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G R A N D   R A P ID S,  W ED N ESD A Y ,  A U G U ST  8,  1894.

NO.  568

TEMPEST  IN  A  TEA-POT.

1.

Widow Dorothy Dolphin  stood  before 
a  brightly  burning  fire,  in  her  quiet 
home,  impatiently  patting the warm rag 
with  her  slender  foot.  She  had  been 
very lonely since the death of her  young 
husband, and perhaps if she had felt free 
to  confess  what  was  in  her  mind,  she 
wonld have admitted that  she  would  be 
willing to marry again if  the  right  kind 
of opportunity  presented itself.

On this particular  afternoon,  she  had 
dressed  with  unusual care in her fashion­
ably made dress of dark Henrietta  cloth, 
and with her bright blonde hair arranged 
in a tasteful Greek coil,  her white hands, 
clear  complexion,  and  neck  of  ivory­
like texture, her beauty enhanced by the 
dark hue of her apparel, she  presented a 
most  charming  picture  as  she  leaned 
against the  fireplace,  gazing  downward 
at the glowing coals.

She was evidently expecting  a  visitor; 
it  might  have  been  the  minister,  who 
was in the habit of  calling  in  occasion­
ally  to  console  the  bereaved  hearts  of 
his lady parishioners;  or  the  handsome 
young doctor,  who was careful that none 
of  his  widow  patients,  particularly  if 
they were pretty,  went into an  early  de­
cline.  But,  as  it  happened, 
it  was 
neither  of  these  estimable  gentlemen. 
In fact, the expected caller was  an  utter 
stranger to everybody in the  town,  with 
the possible exception  of  Mrs.  Dorothy 
Dolphin herself.

Her husband had  left  her  a  comfort­
able home, situated on the edge of  a  de­
lightful  country  village,  and  a  modest 
income that sufficed  for  all  her  necessi­
ties.  Being  an  unusually  pleasant  as 
well as beautiful  woman,  she  was  con­
sidered a most  desirable  party  by  men 
who had matrimonial  intentions,  not  a 
few  of  whom had attempted,  but unfor­
tunately failed, to  secure  her  favorable 
consideration.

Previous  to  preparing  herself  to  re­
ceive  her  expected  guest,  she  had  put 
her house in pefect order; for she was an 
excellent  housekeeper,' and  having  no 
children to keep it in perpetual disorder, 
everything  about  the  place,  from  the 
little back kitchen to the  guest-chamber, 
appeared  neat  aad  attractive.  On  this 
particular  afternoon  she  had  polished 
the windows until tne glass  in  them  ap­
peared as clear as crystal,  using  for  that 
purpose  a  piece  of  red  flannel,  which 
upon the completion of her work she had 
carefully washed and hung out through a 
little opening or window  in  the  rear  of 
the back kitchen,  to dry.

Now  the  simple  act  of  hanging  that 
bit of red flannel out of  the  opening  re­
ferred to was the most  natural  thing  in 
the  world  for  her  to  do;  yet it was the 
means of causing one of the  most  sensa­
tional  episodes  ever  chronicled  in  the 
history of the town in  which she resided.
It was a warm,  hazy,  delightful  Sep­
tember  afternoon.  The  swallows,  old 
and  young,  were  circling  through  the 
air,  preparatory to taking their Southern 
flight.  A restful sens« of  peace  seemed

to  prevade  the  place,  yet  a  storm  was 
brewing  that  demure  Widow  Dorothy 
Dolphin little dreamed she would soon be 
called upon to encounter.

Lucinda Peak  was  the  most  meddle­
some  old  maid  in  town:  one  of  those 
shrunken, sharp-eyed,  restless,  inquisi­
tive creatures, who go about from  house 
to house in almost every rustic , neighbor­
hood,  lending  their  helpful  service  in 
fomenting  trouble  and  creating  differ­
ences between neighbors.  Once or twice 
in her career she  had  narrowly  escaped 
being incarcerated for  slander,  but  had 
been  saved  from  that  hnmiliation  by 
reason of her prominence in  the  church, 
and her great pretensions  regarding  her 
own  personal  propriety. 
She  was  a 
woman of over fifty,  somewhat  stooping 
in form,  with  a  very  long,  sharp  nose, 
and pointed chin.

She usually  wore  an  old  bonnet  and 
shawl  that  had  been  willed to her by a 
deceased  grandmother,  and  carried  in 
her hand a somewhat  faded  large  ging­
ham  umbrella,  which  from  its  appear­
ance  must  have  been  nearly  as  old  as 
herself.

the 

Now she happened upon  this  peaceful 
afternoon to be  passing  along  the  road 
that  ran  by  Widow  Dorothy  Dolphin’s 
unpretentious cottage.  As  she  came  to 
a point opposite the little  back  kitchen, 
she  stopped  with  a sudden jerk, craned 
her  neck  cautiously  over 
fence, 
jabbed the sharp  point  of  her  umbrella 
into the ground, and braced herself reso­
lutely for an observation.  Her eyes  had 
caught the glare  of  the  brilliant  bit  of 
red  flannel  that  hung flapping from the 
little window.

“Sumpthin’  wrong there !”  she  ejacu­
lated, clutching  the  handle  of  her  um­
brella in both  hands  with  a  convulsive 
clasp.  “Seech  things as that don’t hang 
floppln’ from folkses’  winders without  a 
meaning’,  not’f  I  know  myself.  When 
Si  Skinkle’s  darter  Kate  ran  ’way  off 
with  that  drummer-chap  from  Chicago, 
she hung a red rag oater the winder, jest 
like that,  to let him know how  ter  come 
when her par an’  mar  was  away.  Aha ! 
Widder  Dolphin.  Ton  may  be mighty 
sly,  an’  all that; but ’f you think  no  one 
in this neighborhood hez got eyes but the 
one you hung that rag oat  for,  you  may 
be mistaken.

Fearing to call attention to herself,  she 
turned and qaietly passed  on  down  the 
road; but feeling, no  doubt,  that  it  was 
her Christian duty to further  investigate 
the  matter  which  had  attracted her at­
tention and somewhat excited her curios­
ity, on arriving at the foot of the hill she 
climbed  over a fence  into  an  adjoining 
field,  passed up a long  ravine,  ascended 
a little  knoll,  and  secreted  herself  be­
hind  a  clump  of  hazel-bushes, 
from 
which  point  of  observation  she  could 
command  an  unobstructed  view  of  the 
young widow’s premises.

She might have been there an hour—to 
her  it  seemed two or three—when a gen­
tleman  came  hurriedly  walking  across 
the  field,  glanced  about  him in a some­
what  nervous  manner,  as  If  fearful of

being observed,  walked up  to  the  front 
door of the  house,  vigorously  plied  the 
knocker,  and was immediately  admitted.
This was sufficient to fill the  inventive 
mind  of  Lucinda  with  a thousand  evil 
conjectures.  How 
long  this  most  im­
prudent  affair  had  been  going  on,  she 
was unable to determine;  but,  from  ap­
pearances,  it must have been some  time. 
Down 
into  the 
ravine, over the.fence,  and into the  road 
again,  she hurried  as  fast  as  her  trem­
bling  limbs  could  carry  her,  and  in 
breathlesss  haste  proceeded  at  once  to 
the home  of  her  most  intimate  friend, 
Miss  Priscilla  Perkins,  a maiden lady of 
about her own age.  After  greeting  her 
cordially,  Miss  Priscilla  saw  at  once, 
from the  excited  manner  of  her  caller, 
that something unusual had happened.

the ^little  hill,  - back 

Throwing  herself 

into  a  cushioned 
rocking-chair,  as soon  as she  could  fully 
regain her breath Miss Lucinda Peak  ex­
claimed,

“Priscilla, somewhat’s u p !”
Miss  Priscilla  threw  up  both  hands, 
and elevated her eyebrows  with a look of 
anxious inquiry.

“Somewhat’s up !”  repeated  Lucinda, 
energetically  emphasizing  her  exclama­
tion  by violently punching the floor with 
the  point  of  her  umbrella;  “ but,  for 
goodness’  sake ! don’  say I told you.” 

“What ?”
“It may be  all  right. 

It  ain’t  for  me 
to criticise the goin’s-on o’  my  neighbors 
an’ townspeople; but 1 hev my suspicions 
—I hev my suspicions,  Priscilla.”

“ You don’t say so !”
“Yes, I do; an’ more’s the pity—more’s 
the pity, Priscilla.  I  hev always thought 
young  Widder  Dolphin  a  right  peart, 
likely  young  woman,  an’  a  thorough- 
goin’ Christian as well. 
It  aint’  for  me 
to say that she ain’t; but 1 hev  my  opin­
ion  o’  her. 
It  may  all  be  wrong;  but 
what one sees with  her  own  eyes,  can’t 
be gainsayed.”

Miss Priscilla elevated both hands with 

a look of horror.

“ You don’t say so!” she ejaculated. 
Miss Lucinda looked to the  right,  then 
to  the  left,  listened  attentively  for  a 
moment to assure herself that no one but 
her auditor was within hearing  distance, 
then,  with a significant nod of  her  head, 
said impressively,

“Priscilla,  I d o !”
“Isn’t it perfectly dreadful !” 
“Dreadful?”  repeated  Lucinda,  wav­
ing her hand as if to ward  off  some  hid­
eous phantom that was  approaching her, 
“dreadful ?  It’s scandalous 

“I  knew  it,”  rejoined  Priscilla. 

“I 
told Lem Goodins’  wife  so  the  very  day 
that  Frank  Dolphin  died.  Dorothy  al­
ways has seemed to me a perfectly giddy 
thing.”

Lucinda again looked cautiously about 

her,  and resumed:

“When  Si  Skinkle’s  darter  Kate  ran 
away off with that Chicago chap,  you  re­
member she hung  a  red  rag  out  o’  the 
winder to let him know  when  the  coast 
was  clear,  When I come  by  Dorothy’s

THE!  MICJHIGhAJSr  TRADBBBCAN.

house to-day I seen a red rag bangin’ out 
o’ her back winder.”

“ You did ?”
“Yes,  Priscilla,  1  did.”  Again  she 
“An’ 
‘Sumpthin’  wrong 

nodded  her  head  significantly. 
more’s  the  pity. 
there,’ sez I to myself.”

Here followed a detailed description of 
the way in which she had made  her  sub­
sequent observations.

“You saw him ?” asked Priscilla,  with 

mouth wide open  with astonishment.

“I saw him,  Priscilla,  with  these  two 
eyes of mine, jest as plain  as  I  see  you 
sittin’  here;  but,  for  goodness’  sake! 
don’t say I told you.”

Miss  Lucinda,  having  relieved  her 
mind of its burden,  adjusted  her  shawl, 
bade her  friend  adieu,  and  returned  to 
her humble home for  further  reflections.
As soon as she  was out  of  sight.  Miss 
Priscilla Perkins,  who was becoming  too 
full  to  much  longer contain herself, re­
solved to  call  upon  her  friend  Malvina 
Skeels, and take counsel  with her  in  re­
gard to the  astonishing  revelations  she 
had beard.

n.

“I’m  not  one  to  misjudge  my neigh­
bors,  but  what  1  know,  I  know.  1 
mayn’t have seen it  with  my  own  eyes, 
but  I  hed  my  information  from  a per­
fectly 
reliable  source.  There’s  some 
duties we owe to ourselves:  there’s  some 
we owe to others.  If I can’t say anything 
good about  people,  you  may  be  sure  o’ 
one thing: 
I’m charitable enough  not  to 
say anything unkind.”

Miss Priscilla Perkins turned  half-way 
about in the chair in  which  she  was  sit­
ting,  crossed  one  leg  deliberately  over 
the  other,  gave  her parasol a twirl,  and 
winked  her  eyes  significantly 
through 
her gold rimmed glasses.

“ Do you mean  to say  that  Clara  Tup- 

per—?”

whoever he is,  has  got  designs  on  her. 
Do you understand ?  Designs, I say.  Do 
you  know,  I  love  that  woman!  The 
tears  just  came  into  my  eyes  when  I 
found out about  this  dreadful  affair  to­
day. 
I  thought  at first I wouldn’t say a 
word  about  it—I’d  let  the  matter drift 
along;  but  my  conscience  wouldn’t  let 
me keep still. 
I  jest  feel  that I must do 
sumpthin’  to  save  that  woman;  but  I 
don’t jest  know how to go about it.”

Miss Malvina sighed.
“ Yes.  I  don’t  jest  know  how  to  go 
I thought I’d come up here an’ 

about it. 
take counsel  with  you.”

Malvina stood for  a  time  absorbed  in 
deep reflection.  The  very  thought  that 
Dorothy  had  shaken a red rag  out  of  a 
back window  at a man,  as she said to her 
visitor,  “set her all in a tremor.”

“ I think,”  at  last  she  replied,  “that 
sumpthin’ ought to be done at once.  Our 
pastor ought to know it  
I wouldn’t like 
to  talk  about  sech a thing to him,  but I 
tell you,  Priscilla,  what I’ll do: I’ll go at 
once  and  hev  a  long  talk about it with 
his wife.  You know  how good and sym­
pathetic she is.  Who knows  but  that  if 
we act upon this matter at once,  we  may 
prevent  a  great  wrong  being  done  to 
Dorry ?”

think 

“ Yes:  1 

that’s  the  properest 
way,” returned Priscilla,  somewhat  ner 
vously,  for she  began  to  feel  that  pos 
sibly she had gone a little too far  in  her 
statements.  “But remember  one  thing 
Malvina:  when  you  tell  this  matter  to 
our  dear  pastor’s  wife,  for  the  Iand’i 
sake ! don’t let her know that I told  you 
You  know  how  particular  1  am  about 
gettin’  my name mixed  up  in  sech  mat 
ters.”

Miss Priscilla,  having  completed  her 
mission,  returned 
triumphantly  to  her 
bumble  home,  conscious  that  she  had 
faithfully  performed a  duty  which  she 
owed to society.

“No:  I  wasn’t  hinting  anything  o’ 
Clara  Tupper  at  all,”  said  Priscilla, 
sharply, 
interrupting  Miss  Malvina 
Skeels,  who by this time  was  aware that 
something  unusual  had  happened in the 
neighborhood.  “I was  simply  about  to 
say  that  it  would  be  much  better  for 
Widder  Dorothy  Dolphin  to  receive her 
men-company  openly,  than in sech a sly 
and  surreptitious  manner  ez  that  in 
which  she  is  carryin’  on  down  to  her 
place.”

Miss Malvina Skeels opened her mouth 
with an expression  of  mingled  astonish­
ment and alarm.

“Do you know that what  you  are  say- 

in’ is true?” she earnestly inquired.

“Do I know it ?  O’  course  I  know i t !
A lady belongin’  to our own  church  told 
me so.  She saw it with her  own  eyes— 
saw her shakin’ a red rag out o’ the  back 
winder at a  man,  who was a-hidiu’  in the 
brush  up  back  o’ 
the 
holler!”

the  barn 

in 

“At a m an!”
“Yes,  a  m an!—and  more’s  the  pity. 
He came creepin’ up to her  place,  along­
side the back fence, and  she  let  him  in 
at the kitchen door. 
It’s the most dread­
ful thing I ever heard on !”

Here Miss  Priscilla  gave  her  parasol 
another twirl,  and  winked again  through 
her gold-rimmed spectacles.

“ Priscilla,”  replied  Malvina,  with  a 
firm tone of voice,  “it’s my ’pinion sump- 
thin’ ought to be done.”

“O’  course,  sumpthin’  ought  to  be 
done.  That’s why  I  came  here  to  talk 
with you about it.  Dorry is a giddy,  un-1 
sophisticated  young  thing.  That  man, |

h i.

An hour later there was a sharp rap at 
the door of the parsonage.  It was opened 
by the good-humored  village preacher.

“Ah 1  Good  afternoon.  Miss  Skeels. 
Do you wish to see  me ?”  he  said  pleas­
antly.

Miss Malvina blushed to the very roots 
of her hair,  and  shook  her  little  cork­
screw curls  excitedly.

“ 1 wish to see your  wife,”  she  replied 

with great gravity.

“Very  well.  Walk  right  in.  How 
are the folks down  your  way ?  Well,  1 
hope.”

“ Oh, yes ! well in  their way,” returned 
Miss Malvina,  with  a  peculiar  emphasis 
upon the word “ way.”

The pastor showed  her into  the  pleas­
ant  parlor,  and  went  to  call  his wife. 
She  sat  there  pinching  and  pulling  at 
her fingers  and  working  herself  into  a 
perfect fever of  excitement. 
It  seemed 
to  her  as  if  the  pastor’s  wife  would 
never make her appearance.  She  walked 
nervously backward and forward  in  the 
room for  several  moments,  and  finally 
threw herself on  the  large  sofa,  where 
she sat nervously  pulling  at  the  wrist­
bands of her  dress.  Presently  the  pas­
tor’s  wife  entered:  a  mild,  care-worn 
woman,  of  middle  age,  whose  patient, 
pleasant  face  seemed  like  a  perpetual 
benediction.  She  crossed  the  floor,  sat 
down  beside her visitor,  and  placing  her 
hand  affectionately  upon  her  shoulder, 
said,

“1 am  very  happy  to  see  you,  Miss 

Malvina.”

Her visitor frowned.
“You look as if  there  was  something 
upon your mind that troubled you,”  con­
tinued the pastor’s  wife,  in  a  pleasant 
tone of voice.

“Mrs.  Paxton,” she said  with  an  em­
phatic nod of her head,  “I’m  ’most  dis­
tracted!”

“Distracted! 

the  pastor’s 
wife,  in surprise.  “ Why,  I  didn’t  sup­
pose you had a care in  the world.”

repeated 

It’s not for  myself,”  answered  Miss 
Malvina.  “I’m not sech a selfish creatur’ 
as to think only of my own  comfort  and 
happiness.  The peace o’  other people is 
of’en o’ more consequence to me than my 
own.”

“ Why,  are  some  of  your  friends  in 
Is there anything I can  do  for 

trouble? 
them?”  asked Mrs.  Paxton anxiously.

“There’s one o’  them  in  serious  trou 
ble—or,  leastwise,  likely  to  be.”  She 
brought  her  foot  down  upon  the  rug 
with an emphatic stamp.

“ Why,  friend,  tell me what  this  trou 

ble is.”

I’m not  my sister’s  keeper. 

“I don’t  know as it’s  eny  business  o! 
mine. 
It’s 
about as much as 1  can  do  to  hold  my 
own,  an’ not do anything foolish  myself 
but some people I know—or one,  at least 
—is  in a way that’s  likely  to  not  only 
bring reproach  upon  herself,  but  upon 
our entire ehurcb!”

“Our  church!”  inquired  Mrs.  Paxton, 

with a look of real surprise.

“ Yes, our church. 

It isn’t  the church 
that’s to blame for  the  evils  in  it,  but 
the  people  who  b’long  to  it.  There’s 
one,  at least, o’  whom I might say that it 
were better for the church,  I’m  sure,  if 
she were not a member of it;  an’  for  my 
part,  unless somethin’s done in this mat­
ter ’fore long,  I shall feel it my Christian 
duty 
to  withdraw  my  membership.” 
Here she brought her foot down  with  an­
other emphatic stamp.

“Why—whom  do  you  mean?  and 
what’s  all this trouble  about?”  pleaded 
Mrs.  Paxton.

“I don’t like to talk  about  other  peo­
I  believe  in  lettin’  folks  find  out 
ple. 
things for themselves. 
I  don’t  know as 
I  ought  to  hev  come  here  to-day.  1 
reckon I hadn’t;  but sumphin’  inside  o’ 
me kept saying over  an’  over,  ‘Malvina, 
it’s a duly you owe to yourself, it’s a duty 
you owe to  your  neighbors,  an’  a  duty 
you  owe  to  the  society  to  which  you 
belong,  to do sumphin’  to set this matter 
right:’  so I came  up here  to  hev  a  talk 
with you.”

Well,” responded Mrs.  Paxton  calm­
ly,  “I am ready to  hear  what  you  have 
to say.”

I don’t know as 1 ought to  speak out,” 
retorted Miss Skeels  somewhat  brusque­
ly.  “If I do,  it is with  the  distinct  un- 
derstandin’ that you’re not to say a word 
to  anybody  o’  the  source  from  which 
your information came.”

“ Well?”
“ You know Dorothy,  Frank  Dolphin’s 
widder?  A  better-hearted  woman  than 
her never lived.  1 couldn’t hev  thought 
more o’  my  own  daughter,  ’f  I  ever’d 
married an’ hed one,  than  1  did  o’  her; 
but this thing happened,  an’  she’s likely 
to get into  serious  trouble.  There’s  an 
unprincipled,  scheming,  dishonest  man 
that seems  to  hev  got  a  claim  on  her 
somehow, an’  is  contrivin’  his  best  to 
make  ’way  with  her  property.  Some 
say she’s been  secretly  marri’d  to  him. 
though I can’t b’lieve  matters  hev  gone 
so far  without  my  findin’  it  out.  The

news has come to me so  sudden,  it’s jest 
set me all  in  a  flutter;  an’  I  came  up 
to take counsel with  you  ’bout  it. 
I’m 
too hot-tempered and excitable myself to 
go  and  talk  with  her  about  it,  but  I 
think ’f you’d go an’  see  her,  talk  with 
her  an’  get  into  her  confidence,  you 
could find out all ’bout  it,  and  perhaps 
in some way help  her out o’ this terrible 
trouble.”

“But are you  sure,”  asked  Mrs.  Pax­
ton,  in a kind tone  of voice,  “that  Dor­
othy has done anything  so  grave  in  its 
character that it is  necessary  to  receive 
the attention of the church?”

“No:  I’m not  quite  sure  about  that. 
In fact, I’m not  sure  o’  anytbihg:  none 
o’ us is sure o’  much  in  this  life.  But 
that  sumpthin’  is  wrong  down  to  her 
house,  I  hevn’t  the  slightest  doubt.  1 
want you to go yourself an’  find  out  all 
about it,  ’f  you  can.  When  you  have 
satisfied yourself,  an’  you think it worth 
while,  the matter  could  be  brought  up 
in the next  church-meetin’,  and  consid­
ered.”

“But,”  said  Mrs.  Paxton  mildly,  “I 
hardly would  know  what to  say  to  her, 
as you have made no definite charge.” 

“Say!  You can ask  her  what  she was 
a-shakin’ a red  handercber for,  out o’ her 
back  shed,  at  a  man, 
this  mornin’. 
There’s a man in this  case,  Mrs.  Paxton. 
Don’t forget this fact—a man !”

Having freed her  mind,  Miss  Malvina 
arose,  shook out the skirt  of  her  dress, 
buttoned her  cloak  about  her,  primped 
her  curls  for  a  moment  before the big 
looking-glass in  the  parlor,  and  with  a 
stiff bow took her departure.

Mrs.  Paxton  was  greatly  grieved  by 
what she had beard;  and while  she  was 
confident that there was  nothing wrong, 
she determined to go at once to Dorothy, 
and discover,  if she could,  the  origin  of 
the unfavorable report. 
In  the evening, 
accompanied  by her  good  husband,  she 
went  to  Dorothy’s  home,  and  was  ad­
mitted into her presence.  A  bright  tire 
was  burning upon the hearth,  imparting 
a rosy glow to the interior  of  the  room, 
at one side of  which  a  tall,  handsome, 
middle-aged  man  was  sitting.  As  the 
pastor and his  wife approached  the  fire­
place,  he  respectfully  arose,  and  Dor­
othy,  stepping  forward,  presented  him 
to them.
‘You have heard,”  she  said,  “of  my 
Uncle Horace,  who went  to  California a 
great many years ago.  He  has  just  re­
turned to  tell  me  of  the  good  fortune 
that he met with there,  and  he wants me 
to sell  my place and go  back  to  live  in 
his family. 
I  received a letter from him 
a few days ago,  stating that he  would  be 
here  to-day,  and  I  hurried  to  put  my 
house in order to receive him.”
And this is the gentleman,” said Mrs. 
Paxton with a laugh,  “that  you  waved a 
red flag at from your back door?”
“Waved  a  red  flag!”  exclaimed  Dor­
othy, in  wonder.
They sat  down  by  the  fire,  and  the 
pastor’s wife related the somewhat  inco­
herent story she had  heard,  at  which all 
laughed  heartily. 
Suddenly  Dorothy 
arose,  ran to the  little  back  room,  and 
returned waving the tell-tale bit  of  flan­
nel in her hands.
“It  must  have  been  this,”  she  said, 
“that caused the mischief,  for  I  remem­
ber that I wiped the  windows  with it to­
day,  after which  I washed  and  hung  it 
out  of  the  window  to  dry.  Some  one 
must have seen  it-  waving  in  the  wind 
after I put it there.”
For several days afterward,  a  wave  of 
scandal swept over  the  town,  the  won­
derful  tale  increasing  in  offensiveness 
with  every  repetition.  When  the  real 
facts became known,  no one  could  have 
felt  more  heartily  ashamed  of  them­
selves than  the  three  meddlesome  gos­
sips,  whose  zeal  in  regulating  Widow 
Dorothy Dolphin’s affairs caused  such  a 
frightful  “Tempest in a  Tea-pot.”

E u g en e J.  H a l l.

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ABOUND  THE  STATE.

MOVEMENTS OF  MERCHANTS.

Posen—J.  Crawford  &  Co.  are  suc­

ceeded by Crawford Bros.

Holland—Fred  Zalsman  has  sold  his 

grocery stock to  M,  Notier.

Union City—Henry Pelant has sold his 

flour mill to Whitmore & Fox.

Dundee—Fernando  Gee  has  sold  his 

grocery stock to M.  B.  Fletcher.

Senaca—James  Hall  & Co.,  meat deal­

ers,  have sold out to Geo.  Sholl.

Vicksburg—F. A.  Robinson has bought 

Dr. George Newton’s grocery  stock.

Escanaba—John  P.  Symons  is  suc­

ceeded  by the Escanaba Iron  Works.

Berrien  Springs—Geo.  Kephart  has 
sold his grocery stock  to Nelson J. Davis.
Gagetown—L. C.  Purdy  & Co.  succeed 
A.  E.  Hebblewhite in  the hardware busi­
ness.
Flushing—C.  E.  Park  &  Co.  succeed 
M.  N.  Park &  Son in the  hardware busi­
ness.
succeed 
Kent  &  Divine  in  the  manufacture  of 
cigars.

Greenville—M.  B.  Divine 

H am ilton—Chester Johnson,  of Otsego, 
has opened  a  grocery  store  in  the  Sears 
block.

Carleton—Alex.  Gee.  undertaker  and 
furniture dealer,  has sold  out  to  Frank 
Baker.
Detroit—Joseph A.  Michenfelder  suc­
ceeds J. A.  Michenfelder & Co.  in the tea 
business. 

Holland—Jonkuian &  Dykema  expect 
soon to open a  branch  clothing  store  at 
Saugatuck.

Bay Port—The Bay Port Store Co.  will 
be succeeded  Sept.  1  by  the  Bay  Port 
Mercantile  Co-

'  .

West Bay City—G. L.  Wilton  succeeds 
G. L.  WUton & Co.  in tin  book  and  sta­
tionery business.

Bay  City—Carroll  &  Rose  succeed 
Carroll,  Hurley &  Co.  in  the  wholesale 
grocery and produce business.

Farmington—Fred M.  Warner has sold 
his general stock to Wilbur Cook  &  Co., 
retaining his hardware stock.

Spring  Arbor—C.  F.  King will  be suc­
ceeded  by  C.  H.  Rauch  in the agricul­
tural implement business Aug.  15.

Mancelona—J.  A.  Jackson  has sold his 
jewelry stock to Herrick  &  Morse,  who 
will  consolidate  the  stock  with 
their 
own.
McBain—Robert  Ardis  has  put  in  a 
line of dry  goods.  The  stock  was  fur­
nished  (through L. J.  Koster)  by  Edson, 
Moore & Co.
r Owosso—O.  Gould has moved his drug 
stock  from the corner of Washington and 
Main streets to Chas. Jackson’s store,  117 
west Exchange  street.

Detroit—George  J.  Cotharin  has  be­
come manager  of  Mabley  &  Company’s 
shoe department.  He has  been  with  J. 
L.  Hudson seven years.

Freeport—Geo.  J.  Nagler  has  added 
a line  of dry goods to his  grocery stock. 
Edson,  Moore  &  Co. 
(through  L.  J. 
Koster)  furnished the stock.

Marshall—The  Holland  Trust  Co., 
which holds a mortgage of $125,000 on the 
property  of  the  Marshall  Water  Works 
Co.,  has commenced foreclosure proceed­
ings in the United  States  Circuit  Court 
at Detroit.  Application  was  also  made 
and granted for an order  restraining  the 
officers of the  water  company  from  col­
lecting any accounts.  Wm.  H.  Hand,  of 
Adrian,  has  been  appointed  receiver  of 
the company and is now in  charge,  hav­
ing filed a bond in the sum of $15,000.

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Detroit—Donald Robertson has given a 
| bill of sale of his stock of drugs  and  fix- 
j tures at 368 Fort street  west  to  John  B.
| Morris & Co. for a consideration  of  $700.
Azalia—W. C.  Reeves  &  Co.,  general 
dealers,  have  dissolved  partnership,  Mr. 
Reeves selling his interest to his partner, 
! F.  H.  Noble,  who will  continue the busi­
ness.

Otsego—B.  A.  Nevins  and  Geo.  C. i 
Nevins have purchased  the  Pine  Creek 
flour  mills  and  water privilege of W. C. 
Edsell  and  will  endeavor  to  put  in an 
electric light plant, usiug the water power 
at the flour mill  and  carrying  the  elec­
tricity  to  this village and distributing it 
here as desired.
East Tawas—The  sawmill  strike  here 
is ended,  and about  sixty men  who went 
out  are  now  hunting  jobs  elsewhere. 
They were getting  $1.50,  and  demanded 
$1.75 a day;  but there were  hundreds  of 
other  idle  men  ready  to step into their 
places.  Borne people never seem to learn 
anything by observation or experience.

Vicksburg—E.  C.  Day,  who has been a 
clerk in Manfred Hill’s grocery  store for 
the last ten years,  has bought  a  half  in­
terest  in  the  dry  goods  stock  of C.  B. 
Mason.

Detroit—John G.  Hackney &Co., drug­
gists at 91 Grand River avenue,  have  ut­
tered a bill of sale of their stock  and  fix­
tures  to  Betsy  Tilley.  The considera­
tion named is  $1,000.

Belding—Meloche Bros, have sold their 
drug stock to Wm.  I.  Benedict  and  Dr. 
1.  S.  Morris,  who will continue  the busi­
ness at the same location  under the style 
of Wm.  1.  Benedict & Co.

Alto—Chas.  W.  Williams,  formerly 
engaged in the drug business  at  Clarks­
ville,  has  removed  the  Harrison  drug 
stock  (which  he  recently  purchased) 
from Lisbon to this  place.

Vicksburg—A.  P.  Richmyer  has  sold 
bis  bakery  stock  to  J.  A.  Nortbam, of 
Fulton,  giving  possession  Aug.  1,  Mr. 
Richmyer going  to  Battle  Creek  to  en­
gage in  the same business.

Manistee—C.  H. Dummer &  Son,  deal­
ers 
in  clothing  and  men’s  furnishing 
goods,  were closed Saturday on a  chattel 
mortgage  of  $1,500,  held  by  John  and 
Gustave  Dummer.  Liabilities  on  stock 
are estimated at $3,000. assets not known. 
The Manistee Building &  Loan  Associa­
tion  holds  a  mortgage  of  $6,000 on the 
Dummer  building.  The  failure  is  at­
tributed to dull times.

MANUFACTURING MATTERS.

Clarence—The  Clarence  Lumber  Co. 
expects  to  start  its  shingle  mill  this 
week. 
two 
months.

It  has  been  shut  down 

Muskegon—G. H. Bennink  has  bought 
Jacob Marena’s interest in the Muskegon 
Hay  Binding Co.  and  will  continue  the 
business as before.

Detroit—The Detroit  Alaska  Knitting 
Co.  has filed articles of  association  with 
the county clerk.  The  capital  stock  is 
$50,000; paid in, $25,000.

Ludington—A.  E. Cartier  has recently 
purchased for Thos.  R.  Lyon  about  30,- 
000,000  feet  of  standing  pine,  the price 
being $310,000,  which  would  make  the 
logs cost over $13 at the mill.

