YO L.  11. 

G R A N D   R A P ID S ,  M A R C H   14,  1894. 

NO .  547

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

U n i t e d   S t a t b s   B a k i n g   C o ., 

CRACKERS,  BISCUITS,  CAKES.

O rig in a to rs  o f  th e  C elebrated  C ake,  “M U SK E G O N   B R A N C H .’

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

________________________________________________ MUSKEGON,  MICH.

W H O LE SA LE   D EA LER S 
IN 
AND  M AN U FACTUR ER S  OF

A  Full  Line  of

Confectionery,

Extensive  Handlers Of

FOREIGN  NUTS,
DATES,  FIGS,  ETC.

THE  PUTNAM  CANDY  COHPANY.

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

GRAND  RAPIDS 

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

MICH.

MANUFACTUR 

O nr  flood,  are  .old  by  »11  Michigan  Jobbing  Honsea.

Before jou puiciiaae,  wait and see our Spring bine of the Latest Styles in Fine and 
Please Send Us Your Mail Orders. 
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First Grade Goods,  which are Unexcelled.

•» and 7 Pearl Street,  Grand Rapids, Mich.

MOSBBBY  BROS.,

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Seeds, Beans, Fruits and Produce.

.  JO BBERS  OF 

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

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C A N D Y .

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OF

OYSTERS.

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Prints,
Outings,
Percales,

WASH  GINGHAMS,  INDIGO  WIDE  PRINTS,  SATINES  (In  plain  biack 
and fancies),  COTTONS,  COTTON. FLANNELS  and  STAPLE  GINGHAMS 
(both  Amoskeag and  Lancaster), at  low  prices.  SAMPLES  SENT ON  AP­
PLICATION.

S tek etee &
jP. 
To Clothing  Merchants.—  

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

See  our  splendid 

Write our Michigan agent,  WM.  CONNOR,  box 346,  Marshall,  Mich.,  to  call 
upon  you  at  any  time,  or  meet  him  at  Sweet’s Hotel, Grand Rapids,  Mich., on 
Thursday and Friday,  March 8th and 9th.  Customer’s expenses allowed.  Mail or­
ders promptly attended to.  E s ta b lis h e d   37  y e a rs .

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ROCHESTER,  N.  Y.

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Dry  Goods, Carpets and Cloaks,

W e  Make a Specialty of  Blankets, Quilts and  Live 

Geese  Feathers.

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

OVERALLS  OF  OUR  OWN  MANUFACTURE.

Voigl, Irplslm er & Co.,48> S a i l   r S
P E R K I N S   &  H E S S ,

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Hides, Furs, Wool  & Tallow,

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

WE CARRY A  STOCK OF  CAKE  TALLOW FOB  MILL USE.

H.  E.  GRAND -GIRARD

Grand-Girard  &  Co. 

BELDEN  REAGAN,  M.  D.

M a n u f a c t u r i n g  

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

DRUG  STOCKS  BOUGHT  AND  SOLD. 

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PORTER  BLOCK,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

DRUG  CLERK’S  EMPLOYMENT BUREAU;
Promptness  Assured.

Correspondence  Solicited. 

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

THE:  PUTNAM  :  GANDY:  CO.
FLORIDA  ORANGES

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

Tun RUTNA M  CANDY C O .
Spring & Company,

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

Wholesale  Grocers

Grand  Rapids.

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

Manilfaotilrors  of  Show  Cases  of  Every  Deseriptio

FIRST-CLASS  WORK  ONLY.

0 8   a n d   6 8   C an al  St.,  G rand  R a p id s,  M ich,

WRITE  FOR  PRICES.

STANDARD  OIL  CO.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.

DEALERS  i n

IHummating and Lubricating

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IMPORTERS  AND  WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

R ib b o n s, 

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

W e  invite  the  attention  of  the  trade  to  our  complete  and  well 

assorted  stock  at  lowest  market  prices.

Spring & Company.

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NAPTHA  AND  GASOLINES.

UHce, Hawkins Block. 

Works, Butterworth At#

RAND RAPID' 
JIG RAPIDS, 
OU6AN,

BULK  WORK3  AT

MUSKEGON, 
GRAND HAVEN,
HOWARD  CITY, 

MANISTEE,
PETOSKEY,

CADILLAC,
LUDINGTON.

ÎCÏGHEST  PRICE  PAID  FOR

SMPTY  CARBON  It  GASOLINE  BARRELS

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G R A N D   R A P ID S ,  W E D N E S D A Y ,  M A R C H   14,  1894.

N O .  547

Buy  Direct  of  the  Manufacturers.

ARTHUR  G.  GRAHAM,
PAPER,  TWINES,  ROPE.

rianufacturers’  Agent.

3 Canal  Street.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Samples and Prices on  application.

HATCH  &  WILSON,

'  L a w y e r s ,

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¡¡jus 23,24, 
*  WiddicomD Building,
,  e do a general law business  throughout  West 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

ern Michigan.  Refer to any Bank or 

Judge in  the city.

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Offices In the principal cities of the United 
'  estates,  Canada,  the  European  continent,
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Safes,  etc.  This  is  the best opening in 
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the city are operated by the  Trust.  For 
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THE  REDUCTION  IN  WAGES. 

W ritten fo r The Tradesman.

From  all  parts  of  the  country come 
reports  of  sweeping  reductions  being 
made in  the  wages  of  working  people. 
This means, of  course,  a  curtailment  of 
purchasing  power  and  a  consequent 
falling off in the demand for  such  goods 
as  working  people  have  been  in  the 
habit of buying,  not so much of  the nec­
essaries of life, which they must  have in 
any event,  but  of  the  luxuries  and  re­
finements—the  things  which  constitute 
the visible evidences of American  civili­
zation. 
In this connection it is pertinent 
and  timely  to  enquire  whether  the  re­
duced wages are to be considered  a  per­
manency,  for,  if so,  then the  great  body 
of the American  people  must  make  up 
their  minds to dispense  with much  that 
has contributed to render American home 
life peculiarly  attractive,  the American 
working  man  the  most  Intelligent  and 
the  most  skillful 
the  world,  and 
American civilization the most  elevating 
and most  comprehensive  in  the  history 
of mankind.

in 

Before we can conclude as  to the  per­
manency or otherwise of the  present  re­
duced wages, we must inquire the reason 
why wages in this country  are  so  much 
higher than in any other part of  the civ­
ilized  world.  Knowing  this,  we  will 
know,  also,  why  American  working 
people  are  surrounded  by  so  many 
of  the  comforts  and  luxuries  of  life 
while their brethren  of  other  countries 
are still living in a semi-barbarous state, 
possessing  only  enough  knowledge  to 
enable them to supply their mere animal 
wants, with  few  aspirations  after  any­
thing higher. 
It  is  often  asserted  that 
trades and labor organizations are  to  be 
given  credit  for  bringing  wages  up  to 
the altitude which they have  attained  in 
this country.  That  they  have  agitated 
for higher wages is  certain,  but  even  if 
they have succeeded in  forcing  employ­
ers to pay more for  labor,  they could  be 
considered merely as a  secondary  cause. 
Labor  organizations  are  not  even  the 
seconda  y cause of high  wages, but have 
stood as an  obstacle  in  the  path  of  ad­
vancing 
refinement. 
The methods by which they have  sought 
to enforce their demands  have  been  the 
reverse of humanizing in their  tendency 
and effects.  The  use  of  physical  force 
(the  chief  weapon  of  labor  organiza­
tions) no matter what its  justification,  is 
a  relic  of  barbarism  and  betokens  the 
lingering savagery of  our  nature.  Any 
resort  to  force,  even  when  apparently 
dictated  by  necessity,  is  retrogression. 
Reason,  enlightened  by  the  experience 
of the  past,  has  discarded  force  as  de­
structive  of  the  elements  of  progress, 
and has  sought  for  some  better  means 
for the settlement  of  disputes,  whether 
between man  and man,  or nation and na­
tion,  and that individual, or  that organi­
zation, or  that  nation  which  resorts to 
force will find itself opposed  to  all  that 
goes to make up the sum of  human  pro­
gress.  That  labor  organizations  have, 
in some  instances,  succeeded  in  having

intelligence  and 

the  wages of a certain  class of  working­
men  “raised”  is  readily  admitted,  but 
it is equally true that the  financial  loss, 
to speak of no other,  has  generally been 
greater  than  the  gain.  The  time  lost, 
the  money  expended, and,  in  many  in­
stances, 
the  property  destroyed  have 
more than offset the gain from  increased 
wages,  and the  brutalizing  effect  of  the 
methods employed time can hardly efface. 
Viewed  from  the  standpoint  of  reason 
and human progress labor  organizations 
must  be  accounted  a  failure,  and  they 
certainly cannot be given  the  credit  for 
raising wages to the present  high  stand­
ard.

Nor does the credit for high wages  be­
long to the employers of  labor.  Though 
there are exceptions,  yet it  is  true  that, 
as a  class,  they  have  persistently  and 
determinedly opposed higher wages,  and 
have only granted an increase when they 
It  is  not 
could  no  longer  refuse  it. 
meant by this  that  they  have  given 
it 
grudgingly; far  from  it.  The  same  in­
fluence,  the  same  force  that  made  in­
creased purchasing power a necessity for 
all the people,  led employers  at  least  to 
recognize that necessity,  and  meet  it by 
increased  wages to their employes.

What,  then,  has caused the great differ­
ence  in  wages  in  favor  of  American 
working people as against their less  for­
tunate  brethren 
in  older  countries? 
How is the fact that the laboring  classes 
in this country are  surrounded  by  com­
forts  and luxuries,  which belong  only to 
the rich in other countries,  to be account­
ed for? 
It is due  to the greater advance­
ment which this country has made in civ­
ilization  and  the  arts  of  peace.  The 
farther the race progresses from the bar­
barism of the past  and the  more  intelli­
gent  and  enlightened  it  becomes, 
the 
more complex will its social and political 
life become; more and  more  will  it  lay 
tribute upon both nature and art to  sup­
ply its ever  increasing  necessities.  Not 
only so,  but as its intellectual life broad­
ens and deepens,  the  animalism  of 
the 
past will not suffice it,  and rudeness  and 
barbarity must give place to  luxury  and 
refinement.  ADd here it  must  be  noted 
that only in a country where all men  are 
politically free and equal can the highest 
civilization  be  developed.  The  possi­
bility of political preferment  is  a  great 
spur to ambition,  but in a country where 
the  political offices are  held by  a  privi­
leged few  there can be no such spur. 
In 
America the humblest citizen may aspire 
to the  highest  position,  the  attainment 
of  his  aspirations  depending  upon  his 
character  and 
intelligence.  He  must 
have knowledge,  for knowledge is power, 
and  with it he may achieve bis ambitious 
desires.  As all the offices are open to all 
the people,  all demand  the  privilege  of 
fitting themrelves  for  the  offices.  This 
makes educational  facilities  an  absolute 
necessity,  and so we have in this country 
the most complete  aud  cheapest  educa­
tional  system in  the world.  As a conse­
quence no people in  the world have  ever 
reached as high a plane of intellectuality 
and refinement as the  American  people.

Books,  and magazines,  and papers,  and 
will, even  luxuriously,  furnished  homes 
are the  possession  of  all 
the  people. 
Comforts and  conveniences  abound  aud 
all that goes to make life well  worth  the 
living.  But  these  things  cost  money; 
they would have been  utterly out  of  the 
question  with  wages  where  they  were 
even fifty years ago.  An increased  pur­
chasing power was,  therefore,  an  abso­
lute necessity, and  almost  without  con­
scious volition on  the part  of  the recipi­
ents  of  the  benefit,  wages  have  been 
keeping  pace  with  civilization  and  en­
abling the people to  make  provision  for 
their ever-increasing wants.  Here,  then, 
is the reason for the  high  figures  which 
wages have  reached in this country.

But wages  have  been  materially  re­
duced  in many  sections,  and  fears  are 
expressed that the reduction  may become 
universal. 
In  view of this,  the question 
is asked, will the reduction be permanent, 
or may it be expected that  wages  will  be 
raised again  when  times  improve?  It  is 
utterly impossible that low wages should 
ever again obtain in this country.  What 
the people enjoy of “good  living,”  with 
all  the  comforts and conveniences  which 
constitute good  living,  are 
the  natural 
concomitants  of our  civilization,  as  in­
dispensable  to  civilization  as  air  is  to 
life—they  are  the  expression  of  the 
higher life  enjoyed  by  our  people  and 
the proof  of  it.  The  abandonment  of 
these  means  a  relapse 
into  barbarism 
just to the extent that they  are  abandon­
ed.  The refining influences of a pleasant, 
well-furnished  home can hardly  be over­
estimated; and  if  the  American  home, 
which has  no  counterpart  in  any  other 
country,  is the  expression  of  American 
civilization,  it  is  equally  true  that  the 
home has contributed  much  to  civiliza­
tion.  But these homes cost money,  they 
cannot be  sustained  ou  the  low  wages 
prevailing  in  other  countries.  So  we 
must have  American  wages 
to  sustain 
American  homes or they  must ’ be  given 
up,  and with them  will go the chief civi­
lizing and refining  influence of  our  day 
and  country.  This is  not  even  in 
the 
“The  backward 
range  of  probability. 
track” will never  be 
travelled  by  the 
American  people.  On  the  contrary, 
with faces  firmly  set toward  the  rising 
Sun  of  Progress, 
they  will  not  pause 
until the highest pinnacle of civilized and 
intelligent  manhood  and  citizenship  is 
reached.  No.  we will never  again  have 
low wages in this  country.  Rather  will 
they increase to meet the  increasing  de­
mands of our American civilization.

Da n ie l Abbott.

Indiana Items.

Jonrad  &  Truesdell,  general  dealers 
at Shipshewanna,  have effected  a  settle­
ment  with  their  creditors  on  the  basis 
of 40  cents  on  the  dollar.  Among  the 
Grand  Rapids  creditors  who  settled  on 
this basis are  Rindge,  Kalmbach  &  Co., 
Musselman  Grocer  Co.  and  Hawkins  & 
Co.

E.  A.  Metz  succeeds  Welt  Bros, 

in 

general trade at Wolcottviiie.

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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

Thoughts on Trade Topics in Job  Lots.
W ritten (o r Thb T r a d e s m a n .
Goods outside of one’s regular line  are 

dear at any price.

The percentage is  always  against  the 
seller when he  has to use the  machinery 
of the law to collect a bill.

One dead beat can  dry  up  gallons  of 
the milk  of  human  kindness  in  hearts 
that else  would afford an  abundant  sup­
ply.

None but cash buyers  have  any  right 
to demand discounts,  or to ask  “ What is 
your lowest price?”

There is a class of  people who  almost 
live  on  samples.  But  it  is  the  lowest 
form  of  animal  life,  and  but  a  grade 
above stealing.

Look out for the  customer who volun­
teers the statement that  he  never  failed 
to pay any debt he ever contracted.  He 
is banking on your credulity.

The man who  seldom  pays,  or  does  it 
grudgingly, is  the  one  that  finds  most 
fault  with the goods.

A dealer who has never fully  collected 
a claim by  law from a hard customer can­
not  know  the  supreme  joy  there  is  in 
bringing one sinner to repentance.

Never show surprise when an  account 
of long standing and  classed  as  dead  is 
unexpectedly paid in full by the  debtor. 
Let him  be the one to be  surprised  when 
he again asks for  credit.  But  you  may 
offer him a cigar  to  soothe  his  feelings 
as you say,  “ Not to day; Some other day, 
perhaps.”

If a man  having  a  long  unsettled  ac­
count stands you off with  soft  promises, 
and  spends  his  cash  elsewhere;  when 
you get a lawful cinch on  him,  don’t  let 
up to spare his feelings.  He has none to 
be hurt;  and  he is quite  as  likely to  be 
a cash customer iu  the  future.

1 have noticed  that when  a  man  who 
has never been  a regular customer comes 
in and begins to complain of  some  otber 
dealer who lias overreached him,  there is 
a cat in the meal, or thereabouts.  He is, 
no doubt,  filing (in his  mind)  an  appli­
cation  for  a  change  of  venue, 
if  this 
should prove to be so,  it  is best either to 
declare the  case  beyond  your  jurisdic­
tion,  or  make  him  give  security  for 
costs.

A man’s reputation is only the shadow 
cast  by  his  personal  character  on  the 
scene of human activities. 
If  the  latter 
is  built  up  in  harmonious  proportion, 
the  truthful  rays  of  God’s  moral  sun­
light will reveal a worthy picture  of  the 
man.  But if  faulty in  outline, or  false 
in  proportion,  the resulting  shadow  will 
faithfully follow copy.  For the  builder 
may as  well  try  to  reverse  the  natural 
law governing visual angles as to  expect 
a different result.

Those who need credit the most are the 
slowest to ask for it.  The hard-working, 
debt-fearing  economical  customer  will 
suffer hardship rather  than run  in  debt 
But his standing  is  better than many  of 
his neighbors,  who often keep  a  balance 
in bank,  and lend  money  on  short  time 
and rotund interest  At  the  same  time 
they run  a  store  account  from  January 
to December,  which is  never  settled 
in 
full  till administrators are  appointed  to 
adjust their earthly estates.

Those who trade freely  without exam­
ining goods  or asking  prices often prove 
in the end  unprofitable customers.  As  a 
rule they never seem to know  the  value 
of money.  So long as  it  supplies  their 
wants  they  spend  freely;  and  while  it 
lasts there will be wants  calling for grat­

to 

ification.  But spendthrifts  never  make 
reliable customers.  Some day  they  will 
want a short credit for  a  small  amount, 
giving a most  plausible  reason. 
If  the 
dealer  weakens  here  he  will  be  after­
wards at the mercy of  one  who  seldom 
has a  quarter  and  therefore  can  give 
none.

Some  dealers  are  apt 

It is strange how the average  customer 
fails to  realize  the  value  of  discounts, 
when offered for cash  or  punctual  pay­
ments.  Out of twelve or  fifteen  regular 
buyers who  had  monthly  incomes,  that 
never failed  to arrive in  time, 
the  offer 
of five  per  cent,  discount  on  full  pay­
ments each month did  not  secure  com­
plete settlements in more  than  one  case 
out  of  five.  The  habit  of  taking  no 
thought for the morrow is so common with 
the  average  customer  that  a  premium 
for  punctuality  is  scarcely  considered 
as an  object  worthy  of  attention.  He 
prefers the “catch-as-catcb-can”  scheme 
of one-third  or  one-quarter  off  so  fre­
quently used  to 
tempt  the  cupidity  of 
buyers at the expense of their judgment.
There was  a  time  when  most  people 
would resent the charge of  being  penni­
less.  Now it is common to hear  men  in 
stores  and  other  public  places  expose 
their poverty without shame or embarrass­
ment on the least  provocation. 
In  fact, 
they will even  vie  with  each  other  in 
bragging of empty  purses  and  business 
losses.  Whether this is done to stand  off 
creditors who may be within  hearing,  or 
from mere wantonness of a  diseased  im­
agination,  it is not  always  easy 
to  dis­
cover.  But the  old  adage  is  still  true, 
“The proper study of mankind  is  man.”
suspect 
competitors of attempting to injure their 
commercial records.  They  forget that  a 
business character is established only  by 
deeds.  Men  who pay as  they  go,  or  as 
they agree,  need never be anxious  about 
what is written or spoken of  them  mali­
ciously. 
If  the receipts for  remittances 
equal  the  invoices  in  amount,  nothing 
can  hurt their standing  on  the  books  of 
any  reputable  commercial  agency. 
In 
other words,  a dealer who is rated in  the 
A. B. C.  column can afford to be  D.  E. F. 
to whatever  may  be  said  regarding  his 
credit. 
Growth of the  Coupon  Book  Business.
One of  the marked  tendencies  of  the 
present business  depression  is the great 
number of  merchants who  are abandon­
ing the pass  book  and  other  antiquated 
charging systems and  adopting the  spot 
cash system absolutely, or a combination 
of  the  cash  and  coupon  book  system, 
which is a  happy  medium  between  the 
oldtime  charging  system  and  absolute 
cash.  This  is  practically the  same  as 
the cash business,  as  it enables the mer­
chant to put bis business on a cash basis, 
the coupon book  restricting the time and 
line of credit, which is almost impossible 
in  the  case  of  the  pass  book.  The 
Tradesman  Company  was the  pioneer in 
introducing  the  coupon  book  system  in 
this country  and  has kept  pace with the 
growing  demand by the adoption of  fre­
quent  improvements  and  the  introduc­
tion  of  special  machinery,  so  that  its 
output is now greater than that of  all its 
competitors  combined.  Among  its cus­
tomers  are included  merchants  in every 
state  and  territory  in  the  Union, all of 
whom are strong in praise of the system, 
as its use enables the dealer  to avoid all 
the  losses  and  annoyances  incident  to 
the pass book and  all other charging sys­
tems.

S.  P.  Whxtmarsh.

Dviull,  Wright  k  Go’s

FINE

COFFEES.
Royal Java,
Royal Java and Mocha, 
Aden  Mocha 
Mocha and Java Blend 
White  House  Mocha  and 

Java,

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

We  have  trebled  our  coffee  business  since we  have  been 

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

OLNEY 1 JUDSON  GROCER GO.

Agents  Western  Michigan,  Grand  Rapids.

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JUiE  ABOVE  li HANDS,

........

htoyal  P a te n t,  O re sc e n t,  W h ite  B o se,

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 
cellent quality of our goods and the satisfaction  of  your  customers will  Impel  you  to  become a 
regular customer.

Correspondence  solicited. 

VQ IGT  M IL L IN G   CO.

A B S O L U T E   TEA.

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

T E L F E R   S P IC E   CO.,

SOLD  ONLY  BY

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

had fair crops of wheat and we are carry­
ing some of our  surplus  yet  from  1892. 
Western farmers will  have  to  diversify 
their farming,  not raise wheat alone,  but 
raise more flax, as barley  is  not  a  good 
product in the northwest, as the soil con­
tains too much lime,  which  is not  what 
barley needs, and as  there  seems  to  be 
plenty of corn raised in the Corn Belt the 
Northwest cannot go into that,  also,  ow­
ing to  the  climate  being  too  cold  for 
corn,  so  they  should  raise  more  oats, 
flax,  potatoes and those kinds of produce 
which will pay better than  wheat.

There  is only one thing  more  in  con­
nection with this. 
I  think  the govern­
ment makes an error when it claims that 
the consumption for food is  4%  bushels 
per capita.  Supposing  we  have 66,000,- 
000 population,  we would  consume  313,- 
500,000 b usbels.  We  have exported up 
to this  time about 100,000,000,  then there 
is used for seed about 55,000,000;for chem­
icals  15,000,000,making a total  used  from 
this crop to this time,  to  say nothing  of 
what  has  been  used  for feeding stock 
and pork,  of 479,000,000  bushels.  Now 
the question arises,  where does  this  im­
mense amount  come  from—that  shown 
in the  visible supply  and  amounting  to 
about 214,000,000 bushels  when  the  gov­
ernment makes  our  harvest  only  about 
400,000,000 bushels?  There certainly  is 
something  wrong  somewhere.  To  be 
sure  our  crop  year  does  not  end until 
July 1 or thereabouts,  but while our out- 
shipments are quite  large at present they 
will  have 
to  be  augmented  some and 
kept right up to the maximum  to reduce 
our  large  amount  of  wheat on hand in 
order for the grower  to  get  a  more  re­
munerative  price. 

C.  G.  A.  V oigt.

Pointers  For  Salesmen.

A  great  many  buyers  judge  of  the 
character  of  the  house  by  the  appear­
ance of its salesmen.

Good salesmen seldom ask a man if  he 
wants to buy goods;  he  doesn’t  come  at 
him that way.

The successful salesman is a man  who 
knows how to talk,  what  to  talk  about, 
and,  more especially,  when to stop  talk­
ing.

A salesman is the firm’s representative 

and should,  therefore,  be  a gentleman.

When trade is brisk,  the good salesman 

pushes all the  harder.

A common fault with salesmen  is that, 
as a rule, they too often give a  merchant 
credit for  knowing  a  great  deal  more 
about goods than he really does.

No matter in  how much of a hurry  the 
buyer is,  when you fairly get  his  atten­
tion, proceed coolly.  Hurry is contagious, 
and if you  go too fast, even to save time, 
you will not do  justice to your cause and 
will inspire him with a  feeling  that  he, 
also,  must  hurry  to  get  through  with 
you.

We  never  knew  a  natural  salesman 

who  was not a good-hearted fellow.

Try  to make a man think that,  if  you 
were  the  buyer,  instead  of  the  seller, 
you  would jump  at  the  special  line  of 
goods you have to offer him.

THE  WHEAT  SITUATION.

