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G R A N D   R A P ID S ,  W E D N E S D A Y ,  A U G U S T   1,  1894.

NO .  567

M IC H IG A N

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perhaps,  but  it  was  not  such  a  mean 
drunk  as  before.  After  supper  I  en­
gaged  him  in  talk,  and  along  about  9 
o’clock I proposed a game  of  poker, 
it 
struck him just right,  and  we  adjourned 
to a room upstairs  with a couple  of  law­
yers  and  a  judge  who  were  stopping 
there over night and the game began.  At 
first,  Jackson  won right along and as he 
won  he  drank,  calling  every  now  and 
then  for  his  wife  to  bring  him  more 
liquor,  and whenever she came  into  the 
room and saw me,  the look she  gave  me 
almost made me kick over the  table  and 
fight  the  whole  crowd.  However,  that 
was not my game, and I let on to her and 
the  rest of  them  that  1  was  about  as 
drunk as Jackson was; but I  wasn’t.

“At midnight we had reached  the  cli­
max.  The  two  lawyers  and  the  judge 
had been raised out  and  Jackson  and  I 
were  left  for  the  finish. 
I  had  four 
nines, not a bad hand as  hands  went  in 
those days,  and I had an idea  that  Jack- 
son  hadn’t  anything  to  beat  it. 
I  also 
had  my  wits  about  me  and  Jackson 
hadn’t,  and  I  had  $5,000 in my  pocket, 
which Jackson hadn’t. 
I had been bluff­
ing  like  the  mischief  all  through  the 
game and Jackson had caught  me  for  a 
good lot on my recklessness,  but  all  he 
had  was  on  the  table  when  the  other 
three passed oat.  That is,  all the money 
he had,  but he owned three  good  horses. 
It  was a game without a limit,  as it often 
was in those days, and when I  put  down 
two hundred he saw me to the  extent  of 
one  horse.  Then  I  went  five  hundred 
more and he went another  horse;  then  1 
went another five hundred  and  he  went 
the third horse.  Of course the man was 
wild now with liquor and the  excitement 
of  the  game,  and  when  I  laid  down  a 
thousand more he was dazed  for  a  min­
ute.  Just  then  his  wife  came  in  and 
with a curse he ordered her out  and  was 
about to  throw a bottle at her.  She hur­
ried away  with an appealing look  at  me, 
and Jackson sat  stupidly  gazing  at  his 
hand and at the pile  of  money  and  con­
tracts  for  horses  on  the  table,  and  he 
was  sure  I  was  bluffing.  1  could  see 
that,  but he didn’t like to  take  too  much 
of  a  chance.  Then  all  at  once  a new 
thought  seemed  to  come  to  him and  he 
looked square into my face.

“ ‘By the way,’ he  said,  ‘you  used  to 

know my wife, didn’t you?”

“I  nodded  coolly,  thought  somewhat 
rattled at this somewhat unexpected  rec­
ognition.

“ ‘And  you  used  to  be  in  love  with 

her,’  he went on.

“Again  1  nodded.
“ ‘You wanted her once,’  he  ventured 

slowly,  and I nodded again.

“ ‘By heavens,’ he exclaimed,  ‘I’ll  put 
Is it a 

her against what you have there. 
go ?’

“Once more 1 nodded.
“ ‘Gentlemen,’  1 said to the  judge  and 
the  lawyers,  ‘make a note of that. 
If 1 
win,  the woman is mine to do as I please 
with. 

Is that agreed ?’

“Jackson  assented  with  a  string  of 
oaths, and the lawyers  got  his  signature

TOLD  BY  A  TRAVELER.

“ When I was a man of  30,”  remarked 
a  gray-haired  three-score-and-tenitarian 
after the drummer had finished  a  rather 
unbelievable card story,  “I  could  shuffle 
the pasteboards pretty  fairly myself,  and 
it  was  only  the  veterans  who  cared to 
tackle me, and they  were  usually  sorry 
for  it  afterwards. 
I  was  not  rich and 
proud  then,”  he  smiled  softly,  “and 
made most of my living  selling  groceries 
in the South  and  West  for  a  Baltimore 
house. 
I did the large  towns as  a  rule, 
but I had a few good customers in out-of- 
the-way places  and  I  made  it  my  busi­
ness to cultivate them and get around  to 
see them  at least  twice  a  year.  Among 
them  was a merchant in Mississippi,  and 
he had a daughter  who  was  one  of  the 
sweetest,  prettiest girls  1 ever  saw. 
In 
fact she  was so attractive  that  I  fell  in 
love with her and tried to marry her,  but 
she  was  silly,  lilfe  most  women  when 
they are young and sometimes when they 
are not so young,  and instead of  recipro­
cating  my  affection,  the  affection  of  a 
plain but honest man.  I’ll  be shot  if  she 
wasn’t wasting her affection  on  a  ban  - 
some bon a rein—that’s  French  for good 
for  nothing,”  he  explained—“and  I 
hadn’t the slightest chance  against  him, 
although her father was on my  side  and 
did all he could to save her from the man 
she would persist in  loving.  He was un­
doubtedly  a  handsome fellow  and  one 
whose  manners  were  fascinating,  not 
only  to  women,  but  to  men.  With all 
his natural  ability,  however, and attract­
iveness,  he was utterly worthless; a hard 
drinker,  a brawler,  a  vindictive  wretch, 
a  libertine  and  a  notorious  gambler. 
These  qualities  of  the  man  were  well 
known in that locality and his reputation 
was not unknown throughout  the  State, 
while  up  and  down  the  river  he  was 
known  on  every  steamboat  for  the  big 
games  he  played  and  his  success.  He 
was the youngest son of a prominent and 
highly  respectable  family,  and  this,  to 
the girl,  seemed to  offset  his  numerous 
defects of character.

“Whatever it was, there was  no  ques­
tion that the girl was  completely  infatu­
ated  with  him,  and  finally  she  eloped 
with  him.  This  act  of  hers  broke her 
father’s heart and within a  year  he  had 
died,  leaving  no property whatever,  nor 
any  family,  as  the  girl  was  the  only 
child  and  her  mother  had  been  dead 
some years.  The  loss  or absence of any 
property which might be of assistance to 
the daughter did not affect her seriously, 
as her husband had some estate and man­
aged by successful gambling to  maintain 
her  in  comfort  the  first  year  or  two. 
With  the  death  of  the  father  and  the 
marriage of the daughter  very  naturally 
my  interest  in that locality waned and 1 
lost track of the neighborhood and  its do­
ings for five  years.  Then  I  was  called 
there on business and when I  stopped  at 
the only tavern in the little village I was 
more than surprised to  find  that  it  was 
kept by my former  rival,  whom,  by  the 
way,  I shall  call  Jackson.  He  did  not 
know me and I  don’t  suppose  it  would

have made much difference if he had, for 
with all his faults he  was  not  a  jealous 
man.  He  was  too  gay  a  Lothario  for 
that  sort  of  thing.  Well,  I  kept  my 
identity pretty much in  the  background 
and made up  my  mind  to  see  how  the 
marriage had turned out. 
I got  an  ink­
ling  of  it  that  very  first  night,  when 
Jackson came in jast drunk enough to be 
ugly.  He  had  changed much in the five 
years,  and from being the  handsome  fel­
low he once was,  he had  become  bloated 
and all the bad streaks in him seemed  to 
have settled in his face.  His wife 1 had 
not seen,  up to the  time  of  his  appear­
ance  in  the  evening. 
I  was sitting in 
what  passed  for  an  office  and  he  was 
there  cursing  a  stable-boy.  After  he 
had finished  with the  boy  he  called  his 
wife from the kitchen where she  was  at 
work,  and when she came  in  frightened 
out of her wits,  as I could plainly  see,  I 
never  would  have known her.  She was 
thin and pale and bore every evidence of 
having  received  the  most  cruel  treat­
ment.  I was shocked  beyond expression, 
and it was  not  allayed  by  the  way  he 
talked  to  her  and  ordered  her  around, 
once even giving her a jerk  by  the  arm 
that brought a cry of pain from  her  and 
came almost getting me into the  scrap.  I 
kept still,  however,  and waited, and that 
night he grew so ugly that  she  called  in 
one of her neighbors to  serve  as  a  kind 
of protection.

“The next day he  was  no  better,  but 
he went off and did not return  until late. 
During  the  day  she had a chance to see 
me and at once recognized  me.  Whether 
she was glad or sorry  I  don’t  know,  but 
she broke down and  had a nervous  fit  of 
crying  for  half an hour,  and I got away 
until  she  recovered.  When  1  saw  her 
again, she was quite  calm  and  for  two 
hours  she  talked  to  me  of her terrible 
condition.  He had been all things to her 
a man should not be, and the community 
only  partially  knew  what  she  had  to 
bear.  He  had  beaten  her  and  starved 
her  and  made her work like a slave,  and 
once or twice when she  had  tried  to  es­
cape,  he had brought her back  and  kept 
her in a dark room  on  bread  and  water 
for a month.  There  was  no  place  for 
her  to  go  in  the  neighborhood,  and he 
never  gave  her a cent of money,  so that 
she  might  have  gone  to  some  distant 
place.  She  was  ashamed  and  afraid to 
appeal to the public for help and she was 
slowly being tortured to  death.  Fortun­
ately she had never had any children.

“We talked the matter  over  in  all  its 
aspects, and I asked  her,  if  I  could  se­
cure her escape,  would  she  go  with  me 
to  my  home in the north,  for 1 had mar­
ried  and  settled  down  like  a  sensible 
man; and she agreed to it if  it  could  be 
done without making her  condition  any 
worse. 
I then began devising ways and 
means  of  getting the poor woman out of 
this hell-on-earth,  and by night 1 had my 
plans  ready  for  trial.  When  Jackson 
came  in  that  evening  he  was in better 
humor,  having  won  some  money  on  a 
horse race,  and he was not quite  so  ugly 
drunk as be had been.  He was drunker,

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'jyH H!  mOKIGAN  TRADESMAN.

to a contract to deliver his wife to  me  if 
the  game  went  against him,  or words to 
that effect.

“ Now!’  he  said  in  a  tone  of  sup­

pressed feeling, ‘what have you got?’

“Very  quietly,  but  with  some  little 
fear that 1 might miss  it  at  last,  I  laid 
my four nines down on  the table.

“Jackson looked at the cards a second, 
then  with a hoarse scream he slung down 
his  own  hand  all  over  the  room  and 
dashed through  the  door.  Fearful  that 
he  might  mean  harm  to  his  wife  we 
went pell-mell after him,  but he  did  not 
stop anywhere.  On he went out iuto the 
night, and  we lost him  in  the  darkness.
I 
thought we might find him  next  morn­
ing  dead  somewhere,  but  we  didn’t. 
When we got back to the room  we  gath­
ered up his hand and found  that  it  con­
sisted  of  three  aces  and a pair of tens, 
one of those bands the gamblers of those 
days, as a matter of sentiment, would  bet 
everything 
they  had  on,  and,  by  the 
way, not a bad hand as hands  go,  is  an 
ace full.

“I never saw Jackson  again.  Ue  did 
not return to the place  for  two  or  three 
days, and when he did come  back  1  had 
gone,  and with me his  wife,  to  whom  1 
had explained the situation. 
1  made ar­
rangements  with  the judge and the law­
yers  to  restore  to  Jackson  his  horses, 
but  1  kept  what  money  1 had  won  and 
gave it to his  wife.  She went home with 
me,  and  in  a  year  or  so had secured  a 
position,  and always as a  kind  aunty  to 
my children  she  was  the  jewel  of  the 
family; and the queer  part of it  was that, 
notwithstanding 1  had once  courted  her, 
and might be charged  with saving her on 
account  of  the old  love,  there  was  not a 
bit of that iu it all,  and  she acted  always 
in such a manner that  1  could  no  more 
have flirted  with  her than  1  could  have 
flirted  with  my  own  sister.  She  just 
wouldn’t  have  it;  that  was  all.  As  1 
said,”  concluded  the  old  gentlemen,  “ 1 
never  saw  Jackson  again,  but  1  heard 
that  with 
the  money  he  got  for  the 
horses which  1  returned  to him  be  went 
to New Orleans and  was  killed  there  in 
a  fight  over  the  card  table.  That was 
not  my  last  game  at  poker,  though,” 
smiled the old fellow,  “and if any of you 
gentlemen want to have  a  little  penny- 
ante round I’m your humble servant.”
W.  J.  Lampton.

SEVEN  YEARS  HENCE.

How Arbitration Revolutionized  the In­
Written for The Tbadbsmah.

dustrial Situation.

The  more  closely  one  examines  into 
the workings of  the  arbitration  act  the 
more  one  is  struck  with  its  simplicity 
and  perfect adaptation  to the purpose for 
which it was  designed.  There is  no  in­
tricate machinery to be set in  motion, no 
red tape  to  be  unwound  before  results 
can  be  obtained;  all  that  is  necessary 
where grievences exist,  is to make a state­
ment in  writing of the matter complained 
of and  lay it before  the Board,  which  is 
in  continuous  session 
throughout  the 
year.  A copy  of the  complaint  is  sent 
the respondent,  who files his answer, and 
the case is  decided  without  other  testi­
mony.  This does away  with the expense 
of calling witnesses  and  saves  the  time 
which would  be consumed  in their exam­
ination.

One effect of the operation  of  the  act 
has  been to break down  many of the dis­
tinctions between what have been termed 
“classes.”  All have  been put  upon  the

same broad plane,  and social  differences 
have been all but obliterated.  A hint of 
this may have been gleaned from  the  il­
lustrations taken  from  the records of the 
Board of Arbitrators,  which  appeared  in 
this journal  two weeks  ago,  and  a  few 
more  “cases”  will  still  further develop 
that  fact.  For  instauce:  A  young  man 
employed as  “man  ot  all  work”  aoout 
the  house  complained to 'the  Board  that 
he  was compelled  to  sleep  in  the  attic 
and  eat  in  the  kitchen  with  the other 
servants;  that he  was not  allowed to en­
tertain his  company  in  the  parlor,  but 
was  forced  to  take  them  elsewhere for 
entertainment;  and 
that  be  was  not 
treated  with the consideration due a free­
born American  citizen,  and  prayed  the 
Board  for redress.  Before  passing upon 
this case the Board  asked  the  appellant 
to  explain  his  use of  the word servant, 
as this was the first time since the  Board 
assumed  its functions  that the  word had 
occurred  in  a  complaint. 
In  reply  he 
stated that it was what he and his fellow- 
employes were called by their employers. 
In their opinion  the  Board  said:  “The 
language used  by the  appellant discloses 
a condition of  things as  existing  in  the 
household  of  the  respondent,  which,  it 
was  hoped,  had  forever  passed  away. 
The use of the term servant  implies that 
there is a  master,  and  the  use  of  these 
two  terms  correlatively  can mean noth­
ing but  that the former  class  is  inferior 
to  the  latter.  This  is  contrary  to  the 
constitution of the  United  States,  which 
declares that all  men were created equal, 
and is diametrically  opposed  to the gen­
ius  of  American  political  institutions. 
Instead of  ‘master aud servant,’ the term 
•employer and  employe’ is  now  common 
and  the  difference  iu  language fully ex­
emplifies the difference  in  condition. 
It 
must be accepted as  true,  therefore,  that 
the  indignities  to  which  the  appellant 
has been subjected by the respondent are 
the result of a misconception of the rela­
tion  in  which be  (the respondent) stands 
to the  appellant;  but  in  this  case  mis­
conception  is  almost  criminal  since  it 
has led to  the  degradation  of  one  man 
(man,  be it remembered)  by another who 
is no  more  than  a  man.  The  law  de­
clares  that  each  individual is in posses­
sion of equal  rights with  every  other in­
dividual,  but  the  respondent,  who  evi­
dently  has  little respect for the glorious 
magna charta of our  common  liberties— 
the  constitution—has  denied  to  the ap­
pellant  the  exercise  of  certain  rights 
which  are his  inalienably,  thus  making 
himself greater than  the  law  and  arro­
gating  to  himself  exclusively privileges 
which are the common  right  of  all.  So 
much  for the general  aspect of  the case. 
Now  to  particularize:  The  appellant 
pleads that he is  compelled  to  sleep  in 
the  attic.  This,  per se,  is  of little mo­
ment;  but  taken  with  the  general  con­
duct of the  respondent  towards  the  ap­
pellant (and  presumably  towards all  his 
employes),  it  assumes a  very serious as­
pect and its results may  be  far-reaching 
and  disastrous.  Would  the  respondent 
sleep  in  the  attic?  Most  assuredly  he 
would  not.  Then  by  what  process  of 
ratiocination  does he  conclude  that  the 
attic  is  good  enough for  the appellant? 
What  right  has  the  respondent  to  say 
that his employes shall sleep  in the attic 
when he himself would not  sleep  there? 
This is, in the opinion  of the  Board,  the 
boldest attempt made in years to subvert 
the liberties of the  working man  and de­
grade him to the  position  of  a  servitor,

and  it  is  not  at  all  unlikely  that  the j 
courts may  take the  matter up and pun- i 
ish the respondent  as he deserves.  This | 
Board can  simply order that the respoud- 
ent  be given  a  sleeping  apartment  more 
iu  consonance  with  the  dignity  of  the 
working man.  As to the remaining pleas 
they may  be considered  in toto,  since the 
remarks made above will  apply  to them, 
they  being  of  the same  tenor  and com­
plexion as the one considered above.  But 
it is not out of place to say  that it seems 
monstrous,  iu  these  days  of  enlighten­
ment and emancipation from the serfdom 
of the past,  that  any  citizen  should  be 
subjected  to  such  an indignity as being 
compelled to eat in the  kitchen  and  the 
board  directs  that  henceforth  he be ac­
corded a place at  the  family  table;  also 
that the parlor be placed  at his disposal, 
so that he may entertain  his friends in  a 
becoming manner. 
It  might be well,  in­
deed,  if some amicable arrangement could 
be made so that  neither party  would  be 
inconvenienced,  but  that  each might be 
left in peace by the  other.  The  finding 
of the Board  in  this case  applies equally 
to all  the employes of the respondent and 
not alone to the appellant.”

One effect of the operation  of the arbi­
tration act has been,  as  may  readily  be 
premised  from  the  above  finding of  the 
Board,  to  make  the  accumulation  of 
wealth  a  secondary  consideration.  An 
employe is at liberty  to  use the property 
of  his  employer  for  his  own  pleasure, 
within  reasonable bounds,  without  let or 
hindrance.  Why,  then,  need he  trouble 
himself about the acquisition  of  riches? 
He has all that wealth can secure to him, 
without the worry  aud  anxiety  Incident 
to  the  care  of  a  large  fortune.  How 
much  more desirable is his condition than 
the condition of the poor  rich  man  who 
must keep his nose to the grindstone  day 
in and day out if he  would keep  what he 
has  gained?  Thoughtful  men  predict 
that this condition  will  bring  about still 
greater changes in  the future aud that  in 
a  few  years  there  will  not be  found a 
man willing to carry the burdens and  re­
sponsibilities  of  wealth. 
Just  what 
would  be the outcome of  such  a  change 
it  would be difficult to predict.  Another 
result  of  the  prevailing  condition is to 
give to all citizens more time for the cul­
tivation of  the  mind  and  of  those finer 
qualities of our nature,  which,  but a few 
years back,  were considered to be the ex­
clusive property of  the rich.  As  a  con­
sequence  we  are fast  becoming a  nation 
of scholars;  learning  and  refinement are 
fast diffusing  themselves over  the  whole 
land,  and  our  civilization  is  constantly 
taking a higher level.  The broad princi­
ple of equal  rights  to  all  has  been  ex­
tended  to  even  the ordinary  affairs and 
concerns of life,  so that even the poorest 
enjoy as much  as the  rich.  This  condi­
tion of things makes it necessary  that all 
who would enjoy  “equal  rights” must  be 
employed at some useful  labor,  as  only 
employes have any claim upon employers. 
Little did those  who  devised arbitration 
as a  method  of  settling  labor  disputes 
imagine  how  far-reaching  iu its results 
that beneficent system would prove to be, 
or how completely it would revolutionize 
the relations of employers and employes. 
The arbitration act aud its results will  be 
their  best  monument  and eulogy.  The 
socialistically  inclined see  in  the  work­
ing of the act a promise and  prophecy of 
the full realization of their most commu­
nistic hopes,  and they are  confident that 
iu a few years  the social  fabric  will  be

reconstructed  in  accordance  with  their 
ideas.  Perhaps  so.  This  much  is  cer­
tain,  the operation of  the arbitration act 
is  working wouders in the way of changed 
social conditions,  and no  ote  would  be 
surprised  if  the  hopes  of the socialists 
were  to  be  realized.  Bearing  in  mind 
what  socialism has already done  for the 
country and for civilization, this is a con­
summation devoutly to be wished.

Current  C riticism s.

Debs has  a  grate  future  before  him. 

The grate is on the prison door.

*  #  *

A  strike  which has  cost $13,000,000— 
which  the industrial and producing  clas­
ses must pay for—would be real jolly if it 
came out of the boycotted Pullman.

*  *  *

The new $1 silver  certificate will  bear 
a  design  illustrative  of  “History  In­
structing Youth.”  Youth  needs  a  good 
deal of  instruction in the  matter  of  the 
value of such things.

*  *  *

Speaking of arbitration,  wouldn’t it be 
a good idea for the  majority in  Congress 
to submit  its  differences  with  itself  to 
arbitration  and  get  the  tariff  difficulty 
out of the way?

*  *  *

The  Evening  Press  of  this  city  is  a 
great friend  to  the  dogs,  and,  inciden­
tally,  to  itself. 
It  has  placed  drinking 
basins for the canines  iu  different  parts 
of the city  with a  flaming  advertisement 
for the Press  in  each  basin.  The  good 
book has something to say  about  people 
who blow a trumpet when  they  give  an 
alms,  which,  no  doubt,  suggested  the 
scheme  to 
the  Press.  The  basins  of 
water  will  be  useful  to  the  dogs,  how­
ever,  for  they  can  wash  their  pants in 
them.

*  *  *

The puissant president of the A. K. U., 
yclept Debs,  says  he  is  not  to  be  held 
responsible for the late strike.  A  good­
ly  number  of  people  have  held  the 
opinion  right  along 
that  he  was  not. 
But does it not sound  like  pleading  the 
baby act for him to say so?

#  *  *

Debs  has  called  a  convention  of  the 
A.  R.  U.  to  meet in  Chicago  some  time 
in  August.  This  convention,  he  says, 
will decide  whether  the  strike  will  be 
continued, extended or  declared off.  One 
thing  can  truthfully  be  said  in  Deb’s 
favor—he’s a sticker.  When  everybody 
else  In  the  country  had 
thought  the 
strike had ended and  were  beginning to 
dismiss it  from  their  minds.  Debs  can 
still  see  it 
looming  up  in  magnificent 
proportions,  an  unqualified  and  unmit­
railroads  have 
igated  success.  The 
resumed 
operations, 
commerce  has 
again  found  its normal  level,  and,  with 
the exception of the Pullman Car Works, 
the industries affected by the strike have 
resumed.  Yet  Debs  says  the  strike  is 
still  on.  A  combination  of  morphine 
and  whiskey apparently makes  men  see 
things in strange  lights.

About all  there  is  in  life  is  a  good 
night’s sleep. 
Instead  of worrying  and 
fretting  for  fame,  or  wealth,  a  man 
should conduct himself in  such  a  man­
ner during  the  day  that  he  will  sleep 
well  at  night. 
If  a  man  will  behave 
himself,  and  slesp  well,  be  need  not 
worry abour his future;  he  will  succeed 
in  everything  that 
is  desirable  very 
much better than those  who  do  not  be­
have themselves,  and,  consequently,  do 
not sleep well.  The great secret  of  life 
is good  conduct. 
It  brings  all  the  re- 
j  wards that are worth having.

MEN  OF  MARK.

W m .  Ju d son ,  o f  th e   O lney  &  Ju d son  

Grocer  Co.

another 

incident 

and  dangers 

In the year 1634,  fourteen  years  after 
the Mayflower cast anchor off  the  rocky 
coast of what is now known as the  State 
of  Massachusetts, 
schooner 
made  the  perilous  voyage  across  the 
stormy  Atlantic,  bringing  to  the  shores 
of the New  World  another  company  of 
sturdy men and  brave  women,  who,  for 
conscience sake,  gave  up  the  compara­
tive comfort,  the friendships  and the old 
associations of  the  Mother  Land.  The 
hardships 
to 
ocean  travel  260  years  ago,  the  priva- 
tiou  and  suffering,  the awful loneliness 
and  isolation  of  their  position, 
the 
horrible solitude and silence  of  the vast 
forests of America,  broken  only  by  the 
howling of savage beasts of prey and  the 
war cry  of the still  more savage Indians 
i  —all these counted as nothing with these 
brave souls when put in the balance with 
|  the “ liberty to  worship God according to 
the  dictates  of  their  own  consciences.” 
They  wanted to be free,  alike  from  the 
domination of king and  bishop,  and  the 
wilds of America offered the only asylum. 
Among the passengers by the  vessel last 
referred 
to  was  one  named  William 
Judson,  who settled in  what  is  now  the 
State of  Connecticut.  He  was  of hardy 
Yorkshire  stock,  accustomed 
to  hard 
work,  and  undaunted  by  the  dangers 
and  difficulties  of  “life  in 
the  New 
World.”  From  him  sprung  Adoniram 
Judson, 
the 
Burmans,  whose name  is a  synonym for 
all that is good  and  grand  in  manhood 
and whose self-sacrificing  labors  for the 
welfare of his fellowmen have given  him 
an imperishable renown.  His  son is the 
justly-esteemed  Rev.  Edward  Judson 
D.  D.,  pastor  of  the  Judson  Memorial 
Baptist Church of New York city.

the  great  missionary 

to 

Another  William  Judson,  a  descend 
ant of the “pilgrim,”  left his  home  and 
friends in Connecticut and came to Mich 
igan in the year 1836, one  year  prior  to 
its admission to  the  Union.  He  settled 
on  a  tract  of  land  near  the site of the 
present town of Schoolcraft,  in  Kalama 
zoo county,  known for  years  as  Prairie 
Ronde.  No Judson was  ever  known  to 
fail in  anything  he  undertook,  and  the 
emigrant  from  Connecticut  was  no  ex 
ception to the rule.  His farming opera 
tions were prosperous  to  a  conspicuous 
degree.  The William  Judson  who,  260 
years ago left his home  in  England  and 
came to America,  was the  progenitor  of 
this  Connecticut  emigrant,  who in  turn 
was  the  grandfather  of  William  Jud 
son,  of  the  Olney  &  Judson  Grocer 
Co.,  who 
thi 
sketch.  He  was  born  near Schoolcraft 
March 9, 1854,  so that he  is  now  in  the 
prime  of  life.  He  was  educated in the 
old Schoolcraft seminary  (now  the  high 
school) and on  graduating  was  engaged 
to teach the district school in  his  neigh­
borhood.  But  “teaching the young idea 
how to shoot” was not to be his life work; 
neither was it as a tiller of the  soil  that 
he  was  to  make  his  mark,  although it 
was in this honorable calling that his an­
cestors  for  many  generations  had  won 
distinction and wealth. 
In  the  vicinity 
of his boyhood’s home resided  two  other 
families  and  from  each  of  these a boy 
had  gone  out  into  the  great  world  of 
trade,  and  both were on the  highway  to 
success.  Their  success  awakened  in 
William  Judson  a  desire to  enter  other

subject  of 

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fields, to try other pastures,  so  to  speak. 
As he watched the railroad trains as they 
thundered by, he knew  that,  beyond  the 
contracted horizon of the paternal  acres, 
there lay the great  world of business. 
It 
might  have  its  valleys  of  humiliation, 
but it had also its mountain  peaks of suc­
cess,  and  these  he 
longed  to  climb. 
Finally deciding to leave home and blaze 
out a new track for himself,  lie  came  to 
Grand  Rapids  and  engaged  as  teamster 
the lumber yard  of  Barnhart,  Oster- 
hout  &  Fox.  He  drove  team  for  six 
months, was then made  foreman  of  the 
ard,  and was finally sent to Fife Lake in 
Grand  Traverse  county  as  manager  of 
the firm’s  interests in that  section.  Sev­
ering his connection with the firm named 
above, he  engaged  in  the  lumber  busi­
ness in Big Rapids with  Franklin  Barn­
hart, under the style of  Barnhart &  Jud-

ment in an advisory capacity.  Although 
he is not a stockholder  or  officer  of  the 
Putnam Candy Co.,  his  services  in  the 
same  capacity  have  been  invoked  by 
President Putnam and a  certain  portion 
of each day is given to a consideration of 
that company’s business.

Two years ago last spring  Mr.  Judson 
was appointed a member of the Board  of 
Police and Fire Commissioners by  Mayor 
Stuart,  in  which position  he  has  distin­
guished himself by the  conservative and 
common sense methods  he has advocated 
and the needed reforms he has suggested 
and  urged.

Personally,  Mr.  Judson  is  a  model 
man,  both  socially  and  in  his  business 
relations.  Cool and collected at all times 
and under all circumstances,  he  has  es­
tablished a  reputation  for  long-headed­
ness which few men  succeed  in  acquir-

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son,  which  copartnership  continued  for 
five years. 
It was here, and  during  the 
five years in  which he  continued  in  the 
lumber business, that he laid  the founda­
tion upon which has been built  the  sup­
erstructure  of  his  present  comfortable 
fortune.
After closing out his  lumbering  inter­
ests Mr. Judson connected  himself  with 
F.  Fairman in the  banking  business,  the 
firm  name  being  Fairman  &  Judson. 
One year later he sold his interest  to  his 
partner,  and  went  to  California,  where 
he remained a  year.  He  then  returned 
to Grand Rapids and  purchased  a  third 
interest in  the  wholesale  grocery  busi­
ness of Olney,  Shields & Co.  On  the re­
tirement of Mr. Shields and the incorpor­
ation of the Olney & Judson  Grocer  Co., 
Mr.  Judson  augmented  his  interest  in 
the  business, 
taking  the  position  of 
Treasurer  and  assuming  the  duties  of 
credit mau and financial manager.  How 
well he  has  performed  his  part  of  the 
work  the  reputation  of  his  corporation 
and  the  financial  position  of  its  stock
bear ample testimony.
About a year ago  Mr.  Judson  figured 
as one of the incorporators of the Reeder 
Bros.  Shoe Co., of which  corporation  he 
is  President  and  to  which  business  he 
giyes  considerable  attention,  assisting 
Manager  Reeder  in  the  credit  depart­

ing  so  early  in  lifa.  Frank  aud  out­
spoken  in manner and method,  he  is  so 
well balanced that he  seldom  alienates a 
friend or  loses a  customer.  He  is  gen­
erous  to  the  extreme,  being  an  active 
worker  in  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  and  other 
kindred organizations,  and his proverbial 
persuasiveness  invariably  secures  him 
a  place  on  every  soliciting  committee 
within the scope  of  his  usefulness  and 
activity.  Honest in  practice  and  meth­
odical in method, his career forms an ex­
cellent example  for  the  young  men  of 
the day who are content to  achieve  suc­
cess  through  the  employment  of  laud­
able motives and patient  industry.

For 300 years  the  Judson  escutcheon 
has been  unmarred by a dishonorable ac­
tion—a record of  which any  family  may 
justly be proud.  Add to  this  the  lofty 
place which the name of Judson occupies 
in the political and religious history of the 
country,  and what  more could  be needed 
as incentives  to  honorable  and  upright 
living?  William Judsou is rightly proud 
of his name and  has  done  his  part  to­
ward preserving its purity and fame.

Good Words  Unsolicited.

Howard & Horton, grocers and crockery  deal 
ers, Cheboygan:  “Every merchant in Michigan 
should take your paper  We would not be with 
out it.”

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

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Alpena—The  mill 

is  cutting thirty-three cords of elm a day
and  basswood for‘3*3,000 sets of  heading. 
The  heading department is operated day 
and night.

Conklin—W.  W.  Hatch  has transferred 
the  Conklin flouring mills to L. M. Smith j
andJ.  B.  Trowbridge,  both  of  whom are 
experienced millers. 

Ludington—Sands  &  Maxwell  have 
purchased  a  considerable  quantity  of 
hardwood 
lumber  at  Foster’s  mill,  in 
Fountain,  and  will  utilize 
the 
manufacture of furniture.

Ludington—The  Ludington  Shingle 
Co.  recently  started 
its  mill  for  an 
indefinite  run.  The  company’s  docks 
are  full  of  shingles,  and  vacant  addi­
tional  land  will have  to  be  utilized  for 
piling space.

