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was informed that  it  had  gone  against 
me  and  my  life  must  pay  the  forfeit. 
This information did not  have  a  cheer­
ing effect on me and  I  began  to wish  I 
had been a good boy and staid  at  home.
“I tried to get word out to  my  friends 
in Canton, but every effort  failed, and at 
last I gave it  up and concluded  to  meet 
my fate  the  best  way  I  could.  I  had 
been shut up one week when my  fellow- 
malefactors and  myself  were  told  that 
our turn had come to take daily exercise, 
though why we  needed  to  improve  our 
health I could not see, and that  the next 
morning at sunrise  we  would  be  taken 
for a promenade. 
I was in no promenad­
ing humor the next  morning,  but  after 
one or two  prods with  a  sharp  bamboo 
spike I thought I might be in  need of it, 
so 1  moved  off  in  single  file  with  the 
others.  We were taken up to  the top of 
the tower to a room opening  out  on  the 
bridge, and  there we were  instructed  to 
walk about six  feet  apart,  and  one  by 
one we passed out  on  to  the  bridge. 
I 
was  the  fifth  man  out,  and  when  1 
stepped  into  the  clear  sunshine  of  a 
beautiful June morning and looked  over 
the  low  railing  down  upon  a  glorious 
expause of hill and vale stretching  away 
for miles, and  breathed  the  fresh,  cool 
air, I don’t think I  could  have  had  less 
inclination to  give  it  all  up.  But  the 
prospect was suddenly  disturbed  and  1 
soon had occasion to  think  about  some­
thing else.  When I had gone half across 
1 heard a click  behind  me,  and  looking 
around  I  saw  the  man  next  after  me 
throw np his  hands  and  with  a  scream 
dropped  suddenly  through  the  bridge, 
and  as  suddenly  the  trap  closed  and 
there was no sign of it.  The  bridge was 
so narrow that I could not  help  looking 
over the rail,  and whirling  through  the 
air I saw the malefactor headed  for that 
stone pavement,  with  its  accompanying 
spikes.  Then I tried to  look  away  and 
could not, and  with  a  thud  he  hit  the 
stone, bounced  once  and  lay  still.  He 
had  bqen  fortunate  enough  to  miss  a 
spike below.  During  this  terrible  mo­
ment the promenade continued, and^just 
as the man immediately  in  front  of  me 
was about to step  into  the  tower  from 
the bridge  1  heard  that  ominous  click 
again,  the  man  disappeared,  and  as  I 
stepped off the bridge 1 caught a glimpse 
of him  whirling through  the  air.  Gen­
tlemen,” continued the story teller,  tak­
ing a long  breath,  “I  don’t  think  it  is 
necessary for me to tell you  it was  a  re­
lief to me to get off that infernal bridge.”
The drummer  assured him that  it was 
not, and told him to go on with his story.
“When we got back  to  our  quarters,” 
he continued,  “I had the most  utter  dis­
taste for exercise I ever had  in  my  life, 
and would have been glad to have become 
a tramp and staid one.  My  fellow  pris­
oners were of the lowest type of natives, 
and in their abject stolidity, appeared to 
take this kind of  thing  as  a  matter  of 
course.  For the  remainder  of the day I 
tried  to  think  of  something  else,  but 
couldn’t, and the  night was  simply  one 
limitlesss pasture for an  indefinite  herd

of  nightmares.  At  sunrise  we  were 
called to promenade  again, and  1  don’t 
know how I ever got up  the  courage  to 
try  it  again,  unless  it  was  that  the 
others, as low and  stupid  as  theyjWere, 
taunted  me  with  cowardice.  That 
nerved me, and I thought  1 would  show 
them that the foreign dog  had  as  much 
courage as any of them.  On  this  prom­
enade, not a trap was sprung,  and  I  be­
gan to  feel  better, though  just why, is, 
and  was  not  then,  clear  to  me.  The 
next morning I was as  brave  as  any  of
them, and went forth  to  the  promenade 
of death with a smile on my face. 
It all 
went, though, when  I  heard  that  click 
again and 1 saw a man go whirling  down 
and strike on one of  the  highest  spikes 
below.  It bent  beneath  his weight, and 
he clutched at it once, but 1  fancy  after 
falling that far it didn’t make  much  dif- 
erence whether a man lit on a spike  or a 
bed of roses. 
It  did  make  a  difference 
though  to  the  spectator,  and  I  should 
have collapsed and  dropped  to  the floor 
if the instinctive  fear of that  trap open­
ing under me had not  kept  me  up.  As 
it was, 1 managed to  finish  my  journey 
and as 1 stepped into the tower I  fell  in 
a  dead  faint. 
I  presume  three  .m u st 
have been dropped on this trap, for there 
were only ten of ns at the  next roll call. 
Well, day after day this  dreadful  strain 
continued,  until on the  final  morning  1 
went  forth  alone,  '.and  as  strange  as 
may seem to you, gentlemen,  I felt a for­
titude 1 had not previously  experienced.
1 knew that  1  should  not  be  forced  to 
hear that terrible click,  nor  see  a  body 
whirling through space below  me, aud 1 
knew that this was to be the  last  of  the 
awful  promenade,  or  if  it  were  to  be 
prolonged, that I was  not  to  have  com­
panionship, and  when  the  end  came  it 
would come quickly.  With this  feeling,
then,  I stepped upon the bridge, and  be­
gan my walk with as firm a step  as  if  I 
had had the adamantine hills for  a  foot­
way.  Once or twice I felt  a  trap  move 
under my feet, and I  shut  my  eyes  and 
nerved myself for the  plunge, but  it did 
not come, and  I  passed  into  the  tower 
safely,  but with a feeling  rather  of  dis­
appointment than  otherwise, for 1 knew 
that  to-morrow would  come,  and  other 
to-morrows, making  the  misery  greater 
by stretching it.  But it was  not  to  be, 
for when I had passed  into  the  tower  I 
was  conducted  to  an  official’s  room, 
where I was given the only  decent  meal 
I had  eaten  since  my  arrest,  and  that 
was  bad  enough;  my  effects  were  re­
stored to me, and I was  given  an  escort 
and six hours to make myself  scarce  in. 
How 1 got out I don’t know.  All I know 
is that two weeks later I waked up  in  a 
missionary’s  house, and  when  they  let 
me look at myself in  a  mirror  my  hair 
was as you see it now.

“Months  afterwards,”  concluded  the 
story  teller,  “1  learned  that  the  whole 
thing wa9 a job put up on me by  my  tea 
trade enemies, and that  they  never  had 
any  idea  of  killing  me,  bat  they  did 
want to teach me a  lesson  in  the  trade 
ethics  of  the  interior,  and  give  me  a

“1 am not  quite  as  old  as  my  white 
hair might lead yon to suppose,” he said, 
“and still I am past 50.”

“May be it was early piety,” suggested 

the drummer.

“Hardly,” smiled the story teller;  “on 
the contrary,  a  lack  of  it  was  the  in­
direct cause.  When I was about  22  my 
father wanted  me  to  go  into  business, 
but that  was not to my taste,  as  he  had 
money enough to let me live in  idleness.
1 was a fast young  man,  and  after  two 
or three  bad  outbreaks,  the  old  gentle­
man gave me $2,000 and sent me to China 
to look after some  tea  interests  he  had 
there. 
I  objected,  but  he  said  it  was 
that or no more  money,  and  I  went  to 
China. 
I  rather  liked  it  after  I  got 
there, and  I  proceeded  to  spread,  said 
spreading taking  me,  at  last,  into  that 
part of  the  country  where  a  foreigner 
had no show whatever.  Here I managed 
to provoke the wrath of  some native tea 
merchants and the first  thing  1  knew,  1 
found myself in  prison with  the  agree­
able information added that I was  a  spy 
and that I was to be  executed  sometime 
within  a  month.  There were  no  other 
foreigners in the town at  the time of my 
incarceration,  and  if  any  came  after I 
was locked up, 1 had no means  of know­
ing  it,  or  communicating  with  them. 
The prison was a  peculiar  one  and  the 
method  of  punishment  still  more  so. 
The  building  consisted  of  two  towers 
over a hundred feet in  height, connected 
at the top by an open  wicker  work  cov­
ered bridge  of  bamboo,  about  seventy- 
five feet  in  length.  This  bridge,  as  I 
subsequently had reason to  know, was a 
series of trap doors, each  one  connected 
by a rope with  one  of  the  towers.  Be­
neath  it  on  the  ground  was  a  rough 
stone pavement, connecting  the  towers, 
and fifty feet  in  width,  that  being  the 
width  of  the  towers.  Scattered  about 
over this pavement were  iron  and  bam­
boo  spikes,  varying  in  height  from  a 
foot  to  twenty  inches.  Some  of  these 
were  quite  close  together,  and  others 
were a dozen or more  feet  apart,  and  1 
presume there were thirty of them in all. 
Into  the  cell  or  room  in  which  I  was 
placed, were  fifteen  malefactors,  all  of 
whom were under sentence of death,  and 
I confess that my surroundings were any­
thing bat what I should have chosen  for 
myself, if I  had  been  consulted  in  the 
matter.  The  next day, 1  had what was 
called a trial, and  perhaps  it was, I was 
not present, and  it  may  have  been  ex­
In  any  event,  I
actly  as represented. 

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Lem ons

W i l l   b e   h ig h e r   v e r y   s o o n ,  t h e  
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knows we make them right.  What we  want  to  call  your  at-^ 
tention  to  now  is our Cordivan line, the line that is coming to
the front with glorious results.  We have met  with  such  un- f  
limited  success  in  the  manufacture  of them in Men’s,  Boys’  • 
and Youths’ that we have decided to add Women’s, Misses’ and 
Children's.  Misses’  and  Children’s  in  both  heel  and spring 
heel with prices that cannot  help  but  please  you. 
(Another 
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smile a smole longer than a wagon track.  Of course we are in  it  and  our  line  of 
fall goods will convince you that we are in it more than  ever.  A  little  advice  on 
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money.

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Yj. J

few days ago:
Ripdge,  Kalmbach a Co., Grand Rapids,  Mich.

W a sh in g t o n ,  D.  C.,  May 3, 1891.

Dear  Sirs:—Too  years  ago  today I put on a pare of youre Cordovan Shoos and havent  had 

thim off my feet since, they are strong yit. 

Yours  trooly,

J t.BBT Simpson.

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gentle hint not to trespass on their  terri­
tory again.”

And did yon?” inquired  the  drummer 

with bated breath.

‘‘Would  you?”  responded  the  white- 
haird  man,  and  the  drummer  said  he 
would, and the white-haired man said he 
was a falsifier and  came  from  Chicago, 
and everybody in  the  compartment  sec­
onded the motion.

W il l J.  Lam pto n.

M oral  F orce 

th e   B asis 

o f  R ace 

S u p rem a cy .

The  greatest  power  in  the  world  is 
moral power. 
It is  superior to  both  in­
tellectual and  physical  force;  it  domi­
nates both.  The  theorist who  seeks  to 
form a  system  of  social  philosophy  on 
matter  and  mind,  and  leaves  out  the 
moral  and  spiritual  ingredients,  dis­
cards  the  highest  and  most  important 
element of the trinity of  human  nature.
It is the moral power of  an  individual 
or of a  nation  that  makes  its  place  in 
the vast turmoil  of  life.  The  supreme 
test of  this  moral  force, the  barometer 
upon whose dial it is  read, is  the  social 
status of women.  According as the moth­
ers,  wives  and  daughters  of  a  race are 
esteemed, the moral power of that race or 
nation is to  be  judged,  and  its  weight 
and influence in the scale of nations is to 
be gauged.

The point of honor  in  every  country, 
be it inhabited  by  savage  tribes  or  by 
civilized and enlightened  people,  is cen­
tered in the maintenance  of  chastity  in 
the women and courage in  the  men, and 
this  is  not  mere  animal  courage,  but 
moral force.  Honor must have  a  moral 
basis. 
In the days when  Rome  boasted 
of the virtue of her matrons and  the  pu­
rity  of  her  maidens;  when  a  Roman 
mother, like Cornelia, could  boast of her 
sons as  jewels  more  precious  than  the 
sparkling  product  of  Oriental  mines, 
Rome  possessed  a  moral  power  that 
made her the mistress and  conqueror  of 
the world.  When Rome had  adopted all 
the vices and profligacies of  the  corrupt 
Asiatics  whom  her 
legions  subdued, 
then came the day when all moral power 
was gone, and the mightiest  empire  the 
world ever saw fell an easy  prey  to  the 
fierce and virile  barbarians.  Rome  had 
all the resources  that  unlimited  money 
could buy, and  all  the  civilization  and 
enlightenment that could arise  from  be­
ing the center and source of  the  highest 
intellectual  development,  but  physical 
force and moral culture can avail nothing 
where moral force  is  wanting,  and  the 
mistress of the world  succumbed  to  the 
assaults of races that  knew  how  to  es­
teem  and  to protect  the  honor  of  their 
women.

It has been told of the  celebrated Von 
Moltke, with  what  reliability  does  not 
appear, nor is it material so  far  as  it  is 
a mere  illustration  of  a  principle, that 
when  that  eminent  military  organizer 
bad returned from a visit to  a  neighbor­
ing nation he  declared  the weakness  of 
the forces  he  had  seen,  not  from  any 
lack of numerical  or  material  strength, 
but from  evidences  of  inferior  morale. 
He had remarked the  prevalence  of  in­
decent pictures  in  the  barracks  of  the 
troops, and accepted such  a  fact  as  an 
evidence  of  moral  disintegration.  Pa­
triotism  begins  with  the  home  circle. 
The man who declares that the  world  is 
his home, and mankind are his  brothers, 
may be a philosopher, but  he  is  no  pa­
triot.  The man who goes to war  to  de­

fend his country does  not  perplex  him­
self with any complicated  notions about 
human rights  and  national  honor.  He 
is thinking of his wife  and  children,  of 
his mother,  his  sisters,  his  sweetheart, 
and he  is  fighting  for  them  first.  Pa­
triotism  begins  with  these  few,  the 
chosen  of  his  heart;  it  centers  around 
the old  home,  the  humble  cottage  that 
contains  his  loved  ones.  A  thousand 
men, a hundred thousand men,  animated 
with like sentiments make  up  an  army, 
and  thus  the  entire  country  is  repre­
sented,  and  the  aggregate  of  all  their 
domestic love  makes  up  the  patriotism 
which embraces  a  broad  land  with  its 
hundred thousand homes.
such 

sentiments, 
united in such  a  cause,  how  men  will 
fight!  They are invincible. 
It is not the 
numerical strength of  armies,  nor  is  it 
the  physical  force  of  material  wealth, 
nor the possession of the highest culture, 
that creates the  greatest  national  influ­
ence and importance.  Other  things  be­
ing in proportion, it  is  the  presence  of 
the  greatest moral force that insures the 
supremacy of a race.

Animated  with 

to  astonish 

Without sentiment, which is a spiritual 
and moral inspiration,  man  might  be  a 
mere animal, given up  to  fleshly gratifi­
cations;  or he  might  be  an  intellectual 
adventurer,  seeking 
the 
world  by  his  discoveries,  or  employ­
ing his genius only that he  could  secure 
gold to lavish upon his  lusts.  But  sen­
timent,  which  may  manifest  itself  as 
love,  charity,  religious  faith,  benevo­
lence or patriotism,  fixes  a  purpose,  di­
rects the will and centers  all  the  facul­
ties  upon  the  consummation  of  some 
object dear to the heart. 
It is sentiment 
that makes heroes and  martyrs,  and  ac­
complishes all the great results  that dis­
tinguish human  nature  from  mere  ani­
malism. 
It is a divine  inspiration given 
to all, but capable of  being  lost  in  any 
condition of  excessive luxury and civili­
zation.  Most  savage  tribes  possess  it. 
It is lost through  decay  and  perversion 
of the moral sense. 
It is lost  only when 
the mind and body  combine  against  the 
soul.

Here, then, is  the  danger  which  spe­
cially  besets the  highest civilization. 
It 
multiplies the means of self-gratification. 
It does not stop at satisfying the demand 
for  comfort. 
It  overwhelms  with  lux­
ury,  and, under  the  influence of  excess­
ive  self-indulgence, 
the  heart  turns 
away from  its  proper  objects  of  affec­
tion, centers upon itself  all  its  interest 
and expends its energies  and  burns  out 
the fires  of  life  in  self-indulgence. 
It 
is  to  this  that  modern  civilization  is 
tending.  The  same  forces  which  com­
passed the destruction of all the  ancient 
civilizations  are  capable  of  destroying 
the modern  product.  These  forces  ex­
ist, and  will  do  so  while  the  passions 
which set them in  motion  survive.  Let 
the  apostles  of  an  evolution  which  is 
marching on to perfection  take warning. 
The modern dude is but a poor  result of 
this perfect development.

F r a n k   Sto w ell.

Woman’s  Way.

Wife—“Harry, I wish  you would take 
off you shoes and walk over the  carpet.” 
Husband—“What  for?”
Wife—“I  dropped  some  tacks  there 

and can’t find them.”

Worrying over expected trouble is put­
ting yourself  into  a  condition  to let  it 
conquer you.

and m ake a specialty of them •  Our 
**Net Price  List"  is  ready ior d i s -  
trihution,  Send for one and sort up 
an order early.
T h e  P U T N A M   C A N D Y  C O .
SPECIAL  HIGH  GRADE.

A  Strictly  High  Grade  28  lb.  Bi­
cycle, the  Latest  and  Best  English 
Design, 
Tool Steel, 
Ball  Bearing  throughout,  Tangent 
Spokes, Either Wood or Steel  Rims, 
Pneumatic  Tires,  Hardened  Tool 
Steel  Rear  Sprockets, Re-enforced  Frame, Hickory or  Steel  Forks.  War- 
ented throughout.

’94  Model. 

We sell direct from our factory,  as the  time  has  come  when  riders 
must have a strictly High  Grade  Wheel  with Strength and Lightness com­
bined,  at  actual value.  Price $75.

CYCLOID  WHEEL  WORKS,  Grand  Rapids,  filch.

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Our  two  “Fireworks  Prize  Pack­

ages”— “ BIG  4” and  “ RIPPER.” 

They  are  the  largest,  best  selling 
article  of  any  on  the  market.  Now  is 
the time to  put them in  stock.

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WAITING FOB A MOSES. 

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cure for the blind is  badly  needed.  We 
have hordes of men  marching  to  Wash­
This is an age  of  paradoxes  and  con-  ' 
ington in quest of Congressmen  and  em­
dieting conditions.  The round  peg  and  1 
ployment, and farmers by  the  hundreds 
the square cavity are in apparently hope-  1 
wanting hired  hands  and  finding  none. 
less confusion.  To make the one  fit  the  1 
We  have  unions  that  insist  on justice 
other there are  nightcaps  full  of  head-  1 
from employers of  labor,  but  deny  the 
aches and heads full of  visions.  We are  ' 
same to non-unionists  who  would  work 
being  overstocked  with  anxious  souls  ! 
if they dare.  We have corporations that 
who see nothing but disaster and trouble  ' 
pay thousands for  a  Congressional  per­
and also with gentlemen of  recent  birth  1 
mit and richer than the kingdoms of  his­
and  precocious  talents  just  going  into  1 
tory, but who would plunder the poor as 
business as the carpenters of Noah’s ark.  1 
graciously  as  Dick  Turpin  robbed  the 
As between the two, we are, as  were the  I 
rich.
brickmakers of Pharaoh,  with  the  deep  ! 
sea  in  front  and  an  Egyptian  barbed 
wire  fence  behind. 
In  this  dilema  we 
are waiting for a Moses  and  looking  for 
a headlight.

in 

a  dog 

their 
that 

Some  one,  we  don’t  know  who, may 
turn up to make order  out  of  chaos,  to 
untie our Gordian knots, make  circles of  ' 
our  triangles  and  work  the  convenient 
miracle of making our sixes  and  sevens 
harmonious dozens. 
It is  the  old  story 
of a frog in a well expecting  the  bottom 
to be at the top, and of a  calf  dreaming 
that its tail will make  a  third  hind  leg. 
There would be humor  in  the  situation 
if  it  were  not  for  the  frogs  and  the 
calves that are honest in their  faith  and 
folly.  We 
serious 
can
pity 
is  under  age
barking at the moon, and a boy  innocent 
of his second teeth looking  for  a  dollar 
in one of the terminals of a rainbow, but 
when men and women, matured  in  bone 
and brain,  are repeating the same act, in 
looking for Heaven  in  the  next  county 
and hunting for au Eden where  the  ser­
pent never gets into the  apple  tree,  the 
conditions are serious. 
It is  one  of  the 
grave troubles of the times  that  no  one 
man  holds  himself  responsible  for  the 
wagon  sticking  in the mud, and but few 
think it their duty to put  their  shoulder 
to the wheel.

It is convenient, of course, to hang our 
satchel  on  the  hump  of  the  over-bur­
dened camel, and to be  put  to  the  non­
perspiring  trouble  of  expecting  a  ripe 
pippin to drop into an  open  mouth,  but 
the Lord help us if in both  cases  wC  do 
nothing  more.  It  is,  however,  a  fact, 
that while every one is shaking his  head 
and making a wry face, the  ball  of  dis­
cord and  discontent  keeps  rolling,  and 
we are  all  dancing  with  stiff  legs  and 
short  breath to the same old tune.

We are wanting coal, with  more  of  it 
in the bowels of  the  earth  than  ail  the 
stoves and locomotives on the planet  can 
burn for centuries.  We have multitudes 
of men without  socks  or  decent  pants, 
and piles of the same in  warehouses and 
stores,cracking shelves with their weight 
and furnishing mice with the best of bed 
clothes, gratis.  We  have households by 
the thousands where a stomach is a  mis­
fortune and a pantry a  mockery,  and  at 
the same time enough  of  grain  to  feed 
half the world, and of  cattle  to  give  as 
many more a steak for  breakfast  and  a 
joint  for  Sunday  dinner.  We  have 
banks  with  more  cash  than  they  can 
loan, and thousands of men with pockets 
in which the only capital is a thumb, and 
four fingers.  We have  pay  rolls  where 
the figures are so big that the next largest 
in  the  world  are  comparatively  small, 
and can muster as many men with whom 
strikes are so frequent and  discontent so 
rampart.  We  have  more  labor  leaders 
and  agitators per capita  than  any  other 
nation,  but if the men who fall  into  the 
ditch  are  a  comment  on  leadership, a

Can  this‘be  remedied?  We hope so. 
When ?  We  don’t  know.  How ? 
There’s the rub.  Will  there  be a Moses 
to lead us into better  times ?  No.  The 
world has had the only Moses it will ever 
have to straighten out this social and  in­
dustrial tangle. 
It is true, He is  out  of 
date so far as business is concerned,  but 
what He once said stands  forever and  is 
beyond repeal of  reversal  in  the  estab­
lishment of  social  and  industrial  pros­
perity—"Do  unto  others  as  ye  would 
others should do to you ”

Fr e d  W oodrow.
REPRESENTATIVE  RETAILERS.

General Dealer.

Wm.  A.  Anderson,  the  Thompsonville 
Wm. A.  Anderson  was  born  near  St. 
Thomas, Out., Dec.  22,  1842.  When  18 
years  of  age  he  removed  to  Newaygo 
county, Mich., settling in  Dayton  town­
ship, and for a quarter of a  century  car­
ried  on  the  business  of  farming  and 
lumbering, during which time  he owned 
many pieces of  agricultural  and  timber 
lands. 
In 1869 he built  and equipped  a 
water  power  stone  grist  mill  at White 
River—then a trading point of  consider­
able importance—which business he con 
tinued for sixteen years. 
In  1885  he re­
moved to Fremont and  erected a full rol­
ler process flouring mill,  which  he  con­
ducted  until  July, 1893,  when  he  sold 
the property to John B.  Martin,  of  this 
city. 
In the  meantime  he  conducted  a 
flour and feed store at Kalkaska a couple 
of years as an outlet for his mill  at  Fre­
mont. 
In April, 1893. he purchased  the 
general stock  of  the Thompson  Lumber 
Co.  in  company  with  a  partner.  Last 
December  he  purchased  his  partner’s 
interest  in  the  business,  since  which 
time he  has  conducted  the  business  in 
his own name and  on  his  own  account. 
On the close of  his  first  year’s  business 
at Thompsonville, April 16,  he found his 
sales had amounted  to  $34,000,  and  the 
present year promises a  still further  in­
crease.

school 

Mr. Anderson was  a  strong  factor  in 
Newaygo  country  politics  for  a  great 
many years, having been in  office almost 
continuously for  nearly  a  quarter  of  a 
century, serving his constituents  accept­
ably  as  supervisor, 
trustee, 
village  president  and Representative  in 
the  Legislature.  He  was  chairman  of 
the  Republican  County  Committee 
in 
1884,  1886  and  1888,  having  won  con­
siderable notoriety in 1884 by the skillful 
manner  in  which  he  marshalled  his 
forces and  defeated  the  fusion  party 
(Democrats  and  Greenbackers)  which 
the  county 
several  campaigns  in  succession.  He 
was a member of the Legislature of 1887, 
i  being one  of  the  few  Republican  Rep- 
i  resentatives who  refused to listen to the 
r  siren  voice  of  the  late  Senator  Stock- 
)  bridge,  utterly  refusing  the  “financial 
i  assistance’’ dealt out with a lavish  hand

;  had  previously  carried 

If  You  would 
know 

-

How  to  conduct  your 
business  without 
the 
loss  and  annoyance  at­
tendant upon the use  of 
the  pass  book  or  any 
other  charging  system, 
send  for  samples  and 
catalogue of our
Coupon  Book 
System,

Which is the  best meth­
od ever devised for plac­
ing  the  credit  business 
of the retail dealer on  a 
cash basis.

Tradesman
Company,

G RAND  R A PID S.

The  Poorest  Man

On  Earth

Can afford  the BEST  salt.

The  Richest  Man

On  Earth

CANNOT  afford any other.

See Quotations in Price Current.

I.  M-  CLARK  GROCERY  GO.,

GENERAL  AGENTS, 

GBAN'D  RAPIDS,  - 

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-  MICH.

by  that gentleman.  On the defeat of ex- 
Congressman  Cutcheon,  Mr.  Anderson 
retired from  politics  and  has  since  re­
fused to take  any active part in political 
affairs, although pressed  to  do  so  since 
becoming a resident of Benzie county.

Money  In  Shoes.

Shoe  dealer—"It  won’t  pay  me  to 
handle  these  shoes  on  such  a  small 
margin.”
Drummer—"I  know  the  profits  are 
small;  but, my dear sir, just look  at  the 
shoes, aDd see how they are made.” 
“Humph!  They are  made very badly, 
miserable stuff, too—won’t last  a week.” 
“That’s  it, that’s  it.  You’ll  sell  five 
pairs of these shoes to one of any others.”

WALTER BAKER & GO.

The  Largest 
Manufacturers of
COCOA and 

CHOCOLATE
IN THIS COUNTRY,

have  received  from  the 
Judges  of the

W o r ld ’s  
C o lu m b ia n  
E x p o s itio n

(Medals and Diplomas) 

The Highest Awards
on  each  of  the  following  articles, 
namely:
BREAKFAST  COCOA,
PREMIUM  NO.  i  CHOCOLATE, 
CERMAN  SWEET  CHOCOLATE, 
VANILLA  CHOCOLATE,
COCOA  BUTTER,
For “purity of material,” “excellent 
flavor,”  and  “uniform  even  composi­
tion.” 
8QLD  BY  CROCER8  EVERYWHERE.
W a lt er  B aker  &  C o .f

_ _ _ _ _ _

2.  A Circus.
3.  Fans.

Of  all  the  past  and  by-gone  adver­
tising fakes,  none  hold  their  own  with 
the ever present

Picture Card.

Other  “fakes”  come  and  go,  and 
their whiskers sprout, turn gray and fall 
out,  but  the  picture  card  ever  bobs  up 
serenely,  and  when  it  comes  to  a  card 
and  fan  combined,

W HY!

The children want them;
The  old  folks want  them—for  the chil­

dren,

Grandma wants one,
The fat man needs one,
The dude has to have one,

and  Remember

All these people are advertising the man 

who gives away the fan.
BUT  THEY  COST !
WELL  I  SHOULD SAY  NOT

Just  see  our  late  samples  and  lead the 
procession with  an  advertising  fan 
on Circus Day.

T R A D E SM A N   C O M PA N Y ,

Grand  Rapids,  M ichigan.

N O   C U R E , 
NO  P A Y . 

N O   M U S T A C H E
N O   PAY»

DANDRUFF  CURED,

1  will take Contracts to grow hair on toe  neatf 
at face with  those  who can  call  at  my office 01 
%l  the office of  my agents, provided  the head is 
not  glossy, or the pores of the scalp not closed 
Where  the  head  is  shiny  or  the  pores  closed, 
there is no cure.  Call and  be examined  free ol 
charge.  If you cannot  call, write to me.  State 
tho exact  condition of the scalp and your occu­
pation 
Room lim Mastaic Temple, Cmcaas

PROF.  G.  BIKKHOI.Z,

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

Cases

Standard,  per  lb ....
“  H. H............
T w ist.......
“ 
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8*4
Cut  Loaf...................
Extra H.  H........................  814
MIXED  CANDY. 

Bbls. 
Standard.......................................... 514 
Leader..............................................514 

6 
6 
6 

Bbls.  Palls.
7
7 
7
8*4

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Palls.
f*4
6$

y ...............................................7
English  Hock.................................7
Conserves....................................... 7
Broken T affy................... baskets 
Peanut Squares................... 
French Creams............................................ 
Valley  Creams................................ 
Midget, 30 lb. baskets...............................  814
Modern, 301b.  “ 

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814
13
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“  714 

fancy—In bulk

 

 

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fancy—In 5 lb. boxes. 

Palls.
Lozenges,  plain.................................................  814
Srlnted..............................................  914
rops...................................................12
Chocolate Monumentals..................................  1214
Gum Drops..........................................................  6
Moss Drops..........................................................  714
Sour Drops..........................................................  814
Imperials.......................  
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Per Box
Lemon Drops.  .....................................................50
Sour Drops............................................................50
Peppermint Drops................................................60
Chocolate Drops...................................................75
H. M. Chocolate  Drops........................................80
Gam Drops..........................................................<0
Licorice Drops................................................. 1  OO
A. B. Licorice  Drops......................... 
80
Lozenges, plain....................  
.............60
printed................................ 66
Imperials...............................................................60
Mottoes..............................................................-TO
Cream Bar........— . .....................5 5
Molasses  Bar........................................................ 55
Hand Made  Creams....................................86@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, 
 
No. 2, 
 
Fancy  Seedlings,  96s............................................   2 5o
Sorrentos,  lGOs-...........................................3 25
Rodis,  160s.................................................  
Messinas, flats, 100s................................................  2 00

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250s....................................  2 65
..................................................3 50
.....................................................4  50

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CARAMELS.

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BANANAS.

Choice,  360..................................... 
Choice 300 ............................................................  3 25
Extra choice 360....................................................   3 25
Extra fancy 300......................................................   4 00
Extra fancy 360......................................................   * 00
Large bunches........................................................  2 00
Small bnnehes................... 
125
Figs, fancy  layers, 81b............................  @12*4
206b...  ..........................  @14
“ 
“  141b.................................  @15
  @ 7
........................... >  @ 5*4
Persian. 50-lb.  box........................  @ 5
1 lb Royals..............................................   7*4
Almends, Tarragona....................................  @16

Dates, Fard, 10-lb.  box................................ 

OTHER  FOREIGN  FRUITS.

extra 
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ABOUND THE STATE.

M OVEM ENTS  O F  M ERCHA NTS.

Holland—M. Herold succeeds E.Herold 

& Co. in the boot and shoe business.

Leslie—Henry  Wood  succeeds  J.  B. 

DeLamater in the jewelry business.

Petoskey—Geo.  Millenhagen  succeeds 

J. K. Feick in the grocery business.

Flint—A. S. Litle & Son  have  opened 

a grocery store at 523 Saginaw street.

Menominee—H.  A.  Vennema has sold 

his drug business to H.  B. Cate & Co.

Durand—L.  Chambers  has  sold  his 

drug stock to N. P.  Leland, of Owosso.

Oscoda—Rix Bros., grocers,  have  dis­
solved, V.  E.  Rix  continuing  the  busi­
ness.
Berrien Springs—Jas.  A.  Essick  suc­
ceeds F.  Boon & Bros, in the  meat  busi­
ness.
Muskegon—Clarence  Plant  has  pur­
chased  the  meat  business  of Willis R. 
Ford.
Frem ont—John  Kloostra  has  rem oved 
h is  hardware  stock  from  M uskegon  to
this place.
N orw ay—John  M.  K nell  is  succeeded 
by  John  Stanehina  in  the grocery  and
crockery  business.
Republic—Kingsted  &  Uockings, gro­
cers, have dissolved, J. A.  Kingsted  con­
tinuing the  business.

in 

Weston—D. E.  Withington  & Co.  suc­
the 

ceed  Jackson  &  Withington 
manufacture of wire fence.

Burr Oak—E.  B.  Bates  has  opened  a 
grocery store.  The stock  was furnished 
by the  Pliny Watson Co., of Toledo.