W ritten fo r  Thb Tradesman.
Nothing  of  special 

throughout 

interest  has  oc­
curred during  the  past  week.  Millers 
report a little more  activity.  Prices ad­
vanced during the week 2 cents,  then  re­
ceded  1 cent; thus the market keeps  see­
sawing,  as either the bear or bull news is 
predominant.  However, should there be 
a few  more  such  heavy  decreases  as 
there were last week,  it  would  soon  be­
gin  to  tell  on  prices.  On  March 5 we 
had  75,599,000  bushels  visible  against 
79,088,000 one year ago—a  decrease dur­
ing  the  week  of  1,688,000  bushels, or 
very  much  more  than  during a number 
of  weeks  previous.  This  official visi­
ble  supply  is  what  the boards of trade 
count  on  in  the  wheat  centers, which 
are Chicago and about  twenty-four other 
points.  Chicago  holds  about one-third 
of  the  visible supply. 
The  invisible 
amounts  to  about  39,000,000  bushels 
which is in  places like Grand Rapids and 
mills  and  elevators 
the 
wheat states.  Then there  is  about  90,- 
000,000  bushels  in  farmers’  hands  and 
10,000,000  bushels  in  flour  unreported, 
making  a  total  of  211,000,000  bushels, 
against 282,000,000 bushels last year; and 
then another matter comes  in,  and  that 
is  the  amount  that  is  fed 
to  stock, 
ground with oats or corn,  and  the  great 
amount ground for feeding  hogs,  as  the 
. farmers claim it makes pork fast. 
If it 
does,  I do not see why the farmers of the 
Great Northwest have  not caught on and 
taken to raising more pork.  Now,  tak­
ing all these matters  into  consideration, 
it  really is  a  wonder  where  so  much 
wheat comes from,  as the Northwest con­
tinues to pour in  constant  supplies  and 
the general daily receipts  are  from  300 
to 350 cars at Minneapolis  and  Duluth.
ix  months  ago  the  report  came that 
country  elevators  were  being  emptied, 
.>ut that process has been going  on  ever 
since and still the  wheat  keeps  coming. 
In  the winter wheat belt there  seems  to 
be a lull in selling at  present,  owing  to 
the fact that the farmers  are  waiting  to 
see  how the winter wheat  will  come  on 
when  spring  opens. 
Should  the plant 
come on healthy,  with a good promise for 
another fair crop,  farmers will be  want­
ing to sell and  prices may  be lower.  Of 
course,  wheat is  cheap and that seems to 
be  the  only  fact  or  bull argument for 
higher prices, but we  here  do  not  make 
the prices.  The  foreigners  make them 
for  us,  for  the  price  of this staple is 
made by what we export,  a nd,  unfortun­
ately for  American  farmers, 
there  are 
several  wheat growing countries,  as  the 
Argentine  Republic,  Australia,  India 
and  Russia—whose  ports  will  soon be 
open  now  and  she  will  be putting her 
wheat on the  market,  taking  the  other 
countries along  the  continent—and  the 
United Kingdom seems to be able  to  get 
what wheat they need  independently  of 
America or the United  States; so.  taking 
everything into consideration,  I really do 
not see whence much  higher  prices  can 
be obtained.  Had  our  speculators not 
driven wheat so high two years  ago  and 
let  more  of  it  out of the country when 
they were anxious to buy it at a fair price, 
we should not have seen  the  low  level 
we see now,  but our wheat  dealers got it 
into their heads that  we  could  ask  any 
price and that foreigners  would be  com­
pelled  to  take  our  wheat—and that is 
where we erred.  The  foreigners had to 
get a cheaper commodity to use in  place 
of wheat,  and since then  the  world  has

Ball  per thousand 
Heel  “ 

“ 
Order  Now.

.

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.

A  FEW  OF  OUR  NEW  SPECIAL 
TIES  IN  OXFORDS  ARE:

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.

$1  25
1  50

 

The  Juliet  Bootee,  Three  Large 

Button  Newport,  Southern 

Tie  and  Prince  Alberts.

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

1 2   &  1 4   L y o n   S t.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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

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

Our  Goods 

Are

Perfect  Fitters,

THOROUGHLY  MADE, j LOW  IN  PRICE.

H .  H .  C O O PER  &  CO.,

Manufacturers of

UTICA,  N.  Y.

Write J.  H.  WEBSTER,  State  Agent, 

OWOSSO,  MICH.

Lemon  & Wheeler Company,

Agents,  Grand  Rapids.

PIECED  m   STAMPED  TINWARE,

260  SOUTH  IONIA  ST, 

Telephone 640. 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH

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

Boot Calks—

3
Before  You  Buy

SEE  THE  SPRING LINE  OF FINE 
GOODS MANUFACTURED  BY

1 1 1  l I l i .

DETROIT,  MICH.

W hat the Country  Needs.

Labor Agitator—Do you  ever  stop  to 
reflect,  sir, on the condition of this coun­
try?
Citizen—I  have  thought  much  upon 
the subject:  thought long and deeply.
“Ah, I am glad to find there is one  be­
sides myself  who  has  given  this  great 
subject attention.  What,  in  your  opin­
ion,  does this country most  need  at  the 
present time?”

“A fool killer.”

A  LADY’S

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

RKKDKK  BROS. SHOE  CO ,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Patent Applied For.

The  Sim pliest,  Most  Substantial 
and  ¡Tost  Satisfactory  Barrel 

Truck  ever invented.

F o r Prices, T erm s a n d   Illu stra ­

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A ddress,

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U Y S   EAST FULTON ST.
GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

4

AROUND  THE  STATE.

MOVEMENTS OF  MERCHANTS.

Yale—D.  McKeith  succeeds 

J.  D. 

McKeith in  general  trade.

Wacousta—R.  G.  Mason  succeeds  F.

C.  Brisbin in general  trade.

Oscoda—Elmer G.  Rix, of  the  grocery 

firm of Rix Bros.,  is dead.

Traverse  City—C.  W.  DeZoete  will 

shortly open a bookstore here.

Lake Linden—Jos.  Bosch & Co.  is suc­

ceeded by the Bosch Brewing Co.

Calumet—M.  Sterk 

succeeds  M. 

Sterk & Co. in  the meat  business.

Benson  Harbor—Rowe  Bros,  succeed 

Rowe & Hill in the meat business.

Houghton—Alphonse  Cote. 

smith,  is succeeded by Cote & Wier.

black­

Blissfield—Lamb  &  Balner  succeed 

F.  D.  Lamb in the grocery business.

Northville—C.  E.  Smith has purchased 

the boot and shoe stock of Stark Bros.

Homer—Geo.  Sanford  has  sold  his 

hardware stock to Snyder & Tillotson.

Bay  City—lennison  &  Sou  are  sue 

ceeded by the Jennison  Hardware Co.

Muskegon—The  Michigan  Drug  Co. 
has  dissolved,  Geo.  W.  King  succeed­
ing.

Hastings—Fleming-&  Son  succeed  A, 
C. Carpenter  & Co.  in  the  grocery  busi­
ness.

Manistee—Awald  Krempel has  closed 
out his meat stock and retired  from  busi­
ness.

Battle  Creek—Cbas.  J.  Austin  suc­
ceeds  Austin &  Co.  in  the  grocery  bus­
iness.

Breckenridge—L.  Waggoner  &  Co 
have sold their general stock to Chisho m 
& Sons.

Crystal  Falls—Burder &  Co.  have  re­
moved their hardware stock to  Rock Isl­
and.  111.

Hudson—E.  J.  Southworth  has  pur­
chased the boot and  shoe  stock  of F. S. 
Richards.

Crystal Falls—Burder &  Co.  have  re­
moved  their  millinery  stock  to  Rock 
Island,  111.

Wexford—The  general  stock  of  Geo. 
M.  D.  Clement  has  been  closed  under 
chattel mortgage.

Port  Huron—McFarlane,  Haywood  & 
Co.,  grocers,  have  dissolved,  Akers  & 
Haywood succeeding.

Beaverton—The Seeley  Cooperage  Co. 
succeeds Seeley & Howard in  the  manu­
facture of hoops, etc.

Steiner—B.  F. 

Rauch 

succeeds

Rauch Bros,  in  general  trade  and  the 
implement business.

Bay  City—The  Ueberroth  Crockery 
and Wall Paper  Co.,  incorporated,  suc­
ceeds Ueberroth & Co.

Jonesviile—D. L. Powers & Co. succeed 
D.  L.  Powers in the  clothing  and  men’s 
furnishing goods business.
W ayne—Steers  &  Kingsley,  general 
dealers,  have  dissolved,  C.  H.  Kings­
bury continuing the business.

A lbion—Bullen &  Tucker,  dry  goods 
dissolved,  Austin  & 

dealers,  have 
Tucker continuing the business.

Ludington—J.  H.  Mathews  is  suc­
ceeded by Loren Louden  in  the  restau­
rant  and  confectionery business.

Grand Ledge—Geo.  A.  Youngs  has 
purchased the  grocery  stock  of  E.  E. 
(Mrs.  H. E.)  Ressigue at this place.
D etroit—The  Hodgson  &  Howard  Co. 
succeed  Hodgson & Howard in  the hard­
ware and house  furnishing business.

Vandalia—John  N.  Curtis,  hardware 
dealer has  failed,  owing  about  $11,000.

The assets have not yet been appraised 

Montague—Brooks  Bros.,  who  have 
peddled  meat  through  this  section  for 
several  years,  have  opened  a  market 
here.
Grand Haven—Boer  &,  Bolt  have  re- 
papered  and  repainted  the  interior  of 
their store,  adding greatly to its  appear­
ance.

in 

Lawton—J.  H.  Hall has been admitted 
to  partnership 
firm, 
of Mitchel &  Hall,  the  style  remaining 
the same.

the  grocery 

Traverse City—A. Goldfarb has  bought 
the dry goods and  clothing  stock  of  8. 
Yalomstein and  will  continue  the  busi­
ness in the same store.

Lakeview—M.  J.  Huntley  has  closed 
out his confectionery  business  and  re­
moved to East Tawas,  where he  will  re­
engage in the same business.

Clarksville—Geo.  E.  Marvin  has  pur­
chased the furniture stock of Joseph Post 
and has fitted  up the second story  of  the 
grain elevator for a showroom.

Freeport—C.  G.  Stone & Son  have  de­
cided to close  their  dry  goods  store  at 
this place,  in order that they may devote 
their entire attention  to  the  Lowell  es­
tablishment.

Clarksville—Chas.  W.  Williams  has 
sold his drug stock to U. P.  French,  the 
Mulliken druggist.  The  purchaser  will 
conduct both  stores  hereafter,  dividing 
his time between the two  towns.

Detroit—Mayor  &  Isham,  who  have 
conducted the  produce  and  commission 
business here for  thirty  years,  on West 
Woodbridge street,  have  dissolved  part­
nership.  The business will be continued 
by Chas. S.  Isham and C.  S.  Isham, Jr., 
under the style of Isham & Isham.

Athens—The  general  stock  of  Ethan 
Allen  was sold at  chattel  mortgage  sale 
March 7 to satisfy a  $900  mortgage  held 
by  Win.  H.  Taylor,  of  Chicago.  The 
stock  was  bid  in  by Mrs.  Allen  for  80 
cents  more  than  Taylor’s  claim,  thus 
cutting off unsecured  claims  amounting 
to $1,200.

Detroit—Taylor,  Woolfenden  &  Co. 
have merged their dry goods business into 
a  corporation  under  the  style  of  the 
Taylon-Woolfenden  Co.  The  capital 
stock is $200,000,  with $129,000  paid  in, 
of which the directors hold  8,600  shares 
as follows:  A.  W.  Wright,  5.850;  F.  D. 
Taylor,  1,000;  J.  B.  Woolfenden,  1,000; 
W.  H.  Perkins,  750.  The  officers  are: 
President, A.  W.  Wright;  first vice-pres­
ident,  F.  D.  Toylor;  second  vice-presi­
dent, J.  B.  Woolfenden;  secretary  and 
treasurer, Wm.  H.  Perkins.

Manistee—A.  H.  Lyman  has  merged 
his  drug business into a  stock  company 
under the style of the A.  H.  Lyman  Co. 
The  authorized  capital  is  $50,000,  of 
which $35,000 is paid in,  being  held  as 
follows:  A.  H.  Lyman,  $15,0001  R.  R 
Blacker, $10,000;  Mrs.  Nettie  L.  Rams 
dell, $5,000; F.  H.  White, $2,000; Geo.  A, 
Dunham, $1,500; C.  D.  Grannis.  $1,000 
W.  D.  Barnard, $500.  The officers of the 
corporation  are  as  follows:  President, 
A.  H.  Lyman;  Vice-President,  Geo.  A, 
Dunham;  Secretary,  Frank  H.  White 
Treasurer,  R.  R.  Blacker.

MANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

N iles—Tw o-thirds of  the  $3,000 neces­
sary  to establish  a canning  factory  here 
has  been  subscribed.
Beaverton—E.  O.  Eastman and M. C. 
Phipps have purchased  a  two-thirds  in­
terest in  n.  Seelig’s hoop and  stave  fac­
tory here.

Manistee—The State  Lumber  Co.  has 
started its sawmill on 3,000,000 hardwood,
| which it will saw  before  beginning  the 
season’s  work on  pine.

Kalamazoo—C.  S.  Da Witt  and  A.  H. 
Berry  have made the  necessary  arrange­
ments and will start  a  new  steam  laun­
dry under  the  firm  name  of  Dewitt  & 
Berry.

Manistee—The Union Lumber Co.  has 
an option on a group of  timber  on  Por­
tage  lake  of  about  750,000  feet  of  fair 
grade pine  and  will  probably  purchase 
at the price asked, $4,000.

Middleton—J.  F.  Shultz  and  C.  H. 
Schultz have purchased the plants of  the 
Michigan  Stave  and  Barrel  Co.  The 
former  will manage the business  at  this 
place and the latter will  have  charge  of 
the branch at Ola.

Kalamazoo—The  Kalamazoo  Sled  Co. 
has purchased of H.  P.  Kauffer a tract of 
land adjoining the G.  R.  &1.  Railroad for 
$15,000, on which it will erect  a  factory 
building,  60x100 feet in dimensions,  at a 
cost of about $6,000.

Muskegon—The  shingle  mill  of  the 
3ray Shingle Co.  is  being removed  from 
North  Muskegon to a site near Sault  Ste. 
Marie. 
It will  be located on the  line  of 
the  Duluth,  South  Shore  &  Atlantic 
Railway,  and will  be even  a  better  mill 
than  it  is  now.  The  mill  last  season 
made a cut of 7,000.000  and  has  an  an­
nual capacity of 20,000,000.

Cheboygan—It Is  now pretty  definitely 
settled that the  Alpena & Northern  Rail­
road,  built  last  season  from  Alpena  to 
jake May,  Presque Isle  county,  will  be 
extended to Cheboygan the  ensuing  sea­
son. 
It will  open up one  of  the  finest 
hard and soft timber  belts  in  the  state, 
and logs and  other  forest  products  can 
be handled both ways,  to  Cheboygan  or 
Alpena.

Lakeview—John S.  Weidman has  pur­
chased of E.  Hall,  Whitney  &  Remick, 
the  Wells-Stone  Company  and  others, 
4,000 acres  of  stump 
land  in  Isabella 
county.  He will  build a saw and shingle 
mill,  and has a contract with the Detroit, 
Lansing & Northern  Railroad  to  extend 
its line from  Hall’s dam on theColdwater 
to the new mill town of Weidman  which 
he will build.

Cadillac—E.  F.  Sawyer,  assignee  of 
John G.  Mosser,  has  made  a  report  of 
the assets  and  liabilities  and  will  ask 
March 15 for an  order  from  the  Circuit 
Court authorizing him  to pay a  dividend 
of 15 per  cent,  to  the  creditors.  Labor 
claims to  the  amount  of  $758.99  have 
been paid in  full  and  tbe  indebtedness 
upon  which the 15 per cent,  will be  paid 
amounts  to about $10,000.

to  succeed 

Lansing—E. D. Voorhees is organizing 
a stock company  with a  capital  of  $25, 
000,  to  be known as the  Lansing  Pant  & 
Overall  Co., 
to  the  busi 
ness  of  the  Voorhees  Pant  &  Over 
all  Co.  which 
Into
liquidation. 
It is  his  intention  to  dis 
tribute stock  among  as  many  members 
of the retail trade  as  possible  an* it  is 
understood that  he  is  meeting  with  ex 
cellent success  in this  direction.

recently  went 

Manistee—There is often  a  difference 
in the estimates on  pieces of  pine  lands 
a id  it looks as though that kind of  work 
had not yet  been  reduced  to  an  exact 
science.  This i»  illu strated   by  a  piece 
Of pine land that Louis Sands bought last 
summer on an estimate of 13,000,000  feet 
for which he paid $74,000.  It is now  con 
ceded that  this tract will  cut  16,000000,

and yet some good estimators that looked 
it over with a view  of  purchasing  could 
not find over 6,000,000.

More  on  the  Bread  Question.

A letter has been  received  from H.  P. 
Whipple,  of  Belding, complaining  of the 
incompleteness of my  figures  as  to  the 
expense of bread making. 
I gave merely 
the chief  items  of  expense,  presenting 
the whole matter in the simplest manner 
possible.  Mr.  Whipple  wishes  me  to 
give  “the entire expense  of  bread  mak­
ing, 
including  flour,  lard,  butter  and 
sugar.”  As to flour, it costs  the  bakers 
from $3.70 to $4.25 per  barrel;  a  barrel 
of flour makes about 300 loaves of bread. 
Any one can figure out  for  himself  how 
much the flour in a single  loaf  is worth. 
As to  butter,  lard,  and  sugar,  however, 
no  separate  account  is  kept  of  the 
amount of these ingredients used  in  the 
bread, as much more of each of  them  is 
used in  other  products  of  the  bakery 
than in  bread.  Mr.  Whipple  says  that 
$50 worth  of  milk  should make 20,000 
loaves of bread;  at 6 cents per  loaf  this ^ 
would  be  $1,200  for  the  week.” 
I  do 
not know how  much  milk  Mr. Whipple 
would use in  bread if be were  making it, 
but I think he will readily  see  that  the 
amount of bread  a  certain  quantity  of 
milk will  make will  depend  upon  how 
much is put  into  the  bread.  He  must 
either use all milk, or  all water,  or  part 
water and part  milk; 
the  more  water 
used, the smaller the  milk  bill will  be. 
The bakers mentioned in  my  former  ar­
ticle  make  all  the  way  from  1,200  to 
,800 loaves of bread a  night,  using from 
4 to 6 barrels  of flour. 
It takes  consid­
erable  milk, or water,  as  the  case  may 
be,  to moisten  such a  quantity of flour— 
more,  perhaps,  than  Mr. Whipple  and 
good  many  others  imagine.  Then, 
too,  the grade  of  flour  used  by  bakers 
takes”  more moisture  than  that  ordi­
narily  used.  Mr.  Whipple’s  criticism 
was a perfectly legitimate one.

Daniel Abbott.

Lower Prices on Lard.

The quotations of lard in the advertise­
ment of  the  Musselman  Grocer  Go.  on 
the third cover page,  should  read as  fol­
lows:

Butcher’s, 80 pound  tubs, 9>£c.
Butcher’s tierces, 9}$c.
Choice pure,  8}£c.
These brands are meeting with a  large 
sale, due to their intrinsic merit  and  the 
effective  advertising being done in  their 
behalf.

Tolman’s syrups are desirable.  “Catch 
on.”  ’Phone  J.  P.  Visner,  Bridge  St. 
House.

SEEDS!

Everything  in seeds is kept by us—

Clover, Timothy,

Hungarian,  Millet,

Red Top, Blue Grass, 
Seed  Corn,  Rye, 
Barley,  Peas, 
Beans,  Etc. 
If you have Beans to  sell, send us 
samples,  stating  quantity,  and  we 
will try to trade with  you.  We are 
headquarters  for egg cases  and  egg 
case fillers.
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GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

Wm.  VanUemmen has sold his grocery 
stock at 310 West Leonard  to  Folgersma 
& Dekker.

The  Musselman  Grocer  Co.  recently 
furnished a grocery stock  for  A.  Alvin, 
the Manton general dealer.

C.  Fisher  has  removed  his  grocery 
stock from 4S3 East street to  the  corner 
of East and Sherman streets.

A.  De  Vos  has  re-opened  a  grocery 
store at 176 Baxter  street.  The Mussel- 
man Grocer Co.  furnished the stock.

Samuel Adams,  dealer in crockery and 
glassware at  Bellaire,  has  added  a  line 
of  groceries.  The  Musselman  Grocer 
Co.  furnished the  stock.

W.  I.  Pitcher,  formerly engaged in the 
confectionery  business  at  73}£  Pearl 
street, has re-engaged in the  same  busi­
ness at 117 West Bridge street.

F.  M.  Wood, local  representative  for 
E.  E.  Alden,  the Lake Odessa butter and 
egg  dealer,  has  changed  his 
location 
from 25  Fountain  street 
to  76  Island 
street.

B.  I. Kent  will shortly open  a  grocery 
store at 692 Cherry  street,  the former  lo­
cation of  Cole  &  Chapel.  The  Mussel 
man Grocer Co.  has 
the  order  for  the 
stock.

M. J.  Dykstra  has  sold  her  hardware 
stock at  64  West  Leonard  street 
to  A. 
VanBree,  well known  through bis former 
connection  with  the  Widdicomb  Furni­
ture Co.

J.  Leff has  moved  his  grocery  stock 
from 346  Fourth  street  to  161  Turner 
street,  corner  of  Fifth 
street.  The 
change enables him to enlarge  his  stock 
and increase his line of customers.

Gilbert T.  Haau has  purchased the in­
terest of Albert Stonehouse  in 
the  firm 
of G.  T.  Haan  &  Co.,  druggists  at  130 
Canal  street,  and  will continue  the busi­
ness under the style of G. T.  Haan.

H.  Schultz,  who has  conducted  a  gro­
cery at  9 Grandville avenue for the past 
three years,  has sold his  stock to  Henry 
K.  Lanning,  formerly  engaged  in  gen­
eral trade at  Gitchel,  who will  continue 
the business at the same location.

Marshall  Moore,  formerly  engaged  in 
general trade at Lamont,  has  purchased 
the remnants  of  the  Walling  stock  and 
the Walling store building,  at that place, 
and re-engaged  in trade there. 
The 01- 
ney & Judson Grocer  Co.  has  the  order 
for a new grocery stock.

A movement is on foot among  many of 
the  stockholders  of  the  Grand  Rapids 
Loan,  Building and  Homestead  Associa­
tion,  which is winding up its  affairs  this 
month,  to organize a  new association  on 
practically  the  same  lines  as  the  old 
organization—a single series  association 
in which  all  the  stockholders  go  in  at
one time and are retired at one payment. 
Such an  organization  avoids  the  detail 
incident 
to  associations  with  several 
series  and  precludes  criticism  on  the 
ground that  discrimination  is  exercised 
between the members of diiBrent series.

The. D rug M ark et.
Gum opium is a little easier.
Pow dered opium   is  unchanged.
M orphia is  steady.
Gum camphor has declined.
Corriander  seed  is scarce and  higher.
Sugar of  milk has declined.

T he  G rocery  M ark et.

Sugar—The  market 

is  strong  and 
steady and  an advance is likely  to  come 
at any time.  The Senate schedule is said 
to be unsatisfactory  to the  refiners,  one 
of whom  has declined to  fill  further  or­
ders at present.

Pork—Barreled  has  dropped  50c  and 
will,  in  all  probability,  go  still  lower. 
Fresh pork is also down 
to  lc per  lb.
Beef—There is no change except in ex­

tra mess (barreled),  which is up 50c.

Oranges—The Florida  growers  report 
their groves well cleaned up. 
It was  es­
timated that there were only a  half  mil­
lion boxes in  the  entire  producing  dis­
trict on  March 1, and four-fifths of these 
were of  the large and  undesirable  sizes, 
and even  these are now  held  at  $l.40@ 
SI.65 f. o.  b.  Florida.  Anyone  can  see 
from this that  Grand  Rapids  quotations 
are just high enough to cover cost, allow* 
ing hardly anything for possible arrivals 
in  bad  order.  California  oranges  are 
finding their way to interior towns  quite 
rapidly, owing  to  the  the  fact  of  their 
being  offered  below  Floridas.  They  are 
improving in quality  every day,  and be­
ing  absolutely  sound,  the  dealer  takes 
but  little  risk 
in  buying.  A  car  of 
Catania fruit in  full  boxes and  flats,  or 
half  boxes,  will  be  offered  the 
last  of 
this week.  Prices will  be  about  S3  for 
flats and S3.50 for full  boxes.

Lemons’—The  local  market  is  steady 
at last week’s quotations,  although  there 
was  a sharp advance Friday at  the  New 
York  sales.  The  weather  is  favorable 
to carload shipments and doubtless many 
wholesalers  will  avail themselves  of  the 
opportunity to stock  up  with  low  priced 
fruit.

Bauanas—The  pleasant  weather  of 
the past  week has awakened a  lively  in­
terest in the banana  market  and  outside 
dealers have been sending in their orders 
freely,  which  for  the  most  part,  have 
had to be turned  down  by local shippers 
up to Friday,  when  two cars came to our 
market  from  which  back  orders  were 
filled as  far  as  possible.  Arrivals  will 
be limited  until  April  1,  however,  as 
more or  less  cold  weather  may  be  ex­
pected,  and as long as there is considera­
ble  risk  of  freezing  while 
transit 
wholesale dealers  will  go slow.

in 

The  Wool  Market.

It may  fairly be  assumed  that  manu­
facturers have received  the bulk  of their 
orders,  although  there  will  be  contin­
uous  ordering  on  a  small  scale. 
If 
that be a fact,  then orders will  not reach 
more than 25 per  cent,  of usual business. 
It is certain that  manufacturers will  not 
run  when their  orders  are  completed, 
and  unless  stocks  are  unusually  heavy 
clothiers may expect to  come  out  short. 
The bulk of the  demand  is,  so  far,  on 
all-wool 
the 
great reduction in  the price of  wool  has 
made all-wool goods '‘dirt  cheap.”  The 
market is in  a waiting  attitude—the  un­
certainty regarding the  outcome  of  the 
tariff debate being the chief  cause of de­
lay.  Though  wool 
to  have 
reached a free  trade  basis,  wages  have 
not, and they are the  chief  item  of  ex­
pense in  wool  goods  manufacturing,  as 
in many other lines.

lines,  perhaps  because 

seems 

Reports  from Boston 

indicaate  slight 
falling off  in sales for the week  as  com­
pared  with the previous week,  the  total 
for the  week being slightly  in  excess of 
1,500 000  pounds.  The  finer  lines  have 
been  almost  uncalled  for,  the  demand

being on  fine  and fine medium  territory, 
coarse  and  low  braid  combing,  %  blood 
andunwashed combing, and unwashed and 
unmerchantable.  There  has  been  no 
speculative  buying,  but  merely 
for 
orders.

New York reports  business  unusually 
dull,  a  condition  not  altogether  unex­
pected  and  occasioning  little  surprise. 
Pulled wools  have  been  asked  for  fre­
quently,  but  prices  are  unchanged. 
Sales for the week were less  than a  mil­
lion  pounds.  The  situation  has  per­
ceptibly  improved  in  this  market,  and 
from  now  considerably  more  business 
will  be  done  than  has  been  done  for 
months.

Philadelphia reports increased activity 
although  some  lines  which  have been 
held firm for months show signs  of  giv­
ing way.  Sales for the week foot  up  to 
1,228,300  pounds.

