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NO.  560

THE APOSTASY OF PAGET.

iguominiously 

The sun was  meditating  his  conge be­
hind the huge hump of  Jack’s Mountain, 
when  John  Paget  dog-trotted  smartly 
from  the  denuded  strip  of  red  clay— 
of 
three  dimensions—euphemistically 
known as the country  road,  and  turned 
into the gateless entrance to Sleepy  Hol­
low.  In the lower end of the long ninety- 
acre meadow, at the  point where Paget’s 
Run  entered  the  swamp,  a  negro  pot­
hunter paused among  the  traps  he  was 
setting for  muskrats,  peered  cautiously 
over the alder hushes  to  account  for the 
hoofbeats  on  the  rickety  bridge,  and 
then resumed his work.  From the grove 
of  oaks  about  the  great  house  came 
a  succession  : of  raucous,  discordant 
shrieks  as 
the  .peafowls  flew,  after 
an  idiotic  amount  of  deliberation  and 
‘perking”  of  heads,  to 
their  night 
perch  in  a  majestic  dead  tree,  and  the 
answering  prolonged  howls  from  two 
setter  dogs,  who 
fled 
under  a  low  porch  to  escape  the  ear- 
splitting vibrations.
cBut  now, as  “Boots”  shoved  his nose 
from his cavernous retreat with  a  little, 
nervous, convalescent yelp, his eye came 
upon  the  horseman  at  the  foot  of  the 
hill, and a moment later  he  and  “Shot” 
were  scampering  wildly  about  Paget’s 
black mare.  They received an unwonted 
amount of  recognition,  and  when  their 
master dismounted  he accepted the prof­
fer of Shot’s  paw,  when that wily canine 
felt called upon to  make  capital  of  his 
accomplishment.  Then  the two  trotted 
quietly at his heels, betrayed  every  now 
and then,  by some  accidental  movement 
of his hand, into a demonstration  of  af­
fection  which  as  suddenly  died  away 
before the impatient  word  of  command.
Paget  strode  into  the  front  door  and 
bent  over  to  remove  his  spurs  before 
he  addressed  a  little  group  seated  at 
the  farther  end  of  the  great  hallway— 
his two sisters  and the  younger brother, 
Beverly. 
John  Paget’s  straight  shoul­
ders  and  broad  back  showed  off  to 
good advantage  in the ripe  development 
of forty, as did his  high, square,  mathe­
matical  forehead  and  strongly  molded 
chin.  Out of his environment  he would 
have  looked  seedy  as  to  his  trousers, 
tucked in  the  boot-tops,  a  black  coat 
pretty nearly green, and slouch-hat.  As it 
was,  he  simply  looked  like  a  Virginia 
gentleman.  His  dress  was  in  accord, 
too,  with 
the  general  appearance  of 
Sleepy Hollow.

It was distinctly an  atmosphere of dis­
approbation  that  he  entered  when  be 
joined the little family of  which  he was 
the head.  But  he  met  the  reproachful 
silence  with  a  nonchalance  which  may 
or may  not have  been altogether  whole­
hearted.  He  was  used  to  having  his 
way,  and  it  was  with  a  tone  implying 
covert  but  absolute  and  final  defiance 
that  he  detailed  the  successes  which 
had come  in the  day’s canvassing.

“It is curious,  Bev.,”  he  said  slowly, 
under a cloud of smoke  that  almost  hid 
his  half-shut  eyes,  “what  little  things 
count in a politician’s success.”

“Yes,” 

interrupted  Virginia,  flashing 
up in her  brother’s  anticipatory  pause, 
“the littler and  meaner  things  are,  the 
more  they  count  with  some  kinds  of 
politicians.”

placid  puff  or 

John  Paget  made  no  sign  of  having 
heard  her,  as  he  continued,  after  an 
aggravatingly 
two: 
“Now, 
to-day  at  Baynesville  I  got 
the  ear  and  the  good  humor  of  the 
facturing  towns  beyond  the  river—sur­
vivors of the late “boom”  and its partial 
collapse.

In ’61,  the  male  Pagets  between  the 
ages of  sixteen  and  seventy  had ridden 
with Jackson  and  Mosby.  As for John, 
he had  run  away  four  times  to  enlist, 
against  the  parental  command,  to  be 
captured  and brought  home  thrice;  the 
fourth time he stayed because his  father 
had been wounded and  he  was the  only 
person whom John would  allow  to  cap­
ture him.  The female  Pagets  had  done 
hospital  service,  had  drained 
the  re­
sources of the farm to feed the Confeder­
ate  troops  that  came  within  feeding 
distance,  and  had  assisted  at  several 
critical junctures when secrecy and hard- 
riding and noncombatant friends were of 
exceeding value to  beleaguered  soldiers 
of their persuasion.

These  evidences  of  loyalty were  their I 
own  reward;  fortunately  so,  for  other 
reqnitat was there none.  The  farm  was 
in a perilous state after the war, nor was 
John the man  to  better  matters.  Quite 
the contrary. 
It had finally  come  to  be 
beyond his power to pay the  taxes.  The 
old  servant  remained  with  them,  how­
ever, and it was an easy  matter to main­
tain a bountiful table  and  a few  horses. 
But the presence of  cash  in  the  house­
hold—on certain  legal  occasions  result­
ing in mortgage  papers—was  an  excep­
tion  which  only  proved  the  rule  of 
poverty.

This  was  bad  enough,  but  the  girls 
felt that it was Elysium  compared to the 
remedy that John had seen fit  to attempt 
this summer.  He had  joined  the  Read- 
j uster element of the Republican party— 
a fact  in  itself  sufficient  to  make  the 
departed  Pagets  squeak  and  gibber  in 
the family  cemetery; had mortgaged  the 
last acre of his share of the  land,  which 
was the largest; and  was  “running”  for 
the  office  of  county  sheriff.  From  the 
mortgage  receipts  he  had  been  able  to 
pay  off  such  of  his  standing  debts  as 
stood  most  obstinately  in  the  way  of 
prospective votes,  and to  guarantee  his 
quota of the election expenses.

The office  he  sought  would  pay  him 
several thousand dollars per year;  it was 
a forlorn hope,  and he had staked his all 
on  it.  His was anything  but a negative 
nature, and  now that he  had allied him­
self  with  the  people  whom  his  family 
had always aspired to  keep  aloof  from, 
he threw himself body  and soul  into the 
task of succeeding.

Susan had been indignant and  Virginia 
had  cried  over  the  coup  d'etat,  while 
Beverly, who had been the  baby and the 
pet  of  the  family,  sided  feebly  with

the  majority.  Beverly  was 
rather 
a goodish-looking, slight young fellow of 
twenty-one,  with scarcely  the  Paget  al­
lowance of gall and  backbone.

The girls had often  had  trouble  with 
John.  He had sowed  broad and  fruitful 
acres of wild oats,  and  was  irreparably 
“sot” 
in  his  ways  when  once  he  got 
started,  as  ’Lisha  expressed  it  in  the 
kitchen.  The family  had always  called 
him  self-seeking,  and  he  had  accepted 
himself on those lines.  As to the  deser­
tion  from  the  Paget  political  creed,  it 
was to  them simply  a  disgrace and  the 
greatest  misfortune  among  many  that 
had come  to  them,  which  exaggeration 
helped  John’s  conscience  wonderfully, 
and made him feel that he  was about  as 
near right as they  were.

It was  nothing  short  of  treachery  to 
Miss  Virginia,  who  had  the  Waverly 
novels  nearly  by  heart,  and  to  whom 
the greatest  regret  in  life  hitherto  had 
been that the tender age of three had not 
allowed  her  to  bear  arms  in  the  civil 
war.

This  McNab  alliance  was a bitter pill, 
too.  McNab  was a  burly  Scotchman of 
means  and  energy;  he  had  identified 
himself  actively  and  obtrusively  with 
the social reconstruction  of  the  section, 
and  possessed  in  a  high  degree  those 
qualities,  more  severely  logical  than 
humanly sympathetic, that Charles Lamb 
and  Dean  Swift  have  been  pleased  to 
consider typical of  the Caledonian  char­
acter.  However  that  might  be, he  had 
certainly  been  anti-Paget, 
thoroughly 
and consistently, and now Virginia, with 
a  flushed  face, 
left  the  family  circle, 
feeling that  her  brother’s  apostasy  was 
complete.
in  most  unprecedented 
spirits  over  the  thought  that,  after  a 
summer’s  herculean 
living 
down  and glossing over  various  uncom­
fortable traditions, his  election  was  as­
sured. 
It  was  hard  work  indeed.  He 
had made the  people  of  his  own  social 
stratum  his  enemy  as  one  man  by  the 
clearly  selfish  desertion,  while  on  the 
other  hand  he  had  to  contend  with  a 
record of unpaid  debts  and  a  lingering 
suspicion of bis sincerity and solvency.

John  was 

labors  in 

But then McNab’s  eight-hundred mill- 
hands and McNab’s newspaper settled it.
“It’s the  best day’s  work  of  my  life, 
Bev.,”  he  said  exultingly,  over  their 
pipes that night.  “You see, Mac thought 
it would  be a great card in his reforming 
work to have an old  reprobate  like  my­
self converted  and  shown  up  in  front. 
I’ve been working like a mule to get him, 
and now I’m safe.  When  the  election’s 
over, we’ll go down the  valley,  my  boy, 
and  have the biggest  kind of a hunt; the 
birds are getting riper  every  day;”  and 
Paget cocked his feet  up still  higher  on 
the porch pillar. 
It was  the first  really 
happy, hopeful  hour  that  had  come  to 
him in years.

“By the way, Bev.,  I’d almost  forgot­
ten.”  John  turned  about  and  looked 
through  the  moonlight  at  his  brother 
with  some  hesitation. 
“Peyton  came 
up  to  the  co’t  house  te-day  and  whis-

T H E   M IO H IQ A JS r  T R A D E S M  A T^. 
As he  read,  Paget’s brow became very 
pale, and there was  an  ominous  twitch­
ing in the muscles  of his Hushed cheeks. 
He quietly burned the paper  went to his 
room, and did not  appear  at the  supper 
table,  nor  did  Sally,  ’Lisha’s  wife,  find 
it necessary  to make up his bed the next 
morning.

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RINDGE.  KALMBAGH  i  GO.  12,  14  and  16  Pearl  81.

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He  rode  away  as  usual  toward  the 

county town.

few days ago:
R indge,  Kalmbach a Co., G rand Rapids,  Mich.

Dear  Sirs:—Too  years  ago  today 1 put on a pare of youre Cordovan Shoos and haveut had 

thim off my feet since, they are strong yil. 

Yours  trooly,

Washington,  D.  C.,  May 3,1891.

J erry Simfson.

CELEBRATE  I

pered  to  me  very  friendly  that  you’d 
somehow  got  your  name  mentioned 
along with a story  that’s not  as  nice  as 
it might be.  Oh, 1 don’t  want  to  know 
anything about  it.  Just  be  careful  not 
to  get  yourself  mixed  up  in  anything 
ugly.”

“I think I  can  take  care  of  my  own 
business,” retorted  Beverly  angrily. 
It 
was too dark to see  the llush  on his face 
which  might  betoken  something  other 
than righteous indignation.

“Well, just be a gentleman  over there, 

and don’t raise a row,  Bev.’,

Beverly was  irritated,  probably  more 
by  the  just  occasion  of  his  brother’s 
words then by  any  insult  in  them;  but 
that was the tangible thing  to  vent him­
self  on,  and be said bitterly:  “You  are 
a fíne one to come to me talking so virtu­
ously,  John  Paget. 
It  hasn’t  been  so 
long  since  you  turned  saint.  You  are 
so  devilish  selfish  and  taken  up  with 
your own  affairs  that  you  think  every­
body  else  is  going  wrong.  Don’t  be 
afraid that I’ll spoil your  reputation and 
interfere  with  the  election.  Besides, 
just remember 1 am my own master.”
Uis brother fired  up  with the  instinct 
of  authority,  and  a  sharp  altercation 
ensued which John ended by going to  his 
room  in  silent  rage.  Ue  was  a  little 
ashamed  of  the  boy.  He  set  a  higher 
standard  for  those  near  him  than  for 
himself.
The 

two  scarcely  saw  each  other 
during the next  week.  John  was work­
ing  with  might  and  main  from  early 
morning  till late at  night.  Uis  election 
was practically  conceded  since  the  late 
coalition,  and  he was  already  planning 
fences and gates and a  renovation of the 
house.  ¡“To-morrow’s  co’t  day,  and 
then election day,”  he mused,  as “Coaly” 
whinnied  her  anticipation  of corn after 
the  day’s  gadding  about.  “Yes,”  said 
Paget  to  the  octogenarian  darky  boy, 
who hobbled out to take  the  mare,  “ the 
Pagets will lift their  heads  up yet.  We 
ain’t half dead. 
I’m goin’  to be elected, 
’Lisha.”  And  the old  man  retailed  the 
information  before 
fire 
while  he  lifted  a  red-hot  coal  in  his 
horny  fingers  to  light  his  pipe. 
“Po’ 
Gawd,”  he  added,  “I  ain’t  seen  Mars’ 
John so peart sence war days.”

the  kitchen 

When  Paget  entered  the  house  he 
found Virginia with  her  head buried  in 
Susan’s  lap. 
It  jarred  on  him  and 
puzzled  him.  Was  he  such  an  unre­
generate,  unclean  thing?  Why  should 
they want to  take  away  the  comfort of 
the one success he was about  to achieve? 
At his approach  both  the  girls  left  the 
hall.  He  angrily  threw  himself  into  a 
chair and picked up  the  new  “Herald” 
from the centre table.  He  gazed  rather 
vacantly  at  the  patent  outside  for  a 
moment.  Remembering that there would 
be lots of election talk  in this  issue,  he 
turned to the local  news page,  and then 
he saw that he had mistaken the cause of 
his  sisters’  distress.  For  there,  under 
scare-head  caps, 
in  the  first  column, 
even  before  the  political  matter,  were 
the details of a scandal in  which Beverly 
Paget was the most  prominent  and most 
unhonored  character.  The  editorial 
moralized  over  the  shamefulness  and 
harm of such events,  and declared that it 
was the mission of the “Herald” to make 
them impossible,  and  that  it  took  this 
opportunity to  hold  the  offender  up  to 
public  shame, since it happened that the 
law could not touch him.

The fact of court day and  election day 
coming in succession had gathered a crowd 
of country and  county  folks such as had 
not  been seen  for years.  Before the gro­
cery stores, saloons, and public buildings 
booted men were standing  or  seated  on 
chairs and drygoods boxes  chatting poli­
tics  aud  expectorating  with  much 
deliberation  and with  an  accuracy  that 
Sir Toby would  have  called  inevitable. 
But the largest group was in front of the 
court house itself,  and  there  the  burly 
form of McNab towered  among the men, 
and his voice spoke  out loudest  in their 
discussions.
Paget  rode  leisurely  down  the  main 
street,  nodding  here  and  there  to  ac- 
quintances.  Peyton said to his neighbor 
as the new arrival went past:  “McNab’d 
thought  twice  about 
that  matter  of 
young Beverly Paget if John had’nt been 
tied up in his election busiuess  hand and 
foot. 
I  marched  by  John  Paget’s  side 
twenty-four years ago, and  I’d  never ’a’ 
thought he’d ’a’  taken that down.  Polit- 
ics’l bring a man to anything,  though,  1 
reckon.”

in the  meantime,  the  subject  of  this 
criticism  had ridden  to the court-house', 
hitched bis horse to  the  long  rack,  aud 
walked  through  the  crowd  to  the  spot 
where McNab was holding forth.  There 
was  a  challenging  look  in  Paget’s  eye 
which  gave  him 
the  man’s  attention 
without a  word.  Ue  said  slowly  and 
distinctly:
“Did you allow that  column  about my 
brother to go into your  paper  with your 
knowledge,  Mr.  McNab?”

“It was a mistake,  Paget;  let’s  forget 
about  it,  for  the  present  anyway.  1 
wrote it, but it  was a  month  ago,  and,” 
in a lower tone,  “I didn’t  intend  to  use 
it till  after  election  anyhow.  My  man 
down there ran it  in through mistake  in 
the date.  Let’s smooth the  matter  over 
till after to-morrow anyway.”

With a sweep of his arm  Paget cleared 
a space around himself and the propietor 
of  the  “Herald.”  Then  he  raised  his 
voice and said:

“1 want to say  to  all  gentlemen  here 
present  that  this  man  has  written  a 
malicious lie about my  brother,  Beverly 
Paget, and has published  it in his paper. 
Furthermore, that I am  going  to  thrash 
him for the  insult right here.”

Which  he  proceeded  to  do  with  a 
quickness  and  dexterity 
that  enabled 
him to practically complete  the  task  by 
the time  two  constables  arrived  on  the 
scene.
The  basic,  traditionary social  law had 
triumphed.  Paget was not elected.

Ch a s.  D.  L a n ie r.

The  Dry  Goods  Market.

Prints and wash  goods are very low.
Satines  move  freely,  in  blacks  and 

black ground fancy figures.

A new fabric on the  market  is  called 
Taffeta Moire  and  looks  and  feels  like 
silk. 
It  retails  at  16c  in  six  patterns 
and fifty colorings.

The man who stays at home and minds 
his own business is not  regarded  among 
agitators as a good citizen.

DECORATE  ! 

ILLUMINATE  I 

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FIREWORKS FLAGS

and all  Fourth of July  Goods.

la n ter ns

Public and Private Exhibitions for any amount furnished on 

Short Notice.  Our  Fireworks Prize Box is a winner.

Order at onee to se n re prompt shipment. 

p R g Q  gRUNOAGE.  PIUSkegOD.  M id i.

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,  flich.

Lem ons

Will  be  higher  very  soon,  the 
mercury  is  creeping  up  Buy of 
us  now while prices  are  Low.

The Putnam  Candy Co.

You only  Chew  the String when  you  read  this  advertisement.  To 
Prove  the  Pudding,  you  must  send  for a sample  order of Tradesman, 
Superior or Universal  Coupon  books. 
If you have  never used the Coupon 
Book System, and wish  to investigate  it, sample  hooks  and  price  lists  will 
be mailed free on  application,

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THE USES  OP  CHEESE.

High Art Cookery.

Pronounced Opinions by the  Apostle of 
Mrs. Rorer has very  decided  opinions 
on a variety of subjects, and  she  usually 
expresses her opinion in a very emphatic 
manner.  Her  complete  mastery  of  the 
subjects connected with  her  art,  and  a 
great  command  of language, make her a 
very entertaining talker.  She is  a  con­
versationalist of the first  order.  Her re­
marks are  pungent,  pointed  and  clear, 
and her listener never has  any  difficulty 
in  understanding  her.  A  reporter  of 
T h e  T k a d e s m a n   called  on  Mrs.  Rorer 
last  Friday  at  her  rooms in the Morton 
House  and  in  the  course  of  the  talk 
which followed the  conversation  turned 
on “cheese.”  In response  to  the  ques­
tion as to her opinion of  cheese as an ar­
ticle of  diet,  Mrs.  Rorer  said:  “Prop­
erly prepared,  1 consider cheese to  be  of 
great nutritive value,  the  chemical  con­
stituents of which it is  composed  giving 
it a digestibility hardly possessed by any 
other article of food; but, as it  is  gener­
ally used, it is enough to spoil the  diges­
tion  of  the  strongest  man  who  ever 
lived. 
It  is  cut  in  great  chunks from 
one  to  two  ounces  in  weight,  and one 
person  will  eat  two  or  three  of  these 
pieces.  No stomach can stand  that  sort 
of thing. 
If cheese is to be eaten  raw it 
should  be  in small quantities and once a 
day is often  enough.  The  complaint  is 
made that it takes too much time to  pre­
pare cheese in what are called the  scien­
tific  methods,  that 
is,  putting  it  in 
cooked dishes.  That is ail nonsense, for 
it takes no longer to prepare a dish  with 
cheese in it  than  it  does  one  without. 
That is the great fault of  our  American 
way  of  living,  everything  is  done in a 
hurry.  Food  is prepared in a hurry and 
eaten in  a  hurry—bolted,  someone  has 
called it.  Men, and women,  too, will sit 
down  and  shovel  in  their  food  with a 
rapidity  almost 
incredible;  and  such 
quantities 
the  most  of  them  do  eat! 
1 don’t know how they stand it,  and as a 
matter of fact they  don’t  stand  it,  they 
break down after a while,  even the  best 
of them,  with one or the  other  of  those 
two  American  diseases,  indigestion  or 
nervous prostration.  A  man  should eat 
according to the work he  has  to  do. 
If 
he is a man of sedentary habits, if  he  is 
sitting  in an office most of  the  time,  he 
certainly  does  not  need  as  much or as 
hearty food as the  bricklayer  or  black­
smith; but you will see the man who gets 
next to no exercise  and  the  man  whose 
work is all exercise sitting  side  by  side 
at a table eating the same quantity of ex­
actly  the  same  kind  of food. 
It is the 
brain of the man in the office  that  needs 
nourishing,  because  his  work  makes 
heavy draughts on his  nervous force;  so 
he should eat such foods as will feed  his 
brain and replenish his depleted nervous 
system. 
In the case  of  the  man  whose 
work is almost entirely  manual  in  char­
acter, it is the animal tissue which is de­
stroyed, by the  muscular  exertion  he  is 
compelled to make.  He should eat  such 
foods, and in such quantities, as will  re­
place the wasted  tissue.  Cheese  is  one 
of  the  best  flesh-formers  in  the  world 
when properly prepared,  and  should  be 
eaten  by  all  men  whose  work  is  of  a 
muscular nature, but should be partaken 
of very sparingly  by  men  of  sedentary 
habits.  While few realize  it,  cheese  is 
one of the most important  animal  foods. 
But in its raw or  uncooked  condition  it 
is certainly indigestible and cannot be as

T H E   MXOTHGL^JNT  T R A D T O M a  TST.

8

going 

over 

times 

as  1  do 

less  with  age 

readily assimilated or converted into our 
own substance as flesh food,  but if prop­
erly cooked you would be surprised at its 
In 
digestibility. 
and 
the  chemistry  of  our 
over  again 
food 
in 
so  many 
my 
lectures  and  newspaper  articles, 
I am afraid the public get very  weary of 
the subject,  but I do know that for  your 
own good it cannot be too frequently  re­
peated.  How and what to  eat,  and  the 
best methods of preparing our daily food 
is an  all-important  subject. 
In  France 
one  of  the  commonest  dishes  is  the 
fondu, but in France one finds every sim­
ple  dish  that  is  nutritious  and  whole­
some.  This fondu is a mixture of cheese 
and egg with a  small  addition  of  milk. 
It is usually cooked in  an  earthen  bak­
ing dish and served as soon  as  it  comes 
from  the  fire.  A  laboring  man  might 
dine sumptuously,  healthfully  and  eco­
nomically on a fondu,  bread, butter  and 
a cup of coffee.  Such a food is, however, 
too nutritious for the  office  man  or  the 
man of sedentary  habits. 
It  is  a  great 
mistake to choose new or poor cheese, as 
the digestibility of cheese grows easier as 
the cheese  grows  older.  Cream  cheese 
is  more  digestible  than  other kinds on 
account of its soft nature  and  less  pro­
portion of casein.  The righest cheese in 
the market is Stilton.  Cheshire  is  also 
made from unskimmed milk,  while  Par­
mesan, the favorite cheese of the Italians, 
is made from milk deprived  of  its  fatty 
matter,  consequently it will  be  found to 
change 
than  richer 
varieties.  Toasted cheese, no matter of 
what  variety,  is  one  of  the  most indi­
gestible  articles  one  can  possibly  eat*
“If  you  have  the  time  to  spare,  1 
would like to say a word about the steril 
ization  of milk, that  is,  milk  in  which 
the Itaccili have all been killed by the ap­
plication of heat. 
If there is  one  thing 
of which the present generation stands in 
mortal dread it is a microbe.  He is found 
in everything we eat  and  drink  and  his 
malign influence is felt  in  all  walks  of 
life.  The microscope of the scientist has 
the 
discovered 
consumption  microbe, 
smallpox 
microbe,  the  diphtheria  microbe,  and 
hundreds  of  other  microbes  in  almost 
every article of food, until it looks almost 
as if  one  must  starve  to  death  if  one 
does  not  want  to  die of disease.  Well, 
milk is claimed to be a favorite stamping 
ground of several varieties  of  microbes, 
and people  are  instructed  never  to  use 
milk  unless  it  has  been boiled—steril­
ized.  Boiling, 
the 
microbes,  and  renders  them  harmless. 
But 
lately  scientists  have  discovered 
another thing and that  is  that  microbes 
are  of 
two  kinds—good  and  bad, 
beneficent  and  malevolent.  The  good 
microbes are always at war with the  bad 
and  destroy 
they 
come in  conflict.  Milk  contains  a  pre­
ponderance of good microbes,  which  are 
destroyed by boiling,  and when the  milk 
cools disease microbes  fall  into  it  from 
the 
their  natural 
enemies  having  been  destroyed,  have 
everything  their  own  way.  Be  sure 
your milk is from well-fed, healthy cows, 
and you need not be  afraid  of microbes. 
But  boiling  won’t  help  you 
in  any 
event.”

atmosphere  and, 

typhoid  microbe, 

them  whenever 

they  say,  kills 

the 

the 

Quite a Difference.

Johnny—Papa, is there  any  difference 
between a  wheelman and a cyclist?
His Father—Um—none that I know of, 
unless  it is  that a  wheelman  sits  erect 
and a cyclist humps his back up.

Cannot Be Refilled.

It  is  reported  that  some  Ohio  glass- 
makers have invented a bottle which can­
not be refilled  after it  has been emptied, 
and they think they are going to do a big 
business with it among the proprietors of 
fine wines  and  liquors,  patent  medicine 
men and other dealers  in  wet goods who 
have suffered much loss  from  the  refill­
ing of their empty bottles,  with some in 
ferior goods,  which  have  been  sold  as 
genuine on the strength  of  the package. 
The peculiarity of this  bottle is  not  de­
scribed,  but it is  said that a very simple 
device in the neck of the bottle admits of 
the contents being poured out, but entire­
ly prevents anything being poured in.  It 
is said that the bottle has been submitted 
to the severest tests,  even  to  heating  it 
to exhaust the air,  and then  inverting it 
in  a  vessel  of  water,  and  it  has  been 
found to  act  satisfactorily.  One  cannot 
help  being  curious  to  know  how  this 
bottle gets outside of its  original charge, 
if it cannot  be  refilled.  However,  most 
purchasers  are  more  concerned  about 
emptying  than  filling  them,  and 
this 
bottle will doubtless  supply  a  long-felt 
want.

The  Economy of Pure  Food.

From the  Baltimore Telegram.
There are many persons  who,  from  a 
misguided  sense  of  economy,  purchase 
food which they know  to be  inferior,  so 
that'they may thereby  save, in  order  to 
meet other demands of the family.  Hand­
some clothing  and  fine  houses in  aristo­
cratic  neighborhoods  are  desirable,  we 
admit, but not at the expense of the most 
important  factor  of  our  existence;  es­
pecially when we know that pure,  nour­
ishing  food,  is 
the  immidiate  cause  of 
pure  blood  and,  consequently,  more 
perfect nerve and brain power. 
It is not 
only false economy but  positive crime to 
obtain edibles below the standard for the 
purpose  of  sustaining  both  the  mental 
and physical health of the human  being.

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
C o m p a n y ,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

The  Poorest  Man

On  E arth

Can afford  the  BEST  salt.

The  Richest  Man

On  E arth

CANNOT  afford any other.

1.  Hot  Weather.
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 H Y !
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,

See Quotations in Price Current.

I.  %  CLARK  GROCERY  CO.,

GENERAL  AGENTS, 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  - 

- 

-  MICH.

and  Remember

All these people are advertising the man 

who gives away the fan.
BUT  THEY  COST !
W ELL  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 S M A N   C O M P A N Y , 

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.

NO  CU RE, 
NO  RAY. 

NO  M U S T A C H E
NO  PA Yu
DAN DRUFF  CU R ED

1  will take Contracts to grow  hair  on  tne  neao 
i  face with  those  who  can  call  at  my  office oi 
ti  the office of  my agents, provided  the  head  is 
>ot  glossy,  or  the  pores o f  the  scalp not closed 
vVhere  the  head  is  shiny  or  the  pores  closed, 
.here  is no cure.  Call  and  be  exam ined  free ol 
harge. 
If  you cannot  call,  write  to  me.  State 
lin  exact  condition  of  the scalp  and  your occu- 
.¿»non. 
Room  1UU M aacaio Tem ple,  C r n c a o

P R O F .  O .  B I K K H O L /,

AROUND THE  STATE.

MOVEMENTS OF  MERCHANTS.

McBain—Storrey &  Morrison  succeed 

C.  M. Storrey in general trade.

Remus—A.  1).  Kendall  succeeds  Ken­

dall & Hane in the grocery business.

Saginaw—J. E. Asam is  succeeded  l»y 

the Saginaw Basket Co., incorporated.

Grand Haven—John  Kainont  has pur­
chased the meat business of J.  B.  Lum.
Burr  Oak—H.  T.  Diffenbaugh  suc­
ceeds W.  M. Urie in the  hardware  busi­
ness.

West  Bay  City—Ingersoll  Bros,  suc­
ceed H. S.  Ingersoll in the  grocery busi­
ness.

Port  Huron—A.  Lee  has  sold  his 
grocery stock on Lapeer avenue  to  Mrs. 
West.

Iron  Mountain—Wm.  Moyle  has 
opened a grocery and provision  store  in 
the Stephenson building.

Port  Huron—R.  S.  Patterson  &  Co. 
succeed R. S.  Patterson  in the  jewelry, 
book and sewing machine business.

Fremont—Fred  E.  Holt  has  sold  his 
grocery stock to Landon  Bros.  He  will 
continue in the boot  and  shoe  business.
Fenton—Snyder  &  McCracken  have 
opened a grocery  store  in  the  building 
formerly occupied by Mrs.  M.  A.  Helm.
Mantou—Frauk  Weaver  has  sold  his 
grocery stock to  Solon  Tyler,  who  will 
continue the business at  the  same  loca­
tion.

Petoskey—J.  K.  Feick  has  sold  his 
grocery stock to  Geo.  Mullenhagen,  who 
will continue  the business  at  the  same 
location.

South  Haven—J.  S.  Malbone  will 
shortly begin the erectiou of a  two-story 
building which  he  will  occupy  with  a 
stock of hardware.