P oor  P la ce  to   L ook  for  C on sisten cy. 
Gr a n d  R a p id s,  July  30—It  may  not
i  ite  out of  Diace.  under  the circum stances,
ea*  at£ent|on  t0  the  unbusinesslike
j  methods of some men of means  (not ene-
Ternple—The Dewey  <& Co.  stave  mill j miesof labor) employed  by them  at  this 
time iu  the labor union and  strike  ques-1 DI^ 
that  a 
tiou.  There  is  an  old  adage 
burned  child  dreads  the  fire,  and  we 
have all read the story  of  the  man  who 
warmed a viper in his bosom.  As a rule, 
we have a poor judgment of  a  man’s  in­
tellect,  who,  having once  suffered  loss, 
knowingly  places  himself  in  the  same 
position again; yet we see every day men 
who have just suffered loss,  through  the 
fickleness  of  union  labor,  hiring  union 
labor  again,  and,  worse  yet.  hiring the 
very  same  broken  reeds  who  wiltully 
and  without  reason  caused  them  loss; 
and now we read that  the  labor  leaders 
are  plauning to consolidate  their  forces, 
make  their  demands  next  spring  and 
have another big strike next May.  What 
about the railroad  and  other  companies 
who have kindly  forgiven their men  and 
taken  them  baek?  They  will  be  de­
serted  again,  and  quicker  yet,  for  the 
men will say,  we  cannot  lose  anything, 
for we  will get our positions  back  again. 
During the strike the only  railroads  and 
other  enterprises  which  suffered 
the 
least were those run  by  non-union  men 
Plainweil—The  Church  Furniture Co. 
entirely.  A  word  to  the  wise  is  suffi­
cient.  We have union men  in  this  city 
has  begun the erection  of  another  addi­
who are trying to ruin  a man  because  he 
tion  to its plant in the shape of a fouudry 
is  giving  better  and  cleaner  goods  for 
building,  30x50 feet  iu dimensions.  The 
less money by using  machinery,  simply 
compauy will  soon  begin  the  manufac­
because  the  machine  throws  some  of 
them  out of  employment; yet these  same 
ture of a new and improved opera  chair.
men are takiug the  bread  out  of  thous­
the  Ayres 
ands of mouths  by  eating  bread  cheap­
Lumber  Co.,  operating  a  planing  mill 
ened by  machinery  in the field  and  mill. 
Think for a moment  how  much  work and 
and yard,  which failed  last  season,  will 
secured j how much better prices poor sewing girls 
not  pan  out  very  well.  The
and women  would get  if  those  machine
„ 
creditors  will  be  forced  to  accept  not  ^ c o tte r *  would only  be  consistent  and 
over  60  cents  on 
flour 
claims  and  those  not  seeured  will  get | made  in  a  mortar  or  ground  between
the
two  stones, 
nothing.
World’s Fair, and  use  ouly  cloth  woven 
by  hand without looms and  boycott their 
wives’ sewing machines.  O, Consistency, 
thou art a jewel! 

the  Minor 
Lumber Co.  has  gone  into  commission, 
the  company  having  contracted  to  cut 
4,000,000 feet of logs for Mosher &  Malt- 
by,  which  will  come  down  by  rail  from 
Presque isle county.

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the  dollar  of 

Saginaw—The  affairs  of 

The  Grocery  Market.
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of 

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

Apples—There  is  a  good  supply  of not very 
good fruit.  They are bought on the market  for 
from 40@75c per bu.

Apricots—Are still hung up by the strike. 
Beans—Strictly  hand  picked  bring  $1.90  per

Beets—Plentiful supply at 15c per doz.
Blackberries—Are worth 7c per at.
Butter—Is in fair  supply  and  firm  at  lE@17c 

for good dairy and 18420c for  creamery.

Cabbages—Good  supply  and  held  at  70c  per 

Carrots—15c per doz. bunches,
Currants—Are none too plentiful and are held 

at $1.25 per 10 qt. crate.

Celery—15@l8c per doz.
Cherries—About out of market.
Cucumbers—Are worth 85c per doz.
Bggs_Are held by dealers at lie  per doz.
Gooseberries—Out of  market.
Green  Corn—Is  in  good  supply,  ^hut  rather 

young.  It brings 10c per doz.

Onions—Ripe are worth 80c per bu.  and  green
¡>4 per doz.
Peas—Are scarce at 75c per bu.
Peaches—The  supply  is  fair,  but  no  really 
first-class fruit has  reached  the  market.  They 
bring $1.25 per bu.

Potatoes—Supply is ample at 65c per bu.
Pears—A  few  from  California  have  reached 
this market, but are too high priced for the gen - 
eral consumer.  They  are  held  at  $3  per  bu, 
crate—or what is called in the far West a bushel 
crate.

Radishes—10c per doz.
Raspberries—About out of market.
Squash—Bring about 2!4c per lb.
String Beans—Limited  supply.  The  price  is 

$1 per bu.

Tomatoes—A few home-grown were to be seen 
on  the  market  Monday  morning,  which  were 
sold at the regular price—8c per lb.

Turnips—30c per bu.
Watermelons—Have  advanced  aud  are  now 

held at 23c.
Henry  J-  Vinkemulder,
Pnlits  and  Vegetables,

JOBBER  OF

ABOUND  THE  STATE.

MOVEMENTS OF  MERCHANTS.

Alpena—D.  Desjardins, of  D.  Desjar­

dins & Son, grocers,  is dead.

Wyandotte—Henry Kaul succeeds Kaul 

Bros,  in the dry goods business.

Muskegon—C.  L.  Brundage  has  sold 

his drug stock  to J.  D.  Sheridan.

Jackson—J as.  M.  Toole  succeeds  Gib­
son & Toole in  the  boot  and  shoe  busi­
ness.

Ludington—Geo.  McMullen  has  pur­
chased  the  boot  and  shoe  slock  of  A. 
Torp.

Battle  Creek—Wheaton  &  Good ale 
have purchased the drug stock  of  A.  S. 
Johnson.

South  Boardmau—Geo  B.  Stanley  is 
succeeded by  E.  J.  Gordon  in  the  meat 
business.

Caledonia—W. 

Barbour 

succeeds 
the  grocery 

in 

Spaulding  &  Barbour 
business.

Belding—Benj.  White  has  removed 
from Smyrna to this  place and  opened  a 
meat market.

Durand—Cowles & Co.  lost  their drug 
stock  by  fire  July  ‘34.  Loss,  $*3,300; in­
surance, $600.

Sturgis—Schweder 
Schweder  &  Jesse  i 
bakery business.

Bros. 
succeed 
the  grocery  and

Marquette—Horace  J.  Lobdeli  has 
given  a  bill  of sale of his grocery stock 
to S.  R.  Lobdel).

Three  Rivers—Bond  Bros,  have  pur­
chased  the grocery and  baking  business 
of J.  J-  Dikeman.

Detroit—J.  C. Merbach & Co.,  boot  aud 
shoe dealers,  have  dissolved, C.  J.  Mer­
bach continuing the business.

Bay  City—Wilkins  &  Hersteiu,  boot 
and shoe dealers,  have  dissolved,  s.  1’. 
Wilkins continuing  the business.

Grayling—Claggett  &  Pringle,  general 
dealers,  have  dissolved.  Sidney  S. 
Claggett continuing the business.

Mauistee—The  Hazeltine  &  Perkins 
Drug  Co.  has  taken  possession  of  the 
J.  P.  Williams  drug  stock  on  a  bill  of 
sale.

Vickeryville—U.  L.  Carpenter  has 
sold  his  drug  stock 
to  Frank  Uecox, 
formerly  engaged  in  business  at  Cale­
donia.

Albion—Beers tic  Moufort,  dealers  in 
meats  and canned goods,  have  dissolved 
partnership,  D.  Moufort  continuing  the 
business.

East  Jordan—Harrison  Mitchell  has 
sold his grocery and coufectiouery  stock 
to C. G.  Lewis,  who  will  continue  the 
business at the old stand.

Battle  Creek—Wheaton  &  Goodale 
have purchased of Dr.  Johnson  the  Par­
ker  Bros,  drug  stock  and  will continue 
the business at the same location.
MANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

Traverse  City—The  Traverse  City 
Lumber  Co.  is  running  its  mills  night 
and day,  but little is being sold.

Owosso—The  Owosso  Cigar  Box  Co 
has  purchased the cigar box manufactur­
ing business of Frank  Schnabel.

Manistee—The Manistee  Maple  Floor 
ing Co.,  whose  plant  has  been  idle  for 
over  a  year,  resumed  operations  last 
week.

Sugar—The 

advance 
came Monday morning,  when  everything 
from  Cubes  to  Confectioner’s  Standard 
A sustained an advance of J^c and every­
thing from  No.  1  to No.  12  was  moved 
upward a sixpence.

Cheese—The  market continues  to  ad­
vance and prices would  go still higher if 
the small factorymen  did not make occa­
sional  breaks in the  market  by  offering 
fair stock at  l@ lKc below  actual  value.
Oranges—The demaud for them is very 
light and only the  fancy  *300  size  Rodis 
are to be had.  The abundance of berries 
and small  fruits now to  be had is mainly 
responsible for the  indifference concern- 
ng oranges,  and  there  will  be  nothing 
worth  bothering  with  or  that has much 
merit until  along in  October,  when Flor- 
idas begin  to come in.  Jamaicas  will  be 
offered sooner,  but  they are  usually  too 
sour to be palatable.

Lemons—Considering  the time of year 
and the state of the  weather for the past 
week,  prices are remarkably low.  There 
is  no  lack  of  good fruit  and dealers in 
the market handle  only  the  best.  Reg­
ular  arrivals  are  now  the rule  and the 
filling of orders  promptly an  easy  thing 
to  do.  Demand  is  good  and  does  not 
seem to be  curtailed  much  by  the  large 
quantities of domestic  fruits and vegeta­
bles.  They are the  cheapest of the pop­
ular luxuries,  aud  more  generally  used 
j than  any  other  single  item  of  foreign 
fruits.

The  Wool  Market.

Notwithstanding the enormous amount 
of  wool which has changed  hands within 
the last fortnight, the price  remains  un­
changed,  at least no changes are reported 
as operative.  Some Eastern dealers have 
withdrawn  their wool  from  the  market, 
in the belief  that  Congress  would  pass 
no tariff bill this session. 
If  this  belief 
should  prove  to  be  well  founded,  the 
price will  undoubtedly  take  an  upward 
turn.  Business in  the  local  market 
steady.

A Tearful  Farewell.

From  the  Sprlngport  Signal,  July 20.
The  “Shopper’s Paradise”  bundled  up 
their traps aud calamities the  latter part 
of last week aud  left for parts unknown 
They also  left  several  mourners  in  the 
rear and in the front seat could be found a 
sad eyed editor, who mourned to the tune 
of  $5.05.  Yea,  verily,  brother  editors 
if this  firm,  calling  themselves  Dunlap 
&  Co.,  “Paradise  Lost,”  or  any  other 
pair of  dice swoops down  upon you, give 
them  a wide  berth,  for  they are  loaded

Death of an  Estimable  Lady.

Maso n,  July 28—It  is with sorrow  we 
report  the death  of  Mrs.  Fred  Walton 
wife  of  our  enterprising  grocer.  She 
was a great  worker  and  helped  him  in 
the store,  where she  will be  missed  very 
much,  as she had  a  warm  greeting  for 
everybody.  She  was  also  a  church 
worker.  She left  two boys and  a loving 
husband to mourn her loss. 

C.

418,  420,  445  and  447  So.  Division 

St  Grand  Rapids.

Owing to the extreme dry weather, cucumbers, 
cabbage and all vegetables have been scarce and 
high, but look for  lower  prices  from  now  out. 
We quote you choice cucumbers at 25c  per  doz.; 
green corn. 10c: fine celery, 18c;  wax beans,  75c 
per bu.; beets, $1.25  per  bbl; onions, $2.50@2.7.‘ ; 
good cooking apples, $1.75@i per bbl; choice eat 
ing, $2.3o@2.50 per  bbi;  tomatoes,  melons,  cab 
bage, blackberries, etc., at lowest market  prices.
The peaches now coming In are hardly  fit  for 
shipping; being clingstones,  they  do  not  carry 
well.  We  will  begin  to  get  good  freestones 
about Aug. 15 and from then  on  we  shall  have 
plenty of nice fruit and will give your orders our 
prompt attention aud lowest prices.
We are looking for your mail  orders  and  you 
will find it to your interest to trade with us.

em ll  Springs  l e i   X  Fuel  Go.,

COAL, COKE  and  WOOD,

(¡5  Monroe  ft».,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Correspondence  solicited  with  outside 

dealers.

J U S T   O U T !

Rand,  McNally  &  Co.’s

B U S IN E S S   A T L A S

Certain species of  ants make  slaves of 
others. 
If a colony of slave making ants 
Big  Rapids—Hack ley  &  Hume,  who 
is changing the nest,  a  matter  which  is 
left  to  the  discretion of  the slaves,  the
have  finished  lumbering  operations  on
the  Muskegou  in Clare  county,  have sold I the previous week  of  27,000  and  28,000 1 latter carry their  mistresses to their new
a  ..umber  of  logging  cars  to  the  Gale  more  than  for  the  corresponding  week j borne.  One kind  of  slave  making  ants 
a  nuiuoer  oi  lugging, 
has become so dependent  on  slaves, that
I.umber Co.,  to take the place  of  cars of  last year.  B usiness  iu  bog  products m i even  ¡f provided  with  food  they  will  die 
the latter  com pany  destroyed  by 
forest  the local market  is  reported  fair  for  the  0f  hunger  unless there are slaves to put 
tires  recently. 

Pork—Receipts of  hogs  for  the  week 
in Chicago were 128,257,  an increase over

I week.  Prices are firm aud  unchanged. 

it in their mouths.

UNITED  STATES,  CANADA  AND 

FOR  18M4.

MEXICO.

(With  Maps of  Foreign  Countries) 

P R IC E   $ 7.30.

TRADESM AN  COHPANY,

Grand  Rapids.

TtLK  MICHIGAN

5

GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

A.  May has moved his  bazaar  from  41 
and 43 Monroe street  to  17  Canal street.
W.  H.  Tibbs,  druggist  at  618  South 
Division street,  has  moved  his  stock  to 
123 Canal street.

B.  F.  Pogue,  lately from  Indiana,  suc­
ceeds B.  1. Kent in  the grocery  business 
at 692 Cherry street.

Arie  Van  Bree,  hardware  dealer,  has 
removed  from  63  West  Leonard  to  90 
West Leonard street.

The  Singer  Sewing  Machine  Co.  has 
removed its office from 76 South Division 
to 14 North Division street.

F.  Hartog will open a  grocery store  at 
243 Watson  street.  The  Ball-Barnhart- 
Putman Co. furnished the  stock.

Fred W. Fuller,  grocer at  143  Living­
ston  street,  has  bought  F.  E-  Winsor’s 
grocery  stock  at  152  North  Division 
street and will continue business at both
p l a c e s . ________________

L.  Anderson,  formerly of Grand Ledge 
and  Lansing,  has  opened  a  drug  and 
grocery  store  at  North  Lansing.  The 
Hazeltine & Perkins Drug  Co.  furnished 
the drug stock.

John More has leased the  store  build­
ing at 447 South  Division  street and  will 
open a meat market there  Wednesday in 
conjunction with  the  grocery  establish­
ment of Henry J.  Vinkemulder.

The Hazeltine & Perkins  Drug Co.  has 
sold to J.  P.  Williams,  of  Manistee,  the 
drug stock recently  taken from  him on a 
bill  of  sale  and  he  will  remove  it  to 
Arcadia,  where he will re-engage in  busi­
ness. 

.  ___ _________ _

Fred  E.  Morley  and  Horace  Bedford 
have opened a grocery store near the cor­
ner of Wealthy  avenue and  East  street. 
It  will be known  as the  Wealthy Avenue 
Cash Grocery.  The L  M.  Clark  Grocery 
Co. furnished the stock.

The Lemon & Wheeler Company and the 
Musselman Co.  Grocer unite  in  offering 
$50  in  prizes for the best cheese made in 
Michigan  factories and exhibited  at  the 
coming fair of the Western Michigan Ag­
ricultural  and  Industrial  Society.  The 
money is divided into three classes—$25, 
$15 and  $10—for  the  best  first,  second 
and third exhibit.  Such  an offer  ought 
to be appreciated by  every  cheesemaker 
in Michigan and result in  a  large line of 
exhibits.  ________________

It is  reported  that  the  career  of  the 
nearly defunct Wilcox  Heat-Light  Co.  is 
to be reviewed  by  the  courts,  Att >rney 
General  Ellis  having  pronounced 
the 
method of  winding up the corporation  il­
legal  and consented to the use of the name 
of the  State in quo  warranto proceedings 
to  enquire  into  the  right  of  two  stock­
holders of the company to seize the assets 
and  dispose  of  them  without  consulta­
tion with or consent of  the  other  stock­
holders.  Papers are now  being  drafted 
by  local  attorneys,  asking  for  the  ap­
pointment of a  receiver,  with  power  to 
replevin  the  goods  alleged to  be  fraud­
ulently held  by  E.  Bement  &  Sons,  of 
Lansing,  and others. 
It is  claimed  that 
a change of conspiracy to defraud  cau  be 
lodged against the  Lansing concern.

Rand,  Me  Nal'y  &  Co.’s  publications 
are  boycotted  by  the 
trades  unions. 
They can  be obtained at  any time and in 
any quantity of the Tradesman Company, 
Grand Rapids.

Gripsack  Brigade.

Guy P.  Smith  (Ball-Barnhart-Putman 
Co.)  resumed his visits to the trade Mon­
day,  after an enforced  idleness of a fort­
night by reason of illness.

Joe F.  O.  Reed  (H.  Leonard  &  Sons) 
has returned from  Iowa,  where he spent 
a four  weeks’  vacation  with  his  father 
and has resumed his  visits to  his  trade.
Edward P.  Waldron,  President  of  the 
Michigan  Knight of  the  Grip,  has  been 
in this city several  days  in  the  interest 
of  Geo.  A.  Steele’s  candidacy  for  the 
State Treasureship.

M. J.  Rogan,  of  Kalamazoo,  represent­
ing a New York hat  house,  has  finished 
his season and  reports  very  fair  trade. 
He  will take  a  month’s vacation,  fishing 
n the lakes  around  Otsego.  No sympa­
thy need  be wasted on the fish.

The annual  picnic of the Grand  Rapids 
traveling men  will beheld at North  Park, 
Saturday,  Aug.  18.  The  affair  will  be 
entirely  informal  and  all  who can do so 
are expected to  bring well-filled baskets. 
A base ball game  will be  played  in  the 
afternoon and a dance indulged  in during 
the evening.

While  making  a  drive  from  Grand 
Haven,  Sam  Evans  (Ball-Barnhart-Put 
man Co.)  found a couple of lucky stones 
Meeting P.  J.  Coppens  a  little  later  he 
presented one of the  stones to him.  Mr 
Coppens  objected  to  the  possession  of 
the stone,  and,  on  his  return  home,  hi 
wife  advised  him  to throw it away,  but 
he concluded to keep  it a  few  days  and 
see what  would  come  of  it.  The  next 
day  he bought a dozen bananas of a Dago 
peddler,  subsequently  discovering  that 
he had  given  the  brown-skiDned  son  of 
Italy a $5 gold  piece along with  18 cent 
in pennies.  The next morning  he  went 
to  church  for  the  first  time  this  year, 
only  to  find  the  door  locked  and 
the 
preacher away  on  a  vacation.  Monday 
morning  he  missed  his  train,  going  off 
later in the day without his postal cards 
so that he was unable  to notify  his  cus 
tomers,  in  consequence  of  which  very 
few  dealers  expected  him,  those  who 
were not away  fishing or resorting  being 
unprepared  to  give  him  an  order.  On 
his  return  home at  the end of the week 
he found a letter from his house enquiring 
if  he  was  still  working for them.  Mr 
Coppens  has  the  lucky  stone  for  sale 
cheap.

Purely Personal.

Wm.  Judson  has gone to Schoolcraft  t 
spend  a few days  with  his mother on the 
old homestead.

W.  A.  Townsend  (H.  Leonard & Sons) 
has  returned  from  a  fortnight’s vacation 
at  Home,  N.  Y.

W.  F.  Nagler,  the  Howard City drug­
gist,  is  rejoicing  over  the  advent  of  a 
nine pound  boy.

Arthur  Mulholland,  general dealer  at 
Ashton,  is in town  as  a delegate  to  the 
Republican State Convention.

A.  M.  LeBarou has resumed his former 
connection  with  the  Commercial  Credit 
Co.  He  will  run  his  grocery  store  by 
proxy.

Geo.  B. Caldwell,  National  Bank  Ex­
aminer for this State,  has  invited  Comp­
troller  of  Currency  Eckels  to  spend  a 
couple  of  days  in this  city on the occa­
sion of  his  visit  to  Michigan  to  attend 
the  annual  convention  of 
the  State 
Bankers’  Association.  The dates set for 
the visit are Sept.  10 and 11,  and among 
the events of his  visitation  will  be a re­
ception tendered by local bankers.

. 

.. 

H.  M.  Geiger,  Manager  of  the  Cham- 

The property  which  we  carelessly  or 
pion  Cash  Register  Co.,  is  spending  a  criminally burn  up in a  year would  wipe 
out  one-fourth  of  the  national  bonded
week among the retail trade of  Northern  debt 
It  would  re.Create  the  World’s
Michigan.
Fair,  re-stock it with all its features,  and 
have enough left to  make our  navy  one 
of the strongest in  the  world  and  pay  a 
year’s  interest  on  the  national debt  be­
sides.

Will A.  Wood, druggist  at  Six  Lakes, 
was  called  upon  to  mourn  the  loss  of 
s wife July 24.  Consumption  was  the 

cause of death.  No children.

Heman  G.  Barlow,  the  versatile letter 
riter of the Olney & Judson Grocer Co., 
has returned from a  three  weeks’  vaca­
tion,  which  was  spent  at  Mackinac Is­
land, Omena and Traverse Point.

John T.  Staff, of  Cayuga,  Ind.,  was in 
town  a couple of days  last week  for  the 
purpose  of  closing a deal with Chas.  W. 
Shedd for the  latter’s  patent  can  filling 
machine.  Mr.  Staff  conducts  vegetable 
canneries at  Cayuga  and  Bloomingdale, 
Ind.,  and Kansas,  111.

J.  R.  Odell,  the Fremont  banker  and 
Iruggist,  has the sympathy of  the  trade 
n the death of his only  son,  Perry Odell, 
whose ailment  was spinal meningitis,  in­
duced by  a  severe  attack  of  the  grip. 
The  deceased  had  only  recently  grad­
uated from the  Medical  Department  of 
the Michigan  University  and  was  estab­
lishing  a  fine  practice,  in  connection 
with the management of the  drug  store 
Deceased left a wife and one child.

The Wheat  Market.

There is nothing  new  to report. 

It i 
getting  monotonous  to  have  to  report 
only  lower prices for wheat. 
It  matter 
not  how low  the  markets  are,  the  next 
week generally has  another  surprise  of 
still lower prices for  wheat.  The visible 
although  exports  have  been  nearly 
double the past  week,  will show  a  large 
increase,  owing to the  large  amount 
ceived in the West and Northwest, which 
have been simply  enormous,  as  farmers 
have been liberal  sellers,  thinking  that 
the price is the best,  as  it  has  been  for 
several  years past,  right  after  harvest 
They  may  be  right,  but  1  have  my 
doubts, as other cereals are  away out  of 
line in price with wheat.  When  corn  is 
higher than wheat,  and oats in  the  same 
position,  owing 
to  drought  and  other 
things  combined  to  keep 
think it  only  a  question  of  time  when 
things  will  right  themselves  and  wheat 
will  place itself in value more in keeping 
where it ought to be.  The  large amount 
in elevators  in  Chicago  and  New  York 
will  have to be moved before  prices  will 
advance,  but, after the first  rush is ove 
it 
is  conceded  tnat  the  movement  of 
wheat  will cease and,  if our  exports wi 
keep near where they have been  in year: 
past,  this  amount,  although  large,  will 
gradually  shrink;  and,  when 
it  doe 
prices  will  take a higher lever.  Receipts 
from  cars  were:  Wheat,  80;  corn,  46 
oats,  2 cars.

them  up, 

The  demand  for  Hour  has  been  fair. 
The mills  have  placed  their  output  as 
fast as made. 

C.  G. A.  V oigt.

How They  Catch  Monkeys.

is  a  very 

A gentleman who has  spent some time 
at Panama tells how they catch  the little 
monkeys down there,  which  are  so  use­
ful to the itinerant organ grinders.  They 
take a cocoanut and cut a hole in  it large 
enough  to  admit  a  monkey’s  paw.  A 
string is then attached to  the  nut.  The 
monkey 
little 
animal,  and  when  he  sees  one of these 
nuts he inserts his paw  through the hole 
to  find  out  what  is  inside.  When  the 
paw is  closed  it  cannot  be  withdrawn, 
and as the monkey has not sense  enough 
to open his paw,  the nut  is  dragged  by 
the  string  and  the  monkey  with  it  to 
within reach of the  captors,  who  throw 
a net over the monkey  and  in  that  way 
secure  him.

inquisitive 

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BUSINESS  CHANCES

570

572

F or 

M.  Gay, Milan  Mich. 

F OR  SALK—b e st  p a y in g   d r u g  stock 

in Northern Michigan.  Reason for selling, 
other business.  Correspondence or examination 
solicited.  Address  No.  572,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman 
O  RENT—NEW  BRICK  STORE,  OPERA 
house block,  24x72,  shelved  complete.  S. 
s a l e—a  c o m plet e  stock  of
drugs  and  fixtures.  Will  Invoice  about 
12.000.  Corner  store.  Nice  location.  Rent, 
$16.50  per  month 
I  have  just  invented  and 
patented  a  cash  register  and  want  to  give my 
entire  time  to  manufacturing  same.  Will  sell 
stock at a sacrifice.  It is a  good  opening  for  a 
young phys'eian.  It is in a thickly settled neigh­
borhood and  no  doctor’s  office  near.  Address 
M. Blank, 416  West  Bridge  St.,  Grand  Rapids, 
Mich. 
569
sa l e—a  f in e   c o n f e c t io n e r y
store in Traverse  City,  the  queen  city  of 
the North.  Best location in town.  Will invoice 
about $1,800.  Terms, one-half cash,  balance  on 
time  with  approved  notes.  Address  No.  567, 
care Michigan  Tradesman. 
FOR  GENERAL 
stock  of  merchandise. 
J.  H.  Levinson, 
PHARMACIST.  REGISTERED,  WITH 
thirty-four years’  practical  experience  in 
all  kinds  of  pharmaceutical  and  mercantile 
works,  wishes  a  situation  of  responsibility as 
clerk  or  manager.  Has  been  in  business for 
ears for himself.  Address “Pharmacist,” care 
Michigan  Tradesman. 

■ ILL  PAY  SPOT  CASH 

Petoskey, Mich.

F or 

568

566

?67

564

for  sale  at

a buyer if  yon  want  to  sell. 
Exchange,  Bay City, Mich

■ E  HAVE  100  BUSINESS  CHANCES. 
■ EARLY  NEW 

Send stamp for our list.  We can find you
Mutual  Business 
565
BAR LOCK  TYPEWRITER 
great  reduction  from  cost- 
Reason for selling, we desire another  pattern  of 
same make of machine, which  we  consider  the 
best  on the  market.  Tradesman  Company,  100 
Louis St., Grand  Rapids. 
ÇJ.REAT
OFFER—FINE  STOCK  OF  WALL 
paper,  paints,  varnishes,  picture  frames 
and room mouldings for  sale.  Reason  for  sell­
ing,  death of proprietor.  Good paying business 
in a very desirable location.  All  new  stock, in­
voicing  from  $2,500  to  $3,000.  Address  Mrs. 
Theresa Schwind. Grand Rapids. 

I lOR  SALE—ON  ACCOUNT OF THE DEATH 

of my husband I offer for sale  clean  stock 
general merchandise  inventorying  $6,000.  Will 
sell cheap for part cash and good security.  Will 
rent building.  Address No. 562,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
BUSINESS CHANCE—FOR  SALE  OR Ex­
A
change for farm or city property in or near 
Grand Rapids, the Harris mill property  situated 
in Paris, Mecosta, Co., Michigan, on  the G. R. & 
I. Railroad, consisting of saw and planing mills, 
sto-e and 39 acres of land, a  good  water  power, 
22 foot fall, side track into mill, plenty of  hard­
wood timber.  This is a good chance for anyone 
wishing to engage in any kind of mill  business. 
For further particulars address B.  W.  Barnard, 
35 Allen street, Grand Rapids. Mich. 

562

559

561

553

Ba n n in g   f a c t o r y  w a n t e d —a  p a r t y

with some capital and who understands the 
business, to build and operate a canning factory 
at Grant, Newaygo Co.,  Mich.  For  particulars 
write to H. C. Hemingsen,  Village Clerk,  Grant, 
Mich. 

F or  sa l e—a w e l l e q u ip p e d  m a c h in e

F or  sa l e—c l e a n  d r u g   stock 

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 
ticnlars from Charles Steel,  Administrator,  box 
¿6, Wyandotte. Michigan._______________ 647
in   a
thriving town in Northern Michigan  on  C.
Address No. 639, care  Mlehl 
& W. M. Railway, 
gan Tradesman.
T>LANING  MILL—WE  OFFER  FOR  SALE 
A 
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 & Co.. Manistee, Mich. 613
HEADACHE
POWDERS

P E C K ’S

639

Pay the liest profit.  Order from your jobber

l

ONLY  A  FEW   LEFT.

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-

-

-

- 

Original set of four 
Complete set of ten  -

23c
50c
Order  quick or lose the opportunity of 
a  lifetime  to  secure these souvenirs at a 
nominal figure.  They will be worth ten 
times present cost within five years. 
T ra d e sm a n  C o m p an y, 

 

GRAND.RAPID8.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN
Dry Goods Price Current.

DNMINS.

UNBLEACHED  COTTONS.

“ 
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“ 

BLEACHED  COTTONS.

...  7
Adriatic
....  5X
Argyle
Atlanta AA....... ....  6
...  tSX Full Yard Wide.......
Atlantic A .......

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“  L L ..............  4*
Amory  ... 
..............  65£
Archery  Bunting...  4 
Beaver Dam  A A ..  4*
Blaekstone O, 32__   5
Black Crow............. 6
Black  Rock  ............  5%
Boot, AL.................  7
Capital  A  ............... 5%
Cavanat V ...............  5*
Chapman cheese c l.  3%
Clifton  C R ..............51*
Comet....................... 6*
Dwight Star.............  6%
Clifton CCC............  5M

“  Arrow Brand  4X
World Wide. 6
“  LL................. 4*
H ........ ....  6* Georgia  A ............... 6*
P ...  . ...  5 Honest Width......... 6
...  6 Hartford A  ............. 5
D .......
Indian Head............  5*
King A  A — ..........6*
King E C...................5
Lawrence  L L........   4*
Madras cheese cloth 6X
Newmarket  G........   6X
B  ........ 5
N ..........6*
D D ....  514
X .........6X
Nolbe R...................   5
Onr Level  Best.......  6
Oxford  R.................  6
Pequot......................  7
Solar........ ................ 6
Top of the  Heap__   7
Geo. Washington...  8
A B C .
Glen Mills...............  7
Amazon.....................8
Gold Medal.............   714
Amsburg.................. 6
Green  Ticket..........814
Art  Cambrlc........... 10
Great Falls..............   6&
Blackstone A A .......7*
Hope........................... 714
Beats AU...................4
Boston..................... 12
Just  Out.......  4X© 5
King Phillip........... 7*
Cabot........................   6X
OP........714
Dabot,  %.................. 63i
Lonsdale Cambric.. 10
Charter  Oak............5 H
7J4|Lonsdale.
Conway W.
Middlesex.........  ©  5
Cleveland..............  6
8  No Name..................  714
Dwight Anchor—
lOak View................6
8 
shorts
Onr Own...................  514
Edwards................. 6
Pride of the W est.. .12
Empire....................   7
7t4lRosallnd...................714
Farwell..................
8 
¡Sunlight..................  414
Fruit of the  Loom
Utica  Mills..............814
Fitchvllle  .............  7
“  Nonpareil  ..10
First Prize.....  .......6
Vlnyard.................... 8*
Fruit of the Loom %.  7*
White Horse............   6
Falrmount............. 414
Full Value............. 614
Cabot.  ........ 6141 Dwight Anchor......................8
i Farwell..............—   7 -41

HALT  BLEACHED  COTTONS.

“  Rock.... 

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.  814

CANTON  FLANNEL.

6

THE  MORNING  MARKET.

Some Reflections on  the  Vegetable De­

partment. 

hi

If you can’t find what you  want  in the 
way of vegetables  and fruit  on the mar­
ket, don’t waste your  time looking for it 
elsewhere,  for you will  not  find  it,  and 
any  one  who wants  something not to be 
found on  the Grand Rapids  market ought 
to go hungry.  Everything in the way of 
vegetables is to be found here, and of the 
very  best  quality.  Potatoes  head 
the 
list, of  course,  as  they  are  justly  con­
sidered  the one  indispensable vegetable. 
That they are somewhat scarce yet is not 
the fault of the growers but  of  the  sea­
son,  which is  a  backward  one,  but  the 
tubers which  are every  morning  offered 
for  sale  are  as  fine  in  quality  as  the 
finest, good enough for  the  most  fastid­
ious  epicure  in  the  land,  and  are  the 
equal of any and  the  superior of most of 
the imported  stock,  even  the  celebrated 
Bermudas.  Western  Michigan  should 
raise even  more  potatoes than  she  does. 
Soil and climate  are both  congenial,  and 
there is no reason why  “ Michigan  pota- 
toes”  should  not  head  the  procession,  j 
When  will Michigan  farmers  awaken  to 
their  privileges  and  opportunities,  stop 
raising  fifty  cent  wheat  altogether  and j 
take  to raising  more fifty cent potatoes? j 
They certainly cannot compete  with  the 1 
West  in  the  matter  of  wheat  raising, 
while their chances are  even, to  say  the j 
least, for successful  and  profitable pota­
to  culture.  There  is more money in  po­
tatoes  at 25 cents a bushel than  there  is 
in  wheat at 50 cents a  bushel,  by a large 
majority.  The  farmer  who  recognizes 
this truth and  raises more  potatoes  and 
less  wheat  will  come out  laps ahead of 
his neighbors.  The early  bird may  lose 
his tail  feathers,  but  he’ll get there just 
the same,  is as true now  as it  was  when 
it  was  first  uttered  thousands  of years 
ago.

