  “  1  “  ..................  1 60
Bulk...................................  
10
Arctic.
55 
% lb cans 6 doz  case 
1  10 
£  ]b  “  4 doz  “
i  ®>  “  2 doz  “
2  00 
9 00
5 
“  1 doz  “
Fosfon.
5 oz. cans, 4 doz. In case...  80 
“ 
16  “ 
-  2 00
Red Star, M lb  cans........... 
40
“ 
...........  76
“ 
............  1  40
45 
“  • •  85
“ 
“  ..  1  50
*« 
Our Leader, M lb cans...... 
45
H lb  cans........ 
“ 
75
“ 
1 lb cans-----  .  1  50
Dr. Price’s.
per doz 
e s
Dime cans..  95 
1  40 
4- 
oz 
DEPRICE'S
6 oz 
.  2 60 
8-oz 
CREAMI
.  3 90 
12-oz 
..5 00 
16-oz 
Ba k in el
254-lb 
12 00 
faw u eN
18 25 
4 1b
22 75 
lb 
5- 
41  80
10-lb
■jMtMBJf !»»»*■

.  200 

BATH  BRICK.
2 dozen in case.

BLUING. 

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

‘7 
“ 

“ 

“ 
BROOMS,

Jo. 2 Hurl..........................  1 75
.......................... 2 00
No. 1  “ 
No. 2 Carpet.......................  2 25
No. 1 
“ 
.......................  2 50
Parlor Gem.........................2 76
Common Whisk................. 
80
Fancy 
.................  100
Warehouse.........................3 00

‘ 

BRUSHES.

“ 
“ 

.  1  25
Stove, No.  1....................
.  1  50
“  10....................
.  1  76
“  15....................
Rice Root Scrub, 2  row..
88
.  1  26
Rice Root  Scrub, 3 row..
Palmetto, goose.............. ..  1  50

CANDLES.

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

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

“ 

CANNED  GOODS.

Fish.
Clams.

“ 

“ 

“ 

Little Neck,  1 lb............ ...1  20
“  2 lb ............ ...1  90
Clam Chowder.
Standard. 8 lb................. . . . 2  25
Cove Oysters.
Standard,  li b ............... ...  75
2 lb................ ..  1  45
Lobsters.
Star,  1  lb....................... .. .2 45
“  2  lb....................... ..  8 50
Picnic, 1 lb...................... . . . 2  00
21b ...................... ...2 90
“ 
Mackerel.
Standard, 1 lb................. ...1  10
2  lb............... ...2 10
Mustard,  21b................. ...2  25
Tomato Sauce,  2 lb........ ...2 26
.2 25
Soused, 2 lb..................
Colombia River, flat...........1 80
tails..............1 65
Alaska, Red.........................1 25
pink.........................1 10
Kinney’s,  flats....................1 95
Sardines.
American  Ms...............   4540 5
As..................6540J
Imported  Ms....................  @10
541...................  16016
Mustard  Ms......................  7©8
Boneless..........................  
21
3, Brook  lb.......................... 2 50

Salmon.
“ 

“ 
~ 

Trout.

“ 
“ 

Fruits.
Apples.

1  10 
3 25

1  40 
1  40 
1  50 
1  10
90

3 lb. standard............
York State, gallons —  
Hamburgh,  “ 
....
Apricots.
Live oak......................
Santa e ras.................
Lusk’s.........................
Overland...................
Blackberries.
. A  W.......................
Cherries.
Red............................  I  10@1
1  75 
Pitted Hamburgh  ...
1  50 
W hite......................
1  30
Brie.........................
Damsons, Egg Plums and Green 
Gages.
Erie............................
1  20 
1  40
California...................
Gooseberries.
1  25
Common....................
Peaches.
P ie......................... ..
Maxwell....................
Shepard's..................
alifornla..................   160@1  75
............
Monitor 
Oxford...................
Pears.
Domestic.................... 
1  25
Riverside.................... 
1  75
Pineapples.
Common.....................1  00@1 30
Johnson’s sliced........ 
2 50
grated........ 
2 75
Booth’s sliced............  ©2 51
grated........... 
Quinces.
Common....................
Raspberries.
Red.............................
Black  Hamburg.........
Erie,  b lack ...............
Strawberries.
Lawrence...................
Hamburgh.................
Erie............................
Terrapin.......................
Whortleberries.
85
Blueberries...............
Corned  beef  Libby’s......... 1  96
Roast beef  Armour’s......... 180
Potted  ham, 54 lb............... 1  40
“  54 lb.................  85
tongue, 54 lb.............. 135
“  £  lb..............   85
95
Vegetables.

“ 
“ 
*• 
“  chicken, M 

lb.......... 

1  10
1  10 
1  50 
1  20

Meats.

02

Beans.

“ 

“ 

“ 
“ 

Peas.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Cora.

Hamburgh  strtngless......... 1  25
French style.......2 26
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......................... .1  40
Livingston  Eden................1 20
Parity
Honey  Dew........................1 40
Morning Glory...................
Soaked...............................  75
Hamburgh  marrofat............ 1 35
early June___
Champion Eng.. 1  SO
petit  pols............ 1 75
fancy  sifted____1 90
Soaked....:...................
Harris standard...................  75
VanCamp's  marrofat..........1  10
early .June.......1  30
Archer’s  Early Blossom —  1  25
French.......................  
Mushrooms.
French..............................19©21
Pumpkin.
Erie............................... .
Sqnash.
Hubbard..............................1
Succotash.
Hamburg..............................1
Soaked...... —.....................
Honey  Dew......................... 1
Brie......................................1
Hancock..............................1
Excelsior .  ..—..................
Eclipse.................................
Hamburg............................
Gallon.................................8

Tomatoes.

  2

Baker's.

CHEESE.

CHOCOLATE.
German Sweet................
Premium..........................
Breakfast  Cocoa............
Amboy.......................   ©13M
Acme..........................  1254©13
Lenawee....................  ©1254
Riverside..................  
1854
Gold  Medal...............   ©1154
6©10
Skim......................  .. 
Brick..........................  
11
1  00
B dam ........................  
23
Leiden.......................  
Ltmbnrger.................  ©15
Pineapple...................  ©25
Roquefort— .............  ©86

p Sago....................
hweltzer, imported. 
11 
domestic  ....
CATSUP.

Blue Label Brand.

“ 

Half  pint, 25 bottles............2 75
...........  4 50
Pint 
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.

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

COCOA  SHELLS.

351b  bags......................  ©3
Less quantity...............   ©354
Pound  packages..........6M@7

COFFEE.
Green.
Rio.

Santos.

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

Maracaibo.

Mocha.

Java.

Roasted.

To  ascertain  cost  of  roaBted 
coffee, add 54c. per lb. for roast 
lng 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 54  gross..........  
75
l  li
Felix 
... 
Hummel’s, foil, gross.......  1 65
........  2 85
“ 

“ 

tin 
CHICORY.

Bulk.
Red..

CLOTHES  LINES.

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

Jute

.per dos.  1  25
1 40
1 60
1  76
1  9f
86 
1 »

“ 
“ 
“  
“  
" 
“ 

CONDENSED  MILK. 

4 doz. In case.

■««asr*

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

Peerless Evaporated Cream.

“Tradesman.’ 
t   1 books, per hundred 

2 

“ 

« 

“

“Superior.”
1 books, per hundred
“ 
2 

“ 

“

120

2  00 
2 50 
8 00 
8 OP
4 00
5 00
2 50
3 00
3 50
4 00
5 00
6 00

Universal.”

“ 
« 
“ 
“ 
“ 

■“ 
•' 
“ 
“ 
“ 

1  books, per hundred...  13 00
....  3 50
2 
3 
__ 4 00
.... 
5 
5 00
10 
... 6 00
(20 
.... 7 Of'
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 (10  down.' 
20 books.......................  (100
50
2 00 
3 00 
100250
6
500
10 00 
17 50
1000

.10 
.20 

“ 
“ 

“
“

CREDIT CHECKS,

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

“ 
“ 

CRACKERS.

Butter.

Seymour XXX....................... 554
Seymour XXX, cartoon
Family  XXX......................  554
Family XXX,  cartoon........  6
Salted XXX.........................  554
Salted XXX,  cartoon  ........6
Kenosha 
..........................  754
Boston...................................  7
Butter  biscuit....................   6
Soda, XXX......................  .  554
Soda, City............................  754
Soda, Duchess....................  854
Crystal Wafer......................1054
Long  Island Wafers...........11
8. Oyster  XXX....................  554
City Oyster. XXX.................  554
Farina  Oyster.....................  6

Oyster.

Soda.

CREAM  TARTAR.

Strictly  pure......................  30
Telfers  Absolute..............  30
Grocers’............................ 15©25

DRIED  FRUITS. 

7*
11
14
1454
8

Domestic.

Apples.

“ 

Peaches.

quartered  “
Apricots.