Ovid—Dr.  W.  P.  Beach  has  sold the 
machinery  used to manufacture bee hives 
and berry boxes  to  A.  C.  Gardner,  who 
will remove  the  machinery  to  Benning­
ton,  where  he  will  manufacture  bee 
hives, boxes and baskets.

Cadillac—The Cummer & Diggins band 
sawmills have  been  making  some  good 
records.  July  21 
their  “Little  mill” 
sawed 101,418 feet in ten hours, and mill 
No. 2, in Harristown, sawed  127,815 feet 
in the same number of hours.

Manistee—The  Buckley  &  Douglas 
Lumber  Co.  is  utilizing  its dock at the 
mouth of the river on the north  side  for 
loading  wood  and bark and other stocks 
that come  down  by  rail,  which  greatly 
relieves the pressure on its mill dock.

Owosso—The Silver Dandruff Cure Co. 
has filed  articles  of  incorporation  with 
a  capital  stock  $25,000.  Otis  Gould, 
M.  D., is President of  the  company,  H. 
S.  Hadsall,  Vice-President  and  O.  K. 
Fitzsimmons Secretary and Treasurer.

Saginaw—W.  R.  Burt is one of the few 
lumbermen and  capitalists  who does not 
look  for  any  boom.  He  has  figured  it 
out  that  the  era  of  low prices,  narrow 
profits and business small in  volumo has 
come to stay.  He says  that the  days  of 
rapid  fortunes  have  gone by, that rates 
of interest must come down and business 
men must  be satisfied with a  profit  of  4 
or 5 per cent,  upon their investments.

Manistee—Notwithstanding  it  is  only 
the  first  of  August  business appears to 
be  regaining  its  former  volume.  The 
first days of last week  we had  about the 
largest  fleet  of  the  season,  and the in­
spectors had  to  have  extra  men,  some­
thing unheard of so far this season.  The 
fleet  was  a  boon to  the striking lumber 
shovers,  some of whom  have not  worked 
an hour for three weeks,  but  as  all  had 
to  get  loaded  there  was  little question 
made as to wages.

Grayling—About thirteen miles of log­
ging railroad are  to be  constructed from 
Grayling  into  what  is  known  as  the 
“ Waters  pine,”  which  is  held  by 
the 
Michigan  Trust  Company.  There  are 
137 forties in the tract, estimated  to  cut 
65,000,000  feet  of  timber.  A  force  of 
about  100 men is to be employed in build­
ing the road,  and as soon as it is finished, 
lumbering  operations  will  begin.  The 
1< gs  will  be  rolled  into  the  Manistee 
River and rafted down that stream.

times.  Orders  are 

Saginaw—The  factories  and  planing 
mills here have been feeling the effect of 
the depression this month  more  sharply 
than  at  any time since the inauguration 
of  the  hard 
like 
angels’  visits and it  has been hard work 
to keep them going.  One  member  of  a 
large  concern  said  that  every  blessed 
thing they had on hand last week to keep 
the concern  in  operation  was  an  order 
for  a  car load of box  shooks.  The Lin­
ton Manufacturing  Co.  ran  out of orders 
and shut down for a few days and a num­
ber  of  planing  mills  only  run  two  or 
three  days  a  week,  as  orders  justify. 
There is  a  fair  amount  of  building  in 
progress in  the valley cities and this fur­
nishes local work for a few factories.

Rodney—The  new  town  which  has 
been platted at  the  forks  of  the  Chip­
pewa  River, 
in  Fork  township,  will 
probably  be  named  Plato  or  Barryton. 
The D.,  L.  & N.  Railway will  extend  its 
Mecosta branch  to  the  town  site.  The 
River is  being  damned  just  below  the 
junction of the two  forks,  furnishing an 
eight foot head  of  water,  which  will be 
utilized as  a  boomage  for  logs  for  the 
sawsmills  soon 
there. 
Plato & Renwick have secured  the  right 
to floatage in both streams, so  that  they 
will  control  all  timber  coming  down 
either branch.  They are also  erecting a 
two-story  frame  store  building,  20x60 
feet 
they  will 
shortly fill with  a  general  stock.  S.  R.

in  dimensions,  which 

located 

to  be 

j Sage  &  Sons  are  erecting  a  building 
20x50 feet in dimensions,  which they will 
I utilize as a hardware store.  P. W.  Bart­
lett  is  already  on  the  ground  with  a 
small stock of general  merchandise and 
in all  probability,  Frank  Barry,  owner 
of the plat  and  promoter  of  the  town, 
will erect a store building and  engage in 
trade there.  As there is  125,000,000 feet 
of  merchantable 
principally 
hardwood,  within a radius of  eight mile 
of the town,  the place is  likely  to  be  a 
point of considerable commercial import­
ance. 
It  is  about  sixteen  miles  from 
this place and  about  the  same  distance 
from Evart.

timber, 

The one who sets  scandal afloat would 
go in for  lynching  the  man  who  would 
turn a wolf loose in the street.

PRODUCE  MARKET.

Apples—Are good, bad and Indifferent In qual 
tty. and bring from <Bl.75@si.P0 per bu.  The com­
mission men manage to secure the cream  of  the 
market for shipping.

Beans-Commission  houses  pay  from  $1.50@ 

1.65,  holding at $l.S5@2 per bu.

Beets—Are worth 40@50c per bu.
Blackberries—Scarce and  high.  They  bring 
$1.25 per 16-qt.  crate.
Butter—The dry weather is making  pasturage 
poor,  and  butter  is  consequently  on  the  rise. 
Best dairy is now  worth  15@17c  per  lb.  These 
were creamery prices not long ago.  Creamery is 
now held at 2.1@22c per lb.

Cabbage—Bring 60c per doz.
Carrots—Are  worth  from  lG@15c  per  doz. 

bunches.
held at 18c per doz.

Celery—Fair supply  of home grown  which  is 

Cucumbers—Are getting a  little  over ripe  for 
comfort  but a limited  supply  of  good  pickling 
stock can still be secured.  They  bring  12c  per 
doz , and 50c per bu.

Eggs—“Strictly  fresh”  does  not  mean  much 
just at present, though good lots  are  not  infre­
quently met with.  They bring 11c per doz.

Green Corn—is in good supply at 10c per doz.
Onions—The supply of ripe is only fair  at  75@ 
80c per bu.  Greeu  bring 12%c per doz. bunches.
Green Peas—Are still  met  with  occasionally. 

They are held at 75c per  bu.

Peaches—Good fruit has not  yet  reached  the 
market,  but  may  be  expected  shortly  if  the 
weather warms up  sufficiently.  Such  as  they 
are can be bought for $1@1.25 per bu.
Potatoes—Are Bcarce, the late frosts having in­
jured the crop to  a  considerable  extent  They 
are  held  by dealers at 65@70c per bu.  and  may 
go higher yet.

Pears—California  fruit,  first class  quality  is 
now  in  the  hands  of the dealers.  They  bring 
$2.25 per box—a scant bushel.
Radishes—In  fair  supply  but  strong  and 

pithy.  They are held at ltc per doz. bunches.

Squash—Are sold at 2Ac per lb.
String Beans—(And they are nearly all string) 

bring 60c per bu.

Tomatoes—Are  held  at  75@$1  per  4 basket 

crate.

Turnips—Are held at 40c per bu.
Watermelons—Are held at 15®20c.
Plums—California fruit  of  first class  quality 

can be had for $2.75 per box.

Muskmelons—Are in fair supply and  are  held 

at $1.50 per crate.
Henry  J.  Vinkemulder,

JOBBER  OF

Frilits  and  l/gptables,

418,  420,  445  and  447  So.  Division 

St.  Grand  Rapids.

We  call  your  attention  to  peaches, 
which are better  this week  and  will  be 
getting  better  still  from  now  on.  We 
are  handling  good  shipping  stock  only 
and guarantee prices to be as low as pos­
sible on date of  shipment.

We are also  handling  best  quality ap­
ples,  which  we are  billing  out at $1.50<$ 
2 per bu.

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5

GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

Martin  Miller  has  opened  a  grocery 
store at Reed city.  The stock  was  pur­
chased at this market.

E.  Baker has  opened  a  grocery  store 
on  North  College  avenue.  The  stock 
was purchased at this market.

Jonkman & Kloet,  hardware dealers  at 
317  South  East  street,  have  sold  their 
stock and fixtures to Cornelius  Huisenga.
John Sweedyk  has  opened  a  grocery 
store at 254 Plainfield avenue.  The Ball- 
Barnhart-Putman  Co. 
the 
stock.

furnished 

Peter  Marema  has  opened  a  grocery 
store on  Graudville  avenue.  The  Ball- 
Barnhart-Putman  Co. 
the 
stock.

furnished 

Eton  Murray  & Co.  have opened a gro­
cery  store  near  South  Boardman.  The 
stock was supplied by  the  Ball-Barnhart- 
Putman Co.

Sikkema & Mohrhard  have  purchased 
Herman  Liesveld’s  meat  market  at  561 
Cherry  street and closed  their  old estab­
lishment on South East  street,

E.  C.  Bemis,  who  some  years  ago 
clerked  for  George  Yoorhis,  has  suc­
ceeded H. N. Pettit in the  grocery  busi­
ness at the corner of  Hall  and  South  La­
fayette streets.  Mr.  Pettit has  purchased 
a flour mill in Berlin,  when he will reside 
in future.

The Michigan  Bark &  Lumber Co.  has 
handled 1,033 carloads of bark and forty- 
seven carloads of  lumber,  shingles  and 
wood  since  March  1.  The  corporation 
has  also  shipped  during  the  summer 
forty-three cargoes of  bark—aggregating 
9,000  cords—from  Ludington,  Manistee 
and Frankfort to Milwaukee.

Thursday afternoon  will  be  a  general 
holiday  with  the  wolesale  and  retail 
grocery trade of this  market,  as  it  will 
be  the occasion  of the annual  picnic  of 
the Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’  Associ­
ation.  Both wholesale and retail grocery 
stores will  be  generally  closed,  so  that 
both owners and  employes  may  partici­
pate in the  event.

to  be  known  as 

Another new enterprise  is  in  process 
of  incubation, 
the 
Eureka Neckware Co. 
It is proposed to 
organize  the  company  with  a  capital 
stock of 845,000,  one-third  of which will 
be issued  in  exchange  for  the  patents 
owned  and  controlled  by  Moses.  K 
Bortree,  who  has  been  manufacturing 
neckware on a small  scale  in  the  New 
Houseman  building for some months.

Two weeks ago Dwight  Goss,  an attor­
ney of this city,  published  a communica­
tion  in the Daily Eagle  setting  forth  the 
particulars of  a  visit  he  once  made  to 
Geo.  M.  Pullman  to  collect  a  note  he 
claimed to hold  against  that  gentleman 
for  the  rent  of a house occupied  by the 
palace car magnate when  he is alleged to 
have  lived  here.  T h e  T radesm an  of 
last week proved conclusively  that  Geo. 
M.  Pullman never lived in  Grand Rapids 
and that he never contracted debts which 
he did not pay.  Mr.  Goss’  attention was 
called to the matter,  but,  so  far,  he  has 
not  furnished  the  Eagle  with  a second 
communication, either  substantiating  or 
refuting the charges made in the original 
communication. 
Is is possible  that  Mr. 
Goss as a politician  is  so  completely un­
der the  domination  of  trades  unionism 
that  he  dare  not do justice to a man he 
has wronged?

The Grocery Market.

Bananas—Are plenty and sell for some­
what  lower  prices.  The  hot  weather 
ripens the fruit very  fast  and  local  re­
tailers can  get  good  bargains,  as  when 
stock  becomes  too ripe to reship it must 
be closed  out  very  soon.  Demand  will 
probably  be  light for the next month or 
six weeks  while  peaches  and  other  do­
mestic fruits have the preference.

Oranges—The  Rodis keep  up  to  high 
water  mark,  in  spite  of the hard times 
and  large  supply  of  other  fruits.  The 
Sorrentos are  reported to be  arriving  in 
very  bad  order  and,  being more or less 
puuky and  without  juice,  sell  slowly  at 
half  the  price  of  luscious  Rodis.  Our 
market  this week has  the  Fancy  Imper­
ials,  160s and the 200s,  at  prices ranging 
from $5.25@6.

T>eanuts—There  is  a  good  steady de­
mand,  in spite of which the price has not 
advanced  as it seemed  probable  it would 
a few weeks ago.  Since the  output  has 
got  into the control  of a syndicate,  there 
seems to be a falling  away  from  the old- 
time standard of quality and the different 
grades are a notch below what they  were 
when  individual  brands  were  in  open 
market,  striving for recognition.

critical was his condition that Dr.  Barth 
was  called  to  his  bedside  for consulta­
tion.

Sumner Wells, Secretary of  the  I.  M. 
Clark Grocery Co., is putting in  his  fort­
night’s  vacation  at  Hackley  Park  and 
other points  along  the  lake  shore.  He 
will take up his work again  about  Aug. 
20.

The statement, in  last week’s paper,  to 
the effect that  Wm.  Judson  assists  Mr. 
Reeder in the management of the  Reeder 
Bros.  Shoe Co.  is  denied  by  friends  of 
both gentlemen,  who assert that Mr. Jud- 
sou already has his hands  full  with  his 
other  enterprises,  while  Mr.  Reeder’s 
management of  the shoe  business  is  so 
successful  that  the  business showed an 
increase in July of 84,106 67 over the cor­
responding month last  year.

If any customer of  the  Ball-Barnhart- 
Putman  Co.  or  the  Olney  &  Judson 
Grocer Co.  finds  his  order  twisted  this 
week he can attribute it to  the  mangled 
condition  of 
those 
houses,  resulting  from a match  game of 
base ball  last  Saturday.  No participant 
escaped injury of a more or  less  serious 
character  and  Monday  morning  both 
forces  resembled 
the 
emergency ward  of a hospital.

the  employes  of 

in  appearance 

Lemons—The  demand  is  better  now 
than  at any  time since  the  Fourth.  The 
numerous sales at the different receiving 
ports have  kept  the  country  well  sup­
plied  and  prevented any  very  high prices 
so far,  but now  that the trade  is  buying 
more  freely  and  because so much of the 
fruit  arrives  unsound,  a  much  firmer 
feeling is noticable,  and,  as  usual  when 
the price gets above 84 per  box,  the 360s 
are  in  the  lead  over  300s.  The  local 
market has a supply adequate  for  usual 
demands,  most  of  which is  from  recent 
vessels and,  therefore,  fresh  fruit.  The 
prospects  are  that  prices  will  be some­
what higher, especially if the hot weather 
to be expected at  this season  of the year 
materializes.

Brazil  Nuts—The new crop  is  coming 
forward  n  large  quantities  and now is 
the  time  to  buy  in  full  sacks,  as  the 
wholesalers  make  low  prices  when  the 
stock can be  reshipped direct  from cars, 
thus  avoiding  rehandling.  There  are 
two or three firms  in New York  who en­
deavor to corner  the  market  on  Brazils 
every  year  and  it  is  rumored  that the 
chances for doing so this season are good. 
Should they succeed  the prices  now rul­
ing would drop out of sight in a jiffy and 
late buyers would pay the premium.

Pork—Receipts of hogs at the  Chicago 
live  stock  market  were  for  the  week 
184,241.  a  gain  of  42,000  over  the  pre­
vious week and  99,000  over  the  corres­
ponding  period  a  year  ago.  The  local 
market  for  packed  meats  did  a  fairly 
active  business  the  past  week,  with 
prices  firm  and  unchanged,  except  on 
hams,  which  have  been  enhanced  from 
K@lc per  lb.

Purely Personal.

Will  P.  Granger,  Treasurer  of  the 
Grand  Rapids Packing &  Provision  Co., 
is spending a couple of  weeks  with  his 
brother at Duluth.  He  began  his  sum­
mer respite last Thursday.

A.  E.  Webb,  Eastern representative for 
C.  G.  A.  Voigt & Co., is  in town, on bus­
iness with his  firm.  Mr.  Webb  reports 
business as fair in  the East,  and says the 
prospects for a good fall trade  are  good.
S.  A.  Howey, the Lake  City  hardware 
dealer,  is recovering  from  a  severe  at 
So
tack  of  rheumatism  of  the  heart. 

Gripsack  Brigade.

N. A.  Sampson,  a traveling  man  stop­
ping at the Hotel Cadillac, Detroit,  while 
attempting to board an electric car Satur­
day evening,  fell to the ground,  breaking 
both  bones  of  his  right  leg  below the 
knee.  He was taken to  Harper  hospital 
where his injuries were attended to.

L.  M.  Mills has  invented  and  applied 
for a patent on an  improved pill case,  by 
the use of which  a  druggist  may  avoid 
the  annoyance  and  inconvenience  inci­
dent to the sale of this  staple.  The case 
is made  in  two  sizes—twenty-four  and 
forty compartments—and  sold  at a price 
which  brings  it within  the reach of any 
druggist. 
It has  a  glass  front and glass 
doors on reverse side and is  so simple in 
construction  and  application 
that  the 
dealer can obtain a  box  of  any  brand of 
pills desired  without a  moment’s hesita­
tion  and  also  note  the  condition  of  his 
stock  at  a  glance.  The  case  evidently 
meets a  long-felt want  and  will,  in  all 
probability, meet with a large sale.

Arrangements  have  been  fully  per­
fected  for the annual picnic of the Grand 
Rapids traveling men at  North  Park  on 
the afternoon and  evening  of  Saturday, 
Aug.  18.  The ball game  will  be  called 
promptly at 3 p.  ra.  Dr.  Evans  and  his 
bandages and  Joe  Reed  and  his  water 
pail  will be on hand to  administer to the 
bruises  and  thirst  of  the  combatants 
From 8 to 10:30 o’clock  dancing  will  be 
indulged in on the second floor of the pa­
vilion.  Only  those who  have  traveling 
men’s badges will  be  permitted  to  par­
ticipate in this feature of the day,  as the 
committee in charge are  determined that 
none but traveling men  and their invited 
guests shall  “trip  the  light  fantastic.” 
All  traveling  men  are  expected  to  be 
present and  a  cordial  invitation  is  ex­
tended all visiting salesmen to  join with 
the  local  travelers  in  celebrating  the 
event.

The Drug Market.

Opium is very firm and active.
Morphia is unchanged.
Quinine is  higher  and  advancing,  on 
account of higher price  for  bark  at  the 
last sales.

Challenge  Accepted.

Gra nd  R a pid s,  Aug.  6—In  behalf  of 
the  retail  grocers  “on  the  hill,”  we 
hereby  accept  the  challenge  of  Ralph 
Rockwell to play a match  game  of  base 
ball on the occasion  of the  grocer’s  pic­
nic at Reed’s Lake at such time and place 
as may be designated  by  the  Committee 
on Sports.

V ie r g e v e r .  F u ll er,  et  a l.

FOR  SALE.  WANTED.  ETC. 

578

Advertisements  will  be  inserted  under  this 
head for two cents a word the first Insertion and 
one  cent a word  for each  subsequent  insertion. 
No advertisements  taken for  less  than 25 cents. 
Advance payment.
ANTED—EVERY  D RU G G IST  JU ST  
starting in business and every one already 
started to use our system of poison 'labels.  What 
has cost you 115 you can now  get  for  it.  Four­
teen  labels  do  the  work  of  113,  Tradesman 
Company,  Grand Rapids.

ElOR  SALK—LARGE  STORE,  WAKEIIOU&E, 

IilOR  SALE  UR  EXCHANGE—2400  ACRES 

barn, etc . w ith  one half  interest  in  stock 
of general m erchandise in the village of M cBain, 
M issaukee county,  Mich  For term s w rite to €411- 
H sM cB -in, McBain,  Mich. 
T17ANTED-A  GOOD  SMALL  SECOND- 
V V  hand safe.  Must be cheap  Write us par­
ticulars.  Worden & Miner. Alma  Mich. 
577
'  of A No.  1  white  and red  oak  and  hickory 
timber  in  northwestern  Louisiana,  four  miles 
from railroad  one-half mile  from  another  line, 
surveyed  and  partly  built.  Soil  No.  1.  Title 
guaranteed  For  particulars  address  No  576, 
care Michigan  Tradesman 
576
r p o   RENT—BEST  LOCATION  IN THE CITY.
JL  The new  W aldron  Building  opposite union 
depot, 50x80 feet.  Three stories  and  basem ent. 
Suitable for w holesale trade.  Apply to Scribner 
B ro s, 67 Lyon  St. 
5.5
ANTED—STOCK  OF  GROCERIES—NOT 
to  exceed  61,500—In  exchange  for  cash 
and real estate in a thriving N ebraska city.  Ad 
dress F.  II. Clark, Ashley, Ind. 
573
ANTF,D—ST tIcST 0 F  GOODiS  WILL PAY 
m  
spot cash.  M ust  be  cheap.  D on’t  w rite 
unless yon mean  business  A ddress  W arner  & 
D unbar, Parm a, Mich. 

■O  RENT—NEW  BRICK  STORE,  OPERA 

house block,  24x72.  shelved  complete.  S. 
M.  Gay, Milan  Mich. 
570
TOR  SALS—A  COMPLETE  STOCK  OF 
drugs  and  fixtures.  Will  Invoice  about 
$2.000.  Corner  store.  Nice  location.  Kent, 
$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 physician.  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

574

' 

a buyer if you  want  to  sell.  Mutual  Business 

'67

F65

566

568

the North.  Best location in town.  Will invoice 

Exchange, Bay City, Mich. 

store in Traverse  City,  the  queen  city  of 
about $1,800.  Terms, one-half cash,  balance  on 
time  with  approved  notes.  Address  No  567, 
care Michigan  Tradesman. 

F10R  SALE—A  FINE  CONFECTIONERY 
■ ILL  PAY  SPOT  CASH  FOR  GENERAL 

stock  of  merchandise.  J.  H.  Levinson, 
Petoskey, Mich. 
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 
years for himself.  Address “Pharmacist,” care 
Michigan  Tradesman. 
lOO  BUSINESS  CHANCES" 
Send stamp for our list.  We can find you 

■ E  HAVE 
Ne a r l y  n e w   b a r-lock  t y p e w r it e r

for  sale  at  a  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. 
/~1REAT  OFFER-FINE  STOCK  OF  WALL 
\JT  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  $2,5co  to  $3,600.  Address  Mrs. 
Theresa Schwind, Grand Rapids. 
BUSINESS CHANCE—FOR  SALE OR EX> 
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. 

Ba n n in g   fa c to r y  w a n t ed—a  pa 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. 
553
F or  sa le—a w e l l e q u ip p e d  m a c h in e
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 
tlculars from Charles Steel,  Administrator,  box 
46, Wyandotte, Michigan. 
647

559

564

F61

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

Fo r  sa le—c lea n  d r u g  stock  in   a
■LANING  MILL—WE  OFFER  FOR  SALE 

the North Side Planing Mill,  which is first- 
tions to locate the business In some other  thriv­
ing town.  Correspondence and inspection solic­
ited.  Sheridan, Boyce & Co., Manistee, Mich. 618

class in every  respect,  or  will  receive  proposi­

THK  MICHIGAN  TRAJDEBM.AJN
Dry Goods Price Current.

DEMINS.

6

LOADSTONES  OP  TRADE.

Some  Suggestions  That  Could  Be 

Adapted  to  Suit  the  Business.

F ro m  th e   D ry G oods  C hronicle.

lady 

it  is 

The key-note to strike  in  creating  an 
active business is in  the  establishing  of 
as many  features  of  attraction  as  pos­
sible.  Every  dry  goods  house  should 
make a  special  effort  to  appeal  to  the 
admiration  of 
customers  and 
shoppers.  As  a  rule,  women  purchase 
the dry goods for the  entire family,  and 
in many  instances  they  do  the  buying 
for  the  male  members  of  the  family. 
The  average  woman  allows  no  oppor­
tunities to pass for an excuse  to go shop­
ping. 
the  greatest  avenue  for 
pleasure  and  recreation  outside  of  a 
pleasant  home.  The  duties  of  society 
are of times arduous,  as  it is a  matter of 
form;  but  she  can  spend  one,  two  or 
three hours shopping,  and  be anxious to 
repeat  the  same  thing  the  next  day. 
While  she  is  gratifying  one  of  the 
greatest pleasures  within her realm,  yet 
she is blind  as to  the  cause  of  it.  She 
considers the  vocation  purely  business, 
thereby  not  realizing 
the  fascination 
which it has for the sex.
What class of  establishments  do  they 
visit?  Why,  those  that have  attractions! 
When a lady goes shopping she visits the 
points  of  interest  to  her,  and  usually 
makes  her  purchases  where  she  sees 
something  to  interest  and  please  her. 
Woman have great admiration for linens, 
laces,  hamburg  embroideries,  ribbons, 
novelties in dress goods, and  everything 
made for babywear.  These departments 
should  contain 
assortment; 
selected  with an eye competent to appeal 
to  woman’s  admiration,  and  should  be 
displayed with artistic taste,  where  they 
can  be seen.  These  departments  would 
then  prove 
the 
magnetism  of  which  would  draw  and 
control the business  of  a  town  or  city. 
Customers  who  patronize  the  depart­
ments above referred to  and are pleased, 
would naturally be in the right humor to 
be pleased  in other departments.
No  better single  drawing card  can  be 
chosen than the establishment of an ’‘in­
fant department.”  where  everything  be­
longing  to  the  baby’s  wardrobe may  be 
found.  The fair sex,  from the little miss 
of 12 years of age,  to even the spinster of 
50,  have a mania for seeing and  handling 
anything  intended  for  the  “dear  little 
dimpled darlings.”  A  woman  would go 
five  blocks  out  of  her way  any time to 
simply  see  and  handle  some  of  those 
“cute little things.”  A  juvenile depart­
ment is not only a great  stimulus to bus­
iness,  but if properly conducted will  pay 
as large a percentage of net profit as any 
other department.
It is necessary to  have a  true  concep - 
tion  of  human  nature,  and  to be an ob­
server of things,  and  to  take  advantage 
of  every  opportunity,  if  a merchont ex­
pects to be a leader;  otherwise he will be 
led.

loadstones, 

a  good 

regular 

The Value of Adversity.

wherein 

finances, 

F rom   th e   M aritim e  G rocer.
Business  economy is something  which 
is  best taught by  force of circumstances, 
rather than a study of commercial ethics; 
and we venture to say that  the  business 
man who has passed  through a period of 
straitened 
his
physical and intellectual  resources were 
taxed  to  the  uttermost  to  improvise  a 
way  of  meeting current  liabitities,  will 
afterward  regard  it  as  the  wholesome 
lesson of  a  life-time.  The  lesson  to  a 
man  who has had his  nose on  the grind­
stone  of 
circumstances
counts for more in his future commercial 
knowledge  of business management than 
the sunny  smiles of fortune.

straitened 

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 
complete  cheap  cash  register  in  the 
market. 
It  will  record  three  or  more 
lines or departments and each salesman’s 
sales,  which cannot be done on any other 
register.

Don’t cash checks for  strangers.

UNBLEACHED COTTONS.

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BLEACHED  COTTONS.

Adriatic.................  7
A rgyle  ......................  5 *
Atlanta AA............   6
Atlantic A..............

Arrow Brand 414 
World Wide.  6
b b ............... 414
Full Yard Wide...... 614
Georgia  A..............614
“ 
H ..............  6)4
“ 
P ............   5
Honest Width........  6
Hartford A ............ 5
“ 
D.............   6
Indian Head...........  514
“  LL..............  4H
Amory.....................6M
King A  A............... 614
Archery  Bunting... 4
KlngBC.................  6
Beaver Dam  A A..  4'yi
Lawrence  L L........  414
Blackstone O, 32__   5
Madras cheese cloth 644
Black Crow.............6
Newmarket  G........644
Black  Rock  ...........  5K
B........   6
N.......614
Boot, AL................  7
DD....  614
Capital  A  ..............6)4
Cavanat V ..............514
X ....... 644
Chapman cheese cl. 344
Nolbe R..................  5
Clifton  C R ............ 514
Our Level  Best...... 6
Comet..................... 614  Oxford  R ................  6
Dwight Star............  644 Pequot.....................  7
Clifton CCC...........5?4  Solar........................  6
¡Top of the  Heap__7
Geo. Washington...  8
Glen Mills.............   7
Gold Medal............ 714
Green  Ticket......... 814
Great Falls............. 614
Hope....................... 714
Just  Out......   444® 5
King  Phillip...........744
OP......714
Lonsdale Cambric.. 10
Lonsdale...........  @8
Middlesex........   @5
No Name................   714
Oak View...............   6
Our Own................ 514
Pride of the West.. .12
Rosalind.................714
Sunlight.................   414
Utica  Mills.............. 814
“  Nonpareil  . .10
Vlnyard..................  814
White Horse...........6
.  814
8

A B C ......................814
Amazon.................. 8
Amsburg.
6
Art  Cambric...........10
Blackstone A A......714
Beats AU.................4
Boston....................12
Cabot......................   644
Cabot,  % ...............6*
Charter  Oak_____514
Conway W..............734
Cleveland.............  6
Dwight Anchor__   8
“ 
shorts  8
Edwards.. 
...........  6
Empire....................  7
Farwell....................714
Fruit of the  Loom.  8
Fitchvllle  ............  7
First Prize..............6
Fruit of the Loom %.  7H
Fairmount..............414
Full Value..............6%
Cabot...................
644
Farwell................ •  7h
CANTON
Unbleached. 
..514
Housewife  A......
..514
“ 
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.:6
C .........
“  
D......
“ 
..6*
E ___
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p
IS 
■ -7V.
G  ....
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..7V4
H......
“ 
-.744
“ 
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..8>4
J  .... •  8*
“ 
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«14
L.  ..  . .10
“ 
“  M  ......
.1014
N ........
“ 
.11
.21
“ 
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P ........
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Bleached.

Housewife  Q........... 6>4
R ...........7
S...........744
T..........814
U............914
V........... 10
W..........1044
X..........1114
Y..........1214
Z........... 1314

HALT  BLEACHED  COTTONS.

Rock.... 

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CARPET  WARP.

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Peerless, white..  ...17  I Integrity  colored... 18
colored — 19  White Star...............17
Integrity................. 18141 
“  colored  .19
Hamilton 
Nameless................20
......... 25
....2714
........SO
......... 3214
....35

..............8
.................9
................. 1014
G G  Cashmere........20
Nameless  ...............16
...............18

DRESS  SOODS.

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CORSETS.

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« 

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PRINTS.

“ 
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CORSET  JEANS.

“ 
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Elnk a purple 514

American fancy... 
American Indigo... 
American shirtings 
Argentine  Grays.. 
Anchor Shirtings.. 
Arnold 
Arnold  Merino----
long cloth B 
“ 
.. 
c   7H
century cloth  7
“ 
“  gold seal......1014
“  green seal TR1014 
“  yellow seal.. 1014
“ 
serge.............1114
“  Turkey red..1014 
“ 

Coraline..................... 69 50
.64 50 
Wonderful . 
Schilling’s ................... 9 00
Brighton.
4 75
Davis  Waists  ....  9 00 
Bortree’s ..............9 00
Grand  Rapids......4 50
Abdominal...........15 00
Armory..................   644|Naumkeagsatteen..  714
Androscoggin.........714 Rockport....................614
Blddeford..............   6  Conestoga.................714
Brunswick....... 
..  6141 Walworth.............. 644
Allen turkey  reds.. 514
Berwick fancies 
514
robes............ 514
Clyde Robes —  
Charter Oak fancies 4 
DelMarlne cashm's.  514 
u f f s ............   514
pink  checkB. 514
monrn’g  514 
staples........   5
Eddystone fancy...  514 
shirtings
chocolat  514
rober__514
sateens.. 514 
Hamilton fancy.  ...  514 
staple....  514 
Manchester fancy..  514 
new era. 514 
Merrimack D fancy. 514 
Merrlxn’ck shirtings.  4 
Repp furn .  814
Pacific fancy..........514
Portsmouth robes...  614 
Simpson mourning.. 544
greys........544
solid black.  544 
Washington Indigo.  614 
“  Turkey robes..  7H
“  India robes__ 714
“  plain T’ky X 44  814 
“ 
«  X...10
“  Ottoman  Tur­
key red.................. 6*4
Martha Washington
Turkey red 44........ 714
Martha Washington
Turkey red..........   914
Rlverpolntrobes  ...  514
Windsor fancy........614
Indigo  Dine......... 1014
Harmony...............   4 <4
Amaskeag AC A— 1114
AC A......................1114
Hamilton N  ...........  7
Pemberton AAA__16
D..............8
York....................... 1014
Awning.. 11
Swift River.............714
Fanner......................8
Pearl River............12
First Prise..............1014
Warren................... 1214
Conostoga..............16
Lenox M ills........... 18
Atlanta,  D..............  844|Stark  A .................8
Boot.....................  644 No Name...........  714
Clifton, K 
...........7  iTopofHeap........... 9

red and  orange...  6
oil bine..... 6
“ 
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“  green  —   6
“  Foulards  ...  514
red 44...........7
•* 
“  X ...........914
“ 
“ 
»  4 4......10
“ 
“  3-4XXXX 12
CocheCQ fancy........5
“  madders...  5 
“ XXtwills..  5
“ 

Ballon solid black..
“  colors.
Bengal blue,  green, 
Berlin solids...........  514

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

gold  ticket

solids.....5

COTTON  DRILL.

