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NO.  571

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JEFF  KANTRY’S  MISTAKE.

I grew,  after the manner of a colt,  end 
about. 
In my early boyhood I developed 
an enormous pair  of  ears.  Though  na­
ture made great effort  and  supplied  me 
with good nether proportions,  they never 
quite grew up to those  ears.  They  defy 
concealment.  To  comb  my  hair  over 
them is to  make  a  modern  Mercury  of 
myself,  with wings on  my  head  instead 
of on  my heels.  To tie them  back  from 
their  outstanding  publicity  converts 
them into rosettes of neither use  nor  at­
tractiveness.  There  is  a  superfluous 
commendation  of  the  art  of  listening 
about them.  As if specially intended to 
localize the observations of  others,  there 
is a hole, clean cut and as  rouud  as  the 
winding  spot  in  a  clock  face,  through 
my  left  auricle  at  its  exact  center  of 
prominence.

Persons never look me in the eye; they 
look me in the ear.  Their  faces  become 
interrogatory.  . The question is stenciled 
all over them:  “How  did  you  get  that 
hole ?”  1 have answered it  hundreds  of 
times,  but 1 will tell the story once more. 
If  the  art  of  printing  was equal to it I 
would have it printed upon my  ear,  that 
all might read.

A one-legged man answered an inquisi­
tive stranger that he would tell him  how 
his leg was  lost,  provided  he  asked  no 
more questions.  The  promise  given,  he 
promptly said,  “It  was  bit  off.”  The 
bottled agony of the querist can be imag­
ined. 
It has always appealed  to  me.  1 
wiil, therefore,  banish all uncertainty by 
telling  at  once  that  the  hole in my ear 
was shot there.

the  summer 

Creeks are as plentiful as snakes in the 
mountains  of  West  Virginia.  They 
twist up the hundreds of  narrow  ravines 
to eternally  abrade their rockv sides and 
bottoms. 
they  dash 
heavy  rainfalls  to  the  open  of  rivers; 
in  winter  they  gorge  with  ice  or  toss 
their broken  burden with  rushing  mad­
ness.  The narrow wagon  roads keeping 
them company are at such  times danger­
ous and the innumerable  fords  a  terror 
to the bravest.

In 

One  wintry  day  I  was  riding  my 
mare  Fanny  (one  who  feared  nothing 
where there  was  a  foothold,  nor  hesi­
tated  where  her  master  bade  her  go). 
The road'lay well  above  a  swollen,  ice 
laden torrent.  Ahead was a sharp  turn, 
so sharp that  the  road  seemed  snapped 
off in its  course. 
It  pointed  its  jagged 
end to a precipice  of  cave  eaten  rocks, 
high above and across the  wild  rush  of 
water.  Both  Fanny  and  myself  knew 
the spot well.  Twice  a  month  at  least 
we carried saddle pockets  heavely laden 
with silver and  pockets  well  filled with 
notes to pay  the  workmen  on  a  heavy 
lumbering operation  in the mountains of 
West Virginia,  far from  town  or  bank. 
On  this  occasion  the  sum  was  $2,000. 
The dates of these  payments  were  well 
known  among  the  mountaineers; 
the 
road  was  lonely;  the  opportunities  for 
robbery and attack numerous as the  juts 
and passes  along  it.  My  partner  and 
I myself generally took  these  rides  after

money  together.  This time I was alone. 
My  mare was loping under me as lightly 
as a kid.

When I reached the  turn, I  swung  to 
the rock side to ease my horse’s  footing. 
I saw a puff of smoke belch from  a  cave 
mouth across the flooded  chasm, I  heard 
the whistle of a ballet as  it  passed,  and 
felt that  it  had  struck  somewhere  out 
upon 
tbe  cartilaginous  territory  lying 
adjacent to my head.  1 had heard bullets 
many a  time  when  they  were  Hocked, 
licensed, 
indiscriminate.  This  bullet 
was  unlicensed  and  unpleasantly  dis­
criminating.  A huddle of  thoughts  de­
manded  immediate  individual attention. 
A plucky  one  bellowed,  “Stop  and fire 
back.”  My  hand  naturally  drew  my 
pistol. 
A  cautious  one  whispered, 
“There is danger around  the  turn,  hold 
your fire.”  Another  cried,  “Fly  before 
a second shot  can reach  you.”  Yet  an­
other. 
“Escape 
this  danger; 
tackle the next.”

from 

There is active contagion in  the  flight 
of a bullet,  and Punch’s axiom;  “Better 
than presence of mind  in  danger  is  ab­
sence  of  body,”  is  worthy  of  remem­
brance at such times.  1  cocked  my  re­
volver.  My  mare  was  dashing  ahead 
undisturbed, save by the  raising  of  her 
pretty head  in quick surprise,  the prick­
ing of her pointed ears,  and  a  snort  of 
warning  as  when  she  smelled  or  saw 
danger. 
I glanced  quickly  at  the  spot 
whence  the  bullet  came.  There  was 
nothing  visible  but  the  gaping  cave 
mouth and the wisp of  smoke  scurrying 
off like a belated cloud.

In an instant 1 was around the  corner. 
The  road  beyond  was  bare,  yet  each 
niche in  the opening strata of  the moun­
tain side might  contain  an  assassin. 
I 
might  be 
running  the  enfilade  of  a 
masked battery.  With thought  more  of 
my mare than myself, a  slight  shake  of 
the bridle rein bade her go  as  the wind. 
With a long gasp  of  relief  I  slackened 
her pace a mile  away,  and  straightened 
myself in  the  saddle  for  calmer  riding 
and  soberer  thinking.  With  ungloved 
hand 1 felt my ear.  A  hole  was  there, 
but  not  a  sign  of  blood.  The  intense 
cold had halted the circulation.

“Who fired that shot?”  I asked myself. 
The object was not  robbery,  because  no 
human being could have  breasted the ice 
and current  to  reach  me  had  the  shot 
been fatal.  Again,  I  would  have  been 
attacked by accomplices at  the turn, had 
robbery  been  planned.  Perhaps  not. 
The failure of the first  shot  might  have 
deterred  others  from  attacking  me  at 
close quarters.  Could some one be seek­
ing revenge?  Very likely. 
I had  never 
hesitated in discharging a  workman  for 
cause.  Many  threats  against  my  life 
had come  to my ears,  but  never  a  bal­
let  before.  Was 
in 
the situation?  A  resume  of  flirtations, 
dances, double  rides  on  Fanny’s  back, 
chance  meets  on  mountain  trails  with 
mountain maidens and  hickory  widows, 
failed to remind me of  anythiug  serious 
or  even  a  debatable  case.  There  was 
no  imported  malice  in  the  mountains;

there  a  woman 

it must be local. 
I was as  far  apart  as 
the tips of my ears  in  decision  when  I 
reached the  log  cabin  camp  called  for 
the time home.