It  is 

It is  not expected  that  there  will  be 
any great improvement in the wool  mar­
ket for months,  possibly not  at  all. 
If 
the duty  is  taken  off  wool  and  woolen 
goods  (and  even  that  may  be  done by 
Congress) 
it  means  the  death  of  the 
woolen industry of the country.  This  is 
not an assertion made for political effect, 
for  the  tariff  has  ceased  to be a party 
question. 
a  certainty,  because 
American manufacturers cannot compete 
with the  European  manufacturers. 
If 
in  this  connection  free 
trade  means 
cheaper clothing,  an  assertion that  lacks 
confirmation,  it means also  lower  wages 
for  workingmen.  Already has the tariff 
discussion in  the  House and  the  threat­
ened danger of free wool  completely de­
moralized  the  woolen industry,  curtailed 
business fully 75  per  cent,  and  thrown 
thousands of  operatives out  of  employ­
ment.  The actual  enactment  of  a  free 
wool schedule will  destroy  the  industry 
altogether.

P u re ly   P erso n al.

H.  B.  Rice—better known  as  “Bert”— 
who  has  served  the  Ball-Bamhart-Put- 
man Co.  as shipping  clerk  for  the  past 
three years,  succeeds to  the  position  of 
house  salesman  rendered vacant  by  the 
resignation  of  Geo.  T.  Williams.  The 
vacancy thus made  in  the  shipping  de­
partment will be filled  by Chas.  Zylstra.
Geo.  T.  Williams,  who has  been  iden­
tified  with 
the  Ball-Barnhart-Putman 
Co.  for the past nine years in the  capaci­
ties  of shipping clerk  and  house  sales­
man,  severed  his  connection  with  that 
institution Saturday  night and  will take 
an  extended  trip  through 
the  Pacific 
Slope,  with a view  to  locating  there  if 
the proper opportunity presents itself.

T he D ry G oods M ark et.

Bleached and  brown  cottons  are  still 
low in price and large sales are made  on 
them at present  prices.

Spring  dress  goods  are  moving  at 

prices ranging from  10K@40c.

Indigo and shirting prints are sold way
ahead of the  mills, a  large  trade  being
done on  the  goods  at the  low  price  of 
4&  and 3%c.

F rom  O ut o f Tow n.
received 

Calls  have  been 

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

Alex. Denton,  Howard  City.
J.  W.  Milliken, Traverse  City.
Geo.  E.  M arvin,  Clarksville.
E lk R apids  Iron Co.,  E lk  Rapids.
B.  B urlington,  Bradley.
Geo. W.  McKee,  Alto.
Thos.  E. Shaffer,  Centerville.
S. A.  Watt,  Saranac.

FOR  SALE,  W ANTED.  ETC. 

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

Advertisements  will  be  inserted  nnder  this 
head for two cents a word the first Insertion and 
one  cent a word  for each subsequent  insertion. 
No advertisements  taken for  less  than 25 cents. 
Advance payment.
■ ANTED—TO  BUY  FOR  SPOT  CASH,  OR 
unincumbered  real  estate,  all  kinds of 
merchandise.  Address the Manistee Meicantile 
581
Co., Manistee, Mich. 
■ UR BUSINESS IS TO BRING  BUYER  AND 
seller together.  Your  business  is to  write 
ns if you want to buy. sell or exchange.  Mutual 
582
Business Exchange, Bay City.  Mich. 
■ LERK WANTED—ONE  WHO  CAN  SPEAK 
German and has  had  some  experience  In 
handling  dry  goods.  Permanent  position  for 
the  right  man.  Address  S  Maudlin  &  Co., 
583
Bridgman, Mich. 
F or sa l e—a n ic e b u sin e,-»—ic e cream
confectionery and fruit  store—the finest in 
the city and best location.  Tools for manufac­
turing candy and cream in connection.  Will In 
voice about $1 300.  Terms  cash.  Address No. 
581, care Michigan Tradesman. 
584
F or sa le  c h ea p—o n e  r a pid  s e r v ic e
store railway cash system of  three  tracks. 
Address  A.  V.  Young  &  Bro.,  Woodvllle, 
Mich._______________________*________580
■ ANTED—PURCHASER  FOR  A  TWO- 
story frame store building at  Mill  Creek, 
a lively suburb  of  Grand  Rapids  Will  sell 
cheap or exchange for farm or  timber  lands  in 
Oi-eana or Macon counties  M. A  Mosher, Mill 
Creek, Mich. 
585
F or  sa l e—my  stock  o f  t e a . c o f f e e
and groceries and lease  of  store.  Old es­
tablished business.  No  trade.  Good opening 
for right man.  Good  reasons  f< r  selling.  Ad 
dress  Shaw  Tea  Store,  107  Canal  St., Grand 
Rapids, Mich. 
YTTILL BUY  A  STOCK  OF  MERCHANDISE 
V V  Address  box  41,  Early,  Sac County, 
Iowa. 
570
F or  sa le—c lea n  grocery  a n d  pr o-
v iB io n   stock  on  best  business  stand  in 
thriving  manufacturing 
in  Northern 
Micbigau.  Excellent  opening  for  bakery  and 
crockery in connection.  Address  No.  561,  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. 
■   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. 

town 

575

581

SITUATIONS  WANTED.

579

TATANTED—SITUATION AS  MANAGER  OR 
T V 
clerk in general  store.  Have had twelve 
years’ experience in general trade.  Competent 
accountant.  Can furnish  references  from  job­
bers and retail  dealers.  Address  W.  F.  Wille- 
min, Caledonia, Mich. 
TKTANTED—A  POSITION  AS  FOREMAN 
in a general  store.  Seventeen  years  ex­
t v  
perience.  Best of referenres.  Address Room 10 
Twamley block, Grand Rapids. Mich. 
574
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  years 
with Mitchell, Lewis  & Staver  Co., of  Portland, 
I. D. 
Ore.  Can furnish the best of references. 
Lovejoy, Big Rapids.  Mich. 
576
TT|/ANTED—FOREMAN  FOR  FURNITURE 
factory  making  chamber  suits,  beds, 
t v  
tables, and desks.  Must be competent to handle 
eighty men to advantage and  have some knowl­
edge of designing  and  drafting.  Apply  imme 
diately to E. A. Stowe, 100 Louis St. 
567
'fKrANTED—A  PLACE  TO  WORK  BY  THE 
TV  month or year on a farm by a steady mar­
ried man.  Please address “Reuben.” caie Mich­
igan Tradesman. 
562
I SAY,  MISTER,  CAN  YOU  GIVE  ME A JOB 
by the day or month on  your farm?  I know 
my business.  Address 49  Dudley  Place,  Grand 
563
Rapids, Mich. 

A   Big Drive
IN ALL SILK  (SAT.  EDGE)  RIBBONS.

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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:
5.............................40c
No. 
No. 
7.............................62c
9 .................................. 68c
No. 
12.................................. 84c
No. 
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 
mall orders.

C o r i ,   K n o t t   &   C o . ,

20-22  No.  Division  St.,

! GRAND  RAPIDS,  fllCH.

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REPRESENTATIVE  RETAILERS.

Grocer.

Daniel  Viergever,  The  Clancy  Street j 

Daniel  Viergever, of  D.  Viergever  &  j 
Sons,  was born in the town of DeRuyster,  I 
Province  of Zeeland,  Holland,  43  years 
ago.  Three years after  this  interesting  J 
and important event  in  his  history  the i 
family emigrated  to  the  United  States, 
coming direct  to  Grand  Rapids.  When 
old enough  Daniel  was  sent  to  school,  j 
His  scholastic  career  was  terminate d 
when he was 13 years old,  however,  and j 
he went to work  in a  stave  mill,  where  I 
he remained some  three  or  four  years. 
While running the engine in  the  mill  he 
managed to learn wood-turning,  putting 
in his spare moments at  the  lathe  when 
the regular  turner  was  absent—stealing 
the trade,  so  to  speak.  This  trade  he 
followed  for  about  thirteen  years,  ten 
years of which period  was  passed  with 
the Widdicomb  Furniture  Co.,  and 
the 
remainder of the time in the Oriel factory. 
He spent one year  on  the  police  force,  j 
but being  “one  of  the  finest”  did  not  \ 
satisfy  his  ambition,  so  he  resigned,  j 
purchased a team and  wagon  and  began 
buying butter  and  eggs  from  farmers. 
He  prospered  in  this  undertaking  and 
about three years ago  opened  a  grocery 
store at 157 Clancy  street.  By  the  exer­
cise of diligence,  economy  and  honesty, 
he has built up  a good business,  some  of 
the credit for which must be given to his 
two sons, Martin C.  and  James  W.,  the 
former assisting his father  in  the  store 
and the latter taking  his  father’s  place 
“on  the  road,”  purchasing  butter,  eggs 
and  produce.

Mr. Viergever is a  member  of  the  K. 
O. T.  M., and  also of the  Grand  Rapids 
Retail Grocers’ Association, of  which  he 
is the present  President.  He  was  mar­
ried in 1870 to Miss  Mary  Klink,  and  is 
the proud father  of  four  children,  two 
girls and  two boys.

W h a t  She  W an ted .

A  certain  floorwalker  in  one  of  the 
large dry  goods  establishments  in  this 
city is  noted  for  his  severity  to  those 
under him in business.  One day  he  ap­
proached  a junior  assistant  from  whose 
counter a lady had just left.
“ You let that lady go  out without  her 
making a purchase?”  he  asked  severely.
“ Yes, sir—I—”
“And  she was  at  your  counter  fully 
“Doubtless,  but then you see—”
“ Exactly,  I  saw  that.  In  spite  of  all 
the questions she put to  yon, you  rarely 
answered  her,  and  never  attempted  to 
get what she  wanted.”

ten minutes?”

“Well,  but—”
“ You need  not  make  any  excuse.  1 
shall report you for carelessness.”
• “ Well,  I hadn’t what she wanted.”
“What was that?”
“One dollars and  fifty  cents!  She’s a 
book  canvasser,  getting  subscribers  to 
the ‘Life of Pope Leo.’ ”
floorwalker  retired  crestfallen, 
amid the  audible  titters  of  all  the  as­
sistants in the  department,  who  greatly 
enjoyed his discomfiture.

The 

A  T errible  T w ist.

A story is  told  of  two  Irishmen  who 
were caught asleep one night in the  loft 
of  a  burning  building.  One  of  them 
hastily drew on his trousers and  jumped 
from  the  window. 
In  his  fright  and 
hurry  he  had  unconsciously  pulled  on 
the garment  wrong  side  foremost,  with 
an effect which,  when  he  recovered  his 
equilbrium  after  the  jump,  excited  his 
profound consternation.
“Pat!  Pat!” called  out his companion, 
still in the loft,  “air ye kilt  entirely?”
“No, Moik,”  replied  Pat  in  hopeless 
tones,  “its not kilt Oi am,  me bye, but Oi j 
fear me Oi’m fatally twishted.

UNBLEACHED  COTTONS.

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BLEACHED  COTTONS.

Arrow Brand  454 
Adriatic.................7
••  World Wide.  6
Argyle....................  5*
Atlanta A A.............6
“  LL...............   454
Pull Yard Wide...... 654
Atlantic  A..............  6*
Georgia  A..............654
H..............  6*
Honest Width........  6
“ 
P .............  5
Hartford A .............6
D..............6
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Indian Head...........  654
“  LL..............  4*
Amory.....................634
King A  A................. 654
King E C .................  5
Archery  Bunting...  4
Lawrence  L L........  454
Beaver Dam  A A ..  454
Blackstone O, 82__  5
Madras cheese cloth 65k
Newmarket  G........  55k
Black Crow............ 6
B........   5
Black Rock  ...........534
Boot, AL................  7
N ........   654
DD....  5)4
Capital  A ................554
Cavanat V..............554
X ........65k
Nolbe R..................  5
Chapman cheese cl.  33k
Our Level  Best...... 6
Clifton  C R ............ 554
Oxford  R
Comet.....................   654,
Dwight Star............  654iPequot....................   7
Clifton CCC...........5X Solar.........................   6
; Top of the  Heap__7
A B C .  ..........  
Geo.  Washington...  8
Amazon...................8
Glen Mills.............   7
Gold  Medal............ 754
Arnsburg.................6
Art  Cambric...........10
Green  Ticket......... 854
Great Falls.............   654
Blackstone A A......  754
Hope.......................   7)4
Beats All................   4
Boston....................12
Just  Out......   45k@ 5
King  Phillip...........75k
Cabot......................   65k
OP......754
Cabot,  X...................65k
Lonsdale Cambric.. 10
Charter  Oak...........  554
Conway W..............  7)4
Lonsdale...........   & 8
Middlesex.........  @ 5
Cleveland.............  6
Dwight Anchor—   8 
No Name................   754
shorts  8
Oak View...............   6
Our Own................   554
Edwards................. 6
Pride of the West... 12
Empire
Farwell....................  754 ¡Rosalind................... 754
Fruit of the  Loom.  8  ¡Sunlight..................  454
Fitchville  ............  7  Utica  Mills.............. 854
First Prize..............  6 
“  Nonpareil  ..10
Fruitof the Loom X.  754 Vlnyard..................  854
Falrmount..............4)4 White Horse.............6
Full Value..............65kI 
“  Rock.............. 854
Cabot......................  65k¡Dwight Anchor...... 8
Farwell...................7"4|

HALF  BLEACHED  COTTONS.

854

“ 

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“ 

 

CANTON  FLANNEL.

Bleached. 
Housewife  O .... 

Unbleached.
Housewife  A.......... 554
B..........554
“ 
C.........6
“ 
D
“ 
...654 
E
“ 
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p
*• 
— 75* 
G
I  
....754 
H
“ 
....75k 
I
“ 
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J
“ 
...854 
K
“ 
9)4 
L.
“ 
...10 
“  M.
...1054 
N.
“ 
...11
“ 
O.
“ 
P.
....1454
CARPET  WARP.

6)4 7
R
8..........75k
T ........... 854
U............954
V........... 10
W..........103k
X..........1154
Y..........1254
Z........... 1354

“ 

Peerless, white....... 17  ¡Integrity  colored... 18
colored__19  White Star.............. 17
Integrity................. 18541 
“  colored  .19
Hamilton................   8  (Nameless................20

DRESS  GOODS.

“ 

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G G  Cashmere........20 
Nameless  ............... 16 

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CORSETS.

;;;;.” ;.‘.";*54
.................30
.................3254
“ 

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PRINTS.

“ 
“ 
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CORSET  JEANS.

Coraline................69 50|Wonderful...........  64 50
Schilling’s .............   9 00 Brighton............... 4 75
Davis  Waists......  9 00 Bortree’s ..............  9 00
Grand  Rapids......  4 50|Abdominal........... 15 00
Armory..................   65k INaumkeag satteen..  754
Androscoggin.........7)4 Rock port.................... 654
Blddeford.............   6  Conestoga.................754
Brunswick....... 
..  6541 Walworth.............. 65k
Allen turkey  reds..  554
Berwick fancies —   554
robes...........  554
Clyde Robes...........
pink A purple 554
Charter Oak fancies 4 
buffs...........  554
DelMarlne cashm’s.  554 
pink  checks.  554
mourn’g  554 
staples........s
Eddystone fancy...  554 
shirtings ...  35£ 
chocolat  554
554
rober 
American fancy—   5* 
sateens..  554 
American indigo  ..  454 
Hamilton fancy.  ...  554
American shirtings.  35k 
staple__ 554
Argentine  Grays...  6 
Anchor Shirtings...  4 
Manchester fancy..  554 
new era.  554 
“  —   6
Arnold 
Merrimack D fancy.  5)4 
Arnold  Merino......6
long cloth B.  9 
Merrfm’ck shirtings.  4 
“  Repp furn .  854
“  C.  754
century cloth 7
Pacific fancy..........554
“ 
robes............  6
gold seal......1054
Portsmouth robes...  654 
green seal TR1054 
Simpson mourning..  55k
yellow seal.. 1054
greys........5*
serge............ 1154
solid black.  55k 
Turks,/ red.. 1054 
Washington Indigo.  654 
“  Turkey robes..  75(
“  India robes__ 754
“  plain T’ky X 44  854 
“ 
“  X...10
“  Ottoman  Tur­
key red.................. 654
Martha Washington
Turkeyred 34.......   754
Martha Washington
Turkey red..........   954
Riverpolntrobes....  554
Windsor fancy........654
Indigo  blue......... 1054
Harmony.................   454
Amoskeag AC A....¡154
AC  A......................1154
Pemberton AAA.... 16
Hamilton N  .............7
D............8
York....................... 1054
Awning.. 11
Swift River............   754
Pearl  River............ 12
Farmer................... 8
Warren................... 1254
First Prise..............IO54
Lenox M ills...........18
Conostoga..............16
8
Atlanta,  D..............  634|Stark  A
Boot........................   634 No  Name................754
Clifton, K...............   7  ¡Top of Heap...........   9

Ballon solid black..
colors
Bengal bine,  green, 
red and orange  ..  6
Berlin solids...........  554
“  oil bine........6
“  “  green  ...  6
“  Foulard«  ....  554 
“ 
7
red 5k • • - 
“  X ...........  »54
“ 
“  “  4 4..........10
» 
»  S-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................. 1154
Beaver Creek AA... 10 
BB...  9
CC....
Boston MfgCo.  br..  7 

“ 
“ 
“ 
blue  854 
“  d a  twist 1054 
“ 

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Columbian  brown.. 12
Everett, blue...........1254
brown....... 1254
Haymaker blue........ 734
brown...  734
Jeffrey.....................1154
Lancaster  .............. 1254
Lawrence, 9 os........ 1854
NO.220....13
No. 250....1154
No. 280.... 1054

Columbian XXX br.10 
XXX  bl.19
Amoskeag..............   5
“  Persian dress  6S 
Canton ..  7
“ 
AFC.......8K
“ 
Teazle.. .1054 
“ 
“ 
Angola..IO54 
“ 
Persian..  7
Arlington staple__654
Arasapha  fancy__45k
Bates Warwick dres  754 
staples.  6
Centennial.,.......  1054
Criterion.........   ...1054
Cumberland staple.  554
Cumberland........... 5
Essex...................... 454
Elfin.......................   754
Everett classics......854
Exposition..............7)4
Glenarie.................  634
Glenarven...............65k
Glenwood............... 754
Hampton.................5
Johnson Chalon cl 
54 
Indigo blue 954
zephyrs— 16

“ 
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GINGHAMS.
Lancaster,  staple...  6 
fancies ....  7 
“ 
“  Normandie  7
Lancashire............. 6
Manchester............   534
Monogram..............  654
Normandie............  7
Persian................... 7
Renfrew Dress....... 754
Rosemont............... 654
Slatersville............ 6
Somerset.................7
Tacoma  .................754
Toll  duNord.........   854
Wabash..................   754
seersucker..  754
Warwick...............   6
Whittenden............   8
heather dr.  754 
Indigo bine  9 
Wamsutta staples...  634
Westbrook..............  8
............... 10
Wlndermeer...........   5
York  ......................634

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Amoskeag............ .. 13  ¡Georgia — ........... 1354
Stark........................18 
American................13 

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GRAIN  BAGS.

THREADS.

Clark’s Mile End....45 
¡Barbour's...............95
Coats’, J. & P ......... 45  Marshall’s ...............90
Holyoke..................22541
KNITTING  COTTON.
White.  Colored.
38 No.  14...
37
38
“  16...
89
••  18... ...39
40
“  20... ....40
41
CAMBRICS.

White.  Colored
42
43
44
45

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

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

No.

...... 9
......

BED  FLANNEL.

DOMET  FLANNEL.

MIXED  FLANNEL.

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

T W ........................ 2254
F T ............ ............. 8254
JR F.X X X ............35
Buckeye.................8254

Slater......................   4
W h ite   S ta r ..................  4
Kid Glove...............  4
Newmarket............   4
Fireman................. 3254
Creedmore..............2754
Talbot XXX........... 30
Nameless................2754
Red A Blue,  plaid..40
Grey SR W.............1754
Western W  ........... 1854
Union R...............2254
DR P...................1854
Windsor...............18)4
Flashing XXX........2354
6 oz Western..........20
Union  B.................22541 Manitoba................ 3354
@1054
Nameless......8  @ 9541 
“ 
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1254
Brown. Black.
Brown. Black. Slate
Slate.
1054
954 1054
954 
1154
1054 1154
1054 
12
1154 12
«54 
1254 20
20
1254
DUCKS.
Severen, 8 oz..........
954
May land, 8 oz......... 1054
Greenwood, 754 oz..  954 
Greenwood, 8 oz — 1154 
Boston, 8 oz............1054
White, doz..............25  ¡Per bale, 40  doz
Colored,  doz.......... 20  ¡Colored  “ 
...
SILEBIAS.
Slater, Iron Cross...  8
...  9
Best........... 1054
Best AA.... 1254
L............................. 754
G..............................854
Cortlcelll, doz.........85  (Cortlcelli  knitting,

.68 50 
.  7 50
Pawtncket...............1054
Dandle....................  9
Bedford...................1054
Valley  City.............1054
K K ......................... 1054

CANVASS  AND  PADDING.
954
ion
ll)4
1254

West  Point, 8 oz— 1054 
10 oz  ...1254
“ 
Raven, lOoz........... 1354
.............1854
Stark 
Boston, 10 oz........... 1254

“ Red Cross 
“ 
“ 

....................35

1054
1154
12
20

SEWING  SILK.

WADDINGS.

..12  “ 8 
..12 I  “  10 

per 54oz  hall........30

twist,doz..4C 
50 yd, doz..40  1 
ROOKS AND ETES—PER GROSS.
“ 
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No  1 Bl’k A Whlte.,10  ¡No  4 Bl’k A White..15 
“  2 
..20
«  8 
..25
No 2—20, M C......... 50 
|No4—15F  854........ 40
•'  8-18, S C ...........45  I
COTTON  TAPE.
No  2 White A Bl’k.,12  ¡No  8 White A Bl’k..20 
.15  “  10 
“  4 
.28
..26
-.18 I  “ 12 
“  6 
SAFETY  FINS.
................86
NO 2........................28  |No8...

PINS.

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NEBDLBS—FBB  M.

A. James.................1  40| Steamboat................  40
Crowely’s...............1  86 Gold  Eyed...................1 50
Marshall’s ..............1  00|Amerlcan..................... 1 00
5—4 ....1  75  6—4... 

15—4.... 1  65  6—4...2 80

TABLE  OIL  CLOTH.

COTTONTWINES.

Cotton Sail Twine. .28
Crown.................... 12
Domestic............... 1854
Anchor.................. 16
Bristol................... 13
Cherry  Valley........15
I X L ......................1854
Alabama...................65k
Alamance................. 654
Angusta...................754
Ai  sapha...............   6
Georgia................... 654
G ranite..................  534
Haw  River............   s
Haw  J ....................   6

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Nashua................... 14
Rising Star 4- ply__ 17
8-ply....17
North Star.............. 20
Wool Standard 4 plyl754 
Powhattan.............16

Mount  Pleasant....  654
Oneida....................  5
Prymont  ................  5)k
Kan d el m a n ..................6
Riverside................  5)4
Sibley  A.................  6)4
Toledo 
Otis checks............ 734

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

PLAID  OSNABURG8

THFTrc  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN
Dry Goods Price Current.

DEMINS.

H a y  F e v e r, 
H eadach e,
Nearaljia,  Colds,  Sore  Throat.

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

Prevents and cares

S e a   S ic k n e ss
The  cool  exhllerating  sensation 

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

On cars or boat.

H,  D.  CPSHMAN,  M anufacturer, 
Three  Rivers,  Mich.
( ^ “Guaranteed  satisfactory._____________

Tradesman  Company,

GRAND   RAPID S.

EATON,  iW   &  CO.,

NEW  STYLES  OF

linn

20  &  22  Monroe  St.,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

Tour  Bank Account Solicited.

K it  County Savings Bank,

GRAND  RAPIDS. ,MICH.

J n o .  A.  Co v o d e  Pres.

H e n r y   I d e m a , Vlce-Pres.

J.  A.  S.  Ve r d i e r .  Cashier.

K. V a n  Hof, Ass’t CVr. 

Transacts a General B anking  Business. 

Interest  Allowed  on  Time  and  Sayings 

Deposits.

DIRECTORS:

Jno. A. Covode, D. A.  Blodgett,  E. Crofton Fox, 
T. J. O’Brien,  A. J. Bowne,  Henry idema, 
Jno.W.Blodgett,J. A. McKee, 
J. A. S. Verdier.
Deposit»  Exceed  One  M illion  Dollars,

ÄTLA8  SOAP

MANUFACTURED  ONLY  BY

HENRY  PH880LY,

SAGINAW,  MICH.

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

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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

7

THE  TURN  OP  THE  TIDE.

less 

sion  A b o u tE n d ed .