What vegetable comes next to  the  po­
tato  in  point of  popularity, do you sup­
pose?  What but the succulent and odor­
iferous onion?  Western Michigan onions 
are declared to be fully  equal to  the  fa­
mous Spanish  variety;  at  least they are 
warranted to give you a breath that must 
be pulled with a  corkscrew and to  sever 
two fond and loviug  hearts as quickly as 
any  grown  on  this  sublunary  sphere. 
“Two souls  with  but  a  single  thought, 
two  breaths  that  smell  as  one,”  is the 
blissful conditiou guaranteed to  him and 
her  who  will  use  Western  Michigan 
onions in quantum suff.  Onions are fast 
becoming an important item in  the prod­
ucts of the farms  of this  section.  Their 
commercial  value  is undoubted  and un­
disputed,  but their  therapeutic  value  is 
only  beginning  to be recognized.  They 
are  a  comparatively  hard crop  to raise, 
as, if it is  intended to  put  early  onions 
upon  the  market, they  must  be started 
not later than August and  cared for dur­
ing the winter. 
It pays,  however,  as the 
price of early ripe onions is usually high. 
Of  course,  you  can  get  all  the  green 
onions on the market you may want.

Turnips and beets  are also  very  “pop­
ular”  vegetables,  and  are  found  in  al­
most  unlimited  quantity  on the market. 
Turnips are a  wholesome  and nutritious 
article of diet,  but they make poor flavor­
ing for milk, of  which  fact  some  milk­
men do not seem to be aware,  and board­
inghouse keepers are warned against im­
posing  too  often  on  the  long-suffering 
patience  of  their  boarders  by  making

“ 
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Amoskeag..................12
9oz.......14
brown .14
Andover................... 1114
Beavercreek  AA...10 
B B...  9
“ 
CC—
“ 
Boston Mfg Co.  br..  7 
“ 
bine  814 
“  d a  twist 1014 
“ 

Columbian XXX br.10 
XXX  bl.19

“ 
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Columbian  brown.. 12
Everett, blue............1214
brown........ 1214
Haymaker bine.........7X
brown...  7X
Jaffrey.......................1114
Lancaster  ................12)4
Lawrence. 9 oz.........13)4
No. 220___ 13
No. 250-----1114
No. 280... 1014

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GINGHAMS.

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staples.  6

Persian dress 6* 

Amoskeag.................   5  Lancaster,  staple..  5
fancies—   7
Normandie
Lancashire..............   6
Manchester.............   5X
Monogram —   .......614
Normandie.............  7
Persian.....................  7
Renfrew Dress.........714
Rosemont.................614
Slatersville .............6
Somerset..........   ....  7
Tacoma  ...................714
Toil  du Nord..........  814
Wabash....................  714
seersucker..  714
Warwick.................  6
Whittenden.............   8
heather dr.  714 
indigo blue  9 
Wamsutta staples...  6X
Westbrook...............   8
..............10
Wlndermeer............ 5
York  ........................6X

Canton ..  7 
AFC.........f *
Teazle... 1014 
Angola. .1014 
Persian..  7
Arlington staple —   6*
Arasapha  fancy  ...  4X 
Bates Warwick dres  7)4 
Centennial................1014
Criterion  ..................1014
Cumberland staple.  514
Cumberland...............5
Essex..........................414
Elfin.........................   714
Everett classics...... 814
Exposition.................7X
Glenarie...................  6*
Glenarven..................6X
Glenwood.................. 714
Hampton.................... 5
Johnson Uhalon cl 
14 
Indigo blue 9)4 
zephyrs— 16

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GRAIN  BAGS.

Amoskeag..............  .13  ¡Georgia.....................1314
Stark...........................17 
American..................13 
Clark’s Mile End... .45  IBarbour s .................95
Coats’, J. & P ...........45 Marshall's................... 90
Holyoke.................... 22141

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THREADS.

No.

KNITTING  COTTON.

6  ..
8...
10...
11...

White.  Colored.
38 No.  14... ...37
...38
“ 
16...
39
18... ...39
40
“ 
“  20... __40
41
CAMBRICS.

White.  Colored
42
43
44
45

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

Slater........................   4  Edwards...
White Star........   ..  4  Lockwood
Kid Glove  ...............4  Wood’s ....
Newmarket  ............  4  Brunswick

RED  FLANNEL.

Fireman...................3214
Creedmore...............27*
Talbot XXX............ 30
Nameless.................2714

T W..............
FT  .............
J R F, XXX. 
Buckeye —

MIXED  FLANNEL.

2214
.8214
.35
3214

DOMET  FLANNEL.

Red & Blue,  plaid.  40
Union R ...................2214
Windsor...... .............1814
6 oz Western............20
Union  B .................. 2214
Nameless.......8  © 9141 
.......814010  I 

Grey SR W  .............17*
Western W  ............ -.1814
D R  P ........................1814
Flushing XXX.........23M
Manitoba..................23)4
©1014
1214
Black.
10*
1114
12
20

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Slate

1014«X12

9

Black.9*1014

Brown.
1014
1U4
12
20

20
West  Point, 8 oz —  10H 
10oz  ...12*
Raven, lOoz.............13*
............1314
Stark 
Boston, 10 os...........12*

“ 
CANVASS  AND  PADDING.
Brown.
Slate.
914
914
1014
1014
1114
1114
1114
1214
1214
1214
DUCKS.
Sevoren, 80Z.
914 
May land, 8 oz 
10X
Greenwood, 714 o*..  914 
.11* 
Greenwood, 8 01 
■ 10*
Boston, 8 oz.......
WADDINGS.
25  I Per bale. 40 doz__ 63  50
.20  ¡Colored  “ 
.......... 7  50
SILESIAS.
. 8 
Pawtucket................10*
Dundle  .....................  9
.  9 
.10* 
B edford...................10*
Valley  City..............10*
. 12*  
KK  ...........................  10*
•  7* 
. 8*

White, doz.. 
Colored,  doz
Slater, Iron Cross. 
“  Red Cross..
Best...........
“ 
11 
Best  A A ...
L.............................
G...............
Cortlcelll, do*..........85  [Cortlcelli  knitting,

SEWING  SILK.

“ 

twist,doz..40 
50yd,doz..40  I
HOOKS AND STBS— PER GROSS.

per *01  ball  .......30

“  
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2 
3 

|No  4 Bl’k A White..15
No  1 Bl’k & Whlte.,10 
..20
..12 
“ 8 
“  
“ 
..25
..12  I “ 10 
No 2—20, M C.......... 60  INo 4—15  J   3 * .........40
‘  3—18, S C ............45  I
No  2 White A Bl’k..12  INo  8 White A Bl’k.,20 
.28
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PINS.

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6 

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COTTON  TAPE.
-15  “ 10 
..18  I “ 12 
SAFNTT  PINS.
.........28  INo8.
NEEDLES—PER  X .

A. James.................. 1 401 Steamboat.................  40
Crowely’s................. 1  85 Gold  Eyed................ 1 50
Marshall’s ................1 (»¡American.................. 1  00
15—4....1  65  6—4...2 80
5—«  ...  1  75  6—4... 

TABLE  OIL  CLOTH.

No 8

.38

COTTO NT WINES.

Cotton Sail Twine..28
Crown......................12
Domestic.................18*
Anchor....................16
Bristol..................... 13
Cherry  Valley.........15
I X L ......................... 18*
Alabama.....................6X
Alamance.................t*
Angusta.....................7*
Ar- sapha................. 6
Georgia.......................6*
Granite......................5X
Haw  River..............  5
Haw  J .................   5

7‘ 

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

Mount  Pleasant__ 6*
Oneida......................  6
Prymont  .................  5X
Randelman..............  6
Riverside.................  5*
Sibley  A .................. 6*
Toledo  ....................
OtUchecks... 

....  7X

PLAID  OSNABUBGB

SEEDS!

Everything  in  seeds is kept by  us—  

Clover, Timothy,

Hungarian,  Millet,

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

If you  have  Beans  to  sell,  send  us 
samples,  stating  quantity,  and  we 
will  try  to  trade  with  you.  We are 
headquarters  for  egg cases  and  egg 
case  tillers.
W. T. LIMBREiUX CO..¿“aSS/K

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

A NEW IDEA

You  will  remember  that  Goliah  was 
very much surprised when David hit him 
with a stone.  He  said  that such a thing 
had  never '¿entered  hie  head  before.  A 
good many retail grocers are in  the same 
predicament  as  Goliah  was  before  he 
rubbed  up  against  David—they  have 
never gotten acquainted with the  merits 
of the best selling brand of  soap  on  the 
market. 
It  is  called  ATLAS  and  is 
manufactured only by
H E N R Y   P A S S O L T ,

SAGINAW,  MICH.

EATON, LION & CO.

NEW  STYLES  OF

20 &  22  Monroe  St.,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

Avoid  the
Gdrse  of  Credit 
COUPO N

BY  USING

#

BOOKS

THREE  GRADES*.

Tradesman,
Superior,
Universal.

Manufactured only by

TRADESMAN  COnPANY,

Grand Rapids,  Mich.

**

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Unbleached.
----05%
...5 *
B  ...
C ,... ....6
D ... • -..6*
E  ... __ 7
F  ...
G  ... . . . 7*
H  ... ----7X
I  ...
J  ... ...  8*1
9*
K  ...
.10
...1014 
...It 
...21 
...1414
CABPET  WARP. 
— 17
Peerless, white.
colored — 19 
Integrity...................1814
Hamilton 
...............8
...................9
 
G G  Cashmere........ 20
Nameless  ................16
.................18

DRESS  GOODS.

1014

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HUUoCW IX t? 

Bleached.
• -
R ...
s ...
T ...
U ...
V ....
w ...
X ...
Y ...
z ....

....7
----7X
....8 *
....9 *
...10
.lox
...11*
...12*
...13*

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Integrity  colored... 18
White Star...............17
“  colored  .19
.......20
.......25
....2714
....30
....8214
....35

CORSETS.

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CORSET  JEANS.

robes............  514
pink a purple 514 
buffs 
... —   514 
pink  checks.  514
staples  .........  5
shirtings 
..  314 
American  fancy —   5*
American Indigo...  414 
American shirtings.  3X|Hamilton fancy. 
,  
Argentine  Grays...  6 
Anchor Shirtings...  4 
“  —   6
Arnold 
Arnold  Merino. . . .   6 
long cloth B .  9 
“ 
“  C.  714
“ 
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century cloth 7
“ 
gold seal.......1014
“  green seal TRIO*
“  yellow  seal.. 1014
“ 
serge..............1114
“  Turks./ red.. 1014 
“ 

.64 50 
Wonderful.
Coralino....................... 69 60
4 75
Brighton..
Schilling's.....................9 00
Bortree’s ...............  9 00
Davis  Waists___   9 00
Abdominal............15 00
Grand  Rapids.........4 50
Armory....................  634|Nanmkeag satteen..  714
Androscoggin..........7)4 Rockport......................614
Biddefora...............   6  Conestoga  .................714
Brunswick...............6141 Walworth  .................. 63£
PRINTS.
5*iBerwlck fancies—   514
Allen turkey  reds
Clyde  Robes 
Charter Oak fancies 4 
DelMarlne cashm’s.  514 
mourn’g  514 
Eddystone  fancy...  5* 
chocoiat  514 
rober  ...  514 
sateens..  514 
514
staple  ...  514 
Manchester  fancy..  5* 
new era. 514 
Merrimack D fancy.  514 
Merrim'ck shirtings.  4 
“  Repp furn .  8K
Pacific fancy...........514
“ 
robes.............  6
Portsmouth robes...  614 
Simpson mourning.. 5X
greys.........5%
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solid black.  5 \  
Washington indigo.  014 
Turkey robes..  7*
India robes__ 714
plain T ky X X  814 
“  X...10
Ottoman  Tur­
key red....................614
Martha Washington 
TurkeyredX.......714
Martha  Washington
Turkey red...........   914
Rlverpolnt robes....  514
I Windsor fancy........ 614
I  Indigo  Dine.......... 1014
¡Harmony.................  414
AC A ......................1114
Pemberton AAA— 16
York......................... 1014
Swift River  ............714
Pearl  River.............12
Warren.....................1214
Conostoga.............. 16
...............8
..............7 ¡Top of Heap..................9

Amoskeag A C A
Hamilton N  ...........   1
D............. 8
Awning..11
Farmer  ....................8
First  Prise...............10J4
Lenox M ills............18
Atlanta,  D ...............   SMlStark  A 
Boot......................... .  6* No  Name............   ..  714
Clifton, K 

red and  orange  ..  6 
.........514
all blue..
“  green ....  6
“ 
“  Foulards  ...  5: 
red X —  
“ 
7
“  “  X .............9
“ 
“  4 4 
.........10
*• 
“  34XXXX 12
Oocheeo fancy........ 5
“  madders...  5 
“  X Xtwills..  5
solids........ 5

Ballon solid black..
colors.
Bengal blue,  greco, 
Berlin solids 

TICKINGS.
-1114

gold  ticket

COTTON  DRILL.

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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

7

pumpkin pies out of turnips.  Otherwise 
turnips are good.  Beets are  good,  also; 
they make good greens,  if you take them 
early enough in their career before Time 
has aged and hardened them  as  he  does 
the  rest  of us  who may not (?) be beets; 
but beets are good in  all  stages  of  their 
existence,  as everybody  knows.

Is celery a  vegetable?  This  deponent 
does  not  know,  but he knows that enor­
mous  quantities  of 
it  are  sold  every 
morning on the  market.  Hotels,  board­
inghouses  and  private  families  ail  buy 
celery,  and our own farmers  are  raising 
it for them,  too.  The Kalamazoo variety 
of apiurn graveolens is not a  whit  better 
than is raised here at home.

“Two  heads  are  better than one,” es- 
specially if you refer to  Western  Michi­
gan cabbage.  Nowhere is  this desirable 
esculent seen in larger quantities,  greater 
variety or better quality than on the early 
morning market,  and in no town  in  Mich­
igan does it receive more appreciative at­
tention.  Cabbage,  corned beef  and  tur­
nips go far toward  smoothing  down  the 
rugged  paths  of  life,  and  making  the 
road  to our final  resting  place  easy  and 
pleasant.  And  withal  what  visions they 
do  conjure up,  especially  in  the  night, 
when we have  nothing to do  but see vis­
ions!  Great is cabbage  and corned  beef 
is its correlative!

Carrots,  too, occupy a prominent place 
on the morning market, and  in  the  com­
mercial  and  domestic  economy  of  the 
community.  They  have a  value outside 
their various  uses  as an  edible,  for with 
them  pale,  sickly-looking,  half-starved 
dairy butter is transformed into the rich 
yellow-colored,  and  altogether  desirable 
creamery article at a material  advance in 
price.  But it is in  contributing itself as 
a constituent  element  to  soup  that  the 
carrot  finds  its  chiefest  pleasure  and 
principal  avocation, 
though  there  are 
many other ways in  which it  delights  to 
serve its admirers and friends,  and in all 
it is heartily  appreciated.  There are no 
better carrots  raised  anywhere  than  in 
this section of the Wolverine State.

Then  there  is  the  cucumis  sntivus 
the deadly cucumber,  in  league with the 
doctors  and  the  undertakers;  innocent 
looking and enticing, yet containing more 
colic and cholera  infantum to the square 
inch  than all other things  on the market 
combined.  Let  them  alone  unless  you 
are copper-lined,  or  the  cucumbers  are 
pickled and  have their sting pulled.  The 
quantity used is truly amazing when one 
considers  their  disreputable  character 
and the danger  attending  their use,  and 
is only to be accounted  for on the princi 
pie that both vice  and danger possess at 
tractions for the  human  race.  Anyway 
they  fill  a  large place in  public esteem 
and the finest in the world are to be found 
on the Grand Rapids market.

In 

the 

appears, 

that  by  adding 

their  strength  could  be 

the  Old  Testament;  but  the  Hebrew 
words used in the passages  (Jeremiah  ii. 
22,  and  Malachi  iii,  2)  are  stated  by 
to  refer  to  vegetable  and 
authorities 
mineral  lyes,  i.  e.,  potash  and  soda  in 
some  form. 
time  of  Homer, 
washing of clothes was  effected  without 
the use of soap,  as he tells how Nausicaa 
and  her  attendants  washed  clothes  by 
stamping  them  with  their  feet  in  pits 
filled with water.
juices  of  plants 
In  time,  however, 
were  used as detergents  and also natural 
;oda and  wood ashes;  Paulus /Eg in a  had 
iscovered 
lime  to 
alkalies 
in­
creased.  Fuller’s  earth  was,  however, 
the principal agent used  for  washing  in 
ancient times,  the fuller’s  art being due, 
to  one  Nicias,  the  son  of 
Hermais.  At  one  time  fuller’s  earth, 
found of a superior  quality  in  Stafford- 
hire,  Bedfordshire,  and  other  counties 
of  England,  was considered so indispens­
able  for  the  dressing  of  cloth  that  to 
revent foreigners from rivaling  English 
fabrics,  it was made  a  contraband  com­
modity  and its exportation  made equally 
criminal  with  the  heinous  and  wicked 
export of  wool.
The Gauls made a  soap  out  of  goat’s 
uet  and  beech wood  ashes,  aud  used 
t for dying the hair red. 
It  is supposed 
that this soap  was  an oily  mixture  used 
also as a salve in  eruptions  of  the  skin 
and similar diseases.  The Arabs  used a 
alve-like  product  obtained  by  mixing 
olive  oil  and  lye,  for  affections  of  the 
kin,  as well as  for  household purposes.
As a detergent,  soap is  first mentioned 
by authors of  the  second  century  after 
Christ.  The 
physician, 
jalenus, speaks of it as  a  detergent,  as 
well as a medicament,  and  considers the 
German soap as the best,  and  the  Gallic 
as next best.
The next we hear of  soap  was  in  the 
ninth century,  made in  Marseilles.
Till Chevreul’s classical  researches on 
fatty  bodies 
it  was 
believed that soap consisted simply  of  a 
binary  compound  of  fat  and  alkali. 
Claude J.  Goeffray  in  1741,  pointed  out 
that the fat  or  oil  recovered  from  soap 
solution  by neutralization  with a mineral 
acid differs from the  original  fatty  sub­
stance by dissolving  readily  in  alcohol, 
which is not the case  with  ordinary  fats 
and  oils.  The  significance  of  this  ob­
servation  was  overlooked;  and  equally 
unheeded  was  a  no  less  important  dis­
covery  by Scheele in  1783:  In  preparing 
lead  plaster  by  boiling  olive  oil  with 
oxide  of 
little  water—a 
process palpably analogous to that of the 
soap  boiler—he  obtained  a  sweet  sub­
stance, which. called by himself “Oelsuss” 
(sweet principle of oil),  is now known as 
glycerin.  The  discoveries  of  Goeffray 
and  Scheele 
the  basis  of 
Cbevreul’s  researches  by  which  he  laid 
bare the constitution of  oils and  fats aud 
the true nature of soap.
From the first part of  this century  up 
to  the  present  time,  soap  making  has 
been  advancing,  but  it  is  not  to  its 
highest point  yet,  and  we  must  try  to 
make  as  good  a  showing  in 
the  next 
twenty-five years as has been don^in  the 
past.

lead  and  a 

celebrated 

to  1823) 

formed 

(1811 

Use Tradesman Coupon Books.

Hardware Price Cnrrent.

AUGURS AND BITS. 

As for the fruit—but  there  is so much 

of it and it is so  good that it  deserves 
better  place  than  the  tail end of an  ar 
tide  on  vegetables.

All the vegetables in the calendar,  and 
some not found therein,  are  to  be  seen 
any morning on the market, even to kail 
so suggestive of home and heather to any 
stray native of faraway,  bonnie Scotia.

These  prices are  for cash.  buyers,  who 
pay promptly  and  buy in  full  packages.
dls.
Snell’s ..............................................................   80&10
40
Cook’s ............................................................... 
Jennings’, genuine............................
25
.......... 
Jennings’, Imitation.........................
.......... 50*10
.......... * 6 50
First, Quality, 8. B. Bronze...............
..........   i* 00
D.  B. Bronze...............
.  .......  7  50
3. B. 3. Steel...............
..........  13 50
D. B. Steel...................
Railroad.................................................*12 00  14 00
Garden  ....................................................   net  30 00
dls.
bolts. 
50*10
Stove......................................... 
H istory o f th e M anufacture o f S oap .
Carriage new list 
........................................... 75*10
From  the American Soap Journal.
Plow ...................................................................40*10
If  we  inquire  into  the  origin  of  the 
Sleigh shoe........................................................ 
70
manufacture  of  soap,  we  find  that  a 
Well,  plain  .......................................................»850
detergent  corresponding  to  our  soap  is 
Well, swivel...........................................................   4 00
not mentioned by any  writer  before  the 
dls. 
Christian era. 
it is  frequently  asserted
70*10
Cast Loose Pin, figured.
that soap  was  know n  to  the  authors  of j Wrought Narrow, bright saat Joint  40........ 66*10

D a n ie l.  A b b o t t.

BUTTS, CAST.

BUCKETS.

B A R R O W S .

AXS0.

“ 
1 
1 

dls.

 

Wrought Loose Pin............................................   40
Wrought Table...................................................   40
 
Wrought Inside Blind......., ................ 
  40
Wrought Brass................................................. 
75
Blind,  Clark’s ...................................................70*16
Blind,  Parker’s ................................................. 70*10
Blind, Shepard’s 
70

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

Ordinary Tackle, list April  1893..................00*10

 

 

Grain..................................................................4 »*10

CRADLES.

CROW BARS.

<50
35
80

50
35

Cast Steel.................................................per B> 
Ely’s 1-10 
Hick’s  C. F 
...........................................  
“ 
G. I>............................................................  
“ 
...........................................   “ 
Musket 

CAPS.
 

5

CARTSinOBS.

Him  (fire........................................................... 
Central  Fire.................................................dls. 

chisels. 

dls.

Socket F irm er...................................................75*10
Socket Fram ing................................................ 75*16
Socket Corner....................................................75*10
Socket Slicks....................................................75*10
Butchers’ Tanged  Firm er..............................  
40

combs. 

dis.

40
Curry,  Lawrence's..........................................  
H otchkiss.........................................................  
25
White Crayons, per  gross........... . ,12® 12*  dls. 10

CHALK.
COPPER.

“ 

Planished, 14 os 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 Shauk..............................  
Morse’s Taper Shank....................................... 

DRILLS. 

diS.

38
26
23
23
22
50
50
50

DRIPPING PANS.

Small sizes, ser p o u n d ...................................   8*
Large sizes, per  pound...................................  
06
Com. 4  piece, 6 In...............................d»i. net 
75
Corrugated.................................................. dis 
40
Adjustable................................................... 11». 40*10

BI.BOW8.

EXPANSIVE BITS. 

dls.

piles—New List. 

Clark’s, small, 818;  large, 126........................ 
30
35
Ives’, 1, *18:  2, *24;  3,*30............................... 
D isston's.......................................................60*10-10
New American  .  ........................................60*10-10
Nicholson’s ................................................. 60*10-10
Heller’s
Heller’s Horse Rasps  .....................................  
E

dls.

GALVANIZED IRON.

HAMMERS.
 

 

dls.

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

dls. 

hinges.

HANGERS. 

hollow wars.

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS.

May dole  A Co.’s ...........................................dis.  2-
Kip’s ................................. 
2f-
Yerkes *  Plumb’s .....................................dls. 40*1»
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel...........................30c list 6<i
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steel  Hand__ 30c 40*1"
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2, 3 .................................. dis.60*l<»
State...............................................per doz.  net, 2 5->
Screw Hook  and  Strap, to 12  in. 4*  14  and
longer  ...........................................................  
8*
Screw Hook and  Bye, * ............................net
9i.............................net  8*
“ 
Si.............................net  7*4
“ 
% .............................net  7S
“ 
Strap and T ...................................................dls.  F"
perm 05
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track__ 50&5C
Champion,  anti friction................................  80*l’.i
Kidder, wood tra c k ......................................... 
40
Pots  ....................................................................30*11
Kettles..............................................................   60*lo
Spiders  ...............................................................60*11'
Gray enam eled........................................... 
40*10
Stamped  Tin W are...........................new list 7
Japanned Tin W are........................................  
25
Granite Iron W are........................new Us 
2*
Bilght........ ...............................................  70*10410
Screw  Byes................................................. 70*10*10
70*10*10
Hook's
Gate Hooks and Eyes............
70*10*10
<Us.7o
LEVELS.
Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s 
Sisal, *  Inch and larger.................. ......
Manilla  ...........................................................
Steel and  Iro n ...............................................
Try and Bevels......................................
Mitre................................................................
Com.  Smooth.
Nos. 10 to  14........................................ 13 so
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 75
wide not less than 2-10 extra
List acct. 19, ’86  ........................................dls. 
Sliver Lake, White A .................................list 
Drab A ....................................  “ 
White  B ..................................   1 
Drab B.....................................  “ 
White C .................................. “ 

7
01dls.
7E&10
*'•
20
Com 
•?  50 
3 69 
2  70 
2 80
2  90
3 00
All  sheets No. 18  and  lighter,  over 80  inches 

wire goods. 

50
50
55
50
55
10

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

SAND PAPER.

SHEET  ir o n .

BASE OORD.

SqUARKS.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

r o p e s.

dls.

Discount, 10.

15 

13 

12 

dls.

dlS.

NAILS

MATTOCKS.

LOCKS—DOOR. 

Discount, 60 -10

MAULS. 
MILLS. 

KOLA BBSS GATES. 

5
1
dls.
dls.

Nos.  16  to  20;  22  and  24;  25  and  36;  27 
List 
16 

14 
GAUGES. 
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s
knob»—New List. 
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings  ....
Door,  porcelain, jap. trimmings 
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings
Door,  porcelsln, trimmings.........................
Drawer  and  Shutter, porcelain...................
Russell *  Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new list  .......... 
55
Mallory, Wheeler & Co.’s ..............................  
55
55
Branford’s ........................................................ 
Norwalk’s ......................................................... 
55
Adze Bye........................................*16.00, dls. 60-10
Hunt Bye....................................... *15.00, dls. 60-10
Hunt’s ..........................................»18.50, dls. 20*10.
dlS.
50
Speiry *  Co.’s, Post,  handled........................ 
dls.
40
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s ....................................... 
'*  P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleable*__  
46
Landers,  Ferry *  Cls rk’s ................... 
40
“  Enterprise 
......................................... 
80
Stobbln’s Pattern..............................................60*10
Stebbln's Genuine............................................  86*10
Enterprise, self-measuring............................. 
25
Advance over  base,  on  both  Steel  and Wire.
Steel nails, Dase..................................................140
Wire nails, base.................................................. 1  40
60......................................................... Base 
Base
50...........................................................  
10
40...........................................................  
25
80...........................................................  
25
35
20........................................................... 
45
16...........................................................  
12...........................................................  
45
50
10........................................................... 
60
8............................................................. 
7 * 6 ......................................................  
76
90
4...............................  
8............................................................. 
1  20
2............................................................  
1  60
FlneS............................................................ 
65
Case  10................................................. 
8................................................. 
75
90
6................................................. 
75
Finish 10............................................... 
8...............................................  
90
6...............................................  
1  10
Clinch! 10.............................................. 
70
8............................................. 
80
on
n 
Barrell K 
1 75
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy...................................   040
Sclota Bench................................................. 
®50
Sandusky Tool  Co.’E, fancy...........................   ©40
Bench, first quality..........................................  040
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s  wood............ 50*10
Fry,  Acme.................................................dis.60—10
Common,  polished................................... dls. 
70
dls.
Iron and  Tinned..............................................50—10
Copper Rivets and Burs.................................. 50—10

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“ 
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planes. 

rivets. 

FANS.

dls.

 

 

PATENT PLANISHED IRON.

"A” Wood’s patent planished. Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
“B” Wood’s  pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27...  9 20 
i  Broken packs Vie per ponnd extra.

SASH  WEIGHTS.

dls.

SAWS. 

TRAPS.

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

“ 
Silver Steel Dla. X Cuts, per foot,___  
“  Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot__  
“  Special Steel Dla. X Cuts, per foot__  
“ 
champion  and  Electric  Tooth  x  
Cuts,  per  foot..........................................

Solid Eyes................................................ per ton KB
20
70
50
30
30
Steel, Game........................................................ 60*10
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ................. 
35
Oneida  Community, Hawley a Norton’s __  
70
Monse,  choker....................................... 18c per doz
Mouse, delusion..................................*1.50 per doz
dls.
Bright Market...................................................  70
Annealed Market............................................. 70—10
Coppered Market..............................................60—10
Tinned Market.................................................  62*
Coppered  Spring  Steel...................................  
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized.................................   2 70
painted........................................  2 30

wire. 

dls.

“ 

HORSE NAILS.

WRENCHES. 

40*10
An  Sable................................................dls. 
dls.  05
Putnam.............................................. 
Northwestern................................... 
dls. 10*10
dls.
Baxter’s  Adjustable, nickeled...................... 
80
Coe’s  Genuine................................................. 
50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,......................  75
Coe’s  Patent, malleable.................................. 75416
Bird Cages 
50
 
Pomps, Cistern..................................... 
75*10
Screws, New List.................................70A1( *10
Casters, Bed a  d  Plate...................... 50*10*10
40
Dampers, American......................................... 
ForkB, boes, rakes  and all steel goods.........65*10

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

MISCELLANEOUS. 

dig.

 

METALS,

FIG TIN.

 

26c

ZINC.

6*
7

SOLDER.

Pig  Large.........................................................  
Pig Bars.................................................  
28c
Duty:  Sbeet, 2*c per pound.
660 pound  casks.............................. 
Per ponnd......................................................... 
H O * .........................................................................16
Extra W iping......................................................  15
The  prices  of  tbe  many  other  qualities  of 
solder In the market Indicated by private  brands
vary according to composition.
1 60
Cookson...........................................per  pound
Hallett’s ..........
10x14 IC, Charcoal............. ..............................*
14x20 IC, 
............................................
10x14 IX, 
............................................
14x20 IX, 
............................................

TIN—MELYN GRADE.

18
7 50 
7  50 
9 26 
9 2!

Each additional X on this grade, 11.75.

ANTIMONY

“ 
“ 
“ 
TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE.
“ 
“ 
** 

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

Each additional X on this grade (1.50.

75 
6 75
8 25
9 25

ROOFING PLATES
Worcester............................

“  Worcester..................................  6 56
“ 
“ 
“  Allsway  Grade................. 
“ 
“ 
BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE.

14x20 IC, 
14x20 EX, 
20x28 IC, 
14x2010, 
14x20 IX, 
20X28 IC, 
20x28 IX, 
14x28 IX .................................................................. *14 00
14x31  EX..................................................................  15 00
14x56 IX, for No. 8 Bollen, l 
14X60IX.  "  “  9 

.............................  8 50
...........................   18  50
6  00
7  50
12  50
15  50

mnnd 
f P8T P«nnfl-

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10 00

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Best  Interests  of  Business  Men.

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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.

WEDNESDAY.  At'GUST  1, 1894.

UTILITY  OF  SHIP  C A NALS.

While the present is pre-eminently the 
age  of  railways,  it  is  also  the  age  of 
canals;  but the canal of to-day is  a  very 
different affair from  the canal  of  a  cen­
tury ago.

The object of  the  canal  of  the  olden 
time was  to  furnish  internal  routes  of 
transportation.  That  business  to-day, 
except  where natural  interior waterways 
already exist and are readily  susceptible 
of improvement,  is left  to  the  railways. 
The canal  of the present day is  intended 
to connect by  direct water  routes,  seas, 
lakes  and  great  rivers,  which  lie  near 
each other,  but  are  separated  by  tracts 
of land.  When a canal  is  made  in  this 
age it is  to  enable  vessels  carrying car­
goes to sail  right along from  one  sea  or 
lake or river to another  without  unload­
ing  or  transhipping  any  part  of  their 
freight,  and at the same time  by  pursu­
ing a direct and short  route,  save  the de 
lay and expense of  long  circuitous  voy­
ages.

The Suez ship  canal  is  the  most  dis­
tinguished example of this sort of direct­
ness in  water  routes. 
Instead  of  being 
forced  to circumnavigate the entire  con­
tinent of Africa and  much of Asia,  ships 
pass through the  canal,  which  conuects 
the  Mediterranean  and  Red  Seas,  and 
sail  through  a  hemisphere  which  once 
they  were compelled by  long and danger­
ous  voyages  to  sail  around.  For  the 
lack of a ship  way  through  the  narrow 
American isthmus,  it is necessary  to  cir­
cumnavigate the  whole of  South  Amer­
ica  in  order  that  vessels  may  proceed 
from Atlantic ports of North  America to 
those on  the  Pacific  coast.  The  neces­
sity for such  a canal is obvious  to  every 
great commercial  nation  possessing  any 
shipping and  carrying  any  considerable 
commerce, and  France came near supply­
ing the need  and possibly may  do so yet, 
since  some - effort  is  being  made  by  a 
French company to take  up  the  scheme 
again.  England does not need an Ameri­
can  inter-oceanic canal,  from  the fact  of 
being  already  the  possessor of the Suez 
canal. But for this England would quickly 
build the Nicaragua canal  and  may do so I 
yet rather than let the enterprise go beg- 
ging.

