V O L.  X I

G R A N D   R A P ID S ,  A U G U S T   15,  1894.

NO .  569

CANDY O ur  S p e c ia lty  

F IN E   GOODS

for  S u m m e r   R e so r t T rad e.
Nice  Line  of  Package  Goods.  Our  10 cent  package  of  Fine  Chocolates is a 
Hummer.  Send for sample order.
A .  JB.  B R O O K S   &  C o .

GBAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Do  Ttey  Baise  Poultry  i

EXTRACTS

S E E   Q U O T A T IO N S

GRAND  RAPIDS 

BRUSH  GOMP’Y.
ERS OF B R U S H E S GRANI) RAPIDS, 

MICH.

MANUFACTUR 

O u r  Good*  nr**  «nid  bv  »II  M ichigan  .Jobbing  b o u r n

■ f l g a  e  c j . p

Established 1876.

EDWARD A  MOSELEY, 
TIMOTHY F. MOSELEY.

M O SELEY   BROS.

SEEDS  BEANS,  PEAS.  POTATOES.  ORANGES  and  LEMONS.

Jobbeis of

Egg  Cases and Fillers a Specialty.
86,  88.  30  an d   38  O ttaw a  St., GR A N D   R A P ID S ,  M ICH.

To the  Retail Shoe  Dealers™

Our line is complete in  Boots, Shoes,  Rubbers,  Felt  Boots, 
Socks,  Etc.,  for  your  fall  and  winter  trade.  Place your orders with us 
now and  get the  best to save  money.  Our Celebrated  Black  Bottoms 
in Men’s Oil  Grain  and  Satin  Calf,  tap  sole in  Congress  and  Balmorals, 
are the leaders and unsurpassed.

Our  Wales-Goody ear  Rubbers are  great  trade  winners. 

Mail orders given prompt attention.

H E R O L D -B E R T S C H   S H O E   C O ,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

ABSO LU TE  TEA.

T h e  A c k n o w le d g e d   L ea d er.

T E L F E R   SPIC E   CO.,

SOLD  ONLY  BY

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Your  Neck:  of He  Woods ?

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

pay  highest market price.

F .  J.  D E T T E N T H A L E R ,  117  an d   119  M onroe S t.

P E R K I N S   &  H E S S ,

Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow,

DEALERS  IN

Nos.  122  and  124  Louis  S treet,  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.

WE CARRY  A  STOCK  OF  CAKE  TALLOW  FOR  MILL  USE.

JOBBERS  OF

Groceries end Provisions.

Fall  ’04

Underwear,  Overshirts,  Hosiery,  Socks,  Kersey  and  Cotton 
ade Pants,  Caps,  Outing  Shirts,  Yarns,  Flannels,  Cotton 

Flannels,  Skirts,  Cotton  and  Woolen  Dress  Goods, 

Ginghams, Seersuckers,  Satines, in  black and fig­

ured,  Batts,  Comforts,  Blankets.

We have received over  100 cases  new  fall  prints  in  all  the 
newest  styl  s  and  colorings,  prices from  3f to  5f  Give us  a 
call.  Prices always the lowest.

P.  Steketee  & Sons,
Grand  Rapids, iTich.

Spring & Com pany,

IMPORTERS  AND  WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

R ib b o n s, 

D ress  G oods,  S h a w ls,  C loak s, 
N o tio n s, 
H o siery , 
G lo v es,  U n d e r w e a r ,  W o o le n s , 
F la n n e ls,  B la n k ets,  G in g h a m s, 
P r in ts  a n d   D o m estic  C ottons.

We  invite  the  attention  of the  trade  to  our complete  and  well 

assorted  stock  at lowest1  market  prices.

Spring & Company.
HU- S a £ f
jftatS aiij $a£t

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

Diamond Crystal Salt

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

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

&

I m p o r t e r s   a n d

Wholesale  Grocers

G r a n d   R a p id s .

H e y m a n   C o m p a n y ,

Manufacturers  of  .Show  Gases  of  Every  Description.

■

0 8   a n d   6 8   C an al  St.,  G rand  R a p id s,  M ich,

FIRST-CLASS  WORK  ONLV.

WRITE  FOR  PRICKS.

STANDARD  OIL CO.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.

DEALERS  IK

lUmninating and Lubricating

NAPTHA  AND  GASOLINES.

"Wee,  Hawkins Block. 

Works,  Butterworth At»

BULK  WORKS  AT

•■AND BATinf 
it HAPm > 
l.EGAN.

MUSKEGON, 
GRAND HAVEN, 
HOWARD CITY,

PETOSKKY,
HIGHEST  PRICE  PAID  FOR

MANISTEE,

CADILLAC,
LUDINGTON.

Coats and Kersey
Duck
Pants

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

LANSING,  niCH. &
Dry  Goods,  Garpets  and  Cloaks

W H O L E S A L E

W e  Make a Specialty of  Blankets, Quilts and  Live 

G eese  Feathers.

M a c k in a w   S h irts  a n d   L u m b e r m e n 's  S o c k s

OVERALLS  OF  OUK  OWN  MANUFACTURE.

Voigt, Horpolsloior k Go.,48, 

S

s t-

ÎMPTY  GARBON  i  6HS0I.U»17  BARRELS

V O L .   X I ,

G R A N D   R A P ID S ,  W E D N E S D A Y ,  A U G U S T   15,  1894. 

NO .  569

M IC H IG A N

Fire & Marine Insurance Go.

Organized  1881.

DETROIT,  MICHIGAN.

SgTABI.ISHED  1841.

THE MERCANTILE AGENCY

R . G. D u n   &  Co.

Reference Books issued  quarterly.  Collections 

attended to throughout United States 

and Canada

Tour  Bank Account Solicited.

Kelt  Goitr Savings Ml,

GRAND  RAPIDS  .HIGH.

J no.  A. Covodb,  Pres.

Hbnrt  I d em a , Vlce-Pres.

J.  A.  S.  Verdier,  Cashier.

K. Van Hof, Ass’tC V r. 

Transacts a General Banking  Business. 

Interest  Allowed  on  Tim e  and  Sayings 

Deposits.

DIRECTORS:

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

Deposits  Exceed  One  M illion  Dollars.

PROMPT. 

J.  W.  CHAMPLIN,  Pres.

CONSERVATIVE, 

SAPS. 
W.  FRED  McBAIN, Sec,

The Bradstreet Mercantile Apcy

The B radstreet Company, Props.

Executive  Offices, 279,281,283  Broadway, N Y

CHARLES F.  CLARK, Pres.

Offices in the principal cities of the United 
oStates,  Canada, the  European  continent, 
oAustralla, and in London, England.

Grand  Rapids  Office,  Room  4,  Widdieomb  Bldg.

HENRY  ROYCE, Supt.

65  MONROE  ST.,

COMMERCIAL  CREDIT  CO.
Haye on file all reports kept by  Cooper’s  Com­
mercial Agency ana Union  Credit  Co.  and  are 
constantly revising and adding  to  them.  Also 
handle collections of all kinds for  members.
L. J. STEVENSON. 

Telephone 168 and 1030 for  particulars.

C.  E. BLOCK.

W.  H. P. ROOTS.

A  S to ry   o f th e   W a r  o f 1812.

In the year  1812  John  Eldredge  lived 
with his  wife  and  eight  children  In  a 
small  town on  the  New  England  coast. 
There were five sons and three daughters 
and,  as they had come one  after another 
in  rapid succession,  the  capacity  of  the 
little house had been taxed to its utmost.
John Eldredge was a plain, hard-work­
ing man,  a carpenter by  trade,  who  bad 
always been  able  to  give , his  family  a 
comfortable  support. 
they 
neither had nor  desired,  and  people  in 
those days were content  with  less  than 
now,;and were not so constantly striving 
for much they could never obtain.

Luxuries 

There was nothing particularly  notice­
able about the' low,  brown  house,  save 
that everything around  it was  very  trim 
and  tidy;  but  this  was 
true  of  other 
houses in the neighborhood,  for the  peo­
ple of the village were  thrifty  and  took 
pride in their neat  dooryards  and  well- 
kept fences.

remarked:  “This 

The Eldredges themselves  were  quite 
ordinary looking people,  but,  as  a  mat­
ter of fact,  they were a  remarkable fam­
ily—remarkable in the  uniform,  persist­
ent  cheerfulness  that  reigned  in  their 
home,  making it, in  spite  of  its  meager 
furnishings, a happy  and attractive one.
When John and Dolly  Eldredge  began 
their life together  there  was  something 
of the halo of romance that  hangs  about 
every newly  married  couple  who  truly 
love each other,  but  they  came  of  old 
Puritan stock,  and were disposed to  take 
quite matter-of-fact views  of the life be­
fore  them.  The  first  evening  that  they 
sat alone by their own fireside,  as the big 
blaze crackied|and roared up the chimney, 
they looked at one another with great con­
tent,  and  John 
is 
very  comfortable  Dolly,  and  L  wish  we 
could  go  through  life  as  peacefully  as 
we  have  begun,  but  I  suppose  we must 
expect  trials  and  hardships;  they  will 
be  sure  to come  to  us  as  they  do  to 
other  people.  Only  let  us  try  to  meet 
them bravely,  and, be  strong  and  cheer­
ful  in  our  trust  in  God  and  one  an­
other.” .  “Yes, John,” said Dolly,  “I am 
sure  I  can  be  brave  with  you  always 
near,”  and  volumes  of  love  shone  out 
of  her  honest  blue  eyes.  Life  looked 
bright  to  her  then,  and  she  was  wisely 
withheld  from  seeing j how. much  need 
she would have to be .brave and trustfnl 
as the years went on.  She often recalled 
John’s words that night,  and  resolved to 
be  as  hopeful  and  as  happy  as  she 
could  whatever  might  come,  and  to  do 
all  in  her  power to make  the machinery 
of  her  home  run  smoothly  and  well. 
So  completely  did  she  succeed  that  all 
the  neighbors  said  there  never  was  a 
happier  woman in the world  than  Dolly 
Eldredge;  and  Miss  Betty  Morris,  the 
dressmaker,  who  interested  herself  in 
the affairs of the whole  village, and car­
ried her  bits  of  gossip about from house 
to  house  just  as  she  did  her  patterns 
and  her  pincushion—Miss  Betty  Morris 
said,  “Now,  I like  to  see  folks  cheerful 
and  all  that,  but  Dolly  Eldredge  beats 
me all  to  nothing.  T’aint  no  use  talk­

ing,  1  know  she  hasn’t  got  so  much 
feelings  as  most  folks;  if  she  had  she 
couldn’t ’a’ been so calm when her  little 
Johnny died.  He was all she’d got then, 
and yon’d ’a’  thought’twould  almost  ’a’ 
broken her heart, but she never  took  on 
one bit, but  was  just  as’ composed  and 
pleasant as could be,  and  smiled  just as 
bright  as  ever.  Her  eyes  looked  kind 
o’ heavy  like,  but  you  needn’t  tell  me 
she felt it  the  way  most  mothers  do.” 
Ah!  Miss  Betty,  you  could not look into 
Dolly’s heart and see how near  it was  to 
breaking;  you could not  know the bitter 
struggle she  was  constantly  making  to 
hide her own grief  for  John’s  sake,  or 
the sleepless nights.she passed  thinking 
of the  dear,little head  that  every  night 
for  a  year  had  been  pillowed  on  her 
arm!

The  Eldredge  children grew up  in  an 
atmosphere of cheerful contentment, and 
were taught to turn every  event till they 
could see its bright  side,  as it was  quite 
easy to do,  with  their  parents’ example 
constantly before them.  John and Doliy 
were  strict  in  their  discipline,  always 
enforcing  obedience  and 
judiciously 
punishing the lack of  it;  but  they  sym­
pathized with their children’s interest in 
such a way as at  once  to command  both 
their  confidence  and  respect.  At 
the 
time our story begins,  Rufus,  the  eldest 
son,  was apprenticed  to a blacksmith  in 
a  neighboring  town,  and  would  soon 
have  his  trade.  He  was  nineteen,  and 
next  him,  two  years  his  junior,  was 
Jane, 
the  oldest  girl,  her  mother’s 
counterpart  and  helper.  Next  came 
Charles  and  David,  the  former  strong, 
healthy  and  active—a  boy  who  made 
himself quite indispensable  to his father 
by his ready tact and aptness to learn all 
kinds  of  work.  David  was  pale  and 
delicate,  and had  not  been  strong  from 
his birth.  He  became  tired  so  quickly 
that  he  never  cared  to  join  the  foar 
younger  children  in  their  sports,  but 
liked better to read  the  few  books  that 
came within his reach,  or  to  sit quietly 
by  his  mother  as  she  worked.  Some­
times  he  would  lie  for  hours  at  a  time 
near  the  edge of  the rocky  cliff, looking 
out  upon 
the  sea  and  watching  the 
white-crested breakers  as  th*ey  rolled in 
monotonous  succession  upon  the  beach 
below.  From  the  east  window  of  the 
kitchen Dolly conld see him he lay there, 
and  she  used  often 
to  wonder  what 
was passing  in the  child’s mind.

The bond of attachment and confidence 
between Davy  and his mother  was  very 
strong and  close,  but  Dolly  always  felt 
that there were depths in his nature quite 
beyond  her  power  to  fathom,  and  she 
feared that he might  not  stay  with them 
long,  yet  she  did  not  allow  herself  to 
think  what  her  home  would  be  with­
out  his  gentle presence.

After  the  war began  times grew hard, 
provisions  were  dear,  everybody  felt 
poor,  and  John  Eldredge  could  get  but 
little  work  at  his 
trade.  He  raised 
what  he  could  off  his  land,  earned  a 
little  money  now and  then  by  odd  jobs, 
and  often  supplemented  their  frugal

table  with  fish,  which  he  and  Charley 
would  go  off  to  catch  a mile or two out­
side  the  bar.  Dolly patched and darned 
closer  than  ever,  and  tried  to  keep  her 
children tidy and  her  home  neat,  work­
ing  on  without  a  word  of  complaint, 
and  making  everything last as long as it 
would.

One  day  in  September  John  and  bis 
son  went  off  fishing. 
It  was  one  of 
those perfect, quiet days when all nature 
seems  peaceful  and  drowsy  under  the 
warm  September haze,  as if  comfortably 
settling herself for the long winter sleep. 
How  well  John  remembered  it  after­
ward!  He  could  recall  every  detail  in 
the picture  of his home as he  left it that 
morning—Dolly standing at the door, the 
cat  asleep  under  the lilac bush beside it, 
the crickets chirping in the apple orchard 
as they  passed by, the  younger children 
gathering  golden-rod  and  asters  in  the 
field  beyond,  and  Davy 
lying  on  the 
bank  and  calling  out,  as  they  took  the 
path  down  to 
the  water,  “Good-by, 
father;  good-by, Charley.”

away 

Dolly,  too,  remembered  it  well.  She 
watched  the  boat  from  the  window  till 
it  disappeared  around 
the  point,  and 
turned  back  to  her  work  with  a  heart- 
sinking which she  could not understand.
The  sea  was  so  smooth  that  John 
rowed  out  farther  than  usual  beyond 
the  bar,  threw  out  his  lines  and  soon 
began to  draw  in the  fish.  By  the  time 
they were ready to go  home a breeze had 
sprang  up,  and as John turned  the  boat 
he  noticed  not  far 
a  brig 
bearing  down  upon  them.  He  did  not 
like  the  appearance  of  the  craft,  which 
was  evidently  in  pursuit  and  gaining 
on  them  steadily.  He  told  Charley  to 
row  as  hard  as  he  could,  hoping  to  get 
into  shoal  water  where  the  brig  could 
not  follow.  They  pulled  stroke  after 
stroke,  but  the  brig had a fair wind and 
all  sails  set,  and  soon  was  within  hail­
ing  distance,  when 
the  commauder 
called  to John  to stop.  They now knew 
what  before  they  had  feared,  that  the 
brig  was one  of those  British  privateers 
that  prowled  about  the  seas  capturing 
American  seamen.

Eldredge  did  not  heed  the  command, 
but  pulled  on.  and  the  captain  of  the 
brig,  exasperated  by  his 
indifference, 
sent a  shot  whizzing across  the  bow  of 
the  boat.  Eldredge  could  not  mistake 
tbe meaning of  this.  He  looked  at  the 
boy beside him,  thought  of his  wife  and 
children  at home,  and  life  with  all  its 
hardships  seemed  dear,  and  while  it 
lasted held out some hope, however faint; 
so he gave up the struggle,  and  with his 
son  was soon drawn on  board  the  brig, 
fettered,  and  put  into  the  hold.  They 
were wretched enough, their only comfort 
the  knowledge that each  was  a  comfort 
to  the  other,  and  their  greatest  grief 
thoughts of the  anxious  suspense  of the 
wife and mother at home.
After  a  few  days,  as 

the  Eldredges 
were quiet and well-behaved,  they  were 
allowed  to  come  on deck  now  and then, 
and,  though closely watched,  they could 
get  air  and  sunshine,  which  never

TH h:  MIOHIOAN  t r a d e s m a n .

ship,  which proved to be  a  French  one, 
on  her  way  to  Havre,  saw  them,  and, 
coming  to  their  relief,  took  them  on 
board,  and  proceeded  on  her  way. 
It 
was  hard  to  turn  back  and  be carried 
away from home  again,  when  they  had 
been  comparatively  so  near,  but  they 
were thankful to escape with their lives, 
and could only  be  patient  and  make the 
best of it.

Arriving in France they soon  found  a 
chance  to  ship  on  board  a barque that 
was  loading  for  New  York,  and  after 
what  seemed  to  them  an  almost inter­
minable passage,  they  arrived  safely  in 
their  native  land  in the  spring of 1816. 
Anxious to carry home as much as possi­
ble of their wages, the  travelers  decided 
to walk the rest of the way.  The weather 
was  mild,  and,  after  all  they  had  en­
dured,  it seemed no  hardship  to sleep in 
the  open  air,  and  so  they  plodded  on, 
sometimes buying their food,  and  some­
times having it given to them, and at last, 
more than a year after  the  close  of  the 
war,  one spring morning  when the apple 
trees and lilacs were bursting into bloom, 
John Eldredge and his son  Charles came 
in sight of the home  they  had  so  louged 
and yet feared to reach;  feared,  because 
they  knew not what  changes might have 
come to it in their abseuce.
Youth is buoyant and easily  rebounds, 
and  joy  was  uppermost  in  Charley’s 
heart as  he  looked  at  the  little  brown 
house;  but his  father  was  almost  over­
come, aud could scarce summon strength 
to knock at the door  when he reached  it.
Dolly was busy  getting  breakfast,  and 
■Sarah,  her second daughter,  now a young 
girl of fifteen,  open the door.
Charley,  seeing that  she did not recog­
nize him, or the gray-haired man  by  his 
side,  said:

“Can you give a breakfast to two trav­

elers?”

“Yes,  I  think  so,”  replied  the  girl.
I’ll ask mother.”
As she turned to do  so,  Dolly caught a 
glimpse of the  straugers,  her  heart gave 
one great bound,  and all  the trials of the 
past years seemed to vanish in  a  twink­
ling  as  John took her in his arms.  The 
neighbors were right,  that day  at  least, 
when they said  that Dolly  Eldredge was 
the  happiest  woman  in  all 
the  wide 
world. 

E l iza b et h B.  Sa y r e s.

Use Tradesman Coupon Books.

HEADACHE
POWDERS

Pay the best profit.  Order from your jobber

P E C K ’S
S.  C.  W.

T h e   L e a d in g   N ie k le   C ig a r  
M a d e in  th is  M a rk et.

The Only Brand in the State (outside of Detroit) 

Made by Improved  Machinery.

This  Cigar  is  made  with  Long  Mixed 

Filler,  Single  Connecticut  Binder 

and  Sumatra  W rapper.
S o ld  a t $ 3 8   p er  1 ,0 0 0  

Bv  the  Manufacturer.

Grand  Rapids, 

Telephone  1205

6.  J.  Johnson. 347 South Division St. 
1

rtich.

[

3
seemed so sweet to  them  before.  After 
weary days of sailing,  heavy  gales,  and 
tedions  calms, 
they  and  their  fellow 
captives  reached  England,  and  were 
taken  to  Dartmoor  prison.  Dartmoor 
prison  stood  on  a  desolate  moor  in 
Devonshire, not far from the sea;  it  was 
of great strength and size and quite new, 
having been built  only  in  1809  for  the 
reception  of  French  prisoners  of  war. 
The thick outer wall  inclosed  a tract  of 
thirty  acres,  and  within 
this  was  a 
second  wall,  beside  iron  palisades  ten 
feet high.  At  frequent  intervals  along 
the outer  wall  sentries  were  stationed, 
while  within  two 
thousand  well-dis­
ciplined  militia  and  two  companies  of 
Royal  Artillery  acted  as  guard.  The 
masonry  was strong,  without a flaw,  and 
no escape seemed  possible  for those who 
once entered.

One-half of the circular  Inclosure  was 
occupied by  seven  large  prison  houses, 
separated  by  a  strong  wall  from  the 
other half which contained  the barracks, 
hospital,  storehouse,  and the  dwellings 
of the captain and  surgeon, the  last two 
buildings  forming  a  part  of  the  front 
outer wall.  At this time Captain  Short- 
land  was  in  command,  and  his  un­
principled, cruel treatment  of  prisoners 
went far beyond any authority given him 
by the British government.

The Eldredges found at Dartmoor hun­
dreds—and,  before 
the  war  closed, 
thousands—of  Americans,  many  of 
whom were there only  because  they  had 
refused 
the  british  navy 
against their own countrymen.

fight  in 

to 

At times John felt as  if he  must  siuk 
under the weight of  this  miserable life. 
It was hard enough  for  himself  and  his 
boy, but when  he thought  of  Dolly  and 
the  children,  it  seemed  more  than  he 
could bear.

Poor Dolly, on  the day  they  left  home, 
watched  for  their  return,  watched  and 
waited 
in  vain.  Dreadful  forebodings 
took possession of her,  but  she  tried  to 
hope.

The privateer had not come around the 
point in sight of the  village,  so  no  one 
there  had  any  clue  to  the  fate  of  the 
fishermen.  When  they  did  not  come 
home that night, the men and  boys,  with 
ready sympathy  and  good  will,  turned 
out in a body, built fires along the beach, 
and patrolled  it  for several  miles.  The 
next day  they  went  off in  boats  to  the 
usual  fishing-ground,  tbiuking it possible 
that  either  father  or  son  might  have 
become disabled or ill.  Finding no trace 
they  kept 
of  them  there, 
tires  and 
watch 
through 
the  second  night.  At 
daylight they  saw a dark  object floating 
in the distance,  which  the incoming tide 
brought nearer and cast upon  the  beach 
—John Eldredge’s boat upside down!

With  unwilling  feet  they  carried  the 
news to Dolly.  She  did  not  faint,  she 
uttered no cry,  but in  that  moment  all 
light,  all  joy,  all hope seemed to  vanish 
from the world.  Quickly,  however,  she 
recovered herself for her children’s sake, 
and found her own comfort  in  trying to 
comfort them.  For that  day Davy  went 
no more to look at the  sea,  nut  he  grew 
paler,  thinner  and  more  silent,  though 
the same sweet  smile  and  loving  looks
lit  op  bis  patient  little  face,  and  one 
dreary day in  November  Dolly  and  her 
children  went  to  the  churchyard,  and 
laid  beside the  baby that died,  so  many 
years before, the wasted  form  of  gentle 
little Davy.

Dolly scarcely knew how she struggled 
through that bitter winter, amid poverty 
and  suffering  and  sorrow 
that  sorely 
tried even her  brave heart.  The spring, 
however, opened with somewhat brighter 
prospects.  Rufus  had  his  trade,  and 
brought  home  all  his  earnings;  Jane 
took the district school for  the  summer; 
neighbors  were kind,  and Dolly began to 
recover a little from  the  weight  of  her 
grief.  The  younger  children  were lov­
ing and helpful,  earning a little here and 
there,  as they could,  to  pay for food and 
clothing.  All these helps,  with  Dolly’s 
careful  management,  made  the  family 
quite comfortable again.

The prison  life of the  father  and  son 
dragged wearily on,  with  little  to  vary 
its  monotony,  until  nearly  three  years 
had passed,  when one warm «pring even­
ing  something  happened  that  stirred 
John’s honest nature to Its  very  depths.
The  prisoners’  fare  had  been  poor 
enough,  but lately bread  had  been given 
them which was so bad  that  they  could 
never have  eaten  it,  if  starvation  had 
not been the only alternative.  A  few of 
them resolved that  they  would  bear  it 
no longer,  but made bold to ask  for  bet­
ter bread.  Accordingly  at  night,  when 
the  men  were  being  marched  through 
the prison yard to their  quarters, two  of 
them  stepped  up  to  the  sergeant  and 
made their request.  This  was  regarded 
as  indicating  insubordination,  and  the 
guard was commanded to fire.  They did 
so  at  random,  in  among  the  crowd  of 
prisoners,  and  more  than  sixty  were 
killed,  and many  wounded.  Among the 
latter was Charles Eldredge,  and  as  his 
father  saw  him  fall,  poor  John’s grief 
and indignation  knew  no  bounds.  The 
wounded were quickly  taken  to the hos­
pital,  and  after  some days  of suspense, 
John learned  that his  son  had  received 
only  a  flesh  wound  and  would recover.
Peace  was  already  declared,  but  the 
prison authorities were in no haste to in­
form  their  captives  of  the  fact,  and 
months went by before they  knew it.

At last  they  were  set  free,  and  sent 
home, or allowed to make their way home 
as best they could.

The Eldredges lost no  time in starting 
for Southampton,  where,  after  some  de­
lay,  they  embarked  on  ooard  a  ship 
bound  for  Savannah.  They  had  good 
weather  and  fair  winds,  and  all  went 
well  till  they  were  off  the  Bermudas. 
They seemed fast nearing the home from 
which they  had been absent so long when 
a furious gale overtook them and carried 
away  their sails.  The heavy laboring of 
the ship in the  terrible  sea  opened  her 
seams,  and she leaked badly.  The pumps 
were worked all day  and  all  night,  but 
when  daylight  came  again,  the  water 
bad  gained  on  them  to  such an extent 
that it was  evident  they  must  abandon 
the ship and take to the boats:  The first 
boat was swamped  in  launching,  and all 
perished;  but  the second,  in  which were 
our two  friends,  succeeded  in  reaching 
the water safely.  The wind had abated, 
but  the sea still  ran  high, &nd  the  boat 
was  tossed  about  at  the  mercy  of  the 
waves.  Another night passed;  they bad 
a small supply of food  aud  water,  which 
they distributed sparingly,  and  waited to 
see what the day would bring them.

Toward  night,  when  they  were  well 
nigh exhausted  and  despairing,  they de­
scried in the west a sail, and,  with  min­
gled  hope  and  fear,  they  put forth all 
their energies in the attempt  to  call  at­
tention  to  their forlorn  condition.  The I

The
BEST
are
the
CHEAPEST.
Iced  Coffee Cakes, 
Michigan  Frosted  Honey, 
S  yrnour Butters,
Graham  Crackers,

Sears

are

the

BEST.

AliD
A

BOX
OK

BARBEL

OF

HOYAL  TOAST 

TO
YOUR
NEXT
ORDER

SOMETHING  NEW 

AND  A

GOOD  SELLER.

Watch  out  for  our  new  spring  novelties. 

sellers.

Tin 

aie

N ew  York B iscuit Co.,

S .  A .  S B A R S ,  M anager,

GRAND  RAi'IDS,  MICH.

THE  MORNING MARKET.

How the  Fruit  Department Impresses 

an  Observer.

Loads and loads of lascions fruit.  Put 
them  in  a  straight  line,  one  following 
the other,  and  they  would  make  a pro­
cession not less  than a mile  long.  This 
long line of wagons,  pouring their  loads 
of  ripe  (and  unripe),  wholesome  (and 
otherwise)  fruit into the insatiable  maw 
of  the Grand  Rapids  market  continues 
six days a week,  throughout  the  season, 
Of course, it is not all  consumed  in  the 
city; bnt the most of it  is,  and  the  best 
of it.  Apples were mentioned last week, 
but it is not out of place to say  that  not 
less than 300,000 bushels are brought to the 
market in the course of  the  season.  At 
an average price of  40c per  bushel,  that 
means  $120,000  distributed  among  the 
farmers of this vicinity for  this one item 
alone.  Why some of the growers  do not 
take more pains to  improve  the  quality 
of their fruit  is  a  mystery,  as  the  best 
prices are only paid for first-class  stock. 
Many of the  apples  which  come  to  the 
market  are  little  measly  things  which 
the  growers  ought  to  be  ashamed  to 
bring in.

The  “peach  belt”  of  Michigan  is  as 
well  known throughout the country as in 
Maryland and New Jersey,  and  its prod­
uct is as much,  if not more,  sought after, 
as the peaches of any  part  of  the  land. 
Just how many bushels  of  this delicious 
fruit is grown in Western Michigan  it  is 
impossible to ascertain,  as  much of it is 
shipped from  the  ports  along  the  lake 
shore, of  which  no record  is  kept.  The 
smaller  towns  in  the  district  consume 
large  quantities,  and many  thousands of 
bushels are allowed to rot on  the ground. 
Last year  not  far  from  250,000  bushels 
were marketed in this  city, and it is safe 
to say that 1,500,000  bushels  of  peaches 
find their way into  the  various  markets 
of  the  country  every  year  from 
the 
Michigan  peach  belt.  This  amount  is 
bound  to increase,  for,  as grain  growing 
becomes less profitable from year to year, 
farmers  will  turn  their  attention  more 
and  more  to  fruit  growing,  for  which 
there  is  always  a  good  and  increasing 
demand at good prices.  When  one  con­
siders the difference in the labor requisite 
for  grain  raising  and 
fruit  growing, 
which makes the  latter by  comparison a 
pleasure, it becomes a matter of astonish, 
ment that fruit growing does  not  attract 
more attention  than  it  does.  The  best 
of the peaches are still  in  the  orchards, 
only the clingstones—and  small  stock at 
that—having yet come  to  the  front.  A 
week or ten days will see a  good  supply 
of  first-class  fruit  on the  market—fruit 
that will  make your mouth water to look, 
at.
The time to see the fruit  market at its 
best  is  between  5  and  6  o’clock.  The 
fruit men do not  come  out  so  early  as 
their  neighbors  the  gardeners,  as  they 
have agreed not to reach the market until 
5  o’clock,  while  some  of  the  vegetable 
wagons are here between 3 and 4 o’clock. 
Farmers  seem  to  think  they  must  get 
“ back from  town” early  enough  to  per­
mit  of their  doing  a  day’s  work  after 
they get back,  so  they  start  from  home 
in the morning as early  as 2 or 3 o’clock, 
dispose  of  their  load  and  hurry  home 
again.  They  don’t  need  to  do  it,  but 
they  think  they  do,  so  that  settles  it. 
While  working-people 
towns  are 
striking for  shorter  hours,  farmers  are 
wondering how they can stretch  out  the 
In  no
day.  That 

is  the  difference. 

in 

'-TETK   M I G H I G A N   T K A D B

3

like 

other  town  in  Michigan  is  there  to  be 
seen  anything 
the  quantity  of 
peaches that are brought to  this market, 
and it is worth any one’s while to  see  it.
Not so many pears  are  raised  in  this 
section as there ought  to  be.  They  are 
the royal fruit, when properly cultivated, 
but the trouble is  that  few  people  ever 
taste  a  good  pear,  as  first  class  fruit 
comes  high  on  account  of  its  scarcity. 
Michigan  can  raise  as  good  pears  as 
California,  although 
she  cannot  put 
them on the market quite  as early.  The 
trouble is  that  many  growers  seem  to 
think fruit will  grow  with  little  or  no 
care,  and the consequence  is  that  much 
of the fruit grown in  this  State  is  very 
inferior in quality.  This remark applies 
to no  other particular fruit,  but  to  all. 
Care and cultivation would  mean  a  con­
siderable  increase  in  revenue  to  fruit 
growers.

Cherries  were  scarce  this year,  but in 
a good season it  is  a grand and  beautiful 
sight to  see  wagon  after  wagon  loaded 
with this  popular  fruit.  They  are  not 
good shippers, so the bulk of  the crop  is 
disposed of for home consumption. 
It is 
possible  that  cherries  would  grow  in 
profusion in a wild state, but it is certain 
that cultivation  would  greatly  improve 
the flavor and  size  of  the  fruit.  There 
will  never  be  too  many cherries  on  the 
market.

raspberries 

too,  and  not  many  came 

Of the berries  red  raspberries  are the 
favorites and justly so.  They are a most 
delicious fruit,  and  they  are  known and 
their merit appreciated in  every home in 
the  land.  This  is  the  off  season  for 
berries, 
to 
market.  There is  always  a big demand 
for  them  and  it  pays  to  raise  them. 
Black 
and  blackberries 
proper  are  also  favorites  with  a  dis­
criminating  public,  and  find  a  ready 
sale.  Gooseberries  are  not  raised  very 
extensively  and  few  people  know  half 
their good qualities.  They are  all to  be 
found  in season on the  morning market.
No one seems to  know  whether  toma­
toes  are  a  fruit  or  a  vegetable;  but, 
whatever  they  are,  they  have  worked 
their way into popular favor by  force of 
character. 
It  is  not  many  years  since 
tomatoes were  grown  merely  for  orna­
ment,  no  one  having  any  knowlege  of 
their excellent  edible  qualities.  To-day 
they  are  found  in  several  shapes  on 
every table in  the  land,  Whether green 
or  ripe  the  tomato.is  most  useful  and 
appetizing.

These are not the only fruits  that  are 
to be  seen  on  the  market  in  the  early 
morning  hours,  as  almost  every  fruit 
that  grows outside  the  tropics  is  to  be 
found in this highly  favored  portion  of 
the great Wolverine  State. 
If you don’t 
believe  it,  get  up  in  the  morning  and 
take a walk past the long  line of wagons 
laden with the finest fruit  in  the  world.

Da n ie l  Abbot r.

Large  Eggs.

now.”

“I’m  doing  first  rate  with  my  hens, 
“Glad  to  hear it.”
“Yes,  indeed!  You ought to see  some 
of the eggs  they lay.  Many of  them are 
as big as hailstones.”

Possibility vs.  Probability.

From Truth.
Powell—The  cost  of  the  cigars  and 
whisky  consumed  in this  country in one 
year would build  a navy.

Mitford—Yes,  but it never will.

