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IN  SHAKE RAG  ALLEY.

Shake Kag Alley was the toughest hole 
within  the  corporate  limits. 
Into  its 
short  length  was  strained  the  quintes­
sence  of  African  wretchedness  and 
poverty and crime,  with a slight tincture 
of Caucasian deviltry.  There  were other 
distinctively negro quarters  of the town. 
Across  the  canal,  adjoining  Limerick, 
was the  aristocratic  precinct  of  Egypt, 
where  dwelt  carriage  drivers,  butlers 
and  the  porters  of  Cotton  Row;  and 
there  were,  also,  the  outlying  proleta­
rian 
regions  of  Possum  Hill  and  The 
Green  Doors;  but  these  latter,  though 
of the genus  slum  both  of  them,  paled 
into insignificance when  compared  with 
the  abject  misery  and  audacious  law­
lessness  of  Shake  Rag.  And  Shake 
in  the  heart  of  the  city. 
Rag 
Within  sight  rose 
the 
Church  of  the  Good  Samaritan,  whose 
minister, 
the  Reverend  Paul  Converse, 
once  asserted  with  elation  that  never 
during  his 
incumbency  had  he  for­
warded  less  than  two  hundred  dollars 
monthly  to  fields  of  missionary 
labor 
abroad.  And as  he  uttered  the  boast, 
a  block  away  in  one  of  the  Alley’s 
foulest  dives  Blue  Gum  Jake  stabbed 
Catfish  Charlie  to  death  and  that  for 
a  dime. 
It  was  wrong  in  Jake,  of 
course,  but then you see  he  wanted  the 
dime.  He  was  hungry,  and  the  coin 
meant food.

the  spire  of 

lay 

enthusiastic  - Sunday 

Shake  Kag,  however,  was  not  alto­
ignored  of  the  outside  world. 
gether 
The  King’s  Daughters,  whenever 
the 
opportunity offered,  which  was  seldom, 
strove  gallantly  to  carry  out  the  Mas­
ter’s  precepts  along  its  gutters.  And 
sometimes,  on  pleasant  Sabbath  after­
noons, 
school 
teachers  and  members  of  the  Y.  M.  C.
A.  descended  into  the  cul-de-sac  and 
held  open  air  services  of  prayer  and 
song.  Had  their  hearers  been  properly 
fed and clothed, these efforts  might have 
borne  appreciable  fruit.  But  a  body 
racked with hunger  and cold diverts the 
mind from a  contemplation  of  religious 
themes.  And if  the airs  of  the  hymns 
that  were  sung  lingered  in  the  neigh­
borhood,  the  words  that  were  applied 
to  them  were  usually  the  production 
of some local genius,  descriptive  of  the 
fearless  manner  in  which 
latest 
celebrity had  paid the penalty.

the 

Pres.  Ramsey was er brave man,
They  hung  him  mighty  high.
Says he:  “Mister  Jailer, thanky— 
There’s restin’  by an’ by I”

To  “die  game,”  that  was  the  prev­
alent ambition,  and certainly it is  better 
than  forfeiting  life to  society  and  then 
dying like a craven.

A  term of years in  the  state  peniten­
tiary—after  a  preparatory  course  of 
county  chain-gang—was 
regarded  by 
the  Shake  Ragians  not  as  a  calamitous 
possibility  but one  of the natural  stages 
of existence.  The gray granite  walls of 
incarceration 
themselves 
presented 
—usually  at 
the  dawn  of  manhood— 
in  place  of  the  porticos  of  an  alma 
mater—a 
indeed, 
inasmuch  as  bread  and  raiment  were

cherishing  mother, 

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therein supplied,  which  was  more  than 
material  maternity  was wont  to  afford.
Such  was  Shake  Rag  Alley  in  ordi­

nary.

than  upon 

There  were, 

it  is  true,  times  when 
the  sun  which  shineth  upon  the  just 
less  fiercely 
their  erring 
brothers,  the  same  sun  that  elsewhere 
ripened  smiling  harvest  fields  flecked 
with  shadows  the 
lawns  of  luxurious 
suburban  homes,  and  sparkled  in  the 
dancing  waves  of  seaside  pleasure  re­
sorts,  blazed  down 
semi-tropical 
fury and bred fever and  pestilence in  its 
courts.  Then  the horrors of  those  gar­
rets and cellars  was  unspeakable.  Also 
there  was  an  occasion  when  midnight 
waters  swept 
terror  and  desolation 
adown the line of crazy tenements.

in 

But such was  the  Alley  in  ordinary. 
And deep into  its  malodorous  confines, 
Slouch Givens,  a lean and ragged  lad  of 
twelve,  darted one  humid,  stifling  Aug­
ust noon.  Fleeing as for  life  from  the 
avenger  of  theft,  in  the  person  of  a 
burly,  bine-coated  policeman,  he  natur­
ally sought refuge  at  the  horns  of  the 
altar,  as typified by Shake  Rag’s numer­
ous  darksome  dens.  Homeless,  half- 
starved  and  desperate,  while  shuffling 
up Royal Avenue’s trim swept pavement 
a few minutes before, he had  come  sud­
denly face to face with a fairy  vision  of 
affluent  childhood,  in  dainty  garments, 
with sweet bine  eyes  and  fluffy  golden 
locks that crowned her like  a  halo.  To 
snatch from either tiny hand  the  tempt­
ing candy and not  less  attractive  purse 
had  been  the work  of  an  instant,  and 
then—flight.

Slouch 

The  panting  officer  drew  up  at  the 
mouth of the lane only  to  find  that  his 
prey  had  vanished,  and,  stalwart  and 
courageous  Hibernian  though  he  was, 
did  not  feel  inclined  to  prosecute  the 
search  any  further. 
twisted 
around the first available  corner,  rushed 
through one hovel into  the  yard  at  the 
back, over a tumble-down  fence,  and in­
to another open door at  the  rear  of  the 
next  house, which  led  him  to  a  room 
containing a bed,  beneath whose  shelter 
he slipped.  From this  retreat, an  hour 
later, Black  Maria,  a  strapping  virago, 
the queen regnant of  the  rookery,  haled 
him forth  and  demanded  such  account 
of himself and  antecedents  as  a  lively 
imagination and the  precocious  caution 
of  the  street  Ishmaelite  suggested  on 
spur of the moment.

The  stolen  purse,  however,  was  his 
most  effective  credential,  and  with  its 
contents he was enabled to  pay for  food 
and lodging during the period  that  com­
petent advisers  considered  it  necessary 
for him to remain in  hiding.  And  thus 
he became by degrees  identified with the 
life of the Alley and enrolled  in its mot­
ley band of juvenile free lancers.

There he lived through the weeks  that 
followed;  weeks of  windless,  persistent 
rain and a slowly  rising  river,  until  on 
the third Friday  ordinary  freshet  mark 
had been reached and the  low-lying por­
tions  of  the  city  were  already  under 
water.  The  next  day,  however,  was

clear,  and  the  river  began  to  subside, 
but on  Sunday  morning  the  flood-gates 
of  heaven  were  opened  again  and  a 
downpour ensued such as in  that  region 
had  never  been  known  before.  This 
ceasing with sunset, a raging  gale  arose 
from  the  north  that  hastened  the  de­
scent of the accumulated rainfall  of  the 
up-country,  and through the  long  hours 
of the night  a  gallant  sub-chief  of  the 
Fire Department rode with unflagging de­
termination on a self-imposed mission of 
snccor—now in advance of  the  creeping 
flood, giving timely warning,  now breast­
ing its waves and swimming his  horse as 
he bore person after person from drown­
ing homes to more elevated ground.

By  noon  on  Monday  the  whole  city 
was submerged.  All lower  stories were 
deserted,  and in the small houses  of  the 
poor the  roof alone,  in  most  rases,  af­
forded  precarious  refuge.  Wrapped  in 
total  darkness, with  the  never-ceasing, 
soul-subduing roar of the mighty  stream 
surging through the  blackness,  the  old 
town that night underwent a  baptism of 
dread that will ever linger  in  the  mem­
ory of its people.

The  subterranean  warrens  and  one­
storied  huts  of  Shake  Rag  had  been 
quickly vacated and  a  large  percentage 
of its population  temporarily  dispersed, 
but  the 
tottering  height  of  “Grow 
Camp,”  with Black Maria for chatelaine, 
offered delusive protection to  many,  and 
by midnight it fairly  swarmed with anx­
ious souls.  The old house  creaked  and 
groaned and swayed to the sweep  of  the 
current  that  set  directly  athwart  the 
city at that point,  but the one  overshad] 
owing menace  was  the  adjacent  canal 
now brim full,  with steady  ripples  ever 
and anon slipping across the  banks  on a 
level  with  the  neighboring  roofs. 
If 
those banks held all  might  yet  be well; 
but if they  gave way,  even  though  the 
building chanced not to  be  immediately 
in the plunge of the  escaping  waters,  it 
would be  “all  day  in  de  mornin’  wid 
Crow Camp,” as Tar Heel,  Maria’s major 
domo, expressed it.

Amid the  heterogeneous  congregation 
of the  Camp was  one  strikingly  incon­
gruous figure, a fairy  vision  of  affluent 
childhood, 
in  dainty  garments,  with 
sweet blue eyes and  fluffy  golden  locks 
that crowned her like  a  halo.  Early  in 
the morning a colored nurse maid, whom 
the rapidly rising water  prevented from 
returning  from  an  errand,  had  drifted 
hither with her charge,  and, later  on,  an 
acquaintance turning up with a boat  and 
an offer to convey her to  her  own  home 
in  Egypt,  had  callously  deserted 
the 
child.  And  thus  little  Lily  Converse 
found  herself  in  this  den  of  iniquity, 
among  surroundings  that  were  strange 
and  repulsive.  She  was  wonderfully 
mature for her years,  however,  and  pos­
sessed of an  innocent  trustfulness  that 
was equivalent to self-reliance  and  bold­
ness.  Her  winsome  beauty  and  grave 
dignity gained her the admiration  of the 
outlaws  with whom she  was  caged,  and 
though speedily despoiled of  such trink­
ets and ribbons as she wore,  she  was not

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Japan

Teas.

We are now  receiving  daily  choice 
lines of Japan teas of our own  selection 
and  importation,  which  w e  are  offer 
ing to the trade at from 2 to 3 cents p er 
pound  low er  than  the  sam e  grades 
have  ever  been  sold  in  this  m arket• 
(Jur tea  departm ent  has  always  been 
one  of our  strongest  features  and  no 
dealer should  place his  order  w ithout 
first inspecting our samples and prices.

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otherwise molested, but  allowed to wan­
der at will about the house.

Left  to  herself  as  the  fearful  night 
dragged slowly by,  the  poor  child,  de­
spite  her  uneasiness,  was  overpowered 
with  sleep  and  would  drowse  fitfully 
for a moment and then wake in a sudden 
It was after one  of  these  start­
fright. 
ling  returns  to  consciousness, 
toward 
morning,  in a filthy, bare room  lit  by  a 
guttering candle in  the neck of a  bottle, 
that she discovered herself again  face to 
face  with  Slouch  Givens.  Recognition 
was instantaneous and  mutual.

"You’re  a  bad  boy,”  said  Lily,  sol­

emnly.  "You’re a thief.” .

Slouch  sniffed. 

It  was  the  easiest 
thing to do under the  circumstances and 
might  mean  anything.  So  he  merely 
sniffed by way of reply.

"You stole my purse and  candy,” con­
tinued the child.  “ Why did  you  do  it? 
And ar'n't you ashamed of yourself?”

Strange  to  say,  he  was, 

though  he 
found it  difficult  to  recognize  the  sen­
sation.

“What made you  do  it,  1  say?”  this 
time with  an  imperative  stamp  of  the 
little foot.

"1—I  was  hongry,”  huskily. 

"I 
hadn’t eat nothin’ fur  two  days.  1  was 
mighty nigh starved.”

"Oh,  poor  boy!”  exclaimed  Lily  im­
pulsively,  with  complete  revulsion  of 
feeling.  “ Why  didn’t  you  ask  me  for 
them?  1 would have given them  to  you 
gladly,”  and tears of  sympathy  rose  to 
her eyes.

Slouch  could  have  fallen  down  and 
worshipped  her,  had  he  known  what 
worship meant.  This  lovely,  elegantly 
dressed  unreality  was  actually pitying 
and  speaking  kindly  to  him!  Did  he 
hear aright?

"L-lady,”  he  faltered,  “ I-i’m  sorry  1 

done it.”

"That’s right,” encouragingly.  "And 

if you’ll ask God—■”

“Ask which?”
"Ask God—if you’ll ask God,  He’ll for­
give you.  And  you  oughtn’t  to  be  so 
dirty. 
If you’ll ask God that, too,” with 
youthful orthodoxy,  "He’ll  make  you  a 
nice,  clean  boy.  You  ought  to  have 
prayed when  you  were  hungry, prayed 
to the Saviour—”

“Who’s he?”
“The  Savior?”  in  shocked  surprise. 
“Why,  Jesus  Christ,  the  Son  of  God; 
don’t  you  know?  Haven’t  your  father 
and mother told you?  Where  have  you 
lived?”
Slouch hung  his  bead,  but  continued 
to gaze in rapt admiration  at  his  moni- 
tress.

“1-1 think,” he  ventured,  “1  heard  a 
cully—I  mean  a  gent—tell  about  Him 
onct 
I  dunuo  nothin’  much,  lady;  1 
ain’t never had no chance. 
I  uster  live 
in de ate ward,  an’  maw  an’  sis  worked 
in de  fact’ry  an’  1  toted  dinner  to  de 
han’s.  But maw,  she died,  an’  sis  went 
off wid  de  iron  jawed  man  in  de  side 
show to de Exp’sition,  an’  then  I  lived 
about  de  wharf  an’  run  wid  de  mule 
gang,  till de cops nailed  Foxy an’  Major 
an’  Butch  an’  broke  us  up. 
I  reckon 
I’m a hard nut. 
I  dunno—seems  like  I 
ain’t  never  had  enough  to  eat—but,” 
producing the diminutive porte-monnaie, 
"here’s yo’ purse. 
I’m sorry 1  took  it— 
an’,  I’m  sorry,  but  the  money’s  done 
spent.”

"Oh,  keep it;  you can  have  it,” inter­
rupted Lily.  Then,  with  earnest,  if un­
grammatical,  commiseration,  "It’s  me

that’s sorry  for  you!  To  think  that  I 
have never known what it was to want.”
But at that instant  the  steady thunder 
of the flood was  swallowed  up  and  lost 
in a sudden mightier rush and  roar.  No 
need to speculate as  to  its  cause!  The 
canal bank had broken,  and in a moment 
with a jarring tremor,  the whole  struct­
ure began to rock and yield,  while a mad 
uproar of  shrieks  and  yells  and  oaths 
and snatches of  prayer went  up  in  the 
night.  Several  boats  were  moored  at 
the  different  windows,  and  by 
their 
means,  after  a  frantic  fight  for  pre­
cedence,  most  of  the  inmates  of  the 
Camp effected  their  escape.  But  there 
would have been no place  made  for  the 
two white children,  and Slouch  knew  it 
well.

In less time than it takes  to tell it,  the 
plastering  of  the  room  commenced  to 
crack and yawn and  the  flooring  under 
their feet to oscillate.  With  one  bound 
Slouch had Lily in the window;  the next 
second, as the old house crumbled  to  its 
ruin, they were whirled away in  a waste 
of frothing water filled with  floating de­
bris.  The girl gave one wild  scream  of 
terror,  and then  clung,  mute  and  numb 
with  fright,  to  her  protector.  Slouch, 
the wharf rat,  could  swim  like  a  fish, 
but his skill  was  of  little  avail  in  this 
fierce torrent  that swept them  as lightly 
as its own foam out of the  Alley  into  a 
cross  street.  Here  they  were  dashed 
against  a  tree,  and the  boy  clutched  it 
with  the  grip  of  desperation. 
It  was 
hardly more than a sapling, but  the  le^s 
likely to be washed up  for  that  reason, 
and  there  was  room  enough 
its 
branches,  that divided a  few  feet  above 
the  water,  for his companion  to  rest  in 
safety.

in 

"If I boost you up into  de  limbs,”  he 
gasped,  “ will  you  hold  on  tight? 
It’s 
mos’ daybreak, an’  somebody’s  boun’  to 
come fo’  long!”

"I’ll try,”  wailed Lily,  who with mar­
velous fortitude had retained  conscious­
ness.  "I’ll  try.  But  don’t  leave  me! 
Oh,  please don’t leave me!”

securely  between 

“ I’ll stick here long’s  I  kin.  There,” 
crowding  her 
the 
yielding  boughs,  "take  a  tight  hold. 
An’,  I  say,  next  time  you  pray  to—to 
Him you made mention  of,  ask  Him  to 
make allowance fur  a  poor  devil  what 
never—”

But the sentence was never completed. 
A  huge  beam  from  the  wrecked,  dis­
mantled Camp came driving end  on  and 
struck him  fairly  in  front,  tearing  his 
grasp away.  “Ask Him” —came  faintly 
floating to her ears* and  then  the  dark­
ness  and  oblivion  from  which  he  had 
emerged at birth took him back  into  its 
restful fold.
* 

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Lily was rescued within  a  few hours, 
and  the  river  subsided  after  the  flood 
had held two days of  devastating  sway.
Slouch’s  body,  one  of  many,  was 
found in the  swamps  below  the  city, a 
soiled,  water-soaked little  purse  tightly 
clinched in the stiff left hand.
The following Sunday Rev.  Paul  Con­
verse preached  from  the  text,  "Greater 
love hath  no  man  than  this,”  and  the 
papers  reported  “a  powerful  effort.” 
And then, it is to be feared,  he  ceased to 
think about the matter.
He continues, however,  to  electrify at­
tentive  audiences  upon  the  subject  of 
foreign  missions,  and  sends  a  steadily 
increasing number of moral pocket hand­
kerchiefs to the  heathens  who  are  for­
tunate enough to dwell beyond seas.
A nd  S h ak e  R ag  A lley  rem ain s  as  be­
fore,  th e   to u g h e st  hole  w ith in  
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N o rth ern   Micliigan  R etail  G rocers’ Asso­
President,  J.  F.  Tatman,  Clare;  Sec’y,  E.  A. 

ciation.

Stowe, Grand Rapide.

G rand  R apids R etail G rocers’  A ssociation. 
President,  D.  Vlergever; Secretary, E. A. Stowe. 

Official  Organ—M ic h ig a n   T r a d e s m a n .

ciation.

W est  Side  (Saginaw)  R etail  G rocers’ Asso­
President, C. F. A lderton ; Secretary, John Doerr.
Bay C ounty R etail G rocers’ A ssociation. 
President, Thos. W alsh; Secretary  S. W. Waters.

Jac k so n  R etail G rocers’ A ssociation. 

President,  P. W. Haefner; Sec’y, W. II. Porter.

G rand  H aven  R etail  G rocers’  A ssociation. 
President, John Boer; Secretary, Peter VerDuin.

M uskegon  R etail  G rocers’  A ssociation. 
President, D. Christie;  Secretary, F.  B. Aldrich.

heavy  penalty  to  maintain  their  rules. 
Some of their rules in  effect  at the pres­
ent  time  are  considered oppressive and 
unjust by the retailer.  Many claim that 
they  will  not  pay  cartage, exchauge or 
boxing charges,  and can get goods  with­
out paying these  charges.  Granted that 
this  is  a  fact,  the  agent,  traveler  or 
dealer  who  grants 
these  concessions 
must, necessarily,  be  dishonest,  as  the 
firm  or  house  they represent is pledged 
against  such  transactions;  and  if  they 
deal unfairly and  dishonestly  in  the one 
case will  they not do the same in others? 
We know that the cartage, exchange and 
boxing  rules  are  unfair  and  unjust, so 
long as we buy the  goods at our place of 
business, or even if we go  to  the  whole­
sale house for them;  but  would it not be 
better to pay the charges if quantity and 
quality require it than to make the sales­
man dishonest and  compel  us  to  watch 
him at every turn to keep him from even­
ing up in some other way ?

Jackaon Retail Grocers’ Association.
At the regular meeting of  the  Jackson 
Ketail  Grocers’  Association,  held  on 
Thursday  evening,  June  21,  President 
Haefner presided.  Roll  call  showed all 
the officers present.
The Committee  on  Annual  Excursion 
and Picnic reported progress.
The  Committee  on  Protest  against 
changes in hucksters  and peddlers’  ordi­
nance,  reported that  a  petition had been 
circulated and presented to the city coun­
cil.
A committee of  five  members  consist­
ing  of  President  Haefner  and  Messrs. 
Fleming,  Casey,  Peterman  and  Porter, 
were appointed to confer with the Mayor 
in  regard  to the peddlers ordinance.
The Committee on Hall was instructed 
that  the  Association preferred  the  Red 
Cross Hall as a place for meetings.
A letter was received from  B.  C.  Hill 
and  wife,  returning  thanks  for flowers 
from the Association on  the  occasion  of 
the death of their  mother.
On  motion,  the  Committee  appointed 
to interview the Mayor was instructed to 
appoint one of their number to prosecute 
hucksters and peddlers in case the Mayor 
does not favor the ordinance.
The  Secretary  read  an  address in re­
gard to association work  for  the  benefit 
of visiting grocers as follows:
We have met  this  evening  to  discuss 
matters of interest to the  retail dealer in 
groceries.
Let us first look backward, a little over 
three years,  and start with  our organiza­
It  was  prophesied  at  that  time 
tion. 
that  we  would  not  be  in  existence six 
months,  but the “ prophet was no good in 
his own country,”  for  we have survived 
and  prospered  and bid fair  to live for a 
long period yet.  We do not  need  to say 
to those who have been  active in the As­
sociation that the organization  has  been 
of  great  benefit,  financially, as  well  as 
socially.  To  those  who  have  not been 
active members, and  to those  who  have 
not  joined  our  ranks,  we claim that we 
have saved them many dollars  and  been 
of  great  benefit  to  every  grocer in the 
city by our work  and  by  our  influence. 
To those who have not been with us,  and 
of us,  we wiil say that in many instances, 
they have no knowledge  of what was be­
ing done, but they have received the ben­
efit,  even  without  knowing  it.  When 
this  organization  was  started it was for 
the purpose of correcting some of the ex­
isting evils  in  trade.  We  have  accom 
plished  some  of  the objects which have 
been undertaken.  Some things  are  still 
in  the  hands  of  the Association,  which 
will eventually be accomplished;  and in 
a few instances our efforts have not been 
successful.  The  trade  abuses  and  the 
many different things that were found to 
contend  with at the time  of  our  organi­
zation have multiplied so rapidly that, at 
the  present  time,  it seems impossible to 
keep abreast of the tide while  we  act  as 
individuals,  and  we  sincerely  believe 
that the time is at hand when  associated 
effort  is  the only way by which  a  retail 
grocer  can  succeed  in  business.  The 
wholesale  grocers  are  firmly  associated 
from  the  Atlantic  Ocean  to  the  Rocky 
Mountains, and  it  will  be  but  a,  short 
time  until  every  state  and  territory in 
our country will have  a  Wholesale  Gro­
cers’ Association.  The  Wholesale Asso­
ciations  bind 
their  members  under

This  wholesale  end of our business is 
but one  of  the many  things  to  be  con­
tended with.  The candy  manufacturers 
put  up  short  count  and  short  weight 
goods; the clothespin houses put up fifty- 
five  dozen  for  five  gross; 
the  pickle 
houses  put  up  900  to  1,000 pickles for 
1,300;  and  a  large  number  of  other 
things, that a grocer,  who  attends  to his 
whole business,  has to look after.  Over­
production,  sharp competition,  dishonest 
practices  by  manufacturers  and  their 
agents to sell  their  goods  keep  the  re­
tailer  “guessing  where  they are at”  all 
the time,  if they do their  whole  duty  to 
their  business.  The  methods  used  by 
tobacco manufacturers  in  putting  their 
goods  on  the  market  are  demoralizing 
and  detrimental  to  the  retailer.  The 
soap  powder  market  is  overflowing— 
chewing gum, stove polish and  hundreds 
of other things are crowded onto  the  re­
tailer;  and  he  is  a  good  business  man 
that can keep clear  of  dead  stock  these 
days,  no  matter  how  good an article is. 
A new house wishes to get  its  goods  on 
the market  and  it offers a better scheme 
or  a  larger  inducement  and  holds  the 
trade until the  next  house  crowds  their 
way into the market. 
In  brief,  the  re­
tailer  has  to  watch  every  turn,  and 
needs the help of  all  his friends to keep 
clear  of  being  squeezed  by  the  whole­
salers on one side  and  by  the  manufac­
turers’ agents on  the  other  side.  Many 
people  candidly  believe that the retailer 
who is outside of an  association  will  be 
quite  at  the  mercy  of the wholesaler or 
manufacturer.  A proof  of the necessity 
of associations is the fact, that the largest 
retailers  are  the  most  active  members. 
There are many at the  present time who 
claim  to  be  independent,  but  get under 
the wing,  and receive the  benefit  of  the 
association,  without  giving  any  credit, 
or paying anything,  for  the  benefits  de­
rived.
Bad  debts  is  one of the  greatest evils 
there Is to  contend  with,  but  united  ef­
fort will  reduce  this  trouble to small di­
mensions,  with honest effort  on  the part 
of the retailer.  Why  not  prepare an al­
phabetical record of all  the  dead beat or 
bad pay customers on  your  books,  bring 
it to the meeting and have  it kept handy 
for reference;  and if the  grocers  will  be 
honest with  themselves and  their fellow 
members,  in three months from this date 
it will be almost impossible  for  a  dead­
beat to get credit in Jackson.  Concerted 
action  will  find  a  remedy  for  almost 
every  evil  that  exists  in  trade, but the 
hardest  part  is  the  application  of  the 
remedy.
The evidence of the  necessity  of asso­
ciations is  found  in  the  fact  that  new 
ones  are  being  formed  throughout  the 
State  and  country,  every  trade  journal 
showing work and increase of interest in 
associated  bodies  of 
retail  grocers. 
Owosso and Hudson have recently organ­
ized.  We note by T h e   T r a d e s m a n  that 
on the 13th of  this  month  grocers  from 
Coleman, Clare,  Shepherd,  Leroy,  Reed 
City,  Ithaca,  Big Rapids, and  Mt.  Pleas­
ant met together and  formed  the  North­
ern  Michigan  Retail  Grocers’  Associa­
tion. 
I  quote  two  of  their  resolutions 
which were adopted and shows that they 
are starting right.
“Resolved—That we place ourselves on 
record as utterly opposed to  the  cutting 
of  prices  and  all  other  unbusinesslike

RECEIPTS.

DISBURSEMENTS.

RECAPITULATION.

methods to draw trade and  that  we  rec­
ommend  the  formation  of  local associa­
tions in each town having for their object 
the  maintenance  of  uniform  prices  on 
sugar and other staple articles;  also  for 
protection  against  deadbeats  and  poor 
pay customers.
"Resolved— That  we  solicit the co-op­
eration ofjthe wholesale grocery trade in 
shutting off cutters and influencing them 
to reform  their  ways  and  sell  goods  at 
legitimate prices.”
Thoughts  govern  the  world,  necessi­
ties  produce  thought.  We  will  add  a 
few  words  about  the  past,  present and 
future.  The Civil  War  of  the  country 
went  further  toward  civilizing  and en­
lightening  the  world,  within  the  past 
thirty years,  than ail  other  causes  com­
bined  in  a  hundred  years.  Of the hun­
dreds of thousands that formed  our arm­
ies,  a large proportion had  scarcely ever 
been outside of their own town or county, 
and every step to them  was  a  revelation 
and  an  education.  They  had  no  ideas 
beyond their daily  work and their neigh­
borhood.  They saw things that they had 
never heard  of,  their  power  of  thought 
was increased  and  enlarged,  and  but  a 
few  years  after  the  close of the war we 
find our people extending  civilization  to 
every  known  portion  of  the  globe  and 
struggling hard to find  places  which had 
never been reached.
We need not record the advance in art, 
science, 
invention,  and  manufacture, 
only to say that by far  the  greater  part 
of the progress of  the  United  States has 
been within the  past  thirty  years.  Civ­
ilization has extended further  and faster 
than  in  any  other  period of the world’s 
history. 
In fact,  the boom that has been 
forcing  civilization  to  all  parts  of  the 
world  has  had  to  slacken  its  speed. 
Heathen nations  that  had  none  of  the 
benefits,  or even  knowledge  of the ways 
of the world,  have  become  enlightened. 
In the land of  pigtails, rice and rats,  we 
learn from Frank  G.  Carpenter’s  letters 
that the Chinese are manufacturing their 
own cannons, comparing  favorably  with 
the wonderful works  of  Krupp  in  Ger­
many.  They  are  rolling their own rail­
road iron,  and  as  wonderful  as  it  may 
seem,  the  heathens  are making engines 
that  compare  favorably  with  our  best 
American  manufacture.  Other  nations 
are prospering in like manner.  Civiliza­
tion  has  reached  nearly over the known 
world.  Agriculture has kept  pace  with 
everything  else.  Countries  that had no 
grain,  or had to  use grain  shipped  from 
America, now raise more than this coun­
try.  We can only depend  upon  export­
ing  such  an  amount  as  can  be sold in 
competition with  other  countries.  This 
is  one  of  the  great  causes  of  the dull 
times  of  to-day.  This  country  is  not 
alone  in  the  panic,  many  of  the  older 
countries being worse off  by far than we 
are.  The world seems to have come to a 
standstill on the lines that have been fol­
lowed for the past quarter of  a  century, 
and in the future we will find that science 
and invention will  turn  toward  improv­
ing  things  that  are  made,  rather  than 
adding so rapidly to new inventions.  The 
days for picking up  fortunes  in a day or 
a year in this country  are  passed.  As a 
rule,  money  will  come slow.  Economy 
will  be  necessary  and  wealth  will  be 
acquired only by diligent,  careful  meth­
ods;  and  it  is our belief that association 
of interest and careful study of our busi 
ness  will  be  necessary in the future for 
even a limited success in the  retail  gro­
cery  trade.  We  will  have to drop nega 
tive methods, and institute positive ways 
in our  business.  The wholesale trade is 
friendly to our interests and will help us, 
the same as it helps  the  Retail  Grocers' 
Association  in Grand Rapids,  if we allow 
them to do so.
Grand Rapids Retail  Grocers’  Associa 
At the regular  meeting  of  the  Graud 
Rapids  Retail Grocers’  Association,  held 
at Elk’s Hail,  Monday evening,  June  18 
President Viergever presidad.
The  Executive  Committee  asked  for 
further time in  which  to decide  upon 
suitable location  for  the  picnic,  which 
was granted.
The Committee on Flour was also given 
further time to report.
The Secretary presented  the  report of

the financial outcome  of  the  food  show 
as follows:
Sale of  booths............................................. SI ,017 26
House  receipts  ............................................   237  90
.............................  148  75
Outside sales.............  
$1,403  51
Advertising.................................................$  143  60
General  expenses.......................................   1,527 14
$1,670 64
Disbursements..............................................$1,670 64
Receipts........................................................   1,403 51
Net loss...................$  267  13
On  motion  the  report  was  accepted, 
the chairman  congratulating the  Associ­
ation that.the loss sustained  was guaran­
teed by an  outsider  and  would  not  fall 
upon the Association.
On  motion  of  Mr.  Elliott,  the  guar­
antor,  Chas.  B.  Knox, of  Johnstown,  N. 
Y.,  was tendered a hearty vote of  thanks 
for 
the  persistent  efforts  he  made  to 
render the affair a success,  and the mem­
bers  of  the  Association  pledged  them­
selves  to show their  appreciation  of  his 
efforts  by pushing the  sale  of  his  goods 
at all times and  under all  circumstances.
J.  H.  Goss moved that the grocers keep 
their stores closed all day July 4.
J. J.  Wagner moved as  an  amendment 
that the stores be closed  at noon,  which 
was adopted.
E.  White was unprepared  to present a 
paper on the subject of  “ Location of the 
Public Market,”  but spoke in  favor of  a 
market over the  River,  located  midway 
the  stream,  between  Pearl  and  Bridge 
treets,  with entrances from each bridge.
A. J. Elliott stated that he would bring 
the matter before the  Municipal League, 
with a view to ascertaining the sentiment 
of that body on the question.
J.  Geo. Lehman remarked that if Aider- 
man  Emmer  had  put  the  same  energy 
into a public market that he did  into the 
electric light  question  it  would  be  far 
better for the city.
The same gentleman  suggested  that it 
would  be  a  good  idea  to  reagitate  the 
question  discussed  two  or  three  years 
ago,  prohibiting  the  return  of  empty 
berry boxes to the  grocers.
Mr.  Wagner stated that he had made it 
a rule not to return the  boxes,  as he had 
second-class 
discovered 
growers  wanted  their  boxes  back.  He 
offered the  following  resolution,  which 
was unanimously adopted:
W h e r e a s—The  sale  of  the  package 
with the fruit is conducive to both health 
and convenience;  therefore 
Resolved—That we  reaffirm  our belief 
in the rule  adopted  by  the  Association 
several years ago,  prohibiting  the return 
of berry packages to growers.
Mr.  Elliott brought up the  matter of  a 
uniform  basket  and  the  inspection  of 
fruit, asserting that he would  like to see 
every  basket  of 
inspected  and 
stampted.
Mr.  Lehman  referred  to  the  pleasure 
in handling a uniform  fruit package and 
suggested  co-operation  with  the  fruit 
growers  on  this  question.  He  would 
like to know what  style  of  package  the 
grocers preferred.
Mr.  Elliott stated he preferred a  pack­
age one deep.
Mr.  Vinkemulder  said he  preferred  a 
twelve basket crate  for home use  and  a 
twenty-four  basket  crate  for  shipping 
purposes.
Mr.  Goss  thought  the  twelve  basket 
crate  preferable  to  the  twenty-four  in 
one respect—that the buyer can see what 
he is getting.
On motion of Mr. Elliott, the following 
resolution was unanimously adopted:
Resolved—That  we  recommend 
the 
adoption of a uniform package  of stand­
ard size and  also the appointment  of  an 
inspector  of  fruit  and  vegetables 
to 
reject  unwholesome  goods  and  stamp 
fruit and packages of approved standard.
On motion of Mr.  Goss,  the  Secretary 
was instructed to place the  substance of 
this action on the next sugar card.
On  motion  of  Mr.  Lehman,  the  Sec­
retary  was 
to  collect  the 
annual dues for this  year, rebating  one- 
half of the amount,  in  view  of  the  fact 
that the treasury of the  Association is in 
excellent condition,.
Treasurer Lehman reported  a  balance 
on  hand  of  $355,  and  the  meeting  ad- 
i journed.

instructed 

that 

only 

fruit 

tion.

T H E   M IC H IG A N   T R A  PESTIOA N ,
Cheboygan—It is Geo.  H.  DeGereaux, 
not Arthur R.  Gerow,  who  will  shortly 
embark in the wholesale  and retail  con­
fectionery business at this place.

4

A R O U N D   T H E   ST A T E .

MOVEMENTS OF  MERCHANTS.