TICKINGS.

u 
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Amoskeag.............. 12
9os...... 14
brown .14
Andover................. 1114
Beavercreek  A A... 10 
“ 
B B ...9
“ 
C C ...
Boston Mfg Co.  br..  7 
blue  814 
u 
“  d * twist 1014 
Columbian XXX br.10 
XXX  bl.19
Amoskeag..............   6
“  Persian dress 61« 
Canton ..  7
** 
AFC.........814
“ 
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Teazle... 1014 
Angola..1014 
“ 
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Persian..  7 
Arlington staple—   644
Arasapha  fancy__414
Bates Warwick dres  714 
staples.  6
Centennial............   1014
Criterion......... — 1014
Cumberland staple.  514
Cumberland............. 5
Essex........................414
Elfin.......................   7H
Everett classics......814
Exposition............... 714
Glenarle.................  644
Glenarven................ 644
Glenwood.................714
Hampton...................5
Johnson Chalon cl 
14 
Indigo blue 914 
zephyrs. ...16 
s r a in
Amoskeag.................13  I
Stark........................17
American.................13  !

Columbian  brown.. 12
Everett, blue......... 1214
brown....... 1214
Haymaker bine......   744
brown...  744
Jeffrey.....................1114
Lancaster  .............. 1214
Lawrence, 9 oz........18)4
No. 220.... 13
No. 250....1114
No. 280.... 1014

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OINOHAMB.
Lancaster,  staple...  5 
fancies....  7 
“ 
“  Normandie  7
Lancashire.............   6
Manchester............   544
Monogram................614
Normandie............  7
Persian...................   7
Renfrew Dress........714
Rosemont................. 614
Slatersvllle............   6
Somerset................   7
Tacoma  ...................714
Toll  duNord......... 814
Wabash.................... 714
seersucker..  714
Warwick...............   6
Whlttenden............   8
heather dr.  714 
Indigo blue  9 
Wamsutta staples...  644
Westbrook................8
..............10
Windermeer........... 5
York  ........................644
BASS.
Georgia... 

............1314

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11 

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THREADS.

...95
..90

Clark’s Mile End... .45 Barbour's..
...... 45 Marshall’s
J .   A P .
......2214
H o ly o k e .............
KNITTING  COTTON.
White.  Colored.
38 No.  14....... .37
No.  6  ..  .  38
“ 
8........34
“  16....... .38
39
“  10........ 35
«•  18....... .39
40
"  20....... .40
“  12........ 36
41
CAVBBIC8.
......4
Edwards...
Slater.............
White Star__ ....  4 Lockwood.
......4 Wood’s—
Kid Glove......
Newmarket — ......4
Brunswick

White.  Colored
42
43
44
45
..  4
...  4
..  4
.  4

■  22)4
•  32)4
...35
■•82)4

...17)4
...1 8 )4
...1 8 )4
.28)4
.23)4
...... 9  @1014
......  
1214
Brown. Black.
10)4
11)4
12
20

10)4
11)4
12
20

MIXSD  FLANNEL.

RED  FLANNEL.
...... 3214 T W...........
Fireman........
Creedmore — ...... 27)4 F T ............
......30
J  R F, XXX
Talbot XXX...
Nameless  ...... ......27)4 Buckeye...
Red A   Blue,  plaid. .40 Grey S R W
Unlou R .......... ......22)4 Western W
Windsor.......... ......18)4 D R P ........
6 oz Western..
Union  B......... .........22)4 Manitoba..
Nameless...... 8  @ 9141 
...... 814@10  I 

DOKBT  FLANNEL.

.........20

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Flushing XXX...

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CANVASS  AND  PADDIES.
9)4
10)4
11*
12)4

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Slate.  Brown.  Black. Slate
9M 10)4
9)4 
10)4 11)4
10)4 
11)4 12
11)4 
12)4 20
12)4 
DUCKS.
äeveren, 8 oz......... ■  9)4 West  Point, 8 os -  .10)4
M ay land, 8 o z ........... .10)4
10 0 1
...1 2 )4
Greenwood, 7)4 os. .  9)4 Raven,IO01......
...13)4
........ ...13)4
Greenwood, 80* .. .11)4 Stark
Boston, 8 oz........... ■ 10)4 Boston, 10 oz__ ...1 2 )4
WADDINSS.
White, dos............ 25 Per bale, 40 dos.. ..88 50
Colored,  doz......... .20 Colored  “ 
...... ..  7 50
SILESIAS.
.  8 Pawtucket......... ...10)4
Slater. Iron Cross.
“  Red Cross... .  9 Dundie............... ...  9
“  Best............ .10)4 Bedford............. ...10)4
Best A A — .12)4 Valley  City........ ...10)4
" 
L ............................ .  7)4 KK  .................... ..  10)4
G..........................
Cortlcelli, dot........ .85 Cortlcelli  knitting.

SEWING  SILK.

. 8)4

“  8 
«  10 

per )4oz  ball... ...so

twist, dos .40
50 yd, doz .40
HOOKS AND EYES—PER Ö ROSS.
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No  1 Bl’k A Whlte..l0 No  4 Bl’k A Whlte..l5
“ 2 
.12
..20
.12
“  8 
..25
.50 No 4—15  F  8)4 . .. ...40
No 2-20, M C........
*'  8-18, SC.........
.45
No  2 White A Bl’k..l2 No  8 White A Bl’k. .20
•‘ 4 
.28
» 6  
..26
No 2.

COTTON  TAP*.
“  10 
“  12 
SAFETY  PINS.
....28  IN08...
NEEDLES—PER  X.

.86

.16
.18

A. James.................1 401 Steamboat 
.........   40
Crowely’s................1  85 Gold  Eyed.............. 1  50
Marshall’s...............1 00|Amerlcan................1 00
5—4.... 1 75  6 -4 ... 
|5—4— 1  65  6—4. ..2 80

TABLE  OIL  CLOTH.

PINS.

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COTTON TWINES.

Cotton Sail Twine. .28
Crown.................... 12
Domestic..............1814
Anchor...................16
Bristol....................13
Cherry  Valley........15
I XL.....................1814
Alabama...................644
Alamance...............tfe
Augusta...................714
Ar- sapha................6
Georgia.....................614
Gram te.................... 544
Haw  River........... 6
Haw  J .................   5

“ 

Nashua..................14
Rising Star 4-ply__17
8-ply_17
North Star.............20
Wool Standard 4 ply 1714 
Powhattan............16

Mount  Pleasant__614
Oneida....................  6
Prymont................  544
Randelman.............  6
Riverside................  5)4
Sibley A......... . 
614
Toledo 
...............
Otis checks...  ----744

PLAID  OSHABUBSB

S E B D S !

Everything  in  seeds  is kept  by  us—  

Clover, Timothy,

Hungarian,  Millet,

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

If you  have  Beans  to  sell,  send  us 
samples,  stating  quantity,  and  we 
will  try  to trade  with  you.  W e  are 
headquarters  for egg cases  and  egg 
case  fillers.
W. T.  LIM8REIUX W ,,^ A 13sZ:

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

A  N E W  I D E A .
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  his  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
Gilrse  of  Credit 
C O U P O N

BY  USING

#

B O O K S .

#  

Tradesman,
Superior,
Universal.

-o-

M anufactured only by

TRADESMAN  COrtPANY,

Grand Rapids,  Mich.

THE  MICHIGAN-  TRADESMAN.

7

Keeping Track  of Expenses.

I  have  found,  in  my long experience 
as a hardware dealer,  considerable  solid 
satisfaction in reviewing,  after  the  close 
of the year, the  individual  items  which 
are collectively know  as  “Store  Expen­
ses,”  and  for this purpose I have a book 
properly  arranged  for  convenience  and 
time saving in  which  to  enter  the  vari­
ous items under  their  proper  divisions. 
The principal  items in  my  business  are 
Rent,  Wages,  Taxes,  Fuel,  Gas,  Insur­
ance, Advertising, Cartage,  Freight  and 
Express, Stationery,  Postage,  Telephone, 
Interest,  and  a  number  of  insignificant 
items  which  are  classed  under  “Sun­
dries.”

These  expenses are of two classes,  the 
fixed  expenses,  which  are  the 
same 
throughout the year, and  the  fluctuating 
expenses,  which  are  increased  or  de­
creased according to the volume of  trade 
or other influencing  circumstances;  and 
it is of value to know,  for  guidance  dur­
ing the coming year,  just  what  amount 
to proportion to  each  division  to  prop­
erly  balance  the  total  expenditure. 
In 
the same book 1 also keep a  “Daily Sales 
Record,” a “ Monthly Sales Record.”  and 
a “ Yearly Sales Record,”  each  of  these 
records being so arranged as  to  show  at 
a glance the exact  amount  of  cash  and 
book sales for each day and month in the 
year,  and the proportion  which  the  cash 
sales bear to the book sales,  and  each  to 
the total sales.  When  by  prepaying  an 
invoice for merchandise  I  secure  a  dis­
count  of  one,-  two,  or  five  per  cent., I 
credit the saving to my interest  account, 
and thus at the end of the year I am able 
to know how much  was gained by prompt 
payment.

In this connection it  is  quite  surpris­
ing  to  notice  how  large  an  aggregate 
these  cash  discounts amount to during a 
year.  Sometimes they more  than  equal 
half my rent,  and  represent  a  respect­
able  portion  of  the  year’s  net  profits. 
The “Sales Record” is  a  frequently  ex­
amined  account 
It  is  a  satisfaction 
when  busihess  has  been  duller  than 
usual for a  week  to  refer  back  to  last 
year, and find that there  was  an  equally 
dull  period  in  the  same  month,  and it 
serves to relieve one’s apprehensions that 
things are going backward.

I  have also in  this “Special  Accounts” 
book  a  division  of  the  leading lines of 
goods which I handle,  especially  season­
able goods,  and am able  to  know,  with­
out  guessing, 
just  what  quantity  of 
skates or  window  screens  I  purchased 
last  year,  and  by consulting my stock I 
can intelligently decide  upon  the  proper 
amount to purchase  the  coming  season. 
Getting  over-stocked  was  one  of  the 
peculiarly  hard 
rocks  I  encountered 
when 1 first started in  business,  and  the 
cause  of  many  losses,  and  1  find  my 
present system of decided  benefit.  I also 
keep in this book a personal account, not 
of items, but of amounts  of  cash  drawn 
out of the business  by  myself, and while 
I  am  forced  to  admit  that  the  total 
amount grows larger with  each  succeed­
ing year,  still 1 have often  been  put  on 
my  guard  by  reviewing  the past  year, 
and the result of  the  annual  inventory.
Only that  man  can  fairly  said  to  be 
rich  whose income exceeds his outgo,  the 
size of the  income  making  little  differ­
ence in too many cases.

W.  B.  J ohnson.

Keep enough  summer in  your heart to 

thaw the winter in your veins.

in 

the 

through 

couraged.

the 
retailer 

local 
is  asked 

A  Practice  Which  Should  be  Dis­
From the Merchants’ Review.
The  practice  resorted  to  by  many 
manufacturers, of selling  their  goods to 
retail merchants,  to be delivered  by  the 
jobbing house with  whom they are in the 
habit of  dealing,  is  becoming  more tand 
more distasteful to the  wholesale  trade. 
It is a species of coercion,  which is  pro­
ductive  of  dissatisfaction,  both  to  the 
jobber  and  his  customer.  The  manu­
facturer’s agent  has  no  special  interest 
in  those  from  whom  he  solicits  trade. 
He is not held to  account  for  the  goods 
delivered and,  in many  instances,  makes 
misrepresentations which are  not  borne 
out by facts and guarantees  sales  which 
never  take  place. 
In  canvassing  the 
trade,  a  stranger  is  universally  met  in 
the same manner.  He  is  informed  that 
whatever is wanted  in  his  line  will  be 
obtained 
jobber, 
whereupon 
to 
designate the house,  and,  upon so doiug, 
he gives the agent  another  chance,  who 
then  assures him that any  purchase will 
be delivered by the house  named. 
If he 
succumbs,  it  is  with  the  idea  that  it 
makes no difference anyway,  that  if  the 
goods  are  unsatisfactory,  they  can  be 
returned  to the jobber,  who  will  remu­
nerate him,  and  he  thereupon  signs  an 
order  for  the  goods.  By  means  of  a 
number  of  orders,  obtained 
this 
mauner,  the jobber is  persuaded to make 
a purchase,  thinking  to  accomodate  his 
trade  and  being  assured  that  his  stock 
will  be sold by the manufacturer,  which 
latter is often the  case;  but  the  end  is 
not yet.  Thearetailer displays his  goods 
for  sale  until 
they  become  rusty  and 
shop-worn  when  they  are  relegated  to 
the back of the store and  forgotten until 
the  next  stock-taking,  or  some  chance 
incident brings them to  mind.  He  then 
returns them to the jobber,  and,  if  any 
exception is taken to this action,  informs 
him  that  unless  they  are  received,  he 
will  transfer  his  trade  elsewhere. 
In 
some instances  this is  all  right,  as  the 
jobber  can  call  upon  the  manufacturer 
to stand behind his goods,  but  in  many 
other cases the manufacturer is  no  more 
and the jobber must bear the  loss or lose 
his customer,  which latter  alternative  is 
seldom chosen,  although the  jobber  was 
in no way responsible for  the sale.  The 
practice  is  ill-advised,  at  best,  and, 
generally speaking,  benefits none  of  the 
parties interested.  Unpleasant relations 
are  created  between 
retail  and 
wholesale  merchant,  the  jobber  suffers 
loss in  many  instances,  and  the  manu­
facturer,  by  causing  a  succession  of 
difficulties,  lessens his chances  of intro­
ducing  his  goods.  Every  merchant  is 
best  suited to  look  after  the  wants  of 
his own customers,  and any  interference 
on  the part of outside agents,  ostensibly 
in his behalf,  is not  considered  by  him 
with  favor.  The  experience  of  mer­
chants in this respect  is  universally  the 
same,  and 
it  is  with  great  reluctance 
that orders of this kind are accepted.

the 

A  New  York  dealer  assures  his cus­
tomers  that  the  eggs  he  is  selling  are 
fresh laid.  Then  be  winks  to  the  en­
gineer  of  the  cash  register  and  says: 
“You  know  that  eggs  cannot  be  laid 
stale.”

Hardware Price Carrent.

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A m

AUGURS AND BITS. 

These  prices are  for cash,  buyers,  who 
pay promptly  and  buy in  full  packages.
dig.
Snell's........................................................... 60*10
Cook’s ........................................................... 
40
J ennlngs’, genuine....................................... 
25
Jennings’, Imitation....................................50*10
First Quality, S. B. Bronze..........................» 6 50
D.  B. Bronze  ..........................   ia 00
S. B. rj. steel.............................   7 50
D.  B. Steel...............................  13 50
Railroad................................... .........*18 00  14 00
Garden.................................................  net  SO 00
Stove.............................................................. 50*10
Carriage new list  .........................................75*10
Plow.  ........................................................... 40*10
Sleigh shoe................................................... 
70
Well, plain  ................................................. I 8 50
Well,swivel  ................................................  400
dlB.
Cast Loose Pin, figured................... 
70*10
Wrought Narrow, bright 5aat Joint  40  .......60*10

BUTTS, CAST. 

barrows. 

BUOKBTS.

bolts. 

dla.

dig.

 

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

................................... , 
BLOCKS.

Ordinary Tackle, list April  1898............... 60*10

CRADLRB.

CROW BARS.

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

Cast Steel............................................ per lb 
............................................ perm 
« 

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

Hick’s  C. P 

5

66
no

CARTRIDGES.
Rim  Fire.................................. 
Central  Fire.................................." " '  ill's 

CHISELS. 

dlS.
Socket Firmer............................... 
75*10
Socket Framing.................................... 
75*10
'  " 75*10
Socket Corner................................  
Socket Slicks...............................................ii'sAlo
Butchers’Tanged Firmer................    
40

5$
25

Curry,  Lawrence’s ......................... 
40
Hotchkiss..........................................” 
05
White Crayons, per gross...............13®12*4 dls. 10

dls.

combs. 

CHALK.
COPPER.

dls.

DRILLS. 

DRIPPING PAMS.

14x52,14x56,14x60 ..................  

Planished, 14 01 cut to size........per pound 
88
26
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60...............  
23
Cold Rolled, 14x48......................... 
23
Bottoms......................................... "  
22
Morse’s  Bit  Stocks.......................... 
50
Taper and straight Shank......... ........................ 5»
Morse’s Taper Shank..........................................50
Small sizes, ser pound................................   gu
06
Large sizes, per pound.......................  !!.” ! 
Com. 4  piece, 6 In............................dos. net 
75
Corrugated........................................... dls 
40
Adjustable............................................dls.  40A10
Clark’s, small, »18;  large, 126................... 
30
Ives’, 1, *18:  2, »84;  3,*30............................ 
25
„  
Dlsston’s 
.............................................. 60*10-10
New American  ....................................... 60*10-10
Nicholson’s .;.......................................... 60*10-10
Heller’s  ........................................................ 
¿q
Heller’s Horse Rasps  ........................................ 50

piles—New List. 

EXPANSIVE  BITS.

ELBOWS.

dls.

dls.

GALVANIZED IRON.

dls
dls

Nos.  16  to  30;  82  and 24;  35  and  36:  87 
List 
16 

15 

13 
Discount, 60 -10

12 

23
17

14 
GAUGES. 

dls

WAITGCMB

LOCKS—DOOR. 

knobs—New List. 

Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s...................... 
‘50
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings...................  
’55
Door,  porcelain, jap. trimmings  ... 
55
Door, porcelain, plated trimming«........ 
55
Door,  porcelain, trimmings......................... 
55
Drawer and  Shutter, porcelain................. 1 
70
Russell *  Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new list  ........ 
’55
Mallory, Wheeler  *  Co.’s.................... 
55
«
Branford’s .................................... 
Norwalk’s ......................................... " " ” 
55
Adse Rye......................................*16.00, dls. 60-10
Hunt Bye..................................... *15.00, dls. 60-10
...........»18.60, dls. 20*10.
Hunt’s.......................  
dls.
so
Sperry *  Co.’s, Post,  handled...................... 
dls.
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s ...................................  
40
40
“  P. S. *  W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables.... 
•*  Landers,  Ferry *  Cls rk’s................. 
40
“  Enterprise 
.....................................  
30
Stebbin’g Pattern..........................................60*10
Stebbln’g Genuine.........................................66*10
Enterprise, self measuring.........................  
  25
Advance over  base,  on  both  Steel  and Wire
Steel nails, Dase...............................................  40
Wire nallg, base..................................................40
60.................................................................... Base Base

MOLASSES SATES. 

mauls. 
MILLS. 

NAILS

dig

............................................................................ 45
.............................................................................  45!

 

 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

50
60
75
90
 
1  60
05
75
go
75
go
1  10
70
80
go

!<>...................................................... 
8.......................................................  
7 * 6 .................................................  
J ............................. 
8 .................................................  
 
2.......................................................  
FlneS....................................................... 
Case  10............................................. 
8............................................. 
6............................................. 
Finish 10..........................................  
8...........................................  
6...........................................  
Clinch; 10.......................................... 
8....................................................  
 
6.................. 
Barrell %.................................................. 
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy................................   (M0
Sclota Bench............................................. 
$50
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy.........................  040
Benoh, first quality.......................................  $40
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s  wood........... 50*10
Fry,  Acme.............................................dls.60—10
Common,  polished................................ dls. 
70
dls.
Iron and  Tinned..........................................50—10
Copper Rivets and Bars.............................   50—10
•A” Wood’s patent planished. Not. 24 to 27  10 20 
‘B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27...  9 30 
Broken packs Ho per pound extra.

PATENT PLANISHED IRON.

PLANES. 

RIVBTS. 

PAMS.

dlB.

HAMMERS.

 

 

 

“ 

dls

.... 

HINGES.

HANGERS. 

longer.............................................  

Maydole  *  Co.’s..................................  dls 
25
Kip’s .......................... ...........................dls. 
25
Yerkes A Plumb’s .................................. dls  40*10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.........................30c list 60
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steel  Hand__30c 40*10
Gate, Clark’s, 1,2 ,3 ........ 
dls.60410
State........................................... per dot. net, 2 50
Screw Hook and  Strap, to 12 In. 4%  14  and
 
314
Screw Hook and  Eye, *4......................... net 
10
%................. .......net  8*4
M......................... not  7*4
f”
Strap and T .............................................dls. 
dlS.'
50* !C
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co.. Wood track 
Champion,  anti-friction..........................  hoaio
Kidder, wood track ................................  
40
£?*■,-.......................................................
Kettles........................................................... 60*10
Spiders  ...  ....................................................eo&ic
Gray enameled............................................ 40*10
HOUSE FURNISHING  GOODS.
Stamped  Tin Ware...............................new list 73
Japanned Tin Ware.............................  
25
Granite Iron W are..................... new lis 
2»
f ^ t  
..............................................   70*10410
Screw  Eyes.............................................70*10410
70*10*10
Hook s .. 
70*10*10
Gate Hooks and Eyes...................... 
dlR 7n
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ...................... 
1
Sisal, *4 Inch and larger.....................  
Manilla..............  ...............................01
squares. 
Steel and Iron............................ 
Try and Bevels.................... 
.................
Mitre...........................................I . " ” " " ” 

LEVELS. 
ROPES.

HOLLOW WARE.

wire goods. 

7
*  dls

?r *1 n
20
Com.  Smooth.  Com.

o so
2 90
All  sheets No. 18  and  lighter,  over 30  Inches 

Nos. 10 to  14.......................................13 50 
Nos. 15 to 17.....................................  3 =0 
4 05 
Nos.  18 to 21................................... 
Nos. 22 to 24................................ ' 
3 55 
Nos. 25 to 26...........................  
05 
MO.«7.................................................  3 75 
wide not less than 2-10 extra
SAND PAPER.
_ . 
List acct. 19, '86  ..................................... dls. 
SASH CORD.
_ 
Silver Lake, White A.............. 
ust 
Drab A ......................... . . "   » 
• 
DrabB.............................. "   « 
•* 

_ 
“ 
“  White  B.......................... 
“ 
11  White C ............. . 
SASH WEIGHTS.

60
50
55
go
Si
yo

Discount, 10.

.  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............................................  
................. d ig

Solid Eyes............................................ per ton *25
20
70
50
80
30
t r a p s . 
60*10
Steel, Game...................... 
 
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s 
35
Oneida Community, Hawley a Norton's.  ". 
70
Mouse,  choker....................................18c per dos
Mouse, delusion............................... gi.50 per dos
7A
Bright Market............................... 
Annealed Market.................. . . " " " " " "  ’70—10
’  ’  '«n_in
Coppered Market.................... 
Tinned Market............................ 
 
 
g2*
Coppered Spring  Steel....................... 
 
5J
Barbed  Fence, galvanised...............   " "  ”  2 70
painted.........................." " "   230

SHEET IRON.

Hand.

saws. 

WIRE. 

dls

dls

m 

“ 

 

 

HORSE NAILS.

g? 50
2 01
2 70

3 00

dig

...... 

WRENCHES. 

£5‘  Sable......................................................... dls. 40*10
Northwestern................................  
dls. 10*10
Baxter’s Adjustable, uickeled.. 
V,
Coe’s  Genuine..................................  ........
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought," "  " "  
75
Coe’s  Patent, malleable.................... 
75*10
.......... 
Bird Cages  ....................... 
5(,
 
Pumps, Cistern..............................  
?sa m
7041: *10
Screws, New List....................... 
Casters, Bed a  .d Plate...................... ” 50*10410
Dampers, American............................ 
45
Forks, hoes, rakes  and all steel goods... ."85*10

MISCELLANEOUS. 

...... dig

£S

METALS.
PIG TIN.

*T 

1 30

gtz
7

26c
28c

ZINC.

BOLDER.

Pig  Large....................................................  
Pig Bars....................................................  
Duty:  Sheet, 2*4c per pound.
680 pound  casks................................ 
Per pound........................................ 
16
* © # ............................................................ 
j5
Extra W iping............................................. 
The  prices  of  the  many  other  qualities  of 
solder in the market Indicated by nrtTate brands 
 
vary according to composition.
_ 
ANTIMONY.
1 60
Cookson............ ...........................per  ponnd
Hallett’s......................................  
TIN—MELYN GRADE.
10x14 IC, Charcoal............ ...............  
14x20 IC, 
10x14 IX, 
14x20 IX, 

i3
*750
...............................I..'" 
750
^
.....................................   . 
........................................  9 2f

“ 
“ 
“ 
TIN—ALLA WAY GRADE.
............................ 
.................................. ;;;; 
 

10x14 IC, Charcoal.............................  
1 75
14x20IC, 
10x14ix, 
14x20 IX, 

Each additional X on this grade, 11.75.

75
075
l  25
9 g

Bach additional X on this grade *1.50.
“  Worcester.................... 
“ 
" 
“  Allaway  Grade...............  
•• 
“ 
“ 
BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE.

14x20 IC, 
050
0  50
 
14x20 IX, 
80x28 10, 
.........................  18 00
14x2010, 
000
7  00
“ 
14x20 IX, 
12  00
*> 
20x28 IC, 
80X28 EX, 
•• 
15  50
14x28 IX......................................................... H4 00
14X31  IX........................................................   10 00
14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers, 1 
inm
14x60IX,  “ 
>per pound....  10 00

 
ROOFING PLATES

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“ 
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I'HK  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.
THE  END OP  COXBYI8M.

i the national  capital,  loot  the  treasury, 
bum  the  city,  and,  in the  midst of the 
terrible confusion that would necessarily 
ensue,  disperse  bis men,  and  so  escape 
[ into  the  country  before  they  coaid  be 
: caught, or  even  recognized.  No  matter 
j what  had  been  the  result,  there eould 
have been  something  very  tragic  done. 
There  would  have  been something very 
serious done.  Let the  whole population 
be very thankful that Coxey  was a harm­
less mountebank.  The  only  people who 
have suffered were the  poor  people fool­
ish enough to believe in him.
THE W ELLM AN POLAE EXPEDITION.
The supposed loss  of the Chicago Her­
ald’* polar expedition  is an  event  to  be 
expected,  but  it is  by no means proved. 
While the dangers  of Arctic  exploration 
are  great,  it  is a  fact  that it is but sel­
dom an expedition  has been  wholly lost 
The  most  conspicuous  if  not  the  only 
polar expedition that finally  and  fatally j 
has  been  wrapped  in  hopeless  mystery 
was  that  of  Sir  John  Franklin,  who 
sailed  in  1S45 to find a northwest passage 
through the Arctic waters.

| RAILWAYS  A  GAUGE  OF  BUSINESS.
There are  a  few  very  rich  men  who 
have become so by  wrecking railways, or 
j by robbing those Pacific  roads  to  which 
! the United States  Government loaned  its 
bonds,  who always come into public view 
| when  mention 
is  made  of  railroads. 
These  are  the  men  whose  association 
with railways have  done more  than any­
thing  else  to  prejudice  the  American 
people against  those  necessary  corpora­
tions.

When strikers stop  the operations of a 
railroad,  they  may think they are getting 
j their revenge  out  of  the  great  railway 
kings,  as  those  persons are termed,  but 
they are not the  sufferers.  They simply 
speculate  in  the  stocks,  and,  when  it 
suits their  purposes,  they  have  a  road 
which  they  have  probably  bankrupted 
sold out at United States  marshal’s  sale 
for  a  tithe  of  the  debts it  owes.  The 
debts are canceled,  and the wreckers buy 
back the road for  a  song  and  carry  on 
their speculations in its stock.  The peo­
ple who are really  ruined are the  credit­
ors and the humble employes.

8

P

chiganI

*je%s

ja d esm a n

ä vfivr,T 

bfrorcb to mi

Best  Interests  of  Business  Men

Pa Wished at

IO O   ! /o « l«   H t„   G n i n d   I b t p i r f i ,

— *T   m *  —

T RAD KS M A N  C<) M PA NY.
On«-  D o lla r  a  F«sr(  P a fih iA   In  A «2 van o r.

u r n   o*  * m .ir* T io » .

Cointninlcatlonii  1 n vl t**1  frtim pr»*tl «n ]  Prm! 

ne*ft rnen,
t.'orr«^iiif)rif|irnu mu*t g ir t their full  nam e a n i 
WMres*,  not  nerMurllf for imbllcitlwi, b u t u  
» KTjarantee of good  faith.

HnlrtrfTl tier* may  have  the  mall in ft  a«l«lre»R  of 

their |i»f»era  change')  a* often  aa desired.
Karri pie eople* sent free to any  arl'lrea*. 
Efttere'1 a t  O rnn'l  Hapl'lii  post office aa secontU- 

elaaa m atter.

p r w i i i m   w riting to  any of  otir  advertiser*, 
please  aay th a t  you  aaw  th e ir  »diertlnernent In 
r l i e   X i i  h i u «   T u i i u i o a .

E.  A.  STOWE.  KOI tor. 

WfCONKMDAV,  AIN.I  ST  K,  185(4.

IMPOTENCY  OP  THE  BOYCOTT.
If 

the  boycott  tloes  not  amount  to 
much  it  1.«  not  because  the  labor  organi­
zations  have not  imposed it often enough. 
They  have  boycotted everything in  .night, 
until  now  it ¡h  next  to  impossible  to find 
an  article  which  lias  not  been  placed  un­
der  ttie  ban  of  their displeasure.  The 
flour your  baker  uses and  the meat  your 
butcher  sells  have  been  boycotted  and 
you  must go  hungry  or  eat.  against  the 
will of  the unions.  Sit down  under your 
own  vine and  fig  tree  to  regale yourself 
with  the latest  news,  and  ten  to  one  the 
newspaper  lias  been  boycotted.  Perhaps, 
alho,  the  chair  upon  which  you  are sit­
ting has been placed under the ban.  When 
you  go  to church—as, of course,  you  do— 
don’t let  the  eloquence  of  the  preacher 
or  “ the  heavenly  music  of the choir” di­
vert  your  mind  from  the  thought  that 
your  comfortable  chair—a  “ thing  of 
beauty  and  a Joy forever” —has been boy­
cotted.  Do you  smoke?  He careful you 
do not  incur  the  displeasure  of  “ labor” 
by  smoking a boycotted cigar.  Of course, 
you  do not  drink,  but  if  you  did,  you 
should  know  I hat  your  favorite  beverage 
has  been  blacklisted—you  must  change 
your  brand. 
If  you  buy  It  by  the case 
there  is only  the  beer  to  account  for;  hut 
If  you  “go  in  with  a  friend.”  the  costly 
liar  against  which  you  lean,  and  all  the 
other  grand  and  gorgeous  bar  fixtures 
have  been  boycotted  you should go else­
where;  but  not to that  big  hotel,  for  Its 
soft,  plush-covered  seats and  magnificent 
furnishing* are  a l.«  “ in  the  soup” —or 
would  ho  if  the boycott  could  put them 
there.  You  will  be  careful  when  “on 
the road”  to  secure  a  hurtli  in  a  Wagner 
-Pullman’s  have  been  boycotted.  And 
don’t  have  your  freight  stripped  by  the 
P.  I).  Q.  Railroad—it has  been  boycotted. 
And  so on,  clear down  through  the list of 
necessaries and  luxuries of life,  for some 
reason  (or no  reason)  about  everything 
one  needs  or desires  in  this  weary  world 
has  been 
the  unions. 
What  a time there  would  be  if  people  a t­
tached  any  importance  to  the  boycott! 
But  as  it  does  not  hurt  anyone,  and 
means  nothing,  there Is  no  reason  why 
the  unions  should  not  amuse themselves 
with  it  If they  want to.

interdicted  by 

The  Coxeyites  are 

in  a  bad  way. 
Coxey,  it  appear»,  ha»  gone  borne and 
left  hi*  follower* to shift for themselves. 
Evidently  this  was  all  he could do;  but 
; It was a most  miserable  outcome  to  his 
absurd and  useless scheme.