Mr.  Whipin,  my  partner,  looked grave 
when I told him of  my  escape.  He was 
a brave fellow,  true to the core,  quiet to 
exasperation,  slow  as  a  fuse,  fiery  as  a 
hornet,  and  worked  excessive  profanity 
inside.  He  suddenly  went  around  the 
stable  and  I  knew  he  was  swearing. 
He  was  quite  chirpy  when  he  came 
back.  The  prospect  of  a  still  hunt  or 
a  fight  always  enlivened him.

“We had better keep  the thing to our­
“The whelp will drop 
selves,” he said. 
his scent some  day.” 
(Horses  or  hunt­
ing furnished him with all of his  figures 
of speech.)  “When we run him to earth 
we will smoke  him  out  with  powder.” 
He left me  and  went  behind  a  tree.  1 
beard his fists ring on  the bark.

for  outbursts  of 

We lived alone in a two-roomed  cabin, 
excepting  the  presence  of  a  wild  and 
well made mountain girl as ever whooped 
hymns 
jollity,  and 
laughed  through  her  prayers  because 
“she didn’t b’lieve the  Lord  kept  what 
she axed fer.”  A year had  passed  since 
I  had found  her snowed  in,  starving,  in 
her father’s cabin—her father dead by the 
fireless hearth—and  had  carried  her  on 
Fanny’s  back  to  warmth  and  life  and 
comfort.  She was  kinless,  gypsy  like, 
perfect  in  limb  and 
in 
beauty,  purring and loving as a cat when 
pleased, a panther in anger.  As soon  as 
she recovered from  her  terrible  experi­
ence,  she took my partner and  myself to 
her heart and care,  and  woe  be  to  the 
man,  woman  or  child  who  interfered 
with  her  monopoly.  She  had  a  beau, 
“jest to fool with,” she  said,  “an’  ride 
bareback  across 
fords  meetin’ 
nights.”  Jeff  Kantry  was  his  name. 
He  was  a  fair  average  specimen  of  a 
young  mountaineer  and  devotedly  fond 
of her.  She teased him unmercifully.

line,  glossy 

“Shall we tell  Mat?”  I  asked,  as  we 

the 

walked from the stable to tbe house.

“There is  no  use  weighing  in  for  a 
I’ll bet you  $5  she 
race with Mat’s wit. 
will distance you,  take  the  purse,  gate 
money  and  secret,  and  show  you  her 
heels  after  the  fellow  that  shot  you  in 
five  minutes. 
that  was 
hurt,  I’d  give  her  five  minutes  longer. 
But you  are  her  Josh.”

If  it  was  1 

A joyous  “Whoopee!”  burst  from  the 
girl as she  jumped  the  doorsteps,  and, 
bare-headed,  ran  along  the  snow  path 
to  meet  me,  her  eyes  lustrous  as  a 
seal’s.  “I’m glad  you’re  back.  Gimme 
I  never  think  uv 
that  pesky  money. 
you bein’ safe till I  git  a  hold  uv  it. 
I 
won’t  let  you  go  arter  it  alone  ag’in, 
no time,  never. 
I’d  a  cut  a  right  caper 
if  you  hadn’t  got  home  afore  dark 
night.  You’re  too  venturesome.  What 
kep’ you so  long  at  the  stable,  an’  you 
nearly  froze?  Wbat—what’s the matter? 
What’s  your  hat  doin’  over  sideways 
thataway 
your  pistol 
stlckin’  out  of  yer  wrong  pocket  fer? 
Hev  you  hed  a  fight?  Air  you  hurt?” 
Her  cheeks  were  too  healthy  hued  to

fer?  What’ 

■I'M»:  \TTflHTflAN  TRADESMAN.

blanch,  but  her  expressive  face  was j  1 nodded “Yes” with  my muffled head, 
netted  in  lines  of  anxiety.  While  she  She said  "Good night” and went into her 
awaited  my  answer  she  glanced  search- [ room.
ingly  at  my  partner.

“Nothing is  the  matter.  Mat,”  I  an­

swered.

“I  know  better,  colonel.  Look  at 
face 
him.  He’s  been  swearin’.  His 
is red yit. 
lie’s blue at his nose corners. 
His  han’s  hain’t  in  his  pockets.  He’s 
been  mad.  Don’t  story  to  Mat.  Tell 
me  now,  won’t  you?”  She  laid  her 
hand  on  my  arm.  She  was  purring. 
Nobody could resist the sweetness of her 
"Tell me now.”

By 

the  open  fire,  cracking,  sputter­
ing,  roaring,  I  told  her  of  the  shot and 
the  wild  ride.  As  she  listened,  rubbed 
warmth  into  my  ears,  bathed,  salved, 
patched and  petted  my  wound,  her  face 
was  the  battleground of emotions.  The 
merest  trifle  connected  with  the  affair 
did  not  escape  her  questioning.  She 
was  as  expert  a woodman as any hunter 
of  the  mountains.  The secrets of forest 
and  stream  were  open 
to  her.  Her 
father  had  taught  her  and  her  wild 
life had cultured her in them.

Questions were  as  plenty  as  her  soft 
touches  of sympathy and  ejaculations of 
savage wrath.  Finally she gathered  her 
lithe figure as if for a spring,  curved  her 
fingers for  a  cruel  tear,  flashed  her eyes 
with  intensity  of  purpose  and  snarled 
between  her glittering teeth:  “I’ll fetch 
you one of that sneakin’  fellow’s ears  to 
patch your own with,  an’  I’ll put  a  hole 
in  t’other one of bis’n fer him  to wear ez 
a sign  uv his meanness.”