Lse  'tradesman  Coupon  Books.

FISHING  TACKLE!

O U R
S T O C K

o fn s
1H
I
MS

I S

C O M P L E T E .

We  have  them  from  12 

to  20 feet long.

Our line of Fishing tackle 

is equal to any one’s.

Send for Catalogue.

I0SIER§TÏVEII5

&  Q .   —j ^ O N R o ^

TT*>

~ 

E Q U A L S

SOLD  AT  THIS  PRICE

W A S   .N O   S U P E R IO R   "   B U T   F E W  
qTHE ONLY  HIGH  G R A D E  BAKING POWDER
G 07.CA N   lO S iî  * 
I LB. CAN  2 5 ^ *
NORTHROP,  ROBERTSON*&  CARRIER
L O U IS V IL L E   K Y .

M A N U F A C T U R E D   BY

L A N S IN G  M ICH. 

GOUPON BOOKSIF  YOU  BUY  OF  HEADQUARTERS,  YOU 

T R A D E S M A N   C O M P A N Y ,

ARE  CUSTOMERS  OF  THE

r S K   MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,
Detour—The style  of the Island Cedar 
Co. has been changed to the Detour Lum­
ber & Cedar Co.

4:

AROUND  THE  STATE.

MOVEMENTS OF  MERCHANTS.

Pinckney—Jackson  &  Cady  succeed 

Chas. L. Bowman in general trade.

St. 

Johns—Wm.  Reddout  succeeds 

John Phlegarr in the meat business.

Middleton—Clem.  Naldrett  succeeds 
Naldrett Bros,  in the  elevator  business.
Coldwater—Perry  &  Adams  succceea 
Brainerd  &  Perry  in  the  grocery  busi­
ness.

Hillsdale—L.  H. Carson has purchased 
the grocery  business  of  Geo.  A.  Whit­
comb.

Marine City—Calvin A.  Blood,  of  the 
firm of Blood &  Hart, general  dealers, is 
dead.

Essexville—W. C.  Rothermel succeeds 
Rothermel & Dargis in  the  grocery  and 
meat business.

Harrison—Lyman C.  Garrison,  of  the 
grocery and crockery firm of  Garrison  & 
Garrison,  is  dead.

Scotts—C. Gould has  removed  to  this 
place  from  Athens and embarked in the 
drug and jewelry business.

West Bay City—F. M. Van Liew is suc­
ceeded by F.  M.  Van Liew &  Co.  in  the 
crockery and wall paper business.

Pentwater—C.  Wise  has sold his bak­
ery business to Spencer Bros.,  who  will 
continue the business at the old stand.

East  Gilead—L.  Langs  &  Sons,  who 
have a  grocery  in  Coldwater,  will  also 
run the one  here  recently  purchased  of 
Levi Deal.

Hancock—J.  C.  Ley  &  Co.,  general 
dealers,  have merged  their business into 
a corporation  under  the  style  of  J.  C. 
Ley  & Co., Incorporated.

Jackson—J.  H. Jones,  who has  been in 
the  grocery  business  here  for  the  last 
thirty years,  has  closed  up his  store and 
will retire from commercial  life.

Mt.  Pleasant—Price  Peak,  formerly a 
member of the grocery firm of Peak Bros, 
and the drug  firm of  Cox  &  Peak,  will 
open a new drug store here about Sept. 1.
Coldwater—The  Powers  Clothing  Co. 
will  soon  open  a  clothing  house  here. 
They  will  close  their  stores  at  Adrian 
and  Quincy  and  consolidate  the  stocks 
here.

Woodland—L.  E.  Benson  has  pur­
chased the interest of  W.  J.  Shutter  in 
the drug firm of L.  E.  Benson & Co.  and 
will  continue  the  business  in  bis  own 
name.

Bay City—J. G. Clarkson  &  Co.  have 
purchased the cigar and tobacco stock of 
W.  W. & J.  W.  Keith,  also the  stock  be­
longing to  the  estate  of  W.  A.  South- 
worth,  and have consolidated  the  stocks 
at one location.

Detroit—The  Chas.  F.  Rich  Co.  has 
filed articles  of  association.  The  capi­
tal stock is §20,000, actually paid in,  and 
held as  follows:  Wallis  Boileau,  Phila­
delphia,  1,256;  Fredrick  Linsell,  515; 
Charles F.  Rich, 229 shares.

Port Huron—George E.  Yokom  &  Co., 
dealers in  bicycles and  electrical  goods, 
being 
financially  embarrassed,  have 
given chattel mortgages  to  secure  their 
creditors.  The  Sterling  Bicycle  Co., 
Chicago,  Gormally  &  Jeffrey,  Chicago, 
Raleigh Bicycle Co.,  New  York,  and the 
Sherman Company,  Port Huron,  are  the 
mortgagees.

MANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

Grand  Marais—The  sawmill  now  in 
process  of  construction  by  the  Manis- 
tique  Lumbering  Co.  will  be  ready for 
sawing  next week. 
Itsocapacity  will be 
30,000,000 yearly.

Standish—The  Gray  Milling  Co.  has 
run its shingle  mill 148 days from Jan.  1 
to July  1,  and  has  resumed  operations 
for the remainder of the season.

Labe  City—The  Thayer  Lumber  Co. 
has  finished  operations 
in  Missaukee 
county.  The company  is  taking  up  its 
logging  road  and  the  rolling stock and 
equipment is to be  sold.

Jackson—Geo.  Bronson,  of  Carr  & 
Bronson, proprietors of  the Independent 
Cracker Bakery,  died  suddenly  July  29. 
He  was  a  young man  of much promise. 
He leaves a wife to mourn bis loss.

White Cloud—Jas. Ingells &Sons,  pro­
prietors  of  the  White  Cloud  Novelty 
Works,  expect  to  begin  operations 
in 
their new factory by  Sept.  1.  They will 
manufacture  hames  and  pressed  steel 
hame fasteners and  harness buckles.

Detroit—The Casket Shell Co.  has filed 
articles  of  association  with  the  county 
clerk.  The capital  stock  is  $25,000,  of 
which sum $5,000  is represented  to have 
been  paid  in.  The  incorporators  are 
James  P.  Scranton,  Edward  W.  Porter 
and William E.  Warner.

Detroit—The Austin Separator Co.  has 
filed  articles  of  association  with 
the 
county clerk.  The incorporators are Lu­
cian S.  Moore,  Clarkson C.  Wormer,  Eu­
gene Austin and Charles J.  O’Hara.  The 
capital stock  consists  of  letters  patent 
for which the stockholders claim to have 
paid $20,000  to  Eugene  Austin,  the  in­
ventor of the separators.

Manistee—Salt  matters  are  quiet,  al­
though  there  is  a good,  even  movement 
of the product,  and  the  boats  are  kept 
steadily at work.  There  has been  some 
trouble  among  the  packers,  as the price 
per barrel was cut down  a fraction  of  a 
cent,  but as there  are lots of  idle men it 
is  easy  enough  to  fill  their  places,  al­
though not everyone can stand the work.
Detroit—Archibald G.  Lindsay,  as ex­
ecutor  of  the  estate  of  the  late  D.  M. 
Richardson—the founder of the Richard­
son  Match  Company,  subsequently con­
solidated with  the Diamond  Match Com­
pany—has filed his final  account  in  the 
Probate  Court.  The  estate  inventoried 
$1,150,160.  The dividends on the shares 
of stock in  the  match  company  amount 
to $48,230 annually.

It  was  given 

Detroit—The Vienna Brewing  Co.  has 
uttered a chattel  mortgage  covering  its 
entire  plant. 
to  Paul 
Weidner and John C. Carland as trustees 
for  a  long  list  of  creditors,  the  total 
amount of liabilities being  $13,302.98,  of 
which $5,196 is in  promissory  notes  and 
the  remainder  in  open  accounts.  The 
heaviest creditor is the Canada Malt  Co., 
their  account  being  for  $3,357.  The 
same  company  holds  a  note  for  $1,000 
given by the  mortgagor.

Saginaw—Lumbermen  are  at  loss  in 
speculating as to the  future.  With  such 
inducements 
to  trade  under  ordinary 
conditions  business  would  just  boom, 
and the obstacle is that no one  is able  to 
make  any  predictions  absolutely  trust* 
worthy  as  to  what 
the  future  will 
develop.  The crops are  coming in good, 
and it would seem that a  revival of busi. 
ness must soon make its appearance,  but 
no  one  seems  to  know  absolutely  any­
thing about it. 
In the meantime,  stocks 
are growing larger.  There is still a large 
quantity of lumber cut  last year on  hand 
unsold,  and  very little of  this  year’s  cut 
In consequence  the
has been marketed. 

through 

mill docks are  loaded  down  and  manu­
facturing hampered.  A  number of mills 
that shut  down  a  month  ago  have  not 
yet  started  again,  and  others  will  be 
forced to quit sawing.  The  Whitney  & 
Batchelor  mill  docks  are  full  and  the 
mill is likely to be shut down the balance 
of the season.  The firm has been  trans­
ferring  stock  from  the  docks  to  Bay 
City,  to make room to pile upon.
No  Compact  Rate  on  Sprinkled Risks.
It appears to be only a matter  of  time 
when  the  straight  line  fire  insurance 
companies  will  either  be  compelled  to 
turn their talents  into  other  avenues  of 
usefulness  or  lower  their  rates.  Their 
rates upon what are known as ‘‘sprinkled 
risks”—that is, manufacturing establish­
ments protected by automatic  sprinklers 
—have never  fallen  below 2K  per  cent. 
As a consequence,  the bulk of those risks 
have  been  taken  by  the  Lloyds  and 
mutuals.  That 
the  agents  of  the  old 
companies  should  kick  was  perfectly 
natural.  They saw a  big  lot of the very 
best  business  slipping 
their 
fingers and  into  the books  of  the  hated 
Lloyds  and  mutuals,  and  they  were 
powerless 
it.  Time  and 
again  the  managers  were  besought  to 
lower  the  rates,  but  they  steadfastly 
their  eyes  half- 
refused,  until,  with 
opened  to  the  truth, 
they  discovered 
that the  vast  bulk  of  the  business was 
going past their  doors.  Now,  however, 
while  their action will not turn  the tide 
of business their way,  it shows  that they 
begin to realize  that  exorbitant rates on 
good  risks  are utterly  incongruous  and 
untenable.  Sprinkled  risks are  as  safe 
as any  risks  can  be,  and  mutual  com­
panies have readily  taken  them at 1 and 
IK   per  cent.  The  Michigan  Inspection 
Bureau has recently issued  a  circular in 
which  it  states  that  it  will  no  longer 
name rates and advise forms  of  policies 
on  sprinkled  risks,  which  being  inter­
preted,  means 
that  hereafter  agents 
are at liberty to  make  their  own  rates. 
Family pride prevents the  Bureau  from 
lowering its rates,  but it is  willing  that 
the  agents  should  compete  with  the 
Lloyds and mutuals.  There  seems to  be 
every  encouragement  for  putting 
in 
automatic 
sprinklers,  but  automatic 
sprinklers may yet prove  fatal  to  many 
of the board companies.

to  prevent 

Da n ie l  A bbott.

The  Hardware  Market.

Trade continues quiet and inactive, and 
while this is usually the case in July and 
August,  we  have  all  been  looking for a 
marked revival,  which,  as  yet,  has  not 
come.  The  long-continued  drouth  does 
not encourage the farmer and he, in turn, 
discourages the dealer,  and the  result is 
that but little is bought  that is not abso­
lutely  needed.  Rain  in  plenty—and  a 
little less Congress—would  produce a re­
vival of business  that  would  be  appre­
ciated by all.

Barbed  Wire—Trade  in  barbed  wire 
keeps  up  remarkably  well  and,  while 
mills are not in full operation,  it is quite 
difficult  to  secure  prompt  shipments. 
Prices on wire are now  fully  as  low  as 
they have been at any time this year and 
dealers  who are in  need take  no chances 
in  supplying  their  present  wants.  We 
quote from stock:  painted, $2.10; galvan­
ized, $2.50.

Wire Nails—As  all  of  the  nail  mills 
have  been  closed  during  the  month of 
July it is now very  difficult  to  keep  up 
one’s assortment.  The result of this long

stoppage has been  an  advance  in  price; 
and,  as nails have  been sold  at less than 
they cost to make  (so  the manufacturers 
say)  it is  believed  the  present  advance 
will  be  maintained.  We  quote  $1.40 
rates from stock.

Window Glass—Is  firm,  as  stocks  are 
low.  All  the  factories  are out of glass, 
but only a brisk  demand  will  result  in 
prices  being  materially advanced.  The 
uncertainty when glass  factories  will re­
sume also affects  the  price  very  much. 
Eighty  and  20 by the  box and 80 and 10 
by the light are regular quotations.

Clothes  Wringers—Owing  to  an  ad
vance  in  rubber  and 
the firm hold  the
wringer companies have  on  the  market 
an  advance  has been  made on the popu­
lar brands.  We quote:
Novelty and Universal............................#¡83  doz.
Superior  ...................................................  19  “
Household bench......................................35 
“

Not  Quite,  but Near It.

Weary  Watkins—“They’s  only  one 
thing keeps me from becomin’  a workin’- 
man and joinin’ a unior.”

Dusty Rhodes—“What’s that?”
Weary Watkins—“1 can’t find no union 

what’s on a strike all the time.”
PRODUCE  MARKET.

Apples—There  has been a big Improvement in 
apples within the week, and also a falling off in 
price.  Dealers  now hold them at 30@50c per bu.
Beans-Commission  houses  pay  from  $1.50@ 

1.65,  holding at $1.85®2 per bu.

Beets—Are held  by dealers at 40c per bu.
Blackberries—Are scarce  and  not  very  good. 

They are worth $1@1.15 per 16 qt. crate.

Butter—Has gone up a.cent.  It is now held at 

18@19c for best dairy and 22fl23 for  creamery.

Cabbage—Are worth 50@60c per doz.
Carrots—Have dropped to 8c per doz. bunches.
Celery—F airBUDply  of  homegrown  which  is 

held at 18c per doz.

Cucumbers—nothouse  grown  are worth 1214c 
per doz.  There was no pickling on the  market.

Eggs—Are still held at 11c per doz.
Green Corn—Is in good supply at 10c per doz.
Muskmelons—Outside bring #1 per doz.  There 
were a few  home grown  on  the  market,  beau­
ties, too, which were held at #2.

Onions—The supply of ripe is only fair  at  75@ 
80c per bu.  Green  bring 1214c per doz. bunches.

Green Peas—About out of the market.
Peaches—Hale’s Early  are  coming  in  freely, 
selling  readily  at  tl.i5  per  bu.  Early Rivers 
bring 75c per bu.—some as low as 50c.

Potatoes—Are moving  up.  The  supply seems 
good so far, but the crop is expected  to  be  slim 
and  they  are  moving  accordingly.  70c  is the 
dealers price.

Plums—Are scarce at #2.25 per bu.
Pears—Californias are  held  at  #2.25  per  box. 

Home-grown are sold for $1.55@1.75.

Radishes—In  fair  supply  but  strong  and 

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

Squash—Bring 2c per lb.
String Beans—Are of the  poorest,  and  gener 
ally find their way to the dump.  They  are held 
for 50c per bu.

Tomatoes—Are  slow  sale  at  #2.50  per  bu 
Home-grown will change all that in a few  days!
Turnips—Are held at 40c per bu.
Watermelons—Are in steady demand and good 

supply at I5@18c.
Henry  J.  Vinkemulder,
Fruits  and  Vegetables,

JOBBER  OF

418,  420,  445  and  447  So.  Division 

St.  Grand  Rapids.

We wish to call your attention again to 
Peaches.  We shall handle lots  of  them 
this year and will  fill  your  orders  with 
only good shipping stock and  make price 
as low as possible on day of shipment.
Quote  you  apples  at $1.50@2 per bbl. 
for choice eating.  Good cooking, $1.75@ 
2 for sugar bbls.  Watermelons, cheaper, 
15@18c each.  Fine  heme-grown  celery, 
15c  doz.  Summer  squash,  dry  onions, 
tomatoes, cabbage,  muskmelon,  etc.,  at 
lowest market prices. 
I also handle Cal­
ifornia  fruit.  Better send me a trial or­
der.  1 am certain that  I  can  please  you.

Vi  4

t r
A

V  -

* 

¥

l v

M

I l i E   MICHIGAN  TRAJ3K8MAJN-

5

I

H   4 
'

A*<

*-  f   -
‘rr

n*
^   I  -  
{v.  •«*>
♦  ft
i  i .V— vi

I

M Mp  *

M

GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

G. D.  Lovely  has  resumed  the  hard 
ware  business  at  Lakeview.  Foster, 
Stevens & Co.  sorted up the stock.

Geo.  J.  Rider and  Jno.  Gain have em­
barked in the boat  building  business  at 
the corner of Newberry and Kent streets.
It is Kloet & Huizinga,  instead of Cor­
nelius Huizinga,  who  succeed  Jonkman 
& Kloet in the  hardware  business at 317 
South East street.

John Dalavo, formerly engaged in trade 
at Wyman,  has opened  a grocery store at 
his mill, six miles north of Wyman.  The 
Olney & Judson Grocer Co. furnished the 
stock.

Casper  Scbutt,  whose  grocery  stock 
was  destroyed  in  the  conflagration  at 
Lakeview, 
immediately  resumed  busi­
ness,  purchasing an  entirely  new  stock 
of the Musselman Grocer Co.

Don. J. Leathers states that there is an 
awakened inquiry as to stumpage,  which 
is regarded as an indication that business 
will shortly get on its feet.  Mr.  Leathers 
is interested  wholly  in  Minnesota  pine 
stumpage.

W.  E.  Bender,  formerly engaged in the 
grocery business at Goshen,  Ind., has de­
cided to re-engage  in  the same  business 
in connection  with his  wholesale and re­
tail tobacco business.  Hawkins  Sc Com­
pany have the order for the stock.

H.A. Olney has sold a half interest in his 
grocery stock at 220  Plainfield  avenue to 
J.  M.  Robinson,  formerly  station  master 
at  the  Sweet street  depot of the Consol­
idated Street Railway Co.  The new firm 
will be known as Olney  & Robinson.

The Olney Sc  Judson  Grocer  Co.  sold 
four  grocery  stocks  to  go  to  Lakeview 
last  week,  the  purchasers  being  B.  F. 
Thompson,  C.  M.  Northup,  J.  T.  Butler 
and E. C.  Saxton  Sc  Co.  The latter also 
put in a crockery stock,  furnished by  H. 
Leonard & Sons.

Foster, Stevens Sc Co.  are changing the 
location of the  office  of  their  wholesale 
department from the center of  the  store 
to the rear frontage on Louis  street,  en­
abling the occupants to utilize more day­
light and less artificial light.  The  office 
will also  be  enlarged,  to  accommodate 
the  enlarged  force  rendered  necessary 
by the purchase of  the  Gunn  Hardware 
Co.’e stock and business.

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugar—The  market  continues  to  ad­
vance,  with every prospect of still  higher 
prices  later  on.

Lemons—Show 

little  or  no  change 
last  week’s  quotations.  Dealers 
from 
report  a  fairly  good  demand,  but  the 
large  quantities  coming  forward  have 
prevented the realization of  what  could 
be  called  high  prices.  Nearly  all  the 
cargoes show such a percentage  of waste 
that auction  purchases  by  the Western 
trade  are  small,  it  being  much  better 
and  more  satisfactory  to  let  the  New 
York firms take  the  different  lines  and 
put them  in order  there,  thus saving the 
payment  of  freight  on  decayed  stock. 
Prices range  from  $4.25@5.50  for  Mes­
sina stock and  from  $6@8  per  box  for 
Maioras,  which are packed in extra large 
boxes.

Foreign  Nuts—Continue  to  rule  low 
and  no  change  appears  probable  for 
some time,  except in Brazils,  which  are 
a little firmer  and  a  slight  advance  in 
prices is probable.

Candy—Is  looking  up.  The 

recent 
advances in sugar  are  having  their  ef­
fect and wholesale  dealers  and  all  job­
bers who handle confectionery  are  plac­
ing large orders,  in  anticipation  of  still 
further  advances.

Pork—Receipts  of  hogs  on  Chicago 
market for the week  were 167,503,  being 
a decrease from last  week of  17,516  and 
an  increase  over  the  same  period  last 
year of 95,000.  The receipts for the year 
to date show a  gain of  903,000  over  the 
same period  last  year.  Business in  the 
local market is reported good, with prices 
on 
the  gain.  Everything  in  smoked 
meats  has  gone  up  Me  per  lb.  Mess 
pork has risen  75c  per  bbl.,  and  Short 
Cut  25c  per  bbl.  Compound  lard  has 
gone up  Me per lb.

Checkmated by the Mayor.

The  police  department  is  still  com­
plaining that it is hampered in its efforts 
to enforce the license law by  the Mayor’s 
persistency  in  granting  permits. 
It  is 
claimed  by  the police  that they have no 
means of knowing who  have or have not 
permits;  all they  can  do is  to  chase  an 
unlicensed  peddler  until  they  run  him 
down,  and then,  in all probability,  when 
they have caught him, he  will pull a per­
mit on them.  The police no longer have 
access to the  book  in  which  the  Mayor 
records  the  names  of those to  whom he 
has issued Dermits, and, as they are never 
notified  when permits  are  granted,  they 
are seriously handicapped in  their  work. 
They  have,  therefore,  about  concluded 
that it is  useless  to  attempt  to  enforce 
the  law  in  existing  circumstances. 
It 
entails too much work and results are too 
small to justify the outlay.

Cheese—The  market  continues 

to 
strengthen, owing  to  the  curtailment in 
the output incident to the drouth.

Corn Syrup—The  manufacturers  have 
advanced their quotations  8c  per gallon, 
owing to the  prospective  shortage in the 
corn crop.

Oranges—Sell  very  slowly,  the  trade 
seeming  to  think  the  price  too  high. 
Local  wholesalers  have  Imperials  and 
200 size Rodis,  which they  will  close out 
very close to first cost.

It is presumed  that  the  Mayor is  per­
forming his duty,  as  he sees  it, and  that 
he is actuated in all  he does by  the  best 
motives;  but 
it  may  be  questioned 
whether, after all, he and the police force 
are not working at cross  purposes. 
It is 
plainly the duty of the  police  to enforce 
the laws as they  stand upon  the  statute 
book,  unless  those laws are repealed by 
the power which created them.  Legally, 
the police have  no  right to  pay  any  at­
tention to permits granted  by the Mayor 
or anyone else. 
It is “ the divinity which 
doth hedge a king,”  the respect which is 
Bananas—Are plenty and  sell  reason­
rightly  paid  to the  office of Mayor,  that 
ably,  although there is a scarcity  of good 
gives these permits  any force  whatever; 
shipping  bunches 
that 
and.  further, the police are loth  to  raise 
comes  in,  owing  to  the  extremely  hot 
a controversy with the city’s chief execu­
weather,  which ripens them  up  so  fast. 
tive.  But for these reasons Mayor Fisher 
Ordinarily,  the  local  peddlers  take  all
would have seen of how  little  value  are
the ripes offered,  but  so  many  of  them 
have turned their attention  to  vegetables I his  permits.  So  far,  he has  the respect 
| and confidence of  the entire  community,
that over ripe fruit goes a begging. 

in  every  car 

577

but there are many who  believe  that  in 
this  matter  of  granting  permits to ped­
dlers he is making  a  mistake.  At  least 
it would be well if he would take the po­
lice department more into his confidence, 
so that they would  be  saved  much  use­
less work and  their services  be  given  in 
such  directions  as  shall  make  them of 
some value to the city.

Purely Personal.

II.  Fred DeGraff,  sundry  salesman  for 
the  Ilazeltine  &  Perkins  Drug  Co.,  is 
spending his week’s vacation in Chicago.
Miss  Nelle  B.  Rogers,  stenographer 
for the Hazeltine & Perkins Drug  Co.,  is 
spending her  week’s  vacation  at  Petos- 
key.

John  H.  Hoogstraat  was  called  upon 
to mourn the death  of  his  wife  Aug.  9. 
They  had  been  married  only  about  a 
year.  Gastric  fever  was  the  cause  of 
death.

J.  Harvey Mann,  who  has  been  iden­
tified  with the Gunn  Hardware Co.  since 
its organization,  has *aken  a position  in 
the  wholesale  department  of  Foster, 
Stevens Sc Co.

Amos S.  Musselmau  has been confined 
to  his bed by  illness  since  last  Friday. 
He was so far  recovered  Monday that he 
expected to resume  his  usual  duties  by 
the middle of the week.

Wilder  D.  Stevens  and  son,  Forris, 
left Tuesday  for  Detroit,  whence  they 
ship  on  an  Anchor 
line  vessel  to 
Duluth,  thence  to  Buffalo  and  back  to 
Detroit,  the  round  trip  requiring  two 
weeks.

Orris S.  Hawes,  purchasing  agent  for 
Buckley & Douglas and  the  Manistee  & 
Northeastern Railroad Co.,  at  Manistee, 
has resigned his position,  to  take  effect 
Sept.  1,  when he will  go to  Grayling and 
take charge  of  the  lumber  business  of 
Sailing,  Hanson & Co.  for a  few months, 
after which  be  will  assume  control  of 
the  Detroit  office  of  that  firm.  Mr. 
Hawes was  born  in  Housatonic,  Mass., 
March 9,  1868, coming west in the spring 
of 1884 and locating  in  Manistee,  where 
he entered the employ  of  the  hardware 
firm of Parry,  Mee  Sc Co.,  remaining  in 
their employ  until  January,  1891,  when 
he resigned to take the  position  he  has 
just  resigned.  Mr.  Hawes  is  a  young 
man of ability and energy  and will sure­
ly meet with success  in  any  avenue  in 
which he may cast his lot.

The Dry Goods Market.

Prints—Are  very  low  in  price.  A 
large trade  has  been  done  during  July 
and August on new fall work.

Cambrics—Are non  quoted  at 3%c  for 
best grade  and  3Mc  for  second quality.
Dress Goods—Jobbers are now  getting 
their assortments in stock.  Prices range 
from  10M@37Mc in mixtures, plaids and 
stripes.  Covert  cloths  are  having  first 
call.
Cottons—Lawrence  L  L  and  Beaver 
Dam are now jobbed at 4Mc  in bale lots.
As soon as  the  Knights  of  Labor  re­
solved  to  attend  to their  own business, 
keep out of  politics  and  other  people’s 
strikes,  the  high-salaried  agitators  im­
mediately lay  plans  to  organize  a  Uni­
versal  Federation  of  Labor  that  will 
knock  the  knights  ont  and  make them 
sick.  They will  need  the  assistance  of 
workingmen,  and will not succeed.
“What’s  the  matter  that  there  is  no 
dinner  ready?’’  asked  the  labor leader. 
“The cook quit,”  replied  the  wife,  lean­
ing back in her chair and fanning gently. 
“Why don’t  you  get  it  ready  yourself? 
You know how well enough.’’  “Me! I’m 
out  on  a  sympathetic  strike  with  the 
cook.”

536

584

FOR  SALE,  WANTED,  ETC.
TXT ANTED—FURNITURE  AND  FIXTURES 
for  a  drug  store.  Price  must  be right. 
TV 
Address C. W. Vining, Lakeview,  Mich. 
\ \ T ANTED  FOR  CASH—STOCK  GENERAL 
TV  merchandise.  Must be cheap.  Also store 
building in Northern Michigan.  W.  II.  Pardee, 
Freeport,  Mich. 
YX7ANTED —TO EXCHANGE STORE  BUILD- 
ingin  Vassar,  Mich.,  for  stock  of  mer­
TT 
chandise worth about -Si ,600.  Store to rent.  Ad­
dress T. W., 506 Cherry St., Toledo,  Ohio.  582
TOTANTED—A DEALER IN EVERY COUNTY 
Send 
' v 
for circular.  Barker  & Saunders, State Agents, 
19 and 2t Fountain St., Grand Rapids. 
£83

to handle the Peerless typewriter. 

IF YOU  WANT  TO  SELL  OR  TRADE,  SEND 

a list of your  property  and  25  cents  to  pay 
for advertising  same.  We  have  a  good  many 
chances  for  you.  Address Business  Men's Ex 
change,  Bay City, Mich. 
580

f lOR  SALE—TWO  PRESCRIPTION  CASES, 

one  pair  druggist's  prescription  scales, 
four section  druggist's drawers (only  one  year 
old), six four foot show cases, very  cheap.  Ad­
dress ;C. G. Pitkin, Whitehall, Mich. 

581

OR  SALE—FIRST-CLASS  FIXTURES  FOR 
hotel,  restaurant and bar in best city of 10, 
000 people in Ohio, five railroads and good  man­
ufacturing town;  twenty-four  rooms  In  hotel; 
low rent and a 10  year  lease.  Address  Palace, 
Hotel, Fostoria, Ohio. 

555

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 #15 you can now  get  for  ft.  Four­
teen  labels  do  the  work  of  113.  Tradesman 
Company,  Grand Rapids.

578

OR  SALE—LARGE  STORE,  WAREHOUSE, 
barn, etc., with  one-half Interest  in  stock 
of general merchandise in the village of McBain, 
Missaukee county, Mich.  For terms write to Gil- 
lisMcBsin, McBain, Mich. 

■ AXTED-A  GOOD  SMALL  SECOND- 
hand safe.  Must be cheap  Write us par­
ticulars.  Morden & Miner, Alma, Mich. 
OR  SALE  OR  EXCHANGE—2.4UO  ACRES 
of A No. 1 white  and red  oak  and  hickory 
timber  in  northwestern  Louisiana,  fonr  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 
5?6
The new Waldron Building, opposite union 
depot, 50x80 feet.  Three stories  ana  basement. 
Suitable for wholesale trade.  Apply to Scribner 
Bros., 67 Lyon  St. 
5,5

BIO  RENT—BEST  LOCATION  IN THE CITY.

■ ANTED—STOCK  OF  GROCERIES—NOT 

F~ O l  SALE—A  COMPLETE  STOCK  OF 

to  exceed  $1,500—in  exchange  for  cash 
and real estate in a thriving Nebraska city.  Ad 
573
dress F. H. Clark, Ashley, Ind. 
TANTED—STOCK  OF  GOODS.  WILL PAY 
spot cash.  Must  be  cheap.  Don’t  write 
' 
unless you mean  business.  Address  Warner  & 
Dunbar, Parma, Mich. 
574
drugs  and  fixtures.  Will  Invoice  about 
$2,000.  Corner  store.  Nice  location.  Rent, 
I  have  just  invented  and 
$16.50  per  month. 
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. 

F or  sa le—a  f in e   c o n fec tio n e r y

store in Traverse  City,  the  queen  city  of 
the North.  Best location in town.  Will invoice 
about $1,800.  Terms, one half cash,  balance  on 
time  with  approved  notes.  Address  No.  567, 
care Michigan  Tradesman. 
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. 
EARLY  NEW  BAR-LOCK  TYPEWRITER 
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. 

566

569

.r67

564

56 i

S1REAT  OFFER—PINE  STOCK  OP  WALL 

C  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.  Alt  hew  stock, in­
voicing  from  $2,500  to  $3,000.  Address  Mrs. 
Theresa Schwind, Grand Rapids. 

Grand Rapids, the Harris mill property  situated 

■   BUSINESS CHANCE—FOR  SALE  OR E x­

change for farm or city property in or near 
in Paris, Mecosta, Co., Michigan, on  the G. R. & 
I.  Railroad, consisting of saw and planing mills, 
store 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. 

■I n n in g   fa c to r y  w a n t ed—a  pa r ty

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. 

I)LANING  MILL—WE  OFFER  FOR  SALE 

the North Side Planing Mill,  which is first- 
class in every  respect,  or  will  receive  proposi­
tions to locate the business in some other  tnriv- 
I ingtown.  Correspondence and inspection solic- 
> ited,  Sheridan, Boyce & Co., Manistee, Mich. 613

559

553

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAM.

Dry Goods Price Current.

U N B LEA C H ED   COTTONS.

CURRENT  CRITICISMS.

If the Capitol at  Washington  only had 
a windmill on it,  the tariff debate  might 
not be without tangible results.

*  *  *

There  wasn’t  anything  sinister,  was 
there,  in making Fred  Ball  chairman  of 
the picnic sports committee?

*  *  *

There  is  a  man  in  this  city  named 
Szezyglowski. 
Isn’t that sufficient proof 
that our immigration law need to  be rad­
ically  changed?

*  *  *

T h e T radesm an  has  it  on  good  au­
thority that  a new secret society is being 
organized,  something  like  the  Mafia  or 
Molly  Maguires,  whose main object will 
be to kidnap United  States Senators and 
slowly torture  them to death  by reading 
their tariff speecheh to them.

*  *  *

The Sugar Trust has  done  its  best  to 
sweeten the tariff debate in Congress;  but 
judging by the way some of the Senators 
are  squealing,  their  sugar  must  have 
soured on their stomachs.
*  *  *

Life may be a very  pleasant thing and 
all that,  but  when a  man  stops  you  on 
the  street  and  asks  you if gooseberries 
are from the egg  plant, you lose some of 
the sweetness of it,  to say the least.

*  *  *

The people  whom  Sovereign,  Debs  & 
Co. so ably misrepresent seem to be sour- 
ng  on  them.  Their  jaws  are  losing 
heir grip.

*  #  *

Debs is thinking seriously of taking to 
the lecture platform.  A dime museum  is 
suggested for his distinguished consider­
ation.

*  *  *

As a weather  prophet,  Brother  Harris 
out-Wiggins  Wiggins.  But how-does he 
get his information?

*  *  *

The Street Railway  Co.  did  the square 
thing by the grocers  this year.  You can 
always  get  what  you  want  from  the 
Street Railway Co.—if you pay for it.

*  *  *

Senator Peffer may soon have an oppor­
tunity to reflect upon  the fleeting nature 
of earthly  fame.  There  is  an  aspirant 
for  congressional  honors 
in  Kansas 
whose  whiskers  are  several  feet longer 
than  Peffer’s.

*  *  *

If the  foot  and  mouth  disease  would 
only strike  Congress!  There  is  no good 
reason why it should not.

A Great  Surprise.

He was  about  as  close  fisted  as  they 
ever get in this world,  and he got no bet­
ter as he grew older.  On his  wife’s  last 
birthday a neighbor stopped in his office.
“By  the  way,”  said  the  old  fellow, 
“this is my wife’s birthday,  and  I  want 
to surprise  her some  way.  What would 
you suggest?”

