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VOL.  11.

GRAND  R A PID S,  M ARCH  28,  1894.

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NO .  549

NEIL  OIL  TANKS
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GRAND  RAPIDS 

BRUSH  GOMP’Y,

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GRAND RAPIDS, 

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Every merchant at this season of the year should have a supply on hand of

CLOVER,  TIMOTHY and all  kinds of  FIELD SEEDS.

We  will receive this week a fresh car each of
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GRAND  RAPIDS.

C A SH   P R IC E   A N D   TIM E  PR IC E . 

W ritten fo r Thk Tradesman.

Almost  every buyer, whether at whole­
sale or retail, desires value  received  for 
the  money  expended.  A  few 
throw 
away cash  in  seeming  wantonness  and 
sheer prodigality to  make  men  stare  or 
with the idea that it  gives them  import­
ance in  the  eyes  of  others.  Some  are 
lavish in expenditure to  sustain  appear­
ances before the world for  ulterior  pur­
poses.  But the  great  majority  of  pur­
chasers insist  on  a  quid,  pro  quo  for 
every dollar paid out, or grumble if it  is 
not  forthcoming.

Cheapness,  whether  applied  to  the 
necessities or luxuries of life,  is  a  rela­
tive term.  As generally used it  denotes 
a condition that  favors  the  buyer.  Bnt 
as buyers  do  not  always  consider  fully 
the conditions  that determine  the  value 
of any article offered  for  sale,  they  are 
often disappointed  in what  at  first  was 
thought to be a good bargain. 
If quality 
is ignoied, price cannot be  a  true  guide 
to value.  Nor is quantity a safe element 
to determine choice, if the other  factors, 
quality  and price, are  not  equally  con­
sidered.  The  Chinese  are  noted  for 
being shrewd buyers, yet I  have  known 
them to  often choose the largest  pair  of 
boots in a  case,  although  two  or  three 
sizes too large, because they got the most 
leather  for the money. 
It is,  doubtless, 
evident to  all  who  have  seen  them  in 
working garb  that  they  choose  the  en­
tire  wardrobe,  including  the  umbrella 
hat,  for the same economical  reason.

Even  in  the  ordinary  staple  goods 
which are daily bought as household sup­
plies it is impossible to harmonize differ­
ences so that all articles  of  equal  value 
shall be sold  at  a  uniform  price.  For 
this there is  good  and  sufficient  reason 
in the well-known fact that many  minds 
can no more agree in fixing one inflexible 
price than their  visual  organs  can  har­
monize on the details of any object so  as 
to present the  same  appearance  to  all. 
Thus one dealer is often  told  that  some 
competitor is  selling  a  certain  article, 
claimed to be identical, at a lower  figure 
than the one  in question.  How much of 
this talk is honest belief, and how  much 
for effect in securing a bargain is  hardly 
worth  considering.  The  fact  remains 
that prices, especially at retail, are  fixed 
without  mutual consultation,  under  all 
sorts of conditions; and must, necessarily, 
vary, while the actual  market  value  re­
mains the same; yet the highest rate  not 
prove in any sense an extortion.

Absolute equality in values as between 
buyer  and seller in every business trans­
action is as  difficult of attainment as  ab­
solute  justice  in  the  administration  of 
law; absolute correctness in the diagnosis 
of a physician in any obscure case; or ab­
solute perfection  in  human  conduct  as 
interpreted by  a  Divine  standard.  Yet 
many thoughtless and selfish buyers talk 
and act as if they believed the  first  men­
tioned  condition  possible.  Once  in  a 
while a  customer tries hard to make  you 
believe that the  eggs  or  butter  he  sold 
you last Saturday would have  brought  a

better price than you gave, if he had  de­
livered them at a neighboring  town,  be­
cause  Tuesday’s  market  report  made 
them one to three cents higher.  This he 
urges as a  personal  grievance;  but  his 
acute sense  of  equity,  fails  to  perceive 
that in evening up the  scales  of  justice 
on that transaction it would be  fair  first 
to  consider  what  was  the  Saturday’s 
quotation  is  the  same  market  before 
making  a  comparison.  Such  trifles  as 
that are  the motes  spoken  of  in  Scrip­
ture, that do  not impair vision in the  di­
rection  whither  self 
interest  leads. 
Many an  unjust  charge  of  extortion  is 
laid  against 
the  careful  dealer  on 
promises  as  vague  and  unreal  as  the 
above; and,  when multiplied or distorted 
by gossip, they often seriously injure his 
standing in the minds  of  profitable  cus­
tomers.

It would be a “consummation devoutly 
to be wished”  if  there  was  more  uni­
formity of price in goods  which  are  in 
general  demand.  Frequent  or  violent 
fluctuations in market values are  as  bad
for the dealer as for the  consumer.  The 
waste in distributing  in  small  portions 
from wholesale  purchasers  on  an  even 
market amounts to as  much  as  competi­
tive business can afford to  carry.  When 
increased by  the chances of loss through 
the caprice of  wide  margins  in  market 
value,  the  only  one  who  receives  the 
least damage is  he  who  turns  over  his 
stock the oftenest; or,  if a consumer,  he 
who has ready money  to take  advantage 
of lowest prices.

Economical  buyers  are  apt  to  forget 
that, even in a retail  business,  there  is, 
naturally, a cash price and a  time  price. 
In marking goods  the  latter  is  used  to 
cover contingencies as common prudence 
dictates.  The difference cannot  be  con­
veniently returned to each cash customer 
in small amounts.  And so many dealers 
even up by giving bargains  in  leaders— 
not for equity’s sake alone, but  in  order 
to attract a class of buyers who  prefer  a 
soft snap once in a  while  to  low  prices 
all the time,  with  slow  but  sure  saving 
of means.  A  wiser  plan  would  be  to 
make a discount of  5 per cent, to regular 
customers whenever assured of a  liberal 
trade and  punctual  settlements  iu  full 
inside of thirty days.  To those who pay 
cash on delivery the  coupon  system  se­
cures perfect equity,  since  their  profits 
will be in proportion to purchases.  Five 
per cent, saved  on  purchases  is  better 
than the same rate gained by short  loans 
at usurious interest, besides being a more 
honorable  business.  Those  who  prefer 
to bay on long credit and pay a  percent­
age instead of receiving it  can  do  so  as 
long as their credit remains  unimpaired. 
They must confess, at last, that by main­
taining two prices for different classes of 
customers the equities of commercial life 
are fully respected.

It is not only in buying  at  retail  that 
one finds opportunities  of  saving.  The 
man of business is every  day  taught  by 
experience that in  buying  his  supplies 
there is a cash price  and  a  time  price,

which, duly noted and acted on,  will  go 
far to recoup him  for  the  discounts  he 
allows  his  best  customers.  Nothing 
greases the wheels of legitimate commer­
cial  enterprise  and  makes  them  move 
easily  and  harmoniously 
like  money 
down.  Even the  bad  bargains  one  un­
fortunately makes at long  intervals  can 
be viewed with equanimity  in  the  light 
of  this  consoling 
fact—they  are  not 
charged up on any one’s ledger and there 
is, therefore, no dead  horse  to  pay  for. 
Above  all  the  regrets  one  indulges  in 
for a confessed  blunder,  it  is  an  addi­
tional pang to  know  that  one  is  still 
obliged  to  throw  good  money  away  to 
pay for  burying  it  out  of  one’s  sight. 
Thus being  free from  financial  worries, 
when the crisis comes and it is found ad­
visable to sacrifice stock to meet changed 
conditions of trade,  the receipts  are  not 
mortgaged in advance  to  pay  creditors, 
but are available to use in  the  purchase 
of new goods at the most favorable rates.
In  the  course  of  a  prosperous  trade 
there comes a time when the dealer finds 
it both advisable and  necessary  to  own 
the store wherein  he  is  doing  business. 
The owner,  who  is anxious to sell, sets a 
reasonable price on  the  property,  offer­
ing it for a small cash payment  and  un­
limited  credit  for  the  balance.  These 
terms would seem to nine out of ten men 
the best one  could  ask,  but  I  have  in 
mind one  business  man  who  in  similar 
circumstances  reasoned  otherwise.  He 
took it for granted that in real estate,  as 
in personal, there was  a  cash  and  time 
price.  He decided to find out the  lowest 
sum the property could be secured for  at 
cash sale.  The enquiry  resulted  in  re­
ceiving an offer nearly 20  per  cent,  bet­
ter  than  the first.  After  that  all  was 
plain  sailing.  The  discount  from  first 
offer represented the amount  of  cash  he 
could then spare from his  working  capi­
tal.  The remainder he borrowed from  a 
neighbor, giving a mortgage on store and 
stock as security,  both being  insured  in 
the mortgagee’s interest.  The  borrowed 
money could only be repaid at the end of 
two years; but the annual interest  could 
be paid within  each  year  in  trade.  At 
the end of two years the amount  due  on 
the mortgage was  in  the  bank,  having 
accumulated bulk (as geese grow fat)  by 
accretion.  The interest on the loan  had 
been paid from the store  in  goods,  net­
ting some profits; and the whole property, 
store, goods and real estate all unencum­
bered stood to prove the value of a policy 
that recognizes the distinction between a 
cash price and a time price  and  invaria­
bly chooses the former.

S.  P .  W h it m a r s h .

A Mustard Pot Without a Spoon.
A  German inventor has devised a little 
mustard pot from  which  the  condiment 
can be  squeezed  by  the  pressure  of  a 
spring,  without messing the fingers  and 
the side of  the  pot  as  well.  Spoonless 
mustard pots are not altogether a new in­
vention hut they have  hitherto  been  ex­
pensive  luxuries. 
It  seems  probable 
now, however, that they may come  more 
generally into use.

THE  UIOHIGAN  TRADBSMAJST.

T h e  C an n in g ’  B u sin e s s   In  C a n a d a .

W ritten (o r  Thk Tradesman.

The history of the canning business in 
Canada is not a  satisfactory  one  from  a 
business point of view. 
It is a record of 
disappointments,  barren  dividends  and 
sunken  capital.  There  appears  to  be 
something  about  the  business  that  ab­
solves  it  from  the  control  of  ordinary 
business  calculations.  No  other  busi­
ness is so easily affected by  adverse  cir­
cumstances  or  unfavorable  conditions; 
and no other  business  investment  is  at­
tended with so many uncertanties. 
It is 
like farming in  certain western  sections 
—good crops for  a  series  of  years,  fol­
lowed  by  unforeseen,  unexpected  and 
unprovided  for  drouths,  grasshoppers 
and other calamities,  which  destroy  the 
source of income and use up the  surplus 
of  other  seasons.  One  great  difficulty 
experienced  by  all  new  canning  com­
panies is in getting  the  product  on  the 
market. 
In these days of food  adultera­
tion  the  people  have  been  humbugged 
so much by buying “pigs  in  bags,”  that 
they have become  very chary in  making 
their  purchases,  especially  when 
the 
article presented is a new brand of canned 
goods.  The new  brand  may be  as  good 
as any old one, but the consuming public 
has no way of  knowing  it.  True,  there 
is an artistically designed label on the out­
side of  the  package  purporting  to  give 
some cue to the merits  of  the  contents, 
but  all  labels, now-a-days, are  branded 
as humbugging misrepresentations  until 
proved, by well established usage,  to  be 
true  indications  of  genuine  worth. 
In 
sections  where  canned  goods  are  con­
sumed in large quantities, consumers be­
come used to certain familiar brands, and 
the only practical way of  getting  a  new 
brand into the market is  to  cut  in price 
from five to ten cents per dozen.  Hence, 
any brand, having established  a  reputa­
tion for genuineness and reliability, does 
command, as a matter of fact this advan­
tage in price over new and untried goods. 
The new may  be  just  as  good,  or  per­
haps  better, than  the  old, but  the  con­
sumer  does  not  know it,  and  the  only 
way to convince him is to  tempt  him  by 
cutting  the  price. 
Investors  quite  fre­
quently overlook this  matter  when  they 
go into the canning business.  They  for­
get that canned goods  have  a  more  un­
savory  reputation, owing  to  fraudulent 
practices,  than  almost  any  other  food 
package found  on  the  grocers’  shelves, 
and that  they must  prove  the worth  of 
their product at their  own  expense,  be­
fore they can  reasonably expect  a  prof­
itable return for their investment.  This 
means an ample reserve capital and  per­
severance—two  essentials 
to  success, 
which are found lacking in  a  great  ma­
jority of all canning adventures.

Six years  ago  there  were  19  canning 
factories  in  Canada,  9  of  which  have 
since  gone  into  bankruptcy.  At  the 
present time there are 22 factories in  ex­
istence in the country.  Out of this total, 
only  6  report  fair  profits.  Of  the  re­
maining  16, 6 are  solvent  but  are  mak­
ing no money, 8 are entangled on account 
of impaired capital,  and 2 are  insolvent. 
These factories all started business  with 
from $8,000 to $25,000  capital, and yet 16 
out of the 22 are unable tore turn one dol­
lar of  dividend  to  the  parties  who  put 
their  money in them.  This is,  indeed, a 
gloomy record  of  the  canning  industry 
in Canada, and one which the  capitalists 
of  Grand  Rapids  and  other  Michigan 
towns  might  well  consider  before  they

put their money in the canning business. 
The  capitalists  interested  in  the  Can­
adian  canning  business  are  organized 
under the  name  of “Canadian  Packer’s 
Association.”  A  meeting  was  recently 
held at  Toronto,  and  the  above  figures 
were obtained from  a  member  who  had 
attended the  meeting.  This  association 
is small  in  numbers  but  strong  in  the 
inlluence it brings to bear on legislation. 
By combined  energy properly applied,  it 
succeeded  in  getting  a  custom  duty 
placed  on canned goods so  high that the 
American goods  are virtually prohibited 
from crossing the line.  Again it brought 
influence  to  bear  on  legislation,  and  a 
bill was passed regulating the canning of 
“soaked” goods.  Some  Detroit  parties 
had succeeded in interesting  a  few  Can­
adian capitalists in the  county  of  Essex 
in the business of canned  soaked  goods. 
A factory was erected  and  the  business 
set in motion.  Up to this “soaking” had 
never  been  attempted  in  Canada,  al­
though it had been practiced for years in 
the canning centers of the United States, 
to  the  injury  of  the  legitimate  trade. 
This  fraud  consists  simply  in  soaking 
ordinary  commercial  peas,  beans,  corn 
and evaporated fruits, and then  cooking, 
sealing, labelling  and  placing  the  stuff 
on the market as genuine goods.  As  be­
fore stated, the  association  had  induced 
the  Government  to  pass  a  bill  for  the 
protection of  the  trade.  This  bill  pro­
vided  that  every  package  of  soaked 
goods  (or  bads  rather)  should  bear  a 
a label with the firm name  and  place  of 
doing business printed  thereon;  also the 
word “soaked” printed diagonally across 
the label in  plain  letters  not  less  thau 
one-half  inch  in  length.  The  penally 
provided for  violation was  a  fine  of  $2 
for every can of soaked  goods  sold  that 
was not labelled according  to  law,  thus 
making the retailer  equally  liable  with 
the canner or jobber.  The effect  of  this 
bill was to wind up  the soaking business 
in Canada and bankrupt the projectors— 
one  more evidence of the  unsuitableness 
of  Canadian soil for this kind  of  Ameri­
can enterprise.

I  am  indebted  to William  Ferguson, 
Esq., the  association  member  above  re­
ferred  to—and  manager  of  the  Delhi 
Canning  Company’s  business  located  at 
Delhi,  Ont.,  and at  the  mouth  of  the 
Niagara River—for the facts and  figures 
given in this article.  He  says  the  next 
bit of legislation  demanded  by the  asso­
ciation will be the  removal  of  the  duty 
on  peaches.  Canadian  canners  buy 
their  peaches  from  Delaware  orchards 
on account of their  earliness.  They are 
thus enabled to finish peach  canning  be­
fore the  corn  season  commences.  This 
will explain  the  reason why they do not 
patronize  Michigan  orchards  which  are 
nearer home.

The Delhi canning company’s business 
is the largest one of the kind in  Canada. 
Their main factory  building  at  Delhi  is 
a substantial brick  structure, 50  by  175 
feet in size,  two  story  in  height  with 
basement.  An annex 45 by 50 feet serves 
as  the  “processing” department.  The 
husking shed is 50 by 150 feet through the 
center of which is a tram-way connecting 
at one end with a carrier which  runs  up 
I into the second story of  the  main  build- 
j ing.  A busy  scene  is  here  enacted  all 
through the corn  season.  On either side 
this tram-way sit the  huskers.  Disabled 
old men whose hands are  still  in  acti ve 
service;  gray haired  old  grandmothers, 
some of them there  because  they  dearly

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CO F BEES.
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  vve  have  been 

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

OLNEY i JUDSON GROCER GO

Agents  Western  Michigan,  Grand  Rapids.

OYSTERS.

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

F.  J.  D&TTFJSTHA.FER.
I B YO U  W A N T  TH E  B E S T

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love the gossip of the place, while others 
sit in  grim-visaged  silence,  thinking  of 
the new  gingham  aprons  that will  soon 
be earned for the two or three motherless 
little tots  who  have  been  consigned  to 
the care of  a  poor  old  widowed  grand­
mother  by  an  unlucky  whirl  of  life’s 
great  wheel  of  fortune;  young  misses 
eager to  add  something  to  lighten  the 
family  burdens;  girls,  boys,  and  little 
children—all vieing  with  each  other  in 
stripping the tender ears  of  the  protec­
tion provided by nature.  And as the de­
nuded ears pass up the incline in an end­
less  procession,  sparkling  in  the  sun­
light, 
the  balmy  breeze  which  floats 
through  the  open-sided  shed  seems  to 
inspire  the  busy  buskers,  and  a  med­
ley of strange discordant  sounds  strikes 
the  ear of  the  spectator.  There  is  a 
strong  sprinkling  of  sharp-nosed  old 
maids, whose  voices  remind  one  of  the 
squeak  of  winter  frost.  They  are  the 
human cobs of the  motley crowd.  Time 
has  denuded  them  of  every  personal 
charm, and they are to  the  human  fam­
ily what corn cobs  are to  the  corn  crop. 
Noise?  Oh,  no;  it is  perfect bedlam  let 
loose.  Above  the  gossip-monger’s  per­
petual buzz and the squeaks of the afore­
said human  cobs,  are  heard  the  croaks 
of  husky  throats;  the  yells  of  unre­
strained,  runuing-to-seed  boyhoood;  the 
idiotic  giggle  of  brazen-faced  girlhood, 
and the occasional snatches of song, pip­
ing out a few notes of “After  the  Ball,” 
in  tones  of  tin-whistle  melody.  What 
food  for  inspiration  such  a  scene  fur­
nishes  for  poets  and  artists.  But  the 
huskers  are  happy  and  they  make  the 
ears fly—and that  reminds  us  that  time 
also flies, and so we must ask  the  reader 
to draw  on  his  own  imagination  for  a 
more extended description.

During the busy season about 500  per­
sons  are  on  the  pay-roll,  consisting 
mostly of women  and  children.  At  one 
time there were four  generations  in  one 
family  on  the  pay-roll—a  child, 
its 
mother,  grandmother  and  great-grand­
mother.  This company pays  yearly, for 
supplies, labor and other expenses,  from 
$60,000 to $70,000.  The  capital  stock of 
the company  is  about  $100,000  and  the 
yearly output runs from $60,000 to $100,- 
000.  Previous to  the  last  two  seasons, 
not a dollar of  dividend  bad  ever  been 
declared,  and  once  the  whole  concern 
was on the verge  of  bankruptcy.  They 
no longer make  their  own  cans, finding 
it  cheaper  to  buy  them  already  made. 
About 20  carloads  are  required  for  the 
year’s output.  The  factory is  in  opera­
tion  the  entire  year,  the  canning  of 
poultry  being  the  principal-  occupation 
during the winter season.  The  growing 
of  the  required  amount  of  vegetable 
stock is  contracted  for  during  the  pre­
ceding winter with the adjacent farmers.
The  prices  paid  last  season  were  as 
follows: 
tomatoes, 25 cents  per  bushel; 
corn, $8 per ton;  and peas,  1% cents  per 
pound.  The  corn  is  broken  off  and 
weighed with  the  husks  on.  The  peas 
are pulled and brought to the  factory on 
the vine where they are put  through  in­
geniously  contrived  mills  which  sepa­
rates the peas from the pods and vines.
E.  A .  O w e n .

T h e  R e c o v e ry  fro m  th e  P a n ic  o f 1873.
Historical parallels are  always  imper­
fect, and the sequence of events is  never 
twice exactly the same.  While, therefore, 
the  breakdown  of  last  year  resembles 
in many respects  that  of  1878,  and  the

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state  of  things  which  now  prevails  is 
similar to  that  which  immediately  fol­
lowed that  catastrophe, it  would  not  be 
safe to act upon the conclusion  that  the 
likeness will hold good in the future that 
lies before us.  Still,  it  may  be  useful, 
if not instructive,  to  look  back  and  re­
fresh our memories of the  recovery from 
1873, and to draw  what  comfort  we  can 
from the retrospect.

The collapse of 1873, like  that  of  last 
year, was  the  natural  end  of  an  over­
strained 
speculation  with  borrowed 
money,  hastened by a decline in the  cur­
rency prices of  staple  commodities.  As 
the greenback rose in value from 40 cents 
on  the  dollar  toward  par,  our  wheat, 
corn, pork, cotton  and  iron  necessarily 
fell,  and enterprises entered into  in  dis­
regard of the possibility of this  fall  had 
unavoidably  to  suffer.  The  failure  of 
the Northern  Pacific  Railroad  Company 
only precipitated a crash which was sure 
to come, sooner  or  later,  and which was 
in  fact, delayed  by every  available  ex­
pedient,  until  it  could  no  longer  be 
averted.  The shock was  far  more  vio­
lent than that  of  last  summer  and  the 
destruction  it  caused  was  greater,  but 
then, as now,  as  soon  as  its  first  force 
was  spent  men  began to  collect  their 
shattered resources and to set  about  the 
work of repairing damages.  Their  suc­
cess was small at  first,  but  it  slowly in­
creased until a  healthy condition  of  af­
fairs  was restored.  While  the  recovery 
began in the summer of  1877, it  was  not 
complete until 1879, or  six  years  after­
ward.  It does not, as I have  already re­
marked, follow that we shall be  as  long 
a time in recovering from  the  effects  of 
last summer’s catastrophe, but for  those 
who  are  chafing  at  our  slow  progress 
toward the revival of the prosperity they 
so ardently desire, it is well  to  consider 
the experience of twenty  years  ago, and 
to exercise a little patience.

Ma tt h ew  Ma r sh a ll.

U n ity  o f In te r e s ts .

From  th e A m erican  Grocer.
A business house should be  as  perfect 
a human machine  as  a  well  disciplined 
army.  All of its members  should  move 
as if actuated by  one  spirit—loyalty  to 
the leader and that  which he  represents. 
From janitor to  office  boy,  and  all  the 
way along through every department, the 
helpers  should act and  work  as  though 
the business  depended  upon  their  exer­
tion.  This spirit  cannot be dominant in 
a  firm  without  the  co-operation  of  the 
head of  the firm with  all  the  employes, 
either directly or  through  some  trained 
assistant.  Hence it is desirable  to  have 
systematic  and  regular  meetings  of  a 
firm  with  heads  of  departments,  at 
which the business of the  house  is  can­
vassed, discussed, new methods  debated, 
weak points guarded,  plans  formulated, 
and all points of general interest  consid­
ered, much as in  a council  of  war  prior 
to the movement Of an army.
When the office boys and junior  clerks 
talk about the affairs of  their  employers 
as if they had money at  stake, 
then  we 
know they have at heart the welfare  and 
prosperity of the  business.  When  they 
talk after this fashion—“We have a  new 
line of goods,” or  “Our firm  is  offering 
special inducements,” or “We pay  strict 
attention to details,” or  “We  are  doing 
a  magnificent  trade,  and  are  working 
nights”—then  outsiders  and  insiders 
know that their heart  is  in  their  work, 
and that they are doing  their  level  best 
to push ahead and gain commercial  hon­
ors.  Success lies with the man,  and  un­
less his habits and methods  are  such  as 
to inspire loyalty and unity  of  interests 
in his helpers, he it doomed to failure  or 
indifferent results.

Use Tradesman Coupon Books.

The following is a fac simile reproduction of an advertisement  now  appearing 

weekly in the Elk Rapids Progress:

J O H N   MORRISON

Sells the

At the

LOWEST  PRICES,  FOR  CASH  !

Of any T etail  dealer iu Michigan.  He buys exclusively of

BALL,  BARNHART, 
PUTMAN  CO.,

"Hie best  Wholesalers in  Michigan.  That’s Why  !

For over a quarter of a century the name of our house has been a synonym  for 
good goods and right prices.  To be able to say that you  buy  goods  of  Ball-Barn- 
hart-Putman Co.  is positive assurance to your trade that your stock is first-class in 
every  respect. 
Is  it any  wonder,  then,  that  our customers should seek to avail 
themselves of the advertising advantage which such a connection affords?

H.  E.  GRAND GIRARD 

G ran  (1 - 

BELDEN REAGAN,  M.  D.

G iru rcl  &  Co. 

M a n u fa c tu rin g  

P h a r m a c is ts ,

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DRUG  STOCKS  BOUGHT  AND  SOLD. 

DRUG  BROKERS  AND  MANUFACTURERS’  AGENTS.

DRUG  CLERK’S  EMPLOYMENT  BUREAU:

PORTER  BLOCK,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

Promptness  Assured.

Correspondence  Solicited. 

To Clothing  Merchants.

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

Write our Michigan agent, WM.  CONNOR,  box 346,  Marshall,  Mich.,  to  call 
upon  you  at  any  time,  or  meet  him  at  Sweet’s Hotel, Grand Rapids,  Mich., on 
Thursday, Friday and Saturday,  March  29,  30  and  31.  Customer’s expenses al­
lowed.  Mail orders promptly attended to.  E stab lish ed   87  y ears.

Michael  Kolb  &  Son, 
O R A N G E S.
F lo rid a s,  C a lifo rn ia s  a n d  

ROCH ESTER,  N.  Y .

Clothing

7  Manufacturers.

C a ta n ia s.

Sound  fruit at bottom  prices.

T hb R U T  N A M   C A N O N  C O .