Ludington—Peter  Mendelson,  dealer 
in  clothing,  has 
failed.  He  secured 
creditors to  the  amount  of  §11,000  and 
left many more out in the cold.
Kalamazoo—Frank F.  Ward,  formerly 
of Plainwell, and  Geo.  K.  Walker,  for­
merly of Saranac,  have embarked  in  the 
grocery  business  at  141  So.  Burdick 
street.
the 
Kalamazoo  wholesale  grocers,  obtained 
judgment  against  Ephraim  Leisure  for 
§649.01 in the Allegan Circuit  Court last 
Thursday.

Allegan—B.  Desenberg  &  Co., 

Muskegon—K.  E.  Vanderlinde  has 
moved  his  stock  of  groceries  from 52 
Apple street to  Fremont.  He  has  been 
in business here for eight years.  He will 
continue the same business  in  Fremont.
Holland—C.  L.  Streng  &  Son  have 
purchased the entire stock of  dry  goods 
forrmerly  owned  by  Nelson  Pitton,  of 
Mr. Forrest, agent for Marshall  Field  & 
Co.,  of  Chicago.  The  purchasers  will 
consolidate the stock with their own.

Stan wood—H.  W.  Reid  and  Geo.  C. 
Bonnell, formerly  engaged  in  the  gro­
cery business at Grand  Rapids, are  now 
engaged in general  trade  and  the  saw­
mill  and  hemlock  bark  business  here 
under  the  style  of  the  Grand  Rapids 
Lumber Co.

Allegan—C.  W.  Stone  has  leased  a 
store in the Marsh  block  and  opened  a 
dry goods and fancy  goods  stock  under 
the  style  of  “Stone’s  New  Boston 
Bazaar.”  Mr. Stone will be remembered 
as formerly  engaged  in  the  dry  goods 
business at Ionia.

Saginaw—The daily papers are  parad­
ing the information that the Jas. Stewart 
Mercantile Co. has severed its  connection

T H E   M ICHIGAN  TRADESM AN.

with  the  Michigan  Wholesale  Grocers’ 
Association.  Such is not a fact; further­
more, such an event is not  likely  to  oc­
cur, as the Stewart Co. has  too  much  to 
gain by such a connection  to  think  ser­
iously of severing it.

Cheboygan—The  Thompson  Smith’s 
Sons have given an option on their  large 
general stock, at Duncan, to E. J. James, 
who  has  long  acted  as  manager  and 
buyer of  the  mercantile  department  of 
the concern.  Mr.  James  has  also  pur­
chased the grocery stock of R. A Paddock 
and,  in  company  with  a  partner,  will 
conduct stores at both  places, occupying 
the old location at Duncan and  the  dou­
ble stores in the Paquette  block  at  this 
place. 
It is expected  that  F.  S.  Frost, 
formerly of the firm of Penney  &  Frost, 
will return to  Cheboygan  and  have  the 
management  of  the  Main  street  store 
and,  in all probability,  Arthur R. Gerow, 
who has  been  with  Thompson  Smith’s 
Sons for a  long  time,  will  manage  the 
Duncan store.

Detroit—Recently  all 

the  wholesale 
druggists in the city, except the  firm  of 
Williams, Davis, Brooks &  Co., signified 
a desired to close their places of business 
on Saturday afternoon  during  the  sum­
mer months at 1 o’clock,  That firm’s re­
fusal to agree to  the  early  closing  will 
make it necessary  for  the  other  houses 
to keep the old hours;  but  the  explana­
tion which  Williams,  Davis,  Brooks  & 
Co. give is that they receive  one of their 
most  important  mails  from  their  cus­
tomers at  2  o’clock  on  Saturday  after­
noon, and that it is absolutely  necessary 
that  these  orders  be  filled  promptly. 
Mr. Davis suggests that one-third or pos­
sibly one-half of their employes take one 
Saturday afternoon,  and  the  others  the 
Saturday  following,  and  so  on.  The 
matter has been referred to the  foreman 
of that firm,  and if he  reports  favorably 
they  are  willing  to  make  such  an  ar­
rangement.

MANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

Montague—The Montague Roller Mills 
are now owned by  Gardiner  &  Calkins, 
David D. Erwin  having  transferred  the 
property to  those  gentlemen  last week.
Detroit—At  a  meeting  of  the  stock­
holders of the United States Heater  Co., 
held last Tuesday, it was  decided  to  in­
crease the capital stock from  §50,000  to 
§75,000.

East  Jordan—The  machinery  in  the 
lugall’s hame fastener factory  has  been 
purchased by J. D. Champion,  of  White 
Cloud,  and  will  shortly  be  removed to 
that place.

Iron Mountain—Wright  Bros,  have  a 
contract with the  Chicago, Milwaukee & 
St. Paul Railway  for 800,000  cedar  ties, 
of  which  amount  100,000 are now  being 
delivered.

Lansing—E.  Bement  &  Sons,  whose 
capital stock is §350,000,  will shortly  is­
sue §150,000 preferred stock,  on which 6 
per cent,  cumulative  dividends  will  be 
paid.  This stock  is  to  be  redeemed  at 
the end of twenty years,  for  which  pur­
pose  the  corporation  must  set  apart a 
portion  of  each  year’s  profits  in  the 
shape of a sinking  fund.  Nearly all the 
stock has been subscribed,  as  the  confi­
dence in the management of the business 
renders  it  an  easy  matter  to place the 
stock in the hands  of  desirable  parties. 
The proceeds of the stock will be devoted 
to the payment of the bank and  commer­
cial indebtedness and the  enlargement of 
each department of the business.

Detroit—The  Polisho  Company  has 
filed articles of association with  a  capi­
tal stock of §5,000, all  paid in.  William 
Auberlin,  Martin S.  Smith and  Chas. T. 
Karpp are the incorporators.

Ocqueoc—Michael McCabe  claims  the 
pennant for  expert  log  driving  on  the 
Ocqueoc  river.  He recently filled a  raft 
of 3,500,000  feet  in  three  hours  and  a 
half.  The raft was towed to Bay City.

Iron wood—The Upper Peninsula Chair 
Co.’s  factory  here  will  be  removed  to 
Marshfield,  Wis.  The  business  men  of 
the  last  named  place  have  presented 
sufficient  inducement  for  the  change. 
The factory employs 100 hands.

Battle  Creek—The  Citizens’  Electric 
Light Co.  has increased its capital  stock 
from §50,000 to  §150,000.  A  portion  of 
tha increase will be taken by the present 
stockholders, and the balance  held in re­
serve to  sell  when  the  company  needs 
more  money  to  enlarge  its  business. 
The  old  officers  have  been  re-elected 
for the coming year.

Detroit—The  Detroit  Shade  Manu­
facturing Co.  has filed articles of associa­
tion with the county clerk.  The  capital 
stock  is  §100,000,  ail  paid  in.  The 
incorporators  are  H.  L.  Humphrey, 
Frank W. Claxton,  Francis  Trickey,  O. 
O.  Walmoth,  Ed.  Hartford,  Henry  M. 
Dubois, Louis C.  McBride  and  Franklin 
L. Lord, all of  Detroit.

Saginaw—J.  E.  Asam  &  Co.,  basket 
manufacturers, have merged  their  busi­
ness  into  a  stock  company  under  the 
style  of  the  Saginaw  Basket  Co.  The 
corporation has a capital  stock  of  §10,- 
000 and will shortly remove  its  business 
to a factory building  now in  process  of 
construction on the grounds of  the  Sag­
inaw Improvement Co.

Muskegon—A  tow  of  6,000  logs  was 
put in the booms of  the  McGraft  Lum­
ber Co., at whose  mill  the  logs will  be 
sawed,  last week.  They  are  the  prop­
erty  of  Fred  Magnuson  and  were  cut 
along the shore  of  Lake  Michigan, this 
side of White Lake.  A strong  log boom 
was thrown around them  and  they were 
towed here without loss.
Alpena—Alger,  Smith & Co. have  250 
men  at  work  extending  the  Alpena  & 
Northern  Railroad 
into  Montmorency 
county, and  expect to  reach  Atlanta  in 
September.  The  firm  owns  300,000,000 
feet or more  of  timber  in  that  county. 
It also  owns  large  tracts  of  timber  in 
Presque  Isle  county,  and 
is  hauling 
logs from Lake Mary to  Alpena.

Detroit—The entire plant  of  the  Buf­
falo  Fish  Co., 
including  fisheries  at 
Kingsville and  Wheatley,  Ont., has been 
purchased  by  a  syndicate  composed  of 
Howland & Giddy, Alpena  Fish  Co.,  A. 
Solum, Sons &Co., C. Dante & Co., O. E. 
Cheney and A. G.  McDonald.  The syndi­
cate  have  organized  the  Detroit  Fish 
Packing  Co.,  with  a  capital of §50,000, 
fully paid  in.

Muskegon—W, E. Barrett  &  Co.,  the 
Grand  Rapids  lumbermen,  are  going 
ahead in  their work  of  making  Muske­
gon the center of their shingle  business. 
They have leased the Stimson docks,  and 
will erect  immense  sheds  having  a  ca­
pacity of from  30,000,000  to  50,000,000. 
The  sheds  will  be  50  feet  wide  and 
500  feet  long.  The  shingles  will  be 
shipped in here by water  from  northern 
points and distributed by  rail.

Pentwater—The  Pentwater  Bedstead 
Co.  has begun  the  erection  of  an  addi­
tion to its  present  factory,  96x125  feet 
in  dimensions  and  three  stories  high.

in 

The  addition  will  be  constructed  en­
tirely  of  brick,  with  substantial  stone 
foundation.  The remarkable  success of 
this institution is due to  the  enterprise, 
liberality  and far-sightedness of Messrs. 
Sands &  Maxwell, without  whom  Pent­
water would to-day be little  more than a 
way station,  instead  of  a  thriving  vil­
lage,  with more than  average  prospects 
of a bright future.
Saginaw—Never 

the  history  of 
Saginaw  Valley  lumbering  have  there 
been so many men out of  employment as 
at present, and wages were never so low. 
In the  woods  there  is  less  doing  then 
ever, and large firms that  formerly oper­
ated gangs of men  in the summer season 
have either exhausted  their  timber  and 
retired or are doing nothing,  and the few 
men that have employment  in the woods 
are glad to obtain §12  and  §15  a  month. 
Hundreds of men are roaming from place 
to place through the  lumber  camps  and 
small towns where  mills  are  located, in 
search of work.  The idle mills  in  Sagi­
naw are beginning to cause some distress 
to unemployed labor.  There  are  five or 
six mills here employing  nearly 500 men 
in the aggregate that  have  been running 
steadily until the present  season  but are 
now  idle,  and 
this  causes  suffering 
among the men.

Manistee—Business  seems  to  be  im­
proving  slowly.  Some  kinds of lumber 
are in better  demand while  others  con­
tinue to drag.  Pine piece  stuff  sells  at 
§9 for short,  while a  sprinkling  of  long 
or wide will raise the figure a quarter  or 
a half, as the case may  be.  Hemlock  is 
doing considerably  better.  The  market 
showed more life in  the past  two weeks, 
and each shipment made a  gain over the 
preceding one.  We have  closed  out  all 
the dry common inch held over from last 
season, and have now only this  season’s 
cut.  Some of this, of course, is in shape 
for shipment now, but  a  good  many  of 
the mills have let it go as soon  as it had 
been on stick 30 days, preferring  not  to 
hold it.  Some of the firms that are mak­
ing hemlock inch have made  some  good 
sized  sales  recently.  Buyers  seem  to 
think that it will fill the place of a  com­
mon pine inch if they  can  get  a  pretty 
good grade.

The  Wool  Market.

The  life  seems  to  be  slowly  ebbing 
away from  the  wool  market. 
It  is  al­
most pulseless  now, and what  little  in­
dication of life there is is  due  to  fever­
ish excitement occasioned by  the  uncer­
tainty regarding the conditions to  be im­
posed  upon  it  by  Congress.  Advices 
from the leading Eastern markets  are  to 
the effect that there is little or no  move­
ment of  wool,  although the  new  clip  is 
well on the  way  from  first  hands.  Lo­
cally  business  is  quiet,  and  not  much 
wool  has  been  received.  Dealers  are 
pretty  well  satisfied,  however,  as  the 
condition of the Eastern  market  will not 
warrant heavy buying.

Lakevlew Laconics.

L a k ev ie w ,  June 11—W.  B. Keyser, of 
Clinton, is here looking over  the  Mather 
bank  property  and  talking  with  our 
citizens, with a view of  buying the prop­
erty and opening  up  a  banking  institu­
tion.
is  manufacturing  a 
patent  family  swing  which  is  proving 
very  popular.
A.  Macomber has added  to his planing 
mill a §1,100 flooring planer and matcher.
Arthur L. Palmer has  transferred  bis 
livery business to Big Rapids.

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GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

P.  Steketee &  Sons  have  secured the 
order for flags to be used rally day, June 
28, by the Kent County  Sunday  Schools.
A. J. Beardsley, dealer in dry  goods at 
Boyne City, has added a line of groceries. 
The  Lemon  &  Wheeler  Company  fur­
nished the stock.

John DeMan  has  sold  his  meat  mar­
ket at 762 East Fulton street  to  Geo.  A. 
Haines and Wm.  Bonner,  who will  con­
tinue the business at  the  same  location 
under the style of Haines &  Bonner.

Daniel Lynch has  begun  the  erection 
of  a  three-story  and  basement  brick 
block at the corner of  Ellsworth  avenue 
and Island street,  50x95  feet  in  dimen­
sions.  He expects to be able  to  occupy 
it by Sept 1.

Chas.  K.  Stuck  has  leased the  store 
building of the Lebanon band,  five  miles 
southeast of Hubbardston,  and  will  oc­
cupy the store with a grocery  and  hard­
ware stock.  The  Ball-Barnhart Putman 
Co. has the  order for the  grocery  stock.
Sneevliet  Bros,  have  removed  their 
grocery stock from 715 East Fulton street 
to  the  former  location  of  James Yan 
Splunter, corner of  Jefferson  and  Wen- 
ham  avenues.  Mr.  Van  Splunter  has 
closed  out  his  stock  and  retired  from 
business.

The Wilcox Heat-Light Co.  is  a  thing 
of the past, the  stock  having  been  pur 
chased by L.  T.  Wilcox,  who  has  paid 
the  debts  of  tl\e  corporation  and  ab 
sorbed the assets.  He  is closing out the 
stock as rapidly as possible and will soon 
remove to Lansing, where he  has  taken 
a contract to inaugurate an oil  stove de 
partment  in  connection  with  the  stove 
and  implement business of E.  Bement & 
Sons.  This is a  new  departure  for  the 
Lansing  concern,  and  they  think  they 
make no mistake in securing the services 
of a man who possesses wide  and  varied 
experience  in  the  oil  stove  business 
Grand Rapids people have  no  reason  to 
be  in  love  with  the  business,  as  those 
who  put  their  money  into  the  Wilcox 
company were glad to  take  10  cents  on 
the  dollar  for  their  stock,  after  one 
year’s experience.

The Pure Food Exposition  closed  last 
Saturday evening,  with  satisfactory  re 
suits  to  everyone  connected  with  the 
enterprise,  with  the  exception  of  the 
Manager,  who  is  out  of  pocket  about 
8400,  besides  his  time  and  expenses. 
This result may be attributed to  several 
causes, paramount among which  are the 
lateness of the  season,  the  hardness  of 
the  times,  the  suddenness  with  which 
the  Exposition  was  spruug  upon  the 
people after the  project  had  been  tem­
porarily abandoned  by  the  Retail  Gro­
cers’  Association,  the  lack  of  prelimi­
nary  preparation  and 
the  seemingly 
short-sighted policy of a number  of local 
manufacturers in  refusing  to  make  an 
exhibit of  their  products.  Particularly 
is this the case with the local  flour  mil­
lers, who  thus  placed  themselves  in  a 
position of antagonism to the retail trade 
of  the  city  and  gave  an  outside  mill 
an opportunity to introduce  its  product 
to the attention of many housewives who 
were probably unaware of the  existence 
of such an  establishment.  The  general 
sentiment among the retail grocery trade 
is that the Exposition has been  of  great 
advantage to the trade,  as  it  has  awak-

ened the attention of the people  to  mer­
itorious food products and  that  this,  in 
connection with the practical  lectures of 
Mrs.  Borer, will  tend  to  stimulate  the 
demand  for  better  classes  of  goods. 
Now that the people are acquainted with 
the advantages of the food  exposition, it 
is probable that an attempt  to  hold  an­
other  exposition  next  season  will  be 
made before the season has  been  so  far 
advanced as to shut out such exhibits  as 
soups, chocolates, etc.,  which are usually 
hown during the cold months only.
“ I  suppose you  think  you  did  me  up 
great  shape,”  said  E.  J.  H errick  to 
last  week.
T h e  T radesm an  reporter 
That’s all right; but  1  don’t  want  my 
friends to think I walked in  from  Kala­
mazoo that night,  for  1  didn’t. 
I  came 
home with the rest of the boys  by  train, 
and never felt betterjin my  life. 
I  con­
sider my initiation into  Saladin  Temple 
one of the best investments I ever  made.
have  had  nothing  but good luck ever 
since.  Not long after I became  a  Noble 
of the Mystic Shrine my nephew  in Lan­
sing  became  the  father  of  a  bouncing 
baby boy and named  him  Erwin  Justus 
after his uncle—that’s  myself.  By  the 
way, did I ever tell  you  how  my  name 
got turned around ?  I was named Justus 
Erwin and was so called until  1  became 
a  young  man,  at  least  until  I was old 
enough to get out among the  girls.  You 
needn’t laugh; when 1 was a  young  man 
1 tell you the other young  fellows  stood 
a  poor  show  with  the girls when I was 
around; but I was going to tell you about 
my name. 
I bad an uncle  whose  initals 
were the same as my own,  and  this  fact 
occasioned no end of  trouble—fuu  some 
of them called it—but I  didn’t see it that 
way.  He  used  to  get  my  letters,  and 
sometimes I got his, but his were  gener 
ally  business letters,  while  mine were— 
not.  My Sunday girl wrote me once ask 
ing  me  to  call  on a certain evening.  1 
didn’t go, for my uncle got that letter and 
kept  it  a  month. 
I did not know  what 
was the matter  with  my  girl.  She  cut 
me dead on the street and,  when 1 called 
at  the  house,  she  was colder than 1894 
May weather.  Well,  my  uncle  finally 
gave me the letter and her peculiar  con 
duct was explained.  1 hadn’t  called  as 
requested in the letter,  and as I made no 
explanation, she resented it and I  didn’t 
blame her.  The evening 1  got  that  let 
ter  I  went  over  to  her father’s, and of 
course, everything was  satisfactorily ex 
plained,  even  to  the  reason  why  my 
uncle had kept the letter.  He  had  gone 
himself  and  kept  an  appointment in 
tended  for  me—spent  a  very  pleasant 
evening, too,  1 have no doubt. 
I put an 
end to that sort of  thing  right  away, 
never  had  an  uncle  that  was  good 
enough  to  get  my  letters  and go to see 
my  girl,  so  I  twisted  my name around 
and it has been twisted ever  since.”

From Out of Town.

Calls  have  been 

received  at  Th 
T radesm an office during  the  past week 
from the following  gentlemen  in  trade 

Alex. Denton,  Howard City.
E. C. Tew & Sons, Lake  Odessa.
J. E. Thurkow, Morley.
C.  A.  Brott,  Moorland.
J. H. Eppink, Lucas.
W. E. Hardy,  Harbor Springs.
H. VanNoord,  Jamestown.
J. Y. Crandall & Son, Sand Lake. 
Bates & Troutman, Moline.
F.  A. Burlington,  Bradley.
Thos.  H. Atkins,  West Carlisle.
Grand Rapids Lumber  Co.,  Stanwood
G.  K. Coffee, White Cloud.

Gripsack Brigade.

Frank E.  Chase (A. C.  McGraw & Co.) 
is at Room 101, Sweet’s Hotel, this week, 
with his line of fall goods.

A successful commercial traveler must 
make customers not for a day but  for all 
time.  He  must  be  able  to  look  every 
customer in the face and ask  him  if  the 
last bill of goods was  satisfactory  every 
time he gets around.  The man  who  de­
pends  upon  misrepresentations  or  cut 
prices  to  sell  worthless  goods  cannot 
figure on making more than one  success­
ful trip.

Pleasant relations between the "house” 
and "drummer” are absolutely  essential. 
An  honest  house  selling  honest  goods 
wants an honest salesman. 
It must take 
the drummer into its confidence and treat 
him as an honest man  if it  wants  to  get 
the best results from his labor. 
It must 
not question and quibble over every item 
n an expense bill, nor growl  over  a  re­
sultless  trip  when  times  are  hard.  A 
feeling  of  absolute  confidence  between 
salesman and manager does more  to  sell 
goods than any other factor.

‘I was  very  much  amused  while  on 
the Lake Shore road the other day,” said 
a well-known traveling  man,  in  one  of 
the  hotels,  “at  the  action  of  a  portly 
gentleman in our car.  He was  an  inde­
fatigable  newspaper 
reader;  bought 
every paper at each city  through  which 
we passed, and invariably as soon  as  he 
had finished one paper  he would tear off 
and destroy the heading on the first page 
before  beginning  the  next  one.  After 
this  had  been  going  on  some  time,  I 
could  not  restrain  my  curiosity,  and 
finally asked  him why  he  so  mutilated 
the  newspaper,  adding  that  the  train 
boy would doubtless be glad to have  the 
paper  back  again.  “ ‘That’s  just  it,’ 
said the portly gentleman. 
‘These news­
boys  are  altogether  too  smooth.  They 
sell me a paper  for  five  cents.  After  I 
have read it they  straighten  it  out  and 
possibly sell it to some  one  else  for  an­
other five cents.  Then when  he has fin­
ished they cut off the heading and return 
it to the  publication  office,  where  it  is 
credited to the account  of  the  newsboy 
sending it  in,  as  an  unsold  paper  for 
which he gets his  rebate  at  the  end  of 
the month.  Now when  I  have  torn  off 
that  heading  he  can’t  sell  that  paper 
again, neither can he send it back to  the 
office  for  the  rebate. 
It’s  one  of  the 
many little petty  swindles  that  are  be­
coming so common, and I’m  doing all  in 
my power to break it up.’ ”

The Wheat Market.

Wheat  has  been  erratic  during  the 
past week.  The visible supply  and  the 
amount on  passage  showed  a  large  de­
crease, and on that  account  and also  on 
account of the  reported damage  to  crop, 
the price has advanced 6 cents  from  low 
point. 
It  receded  two  cents, at  which 
point it  has  remained  since.  The  city 
mills pay 52 cents per bushel,  and, if we 
have  a  few  more  weeks  like  the  past, 
wheat may get somewhere near where  it 
belongs, so that the  agriculturist will re­
ceive a  fair remuneration  for  his  labor. 
There was quite a decrease for the week, 
amounting to 1,181,000 bushels,  and  for 
the  month  of  May  to  about  10,000,000 
bushels.  The  decrease  in  the  world’s 
supply of wheat was only about 6,000,000 
bushels. 
It  can  readily  be  seen  that 
there  is  a  steady  decrease  which  will 
eventually 
count.  The  Government 
crop report for June,  as  it reads,  can be

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construed as rather bearish,  as It  makes 
the crop two points above May, although, 
taking 
the  different  State  reports,  it 
shows  a  decline  of  five  points.  The 
Government claims only  a  reduction  of 
1  per cent,  in the winter  wheat  acreage, 
while it certainly  is  from  10  to 12  per 
cent, less; but  then the  Government  re­
port will stand,  no matter  how  faulty it 
is.  There were only  34  cars  of  wheat, 
21 cars  of  corn  and  5  cars  of  oats  re­
ceived  here  during 
the  past  week, 
or  about  the  same  as  was  receivad 
in  Detroit,  which 
clearly 
that  there  is  no  wheat  moving,  Har­
vesting  has  commenced  in  Texas  and 
other Southern States,  but,  as no thresh­
ing has yet been done,  the possible  yield 
cannot be estimated.  C.  G.  A. Yoiot.

shows 

Clothing Men,  Attention!

Brick store building to  rent,  all  fitted 
up,  iu  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 Mic h ig a n  T radesm an.
FOR SALE,  WANTED,  ETC.

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

BUSINESS  CHANCES

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TA7ANTED—SMALL  GENERAL  STOCK,  OR 
tv 
two lines of merchandise, cheap for cash,
in good town 
Address No.  Ml, care  Michigan 
Tradesman.
Ml
■ OR  SALE—CLOTHING  AND  GENTLE 
men’s furnishing goods stock at a  bargain. 
Will rent store to  parties  purchasing  if  so  de­
sired.  Address  Lock  box  270,  Charlotte
Mich.______________________________  642
YITANTED  TO  EXCHANGE—TWO HORSE 
vv 
engine, upright boiler,  good  as  new,  for 
electric  motor.  Redner  Bros.,
Battle  Creek,
Mich.
______________ 643
TTfHO WANTS  A  NICE
CLEAN,  WELL-ES- 
tablished and good  paying dry goods and 
notion store, in one of the best locations  in  the 
city, at a great bargain; good reason for  selling. 
Write  or  call  at  once.  Address  No.  635, care 
Michigan Tradesman. 
635
■  RUG  STORE  FOR  SALE—INVOICING 
$1,600,$500 down; balance  on  time.  Good 
business.  Low  expenses.  Address  Book- 
keeper.4 and 6 Pearl St.. Grand  Rapids. 
F o r sa l e—60 g a llon  o il  t a n k ,  w ith 
pump,  $2.50;  also  three  compartment re­
frigerator  in  good  condition,  $10. 
Julius  J. 
Wagner. 197 East Bridge St., Grand Rapids.  564
Mic h ig a n  d rug  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 
$'00  to  $',< 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.  Nocharge 
to buyer or employer.  Address Mich. Drug  Ex 
change, 128 Monroe street. Grand Rapids.  637
F or 
BUILDING  AND 
t  Levering,  Mich. 
First-class  place  for  a  general dealer.  A.  M. 
LeBaron, Grand Rapids, Mich. 
OR  SALE—CLEAN  DRUG  STOCK  IN  A 
thriving town in Northern Michigan  on  C. 
& W. M. Railway.  Address No. 639, care  Michi 
gan Tradesman. 
639
1   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  bnilding. 
618
■ jANING  MILL—WE  OFFER  FOR  SALE 
the North Side Planing Mill,  which is first- 
class in every  respect,  or  will  receive  proposi­
tions to locate the business in some othes  thriv­
ing town.  Correspondence and inspection solic­
ited.  Sheridan, Boyce & Co., Manistee, Mich. 613
F OR SALE  CHEAP-STORE  AND  DWELL 
ing in first-class location  in  town  of  1,000 
inhabitants.  Address E. L., box 158, Thompson- 
598
ville, Benzie Co., Mich. 
T
PIHE  BEST  PLACE  IN  THE  STATE  TO 
start a dry goods  store is Big  Rapids.  Has 
only two.____________________________608
F IOR  RENT—EXCELLENT  LOCATION  FOR 
grocery  store.  No  other  grocery  within 
four  blocks.  High  and  dry  basement  nnder 
J.  W. 
store.  Come  and  see  for  yourself. 
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 
Investigate.  Address  box  15,  Centre- 
$2,500. 
ville,  Mich.  _________________________820
HEADACHE
POWDERS
Pay the best profit l Order from your£jobber

P E C K ’S

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Growth of the Cottonseed  Oil Industry
In view of  the  determined  opposition 
of farmers and their friends to cottolene, 
cottosuet and  other  products  of  cotton­
seed, substitutes for lard  and  butter,  il 
is interesting to  note  the  enormous  ex­
pansion of the cottonseed  oil industry.

In  1880  there  were  forty  cottonseed 
mills with  an  aggregate  capital  of  $3,-
500.000.  There are now 300  mills,  hav­
ing a combined capital of  about $30,000,- 
000.  At  present about  1,500,000  tons of 
seed  are  annually  used  by  the  mills, 
yielding to the farmers  about $18,000,000 
a year for a product which until recently 
was  regarded  as  waste  material.  The 
total  output is about 1,500,000 barrels or
60.000.  000 gallons  of oil, 500.000  tons  of 
cottonseed  meal,  750,000  tons  of  hulls 
and 30,000,000 pounds of  linters,  the ag­
gregate  value  of  which  will  average 
about $30 000,000.  The  demand  for  oil 
is  steadily  expanding.  As  only  about 
one-third of the total cottonseed  crop  is 
there  is 
now  consumed  by  the  mills, 
practically  unlimited  room 
for 
the 
growth of this business.  Ten  years  ago 
the hulls  were  burned  by  the  mills  as 
fuel, as no other use could  be  found  for 
them. 
Investigation  proved  that  they 
made  excellent  fodder,  and  last  year 
about  400,000  bead  of  cattle  were  fat­
tened for the market on cottonseed hulls, 
while 100,000 miich cows were fed on the 
same material.
Here  is food for  thought.  What  will 
be the result to farmers and  dairymen if 
this industry continues to  expand  in the 
future as it has  in  the  past?  Undoubt­
edly  new  uses  will  be  discovered  for 
cottonseed oil,  but, as a competitor in the 
field  until  recently  held  in  undisputed 
possession  by  lard  and  butter,  it  will 
play a much more  formidable  part  than 
it has in the past.  Will it  finally entire­
ly  supplant  butter  and  lard?  Hardly, 
although it may  be  expected  to  revolu­
tionize buttermaking  as a  business  and 
make  the  latter an  unprofitable  article 
of commerce.  The fact that the  price of 
butter for a considerable  portion  of  the 
year puts it beyond the reach  of a  large 
proportion of the people will work in favor 
of  the cottonseed  oil  industry,  although 
good butter at a  fair  price  will  always 
find a market;  but the process  of butter­
making will need  to  be  vastly  modified 
if it is to  hold  any  portion  of  the  field 
against  the  cottonseed  product.  The 
enormous incaease in the consumption of 
milk by the people is another  considera­
tion.  May  not  the  fact  that  the  con­
sumption of  milk  is  constantly  on  the 
increase show to  farmers  and  dairymen 
a more profitable  market for the disposi­
tion  of  their  product?  There  is  profit 
in milk even at present prices,  but here, 
too,  great  changes  are  necessary  and 
farmers have much to  learn.
The  relative  merits  of  animal  and 
vegetable oils have long been determined 
in favor of vegetable oil.  Cottonseed  oil 
has been proved to  be  pure,  wholesome 
and  nutritious, which  cannot always  be 
said  of  lard.  Perhaps  the  two  have 
separate fields  of usefulness,  and  when 
it is  decided  just  what  is  the  peculiar 
sphere  of  each  competition  will  cease.
In the  meantime  the  prejudice  against 
vegetable  oils  and 
their  products  is 
dying out though opposition  from  inter­
ested quarters is as  strong as ever.  The 
figures and facts given  above  show  that 
the raising of  cottonseed for its  oleagin­
ous product has proved  to  be in  several 
directions a great boon to farmers.