If the United States had any  consider­
able amount of shipping engaged  in  for­
eign  trade,  or  any  foreign  colonies  to 
protect,  such  a  canal  would  long  ago 
have been  a most  imperative  necessity; 
but  the  policy  of  the  government  has 
long been opposed  to  acquiring  or  pro­
tecting  interests  abroad.  Destitute  of 
merchant ships it  becomes  necessary  to 
entrust the carrying of  ail  foreign  com­
merce  of  this  vast  country  to  foreign 
bottoms.

rttK   MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.
in  doing  justice  to  all,  irrespective  of 
condition.  That  there  were  claims  of 
long  standing  against  Mr.  Pullman  in 
this city  was  possible,  although  highly 
improbable,  and  especially 
incredible 
was it that  he had  allowed  a  claim  for 
house rent to outlaw and then refused to 
pay. 
It appears from  the  statements of 
Messrs. Comstock and Foote  that George 
M.  Pullman  never  resided  in  this  city, 
which  effectually  disposes  of one claim. 
Whether or not  the other  claims,  which 
it  is  alleged  are held by several parties 
against  Mr.  Pullman,  have  any  better 
foundation  is  known  only to  those who 
hold them,  as they  have  never been pro­
duced nor have any  particulars  concern­
ing  them  been  made  public. 
In  other 
words,  they  lack  confirmation. 
It  ap­
pears to be sufficient,  in  these  days,  for 
a man  to acquire wealth  to make him the 
target for the shafts of calumny,  vituper­
ation and  falsehood, and George M.  Pull­
man seems to be  paying the  penalty  for 
the  crime  of  being rich.  But what can 
be said of those men in  public  life  who 
are  willing  to lend themselves and their 
names to the shady business of maligning 
the character of any  man  simply to  gain 
the  favor  and  good  will  of  the  dema­
gogues  who  control  the  labor  organiza­
tions?

Possessing no colonies  and  controlling 
no country out-ide of the  immediate ter­
ritory limits of the  union,  there  are  no 
great interests to defend,  while  the  pol­
icy  which  has  been  adopted  of  submit­
ting all  our  international  controversies 
to arbitration by  European powers, guar­
antees shat  the United  States will never 
have a  foreign  war.  With  this  view of 
the situation  it  becomes  apparent  that 
the United States needs a navy  no  more 
than 
it  needs  any  merchant  vessels. 
Committing its commerce and  its  public 
defense entirely into  the  hands  of  for­
eign  people  and  foreign  powers,  it  is 
easy to see that the United States  is  the 
last nation in  the  world  that  seems  to 
have  auy 
interest  in  an  inter-oceanic 
canal,and unless indications shall change, 
it is not likely that it will take any active 
steps  in  the  matter.  T h e  T r a d e sm a n 
strongly believes that the  United  States 
ought to  build  up  and  cherish  a  great 
mercantile marine to carry  its commerce, 
and it  believes that  this  nation  ought to 
be able to defend  itself  and  assert itself 
on every proper occasion,  and  it believes 
^hat an  inter-oceanic canal  through  the 
American isthmus is as necessary for the 
commerce  of this  country as it is for the 
public defense.  But, unfortunately,  such 
views are not supported by  Congress.

In a twenty-line  article  in  its  Satur­
day edition,  the Eagle of this  city  takes 
a  fling  at  the  “moneyed  men  of  the 
East,” saying,  among  other  things,  that 
“they have never been  distinguished for 
patriotism and it is improbable that they 
will  ever  be  actuated  by  any  motive 
other 
than  selfishness,  unalloyed  and 
supreme.”  The  youth  who  now  con­
trols the destinies  of  the  Eagle  is  evi­
dently too young to remember the events 
of the civil  war,  and evidently has never 
read the history  of  the  conflict. 
If  he 
had he  would  have a different opinion of 
“the moneyed men of the East.” 
It was 
largely their money that  made  the  war 
a possibility and an  ultimate success.
N ew   U se   for  th e   T elep h on e.

An event recently occurred in  Detroit, 
which appears to  confirm  the  idea  that 
courtship,  as well as most  other  things, 
will  hereafter  be  greatly  facilitated  by 
recent inventions. 
It  seems  that  there 
is a young lady residing  in  Detroit who, 
for some time,  has been the  recipient  of 
the attentions of two young  men,  one  a 
young professor  in  the  Michigan  State 
University, at Ann Arbor,  and the  other 
a  traveling  salesman  for  a  New  York 
wholesale hardware house,  whose  route 
extencfs through Michigan  aud  parts  of 
Canada.  One  day  recently  the  New 
Yorker  arrived  in  Detroit  late  in  the 
afternoon,  and,  of  course,  immediately 
started to  make  the  rounds  of  the  re­
tail  hardware dealers,  with  the  laudable 
purpose  of  selling  each  a  good  stock 
for 
repre­
sentative  of  any  rival  concern  should 
put  in  an  appearance.  He  had  hoped 
to  visit  the  object  of  his  affections  in 
the  evening,  but  business  was  brisk, 
and  8  o’clock  found  him  very  busy 
trying  to  induce  a  prominent  dealer  to 
take  six  dozen  axes,  four  dozen  grind­
stones  and  half  a  carload  of  wooden 
pails.  At  this  stage  of  the proceedings 
a  younger  brother  of  the  young  lady 
in  to  get  a  new  jack knife, 
dropped 
and  accidentally  mentioned 
the 
Ann  Arbor  professor  was  up  at  the 
house. 
to  the 
progressive  hardware  ana cutlery drum­

the  winter  before 

instantly  occurred 

that 

the 

It 

This article  was not started  in  the  in­
terest  of  the  Nicaragua  canal,  much 
as T h e T r a d e sm a n favors such a scheme, 
but  it  was  suggested  by  the  fact  that 
ship canals are so  obviously the order  of 
the  day  in  all  parts  of  the world. 
In 
Europe,  next to the Suez  canal,  the most 
notable receut  work is the Corinth canal, 
cut through the Greek peninsula,  besides 
important  channels  connecting  several 
Dutch and German  ports  with the sea by 
deep  water channels.  The cutting which 
enables cotton-laden ships from American 
ports to unload  cargoes  directly  at  the 
doors of  the cotton  mills of  Manchester, 
England,  is  one  of  the  great undertak­
ings of this sort.  The Dominion Govern­
ment of Canada is engaged  in  cutting  a 
channel  around  the  falls  of  the  Sault 
Ste.  Marie,  at the  mouth of  Lake Super­
ior, and  has spent  $54,000,000 in the  en­
largement of its  canals  connecting Lake 
Erie  above  Niagara  Falls  with  the  St. 
Lawrence River and the  Atlantic Ocean.
Thus  it  appears  that  every  country 
that has any commerce, or that desires to 
have any,  is making  every possible exer­
tion to facilitate trade and to  extend  its 
business.  The  people  of  the  United 
States  are  fond  of  boasting  of their en­
terprise,  but it is  certain  that  they  can 
learn  some  useful  lessons  from  almost 
every other  nation,  not  even  excepting 
the  small  and  weak  ones.  They  can 
certainly do so when  ship  canals are the 
theme.

Attention  is  called  to  an  article  on 
“Pullman’s Debts,”  which  will  be found | 
on another  page  of  this  journal.  The 
Tradesman is  not in any  sense an apol­
ogist for Geo.  M. Pullman, but it believes

mer  that  the  college  man  came  for  no 
other  purpose  than  to  lay  his  heart  at 
the  feet  of  the  young  lady  be  himself 
adored.  For  a  moment  there  was  a 
struggle  in  his  heart,  but  he  speedily 
got  control  of  himself  and  decided  that 
he  could  not  possibly  leave  the  store, 
as  the  dealer  was  just  on  the  point  of 
deciding  to  take  the  pails.  But  the 
thought  of  giving  up 
the  lady,  who 
had  been  for  months  constantly  in  his 
mind  waking  and  sleeping,  was unbear­
able.  Light  suddenly  dawned  upon 
him.  Handing  the  merchant  a  circular 
explaining the merits of his  new double- 
bladed  chopping  knives,  he  requested 
the use of the dealer’s telephone  for five 
minutes,  stepped to it  and  rang  up  the 
central office.  A moment later  the  tele­
phone bell  at the residence of the  young 
lady rang,  sharp and decisive.  The pro­
fessor had  been there for  an  hour  talk­
ing  pleasantly  of  the  grand  educational 
work  they  were  doing  in  the  depart­
ment  of 
fossiloiogy  at  Ann  Arbor. 
When  the  bell  rang,  the  young  lady’s 
father  being  absent  (he  is a physician), 
she  excused  herself  and  proceeded  to 
the  adjoining  room  to  answer  it.  The 
professor  heard  her  step  to  the  tele­
phone  and  say,  “yes;”  made  a  short 
pause  and  say  “yes”  again.  Then  there 
was  a  longer  pause,  and  he  heard  her 
reply: 
is
very  sudden.”  Then  there  was  a  still 
longer  pause,  and  he  heard  her  say 
“yes”  very  softly,  and  then  “good-by,” 
and  then  she  hung  up  the  receiver  aud 
came  into  the  back  room.  The  college 
man  moved  closer  to the  lady  and  re­
marked  that  it  was  a  warm  evening, 
and  he  thought  that  it  was  going  to 
rain,  and  then  resumed  his  talk  about 
the  great  work 
the  university. 
Fifteen  minutes  later  there  was  a  ring 
at 
the  front  door  bell.  The  young 
lady 
responded  to  it,  and  a  district 
messenger  boy  banded  her  a  plain gold 
ring,  which  she  slipped  on  her  finger, 
and 
“Miss 
Gratiot,”  said  the  professor,  five  min­
utes  later,  “I  want  to  ask  you  a  very 
important  question  this  evening.  Ex­
cuse  me for  putting  it  bluntly,  but  will 
you  be  my  wife?”  But  we  need  go  no 
further  with  this.  Two  minutes  later 
the  professor  went  down 
front 
steps,  and  shook  his  fist  at  the  tele­
phone  wire  and  took  the  first  train  for 
Ann  Arbor.

“ Why—why—really, 

the  parlor. 

returned 

this 

the 

to 

at 

T he S e c re t o f S u cc e ss.

The basis of success iu all occupations 
which involves the relations of employer 
and employed  is,  remarks  an  exchange, 
the  employer  should  have  an  accurate 
knowledge of the  work to be  done,  what 
it consists in,  how to do it,  and how long 
it should take.  A man of  business  who 
neglects  this  places his interest entirely 
in  the  keeping  of  irresponsible  agents 
and,  human nature being  what  it  is,  ar­
rives in due time at  insolvency.  This is 
why  the  self-made  man,  who  has been 
sternly initiated into the whole mysteries 
by having himself  stood in the  ranks  of 
the employed,  outstrips  those who seem 
to start fair from  the vantage  ground of 
education aud  capital, and builds  a  for­
tune  where  others  miserably  fail.  As 
the mistress of a  household  who neither 
knows what  a  servant’s  duties  are  nor 
how they may be fulfilled fails to manage 
her house well,  so the  man  who does not 
understand the duties of workmen placed 
under him is at the  mercy of  any decep­
tion they may be pleased to practice upon 
him with reference  to the  quality of the 
work they perform.

A  clerk  who  will  lie  to  another  by 
your instructions will also  lie  to  you of 
his own accord.

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The  Employer  and  the  ..Young  Man.  knowledge that,  in  a number of cases,  he 
“Suppose  a  young  man  has,  practi- j  is  wofully short-sighted sc far as  the  in- 

In other words: 

The challenge is a fair one.

treat their employes justly ?” 

cally,  all, or many  of  the  qualifications < terests of his employes are  concerned.
deemed necessary for a business  success. 
He  finds  himself in a congenial position, 
and he gives to it his best  energies.  Not 
only  does  he  fill  that  position,  but  he 
does  a  little  more.  He  makes  his  em­
ployer’s  interests  his 
interests.  Can 
such a young man feel  tolerably  certain 
that his work will  be  recognized  by  his 
employer ?”

There is an  impression in the minds  of 
a large number of employers that a word 
of praise or approval goes for  very  little 
in a business.  Some go so far  as  to  be­
lieve that it holds absolutely no  place  in 
the commercial  world.  An  “increase of 
salary”  is what men want,  these employ­
ers say.  Now, I beg to differ  with  these 
gentlemen.  For  many  years  I  was  an
“Are  employers,  as  a  rule,  ready  to j employe,  going  the  range  of  office-boy, 
j  copyist, 
steno-
Among the hundreds  of  letters  which  grapher and department  manager.  Lat- 
have reached me in regard to  my  article  terly it has been given me to employ peo-
pie.  1 think, therefore,  that 1 can  fairly 
on  “The Young Man in Business”  in  the 
judge this question from both sides.
Cosmopolitan, none were  more  interest­
ing  than  those  asking  the  above  ques­
tions. 
In  this article I 
had attempted to point out  some  of  the 
qualifications necessary to a young man’s 
success  in  business.  1 am now asked to 
treat the other side of  the  question  and 
am challenged  to  prove  that  where  all 
the necessary qualifications exist  on  the 
side of the  employe,  the  employer  will 
recognize, appreciate and reward.

To the heart  of  the  average  employe 
his salary is naturally  very  near.  That 
is  what  he  is  in  business  for: to make 
money just as his employer is.  But there 
are  men  and  men.  To  some  men,  the 
question of how much  money  they  earn 
is not everything, even though  necessar­
ily it forms a large part.  Take a young 
man assuming a new posision  in a  house. 
He enters on a small  salary.  He  proves 
himself capable, and his  salary  receives 
an increase,  either by solicitation  or  vol­
untary—mostly  by  the  former  method. 
It  is  my  honest  conviction,  and  that 
His salary keeps  pace  with  his  growth. 
conviction is based upon  careful  inquiry 
But he finds that the second  increase  of 
and  personal knowledge,  that, taking the 
salary has not one-half,  no,  not even  one- 
business world as a whole,  there are more 
fifth  the  element  of delight in it to him 
just than unjust  employers.  Of  course, 
as did the  first  “ raise.”  The  third  has 
the majority of young  men are unwilling 
even  less,  although  it  is, of course,  ac­
to  accept  this truth. 
It is perhaps only 
ceptable.  After he has received  four  or 
natural  that  the  clerk,  suffering  from 
five  additions  to his stipend he is apt to 
the  injustice  of  an  unappreciative  em­
feel that, after all,  money  is a  very  cold 
ployer,  believes  that  all  employers  are 
and hard return  for what  he  does.  His 
like  unto  his  own.  But  the  fact,  pre­
nature 
exactly 
cisely 
the  opposite,  still  holds  good. 
what, he  does  not  perhaps  know  until 
Men are not in business for their  health. 
one day some friend tells  him  of  a  cer­
Thousands of us could be out of business 
tain nice compliment paid to his work  by 
and be equally robust.  The one sole aim 
his  employer.  Then  it  occurs  to  the 
of business is the making  of  money  and 
young man that his  employer  has  never 
the ambition for commercial  supremacy. 
said an appreciative word to him.  Now, 
This places the art of business on a cold, 
what that young  man  is  really  hunger­
hard and selfish  basis.  But  business  is 
ing for is not another increase  of  salary 
a selfish institution,  and men engaged  in 
so  much  as  it  is  to  have his employer
commercial strife are,  for the  most  part.
selfish.  A regard for one’s  own  interest  acknowledge  that  this  was  particularly 
is   just a s   necessary, if not more,  with the I well  done,  or  that  piece  of  work  was 
employer as with  the  employe.  But  in  cleverly conceived and  even  better  car- 
the  greed  for  gold—calling  it  by  the j ried out.  A  word of praise is  a  tremen
dous stimulant to the right young  fellow 
ugliest  name  we  can  perhaps—an  em­
in business,  plodding hard each  day  for 
ployer knows that he is just  as much  de­
his employer’s  interests.  And  ernploy-
pendent upon his  employe  as  that  em-
If.  for j ers are far too chary of  praise.  The gen-
ploye  is  dependent  upon  him. 
eral  claim  is  that  they cannot afford  to 
the sake of  argument,  we  lay  aside  all 
praise  “for  policy’s  sake.” 
In  some 
thoughts of justice,  the fact still  remains 
cases,  this may be.  But in the majority 
that  the  average  employer  would  be 
of instances,  it hurts no  man  to  be  told
likely to do what is right  and  fair  by  a
It  helps
good employe whom  he  knows  is  valu-  that he has done a thing  well. 
able  to  his 
selfish 
I do not say that a word of  praise  will 
grounds if no other.  Whatever  may  be 
take the place of  an  increase  of  salary. 
his personal  inclinations,  the  employer 
But  I  do  say that in thousands of cases 
is  very  apt  to  take  care  of  those  who 
these two factors in a young man’s  prog- 
have his interests at heart.  That is busi-
ess, 
| ress should more often go hand  in  hand
But 1 am  inclined to believe that there j  than  they do.  Too  many  employes  are
left  to  infer that their services are satis­
is  a  softer,  a  more  humane side to the 
factory to their employers  because  they 
employer of to-day.  1 am convinced that, 
are allowed to work ou without criticism. 
for  the  greater  part,  the  reputation  of 
This silent praise has stifled the ambition 
employers suffers most  at  the  hands  of 
of many a young man.  1  have in mind a 
disgruntled employes who do not receive 
young man who became  a  vital  part  of 
recognition  because they do  not  deserve 
the interests of a house  from eight years’ 
it.  Such employes talk more than do the 
connection  with  it.  His  salary  was  in­
satisfied ones,  and  talk,  all  too unfortu-
nately, goes for  something  in  the  busi- j  creased  during  that  time,  at  intervals, 
ness  world  in  creating  impressions  of I from $600 a year to $3,500.  But he never 
i  received the slightest recognition  of  his
m e n  
1 services  other  than  this  monetary  evi-
But while 1 am ready  to  coucede  that j  dence.  When  the  opportunity  came he 
the average modern employer is  just,  or j  resigned simply because the  pure  heart- 
means to be,  I am  equally  ready  to  ac-  lessness and selfishness of  his  employers

longs  for  something, 

interests,  upon 

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him.

TO  THE  RETAIL  CLOTHING  MERCHANTS  ..........
In consequence  of  rumors  having  been  circulated  that  the  eminent 
firm  of  Michael Kolb & Son,  Wholesale Clothing Manufacturers,  Rochester,  N. Y., 
is going out of business,  I  am requested to contradict most emphatically  any  such 
rumor and to state that this weil-known and  upright  firm,  with  a  37  years’  good 
record,  never  dreamed  of  retiring.  1 ought to add that I think I have discovered 
how  such  an  unfounded  report  got  circulated. 
It  is  well-known  amongst  the 
trade  that  Michael  Kolb  &  Son  rank  among  the  very  highest manufacturers in 
Rochester,  and  their name has been conflicted with that of  Stein, Bloch & Co., also 
of Rochester,  which firm,  J. W.  Rosenthal,  formerly of  Grand  Rapips, has publicly 
announced, are going out of business.

1  still  continue  to represent Michael Kolb& Son, and shall  be pleased 
to call  upon anyone with my elegant line of  fall  samples,  of  which  everyone  who 
handles  them  say  there is none better made, or better fitting,  and sold  at such low 
prices as to meet all classes of  trade.
Address,

W M .  CONNOR,  Box  346,  M arshall.  Mich.

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jarred  upon  him.  Exceptional  case, 
some  one  says.  Not at  all.  There  are 
men,  and lots of them,  too, to  whom  an 
honest word of praise  means  more  than 
the  clink  of  gold.  The  absence of the 
fermer  has  cost business houses the loss 
of many a good  man. 
I  give  no  larger 
place to sentiment  in  commercial  strife 
than  will  any  business  man.  But I do 
believe that there is a place for  the  kind 
word of  approval  expressed  by  the  em­
ployer to the employe. 
It costs nothing, 
and  I  have  known  cases  where  it  was 
remembered long  after  instances  of  in­
creased salary were  forgotten.

The increase of the salaries of the  em­
ployes  is  a knotty  question  with  eve ry 
employer.  And, for the most part,  it  is 
followed according to  short-sighted  and 
narrow  lines.  A  liberal  policy  of  be­
stowal  in  this  respect  is  the exception 
rather than the rule.

Now,  if there is one thing  to  a  young 
man more humiliating than another, it is 
to be compelled to ask for an  increase  of 
pay. 
I remember,  in my  own  case,  the 
absolute humiliation I felt in each of the 
three  instances  where  I  felt  I  earned 
more salary than I was paid  and  was  en­
titled  to. 
I  shrank  from  asking for it, 
and the feeling was a proper  one.  1  de­
served it, and it should have  been  given 
to  me  without the asking. 
I believed it 
then, and I have had no reason to change 
my views,  now that 1 am enabled to look 
at the matter from the  employer’s  point 
of view.  And  here  is  the  point  where 
the entire salary system is wrong.  There 
are  business  houses,  and  I  am glad to 
know  of  several,  where  employes  are 
never compelled to ask for an increase of 
salary.  Twice each year in  some  cases, 
but  once  per  annum  in  most,  the pay­
roll of each department  is  given  to  the 
members of the  firm,  and  recommenda­
tions  for  increase  are  made.  Thus  an 
employe knows that if his  pay  does  not 
receive an addition,  it is  because  of  one 
of  two  reasons:  either  be  does  not de­
serve it, or the condition of  the  business 
of  the  house  does  not  warrant  the  in­
crease in expense.  The  consequence  is 
that  in  the  case  of  each  of the houses 
where  this  system 
the 
loyalty  of  employe  to  employer  is  re­
markably strong,  and such a thing as  in­
ducing a capable man to leave for a  posi­
tion in another house is impossible to  ac­
complish.  Every  business  man  knows 
that he appreciates  what  comes  to  him 
voluntarily far more than that  which  he 
seeks.  This is particularly  true  of  the 
salary  of  an  employe.  Placed  upon  a 
purely selfish basis,  it is the most  profit­
able course for a business house  to  pur­
It  knits  the  interests of employer 
sue. 
and  employe  very  closely  together. 
It 
demonstrates and  proves 
to  the  clerk 
that he is not a cipher in the eyes  of  his 
employer,  but that he and  his  work  are 
known and appreciated.  Increased effort 
and  honest  endeavor  result  from  this, 
and  one  house  in  New  York,  now the 
largest in  its particular line,  has  practi­
cally built itself upon this policy.  When 
it  began,  and  employed  three  men,  the 
head of the bouse started this policy, and 
his sons pursue it now  when  they  have 
over eight hundred men in their  service. 
Such a thing as a request for  an  increase 
of salary|_ise, unknown in  this  establish­
ment,  and a more  loyal  and  hard-work­
ing set of employes it  would  be  difficult 
to  find.

is  in  vogue, 

It  has  been  tried, 

1  honestly  believe  that  an  employer 
consults his wisest interests by  pursuing 
this policy of voluntary increase of  sala­
It is not asking an employer to try 
ries. 
an  experiment. 
in 
hundreds of  houses,  and  in  every  case 
has  it  resulted  to  the  interests  of  the 
business.  To  say that it is unwise, is to 
put one’s self in opposition to the exper­
iences  of  some  of  the  most  successful 
business men in New York,  Philadelphia 
and Boston.  On the  contrary,  it  is  the 
policy that  serves  an  employer  best  in 
the long run.

*  *  •

Such an involuntary  salary  increasing 
system would de away  with much of  the 
annoyances an employer  feels  from  ap­
plications for added pay  which  come  to 
him  from  men  in  his employ whom he 
feels he cannot refuse.  There can be no 
question that young men often  stand  in 
their own light in this respect.  The ser­
vices  they  render  in  their  respective 
positions always  seem  of  greater  value 
to them than they really are to their  em­
ployer.  Most of us are  ready  to  believe 
ourselves the under dog in a fight. 
It  is 
a theory held by many a young man that 
he should receive an  increase  every  six 
months or year.  And he forthwith asks 
for it.  Now,  frequent  applications  for 
more  salary  are apt to be just as irritat­
ing to an employer as they  are  humiliat­
ing to an employe. 
If the  man  is  valu­
able,  the employer-feels he cannot refuse 
the  demand  very well,  and he either ac­
cedes to the request of the  applicant,  or 
meets him half-way.  But he does  it,  in 
nines cases out of ten,  under protest  and 
with  an  ill-feeling  which remains with 
him  and  associates  forever  after  with 
that  employe. 
It  is  well  for a man to 
rise in a business house,  but  it  is  more 
fatal than it is beneficial  to  him  to  rise 
too quickly.  A  rapid  success,  alluring 
as it is to young men,  speedily  wears  it­
self  out.  A  steady  rise  is  always  the 
healthiest to the riser, and the  more  ac­
ceptable to the employer.  Conscious,  as 
an employer  must  necessarily  be,  that 
the relation^ between  him  and  his  em­
ployes are purely  of  a  business  nature, 
he  does  not  care  to  have  that fact too 
frequently impressed upon him any more 
than does  the  employe.  A  young  man 
should never forget that no  matter  how 
valuable  it  may  be  his  good fortune to 
make  himself  to  a  bouse,  he can never 
make himself indispensable.  The cruel- 
est thought in life is that this  world  can 
get along without us  almost  as  wel1  as 
with us—in  the vast  majority  of  cases, 
just as well.  The employe is simply one 
spoke in the wheel upon which the house 
by which he is employed  revolves.  One 
may be more of an important spoke  than 
the other.  But the wheel  will  not  stop ] 
from the absence  of  a  single  spoke. 
It 
may  not  for  a  time  revolve  quite  as 
smoothly,  but in  six  months  afterwards 
its  revolutions  will  be  just  as  easy  as 
ever.  No mortal on this  earth  is  indis­
pensable in the business world.

#  *  *

If  a  young  man  can  feel  absolutely 
confident that  his  interests  are  not  far 
from his employer’s mind,  the  interests 
of that employer sooner or later  will  be­
come the  interests  of  that  young  man. 
An  employer’s  conscientious 
thought 
of bis employes brings  to  him  their  in­
dividual  respect  and  confidence.  The 
most  successful  business  houses  are 
those where the undercurrent  of  feeling I 
is a harmonious  one  between  employer I

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and  employe.  There  are  cases,  and  a 
number  of  them,  where  employers  are 
unwilling to give sufficient importance to 
this fact. 
It is not the outward attitude 
which the clerk assumes to his chief that 
is always the true one.  That  is the atti­
tude of policy.  But it is the  inner  feel­
ing that exists in the  heart  of  that  em­
ploye which  tells  in  the  business.  No 
business is destined to  a permanent  suc­
cess where there  is  an  undercurrent  of 
disrespect  or hard feelings for the heads 
of the house.  And  yet this is present in 
many a commercial establishment to-day, 
and it sometimes exists unknown  to  tbe 
employer:  at  other times he is conscious 
of  it.  The  atmosphere  of  a  business 
house is very much as is the character of 
the employer. 
If an employer is narrow 
in his views,  he cannot expect  the  views 
of his employes to be broad in their deal­
ings  with  customers. 
If  an  employe 
feels that he can never be sure of  the  at­
titude ef his employer on  a  question  of 
principle,  be assured  that  the  employer 
in almost every case is  to  blame. 
If the 
head of the house  be  erratic—to-day  in 
to-morrow  assuming 
one  place  and 
another—the  policy 
that 
bouse will  be an uncertain one.  An  em­
ployer  sets  the  standard 
for  his  em­
ployes. 
If his standard be low,  those he 
employs  will  be lower than he:  if  it  be 
high,  and evenly high,  their  aim  will  be 
to  reach  the  standard  which  the  em­
ployer sets.  Heights  are  more  difficult 
of accurate measurement  to  the  human 
eye  than  are  depths.  An  uncertain 
employer makes an uncertain policy,  un­
certain e'mployes and  an  uncertain  suc­
cess.  This  is  absolute.  The  employer 
moulds the employe.

throughout 

*  #  *

sometimes  withhold 

One  of  the  common  causes  of  com­
plaint  of  young  men  against  their  em­
ployers  is  that  they  “do  not  give  them 
enough  liberty;”  sometimes  it  is  called 
"sufficient 
lee-way.”  This  may  often 
appear  so  to  the  young  man,  but  he 
must  remember  that  this  question  is 
capable  of  being  looked  at  from  two 
points  of  view.  The  right  to  act  and 
think  for  one’s  self  is  a  just  preroga­
tive,  and  1  am  ready  to  concede  that 
employers 
this 
right  too  long  from  young  men.  But 
young  men  must  remember  that  what 
is  one’s  own.  and  has  perhaps been  ac­
quired by  years  of  the  hardest  kind  of 
self-denial  and  work,  is  very  precious 
to  a  man,  and  he  must  not  be  blamed 
when  he  is  zealous  over  it.  Authority 
is  a  good  thing  to  invest  in  the  right 
bands,  but  it  is  a  most  dangerous  kind 
of  a  thing  in  the  hands  of  the  inex­
perienced.  When  a  young  man  has 
proven  his  worth  in  a  position,  I think 
he  ought  to  be  gradually  vested  with 
authority.  Responsibility,  unquestion­
ably  makes  men.  The  right  kind  of  a 
young  man  will  respect  and  endeavor 
to  meet  the  responsibility  placed  upon 
him.  But  young  men  are.  as  a  rule, 
too 
trust.  They 
want  it  too  soon.  The  most  difficult 
thing  in  business  is  to  do  what  one  is 
told  to  do,  and  stop  there.  We  are  all 
apt  to  believe  that  we  can 
improve  on 
somebody  else’s  idea.  Now,  a  young 
man  starting  in  business 
first 
to 
paid  to  do,  not 
think.  His  em­
thinking;  he  must 
ployer  will  do  tbe 
If  it  was 
do  the  carrying  out  part. 
intended 
that  be  should 
think,  he 
would  not  be  paid  six  hundred  dollars. 
Men  employed  to  think  are  paid  more

impatient 

is  at 

this 

for 

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THE  MICHIGj^lsr  TRADESMAN
than  clerks  are.  Let  a  young  man  in 
business  show  that  he 
is  capable  of 
carrying  out  the  wishes  of  his  em­
ployer,  and  he  demonstrates  a  most 
valuable  quality.  To  do  a  thing  pre­
told  to  do  it  is  the 
cisely  as  one  is 
first  step  to  success.  When 
the  em­
ploye  has  served  a  term  of  probation, 
then  can  he  hope  to  be  given  a  more 
individual  grasp  of 
reins.  The 
young  man  is  wise  who  at  the  start  is 
content  simply  to  sit  beside  the  driver 
and  learn  the  art  of  driving.

the 

(U nited  S ta te s  B a k in g   C o.)

Are  Perfect  Health  Food.

There are a great  many  Batter  Crackers  on  the  Market—only 

one can  be  best—that is  the original

On  t.he  side  of  the  young  man’s  ar­
gument,  I am free to believe that employ­
ers  are  not always sufficiently  willing to 
transfer  authority.  The full worth of  a 
young  man’s  business  capacities  can 
never  be  tested  until  he  has  had  an 
opportunity  to  "stand  on  his  own  bot­
tom.”  as  the  saying  is.  That  chance 
he  should  be  given,  and 
tbe  employer 
is  not  fair  who  withholds  this  right. 
It is as  a  young  man  that  the  capable 
business man  is  moulded  both  to  know 
the value of  responsibility  and  how  to 
carry  it. 
If  responsibility  is  withheld 
he becomes a machine of no use  to  him­
self and of  precious  little  value  to  his 
employer. 
the 
honor  and  self-reliance  of  the  young 
man  are  rarely  frequent  enough  in  the 
buriness  world.

think  appeals 

to 

I 

*  *  #

the 

amount 

respect.  “He 

judgment  cannot 

I  have  a  deal  of  sympathy  with  the 
young  man  in  business  between  the 
age  of  twenty  and  twenty-five.  There 
is  not  a  more  trying  point  in  his  life. 
He  is  neither  one  thing  nor  the  other. 
He  is  in  constant  friction  between  his 
own  belief  that  he  is  capable,  and  his 
employer’s  belief  that  he  is  young  and 
therefore  inexperienced.  Say  what  we 
will,  to  be  a  very  young  man,  and  in 
business,  is  nothing  more  or  less  than 
a  positive  misfortune.  No  matter  how 
much  older  he  may  be  in  judgment 
than  his  years,  his  opinion  is  not  con­
sidered  worthy  of 
is 
young,”  and  that  is  the  sum  and  sub­
stance  of  it.  Try  as  he  may,  he  can­
not  overcome  the  prejudice  of  business 
judgment  of  men 
men  against 
younger  than  twenty-five  or  thirty. 
It 
is  unquestionably  true  that  a  young 
to 
man’s 
much  before  twenty-five,  and  it 
is  a 
period  of  our  experience  that  we  must 
all  pass  through.  At  the  same  time,  I 
think  employers  are  apt  to  make  this 
too  manifest  with  young  men,  and 
thereby  do  much  to  dampen  their  spir­
its  and  stamp  out  natural  ambitions. 
It  is  true  that  a  young  man  at  twenty- 
five  very  often  resents  mere  encourage­
ment. 
It  is  patronage  he  seeks.  And 
I  believe  there  is  possible  a  happy 
commingling  of  the  two  which,  if more 
generously extended,  would  be  mutually 
advantageous. 
to  make  a 
young  man  feel  that  he  is  a  cipher  in 
the  business  world.  He  cannot  be  a 
factor:  that  I  grant.  At  the  same  time 
there  lies  between  the  two  extremes  a 
happy  medium,  the  giving  of 
that  en­
couragement that  seems  patronage  even 
if  it  does  not  absolutely  partake  of  it. 
What,  in  short,  I  wish  to  bring  before 
employers  is  the  importance  of  recog­
nizing  more  directly  this  trying  point 
in  a  young  man’s  life  in  the  business 
world,  and  the  advantage  of  making  it 
less  difficult  for  him  to  pass  through 
that  period. 
It is,  surely,  not too much 
to  ask  of  business  men  that  they  shall 
their  own  young  manhood,
remember 

It  is  cruel 

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him  through  life  of  his  employer. 
It 
rests with the employer to  make  it  pos­
sible.