Charlotte—E.  S  Rogers  has  sold  his 
grocery  stock  to  T.  B.  Hobbs  &  Co., 
formerly engaged in the grocery business 
at Kalkaska.
Traverse  City—The  stock  of  the Chi­
cago Shoe Store has  been  purchased  by 
Wm.  Rosenfield,  of  Manistee.  He  will 
continue both stores.

Lapeer_M.  Carey  is  building a two- 
story  building.  24x110  feet  in  dimen­
with
sions, which he expects  to  occupy 
his grocery stock about Aug.  15.

Adrian—V.V.B. Merwin has purchased 
the  interest  of  W.  H.  Hamilton  in  the 
grocery stock of W.  H.  Hamilton  &  Co 
and  will  continue  the  business  in  his 
own  name.  Mr.  Hamilton  will  go  to 
Battle  Creek,  where  he  has  purchased 
the grocery and crockery stock  of  Allen 
Raymond.

Lake  Odessa—E.  C.  Tew  &  Son 

formerly  engaged  in  general  trade  at 
Orange, have leased a store building here 
and  will  shortly  open  a  bazaar  and 
notion store, with the  idea  of  enlarging 
the line as soon as  they  get  their  bear­
ings.
Kent  City—Alfred  Herendeen,  who 
recently purchased a half interest in  the 
general stock  of  Eugene  O'Connor,  has 
pulled out of  the  firm,  taking  the  shoe 
stock  for  his  interest  in  the  business. 
His place in the firm is taken  by  W.  W. 
Putney  and the  business  will  hereafter 
be conducted under the style of O’Connor 
& Putney.
Hart—E. S. Houghtaling  has  sold  his 
grocery  stock to S.  1). Young  and  E. R. 
Hubbard,  who will continue the business 
under the  style  of  Young  &  Hubbard. 
Mr.  Houghtaling has  purchased  a  piece 
of land, 100x200 feet in  size,  adjacent to 
the railway track and  will erect  a ware­
house thereon and embark in  the whole­
sale produce and fruit business.

The more  good  habits  you  form, 

less room you have for bad ones.

the

The Wheat Market.

Down grade is still the rule.  Owing to 
many  causes  the  movement  of  home 
wheat  has  about  stopped.  The  move­
ment of  car  wheat  has,  likewise,  been 
rather of a diminutive  character, as only 
24 cars of wheat, 8 cars  of  corn  and  12 
cars  of  oats  were  received  during  the 
past week,  while  during  the  month  of 
May there came in 255 cars of  wheat,  96 
of corn and 38 of  oats.  The  balance  of 
this month must  show  heavier  receipts, 
if the average of  May is to  be  equalled. 
The  visible  supply  shows  another  de 
crease  of  1,925,000  bushels,  which  is 
small, considering  the  amount in  sight. 
It looks now as if  we would  have  about 
5,000,000 bushels this  year,  as  against
2.316.000 in 1893, 24, 262,000 in 1892 and
2.583.000 in 1891.  Prices in Grand Rapids 
ranged as follows  for  the  years  named:
une  1,  1894.  48c;  June  1,  1893,  66c; 
une  1,  1892,  85c,  and  81.04  in  1891— 
rather a  large  decline  from  1891.  The 
question  arises,  can  w heat  go  lower? 
W hile  we  all  deprecate  th is  extrem ely
ow price, the  question  comes,  Why  is
it  thus?  A s  I  have  show n  in  som e  of 
my 
form er  review s,  R ussia,  H ungary,
India  and  Argentine  shipments  to  the
United  Kingdom  were 
than 
formerly,  but  the  Argentine  Republic 
seems  to  be  the  greatest  rival  of  our 
wheat  growers  which  has  sprung  up 
lately.  While only a few  years ago that 
country did not export  any wheat  at all, 
this  year  she  exported  from  Jan.  1  to 
Apr.  15, a period of 17 weeks,  18,756,000 
bushel,  as  against  22.936,000  bushels 
during all of 1893, and she has 40,000,000 
bushels of this  crop  to export.  Thus  it 
will  be  seen  that  American  wheat  is 
being  crowded  out  of 
the  world’s 
markets.  Another  cause  that  seems to 
work  against  us is  the  “option”  sales. 
For 
instance,  the  difference  between 
cash and December is about  6}£c;  while 
the English operator  buys  from  Argen­
tina at same  prices  as  cash  for  Decem­
ber.  To be more plain, Argentina  grain 
dealers offer wheat daring all the months 
of the year the  same  as  cash.  So,  they 
buy there and sell in  American markets, 
thereby  making  America  pay  what  is 
termed carrying charges. 
It  looks  as  if 
we  would  be  compelled  to  devise  some 
scheme to beat  them.  The reports  from 
all sections indicate that the growing crop 
is in  fine condition, except on heavy soil.

larger 

C.  G. A.  V oigt.

The Hardware Market.

General  Trade  continues  quite  good 
in  all  lines  of  hardware,  but  more 
especially so  in seasonable lines, such as 
wire 
cloth,  poultry  netting,  potato 
planters, corn planters  and all  kinds  of 
agricnltural  tools. 
In  wire  cloth  and 
netting 
the  manufacturers  are  having 
all they can  do  to  keep  up  with  their 
orders and the impression  is  that  there 
will  be  a  shortage  this  season  on  wire 
ciotb, the same as last  year.  The  great 
coal and coke strike,  now in  progress,  is 
interfering very  much with  all  lines  of 
hardware,  as  many  manufacturers  find 
it difficult to secure fuel  and  many more 
have  closed  down  altogether. 
In  the 
Mahoning  valley  all  of  the  iron  mills 
have  ceased  running. 
In  Cleveland 
many of  the  wire  and  nail  mills  have 
stopped and the same conditions  exist in 
nearly  all of the manufacturing  centers. 
At this writing there are  225,000  miners 
who have quit work and  refuse  to  mine 
coal,  and  if  this  shut-down  continues

much longer,  the  railroads  will  find  it 
hard work to run.
Wire Nails—Are going higher, because 
many mills  are  closed  down  and  those 
running are trying  to get a  better  price 
for their product.  Mills are  now asking 
81.25 rates, while jobbers in  this  market 
have not gone above 81.35,  but will have 
to go higher, if the shortage lasts long.

Barbed Wire—The question now is not 
“What is your price?” but “Have you got 
it?”  Six  dollars a ton  is  the advance on 
barbed wire in the last 30 days.  It is to be 
hoped that strike disturbances  will  soon 
be  settled  and  the  market* resume  its 
normal condition.

Wire Cloth—Is scarce and  held  firmly 

at l%c per square foot.

Wool  Twine—Moving  freely  and job­
bers’ price by the  bale  is 6c  per  pound; 
broken bales, He pound advance.

Scythes  and  Snaths—The  prospect  of 
an enormous hay crop is  creating  a very 
good demand  for  these  goods.  Dealers 
w ill do  w ell  to  get  in  their  stock  now 
w hile  they can.

T he  G rocery  M arket.

Sugar—The  trade  was  treated  to 

genuine surprise last Friday by a decline
ranging  from  &  sixpence  to  three-six 
teenths,  granulated  touching  4c.  The 
decline stimulated buying to that  extent 
that some of the refineries  were oversold 
before noon Saturday, and Monday morn 
ing noted an advance of He all along the 
line.  The market is strong  and  excited 
and  likely  to  go  higher  in  the  near 
future.

Coffee—Manufacturers of package goods 

have reduced their quotations He.

Fish—Trout  and  family  whltefish  are 

both weak and lower.

Bananas—Are  selling  freely  at  fair 

prices.  The  fruit  arriving  now 
little fuller,  and  on  that  account  gives 
much better  satisfaction.  The  demand 
will probably continue to  be  good  until 
after the Fourth of July,  when  domestic 
small fruit will curtail it.

Lemons—The warm weather  seems to 
be upon us and the  low prices  at which 
lemons have been held will  soon  be  ad­
vanced.  Light stocks are held  by a ma­
jority of the retailers, many of whom are 
now  beginning  to  anticipate  probable 
wants and place fair-sized  orders before 
there Is much  change  in  prices.  Local 
wholesalers and  fruit  dealers  have  lib­
eral stocks and are selling at  reasonable 
prices.

Oranges—Naples  and  Sorrentos  com­
prise the bulk of  the  offerings  at  pres­
ent,  although there are a few Californias 
left.  The latter arfe very puffy  now and 
holders are anxious to work out of them. 
A few  Rodis  have  made  tbeir  appear­
ance, which are  gilt-edge.  A  car  from 
the  first  cargo  sale  of  any  magnitude 
this season will  leave  the  East  for  our 
market this week.  The  price,  like  the 
quality,  will be high,  but for the  Fourth 
of July trade will  just  fill  the  bill.  A 
steady demand *s  noticeable—much  bet­
ter than was  expected,  considering  the 
cheapness of strawberries and California 
cherries.

Peanuts—Have been advanced  a  trifle 
and the  cleaners  bold  them  very  firm. 
The cleaners are  standing  together  and 
are bolding strictly to the rules  of  their 
Association as first promulgated.  Prices 
will advance rather than remain  station­
ery or recede during the next sixty days, 
so purchases made now mean a profit.

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GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

O’Connor & Putney, general dealers  at 
Kent City, have added  a  line  of  shoes. 
The stock was furnished  by  the  Reeder 
Bros. Shoe Co.

Henry  Idema,  trustee,  has  sold 

to 
Theo.  Kemink the  drug  stock  formerly 
owned  by  that  gentleman  at  83  West 
Leonard street. 

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John Kramer has purchased  of  Dr.  I. 
Wisse the Geert  Timmer  grocery  stock, 
at 183 Plainfield  avenue,  and  will  con­
tinue the business.

D.  A.  Blodgett has sold Frederick  Neff 
and John W. Prestel  a  tract  of  timber 
land,  4,200  acres,  in  Chehalis  county. 
Wash., 
the  price  being  $30,000  and 
other valuable considerations.

H. E. Grand Girard  has  sold his  drug 
stock at the corner of Monroe and Spring 
streets to Jno.  A. Gibb & Co.,  who took 
possession  M onday.  Mr.  Grand-Girard 
will  make  his  headquarters  at  his  old
location and devote his time to the Mich­
igan  Drug  Exchange  and  D ruggists’  Em­
ploym ent  Bureau,  of  w hich  be  is  pro­
prietor.  Mr.  Gibb  has  for  some  time
been  prescription  clerk  for  Mr.  Grand- 
Girard.

The first  Pure  Food  Exposition  ever 
held in  this  city,  which  is  now  being 
conducted under the auspices  of the Re­
tail Grocers’ Association,  is  proving  to 
be a success in many respects, in spite of 
the opposition  of  some  local  manufac 
turers who should have been represented 
in the  Exposition.  Particularly  is  this 
the case with the  two  flour  mills  here 
who  entered  into  an  agreement  some 
weeks ago to stay out of  the  Exposition 
in consequence  of  which  the  managers 
were compelled to go outside of  the city 
to  get  an  exhibitor  in  the  flour  line 
peeing his mistake, one of the  local mil 
lers offered to  pay  Mrs.  Rorer  a  round 
sum of money if she would use  and  rec 
ommend his flour,  which she  declined to 
to do, as it is not her custom to  use  any 
goods except those shown in the  Exposi 
tion.

Purely Personal.

Wm. A.  Anderson,  the  Thomsonville 
general dealer,  was in  town last Friday
Mrs. Sarah T.  Rorer, who  is  conduct 
ing a two weeks’  course  of  lectures  on 
high art cookery in  connection with  the 
Pure  Food  Exposition, leaves  Saturday 
night  for  Butte,  Montana,  where  she 
will  conduct  a  fortnight’s  demonstra­
tions under the auspices of the Women’s 
Library Club of that city.  She  then  re­
turns to her home in  Philadelphia for  a 
few days, having an  engagement  at  Mt. 
Gretna  (the  Pennsylvania  Chautauqua) 
all  during  July.  T he  T r a d e sm a n  is 
pleased to give place,  this week,  to  the 
first authorized  and  authentic  personal 
sketch of this  gifted  woman  ever  pub­
lished.

The  many  friends  of  Ludwig  Win- 
ternitz will be rejoiced to  learn  that  he 
is  now  General  Superintendent  of  the 
Fermentum  Company,  having  been 
elected to the position formerly occupied 
by Henry F. Jones, who resigned June 1. 
Nine years ago this  fall  Mr.  Winternitz 
came to this city from  Prague, Bohemia, 
with a meager vocabulary of English but 
a firm determination  to  make  his  mark 
in the  land  of  bis  adoption.  Entering 
the employ of  the  local  agency  of  the 
Fermentum  Company  as  a  distributor 
of compressed yeast, he  soon  acquired a

main  in  Force.

The  Old  Peddling  Schedule * to  Re­

T H E   jn C H T G A S r   T R A D R H M  A TS
MUST  GIVE  BONDS.
sufficient knowledge  of  the  business  to 
give him  the  management  of  the  local 
agency, which he conducted so  skillfully 
and successfully that  he  was  promoted 
to the position of State agent  and  given 
charge of all  the agencies  in  Michigan. 
Of course,  he could not  stop  there,  the 
next step in the  ladder  being  a  promo­
tion to the  position  of  General  Travel­
ing Agent,  with  full  charge  of  all  the 
agencies from Boston  to  Denver.  Here 
love  for  the  city  of  his  adoption 
found expression in the selection  of  six 
Grand Rapids boys for positions  of trust 
and responsibility, in the agencies at Bos­
ton,  New  York,  Rochester,  Cleveland, 
Toledo and  Denver. 
In  his  new  posi­
tion Mr.  Winterintz will be able  to  util­
ize the valuable experience he has gained 
every  department  of  the  business, 
from the lowest to the highest  round  of 
the ladder. 
It goes without  saying  that 
his friends are  confident  he  will  prove 
himself equal to the opportunity and that 
h e   m a n a g e m e n t  
t h e   F e r m e n t u m
Company will in no  ways  suffer  by  be­
ing placed in his hands.

The  struggle  is  over.  The  Common 
Council decided at  its  meeting  on  May 
38  to  make  no  changes  in  the  license 
schedule  regarding  hucksters  and  ped­
dlers.  The fees will  remain  the  same, 
the classification is  unchanged, and,  ex­
cepting the pitiful  resolution compelling 
hucksters and peddlers to give  bonds, it 
the same unwieldy,  cumbersome,  un- 
ust  schedule 'that  gave  the  police  de­
partment  and' the  police  court  so  much 
trouble last year.  The following  is  the 
official report of the action of  the  Coun­
cil on  the  report  of  the  Committee  on 
icenses:
Aid.  Shaw moved the  adoption  of  the  report 
of the Committee on Licenses relative  to  sched­
ule of licenses, pages'7 and 58 printed  record.
Aid.  Ball  moved  as  a substitute for that por­
tion  of  the  report  relating 
to  “hucksters,” 
fruit wagon or  stand”  and  fruit  basket”  the 
following:
Hucksters  or  peddlers  of  vegetables  a n d  
fru it,  b a s k e t o r h a n d c a rt. *30;  h u c k s te rs  o r  p e d ­
d le rs  o f v e g e ta b les  a n d  f ru it,  w ag o n   o r  sta n d , 
$50.  A n n u a l lic e n ses o n ly   to  be Issu ed   to   h u c k ­
sters of fruit and  vegetables.  Each  peddler  of
fruit and vegetables to give a  bond  in  the  sum
of  $50 to comply with  tlie  requirements  of  the
o rd in a n c e  a u d  to  p ay  a n y   d a m a g e   s u s ta in e d   by 
rea so n  o f th e  s a le  o r u n w h o le so m e  f ru it  o r  v e g ­
etables.
Lost. 
Yeas—Aid.  Ball,  Campbell,  DeGraaf,  Logie,
S a u n d e rs,  S ch m id t,  T e a c h o u t,  W atso n ,  W u rz ­
b u rg —9.
Nays—Aid  Clark,  D unton.  Kininer.
Forbes, Gibson. Johnston, Mahoney, Marls, 
M atheson, Pearl,  Shaw,  Slocum ,  Verkerke 
13Aid. Forbes moved  as  an  amendment  to  the 
report that hucksters and peddlers  of  fruit  aud 
vegetables be required to give a bond in the sum 
of $50, with two sureties, to comply with  the  re- 
uirements  of  the  ordinance  and  to  pay any 
_amages sustained by reason of the  sale  of  un­
wholesome fruit, vegetables or berries.

Geo.  W.  Jenks,  the elephantine  travel-
ng  representative  o f  the  Seely  Manu­
facturing  Co.,  of  D etroit, 
is  spending 
several days in and around this market.
John C. Pontius,  (C.  H.  Ritter  &  Co.) 
the veteran Detroit traveler,  spent  Dec­
oration Day in this  city.  Mr.  Pontius is 
negotiating for the purchase of the Evans 
homestead,  at  Ypsilanti,  comprising  a
of
modern  residence  and  ninety  acres 
land in the suburbs of the  city.

G r i p s a c k   B r i g a d e .

o f  

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gard the  recommendation  for  a  change 
in the  classification,  the  reason  being, 
as  stated  by  Alderman  Shaw  to  T he 
T r a d e sm a n ,  that  the  police  force  did 
not always know what was for  the city’s 
good.  The  Committee, 
thereupon, 
thought it the part of wisdom  to  oppose 
the recommendation.  Of  course, it will 
be  taken  for  granted  that  Alderman 
Shaw knows as much  about  the work of 
the  police  force  as  he  does  about  the 
schedule he did  not  recommend  to  the 
Council;  at any rate his view of the mat­
ter prevailed.  Assistant  City  Attorney 
Carroll  stated  that  two thirds  of  the 
hucksters were  non-residents—and  this 
will  be  proved  to  the  satisfaction  of 
even  Alderman  Shaw’s  Committee  be­
fore the matter is  dropped.  These  men 
are allowed, for  a  paltry  $30,  to  come 
in  and  compete with  reputable  dealers 
who pay hundreds of dollars  every  year 
in taxes, whose business is a  benefit and 
is indispensable to the city, and who  are 
i n t e r e s t e d   in   a n d   c o n t r i b u t e  
t h a t  
pertains to the best Interests of the  city.
Let every retail grocer in  the  city  paste
the nam es of the  thirteen  alderm en  who 
voted  nay  in  his  hat,  and,  when  the  tim e
comes,  let the grocers give them  the  ben­
efit  (?)  of  their  “ vote and  influence.”

t o   a ll  

FOR SALE,  WANTED.  ETC.

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

Geo.  Vanderpool  was  in  town  last 
week, 
looking  hale  and  hearty  and 
changed  very  little  from  the  time  he 
stood as defendant in the  Field  murder 
at Manistee,  twenty-four years  ago.  He 
is  still  selling  goods  on  the  road  and 
talks  freely with  old  acquaintances  on 
the subject of the Manistee tragedy.

Frank Parmenter,  who  has  been  un 
able to cover his trade for  the  past  two 
weeks, is advised by  his  physician  that 
a period of respite from the  road  is  ab 
solutely  essential,  and  has,  therefore, 
secured a  furlough  from  the  Lemon 
Wheeler Company until  October 1, when 
he will resume his  regular visits  to  his 
trade. 
In the meantime  he will  remove 
to his fruit farm, near  Saugatuck,  erect 
a  cottage  in  which  to  live  during  the 
summer and superintend  the  harvesting 
and marketing  of  the  fruit  from  2,700 
peach trees, 800 plum trees, besides  con 
siderable  quantities  of  apples,  grape 
and small fruits which  now  promise  to 
yield 
large  returns.  Mr.  Parmenter’: 
absence from the road will  be  a  matter 
of genuine regret to  his  customers,  who 
will welcome him back  in  the  fall with 
open arms,  and T h e  T r a d e sm a n  joins 
with them in the wish that the summer’ 
respite may give him the health and hap 
piuess he craves and deserves.

Alderman  Shaw,  chairman  of 

the 
License Committee of the Common Coun 
cil, states that he  was  elected  to  "look 
after  the  interests  of  the  poor man. 
This  a  new  theory  of  popular govern 
ment, it being  the  common  understand 
ing that aldermen are  elected  to  repre 
sent  the  people  of  their  wards  a 
whole, without regard to race, class, con 
dition or religion.  It is also  stated  that 
the same gentleman asserts that "grocers 
are hogs,” or words to that effect,  all  of 
which  goes  to  show 
the  length  and 
breadth of the gentlemen’s intellect.

Mic h ig a n  d r u g 

e x c h a n g e,  h.  e.
Grand Girard. Proprietor.  I  have  on  my 
list  several  drug  stores  for sale, ranging from 
$TO  to  $ v 00,  in  and  out  of the city, and will 
furnish further particulars.  I have also a  great 
many drug clerks, registered and assistants, who 
wish situations in or out of the city.  No charge 
to buyer or emplover.  Address Mich. Drug  Ex 
change. 128 Monroe street. Grand  Rapids.  637

dwelling  combined  at  Levering,  Mich. 
First-class  place  for  a  general dealer.  A.  M. 
LeBaron. Grand Rapids. Mich. 

FI   DR  SALE—sTORE  BUILDING  AND
I lOR  SALE—ONE  OF  THE  BEST  PAYING 

drug stores in the State of  Michigan,  with 
large  prescription  business  and  good  trade. 
Stock  and  fixtures  will 
inventory about *8,000 
with  no  dead  stock.  Would  not  be sold but 
partnership  must  be  closed.  For  particulars, 
address  the  Hazeltine  &  Perkins  Drug  Co., 
Grand Rapids. Mich. 

thriving town in'Northern Michigan  on  C. 
& W  M. Railway.  Address No. 639, care  Michl 
gan Tradesman. 

f lOR  SALE—CLEAN  DRUG  STOCK  IN  A 
F or sa l e—a g e n e r a l   stock  o f  mer"

639
chandise in a hustling town of  3,000.  Will
inventory  about  *6.000.  Best  location  in  the 
place.  Address  “M.”  care  Michigan  Trades­
man. 

630

638

636

618

■ E  HAVE  BUYERS  FOR  ALL KINDS  OF 
business, whether you want to buy, sell or 
exchange.  Write to Mutual Business Excnange, 
Bay City, Mich.________________________ 628
F OR  RENT—THE  STORE  FORMERLY  Oc­

cupied  by  E.  J.  Ware,  druggist,  corner 
Cherry and East streets.  Also meat market, east 
end same building, with good ice box.  John C. 
Dunton, old County  building. 
"PLANING  MILL—WE  OFFER  FOR  SALE 
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the North Side Planing Mill,  which is first- 
class in every  respect,  or  will  receive  proposi­
tions to locate the business in some other  thriv­
ing town.  Correspondence and inspection solic­
ited.  Sheridan,  Boyce A Co., Manistee,  Mich. 613
IilOR SALE  CHEAP—STORE  AND  DWELL- 
ing in first-class location  in  town  of  1,000
. 
-inhabitants.  Address E. L., box 168, Thompson-
598
m U E   BEST  PLACE  IN  THE  STATE  TO 
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start a dry goods  store is Big  Rapids.  Has 
only two.______________________________ 6d8
F OR RENT—EXCELLENT  LOCATION  FOR 
grocery  store.  No  other  grocery  within 
four  blocks.  High  and  dry  basement  under 
store.  Come  and  see  for  yourself. 
J.  W. 
Spooner, 6 Arcade, Grand  Rapids._________609
■   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
viUe,  Mich. 

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ders, Schmidt,  Watson, Wurzburg—8.

Carried. 
Yeas—Aid.  Ball,  Campbell,  Clark,  DeGraaf, 
Dunton,  Emmer.  Forbes,  Gibson,  Johnston, 
Logie,  Mahoney,  Maris  Matheson.  Pearl, 
Saunders.  Schmidt.  Shaw,  Slocum,  Teachout, 
Verkerke  Watson, Wurzburg—22.
Nays—None. 
,
Aid. Shaw stated that the  schedule  contained 
in the report as submitted by the Committee and 
as presented  for adoption is  the  sam e  as  the 
amended schedule o f last year.
The motion of Aid. Shaw  on  the  adoption  of 
the report as amended was thereupon carried by 
the following vote:
Yeas—Aid. Campbell, Clark,  Dunton,  Emmer, 
Forbes,  Gibson,  Johnston,  Mahoney,  Maris, 
Matheson,  Shaw,  Slocum, Teachout,  Verkerke 
14.
Nays—Aid. Ball, DeGraaf. Logie, Pearl,  Saun 
A petition signed by many of the lead­
ing grocers of the city and by  nearly all 
the fruit peddlers, and the able and lucid 
manner  in  which  Assistant  City  Attor­
ney Carroll presented the  matter  before 
the Council,  and the fact that the  police 
force were a unit in  favor of the changes 
recommended,  counted  for  nothing  in 
the estimation of  the  thirteen  members 
of the Council, whose action is a  slap in 
the face to honest trade and a  rebuke  to 
the heads of the police  and  law  depart- 
partments of  the  city, who  desired  the 
changes in the interest  of  the better  en 
forcement  of  the  law.  The  plea  that 
the hard times would make it  impossible 
for the  hucksters  to  pay  the  fee, if  it 
were raised to $50, is nonsense.  Are the
tim es not as  hard  for  the  fruit  peddlers  t yjiie, Benzie Co., Mich. 
as for the vegetable  peddlers?  The  fee 
for a fruit license is $50, and  the  profits 
of the business are not as large, the busi­
ness itself not  as  steady  and  the  risks 
much greater. 
In considering  this  plea 
the Committee  showed  its  ignorance  of 
the matter  it  was  dealing  with.  As  a 
matter  of  fact  the  Committee  did  not 
know what  it  was  recommending.  The 
schedule submitted  to  the  Council  was 
not last year’s, but the  schedule  of  two 
years ago, and but for the  fact  that  the 
necessary changes were  made  after  the 
report  reached  the  City  Clerk’s  office, 
the schedule abandoned  by  the  Council 
last  year  would  again  have  become  a: 
law.  The  Committee  saw  fit  to  disre-1

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S IT U A T IO N S   W A N T E D .

ANTED—POSITION  BY  REGISTERED 
assistant pharmacist of three  years’ prac­
tical experience.  Can furnish best of city refer­
ences.  Address No. 634, care  Michigan  Trades­
man. 

634
HEADACHE
POWDERS
Pay the best profit □ Order from your Jobber

P E C K ’S

HARPING  ON  C H EA PN ESS.

Dry Goods Price Current.

T T-TH:  M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N .

to 

in  regard 

S om eth in g for N oth in g is  n o t B u s in e s s -

From  th e Dry G oods C hronicle.

Fair V a lu e A ll th a t c a n  b e E x p ected .
A  great  many  dry  goods  stores  have 
gotten  into  th e  habit  of  alw ays  harping 
on  the cheapness of their goods  and  say­
ing  nothing  else,  d w ellin g  on  that  sub­
ject so  much  that  in  order  to  give  va­
riety  to  their  statem ents,  they  are  som e­
tim es com pelled  to  say  things  that  are 
not  altogether  true 
the 
prices  at  w hich  they  sell.  T hey  seem   to 
be  contin ually  laboring  to  induce 
the 
public  to  believe  that  they  are  alw ays 
in  the  position  to  give  them   goods  for 
nothing.
Now  something  for  nothing  is  not 
business, and never  will  be  as  long  as 
there is  business.  Everybody of  course 
recognizes the fact that  a  business  man 
is not in business either for  the  love  of 
it or for  fun, but  to  make  money.  He 
cannot possibly sell goods  for  less  than 
cost,  or  even  for what  they  cost,  and 
exist  any  length  of  time;  and  yet  we 
have  advertisements 
thrust  upon  us 
every day, in which people are  claiming 
to practically give you two dollars’ worth 
of  goods  for  one  dollar.  The  fact  of 
the  business  is  that  no  good merchant 
ever gives anybody two dollars’  worth of 
goods  for  one  dollar.  He  sometimes 
may give  you  more  than  your  money’s 
worth simply as an advertisement,  or  to 
particularly attract a crowd  on  any spe­
cial  occasion,  but  he  does  not  even  do 
that as a regular thing.  All that  can be 
expected of a  merchant  is  that  he  will 
give  a  fair  value  for  the  price.  The 
public  have  a  right  to  expect  that  he 
does not ask more than a thing  is worth, 
and he  has  a  right  to  exact  from  the 
public every cent that the thing is worth.
This  habit  in  which  a  great  many 
houses  are  indulging,  of  claiming  so 
much more than  they really give,  is  one 
which is bound in the long  run  to  react 
upon 
their  busines.  They  soon  lose 
standing with the public in  general,  be­
cause it is easy to learn  that  such  state­
ments  are  false,  and  people  who  love 
the truth and even those who do  not, are 
more likely to patronize a store in which 
they believe that  they will be  told  only 
the facts.
Some  years  ago  some  one  offered  a 
prize  for  the  best  window  sign  which 
could  possibly  be  writteu.  A  large 
number of  persons all  over  the  United 
States entered into the  competition,  and 
sent  their  window  signs  to  the  paper 
offering  the  prize.  A  number  of  com­
petent judges were selected to  make  the 
award, and  out  of  the  lot  the  one ad­
judged  to  be  the  best,  said,  “These 
Shirts are worth §2;  our  price  for  them 
is 82.”  It  was  unanimously  agreed  by 
the committee, that  the  novelty  of  sell­
ing goods for just what  they were worth 
and of  presenting  it  in  this  crisp way, 
was certainly the  best  thing  that  could 
be gotten up for a sign.
It  is  the  same way with  advertising. 
At the present so  many firms are indulg­
ing in this bad habit of  offering  to  give 
people so much  more  than  can  reason­
ably be expected, that  an  advertisement 
that tells the truth really has  originality 
in its best form.

A w a y   w ith  O fficial  F ees.

From  th e P hilad elp hia  Ledger.
The House Committee on the Judiciary 
has  recommended a sensible  bill, giving 
United  States  Marshals  and  District 
Attorneys annual salaries of 84,000 each, 
in lieu of graded fees, as at present 
In 
the Sonth and West there has been much 
vexatious  litigation,  promoted  largely 
for the purpose  of  swelling  the  emolu­
ments of  United  States  officers.  While 
this abase is not charged against  North­
ern officials, there would  seem  to  be  no 
good reason why a  district  attorney,  for 
example,  should  receive  in  fees  four 
times  the  income  of  the  judge  before 
whom he practices, as is the case  in  one 
district.  Representative  W.  A.  Stone, 
of  this  State,  has  prepared  the  report 
accompanying the bill, and tells  a  plain 
and  convincing  story  of  slipshod  and 
inequitable  practices,  which  should  be 
discarded.  Attorney-General  Olney  is 
warmly  in  favor  of  the  reform, which 
should meet with  the  early approbation 
of Congress.

DEVINS.

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Amoskeag................12
9 os........14
brown .14
Andover...................1114
Beaver Creek  AA... 10 
BB...  9
“ 
M 
QQ__
Boston Mfg Co.  br..  7 
“ 
blue  854 
“  d a  twist  1014 
“ 

Columbian XXX  br.10 
XXX  bl.19

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GINGHAMS.

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Columbian  brown.. 12
Everett, bine............1214
brown........1214
Haymaker blue.........73i
brown...  734
Jaffrey...................... 1114
Lancaster  ................1214
Lawrence, 9 oz.........1314

No. 220. ...13
No. 280....1014

No. 250-1114

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Amoskeag................  5
“  Persian dress  6v*
Canton ..  7
“ 
AFC........ 814
“ 
“ 
Teazle...1014
“ 
Angola.. 1014 
Persian..  7 
“ 
Arlington staple—   654 
Arasapha  fancy—   434 
Bates Warwick dres  714 
staples.  6 
|
Centennial.............  t0V4i
Criterion.................1014
Cumberland staple.  514
Cumberland............   5
Essex..........................414
Elfin.........................   714|
Everett classics...... 814
Exposition.................714
Glenarle..................  614
Glenarven................634
Glenwood........ ...... .  714
Hampton..................5
Johnson Uhalon cl 
14 
Indigo blue 914 
zephyrs__ 16
GRAIN
Amoskeag.................13
Stark......................... 17
American.................13  j................  .................

Lancaster,  staple...  5
fancies__ 7
“ 
“  Normandie  7
Lancashire................  6
Manchester................534
Monogram  ............... 614
Normandie...............  7
Persian....................... 7
Renfrew Dress.........714
Rosemont...................614
Slatersville............... 6
Somerset.....................7
Tacoma  .....................714
Toil  duNord..........814
Wabash...................... 714
seersucker..  754
Warwick...................  6
Whlttenden...............  8
heather dr.  714 
indigo blue  9 
WamButtastaples...  634
Westbrook................. 8
............... 10
Windermeer............ 5
York  .......................... 634
BASS.
Georgia.................... 1354

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THREADS.

Clark’s Mile End....45  (Barbour's.................95
Coats’, J. & P.......... 45  Marshall’s .................90
Holyoke....................22141

KNITTING  COTTON.

No.

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

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

White.  Colored.
38 No.  14... ....37
“  16... ....38
36
*•  18... ...39
40
“  20... ....40
41
CAMBRICS.