The L ong-C ontinued  B usiness  D ep res­
The indications  of  returning  prosper­
ity  are  increasingly  apparent.  There 
can  be no doubt as  to  this.  The  signs 
may  not  be  so  highly  colored  as  some 
might wish,  nor so hurried  as  men  less 
wise or patient than Job are prone to ex­
pect,  but,  that  a  revival  of  business  is 
certain, no man  who is not a tank of bile 
or a blind pessimist  can  for  a  moment 
doubt.
It is true that business has been in the 
dumps,  and that depression,  like  Egyp­
tian darkness, has for  a time  halted  the 
march of progress; but,  as this  is  by  no 
means a new experience,  it is not  neces­
sary to give up the ghost and  die.
Neither are we alone in  this  calamity. 
Other  nations  with 
recuperative 
powers  are  being  dosed  with  the same 
medicine and languish in  the  same  tor­
pidity.  The wave of depression is  world 
wide,  and  has  left no country, however 
rich and great,  without its cold  bath.
Where stagnation is  the  result  of  ex­
hausted resources, or  of  financial or me­
it  is 
chanical ability to use what it  has. 
needless to say that faith in a  dead  tree 
is  thrown  away  in  expecting  apples 
where they  can never grow. 
In the en­
terprises that constitute business,  and in 
the monopoly of markets that have made 
it a success,  it is possible  that  some  na­
tions have reached  their  noon  and  are 
leaving it behind them.  Where  this  is 
the case,  commercial  decay,  if  slow,  is 
inevitable, and its supremacy, if a bright 
chapter in the past,  will  be  but  a  mor­
tuary paragraph in the future. 
In such 
conditions depression  is  but  the  feeble 
pulse of old age and  exhausted  vitality.
No such  inference  is  possible  in  the 
American  instance.  We  are  not 
in 
dotage but in youth.  Our resources are 
comparatively  untouched, and  for  many 
proximate  decades  are  practically  un­
limited. 
In  all the essentials of growth 
and prosperity the  Western  Hemisphere 
is prodigiously endowed. 
In  area  and 
population the  margin  for  development 
and  expansion  is  broad  enough for the 
In  products  and 
march  of  centuries. 
climate we are in possession of  the  gifts 
of every zone. 
In  breadstuffs and min­
erals, in cotton and fibres,  and  in  nearly 
all the requisites jf a  self-sustaining na­
tion,  the American  nation  is  unique  in 
modern  history.  On  such  a  basis  the 
superstructure of  commerce  and  indus­
try  cannot  possibly  be  a  sandhill  or a 
mushroom.  We cannot flatten the Andes 
as we can  a molehill. 
In  this light the 
folly  of  measuring  prosperity  on  the 
lines of a local  watermelon  is  transpar­
ently sarcastic.
In the present—or,  rather,  the  p a s t- 
crisis  of business affairs,  it  is  a  misfor­
tune that so many men  who are  weak  in 
the  knees  are  sitting  in  sackcloth  and 
ashes,  and,  like  Jonah  of  old,  are pre­
dicting the fall of Nineveh in forty days. 
These  forecasts  of  calamity do no good. 
They not only announce what never hap­
pens,  but deter  other  men from  bracing 
up to the duties and  opportunities of the 
hour.
We are not lacking in the vital  factors 
of  recuperation,  and  the  cessation  of 
their exercise may be postponed;  it  may 
also be true that the public  confidence is 
still  suffering  from  a  weakened  spine, 
and  that  idle  money  prefers a stocking 
to immediate investment in dormant  en­
terprises.  No  sane  man  expects  busi­
ness to leap from green grass into a well- 
filled hay mow, though the reaction  from 
depression  is  frequently  graphic  and 
swift.

Public confidence is  sometimes  as  ec­
centric  in  its  revival  as  it  is in its re­
lapse,  and money is spread  at  the  same 
pace with  which it was hoarded. 
In  this 
instance  it  is  an  encouragement  to  a 
rapid return  to its sober senses that  idle 
capital is in abundance  for  every  pros­
pective  enterprise.
It may be true that  tariff uncertainties 
are handicapping  production and  trade. 
These,  however,  at  their worst,  are  but 
temporary.
As  to  tariff  uncertainties,  it  is  not 
probable  that  suspense  will  be of long 
It is more than  possible that 
duration. 
whatever  may  be  the  policy  of the ad­

ministration  that  pessimistic  fears  will 
have  to be  revived. 
It  has  yet  to go 
through the sieve, and  what survives the 
process  be  less  hurtful  than popularly 
supposed.
Be that as it may,  the sooner  the  fact 
is  determined  the  more  immediate  the 
accommodation of business  to  new  con­
ditions. 
It is in our favor that whatever 
obstructions may be in  the way  of  busi­
ness,  the energy and enterprise that have 
hitherto characterized the nation  will  re­
peat the old  story  of  overcoming 
them 
all.
There may be  justifiable apprehension 
as to the result of this  or  that,  but  the 
basis  and  scope  of business  are  on  so 
broad  and permanent a foundation  that 
the  men  who  face  the  situation  with 
faith  in  the  future  are  those who will 
garner the heavier sheaves in the harvest 
of coming prosperity,  the  date of  which 
is certainly nearer than  some suppose.

The B usiness O utlook.

The  third  month  of  the  year  opens 
with  better  promises  of  improvement, 
and,  although  the  depression  is  by  no 
means over,  business men are better able 
to judge of future  probabilities  and dis­
count  them  than  they  were  thirty  or 
sixty days ago.  The worst is over,  and 
we  have  now  to  do  mainly with conse­
quences.

Legislative  deliberations  have  some­
what  to  do  with  the  hesitancy to push 
forward  in  business  circles,  but,  apart 
altogether from this  more  or  less decep­
tive  agency,  there  are  causes  at  work 
which will continue to act  until they ex­
haust themselves; and,  when exhausted, 
the resulting or  following  improvement 
will come.  Years  of  extravagance and 
inferior management have  brought their 
fruits. 
Inflated  and  abnormal  values 
have  prevailed  until  a  reaction  came, 
and  we are now  “ in it.”  The corrective 
agencies  have  already  done much good.
The  volume  of  idle money is increas­
ing,  but  this  is  only  a result of condi­
tions 
last  year.  We  are  not  suffering 
from  any  blight.  The  foundations  on 
which we have builded are sound.  There 
are money,  brain  and  energy  enough to 
make  up  for  past  slothfulness and  the 
recovery  will  come  in  its  own 
time. 
While there is distress and complaint ap­
parent everywhere,  there is  yet  a  spirit 
of faith and confidence, and  even  deter­
mination,  to overcome what has crowded 
us  down.  Capitalists  and bankers  are 
waiting  for  spring. 
Builders  do  not 
doubt but that there will  be  even  more 
building than  last  year. 
Stores,  ware­
houses  and  factories  everywhere  have 
small stocks,  and  bank  borrowers  have 
been  scaled  down  within  safe  limits. 
The  readjustment  of  values  has  done 
vast good for all,  and  makes  possible  a 
prolonged period  of  profitable  activity, 
the  setting  in  of  which cannot be  very 
much longer delayed.  Ch a s. J.  R ee d.

Hardware Price Current.

AUGURS ADD BITS. 

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

AXES.

dls.

“ 
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• 

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

BARROWS. 

dlS.

dls.

bolts. 

Railroad  .................................................... 8 14 00
G arden................................................  net  80 00
Stove.............................................................. 50410
Carriage new list.  ....................................... 75410
Plow.............................................................. 40410
Sleigh shoe  .................................................. 
70
Well, plain 
............................................... 1350
Well, swivel.................................................  4 00
dig.
Cast Loose Pin, figured.............................   .704
Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint.............. 604,0

BUTTS, CAST. 

BUCKETS.

Wrought Loose Pin.......................................60410
Wrought Table............................................. 60410
Wrought Inside Blind.................................. 60410
Wrought Brass............................................. 
75
Blind,  Clark’s........................................... 70410
Blind,  Parker’s..........................................70410
Blind, Shepard's 

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

Ordinary Tackle, list April  1892................60410

70

Grain......................................................dls. 50402

CRADLES.

CBOW BABB.

Cast Steel.............................................per lb  5
Ely’s 1-10.............................................per m  65
Hick’s C. F .........................................  
“ 
60
G. D ....................................................   “ 
85
Musket................................................ 
“ 
60

CARTRIDGES.

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

58
25

chisels. 

dls.

Socket Firmer.............................................  75410
Socket Framing............................................75416
Socket Corner...............................................75410
Socket Slicks...............................................75410
Butchers’ Tanged Firmer........................  
40
dls.

40
Curry,  Lawrence’s....................................... 
Hotchkiss....................................................  
25
White Crayons, per gross...............12Q12ft dls. 10

cohbs. 

CHALK.
COFFER.

“ 

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

DRILLS. 

28
26
23
23
25
dls.
50
50
50

DRIPPING FANS.

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

07
c>4

ELBOWS.

75

EXPANSIVE BITS. 

Com. 4  piece, 6 In...........................do*  net 
Corrugated....................................................... dls 40
Adjustable....................................................... dls. 40410
dls.
Clark’s, small, 818;  large, 126..................  
30
25
Ives’, 1, #18:  2, #24;  3,#30........................ 
dls.
Disstou’s .................................................. 60410
New American  ............................................60410
Nicholson’s ............................................. 60410
Heller'B..................................................... 
50
Heller’s Horse Rasps  ..................................  

files—New List. 

50

GALVANIZED IRON.

15 

12 

28
17

locks—door. 

14 
sauces. 

knobs—New List. 

13 
Discount, 60

Nos.  16  to  20;  22  and  24;  25  and  26;  27 
List 
16 
dls.
60
dls.
55
55
55
55
70
dls.
55
55
55

Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s.................. 
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings................ 
Door,  porcelain, jap. trimmings............. 
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.......... 
Door,  porcelain, trimmings....................  
Drawer  and  Shutter, porcelain............... 
Russell 4  Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new l is t.......... 
Mallory, Wheeler  4   Co.’s .......................  
Branford’s ............................................... 
Norwalk’s ................................................ 
Adze Rye..........................................(16.00, dls. 60
Hnnt Bye.......................................... (15.00, dls. 60
Hunt’s ...................................... »I8 60, dls. 30410.
dlS.
Speiry 4  Co.’s, Post,  handled.................  
60
dls.
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s...............................  
40
“  P. S. 4  W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables_______  40
40
“  Landers,  Ferry 4  Cl8 ik’s............. 
11  Enterprise 
dls.
Stebbln's Pattern.....................................60410
Stebbin’s Genuine....................................66410
Enterprise, selfmeasuring...................... 
25

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

M0LASSB8 SATES. 

MAULS. 
mills. 

MATTOCKS.

30

55

NAILS

 

Advance over  base,  on  both  Steel  and Wire.
Steel nails, oase.............................................. l  50
Wire nails, base...............................................1  50
60.................................................... Base 
Base
50...................................................... 
10
40......................................................  
25
25
30......................................................  
35
20............ 
16......................................................  
45
45
12...................................................... 
50
10...................................................... 
8.......................................................  
60
7 4 6 .................................................  
75
4.......................................................  
90
3...............................................................  
2.......................................................  
1  60
Fine 3....................................................... 
65
Case  10............................................. 
8............................................. 
75
90
6............................................. 
Finish 10..........................................  
75
90
8...........................................  
6...........................................  
1  10
Clinch; 10.......................................... 
70
80
8.......................................... 
6................ 
90
Barren %.......................................... 
175
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy................................   ©46
Sdota Bench............................................. 
050
Sandusky Tool Co.’B, fancy.........................  040
Bench, first quality......................................   040
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s  wood........... 50410
Fry,  Acme.............................................dls.60—10
70
Common, polished................................ dls. 
Iron and  Tinned.......................................... 
40
Copper Rivets and Burs............................... 50—10

 
planes. 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
" 
“ 

rivets. 

•  dls.

PAMS.

dls.

 

PATENT PLANISHED IRON.

"A” Wood’s patent planished. Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
“B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 26 to 27...  9 20 

Broken packs j§c per pound extrs.

HAMMERS.

May dole  4  Co.’s.....................................dls. 
i
Kip’s ........................-.............................. die. 
25
Yerkes 4  Plumb’s............................................ dls. 40416
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.........................80c list 60
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steel  Hand__30c 40410
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2, 3 ...............................d's.60410
State........................................... per doz. net, 2 50
Screw Hock  and  Strap, to 12 in. 
14  and
longer........................................................  3H
Screw Hook and  Rye, f t.........................net 
10
“ 
8H
“  %......................... net 
X......................... net  7V4
“ 
“ 
“ 
* ..........................net  TA

HINSES.

“ 
“ 

dls.

wire goods. 

HOLLOW WARE.

levels. 
ROPES.

HOUSE FURNISHING  GOODS.

Strap and T ...................................................... <353. 50
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track__50410
Champion,  anti friction......................  
  60410
Kidder, wood track..................................... 
4c
Pots................................................................60416
Kettles.........................................................   60410
Spiders  .........................................................6041C
Gray enameled..............................................40410
Stamped  Tin Ware............................... new list 70
J spanned Tin Ware..................................... 
26
Granite Iron W are..................... new list 38X410
Blight...................................................  70410410
Screw  Byes............................................. 70410410
Hook’s .....................................................70410410
Gate Hooks and Ryes...................... 
70410410
dls.7n
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ......................
Sisal, V4 Inch and larger.............................  
Manilla................................... .....................  n
dlS.
Steel and Iron.............................................. 
Try and Bevels............................................. 
Mitre...........................................................  

75
60
  20
Com.  Smooth.  Com.
#2 95
8 05
3 05
8 15
325
3 35
All  sheets No. 18  and  lighter,  over 30  Inches 

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  .....................................dls. 
Silver Lake, White A..............................list 
Drab A.................................  “ 
White  B...............................   ■ 
Drab B..................................  *« 
White C.................................“ 

BAND PAPER.
SASH CORD.

SHEET IRON.

50
50
55
50
55
85

SQUARES. 

" 
“ 
“ 
“ 

7%

Discount, 10.

SASH WEIGHTS.

dls.

saws. 

traps. 

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

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

Solid Byes...................................... ......per ton 125
“ 
20
50
“  Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot__ 
“  Special Steel Dla. X Cuts, per foot....  30
“  Champion  and  Electric  Tooth  X
Cuts,  per  foot............................................  
30
Steel, Game................................................... 60410
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ...............  
35
Oneida Community, Hawley a Norton’s _______ 70
Mouse,  choker....................................18c per do*
Mouse, delusion............................... #1.50 par do*
dls.
Bright Market..............................................   65
Annealed Market..........................................70—10
Coppered Market.........................................   60
Tinned Market.............................................  62)4
Coppered Spring  Steel................................  
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanised...............................  2 60
painted...................................  2 20

wire. 

dls.

“ 

horse nails.

WRENCHES. 

An  Sable......................................................... dls. 40410
Putnam.......................................... 
dig. 05
dig. 10410
Northwestern................................  
dla.
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.......... .........  
30
Coe’s  Genuine............................................. 
50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,..................... 75
Coe’s  Patent, malleable............................... 75410
dls.
Bird Cages................................................... 
50
Pumps, Cistern..............................  
75410
 
Screws, New List.......................................... 70410
Casters, Bed a  d Plate................  
50410410
Dampers, American..................................... 
40
Forks, hoes, rakes  and all steel goods........65410

miscellaneous. 

 

METALS,
PIG tin.

6<
7

260
28c

ZINC.

SOLDER.

Pig  Large....................................................  
Pig Bars.......................................................  
Duty:  Sheet, 2%c per pound.
660 pound  casks...........................................  
Per pound.................................................... 
K Q K .................................................................. 16
Bxtra Wiping.................................................
The  prices  of  the  many  other  qualities  of 
solder In the market Indicated by private brand* 
1 20
vary according to composition.-
ANTIMONY
1 60
Cookson............ ...........................per  pound
Hallett’s......................................  
TIN—MBLTN GRADE.
10x14 IC, Charcoal.............................................#7 50
14x2010, 
10x14 IX, 
14x20 IX, 

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

Bach additional X on this grade, #1.75.

“ 

is

“ 
“ 
“ 
TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE.
“ 
“ 
“ 

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

75
..........................................  6 75
..........................................   8 25
...........   ............................  9  25
ROOFING PLATES

Bach additional X on this grade 11.50.

“ Worcester...................................   6 5>.>
“ 
'* 
“  Allaway  Grade................ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
ROILBB SIZE TIN PLATE.

14x20 IC, 
14x20 IX, 
20x28 IC, 
14x2010, 
 
14x20 IX, 
 
20x28 IC, 
20x28 IX, 
 
14x28 IX.................................................  
14x81  IX................................................... 
1£§0 IX,

..........................   8 50
.............. ..........   18 50
6 00
7  50
12  50
15  50
(14  GO
15 00
P°hbd  • •  10 00

“ 
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“ 
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“ 
“ 
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TECK  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

▲  WEEKLY  JOURNAL  DEVOTED  TO  THE

B e st  In te re s ts   o f  B u sin ess  M en.

Published at

lOO  Louis  St., Grand Rapids,

—  BY  THE —

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please  say that  you  saw  their  advertisement in 
T h e   M i c h ig a n  T r a d e s m a n .

B.  A. STOWE, Editor.

WEDNESDAY  MARCH  1!,  1894.

THE  N EW   SUGAR  SCHEDULE
The  Senate  sugar  schedule,  as  de­
cided  upon  by the sub-committee  of  the 
Finance Committee,  provides for  a  duty 
on sugars not above  80  degrees test,  as 
shown  by the polariscope, of  1  cent  per 
pound;  on  sugars  above  80,  but  not 
above  90,  degrees  test,  an  additional 
duty of  1-100 of a cent for  every  degree 
or fraction of a degree of test;  on  sugar 
above 90.  and  not  above  96,  2-100  of  a 
cent additional  for each  degree  of  test, 
and sugar above 96 test, a duty of  1  4-10 
cents per pound.

This schedule places a duty  of  1  cent 
and 22-100 of a  cent  per  pound  on  96 
test sugar,  which  is the average grade of 
dry  centrifugal  sugars.  Grades  above 
this degree of  test,  which  includes  re­
fined sugars,  will  pay  a  duty  of  1  4-10 
cents per pound, so that the Senate Com­
mittee allow an  additional  protection on 
refined  sugar  of  eighteen  hundredths, 
which,  when allowance is made  for  loss 
in  refining,  is equivalent to 1-8  of a cent 
per pound.

The  domestic  producers  are,  there­
fore,  accorded  a tariff protection  of  very 
nearly  1  1-4 cents per pounds on  96  test 
sugars,  with  a  diminishing  protection 
down to l  cent  on  lower  grades,  while 
the refiners of  the  country  are  allowed 
an additional protection of  1-8 of  a  cent 
per pound,  as compared to  1-2  cent  un­
der the McKinley bill.

The tariff bill prepared by  the  Senate 
Committee  has yet to run the gauntlet of 
a long debate in  the  Senate,  and  there­
after reference back to the House should 
it pass the  upper  body.  There  are  in­
terests which  will  do all  that  is  possible 
to either  prevent  a  sugar  duty  or  cut 
down  that  fixed  by 
the  Senate  Com­
mittee.

THE  ANTI-OPTION  BILL.

The  Agricultural  Committee  of  the 
House ot Representatives has commenced 
to grant hearings  to  persons  interested 
in  the  Hatch  anti-option  bill,  and  al­
ready several  prominent  representatives 
of the commercial  bodies of  the  country 
have been before the  committee.  These 
hearings will  probably not alter the very 
evident determination  of the  Committee

to push the passage of  the  bill,  but  the 
facts  brought  out  will  force  the  Com­
mittee into  the  position  of  acting with 
a full  knowledge  of  the  serious  men­
ace  to  the  business  interests  of  the 
country  which  the  passage  of  such  a 
bill  will occasion.

The main argument  advanced  by  the 
advocates of the bill  is that  the  farmers 
of the country  demand  its  passage. 
It 
is clear from this that it is to  be  passed 
solely in the interests of  the  agricultur 
ists,  and is,  therefore, strictly  class  leg­
islation.  This  fact,  as well as the other 
unconstitutional  features of  the  bill,  its 
promoters clearly recognize,  as  they  are 
seeking to make  it  appear  as  much  as 
possible in the light of  a  revenue  meas­
ure,  and  not a  prohibitive act.

The power which  the  passage  of  the 
Hatch bill will  put in the  hands  of  for­
eign  markets  is  clearly  exemplified  in 
the case of sugar.  London  is  the  great 
speculative market for  sugar,  and,  as  a 
result,  that city, althongh in no  sense  a 
center of sugar production,  dictates  the 
sugar  prices  of  the  world.  Liverpool 
would be placed in identically  the  same 
position  with  respect  to  cotton  should 
the  Hatch  bill  become  a  law, and  our 
cotton  producers  would  be  completely 
at the mercy of the  operators  of  Liver­
pool,  whose 
lying  entirely 
with consumers  of  cotton,  would  seek 
to  purchase 
the  American  crop  as 
cheaply as possible.

interests, 

DEFICIENT  IN SHIPS.

T h e T radesm an  has  already  pointed 
out the fact that in spite of  the  number 
of new ships recently added to  the  navy 
list,  the Navy  Department  is  still  defi­
cient iu the  number of available vessels. 
This is being  exemplified  just  now  by 
the difficulty experienced  in  securing  a 
sufficient fleet to properly patrol the Beh­
ring Sea during the  fishing  season,  now 
but a couple of months  off.

At the moment the only  available ship 
is  the  Ynrktown,  and  it  is understood 
that the Bennington has been taken from 
the European station  for use in  the Beh­
ring  Sea.  The  sending  of  these two 
ships  makes it necessary  to  strip  other 
stations where ships are needed.  More­
over, 
two  vessels  are  not  sufficient to 
properly patrol the fishing grounds if it is 
proposed  to properly  protect the seals.

Owing  to  the  complications  in South 
America  it  is  impossible  to  withdraw 
any of the ships  on  that  station.  The 
loss of the  Kearsarge has  greatly  weak­
ened  the  North  Atlantic  squadron,  and 
the  Chicago  is  now  the only vessel left 
on the  European  station. 
In the Pacific 
there  is  an  equal  absence  of  ships,  so 
that  the  Navy Department  is seriously 
embarrassed 
to provide  the vessels act­
ually needed to meet  pressing  emergen­
cies.

Congress  would do well  to keep  these 
facts in mind  when  making  appropria­
tions  for  the  Navy  Department  this 
year. 
It would be  wretched economy to 
stop  the  addition  of  new  ships to the 
fleet in the  existing  condition  of  inter­
national affairs.

An exchange notes the fact that cheese 
was a prominent  feature  on  the  bill  of 
fare at a recent dinner of the  New  York 
I Vegetarian  Society  and  facetiously en­
quires,  “ What  sort  of  a  vegetable  is 
cheese,  anyway?”  Cheese  comes,  indi- 
' rectly,  from grass and  wears a  vegetable 
S mold as soon  as it is old enough.

A  S ta rtlin g  R evelation  in  th e   B usiness 

o f  B read-M aking.

W r itte n  f o r  T h e  T r a d e s m a n .

The  dear people  who have  been  buy­
ing bread made by  the  bakers  of  Grand 
Rapids,  under the  impression  that  flour 
is its principal ingredient,  will lose  con­
fidence  in  their mental  equipoise  when 
they  learn  that  such  is  not  the  case. 
This may have a nonsensical  ring,  but it 
is  the  ring  of  Daniel  Abbott,  who  re­
cently  went  out  among  the  city’s  bake 
shops,  armed with authority  to  examine 
books and papers,  and learn, if  possible, 
why it is that the price of bread  remains 
the same  with  wheat at 50 cents a bushel, 
as it  was  when  wheat  was  worth  $1  a 
bushel.  He  examined  white-aproDed 
witnesses,  worming the  secrets  of  their 
profession out of  them;  inspected  their 
private  books  of  account;  scrutinized 
their  expense  bills;  looked 
into  fheir 
ovens;  weighed  and  carefully  analyzed 
their  loaves,  drawing  comparisons  be­
tween them and  the  loaves  our  wives, 
mothers and  sisters  make,  stigmatizing 
the latter,  at first, as “stuff.”  but,  being 
threatened in his own  domicile  with  an 
application of “mop-stick” if he  did  not 
recant,  dropped 
the  offensive  epithet 
and  now  uses  the  term  “ home-made 
bread”  instead.  The report of  this  ex­
haustive  research into  the  mysteries  of 
the  baker’s  art  was  published  in  The 
T radesm an of February 28,  and so fear­
ful was he that  the  astonishing  revela­
tion contained  therein  would  seriously 
strain the credulity of  his  readers,  that 
to 
he assures  them  that  he  endeavors 
post  himself  concerning  any 
subject 
upon which he  writes.  He  would  have 
you  understand,  right  from 
the  start, 
that he is  “posted;”  and  yet he tells you 
that he objects to having his “ knowledge” 
measured by my  “ignorance.”  This is a 
dead  give  away  and  shows 
that  his 
knowledge,  after all,  is only a small mat­
ter. 
It  takes  a  large-sized  measure  to 
bold my  ignorance,  and  Mr.  Abbott  is 
afraid to  dump  his  knowledge  into  the 
measure,  because he  knows  it  wouldn’t 
cover  the  bottom. 
this 
acknowledgment  on  Mr.  Abbott’s  part 
will seriously impair  the  value  of  his 
statements.