*  *  *

Among other causes of  complaint  that 
1  have  heard  expressed  by  the  young 
business man is the one that  favorism is 
shown  in  commercial  establishments  in 
the freer and larger  opportunities  given 
to relatives, and the tendency to  fill  im­
portant positions by  outsiders.  But  the 
young man must never overlook  the  im­
portant fact that true ability counteracts 
this  objection.  Few  employers  are  so 
blind  to  their  own  interests  that  they 
will allow the mere question of favoritism 
to stand in  the  way  of  the  success  of 
their business  affairs.  This  would  not 
be  practical,  and  if  business  men  are 
anything at all  they  are  practical.  Be­
hind what is commonly  accepted  as  the 
favor of an employer is frequently some­
thing more than may be seen  on the sur­
face. 
It is  generally easier to  raise  the 
cry  of  favoritism  than it is  to prove  it. 
And where favoritism is  shown the rem­
edy to the one who  suffers  from  it  is  in 
his own hands.  As a  rule—although, of 
course,  there are  exceptional  cases—the 
cry of favoritism in business has about as 
much  basis  as  the  cry  that  there  are 
cliques in  the  editorial  departments  of 
magazines to shut out  the  unknown  au­
thor of talent.

The complaint of precedence  given  to 
relatives in  business houses is  true  only 
in  the minority of  instances.  Where  it 
is true,  a young man  will  serve  his  best 
interests by  seeking  other  connections. 
But before he does so he will  be  wise  if 
he first  makes  certain  if  precedence  is 
given  on  the  ground  of  relationship. 
Opposed as I am personally,  on  general 
principles, to relations being associated in 
business, there must,  1  know,  always  be 
cases  where 
introduction  will 
be both just and proper.

their 

of a house by  which he is employed.  Of 
course there are  cases  where  a  position 
becomes vacant and  it  is  impossible  to 
graduate a  subordinate  into  it.  But,  I 
believe,  that,  so  far  as  possible,  civil 
service reform rules should be  prevalent 
in business houses.  At  the  same  time, 
there is this to be said on the  employer’s 
side.  No employer will  intentionally go 
out of  his  way  to  fill  a  position  if  he 
feels  he can fill it with  some  one  of  his 
employes.  Only a man  blind  to his own 
interests would do that.
*  •  *

This whole subject,  even  when one  at­
tempts to discuss it from  the  standpoint 
of  the  employer,  comes  back  to  the 
young man  himself after  all. 
If he  has 
ability,  if he becomes a factor in the suc­
cess of business,  he can be tolerably sure 
of good  treatment  at  the  hands  of  his 
employer.  Genuine talent is not  such  a 
drug  in  the  business  market  that  any 
employer will slight it when he  finds  it. 
But when a  young  man  finds  his  lines 
cast  with  an  unjust  employer,  a  man 
who refuses to pay  a  proper  equivalent 
for  services  rendered,  then,  as  I  have 
said before,  the remedy lies  in  his  own 
hands, and the sooner he  applies  it  the 
better.  But  young  men  are,  in  many 
cases,  apt to be altogether too  impulsive 
and often fancy  injustice where it  really 
does not exist. 
In the  impulsiveness  of 
youth  lies its chief danger.  Some young 
men desire to get along too fast,  mindful 
only of the present and forgetful  of  the 
future.  The  result  is  that  again  and 
again certainties are given  up  for  uncer­
tainties,which is  always  unwise  except 
under  special  and  exceptional  circum­
stances.  When a young man  finds  that 
he is  either  in  the  wrong  position,  or 
under an  employer  whose principles  he 
cannot respect,  it is far better  for him to 
work along, doing his work  so well  that 
he  will attract attention  to  himself  from 
other sources.  Opportunities will come 
to him fast enough if  he  proves  himself 
worthy of them.  He can  measure  these 
chances at his leisure and select  the  one 
which he believes is best  adapted for his 
special talents.  A young man in a  posi­
tion is infinitely  more  likely  to  receive 
j an offer than the young man  who  is  out 
| of one.  Many  a  young  man  has  been 
' misled  by offers made him while  occupy­

ing a position,  only to learn when  he had. 
resigned that position,  that  the same  de­
sire to secure his services was  not  pres­
ent.

I believe a young man  should,  so  far 
as  it  is  possible,  secure  the  position 
which he thinks he can fill  most  accept­
ably to  himself  and  his  employer,  and 
then  stick  to  it.  Constant  changing 
from one  position to another disturbs the 
confidence of men in a man.  To  him  is 
quickly  applied  the  old  proverb  of  a 
“rolling stone.”  The  fewer  changes  a 
young man  makes  in his business career 
the better.  At the same time  he  should 
not  be blind to any  opportunities  which 
may  offer,  to  better  himself.  But  let 
him be certain that a change will mean an 
advantage.  Conservatism,  born  of  pru­
dence and careful thought,  is  a  tremen­
dous element in business  success, and to 
none is it more of an element  than  to  a 
young man.

Earnestness  of  purpose,  honesty 

in 
dealings,  uprightness in  principle;  with 
a willingness  to  work  and  talents  pro­
pelled by energy,  and no young  man  to­
day need fear  of  final  success. 
It  may 
not come at once.  He may  not  find  the 
right place the  first  time.  He  may  not 
just find  the employer best suited  to  his 
development in  the first  place  in  which 
he  finds  himself.  But  the  country  is 
large,  and opportunities  exist  on  every 
hand for the right sort of  a young  man. 
He need have no  fear  of  finding  inade­
quate  recognition  at  the  hands  of  his 
employer.  Let him  demonstrate that  he 
deserves  recognition,  and  he  will  find 
that not  only  all  things,  but  the  very 
best of things “comes to him who waits,” 
and he had  better  add  to  that  proverb 
“and works.”

The American employer  stands  ready 
to pay all that the American  employe  is 
capable of earning.  Edward W. Bok.

Only  Twenty-five  Dollars.

If you  are  thinking  of  purchasing  a 
cash register,  send to  G.  Gringhuis, 403 
West  Bridge  St.,  Grand  Rapids,  for  a 
Rhodes’ register on ten days’ trial  before 
purchasing  elsewhere. 
It  is  the  most 
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market. 
It  will  record  three  or  more 
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and  observe  the  spirit  of  the  golden j 
rule  of  doing  unto  others  as  we  would 
that  others  had  done,  or  did,  to  us.  1 
fear,  sometimes,  that  we  are  apt 
to 
forget  the  helping  hand  extended  to  us 
in  our  struggling  days,  when  we  are 
asked  to  give  somebody  else  a  lift.

*  *  *

in 

to 

the  principles  of 

The  moral  responsibility  for  those  in 
our  employ  is  one  which  too  many  em- j 
ployers  are  all  too  willing  to  shirk  or 
fail to recognize.  To speak of it generally | 
means to be accused of an  indulgence in 
cant. At the same time I feel that it enters 
particularly  into  the  career  of  a  young 
man.  The  fact of  the  matter  is,  to  put 
the  truth  plainly,  too  many  employers 
ask  their  employes  to  be  nothing  more 
nor  less  than  liars.  Scores  of  young 
men  daily  fight  the  battle  between  an 
adherence 
the 
home  and  those  they  are  asked  to  rep­
resent  in  business.  As  an  office  boy,  I 
had  the  most  perfect  training  possible 
to  become  an  accomplished  liar.  1 was 
told,  at  least  half  a  dozen times  a  day, 
to  say  to  callers  that  my  chief was  out 
when  he  was 
in.  At  home,  1  was 
taught  that  truthfulness  and  honesty 
were 
the  current  coins  in  business. 
And  yet,  day  after  day,  1  was  shown 
the  falsity  of  it  by  my  employer.  1 
refused  to  lie  for  myself,  and  yet I was 
compelled  to lie  for  another.  When  1 
became  a  copyist,  it  was  asked  of  me 
to  write  letters  which  I  knew 
to  be 
absolutely  contrary 
to  existing  facts. 
And  yet  I  was  in  the  employ  of  one of 
the  largest  corporations 
the  world 
and  one  of  honorable  repute.  My  di­
rect  chief  was  a  man  esteemed  alike in 
business  and  social  circles.  He  was, 
too,  a  recognized  pillar  in 
the  church. 
The  result  was,  as  1  can  see  now,  that 
1  formed  an  entirely  wrong  conception 
of the  true  and  best  methods  of  busi­
ness. 
It  was  not  long  before  1  beeame 
delightfully  skillful  at  the  art  of  mis­
representation. 
In  ni5r  second  position, 
I  found  it  was  necessary  for  me  to  un­
learn  what  I  had 
learned  in  my  pre­
vious  post.  My lines were thrown,  most 
fortunately for me,  with a man to  whom 
integrity was  more  than  policy.  From 
him  1  learned  healthful  lessons;  at  his 
side  1  started.  His 
influence  happily 
was strong upon me.  and the  respect  he 
commanded from me at that time  has re­
mained with me ever since.  He taught me 
so  well  that,  although  more 
than  fif­
teen  years  have  passed,  the  lessons  I 
learned  from  him  are  as  fresh  with 
me  to-day  and  are  as  pleasant 
and 
profitable  to  recall  as  when  1  was  his 
rather amateurish stenographer,  and.  as 
I liked to believe, his  private  secretary. 
1 can recall  now  that  he  never  treated 
me as  a  boy,  but  always  gave  me  that 
feeling that 1 had the instincts of  a  man 
which some day  I would  be  destined  to 
realize.  He had  faith in  me,  and he did 
not hide in from me.  Step  by  step,  he 
remained  at  my  side,  graduating  me 
from one  position  to  another,  until  he 
felt I had found my  proper  atmosphere. 
His hand always  steadied  me;  his influ­
ence,  I felt,  was never far from me.  And 
to-day,  if 1 have one  feeling  more  thor­
oughly satisfactory than any other,  it  is 
that  the  adviser  of  my  boyhood,  and 
my friend of to-day,  Mr.  Clarence  Cary, 
of  New  York,  believes  that  his  confi­
dence in me was not misplaced.

This,  I  think,  is  the  recollection  a 
young man sbould be able to  carry  with

The lack of the civil service  system of 
promotion is perhaps  the  more  weighty 
and warranted of the trio  of  objections. 
An employer  cannot  be  more  unfair  to 
his  employes  than  when  a  position  of 
importance opens and he  goes outside of 
his own business  to  fill  it.  Nothing  is 
more discouraging to the ardor  and  zeal 
of an ambitious young man than the  dis­
covery of such a tendency  in  the  policy
'T'H B Y   AJUJL,  S A Y

“ I t's   a s   g o o d   a s   S a p o l i o ”  w h e n   t h e y   t r y  
to   se ll  y o u  
t h e i r   e x p e r i m e n t s .   Y o u r  
o w n   g o o d   s e n s e   w i l l   tell  y o u   t h a t   t h e y  
a r e   o n l y   t r y i n g   to   g e t  y o u   to  a i d  
t h e i r  
n e w   a r t i c l e .

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

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

it  n o t  
b y   c o n s t a n t   a n d  
b r i n g   c u s t o m e r s  
v e r y   p r e s e n c e   c r e a t e s   a   d e m a n d  
o t h e r   a r t i c l e s .

THE  VALUE  OF  PUNCTUALITY.
An old  proverb  says  that  misfortune 
is next door to stupidity;  and  we  might 
add thereto,  that stupidity is  the  antip­
odes  of  punctuality.  Forgetfulness  is 
the legitimate offspring of stupidity,  and 
the progenitor of  negligence.  A  forget­
ful man is a stupid man;  and  his forget­
fulness is no palliation  for  the  evil  ef­
fects  of  his  stupidity;  neither  will  it 
screen him from the charge  of  contribu­
tory negligence.  Such  a  man  is  never 
punctual 
never 
reaches success as a business man. 
It is 
recorded  that Washington  once  said  to 
his secretary,  when the latter  was excus­
ing himself  for  his  late  attendance  by 
laying the blame  on  his  watch:  “Then 
you must  get  another  watch,  or  1  an­
other secretary.”

consequently, 

and, 

There can be no excuse  for  the  busi­
ness man who lacks punctuality. 
If  the 
injurious effects of his  uncertain  habits 
were confined to himself  it  would  make 
but little difference to.tke business world; 
but every business  man  with  whom  he 
comes in contact in  the regular course of 
business 
is  made  to  suffer  likewise. 
Such a man is the perpetual cause of un­
necessary  friction  in the business  ranks. 
He is like a balky horse in  a  procession 
—when he  stops he brings  everything to 
a  standstill  behind  him,  and  when  he 
starts,  he goes off with a jerk just  as un­
expectedly,  causing  an  extra  strain  in 
the rear for a  recovery,  and  injuriously 
stimulating those  in  front.  His  irregu­
larities affect the whole line—those  next 
to him,  fore and  aft,  being  subjected  to 
greater annoyance than those  farther re­
moved.

throws  everybody 

The man  who is not  punctual  in  meet­
ing  his  engagement,  is  a  general  dis­
turber  of  the  peace  and  serenity  of 
others.  He 
into  a 
state of feverish  impatience,  from  time 
to time,  with  whom  he  comes  in  con­
tact, either socially or in  a business  way. 
He is systematically  late,  never  meeting 
an engagement exactly at  the  appointed 
time. 
If he were only regular  in  his  ir­
regularity like a  bad  time piece  that  is 
set on time in  the  morning,  but  during 
the day loses a  certain  number  of  min­
utes per hour,  business  men  having  oc­
casion  to 
transact  business  with  him 
might by a  little computation,  arrange a 
time table which would save  them mnch 
time,  annoyance  and  loss  arising  from 
broken engagements.  But  the  unpunc­
tual business man  is not so  governed  in 
his movements;  like  the watch  he  is  a 
bad time keeper;  but,  unlike  the  watch, 
we  have  no  means  of  protecting  our­
selves from the pernicious effects  of  his 
unreliability.  We find him  fifteen  min­
utes slow to-day,  thirty minutes  slow to­
morrow,  and the day  after  he  surprises 
us by being ten  minutes  fast.  Once  in 
a  great  while  we  find  him  exactly  on 
time,  but  when  such  is  the  case  it  is 
purely accidental.

A successful  business man  always  es­
timates time according to  its true  value, 
and  he  never  forgets  that  time  is  (or 
ought to be)  just  as  valuable  to  other 
business men  as  it  is  to  himself.  His 
word is as good as  his  bond,  and  when 
he  makes  an  engagement  to  meet  an­
other at a particular place or at a partic­
ular  time,  he  considers  the  contract 
binding.  He realizes,  with a  keen sense 
of honor,  that the time so engaged  is  no 
longer  at  his  disposal;  he  has  parted 
with it upon  mutual  consideration,  and 
can no more retain it for  other  purposes

THE  JSOCIHOAJNr  TRADESMAN
or promise it to  others  without  commit­
ting a breach of good faith,  than  he  can 
retain for his own use, or for  the  use  of 
others, any  other  thing  of  value which 
he  has  already  disposed  of. 
If  every 
business  man  who  recognizes  such  a 
thing as honor would  seriously  consider 
this question in the light presented above 
there would be  less  confusion  resulting 
from  broken promises in matters of busi­
ness  engagements 
is  at 
present.

an  act jeopardizes credit,  places  barriers 
in the way of the exercise of puncuality, 
and converts business into  a mere  game 
of chance. 

New England  Grocery Notes.

A.  C. Dowse in American Grocer.
In a certain village near  Boston  every 
grocery  store  save one  is  closed  every 
Thursday afternoon this  summer.  That 
one gets the transient trade—but  does it 
pay?  The other grocers and  most of the 
people answer “ No.”
Grocers should never  settle cases with 
embezzling  clerks;  neither  should  they 
give  employment  to  a  clerk  who  has 
wronged  another  merchant. 
I  have 
known grocers to hire  a  clerk,  knowing 
be  had stolen from another,  and  I  have 
seen those grocers served right  by losing 
at the hands of the self same clerk.

E.  A.  Owen.

there 

than 

The punctual man has no  use  for  ex­
cuses.  He arrives  at  the  depot  before 
the  train 
leaves;  he  mails  his  order, 
check,  or  acknowledgment  before  the 
box is closed;  be  makes  his  deposit  be­
fore the bank closes;  he never allows his 
own paper  to  become  marred  with  the 
protesting marks of a notary through his 
own  carelessness;  his  bank  account  is 
never overdrawn,  and he  does  not  wait 
for the presentation of a draft  to  be  re­
minded that a bill has matured.  No,  the 
punctual  man  has  no  excuses  to  offer. 
He offers promptitude in  action  instead, 
thus removing all  conditions  conducive 
to the breeding of excuses.

It would  seem  unnecessary,  at  least, 
to state in an article intended  for  publi­
cation in a  journal  read  exclusively  by 
business men,  that  a  man  in  order  to 
make a success of business,  must  estab­
lish  and  maintain  an  unimpeachable 
credit;  and  yet  when  we  examine  the 
records of business men  all  around  us— 
men  who are  evidently  anxious  to  suc­
ceed,  we are inclined to  doubt  whether, 
after all.  this  proposition  plain,  simple 
and  self-evident  as  it  is,  is  really  en­
dorsed by business  men  generally.  The 
actions of many of these  men  would  in­
dicate, certainly,  that they either did  not 
consider  the  maintenance  of  an  untar­
nished credit essential to success, or that 
they did not know how to  maintain such 
a credit.  Every business  man  with  the 
slightest  degree  of  business  acumen 
ought to realize that  the  first  signal  of 
danger—the little cloud no larger  than a 
man’s hand  that betokens  the  gathering 
of the dark clouds of  adversity  just  be­
neath the horizon, is the first impairment 
of credit.  The  storm  may  be  averted, 
but even then  it  will  require  time  and 
the utmost diligence  to  remove  the  im­
press left  behind  it. 
In  no  branch  of 
business is  an  impairment  of  credit  so 
disastrous as  in  the  banking  business. 
Punctuality  Is 
the  bauker’s  key-note, 
and the first  intimation  of  a  failure  to 
meet an  obligation  promptly  brings  an 
avalanche  of  creditors  aud  depositors 
down upon  the concern,  and if the vaults 
are  not  inexhaustible,  it  will  be  com­
pelled to succumb to  the  demands  of  a 
confidence-shaken public.

A  business  man  should  guard  his 
credit as  he does  the  apple  of  bis  eye. 
The exercise of punctuality  is  the  only 
way to establish  and  maintain  a  credit 
that  will  be  the  passport  to  success. 
The exercise  of  punctuality  demands  a 
free  and  easy  condition  of  solvency— 
that is,  all emergencies  which arise from 
time to time  in  the  ordinary  course  of 
business must be provided  for  and care­
fully guarded against,  so that  every  en­
gagement  and  obligation  entered 
into 
may be met and  performed  at  the  time 
and in the  manner  agreed  upon.  This 
means that a man  who desires  to make a 
success of  his  business  ought  never  to 
assume an obligation,  trusting  to  blind 
luck, or some  unforeseen  conditions  to 
arise,  for  the  means  to  meet  it.  Such

these  days. 

late  every  night. 

A cigar dealer  tells me that during the 
past  six  months  the  call  for  five  cent 
cigars—six  for  a  quarter—has  greatly 
increased,  while the inquiry for  ten-ceut 
cigars  has  correspondingly  decreased. 
He  says  he  sells  very  few  “three  for 
fifty  cents”  cigars  in 
I 
recently heard a prominent  grocery  job­
ber remark that  he  always  bought  two 
cigars  for  a  quarter—the  twenty-cent 
one he smoked and the  five-ceut  one  he 
gave  to  a  “friend.”
“1 believe”  said a Boston grocer to me, 
“that the time  has  gone  by  when  it  is 
absolutely necessary to  keep  your  store 
open 
It’s  nonsense. 
People are being educated  to  buy  their 
goods  in the day time, and not  at  night. 
I  propose  this  coming  fall  to  close  at 
least  four  nights  during  the  week.  1 
don’t intend to  watch my  neighbors. 
It 
doesn’t make any difference to  me  what 
they do, and I believe iu  being independ­
ent.  By  closing  early  you  are  saving 
your fuel,  your  light,  and,  better  than 
all,  you  save  your  clerks  and  your 
cashier; and  their  services  are  worth  a 
great deal more to you every  day  in  the 
week if their hours are  shorter.”
James Eagan,  one of  the large  grocers 
cf Pittsfield,  Mass.,  has been  the victim 
of a trusted cierk who has  left  the  city. 
The amount of the  embezzlement is said 
to be  $3,000. 
It  seems  that  this  clerk 
had formerly been in  business  for  him­
self  but  entered  Mr.  Eagan’s  employ 
three years ago.  He  began  his  stealing 
almost at once.  He  had  charge  of  the 
store’s best paying  route,  aud  worked it 
very  shrewdly  to  his  own  advantage. 
A  year  ago  Mr.  Eagan  learned  that 
despite his  big  business  he  was  losing 
money  but  not  until  last  May  did  he 
learn the cause.  He presented  a  bill to 
a customer and  ascertained  that  it  had 
been paid  to  the  clerk  and  the  money 
never  paid  in.  Here  is  where  Eagan 
made his  mistake—be  didn’t  arrest  the 
clerk but got a lawyer to make  the clerk 
settle.  The clerk  agreed  to  settle,  but 
instead left  the  city,  leaving  behind  a 
wife and three children.  Probably  he is 
now working for  another  grocer  in  an­
other State.  His name is Barney Curley.

If He Has the  Nickel.

Inventor—I have a  machine  that  will 
make  our 
It’s  a  slot 
machine  with a new  attachment.  All  I 
want is  money  to  set  up  a  lot  of  ’em 
along Wall street.

fortune  now. 

Capitalist—But what does  it do?
Inventor—When  a  man  loses  money 
all he  has  to  do  is  to  back  up  to  the 
machine, drop a nickel in  the slot and it 
will kick him.

Lse  Tradesman  Coupon  Books.

FRESH  MEATS.

BUT.

Carcass.......................................................   5  @  6
Fore quarters............................................  3  @  4
Hind quarters............................................7  @ 8
Loins No. 3.................................................8  @10
Ribs.............................................................6  @ 8
Rounds......................................................  6  @ 6*4
Chucks........................................................3*4@ 4
Plates......................................................... 3  @ 3*4
Dressed......................................................  6  @6*4
8*4
Loins........................................................... 
Shoulders  .........  ................. ...................  
7
Leaf Lard.......................................... 
9*4
Carcass......................................................  5  @5*4
Lambs..........................................................7  @ 7*4
Carcass.....................................................   5*4@6

MUTTON.

FORK.

VIAL.

1 3

CANDIES,  FRUITS  and  NUTS.

The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows:

STICK  CANDT.

Cases 

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

8*4
...  8*4

6 
6 
6 

Bbls.  Palls.
7
7
7
8*4

 

 

 

 

 

 

** 

“  7*4 

printed  ......................... 

“ 
fancy—In bulk
 

Pails
ev4
e*4
7 >4
g
g
g
8
844
9
13
8*4
........................................ g

MIXED  CANDT. Bbls. 
Standard  .........................................514 
Leader............................................ 5*4 
Royal  ...............................................6*4 
Nobby  ............................................. 7 
English  R o ck ....................  ........7 
Conserves  .......................................7 
Broken Taffy  ....................baskets 
Peanut Squares........ .......... 
French Creams  ..............................  
Valley  Creams..............................  
Midget, 30 lb. baskets  ........... 
Modern. 30 lb. 
Pails.
.  
Lozenges,  plain.................... 
544
9*4
Chocolate D rops................................................. 12
Chocolate Monumentals........  
.....................  12*4
Sum Drops.................................................... 
  5
Moss Drops.........................................................   7*4
Sour Drops.........................................................   sv4
Imperials............................. 
10
Per Box
Lemon Drops........................................................so
Sour Drops.............................. 
"50
Peppermint Drops  ..................  
60
Chocolate Drops  ................................................. 75
H. M. Chocolate  Drops..................  
so
Gum Drops................  
 
40
Licorice Drops.................................................! i  00
A. B. Licorice Drops...........................................go
Lozenges, plain.....................................................eo
65
Imperials...............................................................60
Mottoes............................................................... ..'70
Cream Bar.............................................................55
Molasses Bar........................................................55
Hand Made  Creams. ... 
............................S5@95
Plain Creams................................ 
go
Decorated Creams.................... 
90
String  Rock..........................................................60
Burnt Almonds......................... .......................i  00
WIntergreen Berries.......................................... 60
No. 1, wrapped, 2 lb. boxes.............................   34
51
No. 1, 
No. 2, 
28

fancy—In 5 lb. boxes. 

CARAMELS.
 

printed...............  

3 
2 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fancy  Seedlings,  96s.......................................
Sorrentos,  160s.................................................
Rodis,  200s.........................................................

 
ORANSES.

LEMONS.

BANANAS.

Choice 300................................................................  4 50
Extra choice 300 ................................................   4 50
Extra fancy 300......................................................   5 00
Extra fancy 360......................................................   5 00
Large bunches........................................................  2 00
Small bunches..................   ..................   1  25@l  E0
Figs, fancy  layers, 8ft................................   @12*4
20ft ...............................   @12*4
14ft 
50-lb.  “ 

OTHER  FORE ION  FRUITS.

“  extra 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Dates, Fard, 10-lb.  box... 
...
Persian. 50-lb.  box 
1 lb Royals............

@15 
@  7 
@ 5*4 
@  5

“ 
“ 

“ 

NUTS.

“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

choice........................

@16
@15
@
@ 8 
@11 
@12*4 
@10 
@12*4 
@12 
@11 
@  7*4

Almonds, Tarragona.........................
Ivaca....................................
California.........................
Brazils, new........................................
Filberts  ..............................................
Walnuts, Grenoble 
.........................
French.................................
Calif....................................
Tabie  Nuts,  fancy............................
.................  .
Pecans. Texas, H.  P., 
Chestnuts.............................................
Hickory Nuts per bu......................  .......
Cocoanuts, full sa ck s............................. 
4 00
Fancy, H.  P.,Suns...................................   @ 5*4
Fancy, H.  P., Flags..................................  @ 5*4
Choice, H. P.,  Extras..............................   @454

“  Roasted......................  @ 7
“  Roasted..................... 
© 7
“  Roasted 
...............  @6
OILS.

PEANUTS.

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

The  Standard Oil  Co.  quotes  as  follows:

BARRELS.

Eocene.................................................
3*4
XXX W.  W. Mich.  Headlight........
Naptha.......................................................   @ 6*4
Stove Gasoline..........................................   @ 7*
Cylinder....................................................27  @36
E ngine..................................................... 13  @21
Black, 15 cold  test................................... 
Eocene.....................................................  
XXX  W. W.  Mich.  Headlight...............  

© g*£
7
5

FROM  TANK  WAGON.

POULTRY.
Local dealers pay as follows :

LIVE.

Turkeys, hens....................................... 
6@7
Toms.................................................  5@6
Fowls,  hens.....................................................8 @8*4
Broilers, 1*4 to 2 lbs.............  
9@10
2 to2*4 lbs...  ....................................10@11

“ 
“  roosters..................................................5@6
“ 

 

 

 

 

DRAWN.

Turkeys......................................................
Chickens....................................................
Fow l..........................................................•
Ducks.........................................................
Geese..........................................................
Turkeys.. 
Chickens.
Fowls___
Ducks__
Geese....

UNDRAWN.

A  well-known  druggist  writes: 

Stamp  Worth  More Than the Medicine.
“ I 
was  surprised 
the  other  day  when  a 
gentleman came into  my  place  of  busi­
ness  and  called  for  Helmbold’s  Rose 
Wash, or Helmbold’s Buchu,  put  up  in 
the old  style. 
I  told  him  I  had  none. 
He said be would  buy  what  I  had  and 
give me a good price.  Later he told me 
he had succeeded  in  buying  some,  and 
had sold the proprietary  stamp  for  $16. 
Some time after the war the Government 
issued a large number of revenue stamps 
for proprietary medicines,  toilet articles, 
etc.  Some fifty or sixty of  the  proprie­
tary medicines had  special  stamps,  and 
these are  very  valuable.  They  have  a 
regular catalogue  price.  Anything over 
four cents is worth  considerable  money. 
I  allude  only  to  the  Government  pro­
prietary stamp.”
Seely’s Flavoring Extrac  »
Every dealer  should  sell  them.
Extra Fine  quality.
Lemon,  Vanilla,  Assorted  Flavoj-.. 
Yearly  eales  increased  by  their  us 
Send  trial  order. *

(Wrapped)

Doz.  Gro 
1 oz.  $  90  to   2  t
2 oz.  1  20  12  6 
4 oz.  2  00  22  8' 
6 oz.  3  00  33  Ol
Seely's  Vanilli
Doz.  Gro.
1 oz. $ 1  SO  16  20
2 oz.  2  00  21  60
4 oz. 
3   75  40  80
6 oz.  5  40  57  60
Plain  N. 8.  w ith 
corkscrew at sam e 
price if  preferred.
Correspondence

im uwa
Ngy

The Right Goods for

The Right Man.

The Right Place. 

Solicited
SEELY  MFG.  CO.,  Detroit,  Hich.

Drilg  Stock  for  Sale.

The Right Place for

The Right Price if taken at

The  Right Time. 
That means now.  Call  or write and see 
Will Z.  Bangs,

if this is not right.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

14
D ru gs 0  Medicines.

State  Board  o f Pharm acy 

One  T ear—O ttm ar Eberbacb, Ann Arbor.
Two  Yearn—George Onndrum , Ionia.
Three  Tears—C. A. Bog:bee. Cheboygan.
F o'tr Years—-S. E. P ar kill, Owoaso.
Five Years—F. W. R. P erry , Detroit.
President—Fred’k W  R. Perry. Detroit.
F eeretary —Stanley E. Parkill, Owosso. 
vreasu rer—Oeo. Gun drum, Ionia.
Coming:  Meetings—Houghton, Aug.  29  and  30;  Lane 
n f, Nov.  6  and 7.

M ichigan  S t a te   Pharm aceutical  Aas'n. 
President—A. B. Stevens, Ann Arbor. 
Vloe-President—A. F. P arker, Detroit 
Treasurer—W. Dupont,  Detroit.
Secretay—S. A. Thompson, Detroit.
Grand  Rapid a  Pharm aceutical Society 
President, W alter K .Schm idt;  8ec*y, Ben. Schrouder

In 

THEORY  VERSUS  PRACTICE.
to 

the  classical  dispute  as 

the 
relative value of practice  and  theory  in 
the every-day  vocation  of  the  pharma­
cist,  the  older  practical  men  who  are 
skilled in the  mechanical  manipulations 
necessary  to  the  manufacture  of  pills, 
plasters, suppositories,  etc.,  have  been 
firm  adherents  of  practice,  renouncing 
theory;  while  the  latter  generation  of 
pharmacists, especially the  college men, 
assert that the pharmacist,  to be success­
ful  as a professional  man,  must  possess 
huge amounts of theory.  This  disparity 
of ideas must naturally  prevail  between 
the two extreme classes  of  pharmacists; 
they  would indeed  have a  poor  opinion 
of their calling did they not hold decided 
opinions—opinions 
to 
their equipment as  pharmacists.

corresponding 

It  is  a 

fact  beyond  dispute 

that 
practice is an essentia)  feature  of  phar­
macy,  and according as the pharmacist is 
skilled in  practical  manipulations  does 
his  success,  in  a  large  degree,  depend. 
The  recent  college  graduate,  with  his 
cranium  packed  full to overflowing with 
theoretical  ideas,  finds  it  hard  to  come 
down to the level of  practice,  and  rather 
considers  it  an  insult  to  his  excellent 
education  to l»e  compelled to  learn  how 
to make a well  formed  suppository  with 
his  fingers.  But  gradually  his  lofty 
ideas vanish, or are curbed,  as  he  finds 
that  without a  certain amount  of  prac­
tical deftness he  is  almost useless in his 
profession.

The  value  of  practice  can  certainly 
not be over-estimated,  for it  is the  little 
points  here  and  there  relative  to  this 
drug or that preparation,  and the knowl­
edge  of  an  unlimited  number  of  little 
things  that  can  only  be 
learned  by 
practice,  which  add  largely  to  the  effi­
ciency of  the  pharmacist.  He  must  be 
able to make pills  of  absolute  uniform­
ity* proper  adhesiveness,  and  markedly 
spherical  in  shape,  else  their  downward 
passage  and  therapeutic  value  will  be 
uncertain; 
to  dispense  ointments,  the 
medicinal ingredients of  which  shall  be 
evenly  distributed  and  finely  divided, 
lest a lumpy,  unsightly  ointment,  may­
hap one capable  of producing  irritation, 
result;  to spread  plasters evenly,  and  of 
proper  consistence,  lest  their  adhesive 
properties  be 
to 
wield his  pestle  in  forming  emulsions, 
lest  no  emulsion 
result—instead,  an 
unsightly  “cracked”  mixture;  to  form 
suppositories of  such  shape and consist­
ence that their  insertion  and  medicinal 
value  will  be  assured; 
to  percolate 
properly drugs and powders so that their 
valuable  constituents  are  secured  with 
the least possible menstruum,  if desired, 
and a preparation of elegance result,  and 
last, but certainly not the least,  he  must 
be a capable business  man,  else  his fail­
ure financially is assured.

injured;  skillfully 

But while it is true  that  these  things 
can only be learned  by  practice, does  it 
prove  that theory is  worthless  in  phar­
macy?

TOE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN
compounds;  which  gives  him  a  knowl­
edge  of  the  various  drugs,  chemicals 
and  alkaloids  daily  prescribed  by  the 
physician;  which  underlies  all  original 
research,  and  to which  all startling dis­
coveries in the chemical and  pharmaceu­
tical  world are  due.