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T H E   AlICIïIQAJSr  T R A JJE 8M  A N

A ROU N D   T H E   ST A TE.

MOVEMENTS OF  MERCHANTS.

Sheridan—John  E.  Keen  succeeds  M. 

Gray in the grocery business.

Watervliet—G. B  Shelar  will  open  a 

new shoe store here about April 1.

Ovid—G. J. Charles succeeds  Mrs.  A. 

J. Burns  in the clothing business.

Detroit—Avery & Rowe succeed Henry 

L.  Avery in the harness  business.

Kalamazoo—N. Dibble succeeds Dibble 

& Purdy in the grocery business.

Sault Ste. Marie—Win.  Darcy has  pur­
chased the meat business of P.  Cameron.
Hudson—Conrad  Kest  has  opened  a 
new meat market in the old  Boies build­
ing.
Alpena—John  Sinclair  succeeds  the 
Sinclair Company in  the  dry goods busi­
ness.
N orthville—Gorton  &  Co.  succeed  E. 
L.  Riggs in the  clothing  and  dry  goods 
business.
Big Rapids—N. C. Gibbs has moved his
drug stock  into  the  store ju st  vacated  by 
C. B. Fuqua.

Grand Ledge—Albert Sebring succeeds 
W. R. Billings in the agricultural  imple­
ment  business.

Kalamazoo—L.  B. Crane has embarked 
in  the  agricultural  implement  business 
on  Forbes street.

Detroit—Macdonald,  Rich  & Co.  light­
ing  fixtures  dealers,  are  succeeded  by 
Chas. F.  Rich &  Co.

Hart—J.  V.  Cahill  &  Co.,  hardware 
dealers,  have  dissolved,  Alverson  & 
Thompson  succeeding.

Stanton—M.  Lightstone  has  closed 
his  dry goods store here and  will remove 
the stock to Greenville.

Leoniuas—Geo.  N. Baldwin,  hardware 
dealer  and  jeweler,  lias  sold  his  hard­
ware stock to C. K. Gray.

Kalamazoo—J. Moreland has embarked 
in the grocery  business at the  corner  of 
Burdick and Frank streets.

Onondaga—Mert P.  Bromeling,  of  Ea­
ton  Rapids,  will  shortly  open  a  new 
hardware store at this place.

Zeeland—Van Arkel & Van Loo,  meat 
the  busi­

dealers,  have  closed  out 
ness and dissolved partnership.

Ludington—N. Joseph,  wholesale  and 
retail  cigar and tobacco  dealer,  has sold 
bis retail  business  to  Geo.  Schick.

Fremont—W.  X.  Sent  has  purchased 
the meat market  of  Johnson  &  Haug- 
stafev and will continue the  business  at 
the same location.

Ionia—The dry goods and carpet house 
of C. W. Stone was closed  March  24  by 
Strong, Lee  &  Co.,  of  Detroit,  on  a 
chattel  mortgage of S3,000.

Traverse  City—Julius  Campbell  will 
shortly open  a  new  hardware  store  on 
Union  street.  The  Simmons  Hardware 
Co.  has the order for the stock.

Detroit—C.  W.  Marvin and C. J.  Whit­
ney  &  Co.,  dealers  in  pianos,  organs, 
music, etc.,  have merged  their  business 
into a stock company under the  style  of 
the Whitney-Marvin Music Co.

Grand Blanc—C.  W.  Stuart  has  been 
admitted  to  partnership  with  A.  D. 
Banker, dealer in hardware  and  agricul­
tural implements.  The  style of the firm 
will hereafter be A.  D.  Banker & Co.

Traverse City—Geo.  B.  McClellan has 
purchased an  interest  in  W.  E.  Camp­
bell’s confectionery store.  The business 
will  hereafter  be  conducted  under  the 
firm name  of  the  Traverse  City  Candy
Có.

Muskegon—John Medema  has  re-

I street to the  double store  at  40  and  42 
j Myrtle street.  He will keep groceries In 
one  store  and  boots  and  shoes  in  the 
I other.

Cedar  Springs—W.  C.  Congdon  has 
I sold his furniture and undertaking stock 
to G. C. McConnell &  Son,  of  Rockford. 
G.  Verne McConnell will  remove to  this 
place and give the business his  personal 
attention.

Manistee—A  grocer  who  has  made 
money here and grown rich has offered to 
take  $12,000  worth  of  stock  in  a  new 
wholesale grocery enterprise.  He claims 
that a business of $300,000 a year can  be 
done on a cash capital of  $50,000.

raise 

the  $4,000  necessary 

Lansing—Unless  Lansing  business 
men 
to 
complete the  sum  of  $25,000  needed  to 
reorganize the company owning the over- 
! all factory it will be removed  to  Detroit 
by  J.  L.  Hudson,  its  principal  stock­
holder.  Capitalists  outside  of  Lansing 
have offered to put up $21,000.

Clarksville—L.  Johnson,  who  con 
ducted S.  A.  Watt’s  general  store  here 
until the business was  discontinued,  has 
embarked in  general  trade  on  his  own 
account.  The 1.  M.  Clark  Grocery  Co. 
furnished  the  groceries,  Strong.  Lee & 
Co. supplied the dry goods, and Snedicor 
& Hathaway  put in the boots and  shoes.

MANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

Detroit—The  style  of  the  P.  Huyser 
Co.,  manufacturers  of  baking  powder, 
etc.,  has been  changed  to  the  Caldwell- 
Hicks Manufacturing Co.

Raber—Moore &  Bradley  contemplate 
building a sawmill here.  The firm owns 
a large tract of  timber  in  this  vicinity, 
and the purpose is to  manufacture  lum­
ber  from the tract and ship east by lake.
Detroit—The  Hupp  &  Pierce  Phar­
maceutical Co.  has filed articles of incor­
poration  with  a capital stock of  $20,000, 
of which $2,000 has  been  paid  in.  The 
incorporators  are  Charies Hupp,  Marce- 
mus L.  Pierce and  George C.  Hupp.

Carson  City—Henry  Fitzpatrick,  for­
merly of the  firm  of  Fitzpatrick  Bros., 
proprietors of the  Butternut cheese  fac­
tory,  has  leased  the  creamery  at  this 
place and will put in  the  necessary  ap­
pliances to convert it into  a  cheese  fac­
tory.

Frankfort—Thomas  Barry,  who  has 
logging operations  at  Edgewater,  north 
of Frankfort,  has  closed  his  camps  for 
the season and will turn his  attention to 
manufacturing.  This  will  be  remem­
bered  as  the  place  where  the  Malcolm 
McDonald Lumber Co.,  of Chicago, oper­
ated a few years ago.

Manistee—The Stokoe &  Nelson  saw­
mill,  which has  been  remodeled  during 
the  winter  so  as  to  be devoted  exclu­
sively to shingles,  will start up this week. 
They have a full  snpply of cedar logs on 
hand,  and  what  lumber  they  wish  to 
have cut will be done  at one of  the  cus­
tom mills on the lake.

Muskegon—The  Muskegon  River 
Booming  Co.  will  start  its  first  drive 
from Houghton lake about April  1.  Logs 
are now coming down the river and  men 
are  stationed  aloug  the  banks  to  keep 
! them moving.  These, together with  the 
i logs  left  over 
last  fall  and  others 
that  came  down 
the  December 
freshet,  will  make  about  two  week’s 
J rafting.  These old  logs  will  be  gotten 
out of the way as soon as possible.

in 

West Bay City—The box factory being 
erected by Ross, Brad ley &  Co.,  in  con-

plant here, is now receiving  the  machin­
ery and the factory will be put in motion 
early  next  month.  The  entire  plant 
covers an area of  thirteen  acres,  with a 
river front of 2,500 feet.  The power and 
much of the machinery  is  entirely  new. 
This firm  began  business  in  1881  han­
dling that year 4,000,000  feet  of lumber, 
and it has  grown  to  the  proportions  of 
over 40,000,000 feet annually.

Manistee— There have been a few sales 
of lumber in the past few  days,  and  all 
at good prices,  comparatively.  One  lot 
of 300,000 good thick  changed  hands  at 
about $26 on dock here, and  another  lot 
of  good  at  $32;  some  shingles, a good 
grade of star pine, have been sold  at  $2; 
a lot of nice medium grade  inch  at  $15;
350,000  feet of culls  at  $7  here;  300,000 
feet of hemlock piece stuff  at $6.50 here. 
There has also been a good sized  sale  of 
pine piece stuff, but the  price,  although 
reported at $10.50, has not been definitely 
stated.

Saginaw—There  will  not be  an  over­
stock of  logs  for  the  sawmills  on  the 
Saginaw River this season,  although the 
majority of them will  be fairly supplied,  j 
The  streams and  railroads  that  furnish j 
supplies to  the  mills  direct  will  not,  at | 
the outside limit,  be  able  to  contribute 
more that  250,000,000  feet  in  all,  and 
some conservative estimates are not  over 
200,000.000  feet.  The  rest  must  come 
from Canada and  up  the  lake. 
It  has 
been claimed that the  quantity  to  come 
from Canada would be less than last sea- j 
son, when the figures reached 155,000,000 I 
feet, but as a  number of mill  firms  here 
have been buying  logs  over  there,  it  is 
fair to  presume that more logs will come 
across than  has  been  estimated.  Not  a 
little will depend upon trade  conditions. 
Should business  pick  up  and  stocks  of 
lumber on  hand  work  off  rapidly,  mill 
firms that now calculate to go light would 
manage to secure logs  and  manufacture 
them.

G ro c e r e.

Im p o r ta n t  V ic to ry   W o n   b y   J a c k s o n  
J ackson,  March  22—The  Ordinance 
relative to hucksters  and  peddlers, pre­
sented  to  the  Common  Council  by  the! 
Jackson  Retail  Grocers’  Association, 
passed its final reading and was  adopted 
at the session of the Council  held  March 
19 and goes into effect twenty days there- 
after.
Through  the  zealous  work  of  Alder-; 
man Brewer, the President of  the  Coun-  j 
cil—who  presented  the  ordinance—the 
good will  and  good  work  of  the  Ordi- 
nance Committee, and by a good majority 
of the  Council  favoring  the  Ordinance, 
we have won the victory.
Our  President,  D.  S.  Fleming,  has 
worked  long  and  earnestly,  with  many 
others of the Association, to  accomplish 
this result and  we  feel  very grateful  to 
everyone  that  has assisted in the  work. 
We  have tried to arrange  our  ordinance 
so that it would not wbrk an injustice  to 
anyone or do any person an  injury.  We 
have simply asked that  the  peddlers  be 
placed on the same footing as the grocers 
in regard to paying  a  share  of  the  city 
taxes, and at the same time we give them 
protection by shutting out  non-residents 
and people who have heretofore  been  in 
the habit of taking a day, or a few hours, 
now and  then  to  sell  a  lot  of  spoiled 
fruit or vegetables  which  rightfully  be­
longed to the garbage wagon.
The  market  gardeners  presented  a 
petition  to  the  Council,  signed  by  a 
goodly  number,  asking  that  our  ordi­
nance be passed.  They favored  the  or­
dinance because it was beneficial to them. 
This action helped much toward  its  pas­
sage. 

W. H.  P o rter,  Sec’y.

In times of peace  prepare  for  war;  in 
times of business depression prepare  for

moved his  general stock from 104 Spring  nection  with  their  extensive 

lumber  prosperity.

H id es,  P e lts   a n d   F u r s .

Hides—There  is  little  change  in  the 
bide situation since last report.  Though 
some sections report  a  slightly  acceler­
ated  movement, dulness is still  the  pre­
vailing characteristic.  Countrys  show a 
slight  improvement,  though  prices  are 
even more uncertain.  Packers have ruled 
quiet.

Pelts—A  little  more  life  was  mani­
fest in pelts though  sales  reported  were 
small.  Prices are unchanged.
Furs—Late  caught  furs, 

including 
muskrat, are  of  decidely  inferior  qual­
ity,  and  will  not  bring  the  prices  that 
winter skins will.  Prices are unchanged, 
but  sorting will  be  closer.

PRODUCE  MARKET.

$1.50.

Apples—The  market is  about bare, and almost 
a n y th in g  in   th e  sh a p e  o f a n   a p p le   b rin g s  easily  
from  $6@7.

is firm   a t  18@20c a n d  c re a m ery  a t  ¿3®21c.

Beans—Dull.  Handlers  pay  $1.25,  bolding at 
Butter—Supply Is only medium.  Choice dairy
Cabbages—Are  down.  The  big  Florida yield 
has  operated  adversely  to  prices  and  home 
grown are selling for 75c per  doz.  and  Fioridas 
at $2.25 per crate

Cranberries—Have  advanced,  Jerseys  bring­

ing $I.50@2.75 per bu. crate.

Celery—Very scarce and  demand  good.  Price 

firm at 25c per doz.
Cucumbers—Easily bring $1.50 per doz.
Eggs—Good  supply  and  good  demand, with 
prices on  the down  grade.  Handlers  pay 10® 
lie, holding at 12c.
Field  Seeds—Medium  or  mammoth  clover, 
$5.7o@6;  Timothy,  $2@2.10;  Red 
top,  60@70e; 
Orchard grass, $l.60®1.70; Alsyke $7.

Grapes—Very few in market.  Malagas are the 
only kind quoted and they bring $5.50  per  55  lb 
keg net.

Honey—Supply is good  and  pi ices  are  some­
what off,  the  best  only  bringing  12Hc.  Buck 
wheat  10c.

Lettuce—Growers hold Grand Rapids  forcing 

at 10c per  lb.  Commission men bold at 12c.

Maple  Sugar—Good  domestic  brings  9®l0c 

per lb.

a 

small 

Onions—Are  in  good  supply  and  prii.es un­
changed,  50c  per  bu.  and  held  at  60c,  with 
Cubans at $1 per bu  being the figures.

comparatively 

Poiatoes—Last week’s cold snap has somewhat 
interfered  with  the  forward  movement,  and 
only 
quantity 
marketed.  The  extreme  cold  of  the past few 
days,  coming  after  the  summer-like  weather 
which prevailed all this month, may be expected 
to injure the quality of the tubers,  and  growers 
must soon bring in their stocks or see them spoil 
on  their  hands.  The present  price,  40®45c,  is 
good,  and  even  if  these  figures  are  not en- 
chanced (and they are not likely to be),  there is 
no reason for holding.  With  new  potatoes al­
most in sight, and the adverse  circumstances in 
which old are being held, there is  every  reason 
to look for depreciated values.
Radishes—Cincinnatis  are  in  good  demand 
and supply at 35c per doz. bunches.

Spinach—75c per bu. crate.
Tomatoes—The  supply  of  Southern  stock  is 
light, but fully  equal  to  the  demand.  70c per 
basket or $4 per 6-basket crate are the  figures.

YOU  CAN'T  DO  BUSINESS  WITHOUT  SOUP.

Why not handle the 

b est•

There is no soap superior to

A T L A S

Manufactured only by

HENRY  PASSOLT,

Saginaw ,  Mich.

TELE!  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

G RA N D   R A P ID S   G O SSIP.

L.  Johnson  has  engaged  in  general 
trade  at  Clarksville.  The  1.  M.  Clark 
Grocery Co.  furnished the stock.

G. Pool has opened a  grocery  store  at 
the corner of East  and  Thomas  streets * 
The  Ball-Barnhart-Putman  Co. 
fur­
nished the stock.

until several grades are obtained,  known 
as  “firsts,”  “seconds,”  “thirds,”  etc. 
Both open kettle sugar and  molasses are 
said to be much “stronger” than centrifu-1 
gal, there not being  so  many  grades  in j 
the former as  in the  latter.  Centrifugal 
molasses is the drippings  from  centrifu-1 
gal sugar, and open kettle molasses is the 
drippings from that process.

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J.  K. Sharp &  Co.  have  re-engaged  in 
the grocery business at Big Rapids.  The 
Olney  &  Judson  Grocer  Co.  furnished 
the stock.

G. W.  Wooden  has  re-engaged  in  the 
grocery business at  Kalkaska  under  the 
style of G.  W.  Wooden & Co.  The  I.  M. 
Clark Grocery Co.  furnished the stock.

J.  Hoekenga  has  opened  a  grocery 
store at the corner  of  Sixth  and  Wash­
ington streets, Muskegon.  The stock was 
furnished by the Olney & Judson  Grocer 
Co.

John T.  Butler, formerly of the firm of 
Northrup  &  Butler,  general  dealers  at 
Lakeview, has decided to open a  grocery 
store at that place.  The Olney & Judson 
Grocer Co.  has the order for the  stock.

G.  W. and  E.  T. Bolster  have  formed 
a  copartnership  under  the  style  of 
Bolster Bros,  and opened a  grocery store 
at  Chadwick  The  Musselman  Grocer 
Co.  furnished the  stock.

The  Grand  Rapids  Bark  &  Lumber 
Co.  has  been  organized  with  a  capital 
stock  of  $40,000,  of  which  $25,000  has 
been paid in.  W. A.  Phelps is President 
of the  corporation, C.  F. Young  is Vice- 
President and Chas. A.  Phelps  is  Secre­
tary and  Treasurer.  The  three  gentle­
men named  comprise  the  Board  of  Di­
rectors.  The company owns 400 acres of 
hemlock  land  in  Oceana  county,  and 
800  acres  Jof  hardwood,  cedar  and 
hemlock  land  in  Emmet  county,  on 
which tracts active operations  will  soon 
be begun. 
In addition to handling  hem­
lock  bark,  both  by  rail  and  by  water, 
the  corporation  will  deal  in 
lumber, 
shingles, cedar poles and  posts,  railroad 
ties, etc.  The headquarters of the  com­
pany  will  be in  this* city,  commodious 
offices having already been opened in the 
Michigan  Trust  Go.  building.  The 
Messrs. Phelps are old hands in the bark 
business  and  their  new enterprise will, 
in all probability,  play no  small  part  in 
the hemlock bark field.

An enquirer wishes to  know the differ­
ence between centrifugal sugar and  open 
kettle  sugar.  Centrifugal  sugar  is  so 
called because, after the molasses is)boiled 
to the proper consistency, it is put into  a 
cylindrical machine which revolves  with 
great rapidity.  The rapid motion throws 
the  molasses 
to  the  surface  of  the 
machine  which  is  perforated  with  a 
great many small holes.  The fact of the 
molasses being thrown  from thecenter to 
the circumfence is why the process is  call­
ed centrifugal (from centrum,,  the center 
and fugere to flee).  Open kettle sugar is 
so called  because, after  boiling down,  it 
is allowed  to  settle  and  the  molasses 
drains off without  motion  of  any  kind. 
Centrifugal  sugar  is  much  clearer  and 
brighter  than  open  kettle,  as  more 
molasses is  extracted;  but  for  this  rea­
son it does not contain as much  sacchar­
ine matter as open  kettle  sugar.  After 
the molasses is extracted  the  first  time, 
it is again  boiled  down  and  again  put 
into the  machine  and  another  grade  of 
sugar is  the  result.  This  is  repeated

Whatever  may be  the  reason  for  the 
meager attendance at recent meetings  of 
the Retail  Grocers’ Association, the  fact 
is  very much to  be  deplored, as  now  is 
the time of the year  for  the Association 
to  do  its  best  work.  Not  only  is  the 
spring of the year  the  time  for  general 
cleaning up,  but it  is, also, the  time  for 
repairing  fences  and  looking  after  the 
many  things  which  may, perhaps, have 
“run  down” during  the winter  months. 
As  an  example:  The  peddlers  of  the 
city  have  hardly  been  interfered  with 
during the winter  and  have  had  things 
pretty  much  their  own  way.  Many  of 
them have been selling without  the  cus­
tomary  preliminary  of 
taking  out  a 
license, and as many  more  have  abused 
the  privilege  granted  by  the  license. 
This is a matter that should be carefully 
looked into by the Association and ought 
to  be fully  and  freely  discussed  at  the 
meetings. 
It is  impossible  for  the  few 
members who  have  been  attending the 
meetings to do all the work that is  to  be 
done.  Not only is discussion  necessary, 
but, in  this  connection,  there  is  much 
committee work to be done,  and the reg­
ular attendants at  the  meetings,  few  in 
number as  they  are, can  hardly  be  ex­
pected to do it  all, and  members  of  the 
Association are not doing right in expect­
ing it of them. 
If  the  members  of  the 
Association  are  interested  in  its  work, 
they should  show  their  interest  by  at­
tending the meetings, taking part in  the 
discussions  and  having  a  share  in  the 
work.  All  the  members  receive  equal 
benefit from the work of  the Association 
and all should be willing to share in  the 
labor and responsibility. 
It  is  hard  to 
understand  how  anyone  who  is  at  all 
acquainted with the  objects  of  such  an 
Association can  remain  away  from  the 
meetings.

T h e   G ro c e ry   M a rk e t.

Pork—The  receipts  of  hogs  for  the 
week in  Chicago  were  116,000,  against
140.000 for  the  previous  week  and  91,- 
500  for  the  corresponding  week  last 
year.  The 
total Chicago  receipts  from 
March  1  to  24  were  266,000,  against
167.000  for the corresponding period last 
year.  The enormous increase in receipts 
this year is due to the high  prices  which 
have ruled  all winter,  and  which finally 
brought out the  hogs.  From  now  until 
warm  weather receipts may  be  expected 
to decrease,  and  a  few  days  will  see 
prices advanced.  There are still  plenty 
of hogs  in  the  country,  however,  and 
values are  not likely to go  very high.

Lard—Is a trifle  off.  See  market  re­

Fish—Mackerel 

and  whitefish  are 

ports.

lower.

Salt—Common fine has been  advanced 
10c, in accordance with the recent action 
of the Michigan Salt Company.

Oranges—Despite the fact that Florida 
fruit has nearly  all  been  marketed  and 
is,  therefore,  difficult  to  be  obtained. 
Grand  Rapids  wholesalers  are  to  the 
fore, and our local market is  perhaps  as 
well supplied as any other  in  the  coun- 
: try, and it is  becoming  to  be  a  recog­

nized fact to all persons engaged  in any- j 
way with the  handling  of  fruits, 
that I 
their interests are taken care of  as  well,! 
if not  better,  by  our  local  merchants 
than by solicitors  for  their  business  in 
competing cities.  A marked  advance  is 
noted on all  varieties  this  week.  Cali- i 
fornias have moved  up  a  peg,  in  sym-1 
pathy with Floridas,  and it is  more than 
probable  that  another  advance  of  at 
least 25c a box will be  announced within 
ten  days,  as  three-fourths  of  all  the 
groves are  controlled  by  the  exchange. 
It must be said, however, that as  a  syn­
dicate they are very fair  in  their  hand­
ling of  the  vast  interests  represented 
and, in advancing the price, they doit so 
gradually that it gives the buyer  an  ad­
vantage, as  he  is  assured  that  orders 
placed will net a profit and  there  is  no 
necessity of loading up  with  perishable 
goods to  avoid  being  caught  short  by 
sharp advances or fluctuating values.

Lemons—Arrivals  at 

the  different 
ports of entry continue to be regular and 
of considerable  volume  and  demand  is 
fairly active,  although very few are buy­
ing the summer stocks.  The brokers re­
port a firm feeling  and  the  prices  real­
ized  show  an  advance;  especially  on 
300s.  A  decline  is  possible,  but  not 
probable, and purchases  made  now  are 
safe, if sound fruit, untouched  by  frost, 
can be secured.

Bananas—Have been in  ample  supply 
here and at fair prices, although  Eastern 
ports advise that the steamers  have been 
arriving with very light  cargoes  of  late 
and that  nearly  all  the  fruit  has  been 
bought by dealers right at  home,  to  the 
detriment of  Western  trade.  Prices  in 
New York last week ranged all  the  way 
from $1.15(3)1.25  for  seconds  and  from 
$1 40@1.65 for firsts.  These prices  can­
not last,  however, and  we look  to  see  a 
very heavy volume of  business  done  in 
this ever popular article during the  com­
ing season.

Peanuts—Are low and the  cleaners re­
port that the farmers in  many  cases  are 
holding on  to  their  products,  awaiting 
better prices,  which  are reasonably  sure 
to come.

P u r e ly   P e rs o n a l.

L.  W. Sprague,  the  Greenville  hard­
ware dealer,  sustained a  broken  leg  by 
falling on the sidewalk near  his  store  a 
days  ago.

John Butler,  who will  shortly  embark 
in the grocery business at Lakeview, was 
in town over Sunday, the  guest of Byron 
Stockbridge Davenport.

Geo.  L. Thurston  (Thurston  &  Com 
pany. Central Lake) a valued contributor 
of  T h e T ra desm an,  favors  his  friends 
with  cards,  under  date  of  March  23, 
bearing the laconic announcement,  “It’s 
a boy.”  T h e  T radesm an  extends  con­
gratulations,  at the  same  time  express­
ing the  hope that Grandfather  Thurston 
may not  expire  from  exuberance  of  joy 
over the event.

R. C.  Luce has returned from  Jackson 
county,  Miss., where he  has  been  since 
Feb. 20,  visiting his son, Greg.  M.  Luce, 
and  looking  over  the  extensive  timber 
investments of R. C.  Luce & Sons in that 
vicinity.  While  there  Mr.  Luce  pur­
chased 6,000 more acres of  pine  land,  so 
that the firm now has  an  investment  of 
$100,000 in Mississippi timber.  The res­
ident member of the firm conducts exten­
sive  logging  operations  and  a  supply 
store at Basin and has beeu elected a  di­
rector  in  the  Scranton  State  Bank  of

Scranton, the nearest  railway  point,  lo­
cated  at  the  mouth  of  the  Pascagoula 
River, on the Gulf of  Mexico,  thirty-five 
miles  from  Basin.  He  will be  remem­
bered  by Michigan  people as a traveling 
salesman 
for  Hawkins  &  Company, 
with  whom  he  was  identified  several 
years.

T h e   W o o l  M a rk e t.

Enquiry  has  been  somewhat  more 
active  and  general  the  past  week  and 
some good sales are  reported.  Growers, 
however, are still  very  shy of  the  mar­
ket and  little  wool  is  coming  forward, 
the movement being  from  stocks.  The 
local market  is  dull  and  inactive,  with 
prices unchanged.

FO R   S A L E ,  W A N T E D ,  ET C .