"You had  better let  us do the saddling 
up for this  business,  Mat.  You  would 
girth too tight for a long hunt like this,” 
said  my  partner,  firmly  but  anxiously.
Her face flushed, softened.  There was 
the tremor of pleading in her  full  voice, 
but determination in  her  up  straighten­
ing as she  looked  at  him.  “You  must 
let me do it. 
It takes you an everlastin’ 
while to fix your  saddle  blanket an’ fool 
with your stirrups,  an’  you  finger  your 
girth till I ketch the  jumpers  lockin’  at 
you.  Ef  I  wuz  your  critter  I’d  kick. 
You can’t ketch  the  feller.  You  don’t 
hev the specifications of these folks’bout 
yere  like  1  hev.  The  fish  hawk  has  a 
white  belly,  so’s  the  fish  cant  see  him 
when  he  swoops  fer  it.  The  skunk’s 
black,  ’cause  he  hunts  at  night.  The 
owl  makes  no  noise  fly in’, so’s he won’t 
wake  up  the  birds he’s  arter;  but ther’s 
non  uv  ’em  that  wise  there  ain’t  some­
thin’  wiser.  That 
that 
you’ll  both  be  arter  him,  but  he won’t 
’spicion  me.  You shan’t  take  no  risks. 
You’d git  shot  in  earnest.  Every  rifle 
on  the  mountains  ’ud  be  p’inted  agin 
you,  an’ every cabin  ’ud  be  a  grave  fer 
you  if  you 
it.  The 
folks ’round  yere  sticks  together.  You 
must let  me  do  it. 
I’m  goin’  to.  No 
feller shall  hev a chance to  tech  a  hair 
uv your head two times ez long  as  Mat’s 
livin’.  Don’t you  say nothin’  to nobody, 
nohow, ’bout what’s happened  ary time. 
Watch  sharp 
to-morrow  when  you’re 
payin’ off.  The dog thet’s killed a sheep 
is alius  lickin’  bisself.

feller  knows 

ran  him 

inter 

There was no use arguing with  her  in 

on of these moods.

While giving my ear a  final  overhaul­
ing and  bundling it against  sleep tossing 
and cold  she said:  “ I  suppose  you  will 
take  your  dinner  to the  office with you 
to-morrow,  won’t you?  1 have somethin’ 
nice for you.”

Pay day  was  always  a  holiday.  The
mountaineers came to  the office from the 
distant  choppings,  carrying  their  rifles, 
hunting  as  they  came.  They  carried 
back provisions  from  the  supply  store, 
their money,  game  and  interchanges  of 
polyhedral  gossip  from the  various  sec­
tions.

My partner made some  excuse to go to 
the house at noon.  Whe  he returned he 
banded me a slip of paper, on which was 
written:  "The  door  is  locked.  Mat  is 
gone; so is your mare.  Tracks show that 
she rode off on the town trail.  Had I not 
better follow her?”

1  wrote “No”  for my  answer. 

It  dis­
concerted him,  but, as we  always pulled 
together,  he did not reply.

When we approached  our house in the 
evening we heard  Mat singing in  a  sup­
pressed  voice,  “Hold  the  fort,  for 1 am 
coming.”  She  met  us  with  her  usual 
heartiness,  but her face was hard and her 
eyes glittered.

"Where  have you been,  runaway?”  I 

asked, pleasantly.

"Trailing,” she answered.
“Did you find  out  anything?  We  did 

not.”

folded 

"1  didn’t  ’spicion  you would.  1 wuz 
down to Crooked  Leg Bend to-day,  where 
you  wuz  shot. 
I  know  how  the  feller 
got  there,  an’  which  way he went hum. 
Tber’  wuz only one of ’em.  He’s a young 
feller  ’bout  your  years  an’  size,  Mr, 
Whipin.”  She paused,  fumbled  in  her 
pocket and brought forth something care­
fully 
in  her  handkerchief. 
Whipin  colored  to  his  swearing  limit. 
"Yere’s a piece  uv bread he  wuz  eatin’. 
He  must  hev  throwed it  down  when he 
saw  you  cornin’.  See  the  marks  uv 
hull set uv front teeth?  The  young  fel­
lers is the only ones  thet hez  ther  front 
teeth ’round yere.  Yere’s another thing 
I finded it among the  leaves in  the  cave 
where  he  laid.  He  wuzn’t  ther  long. 
He’d  come  a  good  ways  fast,  an’  wuz 
warm,  for he  took off his  hat to  cool his 
head,  and laid it on a leetle pile uv snow 
there wuz ther’  an’ left the print.”

She handed  me a hook  fastening, such 
as is  on  laced  shoes  to  throw  the  lace 
around.  There  was  a  strange  stare in 
her eyes as she looked at my partner and 
said, slowly:  "There’s  only  two  peopl 
thet  hez  them  things  in  their  shoes  i 
these  parts,  you  an’  the  Colonel.  He 
wore  your shoes,  Mr.  Whipin, an’ he hed 
on a pair  uv  your  buckle  leggins.  He 
left the print uv a  buckle on  the side u 
a rock  with some snow  agiu  it.”

"Great God!”  roared  Whipin,  leaping 

to his feet.  "Do you mean-----”

"No, I don’t,” she interrupted, quickly, 
putting  her  hand  caressingly  on  his 
“ 1  don’t  mean 
shoulder and  laughing. 
you  nary  time. 
I  wuzjist  teasin’ you. 
There now,  go  over in the  corner an’ do 
the rest uv  your  swearin’. 
I  know  the 
I gave  him  a  pair uv 
feller that did  it. 
your old shoes an’  leggins once.”

"Who?”  we both ejaculated.
"Ax me  no  questions. 

I’ll  show  you 
afore  long.  1  want  his  ear,  an’  you’d 
skeer him ef you  knowed.”

There  was  no  doubting  Mat.  1  am 
prepared  to  forever  assert  that women 
can keep  a  seccet,  also  that  men  have 
curiosity.

After supper  there was a  knock at the 
door.  Jeff  Kantry  came  in.  Mat  re­
ceived him with  manifest  pleasure.  As

he was about to take off  his overcoat she 
went quickly to the mantel piece, grabbed 
my  revolver  and  hunting  knife  from 
where she had  placed them,  then leaped 
in front  of  him.  "Hold  on,  Jeff.  Hit 
ain’t  for  the  likes  uv  you to  sit  down 
with  decent  people  never  agin,  never. 
You put a hole in the  Colonel’s  ear  yes­
terday;  there’s  one  fer  yours.”  Bang 
went  the  pistol.  Jeff  staggered  back, 
blinded  with  the  smoke.  His  left  ear 
had a hole  in it.  Quick  as the  dart of a 
trout a knife flashed  in the  air,  sheered 
past  his  head,  and  his right  ear fell to 
the floor.  "Now go!” she shrieked.  “Go, 
marked  forever,  you  jealous,  murderin’ 
sneak!”

The  man  howled  with  fright,  rushed 
for the door and out into the night.  Mat 
picked up  the  ear,  threw  it  contempt­
uously  into  the 
fire,  exclaiming,  “ 1 
wouldn’t hev a patch uv  sich  poor  stuff 
ez thet on  your  head, Colonel.”

A  year  afterward  1  remarked  to  my 
partner,  "Well,  we  are  now  through 
with our work  here.  We can  return  to 
civilization.”  He  reached  me  hH  hand 
and said,  feelingly,  “I don’t believe you 
will be away from  us long.  As  for  me,

am going to stay here with Mat.”