I  am  afraid 

lessons 

frequent  object 

If I  were  to  ask  any  child  in  Grand 
Rapids to tell me what bread is  made of, 
the answer would invariably be,  “flour.” 
Poor  child!  He has been taught  this  at 
home and in our schools, and his parents 
and teachers  are  alone  to  blame.  He 
reads in  his school books that flour is the 
principal ingredient  in  bread—bread  in 
Grand  Rapids, as  well  as  in  Canada— 
and it has been demonstrated to be a fact 
by 
in  his 
mother’s kitchen; and as soon  as  he  ar­
rives at “the rule of three,”  in  arithme­
tic,  and his  “common  sense”  begins  to 
show signs  of  sprouting,  be  discovers 
that the intrinsic value of a thing is nro- 
portionate to the cost of  the  ingredients 
entering into its composition; and  if  the 
ingredients fluctuate in cost, then no j ust 
ratio of  values  can  be  maintained  be­
tween  the thing and  the  ingredients  of 
which it is  composed,  unless  the  thing 
itself  fluctuates  correspondingly.  But 
some people after  they  mature,  seem  to 
forget what little they may have  learned 
at school,  and Mr.  Abbott is one of them. 
It is amazing how a man of Mr.  Abbott’s 
age and experience  could  so  far  forget 
himself as to  put  into  print,  over  his 
own name and in the columns  of  a  jour- 
I nal read,  not  by  romantic  school  girls,
I but by experienced,  matter-of-fact  busi-

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bread does not and  should  not  fluctuate 
with the price of  wheat  because  flour  is 
not its principal Ingredient. 
I  say  it  is 
ness  men, 
that  good 
statement 
perfectly amazing how  any  man  could 
live  among  civilized  people  as  many 
years as Mr.  Abbott evidently  has  with­
out having learned what bread was prin­
cipally made of. 
If he had told  us  that 
flour is not  the  principal  item  of  ex­
pense in the  manufacture  of  bread  in 
Grand  Rapids  where  labor,  rents,  etc., 
are high,  it would  have  been  more  par­
donable; but to  assert  that  flour  is  not 
the principal ingredient  in  good  bread, 
and that  bread  that  fluctuates  with  the 
price of  wheat is cheap  bread,  is  just  a 
little  too  ridiculous  to  be  excusable.
If Mr.  Abbott  had  lived  a  little  while 
in some Canadian city—like Toronto,  for 
instance—and got  used  to  the  taste  of 
baker’s  bread  aud  posted  himself  on 
bakers’  wages,  before he came  to  Grand 
Rapids, he  never  would  have stated,  in 
substance, 
that  Canadian  bread  was 
“cheaper,”  in the sense  of being  poorer; 
or that the  wages  received  by  Canadian 
bakers were only half  what  they  are  in 
Grand Rapids.  Mr.  Abbott  has  labored 
hard to disprove my statement that bread 
sells, or did sell,  at 8 cents a loaf.  After 
making  an examination and  finding  that 
such was the case,  he  discovers  a  hole 
and jumps through  it  by  asserting  that 
the grocers—because they receive the us­
ual  commission  for selling,  thereby add­
ing,  by so much,  to  the cost  to  the  con­
sumer—are  directly  responsible  for  the 
8 cent  price.  This  is  a  dodge.  What 
cares the consumer as to what proportion 
of the 8 cents the baker  pays  the grocer 
for  selling?  The  consumer  buys  his 
bread of his grocer and  the price charged 
by the grocer is the cost of bread to  him, 
and when it costs 8 cents for a  22  ounce 
loaf on a 50 cent wheat basis  it costs  too 
much.  This  is all I claimed in the start, 
and Mr.  Abbott has failed  to  show  that 
the price  is  not  too  high.  He  need  not 
“repeat once  more”  that  bakers  do  not 
receive  8  cents  a  loaf  for  their  bread, 
for  every  sane  person  knows  that  the 
grocers  do  not  serve  for  nothing  when 
acting  as  the  bakers’  selling  agents. 
The  grocers are entitled to their margins 
on the  handling of bread,  but  when  the 
consumer pays  8 cents  it  is  too  much. 
He has nothing  to  do  with  the  baker’s 
rents,  fuel,  light,  labor,  or  the  arrange­
ments  he  may  make  with  his  selling 
agents,  the grocers, but  when he is  com­
pelled  to  pay  as  much  for  a  loaf  of 
bread as he  did  when  wheat  was  worth 
double  what  it now  is,  be  knows that it 
is  unjust  and  unreasonable.  Mr.  Ab­
bott would have his readers  believe  that 
the 4 cent pound Canada loaves 1 referred 
to in my last article  were delivered direct 
to the consumer,  thereby  saying the gro­
cer’s profit.  This is absolutely  false,  as 
are some  of  his  other  statements,  and 
shows that Mr.  Abbott  does  not  “post 
himself”  on  subjects  on  which  he  at­
tempts to  write.  These  Canada  loaves 
are sold by  the  grocers  just  as  Grand 
Rapids bread is  sold  by  the  grocers  of 
that city.  The commission or profit may 
be less,  but the  grocer sells  it,  and  the 
consumer 
receives  it,  for  4  cents,  as 
stated by me.

Mr.  Abbott  says,  “I think  enough  has 
been  said,  etc.”   He  is  quite 
right. 
Enough has  been said,  but  he  must  re­
member  that  I,atn entitled  to  the 
last 
word. 
If he so  dearly loves controversy, 
j 1  would advise  him  to preserve his com-

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1 have  nothing  further  to  say  on  the 
bread  question. 

E. A.  Owen.

Fifty-Tw o  o u t  o f  S e v e n ty -F o u r.
At the regular examination  session  of 
the Michigan State Board  of  Pharmacy, 
held in this city last  week,  seventy-four 
applicants 
for  registration  presented 
themselves  for  examination.  Of  this 
number twelve were granted  certificates 
as  registered  pharmacists,  forty  were 
granted  certificates  as  assistant  phar­
macists and  twenty-two  utterly  failed. 
The record is not considered a  good  one 
and the outcome was  a  source  of  much 
annoyance and regret to the  members of 
the Board.

The  following were  passed  as  regis­

tered pharmacists:

Allgeo,  H.  DeV.,  Bradley,
Ball, J., Nashville.
Bradshaw,  G.  E., Yale,
Burch,  Florence,  Adair,
DePree P.  J., Grand Rapids,
Jones, L. E., Grand Rapids,
Johnson,  Robt., Grand Rapids,
Menold, G.  J.,  Luther,
Moore, E.  L.,  Melvin,
McGregor, J. C., Ann Arbor,
Scott, J.  H., Carland,
Wiese,  F.  W., Saginaw.
The  following  were  granted  certifi­

cates as assistant pharmacists:

Anderson, G. J.,  Manistee,
Bates,  L.  D.,  Burnside,
Bearrs, B. T., Garsonville,
Bechtel, Gollin, Wayland,
Burrows,  R. J.,  St. Ignace,
Cowing, Caleb,  Henrietta,
Cudlip,  S., Marquette,
Dickerson,  A.  W., Conklin,
Fisk,  B. C., Edwardsburg,
Fletcher,  E. J., Grand Rapids,
Foster C.  E.,  Webbervilie,
French, R. C.,  Dimondale,
Fuller, A.  E.,  Richmond,
Gardner, G. G.,  North Star,
Goodfellow,  Robt., Clio,
Green,  F. J., Manistee,
Greening,  M.  D., Quincy,
Henderson,  R.  C.,  Millington,
Hills,  M. J., Grand Rapids,
Howson, J.  A., Saginaw,
Hull, H.  P.,  Muskegon,
LeFever,  W. E.,  Muskegon,
Loveland,  L.  O., Charlotte,
Minthorn,  W.  B„  Oscoda,
Mitchell,  D.  W.,  Harrisville,
Moody,  W. C.,  Shelby,
Moss,  LeR.  H.  Whitehall,
Nivison,  E.  S.,  Mendon,
Ormsby,  E.  E.  Clio,
Osterle,  W.  F., Grand Rapids,
Otto,  G.  W.,  Lakeview,
Packard,  H.  D., Flushing,
Smith,  J.  W.,  Benton  Harbor,
Swartout, S.,  Marshall,
Tietz, C. J., Saginaw,
Warner,  F. C.,  West  Bay City, 
Butzbach,  E.  F.,  Benton  Harbor,
Bruce, Jesse H.,  Evart,
Deisler,  A., Jr., Saginaw,
Failing,  F.  S., Grand Rapids.
The next meeting of the  Board  will  be 
held  at  Star  Island,  June  25  and  26. 
The  examination  will  be  based  on  the 
Pharmacopoeia  of  1890.  All  applicants 
intending to take the examination should 
file their applications with the  Secretary 
a week before the examination.

make.  Mr.  Bonneil promised to  make  a 
full explanation,  however,  at the earliest 
opportunity.
Peter  Schuit.  from  the  Committee  on 
Crackers,  reported that  Mr.  Christensen 
had informed him that first-class crackers 
could not  be made so as to wholesale  for 
less than 5>£ cents per pound.  A factory 
in  Lansing was  selling  a  cracker  for  4 
cents and Grand  Rapids  factories  could 
make us  cheap goods if  the trade desired 
it.
Henry  Yinkemulder,  from  the  Com­
mittee on Bread,  said the bakers  wanted 
the matter  of a reduction  in  the  whole­
sale price of bread  left  in  abeyance  for 
a  time.  They were  endeavoring  to  ar­
range the matter among themselves, and, 
as soon  as  possible,  would  inform  the 
grocers of the  result.
The  Secretary  read  a  report  on  the 
peddling question, which fully corrobora­
ted the statement made  by  Mr.  Herrick 
at  the  previous  meeting,  that  half  a 
dozen peddlers  were  selling  from  one 
wagon under one  license.  As  the  sub­
stance of the report was embodied  in  an 
article  which  appeared  in  a  recent  is­
sue of T h e  T radesm an,  it  is  unneces­
sary to reproduce it  here.
Under the head of  new  business,  Mr. 
Elliott moved that  a  committee  of  two 
grocers from each ward  be  appointed  to 
interview aldermanic candidates and  as­
certain  their  position  on  the  peddling 
and other questions vital  to the  interests 
of  grocers.  The  motion  prevailed  and 
the President will appoint the committee 
and notify the  appointees.
Mr. Mclnnes  was  absent,  and  so  the 
Association  heard nothing regarding  his 
scheme  for  putting  an  end  to  scheme 
baking powder and  tea.
At  this  point  the  Committee  dn  Re­
freshments presented their report, which, 
after  adjournment,  was  promptly  adop­
ted,  heartily discussed,  and,  it  is  to  be 
hoped,  properly digested,  by  all present.
President Viergever announces the fol­
lowing  ward committees for the  purpose 
above set forth:

First—A.  Brink,  A.  Stryker.
Second—A. J.  Elliot,  E. J.  Herrick.
Third—A.  Buys,  H.  M.  Liesveid.
Fourth—J.  J.  Wagner,  John  H.  Goss.
Fifth—H.  A.  OIney,  Frank Englewood.
Sixth—M.  A.  Tuinstra,  Peter  Seven.
Seventh—A. Yidro,  B.  Van Anrooy.
Eighth—J.  Geo.  Lehman,  Edward  C. 
Ninth—A.  Stratton,  Homer Klap.
Tenth—E.  J.  Carrel,  Aug.  Barthol­
Eleventh—Geo.  H.  Cobb.
Twelfth—B.  S.  Harris, Phil.  Graham.

Jenkins.

omew.

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

Hides—The market shows no improve­
ment.  Buying is of the  hand  to  mouth 
order,  on  account  of  poor  business. 
Prices are merely nominal.

Pelts—Are  bought  for  the  wool,  and 
cheap wool means cheap  pelts,  and  they 
cannot improve  until wool  does.  When 
will  wool 
improve?  Echo  answers, 
“When!”

Furs—The  London  sales  are  on  and 
nothing definite can be known as  to  the 
market until  the  report  from  the  sales 
is received.

Tallow—The  market  has  weakened, 
on account of receipts from South Amer­
ica.  Supply is  short,  however,  which  is 
ominous  for  lower  prices.  Prices  are 
unchanged.

tion.

G ran d  R apids R etail  G ro cers’  A ssocia­
The regular fortnightly meeting of the 
Grand  Rapids  Retail  Grocers’  Associa­
tion was held  in Protective  Brotherhood 
hall Monday evening,  March 5,  President 
Daniel  Yiergever presiding.
A.  Brink,  from the Committee  on  OH, 
reported that  Manager  Bonneil,  of  the 
Standard Oil Co.,  told him that the  Stan­
dard people had not sold oil for  2,  S,  or 
4 ceuts per gallon  at  Zeeland.  He  had 
not had time to look the matter up  thor­
oughly,  and,  as  Mr.  Bonnell’s  time  was 
limited,  he  had uot much of  a  report  to I

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D r u g s   M e d ic in e s•

State  Board  of Pharmacy*

O ne  Year—O ttm ar Eberbach, Ann  Arbor.
T wo  Years—G eorge Gan drum, Ionia.
Three  Y ears—C. A. B ugbee. Cheboygan.
Pour Y ears—S. E. P arkili, Owosso.
F ive Years—F. W. R. P erry, D etroit.
President—Ottm ar Eberbach, Ann Arbor.
S ecretary—S tanley E. P ark ili, O wosso.
T reasu rer—Geo. Gundrum, Ionia.
N ext M eeting—Grand Rapids. March ft  and 7. 
Subsequent  M eetings—Star  Island,  June  85  and  26; 

H oughton, Sept. 1; L ansing, Nov. ft and 7.
M ichigan  State  Pharm aceutical  Asa’n. 
President—A. B. Stevens, Ann Arbor. 
V ice-President—A. F. Parker, Detroit.
Treasurer—W. Dupont,  Detroit.
Secretary—S. A. T hom pson, Detroit.
Grand  Rapids  Pharm aceutical Society. 
President, W alter K. Schm idt;  Sec’y, Ben. Schrouder.

THE  TRAINING OF  THE SHOP.
Professor  Oscar  Oldberg  has  contrib­
uted to the columns  of  the  Apothecary 
quite a  lengthy  paper  on  “Compulsory 
Pharmaceutical Education in  America.” 
The  arguments  seem  to  be  chiefly di­
rected against the possibility of  an  ade­
quate  pharmaceutical  education  being 
attainable in the shops; ergo,  the curricu­
lum of the college is the means by  which 
a thoroughly practical  knowledge of the 
art may be secured.  This is a view from 
one standpoint only. 
Five  of the lead­
ing teaching  institutions of the  country 
have been  in existence by average  forty- 
seven years,  and now  we  are  told  that 
there  are  comparatively  no  educated 
pharmacists  in  the  shops  competent  to 
instruct apprentices. 
Is  this  to  be ac­
cepted as the result of  forty-seven  years 
of systematic collegiate  instruction? 
If 
so,  it  is  not  a flattering testimony, cer­
tainly, to the efficiency  of that system.

the 

By common assent  among pharmacists 
no single cause has tended more to lower 
the status of pharmacy  in  a scientific as­
inseparable  business 
pect  than 
rivalry  of  the  colleges.  Beyond 
the 
number actually needed and  already  es­
tablished  to  meet  the  gradual growth 
and  demand  of  the time,  these institu­
tions  became  enterprises  with  solely 
pecuniary interests, and  these  interests 
became paramount  to  every  other  con­
sideration.  Then  it  was  that  the  true 
sentiment  in  regard  to pharmaceutical 
education  found  expression  in a resolu­
tion passed  by  the  American  Pharma­
ceutical  Association  in  1871  declaring 
“ That  colleges  of  pharmacy  should  be 
controlled by  pharmacists,”  and  that 
practical  experience” in the shop  should 
be  a  sine qua  non among  the require­
ments  for  graduation. 
The  forcible 
truth  of  these  assertions  yet remains, 
and it has  been  repeatedly  emphasized 
by demanding that  this  term of “ practi 
cal  experience”  shall  not  be  less than 
four years.  Colleges  of  pharmacy  had 
begun  to multiply  as  business  ventures 
because pharmacy was growing  and  the 
country was extending.

One notable institution,  in order to se­
cure a share of the patronage of the older 
schools, declared its  purpose  to  open  a 
short cut into the realm of  pharmaceuti­
cal practice and  science,  and  professed 
to make better qualified  pharmacists un­
der  its  newer  methods  of  instruction 
than  the  tutelage  of  the  shop  and the 
then existing  institutions could  possibly 
supply.  This  was  a  tempting offer to 
the  novice,  but  it  received the  severe 
disapproval of  the  prominent  represen­
tatives of the pharmaceutical profession. 
In addition  to this profusion  of  promise 
it  was  even  claimed  that  under 
its 
thorough methods it was not  deemed  an 
essential requirement  that  the  student, 
either before or during his  term  of  tui-

TETE  MICHIG^OsT  TEADESMAN.

theoretical 

tion,  should  even  see  the  interior of a 
drug  store !  This  plan  substituted  a 
limited term  of  months  of  necessarily 
disjointed 
instruction,  and 
of practice,  for a four  years’  service  of 
continuous  exercise 
in  the  manipula­
tions  of  an  art  which  the limits of an 
average  life,  with  uninterrupted  labor 
and study, cannot  compass !  As reason­
ably might it be expected that an artisan 
could acquire a knowledge  of  his  trade 
by studying models of  tools  and  simply 
inspecting  the  material  of  which  he 
should  construct  bis  work.  Need  it 
cause  surprise,  then, 
to  reflect that at 
that time, and  subsequently,  the  major­
ity of the states sought  the enactment of 
pharmacy  laws,  and  created  boards  of 
pharmacy 
the trade against 
the tide of incompetency which was pour­
ing into every accessible quarter?

to  protect 

To the earnest seeking  student,  then, 
no  better  illustration  of  the invaluable 
resources of shop-training  for  acquiring 
an  intimate  knowledge  of the practice 
and of the science can be presented than 
is  found 
the histories of Scheele in 
the old world and of  Procter in  the new.

in 

W m.  B.  T hompson.

Sensible S u g g estio n s for Salesm en.
Rich  people  are  really  the only ones 
who can  afford to  wear shabby  or seedy 
clothes,  and  even  they  are  not  greatly 
addicted  to  the  pursuit of happiness in 
this way.  A  salesman  who  is  always 
neatly  and  well  dressed will  have more 
self-respect,  and command more  respect 
from others.  The advice of old Polonius 
has been in print before,  but  belongs  to 
the  “eternal  verities”  generally,  and  to 
salesmen  particularly. 
thy 
habit  as  thy  purse will admit.  Neat— 
not gaudy—for the apparel oft proclaims 
the man.”

“Costly 

Some people of more or  less  authority 
in  the world  hold that alcohol, discreetly 
used, is the true “elixir  of life;”  that  as 
milk  is  the  “nourishing  wine of child­
hood,” so wine is the  “supporting  milk 
of age;”  and  that  statistics  prove  that 
the use of alcoholic beverages,  instead of 
being a  conspiracy  against  old  age,  is 
conducive  to  health  and  length of  life. 
Others,  of  equal  authority,  condemn 
their use in any quantity, as unnecessary 
dangers to health, to morals and to useful­
ness  and  pronounce  alcohol  in  all  re­
spects the great enemy of mankind.  We 
have no occasion to discuss  the  question 
here, except in so far as it  bears  on  the 
health, character  and success of a  sales­
man.

Selling  ability  generally 

implies  the 
possession of lively  temperament,  quick 
sensibilities and social qualities.  Drink­
ing  habits  are  more  insidious  and less 
easily shaken off  by  such  persons  than 
by  those  who  are  naturally  colder and 
more  phlegmatic.  King  Alcohol,  like 
the  devil,  loves a “shining  mark,”  and 
how  many  generous, 
royal-hearted, 
brilliant and  promising  salesmen  has he 
not gathered in,  all the  way  from  Cape 
Cod to the Golden Gate?  How many  have 
escaped  his  clutches  who  have  been 
selected,  in  times  past,  by great manu­
facturing institutions and kept  “on tap,” 
so to speak,  to show the sights  to  coun­
try customers and  help  them to scatter a 
little “paint” around the  town.

Perhaps there is no class of men  more 
tempted towards  convivial  habits  than 
traveling  men.  For example, 
two  men 
enter into closer friendly  relations  over 
a  social  glass,  and  custom, courtesy or 
policy often make it more expedient that

the salesman should offer  or accept such 
hospitality.  His duties are arduous and 
exacting.  He knows that  he must work 
all  day  and  travel  all night.  He gets 
tired,  and a “ bracer”  is  tempting,  He 
is a stranger and the evening home lights 
in  the  windows  aggravate  his sense of 
loneliness.  He is a social  being,  and he 
wants,  not to read or go to bed, but com­
panionship and relaxation.  What won­
der,  then,  that billiards or  “draw”  with 
a merry party look  attractive!  But they 
are  apt  to  induce  late  hours,  sundry 
drinks and a “hair of  the  same  blamed 
old dog”  in  the morning.

The great  majority  of  traveling  men 
now on the road are,  however,  as correct 
in their habits as under home influences. 
They borrow no strength from  alcoholic 
stimulants.  They  fight  shy  of  every­
thing that is  “loose.”  They  keep their 
heads level and,  as a rule, succeed better 
and last longer.  Most people are so con­
stituted that it is easier for  them  to  ab­
stain  totally  than  be  temperate,  in  a 
measure,  with  alcoholic 
stimulants. 
One  drink  is  too  much and two are not 
enough.  A “nip” now  and  then  easily 
becomes a habit which leads  to an appe­
tite which grows by what it  feeds  upon, 
and  becomes  apparent with other vices. 
“ To drink, or not to  drink,”—that is the 
question,  and  each  must  decide  it  for 
hmself.

O pium   S peculation.

From  th e New York S hipping List.
New  York  is  making  the  price  for 
opium all over  the  world;  the  attention 
of the trade in Smyrna, London and other 
places is directed  to  this  city  because 
here Is the  spot  where the gigantic specu­
lative movement started and  where  it  is 
still  in  progress.  The  names  of  New 
York buyers in  Smyrna  are made  public 
by  underhand means aud cabled  to  Lon­
don,  thus demonstrating  the  importance 
of operations from this center.  The pro­
posed tariff duty, of course, was the signal 
for beginning  the  campaign,  and  if  the 
proposition passes Congress,  a good  har­
vest  will be reaped by the  three  leading 
speculative  operators  in 
this  vicinity 
but,  if the  duty  question proves to  be  a 
delusion  aud a snare,  the  downfall  may 
be  quite  heavy.
the  price  of 
opium  was  also  assisted  by  reports  of 
light  and  damaged  crops.  Correspon 
dents writing  from  Smyrna  now  claim 
that the crops  are in good condition, and 
that an abundant harvest is  expected 
all  districts.  Conflicting  statements  are 
to  be  expected  under  such  unusual 
speculative circumstances,  and It may be 
two months  before  the  actual  truth  is 
known.

The  recent  advance  in 

Northrop,  Robertson  &  Carrier,  the 
Lansing  baking  powder  and  grocers’ 
sundries  house,  keep  five  men  on  the 
road,  three in Michigan—W. T.  Barnard, 
A. B. Casterlin  and  J.  C.  Porter—and 
two in  Kentucky—J.  R.  Harrington  and 
Phil  B.  Thompson—who  represent  the 
Louisville  branch.

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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.

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Established  1868.

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Building  Papers,

Carpet  Linings,

Asbestos  Sheathing 

Asphalt  Beady  Booting,

Asphalt Boot Paints,

Resin,  Coal  Tar, 

Booting and  Paving Pitch,

Tarred  Felt,  Mineral  Wool 
Elastic Roofing Cement, 
Car,  Bridge  aud Iioof Paints, 

and Oils.

Cor.  LOUIS and  CAMP AU  Sta..

In Felt, Composition and Gravel,
Grand  Rapids, 
Mich.
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BY  ADOPTING  THE  COU­
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Advanced—Coriander  Seed. 

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S.  N. Y. Q.  A

Morphia, 8.P. 4W .  2 35®2 60
G,  Co....................  2 25@2 50
Moschus Canton........  @ 40
Myrlstlca, No  1 ........  65®  70
Nux Vomica, (po 20)..  @ 10
Os.  Sepia....................  15®  18
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D.
Co............................  @2 00
Plcls Llq, N.»C., M gal
doz  .........................  @2 00
Plcls Llq., quarts......  @1  00
pints.........   @  85
Pil Hydrarg,  (po. 80)..  @ 50
Piper  Nigra, (po. 22)..  @ 1
Piper Alba, (po $&)__  @  3
Pix  Burgun...............   @  7
Plumbl A cet..............  14®  15
Pul vis Ipecac et opll.. 1  10@1  20 
Pyrethrum,  boxes  H
A P. D.  Co., doz......  @1  25
Pyrethrum,  pv...........  20®  30
Quasslae.................... 
s@  10
Quinta, S. P. A  W..... 34V4039M
S.  German....  27®  37
Rubla  Tlnctorum......   12®  14
SaccharumLactlspv. 
12®  14
Salacln.......................2 00@2 10
Sanguis  Draconls......   40®  50
Sapo,  W......................  12®  14
*  M.......................  10®  12
“  G.......................  @  15

“ 

Seldllts  Mixture........  @  20
Sinapis.......................   @  18
“  opt..................   ®  30
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  De
Voes.......................  @  35
Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes  @  35 
Soda Boras, (po. 11).  .  10®  11 
Soda  et Potass Tart...  27®  30
Soda Carb.................  154®  2
Soda,  Bl-Carb............   @  5
Soda,  Ash.................... 3M@  4
Soda, Sulphas............   @  2
Spts. Ether C o...........  50®  55
“  Myrcia  Dom......  @2 25
“  Myrcia Imp........  @3 00
*'  vlnl  Rect.  bbl.
....7 ....................... 2 25@2  35
Loss 5c gal., cash ten days.
Strychnia Crystal.....1 40@1  45
Sulphur, Subl............   2M@ 3
“  Roll..............  2  @ 2M
Tamarinds................. 
8®  10
Teiebenth Venice......  28®  30
Theobromae.............45  @  48
Vanilla...  ............... 9 00@16 00
Zlncl  Sulph. 
...........  7®  8

oms.

Whale, winter...........  70 
Lard,  extra...............   SO 
Lard, No.  1...............   42 
Linseed, pure raw__  52 

Bbl.  Gal
70
85
45
55

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paints. 

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

70
40
bbl.  lb.
Red Venetian..............ljf  2@8
Ochre, yellow  Mars__1M  2@4
Ber........I*   2@3
“ 
Putty,  commercial  ...2M 2M@8
“  strictly  pure......2%  2M@3
Vermilion Prime Amer­
ican ...................  
13®16
 
Vermilion,  English.... 
65070
Green,  Peninsular......   70@75
Lead,  red....................  6  @6M
“  w hite............... 6  @.6 y,
Whiting, white Span...  @70
Whiting,  Gliders’........  @90
White, Paris  American 
1  0 
Whiting,  Paris  Eng.
Cliff..........................  
1  40
Pioneer Prepared Palntl  20@1  4 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared 
Paints .  ...................1 00@1  20

VABNISHSS.

No. 1 Turp  Coach__ 1  10@1  20
Extra Turp................ 16»®1  70
Coach Body...............2 75@8 00
No. 1 Turp Fnrn....... 1  00@l  10
Eutra Turk Damar__1  55@160
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 
70®75
Turp........................ 

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TINCTURES.