White.  Colored
42
43
44
45
Slater........................   4  [Edwards..................  4
White Star..............  4  Lockwood..................4
Eld Glove  ...............4  Wood’s .....................   4
Newmarket.............   4  ¡Brunswick.............   4

RED  FLANNEL.

Fireman...................3254ITW...........................2254
Creedmore............... 2714 F T — .......................3214
Talbot XXX.............30  J R F, XXX............. 35
Nameless................. 2714 [Buckeye...................3214

MIXED  FLANNEL.

UNBLEACHED  COTTONS.

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BLEACHED  COTTONS.

Adriatic
“  Arrow Brand 4M 
A rgyle................. 
5J£
“  World Wide.  6
Atlanta AA..............6
“  LL.................  454
Atlantic  A ...............   63i
Full Yard Wide.......6*
Georgia  A .........,...  654
H ................. 6*
“ 
P ..............  5
“ 
Honest Width.........  6
D ...............  6
•* 
Hartford A ..............5
Indian Head............  554
“  LL...............  454
Amory......................  63£
King A  A................. 654
King E C...................5
Archery  Banting...  4 
Beaver Dam  A A ..  454
Lawrence  L L........   454
Blackstone O, & __ 5
Madras cheese cloth 63f
Black Crow..............6
Newmarket  G........   53(
B ..........  5
Black  Rock  ............
Boot,  AL.................   7
N ......... 6*
Capital  A .................554
D D ....  ft*
X .......6*
Cavanat V ............... 554
Chapman cheese cl.  33£ Noibe R....................  5
Clifton  C R ..............514 Our Level  Best.........6
Comet....................... 6J4! Oxford  R ...................   8
Dwight Star.............  63£ Peqnot......................  7
Clifton CCC............5* Solar........................... 6
Top of the  Heap__   7
A B C ........................SJ4|Geo. Washington...  8
Amazon.................... 8  Glen Mills.................  7
I Amsbnrg.................. 6  Gold Medal................754
I Art Cambric............10  Green  Ticket...........814
I  Blackstone A A.......714 Great Falls.................614
Beats A ll.................. 4  Hope..............................714
Boston......................12  Just  Out........  454@  5
Cabot.........................  6*   King  Phillip............  7*
Cabot,  X ...................63£ 
OP.......714
| Charter  Oak............514¡Lonsdale Cambric.. 10
Conway W............... 714|Lonsdale..............  @  8
Cleveland..............   6  j Middlesex.......  @  5
Dwight Anchor__   8  No Name..................714
| Oak View.................6
Edwards................... 6  Oar Own.................... 514
Empire......................  7  ¡Pride of the W est.. .12
Far well......................714 Rosalind.................... 714
Fruit of the  Loom.  8  ¡Sunlight..................   414
Fitchvllle  .............  7  Utica  Mills..............814
! First Prize...............   6 
“  Nonpareil  ..10
Fruit of the Loom X.  754 Vlnyard...................  814
Falrmount............... 414 White Horse..............  6
Full Value...............6MI 
814
Cabot........................   6241 Dwight Anchor...
Farw ell............ —   7h |
| 

“  Rock.
HALT  BLEACHED  COTTONS.

CANTON  FLANNEL. 

Unbleached. 

shorts  8 

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•614

Bleached.
....554 Housewife  Q—
K ....
...554
S . ..
....6
T ....
...654
U -...
V
w . . .
X ....
Y ....
z ___

)A ...
.
B 
C...
D ...
E . . .
F
G  ..
H ...
I...
J  ..
K . . .
L.  ..
M  ...
N ....
O ....
P . . . .
Peerless, white..
colored.
Integrity................... 18141
Hamilton 

....754
....7 *
----934
...  854
954
...10
...1054
. . . 1 1
...21
...1454
CARPET  WARP
.17 
.19

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DOHET  FLANNEL.

Red A Blue,  plaid. .40 
|Grey S R W............. 1714
Union R ...................2214 Western W  ..............1814
Windsor...................1854 D R P ........................1814
6 oz Western........... 20  Flushing XXX.........2314
Union  B .................. 2254! Manitoba................. 2354
9  @1054
Nameless.......8  @ 9541 

Integrity  colored... 18
White Star............... 17
colored  .19
...............8  ¡Nameless....................20
.......... .......25
.......... .......2754 Slate. Brown.  Black.!Slate
....... .......30
95411054
954
.......... .......3254 1054
1054i1154
.. .......35
.. 
1154Í12
1154
1254Í20
1254
DUCKS.

DRESS  GOODS.
“ 
. . . 9  
Brown. Black.
“ 
.  .1054 
“ 
...20 
1054
...16 
“ 
1154
....18  1 
“ 
12
20
. .89 50|Wonderful.  ..
...  9 00'Brighton.......... ....  4 75 Severen 8 oz.......... .  954 ¡West  Point, 8 oz .  .1054
.  9 OOjBortree’s ........ ....  9 00 May land, 8 os......... .10541
10 oz ...1254
..  4  50|Abdomlnal — ... 15 00 Greenwood, 754 o*- .  954 Raven, lOoz.......
...1354
.......
COSSET  .TRANS.
...1354
...  6341 Naumkeag satteen..  754 Boston, 8 oz............ .1054 ¡Boston MOo —1254
13  50 
7 50

CAJTVA88  AJfD  PADDING.
954
1054
1154
1254

Greenwood, 8 oz..

1054
1154
12
20

.1154lStark

WADDINGS.

COSSETS.

.84  50

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G G  Cashmere. 
Nam eless........

Schilling’s ..  . 
Davis  Waists.

Androscoggin..........754 Rockport......................614
I  Biddeford................  6  Conestoga...................714
Brunswick...............6141 Walworth....................634
Allen turkey  reds..  514!Berwick fancies—   514

PRINTS.

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robes............  514 Clyde  Robes............

“ 
“  pink* purple  5141 Charter Oak fancies  4
“  b u ffs.............  5H DelMarine cashm’s.  514
mourn'g  514
“  pink  checks.  514 
| Eddy stone fancy...  514
“ 
staples.........  5 
chocolat 514
“ 
shirtings...  334! 
American  fancy—   514 
rober  ... 514
sateens.. 514
American Indigo...  414 
American shirtings.  3%;Hamilton fancy___   514
statue__ 514
Argentine  Grays...  6 
Manchester  fancy..  514 
Anchor Shirtings...  4 
new era.  514 
“  —   6
Arnold 
¡Merrimack D fancy.  5J4 
Arnold  Merino. . . .   6 
Merrim’ck shirtings.  4 
long cloth B .  9 
“ 
Repp tu rn.  814
.......................... C.  714
century cloth 7  Pacific fancy...........514
gold zeal.......1054 
robes.............  6
green seal TR1014 ! Portsmouth robes...  614 
yellow  seal. .1014 Simpson mourning..  534
serge............. 1114 
greys.........534
f‘ 
“ 
Turkey  red..1014 
solid black.  5*
Ballou solid black..  Washington indigo.  614
Dolors.
Turkey robes..  7M 
Bengal blue,  green, 
“  India robes.  ..  714 
red and  orange  ..  6
“  Plain T’ky X 34  814 
Berlin solids  .......... 514
“ 
“  Ottoman  Tur­
“  oil blue........ 6
key red....................654
“  “  green  ....  6
514 Martha Washington
“  Foulards 
7  ¡  Turkey red 34.........714
red 34  ...
“ 
914 Marths  Washington
“  “  X  ...
.10
“ 44  ..
“ 
Turkey red............. 914
Rlverpoint robes___ 514
“ 
“  3-4XXXX  12
Windsor fsncy...........614
Cocheco fancy........ 5
“  madders...  5
“  XXtw ills..  5
indigo blue...........1014
Hsrmony.................  414
“ 
solids.......... 5
TICKINGS
¡154!AC A .................... .  1154
Amoskeag A C A 
i Pemberton AAA .. ..16
7 
Hamilton N  —
8  ¡York...................... ..1054
D ........
11 
i Swift River.......... ..  754
Awning.. 11
8  [Pearl  River..........
Farmer  ...
12
1054 Warren.................. ..1254
First  Prize
18  ¡Conostoga............ ..16
Lenox M ills............18
Atlanta,  D ...............   634|Stark  A 
............ 8
Boot...........................  634 No  Name................. 714
Clifton, K.................7  ¡Top of  Heap............. :9

COTTON  DRILL.

gold  ticket

“  X...10

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SILSSIAB.

SEWING  BILK.

White, d ot...............25  [Per bale, 40 dos.
Colored,  dos............20 
Slater, Iron Cross...  8 

¡Colored
iPawtucket............1014
“  Red Cross....  9  Dundie...................   9
“  Best................1014 Bedford.....................1014
“  Best  AA........1214 Valley City................ 1014
L ................................. 714  K K ............................ 1014
G................................ 8141
Corticelll, dos..........85 
tw ist,dos..40 
50yd,dos..40  I 
HOOKS AND  ETES— PER GROSS.
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No  4 Bl’k A White..15 
No  1 Bl’k A White.,10 
..20
“  2 
“  8 
..26
No 2- 20, M C.......... 50  [No 4—15  F 814.........40
*  8-18, S C ............45 
No  2 White A Bl’k.,12  [No  8 White A Bl'k.,20
4
.28
“  6
..26

[Cortlcelll  knitting,
per 54o*  ball.........30

COTTON  TAPE.
..16 1«  10  ' 
..18 1  “  12 
s i n n   p u b .

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..12  I ’
..12  I *
PINS.

No 2..........

.........38

8 
10 

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KUDUS—P U   M.

A. James...................1 40jSteamboat....  .........  40
Crowely’s.................1 85 Gold  Eyed............... 1 50
Marshall’s ................1 00¡ American................. 1 00
5—4 .... 1 75  6—4... 
15—4....1  65  6—4...2 30

TABLE  o n .  CLOTH.

COTTON T WIRES.

Cotton Sail Twine
Crown......................12
Domestic.................1814
Anchor....................16
Bristol..................... 13
Cherry  Valley........ 15
I X L ......................... 1814
Alabama....................6%
Alamance................. 614
Angusta....................714
Ar- sapha...................  6
Georgia......................614
Granite.....................  534
: Haw  River...............a
Haw  J .......................6

Nashua.....................14
Rising Star 4-ply___17
3-ply....17
North Star................20
Wool Standard 4-plyl754 
Powhattan.............. 16

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Mount  Pleasant__ 614
Oneida.................5
Prymont.............  534
Randelman..............6
Riverside.................  554
Sibley  A ............  ...  654
Toledo  ....................
Otis checks...........734

PLAID  OSNASTJES8

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NEW  STYLES  OF

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GRAND  RAPIDS.

A; LADY’S

GENUINE!:  VICI  :  SHOE,

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

REED ER   BROS. SHOE CO ,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

WE,HAVE  MADE

H,  SCHNEIDER
GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.,

Distributiug Agents for the Old  Reliable

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AMERICAN  CIGAR  CO.

S E E D S !

Everything  in seeds is kept by  us— 

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Clover, Timothy,

Hungarian,  Millet,

Red Top,  Blue Grass, 
Seed  Com,  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.  LAMBREAUX  G O ,,w .BridV it!:

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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THE FOUR GRACES.
Who is it comes when you are sick,

And holds your pulse awhile,
Then makes a diagnosis quick,

And with a pleasant smile 

Proceeds to write, in foreign  hand,

An order which announces 

The tinctures, syrups, extracts, and 
The scruples, drams and ounces ?

The doctor.

Who puts up the prescription quick,

And Bizes up your wealth.

For well he knows you  cannot kick, 
You’re struggling for your health—

Who with an educated  hand 

Compounds the drams and  grains,
And relieves you like a magic wand 

Of all except your pains?

The druggist.

Who is it comes with solemn tread,

And face devoid of smile.

And measures you from feet to head 

In a peculiar style,

And then departs to come once more 

And brings an odd shaped  box,

And when a few feet from the door 

Smiles way down to his socks?

The undertaker.

Who are those two bronzed  sons of toll. 

With shovel, pick and spade,

Who, while at work beneath the soil,

Of death seem not  afraid—

Who serve you last beneath the sun,

And charge a smaller fee 

For harder work and better done.

Than all the other three?

The grave-diggers.

Ch a r l e s  A.  M e t e r s .

FURNITURE PROFITS.

Authority.

Within  the  past  twenty  years 

Plain  Words  from the Pen of an Able 
From   th e  Am erican  Cabinet  Maker.
the 
writer has known more  than  a  score  of 
men to embark  in  the  lumber  business 
with two or three thousand  dollars each, 
who have acquired millions.  During the 
same number  of  years a half-dozen  men 
have  become millionaires  in  the  manu­
facture of wall  paper, and as many more 
have done the same  by the  manufacture 
of  carpets  and  oil  cloths.  Will  some 
one kindly  send us a list of  the million­
aires in the furniture business?
The  weathiest  men  in  the  furniture 
trade of  the  country  are  retailers,  and 
there  are,  perhaps,  a dozen  of  these  in 
the entire country who could  count their 
possessions up to $500,000  each, but how 
many retail  dealers  are  there  who  can 
boast  of  possessing  $500, 
free  and 
clear?  In  nearly  every  case,  the  for­
tunes of the wealthy ones  are the  result 
of strict and close  attention  to  business 
for  the  first  years  of  their  career,  and 
rigid economy during  those  years,  both 
in business and  in personal expenses.
The  year  1893,  with  its  remarkable 
business upheavals,  the effects  of  which 
are  still  felt  in  all  business  circles, 
demonstrated  the  weakness  of 
large 
numbers of  manufacturing  firms  which 
had been supposed by  the entire trade to 
enjoy  a  very  high  degree  of  financial 
strength.  Since the first  of June, a year 
ago, there has been  a  continuous  series 
of  revelations  regarding 
the  lack  of 
financial strength of the furniture manu­
facturing interests of  the  country which 
have been neither pleasant nor encourag­
ing.  Firms  which  were  supposed 
to 
have good sound  capitals  ranging  from 
$30,000  to  $100,000  were  forced  to  ac­
knowledge  their  hopeless 
insolvency, 
and  others  believed  to  be  stretching 
along toward  the $1,000,000  figure  have 
been shown to possess  less  than  10  per 
cent, of that amount.
In the furnitute business  the  question 
of capital  has  proved  to  be  a  very de­
lusive  one.  Not  5  per  cent,  of  the 
manufacturers have  ever made  one-half 
of the money with  which they have been 
credited.  Profits  in  most  cases  have 
been very small; in many cases they have 
been  absolutely  nothing.  Year  after 
year  the  stock-taking  showed  the  ma­
chinery, a  few  manufactured  goods,  as 
many  more in process of  manufacture,  a 
few thousand feet of lumber,  and  a  few 
hundred dollars in stock, $2,000 or $3,000 
in the bank,  as  much  on  the  books  in 
accounts  due.  After  the  manufacturer 
had taken  his living out, the  profit  was

so 

are 

and 

the  profits 

gone.  This must be  doing  business  for 
fun;  there is certainly no other result.
To manufacture furniture  successfully 
a man must have  knowledge of  lumber, 
varnishes,  glues,  hardware,  machinery 
and a score of other  materials.  He must 
have  a  knowledge  of  designing  goods, 
and of their construction.  He  must em­
ploy designers,  machine  hands,  cabinet 
makers, 
finishers,  trimmers,  packers, 
traveling salesmen  and  office  help,  and 
he must have  sufficient  capital  to  meet 
his  pay-rolls  promptly  and  sufficient 
credit to purchase to good  advantage his 
lumber and other  materials.  Under  ex­
isting circumstances, if  he  is  possessed 
of all these attributes, and has good luck 
and is prudent, he will, doubtless,  get  a 
living and, perhaps, lay by $1,000 or so a 
year.
We submit that  there  is no other  line 
of manufacture requiring  for its conduct 
so much skill and  hard  labor,  added  to 
such  an  amount  of  invested  capital, 
where 
so  uncer­
tain 
insecure.  The  great 
majority  of  those  manufacturers  who 
succeed  in increasing  their capital from 
year to year, do so  only  by  dint  of  the 
closest application  to  business,  and  by 
much  self-denial  in  their  daily  lives. 
The  unpromising  feature  of  this  trade 
condition is  that it has  been  known  for 
years,  and  that  it  has  been  discussed 
time and time again without result.
The base of this whole trouble rests on 
two facts, neither one of  which is credit­
able to the trade. 
In  the first place, not 
25 per cent, of the  manufacturers of  the 
country  are  positive  of  the  exact  cost 
of a  line  of  goods  after  the  goods  are 
completed.  They do  a  little figuring,  a 
little estimating and a good deal of guess­
ing,  and  arrive  at  some  figures  which 
they call the cost of the work;  but, after 
the season is over, the result  of  its sales 
proves that there must have been serious 
errors in the methods  of  getting  at  the 
cost. 
In  the  second place  there  is  too 
much fear of what competitors are  doing 
and of what they may  do.  The majority 
of manufacturers  pay  very  much  more 
attention  to  the  selling  price  of  their 
competitor’s goods  than  they do  to  the 
cost price of  their own;  in  fact,  in  the 
face  of  a  quotation  of  a  competitor’s 
prices, goods will be sold as though there 
were no such thing as cost.
We have no remedy  to recommend  for 
this condition.  There is not  a furniture 
manufacturer  in the land  who does  not 
know  how  to  make  money  out  of  his 
business  were  he  possessed of  an  inch 
and a half of good, stiff  back-bone where 
there seems  to  be  only  half  a  pint  of 
gluten.  If  the  manufacturer  has  any 
confidence in his goods, and believes that 
they are absolutely worth what they cost 
to manufacture,  he  ought to  be  able  to 
get a good and  sufficient  profit  on  their 
sale.  Failing to entertain this  faith  re­
garding his own work,  he  should  retire 
from a branch of business  for  which  he 
is so poorly qualified.
It is high  time  that  the  manufacture 
and sale of furniture  paid a good, honest 
profit.

Be  mean  if  you  must  be  mean,  but 
don’t be a hypocrite and thus bring good­
ness into disrepute.

T hese  prices  are  for cash,  buyers,  w ho 
pay prom ptly  and  bny  in  fu ll  packages.

AUGURS AMD BITS. 

dli.

“ 
‘ 
‘ 

AXES.

barrows. 

Snell’s .................................................................60*10
Cook’s ................................................................  
40
Jennings’, genuine..........................................  
25
Jennings’,  Imitation....................................... 50*10
First Quality, 8 . B. Bronze............................. 8650
D.  B. Bronze............................   ia 00
7 50
S .B .9. Steel..........................  
D. B. Steel........................................13 50

 
dls.
Railroad  ..............................................»12 00  14 00
Garden.....................................................   net  30 00
dls.
BOLT8. 
Stove......................................... 
50*10
Carriage new list 
........................................... 75*10
Plow.................................................................... 40*10
Sleigh shoe  ......................................................  
70
Well,  plain  ......................................................»3 50
Well, swivel......................................................  4 00
dlB.
Cast Loose Pin, figured....................................70*10
wought Narrow, bright 5aat joint  40.........60*10

BUTTS, OAST. 

BUCKETS.

 

Wrought Loose  Pin............................................   40
Wrought  Table...................................................   40
Wrought Inside Blind.......,  .............................   40
Wrought Brass................................... 
75
Blind,  Clark’s ...................................................70*10
Blind,  Parker’s ................................................. 70*10
70 I
Blind, Shepard’s 

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

Ordinary Tackle, list April  1892.................60&10

 

Grain.......................................  ........................41*10

CBADLEfe.

CROW BARS.

Cast Steel.................................................per lb 
Bly’s 1-10 
............... ............................perm 
11 
Hick’s  C. F 
G. D   ...  . 
“  
Musket 
•• 

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

CARTRIDGES.

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

CHISELS. 

dls.
Socket Firmer..................................................75*10
Socket Framing................................................75*10
Socket Corner................................................... 75*10
Socket Slicks................................................... 75*10
40
Batchers’ Tanged Firmer.................... 

 

c o m b s. 

d ls .

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

CRABS.

COPPER.

“ 

dls.

50
50
50

DRILLS.

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.................... .................  
D R IPPIN G   PA H S.
Small slses, ser pound...............
................. 
Large sizes, per  pound................. ................. 
Com. 4  piece, 6 In.........................
.  dos, net 
75
Corrugated..................................... .......... dls 
40
Adjustable.....................................
........ dls. 40*10
EXPANSIVE  BITS.
Clark’s, small, » 18;  large, »26.... ................. 
30
Ives’, 1, * 1 8 :  2, * 2 4 ;  3 ,* 3 0   ............ .................  
25
DIsston’s .......................................................60*10-10
New American  ........................................... 60*10-10
Nicholson’s ................................................. 60*10-0
Heller’s ............................ 
50
Heller's Horse Rasps  ...................................... 
50

p il e s —New List.

BLBOWS.

6*4
06

dls.

dls.

 

 

GALVANIZED IRON.

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

13 

12 

15 

28
16 17

Discount, 60 -10

14 
8AUSBS. 

HAMMERS.

‘ 

‘ 

“ 
“ 
" 

HINGES.

HANGERS. 

5
65
60
35
60 Kidder, wood track................................ 

25
Maydole  * Co.’s...........................*...........dls. 
Kip’s .........................................................   .dls. 
25
Yerkes *  Plumb’s .................................................dis. 40*10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel............................30c list 60
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steel  Hand__ 80c 40*10
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2, 3 ..............  .................dls.60*10
State............................................... per dos. net, 2 50
Screw Hook  and  Strap, to 12  In. 4*6  14  and
3*
longer............................................................. 
Screw Hook and  Bye, *6............ 
jn
nAt 
96...........................net  8*6
56........................... net  7V4
* ...........................net  7H
Strap and T .................................................dls. 
50
dls.
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track..  .50*10 
Champion,  anti friction...................... 
go4io
40
Pots.....................................................................60*10
Kettles...............................................................60*10
Spiders  ..............................................................eo&ic
Gray enameled............................................ 
40410
Stamped  TlnWare..................................new Hit 7«
Japanned Tin Ware......................................... 
25
Granite Iroq W are....................... new 11s 
2t
B ilght......................................................  70*10410
Screw  Byes................................................. 70*10*10
Hook’s ..........................................................70*10*10
Gate Hooks and Byes........................ 
70*10*10
<Hs.7n
Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s .............   .......
Sisal, V4 Inch and larger................................ 
7
Manilla  ............................................................  
9
din.
Steel and Iron  .................................................7t *10
 
 
Try and Bevels.................................... 
a;
Mitre...........................................................;;;

HOUSE  PURN1SHING  GOODS.

levels. 
ROPES.

HOLLOW WARS.

wire goods. 

SQUARES. 

28
26
23
23

50
25

dls.

SHEET IRON.

Com.  Smooth.  Com

*2 70
2 70
2 80
2 90
3 00
All  sheets No. 18  and  lighter,  over 30  Inches 

Nos. 10 to  14.......................................... *4 05 
Nos. 15 to 17......................................   4 05 
Nos.  18 to 21.......................................  4 os
Nos. 22 to 24 ........................................   4 05 
Nob. 25 to 26............................................4 25 
Ho. 27....................................................  4 45 
wide not less than 2-10 extra
List acct. 19, ’8 6 ........................................dls. 
Silver Lake, White A .................................list 
Drab A .................................."  “ 
White  B ..................................  * 
Drab B.....................................  “ 
White C .................................. « 

SAND PAPER.
SASH CORD.

50
60
55
60
5s
ro

“ 
11 
“ 
“ 

Discount, 10.

SASH WEIGHTS.

saws. 

_  
Hand............................................ 

Solid Byes.................................................pgr ton 126
go
70
50
30

“ 
Silver Steel  Dla. X Cuts,  per foot,_ 
“  Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot  .. 
“  Special Steel Dla. X Cuts, per foot.... 
“  Champion  and  Blectrlc  Tooth  X
Cuts,  per  foot........................  
so
 

TRAPS. 

dls.

’  ggu

dls.
dls.

 

“ 

dls.

dls.

wire. 

NAILS

MATTOCKS.

wrenches. 

horse nails.

LOCKS—DOOR. 

MISCELLANEOUS. 

MAULS. 
mills. 

MOLASSBS OATES. 

knobs—New List. 

dls.
Steel, Game...................................................60A1C
Oneida Community, Newhonse’s .........................*." 35
70
Oneida  Community, Hawley a Norton’s .... 
Mouse,  choker....................................... 18c per do*
Mouse, delusion.................................. »1.50 per dos
dls.
Bright Market...................................................  g5
Annealed Market..................................... . .70—10
Coppered Market........................................ 60
Tinned Market..............................................  ’ 
Coppered  Spring  Steel..............................50
Barbed  Fence, galvanised.............................  250
painted..................................  a  10

Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s........................ 
50
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings...................... 
55
Door,  porcelain, jap. trimmings................... 
55
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings...............  
55
Door,  porcelain, trimmings........................... 
55
Drawer  and  Shutter, porcelain............ 
70
Russell *  Irwin  Hfg. Co.’s new list 
......... 
55
Mallory, Wheeler  *   Co.’s..............................  
55
Branford’s ........................................  ............. 
55
Norwalk’s ........................................................ 
55
Adze Bye......................................... *16.00, dls. 6C-10
Hunt Bye.........................................*15.00. die. 6C-10
Au  Sable...............................................................dls. 40*10
............*18.50, dls. 20*10.
Hunt’s .........................  
dls.  05
Putaw n..................................................... 
dlS.
Northwestern...................................  
dls. 10*10
so
Sperry A Co.’s, Post,  handled........................ 
dls
dls.
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled....................  
30
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s ....................................... 
40
Coe’s  Genuine................................................. 
50
“  P. S. *  W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables__  
40
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,..........  
75
Landers,  Ferry *  els rk’s ................... 
40
Coe’s  Patent, malleable.................................. 75*16
.........................................  
so
“  Enterprise 
dls.
B irdcages.......................................................  
50
Stobbln’s  Pattern....................................... 
.  60*10
Pumps, Cistern.............................................  ’ 75410
Stebbln’s Genuine............................................ 60*10
Screws, New List..........................................   70*10
Enterprise, self-measuring.......... ..................  %
Casters, Bed  a  .d Plate............................. 50*10*10
Dampers, American......................................... 
40
Advance over  base,  on  both  Steel  and Wire.
Forks, hoes, rakes  and all steel goods........ 65*10
1 30
Steel nails, base....................................... 
Wire nails, base........................................  ....  130
60...........................................................................Base Base
50............................................................ 
10
40...........................................................  
25
30...........................................................  
25
35
20..........  
45
16...........................................................  
45
12..........................................................  
10........................................................... 
50
8............................................................. 
60
7 * 6 ......................................................  
75
4............................................................. 
90
8............................................................. 
1  20
1  60
2............................................................. 
FlneS............................................................ 
Case  10.................................................  
65
75
8.................................................  
90
6.................................................  
Finish 10............................................... 
75
8...............................................  
go
6 ............................................... 
1  10
CUnchilO.............................................. 
70
80
8.............................................. 
6.............................................. 
90
Barrell %.............................................. 
175
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy...................................   ©40
Solota Bench.................................................   ©50
Sandusky Tool  Co.’s, fancy...........................   040
Bench, first quality..........................................   * 4)
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s  wood............ 50*10
Fry,  Acme.................................................dls.60—10
Common,  polished....................................dls. 
70
dlS.
Iron and  Tinned..............................................50—10
Copper Rivets and Burs................................  60—10

gv
7
........................................................
Extra W iping......................................................  15
The  prices  of  the  many  other  qualities  of 
solder In the market Indicated by private brands 
vary according to composition.
ANTIMONY.
t 60
Cookson........................................... per  pound
Hallett’i .......................................... 
TIN—MNLYN GRADE.
10x1410, Charcoal.........................................  »  7 so
14x20 IC, 
7 50
10x14 IX, 
9 go
9 2E
14x20 IX, 

Pig  Large.........................................................  
Pig Barg............................................................. 
Duty:  Sheet, 2J4c per pouDd.
680 pound  casks............................................  
Per pound.........................................................  

10x14 IC,  Charcoal..........................................  
14x2010, 
10x14 IX, 
14x20 IX, 

 
 
 
BOO PING PLATES
Worcester......................  6 

So
.............................  8  60
...  18 50
Allaway  Grade.
6 00
... 
 
7  50
...................  12 50
.................V 15 50

14x20 IC, 
14x20 IX, 
20x28 IC, 
14x2010, 
14x20 IX, 
20x28 IC, 
20x28 IX,
14x28 IX...................................................................(14 00
14x81  IX..................................................................  16 00
14x56 EX, for No. 8 Boilers, I 
14X60IX,  “  "  9 

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

TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE.
“ 
“ 
•• 

‘ 
“ 
BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE.

Bach additional X on this grade, U.75.

Bach additional X on this grade *1.50.

„
rP8f  pound....  10 00

Broken packs tfe Pdf pound extra.

PATENT PLANISHED EBON.

METALS,
PIG TIN.

" 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

75
6  75
8 25
9  25

planes. 

SOLDER.

RIVETS. 

“ 
“ 
“ 

PANS.

26e
28c

ZINC.

" 
“ 
“ 

dls.

“ 
“ 

t* 

“ 

" 

 
 
 

is

 
 
 

 
 
 

 

 

 

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W EDNESDAY.  J U N K   6,  1894.

THE  NEED  OF  STATESMANSHIP.
To-day the great body of the American 
people are engaged  in  discussing  prob­
lems  of  political  economy.  Without 
doubt there is no  department  of  human 
thought which is attracting so  much  at­
tention as is the financial  branch  of  the 
science of government.
As  a  result,  the  country  is  flooded 
with untested theories,  more or less wild 
and impracticable,  of  finance,  taxation 
and kindred subjects, and there  is  little 
possibility of any wise conclusion  being 
arrived at in  a  matter  so  important  as 
that which  affects  the  enormous  inter­
ests of national economics.

Fifty  years  ago  there  were  no  very 
wealthy men or  private  corporations  in 
the country.  Millionaires  were  so  few 
in number that they  were public curiosi­
ties and [considered  a  sort  of  financial 
monsters.  Then the wealth of the coun­
try was generally distributed  among the 
masses of the people, and an able-bodied 
tramp  was  more  of  a  íarity  than  was 
a  millionaire.  To-day,  millionaires  are 
numbered by thousands,  and tramps and 
able-bodied  beggars  by  the  hundred 
thousand,  while the unemployed amount 
to a million of people.

Naturally,  the  masses  of  the  people 
have  come to ponder  seriously  over this 
state  of  things.  They  thing  about  it 
more  than  they  do  anything  else,  and 
the practical results of the enormous un­
rest  and  discontent  which  have  grown 
out of the causes to which attention  has 
been drawn are seen in  labor  strikes, in 
Coxey armies  marching  on Washington, 
in  violent  anarchistic  harangues  made 
throughout the country.and in the organi­
zation of parties and  the large  crops  of 
wild  political  theories,  each  one  guar­
anteed to remove all causes of discontent 
and to make everybody rich  and  happy.
This sort of thing  has  a  vastly  more 
injurious effect in  this  country  than  it 
could possibly exert in  Europe,  and  for 
obvious reasons. 
In the  most  advanced 
countries of the Old World  the  manage­
ment of financial  affairs  is  intrusted  to 
the ablest  men,  who  thoroughly  under­
stand that the stability of  a  government 
depends, not on  mere  political  abstrac­
tions,  but  upon  money  problems,  upon 
the commercial  and  industrial  interests 
and  upon  taxation.  When  the  people

In this republic,  the  richest  resources 
and the freest  institutions  in  the world 
have not been  able  to  keep  the  people 
prosperous,  because,  in  handling  the 
national  finances,  the  people  were  the 
last and the least in the thoughts  of  the 
politicians,  and, now  that  distress  has 
come,  the  people,  losing  confidence  in 
the party managers, are trying in a blind 
way to work out their  own  redemption.
In this attempt the people are  sure  to 
fail. Political economy, which is the high­
est branch of the science  of government 
is wholly unknown to the wild theorists, 
to the  blind  gropers,  to  the  impudent 
charlatans,  to  the  unmitigated  dema­
gogues, and to all the interested and dis­
interested persons who propose to exper­
iment on the  body  politic.  The  wisest 
statesmanship 
is  necessary  to  manage 
the finances of  this  great  country,  and 
should any  class  of  arbitrary  theorists 
get possession of Congress, they will end 
by utterly wrecking the finances  of  this 
great country.  But no  advice  or  warn­
ing will suffice to  deter  them  from  the 
dangerous task.  The final  destiny of all 
republics in the past history of the world 
was  to  fall  into  absolute  despotisms. 
The first step  to  this was  civil war. fol­
lowed by the rule of demagogues.  After 
the  resulting  chaos  came  the  empire. 
The experience of the  past should  be  a 
warning for the future.

A  NECESSARY  MEASURE.