Sundrled. sliced in  bbls
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes 
California In  bags........
Evaporated ln boxes.  .. 
Blackberries.
In  boxes......................
Nectarines.
70 lb. bags..................... 10
25 lb. boxes...................
1054
Peeled, In  boxes...........
Cal. evap.  “ 
“ 
ln  bags...... 10
California ln  bags.....  1C
Pltted Cherries
Barréis..........................
60 Ib. boxee..................
25 “ 
...................10
Prunelles.
301b.  boxea.................  16
Raspberries.
In barréis......................
501b. boxes....................
......................
251b.  “ 
Raislns.

 
Pears.

1054

“ 

“ 

 

Loose  Mnscatels ln Boxes.
2 crown.............................   1
“ 
1
3 
4  “ 
1
Loose Muscatels ln Bags.
2  crown.............................. 3M
8 
............................... 454

 

Foreign.
Currants.

2
3,  in barrels............
2Q
ln  54-bbls..............
ln less quantity — 254
5
cleaned,  bulk........
cleaned,  package..
554

Peel.

Citron, Leghorn, 25 lb. boxes  12 
Lemon 
8
Orange 
10

“ 
“ 

“ 
25  “ 
“ 
25  “ 
Raisins.

Ondnra, 291b. boxes. 
“ 
Sultana, 20 
Valencia, 30  “

© 8 
•  754  @ 8

California,  100-120 ............   554

Prunes.
90x100 25 lb. bxs  6
80x90 
.. 7
754
70x80 
. 8
60x70 

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

16

No. 1,654..........................  II  76
No. 2. 654..........................  1  66
No. 1, 6.............................   1  65
NO. 2, 6.............................   1  5f

XX  wood, white.

No. 1,654..........................  1  36
No. 2,654 

.......................   1

Manilla, white.
.............................. 

654  ...................................   1  00
96

Coin.
MlUNo. 4.............  
100
FARINACEOUS  0 0 0 0 8 . 

 

Farina.
Hominy.

Oatmeal.

Lima  Beans.

100 lb. kegs................... 
3 \
Barrels.................................275
G rits.....................................3 00
Dried............................   3@3J4
Maccaronl and Vermicelli. 
55
Domestic, 12 lb. box.... 
Imported....................1054©-1
Barrels 200 .......................  4 25
Half barrels 100................  2 25
Kegs..................................   254
Green,  bu.........................  1 25
Spilt  per lb .................  
Barrels  180.................  @4  26
Half  bbls 90..............  @2 25
German.............................   454
East India..........................   5
Cracked..............................  3M

Pearl Barley.

Rolled  Oats.

Wheat.

Sago.

Peas.

3

FISH—Salt.

Bloaters.

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

Cod.

Pollock..........................
Whole, Grand  Bank......  5©554
Boneless,  bricks.............. 6©8
Boneless, strips................6@8
Smoked......................  954@1254
70 
Holland, white hoops keg 
bbl  9  50

Halibut.
Herring.
“ 
“ 

“ 

Norwegian.......................
Round, 54 bbl 100 lbs.......   2 50
........  1  30
Scaled............................... 
20

“  M  “  40  “ 
Mackerel.

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

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

“ 

THE  MICHIGAN  TBAHESMAJSr,

1 7

PICK LE8.
Medium.
Barrels, 1,200 count... 
Half bbls, 600  count.. 
Barrels, 2,400 count. 
Half bbls, 1,200 count 

Small.

@4 SO
©2 7f>
5 30

3 25

PIPES.

Clay, No.  216............................ 1 TO
“  T. D. full count...........  TO
Cob, No. 3.................................1 20

Babbitt’s ...............................  4 00
Penna Salt  Co.’s..................   3 00

POTASH.

48 cans in case.

KICE.
Domestic.

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

Imported.

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

SPICES.

Whole Sifted.

“ 

“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

Allspice...............................  9y,
Cassia, China in mats........  8
Batavia In bund__15
Saigon In rolls.......32
Cloves,  Amboyna...............22
Zanzibar......   ........11H
Mace  Batavia.....................80
Nutmegs, fancy..................75
“  No. 1.....................70
“  No. 2.....................60
Pepper, Singapore, black__10
“ 
white...  .20
shot.........................16
“ 
Pure Ground in Bulk.
Allspice.............................. 15
Cassia,  Batavia..................18
and  Saigon.25
“ 
“ 
Saigon....................35
Cloves,  Amboyna...............22
“  Zanzibar.................18
Ginger, African..................16
”*  Cochin..................  20
Jam aica.................22
“ 
Mace  Batavia.....................65
Mustard,  Eng. and Trieste. .22
“  Trieste....................25
Nutmegs, No. 2 ..................75
Pepper, Singapore, black — 16 
“ 
white..... 24
“  Cayenne.................20
Sage.....................................20
•‘Absolute” in Packages.&8 

tfS
Allspice......................  84  155
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

“ 

 
SAX  SODA.
Kegs...........................
Granulated,  boxes__
SEEDS.
Anise.........................
Canary, Smyrna.........
Caraway....................
Cardamon, Malabar...
Hemp,  Russian.........
Mixed  Bird  ..............
Mustard,  white.........
Poppy........................
Rape..........................
Cuttle  bone...............
STARCH.

Corn.

.  1*
..

@15

4 8

90
4%
5@6
10
9
5 
SO

“   

20-lb  boxes..........................  5X
40-lb 
 
554
Gloss.
1-lb packages............. 
5
3-lb 
.......................  5
6-lb 
 
5)4
 
40 and 50 lb. boxes................314
Barrels................................   314

“ 
“ 

 

SNUFF.

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

SODA.

Boxes................................ -.5),
Kegs, English.................... • •4M

SALT.
100 3-lb. sacks.................... 112  15
.................... 2 00
60 5-lb.  “ 
28 10-lb. sacks................... 1  85
2014-lb.  “ 
.................... 1  80
24 3-lb  cases...................... 1  50
56 lb. dairy in linen  bags.. 
32
28 lb.  “ 
drill  “  16
18

Warsaw.

“ 

“ 

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

Ashton.

Higgins.
Solar Rock.

Common Fine.

56 1l.  sacks......................
Saginaw..........................
Manistee.........................
SALERATUS. 

32
18
75
75

25
75
75

Packed 60 lbs. in box.

Church’s ........................... 5)4
DeLand’s .......................... -  6%
Dwight’s......... 
............... ■  5)4
5
Taylor’s ............ r...............

SOAP.

Laundry.

Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.

Proctor & Gamble.

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

“ 

Dingman Brands.

“ 

“ 

Single box...........................3  95
5 box lots, delivered......... 3  85
10 box lots, delivered........3  75

Jas. S. Kirk & Co.’s Brands.

American  Family, wrp’d..84 00 
plain...  3 94
N.  K.  Falrbank & Co.’s Brands.
Santa Claus.........................4 00
Br jwn, 60 bars.................... 2 40
80  b a rs...................3 25

“ 
Lautz Bros. & Co.’s Brands.

Acme...................................3  75
Cotton Oil............................6 00
Marseilles............................4 00
Mafter  .................................4 00

Thompson & Chute Brands.

Silver.................
Mono.................
Savon Improved
Sunflower  .........
Golden...............
Economical  ......

Scouring.

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

“ 

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 townwhere 
the freight rate from New York 
is  not  30  cents,  but  the  local 
quotations will, perhaps, afford 
a better criterion of the  market 
than to quote New York  prices
exclusively.
Cut  Loaf.................................85 67
Powdered................................5 11
Granulated..............................4 <4
Extra Fine Granulated...  4 86
Cubes..................................5  11
XXXX  Powdered.................... 5 48
Confec. Standard  A........... 4 61
No. 1  Columbia A............   4 55
No. 5 Empire  A........................4 43
No.  6........................................ 4 36
No.  7.........................................4 30
No.  8........................................ 4 17
No.  9........................................4 11
No.  10.......................................4 05
No.  11.......................................3 99
No.  12...............................  3 92
No.  13.....................................  3 86
No 14.............................  
3 74

SYRUPS.

Corn.

Barrels................................1514
Half bbls.............................17*4
F air.....................................   19
Good....................................  25
Choice..................................  30

Pure Cane.

TABLE  SAUCES.

“ 

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

“ 
“ 

TEAS.

Japan—Regular.

BASKET  FIBED.

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

ENGLISH BREAKFAST.

YOUNG HYSON.

IMPERIAL.

OOLONG.

TOBACCOS.

Fine Cut.

P. Lorillard & Co.’s Brands.
Sweet Russet..............30  @32
31
Tiger........................... 
D. Scotten & Co’s Brands.
60
Hiawatha................... 
Cuba..........................  
34
30
Rocket.......................  
Spaulding & Merrick’s  Brands.
Sterling...................... 
30
Private Brands.
Bazoo.........................
@30
Can  Can......................
@27
Nellie  Bly..................24
@25
Uncle Ben.................. 24
Ì25
McGlnty....................
27 
25 
*4 bbls.........
Dandy Jim .................
29 
Torpedo.....................
24 
in  drums....
23
Yum  Yum  ...............
28 
1892............................
23 
“  drums.................
22

“ 

“ 

Plug.

Finzer's Brands.

Lorillard’s Brands.