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

592

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

IflOR GOOD LOCATION  TO  RETAIL  HARD 
ware, drugs, clothing or dry goods, address 
lock  box 221. Sturgis,  Mich. 
594
I lOR SALE—THE  ONLY MEAT MARKET IN 
town of fOO inhabitants.  Good opening for 
right  man.  Good reasons for selling.  Address
No. 587.  care Michigan Tradesman._______587
ANTED—A LIVE ACTIVE MAN AS PART- 
ner in general store.  130.000  cash  trade 
per  year.  Address  No.  592,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
OR SALE—A CLEAN bTOCK OF GENERAL 
merchandise with no old  goods.  Will sell 
for cash. 
Stock  invoices  #1,200.  Will sell or 
rent store building.  It will pay  you  to  investi­
gate.  Address Box 107. Kalamo, Mich. 
588
■ OR  SALE—A  CLEAN  STOCK  OF  HARD 
ware and agricultural implements  in  good 
paying  territory.  Stock  will  invoice #2.500 to 
#3 0»0.  Would sell one-half interest.  Good rea­
sons for selling.  Address  No.  589, care Michi­
gan Tradesman. 
589
TJSJANTED  FOR  CASH—STOCK  OF  GEN- 
t V 
eral merchandise.  Give  particulars  and 
price.  W  II. Pardee, Freeport, Mich. 
590
FOR  SALE—CHOICE  MILLINERY  STOCK.
Reason  for  selling,  ill  health.  Mary  A. 
Rosenberg, Lisbon  Mich. 
591
PAVE-
OR  SALE—POST  AND  CEDAR 
ments.  Emil  H  Bradford,  Agt.,  Mecosta. 
Mich. 
593
F o r  sa l e—six  fo o t  oak  show  case
and Iron standard,  used  but  a  short  time 
and  practically  as  good  as  new.  Tradesman 
586 
Company,  100 Louis M.. Grand Rapids. 
'ITTANTED—TO  BUY  FOR  SPOT  CASH,  OR 
v v 
unincumbered  real  estate,  all  kinds of 
merchandise.  Address the Manistee Meicantile 
Co., Manistee, Mich. 
581
■ UR BUSINESS IS TO BRING  BUYER  AND 
seller together.  Your  business  is to  write 
us if you want to buy, sell or exchange.  Mutual 
582
Business Exchange, Bay City,  Mich. 
BLERK 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 SALE—A NICE BUSINESS—ICE 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 Si.300.  Terms  cash.  Address No. 
584
584. care Michigan Tradesman. 
■ 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 
Oceana or Macon counties.  M. A. Mosher, Mill 
Creek, Mich. 
TTTANTBD—BANK  STOCK  IN  ANY GRAND 
TV  Rapids  bank.  Must  be  cheap.  E.  A. 
Stowe, 100 Louis St. 
568
■   CLEAN  STOCK  OF  GROCERIES  FOR 
Sale;  good  trade,  cheap  for  spot  cash; 
the only delivery wagon In  town.  Stock  about 
$2,500. 
Investigate.  Address  box  15,  Centre- 
820
ville,  Mich. 
SITUATIONS  WANTED.

factory  making  chamber 

TXTANTED—SITUATION AS  MANAGER  OR 
IT  
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. 
579
■ TANTED—A  POSITION  AS  FOREMAN 
In a general  store.  Seventeen  years  ex­
perience.  Best of references.  Address Room 10 
< 574
Twamley block, Grand Rapids, Mich. 
■ ANTED—FOREMAN  FOR  FURNITURE 
suits,  beds, 
tables, and desks.  Must be competent to handle 
eighty men to advantage and  have some knowl­
edge of designing  and  drafting.  Apply  imme 
dlately to E. A. Stowe, 100 Louis St. 
567
■ J ANTED—POSITION  BY  EXPERT  Ac­
countant.  Books opened or closed.  Bal­
ances rendered.  Partnerships adjusted and any 
other work of similar eha-aeter  promptly  done. 
578
Address No. 578, care The  Tradesman. 
■ ANTED— THOROUGHLY  COMPETENT 
and  experienced  young man would  like 
position as book-keeper, cashier  or  other  office 
work  with  jobbing  or  manufacturing house. 
577
Address “H” care The Tradesman. 

585

' 

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.
Dry Goods Price Current.

DEMINS.

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

Amoskeag...............12
9os........14
brown .14

[Columbian  brown.. 12
Everett, blue...........12)4
brown....... 12)4
Haymaker bine........ 74i
brown...  744
Jaffrey.....................11)4
[Lancaster  .............. 12)4
Lawrence, 9 os........ 13*4
No. 220.. ..13
No. 250 — 11)4
No. 280... 10)4

Andover................. 11)4
Beavercreek  AA...10 
“ 
BB...  9
“ 
CC....
Boston MfgCo.  br..  7 
“ 
bine  8)4 
“ 
“ 
“  d a twist  10)4 
Columbian XXX br.10 
“ 
“ 
XXX  hi. 19
GINGHAMS.
Amoskeag..............   5
Lancaster,  staple...  5
fancies__7
“ 
“  Persian dress  6)* 
“  Normandie  7
Canton ..  7
“ 
Lancashire.............   6
AFC.........8)4
“ 
Manchester............   544
“ 
Teazle... 10)4
Monogram..............  6)4
“ 
Angola.. 10)4
Normandie............  7
Persian..  7
“ 
Arlington staple__6*4
Persian...................   7
Arasapha  fancy  ...  444 Renfrew Dress........7)4
Bates Warwick dres  7)4lRosemont............... 6)4
SlatersviUe............   6
staples.  6
Centennial.............  10)4
Somerset.................  7
Criterion................10)4
Tacoma  .................7)4
Cumberland staple.  5)4
Toll  duNord.........   8)4
Cumberland........... 5
Wabash..................   7)4
seersucker..  7)4
Essex........................4)4
Warwick...............   6
Elfin.......................   7)4
Whittenden............   8
Everett classics......8)4
heather dr.  7)4 
Exposition................7*4
indigo bine  9 
Glenarie................   6)4
Wamsutta staples...  644
Glenarven..............   644
Westbrook..............  8
Glenwood.................7)4
Hampton...................5
10
Windermeer........... 5
Johnson Chalon cl 
)4 
Y ork......................644
Indigo bine 9)4 
zephyrs__ 16

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“ 

GRAIN  BAGS.

Amoskeag............   .13  ¡Georgia
....................
Stark........................ 18 
American.................13  i.............. ................

... 

.13)4

THREADS.

No.

KNITTING  COTTON.

Clark'B Mile End.. ..45  ¡Barbour's................ 95
Coats’, J. & P ...........45  Marshall’s ................ 90
Holyoke..................22)41
White.  Colored.
38 No.  14... — 37
6  .. -33
“  16...
39
...34
...38
8...
“  18... — 89
...35
40
10...
“  20.. — 40
...36
41
12...
CAMBRICS.
Edwards................  4
Lockwood.................4
Wood’s ..................   4
Brunswick...........   4

White.  Colored
42
43
44
45

Slater......................   4
White Star.............  4
Kid Glove...............  4
Newmarket............   4
Fireman.................82)4
Creedmore............. 27)4
Talbot XXX...........30
Nameless............... 27)4

T W ............
F T ..............
J R F , XXX. 
Buckeye__

RED  FLANNEL.

22)4 
• 32)4 
.35 
■ 82)4

6

T be O nly  Good  F e a tu re   o f  U nionism .
The organization of the various trades, 
both commercial and  industrial,  into  as­
sociations and unions,  has  been  produc­
tive  of  much  good. 
It  has  tended  to 
harmonize what, viewed from  the  stand­
point of tbe  individual,  appeared  to  be 
conflicting  interests. 
It  has,  to  a  very 
considerable extent, unified and solidified 
the different trades,  giving  them  a  posi­
tion and influence which otherwise never 
could have been theirs. 
It has  given  to 
the members of the various organizations 
a more  intelligent  conception  of  their 
needs, and enabled them, in many  cases, 
to provide a remedy. 
In many  other  di­
rections has  organization  been  a  direct 
and positive benefit.  But,  while  this  is 
true,  it  has  its  dangers  as  well.  The 
strength which accompanies union is  not 
always well or  wisely  used. 
Instead  of 
being  used for the correction  of  abuses, 
it is  sometimes used for selfish and  mer­
cenary purposes. 
Its strength is not  al­
ways u*ed for lifting  the  burdens  from 
the  shoulders of the  weaker  members of 
its  class.  Sometimes  it  arrogantly  as­
sumes the tone of a dictator and  uses  its 
strength to  enforce  demands  which  are 
unjust and oppressive. 
In every  organi­
zation there are to  be  found  those  who 
will not listen  to the voice of reason, but 
are swayed more by  prejudice  and  pas­
sion, and when these gain the ascendancy, 
then  organization  becomes  a  curse  in­
stead of a blessing.  Under wise  leader­
ship. there is no reason why an organiza­
tion should not be a power for good;  but 
under  the leadership of those  who  have 
only selfish ends to  serve,  and  who  are 
not at all scrupulous as  to  tbe  methods 
they employ to gain their ends,  then  or 
ganization exerts  a  baneful  and  not  a 
beneficent  influence.  The  tendency  of 
all organizations, especially when a large 
percentage of the membership are scarce­
ly np  to the average in  point  of  intelli­
gence, is generally in the wrong direction, 
and only  by  persistent  and  determined 
effort on the part of the more  intelligent 
members can this tendency be  overcome. 
The trouble is  that  those who  ought  to 
lead and whose opinions ought to  govern 
are, as a  rule,  unwilling  to  take  the 
leadership,  and  so  the  organization  is 
left to the guidance  and  control  of  bad 
men,  conscienceless  demagogues,  who 
use their position and  influence  for  the 
furtherance of their own  base  purposes.

Da n ie l Abbott.

The  Evil  o f Two  P rices.

The vice of  retail  trade  in  Europe  is 
said to be the custom of asking more  for 
any article on sale than there  is  any  ex­
pectation of obtaining.  Sharp chaffering 
is looked for, and a payment of  the  first 
demand might be  almost  an  unpleasant 
surprise.  A  somewhat  similar  state  of 
things  once  existed  in  America,  and  a 
great deal of credit  has  been  given,  tor 
instance, to the  late Alexander T.  Stew­
art, for tbe long and well-fought  war  by 
which  that  prince  of  salesmen  estab­
lished  the “one-price  system.”  He  did 
so, indeed,  and  he  advertised  the  fact, 
and armies of customers  marched  to  his 
counters, year after year, with full  faith 
in his performances.  They did not come 
to  chaifer,  nor  to  beat  down, for  they 
knew no reduction would be made  in the 
fixed price of any article upon  his  miles 
of  shelves  and  counters.  Other  mer­
chants grumbled a little,  at  first,  and  so 
did many experienced  and  accomplished 
lady  shoppers,  but the latter got used to 
it and the  former  quietly  imitated  Mr. 
Stewart,  as soon as they studied the mat­
ter  a  little  and  understood  precisely 
what  he  was doing.

Use Tradesman Coupon^Books.

UNBLEACHED  COTTONS.

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BLEACHED  COTTONS.

H..............  6H
P .............  5
D..............6

Adriatic.................  7
Argyle....................  53£
Atlanta A A............ 6
Atlantic A..............

Arrow Brand  4* 
••  World Wide.  8
I*L................. 414
“ 
Full Yard Wide......614
Georgia  A..............  614
Honest Width........  6
Hartford A  ............   5
Indian Head...........  614
King A  A................614
KlngBC.................5
Lawrence  L L........  414
Madras cheese cloth 614
Newmarket  G........5V
B........ 5
N........614
D D ....  514
X ....... 6*
Noibe R..................  5
6 
6

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Amory.....................  63i
Archery  Bunting...  4 
Bearer Dam  A A ..  414
Blackstone O, 32__  S
Black Crow............ 6
Black  Rock  ...........  5^
Boot, AL................  7
Capital  A ............... 514
Cavanat V..............  5)4j
Chapman cheese cl.  314
Clifton  C R ............   514 Our Level  Best
Comet..................... 6141 Oxford  R
Dwight Star............  6% Pequot.
Clifton CCC...........  514 Solar...................
¡Top of the  Heap.
A B C ......................814
Geo.  Washington...  8
Amazon.................. 8
Glen Mills.............   7
Amsburg.................6
Gold Medal............   714
Art  Cambric...........10
Green  Ticket......... 814
Blackstone A A......  714
Great Falls.............   614
BeatB All.................  4
Hope—  %................  714
Boston....................12
Just  Out........  444® 5
King  Phillip...........7*
Cabot......................   614
Cabot,  %.................  6%
OP......714
“ 
Charter  Oak...........514.
Lonsdale Cambric.. 10 
Conway W..............  714¡Lonsdale
@ 8 ~  5
Cleveland.............  6 
| Middlesex
Dwight Anchor—   8  No Name................  714
shorts  8  Oak View......   ...... 6
Edwards..................6  Our Own...................514
Empire...................  7  j Pride of the West.. .12
Farwell....................714 Rosalind...................714
Fruit of the  Loom.  8  [Sunlight.................  414
Fitchvllle  ............  7  Utica  Mills.............. 814
First Prize..............  6 
“  Nonpareil  ..10
Fruit of the Loom %.  7)4 Vlnyard.................  814
Falrmount..............414 White Horse.............  6
Full Value..............644! 
814
Cabot......................   644¡DwightAnchor.
Farwell...................7h I

“  Rock.
HALF  BLEACHED  COTTONS.

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CANTON  FLANNEL.

Unbleached 

I  Housewife  A...........514

Bleached.
Housewife  Q__
R.......

614

F ... —  7k
G  .. — 7)4
H... —  7k
...8*4
I...
J  ..
...  8)4
K...
9k
...10
L.  ..
M  ...
...10)4
...11
N - -
...21
O....
P ... — 14)4
CARPET  WABF.

MIXED  FLANNEL.

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10)4
U)4
12
20

DOMET  FLANNEL.

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Slate.
9)4ion
11) 4
12) 4

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

Red A Blue,  plaid. .40  ¡Grey S R W............ 17)4
Union R................. 22)4 Western W  ..............18)4
Windsor..................18)4  D B F ................... 18)4
6 oz Western...........20 Flushing XXX...........23)4
Union  B .................22)41  Manitoba................23)4
9  @10)4 
Nameless......  8  @ 9)4] 
..... 8)4@10  I
12)4
Brown. Black.
Brown. Black. Slate
»k 10)4
10)4
10)4 ilk
11)4
11)4 12
12
12)4 20
20
DUCKS.
. 8 oz— •  9)4 West Point, 8 oz .  .10)4
10 os — 12)4
d, 8oz...
...10)4
11* Raven, lOoz............13)4
Greenwood, 7)4 os. 
9)4
Greenwood, 8 01.
............13)4
Boston, 8 oz............ 10)4 Boston, 10 oz........... 12)4
White, doz............. 25  ¡Per bale, 40 dos 
83 50
Colored,  dos.......... 20  ¡Colored  “ 
.......... 7 GO
Pawtucket...............10)4
Slater, Iron Cross...  8 
Dundle...................   9
“  Red Cross....  9
Bedford...................10)4
“  Best.............10)4
Valley  City.............10)4
“ 
Best AA......12)4
K K ......................... 10)4
L............................. 7)4
G ............................. 8)4
Cortlcelll, doz.........85  [Cortlcelll  knitting,

* 
Stark 
WADDINGS.

SEWING  SILK.

SILBSIAB.

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per )4os  ball........30

twist,doz..40 
SO yd,doz..40  I
HOOKS AND  EYES—PER GROSS.
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No  1 Bl’k A White..10  ¡No  4 Bl’k A White..15 
“  2 
-20
“  3 
-25
No 2-20, M  C......... 60 
|No4—15  J  3)4........ 40
8—18, S C ...........45 
|

-12  “ 8 
-12 I  “  10 

No  2 White A BPk.,12  ¡No  8 White A Bl’k..20 
.28
-26
.36

COTTON  TAPE.
-15  “  10 
-18 |  “  12 
SAFETY  FINS.
....28  IN08..
NEEDLES—PER  M.

FINS.

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A. James.................1 40|Steamboat...... ........   40
Crowely’s................1  85 Gold  Eyed...............1  50
Marshall’s ..............1 00|Amerlcan................ 1  00
5—4....  1  75  6—4... 
|5—4....1  65  6—4...2 80

TABLE  OIL  CLOTH.

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1014

PRINTS.

COSSETS.

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COSSET  JEANS.

DBESS  GOODS.

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

Peerless, white....... 17
colored__19
Integrity................. 1814
Hamilton 
..............8
................. 9
 
I G G  Cashmere........20
Nameless  ...............16
...............18

“  colored 19
Nameless................20
...........25
...........2714
...........30
...........3214
.........36
j Coraline................. 19 BOlWonderful.............84 50
Schilling's..............  9  00 Brighton.............4 75
Davis  Waists  —   9 00 Bortree’s ..............   9 00
Grand  Rapids......  4 50|Abdominal.............15 00
| Armory..................   64£ j Naumkeag satteen..  714
Androscoggin..........714 Rockport................... 614
!  Blddeford...............  6  Conestoga.................714
i  Brunswick..............614!Walworth.................. 644
Allen turkey  reds..  5*4 
Berwick fancies__  514
Clyde Robes...........
robes...........  514
Elnk a purple 514
Charter Oak fancies  4 
Del Marine cashm's.  514 
uffs 
.........   514
mourn'g  514
pink  checks.  514
Eddystone fancy...  514
staples  ........  5
shirtings ...  344 
chocolat  514
rober —   514
American fancy—   5H
American Indigo...  414! 
sateens..  514
American shirtings.  344 Hamilton fancy.  ...  514
staple —   5)4 
Argentine  Grays 
Anchor Shirtings...  4 
Manchester fancy..  5)4 
new era. 5)4 
“  —   6
Arnold 
Merrimack D fancy.  5)4 
Arnold  Merino. —   6 
Merrfm’ck shirtings.  4 
long cloth B.  9 
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» 
“  C.  714
“ 
century cloth 7
Pacific fancy..........5)4
“  gold seal......1014
“ 
Portsmouth robes...  6)4 
“  green seal TR1014 
Simpson mourning..  544
“  yellow seal.. 1014
greys..........54<
“ 
serge.............11)4
solid black.  544 
“  Turkc.-red.. 10)4
Washington Indigo.  6)4 
** 
“  Turkey robes..  7X
“  India robes___ 7)4
“  plain Tky X 44  8)4 
“ 
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“  Ottoman  Tur­
key red.................. 6)4
Martha Washington
Turkeyred 44........ 7)4
Martha Washington
Turkeyred..........   9)4
Rlverpointrobes....  5)4
Windsor fancy........  6)4
Indigo bine..........10)4
Harmony.................   4)4
AC A....................11)4
Pemberton AAA— 16
York...................'...10)4
Swift River............ 7)4
Pearl  River............12
Warren................... 12)4
Conostoga..............16
........... 8
Name.............................. 7)4
(Top of Heap...........  9

Bailor* solid black..
colors.
Bengal bine,  gteen, 
red and  orange ...  6
Berlin solids...........  5)4
'*  oil bine.......  6
“  green  ...  6
“ 
“  Foulards  ...  5)4 
red %  ... 
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“ X .......... 9)4
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“  3-4XXXX  12
Cocheco fancy..........5
“  madders...  5 
“  XXtwills..  5
“ 
solids........... 5

Amoskeag AC A ....»1)4
Hamilton N  ...........  7
D............ 8
Awning..ll
Fanner  .................. 8
First Prise............. 10)4
Lenox M ills.......... 18
Atlanta,  D..............  644|Stark  A 
Boot..........................  644 No 
Clifton, K.................7 

4 
6 
NO 2.

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

COTTON  DBILL.

gold  ticket

TICKINGS.

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Cotton Sail Twine. .28
Crown....................12
Domestic...............18)4
Anchor..................16
Bristol...................18
Cherry  Valley........15
I XL.......................18)4
Alabama...................641
Alamance................. 6*4
Augusta...................7)4
Ar  sapha................  6
Georgia.................... 6)4
G ranite..................  5k
Haw  River............ 6
Haw  J ....................  6

Mount  Pleasant__ 6)4
Oneida....................  5
Prymont  ...............   5k
Randelman............ 6
Riverside................  5k
Sibley  A.................  6)4
Otis checks.............741

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

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PLAID  OSNABUBG8

COTTONTWINEB.

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A  LADY’S
SHOE,
GENUINE  :  YICI
Plain toe In opera and  opera  toe and C. S. heel. 
D and E and E E widths, at 81.50.  Patent leather 
tip,  $1.55.  Try them,  they are  beauties.  Stock 
soft and fine, flexible and elegant  fitters.  Send 
for sample dozen.

REfiD ER  BROS.  SHOE  CO ,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Paper  Packed 

Screw.

Manufacturers  and  Jobbers  of

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

26«  SOUTH  IONIA  NT,, 

ä s Ment! leier

Catarrh, 
May Fever, 
Headache,
Neuralgia,  Colds.  Sore  Tire*.

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

Prevents and cures

On cars or boat.

Sea  Sickness
The  cool  exhlleratlng  sensation 

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

H.  D.  CUSHMAN,  M anufacturer.

Three  Rivers,  Mich.

{ ^ “Guaranteed  satisfactory.

EATON, LYON 4 CO,

NEW  STYLES  OF

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20  &  22  Monroe  St.,

G RA N D   R A PID S.

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4.

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$■  •*

'METE  MICHIGAN  TRA DESM A N .

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

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BLOCKS.
CRADLES.

Ordinary Tackle, list April  1898................60410

Grain......................................................dls. 50408

CROW BARS.

CAPS.

Cast Steel..............................................per«»  5
65
Ely’s 1-10.............................................per m 
Hick’s C. F .............................................. " 
60
G. D .......................................................   “ 
35
Musket..................................................  
“ 
go
Rim  Fire...................................................... 
Central  Fire...........................................dls. 

CARTRIDGES.

sh
85

OHI8KL8. 

dls.

dlS.

COMBS. 

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

CHALK.
COPPER.

Curry,  Lawrence’s....................................... 
40
Hotchkiss....................................................  
25
White Crayons, per  gross...............18Q12H dls. 10
Planished, 14 oz cut to size........per pound 
14x52,14x56,14x60 ....................... 
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60.......................  
Cold Rolled, 14x48........................................  
Bottoms...............  
Morse’s Bit  Stocks.....................................  
Taper and straight Shank............................ 
Morse’s Taper Shank.................................... 

88
  26
23
23
25
50
50
50

 
drills. 

dls.

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DRIPPING PANS.

Small sizes, ser pound................................  
07
Large sizes, per pound................................   6V4

ELBOWS.

75

EXPANSIVE BITS. 

Com. 4  piece, 6 In............................uoz. net 
Corrugated....................................................... dls 40
Adi us table........................................................dls. 40410
Clark’s, Bmall, 818;  large, 186......................  
30
Ives’, 1, 818 :  2, 884;  3,830  ............................  
25
Dlss ton’s .......................................................60410
New American  ............................................60410
Nicholson's..................................................60410
Heller’s ......................................................... 
50
Heller’s Horse Rasps  ..................................  
50

piles—New List. 

dls.

dls.

A N   A C C U R SE D   IN H E R IT A N C E .
It has been said, in view  of  the  many 
dangerous  situations  into  which  boys 
seem to take  pleasure  in  placing  them­
selves,  that  it  is  a  wonder  that  any 
considerable  number  of  them  grow  up 
with the proper allowance of eyes, limbs, 
and  other  bodily  members,  and  when 
they do so escape mutilation their friends 
ought to be duly thankful.

There  is  something  pathetic  in  the 
spectacle of a young  perso n  maimed  or 
disabled by some  untoward  event.  The 
pathos and pity are  increased  when  the 
victim is a girl  and  the  disability  mars 
her comeliness.  A  woman has a natural 
right  to  be  pleasing  in  person,  if  not 
actually  beautiful,  and  any  accident 
which  deprives  her  of  her  physical 
charms makes quite as  serious  a  matter 
as that which disables a man from  prop­
erly earning a livelihood.

But what shall be said of  those  unfor­
tunates  who  are  born  deformed  or 
maimed, condemned through  some  fault 
of their  ancestors  and  before  they,  the 
wretched victims,  were ushered into this 
world, to  live  without  organs,  without 
senses,  without  sensations,  which  are 
common to  the  species  and  which  men 
ordinarily share with the  lower animals? 
Is this sort of privation  not  an  extreme 
affliction  which  should  kindle  compas­
sion  and  arouse  sympathy 
in  every 
breast?