This country with its free  institutions 
and  government  of  the  people, by  the 
people, is no more free  from  the  irrup­
tions of  anarchists  and  the  inroads  of 
socialism than are the old monarchies  of 
Europe.  The  reason  is  that  European 
countries have,  to a  large  extent,  been 
able to deport their pauper and  criminal 
classes  to  America.  Those  that  were 
not sent with government funds have es­
caped from  custody, or  have  fled  from 
pursuit, and, save in  a  very  few  cases, 
there is no desire to extradite or  reclaim 
them for punishment, the  mother  coun­
tries being glad to get  rid  of  them  and 
only solicitious that they do  not  return.
The only  conditions  under which  im­
migrants can be excluded from the coun­
try are that they are known to  be  crim­
inals, or that they are obviously paupers, 
or are helplessly afflicted  with  insanity, 
idiocy  or  loathsome  diseases.  But  no 
means exist for detecting  criminals,  and 
poverty or other helplessness  must be so

It is plain that  some  remedy for these 
evils in the  future  is  absolutely  neces­
sary.  The measure proposed  strikes  at 
no nationality or race, but only  at  those 
classes of criminals and paupers who are 
unloaded upon this  country  by  govern­
ments, cities and social  organizations  in 
the Old World.
TO  PREVENT  HASTY  LEGISLATION.
The people of the great  State  of  New 
York have had so many  unfortunate  ex­
periences  with  questionable  legislation 
hurried  through 
the  Legislature  that 
they  uow  desire  to  apply  a  remedy. 
They propose that there shall be given to 
proposed  legislation  greater  publicity, 
and to secure that advantage  the  Legis­
lature is to be prevented  from  hurrying 
bills through without the  public  having 
time to fully  comprehend  the  character 
of the proposed measures.

Accordingly,  amendments  are  to  be 
subjected to  the  constitutional  conven 
tion to be assembled in that State to pro 
vide for proper publicity being  given  to 
bills.  One amendment provides that  no 
bill  shall  be  passed  until  it  has  been 
printed and been upon the  desks  of  the 
members  at  least  one  calendar  legisla 
tive day prior to its final passage,  unless 
the Governor  or  Acting  Governor  shall 
certify to the necessity of  its  immediate 
passage under his hand  and  the  seal  of 
the State, nor also unless by the assent of 
a  majority  of  the  members  elected  to 
such branch of the Legislature.

Another  amendment  aims  at  giving 
greater  publicity  to  private  and  local 
measures by providing that no private or 
local bill shall be passed by the  Legisla 
ture or become a law, the full text or  an 
intelligible  abstract  of  which  has  not 
been published at least three  times  dur 
ing the  three  months  immediately  pre 
ceding the  meeting  of  the  Legislature 
with  intervals  of  not  less  than  two 
weeks  between  each  publication,  in 
newspapers in  the  cities  of  New  York 
and Albany  and  each  county  specially 
affected by the contents of the bill, unless 
by and with the  assent  of  three-fourths 
of all members elected to  both  branches 
of the Legislature.

Many industries,  idle  since  the  panic 
of last  year,  would  have  resumed  but 
for the  uncertainty  engendered  by  this 
strike  alone.  The  continued  suffering 
of this army of  unemployed must  be ad­
ded to the vast aggregate  of  indirect re- 
suits.
The hope of  improved  conditions  and 
the  wish  to  keep  their  operatives  em­
ployed induced most of  the  railroads  in 
the country to keep more  trains running 
than business warranted.  Most  of these 
roads  have  discontinued  many  trains, 
pleading  scarcity  of  coal.  Think  a 
moment  how  widespread  is  this  single 
item of industrial  loss!  It  must  all  be 
changed to the same  account. 

there 

As is so often stated, this loss  is  total 
loss.  For every ounce of gain  in  value 
by  diminished  production 
are 
p o u n d s of loss in diminished  capacity to 
buy. 
If the promoters of the coal  strike 
are the miners  and  their  leaders  alone, 
what an  instance  of  one  organized  in­
dustry madly  tearing  at  the  throats  of 
all other industries!  If the  leaders  are 
in  collusion  with  speculators,  and  the 
strikes  are  the  result  of  a  conspiracy, 
the  mind  stands  appalled  at  the  re­
sponsibility  to  be  charged  to  its  insti- 
gators. 

_______________  
Card  to  the  Trade. 

To  the  Retail Trade:
It  having  been  reported  by  some 
traveling  men  that  the  Ball-Barnhart- 
Putman Co.  was responsible  for  cartage 
and other changes  in  business  methods 
recently adopted by the jobbers, we wish 
to emphatically state that no  one  firm is 
responsible  for  these  changes.  Repre­
sentatives of eleven of the great  Central 
States met and  conferred over  the  busi­
ness situation and, after mature delibera- 
tion,  decided 
these  new 
methods of doing business;  and it  is  un- 
just to blame  any one house,  market  or 
State for these changes.  We deem it due 
our  fellow  merchant  to  thus  publicly 
state these facts. 

to  adopt 

Oi.n e t   &  Ju d so n Grocer Co. 
I.  M.  Cl a r k   Grocery  Co.
L emon  &  W h e e l e r  Co m pany. 
H a w k in s  &  Co m pany.
Mu ssel m a n  Grocer  Co.

are prosperous nobody cares what is  the 
form of  government.  When  prosperity 
is lost, no  form  of  government  and  no 
political principles will satisfy  the  suf­
fering masses.  The best  government  is 
the one that does the most to advance the 
substantial,  pecuniary  interests  of  the 
people.  That is the  practical view, and 
a  real  fact  will  outweigh  a  million 
theories.

n=TTC  M I C H I G A N   T R A D E SM IA JSr.
plain that the fact  obtrudes  itself  upon 
the attention of the Government  officials 
who are supposed  to  supervise  the  ad­
mission  of  immigrants.  The  result  of 
this lack of regulation is  that  an  immi­
grant is rejected, and hence  great  num­
bers of the worst  classes  are  constrntly 
admitted into this country.
The consequence of all this is that  not 
merely is the labor system  of  the  coun­
try*  almost  entirely  unsettled,  but  the 
murder and plunder societies of  Europe 
are  fully  organized  and  in  operation 
here, as the people of many  cities  know 
to their  cost.  No  action  that  Congress 
could take would undo the  evils  already 
in existence;  but it is not too late  to  ac­
complish something for  the  future.  To 
this end there is a  bill, which  has  been 
favorably  reported  by 
the  Judiciary 
Committee of the House, which  provides 
that, in addition to present requirements 
of law, the immigrant is compelled to se­
cure from the Consul or  other  represen­
tative of the  United  States  nearest  the 
immigrant’s  last  place  of  residence  a 
certificate showing  that  the  representa­
tive has made an  investigation  concern­
ing the  immigrant,  and  that  he  is  not 
one of those excluded from  this  country 
under its present laws  or  any  law  that 
may be enacted.

Thus it is that  the wise  statesmen  of 
Europe have been able to keep  down the 
democratic spirit and to prevent political 
revolutions,  simply  by  managing  the 
financial interests  of  their  countries  so 
as  to  secure  as  much  as  possible  the 
prosperity  of  the  masses.  This  is  the 
highest statesmanship,  as  it  is  the  no­
blest philanthropy. 
It has  often  been a 
subject  of  wonder  why  all  the  mon­
archies of Europe  have  not  been  over­
thrown,  and  republics  established  on 
their ruins;  but the explanation  of  the 
mystery is that the  European  statesmen 
have been  able  to  give  their  people  a 
reasonable material prosperity.

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THE  COAL  STRIKE.

When it is  considered  that  there  are 
over  200,000  in  the  ranks  of  the  coal 
strikers and that those dependent direct- 
ly on their  work  for  support  aggregate 
many hundreds  of  thousands  more,  the 
picture  of  suffering  presented  to  the 
mind is of sufficient  gravity.

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When it  is  considered  that  in  nearly 
all of the mining towns  there  is a  large 
population indirectly  dependent  on  the  4 y 
mining industry  and mining  population 
for  their  support,  the  consequences  of 
the strikes  in  the  mining  towns  alone, 
aside from  the  disorder  and  bloodshed, 
are sufficient  for  national  concern—are 
sufficient  to  be  classed  as  a  national 
calamity.  The  gravity  of  this calamity 
the  cost  and  in­
increased  by 
terference  with 
industries  consequent 
on the calling out of  the civil  and  mili- 
tary forces to  supfess violence  and  pro- 
tect the non-union workmen  and  protect 
mining property. 
But these features  of  the  strike  pale 
into insignificance beside  the  more  indi- 
rect and widespread  results.  The  stop- 
page of industries  on  account  of  actual 
scarcity of coal,  caused  either  by inter- 
ference  with  its  transportation  or  the 
boarding  of  speculators—for 
there  is 
coal enough and to spare—so blends  into 
the  general  conditions  of  the  financial 
depression, and effect industries so wide- 
ly  scattered, that  there  is  no  adequate 
conception of the magnitude of  suffering 
and financial  loss. 

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CHEESE IN  HISTORY.

Methods  in  Use  Lons' Ago  and  at the !

Present  Time.

From  th e C hicago  Tribune.
Little Miss Muffet,
Sat on a tuffet,
Along came a spider,
And sat down beside her,
And frightened Miss  Muffet  away.

Eating of curds and whey;

the  captains  of 

So  runs  the  nursery  rhyme  and  the 
picture  of  Miss  Muffet,  the  tuffet,  the 
spider,  and  the upset dish  with  its  pre­
cious contents streaming on  the  ground 
is a  familiar memory.  But how  few  of 
the present  generation  have  tasted  that 
delicacy  of the  last  century, curds  and 
whey.  The  rich, sweet  flavor  of  whey 
is almost unknown even  to  the  farming 
population,  and  many city residents  are 
ignorant  of  the  meaning  of  the  word. 
The  farm  dairy  has  given  way  to  the 
corporate creamery, and  the  homemade 
cheese is  supplanted  by the factory pro­
duct—a change which has  produced  cer­
tainly a more uniform  article,  and  with 
equal certainty a higher average of  both 
flavor and  purity.  As  a  nation,  Amer­
icans  are not  large consumers of cheese, 
though  its  use  is  steadily  increasing. 
Food  consumption 
in  this  couutry  is 
more diversified  than  that  of  any other 
country,  and  where the English or conti­
nental laborer enjoys  little  animal  food 
except cheese, the American uses butter, 
meat  and  eggs.  Of  butter  especially 
Americans are immense consumers.  But 
cheese has flesh making  qualities wholly 
lacking in butter, and  in  many respects 
it is one of  the  most concentrated forms 
of food  in  ordinary nse, producing  both 
fat and flesh in such quantities as to sup­
ply  lacking elements in other food  form 
eaten with  it,  notably  bread  of  wheat, 
rye or  oats.
Cheesemaking  is  of  such  great  an­
tiquity that its origin is lost in obscurity, 
and its  earlier  forms  and  types  are  not 
sufficiently  known  to  impress  one  with 
their superiority,  though it is  no  excep­
tion to that rule by which elderly people 
have ever insisted that these  are  degen­
erate days in cheesemaking as in patriot­
Jesse  com­
ism  and  good  manners. 
manded  his  son  David  to  “carry  ten 
cheeses  unto 
their 
10,000 and sée  how  thy brethren  fare,” 
and later  in  the  life of David there was 
brought  him  “honey  and  butter  and 
cheese of kine,” showing that  even  then 
there was a  variety of milk used in  pro­
ducing cheese.  Homer  refers  to  cheese 
as a staple article  of food, and it is  sim­
ilarly mentioned by other  authors.
Coming  down  to  more  modern  times 
and to types  of  cheese  known  and  con­
sumed  to-day,  “Cheddar” is unquestion­
ably most prominent.  Camden, a histor­
ian  of  Queen  Elizabeth’s  time,  states 
that Cheddar cheeses were then so  large 
that two men were required to set one on 
the table.  And  Fuller,  a  century later, 
remarks 
the  “great  fault  with 
Cheddar cheeses is that  they are  so  few 
and so dear  and  rarely  to  be  met  with 
save  at  some  rich  man’s  table.  Their 
manufacture  was  then  confined  to  the 
village of Cheddar and adjacent districts, 
and was governed by a  system  carefully 
guarded and concealed from  the  outside 
world, as, in fact,  were the several other 
English  systems  named for  the  locality 
where 
first  applied,  as 
Cheshire, Derby, Gloucester, Stilton, etc.
The village of Cheddar is the center of 
a  district  especially  favored  by  nature 
for dairy products,  having pure  air  and 
water, rich  soil  and  mild  breezes  from 
the Bristol Channel, while the milk from 
the  Ayrshire  cattle,  most  numerous 
there,  is particularly  adapted  to cheese­
making.  But  above  all  these  advan­
tages  is  the  system  or  process  used, 
which with  but  slight  modification  has 
prevailed from “time when  the  memory 
of  man  runneth  not  to  the  contrary,” 
and  survived  a  development  from  the 
few  hundred  cheeses  which were “rare 
and  dear”  in  the  Seventeenth  Century 
to  a  product  estimated  at  500,000,000 
pounds during 1890.  The main elements 
of the  system have survived  transplant­
ing  to  both  Continents  of  America, 
Australia,  and even  to  Southern Africa, 
and Cheddar to-day it the leading  cheese i 
product of the world.

they  were 

that 

the  skimmed  milk, 

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THE  MICHIGAN  TEADESMAN
Cheddar  cheese  is  a  full  cream  or 
whole milk cheese.  The night’s  milk  is < 
allowed  to  stand  until  morning  in  a ] 
large tub  or  vat, a  low  temperature  of j 
50  to  55  deg.  being  maintained,  and, 
preferably, the  milk is  kept in slow but | 
constant  motion  by  a  form  of  agitator i 
to  prevent 
the  cream  from  rising. 
When  no  agitator  is  used  the  cream 
is  skimmed  off  in  the  morning,  run 
back  through  a  strainer  and  thorougly 
stirred  into 
the 
fresh  morning’s  milk  being  added  at 
the  same  time  and  in  the  same  way. 
The  entire  centents  of  the  tub  is  now 
heated to a temperature of  80 to 85 degs. 
and  a  sufficient  quantity  of 
rennet 
added to thoroughly coagulate  or  curdle 
the  milk.  Rennet  is  an  essential  to 
cheesemaking of almost  any variety. 
It 
is  made  from  the  stomach  of  a  young 
calf,  washed  and  pickled  by  a  special 
process.  How  its effects on  milk  were 
ever discovered is an  unsolved  mystery, 
but its  use  is  ancient. 
It  produces  the 
best cheese curd of any substance known. 
This curd is not that of sour milk.  There 
is  no acid as  yet  developed, and  if  salt 
were  applied at  once  the  cheese  would 
remain  sweet  and  never  ripen.  The 
effect  of  the  rennet  is  to  separate  the 
milk into two distinct and dissimilar sub- 
stauces—curd,  a  firm,  white  gelatinous 
mass,  containing  of  the  original  sub­
stance of the  milk nearly all  the  casein 
| and  butter,  about  half  the  milk  sugar, 
and  a  little water;  the whey, composed 
largely of water,  with a  small amount of 
butter,  casein, and the  remaining  sugar 
of milk; the latter, a clear, yellow liquid, 
sweet  to  the taste,  and when  cool  espe - 
daily refreshing and  palatable.
In about an hour after adding  the ren­
net to the  milk  a  good  curd  should  be 
produced,  which  is  then  carefully  split 
or  cut  into  pieces  about  two  inches 
square with  a  special  form  of  Cheddar 
curd-knife,  the  use  of  which  requires 
practice  and  ¡drill.  The  heat  is  now 
gradually increased until  a  temperature 
of 95 degrees to  100  degrees  is  reached, 
the entire mass being stirred  meanwhile 
with a blunt instrument to  facilitate the 
thorough separation of the whey and the 
hardening of the  curd.  After  standing 
half an hour the curd is carefully dipped 
out of  the  tub  and  placed  on  a  tray. 
The sides and bottom of this are  formed 
of open slat or  basket work, upon which 
has been spread a piece  of coarse cheese 
cloth large enough to permit  the  pile  of 
curd  being  covered  by  spreading  the 
loose ends  over  it.  While  in  this  tray 
much of the  remaining whey drains  off. 
The curd is gently crumbled, spread and 
repiled by hand to expose fresh  surfaces 
to the  air and permit the formation  of  a 
slight acidity in  the  curd  itself  as well 
as to promote the escape of the whey.
The curd is allowed  to  cool  and  then 
put through the grinding  machine  or  in 
a more  primitive  fashion  chopped  in  a 
bowl, either process reducing it  to small 
particles and  expelliug  most  of  the  re­
maining  whey. 
It  is  now  salted  by 
thoroughly  mixing  one  pound  of  tine, 
pure  salt  with  each  fifty six  pounds  of 
curd and is ready for the press.
A wooden hoop somewhat  deeper,  but 
of the same diameter as the cheese  to  be 
reproduced, is laid upon a smooth  board 
grooved and inclined  to  drain  escaping 
whey.  A coarse  cheese  cloth  is  spread 
over and pressed  into  the  hoop  and  the 
curd  piled  in  until  the  hoop  is  filled 
nearly  to  the  brim.  The  ends  of  the 
cloth are now folded over the top  of  the 
curd, a  circular  piece  of  wood  called  a j 
“follower” is inserted, and  by means  of 
a weight or screw is pressed gently down 
upon  the  curd,  or,  as  it  may  now  be 
called, the cheese.  During the next hour 
or two  this pressure is increased once or 
twice  and  at  the  end  of  twenty-four 
hours  the  cheese  is  reversed  and  the 
pressure exerted on the  other  end  for  a 
day.  The cheese is now taken  from  the 
press, bound with a  fresh  cheese  cloth, 
and rubbed with salt or  salty butter  and 
set away in a cool curing room  to  ripen. 
During  the  first  two  weeks  it  is  daily 
rubbed  with  salt  or  butter  and  turned, 
after which time this  treatment is not so 
frequent, and in from eight to ten weeks 
the cheese should be fully cured.
This is Cheddar cheese, and the system 
' here described is closely followed in most

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American  cheese  factories,  though  im­
proved appliances have modified  the  de­
tails in some instances.
This cheese  is  a  thoroughly healthful 
article of food, presenting both flesh and 
fat forming  elements  in  a  concentrated 
form. 
If properly cured and thoroughly 
ripened there exist ammoniacal salts and 
other  elements which  aid  materially  in 
the digestion  not  only  of  its  own  con­
densed nutrition, but of other substances 
eaten with it.  As a  food  for  those  en­
gaged in  active  out-of-door  occupations 
it has many points of excellence, and  its 
consumption  is  rapidly  increasing.  At 
the  bakery  lunch-rooms  in  sandwich 
form  it is  in  great  demand,  and  in  the 
restaurant or  saloon  with  rye  bread  or 
pretzels and beer it retains its popularity. 
The fisherman or  hunter  enjoys  it  with 
crackers  and  bologna,  and  the  Yankee 
with  bread  or  crackers  and  milk.  Its 
rich nutty flavor  adds  to  the  enjoyment 
of a piece of pie, and will assist in digest­
ing that much  abused American  pastry, 
though the fancy cheeses are usually pre­
ferred as a post prandial relish.
These imported fancy cheeses  are  also 
gaining in popularity,  and the variety in 
flavor  and  price  is certainly sufficient to 
suit a diversity of  tastes.  By epicures a 
fine old Stilton seems most highly prized, 
and is at the present  time  rarely  found, 
and  commands  exorbitant  prices.  The 
imitations  are  plentiful,  cheap,  and 
usually very inferior. 
It  was  of  Stilton 
cheese  that  Charles  Lamb  remarked  to 
the  grocer  who  was  wrapping  it  up  in 
paper,  “Never  mind  that,  just  t-tie  a 
s-string to it  and 1 c-can  1-lead it home.” 
It is the invention of  a Mrs. Paulet,  and 
first gained prominence  about  a  century 
and a half ago, being served to the guests 
of the Bell Inn,  at Stilton Village, on the 
great north  road  from  London  to  Edin­
burg.  Here,  in  the days  of  stage-coach 
travel,  the  passengers  dined,  and  the 
fame of the  delicious  cheese soon spread 
far and wide,  taking with^t the name  of 
the village, which it still retains.
Stilton is a rich, double-cream  cheese, 
the  cream  of  the  evening’s  milk  being 
added  to  the  morning’s  supply. 
It  is 
quickly curdled and but slightly pressed, 
and requires great  skill in manipulation, 
especially  in the salting.  The process is 
complicated,  demanding  constant  atten­
tion, even  through  the  ripening  period. 
There  seems,  also,  to  be  some  special 
quality of soil and vegetation essential to 
good results, its  manufacture  being  still 
almost  wholly  confined  to  the  village 
and  vicinity  of  Melton  Mowbray,  in 
Leicestershire,  where the good Mrs. Pau­
let  over a century ago acquired tame and 
“half a crown  the  pound”  for  the  first 
“Old Stilton.”
fancy  English 
cheeses are not popular  with Americans, 
while  those  of  the  Continent,  though 
finding little sale in England, are in good 
demand  here.  France  and  Holland  are 
the leading producers for export.
French  cheeses  are  of  three  distinct 
types—a fresh, plain, soft cheese, a fancy 
cured, soft cheese, and a rich cured, hard 
cheese.  The first, being used when fresh, 
is for home consumption exclusively, and 
is very popular. 
It is similar to  our cot­
tage  cheese,  and  is  usually  sour  curd, 
slightly  pressed  and  salted—sometimes 
made  from  skimmed  milk  only,  and 
again in  places from almost  pure cream.
Of  the cured  soft  cheeses  Brie  is  un­
questionably most popular, and is largely 
Its production is  not confined 
exported. 
to  any  one  locality,  though  the  depart­
ments of the Meuse  and Marne  are  sup­
posed to  afford  the  finest  quality—more 
perhaps from  technical  skill  than  from 
any inherent virtue of soil or herbage.  It 
is made from fresh milk, which is heated 
by  steam  in  large  copper  vats  having 
double  bottoms.  When the  proper tem­
perature  (about  80  degrees)  is  reached, 
the  milk  is  run off  through  a  trough  to 
the  cheese-making  room,  where  it  is 
poured  into  tubs  and  the rennet  added. 
In the  course  of  two  hours  some  cream 
rises,  which  is  skimmed  off.  About  an 
hour  later,  the  curd  having  sufficiently 
formed,  it  is  carefully  cut in slices  and 
placed in a tin hoop,  which  rests upon a 
mat  of  rushes.  As  more  of  the  whey 
escapes the curd shrinks, and is removed 
to  a  smaller  form.  The  next  day  the 
cheese  is  carefully  turned  and salted,  a

Excepting  Stilton, 

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fresh mat supplied,  and  it is  removed to 
another room, where it is each day turned 
and  placed  on  a  fresh  mat.  A  white 
mold soon  appears  which  gradually  ex 
tends over  the entire  surface and slowly 
changes color,  first  to  blue, then  yellow 
and  finally  red—about  two  weeks  after 
which the cheese is  cured  and  ready  for 
market.
Neufchatel  probably  ranks  next  to 
Brie  in  commercial  importance,  though 
| usually  regarded  as  superior  in  flavor. 
It  is  also  a  soft  cheese,  and,  though 
| largely consumed  while  fresh in France, 
is only known  here  as  a  cured  product. 
Instead  of  having  part  of  the  cream re­
moved,  as  with  Brie,  it  is  made  from 
fresh  milk,  to  which  about  half  of  its 
own  quantity  of  cream  is  added.  The 
process  of  manufacture  is  somewhat 
similar  to  that  of  Brie,  though rather 
more  complicated,  but  the  condition  of 
ripeness,  as  indicated  by  the  changing 
color of  mold, is  substantially the same.
Roquefort  cheese  is  by  many  consid­
ered the  ne plus ultra of  dairy products. 
Being  made  from  sheep’s  milk, 
it 
presents elements  that render  it  unique 
among  the  cheeses  here  described.  Its 
manufacture  was  for  many  years  con­
fined  to  the  plateau  of  Larzac—about 
twenty  miles  square—situated  in 
the 
mountainous  district  of  Southwestern 
France, and having  an  elevation of  over 
900 feet.  The increased  demand  for the 
cheese  during the  last  half century  has 
given  a  tremendous  impulse  to  the  in­
dustry,  which  now  extends  many  miles 
over  the  surrounding  mountainous dis­
trict.  The native  sparse  vegetation  of 
the hillsides being  supplemented  by cul­
tivated nutritious grasses and clovers, has 
increased  both  the  quality  and quantity 
of the cheese produced.
The evening’s  milk  is  placed  in  tin- 
lined copper  pots  and  kept  warm  until 
morning,  when  the  cream  is  removed. 
The skimmed milk is added to  the  fresh 
morning’s  supply,  both  are  heated  and 
the  rennet  stirred  in.  When  the  curd 
forms it is  cut  in  all  directions  with  a 
wooden knife, the whey being drawn  off 
during the  cutting.  The  curd  is  then 
lightly  squeezed  and  worked  with  the 
bands until no whey appears.
The forms  consist  of  glazed  earthen­
ware  cylinders  about  eight  inches  in 
diameter and four inches high, perforated 
at both sides  and  bottom.  The  curd  is 
placed in these  forms in  three,  separate 
layers,  between which  is  strewn  moldy 
bread specially prepared for the purpose. 
The top layer rises above the  rim  of  the 
cylinder  and  a  weight  placed  upon  it 
presses  the  entire  mass  firmly into  the 
form.  The  cheeses are now  kept warm 
and moist for a week in a box containing 
a  wet  sponge, and  on  the  seventh  day 
are  removed  to  the  famous  caves  of 
Roquefort,  which  give  the  cheese  its 
name.  These caves are numerous in the 
mountainous district and have an almost 
uniform temperature  of  42  degrees,  to­
gether  with  great  humidity  of  atmos­
phere.  They  are  equipped  with  racks, 
mats,  tables  and  other  conveniences. 
The cheeses are  thoroughly rubbed  with 
salt and laid upon racks and shelves  for 
a  few  days, after  which  they  are  care­
fully scraped.  The thin, hard skin which 
has  formed  being  removed  from  both 
skin and sides they are set up  on  edge— 
each separated from the other by a straw 
mat. 
In  time  a  reddish  skin  appears 
and in from six to eight weeks the curing 
process is complete.
Switzerland  sends  to  America  large 
quantities  of  a  popular  and  delicious 
cured  hard  cheese  commonly  called 
“Sweitzer” or “Swiss,” but  more  prop­
erly  “Emmentbal,”  though 
the  same 
name is also applied to “Gruyere.”  It is 
a  full  cream  cheese  and  frequently  of 
enormous size, some reaching 120 pounds 
in weight.  The most striking peculiarity 
in  the  process  of  manufacture  is  the 
unusual  heat  employed  prior  to  adding 
the rennet and  during  the  last  draining 
of  the whey.  Also  the  delay  in  adding 
salt  until  after  pressing,  thus allowing 
the  development  of  considerable  acid, 
which gives it that rich flavor so enjoyed 
by  connoisseurs.  The  production  of 
“Gruyere”  is  by  no  means  confined  to 
Switzerland, the  neighboring territory of 
France,  Germany  and  Italy,  and  even 
Belgium supplying  large  quantities.

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Lansing, Mich

Having re-organized  our business  and  acquired  the  fac­
tory  building  and  machinery  formerly  occupied  by the  Hud­
son  Pants  <fc  Overall  Co.,  we  are  prepared  to  furnish  the 
trade a  line of goods in  pants, overalls, shirts at d jackets which 
will  prove  to  be  trade  winners  wherever  introduced. 
If 
you  are  not  already  handling  our  goods,  and  wish  to secure 
the  agency  for  your  town,  communicate  with  us  immedi 
ately.  An  inspection  of our  line solicited.
J.  M.  E arle,  President  and  Gen’l  Manager. 

_______________E.  I).  V oorhf.es,  Superintendent.

We  pay  Highest  Market  Prices  in  Spot Cash  and  measure  bark 

when  Loaded.

Correspondence Solicited.

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Belgium  is,  of  course,  most  widely 
known for its “Limburg,”  though  Liege 
this 
no  longer  enjoys  a  monopoly  of 
odoriferous  production—the  Limburger 
of  many  parts  of  Germany  being  often 
equal and even  superior to that supplied 
from its original home. 
The  Farmesan  cheese  of  Italy  is  a 
unique  product. 
is  an  unpressed 
skimmed  milk  creation,  requiring three 
years  to  fully  cure,  being  frequently 
rubbed meanwhile with linseed oil.  The 
Gorgonzola from the  same country  more 
nearly  approaches  a  tine  old  Stilton  in 
flavor than any other cheese made.
German  cheeses  are  of  many  kinds, 
but  mainly  for  local  consumption,  and 
nearly all artificially colored and flavored 
with  anice  seed,  as  also  are  those  of 
Denmark,  which,  nevertheless,  exports 
some excellent unflavored skimmed  milk 
cheese.
Holland  is  a  large  producer  of  both 
butter and cheese, much  of  which is  ex­
ported  to  England  and  France.  This 
country  also  consumes  quantities  of 
Edam cheese, which  is by  many  deemed 
the acme in flavor of  the  plain  cheeses, 
for with  these  it  must  be  classed.  The 
process of making it is complicated,  and 
great skill is  required  in  securing a fine 
It  is  frequently made at home, 
quality. 
the most primitive  processes being  used. 
Formerly 
the  cheeses  weighed  from 
twelve to twenty pounds,  but at  present 
they are much smaller,  rarely  exceeding 
eight to ten pounds.  The cheese is made 
from fresh milk,  and  an  unusual  quan­
tity of rennet produces  a  curd  in  about 
fifteen  minutes.  The  whey  is  worked 
nut  mainly  by  hand,  after  which  it  is 
filled into the peculiar shaped forms used 
for it, and pressed  for several  hours. 
It 
is  then  transferred  from  the  press  to 
another form, from  which it is  daily re­
moved,  salted  and  replaced  during  the 
two meeks following.  The  fifteenth day 
it is soaked in strong  brine  for  twenty- 
four hours,  washed  and  dried,  then  put 
away for several weeks  to cure.  During 
the week before selling it is daily washed 
is fresh water or  young beer,  and finally 
rubbed with linseed oil and  stained with 
tournesal  cloths,  giving  it  a  peculiar 
shade of red.
It  frequently  happens  that  modern 
discoveries  in  mechanics,  science  and 
medicine serve simply  to  verify  a  time­
worn  axiom  or  indorse  an  ancient  cus­
tom— so  with 
long  established 
practice  of  eating  a  morsel  of  ripe  old 
Stilton or Roquefort  after a hearty meal, 
modern science but gives the reason why. 
Rennet contains vast  numbers of  micro­
organisms,  which  are  warmed 
into 
activity  in  the  heated  milk,  producing 
the  separation  of  curd 
from  whey. 
Cooled  in  the  cheese  they  remain  as 
inert  globules,  until  the  heat  of  the 
stomach sets  them  at  liberty  and  their 
restored energy contributes materially to 
digestion.  Various  ammoniacal  salts 
contained in the cheese also assist  in  the 
operation.
So  the  gormand  of  to-day finds relief 
from the results of his folly  in the  same 
fashion as his prototype of two centuries 
ago.  No wonder  those  good livers  cele­
brated in verse and song the lovely milk­
maid  and  paid  glowing  tribute  to  her 
occupation.  They are  still  her  debtors, 
as  are  the  gormands  of  to-day,  though 
the  modern  poet  would  find  little inspi­
ration in the American cheese factory.
While there are several cheese factories 
in England, and  they  are  not  unknown 
on  the continent,  they are the exception 
and  not  the  rule.  Most  of  the  fancy 
cheeses  are  almost  exclusively  home 
made, and particular farms have varying 
reputations  for  the  special  qualities  of 
their product.  This  operates to prevent 
organization.  Those  who  supply 
the 
better quality object  to  the  loss of pres­
tige and price which  might  result  from 
combination with inferior grades.  How­
ever, dairy unions are  becoming  numer­
ous and usually encourage the association 
idea,  with  the  result  that  factories  are 
increasing  in number,  abroad  as well  as 
at home.
The first  cheese factory was started  at 
Rome,  N.Y., in 1851, by Jesse  Williams, 
and  during  the  forty-two  years  which 
have  since  elapsed  the  number  has  in­
creased to many  thousand.  Few  people 
realize  that  the  dairy  products  of  this

the 

'J 'H B Y   A L B   S A Y

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

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

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

G e t   O u t   o f   t h e   O l d   R u t

by discarding antiquated  business  methods and adopting those in keeping  with  the  progressive  spirit  of  the 
age. 
If  you  are  still  using  the  pass  book, you should  lose  no time  in  abandoning that system,  supplying  its 
place with a system which enables the merchant to avoid  all the losses  and  annoyances incident to moss  grown 
methods.  We refer, of course, to the coupon book system, of which we  were the  originators  and  have  always 
been  the  largest  manufacturers,  our output  being larger  than  that of all  other coupon  book makers combined. 
We make  four different grades  of coupon  books, carrying six denominations  ($1,  $2,  $3,  $5,  $10  and  $20  books) 
of each in stock at all times, and, when required, furnish specially printed  books  or  books  made  from  specially 
designed and engraved  plates.