C h a s.  M’Il v a in k .

BARKING  AT  THE  MOON.

There has  been  considerable  yapping 
at the lunar luminary  as  it silently trav­
eled  along  its  appointed  path. 
It still 
hines.  The silver  crescent  comes  and 
goes,  and the rounded  orb still  leaves its 
luminous trail on  mountain,  valley  and 
sea.  No  one  scares  the  Queen  of  the 
Night or blocks her  course  in  the  star- 
gemmed skies.

In 

It  has  been 

It is just so  with other  things  outside 
the  cosmical  scheme. 
the  moral 
world,  as in the  planetary  system,  there 
are laws and  verities  that  exist without 
volition,  and  will  continue  to  do 
whether we consent or not.  A great deal 
of history has been  made in endeavoring 
to change the unchangeable  and to make 
sealing wax  of  granite. 
case of laying seige to the multiplication 
table;  the  result  being  that  twice  tw 
still makes four,  however  agreeable  the 
five  might  be to our foolish souls. 
It is 
true that man is a free agent,  but only in 
limits; we can change a coat, but we can 
not so dispose of a truth;  we  can  disbe 
lieve a preacher, and deny a laudlord hi 
rent,  but we can’t  jump from  a  window 
or  fall  from a tree  and defy  gravitation 
by  going  upwards  instead  of  comiu 
down.

Now,  in many of  our social  and indus 
trial troubles we are coming to  grief  by 
testing  our  heads  against  a stone  wall, 
and finding out which  of the two  is hurt 
the most.  When  men  attempt  to  force 
wages above their normal  level,  and find 
out  that  the  supply  cannot  exceed  its 
source,  they are  simply  throwing  away 
their  time  by  waiting  for  a  third pint 
from a quart bottle.  When  men, on the 
other hand,  constitute  themselves into a 
committee of sponges,  with the object of 
absorbing what belongs  to  another,  the 
subsequent squeezing  process  is inevita­
ble.  On both  sides of  the  question  the 
law of right and wrong knows no favors, 
and is  without aside door through which 
the guilty  can  escape. 
It  is  when  we 
shut our eyes to these facts that we make 
fools of ourselves.  We  may excuse our­
selves by  being uncertain as to  where the 
line is drawn between right  and  wrong, 
but  apologies  for  ignorance  never  yet

cleaned a man’s  boots  when  he  walked 
Into a ditch. 
In  this instance the exper­
ience may compensate for wet stockings. 
It ought to de  so in  our  labor  troubles, 
but  the  misfortune  is our memories are 
hort, and the fly  who  looked into a spi­
der’s  restaurant  to-day  may  furnish  a
rivate lunch for that gentleman to-mor-
row.

Capital has been  put  on  the  spit  and 
roasted  by  strikes 
innumerable,  and 
labor has made cordwood and  anthracite 
of itself  in the cooking  act,  but the cul­
inary process  still  goes  on. 
It  will  do 
no more  or  less  so  long  as  the  clock  of 
time  strikes  the  hour,  but  much  and, 
perhaps,  most  of  this  business  can be 
topped when both  parties  comply with 
the rights and obligations  of each other. 
This can be best  brought  about by other 
meahs  than  those  of  hostility  or  at­
tempted repression,  Labor organizations 
have  some  reason  for  existence.  Mis­
takes have been made,  crimes committed 
and our social stability menaced  in their 
name, and, so far, they have proved to be a 
Pharaoh  instead  of  a  Moses. 
If  they 
could be placed  under the  leadership  of 
wise  men,  and  the  discipline  of  such 
ntellectual and  economic, training  that 
an  intelligent  discussion  of  affairs  as­
sures,  there would  be  less  danger  from 
labor organizations than  from  a  private 
political  caucus  in  Washington,  with 
jingoism or sugar  on  the  brain. 
Invite 
them into the daylight;  hear  what  they 
have to say;  let capital, as far as  it  can, 
associate with them  in  righting what  is 
wrong  and  straightening  out  what  is 
tangled and crooked,  and  the greater or­
ganization for  which  the  world  is wait­
ing will grow out  of  that  fraternal  unit 
and  practically  assure  industrial  con­
tent.  To  attempt  repression  is  simply 
barking at the moon.

F r e d   W oodkow.

N o t in  L o v e   w ith  th e  L a w .

Cin c in n a t i,  Ohio,  Aug.  16—Many  of 
the  cheese  manufacturers  of  the  State 
and all  the  cheese  jobbers  of  this  city 
have  protested  against  the  act  passed 
March 30, 1892,  entitled,  “An act to reg­
ulate  the branding of cheese in the State 
of Ohio and to prevent fraud  in  its man­
ufacture  and  sale.”  The  act  provides 
that no person shall  manufacture or sell 
any imitation of cheese not  made  exclu­
sively  of  unadulterated  milk,  or  any 
cheese  not  made wholly from pure milk 
or  cream,  salt,  rennet and  harmless col­
oring matter; that every manufacturer of 
full  milk cheese may put  a  brand  upon 
each  cheese, 
"full  milk 
cheese”  and the date  of  the  month  and 
year  when  made,  and  that  no  person 
shall  use  any  such  a  brand  upon  any 
cheese made from milk  which any of the 
cream  has  been  taken;  that  no  person 
shall offer,  sell,  or expose for sale in any 
package, cheese which is falsely  branded 
or labeled;  that any person  violating any 
of the provisions  of the  act  shall,  upon 
conviction  thereof,  forfeit and pay  to the 
State of Onio the sum of $200 penalty for 
every  such  violation  and  the  costs  of 
prosecution;  that the  word  “person,”  as 
used in  this act,  shall  include  persons, 
corporations and companies.

indicating 

ONLY  A  F E W   LEFT.

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Original set of four 
Complete set of ten  -

  25c 
50c
Order  quick or lose the opportunity of 
a  lifetime  to  secure these souvenirs at a 
nominal  figure.  They will be worth ten 
times present cost within five years.
T ra d esm a n  C om p an y,

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T H   h :  M I C H I G A N   T R A D E B M a N ,

THE  MORNING  MARKET.

Personal of Some  of the Leading'  Fruit 

Growers.

Something over 300 fruit  growers mar­
ket their crop  in  Grand  Rapids.  What 
this means to the  city  and  vicinity  can 
easily be imagined.  The men  who  come 
to the early morning  market  with  their
loads of fruit are as energetic,  as  indus­
trious and enterprising  as  any  business 
men  in the  city.  They  are  representa­
tive  of  the class of people who  will  yet 
put Michigan at the head  of  the  list  of 
fruit raising States.  The  following  are 
a few of the larger growers:

R.  D.  Graham,  who  owns  a  fine  fruit 
farm about two  miles  out  West  Bridge 
street, expects to bring about 3,000 bush­
els of peaches to this market this season. 
Peaches are his main  crop,  but  he  will 
have quite a crop of other fruits.