F ra nk Sto w ell.

UNBLEACHED  COTTONS.

Arrow Brand  4k 
World Wide.  6
“  LL...............   4 Vi
Pull Yard Wide...... 6Vi
Georgia  A..............  6V4
Honest Width........  6
Hartford A  ............ 5
Indian Head...........  svi
King A  A................6Vi
KlngBC.................6
Lawrence  L L........  434
Madras che6se cloth 6k 
Newmarket  G........53k

Adriatic.................   7
Argyle....................
Atlanta A A.............6
Atlantic A.............. 6*
h ..............en
:: 
P .............  5
“ 
D..............  6
“ 
“  LL..............  4 Vi
Amory....................   6k
Archery  Bunting...  4 
Beaver Dam  A A..  4V4
Blackstone O, 33___  5
Black Crow............ 6
Black  Rock  ...........  5k
Boot, AL.................   7
N...
Capital  A..................5Ji|
DD.
Cavanat V..............  5Vi
X
Chapman cheese cl.  3% Nolbe R.............5
Clifton  C R ............ 534  Our Level  Best.......6
Comet.....................   634 Oxford  R ................  6
Dwight Star............  6k  Pequol.....................  7
Clifton CCC...........53k  Solar........................  6
Top of the  Heap__  7
BLEACHED  COTTONS.
A_B C -  .................... 8Î4 Geo. Washington...  8
Amazon...................8
Glen Mills
Amsburg................. 6
Gold  Medal.............   7Vi
Art  Cambric........... 10
Green  Ticket......... 8J4
Blackstone A A......  7Vi
Great Falls.............   634
Beats All.................   4
Hope......................... 734
Boston.....................12
Just  Out........  43k@ 5
Cabot.......................   63k
King Phillip...........  73k
Cabot,  \ ..................63k
OP......7V4
Charter  Oak............5 Vi
Lonsdale Cambric.. 10 
Conway W...............  734|Lonsdale
®  8 
| Middlesex
Cleveland.............  6 
5
Dwight Anchor....  8  INoName..............77  7)4
shorts 8 
|0ak View................... 6
Edwards..................6  I Our Own.................... 5U
Empire.....................  7  Pride of the West... 18
Parwell....................7Vi Rosalind.................... 7Vi
Fruit of the  Loom.  8 
4Vi
Fitchville  ............  7  Utica  Mills.............. 8Vi
First Prize..............6 
“  Nonpareil  ..10
Frultof the Loom X. 7Vi Vinyard...................   8Vi
Falrmount.  434 White Horse........................... 6
Full Value.63kl 
“  Rock.............................. 8Vi
Cabot.  63k I Dwight Anchor.............................8
Farwell............ 7 s I

|Sunlight................ 

HALF  BLEACHED  COTTONS.

“ 

Housewife  A...

CANTON  FLANNEL.

Bleached. 
Housewife  Q ....
R.......
S......
T ___
U.......
V........
W ....
X......
Y......
Z........

Unbleached.
“ 
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“ 
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“ 
“ 
“ 
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...534
B 
. --- 5 Vi
C... ----6
D... --- 6Vi
E ...
F ... --- 73*
G  .. --- 7Vi
H ...
...7k
I __ ....834
J ...
• 
8Vi
K...
9*
L.  ..
...10
...11 
...81 
...14Vi
CARPET  W ARP.

...10VÍ 

-634
■•73k ■8VÍ 
-•»54 
.10 • 103k 
-llVi 
■ 18VÍ 
13VÍ

“ 

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-lOVi

FEINTS.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Wonderful.................64 50
Brighton......................4 75
Bortree’s ..................   9 00
Abdominal.................15 00

DRESS  GOODS.

OOBSET  JEANS.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

colored — 19  White Star.......... 

Peerless, white....... 17  I Integrity  colored... 18
17
Integrity..................18Vil 
“  colored  .19
..............8  Nameless..................80
Hamilton 
.85 
• 87 Vi 
.30 
•38 Vi 
.35

9
G G  Cashmere....... 80
Nameless  .............. 16
18
00B8ETS.
Corallne....................19  50
Schilling’s ...............9 00
Davis  Waists......   9 00
Grand  Rapids........4 50
Armory..................   6k  I Naumkeag salteen..  "Vi
Androscoggin......... 7J4 ¡Rock port.................. 6 Vi
Blddeford...............  6  Conestoga.................7Ví
Brunswick..............6V4I Walworth.................. 63k
Allen turkey  redB ..  5Vi|Berwlck fancies__5Vi
robes...........5 Vi Clyde  Robes.............
Pink a purple 5Vi Charter Oak fancies 4
buffs...........  5Vi DelMarlne cashm's.  5Vi
monrn’g  5Vi
pink  checks.  5Vi 
staples........  5  ¡Eddy stone fancy...  5Vi
chocolat 5Ví
shirtings  ..  3k 
American  fancy....  5Vi 
rober  ... 5Vi
4Vi 
sateens.. 5Vi
American Indigo 
American shirtings.  3k  Hamilton fancy.  ...  5Vi 
staple  ...  5Vi
Argentine  Grays...  6 
Anchor Shirtings...  4  Manchester fancy..  5Vi
fancy.
Arnold 
....  6
new era.  5 Vi 
Arnold  Merino......6
Merrimack D fancy.  5Ji 
long cloth B.  9
“ 
Merrlm’ck shirtings.  4 
M  U 
II  p  JjJ
Repp furn .  8Vi
century cloth 7
“ 
Pacific fancy..........5Vi
“  gold seal......10Vi
“  green seal TR lOVi 
Portsmouth robes...  6Vi 
“  yellow seal.. lovt
Simpson mourning.. 5k 
“ 
serge.............llVi
greys.. ....  5k 
“  Turkey red.. lOVi 
solid black.  5k 
Washington Indigo.  6Vi 
" 
“  Turkey robes..  7V4
“  India robes__ 7Vi
“  plain Tky X k   8Vi 
“ 
“  X...10
“  Ottoman  Tur­
key red  ...............6 vi
Martha Washington
Tnrkeyred k ...... 7Vi
Martha Washington
Tnrkeyred..........   9Vi
Rlverpolntrobes....  5Vi
Windsor fancy........  6Vi
Indigo  bine......... 10 Vi
Harmony................  4Vi
AC A......................llVi
Pemberton AAA.... 16
York....................... lOVi
Swift River............ 7Vi
Pearl  River............ 12
Warren................... 12 vi

Ballon solid black..
“  colors.
Bengal bine,  green, 
red and  orange...  6
Berlin solids...........  5Vi
“  oil bine........  6
“  “  green__  6
"  Foulards  ...  5Vi
red k .........  7
" 
“  “  X...........  9Vi
“  4 4...........10
“ 
“ 
“  3-4XXXX 18
Cocheco fancy........5
“  madders...  5 
“  XXtwills..  5
solids......... 5
“ 

Amoskeag AC A....llVi
Hamilton N  ...........  7

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

gold  ticket

TICKINGS.

“ 
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“ 
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“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

A m o s k e a g .

.................12
90S...... 14
brown .14
Andover................. livi
Beaver Creek A A... 10 
BB...  9
“ 
CC__
“ 
Boston Mfg Co.  br..  7 
blue  8Vi
“ 
“  d a  twist  10Vi 
Columbian XXX br.10 
“ 
XXX  bl.19

“ 
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Columbian  brown.. 12
Bverett, blue.......... 12 Vi
brown....... 12Vi
Haymaker blue......   73k
brown...  73k
Jeffrey.....................11 Vi
Lancaster  ...............12Vi
Lawrence, 9 os........13Vi
No. 220.... 13
No. 850— 11V4
No. 880— lOVi

“ 
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GINGHAMS.

“ 

Canton ..  7 
APC........SVi
Teazle...10Vi
Angola.. 10Vi 
Persian

Amoskeag..............   5  (Lancaster,  staple...  5
“  Persian dress 6v* 
“  fancies 
  7
| 
“  Normandie 7
Lancashire.............   6
“ 
“ 
Manchester............   5k
“ 
Monogram..............  6Vi
“ 
Normandie............  7
Arlington staple__634
Persian.................. 7
Arasapha  fancy__  43k
Renfrew Dress........7Vi
Bates Warwick dres  7Vi 
Rosemont................. 6Vi
staples.  6
Slatersvllle............ 6
Centennial............   lOVi
Somerset.................  7
Criterion......... ..... lOVi
Tacoma  ...................7Vi
Cumberland  staple.  5Vi
Toll  du Nord.........   8Vi
Cumberland...........5
Wabash..................   ?Vi
Essex......................4 V4
seersucker..  7Vi
Elfin.......................  7Vi
Warwick...............   6
Everett classics..... 8Vi
Whlttenden............  8
Exposition............. 754
heather dr.  7Vi 
Glenarie.................  634
Indigo blue 9 
Glenarven.............. 63k
Wamsutta staples...  6k
Glenwood...............7V4
Westbrook..............8
Hampton.................5
10
Johnson Chalón cl  VilWindermeer.................6
Indigo bine 9Vi York  ........................6k
zephyrs____ 16  I

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GRAIN  BAGS.

Amoskeag..................13  ¡Georgia................. 13Vi
Stark.......................17 
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American............... 13  | ...............................

BED  FLANNEL.

.......95
......90

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

No.  6  ..  ..33
“ 
8........34
“  10........35
12........ 36

Clark’s Mlle End... .45 Barbour's
Coats’. J. A P. 
...... 45 Marshall’s.
Holyoke.........
......22 Vi
KNITTING  COTTON.
White. Colored.
White. Colored
38 No.  14...... .37
48
38
“  16...... 38
43
40
“  18......
44
.39
41
“  80...... .40
45
Slater........................ 4
Edwards................  4
White Star............   4
Lockwood................ 4
Kid Glove  .............   4
Wood’s..................   4
Newmarket............   4
Brunswick...........   4
Fireman.................32 Vi
Creedmore............. 27Vi
Talbot XXX...........30
Nameless............... 27 Vi
Red A Blue,  plaid..40
Union R................. 22 Vi
Windsor..................18VÍ
6 oz Western...........20
Union  B .................22Vi
DOMET  FLANNEL.
Nameless......   8  @  9*1 
8VÍO10  I 
Slate. 
Black.
9Vi 
lOViHVi18
lOVi 
lOVi
llVi 
llVi
12*
12 Vi
20
DUCKS.
Severen, 80s ..........   9Vi
West  Point, 8 os.... lOVi 
Mayland, 8 oz......... lOVi
„  
lOos  ...12V4
Greenwood, 7Vi o*..  9Vi 
Raven, lOos.............l3Vi
SGtrk  « 
...........13*
Greenwood, 801 — 11 Vi 
Boston, 8 oz.............lOVi
Boston, 10 os............12VÍ

Grey SR W........... 17VÍ
Western W  ............ l¿Ví
DR P .....................18*
Flashing XXX.......23 vi
Manitoba............... 23Vi
9  ©10* 
12V4
Black.
lOVi
«Vi
12
20

Brown. 
lOVi H Vi 
12 
80

Brown.
9V4lOVi
llVi
12V4

CANVASS  AND  PADDING.

“
“
Slate

MIXED  FLANNEL.

“ 

8 

WADDINGS.

White, do*..............25  I Per bale, 40 dos 
Colored, dos...........80  [Colored  “ 
SILESIAS.
Slater, Iron Cross 
Red Cross.
9
Best.............10  Vi
Best A A......12 Vi
...................7V4
G............................. 8V4
Cortlcelll, do*.........85  [Cortlcelll  knitting,

88 50
..........7 50
[Pawtncket...............íoví
Dandle....................  9
Bedford...................invi
Valley  City.............10*
K K ..........................iovi

pervio*  ball........80

twist,do*..40 
50 yd, do*..40  I 
ROOKS AND ETES— F E R  GROSS.
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No  1 Bl’k A Whlte.,10  [No  4 Bl’k A White  15 
..20
..25
|No4—15 F  3Vi.........40

..12  “ 
8 
..12 I  “  10 
FINS.
8—18.SC...........45  I

No 2—20, M C......... 50 

SEWING  SILK.

2 
8 

No  2 White A Bl’k.,12  INo  8 White & Bl’k  80 
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„28

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COTTON  TAPE.
..15  “  10 
..18 I  “  12 
SAFETT  FINS.
....28  |No8...
KNNDLRS—F IR   I .

4 
6 
No 2

.88

.Jam es.................1  40| Steamboat.

Crowely’a................1  85 Gold Eyed.............. 1 50
Marshall’s.............1 00| American.................1 oo
5—4—   1 75  6—4... 
15—4— 1 66  6 —4. ..2  80

TABLE  OIL  CLOTH.

COTTONT WINES.

Cotton Sail Twine. .88
Crown.....................12
Domestic................l8Vi
Anchor................... 16
Bristol.................... 18
Cherry  Valley........15
‘ XL...........................18 Vi
Alabama...................6k
Alamance.................6Vi
Angusta...................7 Vi
At  sapha..................6
Georgia................... 634
G ranite..................  5k

Nashua................... 14
Rising Star 4-ply__ 17
„  
8-ply....17
North 8tar.............. 26
Wool Standard 4 ply 17* 
Powhattan............. 16

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Mount  Pleasant__ 6V4
Oneida....................  5
Prymont................  5k
Randelman............ 6
Riverside...............   50
Sibley  A.................834
Toledo....................
Otis checks.............7k

PLAID  OSNABURG8

“ 
“ Awning..11

D........... 8
Fanner................... 8
First Prise.............lOVi
Lenox M ills..........18
Atlanta,  D..............  6k|Stark  A
Boot. 
Clifton, K ............... 7  ¡Top of Heap..........l.cj  1 Haw  J
>  H a «   T 

Conostoga..............168

COTTON  DRILL.

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6k  No  Name................7*  Haw  River.............. 5
7  
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DEMINS.

NEW  STYLES  OF

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20 &  22  Monroe  St.,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

A  LADY’S

GENUINE  :  VICI  :  SHOE,
Plain toe in opera and  opera  toe and C. S. heel 
D and E and E E widthB.at 81.50.  Patent leather 
tip,  *1.5p  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.

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GRIND  RAPIDS,  MICH,

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Everything  in  seeds is kept  by  us— 

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Hungarian,  Millet,

Red Top,  Blue  Grass, 
Seed  Corn,  Rye, 
Barley,  Peas, 
Beans,  Etc.

If you  have  Beans  to  cell,  send  us 
samples,  stating  quantity,  and  we 
will  try  to trade  with  you.  W e  are 
leadquarters  for egg eases  and  egg 
case tillers.
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W ritte n  fo r Th e  Tradesm an.

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The  great  strikes  are  still  on.  The 
strikers,  in many instances,  seem  to  be 
“masters of the  situation,”  and,  except 
in the  matter  of  getting their  demands 
acceded  to,  are  having  things  pretty 
much their own  way.  No  matter  what 
may be the outcome of  the  strikes,  one 
fact seems  to  be  demonstrated  beyond 
peradventure,  that  promiscuous  immi­
gration is  responsible  for  much  of  the 
trouble.  The  miners  of  Pennsylvania, 
Illinois, Ohio  and  Virginia  are  largely 
the scum of the Slavonic states of Eastern 
and Southern Europe.  These people, ac­
customed  as they were to the  worst  and 
most  grinding  forms  of  oppression  in 
their own  countries,  and  ignorant  and 
debased  to an almost  incredible  degree, 
are unable to appreciate the fundamental 
principle  upon  which  the  liberty  of 
every  citizen  in  this  country 
rests. 
They have been born and  bred with  the 
idea that “might makes right,”  and  that 
brute strength is the  only  thing  worthy 
of respect.  Kept  in  restraint  at  home 
by armed force, it is not to  be wondered 
at that,  when  opportunity  affords,  they 
resort to arms to enforce their  demands. 
The militarism of  the Old World  natur­
ally breeds contempt for human life, and 
the brutishness of the manner  of  living 
in  many  of  the  countries  of  the  Old 
World greatly  intensifies  that  contempt. 
This will  account, in  a  large  measure, 
for the disregard  of  life  shown  by  the 
strikers,  especially in  the  coal  regions. 
Here, when aroused,  their brute passions 
can have full  swing;  at  home,  on  con­
siderably less provocation than they have 
given here,  they would  have  been  shot 
down  by  the  soldiery.  At  home  they 
are 
in 
crowds;  here they are under  no  restric­
tions  in  that  respect.  What  wonder, 
then,  that,  mistaking  their  liberty  for 
license,  lawlessness,  incendiarism  and 
murder are the result?  It may  be  said, 
and admittedly with  truth, that  design­
ing  men,  labor  agitators,  and  walking 
delegates,  by their  appeals  to  the  pas­
sions  and  prejudices  of  these  people, 
are largely  responsible  for  the  terrible 
crimes which  have  been  committed  by 
the strikers, but, in the name  of  reason 
and justice, let the blame  rest  where  it 
of right belongs. 
It is not the  striker or 
the walking  delegates  only  who  should 
be held  responsible,  but  the  men  who 
induced  these  people  to  leave  their 
homes and come to  this  country.  They 
were known to be ignorant and depraved, 
to have no respect for  any law  that was 
not  enforced  by  sword  and  bayonet; 
to be so debased, mentally  and  morally, 
as to be beyond the civilizing and elevat­
ing influences of  American  institutions; 
yet they were encouraged to come to this 
country  and  were  promised  work  at 
wages which to them must  have  seemed 
princely.  The  mine  owners,  railroad 
corporations,  and  others  who  were  in­
strumental 
in  bringing  these  savage 
hordes  to  our  shores  must  bear  the 
blame for the awful  results which  have 
followed their coming  here.  They were 
warned of  the  danger,  but  disregarded 
the  warning.  They  wanted  cheaper 
labor,  and  they  got  it.  But  whether, 
reckoning the  loss  from  strikes,  incen­
diarism  and  other  causes 
directly 
traceable to their cheap  labor, the  spec­
ulation has been a paying one or not is a 
If they  have  lost  they  have 
question. 
deserved  to  lose,  and  little  sympathy

to  gather 

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will be wasted  on  them.  The  financial
loss, although  considerable, is, however, 
a  secondary  consideration.  Every  life
lost,  every  wife  widowed,  every  child 
orphaned—and they may be  counted  by 
hundreds—must be  laid  at  the  door  of 
the men who brought these  people.here. 
They  are  primarily  and  alone  respon­
sible.  What  will  be  done  about  it? 
Nothing,  for  nothing  can  be  done. 
Every employer  has  a  right,  to  import 
cheap labor if he wants to, and  the more 
degraded and ignorant it is  the  cheaper 
it will be.  Slavs and  Huns and  Italians 
are  surely  ignorant  enough,  and,  al­
though the people of the land may suffer, 
in  the words  of  the  elder  Vanderbilt,
“to h-----1  with  the  people.”  Perhaps,
after all, the people may find  a  remedy.

Da n ie l  Abbot.

A  New  Coin  Wanted.

From Shoe and Leather Facts.
In these days of  money  discussions  it 
is pertinent to call attention  to  a  much- 
needed coin.  The denomination in mind 
is  a  9-ceut  piece.  Modern business in­
genuity  and  enterprise  have  brought 
about a fine discrimination in the  matter 
of  selling  prices,  and  instead  of being 
satisfied with fixing their profits  in  deci­
mals  and  demi-decimal  denominations, 
find it to advantage to make  the  conces­
sion of a single penny on a  $5, $10 or $15 
sale. 
In values that are less  than  $5  it 
is almost as common to see  90 and 49 fig­
ures as it is those ending with 0  and  00. 
In fact a 9-cent piece is now as necessary 
as a 10-cent piece. 
It is very pleasant to 
our feelings and desirable to  our  purses 
to enter a  large store and purchase a  20- 
cent collar for 19 cents, but it transforms 
us into pestiferous  and  cranky  individ­
uals to be compelled to stand on one foot 
for twenty-seven  minutes  and  wait  for 
the return of the penny  due  in  change. 
The  pennies  we  save  in  promiscuous 
buying would provide us with  afternoon 
papers  and  postal  cards,  but  the  time 
lost in waiting  for  change  would  make 
an annual income sufficient for  an  Afri­
can prince.

The  Talkative  Drummer.
For weeks he traveled on the road,

And everywhere he went 

With buyers far and buyers near 
Whole hours and hours he spent.

lie talked and argued with each one 

With energy  intense.

And poured with most vehement zeal 

A flood of eloquence.

He talked and talked, yet by his  tongue 

No money could he make,

In spite of all the yarns he spun 

No orders did he take.

The buyers listened to his wit 
With quick responsive smile,

And when they got a chance to speak 

They  said they’d wait awhile.

And so they did.  They waited for 

The quiet man who came 

Klght after him, who could  not talk 

But got there just the same.

T om  Mason.

Wrought Loose  Pin........................................   40
Wrought  Table...............................................  40
Wrought Inside Blind...... .............................   40
Wrought Brass............................................. 
75
Blind,  Clark’s...............................................70410
Blind,  Parker’s.............................................70410
Blind, Shepard’s 
70
Ordinary Tackle, list April  1893................60410

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

CBADLBS.

CBOW B A B S.

Grain.............................................................49410
Cast Steel.............................................per #>  5
Bly’s 1-10............................................perm 
.....................................  
Hick’s C. F 
“ 
.....................................   “ 
G. D ......  
.....................................   “ 
Musket 

65
60
35
60

CABTBID0B8.

Rim  Fire.......... ........................................... 
so
Central  Fire.........   ...............................dls. 
25
Socket Firmer.............................................  75410
Socket Framing.............................................75410
Socket Corner................................................75410
Socket SllckB................................................ 75410
Butchers’Tanged Firmer............................ 
40

chisbls. 

dls.

dls.

c o m b s.

CHALK.
COFFER*

Curry,  Lawrence’s....................................... 
40
Hotchkiss....................................................  
25
White Crayons, per  gross............. 12012*4 dls. 10

“ 

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

 
dbills. 

 

28
26
23
23
22
50
50
50

dls.

DRIPPING FANS.

Small sizes, ser pound................................   614
Large sizes, per  pound................................  
06

ELBOWS.

75

bxpansivb bits. 

Com. 4  piece, 6 in............................doz. net 
Corrugated........................................................dls 40
Adjustable........................................................dls. 40410
Clark’s, small, 818;  large, 826...................... 
30
Ives’, 1, 818 :  2, 834 ;  3,830  ............................ 
25
Disston's..................................................60410-10
New American  ....................................... 60410-10
Nicholson’s .............................................60410-10
Heller’s .........................................................  
50
Heller's Horse R asps..................................  
50

files—New List. 

dls.

dls.

GALVANIZED IBON.

dls.
dls.

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

13 

12 

15 

28
16 17

Discount, 60 -10

14 
GAUGES. 

dls.

LOCKS—DOOB. 

knobs—New List. 

Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s...................... 
50
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.................... 
55
Door,  porcelain, jap. trimmings................. 
55
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.............. 
55
Door,  porcelvln, trimmings......................... 
55
Drawer  and  Shutter, porcelain................... 
70
Russell 4 Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new list  .........  
56
Mallory, Wheeler  4   Co.’s............................ 
55
Branford’s ................................................... 
55
Norwalk’s ................................................... 
55
Adze Bye..................................... 816.00, dls. 6C-10
Hunt Bye..................................... 815.00, dls. 60-10
Hunt’s.......................  
...........818.50, dls. 20410.
dls.
so
Sperry 4  Co.’s, Post,  handled............ ......... 
dls.
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s ...................................  
40
“  P. 8. 4  W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleable*__  
40
•*  Landers,  Ferry 4  Cls rk’s................. 
40
“  Enterprise 
.....................................  
30
Stebbln’s Pattern.......................................... 60410
Stebbln’s Genuine.........................................60410
Enterprise, self-measuring..........................  
25
Advance over  base,  on  both  Steel  and Wire.

KOLASBBS GATES. 

MAULS. 
mills. 

MATTOCKS.

NAILS

dlS.

Steel nails, base....................................................1 40
Wire nails, base....................................................1 40
60.....................................................................Base Base

oi

HAMMBBB.

dlS .

“ 
“ 
“ 

HANGERS. 

HINGES.

WIBB GOODS. 

HOLLOW WARN.

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS.

Maydole 4  Co.’s .................................... dls. 
25
Kip’s .......................................................dls. 
25
Yerkes 4  Plumb’s ..................................dls. 40410
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel........................80c list 60
Blacksmith's Solid Cast  Steel  Hand__30c 40410
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2, 3 ..............................dls.60410
State........................................... per doz. net, 2 50
Screw Hook  and  Strap, to 12 in. 4ft  14  and
longer........................................................ 
3*
Screw Hook and  Bye, H ....................... net 
10
“  %.................. ....n et  8*4
“ 
.........................net  7*4
“ 
“ 
“  %.........................net  7*4
Strap and T ............................................dig. 
50
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track__50410
Champion,  anti friction.............................   60410
Kidder, wood track.....................................  
40
Pots................................................................60418
Kettles........................................................... 60410
Spiders  ......................................................... 6041C
Gray enameled..............................................40410
Stamped  Tin Ware............................  .new list 70
Japanned Tin Ware..................................... 
25
Granite Iron W are..................... new 11s 
2t
Blight...................................................  70410410
Screw  Byes............................................. 70410410
Hook’s .....................................................70410410
Gate Hooks and Byes.........................  70410410
<Hi.7n
Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s  ....................
Sisal, *4 Inch and larger.............................  
Manilla...................................... 
Steel and  Iron............................
Try and Bevels.............................
M itre.........................................

7
 
dls.
• 7C&10 
60 
20
SHEET  IRON.Com. Smooth. Com
82 50
3 60
2  70
2 80
2 90
3 00
All  sheets No. 18  and  lighter. over 30 inches

Nos. 10 to  14.................
...13 50
Nos. 15 to 17.................  .................  3 50
Nos.  18 to 21.................................. .  4 05
Nos. 22 to 24.............................
,..  3 55
Nos. 25 to 26..........................
..i  65
No. 27........................................
...  3 75
wide not less than 2-10 extra
List acct. 19, ’86  .....................................dls. 
Silver Lake, White A ............................. list 
Drab A.................................  “ 
White  B...............................  1 
Drab B.................................  •> 
White C...............................   “ 

SAND FAPBB.
SASH COBD.

lbvkls. 
BOFBS.

50
50
55
so
5s
fo

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

dls.

Discount, 10.

SASH WEIGHTS.

dls.

saws. 

traps. 

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

Silver Steel  Dla. X Cuts, per foot,__ 

Solid Byes............................................ per ton 825
20
“ 
70
“  Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot....  50
  30
“  Special Steel Dla. X Cuts, per foot 
“  Champion  and  Blectric  Tooth  X
Cuts,  per  root............................................. 
30
dis.
Steel, Game................................................... 60410
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s __ 
35
Oneida Community, Hawley a Norton’s __ 
70
Mouse,  choker....................................18c per doz
Mouse, delusion............................... 81.50 per doz
dls.
Bright Market..............................................   70
Annealed Market....................................  70_in
Coppered Market...................................... . . 60—10
Tinned Market............................................   62*4
Coppered  Spring  Steel........................................ . ’ 50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized..........................  2 70
painted...............................  2 30

wibb. 

“ 

HORSE NAILS.

WBBNCHBS. 

An  Sable......................................................... dls. 40410
dls.  05
Putnam.......................................... 
N orth western................................  
dls. 10410
dlB
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.................... 
30
Coe’s  Genuine............................................. 
50
Coe's Patent Agricultural, wrought,__ 
76
Coe’s  Patent, malleable............................... 76410
"dls.
Birdcages  .................................................  
50
Pumps, Cistern........................................ 
75410
Screws, New List....................................70411410
Casters, Bed  a  d Plate.........................  60410410
Dampers, American.....................................  
40
Forks, hoes, rakes  and all steel goods.....! 65410 

MISCELLANEOUS. 

METALS,
PIG TIN.

ZINC.

26c
28o

SOLDBB.

Pig  Large....................................................  
Pig Bars.......................................................  
Duty:  Sheet, 2*4c per pound.
660 pound  casks........................................  
614
Per pound.............................................."... 
7
*40*4...................................................................
Bxtra W iping.................................................   15
The  prices  of  the  many  other  qualities  of 
solder In the market Indicated by private brand* 
vary according to composition.
ANTIMONY.
Cookson.............  .........................per  ponnd
Hallett’s......................................  
TIN— MBLYN GRADE.
10x141C, Charcoal.........................................1750
..........................................  7 60
14x20 IC, 
10x14 IX, 
........................................  925
14x20 IX, 
........................................  9 2f

Bach additional X on this grade, 11.75.

“ 

is

“ 
“ 
“ 
TIN—ALLA WAY GBADN.
“ 
“ 
“ 

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

75
..........................................   6 75
..........................................   g 25
..........................................   9 25
HOOFING PLATES

Bach additional X on thl* grade 11.50.

“ Worcester............................. 
“ 
“ 
"  Allaway  Grade................ 
*’ 
“ 
" 
BOILER SIZE TIN FLATS.

14x20IC, 
..........................   8 60
14x20 EX, 
20x28 IC, 
.........................  18 50
6 00
14x2010, 
7 80
“ 
14x20 IX, 
12  60
“ 
20x28 IC, 
“ 
15 50
20x28 EX, 
14x28 EX....................................................... 114  00
14x81  EX.......................................................  15 00
14x56 EX, for No. 8 Boiler*, 1 _ _  „ „ „  . 
„
14x60n ,  »»  1*  9 
per pound....  10 00

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

 
 
 

(i 

 
 
 

 

6 5b

Hardware Price Current.

AXES.

“ 
‘ 
* 

AUGUBS AND BITS. 