A man may  be  a  pharmacist  without 
possessing  any 
theoretical  knowledge; 
but that fails to prove  that he would not 
be a vastly better  one,  and  his  success 
professionally be very  much greater,  did 
he command  the  theory  necessary  to  a 
proper understanding  of the  articles un­
der his supervision,  their  origin,  proper­
ties,  doses,  incompatibilities,  chemical 
peculiarities,  tests of character and iden­
tity;  and the knowledge  that will enable 
him to act with  judgment  and  accuracy 
in  cases  of  emergency—to  be  able  to 
think for himself and  not  be  compelled 
to have recourse  to his books  every time 
something  out of  the  ordinary  presents 
itself.

But even suppose he desires to look up 
something, in the Dispensatory,  Pharma­
copoeia  or  other work  of reference,  how 
much would  he assimilate of  the  matter 
found  in  these  works  unless  he  had  a 
pretty  good  understanding of  the theory 
underlying  pharmacy  and 
its  allied 
branches?  How  much  would he accom­
plish in reading in the U. S.  P.  an official 
description of a leaf,  for  instance, desir­
ing to become familiar with its form and 
its possible adulterants, if he did not un­
derstand  more  or  less  of  botany, 
its 
teachings and nomenclature?

Assuredly  theory  is  as  essential  as 
practice,  and the trained, educated  phar­
macist must be  theoretical  to a large de­
gree.
Potassium chlorate  must  be  known  to 
him  as  something  more  than  a  white 
crystalline salt much  prescribed  by phy­
sicians in certain affections of the throat.
I He  should  be  aware  that  it  is  a  com­
pound of potassium,  chlorine,  and  oxy­
gen;  that  potassium  is  a  metallic  ele­
ment,  occurring  plentifully and  belong­
ing: to the alkaline group of  metals;  that 
chlorine is a  non-metallic element  and a 
deadly gas,  which,  if set  free  from  any 
of  its  compounds and inhaled,  produces 
disastrous  results;  that oxygen  is also a 
non-metallic element of  widespread  and 
abundant  occurrence,  a  gas,  a  strong 
supporter of  combustion,  and  the essen­
tial constituent of all  vegetable  and ani­
mal life;  that in this compound the chlo­
rine and oxygen  are linked  together as a 
compound  radical  presenting  one  free 
bond of affinity,  which  unites  with  the 
monad atom of  potassium to  form potas­
sium chlorate,  a satisfied compound;  and 
that this salt readily  gives up its oxygen 
when  brought  in  forcible  contact  with 
readily oxidizable  substances,  producing 
oxidation  and  combustion.  Minus  this 
knowledge he will stand, metaphorically 
speaking,  with  one  foot  in  his  future 
resting-place,  when  some  horse-doctor 
desires equal parts of potassium chlorate 
and  sulphur  powdered  and 
intimately 
mixed  together.  He  ought  likewise  to 
know  thoroughly  every  article  in  his 
store,  and that  requires  something more 
than practice.

It is theory  which  has  brought  phar­
macy forward into the front  rank among 
the  professions;  without  theory,  phar­
macy  would  have  remained  merely  a 
trade or  business.

Theory it is which  assists the pharma­
cist in judging  quickly and  correctly  as 
to  the  compatibility  of  the  several  in­
gredients of a prescription,  and  enables 
him to so dispense  it as  to  avoid the for­
mation of new and  sometimes dangerous

But, essential as theory  certainly is, it 
is almost worthless  divorced  from  prac­
tice.  A  pharmacist  may possess all the 
theory in  existence,  but  unless  he  can 
practically apply  it with  success it is of 
no earthly use  to him. 
If he  must com­
mand only one,  to the almost total exclu­
sion of  the  other,  then  let  the  one  be 
practice,  for  without  practice  a man is 
certainly  incapable  of  following  phar­
macy as a calling.  But the merely  prac­
tical man can never hope to be considered 
a professional  pharmacist,  for  the latter 
should  be  thoroughly  acquainted  with, 
and fully aware of,  the hidden  forces and 
dangers  that  lurk  in  every  drug  and 
chemical in his store.
Hence  we  plainly  see  that  it  is  not 
practice that makes the able pharmacist, 
nor does theory  produce  the  desired  re­
sult;  but it is the blending  of the two in 
proper proportion  that marks  the  phar­
macist of ability the world over.  Either 
alone is like an engine  without  the  mo­
tive  power,  steam;  combine  them,  and 
power,  strength and ability result.

high-school 

A good, thorough training in the store, 
preceded  by  a  substantial  preliminary 
education—a 
course,  at 
least—and followed  by  a reasonable sea­
son  of  theoretical  study 
interspersed 
with  practical  experiment,  cannot  fail 
properly to qualify  the  earnest  student, 
who cares  to learn  and has  a just regard 
for his chosen calling,  to become in  time 
a pharmacist of  ability,  capable  of  ful­
filling his duties to the  credit of his pro­
fession. 

H a r r y B.  Maso n.

Discretion in the  Pharmacy.

It is not  likely that any  veteran  phar­
macist needs warning that a loose tongne 
may be the source of  mischief.  He  has 
doubtless learned from  personal  experi­
ence or observation of  another’s  disaster 
that a  man  cannot  prattle  freely  in  a 
drug  store  without  coming  to  speedy 
grief.  But the  admonition  that  silence 
is golden in the retail drug  business will 
not be wasted on the younger men.  The 
complaint  is  too  frequently  made  that 
the babbler is  abroad;  that  delicate  se­
crets  revealed  by 
the  prescription  or 
other  agency  are  frequently  bruited 
about,  to the mortification of the  patient 
and  the  disgust  of  the  physician;  that 
some drug stores  are  centers  of  gossip, 
whence Mrs. Grundy  obtains  her  choic­
est. morsels of scandal.
The young  clerk  cannot  be  too  soon 
impressed with the fact that  the prattler 
in  the  drug  business  is  worse  than  a 
knave—he’s a fool.  He not only violates 
a  common  principle  of  honor  and  de­
cency toward the people  who  confide  in 
his  discretion,  but  actually chooses the 
most  effective  means  of  self-ruin. 
It 
would be hard to conceive  of a more cer­
tain method for repelling custom and de­
stroying  reputation  than  a  loose,  bab­
bling  tongue.  The  druggist  might just 
as wisely turn his  store into  a  smallpox 
hospital or a cholera barracks as tolerate 
on  his  premises  an  assistant  possessed 
with  the  itch  of  speech—one  of  those 
half  unfortunate,  half  contemptible 
creatures who cannot  restrain  an inborn 
propensity to tell all they know.

Most men seldom,  and druggists never, 

regret having spoken too little.

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Morphia, S.  P A W .  2 06@2 30 
C.  Co......................  1  90@2 20
Moschus Canton.........  ®   40
Myrlstlca, No  1 .........  66®  70
Nux Vomica, (po 20)..  @ 1 0
Os.  Sepia......................  15®  18
Pepsin Saac, H. A P. D.
Co..............................   @2 00
Plcls Llq, N.*C., M gal
doz  ...........................  @2 00
Plcls Llq., quarts.......  @1  00
pints..........   @  85
Pii Hydrarg,  (po. 80)..  @ 5 0
Piper Nigra, (po. 22)..  @ 1
Piper Alba,  (po g5)__   @  3
Pllx Bur gun.................  @  7
Plumbl A cet...............  14®  15
Pulvls Ipecac et opll.. 1  10®1  20 
Pyrethrum,  boxes  H
A P. D.  Co., doz.......  @1  «5
Pyrethrum,  pv............  20®   30
Quasslae...................... 
8®  10
Qulnla, 3. P. A W.......34K0S9M
S.  German....  27®  37
Rubla  Tlnctorum.......  12®  14
SaccharumLactlspv. 
12®  14
Saladn.........................2 10@2 25
Sanguis  Draconls.......  40®  50
Sapo,  W........................  12®  14
a  M.........................   10®  12
@  15
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Seldllts  Mixture.........  @  20
Slnapls..........................  @  18
opt....................   ®  30
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  De
V oes.........................   @  35
Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes  @  35 
Soda Boras, (po. 11).  .  10®  ll 
Soda  et Potass Tart...  24®  25
Soda Carb...................  1M®  2
Soda,  Bl-Carb.............   @  5
Soda,  Ash...................... 3M@  4
Soda, Sulphas.............   @  2
Spts. Ether C o............  50®  56
“  Myrcla  Dom.......  @2 25
“  Myrcla Imp.........  @3 00
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Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Stiychnla Crystal.......1 4001  45
Sulphur, Subl............. 2V@  3
Tamarinds................... 
8®  10
Terebenth Venice.......  28®  30
Theobromae...................... 45  @ 48
Vanilla........................9 00016 00
Zlnd  Sulph................. 
7®  8

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*   Roll......................  2  @ 2M

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Linseed,  boiled..........  59 
Neat's  Foot,  winter
66 
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Spirits Turpentine__   37 

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Ochre, yellow  Mars___1£   2®4
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Putty,  commercial.... 2M  2M@3
“  strictly  pure.......2M 2K@3
Vermilion Prune Amer­
13®16
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Vermilion,  English.... 
65@70
Green,  Peninsular....... 
70@75
Lead,  red.................................   6 @6M
“  w hite.............................. 6 ®6M
Whiting, white Span...  @70
Whiting,  Gliders’. 
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White, Paris  American 
Whiting,  Paris  Eng.
c liff........................7.. 
1  40
Universal Prepared  .. 1  (0@1  15 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared 
Paints....................... 1 00®1  20

VARNISHES.

OILS.

Whale, winter............  TO 
Lard,  extra.................  80 
Lard, No.  1.................   42 
Linseed, pure raw__   56 

Bbl.  Gal
70
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591

No. 1 Turp  Coach__ 1  10@1  20
Extra Turp...................160®1  70
Coach  Body.................2 75@8 00
No. 1 Turp Furn........ 1  00@1  10
Eutra Turk Damar.... 1 55@1  60 
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1
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HARRY’S

ROOT  BEER

Blood Purifier
General Stimulant

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Is  manufactured  from  Roots  and  Herbs 
of well-known medicinal  qualities,  which 
are  carefully  selected  for  the  purpose. 
It will  be  found  highly  beneficial  as a

It  is  a  delicious bever­
for  the  system. 
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8®  10
Benzolcum  German .  65®  75
Boraclc 
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2f
Carbollcum...............
20®  3C
Cltricum....................
52®  55
Hydrochlor...............
5
3® 
.  10®  12
Nitrocum 
.................
Oxallcum..................
.  10®  12
Phosphorium dll.......
2D
Salicylicnm.............
.1  25@1  60
Sulpfiurlcum............. -  IX®  5
Tannlcum................... .1  40®1  60
30®  33
Tartarlcum.................
AMMONIA,
Aqua, 16  deg.............
20  deg.............
Carbonas  ..................
*  Chloridum.................
ANILINS.

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4®  6
6®  8
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12®  14

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Brows.........................  
80@1  00
Red................................  45®  50
Yellow......................... 2  50@3 00

Cnbeae (po 
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25®
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BALBAMUM.
.45®  50
Copaiba.......................... 
Peru..*......................... 
@2 25
40® 45
Terabln, Canada  ____ 
Tolutan..........................  35® 50

CORTXX.

Abies,  Canadian...................  18
Cassiae  ..................................  11
Cinchona F la v a ...................  18
Euonymus  atropurp............  30
Myrlca  Cerlfera, po..............  20
Prunus Vlrglnl......................  12
QuUlala,  grd.....................  
  10
Sassafras  ...............................  12
(limns Po (Ground  15)........   15

EXTRACTUM.

Glycyrrhlsa  Glabra...  24®
po............  33®
Haematox, 15 lb. box..  11®
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Is.................   13®
“  M*..............  14®
“  Ms...........  16®

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Carbonate Preclp........   @  15
Citrate and Qulnla —   @3 50
Citrate  Soluble...........   @  80
Ferrocyanldum Sol —   @ 5 0
Solut  Chloride................  @
Sulphate,  com’l ............... 9®
pure..............  @

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Arnica........ .................  18®  20
Anthemis....................  30®  35
Matricaria 
.......  50®  65

FOLIA.

Barosma 
Cassia  Acutlfol,  Tin

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

Salvia  officinalis,  Mb
UraUrsi 
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2d 
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3d 
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sifted sorts...  @  20
p o ...................  60®  80
Aloe,  Barb, (po. 60)...  50®  60 
“  Cape,  (po.  20)...  ®  12
Socotrl, (po.  60).  @ 5 0
Catechu, Is, (Mb, 14 M*.
16)...............................  @  1
Ammonlae...................  55®  60
Assafoetlda, (po. 85).. 
40®  45
Bemolnum...................  50®  55
Camphors..............—   46®  50
Euphorblum  po  .........  35® 
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Galbanum....................   @2  50
Gamboge,  po...............   to®  7b
Gualacum,  (po  35) —   @  30
Kino,  (po  1  75)..........   @1  75
M astic.........................   @  80
Myrrh, (po. 45)............  @  40
Opll  (po  3 40®3 60). .2  10@2  15
Shellac  ........................  45®  42
33®  35
Tragacanth.................  40@1  00

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Absinthium...........................   ®
Eupatorium...........................  20
Lobelia....................................  25
Majorum................................  28
Mentha  Piperita...................  23
«  V lr...........................   25
Rue..........................................   30
Tanacetum, V ........................  22
Thymus,  V .............................  25

NASNKSIA.

Calcined,Pat  . . . .........  55®  60
Carbonate,  Pat............  20®  22
Carbonate, EL &  M....  20®  25 
Carbonate, Jennings..  35®  36

Absinthium............. ..2 50@3 00
..  45®  75 
Amygdalae, Dulc —  
..8 00@8 25
Amydalae, Amarao..
A nlsl......................... .1   8n@l  90
Auranti  Cortex....... ..1  80@2 00
Bergami!  ................. . .3 0003 20
Cajiputl....................
60®  65
Canrophylli.............. ..  75®  80
Cedar........................ ..  35®  65
Chencpodil.............
@1 60
Clnnamonll.............
.1  10® 1  15
Cltrouella.................
@  45
Conlum  Mao............ ..  35®  66
Copaiba................ ..  80®  90

Cubebae........................ 
2 00
Exechthitos................  1 50@1  60
Erlgeron....................... 1 50® 1  60
Gaultheria....................1 70@1  80
Geranium,  ounce.......  @  71
Gossipi],  Sem. gal.......  70®  71
Hedeoma  ....................1  25@1  40
Juniperl........................  50@2 00
Lavendula..................   90@2 00
Llmonls.........................1 40@t  60
Mentha Piper................2 85@3 60
Mentha  Verld...............2 20@2 30
Morrhuae, gal...............1 30®1  40
Myrcla, ounce..............  @  50
O live............................   90@3  oo
Plcls Liquida, (gal.,35)  10®  12
R icini.........................   1 
22®1 28
Rosmarini.............. 
l  00
Rosae.  ounce.............   6 50@8 50
Succlnl.........................   40®  45
Sabina.........................   90@1  00
50@7 00
San tal  ......... 
2 
Sassafras......................  50®  55
Slnapls, ess, ounce__  
®  65
Tiglll.....................  
  @1  00
Thyme.........................   40®  60
opt  .................  @1  60
1 heobromas.................  15®  20

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15®
BICarb.................... 
bichromate.................  13®
Bromide...................... 
40®
Carb............................ 
12®
Chlorate  (po  23@2S)..  24®
Cyanide........................  50®
Iodide.............................2 
98@3 00
Potassa, Bitart,  pure..  23®  25 
Potassa, Bitart, com...  @  15
Potass Nltras, opt......  
8®  10
Potass Nltras.............. 
7®
Pressiate......................  28®  30
8ulphate  po.................  15®  18

50®1 60

RADIX.

Aconltum....................   20®
Althae...........................   22®
Anchusa......................  12®
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Arum,  po...................... 
Calamus........................  20®  40
Gentlana  (po. 12)....... 
8®  10
Glychrrhlza, (pv. 15).. 
16®  18
Hydrastis  Canaden,
(po. 35)....................  
@  30
Hellebore,  Ala.  po__   15®  20
Inula,  po.....................  15®  20
Ipecac,  po.......................1 
35®  40
Iris  plox (po. 35@38). 
Jalapa,  pr....................   40®
Maranta, 
.............  
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Podophyllum, po........   15®  18
Rhei..............................   75@1  00
“  cut........................  @1  75
“  pv.........................   75@1  35
Splgella........................  35®  38
Sanguinarla,  (po  25)..  @ 2 0
Serpentario...................  45®  50
Senega.........................   56®  60
Slmllax, Officinalis.  H  @ 4 0  
@ 25
M 
Sclllae, (po. 85)..............  10® 12
Symplocarpus,  Fmtl-
dus,  po......................  @ 3 5
Valeriana, Eng.  (po.30)  @  25
German...  15®  20
lnglber a...................... 
18® 20
18® 20
Zingiber  j ..................... 

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Anlsum,  (po.  20).. 
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Apium  (graveleons)..  18®  20
Bird, Is...........................  
4® 6
Carni, (po. 18)...............   10® 12
'.'ardamon..................... l 
00@1 25
Corlandrum...................  12® 14
Cannabis Satira..........  4® 
5
Cvdonlum 
..............  75@l oo
Chenopodi mo  ..............  10® 12
Olptertx Odorate......... 2 40®2 60
Foeniculum................   @  16
Foenugreek,  po.......... 
8
L in i.............................  4  @ 4M
Lini. grd.  (bbl. SM)...  3M@  4
Lobelia...........................   35® 40
4®  5
Pharlarls Canarian__  
¿a p a ...............................  
fl®  7
Slnapls  Albu................ 
7®  8
Nigra..............  11® 12

6® 

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SFIRITUS.
Frumenti, W., D.  Co. .2 00@2 50
D. F. R ........1  75@2 00
 
Junlperls  Co. O. T ___1 65@2  oo
..............1  75®3 50
“ 
Saacharum  N.  B ..........1 75@2 00
Spt.  Vini  Galli............. 1 75®6 50
Vini Oporto.................. 1 
Vini  Alba......................1 

1 

2502 00
25@2 00

25®1 50

Florida  sheeps’  wool
carriage....................2 50@2 75
Nassau  sheeps’  wool
2 00
carriage  ................... 
Velvet  extra  sheeps’
wool  carriage..........  
1 10
Extra  yellow  sheeps’
carriage....................  
85
Grass sheeps’ wool car
rlage.........................  
65
75
Hard for  slate  ubo__  
Yellow Reef, for  slate 
u se ............................... 
1 40

STRUTS.

A ccacla..................................  50
Zingiber  ................................  50
Ipecac.....................................   60
Ferri  Iod................................  50
Auranti  Cortes......................  50
Rhel  Arom.............................  50
Slmllax  Officinalis...............   60
....  50
Senega...................................   50
Sclllae.....................................   50
**  Co................................  50
Toiatan..................................  50
Prunasarlrg...........................   50

Cl 

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TINCTUBKS.
Aconltum Napellls R 
p
Aloes.......................................  60
and myrrh...................  60
Arnica...................................   50
Asafcetlda............................... 
o
A trope Belladonna...............   60
Bensoln..................................  60
“  Co.............................  50
Sangulnarla...........................  50
Barosma................................  50
Cantharides...........................   75
Capsicum...............................  50
Ca damon...............................  75
„   “ 
Co.........................   75
Castor..................................... 1 00
Catechu..................................   50
Cinchona...............................  50
Co.........................   60
Columba................................   go
Conlum..................................   50
Cubeba....................................  50
D igitalis................................   50
Ergot.......................................  50
Gentian..................................  50
“  Co..............................   60
Gualca...................................   so
ammon....................   60
“ 
Zingiber................................  50
Hyoscyamus.........................   50
Iodine...............
Colorless...................  75
Ferri  Chloridum  ................  35
K ino.......................................  50
Lobelia...................................   50
Myrrh.....................................  50
Nux  Vomica.........................   50
O pll........................................   %
"  Camphorated.................  50
“  Deodor.................................2 00
Auranti Cortex......................  50
Quassia..................................  50
Hnatany................................  50
Rhel..  ....................................  50
Cassia  Acutlfol....................   50
Co...............   50
Serpentarla....................   50
Stramonium....................   60
Tolutan...........................   60
Valerian........................  
 
VeratrumVerlde..........   50

50

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sqolbbs 

28®  30
Si®  34

MISCELLANEOUS.
r. 
ground, 
7)....................... 

Æther, Spts  Nit, 3 F.
4P.
Alumen..........................2M@ 3
(po.
4
3® 
 
Annatto........................  55®  60
Antlmonl, po............. 
4® 
5
et Potass T.  55®  6n
Antlpyrin....................  @1  40
Antifebrin....................  @  25
Argentl  Nltras, ounce  @  48
Arsenicum..................  
5® 
7
Balm Gilead  Bud__  
38®  40
Bismuth  S.  N ............. 1  60@1  70
Calcium Chlor, Is, (Ms
12;  Ms,  14)...............   @  11
Cantharides  Russian,
p o ..............................   @1  00
Capsid  Fructus,af...  @  26
o —   @  28
@  20 
i po. 
Caryophyllus,  (po.  15)  10®  12
Carmine,  No. 40.......... 
®3 75
Cera  Alba, 8. A F .......  50®  55
Cera Flava..................   38®  40
Coccus 
......................  @  40
Cassia Fructus............  @  26
Centrarla......................  @  10
Cetaceum.................... 
®  40
Chloroform.................  60®  63
®1  25
Chloral Hyd Crst........ 1  25® 1  59
an®  26
Chondrus 
Clnohonldlne, P.  A  w  
is®   20 
German  8M®  12 
Corks,  list,  dls.  per
cent  .......................  
75
®  35
Creasotum............... 
@  2
reta,  (bbl. 75)....... 
“  prep.............. 
5®  6
“  preclp.......... 
9®  11
“  Rubra.................  ®  3
35®  40
Crocus........................ 
Cudbear.......................   @  24
Cuprl Sulph.................  5  @  6
Dextrine......................  10®  12
Ether Sulph.................  70®  75
Emery,  all  numbers..  @
p o ......................  @  6
„   _ 
JPO.)  75..........   70®  75
Flake  white...............   12®  15
Galla.............................  @  28
Gambler.......................   7  @ 8
Gelatin,  Cooper..........   ®   60
French............  30®  50
Glassware  flint, by box 80.
Less than box 75.
Glue,  Brown............... 
9®  15
“  White.................  13®  25
Glycerins....................   14®  20
@  22
Grana Paradlsl....... 
Humulus......................  25®  55
Hydraag Chlor  Mite..  @  75
“  Cor__   @  65
Ox Rubrum  @  85
Ammonlatl..  @  95
Unguentum.  45®  56
Hydrargyrum..............  @  65
Icnthyobolla,  Am. .  .. 1  28@1 50
Indigo...........................  75@1 00
Iodine,  Resubl............3 80@3 90
Iodoform......................  @4 70
Lupulin........................  @2 25
Lycopodium...............  70®  "TO
M acis...........................  70®  75
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy­
drarg Iod..................   @  27
Liquor Potass Arslnltls  10®  12
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
Mannla,  S. F ...............  60®  68

1M)...............................2m@ 4

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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

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

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

CATSUP.

COUPON  BOOK»-.

Foreign.
Currants.

” 

Peel.

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

2
234
2H
4
414
Citron, Leghorn. 25 lb. boxes  13 
25  “ 
Lemon 
g
“ 
“ 
25  “ 
Orange 
“ 
“ 
10
Raisins.
Ondnra, 29 lb. boxes 
5 ©  7 
.  754  @  8
“ 
Sultana, 20 
Valencia, 30  “
California,  100-120 ...............  6
90x100  25 lb. bxs.  6*4
80x90 
. . 7
70x80 
7*4
.  8
60x70 
5

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Turkey........................... 
Silver...........................

Prunes.

“ 
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ENVELOPES.
XX rag, white.

No. 1, 6*4  ...........................  81  75
No. 2. 6*4............................   1  60
No. 1, 6................................  1  65
  1  50
No. 2, 6..................... 

 
XX  wood, white.

 
Manilla, white.

No. 1,6*4............................   1  35
No. 2,6*4 
1  25
6*4  ......................................   1 08
6 ..........................................  
95
Mill  No. 4...........................  100
FARINACEOUS  GOODS. 

Coin.

 

Farina.
Hominy.

Oatmeal.

Lima  Beans.

1001b. kegs........................ 
 
B arrels.............................. 3 00
Grits.......................................  3*4
Dried........ ......................4  @4*4
Maccaronl and Vermicelli.
Domestic, 12 lb. box__  
55
Imported......................10*4©ll
Barrels  200 .........................  6 00
Half barrels  100..................  3 12
Kegs..........................— ....  2 60
Oreen,  bn............................  1 15
Spilt  per’l b ................... 
Barrels  180..................   @5  50
Half  bbls 90...............  @3  00
Oerman..............................  
4*4
East India.............................  5
Cracked................................   314

Pearl Barley.

Rolled  Oats.

Wheat.

Sago.

Peas.

3

FI8H ~Salt.

 

 

“ 

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Bloaters.
'  Cod.’.......

10@12
65 
9 SC

Halibut.
Herring.
“ 
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Yarmouth
Pollock
Whole, Grand  Bank.......4345*4
Boneless,  bricks............. 634
Boneless,  strips...............6*4
Smoked —  
Holland, white hoops keg 
bbl 
Norwegian.........................
Round, *4 bbl 100 lbs.
34  “  40  “ 
,
Scaled.......................
Mackerel.
No. 1,  100 lbs............................. 10 00
No. 1, 40 lbs............................4  41
No. 1,  10 lbs.................................1 00
No. 2,100  lbs...............................5 50
No. 2,40  lbs..............................   2 50
No. 2,10 lbs.............
Family, 90 lbs..........
10  lb s .......
Sardines.
Trout

Russian,  kegs................ 
No. 1,  *4 bbls., lOOlbs............. 4 75
No.  134 bbl, 40  lbs................ 2 2C
No. 1, kits. 10 lbs.......... 
No  1, 8 lb  kits............. 

2 50 
1  30 
18

55

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Whlteflsh.

63
53
No. 1 family

% bbls, 100 lbs.......... 86  25 
25
34  “  40  “  ------   .  8 80  120
78 
lO lb.  kits....................  
40
81b.  “ 
35
.................... 
65 
MATCHES.

Globe Match Co.’s Brands.

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

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

Souders*.

Regular
Grade
Lemon.

lj 
S H \ V 
b> 
ItlB ri  
dos
2  
2 os  — 8  75
?   4 oz  . . .   1  50

Regular
Vanilla.

doz
2 oz  __ 81  20
4 oz...... 2 40
XX Grade 
Lemon.
S t i J * 2 o z ......81  50
4oz
3 00
XX Grade 
Vanilla.
2 oz....... 81  75
oz...  3 50
4 

2 00
2 50

1 10
1 75
1 20
2 25

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Jennings.
Lemon. Vanilla 
120
2 oz regular panel.  75 
4 oz 
...1  50 
2 00
6oz 
...2 00 
3 00
No. 3  taper.............1 36 
No. 4  taper.............150 
Northrop’»
2 oz  oval taper  75 
“ 
3 oz 
2 oz regular  “ 
4 oz 
“ 

1  20 
“ 
85 
“ 
1  60 
GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.

Lemon.  Vanilla.

Kegs......................................... 3 25
334
Half  kegs  ............................. 1  90
Quarter  kegs..........................1 10
1  lb  cans................................  30
*4 lb  cans...............................  18
Kegs......................................... 4 25
Half  kegs...................... 
..2  40
Quarter kegs.......... 
..1 3 5
1 lb cans.......... 
...  34

Choke Bore—Dupont’s

 

Eagle Duck—Dupont’s.

Kegs..........................  
11  00
Half  k e g s .............................. 5 75
Quarter kegs...........................3 00
1  lb  cans..............................  
60
8age........................................ 15
Hops........................................16

HERBS.

INDIGO.

55
Madras,  5 lb. boxes  ......... 
50
S. F., 2, 3 and 5 lb. boxes.. 
JELLY.
17  lb. palls..................   @  54
30  “ 
.................  @  81
Pure.........................................  30
Calabria..................................  25
Sicily.......................................  12
Root.........................................  18

“ 
LICORICE.

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

“ 
MINCE  MEAT.

Mince meat, 3 doz. in case.  2  6 
Pie  preparation,  3  doz.  in
00
case.................................... 

MEASURES.
Tin, per dozen.

1  gallon  .............................  81  75
Half  gallon........................  1  40
Quart.......................  
70
 
Pint......................... 
 
45
Half  pint  .......................... 
40
Wooden, for vinegar, per doz.
1 gallon...............................  7 00
Half gallon 
......................  4  75
Quart..................................  3  75
Pint 

.................................  2

MOLASSES.
Blackstrap.
Sugar houae................ 
 
Cana Baking.
Ordinary............................. 
Porto Rico.
Prime.................................. 
Fancy..................................  
Fair...................................... 
Good  ..................................  
Extra  ood.......................... 
Choice 
.............................  
Fancy............................ 
half  barrels Sc.extra

Vrw Orleans.

14
ie
20
80
18
22
27
32
40

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Universal.”
6  1  books, per hundred 
8 2* 3 
8 5
810 
820 
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 
.2 0  

ICan  be  made to represent any 
denomination  from 810  down. | 
20 books...........................8  1  00
50
!  00 
3 00 
100
6 25 
250
500
10 00 
17  50
1000

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CRACKERS.

Butter.

Seymour XXX........................  5
Seymour XXX, cartoon.........5*4
Family  XXX.........................   5
Family XXX,  cartoon........   5*4
Salted XXX............................   5
Salted XXX,  cartoon  ...........5*4
Kenosha 
.............................  7%
Boston.......................................7
Butter  biscuit.......................  6
Soda,  XXX...........................  5*4
Soda, City..............................   7*4
Soda,  Duchess......................  8*4
Crystal Wafer........................ 10*4
Long  Island Wafers 
8. Oyster  XX X ......................  5V4
City Oyster, XXX...................  5*4
Farina  Oyster.......................   6

.........11

Oyster.

Soda.

CREAM  TARTAR.
Strictly  pure........................ 
80
30
Telfer’s Absolute................ 
Grocers’............................... 15©25

FLY  PA PER . 

Thum ’s  Tanglefoot.

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

DRIED  FRUIT*. 

Dom estic.

Apples.

“ 

Apricots.

quartered  “ 

Sundrled. sliced In  bbls.
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes 12  12*4 
California in  bags........
Evaporated In boxes.  .. 
Blackberries.
In  boxes.........................
Nectarines.
70 lb. bags.........................
25 lb. boxes.......................
Peeled, in  boxes............
Cal. evap.  “ 
............
“ 
In bags.........
California In bags.......
Pitted  Cherries.
Barrels.............................
60 lb. boxes....................

Peaches.

Pears.

“ 

4 50

“ 

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

CLOTHES  PINS.

5 gross boxes.................. 40©45

COCOA  SHELLS.

35 lb  bags..........................   ©3
Less quantity.................  @334
6*@7
Pound  packages

COFFEE

Green.
Rio.

Santos.

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

Maracaibo.

Mocha.

Java.

Roasted.

To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add He. per lb. for roast­
ing and 15 per  cent,  for shrink­
age.
Package.
M cLaughlin’s  X X X X ..  22 80
Bnnola 
.............................  22 30
Lion, 60 or 100 lb.  case__   22  80

Extract.

Valley City  *4  gross...........  
75
1 15
Felix 
Hummel’s, foil,  gross..........  1 65
“ 
........ 2 85

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CHICORY.

Balk
Red

CLOTHES  LINES.

Cotton,  40 ft 
50ft
60 ft
70 ft.
80 ft.
60«.
72«

“ 
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Jute 
“ 
CONDENSED  MILK. 

per doz.  1  25 
1 40
1 60 
1  76 
1  90
8b
1  00

“ 
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4 doz. 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

a x l e   g r e a s e .
Aurora......................  56 
0 as tor Oil.........—  
60 
Diamond..................   50 
Frazer’s ..................  
75 
Mica 
.................—   65 
Paragon 
.................  55 

doz  gross 
600
7  00
5 50
9
7  50
600

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

.. 
“  1  “  ...................  1

Acme.
u  id.  ¡ana. 3 doz  ...
.  “ 
*:»>. 
..............,
lib . 
Bulk............. ........................
Arctic.
1b cans 6 doz  case..........
.............1
14 ib 
1 
ih 
.......  2
t
i
5  ft 
............  9
3  oz ** 
............
............
4  oz “ 
...........
6  oz “ 
............  1
9  oz “ 
1b  “ 
..............2
............  9
lb  “ 
,
“ 
 
“ 
1
“ 
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“  4 doz “ 
“  9 dnz  “ 
!  doz
“
“  1  doz 
“ 
Cream  Flake.
6 doz  “ 
4 doz  “ 
4 doz  “ 
4doz  “ 
2 doz  “ 
ldoz  “ 
Bed Star, 34 ® cans
 
*4 *>  “ 
1 lb  “ 
Telfer’s,  34 lb. cans, doz.
“  ••
m b .  “ 
1 lb. 
* • •  l
' 
Our Leader,  34 -b cans.......
*4 lb  cans........
1 lb cans-----  .  1

• 

BATH  BRICK.
2 

dozen in case.

BLUING. 

English..................................  90
Bristol.....................................  *
Domestic................................  TO
Gross
Arctic, 4 oz  ovals................. 3 60
675
g oz 
pints,  round............  9 00
No. 2, sifting box. 
2 75
No. 3, 
. . .  4 00
No. 5. 
...  8 00
oz b a ll..............  4 50
1 
Mexican Liquid, 4  oz........   3 60
“ 
S oz..........   680
BROOMS,

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JO. 2 Hurl............................   1 75
No. 1  “ 
.............................  2 00
No. 2 Carpet......................- -  2 25
No. 1  “ 
.........................   2 50
Parlor Gem...........................2  75
Common Whisk..................  
80
Fancy 
...................  100
Warehouse...........................2  75

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BRUSHES.