Sorg’s Brands.
Spearhead  .................
Joker.........................
Nobby Twist.................
Scotten’s Brands.
Kylo............................
Hiawatha...................
Valley City................
Old  Honesty..............
Jolly Tar....................
Climax (8  oz., 41c)__
Green Turtle..............
Three  Black Crows...
Something Good........
Out of  Sight.
Wilson <b McCaulay’s Brands.
Gold  Rope............ "...
43
Happy Thought.........
37
Messmate...................
32
NoTax.......................
31
Let  Go.......................
27
Smoking.

J. G. Butler’s Brands.

Catlln’s  Brands.

Kiln  dried.......................17@18
Golden  Shower...................19
Huntress 
........................... 26
Meerschaum  .................. 29@30
American Eagle Co.’s Brands.
Myrtle Navy........................40
Stork  ............................ 30@32
German............................... 15
Frog....................................33
Java, %s foil.......................32
Banner Tobacco Co.’s Brands.
Banner.................................16
Banner Cavendish.............. 38
...........................28
Gold Cut 

Scotten’s Brands.

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

Brands.

Leidersdorfs Brands.

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

Spaulding & Merrick.

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

30
1  75

VINEGAR.

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

81 for barrel.

YEAST.

WET  MUSTARD.
Bulk, per gal  ................... 
Beer mug, 2 doz in case... 
Magic,................................. 1 00
Warner’s  ............................1  00
Yeast Foam  .......................1  00
Diamond.............................   75
Royal *..................................  90
H IDES  PELTS  and  FURS
Perkins  &  Hess  pay  as  fol­
lows:
Green............................  2@2)4
Part Cured.................  @  3
Full 
@344
Dry...............................4  @ 5
Kips,green  ................. 2  @3
“  cured.................  @ 4
Calfskins,  green........  4  @ 5
cured........4  )*@  6
Deacon skins........... ..10 @ 25

HIDES.

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No. 2 hides % off.
PELTS.

WOOL.

MISCELLANEOUS.

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

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

DEBR8K1N8—per pound.

10
10
15
25

W OODENW ARE.
Tubs,No. 1.................   600

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

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

“  No. 2..........................5 50
“  No. 3.......................... 4  50
1 30
“  No. 1,  three-hoop  ...  1 50
“ 
13  “  ....................   90
1  25
“  15 
“ 
“  17 
“  ....................   1  30
“  19 
“ 
2 40
21 
“  
shipping  bushel..  1  15
.. 1  25
full  hoop 
No.2 6 25
“ 
“ 
No.3 7 25
“  No.l  3 75
No.2 4 25
“ 
“ 
No.3 4 75

“ 
“ 
“ willow cl’ths, No.l 5 25
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
* 
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splint 

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2 10
2 45
2 80

INDURATED WARE.

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

Butter Plates—Oval.
No.  1.........................  60 
No  2.........................  70 
No. 3.........................  80 
No. 5.........................  1  00  3 50
Washboards—single.
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.

51 
No. 1 White (58 lb. test) 
No. 2 Red (60 lb. test) 
5j
Bolted...............................  1  40
Granulated.......................  1  65
•Patents............................  2 10
•Standards.......................   1  60
•Straight..........................   1  50
Bakers’.............................   1  35
•Graham..........................   1  50
Rye.........   .............. 
1  60
•Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour in bbls., 25c per bbl. ad­
ditional.

 

MILLSTUPFS. Less

Car lots  quantity
Bran............. 815  00 
816 00
13 00
Screenings_  12 50 
.16 00
Middlings..  15 00 
16 50
Mixed Feed...  16 O’! 
Coarse meal 
16 50
.. 15 50 
CORN.
Car  lots...............................38)4
Less than  car  lots............. 42
Car  lots...............................32)4
Less than car lots............... 35

OATS.

HAT.
No. 1 Timothy, car lots__11  <X)
No. 1 
ton lots........12 50

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FISH  AN D  OYSTERS.
F.  J.  Dettenthaler  quotes as

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

oysters—Cans. 

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PROVISIONS.

The Grand Rapids  Packing  and Provision Co. 

quotes as follows:
PORK  IN  BARRELS.
Mess,...................................... ......
Shortcut......................................
Extra clear pig, short cut............ .
Extra clear, heavy.......................
Clear, fat back...............................
Boston clear, short cut..................
Clear back, short cut.....................
Standard dear, short cut. best__
SAUSAGE.
Pork, links.............................
Bologna..................................
Liver.......................................
Tongue ................................
Blood.....................................
Head cheese..........................
Summer..................................
Frankfurts.........................
LARD.
Kettle  Rendered.................  .
Granger..................................
Family...................................
Compound.............................
Cottoline................................
50 lb. Tins, *4c advance.
201b. palls, )4c 
10 lb.  “ 
¿ c  
51b.  “  %c 
31b. 
’•  1  c

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13 00
13 55 
15 50
14  0O 
14 50 
14 50 
14  50
7#
5) 4 
6
8)4
6
10
7)4
8 j: 
. 8
6) 4 
6
1%

BEEF  IN  BARRELS.

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sm o k e d   m e a t s—Canvassed or Plain.

Extra Mess, warranted 200 lbs..................... 7 so
Extra Mess, Chicago packing................. 
7 00
Boneless, rump butts............................! 
10 00
Hams, average 20 lbs......................................   9^4
16 lbs.......................’.....!  9v@io
12 to 14 lbs.............................   io
picnic..............................................
best boneless.....................   ...............   9
Shoulders..................................................."   73-
Breakfast Bacon  boneless.......... . . . . .io 
Dried beef, ham prices...................................10
Long Clears, heavy......................... 
Briskets,  medium..................  
.................  g

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HRht...................................... 8)4

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TRIPE.

DRY  SALT  MEATS.
Butts...........................................
D. S. Bellies.............................
Fat Backs.......................................
PICKEED  PIGS’  FEET.
Barrels............................................
Kegs.......................................
Kits, honeycomb............................
Kits, premium.......................... 1”
BEEF  TONGUES.
Barrels........................................... .
Half barrels..............:.............
Per pound......   ............ ................
BUTTERINE.
Dairy, sold packed..........................
Dairy, rolls.....................................
Creamery, solid packed.........
Creamery, rolls..............................

Carcass............
Fore  quarters.. 
Hind quarters..
Loins No. 3.......
Ribs.................
Rounds...........
Chucks.............

Dressed...........
Loins...............
Shoulders......
Leaf Lard......
Carcass...........
Lambs..............
Carcass...........

FRESH  BEEF.

FRESH  PORK.

MUTTON.

VEAL.

9
12)4
10
8 00 
1  90

.........22  00
........ 11  00
..... 
11
14
14)4
18)4
19

....  5  @ 7
....  4)4® 5

....7   @9 
----5  @6
trk  AUL

6)4
10

@6 
....  @7

CROCKERY  AN D  GLASSWARE.

LAMP  BURNERS.

6 doz. in box.

No. 0 Sun..............................................
No.l  “  ..............................................
No.2  “  ..............................................
Tubular...............................................
LAMP CHIMNEYS.  Per bOX.
No. 0 Sun..............................................
No.l  “  ..............................................
No.2  “  ..............................................
No. 0 Sun, crimp top............................
No.l  “ 
“  .............................
No.2  “ 
“ .............................
No. 0 Sun, crimp top............................
No. 1  “ 
“  ............................
No.2  “ 
“  ............................
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and  labeled.........
‘r  
No.2  “ 
..........
No. 2 Hinge,  “ 
.........
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb,  per doz............
No.2  “ 
.............
No. 1 crimp, per doz.............................
No. 2  “ 
.............................

First quality.
“ 
“ 
XXX Flint.
“ 
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La Bastle.

Pearl top.

“ 
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“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

LAMP W1CK8.

“ 
“ 
“ 

No. 0, per  gross...................................*
No. 1, 
.....................................
No  2, 
................................
.....................................
No. 3, 
Mammoth, per doz...............................
STONEWARE—AKRON.
Butter Crocks,  1 to 6 gal......................
“ 
)4 gal. per  doz..............
Jugs, )4 gal., per doz............................
“  1 to 4 gal., per gal.........................
Milk Pans, )4 gal., pe^ dos...................
STONEWARE—BLACK GLAZED.
Butter Crocks, 1  and 2 gal..................
Milk Pans, )4 gal..................................
............ ..................

1  “ 

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45
50
75
75

1  75 
.1  88 
.2 70
.2  10 
.2 25 
.8 25
.2 60 
.2 80 
.3 80
.3 70 
.4 70 
.4 88
1  25 
.1  50 
.1  35 
.1  60
23
28
38
75
75

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07
60
72
07
65
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Earn Honey.

Earn  More  Money Than  They  Cost 

—A  Good  Deal  More.