Coxey’*  notion  was to  march  an army 
i of  unemployed  men  to  Washington  to 
j overawe  Congress,  and  thereby  secure 
j legislation  which  would  result in  the ap- 
propria; ion of a  large  amount of  money 
j to  employ  hi* followers.  The men  who 
followed Coxey,  if they  did  not pin  their 
; faith 
to  the  project  for  appropriating 
! many millions of  dollars in  order to em- 
| ploy  million* of men  in  making roads all 
: over the country,  at  least  expected  that 
j  Congress  would  vote  money  or  rations 
j  for their support.  But they were wholly 
| dl-appointed,  and  got nothing.

After so signal  a defeat  In all  his  un- 
j dertakinga,  there  was  nothing  else  for 
i Coxey to do but  desert.  Without  doubt 
I he spent considerable of his substance on 
| his army,  and  he  believed  that  it  would 
all  end  In  making  him one of the most 
conspicuous men  in the  world,  and  mark 
him.  above all  others,  as  the  friend  of 
the unemployed.

Of course,  the  chief  cause  of  failure 
was  the  Inability  of  Coxey  to collect a 
large  body of  men  at  Washington.  He 
calculated  on  gathering  anywhere from 
50,000 to  100.000 men at the national  cap­
ital,  and  with  this  vast horde  intimidate 
Congress. 
If 100,000 able-bodied  and de­
termined  men  had  ever  got  together  at 
Washington,  there  would  have been  very 
serious trouble.  So many  men,  hungry 
and desperate,  would have  been  capable 
of  creating  vast  public  disorder,  and, 
when  a  disturbance  was  once  started, 
there is no telling where  it  would  have 
ended;  hut  the  multitudes  could  not be 
assembled,  because there was  no  money 
with  which  to  pay  for  food  and trans­
portation.  Many  men  started  for Wash­
ington,  hut their  entire  dependence was 
upon stealing their  way on  the railroads 
and  In  begging  for the  means of subsist­
ence along the route.  These means were 
wholly  impracticable,  and  so  the  Coxey 
enterprise wholly  failed.

When  Coxey  got  to  Washington  with 
bis handful of  ragamuffins,  he  found  a 
police  force  superior  in  strength  and 
numbers  to  his ridiculous  army,  and on 
the  first  encounter  he  and  his  man 
Browne got in jail, and so a scheme which 
had  all  the possibilities of  a  tragedy  in 
it  became a most absurd farce. 
It is cer­
tainly  all  the better that  matters  turned 
as  they  did.  Nothing  is so potential to 
break down any  serious  undertaking  as 
to make it ridiculous.  For  men  who are 
In dead  earnest to be  laughed  at  in  the 
hour  of  their  supreme  endeavor  is  to 
overwhelm  them  with  defeat.  Heroism 
can  endure  everything  except  ridicule 
That kills It.

But Coxey had none of the qualities of 
a  leader.  He was merely a mountebank. 
He  was kind  of heart and  had  a  certain 
sympathy for the people he tried  to help. 
He spent  considerable  money  on  them; 
but  his  scheme was entirely Impractica­
ble,  and  he goes on  record  as a figure ut­
terly ridiculous,  leading  a lot  of  foolish 
people upon a most absurd quest.  Coxey 
could never have accomplished anything, 
no matter how large  an army  of  follow­
ers  he  might  have  assembled;  but sup­
pose,  Instead of Coxey as  the  world  has 
seen  him,  there  had been a  leader,  rash, 
desperate and  wholly resolved to capture

is 

land  around 

It  is  now a settled belief that, despite 
the theories concerning the  existence  of 
an  open  polar  sea,  it  is  impossible  to 
reach  the pole in  a  ship that  would have 
In  all 
to  force its  way  through the Ice. 
probability  there 
the 
poles. 
It is also possible that Greenland 
is not an  island,  but  extends  under  the 
ice  which  covers  it  to  the  immediate 
polar locality.  At any  rate,  there  is  a 
region around the  pole which is  covered 
with solid ice,  and  that once  reached,  it 
would  be possible for men  properly sup­
plied  with  necessaries  to  travel  on  th'e 
ice  to  the  place  of  northernmost  lati­
tude.

This  is  the  notion  upon  which 

the 
Chicago Heraldexped i tion has proceeded. 
Walter Wellman,  a  journalist,  was at its 
head.  He  had  no  experience  in  polar 
travel,  but was  assisted  by a  number  of 
Norwegians  who were navigators and ski 
or  snowshoe  runners.  He  engaged  a 
whaling  ship,  the  Ragnvald  Jari, 
to 
carry  his party  and stores  to the edge of 
the solid  Ice,  and then the journey north­
ward was to be made by aluminum  boats 
and sledges combined.

The expedition  sailed  from  Tromsoe, 
Norway,  May  1.  A  depot  of  supplies 
was  made  on  Dane’s  Island,  near  the 
north coast of  Spitzbergen,  and  left  in 
charge  of  Prof.  Oyen, a  Swedish scien­
tist,  who was seen there with his  dog by 
several  vessels  cruising  in  those  seas. 
Dane’s  Island  is  between  500  and  600 
ice 
miles  from  the  pole,  and  if  solid 
could be reached  by  the ship,  the  possi­
bility  of  completing  the  journey  is cer­
tainly  in  reason.  The  greatest  danger 
was  from  having  his  ship  crushed 
in 
moving ice fields.  This is  what has been 
foretold  of  the  expedition,  but  such  a 
fate is by no means certain.  Let us hope 
that the brave men  will  be crowned  with 
success,  and return safely home.  Every­
body wants to know the  mystery  of  the 
pole.  All  honor  to those  whose courage 
and enterprise will  penetrate  the  secret 
so zealously guarded.  There are several 
expeditions now  engaged  in  the  daring 
quest, and sooner  or  later it will  be suc­
cessful.
Since  the  above  was  in  type  cable­
grams from  Europe announce the return 
of some of the crew to Norway  with  the 
intelligence  that  the vessel has been de­
stroyed by the ice,  but  that  the explorer 
would  push  on  toward  the  goal  of  his 
ambition.

The losses to the  railways in  the  first 
six months of 1894 have  been  enormous, 
compared with the same period for  1893. 
The  situation  was  aggravated  by  the 
great coal strike,  the  railway strike  and 
an aggregation of unfavorable  industrial 
and  commercial  conditions  which  have 
prevailed  throughout  the  season.  The 
Railway Age sums  up the losses  in  rail­
way traffic  due  to  the  conditions  men­
tioned.  For example,  in  the  month  of 
May  the  earnings of 140 roads fell from 
$288,500,000  to  $240,900,000  in  round 
numbers, a decrease of $47,600,000 gross; 
while,  wbat  is more significant,  their net 
earnings,  which were $79,500,000 in May, 
1893,  decreased no less  than  $16,263,000. 
The Pennsylvania  system  alone suffered 
a comparative loss of  $2,904,000  in gross 
and $1,685,000 in net earnings; the Atchi­
son,  Topeka and Santa Fe lost $1,141,000 
gross and $1,116,000 net;  the  Union  Pa­
cific,  $587,944  gross.  For June the fall­
ing off will be  found  still  greater  when 
the  returns  are  all  in;  the Illinois Cen­
tral,  for example,  which  earned  $1,952,- 
405 in that month  last  year,  showing  a 
decrease  of  $603,000  last  month;  while 
the few statements for the  first weeks of 
July are almost  incredible, the Atchison 
system,  for instance,  falling  off  $477,700 
in the first week  and $341,700  in the sec­
ond, or over $819,000 in two weeks.

As the  railways  only  carry  the  busi­
ness  which  is  created  for  them  by all 
commerce and  industries,  this statement 
of railroad losses  simply means  that the 
railroads have suffered  because all other 
branches of business suffered.  The rail­
way losses gauge the depression in every 
other sort of business.  Railways are the 
commercial and industrial index.  When 
the railways are in a  bad way,  all  other 
industries are also in a bad way.  To re­
joice in the losses  of the  railways  is  to 
rejoice in the general  distress.

Lakeview  and  Saranac  have  passed 
through  the  scourge  of  fire  during  the 
past week.  While their losses are heavy 
and their  deprivations  great,  the  busi­
ness  men  of  both towns are plucky and 
invincible and will  emerge from disaster 
with undaunted courage and renewed en­
ergy. 

________________

Square  bushel  and  peck measures are 
now being manufactured and introduced. 
They are pronounced in  every  way  more 
convenient  than 
the  old  cylindrical 
style.

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est?  Does  anybody  tbiuk  they  would 
steal,  either from the  city or  from  priv­
ate individuals?”  Thus  it  is that,  when 
accusations  are  made,  the  honest  men 
are always put forward  as  a  sample  of 
the men  who are  running public affairs, 
and,  of course,  such  men  would  not  in­
tentionally do a public or private wrong. 
But.  unintentionally, 
they  are  doing 
great public  wrong,  and  doing it  all the 
time.  They  are  protecting  the  rascals 
through the  fact  of  being  honest  men, 
associating with  official  freebooters,  hav­
ing  good  reason  to  believe  that crimes 
are being committed,  and yet  failing  to 
expose  them  from  the  dread  of  being 
considered  spies upon  those  with  whom 
they  have to work.

Such a notion  springs  from  good  mo­
tives and  a certain  seuse of honor;  but it 
is  wholly  wrong-headed.  Every  public 
official  and  representative of the people 
is  the custodian of a public trust.  He is 
on  guard,  placed  there  to  watch  over 
great  public 
interests.  He  might  be 
brave and devoted  to the  last  degree  to 
defend  his  trust  from  outside assaults; 
but how about treason  among  nis fellow- 
officials  and  co-representatives? 
Is  not 
such a public  guardian  bound  to protect 
his trust, even  from  a  colleague? 
If so, 
and  a majority  of his  colleagues  engage 
in  the  spoils business,  is  not that faith­
ful guardian,  if even  there  be  but  one, 
bound to denounce  the  robbers, no mat­
ter who they may be?  The  reply to this 
question is not difficult.  A man who rec­
ognizes his duty  is bound  always to per­
form it as nearly as  he possibly  can.  A 
watchman  set  to  protect  great  trusts, 
public or  private,  can  know no difference 
between thieves that  would  prey  on  his 
trust.  He must fight  them all and bring 
them  all  to  justice,  without exception. 
That is all of it.

POLITICAL  DISHONESTY  IN  CITIES, j 
The  enormous  amounts i of  public j 
money  handled,  and  the  extraordinary! 
opportunities for jobbery and  plunder by 
officials entrusted  with  the  handling  of ; 
public funds and  public  franchises have j 
naturally attracted unprincipled and dis- j 
honest men,  with  every  energy  directed 
towards  gaining  control  of  this money. 
With these opportuities  it is  not  strange 
that in nearly  every  city of large size in 
the Union public  affairs  are  chiefly  un­
der  the  hands  and  in the  power of un­
scrupulous and self-seeking men.

It has been said that tbe ingenuity and 
skill of the burglars  keep  full pace with 
the science and  progress of  the lock and j 
safemakers,  so that if the construction of ! 
burglar-proof vaults  is one of  the  prob­
lems  to  which  the  highest  mechanical 
genius  is  devoted,  there  are  men  with 
just as much mechanical  ability  who are 
constantly seeking to  overcome and neu­
tralize  the  work  of 
the  safemakers. 
These men  are  robbers;  they  are  crim­
inals,  and they do not pretend to be any­
thing  less.  But  if  treasure  vaults  are 
robbed  despite  the  extraordinary efforts 
to  make them  secure  and to guard their 
contents,  how vastly  easier it is  for  bad 
men  who devote  themselves to  the work 
to  secure  control  of  city  governments, 
and,  by  consequence,  of  the  people’s 
money and the  public  franchises?  This 
is so,  because there is no  effort to  guard 
public  interests  from  the  robbers  who, 
seizing  without resistance upon  the  ma­
chinery of elections,  falsify  their  results 
so as to let in only  themselves  and their 
tools,  and exclude all who  are not under 
their influence.
What is everybody’s  business  is  prac­
tically nobody’s business,  and thus those 
classes  that  are  commonly  supposed to 
constitute  the  good  citizens  hold  their 
bands and regard  with more  or  less  in­
difference  the  seizure  and  ravishing of 
public affairs by a band  of trained polit­
ical brigands.  Once  in  place,  they  are 
able to remain there  against all  peaceful 
and constitutional  methods  that  may be 
adopted to  remove  them,  and  it  is  not 
oftener  than  once  in  a  generation that 
judicial measures will  avail to  oust  the 
robbers. 
In  fact,  it  is only  when they 
have become emboldened by their success 
and  escape  from  punishment  and  they 
have abandoned all  caution and  have be­
come careless of the laws and  indifferent 
to public opinion that  the rascals betray 
themselves  and  furnish  proof  of  their 
crimes,  so  that the  hand of justice may 
be laid  upon them.

It has  become  an  ordinary  maxim  of 
the  political  jobber  that  if he can only 
keep  out  of  the  penitentiary  he  is  all 
right.  He  hesitates  at  no  crime  by 
which  his  selfish  interests  may  be  ad­
vanced.  He  is  solicitous  only 
to  so 
cover up his tracks  as to  leave  no  clew 
upon  which the  arm  of the  law  can  be 
laid.  Of course, not  every  member of a 
corrupt municipal  administration  is dis­
honest.  Far  from  it;  there  are  always 
honest and good men  among  the rascals. 
It is the majority that is  made up of bad 
men,  and  thus  it  is  the  majority  that 
gives eolor and quality  to  the  entire ad­
ministration.

The  minority  has  no  power,  and  the 
good men  who  make  it  up  are  uncon­
sciously  used  as  stool-pigeons  for  the 
robbers.  What an  excellent effect it has 
to be able to  say,  when  charges of polit­
ical corruption are made:  “There are A, 
B and C.  Do you think they are dishon­

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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  well-known and  upright  firm,  with  a  37  years’  good 
record,  never  dreamed  of  retiring.  1 ought to add  that  1 think 1 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.

I shall be at Sweet’s  Hotel, Grand  Rapids,  on  Thursday  and Friday1 
Aug.  16 and  17,  race week,  to close out balance of  fall  and  winter  clothing.  Cus­
tomers’ expenses allowed.

THE  M ICirrOAlN  TRADESMAN,

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THE  IRON LAW  OP  WAGES.

Early in the present  century the  cele­
brated  David  Ricardo, 
in  his  treatise 
upon Political  Economy,  laid  down  the 
proposition in  regard  to wages that “ the 
natural price of labor is that price which 
is necessary to  enable  the  laborers,  one 
with  another,  to  subsist  and  to  perpet­
uate  their  race  without  either  increase 
or  diminution.”  He  further  said  that 
the market price,  or  the  price  actually 
paid for labor as wages,  has  a  tendency 
to conform to  the natural price by rising 
and falling  toward  it  according  to  de­
mand  and  supply.  His  remarks  have 
been interpreted as meaning  that  wages 
constantly tend to decline to the smallest 
amount upon  which the laborer can keep 
himself  and  his  family  alive,  allowing 
them  nothing  ^for  the  luxuries  or  even 
the  comforts  of  life.  Thus  understood 
he  has  been  severely  condemned  by 
writers  of  strong  humane  feelings,  and | 
he  has  been  denounced  by  the  German j 
Socialists, 
led  by  Ferdinand  Lasalle, 
Karl Marx,  Adolph Held,  and  others like 
them,  for  having  formulated  a  brazen, 
or,  as English  translators  render  it,  an 
“ iron” law of  wages, discreditable  alike 
to his head  and to  his heart.

person,  should  be  reviled  merely  for j 

Precisely  why  Ricardo,  or  any  other 

advancing an abstract proposition, which 
is susceptible  of  refutation  if  false  and 
of confirmation if  true,  it  is  not easy  to 
discover.  Some  of  the elementary  pre­
cepts  of the Gospel were assailed  in like 
manner  when the Savior  first enunciated 
them,  as  “hard” sayings,  not to be borne 
by weak  humanity;  but  nobody  now for 
that  reason  disputes  their  truth.  The 
question is one,  not of Ricardo’s personal 
character,  but  of  his  intellectual  sagac­
ity,  and 
the  efforts  of  his  opponents 
should be directed not  to his vilification, 
but to  the exposure  of  his error.  What 
makes their conduct,  however,  absolute­
ly indefensible is that  they usually over­
look a further  remark  of  his  following 
that  which 
they  condemn,  and  which 
gives quite a different color to it:

It  is not to be understood  that  the nat­
ural  price  of  labor,  estimated  even  in 
food  and  necessaries,  is absolutely  fixed 
and  constant. 
It  varies  at  different 
times  in 
the  same  country  and  very 
materially differs  in  different  countries. 
It essentially depends on the  habits  and 
customs  of  the  people.  An  English 
laborer would consider his wages  [to be| 
under their  natural rate,  and  too scanty 
to support a family,  if they  enabled him 
to purchase no other food  than  potatoes 
and  to  live  in  no  better  a  habitation 
than  a  mud  cabin;  yet  these  moderate 
demands  of  nature  are  often  deemed 
sufficient in countries  where  “man’s  life 
is cheap”  and his  wants  easily  satisfied. 
Many of the  conveniences  now  enjoyed 
in an English  cottage  would  have  been 
thought  luxuries  at an earlier  period  of 
our history.

With  this  explanation,  Ricardo’s  so. 
called “iron  law”  amounts  to  no  more 
than the assertion of  a well-known  fact. 
When in any country the wages  actually 
paid  for  labor  fall  below  the  amount 
which is necessary  to  enable  laborers to 
live as they  want to  live,  their  number 
diminishes through  death,  immigration, 
and less frequent  marriages,  until  it  is 
reduced to  a  point at which the lessened 
supply  of  their  labor  raises  its  market 
price  to  what  Ricardo  calls  its  natural 
price.  When,  on  the  other  hand,  the 
market price of labor exceeds its  natural 
price,  the number of laborers increases by 
immigration  and  by  births  until  the 
the
supply  equals 

the  demand  and 

in 

market  price  falls  again  to  its  natural 
level.  The  process 
in  either  case  is 
slow,  and  often  goes  on  in  one  direc­
tion  for  many  years.  Thus, 
this 
country,  notwithstanding  the  high  cost 
of living,  the  wages  actually  paid  have 
been,  ever  since  the  close  of  the  late 
civil  war,  sufficient  to  enable  wage 
earners both to meet all their  wants and 
to lay aside a surplus, either in  the form 
of deposits in savings banks to the amount 
of thousands of millions of dollars, or  in 
the purchase of homes  and  farms.  This 
has continued,  too,  notwithstanding that 
our  prosperity  has  caused  a  large  in­
crease  of  the supply  of  labor,  not  only 
by the  birth  of  children,  but  by  an  im­
migration 
from  foreign  countries,  es­
pecially from Germany  and  Italy,  where 
the  standard  of  living  and  the 
both 
market price  of  labor  are 
lower  than 
they  are  here.  So  great,  indeed,  have 
been  the  attractions of  our  country as a 
labor  market  that  we  have  found  it 
necessary to impose  artificial  barriers to 
immigration  from  China,  and 
if  the 
natives  of  India  also  had  sufficient  in­
telligence  and  enterprise 
to  emigrate 
hither  we  should have  to  take measures 
In  their  case,  as  in 
against  them,  too. 
that  of  the  Chinese, 
their  wages  at 
home  are  low,  because  they live poorly, 
and,  as  they  are  prolific  of  offspring, 
the  supply  of  their  labor  always  more 
than  equals  the  demand  for  it,  and  is 
kept  down  only  by  famine  and  pesti­
lence.  They  ask  for  no more  food than 
a  few  cents’  worth  a  day  of  rice,  mil­
let,  or  some  other  cheap  grain;  their 
clothing  is  cotton  cloth;  their  shelter 
consists  of  bamboo  huts,  and  they  use 
fuel  only  for  cooking.  Consequently, 
with  them  the  natural  price  of  labor 
is  low,  say  ten  cents  per  day  of  our 
money,  more  or  less,  and  the  market 
price  conforms  to  it.

It begins to look  as if we had  come  to 
a halt in this  country  in  the  continued 
expansion of industry and  the increasing 
demand  for  labor,  and  that  a  reverse 
process was about to commence.  A full 
year has  now  elapsed  since 
last  sum­
mer’s financial  and  industrial  crisis,  and 
no indications of a recovery  from  it  are 
yet visible.  Should  this  recovery be de­
layed.  as  now  seems probable,  a year or 
more  longer,  Ricardo’s  iron  law  must 
necessarily assert itself,  and  the  market 
price  of  labor  will  not  only  cease 
to 
afford  the  American  laborer  a  surplus 
above  his  customary  expenditure,  but 
will fall below it.  The  result  will  be a 
cessation  of immigration,  which  has  al­
ready begun,  and a decrease in  the  num­
ber  of  laborers from an excess of deaths 
over births.

The value to the laborer  of  bis  wages 
is measured  not by the dollars  and  cents 
paid him,  but  by  the  quantity  of  com­
modities necessary to his  mode  of  living 
which those  dollars  and  cents  will  buy. 
We  cannot  use  greenbacks  and  bank 
notes  as  clothing  and  fuel,  nor eat and 
drink gold and silver coin.  We must ex­
change  them  for  suitable  commodities 
before we can make  them  available  for 
our necessities.  Consequently  the  total 
amount of wages In any  country  cannot 
exceed  the total product of  its  industry, 
and  the  particular  amount  received  by 
each individual will  be that share  of  the 
total product which he is  able  to  secure 
for himself in the struggle for  existence. 
It is in  adjusting  these  shares  that  the 
conflicts, of which we unhappily  witness 
so  many,  arise,  not  only  between  em-

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ployers and employed,  but  also  between 
the  different  classes  of  the  employed. 
The employer naturally  seeks  to  retain 
all  be  can  of  the  product  of  labor  as 
compensation for  his  enterprise  and  his 
services,  for  the  risks  and  expenses  of 
the business, and  for interest on the cap­
ital he either owns or borrows.  The  em­
ployed, on the other hand,  seek to get  as 
large a share  as  possible  of  the  results 
they  contribute to produce,  and  it is evi­
dent that the more each one gets the less 
remains not only  for  his  employer  but 
for others of the employed.  The  nation 
as a whole is a great  co-operative  indus­
trial organization, of which the members 
labor not merely for  themselves  but  for 
their fellow members.  Whether  a  man 
makes  clothing,  shoes,  hats,  hardware, 
bricks,  machinery,  or any other commod­
ity, he  can  consume  personally  only  a 
small  fraction  of his product.  The rest 
he exchanges by  paying  out  the  money 
he earns by his own  labor  for  the  com­
modities produced by others.  Money be­
ing  the  common  measure  of  value, the 
more money his wages come to  the  more 
he can buy,  and the higher his wages are 
the higher will be the price  of  what  he 
produces  and 
the  less  other  laborers 
can procure of them with their wages.

It  follows  from  this  that  strikes  for 
higher wages are aimed,  not,  as  appears 
to be the case,  against  the  employer  by 
whom they are in the first instance  paid, 
but really against  the  rest  of  the  com­
munity.  Other laborers  can,  it  is  true, 
retaliate by demanding higher wages  for 
their  own  labor,  and  thus  make 
its 
product  higher  in  value  in  comparison 
with  other  products,  and,  so  long  as 
every  laborer  is  fully  employed,  this 
struggle for  high  wages  results,  in  the 
long run,  to  no  advantage  to  any  one, 
and does no harm to any one.  But  when, 
as we see now, thousands of  laborers are 
unemployed,  and  are  living  upon  their 
savings,  the continued  payment  of  high 
wages to those who are lucky  enough  to 
be kept employed is  a  serious  hardship 
to  the  rest.  Even  those  who  are  em­
ployed,  but whose wages  have  been  re­
duced,  suffer  somewhat  by  getting  for 
their own  labor less  of  the  commodities 
produced  by  labor  paid  for  at  higher 
rates than theirs.  How  long this dispar­
ity will be allowed to  continue  it  is  im­
possible to foretell, but as  in good  times 
wages advance all round  from  the  com­
petition  among  employers  and from the 
exactions of  laborers,  so  in  these  hard 
times,  with the  competition  for  employ­
ment and  the  necessities  of  the  unem­
ployed,  they  most  sooner  or  later fall. 
The laborers who are  now  in  excess  of 
the demand for their services  cannot  die 
all at once, and but few of them  can em­
igrate.  They  may  continue to live for a 
while,  as they are  now  living,  on  their 
savings or  upon  the  savings  of  others, 
but eventually they will  insist  on  shar­
ing the industrial products of the  nation 
with those  who  now  monopolize  them, 
and the first  step  toward  accomplishing 
this result will be an  offer  to  labor  for 
reduced wages.

That such a reduction of wages  will  be 
unpleasant to those who  have  to  submit 
to  it  is  not  to  be  denied,  but that it is 
better for the community to have  all  its 
members productively occupied  in  earn­
ing even low wages,  than to have  a  part 
only earning high wages and the rest  ly­
ing  idle,  is  equally  undeniable.  The 
total product of the nation’s labor will  be 
increased  be  setting  every  laborer  at

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proceedings. 
It is becoming  more  diffi­
cult every day  for a man of  loose  habits 
or doubtful  integrity to  succeed  in  any 
profession  or  business.  Less  is  every 
day  forgiven  in  cases  of  moral  delin­
quency.  The test  of  responsibility  for 
deviations from the path of  rectitude,  in 
small  matters as well as  large  ones,  has 
never before been so  distinct,  so  strict, 
and so imperative.

There 

is  room  for  further  improve­
ment, of course.  Nobody  contends  that 
the work of amelioration has  been  com­
pleted, or that all suggestions  of  reform 
are to be regarded  with  indifference. 
It 
is maintained,  however,  that  the  show­
ing  of  increased  sources  of  prosperity 
and  happiness is  an  adequate  proof  of 
the efficiency of present  means  of relief, 
and a satisfactory assurance of continued 
advancement.  The  lot  of  the  average 
citizen  will  be  better  a  hundred  years 
hence, just as it  is  now  better  than  it 
was a hundred years  ago,  but  the  time 
will probably never come when  reforma­
tory  opportunities  will  be  exhausted. 
With  access  of  new  advantages,  there 
comes the discovery of other  chances  in

that respect,  which is  only  to  say  that 
civilization 
is  constantly  creating  new 
necessities  Dy  extending  the  scope  of 
knowledge  and  the  sphere  of  activity. 
Most of  our  present  wants  are  due  to 
what we  have  already  obtained.  They 
would not exist,  in  other  words,  if  we 
had not gained advantages of which they 
are the logical  consequences.  The more 
we get,  the  more  we  desire. 
It  is  not 
the province of  wisdom  to make  us  con­
tented  with our  situation,  but to disturb 
our complacency and stimulate our hopes 
and  endeavors.  That  is  the  great  se­
cret of  progress,  the  supreme  lesson of 
the history of  those  successive  changes 
by  which the world has been  pushed for­
ward through all the ages.

H en ry  Kin o.

C ollecting a   D ebt.

There  are  debts  and  debtors,  and  to 
get the  former  out  of  the  latter  some­
times  requires  a good deal of ingenuity. 
The case of a livery stable  keeper  and  a 
poor  paying  patron  indicates  that fact, 
and as one is  dead  and  the other  in  Eu­
rope, the story may be told.  The patron 
had run  up a  big bill  on  the  liveryman 
and neglected to pay.

It  amounted  to  $93.  aud  had  he  so 
wished,  the  detor could  have easily set­
tled at  any  time.  But  he  didn’t  wish. 
He knew that his creditor would not sue, 
because such  course, for  various reasons, 
would  be uuwise.
Appeals  were in  vain, threats were un­
heeded,  aud the creditor  was at his wits’ 
end.  Finally  he hit upon a scheme.  He 
had  his bookkeeper make out  a  bill  for 
$930, and sent it to his debtor by  messen­
ger,  with a  request  for  immediate  pay­
ment of the whole amount.  Then he sat 
down and  waited.
In  less than twenty  minutes  the  office 
door was thrown open aud a man entered. 
It was the debtor,  and  he was  mad  clear 
through.  “ You  swindling  villain!”  he 
howled,  shakiug  his fist under the livery­
man’s  nose.  "What  do  you  mean  by 
sending me a bill  for $930?  1  don’t owe 
you anything like that  amount,  and  I’ll 
not  pay  it. 
I’ll  have  you  understand 
that I’m too fly for you.  Here’s $93,  and 
you’ll not get a cent more.”

Saying this he threw the money on the 
desk, and glared  at the  liveryman  with 
hatred  in  his  eye.  No  one  answered 
him,  however,  and  then  be  demanded  a 
receipt. 
It was given  him in silence,  he 
left  the  office,  banging  the  door  after 
him,  and  then  the  liveryman  chuckled. 
Then  he laughed.  Then he roared.  His 
scheme was a success.

THE  WORLD  GROWS  BETTER.
The fatal defect in  the  philosophy  of 
the reformers of the present time  is that 
it ignores the most  significant  historical 
facts. 
It assumes that  civilization  is  a 
failure, and  that  things  are  constantly 
going  from  bad  to  worse.  This  com­
plete and persistent pessimism is  a  con­
tradiction of truths that  are  familiar  to j 
all intelligent people, and that  count  for j 
more as a basis  of  logical  analysis  and 
reflection  than all the  theories  by  which 
they  are  discarded  and  discredited, j 
There can be no rational doubt about the | 
steady improvement  of the conditions of | 
human  existence.  The  process  of  bet- i 
terment  can  be  traced  in  a  cumulative 
way  from  the  earliest  period  down  to 
our own  day.  Each  age  has  shown  an j 
advance  over  the  preceding  one.  not 
merely in special relations,  but in a gen-1 

eral sense,  and according to a systematic j 

in 

plan  of  development.  There  has  been 
no retrograde movement,  strictly  speak­
ing:  the revolutions have not  gone back- j 
ward;  the  blessings  have  not  been  di­
minished, but multiplied, and extended in 
all directions.
We need not go back  to  the  primitive j 
era for the materials of definite  and  sat- j 
isfactory  comparison 
this  respect, j 
The story of what  has  taken place in  the j 
present  century  furnishes  ample  proof j 
of the fact that  the  world  grows  better I 
as it grows older.  Never  before have so 
many  beneficial  acquisitions  been  made 
in  the course of a hundred years.  Those 
who have  lived  during  this  time  have 
seen miracles of  progress,  unmatched in 
all previous history. 
It  is impossible to 
contemplate the list of  achievements  in 
ail  branches of profitable service without 
a feeling ot  profound  wonder, as well as 
a conviction of the potency of  sound  and 
wholesome  influences  in  the  affairs  of 
mankiud.  Not simply  in  material  gains 
have  former  centuries  been  surpassed, 
but  also  in  scientific,  political,  social 
and  moral 
triumphs.  The  spread  of 
knowledge  has  corresponded  to  the  in­
crease of physical comforts;  the enlarge­
ment of the  opportunities  of  labor  and 
enterprise  has  been  accompanied  by  a | 
like expansion of  the facilities of  eduea- j 
lion  and the  appliances  of  charity  and j 
philanthropy.  All 
things  considered, 
in short,  life  was  never  so  well  worth I 
living as it is at present;  and  this is due 
to the reformatory spirit  which has  been j 
a part of human nature  from  the  begin­
ning,  and  which  has  gradually  wrought 
changes  of  striking  and  permanent 
value. 
It is  not  only  that  we  are  pos- j 
sessed  of  the  railroad,  the  telegraph, 
labor-saving  machinery,  and  improved I 
methods  of  production.  These  gains j 
count for a  great  deal,  to  be  sure,  and j 
have served to wholly change  the  exter­
nal aspect of life;  but  they  are not  more 

remarkable than  the  progress  that  has j 

been  made in the adjustment  of  general 
intelligence  to  higher  uses  and  in  the 
substitution of honest  and  humane  mo­
tives for selfish  and  cruel  ones.  Plans 
of  action  that  were  once  tolerated  in 
spite of  their wickedness  are  now  con­
demned by public opinion, and  the  indi­
viduals who venture to pursue  them  are 
looked  upon with  scorn  and  contempt. 
The standards  of  personal  conduct  are 
far  above  those  of  one  hundred  years 
ago.  Public  men  are  held  to  a  much 
more rigid accountability.  The  popular 
conscience  has  been  quickened  in  dis­
criminative power and in  earnestnest  of 
protest  against  corrupt  and  improper

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K of  tl)c  United  States

To

H I S N K Y   K O C I I ,   your  c l e r i c s ,   attorneys,  ager  j, 
s a l e s t n e n   and  workmen,  and  all  claiming  or 
holding  through  or  under  you,

Greetin g:

ttlljcreas, it  has  been  represented  to  us  in  our  Circuit  Court  of  the  United  States  for  the  District  ot

je ’-sev,  in  the  Third  Circuit,  on  the  part  of  the  ENOCH  MORGAN’S  SONS  COMPANY,  Complainant,  that 
■  has  lately  exhibited  its  said  Bill  of  Complaint  in  our  said  Circuit  Court  of  the  United  States  for  the  District 
'  :  New  Jersey,  against  you,  the  said  HENRY  KOCH,  Defendant, 
to  be  relieved  touching  the  matters  therein 
< omplained  of,  and  that  the  said

ENOCH  MORGAN’S  SONS  COMPANY,

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

Hon), (kljcrefore, we  do  strictly  command  and  perpetually  enjoin  you,  the  said  HENRY

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

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

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

in  any  way  using  the  word  “ SAPOLIO”  in  any 

W i t n e s s  f   The  honorable  Melville  W.  F uller,  Chief  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the 
in  said  District  of  New 
thousand, 

United  Sta'es  of  America,  at  the  City  of  Trenton, 
Jersey, 
eight  hundred  and  ninety  two.

the  year  of  our  Lord,  one 

i6th  day  of  December, 

this 

in 

[signed]

S.  D.  OLIPHANT,

CU rt

TsealI 
lSE  J 

ROWLAND  COX.