Paw Paw—Harry Longwell,  of  Long- 

well  Bros.,  druggists, is dead.

Palmyra—Hart &  Pifer  succeed  Hart 

& Steik in the meat business.

Nessen City—Sarah L.  Hogg  succeeds 

Wm. Hogg in the grocery business.

Ludington—Jas. S.  Lovely has sold his 

music stock to Kay Campbell & Co.

Yandalia—J.  D.  Bonine has purchased 

the drug stock of L.  L.  Lavenburg.

Escanaba—Harry  Murray,  dealer  in 

hardware, has removed to Boone,  la.

Marquette—Henry Mack, Jr.,  succeeds 

Mack & Billings in the meat business.

Elkton—Flack  &  Blakely 

succeed 

R.  (Mrs. Alois)  Klein in general trade.

Oxford—E. C.  Edgerty  has  opened  a 
grocery store in F.  C.  Barber’s  building.
West  Bay  City—Ingersoll  Bros,  suc­
ceed H. S. Ingersoll in the  grocery  busi­
ness.

Ellsworth—R.  Gidley  succeeds  Gidley 
& Boltze in the drug and stationery busi­
ness.

Norway—John M.  Knell  is  succeeded 
by  John  B.  Stanchina  in  the  grocery 
business.

Iron  River—E.  V.  Hopkins  is  suc­
ceeded by Rudolph  Steller  in  the  drug 
business.

Kalamazoo—Cornelius Vandervliet suc­
ceeds  L.  Hollander  &  Co.  in  the  coal 
business.

Eagle—Eugene Brya has purchased the 
grocery and hardware stock of Hunton & 
McCrumb.

Sullivan—K.  C.  Osborne’s 

sawmill 
burned  Sunday.  Loss,  about  $500;  no 
insurance.

White  Pigeon—Louis  Rhoades,  of 
Rhoades  &  Son,  grain  and  produce 
dealers,  is dead.

Fenwick—Bennett & Osborne,  agricul­
tural implement dealers,  have  dissolved, 
Wm.  H. Bennett succeeding.

Grand  Blanc—E.  A.  Salisbury, 

for­
merly of Flint, succeeds F.  R.  Anable in 
the grocery and meat business.

Plainwell—S.  B.  Smith  has  rented  a 
store  in  the  opera  house  block  which 
he will occupy with a notion  and  bazaar 
stock.

Lake City—The grocery  firm  of  J.  Y. 
Moran & Co.  has dissolved.  J.  Y.  Moran 
will continue  the  business  in  his  own 
name.

Three Rivers—M.  Hack succeeds Craig 
& Hack in the  meat and general  market 
business.  Mr.  Craig  retires  on account 
of poor health.

Sonoma—Benjamin Trethrick has sold 
his interest  in  the  Baker  &  Trethrick 
drug and grocery  stock  to  his  partner, 
Dr. J. L  Baker.

Sturgis—Geo.  H. Klesert succeeds  Pas- 
sehls & Klesert in the  grocery  business. 
Mr. Passehls returns to Chicago to travel 
for a wholesale liquor house.
McBain—Wm.  Lodewyk 

has  pur­
chased  a  half  interest  in  the  general 
stock of B.  Lodewyk.  The new firm will 
be known as B.  Lodewyk & Son.

Dushville—Geo.  W.  Layman  is  erect­
ing a  new  frame  store  building,  22x50 
feet  in dimensions,  which he  expects to 
occupy  with  his  drug  stock 
in  about 
thirty  days.

Altona—Eli Lyons is  erecting  a  store 
building,  18x24  feet  in  dimensions,  de­
tached from the building  containing  his 
general stock  to  which  he  will  remove 
his drag stock.

Marshall—The Peters  hardware  stock 
has been  purchased  by  Chas.  Ricketts, 
of this city,  and Frank  French,  of  Burl­
ington,  who will  continue  the  business 
at the same location.

St.  Louis—Clinton  Satterlee  has  pur­
chased the grocery stock  of  H.  Harring­
ton  and 
leased  the  store  at  East  St. 
l4>uis,  and  has  consolidated  his  two 
grocery stocks in  the  Harrington  build­
ing.

Cadillac—J.  Cornwell  & Sons have un­
der consideration the erection of a three- 
story  brick  building,  44x50  feet  in  di­
mensions,  which they will  occupy,  when 
completed,  with their wholesale  grocery 
stock.

Menominee—E.  Lewis  &  Co.  have 
purchased  the  undertaking  business  of 
D.  Barclay  &.  Co.,  and 
the  furniture 
business of Brace & Hornibrook and will 
combine  the  two  stocks  into  one  busi­
ness.

Way land—Henry K. Gleason,  formerly 
engaged in the  drug  business  at  Fenn- 
ville,  is erecting a  double  store building 
at this place, one side of  which  he  will 
occupy  with  a  drug  stock  as  soon  as 
completed.

El well—Fhelps  Bros,  have  sold  their 
general stock to  Jay Gee,  who will  con­
tinue the business at the  same  location. 
They still  retain  their  drug  stock,  but 
will  dispose of it as  soon as  a purchaser 
can  be 
found.  The  Messrs.  Phelps 
began business  fourteen  years ago  with 
$500 capital.  They  now  own  a 400 acre 
farm of excellent soil,  stocked with some 
of the best bred animals in the  State and 
are  surrounded with every  comfort  and 
convenience within the  realm of  reason­
able expenditure—all  of  which  goes  to 
show  that  fidelity  to  business  behind 
the counter brings  its own reward.

MANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

Dundee—The  Buckeye  Churn  Co., 
manufacturers of tables, has been closed 
under mortgage.

Tawas City—The Tawas City creamery 
was a failure, but  it  has  been  changed 
into a cheese factory and in  now  receiv­
ing a good patronage.

Plainwell—The Plainwell Church Fur­
niture Co. is building  an  addition  to  its 
factory, 20x60 feet in size, which will en­
able it to double its output.

Manistee—White,  Friant  &  Co.  have 
started their sawmill and think they will 
have enough logs from now  on  to  keep 
them at work for the balance of the  sea­
son.  They  are  to  saw 
for  Ward  & 
Root,  who  pile  all  their  cut  for  yard 
trade.

Otter Lake—The  Otter  Lake Creamery 
Co. is following the footsteps of over  100 
“scheme creameries’’ established in  this 
State  by  enterprising  Chicago  supply 
houses.  Davis  & Rankin hold the build­
ing  and  real  estate,  while  Norman  M. 
Stark,  of  this  place,  has  been  given a 
chattel mortgage of  $452.10  on  machin­
ery to satisfy debts he  footed  while  the 
company ran the plant.  The  machinery 
is now offered for sale by  virtue  of  this 
mortgage.

festive 

Mancelona—The 

creamery
agent  is  endeavoring 
to  interest  the 
farmers in this vicinity in  a  $4,000  fac­
tory  creamery. 
In  all  probability  the 
farmers  will conclude not to invest, as a 
little investigation  will satisfy them that

a creamery outfit adequate  to  the  needs 
of  this  community  can  be  put  in  for 
$600 or $800, and that a building suitable 
for the purpose can be  erected  for  $800 
or  $900  more;  moreover, 
the  present 
price of creamery bntter  to-day  In  New 
York is about the same as  that  of  farm­
ers’ butter at home,  which offers  meager 
encouragement to factory  creameries.

Marquette—Bice & Sons and the Hager 
& Johnson Manufacturing  Co.,  the  two 
loading  wood  working  plants  of  this 
city, have  been  consolidated  under  the 
title of the Bice Manufacturing Co.,  with 
a paid up capital stock of $100,000.  The 
Bices,  who are well skilled  and  success­
ful in  their  line,  will  take the  manage­
ment  of  the  new  concern  under  their 
personal supervision,  and  try  to  make 
the big  plant  known  as  the  Polygonal 
works what it has not  yet  been,  a  pay­
ing  success.  They  have  also  plans  in 
immediate  prospect  which  will  greatly 
increase the working of  dressed  lumber 
at this point.  The change  is  looked  on 
as a good one  for  the  stockholders  and 
the city in general.

Manistee—Louis Sands  has  just  com­
pleted  his  second  salt  well  after  5% 
months’ work,  and  will  begin  immedi­
ately to sink  a  third.  He  has  recently 
increased  the  capacity  of  his  block  so 
that when the second well gets to  pump­
ing briue of  full  strength  he  will  turn 
out 1,000 to 1,200  barrels  daily.  Manis­
tee has struck her  regular  summer  gait 
on salt and is turning out more than one- 
third of the salt  produced  in  the  State. 
Tom Percy, of Ludington,  aims  to  take 
the crown away from Peters, and says he 
will  be the salt king of  Michigan  before 
long,  and is going to have  a  capacity  to 
turn out 2,500 barrels of salt  every  day. 
He  is  reckoning  without  his host if he 
thinks he is going to get ahead  of  R.  G. 
that way,  should the  business  get  back 
into R. G.’s hands another year, of which 
there now seems to  be  every  indication.

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

Harry  L.  Hall,  manager  of  the  city 
department  of  the  Hazeltine  &  Perkins 
Drug Co., is  spending a fortnight’s vaca­
tion at  Whitehall.

Frank C.  L’Hommedieu,  a  member  of 
the drug firm of Bassett & L’Uommedieu, 
of Detroit,  died last Friday  of  consump­
tion.  He was raised  in Cuyahoga Falls, 
Ohio, but came to  Detroit when  a young 
man.  He was employed until  six  years 
ago by Farrand,  Williams & Co.,  but left 
their employ to enter the retail drug bus­
iness.  He has resided in  Tucson,  Ariz., 
much of the time  since  1892,  when  his 
health  commenced  to  fail. 
In hopes of 
recovering  he  returned  to  Detroit  last 
month.  He  was  44  years of age,  and is 
survived by a widow and  three children. 
He was a member of the First Presbyter­
ian Church Society.

The  peculiar  character  noted  on  the 
streets of Grand Rapids  of  late  is  none 
other than Harry  Hawkins, the Wayland 
druggist,  who is about as eccentric as the 
world-famous  George  Francis  Train. 
Pending the addition of a second story to 
his store  building  at  Wayland,  he  has 
closed  his  drug  store,  come  to  Grand 
Rapids, rented a  house  in  the  suburbs, 
and,  while his  wife is  plying her profes­
sion as a  dressmaker,  Harry  is  walking 
the streets, with the avowed  intention of 
seeing all there is  to  be  seen  in  Grand 
Rapids.  His  long  black  ulster,  broad 
brimmed  white  hat  and  Dickinsonian 
whiskers render him a conspicuous figure

on the streets,  but few people  would im­
agine from his appearance that  be is one 
of  the 
largest  owners  of  government 
bonds in this part of the State.  Such  is 
a  fact,  however,  as  was attested by his 
appearing before  the  proper  officers  in 
Allegan  county  a  few years ago for the 
purpose  of  swearing  down  his  assess­
ment. 
It  is  asserted  that he is now the 
owner of $30,000 worth of bonds,  and,  as 
he never spends a  cent  unnecessarily,  it 
is natural to infer  that  he  is  adding  to 
bis collection  regularly.

T h e  W h e a t  M a r k e t.

The  cereal  was  lifeless  and  fluctua­
tions narrow during  the  week.  Exports 
were  only  2,000,000  bushels,  against 3,- 
563,000  bushels  for  the  corresponding 
week last year.  To be  sure  there  were 
reports  from  Austro-Hungary,  Russia 
and  the  Argentine  Republic  of  damage 
to  crops by  frost  and  wet  weather,  but 
this did not have  any  effect  on the gen­
eral  market.  Another 
factor  which 
seems  to  depress  wheat  is  the  anti-op­
tion  bill,  which  passed  the  House  last 
week.  This  will have the very opposite 
effect on  wheat prices from what its pro­
moters  intended  or  expected,  as  it  will 
surely  be  yie  cause  of  depressing,  in­
stead of enhancing, the price.  Mr. Hatch 
and  all those in  favor of the  anti-option 
bill should know that America cannot do 
much  exporting  unless  futures  can  be 
dealt in,  but time  will  settle  that  ques­
tion.  1 do not look for much decrease In 
the  visible  supply,  owing  to  small  ex­
ports.  The  demand  for  flour  has  been 
good;  exporters  offer  about  the  same 
prices as the local  market,  while  wheat 
is about 2  cents  above  shipping  basis. 
Mill  feed  is in good demand.  Corn and 
oats  have been very irregular  and of the 
boomish  order.  Oats  reached  53  cents, 
but  receded  to  48  cents.  Corn  seems, 
also,  to be  high,  taking  into  considera­
tion the fine growing  weather.  Receipts 
for  the  week  were,  wheat,  fifty-eight 
cars;  corn, twelve cars;  oats, two cars.
C.  G.  A. V o ig t.

G ra c e   L e g a liz e d  b y  S ta tu te .

Gr a n d  

R a p id s , 

June 
25— T h e
T r a d e s m a n   misquoted  me 
last  week. 
I did not understand  you  to  ask  if  the 
giving of grace on notes and  drafts  was 
a  statutory  enactment;  I  thought  your 
question had  reference  to  how  it  orig­
inated.  While the giving of  three  days 
of  grace  originated  in  custom,  it  was 
made obligatory by legislative enactment 
in  this  State  in  1846.  The  law  was 
passed more for the purpose  of  limiting 
the application  of  grace  than  to  make 
the  custom  a  law. 
It  had  that  effect, 
however,  and what at first was  a  matter 
of grace between creditor  and  debtor  is 
now a matter of  law.  Here  is  the  law 
(Howell’s Annotated  Statutes, Chap.  35, 
Sec.  1581-1582):  On all  bills of exchange 
payable at sight,  or at a future  day  cer­
tain,  within  this  State,  and  on  all  ne­
gotiable  promissory  notes,  orders  and 
drafts,  payable at a future  date  certain, 
within this State, in which  there  is  not 
an express  stipulation  to  the  contrary, 
grace shall  be  allowed,  except  as  pro­
vided in  the  following  section,  in  like 
manner as it  is  allowed  by  the  custom 
of  merchants,  on  foreign  bills  of  ex­
change,  payable at  the  expiration  of  a 
certain period after date  or  sight.  The 
provisions of the  last  preceding  section 
shall not extend to any bill of  exchange, 
note or draft payaole on demand.
A large number of  people  think  that 
this matter rests entirely on  custom,  and 
it is,  perhaps, just as well that  the  mat­
ter  should  be  cleared  up.  As  to  the 
abolition of the custom, or rather  the re­
pealing of the law,  1  think  it  ought  to 
be done.  There is  not  a  single  reason 
for its retention. 

P e t e r  D o r a n .

GRAN D   R A P ID S   G O S S IP .

W. J. Carlyle &  Co.,  wall  paper  and 
paints, have moved from  498 S.  Division 
street to 457 S. Division street.

Bender  &  Kagan  succeed  Williams & 
Bender  in  the  grocery  business  at  the 
corner of Spring and Oakes streets.

Adam Ludwig has  engaged in  the gro­
cery business at Elkhart, Ind.  The Mus- 
selman Grocer Co.  furnished  the stock.

Chas. R. Yisner and Thos.  Visner have 
opened a butter depot at  290  South Divi­
sion  street  under  the  style  of  Visner 
Bros.

Gady  &  Faulhaber,  dry  goods  and 
notions,  58  W.  Leonard  street,  have 
closed out  their  stock  and  gone  out  of 
business.

Geo. W. Williams has opened a grocery 
store at  the  corner  of  East  and  Union 
streets.  The Musselman Grocer Co.  fur­
nished the stock.

The Committee  on  Trade  Interests of 
the Grand Rapids Retail  Grocers’ Associ­
ation has established the  retail  price  of 
granulated sugar  at 5  cents  straight for 
the present.

Fred  Sargent  and  W.  R.  Buss  have 
formed a  copartnership  under the  style 
of the  Grand  Rapids  Feed  Co.  and  en­
gaged in the flour, feed,  grain, hay,  wood 
and 
coal  business  at  140  Elsworth 
avenue. 

________________

is  one  of 

Joseph  Houseman 

the 
strongest  opponents  to  the  proposed 
Saturday  half holiday  for  bank  clerks, 
both  as  a  clothing  merchant  and  as  a 
director  in  the  Grand  Rapids  National 
Bank.  Mr.  Houseman  says it  would be 
a  great  inconvenience  to  his  clothing 
establishment  to  be  unable  to  make  a 
deposit after noon of  Saturday,  as it fre­
quently happens that they take  in  more 
money between 11  and 3 o’clock Saturday 
than any  other  two  days  in  the  week; 
moreover,  the ability to get change  from 
the bank  up  to  the  hour  of  closing  is 
sometimes  absolutely  essential.  Mr. 
Houseman says  he  was  recently  called 
upon  by  a  gentleman  representing  the 
bank clerks,  who informed him  that,  un­
less  he  changed  front  on 
the  closing 
question,  the  sixty-five  bank  clerks  of 
the city would boycott him. 
In response 
to this threat,  Mr.  Houseman  informed 
the  gentleman  that 
the  bank  clerks 
might  boycott  him  and  be  blanked,  or 
words to that eifect.  As both the  Graud 
Rapids National  Bank  and the  People’s 
join  in  the 
Savings  Bank  decline  to 
movement, 
is  probably 
shelved  for this  year;  and,  considering 
the  underhand  methods  some  of  the 
clerks have used to bring  about  the half 
day closing movement,  it  deserves  to be 
shelved for all time.

the  matter 

A feature of the present  depression is 
the  large  number  of  girls  and  young 
women  who  are  out  of  employment. 
Some  of  these  are  stenographers  and 
typewriters, 
some  are  book-keepers, 
while  others  are  book-keepers  after  a 
fashion,  but  the  great  majority  know 
just enough about office  and  store  work 
to unfit them  for  other  kinds  of  work. 
Girls have  an  idea  that  office  work  is 
more “genteel”  than  house  work;  that 
there is something  degrading  about  the 
latter,  while the former will  give them a 
certain  standing  in  society.  They  do 
not  like  to  be  called  “menials;”  they

It was in a  little New  Hampshire  vil­
lage  among  the  mountains  where  the 
country store served  as  post  office,  cir­
culating 
library,  shoe  store,  grocery 
store,  dry  goods  store  and  everything 
else combined,  that a Boston lady, glanc­
ing over the books, inquired,  “Have you 
Browning?”
“No,”  said  the  attendant  somewhat 
regretfully,  and not  knowing  just what | 
kind of an  article  Browning  might  be, 
“ we  have  not.”  Then,  more  brightly. 
“But we have blacking and  blueing and 
have a man who  does  whiting.  We  oc­
casionally  do  pinking.  Would  any  of 
these do?”
A n n u a l  M e e tin g   o f  th e   C la rk  G ro c e ry  
At  the  annual  meeting  of  the stock­
holders of the I.  M.  Clark  Grocery  Co., 
M.  J.  Clark,  Frank  Jewell, Sumner M. 
Wells, Fred B. Clark  and  W. D.  Weaver 
were elected  directors of the corporation 
for the ensuing  year.  At  a  subsequent 
meeting  of  the  directors  officers  were 
elected  as follows:

Co.

President—M. J. Clark.
Vice President—Frank Jewell.
Secretary—Sumner M. Wells.
Treasurer—Frank B. Clark.

S lig h tly   In c o n s iste n t.

A prominent Monroe street shoe dealer 
sent au order  to  a  well-known  Chicago 
department store for a quantity of canned 
goods for his  own  use.  His  order  was 
filled,  but,  on  the  receipt of his goods, 
he found  that,  besides  paying  fully  as 
much  as  he  would  have paid at home, 
many of the articles  were  not  what  he 
had ordered.  He had paid the bill,  how- 
over,  and there was nothing to  do but to 
keep the goods.  The shoe man  went  to 
a  local  grocer  and  asked  him  to  take 
some of  the  goods  off  his  hands.  The 
grocer  told  him  that he was stocked up I 
in canned, goods and could not  help  him |

out  He would have been a  “chump”  if 
he had.  That shoe dealer  probably  ex­
pects  Grand  Rapids  people to buy their 
shoes at home, not  to go  to  Chicago  for 
them.  That  is  exactly what they ought 
to do.  As  good  shoes  at as  reasonable 
prices can  be bought in Grand  Rapids as 
in Chicago, and, other things being equal, 
our people should buy  their foot wear at 
home;  but  if  shoe  dealers  go  to  the 
Windy City for  their  groceries,  what  is 
the  matter  with  grocers  buying 
their 
shoes there ?  What is fair for one is for 
another,  and  that  particular  dealer  in 
pedal coverings can find  no  fault  if  he 
gets no trade from Grand Rapids grocers. 
The assurance of that  shoe dealer  is  re­
freshing—sending  to  Chicago  for  his 
canned goods and then,  when he finds he 
has something he does not  want,  asking 
a home grocer to  take  his  useless  stock 
off his hands!

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN
prefer to take their chances  in  competi­
tion, not only with other  girls,  but with 
young men in the  uncertainties  of  com­
mercial life,  with low wages,  long  hours 
and the  thousand  and  one  discomforts 
and  annoyances  inseparable  from  the 
office  or  store.  A  girl  accustomed  to 
housework,  and especially a  good  cook, 
is almost always  sure  of  a  good  place, 
with all the  comforts  of  a  home,  com­
paratively  easy  work,  short  hours,  all 
things considered, and wages much better 
than 
the  majority  of  girls  receive  in 
office  or  store;  but  most  girls  prefer 
clerking to housework,  and for  the  rea­
son stated, that most of them  are  enam­
ored of the shabby gentility  which seems 
to be one of the  perquisites  of  the  last 
named positions. 
In this connection the 
words of a business man of this city  are 
interesting.  He said:  “I advertised for 
a stenographer last week,  and in one day 
received no  less  than forty  applications 
for the position.  A few of  these owned 
their own typewriters,  but  most of them 
would rent a machine for $5  a  month  if 
engaged.  Now,  if  the  thirty-nine  who 
got  left  would  turn  their  attention  to 
housework  and  cooking, 
they  would 
stand a show of getting  work;  as  it  is, 
it will be months  before  some  of  these 
will get anything  to  do.  When  one  of 
these girls gets married she must  hire  a 
girl,  for,  as  a  rule,  she  knows  nothing 
about  housework;  her high-flown notions 
of things stick to  her  and  she  still  ob­
jects to being called a servant girl.  Mrs. 
Rorer said  while  here  that  good  cooks 
were at a premium;  they were one of the 
vital  essentials  of  civilized  life;  they 
were,  as a rule,  well paid;  the  work was 
light  and  pleasant,  but  they  were  the 
scarcest  commodity 
the  market. 
There  are  salesladies,  and  lady  steno­
graphers,  and  lady  book-keepers  until 
you  can’t  rest;  but  cooks—good  cooks 
who can be depended  upon  to  get  up  a 
meal that won’t give a man chronic  dys­
pepsia,  or  cause  him  to  raise  a  whole 
herd  of  nightmares—are  like  angel’s 
visits—seldom heard of,  and,  when  they 
are, not very well  authenticated.  Now, 
I can’t afford to pay a girl more  than  $5 
a week;  what I actually need is an  office 
boy, but 1 have  some  work  for  a  type­
writer.  Suppose the young lady  I  have 
engaged were a good  cook,  or  proficient 
in housework,  she would  command  bet­
ter wages, and,  in addition,  have  a  good 
home. 
I  don’t  meant  to  say  that  all 
girls could secure good places  as  cooks, 
but many of them could, and there would 
still be enough  to  fill  all  the  available 
positions in offices  and  would,  perhaps, 
stiffen  the market for  those who remain*. 
Just think of it!  Forty  applications for 
one little position paying $5 a  week  and 
the  whole  country crying  out  for  good 
cooks!”

A  lady  recently  entered  a  Monroe 
street grocery and asked the price of cer­
tain small fruits.  On hearing  the price, 
she exclaimed,  “Why,  I  can  get  them 
very much cheaper from  the farmers. 
I 
won’t  pay  you  any  such  price.”  It  is 
supposed that she  went  to  the  farmers 
for her fruit,  as she bought  none  at  the 
groceries.  She is one of a number of la­
dies who are continually  soliciting  sub­
scriptions  for  various objects—all more 
or less worthy,  no doubt,  but all depend­
ent almost entirely upon the benevolence 
of the  business  men  of  the  city. 
If  a 
business  man  subscribes  money  to any 
institution  the  amount  must  come  out 
of  the  profits of his business,  and  if the 
people of the city do not  patronize  him, 
but go outside to do their buying, he can­
not be blamed if he  does  not  subscribe. 
It has been  said  that  “one good turn de­
serves  another.”  If  this  is  true,  then 
Grand Rapids  people  should spend their 
money in the city, even  if the dealers do 
make a little  money  out  of  their  busi­
ness.  But  can  city  merchants  be  ex­
pected to give  much to the many institu­
tions which  live  on  the  bounty  of  the 
are
people  while 
their  promoters 
spending 
the
their  money  out  of 
city ?  There  is  considerable  of 
that 
sort of thing going  on  in  the  city,  and 
those  who  are  doing it should,  at least, 
refrain from asking Grand  Rapids  busi­
ness men to contribute  to any charitable 
or other institution which must draw  its 
life from the pockets of home dealers.

A n   A s s o rte d   S to c k .

in 

5

According  to  the  advertisements  in 
medical journals, chewing  gum  impreg­
nated with various antiseptics  is  offered 
by the Germans as an agreeable  and  ef­
fective  prophylactic  against  throat  af­
fections,  particularly for children, young 
folks,  and people generally who are  sen­
sitive  to  attacks  of  cold,  catarrh,  etc. 
The idea is a  good one,  and we may soon 
look for  similar  preparations  from  our 
gum-makers.

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No advertisements  taken for  less  than 35 cents. 
Advance payment.

647

649

BD SIN E88  CHANCES_________
OR  SALE—A  WELL EQUIPPED MACHINE 
shop  in  Detroit,  Michigan.  Good  tools, 
suitable for building or repairing heavy or light 
machinery.  Good  business  location  and  low 
rent.  Suitable terms to responsible parties.  Par­
ticulars from Charles Steel,  Administrator,  box
46, Wyandotte. Michigan.  __________ 
XCLUSIVE  RIGHT  GIVEN  ONE  GROCER 
each county;  staple  article;  large  profits. 
R.  Givens,  grocer  and  commission  merchant, 
Corpus Christl, Tex. 

I lOR SALE—FINE BA6ERY,  RESTAURANT*, 

Ice cream parlor and soda  fountain  in  one 
of the best locations  in  a  good  lively  town  in 
Northern Michigan.  Twenty years  established. 
Population  6,000  to  7,000.  Good  chance  for a 
smart  man.  Address  No.  648,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
PURCHASE,  A  CLEAN 
drug stock, few  fixtures.  Must be  cheap 
for  spot  cash.  Address  W.,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
(T* OOD  OPENING  FOR  A  BOOT  AND  SHOE 
VT  business at  Traverse  City.  Store,  next  to 
my dry  goods  and  clothing  establishment  and 
Opera  House  Block,  for  rent.  Good location, 
rate reasonable.  A live business  man and hust­
ler can make money in it.  For terms, etc , apply 
to or address,  Julius  Steinberg,  Traverse  City, 
Mich. 

______________________  

ANTKD-TO 

F OR  SALE—DRY  GOODS  STOCK  IN  ONE 

of the busy manufacturing cities  of Lower 
Michigan.  Best location in  town.  Address No. 
645 care Michigan  Tradesman,___________ 645

648

646

¿50

642

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  370,  Charlotte, 
Mich. 
YXTANTED  TO  EXCHANGE—TWO-HORSE 
VY 
engine, upright boiler,  good  as  new,  for 
electric  motor.  Redner  Bros.,  Battle  Creek, 
Mich. 

■ HO  WANTS  A  NICE,  CLEAN,  WELL-E8- 

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. 
RUG  STORE  FOR  SALE—INVOICING 
$1,600,$500  down; balance  on time.  Good
expenses.  Address  Book- 

business.  Low 
keeper.4 and 6 Pearl St., Grand Rapids, 

643

635

640

639

OR 

ICHIGAN  DRUG  EXCHANGE,  H.  e ! 
Grand Girard. Proprietor.  I  have  on  my 
list  several  drug  stores  for sale, ranging from 
$TC0  to  $V;00,  in  and  out  of the city, and will 
furnish further particulars.  I have also a  great 
many drug clerks, registered and assistants, who 
wish situations in or out of the city.  No charge 
to buyer or employer.  Address Mich. Drug  Ex­
change, 138 Monroe street, Grand Rapids.  637 
SALE—STORE  BUILDING  AND 
dwelling  combined  at  Levering,  Mich. 
First-class  place  for  a  general dealer.  A.  M. 
LeBaron, Grand Rapids, Mich. 
636
in   a
thriving town in Northern Michigan  on  C. 
& W. M. Railway.  Address No. 639, care  Michi 
gan Tradesman, 

F o r   s a l e —c l e a n   d r u g   s t o c k  
I lOR  RENT—THE  STORE  FORMERLY  OC- 

cupied  by  E.  J.  Ware,  druggist,  corner 
Cherry and East streets.  Also meat market, east 
John C. 
end same building, with good ice box. 
Dunton, old County  building. 
T)LAN1NG  MILL—WE  OFFER  FOR  SALE 
XT 
the North Side Planing Mill,  which is first- 
class in every  respect,  or  will  receive  proposi­
tions to locate the business In some other  thriv­
ing town.  Correspondence and inspection solic­
ited.  Sheridan, Boyce <fc Co., Manistee, Mich. 613 
r p iI E   BEST  PLACE  IN  THE  STATE  TO 
X  
start a dry goods  store is Big  Rapids.  Has 
only two. 

F OR  RENT—EXCELLENT  LOCATION  FOR 

grocery  store.  No  other  grocery  within 
four  blocks.  High  and  dry  basement  under 
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. 
vllle.  Mich,____________________________ 820
1 3   CT r ' 1 T Z  ’ QL  HEADACHE
1  
p o w d e r s
Pay the best profit.  Order from your jobber

I L U i y   O  

608

618

C.  A.  CONNOR,

Manufacturer of

ICE  C R E A M .

Owosso,  Mich, 

j  Orders for Fancy Brick  Cream  Filled  on  Short 
I 

Notice.

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U N H E A L T H Y   O C CU PA T IO N S.

The saying to the  effect  that  one-half
the world is ignorant as to how the other 
half lives  receives  confirmation in  some 
of the reports,  in relation  to  labor,  that 
find their way  into  print;  not  the  least 
interesting being those in  relation to the 
effect of  different  occnpations  upon  the 
health of  those  who  follow them,  these 
reports being prepared  by  medical  men 
after careful observation.

For example,  it  is  popularly  believed 
that insanity,  paresis,  and  kindred  dis­
eases  principally  affect  those  who  are 
designated as  brain-workers,  in  contra­
distinction to those who  work  with their 
hands.  That  these  diseases  do  affect 
brain-workers for  the  most  part  is  un­
doubtedly  true  enough,  but  the trouble 
is in understanding who works  the brain 
hardest.  There is reason  to  doubt  that 
it is  always, or  generally,  the  business 
man or the professional man.  As throw­
ing some light on this,  Dr.  Spratlisg, of 
New York,  writes upon  fifty-seven cases 
of  insanity  amongst  the  operatives  in 
silk mills in  a single  city in New Jersey, 
finding that  brain stress  was  the  cause 
in nearly  every  instance.  That  is,  the 
brain had been overtaxed  by long  hours 
in managing  complex  and  delicate  ma­
chinery,  “one  person  sometimes  doing 
the work of two or  more  in order  to  in- 
creasa  his  earnings.”  The  trouble  ap­
pears to be that the brain  is  kept  in  an 
almost  constant  state  of  high  tension, 
there being little relaxation in the grind­
ing  effort  to  make  a  living,  the  effect 
upon the brain  being  intensified by  bad 
air and poor food.

Now,  we venture to say that  few  ever 
thought that  a  favorable  place  to  look 
for  insanity  and  diseases  of  the  brain 
was amongst the operatives in silk mills, 
yet such seems to be the case.

Outside of silk  mills, it  is,  of  course, 
well  known  that  there  are  many  un­
healthy occupations,  working  at  which 
men and women  live but a  few  years at 
the most,  and it becomes  a question how 
far the State should  interfere in  the  di­
rection of ameliorating  the  condition  of 
those compelled in their search for a  liv­
ing to work at  such  occupations. 
It  is 
true—and will  always  be  under present 
conditions  —  that  men  and  women 
prompted  by  necessity  will  work under 
almost  any  conditions 
imposed  upon 
them,  conditions that  result  in  physical 
wreck. 
If society has  no other  interest 
in the matter, it has  a selfish  interest in 
future generations that will spring up as 
the result of such  conditions—the  inter­
est  of  self-preservation.  Society  has  a 
right to demand  interference for its own 
protection,  and  nowhere is this more es­
sential than in this  country,  where there 
can be no class that  is not  of the  ruling 
class.

In older  countries a good  deal  of  at­
tention  has been  given  to  this subject. 
This  is  undoubtedly  in  part  due  to  a 
greater  necessity,  owing  to  the  more 
crowded  conditions  of  these  countries. 
Eventually,  the matter will  receive more 
attention in this  country.  So  far  as  ef­
forts have already been  made, they have 
been  in  a measure successful;  successful 
in a degree proportionate  to  the  persis­
tency of the efforts.  This is notably true 
in relation to coal  mining.  An  example 
of where but little has been accomplished 
is  in  the  instance  of  the  sweating sys­
tem—so  called—in  the  manufacture  of 
clothes.  There  is  room  in  many  cities 
for energetic  work  in  this  direction,  as 
well as in some other directions.

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

I

UNBLEACHED  COTTONS.

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A d riatic...................7
Argyle......................  b%
Atlanta AA..............  6
Atlantic  A ...............   6)4
H ...............   6)4
P ..............  5
D ...............   6

Arrow Brand  4M 
“  World Wide.  6
“  LL...........  4)4
Pull Yard Wide.......6)4
Georgia  A ...............   6>4
“ 
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Honest Width.........  6
“ 
Hartford A ..............5
Indian Head............  5)4
“  LL...............   4)4
King A A..............6)4
Amory.......................  6)4
King EC...............  5
Archery  B unting...  4 
Lawrence  L L.......  4)4
Beaver Dam  A A ..  4%
Blackstone O, 33__ 5
Madras cheese cloth 644
Black Crow..............6
Newmarket  G ........   544
Black  Rock  ............  5%
B .........  5
Boot, AL.................   7
N .........  6*
Capital  A .................5)4
D D ....  5)4
Cavanat  V ................. 514
X .......644
Chapman cheese c l.  344 Nolbe  R ....................  5
Clifton  C R ................5)4 Our Level  Best.......6
Comet......................... 6*4 Oxford  R .................  6
Dwight Star.............  644 Pequot......................   7
. 
6
Clifton C C C ............  544 Solar
|Top of the  Heap
7
Geo.  W ashington...  8
Glen Mills...............  7
Gold  Medal..............74
Green  Ticket.......... 8)4
Great F alls...............  6*4
Hope......................... 7)4
Just  Out........   444® 5
King  Phillip............  744
OP.......7)4
Lonsdale Cambric.. 10
Lonsdale............  @  8
Middlesex.........   @ 5
No Name..................  7)4
Oak View.................  6
Our Own.................... 5)4
Pride of the W est.. .12
Rosalind...................7)4
Sunlight...................  4)4
Utica  Mills..............8)4
Nonpareil  ..10
V inyard....................  8)4
White Horse............6
8)4

A B C ........................8*4
Amazon.................... 8
Amsburg.................. 6
Art  Cambric........... 10
Blackstone A A.......7%
Beats A ll..................   4
Boston......................12
Cabot........................   644
Cabot,  X ...................644
Charter  Oak............5)4
Conway W ...............   7)4
Cleveland..............  6
Dwight Anchor__   8
shorts  8
Edwards...................6
Empire......................7
Parwell......................7)4
Fruit of the  Loom.  8
Fitch ville  .............  7
First Prize............... 6
Fruit of the Loom X.  7)4
Fairm ount............... 4)4
Full V alue...............644
Rock__
Cabot........................   6441 Dwight Anchor
Farwell.................... 7 4 1

HALT  BLEACHED  COTTONS.