Just here comes into play the  remark­
able  supporting  and  comforting  power 
of  self-love.  These  unfortunate  de­
formed,  instead  of  being  driven  by 
mortification  and  disappointment  to  a 
state of  hopeless  misanthropy,  despera­
tion, and even to suicide,  grow  up  with 
a determination  and desire  to  make  the 
most  of  the  few  gifts  that  have "been 
vouchsafed to  them,  and  in  not  a  few 
cases  such  persons  have  risen  to  high 
places in the world’s  estimation.  Some­
times,  when  physical  beauty  has  been 
lost, women have made up  for  the  lack 
of it by sweetness of  disposition, charms 
of  manner  and  brilliancy  of  intellect; 
while men born without hands  have  be­
come proficient  in  painting  and  music, 
using their toes in place of  their  fingers 
which they lack.  The blind are  not  cut 
off from the pleasure of reading, and  the 
deaf and dumb are able to converse with 
others of  their  kind.  But  for  self-love 
which  makes  these  unfortunates  not 
only  willing  but  desirous  to  live,  how 
vastly  would  human  misery  be  multi­
plied!  What a fearful  crop  of  suicides 
there would be!

implanted 

But,  providentially,  the love  of life  is 
deeply 
in  human  nature. 
Men  who  are  condemned  to  lifetime 
terms  of  imprisonment  are  willing  to 
live on  while those afflicted with  loath­
some  and  incurable  diseases  drag  out 
their miserable years without  any  effort 
to  shorten  them.  Doubtless  there  is 
something  good  in  all  this,  since  it  is 
generally  held  that  man  has  no  more 
right to lay violent hands upon  his  own 
life than  upon  that  of  others.  Never­
theless,  the existence of the maimed,  the 
blind, the  deformed  and  the  incurably 
diseased has been greatly ameliorated by 
modern philanthropy.  Printing  for  the 
blind is not more than a hundred years old. 
No systematic education of  the  deaf and 
dumb was known  until  the  last  part  of 
the  seventeenth  century.  The  large 
class of medicines  in use  for  producing 
insensibility  from  pain  is  entirely  the 
product  of  modern  .chemistry.  The

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philanthropy of modern  times  has  done 
more in a century  for  the  relief  of  the 
pains  and  disabilities of  human  beings 
than was ever dreamed of, much less  ac­
complished, in all  the  previous  ages  of 
human  history.
In connection with those  persons  who 
are deprived from birth of certain senses 
or  physical  faculties,  some  interesting 
problems come up for consideration.  As 
an illustration an incident may be  cited. 
Not  long  ago,  the  writer  saw  leaning 
against the show window of a shoe  store 
an  unfortunate  young  fellow  who  had 
been  born  without  feet,  and  only  pos­
sessed the stumps of  legs.  He was  gaz­
ing at the handsome display  of  footwear 
spread out for public view.  There  were 
shoes  for  men,  women  and  children; 
dainty slippers in kid and satin,of various 
styles and colors, to  be  worn  with  ball 
costumes.  Of what could  that  poor  fel­
low,  who  had  never  had  any  feet,  be 
thinking in connection with a  display of 
shoes? 
It  is  impossible  to  say  what 
longings may  have  possessed  this  foot­
less unfortunate.  Naturally, a man who 
never had a foot  would  be  dreaming  of 
the  enormous  value  of  organs  which 
most people consider indispensable,  and 
he would sigh at  the  immense  loss  that 
had been inflicted upon him  by  an  edict 
of  nature  promulgated  before  he  was 
born.
And here comes up the tremendous re­
sponsibility of parents  for the  physical, 
as well  as  for  the  moral, condition  of 
their  children.  Sociological  philoso­
phers  declare that much of the tendency 
to crime, to vices and to  depravity  man­
ifested at an early age by  individuals  is 
a direct inheritance from  their  parents. 
Criminal  instincts  and  vicious  habits 
possessed by the parents are transmitted 
to their offspring, just  as  constitutional 
diseases and  disabilities  are  so  handed 
down, and the little  ones  are  cursed  in 
mind and morals,  as  well  as  in  bodily 
health  and  physical  conditions.  How 
many people there are in  the world  who 
are suffering pain and  privation  for  the 
sins  of  their  fathers!  What  a  terrible 
thing  to  contemplate!  People  should 
know  where  the real responsibility  lies. 
When they contemplate the  spectacle  of 
the unfortunates that so often appear  in 
our streets,  people who have  been  from 
birth  maimed,  deformed,  with  hideous 
features  and  blotched  and  discolored 
faces,  there  should  go  forth  with  the 
sympathy and pity they excite a burst of 
condemnation for their parents who have 
so much cursed their helpless  and  inno­
cent offspring. 
It should be, too,  a  sol­
emn warning to those who  run  the  risk 
of  stamping  such  hideous  marks  unon 
their own children.

Hardware Price Current.

d ls.

AXBS.

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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....................................50&10
First Quality, S. B. Bronze.......................... t  7 00
D.  B. Bronze............................   i» 00
S. B. S. Steel..............................  8 00
D. B. Steel................................  is 50
Railroad.....................................................g 14 00
Garden.................................................   net  80 00
Stove.............................................................. 50410
Carriage new list.......................................... 75410
Plow.............................................................. 40410
Sleigh shoe................................................... 
70
Well, plain  ................................................. t  8 50
Well, swivel......................................................   4 00
d ls.
Cast Loose Pin, figured.................................704
Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast Joint.............. 804.0

barrows. 

BUTTS, OAST. 

BUCKETS.

bolts. 

dls.

dls.

HAMMERS.

 

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HOLLOW WARE.

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS.

Maydole  4  Co.’s.................................... dls. 
2'
Kip’s .......................................................dls! 
25
Terkes 4  Plumb’s...............................  dls. 40410
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel........................30c list 60
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steel  Hand.  .. 30c 40410
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2, 3 ............  
dls.60410
State........................................... per doz. net, 2 50
Screw Hook  and  Strap, to 12 In. 4J4  14  and
longer.......................................................  
3H
10
Screw Hook and  Eye, H....................... net 
%.........................net  8H
X....................... net  714
%..................... n e t   714
Strap and T  ...........................................dls. 
50
dls.
Barn Door Bidder Mfg. Co.. Wood track..  .50410
Champion,  anti friction.............................   60410
Bidder, wood track.....................................  
40
.............................................................. 60416
Spiders  ......................................................... 60410
Gray enameled..............................................40410
Stamped  TlnWare...............................new list 70
J spanned Tin Ware................................. 
¿6
Granite Iron W are......................new list 33X410
Blight..................................................  70410410
Screw  Eyes............................................. 70410410
book's..................................................... 70410410
Gate Hooks and Eyes...................... 
70410410
„ 
<Us.7n
Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s ......................
Sisal, % Inch and larger............................ 
Manilla.........................................................  n
*' ills
Steel and  Iron..............................................  
Try and Bevels...............................!........... 
Mitre
„  
Com.  Smooth.
Nos. 10 to  14.....................................84 05
Nos. 15 to 17.....................................  4 05
Noe.  18 to 21...................................   4 05
Nos. 22 to 24.....................................4 05
Nos. 25 to 26.....................................4 25
No. 27............................................... ...
wide not less than 2-10 extra
List acct. 19, ’86  .....................................dls. 
Silver Lake, White A ..............................list 

75
gc
20
Com. 
12 95 
3 05 
3 05 
3  15 
3 25 
3 35
All  sheets No. 18  and  lighter,  over 30  Inches 

LEVELS. 
ROPES.

WIRE GOODS. 

SQUARES. 

SAND PAPER.

SHEET IRON.

SASH CORD.

714

dlS

„  

, 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Drab A..............................  
White  B............................ 
Drab B..................................  ■> 
White C................................. •• 

50
50
«  55
  ■  50
55
35

Discount, 10.

SASH WEIGHTS.

dls.

Hand

saws. 

traps. 

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

Solid Byes............................................ per ton 825
“ 
20
“  Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot__ 
50
“  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....................................18cperdoi
Mouse, delusion...............................81.50 per dos
dls
Bright Market..........................................  @5
Annealed Market..................................'.'.".".!70—10
Coppered Market...................................  
"  an
Tinned Market.................................... ..!!..  6214
Coppered Spring  Steel.......................... 
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanised...............................  2 60
painted.....................................  2 20

WIRE. 

dig.

“ 

wrenches. 

Au  Sable..........................................die.  40410
Putnam..........................................  
dls. 05
Northwestern................................ 
dla. 10410
dis
Baxter’s  Adjustable, nickeled.................... 
30
Coe’s  Genuine............................................  
50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,..................... 76
Coe’s  Patent, malleable............................... 75410
dlfl
Birdcages  .................... 
 
50
Pumps, Cistern........................................  
75410
Screws, New List.......................................... 70410
Casters, Bed a  .d Plate....................50410410
Dampers, American.....................................  
40
Forks, hoes, rakes  and all steel goods........65410

MISCELLANEOUS. 
 

HORSE NAILS.

METALS.
PIG TIN.

is

“ 

ex

ZINC.

SOLDER.

Pig  Large....................................................  
26c
Pig Bars........................................................  28c
Duty:  Sheet, 2Xc per pound.
680 pound  casks................................. 
Per pound....................................................   7
HO*........................................................ 1«
Extra W iping.................................................   u
The prices  of  the  many other  qualities  of
solder in the market lndloated by private  brands
vary according to composition.
ANTIMONY
1 60
Cookson............ ...........................per  ponnd
Hallett’s....................................... 
TIN—MELYN GRADE.
10x14 IC, Charcoal.........................................8750
14x20 IC, 
7 50 
10x14 IX, 
9 25 
14x20 IX, 
9 25

“ 
“ 
TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE.
“ 
« 
“ 

....................................
....................................
....................................
Each additional X on this grade, 81.75.
10x14 IC,  Charcoal..................................
...................................
14x20 IC, 
10x14 EX, 
....................................
14x20 EX, 
....................................
Bach additional X on this grade 81.50.
“  Worcester...................... 
“ 
“ 
“  Allaway  Grade................ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE.

14x20IC, 
  6  5o
14x20 IX, 
..........................   8  50
.........................  18 50
20x28 IC, 
6  00
14x2010, 
7 50
'• 
14x20 IX, 
12  50
“ 
20x28 IC, 
20x28 IX, 
“ 
15  50
14x28 XX...................................................  814  00
14x81  EX........................................................   15 00
14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers, I 
n.,
1 Per ponnd —   10 00
14x60 IX  11 

BOOPING PLATES

“ 
“ 
“ 
" 
“ 

6 75
8 25
9 25

" 9  

 
 
 

“ 

 
 
 

GALVANIZED IRON.

15 

12 

dls.

dlS.

28
17

NAILS

MATTOCKS.

50
55
55
55
55
70

locks—door. 

MAULS. 
mills. 

knobs—New List. 

14 
gauges. 

13 
Discount, 60

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

Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s...................... 
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.................... 
Door,  porcelain, j ap. trimmings.................  
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.............. 
Door,  porcelain, trimmings......................... 
Drawer  and  Shutter, porcelain................... 
Russell 4  Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new l is t................... 55
Mallory, Wheeler  4  Co.’s............................ 
55
Branford’s ................................................... 
55
Norwalk’s ....................................................  
55
Adze Bye.........................................816.00, dls. 60
Hunt Bye.........................................»15.00, dls. 60
Hunt’s.......................................818.50, dls. 20410.
dlS.
Sperry 4  Co.’s, Post,  handled...................... 
50
dls.
40
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s .................................... 
40
“  P. S. 4  W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables__ 
“  Landers,  Ferry 4  Cls rk’s.................. 
40
“  Enterprise 
...................................... 
30
Stebbln’s Pattern.......................................... 60410
Stebbln’s Genuine.........................................60410
Enterprise, self-measuring..........................  
25
Advance over  base,  on  both  Steel  and Wire.

MOLASSES GATES. 

Steel nails, base....................................................1 50
Wire nails, base....................................................1 50
Base
60.....................................................Base 
50......................................................  
10
25
40................................ 
 
25
80......................................................  
20.........  
35
 
 
45
16......................................................  
12......................................................  
45
50
10...................................................... 
60
8........................................................ 
75
7 4 6 .................................................. 
4.....................................................  
90
8........................................................ 
120
1  60
2........................................................ 
Fine 8....................................................... 
Case  10............................................. 
66
75
“  8............................................. 
"  6........ 
90
 
Finish 10........................................... 
75
90
“  8...........................................  
1  10
“  6...........................................  
CllnchJlO..................................   .... 
70
80
“ 
8.......................................... 
“ 
go
6..........................................  
Barrell X.......................................... 
175
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy.................................  ©40
Solota Bench..............................................   ©50
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy.........................  ©40
Bench, first quality.......................................  ©40
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s  wood............ 50410
Fry,  Acme.............................................dls.80—10
70
Common,  polished.................................dls. 
dls.
Iron and  Tinned.......................................... 
40
Copper Rivets and Burs............................... 60—10

planes. 

KIVBTS. 

PANS.

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 yfa per pound extra.

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WEDNESDAY,  MARCH  28,  1894.

M URD ER  M A D N E SS.

A  strange  madness  has  come 

into 
vogue among civilized men. 
It is  some­
thing  which  was  never  known  among 
savage people,  but it is more savage  and 
outlandish than anything that  was  ever 
dreamed of  among  the  wild  people  of 
any age or country.

This is  the  dynamite-throwing  craze. 
It is a murder madness.  The only  thing 
that bears any resemblance  to  it  in  the 
whole history of  crime  is  the  “running 
amuck’’ of the Malays.  A Malay who  is 
a drunkard, in the use  of  bhang,  which 
is a preparation of the  Indian  hemp,  or 
who is habitually under the  influence  of 
the narcotic of the  kola  nut,  frequently 
becomes so crazed  with  nervous  excite­
ment that be seizes a knife,  and, rushing 
into the street, cuts  and  stabs  all  who 
may be in his way.  The phrase “running 
amuck” is  said to be  derived  from  the 
Malay word “amok”—that is kill—which 
such a madman  commonly  shouts when 
engaged in his bloody  career.  The  rule 
in such cases is for the people to  pursue 
the maniac and put him  to death as soon 
as possible, as there is  no  other  way  to 
stop his terrible assaults.  He is regarded 
as a furious beast,  a dog raging with  hy­
drophobia.  whom the common safety  de­
mands shall  be dispatched  in  the  most 
summary way attainable.

and  he 

But the mad  Malay is  made  so by  ex­
cessive  stimulation.  His  atrocities  are 
not  the  result  of  cold  calculation  and 
premeditation.  His crimes are  extenua­
ted by the fact that a powerful drug  has 
overthrown  his  reason, 
is, 
although by bis own act.  a victim of a dis­
ordered and distraught  nervous  system. 
The case of the modern murder  madmen 
is  wholly  different.  They  deliberately 
provide themselves with the most deadly 
and destructive explosive  known to man, 
and they fire it in a parliament bouse,  in 
a restaurant, in a  theatre,  in  a  church, 
in a railway station,  in any place, indeed, 
where there are people assembled. These 
people are not known to the assassin; they 
have never harmed him; he  cau  have  no 
reason to wish  them  harm,  and  less  to 
seek their destruction;  but, all the same, 
he  fires  his  dynamite  into  their  midst 
and kills as many as possible.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN
This  monster,  who  outrages  in  his 
crime every  instinct of  animal  life  and 
every sentiment  of human  nature,  and 
every logical rule  of  human  action,  no 
longer  merits  the  treatment  accorded 
men.  He is a furious  beast  who  ought 
to be killed as quickly as  possible,  only 
taking  care  to  ascertain  that  the  real 
criminal is the  one upon whom the doom 
is to be visited.

duction,  and,  consequently,  cheapens 
the articles produced,  without  lowering 
wages.

So far, machinery is  a  grand  benefit; 
but it must end in bringing  on  a  period 
when it will displace  a  vast  number  of 
hand-workers, who will be  driven  from 
one calling to another until there will be 
no place for them in the  world of  work. 
The first result will be the  cutting down 
of the wages of the  machine  operatives. 
Then will come a time when  the number 
of the unemployed will be  so  great  that 
they will be a  tax on  the  working  com­
munity.  Human beings  will  be  forced 
to give place to machines;  the  creatures 
that mast eat bread will be set  aside  for 
the creatures which  consume coal.

Perhaps this period  in  the  history  of 
industry has not yet come into existence, 
and the  human  race  should  hope  most 
earnestly  that  it  has  not;  but it  is cer­
tainly a possibility.  This  is  an  age of 
mechanical  invention,  and the wonders 
that  have  been  accomplished  within  a 
few years past  prepare  the  expectation 
for developments still  more  astonishing 
and potential,  so that it is entirely possi­
ble  that  the  power  and  usefulness  of 
machinery will be vastly multiplied over 
what is now realized.

When  that  time  shall  come,  a  crisis 
will arrive, the nature of  which  will  be 
terrible.  When it comes to  an  issue  as 
to whether  the  machines  of muscle and 
nerve, or the machines of steel and brass, 
are  to  succumb,  it  will  be  found that 
blood is thicker than water,  and  human 
sympathy  is  more  potential  than  are 
steam and electricity.  But  let all good 
people  hope  that  such  a  period is still 
far off.  The  undeveloped  resources  of 
this Western Hemisphere are  inconceiv­
ably  immense  and  they  have  scarcely 
been touched.  This New World can sup­
port for centuries the  entire  population 
of the globe.  The solution to  the  prob­
lem of relief for the  unemployed is to be 
solved by populating and opening up the 
uncovered wealth of the three Americas. 
It means life and  support for millions of 
people for centuries of time.  With such 
a f nture, there is no need  to  despond  at 
the present gloomy  industrial  situation.

The  man  who  murders  for  revenge, 
for jealousy,  for  the  purpose  of  remov­
ing out of  his way one who troubles him, 
has at least  a  logical reason for  his  act. 
He who murders for the sake of  plunder 
or a bribe, or even to sell the body of his 
victim, commits  an act which cau be un­
derstood. 
It  is  still  human  despite  its 
atrocity; but the man who  hurls  a boom 
into  an assemblage of  people  in  whom 
be has no sort of interest commits  an act 
which  passes  all  explanation  and  all 
comprehension.

Dynamite madness is essentially a pro­
duct of  this  age. 
Is it the ready posses­
sion of the power  to  destroy  which  in­
spires a desire  to work destruction  upon 
the unsuspecting and the innocent? There 
have been  monsters  of  depravity  who 
have  wished that the whole  of  mankind 
had but a single neck  in  order  that they 
might sever  and behead it.  No sane im­
agination can  fathom  such  wickedness, 
but we see it realized in the  wretch  who 
throws  a  boom  of  dynamite 
into  a 
crowded assemblage of people.  His only 
desire  is to destroy as many as  possible. 
This  is  a  product  of  the  Nineteenth 
Century, of the last decade  of  it.  What 
can have caused such  a  terrible  perver­
sion of human  reason?  Who can  under­
stand such monstrous madness?  If there 
were occasionally only a rare and isolated 
case,  the  fact  would  be  astonishing 
enough; but  they  are  numerous.  They 
are not confined to any  country, they are 
not peculiar to any  race.  Here,  in  this 
free America; in France, a republic; these 
madmen are as  numerous as they  are  in 
the domain of the most arbitrary  despot. 
They are more plenty under  the  flag  of 
liberty than they are  in  the dominion  of 
the Czar.  What has caused this madness 
of the people?  Who shall  stay  it?

HUM A N   V S.  IRO N   M A C H IN E S.
It has been  estimated,  probably  on  a 
basis entirely reasonable,  that  with  the 
improvement  in agricultural machinery, 
such as gang plows,  seed  planters,  har­
vesters  that  cut  and  bind  grain,  and 
other appliances  that  promote  economy 
in  threshing  and  cleaning,  and  with 
sufficient horse  power, three  men  on  a 
farm  can  do  the  work  which  was for­
merly done by fourteen.

Doubtless this is  true  of  agricultural 
work, as it is of almost every  other  sort. 
By  the  introduction of  ingenious  ma­
chines  into  every  manufacturing  and 
mechanical  business 
the  demand  for 
hand labor is  immensely  abridged.  Of 
course,  the  expert  operative  with  a 
machine  earns  more  money than when 
he was a mere  hand-worker;  but it must 
be remembered that be is doing the work 
once performed by several  men.

Thus it appears  that  the extensive in­
troduction of machinery  into  industrial 
operations has not lowered  wages to the 
individual worker, but it  has resulted in 
displacing  other  workers,  who  are 
driven, 
in  many  cases,  to  seek  other 
fields of labor.  Without doubt, the most 
valuable result of the use  of  machinery 
it  enormously  increases  pro­
is  that 

TO  R E V IV E   A M ER IC A N   S H IP P IN G .
It ought to be a  source  of  great  mor­
tification  to  the  American  people  that 
their mercantile marine cuts no  figure in 
the commerce  of  the world, but  that  it 
has  been  practically  driven  from  the 
ocean. 
It  ought  to  be  a  cause  for  a 
blush  of  shame  to  every  citizen  of  the 
United States who has any sort of public 
spirit or  patriotism  to  reflect  that  this 
great republic virtually has no shipping, 
except what is employed in  the  interior 
and coasting trade between United States 
ports.

Bat  it  does  not  appear  that  there  is 
any such sense of  humiliation.  Nobody 
seems to be in  any way  abashed  at  the 
fact,  and  nobody  cares,  perhaps,  save 
the  American  seamen  who  cannot  find 
employment afloat, because all the  ships 
are foreign ships, and the  only sailors in 
demand  are  foreign  seamen.  All  the 
cotton that goes  out  of  this  country  to 
Europe;  all  the  grain,  hog  and  dairy 
products,  and  petroleum,  which are  ex­
ported from the United States to  foreign 
countries, are sent ont in  foreign  ships, 
under foreign flags, and millions on  mil­
lions  of  dollars  yearly  of  American 
money is paid out to  foreigners  for  this 
service.  In the same way all the foreign

manufactured goods which are  imported 
into this  country  come  in  foreign  bot­
toms, and the freight money is earned by 
foreigners.  This has  been  the  case  for 
many  years  and  no  attempt  has  been 
made by the American people or by Con­
gress to apply  a  remedy,  and  this  fact 
establishes beyond question  the  convic­
tion that the American people  are  satis­
fied,  tbat  they do  not  want  any ships, 
that they do not desire to  see  their  flag 
upon the ocean or represented among the 
vessels that gather in the great  shipping 
ports of the world.

But if there  is  no  patriotic  pride  on 
this subject in the breast  of  any Ameri­
can citizen, there ought to be some  busi­
ness considerations that would move  the 
people. 
It  should  seem  natural  that 
some Americans would  wish to  secure  a 
share of the money to  be  earned  in  the 
enormous carrying  trade  which  is  fur­
nished by the import and export business 
of this country, and it is time  that some­
thing were done  to  wipe  away the  vast 
reproach that  the  lack  of  an  American 
mercantile marine has  placed  upon  this 
country.

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

J. H. Clement,  of  Plainwell,  has  en­
gaged to travel in Northern Michigan for 
the Lamb Knit Goods Co., of  Colon.

Peter Fox (Musselman Grocer Co.) and 
James  A.  Massie  (I. M.  Clark  Grocery 
Co.) bave both taken  up  their  abode  at 
Wellington  Flats.

The  next  monthly  dance  and  “good 
time’’ of Post E will take  place  at  Elk’s 
Hall on  the  evening  of April  14.  Due 
notice  of  the  event  will  be  given  the 
members in the usual way.

Wm.  H. Pipp  is  this  week  removing 
bis frftnily from Chicago to this  city  and 
installing them at 238  Jefferson  avenue. 
Mr. Pipp will be an important  accession 
to the ball club now in process of  organ­
ization among the traveling men here,  as 
he is one of the most skillful pitchers  in 
the State.

Ben Van Leuven is  fathering  the  pro­
ject of organizing a base ball club,  to  be 
composed solely of Grand Rapids  travel­
ing men. 
It is  understood  that  similar 
clubs bave been or will  be  organized  at 
Detroit, Saginaw and Lansing,  so  that  a 
series  of  combination  games  can  be 
played during the summer season.

The  Drug M arket.

Gum  Opium—More  favorable  reports 
of the growing  crop  and  large  arrivals 
have weakened  the  market,  but  not  as 
much as it would if it  were  not  for  the 
expected duty to be placed on the article.

Morphia—Steady.
Quinine—Firm,  but  unchanged.  An 

advance is expected.

Norway Cod Liver Oil—Advanced over 
810 a barrel of thirty gallons in  the  past 
two weeks and higher prices  are  looked 
for on account of the small catch.

The rebate  on  Paris  Green  has  been 
fixed as follows, but the  list  price is  not 
yet announced:  On 500 to  1,000 pounds, 
1  cent;  on  1,000  to  2,000  pounds,  IX 
cents;  2,000 to 3,000 pounds, 2 cents.

Linseed  Oil  is  in  good  demand  and 

higher prices are looked for.

The  American  Bell  Telephone  Com­
pany has paid in dividends from  1880  to 
1893 inclusive a total of 823,100,000, being 
an average per year  of  81,750,435  on  an 
average capitalization  during  the  same 
period of 811,209,035.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

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T h e  T o b a c c o  L a w  o f 1 889.

Gr a n d   R a p id s ,  Feb.  28—Every  tobac­
co  dealer  and  grocer  in  this  city  is 
bothered every day  by  parents  sending 
their  children  for  tobacco,  and  many 
dealers give it to them  contrary  to  law, 
as I understand  it.  When  some  try  to 
keep the law relative  to  the  sale  of  to­
bacco to minors and the duty  of  parents 
in  such  connection,  they  get  into  hot 
water  because  their  neighbors will  sell 
without regard to law.  Only a few days 
ago a certain grocer was  very much  sur­
prised to hear of such  a law in  existence 
in our State.  Would not the publication 
of said law do good by calling the  atten- 
of the trade to the matter?

Suggestively yours,

Ge o .  H .  Co b b .

The  above  letter  was  received  some 
time ago and T h e   T r a d e s m a n   has spent 
considerable  time  in  looking  into  the 
matter  complained  of.  There  are  not 
many grocers and dealers in tobacco  but 
what know of the  existence  of  the  law, 
and yet it Is hard  to  find  a  grocer  who 
deals in tobacco who does not violate the 
law  almost  every  day. 
It  would  seem 
almost as though the  self-respect  of  the 
dealer  and his reputation as  a  law-abid­
ing citizen  ought  to be sufficient to keep 
him from violating  any law,  but when  it 
comes to supplying children with tobacco 
without knowing what they are going  to 
do  with it, it is not merely that  the  law 
is broken,  but  it  is  an  offense  against 
humanity.  Cigarette  smoking,  especi­
ally, should be  frowned  upon  by every 
honest dealer. 
It may  be  true  that  the 
young man or boy who has no more mind 
than to smoke  cigarettes  can  hardly  be 
injured  by  their  use, but,  at  the  same 
time,  the sale of cigarettes by any dealer 
to one  not  legally  entitled  to  purchase 
them is a crime  punishable  by  law  and 
one which no reputable dealer should  be 
guilty of. 
It  is  a  hard  matter  for  the 
police  department  to  deal  with.  They 
have something else to do  besides  hang­
ing around stores to see that  the  dealers 
do not violate the law  of  the  State.  So 
far as can be learned, the only complaints 
that have  been  made  have  been  either 
through  jealousy  on  the  part  of  one 
dealer against another, or  because a cus­
tomer, has for some reason or  other,  be­
come  disgruntled  with  his  grocer,  and 
wishes  “to  get  even.”  Just  how  this 
law can be  best  enforced  it  is  hard  to 
say. 
It  ought  to  be  sufficient  for  any 
dealer that there is a law against  selling 
tobacco to minors;  but it seems that even 
in  the  grocery  trade  there  are  to  be 
found men  who  will  obey  a  law—if  it 
"does not “touch  their  pockets.”  While 
the grocers  are  themselves  endeavoring 
to make law-abiding  citizens of  another 
class of traders  they ought, certainly,  to 
be  willing to  keep  the  laws  regulating 
their own trade.