These  prices are  for cash  buyers,  who 
pay promptly  and  buy in  full  packages.
dls.
Snell’s ........................................................... 6n,tio
Cook’s ........................................................... 
40
Jennings’, genuine....................................... 
25
Jennings’,  Imitation....................................50*10
First Quality, 8. B. Bronze.......................... 8 6 50
D.  B. Bronze............................   1» 00
S. B. 3. Steel..............................  7 50
D. B. Steel................................   13 50
Railroad............................................ 113 00  14 00
Garden.................................................   net  80 00
Stove.............................................................. 50*10
Carriage new list  .........................................75410
Plow...............................................................40410
Sleigh shoe...................................................  
70
Well, plain  ..................................................I 3 50
Well, swivel......................................................   4 00
Cast Loose Pin, figured.................................70410
Wought Narrow, bright Sait joint  40  .......80410

BUTTS, CAST. 

BABBOWS. 

BUCKETS.

bolts. 

dls.

dlS.

dls.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

PLANKS. 

Finish 10........................................... 
75
90
8............................................ 
1  10
6...........................................  
CllnchtlO.......................................... 
70
80
8.......................................... 
90
 
6.................. 
Barrell %.......................................... 
175
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy.................................  ©40
Sclota Bench..............................................  
$50
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy.........................  ©40
Bench, first quality.......................................  ©40
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s  wood........... 50410
Fry,  Acme.............................................dl*.60—10
Common,  polished.................................dls. 
70
dlS.
Iron and  Tinned.......................................... 50—10
Copper Rivets and Burs.............................   50—10

KIVBTS. 

FANS.

dlS.

PATHNT FLANIBHND IBON.

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

Broken packs Ha per pound extra.

to the rudeness and lack of politeness  of 
the people of the United States.

T H E   M ICHIGAN  TRADESM AN.
curd  and  water,  and  butter and cheese 
can  be  made  from  it  the same as from 
cow’s milk.  At present the  cost  of pro­
duction is more than $1 a  gallon, but the 
chemist  believes  with  a  few  more  ex­
periments he can reduce the  price  to  10 
or 15 cents a gallon, and by making  it  in 
wholesale quantities can retail  it  at  the 
usual  6  cents  a  quart.  This  story was 
probably invented for the purpose of en­
tertaining the  marines.

8

A WEEKLY JOURNAL DK VOTED TO THB

Best  Interests  of  Business  Men.

Published at

lOO  I .out*  St., Grand Rapids,

—  B T   THE  —

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

E.  A. STOWE.  Editor.

WEDNESDAY,  JUNE  13,  1894.

COURTESY  IN  COMMERCE.

The  people  of  the  United  States  are 
far from being  polite  as  a  rule.  Their 
disposition  to  be  rude  and  brusque  is 
seen in nearly all public offices, and  par­
ticularly  among.  subordinate  officials. 
It often  happens  that  the  humbler  the 
grade of  the  official  the  more  he  feels 
called  on  to  support  the  dignity  of  his 
position  with a haughty and overbearing 
mien.

Nor  is  this  brusqueness  wanting  in 
business 
circles,  many  persons  em­
ployed to represent  proprietors  showing 
too much lack  of  courtesy  and  willing­
ness  to  take  pains  to  please  their  cus­
tomers  They  often  act as if  they were 
conferring  a  favor  on  persons  with 
than 
whom  they  do  business,  rather 
performing  a  service  for  which 
they 
are  paid.

Whether 

rudeness  and  discourtesy 
are  characteristics  which  are  neces­
sarily  inherent  in  people  who  are  the 
world’s  most  prominent  exemplars  of 
human  freedom  is  a  problem  not  yet 
solved.  This  may  be  the  new  order  of 
things,  but 
the  ancient  doctrines  of 
dignity and honor constantly  taught that 
the  higher  the  rank  and  the  freer  the 
heart the more obligation  is  there to  be 
gentle and courteous,  while the only true 
nobility is to be good.
Such considerations  seem  to  come  up 
for special  comment  in connection  with 
the charge that a lack of  politeness  and 
a  disposition to  be  dictatorial  and over­
bearing  are  the  principal  obstacles  in 
the  way  of  a  successful  commerce  be­
tween  the  United  States  and  Central 
American  countries.  This  view 
is 
taken  by  K.  Von  Stauffer,  a  writer  in 
the  American  Journal  of  Politics  for 
June.  He sets  out  with  the  statement 
that  while  the  United  States  imports 
from  Central  and South  American coun­
tries  large  quantities  of  tropical  prod­
ucts, and those countries  are  large  con­
sumers  of  merchandise  which 
the 
United  States  ought to  be  able  to  fur­
nish,  the  greater  part  of  the  foreign 
goods  used  in Central  and South  Amer­
ica  comes,  not  from  their  near  neigh­
bor, the United  States,  but  from  far-off 
countries  of  Europe.  This  fact,  ac­
cording to the  writer  mentioned, is  due

It  is,  doubtless,  true  that  some  dis­
taste to the people  of  the  United  States 
has been aroused  by  the  filibusters  and 
other adventurers who  have operated  in 
the  Central  American  countries,  but 
it is  not  likely  that  impoliteness  is  the 
only  obstacle  in  the  way  of  more  inti­
mate commercial relations.  One  trouble 
certainly  is  the  unwillingness  of  the 
merchants of the  United  States  to  give 
such long credits as are commonly grant­
ed  by  European  business  men.  Ordi­
narily,  money  in  Europe  is  not  worth 
much  in  the  way  of  interest,  and  if  a 
sufficient profit be made  on the  business 
relations, the periods  for  which  credits 
are demanded do not  figure  so  seriously 
in the accounts  of the  Loudon  or  Ham­
burgh merchant as in  those  of  our  own 
people.  This  matter  of  credits  is  an 
important  affair.

But  there 

is  another  consideration 
which  must  be  added  to  the  charge  of 
It  is  the  indispo­
lack  of  politeness. 
sition  of  American  manufacturers 
to 
consult  the  wishes  and  tastes  of  their 
customers,  whether  at  home or abroad. 
How  often  do  we  see  in  mercantile 
establishments  a  sort  of  indifference, 
if  not  unwillingness, 
to  keeping  on 
hand  the  particular  articles  demanded 
by  customers,  and  a  disposition  mani­
fested to insist on  their  taking,  instead 
of  the  desired  articles,  others  which 
were  not  acceptable. 
In  many  a  case 
trade  is  driven  away  to  houses  where 
efforts  are  made  to  satisfy  the  particu­
lar demands of customers.

In  the  same  way,  foreign  peoples 
have  their particular  tastes and  prefer­
ences  which  European  manufacturers 
seek in  every  way  possible  to  cater  to 
and  satisfy.  On  the  other  hand,  it  is 
charged  by  the  writer  mentioned  that 
the  Americans,  instead  of  recognizing 
the  importance of  respecting the  wishes 
of  their  customers,  endeavor  to  force 
upon  them  articles  which  may  be  as 
good  or  better,  but  at  the  same  time 
articles  which  the  proposing  buyers 
are not acquainted  with  and  will  not ac­
cept.

If this lack of attention  to  the  wishes 
of  customers  shall  cost  our  manufac­
turers  a 
large  share  of  foreign  trade 
which  they  could  otherwise  secure,  it 
is  plain  their  interests  would  counsel 
them  to reform  their  habits.  So  far  as 
the home custom is  concerned,  it  makes 
no difference, since the people must  buy 
anyway;  but  it  is  unquestionably  true 
that the matter of politeness  and  an  ac­
commodating  spirit  make  an  enormous 
difference  with  cash  customers  against 
some  houses  and  in  favor  of  others. 
People  with  cash  can  buy  where  they 
may  choose,  and  they  will  not  spend 
their money where the  business of shop­
ping is made  disagreeable  by  rude  and 
dictatorial manners on  the  part of sales­
men.

The Cincinnati  Times-Star  annonnces 
that a chemist of that city has succeeded 
in making a Quid which has all the prop­
erties  of  ordinary  cow’s  milk,  and  is 
equal to the best for  all  purposes. 
It is 
a combination of water, solids  and  fats, 
and is absolutely the same as, and  indis­
tinguishable  from,  pure  milk,  and has 
the advantage  of  being  absolutely  free 
from the diseases and impurities that are j 
often found in milk.  This chemical milk j 
will  raise  a  cream,  will  sour,  turn  to

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugar—The market has been strong  in 
tone in sympathy with raw sugars, which 
have  advanced  quite  sharply  and  are 
strong  at  the  advance.  Several  slight 
changes were made in  the schedule  dur­
ing the past week, and  Monday morning 
brought an advance of  JjjC all  along  the 
list, with the exception  of  Nos.  13  and 
14, which advanced a sixpence only.  The 
market  is  still  strong  and  further  ad­
vances are likely to occur.

Rolled Oats—The  price  has  advanced 
50c per barrel in the past two  weeks and 
the market is still strong at  the advance.

Cheese—The  price  has  receded 

during the past week  and the  supply  is 
still in excess of  the  demand,  although 
the parity between butter  and  cheese is 
still very largely in favor of cheese.

Pickles—The  market  has  slumped off 
50c per barrel and all classes of  barreled 
stock are dull at that.

Pork—There was but little  change  in 
the market last week.  The  feeling  was 
firm almost  from  the  beginning  of  the 
week.  Receipts were  176,000, being 17,- 
000 more  than  the  previous  week,  and 
97,000 more  than  one  year  ago.  Busi­
ness in  hog  products  for  the week was 
good, which is  not  surprising when  the 
low  prices  are  considered.  There  are 
no changes worth noting;  in  fact, prices 
are about as low as they can be, and  if a 
change comes it will be in  the  direction 
of higher prices.

Bananas—Continue to be  in  good  de­
mand at rather high  prices.  The steam­
ers  that  ply  back  and  forth  from  the 
plantations  have  been  carrying  small 
cargoes,  and  that  fact,  taken  with the 
active demand,  has  been  the  means  of 
bolding prices above  those  usually  rul­
ing at this season of the year.  Our mar­
ket is well supplied with a good grade of 
fruit.

Lemons—Have advanced,  as  they  al­
ways do when the  weather begins to  get 
warm.  Prices  were  stationery  for  a 
long  time,  on  account  of sales having 
been crowded.  There is  now  an  active 
demand and everyone will soon be  eager 
to  buy,  and  the  sooner  purchases  are 
made the better pleased dealers  will  be. 
The tendency is  upward  and  now  is  a 
good time to buy, as quotations  are  still 
low.  This market  holds  a  fairly  large 
amount of stock but no glut.

Oranges—Savento  and  Rodi  fruit  is 
about all there is in  the  market.  There 
is  a  limited  supply  of  the latter fruit, 
but  both  varieties  briug  high  figures. 
People who eat oranges after the  Fourth 
of July will be  compelled  to  pay  round 
prices.  The  Imperials  (160s)  are  the 
principal  size  offered.  See  quotations 
elsewhere.

Cocoanuts—Moving  slowly,  although 
there  will  be  some  demand  for  them 
right along—probably  more  during  the 
next three weeks  than  for  two  months 
following—as they always sell fairly well 
up to July 1.
held firm at previous quotations.

Peanuts—Remain unchanged, although 

Bank  Notes.

The Peninsular Savings  Bank  of  De­
troit  has  tired  of paying  the  city  4.65 
per cent,  interest on daily  balances  and 
has notified the Common Council  that  it 
desires  to  withdraw  from  its  present 
contract.

Waldby  &  Clay,  private  bankers  at 
Adrian for many years, have  decided  to 
j merge their business into a  State  bank.

T h e  T radesm an  gives  place,  this 
week, to a call for a convention of  retail 
grocers to be held to-day  at  Clare.  The 
real objects of  the  meeting  are,  appar­
ently, not set forth  in  the  call, but  the 
reference  to  the  thorough  organization 
of the wholesale grocery  trade  probably 
furnishes a clue  to  the  motives  of  the 
gentlemen  who  have  issued  the  call. 
T h e  T radesm an  is pleased to  note  the 
disposition of  the  retail  trade  to  meet 
and discuss matters of  vital  interest  to 
the  trade  and  will,  therefore,  be  rep­
resented  at  the  meeting  and  earnestly 
advocate the plan it has persistently and 
consistently  advocated 
ten 
years for the  amelioration of the trade— 
thorough organization.

for  over 

Blessed,  yea,  thrice  blessed,  be  the 
name of Sarah Tyson  Rorer!  Let  every 
boarder  in  the  land  say  amen!  She 
doesn’t  make  hash,  doesn’t  believe  in 
hash,  and  declares  that  hash  is  a  de­
lusion and a snare,  a  breeder  of  night­
mares and a builder up  of  the  fortunes 
of  the  men  of  physic.  Mrs.  Rorer  is 
very right.

The  Boycott  a  Boomerang.

“I have been boycotted,  as  I  suppose 
you  know,”  said  G.  J.  Johnson,  the 
South Division  street cigar manufacturer 
to  T h e  T radesm an  last  week,  “and  I 
am glad  of  it.  The  arbitrary  methods 
employed  by the union  to  bring  me  to 
terms  have  disgusted  the  public  and 
helped  my  business.  They  have  lied, 
too, and I have proved it.  1  offered  the 
union 8100  if  it  would  substantiate  its 
published  statement  about  my  using 
an old  machine.  The  machine  was  in­
vented this year, and the  union knew it. 
Now they are endeavoring  to  intimidate 
some of my  customers  by  sending  com­
mittees to interview  them.  1 hope  they 
will keep up the fight, as  their  agitation 
is calling the attention  of the  public the 
fact that I am now making  better  cigars 
for the money by the aid of the  machine 
than  any  other  manufacturer  can  by 
means of primitive methods.”

He  Took  tbe  Chance.

A  tall man  with  wildness  in  his  eye 
rushed into an all-night drug store about 
3  o’clock the other morning and  shouted 
at the top of his voice:
“Lend me 50 cents.”
The  dozing  clerk  woke  up  with  a 

start.

“What’s  that ?” he asked.
“Lend me 50 cents.”
“Who are you ?”
“Lend me 50 cents.”
“Why  should  I  lend  you  anything ? 

Get out of here.”
“Do I get it ?”
“Get what?”
“The fifty.”
“No, you don’t get it.”
The  tall  man  turned to go  out.  “All 
right,” he said pacifically,  “1 didn’t sup­
pose  I  would,  but  you  can  never  tell 
when  you’re  going  to  run  against  a 
sucker.”

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TYRANNY  OF  ORGANIZATION. 
Mankind,  in  an  individual  capacity, 
represents interests that  are ever selfish | 
and conflicting.  Each unit of the human 
aggregate has its own  purpose  in  view, 
which is quite sure to  antagonize  many; 
and none can be reconciled to  any  other 
until some common ground'can be  found 
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If 

The Denver Commercial Tribune is ex­
cited  because  T h e  T radesm an  com­
mented  on  a  statement  made  by  that 
journal  concerning  the  rights  of wage­
workers.  The  Tribune  says  it  never 
said  a  word  about  “special  rights  for 
wage-workers.”  Then  what  did 
the 
Tribune’s remark, that “the wage-worker 
has  certain  positive 
rights”  mean? 
Does it imagine that  its  readers  do  not 
know what are the  rights  of  the  wage­
worker ?  Beyond  question  the  writer 
of  the  sentence  quoted  has made a dis­
tinction between “certain positive rights” 
and rights which  are  uncertain  and  in­
definite, while  the  Federal  Constitution 
states  plainly  what  are  the  rights  of 
every  citizen. 
the  editor  of  the 
Tribune will sum up the rights which be­
long to himself as a citizen of the United 
States, he  will  know  exactly  what  are 
the “certain positive rights” of the wage­
worker.  They  are  the  rights  of every 
citizen,  whether he be a wage-worker  in 
the sense in which the Tribune  uses  the 
term  or  a  manufacturer,  capitalist  or 
merchant.  The  Tribune  imparted  no 
information  when 
it  said  that  “the 
wage-worker has certain positive rights.’’ 
That is known to  everybody. 
It  would 
have  been  more  to  the  point  if it had 
stated  in  what  way  and  by  whom the 
wage-worker  is  being  defrauded  of his 
rights,  if  that  is  the  meaning to be at­
tached to its  remark. 
It  is  not  denied 
that sometimes employers of  labor  have 
disregarded the rights of their employes, 
but that is beside the question,  as  what 
is done by individuals has absolutely  no 
bearing  on  the  subject.  The  Tribune 
says it has “discussed the labor  question 
fairly  and  honestly.”  If  commonplace 
platitudes and meaningless phrases  may 
be called discussion, the Tribune is right; 
but the trouble is just  there.  Not  only 
trade papers but the press  generally  are 
afraid to say  anything  condemnatory  of 
the  conduct  of  union  workingmen,  no 
matter how reprehensible it may  be. 
If 
the press of the country had the  courage 
to speak out in defense of law and  order 
and in condemnation of  the  worse  than 
vandalism  which has prevailed in  many 
sections  of  the  country 
for  several 
months,  it  would  have  done  much  to 
remedy the evil; but it is  the  encourage­
ment which law-breakers, in the name of 
union  labor,  have  received  from  the 
press which has intensified and enhanced 
the  trouble. 
In so  far  as the rights  of 
labor have been invaded  and  restricted, 
workingmen ought to have and will have 
the sympathy and support  of  all  honest 
men, but murderers and  incendiaries de­
serve nothing but  punishment  for  their 
crimes.  So  if  the  Tribune,  and  other 
papers, will stop talking about the rights 
of  wage-workers  long  enough  to  de­
nounce  the  wrongs  from  which 
the 
whole  country  is suffering as a result of 
the  lawlessness  of  some  of  the  wage­
workers, what it says about  their  rights 
will be much more worthy of respect.  In 
addition, the Tribune should stop calling 
names.  They are not very convincing as 
arguments, and the kind  of  people  who 
might be influenced by  them  would  not 
be a credit even to  the  subscription  list 
of the Denver Commercial Tribune.

A man  is  usually  most  distinguished 
Marriage is a failure when one  side  is 

after he is extinguished.
a cipher.

Use Tradesman Coupon Books.

Hence has arisen the necessity for con­
ference,  harmony of opinion, and a pool­
ing of  issues which we  are  accustomed 
to call organization. 
It is  only  through 
organization that savagery gave  place to 
civilization.  By the  same  means  alone 
can  civilization  continue  the  ratio  of 
progress  already  attained.  The  theory 
of  modern  organization  is  that  each 
integer surrenders a portion  of  individ­
ual rights in order  to  maintain  the  in­
terests of the  whole.  This  results,  us­
ually,  in  giving  to  the  individual  a 
larger measure of  protection  and conse­
quent development than could be  gained 
by his own unaided action.  Political or­
ganizations, whether monarchical  or  re­
publican, are based on the  above theory, 
and must be judged by  the  comparative 
success of each experiment.

The tendency of the age is  against  in­
dividuality  and  in  favor  of  combined 
action, whenever any special object is to 
be attained. 
In a nation like ours every 
effort to better the condition of humanity 
must proceed on  lines that directly  tend 
to a common end,  and  that  end  should 
be  the  greatest  good 
to  the  greatest 
number.  Accordingly, the  individual is 
nothing  unless  part  of  an  organized 
force.  Whether  willing,  or  unwilling, 
one who is not a  clam moves in harmony 
with  his  fellows  toward  some  desired 
end, either in the line  of  social, benevo­
lent or business  purpose.  Progress  can 
be made in any worthy cause only by the 
concentration of individual effort.

to  population, 

Among  the  English  speaking  people 
the habit of association is  stronger  than 
with all other  qations.  There  are,  un­
doubtedly, more  societies  organized  for 
special purposes in the  United States, in 
proportion 
than  else­
where.  Our educational  system  fosters 
them,  until  there  is  scarcely  a  school 
district that  does not have  from  one  to 
half a dozen societies bound to others  by 
State  and National  ties  for  a  common 
purpose.  Most of  them  are  temporary, 
serving  only  to  make  social  life  more 
desirable,  and  bringing  talent  to  the 
front  that would, otherwise, remain  ob­
scure  and  undeveloped.  Many  are  be­
nevolent  entirely in spirit  and  method; 
and, linked  as  auxiliaries  to  a  central 
body, serve as feeders to grand  elemosy- 
nary  enterprises whose  results  are  felt 
all over the globe;  a  large  number, and 
those that more  nearly  concern  the  in­
terests of the general public  are  strictly 
business  combinations,  formed  to  ad­
vance the special  interests  of  corporate 
capital  or  unincorporated  labor.  This 
is as it should be, provided (1) that  each 
organized body is the growth  of  an  evi­
dent necessity,  (2) that  it  does  not  un­
fairly antagonize  the  natural  rights  of 
individuals or  societies  in  general,  and 
(3) that its purposes are sought  in strict 
conformity with the laws of the land.

Unfortunately for the  public  interest, 
all  organizations  are  not  wisely  con­
ducted.  From  government  down  to  a 
bootblack’s  union,  cross  purposes  are 
ever  shown  that  neutralize  the  safest 
counsels  and  the  most  unselfish  en-

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These  brands  are Standard  and have a National  reputation. 

Correspondence solicited.VOIGT  MILLING  GO.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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THÜ  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,

deavors  of  the  majority.  Perhaps  in 
most associations the ruling element con­
sists of a small minority  that,  by  sheer 
force of persistence,  keep life and  activ­
ity in the organization.  When  such  ac­
tive members are truly loyal  to  its  pur 
pose and wise in  policy, the  results will 
justify organized effort.

Each association, being  based  on  the 
voluntary  action  of  its  members, can 
produce the best results only, so long  as 
the will of the  majority  is  intelligently 
expressed. 
If the  machinery  of  organ 
ization is controled  by  radical  theorists 
who insist on serving personal ends, and 
either by fraud  or  specious  appeals  to 
selfish passions, subvert the  true  intent 
of  associated  effort,  society  is  injured 
in proportion to the strength of such  or­
ganization.  And  the  evil  is  greatly 
magnified  when  associated  action  in  a 
land like ours  builds  up  conflicting  in- 
erests that affect large masses of citizens. 
As each combination grows more  power­
ful by constant  accretion,  it widens  the 
breach that human selfishness  naturally 
causes in the eager rush  for wealth, and 
its action becomes  arbitrary,  unjust  and 
wholly  indefensible.  Organized  effort 
should be judged by the  same  impartial 
rules that apply to individual action.

In the  great  majority  of  cases where 
the objects sought are of a social, literary, 
religious, scientific or  professional char­
acter, organization  is  usually  free from 
influences that are  subject  to  just  crit­
icism;  but  this  cannit  be  said  of  the 
combinations that have of late  years put 
capital  and  labor  at  variance  and,  by 
frequent  contests  of  strength,  proved 
that of all the  tyrannies  of  earth  there 
is none so pitiless, so  unyielding, and so 
unjustifiable as the tyranny of  organiza­
tion in a country that boasts  of  the  lar­
gest measure of individual freedom.

Capital,  originally  organized  for  a 
worthy  purpose—to  afford  the  greatest 
measure  of  result  at  the  minimum  of 
cost—has  been  captured  by  ambitious 
leaders,  who use  consolidated  effort  for 
their own personal benefit.  They  either 
override and defy law, or  bribe  the peo­
ple’s representatives  to  betray  a  trust­
ing constituency. 
If met by fair  compe­
tition  in  behalf  of  a  suffering  public, 
they crush it out  by  the  momentum  of 
accumulated wealth, or  undermine  it by 
sops thrown  to the weakened conscience 
of individual  greed. 
In  this  way  they 
have controlled the  price  of  both  labor 
and  products.  Under  the  name  of 
trusts, and in the guise  of  public  bene­
factors, they prey on vested rights, piling 
up colossal fortunes for  the  few  at  the 
expense of the many;  and  each  success­
ful member of the cabal poses as  an  ex­
ample  of  what  republican  institutions 
can do  to  reward  honest  business  am­
bition.

Against 

this  tyranny  of  associated 
capital there has arisen  from  small  be­
ginnings and  primarily  for  self-defense 
only, another conflicting interest  in  the 
shape  of  organized  labor.  By  degrees 
local  unions  have  affiliated  with  State 
and National representative bodies, each 
seeking in its own field of action to  pro­
tect  certain  interests,  and,  at  times, 
joining allied forces to  bring  on  a  gen­
eral  engagement  with 
their  natural 
enemy all along  the  line.  The  general 
public, occupying  the  position  of  non- 
combatants, like peaceful  inhabitants of 
a country that is under  military  occupa­
tion, suffers continually by the  alternate 
successes  and  defeats  of  each  hostile

L a n s i n g ,   M i c h .

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Having re-organized our business  and  acquired  the  fae 
tory  building  and  machinery  formeily occupied  by the Hud­
son  Pants  <fe  Overall  Co.,  we  are  prepared  to  furnish  the 
trade a  line of goods in pants, overalls, shirts aud 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 a r l e ,  President  and  Gen’l  Manager.
E.  D.  V o o r h e e s,  Superintendent.

W e  pay  H ighest  M arket  Prices  in  Spot  Cash  and  m easure  bark

w hen  Loaded.

Correspondence Solicited.

NEW TEAS

are beginning to arrive, but

Don’t  be  in  a  Hurry  to  Buy.
Piist  arri\als  cost  considerable  more  than  the  same  grades 

will  a few days later.  Wait for the lieliable

force.  For “to  this  complexion  has  it 
come at  last,’’  since  the  oppression  of 
one  party  and  resistance  of  the  other 
have culminated  in what  may  properly 
be called civil war.  This  in  not only  a 
war between labor and capital, but  it  is 
a war of labor against  itself—a  tyranny 
that by force equal to military  law  pun­
ishes  every  laborer, whether  within  or 
without its ranks, who does  not  consent 
at every hazard to meet the  injustice  of 
capital by brute force.  As a  natural re­
sult, where there is a will  attempting  to 
enforce unjust  claims, there  is  sure  to 
be a won’t resisting it;  and in  the  fierce 
struggles made necessary by this  terror­
izing process, constitutional  law has for 
the most  part  stood  helpless,  watching 
with nerveless indecision acts of violence 
that would be allowed in no  other  land. 
Each  execution  within  whose  jurisdic­
tion the tide of warfare threatens  public 
safety  fears  to  use  the  power  in  his 
hands to protect life  and  property,  lest 
he compromise his political  prospects by 
offending a  class whose  ballots  may  in 
future avenge the bullets he  should use, 
when  necessary,  to  fulfill  his  official 
oath.  Thus  time  after  time  a  greater 
power than civil power has usurped con­
trol of affairs and made our  boasted sys­
tem of self-goverment a  by-word  among 
other nations.  No general alarm  is felt, 
because it is understood that our form of 
government is beyond  danger  from  the 
ills  that have  wrecked  others  fully  as 
powerful.  A blind faith in  destiny  and 
our secret ballot system keeps  the  pub­
lic  mind  free  from  what  should  be  a 
wholesome  fear  of  consequences  when 
conditions  exist  such  as  confront  the 
American people to-day.

The  industrial conflicts that  have  oc­
curred  of  late  so  frequently,  with  all 
their  serious  consequences,  cannot  be 
charged to organization,  but to its abuse. 
The  champions  of  labor  who  attempt, 
by the power of numbers, to  secure  jus­
tice from employers forget that this  is  a 
government  founded  especially  to  pro­
tect 
individual  as  well  as  collective 
rights;  but while resenting  the  tyranny 
of  capital,  they  themselves  employ  no 
less  arbitrary  methods  to  attain  their 
ends, all of which react on thousands  of 
innocent sufferers.  None but the insane 
or hopelessly bad  will strike  friend  and 
foe alike.  Public sentiment  has  always 
sympathized with the real  grievances  of 
which  labor  complains;  but  for 
its 
fancied and technical wrongs  there is no 
pity to  waste.  So  long  as  labor  main-1 
tains an organized tyranny it  occupies a 
false  and  untenable  position,  and  can 
have no rights to appeal to the American 
sense of fair play.

The most radical  supporters  of  force 
in the ranks of labor are  men who  have 
not  yet  been  long  enough  under  the 
American flag to learn its  true  significa­
tion.  They are  victims  of  monarchical 
rule who come fresh from  its  bitter  ex­
perience, and are therefore unfit  leaders 
for  peaceful  organizations  of  workers 
seeking  lawful  relief  from  harsh  eco­
nomic  conditions;  but  they  have  brute 
courage, and when force takes  the place 
of argument they lead forlorn  hopes,  or 
destroy  millions  of  valuable  property 
that labor alone must  in  the  future  re­
store or repair. 
If wage  earners  expect 
the moral  support  of  public  sentiment 
and a fair  settlement  of  the  important 
questions affecting  their  interests,  they 
must purge their organization of  an  ele­
ment that is sure to wreck  the  cause  of '

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labor if not banished  from  its  councils. 
Extremists on the side  of both labor aud 
capital must be forced to the rear if  har 
mony is  to  be  secured.  Men  of  purer 
ai ns and more  self-sacrificing  purposes 
thin the leading representatives  of both 
hostile forces will be the  ones  to  settle 
questions  of  mutual  interests  between 
employer  aud  employed  iu  the  future. 
When 
thus  settled  may  we  not  hope 
that the rights  of  each  laborer  will  be 
secure from assault by the tyranny of or­
ganization among bis own class?

S. P.  Whitmarsh.

Partial  Surrender on  the  Co-insurance 

Clause  Matter.

W ritten  fo r  T h e  Tradesman.