The visitor had it in a minute.
“Urn—er,”  he hesitated.  “Give  her a 
85 bill,  and it will  be  the surprise of her 
life.”

There  is,  perhaps,  nothing 

in  the 
world of business  which brings  so rapid 
a return in dollars and  cents,  and  which 
so  quickly  develops  a  good  trade  as 
politeness and equability of  temper.  On 
the other hand, there  is  something  that 
is  called  “gush”  which,  although  in­
tended  for  politeness  drives  many  a 
customer away and has the very opposite 
effect to that intended.  A  business man 
should  neither  talk  too  much  nor  too 
little,  and  always  use  discretion  and 
prudence in what he  says.

Adriatic.................7
A rgyle...................  55£
Atlanta AA............ 6
Atlantic A

“  H............  6 H
“ 
P ............   5
“  
D .............   6
“  LL............... 4Mt
Amory.....................  6%
Archery  Bunting...  4 
Beaver Dam  A A ..  414
Blackstone O, 32__5
Black Crow............   6
Black Rock  ...........
Boot, AL................  7
Capital  A................5 >4
Cavanat V..............514
Chapman cheese cl.  3)4
Clifton C R.............. 514
Comet....................... 614
Dwight Star............  614
Clifton CCC...........514

11 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Arrow Brand 414 
World Wide.  6
Iff....... ........ 414
Pull Yard Wide.......614
Georgia  A.............. 614
Honest Width........  6
Hartford A .............6
Indian Head...........  614
King A  A................614
King EC.................  6
Lawrence  L L ........414
Madras cheese cloth 644
Newmarket  G........  544
B.........  5
N.........614
DD....  514
X ........644
Nolbe R..................  5
Our Level  Best...... 6
Oxford  R ...............   6
Pequot....................7
Solar.......................  6
Top of the  Heap__7
Geo. Washington...  8
Glen Mills.............   7
Gold Medal............ 714
Green  Ticket..........814
Great Palls............. 614
Hope....................... 714
Just  Ont.......   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
Snnllght.................   414
Utica  Mills............ 814
“  Nonpareil  ..10
Vlnyard..................814
White Horse...........6
814

“ 

Bleached. 
Housewife  Q .„.
R ......

BLEA C H ED   COTTONS.

A B C ......................814
Amazon...................8
Amsburg.................6
Art Cambric...........10
Blackstone A A...... 714
Beats All.................4
Boston.................... 12
Cabot.......................644
Cabot, * ................. 644
Charter  Oak...........514
Conway W..............  714
Cleveland.............  6
Dwight Anchor----  8
shorts  8
Edwards..................6
Empire....................   7
Farwell....................714
Fruit of the  Loom.  8
Pitch ville  ............  7
First Prize..............6
Fruit of the Loom 44. 714
Pairmount.............. 414
Pull Value.............. 644
Cabot.......................  644! Dwight Anchor
Farwell................... 7^1

Rock.
H A L F   BLEA C H ED   COTTONS.

“  

“ 

CANTON  FL A N N E L .

Unbleached.
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
•* 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Housewife  A ... — 544
B...
....5*
C .... ....6
D... — 614
E ...
F ...
...7V,
G  ..
....7*
H ... — 7Ií
I  ...
8M
J ...
...8 *
9*4
K...
...10
L.  ..
....1014 
...11 
....21 
....1414
C A R PE T   W A R P .

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

1014

“ 
“ 

“ 
" 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

CORSET  JE A N S .

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

d r e s s   eoons.

Peerless, white..— 17  ¡Integrity  colored... 18
colored — 19  White Star..............17
“  colored  .19
Integrity................. 18141 
..............8
Hamilton 
Nameless................ 20
...............9
......... 25
 
....2714
G G  Cashmere........20
......... 30
Nameless  ...............16
......... 3214
....35

................18COSSETS.
Corallne.....................69 GO
Schilling’s ...................9 00
Davis  Waists......   9 00
Grand  Rapids........4 50
Armory.................. 644
Androscoggin.........714
Blddeford.............  6
Brunswick............. 614
PR I]
Allen turkey  reds..  514
robes...........514
pink a purple 514
buffs...........  SH
pink  checks.  5%
staples........  5
shirtings ...  344 
American fancy—   5V4 
American Indigo...  414 
American shirtings.  344 
Argentine  Grays...  6 
Anchor Shirtings...  4 
....  6
Arnold 
Arnold  Merino......6
long cloth B.  9 
“ 
“ 
“  C.  714
“ 
century cloth 7
“  gold seal......1014
“  green seal TR1014 
“  yellow seal.. 1014
“ 
serge............ U14
“  Turkey red.. 1014
“ 

Wonderful.............64 50
Brighton..................4 75
Bortree’s .................9 00
Abdominal...........15  00
Naumkeagsatteen..  714
Rockport.................. 614
Conestoga.................714
Walworth................ 644
res.
Berwick fancies —   514
Clyde Robes...........
Charter Oak fancies 4 
DelMarlne cashm’s.  514 
mourn’g  514 
Eddystone fancy...  514 
chocolat  514 
rober  ...  514 
sateens.. 514 
Hamilton fancy.  ...  514 
staple....  514 
Manchester fancy..  514 
new era. 514 
Merrimack D fancy.  514 
Merrlm’ck shirtings.  4 
“  Reppfnrn.  814
Pacific fancy..........514
“ 
Portsmouth robes...  614 
Simpson ntonrnlng.. 544
greys........544
solid black.  544 
Washington indigo.  614 
“  Turkey robes..  7M 
“  India robes....  714 
“  plain Tky X 44  814 
" 
“  X...10
“  Ottoman  Tur­
key red.................. 614
Martha Washington
Turkey red 44........ 714
Martha Washington
Turkey red..........   914
Riverpolntrobes....  514
Windsor fancy........614
Indigo  bine......... 1014
Harmony.................  414
Amoskeag AC A .... 1114
AC A ......................1114
Hamilton N  ...........  7
Pemberton AAA.... 16
D............   8
York.......................1014
Awning..11
Swift River............ 714
Parmer  .................. 8
Pearl River............12
First Prise............. 1014
Warren...................1214
Lenox M ills.......... 18
Conostoga............. 16
Atlanta,  D..............  644¡Stark  A .................8
Boot........................   644 No Name...................714
|Topof Heap............  9
Clifton, K 

Ballon solid olack..
“  colors.
Bengal bine,  green, 
red and  orange...  6
Berlin solids...........  514
“  oil bine.......   6
“ 
“  green —   6
“  Poniards  ...  514 
red 44 —  
“ 
7
“  X ...........   #14
“ 
“ 
“  4 4..........10
« 
« 34XXXX 12
Cocheco fancy........5
“  madaers...  5
“  XXtwills..  5
“ 
solids......... 5

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

gold  ticket

COTTON  DRILL.

.............7 

TIC K IN G S.

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

DSMINS.

“ 

“ 
“ 

Columbian  brown.. 12
Everett, blue...........1214
brown....... 1214
Haymaker blue........ 744
brown...  7*
Jeffrey.................... 1114
Lancaster  .............. 1214
Lawrence, 9oz........ 13i4
No. 220.. ..13
No. 250....1114
No. 280... 1014

■* 
“ 
“ 
B IN G H A M S.
Lancaster,  staple...  6
fancies__7
“ 
“  Normandie  7
Lancashire.............   6
Manchester............   544
Monogram..............614
Normandie............  7
Persian................... 7
Renfrew Dress........714
Rosemont............... 614
Slatersvllle.......T...  6
Somerset.................7
Tacoma  .................714
Toil  duNord......... 814
Wabash.................. 714
seersucker..  714
Warwick...............   6
Whittenden............   8
heather dr.  714 
indigo blue 9 
Wamsutta staples...  644
Westbrook..............8
............ 10
Wlndermeer........... 6
York  ...................... 644

“  Persian dress 6h 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Amoskeag.............. 12
9 os......14
brown .14
Andover................. 1114
Beaver Creek  AA... 10 
“ 
BB...  9
“ 
CC....
Boston Mfg Co.  br..  7 
“ 
blue  814 
“  d a  twist 1014 
Columbian XXX br.10 
XXX  bl.19
“ 
Amoskeag.l..............5
Canton ..  7
AFC........8H
Teazle...1014 
Angola..1014 
Persian..  7
Arlington staple__ 614
Arasapha  fancy__444
Bates Warwick dres  714 
staples.  6
Centennial.............  1014
Criterion................1014
Cumberland staple.  514
Cumberland............. 5
Essex........................414
Elfin.......................   714
Everett classics......814
Exposition............... 714
Glenarle.................  6)4
Glenarven................ 644
Glenwood.................714
Hampton.................. 5
14 
Johnson Chalon cl 
Indigo blue 914 
zephyrs__16
Amoskeag.................13 
Stark........................ 17 
American.................13  |  

GRAIN  BABB.

“ 
“ 

“ 

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

¡Georgia.1314

THREADS.

No.

KNITTING  COTTON.

Clark’s Mile End....45  ¡Barbour's................95
Coats’, J. & P.........45  Marshall’s  ..............90
Holyoke................. 22141
White. Colored.
White. Colored
42
38 No.  14... ....37
6  .
..33
43
38
“  16... ....38
8... ...34
44
10... ....35
40
*-  18... ....39
“  20... ....40
46
...36
41
12...
Edwards................  4
Slater......................   4
Lockwood................ 4
White Star.............  4
Wood’s ...................   4
Kid Glove...............  4
Brunswick............  4
Newmarket.............. 4

“ 

M IX ED   FL A N N E L .

DO M ET  FL A N N E L .

...... 814010  I 

R E D   F L A N N E L .
TW ...
..............2214
F T ............ ............. 8214
J R P , XXX............35
Buckeye.................8214

Fireman.................3214
Creedmore............. 2714
Talbot XXX........... 30
Nameless............... 2714
Red & Bine,  plaid..40
Union R ................. 2214
Windsor................. 1814
6 oz Western........... 20
Union  B ................. 2214
Nameless...... 8  @ 914| 

Grey SR W.............1714
Western W  .............1814
D R P ......................1814
Flushing XXX........2314
Manitoba................ 2314
9 01014
1214
Brown. Black.
1014
1114
12
20

CANVASS  AND  P A D D IN B .
914
1014
1114
1214

“
»
Slate. Brown. Black. Slate
9* 1014
014
1014 1114
1014
1114 12
1114
1214 20
1214
D U C K S.
Severen, 8 oz.......... 914
May land, 8 oz.........1014
Greenwood, 714 oz..  914 
Greenwood, 8 oz— 1114 
Boston, 8 oz............1014
White, dot............. 25  ¡Per bale, 40 doz
Colored, doz.......... 20  ¡Colored 
“  ...
Slater, Iron Cross...  8 
Red Cross....  9
Best..............1014
Best AA...... 1214
L............................... 714
G...............................814
Cortlcelll, doz........ 85  [Cortlcelll  knitting,

West  Point, 8 oz— 1014 
10 oz  ...1214
“ 
Raven, lOoz.............1314
 
Stark 
1814
Boston, 10 oz........... 1214
.68 50 
.  7 50
Pawtneket...............1014
Dnndle...................   9
Bedford........ . 
...1014
Valley  City.............1014
K K ......................... 1014

1014
1D4
12
20

SB WINB  SILK.

per 14oz  ball........ 30

twist,doz..40 
50yd,doz..40  I
HOOKS AND ETNS—PER SBOSS.
“ 
“ 

No  1 Bl’k & Whlte..l0  INo  4 Bl’k & White..15
..20
..26
No 2—20, M C......... 50  ¡No 4—15  J 314........40

..12 “ 8 
..12  I  “  10 
FINS.

W AD D IN G S.

s iL E siA B .

“ 
“ 

2 
8 

“ 

3-18.SC ..........45 

|

4 
6 

No  2 White & Bl’k..l2  ¡No  8 White A Bl’k.,20 
.28
..26
No2........................28  |NoS......................... 38

COTTON  TAPE.
..15 
“  10 
..18  1“  12 
SAFETY  FINS.

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

NEEDLES—PER  M.

A. James................1  40| Steamboat.............  40
Crowely’s....... .  ....1  85 Gold Eyed..............l  50
Marshall’s..............1 OOlAmerican..................1  00
|5—4....1  65  6—4...2 30
5—4....  1  75  6—4... 

TABLE  OIL  CLOTH.

COTTONT WINES.

Cotton Sail Twine. .28
Crown.................... 12
Domestic............... 1814
Anchor...................16
Bristol.........   ........13
Cherry  Valley........15
I XL....................... 1814

Nashua................... 14
Rising Star 4-ply__ 17
8-ply.... 17
North Star.............. 20
Wool Standard 4 plyl7!4 
Powhattan.............16

T‘ 

Alamance.

Haw  J.

PLAID  OSNABURBS

6* Mount  Pleasant.. -  614
.  IM Oneida.................
.  5
- 714 Prymont  ............
•  5%
.  6 Randelman.........
.  6
614 Riverside............
.  514
Sibley  A..............
-  5* 
•  614
.  5
Toledo  ...............
.  5 Otis checks... 
..
.  7X

I*  '7  M

4 

¥

< 

>

SEEDS!

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.  We are 
headquarters for egg cases  and  egg 
case tillers.
W. T  LJMBRERUXCO.l»

i 3d°g*e1its::

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

1 NEW IDEA.

You  will  remember  that  Goliah  was 
very much surprised when David hit him 
with a stone.  He  said  that such a thing 
had  never  entered  his  head  before.  A 
good many retail grocers are in  the same 
predicament  as  Goliah  was  before  he 
rubbed  up  against  David—they  1 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. LYON & CO.

NEW  STYLES  OF

ce low,

20 &  22 .Monroe  St.,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

Avoid  the
Gifrse  of  Credit 
C O U P O N

BY  USING

#

B O O K S

THREE  GRADES!

Tradesman,
Superior,
Universal.

only by

TRADESMAN  COÍ1PANY,

Grand Rapids,  Mich.

f.-i

w  *

V,r
4 -
* t ’

-TECH)  M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

7

CHICAGO VS.  BALTIMORE.

ship?

Which Liar is Entitled to the Champion­
'About July l  the Olney & Judson Gro­
cer Co.  received  a circular  from  a manu­
facturing  glassware  house,  saying  that 
the  fruit  crop  this  year  would  be  the 
largest harvested  for  years  and  that  it 
would be a good idea to  lay in  a big sup­
ply of fruit jars,  as there  was sure  to be 
the  biggest  kind  of a demand  for them. 
The same mail  brought a  letter  from  a 
firm of canned goods brokers, stating that 
fruit would be  all but a  failure this sea­
son,  and canned fruits were bound to ad­
vance sharply.  The  writer urged imme­
diate  purchases  before  the  inevitable 
raise took place.  Heman G. Barlow,  who 
conducts the correspondence in these de­
partments, scenting a joke from the con­
flicting nature of the circulars,  and  with 
malice aforethought,  sent the  glassware 
people’s circular to the  brokers,  and  the
brokers’  to  the  glassware  people.  This 
was  just  like  Barlow,  and  be  and  his 
house are having acres of fun as a result. 
The canned  goods  brokers  answered  as 
follows:

Ba ltim ore,  Md., July 6—Your valued 
favor 3rd,  enclosing E.  O.  Ward  &  Co.’s 
circular  in  regard  to  fruit  jars,  is  re­
ceived,  and  we  have  had  the  heartiest 
kind  of  a  laugh  over  it.  We have not 
been mean about it, as we like our friends 
to share our fun, and  we have,  therefore, 
taken the liberty to show it to almost the 
entire trade  here.  Uncle  Jake  Armsby 
is away  up in Alaska,  or  some other sea­
port,  or we would get him  to make some 
editorial comments in  his  “pink paper.”
Deacon Fenton  is  in ---- well,  we  don’t
know exactly where  he is,  but we  know 
where he ought  to be.  The  Peach  Liar 
will  have  to  go  out  of business now to 
make room for the Fruit Jar Liar.  Ward 
will sell his  fruit jars  to  somebody,  but 
we rather  guess he wont sell any  to Bar- 
low.  We have  hung  Ward’s circular on 
the wall in our  office, and every time the 
writer passes it,  he raises  his hat  to  the 
only worthy successor to Ananias.

Yours  very truly.

T hos.  J.  Mee h a n  & Co.

The desire of  Meehan & Co.  to  “ bull” 
the canned goods market  was a perfectly 
natural one, and they could only do it by 
making the fruit  crop a  small  one.  On 
the other hand,  the  glassware men  must 
“ bear”  the  fruit crop if they would sell 
jars.  So they  make the crop a large one, 
which is the usual  resort of the bears on 
any market. 
If  Ward & Co.,  could con­
vince the trade that fruit would be plenty 
they  could  sell  jars.  Here  is  Ward & 
Co.’s comment on Meehan’s circular:

Chicago,  July  5—They  used  to  say 
that a Barlow knife was a standard of all 
that was good and  would just  about  be­
gin  to  cut  where  others  left  off.  We 
thiuk you must  belong  to that branch of 
the Barlow  family,  for a  man  who  will 
cut a poor fruit jar dealer this year must 
possess a pretty  sharp edge aud a  tough 
one, also.
The  difference  between  Meehan  and 
ourselves is that Meehan is trying to sell 
peaches, while we are trying to sell jars.
If you will  furnish us  with  copies  of 
any  repoft  which  has  been issued by a 
peach  salesman  within  the  history  of 
man wherein the  peach  crop  was  not  a 
failure  until  it  got  on  the market, you 
will add  some  very  interesting  data  to 
our office  records,  and  we shall have the 
pleasure of having it  framed and  put on 
exhibition.  We supposed it  was  gener­
ally understood that the  peach  crop was 
always a failure until the growers had so 
many  peaches  that  they  oould  not  get 
cars to move them.
If peaches are  not a drug on  the  mar­
ket  this  fall  we miss our guess.  When 
Whitney,  of  Philadelpbial  comes  West 
looking for jars to  take  care  of  his  de­
mand,  as  he  has  been doing during the 
past week;  when  our  sales  in  the  East 
over those of the West, for the past thirty

n rw
r 
^
4.  ll-J

K 'n

r('u:i i V

I
,1  i

11

V :.r
4 -

days,  have been  as  ten to one;  when  we 
find on our desk this morning inquiries for 
a number of cars from  Baltimore (one of 
which states that they are jobbing quarts 
at $5 and one-half gallons at $7),  we  be­
gin  to think that  that  church  member is 
a backslider,  and  that he  will  be  ready 
even  to  tackle  peach  brandy before the 
season is over.
You  will  probably  find  Mr.  Meehan, 
along  about  peach crop  time, giving his 
entire attention to oysters, and if he con­
tinues to issue  circulars  in  the  line  of 
his present peach crop  circulars,  he will 
feel  like joining  McGinty at  the  bottom 
of the sea,  where the oysters grow.
Hang up  both  cireulars  and  let  time 
prove who is entitled to the  front pew.
E.  O.  W akd & Co.

Yours truly,

All  this  happened  a  month  ago,  and 
the present  indications are that  the  Chi­
cago liar came nearer the truth  tbau  bis 
Baltimore  competitor,  although  it is us­
ually a standoff  between  the  prevarica­
tors of those two markets.  Those famil­
iar with the situation  assert  that  Balti-
more canned goods  brokers are so accus­
tomed to lying  that they  continue utter­
ing fairy  tales  even  after  the  apparent 
necessity  of  prevarication  has  ceased, 
whereas a  Chicago  liar  invariably  tells 
the truth  where it will serve just as well 
as the other thing.

The  letters  above  given  plainly  dis­
close  the  conflicting  position  in  which 
the dealer—wholesale as  well as retail— 
sometimes finds himself in  when endeav­
oring to ascertain the  facts in  regard  to 
the prospective demand of any staple.

Laboring  men  are  burdened  with 
cranks as much as with criminals.  There 
are those who lead  them  after the  torch 
of  anarchy  to  deeds  of  violence,  and 
those who, consciously or unconsciously, 
bewilder  and  misguide  them  by  filling 
their minds with such  folly as  we  have 
heard talked on all  sides  about  arbitra­
tion.

Four billions of paper bags are used in 
the United States every  year.  Of  these 
the  Paper  Bag  Trust  turns  out  65  per 
cent.  Not 
long  ago  a  process  was 
devised by which  three-eights of an inch 
of material could  be saved  in the cutting 
of each bag, resulting in the saving for the 
first  year of  $70,000.  One  machine  for 
making bags  will cut  and  finish  80,000 

bags a day.Cmsiol Springs woter i Fuel Go.,

Jobbers of

COAL, COKE  and  WOOD,

65  Monroe St.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Correspondence  solicited  with  outside 

dealers.

Hardware Priee Carrent.

AU G U RS AND B IT S . 

These  prices are  for cash  buyer»,  who 
pay promptly  and  buy in  full  packages.
Snell’s ........................................................... 60*10
Cook’s ........................................................... 
40
Jennings’, genuine....................................... 
25
Jennings’,  Imitation................................... 50*10
First Quality, S. B. Bronze.......................... S 6 50
D.  B. Bronze..........................  uOO
S.B.8. Steel...............................  7 50
D. B. Steel....,..........................   13 50

“ 
• 
• 

AXBS.

d l s .

bolts. 

barrows. 

dls.
Railroad.......   ..................................*12 00  14 00
Garden  .  .............................................net  30 00
dls.
Stove......... ....................................................50*10
Carriage new list 
....................................... 75*10
Plow.............................................................. 40*10
Sleigh shoe................................................... 
70
Well, plain  ................................................. • 8 50
Well, swivel.................................................   4 00
dls.
i Cast Loose Pin, flgured................ 
70*10
Wrought Narrow, bright Sast joint  40........60*10

B U T T S,  cast. 

BU C K ETS.

 

Wrought Loose Pin........................................   40
Wrought Table...............................................  40
Wrought Inside Blind...................................  41
75
Wrought Brass............................................. 
Blind,  Clark’s...............................................70*10
Blind, Parker’s................. 
70*10
....................................... 
Blind, Shepard’s 
70
BLOCKS.

Ordinary Tackle, list April  1893................60*10

 

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

CRADLES.

CROW BARS.

Cast Steel............ ................................per B>  5
Ely’s 1-10 
.....................................  
Hick’s C. P 
“ 
G. D ....................................................   “ 
Musket 
.....................................   «« 
Rim  Fire...................................................... 
Central  Fire.........   ...............................dls. 

........................................ perm-  68
60
36
60
so
28

CARTRIDGES.

Socket Pinner............................................. 75*10
Socket Framing............................................75*10
Socket Corner...............................................75*10
Socket Slicks...............................................75*10
Butchers’ Tanged Firmer..................  
40

CHISELS. 

combs. 

dll.

 
dls.

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

CHALK.

“ 

c o p p e r .
Planished, 14 os cut to size..
14x52, 14x56.14x60
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60
Cold Rolled, 14x48...............
Bottoms..............  ..............
D R IL L S. 
Morse’s Bit  Stocks......... .
Taper and straight Shank 
Morse’s Taper Shank......

per pound

dls.

DRIPPING PANS.

ELBOW S.

6H
Small sizes, ser pound................................  
06
Large sizes, per ponnd................................  
Com. 4  piece, 6 In............................doz. net 
75
40
Corrugated...........................................dls 
Adjustable............................................dls. 40*10
Clark’s, small, Ii8;  large, 126...................... 
30
Ives’, 1, *18:  2, *24;  3,*®)............................ 
25
Dlsston’s .................................................60*10-10
New American  ....................................... 60*10-10
Nicholson’s ............................................60*10-' 0
Heller’s .
Heller’s Horse R asps............   ....
GALVANIZED  IR O N .

p i l e s — New List. 

E X PA N SIV E   B IT S . 

dls.

d l s .

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

12 

13

15

Discount, 60 -10

14
GAUGES.

dls.

Iff A TTnClT 0

locks—DOOB.

Stanley Rale and  Level Co.’s......
knobs—New List.
Door, mineral, Jap. trimmings ....  .
Door,  porcelain, jap. trimmings 
..
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings
Door,  porceleln, trimmings............
Drawer  and  Shatter, porcelain......
Russell *  Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new list
Mallory, Wheeler  *   Co.’s................
Branford’s ......................................
Norwalk’s ........................................
Adze Bye........................... 
*16.00, die. 60-10
Hunt Bye  ....................................»15.00, dls. 60-10
Hunt’s........  ............  
...........118.50, dls. 20*10.
dls.
50
Sperry A Co.’s, Post,  handled...................... 
dlB.
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s ...................................  
40
40
“  P. S. A W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleable*.... 
•*  Landers,  Ferry & d s  rk’s................. 
40
"  Enterprise 
.....................................  
30
Stebbln’s Pattern..........................................60*10
Stebbln's Genuine.........................................60*10
Enterprise, self-measuring..........................  
25
Advance over  base,  on  both  Steel  and Wire.

MOLASSES GATES. 

mauls. 
MILLS. 

NAILS

dig.

dls.
dls.

RAMMERS.

H IN G ES.

Maydole  * Co.’s ...................................  .dls. 
2'
Kip’s ................................................................. dls. 2r-
Yerkes *  Plumb’s.................................. dls. 40*1;
Mason's Solid Cast Steel.......................  30c list 60
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steel  Hand__80c 40410
Gate, Clark’s, 1 ,2 ,3 ...............................dls.60Al<i
State........................................... per do*, net, 2 50
Screw Hook  and  Strap, to 12 In. 4J%  14  and
3*
%........... ............ net
8*
%........................net
X ........................ net
754
%........... ............ net
T4
...........dls.

hangers. 

dls.

 

• 

WIRE GOODS. 

HOLLOW WAR*.
 

Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track__50*10
Champion,  antl-frlctlon.............................   60*!O
Kidder, wood track .....................................  
4c
Pots................................... 
60*16
Kettles....................................  
 
60*10
Spiders  .........................................................60*10
Gray enameled..................................... 
40A10
ROUSE  furnishing  goods.
Stamped  Tin Ware...............................new list Ti
Japanned Tin Ware..................................... 
26
Granite Iron W are..................... new Us 
2t
dls.
Blight...................................................  70*10*10
Screw  Eyes.............................................70*10*16
Hook’s .....................................................70*10*10
Gate Hooks and Eyes......................... 
70*10*10
di».7o
Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s .....................
Sisal, V4 Inch and larger.............................  
7
Manilla.........................................................  oi
dls.
Steel and Iron...............................................71*10
Try and Bevels............................................. 
$
Mitre............................................................ 
at
Com.  Smooth.  Com

LEVELS. 
ROPES.

SHEET IRON.

2 90
8 00
All  sheets No. 18  and  lighter,  over 30  Inches 

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

SAND PAPER.
SASH CORD.

50
50
55
50
5a
;o

SqUAKBS. 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Discount, 10.

»9 50
2 61
2 70
2 80

SASH WEIGHTS.

dls.

,  
f(M

saws. 

traps. 

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

Silver Steel  Dla. X Cuts, per foot,__ 
Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot.... 
Special Steel Dla. X Cuts, per foot. 
Champion  and  Electric  Tooth
_ 
Tooth  X
Cats,  per  foot...........................................

Solid Eyes............................................ per ton *25
20
70
50 
“
30
dls.
Steel, Game................................................... 60*10
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s .............  
  35
Oneida Community, Hawley a Norton’s __ 
70
Mouse,  choker....................................18c per doz
Mouze, delusion............................... *1.50 per dos
dls.
Bright Market..............................................   70
Annealed Market......................................... 7b—10
Coppered Market........................................6C—10
Tinned Market............................................   62H
Coppered  Spring Steel...............................1 
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanised...............................  2 70
painted.................................  2 30
HORSE NAILS.

wire. 

“ 

WRENCHES. 

An  Sable......................................................... dls. 40*10
Putnam.......................................... 
ais.  06
Northwestern................................  
dls. 10*10
dls.
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.................... 
30
Coe’s  Genuine............................................. 
50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,.........  
76
Coe’s  Patent, malleable............................... 76*16
dl8.
Bird Cages................................................... 
50
Pomps, Cistern........................................  
75*10
Screws, New List................................... 70*1  *10
Casters, Bed a  d Plate...........................50*10*10
Dampers, American..................................... 
40
Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods........ 66*10

MISCELLANEOUS. 

METALS,
PIG TIN.

 
 

Steel nails, Dase................................................... 1 40
Wire nails, base................................................... 1 40
60.................................................................... Base Base
50......................................................  
40......................................................  
30.......... 
20............ 
16..............................  .- .¿V................ 
12...................................................... 
10...................................................... 
8.......................................................  
7 * 6 .................................................. 
4............................. 
8................................ ....................... 
2.......................................................  
Fine 8  .....................................................  
Case  10............................................. 
8............................................. 
6............................................. 
Finish 10........................................... 
8...........................................  
6...........................................  
CllnchjlO.......................................... 
8.......................................... 
.................................... 
6.. 

10
25
26
35
45
45
50
60
75
90
1  20
1  60
65
75
90
75
90
1  10
70
80
90

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

 

 

dls.

planes. 

Barrell 5S.................................................. 
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy .................................  ©46
Sclota Bench............................................. 
nso
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy.........................  040
Bench, first quality.......................................  ©40
Stanley Bole and Level Co.’s  wood........... 50*10
Fry,  Acme.............................................dl«.60—10
Common,  polished................................ dls. 
70
dls.
Iron and Tinned..........................................50—10
Copper Rivets and Burs............................... 50—10

rivets. 

pans.

PATENT PLANISHED IRON.

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

Broken packs *0 per ponnd extra.

7

ZINC.

26c
28c

BOLDER.

Pig  Large....................................................  
Pig Bars.......................................................  
Duty:  Sheet, 2t%c per ponnd.
600 ponnd  casks.......................................
Per ponnd....................................................  
Vi©K...................................................................16
Extra W iping.................................................  
lj
The  prices  of  the  many  other  qualities  of 
solder In the market Indicated by nrlvate brand? 
vary according to composition.
ANTIMONY
1 60
Cookion........................................per  ponnd
Hallett’s ...................................... 
18
TIN—MSI.YN GRADE.
10x14 IC, Charcoal........................................ 1750
..........................................  7  50
14x20 IC, 
10x14 IX, 
..........................................  9 26
14x20 IX, 
..........................................  9 26

Each additional X on this grade, *1.75.

“ 

10x14 IC,  Charcoal......................................  
1 75
14x20 IC, 
10x14 EX, 
14x20 IX, 

75
..........................................   6 75
..........................................   8 25
...  ...............................  .  9 25

Bach additional X on this grade *1.50.

“ 
“ 
“ 
TIN—ALLA WAY GRADE.
“ 
“ 
“ 

ROOFING PLATFS

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“ Worcester...................................  6 5u
14x20 IC, 
“ 
14x20 IX, 
..........................   8 50
.........................  18  50
“ 
20x28 IC, 
“  Allaway  Grade................  6 00
14x2010, 
7 50
« 
“ 
14x20 EX, 
“ 
12 50
“ 
20x28 IC, 
20x28 IX, 
“ 
“ 
15  50
BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE.
14x28 IX.......................................................114  06
14X31  IX................................   ....................15 00
- •   W 00
i& 60S ’, f”  

• I B0“8ra’ \ 1«  

 
 
 

 
 
 

8

MÎÇHIGANfflADESMAN

A WIlKItT JOUBIfAL DITOTID TO TBI

Best  Interests  of  Business  Men.

Published at

100  IjOhìs  St.f Grand Rapids,

—  BY   T H E  —

TRADESMAN  COMPANY.
One  D ollar  a  Tear,  Payable  In  Advance.

A D V ER TISIN G   RA TES  OR  A PPLIC A TIO N .

Communications  Invited  from practical  busi­

ness men.

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

Subscribers may have  the  mailing  address  of 

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

class matter.

SSfWhen  writing to any of  our  advertisers, 
please  say that  you  saw  their  advertisement In 
The Michigan T radesman.

E.  A.  STOWE. Editor.

WEDNESDAY  AUGUST  15.
A  TRAITOR IN  OFFICE.

Herbert W. Bedell  is Secretary  of the 
Central Labor  Union.  He is  also  Clerk 
of  the  Grand  Rapids  Police Court.  As 
to his oath of office in  the C.  L.  U. noth­
ing is known  outside  that  organization; 
but  as  clerk  of the  Police Court he has 
sworn to uphold and  execute the laws in 
an  impartial  manner.  The  C.  L.  U.  in 
its wisdom has  decided that  no  member 
of  a  labor  union  should  belong  to the 
State militia or any other military organ­
ization.  Mr. Bedell, as  Secretary  of tbe 
C.  L.  U.,  has mailed  to every member of 
his order, a  copy of  the  resolution  em­
bodying  the  above  prohibition.  The 
Evening Press,  of this city,  very  kindly 
says,  for Mr. Bedell,  that  be  neither ap­
proves nor disapproves of the resolution. 
Still, it  may  be  presumed  that  he  has 
••views” on the  subject,  but  hesitates to 
give them utterance until he knows what 
the public  thinks about  the  matter,  for, 
if  he  is  a  sensible  man,  he knows that 
the C.  L.  U.  is  not the  public—not by a 
large  majority.  The  C.  L.  U.  did  not 
elect  Mr.  Bedell  Clerk  of  the  Police 
Court  last  spring;  he  would  have been 
elected (if he had  been  nominated)  even 
though  the  C.  L.  U. had never existed. 
Anyway,  he was elected,  and what  some 
foolish  people  would 
like  to  know  is 
whether his  duty  to  the  public  or  his 
duty to the C.  L.  U.  is to be paramount; 
aud,  further,  whether  he  considers  it 
quite consistent  with  his oath to  uphold 
the laws,  that be should  be circulating a 
document which,  if it  has any  intention 
at  all, 
to  prevent  the 
execution of the  laws in  certain  exigen­
cies?  Mr.  Bedell may say that he neither 
approves nor  disapproves  of  the  action 
of his organization;  he may even say that 
he does not approve of it;  he  is  a  mem­
ber  of  the  C.  L.  U., and  its Secretary, 
and is doing his  utmost to  carry ti e res­
olution of the body  into effect.  Can Mr. 
Bedell figure out any  difference between 
himself and  the  strongest  supporter  of 
the resolution?  Not  only the  State,  but 
the Nation depends almost entirely  upon 
the State  militia  for  defense.  The Uni­
ted States has no great  standing  army— 
indeed,  it  needs  none—but  it would be 
worse than folly  for the  country  to  en­
deavor to get along  without some sort of

is  intended 

military  system,  and  the  organization 
and equipment of the State militia is the 
recognition of that need. 
It is  not  con­
ceded for a moment that the action of the 
C.  L.  U.  will have  any  effect  upon  the 
State militia,  but,  knowing the intention 
of that action,  the people have a right to 
take cognizance  of it;  and when  a  pub­
lic officer, a  servant of  the public,  lends 
himself to a  scheme to  break  down  the 
public defense  against disorder and mob 
rule, and even  worse, he has  no right to 
expect that the public will remain  quiet, 
or that tbe silly plea  that he  neither ap­
proves nor disapproves of  the  action  of 
the  organization  of  which he is  a mem­
ber will save him from  tbe consequences 
of his act.  The  people have  a  right  to 
expect  fealty  to  the law  in an officer of 
the law,  but they have little hope of find­
ing it in one who is  doing all  he  can  to 
make  the  execution  of the law impossi­
ble.