Complainant's  Solicitor

TELE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

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CURRENT  CRITICISMS.

Debs declares  that he will  never again 
unite with  a  strike  organization.  Well, 
his  friends will be  glad  to receive  even 
this slight evidence of his sanity.

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The Pullman  Car Works have resumed 
operations.  Perhaps  the  labor  leaders 
may  soon  have  sufficient  evidence  to 
convince them  that the strike has ended. 

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There is always  an  element  of  weak­
ness  in  militia  in  the  event  that  the 
citizen soldiers  should  sympathize  with 
the disturbers of the peace. 
It was so in 
South  Carolina  in  the  late  whisky  war 
there, and it was so in  California  in  the 
recent railway strike.

But this is not the  most  serious weak­
ness of militia.  When a majority of  the 
people of a State are  opposed to  the  en­
forcement of a law,  it is to  be  expected 
that  the  militia  will  be  in  sympathy
with  their  fellow-citizens,  and  in  such 
case  the  law  will  have  to  go  by  the 
board.  All power begins at  the  people, 
and  when the people rebel  against a law 
or  regulation  of  any  sort, 
that  fact

They  have  “cost”  sales  in  France, 
sometimes,  but they do things differently 
over  there  from  what  is  done  in  this 
country.  When  a  merchant  offers  his 
goods  at  cost,  a  government  inspector 
calls  and  verifies thè  figures  placed
them,  and  then  the  dealer is compelled I Mttleg the matter
to  sell  at  cost.

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But there is a worse  feature than this. 
It is found in  the  fact  that  the  militia­
Santo Caserío has been sentenced to the 
men,  being young men and  for the  most 
guillotine.  How  much  better  it  would 
part  employes  of  commercial  and  in­
have been for France and humanity if he 
dustrial establishments,  are  apt  to  lose 
had lost his head before he killed Carnot. 
their employment  and means of  support 
when  called  into  the  military  service. 
China and  Japan  are  actually  at  war 
There is not nearly  so  much  patriotism 
with each  other.  There  are  450,000,000 
in  the  country  as  has  been  commonly 
of Chinese and not more  than  40,000,000
Japanese, yet the struggle  is  not  nearly I supposed.  At least  it  does  not  appear
among the  older  man,  although  among 
so unequal as it looks.
lack  of
the  younger 
it.  And  this fact is  cropping  out all the 
time  in  connection  with  the  use  of 
the  militia  in  the  recent  troubles  in 
Chicago.  Merchants  and  business  men 
are reported to  be turning off  their  em­
ployes who are absent on militia duty.

It has been discovered  that four of the 
relatives of Caserio, the assassin of Presi­
dent  Carnot,  died  in  lunatic  asylums. 
The  Government  of  France  will  save 
Santo from a like terrible fate.

is  no 

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there 

Herr  Johan  Most  declared  the  other 
day  in  New  York  that  the  different 
governments  were  trying  to  drive  the 
socialists into  the sea.  That  would  be 
tough on the sea.

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It  is  reported  by  the  Chicago  papers 
that  many  of  the  militiamen  who  have 
obeyed the call to turn  out in support of 
the  civil  authorities,  to  assist  in  pro­
tecting  private  property  and  in  main 
taining public  order,  have  become  suf 
ferers  through  their  patriotism  and 
devotion to duty. 
In most  instances the 
ones to suffer can  least  afford  it.  As

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it  is 

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A good many people  seem to  be  kick­
ing against  “machine politics.” 
Is  that 
variety any  worse  than  the  hand  made 
variety?  Because  if 
somebody 
ought to kick.

There  is  about  as  much  affinity  be­
tween a socialist  and  water  as  there is 
between  day  and  night,  and  about  the
hardest kind of punishment  that  can  be I general thing,  they  were  comparatively 
given a socialist is to compel  him to take | small  wage-earners,  and  many  of  them
a bath.
have  families  to  support.  Their  pay 
stopped as soon  as  they  quit work to  go 
into the field.  Futhermore,  some of  the 
employers  added  insult  to  injury  by 
saying  in  their  letters  they  could  not 
afford  to  be  incommoded  through  the 
employment  of  soldiers  to 
look  after 
their business;  that they  preferred  men 
One of the big hotels in  this  city  had 
who are not subject to the military orders
three  bars  for  accommodation  of  the
delegates  to  the  Democratic  State  con-1 of  the  Governor  and who  can  be  relied 
vention. 
It  had  just  that  number  for I upon  when  their  services  in  the  office 
the Republican State  convention.  Now, I shop  or  store  are  needed.  By  far  the 
will someone kindly  inform  an  anxious I greater  number  have  received  threaten- 
public  how  the  Republicans  figure  out I *nK  notes,  which  naturally  make  them 
information 
such  a  big  majority  over  the  “other I fool  uncomfortable
conveyed  in  these notes  is  to  the  effect 
fellows?”
that unless the  receiver can  find  it  con­
venient  to  report  for  duty  within  a 
certain specified  time,  his  place will  be 
filled by another.

The daily papers of this city are scrap­
ping  over  the  question  as  to  which  is 
the best  newspaper.  They  should  quit 
jawing and toss  up  for  it.  That  is  the 
only way to settle the question.

The 

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long  vacation  from  any  sort  of 

Now that  the world’s fair is  over,  the 
buildings burned down,  and the Pullman 
boycott  ended,  Chicago  should  take 
good, 
public disturbance of the peace.
Public  Order  and  Private  Patriotism.
The entire burden of the protection  of 
property  and 
the  maintenance  of  law 
and order in the  United States  rests  on 
the militia.

The small army  of the  United  States, 
less than 20,000 strong,  would  be a  mere 
handful  if  it  had  to  contend  with  any 
widespread disorder,  Of course,  there is 
no other  resource in such a case  than to 
call eut the militia.

This  is  a  most  serious  position  for 
any  man  who  has  a  family  to  support 
to  be  placed  in.  Next  time  be  will  be 
sure  not  to  join  a  volunteer  company 
and he will tell  his  experience  to  others 
in  his  circumstances,  and  they  will  not 
join  volunteer  companies.  Such  treat­
ment of  the  men  who  answer the call of 
military duty  is  fearfully demoralizing, 
Suppose 
it  should  have  the  effect  of 
breaking up all the volunteer  companies 
and all the  organized militia. 
In  such a 
case  there  would  not  be  any  embodied 
force  to appeal to in  an  emergency.  Of 
course,  all able-bodied men  between  the 
ages of 18 and 45 years  are  bound  to do 
military service;  but if they  are  not  en­
rolled, told off  in  companies,  organized 
into Cl regiments  and  battalions,  and,

above  all,  if  they  are  not  armed  and 
equipped and accustomed  to some sort of 
discipline, militia are wholly unavailable 
for an emergency.

It  requires  a  long  time  to  bring  un­
enrolled  and  unorganized  militia  into 
shape,  and, 
if  there  are  no  organized 
volunteer companies,  the  entire  country 
would be practically  defenseless  against 
foreign attack or  internal  disorder. 
In 
all probability the taxpayers  of  Chicago 
will have to  foot  up a  big  bill  of dam­
ages;  but 
it  might  have  been  vastly 
greater  but  for 
the  presence  of  the 
militia.  When the selfish,  hard-hearted 
citizens  shall  succeed  in  disorganizing 
all  the militia companies, they may have 
an  opportunity 
learn  how  much 
cheaper  it  will  be  to  let  their  young 
clerks  and  other  employes  do  military 
service than to have  half  their city  laid 
in ashes and all its industries  stopped.

to 

It is certain that no  country  can  long 
subsist  without  patriotism  on  the  part 
of  its  people.  When  citizens  prefer 
their  private  interests  to  public  order 
and  public  protection,  they  will  soon 
come  to  realize  that  they  have  lost  all 
that is  worth  having,  whether  public or 
private.  Young men will  not go  out  to 
fight for  the  property  and rights of a lot 
of  human  hogs. 

F ra nk  Sto w ell

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

STICK CANDY.
Cases

“

“ 

i
6
(

-In bulk

.7
714

Bbls.
.514
.514
• -6H

Bbls.  Palls.
7
7
7
814

.  814
..  8*4
CANDY.

Palls
614
614
714
8
8
8
8
814
9
13
...... 814
......   8

Standard,  per lb.........
“  H.H...............
Twist  ...........
“ 
Boston Cream  ............
Cut  Loaf......................
Extra H.  H...............  .
MIXED
Standard......................
Leader..........................
Royal............................
Nobby..........................
English  Rock..............
Conserves....................
Broken Taffy...............
Peanut Squares............ ... 
French Creams............
Valley  Creams............
Midget, 30 lb. baskets  .
“
Modern, 301b. 
FANCY-
Palls. 
....  814
Lozenges, plain...........
printed........
...  914
....  12
Chocolate Drops...........
Chocolate Monumentala...........
....  1214
....  5
Gum Drops...................
....  714
Moss Drops.................
Sour Drops..................
......  814
......   10
Imperials....................
Per Box
Lemon Drops.  ........... 
50
Sour Drops...................................................... 50
Peppermint Drops  ..........................................60
Chocolate Drops.............................................. 75
M. Chocolate  Drops....................................80
Gum Drops...................................................... 40
Licorice Drops.............................................. 1  00
B. Licorice Drops.......................................80
Losenges, plain......................... 
60
65
Imperials.....................................................    .60
Mottoes............................................................ 70
Cream Bar........................................................55
Molasses Bar...................................................55
Hand Made  Creams..................................85@95
Plain Creams................................................... 80
liecorated Creams............................................90
String  Rock.....................................................60
Burnt Almonds...... ..................................... 1 00
Wlntergreen  Berries.......................................60
No. 1, wrapped, 2 lb. boxes...........................  34 -
No. 1, 
51
No. 3, 
28

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

fancy—In 5 lb. boxes. 

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CARAMELS.
 
 
ORANGES.

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The W heat Market.

Wheat has during  the  past  week  ex 
erted itself in  the  markets,  slowly,  to be 
sure,  but it advanced in the face of large 
receipts at the  primary  markets.  Even 
at this slow option it will not be long ere 
it is at the price where it ought to be, up 
n the  seventies.  We  cannot  expect  to 
see  dollar  wheat  right  off,  as  the price 
has  been  abnormally  low  for  the  past 
eight months.  The  signs  now point for 
higher prices, notwithstanding  the  large 
visible  supply  at  present,  as  there are 
many causes operating  to bring the mar 
ket where it belongs after the  first  rush 
of spring wheat is  over, for there are al 
ways some farmers who  will sell for one 
reason  or  another,  and,  after  that, re 
ceipts will  drop  off  and  the  trade  will 
wonder  how  it  was  possible  that  the 
price  was  so  low  for  so  long  a  time 
Michigan farmers are  very  conservative 
in moving their crop.  The fact  is  there 
is  not  as  much  to  move  as  in  former 
years, consequently they are in no hurry 
Corn has taken  another  step  up  and 
looks  as  though,  owing to  the very un 
favorable  weather  for'this  crop,  much 
higher prices may be expected.  Oats are 
not as strong as they  were but, owing 
the  short  crop,  will  hold  at  present 
prices and probably go higher in the near 
future.  All the  mills  have  all  the  < 
ders for flour, etc.,  they can take care 
for thirty days  or  more.  Receipts  here 
were 68 cars of  wheat, 25 cars  of corn, 4 
cars of oats. 

C. G. A.  V o i g t .

Crystal  Springs Waler X  Fuel do.

Jobbers  of

COAL,  COKE  and  WOOD,

05  Monroe  St.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Correspondence  solicited  with  outside 

dealers.

P E C K ’S

HEADACHE
POWDERS

Pay the best profit.  Order from yourjobber

Fancy  Seedlings,  96s.......................................... 6 00
Rodis, 
Rodis,  200s.....................................................

160s.............................................5 25

LEM ONS.

BANANAS.

Choice 300 ......................................................  4  50
Extra choice 380 ...........................................   4 50
Extra fancy 300 .............................................  5 00
Extra fancy 360 .............................................  5 00
^arge bunches..............................................   1 75
Small bunches.....................................  1  00@1  50
Figs, fancy layers, 8it>............................  @1214
“  20ft..........................   @12J4
“  141b.................... . 

@15
Dates, Fard, 10-lb. box...........................  @ 7
Persian. 50-lb.  box......................  @ 5
1 lb Royals.....................  

50-lb.  “  ..........................   @ 514
614

OTHER  FOREIGN  FRUITS.

extra 
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NUTS.

“ 

Almonds, Tarragona.............................   @16
Ivaca.....................................  @15
California.............................   @
Braslls, new...........................................  @8
Filberts..................................................  @H
Walnuts, Grenoble................................•  @1214
French...................................  @10
Calif.......................................   @1214
Table Nuts,  fancy................................   @12
choice.............................   @11
Pecans. Texas, H.  P.,  ..........................   @ 714
Chestnuts..............................................
Hickory Nuts per bu.............................
Cocoanuts, full sacks............................ 
400
Fancy, H.  P.,Suns................................  ©  514
Fancy, E.  P., Flags...............................  @51%
Choice, H. P., Extras............................  @414

“  Roasted.....................  @ 7
“  R oasted............. ..........  @  7
“  Roasted................   @6

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PEANUTS.

OILS.

BARRELS.

The  Standard Oil  Co.  quotes  as  follows:

814 
XXXDW.  W.Mich.  Headlight..
@ 614
Naptha....................................... 
_
Stove Gasoline.......................................  @ J*
Cylinder................................................?7  @36
.13 @21 @ 8*
E ngine..........................................
Black, 15 cold  test.........................
FROM  TANK  WAGON.
XXX  W. W.  Mich.  Headlight......

POULTRY,
Local dealers pay as follow s:

LIVE.

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Turkeys, h en s......................................................  6@J
T o m s..................................................   5@6
Fowls,  h en s.......................................................... |@814
Spring chickens............................................. »□©«>
Spring d u ck s................................................   <  @  8

roosters..................................   ...........- ■ ■

DRAWN.

T urkeys..........................................................
C hickens........................................................
Fowl......................................................
D ucks..............................................................
G eese..............................................................

UNDRAWN.

T urkeys..........................................................
C hickens........................................................
Fowls.....................................................
Ducks..............................................

. X  ,

¡V

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■ rf  *

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V 
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D r u g s  &  M e d ic in e s

State  Board  of Pharm acy.

O n*  T e a r—O ttm a r E b erb ao h , A nn  A rb o r.
Tw o  T ea r« —G eo rg e G u ndrum , Io n ia.
T h re e   T e a r« —C. A. B a rb e e . C heboygan.
F o a r T ea r« —8. E. P a r k ill, Owosso.
F ir e  T e a rs —F . W . R. P e rr y , D e tro it.
P re s id e n t— F re d ’k  W .  R. P e rry , D e tro it.
S e c r e ta r y —S ta n le y  E. P a rk lll, Owosso.
T re a s u re r—Oeo. G un d ru m , Io n ia .
C o m in g   M eetings—H o u g h to n , A ng.  89  an d   30-,  L ans 
n g , No t.  6  a n d  7.

M ichigan  State  Pharm aceutical  Ass’n 
P re s id e n t—A. B. S tev en s. A nn A rbor. 
Vice-President—A. F. P a rk e r, D e tro it 
T re a s u re r—W . D up o n t,  D e tro it.
S eo retay —S. A. T hom pson, D e tro it.
Grand  Rapids  Pharm aceutical Society 
President, Walter K. Schmidt; Sec’y, Ben. Schrouder

THE  CUTTER  AND  THE  REMEDY. 
The  druggist,  dealing  as  he  does  in 
medicines and medical appliances,  seems 
to be the natural  channel for  the  distri 
bution of proprietary remedies.  The re 
tail prices of these goods are fixed by th 
manufacturer,  and the  public  have will 
ingly paid the established prices without 
murmur or complaint.  When we remem 
ber that many of them  are  slow  sellers 
that  they  must  be  kept  and  are  often 
dead  stock  on  the  dealer’s  hands,  the 
margin of profit they  have  afforded  was 
none  too  much.  Within  recent  years 
however,  the  cutting  of  the  prices  of 
these preparations has been inaugurated 
and that  it  has  been  an  injury  to  the 
trade  is  beyond  question,  as  druggist 
have  been  compelled 
to  handle  thi 
class  of  goods  without  any  margin  of 
profit whatever.

That there must be legitimate profit in 
all business will  be readily admitted,  for 
without it  the  business  man  could  not 
live,  pay  his  clerks,  his taxes,  and the 
obligations he owes to his family.  When 
some of our inventors  succeed  in discov 
ering a way by which  we  may  dispense 
with  the  “butcher,  the  baker,  and the 
candlestick-maker,”  not to say other nec­
essary craftsmen, we may hope to do bus­
iness without profit and  sustain life.

Various plans have, from time to time, 
been  proposed 
to  prevent  cutting  ir 
prices of  these so-called  patent  or  pro­
prietary medicines,  but thus far without 
producing the  desired  results.  To  sug 
gest a remedy  now seems  almost a hope 
less  task.  The  old  adage  that  “Fools 
rush in  where angels fear to tread,” may 
find a parallel in  the task 1  have  under 
taken in proposing a remedy for this evil 
of cutting.

We  are  assured  by  our  friends,  the 
wholesale dealers,  that even  with a mar 
gin of 10 per cent,  profit  which  the  re 
bate  system  gives  them on this class of 
goods,  they are handling them  at a  loss 
and we do not doubt their statements.  If 
this be so when the sales run  up into the 
tens of thousands of  dollars and where a 
nmrgin  of  10  per  cent,  yields  quite  a 
large return,  how  much  greater  is  the 
loss  of  the  retailer  whose  sales are  but 
small and who is compelled, through this 
cutting of prices,  to sell  at  actual  cost? 
Ton  may  ask:  Why  does  he handle the 
goods?  Simply because he is  compelled 
to do so.  People come  to  his  store  for 
them,  and when there possibly  purchase 
something  else. 
If  he  does  not  keep 
them,  they will not come to his  place  at 
all,  and  the  trade he may have in other 
lines of legitimate  pharmacy will be lost 
to him.  Hence he keeps  them,  not from 
choice,  but from necessity.

That the many plans proposed to over­
come this evil  have not  been successful, 
is due to several  causes,  not  the least of 
which is the indifference of  some  of  the

manufacturers,  if not their quiet encour­
agement of the  cutters,  for,  no matter at 
what  price  the  goods are  retailed, they 
get their full prices for them.  Then, too, 
we have some of the  jobbing  trade  who 
are  only  too  glad,  despite all efforts to 
the contrary,  to supply  the  cutter in the 
hope of securing  his  general  trade  and 
thereby making some profit out of him.

That many  of  these  preparations  are 
worthless,  not to say harmful, is unques­
tioned;  and that by skillfully worded ad­
vertising they  lead  to  many  imaginary 
diseases and  injurious  dosing of the sys­
tem,  is  an  indisputable  fact.  There is 
no doubt the general  health of  the  pub­
lic  would  be improved were there a dis­
use of these  patent  nostrums,  many  of 
which are  compounded  by  persons  who 
have no medical or pharmaceutical knowl­
edge,  and a return to  the old  practice of 
consulting  an  intelligent  physician and 
following his advice.

Instead of  making  our  stores  the  re­
positories for the  thousand  and one nos­
trums of which we know absolutely noth­
ing,  the abolition of them  would  relieve 
us  of  much  unemployed  capital,  bring 
back pharmacy to its legitimate channel 
and be a positive benefit to  the  pharma 
cist, the physician, and the public.

It is my purpose to  present two propo 
litions for the cure of this  cut-rate  evil 
and whether you agree with  me  or  not 
if I but set  you to  thinking,  and  event 
ually to acting. I shall have accomplished 
something  and  the  preparation  of  this 
paper will  not have been in vain.

First:  We should endeavor by national 
legislation  to  so  amend  our  trade-mark 
law as to give no  proprietorship in med 
icines  or  medical  preparations. 
I  be 
Heve  this  is the case  in  France.  When 
this Is done  we  will  not  have  any  one 
adopt  fanciful  names  for old  and  well 
recognized preparations, and endeavor to 
prevent 
their  manufacture  by  others 
Nor  will  we  have  two  or  three  well 
known  chemicals  combined,  and  foisted 
on  the  public  at  a  price  twenty times 
their  actual  cost.  A  patent  covers  a 
period  of  fourteen  years,  but  a  trade 
mark,  like  Tsnnyson’s  brook,  goes  on 
forever.

My second proposition is,  to secure, by 
State legislation,  the  enactment of a law 
making  it  an  offense,  punishable  with 
fine or  imprisonment,  or  both,  for  any 
person  to  sell  or  offer  for  sale any so- 
called  patent or proprietary  remedy  the 
sworn formula of which is not registered 
with  the  Secretary of the State Board of 
Pharmacy,  which  shall  be  open  to  in­
spection,  unless  such  preparations,  un­
der certain restrictions,  are  prepared by 
citizen registered under the State Phar­
macy  Law.  When  we  have  legislation 
such as is here indicated,  may  we  hope 
to place pharmacy  where it  properly be­
longs,  and  we shall  have the dawning of 
new era for the  pharmacist and  a ben­
efit to the public which they will learn to 
appreciate more and  more  as  the  years 
roll round. 

J.  H.  Red sec k eb.

How to  Keep  an Index.

The  astonishing  demand  in  the  drug 
business  for  articles  not  mentioned  in 
Pharmacopoeia  or  text-book,  whose only 
claim or merit,  so  far  as  known,  is  the 
advertisement,  leaves  the  pharmacist  to 
recall the wonderful compound  a  quack 
had made from butternut bark,  of which 
he said:  “The bark from the tree scraped 
down  is a physic,  scraped  up an  emetic, 
but mixed just  right is  a powerful  good 
medicine.”

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

To  attempt  to  keep  in  mind  all  the 
synthetical scrapings of the day  is a ter 
rible tax on one’s  memory,  and leads me 
to inquire what is the best  way  to  keep 
an index. 

I suggest the following:

if  it 

When reading our journals  or  papers, 
any  article  we  may  wish 
to  consider 
mark  it  with  a  blue  pencil; 
is 
thought  best  to  use  It  for  reference, 
mark it with a red  pencil;  then  make  a 
card  catalogue,  stating  on  card  the 
particular point  of interest;  this  should 
be filed in  an envelope,  under a  letter or 
substance as its importance may indicate. 
This routine  takes but  little  time,  is  a 
“ memory peg,”  and if carefully followed 
will  keep one in touch with the  topics of 
the day. 

J.  H.  Manning,

A  Valid Excuse.

Employer—Late  again,  John.  Can’t 
you manage to get here on  time?
Employe—I can’t sleep nights, sir, and 
am apt to be late in the morning.
Employer—H’m!  Sleeplessness.  Why 
don’t you consult a doctor  and  find  out 
the cause?
Employe—I know the cause,  sir;  it  is 
six  weeks old.
Employer—Oh!
Edward W. Bok thinks  that  from  the 
very  start  boys  should  be  put into the 
particular line of business for which they 
have the most talent.

Nine persons out often are better than 

we give them credit for.

IBALD
HEADS

DANDRUFF CURED.

NO  MUSTACHE,
NO  PAY.

NO  CURE. 
NO  PAY. 
I will take Contract* to grow hair on the head 
or face with  those  who can call  at my office or 
at  the office of  my agents, provided  the head i* 
not  glossy, or the pores of the scalp not closed. 
Where the head  is  shiny or  the  pores  closed, 
there is no cure.  Call and  be examined  free of 
charge.  If yon cannot  call, write to me.  State 
tho exact  condition of the scalp and your occu­
pation. 
PROF.  G.  BIRKHOLZ,
1311 MascMc Temple. C h ic a o s

5.  C.  W.
T h e   L e a d in g   N iekle  C ig a r 

M ad e  in this  M ark e t.

The Only Brand in the State (outside of Detroit) 

Made by Improved  Machinery.

This  Cigar  is  made  with  Long  Mixed 

Filler,  Single  Connecticut  Binder 

So ld  at $35  per  1,000 

and  Sumatra  W rapper.

By  the  Manufacturer,

6. J. JOtlQSOn, 

347 South Division St. 

Ort  *  ~  "
"GrandiRapids,

Telephone  1205.

Seely’s Flavoring Extracts
Every dealer should  sell  them.
Extra Fine  quality.
Lemon,  Vanilla,  Assorted  Flavors. 
Yearly eales  increased  by  their  use. 

Send  trial  order. ■lu's Lemon,

(Wrapped)

Doz.  Gro.
1 oz.  $  00  lO  20
2 oz. 
t  20  12  60
4 oz.  2  00  22  80
6 oz.  3  OO  33  OO

(Wrapped)

Seely’s  Vanilla
Doz.  Gro.
1 oz. $  1  SO  16  20
2 oz.  2  OO  21  60
4 oz. 
75  40  80
6 oz.  5  40  57  60
Plain  N. S.  w ith 
corkscrew at same 
price if  preferred.
Correspondence
Detroit, 

Solicited
filc h ,

Lse  Tradesman  Coupon  Books.

m ils’  Pill Case.

E V E R Y   D R U G G IS T  

Knows how inconvenient it is to keep his pills in drawers or cigar  boxes,  necessita­
ting the handling of the entire lot to find the kind  wanted  at  each  sale,  and  also 
when  ordering  new  stock.  Being  ont  of sight of customers they never suggest a 
sale of themselves.
The  Mills  Pill Case does away with  all the  above objections,  and offers many 
new attractive features to the trade.
Has 24 and 40 separate compartments,  holding from X to 1 dozen  boxes each. 
Easily filled.
Protected from dust and pilferers.
Always in sight.
Glass front and rear.
Increases sales. 
Can be placed on show case, counter or  shelf.
You can see at a glance how stock is.
Costs no more than ordinary drawers.
You draw a box out of the opening at rear  bottom,  when  sold,  and  the  next 
drops into same place.  Its a very useful and ornamental addition to any drug store. 
finished,  complete,  and  securely packed for shipment and  made regu­
i 
larly at following prices:
«___
No.  i,  40  Compartments,  Natural  or  Antique  Oak 
...........................................*7  00
No.  3,  24 
«• 
No'  4’  34 
6  oo
Made special on orders, in all popular woods, finishes and sizes,  to  match store 
c

Imitation  Cherry,  Watauti'Aiabopuiy or Ebonyi .!! 
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interiors. 

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L.  M.  KILLS,  Inventor and Manufacturer,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich,

THE  MICTITGkAN  TRADESMAN

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S.  N. Y. Q.  A

Morphia, S. P. A W.  2 0502 80 
m C.  Co....................  1  90@2 20
Moschus Canton........  © 4 0
Myrlstlca, No  1 ........  66®  70
Nnx Yomlca, (po20)..  @  10
Os.  Sepia....................  15®  18
Pepsin Saac, H. A P. D.
Co............................  @2 00
Plcls Llq, N.kC., M gal
doz  .........................  @2 00
Plcls Llq., quarts......   ®1  00
pints.........   ©  85
Pil Hydrarg, (po. 80)..  @ 50
Piper Nigra, (po. 22).. 
©  1
Piper Alba, (po g5)__  @  3
Pllx Burgun................  ®  7
Plumbi A cet..............  14®  15
Pul vis Ipecac et opll.. 1  lo@l 20 
Pyrethrum,  boxes  H
A P. D.  Co., doz......   @1 25
Pyrethrum,  pv...........  20®  30
Quasslae....................  g®  10
Qulnla, S. P. A W...... 34M039K
S.  German__  270  37
Rubla  Tlnctorum......   12®  14
12®  14
SaccharumLactlapv. 
Salacln........................2  1002 25
Sanguis  Draconls......   40®  50
Sapo,  W......................  12®  14
“  M.......................  10®  12
“  G.............  
©  15

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Seldllts  Mixture........  ®  20
Slnapls........................  ©  18
opt...................  ®  30
Snnff,  Maccaboy,  De
Voes.......................   ®  35
Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes  ®  35
Soda Boras, (po. 11).  .  10®  11 
Soda  et Potass Tart...  24®  25
Soda Carb................. 
lyj®  2
Soda,  Bl-Carb............   ©  5
Soda, Ash.................... 3K®  4
Soda, Sulphas............   ®  2
Spts. Bther C o...........  50®  55
“  Myrcla  Dom......  @2 25
“  Myrcla Imp........  @3 00
*’  Vlnl  Rect.  bbl.
...7..............................2 3102 41
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Strychnia Crystal......1 40®1  45
Sulphur, Subl.............. 2M@  3
Roll..................   2 0 2)4
Tamarinds................. 
8®  10
Terebenth Venice......   28®  80
Theobromae.................. 45 ®  48
Vanilla...  ............... 9 00016 00
Zlncl  Sulph................  70  8

Bbl. Gal
Whale, winter..
70
70
Lard,  extra......
80
85
Lard, No.  1...............   42
42
45
Linseed, pure raw
56
59

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

62
70
40

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faints. 

bbl.  lb.
Red Venetian.............lgf  2@8
Ochre, yellow  Mars__144  2@4
“ 
Ber........1M  2@3
Putty,  commercial__2M  2M®3
“  strictly  pure..... 2%  2V@3
Vermilion Prune Amer­
ican ..........................  13®16
Vermilion,  English....  65070
Green,  Peninsular......   70@75
Lead,  red....................6  ®6M
“  w hite................6  ©6M
Whiting, white Span...  @70
©90
Whiting,  Gliders’” . .. 
White, Paris  American 
1
Whiting.  Paris  Bng.
Cliff..........................  
1  40
Universal Prepared  ..1  C0@1  15 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared 
Paints.....................1 00®1  20

VARNISHES.

No. 1 Turp  Coach.... 1  10@1  20
Extra Turp................ 160@1  70
Coach Body...............2 75@8 00
No. 1 Turp Furn....... 1  0001  10
ButraTurk Damar....l 5601  60 
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 
Torp......................... 
70®75

Grand  Rapids, flieh.

HARRY’S

ROOT  BEER

_________ W h o le s a le   P r i c e   C u rren t»
Advanced—  Declined—

ACIDUM.