The following is the law as  passed  by 

the State Legislature in 1889:

E vil.

S e n sib le   S u g g e s tio n s   o n   th e   P e d d lin g  
Though 1 have  frequently  referred  to 
the  matter  recently,  I  have  not  ex­
pressed a preference for  change  in  any 
given direction in  the  schedule  of  fees 
for city peddling licenses.  I now propose 
to advocate  one single fee for  all classes 
of peddlers, and allow  the  peddler  who 
takes out a license and  pays  the  fee  to 
sell what  he  pleases. 
In  other  words, 
call him  a  peddler,  whether  he  carries 
his goods  in a basket,  a  hand-cart  or  a 
wagon,  or sells fruit or  vegetables,  and 
license him as  such. 
It  may  appear  a 
little  hard  on  the  man  who  can  only 
afford to use a basket to  compel  him  to 
pay as much as the man who has a  horse 
and  wagon,  but  of  the  two  evils  the 
wagon peddler is the least, and  anything 
that promises to  abate  the  basket  nui­
sance is, at  least,  worthy  of  considera­
tion.  If one uniform rate is  adopted,  it 
will be much easier for the police to keep 
track of them; every  man  who  peddles 
must then have a license,  and  the  level 
rate will put  an end to  the  question  as 
to whether the peddler  is  selling  in  his 
proper class,  and  whether  he  has  paid 
the proper fee.  Then,  when  a  man  is 
charged with  peddling without a license, 
the whole ground is  covered,  and  it  is 
unnecessary to specify or prove  what  he 
peddled.  Let  the  Committee  appointed 
at the last meeting of the  Retail Grocers’ 
Association  get  to  work  and  put  the 
matter  into  shape  so  that  it  may  be 
ready to present to the new Council at its 
first meeting, and so save  several  weeks 
which were lost last year by  the  failure 
of the Council to act promptly.
In  line  with  the  above,  and  as  a 
remedy for the many  abuses  in  connec­
tion with the enforcement  of the  license 
ordinance under  the  present  system,  I 
suggest  that  this  whole  matter,  the 
issuing  of  licenses,  and  collection  of 
fees, as well  as  the  enforcement  of  the 
law,  be put in charge  of  the  police  de­
partment.  Of course, this would necessi­
tate an amendment to  the  city  charter, 
but it would result  in  untold  benefit  to 
the city, as it would  put  an  end  to  the 
granting of licenses  to  undesirable  par­
ties.  Take saloon licenses, as  an  exam­
ple.  The police are certainly  in  an  ex­
cellent position to know who  should and 
who  should  not  have 
licenses.  The 
character of every saloon  in  the  city  is 
well known  to  the  department,  and  no 
man would be granted a license who  has 
in the past abused his license  privileges. 
As it is now, it is largely a matter of  po­
litical  favoritism,  the  man  who  has  a 
“pull”  can  generally  get  a  license,  or 
anything  else  he  may  want.  The  ped­
dlers have votes and  they  have  friends 
who have votes,  and  this  is  the  chief 
reason  for the leniency  with which  they 
have been treated in the  past.  There is 
absolutely no politics in  the  administra­
tion of the police  regulations  cf.the city, 
and if the department were  given  entire 
charge of the licenses, the  law  would  be 
strictly and  impartially  enforced.  This 
is the way the  business  is  done  in  the 
city of Boston,  and  the  result  has  been 
most satisfactory.  Grand  Rapids  has  a 
police force second to none in  the  coun­
try in efficiency and intelligence,  and,  if 
they were not hampered by  officials  who 
are afraid of hurting themselves political­
ly, the laws  would  be  much  better  en­
forced than  they are.

Da n ie l Abbott.

Section 1.  The People of the  State  of 
Michigan enact: That it shall not be law­
ful for any person by  himself,  his  clerk 
or  agent,  to  sell,  give  or  furnish  any 
cigar,  cigarette,  cheroot,  chewing  or 
smoking tobacco, or tobacco  in any form 
whatsoever, to  any minor  under  seven­
teen years of age,  unless  upon  the writ­
ten order of  the  parent  or  guardian  of 
said minor.
Section 2.  Any person who shall will­
fully  violate  any  of  the  provisions  of 
this act shall be deemed guilty of  a  mis­
demeanor, and, upon  conviction thereof, 
shall be punished by  a  fine  of  not  less 
than five dollars nor more than fifty  dol­
lars, or by imprisonment  in  the  county 
jail for a term of not less than  ten  days 
nor more than  thirty  days,  or  by  both 
such fine and  imprisonment  in  the  dis­
cretion of the court.

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B. Voorherst, Overisel.
H. W. Worden, Boon.
J. A.  Liebler, Caledonia.
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T. H.  Atkins, West Carlisle.
John Butler, Lakeview.
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Drugs & Medicines•

State  Board  of Pharm acy.

O ne  Year—Ottm&r E berbach, Ann  Arbor.
Two  Years—G eorge Gun dram . Ionia.
Three  Years—C. A. Bugbee.  C heboygan.
Four  Years—S. E. Partall, Owosso.
Five Years—F. W. R. P erry, D etroit.
President—Ottm ar Eberbach, Ann Arbor.
S ecretary—S tanley E. P ark ill, O wosso.
T reasurer—Geo. Gun drum, Ionia.
N ext M eeting—Grand Rapids. March 6  and 7. 
Subsequent  M eetings—Star  Island,  June  25  and  26; 

H oughton, Sept.  1; L ansing, Nov. 6 and 7.
M ichigaa  State  Pharm aceutical  Am ’d. 
President—A. B. Stevens, Ann Arbor. 
Vice-President—A. F. Parker, D etroit.
T reasurer—W . Dupont,  D etroit.
Secretary—8. A. Thom pson, Detroit.
Grand  Rapids  Pharm aceutical Society. 
President, W alter K. Schm idt;  8ec’y, Ben. Schrouder.

ST A M PS  FO R   PA T E N T   M E D IC IN E.
If  a  tax  is  put  on  proprietary  ar­
ticles, as  is  proposed  in  the  Senate,  a 
new  industry  will  be  opened  to  the 
Bureau of  Engraving  and  Printing,  an 
industry  that  was  abandoned  eleven 
years  ago,  as  it  was  thought,  forever. 
So certain was the  Chief  of  the  Bureau 
on that day that  the  Government  would 
never return to the old system of  taxing 
proprietary articles that he  destroyed all 
of the plates which were  used  in  print­
ing the  special  stamps, and, if  the  new 
law should be enacted,  a new  set  of  de­
signs and a new set of plates would have 
to be made.  This would be a  pretty  ex­
pensive matter,  but  the  expense  would 
all fall on the manufacturers, so  the offi­
cials of the Treasury Department are not 
worrying about it.

The Bureau of  Engraving  now  makes 
only  four  varieties  of  revenue  stamps. 
They are for distilled  spirits,  fermented 
spirits,  tobacco and snuff.  These stamps 
are of different denominations,  and  each 
denomination has  its  own  design.  But 
the tobacco  stamp  of  one  denomination 
issued to one manufacturer  is  the  same 
as the tobacco stamp of the same denom­
ination issued to  another  manufacturer. 
They are not the stamps  of  John  Smith 
& Co., but the stamps of the Government. 
There is  some  distinction 'made  in  the 
elaborateness and ornateness  of  the  de­
signs  of  these  different  stamps.  The 
stamp which is to go on the box of cigars 
which stands on your  library  table  is  a 
little more  picturesque  than  the  stamp 
which is used on the strip tobacco  pack­
age.  The Bureau  concedes  so  much  to 
art.  There is this difference,  too, in  the 
preparation of these stamps.  Two years 
ago Chief  Meredith,  the  predecessor  of 
Chief  Johnson,  determined  to  do  the 
printing of the strip tobacco stamps on a 
Hoe  press.  He  made  the  change  and 
saved the Government more than $130,000 
a year.  But when the question of  print­
ing  the  other  stamps  on  the  cylinder 
press  was  taken  up  he  considered  the 
question of artistic  finish;  and  he  con­
tinued to  print  them  by hand.  As  the 
stamps printed  by steam  are  only  one- 
tenth  of  the  stamps  printed 
the 
Bureau, it looks as  though  the  Govern­
ment ought to save more than  $1,000,000 
by putting all the work  on  the  cylinder 
press.  But  Congress  decided  a  few 
years  ago  that  the  finer  work  of  the 
Bureau must be done on  the  hand  pres­
ses;  so  the  Bureau  continues  to  use 
these presses for  the  higher  denomina­
tions of stamps.

The internal  revenue  stamps  used  to 
levy a tax on “patent medicines” were of 
varied  designs.  There  was  a  common 
stamp  for these medicines, just as  there 
is for tobacco.  But  under  the  law  any 
manufacturer who  was  willing  to  bear 
the  additional  expense  of  preparing  a

in 

special  die and  the  additional  expense, 
if any, of printing stamps after  his  own 
design, could have special stamps printed 
for him at the Bureau.  And so  many of 
the proprietors  of  well-known  proprie­
tary  articles availed  themselves  of  this 
privilege,  because  of 
the  distinction 
which it carried, that the Bureau  had on 
hand at  the  time  the  law  taxing  these 
articles was  repealed,  between  300  and 
300  dies.  All  of  these  dies  had  been 
made  in  the  Bureau.  No  plate  made 
outside of the Bureau is used  there, and 
no die has been as yet.  When the Bureau 
takes the contract for printing  the  post­
age stamps on July 1 it will  use the  dies 
of  the  contractors  who  are  now  doing 
the work.  These dies were made  by the 
engravers  of  this  private  concern,  but 
they  were  paid  for  by  the  Postoffice 
Department  and are  the property of  the 
Government.

Not  only  was  the  engraving  for  the 
“patent  medicine” stamps  done  in  the 
Bureau,  but  the  designing  of  most  of 
them was  done  by  the  Bureau  artists. 
They were quite as competent to throw a 
glamor around a little liver pill as a  pri­
vate  workman  was.  The  Bureau  was 
paid for their work in  proportion to  the 
elaborateness  of  the  design.  Within 
reasonable bounds, of  course, there  was 
no limit  to the size  of  the  stamp which 
could  be  used.  The  plea  of  the  man­
ufacturers  was  that  their  distinctive 
labels,  which  had  cost  a  great  deal  of 
money, would be spoiled  by the  imposi­
tion of the little  square  stamp  of  faded 
red which was issued by the Government. 
So  authority  was  given  them  to  have 
stamps made to conform  to these  labels, 
and some of them went so far as to  have 
the Bureau print  the  labels  themselves 
as a part of the design of  the  stamp. 
It 
seems rather  ridiculous  for  the  Govern­
ment to be printing labels for  bottles  of 
sarsaparilla, but that is  what  the Treas­
ury  Department may come to if the  new 
law is enacted and  the old policy  of  the 
Government is carried  to  a  logical  con­
clusion.

The  owners of the proprietary articles 
had  a  lively  taste  in  colors  which  the 
Government  did  not  attempt  to  curb. 
The Bureau  stood ready to print  stamps 
in pea green or a rich magenta;  in maza­
rine  blue  or  salmon  pink.  There  was 
only one limit to the fancy of the “patent 
medicine” man—the limit of  cost.  Most 
of  the  special  revenue  stamps  were 
larger  than  the  stamps  issued  for  the 
Treasury Department.  Then  the  Gov­
ernment’s stamp was  printed  in  a  very 
cheap color.  There is  a  wide  variation 
in the cost of color printing.  The “med­
icine-man” could have made  bis  stamps 
cost  more  than  his  bottles  if  he  had 
wished.  The Bureau figured out for him 
what  the  design  was  worth;  what  the 
first engraving cost;  and then the cost of 
reproducing the engraving  on  the  num­
ber of dies necessary to his work.  After 
that there was an estimate of the cost  of 
the dry colors and the  cost  of  printing. 
To this was added the amount of  the tax 
represented  by  each  stamp,  and  then 
from the total was subtracted the  actual 
cost of printing  the  revenue  stamps  of 
the Government.  That was  the  process 
by which the value of the special  design 
stamps was estimated.

The Bureau of Engraving and Printing 
keeps several  thousand  dies  and  plates 
always on  hand, but whenever  it  seems 
probable that  one  of  them  will  not  be 
needed  again,  it  is  taken  to  the  navy

yard, broken  up, cast  into  the  furnace 
and melted.  All of this is done with due 
solemnity in the presence of a committee 
of Treasury Clerks.  The “patent  medi­
cine” dies were  destroyed  in  this  way. 
There are  some  pretty  shrewd  lawyers 
in Washington, who make a  specialty  of 
cases against  the  Government.  One  of 
these,  C.  H.  Parsons,  fancied  that  the 
people who had paid for the special  pro­
prietary stamps had a  proprietary inter­
est in the dies.  So he obtained authority 
from  the  medicine  makers  and  filed  a 
claim with the Treasury  Department for 
the  value  of  them.  The  First Comp­
troller disallowed the claim, after it  had 
been pending  for  several  years.  Only 
a short time ago this  claim  was  revived 
and the Comptroller again disallowed  it.
Of course, the new stamps, if  they are 
needed,  can  be  redrawn  from  the  old 
stamps.  But the  Bureau  has  not  even 
copies to  follow.

The other internal revenue stamps, the 
bonds and other  securities  of  the  Gov­
ernment are preserved in  glass  cases  on 
the walls of the Bureau and in the offices 
of the  Treasurer  of  the  United  States 
and the Secretary of  the Treasury.  But 
none  of  the  proprietary  stamps  were 
preserved.  They would make  a very in­
teresting  collection. 
In  fact,  they  are 
very interesting  exhibits  in  the  collec­
tions of stamps of the United States in the 
albums of some of the philatelists.  The 
stamp collector is  after  postage  stamps 
particularly; but internal revenue stamps 
are an interesting  side  issue  and  many 
of the special  designs  used  on  proprie­
tary medicines are rare and have a  great 
value to collectors.  This is only  in  the 
case of medicines  which  were  taken  off 
the market shortly after the  new stamps 
were put in use, or those which  changed 
the  designs  of  their  stamps.  Of  the 
stamps most in use it was  not at all diffi­
cult  to  obtain  copies  while  they  were 
being  issued.  Now  some  of  them  are 
hard to get.

Collectors will have  some  difficulty  in 
obtaining copies of the  internal  revenue 
stamps from the Bureau  if  the  new  law 
is passed.  There has been  no  difficulty 
in obtaining  India  proofs  or  specimens 
of  postage  stamps  from  the  Postoffice 
department in  the  past;  but  even  that 
may be changed when the Bureau  of En­
graving undertakes the contract of print­
ing  the postage stamps  next July.  The 
Solicitor  of  the  Treasury  Department 
has made a ruling that it  is  contrary  to 
law for the Bureau to give anyone  speci­
mens of its work on the securities of  the 
Government.  He  has  ruled  that  the 
Bureau chief who sent specimens  of  the 
bonds of the United  States  to  the  office 
of the Secretary of the Treasury violated 
the law.  No one, he says, has  any right 
to issue anything in the form of  an  obli­
gation  of  the  Government  except  by 
authority  of  law,  and  there  is  no  law 
permitting the Bureau to give  specimens 
of its work to even the  Secretary  of  the 
Treasury.  There are some exceptions to 
this rule of the  department.  There  are 
some engravings  done  as  practice  work 
by the apprentices in  the  Bureau  which 
are  never  used  on  securities,  and  of 
which copies are sometimes  given to vis­
itors as mementoes  of  the Government’s 
big money mill.  Then  the  practice  has 
grown up of recent years of giving  away 
copies  of  the  portraits  of  public  men 
which  have  been  engraved  for  use  on 
bank notes or bonds.  This practice is not 
encouraged, but it is not forbidden.

The Bureau people are  amused  at  the 
proposition that they  may  be  prevented 
by some adverse action of the Appropria­
tions  Committee  undertaking  the  busi­
ness  of  printing  the  postage  stamps. 
Two of the Pennsylvania Representatives 
in  Congress  have  stated  recently  that 
they  would  oppose  an  appropriation 
asked for  extending  the  Bureau on  the 
ground that  the  Chief  had  no  right  to 
undertake 
the  stamp  contract  without 
authority of  Congress.  The  Appropria­
tions Committee may refuse to grant this 
appropriation,  and  tbe  Bureau  people 
will be very sorry to see this  done.  But 
the refusal will  not  affect  the  status  of 
the stamp contract.  The Bureau has not 
asked any appropriation for the  purpose 
of  carrying  out  the  stamp  contract. 
That  contract  carries  itself  out.  The 
general appropriation for the  support  of 
the  Postoffice  Department  provides  for 
the  printing  of  the  stamps.  The  pay 
for the work will come to the Bureau not 
in  the  Treasury  appropriation,  but  in 
the 
The 
Bureau people are  also  inclined  to  rid­
icule the claim of the private bidders for 
the  postage  stamp  contract  that  there 
are trade secrets  in  making  the  stamps 
which  they  do  not  know.  They  say 
that if  there  are  any  such  secrets,  the 
owners  of  them  are  quite  welcome  to 
keep them.  The  Bureau  made  its  bid 
for tbe  contract  after  figuring  the  cost 
of the stamps by its own process. 
If  its 
estimates are  correct,  it  ought  to  come 
out  even  on  the  contract  at  the  very 
worst.

appropriation. 

Postoffice 

The color work on the postage  stamps 
will not be new  to  the  Bureau. 
In ad­
dition to the work  which it has  done  on 
proprietary  stamps,  it  has  mixed  and 
used every  shade  of  color  in  its  other 
work.  Brown was used on  the “brown 
backs,”  green  on 
the  “greenbacks”; 
different  blues  on  customs  stamps  and 
on the backs of bonds.  All of the mixing 
of colors is  done  in  the  Bureau.  So  if 
any complaint is made  of  the quality  of 
the ink used on the new  stamps,  as  has 
been done in some of the old  ones, there 
will be no  difficulty  in  tracing  the  re­
sponsibility.

George Gra nth a m  Ba in .

Y our  B ank A ccount Solicited.

Kent 1 C  ta L .

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8®  10
25®  30

BACCAB.
Cubeae (po  36)........
Junlperas.................
Xanthoxylum...........
BALBAMUM.
Copaiba.....................
45®  50
Peru............................ @1  90
Terabln, Canada  __
60®  65
Tolutan...................... 35®  50

CORTEX.

Abies,  Canadian........ ........  18
Casslae  ..................... ........  11
Cinchona F la v a ........ ..  .  .  1C
Euonymus  atropurp.. ........  30
Myrlca  Cerlfera, po... ........  20
Pranus Vlrglnl........... ........  12
Quill ala,  grd.............. ........  10
Sassafras  ...................
......   12
Ulmus Po (Ground  16) ......  15

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Glycyrrhlza  Glabra... 
24®  25 
33®  35
po...........
“ 
i   V Haematox, 15 lb. box.. 11®  12
“ 
Is.............. 13®  14
14®  15
Vis............
“ 
“  Ms....  .... 16®  17
PBBBTJ
@  15
Carbonate Precip... 
m  so 
Citrate and Quinla.
Citrate  Soluble......
@  80
Ferrocy anldum Sol.
cyamaum soi__  @  50
Solut  Chloride...........  @  15
Salphate,  com’l.............. 9®
pure............   @

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FLORA.

Arnica.......................  
IS®
Anthemis...................  8f@
Matricaria 

.....  50®  65

Baroama 
Cassia  Acutlfol,  Tln-
nivelly...........   25® 
Salvia  officinalis,  J4s
and  Vis...........   15® 
Ura Ural 
.....................  

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

“  Alx. 

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Acacia, 1st  picked.... 
.... 
“  2d 
“  3d 
.... 
sifted sort«... 
“ 
“  po.........   60® 

®  60
®  40
®  30
®  20
80
Aloe,  Barb, (po. 60)...  50®  60 
“  Cape, (po.  20)...  ®  12
Socotrt, (po.  60).  ®  50
Catechu, Is, (Vis, 14 ¡«a,
16)............................  ®  1
Ammonise.................  55®  60
AssafOBtlda, (po. 35)..  40®  45
Bensolnnm.................  50®  55
Camphors...................  48®  50
Enpnorblum  po  ........  35®  lo
Galbanum...................  ®2 50
Gamboge,  po..............  70®  7b
Gnaiacnm, (po  35)....  ®  30
Kino,  (po  1  10).........   @1  15
M astic............... 
  @  80
Myrrh, (po. 45)  .........  ®  40
Opli  (po  4 20®4 30). .2 90®3 00
Shellac  ......................  35®  42
bleached......   33®  35
Tragacanth...............   40® 1 00

“ 
HKKBA—In ounce packages.

Absinthium.........................  25
Bnpatorinm.........................  20
Lobelia.................................  25
Majornm............................   28
Mentha  Piperita.................  23
“  V ir.........................  25
Ana.......................................  80
Tanaoetnm, V......................  22
Thymus,  V..........................   25

MASNKSIA.

OLEUM.

Caldned, Pat...  ........ 56® 60
Carbonate,  Pat........... 20® 22
Carbonate, K. &  M__ 20® 25
.  Carbonate, Jennings.. 35® 36
Absinthium............... 3 50®4 00
Amygdalae, Dulc____  45®  75
Amydalae, Amarao.... 8 00®8 25
Anisi........................... 1 
Auranti  Cortex.......... 2 30@2 40
Bergamii  ...................3 
Cajfputi.................... 
60®  65
Caryophylli................  75®  80
Cedar.........................  35®  65
Chenopodi!...............   @1  60
Clnnamoall.................1 10® 115
Cltronella  .................  @  45
Conlnm  Mao..............  35®  65
Copaiba  ....................   so®  90

70®1 80
25®3 50

Cnbebae..............
@  2 50
Exechthltos........
2 S0@2 75
Erlgeron............
.2 00®?  10
Gaultherla.........
.2 00@2  10
Geranium,  ounce 
@  75
Gosslpll,  Sem. gal
70®  75
Hedeoma  ...........
.1 25@1  40
Jumperl..............
50@2 00
Lavendula................. 
_
90@2 00
Llmonls....................   2 40@:
.2 40®2 60
Mentha Piper.............2 85@i.
2 85@3 60
Mentha Verid........... 2 20®2
.2 20@2 30
Morrhuae, gal........... l  30@l
.1 30®1  40
Myrcia, ounce............   @
@  50
Olive..........................   9o@3
90@3 00
Plcis Liquida, (gal. 85)  10®
10®  12
Ricini   ......................  i  2ä@i
1 22@1  28
Rosmarini............  
75@i
75@1  00
Rosae, ounce............. 6 50@8
6 50®8 50
Buccini.......................   40®
Sabina.......................   90@1
San tal  .......................3 50@7
Sassafras....................   50®
Sins pis, ess, ounce__  ®
Tigli!........:.................  @
Thyme.......................   40®
opt  ................  @
iheobromas...............   15®
Bi Garb..............
Bichromate......
Bromide............ 40®  „
Oarb............................  12®  15
Chlorate  (po  23®»)..  24®  26 
Cyanide......................  50®  55
Iodide......................... 2 96@3 00
Potassa, Bitart,  pure..  27®  30 
Potassa, Bitart, com...  @
Potass Nltras, opt......  8®
Potass Nitras..............  7® 
„
Pressiate....................  28®  30
Sulphate  po................  15®

p o t a s s i u m .

15®

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(po. 35) 

Aconitum...................  20®  25
Althae.........................  22®  25
Anchusa....................   12®  15
Arum,  po....................  ®  »
Calamus......................  20®  40
Gentiana  (po. 12) ......   8®  10
Glychrrhiza, (pv. 15)..  16®  18 
Hydrastis  Canaden,
...........  @  30
Hellebore,  Ala,  po....  15®  20
Inula,  po.................... 
is®  20
Ipecac,  po.................. 1 60®i
Iris plox (po. 35©38) ..  35®  40
Jalapa,  pr..................   40®  45
Maranta,  &s..............  @  35
Podophyllum, po........  15®  18
Rhei............................  75®1  00
_  . 
75@1  35
Splgella......................  35®  38
Sanguinarla, (po  25)..  @20
Serpentaria.................  30®  “
Senega.......................   55®
Slmllax, Officinalis,  H  @ 40
M  @
Scillae, (po. 85) r.........   10®
Symplocarpus,  Fcetl-
  @  35
Valeriana, Eng. (po.30)  @  25
15® 20
German... 
lnglber a ................. 
18®  20
Zingiber  j ................... 
18® 20

cut......................  ®l

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

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Anlsum,  (po. 20). 
..  @ 15
‘  plum  (graveleons)..  15®  18
rd, is...................... 
4®  6
ami, (po. 18)..............   10® 12
Cardamon..................1  oo@i  25
Corlandrum.................   11® 13
Cannabis Sativa........ 
5
Cvdonlum....................   75@1 00
Chenopodlnm 
...........  10® 12
Dlpterix Odorate.......2 2S®2 50
Foenlculum...............   ©  15
Foenugreek,  po......... 
6®  8
L ta l..........................   4  ® 4 *
Lini, grd.  (bbl. SV4)...  3V4®  4
Lobelia.........................  35® 40
Pharlaris Canarian__  3  ® 4
R apa............................. 
6®  7
Sinapts  Albu............   7  @  8
Nigra...........  11®  12

H 

SPiBiTUs.
Frumenti, W..D.  Co..2 oo@2 50 
D. F. R ...... 1  75@2 00
25@1 50
..................1 
Junlperls  Co. O. T ....1  65@2 00
. .1  75®3 50
Saacharum  N.  B.........1 75@2 00
”  it.  Vini  Galli............1 75@6 50
ini Oporto.................1 
Vini  Alba....................1 

25@2 00
25@2 00

S P O U S E S .

Florida'' sheeps’  wool
carriage....................2 
Nassau  sheeps’  wool
carriage  ................. 
Velvet  extra  sheeps’
wool  carriage.........  
Extra  yellow  sheeps’
carriage................... 
Grass sheeps’ wool car­
riage  ....................... 
Hard for  slate  use__ 
Yellow Reef, for  slate 
use..........................  

50®2 75
2 00
1  10
85
65
75
1  40

STROPS.