J.  A.  Pearce  will  bring  about  1,000 
bushels of peaches,  aud  fully as much of 
other  fruits.  His  farm 
is  about  six 
miles northeast of the city.

H.  B.  Braman  says  he  will  market 

about 4,000 bushels of  peaches this year, 
which he does  not  consider  an  extraor­
dinary yield;  but he will have a sufficient 
quantity of  other  fruits  to  swell  these 
figures to comfortable  proportions.  Mr. 
Braman  has increased his peach orchard 
by 2,500 trees this year.

H.  D. Perkins will market 2,000 bushels 
of apples,  600  bushels  of  peaches,  250 
bushels  of  pears  and  300  bushels  of
plums.  He 
is  not  making  any  noise 
about it either.

W.  K.  Munson devotes  his  spare  mo­
ments and all  the rest of his time to rais­
ing grapes.  This year he will put on the 
market upwards of  fifty tons.  That is a 
big pile of grapes,  but he  has set out ten 
acres more this year and will soon double 
the above figures.

S.  B.  Smith takes more to apples, 3,000 
bushels being  his quota to  the  market’s 
big  total  of  that  necessary  fruit.  He 
raises other fruits but  in smaller quanti­
ties.
L.  C. Woodman  is satisfied to  bring in
2.500 bushels  of peaches  and  about  450 
bushels of other fruits.

Homer  Hayes  also  runs 

largely  to 
grapes.  He  swears  to  forty-five  tons of 
grapes,  400 bushels of peaches, and about 
450 bushels of other  fruits.

Thompson &  Bissel are  sure  of  2,000 
bushels of peaches, 300 bushels of plums, 
500 bushels of apples  and twelve tons of 
grapes.  They are evidently  “in it.”

W.  A. Nason blushingly confesses that 
he  will  ask  somebody  to  take  off  his 
hands 2,000  bushels of  peaches,  twenty 
tons  of  grapes  and  a quantity  of other 
fruits.  He will not  have  much  trouble 
to dispose of his  stock.

Chas.  M.  Edison is  sure  he  will  have
1.500 bushels of  peaches—perhaps more. 
He raises grapes  and apples also.

W. W. Hilton  will  have  2,000  bushels 
of  peaches  and  650  bushels  of  other 
fruits.  He  thinks,  if  all  goes well, he 
can  beat this next year.

G.  H. Bradford says we need not credit 
him  with  more  than  3,000  bushels  of 
peaches and 400 bushels  of  other  fruits. 
He is sure of so  much  anyway.

John  Twiss  does  not  think  he  will 
have more than 2,000  bushels of peaches 
and 650 bushels of other  fruits,  while R. 
Kinney is satisfied  with 1,500  bushels of 
peaches.

These are  a very  few  of  the  leading 
fruit  growers  who  bring  their  crop  to 
this market.  How much they contribute

to the material welfare of the community 
may be seen when  it is told that  the  es­
timated  quantity  of  peaches  to be mar­
keted here  this  year  is  300,000 bushels. 
These figures are based upon  the returns 
already in,  which  are incomplete.  The 
total may be from 50,000 to 100,000 bush­
els  more.  A  vast  quantity  of  other 
fruits is being marketed  here amounting 
in value to hundreds of thousands of dol­
lars.  Almost  every  dollar  received  by 
the fruit growers finds  its  way  back  to 
this city and so  the city is constantly re­
ceiving benefit  from  this  important  in­
dustry.  The  vast  acreage  already  de­
voted to fruitgrowing is being constantly 
added to, one fruit  tree  salesman,  it  is 
asserted,  having  sold  80,000 peach trees 
alone this year.  The fruit growers have 
organized an association  with  permanent 
offices  at  121  Ottawa  street.  M.  W. 
Ronan,  the Secretary,  is himself  the son 
of a fruit grower,  and is thoroughly con­
versant  with the needs of growers.  You 
need not come down  so early to the fruit 
market as you do to  the  vegetable  mar­
ket,  as the  Association  has  come to  the 
conclusion that 5 o’clock  is early enough; 
but 5  o'clock  sharp  sees  the  growers in 
their places ready  for  business.
Proposed Changes in Banking Methods.
It seems probable now that the useless, 
cumbersome  and  worn  out  practice  of 
giving  three  days of  grace on notes aud 
drafts will,  in  the not distant future,  be­
come a thing of the  past.  Many  of  the 
States  where  the  granting of  grace has 
been a matter of law,  are  taking steps to 
abolish  the nuisance and  some  have  al­
ready  repealed  the  law.  This  is  alto­
gether as it should be.  The practice has 
outlived its  usefulness, if  it ever  was of 
any utility,  and  has become  a  consider­
able detriment to banking business.  An­
other matter,  of  nearly as  much  impor­
tance  as  the  one  already  mentioned,  is 
receiving  attention  in  commercial  and 
financial  circles.  That 
is  the  present 
method of  timing of  notes.  At  present 
the custom is to make  the note  for  one, 
two, or three months, or  thirty, sixty,  or 
ninety  days.  Errors  frequently  occur, 
on the part of the maker,  in entering the 
paper.  The wrong date  is inserted,  and 
many times  the  results  have  been,  the 
payment of protest fees, needless embar­
rassment and annoyance  and  sometimes 
injury to credit.  Considering how easily 
all this could have  been avoided,  it  is  a 
matter  of  astonishment that the remedy 
was not long ago applied.  Instead of the 
present unsatisfactory  method  of timing 
notes,  if  the  day  of  maturity  were  in­
serted in the body of  the note,  so  that it 
would read “on  the 29th day  of  Sept.  I 
promise to pay,” etc.,  no mistakes could 
occur. 
If this method of timing notes be 
adopted,  and the three  days of  grace  be 
abolished,  it will be a  long step taken in 
the direction of the simplification of bus­
iness.

On the other hand it is said by some of 
the financial authorities of  the city,  that 
the banks have in  many cases,  in  draw­
ing notes,  timed them in the manner sug­
gested,  although  the  other  method  has 
predominated.  As banks invariably send 
notice to the maker of a note, they do not 
see how the method  of  timing can  affect 
the  maker.  Nearly  all  business  men 
keep  a  bills  payable  book,  noting  tbe 
date of maturity of all outstanding paper. 
This book is  referred  to  every  morning 
and so mistakes in dates are not likely to 
occur.  That is  the  bankers’  side of  the 
question. 
It still  remains  true  that the 
prevailing method  of timing  notes is un­
satisfactory to many business men.