BLEACHED  COTTONS.

“ 

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CANTON  FLANNEL.

Bleached. 
Housewife  Q—  B .H

•6*
...744 
...8)4 
...9)4 
..10 
• 1044 
••11)4 
••12)4 
.
• •13)4

S.
T.
U. 
V.. w.
X.
Y.
Z . 

Unbleached. 

Housewife  A............ 5*4
5)4 
.6 
•6)4 
.7
•7)t 
• 7)4 
•744 
•8)4
8) 4
9) 4
“ 
“  M ............ 10)4
“ 
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L . ........... 10
N .............11
O ............... 21
P .............14)4

CARPET  WARP.

“ 

Peerless, white........17
colored__ 19
Integrity...................18)4
Hamilton..................  8
...................9
 
G G  Cashmere........ 20
N am eless................16
.................18

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10)4

“ 

Integrity  colored... 18
White Star............... 17
“  colored  .19
Nameless..................20
.......... 25
....27)4
..........30
..........32)4
....35

DBESS  GOODS.

COSSETS.

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PEINTS.

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COSSET  JEANS.

Corallne....................... 19 50
W onderful. 
.84 50 
Schilling's.....................9 00
Brighton.
4 75
Davis  W aists.......  9 00
Bortree’s ...............   9 00
Grand  Rapids.......  4 50
Abdominal............15  00
Armory....................   644 IN anmkeag sat teen..  7)4
Androscoggin..........7)4 Rockport...............6)4
Blddeford...............   6  Conestoga............7)4
Brunswick...............6)41 W alworth............. 644
Allen turkey  reds..  5)4
robes............5)4
pink a purple 5)4
b u ffs............  5)4
pink  checks.  5)4
stap les.........5
shirtin g s...  344 
American  fancy—   5)4 
American Indigo...  4)4 
American shirtings.  344 
Argentine  G rays...  6 
Anchor Shirtings...  4 
Arnold 
....  6
Arnold  Merino.......6
long cloth B .  9 
“ 
«  c.  7)4
» 
» 
“ 
century cloth  7
gold seal.......10)4
“ 
“  green seal TR 10)4 
“  yellow seal.. 10)4
“ 
serge..............11)4
“  T ü rk e /red  . 10)4 
"  

Berwick fancies—   5)4
Clyde  Robes............
Charter Oak fancies  4 
Del Marine cashm’s.  5)4 
monrn’g  5)4 
EddyBtone fancy...  5)4 
chocolat  5)4 
rober —   5)4 
sateens..  5)4 
Hamilton fancy.  ...  5)4 
stap le....  5)4 
Manchester  fancy..  5)4 
new era.  5)4 
Merrimack D fancy.  5)4 
Merrlm’ck shirtings.  4 
“  Repp furn .  8)4
Pacific fancy...........5)4
“ 
Portsmouth robes...  6)4 
Simpson mourning..  544
greys........544
solid black.  544
Washington indigo.  6)4 
“  Turkey robes..  7M
“  India robes__7)4
“  plain T k y  X 44  8)4 
“ 
“  X...10
“  Ottoman  Tur­
key red .................   6)4
Martha Washington
Turkeyred %......7)4
Martha Washington
Turkey red...........  9)4
Rlverpointrobes....  5)4
Windsor fancy........  6)4
indigo  bine..........10)4

Ballon solid black..
colors.
Bengal blue,  green, 
red and  orange...  6
Berlin solids............  5)4
“ 
oil b in e .......6
■■ 
»  green
6
“  Foulards
red 44..........  7
“ 
“  X ............  9!
“ 
“  4 4........... 10
“ 
«  3-4XXXX 12
“ 
Cocheco fancy........ 5
madders...  5 
“ 
“  X X tw ills..  5 
“ 
solids........ 5

Harmony...................  4)4
Amoskeag AC A ._12)4
AC A ........................ 11)4
Hamilton N  ............  7
Pemberton AAA__ 16
D............. 8
York......................... 10)4
Awning..11
Swift R iver.............   7)4
Farmer......................8
Pearl  R iver............. 12
First  Prize.............. 10)4
W arren.....................12)4
Lenox M Uls...........18
Conostoga...............16
Atlanta,  D ...............   6 * ¡Stark  A 
............ 8
Boot...........................  644 No Name.............. 
Clifton, K .................  7  (Top of Heap..............9

gold  ticket

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

OOTTOH  DRILL.

TICKINGS.

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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN
Dry Goods Price Current.

DEMINS.

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GINGHAMS.

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Amoskeag.................12
9oz.......14
brown .14
Andover....................11)4
Beaver Creek  A A... 10 
“  
B B...  9
•1 
cc.
Boston MfgCo.  br..  7 
“ 
bine  8)4
“  d a   twist  10V4
Columbian XXX  br.10 
XXX  bl.19
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Amoskeag................  5

“  Persian dress  64*
C anton.
“ 
AFC.........8)4
“ 
Teazle... 10)4 
“ 
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Angola.. 10)4 
“ 
Persian..  7
Arlington staple__   6*4
Arasapha  fancy__ 444
Bates Warwick dres  7)4 
staples.  6
Centennial..............  10)4
Criterion  ..................10*4
Cumberland  staple.  5)4
Cumberland.............. 5
Essex..........................4)4
Elfin.........................   7)4
Everett classics........8)4
Exposition.................7*4
Glenarie...................  6*4
Glenarven..................644
Glenwood.................. 7)4
Hampton.................... 5
Johnson Chalon cl 
)4
indigo bine  9)4 
zephyrs__ 16
GRAIN
Amoskeag.................. 13 I
Stark..........................17
American.................. 13 |

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

Lancaster,  staple...  5
fancies__ 7
“ 
“  Normandie  7
Lancashire...............  6
Manchester.............   544
Monogram...............   6)4
Normandie.............  7
Persian.....................  7
Renfrew Dress........ 7)4
Rosemont.................6)4
Slatersvllle..............6
Somerset...................7
Tacoma  ...................  7)4
Toil  duN ord..........   8)4
Wabash....................  7)4
seersucker..  7)4
W arwick.................  6
W hlttenden.............   8
heather dr.  7)4 
Indigo blue  9 
WamButta staples...  644
Westbrook............... 8
.........................10
Windermeer............ 5
Y ork......................... 644
BAGS.
Georgia.

■ 13)4

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THREADS.

(Bark’s Mile E nd....45  I Barbour s ................. 95
Coats', J. & P ............45 Marshall’s ...................90
Holyoke....................22)41

KNITTING  COTTON.

No.

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

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

White.  Colored.
White.  Colored
42
38 No.  14... ...37
“  16... ....38
38
43
44
40
“  18... ...39
"  20... ....40
45
41
Edwards.................   4
Slater........................   4
Lockwood..................4
White Star..............  4
Wood’s ....................  4
Kid Glove  ...............  4
B runsw ick..............  4
Newmarket..............  4

RED  FLANNEL.

Firem an.................. 32)4
Creedmore.............. 27)4
Talbot XXX............30
Nameless................ 27)4

T W .......................... 22)4
F T ............................82)4
J R F , XXX.............35
Buckeye.................. 82)4

MIXED  FLANNEL.

Red & Blue,  plaid. .40
Union R ...................22)4
W indsor...................18)4
6 oz W estern........... 20
Union  B .................. 22)4
Nameless.

DOMET  FLANNEL.
8  @  9)41 
8)4@10  I 

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Brown. Black. Slate
9)4 10)4
10)4 11)4
11)4 12
12)4 20
DUCKB.

CANVASS  AND  PADDING.
9V4
10)4
11)4
12)4

Grey S R  W ..............17)4
Western W  ..............18)4
D R  P ........................18)4
Flashing XXX.........23)4
Manitoba..................23)4
9  @10)4 
12)4
Brown. Black.
10)4
11)4
12
20
..  9)4 West Point, 8 os .1 0 )4
-.12)4
Raven, lOoz..............13)4
..............13)4
Stark 
Boston, 10 oz.............12)4

10)4
11)4
12
20

*  _  10 oz

, 8 oz..  .
1, 8oz... ...10)4
Greenwood, 7)4 oz..  9)4
Greenwood, 8 oz__ 11)4
Boston, 8 oz............. 10)4

Slate.
9) 4
10) 4
11) 4
12) 4

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WADDINGS.

2 
8 

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SILESIAS.

White, dos........ — 25  IPer bale, 40 do>___88  50
Colored,  doz............20 
|Colored  “ 
...........7 50
Slater, Don Cross...  8 
Pawtucket  .............. 10)4
Red Cross....  9
Dundie.....................   9
Bedford.................... 10)4
Best..............10)4
Valley  City..............10)4
Best  A A...... 12)4
K K ............................10)4
L ................................7)4
G ................................8)41
Corticelll, doz......... 85  [Corticelll  knitting,

SEWING  SILK.

per )4oz  ball......... 30

..12  “ 8 
..12  I “  10 

tw ist,doz..40 
50yd,doz..40  I
HOOKS AND ETES—PER GROSS.
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No  1 Bl’k & White..10  INo  4 Bl’k & White..15
*• 
..20
“ 
..25
No 2-20, M  C.......... 50  INO 4—15  J   8)4.........40
•  3- 18, SC.........45  I
No  2 White & Bl’k..12  INo  8 White & Bl’k..20 
“ 
.28
H 
..26
No 2.

COTTON  TAPS.
..16  “  10 
..18  I “  12 
SAFETY  PENS.
....28  IN08.
NEEDLES—PER  K.

A. Jam es.................. 1  401 Steamboat.................  40
Crowely’s................. 1  35 Gold  Eyed............... 1  50
Marshall’s ................1  00| American..................1  00
fr—I...230
5-4   ...1 7 5   6 -4 ... 

TABLE  OIL  CLOTH.

|5—4 —  1  65 

PINS.

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4 
6 

.35

•COTTONT WINES.

Cotton Sail Twine. .28
Crow n......................12
Dom estic.................18)4
A nchor....................16
B ristol.....................13
Cherry  Valley........ 15
I X L ......................... 18)4
Alabama.....................6)4
Alamance................. 6)4
A ugusta................... 7)4
A r sapha.................  6
Georgia.....................6)4
G ran ite....................  5X
Haw  R iver..............  5
Haw  J ......................  6

N ashua.....................14
Rising Star 4-ply__ 17
3-ply.... 17
North Star................20
Wool Standard 4 plyl7)4 
Pow hattan.............. 16

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Mount  Pleasant__ 6)4
Oneida......................  5
P rym ont.................  544
Randelman..............6
Riverside.................  5K
Sibley  A ............  ...  6M
Toledo......................
Otis checks...  —  .7)4

PLAID  OSNABURGB

GENUINE  :  YICI  :  SHOE,
Plain toe In opera and  opera  toe and C. S. heel. 
D and  E and E E widths, at 81.50.  Patent leather 
tip,  81 .55.  Try them,  they are  beauties.  Stock 
soft and fine, flexible and elegant  fitters.  Send 
for sample dozen.

REK O ER  BROS.  SH O E  CO ,

Grand  Rapids, Mich.

WE  HAVE  MADE

)l.  SSHNEIDER  GO..

G R I P   RAPIDS,  MICH,

Distributing Agents for the Old  Reliable

K

S

B

C I G A R S .

AMERICAN  CIGAR  CO.

S B B D S :

Everything  in seeds is kept by  us— 

Clover, Timothy,

Hungarian,  Millet,

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

If yon have  Beans to  sell,  send  us 
samples,  stating  quantity,  and  we 
will try  to trade with  you.  We are 
headquarters  for egg cases  and  egg 
case tillers.
W.  T.  LAM8REAUX  CO
EATON, LYON 4 CO.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

NEW  STYLES  OF

20 &  22  Monroe  St.,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

The  Poorest  Man

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.
Wrought Loose  Pin............................................   40
 
Wrought  Table............................ 
40
Wrought Inside Blind.......................................  49
Wrought  Brass................................................  
75
Blind,  Clark’s ...................................................70*10
Blind,  Parker’s ................................................. 70*10
Blind, Shepard’s 
70

On  Earth

 

Can afford  the BEST  salt.

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

W arranting  Edged Tools.

One of the most vexatious  and  temper 
trying episodes  which  occasionally arise 
in a retail hardware  store  is  the  return 
of  articles  which  have  been  warranted 
by the  merchant.  As  a  rule,  a  dealer 
will guarantee a knife,  shears,  plane-bit, 
hatchet, axe,  etc., free from  flaws in  the 
manufacture,  should  they  break  while 
legitimately  used  and 
the  point  of 
fracture shows a  flaw—which  is  readily 
detected; he will hand out a  new article, 
retain the faulty one,  charging  it to  the 
jobber or  manufacturer  from  whom  he 
bought it.  But impositions have been so 
frequent  by  customers,  that  merchants 
are careful how  and  to whom  they war­
rant goods.  A case in  point—one  within 
the writer’s ken—may  be  of  interest  to 
hardware dealers. 
It  was in a store at a 
county seat not sixty miles from Chicago, 
and during the  hard  and  severe  winter 
of 1876-7.  A couple of  farmers came in 
for axes.  We kept  Lippincott’s, Blood’s 
and Hunt’s.  They  were hard to suit,  but 
finally selected two  of  Hunt’s  make,  4% 
and 4% pounds respectively.  While they 
were being wrapped up they were particu­
larly anxious as to the warrant, which was 
as follows:  “Free from flaws, should they 
break  and  the  fracture  show  it,  new 
axes  will  be  furnished.”  This  ap­
peared satisfactory.  Several days  after­
ward the men  returned  with  both  axes 
broken—a  crescent  shaped  piece  being 
broken out of the blade  of each.  One of 
these showed a slight flaw in the steel—a 
dark burned appearance  at  the  point of 
fracture; this  was  accepted  and  a  new 
axe  provided.  The  other  was  broken 
out of  the  solid  steel.  On  questioning 
the  man,  he  said  he  had  been  merely 
chopping,  the same as  his  partner,  but, 
on being pressed,  admitted  he  had  been 
cutting into  a  frozen  knot  on  a  fallen 
oak.  Of course,  his  request  for  a  new 
axe was  refused,  and  the  man  was  as 
mad as a wet hen, emphatically asserting 
that he would never  buy  another  thing 
from  that  store,  and  no  amount  of 
reasoning could  shake  bis  opinion  that 
“Mr.  So and So’s warrant  didn’t  amount 
to  chucks.”  The  writer 
afterwards 
learned that the  same  man  had  victim­
ized  several  other  hardware  stores  out 
of new axes  by  protesting  that  he  had 
been  doing  straight  chopping.  Other 
cases might be cited,  but  the  foregoing 
is sufficient  to  serve  the  purpose—care 
in wording the warranty on edge tools.

In fifty-four towns and cities of England 
the garbage is used for fuel to  ruu  elec­
the  light 
tric  light  plants. 
come cheaper than  when coal was  used, 
and does  away  with  the  garbage  diffi­
culty.

It  makes 

A New  fork cigar dealer  recently  ad­
vertised for a “live Indian”  to  serve  as 
a cigar sign and  1,000  men of  all  colors 
and races applied for the job.

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The  Richest  Man

On  Earth

CANNOT  afford any other.

See Quotations in Price Current.

I.  Jl.  CLARK  GROCERY  CO.,

GENERAL  AGENTS, 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  • 

- 

-  MICH.

Kstablisheri  1 8 6 8 .

H. M. REYNOLDS & SON,

Building  Papers,

Carpet  Linings,

Asbestos  Sheathing 

Asphalt  Ready  Roofing,

Asphalt Roof Paints,

Resin,  Coal  Tar, 

Roofing and Paying Pitch,

Tarred  Felt,  Mineral  Wool 
Elastic Roofing Cement, 
Car,  Bridge  and Roof Paints, 

and Oils.Practical Rooters

In Felt, Composition and Gravel,
Grand  Rapids, 
Mich.
H.M. REYNOLDS & SON

Cor.  LO U IS  and  C A M P A U   Sts..

Hardware Price Current.

“ 
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• 

AXES.

AUBUB8 AMD BITS.

These  prices are  for cash  buyer»,  who 
pay promptly  and  buy in  full  packages.
din.
Snell’s ....................................................
............60*10
Cook’s ....................................................
40
Jennings’, genuine.............................
............ 
25
Jennings’,  Im itation.........................
............50*10
First Quality, 8. B. Bronze.................
............8 6 50
D.  B. Bronze.................
..........   i* 00
S. B. 3. Steel.................
...........   7  50
D. B. Steel....................
...........   13 50
Railroad...............................................  113 00  14 00
Garden......................................................  net  30 00
Stove.  .................................................................50*10
Carriage new list  .............................................75*10
Plow.................................................................... 40*10
Sleigh shoe........................................................ 
70
Well,  plain  ......................................................S3 50
Well, swivel......................................................  400
Oast Loose Pin, figured.....................  
  70*10
Wought Narrow, bright 6aat Joint  40  ....... 60*10

BUTTS,  OAST. 

BUCKXTS.

BARROW S.

BOLTS. 

die.

dlS.

d lS .

 

We  are T.  II. Nevin Co.’s  agents 
for  Michigan  for  this  well-known 
brand of Paints.

Figures can be given  to  compete 
with any sold.  The goods are guar­
anteed.  We  have  sold  them  for 
many  years.  Write  us  and 
secure 
the agency for  same.

HAZELTINE  8  PERKINS  DRUG  GO.

Wholesale Druggists,

G R A N D   R A P ID S , 

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MICH«

Ordinary Tackle, list April  1693..................60*10

G rain..................................................................40*10

CBAPLBS.

CROW BARS.

Cast Steel................................................ per »> 
Ely’s 1-10................................................ perm  
“ 
Hick’s  C.  F ............................................ 
G .D ...........  
.........................................  » 
Musket 
........................................  
“ 

OAFS.

5
65
60
35
60

OARTB1DGBS.

Rim  F ire........................................................... 
Central  Fire............................................... dls. 

50
25

OHI8BLS. 

Socket F irm er.................................................75*10
Socket Framing................................................75*10
Socket Comer................................................... 75*10
Socket Slicks................................................... 75*10
Butchers’ Tanged Firm er............................... 
40

dls.

dls.

Curry,  Lawrence’s ..........................................  
Hotchkiss.........................................................  

White Crayons, per  gross........ ...... 12©1254 dls. 10

combs. 

CHALK.

COFPKB.

“ 

Planished, 14 oz cut to size........... per pound 
14x52, 14x56.14x60 ....... ................. 
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60__ .................  
Cold Rolled, 14x48......................... ...................... 
Bottom s...............   .......................
................. 
Morse’s  Bit  Stocks....................... ...............  
Taper and straight Shank............ ......................  
Morse's Taper Shank.......................... ...................... 

DRILLS.

dls.

DRIPPING  PANS.

Small sizes, ser p o u n d ...................... ...................... 
Large sizes, per  pound...................... ......................  

654
06

ELBOWS.

40
25

28
26
23
23
22
50
50
50

Com. 4  piece, 6 In .................................. ...dos. uet 
Corrugated............................................... ............. dls 
Adjustable.................................................
EXPANSIVE  BITS.

75
40
...........dls.  40*10

dls.

f il e s—New List.

Ives’, 1,118:  2, »24;  3,830  ............... ...................... 
25
Disston’s .......................................................60*10-10
New American  ...........................................60*10-10
Nicholson’s ................................................. 60*10-10
Heller’s ............................................................... 
50
Heller’s Horse Rasps  .....................................  
50

dls.

GALVANIZAD IBON.

dls.
dls.

Nos.  16  to  30;  22  and  24;  25  and  36;  37 
List 
16 

12 

13 

15 

38
17

Discount, 60 -10

14 
GAUGES. 

locks—door. 

knobs—New List. 

Stanley Rule and  Level Co.'s........................ 
so
Door, mineral, Jap. trim m ings...................... 
55
55
Door,  porcelain, Jap. trimmings................... 
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings...............  
55
55
Door,  porcelain, trimmings........................... 
Drawer  and  Shutter, porcelain....................  
70
55
Russell *  Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new list  .......... 
Mallory, Wheeler  &  Co.’s ..............................  
55
55
Branford’s ........................................................ 
Norwalk’s ......................................................... 
55
Adse Bye..................................’...  »16.00, dls. 60-10
Hunt Bye............-........................... »15.00, dls. 6C-10
Hunt’s .........................  
............»18.50, dls. 30*10.
Sperry *  Co.’s, Post,  handled.................
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s ................................
“  P. S. A W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables
“  Landers,  Ferry *  Clark’s ............
“  Enterprise 
..................................

M a TTOCKa

dls
dls.

MAULS.

MILLS.

dls.

dls.

MOLAB8B8 OATBS.

 

 

N AILS

Stebhin’s Pattern..............................................60*10
Stebbln’s Genuine............................................ 68*10
Enterprise, self-measuring............................. 
25
Advance over  base,  on  both  Steel  and Wire.

Steel nails, base........................................................ 1 40
Wire nails, base........................................................ 1 40
Base
80........................................................ Base 
50...........................................................  
10
40...........................................................  
25
30...........................................................  
26
20..........  
35
45
16...........................................................  
12...........................................................  
45
50
10........................................................... 
60
8............................................................. 
7 * 6 ...................................................... 
75
90
4............................................................. 
3.....................................................................  
1  60
8............................................................. 
F ln eS ............................................................ 
Case  10.................................................  
65
76
8.................................................  
6.................................................  
90
75
Finish 10............................................... 
90
8................................................ 
1 10
6...............................................  
TO
CllnchJlO.............................................. 
80
8.............................................. 
6..................  
90
Barrell %.............................................. 
175
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fan cy ...................................   ©40
Sclota Bench................................................. 
©50
Sandusky Tool  Co.’s, fancy...........................   f i o
Bench, first quality..........................................   ©40
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s  wood............ 50*10
Fry,  Acme.................................................dls.60—10
Common,  polished................................... dls. 
70
dls.
Iron and  Tinned..............................................50—10
Copper Rivets and B urs................................  56—10

"  
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

planks. 

BIVKT8. 

PANS.

dls.

 

PATENT PLANISHED IKON.

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

Broken packs » 0  per pound extra.

HAMMERS.

dls.

“ 
‘ 

“  
“ 
“ 

HiNeas.

HABSKBS. 

HOLLOW WARE.

HOUSB  FURNISHING  GOODS.

25
Maydole  A Co.’s........................................dls. 
25
Kip’s ............................................................dls. 
Yerkes *  Plumb’s .....................................dls. 40*10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel....................   .. .80c list 60
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steel  H and....80c40*10 
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2, 3 .................................dis.60A10
State............................................... per dos. net, 2 50
Screw Hook  and  Strap, to 12 In. 454  14  and
3#
longer............................................................. 
Screw Hook and  Bye, Ml......................... net 
10
X ............................net 
"  
8K
X ...........................net  7ti
‘ 
X ............................net 
754
Strap and T ................................................dls. 
50
Bara Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track. ...50*10
Champion,  anti friction................................  60*10
Kidder, wood tra c k ......................................... 
40
Pots..................................................................... so&ie
Kettles.................................................................60*10
Spiders  .............................................................. 60*10
Gray enameled..................................................40*10
Stamped  Tin W are.................................new list 70
Japanned Tin W are........................................  
26
Granite Iron W are........................new 11s 
2t
B lig h t......................................................  70*10*10
Screw  Byes................................................. 70*10*10
70*10*10
Hook’s . . . . .......................... 
Gate Hooks and Byes........................  . 
70*10*10
dtS.70
Stanley Rnle and Level  Co.’s .............   .......
7
Sisal, Vi Inch and la rg e r................................ 
M anilla..............................................................  oi
dls.
Steel and  Iron..................................................71 &10
Try and Bevels............................................ 
60
M itre.................................................................  
20
„  
Com.  Smooth.  Com
Nos. 10 to  14..........................................|3 50 
Nos. 15 to 17............................................3  50 
Nos.  18 to 21............................................4 05 
Nos. 22 to 24........................................... 3 55 
Nos. 25 to 26........................................ 3  65 
No. 27....................................................3 76 
wide not less than 2-10 extra
List acct. 19, ’8 6 ........................................ dls. 
Silver Lake, White A .................................list 
Drab A ...................................     <> 
White  B ..................................  • 
Drab B.....................................  *> 
White C.............................. 

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

50
50
55
50
55
  «  yn

BAND PAPER.
SASH COBD.

LBVBLS. 
ROPES.

WIRE g o o d s. 

SHEET IRON.

SQUARES. 

“ 
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“ 
“ 

dls.

 

 

Discount, 10.

SASH WRIGHTS.

. 

dlS.

SAWS. 

_  
H and....................................... 

.. 
“ 
Silver Steel  Dia. X Cuts, per foot,.... 
“  Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot.... 
“  Special Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot__  
“  Champion  and  Electric  Tooth  X 
Cuts,  per  foot................................................. 

Solid Byes................................................ per ton (36
20
70
50
30
30
dlS.
 
Steel, Game........................................................60*10
Oneida Community, Newhonse’s .............  
35
Oneida  Community, Hawley * Norton’s 
70
Mouse,  choker....................................... 18c per dos
Mouse, delusion.................................. »i .bo per dos
dls
Bright Market..................................................   70
Annealed Market.................................... . 
. .7b—10
Coppered M arket....................................  
. 60—10
Tinned M arket.........................................  ’, ”   6254
Coppered  Spring  Steel.................................. . 
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanised............................  270

TRAPS. 

WtRB. 

. 

painted................................ 2 30

“ 

HORSE RAILS.

»2 50
2 60
2 70
2 80

WRENCHES. 

AU  Sable...............................................................dls. 40*10
S » taam ............................................  
dls.  05
Northwestern...................................  
dls. 10410
dlB
Baxter’s  Adjustable, nickeled............... 
go
Coe’s  G enuine.......................................... 
50
75
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,__  
Coe’s  Patent, malleable...............................   .75*15
dls
Bird C ages.........................  
50
 
Pumps, Cistern............................................ 
75*10
Screws, New List....................................... 70Alf *10
Casters, Bed  a  d  Plate............................. 50*10*10
Dampers, American......................................... 
40
Forks, hoes, rakes  and all steel g o o d s . 65*10 

MISCELLANEOUS. 

 

METALS.
PIG TIN.

 

ZING.

26c
¿8c

BOLDER.

Pig  Large........................................................  
Pig Bars............................................................. 
Duty:  Sheet, 254c per pound.
eu
600 pound  caskB....................................... 
Per  pound...................................................  
7 *
54054........................................................................ ..
Extra W iping......................................................  15
The  prices  of  the  many  other  qualities  of 
solder In the market Indicated by private brands 
1 20
vary according to composition.
ANTIMONY.
1 60
Cookson........................................... per  pound
Hallett’s.......................................... 
•* 
TIN—MBLYH GRADE.
10x14 IC, Charcoal....................................... 
•* 
14x20 IC, 
10x14 IX, 
“ 
14x20 IX, 
•* 
TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE.
“ 
“ 
•< 

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

»750
750
 
............................................  9 26
 
9 ^

75
............................................  6 75
825
 
............................................  9  25

Each additional X on this grade, n.75.

Bach additional X on this grade »1.50.

is

 
 

 

ROOFING PLATES

<• 
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“ 
“ 

14x20 IC, “   Worcester...................................  6  so
14x20 IX, 
» 
.........................  8  50
.......................   18  50
80x28 IC, 
“ 
“ Allaway  Grade......................  
14x20 IC, 
6  00
“ 
14x20 IX, 
“  
7  60
** 
20x28 IC, 
12  GO
“ 
20X28IX, 
*............................. ........................  i 8  60
BOILBB BIRR TIN PLATE.
1}*281£..............................................................»14  00
^
14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers, 1 _ _  
1 per pound —   10 00
14x60 XX,  "  “  9 

 
 

 
 

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▲  W i m T   JOUES AL  DKTOTK)  TO  TBB

Best  Interests  of  Business  Men.

Published at

lOO  Louis  St., G rand R apids,

—  BY   T H E   —

TRADESMAN  COMPANY.
O ne  D o llar  a  T ear,  P ay ab le  In  A dvance.

ADVERTISING  RATES  ON  APPLICATION.

Communications  Invited  from practical  busi­

ness men.

Correspondents must give their full  name and 
address,  not  necessarily for  publication, but as 
a guarantee of good faith.

Subscribers may have  the  mailing  address  of 

their papers  changed as often as desired.
Sample copies sent free to any address.
Entered at Grand  Rapids post office as second- 

class matter.

g ^ “When  writing to  any of  our  advertisers, 
please  say that  you  saw  their  advertisement In 
T h e   M ic h ig a n  T r a d e s m a n .

E.  A.  STOWE.  Editor.

W EDNESDAY,  JU N E   27, 1894.

T H E   D R A IN   O P  GO LD .

The  summer  exodus  to  Europe  has 
commenced. 
It  is  a regular business to 
go abroad for a summer vacation,  and  it 
need not cost much  more  than  is  spent 
by  the  summer  wanderer  in  a  tour 
through the  seaside,  lakeside  or  moun­
tain resorts of this  country.  While  this 
is  true,  it  is  no  less  a  fact that a trip 
abroad  makes  a  vast  difference  to  the 
finances of the  country.  Tourists in our 
own wide continental area only  circulate 
their money from  one  State  to  another. 
The  same  greenbacks  are  good  money 
all over the country,  and  so  is  a  silver 
dollar.  But to cross the water one  must 
have  gold.  Greenbacks  and  silver  are 
out of the  question.

All of the money  thus  expended  goes 
to  foreigners.  All 
the  ships  which 
carry  passengers,  with  a  very  few ex­
ceptions,  are foreign vessels,  and thus a 
vast amount of  money  is  taken  out  of 
the country.  The  exports of gold in the 
month  of  May  alone  were  $32,000,000, 
largely caused by the  exodus  of  travel­
ers to Europe.  Some  suggestive  figures 
are given in this  connection.  The  total 
number of cabin passengers leaving New 
York for Europe in  1893  was  71,859,  of 
whom 48,456 were  adult  males.  Allow 
ing that the men, singly and as heads  of 
families,  expended $1,000 each—which is 
a  low  estimate—nearly  $48,500,000 
in 
gold was  required  for  the  expenses  of 
those 71,850 tourists.

In  addition 

to  the  value  of  money 
spent  by  American  tourists  abroad,  is 
the amount sent by relatives  to members 
of their families left in the old countries 
It  is  also  noticed  that  thousands  of 
aliens who immigrated to  this  country a 
longer or shcrter time ago  are  returning 
to their native places.  Reports from the 
railroad offices,  says the Chicago  Herald, 
show  that  7,000 or 8,000 of these persons 
from all  parts of  the  West  have  bought 
tickets in Chicago  for  European  points. 
These people came to the United  States, 
not  for  a  permanent  residence,  but  to 
make a fortune to carry back to  Europe. 
They have made  their  fortunes  and  are 
going  home.  Usually  it  is  but  a  few 
thousand dollars, or a few hundred even; 
but,  be  the  sum  large  or small,  it goes 
out of this country, and  always  in  gold.

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necessary  sting  to  it  under  the rule of 
evolution.  The  vicious  and  criminal 
classes not only are not  exterminated  by 
the  laws  of  physical  development,  but 
they  grow,  increase and thrive.

This  fact  becomes  extremely  incon­
venient to the material theory  of  moral­
ity,  and  the  conviction  forces  itself on 
the  observer  that  moral  and  spiritual 
laws  are  not  identical  with  physical 
laws.  The self-made man is  confronted 
with  the  fact  that,  although  he  is  so 
much  of  a  god  as  to have created him- 
elf,  he cannot rule and control  his  own 
creation.  He  cannot  govern  himself. 
It 
so  perfect  a 
system as physical  evolution  marred  by 
the insuperable difficulties of  harmoniz­
ing it with the moral  principle,  and  un­
less  some  way  out  of  the  difficulty be 
discovered,  it may  become  necessary  to 
discard the entire moral element.  After 
all,  a mere animal  has no  business  with 
a moral nature.

to  have 

is  hard 

The article from the pen of Rev.  H.  P. 
De Forest,  D.  D.,  which  appears  else­
where  in  this  issue,  is  heartily  com­
mended to the careful attention  of every 
reader  of  T h e   T r a d e s m a n .  Fearless 
yet moderate in tone, and sound in theory 
and logic,  Dr.  De Forest’s  positions are 
unassailable,  and  his  arguments  unan­
swerable. 
It  might  be  expected  that 
such plainly spoken truths  would  bring 
down  upon  the  head of the speaker the 
wrath of unionist  demagogues,  and  the 
Dr.  has  been  assailed  on every hand in 
the most shameless  and  vindictive man­
ner.  He has been challenged to a debate 
of the labor question by  one of the labor 
leaders,  but declined  the  contest,  know­
ing  that  be  would  stand  little  chance 
against  the  mendacious  and  unscrupu­
lous  methods of  debate  invariably  em­
ployed  by  the  trades  unionist  orators. 
That a man occupying a position of such 
commanding influence should  speak  out 
in such a fearless tone on a subject upon 
which both press  and  pulpit  have  been 
shamefully silent, is a matter of congrat­
ulation,  and  his  example  is  worthy  of 
emulation.  The  element  which  domi­
nates  the  trades  unions  is composed of 
the worst and most  vicious  of  the crim­
inals  who  come  to  this country.  They 
are,  many  of  them,  anarchists  of  the 
most  lurid stripe.  They have no respect 
for law or order themselves and do all  in 
their power to inoculate others  with  the 
views  of  their  peculiar and destructive 
tenets.  Those  men  are  not  working­
men—they  are  loafers  and  vagabonds, 
ably  seconded  by  the  army  of  tramps 
who  are  always  to  be  found under the 
aegis of the trades union banner.

The  Michigan  Merchant  is  the  name 
of  a  likely-looking  weekly  publication 
emanating from  the Saginaw market and 
designed to  set forth the  advantages  of 
the several Saginaws  in a  jobbing  way. 
The initial issue is a  creditable  one and 
gives promise of  a career of  usefulness.
The  walking  delegate  ,who  lives  on 
the earnings  of  men  who  work,  is  no 
more of a  man  than  the  creature  who 
lives on the earnings of his wife.