A ccada...............................  50
Zingiber  .............................   50
Ipecac..................................   60
Ferri Iod.............................   50
Auranti  Cortes....................   56
Rhei  Arom..........................   50
Slmllax  Officinalis..............  60
Co........  50
Senega.................................  50
Sdllae..................................   50
“  Co.............................   50
Toiatan...............................   50
Prunai  virg.........................  60

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Aconitum Napellis R.........   60
..  “ 
F ........  50
AIO68....................................  QQ
A rnica......   ........................  ¿¡j
Asafoetida............................  0
AtropeBelladonna......... . 
60
Benzoin...............................   60
“  Co...........................  50
Sangulnarla.........................  50
Barosma.............................   50
Cantharldes....................”  75
Capsicum............................  50
Ca damon.................... 75
Co.........................  75
1 no
Castor.................... 
Catechu........................ . . . "  ¿5
Cinchona................... 
50
co......................;  60
Columba.............................   50
’ 50
Conlum....................... 
Cubeba..............................  50
Digitalis.............................  50
£ s o t ..................................;; %
Gentian...............................  50
Gualca................................   50
Zingiber.............................   50
Hyoscyamus....................... ’ 50
Iodine..................................  75
“  Colorless..................   75
Ferri  Chloridum......... 
35
K ino............................ 
Sj
Lobelia.......................  
50
Myrrh.........................50
Nux  Vomica................. 
50
oj>ii...................................::  85
Camphorated...............   50
Deodor.........................2 00
Auranti Cortex...................  50
Quassia...............................  50
Khatany................... 
50
R hei................................. ;;; s}
Cassia  Acutlfol...................  50
Co..............  50
Serpentaria..........................   50
Stramonium.........................  60
Tolutan............................. .  60
Valerian....................  ... 
50
Veratrom Verlde............. 
’ 50

“  Co......................60
“ 
aeunon.............60

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MISCELLANEOUS.

‘ 

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ground,  (po.
) .............................  

Either, Spts  Nit, 3 F ..  28®  30
“  4 F ..  32®  34
Alumen....................... 2j<@ 3
3®  4
Annatto......................  55®  60
Antlmonl, po..............  4®  5
et Potass T.  55®  60
f  “‘ipyrfji...................  @1 40
Antlfebrln..................  @  25
Argent!  Nitras, ounce  ©  48
Arsenicum.................  5®  7
Balm Gilead  Bud__ 
38®  40
Bismuth  S.  N............ 2 20@2 26
Caldum Chlor, is, (Vis
•12;  )*s,  14)..............  @  11
Cantharldes  Russian, 
po ............................
@1  00 
Capsid  Fractus, af.
®  26 
o..
@  28
! po
Caryophyllns, (po.‘ 15) 
io@  12
Carmine,  No. 40.........   ®s 75
Cera  Alba, S. A F ......  50®  55
Cera Flava.................  38®  40
Coccus  .....................   @  40
Cassia Fractus...........  ©  25
Centraria....................  ©  10
Cetaceum...................  ©  40
Chloroform...............   60®  63
_  
squibbs .  ©1  26
Chloral Hyd Crst........1  50®1  80
Chondrus..................   20®  25
Ctnchonidlne, F.  A  W  15®  20
German 8V4®  12 
Corks,  list,  dis.  per
cent  ......................
75 
Creasotum..............
©  35 
Creta, (bbl. 76)......
@  2 
prep............
5®  5
precip..............
9®  11 
Rubra...............
@  8 
Crocus ........
50®  65 
Cudbear......
@  24 
Cupri Sulph. 
5 @  6
Dextrine.
10®   12
Ether Sulph...............   70®  75
Emery,  all  numbers..  ©
e
po...................  @ 
. 75::::.::  8 f   8
p a.“ «
Galla..........................  
23
Gambier......................7  © g
Gelatin,  Cooper.........   ©  70
French...........  40®  60
Glassware  flint, by box 80.
Less than box 75.
Glue,  Brown..............  g®  15
•“  White................  18®  25
Glyoerina...................  14®  20
Grana Paradlsl...........  ©  22
Hamulus....................   25®  55
Hydraag Chlor  Mite..  ©  85 
“  Cor —   @ 80
Ox Rubrum  @  90
Ammonlatl..  @1  00 
Unguentum.  45®  55
Hydrargyrum............   @  64
Ichthyobolla, Am..  ..1 25@1 50
Indigo.........................  75@1 00
Iodine,  Resubl...........3 80®3 90
Iodoform....................  ®4 70
Lupulin......................  @2 25
Lycopodium..............  70®  ’S
M ads.........................  70®  75
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy-
urarglod.................  @  27
Liquor Potass ArslnitlB  10®  12 
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
Mannla,  8. F ..............  60®  68

1 * ) ........................2HÖ 4

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Morphia, S. P. A W.  2 35@2 60 
C. Co....................   2 25@2 50
Moschus Canton........  @ 40
Myrtstlca, No  1 ........  66®  70
Nnx Vomica, (po 20)..  @  10
Os.  Sepia....................  15®  is
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D.
®2 00
Pids  Liq, N.»C., Vi gal 
„  
....................   @2 00
Picis Liq., quarts......   @1  00
pints..........  ®  85
Pii Hydrarg,  (po. 80)..  @ 50
Piper  Nigra, (po. 22)..  @  1
Piper Alba, (po 85)....  @  3
Pix  Burgun................  @  7
Plumbl A cet..............  14®  15
Pulvis Ipecac et opil. .1  lo@l 20 
Pyrethram,  boxes  H
& P. D.  Co., doz......   @1  25
Pyrethram,  pv...........  20®  30
Quasslae....................  g®  10
Quinla, S. P. & W......34 W @39 Vi
S.  German—   27®  37
Rubia  Tinctorum......   12®  14
12®  14
Saccharem Lactls pv. 
Salacin.......................2 00@2  10
Sanguis  Draconls......   40®  50
Sano,  W......................  12®  14
M.........................   10®  12
G.......................   ®  15

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Seldllts  Mixture........  @  20
Sinapls...........................  ® 18
,r  opt......................  @ 30
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  De
Voes..........................   @ 35
Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes  @  35 
Soda Boras, (po. 11).  .  10®  11 
Soda et Potass Tart...  27®  30
Soda Carb................. 
lVi®  2
Soda,  Bl-Carb............   @  5
Soda,  Ash.................   3 Vi®  4
Soda, Sulphas............   @  2
Spts. Bther C o...........  50®  56
“  Myrcia  Dom......  @2 25
“  Myrcia Imp........  @3 no
‘  Vini  Rect.  bbl.
• •••7.........................2 25@2 85
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Stiychnla Crystal......1 40@1  45
Sulphur, Subl............ 2Q@ 3
Roll..............  2  @ 2Vi
m 
Tamarinds................. 
8®  10
Terebenth Venice......  28®  30
Theobromae..............45  @  48
Vanilla......................9 00@16 00
Zlnd  Sulph. 
...........  7®  8

OILS.

,  _  

Bbl.  Gal
_  
Whale, winter............   70 
70
Lard,  extra.................  so 
85
Lard, No.  1.................   42  45
Linseed, pure raw__  52 
55

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paints. 

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

70
40
bbl.  lb.
Red Venetian............. jv  2©8
Ochre, yellow  Mars__154  2@4
_ “ 
Ber........lv   2®3
Putty,  commercial....2li  214^3 
strictly  pure...  214  2veui 
Vermilion Prime Amer-
13@16
................ 
Vermilion,  English —  
66®70
Green,  Peninsular......  
70@75
2 ? ,;...................6  @6#
_  white.............6  (TMivc
wh,te Span...  @70
Whiting,  Gilders’__ __  @%
1  0 
White, Paris  American 
Whiting,  Paris  Eng. 
cliff ........................... 
j  40
PioneerPreparedPaintl  20@1  4 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared 
Paints......................1 00@1  20
£ o .l Turp  Coach.... 1  10@1  20
Extra Turn.................160@1  70
...........2 75@8 00
Coach  Body 
R°-1 Turp Furn........1  00@1  10
RutraTurkDamar —  l  55@l  60 
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 
T°rp......................... 
70©75

VARNISHES.

Grand  Rapids, flieh.

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10

Foreign.
Currants.

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Patras,  In barrels.........
in  )4-bbls...........
in less quantity. 
cleaned,  bulk —  
cleaned,  package 

2*2K
5J4

Peel.

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

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25 “ 
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25 “ 
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Raisins.

Ondora, 29 lb. boxes.  @ 8
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Sultana, 20 
.  7)4  @ 8
Valencia, 30  “

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Prunes.
California,  100-120..............  5
90x100 25 lb. bxs.  5)4
80x90 
.. 6)i
6M
70x80 
60x70 
. 7)4

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

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Coin.

XX  wood, white.

Farina.
Hominy.

No. 1, 6)4..........................  81  75
No. 2, 6)4..........................  1  60
No. 1,6.............................   165
No. 2, 6.............................   150
No. 1, 6)4..........................  1  35
.......................  1  25
NO. 2,6)4 
Manilla, white.  *
6)4  ....................................  1 00
6........................................  
95
Mill  No. 4.........................  1  00
FARINACEOUS  GOODS. 
100 lb. kegs................... 
3%
Barrels  ............................... 275
Grits.........................................3 00
Dried............................  3@3)i
Maccaroni and Vermicelli.
Domestic, 12 lb. box__  
56
Imported.....................10)4@. 1
Barrels  200 .......................  4 25
Half barrels  100 ...............   2 25
Kegs..................................  2)4
Green,  bn.............................  1 ¿5
Split  per l b ................. 
Barrels  180.................  @4 26
Half  bbls 90..............  ©2 25
German.............................   4)4
East India...........................  5

Pearl Barley.

Rolled  Oats.

Lima  Beans.

Oatmeal.

Sago.

Peas.

3

Wheat.

| Cracked...................... 
FISH—Salt.

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

Bloaters.

 

3%

Cod.

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70
bbl  9 50

Pollock..........................
Whole, Grand  Bank...... 5@5)4
Boneless,  bricks.............. 6@8
Boneless, strips................6@8
Smoked...................9J4@12)4
Holland, white hoops keg 

Halibut.
Herring.
“ 
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“  K  “  40  “ 
Mackerel.

Norwegian 
Round, H bbl 100 lbs........  2
........  1
Scaled......................  ......
No. 1,  100 lbs.......................10 75
No. 1, 40 lbs......................... 4 60
No. 1,  10 lbs........................   1 23
No. 2,100 lbs........................ 7 50
No. 2,40 lbs........................  3 30
No. 2,10 lbs....................... 
90
Family, 90 lbs.......................5 75
10 lbs .................   65
Russian,  kegs....................   55
No. 1, )4 bbls., lOOlbs............5 7)
No. 1 K bbl, 40  lbs...............2 55
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs.................   73
No  1,8 lb  kits....................  61

Sardines.
Trout.

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Whlteflsh.

No. 1

Family 
% bbls, 100 lbs...........87 00 83 00
M  “  40  “  --------3 (5  150
101b.  kits..................  
45
8 lb. 
................  71  39
MATCHES.
No. 9  sulphur.......................1 65
Anchor parlor......................1 70
¡No. 2home........................ ..1 10
I Export  parlor......................4 00

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8  1 books, per hundred 
8  2 8 8 
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8 003 OP
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8  1  books, per hundred...  83 00 
.... 
3 50
8 2 
.... 
8 3 
4 00
.... 
8 5 
5 00
... 6 00
810 
820 
7 00
Above prices on coupon books 
are  subject  to  the  following 
quantity discounts:
200 books or over  .  5  per  cent 
500 
.10 
“ 
1000  “ 
.20 
COUPON  PASS  BOOKS. 
[Can  be  made to represent any 
denomination  from 810  down. |
20 books.........................8 1 00
................   2 00
3 00 
100
6 25 
250
500
10 00 
17 50
1000

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CRACKERS.

Butter.

Seymour XXX....................... 5«
Seymour XXX, cartoon........ 6
Family  XXX......................  6)4
Family XXX,  cartoon........6  •
Salted XXX.........................  5)4
Salted XXX,  cartoon  ........6
Kenosha 
............................ 7)4
Boston..................................  7
Butter  biscuit....................   6
Soda, XXX.........................  5)4
Soda, City............................  7V4
Soda,  Duchess......................8)4
Crystal Wafer...................... 10)4
Long  Island Wafers............11
S. Oyster  XXX....................  5)4
City Oyster. XXX.................  5)4
Farina  Oyster.................... 6

Oyster.

Soda.

CREAM  TARTAR.

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

DRIED  FRUITS. 

Domestic.

Apples.

“ 

“ 

“ 

lot*

Peaches.

14
14)4
8

Sun dried, sliced In bbls. 
7
7?4
quartered  “ 
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes  10  11 
Apricots.
California in  bags........ 
Evaporated In boxes 
.. 
Blackberries.
In  boxes...................... 
Nectarines.
70 lb. bags.......................10
251b. boxes.....................10)4
Peeled, in  boxes...........
Cal. evap.  “ 
“ 
in bags— ..10
California in bags...... 10
Pitted  Cherries.
Barrels....-....................
......
50 lb. boxes  —   - 
.................  10
26  “ 
Prnnelles.
301b.  boxes.................  15
Raspberries.
In barrels.....................
501b. boxes....................
......................
251b.  “ 
Raisins.

 
Pears.

Loose  Mnscatels in Boxes.

2 crown..............................  1  18
3 
1  20
“ 
4  “ 
1  45
Loose Muscatels in Bags.
2  crown...............................  35£
......................  ...  4)4
3 
F air..................................  
18
22
Good................................. 
Extra good.......................  
27
Choice..................... 
 
32
Fancy................................ 
40
One-half barrels. Sc extra«

New Orleans.

 

 

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

Souder»'.

Regular 
Grade 
Lemon.

doz
2 oz  __ 8  75
4 OZ......  1  50

Regular 
Vanilla.

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

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Jennings.
Lemon. Vanilla 
2 oz regular panel.  75 
1  20 
4 oz 
...1  50
2  00 
3 00 
6 os 
.. .2 00
No. 3 taper...........1  35
2  00 
2 50
No. 4  taper...........1  50
N orthrop’s
Lemon.  Vanilla.
2 oz  oval taper  75 
1  10
1  75
1  20 
“ 
3 oz 
2 oz regular  “ 
85 
1  20
4 oz 
“ 
1  60 
2 25

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FLY  PAPER. 

T hnm ’s  Tanglefoot.

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

GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.

Kegs......................................3 25
Half  kegs............................. 1 90
Quarter  kegs....................... 1 10
1  lb cans.............................   30
Ü lb cans............................  18
Kegs................................. .  4 25
Half  kegs.....................— 2  40
Quarter kegs.......................  1 35
1 lb cans.........  
34

Choke Bore—Dupont's.

 
Eagle Duck—Dupont’s.

Kegs.................................... 11 00
Half  kegs  .........................  5  75
Quarterkegs......................   3 00
1  lb  cans......................  
60
Sage....................................16
Hops  ...................................16

HERBS.

 

INDIGO.

JELLY.
 
 

“ 
LICORICE.

Madras,  5 lb. boxes.........  
55
50
S. F., 2,3 and 5 lb. boxes.. 
17  lb. pails.................  @  40
30  “ 
@370
Pure.....................................   80
Calabria...............................   26
Sicily...  ..............................  12
LYE.
Condensed, 2 doz................ 1 25
4 doz................2 25

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MINCEsMEAT.

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

MEASURES.
Tin, per dozen.

1  gallon  ...................  ..  81  75
Half  gallon........................  1 40
Q uart...............................  
70
P int..................................  
45
Half  pint  .......................  
40
Wooden, for vinegar, per doz.
1 gallon.......................... 
Half gallon........................  4 73
Q uart...........  ...................   3 75
Pint 
................................  2 25

 

7 00

MOLASSES.
Blackstrap.
Sugar honse............... 
 
Cuba Baking.
Ordinary..........................  
Porto Kico
Prim e...............................  
Fancy.......................—... 

14
16
20
80

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

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

BAKING  POWDER. 

u  lb. cans, 3 dox...............

Acme.

Cream  Flake.

Bulk................« ...............
Arctic.
ft cans 6 doz  case.........
...........   1
14 
ft “  4 doz  “ 
ft “  2 doz  “ 
1 
........... 2
5  ft  “  1 do*  “ 
...........   9
............
3  oz  “  6 doz  “ 
...........
4  oz  “  4 doz  “ 
............
6  oz  “  4 doz  “ 
8 
oz “  4 doz  •* 
...........   t
1 
............2
ft “  2 doz  “ 
...........   9
5  lb  “  ldoz  “ 
Rod Star, *  lb  cans...........
K t>  “ 
...........
1  ft  “ 
...........   1
Teller’s,  14 lb. cans, doz.
,
K lb.  “  “  • 
1  lb.  “ 
“  1
Our Leader,  V lb cans......
H lb  cans.........
1 lb cans 

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. . . .   1

BATH  BRICK.
2 dozen In case.

English...............................  JO
Bristol.................................   22
Domestic.............................   70

BLUING.  Gross

 

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So* 

Arctic, 4 oz  ovals..............  3 60
“ 
“  pints,  round  ..........  9 00
“  No. 2, sifting box  ..  2 75
“  No. 3, 
. . .4  00
“  No. 5, 
...  8 00
lo tb ali  ......... .......  ♦ 50
“ 
Mexican Liquid, 4  oz.......   3 60
8 oz.........   6 80

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BROOMS,

■¡to. 2 Hurl..........................   1  75
NO. 1  “ 
..........................   2 *
28
No. 2 Carpet.....................2 
No. 1 
“ 
75
Parlor Gem.......................2 
Common Whisk................. 
80
Fancy 
.................  \ 00
Warehouse.........................3 00

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BRUSHES.

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

CANDLES.

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

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CAMMED GOODS. 

Fish.
Clams.

“ 

“ 

“ 

Little Neck,  li b .................1  20
“  2 lb.................1  90
Clam Chowder.
Standard, 3 lb..................... 2 25
Cove Oysters.
Standard,  li b ............

Salmon.
“ 

21b...................  1  35
Lobsters.
Star,  1  lb..........................   2 45
“  2  lb............................3 50
Picnic, 1 lb..........................2 00
21b.......................... 2 90
«* 
Mackerel.
Standard, 1 lb..................... 1  10
2  lb....................2 10
Mustard,  21b.....................2 25
Tomato Sance.  2 lb............2 25
Soused, 2 lb........................2 25
Columbia River, flat..........1  80
tails..........1 65
Alaska, Red........................1 25
pink....................... 1  10
Kinney’s, flats................... 1  95
Sardines.
American  Ms............... 4K@ 5
As................ 6*@ 7
Imported  Ms....................  @10
Kb.................... 15@16
......................  ?@S
Mustard 
21
Boneless......................... 
Trout.
Brook 3. lb 
2 50
Fruits.
Apples.

“ 
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“ 
“ 

. 

3 lb. standard............  
York State, gallons  .. 
Hamburgh,

1  10
3 40

Apricots.

Gages.

Peaches.

Cherries.

1  40
Live oak...................... 
Santa Cruz................. 
1  40
1  50
Lusk’s......................... 
Overland — ............ 
1  10
Blackberries.
F. &  W....................... 
90
R ed ...........................1  10@1 25
Pitted Hamburgh...... 
1 75
W hite......................... 
1  50
Brie............................ 
1  30
Damsons, Bgg Plums and Green 
Brie............................ 
1 20
1  40
California................... 
Gooseberries.
Common.................... 
1  25
P ie............................  
90
Maxwell.................... 
1  26
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
grated.......  
2 75
Booth’s sliced............  @2 5)
grated........   .  @2 75
Quinces.
1  10
Common.................... 
Raspberries.
Red............................. 
1  10
Black  Hamburg.........  
1  50
Brie,  b lack ............... 
1  20
Strawberries.
1  25
Lawrence................... 
Hamburgh  ...............  
1  25
Erie.........................  . 
1  20
1  05
Terrapin....................... 
Whortleberries.
Blueberries............... 
85
6 75
Corned  beef  Libby’s..........1  95
Roast beef  Armour’s..........1  80
Potted  ham, K lb................1  40
“  54 lb.................  85
tongue, 54 lb..............1 35
541b.........  86
chicken, 54 lb  ......... 
95

Meats.

“ 
Vegetables.

“ 
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“ 
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Beans.

“ 
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“ 
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Peas.

Com.

Hamburgh  stringless...........1 25
French style.......2 25
“ 
Limas................. 1  35
“ 
Lima, green.........................l  25
2 50
“ 
soaked..........   65
Lewis Boston Baked........... 1 35
Bay State  Baked...................... 1 35
World’s Fair  Baked.........   1  85
Picnic Baked............................ 1 00
Hamburgh.............................. .1 40
Livingston  E den.....................1 20
Purity..................................
Honey  Dew.........................1  40
Morning Glory...................
Soaked.............................   75
Hamburgh  marrofat............1 35
early June........
Champion Bug.. 1  50
petit  pois...........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@21
Brie..................................  85
Hubbard...................................1 15
Hamburg...................................1 40
Soaked................................  85
Honey  Dew.............................. 1 50
Brie.......................................... l 85
Hancock...................................l io
Bxcelslor.....„ ..................
Eclipse................................
Hamburg............................
Gallon...............................  3  50

Mushrooms.
Pumpkin.
Squash.
Succotash.

Tomatoes.

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CHOCOLATE.
German Sweet............ 
Premium......................... 
Breakfast Cocoa..........  

Baker’s.

23
3?
43

Blue Label Brand.

“ 

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

Triumph Brand.

CLOTHES  PINS.

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

COCOA  SHELLS.

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

COFFEE.
Green.
RiO.

Santos.

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

Maracaibo.

Mocha.

Java.

Roasted.

To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted
coffee, add Kc. per lb. for roast-
lng and 15 per  cent,  for shrink-
age.
McLaughlin’s  XXX X 23 95
Bunola  ......  .................. 2^ 45
Lion, 60 or 100 lb.  case__ 23 95

Package.

Extract.

75
1  15
1  65
..... 2 85

“

Valley City K  gross.........
Felix 
Hummel’s, foil, gross......
“ 

tin 
CHICORY.
Bulk..............................
Red................................

“ 

CLOTHES  LINES.

.  5
.  7

Cotton,  40 ft......... per do« 1  25
1 40
1  60
1  75
1  90
85
1  00

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CONDENSED  MILK. 

50ft.........  
60 f t.........  
70 ft.........  
80 ft.........  
60 ft.........  
72 ft  ........ 

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4 doz. in case.

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

CHEESE.
Amboy......................
Acme........................
Lenawee....................
Riverside.................
Gold  Medal..............
Skim.........................
Brick.........................
Edam  .......................
Leiden......................
Llm bnrger..............
Pineapple.
Roquefort.«
Sap Sago.
Schweitzer, Imported. 
domestic  __

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1254Q13 
@1254 
1354 
@1154 
6@10 15 
1  00 
23 
@15 
@25 @35 
@21 
@24 
@14

Peerless Evaporated Cream. 

CREDIT  CHECKS.

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

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

Imported.

Japan, No. 1.....................
...5)4
...5
r'  No.2......................
Java...............................
.  6
Patna................................ -  5)4

SPICES.

Whole Sifted.

“ 

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“ 
“ 

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“ 
“ 

Allspice.............................• •  9 >4
Cassia, China in mats...... .  8
Batavia In bund..
.16
Saigon In rolls___..32
Cloves,  Amboyna............
..22
Zanzibar...............
..11)4
Mace  Batavia.................. ..SO
Nutmegs, fancy................
. .75 
“  NO.  1..................
..70
“  N o.2......................60
Pepper, Singapore, black.. 
.10
" 
.20
white...
shot..................... .16
“ 
Pure Ground In Bulk.
Allspice............................. .15
Cassia,  Batavia...................18
and  Saigon.25
Saigon................. .35
Cloves,  Amboyna.............. .22
Zanzibar.............. .18
Ginger, African................. .16
Cochin................. 20
22
Jam aica...........
Mace  Batavia.................... .65
Mustard,  Eng. and Trieste. .22
Trieste................. .25
Nutmegs, No. 2 .................. .75
Pepper, Singapore, black... 
.16
.24
“  w hite...
Cayenne................20
Sage................................... .20

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)4s
Allspice......................  84 1  55
Cinnamon...................  84 1  55
Cloves.........................  84 1  55
1 55
Ginger,  Jam aica......  84
“  African...........  84
1  55
Mustard......................  84 155
Pepper.......................   84 155
Sage........................... 
SAL  SODA.

Kegs................................
1)4
Granulated,  boxes............ •  1*

54*

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94

“ 

PICKLES.
Medium.
Barrels, 1,200 count... 
Half bbls, 600  connt..
Small.
Barrels, 2,400 connt.
Half bbls, 1,200 count
PIPES.

—

@4  50 
@2 75
5 50
3 25

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

POTASH.

48 cans In case.

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

RICE.
Domestic.

SEEDS.
Anise.........................  @15
Canary, Smyrna.........
4
Caraway....................
8
90
Cardamon, Malabar...
Hemp,  Russian.........  
4?^
Mixed  Bird...............  
5@6
Mustard,  white.........
10
9
Poppy .........................
Rape..........................
5
Cuttle  bone...............
30
STARCH.

Corn.
20-lb  boxes......................... 5*
40-lb 
....................... ■  5)4
Gloss.
1-lb packages......................
.  5
8-lb 
.....................
.  5
6-lb 
...................... .  5)4
40 and 50 lb. boxes............ .  3)4
Barrels............................... .  3)4

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SNUFF.

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

SODA.

Boxes................................ ..5)«
Kegs, Bngllsh.................... .4 *

SALT.
100 3-lb. sacks.................... 112  15
60 5-lb.  “ 
.................... 2 00
28 10-lb. sacks................... 1  85
2014-lb.  “ 
.................... 1  80
24 3-lb  cases...................... 1  50
56 lb. dairy in linen  bags.. 
32
28 lb.  “ 
drill  “  16
18
30
16
75

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

Warsaw.

Ashton.

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Higgins.

56 )h. dairy In linen  sacks

Soiar Rock.

56 1l.  sacks.......................

Common Fine.

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

75

22

85
85

Packed 60 lbs. in box.
Church’s ...........................
5)4
DeLand’s .......................... •  5*
Dwight’s......... 
............... •  5)4
Taylor’s ............ ................. .  5

THE  MICHIGAN  TE^lHESM^ÎsT.

SOAP.

Laundry.

Allen B. Wrlsley’s Brands.

Old Country,  80  1-lb........... 3 20
Good Cheer, 601 lb...............3 90
White Borax, 100  3f-lb........ 3 65

Proctor & Gamble.