THE  WAR  ON THE  ANARCHISTS.
All  the  European  countries  are  now 
engaged in the serious  business  of  root­
ing  out  the  anarchists.  The numerous 
outrages perpetrated  by  these  pests  of 
society  during  the  past few  years have 
convinced 
the  European  Governments 
that the evil can  be cured only  by  a  re­
sort to extraordinary methods,  and by co­
operation  on  the  part  of  the  different 
countries  to  drive  out  dangerous anar­
chists.

The assassination of  President  Carnot 
has given a fresh  impetus to the crusade 
against anarchy, even Great Britain hav­
ing taken steps to prevent  British  terri­
tory to be used as an asylum for fugitive 
anarchists.  France has passed stringent 
special laws which cover  all  the  crimes 
connected  with  the  anarchist  propa­
ganda.  Under  these  laws  all  persons 
connected  with  anarchist  conspiracies 
can be prosecuted  and  punished,  and in­
flammatory  utterances  and  articles  are 
made crimes.

With all the rest of  the  world  arming 
against the anarchists,  the United States 
cannot afford to  remain idle  and  permit 
the fugitive criminals from all European 
countries  to  seek  the  shelter  of  our 
shores.  Such criminals will not hesitate 
to  attempt  to  prosecute  their  evil  de­
signs in this country,  and  if the Govern­
ment permits  such persons  to come here 
with  perfect  freedom,  as  at  present, it 
will  not  be  long  before  the  outrages 
which have occurred  in Europe will have 
their counterparts on  this side of the At­
lantic.

the  necessity 

Recently,  Secretary  of  the  Treasury 
Carlisle  sent  a  communication  to  the 
Senate Committee on  Immigration,  call­
ing attention to the  alarming increase in 
the number of anarchists in the country, 
and  poinring  out 
for 
changes in the  immigration  laws  which 
will  prevent  fugitive  anarchists  from 
seeking an asylum  in the  United States. 
The  Secretary points out  that the  Euro­
pean countries are  banishing large num­
bers of anarchists,  and that  these  unde­
sirable persons are flocking to the United 
States,  their presence  here being  a men­
ace  to  our  institutions  and an absolute 
danger to the people.

In order  to meet  the  threatened  dan­
ger  from  the  increase in  the number of 
the  anaacbisls, 
the  Secretary  of  the 
Treasury has had  prepared a bill which, 
while providing  for  new  immigrant  in­
spectors  to be  stationed at the principal 
ports of  emigration,  and  making  certifi­
cates from them  prerequisites for admis­

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.
sion to the  United  States,  declares  that 
anarchists and other  undesirable charac­
ters who manage  to get  to  America  are 
to  be  sent  back  at  the  expense  of the 
United States,  and that a second attempt 
at landing will constitute an offense pun­
ishable  by  imprisonment  in  a  peniten­
tiary.

buy arms and ammunition in our markets 
but must get  goods  home  as  best  they 
can  The ships of any  nation  can  carry 
them,  but they are  liable  to  seizure  by 
vessels of the hostile  powers  as  contra­
bands  of war.

This risk  makes  such  shipments diffi­
cult,  as articles contraband  of  war  are 
not defined to a  nicety.  They  are  guns 
and  ammunition,  certainly.  They  may 
be also provisions,  horses,  coal,  etc.  The 
right of search  is  possessed  by  bellige­
rents,  and  merchant  vessels  will  not 
rashly imperil the greater  part  of  their 
eargo  by  receiving  contraband  goods. 
The captain of the war craft  discovering 
contraband goods, may  conclude to seize 
the  ship  carrying  them  as  well.  The 
merchant ship  ordered  to  “lay  to”  and 
submit  to  search  can  resist  or  run. 
Either  form  of  refusal 
to  yield  gives 
license  to  the  war  ship  to  use  force, 
which  the  nation  whose  flag  the  mer­
chant man flies can not resist.

Either contestant suffering loss of ships 
must retrieve its fortunes as  best  it can. 
Until  peace  is declared,  it  can  neither 
buy nor have built for it,  in the yards of 
neutral powers,  vessels of  war. 
In  the 
recent troubles in Brazil, the government 
of  that  country  openly  purchased  and 
fitted  out  as  cruisers,  vessels  in  the 
United States.  That was  entirely  with­
in bounds, as the rebel  fleet  was  not ac­
corded belligerent right  by any power.

Grocers’  picnics  are  getting  to  be  a 
regular  and  recognized  feature  of  the 
season  in  several of the leading cities of 
Michigan.  The  grocers of this city held 
their annual picnic last  Thursday  when 
it is estimated  that  fully  15,000  people 
attended.  The  Jackson  and  Saginaw 
grocers  held  their  annual  outing  last 
week  and  3,000  and  4,000  people  at­
tended,  respectively.  The  question  is 
being asked by many, whether,  after all, 
these affairs can properly be called “gro­
cers’ ” picnics ?  The  300  grocers in this 
city  are  as  a  drop  in  the bucket com­
pared  with  the  enormous  crowd  which 
jammed the Reed’s  Lake  grounds  from 
end  to end.  To be sure, the grocers or­
ganized the picnic and advertised  it,  tfnd 
provided the principal part of the attrac­
tions which drew the people to the resort 
on that day;  but,  beyond  that,  they  do 
not  appear  in  the  affair. 
It  was  the 
Street  Railway  Co.’s  and  Caterer  Swet- 
land’s picnic,  for all  practical  purposes. 
They  reaped  the  benefit  of  it,  and  the 
grocers  did  the  work.  Either the gro­
cers should hold a picnic at  which  none 
but grocers and their  immediate  friends 
shall attend, or they  should  share  more 
largely in the profits.  They should have 
cleared not less  than  $500  from  Thurs­
day’s outing  instead  of  the  paltry  sum 
which was grudgingly doled out to them. 
The Street Railway Co.  and  other  inter­
ested parties at  Reed’s  Lake  should  be 
given  to  understand  that  in  future  if 
they  want 
the  grocers’  picnic,  they 
should  pay  for  it,  and  pay  something 
near its value.

From  Out of Town.

Calls  have  been  received  at  T h e 
T radesm an office during  the  past week 
from the following gentleman in trade:

A. C. Fassett, Watson.
Jas. Yernor,  Detroit.
Parkill & Son, Owosso.
Macomber & Bale,  Lakeview.
S  Hunting, Rockford.
M.  P.  Gale & Co., Remus.
John Crispe, Plainwell.
Hiram Monger, Sullivan.
J. Cohen,  White Cloud.

The House of  Representatives  has  al­
ready  passed  a  bill  dealing  with  this 
matter,  but  Secretary  Carlisle  does not 
deem  it  stringent  enough.  Tbe  people 
of  this  country  have no  sympathy with 
the anarchists or their aims,  and are per­
fectly willing to look upon them  as  out­
laws,  unworthy  of the  right  of  asylum 
in any civilized country.
OUR  LACK  OF  NAVAL  RESOURCES.
The  present  war  between  China  and 
Japan  is  likely  to  bring  the  United 
States  into  a  more  or  less  conspicuous 
position  with respect to  the  other  first- 
class  powers.  This  country  has  im­
portant  trade  relations  with  both  the 
belligerents,  and  a  considerable  num­
ber  of  American  citizens  reside  within 
the boundaries of  the  two  nations  now 
at  war.  Although  our  government  has 
announced 
it  would  occupy  a 
strictly neutral position,  it will  be  com­
pelled  to  protect  American  commerce 
in the far East, as well  as  to  guard  the 
lives and property of  American  citizens 
residing in that part of the world.

that 

It will be necessary to keep  the Amer­
ican Ministers and Consuls  at their posts 
in both China and Japan, and,  to do this, 
a sufficient  naval  force  will  have to  be 
dispatched to safeguard these  diplomatic 
agents.  At the present time  the  United 
States  has  in  the  neighborhood  of  the 
hostilities but two vessels—one a modern 
warship of the best type,  and the other a 
worthless old tub,  incapable  of  making 
the voyage home  to  be  broken  up.  By 
dispatching 
from  San 
Francisco,  and  sending  two  ships  from 
the Behring Sea patrol, it would  be  pos­
sible to concentrate a  small  squadron of 
five ships on the China  station  within  a 
few weeks.

the  Charleston 

A force of five ships will  prove utterly 
inadequate  to  properly  safeguard  our 
interests in China and Japan.  When the 
resources of the two  contending  powers 
are  considered,  it  is  evident  that  the 
hostile operations  will  be extensive and 
spread over a considerable  area,  hence it 
will be impossible for five  ships to guard 
more than a few points.

country,  even 

The  total  inadequacy  of  our  fleet  to 
properly look after  the  extensive  inter­
ests  of  th 
in  time  of 
peace, is becoming daily more  apparent. 
More ships  are urgently needed,  and yet 
Congress  has  made no  provision  at  the 
present session for additions to  the fleet, 
beyond  a  few 
torpedo-boats,  which, 
while excellent in their  way,  are  of  no 
service on foreign stations.

OBLIGATIONS  OF  NEUTRALS.

The formal declaration of  war between 
nations  imposes  obligations  on  neutral 
powers.  These  are  defined  by  inter­
national law,  and  governments  are sup­
posed to  be  particular  in  their  observ­
ance.

There can  be  no enlistment in  neutral 
countries for the army or navy  of  either 
belligerent.  There can  be no sale of war 
vessels to either,  nor  any  fitting  out  of 
ships designedly  for service  in  behalf of 
either.  Penalty in the form  of fine  and 
imprisonment  is  prescribed  for  infrac­
tion  of  this law.  The  belligerents  can !

T H E   M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A J S

}>

A r e   Y ou   S e llin g

* S f |Z F   N O T ,  W H Y   N O T ?

A  TRANS-ASIATIC  RAILWAY.
When  a  railway  line  was  completed 
from New York to San Francisco, in 1870, 
one of the greatest works for the purpose 
of 
interior  transportation  ever  under­
taken in  the world was accomplished.

From New York to the Missouri River, 
at Council Blutfs,  in  Iowa,  the work was 
done entirely by  private  enterprise  and 
with private capital.  But  that vast sec­
tion from the Missouri River  to  the  Pa­
cific  Ocean  was  completed  by  Govern­
ment aid.  The United States loaned its 
credit in the form of  Government  bonds 
to two companies—the Union Pacific and 
Central  Pacific—which  carried  on  the 
work.  That loan is likely to prove a gift, 
since  the  two  companies  have  become 
practically  bankrupt,  as, it  is  claimed, 
through  the  plundering  operations  of 
some  of  their  stockholders,  and  thus 
were founded some of the great  fortunes 
of the California railway kings.

Nevertheless, 

the  completion  of  a 
transcontinental railway from the Atlan­
tic to the Pacific Ocean was a great affair in 
its day, and attracted deserved attention, 
exerting, as it  did,  an  important  effect 
upon the internal commerce of the  coun­
try, and  being  the  pioneer  step  in  an 
active  movement  of  railway  building 
that has covered the vast region of coun­
try  between the  Mississippi  River  and 
the  Pacific  Ocean  with  a  network  of 
steel tracks and of telegraph wires which 
to-day  are  peculiarly  the  evidences  of 
material progress.

The distance by  rail  from  New  York 
to San  Francisco  is  3,450  miles. 
It  is 
but a bagatelle compared  with  the  dis­
tance by land from the waters  of  the At­
lantic, across  Russia and Siberia,  to  the 
Pacific Ocean.  From the  Russian  ports 
of  Riga  and  Reval,  on  the  Baltic, 
to 
Vladivostok, on the Sea of Japan,  by the 
route a railroad  would occupy,  is  9,500 
miles.  A  railroad  already  completed 
from  the  west  to  Cheliabinsk,  in  the 
Ural Mountains,  is  in  progress  of  con­
struction over this route.

The Russian Empire,  with  an  era  ex­
ceeding 8,500,000  square  miles,  or  one- 
sixth of the  land  surface  of  the  globe, 
and about  110,000,000  inhabitants,  pos­
sesses enormous resources,  especially  in 
Siberia,  which will enable it  to  compete 
with the greatest commercial  nations  of 
the world when  the  Siberia  Railway  is 
once  working;  but  the  principal  incen­
tive for the construction  of  the  railway 
by the  Russian  Government  is  a  stra­
tegic one, just as much as in  the  case of 
the Transcaspian Railway  from  the Cas­
pian Sea to Samarkand,  which,  however, 
has risen to the greatest  commercial  im­
portance, spreading the  sphere  of  Rus­
sian influence to  Persia,  the  Turkoman 
steppes, Afghanistan,  and  on the  Pamir 
plateau.  Along  its  whole  breadth  Si­
beria meets the Chinese Empire,  with its 
400,000,000  inhabitants,  on  the  borders 
of  eastern  Turkestan,  Mongolia  and 
Manchuria.

The profound respect and  friendly at­
titude  of  the  Russian  Government  to­
ward the United States,  as  well  as  the 
tacit agreement with  France,  which only 
nowadays  has  so  Energetically  pushed 
forward its boundaries in Siam,  at  such 
a vast sacrifice  of  blood  and  money  in 
Tonquin and Cochinchina, shows  clearly 
that Russia  understands  very  well  the 
necessity of a triple alliance of  its  own.
The propriety of any  sort  of  alliance 
between such a despotism  as Russia and 
a  popular  representative  republic  like

f*  T  "•&
*  i  ►4 -

T

Tf  * 

r U.

r  J   -

V  i 4

j V w-
L 

y y

r

V ^  *

I

>|4 ^ (*

4 V

i

the United States must always be  highly 
questionable,  if  not  wholly  ill-assorted 
and  improper;  but  it  is  evidently  re­
garded in Russia as  not  only  eminently 
proper,  but  extremely  desirable,  and, 
without doubt,  Russia calculates on it in 
the event of a conflict which is at any time 
possible should  Russia’s  aggressions  in 
Asia trench too much upon England’s in­
terests there. The present conflict between 
China and Japan,  over  Corea, may  even 
prove to be both  an  excuse  and  an  op­
portunity for operations in Asia.

to 

Of  course, 

the  Siberian  Railway 

is 
primarily  a  commercial  venture.  The 
vast  region  of  Asiatic  Russia  through 
which it passes is  thinly  populated. 
In 
many places the land is fertile, while the 
mountain regions contain  rich  mines  of 
gold,  platinum and  gems.  The  country 
must  be  filled  up  with  population  to 
make  its  resources  available.  Russia 
has not yet become a  land of refuge  and 
of  promise 
immigration.  Russia 
wants slaves and serfs,  not  people  who 
cherish free thoughts and desire  free in­
stitutions.  Russia is out of place  in Eu­
rope and is  Asiatic  in  its  methods,  in­
stead of European.  That is the difficulty 
it will encounter in seeking a population 
to 311 up its vacant lands.  This  will  be 
the continual  weakness  of  Russia. 
Its 
barbarian  and  often  savage  population 
cannot  stand  against  the  civilized  and 
brave people of the freest  nations in Eu­
rope,  and,  when  the  supreme  struggle 
shall  come,  the  people  of  the  United 
States  will  not  join  fortunes  with  an 
Oriental despotism to crush  free peoples 
and  free  institutions.  That  would  be 
for the  sun  of  progress  and  enlighten­
ment to go back on the  dial  of  civiliza­
tion,  which is impossible.

THE  LOW  PRICE  OF  WHEAT.
With  wheat  down 

to  a  few  cents 
below half a  dollar  a  bushel—and  that 
is the figure at which it has averaged  for 
some time—it is cheaper than corn.

Wheat is now being  used  for  food  for 
stock,  and its large percentage  of  nutri­
tive matter is said to make  it  more  eco­
nomical for such purposes than is cheap­
er  material.  When  it  was  first  made 
public years ago that  it had  been  found 1 
in many parts  of  the  West  cheaper  to 
use corn on the  cob  as  fuel  in  heating \ 
and cooking than  to  purchase  wood  or i 
coal or to ship the  corn  to  market,  the 
statement was difficult  of  belief.  So  it 
should be of the story  that wheat  is  be­
ing used for stock feed.  But  in this age 
so many  strange  facts  have  been  real­
ized that people are seldom  surprised  at 
anything.

The use of wheat for  such  a  purpose 
is new and  was  not  tried  untii  in  the 
past year. 
In the Northwest the  experi­
ment has been made,  ho wever,  and  is  a 
success.  Dairymen have  found  that  it 
is  the  best  food  for  their  cows,  and 
farmers have found that hogs and  horses 
thrive  upon  it,  and  that  at  prevailing 
prices it is a very cheap food,  being one- 
third cheaper per  pound  than  oats,  the 
same  price  as  mill  feed  per  pound, 
whilst, of course,  much more  nutritious. 
It is also much cheaper  as  a  feed  than 
corn at prevailing  prices. 
It  is,  there­
fore,  confidently  predicted  that  during 
the next twelve  months  the  amount  of 
wheat used for this purpose,  unless  the 
price advances  considerably,  will  be  so 
great as to materially affect  the  amount 
which can be spared for  export. 
It  may 
have the effect of cheapening  the  prices 
of corn and oats also.

TO  THE  RETAIL  CLOTHING  MERCHANTS  -------
In consequence  of  rumors  having  been  circulated  that  the  eminent 
firm  of  Michael Kolb & Son,  Wholesale Clothing Manufacturers,  Rochester,  N.  Y., 
is going out of business,  I  am requested to contradict most emphatically  any  such 
rumor and to state that this weil-known and  upright  firm,  with  a  87  years’  good 
I  ought to add that I think I have discovered 
record,  never  dreamed  of  retiring. 
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.

I  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,

WM.  CONNOR,  Box  346,  Marshall,  Mich.

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

For a  Dislocated  Jawbone

C on su lt  th e  D o cto r

Bill for  Fits

In footwear

C o n su lt th e  old   r e lia b le   firm

R in d g e,  K a lm b a ch   &  CO.
GRAND  RAPIDS

i  h   h  

i V L l C t t l O ^ J l S r   T ï t A J D E S M ^ J S f ,

IO
TW O  REQUISITES  TO  SUCCESS.

to  Business.

Special Aptitude and Close Application 
Every  man  who  would  contribute  to 
the sum of human happiness and add his 
mite to the advancement  of human prog­
ress should be actuated  with a  desire  to 
do right.  Possessed with  this  stimulus, 
he should throw his best  endeavors  into 
that channel of usefulness  best suited to 
his natural  tastes  and  inclinations,  for 
by so doing, he will  be in possession of a 
most  important  business  qualification 
requisite for the prosperous management 
of  ordinary  business—special  aptitude 
for the work in hand.

Aptitude,  in the  dictionary,  is  defined 
as being a natural, or acquired, tendency, 
and it is upon this  broad  definition  that 
I  wish  to  present it  as a requisite busi­
ness qualification. 
I  am  aware  that  in 
this  busy,  hustling  and  money making 
age it is not an easy matter  for the aver­
age American to figure  out,  with any de­
gree of accuracy,  what the  natural  bent 
of  mind  is;  but the fact remains,  never­
theless,  that  be  must  be  specially  de­
voted  to  whatever  he  undertakes  if he 
wishes to  succeed,  whether  such  devo­
tion  be natural or acquired.

Some men—and men of sagacity,  too— 
have denied the doctrine of natural tend­
encies,  holding that any  person,  by  dint 
of  energy,  may  become  whatever  he 
chooses.  This is an erroneous conclusion, 
as  every  close  observer  of  human  en­
deavor knows  right  well. 
It  would  be 
no  more  wide of the truth to assert that 
any one kind of  soil  might  be  made  as 
profitable, if subjected  to the same mode 
of cultivation, as any other kind  of  soil, 
as  to  claim  that the natural talents and 
capabilities of any  one man  may be pro­
ductive  of  satisfactory  results  in  any 
given undertaking,  as  those of any other 
man,  providing the same  efforts  are  put 
forth.  Lord  Chesterfield  asserted  that 
any man,  without the  slightest reference 
to natural aptitude, may  set about  mak­
ing  himself  anything  he  wished,  but 
everyone knows  how dismally  he  failed 
in the application of his  doctrine,  in try­
ing to improve on nature in the case of his 
own son,  Stanhope.  This  son  was dull, 
heavy and loutish,  and  the  untiring  ef­
forts  of  his  father in  the cultivation of 
the graces in this unnatural soil  was  an 
utter  failure.  There  are  thousands  of 
just such cases  where  young  men  have 
been  pressed  into  professions and  busi­
ness avocations for  which  they  are  not 
specially  adapted,  and  the result is,  in­
variably,  failure.  To  no  other  cause, 
perhaps,  is failure  in  life  so  frequently 
to  be  traced  as  to  a  mistaken  calling. 
Sidney  Smith  represents 
the  various 
parts in life which  men in their omnifar­
ious condition  are called  upon*  to  play, 
“ by holes in a table of different shapes— 
some circular,  some  square,  some trian­
gular, some oblong—and the persons act­
ing these parts by  bits of  wood  of  sim­
ilar shapes. 
In referring to the cause of 
failures in  life,  he  says  that  “ we  gen­
erally find  that the triangular person has 
got into the square  hole,  the  oblong into 
the triangular,  while  the  square  person 
has  squeezed  himself  into  the  round 
hole.”  This  is  a  quaint,  but  too true, 
representation of  the  real  condition  of 
things.  No wonder that  the  percentage 
of successes is so infinitesimally small in 
proportion to the total  number  who  en­
gage in  business.  Among  the compara­
tively lesser number of failures  in  busi-

ness,  I  wonder  how  many  round  plugs i 
might  be  found  who  were trying to fill 
square  holes?  Talk  about  natural  fit­
ness—why,  the  greater  the  effort  made 
by  these  plugs the  more  painful the re­
sult—producing  undue  friction  on  all 
sides,  while  every  corner  is  left  un­
guarded and  exposed.

“Our wishes are presentiments  of  our 
capabilities”  is  a  true, noble maxim, of 
deep  encouragement  to  all  true  men. 
Can anything be more reasonable than to 
suppose  that he who,  in attending to the 
duties of  his  business,  can  gratify  the 
ruling  passion  of  his  mind,  will  be the 
most successful?  The  very  fact that he 
has an original  bias, or an acquired fond­
ness,  for the kind of  business  he  is  en­
gaged  in  is  the best  possible  guaranty 
that he will follow it  faithfully and per­
sistently. 
In fact,  without  special  apti­
tude,  it  is  very  difficult  for  a  man  to 
throw  the  amount  of zeal into his busi­
ness which it  demands;  and where  there 
is no zeal there will not be that close ap­
plication and dogged perseverence which 
are  so  essential  to  success. 
If  a  man 
find his business a  pleasure  to  him,  he 
will  naturally  apply  himself  closely to 
it,  which  simple  proposition  brings  me 
to  another  business  quality,  namely, 
close application.

Close application to  business does not, 
necessarily,  mean  concentration of mind 
upon one kind of business.  A  man may 
undertake too  much  and  apply  himself 
so  closely  to it as to  bring about a men­
tal or physical collapse.  He may weaken 
his powers to such an  extent,  by  divid­
ing his capital and  personal  supervision 
among  so  many  different kinds of busi­
ness that the  most assiduous  application 
will  not  save  him  from ruin and bank­
ruptcy.  The first law of  success at  this 
day,  when so many  things  are clamoring 
for attention,  is  concentration—a  bend­
ing of all  the  energies  to one  point  and 
going  directly 
looking 
neither to the right nor to the left.  As a 
rule, the  man  who  follows  his  natural 
and acquired  aptitudes  will  run  no risk 
of  being  scattered  by the winds of mis­
fortune.  He will bring his  guns to bear 
upon some point within  his range where 
his efforts  will  be  effective.  Concentra­
tion of  effort  is a  natural  result  of  the 
doctrine of special  aptitudes and  is prop­
erly included in  that  topic,  while  close 
application  embraces  business  routine 
and  lakes  up matters of detail.

to  that  point, 

It is the result of  everyday experience 
that steady  attention to matters of detail 
lies  at  the  root of human progress;  and 
that diligence,  above all, is the mother of 
good  luck.  Of  course,  a  blind,  stupid 
routine  causes  hindrance  to  business, 
but a wise  routine  greatly  facilitates  it 
and acts  as the  only  check  to  rashness 
and incapacity on the part of individuals 
connected  with  the  business,  especially 
where  it  is  divided  iuto several depart­
ments.  Every  merchant  should  master 
all the details of his  business,  watching, 
with  an  eagle’s  eye,  all  the  outgoings 
and  incomings  of  the  concern,  if  he 
would nrosper by it.  This  means  close 
application.  A  wise  routine  must nec­
essarily be more or less complicated; for, 
although the great  majority  of men  may 
be trustworthy  and  honest,  it  is  abso­
lutely necessary that provision should be 
made against not only the possible rogue, 
but the  evil effects  of  carelessness  and 
dereliction of  duty  on  the  part  of every 
person  brought in contact  with the busi­
ness as well.

E stablished  ,8 6 5  BROWN  HALL  &  CO.,

MANUFACTURERS  OF

B u g g ies,  S leig h s and  W agons•

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Body, 7 ft. long, 36 in. wide, drop  tail  gate.. 
Body, 9H ft. long, 36 in. wide, drop tail gate.........  

The  Grocers’  Safety—Made  in  Two Sizes Only.
..............  ...............................
.......................................

FULLY  WARRANTED.

[V

IN
YOUR
STATIONERY

<<

Look 
For the 
W aterm ark

.$40 00 
.  48 00

i )

«I

*  4  V

. 1

We control it in this locality.

U S E   Your  Note Heads. 
It’s first-class stock.
Your  Letter Heads. 
l'y*
It’s easy to  write upon. 
Your Legal  Blanks. 
It’s always the same. 
*  *
Your Checks and  Drafts
It’s a credit to your busiuess.  O IN

•

It  always  gives  satisfaction,  and,  compared  with  other 

stock,  the  price is nothing.

TRADESMAN  COMPANY,

SPECIAL  HIGH  GRADE.

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

’94  Model. 

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

CYCLOID  WHEEL  WORKS,  Grand  Rapids,  nich.

-A  <,  *

*

Many failures among  retailers  can  be 
directly attributed to the  lack of this es­
sential business  qualification.  They be­
come  carelessly  indifferent  to  the  true 
condition  of  their  affairs, taking things 
for granted in a blind,  hopeful  way  and 
trusting in Providence, or chance,  for re­
sults which can only be obtained through 
the  exercise  of  “eternal  vigilance”  on 
their own part.  The taking of inventor­
ies  are  neglected;  credits  are  injudic­
iously  given;  no allowances are made for 
bad debts,  deterioration  or  depreciation 
of  stock  brought  about  by  changes  in 
style and  market fluctuations;  the  over­
stocking  of  unsalable  and 
“shoddy” 
goods has crept on  unheeded;  bills  pay­
able  have  increased  while bills receiva­
ble have  decreased;  interest  has  grown 
apace  with  bills payable;  bills have ma­
tured  unexpectedly;  credit  becomes im­
paired,  the grim spectre  of  debt  begins 
to haunt the establishment, hurling darts 
dipped in  the  gall  of  bitter  disappoint­
ment  and  making  horrid grinmces from 
the empty  shelves—and,  finally, the end 
comes.  All  this  as  a  just  penalty  for 
overlooking  matters  of  business  detail. 
Concentration  of  effort  on  one pursuit, 
backed  up  by  close  application,  will 
avoid these mercantile shipwrecks.

E. A.  Owen.

The  Working  Classes  as  Millionaires.
In denouncing capital  the  denouncers 
forget  that  the  savings  banks  are  the 
largest  capitalists  of  all;  that  it  is the 
working people themselves, through their 
agents—the savings banks—that drive the 
hardest  of  bargains. 
If  the  conditions 
are  not  observed on  which  these  loans 
are  made  the  evictions  and  the  fore­
closures are merciless  in their exactions. 
If you don’t  believe  what  we  say,  you 
just  go  and  try  it  on.  So  we think it 
should mitigate the  malignity of  the de­
nouncers to think of this  fact. 
If  what 
you say be true, we say to  them, you are 
yourselves—your  class—the  hardest  of 
all  taskmasters.  Be  more  considerate, 
then,  of  the  individual  millionaire,  by 
bestowing some  attention on  the collect­
ive—the  Trust—millionaires  of  the sav­
ings  bauks,  who,  in  the  State  of New 
York,  have  nearly  $700,000,000  loaned 
out, every dollar  of  which must  be paid 
back  in  gold, and  paid  the day it is due. 
It  is  curious  how  bidden  away  some 
things are  until you  begin  to  look  into 
them.  The individual  and the collective 
millionaires act upon the  same  business 
principles. 
If  the  one  deserves  to  be 
pounded,  so does  the  other.  But a wise 
people  will  not  interfere  with  either. 
They’ll encourage  both,  for  every dollar 
of either is quickly put out to earn inter­
est,  and in  earning  it  give  employment 
to working people of all kinds.  You see 
this, don’t you?  Very  well;  if  you  do, 
when  you  hear  a  blatherskite going on 
against capital, tell him to sit down; and 
if he won’t mind yeu,  cough  him  down, 
for  he  doesn’t  know  wbat  he is talking 
about;  he  is  confusing  a  clear  subject 
with big words.  Be always  glad when a 
millionaire  comes  into  your  neighbor­
hood with his  money,  to  open  a  bank, 
erect a mill or build  a  railway.  Surely, 
every honest fellow who doesn’t drink or 
use  opium  must  see  this  as  we  have 
stated it.  Be thankful  for  millionaires, 
you goose. 

Geo.  R. Scott.

Goxey’s  army  is  all  right.  The  men 
have  had  a  good  dead-beat  tramp, and 
they are now fit to  return to  doing noth­
ing,  and living nowhere.

i

f

l i

V I

r   F  ^ 
i

i
>   V 

1  V» 
f

Y*f  »

r t l K   M l C H U j r A i S
If  You  would 
know____ _ Our Name

11

How 
to  conduct  your 
business  w ithout 
the 
loss  and  annoyance  at­
tendant  upon  the  use  of 
the  pass  book  or  any 
other  charging  system, 
send 
for  sam ples  and 
catalogue of  our

Coupon  Book
System,

W hich  is  the  best  m eth­
od ever devised  tor plac­
ing  the  credit  business 
of  the  retail dealer  on  a 
cash  basis.

T radesman
Company,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

Shoes ? 

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

The  Largest 
Manufacturers of
COCOA  and 

CHOCOLATE
IN THIS COUNTRY,
have  received  from th# 
Judges of the

World's
Columbian
Exposition

(Medals and Diplomas)

The  Highest Awards
on  each  of  the  following  articles, 
namely :
BREAKFAST  COCOA,
PREMIUM  NO.  I  CHOCOLATE, 
CERMAN  SWEET  CHOCOLATE, 
VANILLA  CHOCOLATE,
COCOA  BUTTER,
For “ purity of material,” “excellent 
flavor,”  and  “uniform  even  composi­
tion.” 
SOLD  BY  GROCERS  EVERYWHERE.
W a lt e r  Baker  &  Co.,

•

DORCHESTER,  MASS.

Would  denote  our  line  of business to  a 
stranger. 
It is  multum  in  parvo.  Every­
one should know that we are

r S

Manufacturers
Confectionery.

of

and  wholesale dealers in  lemons, oran= 
ges and  bananas  and  that  our  trad»*- 
mark  is  a  guarantee of purity and gen- 
eral excellence.  Dealers  in  our  lines  of 
goods  are fast finding  out  that  We  Are 
The People.

Your orders  solicited.

^

^5

^

T h e   Putnam  Candy Co.

Muskegon  Bakery  Grackers

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

Are  Perfect  Health  Food.

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

one can  be  best—that is  the original

Muskegon
Bakery
Butter
Cracker.

Pure,  Crisp,  Tender,  Nothing  Like  it  for  Flavor.  Daintiest, 
Most Beneficial  Cracker you can get for constant table use.

Nine
Other
Great
Specialties
Are

Muskegon  Toast,
Royal  F ruit  Biscuit, 
Muskegon  Frosted  Honey, 
Iced  Cocoa  Honey  Jumbles, 
Jelly T urnovers,
Ginger Snaps,
Hom e-M ade  Snaps, 
Muskegon  Branch,
Mlik  Lunch

ALWAYS
ASK
YOUR
GROCER
FOR
riUSKEGON 
BAKERY’S 
CAKES  and 
CRACKERS

United  States  Baking  Co.

LAWRENCE  DEPEW ,  Acting  Manager,

M u skegon , 

- 

M ich •

1 2

,\fc Ü ± ¿

The  Lawyer from  a  Moral Standpoint.
There is a French proverb that “a good 
lawyer is  always  a  bad  neighbor,”  be­
cause, presumably, he is  ‘‘considered  as 
boding ill to the  harmony  of  the  settle­
ment.”  This view is not, however,  often 
taken seriously  in  the  present  day.  A 
bad  lawyer  is  still,  no  doubt,  always a 
bad neighbor,  but  to be  a  great  lawyer 
one must be a great and  good man.  His 
moral  standpoint  cannot  be  too  high, 
for his  duty calls him into all  the  shift­
ing  scenes  of  life,  where  honor is most 
needed and  where  dishonesty  can  most 
easily  be  concealed. 
It  is  said  that  a 
man  will  give  something  to  save  his 
soul, will give  much to save his life, but 
will give anything to  save  his  property; 
and  by  so  much  as this is true does the 
lawyer, more than the clergyman  or  the 
physician,  keep  the  conscience  of  his 
client.  The  lawyer  hears  his  secrets 
and reads  his  inmost  thought,  and  the 
law  itself  forbids  him  to  betray  the 
knowledge thus  obtained.  He is sought 
by the widow and  the orphan;  he stands 
between the  helpless  or  the  timid  and 
those who  would  oppress  them.  When 
th6  culprit  stands  before  the  bar  of 
earthly Justice,  the  lawyer  steadies  the 
hand that holds the  scales.  Not  only in 
the active scenes of life is  the  lawyer  a 
participant,  but when the  sands run  low 
he is called,  with  confidence,  to  commit 
to legal form the last  mortal  wish of the 
departing—to preserve  his  earthly  pos­
sessions  to  the  objects of  his affection. 
And if the sojourner go  beyond,  leaving 
no  written  expression  of  his  will,  he 
leaves to law and lawyers the disposition 
of his estate.  More  solemn  responsibil­
ities  than  these  are  not,  and  truly the 
law  “employs,  in its  theory, the  noblest 
faculties  of  the  soul,  and exerts,  in its 
practice,  the  cardinal  virtues  of 
the 
heart.”