Cubebae...................  .  @ 300
Exechthltos..................   2 50@2 75
Aconltum  Napelli s R.........   60
Krlgeron.........................2 00®2 10
.,  “ 
V.........   50
Gaultherla...........   .. .2 00@2 10
Geranium,  ounce......   @
and myrrh.................  60
Gosslpll, Sem. gal......  70®  _
Arnica................................   50
Hedeoma  ...................1 25@1  40
Asafcetlda............................ 
0
Jumper!......................  50@2 00
Atrope Belladonna..............  60
Lavendula.................  90@2 00
Benzoin...............................   60
Llmonls.......................... 2 40©2 60
„ 
“  .  Co...........................   50
Mentha Piper...................2 85@3 60
Sanguinaria.........................  50
Mentha Yerld................. 2 20@2 30
Barosma.............................   50
Morrhuae, gal..................l 00@1 10
Cantharides........................    75
Myrcia, ounce............   @  50
Capsicum............................  50
Olive..........................   90@3 00
Ca  damon...........................  75
Plcls Liquida, (gal. .35)  10®  12
“  Co...........................  75
_ 
Rlcinl.............  
  1  22@1  28
 
 
Castor..................................1 00
Rosmarlnl............  
75@1  00
Catechu...............................  50
Rosae, ounce...................6 50@8 50
Cinchona............................  50
Succlnl.......................  40®  45
_ 
“  .  Co...........................  60
Sabina.................  ...  90@1  00
Columba.............................   60
Santal  ........ 
3 50@7 00
Conlum...............................  50
Sassafras....................   50®
Cubeba..............................     50
Sinapis, ess, ounce__  @
Digitalis...........................   .  50
Tlgl»..........................  
5
Ergot....................................  50
Thyme.......................   40®
Gentian...............................  50
o p t.................  @
“  Co............................  60
Theobromas...............   15®  20
Gualca................................   so
ammon....................  60
“ 
Zingiber.............................   50
Hyoscyamus.......................  50
Iodine..................................  75
“  Colorless..................   75
Ferri  Chlorldum............  
35
K ino...................................   so
Lobelia................................   so
Myrrh...................................  50
Nux  Vomica.......................  50
Opll.....................................  85
Camphorated...............   50
Deoaor.........................2 00
Aurantl Cortex....................  50
Quassia.................... ..........  50
Rhatany......... ...................  50
Rbel.....................................  50
Cassia  Acutifol...................  50
„ 
Co..............  50
Serpen ta rla .........................  50
Strom onium.........................  60
Tolutan...............................  60
Valerian.............................   50
VeratrumVerlde.................  50

Potassa, Bitart,  pure. 
Potassa, Bitart, com..
Potass Mitras, opt__
Potass Nltras............
Sulphate  po................  15®

Carb..........................
Chlorate  (po  23®25).

POTASSIUM.

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ACIDUM.
Acetlcum...............
8®  10
Benzolcum  German .  65®  75
Boraclc 
..................
20
Carbollcum..............
20®  30
Cltricum...................
52®  55
Hydrochlor..............
3®  5
Nltrocum 
...............
.  10®  12
Oxallcum................. .  10®  12
Phosphorium dll......
20
Sallcÿllcum.............. .1  3001  70
Sulphurleum............ .  1M@  5
Tannlcum................. .1  40®1  60
Tartarlcum...............
30®  33
AMMONIA.
Aqua, 16  deg............
4®  6
20  deg............
6®  8
Carbones  ................. .  12®  14
12®  14
Chlorldum...............
ANILINE.
Black........................ .2 0002 25
Brown.......................
80@1  00
45®  50
Red............................
Yellow...................... 2 50®3 00

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BACCA*.
Cubeae (po  36)........
Juniperus.................
Xantnoxylum...........
BALSAMUM.

25®  30
8®  10
25®  30

Copaiba......................  45®  SO
Peru............................  @1  9C
Terabln, Canada  ....  60®  65
Tolutan......................  35®  50

CORTBX.

Abies,  Canadian....  .........   18
Casai ae  ...............................  11
Cinchona F la v a ............. —   18
Buonymus  atropurp...........  30
Myxlca  Cerlfera, po.............  20
Primus Vlrglnl....................  12
Qulllala,  grd.......................   10
Sassafras  ............................  12
Ulmus Po (Ground  15)........  15

KZTBACTUM.
Glycyrrhlza  Glabra...
“ 
po.........
Haematoz, 15 lb. box..
“ 
Is............
"  Ms...........
“  M«...........
Carbonate Precip........
Citrate and Quinta....
Citrate  Soluble...........
Ferrocy anldum Sol —
Solut  Chloride...........
Su’phate,  com’l .........
pure.............

PEKKU

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PLORA.

Arnica —  
Anthemls  . 
Matricaria

24®
33®
11®
13®
14®
16®
® 15
@3 50
© 80
@ 50
© 15
2
ü
18® 20
30® 35
50® 65

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“ 

«• 
>• 
“ 
“ 

...........

«man.

18® 50
25® 28
35® 50
15® 25
8® 10

ad 
3d 
sifted sorts.. - 
po..........  60® 

Cassia  Acutifol,  Tin
Alx.
Salvia  officinalis,  Ma
Ura Ursl 
Acacia, 1st  picked—   ®  60
....  ©  40
....  ®  30
@  20
80
Aloe,  Barb, (po. 60)...  50®  6o 
“  Cape, (po.  20)...  ®  12
Socotrl, (po.  60).  ©  50
Catechu, Is, Ota, 14 
16)............................  ©  l
Ammnnlae.................  55®  60
Assafcetida, (po. 85)..  40®  45
Bensolnum.................  50®  55
Camphora..................   48®  50
Buphorblum  po  ........  35®  lo
Galbanum...................  @2 50
Gamboge,  po.............   70®  <b
Gualacum, (po  35)  ...  @ 30
Kino,  (po  1  10).........   @1  15
M astic.......................   @ 80
Myrrh, (po. 45)...........  @  jo
Opll  (po  4 29@4 30). .3 25@3 35
Shellac 
....................  35®  42
bleached......   33®  35
Tragacanth................  40@1 00

“ 
hnkba—In ounce packages.

Absinthium.........................  35
Eupatorlum.........................  20
Lobelia.................................  25
Majorum.............................   28
Mentha  Piperita.................   23
“  V lr.........................  25
Hue.......................................  8°
Tanaoetum, V ......................  22
Thymus,  V..........................   25
Calcined, Pat..............  55®  60
Carbonate,  Pat...........  20®  22
Carbonate, K. &  M —   20®  25 
Carbonate, Jennings..  35®  36 

KAOHBSIA.

OLBUX.

50@4 00

70@1 80
25®3 50

Absinthium................ 3 
Amygdalae, Dulc------  45®  75
Amydalae, Amarae— 8 00@8 25
Anlsl........................... 1 
Aurantl  Cortex...........2 30@2 40
Bergamll  ...................3 
Cajlputl.................... 
60®  65
Caryophyili................  75®  80
Cedar.........................  35®  65
Chenopodll................  @1  60
Clnnamonll.................1 
Cltronella..................   @  45
Conlum  Mac..............  36®  65
Copaiba  ....................   80®  90

10©1 15

Arum,  po.

Iris plox (po. 35@38).
Jalapa,  pr.................
Maranta,  M s...........

Glychrrhlza, (pv. 15).. 
Hydrastis  Canaden,
(no. 35)...................
Hellebore,  Ala,  po__

15© 18
13® 14
40® 43
12® 15
24® 26
50® 55
96@3 00
27® 30
@ 15
8® 10
7@ 9
28® 30
15® 18
20® 25
22® 25
12® 15
® 25
20® 40
8® 10
16® 18
® 30
15® 20
15® 20
60@1 75
35® 40
40® 45
® 35
15® 18
75®1 00
®1 75
75®1 35
35® 38
® 20
30® 32
55® 60
® 40
® 25
10® 12
® 35
® 25
15® 20
18® 20
18® 20
© 15
15© 18
4® 6
10® 12
(10® 1 25
11® 13
4© 5
75®1 00
10® 12
2502 50
Foenlculum......
© 15
Foenugreek,  po..
6© 8
L int............................4  @ 4M
Llnl, grd.  (bbl. 3M>...  3M© 4
Lobelia.........................  35® 40
Pharlarls Canarian__  3  @ 4
Rapa.......................... 
6®  7
Sinapis  Albu............   7 @8
Nigra...........  11®  12

Sanguinaria, (po  25)..
Serpentaria.................
Senega .......................
Slmllax, Officinalis,  H 
■’ 
M
lae, (po. 85)...........
Symplocarpus,  FcbU-
dus,  po....................
Valeriana, Bng. (po.30) 
German...
_giber a .................
Zingiber  j ...............
s m s .  
Anlsum,  (po.  20).. 
Aplum  (graveleons)..

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8PIHITU8.
2 00®2 50 
Frumenti, W.,D.  Co. 
D. F. R  ...
1  75@2 00 
1  25@1  50 
1  65®2 00 
Junlperls  Co. Ó. T ...
1  75®3 50
Saacharum  N.  B........ 1  75@2 00
Spt.  VinI  Galll.........   1  75@6 50
Vmi Oporto................1  25@2 00
Vlnl  Alba.................. 1  2502 00

SPOK8K8.

Florida  sheeps’  wool
carriage...................2 50@2 75
Nassau  sheeps’  wool
carriage  .................
2 00 
Velvet  extra  sheeps’
wool  carriage.........
1  10
Extra  yellow  sheeps’
carriage...................
Grass sheeps’ wool car­
riage  .......................
Hard for  slate  use—
Yellow Reef, for  slate 
u se..........................

1  40

8YBUPB.

Acoacla...............................  50
Zingiber  .............................   50
Ipecac..................................   60
Ferri Iod.............................   50
Aurantl  Cortes....................   56
Rhei Arom..........................   50
Slmllax  Officinalis..............  60
Co........  50
Senega................................   50
Sdllae..................................  50
“  Co.............................   50
Tom ta n ..............................   50
Frunus  vlrg........................   50

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MISCELLANEOUS.

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Æther, Spts  MU, 3 F..  28®  30 
“  4 P ..  32®  34
Alumen.....................   2M@ 3

“ 
ground,  (po.
7).............................  
3®  4
Annatto......................  55®  60
4®  5
Antimoni, po.............. 
et Potass T.  55®  60
Antipyrin..................   @1  40
Antlfebrln..................  @  25
Argenti  Nltras, ounce  @  49
Arsenicum................. 
5®  7
Balm Gilead  Bud__ 
38®  40
Bismuth  S.  N ............ 2 20@2 25
Calcium Chlor, Is, (Ms
12;  Ms,  14)..............  @  11
Cantharides  Russian, 
@1 00 
po............................
Capsid  Fructus, af.
@  26 
@  28 
@  20 
B  p o .
Caryophyllus, (po.  15)  ■ 
_
10®   12
Carmine,  No. 40.........   @3 76
Cera  Alba, S. A F ......   50®  55
Cera Flava.................  38®  40
Coccus  ......................  @  40
lassia Fructus...........  @  25
Centrarla....................  @  10
Cetaceum...................  ©  40
Chloroform...............   60®  63
s^ulbbs ..  @1  26
'hloral Hyd <
1  50Q1  80
Chondrus..................   20®
Clnohonldlne, P.  A  W  15®
German  3M© 
Corks,  list,  dls.  per
cent  .....................
Creaaotnm......
@ 35
Creta, (bbl. 76).
© 2
prep........
5® 5
pradp__
9® 11
Rubra__
© 8
Crocus ............
50© 65
Cudbear...........
© 24
Cuprl Sulph...
5 ® 6
Dextrine.........
10© 12
Ether Sulph................  70®
70© 75
Emery,  all  numbers
©
„ 
PO.............
© 6
Brgota. (po.)  75......
70© 75
Flake  white...........
12© 15
Galla.......................
© 23
Gambler...................
7  @ 8
Gelatin,  Cooper.........   @
French...........  40®
Glassware  flint, by box 80.
Less than box 75.
Glue,  Brown.............. 
9®
15 
“  White................  19®
25 
Glycerins...................  14®
20 
Grana Paradlsl...........  @
22 
Hnmulus....................   25®
55 
Hydraag Chlor  Mite..
85 
©
“  Cor 
80 m
Ox Rubrum
Ammonlatl..
@1  00 
45®  55 
Unguentum.
Hydrargyrum............
©  64 
1  25®1 50
_
Icnthyobolla, Am. 
Indigo........................   75@1 00
Iodine,  Resubl...........3 80@3 90
Iodoform....................  @4 70
Lupulin......................  @2 25
Lycopodium..............  70®  75
Macls.........................  70®  75
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy­
drarg Iod.................  @  27
Liquor Potass Arslnltls  10®  12
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
Mannla,  S. F ..............  60®  68

1M)............................ 3K© 4

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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,

G R O C E R Y   P R I C E   C U R R E N T .

The nriceB quoted in this list are for the  trade only, in such quantities as are usually purchased by retail  dealers.  They are prepared just before 
« in  J to  p Z   and ^  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 e oser than 
those who  have poor  credit.  Subscribers  are  earnestly requested to  point  out  any  errors or omissions, as it is our  aim to make  this feature of  t  e 
greatest possible  use to dealers.

AXLE GREASE.
doz

Aurora....................
Castor Oil..............
Diamond.................  59
Frazer’s ................. 
**
Mica  .....................   65
Paragon 
................  55

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

BAKING  POWDER.

Cream  Flake.

Acme.
u  lb. cans, 3 do*...............   ®
*  “  ................  75
2  lb.  " 
1 60 10
lib .  “ 
1 
........
Bulk............Arctic.
u  ib cans 6 doz  case.........  
55
5  1b  “  4 doz  “ 
.........   1  I®
1  lb  “  2 doz  “ 
........
2  00 
9 00
5  t>  “  1 dor  “ 
........
45 
3  oz  “  6 doz  “ 
........
60 
4  oz  “  4 doz  “ 
........
SO 
6  oz  “  4 doz  “ 
........
1  10 
8  oz  “  4 doz 
• 
.......
2 00 
1  t>  “  2 doz 
.......
9 00 
ldoz  “ 
5  lb  “ 
......
40 
Red Star. 34 1b cans
75 
........
54 lb  “ 
1 40 
1*>  “ 
•••■
45 
Teller’s,  14 lb. cans, do*
85 
54 lb.  “ 
“
1 50
1 lb.  “
Our Leader, 14 lb cans...
54lb cans........  75
1 lb cans  - ■ •  -  *  aM

“ 
“ 
“ 
•• 
“ 
*• 

BATH  BRICK.
2 dozen In case.

English...............................
Bristol..................................  00
Dojwstic.................

BLUING. 

Gross

Arctic, 4 0*  ovals..................   3 60

g Q2 

44 
. . . . . . . . . .   6  VO
«  pints,  round......  9 00
“  No. 2, sifting box. ..  2 75
«  No. 5, 
-  •  g 2J
“  1 o* ball  ...................* **
<i 
8 OZ............   6  80

Mexican Liquid, 4 oz........  3

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BROOMS,

a i l ? “::::::::::::::::::;«
19
Parlor Gem.......................a 
80 
Common Whisk...........
1  00 
Fancy 
...........
3 00
Warehouse..................
BRUSHES, 

' 

stove. No.  1...................  J 

j*
1  50 
1  75 
86 
1  25 
1  50

Rice Root Scrub, 2  row. ■ • 
Rice Boot  Scrub, 8 row... 
Palmetto,  gooae................

CANDLES. 
........

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

“ 

CANNED  GOODS. 

Pish.
Clams.

" 

« 

“ 

...1  20
Little Neck,  lib ...........
“  2  lb........... ....1  90
Clam Chowder.
...2 25
Standard. 8 lb................
Cove Oysters.
...  75
Standard,  1 lb..............
... 145
21b..............
Lobsters.
...2  45
Star,  1  ib......................
...8 50
“  2  lb......................
.2 00
Picnic, 1 lb....................
...2 90
21b....................
“ 
Mackerel.
Standard, 1 lb............... ...1   10
2  lb.............. ....2 10
... .2 25
Mustard,  2 ib..............
...2 25
Tomato Sauce,  2 lb......
Soused, 2  lb.................. . 
.2 25
Colombia River, flat — ...1  80
tails__ .  .  1  65
Alaska, Red.................. ....1  26
...1   10 
pink..................
...1   96
Kinney’s,  flats.............
Sardines.
American  34*............... 454® 5
/4s.............. • 654© 2  
..  @X>
Imported  54*.................
15@16
Mustard  M*................... ..  7@8
21
Boneless.......................
....2 50
Brook i, lb

Salmon.
“ 

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Trout.
Fruits.
Apples.

3 lb. standard............
York State, gallons__
Hamburgh,  *•  __

1  10
3 26

Gages.

Apricots.
Live oak......................
Santa Cru*.................
Lusk’s .........................
Overland 
.........
Blackberries.
A  W.......................
Cherries.

1  40 
1  40 
1  50 
1  10
90
Red............................  1  10@1 26
1  75
Pitted Hamburgh  . . . .  
W hite......................... 
1  50
Erie............................ 
1  36
Damsons. Egg Plums and Green 
1  20 
E rie............................
1  40
California..................
Gooseberries.
1  25
Common...................
Peaches.
90 
Pie............................
1  26
Maxwell....................
Shepard’s ..................
California..................   160@1  75
.................
Monitor 
Oxford........................
Pears.
Domestic.................... 
1  25
Riverside.................... 
1 75
Pineapples.
Common..................... 1  00@1 30
Johnson’s  sliced........ 
2 50
2 75
grated........ 
Booth’s sliced............  @2 5)
grated...........  @2 75
Qninces.
Common....................
1  10
Raspberries.
Red  ............................
1  10 
1  50 
Black  Hamburg.........
1  20
Erie,  black 
. . .
Strawberries.
1  26 
Lawrence...................
1  25 
Hamburgh.................
Erie............................
1  20
Terrapin....................... 
1  05
Whortleberries.
85
Blueberries...............
Corned  beef  Libby’s..........1  96
Roast beef  Armour’s ..........1  80
Potted  ham, 54 lb................1  40
“  14 lb.................  85
tongue, H lb............. 1  35
14 lb..........  85
chicken, 14 lb.........  96

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Vegetables.

Meats.

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Beans.

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Peas.

Com.

Hamburgh  stringless..........1  25
French style.......2 26
Limas..................1  35
Lima, green......................... 1  25
soaked...........  65
Lewis Boston Baked..........1 86
Bay State  Baked  ..  ...........1 35
World’s  Fair  Baked..........1  36
Picnic Baked...................... 1  00
Hamburgh......................... 1 40
Livingston  E den...............1 90
Purity
Honey  Dew..............................1 40
Morning Glory
Soaked...............................  75
Hamburgh  marrofat............1 85
early Jane
Champion Eng.. 1  50
petit  pots............1 75
fancy  sifted___ 1 90
Soaked.................................  65
Harris standard...................  75
VanCamp’s  marrofat........ 1  10
early June...... 1  30
Archer’s  Early Blossom__1  25
French............................... 2 15
French..............................19@2l
Brie.................................... 
85
Hubbard...................................1 15
Hamburg...................................1 40
Soaked.......— .....................  85
Honey  Dew....................... 1  50
Erie....................................1  85
Hancock............................  1  10
Excelsior 
Eclipse...
Hamburg
Gallon...............................  3 50

Mushrooms.
Pumpkin.
Squash.
Snccotaah

Tomatoes

“ 

CHOCOLATE. 

Baker’s.

23
37

.  ...... 

German Sweet............ 
Premium..........................  
Breakfast  Cocoa......
CHEESE.
Amboy......................
Acme............................  12)4013
Lenawee....................  @1254
1354
Riverside  ... 
Gold  Medal...............   @11)4
Skim............................. 
6@10
11
Brick.......................... 
E dam ............................ 
100
Leiden....................... 
23
Llmburger  ...................  @15
Pineapple......................  @25
Roquefort______  ...  @36
Sap Sago.......................   @21
Schweitzer, Imported.  @24 
domestic  ....  @14

“ 

CATSUP.

Blue Label Brand.

“ 

Half  pint. 25 bottles..........2 75
.  ------  4 S*»
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.

5 gross boxes................ 4I@45

COCOA  SHELLS.

__ lb  bags......................  @3
Less  quantity...............   @354
Pound  packages..........644 @7

COFFEE.
Green.
Rio.

Santos.

Mexican and Guatamala.

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

Maracaibo.

Mocha.

 

Roasted.

To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add 54c. per lb. for roast 
Ing and 15 per  cent,  for shrink 
age.
Package. 
McLaughlin’s  XXXX..  23 95
Bunola 
.........................  2) 45
Lion, 60 or 100 lb.  case —   23 95 

Extract.

Valley City 54 gross...........  75
1  15
Felix 
Hommel’s, foil, gross.......  1 65
“ 
........  2 85

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tin 
CHICORV.

Bulk.
Red..

CLOTHES  LINES. 

Cotton,  40ft......... perdo*.  1 25
1 40 
1
1  76 
1  90 
85 
1  00

50 ft. 
60 ft... 
70 ft... 
80 ft... 
60 ft... 
72 ft  ..

CONDENSED  MILK. 

4 do*. In case.

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

 

Peerless Evaporated Cream. 

CREDIT  CHECKS.

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

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

Bonders’.

Regular 
Grade 
Lemon.

doz
2 os  ...  8  75 
4 oz  —   1  50

Regular 
Vanilla.

doz
2 oz  ....81  20 
4 oz........2 40
XX Grade 
Lemon.
2oz.......81  50
4 oz........ 3 00
XX Grade 
Vanilla.
2 oz.......81  75
_14 oz..........3 50

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Jennings.
Lemon. Vanilla 
01 regular panel.  75 
1  20 
2  00 
oz 
.150
3 00 
os 
...2  00
No. 3 taper.......... 1  35
2 00 
2 50
io. 4  taper.......... 1  50
Northrop’*
Lemon.  Vanilla.
oval taper  75 
1  20 85 
1  60
PAPER.

oz regular
FLY

1  20 
2 25

T hum ’s Tanglefoot.

Single  case..............................3 60
Five case lots...........................3 50
Ten case  lots...........................3 40
Less than one case, 4^0 per box 

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  kegs.................................2 40
Quarter kegs..........................   1 35
‘ lb cans.............................   34
Kegs  ..................................11  00
Half  kegs  .........................  5 75
Quarter kegs............................ 3 00
1 lb  cans............................  60
Sage.....................................16
Hops....................................15

Eagle Duck—Dupont’s.

HERBS.

INDIGO.

Madras,  51b. boxes.........  
55
S. F., 2,3 and 5 lb. boxes.. 
50
JELLY.
17  lb. palls.................  @  49
30  " 
................  @  70
Pure.........................................80
Calabria...............................  25
Sicily.... ...............................  12

“ 
LICORICE.

LYE.
Condensed, 2 do*...............1  25
4 doz................2 25

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MINCE  MEAT.

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

MEASURES.
Tin, per dozen.

1  gallon 
..................... 81  75
Half  gallon.....................  140
Q uait............................... 
70
P int..................................  
45
Half  pint  .......................  
40
Wooden, for vinegar, per doz.
1 gallon............................  7 00
Half gallon....... ..............  4 75
Q uart...............................  3 1
2 26
Pint

MOLASSES.
Blackstrap.
Sugar house..................
Cuba Baking.
Ordinary.......................
Porto Rloo.
Prim e........  .................
Fancy....................... .

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"Tradesman.’
8 1 books, per  hnndred 
12 
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1 8 “
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...................
810 
820 
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3  1 books, per hundred 
8 2 
8 3
8 5
810 
820 

“Superior.”

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

Foreign.
Currants.

Peel.

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

In  54-bbls..............  2)4
In less quantity —  
254
cleaned,  bulk........  5
cleaned,  package.. 
554 

Citron, Leghorn, 26 lb. boxes  12 
8
10

25  “ 
25 “ 

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

@  8 
•  754  @ 8

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Prunes.
California,  100-120 ..............5
90x100 26 lb. bxs. 
80x90 
70x80 
60x70 

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

Universal.”

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.  83 00 
8  1  books, per hundred 
3 50
.... 
8 2 
. 4  00
8 3 
.... 
5 00
3 5 
...  6 00
$10 
120 
7 00
Above prices on coupon books 
are  subject  to  the  following 
quantity discounts:
200 books or over..  5 per  cent 
500  “ 
1000  “ 
COUPON  PASS  BOOKS. 
(Can  be  made to represent any 
denomination  from 810 down.1 
20 books....................... 8  1  00
50
2 00 
3 00 
100
6 25 
250
500
10 00 
17 50
1000

-10 
.20 

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CRACKERS.

Butter.

Seymour XXX....................... 554
Seymour XXX, cartoon........6
Family  XXX.....................   654
Family XXX,  cartoon........
Salted XXX...........................554
Salted XXX,  cartoon  ........6
Kenosha 
.........................  754
Boston..................................  7
Batter  biscuit......................6
Soda, XXX.........................  554
Soda, City..............................7*4
Soda,  Duchess....................  854
Crystal Wafer...................... 1054
Long  Island W afers..........11
S. Oyster  XXX.....................554
City Oyster. XXX...............   554
Farina  Oyster...................... 6

Oyster.

Soda.

 

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CREAM  TARTAR.
__  Ictly  pure.....................  
*>
39
Telfer's  Absolute.............. 
Grocers’............................ 15@2S
DRIED  FRUITS. 

Domestic.
Apples.
Sundried, sliced In bbls. 
7
quartered 
7!
Evaporated, 59 lb. boxes  10  1
Apricots.
California In  bags........ 
14
1454
Evaporated In boxes 
Blackberries.
In  boxes—  
 
Nectarines.
70 lb. bags........................10
251b. boxes......................1054
Peeled, In  boxes...........
 
Cal. evap.  “ 
In bags...... 10
“ 
Pears.
California In bags 
It
Pitted Cherries
Barrels..........................
50 lb. boxes..................
26  “ 
...................10
Pranelles.
801b.  boxes.................  15
Raspberries.
In  barrels......................
50 lb. boxes....................
......................
25 lb.  “ 
Raisins.

Peaches.

  U54

Loose  Muscatels In Boxes
2 crown 
...........................   1
1
“ 
3 
1
4  “ 
Loose Muscatels In Bags.
2  crown.............................. 334
3 
...............................454
New Orleans.
F air..................................
Good.................................
Extra good........................
Choice.............................
Fancy...............................

One-half barrels. 8c extra.

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No. 1,654..........................  *1  76
No. 2. 654..........................  1 80
No. 1, 6.............................  1 65
No. 2, 6.............................   150

Lima  Beans.

XX  wood, white.
¡,6*4Manilla, white.