“ 

Concord.............................  3 45
Ivory, 10  oz...........  .........  6 75
6  oz........................... 4 00
Lenox 
............................  3  65
Mottled  German................. 3  15
'Town Talk...........................3 25

Dingman Brands.

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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..S4 00 
plain...  2 94
N.  K.  Fairbank & Co.’s Brands.
Santa Clans.........................4 00
Brjwn, 60 bars.................... 2 40
80  b a rs...................3 25

“ 
Lautz Bros. & Co.’s Brands.

Acme.................................  3 ?5
Cotton Oil............................ 6 00
Marseilles............................4 00
Mafter  .................................4 00
Thompson & Chute Co.’s BrandB

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

Sco nring:.

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

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SUGAR.

The  following  prices  repre­
sent the actual selling prices in 
Grand Rapids, based on the act­
ual cost in New  York,  with  25 
cents per 100 pounds added  for 
freight.  The  same  quotations 
will not apply to any town where 
the freight rate from New York 
is  not  25 cents,  but  the  local 
quotations will, perhaps, afford 
a better criterion of the  market 
than to quote New York  prices
exclusively.
Cut  Loaf.................................$5 52
Powdered..............................   5 C6
Granulated..............................4 69
Extra Fine Granulated...  4 8:
Cubes...... 
XXXX  Powdered...................  5 43
Confec. Standard  A........... 4 56
No. 1  Columbia A............   4 50
No. 5 Empire  A .............. 437
No.  6..................................4 31
No.  7.................................. 4 25
No.  8..................................4  12
No.  9................  ................4 06
No.  10..............................4 00
No.  11.................... '...........3 94
No.  12...............................  3 87
No.  13................................  3 62
No 14................................. 
3 50

 

SYRUPS.

Corn.

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

Pure Cane.

TABLE  SAUCES.

“ 

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

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TEAS.

j a p a n —Regular.

BASKET  FIRED.

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

ENGLISH  BREAKFAST.

YOUNG  HYSON.

IMPERIAL.

OOLONG.

TOBACCOS.

Fine Cat.

 

P. Lorillard & Co.’s Brands.
Sweet Russet..............30  @32
33
Tiger........................... 
D. Scotten A Co’s Brands.
Hiawatha................... 
60
Cuba........................... 
3i
Rocket....................... 
30
Spaulding & Merrick’s  Brands.
Sterling...................... 
30
Private Brands.
Bazoo.........................  @30
Can  Can......................  @27
Nellie  Bly..................24  @25
Uncle Ben.................. 24  @25
McGinty...................  
27
25
“  Vi bbls.........  
Dandy Jim................. 
29
Torpedo..................... 
24
in  drums__ 
23
Yum  Yum  ...............  
28
1892 ............................  
23
“  drums................. 
22

“ 

Plug.

Lorillard’s Brands.

Sorg’s Brands.
Spearhead.................  
39
Joker......................... 
27
Nobby Twist................. 
40
Scotten’s Brands.
26
Kvlo............................ 
38
Hiawatha...................  
34
Valley City................ 
Finzer’s Brands.
Old  Honesty..............  
40
Jolly Tar.................... 
32
• Climax (8 oz., 41c)__  
39
30
G ren Turtle.............. 
27
Three  Black Crows... 
Something Good........ 
38
24
Out of  Sight.............. 
Wilson <s McCaulay’s Brands.
Gold  Rope................. 
43
Happy Thought.........  
37
Messmate......'........... 
32
No Tax....................... 
31
Let  Go.......................  
27
Smoking.

J. G. Butler’s Brands.

Catlin’s  Brands.

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

foil.................. 

......... 

 
Scotten’s Brands.

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

Brands.

Leidersdorf’s Brands.

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

Spaulding A Merrick.

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

VINEGAR.

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

81 for barrel.

YEAST.

WET  MUSTARD.
Bulk, per g a l................... 
30
Beer mug, 2 doz in case...  1  75
Magic,...................................1 00
Warner’s  ............................ 1  00
...■.................. 1 00
Yeast Foam 
Diamond.............................   75
Royal..................................   90
HIDES  PELTS  and  FURS
Perkins  &  Hess  pay  as  fol­
lows:
Green............................  2@2)4
Part Cured.................  @ 3
Full  “ 
.................  @3)4
Dry.............................   4  @5
Kips, green  ...............   2  @3
“  cured.................  @ 4
Calfskins,  green........  4  @5
6
Deacon skins............ .10 @25

cured........4 

HIDES.

“ 

No. 2 hides 34 off.
PELTS.

MISCELLANEOUS.

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

5 06

00@5 00
00@2 50
00@3 00

00@1 25
00@2 00

“ 

Fox, cross.................. 3 
Fox,  grey....................   50@ 70
Lynx.......................... 1 
Martin, dark..............1 
pale & yellow.  75@1  00
Mink, dark..................   25@1 00
Muskrat........................   3@ 13
Oppossum.....................  5@ 15
Otter, dark............... 5 00@10 00
Raccoon......................  30® 75
Skunk  .......................l 
W olf...........................1 
Beaver  castors, lb__  @5 00
Above  prices  are  for  No.  1 
furs only.  Other grades at cor­
responding prices.
T h in  a n d   g re e n ................  
Long gray, dry.............. 
Gray, dry 
................... 
Red and Blue, dry.......  
WOODENWARE.

d e e r s k in s—per pound.

10
10
15
25

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

Tubs, No. 1.........................600
“  No. 2.........................5 50
“  No. 3.........................4 50
1  30
“  No. 1,  three-hoop__  1  50
“ 
13  “  ....................   90
“ 
15  “ 
.................... 1 25
....................   1  80
17  “ 
“ 
19  “ 
“ 
...................2 40
21 
.......................
“  
shipping  bushel..  1  15
..  1  25
full hoop 
25
“  No.2 6 25
“  No.3 7 25
“  No.l  3 75
“  No.2 4 25
“  No.3 4 75

“ 
“ 
“ willow Cl'ths, No.l  5 
“ 
“ 
“ 
11 

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

“ 
“ 
‘ 
“ 

splint 

“ 

INDURATED WARE.

Butter Plates—Oval.

Pails...........
Tubs,  No.  1 
Tubs, No. 2.
Tubs, No. 3.

.  3  15 
.13 50 
.12 00 
.10 50
250  10CO
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  G lobe......................  1  75
Water Witch........................2 25
Wilson.................................2 50
Good Luck...........................2 75
peerless..............................  2 85
GRAINS and FEEDSTUFF8 

W ashboards—single.

Double.

^THBAT.

3 1 E A L .

FLOUR  IK  SACKS.

62 
No. 1 White (58 lb. test) 
52
No. 2 Red (60 lb. test) 
  140
Bolted.... ..................... 
Granulated....................... 
l 65
♦Patents............................  2 05
♦Standards.......................   1 60
♦Straight..........................   1 55
Bakers’.............................   1 35
♦Graham..........................   1 50
Rye....................................  1 60
♦Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour in bbls., 25c per bbl. ad­
ditional.

HILLSTUFFS.

Less

816 00
13 00
16 50
16 50
16 50

Car lots  quantity

CORN.

Bran.............. 815 00 
Screenings__  12 50 
Middlings......  15 50 
Mixed Feed...  16 09 
Coarse meal  ..  15 50 
Car  lots...............................40
Less than  car  lots............. 43
Car  lots...............................34)4
Less than car lots............... 37
BAY.
No. 1 Timothy, caT lots__11  «0
No. 1 
ton lots........12 50

OATS.

“ 

FISH  AND  OYSTERS.
F.  J.  Dettenthaler  quotes as 

@  9 
@ 9 12)4
@15 
@  5 
@15
20
8
@  8 @5 
@ 8 15
12)4
20@25
@35
@30
@23
@23
@20
@18

follows :
FRESH  FISH.
Whlteflsh 
.................
Trout  .........................
Black Bass.................
Halibut.......................
Ciscoes or Herring__
Blueflsh......................
Fresh lobster, per lb ..
Cod.............................
No. 1 Pickerel............
Pike............................
Smoked White...........
Red  Snappers.............
Columbia  River  Sal­
mon .........................
Mackerel....................
Falrhaven  Counts —
F. J. D.  Selects.........
Selects.......................
F. J. D.........................
Anchors......................
Standards...................
Extra Selects..per gal.
Selects .......................
1  50 
Standards...................
1  00
Counts.......................
2 20 
Scallops............   ......
1  50 
Shrimps  ....................
1  25 
Clams.........................
1  25
SHELL  GOODS.
Oysters, per  100......... 1  25@1  50
........  75@l 00
“ 
Clams, 

oysters—Bulk. 

oysters—Cans. 

1 3

PROVISIONS.

SAUSAGE.

fork  in  barrels.

The Grand Rapids  Packing  and Provision Co 

qnotes as follows:
Mess..........................................  
io no
Short c u t .....................................| , ..................  12 25
Extra clear pig, short  cu t.......... ....................  ’5 60
Extra clear,  heavy...........................
Clear, fat  back............................ "
...............  13 50
Boston clear, short c u t........   ......... 
.........  14 m
Clear back, short c u t..............................   ”  ’  13 75
Standard clear, short cut, best__  
14  00
Pork, links..........................................  
~i,
Bologna......................................  
.2
 
Liver.................................. 
g7*
....... 
T ongue..................................... ................ 
aiA
B lood.........................................................
Head cheese........................g
Summer......................................“ .............
Frankfurts............................7u
_  
Kettle  Rendered.........................  
o
G ranger..............................................................
F am ily..................................... ............................ «’*
Compound.............................. ’ 
.............   .......  «1/
Cottolene 
 
........................”      ................  »j;
50 lb. Tins, 340 advance. 
20 lb.  pails, )4c 
101b. 
“  Kc 
“  x c 
51b. 
31b. 
‘  1  c 

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

LARD.

“
“
“
“

, 

 

 

BEEF  IN  BARRELS.

“ 
“ 

Extra Mess, warranted 200  lbs.......................   7  50
Extra Mess, Chicago packing................ 
7 50
Boneless, rump butts....................... 9 75
Hams, average 20 lbs...........................................  gw

smoked  meats—Canvassed or Plain

“ 
.16 lbs..............................  9)i@ 10
12 to 14 lbs................. 
¡a
“  picnic............................................7%£
best boneless...........................................   9
“ 
Shoulders............................................................... ?)i
Breakfast Bacon  boneless__  
'  qlI
Dried beef, ham prices.........................  
o ?
Long Clears, heavy............... .! ..... 
71
Briskets,  medium.  ............... ,. " .....................  7

•1 

lig h t...................... 65£

 

 

TRIPE.

„  
dry  salt  meats.
Butts......................................  
q
D. S. Bellies............................           
i->iz
Fat Backs.........................................I.’I’.I .’.I.’.I  i(i
PICKEED  FIGS’  FEET.
Barrels.......................................  
m
K egs..........................................................................go
75
Kits, honeycom b............................... 
55
Kits, prem ium .............................. . . . . . . . . . . .  
B E E F   t o n g u e s .
Barrels............................................ 
.»  m
Half barrels....................................................... jj  qq
Per pound...........................................                   
11
13
Dairy, sold packed............................. 
Dairy, rolls................................... 
..................   ¡31/
Creamery, solid packed.. .. . . . .  . . . . .  . ’ .......  1714
Creamery, ro lls................................ is

butte BINE.

Carcass......... .
Fore  quarters. 
Hind quarters.
Loins No. 3__
Ribs..............
Rounds.........
Chucks.... 
Plates __
Dressed..
Loins......
Shoulders 
Leaf Lard
Carcass  ... 
Lambs__
Carcass ...

FRESH  BEEP.

FRESH  PORK.

MUTTON.

VEAL.

5  @  7 
4H@ 5
6  @ 6)4 
8  @10
7  @  9 
5  @ 6
© 4)4 
@ 4 H
6)4 @6)4
6)49
5  @ 5)4 
@ 6
© 654

CROCKERY  AND  GLASSWARE.

LAMP  BURNERS.
No. 0 Sun.....................................
No. 1  “  .....................................
No.2  “  .....................................
Tabular......................................

6 doz. in box.

First quality.
“ 
“ 
XXX Flint.
“ 
“ 

l a m p   c h im n e y s.  Per box. 
No. 0 Sun.............................................
No. 1  “  ...................................
N0.2  “ .............................................;
No. 0 Sun, crimp  top.......................
“ 
No. 1  “ 
....................
No.2  “ 
“ .................
No. 0 Sun, crimp top....................
No.l  “ 
“  ....................
No.2  “ 
“  ............................
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and  labeled.........
No.2  “
No.2 Hinge,  “ 
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb,  per doz............
No. 2  “ 
............
No. 1 crimp, per doz................
........................ ;;;
N0.2  “ 

La Bastle.

Pearl top.

“ 

» 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“

LAMP w i c k s .
No. 0,  per  gross.......................
...............   .... .
No. 1, 
No  2, 
.........................
No. 3, 
.........................
Mammoth, per doz..................

“ 
“ 
“ 

45
50
75
75

1  75 
1  88 
.2 70
.2  1 
.2  2 3
.2 60 
.2 80 
.3 80
3 70
4 70 
4  88
1  25 
1  50 
1  35 
1  60

23
28
38
75

“ 

“  1 to 4 gal., per gal...............................
“ 

STONEWARE—AKRON.
Butter Crocks,  1 to 6 gal........  ...................  oe
)4 gal. per doz.... .................  60
Jugs, )4 gal., per doz...................................   1
Milk Pans, >4 gal., per doz..........................  60
...........  72
Butter Crocks, 1  and 2 gal.........................  07
Milk Pans, )4 gal.........................................   65
.  78

1  “ 
STONEW ARE— BLACK  G LAZED.

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

1  “ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.
Every  socialist  project  proposes  the 
suppression of individual  effort,  and  at­
tempts to handle the masses of the popu­
lation as if they  were  creatures  without 
any other will than  that  of  the  central 
force that is to manage them.  Socialism 
is as despotic as the rule of a  czar.  The 
people are  all  required  to  submit  to  a 
governing  force,  and that without  ques­
tion.  And there comes  up  in  this  con­
nection, a most  tyrannical  demand  that 
has been repeatedly advanced  by  politi­
cal  as  well  as  physiological  theorists.
It is that, recognizing the law of the sur­
vival  of  the  fittest,  there  should  be  a 
competent authority  to  decide  who  are 
the fittest and who ought to survive,  and 
that these should be  specially  protected, 
while the others should be rejected.

SIMPLE,  DURABLE, PRACTICAL.

Works perfectly  in Clay, Gravel or  bandy Soil, 

Sod or  New Ground.  Plants  at  any and 

uniform depth in moist soil.

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M akes  Holes,  Drops  and 
Covers  a t  One  Operation.

A  DEMONSTRATED  SUCCESS

As necessary to Farmers as  a Corn  Flanier.

14

ED U C A TIO N   A N D   T H E   IN D IV ID U A L .
Life is made for the individual as such. 
Every human  creature is entitled to life, 
liberty and the  enjoyment of such pleas­
ure  as may  be in his  or  her  reach,  the 
only limitation  being  that  each,  in  the 
enjoyment  of  rights and  the  pursuit  of 
pleasure,  must  not  interfere  with  the 
rights  or  rightful  happiness  of  any 
other.

This is the natural law of liberty,  and 
every enactment  that  contravenes  it  in 
any  way is, perhaps,  the result of gener­
al agreement, but  commonly  a  usurpa­
tion by the  majority,  oi  by  some  other 
organized power,  that  assumes  to  exer­
cise control  over  individuals.  Civiliza­
tion has  greatly enlarged the  sphere and 
arbitrary power of governmental usurpa­
tions  and despotisms, and the past histo­
ry  of human society  seems to show that, 
after the  culmination of each succeeding 
state of  high  civilization,  it  has  been 
found necessary to plunge the world into 
barbarism, or even savagery, in  order  to 
get rid  of  the  complicated  tyranny  of 
manners and customs, as well as of laws, 
that  have  developed  the  masses  of  the 
people in a hopeless slavery.

The concentration of rank  and  wealth 
have  never failed in any age  to  produce 
oppressions that have in  the  end  driven 
the people to desperation,  and hence  the 
bloody and  destructive  revolutions  that 
have marked the history of the  world  in 
the past.  The only exceptions  to  these 
revolutions were when  there  were  vast 
hordes  of  savage  or  barbarous  people 
ready to take advantage of the  weakness 
which a great  access of  civilization  and 
luxury have always heretofore produced. 
But in  the  absence  of  such  savage  na­
tions, for they are only to  be  sought  in 
Africa  and  in parts of Asia, the  savages 
are to be found in the  civilized countries 
themselves, and if there  have  ever been 
savages  more  truculent,  ferocious  and 
more determinedly  at  war  with all that 
civilization  has  produced  than  are  the 
nihilists and  anarchists  that  are to-day 
found  in  all  civilized  countries,  it  is 
difficult to say who they were  and  when 
and where they existed.

If there should ever be another  failure 
and overthrow of civilization,  it  will  be 
when it succumbs to the assaults of some 
powerful social revolution whose mission 
is to destroy and leave  the  human  race 
free to  begin again  from the bottom  the 
building and evolution of  a  new  system 
of civilization.

If  there is to be any safety  from  such 
an overthrow and eclipse of  civilization, 
it will be through the effects of  the  gen­
eral education of the people  as  to  their 
rights.  The mission of  education  is  to 
benefit  the  individual,  to  increase  his 
knowledge and give  him more tools with 
which to  work, better  arms  with  which 
to contend  in  the  great  battle  of  life. 
The masses are made  up  of aggregations 
of individuals,  and it is only  by  improv­
ing individuals that  the  masses  can  be 
improved.  But  the  bettering  of  the 
masses means the giving of more  knowl­
edge  and  more 
liberty  to  every  in­
dividual, so that  each person may  do his 
or her best.  No socialistic  scheme  that 
proposes to destroy ambition and to  sup­
press personal aspirations, and to  reduce 
the masses to  one  dead level, can  be  al­
lowed to obtain in any scheme of  philan­
thropy for the masses.  On the contrary, 
every one must be given  an  opportunity 
to do  his best according to  his  ability, 
control them.  The fairy tales  of  child-

This notion  has  been  repeatedly  put 
forward by medical speculators,  who de­
mand  that  consumptives,  the  weak  in 
physical constitution, the feeble in health, 
those  who  are  afflicted  with  constitu­
tional  diseases  and  other  such  unfortu­
nates, should not be permitted  to  marry 
or to propagate their  species, 
it  is  not 
actually proposed that they shall be killed 
off outright,  but that they should be  pre­
vented  from  adding  to  the  population 
their  diseased  or  weakling  offspring. 
But who shall constitute himself a judge? 
Who shall be given the power to  deprive 
a fellow-being  of liberty and the pursuit 
of  happiness on such  an  arbitrary  pre­
tense?

Sir  James  Crichton  Browne,  M.  D., 
a prominent English  medical  authority, 
gives  expression  virtually  to  a  regret 
that his profession has been forced to as­
sist in  the protection  of  the  weaklings 
from the  assaults  of  nature.  He  says, 
in  the  Popular  Science  Monthly 
for 
March:  “Great numbers  of  weakly  in­
fants who would formerly have  perished 
in  their  infancy  are  now  reared  to  a 
weakly maturity and  enabled  to  propa­
gate their weakliness (for the weakly are 
often highly  prolific),  while  they  take 
part in the  life  battle  on  terms  some­
times  made unduly  favorable to them by 
the commiseration that  their  weakliness 
commands; and this ought not to  be  lost 
sight of when we are congratulating our­
selves on our  greatly  diminished  death 
rate.  An  enormous  saving  of  life  has 
been effected,  but mainly in life’s earlier 
decades.  The death rate is  actually  in­
creasing among males at  all  ages  above 
35, and among females at all  ages  above 
45; and it  is  not  difficult  to  prove  that 
this increased mortality at post-meridian 
ages is due partly  to the enhanced  wear 
and tear of modern existence  and  partly 
to the survival of weakly lives artificially 
protected and  prolonged.’’

Out upon a philosophy,  whether politi­
cal  or  sanitarian,  that  selects  physical 
strength as the standard of human excel­
lence!  borne  of  the  noblest  souls  and 
grandest  intellects have been confided to 
the keeping of delicate  bodies  and  frail 
health.  All human creatures  which  are 
not  perfect and  vigorous animals should 
be suppressed in order to secure a super­
ior  race?  Then  why  not  establish  a 
standard of virtue and honesty, and  kill 
off the population that do not conform to j 
it?  This has also been embraced in some 
schemes  of socialistic  equality.

But the antidote to  all  these  vagaries 
of  science  and  selfishness  is  universal 
education.  The weak and  delicate  will 
have  intelligence  enough  to  rise  into 
power  over the bullies and  athletes  and 
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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADKSMA'N.

the contests for supremacy  between  the 
giants and the  ordinary  people,  and  in 
every case Jack,  whether  as  the  giant- 
killer or as  the  hero  of  the  bean-stalk, 
was victorious.  Such  is  the  history  of 
the  contest  of  intellect  against  brute 
force. 
Intellect  is  always  master,  and 
education, as its good angel  or  fairy  at­
tendant^ is always making intellect more 
potential,  and will  until  the  end.  The 
law of survival  of  the  fittest  embraces 
the human mind as well as the body.

T h e   D ru m m e r  o f  T o -D ay .

All we  know is  by  comparison.  Un­
less we cau call up before  us  the  drum­
mer of  other  days, how can  we  picture 
him as he is to-day?  when I was young, 
and Time was  younger, too,  there  came 
to the dear old place  where  I  lived  sev­
eral  noble  fellows,  who,  polished  to  a 
fault,  with an air and  manner a Chester­
field might have  envied, approached  the 
grocer or dry goods merchant and sought 
to sell  him certain wares he needed—not 
all  he needed,  because it was usual then 
for  the  merchant  himself  to  visit  the 
great wholesale markets to buy his stock 
of  goods.  The  effort  of  the  drummer 
was to make him his  friend  and  to  lead 
him,  through  pleasant  words,  to  visit 
“his  house”  upon  arrival  in  the  great 
city.  When  there  he  took  him  to  his 
arms, lit up his  fancy  with  champagne, 
and by rich and  generous  diet  made  his 
"friend” forget his coarse fare at  home, 
perhaps  scanty and  poorly  cooked.  At 
this time  the  drummer was  all  softness 
and  gush—every word was weighed  and 
every motion of haud or body responsive 
to a sincere desire  to win  the  customer. 
It was the war which relegated this  man 
to the  realm  of  memory, to  make  room 
for  him  whose  appearance  made  old 
Nick  green with  envy.  The  merchant, 
in the eyes of this drummer, was entitled 
to no consideration;  he was a  poor  devil 
in  his  eyes,  between  the  upper  and 
nether stone of debt and credit.  He was 
there  to  be  ground  to  an  impalpable 
powder, and scarcely an escape was ever 
known.  To see  a  poor  devil  beset  by 
two or  three  drummers  was  to  witness 
the  torments  of  one  who  didn’t  know 
where he was or what he had to do.  But 
all things have their day, and  the  drum­
mer  of  this  era  has  gone  “where  the 
woodbine twineth.”
In place of such  men  and  such  states 
of society, what do we see?  In  business 
—meaning by  that  term  the  great  tran­
sactions  of  commercial  life—there  are 
changes  in  everything.  New  thoughts, 
new habits, new  manners  and  modes  of 
transacting it  and  new  laws  govern  in 
all the operations of commercial life. 
In 
place of drummers there  came  upon  the 
stage the commercial pilgrim and  he  for 
a day figured, as old  things  were  hurry­
ing away and  all  things  becoming  new. 
But the change came and to-day the com­
mercial agent,  an  educated  and  trained 
business man, as  accustomed  to  dealing 
with hundreds of thousands as the quon­
dam drummer was with  his  hundreds  of 
dollars, comes to your place  of  business 
to sell you  your  stock  of  goods,  wet  or 
dry,  by the  ell  or  by  the  hogshead, out 
of  his  house  so  many  hundred  miles 
away.  No  mistakes  are  made, no  false 
representations as to quality,  but  in  the 
severity of true business  truth  the  mer­
chant  buys what he wants with a perfect 
confidence as to results.
The struggle is no longer to undersell, 
no effort to mislead;  on the contrary, the 
effort is to get the  customer  first  and  to 
win and  to  weld  him to you by those ex­
alted  business  precepts  and  practices 
which  men honor  and so  much  admire. 
Formerly  the wholesale merchant stayed 
at home and sent his drummer or his  pil­
grim out to sell for him, because his fancy 
was brighter and his scruples more easily 
overcome.  To-day it is the  strong, self- 
reliant,  discreet  business  man  of  the 
house who  must  be  present  to  transact 
its  business,  and  he  has  made  houses 
throughout his own and other  states  the 
scene of transactions and his home  store 
a  packing  house.  No  higher  develop­
ment now seems  left, and  we  congratu­
late 
that 
they should be willing to add this charm­

the  drummers  of 

to-day 

G ro c e r.

ing feature to the stern realities of  busi­
ness.  But let us not forget from whence 
come  the  tall  oaks,  but  recall  your 
fathers,  the drummers,  and  express  the 
hope that “after life’s  fitful  fever  they 
sleep well.”
Unique  Announcem ent  of  a  Retiring 
The following is  certainly  one  of  the 
most unique announcements of  the  kind 
ever made by a retiring merchant:
After  an  experience  covering  nearly 
thirty-two years of the pleasures and ills 
incident to a grocer’s life, I feel inclined 
to “step  out.”  My  successors  will  be 
named in due time, and, I  trust, will  re­
tain  the  patronage  of  those  who  have 
been  our  customers  for  from  twenty- 
seven years down to the present. 
In the 
meantime  my  stock  must  be  reduced, 
and, as an inducement,  will  give  a  dis­
count of from  5  to  20  per  cent,  (sugar 
excepted), from regular price, on a single 
purchase  of  not  less  than  $5.  That 
means Gash.
This notice is  also  a  reminder  that  I 
have given  “Liberal Credit” and  quite  a 
few people are owing  me  for  provisions 
furnished  the “family table.”  Some, of 
course,  have passed the limitation  of six 
years;  many almost five  times  that,  but 
still they are all  honest  and  just  debts 
for bread and butter  that  I  had  to  pay 
for.
Many, of course,  made  nice  promises, 
but have long since  gone  to “paradise,” 
expecting to “renew” the  promise when 
they meet me there.  But 1  am  going  to 
ask the living to join in a happy satisfac­
tion of paying 100 cents on the  dollar  to 
every creditor.  Respectfully yours,

Oneida, N. Y., March 22,¡1894.