The latest  development  in  insurance 
circles  which  has  reached the public is 
the partial  surrender  of  the  companies 
in regard of the 80 per cent, co-insurance 
clause.  Finding it impossible to enforce 
it  (many  of  the  larger  companies,  al­
though  parties  to  the  iniquity,  practi­
cally ignoring it), the managers  have  de­
cided  to  abandon  it,  at  least  so far as 
general business  is concerned. 
It was  a 
forgone  conclusion  from  the  start  that 
the clause could not be enforced.  It was 
unjust and oppressive, and  forced  many 
insurers to  abandon  old  line  insurance 
and take  refuge  in  Lloyds  or  mutuals. 
In  the  congested  districts  in  the large 
cities it was  found  impossible  to  place 
the amount of insurance required  by  the 
co-insurance  clause,  and  it  was, there­
fore, not only madness for the companies 
to  attempt  its  enforcement,  but  the 
height of injustice as well.  Even  where 
it was possible for insurers  to  place  the 
amount required by  the  clause,  opposi­
tion  to  it  was  so  strong, many of even 
the larger companies saw the  futility  of 
their efforts to enforce  it  and  wrote  in­
surance without the 80 per  cent,  clause. 
This  action  on  the  part  of  these com­
panies was  enough  of  itself  to  destroy 
the  usefulness  of  co-insurance,  but 
added to it was the perfidy of some other 
companies to the agreement who failed to 
live  up  to  it and never intended to. 
It 
was, therefore, decided by the  managers 
that after June 1 co-insurance should ap­
ply only to  country  stores,  lumber  and 
electric light and power  plants;  but  in-  j 
surance men are still as firm believers as 
ever in co-insurance.  They say the plan 
is  a  good  one  and  will ultimately pre­
vail.  So,  in  order  that  the public may 
have a standing object lesson of its bene­
ficent effects,  Detroit and  Grand  Rapids 
are exempted from the  order  nullifying 
the  clause,  and  co-insurance  is  still In 
force  in  these  cities,  for  which  act  of 
grace on the part of insurance  men  it  is 
to be hoped business men are sufficiently 
thankful,  although  just why insurers in 
the cities named are compelled to  insure 
to 80 per cent, of  their  valuation,  while 
insurers  of  other  towns  are  not,  is  a 
mystery. 
If the clause wah unjust when 
applied  to  the  entire  State,  what name 
shall be applied to it now that its  appli­
cation is confined to but  two  cities ?  It 
is nothing short of an outrage for  which 
there  is  neither  palliation  nor  excuse. 
This is the general sentiment of business 
men,  and  that  there  will  be  a  revolt I 
against  this  iniquitous  discrimination I 
goes without saying.  Whatever may be j 
the result the companies  will  have  only j 
themselves to blame.  They  have surely 
had warnings enough.  One  thing seems 
to be in favor of the  public  and  that  is 
that no agreement is sacred to  an  insur-

T H E   MICH1GLA.JN  ’1RADE8MAJN'.
ance company. 
It is business they want, 
and business they will have, if they must 
smash every principle of the  Decalogue.

“It isn’t mine,” said the traveler, 
is just like mine, but this is mine.”

“It

Daniel  Abbott.

He Convinced H  r.

The other day an omnibus,  full  of pas­
sengers, drove up to its  suburban  termi­
nus.  Side by side sat a commercial trav­
eler  and  a  lady  temperance  lecturer.
The  commercial  man  seized  his  bag 
and made a move to get  out.  The  lady 
made a snatch after him  aud  he  halted.
“1 beg your  pardon,”  she  said,  “but 

you have my bag.”

“You certainly are mistaken, madam,” 
the traveler said, courteously  but firmly, 
“This bag is mine.”

“No, sir,” the  lady  replied  firmly,  “it 
I  should  know  it  among  a 

is  mine. 
thousand.  You must not take it.”

But the traveler persisted and the lady 
insisted, and they came very  near  quar­
relling.

Presently  one 

the  passengers 
pointed to a twin bag in the omnibus and 
said:

of 

“Whose is  that?”

“ And  it  isn’t  mine,”  said  the  lady. 
“He has mine and I want it and I’ll have 
it. 
It’s a pity if a lady can’t travel alone 
in this country without  being  robbed  of 
her property in broad  daylight.”

Finally 

the 

traveler  said  he  would 

open the bag and prove his property.

The lady objected at  first,  saying  she 
did not want her bag opened in  the pres­
ence of a crowd of strangers.

But as there  was  no  other  means  of 
settling the dispute, she  at  length  con­
sented.

The traveler took  out  a  key,  opened 
the bag, and the curious crowd bent  for­
ward to see.

On  the  top  of  everything  lay  a big, 
flat flask, half full of whisky,  a  pack  of 
cards, a meerschaum pipe and  a  quarter 
of a pound of  tobacco.

The traveler was  the  first  to  recover 

his self-possession and speech.

“Madam,”  he  said,  “you  are  right. 
I owe you a thousand 

The bag is yours. 
apolo—”

1 1

But  the  lady  had  fainted,  and  the 
traveler relocked  his  bag  with  a  quiet
smile.

Early in the afternoon  a  sign  painter 
received a note, in a feminine hand, ask­
ing him to go to a certain house to  mark 
a  black  leather  bag  in  white  letters a 
foot and a half long.

The  Horse’s  Foot.

From  th e  North  Americas  R eview .
It  is  difficult  to  understand  how  the 
legs of horses  stand  the  wear  and  tear 
of the work  in  our  great  cities,  where
every  step  of  their  ironshod  hoofs  is 
upon a hard, unyielding  road.  There is 
no other creature living,  with the  excep­
tion of the  donkey  or  the  mule,  which 
can long bear the constant  battering  en­
tailed by rapid locomotion over  a  paved 
surface.  But if  we look at the structure 
of the horses legs we see  how  it  is  that 
the jar and vibration  do not  injure  him 
more.  His  “pasterns,”  the  part  just 
i above the hoof, yield a little at each step,
I and so break the force of the concussion, 
j He is, in fact,  mounted on springs.  This 
is one chief reason why he is  a  pleasant 
| animal to  ride.  Anyone  who  has  tried 
riding a cow or ox  has  found the  differ­
ence  between  the  easy,  elastic  move­
ment of the  horse  and  the  jolting  and 
jogging of a horned mount.

S h e   I m i t a i

tlje  t i n t a   S t  ( t a   o f  A m e rica,

To

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

G r e e t in g  :

lOljcrcas

t   it  has  been  represented  to  us  in  our  Circuit  Court  of  the  United  States  for  the  District  of
Ne*v  Jersey,  in  the  Third  Circuit,  on  the  part  of  the  ENOCH  MORGAN'S  SONS  COMPANY,  Complainant,  that 
it  has  lately  exhibited  its  said  Bill  of  Complaint  in  our  said  Circuit  Court  of  the  United  States  for  the  District 
of  New  Jersey,  against  you,  the  said  HENRY  KOCH,  Defendant,  to  be  relieved  touching  the  matters  therein 
complained  of,  and  that  the  said

ENOCH MORGAN'S SONS COMPANY,

Complainant,  is  entitled  to  the  exclusive  use  of  the  designation  “ SAPOLIO”  as  a  trade-mark  for  scouring  soap.

Horn, ftljcrcfore, „ do 8trictly _

and perpetually  enjoin you,  the  said  HENRY
KOCH,  your  clerks,  attorneys,  agents,  salesmen  and  workmen,  and  all  claim ing  or  holding  through  or  under  you, 
under  the  pains  and  penalties  which  may  fall  upon  you  and  each  of  you  in  case  of  disobedience,  that  you  do 
absolutely  desist  and  refrain  from  in  any  manner  unlawfully  using  the  word  “ SAPOLIO,”  or  anv  word  or  words 
substantially  similar  thereto  in  sound  or  appearance,  in  connection  with  the  m anufacture  or  sale  of  any  scouring 
soap  not  made  or  produced  by  or  for  the  Complainant,  and  from  directly,  or  indirectly,
By  word  of  mouth  or  otherwise,  selling  or  delivering  as 

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

that  which  is  not  Complainant’s  said  manufacture,  and  from  in  any  way  using 
false  or  misleading  manner.

the  word  “ SAPOLIO”  in  any 

Witness,

[SEAI-J

The  honorable  Melville  W.  F uller,  Chief  Justice  of 
United  Sto  es  of  America,  at  the  City  of  Trenton, 
Jersey, 
the  year  of 
eight  hundred  and  ninety-two.

this  16th  day  of  December, 

in 

[signed]

ROWLAND  COX.

Compia ina ut'  Solici tor

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

S.  D.  OLIPHANT,

Cier.i

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MICHAEL  KOLB  &  SON, 

Wholesale  Clothing  Manufacturers,

ROCHESTER,  N.  T.

ESTABLISHED  37  YEARS. 

All  Mail  Orders  Promptly Attended to.

Our representative,  William  Connor, who resides at  Mar­
shall,  Mich., will be pleased to wait upon you if you will favor 
him with  a line to do so, and should he not have what you  re­
quire  will  thank  you  for  looking through our line.  Perfect 
ht and excellent garments.  Low Prices  Guaranteed.

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Our  two  “Fireworks  Prize Pack­

ages”—“ BIG  4”  and  “ RIPPER.” 

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

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THE PUTNAM  CANDY  CO.

We
Import

T h e  
Season  1894

Flags -

for schools, buildings, halls and pri­
vate use.  All wool, standard  bunt 
ings.  Sizes from  2x3 to  20x3(>. 

nU SLIN   hags  on sticks, sizes from  Nos. 
1 to  12.  These pay the retailer from  75 to 100  per cent, profit.
Red,  white and  blue bunting by  the  yard  for  trimming 
store  fronts,  halls  and  schools;  also  tri-colors in each piece. 
Prices range from 3 to  10c per yard.

Red, white and blue ribl ons, solid or  tri-colors.  Nos.  5, 

7, 9 and  1*2.  Write for prices.

P.  Steketee  &  Sons,
Grand  Rapids,  Hich.

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and make a specialty of them.  Our 
**Net Price  hist**  is  ready for dis­
tribution,  Send for one and sort up 
an order early.

F U T N A M  C A N D Y  CO.

PEERLESS  TEAS

NOW  IN  AND  FINER  THAN  EVER  BEFORE.

O L N E Y   &  J U D S O N   G R O C E R   CO.

PLEASES  EVERYBODY.

G ra n d   R a p id s ,  M ich .
TANGLEFOOT

Sealed

Each  Box  Contains 

25

DOUBLE  SHEETS

AND ONE  HOLDER.

¡Each  Case  Contains

10  BOXES.

PRICES  FOR  1804.

40  CENTS  A  BOX.
$3.60  PER  CASE.
$3.50  PER CASE,  in  Five- 

Case  Lots.

$3.40  PER  CASE,  in  Ten- 

Case  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.

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. Thum Company.  These features are being ex­
tensively imitated by unscrupulous parties.  Dealers are respectfully cautioned against  the  illegal- 
ityof handling infringements, and  reminded of the injustice of so doing.

80LD  BY  ILL  J0BBER8

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

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THE  CENTRALIZATION  OP  TRADE.
W ritten   fo r  Th i  T r a d e sm a n.
One effect of the  long-continued  busi­
ness depression is  likely  to  be,  in  the 
opinion of ex-Comptroller of  the  Treas­
ury  Hepburn,  a  greatly  accelerated 
movement in  the  direction  of  the  cen­
tralization  of 
trade.  Many  industries 
which were started  and  for  years  have 
been conducted in the smaller towns, are 
removing to the large cities, where  busi­
ness opportunities  are  more  numerous, 
and transportation  facilities  much  bet­
ter.  These industries have been the life 
of the towns in which they were situated, 
and their removal will be a deathblow to 
the smaller places, while  it will  add  to 
the  greatness  and  importance  of  the 
large  cities.  While  this  condition  of 
things is to be  deplored,  it  must  be  re­
membered that  it  is  perfectly  natural. 
The centralization  of  capital, of  trade, 
of population, and,  ultimately,  of  polit­
ical power seems to be manifest  destiny. 
There will always be a strongest  nation, 
constantly  growing  in  power  and  im­
portance,  which will  draw to  itself  the 
best elements of  its weaker  rivals;  and, 
given  a  civilization  and  enlightenment 
commensurate  with  the  age, 
this  is 
rather a matter for rejoicing  than other­
wise.  The results may seem  to  be  dif­
ferent when  it  is  the  centralization  of 
capital and trade that is being discussed, 
but as a matter of fact such  a  condition 
will  always  result  beneficently.  When 
has  centralization  worked 
to 
the people?  Rather has it not cheapened 
the cost of living and  added  to  the  ap­
pliances  and conveniences  which  go  to 
make  up  the  sum  of  human  comfort? 
Undoubtedly;  and, therefore, it is not to 
be feared and treated as an enemy.  The 
few may suffer for a time,  but  the  great 
good to accrue to the many  overshadows 
and transcends  the  injury  to  the  few, 
who will themselves be benefitted  in the 
end.  No social or  political  system will 
ever be perfect  in  this  world,  but  the 
world, growing  wiser  by  experience, is 
slowly learning that,  while individuality 
is a good  thing,  it  gains  in  value  and 
grows in importance only  as it comes in 
contact and unites itself with other indi­
vidualities.  The  more of  these that are 
welded  together  in the form of states or 
nations, the greater the  strength  of  the 
whole  and  the  more  prosperous  each 
individuality  becomes.  This is  equally 
true  of  capital.  Two  dollars  united 
possess more than twice the value of one 
dollar isolated, and what is  true  of  two 
dollars is equally true  of  two  thousand 
or two hundred thousand.  It is a disputed 
question whether or  not  the  centraliza­
tion  of  political  power  would  be  of 
equal benefit. Those opposed to it point to 
history to prove that it has bred tyranny, 
oppression and  internal  dissension, and 
finally has resulted  in  the  downfall  of 
the nations themselves;  but  it  must  be 
borne in mind  that  the  nations  of  the 
world are only now beginning to  emerge 
from  the  darkness  of  ignorance  and 
superstition  which  for  centuries  has 
benumbed their  faculties  and  hindered 
their progress.  Perhaps with  increased 
and increasing intelligence  the  centrali­
zation of political power may be the true 
solution of the social and  political prob­
lems which  at  present  are  bathing  the 
minds and crippling the efforts of earth’s 
best and wisest. 

Daniel  Abbott.

The born  leader  of  men  is  one  who 
will lead in any direction so  long  as  he 
is acknowledged as the leader.

Orocers’  Association.

Annual Meeting of  the  Jackson Retail 
J ackson,  June  S—The  regular  meet­
ing of  the  Jackson Retail Grocers’ Asso­
ciation  was  held  June 7  at  Red  Cross 
Hall.
The  Committee  on  Hucksters  and 
Peddlers  reported  that  they  had  made 
report to the police of  persons  peddling 
without license.  Upon  investigation,  it 
was found  that  the Mayor  had  granted 
them permission to peddle, subject to the 
action of the Council at its next meeting, 
when the mattter is to be considered.
The Committee appointed  to  consider 
the selling of vegetables and produce  by 
weight reported  correspondence that had 
been received in regard to the  same  and 
were  granted  further  time  to  draft  a 
schedule of articles and weights.
The Secretary  presented,  a  protest  to 
the City  Council  against  the  repeal  or 
any  changes  in the hucksters  and  ped­
dler’s ordinance as itwas adopted and ap­
proved.  The protest  was  referred  to a 
committee  to  obtain  the  signatures  of 
grocers and have same ready  to  present 
to the Council at its next meeting.
W.  H.  Porter  reported  that  he  had 
visited  the  summer  resort  at  Devil’s 
Lake,  in  Lenawee  county,  and  looked 
over the buildings, grounds and facilities 
for taking care of an  excursion and  pic­
nic.  He found  everything  in  excellent 
shape  and  considered  it  the  best  ap­
pointed place within  500 miles for picnic 
purposes.
On motion, a committee  of  three  was 
appointed to arrange  for the  annual ex­
cursion and  picnic  for  1894.  President
D.  A. Fleming was appointed  the  chair­
man, and Messrs.  C.  G.  Hill  and  G. E. 
Lewis were appointed  as  the  remainder 
of the  committee.
The Secretary  submitted  a  report  of 
the business of the year,  and  the Treas­
urer  reported 
the 
finances, showing a balance of $171.50 on 
hand at the close of the year.
The following officers  were elected for 
the ensuing year:
President—Paul W. Haefner.
First Vice-President—Charles  G.  Hill.
Second Vice-President—E.  W.  Swick.
Secretary—W.  H. Porter.
Financial Secretary—J.  Winslow.
Treasurer—J. F.  Helmer.
Trustee—Geo. E.  Lewis.
On motion, a vote  of  thanks  was ten­
dered the Secretary for his work done for 
the Association during  the year.
The retiring President, D. S.  Fleming, 
escorted Mr. Heafner  to his  seat  as  the 
President of the  Association  for  1894-5. 
Mr. Haefner made a brief,  pleasant  and 
timely 
address.  He  asked  for 
the 
harmony, good will and  assistance of all 
the members in the work to be  done.
On  motion,  a  hearty  vote  of  thanks 
was rendered  ex President  Fleming  for 
his able and efficient services  and for his 
efforts in behalf of  the  Association  dur­
ing the two years he had  held  the  office 
of President.  The vote was  unanimous.
On motion, a special business  meeting 
was called for June 21 to  start  the work 
of the Association on its fourth year.

the  condition  of 

The meeting then adjourned.

W. H. P o rter,  Sec’y

tion.

Grand Rapids Retail  Grocers’  Associa­
At the regular  meeting  of  the  Grand 
Rapids Retail Grocers’  Association,  held 
at Protective Brotherhood Hall,  Monday 
evening,  June  4,  President  Viergever 
presided.
The special order of  business was  the 
selection of  a date for  the  annual  pinic 
and August 9 was designated  as  the day 
on which it will occur, the  location to be 
determined  hereafter  by  the  Executive 
Committee,  which was instructed  to take 
the matter under advisement.
Henry  Vinkemulder  brought  up  the 
agitation  instituted  by  Director  of  the 
Poor, Moerdyk,  and  suggested  that  the 
members  of  the  Associat'on  see  their 
aldermen and solicit their votes  in favor 
of the proposed change in the  method of 
dispensing charity.
Peter Schuit approved of  the  idea and 
suggested  that  active  efforts  be  under­
taken  to further the end in view.
Mr. Vinkemulder said  the Association 
ought to  have  100  members  present  at 
each meeting,  and  suggested  that  some

that  non­

E. 

considering 

J.  Herrick  suggested 

plan  be  devised  by  which  this  object 
could be secured.
Mr.  Viergever  stated  that  the  Roch­
ester (N. Y.) Association  keeps up inter­
est in, and attendance on, the Association 
meetings by dropping  cards  In  a  hat or 
box, setting forth the names of  bad  pay 
customers.  He  suggested  that  some 
such plan be adopted by this Association.
A. J. Elliott deplored  the fact that the 
attendance  of  the  Association  was  not 
larger, 
the  membership. 
He  stated  that  he  had  been  benefitted 
every time he attended a meeting.
members be  invited to attend  the  meet­
ings as guests.
E.  White suggested that  special topics 
be assigned  members  on  which  to  pre­
pare papers for presentation  and discus­
sion at the meetings.
Mr. Vinkemulder said the  Association 
was based of a solid  foundation, because 
the best grocers of the city gave  it  their 
co-operation and support.
Mr.  Herrick  stated  that  he  under­
stood  the  wholesale  grocers  had  much 
trouble in organizing  their  Association, 
but that they are  now  acting  as  a  unit 
and securing  marvelous  results  in  con­
sequence thereof.
Mr. White suggested as  a  subject  for 
the  next  meeting:  “Is 
the  present 
market location satisfactory?”
Mr.  Goss  approved the  suggestion  of 
Mr. White, and, on vote,  the  latter  was 
invited  to  prepare  such  a  paper  for 
presentation at the next  meeting,  which 
he agreed to do.
B.  VanAnrooy  moved that  the  Secre­
tary  be  instructed  to  invite  all  non­
members to attend the meetings as guests 
of the Association,  whether  engaged  in 
business  in  Grand  Rapids  or 
in  the 
suburbs.
Mr.  Herrick gave  notice that he would 
offer an amendement  to the  constitution 
and by-laws at the next meeting, and the 
meeting adjourned.

G.  K. Coffee, the White  Cloud  grocer, 
was in town over  Sunday.  The  report 
that his visit had any effect on  the  mar­
ket  value  of  the  stock  of  the  Grand 
Rapids Brewing Co.  is probably  without 

foundation.s.  c.  w.

T h e  L ead in g   N ickle  C igar 
M ade in th is M arket.

The Only Brand in the State (outside of Detroit) 

Made by Improved  Machinery.

This  Cigar  is  made  with  Long  Mixed 

Filler,  Single  Connecticut  Binder 

and  Sumatra  Wrapper.
Sold a t $3S p er  1,000

By  the  Manufacturer,

G.  J.  Johnson,  " « s a s r * -

Shoes ? 

Have you seen  our  “ Sunbeam”  line 
of  Machine  Sewed  Children’s  and 
Misses’ 
Dongola  Patent 
Tip,  Heel or Spring.  6  to  8  65c—8%
to 11%  @ 75c—12 to 2 @ 90c.
H IE T H ,  K R A U SE  &  CO.

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

Standard,  per lb 

“  H.H..
“ 
Twist 
Boston Cream.
Cut  Loaf........
Extra H.  H__

STICK  CANDY.
Cases

..............  8)4
........  ...  8)4
M IXED  CANDY.

6 
6 
6 

Bbls.  Palls.
7
7
7
8)4

Bbls. 
Palls.
Standard...................................... 5$4 
6)4
Leader..........................................5)4 
6ft
goyal............................................6)4 
7)4
Nobby...........................................7 
g
English  Rock.............................. 7 
s
Conserves.................................... 7 
3
Broken Taffy....................baskets 
8
Peanut Squares................. 
8)4
French Creams.............................  
9
Valley  Creams.............................  
13
Midget, 30 lb. baskets.......................................8)4
.......................................s
Modern, 30 lb. 

“  7)4 

“ 
fancy—In bulk

“ 

fancy—In 5 lb. boxes. 

Palls.
Lozenges, plain.............................................  g)4
printed..........................................  944
Chocolate Drops..............................................  12
Chocolate Monumental«...............................  12)4
Gum Drops......... ..........................................   5
Moss Drops....................................................   7)4
Sour Drops.....................................................  8)4
Imperials.......................................................   10
Per Box
Lemon Drops...................................................50
Sour Drops......................................................50
Peppermint Drops...........................................60
Chocolate Drops..........................:..................75
H. M. Chocolate Drops................................... 80
Gum Drops......................................................40
Licorice Drops....................................................i 00
A. B. Licorice  Drops...................................... 80
Lozenges, plain.........................  .................... 60
printed........:..................................65
Imperials.........................................................60
Mottoes............................................................70
Cream Bar...................................................... 55
Molasses Bar...................................................55
Hand Made  Creams......  ......................... 85@95
Plain Creams...................................................80
Decorated Creams...........................................90
String  Rock.................................................... 60
Burnt Almonds..................................................i 00
Wlntergreen  Berries...................................... 60
No. 1, wrapped, 2 lb.  boxes.........................  31
.........................  51
No. 1, 
No. 2, 
.........................  28

CARAMELS.

“ 
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2 

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“ 
OBANGSS.
250s..............................  

Fancy  Seedlings,  96s.....................................  2 5o
Sorrentos,  160s............................................... 3  50
2l0s................................................  4 00
Rodis,  160s.......................................................4 60
................................................... 5 00
Messinas, flats, ICOs.........................................2 00

200s 

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2 65

LEMONS.

“ 

N UTS.

BANANAS.

Choice,  360....................................................   3 00
Choice 300 .......................................................  3 50
Extra choice 360.............................................3  50
Extra fancy 300..............................................  4 00
Extra fancy 360..............................................  4 00
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Small bunches..............................................   1 25
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1 lb Royals..........................................  7)4
Almonds, Tarragona.............................   @16
Ivaca.....................................  @15
California.............................   @
Brazils, new...........................................   @ 8
Filberts.................................................   @11
Walnuts, Grenoble................................   @13
French...................................  @10
Calif.......................................   @12
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choice..............................  @11
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make for his “profession,” or  the  scope 
covered  by 
the  examination;  and  the 
State boards of pharmacy are as silent as 
the laws on that subject.  This failure to 
fix  upon  some  standard  of  knowledge, 
and  to  publish  the  requirements, 
is 
peculiar to our  country.  The  responsi­
bility for this condition of thing does not 
rest upon the State boards of  pharmacy. 
It is the net result of conflicting opinions 
and interests.  The pharmacy laws  have 
largely been written,  amended, and  “put 
through” in the usual way—on the  prin­
ciple that anything is  better  than  noth­
ing.  Tradition has  buried  reason.  We 
have gotten into a rut—a Rip  Van  Win­
kle sleep. 

Oscar Old b er g.

Reorganized.

“I understand that  Dr.  Firstly at your 
“Yes.  We  are  on  a  cash  basis  en­

church now preaches without notes.”
tirely.”

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)

(Wrapped)

Doz.  Gro.
1 oz.  $  90  10  SO
S oz.  1  SO  IS  60
4 oz.  S  OO  SS  80
6 oz.  3  OO  33  OO
Seely's  Vanilla
Doz.  Gro. 
1 oz. $ 1  SO  16  SO
S oz.  S  OO  31  60
4 oz.  3  75  40  80
6oz.  5  40  57  60
Plain  N. 8.  w ith 
gj  corkscrew at same 
W  price If ^preferred.

LEMON j

SEELY  MFG.  CO.,  Detroit, 

Correspondence

Solicited.
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State  Board  of Pharm acy.

Grand  Rapid*  Pharm aceutical Society 
P re e id e n t, W a ite r K. S ch m id t.  S ee'y. Ben.  Sebrond«

X lchigaa  State  Pharm aceutical  Ass’n . 
P r e sid e n t— A. B.  S te -re a * .  i n n   A rbor. 
V lo»-P re*id eB t—A.  F.  P a r k e r , D e tr o it.
Trr e m r fT —W ,  D c p o n t,  D e tr o it.
8© eretaj—S. A . Thompson, D etroit.

O b «   T e a r —O ttEi& r H b erb a ch , Ab b   A rb or.
T h r o -  T ear*— C. A .  B o c b e e .  C h ib o y g a - .
T o n r   T « at»—S.  E_ P a x  krill.
F ire  Team—F. w .  P erry. Detroit.
P ree id e n t—O t t d w  Eb ertm e h ,  \n n   A rbor, 
f  » c re ta ry —StBBisy E. F a r iI J i. Ovo<-<w.
T r e a r a r e r —Geo. G im i- s o . Ionia..
£5  a n d  
C o m in g   X « e t ia g r - S t « r  
H o n g it o n , A n g . *» a n J   M  L a c r in g   5o<-.  I  and  7.

1 4
Drug s  Medicine s. | cause  they  have  not  only  successfully
taken out of the hands of the pharmacist 
j a good part of his business,  but  also  be­
cause they are equally successful in  per­
suading physicians to specify the  prepa­
rations of particular firms, and thus com- 
| pelling  the  pharmacist  to  handle  their 
products.  Makers  of  “patent  medi­
cines’' and also the  wholesale  druggists 
are  watched  and  remonstrated  with  to 
I prevent them from selling  to  “cutters,” 
and “black lists” are made of the  offend­
ers. wholesale or retail.  Physicians are 
denounced  for  specifying  A  and  B’s 
elixirs, C and J>’sfluid extracts, E and P’s
-  pills, and Z’s  specialties  or  proprietary
The  Only Salvation  of the Pharmacist,  preparations,  and  for  dispensing  their 
Tablet  triturates 
that all  matters  pharmaceutical  in  our  and other modern  forms  of  ready-made 
country are in an  unsatisfactory and  un-1 medicines which can be carried about by 
settled  condition.  We  hear  on  every  a certain class of doctors or kept in stock 
hand and on all occa>ions the  clamor  of j in their offices, rendering the  services of 
contention  upon  questions  of  a  purely  the pharmacist superfluous, are cordially 
commercial  bearing.  Whether  or  not  hated.  The venal, the  thoughtless,  and
any  trade  combin: 
the well  meaning  fools  who  “endorse” 
fected will ever cut 
and  recommend  the  various  numerous 
mercantile  compel 
cure-alls, the  trade  journals  and  news­
which  we  do  not 
paper? which fail to  expose  the  imposi­
thing is clear,  that 
tions because they value  the  advertising 
upon  a  contest  f 
patronage more  highly  than  the  public 
purely  commercial 
good, are roundly abused, and the public 
absolutely  no  rigt 
is given up as hopelessly gullible.
does  not  belong  e 
chants.  No merchs

ltion,  is  a problem
care  to disc:ass.  One
when  drueg;ists enter
or  the  inoilopoly  of
business  they  have
it  or  ad. v a tvtage  that
<f*ially  to  o'ther  mer-
int  as  such.,  can  es-
iereial corn pietition of

Every  observing  pharmacist  knows  own  prescriptions. 