T h e  D ru g  M a r k e t.

Gum opium has  advanced  on  account 
of  cable  received  reporting  damage  to 
the growing  erop.

Morphia  is unchanged.
Quinine is steady.
Linseed oil again advanced 2 cents and 

is scarce.

THE  MICHXQAJST  TRADESMAN.
pressions  of  the  greatest  surprise  and 
admiration  on  the  part  of  those  who 
know how difficult it has been,  with  the 
aid of every  advantage  they  could  em­
ploy,  to gain  even  the  moderate  success 
they  have  attained.  The  man  who  is 
made by adventitious and  specially  fav­
orable circumstances is a mere  creature; 
but the man who makes himself  is a sort 
of god.

Another way in  which  large  amounts 
of gold are sent  out of the country is for 
rents of property in this  country  owned 
in Europe.  There is a vast deal of prop­
erty  in  this  country  owned  by  foreign 
landlords.  They seldom  make  any  im­
provements,  save  what 
is  absolutely 
necessary  to  keep  the  buildings  habit­
able,  while all the rents are  taken  away 
as fast as they are earned.

This  country,  rich  as  it  is,  would 
never  have  been  able  to sustain such a 
constant and enormous drain  of gold but 
for its rich mines.  At the  time  Califor­
nia gold began to come  into  circulation, 
it is doubtful if $20,000,000  of  gold  was 
to  be  found  in  the  entire  length  and 
breadth  of  the  Union;  but  then 
there 
were few American  tourists abroad,  and 
the commerce  of  the  country  was  only 
required,  as  far  as 
importations  were 
concerned,  to supply the  wants  of  some 
23,000,000  of  population 
living  in  the 
old-time frugal  way.  But the discovery 
of the rich mines of the West  made  gold 
plenty,  and  since  then 
these  United 
States  have  been  able  to  endure  the 
drain which has grown to such enormous 
proportions.

But the gold  mines  are  rapidly  being 
worked  out,  and  the  production of the 
yellow metal has vastly decreased within 
a brief period,  while  the  habits  of  the 
American people are daily growiug  more 
and more  luxurious  and  extravagant  in 
their demands for  foreign  products  and 
for  foreign  travel.  With  the  growing 
lack of gold,  its  absence  must  be  made 
up either  by  increasing  the  amount  of 
our  exports  or  by  decreasing  the  im­
ports.  The most certain and reliable ex­
port  business  is  in  cotton,  timber and 
petroleum.  Grain  and  meats  tluctuate 
in  amount,  according  to  the  crops and 
labor conditions in Europe.  The largest 
amount  of  any  single  article  imported 
from foreign countries is in sugar. 
It is 
possible to produce in the  United  States 
all the sugar consumed  here.  When the 
time shall come that  this  country  shall 
lose the greater part  of  its  gold  supply 
and be stripped of its  stock  of  the  yel­
low metal,  it  will  become  necessary  to 
adopt some  efficient  economic  measure 
to stop the outflow of gold.

Then statesmanship will  be  called  in 
to act in the stead of the blind  and  fool­
ish  policy  that  has  for  so  many years 
been driving  the richest  country  in  the 
world to financial ruin.

EV O LUTIO N   D O W N W A R D .

The  “self-made  man”  is  always  and 
justly proud of his success in  the  world 
He  did  not  enjoy  the  advantages  of a 
liberal education; but, in all probability 
whatever of intellectual  culture  he  was 
able to get was in  spite  of  the  greatest 
difficulties and by his own  extraordinary 
exertions.  He did not  have  wealthy  or 
influential friends to  help  him  along  in 
business; but, on the contrary,  he started 
in  the  lowest  place,  and  by  his  own 
pluck and devotion to his  work,  by  his 
energy,  industry  and  almost  incredible 
exertions,  he  has  attained  wealth  and 
distinction.

Such is the self-made  man,  and  there 
is no wonder that  he  feels  his  superior­
ity  to  all  who  may  have  had  vastly 
greater  advantages  of  assistance  and 
opportunity and yet have  not  been  able 
to reach  anything  like  the  measure  of 
success attained by him.  It is impossible 
to contemplate the examples  of men who 
have made themselves great  without ex­

It  is  very  much  this  pleasing reflec­
tion which is enjoyed by  those  theorists 
who hold that man in  his  highest  intel­
lectual estate  is  the  result  of  inherent 
and potential forces which  he  was  able 
to use through a long course of evolution 
in raising himself  constantly  to  higher 
and  higher  pinnacles,  always  resolved 
on the attainment of a higher  position of 
excellence,  congratulating  himself  that 
he is self-made, that  all  his  progress  is 
the  work  of  his  own  hands,  so  that, 
while less ambitious spirits may be  will­
ing to accept the humbler  lot  of  having 
been made by God,  the  evolutionist  en­
joys  the  greater  distinction  of  being a 
god who has made himself.

Such a proud reflection is  a  source  of 
satisfaction  to  the  discoverers  of  the 
self-creative power of matter and motion. 
With  the  power  of  self-creation  is the 
power to  propagate and perpetuate,  and 
this system of  perpetuation  ail leads on 
to a higher state of development and per­
fection,  or,  at  least,  it  ought  to do so. 
But  nothing  is  more  disgusting  to  the 
creator of a beautiful system of scientific 
development  than  to  have  to  contend 
with a lot of  facts  that  persistently  re­
fuse to  fit  into  the  general  plan.  The 
best way in  such  cases  is  to  disregard 
them, ignore them,  cast  them out bodily. 
Facts in such  cases  must  be  considered 
foes to what ought to be true if it is  not, 
and, therefore, a beautiful system should 
not be bothered with facts.

In this enlightened age it is  taken  for 
granted that all progressive  thinkers be­
lieve in the power of matter to create and 
develop  itself,  making things better and 
journeying on by a sure and  undeviating 
road  to  perfection.  Matter  having 
created itself,  and  man.  having  started 
in a cell of jelly, having developed  him- 
elf by the monkey route  into  the  states 
of the highest of all animals,  arrives at a 
point where it is necessary to reason and 
to possess a moral nature.  He proceeds, 
of courge,  to  supply  those  wants.  But 
everywhere along the route  he  is  beset 
with opposing forces.  The development 
is  not  all  in  the  same  direction.  The 
laws that govern it  are  often  confusing 
and contradictory.

The  confusion  and  contradiction  are 
introduced as soon as the  moral  and  in­
tellectual powers which man has  created 
for his own  use  come  into  play.  They 
refuse  to  work  in  harmony  with 
the 
physical evolution. 
If the law of physi­
cal evolution is that those physically  fit 
test always  survive,  then,  in  harmony, 
those  morally  fittest  ought  also  to sur 
vive.  But they do  not.  Grimes, such as 
murder  and  robbery,  do  not  have  any 
natural  punishment  attached  to  them 
and no punishment at all in many  cases 
The moral punishment of remorse  is  by 
no means universal,  but  is  only  the  re 
suit  of  particular  moral  or  religious 
teachings.  Actions  which  are  immoral 
and wicked do not necessarily cause  any 
pain or trouble to  those  who  perpetrate 
them. 
like 
drunkenness or debauchery, damages the 
physical constitution  that  there  in  any

It  is  only  when  a  vice, 

FOREIGN  FINANCE  FIGURES.

In 

the  matter  of  finances a nation is 
Its  credit  de- 

much like an individual. 
pends on its ability to  pay.

A nation’s revenue,  like the income  of 
an individual derived  from  rents,  crops 
or other sources,  is not always  available 
for use at the moment  it  is  needed,  and 
so the nation or the individual is able  to 
borrow money on the faith of being  able 
to  make  good  the  loan when  its or his 
revenue  comes in.

The  only  source  of  revenue which a 
nation  has  is  taxation. 
It  distributes 
among the people the  burden  of  paying 
the debts of the nation.  The people will 
pay the taxes as long as they are not  ex­
cessive nor make too heavy  a  burden  on 
private means; but when taxation passes 
a limit that  causes  the  impoverishment 
of the people, the danger line is  reached 
and trouble will  ensue.  Nearly  all  the 
popular revolutions  in  the  world  were 
revolts against excessive  taxation.  Peo­
ple are willing to pay something  for  the 
government under which they  live,  pro­
vided it gives them  corresponding  bene­
fits.  The function of  government  is  to 
protect  the  rights,  liberties,  lives  and 
proper y of the people from foreign foes, 
and  as  much  as possible  from  internal 
enemies.  For  this protection the people 
must give military service and pay taxes. 
It is only when the exactions made  upon 
the people largely outweigh  the  benefits 
that  are derived  from  the  maintenance 
of the government that the people  rebel.
These observations are  suggested  by a 
statement  from  the  eminent  publicist, 
M.  G.  Mullhall,  in regard to the  finances 
of the various  European  countries.  He 
declares that in the past decade,  or  since 
1885, taxes in  Europe have  increased  21 
per  cent.,  while  the  public  debt  has 
grown to the extent of 17  per  cent.  He 
holds that taxes have reached their limit, 
and  bankruptcy  in  several  countries 
must shortly ensue.  He shows  how  the 
expenditures 
in  the  several  countries 
overgo  the  revenues,  as  follows.  The 
figures must be read as so  many  million 
pounds sterling:

Debt

Revenue, 

128
145
90
80
60
32
9
52
596

Expend
iture.
138
165
105
88
63
34
11
56
660

increase.
89
France..............
Germany..........
183
Russia..............
132
73
Austria
Italy..................
30
Spain.................
17
20
Portugal  .........
36
Other States...
T otal..........
530
From  the above  it will  be seen  that
an 
important country  in
there 
is  noi
is  not  increasing its  debt
Europe  that
and living far  beyond  its income.  Much 
of the money has been spent in  building 
railways,  telegraphs  and  in  armaments 
for the public defense; but there  are  no 
sources of  revenue  developed  that  will 
enable any such country to make  up  its 
deficiencies of  revenue. 
In  the  decade 
mentioned there have been  expended  in 
Europe:
For state  railways.................................£336,000,000
For telegraph  lines................................   16,000,000
For military and naval  arm am ents...  228,000.000
Making a total  o f..........  £580,000,600
Railroads  represent  valuable  produc­
tive assets,  but for all the balance of  the 
expenditures there is  very  little  in  the 
way  of  visible  wealth  to show. 
If the 
European Governments  were sold out  at 
sheriff’s sale,  it would  be found  that  the 
aggregate  debt  is  £4,050,000,000,  while 
the railroads would stand for £1,091,000,- 
000, or  about  one-fourth  of  the  whole; 
while  the  other 
three-fourths  would 
have  nothing  to  show  for  them.  The

debts and the  enormous  annual  deficits 
of revenue,  if paid at  all,  must  be  paid 
by laying additional taxes  on the people. 
It is safe to say the debts cannot be paid, 
and it is a question of  the  patience  and 
endurance of  the  people  whether  they 
will  or  can  pay  the  yearly  increasing 
taxes.

When the people  reach  a  point  when 
they can or will  pay the taxes no  longer, 
they  overturn 
the  government  under 
which they live,  and  in  such  a  contin­
gency they  would  repudiate  their  debt 
and  begin  anew. 
There  is  nothing 
strange in  this idea,  as the  people of the 
several  States  of  the  American  Union 
have already done a great deal of repudi­
ating or wiping out of  public  debts. 
In 
any case,  the creditors  will  be  helpless 
to prevent such a  catastrophe.

It 

It 

D o e s  C h ristian ity  P a y   in  B u sin ess?
From   Business.
When Christianity is dragged into busi­
ness to make a part  of  a  man’s  business 
career;  when  Scriptural  texts  are  scat­
tered around  offices  and  stores;  when  a 
great parade is made of one’s  connection 
with  churches—if  that  is  to  be  called 
Christianity it certainly does not  pay  in 
any sense of the word. 
It is,  in  the eyes 
of every man  who sees and reads, a direct 
attempt to use the religion  of  Christ  for 
mercenary  business  purposes. 
is 
bringing  high  things  down 
for  base 
is  a  deliberate,  though 
purposes. 
possibly ignorant,  use of  a  man’s  moral 
convictions  for  purely  business  things. 
On this account it is to be  condemned  in 
the most uncompromising manner.
But there is a way in  which Christiani­
ty  can  be  carried  into  business,  and  in 
fact carried into every act  of  life,  which 
is the highest degree honorable and com­
mendable.  The  men  who  most  com­
pletely exemplify their  Christian  beliefs 
and doctrines in  their work are not those 
who bang Scriptural  texts  on  the  walls 
and  who  begin  their  morning  business 
with prayer meetings,  but they  are  men 
who,  with  honesty  of  purpose,  do  what 
their  hands  find  to  do  with  all 
their 
might.  Such men are honest.  They are 
honest because honesty is  right,  and  not 
because  they  consider  it  good  business 
policy  to be  honest. 
If  they  are  manu­
facturers  their  goods  go  out  of  the  es­
tablishment absolutely up to their repre­
sented  grade.  They  take  neither  mean 
nor  unfair  advantages  of  customers. 
Their words are as good  as  their  bonds. 
They are what the world calls “perfectly 
square” men.  This kind of  Christianity 
is  the  only  kind  that  is  justifiable  in 
business,  and it is the only  kind  that  is 
called for by the founder of the Christian 
religion.
Benjamin  Franklin’s  famous  moral, 
“Honesty  is  the  best  policy,”  is  only 
auother way of saying  that  the  business 
man  ought  to  be  a  good Christian  for 
business reasons if for no others.  “Boss” 
McKane  of  Gravesend  seems  to  have 
been  of  that  class  of  men  who  for  a 
certain  time  seem  able  to  successfully 
use  religion  as  a  business  of  practical 
capital. 
It is such men  who  largely  aid 
in  bringing  disgrace  upon  religion  any­
where  and  everywhere.  Such  men  do 
more,  infinitely more harm in  the  world 
than those  who  openly  and  boldly  pro­
claim  their  intentions  to  do  wrong  be­
cause wrong is  for  their  interests.  We 
believe whenever we see pronounced  ex­
ternal evidence of religion  in  a  business 
establishment  that  the  proprietor  is  in 
his heart either a bad  man or one who  is 
so woefully mistaken that his actions are 
likely to be  no  better  than  those  of  a 
rascal.

A machine,  to  do  its  work  well,  re­
quires  three  distinct  properties:  Good 
material, good workmanship and  motive 
power.  The human  machine  to  do  its 
work in the world properly,  needs  char­
acter, education and energy.
The  war  of  labor  against  capital  is 
really a war of cause  against  effect,  for 
capital is  but the product of labor.
Ignorance is a  road  that  leads  to  re­
pentance.

N E W

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J u st A rrived 
Zum   Yum

I ^ ^ G r o ^ c o '

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.

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T H E   M ICHIGAN  TRADESM AN.

AGRICULTURE  A S  A  CAREER.

There is a very general misconception of 
the scope of  farming by people not  iden­
tified with the occupation.  A  primitive 
method of tilling  the  soil  under  favor­
able conditions of  climate  like  that  de­
lineated by St.  Pierre in  his  account  of i 
the way  the  Mothers  of  Paul  and  Vir­
ginia  maintained  their  simple  house­
holds,  does  not  even  remotely  indicate 
the  equipment  necessary  to  success  in 
agriculture.

The farmer of  to-day,  who,  while  at­
taining a fair degree of  financial  success 
shall  secure  an  amount  of  enjoyment 
commensurate  with  the  possibilities  of 
his calling,  must have  a  wide  range  of 
knowledge in the  sciences  which  lie  at 
the  foundation  of  his  art  in  manipula­
tion;  sciences  which  are  developing  so 
rapidly that some of their  findings  grow 
old  in  a  generation  and  often  inappli­
cable in  a decade.  This  requires him to 
be a student  of  contemporaneous  scien­
tific  history  while  it  is  making.  Suc­
cess does not depend upon  a  knowledge 
of 
the  processes  by  which  scientific 
truths  are  developed,  but  an  intimate 
knowledge of the truths themselves.

It does not require a  very  smart  man 
to maintain himself  in  a  very  comfort­
able  condition  if  he  has  nothing  to do 
but check on a bank  account and expend 
the money.  So it does not require a man j 
of great knowledge and skill  in  agricul­
ture to  take a rich,  virgin  soil  and  grow 
crops  upon  it  for  a  living  if  only the 
daily  necessities are considered,  with no 
regard  to  the  future.  The  rich  soil is 
the farmer’s bank account and thrift and 
success demand that while utilizing it  he 
must not deplete its fertility.

Let us glance at some of the  problems 
of  the  farm  that  the  farmer  must  be 
equipped to  solve,  □ He  must  so  under­
stand the nature of hisjsoil  as  to  know 
while  he  is  drawing  upon  its  fund of 
fertility,  how,  by  nature’s  processes,  to 
restore what he takes away and still  add 
to his other resources.  He  must  under­
stand  what  elements  are  utilized  and 
eliminated  by  certain  crops,  and  what 
in 
crops  are  restorative  to 
larger  measure 
they 
make upon it.

the  draft 

the  land 

than 

success. 

The method j of  improving  seeds  and 
plants and the laws of  life  that  control 
variation and  heredity  are  of  vital  im­
portance  to  the  farmer  and  unless  he 
has some  understanding  of  them  he  is 
not fitted to take  advantage  of  the  pro­
cesses that are at the foundation of  agri­
cultural  progress  and 
For­
tunes have been made by  taking  advan­
tage of  ability  to  distinguish  values  in 
the  variation  ef  plants  and  often 
the 
margin  in  growing  crops  at  periods of 
low prices  turns  upon  the  selection  of 
variety  or  breed.  The  adaptability of 
breeds  of  animals  to  soil  and  climatic 
conditions and the  relation  of  stock  to 
the economy of farm life,  as well  as  the 
successful selection  and breeding  of ani­
mals  suited  to  the  various  methods  in 
agriculture,  modified  by  proximity 
to 
market or wants of  special  markets,  re­
quires a knowledge  and  judgment  of  a 
very high order which  can  only  be  ob­
tained by as  care  preparation  in  laying 
the foundation  as  solving  knotty  prob­
lems in law or diagnosing complex  cases 
in the practice of medicine.

The question of seed and insect  distri­
bution and methods  of  combatting  nox­
ious  insects  and  vile  weeds,  and 
the 
ability  to  distinguish  between  friends |

and foes to  crops  require  knowledge  of 
botany  and  entomology  that  is  not 
merely  superficial but  technical.  To  be 
a successful farmer, one must be  able  to 
distinguish readily the  enemies  that  are 
on  every  hand;  and,  in  order to  avoid 
making  serious  blunders,  a  thorough 
understanding  must be  had  of  the  bal­
ance of nature,  and,  with  artificial  con­
ditions,  how to maintain it.

By this I mean that the  habits  of  ani­
mals and plants must be so  well  under­
stood as to lead the one engaged in farm­
ing to save his allies  in  warring  against 
his  foes;  while  destroying  the  potato 
beetle  to  protect  the 
ichneumen  flies, 
whose special occupation is  to  diminish 
the number of potato  bettles;  while  de­
stroying  the  pestiferous  English  spar­
rows to protect the  birds whose lives are 
given up to eating  noxious  insects.  We 
seem now to be in an epoch when  injuri­
ous fungi are combatting the  best  inter­
ests of the farmer.  To make  a  success­
ful fight  with these lower  forms  of  life, 
one  must  know  them  and  their habits, 
must be equipped  for  battle  before  bis 
products are destroyed.  This  assumes a 
considerable  knowledge  of  chemistry 
and the use of chemicals,  for one is deal­
ing with dangerous poisons in using fun­
gicides and may destroy  instead  of  pro­
tecting his crops.  Lack  of  this  know­
ledge has swept away incomes,  and will­
ful neglect in  attaining  this  knowledge 
has rendered the  pursuit  of  agriculture 
precarious.

The  influence  of  forest  growth  upon 
climatic conditions, the modifying effects 
of  bodies of water,  immunity from  frost 
as a result of  altitude,  the  influence  of 
the  average  annual  rainfall  upon  the 
selection of crops  to  grow,  the  import­
ance of free circulation of air to  prevent 
mildews,  the relation  between the  depth 
of  the  water-table  beneath  to  soil 
to 
method  of  culture  and  immunity  from 
frost,  and  hundreds of  other  important 
matters  connected  with  meteorology, 
are indicative of what a farmer  needs  to 
know  of  this  science  and  the  use  this 
knowledge  can  be  to  him  in  growing 
crops successfully.

Then  there  is  the  intimate  acquaint­
ance with  farm economics that  must  ac­
company  a  successful  business  career 
upon the farm.  Every  farmer must vote 
upon  questions  of  policy  that  have  a 
great influence upon the outcome  of  his 
business.  This  involves a  knowledge of 
the history of prices  for  farm  products 
through  long  terms  of  years,  as 
in­
fluenced by  laws of trade,  monetary  con­
ditions and the  development  of  regions 
specially adapted to certain  agricultural 
specialties.

The  technical  knowledge  of  manual 
operations is by  no  means  unimportant 
as an equipment  for  farm  life.  There 
are so many diverse things to  do  on  the 
farm that ability to do them  well  and to 
know what is a day’s work for  others  to 
do, often marks the foundation for a suc­
cessful career.  Hence  the  necessity  of 
apprenticeship in the hand  work  of  the 
farm.  A knowledge  of  all  science  and 
philosophy and history will not take  the 
place  of  this  skill,  which  rises  above 
everything else  in  importance,  whether 
upon  the small  garden  where  one  does 
all his own work, or upon the great farm 
employing hundred of  laborers and great 
capital.

1  am  an  enthusiast  concerning rural 
life and I  believe farming  to  be  one  of 
the safest,  most enjoyable  and  most  in-!

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RiNDGE,  KALMBKGH 
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Ever  heard  of  our  Hard  Pan  line ?  Why cert.  Everybody 
knows we make them right.  What  we  want  to  call  your  a t-^  
tention  to  now  is our Cordivan line,  the line  that is coming to 
the front, with glorious  results.  We have met  with  such  un 
limited  success  in  the  manufacture  of them in Men’s,  Boys’ 
and Youths’ that  we have decided to add  Women’s,  Misses’ and 
Children's.  Misses’  and  Children’s  in  both  heel  and spring 
heel with prices that cannot  help  but  please  you. 
(Another 
question.)  Are  we  in  it on jobbing goods ?  Well we should 
smile a smole longer than  a wagon track.  Of course we are in  it  and  our  line  of 
fall goods will convince you that  we are in it more than  ever.  A  little  advice  on 
the  side  without  charge,  it is to place your rubber order early as it will  save you 
money.

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few days ago:
R in d g b ,  K a l m b a c h   a Co., Grand Rapids,  Mich.

W a sh in g t o n ,  D.  C.,  May 3,1894.

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

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Lansing, Mich.

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Having re-organized  our business  and  acquired  the  fac­
tory  building  and  machinery  formeily occupied  by the Hud­
son  Pants  &   Overall  Co.,  we  are  prepared  to  furnish  the 
trade a  line of goods in  pants, overalls, shirts and 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.

We  pay  Highest  Market  Prices  in  Spot  Cash  and  measure  bar» 

when  Loaded.

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d e p en d e n t  o ccu p atio n s  in 
i 
am   im bued  w ith   th e   id ea th a t  in   the  suc­
cessfu l  p ro secu tio n   of  fa rm in g   as  a  b u si­
in tim a te   con­
ness,  becau se  of  one’s 
n ectio n   w ith   n a tu re ’s  law s,  th e re   is 
th e 
o p p o rtu n ity   fo r  th e   d ev elo p m en t  of  th e 
b est  p a rt  of  m an’s  n a tu re   ra re ly   fou n d   in 
o th e r  o ccu p atio n s.

Agriculture,  well  followed,  tends  to 
develop in man  a catholic  spirit,  and  the 
physical and mental training which  girls 
and boys secure upon the farm fits  them 
to develop grandly in any  occupation  or 
profession in life.

The  life  of  a  farmer  has  often been 
called  a  life  of  drudgery.  There is no 
occupation that  has a larger ratio  of  in­
spiriting labor to one whose  tastes are in 
harmony with rural life.

The  weak  point  in  American  farming 
has been  the lack of appreciation  of  the 
equipment  necessary 
to  a  successful 
career.  Too many men have  been  will­
ing to be thieves  of  the  soil’s  resources 
that  they  might  swell 
their  bank  ac­
counts.

To  th e   yo u n g   m an  or  w om an,  fa irly  
w ell  ed u cated ,  w ho w ill  add  som e 
te c h ­
n ical  k n o w led g e of  o u r special  schools  of 
a g ric u ltu re   to  th e ir  re q u ire m e n ts, 
th e re  
is no   m ore  p ro m isin g   field  of  e n te rp rise  
th a n   fa rm in g ;  b u t 
to  in su re   th a t  s a tis ­
its  p ro secu tio n   w hich  m akes 
factio n   in 
b u sin ess 
any 
en jo y ab le, 
s p irit m u st be  p u t  in to   it  and 
toil  m u st 
be  sw eeten ed   by  an   a p p re ciatio n   of  th e  
a ttrib u te s   w h ich   m ake  ru ra l  life  a ttr a c ­
tiv e. 

Ch a s.  W. Ga r f ie l d .

o ccu p atio n  

T he C o lleges  and T heir G rad u ates.
Between  the  first  and  last  days  of 
June hundred of  colleges  and  universi­
ties turn out  their  graduates,  bachelors 
of  arts,  science  and  literature.  These 
are nearly all young men,  and in  the  ag­
gregate  there  are  some  thousands  of 
them.

it is customary to sneer  at  the  young 
professionals,  graduates in  law or  medi-> 
cine,  licensed,  as  it  has  been  said,  to 
cozzen or to kill; but much more is it the 
rule  to  sneer  at  the  youths  who  have 
merely studied  books  without  learniug 
any trade or profession, and are equipped 
with  no technical  knowledge  that  may 
be used directly in earning a living.

Every 

self-educated  or  uneducated 
man who has got  along  in  the  world  is 
ready  to  speak  contemptuously  of  the 
college  graduate.  Even  a  great-souled 
and  broad-minded  man, 
like  Horace 
Greeley, could not resist  the temptation, 
and  the  venerable  editor  of  the  New 
York  Sun,  the  most  eminent  and  suc­
cessful  journaiist  on  the  hemisphere, 
himself a college graduate, has told  how, 
when  he and  Greeley  were  young  meu 
and worked at  journalism  together,  bis 
college  training  was  always  a  subject 
for contemptuous comment by  the  great 
commoner  of  American  newspaperdom.
The  young  graduate  must  expect  to 
meet just  such  a  reception  everywhere 
in  the  big  world  of  work; but he must 
not suffer himself to  be  discouraged,  or 
to be ashamed of his learning,  any  more 
than that he should be  foolishly  vain  of 
it.

The  value  of  an ¡education  is  com­
monly appraised from the  standpoint  of 
every man’s estimate of what is  the most 
important object in  life.  Not  a  few  of 
what  are  known  as  the  solid  men  of 
every communitv—in  other  words,  rich 
men—will say that the chief  business  of 
life is to get rich,  and to  do  this  a  boy,

com m ercial 

e sta b lish m e n t 

as  soon  as  he  is ab le to  “ read,  w rite  and 
c y p h er  p re tty   sm a rt,”   should  go  in to  
som e 
and 
le a rn   b u sin ess.  From   su ch   a  p o in t  of 
view ,  th e   y ears  th a t  hav e  been  sp en t 
in 
p re p a rin g   for an d   p assin g   th ro u g h   co l­
lege are  w asted.
illiterate  men  have 
Because  some 
achieved  wealth, 
it  does  not  by  any 
means follow that  a  well-trained  mind, 
or a knowledge of the history  and  litera­
ture of the chief nations of the  world,  or 
of  science  and  art,  unfits  a  man  for a 
career of business.  On  the  contrary,  it 
will be found that every man who has by 
his own  exertions  attained  to  the  first 
rank in  wealth was either educated or he 
entertained  a  high  respect  for  mental 
culture,  and lost no  opportunity  to  im­
prove his mind outside  of  his  business. 
To-day the men who  stand  in  the  high­
est places as financiers,  either in  Europe 
or America,  are  men  of  culture,  refine­
ment  and  a  wide  range  of  knowledge. 
It is not among such men  that  contempt 
for  educational  requirements 
is  to  be 
found.

In fact, the alleged  contempt  for  col­
lege training  is  vastly  more  a  shallow 
pretense tl an anything else. 
It is  a  re­
markable fact that the  uneducated  men 
who  have  become  prosperous  are  ex­
tremely solicitous about the education of 
their  own  sons,  and  never  fail to send 
them to  college.  Nor  should  it  escape 
particular observation  that  the  greatest 
number of  the  men  who  have  founded 
and  endowed  colleges  and  universities 
in  the  United  States  were  not  them­
selves  educated,  but  realized, 
in  the 
course of important and successful  com­
mercial careers, that the lack  of  culture 
and of a college  training  was  a  serious 
loss  to  them. 
It  is  only  necessary  to 
mention  such  names  as  Ezra  Cornell, 
Matthew Vassar and  Cornelius  Vander­
bilt,  of New York; John  McDonogh  and 
Paul  Tulane,  of  Louisiana;  Stephen 
Girard,  of Philadelphia;John S. Hopkins, 
of Baltimore; Cyrus McCormick,  of  Chi­
cago,  and James Lick,  of  California,  to 
prove this.  Not  one  of  these  men  had 
enjoyed  a  college  training;  but,  while 
each had  acquired  great  wealth,  in  all 
probability he felt the  lack  of  suih  an 
education,  and  so  much  were  they  im­
pressed  with  the  need  of  such  advan­
tages that  each  of  them  devoted  large 
sums of money to providing such an edu­
cation  for  others,  and  thus  each  be­
queathed his name to  posterity  and  im­
mortality.

But,  after all,  what is  the real good to 
be  derived  from 
teaching  Greek  and 
Latin,  science  and  philosophy  to  our 
young  men ? 
Is  there,  after  all,  any 
good reason for  the  sneers  with  which 
the  young  scholars  are  so  commonly 
greeted ? 
If they have  a  mission,  what 
is it?

This is an important  question,  and  it 
deserves  consideration.  The  man  who 
should proclaim the worthlessness of the 
higher education would  convict  himself 
of  enormous  stupidity  and  ignorance. 
Only a survivor of the Dark Ages, of  the 
period of  gloom  and  mental  starvation 
which followed the irruption of the Van­
dals into civilized Europe,  would seek to 
blot  out  the  colleges  and  universities. 
These institutions are the lamps that are 
lighting  man’s  way  through  the  cen­
turies,  and  the  scholars  they  turn out 
are  the  beams  and  coruscations  which 
those  lamps  of  civilization  have  given 
forth and have wrought into a galaxy  of

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1  K ^ X ) Ï Ü » M A .^

intelligence and progress  that  has  cov­
ered the human race as with a halo.

Education is charged with a royal  mis­
sion. 
It is to raise  the  intelluctual  and 
spiritual  part  of  man’s  nature  to  its 
highest  goal.  Man 
is  more  than  an 
animal.  He  is  more  than  a  creature 
made only  for  the  gratification  of  sen­
sual appetites.  There are for him divine 
heights, 
if  he  will  but  rise  to  them. 
There is for him a  lofty  and  noble  des­
tiny,  if he will but achieve  it.  There  is 
a vast problem of progress  and  develop­
ment  in  honor,  virtue and liberty.  He 
must  solve  it.  There  are  in  store  tor 
him  fame  and  immoral  glory,  but  he 
must win them.  How is this to be done? 
By scaling all the heights  of  knowledge 
reached  by  his  predecessors,  and  then 
rising  to  heights  still  more  sublime. 
Apostle of  human  progress  and  of  lib­
erty, he must know and beware the  dan­
gerous and devious paths  in  which  for­
mer  generations  were  blindly  groping 
and were lost,  and he must search out the 
way for the onward march of man  in the 
ages which are before him.

Only they who know all  the  past  can 
give warning and counsel for the future. 
It is to this grand  destiny  every  college 
boy insensibly dedicates  himself.  Even 
if he be no more than a mere atom in  the 
great wave of progress,  he still  goes for­
ward and makes a part of the  grand  on­
ward movement.

It is the business  of  the  colleges  and 
universities of this great country  to  put 
its young men on the  road  to  the  high­
est liberty and the  truest enlightenment, 
to instill the noblest  principles  and  the 
grandest sentiments of honor.  Let them 
see that they do it.

F r a n k   St o w e l l .

PECULIARITIES  OF  YEAST.

In terestin g  E xp erim en ts  M ade  b y   a 

B rew er’s  C hem ist.

F rom  th e  New Y ork Sun.
Yeast plays such an important  part  in 
all civilized life that it is difficult to  see, 
not only bow  we should  get  along  with­
out it. but. also, how we have gotten along 
for so many  generations,  or  rather  cen­
turies,  with it—that is.  with the  kind  of 
yeasts which we have  in  use.  Three, at 
least,  of  the  greatest  interests  of  the 
world depend absolutely  upon the use of 
yeast—bread making,  brewing,  and wine 
and liquor making.
PLEASES  EVERY  BODY.

Probably the earliest of these was wine 
making,  for the yeast plant that converts 
the sugar of the grape into alcohol grows 
apparently  upon the  skin  of  the  grape, 
and  when the grapes are crushed sets  up 
in business for itself within the liquor at 
once.  Even if the grapes are not broken, 
but are allowed to hang on the vine,  this 
fermentation begins,  and many a luscious 
iced brandy  drop  has  been  gathered  in 
that form  from  the  grapevine  after  the 
grapes have hung on until pretty  nearly 
Christmas time.
History does not  tell  us  when leavened 
bread was not in use and the yeast  came 
from the dregs  of  the  wine.  But  it  is 
only  with  the  vast  extension  of  the 
delicate processes of lager  beer  brewing 
that research has been made by practical 
working chemists  into the various kinds 
and characters  of  yeast  plants,  and  at­
tempts made  to  cultivate  these  in  pure 
varieties,  as  florists  and  horticulturists 
do choice plants.
It was not  until I6S0 that the  cause  of 
fermentation was known,  when the yeast 
plants  were  discovered  in  the  dregs  of 
beer by Leeuwenhoeck, a German expert, 
with a microscope,  and it was nearly  200 
years  later,  in  1S37, that  Cagniard de la 
I Tour followed this up and  found  that  it 
| was really the yeast plant that  produced 
! fermentation and made alcohol  of sugar, 
j To-day  more  than  100  different  yeast 
I plants are known and recognized.  They 
j are as different  from one  another  as  the 
individuals in the crowd of people which 
streams  over  Brooklyn  Bridge  every 
I morning  and  night,  and  as  various  in 
their dispositions and effects.
Who has not  heard the housewife com­
plain  that  the  bread  would  not  rise? 
! Was it because the yeast  was  bad, or was 
the dough too cold?  Whatever it was,  it 
| was pretty sure to spoil a batch of  bread 
j and  make trouble in the family until  the 
| next baking.
With  the brewer  any trouble  of  that 
sort is a  more  serious  matter.  No  man 
can tell how a brewing of beer  will  turn 
out.  That  was  why  in  the  old  days, 
when  the  winter’s  brew  was  tapped  in 
the spring, the event was made a  sort  of 
beer festival, when every one went around 
trying the different  brews,  and the brew­
ers  began  the  free-lunch  business  by 
serving bockwurst to the customers.
Why  was one beer better than  another 
when  both  were  brewed 
in  the  same 
manner  and  of  the  same  materials? 
Brewers’  chemists  know  that  some  un­
bidden yeast plant had come to the  feast 
and ruined  the  beer  that  had  harbored 
him.  Bacilli  and  yeast  fungi  seem  to 
be everywhere.  They  lie  dormant,  per­
haps for years,  until just  the  right  con­
ditions  surround  them,  and  then  away 
they  go,  budding  out.  multiplying,  and 
working changes all around them.  How 
j to keep just the right plants at work and 
to get rid of  the  others  is  the  problem.