Aceticum.....................  
8®
Benz oleum  German..  65®
....................
Boracic 
Carbollcnm................  
20®
Cltrlcum.....................   52®
Hydrochlor.................. 
3®
Nltrocum  ....................   10®
Oxalic um ....................   10®
Phosphorlum  dll........ 
30
Salley Ileum.................1 25® 1  60
Sulpnurlcum................  1 ^0
Tannlcum....................1 
Tartari cum..................  30® 33

40@1 60

AMMONIA.

" 

Aqua, 16  deg................  
4®
30  deg.................  6®
Carbonaa  .....................  13®
Chlorldum...................  13®

ANIL INK.

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

50@3 00

00®2 25

BACCAS.

Cnbeae (po  36)..........   35®
J u n lp e r u s ........................ 
8®
Xanthoxylum..............   25®

BAL8AMUM.

Copaiba......................  45®
Peru............................  @2 25
Terabin, Canada  ....  40®  45
Tolutan......................   35®  50

COBTKX.

Abies,  Canadian.................   18
Casslae  ...............................  11
Cinchona F lav a.................   18
Bnonymns  atropurp...........  30
Myrlca  Cerlfera, po.............  30
Prunus Vlrglnl....................   12
Qulllala,  grd.......................   10
Sassafras  ............................  12
tJlmus Po (Ground  15)........  15

BXTRACTUM.
Glycyrrhlza  Glabra...
po...........
“ 
Haematox, 15 lb. box..
“ 
Is...............
“  Ms............
"  Ms............

34®
33®
11®
13®
14®
•16®

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

“ 

Arnica.......................   18®
Anthemls...................  30®
Matricaria 
50®

 

FLORA.

 
FOLIA.

Barosma 
Cassia  Acutlfol,  Tln-

...................  18®
nlyelly........  ..........  25®
“  Alx.  35®
and  Ms....................   15®
.....................   8®

Salvia  officinalis,  M*
IJraUrsl 

“ 

SOMMI.

“ ....
“ ....

Acacia, 1st  picked—

®®
@
®60®
50®
®®
®

2d 
“ 
“  3d 
sifted sorts...
“ 
po.................
" 
Aloe,  Barb, (po. 60)...
“  Cape, (po.  20)...
Bocotri, (po.  60).
Catechu, Is, (Ms, 14 M*.
16)............................  ®  1
Ammoniae.................  55®  60
Assafcetlda, (po. 85)..  40®  45
Bentolnum.................  50®  55
Camphors........1.........  46®  50
Buphorbium  po  ........  35®  lo
Galbanum...................  ®2 50
Gamboge,  po..............  70®  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  1002  15
Shellac  ......................  35®  42
bleached......   33®  35
Tragacanth................  40®1  00

“ 
bbrba—In ounce packages.

Absinthium.........................  25
Bupatorlum.........................  20
Lobelia.................................  26
Majoram.............................   28
Mentha  Piperita.................  28
«  Y lr.........................  25
Rne......................................   80
Tanaoetum, V....................  22
Thymus,  Y..........................   25

MAOITSSIA.

Calcined, Pat..............  55®  60
Carbonate,  Pat...........  20®  22
Carbonate, K. A  M —   20®  35 
Carbonate, Jennings..  35® 38

OLBUM.

Absinthium................2  5003 00
Amygdalae, Dnlc........  45® 75
Amyaalae, Amarae__ 8 00®8 25
Anlsl........................... 1  8!>@l 90
Aurantl  Cortex...........1 80®2 00
Bergamll  ...................3  0003 20
Cajlputl.................... 
60®  65
Caryophylll................  75®  80
Cedar.........................  85®  66
Chencpodll................  ®1  60
Clnnamonll.................1  10®1 15
Cltronella..................   ®  45
Conlnm  Mao..............  35®  66
Copaiba......................  80®  90

Cubebae...................... 
2
Bxechthltos..............  1  50@1
Brlgeron.....................1  50@1
Gaultheria..................1  70@1
Geranium,  ounce.'__  @
Gosslpll,  Sem. gal......  70®
Hedeoma  ...................1 25@1
Juniperl......................  50@2 ÓÒ
Lavendula.................  90@2 00
Llmonls...........................1 40®1 60
Mentha Piper...................2 85@3 60
Mentha Verld................. 2 20@2 30
Morrhuae, gal..................1 30@1 40
Myrcla, ounce............   @  50
OUve..........................   9003  oo
Plcls Liquida, (gal..35)  10®  12
Ricini......... . 
 
  1  22@1  28
l oo
Rosmarini............  
Rosae, ounce...................6 50@8 50
Succlnl.........................  40® 45
Sabina.........................  9001 00
San tal  ........................2 50@7 00
Sassafras......................  50® 55
Slnapls, ess, ounce__  ®  65
Tigli!.............................   @1 00
Thyme.......................  40®  50
Theobromas...............   15®  20
BICarb.......................  15®  18
Bichromate................  13®  14
Bromide.................... 
403  43
Carb............................ 
ja®  15
Chlorate  (po  23025)..  24®  26
Cyanide......................  50®  55
Iodide......................... 2 9003 00
Potassa, Bitart,  pure..  23®  25 
Potassa, Bitart, com...  @  15
Potass Nitras, opt......   8®  10
Potass Nitras.............. 
7®  9
Prusslate....................  28®  30
Sulphate  po...............   15®  18

opt  ............. 

POTASSIUM.

“ 

  @1 60

TiNCTURBs.

•* 

** 

•* 

Aconltum Napellls R.........   60
Kfl
Aloes...............................1!.’  60
and myrrh.................  60
A rnica..................................  50
Asafcetlda............................ 
.0
A trope Belladonna................  60
Benzoin.................................  60
_  “  .  Co..........................   50
Sangulnarla..........................   50
Barosma...............................   50
Cantharldes..........................   75
Capsicum..............................  50
Ca damon............................  75
„   “ 
Co.........................  75
Castor................................ l 00
Catechu.................................  50
Cinchona..............................  50
_ 
.  Co.........................  60
Columba.............................   50
Conlum...............................  50
Cubeba................................   50
Digitalis.............................   50
Ergot...................................   50
Gentian...............................  50
„   " ,  Co............................  60
Gualca................................   50
ammon....................  60
Zingiber.............................   50
Hyoscyamus.......................  50
Iodine..................................  75
Colorless...
Ferrl  Chlorldum.
K ino....................
Lobelia.................
Myrrh.................
Nux  Yomlca...... .
Opll.....................
“  Camphorated. 
_
Deoaor........................2 00
Aurantl Cortex.... 
__
Quassia...............................  50
Rhatany.............................   50
Rhel.....................................  50
Cassia  Acutlfol...................  50
„ 
Co..............  50
Serpentarla.................... . 
50
Stramonium.........................  60
Tolutan...............................  60
Valerian.............................   50
Veratrum Verlde.................  50

“ 

“ 

‘ 

RADIX.

Aconitum...................  20®  25
Althae.........................  22®  25
Anchusa....................  12®  15
Arum,  po....................  @  25
Calamus......................  20®  40
Gentiana  (po. 12)......  
8®  10
Glychrrhlza, (pv. 15)..  16®  18 
Hydrastis  Canaden,
(PO* 35)...................  @  30
Hellebore,  Ala,  po....  15®  20
Inula,  po.................... 
is®  20
Ipecac, po...................1 50®)  60
Iris  plox (po. 35®38) ..  85®  40
Jalapa,  pr...................  40®  45
Maranta,  Ms..............  ®  35
Podophyllum, po........  15®  18
Rhei..............................  750100
“  cut......................  @1  75
PV.......................   7501  35
Spigella......................  35®  38
Sanguinarla, (po  25)..  © 2 0
Serpents ria.................  45®  50
Senega.......................  55®  60
Slmllax, Officinalis.  H © 4 0
M 
®  25
Scillae, (po. 85)...........  10®  12
Symplocarpns,  Poeti
dus,  po....................  @  35
Valeriana, Bng.  (po.30)  ©  25
German...  15®  20
Ingiber a .................... 
18® 20
Zingiber  j ................... 
18® 20

“ 

“ 

SXMBM.
o   15 
.. 
Anlsum,  (po. 20).. 
Aplum  (graveleons)..  18®  20
Bird, Is...................... 
4®  6
Carni, (po. 18)..............   10® 12
Cardamon..................1 00®1  25
Corlandrnm.................   12® 14
Cannabis Satlva.........   4® 
5
Cydonlum....................   75®l 00
Cnenopodlnm  ............   10® 12
Dipterix Odorate....... 2 4002 60
Foenlculum........‘......   ®  15
Foenugreek,  po.........   6®  8
L in i............................  4  ® 4M
Lini, grd.  (bbl. 8H) - - ■  3£® 4
Lobelia.........................  35® 40
Pharlarls Canarian__ 
4®  5
Rapa............................. 
6®  7
Slnapls  Albn...............  7®  8
Nigra...........  11®  12

SPIRITUS.
Frumenti, W..D.  Co..2 00®2 50
D. F. R ......1  75®2 00
..................1  2501  50
Jnnlperls  Co. O. T ....1  65@2 00
“ 
1 75®3 50
Saacharnm  N.  B........1  75®2 00
Spt.  Vini  Galli........... 1  7506 50
Vini Oporto................1  25®2 00
Vini  Alba...................1  2502 00

 

SPONONS.

Florida  sheeps’  wool
oarrlage.................. 2 50®2 75
Nassau  sheeps’  wool
oarrlage  .................
2 00 
Velvet  extra  sheeps’
wool  carriage.........
1  10
Kxtra  yellow  sheeps’
oarrlage...................
Grass sheeps’ wool oar­
rlage  .......................
Hard for  slate  use__
Yellow Reef, for  slate 
use..........................

1  40

SYRUPS.

Accacla...............................  50
Zingiber  .............................   50
Ipecac..................................   60
Ferrl Iod.............................   50
Aurantl  Cortes....................   50
Rhel Arom..........................   GO
Slmllax  Officinalis..............  60
....  50
Senega.................................  50
Sclllae..................................   50
“  Co..........................  SO
Toiatan...........................  so
.  50
PnuHMaflrg.......... 

Ci 

“ 

“ 

MISCELLANEOUS.

“ 

5®

¿Ether, Spts  Nit, 3 F..  28®  30 
“  4 F ..  32®  34
Alumen....................... 214® 3

11 
ground,  (po.

‘ 
" 

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

7).............................   3®
4®

Annatto......................  55®  60
Antlmonl, po.............. 
et PotasB T.  55®  60
Antlpyrln..................   ®1 40
Antirebrln..................  ®  25
Argentl  Nitras, ounce  ©  48
Arsenicum................. 
Balm Gilead  Bud....  38®  40
Bismuth  8.  N............ 1  60®i  70
Calcium Chlor, is, (Ms
12;  54».  14)...... .
®  11
Cantharldes  Russian, 
®1 00 
po ............................
Capslcl  Fructns, af..,
®  26 
®  28 
m  
SU:*
®  20 
Caryophyllns, (po.  15) 
„
10®   12
Carmine,  No. 40.........   ®s 75
Cera Alba, S. A F ......   50®  56
Cera Flava.................  88©  40
COCCUS 
©   40
Cassia Fructns...........  ©  25
Centrarla....................   ©  10
Cetaoenm...................  ©  40
Chloroform................  60®  68
sqnlbbs..  ®l  25
Chloral H yd& st........1  2501  50
Chondrus...................  20®  25
Clnohonldlne, P.  A  w   15®  20
German  3M® 12
Corks,  list,  dis.  per
Creasotum__
Oa
Creta, (bbl. 75)
prep......
5®9®
preclp...
Rnbra...
®
Croons  ...........
35®
Cudbear......... _ 
_
o
Cuprl Snlph...............   5 ©
Dextrine....................  10®
Ether Snlph................  70®
Bmery,  all  numbers..  © 
po...................  ©

F i . k e S t

cent

... 

“ 

“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

Galla...................  
  ©  28
Gambler......................7  © g
Gelatin,  Cooper.........   ©  60
French...........  so®  so
Glassware  flint, by box 80.
Less than box 76.
Glue,  Brown..............  g®
“  White................  18®
Glyeerlna...................  14®
Grana Paradlsl...........  ©
Hnmnlns....................   25®
Hydraag Chlor  Mite..  ©
“  Cor__   ©
Ox Rnbrum  ©
Ammonlatl..  ®
Unguentum.  45®
®

Hydrargyrum........
Icnthyobolla, Am..  ..1  25®i  50
Indigo.........................  75@1 00
Iodine, Resubl...........3 80®3 90
Iodoform....................  ©4 70
Lupulln......................  ©2 25
Lycopodium..............  70®  75
Macls.........................  70®  75
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy-
drarg Iod................  ©  27
Liquor Potass Arslnltls  10®  IS
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
Mannla,  8 .F ..............  60®  68

1M)...........................2*® 4

Blood Purifier
General Stimulant

and  as a

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

for  the  system. 
It  is  a  delicious bever­
age  and  can  be  drank  freely and in  al­
most unlimited quantities.

IO  C e n t   B o t t le   M a k e s   Ö  G a llo n s •

RHELTP  i  PERKP  DRUG  GO.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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THE  MIOTTIG A _ T S T   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  snch  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.

Bine Label Brand.

“ 

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

Triumph Brand.

CLOTHES  PINS.

5 gross boxes................. 40045

COCOA  SHELLS.

35 lb. bags......................  03
Less quantity...............   0314
Pound  packages........... 6A©7

COFFEE.
Green.
Rio.

Santos.

Fair.....................................18
Good................................... 19
Prime..................................21
Golden................................21
Peaberry............................ 23
Fair.....................................19
Good................................... 20
Prime..................................22
Peaberry  ............................ 23
Mexican and Guatamala.
Fair.....................................21
Good.................................-..22
Fancy..................................24
Prime..................................23
MiUed................................24
Java.
Interior.................  
..........25
Private Growth.................. 27
Mandehllng.......................28
Imitation............................a
Arabian...............................28

Maracaibo.

Mocha.

Roasted.

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

Package.

Extract.

Valley City A gross...........  75
1  15
Felix 
Hammers, foil, gross........1 65
“ 
........2 85

“ 

 

“ 

tin 
CHICORY.

Balk  .  ................................ 5
..........................7
Red 

CLOTHES  LINES.

Cotton,  40 f t ------ per doz.  1 25
1 40
1  60
176
190
85
100

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
Jute 
“ 
CONDENSED  MILK. 

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

“ 
“ 
“ 
“
" 
“ 

4'dos. In case.

N.T.Cond’ns’d Milk Co’s brands
Gall Borden Eagle............   7 40
Crown................................   6 25
Daisy.................................... 5 75
Champion..........................  4  50
Magnolia  ..........................  4 25
Dime....................................3 35

Pears.

Guces.

1  40 
1  40 
1  50 
1  10
90

Apricots.
gross
Live oak.............   .....
6 00 Santa Cruz.................
7 00 Lusk’s .........................
5 50 .Overland..................
9 00
Blackberries.
7 50 F. A  W.......................
6 00
Cherries.
Red.............................
Pitted Hamburgh
1  50
W hite......................... 
1  25
Brie............................ 
Damsons, Egg Plums and Green
Erie............................ 
1  20
1  40
California................... 
Gooseberries.
1  25
Common 
................... 
Peaches.
Pie............................  
1  10
Maxwell.................... 
1  50
Shepard’s ..................  
1  50
California..................   180@1  75
Monitor 
Oxford.
Domestic. 
1  25 
Riverside.
1  75
Common.....................1  00@1 30
Johnson’s  sliced........* 
2 50
grated........  
2 75
Booth’s sliced............  @2 5)
grated...........  @2  75
Quinces.
1  10
Common  .................... 
Raspberries.
Red  ...........................  
1  10
1  40
Black  Hamburg.........  
Erie,  black  ......... 
1  25
Strawberries.
Lawrence..................  
i  25
1  25
Hamburgh................. 
l  20
Erie............................ 
1  05
Terrapin....................... 
Whortleberries.
Blueberries...............  
85
Corned  beef  Libby’s..........2 10
Roast beef  Armour’s..........1  80
Potted  ham, m b .....................1 25
“  A lb .................  70
tongue, K lb .............1  35
V£lb.........   75
chicken, A lb  ........ 
95

Pineapples.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
Vegetables.

 

Beans.

“ 

“ 

“ 
“ 

Peas.

Corn.

Hamburgh  stringless..........1  15
French style.......2 00
Limas................. 1  35
Lima, green..............................l 25
soaked.....................  to
Lewis Boston Baked........... l 35
Bay State  Baked...................... l 35
World’s Fair  Baked........... 1  85
Picnic Baked............................ l 00
Hamburgh............................... 1 25
Livingston  E den.....................1 20
Purity..................................
Honey  Dew..............................1 40
Morning Glory...................
Soaked.....................  
 
75
Hamburgh  marrofat........... 1  80
early Jane 
..150
Champion Eng. .1  40
petit  pols..........1  40
fancy  sifted....1  90
Soaked................................   65
Harris standard..................   75
VanCamp’s  marrofat......... 1  10
early Jane...... 130
Archer’s  Early Blossom.... 1  25
French............................ 
Mushrooms.
French..............................19Q21
Pumpkin.
Brie.....................................   75
Squash.
Hubbard...................................1 15
Succotash.
Hamburg...................................1 40
Soaked................... 
Honey  Dew.............................. 1 50
Brie.......................................... 1 35
Tomatoes.
Hancock.............................
Excelsior 
.........................
Eclipse................................
Hamburg............................
Gallon............................
CHOCOLATE.

2 15

30

“ 

 

 

Baker’s.

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

23
37
43

AXLE GREASE.
doz
55
....  60
......   50
75
......  65
......  55

Aurora  ..  . . .
Castor Oil......
Diamond........
Frazer’s ......... __  
Mica  .......
Paragon 

..  ..

BAKING  POWDER.

Cream  Flake.

;aaa. 3  doz —
“ 

45
?5
“  ..........
A -b.
1  00
1  “  ...............
1 lb.
10
Bulk
Arctic.
55
A lb cane 6 doz  case........
1  10
........
2  lb  “  4 doz  “ 
2 00
1  lb “  2 doz  “ 
........
........ 9 00
5  1b “  1 do*  “ 
45
3  oz “  6 doz 
‘‘ 
........
60
4  oz “  4 doz  “ 
........
80
6  oz “  4 doz  “ 
........
l  20
9  oz “  4 doz  “ 
........
2 00
......
tt> “  2 doz  “ 
........ 9 00
ldoz  “ 
lb “ 
40
Red Star, A #> cans
Cl
75
.........
A S>  “ 
“
!  40
.........
1 lb  “ 
45
Telfer’s,  A lb. cans, doz.
1«
85
Alb.  “
«
1  50
1 lb.
Our Leader,  A -b cans— 45
75
% lb  cans......
lib cans 
...
1  50
BATH  BRICK.
2 dozen in case.

BLUING. 

English.........................—   90
B ristol.......................................  90
Domestic.............................   w
Gross
Arctic, 4 oz  ovals..............  3 60
8 Of 
..............6 75
pints,  round  .........  9 00
So. 2, sifting box...  2 75 
No. 3, 
.  4 00
No. 5, 
...  8 00
1 os b a ll......... .......  4 50
Mexican Liquid, 4  oz........  3 60
8 oz.........   6 80

“ 
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“ 

“ 

“ 
BROOMS,

¿ 0.8 H url.........................  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

1 

BRC8HB8.

“ 
“ 

Stove, No.  1.......................  125
“  10.......................   1  50
“  15.......................   1  75
Bice Soot Scrub, 2  row —   36
Bice Boot  Scrub, 8 row....  1  25 
Palmetto, goose.................  1  50

CANDLES.

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

“ 

CANNED  GOODS, 

rtsh .
Clams.

“ 

“ 

“ 

■*  2  1b........... 
Clam Chowder.
Cove Oysters.

Little Neck,  l i b .................1  20
.190
Standard, 8 lb.....................2 25
Standard,  l i b ....................  75
2 lb  .................. 1  35
Lobsters.
Star,  1  lb...........................2  45
“  2  lb...........................8  50
Picnic, 1 lb......................... 2  00
21b..........................2  90
“ 
Mackerel.
Standard, 1 lb..................... l  10
2  lb...................2  10
Mustard,  21b.....................2  25
Tomato Sauce,  2 lb...........2 25
Soused, 2 lb........................2 25
Columbia River, flat..........1  80
tails..........165
Alaska, Bed.......................l 25
pink........................l  to
Kinney’s,  flats................... 1  95
Sardines.
American  Ms................ 4 %©  s
As................ 6%® 7
Imported  Ms....................  OSD
As....................15® 16
Mustard Ms.....................   607
Boneless.......................... 
21
Brook 8, l b ........................2 50

Salmon.
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

Trout
Fruits.
Apples.

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

1  20
4 00

CHEESE.
Amboy.......................
Acme..........................
Lenawee....................
Riverside...................
Gold Medal...............
Skim..........................
Brick..........................
Edam  .........................
Leiden.......................
Limburger  ..............
Pineapple...................
Roquefort  .  . 
. . .
Sap S ago..................
Schweitzer, Imported. 
domestic  __

10
9*
9*
10
9*
5@7 
15 
1  00 
22 
015

020
024
014

EVAPO^***5 I

Peerless evaporated cream.  5 75 

CREDIT CHECKS.

500, any one denom’n ......93 00
1000,  “ 
.......5 00
.......8 00
2000,  “ 
Steel  punch.. 
75

“ 
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“ 
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COUPON  BOOKS.

2 50 _ 00 
8 50
4 00
5 00
6 00

Universal.”

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“ 
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“ 
“ 
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..10 
.,20 

t  1  books, per hundred...  83 00 
8 2
....  3 50
....4  00
88 
....  5 00
8 5
810 
...6  00 
820 
....  700
Above prices on coupon books 
are  subject  to  the  following 
quantity discounts:
200 books or over..  5  per  cent 
500 
“ 
1000  “ 
COUPON  PAS8  BOOKS.
I Can  be  made to represent any 
denomination  from 810  down. I
20 books......................
.8  1  00
.  2 00
50  “ 
.....................
.  3 00
......................
100  “ 
.  6 25
......................
250  “ 
.  10 00
......................
500  “ 
1000  “ 
......................
.  17 50
CRACKERS.
Seymour XXX................
Seymour XXX, cartoon. ...  5A
Family  XXX
Family XXX,  cartoon..........5A
Salted XXX.........................  5
Salted XXX,  cartoon  ........5A
Kenosha.............................   7A
Boston....................................7
Butter  biscuit....................  6
Soda, XXX.........................  5A
Soda, City............................  7A
Soda,  Duchess......................8A
Crystal Wafer..................... 10A
Long  Island W afers..........11
S. Oyster  XXX....................  5A
City Oyster. XXX...................5A
Farina  Oyster....................   6

Oyster.

Batter.

Soda.

CREAM TARTAR.
Strictly  pare...................... 
80
Telfers Absolute..............   30
Grocers’............................ 15095

ELY  PA PER. 

Thum ’s  Tanglefoot.

Single  case......................... 8 60
Five case lots...................... 3 50
Ten case  lots...................... 3 40
Less than one case, 40c  per box 

DRIED  FRUITS. 

Domestic.
Apples.

“ 

“ 

Pears.

Peaches.

Apricots.

quartered  “ 

Sundrled, sliced in  bbls.
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes 12  12% 
California In  bags........
Evaporated in boxes.  .. 
Blackberries.
In  boxes.......................
Nectarines.
70 lb. bags.......................
251b. boxes.....................
Peeled, in  boxes...........
Cal. evap.  “ 
...........
“ 
in bags........
California In b u s ......
Pitted  Cherries.
Barrels..........................
50 lb. boxes...................
26 “ 
...................
Prunelies.
301b.  boxes...................
Raspberries.
In barrels......................
50 lb. boxes....................
251b.  “ 
......................
O J   c.:  Raisins.
Loose Muscatels in Boxes.
2 crown.............................
3 
.............................
......................  4Q
4 
p  Loose Muscatels in Bags.
2  crow n............................  444
8a -  
...............................

“ 
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“ 

F o r e ig n .
Currants.

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

Peel.

25  “ 
“ 
25 “ 
“ 
Raisins.

Patras,  In barrels............   2
in  A-bbls..............  2%
in less quantity 
2%
.. 
cleaned,  balk........ 
4
cleaned, package..  4%
Citron, Leghorn. 251b. boxes  13 
8
Lemon 
10
Orange 
Ondura, 29 lb. boxes..  5 ®  7 
Sultana, 20 
,.7%@ «
Valencia, 30  “Prunes.
California,  100-120 ..............6
90x100 25 lb. bxs.  6A
80x90 
.. 7
7A
70x80 
60x70 
. 8
5

“ 
“ 
“ 
Turkey......................... 
Silver.........................

“ 
“ 
“ 
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“ 

ENVELOPES.
XX rag, white.

No. 1,6A..........................  81  75
No. 2, 6A..........................  1  60
No. 1,6.............................   186
No. 2, 6.............................   150

XX  wood, white,
 

Manilla, white.

No. 1,6A...........  
1  35
No. 2,6A..........................  1  25
6A  ....................................  1 00
6........................................  
95
Mill No. 4.........................  100
FARINACEOU8  GOODS. 

Coin.

 

Farina.
Hominy.

Lima  Beans.

100 lb. kegs................... 
3*
Barrels.....*..................... 3 00
G rits..................................   8A
Dried............................4  04%
Maccaronl and Vermicelli.
Domestic, 12 lb. box..
56
Imported.................... 10%®! 1
Oatmeal.
Barrels 200................. ....  5  65
Half barrels 100......... ....  2 95
Kegs....................... — ....  260
Green,  bn.................. ....  1  15
Split  per l b ..............
Rolled  Oats.
Barrels  180................. @5 00
Half  bbls 90..............
®2 75
German...................... ......   4%
East India................... ......   5
Cracked...................... ......   3A

Pearl Barley.

Wheat.

Sago.

Peas.

3

FISH—Salt.

Bloaters.

Cod.

Yarmouth...*....................
Pollock..........................
Whole, Grand  Bank......   4^5%
Boneless,  bricks............ 6 A
Boneless, strips................6%
Smoked...................... 
Holland, white hoops keg 

Halibut.
Herring.
“ 
“ 

tools
65 
bbl  9 50

“ 

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

Bonders’.

Regular
Grade
Lemon.

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

Regular
Vanilla.

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

1 20

“ 
“ 

Jennings.
Lemon. Vanilla 
1  20
2 os regular panel .7 5  
2 00
4 os 
...1  50 
3 00
60s 
...2 00 
No. 3 taper..........1 35 
2 00
No. 4 taper..........ISO 
2 50
N orthrop’s
Lemon. .Vanilla,
2 oz  oval taper  75 
1 10
1 75
“  1 20 
3 oz 
2 oz regular  “
85 
4 oz 
“  1 60 
2 25

“ 
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GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.

 

HERB8.

Choke Bore—Dupont’s

Eagle Duck—Dnpont’s.

Kegs......................................... 3 25
Half  kegs................................. 1 90
Quarter  kegs...........................1 10
1 lb  cans..............................  30
A lb  cans............................  18
Kegs......................................... 4 25
Half kegs.................................2 40
Quarter kegs......... ..............1  35
1 lb cans..............................  34
Kegs....................... 
  11 00
Half  kegs.................................5 75
Quarter kegs............................ 3 00
1  lb  cans............................  60
Sage.................................... 16
Hops....................................15
Madras,  5 lb. boxes.........  
55
50
S. F., 2, 3 and 5 lb. boxes.. 
17  lb. pails................. 
o   57
.................   @  53
“ 
15 
30  “ 
................  O  90
Pure.....................................   80
Calabria...............................   35
Sicily....................................  18
Root.....................................   13
LYE.
Condensed, 2 doz............  
l  20
“ 
4 doz..............  2 25
MINCE  MEAT.

JELLY .
“ 
“ 
LICORICE.

INDIGO.

11®S

“ 

80

Mackerel.

Norwegian.......................
Round, A bbl 100 lbs........  2 50
“  A  “  40  “  ........  1 30
Scaled............................... 
19
No. 1,  100 lbs...........................10 00
No. 1, 40 lbs..............................4 49
No. 1,  10 lbs............................  1 00
No. 2,100 lbs............................7 no
No. 2, 40 lbs............................  3 10
No. 2,10 lbs....................... 
Family, 90 lbs....................
10 lbs .................
Russian, kegs....................  
55
No. 1, A bbls., 1001 bs........... 4 7'.
No. 1 M bbl, 40  lbs...................2 2C
63
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs..............  
No. 1, 8 lb  kits................. 
53
No. i  family
25
......  2 89  1 20
40
......   ..........  65  35
MATCHES.

A bbls, 100 lbs..........86 25 
A  “  40  “ 
101b.  kits...................  78 
8 lb.  “ 

Sardines.
Trout.

Whlteflsh.

 

Globe Match Co.’s Brands.

Columbia Parlor.....................81 as
XXX Snlphnr.........................   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

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

MEASURES.
Tin, per dozen.

1  gallon  ..........................   81  75
HMf  gallon.......................   1 40
Q uart...............................  
70
P int................................  
45
Half  pint  .......................  
40
Wooden, for vinegar, per doz.
1 gallon..............................  7 00
Half gallon.......................   4 75
Q uart...............................  3 75
Pint 

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

MOLASSES.
Blackstrap.
Sugar house............... 
 
Cuba Baking.
Ordinary..........................  
Porto Rloo.
Prime...............................  
Fancy...............................  
Fair..................................  
Good  ...............................  
Extra  ood........................ 
Choice 
........................... 
........................ 
Fancy... 
half  barrels Sc.extra

**<*w Orleans.

14
16
2C
30
18
82
27
32
411

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17

PICKLES.
Medium.

Barrels, 1,200  count...  @4 00
Half bbls, 609  count..  @2 50
Barrels, 2,400 count. 
Half bbls, 1,200 count 

Small.

3 00

5 00

PIPES.

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

“  T. D. full count...........  70

POTASH.

48 cans In case.

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

RICE.
Domestic.

Carolina bead....................... 6
“  No. 1........................5*4
“  No. 2......................  5
Broken...............................   4
Japan, No. 1.......................... 5*4
Java........................... ....  
Patna..................................   4*4

“  No.2...........................5
6

Imported.

SPICKS.

Whole Sifted.

“ 

“ 
Pure Ground In Bulk.

Allspice...............................  5*4
Cassia, China In mats........  8
“  Batavia In bund___15
Saigon In rolls.........32
** 
Cloves, Amboyna.................22
“ 
Zanzibar..................11*4
Mace  Batavia......................80
Nutmegs, fancy...................75
No. 1......................70
.60
No. 2.
Pepper, Singapore, black— 10 
“  white...  .20
shot.........................16
Allspice...............................15
Cassia,  Batavia...................18
and  Saigon.25
11 
“ 
Saigon....................35
Cloves,  Amboyna................22
•*  Zanzibar.................18
Ginger, African................... 16
*•  Cochin..................  20
“ 
.22
Mace  Batavia......................65
Mustard,  Bng. and Trieste..22
Trieste................... 25
Nutmegs, No. 2 ...................75
Pepper, Singapore, black — 16
“  white......24
‘‘  Cayenne.................20
Sage.....................................20
‘'Absolute” In Packages.

Jam aica...........  

*4s
Allspice......................  84  1  55
Cinnamon..................   84  1  55
Cloves.........................  84  1  55
Ginger,  Jam aica......  84  1 55
“  African...........  84  1  55
Mustard......................  84  155
Pepper.......................   84  156
Sage.............................  84

*4s 

“ 

SAL  SODA.

“ 

Granulated,  bbls................   1*4
751b  cases........  1*4
Lump, bbls 
.......................1  15
1451b'kegs...............  1*4

“ 

SEEDS.

A nise.........................  @15
4
Canary, Smyrna......... 
Caraway.................... 
8
Cardamon, Malabar... 
90
Hemp,  Russian.........  
4
5@6
Mixed  Bird  .............. 
Mustard,  w h ite........ 
10
9
Poppy......................... 
Rape.......................... 
5
Cuttle  bone................ 
80
STARCH.

 

 

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

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Corn.

SNUFF.

SALT.