That pharmacists have many real evils 
to  contend  against,  and  that  they also 
suffer  from  many  imaginary  wrongs,  is 
the  day.  The  tailor  cannot  compete  true.  But  what  have  they  done  to 
with  the  dealer 
in  “hand-me-downs,”  remedy  these  evils ?  Have  they  really 
but if be is skilled in hi- work  and  does  demonstrated to  the  satisfaction  of  the 
it well he is not subject to any  such com- j intelligent portion of the community and 
petition.  The druggist,  too,  so far as he  the 
conscientious 
“handles” his wares purely as a merchant,  physician that these evils are indeed such 
must find  himself  in  purely  mercantile  as to do serious harm not to  the  pockets 
competition  with  other  druggists  and  of druggists, merely,  but  to  the  public 
merchants  who  deal  in  the  “hand-me-  welfare and to the best interests  of  true 
downs” of the drug business.  Druggists  medical science?  Have they shown that 
who are content to  devote their time and  there is really a distinct  field  of  profes- 
energies  to  that  kind  of  competition,  sional work called  pharmacy,  which,  for 
and who are struggling in  vain to escape  the  safety  of  human  health  and  life, 
the  inevitable  consequences,  have  no  should  be  entrusted  only  to  specially I 
right to complain.  But pharmacists who 1
trained  workers,  and  that  we  have,  in 
have a higher ambition  and  possess  the 
fact,  a corps of pharmacists  whose  edu­
requisite education  and  technical  skill, 
cation  is  such  as  to  entitle them to be 
compete for success in life  upon  an  en­
considered as professional  men,  worthy 
tirely different plane.  The writer firmly 
to  be  trusted  far  beyond  the  lines  of 
believe?  that  better  education  and  an 
mere  commercial  and  mechanical  rou­
earnest  effort  to  demonstrate  the  im­
tine?  To remedy  the  evils  complained 
portance and  value  of  the  professional 
of.  the pharmacists  as  a  body  must  es­
services of the  pharmacist  to  the  com­
tablish beyond question their right to the 
munity and  the medical  profession,  will 
respect  and  confidence  of  their fellow 
certainly  emancipate pharmacy as a pro­
men by virtue  of  thorough  professional 
fession  from  the  degrading  influence 
education;  the  pharmacy  laws  must be 
which  purely  commercial  competition 
amended or construed to make a  reason­
must of necessity have  when  applied  to
able measure of systematic  pharmaceuti-
the business of  furnishing  medicines  to  caI education compulsory; and  in all that
is  done  for  the  advancement  of  the
The public and the physicians will cer-1 materia]  interests of  the  profession,  the
tainly and gladly avail themselves of the 
pultW: good must be  the  chief  object  in 
professional services  of  the  pharmacist 
view.
to an extent that  will  make  his  calling 
The pharmacist  cannot  compete  with 
not only honorable but at the same  time 
the  manufacturer,  for  many  obvious 
as remunerative as that of  other  profes­
reasons;  but  the  pharmacist  of 
the 
sions if the standard of education  in  the 
future,  instead  of  competing  with  the 
pharmaceutical profession Ire  such  as  to 
manufacturing  establishments,  will  be 
command  the  confidence  and  respect  of 
expected to perform new duties  which he 
intelligent men.  And  it  is  just  as cer-
has  not yet entered upon in any system-
tain  that  if  the  pharmacist  is  not suf-1 atic  and  thorough  manner.  These new 
ficiently well educated he will  not  enjoy  duties demand far better  education  and 
that respect and confidence which are in-  training than he has heretofore had. 
dispensable  to  his  success  as  a  profes- 
sional man. 

the  United 
States is  in advance  of the  education of
The American druggist of the day com-  the average druggist of the country.  No 
plains  bitterly  of  the  manufacturers of | other pharmacopoeia furnishes such clear 
pharmaceutical  preparations, 
the  job-  and  complete  definitions,  descriptions, 
bers,  the  physicians,  and  the  public,  and  tests;  but  the  average  American 
Manufacturers  of  fluid  extracts,  pills,  j druggist is not well  enough  educated  to 
and other  preparations  are  berated  be- j apply intelligently and safely the  official

The  Pharmacopoeia  of 

the  quality  of 

T H E   raC H IG A N   T K A D E 8M A \.
j standards of purity and strength, or even 
;  he identity tests, or  to  pass  intelligent 
j judgment  upon 
the 
! produets  made  by  the  manufacturers. 
In  fact,  the  manufacturers  frequently 
I employ pharmacists and  chemists whose 
education  and  skill  are  far  above  the 
j qualifications  of  the  average  druggist.
| A» I  write  this  simple  statement  of  in­
contestable  facts  l  imagine  I  can hear 
j how some of our  self-constituted spokes­
men of the “profession” will,  when  they 
! read it, rend the air  with  their  ejacula- 
. tions and cry treason; but  the  statement 
! is literally true, and will  remain  so  un- 
; til its truth is so  thoroughly  recognized 
| that the only remedy possible  is applied. 
It is time, indeed,  that  the  pharmacists 
j of America  should bestir  themselves and 
! not rest until they shall  have  firmly  es- 
| tablished such a distinction  between the 
educated pharmacist and  the  mere  ven­
dor of drugs that the restoration  of  con- 
I fidence  in  and  respect  for the pharma- 
] ceutical profession may be realized.
There are about 40,000  drug  stores  in 
j  the  United  States,  and  probably  about 
i 130.000 persons employed in selling med­
icines in these 40.000 stores.  These 130,- 
000 persons  are  called  druggists,  phar­
macists  and  chemists,  without  distinc­
tion,  They are recuited  largely  by  the 
employment of boys from 13 to  16  year 
of age who  have  not  even  finished  the 
studies  of the common grammar school 
and who never again devote any  time  to 
| study.  Our present pharmacy  laws  are 
! so framed and administered that  no  di 
tinction  whatever  is  made  between the 
40.000 proprietors of  these  drug  stores. 
All  must  be  “registered  pharmacists;” 
ail must comply with the same  standard 
of  qualifications;  hence 
that  standard 
must of necessity be no higher  than that 
which  can  be  readily  enforced  under 
such  conditions. 
In  many  States, too. 
no higher qualifications  are  required  of 
proprietors and managers than of clerks. 
In  many  States  where  the law has pro­
vided for two grades of  pharmacists  (?), 
all the candidates  for licenses are never­
theless given  precisely  the  same  ques­
tions  in 
the  public  examinations,  no 
other distinction  being  made  than  this, 
that,  ia  order  to  become  a  “registered 
pharmacist,” the candidate must be  able 
J to answer correctly a  greater  proportion 
of  the  questions  than  he is expected to 
answer  if  he  is  to  become  a  “regis­
tered assistant pharmacist.”  Not one of 
the pharmacy laws  makes  the  slightest 
reference to any standard  of  general  or 
preparatory education; in  fact,  not  one 
of them requires any evidence  of  educa­
tion of any kind.  All that  is  necessary 
j is the ability to answer  a  sufficient  pro­
portion  of  the  questions  asked.  That 
these  questions  are  generally  mere 
In  other 
memory  tests,  is  natural. 
| words, our pharmacy laws distinctly  en­
courage  cramming  and  discourage  edu­
cation. 
In  seven  States  a  boy  of  18 
years  who 
successfully 
enough to  answer  the  required  number 
of  questions  is  then  licensed  as a full, 
j fledged  “registered  pharmacist”  and 
j may at onceopen and  conduct  a  “phar- 
j macy”  (?) on his own account. 
In  some 
j States  neither  practical  experience  in 
drug stores nor any other kind of  practi­
cal training is necessary; it is  enough to 
J answer  50  or  75  per  cent,  of  a  lot  of j 
j worn-out  stock  questions.  Not  one  of I 
the pharmacy laws affords any  hint as to j 
I what the candidate is expected  to  know, I 
| what kind  of  preparation  he  ought  to |

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Acetlcum.................
8® 10
Benzol cum  German
65® 75
20
Boraclc 
................. .
20®
Carbolicum  .  ........... 
20® 30
Cltrlcum...................  52®
52® 55
Hydrochlor........
3® 5
Nltrocum  .........
10® 12
10® 12
Oxallcum...................  10®  12
Phosphorlum dll.
20
Sallcylicum............... 1  25® 1  60
Sulphuricum.............. 
IX®  5
Tannicum...................1  40@1  60
Tartarlcum................  30®  33

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6® 8
12® 14
12® 14

AMMONIA.
Aqua, 16  deg............
20  deg............
Carbonas  .................
Chlorldum................
ANILINE.
Black......................... 2 00@2
80@1  00
Brown.......................
45® 50
Red.......................   ..
Yellow...................... 2 50@3 00

25® 30
8® 10
25® 30

BACCAS.
Cubeae (po  36)........
Juniperus.................
Xantnoxylum...........
BAL8A M U X .
Copaiba...................... 45®
50
25
@2
Pern............................
Terablu, Canada  — 60® 65
Tolutan...................... 35® 50

CORTEX.

18
11
18
30
20
12
10
12
15

Abies,  Canadian........
Casslae  ......................
Cinchona F la v a ........
Euonymus  atropurp..
Myrlca  Cerifera, po...
Prunus Vlrglnl...........
Qulllala,  grd..............
Sassafras  ........ .........
Ulmus Po (Ground  15)
BXTBACTÜM.
24® 25
Glycyrrhlza  Glabra... 
33® 35
po...........
Haematox, 15 lb. box.. 11® 12
13® 14
is..............
1 
14® 15
H i ............
X s .................... 16® 17
F B B B U
Carbonate Preclp.......   ®  15
Citrate and Quinla —   ®3 50
Citrate  Soluble...........  ®  80
Perrocyanldum Sol —  
®  50
Solnt  Chloride...........  ®  15
Sulphate,  com’l.............. 9®  2
pure.............  @  7

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Arnica.......................   18®  20
Anthem! 8 ...................  30®  35
Matricaria 
......   50®  65

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Barosma 
Casgla  Acutlfol,  Tln-

2d 
3d 
sifted aorta... 
po.........  60® 

...................  18®  50
nlvelly....................  25®  28
Alx.  35®  50
Salvia  officlnallg,  !%«
and  Vis....................  15®  25
UraUrsl 
8®  10
................... 
Acacia, 1st  picked—   ®  60
....  ®  40
....  ®  30
®  20
80
Aloe,  Barb, (po. 60)...  50®  60 
“  Cape, (po.  20)...  ®  12
Soootrl, (po.  60).  ®  50
Catechu, la, (Hs, 14 Mi,
16)..........................  
l
Ammoniac.................  55®  60
AggafCBtlda, (po. 85) ..  40®  45
Beniolnum.................  50®  55
Camphors...................  46®  50
Euphorblum  po  ........  35®  lo
Galbanum...................  ®2 50
Gamboge,  po..............  70®  7b
Gualacum, (po  35) —   ®  30
Kino,  (po  1  10).........   @1  15
Magtlc.......................  ®  80
Myrrh, (po. 45)...........  @  40
Opll  (po  3 60®3 80) . .2 20®2 25
Shellac  ......................  45®  42
bleached......   33®  35
Tragacanth...............   40@1 00

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Absinthium.........................  25
Bupatorlum.........................  20
Lobelia................................   25
Majorum.............................   28
Mentha  Piperita.................   23
“  V lr.........................  25
Rue.......................................  80
Tanaoetum, V......................  22
Thymus,  V..........................   25

MASNXSIA.

Calcined, P a t...,........  55®  60
Carbonate,  Pat...........  20®  22
Carbonate, K. &  M__  20®  25
Carbonate, Jennings..  35®  36

OLBUM.

TINCTUBBS.

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..  “ 
P .........   50
Aloes...................................   60
and myrrh.................  60
Arnica................................   50
Asafoetlda.........................       0
Atrope Belladonna..............  60
Benzoin...............................   60
q  “  ,  Co..........................   50
Barosma.............................   50
Cantharldes................            75
Capsicum............................  50
Ca damon............................  75
_  “ 
Co........................  75
Castor..................................1 00
Catechu.................................. 50
Cinchona.......................  
50
Co........................  60
Columba.............................   50
Conlum...............................  50
Cubeba................................   50
Digitalis..........................."   50
Ergot...................................   50
Gentian...............................  50
_  “  Co............................  60
Gualca................................   50
ammon...................     60
Zingiber.............................   50
Hyoscyamus.......................  50
Iodine..................................  75
“  Colorless...................... 75
Ferrl  Chlorldum.................  35
K ino...................................   50
Lobelia................................   50
Myrrh..................................  50
Nux  Vomica.......................  50
Opii.....................................  85
“  Camphorated...............   50
Deodor.........................2 00
Aurantl Cortex....................   50
Quassia...............................  50
lhatany.......................  ...  50
Rhel.....................................   50
Cassia  Acutlfol...................  50
Co..............   50
_  “ 
Serpentaria.........................  50
Stramonium.........................  60
Tolutan...............................  60
Valerian.............................   50
VeratrumVerlde.................  50

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“  4 F ..  32®  34
Alumen....................... 2X® 3

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7).............................   3®  4
Annatto......................  55®  60
Antlmonl, po.............. 
4®  5
et Potass T.  55®  60
Antlpyrln...................  @1  40
Antirebrln..................  @  25
Argent!  Nltras, ounce  @  48
Arsenicum................. 
7
Balm Gilead  Bud  ...  38®  40
Bismuth  S.  N............ 2 20@2 25
Calcium Chlor, Is, ()4s
@  11
12;  Mb,  14)..............
Cantharldes  Russian,
@1 00 
p o ............... ............
Capsid  Fructus, af...
®  26 
@  28 
@  20 
Caryophyllus, (po.  15)  _  „   ■
10®   12
Carmine,  No. 40.........   ®8 75
Cera Alba, 8. A F ......  50®  55
Cera Flava.................  38®  40
Coocns  .....................   ®  40
Cassia Fructus...........  ®  25
Centrarla....................  ®  10
Cetaoeum...................  ®  40
Chloroform...............   60®  63
squlbbs ..  @1  25
Chloral Hyd Crst........1  25® 1  50
Chondrus..................   20®  26
Clnchonldlne, P.  A  W  is®  20 
German  3)4®  12 
Corks,  list,  dls.  per
75
Creasotum......
35
e
Creta, (bbl. 75).
@ 2
5®
5
p rep -
9® 11
tubra.
® 8
Crocus  ........
50® 55
Cudbear......
24
o
Ouprl Sulph.
5  @ 6
Dextrine__  
__
10® 12
Ether Sulph...............   70®
70® 75
~
Emery,  au  numbers. 
@
po.................
@ 6
70® 75
12® 15
® 23
7  @ 8
® 60
s o n
50
80.

>0.)  75.
Flake  “
Galla.................
Gambler............
Gelatin,  Cooper.

cent

“ 

Less than box 75. 
Glue,  Brown...... .

2 00

Cubebae...................... 
Kxechthitos...................  1  50@1 60
Erigeron......................... 1  50@1 60
Gaultherla...................... 1  70@1 80
Geranium,  ounce......  @  ~
Gosslpil, Sem. gal......  70®
Hedeoma  ...................l 25@i  40
Jumperl......................  50@2 00
Layendula.................  90@2 00
Llmonls......................l  40® 1  60
Mentha Piper...................2 85@3 60
Mentha  Verld................. 2 20@2 30
Morrhuae, gal..................1 30@1 40
Myrcla, ounce............   @  50
Olive..........................  90@3 00
Plclg Liquida, (gal. 35)  10®  12
Ricini............................  1  22®1 28
Rosmarini............  
i  00
Rosae, ounce...................6 50®8 50
Succlnl........  ..............   40® 45
SaWna.........................  90@1 00
San tal  ....................... 2 50@7 00
Saggafrag....................  50®  55
Slnapls, egg, ounce 
  @  65
Tlglll...................  
  @1  00
Thyme.........................  40® 50
r  “  t  opt  ...............   @1  60
Iheobromas.................  15® 20
POTASSIUM.
BICarb...................... 
15®  is
Bichromate...............   13®  14
Bromide.................... 
40®  43
Carb............................ 
la®  15
Chlorate  (po  23@25)..  24®  26
Cyanide......................  50®  55
Iodide.........................2 90®3 00
Potassa, Bitart,  pure..  27®  30 
Potassa, Bitart, com...  ®  15
Potass Nltras, opt...... 
8®  10
Potass Nltras.............. 
7®  9
Prusslate....................  28®  30
Sulphate  po...............   15®  18

B A D IX .

Aconitum...................  20®  25
Althae.........................  22®  25
Anchusa....................   13®  15
Arum,  po....................  ®  25
Calamus......................  20®  40
Gentiana  (po. 12)......   8®  10
Glychrrhiza, (pv. 15)..  16®  18 
Hydrastis  Canaden,
®  30
(po. 35)................... 
Hellebore,  Ala,  po.  ..  15®  20
Inula,  po.................... 
is®  20
Ipecac,  po...................1  60®)  75
Iris  plox (po. 35©38)..  35®  40
Jalapa,  pr...................  40®  45
Maranta,  X»..............  ®  35
Podophyllum, po.......   15®  18
Rhel............................  75®1  00
“  cut......................  @1  75
“  PV.......................  75@1  35
Splgella.....................   35®  38
Sangulnarla, (po  25)..  @ 20
Serpentaria.................  45®  50
Senega.......................  55®  60
Slmllax, Officinalis,  H  ®  40 
M  @  25
Scillae, (po. 85)...........  10®  12
Symplocarpus,  Foetl-
dus,  po........'...........   @  35
Valeriana, Eng.  (po.30)  ®  26
German...  15®  20
inglbera.................... 
18® 20
Zingiber  ) ................... 
18® 30

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..  @ 15
Anlsum,  (po. 20).. 
Aplum  (graveleons)..  22®  25
Bird, Is...................... 
4®  6
C'arul, (po. 18)............   10®  12
Cardamon........................1  00®1 25
Corlandrum...............   11®  13
4® 
Cannabis Satlva....... 
5
donlum...................  76®]
enopodlum  ...........  10®  12
pterlx Odorate........2 40®2 60
Foenlculum......   ......   @  is
Foenugreek,  po......... 
6®  8
Lin!..............................4  @ 4X
Llul, grd.  (bbl.8 « )...  3)4®  4
Lobelia.......................  35®  40
Pharlaris Canarian__  3  @ 4
Rapa..........................   6®  7
Slnapls  Albu..............7  @ 8
Nigra...........  11®  12

smalms.
Frnmentl, W., D.  Co. .2 00®2 50
D. F. R ......1  75@2 00
1 25@1  50
 
Junlperls  Co. O. T __ 1  65@2 00
“ 
1  75@3 50
Saacharum  N.  E ........ 1 75®2 00
Spt.  Vlnl  Galll........... 1  75@6 50
Vlnl Oporto.................... 1  25@2 00
Vlnl  Alba........................1  25@2 00

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SPONOB8.

Florida  sheeps’  wool
carriage........................2 50Q2 75
Nassau  sheeps’  wool
carriage  .................
Velvet  extra  sheeps’
wool  carriage.........
Extra  yellow  sheeps’
carriage...................
Grass sheeps’ wool car­
riage  .......................
Hard for  slate  use__
Yellow Reef, for  slate 
use..........................

2 00 
1 10

1  40

Absinthium...............2 50®3  00
Amygdalae, Dulc........  45®  75
Amydalae, Amarae__8 00@8  25
Anlsl..........................1 8o@l  90
Aurantl  Cortex......... 1  80@2  00
Bergamll  ...................3 00@3  20
Cajfputl....................  60®  65
Caryophylli...............   75®  80
Cedar.........................  35®  65
Chenopodli...............   ®1  60
Clnnamonll............... 1 10@1  15
Cltronella...................  ®  45
Conlum  Mao..............  36®  65
Copaiba......................  80®  90

STBtTPS.

Acoacla...............................  50
Zingiber  .............................   50
Ipecac..................................   60
Ferrl  Iod.............................   50
Aurantl  Cortes....................   50
Rhel  Aram..........................   50
Slmllax  Officinalis..............  60
Co........  50
Senega................................   50
Sclllae..................................  50
**  Co.............................   50
Toiatan...............................  50
Prunasurirg.........................  50

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9® 15
13® 25
14® 20
@ 22
25® 56
@ 75
® 65
@ 85
@ 95
45® 56
® 6 t
25® 1  50
75®1  00
80®3  90
@4 70
@2 25
70® ■>5
70® 75
@ 27
10® 18

Grana Paradisi.
H y drang  Chlor  Mite..
“  Cor 
Ox Rubrnm
Ammontati.. 
Unguentum.

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Hydrargyrum......
Icnthyobolla, Am.

Iodoform.

Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy-
drarg Iod.................
Liquor Potass Arslnltts 
Magnesia,  Snlph  (bbl
Mannla,  S. F ..............  60®  08

1)4).......................... 2)4® 4

T H E   MICHTGLAJST  TRADESM AN

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S.  N. Y. Q.  A

Morphia, S. P. A W.  2  15®2 40 
C.  Co....................  2 05@2 30
Moschus Canton........  @ 40
Myrlstlca, No  1 ........  65®  70
Nux Vomica, (po 20)..  @ 10
Os.  Sepia....................  15®  18
Pepsin Saac, H. A P. D.
Co............................  @2 00
Plclg Llq, N.»C., H gal
doz  .........................  @2 00
Plds Llq., q uarts......  @1  00
pints.........   ®  85
Pll Hydrarg,  (po. 80)..  @ 50
Piper  Nigra, (po. 22)..  @ 1
Piper Alba, (po g5)__  ®  3
PIlx Burgun................  ®  7
Plumbl A cet..............  14®  15
Pulvls Ipecac et opll.. 1  10®1  20 
Pyrethrum,  boxes  H
AP. D.  Co., doz......  @125
Pyrethrum,  pv...........  20®  30
Quasslae.................... 
8®  10
Quinla, S. P. A W......34*@39H
S.  German__  27®  37
Rubla  Tlnctorum......   12®  14
12®  14
Saccharum Lactls pv. 
Salacln...........  ......... 2  10@2 25
Sanguis  Draconls......   40®  50
Sapo,  W......................  12®  14
M.......................  10®  12
“  G.......................  @  15

“ 

Seldllts  Mixture........  @  20
Slnapls...........................  @ 18
“  opt......................  ® 30
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  De
Voes.......................  @  35
Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes  @  35 
Soda Boras, (po. ll) .  .  10®  11 
Soda  et Potass Tart...  24®  25
Soda Carb.................  1)4®  2
Soda,  Bl-Carb............   @  5
Soda, Ash.................... 3)4®  4
Soda, Sulphas............   @  2
Spts. Ether Co...........  50®  55
“  Myrcla  Dom......  @2 25
“  Myrcla Imp........  @3 00
‘  Vlnl  Rect.  bbl.
..  .7......................... 2 17@2 27
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Strychnia Crystal.......1  40®1 45
Sulphur, Subl............ 2)4® 3
m  “  ,  Roll..............  2  ® 2)4
Tamarinds...................  
8® 10
Terebenth Venice......   28®  30
Theobromae.............. 45  @  48
Vanilla......................9 00®16 00
Zincl  Sulph..................  7®  8

OILS.

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

Bbl.  Gal
70
'8 5
45
55

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Linseed,  boiled.........  55 
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
strained...............   66 
SplrltsTurpentlne__  37 

1 5
58
70
40
bbl.  lb.
Red Venetian..............144  2@8
Ochre, yellow  Mars__IX  2®4
Ber........IX  2@8
“ 
Putty,  commercial....2)4  2)4@3
“  strictly  pure.....2)4  2X@8
VermUIon Prime Amer­
ican ..........................  
13@16
Vermilion, English.... 
65@70
Green,  Peninsular......   70@75
Lead,  red....................6  @6)4
“  w hite................6  @6)4
Whiting, white Span...  @70
Whiting,  Gliders’........  @9G
White, Paris  American 
1  0
Whiting,  Paris  Eng.
cliff..................... 1  40
Pioneer Prepared Palntl  20®1  4 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared 
Paints.................... 1 00@1  20

VABNISH BS.

No. 1 Turp  Coach.... 1  10®1  20
Extra Turp................160@1  70
Coach  Body...............2 75@3 00
No. 1 Turp  Furn.......1  00@1  10
Eutra Turk Damar__1  55@1  60
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 
Turn......................... 
70® 7 5

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Grand  Rapids,  flieh.

PERFUME  DEPARTIRENT

We  carry in  stock a complete line of

Eastm an’s  Extracts

Including these specialties,

HER  MAJESTY,

QUEEN  MAB,

FLEUR  DE  LYS,

TUSCAN  VIOLET

SW EET  HEATHER, 

PEAU  DE  ESPAGNE,

and all the leading  odors of the following 

manufacturers :

Lazelle,  Dally &  Co., 
Swinton,

Ladd  c\  Coffin, 

Foote  &  Jenks.

We have a complete  line of

LAVENDER  WATER,  VIOLET  WATER,

We also manufacture 

FLORIDA  W ATER,4  ounces,  FLORIDA  WATER,  8  ounces.

(iilZELTP 

i  PERKINS  DRUG  GO..

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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T H E   M ICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,

G RO CERY   PR IC E   CU RREN T.

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

COUPON  BOOKS.

CATSUP.

Blue Label Brand.

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

Triumph Brand.

Foreign.
Currants.

Peel.

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Patras,  In barrels............ 
In  54-bbls...............  
In less quantity___ 
cleaned,  bulk........ 
cleaned,  package.. 

2
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254
4
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Citron, Leghorn, 25 lb. boxes  13 
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Lemon 
8
“  10
Orange 
25 “ 
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Raisins.
Ondnra, 29 lb. boxes 
5 © 7 
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Sultana,20 
..754  © 8
Valencia, 30  “
California,  100-120..............  7

Prunes.
90x100 25 lb. bxs.  754
80x90 
854
70x80 
60x70 

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Silver.........................

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ENVELOPES.
XX rag, white.

No. 1, 654..........................  II  75
No. 2, 654............  ...........  1  60
No. 1, 6.............................  1  65
No. 2, 6.............................   1  50

XX  wood, white.

Manilla, white.

No. 1, 654..........................  1  35
No. 2, 654 
.................  1  25
654  ..........................   ......   1  06
6........................................ 
95
Mill  No. 4.........................  100
FARINACEOUS GOODS. 

Coin.

Farina,
Hominy.

Lima  Beans.

100 lb. kegs........................ 
Barrels__ — .....................2 75
Grits.................................. 3 00
Dried............................4  @454
Maccaroni and Vermicelli
Domestic, 12 lb. box...
55
Imported.................... 10M@U
Oatmeal.
Barrels  200................. ....  4 75
Half barrels 300......... ....  2 SC
Pearl Barley.
Kegs............................
Green,  bu.................. ....  1  15
Split  per l b ..............
Rolled  Oats.
Barrels  180................. @4  75
Half  bbls 90..............
m  50
German...................... ......  4M
East India................... ......   5
Cracked...................... ......   3*

Wheat.

Sago.

Peas.

3

FISH—Salt. 

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bbl 

9 80

Bloaters. 
"c'od.‘......

Yarmouth
Pollock
Whole, Grand  Bank......  454@5
Boneless,  bricks.............. 634
Boneless, strips................654
Smoked...................... 
Holland, white hoops keg 

io@13
70 

Halibut.
Herring.
“ “ 
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54  “  40  “ 
Mackerel.

Norwegian 
Round, 54 bbl 100 lbs.......   2 50
........  1  30
Scaled............................... 
17
No. 1,  100 lbs...........................10 75
No. 1,40 lbs.........................     60
No. 1,  10 lbs............................  1 «3
No. 2,100 lbs............................ 7 50
No. 2, 40 lbs............................  3 30
No. 2,10 lbs....................... 
Family, 90 lbs...........................5 75

90
10  lb s.................   65
Russian,  kegs....................  
55
No. 1, 54 bbls., lOOlbs........... 4 V.
No. 1 54 bbl, 40  lbs...................2 20
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs.................   63
No  1,81b  kits....................  53
Family 
J4 bbls, 100 lbs.......... 86 25  82 00
5 4 “  40  “  ..........2 89  1  10
101b.  kits...................  78  35
...................  65  31
8 lb.  “ 
MATCHES.

Sardines.
Trout.

Whitefish.

No.  1

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Globe Match Co.’s Brands.

Columbia Parlor.....................$1 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

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12 
8 8 
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810 
820 
8  1 books, per hundred  . 
8 2 
8 3 
8 5 
810
820 

“Superior.”

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3 OC
.  3 0(1
.  4 oc
.  5 oc
.  2 5C
.  3 OC
.  3 5C
.  4 oc
.  5 OC
.  6 00

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8 2 
..  3 50
8 8
.  400
8 5
..  5 00
810 
.  6 00
820 
7 00
Above prices on coupon books 
are  subject  to  the  following 
quantity discounts:
200 books or over..  5  per  cent 
500 
1000 
COUPON  PASS  BOOKS. 
ICan  be  made to represent any 
denomination  from 110. down.
20 books.........................$  1  00
2 00
50 
3 00
100 
6 25
250 
500 
10 00
1000 
17 50

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Butter.

..10 
.20 

Seymour XXX....................
Seymour XXX, cartoon......  554
Family  XXX......................  5
Family XXX,  cartoon........  554
Salted XXX...........................5
Salted XXX,  cartoon  ........  554
Kenosha 
..........................  754
Boston....................................7
Butter  biscuit.... ...............   6
Soda, XXX.........................  554
Soda, City............................  754
Soda,  Duchess....................  854
Crystal Wafer...................... 1054
Long  Island Wafers  .........11
8. Oyster  XX X...................  554
City Oyster. XXX...................554
Farina  Oyster....................   6

Oyster.

Soda.

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

FLY  PAPER.

Thuni’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. 

Domestic.

Apples.

“ 

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Peaches.

Apricots.

quartered  “ 

Sundried, sliced In  bbls.
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes 12  12‘4 
California In  bags........
Evaporated in boxes.  .. 
Blackberries.
In  boxes.......................
Nectarines.
70 lb. bags.......................
251b. boxes.....................
Peeled, In  boxes...........
Cal. evap.  “ 
...........
“ 
In bags........
California In bags......
Pitted (merries.
Barrels..........................
50 lb. boxes...................
25 “ 
...................
Prunelles.
801b.  boxes...................
Raspberries.
In barrels......................
501b. boxes....................
......................
251b.  “ 
Raisins.

Pears.

..............................  454

Loose Muscatels In Boxes.
2 crown.............\ ..............   4
“ 
3 
“ 
..... ..........
4  Loose Muscatels In Bags.
2  crown...............................3v
3 
............................... 4

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2 00
3 00

1 20*

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

Souders’.

Regular 
Grade 
Lemon.
doz
2  o
l
4 oz......   1  50

i

  75 

3)4

Regular 
Vanilla.

5

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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
Jennlngp.
Lemon. Vanilla 
2 oz regular panel.  75 
120
4 oz 
...1  50 
6oz 
...2 00 
No. 3 taper.......... 1  35 
No. 4  taper.......... 1  50 
N orthrop’»
2 oz  oval taper  75 
L20 
“ 
3 oz 
2 oz regular“ 
85 
4 oz 
“ 
1  60 

2 00
2 50
Lemon.  Vanilla.
1  10
1  75
2 25

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GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.

Choke Bore—Dupont’s.

Kegs.....................................3 25
Half  kegs............................ 1  90
Quarter  kegs...................... 1  10
1 lb cans.............................   30
54 lb  cans............................  18
Kegs.....................................4 25
Half  kegs............................ 2 40
Quarter kegs......................  1  35
1 lb cans......... ....................... 34
Kegs....................................11  00
Half  kegs  ...........................5 75
Quarter kegs........................3 00
1  lb  cans............................ 
60
Sage  ....................................15
Hops....................................15

Eagle Duck—Dupont's.

HERBS.

INDIGO.

JELLY.
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LICORICE.

Madras,  5 lb. boxes.........  
55
S. F„ 2,3 and 5 lb. boxes.. 
50
17  lb. palls.................  @  54
30  “ 
@  81
Pure.....................................   so
Calabria...............................   25
Sicily....................................  12
Root.....................................   13

LYE.
Condensed, 2  doz...............1 20
4 doz...............2 25

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

MEASURES.
Tin, per dozen.

1  gallon  ......................... 11  75
Half  gallon.................... .  1  40
Q uait.............................
70
P int................................
45
Half  pint  ......................
40
Wooden, for vinegar, per doz.
1 gallon.......................... .  7 00
Half gallon.................... .  4  75
Q uart.............................
3 75
Pint 
............................. .  2 25

MOLASSES.
Blackstrap.
Cuba Baking.
Porto Rico.

Sugar house....................
Ordinary.........................
Prim e.............................
Fancy..............................
Fair  ................................
Good................................
Extra good  .....................
Choice.............................
Fancy................................

New Orleans.

One-half barrels, 3c extra.

1
16
20
30
18
22
27
32

AXLE GREASE.
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

BAKING  POWDER.

Cream  Flake.