In his capacity as  counselor,  the  law­
yer’s moral obligation is very prominent. 
Litigation is an evil.  To  prevent litiga­
tion is often  the  lawyer’s  highest  duty 
and most useful function.  A client often 
seeks a lawyer with  feelings  roused to a 
pitch of indignation  that  blinds his eyes 
to justice,  and  precludes  discriminating 
judgment.  Trifling  wrongs  are  magni­
fied  to  mountains  of  oppression,  until 
not justice,  but revenge, must satisfy re­
sentment.  Let the  lawyer  then be calm 
and temper undue zeal; both parties may 
be honest,  and offensive  operations must 
be delayed.  The lawyer’s domain is rea­
son,  not the passions:  let him be “a light 
to eyes blinded by  hatred  to  their  own 
interests.”  The prospective client is en­
titled to a candid  opinion  as  to the mer­
its of his case and as to  the  best  course j 
to  be  pursued,  and  such  opinion  he 
should receive even  though  it  does  not | 
suit his fancy.  Equity  favors  the  com­
promise  of  doubtful  claims.  The law’s 
sharp  weapons should not  be  needlessly 
resorted  to,  and  should  seldom  be  di­
rected against those who are more unfor­
tunate than culpable.

In every life, questions of  moral  duty 
arise  for  daily  settlement;  paths  con­
stantly  diverge,  and  the safe  one  must 
hourly and anew be chosen.  There is no 
universal standard; each conscience must 
settle some things for itself,  unaided but 
by  an  enlightened  understanding.  One 
thing positively,  however,  a lawyer may 
never do for'his client  what the common 
conscience of mankind would forbid that 
client  to  do  for  himself.  He  may  not 
espouse the cause  of  one  who  seeks  to

perpetrate a wrong through some chance 
advantage the law  may  happen to afford 
him.  But not often, if ever, need a law­
yer decline to undertake  the  defense  of 
the accused.  To secure to him those ad­
vantages and safeguards which  the  law, 
in  mercy,  offers  him,  is permissible and 
just. 
If  more  than  this  be expected or 
required,  but one honest  course  is open; 
to  decline  peremptorily  the  proffered 
employment  and  forego  the  longed-for 
fee.  Honest men  decline  opportunities 
for dishonest gain in every walk  in  life. 
However,  by declining to espouse a cause 
because there seems to be  ground for be­
lieving  the  party  guilty, 
the  lawyer 
would usurp the function of  both  judge 
and jury.  The courts  appoint attorneys 
for accused  persons  in  extremity,  and, 
where  the  issue is life or death, counsel 
thus appointed cannot  refuse  the  trust, 
so  jealous  is  the  law of the security of 
its subjects,  and so  averse  to  judgment 
against  any  one  unheard.  Sharp prac­
tice,  however,  is no part of  the  lawyer’s 
duty, nor do a client’s  wishes or instruc­
tions afford an excuse for unnecessary or 
unjust delay,  and  this  view  is  held  by 
the  courts  themselves.  Chief  Justice 
Holt said that  an  attorney  who  falsely 
delays  justice  is  guilty  of breaking his 
official  oath.  Cunning  and  trickery, 
snappish  advantage  taken  of  the  mis­
takes and slips of others, will  breed  dis­
trust  among  his  fellows of the bar,  and 
inevitably reduce  his  influence  and  ef­
fectiveness,  while  at  the  same  time he 
sullies the fair fame of the  profession in 
the eyes of a watchful  public.

T.  F letc h er  De n n is.

F r o m  t h e  A m e ric a n  A r c h ite c t.

Sequence of the Pullman Strike.
It is to be regretted  that the  people of 
the United States should  have to recover 
the use of their ordinary highways at the 
point of the  bayonet,  but it  is  better  to 
recover  and  hold them in that way than 
to give up the control of them,  even  for 
a  moment,  to  people  so  reckless  and 
malicious,  or  so  unutterably  base,  as 
those who have  managed the  great  rail­
road strikes for the past ten  years.  The 
example  of  the  Pullman  strike  shows 
how‘ false  and  dangerous  are  the  doc­
trines  in  regard  to  workingmen  which 
have gained so much  credit and wrought 
so much misery within the  present  gen­
eration.  According to those doctrines,  a 
man who works with his hands  is  not  a 
man, but a babe,  who must  be  provided

with a clean house,  not  through the pro­
cess  of  cleaning  it with  his own hands, 
but by having  philanthropic  people  get 
u;>  a  subscription  to  hire  some  one to 
clean it  for  him;  who  must  be  amused 
with  lectures,  picture  shows, and other 
distractions,  at the expense  of  the  pub­
lic,  or  of  amiable  private persons,  and 
whom it was right to  encourage in every 
way  to  think  that  thrift,  industry,  so­
briety,  and  self-denial  were  no  longer 
necessary  to  one  so  favored,  and  that 
yelling and kicking,  if  long  enough con­
tinued,  were sure to bring him everything 
to which  he  might  take  a  fancy.  The 
lesson has not been lost:  the babe of the 
nineteenth century,  trained  by the lulla­
bies  of  the  political  economists, 
the 
dandling of the politicians,  and  the  pa 
tient  indulgence  of  the  more  rational 
part of the  community,  to  combine  the 
greedy  helplessness  of  the  infant  with 
the  strength  and  malice  of  the  man, 
claws every day  more viciously  at  what 
does  not  belong  to  him,  and  tramples 
more recklessly  on  the  rights  of  other 
people. 
In  the  end,  these  rights  must 
assert themselves,  or perish  in  the worst 
of tyrannies;  but a part of the harsh les­
son by  which they  are  defended  should 
be  reserved  for the moonstruck philoso­
phers  and  sentimentalists  who  have 
taught  ignorant  people  that,  instead  of 
relying on  their  own  exertions  for  im­
proving their condition, looking out only 
to preserve and extend their  freedom  to 
use those exertions,  they were entitled to 
trample on the  freedom of others  in  or­
der to get what they wanted.

A Business  Situation.

Last  Monday  he  went  back  to 

F r o m  t h e  C h ic a g o  T rib u n e .
An office  boy  in the employ of a  real 
estate agent on Clark  street  struck  for 
higher wages a  week  or so  ago,  and  on 
the refusal of his employer to  grant  the 
increase he walked out.
the 
office and suggested  that  the case be ar­
bitrated.
“ 1  have nothing to arbitrate,”  was  the 
answer.
returned  again 
He  went  away  and 
yesterday.
“ Will  you  arbitrate 
find  out 
whether there’s  anything to  arbitrate?” 
he inquired.
••See here, my boy,” said the real estate 
agent, taking a handful  of papers  out of 
a  pigeonhole  in  his  desk.  “The  only 
things to  be  arbitrated  are  these  bills. 
I can’t pay them. 
If you  can  you  may 
take my job and I’ll walk out!”
The boy is still considering  the propo­
sition. 
_______

to 

Don’t open accounts with strangers un­
til you have  investigated  their  standing 
and their ability to pay  promptly.
Use Tradesman Coupon Books.

When a man knows nothing,  he is gen­
erally so unfortunate  as to let everybody 
know it who sees him.

STATE  AGENTS  FOR

The  Lycoming  Rubber Company,
keep constantly on hand a 
full  and  complete  line  of 
these goods made from the 
purest  rubber.  They  are 
good style, good fitters and 
give  the  best  satisfaction 
of any rubber  in  the  mar­
ket.  Our  line  of  Leather 
Boots  and  Shoes  is  com­
plete  in  every  particular, 
also Felt Boots,  Sox,  etc.
Thanking you for past favors  we  now 
await your further  orders.  Hoping  you 
wiil  give  our  line  a  careful  inspection 
when  our  representative  calls  on  you, 
REEDER BROS’. SHOE CO.
we are 
GRINGHUIS’
ITEMIZED
LEDGERS

Size  8   1-2x14—T h re e   C o lu m n s .
2  Quires,  160  pages............................................82 00
3 
■i 
6 

“  240 
“  320 
“  400 
“  480 

2 80
3 00
3 50
4 00

 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

 
 
 

 

IN V O IC E  RECORD  O R  B IL L   BOOK.

80 Double Pages, Registers 2,880  Invoices...82 00

TRADESMAN  COMPANY, 

Agents,

Grand  Rapids, 

- 

Mich.

Established  1868.

H.  M.  Reynolds  &  Son.
Building Papers,

Carpet  Linings,

Asbestos  Sheathing.

Asphalt  Ready  Roofing,

Asphalt Roof Paints,

Resin, Coal Tar.

Roofing and Paving Pitch,

Tarred Felt, Mineral Wool,

Elastic  Roofing Cement. 

Car, Bridge and Roof Paints,  Oils.

P r a c tic a l  H o o fers

In  Felt,  Composition  and  Gravel.
Cor.  Louis and  Campau Sts., Grand  Rapids

HTHEY  A-LJL  S A Y

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

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

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

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

'   f   4

.

.

J j

t

t y

«•  *

v  H

*>  v]  j

Third Animal Excursion of the Jackson 

Retail Grocers’ Association.

conservative 

J ackson,  Aug.  10—The  third  annual 
excursion of the Jackson  Retail  Grocers’ 
Association  was  held  at  Lakeview  Re­
sort, Devil’s Lake,  Aug.  9.  Two  trains 
left Jackson—one at 7:30  and another  at 
8  o’clock  a.  m.—arriving  at  Manitou 
Beach at about  10  o’clock.  The  resort, 
only  three  minutes’  walk  from 
the 
station,  is  one  of  the  finest  arranged 
places in the State for pleasure and com­
fort,  and  with a  gravity  railway,  merry 
go round,  swings,  toboggan slide, numer­
ous rowboats, three steamboats  and good 
facilities for bathing and swimming, there 
was  no  lack  of  amusement  or  pastime. 
An  invitation  had  been  extended  the 
Business Men’s Association of Hudson to 
join with us,  and,  upon  our  arrival,  we 
found 
the  members  there  in  goodly 
numbers,  two  trains  being  required  to 
bring the people who came from Hudson, 
besides  many  driving 
from  Hudson, 
Clayton and surrounding towns aud from 
every direction  from  three  surrounding 
counties.  A 
estimate 
made by those familiar with  the grounds 
showed  that  there  were  between  4,000 
and 4,500 people present.  The sports  of 
the day opened with a game of  base ball 
between  Hudson  and  Jackson 
in  the 
forenoon.  After  dinner  a  brief  open 
meeting was held at  the  pavilion  in the 
grove.  Then came the sports of the day, 
consisting  of  races  of  various  kinds, 
jumping,  hat kicking,  tub racing,  swim­
ming,  boating,  pole  walking  and  tobog­
gan  contests. 
It was intended to have a 
game of baseball between  the  wholesale 
and retail trade of Jackson,  but owing to 
the  lateness of the hour  of  finishing the 
other events,  it was decided to  play it at 
Jackson  some future date.  There  were 
grocers  present  from  many  different 
towns, and a meeting was called  for  the 
purpose of considering  the  formation of 
a Southern Michigan Retail  Grocers’  As­
sociation similar to  the  Northern  Mich­
igan  Association  recently  formed,  but, 
owing to the late hour  and  the  near ap­
proach to  train  time,  the  meeting  was 
not held. 
I think, however,  that  a  call 
will be issued for a  delegated convention 
in the near  future,  when  steps  will  be 
taken to form  a  strong  and  representa­
tive organization.
left  Manitou 
Beach at 7 and 9 o’clock p.  m., with tired 
but happy crowds.  The  railway  facili- 
ities were excellent, the  superintendents 
of  both  roads  looking  carefully  to  the 
management,  and 
the  train  master, 
station agent  and  two  conductors,  who 
have been  with  us  on  our  other  excur­
sions,  took good care of their passengers. 
Very much of the success which attended 
this  third  annual  excursion  was  made 
possible by the able  management  of  the 
chairman  of  the  General  Committee, 
D. S.  Fleming,  and  by  Messrs. Cottrell, 
Cummings,  Griggs,  Branch  and  Helmer, 
of the Committee on Sports,  and  Messrs. 
Hill,  Lewis and Robbins, of  the Commit­
tee on Transportation; in  fact,  all of  the 
committee did their best to make the day 
a very pleasant  occasion President Ueaf- 
ner and his officers were a  working com­
mittee all day,  looking after the  comfort 
of the guests.  Many thanks are also due 
President  Hall,  Secretary  Chancellor, 
and others of the Hudson  Business Men’s 
Association  for  courtesies  extended  to 
the Jackson Association during  the  day.
The Jackson  grocers’  excursions  have 
become  famous  all  over  the  country, 
many  representatives  of  manufacturing 
and jobbing houses always being present 
from all sections of the  country:  and  it 
goes without  saying  that  the  drummer 
always  does  bis  share  to  keep  things 
moving.  Many enquiries  were  made for 
the representative of  The  Tradesman, 
but he was conspicuous  by  his  absence.

The  trains  returning 

W.  H. Poster,  Sec’y.

He  was  a  countryman,  and  as  he 
walked  along  a  busy  thoroughfare  he 
read a sign over  the  door  of a manufac­
turing establishment:  “Cast Iron Sinks.” 
It  made  him  mad.  He  said  any  fool 
ought to know  that.
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.

T he  G rand  R apide  R etail  G rocers’  P ic­

nic.

The eighth annual picnic  of the Grand 
Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association was a 
marvelous success  in  point  of  weather, 
attendance,  excellent  transportation fa­
cilities,  lack of accidents and the general 
enjoyment of  the  occasion.  The  sports 
and games were  carried out  about as set 
forth  in  the  program  and  nothing  oc­
curred to mar the enjoyment of the occa­
sion.  Too  much  credit  cannot  be  ac­
corded A.  J.  Elliott,  chairman of the Ex­
ecutive Committee,  for  the  painstaking 
efforts he made to render the event a suc­
cess.  He worked day  and night  to  con­
tribute  to  that  end,  and  the result is a 
monument to his efforts.

respect.  Fully  4,000 

A nnu al Picnic  o f th e  S a g in a w   G rocers.
Saginaw, Aug.  10—The fourth annual 
picnic of the Saginaw  Retail Grocers’ As­
sociation,  which  was  held  at  Bay  Port 
yesterday,  was  a remarkable  success in 
every 
people 
availed themselves  of the  opportuity  to 
accompany  the  grocers  on  their annual 
outing and the result  was  one  of  unal­
loyed  pleasure  to  all  concerned.  The 
sporting program was  carried out  in  its 
entirety and created great amusement for 
both  participants  and  spectators.  A 
comfortable sum will be added to the ex­
chequer of the organization.

The Drug Market.

Gum opium is very firm and advancing. 

Powdered is also higher.

Morphia is as yet unchanged.
Gum camphor,  with  other  goods  from 
Japan  and  China,  is  higher.  We  note 
an advance of 4c  by  the  manufacturers 
in the past week.

Quinine is hardening  daily and  an ad-
vance by manufacturers  is  looked for in 
the near future.

Oils cassia and anise are very firm  and 

i tending higher.

THE  KING  HAS  COHE ! !
T h e  C H A M P IO N  

1 3

UNIVERSALLY 
ACKNOWLEDGED 
TO  BE 
SUPERIOR 
TO  ALL 
OTHER 
REGISTERS 
ON  THE 
MARKET.

R E G IS T E R
IN  DESIGN—HANDSOME 

SIMPLE  IN  CONSTRUCTION—INFALLIBLE 

IN  ACTION—INDISPENSABLE 

TO THE PROGRESSIVE 

MERCHANT.

IN  A PPEA RA N CE- 

W e aim to meet the needs of Legitimate M erchants—Do  not  Cater  to  Saloon

Trade.

Some reasons for our claims, as  set  fourth in our  Award  by the  World’s 

C A S H  

tion.

ORIGINAL 

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.
Grand Rapids Retail  Grocers’  Associa­
At the regular  meeting  of  the  Grand 
Rapids Retail  Grocers’  Association,  held 
at  Elk’s Hall,  Monday  evening,  Aug. 6, 
President Yiergever presided.
A  communication  was  received  from 
the  H.  J.  Heinz  Co.,  of  Pittsburg, 
stating that it had forwarded 1,000 badges 
for  decorating  the  grocers  and 
their 
clerks  on  the  occasion  of  their  eighth 
annual  picnic.
On motion of A.  Rasch,  the  communi­
cation was  received,  and  the  Secretary 
the 
instructed  to  communicate  with 
donors,  returning the  thanks of  the  As­
sociation.
J.  Geo.  Lehman,  of  the  Committee on 
Flour,  was  unable  to  make  a  report, 
owing to the inability  of  th3  Committee 
to see  Manager Rowe, of the  Valley City 
Milling  Co.  The  report  was  received, 
and,  on motion of E. J. Herrick, the Com­
mittee was discharged.
A. J. Elliott, of the Executive Commit­
tee,  asked  further  time  to present  a  re­
port in relation  to  the  leasing  of  a  hall 
for the ensuing year,  which  request  was 
granted.
E.  White  introduced  the subject  of a 
permanent  public  market,  which  was 
discussed  at  some  length,  culminating 
the  presentation  of  the  following 
in 
resolution:
Resolved—That we favor the establish­
ment  of a permanent public market  and 
recommend  that it be located over Grand 
River, between  Pearl and Bridge streets.
A.  Brink moved that the  resolution be 
laid on the table  until  the next meeting.
B. S.  Harris moved that it  be  adopted 
and  a  copy  be  sent  to  the  Common 
Council,  which was carried.
President Yiergever  appointed J.  Geo. 
Lehman  a member of the  Committee  on 
Trade Interests to fill  vacancy.
The report of  the Treasurer  showed  a 
balance on hand of $229.
There  being  no  further  business  the 
meeting adjourned.

Columbian Exposition:

man.

1.  For  Handsome  Design.
2.  For Simple and Durable Mechanism.
3.  For  a  Superior  Device  by  which  a  Detailed  Account

of  every  Cash  Transaction  is  Kept.

4.  For  Its Ability to  Keep Separate Accounts for Each  Sales­

5.  For the  Instantaneous  Display  of All  Accounts  in  Detail.
6.  For the  Method  of  Detecting Omissions and  Errors.
7.  For  the  Identifying  of  Delinquents.

ONE  OF  MANY  TESTIMONIALS.

Thum Bros.  & Schmidt, 

PHARMACEUTICAL  CHEMISTS, 

84 Canal St.

Grand  R a p i d s ,  Mich., Aug.  1,  1894.

Champion  Cash  Register  Co.
Gentlemen—We  have  been  using  for  some  time  past your Champion  No.  9, 
and are pleased to say it fills the bill.  We are enabled  to  keep  absolutely  correct 
account of each one of our clerks,  and a detailed account of all  our sales.
Also,  we are especially pleased with  your  method  of  keeping  the  “Paid  in” 
and  “Paid outs.” 
It supplants everything else that has been brought to our notice.

Thtjh  Bros.  &  Schmidt.

Merchants desiring to inspect our Register are requested to drop us  a  card,  so 
It  will  cost nothing 

that one of our agents can call when in the dealer’s  vicinity. 
to see the machine and have its merits explained.

Manufactured only by

C H A M PIO N   C A S H   R E G IS T E R   CO., 
G R A N D  R A P ID S ,  M ICH.

14
J D r u f f s H M e d lc in e s .

State Board  of Pharmac* 
One  Year—Ottmar Eberbaeh, Ann  Arbor. 
Two  T ears—George Gundrum, Ionia. 
Three  Tears—0 . A. Bag bee. Cheboygan. 
F o ir   T e a rs —8. E. P a r t l l l, Owosso.
Five T ears—F. W. R. P erry, Detroit. 
P resident—Fred’k W. R. Perry, Detroit, 
feo re ta ry —Stanley E. P ark in , Owosso. 
T reasurer—Geo. Gundrum , Ionia.
Coming  Meetings—Houghton,Aug.  29  an 
ng, Nov.  6  and 7.
M ic h i g a o   S t a te   P h a r m a c e u t i c a l   A s s’b . 
President—A. B. Stevens, Ann Arbor. 
Vice-President—A. F. P arker, D etroit 
Treasurer—W. Dupont, Detroit.
Secretay—8. A. Thompson, Detroit.
Grand  R apide  Pharm aceu tical Society 
President, W alter K. Schmidt:  Sec’y , Ben. Schrouder

count?

W hy N ot T urn  Y our  K now ledge to  A c­
The pharmacist often is called upon to 
dispense odd  chemicals,  and if  he  were 
to  keep  anything like  the assortment in 
stock that  he may  have  calls  for  occa­
sionally,  he  would  soon find his shelve 
stored  with  goods  in  some  instances 
likely to spoil and in  others to be  unsal­
able. 
It is astonishing  how  often  phar­
macists let customers go without once re 
numbering that on  their shelves  are  all 
the chemicals necessary to produce easily 
and simply the  reqnired article.  And if 
a given  substance is  wanted in the form 
of solutions,  its  preparation often would 
require but a minute.

The  pharmacist,  by  so  doing,  can 
easily make a  reputation for  himself  in 
the manufacture of these  goods,  and one 
can often hear  people  say,  “We will go 
to So-and-So’s pharmacy,  for  if he hasn’ 
got it in stock  he will  make  it  for  us.’ 
It  is  astonishing  how  soon  such thing! 
become known,  and  when  known,  what 
a  powerful  influence  they  are  toward 
building up a tradesman’s business.

The writer calls to mind an instance of 
a physician who, after  going the  round 
of the stores,  inquiring  for  subiodide of 
bismuth,  came  to 
the  establishment 
where  he  (the  writer)  was  employed 
and  inquired  for  the  article.  He  wai 
told that It was not  in  stock,  but  could 
be  made  for  him within  a certain time 
At another time he wanted iodide of lime, 
and  then  saccharated  iodide  of  iron 
and thus became a regular customer.  An 
other  time a  certain  photographer came 
in and asked for chloride of lead and sul 
phate of  lead.  He  was  told  that  they 
were not in stock,  but would be made for 
him.  This  gentleman  afterwards  took 
particular pains  to  send  people  to  the 
store.

There is no place where  a  pharmacis 
can so easily make  a reputation  for him 
self, no place  where he  can  occupy  hi 
spare  time  to  so much  advantage,  as in 
laboratory work.  And  this work can be 
done without  neglecting  the  mercantile 
part  of  his  business. 
It is not the par 
pose of this article  to advocate  the mak 
ing  of  chemicals  in  the  drug store,  for 
the reason that in most cases they can be 
purchased from reputable manufacturers 
for as little money as  they can  be  made 
for by the  pharmacist.  And,  therefore 
there is no  argument in  favor of making 
them on the ground of  economy.

But with odd chemicals  it is  different 
The  pharmacist  cannot  afford  to  boy 
them, for the sale would not justify, and 
in most instances they  can  be  prepared 
from  those  chemicals  carried  in  stock, 
and many  of them  can  easily  be  made. 
Take,  for  instance,  the  lithium  salts. 
Having the carbonate  lithium  in  stock, 
the  pharmacist  is  able  to  supply  the 
citrate, salicylate,  benzoate,  borate, etc., 
if in solution, in a few minutes.  And he

can,  also,  easily prepare the  salts  them­
selves  when  so  desired.  The  same  is 
true of the ammonium salts, also those of 
potassium and sodium.

Some years ago,  while  employed  in  a 
pharmacy where many prescriptions call­
ing  for  solution  of  benzoate of ammon­
ium,  ten grains to each dram, were filled, 
the writer had bis attention called to the 
insolubility of the  preparation as sold in 
the market.  This  is entirely due  to the 
alt being of acid  reaction  instead of al­
kaline,  as directed in the Pharmacopoeia. 
Of course,  solution  could  be  effected by 
heat,  but  it  would  crystallize  out when 
cold.  This  difficulty  was  remedied  by 
adding ammonia in slight excess. 
In or­
der to  overcome  the  trouble,  a  perma­
nent stock-solution  was  made  up,  con­
taining  ten  grains  to  the  dram.  This 
solution was made  by taking  the proper 
amount of benzoic acid and water,  apply­
ing heat,  and adding  ammonia  to  slight 
excess,  filtering,  and  adding  water  to 
make the proper volume.  Thus we were 
able to dispense these  prescriptions rap­
idly and properly. 
It is  an old practice, 
and a good one,  to keep a 50 per cent,  so­
lution of acetate  of  potassium  on  hand 
for  dispensing.  Such  a  solution  keeps 
well, and is easily made.

It  is  astonishing  what  a  number  of 
chemicals  the  pharmacist  can  prepare 
himself,  with comparative ease,  if he will 
consult his reference works.  Sueh work 
makes  him  a  better  pharmacist,  gives 
him  a"* more  accurate  and  practical 
knowledge of chemical  process  and  the 
chemistry of what chemicals  he handles 
In fact, there is no  line of work  so  con 
ducive to the  actual  thoroughness of the 
pharmacist as  this. 
It enables  him bet­
ter to understand the action of one chem 
ical  upon  another,  and  to  forecast  re 
salts  of  combinations  ordered 
in  pre 
scriptions,  and  often to  save  physicians 
from  serious  error.  Again,  it  gives 
clear and more practical  insight into the 
arithmetic  of  chemistry,  and  in  every 
way conduces to  the benefit  of the phar 
macist.  And the good which comes from 
that line of work is the advantage it is to 
the apprentice.  He thus  becomes famil 
iar with the  working-methods,  and  it  ii 
of great advantage to him.  Seeing prac 
tical  demonstrations  of  what pharmacy 
should be, he is better able to appreciate 
the teachings of the schools.

F r a n k  E d el

D ru g g ists  As  O pticians.

An  esteemed  Canadian  contemporary 
publishes in a recent  number  an  article 
which  plainly  encourages  the  druggist 
to invest in a line of  spectacles and to  fit 
glasses  on  application  very  much  after 
the  manner  of  the  optican.  E.itorially 
no  comment  was  made  on  the  contribu­
tor’s  statement  of  his  own  experience; 
but it may not  be  amiss  to  pause  for  a 
moment and weigh  the  proposition in its 
different  bearings.

its  possessor  when 

The  fitting of glasses  is  very  much  of 
a piece  with  the  fitting  of  trusses:  both 
operations require skill,  special anatomi­
cal  knowledge,  practical experience, and 
a  good  deal  of  that  valuable  faculty 
which  warns 
to 
beware  of  interference  and  to  avoid 
danger by referring the subject to a com­
petent  medical  adviser.  The  fitting  of 
trusses is,  indeed,  profitable; but no man 
has any right to  engage  in  this  line  of 
work  unless  he  qualifies  himself  by 
special study and inquiry.  Otherwise,  it I 
is  distinctly  his  duty  and  his  business 
to leave  trusses  alone.  A  bungler  may

THE  MICHIGAN"  TRADESMAN

not  alone  inflict  lasting  harm  upon  a 
ruptured subject,  but  is  sure  to  injure 
his trade severely.

All  this  applies  with  even  greater 
justice and force to the  fitting  of glasses. 
That glasses are very  generally  selected 
by  the  optician,  not  by  the  oculist, 
is 
notorious.  Few  members  of  the be-gog- 
gled  and  be-spectacled  community  ever 
consult  a  medical  specialist  when  feel­
ing  the  need  of  artificial  assistance  for 
their failing  optics.  In  many  cases,  we 
presume, no harm is done;  but  in  many 
others  very  decided  mischief  results. 
We need only  cite  the  irites,  the  num­
erous  reflex  nervous  disturbances  and 
the occasional losses of vision which  fol­
low in the  train  of  badly  fitted  glasses 
and which not seldom  admit  of  no  cor­
rection.

In the first place,  failing  sight  may  be 
due to optical disease.  To determine this 
question, demands a thorough  knowledge 
of the anatomy and pathology of the  eye 
—a  knowledge  which  manifestly  very 
few opticans or pharmacists  can possess. 
Secondly,  another  large  number  of  the 
people  needing  spectacles  can be  prop­
erly fitted .only after  the  administration 
of a  mydriatic—an  operation  which  no 
one,  save a  properly  instructed  medical 
man. should  permit  himself  to  perform
Finally, judging from the work of  vet­
eran opticians and their utter inability, in 
most instances, to  recognize  an  existing 
astigmatism, it is fair  to  infer  that  the 
druggist  would  not  detect this  common 
form of optical disease; hence, could  not 
prescribe the suitable glass.

to 

We concede that an intelligent druggist 
who  takes  pains 
instruct  himself 
thoroughly in the science  of  optics  and 
the mechanics  of  the  lense, ought  to  be 
quite as competent to prescribe glasses as 
the  optician  who  now  does  it  so  fre­
quently;  but 
the  work  of  the  latter 
leaves much  to  desire,  and  the  prudent 
druggist will soon learn that he had  bet­
ter resign  the  prescribing  of  glasses  to 
the oculist,  unless he  first  qualifies  him­
self to act intelligently and then proceeds 
with care  and  caution  in  each  instance. 
Not insignificant, surely,  is the action  of 
a number of extensive houses  dealing  in 
optical  supplies—notably 
the  large 
Eastern  cities—who  employ  a  skilled 
ophthalmologist  for  this  line  of  work 
exclusively. Such an assistant  is a  scien­
tific  expert,  possesses 
requisite 
knowledge  and  skill,  and  is  capable  of 
| guarding  against  the  accideuts  which 
form 
the  frequent  sequel  of  ill-chosen 
glasses.

the 

in 

S to re k eep in g   in  th e   Coke  Region.
Every  merchant is  guided more or less 
in the purchase  of  his  supplies  by  the 
character of his customers,  but  the men 
who run the general  stores  in  the  coke 
regions  of  Pennsylvania  have  more 
peculiar ideas to meet  than is the  lot  of 
the  average  storekeeper.  These  stores 
are all controlled by  the  owners  of  the 
mines,  and it is alleged that some of them 
force their  men  to  buy  from  them  ex­
clusively.  The  profits  of  these  stores 
are  undoubtedly  large,  although 
the 
prices  of  some  of  them,  at  least,  are 
lower than they are at the usual  country 
stores.  The  unique 
the 
wares  carried  in  these  stores  are  the 
enormous feather  beds,  Polish and Hun­
garian head-dresses,  heavy  hoots  for the 
women as well as for  the  men,  and  ail 
sorts  of  gaudy  shawls  and  dress  stuffs. 
Among 
these 
stores supply are  highly  seasoned  saus­
ages and hams,  such  as are  found in the 
Hungarian  and  Polish  quarters  of  this 
town.  The Poles are much more extrav­
agant  than  the  Hungarians,  and  buy 
much  better  and  higher  priced  goods.

the  special  provisions 

features  of 

they  make 

The Hungarians  buy  the  cheapest  kind 
of  meat,  of  which 
their 
goulashes.  They  do  not  buy  much  of 
anything in  the way of  provisions,  how­
ever,  relying  largely  upon their gardens 
for vegetables,  and  occasionally  killing 
one of  their  ducks or geese.  The Poles, 
on  the  contrary,  rely  very  little  upon 
their  own  efforts,  although 
they  also 
have good gardens,  but purchase the best 
foods that the stores have.  Very  few of 
the purchasers  pay  cash. 
Instead  they 
secure  from  their  foremen  tickets  for 
various  amounts.  These  are  presented 
at  the  stores  in  payment  for  supplies, 
and the clerks mark on them the amounts 
of  their  purchases.  When 
the  whole 
value of the  ticket  has  been  contracted 
for,  it is taken  up  by  the  clerk  of  the 
store.

F rien d sh ip   S co res  A gain.

Priscilla—I  want  to  get  a  gown  to 
Perdita—Why don’t  you  get  a  band- 

From  Brooklyn Life.
match my complexion.
painted one?

The labor  disorganizes  of  those days 
were not paid salaries for  agitating  and 
disturbing the peace, and inducing labor­
ing men to quit work and become mendi­
cants.

.

.  

.
- 

.
- 

»
- 

ONLY  A  FEW  LEFT.
 

Original set of four 
Complete set of ten 

-  25c
5<e
Order  quick or lose the opportunity of 
a  lifetime  to  secure these souvenirs at a 
nominal figure.  They will  be worth ten 
times present cost within  five years. 
T radesm an Company, 

- 

GRAND  RAPIDS.