A  Blind  Man

Has about as many chances of becoming a good  marksman  as 
the  merchant  has  of  succeeding  by  careless,  haphazard 
methods.

Yet many merchants  run along in  the  old  rut,  unable  to 
shake off the antiquated methods of their fathers,  when  the in­
troduction  of modern  methods and the purchase of a
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m o v em en t s o f  m e r c h a n t s. 

ABOUND THE  STATE.

1 mates  the  liabilities  at  $4,000.  An in-
ventory of the stock is now  in  progress.
Manistee—Henry Taylor,  who has con-
Escanaba—P.  M.  Peterson’s  furniture j ducted a woman’s  furnishing  goods  de­
partment in K.  B.  Pierce’s  music  store,
Kingston—T.  Bartholomew  succeeds  has packed the balance of his  stock  and

store has been closed  by  creditors. 

T.  D.  Roy in the  hardware business. 

Traverse City—Matteson Bros,  succeed

D.  Matteson  in the grocery  busiuess. 

Jackson—C.  E.  Haughawout  has  sold
his grocery  busiuess to  Walter T.  Smith.
Morenci—Saulsbery  & Cook  have pur­
chased the meat business  of J.  R.  Bell & 
Co.

Coldwater—Brainard & Perry, grocers, 
have dissolved.  Perry  &  Adams succeed­
ing.

Grand Blanc—Salisbury  &  Cross  sue 
ceed E.  A.  Salisbury in  the grocery  busi­
ness.

Manistee—Geigliug  &  Waal  succeed 
H. J.  Giegling & Co.  in  the  meat  busi­
ness.

Wakelield—L.  M.  Goldberg & Co.  suc­
ceed  M.  Goldberg  &  Son  in  general 
trade.

Kingston—Win.  T.  Fulford  has  pur­
chased the meat business of  Wm. P.  Mil- 
liken.

Battle  Creek—Michael  Neale,  of  the 
boot  and  shoe tirui of M.  & W.  F.  Neale, 
is  dead.

Lakeview—C.  M.  Northup  succeeds
E. C. Saxton  & Co.  in the  feed  and  lime 
business.

Monroe—H.  I). Hoffman succeeds  Mary 
L.  (Mrs.  M.  D.)  Hoffman in the millinery 
business.

Detroit—Marr  &  Diedrich  succeed  A. 
in  the  wall  paper 

C.  Treadway  &  Co. 
business.

Norway—Mrs.  Jos.  Ruwitch  succeeds 
Jos.  Ruwitch in the  dry goods and cloth­
ing business.

Calumet—Nikauder & Koivupalo, drug­
gists,  have  dissolved,  Werner  Nikauder 
continuing the business.

Manistique—Weiuig  &  Thompson, 
meat  dealers,  have  dissolved,  Emil 
Thompson succeeding.

lmlay  City—Burke  &  Heenon,  hard­
ware  dealers,  have  dissolved,  Wm. 
Heenon continuing the  business.

Manistee—S.  Gaubatz  has  opened  a 
hardware,  dry  goods,  boots  and  shoes 
and clothing store at 293 River street.

Hancock—James  C.  Ley  &  Co.  gen­
eral  dealers,  have merged  their business 
into  a  corporation  under 
the  same 
style.

Big  Rapids—Beebe  &  Frederick  are 
out with the announcement that they will 
abandon 
system  entirely 
Sept.  1.

the  credit 

Edwardsburg—The  Michigan  Furnace 
Co.  (not  incorporated)  is  succeeded  by 
the Michigan Furnace & Store Co.  (incor­
porated).

Rockford—Watkins,  Smith  &  Son, 
millers have  dissolved  partnership  and 
the busiuess will  hereafter be conducted 
by Smith & Son.

Mancelona—T.  A.  Price has purchased 
L.  M.  Barnhart’s  interest  in  the  meat 
business,  and  hereafter  the  firm  name 
will be Dietz & Price.

will soon  leave for a new location.

Marlette—Thos.  U.  Dawson  and Smit­
ten,  Hunter  &  Co.  have  consolidated 
their general  stocks  and  will  hereafter 
do  business  as  a  coporation  under the I 
style of the Marlette Mercantile Co.

Lowell—A.  B. Johnson and  Frank  B .j 
Clark have formed  a  copartnership  un­
der the name  of  Clark  &  Johnson  and 
will continue the  grocery  business  and 
will  purchase and ship fruit in season.

Battle  Creek—Certain  merchants  of 
this city wish they had not yielded to the 
demand  of  the  union  men  during  the 
recent strike.  They refused the  “scabs” 
credit at the time  and  now  the  strikers 
are moviug out of the city and those  who 
have taken  their places are not especially 
eager  to  trade  with  merchants  who re­
fused  to  accept  their  patronage  a  few 
weeks ago.

Bay City—John Reidy,  accused of sell­
ing  adulterated  milk,  was  declared not 
guilty  by  a  jury  Saturday.  Professor 
Kedzie of the Agricultural  College  made 
an analysis of a sample of milk furnished 
him and stated that it contained nearly 5 
per cent,  more water than allowed by the 
State standard.  Reidy  had been  selling 
milk to E.  R.  Phillips,  the  milk  dealer, 
who sent a sample for analysis and  made 
the complaint iu the case.  Reidy denied 
all  knowledge  o 
the  adulteration  and 
showed  that be did  not  have  charge  of 
the milk at any  time.

Millbrook—Wm.  Bendetson,  dealer in 
dry goods and clothing,  went  to  Detroit 
Aug.  2.  received  a check  for $1,000 for 
wool  he bad  sold,  paid  off  a  couple  of 
hundred dollars of debts,  went to the de- 
pot to start for home,  where all  trace of 
him was lost.  His relatives  are  greatly 
alarmed over bis disappearance and have 
invoked the aid  of the Detroit  police  in 
solving  the  mystery.  Some  fear  foul 
play;  others opine  that  the  old  gentle 
man  has  become  deranged,  and not un 
likely started on a trip to Europe.  Only 
a  few  days  ago  he was  in  poor  health 
and crossed  the  Atlantic  for  a  change 
Telegrams have  been  sent  to  every rel 
ative and acquaintance and detectives are 
now inquiring of steamer lines, while the 
police are  searching  for  clews,  on  the 
theory  that  the  missing  man may  have 
been  entrapped,  robbed and  murdered.

MANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

Detroit—The  Michigan Stone and Sup 
ply Co.  has filed  articles  of  association 
showing  the  capital  stock  of  the  com 
pany to be $250,000, of  which $132,000 is 
actually  paid in.