Acme.
45
J4 lb. cans. 3  doz............
75
54 lh.  “ 
2  “  ............
1  “  .............. ..  1 80
lib .  “ 
Bulk................................
10
Arctic.
55
54 Si cans 6 doz  case......
.  1  10
54 B>  “  4 doz  “ 
......
.  2 00
1  lb  “  2 doz  “ 
......
.  9 00
5  Si  “  1 do*  “ 
......
45
......
3  oz  “  6doz  “ 
60
......
4  oz  “  4 doz  “ 
80
6  oz  “  4 doz  “ 
......
1  10
......
8  oz  “  4 doz 
•’ 
.  2 00
Si  “  2 doz  “ 
......
.  9 00
lb  “  1 doz  “ 
......
40
Red Star, 54 Si cans.......
75
“ 
54 B>  “ 
........
1  40
1 S.  “ 
“ 
........
45
Teller's.  U lb. cans,  doz
£  lb.  “
« 
85
.  1  50
1 lb.
“ 
45
-b cans..
75
54 lb  cans__
.  1  50
1 lb cans.  ...
BATH  BRICK. 
2 dozen in case.
English..........................
Bristol.............................
Domestic.......................

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

Our Leader, 

BLUING.

8oz 

“
“

“ 

* 

“ 
BROOMS.

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

‘ 

BRUSHES.

“ 
“ 

Stove, No.  l ....................
“  10....................
“  15....................
Klee Root Scrub, 2  row..
Rice Root  Scrub. 8 row..
Palmetto,  goose..............

.  1  75
.  2 00
.  2 25
.  2 50
.  2 75
80
.  1  00 
.  2 75

.  1 25
.  1  50
.  1  75
85
.  1  25
.  1  50

CANDLES.

Hotel, 40 lb. boxes.......... .  10
............ .  9
Star,  40 
Paraffine  ......................... .  10
.  34

“ 

CANNED  GOODS. 

Fish.
Clams.

“ 

“ 

“ 

Little Neck.  1 lb.................1  20
“  2 lb.................1  90
Clam Chowder.
Standard, 8 lb......................2 25
Cove Oysters.
Standard,  lib ..'...
75
21b...........
......135
Lobsters.
Star,  1  lb...................
...... 2 45
«  2  lb..................
...... 3 50
Picnic, 1 lb.................
...... 2 00
21b.................
“ 
...... 2 90
Mackerel.
Standard, 1 lb............
...... 1  10
2  lb...........
...... 2  10
Mustard,  2 lb  ...........
....2 25
Tomato Sauce,  2 lb...
...... 2 25
Soused, 2 lb..............
.. 
.2 25
Salmon.
Columbia River, flat.
.  ...1  90
“ 
falls..
...... 1  65
Alaska, R e d ..............
...... 1 25
pink...............
......1  10
Kinney’s,  flats..........
...... I  95
Sardine«.
American  14s ............
..4M© 5
/4«............
.6M@ 7
Imported  Ms..............
...  ©SO
Ms  ............
...i5@ie
Mustard  Ms  ..............
...  6®7
Boneless.....................
21
Brook 3, lb
....  2 50

“ 
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“ 
“ 

Trout.
Fruits.
Apples.

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

1  20
3 75

Gages.

Apricots.
Live oak......................
Santa Crus.................
Lusk’s.........................
Overland..................
Blackberries.
F. A  W.......................
Cherries.
Red............................. 1  10&1 26
Pitted Hamburgh__
W hite......................... 
1  50
Brie............................ 
1 30
Damsons, Egg Plums and Green 
E rie............................
1  20 
California..................
I  40
Gooseberries.
Commo n ....................
1  25
Peaches.
P ie............................
1  10 
Maxwell....................
1  60 
Shepard’s ..................
1  60
California..................   160©1  75
...............
Monitor 
Oxford.................... .
Pears.
Domestic.................... 
l  25
l  75
Riverside.................... 
Pineapples.
Common..................... 1  00@1  30
Johnson’s  sliced........ 
2 50
Booth’s sliced............  @2 51

grated.......
grated...........  @2

Quinces.
Common.................... 
1  10
Raspberries.
1  10
Red  ............................ 
Black  Hamburg.........  
1  40
1  25
Erie,  black  ...............  
Strawberries.
Lawrence..................  
1  25
Hamburgh................. 
1  25
1  20
Erie............................ 
Terrapin....................... 
1  05
Whortleberries,
Blueberries...............  
85
Corned  beef  Libby’s.......... 2 10
Roast beef  Armour’s...........1 80
Potted  ham, 44 lb................. 1 40
“  541b.................  85
tongue, 54 lb..............1 35
“ 
541b.........  85
chicken, K lb.........   95
Vegetables.

Meats.

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

Beans.

“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Peas.

Corn.

Hamburgh  strlngless...........1 15
French style........2  00
Limas.................. 1  35
Lima, green......................... 1
soaked......................  70
Lewis Boston Baked........... l 85
Bay State  Baked......................1 85
World’s  Fair  Baked........... 1  85
Picnic Baked............................ 1 00
Hamburgh............................... 1 25
Livingston  Eden.....................1 20
P arity.................................
Honey  Dew.................... . . 4  40
Morning Glory..................
Soaked............................... 
75
Hamburgh  marrofat...........1  30
early Jane  .  ... 1  50
Champion Eng.. 1  40
petit  pois...........l  40
fancy  sifted.... 1  90
Soaked..................... 
55
Harris standard...................  75
VanCamp’s  marrofat..........1  10
early-June.......1  30
Archer’s  Early Blossom__1  25
French............... 
2  15
French.............................. 19®21
Erie............................... 
80
Hnbbard...................................1 15
Hamburg...................................1 40
Soaked................ 
Honey  Dew.............................. 1 50
Erie.......................................... 1 85
Tomatoes.
Hancock.............................
Excelsior 
.........................
Eclipse................................
Hamburg.............................
Gallon.......................... 
CHOCOLATE.

Mushrooms.
Pumpkin.
Sqnash.
Succotash.

..8  50

go

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Baker’s.

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

23
37
43

CLOTHES  PINS.

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

COCOA  SHELLS.

35 lb  bags......................  03
Less quantity...............   @354
Pound  packages.......... 644@7

Green.
Rio.

Santos.

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

Maracaibo.

Mocha.

Java.

Roasted.

To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add 54c. per lb. for roast 
lng and 15 per  cent,  for shrink, 
age.
M cLaughlin's  XXXX.  22 30
Bunola  ...........................   21  80
Lion, 60 or 100 lb.  case__  22 30

Package.

Extract.

Valley City M gross........... 
75
1  15
Felix 
Hummel’s, foil, gross........  1  65
........2 85
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tin 
CHICORV.

Bulk.....................................
Red......................................
CLOTHES  LINES. 

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

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

Jnte

CONDENSED  MILK. 

4 doz. In case.

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

CHEESE.
Amboy.......................  
9
Acme.......................... 
9
Lenawee....................  
9
Riverside................... 
9
Gold  Medal  ..............
507
SUm..........................  
Brick..........................  
15
1 00
Edam  ........................  
Leiden.......................  
23
015
Llmbnrger................. 
026
Pineapple................... 
Roquefort.... .............. 
036
Sap Sago....................  O20
fist
Schweitzer, imported, 
014
domestic  .... 

“ 

Peerless evaporated cream.  5 75 

CREDIT CHECKS.

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

“ 
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Medium.

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

g
e

s

s

5 00
3 00

...1 70
Clay, No.  216...................
...  70
11  T. D. full count......
Cob, No. 8....................... . . .1 20

POTASH.

48 cans in case.

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

RICE.
Domestic.

Carolina head.................___6
...514
“  No. 1.................
“  No. 2.....................  5
Broken...............................  4
Japan, No. 1...................
......5V4
......5
“  No.2....................
...  6

Patna............................. ...  4V4

Imported.

SPICES. 
Whole Sifted.

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

“  
“ 
Pure Ground In Bulk.

Allspice..............................  &>4
Cassia, China in m ats... ...  8
Batavia in bund— 15
Saigon In rolls........38
Cloves,  Amboyna...............28
Zanzibar......  .........1114
Mace  Batavia.....................80
Nutmegs, fancy..................75
iio.  1.....................70
Pepper, Singapore, black — 10 
“  white...  .20
shot........................16
AllBplce................................15
Cassia,  Batavia...................18
and  Saigon .85
•• 
“ 
Saigon...................35
Cloves,  Amboyna................22
“  Zanzibar................. 18
Ginger, African...................16
Jam aica.................88
Mace  Batavia......................65
Mustard, Bng. and Trieste..22
“  Trieste....................25
Nutmegs, No. 2 ............•— 75
Pepper, Singapore, black — 16
"  white........24
“ 
“  Cayenne..................20
Sage......................................20
“Absolute” in Packages.
*8
Allspice......................  84  155
Cinnamon..................   84  1  55
Cloves.........................  84  155
Ginger,  Jamaica  ......  84  1  55
“  African...........  84  1  55
Mustard......................  84  1  55
Pepper.......................   84  155
Sage..................... 
Granulated,  bbls................   114
751b  cases........  1%,
Lump, bbls 
........................1  15
1451b kegs................  U4

 
SAC  SODA.

Ms 

84

“ 

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SEEDS.

Anise.........................  @15
Canary, Smyrna......... 
4
8
Caraway....................  
Cardamon, Malabar... 
90
Hemp,  Russian.........  
454
Mixed  Bird...............  
5@6
Mustard,  white.........  
10
Poppy .........................
Rape..........................  
5
Cuttle  bone................ 
so
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20-lb  boxes..........................
40-lb 
5H
Gloss.
1-lb packages.......................  5
8-lb 
.......................6
61b 
6H
 
40 and 50 lb. boxes..............  314
Barrels................................   314

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Corn.

SNUFF.

PICKLES. —

Scotch, In  bladders.............37
Maccaboy, In jars................35
French Rappee, In Jars......43
Boxes....................................51»
Kegs, English....................... 4M

SODA.

SALT.

Diamond Crystal.

“ 
“ 
“ 

Cases, 243  lb. boxes........$  1  60
Barrels, 320  lbs...............   2  50
115 214 lb bags—   4 00
....  3 75
lb  “ 
60 5 
3010  lb  “ 
....  3 50
Butter, 56 lb  bags............  
65
□  “  24141b bags  ...........  3 50
“  280 lb  b b ls...........  2  50
2 25
“  224 lb 

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Common Grades.

Worcester.
115 214-lb sacks....................... 14 fO
3 75
60 5-lb 
” 
3010-lb 
3  50
“ 
22  14 lb.  “ 
3 30
320 lb. bbl...............................  2 50
28 lb  sacks......................... 3214
56 lb linen sacks...............   60
100 3-lb. sacks......................... *2 10
60 5-lb.  “ 
2810-lb. sacks........................  1 85
56 lb. dairy in drill  bags...  30
281b.  “ 
16
56 lb. dairy in linen sacks..  75
66 lb. dairy in linen  sacks. 
75 
56 lb.  sacks.......................   22
Saginaw..........................  
80
Manistee.......................... 
80

Ashton.
Higgins.
Soiar Rock.
Common Fine.

Warsaw.

“  •• 

2 00

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T H E   M ICHIGAN  TRADESMAÎT,

1 7

9ALERATD8,

Packed 60 lbs. In box.

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

SEELY’S  EXTRACTS. 

Lemon.
1 oz. F. M. $  90 doz.  $10 80 gro
2  “  N. S.  1 20 “ 
12 60  “
2  “  F. M.  1 40 “ 
14 40  “

Vanilla.
1 oz. F. M.  1  50 doz. 
2  “  N.  S.  2 00 “ 
2  “  F. M.  2 50 “ 

16 20 gro
21 60  “
85 50  ‘

Rococo—Second  Grade. 

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

Lemon.

Vanilla.

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

SOAP.
Laundry.

Allen B. Wri8ley’s Brands.

Old Country,  80  1-lb...........3 20
Good Cheer, 601 lb..............3 90
White Borax, 100  54-lb........3 65

Proctor & Gamble.

“ 

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

Dingman Brands.

“ 

“ 

Single box.........................  3 95
5 box lots, delivered......... 3 85
10 box lots, delivered........3 75
Jas. 8. Kirk & Co.’s  Brands. 
American  Family, wrp’d..$4 00 
plain...  3 94
N.  K.  Falrbank & Co.’s Brands.
Santa Claus.......................  4 00
Brjwn, 60 bars.................... 2 40
80  b a rs...................3 25

“ 
Lautz Bros. & Co.’s Brands.

Acme.................................  3 75
Cotton Oil............................6  00
Marseilles............................ 4 00
Master  ................................ 4 00
Thompson & Chute Co.’s Brands

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

Passolt's Atlas  Brand.

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

Scouring.
Sapolio, kitchen, 3  doz...  2 40 
hand, 3 doz........... 2 40

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SUGAR.

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.................................$5 fO
Powdered...............................  4 50
Granulated..............................4 18
Extra Fine Granulated...  4 31
Cubes.......................................4 50
XXXX  Powdered..................   4 75
Confec. Standard  A........... 4 06
No. 1  Columbia A............   3 94
No. 5 Empire  A....................... 3 87
No.  6........................................3 81
No.  7.........................................3 75
No.  8........................................ 3 69
No.  9........................................ 3 56
No.  10................................   3 44
No.  11................................   3 37
No.  12...............................  3 31
No.  13................................   2 94
No 14.............................  
2 87

SYRUPS.

Corn.

Barrels................................16
Half bbls.............................18
Fair.....................................   19
Good....................................  25
Choice..................................  30

Pure.Cane.

TABLE  SAUCES.
“ 

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

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TEAS.

jap an—Regular.

) 

SUN CURED. 

BASKET  FIR E D .

F air............................  @17 1
Good..........................   @20
Choice..........................24  @26
Choicest...................... 32  @34
D ust............................ 10  @12
D
F air............................  @17
Good..........................   @20
Choice..........................24  @26
Choicest...................... 32  @34
Dust.............................10  @12
F air.............................18  @20
Choice.........................  @25
Choicest....................   @35
Extra choice, wire leaf  @40
Common to  fair........... 25 @35
Extra fine to finest— 50  @65
Choicest fancy.............75 @85
@26
Common to fair...........23  @30
Common to fair...........23  @26
Superior to fine............ 30  @35
Common to fair...........18  @26
Superior to  fine...........30  @40

oolong. 
IM PERIAL.

YOUNG HYSON.

GUNPOW DER.

ENGLISH  BREAK FAST.

F air............................. 18  @22
Choice.......................... 24  @28
Best.........................  .40  @50

TOBACCOS.

Fine Cut.

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

“ 

28
23
22

39
27
40
26
38
34
40
32
39
30

24
43
37
32
31
27

Plug.

Sorg’s Brands.

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

Smoking.

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

Scotten’s Brands.

Brands.

Leidersdorfs 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.

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

II for barrel.

WET  MUSTARD.
Bulk, per g a l................... 
30
Beer mug, 2 doz in case...  1  75

YEAST.

Magic,......................................1 00
1  00
Warner’s  ............ 
Yeast Foam  ........................1  00
Riamond.............................   75
Royal...... 
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WOODEN WARE.
6 00 
Tubs, No. 1.........................
5 50
“  No. 2.........................
4  50 
“  No. 3.........................
1  30 
Palls, No. 1, two-hoop..
1  50
“  No. 1,  three-hoop —
Bowls, 11 Inch...................
90
13  “  ....................
“ 
1  25 
....................
15  “ 
“ 
1  80
“ 
17  “ 
....................
2 40
“ 
19  “ 
...................
35 
Baskets, market.................
1  15 
shipping  bushel.. 
1  25
full  noop  “ 
5 25
willow cl’ths, No.l 
6 25 
“  No.2
No.3 7 25
“  No.l  3 75
“ 
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No.2 4 25
No.3 4 75
Pails......................................   3 15
Tubs,  No.  1............................ 13 50
Tubs, No. 2............................. 12 00
Tubs, No.3............................. 10 50

INDURATED  W ARE.

splint 

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Butter Plates—Oval.

Double.

Washboards—single.

250  10G0
No.  1......................... 
60  2 10
No. 2......................... 
70  2 45
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....................  225“
Wilson..................................... 2 55
Good Luck............................... 2 75
2 8
Ppnpjpctt 
HIDES  PELTS  and  FURS 
Perkins  &  Hess  pay  as  fol­
lows:
G re e n ................................   2@2V43
Part Cured 
@  3V4
Full 
Dry.............................   4  @ 5
Kips, green  ...............   2  @3
“  cured.................  @4
Calfskins,  green.......   4  @ 5
cured........4  V»@ 6
Deacon skins........... .10 ©25

H IDES.

“

No. 2 hides X off.
FSLTS.

WOOL.

Shearlings............... ..  5 @  20
................... ..25 @  60
Lambs 
Washed................... ..12 @17
.. ..  8 @13
Unwashed........ 
Tallow.................... ..  4 © 4 Vi
Grease  butter  ........ ..  1 © 2
Switches................. ..  1V4@ 2
Ginseng.................. ..2 G0©2 50
GRAINS and FEEDSTUFF8 

MISCELLANEOUS.

WHEAT.

M EAL.

No. 1 White (58 lb. test)
No. 2 Red (60 lb. test)
Bolted...............................
Granulated.......................
FLOUR  IN  BACKS.
«Patents............................
«Standards.......................
Bakers’.............................
♦Graham..........................
Rye....................................
count.
dltional.

♦Subject  to  usual  cash 
Flour In bbls., 25c per bbl 

52

1  40
1  65
2 05 
1  55 
1  35 
1  40 
1  40 
dls-
. ad-

MILL8TUFF 8.

Less
Car lots  quantity
*15 00
12 00
15 50
17 50
16 80

Bran.............. 114 00 
Screenings —   12 00 
Middlings......  14 50 
Mixed Feed...  17 50 
Coarse meal  .  16 30 
Car  lots............................... 44
Less than  car  lots..............47
Car  lots............................... 41
Less than car lots................45
HAY.
No. 1 Timothy, car lots — 11  n0 
ton lots........12 50
No.l 

CORN.

OATS.

“ 

FISH  AND  OY8TERS.
F.  J.  Dettenthaler  quotes aB 

FRESH  FISH.
..........  

follows:
Whlteflsh 
  @8
T ro u t.........................  @8
Black Bass................. 
12)4
Halibut.......................  @16
Ciscoes or Herring....  @4
Blueflsh......................  @10
Fresh lobster, per lb .. 
15
Cod.............................  
10
No. 1 Pickerel............   @8
Pike............................  © 7
Smoked White...........  @8
Red  Snappers............. 
15
Columbia  River  Sal­
mon ......................... 
15
Mackerel....................   18@25
oysters—Cans. 
Falrhaven  Counts —   @45
F. J. D.  Selects.........
Selects.......................
F. J. D.........................
Anchors......................
Standards...................
oysters—Bulk.
Extra Selects..per gal.
Selects .......................
Standards...................
Counts.......................
Scallops............ .........
Shrimps  ....................
Clams.........................
SHELL  GOODS.
Oysters, per  100......... 1  25@1  75
75@1  00
Clams, 

1  25

“

PROVISIONS

LARD.

SAUSAGE.

FORK  IN  BARRELS.

The Grand Rapids  Packing  and Provision Co 

quotes as follows :
Mess, .  ........................................................   12 50
Short c u t..................................................  
12 75
Extra clear pig, short cut............................  14 50
Extra clear,  heavy......................................
Clear, fat  back...........................................   13 50
Boston clear, short cut................................  18 75
Clear back, short cut...................................   14  00
14 00
Standard clear, short cut. best................. 
754
Pork, links............................................. 
5 Vi
Bologna.................................................. 
Liver...................................................... 
6
SV4
Tongue.................................................. 
Blood.....................................................
6
Head cheese.......................................... 
Summer................................................  
10
Frankfurts............................................ 
7 Vi
Kettle  Rendered............................................   8V4
Granger.......................................................... 8
Family............................................................  6Vi
Compound......................................................
Cottolene... 
. 
..........
50 lb. Tins, 54c advance. 
20 lb. pails, V4o 
“
\ c  
10 lb. 
“
“ 
“  %c 
“
51b. 
31b. 
‘  1  c 
“
Extra Mess, warranted 200 lbs...................
Extra Mess, Chicago packing......................
Boneless, rump butts...................................
smoked  meats—Canvassed or Plain.
Hams, average 20 lbs...................................
16 lbs...................................
12 to 14 lbs...........  ..............
picnic...............................................
best boneless.....................................
Shoulders.....................................................
Breakfast Bacon  boneless..........................
Dried beef, ham prices...............................
Long Clears, heavy......................................
Briskets,  medium.......................................
light.............................................
Butts............................................................
D. S. Bellies.................................................
Fat Backs.....................................................
Half  barrels................................ ...............
Quarter barrels.............................. .............
K its.............................................................
Kits, honeycomb.........................................
Kits, premium.......................... .................

PICK BED  PIGS’  FEET.

BEEF  IN  BARRELS.

DRY  SALT  HEATS.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

TR IPE.

7V»
10
10
7547V4

“ 
“ 

7Vi
.3 00 
.2 0o 
..  90

7 50 
7 75 
9 50

„ 

65

FRESH  BEEF.
Carcass...................................
Fore quarters.......................... .
Hind quarters...........................
Loins No. 3...............................
Ribs..........................................
Rounds...................................
Chucks........... .........................
Plates ......................................
FRESH  PORK.
Dressed...................................
Loins........................................
Shoulders  .........................................
Leaf Lard........................
MUTTON.
Carcass................................
Lambs...................................

■ AM  6V4 
4  @ 4V4
7  @ 8
8  @10 
8  @ 10 
6  @ 6V4 
4V4@ 5
3  @ 354

6Vi@6V48
6  @

6V4
9V4

@ 7
5V4@6

CROCKERY  AND  GLASSWARE.

LAMP  BURNERS.

6 doi. In box.

No. 0 Sun.........................................................  45
NO. 1  “  .........................................................  50
No.2  “  .........................................................   75
Tabular...........................................................  7«

LAMP CHIMNEYS.  Per bOX.

First quality.
“ 
“ 
XXX Flint.
“ 
“ 

No. 0 Sun...................................   .................   1 75
No. 1  “  .........................................................1  88
No.2  “  .........................................................2 70
No. 0 Sun, crimp 
top.....................................2 1
No. 1  “ 
“ ...................................... 2 2
No.2  “ 
“ .......................................8
No. 0 Sun, crimp  top.....................................2 6
No. 1  “ 
No. 2  “ 
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and  labeled....................3 70
“ 
No.2  “ 
....................4 70
No. 2 Hinge,  “ 
....................4  88
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb,  per doz.......................1  25
No.2  “ 
....................... 150
No. 1 crimp, per doz....................................... 1  35
No.3 
“ 
........................................160

“ ...................................... 2
“ .......................................3

La Bastie.

Pearl top.

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 
Mason—old  style.

FRUIT JARS.

Supplies.

Dandy—glass  cover.

Mason—one doz  incase.

Pints..............................................................  5 50
Quarts............................................................. 600
Half  gallons  ................................................8 00
5 75 
Pints ......................................................
U 25 
Q uarts...................................................
8 25
Half  gallons.........................................
10 50
P in ts.....................................................
Quarts....................................................
11  00 
14 00
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.......................
“ 
“  V4 gal. per doz...............
Jugs, V4 gal., per doz.............................
,r  1 to 4 gal., per gal..........................
Milk Pans, V4 gal., per do*....................
1  “ 
“ 
...................
STONEWARE— BLACK  GLAZED.
Butter Crocks, 1  and 2 gal....................
Milk Pans, Vi gal...................................

28 
38 
.  75 
,  75
06
60

LAMP  WICKS.

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

0

1  “ 

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

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

60
72
07
65
78

“ 

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1 8

T H E   M IC H IG A JS r  T E A H E S M A J S i

THE  COAL  MINERS’  INSURRECTION.
The  acts  of  violence  to  which  the 
miners  now  on  strike  in  the  soft  coal 
region of this  country  have  resorted  to 
insure  compliance  with  their  demands 
are no more  than  a  repetition  of  those 
which have  frequently  been  committed 
on  similar  previous  occasions.  Nom­
inally,  the  strike  is  against  the  mine 
operators,  to  compel  the  payment  of 
higher wages  than  they  offer;  actually, 
it  is against the other miners who do not 
voluntarily join  in  the  strike  and  who 
are willing to keep  on  working  for  the 
wages heretofore paid them.  In addition, 
the  strikers  endeavor  to  make  their 
efforts to produce a scarcity of coal  more 
effective  by  preventing  the  transporta­
tion of the mineral  from  mines  still  in 
operation to consumers  who have hither­
to been supplied  from those  now closed. 
Thus,  not  only  have  they  at  various 
points  attacked  and  maltreated  their 
non-striking  brethren,  but  at  one  they 
have  fortified  themselves  in  military 
fashion near the approach to a mine  and 
keep  it  closed  against  all  comers.  At 
others  they  seize  and  inspect  railroad 
trains,  and,  whenever  they  find  cars 
loaded  with  coal,  arrest  their  further 
progress.  All this is done  in  a  system­
atic, methodic manner, under  the  direc 
tion of leaders, and with the  forms of an 
organized insurrection.

The remarkable  circumstance  attend­
ing  these  outrages  is  the  indifference 
with  which  they  are  treated  by  those 
whose official duty it is to  repress  them, 
and  with  which  they  are  regarded  by 
citizens generally.  The  riots  that  took 
place in New York City  in 1873 were  no 
more defiant  of  law  than  are  the  acts 
now perpetrated by the  striking  miners, 
yet those were promptly put down in the 
course of a few  days,  while  these  have 
been permitted to continue for six weeks, 
with no prospect of their immediate sup­
pression.  Persuasion,  argument,  diplo­
macy and proclamations  have  been  em­
ployed  to  induce  submission,  but  the 
stern  hand  of  physical  force  has  been 
withheld.  Meanwhile,  not  only  are 
numbers of non-strikers compelled to  re­
main idle and lose the  wages they  might 
be earning,  but  thousands  of  other men 
are thrown out of work for want of the fuel 
indispensable to the industries  in  which 
they are engaged.

Why  the  striking  coal  miners  are  so 
tenderly treated it is easy to divine.  The 
object which they are  endeavoring to at 
tain is one in which a large number of their 
fellow  citizens  sympathize  with  them 
and any measures  which  may  be  taken 
to defeat it in the present instauce would 
establish a precedent for  defeating  it in 
others.  The notion which so many crazy 
theorists entertain and  disseminate, that 
the earners of wages in  this country  are 
a  feeble  minority,  “trampled  to  death 
under  an 
iron  heel,”  as  President 
Cleveland expresses  it, by the owners of 
capital, is a  fiction  of  the  imagination
They  compose,  on  the  contrary,  an 
overwhelming majority  of  our  citizens 
not  only  in  numbers,  but  in  physical 
strength, and they have, as we see to-day 
and have  been  seeing  for  many  years 
the power to dictate terms,  in  a  manner 
that  admits  of  no  resistance,  both  to 
their employers and to their  recalcitrant 
brethren.

Whether  the  strikers  in  the  present 
case succeed in securing the  concessions 
which they demand, or  whether they are 
ultimately compelled by want and hunger

to accept the terms which  they  now  re­
ject, or even  if,  as  usually  happens,  a 
compromise  is  effected  in  which  both 
parties to the dispute  mutually  concede 
something to each other,  the fact will re­
main that now  for six  weeks  one  large 
body  of  our  citizens  have  forcibly  de­
prived another large body  of their  legal 
rights,  and  that  neither  the  State  nor 
the Federal executive  has  been  able  to 
subdue them.  While  in the  eye  of  the 
law they are  criminals  who  merit  only 
swift  and  exemplary  punishment, 
in 
that  of  judges,  sheriffs  and  governors 
they are belligerents entitled  to  recogni­
tion  as such.

Of course it must be admitted  that the 
strikers  are  required  by  the  logic  of 
their position to act as  they  are  acting. 
They have joined together to coerce their 
employers  into  granting  them  certain 
demands, and it is essential  to their suc­
cess that all the other  coal miners in the 
country  shall  back  them  up. 
If  these 
others will not  join  them  of  their  own 
accord they must  be  made  to  do  it  by 
force,  just  as  during  the  late  war  we 
compelled the copperheads of  the North, 
much against  their  wills,  to  contribute 
money and recruits to put down a  rebel­
lion which in their hearts they approved. 
That so few  of  our  citizens  turn  upon 
these  insurgent  miners  as  they  turned 
upon  the  Southern  rebels  is  because, 
as  1  have  said,  the  majority  of  them 
sympathize  with  the  insurgents  as  the 
Copperheads sympathized  with  the Con­
federacy,  and  wish  them  to  succeed, 
peaceably if they can, but forcibly if they 
must.

Accustomed  as  we  have  become,  In 
this  region,  after  thirty  years  of  pro­
found peace, to government  by law,  and 
to obedience to law, not from compulsion 
but from habit, it  is  difficult  for  us  to 
recognize  the  fact  that,  after  all,  the 
supremacy  of  law  rests  upon  physical 
force and must be supported by it or fall. 
Among  our  primitive  ancestors  it  was 
the stronger who  ruled  the  weaker,  re­
gardless of what we now  call  right.  As 
society advanced it was  the  best  fighter 
who became  chief, and  commanded  the 
obedience of his fellows.  A  still further 
development led  to  the  preeminence  of 
those who were not  only superior  to the 
rest in individual prowess,  but  who  ex­
celled  them  in  military  skill.  Thus, 
down to a recent period,  society  was or­
ganized upon essentially a military basis, 
and to this  day  the  titles  of  European 
nobles  are  the  old  and  almost  obsolete 
names  of  the  different  grades  and func­
tions of military officers. The duke was the 
“dux”  or  leader,  the  marquis  had  the 
guardianship of  the  marches,  or  front 
iers, the count  was the  “comes,”  or as 
sistant  of  his  king,  and  so  on.  The 
Emperors of  Germany,  of  Austria,  and 
of  Russia  pride  themselves  more  upon 
their soldierly than upon  their  political 
skill, and the Sovereign of  Great Britain 
is theoretically, the  head  of  the  British 
army.  The  continent  of  Europe  is, as 
the poor taxpayers know to their sorrow, 
one  vast  camp,  in  which  every  able- 
bodied man is liable to do military  duty. 
We have emerged  to some  extent  out of 
this condition, and  devote  ourselves  far 
more  to  peaceful  industry  than  we  do 
to war, but as thirty  years ago we had to 
conquer  peace  with  arms,  so  now,  we 
must either preserve it in  the same man­
ner, or we  must  surrender  ourselves  to 
the domination of those  who are  physic­
ally stronger than we  are.