Seely’s Flavoring Extracts
Every dealer should sell  them.
Extra Fine quality.
Lemon,  Vanilla,  Assorted  Flavors. 
Yearly sales increased by  their  use. 
Send trial  order.
Seeln's Lemon.
Gro. 
Doz. 
10  SO
6  90
I  20  12  60 
g oz. 
4 oz.  2  00  22  80 
6 oz.  3  OO  33  OO
Seeln’s  Vanilla

(Wrapped)

(Wrapped)

2 oz.  2  OO  21  60
4 oz. 
3   75  40  80
6 oz.  5  40  57  60
Plain  N. S.  w ith 
corkscrew at same 
price if  preferred.
C o rresp o n d en ce
Solicited
SEELY  MFQ.  CO.,  Detroit,  flieh

¡v 

N C   M u S T A C H f c  
j» 0   **AV

not  ^ 
Wh«-i 
there 
charf 
tho e

ai-.s isa-ricti to grow hair on sas head 
-.vui  ifcosi  who  can  call  at  my office or 
- thee of my agents, provided  the head it 
i..sv. or the pores of the scalp not closed, 
the  head  is  shiny or  the  pores  closed, 
s no cure.  Call and  be examined  free ol 
If  you cannot  call, write to me.  State 
act  condition of the scalp and your occn* 
Ae-m uni Mascnio Temple, Chicaoo

PROP.  G.  BIRKHOLZ, 

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

W h olesale  P r ì o e   C u rre nt»

Advanced—Gum Opium, Gum Opium, po.. Gum Camphor.  Declined—

“ 

,T 

S.  N. Y.Q.  &

Morphia, S. T.'A W.  2 06@2 30 
C.  Co....................  1  90®2 20
Moschus Canton........  @  40
Myrlstlca, No  1 ........  65®  70
Nux Vomica, (po 20)..  @  10
Os.  Sepia....................   16®  18
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D.
Co...................   @2 00
Plds Llq, N.»C., % gal
doz  .........................  @2 00
Plcls Llq., quarts......  @1 00
pints.........  @  85
Pll Hydrarg,  (po. 80)..  @ 50
Piper Nigra, (po. 22)..  @ 1
Piper Alba, (po g5)__  @  3
PllxBurgun................  @  7
Plumbl A cet..............  14®  15
Pulvis Ipecac et opll.. 1  io@l  20 
Pyrethrum,  boxes  H
& P. D.  Co., doz......  @1 25
Pyrethrum,  pv...........  20®  30
Quasslae....................  8®  10
Quinla, S. P. A W.34U@3914
S.  German....  27®' 37
Rubla  Tlnctorum......   12®  14
12®  14
SaccharumLactlspv. 
Salacln...................... 2 10®2 25
Sanguis  Draconls......   40®  50
Sapo, W......................  12®  14
50
”  M.......................  10®  12
“  G.......................  @  15

“ 

Seldlltz  Mixture........  @  20
Sinapls...........................  @ 18
“  opt......................  ® 80
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  De
Voes.......................   @  35
Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes  @  35 
Soda Boras, (po. 11).  .  10®  11 
Soda  et Potass Tart...  24®  25
Soda Carb.................  1)4®  2
Soda, Bl-Carb............   @  5
Soda,  Ash.................... 3)4®  4
Soda, Sulphas............   @  2
Spts. Bther C o...........  50®  55
"  Myrda  Dom......   @2 25
“  Myrcla Imp........  @3 00
*'  Vlnl  Reel.  bbl.
• •..7........................2 31@2 41
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Stiychnla Crystal......1 40@1 45
Sulphur, Subl............ 2^@ 3
‘  Roll..............  2  @ 2)4
„  
Tamarinds...................   8® 10
Terebenth Venice......   28®  30
Theobromae............. 45  ®  48
Vanilla..................... 9 00@16 00
Zlnd  Sulph..................  7®
7® 8

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

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

“ 

b b l. 

f a in t s. 

white

lb .
Red Venetian..............1£   2@8
Ochre, yellow  Mars.... Hg  2@4
“ 
Ber........m   2@s
Putty,  commercial__2M  2)4@3
“  strictly  pure...... 2)4  2M@8
Vermilion Prune Amer­
ican ..........................
13@16 
Vermilion,  English...
65@70 
Green,  Peninsular.
70®75 
Lead,  red..............
6  @6)4 
6  @6)4 
Whiting, white Span 
®70 
Whiting,  Gliders’ ~  
@90 
White, Paris  American
1
Whiting,  Paris  Bng. 
1  40
Universal Prepared  ..1  C0@1  15 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared 
Paints.................... 1 00@1  20
No. 1 Turp  Coach__1  10@1  20
Extra Turp................166@1  70
Coach  Body...............2 75@3 00
No. 1 Turp Furn.......1  00@1  10
Butra Turk Damar.
1  5G®1  60 
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1
70®75

V A R N ISH ES.

rarp.

cliff

1

85

■  I

Glass  and  Nickle

ACIDUM.

8®  10
Acetlcum................... 
Benzoicum  German..  65®  75
Boradc 
....................  
30
Carbollcum..............  30®
Cltrlcum................... 
53®
Hydrochlor................  3®
Nltrocum 
.................   10®
Oxallcum...................  10®
Phosphorium dll
Sallcÿllcnm.............. .1 25@1  60
Sulphurlcum--- ------ ■  Hi®  5
Tannlcum................. .1  40@1  60
Tartaricum...............
30®  33
AMMONIA.
4®  6
Aqua, 16  deg............
6®  8
20  deg............
Carbonas  ................. .  12®  14
Chloridum............... .  12®  14

“ 

A N IL IN S.

Black......................... .2 00@2 25
Brown....................... .  80@1  00
Red............................ .  45®  50
Yellow...................... .2 50@3 00

BACOAX.
Cubeae (po  36)........
Juníperas.................
Xantnoxylum...........
BALBAMUM.
Copaiba....................
Peru..........................
Terabin, Canada__
Tolutan....................
CORTEX .

25®  30
8®  10
.  25®  30

45®  50
@2 25
40®  45
35®  50

Abies,  Canadian.................   18
Casslae  ...............................  11
Cinchona F lav a.................   18
Euonymus  atropurp...........  30
Myrica Cerifera, po.............  30
Pranus Vlrglnl....................   12
Qulllala,  grd.......................   10
Sassafras  ............................  12
TTlmus Po (Ground 15)........  15

KXTBA CTU K .

Glycyrrhlza  Glabra...  34®  25
« 
po...........  33®  35
Haematox, 15 lb. box..  11®  12
IB..............  13®  14
" 
“  Ms............   14®  15
Ks............   16®  17
VKKBTJ

Carbonate Precip........  ®  15
Citrate and Quinla —   @3 50
Citrate  Soluble...........  ®  80
Ferrocyanldum Sol —   ®  GO
Solut  Chloride...........  @  15
Sulphate,  com’l .............. 9®  2
pure............   ®  7

11 

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

 

FLO R A .

 
FO M A .

“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Barosma 
CasBla  Acutifol,  Tln-

...................  18®  50
nlvelly........  .........   25®  28
«  Alx.  35®  50

Salvia  officinalis,  !*s
and  Hs....................
Ura Ursi 
...................

15®
8®
® 60
Acacia,  1st  picked....
.... @ 40
2d 
@ 30
3d 
.... 
sifted sorts...
@ 20
po................. 60® 80
50® 60
Aloe,  Barb, (po. 60)..
“  Cape, (po.  20)... @ 12
@ 50
Socotri. (po.  60). 
Catechu, Is, (Mis, 14 Ms,
@ 1
16)............................
Ammonias.................  55®
Assafcetlda, (po. 35)..  40®  45
Benzolnum.................  50®  55
Camphors..................   48®  52
Buphorblum  po  ........  35®  lo
Galbanum...................  ®2 50
Gamboge,  po..............  70®  7b
Gualaccm, (po  85) —   ®  30
Alno,  (po  1  75).........   @1  75
M astic.......................   @ 80
Myrrh, (po. 45).  .  —   ®  40
Opll  (po  3 50@3 70)..2 35@2 45
Shellac  ......................  35®  42
bleached......   33®  35
Tragacanth................  40® 1  00

“ 
hkbba—In ounce packages.

Absinthium.........................  25
Bupatorium.........................  20
Lobelia.................................  25
Majorum.............................   28
Mentha  Piperita.................   23
“  V lr.........................  25
Bue.......................................  30
Tanacetum, V......................  22
Thymus,  V..........................   25
Calcined, Pat  ...........  55®  60
Carbonate,  Pat...........  20®  22
Carbonate, K. &  M —   20®  25
Carbonate, Jennlng5..  35®  36

M ASK BSIA .

X .
4 -

V  -

i v i

rJt.L  «

b   \

A 

i  « 

f i   y

T

¥ ‘ f v

4

«

r l  
1] 
1 
1 

V  
1 
, 
_  1 

* 

» 

j 
v y  

-v|
>  I*

j
i 1

r

i

.4

>  (•

25@1 40

2 00
50@1 60
50@1 60
70®1 80

40@1 60
85@3 60
20@2 30
30@1 40

Cubebae...................... 
Exechthltos..............   1 
Brlgeron..................... 1 
Gaultherla.................. 1 
Geranium,  ounce......   @  75
Gosslpll,  Sem. gal......  70®  75
Hedeoma  ...................l 
Jumperl......................  50@2 00
Lavendula.................  90@2 00
Limonis.......................1 
Mentha Piper...............2 
Mentha Verld............. 2 
Morrhuae, gal..............1 
Myrcla, ounce............   ®  50
Olive..........................  90@3 00
Plcls Liquida, (gal. .35)  10®  12
Ricini.......................  1 
22@1 28
Rosmarini............  
l  00
Rosae, ounce...............6 50@8 50
Sucdnl.......................   40®  45
Sabina.......................   90@1  00
San tal  ........................2 
Sassafras....................   50®  55
Sinapls, ess, ounce__  ®  65
Tiglii..........................   @1  00
Thyme.......................   40®  50
opt  ...  .........   @160
Iheobromas...............   15®  20
BlCarb...  .................   15®
Bichromate ................  13®
Bromide.................... 
40®
Carb............................  12®
Chlorate  (po  23@25)..  24®  26
Cyanide......................  50®  55
Iodide.........................2 90@3 00
Potassa, Bitart,  pure..  23®  25 
Potassa, Bitart, com...  @
Potass Nltras, opt......  
8®
7®
Potass Nltras.............. 
Prusslate....................   28®
Sulphate  po................ 
is®

POTA SSIU M .

50@7 00

‘‘ 

“ 

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....................  15®  20
Ipecac,  po...................1 50® 1  60
Iris plox (po. 35@38) ..  35®  40
Jalapa,  pr..................   40®  45
Maranta,  14s ..............  @  35
Podophyllum, po........  15©  18
She!............................  75@1  00
"  cut......................  @1  75
pv.......................   75@1  35
Splgelia......................  35®  38
Sanguinaria, (po  25)..  @ 20
Serpentaria.................  45®  50
Senega.......................  55®  60
Similax, Officinalis.  H @ 40
M  @  25
Scillae, (po. 85)...........  10®  12
Symplocarpus,  FcBtl-
dus,  po....................  @
35 
Valeriana, Bng. (po.30)  ®
25 
German...  15®
20 
ingiber a ................. 
18®
20 
Zingiber  j.
18®  20
Anlsum,  (po.  20).. 
..  ®  15
A plum  (gravel eons)..  18®  20
Bird, Is....................... 
4®  6
larul, (po. 18)..............   10® 12
Cardamon........................1  00@1 25
Corlandrum.................   12® 14
Cannabis Satlva.........   4® 
5
Cydonlum....................   75®1 00
Chenopodlum  .............  10® 12
Dlpterix Odorate........ 2 40®2 60
Foenicuiam......   ..........  @ 15
Foenugreek,  po.........  
6®  8
L ln l...........................4  @ 4M
Llnl, grd.  (bbl. 3)4)...  3)4®  4
Lobelia.........................  35® 40
Pharlarls Canarian__ 
4®  5
R apa.............................  6®  7
Sinapls  Albu...............  7®  8
Nigra...........  11®  12

“ 

* 

“ 
" 
“ 

SFiBiTUs.
Frumentl, W.,D.  Co..2 00@2 50
D. F. R.......1  75®2 00
 
1  25@1  50
Junlperis  Co. O. T....1  65@2 00
“ 
.............1  75@3 50
Saacharum  N.  B........ 1  75®2 00
Spt.  Vlni  Galll........... 1  75@6 50
Vlnl Oporto.................... 1  25®2 00
Vlnl  Alba....................... 1  25@2 00

SPONOBS.

Florida  sheeps’  wool
carriage....................... 2 50®2 75
Nassau  sheeps'  wool
carriage  .................
2 00 
Velvet  extra  sheeps’
1  10
wool  carriage.........
Extra  yellow  sheeps’
carriage...................
Grass sheeps’ wool car­
riage  ..................
Hard for  slate  use__
Yellow Reef, for  slate 
use..........................

1  40

O LEUM .

Absinthium................ 2 50@3 00
Amygdalae, Dulc........  45®  75
Amyaalae, Amarae__ 8 00®8  25
Anlsl............................l 8»®i 90
Aurantl  Cortex...........1  80@2 00
Bergamll  ...................3 00®3 20
Cajlputl.................... 
60®  65
Caryophylll................  75®  80
Cedar.........................  35®  65
Chenopodll...............   ®1  60
Clnnamonll.................1  1C®1 15
Cltronella...................  @  45
Conlum  Mac..............  35®  65
Copaiba......................  80®  90

*

8TBUP8.

A ccada...............................  50
Zingiber  .............................   50
Ipecac..................................   60
Ferri  Iod.............................   50
Aurantl  Cortes............... 
  56
Rhel  Arom..........................   50
Similax  Officinalis..............  60
....  50
Senega................................   50
Sdllae..................................   50
“  Co.............................   50
Toiatan...............................   50
Prunasarlrg.........................  50

Cj 

“ 

“ 

TINCTURES.

 

 

 

 

‘‘

** 

TP 

*‘ 

“ 

Aconitum Napellls R .........   60
Kfl
Aloes.......................................60
and m yrrh ..............  60
A rnica................  
so
Asafcetlda............................  >o
Atrope BeUadonna................  60
Benzoin.....................................• go
„  “  Co............................   50
Sanguinarla..........................   50
Barosma...............................   50
Cantharldes..........................   75
Capsicum..............................  50
Ca damon..............................  75
„   “ 
Co...........................  75
Castor.....................  
1 00
Catechu.................................  50
Cinchona..............................  50
Co..........................   60
Columba...............................  50
Conlum.................................  50
Cubeba..................................   50
Digitalis......................... 
 
Ergot.....................................   50
Gentian.................................  50
Co..............................  60
_ 
Gualca..................................   50
ammon......................  60
Zingiber...............................  50
Hyoscyamus.........................  50
Iodine....................................  75
“  Colorless....................   75
Ferri Chloridum...................  35
K ino.....................................   so
Lobelia..................................  50
Myrrh....................................  50
Nux  Vomica.........................  50
Opll.................................  
“  Camphorated.................   50
“  Deodor..............................2 00
Aurantl Cortex......................  50
Quassia.................................  50
Rhatany...............................  50
Rhel.......................................  50
Cassia  Acutifol.............  .*..  50
Co................  50
Serpentaria...........................  50
Stramonium...........................  60
Tolutan.................................  60
Valerian...............................  50
VeratrumVerlde...................  50

“ 

“ 

“ 

 

MI8GBLLANBOU8.

dither, Spts  Nit, 3 F ..  28®  30 
“  4 F ..  32®  34
Alumen......................2)4® 3

“  
ground,  (po.

‘ 
“ 

“ 

" 

iqulbbs.. 
«Äst 

7).............................   3®  4
Annatto......................  55®  60
4®  5
Antimoni, po.............. 
et Potass T.  55®  60
Antlpyrln...................  @1 40
Antifebrln..................  @  25
Argenti  Nltras, ounce  @  48
Arsenicum................. 
5®  7
Balm Gilead  Bud....  38®  40
Bismuth  S.  N ............ 1  60@1  70
Caldum Chlor, Is, ()4s
®  11
12;  Ms,  14)..............
Cantharldes  Russian,
po............................
@ 1  00 
Capslcl  Fructus, af...
®  26 
SU:*
®  28 @  20 
Caryophyllus, (po.  15)
10®   12 
Cannine,  No. 40.........
®3 75
Cera  Alba, S. <& F ......   50®  55
Cera Flava.................  88®  40
Coccus.......................  @  40
Cassia Fructus...........  ®  25
Centrarla....................   ®  10
Cetacenm...................  ®  40
Chloroform...............   60®  68
0125 
Chloral Hyd (
— ----
.1  25®1  50
Chondrus......... ........   20®  25
Clnohonldine, P.  A  W  15®  20
German 8)4®  12 
Corks,  llst,  dis.  per
oent  ...................... 
75
Creasotum.............. 
@  35
@  2
Creta, (bbl. 75)......  
prep............  
5®  5
9®  11 
ubra.
@
Crocus ........
35®  40 
Cudbear......
@  24 
Copri Sulph.
5 @  6
Dextrine__
10®  12
Bther Sul^h
70®  75
Emery,  all  numbers..
po...................  @  6
jp o .)  75........   70®  75
Flake  White.............  12®  15
Galla..........................  @  28
Gambier......................  7  @ 8
Gelatin,  Cooper.........   @
French...........  30®
Glassware  flint, by box 80.
Less than box 75.
Glue,  Brown..............  9®  15
“  White................  13®  25
Glycerins...................  14®  20
Grana Paradisi...........  ®  22
Humulus....................   25®  55
Hydraag Chlor  Mite..  @  75
  @  65
Ox Rubrum  ®  85
Ammontati..  @  95 
Unguentum.  45®  55
Hydrargyrum............   @  6E
Ichthyobolla, Am..  ..1 25@1 60
Indigo.........................  75@1 00
Iodine, Resubl...........3 80@3 90
Iodoform....................  ®4 70
Lupulin......................  @2 25
Lycopodium..............  70®  75
M ads.........................  70®  75
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy­
drarg Iod.................  @  27
Liquor PotassArsInItiB  10®  12
Magnesia,  Solph  (bbl
Manilla,  S .F ..............  60®  68

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

“  Cor 

“ 
“ 
" 
“ 

__ 

DIMENSIONS: —13 inches square at top;  2 < 

high.

inches  square  at  base;  62  inches

Will keep stock clean and show sponges to advantage. 
Furnished in Light and Dark Oak, Cherry or Walnut.

P R I C E   $ 2 0 .

HflXELTP  X  PERKP  DRUG  GO.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

M'l-nv.  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

G RO CERY   PR IC E   CU RREN T. 
jr s S  iiS M s 

r£SE ;lH Z i?5c-SiS

S

Ä

7

Ä

 Ä

’ errore*or omiBsions, a. it U on,  5 »  to n.ake  « .  

.  of  * .

.........................................
Foreign.
Currants.

f l a v o r in g   e x t r a c t s .
Oval Bottle, with corkscrew. 
Best In the world for the money.

Sondera*.

COUPON  BOOKS.

‘Tradesman.’ 
books, per hundred.

2  00
2 50
3 003 00
4 00
5 00
1  1 books, per bnndred  . .  2 50
.  3 00
. .  8 50
¡3 
..  4 00
15 
..  5 00
no 
.  6 00
K0 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
B9IÎ85S59HB

“Superior.”

“ 
11 
“ 
“

“
“
“

Universal.”

“ -

“
"
“

13 00 
1  books, per hundred.
2 
“ 
.  3 50 
“ 
8 
.  4 00 
.  5 00 
5 
“ 
«0  “ 
.  6 00 
7 00
820
Above prices on coupon books
are  subject  to  the  following I 
quantity discounts:
200 books or over.  5 per cent
600
1000
COUPON  PASS BOOKS 
Can  be  made to represent any 
enomlnatlon  from 810  down. | 
20 books........................ 8 1 00
00 
50
3 00 
100
6 25 
250
10 00 
500
17 50
1000

CRACKERS.

Butter.

Seymour XXX....................
Seymour XXX, cartoon......5*4
Family XXX.....................   5
Family XXX,  cartoon........  5*4
Salted XXX...........................5
Salted XXX,  cartoon  ..........5*4
Kenosha.............................  7*4
Boston....................................J
Batter  biscuit....................  6
Soda, XXX.........................  5*4
Soda, City............................  7*4
Soda,  Duchess....................  8*4
Crystal Wafer......................10*4
Long  Island Wafers  ..........11
8. Oyster  XXX.................... 5*4
City Oyster. XXX...................5)4
Farina  Oyster....................   6

Oyster.

Soda.

CREAM  TARTAR.

Strictly  pure......................  *}
Telfers Absolute..............   30
Grocers’............................ 15©25

FLY  PAPER. 
Thnm ’s Tanglefoot

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

DRIED  FRUITS. 

Domestic.
Apples.

“ 

“ 

Pears.

Peaches.

Apricots.

quartered  “ 

Sundrled. sliced In  bbls.
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes 12  12*4 
California in  bags........
Evapor«ted In boxes.  .. 
Blackberries.
In  boxes.......................
Nectarines.
701b. bags.......................
25 lb. boxes.....................
Peeled, In  boxes...........
Cal. evap.  “ 
...........
“ 
In bags........
California In bags......
Pitted Cherries.
Barrels..........................
50 lb. boxes...................
25 “ 
...................
PrnnelJes.
801b.  boxes...................
Raspberries.
In barrels......................
50 lb. boxes....................
25 lb.  " 
......................
I  CZ3  r~  Raisins.
2 crown...........................
8 
..........................
4 
......................  4M
c  Loose Muscatels in Bags.
2  crown...............................4Ji

Loose Muscatels In Boxes.

“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

Peel.

“ 
25  “ 
25 
“ 
Raisins.

Patras,  in barrels............  
2
In  K-bbls..............  2)4
2W
in less quantity —  
cleaned,  bulk........  4
cleaned,  package.. 
4*4 
Citron, Leghorn. 26 lb. boxes  13 
Lemon 
8
Orange 
10
Ondura, 29 lb. boxes.  5 ©  7 
“ 
. -754 O 8
Sultana, 20 
Valencia, 80  “
Prunes.
California,  100-120 ..............6
90x100 25 lb. bxs.  6*4
80x90 
-. 7
70x80 
7*4
60x70 
. 8
5

“ 
“ 
“ 
Turkey......................... 
I Silver.........................
ENVELOPES.
XX rag, white.

I No. 1,6*4..........................  •}  ¡ft
No. 1,6.............................  J »
NO. 2,6.............................   I 50

XX  wood, white.

Manilla, white.

No. 1,6*4..........................  J®
No. 2,6*4..........................  1  25
...................................   1  08
6...............................  95
Mill  No. 4.........................  1  00
FARINACEOUS  GOODS. 

Coin.

Farina.
Hominy.

Oatmeal.

Lima  Beans.

100 lb. kegs................... 
354
Barrels...............................3W
Grits..................................   8*4
Dried............................4  ®4*4
Maccaronl and Vermicelli. 
Domestic, 12 lb. box.... 
55
Imported....................10*4©11
Barrels 200.......................  5 00
Half barrels 100 ...............   3 00
Pearl Barley,
2 60
Kegs........................ -
Green,  bu........................   1_J5
Spilt  per'lb...............
Rolled  Oats.
@ 5  on@2-
Barrels  180.................
Half  bbls 90..............
German.................................4*4
Bast India..........................   5
Cracked..............................  3)4

Wheat.

Sago.

Peas.

FI8H -- Salt.

Cod.

10012

Halibut.
Herring.
“ 
“ 

Bloaters.
Yarmouth.................
Pollock....................
Whole, Grand  Bank......   4545*4
Boneless,  bricks............ 654
Boneless, strips..............6*4
Smoked...................... 
Holland, white hoops keg 
“ 
bbl
Scaled
Norwegian  .....................
Round, *4 bbl 100 lbs........  2 50
••  40  “  ........  1  30
Scaled........................ 
19
Mackerel.
No. 1,  100 lbs...........................10 00
No. 1, 40 lbs..............................4 40
No. 1,  10 lbs............................  1 00
No. 2,100 lbs............................ 7 00
No. 2,40 lbs............................  3 10
No. 2,10 lbs.......................   80
Family, 90 lbs....................
10 lb s.................

9  50

“ 

 

Sardines.
Trout

Russian, kegs....................   55
No. 1, *4 bbls., lOOlbs...........4 75
No. 1 *4 bbl, 40  lbs..............2 20
63
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs..............  
53
No  1,81b  kits.................  
No. 1  family
hi bbls, 100 lbs.......... 86 25  2 25
S   “  40  “  ..........   2 80  1 20
101b.  kits...................  78  50
8 lb.  “ 
...................  65  43
MATCHES.

Whiteflsb.

Globe Match Co.’s Brands.

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

Regular  11 
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........8 50
Jennings.
Lemon. Vanilla 
os regular panel.  75 
120
o* 
...1   50 
„01 
.. .2 00 
No. 3 taper...........1 35 
No. 4  taper...........1  50 
N orthrop’»
75 
1  20 
85 
1  «0

2 00
2 50
Lemon.  Vanilla, 
1  10
1?75
1  20
25

oz oval taper 
02 
11  " 
oz regular “
“  “ 
oz 
GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.

11 
“ 

* ou
3 00

Kegs....................................8 25
Half  kegs........................... }  ?0
Quarter  kegs.....................i  nj
1 lb cans.............................
*4 lb cans............................  18
Choke Bore—Dupont’s
Kegs....................................4 ®
Half  kegs...........................2 £
Quarter kegs......................1
lb cans..............................  34
Bagle Duck—Dupont’s.
Kegs........................................00
Half  kegs.......................... *  75
Quarter kegs......................J w
60
1  lb  cans..............
HERBS.
.16.16
Sage.........................
Hops............... ........
INDIGO.
55
Madras,  5 lb. boxes.........
50
S. F., 2,3 and 5 lb. boxes.. 
JELLY .
53
15  lb.  pails................  O
57
17  “  “ 
................  O
90
30  “ 
................  O
30
Pure.....................................
Calabria...............................   25
Sicily....................................  12
Root.....................................   13
LYE.
Condensed, 2 dos..............  1  20
4 dos...............2 26

“ 
LICORICE.

“ 

MINCE  MEAT.

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

MEASURES.
Tin, per dozen.

1  gallon  ......................  . •  81  75
Half  gallon.......................   1 40
70
Q uait...............................  
P int..................................  
45
Half  pint  ................. 
 
40
Wooden, for vinegar, per doz.
1 gallon..............................  7 00
Half gallon........................  4 75
Q nart...........  ...................   8 75
Pint 

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

MOLASSES.
Blackstrap.
Sngar bouse................— • 
Cuba Baking.
Ordinary..........................  
Porto Hloo.
Prime...........................  
Fancy................... ..
New Orleans.
F air..............................
Good  ...........................
Extra  ood...................
Choice 
......................
F an cy .........................
half -barrels Sc.extra

14
16
20
30

¿v* ¿

A J  *

i

Í

I

*  /

CATSUP.

Bine Label Brand.

“ 

Half  pint, 25 bottles..........2 75
Pint 
...........4 60
Quart 1 doz bottles 
..  3 50 
Half pint, per  doz............. 1  35
Pint, 25 bottles...................4 50
Quart, per  doz  .................. 3 75

Triumph Brand.

CLOTHES  PINS.

5 gross boxes................ 40@45

COCOA  SHELLS.

35 lb. bags......................  @3
Less quantity...............   @3**
Pound  packages......... 6£®7

COFFEE.
Green.
Rio.

Santos.

Fair...................................... 1§
Good.................................... 19
Prime.................................. 21
Golden.................................21
Peaberry............................. 23
Fair......................................19
Good.................................... 20
Prime.................................. 22
Peaberry  .......................... --23
Mexican and Guaiamala.
Fair......................................21
Good.................................... 22
Fancy...................................24
Prime...................................23
M illed.................................24
Interior............................... 25
Private Growth.:................27
Mandehling........................28
Imitation.............................25
rabian............................... 28

Maracaibo.

Mocha.

Java.

Roasted.

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

Package. 

Extract.

Valley City *4 gross...........  75
Felix 
........... 1  15
Hummel’s, foil, gross..........1 65
“  ...... 8 “
11 

T‘ 

tin 
C H IC O R Y .

Bulk.
Red.

CLOTHES  LINES.

1 

Cotton,  40 f t......... per doz. 1
1
1
1
1 
1
Jute 
1 
1
CONDENSED  MILK. 

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

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

4 dos. In case.

N.Y.Cond’ns’d Milk Co’s brands
Gail Borden Bagle..............  7
Crown.................................. 6
Daisy....................................5
Champion............................ 4
Magnolia  ............................ 4
Dime....................................3

g o i, 
I f w
greatest possible  use t6  dealers. 

I Ä

Ä

 ;

AXLE GREASE.
doz
Aurora...  ..............  ®
Castor Oil..............  ®0
Diamond.................  50
Frazer’s.................
Mica  ......................
Paragon 

...............   53

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

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

1 

Cream Flake.

Acme.
>4 id.  ¿ans. 3 doz —
“  ......
„ 
lib .  “ 
........
Bulk..................  —Arctic, 
u  lb cans 6 doz  case.........
.........   1
2  lb  “  4 doz  “ 
........
1  B>  “  2 doz  “ 
5  1b  “  1 doz 
“ 
.........
........
‘‘ 
6 doz 
3  oz 
........
4  oz  “  4 doz 
‘ 
........
oz  “  4 doz 
* 
........
oz  “  4 doz  “ 
B>  “  2 doz  “ 
.......
lb  “ 
.......
ldoz  “ 
Bed Star, M *> cans
“ 
*4 *>  “ 
........
*» 
1  M  ......
Teller’s,  54 lb. cans, do*
Hlb.
i t   IV, 
11 
“
“  
1 lb.  *
•« 
Our Leader, *4 .b cans.
>4 lb  cans..
1 lb cans.  .

45 
75 1 00 
10
55 
10 
2 00 
9 00
45 
80 
80 
1  20 
2 00 
9 00 
40 
75 
1  40 
45 
95 
1 50 
45 
75 
1  50

• 

BATH  BRICK.
2 dozen In case.

BLUING. 

E n glish ....................................   *
Bristol..................................
Domestic.............................  
iu
Gross
ovals..............3 60
Arctic, 4 oz 
..............6 75
80s
pints,  round...........  9 00
No. 2, sifting box...  2 75 
...4  00
.  „
i oz ball  .................J 50
Mexican Liquid, 4 oz........3 »)
8 OZ.......... 6  80

«  No. 3, 
“  No. 5, 
» 
« 

“ 
“ 

“ 

« 
BROOMS,

Pears.

Gages.

Apricots.
1  40 
Live oak.....................
1  40 
Santa Crus.................
1  50 1 10
Lusk’s .........................
Overland...................
Blackberries.
90
F. A  W.......................
Cherries.
Red............................. 1  10@1 25
Pitted Hamburgh......
1  50
W hite......................... 
Brie............................  ^ 
1  25
Damsons, Bgg Plums and Green 
1  20 
Brie............................
1  40
California...................
Gooseberries.
1  25
Common....................
Peaches.
1  10 1 50 
P ie............................
Maxwell....................
1  50 
Shepard's...................
75
California...................  160®!
Monitor  ....................
Oxford.......................
Domestic.................... 
1  25
Riverside.................... 
1 75
Pineapples.
Common........... -........1 00®1 30
Johnson’s sliced........ 
2 50
2 75
grated........ 
Booth’s sliced............  @2 51
grated...........  @2  75
Quinces.
1  10
Common....................  
Raspberries.
Red.............. 
110
 
Black  Hamburg.........  
1  40
Brie,  black  .......... 
1 25
Strawberries.
awrence..................  
1 25
1  26
Hamburgh................. 
120
E rie....  ....................  
Terrapin....................... 
1  05
Whortleberries.
Blueberries...............  
85
Corned  beef  Libby’s..........2 10
Roast beef  Armour’s ..........180
Potted  ham, *4 lb...............1  25
“  * l b .................  70
tongue, *4 lb ........... 1  35
54 lb...........  75
chicken, M ib.........   95

“ 
Vegetables.

Meats.

 

 

Beans.

“ 

Pes*

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Corn.

Hamburgh  stringless........ 1  15
French style...... 2 00
Limas............... 1  35
Lima, green....................... 1 25
soaked......................  70
Lewis Boston Baked........... 1  85
Bay State  Baked................. 1  85
World’s  Fair  Baked........... 1  85
Picnic Baked........................1 00
Hamburgh........................ 1 25
Livingston  Bden..............1 20
Purity..................................
Honey  Dew.......................1 40
Morning Glory...................
Soaked...............................  75
Hamburgh  marrofat............1 80
early Jane  ■ 
...1 50
Champion Eng.. 1  40
petit  pols............1 40
fancy  sifted....1  90
Soaked.................................  65
Harris standard...................  75
VanCamp’s  marrofat..........1  10
early June.......1 30
Archer's  Early Blossom— 1  25
French.......................  
  2 15
Mushrooms.
French..............................19©21
Pumpkin.
Brie............................... —   75
Squash.
Hubbard..............................1
Succotash.
Hamburg..............................1
Soaked................................
Honey  Dew..........................1
Brie......................................1
Hancock.............................
..............
Excelsior 
Eclipse.............................
Hamburg........—
........
Gallon....................... ......

Tomatoes.

“ 

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

Baker’s.

“ 

No. 2 Carpet.......................* J*
No. 1 
.......................  * Sg
Parlor G em ......................*  i“
Common Whisk.................  _  5x
1  00
Fancy 
Warehouse............

......... .

* 

•• 
“ 

BRUSHES.
Stove, No.  1.......................  }  j®
io.......................   l  50
Rice Root Scrub, 2  row.  ..  85
Rice Root  Scrub, 3 row....  125 
Palmetto, goose...............   i  50

“ 
«  15....................... 1  £

CANDLES.

Hotel, 40 lb. boxes............   10
Star,  40 
..............  9
Paraffine  .......................... j®
Wicking  .......................... 24

“ 

C A N N E D   GOO D S.

Fish.
Clams.

“ 

k 

« 

*■ 

Little Neck,  1 lb...............
“  2  lb...............
Clam Chowder.
Cove Oysters. 

.1  20 
.1  90
Standard. 8 lb...................... 2 26
Standard,  lib ...

21b....................1  3d
Lobsters.
Star,  1  lb............................ |  45
Picnic, 1 lb...........................2 00
21b...........................8 90
Mackerel.
Standard, 1 lb..................... 110
2  lb................... 2  10
Mustard,  2 1 b ..................2  ®
Tomato Sauce,  2 lb ............2 sra
Soused, 2 lb........................2 25
Colombia River, flat........... 1  80
tails........... 1 65
Alaska, Red.........................1 25
pink......................... 1  10
Kinney’s,  flats.....................1  95
Sardines.
American  *4>.................... 4*4© 5
As.................... 6*4© 7
Imported  iit ......................  ©JO
ns................i8©i6
Mustard Ms......................  6©7
Boneless .
Brook 8, lb...................

Salmon.
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

Trout.
Fratta.
Apples.

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

1  20 
4 00

CHEESE.
Amboy.......................
Acme..........................
Lenawee....................
Riverside...................
Gold Medal..............
Skim.......................
Brick.......................
Edam..........................
Leiden.................... .
Llm burger
P ineapple......................  
Roquefort.
Sap Sago....................
Schweitzer, imported. 
domestic  ....

“ 

10
9*4
10
10
9*
5©
15

1  00 22 on
©25
035
1020024
014

Peerless evaporated cream.  5 75 

CREDIT  CHECKS.

500, any one denom’n ......18 00
1000,  “  “ 
.....5 00
2000,  “  “ 
..... 8 00
Steel  punch.......................  75

“ 
“ 

T H E   M ICTHGj^ISr  T R A D E S M A N ,

17

PICKLES.
Medium.
Barrel», 1,900 count... 
Half bbls, 600  count..
Barrels, 9,400 count. 
Half bbls, 1,900 count
PIPES.