WM.  NEIL & CO.,

Sole Manufacturers, 11 and 13  Dearborn 

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sole leather,  and I will  warrant  it  to  be 
such.  He  said,  “They  don’t  make 
leather like they did when I was a young 
man,” while I thought,  “Thank goodness 
they  don’t ”  He  talked  in  this  strain 
for  a  few  seconds,  until  I  interrupted 
him.  1 told him that this particular shoe 
is  not  a  five  or six-dollar  shoe,  and  he 
hadn’t ought to expect the  best  material 
for the price I charge.
Then he digs up the  sock  linings  and 
seems  undecided whether  the  innersole 
the  goring 
is  solid  or  not,  stretches 
a  few  times,  twists  the  shank  out  of 
shape and inquires the price. 
I tell  him 
$2,  the best $2 shoe he can  get  in  town. 
He tells me  it  is  not  calf,  and  when  I 
try to  explain, he  tells  me  that  I  can’t 
tell him anything about  leather,  that  he 
has worked on the bench nigh on twenty- 
three years,  and  he  wouldn’t  live  in  a 
country like  this  if  he  wasn’t  troubled 
with asthma,  that he bought the  pair  he 
is wearing down  in Illinois for $1.75  two 
years ago, and  he is half-way  to the door 
when  the  conviction  comes  that  I  am 
losing a  sale.  1  call  to  him  to  wait  a 
moment and  let  me  explain,  but with  a 
parting  shot  he  says:  “These  young 
ducks can’t tell me what leather is,” and 
as I  watch him slowly shuffle  across  the 
street to my competitor,  I  tear  my  hair, 
go out  in  the  back  room  and  comb  it 
again,  curse the  fates and  start  for  din­
ner.
Verily,  the way of  the  shoe  dealer  is 
hard.

160  W o rld ’s   F a ir   P h o to s   fo r  $1.
These beautiful pictures are now ready 
for delivery  in  ten  complete  parts—16 
pictures comprising  each  part—and  the 
whole set can  be secured by the payment 
of One Dollar,  sent  to  Geo.  H.  Heafford, 
General  Passenger Agent, Chicago,  Mil­
waukee & St. Paul Railway, Chicago, 111., 
and  the  portfolios  of  pictures  will  be 
sent,  free  of  expense, by  mail  to  sub­
scribers.  Remittances  should  be  made 
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A   F o re n o o n   In  a   D a k o ta   S h o e   S to re .  | 
From  th e B oots and Shoes W eekly.

I came from my  humble  lodging  in  a 
part  of  the  town  known  as  “Poverty ! 
Flat,” about  eight  o’clock a.  m.,  and  as |
I dispense with  a clerk,  I  proceeded  to 
hang  outside  my  store  the  same 
last | 
winter’s German  socks,  felt  boots  from 
the  winter  before,  and  several  other 
novelties  with  which  1  surprised  the 
elite of the city.  As I started  to  brush 
the buckles off some of my  all-solid-sole- 
leather-counter-warranted—not—to-wear 
plow shoes,  1  was startled by  hearing  a 
young man  from  the  rural  district  in­
quire,  “Have  you  got  any  shoes?”  1 
pleaded  guilty,  and  proceeded  to  show 
the  young  man  specimens  which  he 
never saw  before,  and  perhaps  never 
shall  again. 
I  glanced  at  one  of  his 
feet,  which  1  thought  somewhat  resem­
bled an undersized  ham,  and  looked  as 
though  he  had  “baseball”  toes,  so  I 
started  showing  him  my  FF  wide-toe 
shoes,  until he  sufficiently  recovered  to 
say  that he wanted “peeky”  toes,  as  he 
saw  a  “travelin’  agent” 
in  Blizzard 
City,  selling  Bohemian  oats  at  $1.50  a 
peck,  who wore  “peeky” toe shoes.  S o l 
showed  him  “peeky”  toes,  razor  toes, 
pota-toes  etc.,  until  he  said  he would 
take a pair  of  7K-  Knowing  that  7% 
would not fit him  as well as  10K,  I  sug­
gested he  should  try  one  on.  He  re­
moved one of his old shoes, out of which 
he spilled enough  oats  to  make  a  fair­
sized dinner for a  mule,  and  then  pro­
ceeded to  attempt  the  impossible.  But 
the impossible didn’t  happen,  and  when 
he finally succeeded in  getting on  a pair 
of SKi  his baseball  toes  stuck  out  like 
a jury that couldn’t agree.  He was will­
ing to  pay  my  price,  and  went  away 
happy(?).  Can  1 ever  look  that  young 
man  in  the face again?
Then 1  rested,  and  thought—thought 
about the prayer meeting 1 attended  the 
evening before,  and  whether it was right 
for me to  join the church  and  still  con­
tinue in my present occupation,  for 1  am 
a conscientious young  man,  contrary  to 
the  unanimous  belief  of  my  patrons. 
The Lord hates  a  liar—but  I  am  inter­
rupted from my  reverie  by  Miss  Sallie 
Von  Duzen  Hazen.  By  the  way, 
the 
newspapers  here  about  ten  years  ago 
used  to  claim  that  Miss  Sally  was  a 
dream,  but  I  judge  the  dream  ha 
changed into  a  nightmare,  which  will 
have  a  sad  awakening.  Miss  Sallie’s 
father ran a brewery here until  the State 
went prohibition, or,  as  the  old  gentle 
man says,  “went to the dogs.”

slipper 

Miss Sallie rattled along in this fashion 
with hardly a break:  “1 want a  pair  of 
lambswool 
soles.  Bet  you 
haven’t got  the  size  I  want.  There, 
told  you,  you  didn’t  have  the  size 
Why.  if there isn’t a pair of  fives!  How 
much are they?  Twenty-five cents?  I’ll 
bet they ain’t  worth  fifteen.  You  shoe 
dealers always charge so for  everything 
Going  to  the  Baptist  supper  tonight' 
Bet you’d go if you saw  the angel food ] 
made for that supper!  Good-bye.”  And 
as 1 watched her pink  cambric  dress  go 
around the corner,  1  tried  to  think  of  a 
more suitable way of joining  the  angels 
than  by eating angel food. 
It  was  now 
after eleven o’clock  and  I  get  up,  pull 
down the shades,  go to  the  front  door— 
everything is  quiet  on  the  street,  save 
the rattle of the ’bus returning from  the 
eleven o’clock train.  1  go  to  the  back 
door,  look  into the alley,  then  beyond  to 
a vacant lot,  where I see three Sioux  In­
dians sitting in the  1  .xurious shadow  of 
a barbed wire  fence.  Gradually  I  hear 
the slow shuffle of feet, short quick breath­
ing,  and I  turn  to find an old  gentleman 
of perhaps sixty-five years, whose general 
appearance suggests  that I have  a  hard | 
customer  to  suit.  While  I  am  taking 
these  mental  photographs  of  him,  he 
breaks the silence in  an undertone by in-1 
forming me  that be wants  to  get  a  pair 
I  ask  him  his  size,  and  from j 
of shoes. 
his reply  and  the  single  glance  I  have 
given his feet, I think he has told me the 
truth.  1 start hauling  them  down,  and 
he glances carelessly at them until 1 have j 
showed  him  perhaps  a dozen  shoes.  He j 
then  picks up  a shoe, which I am certain 
never did  him  an  injury,  and commenced 
by  bending  in  the  counter  four  or five ¡ 
times.  He then glances at  me,  and  asks 
if that is a paper counter.  1 tell him  it’s |

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P a t e n t   I m p r 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.

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Amid the dullness of  business,  and  in 
striking contrast with the decline  in  the 
prices of stocks,  produce  and  merchan­
dise which has  occurred  since  the  col­
lapse of last summer,  the wages  of labor 
generally remain  unchanged. 
It  is  re­
markable,  too,  that while so many work­
ingmen and  working women are reported 
to  be suffering for want  of  employment, 
and liberal contributions  are  asked  for ! 
their relief,  others  are  voluntarily  giv­
ing up  work  in  order  to  compel  their 
employers either to increase  their wages 
or not to reduce them.

These facts do not  prove  the  absence 
of all real  suffering  among  the working 
people  from want  of  employment,  nor 
do they  render any  the  less  timely  the 
contributions for the relief  of  that  suf­
fering by  those who  are  able  to  make 
them.  What they do  show is,  however, 
that the number  of the employed  is still 
relatively great as compared  with that of 
the unemployed,  and  that,  in  spite  of 
the  depression  of  business,  there  is  a 
market  for  their  labor  which  gives  to 
strikes a possibility  of success.  On  the 
one hand,  the  mass  of  working  people 
cannot be in a state of utter  destitution, 
because if they  were none of  them could 
forego  the  smallest  pittance  of  wages 
offered them,  and,  on  the  other,  there 
must be something in  the  situation  from 
which they conclude  that  their  services 
are  of  more  value  to  their  employers 
than their  employers  are wilting  to  ac­
knowledge.

surplus 

Undoubtedly 

the  organization  and 
discipline of trades  unions  also  have  a 
powerful  effect  in  retarding,  at  least, 
the depressing influence  upon  the  mar­
ket  of  unemployed 
labor. 
Without  the  resistance  offered  by  the 
unions  one  man  out  of  work  might 
knock  down  the  wages  of  a  hundred, 
merely  by offering to take the place of one 
of that  hundred,  and  then  setting  that 
one to take the place of  another,  and  so 
on until all in turn  had  been  thrown out 
and  had come  back  at  a  lower  compen­
sation.  This competition the  unions  do 
not permit,  and thus a  small  surplus  of 
labor is deprived of its power in depress­
ing the value of the  whole.  Still,  if the 
surplus were  considerable,  it  could  not 
be  thus dealt with,  and  sooner  or  later 
the unemployed would  break  down  the 
barrier  artificially 
interposed  between 
them and  a  livelihood.  That  this  has 
not yet happened shows  that  the  num­
ber  of  unemployed  at  the  moment  is 
comparatively small.