J.  C. Pennington,  a chemist of  this  city, 
believes he is  close  to  a  practical  solu­
tion of it.  and many of the  things  which 
he has observed are interesting.  He was 
brewing yesterday,  and on  a window sill, 
where they have been exposed to air and 
light  for  months,  lay  bottles  of  beer, 
made  with  pure  yeast  plants,  and  now 
being put to an  indefinite test as to  their 
keeping qualities.  Mr.  Pennington’s ex­
periments have  convinced  him  that  he 
will  be  able  to  produce  with certainty 
any kind of  fermented  drink  he  pleases 
by simply  using a  sterilized  wort  and  a 
pure yeast plant.
His  wort  is  made  in  much  the  usual 
way.  The crushed malt is  macerated  in 
hot  water until  all  its  soluble  qualities 
are taken out,  strained into a  kettle,  and 
boiled  with  the  hops.  Here  begins  the 
difference of his process  from  the  usual 
one.  The  kettle  be  uses  is  closed,  and 
the  steam  passes  out  through  a  tube 
filled with cotton  wool,  which  intercepts 
any  floating yeast plants or microbes that 
may be in the air  which  enters  the  ket­
tle when the  wort is  cooled.  From  that 
time until the beer is finished free  air  is 
never allowed to  touch  it. 
It  is  cooled 
by  running  through  pipes,  instead  of 
over them,  and eight  or  ten  hours  after 
the first boiling it is  boiled again.  This, 
Mr.  Pennington  says,  thoroughly  ster­
ilizes it.

“The yeast plants,”  he said,  “are  sim­
ple  cells,  and  are  propagated  both  by 
I  can  kill  all 
budding and  by  spores. 
the cells and  buds  by bringing  to  a  boil 
the first time,  but the spores remain.  By 
giving these time  to  germinate  and  not 
enough  time  to  produce  new  spores,  1 
can kill  all the  ferment  in  the  wort  by 
bringing it to the boiling point  a  second 
time.  This interval should be from eight 
to ten hours.”
Perhaps our wives,  who find  that  pre­
serves  don’t  keep,  would  find  a  second 
boiling at  the  same  interval  would  pre­
serve  them.
The wort is ready  now  for  the  yeast. 
The preparation of that was  begun  long 
before. 
In separate flasks Mr.  Penning­
ton  has yeast  which will produce entirely 
different  results.  Here,  for  instance,  is 
one  which will produce all.  The  parent 
yeast cell  which  has  produced  the  mil­
lions  which are  in  this  flask  was  once 
floating around  in  a  drop  of  ale  dregs. 
Into  that  drop  Mr.  Pennington  dipped 
the ends of many glass tubes.  Each tube 
was about as  big as  a  hair,  but  flat,  and 
the hole  within  it  so  minute  that  when 
fifty of them had  filled  themselves  with 
beer the drop that they had sucked  from 
seemed no smaller than at the beginning. 
But up that tiny pole, not more than one- 
thousandth part of an inch wide and  not 
a tenth part as deep,  the  beer  had  gone 
until the tubes were  full, carrying  with 
it the germs of fermentation.

TANGLEFOOT

Sealed

STIBKY  FLY  PAPER.

Now  began  the  work  of  selection. 
Under the microscope,  with  a  power  of 
350 diameters, the yeast cells were plainly 
visible,  each one  looking  to  be  perhaps 
one-fourth of an  inch across.  Here were 
bacteria  looking  like  linked  sausages, 
and  yeast  cells  of  many  sorts,  some 
round,  more  oblong,  some  dotted,  and 
each distinct  in  kind.  The  yne  sought 
for,  the true ale yeast,  is egg-shaped and 
not  dotted,  and  of  medium  size.  The 
tube has been clipped  off  from  time  to 
time,  until now the  ale  yeast  cell  is  al­
most at the end of it.  Making sure  that 
no wrong cell is near, the tube is grasped 
in tweezers,  the end  introduced  through 
cotton wool into  the  neck  of a  flask  of 
sterilized  wort, and broken off.  One live 
In ten days it  will  have 
cell is enough. 
filled the half pint of  wort  in  the  flask, 
and  that  will  be  enough 
to  ferment 
several  barrels of  beer.  When  the  fer­
ment is actively at  work,  Mr.  Penning­
ton  says  it  doubles  the  numbers  of  its 
cells  every  half  hour,  and  in 
twelve 
hours  he  has  enough  for  a  brewery. 
One of  his most  interesting  experiments 
was in  producing Bavarian  lager beer.
In the dregs from some of that  kind of 
beer he  found  three  peculiar  kinds  of 
cells.  One was long and double,  as  if  a 
bud  projected  from  the  end;  one  was 
oval  and  spotted, and  the  other  round 
and spotted.  The third one  was  appar­
ently  dead,  but  a  brew  made  with  the 
other two made a  beer which  was  almost 
like the Bavarian,  and  the  fermentation 
was conducted at the  ordinary  tempera­
ture of Mr.  Pennington’s  laboratory  in­
stead  of  near  the  freezing  point, as  is 
customary  in lager beer brewing.
Western  brewers are ahead of those  in 
the East,  and many of them  are  using  a 
patented  process of fermenting in  closed 
porcelain-lined iron vats,  where a partial 
is  constantly  maintained  over 
vacuum 
the beer. 
It produces excellent results.
There is  one  purpose  for  which  Mr. 
Pennington says pure yeast is not useful. 
That is bread  making.  “ The yeasts  one 
buys,” he says,  “are from the distilleries, 
and  contain  more  false  ferments  and 
bacteria than  any  other  kind,  but  they 
seem  to be needed  in making  dough  rise. 
I have  tried  my  pure  yeasts  and  they 
won’t do it.”

T he V a lu e o f  C on stan cy.

The constant drop of water 

Wears away the hardest stone;

The constant gnaw of Towser 

Masticate« the  toughest  bone;

The constant cooing lover 

Carries off the blushing  maid;

And the constant advertiser 

Is the one who gets the trade.

Miss  Cora  Dow  owns  and  operates 
three  drug  stores 
in  Cincinnati.  She 
visits each  one every  day,  and  actively 
supervises  all the  details.

Each  Box  Contains

25

DOUBLE  SHEETS

AM)  OISE  HOLDER.

Each  Case  Contains

10  BOXES.

PRICES  FOB.  1894.

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.

40  CENTS  A  BOX. 
Tanglefoot in  its present shape has been  on  the  market  for  ten  years.  Tanglefoot  always
$3.60  PER  CASE. 
$*=o  PER CASE,  in  Five-  leads,  and  is  accepted  by  both  the best trade and the best consumers as  the highest standard for 
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[_____________ ____________I  ity of handling infringements, and reminded of the injustice of so doing.

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-

case  Lots. 
PFR  CASE  in  Ten-' 
Case  Lots. 

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SOLD  BY 

ILL  JOBBERS

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

Manufactured

great deal cheaper  than  it  would  be  to 
retain a lawyer  to defend such an action 
as Mills insists  on bringing  unless  he is 
given  a  chance to re-deliver his  oration 
before it rusts out.

THB  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.
tinues there is no doubt  but  that  prices 
will  be  still  higher  before  July  has 
passed.  There  are  78,000  boxes  to  be 
sold in New York this week,  and,  while 
that seems a large quantity,  if  one stops 
to consider the area which they are  to be 
spread  over,  it  will  be  apparent  that 
there is nothing in  the  fact  to  cause  a 
decline or surfeit, as the daily  consump­
tion is considerable during  weather  like 
the  present.  By  comparison  it will  be 
noted that  Grand  Rapids quotations  are 
nearly  on a par  with  those  of  Eastern : 
jobbers,  which  denotes  that  our  fruit 
men are not caught napping  and  forced 
to buy at extreme prices. 
It  also means 
that  the  retailers  who  buy  from  this 
market get a  better  grade  of  fruit  for 
the  same  money,  as  early  purchases 
were selected from the best  (the import­
ers,  being anxious to  sell,  would  allow 
this);  but,  when  the  demand  became 
brisk  and  prices  boomed,  things  were 
reversed  and  anything  with  a  lemon 
skin went,  it  being  a  matter  of  price 
rather  than  of  quality  with  eleventh 
hour  buyers. 
It’s  a  cold  day  when 
Grand Rapids  doesn’t  get  a  slice  from 
the best that  is offered,  as  “hustle  and 
get there”  is a characteristic of  the men 
who make her fame.

T he  G rocery  M arket.

to 

the 

tariff  bill, 

culminated 

last  Friday 

and  mould  A. 
it 

Sugar—The  strong  position  of  the 
market 
in 
an  advance  of  %c  on  powdered, 
In 
granulated 
re­
gard 
is  be­
lieved  that the  Senate  will  change  the 
date  when  the  sugar  schedule  will  go 
into effect to  correspond  with  the  date 
when the President signs  the bill,  while 
the  1-10 
cent  discriminating  duty 
against sugar,  imported  from  countries 
that  grant a bounty,  may  be  withdrawn 
when the schedule comes  to a  Anal vote.
Pork—The Chicago hog market opened 
strong,  but the week closed  with a some­
what  weaker 
Prices  averaged 
about  5c  higher.  The  week’s  receipts 
were 151,000,  being a decrease  of  16,600 
from the previous  week,  and an increase 
of about  16,000  over  the  corresponding 
week  last  year.  The  local  market  for 
hog products reports  a  fair week’s busi­
ness.  Prices on all packed meats,  except 
20 lb.  and 16 lb.  hams,  which are up  Me, 
remain stationary.

tone. 

Oranges—Are very  scarce  at  present 
and the few  that  are  being  offered  are 
not  such  as  would  please  the  people. 
As a rule—although  now  anything  that 
resembles an orange is accepted  and  re­
sold  without  much  complaint—the  ex­
tremely  hot  weather  causes  them  to 
shrink rapidly,  and stock that  leaves the 
shippers’  hands  perfectly  sound  shows 
quite a percentage of decay when opened 
up  by  the  retailer  a  few  days 
later. 
This  should be  borne  in  mind,  and,  if 
one does  not wish  to  assume  a  certain 
amount of  the risk,  it  is  better  not  to 
order,  as  the  wholesalers  decline  to 
stand behind them after  taking shipping 
receipt  “in  good  order.” 
In  160s  and 
200s  size,  Naples  fruit  is  offered  this 
week at from $4 to $4.50 per box.

Bananas—As the outside trade will  re­
member, there has always been a tremen­
dous overstock of bananas in  this market 
just before the Fourth and fruit has sold 
for anything offered,  and then, just  at  a 
time  when  everybody  wanted  nice 
bunches for  Fourth  of  July  trade,  the 
market would be as  bare  as  the  back of 
your hand and everyone  would  be  kick­
ing.  This season has been no exception, 
so far as  the  glut  is  concerned,  as  for 
the  past  two  weeks  local  wholesalers 
have  been  loaded,  and  the  ripe  fruit 
sold at prices which  barely  covered  the 
freight  charges.  Now,  however, 
the 
market is all  cleaned  up  on  ripes,  and 
there are enough  cars  due  to  arrive  in 
Grand Bapids  this  week  to  supply  all 
who  may  order;  and  the  retail  dealers 
adjacent to our city are  assured  of  get­
ting just what and all they want by send­
ing their orders to this market.

they  found 

Lemons—The demand  has  been  very 
large during the past two weeks.  Every 
day 
the  weather  has  been  getting 
warmer and  every  day  has  marked  an 
advance in the price;  and,  as a  majority 
of the Western dealers held only  limited 
stocks, 
themselves  sho~t 
early in the game and  had  to  buy,  and 
orders have been pouring into New Yor'i 
and other entry ports in a steady  stream; 
consequently,  the bidding by the jobbers 
and brokers who had a Ast full  of orders 
to execute  was  spirited,  and  the  push 
and scramble to get “in”  must,  certain­
ly,  have been gratifying  to  the  import­
ers.  The old cuttings  are  well  cleaned 
up and the fresh fruit  now  coming  for­
ward is really  worth  more  money  than 
If  the  hot  spell  con­
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Cocoanuts—Sell  fairly  well,  and  for 
this week  prices  have  been  reduced  to 
enable and encourage outside  dealers  to 
order  freely  for  Fourth  of  July  trade. 
One house at this market states that in its 
entire experience as distributors  of  this 
article it never sold so many  in an entire 
season as it has since  January  1,  which 
shows that the demand is growing.

G ripsack  B rigad e.

Arthur  Fowle’s  raffle  for  a  Traverse 
City  lot will  be  held  at  Reynold’s cigar 
store Friday evening,  July 6.

W.  L. Yandercook, of Manton,  has  en­
gaged to travel in  Western Micnigan  for 
A.  T.  Morris, jobber of cigars  at  Cincin­
nati.

T h e   T r a d e s m a n   is  threatened  with 
another libel suit.  Max Mills  complains 
that his occupation as a  Fourth  of  July 
orator  has  been 
ruined  since  T h e 
T r a d e s m a n   published  a graphic sketch 
of his  last  effort,  at  Blanchard,  several 
years ago,  showing  Max  sawing  the air 
and twisting the  eagle’s tail on  the plat­
form,  while the people within  the sound 
of his voice were hurriedly taking  to the 
woods. 
It  is not so  much  the  Anancial 
loss  which  Mills  complains  of  (as  his 
regular  charge  for  an  oration  is  only 
$1.75 and expenses),  but  he  bewails  the 
loss  of  the  opportunity such an occasion 
affords to ride at the  head of the  proces­
sion, be  cheered  by  sturdy  swains  and 
gazed at  admiringly  by  rugged  country 
lasses whose cheeks have no need for the 
cosmetics whose  merits  he  expounds in 
larger towns.  It is late in the day for Mills 
to come at T h e  T r a d e s m a n   with a bluff 
of this  kind—“Find  me a job for  July 4 
or take  a  libel  suit” —(especially  as the 
libel editor of  T h e   T r a d e s m a n   is  con­
templating a trip to Europe  and  doesn’t 
wish  to  be  haunted  by  visions  of  law 
courts  and 
lawyers’  bills)  and  T h e  
T r a d e s m a n  herewith  makes an  earnest 
appeal to its friends in some  small  town 
to come to its rescue in this  emergency— 
get up a celebration,  with  Lloyd  Maxi- 
the  star  attraction, 
millian  Mills  as 
making  draft  on  this  paper  for 
the 
orator’s fee and  expenses,  including $12 
worth of Areworks.  This  is  a little  ex­
pensive  for  T h e   T r a d e s m a n ,  but

He  was  a  bright  young  Chicago 
traveler, and he was somewhat of  a  lady 
killer.  He was  not  proud  of  the  fact, 
but then again he was not ashamed of it. 
It  was  not  his  fault,  and  if  the  girls 
would  insist  on  Airting  with  him  he 
could  not  be  expected 
to  frown  down 
one and all of  them,  especially  if  they 
should happen to be  pretty  ones.  That 
was  the  way  he  looked  at  it  until  re­
cently.  Now he would not smile  at  the 
brightest  blonde  or  the  most  bnxom 
brunette in the whole,  wide  world.  His 
hair used to be a glossy  brown.  Now  it 
is  streaked  with  white.  All 
these 
changes  weje  brought  about  in  one af­
ternoon. 
It  was  on  a  train,  and  the 
young man was reading a morning paper, 
when he noticed that a pretty  girl,  who 
was sitting alone in  the  seat  across  the 
aisle,  was  smiling at  him.  He  made  a 
heroic  effort  to  resist  the  temptation, 
but he  Anally  smiled  back.  The  girl’s 
smile  broadened.  So  did  his.  A  few 
minutes later he had given up  his  paper 
and  was  sitting  beside  the  pretty girl, 
talking about nothing in particular.  The 
girl took a great interest in whatever  he 
said  and  whenever  he  made  a  joke,  or 
what he thought  was  a  joke,  and  very 
frequently when he did not,  she  giggled 
appreciatively.  The bright  young  man 
thought she  was  the  best  natured  and 
brighest girl he had ever  met,  and  con­
gratulated  himself  on  making  such  a 
conquest.  He  told  her  all  the  funny 
stories he could think  of,  and  she  kept 
up  one  continuous  stream  of  rippling 
laughter to reward his  efforts.  She  did 
not say much, but showed such apprecia­
tion of what he said that he was sure she 
was very clever.  The  mutual good time 
continued until the brakeman announced 
the  station  of  Dunning.  Then  a  big 
bearded man in the seat  behind  the  girl 
arose and seized  the  young  lady’s  arm. 
“Come,”  he  said  roughly,  “ we  get  off 
here.”  Then turning to  the young  man 
he said grimly:  “I thank you very much, 
young  man,  for entertaining my patient 
so pleasantly.  I had been having  trouble 
with  her  all  the  way  until  I met you, 
and expected to continue to  have  until I 
got her into the asylum.”  That  is when 
the white hairs appeared among the dark 
ones on the young man’s head,  and  that 
is why he  is  not  talking  to  any  young 
ladies  who  may  smile  at  him  on 
the 
train any more.

F rom  O ut o f T ow n.

Calls  have  been 

received  at  T h e  
T r a d e s m a n  office during  the  past week 
from the following  gentlemen  in  trade:

C. E.  Hoyt,  Hudsonville.
C. S. Comstock, Pierson.
Geo.  Schichtel,  No.  Dorr.
B.  Lodewyk & Son,  McBain.
Ball & Devine,  Stanwood.
Frank E. Pickett,  Wayland.
The  W ool  M arket.

The market is dull  and  Aat.  There is 
some  wool  coming  in,  as  growers  have 
little hope of better  prices  and  are  not 
holding on as they did last year,  and last 
year’s clip is being marketed.  The price 
has receded somewhat  since  last  week, 
as  will  be  seen  by  a  reference  to  the 
market columns.

Honesty is  a  poor  policy  when  it  is 

a i only policy.

1 3

M erged Into a  C orporation.

The  V a lle y   C ity  M illing  Co.  to   B e 
The Valley City Milling Co. is out with 
a prospectus to the  trade,  soliciting sub­
scriptions to the capital stock  of  a  cor­
poration to continue the business hereto­
fore conducted under the  form  of  a  co­
partnership  under  the same style.  The 
prospectus  sets  forth  the  fact  that the 
business was organized Feb.  1,  1884,  by
C.  G.  Swensberg,  Wm.  N.  Rowe, M.  S. 
Crosby and Richard M.  Lawrence  under 
copartnership  papers  covering  a period 
of  ten  years.  Mr.  Lawrence  subse­
quently retired from  the  business,  when 
his interest was  absorbed  by  the  other 
partners in equal  proportions.  This re­
lationship continued  until  last  Septem­
ber,  when the death of Mr. Crosby neces­
sitated a change in  the  business,  owing 
to the desire of the heirs  of the deceased 
to withdraw  from  active  business  pur­
suits. 
It is, therefore,  proposed  to form 
a  corporation  with  a  capital  stock  of 
$350,000, $100,000 of which will be taken 
by Messrs. Swensberg  and Rowe, $25,000 
by  the  clerks,  book-keepers,  salesmen 
and millers of the  company,  the remain­
ing $225,000 to be placed  among the cus­
tomers of the company  in amounts rang­
ing from $500 to $2,000.  The prospectus 
sets forth the value of the  various  prop­
erties  owned  by the Valley City Milling 
Co.  as follows:
Valley City m ills...........................................$123,000 00
33,000 00
Globe mills................................ 
Model mills  .............................................  65,000 00
Seven run water  power..........................  23,ICO  00
Grain elevator at Hudsonville................... 
000 00
Flour on hand...............................................   25,228 38
Grain on hand  ........................................   10,938  12
Accounts receivable.............................  60,321 49
Bills  receivable  .....................................  
4,573  53
Cash on h an d ...............................................  
2,989 00
Horses and drays..........................................  
3,500 00

 

intention 

It  was 
the 

Total......................$352,461  41
the  original 
t* 
Ale 
incorporation  papers  July  1, 
but, owing to the closeness  of the times, 
it has been deemed best to  postpone  the 
formal  incorporation  until  Sept.  1,  by 
which  time  it  is  conffdently  expected 
that a sufficient number  of  outside  sub­
scriptions will have been made to render 
the project  feasible. 
In  case  the  deal 
can  be  consummated,  the  company will 
realize enough from  the sale  of  stock  to 
pay  its  entire  indebtedness,  both  Axed 
and floating, so that it will  not  be  com­
pelled  to  borrow  money on which to do 
business.  The projectors  of  the  move­
ment conffdently claim that the company 
will be able to pay, at  least,  7  per  cent, 
cash dividends;  and some of those on the 
inside  of  the  enterprise  assert  that  in 
good  years  it  is not at  all unlikely that 
20 per cent, dividends  may be paid, bas­
ing  their  belief  on  the  handsome earn­
ings of the Voigt  Milling  Co.  (Crescent 
Mills)  and  C.  G.  A.  Voigt  & Co.  (Star 
Mills),  both  of  which  properties  stand 
high in the list of dividend payers.

BALD
HEADS

DANDRUFF  CURED.

NO  M lfSTACHE.
NO  PAY.

NO  CURE. 
NO  RAY. 
I will take Contracts to grow hair on the head 
or face with  those  who can  call  at  my office or 
at  the office of my agents, provided  the head is 
not  glossy, or the pores of the scalp not closed. 
Where  the  head  is  shiny  or  the  pores  closed, 
there is no cure.  Call and  be examined  free of 
charge.  If yon cannot  call, write to me.  State 
tho exact  condition of  the scalp and your occu­
pation. 
Re— loll Mascnic Temple, Cbicsoo

P R O F .  e .   B IR K H O L Z ,

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D r u g s  &  M e d ic in e s •

S tate  B o ard   o f P h arm a c y .

O ne  T ear—O ttm ar E berbach, Ann  Arbor.
T wo  Year«—G eorge Gnndrum. Ionia.
T hree  T ears—C. A. Bug bee. Cheboygan.
Four Years—8. E. P ark ill, Owosso.
Five T ears—F. W. R. P erry, D etroit.
P resident—O ttm ar Eberbach, Ann Arbor.
F eeretary—S tanley E. P ark ill, Owosso.
T reasurer—Geo. Gan drum . Ionia.
C oining  M eetings—Star  Island,  June  25  and  26; 
H oughton, Aug. 29 and 30;  Lansing, N or.  6  and 7.

M ichigan  S tate  P h a rm a c e u tica l  Ass’n , 
P resident—A. B. S tev en s, Ann Arbor. 
V ice-President—A. F. Parker, Detroit.
Treasurer—W . Dupont,  D etroit.
S ecretay—8. A. T hom pson, D etroit.

B ra n d   R ap id s  P h a rm a c e u tica l Society 
P resident, W alter K. Schm idt;  8ec*y, Ben. Schrouder

THE  IDEAL PHARMACIST.

Is  O scar  Oldbergr’s  P ictu re  T oo  H ighly 

Colored?

commercial” 

In so far as the article  from the pen of 
Oscar Oldberg,  which  appeared  in  T h e 
T r a d e s m a n   of June 13,  is calculated to 
incite young men entering the profession 
of pharmacy to higher  aims  and  loftier 
aspirations,  no fault can be  found  with 
it;  but it is doubtful if  there  be another 
pharmacist in the country  who,  like Mr. 
Oldberg,  has reached  an  altitude  where 
“purely 
considerations 
have ceased to  be  a  motive  in the  busi­
ness  of  dispensing  drugs.  However 
desirable such a condition of  things may 
be, in the abstract,  it is  to be  feared that 
the hard,  concrete truth  will  always  be 
that men will continue to  engage  in  the 
drug business for  the  same  reason  that 
they  take  to  selling  groceries  or  dry 
goods—for what there is  in  it.  Not that 
pharmacists ought not  to  strive  for  the 
highest skill possible in their  profession 
—this  they  certainly  ought  to  do—but 
dollars and cents are a necessity even for 
a  pharmacist  of  the  highest  skill,  and 
their  acquisition  may  be  expected  to 
exercise a controlling influence over him. 
The skill and learning of  a  man  in  any 
profession,  while they may  be  a  never- 
failing  spring  of  enjoyment  to 
their 
possessor and a matter of  satisfaction to 
the “profesh,” are,  after all,  only means 
to an end,  and that end, harsh and sordid 
as  it  sounds,  is  money  getting.  Here 
and there, no  doubt,  may  be  found  an 
individual  who  “practices”  his  profes­
sion from pure love of it,  but  even  such 
an  one  is  forced  by  his  bodily  neces­
sities,  for  the  sake  of  “dear  life,”  to 
“ turn his talents into gold.”  He  may be 
another  Dominie  Sampson,  so  far  as 
“erudition”  is  concerned  (and  it  won’t 
hurt him if  he is);  he may  be  the  most 
skillful  pharmacist  in 
the  profession; 
but if he be not at  the  same time a busi­
ness  man,  able to appreciate  and  strong 
enough to meet the  “purely  commercial 
competition” of his  rivals,  he  will  find 
his learning and skill of  little  avail. 
It 
is hard to understand just  bow  Mr.  Old­
berg figures out that “ purely commercial 
competition” is degrading, although it be 
met with in connection  with  the  “ busi­
ness of furnishing medicines to the sick.” 
Competition 
is  not  incompatible  with 
honest dealing in the drug store any more 
than it is  in  the  grocery.  Why  should 
it be?  Are druggists  any more prone  to 
employ  dishonest  business  methods  to 
overcome this effect of competition  than 
are dealers in  other  lines?  If  they  are 
not—if  they  are  as  honorable  in  their 
business  relations  and  methods  as  the 
average dealer in  other  lines—how  can 
competition  degrade  them?  There  will 
always be competition even in  the “ busi­
furnishing  medicines  to  the
ness  of 

than 

the  average 

When Mr. Oldberg  speaks of a “stand­
ard of  education,” it  is  not  quite  clear 
whether  he  is  speaking  generally,  or 
whether he means  the  standard  of  pro­
fessional education. 
If it  is the former, 
then it can only be said that the pharma­
cist is as well read  as  the average  busi­
ness man; perhaps  he has had  not  more 
than the ordinary  difficulties  in securing 
what education he has,  but,  at  any rate, 
he has had no  better  opportunities  than 
his neighbor,  who sells groceries  or  dry 
goods, yet his  stock  of  knowledge  will 
compare favorably, in extent and variety, 
with his neighbor. 
It is safe to  say that 
the majority  of  the  men  who  own  the 
40,000  drug  stores  of  the  country  owe 
what  measure  of  success  in  life  they 
have achieved  to  no  fortuitous  circum­
stances but to their own exertions.  They, 
like most  of  our  successful  men,  have 
had to  struggle  with  the  “bread  ques­
tion” while getting an education,  and  if 
they  are  not  classical  scholars;  if their 
knowledge  of  “current  philosophy”  is 
scant; if they are not up in the “ologies;” 
if in other words, they know no more than 
the average  individual  in  other  profes- 
tions,  who  shall  blame  them?  They 
could  easily  be  more  erudite  than  the 
physician one meets in  everyday  life, or 
even 
lawyer  or 
minister,  but,  if they  are not,  the  fault 
is  hardly  attributable  to  them. 
If  the 
standard of education for the pharmacist 
is too low,  it is only what  may be said of 
all classes of  dealers.  This  in  not  put 
forward as an excuse  for  the  ignorance 
of the pharmacist, if he  be ignorant,  but 
be can hardly be  expected  to  make  for 
himself a  standard  higher than  that  of 
the general community.  However desir­
able it may be to have it  otherwise,  and 
no one will  dispute  its  desirability,  the 
standard  for  pharmacists  will  be  no 
higher than  it  is  for  ordinary  citizens. 
The trouble is not  that  the  standard  of 
education for any one  class  is  too  low, 
but  that  among  all  classes  too  light  a 
value is placed upon education,  and  the 
materialistic  tendency  of  the  times  is 
responsible for it. 
If Mr.  Oldberg refers 
to  the  standard  of  professional  educa­
tion,  it is still  more  difficult  to  see  the 
ground for his complaint. 
If it  be  true 
that  druggists  are  not  as  proficient  or 
skillful in the  practice  of  their  profes­
sion as they might  be,  or  as  they  once 
were, the reason seems to be plain.  The 
drug  business  is  subject  to  the  same 
conditions and  mutations as  other  lines 
of  trade,  and,  in  common  with  other 
lines,  has been almost completely revolu­
tionized  within 
twenty-five 
years.  The enormous  quantity  of  pro­
prietary remedies with which the market 
is  flooded,  and  the  large  number  of 
pharmaceutical  preparations  which  are 
now generally prescribed  by  physicians 
instead  of  the  old  fashioned  “mixed” 
prescriptions,  have,  apparently,  made 
an  intricate  knowledge  of  drugs  and 
chemistry  unnecessary. 
I  say apparent­
ly  for,  as a matter of fact,  the  pharma­
cist of to-day requires to be just as  skill­
ful,  and to have as good a  knowledge of 
his  business  as  he  ever  did.  Further­
more,  I  think  that,  as  a  class, 
the 
pharmacist of to-day  will compare  very 
favorable with their  predecessors of any 
I day  in, point  of  professional  skill  and

the  past 

G erm an  P h arm acy.

S w e e p in g   C h an ges  C on tem p lated  

in 
There  is  nothing  singular  in the  dis­
content  which  has  long  embittered  a 
large class of  pharmaceutical  assistants 
in  Germany  against  the  extraordinary 
privileges  enjoyed  by  their  employers. 
Possessing a valuable  franchise or “con­
cession,”  protected  by  the  Government 
against undue  competition,  and  hereto­
fore enjoying the right to peddle,  barter, 
lend,  donate  or  speculate  in  their  con­
cessions,  the proprietors  of  pharmacies 
have  shown  a  striking  likeness  to  the 
American office-holder—few die and none 
resign.  Nay, more—death  simply trans­
mits the franchise to the heirs or legatees 
of the deceased possessor.
The only means of acquiring the  right 
to  open  an  apothecary  shop  (save  for 
the slow increase in the number  of  con­
cessions  as  population  multiplies)  has 
accordingly  been  limited  to  purchase. 
But purchase means considerable capital; 
for German  pharmacies, especially in the 
large cities, are  highly  profitable  enter­
prises,  and the apothecaries  have shown 
a not  unreasonable  reluctance  to  yield 
up their loaves and  fishes without  a fair 
consideration.
Thus a large aud  growing  number  of 
educated  pharmacists  have  found them­
selves without a  future.  Possessing  an 
expensive  university  education, 
thor­
oughly  equipped  for 
scientific  work, 
they have yet been condemned  to  spend 
their best years  drudging  as  assistants, 
and sowing that others might reap.
Discontent and unrest have, according­
ly»  grown  apace.  The  Pharmaccuten- 
verein  (Pharmacists’  Union)  has  been 
the chief agitator of the assistants’ griev­
ance,  and has made much  capital of  the 
speculation  in  concessions  which  has 
been  one  of  the  fruits  of  the  German 
paternalistic  system.  The  organization 
further protests against  a  regime  which 
creates a class of governmental  favorites 
and builds up  for  the  protection  of  its 
darlings a  bulwark  againt  the  competi­
tions which rage so  fiercely and freely in 
every other sphere of  life.
So  great  has  been  the  force  of  this 
feeling  that  the  German  Ministry  of 
Culture  now  announces  its  purpose  of 
transforming the  apothecary  concession 
system.  As gradually as possible, allow­
ing  a  long  period  of  time  in  order  to 
lessen  the  inevitable  losses  to  present 
proprietors, it  is  designed  to  wipe  out 
absolute,  permanent  ownership in  pbar 
macies,  and to  introduce  in its stead the 
personal franchise—one which cannot be 
sold or alienated,  and which  ceases with 
the  life  of  the  franchise-holder.  All 
new concessions  are to  be  accorded  on 
this  basis;  existing  absolute  franchises 
are  to  be  very  gradually  modified.  A 
period  of 
twenty-five  years  will  be 
ample,  it is supposed,  to  effect the entire 
transformation.
Naturally  there  is  great  howling  in 
Rome over the proposed  innovation. 
Its 
first effect will be an enormous shrinkage 
in valuable  properties.  Men  who  have 
paid inflated,  speculative  prices  for con­
cessions will now  be  barred  from  real­
izing  on  the  “good  will”  and  future 
profits of their  trade,  and  must  accept, 
in the event of sale,  a  price based on the 
actual  value of  the  premises,  inventory 
of stock,  and computed  worth of fixtures 
and outfit.  Making a  very  conservative 
estimate, Dr.  E.  Mylius declares  that the 
total shrinkage or loss to present proprie­
tors  will far exceed  three  hundred  and

sick,”  because there is money in it,  and 
a pharmacist has a  right,  and  ought  to 
exercise  it, 
to  employ  all  honorable 
methods to meet competition and get  the 
trade if he can.

THE  MTCHXG^LlSr  TRADESMAN,
hnowledge.  Perhaps  the  standard  of 
professional  education  is  too  low,  but 
Mr.  Oldberg may reflect with satisfaction 
that every  year it is being raised higher, 
in Michigan at least.  This year,  out  of 
a class of seventy-four, only twelve came 
through with their  feathers  on,  and the 
danger seems  to be  now  that  a  gradua­
ting diploma will be put  out of  reach  of 
all but  a  very  few.  Perhaps  this  may 
not be a misfortune.  1  agree  with  Mr. 
Oldberg that the  standard  of  education 
is  too  low  among  pharmacists  and  I 
deplore the fact that this is true not only 
of pharmacists but of the  people  gener­
ally. 

P h a r m a c is t .