Small.

0 4   00 @2 50
5  00 
3 00

Clay, Mo.  916.........................1 70
“  T. D. full count...........  70
Cob, Ho. 8............................. 1 90

POTASH.

48 cans in case.

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

RICK.
Domestic.

Carolina head.................. ...6
“  No. 1................... ...5)4
“  No. 2................... ..  5
Broken.............. ............... .  4
Japan, No. 1............  ......
...5)4
...5
“  No.2......................
Java............................— . .  6
Patna................................ • ■  4)4

Imported.

SPICKS. 
Whole Sifted.

“ 

“ 

shot..................

“  Zanzibar..................11)4

Allspice............................ ..  9)4
Cassia, China in mats...... .  8
Batavia In bund__16
•   “ 
Saigon In rolls........39
Cloves,  Amboyna................99
Mace  Batavia......................80
Nutmegs, fancy...................75
“  No.  1....................... 70
“  No. 8....................... 60
Pepper, Singapore, black— 10 
“ 
white...  .90
.16
“ 
Pure Ground in Bulk.
Allspice............................... 15
Cassia,  Batavia...................18
and  Saigon.95
“ 
Saigon....................35
“ 
Cloves,  Amboy na................99
“  Zanzibar.................18
Ginger, African...................16
"  Cochin....................90
Jam aica.................99
“ 
Mace  Batavia...................... 65
MuBtard, Eng. and Trieste..99
“  Trieste....................95
Nutmegs, No. 8 ...................75
Pepper, Singapore, black — 16
“ 
white.......84
“  Cayenne................. 90
Sage......................................90
‘Absolute” in Packages.
X« 
...  84

)4s 
1  55
Allspice.................
Cinnamon.............. ...  84 1  55
Cloves.................... ...  84 1  55
Ginger,  Jamaica  .. ...  84 1  55
“  African...... ...  84 1  55
Mustard................. .. .  84 1  55
84 1  55
Pepper  ...................
Sage........................ ...  84
Granulated,  bbls................   1M
751b  cases........  1M
Lump, bbls 
.......................1  15
1451b kegs...............   1%

SAL  SODA.

“ 

“ 

“ 

SKKDS.
A nise.......................
Canary, Smyrna........
Caraway...................
Cardamon, Malabar..
Hemp,  Russian.
u c u ii/j  iiu n o ia u  . . . . . .  
Mixed  Bird  .............. 
Mustard,  white
Poppy .........................
Rape..........................
Cuttle  bone...............
STARCH.

@15
4

■»
5@6

“ 

Corn.
20-lb  boxes.................... ....  5X
.................. ....  5)4
40-lb 
Gloss.
1-lb packages.................___  5
.......................  5
8-lb 
6-lb 
.......................  5)4
40 and 50 lb. boxes..............  3)4
Barrels................................  3)4

“ 
“ 

SNUFF.

“ 

Scotch, in  bladders............87
Maccaboy, in Jars............... 35
French Rappee, in Jars......43
Boxes............................. •...5)*
Kegs, English 
...4M

SODA,

..............
Diamond Crystal.

SALT.

Worcester.
“ 
“ 

Cases, 24 3  lb. boxes...... .1  1  60
Barrels, 320  lbs.............. .  2 50
115 2)4 lb bags... 
“ 
.  4 00
lb  “ 
60 5 
...
“ 
.  3 75
... .  3 50
3010  lb  “ 
“ 
Butter, 56 lb  bags...........
6)
“  20141b bags  ......... .  3 50
“  280 lb  bbls......... .  2 50
.......... .  2 25
“  224 lb 
115 2)4-lb sacks..............
..14 fO
60 5-lb 
............... .  3 75
................ ..  3 do
3010 lb 
22  14 lb.  “ T................. ..  3 30
3201b. bbl....................... ..  2 50
8 lb  sacks.................... ..  32)4
60
100 3-lb. sacks................. ..12 10
60 5-lb.  “ 
................. ..  2 00
2810-lb. sacks............... ..  1  85
..  30
56 lb. dairy in drill  bags. 
16
.. 
28 lb.  “ 
56 lb. dairy in linen sacks.. 
56 lb. dairy in linen  sacks. 
56 lk>.  sacks.......................
Saginaw..........................
Manistee..........................

Ashton.
Higgins.
Soiar Rock.
Common Fine.

blinen acks............
Common Grades.

Warsaw.

“ 

“

SALERATÜS.

Packed 60 lbs. In box.

Church’s .................
DeLand’s ................
Dwight’s .................
Taylor’s  ...............

......... 3 30
...........3  15
.......... 3 30
......... 3 00

SEELY'S  EXTRACTS.

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

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

Rococo—Second
Lemon.
Vanilla.

310 20 gro 
12 60  “ 
14  40  *•

16 20 gro 
21  60  “ 
25 59 
Grade.

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

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

SOAP.
Laundry.

Allen B. WrlBley’s Brands.

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

Proctor & Gamble.

“ 

Concord............................... 3 45
Ivory, 10  oz........... 
  6 75
6  oz...........................4 00
Lenox...............................  3 65
Mottled  German.................3  15
Town Talk.......................... 3 95

 

Dingman Brands.

“ 

“ 

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

“ 
Lautz Bros. <& Co.’s Brands.

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

Silver.................................. «65
Mono................................ 3  30
Savon Improved...............   8 50
Sunflower.........................8  80
Golden...............................3  85
Economical  ......................  8 25
Single  box  ....................... 3  65
5 box  lots..........................   3 60
10 box lots..........................  3 50
25box  lots;del...................3  40

Passolt’s Atlas  Brand.

“ 

SUGAR.

Sapolio, kitchen, 3  doz...  8 40

Scouring.
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 I the  invoice  for 
the  amount  of  freight  buyer 
pays from the market  in which 
he  purchases  to  his  shipping 
point, including 20  pounds  for 
the weight of the barrel.
Domino...............
.$5 44 
Cut  Loaf..............
.  5  44
Cubes..................
5 on
Powdered__
..  5 00
XXXX  Powdered 
..  5 25 
Granulated........
.  4 75
Fine Granulated.........
..  4 75 
Extra Fine Granulated..
.  4 87 
Mould  A  .......................
..  5 00 
Diamond Confec.  A 
• •  4 75 
Confec. Standard  A.. 
..  4 62
No.  1.......................
No.  3........... 
..............   a  ¡X
No.  4................
4  44
No.  5.........
A  37
No.  6.................
4 25
No.  7.............
4  12
No.  8...........
No.  9............
4 QQ
No.  10.........
3 94
No.  11..............
a  a r
No.  13..............

M................................  3  12

SYRUPS.

Corn.

Barrels.............................   24
Half bbls............................. «6
F air.....................................   19
Good.......................................25
Choice.....................................30

Pure Cane.

TABUE  SAUCES.

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

“ 
“ 

BASKET  FIRED.

j a p  ah — Regular.

TEAS.
F air..........................
@17
@20
Good.........................
Choice....................... .24 @26
Choicest.................... .32 @34
D ust......................... .10 @12
SUN CURED.
@17
F air..........................
@20
Good.........................
Choice....................... .24 @26
Choicest.................... .32 @34
Dust........................... 10 @12
F air.......................... .18 @20
@25
Choice.......................
@35
Choicest....................
Extra choice, wire leaf @40
GUNPOW DER.
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
Superior to fine.......... .30 @35
Common to  fair........ 18 @26
Superior to  fine..........30 @40
F air..............................18 @89
Choice...........................34 @28
Best............................. 40  @50

ENGLISH  BREAKFAST.

YOUNG  HYSON.

IM PERIAL.

OOLONG.

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......................  @37
Nellie Bly.................24  @25
Uncle Ben..................84  @25
McGinty....................
“  % bbls.........
Dandy Jim .................
Torpedo.....................
in  drums....
Yum  Yum  ...............
1892............................
...............
“  

d r u m s ....... 

“ 

Plug.

39
27
40
26
38
34
40
38

30

Sorg’s Brands.

Spearhead...................... 
Joker.............................. 
Nobby Twist.................... 
Scotten’s Brands.
Kylo................................. 
Hiawatha........................  
Valley City..................... 
Finzer’s Brands.
Old  Honesty...................  
JollyjTar......................... 
Lorillard’s Brands. 
39
Climax (8 oz.,41c).... 
Gr'en Turtle................... 
27
Three  Black Crows... 
J. G. Butler’s Brands.
Something Good........ 
38
Out of  Sight................... 
Wilson & McCauley’s Brands.
Gold  Rope...................... 
Happy Thought.........  
37
Messmate.......................  
No Tax............................ 
Let  Go............................  
Catlin’s  Brands.

Smoking.

24
43
32
31
27

Kiln  dried........................17@18
Golden  Shower................... 19
Huntress 
........................... 26
Meerschaum  ..  .............. 29@30
American Eafle Co.’s Brands.
Myrtle Navy........................40
Stork............................. 30@32
German............................... 15
F rog....................................33
Java, Hs foil.......................32
Banner Tobacco Co.'s Brands.
Banner.................................16
Banner Cavendish..............38
...........................28
Gold Cut 
Warpath..............................14
Honey  Dew......................... 26
Gold  Block......................... 30
F. F. Adams Tobacco Co.’s 
Peerless............................... 26
Old  Tom..............................18
Standard..............................22
Globe Tobacco Co.’s Brands.
Handmade...........................41

Scotten’s Brands.

Brands.

Leidersdorfs.Brands.

Spaulding & Merrick.

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

40 gr.. 
50 gr.

VINEGAR.

II for barrel.

@8@9

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
■. 

18  “ 

Palls, No. 1, two-hoop.. 
“  No. 1,  three-hoop.
Bowls, 11 inch...............
“ 
..............

WOODENWARE.
Tubs,No. 1.........................  600
No. 2.........................5 50
No. 3.........................4 50
1  30 
1  50
90
1  95 
1  80
2 40
Baskets, market.................  35
shipping  bushel..  1  15 
1  95
full
11  hoop
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“  No.l  3 75
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“ willow cl’ths, No.l  5 25
“ 
* 
“ 
“ 
“ 

No.2 6 95
No.3 7 95
No.2 4 25
No.3 4 75

splint 

2 10
2 45
2 80

INDURATED  W ARE.

Double.

Pails..................................   3  15
Tubs,  No.  1........................13 50
Tubs, No.2.........................12 00
Tubs, No. 3.........................10 50
250  1000

Butter Plates—Oval.
60 
No.  1......................... 
No. 2......................... 
70 
No.  3......................... 
80 
No 
.........................  1  00  3 50
W ashboards—single.
Universal............................ 2 25
No. Queen...........................2 50
Peerless Protector............... 2 40
Saginaw Globe...................  1  75
Water Witch......................  225u
Wilson.................................2 5a
Good Luck.......................   2 7o
Peerless............................... 2 8
HIDES  PELTS 
and FURS
Perkins  &  Hess  pay as  fol­
lows:
Green....................  2@2%
@ 3 
Part Cured
@ 4 
Full  “ 
@ 5 
Dry.............................   4
@  3 
Kips, g reen...............   2
@ 5 
@ 5
Calfskins,  green.......   4
cured........5)*@ 1
Deacon skins.............. 10  @25

“  cured.................

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

H ID ES.

“ 

No. 2 hides X off.
PELTS.

WOOL.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Shearlings..................   5  @  90
Lambs 
...................... 25  @  60
Washed ..  .'................12  @17
Unwashed.................8  @12
Tallow.......................   3yj©  4
Grease  butter  ...........  1  @2
Switches....................  1)4@ 2
Ginseng.......................2 00@2 50
GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFS
47
47

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

MEAL.

M ILLSTUPFS.

“ 

Less
Car lots  quantity
116 00 
Bran..............115 00
Screenings —   12 00
12 00 
17 00 
Middlings......  16 00
24 50 
Mixed Feed...  23 00 
23-  00
Coarse meal  ..  22 00
Car  lots...............................58)4
Less than  car  lots.............60
Car  lots...............................34
Less than car lots............... 37
H A T.
No. 1 Timothy, car lots__ 11  <T)
No. 1 
ton lots........12 50

CORN.

o a t s .

12)4

FISH  AND  OYSTERS.
F.  J.  Dettenthaler  quotes as

follows:
FRESH  FISH .
................. @10
Whlteflsb 
Trout  ......................... @8
Black Bass.................
Halibut....................... @17
Ciscoes or Herring — @  4
@10
Blneflsh.....................
20
Fresh lobster, per lb..
10
Cod.............................
No. 1 Pickerel............ @ 9
Pike............................ @7
Smoked White........... @ 8
Red  Snappers............
15
Columbia  River  Sal-
mon.........................
15
18@25
Mackerel....................
OYSTERS— C a U 8.
Falrhaven  Counts — @45
F. J. D.  Selects.........
Selects.......................
F. J. D.........................
A nchon........................
Standards............
Extra Selects..per gal.
Selects.......................
Standards...................
Counts.......................
Scallops............ .........
Shrimps  ....................... 
C lam s.............................
SHELL  GOODS.
Oysters, per  100......... 1  25© 1  75
75@l  00
Clams, 

oysters—Bulk.

1  IS

“ 

PROVISIONS

 

 

SAUSAGE.

PORK  IN  BARRELS.

The Grand RapidB  Packing  and Provision Co 

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

quotes as follows:
Mess............................................................   14 00
Short c u t.................................................. 
13 75
Extra clear pig, short cut............................  15 00
Extra clear, heavy......................................
Clear, fat back...........................................   14  50
Boston clear, short cut................................  14 50
Clear back, short cut...................................   14  50
Standard clear, short cut. best................. 
15 00
Pork, links...
7«
Bologna........
5*
Liver...........
Tongue......
3)4
Blood...........
Head cheese .
Summer........
10
Frankfurts...
7)4
LARD.
Kettle  Rendered................. 
8)4
Granger...........................................................g
Family............................................................  6Q
Compound......................................................  g
Cottolene.........................................................  7
50 lb. Tins, Qc advance.
20 lb. pails, He 
101b.  “ 
¿ c  
•*  Xc
51b. 
31b.  " 
l c  
Extra Mess, warranted 200 lbs...............
Extra Mess, Chicago packing.......................
Boneless, rump butts.........................................   9 50
smoked meats—Canvassed or Plain.
Hams, average 20 lbs.....................................  12)4
“ 
“ 12 to 14 lbs................................13)4
picnic.............................................  8)4
best bonelesB......................................   10*4
Shoulders......................................................   8
Breakfast Bacon  boneless...........................  10)4
Dried beef, ham prices....................................13
Long Clears, heavy.........................................
Briskets,  medium..........................................  g’j
light........................................... ...  9
Butts..............................................................
D. S. Bellies.............................................. . ”   9
Fat Backs........................................................8)4
Half  barrels......................................... 
2 On
Quarter barrels............................................. 
K its.....................................................................90
Kits, honeycomb. 
Kits, premium  ...

16 lbs...................................... 13

PICKLED  PIG S’  FEET.

BE E P  IN  BARRELS.

DRY  SALT  MEATS.

“ 
'* 
“ 
“ 

“
“
“

50

 

3 00

CROCKERY  AND  GLASSWARE 
No. 0 Sun.........................................................
No.l  “  .........................................................
No.2  “  .........................................................
Tabular..........................................................

LAMP BURNERS.

LAMP CHIMNEYS.  Per bOX.

6 doz. in box.

 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“   

“   
“   

Pearl top.

First quality.
“ 
“ 
XXX Flint.
“ 
“ 

No. 0 Sun..........................................................1
No. 1  “  ......................................................... 1
No.2  “  ......................................................... 2
No. 0 Sun, crimp  top.......................................2
No.l  “ 
2
No.2  “ 
8
No. 0 Sun, crimp top.......................................2
No. 1  “ 
2
No.2  “ 
3
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and  labeled....................3
“ 
No.2  “ 
....................4
No. 2 Hinge,  “ 
.................. 4
Fire Proof—Plain Top.
No. 1, Sun,  plain  bulb....................................3
No. 2,  “ 
“ 
...................................4
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb,  per doz.......................1
No.2  “ 
.......................1
No. 1 crimp, per doz........................................1
No.3 
“ 
........................................1
No. 0,  Tubular, cases 1 doz.  each.................
No. 0, 
.................
“  2  “ 
bbls 5  “ 
No. 0, 
.................
No. 0, 
bull’s eye, cases 1 doz each. 1
No. 10, Brass, 400 candle  power...................3
No. 9, Globe, automatic  extinguisher........... 3
N a 0, per  gross.................................
...................................
No. 1, 
No. 2, 
................................
No. 3, 
...................................
Mammoth, per doz............................

“ 
LANTERN  GLOBES.
“ 
“ 

STREET  LAMPS.
LAMP WICKS.

ROCHESTER STORE  LAMPS.

“ 
La Bastle.

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

23
28
38
75
75

FRUIT  JARS.

Mason—old style.

Supplies.

4 75
Pints.................................................
5  25 
Quarts...............................................
7 25
Half  gallons  ....................................
Mason—one doz  in case. 
5 00
Pints..................................................
Su a rts ...................................................
6 00 
alf  gallons.....................................
8 00
Dandy—glass  cover.
.10 50 
Pints..................................................
Quarts............^..........  ............  
•  .
.11  00 
.14 00
Half  gallons.....................................
Boyd’s extra caps...........  ............................  2.25
Rubber rings.................................................  
35
Sealing wax, red or white, 5 lb  packages__   03
JE L L Y   TU M BLERS—Tin Top.
)4 Pints.  6 doz in box, per box (box 00)......  1  64
doz  (bbl  35).....  23
24  “  “  bbl,  ■* 
)4  ^ 
6  “  “  box, “  box (box 00) —   1  80
y. 
)4  “ 
18  "  11  bbl, “ 
doz  (bbl 35).....   26
STONEWARE— AKRON.
Butter Crocks, 1 to 6 gal.........................   06
“ 
)4 gal. per doz....  ............   60
Jugs, )4 gal., per doz...................................   70
“  1 to 4 gal., per gal...............................  07
Milk Pans, )4 gal., per doz..........................  60
.........................  72
“ 
6)465

1  “ 
STONEWARE— BLACK GLAZED.
Butter Crocks, 1  and 2 gal....................
Milk Pans, )4 gal. per  doz....................

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

I 

“ 

“ 

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

18

THE  MlCITIGLAJN'  TRADESMAN.

THE  PROSPECT  FOR  BETTER  TIM ES  j 
Hot  weather,  the  drought,  the  dead- ] 
lock in Congress over the Tariff bill, com­
bined with the summer vacations of those 
able to enjoy  that  luxury,  tend  to  pre­
vent the return of better times. 
Indeed, 
the methods by which a good many busi­
ness men contrive to meet their expenses 
are  a  mystery  to  all  but  themselves. 
Some  of  my  friends  in  the  mercantile 
business acknowledge that  they  are  not 
doing enough to pay rent  and clerk hire, 
and  are  living upon  their capital.  The 
building trades are  likewise dull,  and in 
some of them  not one-half of  the  work­
men  available  are  getting  employment. 
Of manufacturing the same story is told, 
and the laying  off  of  railroad  employes 
by  hundreds  and  thousands  is reported 
every few days. t That ,the large class of 
investors  who  hold  the  millions  of de­
faulting  railroad  bonds  and  stocks  are 
suffering  every  one  knows,  and  even 
owners  of  good  productive  real  estate 
find their  rents hard  to  collect,  and  in 
many cases not collectible at all.

Naturally, we are all  asking ourselves 
and one another  how long  this  state  of 
things  is  going  to  last,  and  what can, 
may, and ought to  be done  to remedy it. 
The answers  to the  question  are  many, 
but  none  of  them  command  universal 
acceptance.  Much good is expected from 
the  settlement  of  the  dispute  over  the 
tariff,  either by the passage of a new bill 
or by a definite decision to let the old one 
stand for the  present, but  precisely how 
this good will  come  about it is  not  easy 
to  explain.  The  general  idea  seems to 
be that the removal  of  uncertainty as to 
the coming duties upon imports will lead 
to an increase of the importation  of  un­
protected articles,  and to a revival of the 
manufacture  of  those  which  are  pro 
tected,  but  without  an  increase  of  de­
mand for them  there will be no  such in­
crease either of imports or of home man 
nfactures,  and of  this increased  demand 
there are  now  no  portents.  The  silver 
men are, of course, ready with their pan­
acea, and, in  the face of  all  experience, 
insist that the depression from which we 
are suffering has been caused by abolish 
ing the free  coinage of  silver,  and  will 
be  cured  by  restoring  it.  Every  day 
however, makes their  arguments weaker 
and weaker and  diminishes  the  number 
of their adherents.  The  single fact that 
Indian corn is nearly as  dear as wheat is 
refutes their assertion that the demoneti 
zation of silver has produced a universa 
fall in the prices  of commodities.  As to 
the school of socialists who  advocate the 
Government management of the country*!

railroads  and  great  manufacturing  and 
mining  industries,  they  have  failed  to 
convince as yet any considerable number 
of their fellow citizens that this measure 
would make business any  better  than  it 
is now, or add in  any respect  to the pro­
ductiveness and the rewards of labor.

For  my  part  I  adhere  to  the  view 
which I took long ago,  that  the  depres­
sion  of  which  we  complain, though or­
iginally due to material  causes,  has  be­
come  one  of mental  feeling,  and  can be 
removed only by  influences  which  shall 
affect the minds of people in general.  It 
is true that the  collapse of  railroad  and 
industrial enterprises, which  brought on 
the catastrophe of  last summer,  has  de 
prived  thousands  of  their  income  and 
thus diminished their  power  to consume 
the products  of industry,  but  this  does 
not  explain  why those  enterprises have 
failed to become again remunerative, and 
thus again to contribute  to the country’s 
exchangeable  wealth.  Evidently 
the 
whole mass of our citizens have been be 
numbed, as if by  an electric  shock,  and. 
instead of exerting themselves to S6t bus­
iness in  motion,  are  waiting  for  some 
thing to happen to do it for them.  What 
is  needed,  therefore,  is  courage and en 
ergy,  which can  be  gained  only  slowly 
and  by  the  concurrence of a number of 
favoring  forces.  The  disposal  of  the 
tariff  question  would  be something,  be 
cause it would  take out of  sight one dis 
couraging  bugbear.  The  cessation  of 
efforts to debase the currency  by  restor­
ing  the  free  coinage of  silver would re 
move another  distraction.  More  useful 
than either would  be  the  establishment 
of  confidence  among  capitalists  that in 
their  dealings  with  workingmen  they 
would  never  again  have  to  encounter 
riot,  pillage and murder,  such  as  lately 
prevailed at  Chicago.  The  prompt sup­
pression of violence  in that  instance has 
done much  for  the  country,  and  if  its 
equally prompt suppression on future oc­
casions  could  be  assured  it  would  do 
much more.

prevailed  before 
the  panic,  and  shall 
again create wealth  as rapidly as we did 
then, is reasonably  certain,  but we shall 
not do  it  all  at  once.  We  shall  begin 
slowly,  as a railroad train begins to move 
after it has  been stopped,  and,  like  the 
train,  we shall gain speed gradually.

One  important  step  toward  bringing 
about this gradual revival of activity will 
be the reduction  of  wages,  which,  as  I 
pointed out last week,  is the natural and 
ultimately inevitable result of  the  pres­
ent surplus of  unemployed  labor.  That 
when trade in goods of  a certain  kind is 
dull  buyers  can  be  tempted  into  pur­
chasing  them  by  marking  down 
their 
price is a fact w’ell known  to  storekeep­
ers.  Everybody loves  bargains and  will 
make an effort to secure  one.  The  con­
sumption of  industrial  products at their 
present prices  being small,  the  demand 
for the labor required to produce them is 
small  likewise. 
If  the  wages  of  labor 
could be  lowered, the  prices of its prod­
ucts could be  lowered, too,  and  thus ar­
ticles which are  not  now  made  because 
they  cannot  be  sold  could be sold,  and 
the labor required to produce them  would 
get something  where  it  now  gets  noth­
ing.

Signs prevail that the process of reduc­
ing wages has already  begun and  will  go 
on until it reaches the point at which all 
the laborers  nowr  unemployed  will  find 
employers.  The strike of the coal miners 
in May and June  ended by  a  part of the 
miners accepting even less than they had 
been getting,  though a  few  got  a  little 
more.  The  Pullman  strikers  have  at 
last  submitted  to  the  reduction  which 
they  so  bitterly  opposed,  and  against 
which  the  American  Railway  Union 
struggled with such a fearful destruction 
of life  and  property. 
In  all  the  large 
cities of the country  workmen belonging 
to  trades  unions  are  working  for  less 
than the wages fixed  by the  union rules, 
and will not stop work when  ordered  to 
do so by their walking delegates.  Their 
example  will  doubtless  be  followed by 
others who for months have had no work 
and, consequently, have earned no wages 
and  the  rules  of  their  unions  will  be 
powerless to  restrain  them.  They  will 
not  stand  by  and  see,  as they certainly 
will see,  non-union men  getting employ 
ment while they  get none.  Even if they 
were willing, from  a sense of  loyalty  to 
their organizations, to  suffer themselves 
they cannot allow  their families  to  suf 
fer,  or,  what  is  worse,  to  subsist upon 
alms.

are not  driven by  necessity  into  taking 
it,  and there will  be the  usual denuncia­
tions of it from those  who  do  not  com­
prehend the facts of the case.  They will 
repeat the stale commonplaces about cap­
ital’s oppressing labor,  the rich grinding 
the faces of the poor,  and the tyranny of 
employers.  To  all this it  is  enough  to 
answer that  half a loaf is  better than no 
bread,  and that  even if it  were  possible 
by legislation or by any other  unnatural 
interference  to  employ  all the  laborers 
the  country  at  their  former  high 
wages,  it  would  be rank injustice to do 
t and allow the storekeepers, the clerks, 
thé professional men  and the  owners  of 
nvested property to go uncared for.  The 
whole community  is entitled to consider­
ation in devising remedies for its misfor­
tunes,  and not merely  a  particular  por­
tion of it. 
In this case,  however,  such a 
discrimination  is  not possible, even  if it 
were  just.  Whatever  is  done  must  be 
done for all or  for none.  The  wages  of 
labor  are  paid  ultimately  by those who 
consume the fruits  of labor,  and  unless 
they are provided with the means of pay­
ing him the laborer cannot be paid.

Ma tth ew   Ma r sh a ll.

A  Detroit  business  man  has  a  very 
pretty daughter,  with whom  one  of  his 
office staff is hopelessly  in  love.  As  the 
young man is not invited to  the paternal 
mansion,  and the young woman has been 
notified to keep away from  the  paternal 
office,  the course of their  love  does  not 
flow very smoothly.  They have hit upon 
the  following  expedient:  When  papa 
enters the office in the morning  he hangs 
his hat on a certain  nail among  the  row 
of other  hats  and  proceeds  to business. 
Then the interested clerk, while the head 
of the firm is  reading  his  morning mail, 
takes that hat from the nail, looks inside, 
slips bis hand under the lining and takes 
out  a  tiny  missive,  which  he  at  once 
conveys to his  pocket,  and  the  contents 
of which delight and  amuse him all day. 
At night  when  papa  returns  home,  his 
pretty  daughter  slips  into  the hall and 
makes a raid on  that  hat,  always finding 
there  an  answer  to  her  missive  of  the 
morning.

These, however,  are  only negative ele­
ments.  To them must  be added  a  posi­
tive  inducement  to  a  renewal of enter­
prise,  in the shape of prospective profits, 
which is now  wanting. 
Importers, man­
ufacturers  and  merchants  are  all  com­
paratively  idle,  because, they say,  there 
is no market for what they  want to  sell. 
Everybody  is  economizing  and restrict­
ing 
expenditure,  and,  consequently, 
since  we  all  live  by  the  mutual inter­
change of labor and  services,  everybody 
remains poor.  That we shall eventually
resume the  liberality  of  dealing  which  course,  not a  pleasant one  for those who j where the neighbors cannot see.

Those who have  studied  the  question 
of raisins as food  profess  to have  some­
like  a  hundred  recipes  for  the 
thing 
preparation of  the  raisin,  and  each  of 
these,  it  is  asserted,  has  an  economic 
value.  Whether the estimate be  excess­
ive or not,  one thing is very  certain,  and 
that is,  that the  world  would  be  better 
off, from  the hygienic  point  of  view,  if 
we were to eat  more fruit and  less meat.
Directions for hanging  a hammock are 
being  printed  in many  papers now,  but 
one  important  direction 
is  omitted. 
When there is a pretty  girl in the family 
she usually wants the  hammock hung in 
some  secluded  nook  behind  the  vines, 

The  remedy  here  pointed  out  is,  of

L

¡S P E C IA L   N O T I C E ^ -^

A  BRIEF  STATEMENT  FOR  BUSY  MEN. 

j
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,
UNSWEETENED;  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 2 
milk referred to, we are now prepared to offer the trade, through the  jobbing houses, Borden’s  2  
Peerless  Brand  Evaporated  Cream,  unsweetened, with entire confidence that it will prove, 2  
It  is 2 
like our celebrated  Gail  Borden  Eagle  Brand  Condensed  Milk,  to have  no  Equal. 
thoroughly guaranteed in every respect, and  this  guarantee is substantial, as  every one  knows. 2
©

I * "  For  Quotations  S ec  Price  Columns, 

m

Prepared by the New York Condensed Milk Co. 

THK  M IOmGAN  TRADESMAN

19

NORTHERN  MICHIGAN  GROCERS.

M t.  P lea sa n t.

Proceed ing's  o f  T heir  C onvention  a t 
The  first  regular  convention  of  the 
Northern Michigan Retail  Grocers’ Asso­
ciation  convened  in  the  Court  House, 
at Mount Pleasant,  Tuesday,  Aug.  7,  at 
2 o’clock p. m.  The meeting  was  called 
to order  by President Tatinan, of  Clare, 
who  improved  the  opportunity  to  con­
gratulate  the members on  the growth of 
the Association and of  its  prospects  for 
the future.
Secretary Stowe made a  brief  and  in­
formal report, setting  forth  the  present 
condition of the  Association,  numerical­
ly and financially.
The President then  called  upon  W.  J. 
Gould, of Detroit,  President of the Mich­
igan  Wholesale Grocers’  Association,  for 
an  address.  The  gentleman  spoke  in­
formally  for several  minutes,  commend­
ing the objects and  work  of  the Associa­
tion and urgently advising  the  members 
to increase its strength and  augment  its 
influence.  He  said  the  Equality  plan 
had been called into existence  by reason 
of the  alarming  condition  of the whole­
sale grocery  business, growing out of the 
cuttiug  in  sugar  indulged 
the 
wholesale  grocery  trade;  that  the  head 
of a concern doing a  business of §13,000, 
000 yearly told him that the  business  of 
1892 resulted in a balance on  the  wrong 
side of the  ledger.  Since  the  adoption 
of  the  Equality  plau  the  balance  has 
been transferred to the  credit side of the 
ledger,  where  it  should  be. 
If  the  re­
tailer makes money the jobber  is sure of 
his pay,  and the consumer  is sure of get­
ting goods that are of standard value.

in  by 

Brunt, Jacob Mason, Geo.  Halstead.

An opportunity was  then  given  those 
who were not members  to  join  the  As­
sociation,  after which the  roster  of  the 
members present was as follows:
Clare—J.  F.  Tatman,  Albert  Van 
Coleman—M.  O.  McFarlan.
Gladwin—J. M.  Shaffer.
Ithaca—S. E.  Parish,  Lewis & Yost.
Big Rapids—J.  L.  Barker.
Shepherd—F.  M.  Taylor,  H.  1).  Bent.
Dushville—G.  O.  Adams.
Reed  City—H.  R.  Niergarth,  H.  W. 
Hawkins, J.  W. Densmore.
Leroy—Frank Smith.
Mt. Pleasant—T.  Bergy,  Kane  Bros., 
Frank A.  Sweeney,  R.  D.  Balmer,  W. C. 
Yowles,  Hamilton & Co., A. N.  Ward.

the following gentlemen were selected:

Mount Pleasant.
ids.

Election of officers being next in order, 
President—J.  F.  Tatman, Clare.
Vice  President—Frank  A.  Sweeney, 
Secretary—E.  A.  Stowe,  Grand  Rap­
Treasurer—Frank Smith,  Leroy.
Executive Board—Jacob Mason, Clare; 
M. C.  McFarlan, Coleman;  C.  Yost,  Ith­
aca;  H.  R.  Niergarth,  Reed  City;  T. 
Bergy, Mount Pleasant.
The selection of the next place of meet­
ing was the  cause of  much good-natured 
rivalry  between  Mount  Pleasant  and 
Reed City,  resulting in the designation of 
the latter place.
Special  order  of  business  being  the 
consideration of the  cartage  rule formu­
lated by the Wholesale Grocers’  Associa­
tion,  Mr.  Mason advised that  its  consid­
eration  be  deferred until  the next meet­
ing,  in order that the Association may be 
stronger in  point  of numbers,  so  that its 
action may bind a larger number of deal­
ers.
W. J. Gould stated that the cartage ar­
rangement  worked  detriment 
the 
wholesale  grocery  trade and  that it was 
adopted  against  the  protest  of  many 
members of the Association.  His exper­
ience was that  every 5 cents  charged for 
cartage cost the  jobber 10 cents,  and  he 
advised the adoption  of a resolution pro­
testing against the rule, assuring the As­
sociation  that  constant  and  continuous 
protest would have good effect.
in­
structed to  prepare an  appropriate reso­
lution on this subject.
Mr.  Mason  stated that the  Association 
owed  its  existence  primarily  to 
two 
causes:  The  desire  to  correct  certain 
abuses in the  wholesale  trade,  and  also 
to  secure  better  collection  laws  on the 
statute books.  We  know what we ought 
to have to do business  properly  and  yet

the  Secretary  was 

On  motion, 

to 

do  justice  to ourselves.  What  we want 
is an amendment  to  the  present  collec­
tion  laws,  so that we may be able to en­
force the  collection  of  accounts  against 
those  who  are  able to pay but will only I 
liquidate when compelled to do so.