That the  unions  will  persist  in  their 
policy  of  maintaining  wages  at  their 
present rates,  even at the cost  of assess­
ing their employed  members  for the sup­
port of the unemployed,  or  in  otherwise 
keeping them out  of  the  field,  is  to  be 
expected from the constitution of human 
nature. 
Everybody,  whether  he  has 
labor or the  products  of  labor  to  sell, 
likes high  prices,  and  correspondingly 
hates low prices.  Thus,  in  stock opera­
tions,  the multitude  buy  for  a  rise  and 
only a few are disposed to sell for  a fall. 
Hence,  too,  corners 
in  wheat,  pork, 
copper,  and  other  leading  articles  are 
frequently  attempted,  while  combina­
tions for maintaining the price of  sugar, 
whisky,  petroleum and coal have become 
permanently established and are increas­
ing in number.  Up  to  a  certain  point 
efforts  to  support  prices  by  artificial 
means  are  successful,  but  when  they 
get  beyond  it  they  break  down.  The

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4.  > 

A  1  A

fate of the copper  syndicate  of  1889  is 
an illustration  of  this  law,  and  nearly 
every  year  witnesses  the  collapse 
in 
obedience to it of corners in wheat,  pork, 
cotton,  and  other  agricultural  staples. 
So,  if the  corner  in  the 
labor  market 
produced by the efforts of  trades  unions 
pushes the wages  of  labor  much  above 
their  just  level,  it  will  sooner  or  later 
fail. 
It does not seem  to have done this 
as yet,  and therefore it continues.

Both those who  apparently  are  bene­
fited  by  the  high  price  of 
labor  and 
those  who think they  suffer by  it  forget 
that after all the  benefit  and  the  detri­
ment  are  more 
imaginary  than  real. 
The actual coin or paper that a  man  re­
ceives for his labor  he  can  neither  eat, 
drink,  wear, nor  enjoy  in  any  way  ex­
cept  by looking at it.  To  make it avail­
able for his  wants  he  must  exchange  it 
for  the  product  of  other  men’s  labor, 
and if they,  like  him,  get  high  wages, 
he has to pay  high prices  for what  they 
produce. 
If  we  called  cents  dollars 
or dollars cents the  actual  value  of  the 
money would  remain  the  same,  and so, 
if we  were  to  double wages  all  round, 
we should merely double the  cost  of  all 
commodities  and should be  no  better off 
than  we are.  As a matter  of  fact,  when 
wages  in  one  branch  of  industry  rise, 
they usually rise iu  all others,  and  when 
they fall in one they  fall  in  the  others. 
The  exceptions  are  due  to  exceptional 
over-supplies of  labor  in  particular  in­
dustries or to exceptional scarcities  of it, 
both of which tend to correct  themselves 
tad do not last long.

The result is  that,  no  matter what  the 
nominal  rate  of  wages  may  be,  every 
man who lives by  his labor  gets  in  arti­
cles  that he can make use  of  just  about 
what  that  labor  is  worth.  Only  those 
who are living  upon  incomes  for which 
they do not labor  suffer  by  high  wages, 
and  in  this  country  the  number  is  so 
small  as not to be worth considering.  A 
belief  is,  indeed, current  among  those 
who are not informed of the facts,  that a 
vast  multitude  of  our  fellow  citizens 
live in idleness upon  the labor of others, 
but it  is  destitute  of  foundation.  The 
number  among  us  of  possessors  of 
million of dollars and  upward  has  been 
discovered by the  most  careful  inquiry 
to be less than 5,000,  while  to those  who 
enjoy annual  incomes of $4,000 and more 
it is computed there  are  not  more  than 
85,000.  Most of these, too,  are not idlers 
but hard  workers.  They  are  capitalists 
engaged in  developing the natural wealth 
of the country,  and  thus  pro viding  em 
ployment  for  the  unemployed,  or  they 
are lawyers,  doctors,  authors,  artists  or 
high  grade  employes.  Obviously,  no 
matter  what  the  capitalist  pays  for 
labor,  he  adds the cost of it to  his  prod 
uct, and  the  earners  o f . the 
larger  inf, 
comes charge for  their  services  in  pro 
portion  to  the cost of living as  men  like 
them are entitled to live.

The real  strain  upon  wages will  come 
when the  productions  of  labor  in  thi 
country  exceed  the  demand  for  home 
consumption  and the excess has  to  seek 
a  foreign  market.  Then 
if  production 
in competing countries  is  cheaper  than 
it  is  here,  we  must  reduce  the cost  of 
our  products  to the  same  level,  and  un 
less this can  be done by  improved  proc 
esses it must be done by  reducing wages 
How foreign competition  affects  the  re­
muneration of our  laborers  is  exhibited 
very plainly  by the  price  of  our wheat. 
The  wheat  of  India,  Russia,  Australia

and Argentina  has  knocked  ours  down 
to  the  half  of  what  it  brought  a  few 
Fears ago,  and  the  prospect  is  that  it 
will fall still  lower.  The competition of 
Russian  petroleum has  affected  our  pe­
troleum,  both crude  and  refined,  in  the 
same manner,  though not to the same ex­
tent.  As yet our exports of the products 
of  mechanical  industries  are  compara­
tively  small,  showing  that we  consume 
most  of  them  ourselves,  but  the  time 
will come  when  the  home  market  for 
them  will  be insufficient,  and then  a  re­
adjustment of wages will  be  inevitable.

M a t t h e w   M a k s h a i.i ,.

A   Q u e stio n   o f  B a la n c e s.

The French-Canadians are  not  without 
a considerable sense of humor,  and  they 
highly  appreciate  the  following  story, 
told of a prosperous baker  in  a town  not 
far  from  Quebec:
The baker was  in  the  habit  of  buying 
his butter  in  pound  balls  or  rolls from 
farmer  with  whom  he  did  a  good 
deal  of  business.  Noticing  that  these 
looked  rather  small,  he 
butter-balls 
weighed them and  found  that  they  were 
all  under a pound in weight.
Thereupon he had the  farmer brought 
before the magistrate, and accused  of dis­
honest practices.
‘These butter-balls,” said  the judge to 
the farmer,  “certainly weigh  less  than  a 
pound.  Have you  auy scales?”

“I have,”  answered the farmer.
“And  have you  weights?”
“ No—no  w eights.”
“Then how can  you weigh your butter- 
balls?”
“That’s very simple,”  said the farmer. 
“While I’ve been selling  the  baker  but­
ter,  I’ve  been  buying  pound  loaves  of 
bread  from  him  and  I  use  them  for 
weights on my scales!”
The farmer was acquitted;  but,  as but­
ter  is  worth  more  by  the  pound  than 
bread,  he found  presently that  he  had  to 
provide  himself  with  iron  weights  for 
his scales,  in order to prevent  the  baker 
from  cheating him still.

J A V A   OIL,

RAW  A N D BOILED 

A  substitute  for  linseed,  and  sold  for 
much less  money.

adapted  to all  work  where  a  more  eco­
nomical  oil than  Linseed is desired.

Purely  Vegetable,
Free  From  Sediment.

has better body,  dries  nearly  as  quickly 
and with better  gloss  than  Linseed  Oil. 
Especially adapted to  priming  and  min­
eral  painting.

Tliia  Oil  is  a  Winner!

Try a sample can of five or  ten  gallons. 

Write for prices.

H. M.  REYNOLDS  &  SON.
B o o t  C a l k s —

GRAND RA PIDS, MICH

i
t l   P.

Ball  per thousand 
H eel  “ 

“ 
Order  Now.

- 

- 

$1  25
1  50

- 

H IR T H , K R A U S E  & CO.,

12  &  14  Lyon  St*,

GRAND  R A PIDS,  MICH.

M i c h i g a n  P e n t r a l

“  The Niagara Falls Route.”

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

»Daily.  All others daily, except Stinday. 

Arrive. 
Depart;
10 20 d  m...........Detroit  Express......... 7 00 a m
5 30am   
»Atlanticand  Pacific......li  20 pm
1  30 p m  ......New York Express  ........  5 40 p m
Sleeping cars  run on Atlantic  and  Pacific  ex­
press trains to and from Detroit.
Parlor  cars  leave  for  Detroit at  7 :0J a m;  re­
turning, leave Detroit 4 :55 p m, arriving at Grand 
Kajrids 10:20 p m.
Direct  communicatloN  made  at  Detroit  with 
all through  trains east  over  the  Michigan Cen 
tral Railroad (Canada Southern Division.)
A.  A m i  (¿c i s t , Ticket Agent,

Union Passenger Station.