Alpena—The Alpena & Northern  Rail 
road  track  is laid  fifty-two miles north 
west from Alpena,  and a  large  quantity 
of  timber  will  be  hauled  over the line 
during the fall  and winter.

Muskegon—The Muskegon River Boom 
Co.  will  have  completed  its  operations 
for  the  season  by  the end of this week
Mancelona—W.  P.  Voglesoug  has 
It is a very clean drive, and came through 
transferred his  meat business  from  this
place to Alba,  there being  a  good  open- j as easily as any in the  history of driving 
ing at the latter point for a market. 

Saginaw—While  business  in  lumber­
ing  has  been  rather  slow  during  the 
week, there  are  abundant  indications of 
a revival and a more  hopeful  feeling  is 
manifested  by  manufacturers  and  deal­
Ludington—The  Ludingtou  Shingle 
ers than has been noted  at any time dur­
a $1,500 mortgage on bis  hardware stock  Mill Co.’s mill  was last week  shut  down 
ing the last year.  This is due to the un­
to his  wife,  whereupon  some of the mer-  Indefinitely.  The  company  has  12,000. 
derstanding  that  the  tariff  question  is
chandisc  creditors  began  attachment  000 shingles on  hand,  and  sales  are  so 
proceedings.  Mr. Grace thereupon made  slow  that  further  accumulation  is  not j practically disposed of and that Congress 
I will  shortly  adjourn.  This  will  at  any
an  assignment to H.  W.  Rice,  who  esti- ' thought  advisable. 

Stanton—C.  L. Grace  recently  uttered 

on the  Muskegon.

Muskegon—The  Thayer  Lumber  Co. 
has recently sold  800,000 feet in  one  lot 
to Chicago purchasers,  and Hovey & Mc­
Cracken, Hackley & Hume, Gow & Camp­
bell  have  disposed  of  about  $60,000 
worth of  lumber  to  Bennett Bros.,  local 
yard men.

Marquette—Some#  logging  camps  are 
already  in,  and,  while there is a tendency 
to limit the  winter’s cut  of  logs  to  the 
anticipated demand  next  summer,  some 
operators  will  have  to  put  in  a  large 
amount of burned timber. 
In the neigh­
borhood of Ewen  large tracts  have  been 
burned,  the  Nester  Estate and  the Dia­
mond Match Co.  having  had  about  40,- 
000,000 scorched.
Manistee—It 

looks  very  much  as 
though there might soon be a shortage of 
maple lumber,  and the  knowing  dealers 
are beginning to  hustle as  they have not 
done  before  this  season.  One  of 
the 
largest dealers has been up in  the  north 
country  for  the past two weeks and  has 
picked up a  block of  stock.  The  secre­
tary of the Northern Michigan Hardjyood 
Dealers’  Association  with  headquarters 
at  Traverse  City,  has  been  looking up 
the situation very  carefully aud  has  re­
ports  of  unsold  stock on  hand by every 
member of the  Association,  and  is  in  a 
position  to  state  that there is considera­
ble  less stock  on  hand  than  there  was 
thought to be.

Detroit—The  Circuit  Court  has  been 
asked to dissolve  the  partnership  exist­
ing  between  Emmet  L.  ¡Slawson  and 
Charles  P. Sherman,  formed  July  16 last 
for  the  purpose  of  manufacturing  aud 
dealing  in  mineral  waters  and  carbon­
ated  beverages,  at  121  West  Lamed 
street.  Slawson claims that he paid $700 
cash and obligated  himself  to  pay  $350 
more within a year  it the  net  profits  of 
the business would amount  to that much 
money.  Sherman furnished the machinery 
and  formulas.  Now,  Slawson says that 
Shermau overestimated  the profits of  the 
business, has denied him, Slawson, access 
to the books as per agreement,  has failed 
to  pay  the  employes,  and  squandered 
the earnings of the  enterprise.  Slawson 
now asks for a dissolution of the partner­
ship and an accounting.

Saginaw—W.  R.  Burt has sold a $6,000 
piece of timber  near Duluth,  which  the 
purchaser asked a stay  of a few days on, 
as it was threatened  with destruction  by 
fire,  and  he has  also closed  out  the  last 
of his property interests at Grand  Marais. 
Mr.  Burt,  in company with  Henry  Gam­
ble,  purchased  a  large  body  of  timber 
near Grand Marais a few years ago,  with 
excellent prospects of  a  most  profitable 
investment,  but  Mr.  Gamble,  who  was 
sent there to take  charge  of  operations, 
the firm having erected a saw mill,  failed 
to make a success of  it,  and after  two or 
three years operations  were  abandoned, 
and litigation  between  Burt and Gamble 
resulted.  The affairs  of  the  parties  in 
interest were  finally closed  up  and  Mr. 
Burt  came  out  a  loser  to the  extent of 
about $100,000.  He  says it is  about  the 
only loss he ever  sustained in a business 
venture of that character.

rate lessen  the effect  that disturbing leg­
islation  has  upon  the  trade  and  indus­
tries of the country,  and there can  be  no 
question  in  the  minds  of  the  best  in­
formed  busiuess men  but  there will be a 
gradual 
improvement  in  all  business 
lines.  Lumber  may  be  somewhat slow 
in  feeling the impetus  of the  new condi­
tions,  as the season  is  so  far  advanced 
that building operations are not likely to 
be commenced,  yet  with  low  stocks  at 
local  distributing  points  and the  assur­
ance that with  another spring  will come 
activity in  all  lilies,  buyers  will  be  dis­
posed  to  stock up and a big hole  will be 
made in stocks piled  up  at  manufactur­
ing points during the fall and winter.

The  Wool  Market.

The market is firmer than it  has  been 
for eighteen months,  although  quiet  at 
present.  Dealers are uuyielding in their 
demands,  and,  in  fact,  there is little need 
to yield,  as manufacturers  are  ready  to 
take a good deal  of  wool  at  small  con­
cessions.  After the new tariff  bill  goes 
iuto operation,  it is  expected  there  will 
be a general breaking up of values.  The 
local market is quiet and unchanged.

PRODUCK  M A R K E T .

Apples—Are pretty  well  bunched  as  to  price 

for best quality.  They bring 40@50c per bti.

Beans—No change from Inst week.
Beets—Are worth 35340c per bu.
Butter—Best  dairy  is  worth  17@20c,  and 

creamery £2@23c.

Cabbage—The best now  bring 20@4Uc  per  <loz.
Carrots—Are  worth  35@i0c  per  bu.,  washed 

stock.