President  Tatman  stated  that  it  was 
his idea that the  present  membership of 
the Association  should  be  increased  as 
rapidly  as  possible,  and  thought  it the 
duty of every  member to obtain as many 
applications as possible.
S. E. Parish enquired whether the cart­
age agreement was necessary to the main­
tenance of the  Equality  plan  of  selling 
sugars?
Mr.  Gould  replied  that  the  Equality 
plan  would remain,  whether cartage was 
continued or abrogated.
Mr.  Parish  stated that, in  his opinion, 
every retailer was in  favor of the Equal­
ity plan of selling  sugars,  and,  so  far as 
he was concerned,  he would not want the 
cartage  scheme  abrogated  if  it  would 
jeapordize the Equality plan.
Mr.  Gould  said  the  abolition  of  the 
cartage rule would,  in all probability,  be 
accomplished at the next  meeting  of the 
Michigan  Wholesale  Grocers’  Associa­
tion;  in fact,  it  might  be  abrogated at a 
meeting  of  delegates  from  seventeen 
states,  which will be held at Chicago Aug. 
15.  On account  of the  many exceptions 
to the rule, it  now  amounts  to  very  lit­
tle.
Mr.  Parish  stated that  he had figured 
up his purchases for thirty days,  amount­
ing to §2,100,  on  which  the  charge  for 
cartage and boxes  was only §1.48.  As it 
is  a  matter  of only  §18 a year,  it is too 
small to find much  fault with and he did 
not wish  to be bullheaded in this respect 
and thus cut his  corners  in  some  other 
direction.
Frank  A.  Sweeney  stated  that  the 
cartage  charges  are  insignificant  com­
pared with the  amount  the  average  re­
tailer loses in  bad debts.  Judging by his 
own  experience  the  average  retail  ac­
count  is  not  worth over 50 cents on the 
dollar, and after it is  two years old  it  is 
not  worth  over  25  cents  on  the dollar. 
The grocer feeds more  charities  than all 
the other people in the country combined. 
The  Board  of  Supervisors  of  Isabella 
county  now  appropriates  §3,600  a  year 
for the support  of paupers,  but  the  re­
tail grocers of Mount  Pleasant charge off 
to profit and loss twice as  much  as  that 
every  year.  Such  will be the case until 
the retail grocers of the State can  get the 
statute relative to exemptions so amended 
that  the  honest  dealer  will  have  some 
show.
E.  A.  Stowe  recited  the  several  at­
tempts that have been  made in  the  past 
dozen  years  to  secure  desired  amend­
ments  on  the  exemption  law,  advising 
the members to spend their time  in  pre­
venting bad accounts, instead of attempt­
ing to collect them after they  are  made.
Mr. Gould gave  a history  of the move­
ment inaugurated in  Detroit for the pur­
pose  of  reducing  the  exemptions,  sug­
gesting that the  only  way  to  reach  the 
matter  would  be to  secure pledges from 
legislators in advance of election.
A.  N.  Ward thought it would be a good 
idea to  nominate  business  men  only for 
the Legislature,  so far as practicable.
Mr.  Mason said he was in favor of tak­
ing away the  dealer’s exemption,  as  the 
day  has  gone by  when  such a thing was 
either  necessary  or  desirable. 
In  his 
opinion no man should  have any exemp­
tion where he buys necessaries to sustain 
the life of himself  and  family,  and  the 
Secretary  was  instructed  to  prepare  a 
resolutiou covering this ground  for adop­
tion.
The following resolutions,  as prepared 
by  the  Secretary,  were  presented  and 
adopted:
Resolved—That the  thanks of  this As­
sociation  be  tendered  the  grocers  of 
Mount  Pleasant  for  the  cordial  recep­
tion tendered us on  the  occasion  of  our 
first regular convention.
Resolved—That  our  thanks  are  due 
Mr.  W.  J. Gould, President of  the  Mich­
igan Wholesale Grocers’  Association, for 
his attendance  at our convention and his 
interest in the  work  of  the Association.
Resolved—That  our  thanks  are  due 
President Tatman  for  the  conscientious 
service accorded  the  organization  since 
its inception.

Resolved—That we  protest  against the 
rule adopted by  the  Michigan Wholesale 
Grocers’  Association  relative to  cartage, 
boxing and  exchange,  as  we  believe the 
j  rule to be unjust  and  unnecessary,  and 
that it works great injustice  to the retail 
trade.
Resolved—That a copy  of  this  resolu­
tion  be  sent  to 
the  Secretary  of  the 
Michigan  Wholesale  Grocers’  Associa­
tion.

W h er ea s—The  present  excemption 
laws are a detriment to  all  parties  con­
cerned,  working  manifest  injustice  to 
honest  merchants  and  honest  working­
men and conducing  to  fraud  and  dead- 
beatism;  therefore
Resolved—That every member  of  this 
Association see the legislative candidates 
in his respective locality and secure from 
them pledges to  work  and  vote  for  the 
amendment  of  the  present  exemption 
laws,  reporting to the officers  of  the  As­
sociation the  name of any candidate who 
refuses to comply with this request.
Mr.  Sweeney presented an  amendment 
to the constitution  and  by-laws  relative 
to the organization  of local  associations, 
making it the duty  of the  President and 
Executive Board to designate a person to 
act as organizer whenever called upon to 
do so.  Adopted.
There  being  no  further  business  the 
meeting adjourned.

N ew  S to ry  A bout  Phil.  A rm our.

On the pay rolls  of  the  Armour  com­
panies  of  Kansas  City  and  Chicago are 
11,000  persons.  A  better  civil  service 
system than the government has  yet  de­
vised operates in this army  of employes. 
The doors of the  Armour  Packing  Com­
pany  at  Kansas  City  are  open to boys. 
Every year hundreds are taken in.  They 
are  given  a  trial. 
If in  twelve months 
they  show  capacity  and  ambition  they 
are advanced. 
If they  prove  to be mere 
human machines, drudges or drones, they 
are promptly turned  adrift.  This  is the 
principle  which  runs  through  the  em­
ployment of all. 
It  is  a  rigid  applica­
tion to the rule  of survival  of the fittest. 
There is room near the  top for  everyone 
who  enters  the  Armour  service.  To 
what degree the  interests of  the Armour 
company  have  been  promoted  by  this 
constant weeding out  process and steady 
rewarding of merit, it is difficult  to  say. 
Every Armour is known  about the estab­
lishment by his initials.  Here is  a story 
they are telling about“ old P. D.” Armour. 
“P.  D.”  was  at  the  midwinter  fair, in 
San Francisco, a  few  weeks ago.  With­
out making himself known  he stopped to 
look at the exhibits from his Kansas City 
house.  The lady  attendants were giving 
samples of soup to the crowd.
"It can’t be very good or you wouldn’t 
be giving it away?”  said “P.  D.”
“We  do  that  for  humanity,”  replied 
the young  lady.
“H’m,’’.commented  Mr.  Armour.
“ What’s that?”  he  asked,  pointing  to 
an  enlarged  autograph  of  his signature 
over the booth.
“That’s  Mr.  Armour’s  signature,” re­
plied the young lady.
“ Why,  I thought old  Armour  couldn’t 
write,”  urged  “P.  D.,” in  apparent sur­
prise.
“Well,  he’s  got  brains,”  retorted  the 
young  lady.  “If  I  had  his  brains,  I 
wouldn’t care whether I  could  write  or 
not.”
In a 
few minutes Rev.  Frank Gunsaulus, who 
helps  Mr.  Armour  find  good  ways 
to 
spend his money,  came back to the booth 
and handed the  young  lady  an envelope 
with  a  §50  bill  and  “P.  D.’s”  compli­
ments. 
__________ _
M ic h ig a n  (T e h t r a l
Arrive. 
Depart
10 20d m...........Detroit Express........... 7 00am
5 30 a m  ... .»Atlantic and  Pacific......ll  20 p m
1  50p m .......New York Express.........  6 00 p m
Sleeping cars  run on Atlantic  and  Pacific  ex 
press trains to and from Detroit.
Parlor  cars  leave  for  Detroit at  7:00 a m ;  re 
turning, leave Detroit 4:35 p m, arriving at Grand 
Rapids 10:20 p m.
Direct  communication  made  at  Detroit  with 
all through  trains eest  over the  Michigan Cen 
tral Railroad (Canada Southern Division.)
A. AuMquisT, Ticket Agent, 
k 

“P.  D.”  smiled  and  passed on. 

»Daily.  All others daily, except Sunday. 

“  The Niagara Falls Route.’*

Union PassengerStation.

CANDIES,  FRUITS  and  NUT8.

The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows :

STICK CANDY.
Cases

Standard,  per lb .........
“  H.H...............
Twist  ...........
“ 
Boston Cream  ............
.  8)4
Cat  Loaf......................
Extra H.  H................... ..  3)4
MIXED CANDY.

6
6
6

Bbls. Palls.
7
7
7
8)4

Bbls.
.5)4
• 5)4
.6)4
7
7
7)4

“

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

“
.. .........
f a n c y —In bulk

" 

Lozenges, plain............
printed........
Chocolate Drops............
Chocolate Monumentals
Gum Drops....................
Moss D rops.......................
Sour Drops....................
Imperials.................
fancy—In 5 lb. boxes.
Lemon Drops 
..................................
Sour Drops......................................
Peppermint Drops  .........................  .
Chocolate D rops..............................
H. M. Chocolate  Drops  ....................
Gum Drops........................................
Licorice Drops..................................
A. B. Licorice Drops.......................
Lozenges, plain.................................
printed.............................
Imperials...........................................
Mottoes............................................
Cream Bar........................................
Molasses Bar....................................
Hand Made  Creams..........................
Plain Creams............................. .
Decorated Creams.............................
String  Rock.....................................
Burnt Almonds.. 
.......................... .
Wlntergreen  Berries........................
No. 1, wrapped, 2 lb.  boxes...............
No. 1, 
...............
...............
No. 2, 

CARAM ELS.

“ 
“ 

3 
2 

“ 

“ 
“ 
ORANGES.

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

160s.............................

LEMONS.

“ 

N U T S.

BANANAS.

“  50-lb.  “ 

“ 
“  extra 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Choice 300...........................................
Extra choice 360 ..................   ..........
Extra fancy 300..................................
Extra fancy 360................................ .
Large bunches...................................
Small bunches........  ...... ..................
O TH ER   FO R E IG N   F R U IT S .
Figs, fancy  layers, 81b  ...... ...............
“  20ft  ................. .
“  141b  .................. .
Dates, Fard, 10-lb.  box......................
..................... .
Persian. 50-lb.  box.................
1 lb Royals.............................
Almonds, Tarragona......... ’..............
Ivaca..................................
California.........................
Brazils, new......................................
Filberts.............................................
Walnuts, Grenoble............................
French...............................
Calif..................................
Table Nuts,  fancy............................
choice..........................
Pecans. Texas, H.  P.,  ......................
Chestnuts...........................  ...........
Hickory Nuts per bu.........................
cocoanuts, full sacks  ......................
Fancy, H.  P., 3uns............................
“  Roasted................
Fancy, H.  P., Flags..........................
“  Roasted..............
Choice, H. P.,  Extras.......................
“  Roasted............

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

P E A N U T S.

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 

Palls
6H
6)4
7)4
8
8
8
8
8)4
9
13
..  8)4
..  S
Pails. 
..  8)4 
..  9)4 
..  12 
• •  12)4 
..  6 
..  7)4 
..  8)4 
..  10
Per Box
........SO
........50
........60
........75
........SO
........40
....1 00
........80
........60
........65
........60
........70
........56
” 85@95
........80
........90
........60
....1 00 
........60
34
51
28

4 50
4 50
5 00 
5 00
......   1  75
1  00@1  50
@12)4 
@12)4 @15 
@ 7 
@ 5)4 
@  5 
..  6)4
@16
@15
@© 8 
@ 11 
@12)4 
@10 
@12)4 
@12 
@11 
@ 7)4

4 00
@ 5)4 
@ 7 
@ 5)4 
@ 7 @ 4)4 
@  6

ODA.

BARRELS.

The  Standard Oil  Co.  quotes  as  follows:

Eocene...................................................
XXX  W.  W. Mich.  Headlight..............
Naptha...................................................
Stove Gasoline......................................
Cylinder............................................... 27
E ngine.................................................13
Black, 15 cold  test  ...............................
Eocene.................................................. 
XXX  W. W.  Mich.  Headlight.............. 

FROM   TA N K   WAGON.

@ 6)4 @ 7* 
@36 
@21 
@ 8X
7
5

Carcass..........
Fore quarters 
Hind quarters 
Loins No. 3—
Ribs..............
Rounds  .........
FChucks.........
Plates ...........
Dressed........
Loins.............
Shoulders  ... 
Leaf Lard__
Carcass........
Lambs...........
i Carcass........

5h  m e a t s .

B E E F .

PORK.

MUTTON.

VEAL.

5  @ 6 
3  @4
7  @ 8
8  @10
6  @  8
6  @ 6)4 
3)4© 4 
3  @ 3J4
6  @6)4
8
6«
9)4

4  @ 5
7  @7)4
5  @  6

s o

GOTHAM GOSSIP.

Mews  from  the  Metropolis— Index  of 

the  Markets.

staple  before 

S p ecial Correspondence
New   Yokk,  Aug.  I I—The  firm of  W. 
U. Crossman &  Bro., one of  the  leading 
firms in the coffee  trade,  have  issued  a 
circular  on  the  situation  which  has  a 
decidedly  bearish tone and  is  creating a 
good  deal  of 
interest.  The  circular 
shows  that  the  high  prices  paid  for 
coffee  during  the  past  few  years  have 
caused an enormous increase  in area and 
that there is going to  be  a  big  drop  in 
this 
long.  The  cost 
of production,  they say, does not  exceed 
6  to  8  cents,  and  the  reaction  that  is 
sure to come will push prices  down to 50 
per  cent,  of  present  rates;  even  then 
coffee will be a very  profitable  crop  for 
the producer.  When the  consumer must 
pay  from  30 to  40 cents  for  a pound of 
coffee the article partakes a  good  deal  of 
the  nature  of  a  luxury.  Not  only  in 
Brazil  is  the  coffee  area  greatly  ex­
tended,  but Mexico and Central  America 
are pushing the  cultivation  to  the  very 
utmost.  The coming crop  is  estimated, 
for the world, to be 13,500,000 bags.
There is a growing feeling in the trade 
that  prices  on  nearly  everything  have 
not only reached  bottom,  but  that  they 
are actually tending upward, if  coffee be 
excepted.  The  dry weather is  making a 
record for itself in  the advance  in  corn, 
and the outlook is for higher  prices than 
have prevailed  for  many  months.  The 
drouth is affecting the canned goods pack 
greatly. 
In  the  tomato  fields  of  New 
Jersey the fruit is largely  spoiled from a 
dry rot,  owing to the  unprecedented  hot 
weather,  and  your  correspondent  has 
seen  lots where  fully  half  the  fruit  is 
worthless.
Butter,  cheese,  eggs,  provisions—one 
and  all—are on  the  way  upwards,  and 
this  fact,  together  with  the  near  ap­
proach  of  a  settlement  of  the  tariff 
question,  makes  us feel  more  confidence 
in the future.  True, if  people  have  no 
money to buy they  can’t  purchase  any­
way; but,  confidence  once  restored,  we 
are certainly on the road to recovery.
The rice trade is active and the highest 
prices of the year have been reached.  Of 
course, if the  hostilities  between  Japan 
and China continue,  foreign rice is going 
to become scarce, and  even now the out­
look is for smaller receipts.
Granulated sugar was  marked  up  %c 
Thursday,  so  that  the  selling  price  is 
now 4%c.
Dried fruit,  while low, is in fairly good 
request.  There promises  to be  an enor­
mous pack of  apricots.  They  are cheap 
enough.
Green fruits are  selling in a fairly sat­
isfactory manner,  but  lemons are hardly 
as active as last week.  This may be due 
to the larger supplies of  domestic green. 
The latter are in  good  demand,  but sup­
ply is ample.  Apples are  an  exception, 
and really first-class fruit is hard to find. 
Much of that on  the trees in  the Eastern 
section of New  York and New  Jersey  is 
extremely  wormy.  Bananas,  oranges 
and  pineapples  are  quiet,  but  holders 
profess confidence in the outlook.
The reputed short crop  of  corn  is  al­
ready  having  an  effect on glucose,  and, 
in sympathy  therewith,  the  market  for 
cane  syrups  and  molasses  is  decidedly 
stronger.  We are not posted on whisky, 
but it will no doubt follow glucose.
Tea  is  rather  more  confidently  held, 
but  supplies  here  are  large  enough  to 
prevent any great  appreciation  in price, 
even if the  war becomes  so  fierce  as  to 
prevent any more being brought for some 
time—which it won’t. 
M onthly  R eport  o f   S e c re ta r y   M ills.
Gr a n d   R a p i d s ,  Aug.  10— The  follow­
ing  new  members  have  joined  since 
July 1:

J a y.

3483  E. W.  Haviland, Cadillac.
3536  John P.  Bauer, Dayton,  Ohio. 
3600  C.  E. Shepard, Arlington, N. J. 
3644  W. F. Mellen, Coldwater.
3656  F.  E. Davis, Jackson.
3670  F.  H. Brigman,  Louisville,  Ky.
3671  Ben Marks, Detroit.
3676  J. C. Jones, Springfield, 111.
3675  F.  M. Witbeck, Benton Harbor.
3677  Dwight Ferry, New York.
3678  A.  L. Thompson, Plainwell.

Gripsack Brigade.

Receipts during the past week were 72 
cars of wheat, 7 cars of corn,  and  8  cars 
of oats. 

C.  G. A.  V oigt.

Cornelius Crawford  (Hazeltine  & Per­
kins Drug Co.)  is taking  his  annual  va­
cation  this  week, putting  in the time at 
the  Grand  Rapids  races.  His  trade  is 
being visited in the  meantime by  by  M. 
L. Campbell.

The weather in the  corn belt,  as  well 
as in other places, continues ary,  so that 
the  corn  crop  will  be  short,  probably 
near 600,000,000 bushels,  and, as the two 
previous  years  have  been  short  crop 
years,  we can readily see why  there  has 
been such an  extraordinary jump  in the 
price of corn.  How  wheat can  be  kept 
at the present low  price is a conumdrum 
and it will be only a question of  a  short 
time  that  the  wheat  market  will be on 
top  again,  in  harmony  with  corn  and 
oats.

THE  MIOHlGAJSr  TRADESMAN
3679  F. J.  Cox,  Ravenswood, 111.
3680  Allan D. Grant, Fenton.
3681  W. H. Cave, Vanwert, Ohio.
3682  Will H.  Upton,  Rutland,  Vt.
3683  T.  S. Lane, Warren, Ohio.
3684  John M.  Hussey, Chicago.
3685  W. B.  Tipton, Columbus,  Ohio.
3686  H. J.  Vanzaiingen,  Muskegon.
3687  J.  Hobart Babcock, Kalamazoo.
3688  D. S.  Hatfield, Grand Rapids.
3690  Geo.  M. Whaley, Jackson.
3691  B.  F.  Granger, Jackson.
3692  W. A.  Dunston, Grand Rapids.
And the  following  as  honorary  mem­
bers:
H  65  Frank  H.  Irish,  Sweet’s Hotel, 
Grand Rapids.
H  66  H. D. Irish, Sweet’s Hotel,  Grand 
Rapids.
A  notice  of  death  assessment  No.  3 
was mailed to each member  July  20  for 
$1  and  time  for  paying  same  expires 
Sept.  20.  During this month thirty-four 
members  who were delinquent since 1893 
have been reinstated,  making a  total  in­
crease in membership for  the  month  of 
sixty.
The last regular meeting of  the  board 
of directois,  before  the  annual  conven­
tion in December,  will be  held  at  Lans­
ing, Saturday, Sept.  1, at 10 a. m.  Some 
of our members appear to think  that  an 
assessment  of  $1 
is  required  at  each 
death,  but,  as  we  pay  each  benificiary 
$500,  and our membership is  over  1,500, 
$1 from each member will pay over three 
death  benefits.  The  receipts  from  as­
sessment No. 3 will  pay all  death  bene­
fits reported to  this  office  to  date,  and 
leave a  surplus  in  the  treasury  nearly 
enough to pay two future claims.
I  am  pleased  to  note  the  increasing 
interest  taken  by  the  members  in  our 
coming  annual  convention  and  predict 
the  largest  attendance  in  our  history. 
I trust each  member  will  at  this  early 
date arrange  to  devote  Wednesday  and 
Thursday,  December  26  and  27,  to  at­
tending 
this  meeting.  Our  Grand 
Rapids members will  leave  nothing  un­
done to  make  it  a  most  enjoyable  and 
profitable  meeting 
to  every  member 
present, and ample time will  be  devoted 
to business as well as pleasure.
A ruling of the  board authorizes me to 
reinstate any  delinquent  member,  upon 
the  payment  of  annual  dues  and  last 
death  assessment,  and  a  statement  of 
good health.
During  this  month  a  circular  letter 
has  been  mailed  to  every member who 
was delinquent, requesting  him  to  con­
tinue his membership,  and  this  has  re­
sulted  in  the  reinstatement  of  thirty- 
four at the present time,  and  each  mail 
brings more. 

The  traveling  men  of  Grand  Rapids 
should  not  forget  that  their  annual 
picnic will be held at North Park  Satur­
day afternoon and evening of  this week, 
beginning  with  a  baseball  game  at  3 
o’clock and culminating  in  an  informal 
hop from 8 to 10:30 p.m.  The Committee 
on  Arrangements  has  prevailed  upon 
Max Mills to recite  portions  of his  more 
or  less  celebrated  Fourth  of  July  ad­
dress,  and  has  also closed  a  deal  with 
Geo, Owen by which he agrees  to  desist 
from telling  any  of  the  old  and  time­
worn jokes  for  which he  is  (in)famous. 
Cornelius Crawford has  consented to ex­
plain  how  he  can  accomplish  eleven 
days’ work  in  seven,  and  Jim Bradford 
will relate  the  incidents  of  one  fishing 
excursion about  which  he  never  told a 
lie.  Other special  features of  an  inter­
esting  and  instructive  character  are  in 
consideration  by  the  Committee,  and 
those who  attend  are  assured  that  the 
program  will  be  sufficiently  varied  to 
meet  the  requirements  of  all.  Dinner 
baskets will be in order,  but  those  who 
are not so  provided can  obtain light  re­
freshments at  the pavilion.

Wm.  H.  Burns,  formerly  of  Albion, 
has gone on the road for  J.  B.  Doyle  & 
Co.,  of  Kalamazoo.  He  will  make this 
city  headquarters,  covering  the  trade 
East  and  North  of  this  market.  Mr. 
Burns  is  a  young  man  of  energy  and 
ability.

L. M. Mills, Sec’y.

The  Wheat Market.

Wheat remained  during  the past week 
about  the  same  as  before.  While  re­
ceipts have dropped off in the Northwest, 
exports  have  been  3,417,000  bushels. 
With all this, the visible will show quite 
an increase—probably  2,000,000 bushels. 
The government crop  report for  August 
makes  the  amount  raised  for 1894 391,- 
000,000 bushels,  which  is, at least,  100,- 
000,000 underestimated, for If the govern­
ment  report  was  right,  we  would  not 
have wheat  enough  to  supply  us.  We 
lave  in  the  United States 66,000,000 in­
habitants,  with  a  consumptive  capacity 
of 4%  bushels per  capita.  The needs of 
the country, as  I figure  them,  are as fol­
lows:
Consumptive demand...........................313,500,000
Seed.........................................................50,000,000
Used for chemicals...............................  20,000,000
E x p o rts   (25,0t0,000  b u .  less 
p o rte d  o n  la s t  c ro p ) ...................................140,000,000
T o ta l...................................523,500,000
Oovemment  crop report......................391,0.0,000
Left over from 1893................................lOO.OCO.OOO
Total...........................491,0(0,000
These figures  plainly disclose  a deficit 
of  32,500,000  bushels,  without  taking 
into account the large  amount  of  wheat 
used  for  feeding  purposes.  The  ques­
tion arises, of what  value is the  govern­
ment  crop  report if it  is not more relia­
ble?  There  is  something  wrong  some­
where.

th a n   e x ­

The boys are telling a good story on A. 
F.  Peake,  State  agent  for  D.  B.  De- 
Land & Co.,  of  Fairport,  N.  Y.  While 
at Fremont,  the  other  day, he  arranged 
to go fishing with Len Gilbert,  of the St. 
Charles Hotel,  and  the  proprietor  of  a 
hotel  at  Niles.  This  program  neces­
sitated  the  procuring  of  a  quantity  of 
minnows,  which  they  proceeded  to  net 
in  a  small  stream  three  or  four  miles 
from town.  The stream happened to  be 
one in which the State  Fish  Commission 
had deposited a quantity  of  small  trout, 
and a German farmer near by  proceeded 
to warn them  away  from  his  premises. 
F ailing to drive them  away by treats,  he 
proceeded to Fremont for  the purpose of 
procuring a warrant.  No  justice  would 
issue  such  a  warrant,  but  a  constable 
was  found  who  conceived  the  idea  of 
issuing a bogus  warrant,  on  which  the 
fishermen were arrested  on their  return 
to town.  They  were  considerably  cha- 
grinned over the outcome of their expedi­
tion,  but  before they had time  to  hire a 
lawyer  to  discover the invalidity of  the 
' warrant,  the  constable  conducted  them

to a  saloon,  where  the  bartender  fined 
them  $2 apiece,  and the goods purchased 
with the money was equitably distributed 
among the crowd  which  had  gathered to 
ascertain the outcome of the joke.

Adrian  Times:  A  traveling  man  of 
this city  received one of the greatest sur­
prises of his  life down at  the  little  vil­
lage of Newport, Monroe county, not long 
ago.  He had made his  customary  small 
sales of gocds in the  place,  and was  sit­
ting  on  a  cracker  barrel  in  a  grocery 
waiting  for  a  train,  when  in came the 
ugliest-looking  man  he  had  ever  laid 
eyes on. 
It was a face that  would  have 
been  worth  a  fortune  to a  Richard the 
Third tragedian or a  Simon  Legree  Un­
cle Tom man.  He  would impress you as 
the kind of fellow  who considered  it his 
sacred  duty  to  go home  regularly three 
a day and lick his  wife  as  soon  as  she 
had set the table.  The  Adrian traveling 
man  regarded  the  unpleasant-looking 
stranger with deep interest for a few mo­
ments,  and then getting  down  from  the 
cracker  barrel  he  thrust  his  hand into 
his  pocket and drew out a dollar.  Walk­
ing over to  the  sinister-faced  customer, 
who  was  purchasing  a plug  6f tobacco, 
he  requested  him  to  accept  the  coin. 
“What  for?”  quietly  asked  the  low­
browed individual.  “ Well, I’ll tell you,” 
explained the audacious drummer.  “My 
father gave me this  dollar  when I was a 
boy,  with  instructions  to  give it to the 
ugliest-looking  man  I  ever  ran  across. 
Therefore,  after  seeing  you,  I could not 
conscientiously keep the coin any longer.” 
The  villager  said  nothing,  slipped  the 
coin in his  pocket,  when he proceeded to 
take off his  coat and  give  the  drummer 
the  worst  trouncing  he  ever  received. 
When he had  satisfied  himself  that  the 
traveler  was  sufficiently  punished,  he 
coolly drew on his coat  with the remark: 
“My father told me to thrash the biggest 
fool  I  ever  met and I  think 1 have now 
obeyed his dying command.”
is  spun  by  a 
writer  for 
the  Philadelphia  Inquirer. 
After  the  usual  exchange  of  compli: 
ments,  habitual  between a  smart travel­
ing man and an equally slick hotel clerk,in 
a leading hotel, the drummer said,  “Give 
me a room low down;  I’m  going to bring 
more people into the hotel  this trip than 
I  ever  did  before.”  Then  for  half  an 
hour  he  expatiated  on  the  wonderful 
line of chocolates and caramels  which he 
was prepared  to  show,  and  he told  how 
the local  market for  candies was  bound 
to be  his,  and  rivals  couldn’t  by  any 
possibility  have  a  show.  The  broad- 
shouldered porter carried  the  trunk  up 
to the room assigned,  and  the  confident 
salesman  went out to catch his prey.  He 
returned in triumph with  a captive after 
a  couple  of  hours’  absence,  and  then 
passed half an  hour  in  the  cafe  telling 
yarns and giving  an  occasional  hint  of 
his  candy  surprises.  Then  they  saun­
tered to  the  room,  but  in  a  minute  the 
drummer was  back  to  the  office  again. 
His  air  was  calm,  probably  from  the 
appalling  nature  of 
the  misfortune 
which  had  befallen  him.  “Come  up to 
my room,”  he told the  clerk  in  sorrow­
ful tones.  There the  customer  was in a 
paroxysm of laughter,  for  oozing on  the 
floor of the room were  several streaks of 
high  grade candy.  The lid of  the trunk 
was  raised  and  inside  could  be  seen  a 
conglomerate mass,  which  was  all  that 
remained  of  the  triumphs  of  the  con­
fectioner’s which had existed a few  days 
before.  The room was immediately over 
the kitchen, and the chimney  had heated 
the  wall,  against  which  the  trunk  had 
been  placed,  to  a  temperature,  which, 
added to the existing  warmth,  was fatal 
to the contents of the trunk.  “I’ll  have 
to  stay  here  three  days  longer  than  I 
intended,” remarked the  drummer when 
he  recovered  somewhat.  “That’9  good. 
I’m glad to hear that,”  was  the solacing 
remark of  the clerk.

The  following  yarn 

The Woonsocket  Rubbers.

Y o u   C a n   M a k e  

P e r c e n t .

IF   Y O U   O R D E R   Y O U R

WOONSOCKET R U B B E R S  AlT   ONCJß.

Boots made by

WOONSOCKET  AND  RHODE  ISLAND  COHPANIES,

Should be handled by  every  live  retailer,ras the customer will buy  them, and will never take  another after trying them 

once. 

It is made with the  Patent Flange  and Heel  Protector and is superior to any other boot on the market.

Retailers  Should  Order  Now.

E v e ry   L iv e  R etailer  o u g h t  to  h a v e   a  w ell  se -  * 

leeted  stock  of  BOOTS.  W e   h a v e   th e m  

in   la rg e   q u an tities a n d   of th e cele­

b rated   W O O N SO C K E T

a n d   R H O D E  IS- 

BAND  M ake.

Remember

To  get  the  present  discount,  orders  must  be  put  in  time  enough to  allow for the 
goods being  made up and shipped before October  1st.  Orders delayed until the last 
minute cannot be filled.  Therefore  send me your orders now,  and don’t “get left.”

DON’T  BE  AFRAID  OF  LIBERAL  ORDERS.

Price List sent to any  address upon  application.

Men’s  Black  Oxfords. 
“ 
Boys’ 
Youths.  “ 

“
“

6-9,  6-10* 
Sizes 
1-6,
“ 
“  11-13£,

40  Net 
38  «
36  «

G.  R.  M A Y H E W ,  G ra n d   R apids,  M ich.

THE  ONLY  SCALE  ON  EARTH  for  the  Retail

Dealer.

They  Are  The 

EIGHTH  WONDER 

of  the  World.

An  Investment 
Paying from 

io  to  io o   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 se r s  S a y :

T r a v e r se Cit y,  M ich.,  Sept.  2 ‘,  18'. 2. 
The Computing Scale Co..  Dayton, Ohio.
Gen t le m e n:—Since 
the  adoption  of 
your Computing Scales 1 have made more 
money in  my business than  ever  before. 
The  Howe  Scale  I  liad,  while new,  had 
such  a  radical  variation 
lost 
money every  time  I  weighed  upon  it.  1 
would  retire from business before return­
ing 
regular  weighing 
scales. 

to  the  use  of 

Yours  truly,

that  I 

F rank  Da n ie l s.
For further particulars  drop a  Postal  Card  to

M O Y T   &   C O ., General  Selling Agents,
D a y to n ,  O hio•

Seasonable Goods  léonards.

H.  LEONARD  &  SO N S ,  Grand.  Rapids,  Mich..

Mason  F ru it  Jars.

SP E C IA L   PR IC ES.

Subject to change without notice.

Facked  Regular Way  in Cases.

PINTS. 
84.75 gro. 

QUARTS.  HALF  GAL.
87.25 gro.
85.25 gro. 

Mason  Fruit  Jars.

New  Style  Patent  Boxes.

Packed One Dozen in Each  Box.

PINTS. 
85.50 gro. 

QUARTS 
86.00 gro. 

HALF GAL.
88.00  gro.

Extra Caps, 82.25 gro.  Rubbers,  3 >c gro.
Flint Glass Jars, 25c per gro.  advance.
D a n d y   F r u i t   J a r s .
GLASS  COVERS--SELF  SEALERS.

Only  Perfect  A11  Glass Jar on the Market

PINTS. 
810.50 

QUARTS. 
811  00 

HALF  GAL. 

814.00

No charge  for  package or cartage  on  fru it  ja rs  or 

jelly   tum blers.

Jelly  Tumblers,

X Pints,  6 doz  in Box  (box 00)  per Box  $1.64 
X Pints, 24 doz  in Bbl  (bbl  35)  per Doz 
23 
X  Pints,  6 doz  in  Box (box 00)  per Box  1.80 
X Pints,  18 doz  in  Bbl  (bbl 35) per Doz 
26
C o m m o n   T u m b l e r s .
X  P in t,  P lain ,  6  Doz in  Box  (Bx  00)  per  bx  81.80 
X   P int,  P lain,  20  Doz in  Bbl  (Bbl 35)  per doz 
.27

A s s o r t e d   P a c k a g e .

Engraved Tumblers.

Thin Blown.

6 Doz in Box  (bx 00)  Per Box  83.00

NOW  IS  THE  TIME  TO  BUY.

BOTTOM  PRICES.

KEEP  YOUR  STOCK  R EAÿY  FOR  THE 

DEMAND  IS  SURE  TO  COflE,

Stoneware.

BUTTER JARS,

PRESERVE JARS,

FRUIT JARS,

niLK PANS.

CO U M O M   S T O N E W A R E .

l Gal. each per gal 

Stone Butter Jars,  X Gal.  per doz 
Stone Butter Jars, 
Stone Butter Jars,  2 Gal.  per gal 
Stone Preserve Jars and Covers,  X Gal,  per  doz 
Stone Preserve Jars and Covers, 
Tomato or Fruit Jars, X Gal. 
Tomato or Fruit Jars,  1  Gal. 
Stone Milk Pans,  X Gal.  per doz 
Stone Milk Pans,  1 Gal. each 

.60
.06
.06
.90 
l Gal,  per  doz  1.40 
.75
.90
.60
.06

FINE  GLAZED  STONEWARE.

B lack or  W hite.

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