Theo.  Carter.

S E E D S  !

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 tillers.
W.  T.  UM0REKUX GIU f. Bridge  St.,
WALTER BAKER & GO.

GRA ND  R A PID S,nM iC H .

The  Largest 
Manufacturers of
COCOA and 

CHOCOLATE
IN THIS COUNTRY,
have  received  from  the 
Judges  of the

W orld’s 
Colum bian 
E xposition

The  Highest Awards
(Medals and Diplomas) 
on  each  of  the  following  articles, 
namely :
BREAKFAST  CO COA,
PR EM IU M   NO.  I  C H O C O LA TE, 
G ERM AN   SW EET  C H O C O LA TE , 
VAN ILLA  C H O C O LA TE,
CO CO A  BUTTER,

For “ purity of m aterial,” “ excellent 
flavor,”  and  “ uniform  even  composi­
tion.” 
SOLD  BY  CROCERS  EVERYWHERE.
Walter  Baker  &  Co.,

_________

DORCHESTER,  MASS.

J A V A   O I E
RA W  A N D  BOILED 

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

Purely  Vegetable,
adapted to all work  where  a  more  eco­
nomical oil than Linseed is desired.
Free  From  Sediment.

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

Try a sample can of five or  ten  gallons. 

This  Oil  is  a Winner 1
H. M.  REYNOLDS  &  SON.

Write for prices.

G RA N D  R A P ID S , M ICH

ALWAYS
STANDARD.

AT WHOLESALE BY

Hazeltine  <fc  Perkins  Drug Co. 
Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co. 
Olney  & Judson  Grocer  Co.
B. J.  Reynolds.

FINEST QUALITY. 
POPULAR  PRICES.

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

Our  Goods 

Are

Perfect  Fitters,

THOROUGHLY  MADE, iLOW  IN  PRICE.

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

Manufacturers  of

UTICA,  N .  Y.

Write J.  H.  WEBSTER,  State  Agent, 
OWOSSO,  MICH.
B o o t C a lk s

WW9

Ball  per thousand 
H eel  « 

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Order  Now.

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$1  25
1  5 0

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H IR T H , K R A U SE & CO.,

12  &  14  Lyon  St.,

ORANO  RAPIOS,  MICH.

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

“  The Niagara Falls Route.’'

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

•Daily.  All others dally, except Sunday. 

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

Union Passenger Station.

C H IC A G O  

- ar--h 18> 1894
AND  WEST  MICHIGAN  R’Y. 
GOING  TO  CHICAGO.

TO AND FROM MC8KEG0N.

TRAVERSE CITY,  CHARLEVOIX  AND  PETOSKEY.

RETURNING  FROM  CHICAGO.

Lv. G’d Rapids............ 7:25am  1:25pm  *11 :?0pm
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  . . .   9:  :5am  2:30pm  1C :20pm
3:15pm
Lv. Grand  Rapids..  7:30am 
 
Ar.  Manistee...........  12:20pm 
8:15pm
 
8:45pm
 
Ar. Traverse City__  12:40pm 
Ar. Charlevoix.......  
3:15pm 
.........   11:10pm
Ar.  Petoskey 
3:45pm 
 
11:40pm
Arrive  from  Petoskey,  etc.,  1:00  p.  m.  and 
10:00p. m.
PARLOR  AND  SLEEPING  CARS.
To Chicago, lv. G. R..  7:25am  1:25pm  *11:30pm
To Petoskey ,lv.G. R..  7:30am  3:15pm 
...........
To G. R. .lv. Chicago.  7:35am  4:55pm *11:30pm
To G. R..lv. Petoskey  5:00am  1:30pm 
...........
•Every day.  Other trains week days only.
ZEB- »■18M
D E T R O I T , 
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GOING  TO  DETROIT.

TO AND  PROM  SAGINAW,  ALMA  AND ST.  LOUIS.

RETURNING  FROM  DETROIT.

Lv. Grand Rapids........  7:00am  *1:20pm  5:25pm
Ar. Detroit..................11:40am *5:30pm  10:10pm
Lv.  Detroit.................. 7:4(Jam  *l:l< 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 
ing train.

TO LOWELL  VIA LOWELL A BASTINGS  R.  K

THROUGH  CAR  SERVICE.

•Every day.  Other trains  week days only.
GEO. DeHAVEN, Gen.  Pass’r Ag’t

w a u k e e   Railway.
EASTWARD.

D e t r o i t ,  g r a n d   h a v e n   &  Mi l ­
tNo.  14 tNo.  16ltNo.  18 •No.  82
6 45am
10 45pm 
7 40am
12 27am
8 25am 
1 45am
900am
2 40am
10 50am
6 40am
11 32am 
7 15am 
10 05am 
5 4' am 
1205pm
7 30am 
10 53am
5 37am 
11 50am
7 00am
WESTWARD.

Tral ns Leave
G’d  Rapids,  Lv
Ionia...........Ar
St. Johns  ... Ar
O w o s s d....... Ar
E. Saginaw..Ar
Bay City......Ar
F lin t...........Ar
Pt.  Huron... Ar
Pontiac....... Ar
Detroit......... Ar

10 20am
11 25am
12 17pm 
1 20pm
3 45pm
4 35pm
3 45pm
5 50pm 
305pm
4 05pm

3 25pm
4 27pm
5 20pm
6 05pm 
8 00pm 
8 37pm 
705pm 
8 50pm
8 25pm
9 25pm

Trains Leave

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

«Daily.

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

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

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

Grand  R a p id s   S t In d ia n a

L eave  going 

T RA IN S  GOING  N O RTH .

Leave g o in g  
North.
For Traverse City,  Mackinaw City  and Saif,..  7:40 a m
For  T ra v erse  City and Mackinaw  C i t y ........... 4 1 0 p m
For  S ag in aw .................................................................5:00 p m

TRA INS  GOING  SOUTH

S o u th .
For  C incinnati............................................................6:50  a m
For K alam azoo a n d   C h icago.................................12:06 p m
For F ort W ayne and  th e  B ast..............................2 :16 p m
For  K alam azoo  and  C h icago..............................11:20 p m

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

11.20 p m
7:4 0 a m
12:05 p  m  train  has through W agner  B uffet  Parlor 
11:20  p m  train  daily, throngh  W agner S leeping Car. 

Lv Grand Rapids.............12:05 p m  2:15 p m  
Arr  C hicago...................... 6:30p m   9:00 p m  
Oar.
9:35 p m
Lv  Chicago 
Arr Grand Rapids 
7:25 a m
9:35 p m   train  daily, through W agner  Sleeping  Car.

4:00  p  m  has  through  W agner  Buffet  P arlor  Car. 

4:00 p m  
9:16 p m  

6:50 a m  
2:15 p m  

For M uskegon—L eave. 

Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana.
9:4 0 a m
7:36  a m  
5:40  p m 
6:20 p m
O. L. LOCKWOOD,

From M uskegon—Arrive

General  P assenger and T icket Agent.

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G O TH A M  G O SSIP.

News  from  tbe  Metropolis--- Index  of

tbe  Markets.

Sugar  has  taken  a  drop. 

S pecial Correspondence.
N ew  York,  March  24—Trade  during 
the past week  at  this  center  has  been 
very much as  during the  previous  week 
—the gain is small, but constant.  There 
is plenty  of  room  for  improvement  and 
some  impatience  is  expressed  that  a 
“boom” does not come.  Certainly  noth­
ing of this  sort will  appear  and  no  rea­
sonable man  can expect it. 
It will  be  a 
long time before trade returns even to its 
normal  condition.  Prices remain pretty 
much unchanged and are  as  low  as  can 
be made on many  things  without  losing 
money.  The weather  remains very  pro­
pitious  and the season is  about  a month 
ahead  all  around.  Peaches  are  not 
killed, and  we are promised  a  big  crop.
Eggs, eggs, eggs!  They have descend­
ed upon  us from North, South, East  and 
West, by the barrel, by the crate.  Never 
were so many  gathered here  in  so  short 
a time—and still  they  come.  The  mild 
March weather accounts  for  this  rush, 
and the price has gone down  until  12c  a 
dozen has  been  reached,  at  which  they 
are quotable at the moment  for fresh.
In the  line  of  the  great  staples  the 
course  of  coffee  is  being  watched  by 
dealers with much more interest than pre­
vailed two months  ago.  For  Rio  No.  7 
17%c is still  the prevalent  rate, and the 
market is firm.  Peace in Brazil  will  in­
sure a  constant  increase  in  production, 
and lower prices must inevitably prevail.
Immense 
quantities of raw stock are being brought 
in, in anticipation of any  tariff  changes, 
and in view of this the situation is  quiet. 
Granulated sugar is quotable at 4J^c  and 
is in only everyday  request.  Buyers are 
not speculating at  all.
Teas are in the same old rut, and noth­
ing whatever of interest  can  be  written 
of the market.  Prices are  low  and  de­
mand moderate.
Spices  are  irregular,  up  and  down. 
Upon the whole there is a feeling of con­
fidence that better prices will prevail  ere 
long.
Rice  is  steady.  The  demand  is  not 
preceptibly greater than last week.
The canned  goods  market  is  awfully 
dull.  There is decidedly  a “tired” feel­
ing among packers, and the probabilities 
are that  1894  will  see  a  much  smaller 
pack than usual;  in  fact, if we  may  be­
lieve the packers themselves, the  output 
will be only half that of last  year.  But, 
of course, allowance  must  be  made  for 
this as coming from “interested” parties.
Oranges  are  quite  firmly  held  and 
prices are satisfactory.  Lemons are dull 
and the demand is  small  and  unimport­
ant,  at  a  range  from  S1.75@3.  Pine­
apples are selling well and  the  supply is 
becoming  quite  liberal.  Florida  pine 
apples  are expected within  a  fortnight, 
Prices  range  from  $9@20 per  hundred. 
Bananas  are  still  firmly held,  and  the 
advance made last week is firmly held.
Dried fruits are  in  everyday sale, but 
nothing more.  Raisins  and  prunes  are 
slow  sale  at  prices  which  can  scarcely 
be  called  any  better  than  the  lowest. 
Currants, citron, dates,  figs,  etc., all  re­
main extremely quiet.
Butter is fairly firm for the best grade, 
but, aside from this,  tbe  whole  range  is 
low and the supply is ample.  The range 
is from I7@20c, with best Elgin  fetching 
22%c.  Cheese  remains  steady.  Trad­
ing is not large, and dealers  are  hesitat­
ing  about  prices.  For fancy small  size 
full cream State cheese, 13c has been the 
quotation  for  some  time;  larger  sizes, 
12@12%c;  skims, 8@10e.
Manufacturers of  desiccated  cocoanut 
are somewhat agitated over the  clause in 
the new tariff bill establishing a  duty  of 
20  per  cent,  upon 
tbe  raw  product. 
They claim that if they are compelled  to 
pay this, they cannot  compete  with  the 
Ceylon product, and so “will  have  to  go 
ont of business.”
Tbe  week  closes  with  traders  in  an 
amiable state  of  mind, and  the  convic­
tion generally  prevalent  that  the “hum 
of industry”  will  keep  growing  louder.

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STICK  CANDT.

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tanct—In 5 lb. boxes. 

CARAMELS.
 
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Palls.
644
644
744
8
8
8
8
844
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fancy—In bulk

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

Standard,  per  lb........................  
“  H.H..............................  
T w ist.......................... 
“ 

Cases  Bbls.  Palls.
6 7
6 7
6 7
844

Boston Cream.........
Cut  Loaf.. 
Bxtra H.  H.
. . .  
MIXED  CANDT. Bbls. 
Standard.......................................5 >4 
Leader.......................................... 544 
Royal............................................644 
Nobby........................................... 7 
English  Rock.............................. 7 
Conserves.................................... 7 
Broken Taffy....................baskets 
Peanut Squares................. 
French Creams.............................. 
Valley  Creams......................................  
Midget, 30 lb. baskets.....................................  844
Modern, 30 lb. 

Palls.
Losenges, plain.............................................  844
printed..........................................  944
Chocolate Drops...............................................12
Chocolate Monumentals...............................  1244
Gum Drops.....................................................  5
Moss Drops.....................................................  744
Sour Drops.....................................................  844
Imperials.................  
10
Per Box
Lemon Drops................................................... 50
Sour Drops...................................................... 50
Peppermint Drops............................................60
Chocolate Drops...............................................75
H. M. Chocolate Drops....................................80
Gum Drops...................................................... 40
Licorice Drops.............................................. 1  00
A. B. Licorice  Drops....................................... 80
Losenges, plain.......................... 
60
65
Imperials..........................................................60
Mottoes.............................................................70
Cream Bar........................................................55
Molasses Bar................................................... 56
Hand Made Creams......   ......................... 85@95
Plain Creams....................................................80
Decorated Creams............................................90
String  Rock.....................................................60
Burnt Almonds............................................ 1  00
Wlntergreen  Berries....................................... 60
No. 1, wrapped, 2 lb.  boxes.........................  34
No. 1, 
51
No. 2, 
28
Choice,  360........................................................  3 25
Choice300 .......................................................  3 25
Extra choice 360................................................   3 50
Extra fancy 300..................................................  4 00
Extra fancy 360..................................................  4 00
Figs, fancy layers, 81b..........................   @1244

| G ra n d  R a p id s R e ta il  G ro c e rs'  A sso c la - ! 
The  regular  meeting  of  the  Grand I 
Rapids  Retail  Grocers’  Association  was J 
held in  Protective  Brotherhood  hall  on 
| Monday  evening,  March  19,  President 
Daniel Viergever  presiding.
The minutes of  the  previous  meeting 
were read and approved.
A. Brink, from tbe Committee  on  Oil, 
reported that he had  had  another  inter­
view with Mr.  Bonnell, but  had  not  re­
ceived a  satisfactory  explanation  of  the 
course of the Standard Oil Co. in relation 
to  their  method  of  doing  business  in 
Zeeland.
A. J. Elliott wanted to  know bow  this 
matter  interested  the  Association?  He j 
did not wish to be  understood  as  boom­
ing the  Standard  Oil  Co., but  he  could 
not see that the Association had any bus- 
iness to interfere  in  such  matters.  We j 
had heard but one side  of the  story, and ! 
should not  be  in  a  hurry to  draw con­
clusions.
The  Secretary  read  two  letters  from 
Albert  Lahuis,  general  dealer  of  Zee- 
land, purporting to give the facts in con­
nection  with  the  oil  controversy.  Mr. 
Lahuis  lays  the  whole  blame  for  the 
fight  on  the  Standard  people,  who,  he 
says, want to drive every one else  out of 
tbe business.  The letters also state that 
the Standard Oil Co. sold  oil  at  3  cents 
per gallon.
No action was  taken  by  the  Associa­
tion, and  the  subject  was  dropped  for 
the present.
Henry  Yinkemulder,  from  the  Com­
mittee on Flour, reported that, so  far  as 
he knew, everything was quiet.
Some  of  the  members,  however, said 
that they knew of grocers who were  sel­
ling flour considerably below the regular 
retail price, but no one had  any  sugges­
tions to offer as to how  this  evil  was  to 
be remedied. 
It was  also  asserted  that 
the mills retailed  as  much  flour  as  the 
grocers, although no particular instances 
were given.
A  communication  was  received  from 
the Grand Rapids Board  of  Trade,  stat­
ing that a movement  has  been  inaugur­
ated by the Board of Directors  to  estab­
lish an auxiliary  committee  to  act  with 
the  Committee  on  Municipal Affairs  of 
the Board of Trade in their deliberations 
upon matters pertaining to  the  adminis­
tration of our city government.
Mr. Elliott moved that  the  suggestion 
of the Board be  complied with  and  said 
committee appointed.  Carried.
The President appointed as such  com­
mittee, J. J.  Wagner  and A. J.  Elliott.
The  Secretary  read  an  article  from 
T h e  T radesm an  recommending such  a 
change in the schedule  of fees  for  ped­
dlers’ licenses as would do away with all 
classes of licenses  but  two, namely,  for 
baskets and wagons, the fees for these to 
be 825  and  850, respectively.  He  sug­
gested, also, that a special  committee  be 
appointed  to  confer with Assistant  City 
Attorney  Carroll, ascertain  if  the  ped­
dling ordinance needs amendment in any 
direction, to compare the  city  ordinance 
with the State law on the  same  subject, 
and look after the matter  of  changes  in 
the schedule.
The  suggestions  were  favorably  re­
ceived and  acted  upon  by  the Associa­
tion and the President appointed as such 
J.  Geo.  Lehman,  Henry 
committee 
Vinkemulder and A.  Brink.
A motion was  made, also  at  tbe  sug­
gestion  of  the  Secietary,  that,  hence­
forth all committees  make  their  reports 
Turkeys................................................. 8
Chickens................................................7
in writing,  but the motion  was  rejected.
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which  lunch was served by  the  Refresh-1 Geese............................................8
ment Committee.
Turkeys.................................................. 11
Chickens................................................ 12
Fowl......................................................
Ducks.......................................................10  _

The Association  then  adjourned, after I Ducks.V.. ...............  1. 
DRAWN.

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sensibly I Geese...................................................... 10  @12
strengthened the market, and  prices  for  Turkeys......................?.........'............... 9  @ 9*
May delivery  have  advanced.  Exports 
have, however, fallen off, and  the  pros-
pects for  improvement  are  none  of  the 
best.  The local market is strong  at  52c, 
with receipts small, although  much  bet­
ter than previous week.

French....................................  @10
Calif................  
@12
Table Nuts,  fancy.................................  @12
choice..............................  @11
Pecans. Texas, H.  P.,  ...........................  @744
Chestnuts...............................................
Hickory Nuts per bu.............................  
1  25
Coeoanuts, full sacks  ............................... 
Fancy, H.  F., Suns................................   @5
“  Roasted....................   @644
Fancy, H.  P., Flags..................................   @5
“  Roasted...................   @ 644
Choice, H. P.,  Extras...............................  @4
“  Roasted.................  @544

Eocene...................................................  
844
yyy w.  W. Mich.  Headlight.............. 
7
Naptha...................................................  @ 644
Stove Gasoline.......................................  @ 7%
Cylinder............................................... 27  @36
E ngine.................................................13  @21
Black, 15 cold  test  ..............................  @844
FROM  TANK  WAGON.
Eocene 
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XXX  W. W.  Mich.  Headlight..............  
5

“  20ft...........................  @14
“  14ft..........................   @15
Dates, Fard, 10-lb.  box..........................   @7
..........................   @544
Persian, 50-lb.  box......................  @ 5

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Almonds, Tarragona.................................  @16

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Ducks...................................................8
Geese  ........................................   .......8

Ivaca.......................................   @15
California.............................   @

Brazils, new...........................................   @ 844
Filberts...................................  
Walnuts, Grenoble.  .................................  @13

DISSOLUTION  NOTICE.

POULTRY.
Local dealers pay as follows :

The  Standard  Oil  Co.  quotes  as  follows:

Wheat—The  cold  wave  has

Grains  and  Feedstuffs. 

OTHER  FOREION  FRUITS.

“  50-lb.  “ 

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“If at first you don’t  succeed, fail,  fail 
again,” appears to be the motto  of  some 
business men.

H e n d o n , Mich., March 9,1894.

The copartnership heretofore existing between 
H. H. and F. O. Pratt of  Bendon,  Mich.,  Is  this 
day dissolved by mutual  consent.  F.  O.  Pratt 
will continue tbe business, pay all  bills and col­
lect all  accounts.
H. H. Pratt, 
F.  O. Pratt.

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The  Sim pliest,  M ost  S ubstantial 
and  Host  Satisfactory  Barrel 

Truck  ever invented.

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Before  You  Buy

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

SEE  THE  SPRING  LINE  OF  FINE 
GOODS  MANUFACTURED  BY

DETRO IT,  M ICH .

A  FEW  OF  OUR  NEW  SPECIAL­
TIES  IN  OXFORDS  ARE:

The  Juliet  Bootee,  Three  Large 

Button  Newport,  Southern 

Tie  and  Prince  Alberts.

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

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

Note  these  prices:

Butcher’s,  80-pound  Tubs........................................................  
Butcher’s, Tierces.......................................................................  
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6. B. HAMMOND  CO'S SDPEMDB BOTTEME

VOIGT  MILLING  CO.,

Proprietors of the

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OUR  PRINCIPAL  BRANDS

R o y a l P a te n t,  C re sc e n t,

W h ite R o se,
Are sold with our personal guarantee.

If you  are not now’ handling any of our brands, we  solicit a  trial  or­
der, confident  that the  excellent quality of our goods and  the  satisfaction 
of your customers will  impel you to become a regular customer.

Correspondence solicited.

1/0I6Y  MILLING  GO,,  Grand  Rapids.  JUißli.

NO. 3.

The above cuts show  a few of the many purposes this device  will serve.
Cut No. 1  meagerly shows its adaptation as a Screw Driver—anyone readily understands that it 
will drive a s- rew in  as several other devices on the spiral plan  drive a  screw  the same way  but 
there is  no other one that will  do this:  Take  a screw out with exactly the same  push  movement 
as it was put in  and just  as quickly: this is done by simply grasping the brass shell  with  the  left 
hand,  and  having  hold  of  the  wood  handle  with  the right; simply give the right hand a  twist 
toward you: this reverses it to take out a screw: in like manner give  it a turn  from  vou,  and it is 
ready to drive the  screw.

In either case, when it is closed as shown in Cut No. 3. if desired, it will act  as a ratchet, turn 
ing the screw half round each ratchet movement made by the operator, and still  another valuable 
position is obtained by simple turning it as before stated,  but instead  of clear from one side to the 
other, stop at half way: at this point it will be  as rigid as if it was one solid piece of iron

Cut No. a.  Here  we show the spiral clear extended, another use made of it other than driving 
screws,  here  we  show  its  usefulness  in a carriage.  wagon or  machine shop where many  small 
burrs are to betaken off and put on; the screw driver bit is  removed  and a socket  wrench  put in 
with which burrs can be run on or off, twenty  times quicker than by tne old way.

Cut No. 3.  This shows not only its usefulness in the  carriage  wagon  or  machine shop  but 
carpenter, plumber or undertaker’s establishment as well, in fact it is indispensable to any worker 
in wood or iron where screws  or burrs are used, or boring, drilling  etc., is done, and  in finishing 
up work with hard wood  where a small hole must be bored or  drilled to receive the nail or screw 
it is a wonderful convenience.  Thus it will be seen it well merits the name it bears.  The Univer­
sal Screw Driver and Brace.  The chuck and shell are highly polished brass while  the  handle  is 
finished in natural wood; it is substantial, durable and the most powerful tool of its kind  made

WRITE  FOR  CIRCULAR.

S .  F .  B O W SE R  & Co., Manf’s*
New York Biscuit Co.,

FOBT  WAYNE,  IND.

MANUFACTURERS  OF

W M .  VS B A R S   &  Ç Q .’S

Brackers  and  Fine  Sweet  Goods.

WE 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  our  BEST  TESTIMONIAL.

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OUR  GOODS  ARE  ALWAYS  IN  DEMAND,  AND  NO  WELL  APPOINTED 

GROCERY  STOCK  IS  COMPLETE  WITHOUT  A  FULL  LINE.

SEND  IN  A  TRIAL  ORDER  AND  BE  CONVINCED.

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We  also  take  Orders  for  the  Celebrated  KENNEDY  BISCUIT, 

made  at  onr  Chicago  Factory.

S.  A.  SBARS,  Manager,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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If  so,  and  you  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  country,  having  special  machinery  for  every  branch  of  the  business.  SAMPLES  FREE.

TRADESflAN  COMPANY,  g rand  r a p id s,  m ic h .
FIND MORE  MONEY Iii  handling our  Assorted  Packages of Tinware  tlian^  any  othei 

wav  you  can  buv,|and  in  buying pieced  tinware in  this  way you 
are  always  sure  of getting  Perfect New  Goods.

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IX'Chicago Spout Tea Kettle,  Flat  Copper  Bot= 

@ $1.69  doz.,.......  

“ JACKSON”  ASSORTMENT,
>0  Doz. Xo. 8 IX Chicago spout Tea K ettles 
“ LINCOLN”  ASSORTMENT.
Doz.  Xo.  9 IX Chicago  spout Tea  Kettles 
@  $5  d o z.,................ 
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Covered  Pails.

“ MONROE”  ASSORTMENT.

1  Doz  each 

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“ JOHNSON”  ASSORTIMENT.

1  Gross 2 qt  covered  pails

Fancy Tin Bottom Coflee Pot.
ADAMS”  ASSORTMENT.

:*  p. ts at $1  59 doz.

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Copper Bottom Tea Kettles.

“ FIL.MORE  ASSORTMENT. 
1.  Doz  Xo.  S  IX  common spout Tea K ettles 
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“ PIERCE”  ASSORTMENT.
1,2 Doz.  Xo.  9 IX common  spout  Tea  Kettle 
$4.69  doz.  ....................................................

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Q U I C K   S E L L I N G   T I N W A R E   F O R   S P R I N G   T R A D E .

^4  oz. copper rim  planished Tea  Kettles <5j  66.45  doz...............  3 53  %  Doz. Xo. 9 IX  Boilers  @  11 £5  doz ....

F a v o r it e  T ea   K e ttle ,  w ith   F la t C op p er  B o tto m   a n d   R i m .   a s  s h o w n .

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14  Doz. copper rim  planished Tea  Kettles @ $7.15  doz...............  3  58

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IX T in w ith copper bottoms, assoited as below :
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“ BUCHANAN”  ASSORTMENT.
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Boilers.

Fancy Tin Bottom Tea Pots.

“ W ashington”  ASSORTMENT.

V,  Doz. 3 pt Tea Pots @ $1.59  doz.............................................  
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Sold by  th e box  only....................$ 3   50

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and  it highly indorses same.  Merchants  interested  in  supplying their 
customers with  satisfactory goods,  at a  reasonable  profit  to  themselves,  m 
will  find that the  Peerless  Brand  is a good  article  to  purchase and a  3 
reliable one  to sell.

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