Grand Rapids,  June 25.

fifty-two  millions  of  marks!  For  this 
enormous injury no indemnity whatever is 
offered.  What  wonder, 
then,  that  on 
every  hand  sharp,  bitter  protests  are 
heard  against  this  measure  as  an  out­
rageous  violation  of  fundamental rights 
in property?
Its injustice and  hardship will be most 
severely felt  by  the  proprietors  whose 
holdings are mortgaged.  Capital  is pro­
verbially timorous.  At  the first  intima­
tion  of  shrinkage  in  the  value  of  his 
securities,  the  prudent  mortgagor  will 
promptly demand  payment;  it  will  not 
be possible to borrow  elsewhere  on  the 
depreciated security; and forclosure with 
attendant  ruin will stare the  apothecary 
in the face.
Great ado has been made about flagrant 
speculation  in  concessions.  Who  have 
suffered from this evil?  Manifestly,  the 
speculators—not 
the 
the  public,  for 
German  consumer  of  medicine  is  pro­
tected  by  the 
tariff  or  schedule  of 
charges, established by  the Government, 
stringently enforced,  and effectively pre­
venting the  slightest extortion;  and now 
it  is  proposed  to  finish  the  flaying  of 
the victims  who have already parted with 
much  of  their  cuticle  in  paying  an 
exorbitant price  for  their  purchase!  A 
parallel  case  would  be  afforded  by  an 
American  law  seeker  to  compel 
the 
buyers  of  watered  stoGk  to  suffer  an 
arbitrary reduction  in its market  value, 
on the plea that  stock-jobbing is an evil. 
To 
this  seems 
much like punishing, not the  culprit but 
the  victim—and  pouring  salt  on  his 
wounds.
Regarded from any point  of view,  the 
German  apothecary 
the 
victim of a system.  Do what the Govern­
ment may,  discontent  will  still  be  rife. 
The  whole  problem 
is  assuredly  as 
delicate an affair as could be  devised for 
the  perplexity  of  the  Imperial  authori­
ties.  Whatever m&y be done or omitted, 
imprecations loud and  deep will  be  the 
Government’s  harvest.  From  present 
appearances the measure will not become 
a law.

the  ungermanic  mind 

is  obviously 

But Two  Ways.

From  th e  New  England  Grocer.
We note that some  of  our  exchanges, 
among other suggestions given  as to how 
the retail grocer may lessen hts  losses on 
account of  running  accounts  with  cus­
tomers,  mention cutting off credit  when­
ever  a  customer  fails  to  settle  his ac­
count at the expiration of a certain num­
ber of days.  This would, of course, pre­
vent  bills  from  becoming  larger  and 
would very materially reduce  a  grocer’s 
losses; but  it  would  not  prevent  much 
loss  in  the  aggregate  of  small  bills. 
There are but two ways of taking  effect­
ive precaution.  One is to  be  extremely 
careful as to the ability  and  disposition 
to pay, of customers,  and  the  other,  to 
sell strictly for cash._________________
Seely’s Flavoring  Extracts
Every dealer should sell  them.
Extra Fine quality.
Lemon,  Vanilla,  Assorted  Flavors. 
Yearly eales increased by  their  uae. 

Send trial order. ■ly's Lemon,

(Wrapped)

(Wrapped)

Doz.  Gro.
1 oz.  $  0 0   10  8 0
I  8 0   18  6 0
8 oz. 
8  0 0   8 8   8 0
4 oz. 
6 oz. 
3  0 0   3 3   OO
Seely's  Vanilla
Doz.  Gro. 
1 oz. $  1  5 0   16  8 0
8  0 0   81  6 0
8 oz. 
4 oz. 
75  4 0   8 0
6  oz.  5  4 0   5 7   6 0
P lain   N. 8.  w ith  
corkscrew  a t sam e 
p rice 11 ¡preferred .
C orrespondence

S o lic ited .
|i SEELY  MFU.  CO.,  Detroit,  flich.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

W h o le s a le  P r i c e   C u r r e n t.

Advanced—Linseed Oil, Opium.

Declined—

8.  N. Y. Q.  &

Morphia, S.  P.  A W.  2 05@2 30 
C.  Co......................  1  90@2 20
Moschus Canton........   @ 4 0
Myrlstica, No  1 .........  66®   70
Nux Vomica, (po 20)..  @  10
Os.  Sepia......................  15®  18
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D.
C o..............................   @2 00
Plcls Llq, N>C., K gal
doz  ...........................  @2  00
P ids Liq., q u a rts .......  @1  00
__  “ 
.   P ints..........  @  85
Pil Hydrarg,  (po. 80)..  @ 5 0
Piper  Nigra,  (po. 22)..  @ 1
Piper Alba,  (po g5)__   @  3
Pllx Burgun.................  @  7
Plumbi A c et...............   14®  15
Pulvls Ipecac et opil.. 1  lo@l  20 
Pyrethram,  boxes  H
& P. D.  Co., doz.......  @1  25
Pyrethrum,  pv............  20®  30
8®  10
Q uasslae...................... 
Qulnla, S. P. A W .......34H@39K
8.  German__   27®  37
Rubla  Tinctorum.......  12®  14
Saccharum Lactls pv. 
12®  14
Salacln......................... 2  10@2 25
Sanguis  Draconls.......  40®  50

“ 

“  G .........................  @  15

Seldlltz  M ixture.........  @
Sinapls..........................  @
opt.....................  ®
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  De
V oes.........................  
®  35
Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes  @  35 
Soda Boras,  (po. 11).  .  10®  11 
Soda  etP o tassT art...  24®  25
SodaCarb..................  
IK®  2
Soda,  Bi-Carb.............   ®   5
Soda,  A sh......................3K@  4
Soda, Sulphas.............   @  2
Spts. Ether C o ............  50®  55
“  M yrda  Dom.......  @2  25
“  Myrcla Im p........   @3  00
••••7..............................2 17@2 27
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Strychnia  Crystal.......1  40@1  45
Sulphur, Subl............... 2K@ 3
Roll...................   2  @ 2K
Tam arinds..................  
8®  10
Terebenth Venice.......  28®  30
Theobrom ae................... 45  @ 48
Vanilla........................9 00@16 00
Zlncl  Sulph................. 
7®  8

Vln!  Rect.  bbl.

“ 

OILS.

__ 
Whale, w inter............  70
Lard,  extra...................   SO
Lard, No.  1...................  42
Linseed, pure raw __   58

Bbl.  Gal

16

Linseed,  boiled..........  59
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
strained................. 
65
Spirits Turpentine__   37

“ 

b bl.

p a in t s. 

lb.
Red  Venetian................im   2@8
Ochre, yellow  Mars___IK  2@4
“ 
Ber.........IK  2@S
Putty,  commercial....2K  2K@3
“  strictly  pure.......2K  2K@3
Vermilion « fin e Amer­
ican......................  13®16
Vermilion,  English__________  65®70
Green,  Peninsular......................  70@75
Lead,  red......................  6
®6K®6K@70
“  w h ite .................6
Whiting, white Span... 
Whiting,  Gilders'
W h ltlm r  a i l r i a n l
@90
White, Paris  American 
1
Whiting.  Paris  Eng.
1 40
c liff....................... . 
|
Pioneer Prepared Palntl  20@1 ’4 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared
P ain ts.......................1  00@1  20

VARNISHES.

No. 1 Turp  Coach.... 1  io@l  20
Extra T urp..................160®1  70
Coach  Body................ 2 75®3 00
No. 1 Turp  F u ra ........1  00®1  10
Eutra Turk Damar__1
61  60
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 
T srp ...........................
70®76

Grand  Rapids, flieh.

PERFUME  DEPARTHENT.

We carry in  stock  a complete  line of

Eastman’s  Extracts

Including these specialties,

HER  MAJESTY,

QUEEN  MAB,

FLEUR  DE  LYS, 

TUSCAN  VIOLET

SWEET  HEATHER, 

PEAU  DE  ESPAGNE,

and all  the leading  odors of the followinir 

manufacturers:

Lazelle,  Dally & Co., 
Swinton,

Ladd  &  Coffin, 

Foote  &  Jenks.

We  have  a complete  line of

We also  manufacture 

LAVENDER  WATER,  VIOLET  WATER,

FLORIDA  WATER,4  ounces,  FLORIDA  WATER,  8  ounces.

tfflZELTP  *  PERKINS  DRUG  GO.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

■f  f  4

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1

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*  I   *

ACIDUM.

8®  10
A ceticum ....................  
Benzolcnm  German..  65®  75
Boradc 
30
......................  
Carbollcum ...............  
20@  30
C ltrlcnm ....................  
53®  55
H vdrochlor.................  
3®  5
Nltrocum  ....................   10®  12
OxaUcum.....................  10®  12
Phogphorium d ll......... 
20
Salley Ileum ................1  25®1  60
Sulphuricum...............   Hi®
Tannlcum ....................1  40@1  60
T&rtarlcum................. 
30®  33
AMMONIA.

” 

Aqua, 16  deg...............  
4®
6®
20  deg...............  
Carbones  .....................  12®
C hlorldum ...................  12®

Black.............................2 00®2 25
Brown...........................  80® 1  00
Red.................... ...........   45®  50
..................................................

25®
8®
25®  30

BACCAB.
Cubeae (po  36).........
Ju n íp eras....................
Xantnoxylum..............
BALBAMUM.
45®  50
Copaiba........................
@2 25 
Peru..............................
Terabln, C an ad a__
60®   6
T olutan........................  35®  !K>

CORTEX.

Abies,  Canadian..................   18
Cassine  ..................................  11
Cinchona F la v a ............   18
Bnonymus  atropurp......  30
Myrlca  Cerifera, po.......   20
Prunus Vlrgini................  12
Qulllala,  grd...................  10
Sassafras  ...............................  12
Ulmus Po (Ground  15)..  15

KXTRAOTUM. 

Glycyrrhiza  G labra...  24®  25
po............  33®  35
Haematox, 15 lb. box..  11®  12

» 
is ................   13®
“ 
“  Ms...............   14®
“ 
Kb...............  16®

Carbonate Preclp........   ®  15
Citrate and Q ulnla—   ®3 50
Citrate  Soluble............ 
®  80
Ferrocyanldnm Sol —   @ 5 0
Solut  Chloride............ 
®  15
Sulphate,  com’l .................9®  2
pure..............  ®  7

“ 

FLORA.

A rnica............... :........  18®  20
AnthemlB....................   30®  35
Matricaria 
50®  65

 

 

Barosma 
Cassia  Acutifol,  Tin-

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

Salvia  officinalis,  Kb
Ura Ural 
.......................  

“  

'• 

“ 
“ 

“ 
« 
* 
“ 

16)........................ 

@  60 
Acacia,  1st  picked —
®  40 
2d 
....
®  30 @  20 
3d 
....
sifted sorts...
60®  80 
p o ...................
50®  60 
Aloe,  Barb, (po. 60)...
@  12 
“  Cape,  (po.  20)...
®  50
Soootrl, (po.  60).
Catechu, 1b, (Ks, 14 Kb,
®   1
Am m onlae..................   55®  60
Assafratlda, (po. 85).. 
40®  45
Bensoinum...................  50®  55
Cam phors....................   46®  50
Bnpnorblum  po  ........   35® 
lo
Galbannm....................   ®2 50
Gamboge,  po...............   70®  7b
Gualacum,  (po  35)  .. 
®   30
Kino,  (po  1  10)..........   @1  15
Mastic  .... 
.................  @  80
Myrrh, (po. 45). 
Oplt  (po  3 60@3  80). .2 25@2 35
Shellac  ........................  35®  42
33®  35
T ragacanth.................  40® 1  00
,
A bsinthium ...........................   25
Bupatorlum ...........................   20
Lobelia....................................  25
Ma]orum................................   28
Mentha  Piperita...................  23
“  V lr...........................   25
Rue..........................................   30
Tanaoetum, V ........................  22
Thymus,  V .............................  25

“ 
hxrba—In ounce packages. 

bleached....... 

@ 4 0

MAOMRSIA.

Calcined, P at...  ........   55®  60
Carbonate,  P at............  20®  22
Carbonate, K. A  M __   20®  25
Carbonate, Jennlng5..  35®  36

OLBUM.

50®3 00

8u@l 90
00®3 20

A bsinthium ..................2 
Amygdalae, D ulc____  45®  75
Amyaalae, Amarae___8 00@8 25
A nlsl.............................. 1 
Aurantl  Cortex............ 1 S0@2 00
Bergamll  .....................3 
C ajlputl...................... 
60®  65
Caryophylll.................  75®  80
C e a a r...........................  35®  65
C henopodll.................  @1  60
C lnnam onli.................1  10@115
C ltronella....................   @  45
Conlum  M ac...............   86®  65
Copaiba........................  80®  90

Cubebae........................ 
2 00
Bxechthltos................   1 50@1  60
B rlgeron............................l  50@1 60
G aultherla.........................l  70®1 80
Geranium,  ounce.......  @  75
Gosslpll,  Sem. gal.......  70®  75
Hedeoma  .....................l  25@1  40
Jum perl..........................  50®2 00
L avendula....................   90@2 00
Llm onls........................ l  40©1  60
Mentha Piper................2 85@8 60
Mentha Yerld..............2 20®2 30
Morrhuae, gal.............. 1  30@1  40
Myrcla, ounce..............  @  50
O live...............................  90@3 00
Plcls Liquida, (gal. .36)  10®  12
R icini...........................  1 22@1  28
Rosmarini.............. 
i  oo
Rosae,  ounce.....................6 50®8 50
Succlnl........   ..............  40®  45
S abina.........................   90@1  00
San tal  ..........................2 50®7 00
Sassafras......................  50®  55
Sinapls, ess, ounce__   @  65
Tlglu..........’......................  @i oo
T hym e.........................   40®  50
o p t......................  ® l 60
l heobromas.................  15®  20

“ 

POTASSIUM.
BIC arb...  ................... 
is® 
is
Blohromate.................  13@  14
Bromide...................... 
40®  43
Carb............................  
  la®  15
Chlorate  (po  23@25)..  24®  26
Cyanide........................  50®  55
Iodide.................................2 96@3 00
Potassa, Bitart,  pure..  27®  30
Potassa, Bitart, com...  @
Potass  Nltras, opt....... 
8®
Potass N ltras...............  
7®
Pressiate......................  28®
Sulphate  po.................   15®

RADIX.

A conitum .....................  20®
Althae...........................  22®
A nchusa......................   12®
Arum,  po......................  ®  §5
Calamus........................  20®  40
Gentiana  (po. 12)....... 
8®  10
Glychrrhlza, (pv. 15)..  16®  18 
Hydrastis  Canaden,
(PO- 35)....................  
@  go
elleboro,  Ala,  po  ...  15®  20
Inula,  po......................  15®  20
Ipecac,  po.......................... 1  eo@l 75
Iris  plox (po. 35®38). 
35®  40
Jalapa,  p r....................   40®  45
Maranta,  Kb...............   @  35
Podophyllum, po........   15®  18
R hel..............................   75@l  00
"   cu t........................  @1  75
pv..........................  75@1  35
Splgella........................  35®  38
Sanguinarla,  (po  25)..  ®  20
Serpen tarla...................  45®  50
Senega.........................   55®   60
Slmllax, Officinalis.  H  @ 4 0  
M  @ 2 5
Scillae, (po. 85)..............  10® 12
Symplocarpus,  Fmtl -
dus,  po......................  @  35
Valeriana, Eng.  (po.30)  ®  25
German...  15®  20
lnglber a .....................  
18® 20
Zingiber  j ..................... 
18® 20

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Anlsum,  (po.  20).. 
q   16 
.. 
Aplum  (graveleons)..  22®  25
Bird, Is......................... 
4®   6
Carol, (po. 18)................  10® 12
Cardamon.......................... 1  oo@l 25
Corlandrum...................  11® 13
Cannabis Satlva..........   4® 
5
y  doni urn......................   75® 
ihenopodlum  ..............  10® 12
Dlpterlx Odorate.........2 40®2 60
Foenlculum.................  ®   15
Foenugreek,  po.......... 
6®  8
L in i..............................   4  ® 4*
Lini, grd.  (bbl. 8K)...  3K@  4
Lobelia...........................   85® 40
PharlarlB Canarian__ 3  ®  4
R ap a...............................  
6®  7
Sinapls  A lbu............... 7  @  8
N igra............  11®  12

SPIRITUS.
Frementi, 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  7603  50
Saacharum  N.  B ......... 1  7S®2 00
Spt.  Vini  Galli.............1  75®6 50
Vini O porto...................... 1  25@2 00
Vini  Alba..........................1  25@2 00

 

TINCTURES.

Aconitum  Napellls R ..........  60
? ..........   50
and  m yrrh...................  60
A rn ica...................................   go
Asafratlda......................... ’ ”  
0
A trope Belladonna...............   60
Benzoin..................................   60
„ 
“  .  Co.............................  50
Sangulnarla...........................  50
Barosm a................................   50
Cantharldes...........................  75
Capsicum ...............................  50
Ca damon...............................  75
„  
Co...........................   75
Catechu..................................  go
C inchona..........................  
  go
_ 
.  Co.......... ................  60
Colum ba................................  50
C onlum .................................. ’  go
Cubeba.................................. 
50
D igitalis................................   go
Brgot.......................................  go
G entian..................................  50
Co............................. .*  60
G uaica...................................   go
ammon......................  60
Z ingiber................................  go
Hyoscyamus.........................   go
Iodine.....................................   75
Colorless................. 
.'  75
Ferrl  Chlorldum...................  ¿5
K in o .................................... 
go
Lobelia...................................   go
M yrrh.....................................   go
Nux  Vomica.........................   go
O p il........................................   85
“  Camphorated.................  so
“  Deodor...........................2 00
Aurantl Cortex......................  50
Q uassia..................................  go
R h atan y ................................   go
Rhel.........................................  go
Cassia  Acutifol....................   go
_  “ 
Co................  50
Serpentarla...........................  go
Stromonlum...........................   60
T olutan..................................  60
V alerian................................   go
VeratrumVerlde...................  50

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MISCELLANEOUS.

“ 

“ 

“ 

' 
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‘ 
ground, 

Ä ther, Spts  Nit, 3 F ..  28®  30 
“  4 P -   32®  34
A lum en..........................2K®  3

(po.
7)................................ 
3®  4
Annatto........................  55®  60
Antimoni, po............... 
4®   g
et Potass T.  55©  80
Anti py rin ....................  ®1  40
Antlfebrln....................  @  25
Argentl  Nltras, ounce  @  48
Arsenicum..................  
5®  7
Balm Gilead  B ud.... 
38®  40
Bismuth  8.  N ............. 1  65@l  75
Calcium Chlor, Is, (Ks
12;  Kb,  14)...............  @  11
Cantharldes  Russian, 
@1 00 
p o ...............................
Capsic!  Fractus, a f.
@  26 
@  28 
@  20 
Bpo.
Caryophyllns, (po.  15)  ___  _
10®   12
Carmine,  No. 40..........   ®3 75
Cera  Alba, 8. A F .......  50®  55
Cera Flava..................  38®  40
Cooous  ........................  ©   40
Cassia Fractus............  ©  25
Centrarla......................  ©  10
Cetaceum ....................   ©  40
Chloroform .................  60®  68
saulbbs ..  @1  25
Chloral Hyd Crst........ 1  25©1  50
C hondrus....................   20®  25
Clnchontdlne, P.  A  W  15®  20
German  8K@  12 
Corks,  list,  dls.  per
75
cent  ........................ 
Creasotum ...............
© 35
Greta,  (bbl. 75).......
® 2
prep..............
5
preclp...............
9® 11
R ubra.................
8
•
Crocus ........................
40® 50
Cudbear........................
@ 24
Cnprl Sulph.................
5 @ 6
D extrine......... 
........
10® 12
Ether Sulph.................
70® 75
Emery,  all  numbers..
©
@ 6
po....................
70® 75
12® IS
® 23
7  © 8
60
5
30® 50
E 80.

Gelatin,  Cooper.

1 00
“ 

"* 

“ 

Less than box  75. 
Glne,  Brown.......

Florida  sheeps’  wool
carriage....................2 50®2 75
Nassau  sheeps’  wool
carriage  ...................
2  00 
Velvet  extra  sheeps’
1  10
wool  carriage..........
Extra  yellow  sheeps’
carriage....................
Grass sheeps’ wool car
rla g e .........................
Hard for  slate  use__
Yellow Reef, for  slate 
u s e .............................

1 40

STRUTS.

A c ca d a ..................................  50
Zingiber  ................................   50
Ipecac.....................................   60
Ferrl  Iod.........................   ...  50
Aurantl  Cortes......................  50
Rhel  Arom.............................  50
Slmllax  Officinalis...............  60
Co.........  50
Senega...................................   50
Sdllae.....................................   50
'•  Co................................   60
T om tan..................................  50
PrnnRBuflrg...........................   50

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90 15
18® 25
14® 20
© 22
25® 56
® 75
© 65
© 85
@ 95
45® 56
® 6C
25®1  60
75@1 00
80@3 90
®4 70
@2 25
70® 75
70® 75
® 27
10® 12

“  C o r 

Grana Paradisi............
Humains......................
Hydraag  Chlor  Mite..
Ox Rubrum
Ammonisti.. 
Unguentum.
Hydrargyrum..............
LmthyoboUa,  Am. .  ,.1

“ 
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11 
“ 

Iodoform. 
L upulin..

Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy­
drarg Iod..................
Liquor Potass ArslnltlB 
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
IK).......................2K® 4
Mannla,  8. F ...............  60®  68

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'¡'u w   M ic m a ^ js r   t r a d e s m a j s t .

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 prep»ed just before 
going to press  and are an accurate  index of  thq 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.

A X L E  O SE A SE .
Aurora.....................   55
60
Castor Oil....... ......  
Diamond..................   50
Frazer’s .......... ....... 
75
Mica  .......................   65
..  ...........   55
Paragon 

doz KTOS8
6 00
7 00
5 50
9 00
7  50
6 00

B A K IN G   P O W D E R  

Acme.
45
>4 id.  jans. 8  d o s.... 
8 “  .................  ™
2 lb . 
1  “  ...................*
1 lb.  “ 
Bulk..... 
.......................  
10
Arctic.
55 
^  Si can* 8 doz  case..
1  10 
..
4 doz  “ 
M S>  “ 
2 doz  “ 
1  S>  “ 
...
2  00 
9 00
l  doz  “ 
5  Si  “ 
. -
Cream  Flake.
3  o*  “  6 doz  “ 
45
..........  
4  oz  “  4 doz 
........... 
60
........... 
6  oz  “  4 doz  “ 
80
...........  I  ¿0
4 doz  “ 
9  oz “ 
........... 2 00
2 doz  “ 
ft  “ 
...........  9 00
1 doz  “ 
lb  “ 
Red Star, 14 ®  can*............ 
40
M lb  “ 
“ 
............ 
75
............  1  40
« 
l B>  “ 
«  
Teller’*,  M lb. can*, do*. 
H lb.  “ 
“ 
95
“  •• 
‘ ..1 5 0
lib . 
« 
' 
Our Leader,  M .b cans......  45
M lb  cans......... 
16
1 lb cans.......... 1  50

• 

BA TH   B R IC K .
2 dozen In case.

BLUING. 

E nglish..................................  9®
Bristol....................   ..............  I®
Dom°«tic................................   to
Gross
Arctic, 4 o*  ovals............... 3 60
“ 
8 os 
............... 6 75
“ 
pints,  round............9 00
“  No. 2, sifting box...  2 75 
“  No. 3, 
. . . 4  00
“  No. 5, 
. . . 8  00
“   1 os ball  ...................4  50
Mexican Liquid, 4  oz........   3 60
«* 
8 oz..........   6  80

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b r o o m s ,

Gages.

Apricots.
1  40 
Live oak..................
1  40 
Santa Crus...................
1  50 
Lusk’s ...........................
1  10
Overland....................
Blackberries.
90
'. &  W.........................
Cherries.
Red................................1  10@1 25
Pitted H am burgh.......
W hite...........................  
1  50
B rie............................... 
1  30
Damsons, Bgg Plums and Green 
1  20 
B rie..............................
1  40
California.....................
Gooseberries.
1  25
Common......................
Peaches.
P ie ...............................
1  10 
1  60 
M axw ell......................
1  60
Shepard’s ....................
California....................   160@1  75
...................
Monitor 
Oxford......................
Pears.
Domestic...................... 
1  25
Riverside...................... 
1  75
Pineapples.
Common....................... 1  00@1  30
Johnson’s  sliced........  
2  50
2  75
grated........  
Booth’s sliced.............   @2 5)
grated............  @2  75
Common...................... 
1  10
Raspberries.
1  10
R ed................................ 
Black  Hamburg..........  
1  40
1  25
Brie,  black................... 
Strawberries.
Law rence....................  
1  25
1  25
H am burgh................... 
1  20
Erie............................... 
T errapin.........................  
1  05
Whortleberries.
Blueberries................. 
85
Corned  beef  Libby’s...........2  10
Roast beef  Armour’s ...........180
Potted  ham, H lb .......................1 25
tongue, H lb ................... 1 85
chicken, H lb ...................  95

“  M lb
7‘ 
Vegetables.

14 lb ............   75

Quinces.

M eats.

Beans.

“ 

Peas.

“ 
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Com.

Hamburgh  strlngless...........1  15
French style.......2 00
Limas........................ 1 35
Lima, green................................ 1 25
soaked........................  70
Lewis Boston Baked............ 1  85
Bay State  Baked........................1 85
World’s  Fair  Baked............ 1 85
Picnic Baked............................... 1 00
Ham burgh.................................. 1 25
Livingston  E d e n .......................1 20
P u rity .........
Honey  Dew.................................1 40
Morning Glory
Soaked.................................. 
75
Hamburgh  m arrofat..............1 80
early June  ■ 
...1  50
Champion E ng.. 1  40
petit  pols.............. 1 40
fancy  sifted____ 1 90
Soaked....................................  65
Harris standard....................   75
VanCamp’s  m arrofat...........1  10
early Ju n e....... 1  30
Archer’s  Early Blossom__ 1  25
F rench.........................................2 15
Mushrooms.
French.................................19®2l
Pumpkin,
B rie.........................................  80
Squash.
H ubbard......................................1 15
Succotash.
Hamburg.................. 
1  40
Soaked..... ..............................  80
Honey  Dew.................................1 50
E rie .............................................. 1 36
Tomatoes.
H ancock.....................
Excelsior.............
Eclipse........................
Hamburg...................
G allon.................................8   50

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CHOCOLATE. 

Baker’s.

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

28
37
43

40.2 H url.............................1  75

“ 

..........................2 50
No. 1 
Parlor Gem...........................2 75
Common W hisk................... 
80
jfanny 
...................  1 00
w arehouse...........................2

1 

BRUSHES.

*• 
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Stove, No.  l ......................... 1  25
10.......................  1 50
15.......................  1 75
Rloe Root Scrub, 2  row—  
85
BIOS Root  Scrub, 8 ro w ....  1  26 
Palmetto,  goose...................1  50

CANDLES.

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

“ 

CANNED  GOODS.

Fish.
Clams.

“ 

>• 

Little Neck,  1 lb ...................1  20
«  2  lb ...................1  90
Clam Chowder.
Standard, 8 lb ........................2 25
Cove Oysters.
Standard,  1 lb ......................   75
21b......................135
Lobsters.
Star,  1  lb .............................. 2 45
»•  2  lb .............................. 8 50
Picnic, 1 lb .............................2 00
2 lb .............................2 90
“ 
Mackerel.
Standard, 1 lb ....................... 110
2  lb ......................2  10
MuBtard,  21b....................... 2 25
Tomato Sauce,  2  lb ........... 2 25
Soused, 2  lb ...........................2 25
Columbia River,  flat..........1  80
tails...........1  66
A IN U , ........................
.......1  10
pink.................
.......1  95
Kinney’s,  flats............

Salmon.
“ 

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Sardines.
American  Ms.............
H*..............
Imported  Ms...............
M*...............
Mustard  Ms.................
Boneless......................
Trout.
Brook  8, lb ...............
F ru its.
Apples.

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

“ 

..4H©  5
• 6H©,7
...  ©10
...15@16
...  6©7
21
.......2 60

1  20
4o00

CATSUP.

“ 

Blue Label Brand.
 
Triumph Brand.

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

............8  50

CLOTHES  PIN S.

gross boxes..................40©45

COCOA  SH ELL8.

35 lb. bags...........................  ©3
Less  quantity.................   @3M
Pound  packages...........6M@7

C O FFE E.

G reen.
Rio.

 

Santos.

Mexican and Gnatamala.

F air..........................................18
Good........................................19
Prim e.............................  
Golden....................................21
Peaberry................................ 23
F a ir......................................... 19
Good....................................... 20
P rim e......................................22
Peaberry  ............................... 23
F air......................................... 21
Good........................................22
Fancy......................................24
Prim e......................................23
M illed.................................... 24
Interior.................................. 25
Private Growth..................... 27
M andehllng..........................28
Im itation............................... 25
Arabian.................................. 28

Maracaibo.

Mocha.

Java.

R oasted.

To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add He. per lb. for roast 
lng and 15 per  cent,  for shrink 
age.
M cL aughlin's  X X X X ..  22 30
Bnnola................................  21  80
Lion,60or 100lb.  case....  21 

P ackage. 

E x tract.

Valley City H gross............ 
75
1  15
Felix 
Hummel’s, foil, gross............1 65
“ 
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tin 
CHICORY.

Bulk...
R ed...

...................5
....................7

CLOTHES  LIN ES.

Cotton, 40 f t.... .. .per dos.  1  25
140
180
175
1  90
85
1  00

50 f t . . .
60 f t....
70 ft...
80 ft...
60 ft...
7 2 f t..

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CONDENSED  M IL K . 

4 dos. In case.

N.T.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

COU PON  B O O K S.
its!

“Tradesman.’
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2 
3 
_  5 
810 
820

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8 8 
8  5 
810 
820 

21

“Superior.”
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2  00
2 50 
8 00
3 00
4 OU
5 00
2 50 
8 00
3 50
4 00
5 00
6 00

Universal.’

8  1  books, per hundred...  83 00
3  50
4 00
5 00
6 00 
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.

..10 
..20 

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1 Can  be  made to represent any 
denomination  from 810, down  '
20 books...........................8  1  00
2 00
50 
100 
3  00
6  25
250 
500 
10 00
1000 
17  50

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CRACKERS.

 
 
 
 
Butter.

Seymour XXX........................
Seymour XXX, cartoon.........5H
Family  XXX........................  5
Family XXX,  cartoon.........  5H
Salted XXX............................. 5
Salted XXX,  cartoon  .........6H
K enosha................................  7H
Boston.......................................7
Butter  biscuit........................6
Soda,  XXX...........................   5H
Soda, City..............................   7H
Soda,  Duchess........................8H
Crystal W afer........................ 10H
Long  Island W afers.............11
S. Oyster  XX X .......................5H
City Oyster. XXX.....................5H
Farina  Oyster...................... 6

Oyster.

Soda.

CREAM   TA R TA R .
Strictly  pure........................ 
30
T ellers  Absolute................ 
30
Grocers’...............................15®®

FLY   P A P E R . 

T h o m ’s  Tanglefoot.

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

D R IE D   FRUITS. 

D om estic.

Apples.

“ 

“ 

Pears.

Peaches.

Apricots.

quartered  “ 

Snndrled, sliced In  bbls.
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes 12  12H 
California in  bags........
Evaporated in boxes.  .. 
Blackberries.
In  boxes.........................
Nectarines.
701b. bags.........................
251b. boxes.......................
Peeled, In  boxes............
Cal. evap.  “ 
............
“ 
in bags.........
California In bags.......
Pitted  Cherries.
Barrels.............................
50 lb. b oxes....................
26" 
.....................
Prunelles.
801b.  boxes....................
Raspberries.
In  barrels........................
50 lb. boxes......................
........................
25 lb.  “ 
Raisins.

Loose  Muscatels In Boxes.

2 crow n................................
“ 
8 
..................  ......
4 
........................4Q
“ 
Loose Muscatels In Bags.
2  crow n..................................4%
3 

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Foreign.
Currants.

Peel.

25  “ 
25  “ 

Patras,  In barrels.............. 
In  H-bbls...............  
In less quantity —
cleaned,  bulk........  
cleaned,  package.. 

2
2%
4
4H 
Citron, Leghorn, 251b. boxes  13 
Lemon 
8
Orange 
10
Ondnra, 29 lb. boxes..  5  ©  7 
“ 
Sultana, 20 
..7H  © 8
Valencia, 30  “
California,  100-120 ............... 6

“ 
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Raisins.

Prunes.
90x100 25 lb. bxs.  6H
80x90
70x80
60x70

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Turkey. 
Silver  ..

EN V ELO PES.
XX rag, white.

No. 1,6H.......................  81  75
No. 2, 6H.............................  1M
No. 1,6................................  166
No. 2,6................................   150

XX  wood, white.

No. 1,6H .............................  135
No. 2, 6H  ...........................  1  25
6H  ...............................  1 00
6............................................ 
95

Manilla, white.

Coin.

Mill  No. 4................................   1 00

FARINACEOUS  GOODS. 

Farina.
Hominy.

Lima  Beans.

100 lb. kegs..................... 
3*
Barrels.................................. 3  00
G rits.....................................   3H
Dried...............................4  ©4H
Maccaronl and Vermicelli. 
Domestic, 121b. b o x .... 
56
Imported...................... 10 H@ 11
Barrels  200.........................   575
Half barrels  100 .................  3 00
Kegs..........................— ...   8
Green,  bu...........................  1 15
Split  per>lb................... 
Rolled  Oats.
Barrels' 180........................
Half  bbls 90..............

Pearl Barley.

Oatmeal.

Peas.

©5  50 
©2 88

3

Sago.

East India.................... .......  5
Wheat.
Cracked......................
F IS H —Salt

.......  3M

Cod.

Bloaters.
Yarmouth...................
P ollock......................
Whole, Grand  Bank.
Boneless,  bricks..  .. 
Boneless,  strips.........
Halibut.
Smoked ......................
Herring.
Holland, white hoops keg 
«*
•« 
bbl 

18 

. . .   4«5M
. . .   6M
...  6M

10@12
60
9  50

“ 

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Norwegian.................
2 50
Round, H bbl 100 lbs.
. .......  1  30
“  M  “  40  “ 
17
Scaled........................
......... 
Mackerel.
....10 00
No. 1,  100 lbB..................
No. 1, 40 lb s .................... .........4  41
No. 1,  10 lbs.................... ...........1  OO
No. 2,100 lbs.................. ........... 7  50
No. 2, 40  lbs.................... ...........3 30
No. 2,10  lbs...................
90
Family, 90 lbs................
10  lbs ...........
Sardines.
Russian,  kegs................
Trout.
No. 1, H bbls., lOOlbs. ............. 4 75
.........2  20
No. 1 M bbl, 40  lbs. . .
63
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs....... ....... 
No  1, 81b  kits.......... ....... 
53
»  illy
25
» 89  120
40
35

No.  1
K bbls, 100 lbs............ 16 25 
M  “  40  “  ..........
78 
101b.  kits...................
65 
8 lb. 
...................
M ATCHES

Whlteflsh.

“ 

Globe Match Co.’s Brands.

.......$1  25
Columbia Parlor.......
XXX Sulphur......................  1  00
Diamond  Match  Co.’s  Brands.
No. 9  sulphur......................... 1 66
Anchor parlor........................ 1 70
No. 2 home..............................1 10
Export  parlor........................ 4 00

FLA VO RIN G   EXTRACTS. 
Oval Bottle, with corkscrew. 
Best In the world for the money.

Sonde»*.

Regular 
Grade 
Lemon.

dos
2 os  __ 8  75
4os  ....  1  50

Regular 
Vanilla.

doz
2 o z.......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
Jen n in g s.
Lemon. Vanilla 
2 os regular panel.  75 
120
.. .1  50 
4 os 
.. .2 00 
6 oz 
No. 3 
taper..........1  35 
taper..........1  50 
No. 4 
N o rth ro p ’s
2 oz  oval taper  75 
“ 
3 oz 
1 20 
2 oz regular  “
85 
4 oz 
“  T60 

“ 
“ 
GU N PO W DER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.