CHICAGO

FEB.  11,  1894
AN D  WEST  MICHIGAN  R’i .
GOING  TO  CHICAGO.

TO  AND FROM   MUSKEGON.

T R A V ER SE  C IT T ,  CHARLEV O IX   AND  PE T O SK E T .

RETURNING  FROM  CHfCAGO.

Lv. G’d Rapids...  ...... 7:25am  1:25pm  *11:20pm
Ar. Chicago.................  1:25pm  6:50pm  *6:30am
Lv.  Chicago.................7:35am  4:55pm  »11:30pm
Ar. G’d Rapids............ 2:30pm  10:20pm  *6:10am
Lv. Grand Rapids.......  7:25am  1:25pm  5:45pm
Ar. Grand Rapids....... 10:55am  2:30pm  10:20pm
.........  
3:15pm
LiV.  Grand  Rapids .. 
7:30am 
Ar.  Manistee...........  12:20pm 
..........  8:15pm
Ar. Traverse City__  12:40pm 
..........  8:45pm
Ar. Charlevoix.......  
3:15pm 
..........  11:10pm
Ar.  Petoskey 
..  3:45pm  __ 7 ..  11:40pm
Arrive  from  Petoskey,  etc.,  1:00  p.  m.  and 
10:00 p. m.
Local train to White Cloud  leaves Grand Rap­
ids 5:45 p. m., connects  for  Big Rapids and Fre­
mont.  Returning,  arrives  Grand  Rapids  11:20 
a. m.
PA R L O R   AND  SL E E PIN G   CARS.
To Chicago, lv. G. R ..  7:25am  1:25pm  *11:30pm
To Petoskey,lv.G. R ..  7:30am  3:15pm 
...........
To G. R. .lv. Chicago.  7:35am  4:55pm *11:30pm
To G. R.. 1v. Petoskey  5:00am  1:30pm 
...........
»Every day.  Other trains week days only.
DETROIT,

FEB.  11,  1894
LANSING  &  NORTHERN  R.  R.
GOING  TO  DETROIT.

TO  AND  FROM   SA GINAW ,  ALMA  AND  ST.  LO U IS.

RETURNING  FROM  DETROIT.

Lv. Grand Rapids........7:00am  »1:20pm  5:25pm
Ar. Detroit.................. 11:40am  *5:30pm  10:10pm
Lv.  Detroit..................   7:4Uam *1:1  pm  6:00pm
Ar. Grand Rapids....... 12:40pm *5:t5pm  10:45pm
Lv. G R 7:40am 5:00pm  Ar. G R  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  A   HASTINGS  R .  R.

W AUKEE  Railway.
EASTW ARD.

•Every day.  Other trains  week days only.
GEO. DeUAVEN, Gen.  Pass’r Ag’t
D ETROIT,  GRAND  HAVEN  &  MIL­
Trai ns Leave
G’d  Rapids,  Lv
Ionia...........Ar
St.  Johns  ...Ar
Owosso....... Ar
E.  Saginaw.. Ar
Bay City......Ar
F lin t...........Ar
Pt.  Huron...Ar
Pontiac....... Ar
Detroit.........Ar

tNo.  14
6 45am
7 40am
8 25am
9 00am
10 50am
11 32am
10 05am
12 05pm
10 53am
11 50am
W ESTW ARD.

10 20am
11 25am 
1217pm
1  20pm
3 45pm
4 35pm
3 45pm
5 50pm 
305pm
4 05pm

3 25pm
4 27pm
5 20pm 
o 05pm 
8 00pm 
8 37pm
7 05pm 
850pm
8 25pm
9 25pm

10 45pm 
12 27am
1 45am
2 40am
6 40am
7 15am 
5 4  am 
730am 
537am 
7 00am

Trains Leave

tNo. 11 I tNo. 13.
G’d Rapids............  Lv  7 00am  1  00pm I  4 55pm
G’d  Haven............   Ar  8 20am  2  10pm|  6 00pm

»Daily.

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

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

J a s .  C a m p b e l l . City T'cket Agent.

G ra n d   R a p id s  & In d ia n a .

TRA INS  GOING  N O RTH .

Leave going 
North.
F o r  T r a v e r s e  C ity ,  M a c k in a w  C ity   a n d  S a g . . .  7.40 a  m
For  T r a v e r s e   C ity  a n d  M a c k in a w   C i t y .............4:00 p   -n
For  Saginaw ...........................................................5:00pm

TRA INS  GOING  SO U TH .

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

C h ic ag o  v ia  G.  R.  & I. R.  R.

Lv Grand Rapids......................... 12:05 pm  
Arr  Chicago..................................5:30 pm  

11:20 pm
7:40 am
12  On p  m  train  solid  with  Wagner  Buffet  Parlor
11:20 pm   train  daily,  through  coach  and  Wagner 

6:50am  
2:15 p m  

1:00pm 
9:15 p m  

9:35pm
7:25 a m

4:00  p  m solid with  Wagner  Buffet  Parlor  Car  and 
9:35 p m  train daily, through Coach and 

Sleeping Car.
Lt  Chicago 
Arr Grand Rapids 
Dining Car. 
Wagner Sleeping  Car.
For Muskegon—Leave. 

M uskegon, Grand  Rapids & Indiana.
9:40am
7:35  am  
6:40  p m 
6:20 p m
O. L. LOCKWOOD,

From Muskegon—Arrive

General Passenger and Ticket Agent.

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THE  M T C a E H G L A J S T   TRA DESMAN.

M ICHIG A N   K N IG H T S  O F  T H E   G R IP.

President-
Secretary-
Treasurer-

-E. P. Waldron, St. Johns.
-L. M.  Mills, Grand  Rapids. 
-Geo. A. Reynolds, Saginaw.

Q U A RT ER LY   M EET IN G

K n ig h ts   o f  th e   G rip .

Of  th e   B o a rd   o f  D ire c to rs ,  M ich ig an  
Grand  Ra pid s,  March  5—1  herewith 
submit  a  report  of  the  proceedings  of 
the  regular  quarterly  meeting  of  the 
Board  of  Directors  of 
the  Michigan 
Knights of  the  Grip,  held  at  Lansing, 
Saturday,  March 3.
The meeting was called to order  at  10 
o’clock by President  Waldron.  Present 
Directors  Bardeen,  Peake,  Jacklin  and 
Owen.  Absent,  Directors  Cook  and 
Streat.
The applications of J.  T.  Flaherty,  L. 
F.  Clark, C. N.  Wiune  and  Walter  R 
Sax by were  presented and accepted.
Moved and supported,  that the  date  of 
our  annual convention  at  Grand  Ranidi 
be changed from  Thursday  and  Friday 
Dec.  27  and  28,  to  Wednesday 
and 
Thursday,  Dec. 26 and 27.  Carried.
Moved and  supported  that  we  recon 
sider the action of  the  last  meeting,  re 
garding  the  Michigan  Railroad  Guide 
Carried.
H.  F.  Moeller,  chairman  of  the  Rail 
way  Committee,  presented  a  report  of 
his investigation of this matter,  made  at 
the request of the  President,  which  was 
accepted and filed.  The purport to of the 
report was that E.  E.  Stanton had obtain 
ed  official recognition for his guide  from 
the Association  by false representations 
as his publication was in  no  respect  of­
ficially  recognized by the Railway  Asso 
ciation of Michigan.
Moved and supported  that  the  action 
of last meeting,  endorsing  the  Michigan 
Railway Guide be hereby  rescinded,  and 
the Secretary  be instructed  to notify the 
publishers of this action.  Carried.
Charges having been preferred  against 
a  member  for  embezzlement  from  hi 
employer, the  Secretary  was  instructed 
to notify the  accused  to  appear  before 
the  Board at  the  next  meeting,  to  an 
swer to such charge.
The resignation  of  Director  Chas.  E 
Cook,  as an officer and member,  was  pre 
sented and accepted  and J.  W.  Califf,  of 
Bay City,  was elected  to  till  vacancy  on 
the board.
A blank form of voucher  and  receipt 
to be  issued  in  payment  of  our  death 
benefits,  was  submitted by Ex-President 
Jones,  per request of the last board,  and 
was accepted and 200 copies were ordered 
printed.
The Secretary was  instructed  to  con 
tinue the membership of  J.  Y.  Sine 
long as the dues  and  assessments  were 
paid.
A  communication  was  received  from 
Ex-Secretary McCauley,  accompanied  by 
a  bill  for  services  and 
commissions 
claimed to  be due  him,  and  still unpaid 
which was  laid  upon  the  table,  all  the 
board  present  voting  in  the  affirmative 
except K. W.  Jacklin.
The President appointed the following 
as  a Finance  Committte  for the  ensuing 
year:  A.  F.  Peake,  R.  W.  Jacklin  and 
F.  R.  Streat.
The following report of  the  secretary 
was read,  approved,  the financial  portion 
being referred  to  finance  committee: 
submit herewith  rpy report  as  Secretary 
of  this  Association  for  the  term  of 
days,  from  Dec.  26,  1893,  to Feb. 28,1894 
inclusive:
As soon  as  possible  after  our  annual 
convention  at  Saginaw,  as  per  lnstruc 
tions  of  the  Board  of  1893,  1  mailed 
notice of death assessment No.  1 for 1894, 
dated  Jan.  10,  and  closing  March  10,  to 
each of our  1,573  members  subject  to 
such  assessment,  and  enclosed  with 
same a circular letter from our president, 
a copy  of the amended  constitution  and 
by-laws,  a new application  blank,  a  re­
turn envelope and  a  special  circular  of