Scotch, lu  bladders........ ...37
...35
Maccaboy, in jars...........
.. .43
French Rappee, In Jars  .
Boxes.................................. 5*«
..................4*4
Regs, English 

SODA.

Diamond Crystal.

 

 

 
 

“ 

 
 
 

Cases, 243  lb. boxes........3  1  60
Barrels,(320  lbs.................   2 50
1152*4 lb bags....  4 00
“ 
....  3775
60 5 
lb  “ 
“ 
“ 
3010  lb  “ 
....  3 50
65
“  20141b bags  .............  3 50
“  280 lb  b b ls...........  2 50
“  224 lb 

Butter, 56 lb  bags............  

acks...............  

Common Grades.

Worcester.
115 2*4-lb sacks................... <4 (0
60 6-lb 
“ 
3010-lb 
•' 
22  14 lb.  “ 
3201b. bbl.............................2 60
8 lb  sacks......................... 32*4
51b linen 
60
100 3-lb. sacks......................12 10
60 5-lb.  “ 
28 10-lb. sacks....................  1 85
56 lb. dairy In drill  bags...  30
28 lb.  “ 
16
Ashton.
56 lb. dairy In linen sacks..  75
Higgins.
56 lb. dairy In linen  sacks.  75 
Soiar Rock.
56 lu   sacks............  
22
Common Fine.
Saginaw..........................  
80
Manistee..............  
 
80

.. 

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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. 

16 20 gro
21  60  “
25 50 
•*
Rococo—Second  Grade. 

Lemon.
1 oz. F. M. 3  90 doz.  310 20 gro
2  “  N. S.  1  20  “ 
12 60  “
2  “  F. M. 1 40  “ 
14  40  «
Vanilla.
1 oz.  F. M. 1  50 doz. 
2  “  N  S. 2 00  “ 
2  “  F. M. 2 50  “ 
Lemon.
Vanilla.
SOAP.
Laundry.

2 oz..............75 doz.......  8 00  “
2 doz........  1 00 doz...... 10 50  **

Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.

Old Country,  80  1-lb..........3 20
Good Cheer, 601 lb.............3 90
White Borax, 100  *4-lb.......3 65

Proctor & Gamble.

“ 

Concord............................. 3 45
Ivory, 10  oz....................... 6 75
6  oz......................... 4 00
Lenox...............................  366
Mottled  German............... 3  15
Town Talk.........................3 25

Dingman Brands.

“ 

“ 

Single box.........................3 95
5 box lots, delivered......... 3 85
10 box lots, delivered........3 75
Jas. S. Kirk & Co.’s  Brands. 
American  Family, wrp’d..S4 00 
plain...  3 94
N.  K.  Falrbank & Co.’s Brands.
Santa Claus.......................  4 00
Brjwn, 60 bars...................2 40
“ 
80  b a rs................. 3 25
Lautz Bros. & Co.’s Brands.
Acme.................................3 75
Cotton Oil.......................... 6 00
Marseilles.......................... 4 00
Master  ............................... 4 00
Thompson & Chute Co.’s Brands

BgBjijte?

*

................................ a 66
Mono................................ 3 30
Savon Improved......... .!.”  2 50
Sunflower.........  
...  o  an
Golden.................. . 
’  3 35
Economical  ......... 225
Single  box  ....................... 3 65
5 box  lots.. •.. •... 
9  oo
10 box lots..............3 50
25box  lots'del...........340

Passolt's Atlas  Brand.

SUGAR.

Scouring.
Sapollo,kitchen, 3  doz...  2 40
hand, 3 doz..........2 40
_ , 
Below  are  given  New  York 
prices'on sugars, to  which  the 
wholesale  dealer  adds  the  lo­
cal freight  from  New  York  to 
your  Shipping  point,  giving 
you  credit  on  the  invoice  for 
the  amountXof  freight  buyer 
pays from the market  in which 
he  purchases  to  his  shipping 
point, including 20  pounds  for 
the weight of the barrel, j
Domino........... 
Cut  Loaf.........  
...............
Cubes................ 
...........  . '™
Powdered.........  ..............  \
XXXX  Powdered............ c  <’>
Granulated 
....................4 ¿0
Fine Granulated...... 
Extra Fiue Granulated.!!  4 75
Mould A  ........ 
Diamond Confec.  A  ........4  «2
Confec. Standard  A.'.......   4 50

"   .
4

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i f l
...................4  1*
8.................................     00

No.  6.... 
No  7 
No 
no:  I:::::;-..................

2 25

3 75
3 50
3 30

'N0‘  14.............................  

3 00

8 YRUP8.
„ 
Corn.
Barrels................... 
2 00
Half bbls.............. " " " " " 9 1
Pure Cane.
P air.............................  
19
Good................. 
"'  ~
Choice.....................................^

1Q

TABLE  8AUCES.

Lea & Perrin’s, large........  4 75
„   ._  “ 
small__ ..  2 75
Halford, large...................3
small.................. 2 K
Salad Dressing, larg e......  4 55
*’ 
small...... 2 65

“ 

TEAS.

japan—Regular.

SUN CURED.

BASKET  FIRED.

F air............................  @17
Good..........................   @20
Choice.........................24  @26
Choicest...................... 32  @34
D ust............................ 10  @12
F air............................  @17
Good..........................  @au
Choice..........................24  @26
Choicest.......................32  @34
Dust.............................10  @12
F air............................. 18  @20
Choice.........................  @25
Choicest....................   @35
Extra choice, wire leaf  @40
Common to  fall.......... 25  @35
Extra fine to finest___50  @65
Choicest fancy............ 75  @85
@26
Common to fair...........23  @30
Common to  fair...........23  @26
Superiortoflne............ 30  @35
Common to fair...........18  @26
Superior to  fine........... 30  @40

YOUNa HYSON.

GUNPOWDER.

IMPERIAL.

OOLONG. 

BNOLISH  BREAKFAST.

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

TOBACCOS.

Fine Cut.

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

in  drums.... 

*4 bbls.......... 

23

“ 

“ 

27
29
24
28
23
22

Plug.

39
27
40
26
38
34
40
32
39
30

24
43
32
31
27

Sorg’s Brands.

Spearhead...................... 
Joker.............................. 
Nobby Twist....................  
Scotten’s Brands.
Kylo................................. 
Hiawatha........................  
Valley City..................... 
Finzer’s Brands.
Old  Honesty...................  
Jolly Tar.........................  
Lorlllard’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 A McCaulay’s Brands.
Gold  Rope...................... 
Happy Thought.........  
37
Messmate.......................  
No Tax............................ 
Let  Go............................  
Catlln’s  Brands.

Smoking.

Kiln  dried........................17@18
Golden  Shower................... 19
Huntress  ........................... 26
Meerschaum  ...................29@30
American Eagle Co.’s Brands.
Myrtle Navy..  ...................40
Stork..............................30@32
German............................... 15
F rog....................................38
Java, He foil....................  32
Banner Tobacco Co.'s Brands.
Banner.................................16
Banner Cavendish.............. 38
Gold Cut 
...........................28
Warpath..............................'4
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.

LeidersdorfXBrands.

Spaulding & Merrick.

Rob  Roy..............................26
Uncle Sam.....................28@32
Red Clover...........................32
Tom and Jerry.....................25
Traveler  Cavendlsb........... 38
Buck Horn...........................30
Plow  Bov...................... 30@32
Corn  Cate...........................16

VINEGAR.

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

61 for barrel.

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

YEAST.

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

 

 

10

«

2 ftO
8 80

 

WOODEN WARE.
 

Tubs, No. 1.........................  6 00
“  No. 2............... 
5 50
“  No. 3.........................  4  50
1  30
Pails, No. 1, two-hoop.. 
“  No. 1,  three-hoop__  1  50
Bowls, 11 Inch....................
18  “ 
“ 
..................... 
90
15  “  ......  
“ 
1  25
 
17  “ 
“ 
....................   1  80
19  “ 
2 40
 
“ 
21 
“  
...............................
Baskets, market......... 
35
shipping  bushel..  1 15
full  noop  “ 
..  1 25
5 25

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

“  N0.2 
“ No.3 7 25
“ No.l  3 75
“  No.2 
“  No.3 

“ 
“ 
‘ 
" 

splint 

6 25

4 25
4 75

INDURATED WARE.

Butter Plates-—Oval.
250

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

3  15
13 50
12 00
10 50
1000
No.  1......................
60 2  10
No.  2......................
TO 2 45
SO 2 SO
No.  3........
No 
...................... ..  1  66 3 50
Washboards—single:
Universal............................ 2 25
No. Queen...........................2 50
Peerless Protector....................2 40
Saginaw Globe.......................   1 75
Water Witch......................  2250
Wilson..................................... 2 55
Good Luck...........................2 7
Peerless..................................  2 8®
HIDES  PELTS  and  FURS 
Perkins  &  Hess  pay  as  fol­
lows:
Green............................  2@2*4
Part Cured....................  @3
Full 
.................  @  3 ‘i
Dry..............................  4 @ 5
Kips, green  ................   2 @3
“  cured.................  @5
Calfskins,  green........   5 @ 6
onred...........5 @ 6*»
Deacon skins............... 10 @25

Double.

HIDES.

“ 

“ 

No. 2 hides k  off.
FELTS.

WOOL.

Shearlings...................   5 @  20
Lambs 
......................25  @  60
Washed....................... 12 @16
Unwashed....................6 @12
Tallow.......................  3*4@  4
Grease  batter  ............  1 @2
Switches....................  l*i@ 2
Ginseng......................2 00@2 50
GRAINS and FEEDSTUFF»

MISCELLANEOUS.

WHEAT.

46
46

XBAL.

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

NILLSTUFFS.

Less
Car lots  quantity
$15 00
12 00
16 00
22 50
22  00

Bran.............. 814 00 
Screenings__  12 00 
Middlings......  15 00 
Mixed Feed...  22 00 
Coarse meal  .  22 00 
Car  lots............................... 55
Less than  car lots...............58
Car  lots  ..............................32
Less than  car lots..............36
HAT.
No. 1 Timothy, car lots__11  no
No.l 
ton lots........12 50

OORN.

OATS.

“ 

FISH  AND  OYSTERS.
F.  J.  Dettenthaler  quotes as 

12*4

follows:
FRESH  FISH.
Whltefl8b 
.................  @ 9
T ro u t.........................  @ 8
Black Bass................. 
Halibut.......................  @17
Ciscoes or Herring__  @ 4
Bluefish......................  @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
o y s t e r s—Cans.
Falrhaven  Counts__  @45
F. J. D.  Selects.........
S e le c ts...........................
F. J. D.........................
Anchors..................
Standards..................
Extra Selects..per gal.
Selects .......................
Standards..................
Counts.......................
Scallops......................
Shrimps  .................... 
Clams.........................
SHELL  OOODS.
Oysters, per  100......... 1  25@1  75
Ciams, 
.  75@1  00

o y s t e r s—Bulk.

1  25

“ 

PROVISIONS.

 

 

 

 

 

 

s

s

s

SAUSAGE.

o
o
S
S

PORK  IN  BARRELS.

The Grand Rapids  Packing  and ProYlslnu Co 

quotes as follows:
Mess,............  
13
Short c u t..................................................  
13
Extra clear pig, short cut..........................   15
Extra clear, heavy......................................
Clear, fat back...........................................   14
Boston clear, short cut.........................  . ...  14
Clear back, short cut...................................   14
Standard clear, short cut. best................ 
  15
Pork, links...
Bologna...... .
Liver...........
Tongue ........
Blood...........
Head cheese .
Summer........
Frankfurts...
Kettle  Rendered..................................
Granger.............................................” 
Family.................................................
Compound................................................  ’ ‘"
Cottolene..........................................7
50 lb. Tins, *ac advance.
20 lb.  palls, *4c 
101b.  “  *ic 
51b.  “  Xc 
31b.  " 
l c
Extra Mess, warranted 200 lbs..........................   7 50
Extra Mess, Chicago packing.......................   7 75
Boneless, rump butts.........................................   9 50
smoked  meats—Canvassed or Plain.
Hams, average 20 lbs................................ 
12

10
r*4
8k
’  8

BEEF  IN  BARBELS.

LARD.

“
“
“

“ 
'* 
“ 
" 

“ 
“ 

16 lbs.....................................] ]2*4
12 to 14 lbs...........................  
13
picnic..................................................   8*4
best boneless............................. 

Shoulders..........................................................8
Breakfast Bacon  boneless............................  10*4
Dried beef, ham prices........................  
12a
Long Clears, heavy................................
Briskets,  medium.................................  

light................................................. a

„ 

DRY  SALT  MEATS.

Butts...........................................................
D. S. Bellies..................................’........g
Fat Backs........................................................ 7yz
Half  barrels...................................................     00
Quarter barrels...............................................2 q«
K its.....................................................................90
Kits, honeycomb.........................................  
75
Kits, premium....................................................55

PICKLED  PIGS’  FEET.

TRIPE.

9 ok

CROCKERY  AND  GLASSWARE

LAMP BURNERS.

No. 0 Sun..............................................  
»a
......................................................"  5
N0.1 
No. 2  “  .........................................................  75
Tubular............................... 
75

LAMP CHIMNEYS.  Per bOX.

6 dos. In box.

 

 
 

“ 

1 
'■ 

“ 
« 

** 
“ 

Pearl top.

First quality.
•; 
11 
XXX Flint. 
“ 
•• 

No. 0 Sun........................................................  j 75
No.l  “  ..................................................*."".188
NO.2 
......................................................... 2 70
No. 0 Sun, crimp  top............................ 
2  10
“ 
g o -i  “ 
:::2 25
NO. 2  ** 
“ .................................  
*
No. 0 Sun, crimp top.......................................    60
 
No. 1  “ 
 
No. 2  «• 
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and  labeled....................3 70
,r 
.................H4 70
No. 2  '* 
No. 2 Hinge,  “ 
..................48?
Fire Proof—Plain Top.
No. 1, Sun,  plain  bulb.....................................3 70
No.2,  “ 
“ 
...................................   .4 70
La Bastie.
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb,  per doz.......................1  25
No. 2  “ 
....................... 1  50
No. 1 crimp, per doz....................................... 1  35
No.2  “ 
....................................... 1  60
No. 0,  Tubular, cases 1 doz.  each.................   45
“  2  “ 
No. 0, 
...................  45
No. 0, 
bbls 5  “ 
..................   40
No. 0, 
bull's eye, cases 1 doz each.l  00
No. 10, Brass, 400 candle  power....................3 25
No. 9, Globe, automatic  extinguisher...........3 25
No. 0, per  gross..............................................   23
No. 1, 
28
No.2, 
38
No. 3, 
75
Mammoth, per doz................ 
75
FRUIT JABS.

STREET LAMPS.
LAMP WICKS.

“ 
LANTERN  GLOBES.

ROCHESTER STORE  LAMPS.

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

" 

 
 
 

 
 
 

 

 

Mason—old  style.

 

 

Supplies.

Dandy—glass  cover.

Mason—one doz  in case.

alf  gallons........................  

Quarts...........................................................  6 00

Pints..............................................................   4 75
Quarts..............................................................5 ¿5
Half  gallons....................................................7 25
Pints................................................................ 5 00
8 00
Pints............................................................... 10 50
Quarts.......................................  
n   00
Half  gallons...................................................14 00
Boyd’s extra caps............................................ 2 25
Rubber rings.................................................  *35
Sealing wax, red or white, 5 lb  packages__   03
k  Pints,  6 doz in box, per box (box 00)...........  1 64
k   ■ 
*4  “ 
*4  “ 
STONEWARE—AKRON.
Butter Crocks,  1 to 6 gal.............................  06
“ 
*4 gal. per doz......................  60
Jugs, *4 gal., per doz...................................  70
,r  1 to 4 gal., per gal...............................  07
Milk Pans, *4 gal., per dos..........................   60
“ 
.........................  72

24  “  “  bbl,  ■'  doz  (bbl 35)........   23
6  “ “  box,  “  box (box 00) ____   1  80
18  "  "  bbl,  “  doz  (bbl 35)........  26

JELLY TUMBLERS—Tin Top.

1  “ 
STONEWARE—BLACK GLAZED.

Butter Crocks, 1  and 2 gal..................  .... 
Milk Fans, *4 gal. per  doz......................... 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

1 

“ 

“ 

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

6*4
66
78

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

18

SE V E N   Y E A R S   H EN CE.

H ow  A rb itratio n  R evolution ized  th e In­

d u strial Situation.

It will be remembered that in the year 
1894—the year of the last  great  strike— 
the  feeling  against  moneyed  men  and 
capitalists who  were  employers of labor 
was  very  strong,  amounting  almost  to 
positive hatred. 
It has  been  claimed by 
some authorities on social economics that 
this was almost entirely  the fault of em­
ployers  themselves.  They  generally re­
fused  to  accede  to  the  reasonable,  or 
what appears at this hour  to  be  reason­
able,  demands  of their men.  The men, 
who might  be  supposed  to  know  what 
was best for their own  interests  (and he 
would be a brave  man  who  would  now 
say  they  did not know) asked, time and 
again,  that the  hours of  labor  be  short­
ened,  without  a corresponding  decrease 
in wages;  workmen in a  particular  call­
ing demanded that only so many appren­
tices be kept  at  work;  that  only  work­
men who were members  of the  trade or­
ganization  be  engaged,  and  that  what 
may be termed the discipline of the shop 
and the control of the  men be left in the 
hands of the union.  These demands em 
ployers refused to graut, and  the  conse­
quence  was  that  strikes  and 
lockouts 
and  labor  disputes  and  endless  bick 
erings and strife  were the  order  of  the 
day.  The men claimed that business, in 
dustrial and commercial,  was the concern 
of  all  the  people,  and should be so  con 
ducted as to promote the greatest good to 
the  greatest  number.  A  manufactory 
for instance,  was not “run” solely in the 
interest of the man  whose  brain devised 
and  whose  money  built  it.  The  em­
ployes were  equally  interested with  the 
proprietor,  and  being  in  the  majority 
(the greatest number)  they  claimed  the 
right to practical control of the busines 
Otherwise they  would be  slaves,  coming 
and going at the  beck and  call  of  their 
master.  This was  not to be endured for 
a moment,  and so,  as has been said, labor 
troubles were frequent;  but  with the in 
auguration  of  compulsory  arbitration 
disputes  for the reasons stated  have  en 
tirely ceased, and the  few there  are  are 
caused by the difficulty which employer 
have in adjusting  themselves  to the new 
conditions. 
It  has  been  definitely  set 
tied  that,  since  the  men employed in 
given industry are the  ones  most  inter­
ested,  they  should  be  allowed  to make 
the rules governing  the shop  or factory 
whether  in  regard  of  the  number 
hours  which  should  constitute  a  day 
work or whether it be in  regard  of  any 
thing else affecting the  welfare of labor­
ing men.  This  point  settled,  there  re 
mained  only  the  minor  points of differ­
ence  and  most  of  these  were  develop 
ments, so to speak,  of the  new  order 
things established by the introduction 
compulsory  arbitration.  The  act  Itself 
clearly  defines  the  relationship existing 
between employer and  employe—a  mat­
ter  of  the  utmost  importance,  since 
norance on this point  caused most of the 
trouble between  capital  and labor in the 
past.  Now it is clearly  set forth  in  the 
act of Congress creating the Board of Ar­
bitration that  the  industrial  enterprises 
of  the  country  exist  not  alone  for the 
men whose business  ability  and  energy 
conceived  them  and  whose  capital  is 
their bones and  sinews,  so  to speak,  but 
“they exist  equally for  all  the  individ­
uals in the community and especially for 
the  workmen  who  are  laboring  within

their walls.  All have an equal  right  to 
benefits  to be  derived from the con­
the
duct  of  these  enterprises,  although  no 
exception is taken to the capitalist whose 
money Is invested getting a  good  return 
for his  outlay.”

vidual, in every direction  in which priv­
ileges  may  be  supposed  to  and  do ex­
tend.  But  education,  ease,  refinement, 
are not  to  be  considered  as  privileges, 
primarily,  but  as means  to an end,  and 
the end the elevation  of  all  the  people; 
the  comforts  and  conveniences,  which 
Such is the language of a  recent  deci­
modern  science  and  enterprise  and  in­
sion of  the  Board  of  Arbitrators.  The 
genuity have given to us, ease  and  even 
case was one  brought by  a  mechanic  in 
luxury,  and  everything  that  differen­
one  of  the  largest  manufactories in the 
tiates civilization  from  savagery  are all 
country,  whose  complaint  was  that  bis 
working  out  the  same  benign purpose. 
employers  were  in  possession  of  many 
These things being true  it  becomes  the 
comforts  which  it  was  impossible  for 
duty of every citizen to make the most of 
him,  on  his  salary,  to  procure.  This 
his opportunities,  to  take  advantage  of 
case is very similar to the one considered 
every circumstance that will in  the least 
last week,  but,  going,  as  it  does, deeper 
degree  enhance  his  manhood,  and  thus 
into the question of the  relation  of  em­
assist the nation  in its  race  toward  the 
ployer  and  employe,  and  showing,  too, 
goal of perfection.  To  do less  than this 
the  gradual  development  of  the  func­
is to prove himself recreant to  the  trust 
tions,  so  to  speak,  of  arbitration, it  is 
reposed  in  him and  unworthy of his af 
worthy of consideration.  “In this case” 
fluent endowment and heritage as a man. 
reported the arbitrators,  “no specific de­
Now comes  the  question,  can  he  make 
mand is  made,  but  the  appellant  com­
proper  use  of  his  opportunities  or, 
plains  that  he  has  not  as many  of the 
rather, can he be  said to  have opportun­
comforts  of  life  as  has  his  employers. 
ities—such opportunities as,  if taken ad­
This  raises  a  point  upon  which,  even 
vantage of,  would  result in  his advance­
now, different opinions  are held.  There 
ment,  morally,  intellectually  and mater­
can  be  no  question  that, for  ages past, 
ially—when his resources are barely suf­
the chief obstacle to  the advancement of 
ficient to purchase the necessaries of life, 
the race, intellectually  and  morally, has 
His opportunities in  this  instance  mean 
been  class  distinctions.  These  were 
dollars,  and  without  them  he is power­
founded in the fallacy that the possession 
less;  he  cannot  rise,  but  must  remain 
of  wealth  conferred  certain  privileges 
forever in the  lowlands  of  achievement 
which were the property of  their posses­
and  enjoyment. 
It  is  not  fair  to  him 
sors  by divine right, as it  were, and that 
that  he  should  be  thus  hampered, it is 
wealth,  also,  made certain distinguishing 
not for the best interests of  the nation 
differences  which  forever  made  inter­
the body of which he  is  a  member.  He 
course between the wealthy and the poor, 
must  have  more than the bare necessar 
except only as the master  might hold in­
ies  of  life  in  the  shape  of  food  and 
tercourse  with  his  servant,  an 
incon­
clothes—he needs more than these, for be 
impossibility.  The 
gruity—almost  an 
is not merely  an  animal,  he  is  a  man 
wealthy  arrogated 
to 
themselves  the 
He  must  have  money  if  he  is  to have 
learning and the  culture by  which alone 
what he needs and his  needs  will  be 
the race was to be civilized  and  human­
direct ratio with  his position in the ranks 
ized.  The  luxuries,  the  comforts  and 
of  civilized  humanity—the  more  ad 
the ease which  are such a  large  propor­
vanced the civilization  the more  numer 
tion  of  the  sum  of  human  happiness 
ous and pressing will be his needs.  Now 
were not for the  poor,  but  for  the  rich. 
to the main  point:  The  appellant  com 
The  part  of  the poor in the economy of 
plains in effect that he does not  (for lack 
living was  to  eat  and  sleep  and  work, 
of means) enjoy  the  comforts  and  con 
work and sleep and eat, and if  their fare 
veniences  of  life to  the extent to which 
were  the  coarsest  and  their  couch  the 
he is entitled to them.  He  is,  therefore 
hardest,  what  mattered 
it  since  the 
not  in  a  position  to  do  justice  to  the 
privileged’  class were enjoying life?  If 
powers with which he has been endowed 
life be, as claimed  by  some,  a  struggle 
neither is he in  possession  of  the  pri 
from  which only the  fittest  shall emerge 
ileges to which he is entitled.  Some em 
and survive,  then the  fewer there are  in 
ployers still cling,  apparently,  to the ob 
training  for  the  conflict the better,  and 
solete  notion  that  they  have  absolute 
the finer will  be  the  resulting  product 
proprietary rights in the industries which 
Such  and  similar  was  the reasoning of 
they have established.  This is true so far 
many, perhaps of most in years gone by, 
as the mere money value of the enterprises 
but to the credit of this  nation,  at  least 
is concerned, but it is a fallacy  when  we 
be  it  recorded,  we do  not reason in that 
come to consider  the  ultimate  objeet 
inhuman manner  to-day.  Perhaps  only 
ail industry,  which  is as  stated  above 
the  fittest  will  survive,  but all the peo­
(Then follows  that portion  of the report 
ple, and not merely a few,  have  a  right 
first  quoted.) 
“What  has  been  said 
to compete for places  in the ranks of the 
above being true, it follows  that,  if each 
‘coming  race,’  and that right is founded 
individual in the community  is  to  have 
in their manhood, and not in  the posses­
equal opportunities for advancement and 
sion of wealth be it much  or little.  The 
enjoyment, while it may not make  equal 
possession  of  wealth  confers  no  priv­
incomes a necessity, it  is  absolutely  es­
ileges that are not  equally to  be enjoyed 
sential that each individual be given what 
by all.  All that  culture  and  education 
be considers  sufficient  for his needs. 
It 
can do for any man,  all men have a right 
will not do to leave the question of wages 
to expect.  The nation  is a unit,  a body, 
to the caprice  or cupidity  of  emplopers, 
and the neglect  of  any  member  of  the 
who,  in  any event,  are  not in a position 
body,  is  an  injury  to  the whole.  The 
to know the needs of their employes.  So
many members of the  body  should  each
receive equal care and consideration, for j the  complaint  of  the  appellant  is well 
the development of the various and com- 1 founded,  and  it  is  hard  to  understand 
plex powers and  functions of  the  body, I why his employers made it necessary  for 
its  beauty  and  symmetry,  depend upon  him to bring the matter before the Board, 
the  treatment  which  each  member  re-1 The finding of the  Board is  that  the  re­
spondents pay the  appellant  such salary 
ceives. 
It is,  therefore,  necessary  that 
as  the  appellant  may  deem  just  and
each individual in the  community  enjoy 
equal privileges  with  every  other  indi-1 right.”

Enough has been said to show how rad­
ically have the relations existing between 
capital  and  labor  been  revolutionized.
abor is king to-day, not by right of ma­
terial conquest,  but  by force  of  circum­
stances.  There was no  denying the fact 
that for years the poor were in a pitiable 
plight by reason  of  the  unfeeling  with­
holding from them by their employers of 
the fruits of their toil.  But now all this 
changed,  and equally with the rich the 
poor  are  in  the  enjoyment  of  all  that 
makes  life  so  well  worth  the  living. 
There are no  exclusive  privileges to-day 
and  privileged  classes  are  a  thing  of 
the  past,  and so soon as the class which 
has always  regarded  itself  as  specially 
privileged  shall  have  adapted  itself to 
the  changed  conditions,  and,  indeed,  it 
may be said,  so soon  as the  class  which 
for  so  long  has  been denied so many of 
its rights shall have  become  accustomed 
to their new liberties,  then it may truth­
fully  be  said 
that  the  Millenium  has 
come,  the Golden Age  has  been reached. 
All this from  the  introduction  into  our 
national  policy  of  the principle of arbi­
tration. 

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

NEM  OF  M A R K .

in 

in 

m ond C ry sta l S a lt Co.

C b as.  F.  M oore,  P resid en t  o f  th e  D ia­
Charles  F.  Moore,  of  St.  Clair,  was 
born  in  St.  Clair  52  years  ago.  His 
father,  who was a  native of  New Hamp­
shire, came to Michigan in the early days 
and  engaged 
lumbering.  Chas.  F. 
was educated in  his native  town,  where 
he has  always  resided.  His father died 
before  Chas.  F.  attained  his  majority, 
and,  having had experience in lumbering, 
he turned his attention  to  that  pursuit, 
which he  followed  for  some years,  both 
in St. Clair county  and  in  the  Saginaw 
Valley,  where  he did  business for eight­
een years. 
In  1866 he  bought a farm on 
the outskirts of St.  Clair,  where  he  was 
for  some  years  engaged 
raising 
thorough-bred  Shorthorn  cattle,  but, 
later,  turned his attention to dairying, to 
which purpose the  farm is  still devoted. 
Not caring to follow lumbering  into  the 
far  North,  Mr.  Moore,  seven years ago, 
began the manufacture of table and dairy 
salt  and  has succeeded in putting an ar­
ticle on the market that is  meeting  with 
general approval.  The  salt works, as at 
present  operated,  have  a  capacity  of 
about 40,000  barrels a year.  Mr.  Moore 
is a member  of the  State Board of Agri­
culture,  which  has control  of  the  Agri­
cultural College.  He is a member of the 
Congregational  church,  and  an  earnest 
advocate of  and  contributor  to  all  the 
benevolent  enterprises  of  the  church. 
He was married 27 years ago  and  is  the 
father  of  four  children—two  sons  and 
two  daughters.  Mr.  Moore  is  a  close 
student  of  current  events  and  keeps 
fully abreast of the times in  all  that per­
tains to the political welfare of the coun­
try in  general,  and  his  native  State  in 
particular.  On the  subject of  salt he is 
peculiarly at home,  being  known  as  an 
expert and being often consulted on mat­
ters  pertaining 
to  the  salt  industry. 
What  he  has  to  say  on  salt  is always 
“fresh” and to the point.

The talent of  success is  nothing  more 
than  doing  what  you  can  do  well, and 
doing well  whatever  you  do  without  a 
thought  of  fame. 
If  it  comes  at all it 
will come  because it is  deserved, not be­
cause it is sought after.

Don’t fail to  carry  sufficient insurance 

j to protect you in the event of fire.

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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

19

THE  M ORNING  M A R K E T .

H ow   th e  F ru it  F e a tu re   R eca lled   T en ­

d er  M em ories.

IV

There is no pleasanter  sight anywhere 
than  the  rows  of  wagons  laden  with 
fruit which are  to  be  seen  almost  any 
morning on the market,  unless it  be  the 
fruit on the  trees,  but  not  many  of  us 
have  the  pleasure  of  gazing  upon  the 
growing fruit.  Some of us  “city  folks” 
don’t know whether apples grow on trees 
or vines,  and have  an  idea  that  pump­
kins grow on  vines,  instead of on bushes, 
as  everyone  ought  to  know 
they  do. 
Not much general farming or fruit grow­
ing is done in this city,  however, so per­
haps our ignorance may be  condoned  or 
excused.  Anyway  we  like  to  look  at 
fruit,  so many of us get up  with the lark 
(if we haven’t been  up all  night on  one) 
and  hie  us  down  to  Louis  street  and 
feast our eyes on the  bounties  which  the 
generous goddess Pomona  has  provided. 
It is a good thing we can satisfy  our  ap­
petite for fruit by feasting  our  eyes,  for 
at this stage of the season the  price puts 
most of  the  fruit where  our  neighbor’s 
apples were  in  boyhood—out  of  reach. 
Only as we pass  from  wagon  to  wagon 
we  “sample”  the  contents  unrebuked, 
the drivers being afraid to  say  anything 
for fear  we  may  be  buyers.  We  have 
this  consolation,  too,  that  the  fruit  is 
nearly always very sour at  this  time  of 
the year.  But,  “as I said  before,”  it  is 
a beautiful  sight and one  well worth  the 
trouble it would cost to see it.