No. 1,654..........................  1 35
1  25
No. !
1  00 
6*4
96
Coin.
1  00
Mill  NO. 4...........
FARINACEOUS  GOODS. 
Farina.
100 lb. kegs................... 
3h
Hominy.
Barrels 
.......................   2 75
G rits........................................ 3 U)
Dried............................  3@3fc
Maccaroni and Vermicelli
Domestic, 12 lb. box__  
55
Imported.....................1054@-1
Barrels 200.......................   4 !
Half barrels 100......... 
  2  25
Pearl Barley.
Kegs.................................  254
Green,  bn.............................  1 25
Split  per l b ..............
Rolled  Oats.
Barrels  180.................  @4  2ii
Half  bbls 90..............  @2 25
German.............................  454
East India..........................  5

Oatmeal.

Sago.

Peas.

Wheat.

Cracked..

FISH -Salt. 
Yarmouth  ...................

Bloaters. 

3*

Cod.

“ 

bbl  9 50

Pollock..........................
Whole, Grand  Bank......   5@554
Boneless,  bricks............ 6@8
Boneless, strips..............  6@8
Halibut.
Smoked....................... 9*4@1254
Herring.
Holland, white hoops keg
“ 
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8
Norwegian 
..............
Round, 54 bbl 100 lbs  ......  2 50
k   “  40  “  ......  
13
Scaled............................... 
20
No. 1,  100 lbs....................  11  00
No. 1, 40 lbs.......................   4
No. 1,  10 lbs............................  1 an
No. 2,100 lbs...... 
...........
* 0. 2, 40 lbs............................  3 50
No. 2,10 lbs  .....................
Family, 90 lbs....................   6

Mackerel.

10  lbs .....................  .

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Sardines.
Trout.

Russian,  kegs....................
No. 1, 54 bbls., lOulbB........... 6
No. 1 34 bbl, 40  lbs.............. 2
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs.................
No  1,81b  kits....................

Whitetlah.

Family 

No. 1

*4 bbls, 100 lbs..........87 50 83
34  “  40  “  ..........  3 59  165
10 lb.  kits..................  
90 
50
81b.  “ 
45
 
75 
MATCHES.
No. 9  sulphur.......................1 65
Anchor parlor......................1 70
No. 2 home...........................1 10
Export  parlor......................4 00

 

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Medium.

Barrels, 1,200 coant...  ©4  50
Half bbls, ($00  count..  @2 75
5 50
Barrels, 2,400 count. 
Half bbls, 1,200 count 
3 25

Small.

PIPES.

Clay, No.  21«........................1  70
“  T. D. full count...........  70
Cob, No. 3............................ 1 20

POTASH.

48 cans In case.

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

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

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

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SPICES.

Whole Sifted.

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AUsplce...............................
Cassia, China In mats........
“  Batavia in bund__
“ 
Saigon in rolls........
Cloves,  Amboyna................
“ 
Zanzibar.................
Mace  Batavia......................
Nutmegs, fancy...................
“  No.  1.......................
“  No. 2.......................
Pepper, Singapore, black —
“ 
“  white...  .
shot.......................
“ 
Pure Ground In Bn lk.
Allspice...............................
Cassia,  Batavia..................
and  Saigon.
Saigon..................
Cloves,  Amboyna...............
Ginger, African..................
Cochin.................
Jamaica — .........
Mace  Batavia......................
Mustard,  Bng. and Trieste..
Trieste..................
Nutmegs, No. 2 ..................
Pepper, Singapore, black —
“  white......
“ 
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Cayenne........ .......
S ag e...................................
•‘Absolute” In Packages,
Allspice......................  84
Cinnamon..................   84
Cloves.........................  84
Ginger,  Jam aica......  84
“  African...........  84
Mustard......................  84
Pepper.......................   84
Sage...................  —   84

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3222
11)4
80
75
70
6010
20
16
15 
18 
25 
35
181«
20
226622

25
75
16 
24 20 
30
'  Hs 
1  55 
1  55 
1  55 
1  55 
1  55 
1  55 
1  55

8AL SODA.

Kegs...................................  1)4
Granulated,  boxes..............  lit

SEEDS.

A nise.........................  @15
Canary, Smyrna......... 
-  4
Caraway.................... 
8
Cardamon, Malabar... 
90 
UC1UU,  1IUOOJ
Hemp,  Russian.......... 
414
Mixed  Bird 
Mustard,  white.
Poppy ................
Rape.................
Cuttle  bone......

STARCH.

Corn.

 

 

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20-lb  boxes..........................   514
40-lb 
5)4
Gloss.
1-lb packages.......................  5
3-lb 
.......................5
6-lb 
 
6)4
40 and 50 lb. boxes..............  3)4
Barrels................................   3)4

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SNUFF.

Scotch, In  bladders.............87
Maccaboy, In Jars................35
French Rappee, In Jars......43

SODA.

Boxes....................................5)»
Kegs, English.....................   .414

SALT.
 
 

 
 

100 3-lb. sacks......................... 12 15
60 5-lb.  “ 
28 10-lb.  sacks......................   1 85
2014-lb.  “ 
24 j-id  cases......................
56 lb. dairy In linen  bags.. 
28 lb.  “ 
drill  “  16
56 lb. dairy In drill  bags... 
281b.  “ 
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56 lb. dairy In linen sacks..

2 00
1  80
1  au
32
18
82
18
75

Warsaw.

Ashton.

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Higgins.

56 lb. dairy In linen  sacks.

Soi&r Rock.

56 Id.  sacks.......................

Common Fine.

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

75

25

75
75

Packed 60 lbs. In box.

Church’s ........................... 5H
DeLand’s .......................... ■  6)4
Dwight’s ............................ •  5H
Taylor’s ............ .'............... .  5

SOAP.
Lanndry.

Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.

Proctor & Gamble.

Old Country,  80  1-lb.......... 3 20
Good Cheer, 601 lb............. 3 90
White Borax, 100  14 lb....... 3 65
Concord  ............................3 45
Ivory, 10  oz.......................6 75
6  oz.........................4 00
Lenox 
.........................  3 65
Mottled German................3  15
Town Talk...........................325

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Dingman Brands.

“ 

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

Silver.................................. 3 65
Mono.................................. 3 30
Savon Improved  ................2 50
Sunflower...........................2 80
Golden  ............................... 3 25
Economical  .......................  2 25

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

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Scouring.

SUGAR.

The  following  prices  repre­
sent the actual selling prices in 
Grand Rapids, based on the act­
ual cost in New  York,  with  30 
cents per 100 pounds added  for 
freight.  The  same  quotations 
will not apply to any town where 
the freight rate from New York 
1b  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 14
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 42
No.  6........................................ 4 36
No.  7.........................................4 30
No.  8........................................ 4 17
No.  9............  
No.  10.......................................4 05
No.  11.......................................3 99
No.  12....................................  3 92
No.  13.....................................  3 86
No 14.............................  

3 74

4 11

 

SYRUPS.

Corn.

Barrels................................. 15)4
Half bbls.............................. 17)4
F air.....................................   19
Good....................................  25
Choice..................................  30

Pure Cane.

TABLE  SAUCES.

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

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TEAS.

Japan—Regular.

SUN CUBED.

BASKET  FIRED.

F air............................  @17
Good..........................   @20
Choice........................ ..24 @26
Choicest........................32 @34
D ust............................. 10 @12
F air............................  @17
G o o d ........................  @20
Choice...........................24 @26
Choicest....................... 32 @34
Dust..............................10 @12
F air..............................18 @20
Choice.........................  @25
Choicest....................   @35
Extra choice, wire leaf  @40
Common to fall........... 25 @35
Extra fine to finest— 50  @66
Choicest fancy.............75 @85
@26
Common to fair...........23 @30
Common to  fair...........23 @26
Superior to fine............ 30  @35
CommoL to fair........... 18  @26
Superior to  fine...........30  @40
Fair  ...........................18  @22
Choice.......................... 24  @28
Best............................. 40  @50

oolong. 
IMPERIAL.

ENGLISH BREAKFAST.

TOUNG HYSON.

e UNPOWDER.

TOBACCOS.

Fine Cut.

27
29
24
28
23

 

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

“  % bbls.......... 

in  drums.... 

Flag.

23

22

“ 

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

39
27
40
26
38
34
4<i
32
39
30

24
43
32
31
27

Smoking.

Catlin’s  Brands.

 

Kiln  dried  ...................... 17@18
Golden  Shower  ..................19
Huntress  ................ 
26
Meerschaum  ................... 29@30
American Eagle Co.’s Brands.
Myrtle Navy........................40
Stork 
...........................3G@32
German  ..............................15
F ro g ....................................33
Java, )4s foil.......................32
Banner Tobacco Co.’s Brands.
Banner.................................16
Banner Cavendish..............38
...........................28
Gold Cut 

Scotten’s Brands.

Brands.

Warpath..............................15
Honey Dew......................... 96
Gold  Block......................... 30
F. F. Adams Tobacco Co.’s 
Peerless............................... 26
Old  Tom..............................18
Standard........................ — 22
Globe Tobacco Co.’s Brands.
Handmade.........................41
Rob  Roy..............................26
Uncle  Sam.....................28@32
Red Clover...........................32

Leidersdorfs Brands.

Spaulding & Merrick.

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

VINEGAR.

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

(1 for barrel.

 

YEAST.

WET  MUSTARD.
Bulk, per g a l................... 
30
Beer mug, 2 doz In case...  1  75 
Magic,...................................... 1 00
Warner’s  .................  
Yeast Foam  ........................1 00
Diamond.............................   75
Royal..................................   90
HIDES  PELTS  and  FURS 
Perkins  &  Hess  pay  as  fol­
lows:
Green............................  2@2)4
Part Cured....................   @3
Full  “ 
@3)4
Dry..............................  4 @5
Kips, green  ...............   2  @3
Calfskins,  green........  4  @5
cured........4  )»@  6
Deacon skins...............1C @25

“  cured....................   @4

HIDES.

“ 

 

 

No. 2 hides it off.
PELTS.

WOOL.

MISCELLANEOUS.

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

PURS.

“ 

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

deerskins—per pound.

10
10
15
25

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

Tubs,No. 1.........................  600
“  No. 2.........................5 50
“  No. 3.........................  4 50
1  30 
“  No. 1,  three-hoop—   1  50
13  “ 
“ 
....................   90
“ 
15  “  .................... 1 25
“ 
17  “ 
....................   1  80
19  “ 
“ 
...................2 40
21  “ 
...................
Baskets, market.................   35
“ 
shipping  bushel..  1  15 
“ 
..  1  25
full  noop  “ 
“  willow cl’ths, No.l 5 25 
“ 
“  No.2 6 25
“  No.3 7 25
“ 
“  No.l 3 75
“  No.2 4 25
“ 
“ 
**  No.3 4 75

“ 
“ 
splint 
‘ 

INDURATED WARE.

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

Butter Plates—Oval.
250 

Washboards—single.

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

Double.

1 00

WHEAT.

MEAL.

52
No. 1 White (58 lb. test) 
No. 2 Red (60 lb. test) 
62
Bolted.............................   140
Granulated.......................  1 65
FLOUR  IN  SACKS.
»Patents............................
2  10 
1  60 
«Standards....................
1  50 
•Straight..........................
1  55
Bakers’. . .........................
•Graham..  ......................
Rye...................................
count.
dltlonal.

•Subject  to  usual  cash 
Flour in bbls., 25c per bbl 

. ad-

MILLSTUFFS.

Less
Car lots  quantity
«16 00
13 00
16 50
16 50
16 50

Bran............... 615  00 
Screenings__  12  50 
Middlings......  15  50 
Mixed Feed... 16 on 
Coarse meal  ..  15 50 
Car  lots.............................. 39
Less than  car  lots............. 42
Car  lots  ..............................33)4
Less than car lots...............36

CORN.

OATS.

HAY.
No. 1 Timothy, car lots__11  °0
No. 1 
ton lots....... 12 50

“ 

12)4

FISH  AND  OYSTERS.
F.  J.  Dettenthaler  quotes as 

follows:
FRESH  FISH.
Whlteflsh 
.................  @9
T ro u t.........................  @9
Black Bass................. 
Halibut.......................   @15
Ciscoes or Herring —   @5
Blueflsh......................  @15
Fresh lobster, per lb.. 
20
Cod.............................  
10
No. 1 Pickerel............   @10
Pike............................  @ 8
Smoked White...........  @9
Red  Snappers......... . 
12
Columbia  River  Sal­
mon ......................... 
12)4
Mackerel....................  20@25
oysters—Cans. 
Falrhaven  Counts —   @35
F. J. D.  Selects.........   @30
Selects.......................  @23
F. J. D.........................  @23
Anchors.................  ..  @20
Standards...................  @18
Favorite......................  @16
oysters—Bulk.
175
Extra Selects..per gal. 
Selects ........................ 
1  40
1  00
Standards................... 
Counts....................... 
2 20
1  50
Scallops...................... 
Shrimps  .................... 
1
Clams........................  
125
SHELL  GOODS.
Oysters, per  100......... 1  25@1  50
Clams, 
75@1  00

“ 

 

 

FKOVISIONS.

SAUSAGE.

PORK  IN  BARRELS.

The Grand Rapids  Packing  and Provision Co. 

quotes as follows:
Mess.................................  .........................  13  75
Short c u t..................................................  
13 25
Extra clear pig, short cut............................  15(0
Extra clear,  heavy......................................
Clear, fat back...........................................   14  as
Boston clear, short cut................................  14 50
Clear back, short cut...................................   14 50
Standard clear, short cut. best................. 
l i  50
7j$
Pork, links............................................. 
Bologna.................................................. 
544
Liver..................................................... 
e
Tongue.........................................  
s)4
Blood .....................................................
Head cheese.......................................... 
6
Summer.................   .............................. 
10
Frankfurts............................................ 
7)4
Kettle  Rendered  ............................................. gj:
Granger........................................................... »
Family.............................................................   6)4
Compound.......................................................  e
Cottolene.......................................................... 7)4
50 lb. Tins,  *4C advance.
20 lb.  pails, He 
101b.  “ 
=j£c 
5 lb.  “  %c 
’• 
3 lb. 
1  c

LARD.

*"•
“
“

 

BEEF  IN  BARRELS.

 

“ 
“ 

“ 
‘ 
“ 
“ 

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

Extra Mess, warranted 200 lbs.......................   7 50
Extra Mess, Chicago packing..........................   7 50
Boneless, rump butts............. 
10 00
Hams, average 20 lbs......................................   9h
16 lbs................................   9%@10
12 to 14 lbs...............................10
picnic........................................................8
best boneless......................................   9
Shoulders.................................  
734
Breakfast Bacon  boneless.............................10
Dried beef, bam prices...................................  9H
Long Clears, heavy.........................................
Briskets,  medium.  ........................................  7H
light............................................. 
8H

1, 

 

DRY  SALT  MEATS.

TRIPE.

p ic k e b d   p ig s ’  f e e t .

Butts....................... ......................................  9
D. S. Bellies..................................................   12H
Fat Backs....................................................  10
Barrels...........................................................  8 00
Kegs.........................................................1  90
Kits, honeycomb  .......................................... 
•¡5
Kits, premium..............................................  65
Barrels................................................................22 00
Half barrels.................. 
Per pound...................................................... 
Dairy, sold packed.......................   ..............   14
Dairy, rolls....................................................   u%
Creamery, solid packed................................   I8h
Creamery, rolls............................................   19

BEEF TONGUES.
 
BUTTE RINB.

l!ll  00
11

 

FR E SH   B E E F .

Carcass...................................................  5  @7
Fore quarters........................................4H@  5
qua
Hindquarters........................................ 6I 8 © 6)4 
Loins No. 3 
@10 
Ribs......
@  9 @ 6 
Rounds.................................................   5
Chucks...... ............................................
@ 4H@ 4)4
Plates ....................................................
Dressed.................................................   6)4 @6)4
Loins...................................................... 
7 a
Shoulders  ............................
6*lu
Leaf Lard.............................
MUTTON.
Carcass................................
© 5H @ 6
Lambs...................................
V E A L .
Carcass.................................
@ 6)4

F R E S H   P O R K .

CROCKERY  AND  GLASSWARE.

LAMP  BURNERS.

No.OSnn.........................................................  45
No. 1  “  .........................................................  50
No.2  “  ................................................ 
....  75
Tabular  .........................................................   75

l a m p   c h im n e y s.  Per box.

6 doz. In box.

First quality.
“ 
“ 
XXX Flint.
“ 
“ 

No. 0 Sun.......................................................   1  75
No. 1  “  ......................................................... 1  88
No.2  “  ......................................................... 2 70
No. 0 San, crimp  top....................................... 2 10
“   
No. 1  “ 
2 25
No. 2  “ 
“  ....  ............................... 8 25
No. 0 Sun, crimp top....................................... 2 60
No. 1  “ 
2 80
No.2  “ 
3 80
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and  labeled....................8 70
No.2  “ 
....................4 70
No. 2 Hinge,  “ 
....................4 88
No. 1 Sun', plain bulb,  per doz.......................1  25
....................... 1  50
No. 2  “ 
No. 1 crimp, per doz..........................................1 35
No. 2 
" 
1  60

La Bastle.

Pearl top.

“   
“   

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

 

LAMP  w ic k s.

No. 0, per  gross..............................................   23
28
No. 1, 
No  2, 
38
No. 3, 
75
Mammoth, per doz.........................................   75

“ 
“ 
“ 

 
 
 

 
 
 

STONEWARE—AKRON.

Butter Crocks,  1 to 6 gal.............................   06
“ 
“  H gal. per doz.......................  60
Jugs, H gal., per doz...................................   70
“  1 to 4 gal., per gal................................   07
MHz Pans, >4 gal., per doz..........................   60
.........................  72
“ 

1  “ 
STONEWARE—BLACK  GLAZED.

Butter Crocks, 1  and 2 gal..........................   07
Milk Paus, H gal..........................................  65
........................................  78

1  “ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

14

THE  INFLUENCE  OF  CITIES.

The  growth  of  great  cities ¿in - the 
United States,  and  the  remarkable  ten­
dency of the American people  to flock to 
the cities,  have  recently  become  a  sub­
ject of  study.

It  is  revealed  by  the  census  that  in 
1790 but 3  per  cent,  of the people of this 
country  lived  in  towns  of  more  than 
5,000  inhabitants. 
In  1840  only  8  per 
cent,  so lived. 
In 1880 there were 22 per 
cent, of the population  in  cities,  and  in 
1890 more than one-fourth  of  the  popu­
lation of  the United  States  had  become 
city residents.

But crowding into the  cities  is  as  old 
as the world.  From  the ^earliest  times, 
the  most  important  objects  in  history 
were  great  aggregations  of  population. 
Babylon,  Jerusalem  and  Rome  repre­
sented  nations. 
Including  the  popu­
lation inside the walls and  that  grouped 
immediately around  them,  either  of  the 
cities mentioned must  have  housed  mil 
lions of people.  When any one  of  those 
cities was captured, it was  the  downfall 
of  the  nation  it  stood  for.  The  great 
cities of  Asia  have  been  so  from  time 
immemorial,  while  the  beginnings  of 
London and Paris are practically  beyond 
the pale of  history.  There  is  no  more 
disposition  to  crowd  into  cities  to-day 
than there has been in  the  past.  Where 
the greatest aggregations  of  wealth  are, 
there will be assembled the intellect, the 
science,  the  art,  the  luxury,  the  vices 
and crimes of the people and their age.

In view of  the  vast  accumulations  of 
crime,  vice,  poverty and misery in cities, 
and the keen  competition  in  every  sort 
of business,  it  is  truly  wonderful  that 
people are constantly  leaving the  simple 
life of  the country to  engage  in  the  in­
cessant  and  almost  desperate  strug 
gle for existence which is the rule  in  all 
great cities.

But there is  nothing  new  in  all  this. 
Man is a gregarious  animal  and  will,  if 
he can,  always herd in  flocks.  The  few 
exceptions are  the  anchorites,  who  live 
in cloisters,  or  the  hermits,  who  dwell 
in  caves.  People  who  flee  from  their 
own wicked or  tiresome  selves  find  in  a 
crowd  the  distraction  they  desire.  To 
stifle conscience,  or  to  kill  time,  relief 
must be sought in a crowd.  But  the  de­
sire of human beings  to  herd  together is 
not  wholly  ignoble  or  unworthy.  On 
the contrary,  it is born  of  ambition  and 
hope to win fortune,  honors and renown. 
It is only  in a crowd  that  the  applause 
of the multitude can  be  secured.  What 
bright anticipations and honorable aspir­
ations animate  the  young who  are  con­
stantly hurrying to the  great  cities,  too 
often 
to  meet  disappointment  and 
misery!

But,  after ail, many of  them  succeed. 
It is a fact that the leading men in  great 
cities are not those who were  born there, 
but  who  are  country-born  and  bred. 
This  is  the  rule  with  the  great  mer­
chants,  bankers, manufacturers  and  the 
foremost men in  every important  enter­
It is true of  every  city  in  every 
prise. 
country.  Llewellyn  Smith, 
in  some 
studies of poverty in London  in  connec­
tion  with  the  “Salvation  Army,”  has 
some interesting information  on  the  in­
fluence of the country influx into London. 
Where there is most of  it  there  is  least 
poverty  and  misery.  Where  there  is 
the least of fresh blood  from the country 
districts, there is to be found the greatest 
amount of vice, crime and misery.

It appears from  statistics  that  35  per 
cent,  of  the  population  of  London  is 
country-born. 
In  Bethnal  Green,  the 
center of poverty,  only 12}£ per cent, are 
country-born,  as  compared  with  35  per 
cent,  in  the  whole  metropolis,  and  in 
Whitechapel there are but  20  per  cent.; 
but, on  the  other  hand,  in  Mayfair  no 
less than 59 per cent,  of  the  population 
were  born  in  the  country,  and  in  Ken­
sington  and  Belgravia  more  than  one- 
half.

If the cities draw  to  them  the  worst 
classes from the country,  they also  draw 
the best, the most enterprising,  the  most 
courageous,  the most determined.  Prof.
F. G.  Peabody,  writing  in  the  March 
Forum on the poverty of great cities,  ex­
presses the belief that  few  families  can 
successfully  endure  several  successive 
generations of  city  life.  According  to 
him, city workfirst invites, then degrades. 
The  country-born first invades and  then 
captures the  city,  and  is  then  in  turn 
himself  taken  captive  by it,  as by  some 
monster  which  devours  those  who  feed 
her.  Thus the influx to  the  city  is  not 
primarily  bad for the  city.  This  acces­
sion  of fresh  workers  is,  indeed,  what 
keeps city  work  well  done.  The  evil 
comes through the deteriorating effect on 
the migrant,  and  still more  on  his  chil­
dren.  City work seems to be like the ex­
hausting labor which goes on  in  the  fire- 
room of some great  steamship. 
It needs 
a  constant  accession  of  fresh  hands. 
Believing  this,  he  proposes  emigration 
from the city as the best  remedy  for  its 
enormous  aggregations  of  poverty  and 
virtue.  He thinks the  city  poor  should 
be sent to the country,  and there be com­
pelled to work  and  support  themselves. 
This would be a proper system of  purifi­
cation,  to bring in fresh  blood  from  the 
country  and  produce  a  corresponding 
outflow of the pauper and vicious classes. 
But it would have to be done  under com-1 
pulsion.  The worst classes of the  cities 
are by  choice  idle;  they  are  vicious, 
drunken  and  dishonest. 
If  they  were 
colonized in the  country-it  would  have 
to be  under  circumstances  of  constant 
control  and  force.

A signal  example of the  benefits  aris­
ing from the colonizing  of  convicts  was 
that set by England  in  banishing  crimi­
nals to Australia.  For fifty years,  up  to 
1839, that country  was the scene of penal 
colonies,  the  convicts being turned loose, 
but unable to escape from the  continent­
al domain in  which  they  had  been  in­
stalled.  Even at  this  early  period 
its 
population will compare in  honesty,  in­
dustry, activity and enterprise  with  that 
of any country.

If the vicious and idle classes of  great 
cities could be  transported  to  new  and 
distant  regions  fit  for  habitation,  but 
where they would be forced  to  work  or 
starve, there is  every  reason  to  believe 
that most beneficial results wou Id follow. 
But  any effort  to  maintain  them  where 
they  are  is  constantly 
increasing  the 
burden that  falls  upon  the  industrious 
and thrifty population.  The prisons are 
crowded with violators of  the  law,  and 
yet a large  percentage  of  these  escape 
merited  punishment.  The  poorhouses, 
the orphan asylums  and  such  other  in­
stitutions rapidly fill,  and  room  is  de­
manded for the increasing number of  in­
mates.  The haunts of vice,  which in  all 
cities was once confined  to  a  particular 
and limited  district,  have  spread  over 
many other localities, and are constantly 
breaking out in unexpected  places,  like

THE  MICHIQAJSr  TRADESMAN.

Post’s 
Eureka 
Sap Spouts

OVER  20,000,000  SOLD.

'These Spouts will not Leak

v-  4*

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

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

break like hangers cast on the spout.

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

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

Write for prices.

FfolER&EVENS
I   &  @

VlONROfc 
s

ST. 

P L   OIL  TAJIKS
Cost  Money

AND

Earn  Honey.
Earn  More Money Than  They  Cost 

—A  Good  Deal  More.

Sole Manufacturers, 11 and 13  Dearborn 

WM.  NEIL & CO.,
Street, C 2ICAGO.

We prove it.

i.  V-  A

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V !  v

V  v

TELE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,

15

contagious,  eruptive  diseases,  upon  the 
body  politic.

England,  France  and  other  countries 
still maintain  the  system  of  deporting 
their vicious and pauper classes,  and  in 
most cases they send them to the  United 
States,  to fill up  its cities,  demoralize  its 
people  with  Old-World  abominations 
and to dominate its  public  affairs.  The 
United States accepts this  enormous  in­
flux of moral refuse,  and gives  the  men 
the power to  vote and to control  munici­
pal politics.  This is the situation to-day. 
Europe is vomiting it3  poverty  and  vice 
upon us;  our  cities  are  filling  up  with 
idle and criminal  classes; the  cities  are 
controlled in the  interest of jobbers  and 
corruptionists;  despite  the  laxity  with 
which the laws are  administered,  crime 
increases so rapidly that the  prisons  are 
crowded and are all  too  small.  This  is 
not a reassuring situation.  And  at  this 
juncture,  when some reform in  political 
methods is absolutely necessary,  citizens 
who are  supposed to be best informed in 
constitutional law,  and  who are naturally 
appealed to for advice,  gravely announce 
in effect  that  no  reform  is  practicable, 
because  it  would  deprive  the  political 
jobbers and rascals of the power  of  con­
trolling the country in their own interest. 
Fortunately,  the people who  realize  the 
necessity foi  a change will  pay no  atten­
tion to such counsel.