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Stove, No.  1.........................  1 25
10.......................  1 50
15.......................  1 75
Bice Root Scrub, 2  row—  
86
Bice Root  Scrub, 8 row —   1  25
Palmetto,  goose...................  1 50

CANDLES.

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

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•* 

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» 

“  2  lb........................
21b......................
“ 

Little Neck,  1 lb ............
“ 
Clam Chowder.
Cove Oysters.
21b...............
Lobsters.

Fish.
Clams.
...1   20
2  lb............ ...  1  90
Standard. 8 lb................. ...2 2 5
Standard,  1 lb ............... ....  75
. ..1   35
Star,  1  lb........................ . .. 2  45
.  8 50
Picnic, l i b ...................... . . . 2  00
...2 SO
Mackerel.
Standard, 1 lb.................... ....1   10
2  lb .................. ....2   10
....2  25
Mustard,  2 lb ..................
Tomato Sauce,  2 lb ........ ....2  25
Soused, 2  lb........................ . 
.2 25
Columbia River, flat —  
...1   80
....1 65
tails___
pink........................
....1   10 
...1  95
Kinney’s,  flats..................
Sardines.
American  34s .................... ■4*4© 5
As.................... .6*4© 7
Imported  Ms.................. ..  ©SO
*4s...................... ■. 15@16
Mustard  Ms........................ ..  6@7
Boneless..............................
21
Brook  8, lb.......................... ....2 50

Salmon.
“ 

Trout.
Fruits.
Apples.
3  lb. standard.............
York State, gallons.... 
Hamburgh, 

1  20
4 00

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Gages.

Peaches.

Cherries.

Apricots.
1  40
Live oak................... 
1  40
Santa  Crus................... 
Lusk's........................... 
1  50
Overland....................  
I  10
Blackberries.
F. A  W.....  ................  
90
R e d ............................ 1  10©1 25
Pitted Hamburgh-----
White  .........................  
1  50
Erie..............................  
1  25
Damsons, Egg Plums and Green 
Erie..............................  
1  20
1  40
California....................  
Gooseberries.
Common...................... 
1  25
1  10
P ie............................... 
M axwell...................... 
1  50
Shepard’s ....................  
1  50
California....................   180@1  75
...................
Monitor 
Oxford..........................
Pears.
Domestic...................... 
1  25
Riverside...................... 
1  75
Pineapples.
Common......................1  00@1  30
Johnson’s  sliced........  
2  50
grated........  
2 75
Booth’s sliced.............  @2 51
grated............  @2  75
Common...................... 
1  10
Raspberries.
1  10
Red................................ 
1  40
Black  Hamburg.......... 
Erie,  black  ................. 
1  25
Strawberries.
Lawrence....................  
1  25
Hamburgh..................  
1  25
1  20
Erie............................... 
Terrapin.........................  
1  05
Whortleberries.
Blueberries................. 
85
Corned  beef  Libby's...........2 10
Roast beef  Armour’s ...........1  80
Potted  ham, *4 lb.......................1 25
“  34 lb ..................   70
tongue, if lb ................J 35
34 lb ..........  
75
chicken, 34 lb ........... 
95

Quinces.

Meats.

“ 
Vegetables.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

Beans.

“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Peas.

Com.

Hamburgh  stringless............ 1 15
French style....... 2 00
Limas................... 1  35
Lima, green...........................1  25
soaked.........................   70
Lewis Boston Baked............ 1 35
Bay State  Baked........................1 35
World’s  Fair  Baked............ 1  85
PlcnlcBaked............................... 1 00
Hamburgh.............................1  25
Livingston  E den.................1  20
Purity.....................................
Honev  Dew.................................1 40
Morning Glory....................
Soaked.................................. 
75
Hamburgh  marrofat............. 1 30
early June 
...1 50
Champion Eng.. 1  40
petit  pole.............. 1 40
fancy  sifted____ 1 90
Soaked....................................  65
Harris standard....................   75
VanCamp’s  marrofat..........1  io
early June....... 130
Archer’s  Early Blossom__ 1  25
French.......................................2 15
Mushrooms.
French.................................19©21
Pumpkin.
Brie................................... 
  75
Squash.
Hubbard......................................1 15
Succotash.
Hamburg......................................1 40
Soaked....... ............. 
Honey  Dew.................................1 50
Erie.............................................. 1 35
Hancock................................
Excelsior  . .. —»...................
Eclipse...................................
Hamburg..... . . . . . . . ....... .
Gallon...........................
CHOCOLATE. 

Tomatoes.

80

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Baker’s.

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

23
37
43

CHEESE.
Amboy.........................
Acme............................
Lenawee....................
Riverside....................
Gold  Medal.................
Skim.............................
Brick.............................
Edam  .....................
Leiden..........................
Llmburger  .................
P in e a p p le .........................
Roquefort....................
Sap  Sago......................
Schweitzer, imported. 
domestic  ....

“ 

10
9*
9
9*4
8*
5@7
15
1  00 
22 
©15 
©25 
©85 
©20 
©24 
©14

P ru n e lle s.
Raspberries

301b.  boxes.......... ..........
In barrels........................
SO lb. boxes......................
........................
251b.  “ 
Raisins.

Loose  Muscatels In Boxes.

2 crown................................
3 
“ 
................................
4  “ 
£  Loose Muscatels In Bags.
2  crown................ 

.....................  4Q
4%

Peerless evaporated cream.  5 75 

CREDIT  CHECKS.

500, any one denom’n .......S3 00
1000,  “ 
....... 5 00
2000,  “ 
........ 8 00
Steel punch......................  75

“ 
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THE  MIOHIG^JST  TRADESMAN,

17

PICKLES.
Medium.

Barrels, 1,200 count...  @4 00
©2 50
Half bbls, 600  count.. 
5 00
Barrels, 2,400 count. 
Half bbls, 1,200 count 
3 00

Small.

PIPES.
Clay, No.  216........ 
1  70
“  T. D. full count...........   70
Cob, No.  3 ..............................120

POTASH.

48 cans In case.

“ 
“ 

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

BICE.
Domestic.
Carolina bead........ 

..........6
No. 1..........................5*
No. 2........................  5
Broken  ................................   4
Japan, No. 1  ...........................5 >4
"  No. 2 ............................5
Java......................................  6
Patna.....................................  4M

Imported.

SPICES.

Whole Sifted.

“ 

“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

Allspice  ................................  9)4
Cassia, China In mats........   8
Batavia in bund — 15
Saigon In rolls.........32
Cloves,  Amboyna..................22
Zanzibar................... I1V4
Mace  Batavia....................... 80
Nutmegs, fancy....................75
“  No.  1.........................70
“  No.  2.........................60
Pepper, Singapore, black — 10 
*• 
white. ■■  .20
shot...........................16
“ 
Pure Ground in Bulk.
Allspice.................................. 15
Cassia,  Batavia— .............. 18
and  Saigon.25
Saigon......................35
Cloves,  Amboyna................. 22
Zanzibar..................18
Ginger, African.....................16
“  Cochin...................   20
Jamaica.................. 22
" 
Mace  Batavia........................65
Mustard, Eng. and Trieste. .22
“  Trieste......................25
Nutmegs, No. 2 .....................75
Pepper, Singapore, black — 16 
“  white.  ...24
“ 
“  Cayenne................... 20
Sage......................................... 36
•‘Absolute” in Packages.

Ms  Ms
Allspice........................  84  155
Cinnamon  ...................  84  155
Cloves...........................  84  155
Ginger,  Jam aica.......  84  1  55
African...........   84  1  55
Mustard........................  84  155
Pepper.........................   84  155
Sage?.............................  84

SAL  SODA.
Granulated,  bbls..................  IQ
751b  cases..............   IX
Lump, bbls 
.........................1  15
1451b [kegs..............   1J4

“ 

“ 

“ 

SEEDS.
A n ise...........................  @15
Canary, Smyrna.......  
4
Caraway 
8
.................... 
90
. 
Cardamon, Malabar 
Hemp.  Russian 
....... 
4
Mixed  Bird 
.............. 
5@6
10
Mustard,  white.......... 
9
Poppy...........................  
........................... 
Rape 
5
Cuttle  bone............  .. 
80
STARCH.

“ 

“ 
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SALT.

SODA.

SNUFF.

“ 
“  .  60 5 
“ 
Butter, 56 lb  bags...........
“  24141b bags  .........
“  280 lb  b b ls.........
“  224 lb  “ 
............

Corn.
5X
20-lb  boxes 
....................
.......................
40-lb 
5M
Gloss.
.  5.  5
1 lb packages......................
3-lb 
......................
6-lb 
........................ 5M
40 and 50 lb. boxes............. .  3M
Barrels  ................................ .  3M
Scotch, In  bladders........... 87
Maccaboy, In jars............ .35
French Rappee, in Jars  ... 
.43
Boxes  ........................... ..5M
........... --4X
Kegs, English 
Diamond Crystal.
Cases, 243  lb. boxes........ $ 1  60
Barrels, 320  lbs.............
2  50
115 2M lb bags.. .. 
.... 4 00
lb  “ 
3  75
3010  lb  “ 
.... 3 50
65
3 50
2 50
2 25
Worcester.
115 2M-lb sacks.................... $4 (0
“ 
60 5-lb 
................... 3 75
•* 
3010-lb 
.................... 3 50
22 14 lb.  “ 
...................... 3 30
3201b. bbl............................. 2 50
8 lb  sacks.......... ............... 32M
5i b line  n  sacks.................
60
Common Grades.
100 3-lb. sacks...............  
. $2  10
60 5-lb.  “ 
..................... 2 00
2810-lb. sacks...................
1  85
30
56 lb. dairy In drill  bags.. 
281b.  “ 
16
. 
75
56 lb. dairy In linen sacks.
75
56 lb. dairy In linen  sacks 
56 Id.  sacks........................
22
80
Saginaw............................
NO
..........................

Ashton.
Higgins,
Soiar Rock.
Common Flue.

Warsaw.

“ 

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SALERATUS.

Packed 60 lbs. In box.

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

SEELY’S  EXTRACTS. 

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

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

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

SOAP.
Laundry.

Allen B. Wrlsley's Brands.

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

Proctor & Gamble.

“ 

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

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Dingman Brands.

“ 

“ 

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

“ 
Lautz Bros. & Co.’s Brands.

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

Silver................................
M ono................................
Savon Improved.............
Sunflower........................
Golden..............................
Economical  ...............
Single  box  ............................3  65
5 box  lots..................................   3 60
10 box lots................................... 3 50
25 box  lots del............................3 40

Passolt’B Atlas  Brand.

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

“ 

SUGAR.

Below  are  given  New fYork 
prices on sugars, to  which  the 
wholesale  dealer  adds  the  lo­
cal freight  from  New  York  to 
your  shipping  point,  giving 
you  credit  on  the  invoice  for 
the  amount  of  freight  buyer 
pays from the market  in which 
he  purchases  to  his  shipping 
point, including 20  pounds  for 
the weight of the barrel.
..$5 31
Domino............................
Cut  Loaf........................... ..  5 31
..  ......................... ..  4 87
Cubes 
Powdered......................... ..  i  87
XXXX  Powdered............ ..  5  12
.................. ..  4 62
Granulated 
Fine Granulated.............. .,  4 62
Extra Fine Granulated.. . •  4  75
4 87
Mould  A .........................
Diamond Confec.  A....... ..  4  62
Confec. Standard  A ..  .. ..  4 50
No.  1................................. .  4 31
No.  2 ............................... ..  4 31
No.  3................................ .  4  31
No.  4................................. . .  4  25
No.  5................................ ..  4  18
No.  6................................ ..  4  06
No.  7................................ ..  4  00
No.  8................................ . .  3 87
No.  9................................ ..  3  N1
No.  10................................ ..  3 81
No.  11................................ ..  3 To
No.  12................................ .  3 69
No.  13................................ ..  3 18
No.  14................................
3 00

SYRUPS.

Corn.

Barrels.............................. ...19
Half bbls........................... ...21
Fair.........................................  19
Good.......................................  25
Choice.....................................  30

Pure Cane.

TABLE  SAUCES.
“ 

Lea & Perrin’s, large__ _  4  75
small.......  2 75
Halford, large................... 3 75
small..................2 25
Salad Dressing, large  ......  4 55
” 
sm all.......2 65

“ 
“ 

TEAS.

jap an—Regular.

SUN CUBED.

BASKET  FIRED.

Fair..............................   @17
Good.............................  @20
Choice......................  . .24  @26
Choicest.......................32  @34
D ust.............................10  @12
Fair..............................   @17
Good.............................  @20
Choice.......................... 24  @26
Choicest.......................32  @34
Dust............................. 10  @12
Fair..............................18  @20
Choice...........................  @25
Choicest...................... 
@35
Extra choice, wire leal  @40
e  UNPOWDER.
Common to  fall..........%  @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

oolons. 
IMPERIAL.

TOUNS  HYSON.

ENSLISH  BREAKFAST.

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

TOBACCOS.

Pine Cut.

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

“  % bbls........... 

23
 

“ 

 

Plug.

Sorg’s Brands.

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

Sm oking.

27
29
24
28
22

39
27
40
26
38
34
40
32
39
30

24
43
32
31
27

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

Kiln  dried..........................17@18
Golden  Shower.....................19
Huntress 
26
Meerschaum  ..  ................29@30
American Eagle Co.’s Brands.
Myrtle Navy..........................40
Stork  ...............................30@32
German.................................. 15
Frog....................................... 33
Java, Ms foil.................. —  32
Banner Tobacco Co.'s Brands.
Banner....................................16
Banner Cavendish................38
Gold Cut 
............................. 28
Warpath.................................74
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.

Leidersdorf’s Brands.

Spaulding & Merrick.

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

VINEGAR.

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

(1 for barrel.

WET  MUSTARD,

Bulk, per gal  ..........  
30
Beer mug, 2 doz in case...  1  75

 

 

YEAST.

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

 

 

WOODEN WAKE.

Tubs, No. 1............................  6 00
“  No. 2............................. 5 50
“  No. 3............................   4 50
1  30
Palls, 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  “ 
....................
35
Baskets, market..........  
shipping  bushel..  1  15
“ 
.. 1  25
“ 
full hoop  “ 
5 25
“ willow cl’ths, No.l 
“ 
No.2 6 25
No.3 7 25
No.l  3 75
“ 
No.2 4 25
“ 
“ 
No.3 4 75
Palls.....................................  3  15
Tubs,  No.  1...............................13 50
Tubs, No. 2................................12 00
Tubs, No. 3................................10 50

“ 
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splint  “ 
“ 
“ 

INDURATED  WABE.

“ 
“ 
‘ 
" 

Butter Plates—Oval.

Double.

250  1080
60 2  10
70 2 45
80 2 80
...........................   1  00  3 50
Wash board s—single.

No.  1.............................. 
No.  2.............................. 
No. 3.............................. 
No 
Universal....................................2 25
No.  Queen.................................. 2 50
Peerless Protector......................2 40
Saginaw Globe..........................  1 75
Water Witch................  2250
Wilson.........................................2 55
Good Luck.................................. 2 75
Peerless................................  2 8
HIDES  PELTS  and  FURS 
Perkins  &  Hess  pay  as  fol­
lows:
Green................................  2@2 M
Part  Cured.....................  
@ 3
Full  “ 
@  3M
Dry.................................  4  @  5
Kips,green  ..................  2  @ 3
Calfskins,  green.........  4  @ 5
cured........ 4  M@ 6
Deacon skins................ 10  @25

“  cured......................  @ 4

HIDES.

“ 

 

 

No. 2 hides M off.
FELTS.

WOOL.

Shearlings.................:.  5  @  20
Lambs 
........................25  @  60
Washed.........................12  @15
Unwashed..................... 8  @11
Tallow.........................   3M@  4
Grease  butter  .............  1  @ 2
Switches......................  1M@  2
Ginseng........................2 00@2 50
GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFg 

MISCELLANEOUS.

23

12 00
16 00
20 00
19 00

WHEAT.

45
45

MEAL.

FLOUR  IN  SACKS.

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

H1LLSTUFF8.

Less
Car lots  quantity
$15 00

COBN.

Bran.................$14 00 
Screenings__   12 00 
Middlings.......  15 00 
Mixed Feed...  19 50 
Coarse meal 
18 00 
Car  lots................................. 45M
Less than  car  lots.............. £0
Car  lots  ................................42
Less than car lots................45
No. 1 Timothy, car lots__ 11  <X)
No. 1 
ton lots  .......12 50

OATS.

“ 

12M

FISH  AND  OYSTERS.
F.  J.  Dettenthaler  quotes as 

follows:
FRESH  FISH.
Whiteflsb 
...................  @ 9
T rout...........................  @ 8
Black Bass................... 
Halibut.........................   @17
Ciscoes or Herring —   @ 4
Blueflsh........................  @10
Fresh lobster, per lb .. 
20
Cod................................ 
10
No. 1 Pickerel..............  @ 8
Pike..............................   @ 7
Smoked White............  @ 8
Red  Snappers.......... ., 
15
Columbia  River  Sal­
mon ........................... 
15
Mackerel......................   18@25
oysters—Cans. 
Falrhaven  Counts —   @45
F. J. D.  Selects..........
Selects  .........................
F. J. D...........................
Anchors...................
Standards....................
Extra Selects..per gal.
Selects.
Standards.
Counts.
Scallops.
Shrimps  ...................... 
Clams...........................
SHELL  SOODS.
Oysters, per  100.......... 1  25@1  75
.  75@l  00
Clams, 

OYSTERS— Bulk.

1  25

... 

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PROVISIONS.

LARD.

SAUSAGE.

The Grand Rapids  Packing  and Provision Co 

quotes as follows:
PORK  IN  BARBELS.
Mess................ 
..............................................  13  25
Short c u t....................................................... 
13 58
Extra clear pig, short  cut..............................   15  00
Extra clear,  heavy..........................................
Clear, fat  back...............................................  14  50
Boston clear, short cut...................................   14 50
Clear back, short cut.......................................  it  50
15  00
Standard clear, short cut. best..................  
Pork, links................................................. 
754
Bologna......................................................  
5*4
Liver.......................................................... 
e
Tongue...................................................... 
314
Blood ..........................................................
Head cheese.............................................. 
g
Summer......................................................  
10
Frankfurts................................................ 
7^4
Kettle  Rendered.................................................  354
Granger................................................................ 3
Fam ily................................................................  6)4
Compound...........................................................  554
Cottolene.............................................................. 7
50 lb. Tins, %c advance.
20 lb.  palls, Me 
x c  
10 lb.  “ 
51b.  “ 
Tic
3 lb.  " 
l c
Extra Mess, warranted 200 lbs.................
50
Extra Mess, Chicago packing..................
Boneless, rump butts.........................................  9 50
Hams, average 20 lbs...........................................11*4
16 lbs..........................................UX
12 to 14 lbs.................................. 12
picnic........................................................  8M
best boneless...........................................   10
Shoulders.............................................................   s
Breakfast Bacon  boneless....................................10 x
Dried beef, ham prices.............................. 
.  1214
Long Clears, heavy.............................................
Briskets,  medium...............................................  3
 

smoked  meats—Canvassed or Plain.

ligh t.................................. 

BEEF  IN  BARRELS.

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DRY  SALT  MEATS.

PICKLED  PIGS’  FEET.

Butts...................................................................
D. S. Bellies........................................................  3
Fat Backs............................................................  7^4
Half  barrels.......................................................3 00
Quarter barrels...................................................2 0o
K its.........................................................................  90
Kits, honeycomb.............................................
Kits, prem ium ..................................................
CROCKERY  AND  GLASSWARE 
No. 0 Sun.............................................................
NO.1  “  .............................................................
No.2  “  ............................................................
T ubular..............................................................

LAMP BURNERS.

LAMP  CHIMNEYS.  Per bOX.

1  75 
.1  88 
.2 70

.2 60 
2 80 
.3 80

6 doz. In box.

La Bastle.

First quality.
“ 
“ 
XXX Flint.

No. 0 Sun............................................................
No. 1  “ 
.............................................................
No.2  “  .............................................................
No. 0 Sun, crimp  top........................................
“  ........................................
No. 1  “ 
No. 2  “ 
................................
" . . .  
No. 0 Sun, crimp  top...............  ......................
No. 1  “ 
“  ........................................
No.2  “ 
“  ........................................
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and  labeled....................
“ 
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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

THE  DREADED  PO W ER OP CAPITAL.
Thousands  of  years  ago  our  Asiatic 
ancestors,  impressed by  what  they saw 
of the mighty forces of  nature,  such  as 
the light and beat of the  sun,  the  wind 
and the  rain,  fire  and  flood,  lightnings 
and tempests,  made  personal  beings  of 
them  and  worshipped  them,  as  many 
savage  tribes  do  to  this  day.  Their 
devotion was inspired  not by  gratitude, 
but  by fear,  and it was intended  more to 
avert the mischiefs which  they  believed 
their deities  could  and  would  do  them 
than to manifest an  appreciation  of  the 
benefits 
they  conferred.  Christianity 
and civilization have long  ago eradicated 
from  among  us  the  outward  forms  of 
this  primeval  idolatry,  but  the  spirit 
from  which it proceeded still  remains an 
essential element of  human  nature,  and 
finds  other  ways  of  expressing  Itself. 
The blind,  unreasoning hatred of capital, 
which entered so largely into  the  recent 
railroad strike,  and  which  has  produced 
so  much  denunciation  of  employers  of 
laboring  men,  results  from 
this  same 
tendency  to  personify  every  great  but 
obscure  power  and  to  attribute  to  it 
malignity 
as  benevolence. 
Capital is not, indeed,  worshipped  as  a 
god,  because  the  spread  of  intelligence 
and the prevalence of Christianity forbid 
it; but it is  execrated  as  a  demon,  and 
the human passions of greed,  selfishness, 
tyranny, and cruelty are  attributed to  it 
as if it were  capable  of  thinking,  feel­
ing  and  acting  like  a  man,  or,  rather, 
like  a very bad man.

as  well 

by  man, 

Of  course, 

those  who  thus 

revile 
capital  will readily  admit  that  they  do 
not  mean  to  be  taken  literally.  No 
argument is needed to  demonstrate  that 
capital, in itself, is not a  proper  subject 
It  neither 
of  either  blame  or  praise. 
thinks,  feels,  hears,  speaks nor  acts. 
It 
is nothing but the  inert  accumulation of 
materials  produced 
and 
fashioned by man  into forms in  which it 
can  be  made  useful  or  destructive,  ac­
cording  to  the  way  in  which  it  is  em­
ployed.  A large part of the capital  of a 
railroad company,  for  example,  consists 
of  its  locomotive  engines,  which  will 
draw loads of dynamite or of  breadstuffs 
with  equal  indifference,  and  run  over 
human beings that get in their  way with 
as little compunction as they devour  the 
fuel that is shovelled under their boilers; 
its  bridges  its 
of 
its  embankments, 
tunnels,  its  cars,  and 
its  station  and 
freight houses,  all of which are absolute­
ly  lifeless  and  conscienceless.  A  great 
manufactory,  too, is  nothing  more  than 
a combination of  building materials  and 
machinery  adapted  to  certain  purposes 
which it fulfills or fails to fulfill according 
as it is set in  motion  or  suffered  to  lie 
idle.  The same is true of farms, bouses, 
ships, steamers,  merchandise of all sorts, 
and  of  the  whole  array  of  articles— 
money included—which men call  wealth, 
and which constitute  the capital of their 
possessors.  To speak of them  as if they 
bad souls,  and  were engaged  consciously 
in oppressing, crushing,  and  plundering 
the men and women employed  in making 
them  useful is  less  rational  than  eleva­
ting  storms,  lightning,  and  fire  to  the 
rank  of  gods.  Natural  forces  have  at 
least the semblance of being  free agents, 
and of working not the  will  of  another, 
but their own.

The parallel talk  about  labor as  if  it 
were a thing independent  of  the laborer, 
and self-acting like  him,  is  equally  in­
defensible.  The man and not bis muscle

is what does  the  work  ih  which  he  is 
engaged,  and the most  valuable  work  is 
that  of  which  mere  muscular  power 
forms  the  least  part.  The  efforts  put 
forth  by  Bessemer,  Bell,  Edison  and 
other  great  inventors  in  thinking  out 
their inventions are  as truly labor as the 
shovelling  of  earth  or  the  handling of 
mechanical 
and  yet  neither 
deserve consideration  in  themselves,  but 
only as they represent  the  human being 
from  whom they  proceed.  He  alone  is 
entitled to the reward they bring, just as 
he  alone  would  be  responsible  if  he 
should misapply  his  powers  to  the  in­
jury of his fellow men.

tools, 

the 

like 

Nevertheless, 

The conflict, therefore, between Capital 
and Labor, popularly described as if  one 
were a personal  demon and the other his 
victim,  means, if it means anything, that 
the  owners  of  capital  who  employ  the 
owners  of  labor  are,  as  a  mass,  avari­
cious  oppressors,  while,  on  the  other 
band, those whom they employ are,  as  a 
mass,  ground down under  an  iron  heel, 
and  writhing  in  agony 
trodden 
worms.  Put in this  extreme form  such 
a view of the matter is manifestly  false. 
Employers are  not,  as  a  rule,  tyrants, 
nor are the employed,  as  a rule, helpless 
victims.  On the contrary,  the  majority 
of employers are as fair in their dealings 
as other men, and  the majority  of  those 
whom they  employ are decently  treated. 
If it were not so, the  world  of  industry 
would not go on as it does.
idea 

is  current 
among otherwise  intelligent  people,  and 
finds frequent  expression  in  newspaper 
reviews,  sermons,  and political speeches, 
that capital  somehow  is  a  thing  which 
needs to be jealously watched and sternly 
repressed in order to keep  it  from  mas­
tering  the  community  and  enslaving 
those who  do not  possess  it.  Through­
out  the  debates  in  Congress  on the re­
peal of the silver  purchase  clause of the 
Sherman  act 
frequent  reference  was 
made,  in  the  Senate as  well  as  in  the 
House of  Representatives,  to  a  “money 
power”  which,  it was  alleged,  was con­
spiring to fasten the yoke  of  gold mono­
metallism  upon  the  necks  of  debtors. 
The tax upon the incomes of the few citi­
zens having more than  $4,000  a  year  is 
aimed  at  the  great  capitalists  whose 
power for mischief is  supposed  to  need 
restraint,  and 
staple  argument 
against  protective  duties  is  that  they 
tend  to  increase  the  wealth  of  greedy 
millionaires.

the 

That wealth does  invest  its possessors 
with a certain kind of power nobody can 
deny,  but that this power  can be exerted 
and is exerted to the injury of the public 
any more than that of eloquence  or  per­
sonal  influence,  or  of a  combination of 
small private  interests, like  that, for in­
stance,  of  would-be  pensioners  on  the 
national  bounty,  is  not  true.  At  this 
moment it is generally believed, and with 
some show of  reason,  that  a  few  large 
capitalists interested in  the maintenance 
of a duty on  refined  sugar  are  success­
fully exerting themselves  at Washington 
to shape the  pending Tariff bill  In  their 
own  favor,  and  this illustration may be 
cited to show  what money  can do to cor­
rupt  legislators.  But  it  must  be  ob­
served  that  it  is  not  the  money of the 
Sugar Refineries  Company  which is thus 
employed.  The officers of that company 
have no need to  resort to  this  means  to 
accomplish  the  results  they seek.  The 
company,  as a  company,  and  they them­
selves as individuals might be as poor as

church mice,  and yet  they  could  do  all 
that they are accused of doing. 
It is not 
pretended that they have paid a dollar to 
any  Senator  for  his  vote.  They  have 
merely,  it is  charged, put some  Senators 
in  the  way  of  profiting by a rise in the 
market price  of  their  stock,  predicated 
upon  the  adoption  of  a  scale of duties 
favorable  the  the  company’s  interests. 
So,  again, it is  asserted that  large  sums 
are used every  winter at  Albany to  buy 
the  passage  of  bills  desired by individ­
uals  for  their  own 
special  benefit. 
Whether  this  be true or  not,  the money 
is said to be paid,  in  most cases,  not  by 
men of large wealth,  but  by those  whose 
wealth is  yet  to  be  gained,  and  in  no 
case  do  they  succeed  in  abridging  the 
liberties  of  their  fellow  citizens  or  in 
fastening  upon  them 
intolerable  bur­
dens.

Conflicts between  employers and those 
they employ,  like  those  which  have  re­
cently  taken  place  between  coal opera­
tors and  coal  miners,  the  Pullman  Car 
Company and its workmen, and the West­
ern railroad companies and the American 
Railway Union,  are  also cited  as  proofs 
of  the  power of the owners of capital to 
enslave and oppress  the  laborers  whom 
they  hire. 
In  every  one  of these cases 
the owners  of  labor  have  shown  a  far 
greater  capacity  for  mischief  than  the 
owners of capital.  They have lost a few 
hundreds  of  thousands  of  dollars  in 
wages,  but, by the stoppage  of  business 
alone,  they  have  inflicted  a loss of mil­
lions of  dollars  upon  their  antagonists, 
and,  when to  this is  added  the  destruc­
tion  of  cars, 
switches, 
bridges and buildings,  it will  readily  be 
seen  that they are far more to be dreaded 
than the  men  who  have  to  endure  the 
consequences of their resentment.

locomotives, 

But  the  greatest  of  all  the  fallacies 
current in regard to the  power of capital 
is that which is based upon  the  assump­
tion  that  the  wealth  of  the  country is 
vested  in  the  hands  of  a few  persons, 
leaving the vast  majority  in  the  condi­
tion of paupers.  To support it the wild­
est guesses of the  amount of  the  wealth 
of prominent citizens are  taken as  sober 
facts,  the  sum  total of these amounts is 
deducted from the  assessed  valuation of 
the national wealth,  and  the  remainder 
only  is  credited as  belonging to the rest 
of our population.  Even if the result thus 
reached  were  approximately  true, there 
would be in  it  nothing  perilous  to  the 
public welfare.  The  number of citizens 
who have incomes of $4,000  and  upward 
Is estimated by those  who  are interested 
in making it as large  as possible  at only 
85,000;  that  of  the  lucky  owners  of 
$1,000,000 and upward has recently  been 
ascertained  by the  most  exhaustive  in­
quiries  possible  to  be  only  4,000  al­
together,  while that  of men  having $10,- 
000,000 and more does not  exceed  100 in 
all,  if,  indeed,  there are so many.  Some 
of this handful of  large  capitalists  are, 
indeed,  active  politicians,  but  they  are 
quite  as  demagogical  as  if  they  were 
poor,  and not one of them  has been even 
remotely suspected of aiming at  destroy­
ing the liberties of his fellow citizens for 
the purpose of  setting  himself  up  as  a 
monarch.

A  far  more  formidable  peril  to  the 
country than the  power of its  few  great 
capitalists is the  prevalent envy of these 
capitalists and the disposition manifested 
by  demagogues  to  rob  them  by  legal 
methods of their  possessions.  The  pro­
posed  tax  upon the comparatively small

number  of  annual 
iucomes  exceeding 
$4,000 is  a  beginning;  compulsory  arbi­
tration,  by  which  the  owners of capital 
invested in  railroads,  manufactures,  and 
other enterprises  involving  the  employ­
ment  of  large  numbers of people are to 
be  denied  the  liberty  of  making  their 
own  bargains  with  laborers  will be the 
next  step,  and 
if  the  existing  laws 
against corporations  and trusts  are  car­
ried much  further,  capital  will  shun in­
vestment here and fly to  other  countries 
where  the  hindrances  to  employing  it 
are less. 
If national  poverty  is a bless­
ing.  this result may bethought desirable, 
but  I  doubt  if  such  be  the  opinion  at 
present of a majority of Americans.

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PULLMAN’S  DEBTS.