Briefly stated, the coupon system is preferable  to the pass  book method  because  it  (1)  saves  the  time  con­
sumed in recording the sales on the pass book and copying same on blotter, day book  and 
(2)  prevents 
the  disputing  of  accounts;  (3)  puts the obligation  in  the  form of a  note,  which  is p r im a   f a c ir  evidence of in­
debtedness; 
(4)  enables the merchant to collect interest on overdue notes,  which  he  is  u n a b le   to do with  ledger 
accounts;  (5)  holds  the  customer down  to the limit of credit  established  by  the merchant,  as  it is almost im­
possible to do  with  the pass book.

le d g e r; 

If  you  are  not  using  the  coupon  book  system, or are dissatisfied  with  the inferior books put out  by our 

imitators, you are invited to write for samples of our several styles of books and  illustrated price  list.

TRADESMAN  COMPANY,  Grand Rapids,  Midi,

' H E   M l o m G A I s r   T R A D B S M A J S

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country—butter,  milk  and  cheese—far 
exceed  in  value  any  other  agricultural 
product,  amounting to over $000,000,000, 
about  $250,000,000  of  which  can  be 
credited to cheese.
The cheese  factory  supply  of  milk  is 
generally  secured 
from  neighboring 
farmers,  and  is  purchased  at  a  fixed 
price per gallon  per  year,  the factory to 
receive  the entire  yield except  that  for 
home consumption.
Every housekeeper  knows the extreme 
sensitiveness  of  milk  to  strong odors or 
flavors,  which  it  readily  and  greedily 
absorbs;  hence, absolute  cleanliness is  a 
primary essential  in any  dairy  manage­
ment.  Fresh, pure  air and sunlight also 
are needed,  as well  as pure  water.  The 
food supply  of  the  cows  is.  likewise, of 
great 
fresh  pasturage  of 
good  quality  being  preferred,  and  that 
of August  and  September producing  the 
finest cheeses.

imortance, 

Novel  Method  of  Preparing  Soap. 
There has recently  been  brought  out 
in France,  a sort  of  fancy  soap  for  the 
use of those who are obliged  to  do  con­
siderable traveling. 
It is  a  question  of 
small  pieces  of  paper,  slightly  larger 
than visiting cards, covered on  each side 
with a thin layer of ordinary  soap  or  of 
soap  variously  colored  and  perfumed. 
These soap  papers  are  put  into  memo­
randum  books,  card  cases,  or  pocket 
books, just as  if  they  were  business  or 
visiting  cards.  Each  sheet  serves 
soap for one time only, and  is  used  like 
an ordinary cake of  soap;  in  fact,  it 
an easily carried soap that maybe offered 
to a traveling companion, for every sheet 
is intact, it having to be used but once.
The manufacture  of this soap paper is 
very  simple. 
It  consists  in  immersing 
sheets  of  unsized  paper  in  a  bath  of 
cocoauut oil soap, prepared in  the  same 
way  as  for  the  manufacture  of toilet 
soaps.  The  strips  of  paper  are  dried, 
and then passed between  rollers,  in  or­
der to render them smooth and give them 
a handsome appearance.  The strips are 
then cut to  the  proper  dimensions  and 
stamped  with such marks as may  be  de­
sired. 
Instead  of  paper  there  may  be 
used squares of parchment paper, or bet­
ter still, of tracing cloth.  This industry 
is  still  new,  and  we  do  not  yet know 
what development is in store for it.

Don't Fuss.

From th e Am erican Storekeeper.
There are  a  good  many  storekeepers 
who borrow trouble.  These are the men 
of variable temper.  To-day  they are in 
a state of fussy good  humor;  to-morrow 
they are unreasonable, morose,  snappish 
and  disagreeable.  Such  men never be­
come great in any walk of life,  for  such 
variation of temper  betokens a weakness 
of mind.  Employees never find pleasure 
in working for a man  of  this  April-day

PLEÄ8ES  EVERYBODY.

temperature.  Such a man is  never  well j 
served,  for  his  fussiness  to-day creates j 
confusion,  of  which  mistakes  are  a 
natural consequence;  his  irritability  to­
morrow makes  people  around him nerv­
ous  and  impatient. 
In the store owned 
by  such  a  man  there  is  none  of that 
smoothness  which  is  an  essential  to a 
proper performance of duty.
The character of the employer  is  gen­
erally reflected in his clerks. 
If  a store­
keeper is of a smooch and  even  temper, 
there is a certain ease in  the  manner  of 
conducting  his  business.  He  good-na­
turedly corrects  the  errors  of the  inex­
perienced. 
If, on the other hand,  he be­
comes childishly passionate over matters 
which  may,  perhaps,  be 
insignificant, 
his  irritability  is  extended  to  his help, 
for  such 
irritability  is  wofully  conta­
gious.
This  courting  of  worry  should  be 
avoided  by  people  in  all  walks of life. 
The man with responsibilities,  which are 
part  of  any  commercial  undertaking, 
should in all cases preserve  a  calm  and 
even temper.  That is nerve.

The  Country  Merchant.

~The  country  storekeeper  is  in  some 
sort a  public  character.  He  finds  him­
self used in a  dozen  different ,ways—as 
banker, oracle,  referee,  newspaper,  di­
rectory,  intelligence  man,  etc.—almost 
before he is aware.
Gossip and small talk he should  retail 
with  the  same  graceful  alacrity  with 
which he  dispenses  maccaboy and  pep­
permint drops.
Thoroughly  democratic  as an institu­
tion,  “the  store”  recognizes  no  caste, 
and its doors swings  freely  open  to  all 
who come,  whatever be their errands.
An inviting haunt for all  the idle ones 
around,  its  fireside  on  stormy  or  im­
practicable days draws together its  little 
circle,  that is ever shifting  its  character 
and  its  subjects  as  different  persons 
come and go.
Sometimes the conversation has all the 
interest that native humor  and  penetra­
tion can give it.  But  not  infrequently 
will it subside into  the veriest twaddle.
Few  and  almost  commonplace  as  are 
the occurrences of rural  life, yet the  so­
cial requirements of  the village  demand 
these be made the  most  of,  that  no  one 
may be guilty of so indecorous a thing as 
silence in his neighbor’s presence.

Of Interest to Tenants.

Additions  to  rented  premises  when 
made by the tenant should  never be  fas­
tened by nails, but with screws.  Should 
he wish to move away and take with him 
the lumber composing the  improvements 
he has made, he can simply draw out the 
screws and take the planks.

Use Tradesman Coupon Books.

“ 

Whittemore’s  Dandy,  (liquid)..
(’ream,  (in  tubes 
Paste,  (in  tin )... 

White's  Cream, (in tubes)
Bixby’s  Salinola,  (liquid and paste)
............
Loomer’s Russet,  (liquid) 
Correct,  (liquid)..................
Paste, (in  tin)  ....................
Eclipse Russetine, (liquid)...............

“ 
“ 
“  Correct,  (paste)

MIRTH.  KRAUSE  &  CO.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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i f i a t S  g j& j  s o f t '
is fast being recognized by everybody as the best  salt for  every pur­
pose. 
It’s  made from  the  best  brine by  the  best  process  with  the 
best  grain.  You  keep  the  best  of other  things, why not  keep the 
best  of Salt.  Your customers will appreciate  it  as  they appreciate 
pure sugar,  pure coffee, and  tea.

Diamond Crystal Salt

Being free from all chlorides of calcium  and magnesia, will  not get damp  and 
soggy  on your hands.  Put up  in an attractive and salable manner.  When 
your stock of salt is low, trv a small supply of "the salt that's all salt."  Can be 
obtained from jobbers and ‘dealers.  For prices, see price current on other page.
For other information, address

DIAM O ND   C R Y S T A L  S A L T   CO

ST.  CLAIR, MICH.

Wliy Not Use  tlie Best?
“ S u n lig h t' 
FANCY  PATENT  FLOUR

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Is  unsurpassed 
for  whiteness,  purity  and 
strength.  Increase vour trade  and  place  your 
self beyond  the  competition of  your neighbors 
by selling this  unrivaled  brand.  Write  us  foi 
price delivered at your  railroad station’
Tie  W aM -M oe  M in i  Co.,

H O U A N I),  MICH.

TANGLEFOOT

Sealed

STICKY  FLY  PAPER.

Each  Box  Contains

25

DOUBLE  SHEETS

AM)  ONE  HOLDER.

Each  Case  Contains

10  BOXES.

JOBBERS

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PRICES  FOR  1894.

40  CENTS 
$3.60  PER 
$3.50  PER 
Case
$3.40  PER 
Case

A  BOX.
CASE.
CASE,  in  Five- 
Lots.
CASE,  in  Ten. 
Lots.

The  Dealer  who  sells  Tanglefoot will be sure to  please his customers, and will avoid all loss 

and annoyance usually connected with the sale of imperfect or inferior goods.
r  T  Tanglefoot in its present shape has been  on  the  market  for  ten  years.  Tanglefoot  always 
leads,  and  is  accepted  by  both  the best trade and the best consumers as the highest standard for 
Sticky Fly Paper.

Its distinctive features,  the Sealing  Border,  Divided  Sheet,  and  the  Holder  are.  as  is  well 
known, the inventions and property of the O. & W. Thurn Company.  These features are being ex­
tensively imitated by unscrupulous parties.  Dealers are respectfully cautioned against  the  illegal­
ity of handling infringements, and reminded of the injustice of so doing.

O. &  W .  T H U M   CO., G ra n d   R a p id s,  M ich

M a n u f a c t u r e d   by

QUEEN  OP COOKERY.

of Philadelphia.

Pencil  Sketch of  Mrs.  Sarah T.  Borer, 
Mrs. Sarah Tyson  Rorer  was  born  in 
Bucks  county,  Pa., 
in  August,  1851. 
Both of her parents were  of  Dutcb-Eng- 
lish  parentage,  being  descended  in  a 
straight line  from  Amsterdam  and  Old 
England. 
In  stature  and  appearance 
Mrs.  Rorer favors the English side of her 
house, but the sturdy Dutch blood in her 
veins may be credited  with  the  patient 
and conscientious application which  she 
has given her profession as a reformer of 
cookery and to it may  be  attributed,  in 
no small degree, the remarkable  success 
she has acquired  in  her  chosen  profes­
sion.

When she was about a year old her par­
ents  removed  to  Buffalo,  where  her 
father  embarked  in  the  business of a 
manufacturing  chemist,  which  he  con­
tinued several  years  with  marked  suc­
cess, placing many  new  pharmaceutical 
preparations on  the  market  and  origin­
ally  introducing  in 
this  country  the 
French blacking then so deservedly  pop­
ular.  Mrs.  Rorer  attended  a  private 
school  until  she  was  11  years  of  age, 
when she was sent to the Aurora  (N. Y.) 
Academy, where she  took  a  five  years’ 
scientific course, making  a  specialty  of 
chemistry and astronomy.  At that  time 
she appeared to have very  decided  ideas 
of a future, her ambition being to gradu­
ate  at  the  head  of  her  class, pursue a 
course  of  pharmacy  and  be  the  first 
woman in America to be able to dispense 
drugs and  put  up  prescriptions.  Pass­
ing a creditable examination  at  Aurora, 
she entered a finishing school at  Buffalo, 
where she  remained three  years,  gradu­
ating with credit to herself and with sat­
isfaction to her  friends. 
In  the  mean­
time her father had enlisted in  the  war, 
responding to the first call made by  Lin­
coln  for  three  mouths’  men,  and  re­
mained in the service until  the  close  of 
the struggle.  He  came  home  shattered 
in health and strength and  for  the  next 
ten years he  was  an  invalid,  patiently 
and tenderly cared for by both  wife  and 
daughter.  Mrs.  Rorer  speaks  in  high 
terms of the intelligence  and  culture  of 
her father, whom she pronounces  one of 
the most remarkable men she ever  knew 
and to whose companionship and encour­
agement was undoubtedly  due  much  of 
the ambition she then possessed  to make 
her  mark  in  the  world. 
In  1869  the 
family removed to Philadelphia,  and the 
following year Mrs.  Rorer  was  married 
to Mr. W. A. Rorer, by whom  she has had 
three children, one of whom, a daughter, 
died  in  infancy.  Two  sons  she  has 
reared to manhood.  W. A., Jr.,  now  21 
years  old,  is  a  graduate  of  the  Penn 
Charter  school  and  is  now  finishing  a 
three years’ course at the  University  of 
Berlin,  fitting himself for the  profession 
of translator.  The younger son, Jas. B., 
16 years old, graduates this  month  from 
the Penn Charter  school,  and  will  this 
fall enter Harvard college,  with  a  view 
to  fitting  himself  for  a  lawyer,  which 
profession he has looked forward  to  en­
tering for some years.

In the fall of  1879  the  Century  Club, 
composed of the elite women of Philadel­
phia, opened a cooking  school,  and  the 
following  spring  the  enterprise  was 
placed in charge of  Mrs.  Rorer,  a  posi­
tion  greatly  to  her  liking.  When she 
was but 12 years of  age  she  prepared  a 
loaf of bread and  a  sponge  cake  which 
took the prize at a district  fair,  held  in

TithU  JSOGtdDCO^JST  TKAJPDaSAlA N.

the  vicinity  of  Buffalo,  and  from that 
time  on  much  of  her  spare  time  was 
given  to  the  study  of  culinary affairs. 
She continued at the head of the Century 
Club’s cooking  department  a  coupie  of 
years,  when she started  the Philadelphia 
Cooking School at  1518  Chestnut  street. 
This enterprise she  has  continued  ever 
since,  being now located  at  1617  Chest­
nut  street,  with  regular  terms  lasting 
from October until  May,  two classes per 
day.  This School has  had  a  somewhat 
noted  career,  having  graduated  many 
students who have become not only  pro­
ficient but noted  exponents  of  high  art 
cookery.  She  is still at the head of this 
School, but during her absence it is  pre­
sided  over  by Miss  Nannette  Nevins, 
whose father was at one  time  Governor- 
General of India,  and  whose  reputation 
as  an  exponent  of  scientific  cookery is 
but little inferior to that of  Mrs.  Rorer. 
Six  years  ago  she  began  delivering 
courses of lectures at  pure  food  exposi­
tions, since which time she has conducted 
a half dozen such courses each season.

on both sides. 
In addition to her  morn­
ing work, she  lectured  every  afternoon 
to classes of twenty young  ladies  under 
16 years of age, each class remaining un­
der instruction thirty days.  So  anxious 
were  some  housewives  to  place  their 
daughters  under  her  instruction  that 
they waited several weeks to enable their 
daughters to take  advantage  of  the  op­
portunity.  During the Fair, Mrs.  Rorer 
distributed 225,000  handsome  pamphlets 
containing the recipes used by her in her 
cooking demonstrations, and  has  reason 
to look back on her connection  with  the 
Fair with both pride and profit.

In pursuit of her profession Mrs. Rorer 
has visited Europe twice,  studying  Eng­
lish, Scotch,  Swiss, French  and  German 
methods  of  cooking.  She  makes  more 
use of the French school of cooking than 
any other, having a warm admiration for 
French methods and  results.  Her  great 
desire is to assist in the work of enabling 
the laboring classes  of  America  to  live 
better on the same amount of  money,  as 
she is firmly of the opinion that the same 
money  now  expended  by  the working 
classes  for  food  could  be  made to pro­
duce much better results if the food were 
properly  prepared  and  served.  Natur­
ally,  she  is  opposed  to  co-operative 
housekeeping,  which  is  finding  some 
favor in the West, because it discourages 
and demoralizes the home feeling  so  es­
sential to a great and patriotic  people.

AS  V IE W E D   B Y   A   L A D Y   A D M IR ER.
A  gracious presence  is  ever acknowl­
edged in social life, and to  say  that Mrs. 
Rorer possesses this quality to  a marked 
degree is to but faintly sound her praise. 
At first glance one  would  pronounce her 
physique 
that  of  a  typical  English 
woman, with well-rounded figure, bright 
eyes and rosy  cheeks.  Her  complexion 
(“One’s  complexion  comes  from within 
and not from without,” she says) is  per­
fect.  Her face is without wrinkles and her 
hair  is  untinged  with  grey,  which is 
somewhat  remarkable  in  a  woman  of 
family,  who  leads  the  busy  life  of re­
sponsibility which she has  led.  Her ap­
pearance  coincides  with  her  statement 
that 8  “Everything  depends  upon  the 
food  a  person  puts  into  his stomach,” 
and she is the living embodiment  of  her 
own excellent theories.

In private conversation  she  is  charm­
ing,  and in her lectures not less so.  Her 
name is a household word,  and it is safe 
to say that she is to-day the most widely- 
quoted woman  in  America.  To  phara- 
phrase the statement  of  the  New  York 
Sun,  “If  Mrs.  Rorer  says  so, it’s so.” 
Her cooking classes are always crowded, 
old experienced housekeepers, as well as 
novices in the culinary art, being anxious 
to avail  themselves  of  the  opportunity 
of  listening  to  such  an  acknowledged 
authority  on  the  topics  she  discusses. 
She illustrates her lectures  by  practical 
demonstrations before her  audience, the 
platform being transformed into a model 
kitchen,  where  she  constructs  dishes 
“fit for the gods.”  Speaking  in an ordi­
nary  conversational  tone  of  voice,  she 
makes herself heard by the most  distant 
listener in the  room.  Not  content  with 
touching the surface of  the  matter,  she 
goes to the root, giving  lucid reasons for 
her  statements.  She  invites  questions 
from  those  on  the  anxious  seat, and, 
when the enquiry  amuses  her,  a  merry 
twinkle appears in her eye and  a  funny 
little  smile  dimples  the  corner  of  her 
I mouth.

In  1886  Mrs.  Rorer  established  a 
monthly  publication  known  as  Table 
Talk,  which was published monthly at 81 
per year and acquired a large circulation 
and a wide circle of admirers.  Six years 
later she was frozen out of the company, 
and in July of last year she  inaugurated 
a new publication,  known  as  Household 
News.  This is also  a  monthly  publica­
tion at 81 per year and is rapidly making 
friends by the thousand  in  all  parts  of 
the country.

Mrs.  Rorer’s  connection  with 

the 
Model Kitchen at the World’s Fair  is  an 
interesting chapter  in  her  career.  She 
was  not  an  applicant  for  the position, 
but received several overtures from vari­
ous organizations seeking her  assistance 
during  the  Exposition.  Her  first  idea 
was  to  secure  a  space  in the Woman’s 
building, 60x60 feet in  size,  utilizing  it 
with a kitchen, showing the  many  ways 
in  which  inexpensive  foods  may  be 
cooked for the benefit of people  of  small 
and moderate  means.  Being  unable  to 
obtain space in this building, she applied 
for a similar space in the  Manufactures’ 
building. 
In the meantime she  received 
a  flattering  offer  from  the  Woman’s 
Board of Managers for Illinois  to lecture 
two hours per day for six months  on  the 
subject of corn aqd culinary preparations 
therefrom.  This contract was  promptly 
executed,  calling  for  8200  a  week  and 
three  assistants 
for  a  period  of  six j 
months, and  was  carried  out  faithfully

1 3
In appearance,  as she  stands ready for 
her  “talk” each afternoon, she  presents 
an  attractive  picture  of  neatness.  A 
large white embroidered apron  (which is 
really  a  superfluity,  as  she  never  so 
much as spills a  drop of water or  allows 
a crumb to fall to the  floor)  protects  her 
dress;  a  pretty  little  chiffon  cap  adorns 
her  abundant  blonde  hair  (which  is 
combed  straight  back  from  the 
fore 
head,  with just the suspicion  of  a  curl, 
and coiled low in  the  neck),  and  white 
embroidered muslin cuffs reach to the el­
bow.  The neck is dressed low (as in the 
accompanying illustration), and  a  large 
plain  white 
kerchief, 
crossed on the bosom, completes the out­
fit.  She  is  evidently  fond  of  roses, as 
she wears one each day.

hemstitched 

Said a leading merchant the other day: 
“It is to be hoped that many  outside  of 
Grand  Rapids  (men  as  well as women, 
for  men  dyspeptics  need  a  course  of 
food  doctoring  as  well  as women)  will 
not  fail  to  take  this  occasion  to  hear 
Mrs. Rorer’s cooking  lectures,  as  she  is 
certainly  doing  a  great  benefit  to  our 
people  who  are  so  fortunate as to hear 
her.  We  need  to  be  stirred  up in re­
gard to this all-important subject  of  the 
kinds of food we put  into  our  stomachs 
and the way in which they are  prepared 
for our reception.” 

H. E. S.

Clothing’ Men,  Attention!

Brick store building to  rent,  all  fitted 
up,  in  town  of  500  people.  Has  been 
used for  clothing  business  three  years. 
No clothing or furnishing goods line now 
in town.  Good farming country.  Write 
B. C., care Michigan  Tradesman.

Lovene  &  Stevenson,  general dealers, 
of Tustin, have had  enough  “iron roof” 
and we will put on 3,000 feet  of felt  and 
composition for  them.  H.  M.  Reynolds 
& Son. 

*

Don’t  be  so  aristocratic  as  to  be 

ashamed of common sense

PRonroK  m arket

Asparagus—No change from  last'week,  home­
grown  still  bringing  50c  per  doz.  hunches. 
Warm weather will bring down  the  nriee

Beans—Strictly  hand  picked,  $1.60@1.75,  and 

held at 81.70®\85.

Beets—New llllnois, 50c per doz. bunches.
Beans—Wax, 82 per bu. - String, SI.50 per bu.
Butter—Choice' dairy,  12©13c.  Creamery,  18 

@17c.

Cabbage—Cairo crates bring $1.40.  Baltimore 

crates, 82.50.
ward.

Cucumbers—50c  per  doz.  and  tending  down­
Eggs—Dealers pay  94@10c, holding at  lie.  =i
Field  Seeds—Medium  and  mammoth  clover, 
$G@6.2K;  Alsyke,  $3®8.50;  Alfalfa  $6.75®7.50; 
Timothy,  $2.15;  Red  top.  75c:  Orchard Grass, 
It 80; German Millet,  S0@90e;  Common  Millet, 
70@S5c; Hungarian Grass, $1.10@1.20.

Greens—Beets, 85c perbu.; Spinach, 35c per bu.
Honey—White clover. 14c; buckwheat, l?c.
Lettuce—Dealers pay 7c and hold at fc  per  lb.
Onions—English bring $'.5° per bu. and Louis­
iana stock $1 25 per  bu.  Green  onions  are  now 
bringing 12Uc per doz. bunches.

Peas—nave  gone  up  lCc  per bu , being now 

held at  $1.60.

Pie Plant—Dealers  pay  25c  per bu. basket of 
60 lbs. holding at 40c or lc per lb  for smaller lots.
Radishes—Home grown are now held at 8c per 

Tomatoes—Misslssippis 

in  4-basket  crates 

doz.  buuches.

bring  $2.50@2.75.

Potatoes—Have  at  last  reached  thecentuiy 
mark,  being now generally held by  commission 
houses at  $1 per bu.  The  grocer’s  price is still 
about 2Cc below the  above figure, however. New 
are  in  better  supply  now  and  the  demand  is 
brisk at $1.50 bu.  From now on  new  will  prob­
ably hold the market

Strawberries—Michigan fruit has  reached the 
market  in sufficient quantities  to  be  a  strong 
bear  influence.  The  price  as  given  by local 
dealers  is  ll@12c  by  the  quart and 7He by the 
crate.

'l'H h:  M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N .
But in order to secure such  results  he | 
must avail himself of every  opportunity j 
and  advantage;  must  find  his  deficien­
cies and remedy  them,  his  weak  points 
and strengthen  them,  his  strong  points 
and increase their potency.

1 4
Drugs f££ Medicines*

State Board  o f Pharm acy.

One  T ear—O ttm ar Eberbach, Ann Arbor.
Two  T ears—George Gnndrum, Ionia.
Three  Tears—C. A. Bust bee, Cheboygan.
F our Tears—8. E. Parkill, Owosso.
Five T ears—F. W. R. P erry, D etroit.
President—O ttm ar Eberbach, Ann Arbor.
S ecretary—Stanley E. Parkill, Owosso.
Treasurer —Geo. G nndrum . Ionia.
Coming  Meetings—Star  Island,  June  86  and  86; 
H oughton, Aug. 89 and 30;  Lansing, Nov.  6  and 7.

M ich ifso   Stato  Pharm aceutical  A ss’ll. 
President—A. B. Stevens, Ann Arbor. 
Vice-President—A. F. Parker, Detroit.
T reasurer—W. Dupont,  Detroit.
8ecretay—S. A. Thompson, Detroit.

Grand  Rapids  Pharm aceutical Society 
President, W alter E . Schmidt;  Sec’y, Ben. 8chrouder

What a College of Pharmacy  Does  for 
This title refers  to  the  average  drug 

a Drug Clerk.

clerk.

Not to one of those extraordinary  per­

sons for whom nothing can be done.

Bat  for  the  ambitious,  enterprising, 
average  drug  clerk,  a  college  of phar­
macy  can  do  much,  and  the  work and 
training it provides will be invaluable to 
him.

A  young  man  who  is confined to the 
routine  of  business  life,  and  conse­
quently looks at things more from a busi­
ness than from an educational standpoint 
—as, owing to the  conditions  which  ob­
tain, a clerk in a drug store more or  less 
must do—soon finds  study  irksome,  and 
is not inclined  to  extend  his  investiga­
tions beyond the apparent necessities  of 
the business.

In  the  early  part  of his career in the 
drug business  the  work  and  service  of 
the drug clerk demand most  of  bis  time 
and  afford  him  little  opportunity  for 
study, investigation or  experimentation, 
even if he be so inclined.  What  time he 
has to himself is, as  a  rule,  too  limited 
to permit of his making constant and ex­
tensive  progress  in  study.  Such  in­
quiries as be is inclined  to  make,  as  to 
reasons,  rules  or  purposes  in  pharma­
ceutical  methods,  those  about  him  are 
often  too  much  engaged  to  answer, or 
they have long since  forgotten  the  ans­
wers if they ever knew them.

Such conditions  will  soon  check  and 
stifle any  ambition  to  know  more  than 
the bare necessary facts of the  business. 
Thus the young drug clerk fails to  lay a 
good pharmaceutical foundation, his pro­
fessional ability  is  dwarfed  and  future 
success restricted.

As he rises higher  in  position  in  the 
store the business makes  a  less  pressing 
demand upon him for study,  and  conse­
quently he studies less,  depends  on  ob­
servation, previous experience  and short 
cuts in pharmacy more, instead of study­
ing out principles and details.

Thus he is induced to make  his  know­
ledge of the business more or less  super­
ficial, rather than  extensive  and  funda­
mental.

He  imitates;  depends  on  practices 
rather than the  guidance  of  principles; 
is more thrifty than  thorough,  more  sa­
gacious than studious,  more  clever  than 
capable.

What study be does engage in is  apt to 
be  irregular  and  disconnected  rather 
than regular aad systematic.

The drug clerk’s remedy for  all  these 
most  unsatisfactory  circumstances  and 
conditions lies in a good  college-of-phar- 
macy education.

In such an institution  his environment 
and the influences brought to  bear  upon 
him will be in  many  respects  different. 
He will  be  taught  how  to  study.  His

flagging energies will be  stimulated.  If 
possible,  a  deep 
interest  will  be 
awakened.  His  attention  will  be  di­
rected to methods and measures  calcula­
ted to bring about the best results  in the 
shortest time and  surest  way.  He  will 
be taught and  have  carefully  explained 
to him the  fundamental  principles  and 
requirements of the art he is to  practice. 
He will be guided,  encouraged and stim­
ulated in his efforts  to  make  himself  a 
thoroughly capable pharmacist.

His hesitancy, unskillfulness,  and  in­
competency will be remedied by  making 
him fully familiar with the requirements 
of his profession and thoroughly  capable 
in it.
He will be associated  with  other  stu­
dents, equally  ambitious,  equally  ener­
getic, and as thorough  as  he  is;  and  by 
the rivalry,  the exchange of  ideas,  com­
parison of experiences and  customs, and 
a thorough sifting of the value  of  mani­
pulative methods, he  will  be  confirmed 
and established in fundamental  pharma­
ceutical principles and deductions.

In 

studying  pharmacy,  chemistry, 
botany,  materia  medica,  microscopy, 
etc.,  at a college of pharmacy,  a  student 
is led along carefully, steadily and  regu­
larly from simple principles to  advanced 
investigations and ripe conclusions.

He is under the  guidance,  instruction 
and discipline of men, each of whom  has 
made an extended  study  of  the  subject 
taught; and each makes it his  profession 
to know  more  about  that  subject  than 
the average pharmacist does or can.

By  study,  experience,  and  training, 
each  teacher  has  qualified  himself  to 
most advantageously present his  subject 
to the student; has learned what  difficul­
ties  are  usually  met  and  how  to over­
come them; the advisability  of  dwelling 
upon certain points,  and  the  unwisdom 
of doing so  upon others.

The college student usually deals with 
a subject in four ways—he reads it, hears 
a lecture upon it, is quizzed upon it, and 
has laboratory practice in it.
is 

thoroughly 
By  these  means  he 
drilled in it.
By the dependent and sequent  charac­
ter of  the  college  instruction,  the  stu­
dent is taught to adopt orderly, thorough 
methods,  and 
to  employ  deductive 
reasoning.
The right kind of help afforded him  at 
the right time, as dictated by the  expert 
ence, observation and knowledge  of  the 
teacher, begets in the student confidence, 
interest, energy, and  often  even enthus­
iasm in bis study and work.

The  association  with  other  students 
ofttimes  begets  life-loDg  and  cherished 
friendships,  and is sometimes  a material 
aid toward a social  position.
The examples afforded by the teachers, 
learned  in  their  various  branches  of 
pharmacy,  often  have  a  very  salutary 
effect on the drug clerk’s life and future.
While there is always room at the  top, 
it  is  usually  crowded  at  the  bottom. 
What takes little or  no  effort,  there  are 
always  many  ready  to  seize.  Human 
nature seeks a  sinecure.  That which is 
the  result  of  long,  careful  and special 
training  is  most  likely  to  be  at  a 
premium.  As  a rule, the more extended 
and laborious the process the  higher  the 
premium.
The more thorough,  capable  and  suc­
cessful a man becomes in a given  line of 
work, the more  difficult  to  replace  and 
invaluable he  becomes in  it;  the  nearer 
alone he stands in it; Is the master of  its 
, rewards, having  mastered it.

ter to make it bitter, and  after  awhile  I 
omitted  the  quinine.  Well,  whisky,, 
glycerine  and  sugar  is  an  imaginary 
remedy for  colds,  but  it  is  a  powerful 
good  drink.  My 
reverened  friend’s 
lung troubles continued for years.  He is 
still  afflicted,  and  still  takes  the same 
remedy.  Otherwise he is a man  in  per­
fect  health,  and  his  lung  trouble  will 
never kill him.”

Met Each  Other  Half Way.

From the Grocers’ Advocate.
The folly of a war on  prices  has  been 
exemplified  in  two  cases  reported  in 
recent  issues  of  the  trade  press.  Two 
Long Island grocers began  cutting  com­
petitively.  Sugar and  flour  were  their 
commodities.  They  occupied  stands 
directly  across  the  street  from  each 
other.  One morning one  grocer had  cut 
his price and the next morning  the other 
went  him  one  better.  This  went  on 
until one of  them  began  to  give  away 
sugar and the other flour,  and  both  dis­
covered that their stocks  were  going out 
at lightning speed  and  their  money tills 
were empty.  Finally they started across 
the street, in  the  middle of  which  they 
meet.  They shook hands,  swore off, and 
returned  to 
their  respective  business 
places  to  try  and  recover  the  business 
they had  almost ruined.

Established  1868.

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Seely’s Flavoring  Extracts
Every dealer should sell  them.
Extra Fine quality.
Lemon,  Vanilla,  Assorted  Flavors. 
Yearly sales  inert ased by  their  use. 
Send trial order.

■Ill's Lemon.

(Wrapped)

Therefore  the  intelligent,  wise  drug 
clerk turns to a college  of  pharmacy  as 
the means to secure  all  these  most  de­
sirable ends; as the place which can  and 
does do all the foregoing good  and  great 
things  for  its  students—for  the  drug
clerk.

A l b e r t H.  B r u n d a g e,  Ph. G.
Terms  Worth  Learning.

The  younger  followers  of  pharmacy 
will find it well  worth  their while to ob­
tain a good exhaustive list of the various 
classes  of  remedies  and 
therapeutic 
agents, carefully memorizing  the  mean­
ings.  The U. S.  Dispensatory  contains 
such a list, and it can likewise  be found 
in some  of  the  text-books.  Familiarity 
with terms like  cholagogne,  antizymotic 
antiarthritic,  analeptic,  escharotic,  hy- 
dragogue,  sialagogue,  and  others, 
is 
commonly  presupposed;  but  we  have 
had  several  occasions  to  observe  per­
plexity where there ought to  be  perfect 
conversance  with  this  vocabulary.  A 
little study of this glossary will  be  well 
invested.  While such a  vocabulary may 
be found  complete  elsewhere,  we  give 
below  a  few  definitions  and  shall  ap­
pend others from time to time:

Analeptics:  Agents  employed  to  re­
store strength after illness, such  as  ton­
ics and nourishing foods.

Analgesics:  Medicines  used  to  allay 

pain.

Antilithics:  Remedies  for  the  relief 

of calculous affections.

Antizymotics:  Agents  which  destroy 

disease germs.

Calefadents:  Medicines  applied  ex­

ternally to cause a sense of warmth.