Giving A w ay a  T rad e S ecret.

One evening,  being perplexed at seeing 
the  Italian 
image  sellers  continually 
hawking their trays of statuettes on their 
heads through the streets without  a  hu­
man creature ever appearing to buy  one, 
I asked one if he had exercised his  voca­
tion long.

of your figures?” inquired I.

“Thirty years,” replied the man.
“And did you ever chance  to  sell  one 
“Never,  sir.”
“My good man.”  said  I,  “do  me  the 
favor of telling why you have been  thus 
walking about for the  last  thirty  years 
with that load upon your bead. 
Is it  in 
obedience to a vow you have  made?”
“No sir; certainly not. 
It is to get my 
living.”
“But you say you never sell anything.”
“I never sell anything,  it is  true,”  re­
turned the man,  “ but there are so  many 
clumsy people in the  world  that  a  day 
seldom passes without someone  running 
against me and upsetting my  tray.  My 
figures are broken and  a  crowd  collects 
and makes the person  pay for them.”

BAKING  POWDer

SOLD  AT  THIS  PRICE

HAS  NO  SUPERIOR  -   BUT  FEW  EQUALS
T H E   ONLY  HIGH  GRADE  BAKING'POWDER
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607.CAN  I0 ^ s- 
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L O U IS V IL L E   K Y .

MANUFACTURED  BY

L A N S I N G   M IC H . 

. 

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Is  unsurpassed 
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strength.  Increase your trade  and  place  your 
self beyond  the  competition of  your neighbors 
by selling this  unrivaled  brand.  Write  us  foi 
price delivered at your  railroad station

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H O I.I,A N D ,  M ICH.

R iP G E m P R G H K O .

12,  14 and  16 Pearl  St.

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lines, as  they  w ill  give 
satisfaction.

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AGENTS  FOR  THE

s p H E Y   A L L ,  S A Y

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

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

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

M ic h ig a n  (T e n t r a l

“ The Niagara Falls Route.”

(Taking effect Sunday,  Feb. 11,1894.) 

»Daily.  All others daily, except Sunday.

Arrive. 
Depart
10 30cm ...........Detroit  Express........... 7 00am
5 30am  ... .»Atlantic and  Pacific......li  30pm
1  30 p m  ......New York Express  ........5  ¿0 p m
Sleeping cars  run on Atlantic  and  Pacific  ex­
press trains to and from Detroit.
Parlor  ears  leave  for  Detroit at  7:0!) am ;  re­
turning, leave Detroit 4:55 p m, arriving at Grand 
Rapids 10:20 p m.
Direct  communication  made  at  Detroit  with 
all through  trains east  over  the  Michigan Cen 
tral Railroad (Canada Southern Division.)
A .  A L xq u iS T , Ticket Agent,

Union Passenger Station.

CHICAGO

FEB.  11,  1894
A N D   W EST  M IC H IG A N   R ’Y.
GOING  TO  CHICAGO.

TO  AMD FROM  M USKEGON.

TR A V ER SE  CITY ,  CHARLEV O IX   AND  FE T O S K E T .

RETURNING  FROM  CHICAGO.

Lv. G’d Rapids............   7:25am 1:25pm *11:30pm
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
Lv. Grand  Rapids  ..  7:30am 
Ar.  Manistee...........  12:20pm 
..........  8:15pm
Ar. Traverse City__  12:40pm 
..........  8:45pm
..........  11:10pm
Ar. Charlevoix........ 
3:15pm 
Ar.  Petoskey 
..  3:45pm 
..........  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, iv.G. R..  7:30am  3:15pm 
...........
To G. R. .lv. Chicago.  7:35am  4:55pm »11:30pm
To G. R.. lv. Petoskey  5:00am  1:30pm 
...........
»Every day.  Other trains week days only.
DETROIT,

FEB.  11,  1894
L A N SIN G   &   N O R T H E R N   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..................   7:40am  *1:1'pm  6:00pm
Ar. Grand Rapids....... 12:40pm  *5:15pm  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 - 
log train.

THROUGH  CAR  SERVICE.

TO  LO W ELL VIA  LO W ELL  &  HA STIN G S R .  R.

W A U K E E   R ailw ay.
EA STW A RD .

325pm
4 27pm
5 20pm 
S 05pm  
8 00pm 
8 37pm
7 05pm
8 50pm
8 25pm
9 25pm

»Every day.  Other trains  week days only.
GEO. DeHAVEN, Gen. Pass’r Ag’t
DETR O IT,  G R A N D   H A V E N   &  M IL ­
Tral ns Leave
G’d  Rapids,  Lv
Ionia...........Ar
St. Johns  ...Ar
O w o s s d ...........A r
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 
1205pm
10 53am
11 50am
W ESTW ARD.

10 20am
11 25am 
1217pm 
1 20pm
3 45pm
4 35pm 
3 45pm
5 50pm
3 05pm
4 05pm!
•No. 81 I tNo. 11 tNo. 13.
4 55pm 
7 00am
6 00pm
8 20am

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

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

10 45pm 
12 27am
1 45am
2 40am
6 40am 
7 15am 
5 41 am
7 30am 
5 37am 
7 00am

Trains Leave

1  do pm
2  10pm

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

»Daily.

O ran d   R apids  A In d ian a.

TRAINS  GOINS  NORTH.

L eave g o in g  
N orth.
For Traverse City,  M ackinaw City  and S a g ...  7:10 a m
For  Traverse  City and Mackinaw  C ity............. 4:00 p m
For  S aginaw ................................................................5:00 p m

TRAINS  GOING  SOUTH.

L eave  g oin g 
South.
For  C incinnati...........................................................  6:60  a m
For K alam azoo and  C hicago.................................12:05 p m
For F ort W ayne and  th e  E ast..............................3:35 p m
For  K alam azoo  and  C h icago............................. 11:30 p m

C hicago v ia Q. R.  Sc I. R. R.

H:20 p m
7:40 a m
12:05 p  m 
train   solid  w ith   W agner  Buffet  P arlor
__
11:20  p m   train   d ally,  through  coach  and  W agner 

Lv Grand R apids........................... 12:05 p m  
Arr  C hicago.................................... 5:30 p m 
Car. 
S leeping Car.
L v  C hicago 
Arr Grand Rapids 
D ining Car. 
W agner S leeping  Car.

4:00  p  m solid w ith  W agner Buffet  P arlor  Car  and 
9:35 p m  train dally, through Coach and 

4:00p m  
9:15 p m  

6 :5 0 a m  
2:15 p m  

9:35p m
7:25 a m

For M uskegon—Leave. 

M uskegon, G rand R ap id s Si In d ia n a .
9:40 a m
7:35  a m  
5:20 p m
5:40 p m  
O .L. LOCKWOOD,

From  Muskegon—Arrive

General Passenger and Ticket Agent.

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THE  MICHIG^JPSr  TKADESMAN

GOTHAM GOSSIP.

N ew s  from   th e   M etropolis- - -Index  of 

th e   M ark ets.

S p ecial Correspondence.
N ew  Yoke,  March  10,  1894—During 
the past week the  jobbing  grocery trade 
has  pursued  an  even  course,  and  the 
hopeful  feeling  which  has  given  en­
couragement  to  dealers  for  the  past 
three  weeks  grows  stronger  every day. 
The  out-of-town  retailers  are  buying 
only from  hand  to  mouth,  but  they  all 
speak  hopefully  and seem to “point with 
pride” to the amount  of  empty shelving 
they must  fill  up  very soon.  Prices  of 
provisions  and  breadstuffs  are  tending 
upward and,  all  in  all,  the  situation  is 
better than for a long time past.  Collec­
tions are rather slow,  but  this  is  to  be 
expected and yet  even  here  we  find  an 
improvement during the week.
The Food Exposition is proving a great 
success  at  Lenox  Lyceum  and  is  pat­
ronized in throngs.  Manufacturers  take 
a  decided  interest  in  expositions  and 
just  how  far  the  latter  agree—or  dis­
agree—with legitimate  advertising  med­
iums  is  growing  to  be  an  interesting 
question.
The  reorganization  of  the  Thurber- 
Whyland  Co.,  though  «a  slow  matter, 
seems  to  be  sure  of  ultimate  success. 
The  sales  of  the  concern, even  during 
these troublous times, are  about  $10,000 
a day,  which  would  gladden  the  hearts 
of many concerns having had no financial 
difficulties.  Mr.  F.  B.  Thurber  is  so­
journing in the South for a fortnight.
Retail trade is reported as  good  in  al­
most  every  store  visited,  while  others 
say “growing better every day.”
The sugar stocks have been  the center 
of attraction for the  past  few days,  and 
Tortunes have been made  in  a  few min­
utes.  The  position  of  the  “paper”  is 
very strong,  and the  Senate  schedule  is 
decidedly favorable to the Trust; at least, 
it is so considered  by conservative  men. 
Sugar itself is in only moderate  demand, 
and there is  no  buying  for  speculative 
purposes.
Coffee is improving  as  the  season  ad­
vances  and  every  day  sees  some  good- 
sized  purchases.  No.  7  Rio  is  worth 
17%c and is fairly strong  at  this  figure. 
The  total  United  States  stock  is  only 
177,000 bags.
Tea is  dull  and  dragging.  Sales  are 
being made that  show some  concessions 
in certain instances and decided firmness 
in others.
Canned  goods are still slow of sale and 
the quantity available seems to be  limit­
less.  Fresh stock is appearing in greater 
plenty  every  day.  This, of  course, di­
minishes the call for the  canned  article. 
In  no  one  thing  is  there  any  special 
activity.
Rice is  meeting  with  the  usual  daily 
call,  although  the  foreign  product  is 
hardly as active.as  it  was  hoped  would 
be the case.
Fresh fruits, such  as  apples,  oranges, 
cranberries,  etc.  are  in  good  demand, 
and prices are high.
Butter is still weak,  and with large ar­
rivals  and  smaller  demand  during  the 
past  few days the price has again fallen; 
for  the very  best  21c  is  about  the  top 
notch.  Cheese  is quite  firm  and  small, 
size full cream is fetching 13c.
Eggs are in demand for  strictly  fresh, 
but tbey|are hard to find.  Western,  18@ 
1 9 ^ c .Beans are in light demand  and  for pea 
$1.75 is almost  extreme.
The  week  closes  with  a  feeling  of 
cheerfulness, and,  now  that  the  much- 
discussed Tariff bill will  soon  be settled, 
our jobbers are in  a better frame of mind 
than  they have  been  for  many  a week. 
On  every hand  are  heard words  of  en­
couragement; 
returning  salesmen  are 
united  in  saying  that  the  tide  keeps 
coming stronger and,  with the  return  of 
the robin, comes the whirr of machinery. 
Let us hope the happy combination  may 
last for a decade. 

J a y.

A very bad mistake  in  addition 

is  to 
make your expense account foot up more 
than you income  account.
The best  legacy  you  can  give  your 
children is a life they can emulate.

Gripsack Brigade.

Geo.  W.  Jenks,  Western  Michigan 
representative for the Seely Manufactur­
ing  Co., of Detroit, was in town  a  couple 
of days last week.

James  N.  Bradford  has  issued  invita­
tions to the annual  reunion  of  the  26th 
Michigan Volunteer  Infantry to  be  held 
in this city on  the  anniversary  of  Lee’s 
surrender at Appomattax, April 6.

W.  K. C.  Manley,  who represented  the 
Gunn  Hardware Co. on  the  road  six  or 
seven  years  and  who  resigned  a  year 
ago on accountof his health, has returned 
from the West  and  resumed  his  former 
connection with the company.

Wm.  Connor, 

the  Anglo-American 
representative for  Michael  Kolb  &  Co., 
was in town last week and will visit  this 
market again  on  Thursday,  Friday  and 
Saturday,  March  29,  30  and  31.  Mr. 
Connor reports his business as  decidedly 
on the gain,  a fact  that will  be  heartily 
appreciated by  his many friends.

Chas.  D. Richardson,  who has  covered 
the  trade  South  and  East  of  Grand 
Rapids for the  H.  Schneider  Co.  for  the 
past five  years, has  resigned  that  posi­
tion to embark  in  business  at  Chicago. 
The trade of that territory will  be visited 
hereafter  by Geo.  H. Seymour,  who will 
be  compelled  to  lengthen  the  visits  to 
his  Northern  trade  from  five  to  six 
weeks,  in  consequence  of  his  assuming 
the additional duties.

A Bloomington,  111., dispatch  notes  a 
case of the most rapid  courting  on  rec­
ord,  as follows:  John Hiler,  a  traveling 
man  of  Chicago,  Friday  afternoon  met 
Miss Grace Washburn for  the  first  time 
in a  grocery  store.  He  was  presented 
and was invited to call that evening.  He 
did so,  and before he took  his  departure 
proposed  marriage.  The  proposal  was 
accepted,  and they  were  married  Satur­
day at noon at the parsonage of the  Sec­
ond Presbyterian Church.  Hiler’s  home 
is at Grand Haven,  Mich.  Later—Recent 
dispatches 
that  Mr.  Hiler’s 
mother-in-law is after him on a charge of 
perfidy,  claiming she has discovered that 
he has already a superfluity  of wives.

state 

“ You can nearly  tell  the  length  of  a 
drummer’s  service  on  the  road  by  the 
size of his baggage,”  remarked a veteran 
salesman  the  other  day. 
“When  a 
young man  first  starts  out  he  is  more 
than likely to carry a trunk, two valises, 
a blanket,  a  cane  and  umbrella  and  a 
leather hat box.  That means that  he  is 
carrying  clothes  for  all  occasions,  and 
about  four  times  as  many  samples  as 
necessary.  He  soon  gets  tired  of  pay­
ing for a trunk  full  of clothing for which 
he has no use, and sends that home.  He 
then learns that a silk hat  is  not  neces­
sary for the sale of  goods;  that  umbrel­
las can  be hired at hotels;  that a  cane is 
in the way;  that Pullman  cars  are  sup­
plied  with  blankets;  that samples  of the 
goods he sells are on  the  shelves  of  his 
customers; 
that  extra  overcoats  are  a 
burden;  and a year  later  you  find  him 
in a neat suit of  dark  clothing,  a  dressy 
derby hat,  a middle-weight overcoat  and 
single valise,  one side of which  contains 
his linen and his slippers  and  the  other 
such samples as he must carry.”

Saginaw  Evening  News:  One  of  the 
brightest traveling men  who drops in  on 
Saginaw merchants occasionally  is  Dave 
Smith,  who runs for a large Chicago gro­
cery house.  “Dave,”  as his  friends  de­
light to call him, is always neatly dressed 
and  smoothly  shaven.  He  looks  like 
Denman Thompson,  the  actor.  He  is  a

good story teller and tells one on a Jack- 
son grocer.  Mr.  Smith entered his place 
of  business  one  day  and  solicited  an 
order.  The grocer ordered a ham or two 
and a couple of gallons of prunes.  After 
the order had  been  put down on the order 
book Mr. Smith asked if  there  was  any­
thing else.  The grocer answered  in  the 
negative and  assured  him  that  he  had 
simply given him this order to  help  him 
along.  “Thanks,”  said Dave,  “But who 
is the next man to drop in on you?”  “Oh,
his name  is --------,  and  he  comes  from
Grand  Rapids.”  “ Well,  you  give  him 
that order when he calls,  for if I  sent  it 
to my house they would think I had gone 
daft and I’d get  fired.  We  sell  prunes, 
but not picayunes.”

Those who  live only  for  money  leave 

only that money to live after them.

PR O D U C E   M A R K E T .

Apples—Very  few  in  market.  Holders  are 

asking $6 per bbl., irrespective of variety.

Beans—Dull and inactive.  Handlers pay $1.40 
for country picked, holding  city  picked at $1.50.
Butter—The market is firm at  present,  on  ac­
count of bad i oads.  Settled spring weather may 
weaken it somewhat.  Dealers pay 18c for choice 
dairy,  holding  at  20c.  What  little creamery 
there is finds ready sale at -¿3c®Hc.
Cabbage—Both home  grown  and  Florida  are 
active and firm at$l per doz.  for the former and 
$2.75 per crate for the latter.
Cranberries—Cape Cods are about  out  of  the 
market.  Jerseys are of fine  quality considering 
the season and firm at S2.25@2.50 per  bu.

Celery—Is  in  active  demand,  with  supply 

slightly off.  Firm at 20c per doz.
at 14c.  The trend of the market is downward.

Eggs—No change.  Dealers pay 12)4c holding 

Field Seeds—Medium or mammoth clover $5.75 
@6; Timothy,  $2; Red top,  65c;  Orchard  grass 
$1.75; Alsyke. $7.
Grapes—Demand is falling  off.  Malagas  are 
the only kind in the market, and move slowly at 
$1.10 per keg of 55 lbs. net.

Honey—White clover  commands  15c  per  lb., 

dark  buckwheat  brings  12c.

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

Hickory nuts, $1 per bu.

Onions—Handlers  pay  57c,  holding  at  60c 

per bu.  Cuban stock commands $3  per bu.

Potatoes—The  market  has  stiffened  appreci­
ably since last  report,  although  prices  remain 
unchanged.  Bad roads have affected the supply, 
which will Improve as the roads do

Radishes—Cincinnati stock commands 35c  per 

doz. bunehes.

The  Largest
M anufacturers Of

Spinach—75c per bu. crate.
Tomatoes—The  supply  of  Southern  stock  is 
light, but fully  equal  to  the  demand.  70c per 
basket or $1 per 6-basket crate are the  figures.

WALTER BAKER &  GO.I 

CHOCOLATE

COCOA  and 

have  received  from  the 
Judges  of the

IN  THIS COUNTRY,

W orld’s
Colum bian
Exposition

The Highest Awards

(Medals and Diplomas)

on  each  of  the  following  articles, 
n a m e ly :
BREAKFAST  COCOA,
PREMIUM  NO.  I  CHOCOLATE, 
CERMAN  SWEET  CHOCOLATE, 
VANILLA  CHOCOLATE,
COCOA  BUTTER,

F o r “ p u rity of m aterial,” “ excellent 

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

STIC K   CA N D T.

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

. 
8)4
-  8)4
MIXED CANDT.

Cases  Bbls. Palls.
7
7
7
8)4

6
6
6

“ 

7)4

Bbls.
-.5)4
-.5)4
..6)4
..7
..7
..7

“
FANCY— In bulk

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

Palls.
6)4
6)4
7)4
8
8
8
8
8)4
9
13
...  8H
...  8
Palls.
Lozenges, plain................................
......  8*
printed.............................
........  
»H
......12
Chocolate Drops................................
......  12)4
Chocolate Monumentals...................
......  5
Gum Drops........................................
......  7)4
Moss Drops.......................................
Sour Drops........................................
......  8)4
......   10
Imperials...........................................
fancy—In 5 lb. boxes.
Per Box
........50
Lemon Drops..............  ....................
........50
Sour Drops.......................................
........60
Peppermint Drops.............................
........75
Chocolate Drops................................
........60
H. M. Chocolate Drops.....................
........40
Gum Drops...................................... .
....1  00
Licorice Drops.................................
........80
A. B. Licorice Drops.......................
........60
Lozenges, plain.......... .....................
........65
printed............................
........60
Imperials..........................................
........70
Mottoes.............................................
........56
Cream Bar........................................
........56
Molasses Bar....................................
..86®%
Hand Made  Creams.........................
........80
Plain Creams....................................
........90
Decorated Creams............................
........60
String  Rock.....................................
__ 1 00
Burnt Almonds.................................
........60
Wintergreen  Berries.......................
No. 1, wrapped, 2 lb.  boxes........................  34
No. 1, 
51
No. 2, 
28
Florida»,  126...............................................
150-17 ■.......................................
Californlas, 250-288 St.  Michaels..............
80-96-112  Navels 
..............
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126-150-176  “ 
126 Riverside Seedlings........
150 
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126-200-216-226 
BANANAS.

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LEMONS.

Small......................................................
Large  .....................................................
Extra choice 300........................................
Extra choice 360........................................
Extra fancy 300..........................................
Extra fancy 360......................  .................
OTHER  FOBKION  FRUITS.
Figs, fancy  layers, 81b..........................
“  20ft 
.......................
“  14ft............................
Dates, Fard, 10-lb.  box..........................
“  60-lb.  “  ..........................
Persian, 50-lb.  box......................
Almonds, Tarragona.............................

“  extra 
“ 
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NUTS.

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California....................
Brazils, new...................................
Filberts.........................................
Walnut», Grenoble.......................
“ 
French.............................
«  Calif...............................
Table Nats,  fancy......................
choice......................
Pecans. Texas, H.  P.,  .........
Chestnuts......................................
Hickory Nuts per bu....................
Cocoanuts, full sacks...................
Fancy, H.  P., Suns.......................
“  Roasted...........
Fancy, H.  P., Flags......................
“  Roasted..........
Choice, H. P., Extras...................
“  Roasted........

PEANUTS.

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.  2 75 
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The  Standard Oil  Co.  quotes  as  follows:

OILS.
BARBELS.
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Naptha...................................
Stove Gasoline.......................
Cylinder........................................... ... .27
E ngine................................................. 13
Black, 15 cold  test.........................
FROM  TANK  WAGON.
Eocene 
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XXX  W. W.  Mich.  Headlight.............. 

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POULTRY. 
Local dealers pay as follows:
Turkeys.....................................
Chickens....................................
Fowls.........................................
Ducks............................... 
....
Geese........................................
DRAW N.
Turkeys.....................................
Chickens...................................
Fowl..........................................
Ducks........................................
Geese........................................
UNDBAWN.
Turkeys.....................................
Chickens....................................
Fowls........................................
Ducks........................................
Goose........................................

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If You  Wait  Hood,  Lilt,  Sweet  Bread  a i  Biscnîst 
FERMENTUM
COMPRESSED YEAST
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SOLD  BY  ALL  FIRST-CLASS  GROCERS

MANUFACTURED  BY

MAIN  OFFICE:

CHICAGO,  270  KINZIE  STREET

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MICHIGAN  AGENCY:

GRAND  RAPIDS,  106  KENT  STREET.

Address  all  communications  to  THE  FERMENTUM  CO

New York Biscuit Co.,

MANUFACTURERS  OF

W M .  vs b a r s   &  c o«’S

Brackers  and  Fine  Sweet  Bool,

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.

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The  Continued  Patronage  of  the  Oldest  Established  Grocery 

Houses  in  the  State  is  onr  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.

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O R D E R

S O L D   O N L Y   BY

-JOBBERS  <)l’

Groceries and Provisions.

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

Note  these  prices:

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

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We  also  take  Orders  for  the  Celebrated  KENNEDY  BISCUIT, 

made  at  onr  Chicago  Factory.

S.  A.  SEARS,  M anager,

GRAND  KAPIDS,  MICH.

WESTERN  MICHIGAN  AGENTS  FOR

G.  H.  HAMMOND  CO’S  SUPERIOR  BUTTERINE.

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B rig h t  p ieces  o f  G la ssw a r e   w ill  a ttra c t 
m o re  a tten tio n  an d  m a k e   y o u r  o ld   s to c k  
lo o k   a n d   se ll  b etter  th a n   a ll  th e  a d v e r ­
tisin g  > ou  ca n  do.

Did  You  Ever
N o tice  h o w   m u ch   b etter  p le a sed   a 
sh e   h a d   b o u g h t 
c u sto m e r   w a s   after 
sh e   w a s   w h e n  
so m e th in g   n ice, 
sh e   h ad   b o u g h t  so m e   c h e a p   a rticle?  
It is 
so m e   cred it  to  a  d e a le r   to  h a v e   a  c u s ­
to m er   r em a rk   to  a  iriend:  “1  b o u g h t  th a t 
n ice  w a te r  set o f m in e  o f  S m ith  & CO.”

th a n  

No.  15016 Ruby
T h is  h a n d so m e ,  E n g r a v e d   C olored  
G la ssw a r e  
is  a ll  th e  g o   a n d   ju st w h a t  
y o u   w a n t  to  m a k e   y o u r   o ld   sto c k   lo o k  
lik e   n e w .  B u y   a  p a c k a g e   a n d   m ix   it  in  
w ith   y o u r   old   sto c k   an d   se e   if  it  d o n ’t 
h e lp   to  se ll  it.

$5 00

4 00
1 67
1 75
2 17
1 70
1 70
1 39
4 00
$26  72
13  36

13  36
1  33

12  03
1  20
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J.6Ü16 ruiby  Engraved  assorted  Package.

1-6  dozen  4  piece  se ts ....................

............. §30 00

1 
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1-6 
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**  C e le rie s .........................................
“   O i l s ................................................
M olasses  C ans............................
fta lis ................................................
Peppers..........................................
3 in . 
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4 k  in . 

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............... 10 00
............... 10 50
................13 00
40
...............   3 40
................16 60
C o m p o rts ............. ..................  4 00

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R eg u lar  less 50  p e r c e n t. .. .  

S pecial  less  10  per  c e n t__  

* We allow  this KXTRA ten  per  cent,  on  this 
package  for early orders.  Ask  our  traveling  men 
about it. 

*  E x tra   ten   p er c e n t . . . . . . .  
Package 35 net........................ .. 

2 T . v E /f$ O iV .A .R .£ )  &  S O i V S ,   Grand  Rapids, 
PLACE your orders with  us for Fruit  Jars  before prices advance.  Our  prices are  lowest and  all right.

.

M E R I T

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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. 
If  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.

Prepared by the New York Condensed Milk <

3CLD  EVERYWHERE.

F o r   Q u o t a t i o n s   S ec  P r i c e   C o l u m n s .

If so,  and  yon  are  endeavoring  to  get  along  without  using  our  improved  Coupon  Book  system,  vou  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.

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