Lemon.  Vanilla.

“ 
“ 

2 00
3 00
2 00
2 50

1 10
1 75
1 20
2 25

Kegs............................................. 3 25
Half  kegs.................................... 1 90
Quarter  kegs............................. 1 10
1  lb  cans................................   30
H lb  cans...............................  18
Kegs..............................................4 25
Half  kegs....................................2 40
Quarter kegs............................... 1 35
1 lb c a n s................................   34

Choke Bore—Dupont’F

Eagle Duck—Dupont's.

...........11  00

Kegs......................  
Half  kegs....................................5 75
Quarter kegs............................... 3 00
1  lb  cans..............................  
Sage........................................ 16
Hops....................................... 15

H ER B S.

60

IN D IG O .

Madras,  5 lb. b o x e s......... 
55
S. F„ 2,3 and 5 lb. boxes.. 
50
JE L L Y .
17  lb. palls...................  @  54
30  “ 
.................   @  81
Pore.........................................  80
Calabria..................................  25
Sicily...  ................................   12
Root.........................................  13

“ 
LICO R IC E.

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

“ 

M IN CE  M EAT.

Mince meat, 3 doz. in case.  2  5 
Pie  preparation,  3  doz.  In
case.................................... 
00

M EASURES.
Tin, per dozen.

1  gallon..............................   81  75
Half  gallon........................  1  40
Q u art..................................  
70
P in t.....................................  
45
Half  p i n t .........................  
40
Wooden, for vinegar, per doz.
1 gallon...............................  7  00
4 75 
Half gallon
Quart...........................
3 75
Pint 
..........................
MOLASSES.
Blackstrap.
Sugar house................—
Cuba Baking.
O rdinary.............................
Porto Rico.
P rim e..................................
F ancy............................
New Orleans.
Fair  .............................
Good  ..................................
Extra  ood.........’. ..............
Choice 
.............................
Fancy... 
One half  barre Is Scextra.

.........-•••••  .

CHEESE.
Amboy.........................
7H
Acme............................. 
Lenawee...................... 
7M
8
R iverside..................... 
Gold  Medal.................
5Q7
SU m ............................. 
15
Brick............................. 
E d a m ........................... 
100
22
L eiden.......................... 
Llmburger...................  ©15
026
Pineapple..................... 
Roquefort...................  
086
Sap Sago.
© 20
Schweitzer, Imported.
©24
©14

Peerless evaporated cream.  5 75 

C R E D IT   CHECKS.

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

“ 
“ 

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r f   *

¥  

«  f   ♦

»  I   i

*   f   +

1

1

f  *  m

•   *1  •

r

■
y l v

41  j  #

r

PIC K L ES.
Medium.

Barrels, 1,300  count...
Half bbls, 600  count..
Small.
Barrel!, 2.400  count.
Half bbl!, 1,200 count
P IP E S .

Clay, No.  216........................ 1  TO
...1 70
70
...1 20
Cob, No. 8..............................1 20

“  T. D. full count.
PO TASH .

48 cans in case.

4 00
B abbitt's............. ..............   4 00
Penna Salt  Co.’s ...............   8 00
.  3 00

B IC E .
Domestic.

Carolina head.........................6
“  No. 1......................... 5K
“  No. 2........................5
Broken..................................   4
Japan, No. 1................................5 V4
“  No. 2............................. 5
Jav a...............................« . . .   6
Patna......................................  4*

Imported.

SPICES.

Whole Sifted.

“ 

“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

Allspice..................................  Sv4
Cassia, China In m ats.........  8
Batavia In bund___15
Saigon In rolls.........32
Cloves,  Amboyna.................22
Zanzibar.................. 11*
Mace  Batavia....................... 80
Nutmegs, fancy....................75
“  No.  1....................... 70
••  No.  2....................... 60
Pepper, Singapore, black— 10 
" 
w hite...  .20
shot..  ......................16
“ 
Pure Ground In Bulk.
A llspice................................. 15
Cassia,  Batavia.................... !8
and  Saigon.25
“ 
Saigon....................35
“ 
Cloves,  Amboyna.................22
“ 
Zanzibar.................18
Ginger, A frican.................... 16
*•  Cochin................... .20
Jam aica.................22
“ 
Mace  Batavia........................65
Mustard,  Eng. and Trieste.. 22
Trieste....................25
Nutmegs, No. 2 .................... 75
Pepper, Singapore, black— 16 
w hite.......24
20
.20
*s
A llspice........................ 84 1  55
84 1  55
Cinnamon....................
84 1  55
Cloves...........................
84 1  55
Ginger,  Jam aica........
“  A frican............ 84 1  55
M ustard........................ 84 1  55
84 1  55
P epper.........................
84
Sage...............................
SAL  SODA.
Granulated,  bbls........
751b  cases
Lump, bbls 
...............

“ 
“ 
•‘Absolute” in Packages*8

1*
IK
1  15
1451b kegs.................  1%

Cayenne.......
Sage..............................

“ 

“ 

“ 

SEEDS.

A n ise...........................   @15
Canary, Smyrna..........  
4
8
C araw ay......................  
Cardamon, Malabar... 
90
Hemp,  Russian..........  
4%
Mixed  B ird................. 
5@6
10
Mustard,  w h ite.,.......  
Poppy...........................  
9
R ap e............................. 
5
Cuttle  bone.................  
80
STARCH.

Corn.

“ 

20-lb  boxes.................... .......5*
40-lb 
.................... .......5*
Gloss.
.......5
1-lb packages.................
.......5
3-lb 
.................
................. ........  5*
6-lb 
40 and 50 lb. boxes....... .......3*
Barrels...................................3*

“ 
“ 

SNUFF.

Scotch, In  bladders............. 87
Maccaboy, In Jars.................%
French Rappee, In Ja rs...... 43
B oxes.......................................5*
Kegs, Bngllsh......................... 4*

SODA.

SALT.

Diamond Crystal.

“ 

“ 
“ 

lb  “ 

3 75 
3  50 
3 30

Cases, 243  lb. boxes.........$ 1  60
Barrels, 320  lbs.................  2 SO
115 2*4 lb bags....  4  00
60 5 
....  3 75
3010  lb  “  ....  3 50
65
2  50 
225

Butter, 56 lb  bags.............
□   “  24141b bags.............
“  280 lb  b b ls ............
............
“  224 lb 
Worcester.
115 2*-lb sacks....................
“ 
60 5-lb 
....................
“ 
3010-lb 
.....................
82  14 lb.  “ 
......................
3201b. bbl.............................
281b  sack s.......................
5  lb  linen sacks.................
100 3-Ib. sacks......................
60 5-lb.  “ 
......................   2 00
28 10-lb. sacks.....................  1  85
56 lb. dairy In  drill  bam ...  30
281b.  “ 
16
56 lb. dairy In  linen sacks..  75
56 lb. dairy In  linen  sacki.  75
56 lb.  sacks.......................... 
22
80
Saginaw ............................. 
M anistee............................  
80

Ashton.
Higgins.
Soiar Rock.

Common Grades.

Common Fine.

.. 

“ 

“ 

-  SALERATUS. 
Packed 60 lbs. In box.

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

@4 00
@2 50
5 00
3 00

THE  MICHIGAN  TRAJDESMAJN.

17

TEAS.

japan—Regular.

BASKET  FIBED.

F a ir.............................
@17
Good...........................
@20
Choice......................... .24 @26
Choicest...................... .32 @34
D u st............................ .10 @12
SUN CURED.
F a ir.............................
@17
G ood...........................
@20
Choice......................... 24 @26
Choicest...................... .32 @34
D ust............................ .10 @12
F a ir............................. .18 @20
Choice.........................
@25
Choicest......................
@35
Extra choice, wire leaf @40
GUNPOWDER.
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

YOUNG HYSON.

IMPERIAL.

OOLONG.

ENGLISH  BREAKFAST.

F a ir................................18  @28
Choice.............................24  @28
B est................................40  @50

TOBACCOS. 

F in e  Cut.

P. Lorillard A Co.’s Brands.
Sweet Russet...............30  @32
30
Tiger.............................  
D. Scotten A  Co’s Brands.
60
H iaw atha..................... 
C uba........ ...................  
32
30
Rocket.......................... 
Spaulding A Merrick’s  Brands.
Sterling........................ 
30
Private Brands.
Bazoo...........................   @30
Can  Can........................  @27
Nellie  Bly................... 24  @25
Uncle Ben...................24  @25
27
McGlnty......................  
25
*  bbls........... 
Dandy Jim ................... 
29
Torpedo....................... 
24
In  drum s.... 
23
Yum  Y u m ..................  
28
1892...............................  
23
»>
“  drums

“ 

“ 

 

P lu g .

39
27
40
26
38
34
40
32
39
30

24
43
32
31
27

Sorg’s Brands.

Spearhead........................  
J o k e r................................. 
Nobby Twist...................... 
Scotten’s Brands.
Kvlo.................................... 
Hiawatha.......................... 
Valley C ity......................  
Finzer’s Brands.
Old  Honesty..................... 
Jolly Tar............................ 
Lorillard’s Brands.
Climax (8  oz., 41c)_____  
Gr-en Turtle....................  
27
Three  Black Crows... 
J. G. Butler’s Brands.
Something Good......... 
38
Out of  Sight..................... 
Wilson & McCaulay’s Brands.
Gold  Rope........................ 
Happy Thought..........  
37
Messmate.......................... 
No T ax............................... 
Let  Go............................... 
Catlin’s  Brands.

Sm oking.

Kiln  dried..........................17@18
Golden  Shower..................... 19
Huntress 
..............................26
Meerschaum  ..  ................29@30
American Eagle Co.’s Brands.
Myrtle Navy..........................40
Stork................................ 30@32
Germ an.................................. 15
F ro g ....................................... 33
Java, %a foil......................... 32
Banner Tobacco Co.’s Brands.
Banner.................................... 16
Banner Cavendish................38
Gold C ut.................................28
W arpath.................................14
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.

LeidersdorPs Brands.

Spaulding & Merrick.

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

VINEGAR.

40 g r................................ 7  @8
50 g r.............................. 8  @9

II for barrel.

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

YEAST.

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

.. 

. 

W O OD EN W A RE.

Tubs, No. 1...........................  6 00
“  No. 2........................... 5  50
“   No. 3........................... 4  50
.  130
Pails, No. 1, two-hoop.. 
“  No. 1,  three-hoop__   1  50
Bowls, 11 inch......................
13  “ 
...................... 
“ 
90
15  “ 
“ 
...................... 1  25
17  “ 
“ 
......................  1  80
19  “ 
“ 
.....................2 40
21 
“  
.................................
Baskets, m arket..........   35
shipping bushel.. 
full  noop 

“ 
“ 
“ willow crths, No.i 
“ 
* 
“ 
“ 
“ 

1 15
..  1 25
5 25
“  No.2 6 25
“  No.3 
“  No.l 3 75
“   No.2 
“  No.3 

splint 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 

7 25
4 25
4 75

INDURATED WARE.

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

Butter Plates—Oval.

Double.

W ashboards—single.

250  1000
No.  1...........................  
60  2  10
No.  2...........................  
70  2 45
No.  3 ........................... 
80  2 80
No.  5...........................  1  00  3 50
U niversal...............................2  25
No. Q ueen............................. 2  50
Peerless Protector.................2  40
Saginaw Globe....................  1  75
Water W itch........................  2250
W ilson.........................................2 55
Good Luck.................................. 2 75
Peerless............................... . 2  8
H ID E S   FE LT S  and  FURS
Perkins  A  Hess  pay  as  fol­
lows:
HIDES.
Green ......................
Part Cured.............
Full 
..............
Dry...........................
Kips, g re e n ............
“   cured..............
Calfskins,  green... 
oured...
Deacon skins..........
No. 2 hides *  off.
FELTS.

...  2@2tf 
@  3 
@  3* 
,  4  @  5 
2  @ 3 
@ 4 
4  @  5 
.4  h@  6 
10  @25

“ 

“ 

WOOL.

.  5  @  20 
.25  @  60

Shearlings. 
Lambs  ....
W ashed..........................12 @16
U nw ashed...................... g @12
Tallow ...........................  4 @ 4*
Grease  butter  .............  1  @ 2
Switches......................  l)i@  2
Ginseng........................2 00@2 50
GRAINS an d  FEED STU FF8

MISCELLANEOUS.

WHEAT.

MEAL.

No. 1 White (58 lb. test)
53
No. 2 Red (60 lb. test)
53
Bolted.................................. 1  40
Granulated.........................
1  65
FLOUR  IN  SACKS.
•Patents..............................
2 05
•Standards..........................
1  55
Bakers’................................
1  35
•Graham .............................
1  40
Rye.......................................
1  40
•Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour in bbls., 25c per bbl. ad­
ditional.

MILLSTUFFS.

Less
Car lots  quantity
115 00
12 00
15 50
20 00
18 50

B ran.............. 114  00 
Screenings_  12 00 
M iddlings..  14  50 
Mixed F eed...  19  50 
Coarse meal 
.. 18 00 
Car  lots.................................. 45
Less than  car  lots...............48
Car  lots.................................. 45
Less than car lots................. 48
No. 1 Timothy, car lots__ 11  <X>
ton lots.........12 50
No. 1 

CORN.

OATS.

“ 

F IS H   AND  OYSTERS.
F.  J.  Dettenthaler  quotes as 

@ 8 
@ 8 
12* 
@15 
@ 4 
@10 
15 
10 
@ 8 
@ 7 
@ 8 
15
15
18@25
@45

follows:
FRESH  FISH.
Whlteflsh 
...................
Trout  ...........................
Black Bass...................
Halibut.........................
Ciscoes or Herring__
Blueflsh........................
Fresh lobster, per lb ..
Cod................................
No. 1 Pickerel..............
Pike..............................
Smoked W hite............
Red  Snappers............
Columbia  River  Sal­
mon ...........................
Mackerel......................
Falrhaven  C ounts....
F . J. D.  Selects..........
Selects  .........................
F. J. D...........................
A nchors.....................
Standards....................
Extra Selects..per gal.
Selects.........................
Standards....................
Counts.........................
Scallops........................
Shrimps  ......................
Clam s...........................
SHELL  GOODS.
Oysters, per  100.......... 1  25@l  75
Clams, 
.  75@l  00

0T8TXRS—Cans. 

OYSTERS—Bulk.

1  25

.. 

“ 

The Grand Rapids  Packing and Provision Co 

PROVISIONS.

12 50
12 75 
14  50
13  50
13  75
14  00 
14  00
ru
g*

<n

gi<

...................a

SAUSAGE.

quotes as follows:
PORK  IN  BARRELS.
Mess...................................................
Short c u t ........................................
Extra clear pig, short  cu t............
Extra clear,  heavy...........................
Clear, fat  back................................ .
Boston clear, short cu t...................
Clear back, short cu t.......................
Standard clear, short cut. best__
_  
Pork, links................................................ 
Liver............ .............................. 
....... 
B lood.................................................;;;;;
Head cheese.....................g
Summer...........................................*.......... 
Frankfurts............................7j4
LARD.
Kettle  Rendered....................................... 
G ranger................................  
F am ily............................................*  6*
Cottolene............................................. ................j
50 lb. Tins, * c  advance.
20 lb.  pails, * c  
101b. 
“  v c  
»  %c 
51b. 
3 lb. 
’•  i  c 
Extra Mess, warranted 200  lbs.....................
Extra Mess, Chicago packing...............
Boneless, rump butts..............................
Hams, average 20 lbs............

smoked  meats—Canvassed or Plain.
16 lbs......................... .............
12 to 14 lbs.....................
picnic..........................................
best boneless.............." .......................
................
...........

Shoulders.....................................  
Breakfast Bacon  boneless__
Dried beef, ham prices............. 
Long Clears, heavy....................* ’’ ’ *..........
Briskets,  medium...................
lig h t.........................!!!!!!!!!!*!!!
„  
Butts................................
D. S. Bellies......................... . 7 7 7 7 ! ...........
Fat Backs.........................................7 7 7 ! ! ! ’
PICKLED  PIGS’  FEET...................
Half  barrels.........................
Quarter barrels.......... 
.7 .'.!.”  7 7 ............
K its..............................................."..7 .7 7 "  "
_  
Kits, honeycomb.............................
Kits, prem ium ......................! ! .7 ! '.'! 7 7 7

BEEF  IN  BARRELS.

DRY  SALT  MEATS.

tripe.

“ 
" 
“ 
“ 

“
“
“
“

“ 
“ 

« 

7 50 
7  75 
9 50
0*
10*
11
18*
9

11
7 *

8
7* 
3 00

75
55

FRESH  BEEF.

Carcass..............
Fore  quarters.. 
Hind quarters..
Loins No. 3.......
Ribs...................
R ounds............
Chucks..............
p iates........................................ ::::
Dressed............
Loins........ ........
Shoulders.................................. 
Leaf Lard.......
C arcass............
Lambs...............
C arcass.............

FRESH  PORK.

MUTTON.

VEAL.

...... r*@  6*
-----4  @ 4)4
-----7  @ 8
...  .  8  @10
....  6  @ 6*

....  6M@6*
ait
.... 
U7| QU
•* ”  
»71 
... .  O  tg*a\
*4#  ‘
• * * * 
....  5K@6

A

CROCKERY  AND  G LA SSW A RE 

lamp  burners.
No. 0 Sun.......................................
No. 1  “  ................................ 
.............
No.2  “  ..........................................7 7 * .........
Tubular..................................................7 .7 ! '
lamp  chimneys.  Per box."........

6 dos. lu box.

No. 0 Sun.......................................
No. 1  “  .....................................  
............
No.2  “  .......................................................

First quality.
“ 
“  “ 
XXX Flint. 
“ 
“  “ 

No. 0 Sun, crimp  top........................
»  ......................... 7 ...........
No. 1  “ 
“ ..................
No. 2 
....................
No. 0 Sun, crimp top....................
“  ..................... 
............
No. 1  “ 
No.2 
“  ......................... . .. 7 7 7 !
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and  labeled........
“ 
No.2  “ 
No. 2 Hinge,  “ 
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb,  per doz.  ...
No.2  “ 
No. 1 crimp, per doz..........................
No.2  
“ 

................7 7 ;
................................. ;;;;;

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

La Bastfe.

Pearl top.

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

« 

“ 
Mason—old  style.

FRUIT  JARS.

Supplies.

Dandy—glass  cover.

Mason—one doz  in case.

P in ts....................................................................
Q uarts.....................................................7 7 7 7
Half  gallons................................ 7 .7 7 ! .
P ints..................................................................
Q uarts........................................... 7 7 7 7 7 7 !
Half  gallons.............................................. !7 7
P in ts ...................................................................
Q uarts........................................................... 7 7
Half  gallons..................................................7!
Boyd’s extra caps 
Rubber rings........
No. 0,  per  gross 
No. 1,
No. 2, 
No.3, 
Mammoth, per doz............................
STONEWARE—AKRON.
Bntter Crocks,  1 to 6 gal...................
“ 
*  gal. per  doz..........
Jugs, *  gal., per doz.........................
*r   1 to 4 gal., per gal......................
Milk Pans, *  gal., per dos..............
“ 

l  “ 
STONEWARE—BLACK GLAZED.
Butter Crocks, 1  and 2 gal........ .............
Milk Pans, % gal.......................................

LAMP w ic k s .

“ 

“ 

“
“

“

45
50
75
75

1  75 
1  88
2 70
.2  10 
.2 25 
.3 25
.2 60
.2 go
.3  80
3 70
4  70 
4  Si
1  25 
1  50 
1  35 
1  60

10 50
11  00 
14 00
2 25 
40

28
38
75
75

06
60

60
72
0

SEELY’S  EXTRACTS.

Lemon.
1 oz. F. M. $  90 doz.
2  “  N. S.  1  20  “
2  “  F. M.  1  40  “

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

$10 20 gro 
12 60  “
14  40  “

16  20 gro
21  60  “
25 50  •*

Rococo—Second Grade.

Lemon.

2oz............... 76 doz... ..  8  00  “

Vanilla.

2 doz........   1 00 doz... ..10 50  •'

SOAP.
L aundry.

Allen B. Wrlsley’s Brands.

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

Proctor A Gamble.

“ 

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

Dlngman Brands.

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

Jas. S. Kirk A Co.’s  Brands. 

“ 

“ 

80  b a r s .......

American  Family, wrp’d. .14 00 
p lain ...  3  94
N.  K.  Falrbank A Co.’s Brands.
Sauta Claus............... ........   4  00
Brjwn, 60 bars.......... .........2 40
“ 
.........3 25
Lautz Bros. A Co.’s Brands.
A cm e.......................... .........3 75
Cotton Oil................... .........6 00
Marseilles.................. .........  4  00
Master  ........................ .........4 00
Thompson A Chute Co.’s Brands

Silver...................................... 3 65
M ono...................................... 3 30
Savon Improved....................2 50
Sunflow er............................. 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.
Sapollo, kitchen, 3  doz...  2 40
hand, 3 doz.......... 2 40

“ 

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  poundB  for 
the weight of the barrel.
Cut  Loaf........................... ..$5 06
Powdered......................... ..  4 69
G ranulated...................... ..  4 37
Extra Fine Granulated.. .  4 50
Cubes................................ ..  4 56
XXXX  Powdered............ ..  4 94
Confec.  Standard  A ___ ..  4 12
No. 1  Columbia A ............ .  4 00
No.  4 Phoenix................... ..  4 00
No. 5 Empire  A ............... ..  3 94
No.  6.................................. ..  3 87
No.  7.................................. ..  3 75
No.  8 .................................. ..  3 69
No.  9.................................. ..  3 62
No.  10................................ ..  3 50
No.  11................................ ..  3 44
No.  12................................ .  3 37
No.  13................................ ..  3 On
No 14................................
2 94

SYRUPS.  -

Corn.

Barrels...................................18
Half bbls................................20
F a ir.........................................  19
Good.......................................  25
Choice.....................................   30

Pure Cane.

TA B L E   SAUCES.
“ 

Lea A Perrin’s, la rg e ........   4  75
small.........2 75
Halford, la rg e .................... 3 75
small.................... 2 25
Salad Dressing,  la rg e .......4  55
‘‘ 
sm all.......2  eg

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1 8

THE  RIGHTS  OF  THE  POOR.
It  is  a  tendency  attested  by  history 
that as wealth and luxury  increase there 
should come a widening of the chasm be­
tween classes and a louder clamor against 
privilege.  We  are  experiencing  now  a 
social conflict which is bitter  and  unap­
peasable by ordinary  means, and which, 
in  the  opinion  of  some  of  the  wisest 
thinkers of the  country,  threatens  revo­
lution unless  checked. 
It  is  striking at 
the very roots of our republican methods
of government and smothering individual
rights  under  the  tyranny  of  organiza­
tion.

The  remedy  for  this  state  of  things 
cannot  come,  as  the  socialists  dream, 
from any violent  overturning  of present 
conditions, or the adoption at once of any 
new theories of  the  state  or  of  society. 
All our theorists utterly ignore the prime 
factor with which any social theory must 
deal—the existence  of laziness,  shiftless- 
ness,  vice  and  crime  in  the  individuals 
who  help  to  make  society at  any given 
time.  They assume that if organizations 
or governments  could  only  conduct  all 
things  for  the  individual,  he  would  at 
once acquiesce,  and fall into line,  and  he 
as easily managed as an  automaton;  but 
all  history  shows  that forever  the indi­
vidual  is  the  most  important  factor  in 
either progress  or  decline;  that  his  en­
ergy  and  enterprise,  protected  in  their 
exercise by just  laws,  have  made all ad­
vance;  and  that  his  resistance,  inspired 
by  his  selfishness,  his  laziness  or  his 
criminal conduct,  has been  the most ser­
ious  check  on  the  development  of  the 
race.  Real  progress  is  possible  only 
when  the  resistant  elements  of  society 
are in sufficient control to allow business 
to go on and enterprise  to seek  its legiti­
mate ends, in subordination  to  the  good 
of the whole.

We  need  no  revolution  to  produce  a 
better social condition.  Revolution  can­
not do it.  What we do need  is  a  higher 
sense of responsibility on the part of the 
privileged and the  capable,  to lead them 
to  use  their  opportunities,  their  educa­
tion and their wealth  for  the betterment 
of the whole  body.  We  need  no  less  a 
higher  moral  standard  among  the  less 
fortunate  members  of  the  social  fabric 
and a  conviction  on  their  part that it is 
for their interest to be honest  and frugal 
and  humane,  while  lying  and  cheating 
and stealing and dictation are worse foes 
to labor than ail  wealth  or  combinations 
of wealth whatsoever.

It seems to me that  much  of  the  con­
fusion of the time is  due to the fact that 
the  air  is  so  full  of  finespun  theories 
which no man  can  understand,  not even 
those  who  advocate  them;  and  that  it 
may help those who really desire to work 
towards  the solution of  the  problems of 
the hour to clear away  tbe  rubbish  and 
look  at  one  or  two  plain  and  simple 
truths, as  old  as the  experience  of  the 
human race.

How comes oppression ?  Not by wealth 
of itself.  Wealth that is won  by  legiti­
mate means—that is the product of effort 
and industqy  and self-sacrifice and honor­
able dealing—helps  in  the  development 
of  the  race and  the elevation of society. 
All classes in the community  are  better 
off for the existence of such wealth.  The 
attacks  of  labor  agitators  upon  wealth, 
as such,  are sheer idiocy.

Oppression comes only when  wealth is 
acquired by base means that crush others 
in the process  and  is  held  without  any 
sense  of  the  responsibility expressed in

It 
the fine old motto,  “noblesse oblige.” 
comes  in  a  marked  degree  in  the  ten­
dency of  our  own  time  towards  unjust 
combinations  which,  for  the  sake  of 
purely  selfish  gain  on the part of a few, 
crush out the  small  tradesman  and  the 
small  manufacturer  and  interfere  with 
the freedom  of  individual  striving  and 
energy.  Oppression  exists when wealth 
and privelege take no  measures  for  the 
relief of need,  or for the bettering of un­
just social  conditions.

But there is another  source of oppres­
sion th a t  does  n o t com e  from   w ealth   a t 
all,  and is heavier by far  thau any other 
at the present time.

that 

Combination  is  not  in  itself  an  evil. 
The  combinations  of  capital are unjust 
only when they interfere with  the rights 
of free men,  and it is  legitimate  enough 
that when capital combines in its own in­
terests labor should do the same.  Within 
legitimate  sphere 
their 
labor  unions 
are  a  good  thing.  But, 
to  say  noth­
ing about their  relations to capital,  they 
are,  as  conducted  to day,  the  heaviest 
tyranny 
the  workingman  has. 
They not only  dictate  terms  to  capital, 
but they dictate action to the laborer and 
enforce their mandates  by violence.  The 
spirit of Anglo-Saxon freedom, for which 
our fathers contended,  is that every man 
has the right to work  and  do the best be 
can  for  himself.  The  labor  unions  say 
to him,  “You  shall  only work  when we 
say you may, no  matter  if  you and your 
family  are  starving  and  work 
lies  at 
your  hand  waiting  for  you;  if  we  say 
strike, strike it is;”  and  if any indepen­
dent working  man  attempts  to  use  his 
right to do the work the  strikers  refuse, 
he  is  dubbed  a  “scab”  and his head is 
broken  for his industry.

The  difficulty  at  the  bottom  of  the 
whole  business  is  that  we are living in 
the age  of tbe  bogus  workingman.  For 
the real  workingman we  have  the high­
est  respect.  His  industry  honors  him 
and  never  demeans  him;  but  the  real 
workingman of the older  day,  who  still 
exists,  is  not  the  workingman  that  is 
heard from  in tbe  present  state  of  af­
fairs.  The heel of the  imitation laborer 
is on his neck and his  freedom is a thing 
of the past.

is  of 

The  bogus  workingman 

two 
kinds:  First,  there is the shiftless and in­
competent workman,  largely  an  impor­
tation  from  the  slums  of  Europe,  who 
outnumbers the competent and energetic 
workman  sufficiently to demand that the 
labor unions shall be handled  in  his  in­
terests, so that laziness and incompetency 
shall have the same  pay  as  ability  and 
steadfastness.  To  turn  off a laborer for 
poor work or  incorrigible  laziness  is  a 
crime  in the eyes of the  bogus working­
man,  which is  speedily punished  by the 
union  which he manages.  Tbe righteous 
premium  on  industry  and  skill  is  ren­
dered null and void.

Tbe other bogus workingman is the ag­
itator  who  makes  speeches  in  our  Ar- 
beiter  Hall  and  elsewhere,  and  tries  to 
inflame the ignorant  masses  against  the 
legitimate  laws  of  society  and set them 
on to riot and bloodshed.  He  is  seldom 
ready to do any  work himself,  but much 
prefers to live well on the profits  of  his 
appeal to angry  passions.  Were he well 
out  of  the  way  there  might  be  some 
chance of getting tbe workingman to lis­
ten to reason,  but  to  a  mass  of  people, 
led by their feelings and  unused to clear 
thinking, he is the spark that touches off

THE  MICHIGAN  TIlADESMAJNT.
the powder magazine and plunges the ig­
norant mob to its own destruction.

The labor union,  as it is  to-day,  is  the 
workingman’s  worst  enemy. 
It  was 
meant to be his friend;  it has become his 
tyrant,  and every  intelligent  and  thrifty 
laborer knows it. 
It  says  to  the  boys, 
“You  shall  not  learn  a  trade except  at 
our  dictation, and  in  our  way.”  Some 
gentlemen  in  our city were interested a 
year or two  ago  in  the  formation  of  a 
manual  training  school, to be conducted
under the  oversight  of  the  city,  where
boys  might  have  a  chance  to  learn  to 
work in  wood aud iron and fit themselves 
for high usefulness in the trades.  These 
gentlemen  were  ready  to  put  generous 
sums of money into the foundation of the 
school  as a matter of  public interest and 
welfare.  The scheme was  broken up by 
the  trades  unions.  And  so  crafty  are 
the  trades  unions,  in  their  control  of 
votes, that the  politician,  who  is lord of 
the earth to-day,  will not  lift  his  finger 
to control or limit their power.

Add  to  this  power  for  evil the actual 
reign  of  violence  so  often  inaugurated 
by  the  unions,  as  in our riot recently at 
Connor’s  Creek  and  in  the  coal  strikes 
and  miners’  strikes,  which  have  defied 
law and snapped their fingers in the face 
of state authorities,  and it needs no more 
evidence  to  show  where  the  worst  ty­
ranny under which the  workingman and 
the poor man labors is situated.

What  can  we  do  about  it?  Three 
things  can  be  done at least:  Give every 
man  a chance for  free,  untrammeled  ac­
tion  within  the  limits  of public safety. 
If the gentlemen who  are  sent  to  make 
laws  for  us  could  be persuaded,  by the 
force  of  indignant  public  sentiment  to 
stop long enough in  their  lining of their 
own pockets and their promoting of their 
own political ambitions  to attend a little 
to the interests  of  the nation,  that could 
be done.
Then  to  use  the  scientific  method in 
our measures of relief would  help much. 
We  squander  thousands 
in  “charity” 
which  only  helps  to make  paupers and 
encourage tramps.  New  Haven  (Conn.) 
found last winter  that  there  were  only 
175  more  applications  for  relief  from 
their  own  citizens  than  in  tbe  previus 
winter,  but  2,607  more  from  tramps. 
Baltimore,  by the  institution  of  lodging 
houses,  where work  was required  to pay 
for board,  reduced the number of tramps 
applying  for  lodging  at  the  police  sta­
tions from 320 daily on Jan.  1,  to zero on 
Feb.  3—not because  the  tramps  wanted 
to work and went to  the  lodging houses, 
but  because  the  police  sent them there 
and so  they  fled  the  town.  Absolutely 
demoralizing is all relief  which does not 
develop instead of crush manhood.

Most of all the remedy for the existing 
injustice and feverishness will  be  found 
in  the  attendance of every educated and 
privileged man on his duties.  The pres­
ent social condition and  also most of the 
remedies  suggested  for  it  are  a  direct 
menance  to  our  freedom,  bought  with 
bloody  sacrifice.  Yet  how  many  men 
who know it  will  not  even  vote!  How 
few will speak  out  in  a  trying  time  the 
words  of  honest  conviction!  When the 
agitators of every sort are sending broad­
cast  the  leaflets  and  papers  that  teach 
social  heresy,  what  are  we doing to en­
lighten the ignorance of the  poor  in  re­
gard  to  the  laws  of  society  that  are 
eternal, founded in the experience of the 
race ?  When governors are recreant and 
the strong arm of the law paralyzed, how

many who mourn over It lift  their voices 
in protest, and how many, in those states 
where public officials are violating  their 
trust,  will rebuke them  at  the polls if it 
means deserting their  petty partisanship 
to do it ?

There  is  need  of  organization,  not to 
constitute another tyranny,  but  to  con­
sult  on  wise  measures,  to  secure incor­
rupt government,  and  to  diffuse  intelli­
imperative. 
gence. 
Desultory  warfare 
In  union 
only is strength.

1  believe  this  is 
is  vain. 

H.  P.  De  F o r e s t,  D.  D., 

Pastor  Woodward  Ave.  Congregational 

Church,  Detroit.

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THE  OTHER  SIDE.

D a y s  o f  G race.

H ow   B u sin ess  M en  R egard   th e   T hree 
That there may  be two sides  to  every 
question is so true as  to  need  no  argu­
ment.  Therefore, 
in  considering  the 
advisability  of  abolishing  the  days  of 
grace given  beyond the date of a  note or 
draft,  in may  be  found  that  the  banks 
are not  to  have  it  all  their  own  way. 
Officers of all the banks  in  the city have 
expressed  themselves  on  the  subject, 
and without a single exception  desire  to 
see the law (for such it proves  to be) re­
pealed. 
the  opinion  of  T h e 
T r a d e s m a n ,  also,  that the law  ought to 
be repealed;  but  there  may  be  another 
side to the question.  Business men gen­
erally are  interested, and,  perhaps,  they 
may  not  agree  with 
the  bankers. 
Whether  they  do  or  not,  they  have  a 
right to be  heard,  and  so T h e   T r a d e s- 
. m a n   representative called  on  a  number 
the  leading  business  man  in  the  city, 
with the result as given below:

It 

is 

John A. Covode (Berkey & Gay  Furni­
ture Co.):  The three days of  grace  is  a 
relic  of  past  ages,  of  the  days  of  the 
stage  coach  and  the  many  hindrances 
and obstacles to travel. 
It  undoubtedly 
served  a  good  purpose  in  those  days, 
but its usefulness is gone and it ought to 
be abolished.  Why should not  the  date 
of a note or draft mean just as  much  as 
the amount?  If a note  is  given  for  30 
days,  why should it not be  collectible in 
30  days  instead  of  33  days? 
I  don’t 
think it  makes  much  difference  to  the 
banks,  though it is  very often a cause of 
annoyance.  But  there  is  no  sense  in 
making a note for 30 days  and  then  ex­
pecting it to run three days longer.