to 

telephone 

On Dec.  13 l  received  a 

the Michigan  Railway Guide.  About 400 t tificate of good health from  all  members 
of these letters were placed  in  the  mail j that  apply  for  re-instatement,  which I 
before 1 was aware that they  were  over-; will  require  in the future.
in  several  applications  since 
eight,  consequently that number of our !  Delay 
members were obliged to  pay 2 cents  ex-  Dec.  26 was caused by their having been 
tra postage.  On the remaining 1,175 full  made upon old blanks, or not being prop- 
erly endorsed or filled  out,  necessitating
postage of 4 cents  was prepaid. 
1 also  ordered  the  necessary  printed  their  being  returned 
applicants.
Since  Dec.  26 I  have  received  a  New 
tationery and  supplies  for  the  officers 
York  draft  from  the  Peoples’ Savings 
and mailed and expressed prepaid a  lim­
bank at Detroit, for 81,  in  payment of as­
ited amount to each  one  entitled  to  the 
sessment No.  1,  with  an  unfilled  remit­
same.  1 have also procured,  as directed, 
tance  blank  enclosed. 
I am unable to 
new membership  book,  upon  which  1 
learn the name of the purchaser from the 
have spent much time and thought in the 
bank. 
I  have  also  received two other 
arrangement,  so it  will show at a  glance 
letters with 81  currency  enclosed,  from 
the entire record  and  standing  of  each 
Michigan  and  Ohio,  with  no name en­
member,  and 1  trust  that  its  complete­
closed,  which,  with three received before 
ness and simplicity  may  meet  your  ap­
the convention,  makes a total  of  86  un­
proval.
claimed. 
I would suggest that a circular 
1  have,  as  promised  the  convention, 
letter be mailed  each  delinquent  mem­
placed  a 
in  my  residence, 
ber, calling his attention to the dues and 
which is connected with  the  State  line.
assessments  unpaid,  and  also  to  the 
On Feb.  12  an  order  was  drawn  on 
present prosperous condition  of  this  or­
Treasurer Reynolds for 8500 in  favor  of 
der,  and urging him  to  remit  and  con­
Miss Maud Sutherland,  sister and benefi­
tinue his  membership,  as I believe  most 
ciary of our deceased brother,  Angus  M. 
of the delinquents are  through  careless­
Sutherland, of Detroit,  which claim  was 
ness or forgetfulness,  as very  few  desire 
allowed at the Board meeting of Dec.  26. 
to intentionally drop out.
The claim of Mrs.  Ella G.  Scott,  of  Fen­
A peculiar  case  is  presented for your 
ton.  beneficiary of R.  T.  Scott,  deceased, 
action.  A member,  J.  Y.  Sine,  of Clare, 
is  still before this Board for action,  and 
who joined May 3,  1893,  and whose  dues, 
1 submit  letters from attorneys  of  both 
since my term  of  office,  have been remit­
claimants’
ted  by his wife, soon after her remittance 
letter  signed 
of assessment  No. 5, and’94 dues,  wrote 
John G.  Riley,  Garo,  Mich.,  asking  the 
a letter  tendering  his  resignation  as a 
amount of his dues owing to this associa 
member, to take immediate  effect. 
1 at 
tion.  By referring  to  the  old  books  1 
once  wrote him.  asking  his reasons for 
found that he had  joined  in  Nov.,  1881, 
his action,  and  received  no reply.  A few 
and had paid death assessment No.  1  for 
days 
later  his  wife called at my office, 
1892, and was delinquent  for all succeed­
desiring  to  continue  his membership  at 
ing dues and assessments and wrote  him 
her  expense,  as  the  husband  had  in­
to that effect,  but that he would  be re-in­
tended  to  take  this  benefit from  her.
stated by order of the Board  of Directors 
I  also  regret to inform you of the resig­
upon the payment of 1894 dues and death 
nation  of  director  Charles  E.  Cook,  of 
assessment No.  5 of 1893,  or  a  total  of 
Bay  City,  as  an  officer  and  member  of 
82.  On January  12,  I  received  a  letter 
this association.
signed “John Riley,  his  father,”  enclos­
The  total  receipts of the  general  fund 
ing an express order for  82  to  pay  dues 
have  been  81,087.78  and  the  disburse 
of John C.  Riley as per my letter of  Dec. 
13.  and wishing to know to whom  his  in­
leaving  a  balance  on 
ments  8762.25; 
surance was  payable,  as  he  was  buried 
hand  of  8325.53.
the day before.  On the same day  in  the 
The  death  fund  shows  total  receipts 
of  81,242.25  and  one  disbursement  of 
afternoon mail 1 received a letter, enclos­
ing an express order for 83,  in  payment 
8500—the  Sutherland  claim—leaving  a 
of dues of John G.  Riley  and  assessment 
balance  on  hand  of 8742.25.
The  secretary was  instructed  to  mail 
No.  1 that she learned  had  been  issued 
a  second  and 
last  notice  to  all  delin 
since my letter of Dec.  13,  and  requested 
quents  in  a  sealed  letter,  ten  days  pre 
me to mail her blanks for proofs of death, 
as she regretted to say that  her  husband 
vious  to  the  expiration of  the  time  for 
was buried  the day  previous.  This  let­
paying  same.
The  secretary  and  treasurer  were  in 
ter was signed “Mrs.  John C.  Riley.”  I 
file  new  bonds  with  the 
structed  to 
immediately endorsed the orders and  re­
turned them to the senders’  stating  that 
president.
The  secretary  was  inrtructed  to  draw 
as Mr.  Riley bad been delinquent so long, 
an  order  on  the  treasurer  for  8500  in 
1 considered he  bad no  claim  upon  our 
Association,  and it  would  be  unjust  to 
favor  of  the  joint  heirs  of  R.  T.  Scott 
our  members to reinstate him  after  his 
deceased.
death.  1 forwarded a full  report  to our 
The  secretary  was  instructed  to  draw 
President,  who  personally  investigated 
an  order  for 8500  in  favor  of  Mrs.  Gar 
the merits of  the  claim,  and  endorsed 
rie McIntyre  as  soon  as  proof  of her ap 
my action in the  matter.
pointment  as  administratrix  is  filed  in 
Proofs of the death of Bro.  Charles  G. 
this  office.
McIntyre,  No.  635,  of  Traverse  City, 
The board  then  adjourned,  to  meet  at 
of pneumonia,  after  an  illness  of  only 
the  same  place June  2.
five days,  have been  forwarded  me  and 
At  a  meeting of  the  finance  commit 
tee the  accounts  of  the  Secretary  and 
are  presented  for  your  action.  No 
beneficiary was named in his application, 
Treasurer  were  audited  and  approved 
and 
instructed  to 
as he joined before our death benefit fea­
draw  orders  for  the  payment of  current 
ture was  added  and  his  wife  has  filed 
claim for benefit.  This is the first  death 
bills.
The following hotels  have  been  added 
for  which  proofs have  been  filed  since 
to  our  hotel  list:
Jan. 1  as against  four  filed  during  the 
The  Wierengo,  Muskegon.
same period  of  1893,  which  encourages 
Eggleston  House,  Flushing.
us in  the belief that our losses by  death, 
and consequent assessments for the ensu 
Lockwood’s  Exchange,  Fowlerville.
ing year,  will be much less than  for  the 
Miller  House,  Carson City.
Exchange,  Caro.
past year.
Hotel  Hodges,  Pontiac.

Many  of  our  members  have  entirely 
ignored or  overlooked  the  annual  dues 
for 1894,  a notice of  which  was  mailed 
every  member in  good standing Dec.  1, 
1893,  in the same enclosure as the  notice 
of and 
invitation  to our annual  conven­
tion at Saginaw,  and have  remitted only 
81  in response to death assessment No.  1, 
regardless of the fact that I had  printed 
at the bottom of the notice in bold  type a 
reminder of these dues.  For  this reason 
we have been obliged to apply  their  re­
mittance of assessment  No.  1 on annual 
dues  of  1894, and write them a letter in 
explanation,  and  ask  them  to  remit 81 
more for assesment  No.  1.
This  has  necessitated  the writing of 
over 300 such letters.
The  experience  in  the Riley case has
shown the  necessity  of  requiring a cer-1 est.  No change  for the week.

is  unchanged 
Prices  can  hardly  go  lower  and  leave 
anything  for anybody.  Tanners can not 
force them any  lower, and dealers can not 
raise them auy or tanners  will  not  take 
them.

Pelts—Without change.
Furs—The Loudon sales for March  be 
gan Monday.  What effect they will have 
on  future  prices  cannot  be  predicted
and the result will be awaited  with inter- 

Hides,  Pelts  and  Furs.