Colagogues: 

Purgative  medicines

which provoke a flow of bile.

Depilatories:  Substances  used  to  re­

move hair.

Detergents:  Medicines  used  to  clean 

wounds, ulcers, etc.

Ecbollcs:  Substances used to  produce 

abortion.

Errhines:  Medicines  which  promote 

the flow of the nasal secretions.

Escharotics:  Caustic substances which 
destroy  the  tissues,  causing  sloughing 
and eschar.

Haemostatics arrest hemorrhage.
Aydragogues  are  purgatives  which 

cause profuse watery discharges.

Mydriatics cause  mydriasis  or  dilata 

tion of the pupil.

Myotics cause contraction of the pupil.
Oxytoclcs  stimulate  uterine  contrac­

tions.

Revulsants  are  substances  which, by 
causing  irritation,  draw  nervous  force 
and blood from a  distant  diseased  part,

Remedy Better Than Cure.

A druggist said: 

'‘Most  people  like a 
little whisky and I don’t make  many  ex 
ceptions. 
I  had  one  queer  customer, 
but  1  never  gave him away.  He was  a 
minister  in  high  standing, and almost a 
fanatical Prohibiticnlst.  He  would  buy 
a quart bottle of whisky about  every ten 
days from me and always had it put  in  a 
peculiar bottle  of  his  own.  Ostensibly 
he  bought  it  f.r  lung  troubles,  as  he 
coughed occasionally.  To  the  whisky 1 
always had to add 10 cents worth of rock 
candy,  5  cents worth of glycerine, and a 
little quinine, but not enough of  the  lat-

L*la  n  N. x.  w ith 
n i f k s i   r*  h   a t   H a m a  
price if  preferred.
Correspondence

Solicited.
Detroit,  flieh.

MFQ.

Wholesale  P r ic e   Current._______
Declined—Opium,  Opium  Powdered,  Salicylic  Acid,  Salol,  Chloral

Advanced—Turpentine. 

Hydrate.

P  V  1
¥ *

I*
:ftHft.

■

ACEDUM.
Acetlcum...................
8®  10
Benzoicnm  German. .  65®  75
20
Boraclc 
....................
20®  30 
Carbollcum...............
52®  55 
Cltrlcnm....................
3®  5
Hydrochlor...............
.  10®  12
Nitrocum 
.................
Oxallcum................... .  10®  12
*  ¥ Sallcyllcum............... .1  25@1  60
20
Phosphorlum  d ll.......
Sulphurlcum............. .  1*@  5
Tannlcum................... .1  40@1  60
30®  33
Tartaricum.................
AMMONIA.

“ 

Aqua, 16  deg...............  
20  deg................ 
Carbonas  ......................   12®  14
Chlorldum.....................  12® 14

4®
6ft

ANILINE.

25®   30

Black.............................2 00@2 25
Red...............................
Y ellow........................
BACCAE.
Cnbeae (po  36).........
Junlperus...................
Xanthoxy lum ............
BAL8AMUM.
Copaiba......................
Peru.............................
Terabin, Canada  —  
Tolutan......................
CORTEX.
Abies,  Canadian —
Cassiae  .......................
Cinchona F la v a .......
Euonymus  atropurp 
Myrlca  Cerlfera, po...
Prunus Vlrglnl...........
Quill ala,  grd...............
10
Sassafras  ....................
UlmuB Po (Ground  15)........   15

@2 25 
60®  65

EXTBAOTUM.
Glycyrrhlza  Glabra...
“ 
po.........
Haematox, 15 lb. box..
Is............
“ 
"  Ms..........
“  Ms..........
Carbonate Predp........
Citrate and Quinta —
Citrate  Soluble............
Perrocy anldum Sol —
Solut  Chloride............
Sulphate,  com’l ..........
pure..............

FERBU

■* 

24®  25 
33®  35 
11®   12 
13®  14 
14®  15 
16®  17

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

Arulca.........................   18®  20
Anthemls....................   30®  35
Matricaria 
50®  65

 

FLORA.

 
FOJ.1A.

Barosma 
Cassia  Acutlfol,  Tln-

.....................  18®  50
nlvelly......................  25®  28
Alx.  35®  50
and  Ms......................   15®  25
8® 10

Salvia  officinalis,  M*
UraUrsi 

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

« 

“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
« 
11 
11 

®  60
Acacia, 1st  picked—  
®  40
2d 
.... 
3d 
....  @  30
sifted sorts... 
®   20
p o ...................  60®  80
Aloe,  Barb, (po.60)...  50®  60 
"  Cape, (po.  20)...  ®   12
Soootrl, (po.  60).  ®  50
Catechu, la, (Ms, 14 Ms>
16)............................. 
®   1
Ammoniac...................  55®  60
Assafostlda, (po. 86).. 
40®  45
Bensolnnm...................  50®  55
Camphor»....................   46®  50
Bupnorblum  p o .........  35®  10
Gafbanom............. —   @2 50
Gamboge,  po...............   70®  7b
Gualacnm,  (po  35) —   ®   30
Kino,  (po  1  10)..........   @1  15
M astic..........................  @  80
Myrrh, (po. 45)............  @  40
Opll  (po  3 60®3 80). .2  25®2 30
Shellac  ........................  85®  42
33®  35
Tragacanth.................  40®l  00

“ 
kbbba—In ounce packages.

bleached....... 

Absinthium...........................   25
Bupatorlnm...........................   20
Lobelia....................................  25
Majorum................................   28
Mentha  Piperita...................  23
“  V lr...........................   25
fine..........................................   80
Tanacetnm, V ........................  22
Thymus,  y .............................  25

MA0NB8IA.

Calcined, Pat...............  55®  60
Carbonate,  Pat............  20®  22
Carbonate, K. A  M....  20®  25 
Carbonate, JennlngS..  35®  36

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Cubebae........................ 
2 00
Bxechthltos...............  1  50® 
Brlgeron........................j so@i  60
Gaultherla.................... l 70@l  80
Geranium,  ounce.......  @  75
Gosslpll,  Sem. gal.....  70®  75
Hedeoma  .....................l  25®1  40
Jumperl........................  50@2 00
Lavendula..................   go@2 00
Limonis........................ 1 40®)  60
Mentha Piper................2 85@3 60
Mentha  Verid..............2 20@2 30
Morrhuae, gal.............. 1  30@1  40
Myrcla, ounce..............  ®  50
OUve.............................  90@3 00
Plcis Liquida,  (gal..35)  10®  12
RicinI.........................   1 
38
Rosmarlnl.............  
1  00
Bosae, ounce.............   6 50@8 50
Succlnl...........................   40® 45
Sabina...........................   90@1 00
Santal  ......................... 2 50@7 00
Sassafras......................  50®   55
Slnapls, ess, ounce....  @  65
T lglfi........................... 
Thym e.........................   40®  50
opt  .................  @160
rj heobromas.......  .........  15® 20

“ 

POTASSrUK.
RJ C«&........................ 
15®  18
bichromate.................  13®  14
Bromide...................... 
40®  43
Garb............................  
  12®  15
Chlorate  (po  23@25)..  24®   26
Cyanide........................  50®  55
Iodide.................................2  90@3 00
Potassa, Bltart,  pure..  27®  30 
Potassa, Bltart, com...  @  15
Potass Nltras, opt....... 
8®  10
Potass Nltras...............  
7®  9
Prusslate......................  28®  30
Sulphate  po.................  15®  18

RADIX.

(po. 35)......................... 

Aconitum....................   20®   25
Althae...........................   22®   25
Anchusa......................  12®  15
Arum,  po......................  @  25
Calamus........................  20®  40
Gentiana  (po. 12)....... 
8®  10
Glychrrhiza, (pv. 15)..  16®  18 
Hydrastis  Canaden,
@ 3 0
Hellebore,  Ala,  po.  ..  15®  20
Inula,  po................  
  15®  20
Ipecac,  po.......................... 1  60®] 75
Iris  plox (po. 35@38). 
35®  40
Jalapa,  pr....................   40®  45
Maranta,  Vis...  ____  @  35
Podophyllum, po........  15®  18
Rhel................................   75@1 00
“  cut........................  @1 75
“  pv.  ......................   75@1  35
Splgella........................  35®  38
Sangulnarla,  (po  25)..  @ 2 0
Serpentarla...................  45®  50
Senega.........................   55®  60
Slmllax, Officinalis,  H  @ 4 0
M 
@ 2 5
Sdllae, (po. 85)............  10®  12
Symplocarpus,  FoBti-
dus,  po......................  @  35
Valeriana, Bng.  (po.30)  @  25
German...  15®  20
lnglbera................... 
18®  20
Zingiber  j ................. 
18®  20
FHMKN.

“ 

“ 

Anlsnm,  (po.  20)
®  15 
Aplum  (graveleons). 
22®  25
Bfrf  '
rd, Is........................ 
4®  6
Carol, (po. 18).............   10®  12
Cardamon.................... 1 OOftl  25
Corlandrnm.................  11®  13
Cannabis Sauva..........  4® 
5
Cydonlnm....................   75@l 00
Cnenopodinm  ............  10®  12
Dlpterlx Odorate......... 2 40®2 60
Foenlcnlnm.................  @ 
is
Foenngreek,  po.......... 
6®  8
L ln l.............................  4  @ 4V
Llnl, grd.  (bbl. 8M) ■..  3M©  4
Lobelia.........................   85®  40
Pharlarls Canarian....  3  @ 4
Rapa............................. 
6®  7
Slnapls  Albn............. 7  @  8
Nigra............  11®  12

‘ 

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

75@6 50
25®2 00
25@2 00

25@1 50

1 

SFONOES.

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__
Tellow Reef, for  slate 
n se .............................

50@2 75
2  00 
1  10

1  40

T T R A D Î C B M ^ lT sî

“ 

,T 

S.  N. T.  Q.  A

Morphia, S.  P. A W.  2 15@2 40 
C.  Co......................  2 05@2 30
Moschus  Canton........   @ 4 0
Myrlstlca,  No  1 .........  65®  70
! Nux Vomica, (po 20)..  @ 1 0
Os.  Sepia......................  IS®  18
Pepsin Saac, H. A P. D.
Co...............................  @200
Plcls Llq, N.»C., M gal
doz  ...........................  @2 00
Plcls Llq., quarts.......  @1  00
pints..........  @  85
Pll Hydrarg,  (po. 80)..  @ 5 0
Piper  Nigra,  (po. 22). 
@ 1
Piper Alba,  (po g5)....  @  3
Pllx Burgun.................  @  7
Plumbl A cet...............  14®  15
PulviB Ipecac et opll. .1  lo@l  20 
Pyrethrum,  boxes  H
AP. D.  Co., doz.......  @125
Pyrethrum,  pv............  20®  30
8®  10
'luasslae...................... 
iuinla, S. P. A W.......34«@39M
S.  German__   27®  37
Rubia  Tlnctorum.......  12®  14
12®  14
Saccharum Laetls pv. 
Salacln.........................2 10@2 25
SangulB  Draconls............40®  50
9apo,  W........................  12®  14
1  M.........................   10®  12
‘  G .........................  @ 1 5

“ 

Seldlltz  Mixture........   @  20
Slnapls..........................  @  18
opt.....................   ®  30
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  De
V oes.........................   @  35
Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes  @  35 
Soda Boras, (po. 11).  .  10®  11 
Soda  et Potass Tart.  .  24®  25
SodaCarb..................   1M@  2
Soda,  Bl-Carb.............   @  5
Soda,  Ash......................3M@  4
Soda, Sulphas..............  @  2
Spts. Ether C o............  50®  55
“  Myrcla  Dom.......  @2 25
“  Myrcla Imp.  . . .   @3 00
‘ 
■ -■-7..........................2 17@2 27
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Stiychnla  Crystal.......1 40@i  45
Sulphur, Subl............. 2M@  3
Roll............... 2  @  2M
Tamarinds..................  
8®  10
Terebenth Venice.......  28®  30
Theobromae.............. 45  @  48
Vanilla....................... 9 00@16 00
Zlncl  Sulph................. 
7®  8

vlnl  Rect.  bbl.

OILS.

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

Bbl.  Gal
70
85
45
55

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

* 

faints. 

bbl.  lb.
Red Venetian.......................... im 2@8
Ochre, yellow  Mars___1M  2@4
_**, 
Ber......... im  2@8
Putty,  commercial__2Q  2M@8
“  strictly  pure......2M  2M@3
Vermilion Prime Amer­
13@16
ican.............................. 
Vermilion,  English__  
65®70
Green,  Peninsular....... 
70@75
Lead,  red.................................   6 @6M
“  w h ite.............................. 6 @6M
Whiting, white Span...  @70
Whiting,  Gliders’ 
. ..  @90
White, Paris  American 
1  0
Whiting,  Paris  Bng.
c liff.......................   .. 
1  40
Pioneer Prepared Paintl  20@1  4 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared 
Paints.......................1  00@1  20

VARNISHES.

No. 1 Turp  Coach  ...1  10@1  20
Extra Turn..................160@l  70
Coach  Body................ 2 75@3 00
No. 1 Turp Furn..........
Eutra Turk Damar.... 1 
51  60
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 
70®76

Turp........................

M 10 

Grand  Rapids, flieh.

W e   o ffe r   t h e   f o llo w in g   v e r y   d e s ir a b le  

s p o n g e s   in   e a s e s :

No.

Slate............... 1,000  Pieces................................... @ $  5  00
...@ $ 5  00
150-A.................   100
1  50
140-A.................   100
...@ 2  50
130-A.................   100
...@ 3  50
120-A.................   100
...@ 5  00
110-A..................  50
...@ 4  50
90-B..................  60
07K each
...@
80-B..................  50
...@
14
44
70-B..................  25
44
20
60-B..................  25
30
44
50-B..................   30
40
44
40-B..................   18
50
44
30-B..................  
12
65
44
10-B..................   12
90
44

...(db
...@

per case
64  «6
66  46
46  64
44  44

A ssorted  Oase:

X -l.................  50  Pieces
X-2.................   40
X-3.................   30
X-4.................   18 

“

PRICE  $8.50 per  case.

Grass
Slate
Surgeons

strings

“ 
“ 
“ 

retail  5c each............................. $ 2  50
4  00
4  50
3  60
$14  60

10c  “   
15c  “   
20c  “   

 
 

 

 

..$  1 25 to 3 25 per  pound

50 to 1 00 66 
75 to 1 50 44 
..  2 00 to a 50 44 
..  1 00 to 2 50 each

64
46
64

C h a m ois  S k in s

From $  1  00  to $ 20  00  per kip.
“  doz.

60  to 

8  50 

“ 

H AZELTP  Ì  PERKINS  DRUE  DO..

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

TINCTURES.

 

‘ 

“ 

“ 

1 60
Aconitum Napellls R..........   60
.,  “ 
? ...........  50
and myrrh...................  60
Arnica....................................  50
Asafoetlda............................... 
0
A trope Belladonna...............   60
Benzoin..................................   60
„  “  ,  Co.............................   50
Sangulnarla...........................  50
Barosma................................   50
Cantharides...........................   75
Capsicum...............................  50
Cm damon...............................  75
Co...........................   75
Castor.................................... 1 00
Catechu..................................   50
Cinchona..............................   50
Co...........................   60
Columba.................... 
50
Conlum..................................  50
Cnbeba...............................  ..  50
D igitalis................................   so
Brgot.......................................  50
Gentian..................................  50
“  Co.............................'..  60
Gualca....................................  50
“ 
ammon......................  60
Zingiber................................  50
Hyoscyamus.........................   50
Iodine...................................   75
“  Colorless....................   75
Ferrl  Chlorldum..................   35
K in o...................... 
so
Lobelia...................................   50
Myrrh.....................................   50
Nux  Vomica........................ 
50
O pll........................................   85
“  Camphorated.................  50
Deodor...........................2 00
Aurantl Cortex......................  50
Quassia..................................  50
Rhatany.........................   ...  50
Rhel.........................................  so
Cassia  Acutlfol.....................  50
_ 
Co................  50
Serpentarla...........................   50
Stramonium...........................   60
Tolutan..................................  60
ValerlaD................................   50
Veratrum Verlde...................  50

“ 

‘ 

 

 

MISCELLANEOUS.

“ 

“ 

“ 

28®  30 
82®  34

prep.

* 
“ 

ground, 

Æther, Spts  Nit, 3 F. 
“  4 F .
Alumen.......................   2&@ 3
(po.
3®  4
7)................................ 
Annatto........................  55®  60
Antlmonl, po............... 
4®   5
et Potass T.  55®  60
Antlnyrln....................   @1  40
Antiiebrln....................  @  25
Argentl  Nltras, ounce  @  48
Arsenicum..................  
5® 
7
Balm Gilead  Bud__  
38®  40
Bismuth  S.  N ..............2 20@2 25
Calcium Chlor, Is, (Ms
@  11
12;  Ms,  14)...............
Cantharldes  Russian,
p o ...............................
@1  00 
Capsic!  Fructus, af...
@  26 
®  28 
Sfe*
®  20 
„
Caryophyllus,  (po.  15) 
10®   12
Carmine,  No. 40..........   ®8 75
Cera  Alba, S. A F .......  50®  55
Cera Flava..................   38®  40
Coccus 
........................  @  40
Cassia Fructus............  @  25
Centrarla......................  @  10
letaceum....................   @  40
Chloroform.................  60®  68
squlbbs  .  @1  25
Chloral Hyd Crst.........1  25®1  60
Chondrus....................   zo@  25
Cinohonldlne, F.  A  W  15®  20
German  3M@  12 
Corks,  list,  dls.  per
cent  ........................
75
Creasotum...............
ft 35
Creta, (bbL 75).......
2
ft
5® 5
9® 11
8
ft
50ft 55
24
9
5 ft
6
10® 12
70®
75
9
6
_ o
70® 75
12® 15
ft 23
7  ft 8
ft 60
80ft 
50
: 80.
Less than box  75.
Glue,  Brown...............  
9®
“  White.................   13®
Glycerins.....................  14®
Grana Paradisi............  @
Hamulus......................  25®
Hydraag Chlor  Mite..  @ 
“  Cor.... 
ft
Ox Rubrum  @
Ammontati..  @ 
Unguentum.  45®

15 
25 
20 
22 
56 
75 
65 
85 
95 
56
Hydrargyrum..............  @  65
.1  25@1  50
Ichthyobolla, Am .. 
Indigo.....................  75@1 00
Iodine, Resubl.........3 80@3 90
Iodoform......................   @4 70
Lupulin........................   @2 25
Lycopodium...............  70®  ’S
M acis...........................  70®  75
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy-
drarglod..................   @  27
Liquor Potass Arslnltls  10®  12
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
Mannla,  8. F ...............  60®  68

ubra.
Crocus  .........
Cudbear.......
Dextrine......................
er Sulph.................
Emery,  all  numbers.. 
PO-.-i.........

Galla.
Gelatin,  Cooper.

1M)...............................2M® 4

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Absinthium..................2  50®3 00
Amygdalae, D ale........   45®  75
Amyaalae, Amarae.... 8  00®8 25
A nlsi.............................. 1  8"®1 90
Aurantl  Cortex............1 80®2 00
Bergamll  .....................3  00®3 20
Cajlpntl...................... 
60®  65
Caryophylll.................  75®  80
Cedar...........................   35®  65
Chenopodll  .................  @1  60
Clnnamonll.................. 1  1C®1 15
Citronella....................   ®  45
Conlnm  Mao...............   85®  65
Copaiba........................  80®  90

STBTJPS.

A ccacla..................................  50
Zingiber  ........................   50
Ipecac............................   60
Ferrl  Iod.......... ......................  50
Aurantl  Cortes......................  50
Rhel  Arom.............................  50
Slmllax  Officinalis...............   60
Co.........  50
Senega....................................  50
Sdllae.....................................   50
“  Co................................   50
Toiutan..................................  50
P runasuvlrg.............................  50

“ 

16

THE  MICHIGAN  TEADE9MAN.

G RO CERY   PR IC E   CU RREN T.

N .

The prices quoted in this list are for the  trade only, in such quantities as are usually purchased by retail  dealers.  They are 

a ^ th o se
below are  riven  as  representing  average  prices  for average  conditions of  purchase.  Cash  buyers or those of  strong credit  usually  Duy c oser tnsm 
those who ^have poor  credit.  Subscribers  are  earnestly requested  to  point  out  any  errors or omissions, as it is our  aim  m
greatest possible  use to dealers. 

l] ie  impossible to givequotation.  .».U N . f“/  

accurate  index of  the local  "market. 

CATSUP.

COUPON  BOOKS.

____________ ____________________ V  «  w
Vl-4

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

Soudera’.

Foreign.
Currants.

Bine Label Brand.

“ 

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

Triumph Brand.

CLOTHES  PINS.

gross boxes...................44045

COCOA  SHELLS.

_lb. bags.........................  @3
Less  quantity.................  @3*
Pound  packages........... 6% ©7

COFFEE.

Green.
Rio.

Santos.

Fair..........................................18
Good........................................1?
Prime......................................21
Golden....................................21
Peaberry................................23
Fair.......... - ...........................19
Good....................................... 20
Prime.................................... -22
Peaberry  ............................... 23
Mexican and Guatemala.
Fair......................................... 21
Good............  
22
Fancy......................................24
Prime......................................23
M illed.................................... 24
Interior...................................25
Private Growth.....................27
Mandehllng..........................28
Imitation............................... 25
Arabian.................................. 28

 
Maracaibo.

Mocha.

Java.

R o a s te d .

To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add *c. per lb. for roast 
Ing and 15 per  cent,  for shrink 
age.
M cLaughlin’s  XX X X .  22 30
Bunola  ..............................  21  80
Lion, 60 or 100 lb.  case....  22 80 

P a c k a g e . 

Extract.

Valley City *  gross............ 
75
I  P
Pelix 
Hummel’s, foil, gross.........1  65
“ 
.........2 85

7‘ 

 

“ 

tin 
CHICORV.

B u lk .......................................5
Bed  ........................................7

CLOTHES  LINES.

Cotton,  40ft.......... perdo*. 1  26
140
1
175
1  90
85
1  00

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

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“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Jute

CONBENSED  M ILK. 

4’dos. In case.

N. Y.Cond’ns’d Milk Co’s brands
Gall Borden Eagle...............  7
Crown......................................8
Daisy....................................... 5
Champion...............................4
Magnolia  ...............................4
Dime.............................—  •  3

08%507
15
1  00 
22 
015 
025 
085 
020 024 
014

Peerless evaporated cream.  5 75 

CREDIT  CHECKS.

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

“ 
“ 

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

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

b a k i n g   p o w d e r .

2 doz

Cream  Flake.

Acme.
«  lb. cans, 3 do* —  
# lb .  -  
2  “ 
....
lib.  “  1  “  .....
Bulk..............Arctic.
«  lb cans 6 doz  case.......... 
3  lb  “  4 doz  “ 
1 
lk  “  8 doz  “ 
5  lb  “  1 doz  “ 
3  os  “  6 doz  “ 
4  oz  “  4 doz  “ 
6  oz  “  4 doz  “ 
8  oz  “  4 doz 
lb  “  2 doz  “ 
lb  “  1 doz  “ 
“ 
*• 
“ 
“ 

55
..........   1  10
..........  ¿ ÜU
9 00
.........
.........
.........
.........
........
.......
.........
Bed Star, *  ®>  cans.........
**>  “  .......
1 ®>  “  ......
Teller’s,  % lb. cans, dos 
*  lb.  “
1 lb-
Our Leader,  14 -b cans.......
% lb  cans........  
<5
1 lb cans..........1  50

• 

BATH  BRICK.
2 dozen In case.

“ 

“ 
“ 

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

BLUING. 

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

8 oz
“ 
BROOMS,
1  75
Dio. 2 Hurl.................
»0.1  “ 
..............
2 00
No. 2 Carpet.........................  * *5
2 50
No. 1  “ 
 
Parlor Gem.............................*  “j
Common Whisk.......
1 00
Fancy
Warehouse............  ............ 8

b r u s h e s . 

« 

stove, No.  1........................... }  I®
“  15.........................   1  75

Rice Boot Scrub, 2  row ....
RloeRoot  Scrub,8 row ....  1 
Palmetto,  goose...................  1

CANDLES.

Hotel, 40 lb. boxes..............  10
Star,  40 
9
Paraffine  ...............................10
Wicklng 
.............................  ~4

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CANNED  GOODS.

Fish.
Clams.

“ 

“ 

» 

Little Neck,  i lb .................. 1
•>  2  lb................... 1
Clam Chowder.
Standard, 31b....................... 2
Cove Oysters.
Standard,  l i b .........
.1 35
21b.........
Lobsters.
.2 45 
Star,  1  lb.................
.3 SO
“  2  lb.................
Picnic, li b .................................. 2 00
21b.................................. 2 90
“ 

Mackerel.
Standard, 1 lb........................1  10
2  lb........................... 2 10
..2 25 
Mustard,  2 lb ............
. .2 25 
Tomato Sauce,  2 lb ..
.2 25
Soused, 2 lb...............
Salmon.
...1   80 
Columbia River, flat.
...1  65 
“ 
tails.
.1 25 
Alaska, R e d .............
pink...............
.1  10
Kinney’s,  flats............................1 95
Sardines.
American  Ms.................. 4*@  5
AS..................6* 0 .7
©10 
Imported  *«.*8
...15@16
Mustard  %i.................... ..  6©7
21
Boneless........................
Trout.
... —  2 50
Brook  8, lb ............ 
Fruite.
Apples.

“ 
** 

“ 

3  lb. standard.............
York State, gallons —
Hamburgh,  *• 
....

1  20
3 75

Gages.

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

1  40 
1  40 
1  50 1  «
90
Red................................l  10@1 25
Pitted Hamburgh.......
W hite........................... 
1  50
Brie..............................  
1  30
Damsons, Egg Plums and Oreeu 
1  20 
Brie..............................
1  40
California....................
Gooseberries.
1  25
Common......................
Peaches.
1  10 
P ie ...............................
1  60 
M axwell......................
1  60
Shepard’s ....................
California....................  160@1  75
Monitor 
...................
Oxford..........................
Pears.
Domestic...................... 
1  25
Riverside...................... 
175
Pineapples.
Common....................... 1  00@1 30
2 50 
Johnson’s  sliced
2 75 
grated........
£2 5) 
Booth’s sliced.............
@2 75
grated............
Quinces.
1  10
Common......................
Raspberries.
Red................................
Black  Hamburg..........
Brie,  black  .................
Strawberries.
Lawrence....................
Hamburgh..................
Brie..............................
Terrapin.........................
Whortleberries.
85
Blueberries.................
Corned  beef  Libby’s ...........2 10
Roast beef  Armour’s ........ 180
Potted  ham, *  lb .................1  40
“  * l b ................   85
tongue, *  lb ................... 1 35
54 lb ..........  85
chicken, 54 lb.............'. 96

Meats.

“ 
Vegetables,

Beans.

“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Peas.

Corn.

Hamburgh  stringless...........1  15
French style.......2 00
Limas...................1  35

Lima, green.................................1 25
soaked........................
Lewis Boston Baked............ 1
Bay State  Baked...................1  85
World’s  Fair  Baked............ 1  85
Picnic Baked..........................1 00
Hamburgh............................. 1 25
Livingston  E den..................1 20
Purity.....................................
Honey  Dew.................................1 40
Morning Glory....................
Soaked.................................. 
75
Hambnrgh  marrofat............ 1  £0
...150
early June 
Champion Eng.. 1  40
petit  pots............1  40
fancy  sifted— 1  90
Soaked....................................  65
Harris standard....................   75
VanCamp’s  marrofat...........1  10
early June....... 1 30
Archer’s  Barly Blossom— 1  25
French.........................  
2 15
Mushrooms.
French.................................19©21
Pumpkin.
Brie..................................
Squash.
Hubbard.................................1
Succotash.
Hamburg...................  
1
Soaked.......—.........................
Honey  Dew............................1
Brie......................................... 1
Hancock................................
Excelsior 
...........................
Bcllpse..............................
Hamburg...............................
Gallon....................................8

Tomatoes.

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

Baker’s.

CHEESE.
Amboy.........................
Acme.............................
Lenawee......................
Riverside....................
Gold  Medal  ...............
Skim............................
Brick............................
Bdam  ...........................
......................
Leiden 
Llmburger  .................
Pineapple  ...................
Roquefort
Sap Sago.....................
Schweitzer, Imported, 
domestic  ....

“ 
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Patras,  in barrels.............. 
in  *-bbls...............  
In less quantity —  
cleaned,  bulk......... 
cleaned,  package.. 

2
2*
2*
4
5 

Peel.

“ 

Citron, Leghorn. 25 lb. boxes  13 
“ 
Lemon 
25  “ 
8
“ 
Orange 
10
25  “ 
Raisins.
5 ©  7 
Ondnra, 29 lb. boxes 
7*  ©  8
“
Sultana, 20 
Valencia, 30  “
California,  100-120 ...............  7

Prunes.
90x100 25 lb. bxs.  7%
80x90
70x80
60x70

Turkey. 
Silver ..

ENVELOPES.
XX rag, white.

No. 1 ,6 * ............................   81  75
No. 2 ,6* ............................   180
No. 1,6................................  }  <»
No. 2, 6................................  1  50

XX  wood, white.
No. 1 ,6 * .............................
No. 2 ,6*  
...................  1  25
6*  .............................   1 Of

Manilla, white.

Coin.

Mill  No. 4...........................  100
FARINACEOU8  GOODS.

Farina.
Hominy.

3%

Oatmeal.

Lima  Beans.

100 lb. kegs..................... 
B arrels....— .............................2 75
Grits..................................... 300
Dried.............................. 4  @4*
Maccaronl and Vermicelli. 
Domestic, 12 lb. box—  
55
Imported.................  ...10*@U
Barrels 200...................• • • •  4 75
Half barrels  100 .................  2 50
KegB.....................................  
2%
Oreen,  bu................................  1 15
Spilt  per l b ................... 
3
Rolled  Oats.
Barrels  180...................  @4 1
Half  bbls 90...............  
©2 50
German................................  4*
East India............................  5
Cracked.................................  3%

Pearl Barley.

Wheat.

Sago.

Peas.

F ISH —Salt.

Bloaters.

Cod.

Yarmouth.............................
Pollock.............................
Whole, Grand  Bank.......Hi @5
Boneless,  bricks................6%
Boneless,  strips............... 6*
Smoked........................ 
Holland, white hoops keg 

H a lib u t.
Herring.
“ 
“ 

10@13
70 
bbl  9  50

“ 

“ 

i, 

£   »  40  ■< 
Mackerel.

Norwegian  ........................
Round, *  bbl 100 lb s .......  2  50
........   1  30
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
90
No. 2,10 lbs.........................  
Family, 90 lbs.........................5 75
65
10  lb s................... 
Russian,  kegs......................  
55
No. 1, *  bbls., 1001 bs.............4 75
No. 1 *  bbl, 40  lbs................ 2 20
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs...................   63
No  1,8  lb  kits......................  53
Family 
*  bbls, 100 lbs........... 86 25 82 00
U  “  40  “  ...........2 81  110
101b.  kits....................  
35
8 lb.  “ 
....................  
31
MATCHES.

Sardines.
Trout.

Wblteflsb.

No.  1

78 
65 

Globe Match Co.’s Brands.

Columbia Parlor.................81  25
XXX Sulphur......................  1  00
Diamond  Match  Co.’s  Brands.
No. 9 sulphur......................... 1 65
Anchor parlor........................ 1 70
No. 2 home..............................1 10
Export  parlor........................ 4 00

Tradesman.’

C  1 books, per hundred. 
8 2 
* 8 
15 
810 
820 
“Superior.”
1 books, per hundred
2 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

"
“
“
“
“
“

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

Universal.”

1  books, per hundred.

83 00 
.  3  50 
.  4 00 
.  5 00 
6 00 
7 00
820
Above prices on coupon books 
are  subject  to  the  following 
quantity discounts:
200 books or over..  5  peT  cent 
500 
“ 
1000  “ 
COUPON  PASS BOOKS. 
[Can  be  made to represent any 
denomination  from 810. down. 1 
20 books.......................... 8  1  9?
SO
2  00 
3 00 
100250
6 25 
10 00 
500
17 50
1000

-.10 
“
.20  “

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Butter.

CRACKERS.
Seymour XXX...............
Seymour XXX, cartoon.......5*
Family  XXX........................  5
Family XXX,  cartoon........   5*
Salted XXX.............................5
Salted XXX,  cartoon  ...........5*
Kenosha  .  .............................  7*
Boston......................................7
Butter  biscuit....................... 6
Soda,  XXX...........................   5*
Soda, City............................... 7*
Soda,  Duchess.......................8*
Crystal Wafer....................... 10*
Long  Island Wafers............11
8. Oyster  XX x ..................... 5*
CSty Oyster. XXX................... 5*
Farina  Oyster.......................6

Oyster.

Soda.

CREAM  TARTAR.
30
Strictly  pure 
__
Teller’s Absolute...............  
30
Grocers'...............................15©25

FLY  PAPER. 

Tbum ’s Tanglefoot,

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

DRIED  FRUITS. 

Dom estic.

Apples.

“ 

“ 

Pears.