Chas.  H.  Berkey  (Royal  Furniture 
Co.): 
I have never  given  the  matter  a 
thought,  and  so  perhaps  my  opinion 
may  not  be  worth  much.  We  always 
manage to take care of  our  paper  when 
it comes due,  but I can  understand  how 
the three days of grace may  help  a man. 
He may be expecting a remittance which 
for some reason  is  belated and  the  ad­
ditional  three  days  of  grace  help  him 
out.  But if a man expects  something to 
happen that may  interfere with his pay­
ing the note  at  the  end  of  30  days  he 
could  make  it  for  33  and  that  would 
serve the same  purpase  as  the  days  of 
grace.  After all I  don’t  see what  good 
it does,  so perhaps  it  would  be  as well 
to repeal the law.

C. G.  A.  Voigt  (Star  Mills): 

I  think 
it would be a good thing to abolish grace 
on notes  and  drafts. 
In  our  business, 
when wheat is shipped to us,  the  sender 
draws on us at sight;  the  draft  reaches 
us several days before the wheat and the 
three days of grace  allows  the  grain  to 
come forward  and  be  examined  before 
the  draft  is  due.  But  that  would  be 
easily arranged between buyer and seller 
in such a way  as  to  make  the  days  of 
grace unnecessary. 
I think the business 
world  can  get along  without  the  three 
day sof grace.

H.  M. Amsden  (New  England  Furni­
ture  Co.): 
I  don’t  see  why  the  law 
should  not  be  repealed.  Of  course  it 
might take some time for  business  men 
to adjust themselves  to  the  new  condi­
tion,  but  there  would be  no  difference 
in the end.  We  would  have  to  look  a 
little sharper after our paper,  that is all. 
Now in addition to the  notice  from  the 
bank we have the  three  days  of  grace; 
if the law were repealed  we  would  still 
have the notice without the  three  days.

(feHenry Spring (Spring & Company): a l 
think it is a great accommodation to  the 
business public. 
I don’t  want  the  law 
repealed,  because  I  think  it  is  good 
enough as it  is.  As  to  making  a  note 
for 33 days  instead  of  30,  as  was  sug­
gested,  it is not  always that we want the 
three days,  and when  we do it  is  gener­
ally because  of  some  contingency  aris­
ing after the note is given. 
If we  could 
always  see  what  was  ahead  of  us  it 
would  be all right  to  abolish  the  three 
days of grace,  but  as  we  can’t,  1  think 
we had better let the law alone.

Wm. T.  Hess (Perkins & Hess):  I say, 
abolish it;  it serves no good purpose and 
is  only  an  incumbrance. 
In  the  days 
when there  were  no  railroads,  or  tele­
graphs or express companies, and  a man 
had to carry his money  in  person  to his 
creditors,  the law was all  right,  but now 
we  have  all  these  quick  methods  of 
transportation,  and the  old  stage  coach 
methods are a thing of the  past.  A note 
can  be 
left  until  the  last  hour  and 
though it has  to  travel  fast  it  can  get 
there  on  time.  We  don’t  need  more 
time than the face of the  note  calls  for.
(Musselman 
Grocer Co.):  There  is  no  sense  in  it. 
If a man wants 93 days instead  of 90,  let 
him say so,  and not make  a  note  for  90 
days and then demand 93. 
If he  has  to 
hustle to get the  money,  let  him  do  his 
hustling before  the  note  becomes  due. 
He can do it before just as well as  after. 
I say repeal it.

8.  Musselman 

Amos 

Ben.  W.  Putnam  (Putnam  Candy Co.): 
Inasmuch as the banks always  figure in­
terest on the  extra  three  days,  I  don’t 
see how the public  is  benefitted  to  any 
great extent.  8o far as its being  an  ac­
commodation,  what  difference  does  it 
make to a business  man,  so  long  as  he 
has to provide for his  paper,  whether  it 
is  for  30  or  33  days?  Occasionally  it 
may be a benefit, but I think  that,  as  a 
rule,  it is more of a nuisance.  1  believe 
in repealing it.

W.  A.  Stowe  (wholesale  paper): 

I 
can’t see why a man who gives a note for 
30 days can expect to get even three days 
more. 
It’s a nuisance,  not  only  to  the 
banks,  but to business  men,  because  of 
the extra work  accompanying  it and be­
cause it means  nothing. 
It  may  be  an 
accommodation sometimes,  but if the law 
was  repealed  business  would  soon  ad­
just  itself  to  the  new  way  of  doing 
things.

O.  A.  Ball 

(Ball-Barnhart-Putman 
Co.):  How many makers  of  notes  ever 
think of the three  days  of  grace?  The 
bank sends  out  a  notice  and  tells  the 
maker of the note that his note  falls due 
on a certain day;  that is always  the  last 
day of  grace,  and  if  the  law  were  re­
pealed,  the banks  would  only  send  out 
the notices a few days earlier. 
If a man 
wants 33 days  instead  of  30  he  should 
make the date  of  his  note  accordingly.
1 think it would look better.  Repeal the 
aw by all  means.

A.  J.  Elliott  (Elliott  &  Co.): I think 
that, if as the bankers say,  the repeal  of 
the  law  would  simplify  business, 
it 
would be just  as  well  to  abolish  three 
days of grace. 
If  it is any benefit at all, 
it  is  very 
little,  and  every  purpose 
would be served by putting extra time on 
the  note.  But  I  think  there  are  few 
merchants who want very long  dates  on 
their paper.

E.  J.  Herrick:  Personally  I  have  no 
interest in the subject.  But  I  don’t  see 
why  any  man  in  business should want

three  days  or  one  day’s  grace  on  his 
paper.  He  must  pay  it  at  the  end  of 
grace,  and could just  as  well  take  care 
of  it  at  the  expiration  of  the time. 
I 
think  the  banks  are  right.  The  law 
ought to be repealed.

Frank  Jewell  (I.  M.  Clark  Grocery 
Co.):  I have never  given the  matter any 
thought,  but speaking on the spur of the 
moment,  I  think  the  repeal  of  the law 
would tend to  simplify  business. 
It oc­
casions an extra  amount of figuring  and
is sometimes a source  of  annoyance. 
It 
would have the effect of shortening  time 
on notes and  that  is  an  important  con­
sideration.  A 30 day note  now  runs  33 
days, giving the maker that  much  extra 
time, of course,  but once used to the new 
condition  the  difference  would  not  be 
noticed.

A.  Hey man  (Hey man  Company):  1 
don’t see  what reason the  banks have  to 
kick against the three days of grace; they 
get paid for  it.  Personally  I cannot see 
that it serves any purpose  whatever, ex­
cept,  perhaps, in the case of sight drafts. 
They usually come  in  unexpectedly and 
the three days give one  a  chance  to  get 
into  shape  to  meet 
them.  On  notes 
there is nothing gained  by having  three 
days beyond the date.  A  note  must  be 
paid  in  any  event,  and  generally  that 
will be as easily done in 30 days as in  33. 
I think the law is  better  off  the  statute 
book than  on.

Wilder D. Stevens  (Foster,  Stevens & 
Co.):  I should be glad to see  that  sense­
less law repealed. 
It is  a  relic  of  past 
ages,  and should  have  no  place  among 
the progressive  business  methods of our 
day.

A.  W.  Ferguson (R.  G. Dun & Co.):  So 
far as my observation goes the sentiment 
of business men is in  favor of the  repeal 
of the law.  Rhode Island  passed an Act 
on May II last abolishing  grace on notes 
and drafts;  New  York  had  already done 
so, as had  several .other states,  and  the 
movement in Michigan is  simply  in  the 
direction of uniformity of  financial regu­
lation over the whole  country.

Henry  Royce  (Bradstreet’s):  I  don’t 
see what use the  three days of  grace are 
to any one.  A man who  knows  that  be 
has three  days  beyond  the  date  of  his 
note  will  always  calculate  on  the  last 
day,  and  if  he  did  not  have  the  three 
days he would prepare  for payment  just 
the same.  As to  whether it  ought to be 
repealed or  not, that  is  for  the  people 
most interested to  say—the  bankers and 
business men.

John  L. Stoddard,

The world-famous traveler and  lecturer, 
has  enjoyed  unexampled  opportunities 
for the collection of the  finest  and  best 
selected photographs of  American  scen­
ery, the choicest of which  are  published 
in  a  series  of  sixteen  portfolios,  with 
eloquent  descriptive  sketches  from  his 
own pen. 
In connection with this work, 
Ou r  Co u n t r y  a n d   Ou r  N e ig h b o r s,  the 
publishers offer a large  new  steel  plate 
of N ia g a r a  F a x e s,  the  finest  ever  en­
graved, and  which  can  be  procured  in 
no other  manner,  both  for the absurdly 
low  price  of $3.  Call at  the  Michigan 
Central office and see them.

If  the  dynamite  fiends  who  are  al­
ways  wanting  to  kill  innocent  people 
would try to blow  up  the  icebergs  and 
wrecks  that  are  in  the  way  of  ocean 
steamers 
they  might  be  doing  some 
good.

If a  person  would  do  only  what  he 
knows he can  do  well,  there  would  be 
fewer failures in the world.

Use Tradesman Coupon Books. 

j

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

19
Michigan(Tentrai

“ The Niagara Falls Route.’*

(Taking effect  Sunday,  May 37,1394.) 

♦Daily.  All others daily, except Sunday.

Arrive. 
Depart
10 20d m ............Detroit  E xpress..........7 00am
5 3 0 a m ---- »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 a m ;  re 
turning, leave Detroit 4:35 pm, arriving at Grand 
Rapids 10:20 p m.
Direct  communieatloH  made  at  Detroit  with 
all through  trains erst  over  the  Michigan Cen 
tral Railroad (Canada Southern Division.)
A. Ai/aiquisT, Ticket Agent,

C H I C A G O  

Union Passenger Station.
. May-^ ’ 1694
AND::WEST  M ICHIGAN  R ’Y. 

GOING  TO  CHICAGO.

TO AND FROM MUSKEGON.

RETURNING  FROM  CHICAGO.

Lv. G'd Rapids..............7:25am  1:50pm  *11:30pm
Ar. Chicago..................   1:25pm  7:15pm  *6:45am
Lv.  Chicago.................. 7:35am  4:55pm *11:45pm
Ar. G'd R apids............ 2:25pm  10:20pm  *6:25am
Lv. Grand Rapids........   7:25am  1:50pm  5:45pm
Ar. Grand Rapids........ 9:15am  2:25pm  10:20pm
TRAVERSE CITT, CHARLEVOIX AND  PETOSKET.
7:30am 
Lv. Grand  Rapids .. 
3:15pm
Ar.  Manistee............  12:20pm 
8:15pm
8:45pm
Ar. Traverse C ity....  12:40pm 
Ar. Charlevoix........  
3:15pm 
11:10pm
Ar.  Petoskey............ 
3:45pm 
11:40pm
Arrive  from  Petoskey,  etc.,  1:00  p.  m.  and 
10:00p. m.
PARLOR  AND  SLEEPING  CARS.
To Chicago, lv. G. R ..  7:25am  1:50pm  *11:30pm
To Petoskey ,1 v.G. R..  7:30am  3:15pm 
............
To G. R. .lv. Chicago.  7:35am  4:55pm  *11:45pm
To G. R .. 1 v. Petoskey  5:00am  1:30pm 
............
♦Every day.  Other trains week days only.
^ B- »•1894
DETRO IT, 

 
 
..........  
 
 

 
 
 
 

LAN SIN G7&  N O R T H E R N   R ,  R.
GOING  TO  DETROIT.

RETURNING  FROM  DETROIT.

TO AND PROM SAGINAW,  ALMA AND  ST.  LOUIS. 

Lv. Grand Rapids........ 7:00am  *1:20pm  5:25pm
Ar. D etroit....................11:40am  *5:30pm  10:10pm
Lv.  Detroit....................   7:40am  *1:10pm  6:00pm
Ar. Grand Rapids........ 12:40pm  *5:15pm  10:45pm
Lv. G R 7:40am 5:00pm  Ar. G R . 11:40am 10:55pm 
Lv. Grand Rgpids............7:00am  1:30pm 5:25pm
I Ar.from Lowell............... 12:40pm  5:15pm  ...........
Parlor  Cars on all trains  between  Grand Rap 
Ids and Detroit.  Parlor car to Saginaw on morn- 
lD g  train.
»Every day.  Other trains  week days only. 
_________ GEO. DbHAVBN, Gen.  Pass’r Ag’t.

TO  LOWELL VIA  LOWELL  & HASTINGS R.  R.

THROUGH  CAR  SERVICE.

■E T R O IT ,  G R A N D   H A V E N   &  M IL ­

W A U K E E   R ailw ay.

EASTWARD.

Trains Leave 
G’d  Rapids,  Lv
Io n ia ............Ar
St.  Johns  ...A r
Owosso........ Ar
E. Saginaw..Ar
Bay City.......Ar
F li n t............Ar
Pt.  H uron...A t
Pontiac........Ar
Detroit..........Ar

i+No.  14 +No.  16 +No.  18 *No.  82
6 45am
1100pm 
7 40am
12 35am 
8 25am 
1 25am 
900am
3 10am
10 50am
6 40am 
11 32am 
7 15am 
10 05am 
5 40am
1205pm
7 30am 
10 53am
5 37am 
11 50am
700am
WESTWARD.

1020am 
ll 25am 
1217pm 
1 20pm
3 45pm
4 35pm
3 45pm
5 50pm 
305pm
4 06pm

325pm
4 27pm
5 20pm 
3 05pm 
8 00pm 
837pm
7 05pm
8 50pm 
8 25pm 
925pm

For  Grand Haven  and Intermediate
Points................................................t7:35 a.  m.
For Grand Haven and  Muskegon.......+1:00 p. m.
........t4:55 p.m .
“ 
“ 
kee,  W is..  ..................................... *7:30 p.  m.
For  Grfmd  Haven  and  Milwaukee,+10:05 p. m. 
For Grand Haven  (Sunday only)........ 8:00 a. m.

“ 
“  Chicago and Milwau­

“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

»Daily.

+Daily except  Sunday. 
Trains  arrive  from  the  east,  6:35  a.m.,  12:60 
p.m., 4:35 p. m. and 10:00 p. m.
Trains  arrive  from  the  west, 6:40 a.  m., 10:10 
a. m., 3:15 p. m. and  10*50  p.  m.  Sunday,  only, 
8:00 a. m.
Eastward—No. 14  has  Wagner  Parlor  Buffet 
car.  No. 18 Parlor Car.  No. 82 Wagner  Sleeper.
Westward — No. 11  Parlor Car.  No. 15 Wagner 
Parlor Buffet car.  No. 81 Wagner Sleeper.

J a s .  C a m p b e l l , City Ticket Agent.

G rand  R ap id s  A  Indian a.

TBAINB  GOING  NORTH.

North

L eav e going
For  Mackinaw........................................................ 7:40 a. m.
For Traverse City and Saginaw.......................... 4:60 p. m.
For  Mackinaw....................................................... 10:85 p. m.
Leave going 
For  Cincinnati.. . .................................................. 7:00 a .m.
For  Kalamazoo and  Chicago.............................8:30 p.m .
For  Fort Wayne and  the  East..........................2:30 p.m .
For Cincinnati......................................................*5:40  p.  .m
For  Kalamazoo and Chicago..........................*11:40  p. in.

TRA INS  GOING  SO U TH .

South.

C h icago v ia  G.  R.  & I.  R. R.

Lv Grand Rapids............7:00 a m  2  30pm  *11:40 p m
Arr  Chicago.....................2:00 p m  9:00 pm  
7:10 a m
2:30 p  m  train  has through  Wagner  Buffet  Parlor 
Car and coach.
11:40  pm  train dally,  through Wagner Sleeping Car 
and Coach.
11:30p m
Lv  Chicago 
Arr Grand Rapids 
6:56am
3:30  p  m  has  through  Wagner  Buffet  Parlor  Car. 
11:30 pm   train dally, through  Wagner  Sleeping  Car.

6-.60  am  
2.00 p m 

3:30pm  
9:15 p m 

For Muskegon—Leave. 

M uskegon, Grand  Rapids & Indiana.
9.40 am
7:35  am  
6;40  p m 
5:20 p m
O. L. LOCKWOOD,

From Muskegon—Arrive

General Passenger and Ticket Agent*

2 0

GOTHAM GOSSIP.

N e w s  from   th e   M etrop olis— In d ex  o f 

th e   M ark ets.

S p ecial C orresp o n d en ce
N e w   Y o k e,  June 23.—Seldom  does  N.
Y. have such an intolerably hot  spell  at 
this time of year which  is so long drawn 
out.  Visiting  merchants—what  few  of 
them are here—do not  tarry  longer than 
necessary,  but are off  to  the  seaside  to 
take a cooling dip.  Salesmen are taking 
matters as easily as possible and the usual 
dullness is made  doubly  stagnant by the 
tremendous rays Old Sol  is  pouring  out 
upon us. 
It  is  a  consolation  to  think 
that the surplus  heat  is  doing  good  to 
growing  crops,  thus  putting  “money in 
our pockets.”
Erastus Wiman,  whose sentence is just 
beginning, probably had as  many  warm 
friends  as  any  man  in New York.  He 
knew  nearly  every  merchant,  and  bis 
personal magnetism seems to  hold  them 
in  his  power even now.  Expressions of 
sympathy are heard on  all  sides,  yet  it 
is  generally  conceded  that the verdict is 
a just one.  A  man who  is  getting $80,- 
000 a year,  it is  argued,  certainly  ought 
to  be  pretty  well satisfied without mak 
ing  use  of  other  men’s  names.  There 
was  one  redeeming  feature, however 
whatever money he spent, or would have 
spent,  went not merely for personal uses 
but he seemed to be looking  out  for  the 
largest number,  and, if he had succeeded 
in his enterprises, thousands of workmen 
would have  had  reason  to  have  called 
him blessed.
the 
name of Thurber from the grocery  trade 
of  the  city  after  a  period  of nearly or 
quite forty years.  Forty years of strug 
gles  and  triumphs  and  final  failure 
There is something sad  in contemplating 
the affairs of men who have  built  them 
selves up by hard,  personal  work  until 
the summit is reached,  and  then  to  see 
the labor of years undone,  with  nothing 
left  but  to  begin  the  long  route  over 
again,  lacking that important essential— 
youth.  Frank B.  Thurber is truly a man 
of undaunted energy.  He has done three 
men’s work and still seems able to  carry 
on another vigorous  fight  for  fortune 
and everybody wishes him success.
The new firm is to be called the Amer­
ican Grocery Co.,  but  is  not  to  be  con 
founded  with the old reliable trade  jour 
nal, the American  Grocer. 
It  is  likely 
that  tlve  two  companies  may  find their 
mail  “mixed together up,”  but  there 
absolutely  no  connection  between  the 
two, and the American Grocer will count, 
measure,  weigh and guage  tor  the  next 
quarter of a century, just  as  in the past 
“fearing no foe.”
The grocery trade,  in  sympathy  with 
all  others,  is  waiting  for  something 
turn up,  hoping that the  thing  will  not 
be an  income tax; but,  from  all  appear 
ances, this is just what will happen.

This  week  sees  the  passing  of 

Rio coffee is quite well  held  at  16 J 

and the feeling is that this  price will  be 
no  lower  for  some  time.  An  average 
amount of trade  is  being *done,  but  no 
more.  Mild sorts are selling fairly well 
with Mocha at 23%@24c.

Granulated  sugar 

Teas  are  smitten  with  more  than 
midsummer dullness and sales  are  on 
very low basis,  indeed.  Purchasers  are 
only  taking  supplies  from  hand 
mouth,  and the outlook is not  encourag­
ing to any one interested.
is  not  attracting 
more than the average amount  of  atten 
tion.  Of course,  there is  always  a  bet 
ter sale for the article at  this  season  of 
the  year,  but  no  purchases  are  being 
made as a speculation—that is  only done 
by United State Senators who  dabble 
sugar stocks.
The rice market has taken on a  firmer 
tone than  existed  a  fortnight  ago,  and 
high qualities  are  almost  scarce.  For 
eign  grades  are  selling  fairly  well 
hardening values.

Spices are dull,  as  is  natural  at  this 

season.  Pepper is  quoted  below  5c 
arrive.
Canned goods are  dull  for  the  whole 
line.  Future gallon apples are  reported 
as selling a t $2;  spot  stock,  $3.75;  sup­
ply limited.
Lemons  seem  to  be  looking  for  the 
glorious  Fourth.  At  any  rate  they  are

Domestic  fresh 

inside  rate.  Oranges, 

selling unexpectedly  well—one  effect of 
the hot wave.  Choice  Sicily  are  worth 
the moment $3.50 for 300s,  and  this is 
about 
too,  are 
ell held, and the rate of $4@$5  is  paid 
for desirable stock.  Pineapples,  bananas 
and coceanuts are all meeting  with good 
demand;  but  it  is,  of  course,  but  tem­
porary in its nature.
Butter is doing better, and so is cheese. 
Both are showing the  effects  of  the  hot 
eather.  Eggs are  in  limited  demand, 
and no  one  eats  an  egg  without  some 
qualms  of conscience  at  this time.  For 
Michigan, Northern Ohio, etc., 12c is top.
fruits  are  becoming 
plenty, the  festive  water  melon  selling 
from $20@$35 per hundred.
Apropos of  the  effect  of  the  general 
ullness  upon  manufacturing 
towns, 
in 
there  are  2,300  vacant  residences 
Newark  N.  J.,  against  400  ordinarily. 
The  better  part  of  the  city  shows  a 
larger number,  proportionately, than the 
poorer 
is 
about 150,000  when  everything  is  busy.
While  the  tariff  discussion  seems  to 
have neared the end,  the  outcome  seems 
to please no  one,  and probably  the  next 
Congress will be in for it  again;  but it is 
hardly likely that it  will  bear  meddling 
with  for some time to come.
The  week  closes  dull  and  apathetic. 
Fhe  grocery 
trade  is  holding  its  own 
better than most  any  other,  and for this 
we give thanks. 

sections.  The 

population 

J ay.

In  H ard  L ines.

The  Consumers’  Wholesale  Grocery 
Co., of Detroit,  which  has  caused  much 
annoyance to country merchants  by sell­
ing goods direct to consumers at  alleged 
wholesale prices,  appears  to  be playing 
to hard  luck,  having  uttered  a  chattel 
mortgage for $1,100 on its stock,  fixtures, 
horses and wagons to Chas.  L.  Beagle as 
security for two notes for  even  amount 
Judging by  this  circumstance,  the  sale 
of  groceries  at  “ wholesale”  prices  to 
farmers is no more lucrative to the seller 
than to the buyer.

An effort is being made by the planters 
of Ceylon to find an English  market  for 
the seeds of  the  tea  plant.  They  con 
tain some 35 per  cent,  of  an  oil  which 
resembles  olive  oil  in  appearance  and 
flavor.

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

Apricots—Royals,  ft per 4-basket crate.
Beans—The  market  is  firm  for  dry  at 82 for 
hand picked; wax, 81.50  for full boxes and *1.25 
for two third boxes.

Beets—Home  grown  are  now  worth  20c  per 

doz.  bunches.

Butter—Best dairy, 11® 12c; creamery,  16®17c,
Cabbage—Home grown,fiOc per doz.
Celery—Is In fair  supply  and  brings  23c  per 
doz.

Cherries—Bring  about  $1  per  16  qt.  case  in 
open market.  They will  be much lower in a few 
days.

Cucumbers—25c per doz.; 81 per box.
Carrots—15c per doz. bunches.
Eggs—Are bought for 10@llc, and held at  12c.
Field  Seeds—Medium  and  mammoth  clover 
*6®6.25;  Alsyke,  S8@8.50;  Alfalfa,  *6.75®7.50 
Timothy,  82.15;  Red  top,  35c;  Orchard Grass 
81.80; German Millet,  £0®90c;  Common  Millet. 
70@85c; Hungarian Grass, 8I.10®1.20.

Greens—Beets, 40c per  bu.;  Spinach  is  about 

out of the market.

Honey—White clover, 14c; buckwheat, 12c
Lettuce—By the bu. basket, 30c; 3c per lb.
Onions—California«, 82.50 per 2 bu. sack.  Lou 
islanas,  82 per  1)4 bu. sack; green,  12)4 per doz 
bunches.

Peaches—81 per box of 20 lbs.
Peas—Are unchanged at 81  per -bu.
Pineapples—Large, 81.75; small, 81.56.
Potatoes—Old  are  unquotable;  New  bring 

82.25 per bbl. of 2% bu.

Pie Plant—So nearly out of the market as to be 

Squash—Illinois summer are held at 3c  per lb 

unquotable.

and 81 per bu.

crate.  They will be lower later in the week

Strawberries—Are up to  $1.50@1.?5  per  16  q t 
Tomatoes—Mississippis are held at  S1.25@1.40
Watermelons—The 
first  car  of  Georgias 
reached  this  market  Monday  morning.  They 
are of fine quality and bring 835 per (hundred or 
35c apiece.

I THTFC  M IC m Q A N   T R A D E S M A N ,

C A N D IE S,  FR U IT S  and  NUTS. 
The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows:

STICK CANDY.
C a ses

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

. 
8)4
. ..  8)4

Bbls.
6
6
6

“

7)4

... 

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

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

Palls
6)4
6) 4
7) 4 8
8
8
8
8*9
13
8
Palls.
Lozenges,  plain.................................................  8)4

“
fancy—In bulk

Srlnted..............................................  9)4

rops.......................................:........12
Chocolate Monumentals..................................  12)4
Gum Drops..........................................................  8
Moss Drops..........................................................  7)4
Sour Drops..........................................................  6)4
Imperials.................... 
....................................  16
Per Box
Lemon Drops....................................................... 50
Sour D rops...........................................................50
Peppermint Drops...............................................60
Chocolate Drops..................................................75
H. M. Chocolate  Drops....................................... 80
Gam Drops........................................................... 40
Licorice Drops..  ..............................................1  00
B. Licorice  Drops..........................................80
Lozenges, plain................................................... 60
printed................................................65
Imperials..............................................................60
Mottoes.................................................................70
Cream Bar............................................................55
Molasses  B ar.......................................................55
Hand Made  Creams.......  ............................85@95
Plain Creams........................................................ 80
Decorated Creams.............................................. 90
String  Rock.........................................................60
Burnt Almonds................................................1  00
Wlntergreen  Berries.........................................60
No. 1, wrapped, 2 lb.  boxes............................  34
No. 1, 
...........................  51
No. 2, 
...........................   28

fancy—In 5 lb. boxes. 

CARAMELS.

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

3 
2 

ORANONS.

Fancy  Seedlings,  96s........................................3 00
Sorrentos,  160s...................................................400
2C0s.........................................  .......4 50
Rodis,  160s..........................................................
200s.........................................................
Messiuas, flats,  80s...........................................

LEMONS.

Choice 300..........................................................   4 10
Extra choice 360 ................................................  4  50
Extra fancy 300.................................................   5 00
Extra fancy 360 .................................................  5 00

 

 

OTHER  FOREION  FRUITS.

BANANAS.
Large bunches...................................................  2 CO
Small bunches.....................  
125
Figs, fancy  layers, 81b.............................  @12)4
“  201fc.............................   @12)4
“  141b.............................   @15
Dates, Fard, 10-lb.  box.............................  @ 7
.............................  @5)4
Persian. 50-lb.  box........................  @  5
1 lb Royals..............................................   7)4

extra 
“ 

50-lb.  “ 

“  
“ 

“ 

 

 

NUTS.

“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

Almonds, Tarragona................................  @16
Ivaca........................................  
015
California................................  @

Brazils, new...............................................   @7)4
F ilberts............... .......................................  @11
Walnuts, Grenoble.  ................................   @12)4
French.......................................   @10
Calif............................................  @12)4
Tabie Nuts,  fancy....................................  @12
choice.......  ......................  
@11
Pecans. Texas, H.  P.................................  @7)4
Chestnuts...................................................
Hickory Nuts per b u .
'
Cocoanuts, full Backs............
PEANUTS.
Fancy, H.  P., Suns.................
“  Roasted...,
Fancy, H.  P., Flags...............
“  Roasted...
Choice, H. P.,  E xtras............
“  Roasted.

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OILS.
BARBELS.

The  Standard  Oil  Co.  quotes  as  follows:

Eocene........................................................
XXX  W.  W. Mich.  Headlight...............
N aptha........................................................
Stove Gasoline..........................................
Cylinder.................................................... 27
E n g in e .............................................. .......13
Black, 15 cold  test.................  ................
Eocene  .......................................................
XXX  W. W.  Mich.  Headlight...............

FROM  TANK  WAGON.

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P O U LT R Y .
Local dealers pay as follows:

LIVE.

DRAWN.

Turkeys...................................................... 7  @ 8
Chickens................................................... 6  @ 7
Fowls........  
............................................. 5  @ 6
Ducks..............................   ........................8  @  9
G eese..........................................................  @
Turkeys..................................................... 11  @12
Chickens....................................................10  @11
Fow l...........................................................9  @10
Docks.......-................................................10  @11
G eese.........................................................10  @12
Turkeys..................................................... 9  @  9)4
Chickens.....................................................7)4@ 8
Fowls..........................................................6)4@ 7
D ocks.......................................................8  @ 9
Geese................................................. 
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UNDRAWN.

FOB  SA LE.

S to re B uilding1 an d   In terest  in  G eneral 

S to ck .

Mrs.  Alice  Hughston  owns  a  large 
two-story  store  building  and  an  undi­
vided interest in a stock of general  mer­
chandise in the village of McBain.

Being  desirous  of 

retiring  from  ac­
tive  management  of  the  business,  she 
has  placed the property  in my hands for 
sale.  The  upper  story  is  finished  off 
into comfortable living rooms.

There is a large wareroom,  barn,  etc.
Will sell the buildings separate  if  de­

sired.

For terms, etc.,  address

G il l is   McB a in ,

McBain, Mich.

S  B E D

BUCKWHEAT

Choice  âtock.

$i  PER  BUSHEL.

W. T.  LÄMOREÄUX  BO.,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

Typewriter Supply  Office.

H .  B.  R O SE ,  M a n a g e r .

STA IK   A  . KNt  YcFOli  T H E

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The Edison Mimeograph—The Simplex 
Duplicator—Typewriter and Mimeograph 
Supplies  of  all  kinds.  Mail  orders  re­
ceive prompt attention.

Y.  M.  C. A.  Building,

Grand  Rapids, Mich

Shoes ? 

Have you seen  our  “ Sunbeam”   line 
of  Machine  Sewed  Children’s  and 
Misses’ 
Dongola  Patent
Tip,  Heel or Spring.  6  to  8 @ 65c—8K
to 11%  @  75c—12 to 2 @  90c.**
HIRTH,  KRAUSE  & CO.

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The
BEST
are
the
CHEAPEST.
Iced  Coffee C akes, 
Michigan Frosted Honey, 
S  ymour Butters,
Graham Crackers,

Sears

are 

the 

BEST.

ADD
A

BOX
OK

BARREL

OF

ROYAL  TOAST 

TO
YOUR
NEXT
ORDER

SOMETHING  NEW 

AND  A

GOOD  SELLER.

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C O M R L B T B .

We  have  them  from  12 

to  20  feet long.

Our line of  Fishing tackle 

is equal to any one’s.

Send  for  Catalogue.

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

Diamond Crystal Salt

Being free from all chloricfes 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 
obtain  _ from jobbers and dealers.  For prices, see price current on other page. 
For other information, address

DIAMOND  C R YSTA L SA LT  CO.,  ST .  CLAIR, MICH.

W atch  out  for  our  new  spring  novelth

sellers.

They are

New York Biscuit C o .,

S.  A.  SEARS,  Nlanager,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

‘•C R B S C B N T ,” 

“ROYA.U.” 

“ WH1TB  R O S B  
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These  brands  are  Standard  and have  a National  reputation 

Correspondence solicited.

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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  maehinerv  for  everv  branch  of the  business.  SAMPLES  FREE.

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

WHY  DIDN’T  YOU TELL  US T h a t  the  price o f  Fruit Jars  was  going  up,  is  the  question  asked  us  every  year  by  dealers  who 
Send  us  your orders at once or  write for quotations fo

We  are  still  selling  Jars  at  the  lowest  spring prices 

don’t  take  advantage  of  the  low  spring  prices  and alw ays  pay  more  than  their  neighbor.

immediate shipment. 

PRICES  NOT GUARANTEED

The  Dandy.

equal. 

it  has  no 

The  only  perfect  sealing  glass  top 
Fruit  Can  in  the  m arket. 
It  is  p erfectly 
air  tight  and  for  sim plicity  in  opening  or 
closing 
Especially 
adopted  for  eanners  and  preservers  as  it 
w ill  vent  itself  as  the  fruits,  vegetables 
or  meats  are  cooking  by  leaving  fastener 
If you  have  any  demand 
on  first  step. 
fo r  a  Good  Jar 
few   boxes  of 
Dandies.

try  a 

The Dandy.

Enterprise Cherry  Stoner.

We  can  recommend  this  as  the  Best  in 
in 

the  m arket. 

It  w ill  be  found  rapid 
its  work  and  a  decided 
im provement 
over  any 
other.  Can  be  adjusted 
to  fit  different  sized  ch er­
ries.

W R IT E

FOR

PRICES.

E nterprise Cherry  Stoner

The  Mason

Is  w ithout  question  the  most  popular 
and  Best  sellin g  Fruit  Can  in  the  mar­
ket.  W e  are  prepared 
them 
either packed  one  dozen  in  a  box  or  put 
up  six  and  eight  dozen  in  a case.

to  ship 

W rite 

for  quotations 

for 

immediate 

shipm ent.

Enterprise  Combination  Fruit

and  Wine  Press

Has  no  equal  for  pressing  fruit  for

Wines or Jellies.

Queen  City  Fruit  and

Jelly  Press

Is  som ething  that  every  fam ­
ily  needs  during  the  canning 
season.  Made  in  four  sizes.

Mason’s Cans.  Packed One  Dozen  In  a  Box.

f i.  L E , 0 1 &  SO iV S,  Grand.  Rapids,  Mich,

Enterprise Fruit Press.

Queen City Fruit Press.

| H O W   T O   S E C U R E   A N D   H O L D
$

the best trade is a  perplexing problem  to  some people, but  its  solu­
tion  is  simple.

F i r s t .  Make  the  best  goods  possible ;  not once  in  a while,  but 
Second.  Let the  people know of  it,  early and  often.
T h i r d .  Don’t neglect details.
Attention to these principles has placed the

always.

CONDENSED  MILK  at the  head, and

Gail  Borden  Eagle  Brand
Borden’s  Peerless  Brand

EVAPORATED  CREAM  is sure  to  obtain an equally high  place in 
the consumer’s favor, because it has  INTRIN SIC  M ERIT.

Prepared and guaranteed by the  NEW  YORK  CONDENSED  niLK  CO. 

IT  HAS  HO  EQUAL. 

Don’t  fail to order a  supply now. 

|3F~ f o r   Q u o t a t i o n s   S e e   p r i c e   C o l u m n s . 

ABSOLUTELY  PURE. 

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