Hides—The  situation 

the  secretary  was 

L.  M.  Mills,  Sec’y.

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CANDIES, FRUITS and  NUTS.

The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows:

STICK  CANDY.

Cases 
Standard,  per  lb........................  
“  H. H............................... 
Twist  .......................... 
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Boston Cream.................  8)4
Cut  Loaf.........................
Extra H.  H......................  814

Bbls.

Palls.
7
6
6
6
814

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MIXED  CANDY. Bbls. 
Standard....................................... 5)4 
Leader...........................................5)4 
Royal............................................ 6)4 
Nobby........................................... 7 
English  Rock...............................7 
Conserves.....................................7 
Broken Taffy.................... baskets 
Peanut Squares................. 
French Creams........................................ 
Valley  Creams....................................... 
Midget, 30 lb. baskets.....................................   8)4
Modern, 30 lb ..  “ 

Pails.
6)4
6)4
7)4
8
8
8
8
8)4

fancy—In bulk

fancy—In 5 lb. boxes. 

.......................................  8
Palls.
Lozenges, plain.............................................  8)4
printed..........................................  9)4
Chocolate Drops.............................................  12
Chocolate Monumentals...............................  12)4
Gum Drops.....................................................  5
Moss Drops.....................................................  7)4
Sour Drops.....................................................  8)4
Imperials........................................................  10
Per Box
Lemon Drops................................................... 50
Sour Drops.......................................................50
Peppermint Drops............................................60
Chocolate Drops...............................................75
H. M. Chocolate Drops....................................80
Gum Drops...................................................... 40
Licorice Drops....................................................1 00
A. B. Licorice  Drops....................................... 80
Lozenges, plain..................................... 
 
printed............................................65
Imperials..........................................................60
Mottoes.............................................................70
Cream Bar........................................................ 55
Molasses Bar................................................... 55
Hand Made  Creams.................................. 85@96
Plain Creams....................................................80
Decorated Creams............................................90
String  Rock.....................................................60
Burnt Almonds..................................................1 00
Wlntergreen Berries.......................................60
No. 1, wrapped, 2 lb.  boxes.........................  34
No. 1, 
 
No. 2, 
 
Floridas,  126......................................................  2 50
150-176 ..........................................  2 75
Californlas, 250-288 St.  Michaels..................   3 00
80-96-112  Navels  .......................  2 25
126-150-176 
126 Riverside Seedlings.............  2 50
150 
126-200-216-226 

 
 
Small........................................................... 
Large.........................................................  
Extra choice 300 .............................................  3 50
Extra choice 360................................................  3 25
Extra fancy 300..................................................  4 00
Extra fancy 360 ..............................................  4 00
Figs, fancy  layers, 81b..............................  @12)4

OTHBB  FOREIGN  FBUITB.
209:.................. 
141b............................   @15
Dates, Fard, 10- lb.  box ............................  @7
“  50-lb.  “  ..........................   @5)4

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CARAMELS.

Persian, 50-lb.  box..................... 

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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............ .
Cocoanuts, full sacks...........
P E A N U T S.
Fancy, H.  P.,Suus................
“  Roasted....
Fancy, H.  P„ Flags..............
“  Roasted...
Choice, H. P.,  Extras...........
“  Roasted.

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2 50
1 50
2 50

 

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@16
@15
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@11
@13
@10
@12
@12 
@11 
@  7)4
1  25 
4 00
@  5 
@ 6)4 
@ 5 
@  6)4 @ 4 
@ 5)4

OILS.

B A R B E L S.

The  Standard Oil  Co.  quotes  as  follows:

Eocene................................................... 
8)4
XXX  W.  W. Mich.  Headlight.............. 
7
Naptha...................................................  @ 6)4
Stove Gasoline.......................................  @ 7M
Cylinder...............................................27  @86
E ngine............... ............... ................. 13  @21
Black, 15 cold  test................................   @  8M
Eocene..................................................  
7
XXX  W. W.  Mich.  Headlight.............  
5

FB O X   TANK  WAGON.

POULTRY.
Local dealers pay as follows:

L IV E .

DRAWN.

.  8 @ 8)4
Turkeys..................................................8
Chickens.................................................  7
7 @ 8
Fowls.......... ...............................   ........6
6 @ 6)4
8 @  9
Ducks.....................................................   8
.  8 ® 9
Geese..........................................
.10 @11
Turkeys.................................................. 10
10 @11
Chickens................................................10
9 @10
Fowl.....................................................  9
10 @11
Ducks.....................................................10
10 @12
Geese...........................................
9 @  9)4
Turkeys...................................................  9  _
Chickens.................................................   7)4@ 8
7)4®  8
Fowls.................................................  0)4© r
0)4®  7
8
Ducks......................................................  8
8 (&  9
Geese...........................................

UNDRAWN.

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Groceries and Provisions.

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

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Butcher’s, Tierces........................................................................  10|
Choice  P ure................................................................................... 
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Grackers  and  Fine  Sweet  Good.

C O . ’ S

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.

The  Continued  Patronage  of  the  Oldest  Established  Grocery 

Houses  in  the  State  is  our  BEST  TESTIMONIAL.

OUR  GOODS  ARE  ALWAYS  IN  DEMAND,  AND  NO  WELL  APPOINTED 

GROCERY  STOCK  IS  COMPLETE  WITHOUT  A  FULL  LINE.

SEND  IN  A  TRIAL  ORDER  AND  BE  CONVINCED.

WESTERN  MICHIGAN  AGENTS  FOR

G.  H.  HAMMOND  CO'S  SUPERIOR  BOTTERINE.
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We  also  take  Orders  for  the  Celebrated  KENNEDY  BISCUIT, 

made  at  our  Chicago  Factory.

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

GRAND  R A P ID S ,  MICH.

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

If Yon  V ail  Good,  Lilli,  Sweet  Bread  and  B in t,
FERMENTUM
COMPRESSED  YEAST
TheFermenlDm Gompany

SOLD  BY  ALL  FIRST-CLASS  GROCERS

MANUFACTURED  BY

MAIN  OFFICE:

CHICAGO,  270  KINZIE  STREET.

MICHIGAN  AGENCY:

GRAND  RAPIDS,  106  KENT  STREET.

Address  all  communications  to  THE  FERMENTUM  CO.

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18 ft  DOLLftR  WORTH  SftlllNG?

RUN  ONE?

TRADESHAN  COMPANY,  g r a n d  r a p id s,  m ic h.

If  so,  and  yon  are  endeavoring  to  get  along  without  using  our  improved  Coupon  Book  system,  you  are  making  a 
most  serious  mistake.  We  were  the  originators of  the  coupon  book  plan  and  are  the largest manufacturers of these 
books  in  the  countrv,  having  special  machinery  for  every  branch  of the  business.  SAMPLES  FREE.

WE  THINK  IT IS,  and

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C rock ery an d   G la ssw a re Stock.
W H Y ?

W e   are  in  a  position  to  offer  you a n y fch.ng  you  m a y   w a n t   in  either 
Domestic  or  Imported  P O T T E R Y ,   at  the  lowest  m a r k e t   prices,  and 
being  nearer  you  the  freight  rates  are  less.  W e   are also  right  h a n d y  

l^arge Assortment  of Toilet Sets 

Always on  Hand.

BECAUSE

if you  w a n t  to  m atch  up

O U R   L E A D I N G   P A T T E R N S   IN  D I N N E R   S E T S   A R E :

P R E F E C T O   M AY 
H ED G ER O W  
P E N C IL   ROSE D A D E  
D O V E  S P R A Y  
P E N C IL   A D R  AIN 
B R O W N   ROCCO

Johnson  Bros. 
John  Edwards. 
Johnson  Bros. 
Alfred  Meakins. 
Doulton  &  Co. 
Dunn,  Bennett  &  Co.

SPECIAL,

Having  decided  to  close  out  three  of  our  Stock  Patterns,  we 
are  offering  them  at  greatly  reduced  prices. 
If  this  interests 
you  please  write  us  for  our  Special  Dinner  Ware  Price  or ask 
our  Agents  when  they  call  on  you.

Western  Agents  for  Alfred  Meakin’s  Celebrated  White  Granita  and  Lustre  Band.

H .  L E O N A R D   &  

BY THE WAY  write us for Quotations on Fruit Jars when you  are  in the market.

,  G ra n d   R a p id s , 

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M E R I T   IS  E S S E N T I A L

to successful  sale of  goods.  Consumers have a habit of determining 
whether  an  article  of  food  is  pure,  wholesome,  reliable,  convenient 
and  economical.

Borden’s  Peerless Brand  Evaporated Cream
possesses intrinsic merit, with all the above qualifications.  We recom­
mend it,  and you  are  safe  in  doing the  same. 
It  is  rich  and  whole­
some  Milk, condensed, with  its  entire  proportion of Cream,  and  with­
out sweetening. 
Its keeping quality is assured by perfect processing. 
People who like to  use an  unsweetened preserved  Milk  are  learning 
of  its merits,  and will want it.

SOLD EVERYWHERE. 

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