Peaches.

Apricots.

quartered  “ 

Sundrled, sliced in  bbls.
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes 12  12* 
California in  bags.........
Evaporated In boxes.  .. 
Blackberries.
In  boxes.........................
Nectarines.
701b. bags........................
25 lb. boxes.....................
Peeled, in  boxes............
Cal. evap.  “ 
............
“ 
In bags.........
California In bags.......
Pitted Cherries.
Barrels.............................
50 lb. boxes....................
26  “ 
....................
Prunelles.
80 lb.  boxes..........   .......
Raspberries.
In  barrels........................
50 lb. boxes......................
........................
25 lb.  “ 
Raisins.

Loose  Mnscatels In Boxes.
2 crown................................  4
3 
................................  4
4*
4  Loose Muscatels In Bags.
2  crown................................. 3%
5 
.....................  ...4

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“ 

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......81  75
4 oz......3 50

Jennings.
Lemon. Vanilla
os regular panel.  75 
1  20 
oz 
. ..1  50
2  00 
3 00 
_ oz 
...2  00
2 00 
No. 3  taper............1  35
2 50
No. 4  taper............1  50
Northrop’»

“ 
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Lemon.  Vanilla.

2 oz  oval taper  75
1  20
“ 
3 oz 
2 oz regular  “ 
85 
4 oz 
“ 
1  60

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GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.

!  12  V
1  75  v
1  20
2 25

..3 25  x
Half  kegs........................... ..t  90  1
.1  10
Quarter  kegs....................
1  lb  cans
18
*  lb  cans.............................
Choke Bore—Dupont’s.
Kegs.................................. 4 25
Half  kegs....................................2 40
Quarter kegs........................  1  35
34
lib  cans.............
Eagle Duck
Kegs 
..........................« <»
Half  kegs  .............................5 75
Quarter kegs...............................3 00
1  lb  cans............................... 
6°
Sage........................................18
Hops.......................................1»

Dupont’s.

HERBS.

INDIGO.

Madras,  5 lb. boxes..........  
‘
S. F., 2,3 and 5 lb. boxes.. 
(
JELLY.
17  lb. palls...................  @  1
30  “ 
“ 
.................   ©  (
LICORICE.
so
Pure.......... ...................
Calabria..................................   25
Sldly.....................  ...............   12
Root.........................................  I®

LYE.
Condensed, 2  dos.................1  20
4 doz.................2 26

“ 

MINCE  MEAT.

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

MEASURES.
Tin, per dozen.

1  gallon..............................   »}  79
Half  gallon........................ 
i  40
Quart..................................  
70
..................................  
45
Half  p in t.........................._  40
Wooden, for vinegar, per doz.
1 gallon....................  
  7 00
Half gallon........................  4  75
Quart..................................  3 75
Pint 
.................................  2 25

 

MOLASSES. 
Blackstrap.
1
Sugar house................—
Cuba Baklug.
Ordinary............................. 
10
Porto Rico.
20 1
Prime.......................... 
__
Fancy........................—. . . .   w
New Orleans.
Fair  ....................................
**
Extra good.......................... 
Choice................................
Fancy  ............................. —  w

One-half barrels, 3c extra,

t   >

V

1

f   »

t   *

A  4

V t

THE  MTCmG^JSr  TRADE8MAH.

17

PIOKLK8.
Medium.

Barren, 1,200 coant...  @4 00
Half bbls, 600  coant.. 
©2 00
5 00
Barrels, 2,400  count. 
Half bbls, 1,200 connt 
3 00

Small.

PIPE S.

Clay, Ho.  216.................... .'...1 70
“  T. D. full count............  70
Cob, No.  8............................... 1 20

POTASH.

48 cane In case.

Babbitt’s .............................  4 00
PennaSalt  Co.’s ................  3 00

BICE.
Domestic.

“ 
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Carolina head..........................6
No. 1..........................5*
No. 2........................  5
Broken................. .................  4
Japan, No. 1..I........................5M
Java................................ 
Patna......................................  4M

No. 2............................. 5
6

Imported.

SPICKS.

Whole Sifted.

“ 

“ 

“ 
11 
“ 

Allspice..................................  &M
Cassia, China in mats.........  8
Batavia In bund— 15
Saigon in rolls.........32
Cloves,  Amboyna.................22
Zanzibar.................. I1M
Mace  Batavia........................ 80
Nutmegs, fancy.....................75
“  No.  1.........................70
“  No.  2.........................60
Pepper, Singapore, black — 10 
" 
white...  .20
“ 
shot...........................16
Pare Ground In Balk.
Allspice.................................. 15
Cassia,  Batavia.....................18
and  Saigon.25
“ 
Saigon......................35
“ 
Cloves,  Amboyna.................22
”  Zanzibar...................18
Ginger, African.....................16
Cochin...................  20
Jamaica............. 
.22
Mace  Batavia........................ 65
Mnstard,  Bug. and Trieste..22
“  Trieste......................25
Nutmegs, No. 2 .....................75
Pepper, Singapore, black — 16
,r  white.......24
“  Cayenne...................20
Sage.........................................20
‘‘Absolute” In Packages.Mb  Ms
Allspice........................  84  156
Cinnamon....................   84  1  55
Cloves...........................  84  1  55
Ginger,  Jam aica.......  84  1  55
African  ..........  84  1  55
Mustard........................  84  1  55
Pepper..........................  84  155
Sage...............................   84

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SAL  SODA.

Granulated,  bbls..................  1H
751b  cases........   lii
Lump, bbls 
.........................1  15
1451b kegs.................  1M

“ 

SE E D S.
A n ise.........................
Canary, Smyrna........
Caraway....................
Cardamon, Malabar..
Hemp,  Hussion..........  
Mixed  Bird................. 
Mustard,  white..........  
Poppy...........................  
Rape............................. 
Cattle  bone................. 
STAR C H .

48

©15

90
4
5@6
10
9
5
80

“ 

Corn.
20-lb  boxes.................... .......  5X
................... .......5M
40-lb 
Gloss.
.......  5
1-lb packages.................
.......6
8-lb 
.................
61b 
................. .......  6M
40 and 5Q lb. boxes....... .......  3M
Barrels........................... .......  3M

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Scotch, In  bladders............. 37
Maccabov, In j u s .................35
French Rappee, In Jars.......43
Boxes......................................5M
Kegs, English........................ 44£

SO D A ,

SALT.

“ 

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“ 
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Worcester.
** 
** 

Diamond Crystal.
Cases, 24 3  lb. boxes........ $  1  60
Barrels, 320  lbs.................
2 50
4  00
115 2M lb bags.... 
....
605 
lb  “ 
3 75
.... 3 50
3010  lb  “ 
Butter, 56 lb  bags.............
65
□   “  24141b bags  ............
3 50
“  280 lb  b b ls............
2 50
............
“  224 lb 
225
115 2%-lb sacks...............
.84 CO
................... 3 75
60 5-lb 
3010-lb 
................... .  3 50
60
56 lb linen bags...............
38 lb  bags......................... ■  32M
Common Grades.
100 3-lb. sacks..................... .12  10
60 5-lb.  “ 
..................... .  2 00
28 lOJb. sacks................... .  1  85
30
56 lb. dairy in drill  bags.. 
28 lb.  “ 
.
16
56 lb. dairy In linen sacks. . 
75
55 In. dairy In linen  sacks
75
56 lb.  sacks........................
22
Saginaw............................
80
Manistee.............. 
..........
80

Ashton.
Higgins.
Sotar Rock.
Common Fine.

Warsaw.

“ 

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SA L E R A T U S.

Packed 60 lbs. in box.

Church’s ..............................330
DeLand’s .............................. 3  15
Dwight’s ...............................3 30
Taylor’s  .............................  3 00

SEELY’S  EXTRACTS. 

Lemon.
1 oz. P. M. $  90 doz.  $10 20 gro
2  “  N. 8. 1  20  “ 
12 60  “
2  “  P. M.  1  40 “ 
14  40  “
Vanilla.
1 oz.  F. M.  1  50 doz. 16  20 gro
21  60  “
2  “  N.  S.  2 00 “ 
2  “  P. M.  2 50 “ 
25  50  •*
Lemon.

Rococo—Second  Grade. 

2 oz............... 75 doz.......  8 00  “

Vanilla.

2 doz........   1 00 doz.......10 50  “

SOAP.
L aundry.

Allen B. Wrlsley’s Brands.

Old Country,  80  1-lb............ 3  20
Good Cheer, 601 lb.....................3 SO
White Borax, 100  5£-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

Dlngman Brands.

“ 

“ 

Single box............................. 3 95
5 box lots, delivered.......... 3 85
10 box lots, delivered.........3 75
Jas. S. Kirk <& Co.’s  Brands. 
American  Family, wrp‘d ..$4 00 
plain...  3 94
N.  K.  Fairbank & Co.’s Brands.
Santa Claus.........................   4  OO
Br jwn, 60 bars.................... 2 40
80  b ars.....................325

“ 
Lautz Bros. & Co.’s Brands.
Acme....................................3 75
Cotton OU.............................6 00
Marseilles.............................4 00
Master  ..................................4 00
Thompson & Chute Co.’s Brands

Savon Improved....................2 50
Sunflower..............................2 80
Golden  .................................. 3 25
Economical  ..........................2 25

Passolt’s Atlas  Brand.

Single  box............................. 3 65
5 box  lots.............................  3  60
10 box lots.............................. 3 50
25 box  lots del.......................3 40

Sap ollo,kitchen, 3  doz...  2 40 

S cou rin g.
hand, 3 doz.......... 2 40

“ 

SUG AR.

Below  are  given  New .York 
prices on sugars, to  which: the 
wholesale  dealer  adds  the  lo­
cal freight  from  New  York  to 
your  shipping  point,  giving 
you  credit  on  the  invoice  for 
the  amount  of  freight  buyer 
pays from the market  in which 
he  purchases  to  his  shipping 
point, including 20  pounds  for 
the weight of the barrel.
Cut  Loaf....................................$4 87
Powdered..................................  i 44
Granulated.................................4 06
Extra Pine Granulated...  4  18
Cubes.......................................... 4 31
XXXX  Powdered....................   4 62
Confec. Standard  A ............ 3  94
No. 1  Columbia A ..............  3 75
No. 5 Empire  A .....................3 69
No.  6.......................................3 56
No.  7........................................3 56
No.  8.......................................3 50
No.  9.......................................3 44
No.  10...................................   3 31
No.  11..................................... 3 25
  3  18
No.  12....................... 
No.  13......................................2 87
No 14.................................... 
2 75

 

SYRUPS.

Corn.

Barrels...................................16
Half bbls................................18
P a ir ................'.....................   19
Good.......................................  25
Choice.....................................  30

Pure Cane.

T A B L E   SAUCES.
“ 

Lea & Perrin's, large.........4 75
small.........2 75
Halford, large...................... 3  75
small...................... 2 25
Salad Dressing,  large.......  4 55
■' 
sm all.......2 65

“ 
“ 

J

TEAS.

SUN CUBED. 

BASKET  FIRED.

j a p a n —Regular.
P a ir ...,........................  @17
Good............................. 
©20
Choice............................24  ©26
Choicest........................ 32  @34
D ust............ 
.............. 10  @12
Pair..............................'  @17
Good................  ..........   @20
Choice............................ 24  @26
Choicest.........................32  @34
Dust............................... 10  @12
Pair................................18  @20
Choice...........................  @25
Choicest........................  @35
Extra choice, wire leaf  @40
Common to fair........... 25  @35
Extra fine to finest___50  @65
Choicest fancy............. 75  @85
@26
Common to fair........... 23  @30
Common to fair........... 23  @26
Superlortofine.............30  @35
Common to fair............18  @26
Superior to  fine........... 30  @40

YOUNG HYSON.

GUNPOWDER.

IMPERIAL.

oo lo n g. 

ENGLISH BREAKFAST.

Pair................................18  @22
Choice............................ 24  @28
B est................................40  @50

TOBACCOS.

Flue Cut.

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

“  M bbls........... 

In drums.... 

23

“ 

27
29
24
28
23
22

Plug.

39
27
40
26
38
34
40
32
39
30

24
43
32
31
27

Sorg’s Brands.

Spearhead........................ 
Joker................................. 
Nobby Twist...................... 
Scotten’s Brands.
K ylo................................ 
Hiawatha........................... 
Valley C ity......................  
Pinzer’s Brands.
Old  Honesty..................... 
Jolly Tar............................ 
Lorillard’s Brands.
Climax (8 oz., 41c)_____  
Gr-en Turtle..................... 
27
Three Black Crows... 
J. G. Butler’s Brands.
Something Good......... 
38
Out of  Sight..................... 
Wilson & McCaulay’s Brands.
Gold  Rope........................ 
Happy Thought..........  
37
Messmate.......................... 
No Tax............................... 
Let  Go............................... 
Catlln’s  Brands.

S m ok in g.

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, Ms foil......................... 32
Banner Tobacco Co.’s Brands.
Banner.................................... 16
Banner Cavendish................38
Gold Cut 
............................. 28
Warpath.................................15
Honey  Dew............................26
Gold  Block............................30
P. P. Adams Tobacco Co,’s 
Peerless...................................26
Old  Tom.................................18
Standard................................ 22
Globe Tobacco Co.’s Brands.
Handmade..............................41

Scotten’s Brands.

Brands.

Leldersdorf’s Brands.

Spaulding & Merrick.

Rob  Roy.................................26
Uncle  Sam.......................28@32
Red Clover............................. 32
Tom and Jerry.......................25
Traveler  Cavendish............ 38
Buck Horn.............................30
Plow  Boy........................30@32
Corn  Cake............................. 16

VINEGAR.

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

(1 for barrel.

W ET  MUSTARD.
Bulk, per gal  ....................  
30
Beer mug, 2 doz In case...  1  75

YEAST.

Magic........................................... 1 00
Warner’s  ...............................1  00
Yeast Foam  ..........................1  00
Riamond................................  75
R oyal.......  . 
................  90

W O O D E N W A R E .

Tubs, No. 1

Palls, No. 1, two-hoop..
“  No. 1,  three-hoop__
Bowls, 11 Inch.....................
......................
“ 
13  “ 
......................
“ 
15  “ 
“ 
......................
17  “ 
“ 
.....................
19  “ 
21 
..................................
“  
Baskets, market...................
shipping  bushel.. 
full  hoop  “
“  No. 2
“  No.3
“  No.l
“  No.2
“  No.3

“ 
“ 
“ willow ci’ths, No.l
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
‘ 
" 

splint 

6  00 
5 50
4 50 
1  30 
1  50
90 
1  25
1  SO
2 40
35 
1  15 
1  25
5 25
6 25
7 25
3 75
4 25 
4 75

INDURATED WARE.

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

Butter Plates—Oval.

Double.

Washboards—single.

250  1000
No.  1...........................  
60  2  10
70  2 45
No.  2...........................  
80  2 80
No.  3 ...........................  
No.  5
1  00  3 50
Universal.............................  2 25
No. Queen............................. 2 50
Peerless Protector..................2 40
Saginaw Globe....................   1  75
Water Witch........................  2250
Wilson.................................. 2  55
Good Luck........................... 2  7=
Peerless..............................  2 8
H ID E S   PE L T S  and  FU R S
Perkins  <&  Hess  pay  as  fol-
lows:
Green..............................   2©2M
Part  Cured..................   @ 3
Pull  “ 
...................  © 3M
Dry.................................   4 @ 5
Kips,green  .................  2  @ 3
“  cured...................  @4
Calfskins,  green........   4  @ 5
cured........ 4  M@ 6
Deacon skins................. 10 @25

HIDES.

“ 

No. 2 hides M off.
PELTS.

WOOL.

Shearlings........................5 ©  20
Lambs 
........................ 25  ©  60
Washed.........................12 @17
Unwashed...................   8 @13
Tallow..........................   4 @  4M
Grease  butter  .............  1 @ 2
Switches......................  1M@ 2
Ginseng........................2 00@2 50
G R A IN S an d  FK KDSTUFFS

MISCELLANEOUS.

WHEAT.

MEAL.

FLOUR  IN  SACKS.

48 
No. 1 White (58 lb. test) 
No. 2 Red (60 lb. test) 
48
Bolted..................................  1  40
Granulated.........................   1  65
'Patents..............................   2 05
'Standards..........................  1  55
Bakers’................................  1  35
'Graham.............................  1  40
Rye.......................................  1  40
'Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour In bbls., 25c per bbl. ad­
ditional.

MILL8TUFF8.

Less
Car lots quantity
$15 00
12 00
15 50
17 50
16 30

Bran...............$14 00
Screenings__   12 00
Middlings.......14 50
Mixed Peed...  17 50
Coarse meal  .  16 30
Car  lots......................... .......44
Less than  car  lots....... .......47
Car  lots......................... .......41
Less than car lots......... .......45
HAT.
No. 1 Timothy, car lots 
N o.l 
ton lots..

...11  00
....12  50

CORN.

OATS.

“ 

12M

F IS H   A N D   OYSTERS.
P.  J.  Dettenthaler  quotes as

follows:
FRESH  FISH.
Whlteflsb 
...................  @ 8
T rout...........................   @ 8
Black Bass..................  
Halibut.........................   @15
Ciscoes or Herring__   @ 4
Blueflsh........................  ©in
Fresh lobster, per lb .. 
15
Cod................................ 
10
No. 1 Pickerel.............   @ 8
Pike..............................   @ 7
Smoked  White............  @ 8
15
Red  Snappers.............. 
Columbia  River  Sal­
mon ........................... 
8
Mackerel......................   18@25
oysters—Cans.
Falrhaven  Counts__   @45
P. J. D.  Selects..........
Selects .........................
F. J. D...........................
Anchors.....................
Standards....................
o y s t e r s—Bulk.
Extra Selects..per gal.
Selects..........................
Standards....................
Counts.........................
Scallops..............  .....
Shrimps  ...................... 
Clams...........................
SHELL  GOODS.
Ovsters, per  100-........ l  25@175
Clams, 
.  75@100

125

“ 

The Grand Rapids  Packing  and Provision Co 

PR O V ISIO N S

PORK  IN  BARRELS.

quotes aB follows:
M ess,..........................................
Shortcut.......:..........................
Extra clear pig, short cut........
Extra clear,  heavy..................
Clear, fat back...........................
Boston clear, short cut.............
Clear back, short cut................
Standard clear, short cut. best
SAUSAGE.
Pork, links..
Bologna__ .
Liver............
Tongue .......
Blood ...........
Head cheese
Summer.......
Frankfurts..
Kettle  Rendered
Granger.............
Fam ily.................
Compound..........
Cottolene__  .  ..
50 lb. Tins, Me advance. 
201b. palls, MC 
“  Vc
101b. 
51b. 
«  %c 
lc  
31b. 
" 
Extra Mess, warranted 200 lbs.........
Extra Mess, Chicago packing...................
Boneless, rump butts................................
SMOKED  MEATS—Canvass^ or Plain.
„  
Hams, average 20 lbs.....................................
16 lbs......................... "
12 to 14 lbs......................  ■'
picnic...............................................
best boneless.................. ..." ...............

BEEF  IN  BARRELS.

Shoulders.....................................
Breakfast Bacon  boneless.............
Dried beef, ham prices....;.
Long Clears, heavy.........................................
Briskets,  medium........................  
..............
ligh t................................
DRY  SALT  MEATS.

Butts............................................
D. S. Bellies......................................................
Fat Backs.........................................
PICKBBD  PIGS’  FEET.
Half  barrels...............................................
Quarter barrels................................................
K its..............................................“ "  '"  ' ’'
_  
Kits, honeycomb..................................
Kits, premium.............................* * **  ” ” **

“ 
“
“

“ 
" 
“ 
“ 

TRIPE.

“ 
“ 

„ 

12 50
13 00
14  50
13 50
14 00 
1< 00 
14 00
7X5*

6

8M6
8H8
6M5M

10
7M

7  50 
7  75 
9  50
.  9M 
■ 10M• 10M
•  8M 97m
7M7M8

10
10

7M
.3 00

75
55

FRESH  BEEF.
Carcass.................... .................
Pore quarters......................
Hind quarters..............................
Loins No. 3.........................
Ribs....................................’___ "
Rounds......................... 111!.’."].
Chucks.............................
Plates.....................................
FRESH  PORK.
Dressed........................................
Loins............................................[
Shoulders  .......................
Leaf Lard......................" ..........]
Carcass........................................
Lambs.............................
Carcass.........................................

MUTTON.

VEAL,

....  f M@  6M
---- 4  © 4M
---- 7  @ 8
. 
.  8  @10 
....  8  @10 
...  6  @  6M 
.. . .   4M®  5 
.... 3  @ 3M

6M@6M8

6M
9M

6  ©

@  7
5M@6

CRO CK ERY  A N D   G LA SSW AR E. 

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

45
50
75

„  
LAMP  BURNERS.
No. 0 Sun.......................................
No. 1  “  ............................. 
No. 2  “
Tubular.

“ 
“ 

..........

LAMP  CHIMNEYS.  Per bOX.

6 doz. in box.
No. 0 Sun.....................................
No. 1  “  ................................ 
no.2  “ ............................
First quality.
No. 0 Sun, crimp  top............
.......
“ 
No. 1  “ 
......... 
...............
No.2  “ 
“ 
..........................
XXX Flint 
No. 0 Sun, crimp  top............
“  ...................  .........
“ 
No. 1  “ 
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....................
No. 3  “ 
....................
FRUIT  JAKS.

“ 
Mason—old  style.

La Bastle.

Pearl top.

“
“ 

“ 

“ 

“

“

Supplies.

Pints......................................................
Quarts....................................................
Half  gallons........................................ .
Mason—one doz  in case.
Pints...................................................
Quarts................................................
Half  gallons.....................................
Dandy—glass  cover.
Pints...........................................................
Quarts........................................................
Half  gallons.............................................
Boyd’s extra caps.....................................
Rubber  rings.............................................
No. 0,  per  gross........................................
..........................................
No. 1, 
No. 2, 
....................................
No. 3, 
..........................................
Mammoth, per doz...................................
STONEWARE— AKRON.
Butter Crocks,  1 to 6 gal.........................
“ 
“  M gal. per doz.................
Jugs, M gal., per doz................................
“  1 to 4 gal., per gal.............................
Milk Pans, M gal., per doz......................
1  “ 
“ 
...............
STONEWARE—BLACK GLAZED.
Butter Crocks, 1  and 2 gal......................
Milk Pans, M gal.......................................
“ 
1  “ 
.........................

LAMP WICKS.

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

1  75 
.1  88 
.2 70
.2 1

...... 8

.2 6 
.2 
3
.3 70 
.4 70 
.4 88
.1  25 
.1  50 
.1  35 
.1  60

5  50
6  00 
8  00

5  75
6  25 
8  25
.10 50 
11  00 
14 00

0

28
38
75

06
60

60
72
07
65
78

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMANS.

1 8

THE  RIGHT  TO  BE  RICH.

Abram  S.  Hewitt  Speaks  Up for the 

Security of Property.

Address  before  Society of  Mechanics  and  Tradesmen, 

unless  they  are  checked  in  time  they 
will destroy society.  The  small fraction 
which  has  made  itself  so  conspicuous 
and so noxious during the last  ten  years 
must  be  checked  and  relegated  to  its 
If  they 

If

. 

ttt: 

. . .  

. .   .  . 

. i proper position  in  the  social  scale. 

a t  New  York.
_ 
Beginning with a  brief  description  of  th  wiil  eat  let  them  work. 
the funeral of Jesse beligman,  which  he  wilf not work ,et them 8tarve.
had attended in the morning, Mr.  Hewitt 
“It is true that some  men,  not  many, 
said:
It  is  true  that 
are  born  to  fortune. 
“It is safe to say  that  the  assemblage 
some men have much larger fortune than 
of  men  who  came  to  do  honor  to  the 
they know well how  to  administer,  and 
memory  of  Mr.  Seligman  represented 
it  may  seem  to  be  an  evil  that  some 
more  wealth  than  all  the  accumulated 
great  fortunes  should  exist,  especially 
property  of  the  city  of  New  York  in 
where they have  been  gained by  fraud, 
1785, when this society  was  founded.  1 
but it would be an infinitely greater  evil 
doubt whether among all the  twenty-two 
if, in order to get rid of  the  exceptional 
men  whose  names  appear  upon 
this 
instances which are the subject, perhaps, 
bronze  tablet  there  was  the  ability  to 
of just criticism,  we were  to  undermine 
raise 81,000 at that time.
the security of property,  and take  away 
“This society has  accumulated all that 
from  the  young  the  incentive  which 
it has to-day by  what  is  called  the  un­
success alone offers to them  for  a life of 
earned increment;  very  properly  called 
industry, of  enterprise  and  of  honesty.
unearned,  for the growth in  the value of 
“1 want  to give you an  illustration on 
its real estate, which constitutes,  I  sup­
this particular point, because there  is so 
pose,  the  foundation  upon  which  the 
much  misapprehension  in  the  public 
society now rests,  has  been  contempora 
mind  upon  this  subject. 
I  doubt  not 
neous  with  the  growth  of  the  city  of 
that it exists in the minds  of most of the 
New York;  and  if  people  were  not  al­
conscientious men  in  this  room,  and  I 
lowed to get  the advantage  which  comes 
myself have often felt a  sense  of  griev­
to property from growth of  population 1 
ance,  which  almost  amounted 
to  im­
take  it  that  population  would go some­
patience, that some  men  could  have  so 
where else,  where  the  operation  of  its 
much more than  other men.  But that is 
growth  would  be  advantageous  to 
the 
only an indication that  society  is  doing 
people.  The first principle  of  the  Con­
its work successfully,  for  if  these  very 
stitution  of  the  United  States  is  the 
rich  men,  the  superfluously  rich  men, 
right of a man to control  bis own actions 
did not exist, there  would  be  very  few 
subject only to his  not  iuterfering  with 
people who  would  have  a  competence, 
the rights of other men  to  control  their 
and it so happens that the  great mass of 
own actions.  Now what is the first right 
mankind enjoy more of  the  comforts  of 
of an individual?
life  than  they  have  possessed  at  any 
“ It  is  to  work  in  any  direction  to 
period  of  human  history.  This  is  the 
which  he  may  see  fit  to  direct  his 
golden age of  mankind.  Don’t  be  mis­
energies, and if  he  works  he  works for 
led by the fact that there  is  misery  and 
the purpose of producing something, and 
uffering in  the  world.  There  is.  But 
that  something  is property.  Therefore, 
it is easier for a tramp to get  a  living in 
the essence of  individual  liberty  is  the 
this world to day than it was  a  hundred 
right  to  property.  Now,  the  right  to 
years ago for an honest man.
have property involves and  requires  the 
You all know about the  Bessemer in­
right to  organize  for  the  protection  of 
vention of  steel. 
It  was  made  in  1855 
property, and hence associations  both of 
by a student in his  laboratory.  He  pro­
employers and  of those  who  are  recip­
pounded  his  idea  to  the  world,  but  it 
ients of wages.  But  the  right  to  asso­
took fifteen years before it  was  success 
ciate for the protection  of  property does 
fully pul in operation.  I know  Mr. Bes­
not give the right to  interfere with those 
semer very well.  He  is  a  modest  man, 
who  do  not  choose  to  associate  them­
who  never  sought  to  make  a  fortune, 
selves for that  purpose.  This  principle 
but be  has  never  taken  reward  of  his 
is absolutely embedded  in  the  Constitu­
great invention, and be  told me the  last 
tion  of the United States.
time I saw him in  London  that  he  had 
“During  the  last  twenty  years  there 
got  out  of  his  invention  £2,000.000 
has  been  a  disposition  on  the  part  of 
nearly  810,000,000.  The  contribution 
public men to overlook this  fundamental 
which lie made to the world  by  that 
principle,  and  to  yield  to  clamor.  In 
vention in the  saving it  has  effected 
other words, from being  statesmen many 
the  ordinary  operations  of  society 
men in  public  life  have  become  dema­
simply incalculable.  If I were to say we 
gogues, and they have gradually stricken 
were saving 81,000,000,000  a year in this 
down  in  the  law  the  protection  which 
country alone as the result of that inven 
the  rights  of 
was  afforded  by  it  for 
tion applied to every branch of industry 
citizens and  individuals.  The  result  is 
particularly in the  transportation of  the 
the 
the 
commonly 
goods and the products of  the country, 
between 
the 
and 
should 
the 
most  deplorable  result  of  which 
is 
amount.  And  now  I  am  going  to  say 
that intimidation has  become  a  part  of 
something even more suprising.  Taking 
the public economy of  this  country, and 
the world  together,  the  saving  effected 
it has gradually got to  be thought that it 
by  that  inventien  is  greater  than  the 
is right or may be right  for employers to 
total  value of all the  movable  capital of 
exercise force and violence  by means  of 
the world one hundred years ago.
lockouts and other similar  appliances  to 
coerce  their  workmen,  and 
it 
“One  man,  by a  single invention,  has 
contributed  to  the  aggregate  wealth  of 
is  right  for  workmen,  by  the  use  of 
the world more value  than  existed  fifty 
force, to compel  the  stoppage  of  enter­
years before his birth.  Now be  has  got 
prise,  and,  what  is  worse  than  all,  to 
interfere with other men who are willing 
ten  millions  of  dollars. 
It  is  a  great 
sum.  He will leave  it  to  his  children 
and desirous to work.
I see 
who have done nothing, have contributed 
no  method  of  overcoming  the  evils 
nothing to the acquisition of this money 
which  threaten  us  but  to  instruct  the 
Whom  has he  robbed?  Whom  will  his 
young in the  principles  of  government 
children rob?  Who would be the  gainer 
if he had never  received  one  penny  for 
It is mainly for that reason  that  I  have 
brought the subject to  the  notice of this 
his great  discovery?  How  much  would 
society. 
I  think  that  the  work  which 
the distribution  of  his  810,000,000  over 
you are  now doing  in  educating  young 
the face of society add to the  fortune  of 
mechanics  and  artisans  should  be  eu 
any single individual, and how much has 
larged. 
I think you  should  establish  i 
his invention added to the fortunes of all 
class in civics.  Steps  will  be  taken  at 
mankind?
the  institution  with  which  1  am  con­
“Not that I  would  not  impress  upon 
nected—Cooper Union—to  give  this  in 
the  possessors  of  these  great  fortunes 
struction on  a  very  considerable  scale, 
their obligations and duty,  but,  even  if 
I am  glad  to  say  that  the  enlightened 
men refused to perform those duties, it is 
administration of  Columbia  College  are 
an extraordinary thing  that  the laws  of 
prepared to co-operate in this movement 
nature would step in and compel them to 
The example of  these  great  institutions 
do it.  A man with  a  fortune  of  8100, 
000,000 who locks it up in his vaults gets 
should  5e  performed  on  such  a  large 
nothing from it. 
It is only  by  expend! 
scale  as 
instruction 
throughout the length and breadth of the 
ture that he can get anything  out  of  it 
Of course, I should like to see it expended 
land. 
It is the antidote  to  communism 
on  what  we  all  regard  as  enlightened
to anarchism and to  populism,  which are
diseases so epidemic  and  so  fatal,  that ! and philanthropic  objects,  but  there  is

“Calling names will do no good. 

certainly  underestimate 

called 
labor, 

to  spread 

conflict, 

capital 

that 

this 

no form of expenditure, that  is  not  im­
moral, that does not benefit society.
“It is true that when he  drives  a  fine 
coach and gives a fine  dinner, it may not 
be as productive a use of it as if he spent 
it  in  another  way,  but  it  is  a  use. 
I 
heard  some  one  criticise  one  of  my 
friends for paying  8100,000 for a picture. 
But the answer  which  I  made  was:
“It seems to me  that  he  ought  to  be 
commended  for  taking  8100,000  of  his 
money and giving  it  to  somebody  else. 
Even supposing that  the  picture  is  not 
worth a cent, the other man  still has the 
money,  and  will  distribute  it  in  his 
turn.”

PROTECT  THE  BOYS.