The striking coal miners have undoubt­
edly  no  intention  of  overthrowing  the 
existing State and  National governments 
and  setting  up  a  government  of  their 
own  in  its  place.  Like  the  Coxeyites, 
they aim only at carrying the  point they 
have  immediately  in  view  and  do  not 
consider anything  beyond  it.  This  has 
been the case  with  all  great  strikes  in 
which  violence  has  been  used.  The 
striking  railroad  engineers  in  1877  did 
not  set  out  to  burn  down  the  city  of 
Pittsburgh,  nor did the  striking  switch­
men at Buffalo in 1890  mean  to  inaugu­
rate  a civil war, but both came perilous­
ly  near to these results,  and so, now, in 
the  coal  miners’  strike,  a  contest  has 
been begun between those who are viola­
ting the laws and those  whose duty  it is 
to enforce them which threatens  the  en­
tire fabric of  society. 
It is civil  war on 
a small scale,  and  if  the  insurgents es­
cape unpunished,  even  though  they are 
defeated in  other respects, we shall have 
taken  a  step  backward  in  civilization 
and reverted to the reign of force.

The question  involved  in  this  strike, 
in the way in  which  it  is  conducted,  is 
not,  therefore,  merely  a  question  of 
wages. 
It is whether we shall  maintain 
a state  of  society  in  which  the  bodily 
weak  are  protected  against  the  bodily 
strong and  enjoy  equal  privileges  with 
them,  or  whether  we  shall  go  back  to 
one in which  physical  strength  shall be 
the only safeguard  of  life,  liberty,  and 
the  pursuit  of  happiness.  As  1  have 
said, the notion that it is only  a  contest 
between  the  owners  of  capital  on  one 
side  and  the  owners  of  labor  on  the 
other  is  a  figment  of  the  imagination. 
Whatever wages  the  mine  operator,  in 
the present  instance,,  pays  for  mining 
he adds to the price at which  he sells his 
coal, and it is the consumer  who  suffers 
in the end  from  every  increase  of  cost 
resulting  from  the  increase  of  wages. 
Nor are the consumers,  as  some  people 
seem  to  imagine,  principally  the  rich. 
It is the comparatively poor  who buy the 
greater part  of the coal mined and of the 
goods which coal is employed in  produc 
ing.  Not  only  do  the  striking  coal 
miners directly deprive by  violence their 
non-striking fellow  miners of  the wages 
they  might  but  for  their  interference 
earn,  but they directly levy  tribute upon 
the vast multitude  of  workers  in  other 
occupations, men,  women, and  children 
who will have  in  the  end  to  pay  every 
cent of the increase of  wages which they 
may succeed in getting.

This  strike, too,  with all  the  violence 
with which it is  accompanied,  happens, 
opportunely,  to  show  the futility of  the 
agitation now in progress for  the  exten­
sion to women of  the  right  of  suffrage. 
If either  from  administrative  weakness 
or from  mistaken  sympathy,  the  strike 
shall end, as it is likely to  end,  without 
the punishment of those who  are leading 
it;  if it is settled that laws  are practical­
ly to be made and executed  not by repre­
sentatives chosen  by the  ballot,  but  by 
the  fighting  portion  of  the  population 
armed  and  prepared  to  burn,  destroy, 
and kill rather than  be defeated,  it  will 
be  of  little  use  for  woman  to  have  a 
voice in framing them. 
It will  even  be 
as  useless  for  the  peaceable  enervated 
citizen,  who  labors  more  with  the  pen 
and with his brains than with his muscle, 
to go through the form of enacting them. 
We may as well  hand  over  the  govern­
ment at once to  the men  who  wield  the 
crowbar,  the  pickax,  and  the  hammer

as our ancestors  did in  feudal  times  to 
those  who  wielded  the  sword  and  the 
spear, and  accept so much of  the  fruits 
of our labor as they choose to allot to us. 
This is  the  end  to  which  strikes,  con­
ducted like this coal  miners’  strike,  are 
leading us, and we ought to look the fact 
squarely in the face.

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REPRESENTATIVE  RETAILERS.

Sons,  Lake  Odessa.

E.  C.  Tew,  Senior  Member  of  Tew  & 
Kliner C. Tew, general dealer  of  Lake 
Odessa,  late  of  Orange,  was  born  in 
Brookfield,  Madison  county,  N.  Y.,  in 
1838.  He comes of  a  good  old  revolu­
tionary stock, his great  grandfather  be­
ing a captain in the revolutionary  army.
His  father  was  a  native  of  Rhode 
Island  and  a  farmer.  Mr.  Tew’s  boy­
hood was not unlike the boyhood  of  the 
average farmer’s  son,  his  summers  be­
ing spent in work on the  farm,  and  the 
winters being devoted  to  acquiring  the 
rudiments  of  an  education. 
In  1856, 
when  18  years  old,  he  came  with  his 
father to Ionia  county,  this  State,  and 
settled  on  a  farm  in  Berlin  township, 
which he quitted seven years ago, though 
he still retains the  farm  in  his  posses­
sion.  On  leaving  the  farm  he  moved 
into the village  of  Orange  and  entered 
into partnership with C. E.  Erdman  and 
P. H. Kilmartin in  a  general  store,  the 
firm being known as  Erdman,  Kilmartin 
&  Tew.  The  first-named  gentleman 
died the following spring  and Mr. Tew’s 
son, Charles  E.  purchased  the  Erdman 
interest,  and the firm name was  changed 
to  Tew,  Kilmartin  & Tew.  Later  Mr. 
Kilmartin’s  interest  was  purchased  by 
his partners  and  the  style  of  the  firm 
became  E.  C.  Tew  &  Sons,  Mr.  Tew’s 
younger son becoming a  member  of  the 
firm.  On  May  1  last  the  business  at 
Orange was sold  to  H.  U.  Jordan  and 
Messrs.  Tew  &  Sons  moved  to  Lake 
Odessa where they are opening a general 
store on a considerably larger scale.

Mr. Tew  is  a  genial  gentleman with 
whom it is a  pleasure  to  converse.  He 
has never had any  political  aspirations, 
but has been  contented  to  plod  in  the 
old-fashioned  way  which  is,  after  all, 
the only sure  road  to  contentment  and 
competence.  He is an  earnest  and  con­
sistent member of the Methodist  church.

Not Ready for It Yet.

From the M erchants’ Review.
It need  not  be  expected  that, for  at 
least  some  time  to  come, grocers  will 
tumble over each other  in an eager  rush 
to  establish  a  universal  cash  system. 
Desirable  as  this  system  may be, there 
are many obstacles  to  its  general  adop­
tion, the principal one  being  the  grocer 
himself.  But while  nearly  all  deplore 
the indiscriminate  credit giving practice 
in  vogue, very few  merchants  have  the 
moral  courage  to  take  a  bold  stand 
against  it.  Circumstances, in  addition 
to long  usage, seem  to  operate  against 
anything  like  radical  reform,  but 
it 
strikes us that some  improvement  could 
be made so  as  to  curtail  the  enormous 
losses we hear so much about  in  the  re­
tail  grocery  trade.  A  contemporary 
suggests the  taking  of  judgment  notes 
in certain  cases, and  add:  “Of  course, 
you charge all the  goods  to  the wife, as 
then she and  her  husband  are  both  re­
sponsible.  When 
for 
further credit it is  the  proper  time  for 
you to  suggest  that  both  the  wife  and 
the husband sign a  judgment  note.  An 
ordinary  note  is  useless. 
Judgment 
notes waive the right of  exemption,  and 
knowing  this  the  husband  will  bring 
down money to settle it out of his wages, 
instead of using it for  extravagant  pur­
poses.”  This might do in  places  where 
the law is  agreeable  and  under  certain 
conditions,  but we hardly think the plan 
would  be  found  generally  satisfactory 
and  successful.  We  believe  the  adop­
tion of  the  coupon  book  system  would 
greatly mitigate the evils complained  of, 
and we  often  wonder  why  it  is  not  in 
more common  use.  With  all,  however, 
the grocers  have  the  matter  largely  in 
their own  hands,  and  in  this  respect  a 
little  “personal  reform”  might  be  of 
benefit to all  concerned.

appeal 

they 

Michigan (Tentbat.

“ The Niagara Falls Route’*

(Taking effect  Sunday,  May 27,1894.) 

•Daily.  All others daily, except Sunday.

Arrive. 
Depart
10 20d m...........Detroit  Express..........7 00am
5 30am .....»Atlanticand  Pacific........11  20pm
1  50 p m....... New York Express.........  6 00 p m
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,

C H IC A G O

Union Passenger Station.
May  27,  1894
ANDaWEST  MICHIGAN  BY .
GOING TO  CHICAGO.

 
 
 
 
 

TO AND FROM  MUSKEGON.

7:30am  
 
12:40pm   
 
3:45pm   

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  CITY,  CHARLEVOIX  AND  PETOSKEY.
Lv. Grand  Rapids .. 
3:15pm
Ar.  Manistee...........  12:20pm 
8:15pm
8:45pm
Ar. Traverse C ity... 
Ar. Charlevoix........  3:15pm 
11:10pm
Ar.  Petoskey  .. 
.. 
11:40pm
Arrive  from  Petoskey,  etc.,  1:00  p.  m.  and 
10:00p. m.
PARLOR  AND  SLEEPING  CARS.
To Chicago, lv. G. R ..  7:25am  1:50pm  *11:30pm
To Petoskey,lv.G. R ..  7:30am  3:15pm 
...........
To G. R. .lv. Chicago.  7:35am  4:55pm *11:45pm
ToG. R. .lv. Petoskey  5:00am  1:30pm 
...........
»Every day.  Other trains week days only.
D E T K O IT ,

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

RETURNING  FROM  DETROIT.

TO AND FROM 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  10:46pm
Lv. G R 7:40am 5:00pm  Ar. G R.ll :40am 10:55pm
Lv. Grand Rapids...........  7:00am  1:20pm  5:25pm
Ar. from Lowell..............12:40pm 5:15pm  ..........
Parlor  Cars on all trains  between  Grand Rap 
ids and Detroit.  Parlor car to Saginaw on morn­
ing train.

THROUGH  CAR SERVICE.

TO  LOWELL  VIA  LOWELL  &  HASTINGS  R .  K.

W AUKEE  Railway.

♦Every da*.  Other trains  week days only.
GEO. DbHAVEN. Gen.  Pass’r Ag’t.
D ETROIT,  GRAND  HAVEN  &  MIL­
i+No.  14 tNo.  16ltNo.  18 *No. 82
Trains Leave 
6 45am
11 00pm
G’d  Rapids,  Lv
12 35am 
7 40am
Ionia...........Ar
1 25am 
8 25am
St.  Johns  ...Ar
3 10am 
9 00am
Ow o s sd ..........A r
E. Saginaw..Ar
10 50am
640am 
7 15am 
11 32am
Bay City......Ar
5 40am 
10 05am 
F lin t...........Ar
730am 
1205pm
Pt.  Huron...Ar
537am 
10 53am
Pontiac....... Ar
11 50am
7 00am
Detroit.........Ar
W ESTW ARD.
For  Grand Haven  and Intermediate
Points............................................+7:35 a. m.
For Grand Haven and  Muskegon...... +1:00 p. m.
.......+4:55p.  m.
  *7:30 p.  m.
For  Grand  Haven  and  Milwaukee,+10:05 p. m. 
For Grand Haven  (Sunday only)........8:00 a. m.

1020am 
11 25am 
1217pm 
120pm
3 45pm
4 35pm 
345pm
5 50pm 
305pm 
4 05pm

325pm
4 27pm
5 20pm 
3 05pm 
8 00pm 
8 37pm
7 05pm
8 50pm
8 25pm
9 25pm

“ 
“  Chicago and Milwau­

kee,  Wis 

“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

»Dally.

tDaily except  Sunday. 
Trains  arrive  from  the  east,  6:35  a.m.,  12:60 
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  Farlcr  Buffet 
car.  No. 18 Parlor Car.  No. 82 Wagner  Sleeper.
Westward— No. 11 Parlor Car.  No. 15 Wagner 
Parlor Buffet car.  No. 81 Wagner Sleeper.

J ab. C a m p b e l l , City T'clrei Agent.

Grand  Rapids  & Indiana

TRAINS  GOING  NORTH.

N orth

Leave going 
For  Mackinaw.........................................................7:40 a. m.
For Traverse City and Saginaw.......................... 4:50 p. m.
For  Mackinaw........................................................10:25 p.m .
Leave going 
South.
For  C incinnati....................................................... 7:00a.m .
For  Kalamazoo and  Chicago.............................2:30 p.m .
F or  F ort W ayne and  the  E ast.....................................2:30 p.m .
For C incinnati................................................... ,.*6:40 p.  .m
For  Kalamazoo and Chicago.......................... *11:40  p. m.

TRAINS  GOING  SOUTH.

Chicago via G. R. & I. R. R.

Lv Grand R apids............ 7:00 a m   2:30 p m  *il :40 p m
A rr  Chicago.....................2:00 p m   0:00 p m  
7:10 a m
2:30 p  m  tra in   has through  W agner  Buffet  Parlor 
Oar and coach.
11:40  p m  tra in  dally,  through W agner Sleeping Car 
and Coach.
11:30 p m
Lv  Chicago 
A rr Grand Rapids 
6:66 a  m
3:30  p m   has  through  W agner  Buffet  P arlor  Car. 
11:30 p m   tra in  daily, th rough  W agner  Sleeping  Car.

6:60  a m  
2:00 p m 

3:30 p m  
9:16 p m 

For Muskegon—Leave. 

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

From Muskegon—Arrive

General Passenger and Ticket Agent.

IN
YOUR
STATIONERY

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For the 
Watermark

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We control it in this locality.

It’s first-class stock.
It’s easy to write upon. 
It’s always the saint
It’s a credit to your business.  O N   Your Checks and Drafts,

USE  Your Note Heads.
IT Your Letter  Heads. 
Your Legal  Blanks.

It  always  gives  satisfaction,  and,  compared  with  other 

stock, the  price is nothing.

Bo  They  Baise  Poultry  i

lour  Neck  of He  M s  ?

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.

Do You  Want

Your Autograph ?

These  are  samples  of 
autographs  we  engrave  to 
order.  Can  be  used for all 
kinds of printing.

PRICE  $1.50

If desired we  can  furnish 
rubber  stamp  of  same  and 
pad for $1  Extra.

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two or three times in  ink.

The  TRADESMAN  COflPANY,  G rand  Rapids.

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T H E   MICHTQAJST  TRADESMANS.

GOTHAM GOSSIP.

News  from  the  Metropolis--- Index of j

the  Markets.

Dealers  complain  of 

Special Correspondence
N ew  York,  June 9—The  situation  in 
grocery jobbing circles remaius  in about | 
the same  condition  that  has  character- j 
ized it for a long period,  and during  the 
past week nothing has occurred to break 
the monotony of the prevailing dullness. 
Local  attention—even  national—is  be­
ing given to the legislative  investigation 
now being conducted in this city  regard­
ing the police department.  There  is be­
ing uncovered what seems to  be  one  of 
the foulest spectacles ever  presented  to 
the American people.  For  years  it  has 
been  common  report 
that  policemen 
were in the habit of receiving  blackmail 
from  keepers  of  disorderly  houses, 
saloons, etc., in exchange for protection. 
It is  well  known  that  it  “costs  some­
thing” to get to be a  policeman,  and  as 
much as $10,000 is stated to be given  for 
It  is  such  exhibitions  as 
a captaincy. 
this that add to the prevailing discontent 
and rightly. 
It has  come  to  the  point 
where a policeman  is  not  respected,  if 
there ever was such a time;  he  is  toler­
ated,  and  looked  upon  with  about  as 
much  regard  as  a  saloon  or  brothel 
keeper.
the  handicap 
Congress  keeps  upon  trade,  and  they 
have so complained ever since December. 
The Sugar Tru<t,  it is said  by  even  our 
Democratic papers, is  being  more  care- 
1 ully attended to than they  dared  hope, 
and  the  amount  of  money  they  will 
pocket if the Senate  programme  is  car­
ried out is simply fabulous.
In nothing has  there  been  important 
change, and the report sent from Chicago 
that apples in that town were  worth §50 
a barrel created no  excitement, for  who 
is  surprised  at  anything  Chicago  may 
do?  It  is  even stated that Eugene  Hall 
of the Grocers’  Criterion has  cut  off  liis 
whiskers.
Coffee continues its  downward  course 
in  sympathy with foreign markets.  For 
No. 7 Rio, 15%c prevails.
Sugar is in a  variable  mood,  and  al­
most daily changes  are  being  made  by 
the  Wholesalers’  Association.  The 
tendency at the  moment is toward firmer 
prices 
refined.  Demand  grows 
slightly better as the canning  season ap­
proaches.
Butter is  a  trifle  firmer,  and  an  ad­
vance of lc a pound has been made  since 
last writing, the rate for best  Elgin  and 
State being 18c.  Cheese,  if  full  cream, 
is in fair demand, but very slow on other 
sorts.  Fancy, 9Jgc.  Eggs have been in 
less liberal receipt, and  at  the  moment 
the market is firm at 14c  for  best  West­
ern.
Canned goods are  in  limited  demand, 
both for spot and futures.-  Some anxiety 
is felt as to the result of the great  floods 
in the Northwest upon  the  salmon  fish­
eries  and  holders  are  inclined  to talk 
higher prices, or at  least  they  are  not 
anxious  sellers  at  low rates.  The new 
pack of peas is  reported  excellent,  and 
so of all other stuff that is now being put 
up. 
It  is  refreshing to get reports from 
Baltimore that are not full  of  complain­
ings  about  drought  and  bugs  and  cut­
worms.
fancy  evaporated 
apples  are  held  at  14%{2H5c,  and are 
fairly  steady.  The  remainder  of  the 
line is dull and there  is  hardly  any  in­
quiry for anything on the list.
New potatoes are in  very  liberal  sup­
ply. andaré  selling for §3@4.50  per bbl. 
—a  decline  of  50c.  Other  vegetables 
are  in  abundant  supply  and  at  low 
prices.
While the demand for lemons  remains 
moderate, holders are quite firm  in their 
views, holding within a range of  $1.90(3 
3.50, as to size  and  condition.  Oranges, 
bananas and pineapples  are all  meeting 
with a fair trade.
On June 1 the  holdings  of  raw  sugar 
at  the  four  ports  amounted  to  273,400 
tons, against 86,010 tons last year.  This 
is a straw, but it  shows  that  the  Sugar 
Trust is casting an  anchor to  the  wind­
ward. 

In  dried 

fruits 

Jay.

for 

Use Tradesman Coupon Boohs.

Call for Convention  of  Retail  Grocers.
Clare, June 5—You are  requested  to 
meet at Clare on Wednesday,  June 13, at 
2 o’clock p. m.,in Doherty’s Opera House, 
with the grocerymen of Ithaca, St. Louis, 
Alma,  Shepherd,  Mt.  Pleasant,  Clare, 
Heed  City,  Howard  City,  Greenville, 
Stanton, Carson City,  Big  Rapids, Evart, 
Cadillac,  LeRoy,  Marion, Harrison,  Far- 
well, Coleman and Midland, for the  pur­
pose  of  forming  an  association  of  the 
grocerymen of the above cities and towns 
for  social  and  financial  benefit.  We 
urge  every  groceryman 
to  be  pres­
ent, as it will be an  interesting  meeting 
and all will be benefited.  We are aware 
that the  wholesale grocers are thoroughly 
organized and it now stands  us  in  hand 
to be up and doing and be in line to  pro­
tect ourselves.  We can  meet  every  six 
months, or as often as  we  so  desire,  in 
any one of the above cities.
Be sure and come  and  represent  your 
business in person and have a good time.
Railroads will give IX   fare.
J.  F. T atm an,
J.  Mason,
J ames Boyd,

Local Committee.

To Be  Held  in Detroit.

is 

This 

The  next  annual  convention  of  the 
Michigan State  Pharmacentical  Associa­
tion will be held at Detroit,  Sept.  18  to 
21. inclusive.

information 

furnished  by 
Dorian  M.  Russell, prescription clerk for 
Thum  &  Reichel, who  is  a  member  of 
the Committee on Pharmacy.

Secretary Thompson has  been  written
to  repeatedly  in  regard  to  the  matter, 
both  by  T h e  T radesm an 
and  by 
former officers of the  Association, but in 
no case has be taken the  trouble to make 
any reply whatever  to the enquiries.

The Drug- Market.

Opium is dull and  lower.
Morphia is  unchanged.
Salicylate  soda  has  been reduced  10c 
per pound by the makers  on  account  of 
the decline in salicylic acid.

PRODUCE  MARKET.

Asparagus—Has dropped to 30c  per  doz.  Hot 

weather has had its usuvl effect.
held at S1.70@1.85.

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

Beets—New Illinois, 50c per doz. bunches.
Beans—Wax, ll.9D@2 per bu;  String,  $1.50 per 
bushel.
Butter—Is very weak.  The best dairy  can  be 
bought for 10@12c and no other is wanted at any 
price.  Many dealers are putting It in  cold  stor­
age, preferring to hold it  until  fall  than  sell  it 
at present low figures.  Creamery brings 16@17c, 
which is fair considering the  market  for  dairy 
and the generally good quality of dairy butter.
Eggs—Dealers pay  9H@10c, holding at  lie.
Field  Seeds—Medium  and  mammoth  clover, 
S6@6.25;  Alsyke,  £3@8.50;  Alfalfa,  *6.7597.50; 
Timothy,  *2.15;  Red  top,  15c;  Orchard Grass, 
£1.80; German Millet,  80990c;  Common  Millet, 
70@85c; Hungarian Grass, £1.10@1.20.
Greens—Beets,  60c  per  bu.;  Spinach,  40c per 

bu.

Honey—White clover, 14c; buckwheat, 12c.
Lettuce—Is getting scarce  and  is  up  lc,  now 

Onions—California«  *2.50  per  2 bu. 

bringing 9c.
sack, 
Louisiauas,  *2 per  1 !4bu  sack;  green,  12%  per 
doz. bunches.

Peas—Have  dropped  20c  being  now  held  at 

$1.40 per bu.

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

doz. buuches.

Tomatoes—Mississlppis  have  fallen  off  60c, 

bringing $1.96 per 4 basket crate.

Potatoes—Prime  bring  easily  $1  per  bu., 
though they are sold for  less  by  some  dealers. 
Seconds  bring  90c.  The  “potato  excitement” 
has completely died out.  New bring  from  *1.25 
@1.50 and are in fair supply.

Pineapples—Sugar loaf pines,  the only kind in 
the market, bring *1.50@2 per doz.  The  season 
Is abont over.

Strawberries—Home grown  have  driven  ont- 
side fruit off the field,  and  are  now  in  liberal 
supply.  They are held at  10c  by  local  dealers. 
Continued warm weather will soon  bring  them 
“within the reach of all.’’

O.  CLYDE  TUCKER. 

W.  R.  SMITH. 

L.  L.  WOOD.

O.  CLYDE  TUCKER  &  CO., 

Commission  Merchants,

Grand Rapids, Midi.

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8 south innia  st. 

Telephone 39 
GENTLEMEN:—

Kindly examine testimonials  given  below.  Note 
that we have pleased our shippers by getting good  prices  and 
making quick returns.  We want your  business, and we guar­
antee to please you.  We  make  liberal  advances on  consign­
ments when desired.  We refer you  to the American, Adams, 
National  and  United  States  Express  Companies,  and  all
wholesale  houses  in this  city,  who  can tell^you as to our re­
sponsibility.

We are the only  house in the  city  handling" pork,  Veal,
poultry and game on commission.  Cold storage^in ^connection.

Very truly yours,

* O. C. Tucker <fc Co.

Grand  Ra pid s,  Mich., June 11, 1894.
We have always found O. Ciyde Tucker &  Co.  reliable  and  prompt  in  their 
business transactions at this bank.  Having known Mr.  Tucker  for  several  years, 
we believe that any business in his line intrusted to him  will  be  satisfactorily  at­
tended to. 
By  F. M. Davis, Cashier.
P ierson,  Mich., Feb.  8,  1894.
O.  C.  T ucker & Co.,
De a r Sir s:—Yours received with check for $50,  for  which  accept 
thanks.  1 have shipped you nearly 4,000 dozen eggs within the  last  two  months. 
You have proven yourselves a good honest firm  (something  unusual),  and  what  1 
have to ship to Grand Rapids will consign to you.

Grand  Ra pid s Na t’l  Ba n k,

Respectfully yours, 

E. E.  W ee d.

O.  C.  T u cker & Co.,
Please accept thanks for doing so well with the  eggs. 
our overstock of produce whenever we have any.

Stanwood,  Mich., Feb. 7,  1894.
Gen t le m e n:—Yours received this morning  with  check  enclosed. 
¡Shall  be  glad  to  ship  you 
B urghdof &  Mit c h e l l.

Yours truly, 

Wayland,  Mich., Feb.  9,  1894.
To S h ippe r s of  P roduce,  P oultry,  E tc:—
This  is to certify that 1  have dealt  with  O. 
C. Tucker & Co., of Grand Rapids, quite extensively, and am not partial  in  saying 
that they have  dealt honestly and obtained better prices for  everything I have  sent 
them than I could have obtained myself, though  having  years  of  experience  aud 
quite a circle of friends in their market.  Therefore I cheerfully  recommend them 
to all new shippers accordingly. 

J ohn C.  Y ea k e y .

F r ee po r t,  Mich., Feb. 9, 1894.
T o T h e  T r a d e in  Ge n e r a l:—
We have had considerable dealings  with  O.  C.  Tucker & 
Co. and have found them reliable and prompt in their settlements.  We  give  them 
the main portion of our commission business in Grand Rapids.

Y a b g eb Bros.  & H er r ic k.
Allegan,  Mich.,  Feb. 26,  1894.
T o  W hom  it  May Concern:—
We have known  O. C. Tucker & Co. and  dealt  with  them 
for a number of years, and have found them straight in  business,  making  quicker 
and better returns than we could get from Chicago, Buffalo or New York.

Wil e y   & J ackson.

Sebewa,  Mich,,  Feb.  12,  1894.
To W hom  it  May Concern:—
This  is  to  say  I  have  shipped  to  O.  C. Tucker & Co. a 
great deal of produce, and have been well pleased with the results. 
I  think  they 
have  always  secured  me the top market price,  and they have been very prompt in 
remitting as soon as sold. 

I expect to favor them often for the coming  year.

Respectfully, 

F. N.  Co r n ell.

Ca sn o v ia,  Mich., March 3,  1894. 
This is to certify that O. C. Tucker & Co.  have done business for us during  the 
past year and we have always  found  their  methods  of  dealing  satisfactory.  We 
would recommend them to shippers generally. 

O.  D. Bla n ch a rd & Co.

Paris,  Mich., Feb.  9,  1894.
To W hom  it  May Concern:—
This  is  to  certify  that  I  have  known  O.  Clyde Tucker 
from a boy, and that 1 have transacted an extensive commission business with  him, 
and so far our business and social relations are entirely satisfactory.

W.  M.  Sa n fo r d.

All eg a n.  Mich., Feb. 9,  1894. 
I have had thousands of dollars in dealings with O.  Clyde  Tucker  &  Co.  and 

have always found them honest and reliable. 

H.  C.  Makntz.

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is fast being recognized by everybody as the best  salt for  every p u r­
pose. 
I t’s  made from  the  best  brine by  the  best  process  w ith  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, try 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

DIAMOND  CR YSTA L SA LT  CO.,  ST.  CLAIR, MICH.

Watch  out  for  our  new  spring  novelties, 

sellers.

They  are

N ew  York B iscuit Co.,

S.  -A.  SBARS,  Manager,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

It  is  Enough  to  Make  a

to see how some merchants persist in  hanging 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.  We 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

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

For  Less Than  99 Dollars.

H. LEONARD 

SONS

Will f 111*13isli  a Complete Stock of Staple Crockery and  Glassware.

I P   v n i  T  n O N ’T carry  thi8  llne  of  ROO<l8  think this over and read carefully ourlll 
I r   Y U U   L H JiN  
I  list given below.  Crockery and Glassware  are  staple,  never go I 
, of style, take up but little room and pay a good profit. 

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new assorted packages.  VV rite for complete¡list.andI illustrations or oar

Inew assorted packages of Glassware, the "Majestic  and mammoth  assorted  packages  are  prov
||ing  themselves great sellers.
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A  Complete Stock of Staple Crockery and Glassware.
(  Original assorted  crate  of  Alfred  M eakin’s Best English  W hite  Granite, containing a good  assortment of all  staple 
ONE ■)  pieces of crockery the  new  Henshall Shape.  This is the best white  ware  in  the  W orld  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.

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ONE  ^  ^  our 

i  edge of all  the pieces.

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

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

ONE -•  Of our Brown or Gray  Albany  100  Piece  Dinner Sets,  this is our English  make and  extra  good  value  for  the  price.

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

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H.  L E O N A R D   &  S O N S ,  Grand.  R a p id s ,  M ic h .

ONE  ^  Original  assorted package of our New  Majestic pattern  of Glassware.  This  pattern  is a direct imitator of Cut Glass  and  is 

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

ONe }  Assorted package of either Robin or Orial  Engraved  Tumblers.

|  one of the newest and  best selling patterns  in  the  market.

______ now exists which,  recognizing the importance  of  having plenty of  pure  ^

on  hand  for  cooking  purposes,  has  found  its requirements fully

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Borden’s  Peerless  Brand 

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and it highly indorses same.  Merchants  interested  in  supplying their  i 
customers with satisfactory goods,  at  a   reasonable  profit to themselves,  1 
will  find that the  Peerless  Brand  is a good article to purchase and a  <j 
reliable one to sell. 
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Prepared and guaranteed by the New  York Condensed  Milk  Co.
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If  so  and  you  are  endeavoring  to  get  along  without  using  our  improved  Coupon  Book  svstem,  vou  are  making  a 
most  serious  mistake.  We  were  the  originators of  the  coupon  book  plan  and  are  the largest manufacturers of these 
books  in  the  countrv,  having  special  machinerv  for  everv  branch  of  the  business.  SAMPLES  FREE.

TRADESflAN  COMPANY,  g r a n d   r a p i d s ,  m i c h .