Not because they are first  in  point  of 
importance,  but  because  of  the  tender 
memories  clustered  about  them,  apples 
are put at the  head of the list  of  fruits, 
lu the first place,  it was an apple  which, 
when the earth was young  and  youthful 
nature smiled aloud in  its  gladness  and 
innocence,  plunged the  world  into dark­
ness and despair and made of this peace­
ful,  happy,  beautiful  earth  a  vale  of 
tears.  What the result would have been 
if the old lady  had eaten some other kind 
of  fruit—a  persimmon,  for  instance— 
theologists  have  never 
informed  us.
Now, if the eating  of  one  little  ap-----
what’s that? 
It wasn’t an apple?  Well, 
now,  it was,  and  we  can  prove  it,  and 
that 
it  was  a  green  apple,  at  that. 
Piled away back on the  dusty shelves of 
our capacious memory are  large  chunks 
of experience with  the  treacherous  and 
deadly  green  apple. 
For  instance,  it 
would  have  been  a  bright  moonlight 
night  only  for  the  heavy  dark  clouds 
which obscured the fair face of the goddess 
of night.  On the night  aforesaid  several 
boys, small  and  otherwise,  might  have 
been seen  (but they  were  not)  creeping 
stealthily along the  dusty  highway,  like 
criminals  plying  their  nefarious  trade. 
Ever  and  anon,  as 
the  moon  escaped 
from the pursuing clouds,  and  shot  sil­
very rays upon  the scene,  it disclosed the 
fact that the boys were  four  in  number 
and that  they  were  headed  due  north. 
Not a word was spoken,  but in  silence so 
deep that the bottom could  not  be  seen, 
they continued  on  their  course.  Halt­
ing finally beside a fence enclosing what, 
in the dim,  uncertain  light, appeared  to 
be a number  of  trees,  the  boys  hastily 
clambered over the fence  and  proceeded 
with renewed  caution^  Suddenly  upon 
the still night air  rose  the  baying  of  a 
distant dog, or was it  the distant baying 
of a  dog?  Nobody  knows,  but  “hist!” 
biased the largest of the boys,  and every 
boy  in  the party histed so suddenly that

he could be heard a block  away.  As the 
baying  seemed to keep its  distance,  the 
quartette  resumed 
their  devious  way; 
but not for long.  A short  walk brought 
them beneath  the  branches  of  a  wide- 
spreading  Astrakippin  tree.  Breaking 
the silence with one motion  of  his  pow­
erful jaws the leader said:  “Now  is the 
hour  of  revenge.  Now  shall  the  low­
born  son of a gun-wad  be despoiled.  To 
your  respective  places,  O  my  worthy 
companions;  as  for me,  1 will ascend and 
you shall see and taste that or  those  for 
which your souls  long.”  Grasping  one 
of  the  lower  limbs,  he  swung  himself 
lightly up among the branches  and  in  a 
brief space of time the  marauders on the 
ground were stowing  the  fruit  away  in 
the  capacious  receptacles  with  which 
every  well  regulated  boy  is  provided. 
Just about  here  on  the  programme  oc­
curred something not down on  the  regu­
lar bill.  There was a  sound,  not  as  of 
revelry by night,  but as of a  heavy body 
making its way through  the  long  grass. 
Whatever it wa3 it appeared  to  be  in  a 
hurry to reach the scene before  the  cur­
tain was rung down,  and  it  did.  There 
was a short,  sharp  bark,  and  the  dog, 
for it  was  he,  was  upon  them.  There 
was no struggle.  The boys  were  totally 
unprepared for  the  attack,  and  fled  in 
every direction, that  is,  every  direction 
but the right one.  With  the usual intel­
ligence of the dog,  instead of  chasing all 
the  boys,  the  knowing  animal  singled 
out one and started for him.  He  caught 
him,  too;  caught  him  on  the  identical 
spot  where  his  mother  had  so  often 
caugnt  him with  her  slipper.  But  his 
mother had  only  drawn  tears;  the  dog 
drew  blood.  Perhaps 
the  dog  didn’t 
love him as his mother did.  He—that is, 
the dog—let go, or rather,  the seat of the 
boy’s pants did,  and  with  a  speed  born 
of despair the  boy  continued  his  head­
long flight for the  fence.  He  reached it 
and climbed over with more  speed  than 
grace, and painfully and much more slow­
ly made his way toward the paternal dom­
icile.  Satisfied  with his achievement on 
the person  of  the  boy  j ust  mentioned, 
the dog turned his attention  to  another. 
It was easy to tell in  what direction  they 
were going,  for they made as  much noise 
as an elephant in a  jungle,  and,  follow­
ing the noise,  the brave beast soon found 
his second victim.  When the seance closed 
that boy  registered  a  solemn  vow  that 
he would not sit down  for  a  month,  but 
would take his  meals  standing,  and  he 
kept his vow.  He  was  a  very  truthful 
boy.  The  third  boy  reached  a  fence 
finally,  reached it so suddenly  and  with 
such force,  that he  thought  a  mule  had 
kicked him.  His-nose  was broken,  both 
eyes blacked,  and  he was  otherwise  or­
namented.  Much  as he  disliked  to,  he 
took his face home  with him, and he was 
plastered  and  patched  until  he  looked 
like  a  Chinese  laundry  bill,  And  the 
fourth boy?  He wasn’t  born  yesterday. 
He waited until all  was  still,  and  then 
slowly and cautiously  made  his  way  to 
the  ground,  then  to  the  fence  and  so 
home.  He  had some apples,  too,  and  as 
he walked he ate,  until when  he reached 
home  he  had  satisfied  his  longing  for 
them.  But he was not the  only one who 
had  a  longing.  His  father  had been in 
the  longing  business,  evidently  since 
early 
in  the  evening,  to  judge  by  the 
amount of yearning he had accumulated. 
Taking the boy by the  arm  and  leading 
him out  to  a  sequestered  spot  in  the 
woodshed,  he  proceeded  to  yearn  over

him  in  a  manner  to  leave  a  pleasant 
for  years.  He 
taste  in  his  mouth 
never  knew  before  how 
tenderly  his 
father loved him,  and  to-day,  after  the 
lapse cf nearly  thirty years,  the  remem­
brance of the hour when  his father gave 
him such a tangible  token  of  his  affec­
tion  almost  brings  tears 
to  his  eyes. 
But the interesting  episode  was  not  to 
end in that  touching  manner.  The  all 
but worn-out boy  finally  retired  to  his 
downy couch,  lying  on his  face  to  hide 
his emotion,  when in a short time the ap­
ples began  to  get  in their work.  Just a 
gentle rumbling at first,  like the  mutter­
ing  of  an  approaching  storm.  Then, 
like the storm,  bursting in  fury  upon  a 
devoted land,  those apples went  for that 
boy.  They doubled him up  like  a  two- 
foot rule,  and opened  him  out  like  the 
hind feet of a  mule  released  from  con­
finement.  They turned him and  twisted 
him until he looked  like  a  professional 
contortionist, or a base ball pitcher play­
ing to the grand stand.  They  stood him 
on his head  and  on  his  feet  and  on  all 
parts of his anatomy at once,  and just as 
the first gray  streaks of dawn  were steal­
ing over  the  distant  horizon,  they  left 
him,  a sadder and wiser boy.

Did you ever hear of peaches or pears, 
or any other kind of  fruit but  apples be­
ing the cause of so much  misery and woe 
in a  boy’s  internal  and  external  econ­
omy?  You  never  did,  and  if  such  a 
thing ever occurred it  is  unrecorded  in 
history.  Wrapped  up 
in  that  little 
green  apple 
is  enough  misery  and 
wretchedness and general  cussedness  to 
supply  a  whole  community,  and,  as  a 
rule,  it discharges its  entire  cargo  into 
one poor little boy  whose  only  fault  is 
too much  confidence in  the  guilelessness 
and good intentions of the  green  apple. 
It follows, therefore,  “as  the  night  the 
day,” that it was an apple that  deceived 
and led astray old Mother Eve,  and from 
that day to this all  her  children without 
regard  to  sex  or  condition,  have  been 
sinning and  suffering  through  the  illu­
sive and delusive attractions of the green 
apple.

Apples are not the  only  fruit  on  the 
market,  however,  as  you  would  have 
seen by this time if the green  apple  had 
not again  been true to  its nature and di­
verted  us from the  straight  and  narrow 
way.
A n  Infallible T est for B u tter S u b stitutes.
Take a spoonful  or two  of the sample, 
put it in a narrow  cup and  quickly  heat 
If  it is true butter 
to the boiling point. 
it  will  boil  quietly  and  foam  up  in  a 
mass of bubbles,  often  overflowing  over 
the sides of the cup. 
If it is oleomargar­
ine  or  butterine, 
sample,  when 
heated,  will foam up  but little,  but  will 
crackle  and  sputter  as  it  boils.  After 
one  or  two  trials,  any  one  can  decide 
with certainty  what  the  sample  offered 
consists of.  No  fraud  can  escape  this 
test.

the 

Don’t place  temptation in  the  way  of 
your  employes.  Place  safe  guards  for 
mutual protection.
M i c h i g a n  P Te n t r a l

“  Th$ Niagara Falls Routs’*

(Taking effect  Sunday,  May 27,1894.) 

»Dally.  All others dally, except Sunday. 

Arrive. 
Depart
10 20 p  m ..............D e tro it  E x p r e s s ...............7  00 a  m
5  30 a m ........» A tlan tic  a n d   P a c ific .........11  20 p m
1  50p m ...........N ew  Y o rk  E x p r e s s ...........   6 0 0 p m
Sleeping cars run on Atlantic  and  Pacific ex 
press trains to and from Detroit.
Parlor  cars  leave  for  Detroit at 7:00 a m;  re 
turning, leave Detroit 4:35 pm,arriving at Grand 
Rapids 10:20 p m.
Direct  communication  made  at  Detroit  with 
all through  trains erst  over  the  Michigan Cen 
tral Railroad (Canada Southern Division.)
A.  A l m q u ist, Ticket Agent,

Union Passenger Station.

C H IC A G O

July  1, 1894.
AND  WEST  MICHIGAN  K’Y. 
GOING TO  CHICAGO.

TO AND FROM  MUSKEGON.

CHICAGO  VIA  ST  JOB  AND  8TEAMBR.

RETURNING FROM  CHICAGO.

Lv. G’d Rapids............ 7:25am  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  *6:25am
Lv. Grand  RapidB..................... 1:25pm  **6:30pm
Ar. Chicago............................... 8:00pm  2:00am
Lv. Chicago 9:30am, ar Grand Rapids  5:25  pm
Lv. Grand Rapids  ......  7:25am  1:25pm  5:30pm
Ar. Grand R.  9: :5am  3 :05pm  5:25pm  10:35pm
TRAVERSE CITT,  CHARLEVOIX AND  PBTOSKEY.
Lv. Grand  Rapids .. 
7:30am  5:45pm  11:15pm
Ar.  Manistee...........  12:20pm  10:35pm 
.........
Ar. Traverse City__  11:20am  11:10pm  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 
6:00am, 11:50am,  1 ;00 pm and *10:00pm.
PARLOR  AND  SLEEPING  CARS.

1:00pm 
1:25pm 
1:30pm 

Parlor cars leave for 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 6:25.  Erom north 6 :U0.
•Every day.  »»Except Saturday.  Others week 
days only.
D E T R O IT ,

June  24,  1894
LANSING  A  NORTHERN R.  R.
GOING TO  DETROIT.

TO  AND FROM 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. GR 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  Carson all trains  between  Grand Rap 
Ids and Detroit.  Parlor car to Saginaw on morn­
ing train.

TO LOWELL  VIA LOWELL A HASTINGS  R.  R.

THROUGH  CAR  SERVICE.

Trains  week days only.

GEO. DeHAVEN, Gen. Pass’r Ag’t

■ETROIT,  GRAND  HAVEN  A  MIL­

W AUKEE  Railway.
EASTWARD.

10 20am 
1125am 
12 17pm 
120pm
3 45pm
4 35pm
3 45pm
5 50pm 
306pm
4 05pm

tNo.  14 tNo.  16 tNo.  18
325pm
6 45am
7 40am
4 27pm 
520pm
8 25am 
900am
5 05pm 
10 50am
8 00pm 
11 32am 
8 37pm
10 05am 
7 05pm
1205pm
8 50pm 
8 25pm 
10 53am
11 50am
925pm
WESTWARD.

Trains Leave
G'd  Rapids,  Lv
Ionia...........Ar
St. Johns__Ar
Owosso........Ar
E. Saginaw..Ar
Bay City......Ar
F lin t...........Ar
Pt.  Huron...Ar
Pontiac....... Ar
Detroit......... Ar
For  Grand Haven  and Intermediate
Points............................................ tT :35 a.  m.
For Grand Haven and  Muskegon...... tl:00 p. m.
.......t4:55 p. m.
“ 
“ 
*7:30 p.  m.
For  Grand  Haven  and  Milwaukee,110:05 p. m. 
For Grand Haven  (Sunday only)........8:00 a. m.

1100pm 
1235am 
1 25am 
3 10am 
640am 
7 15am 
5 4Cam 
730am 
5 37am 
700am

“ 
“  Chicago and Milwau­

kee,  Wis 

“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

»Daily.

tDaily except  Sunday. 
Trains  arrive  from  the  east,  6:36  a.m.,  12:50 
p.m., 4:35 p. m. and 10:00 p. m.
Trains  arrive from  the  west, 6:40 a.  m., 10:10 
a. m., 3:15 p. m. and  10:50  p.  m.  Sunday,  only, 
8:00 a. m.
Eastward—No. 14  has  Wagner  Parlor  Buffet 
car.  No. 18 Parlor Car.  No. 82 Wagner  Sleeper.
Westward— No. 11 Parlor Car.  No. 15 Wagner 
Parlor Bnffet car.  No. 81 Wagner Slgsper.

J a b.  Ca m p b e l l . City T*ckei Agent.

G rand  R ap id s  A  Ind ian a.

TRAINS  GOING  NORTH.

L eave go In 
North
For Cadillac <k S aginaw ...........................................7  00  a.  m .
For  M ackinaw............................................ 
8:0 0 a .m .
For Traverse C ity and S agin aw ............................1:86 p. m.
For  M ackinaw..........................................................10:36 p  m .

 

TRAINS  GOING  SOUTH.

L eave g o in g  
For  C in cinn ati............................................................ 7:06a .m .
For  K alam azoo and  C hicago................................2 :30 p .m .
For  F o rtW a y n ea n d  
th e E ast.............................3:30p .m .
For Cincinnati..................................................... *5:40 p.  .m
For  Kalam aioo and Chicago..........................*11:40  p.  m

South.

Chicago via O. R. ft I. R. R.

Lv G rand Rapids............. 7:00 a m   2:30 p m   *11:40 p m
Arr  C hicago.......................2:00 p m   9:00 p m  
7:10 a m
Oar and coach.

2:30 p  m  train   has th rou gh   W agner  Buffet  P arlor 

11:40  p m tra in  d aily,  through W agner Sleeping Car 

and Coach.
Lv  C hicago 
Arr Grand Rapids 
3:30  p  m  h as  th rou gh   W agner  B uffet  Parlor  Car. 
11:30 p m   train dally, th rou gh   W agner  B leeping  Car.

6:60  a  m 
2:00 p m  

3:30 p m  
9:16p m  

11:30 p m
6:66am

For M uskegon—Leave. 

Muskegon, Grand Rapids A Indiana.
8:26 a  m
7:16  a  m 
1:00pm  
1:16pm
8:46 p m
»:40  p m  
O. L. LOCKWOOD'

From Mnakegon—A rrive

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GOTHAM GOSSIP.

N ew s  from   th e  M etropolis— Ind ex  o f 

Special Correspondence

th e  M ark ets.

is 

and 

trade 

regarding 

company” 

N ew   Y oke,  Aug.  4—The  finding  of 
the Senate Sugar  Investigating  Commit­
tee  that  no  member  of  the  honorable 
body has been guiity of dabbling in sugar 
stock created no surprise,  as  it has been 
thought  all  the  time  that  the  charges 
made  by  the  New  York  Herald  were 
more for an advertising  dodge  than  for 
any patriotism possessed by that journal. 
The Herald is the only  paper in this city 
that made no  editorial  comment  during 
the recent  great  strike  one  way  or  the 
other.  On the contrary, it took up plenty 
of  space  telling  of  the  coaching  par­
in 
ties  of  “Wales 
Europe,  and  discoursed  at  its  usual 
length  about  the  weather. 
It  always 
waits  to  “see  which  way  the  cat  will 
jump,”  and  goes  with 
the  crowd, 
then  says,  "As  we  predicted,” 
and 
etc.  Happily, 
this 
the  exception 
newspapers  of  New 
among 
the 
York.  As  a  rule,  they  speak  with  no 
uncertain  sound,  and,  whether 
they 
agree or not,  they have decided opinions.
A good deal of talk  is  going on in  the 
grocery 
the  war  in 
China,  and most dealers are  pleased that 
the seat of complications has been  trans­
ferred from Chicago to the other  side  of 
the world. 
If  Debs  would  only  go  to 
Corea now,  he might make  a  great  suc­
cess in  life.
Of  course  if  the  hostilities  are  long 
drawn out, they may  exert  an  influence 
upon the price of the products  from  the 
countries 
tea,
cassia,  etc.;  and  it  may  be  taken  for 
granted that  no  chance  will  be  lost  by 
the wide-awake American  to  put  a  few 
pennies in  his  purse  at the  earliest  op­
portunity,  whether 
the  circumstances 
justify a rise in prices or not.  Sympathy 
is  almost  universally  on  the  side  of 
Japan, and if China  is  whipped  it  will 
be  a distinct gain to civilization.
It is said that the present  Senate  bill, 
if passed,  will  make  a  reduction  of  66 
per cent, on the  duty  now  paid  on  fire 
crackers,  and  we may expect more  noise 
than ever on  the  Fourth  of  July,  1895 
The duty on raisins  will  be  lowered  40 
per cent.; peanuts,  73  per  cent.;  apples, 
53 per cent.; lard,  50 per cent.  Why has 
there ever been any duty on the latter?
Reports from the  packing  districts  of 
Maryland continue to be to the effect that 
the pack of  nearly  everything  is  being 
seriously  lowered  by  the  drought,  and 
standard 3 lb.  tomatoes  are  now  selling 
there  at 80c, and firmly held at  that.
In this market  nothing  of  interest  is 
transpiring 
in  canned  goods.  New 
York  gallon  apples  are  worth  §3.25@ 
§3.40;  No.  3,  §1.10;  New  York  State 
corn, 70@S0c.  A good  crop  of  peaches 
is said to be  sure in  Hunterdon  county, 
New Jersey, the banner  peach county of 
the  State.
Cheese is dull  and  the  market  is  de­
cidedly  unsatisfactory.  The  very high 
est price  is  9J£c  for  some  fancy  small 
State colored stock.  Large sizes are dif­
ficult to dispose of at 8%@8%c.

involved—rice, 

silk, 

The Committee was instructed to invite 
representatives from the  wholesale trade 
to  act  with  them  and  to  call  upon  the 
dealers  who  are  selling  sugar  at  less 
than cost and ask them to  maintain card 
rates.
The  peddlers’  ordinance  came  to  the 
front  again,  and,  after  discussion,  a 
committee of five was  appointed  to  look 
to the enforcement of it.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.
The provision market  maintains  great 
I t ] 
strength,  and  so  does that of grain. 
is thought by many  that  reports  of  the 
corn  failure  have been  greatly exagger­
ated.  The Cincinnati Price Current says 
we shall  have  as  large  a  crop  as  last 
year.
Butter has  taken a  tremendous  jump, 
and  23c is now  wanted and obtained for 
the best grades of Elgin  and Pa.  Under 
grades,  while not showing quite so much 
strength, still  sell  readily,  and  holders 
feel  that  they  are safe  in holding on to 
stock.
The  lemon  market  is  fairly  active. 
Oranges are selling in  an everyday man­
ner.  Bananas  are  slow  sale  and  are 
worth  90c@§1.12  per  bunch  for  firsts. 
This is a decided drop from a month ago.
Domestic dried fruit  is  firm,  and  the 
promise  is  that it will  be a good invest­
ment.
The quality of  green apples  is so poor 
that they are scarcely  salable.
Sugar is selling  fairly well,  but  there 
is not a particle of  speculation in the ar­
ticle.  Democrats  and  Republicans  are 
buying stock as they  “see  an  opening,” 
but the retailer  and jobber are  not load­
ing up with the manufactured article.

He was dressed as  becomes  a  pilgrim 
on  the  dusty  highways  of  life  and 
Kansas,  and looked as if  his  pilgrimage 
had been long and  tiresome.

From Dictator to Tramp.

W. H.  P o rter,  Sec’y.

Altogether  the  situation  among  the 
grocery trade at the  close of this week is 
rather more favorable than for some time 
past.  Prices seem to have really touched 
bottom,  a  few  signs  of  manufacturing 
revivals are seen,  and dealers are gather­
ing hope every day. 

J ay.

known  as the President  of the A. R. U., 
and yet you ask,  who is Debs?  Is it pos­
sible that you never heard of Debs?” 

“Debs, Debs,” reflected  the  passerby, 
“seems to me 1 have heard  of Debs;  but, 
bang it all,  stranger,  1 can’t be  expected 
to remember  the  name  of  every  crank 
who gets his name in the papers.  Here’s 
a quarter,  I’m in a hurry.”

And  the  pilgrim  who  called  himself 
Debs  took  the  coin  mechanically,  and 
seating himself upon the top rail  of  the 
fence, ruminated sadly upon  the fleeting 
nature of the bubble fame.  “ Sic, transit 
gloria mundi,”  he  murmured  brokenly, 
as he got off  his  perch  and  wended  his 
way toward the nearest saloon,  clutching 
the quarter tightly in  his  travel-stained 
hand.

The  W ool  M ark et.

There  will  be  a  shortage  of  about 
180,000,000  pounds  this  year,  at  least 
that is the  expectation.  This  is  due  to 
the  slaughtering  of  sheep  by  farmers, 
who say it  does  not  pay  to  keep  them, 
and to  the  great  falling  off  in  imports. 
The  market  in  the  East  is  active  and 
strong,  with a  strong  upward  tendency. 
Enthusiastic dealers say this condition is 
bound to continue,  as it is impossible for 
the  present  Congress 
to  pass  a  tariff 
measure,  and that  if wool  is  left  under 
the McKinley schedule, nothing can  stop 
the market on the up  grade  to  prosperi­
ty.  The  local  market  is  fairly  active, 
and  prices  on  the  better  grades  have 
advanced.

Rand,  Me  Naliy  &  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.

“Sir,” said the pilgrim,  to  a  passerby 
who was  hurrying  along  as  though  he 
were going to his mother-in-law’s funeral 
and  was  afraid  it  was  all  a  mistake; 
“sir,  will you kindly donate  a  paltry  25 
cents to relieve  the  pressing  necessities 
of  a  brother  man  who  has  not  tasted 
food for  six  days,  and  whose  thirst  is 
large enough for a national convention?” 
“Who are you,  and why should  I  give 
you a quarter?”  was the  brutal  answer.
“Sir,”  replied  the  pilgrim,  drawing 
himself to his full height,  and  speaking 
in stilted  majestic tones,  “I  am  one  be­
fore whom the greatest in the  land  cow­
ered  and  trembled  like  leaves  in  the 
wind. 
At  my  command  commerce 
stopped, the  wheels  of  industry  ceased 
to  whirl,  railroads  were  tied  up  and 
blood flowed like water. 

I am Debs.” 

“Who is Debs?”

“Rats!”  was  the  unfeeling 
reply. 
“Who is Debs!  Great Heavens, sir, do 
you ask who is Debs?”  Why,  sir,  it  is 
but a few years since I  inaugurated  the 
greatest strike  in  the  history  of  union 
labor;  my  name  was  in  all  the  papers 
and on several court  records  and  1  was

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In terestin g  M eeting  o f  th e  Ja ck so n  

A sso ciatio n .

The  regular  meeting  of  the  Jackson 
Retail  Grocers’  Association  was  held 
Aug.  2  with  President  Haefner  in  the 
chair.  A large number of  the  members 
were present and a good  deal  of  enthu­
siasm was shown  in regard  to  the  third 
annual  excursion  and  in  regard  to  the 
credit system adopted  at  the  last  meet 
ing.  The  names  of  over  300  persons 
were  presented  on  the  inter-change  re 
port blanks.  The near approach  of  the 
annnal  excursion  and  the  amount  of 
work  necessary 
in  condensing  reports 
made  it  necessary  that 
the  Secretary 
should  have  more  time,  and  it  was 
decided that the  full  report  should  not 
be issued until the first  meeting  in  Sep­
tember.  The Committees  on  Excursion 
reported everything  progressing  in good 
order,  and the outlook for a  grand  affair 
on the  9th of August to be  very  promis 
ing.

Correspondence from the  Secretary  of 
the Hudson  Business  Men’s  Association 
was received,  showing  that they  will be 
at our picnic with 1,000 or  more  people 
Every store,  shop,  factory  and  bank—in 
fact,  everything  in  the  city  except  one 
retail  drug store and some  saloons—will 
be closed and the town will be at  Devil’s 
Lake—that is,  the people will.
The  Committee  on  Trade 

Interests 
made a report  in  regard  to  sugar  card 
and also regarding  the cutting  of  prices 
and read some correspondence relating to 
the  subject  from  the  Secretary  of  the 
Michigan  Wholesale  Grocers’  Associa­
tion.

Establlshc  di86g

BROWN  HALL  &  CO.,  MANUFACTURERS OF 

B u g g ie s ,  S le ig h s  and  W agons•

Grand  Rapida,  Mich.

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The  Grocers’  Safety—Made  in  Two Sizes Only.
Body, 7 ft. long, 36 in. wide, drop  tail  gate.. 
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FULLY  WARRANTED.

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S P E C I A L   NOTICE^=r^> 

1

A  BRIEF  STATEMENT  FOR  BUSY  MEN.

The  New York Condensed  Milk  Company takes  pleasure  in  announcing that the trade  is 

now prepared to supply you  with

Borden’s Peerless Brand  Evaporated Cream,

UN SW EETEN ED;  guaranteed  to  keep  under  all  conditions of  temperature.  The  process 
used  is far in advance of any other method of preserving milk without sugar.  Our new plant is © 
constructed especially for this branch of business, and is unequaled in equipment for the various §  
processes employed.  Having thoroughly tested all the important points in connection with the |  
milk referred to,  we are now  prepared to offer the trade,  through the  jobbing houses,  Borden’s £  
Peerless  Brand  Evaporated  Cream,  unsweetened, with entire confidence that  it will prove, 
like  our celebrated  Gail  Borden  Eagle  Brand  Condensed  Milk,  to have  no  Equal. 
It  is 
thoroughly guaranteed  in every respect,  and  this  guarantee is substantial, as  every one  knows.

: 1 :

V  !  *

Prepared by the New York Condensée  Milk Co.

Fon  Q u o t a t io n s  S e e  p r ic e   c o l u m n s .

FISHING  TACKLE!

O U R
S T O C K
o f

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

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Sears

are

the

BEST.

BOX
OB

BARREL

OF

ROYAL  TOAST 

TO
YOUR
NEXT
ORDER

SOMETHIN«  NEW 

AND  A

GOOD  SELLER.

J S
COMPLBTB.

We  have  them  from  12 

to  20  feet long.

Our  line of Fishing tackle

is equal to any one’s.

Send  for Catalogue.

Watch  out  for  our  new  spring  novelties. 

sellers.

They  are 

N ow  York B iscuit Co.,

S*  A.*  SEARS,  M anager,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

f o r a r m i

IN
YOUR
STATIONERY

¡Ü  "M Y   WM 1

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l

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7? l £ .   S i l t f *  
jfidtS ojUL  $o£h

L o o k  
F o r t h e  
W a te r m a r k

We control it in  this locality.

!  pose. 

is fast being recognised by everybody as the best  salt for  every pur- 
It’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 
j  best  o f  Salt.  Your customers w ill appreciate  it  as  they appreciate 
'  pure sugar,  pure coffee,  and  tea.

Diamond Crystal Salt

j  Being free from all chlorides of calcium  and magnesia, will  not get damp and 
I  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 alt salt.”  Can be 
obtain  _ from jobbers and dealers.  For prices, see price current on other page. 
For other information, address

DIAMOND  CRYSTAL S ALT CO.,  ST. CLAIR, MICH.

USE  Your  Note Heads.
Your Letter Heads.
i t  
*  * 
Your  Legal  Blanks.

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  andDrafts
It  always  gives  satisfaction,  and,  compared  with^other 

stock,  the price is nothing.

TRADESMAN  COMPANY.

Seasonable Goods

M a so n   F r u it  Jars,

SP E C IA L   PRICES.

Subject to change w ithout notice.

Packed Regular Way in Cases.

PINTS. 
$4.75 gro. 

QUARTS. 
$5.25 gro. 

HALF  GAL. 
$7.25 gro.

M a so n   F r u it  Jars.

New  Style  Patent  Boxes.

Packed One Dozen in  Each  Box.

PINTS. 
$5.50 gro. 

QUARTS 
$6.00 gro. 

HALF GAL. 
$8.00  gro.

Extra Caps, $2.25 gro.  Rubbers, 3 >c gro. 
Flint Glass Jars, 25c per gro.  advance«

D a n d y   F r u it  Jars.

G LA SS  C O VERS--SELF  SE A LE R S.

Only  P erfect  All  Glass J a r on th e M arket

PINTS.
$10.50

QUARTS. 

$11  00

HALF  GAL. 

$14.00

Jelly  T u m b lers,

M Pints,  6 doz 
% Pints, 24 doz 
Pints,  6 doz 
14 Pints,  18 doz 

in  Box  (box 00) per Box $1.64
in Bbl  (bbl  35) per Doz 
23
in  Box (box 00) per Box  1.80
in  Bbl  (bbl 35) per Doz 
26

C o m m o n  T u m b le r s.

%  Pint,  Plain,  6 Doz in  Box  (Bx 00)  per  bx  $1.80 
)4  Pint,  Plain, 20 Doz in  Bbl  (Bbl 35)  per doz 
.27

A ssorted   P a c k a g e

Engraved Tumblers.

Thin  Blown.

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

NOW  IS  THE  TIME  TO  BUY. 

BOTTOM  PRICES.

From

LEONARD’S.
S to n ew a re.

BUTTER JARS,

PRESERVE JARS,

FRUIT JARS,

niLK PANS.

CO  « M O N   S T O N E W A R E .

1 Gal.  each per gal 

.60
Stone  Butter Jars,  % Gal.  per doZ 
.06
Stone Butter Jars, 
.06
Stone Butter Jars,  2 Gal.  per gal 
Stone Preserve Jars  and Covers, 14  Gal, per  doz 
.90
Stone Preserve Jars  and Covers,  l  Gal, per  doz  1.40
Tomato or Fruit Jars,  %  Gal. 
.75
Tomato or  Fruit Jars,  1  Gal. 
.90
.60
Stone Milk  Pans,  \4  Gal.  per doz 
Stone Milk Pans,  1  Gal.  each 
.06

FIN E   GLAZED  STONEWARE

M lack  o r   W h ite .

1  Gal.  Fine  White  Milk  Pans,  per gal 
1  Gal.  Fine  Black  Milk  Pans, per gal 
M  Gal.  Fine Black  Milk  Pans,  per doz 
1  Gal.  Fine  Black  Butter Crocks,  per gal 
1  Gal.  Fine  White  Butter Crocks, low,  per  gal 

Gai.  Fine  White Butter Crocks,  per doz

No charge for package or cartage  on  fruit  jars  or 

jelly tumblers.

K E EP  YOUR  STOCK  READY  FOR  TH E 

DEMAND  IS  SURE  TO  CO/IE,

H.  LEONARD  &  SONS,  Grand  Rapids,  Mien.

THE  ONLY  SCALE  ON  EARTH  for  the  Retail

Dealer.

They  Are  The 

EIGHTH  WONDER 

of  the  World.

An  Investm ent 
P aying  from 

10  to  100  Per Cent. 

Per  Annum .

Thousands of the 
BEST MERCHANTS 

are Using Them.

If Your  Competitor  Says  They  are  a  Good  Thing 

for  Him,  WHY  NOT  EQUALLY 

SO  FOR  YOU ?

S e e  .W h a t  U sers  S a y :

M e s s r s .  H o y t   &  Co.,  Gen’I Selling Agents,

D u n d e e ,  Mich.,  Jan.  4,  1894. 

Ge n t le m e n:—We  have  had  one  of  your  scales  about  one  year 
aBd  it  works  as satisfactory  as  when  first  placed  on  our  counter. 
The  tim e and  money saved  by  its  use  cannot  be  over  estim ated. 
We  are  more  than  satisfied  w ith  our  purchase.
Very truly,

D rew  &  Co.

For further  particulars  drop  a  Postal Card to

aft  C O « | General  Selling Agents,
D a yto n ,  O hio.