There  seems 

to  be  something  ex­
tremely  injurous  to  the  health  in  the 
moking  of  cigarettes.
The  use  of  tobacco, which is a power­
ful  narcotic  drug,  is  not  much  older 
than 
two  centuries,  yet  in  that  brief 
period it  has  exerted  a  most  injurious 
effect  upon  the  nervous  force  of  the 
people  and  upon  the  destinies  of  the 
human  race.  Tobacco, which  is indig­
to  and  existed  naturally  only 
enus 
the  New  World,  has  been  carried 
thence  to every  other  land,  and has  be­
come an accustomed and daily, it may be 
aid  hourly,  object  of  consumption  by 
many millions of people  in  every  coun-
t  is  so  generally  esteemed  because 
of  its  power 
to  calm  nervous  excite­
ment  and  to  soothe  the  mind;  but there 
an  enormous  danger  in  the constant 
use of  drugs  to  deaden  or  consume  the 
nervous force.  Whether they  soothe,  or 
whether they excite, makes  little  differ­
ence  The  result  is  the  same.  Every 
udividual  has  only  a  given  amount  of 
vital  force,  or  nerve  power,  and  if  it 
be  consumed  prodigally  by  excessive 
indulgence,  or  be  destroyed  by the use 
of drugs, there  is  just  so  much  less  of 
it  to  be  used  in  the  great functions of 
life.  Brain  power  and  virile  force  are 
really  only  nerve  power,  and  any  ex­
cessive  inroads  on  the  nervous  force 
must  effect  a  corresponding  weakening 
in those supreme functions.
Tobacco  used  in  moderation  is  un­
doubtedly  least harmful of  all;  but  the 
fact  that  it  can  be  used 
incessantly 
and  to  the  greatest  excess  makes  it, 
perhaps, the most  dangerous  of  all  the 
nerve  deadeners, 
reasons 
which need not be  considered  here,  the 
cigarette  seems  to  be  the  most  baneful 
form  in  which 
is  used.  So 
much  attention  has  been  attracted  to 
this method of consuming  tobacco that it 
has drawn out  voluminous commentaries 
from medical men  and  sanitarians,  and 
in some States  the manufacture and sale 
of cigarettes is prohibited  by law.  Such 
is not  the  case  in  Michigan,  albeit  we 
have  a  law  on  our  statute  books, pro­
hibiting 
to 
minors,  which is seldom enforced.  When 
the  law was  enacted,  the  merchants  of 
the State very generally  intended to live 
up to the provisions of  the  law,  but  as 
soon as it  was  discovered  that  no  con­
certed action would  be made  to  enforce 
the measure,  the  dealers  became  lax in 
the  matter  and  many  of  them  have, 
probably,  forgotten that such  a law  ever 
existed.  Some means  should  be  taken, 
either by the officers  of  the  law  or  the 
merchants  themselves,  to  create  senti­
ment sufficiently  strong  to  warrant  the 
enforcement  of  the  enactment,  to  the 
end  that  the  boys  and  youths  of  the 
country  may  be  spared  the  infliction 
which follows the indiscriminate  use  of 
the cigarette. 

sale  of  cigarettes 

F r a n k   S t o w e l l .

tobacco 

and, 

the 

for 

How It Happened.

Syms—Poor  Robinson,  I’m  told,  was 
Smyles—Yes,  he  was  struck  on  the 

killed by bard drink.
head with a cake of ice.

Brood over imaginary troubles and you 

will batch out real fines.
QUALITY

Is the  first  thing  to  be  considered  when 
buying soap, after that comes the question 
of price.  If you handle the

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the first is  guaranteed,  the  Becond speaks 
for itself.  Send sample order  and  see  for 
yourself.

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H EN R Y   PASSOLT,

SAGINAW,  MICH.

Typewriter Supply  Office.

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STATE  AGENCY. FO R   T H E

The Edison Mimeograph—The Simplex 
Duplicator—Typewriter and Mimeograph 
Supplies  of  all  kinds.  Mail  orders  re­
ceive prompt attention.
Y. M. C. A.  Building,

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Kent  C oiti Savings Ml

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A.  Co v o d b,  Pres.

Hbnrt  I o bm a, Vice-Pres.

J.  A.  8 .  V e r d ie r ,  Cashier.

K. Van Hof, Ass’tC*s’r. 

T ransacts a G eneral B a n k in g   B u sin ess. 

In te rest  A llo w ed   o n   T im e  and  S avin gs 

D ep o sits.

DIRECTORS:

Jno. A. Covode, D. A  Blodgett,  E. Crofton Fox, 
T. J. O’Brien,  A. J. Bowne,  Henry Idema, 
Jno. W. Blodgett, J. A. McKee 
J. A. S. Verdier.
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YOUR
STATIONERY

We control it in  this locality.

USE  Your  Note  Heads.
It’s first-class stock.
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It’s easy to  write upon. 
Your  Letter Heads. 
It’s always the same. 
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Your Legal  Blanks. 
It’s a credit to your business.  ON
Your Checks and Drafts.

It  always  gives  satisfaction,  and,  compared  with  other 

stock,  the  price is nothing.

Do They Raise Poultry in

Your Neel of he Woods ?

Buy all the first-class Poultry you can get and ship to me.  1 want  it  and  will 

pay highest market price.

F. J. DETTENTHALER, 117 and 119 Monroe St.

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Farmers.

Mutual  Relations  of  Merchants  and 
There  is  a  kind  of  co-operation  be­
tween the merchant and the  farmer,  not 
only  mutually  profitable  but  that  will 
yield  large  returns,  to  the  former  es­
pecially. 
interest  the 
merchant takes  in  the  improvement  of 
farm products  that  he  is  to  handle  or 
that will be concerned in his  trade.

I  refer  to  the 

The  average 

farmer  esteems  his 
merchant as a man of  wider  general  in­
formation  than  others.  He  supposes 
the  merchant  to  be  especially  well  in­
formed on the appliances  for farm  work 
he offers for sale.  The prestige  thus en­
joyed by  the  merchant  enables  him  to 
give  much  valuable  advice,  and  it  be­
hooves him to be  well  informed in  such 
matters.  The  acquirement  of  the  in­
formation  sufficient  for  mutual  profit 
will be a matter of  recreation  to  one  of 
intellectual activity, but if  some effort is 
required the advantages  to be gained are 
sufficient to warrant it.

Perhaps  the  direction  in  which  the 
merchant’s influence may  be most appar- 
ant is in fruit growing.  Improvement in 
the  quality  of  the  product  passing 
through  his  hands  means  largely  in­
creased profits.  Thus  it  is  well  worth 
while for him to furnish  the  best appar­
atus  obtainable  for  tree  spraying,  for 
instance.  He could well afford to furnish 
this if necessary at cost;  and he can well 
afford to inform  himself  in  this  partic­
ular line and  take a  personal interest in 
the  conservation  and 
inprovement  of 
that on which his  profits  so  largely  de­
pend. 

W.  N .  F u l l e r.

Hard  on  Philadelphia.

The project of  a  ship  canal  between 
New York and Philadelphia is  again be­
ing  agitated.  Just  when  this  project 
was  first  proposed  is  unknown;  it  has 
been lost in the mists of  antiquity.  But 
the reappearance of the scheme  reminds 
one of the story  of  the  old  farmer who 
went  to  the  Philadelphia  postoffice  to 
get his mail.  The  clerk  at  the  wicket 
was a smart aleck who proposed  to have 
some  fun  at  the  expense  of  the  “old 
country  Reuben.”  After  the  old  man 
had asked for himself and for  his neigh­
bors  for  miles  around,  and  had  been 
chaffed by the clerk  and  laughed  at  by 
the bystanders, he asked:

“Is ther’ anythin’ here for  Miss  Phil- 

adelphy Smith?”

“No,”  answered the  clerk,  “there  is 
nothing  for  Miss  Philadelphia  Smith. 
But say, uncle, is that  the  young  lady’s 
right name?”

“No,” was the answer,  “but  she  has 
gone by that name since she wuz a  little 
gal.”

“Why do you call  her  Philadelphia?”
‘ Cos  she’s  so  tarnal  slow  that  the 
grass turns white  under  her  feet  when 
she walks.

As Old as the Hills.

From  th e Chicago Herald.
Grocers everywhere  assert  that  there 
is little or no profit  in  retailing  sugars, 
and housekeepers confirm this by  saying 
that there  is  small  economy  in  buying 
sugar  by  the  barrel.  The  tradition 
touching  the  small  profit  in  handling 
sugar at retail is certainly more than one 
hundred years old,  for  a  writer  in  the 
middle of the last  century .affirmed  that 
London grocers  of  that  day were  often 
out £60 to £70 a year for paper and pack 
thread used in  wrappibg  up  sugar, and 
some grocers would not  sell  sugar  to  a 
customer who did not at  the  same  time 
purchase some other article.

U se Tradesman Coupon Books.

Michigan (Tentral

“  The Niagara Falls Route.’*

(Taking effect  Sunday,  May 27,1894.) 

♦Daily.  All others daily, except Sunday.

Arrive. 
Separi
10 20 n m............Detroit Express............ 7 00am
5 30 a m .......«Atlantic and  Pacific....... 11  20 p m
1  50 p m........ New York Express..........  6 00pm
Sleeping cars run on Atlantic  and  Pacific ex 
press trains to and from Detroit.
Parlor  cars  leave  for  Detroit at 7:00 am ;  re 
turning, leave Detroit 4:35 p m, arriving at Grand 
Rapids 10:20 p m.
Direct  communication  made  at  Detroit  with 
all through  trains erst  over  the  Michigan Cen 
tral Railroad (Canada Southern Division.)
A .  A lm^ u is t , Ticket Agent,

Union Passenger Station.

CHICAGO

May  27,  1894
A N D aW E ST   M IC H IG A N   R*Y.

GOING TO  CHICAGO.

 

 
 

7:30am  

TO ASD PROM  MUSKEGON.

RETURNING  FROM  CHICAGO.

Lv. G’d Rapids..............7:25am  1:50pm *11:30pm
Ar. Chicago...................  1:25pm  7:15pm  *6:45am
Lv.  Chicago...................7:35am  4:55pm  *11:45pm
Ar. G’d Rapids..............2:25pm  10:20pm  *6:25am
Lv. Grand Rapids........   7:25am  1:50pm  5:45pm
Ar. Grand Rapids........ 9:15am  2:25pm  10:20pm
TRAVERSE CITT,  CHARLEVOIX AND  PETOSKEY.
3:15pm
Lv. Grand  Rapids.. 
Ar.  Manistee............  12:20pm 
........... 
8:15pm
Ar. Traverse City....  12:40pm 
............   8:45pm
Ar. Charlevoix........  
3:15pm 
 
11:10pm
Ar.  Petoskey... 
11:40pm
.. 
3:45pm   
Arrive  from  Petoskey,  etc.,  1:00  p.  m.  and 
10:00p. m.
PARLOR  AND  SLEEPING  CARS.
ToChicago.lv.G. R..  7:25am  1:50pm *11:30pm
To Petoskey ,lv.G. R..  7:30am  3:15pm 
............
To G. R. .lv. Chicago.  7:35am  4:55pm *11:45pm
T oG .R ..lv. Petoskey  5:00am  1:30pm 
............
♦Every day.  Other trains week days only.
D ETR O IT,

FEB.  11,  1894
L A N SIN G   A  N O R T H E R N   R .  R .
GOING TO  DETROIT.

RETURNING  FROM  DETROIT.

TO AND FROX  SAGINAW, ALMA AND  ST.  LOUIS.

Lv. Grand Rapids.........7:00am *1:20pm  5:25pm
Ar. Detroit....................11:40am *5:30pm  10:10pm
Lv.  Detroit....................  7:40am *1:10pm  6:00pm
Ar. Grand Rapids........ 12:40pm *5:15pm  10:45pm
Lv. GR 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 mom - 
ing train.

TO LOWELL VIA  LOWELL  A  HASTINGS R.  R.

THROUGH  CAR  SERVICE.

•Every da/.  Other trains  week days only.

GEO. DeHAVBN, Gen.  Pass’r Ag’t.

■ETR O IT,  G R A N O   H A V E N   A  M IL ­

W A U K E E   R a ilw a y .
EASTWARD.

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

+No.  14 tNo.  16 tNo.  18 *No. 82
6 45am
11 00pm 
7 40am
1235am 
8 25am 
1 25am 
900am
3 10am
10 50am
6 40am 
11 32am 
7 15am 
10 05am 
5 4Cam
1205pm
7 30am 
10 53am
5 37am 
11 50am
7 00am
WESTWARD.

1020am 
1125am 
1217pm 
1 20pm
3 45pm
4 35pm
3 45pm
5 50pm 
305pm
4 05pm

325pm 
4 27pm 
520pm 
605pm 
800pm 
837pm
7 05pm 
850pm
8 25pm
9 25pm

For  Grand Haven  and Intermediate
Points  ................................................t7:35a.  m.
For Grand Haven and  Muskegon...... tl:00 p. m.
.......+4:55 p.  m.
kee,  W is.........................................*7:30p.  m.
For  Grand  Haven  and  Milwaukee,+10:05 p. m. 
For Grand Haven  (Sunday only).........8:00 a. m.

“ 
“  Chicago and Milwau­

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

«Daily.

+Daily except Sunday. 
Trains  arrive  from  the  east,  6:35  a.m.,  12:50 
p.m., 4:35 p. m. and 10:00 p. m.
Trains  arrive from  the  west, 6:40 a.  m., 10:10 
a. m., 3:16 p. m. and  10:50  p.  m.  Sunday,  only, 
8:00 a. m.
Eastward—No. 14  has  Wagner  Parlor  Buffet 
car.  No. 18 Parlor Car.  No. 82 Wagner  Sleeper.
Westward — No. 11 Parlor Car.  No. 16 Wagner 
Parlor Buffet car.  No. 81 Wagner Sleeper.

J as. Campbell, City T'eket Agent.

Grand Rapids & Indiana.

TRAINS  GOINS  NORTH.

Leave going1 
North.
For Traverse C ity,  M ackinaw C ity  and S a g ...  7 .40 a m
For  Traverse  City and M ackinaw  C ity............. 4:10 p  m
For  Saginaw............................................................ 5:00 p m

TRA INS  GOING  SO U TH .

L eave  g o in g  
South.
F or  C in cinn ati.....................................................  .....0:60  a m
For K alam azoo and  C h icago..................................18:06 p m
For F ort W ayne an d   th e  B ast.............................. 8 -.16 p m
For  K alam azoo  and  C h icago....................................... 11:80 p m

Chicago via G. R. A I. R. R.

Lv Qrand R apids............ 18:05 p m   2:15 p m  11:80 p m
A rr  Chicago.....................5:30pm   0:00pm  
7:40am
12:05 p  m  tra in   has th rough W agner  Buffet  P arlor 
Car.
11:20  p m  train  d aily, throngh W agner Sleeping Car. 
9:35 p m
L v  C hicago 
Arr Grand Rapids 
7:25 a m
4:00  p  m  has  throngh  W agner  B uffet  Parlor  Car. 
9:35 p m  train  d aily, th ron gh  W agner  S leeping  Car.
Muskegon, Grand Rapids A Indiana.
9:40 a m
7:35 a m  
*:40 p m 
6:20 p m
O. L. LOCKWOOD,

From  Muskegon—Arrive

For Muskegon—Leuve. 

4:00 p m  
9:16 p m  

6:60 a m  
2:15 p m  

General Passenger and Ticket Agent«

to  see how  some  merchants persist in^hangmg to  the pass book 
and  other  antiquated charging  systems  when  the  adoption  of 
the Coupon  Book System would curtail their losses,  lessen  the 
time  devoted  to  credit  transactions,  enable them to  avoid the 
annoyances incident to  credit dealings  and  place  their  busi­
ness  on  practically  a  cash  basis.  Over 5,000  Michigan  mer­
chants  are  now  using  our  Coupon  Books.  W e  want 5,000 
more customers in  the  same field.  Are you willing  to  receive 
catalogue  and  price list?  A   postal  card  will bring  them.
T r a d e s m a n   Com pany,

G r a n d   R a p id s ,  M ic h .

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

20

QUARTERLY  MEETING.

them  of 

Knights  of  the  Grip.

Of the  Board  of  Directors,  Michigan 
Grand  Ra p id s,  June 4—At the  regu­
lar  quarterly  meeting  of  the  Board  of 
Directors, Michigan  Knights of the Grip, 
held  at  the  Hudson  House,  Lansing, 
June  2,  President  Waldron  presided. 
Roll call  was  responded  to  by  Messrs. 
Peake,  Owen,  Jacklin  and  Secretary 
Mills.
A  communication  was  received  from 
John A.  Lee, President National T. P. A., 
regarding plau for a  western commercial 
travelers’  home.  Referred  to  Director 
Owen.
An invitation to  attend  the  laying  of 
the  corner  stone  of 
the  commercial 
travelers’  home  at  Binghamton,  N. Y., 
October  9,  1894,  was  received  and  as 
many of our officers  and members as can 
arrange to be present are requested to do 
so.
A communication was received,  signed 
Fred P. Brand, W. C. Dewey  and  others, 
requesting our  endorsement  of  the  pro­
posed  orgauization  by 
the 
Michigan  Commercial Travelers’  Mutual 
Accident  Association.  On  motion  of 
Director  Owen,  supported  by  Director 
Peake, the  communication  was  rejected 
and ordered returned,  with the following 
endorsement:  The Board of  Directors of 
this  association do  not desire  to  go  on 
record  as  endorsing  any  movement 
this direction, as it is  the  sense  of  this 
Board that if  an  accident  association is 
needed  in  this  State,  our  organization 
could  incorporate  an  accident  feature 
that would  be  conducted  with  less  ex 
pense  to our members  than  if  done  by 
outside parties.
A communication  from  Sol. Friendly 
Elmira, N. Y.,  also  one  from  members 
regarding a South Haven  livery, was  re 
ferred to the  Bus aud  Baggage  Commit 
tee.
The  Secretary presented the followin 
report:
I herewith submit  my  report  for  the 
quarter  ending May  81:  As per your 
structions  1  had  printed  aud  mailed 
under date of  March  20,  a  second  an 
last notice of death  assessment  No.  1, to 
the 700 members who had  failed  to  pay 
the same, and  attached thereto  a  certifi­
cate of health for the delinquents to sign, 
and by this means have  collected  nearly 
all of this assessment.  After paying the 
beneficiary  of  the  late  C.  G.  McIntyre 
$500,  there  remained  in  the  death fund 
less than  that  amount.  You  thereupon 
directed me  to  issue  Death  Assessment 
No. 2, which was mailed to each member 
in good standing  April  20,  and  expires 
June 20.  At  the  present  time  but  554 
members have responded  to same,  but a 
large  proposition  usually  delay  their 
remittance until the last  10 days.  Since 
our last meeting the  deaths  of  the  fol­
lowing members have occurred:
Jos. R. Ogden, Binghamton, N. Y., No. 
1,500, Feb.  19,  of  cancer.  Voucher  No.
1 was mailed his wife. May 20 for $500.
R. J. Coppes, Grand Rapids, No. 3,559, 
April 1,  of  pneumonia.  1  submit  here­
with proofs of death for your action.
I  would  also  present  the  proofs  of 
death of James V. Sine, of Clare, regard­
ing whose case special  action  was  taken 
at our last meeting, as  he  had  tendered 
his resignation,  but  his  wife  desired  to 
continue  his  membership  at  her  own 
expense, and 1 notified her of your action, 
and mailed her  a  notice  of  Assessment 
No. 1, but as she  had  changed  her  resi­
dence,  and  failed  to  notify  me  of  the 
fact,  the notice failed to reach  her  until 
after the time for  paying  the  same  had 
expired.  Upon receipt of her remittance 
April 5,  I wrote her,  stating that  before 
1 could send her a  receipt  for  same  she 
must sign and return the enclosed certifi­
cate of health,  and as  her  husband  died 
April 16 of  cancer  of  the  stomach,  she 
was unable to make the  statement.  Her 
neglect to notify me of her change in ad 
dress appears  to have been the  cause  of 
this delinquency.
I also  submit  proofs  of  the  death  of 
Wilbur C.  Lynes, Corunna,  No. 316,  who 
died May 22 of heart  failure,  one of  our 
oldest members and in good standing.
.These  are  all  the  deaths  that  have 
come to my knowledge at this time.
During the  convention  at  Saginaw,  a 
letter was forwarded me from  my office,

containing eleven  applications  and  two 
important  letters,  which  never  reached 
me.  My stenographer  had  entered  the 
names  of  the  applicants  on  my  cash 
book, but not the addresses, and  by  ad- 
ertising in our  official  organ  and  T hk 
T radesm an,  1 found the addresses of all 
but that of A. E. Docherty, and not until 
reasurer Reynolds sent  me  $1,  in pay­
ment of the former’s  Death  Assessment 
No. 2, March 8, did I learn  his  address.
1 immediately  wrote  Docherty  a  full 
explanatory letter, enclosing  a  new  ap­
plication  blank  and  requested  him  to 
fill out and return to me  at  once  and  1 
would rush it  through  as  soon  as  pos- 
ible, and also apply the $1 paid  for No. 
on the next  assessment.  On  April  18 
received the blank  properly  filled  out 
under date of April 16, and  immediately 
forwarded it  to  President  Waldron  for 
his  approval,  who  approved  and  re­
turned it April  21.  On  April  19,  only 
three days after he had filled out the last 
application, Docherty wrote  both Treas­
urer Reynolds and  myself  letters which 
1 present, finding  much  fault  with  the 
management of this office,  and  demand­
ing the return of his  money. 
I  at  once 
wrote  him  that,  although  he  certainly 
had some cause for  complaint, still I did 
not consider that it was any fault  of this 
office,  as we had done all  in  our  power 
to locate his  address, and  1  would  con 
sider it a personal favor if  he would  al­
low me to issue  his  certificate  of  mem 
bership, as his application bad  been  ac 
In  reply  he  sent  the  letter  I 
cepted. 
submit, dated April  26,  demanding  the 
return of his money. 
I at once sent him 
my check for $2, that being  the  amount 
I had received.
1 am pleased to state that we  are  con­
stantly  making  improvements  in  our 
office system to prevent  a  recurrence  of 
any  errors  on  our  part  in  the  future, 
that they have been  reduced  to  a  mini­
mum,  and  the  members  are  becoming 
more familiar with the system.
1 submit the following financial  report 
for the quarter ending May 31:
.  
Bal.  on  hand.  March 1................................ 8325 53
Annual dues from 353 old members..........   353 00
Annual dues from 108 new  members........  108 00
Annual dues from 19 honorary members ..  19 00
Total receipts.................. 8805  53
The  disbursements  in  the  meantime 
(Orders Nos.  98  to  109  inclusive)  have 
been $501.31, leaving a  balance  on  hand 
Of $304.22.
Balance on band, March  1........................ $743 25
Received from Assessment No. 5...............   34 00
“  1.................109 0
“  2 .................  554 00
Total receipts.................82030 2i
Three orders for $500  each  have  been 
drawn,  payable  to  the  heirs of the late 
R. T. Scott, C. G.  McIntyre  and  Jos.  R. 
Ogden,  leaving  a  balance  on  hand  of 
$539.25.
The report was accepted  and  adopted 
on the  recommendation  of  the  Finance 
Committee.
Proofs of the death of J.  V. Sine,  who 
was delinquent for death assessment No 
1,  was referred to President Waldron aud 
Directors Owen, for investigation, to 
port at next meeting.
The Secretary was  instructed  to  mail 
a list of delinquents in each of the larger 
cities to the officers of the local posts
The following bills were  allowed  and 
orders drawn in payment of  same:
H. F. Moeller,  attend’eat board  meeting..!  1  00 
E. P. Waldron, 
2  98
A. F. Peake, 
3 60
Geo. F. Owen, 
R. W. Jacklin, 
3 6
L. M. Mills, 
postage and office  expenses.......8120
salary  for March,  April,  May..84  85 
Tradesman  Company,  printing,  station'y. .52 80
The  meeting  then  adjourned. to  the 
next regular meeting, to be  held at same 
place, Saturday, Sept.  1.

GENERAL  FUND.

DEATH  FUND.

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The Drug: Market.

price by  manufacturers.
cost of  production.

Opium is dull  and low.
Powdered opium has  also declined.
Salicylia  acid  has  been  lowered 
Salol has declined, on account of lower 
Chloral Hydrate has declined.
Turpentine has advanced.
Stewart’s Dyspepsia Tablets have been 

advanced to $4 per dozen.

GOTHAM GOSSIP.

News  from  the  Metropolis- - -Index  of 
Special Correspondence

the  Markets.

New  York,  June 2—Sureiy  every  re­
tailer who takes a broad-minded  view of 
the political affairs  of  the  country will 
read with interest the speeches that were 
made here  last  night,  as  given  in  the 
press of the country with greater or  less 
fullness.  There seemed for once to be a 
perfect unanimity of  feeling, and  party 
lines were forgotten. 
If the  income tax 
is foised upon the people of the couutry, 
it will not be without  a  mighty  protest 
on the part of rich and poor and  the  re­
sult of such a tax is the sure dismember* 
ment of what is now known as  the Dem­
ocratic  party.  All  has  been  said  that 
can be said, and, if Congress  now  delib­
erately passes the bill, it will  make New 
York,  as  Bourke  Cochran  said,  a  “Re­
publican Gibraltar.”
The tax  assessment  rolls  of  the  city 
for  1894  have  been  completed.  There 
must be raised by taxation here the com­
ing year  the  sum  of  $35,000,000.  This 
sum will be incrased  in  other  ways  by 
$3,000,000, in order to meet the expenses, 
which will amount  to  over  $38,000,000. 
The tax rate is  not  heavy, as  compared 
with other cities,  but the amount  of tax­
able  property  is  so  enormous  that,  of 
course, the aggregate is very large.
In trade circles the week  has  been  of 
an average character, and in nothing has 
the demand been  great  or  the  supplies 
insufficient.  The grocery jobbers repeat 
the same old story of room  for  improve­
ment, and not enough work for  the pres­
ent  force  of  hands. 
It  may  be  said, 
however, that the force  of  hands  in  al­
most every case is about  as  small  as  it 
can possibly  be  made,  and  to  do  with 
less would  necessitate  the  wheeling  of 
trucks by the proprietors themselves.
The most observable thing  about  cof­
fee is its steady  descent.  No.  7  Rio  is 
now worth only about 15%c.  No  one is1 
loading up  at  the  reduced  prices,  and 
holders  do  not  hang  on  to  any  price 
higher  than  that  given.  The  stock  is 
not large,  but the crops give  promise  of 
abundance, and so it seems hardly likely 
that we shall see  the  high  prices  which 
have  prevailed  so  long.
Teas have  touched  the  lowest  prices 
this season, upon the average,  known in 
the history of  the  trade.  About  40,000 
boxes of Country  greens  and  Pingsueys 
were refused entry by the Port Inspector 
and  this  made  some  improvement  in 
these  sorts;  but  these  are  exceptional 
cases.  Oolongs,  Formosa,  Foochow,  or 
Amoy are j ust now at the lowest prices yet 
made, with many  large  invoices  yet  to 
be  sold.  Japans, also, have declined, in 
sympathy  with  other  sorts.  A  good 
Foochow oolong is  quotable  at  ll@12c; 
superior  do, 14@16e;  fine  to  fully  fine, 
18@20c; choice,  26@30c.  Formosas  are 
about lc  above  these  rates,  and  Amoy 
slightly below.  Superior to fine Japans, 
13@18c.
Granulated sugar is to-day 4c—at least 
this is the card rate  of  the Wholesalers’ 
Association.  No special improvement is 
noticeable,  and  purchases  seem  to  be 
made only from band to mouth.
Canned  goods  still  drag  their  slow 
length along and no  animation whatever 
is shown, either for  spot  or  future  de­
livery.  Three  pound 
tomatoes  are 
worth  about  90c  for  future  delivery. 
Peaches are dull and prices irregular.
Rice is firmly held here, but seems to be 
as high at primary  points.  Not  a  great

c.

volume  of  business  is  passing,  but 
holders are  firm  in  their  views.  Prime 
domestic, 
No change in  spices,  unless  it  is  for 
the worse.  Pepper is, perhaps, as stead­
ily  held  as  a  month  ago,  but  inquiry 
among dealers shows no enthusiasm, and, 
upon the whole, the trade is  sluggish  in 
the extreme.
A little better feeling  for  butter  pre­
vails, but 17c still remains  the top notch 
for best Elgin  and  State  dairy.  Cheese 
is  in  liberal  supply,  and  weaker.  Ad­
vices  from  the  country  indicate  lower 
rates,  and 9%@10%c for large  aud small 
respectively,  seem  to  be  about  ruling 
quotations  for  full  cream  State.  Eggs 
continue in large  supply  and  the  price 
does not go above 13c for  the  very  best. 
Michigan,  llK@ ll?ic 
Dried  fruits  are  dull  and  showing 
scarcely  any  movement.  Best  evapor­
ated apples, 15c for fancy stock.
The  reorganization  committee  of  the 
Thurber-Whyland Co.  is offering to  pur­
chase all the  property  of  the  company, 
if a good title can be secured,  on  or  be­
fore June 25, they to take care of all out­
standing leases for which the company is 
liable,  to  assume  all  the  expenses  on 
debts and liabilities  of the  receivership, 
aud to pay the  receivers $600,000 in cash 
or 
its  equivalent.  The  receivers  ask 
authority from the  courts to  accept  the 
j  offer, and it is probably  that this will  be 
the final adjustment of the  matter.
The “event of  the season”  among  the 
hardware  trade  of  New  York  was  the 
opening last Thursday of  the new  rooms 
of the Hardware  Club  on  the  14th  and 
15th floors of the magnificent  new Postal 
Telegraph building, corner of  Broadway 
and  Murray  streets.  The  rooms  are 
furnished luxuriously in solid mahogany, 
oak and leather, and  carpeted with  rich 
Wiltons and mosaic tiling.  Visiting hard- 
waremen can now be taken care of in the 
most  comfortable  manner  imaginable, 
and the wives and  families of  the  mem­
bers  nicely  provided  for.  The  cafe  is 
provided with all modern improvements, 
and first-class  meals can  be provided  at 
short notice.  The Club is the outgrowth 
of an idea originated  by  A. P.  Mitchell, 
publisher of that pushing  paper,  Hard­
ware.  There are about 400 members  al­
ready and,  altogether,  the  organization 
is  one  of  the  most  flourishing  in  the 
country. 

Jay.

Armour’s Daily Habits.

P. D. Armour, the multi-millionaire of 
Chicago, recently  gave  a  Michigan  cus­
tomer the following brief  description  of 
his daily habits:
“A man must master his  undertaking, 
and  not  let  it  master  him.  He  must 
have the power  to  decide  quickly, even 
to decide instantly, on which  side  he  is 
going to make his mistakes.  As  for  ap­
plication, no great thing  is done without 
that. 
In  my own  case, I  have  carried 
into  business 
the  working  habits  I 
learned  as  a  boy on  a New York  farm. 
All my life 1 have been up with the  sun. 
The habit is  as  easy  at  sixty-one  as  it 
was at  sixteen;  perhaps  easier,  because 
1 am  hardened to it. 
I have  my  break­
fast  by  half-past  five  or  six;  I  walk 
down town to my office and am  there  by 
seven, and  I know what  is  going  on  in 
the  world  without  having  to  wait  for 
others  to  come  and  tell  me.  At  noon 
1  have  a  simple  luncheon  of  bread 
and  milk,  and  after  that,  usually,  a 
short  nap,  which  freshens  me  again 
for  the  afternoon’s work. 
I  am  in  bed 
again at nine o’clock every night.”

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Again JVtade and Again Sold in Largo Quantities

THE  GRAND  (formerly Rickard)  LADDER.

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Extension  Ladder  Made.

Easily  Adjusted  from  a  Step  Ladder to an Extension 

Ladder  of  any  Height.

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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 screw 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 quicklv; 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  you,  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 simply 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. 2.  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 ou; 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 the 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.  n>  *x it will be seen it well merits the name it bears,  The Univer­
sal Screw Driver and Brace.  Tht*i* uck 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.

S .  F .  HOWSHK &  C o .,  M a n f ’s ,

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Clear  Norway  Pine  aoi Malleable  Iron  Castings.

Especially  Adapted for Tinners or Fruit Growers’ 

Use.  Can Work on Both Sides.

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Grand.  R a p id s ,  M ic h .

For  Less Than  99 Dollars.

H.  LEONARD  and SONS 

W ill  furnish  a Complete  Stock  of  Staple  Crockery  and  Glassware.

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IF   Y O U   LlUiM  I  list given below.  Oroekery and Glassware  are  staple,  never g ol 
of style  take up but little room and pav a good profit. 

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(n ew  assorted packages of Glassware, the "Majestic  and mammoth  assorted  packag
¡|ing  themselves great sellers.

A  Com plete Stock of Staple Crockery and Glassware.
i  Original assorted crate of  Alfred  Me akin’s  Best English  White  Granite, containing a good  assortment of all  staple 
ONE)  pieces  of crockery the  new  Henshall  Shape.  This is  the best white  ware in the  World  and has a  reputation  that  no 

(  other  ware has. 

If you always  keep the best you are sure to  please  your customers and  gain  trade.

ONE )  Of our  Brown or  Grav  Albanv  100  Piece  Dinner Sets, this is our English  make and extra good  value  for  the  price.

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ONE  Of our  Burmese  English  Decorated  12  Piece Toilet  Sets  in  Brown or  Blue  Decoration

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i  Of our  1255  Belle  Decorated 8  Piece Toilet Sets with  Slop Jar.  Neat decoration  in  Brown  or Blue  with  Gold  Lines on the 

ONE'j  edge of all  the pieces.

ONE-  Of our Ariel  Decorated  56  Piece  English  Tea  Sets  in  Brown,  Blue  or  Pink  Decoration

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|  Original  assorted package  of our New  Majestic  pattern  of Glassware.  This  pattern  is a direct imitator of Cat Glass  and  is 
i  one  of the  newest and  best selling  patterns in the market.

ONE-'  Assorted package of either Robin or  Orial  Engraved  Tumblers.

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We will  send  anv  dealer an  itemized  list and illustrations of any  of our  New Assorted  Packages on  application.

M E R IT   IS  E S S E N T IA L '

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

Borden’s  Peerless  Brand  Evaporated  Cream

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

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