Are  They  Beal or  Mytbical?

the 

in  abusing 

Next to  Debs,  Geo.  M.  Pullman  was 
recently the most talked  of  man  in  the 
United  States.  Newspapers  of  ali 
shades of politics,  and  of  no  politics at 
all,  preachers  from  their  pulpits  and 
labor  union  agitators  and 
jawsmiths 
united 
sleeping  car 
monarch  and  in resurrecting and  manu­
facturing stories  to  his  discredit.  Per­
haps some of the things said of  him  are 
true;  considering  the  vast  amount  of 
space and time devoted to  him,  it  would 
be strange, indeed,  if the  truth  were not 
stumbled on occasionally;  but,  amid  the 
mass of rubbish which  has  been  spoken 
and written of Pullman, one fact appears 
plain and  indisputable—that  the ground 
of it all is fear of the labor organizations 
and a  desire  to  stand  well  with  them. 
A little  more backbone in  the  editors of 
some  of  our  papers  would  make  their 
clothes fit better and be  more  in  accord 
with the time-honored  doctrine  of  “the 
liberty of the press.”  The  press of this 
city have added  their  quota  to the  sum 
total of vituperation  heaped  upon  Pull­
man’s devoted  head,  and  have  asserted, 
among  other things,  that  Geo.  M.  Pull­
man  had  contracted  debts 
in  Grand 
Rapids,  allowed them to outlaw and  then 
refused  payment.  Two  local  attorneys 
have told how they  held notes,  given  by 
Pullman for various sums,  which  he bad 
repeatedly refused to  pay.  One  lawyer 
allowed  himself to be interviewed  by  an 
Eagle  reporter,  and  told  how  he  had 
been given  a note  to  collect;  how  after 
writing  Pullman 
receiving  no 
answer,  he  had  gone  to  Chicago  and 
“bearded 
in  his  lair,”  so  to 
speak; how at first  the  multi-millionaire 
had treated him  rather shabbily, intimat­
ing  that  he (the lawyer)  had  fished  up 
an old matter,  and  endeavored  to  work 
on his  (Pullman’s)  sympathies  in  order 
to  make  a  fee  for  himself;  how  this 
made him  (the  lawyer)  “hot;”  how  he 
then  proceeded  to  tell  Pullman  a  few 
things; and, alas! how even  this failed to 
move  the 
flinty-hearted  sleeping  car 
magnate,  for he did  not  then,  nor  ever 
after,  pay the note.  The  holder  of  the 
note was an old  lady—infirm,  feeble and 
poor—to whom the money,  though  only 
a small matter of  $27,  would  have  been 
a  godsend.  This story  presents Geo.  M. 
Pullman in  a bad  light,  but,  of  course, 
no one  will  for  a  moment  suspect  the 
lawyer aforesaid of endeavoring to create 
a feeling against Pullman,  or of  having 
a desire to be on the popular side,  which, 
to  some  people’s  way  of  thinking,  is 
certainly not Pullman’s.

the  liou 

and 

that 

stories 

seemed 

It never seems to occur  to some people 
that there  may  be  two  sides  to a story. 
These 
so  perfectly 
straight and  plausible,  and 
the  source 
from  which  they  emanated  gave  them 
such  weight, 
they  have  been 
accepted by almost everybody as “gospel 
truth,”  and  Geo  M.  Pullman  has  been 
berated and execrated  accordingly.  The 
trouble is that somebody  can  almost  al­
ways be found ready to spoil a good story 
with cold,  hard facts;  who,  with  the  pin 
of  truth,  is  mean  enough  to  puncture 
the bubble of fiction,  dissipating  it  into 
thin  air.  So  with 
tales 
about Geo.  M.  Pullman.  There  are  two 
gentlemen in the  city who  have  known 
the  Pullmans  since  in  the  early  ’50s, 
who  have  had  business  dealings  with 
them  many times,  and who are  in a posi­

those 

fairy 

intimately 

to  such  an  extent 

tion to know what they are talking about 
when Geo.  M. Pullman is  the  subject of 
conversation.  Hon.  C.  C.  Comstock  and 
Col. Thaddeus Foote,  two  old  residents, 
were 
interviewed,  and  emphatically 
denied that  Mr.  Pul Imam  ever  refused 
to pay a just debt.  Said  Mr.  Comstock: 
“I  was 
acquainted  with 
Albert  Pullman,  a  brother  of  Geo.  M. 
He lived in this city  several  years  prior 
to his removal to  Chicago,  where he died 
a  few  years  ago.  He  was  engaged  as 
manager  of  a  furniture  salesroom,  in 
company  with  a  man  named  Eccles.  1 
believe  that  Geo.  M.  was  the  owner  of 
the business,  although  it  was  managed 
by  his  brother.  The  two  mismanaged 
the  concern 
that 
George finally ordered  the stock sold out 
and the business closed.  This was  done 
and Albert  Pullman  went  to  work  for 
me in my  furniture factory,  making most 
of  the 
furniture  for  the  old  county 
building.  Several notes  were  given  by 
Geo.  M.  Pullman  at  the  time  the  busi­
ness  was closed out,  but they  were  paid 
in full  in  every  instance.  How  it  was 
with  Albert’s  debts,  1  cannot  say. 
I 
do not think that  Geo.  M.  ever  lived  in 
Grand  Rapids.  He was here many times, 
of course,  but,  so  far as my  recollection 
goes,  he  never  resided  here.  So 
the 
story  that  he  gave  a  note  for  $27  for 
house  rent  is  questionable.  There 
is 
one man in the city,  however,  who  can 
tell you all about,  and that is  Col.  Thad. 
Foote.  Come along with  me over to  his 
place and hear what he has  to say.”

of  New  York 

Mr.  Foote  was  found  at  his home  on
North  Front  street,  and  was  perfectly 
willing to give  all  the information in  his 
possession concerning the  Pullmans.
“George  Pullman  never lived in Grand 
Rapids,” said  Mr Foote,  positively.  “ He 
was here many  times,  for  he  had  busi­
ness interests here,  but his  home was  in 
Chicago. 
I know nothing  about  Albert 
Pullman’s  affairs,  and  so  I  cannot  say 
anything  about  whether  he  paid  his 
debts or  not;  but George  Pullman  never 
was known  to refuse to pay a  just  debt.
I have known  him  for  many  years  and 
know  what  I am  talking  about. 
If  you 
care to listen,  1 will give  you  a little  of 
his family history,  which  will give you  a 
better idea than anything else  would  of 
the  kind  of  man  he  is.  When 
the 
State 
decided 
to 
widen  the  Erie canal  it  made  necessary 
the moving  of  a  great  many  buildings 
which had been  built  on  the  banks  of 
tb$ canal.  Geo.  Pullman’s  father  took 
tlm  contract  of  moving  some  of  these 
buildings,  bat,  as  it  turned  out,  at  a 
price which,  when  the  work  was  done, 
left him seriously embarassed.  He died, 
leaving many debts unpaid,  and  his  son 
George,  then  a  boy  of  eighteen  deter­
mined to  pay  them.  He  continued  the 
business of  moving  buildings  from  the 
canal,  made money and paid  every  cent 
his  father  owed.  That  was  not  all. 
There were his mother,  five  sisters  and 
four brothers to care for. 
It  was  a  big 
load for a boy of his age to  carry,  but he 
did  his  duty  manfully,  educated  and 
clothed  the  children,  and  provided  a 
home for  them and his mother  as long as 
they needed it.  There never was a more 
filial,  a  more  dutiful  son  than  George 
Pullman,  He  paid  his  father’s  debts, 
which  only 
father’s 
memory  impelled him  to  do; he educated 
and  provided for his brothers and sisters, 
and gave to  his  mother  all  the  respect 
and affection  which a son should give; he

for  his 

respect 

has  been  known  as  an  open-hearted, 
generous  gentleman  ever  since  he  ac­
quired  wealth,  yet  they  want  us  to 
believe that he would rob  a  poor,  infirm 
old lady,  or refuse to pay  any  other just 
debt.  The  idea  is  preposterous  and 
originated  in  the  minds  of  men  who 
wanted to make capital  against Pullman, 
and carry favor with his  enemies.  Pull­
man is not the man  to  refuse to  pay  his 
debts and I dare say that  not  a  man  in 
Grand Rapids,  or  anywhere  else,  holds 
paper to the  extern  of  a  dollar  against 
George M.  Pullman.  Why do these  men 
who have claims  against  him  not  have 
them  reproduced  in  the  papers?  That 
would  settle  the  question  and  prove 
what  they say.  They don’t do it,  simply 
because  they have no such claims.”

The lawyer above  referred  to  as  hav­
ing  been  interviewed  by  an  Eagle  re­
porter  was  asked  for  an  ex  lanation, 
and stated that what he  had said  was in 
the utmost good faith;  that the events he 
narrated  had occurred  several years  ago 
and  he  had  to  depend  entirely  on  his 
memory.  His recollection  was  that  the 
note he spoke of  was against  George  M. 
Pullman,  but he could not say positively.
On being told that gentlemen  who had 
been acquainted  with  Mr.  Pullman  for 
many  years  had  asserted  that  he  had 
never lived  in this city  and so could  not 
have contracted  a debt  for  house  rent, 
the  lawyer admitted that he  might  have 
been  mistaken; 
that  it  was  probably 
some  other  Pullman  whom  he  saw  in 
Chicago. 
the  other  stories 
about  Pullman’s  debts  have  no  better
foundation. 
It  is  inconceivable  that  a 
man  whose private  charities  and  public 
benefactions have  been so  great,  whose 
conduct as a son  and  brother  has  been 
so  worthy  of  emulation,  and  whose 
character for  integrity  and  uprightness 
is so well known,  should refuse  payment 
of a few  paltry  debts,  when  be  counts 
his wealth by millions.

Use Tradesman Coupon Books.

s. c. w.

Perhaps 

The  Leading  Niekle  Cigar 
Made in this Market.

The Only Brand in the State (outside of Detroit) 

Made by Improved  Machinery.

This  Cigar  is  made  with  Long  Mixed 

Filler,  Single  Connecticut  Binder 

and  Sumatra  Wrapper.
Sold at $35 per  1,000

By  the  Manufacturer.

6. J.  Johnson, 347 South Division St. 

Grand  Rapids, 

filch.

Telephone  1205.

Michigan (Tentral

“  The Niagara Falls Route.”

(Taking effect  Sunday,  May 27,1894.) 

•Daily.  All others daily, except Sunday. 

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

Union Passenger Station.

C H IC A G O  

July

AND  WEST  MICHIGAN  K’T.
GOING  TO  CHICAGO.

 

 
 

TO AND FROM MUSKEGON.

CHICAGO  VIA  ST  JOS  AND  STEAMER.

RETURNING  FROM  CHICAGO.

Lv. G’d Rapids............ 7:35am  1:25pm *11:30pm
Ar. Chicago.................  1:25pm 6:50pm  *6:45am
Lv.  Chicago...............8:15am  5:00pm  *11:45pm
Ar. G’d Rapids............ 3:05pm  10:35pm  *6:25aro
Lv. Grand  Rapids......................1:25pm  **t>:30pm
Ar. Chicago...............................8:00pm  2:0l)am
Lv. Chicago 0:30am, ar Grand Rapids  5:25  pm
Lv. Grand Rapids  ......  7:25am  1:25pm  5:30pm
Ar. Grand R.  9:15am  3:05pm  5:25pm  10:35pm 
TRAVERSE CITT,  CHARLEVOIX  AND  PETOSKEY.
Lv. Grand  Rapids .. 
7:30am  5:45pm  11:15pm
Ar.  Manistee...........  12:20pm  10:35pm 
.........
Ar. Traverse City__  11:20am  11:1 jpm  4:55am
7:27am
 
Ar. Charlevoix........ 
Ar.  Petoskey......... 
7:55am
 
Ar. Bay View..........  
 
8:00am
Local  train  making  all  stops  leaves  Grand 
Rapids *7:45am.  Trains  arrive  from  north  at 
0:00am, 11:50am,  1 :ii0 pm and *10:00pm.
PARLOR  AND  SLEEPING  CARS.

1:00pm 
1:25pm 
l:;-.0pm 

Parlor cars leave f or Chicago 7:25am  and  1:25 
pm.  For north 7 ;30am and 5:45pm.  Arrives from 
Chicago 3:05pm and  10:35pm.  From north 11:50 
pm and 1:00pm.  Sleeping cars leave for Chicago 
11:30pm.  For north 11:15pm.  Arrive from Chi­
cago 0:25.  Krotn north 0 :i 0.
•Every day.  «Except Saturday.  Others week 
days only.
D ETR O IT, 
J"“ ^ 1S9J
LANSING7 &  NORTHERN  R.  R.
GOING TO  DETROIT.

TO AND PROM  SAGINAW,  ALMA  AND  ST.  LOUIS.

RETURNING  FROM  DETROIT.

Lv. Grand Rapids........  7:00am  1:20pm  5:55pm
Ar. Detroit.................. 11:40am  5:30pm  10:40pm
Lv.  Detroit..................   7:40am  1:10pm  6:00pm
Ar. Grand Rapids....... 12:40pm  5:15pm  10:45pm
Lv. G R 7:00am  1:45pm  Ar. G R. 11:40am 10:45pm
Lv. Grand Rapids...........  7:00am  1:20pm  5:55pm
Ar. from Lowell..............12:40pm 5:15pm  ..........
Parlor  Cars on all trains  between  Grand  Rap 
Ids and Detroit.  Parlor car to Saginaw on morn­
ing train.

THROUGH  CAR SERVICE.

TO  LOWELL  VIA LOWELL  A   HASTINGS R.  It.

Trains  week days only.

GEO. DsHAVEN, Gen. Pass’r Ag’t

■ ETROIT,  GRAND  HAVEN  &  MIL­

W AUKEE  Railway.
EASTWARD.

tNo.  14 tNo.  16 tNo.  l8:*No. 82
Trains Leave
G’d  Rapids, Lv 6 45am 10 20am 325pm 11 00pm
Ionia ......... .Ar 7 40am 11 25am 4 27pm I'Z 35 am
St.  Johns  .. Ar S 25am 12 17pm 5 20pm 1 25am
O w o s s d ......... . Ar 9 00am 1 20pm d 05pm 3 10am
E. Saginaw. . Ar 10 50am 3 45pm 8 00pm <5 40am
Bay City — . Ar 11 32am 4 35pm S 37 pm 7 15am
F lin t......... . Ar 10 05am 3 45pm 7 05pm 5 4  am
Pt.  Huron.
.Ar 1205pm 5 50pm 8 50pm 7 30am
Pontiac__ .Ar 10 53am 305pm 8 25pm 5 37am
Detroit........ .Ar 11 50am 4 05pm 9 25pm 7 00am
For  Grand Haven  and Intermediate
Points  ...........................................t7:35 a. m.
For Grand Haven and  Muskegon...... tl:C0 p. m.
...... 14:55 p.  m.
“ 
“ 
  *7:30p.  m.
For  Grand  Haven  and  Milwaukee,110:05 p. m. 
For Grand Haven  (Sunday only)........8:00 a. m.

“ 
“  Chicago and Milwau­

kee,  Wis 

WESTWARD.

*' 
“ 

“ 

“ 

»Daily.

tDally 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.  in., )0:10 
a. m., 3:16 p. m. and  10:50  p.  m.  Sunday,  only, 
8:00 a. m.
Eastward—No. 14  has  Wagner  Parlor  Buffet 
car.  No. 18 Parlor Car.  No. 82 Wagner  Sleeper.
Westward— No. 11 Parlor Car.  No. 15 Wagner 
Parlor Buffet car.  No. 81  Wagner Sleeper.

J as. Cam pbell, City Ticket Agent.

Grand  Rapids  St Indiana.

T RA INS  g o i n g   n o r t h .

Leave goin
North
For  Mackinaw........................................................ 7:40 a. m
For Traverse City and Saginaw .......................... 4:50 p. m.
For  M ackinaw..................................................................10:25 p. m.

TRA INS  GOING  SO U TH .

Leave going 
South.
For  Cincinnati.......................................................7:00a.m .
For  Kalamazoo and Chicago...............................2:30 p .m .
For  F o rt W ayne and  th e E ast........................... 2:30 p .m .
For Cincinnati...................................................... *5:40 p.  .m
For  Kalamazoo and Chicago.................................... *11:40 p .m

Chicago via G. R. St I. R. R.

Lv Grand R apids............7:00 a m   3:30 p m   *11:40 p m
A rr  Chicago.....................2:00 p m   9:00 p m  
7:10 a m
2:30 p  m  train   has through  W agner  Buffet  P arlor 
Oar and coach.

11:40  p m tra in  daily,  through W agner Sleeping Car 
and Coach.
Lv  Chicago 
11:30 p m
A rr Grand Rapids 
6:65am
3:30  p m   has  through  W agner  Buffet  P arlor  Car. 
11:30 p m   tra in  daily, th ro u g h   W agner  Sleeping  Car.

6:50  a  m 
2:00 p m  

3:30 p m  
9: id p m 

For Muskegon—Leave. 

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

From Muskegon—Arrive

General  Passenger and  Ticket  Agent.
PHOTO
WOOD
HALF-TONE
Buildings,  Portraits,  Cards  and  Stationery 

Headings, Maps, Plans  and  Patented 
Articles.
TRADESMAN  CO.,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

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GOTHAM GOSSIP.

News  from  th e   M etrop olis---- In d ex  of I

the  Markets.

Special Correspondence
N ew   York,  July 27—Not for a genera-1 
tion has so clever a swindler appeared in 
this part of the  country  as  David  Cole­
man,  who  has  just "done  up” the Hig­
gins Soap Co.  to an  extent  that  necessi- 
ates  its  suspension.  He  also euchered 
J.  J. Richardson,  dealer in stoves, out of 
si,100, the Lincoln National Bank out of 
S6,000,  with others to  hear  from.  From 
this city  be went to  Paterson,  N. J., and 
got in some of his hue  work there,  when 
he  was  found  out.  The  Higgins  Soap 
Co. has been managed  by C. S.  Higgins, 
whose German  Laundry Soap  was so ex­
tensively advertised a few years ago.  He 
dissolved  bis  connection  with  the  old 
firm,  and  established  the Higgins’ Soap 
Co.  There have  been  interminable  law 
suits ever since  regarding the  name and 
labels of the soap,  and  the  climax  now 
comes in the  closing  up  of  the new fac­
tory.  Some  of  the  banks  which  were 
victimized prided  themselves  upon their 
“Conservative”  record,  believing 
they 
were altogether too  smart  for any swin­
dler;  but in  walks David Coleman, draws 
the money, and  not even  a  suspicion  is 
aroused until be has left  the city. 
It all 
goes to show  that  the  best of  financiers 
are  not  infallible,  even along  the lines 
they are most interested in.
Law  and  order  scored  a  substantial 
victory  Thursday  when  Police  Captain 
Michael Doherty  was found guilty by the 
police commissioners of accepting bribes 
tor protecting the  disorderly  house at 23 
Second avenue,  and  dismissed  from  the 
service.  He is still liable  to civil prose­
cution,  which, it is hoped, will be pushed 
without  delay.  Among  the  interesting 
things  the  Captain  testified  to  was the 
fact that be gave a  friend §200 to  invest 
at his discretion and  that in  five months 
the  sum  made  322,000.  All  the specu­
lators in Wall street  are  now  trying  to 
make  arrangements  with 
same 
“friend,”  but he is bard to find.  Noose 
doubts  but  other  captains  are  equally 
guilty and all are  wondering  where  the 
lightning will strike next.
Speaking of  restaurants,  it may not be 
uninteresting to give the many readers of 
T h e  T radesm an  a  few  prices  taken 
from  the  bill  of  fare  at  Coney Island. 
Beginning at the  aristocratic  old  stand­
by,  porterhouse steak,  we find it listed at 
31.50;  with  onions,  $1.75;  extra  porter­
house,  with truffles, $3; with mushrooms, 
$3,25;  plain beefsteaks, 60c;  sirloin,  90c; 
spring  chicken,  with  cress,  $1.50;  roast 
turkey, 75c; broiled chicken, $1.60.  Com­
ing down to corned beef and  cabbage  at 
one  fell  swoop,  we  pay only 50c for it. 
Pie is 15c and coffee  or  tea  10c  per cup. 
Bread and milk,  25c.  These  prices may 
seem rather “ way up in G;”  but you see 
the hotel men must make hay  while  the 
sun shines.  The crowds  which are pay­
ing these prices are  so large that  one  is 
lucky  if  he  can  find a  seat, and no one 
would ever suppose  that hard  times  ex­
isted anywhere in the country.
“ if you can say  nothing good of a per­
son,  say nothing at all.”  So runs the old 
adage,  and  it applies to the grocery mar-

the 

ket of New York  City this  last  week  of j 
July, 1894,  with full force. 
In no line is I 
there anything doing of more than a mid- j 
summer character, and from  the  staples 
of  coffee,  tea.  and  sugar, down through 
the minor  articles  of  molasses,  syrups, 
spices,  rice.  etc.,  the  answer  is always 
the  same,  “Nothing  doing.”  Lemons 
can  be excepted.  They  are  doing  well, 
thanks  to  the  hot  weather;  but  other 
lines of fresh fruits are exciting no more 
interest than  usual.
Arrivals  of  best butter are small,  and 
the result is a slight  rise.  19c  now being 
obtainable for Elgin and State.
The interest felt  in the  pending  tariff 
question in  this city can scarcely be real­
ized at interior points.  The  papers  are 
read with an avidity  only approached by 
the interest displayed during the strikes. 
It is  needless  to  say  that  the  question 
has  no  importance  to  the  country  at 
large. 
If  people  will consider the busi­
ness transactions  taking  place  between 
this  and  other  countries,  as  shown  by 
Governmental reports,  they  will at  once 
see  that  it is a  mighty  important factor 
in the general  welfare of  the nation.
When one can go to  Liverpool for $10, 
or to Antwerp  for $14,  it  is  cheaper  to 
go than to stay,  and  we hope  that  about 
5,000,000  people  in  this country will act 
upon this hint.  The  steamship compan­
ies report an enormous business in steer­
age passengers,  so that it is  an  ill  wind 
that blows good to nobody. 

J ay.

Corporation News.

The  annual  report  of  the  Proctor & 
Gamble  Co. 
shows  net 
profits  of  $688,008  for  the  year  ending 
June 30.

(Cincinnati) 

The  change  in the  ownership  of  the 
Lowell  State Bank—A.  J.  Bowne  having 
sold his $8,300  holding  and C.  B.  Ensign 
having disposed of his $16,700  bolding— 
has  necessitated 
the  election  of  new 
officers,  as  follows:  President,  Francis 
King;  Vice-President,  Chas.  McCarty; 
Cashier,  M.  C.  Griswold;  Assistant 
Cashier,  B.  N.  Keister.  All  of the stock 
of  the  Bank 
is  now  held  by  Lowell 
people.

The New York Biscuit Co. has reduced 
its floating indebtedness several  hundred 
thousand dollars since the  annual  meet 
ing and there  has  been  some  talk  that 
the payment of  dividends  would  be  re­
sumed  this  fall,  but  parties  well  in­
formed in the matter say  that nothing of 
the  kind  will  be  done  before  next 
January.  The market valve of the stock 
is steadily  advancing.

The Drug Market.

Gum opium is a little  firmer,  but  un­

changed.

tendency.

change.

Quinine  is  firm  and  has  an  upward 

Morphia is study.
Other articles in  the  line  are  without 

Northern  M ichigan  R etail  Grocers’ A sso­
President,  J.  F.  Tatman,  Clare;  Sec’y,  E.  A. 

ciation.

Stowe, Grand Rapids.

Grand  Rapids R etail Grocers’  Association. 
President,  D.  Viergever; Secretary, E. A. Stowe. 

Official  Organ—Mic h ig a n   T ra d esm a n.

ciation.

W est  Side  (Saginaw)  R etail  Grocers’ Asso­
President, C. F. Alderton; Secretary, John Doerr.
Ray County R etail Grocers’ Association. 
President, Thos. Walsh; Secretary  S. W. Waters.

.Jackson R etail Grocers’ Association. 
President,  P. W. Haefner; Sec’y, W. H. Porter.
Grand  Maven  R etail  Grocers’ Association. 
President, John Boer; Secretary, Peter VerDuin.
M uskegon  R etail  Grocers’  Association. 
President, D. Christie;  Secretary, F.  B. Aldrich.

Petoskey Grocers’ Union.

President, Geo. W. Bump: Secretary, J.  W. Lott.
Bay  City  Grocers to  Picnic  August 16*
Ba y   Cit y ,  July  27—Our  Association 
held  a meeting last evening to  make  ar­
rangement for  our  third  annual  excur­
sion.  There was a large  attendance and 
the  members  were  very  enthusiastic. 
We decided to hold It on Aug.  16, the  lo­
cation to be determined at  a  meeting  to 
be held one week  later.  The  following 
committees were appointed:
Transportation—W.  W.  Hodgkins,  R. 
M.  Sherwood, Chas.  M.  Baumgarten.
Games—W.  A.  Chatfield,  Sam.  W. 
Waters, Thos.  Walsh, Geo.  Osborne.
Music—Geo. Cornwell,  W.  J. Caldwell, 
H. Koch, Jr.
Prizes—John  McKim,  R.  H.  Chase, 
Chas. Babo, Jr., Thos.  Walsh,  Chas.  C. 
Henmann.
Printing—M.  L.  DeBats,  J.  J.  Kelly, 
D. Goddeyne.
Badges—John  Standacber,  Richard 
Grace, John D.  Whalen.
Supplies—Chas.  Ellsworth,  Walt.  C. 
Houghton,  H.  E.  Buck,  John  Carroll 
Bay City Fruit House.
Finance—W.  Delong,  R.  J.  Ferris, 
John D.  Whalen,  M.  L.  DeBats,  W.  A 
Chatfield.

Tickets—W. A.  Chatfield,  Geo.  Corn- 

well, C. C.  Henmann,

Sam W.  W a t e r s,  Sec’y.

The Mt.  Pleasant Convention.

KetaJ grocers doing business in North­
ern Michigan,  north  of  the  line  of  the 
Detroit,  Grand  Haven  &  Milwaukee 
Railway,  should not forget that  the  first 
regular  convention  of 
the  Northern 
Michigan  Retail  Grocers’  Association 
will be held at Mount Pleasant, Tuesday, 
Aug.  7,  convening  at  2  o’clock  p.  m. 
Matters of vital importance to  the  trade 
will be introduced at  this convention for 
discussion and action,  and it is earnestly 
hoped that every dealer  who  can  spare 
the time will be present  and  participate 
in the meeting.  Ample  hotel  accommo­
dations  have  been  provided  by  Mount 
Pleasant grocers and  every effort will be 
made to render the occasion a memorable 
one in the  annals  of  Michigan  conven­
tions.

Attention, Ball Tossers.

Gr a n d  R a p id s,  July  30—In  behalf of 
the attaches of the  Grand  Rapids whole­
sale grocery  houses,  I  hereby  challenge 
the retail grocers or retail grocery clerks 
to a match game  of  base  ball  for  $5  a 
side on the occasion of the annual  picnic 
of the Grand Rapids  Retail  Grocers’  As­
sociation at Reed’s Lake on Aug.  9.

Ra l p h  Rockw ell.

From Out of Town.

Calls  have  been  received  at  The 
T r a d e sm a n office during  the  past week 
rom the following gentleman in  trade:

D.  Aldershof,  Holland.
Crandall & Gregg, Luther.
Nelson F.  Miller, Lisbon.
John Smith,  Ada.
W.  W. Brower, Fife Lake.
M.  L.  Campbell,  Leslie.
St. Johns Merc. Co., Jt.  Johns.

Duck
Coats and Kersey
Pants

We  manufacture  the  best  made  goods  in  these  lines  of 
any  factory  in  the  country,  guaranteeing  every  garment  to 
give  entire satisfaction,  both  in  fit and  wearing qualities.  We 
are  also  headquarters  for  Pants,  Overalls  and  Jackets  and 
solicit  correspondence  with  dealers  in  towns  where goods of 
our  manufacture are not regularly handled.
L a n s i n g   P a n t s   &  O v e r a l l   Co.,

LANSING,  n iC H .

H I G H E S T   A W A R D

MEDAL  and  THREE  DIPLOMAS  have  been  given  to  the  New  York  Condensed 
Milk  Company  for  the  excellence  and  superiority  of  its  celebrated

Gail  Borden  Eagle  Brand  Condensed  Milk, 

Borden’s  Extract  of  Coffee and

Unsweetened  Condensed  Milk,

exhibited 
in  competition  at  the  W orld’s  Columbian  Exposition, 
Chicago.  The  unimpeachable  record  of  the  New  York  Condensed 
Milk  Com pany,  covering  a  period  of  more  than  thirty  years,  has 
been  possible  only  by  rigid  adherence  to  thoroughly  conscientious 
principles  of  doing  business,  constant  attention  to  details,  strict 
training of its dairymen  and employees,  careful study of  the  people’s 
wants  and  how to  meet  them.  Do  you consider the great value of 
such application ?  Our goods are sold everywhere.
O r  Fon  Quotations  see  P rice  Columns.

It has no equal.

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iftatS aJUL 'Sa£l~

is fast being recognized by everybody as the best  salt for  every pur­
pose. 
I t’s  made from  the  best  brine by  the  best  process  with  the 
best  grain.  Y o u   keep  the  best  o f other  things,  why not  keep the 
best  o f  Salt.  Your customers w ill appreciate  it  as  they appreciate 
pure sugar,  pure coffee,  and  tea.

Diamond  Crystal  Salt

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

D IAM O N D   C R Y S T A L  S A L T   CO.,  ST.  CLAIR, MICH.

FISHING  TACKLE!

O U R
S T O C K
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IN
YOUR
STATIONERY

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Look 
For the 
W aterm ark

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W e  control  it  in  this locality.

It’s first-class stock. 
It’s easy to  write upon. 
It’s always the same. 
It’s a credit to your business.  ON  Your Checks andDr afts
It  always  gives  satisfaction,  and,  compared  with  other 

U S E   Your Note Heads.
Your Letter Heads.
Your Legal  Blanks.

inp 
*  * 

stock,  the price is nothing.

TRADESMAN  COMPANY,

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C O M P L E T E .

We  have  them  from  12 

to  20  feet  long.

Our  line  of  Fishing tackle 

is  equal  to  any  one’s.

Sears

Send  for  Catalogue.

the
CHEAPEST.
Iced  Coffee Cakes, 
Michigan  Frosted  Honey, 
S- ymour Butters,
Graham Crackers,

are

the

BEST.

TO
YOUR
NEXT
ORDER

SOMETHING  NEW 

AND  A

GOOD  SELLER.

R ister&tevens

. 

M 0 N R 0 Ç

Watch  out  for  our  new  spring  novelties. 

sellers

They  are

N e w  Y o rk  B isc u it C o .,

S.  A.  SBARS,  M anager,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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W HAT  DOES  IT  DO  ?

W H Y  DOES  IT  S E L L   ?

WHO  BUYS  TH E M ?

It  Shows the Ex­
act  Honey  Value 
of  Every  Article 

Weighed

It  Sells  Because

It  P ays  from 

10  to  100  Tim es  Bet= 

ter  Returns than 

Bonds,  Stock  or Oth­

er  Security.

The  Enterprising 
and  Progressive 
Herchants  Buy 

Them.

S e e   W h a t   U se r s  S a y .

Albion,  Mich., July 23,  1894.

Messrs.  Hoyt  &  Co.,  Gen’l Selling Agents,

l)a*'ton,  Ohio.

G e n t l e m e n :— We have used  your Dayton Computing  Scale 
in our store for the past year, and feel  confident it has  more  than 
paid  for  itself  in weights and saving of time.  Too much cannot 
be said in  its praise. 

Yours very  truly,

T h e  Ric h te r  Co.

Albio n,  Mich., July 23, 1894. 

Messrs.  Hoyt & Co., Gen’l Selling Agents.

Dayton,  Ohio.

G e n t l e m e n :— The Daytou Computing Scales  are  a  saving 
both  in time and money to every grocer  who  has  one.  They  are 
accurate and reliable in every  particular.

Very truly,

Mea d e k  &  Son.

For further  particulars  drop  a  Postal  Card  to

H O Y T   &   C O ., General  Selling Agents,
D a y t o n ,  O h i o •

Seasonable Goods

M a s o n   F r u i t   J a r s .

SPECIAL  PRICES!
Sul.jeci lo change without notice.

Packed  R egular  Way  in  Cases.

PINTS. 
84.75  gro. 

QUARTS. 
85.25 gro. 

HALF  GAL.
87.25 gro.

M a s o n   F r u i t   J a r s .

New  Style  Patent  Boxes.

Packed  O:.«-  Dozen  in  Each  Box.

PINTS. 
$5.50 gro. 

QUARTS 
$6.00 gro. 

HALF GAL.
$8.00  gro.

Extra  Caps,  $2.25  ^ro.  Rubbers,  3>c  gro.
Flint G lass Jars,  25 •  per  gro.  advance.
D a n d y   F r u i t   J a r s .

G LA SS  C O V E R S -S E L F   SEA LE R S.

Only  Perfect  All  Gi-rs .Jar on the Market

PINTS. 
$10.50 

QUARTS. 
Sll  00 

HALF  GAL. 

$14.00

No charge for package or cartage  on  fruit  jars  or 

jelly tumblers.

J e l l y   T u m b l e r s ,
%  Pints,  6 doz  in  Box (box 00)  per Box  $1.64 
%  Pints, 24 doz  in Bbl  (bbl  35)  per Doz 
23 
%  Pints,  6 doz  in  Box (box 00)  per Box  1.80 
%  Pints,  18 doz  in  Bbl  (bbl 35) per Doz 
26

C o m m o n   T u m b l e r s .
%  Pint,  Plain,  6 Doz in  Box  (Bx 00)  per  bx  $1.80 
,k,  Pint,  Plain, 20 Doz in  Bbl  (Bbl 35)  per doz 
.27
A s s o r t e d   P a c k a g e .

Engraved  Tum blers.

Thin  Blown.

0  Doz in  Box  (bx 00)  Per  Box  $3.00

NOW  IS  THE  TIME  TO  BUY.

BOTTOM  PRICES.

K E EP  YOUR  STOCK  READY  FOR  TH E 

DEMAND  IS  SURE  TO  CONE,

From

LEONARD’S.

S t o n e w a r e .

BUTTER JARS,

PR ESERVE  JARS,

FRUIT JARS,

niLK  PANS.

COMMON  STONEWARE.

.60
Stone Butter Jars.  )i  Gal.  per doz 
.00
Stone Butter Jars,  1  Gal. each per gal 
.06
Stone Butter Jars,  2 Gal.  per gal 
Stone Preserve Jars  and Covers,  % Gal,  per  doz 
.90
Stone Preserve Jars  and Covers,  1  Gal,  per  doz  1.40
-75
Tomato or Fruit Jars,  %  Gal. 
-90
Tomato or Fruit Jars,  1  Gal. 
Stone Milk  Pans,  %  Gal.  per doz 
.60
.06
Stone Milk Pans,  1  Gal.  each 

FINE  GLAZED  STONEWARE.

Black  or  W hite.

.08
1  Gal.  Fine  White Milk Pans,  per gal 
.06%
1  Gal.  Fine  Black Milk Pans, per gal 
.65
%  Gal.  Fine Black  Milk Pans,  per doz 
1 Gal.  Fine Black Butter Crocks,  per gal 
.07
1 Gal.  Fine White Butter Crocks, low,  per  gal  .08
% Gal.  Fine White Butter Crocks,  per doz 
.75

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