Celery—Dealers hold at 16318c per doz.
Cucumbers—Have reached  25c  per  bu.  Pick­

ling are worth the same.

Eggs—Are  up  two  points  since  last  report. 

They now bring 12 313c per doz.

Grapes—Not many to be seen yet, but what are 
in are good.  Asked 4c per lb.; sold for 3c per lb.

Green Corn—Is held at 6310c per doz.
Muskmelons—Homegrown  are  worth  $1.25; 

outside,  $1@1.25.

Onions—Ripe are worth 05c per  bu.  Green, 10 

@1214 per doz. bunches.

Peaches—Early  Crawfords,  $1.40;  Crane’s 
Early, 75o; Mountain Rose  and other  white  ve­
rities, 40@75o per bu.  The  supply  Is  large  and 
the  quality  of  the  fruit  tine,  considering  the 
drough.

Potatoes—Early potatoes were  not  injured  as 
much as was anticipated, consequently the  sup­
ply  is  good  and  the  price has declined.  They 
bring 50@60e per bu.  They  will be higher in the 
near future.

Plums—There  is  a  good supply of  Lombards, 
Green Gages,  Bradshaw’s  and  several  smaller 
varieties.  Dealers hold them at $1.75^2  per  bu.

Pears—Are worth $1.25® 1.50 per bu.
Radishes—The  small  kind can be bought at 3 

doz.  for 25c.

Squash—Is worth  lc per lb.
String Beans—Wax brought 80c per bu.
Tomatoes—Are  selling  for  $1  per  bu.  The 

price is tending  lower as the supply increases.

Turnips—Washed stock brings 35@40e  per  bu.
Watermelons—Are held at  12i4@15c.
Henry  J.  Vinkemulder,

JOBBER  OP

Frilits  and Vegetables,

418,  420,  445  and  447  So.  Division

St  Grand  Rapids.

Now  is  the  time  to  begin furnishing 
your customers peaches for canning  pur­
poses.  1  quote  Early Crawfords at $1.40 
@1.50 and good  yellow  stock  at  $1  up. 
Pears, $1.25@1.50.  Plums, $1.75@2.

Send in your orders by mall or wire and 
1 assure you they will  have  our  prompt 
and  personal  attention  and  benefit  of 
lowest possible prices.

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GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

E.  M.  Stickney  has  opened  a  meat 

market at 827 South  Division street..

William  Bixby  has  sold  his  grocery 
stock and meat market,  on  the corner of 
South Ionia  and  Hall  streets  to  W.  C. 
Welch & Co.

Pegler & Swartout,  grocers  and  meat 
dealers  at  19  and  21  South  Division 
street,  have dissolved,  Lloyd  L.  Swart­
out continuing.

Henry Farwood has  opened  a  general 
store at Big Prairie.  The OIney  &  Jud- 
son Grocer  Co.  furnished  the  groceries 
and Voigt,  Herpolsheimer «& Co. supplied 
the dry goods.

It is  reported  that  M.  J.  Clark  and 
Frank Jewell will immediately  begin  the 
erection  of  a  seven-story  brick  block, 
100x100 feet in dimensions,  on  their  lots 
on  the corner of South  Ionia  and  Island 
streets,  for the  use  of  the  1.  M.  Clark 
Grocery Co.

It is  generally  admitted  on  all  sides 
that business has  languished  in this city 
for some months past.  The dullness has 
probably been less pronounced here than 
elsewhere,  but  it  has  existed  neverthe­
less.  With  the  tariff  question  settled, 
merchants  should  abandon  the  waiting 
policy  they  have  followed  for  month 
While crops are below  the  average,  yet 
there exists no  reason  why a  brisk busi­
ness should  not  be  done  from  now  on, 
Money  was never more plentiful in  bank, 
hence there will  be no  trouble  in  secur­
ing all  the  funds  needed  in  marketing 
the  crops.  Owing  to  the  conservative 
policy  which  has  prevailed  for more than 
a year,  stocks of all sorts of merchandise 
are light,  hence,  as  the  crops  begin  to 
move,  it  is  natural  to  expect  quite  a 
brisk  business in  the way  of  replenish 
ing  the  depleted  supplies.  All  that  is 
needed to inaugurate the revival is renew 
al  of  public  confidence  and  a  general 
realization  of  the  fact  that 
the  main 
causes  of  the  depression  have  been  re 
moved.

Do you sell playing cards?  Then read 
what  follows  carefully.  On  and  after 
Aug.  27  every  pack  of  playing  card 
must be  stamped  with  a  special  2-cen 
internal  revenue  stamp.  Jobbers  and 
retailers must each  furnish  to the collec 
tor of internal  revenue  for their  district 
an affidavit as to the  number of packs of 
cards  in  their  possession.  Each  pack 
must be stamped as above  as soon  as the 
tariff bill  becomes  law,  and  each  stamp 
must be cancelled  as soon  as  applied 
the  pack.  No  unstamped  cards  can  be 
sold after the tariff bill  becomes law,  ex 
cept under  a  penalty  of  $50  for  every 
pack.  These  regulations apply  to man 
ufacturers as well as to  jobbers  and  re 
tallers.  Therefore, to be strictly  “in  it, 
you must  count the  cards  you  have  on 
hand,  make  affidavit  to  it,  and procure 
from the collector of internal revenue for 
your  district  enough  2-cent  stamp: 
stamp each pack.  Affix  tl.e  stamps and 
then cancel them—or pay  Uncle Sam $50 
for every  unstamped pack of cards found 
in your possesion after Aug.  37.

Chicago capitalists are interested  in  a 
new  commercial  undertaking  in  Hono­
lulu.  A company  has  been organized to 
cultivate sugar and coffee  for  export  to 
the United States. 
It  is  understood that 
the Government  has given  over  a  large 
tract of land for the purpose.

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The  Grocery  Market.

Sugar  (Edgar)—Refined  sugars  were 
firm  at  unchanged  prices  until 
last 
Wednesday  when  Nos.  6 and 7 were  ad­
vanced  l-16c  and  Nos.  4  and  5  with­
drawn  on  account  of  over-sales.  On 
Thursday  all grades  were  advanced  J^c, 
excepting Cut  Loaf  and  Dominoes.  On 
Friday,  after  paying  3%c  for  a  very 
large block of centrifugals,  refiners with- 
rew  from 
the  market  entirely,  and 
early Saturday morning another  advance 
)£c  went  into  effect,  covering  all
grades. 
It  is reported that an  enormous 
volume  of  business  was  received  after 
refiners withdrew  from  the  market  Fri­
day, ail of which  was  declined Saturday, 
and the week closed  with  a  very  strong 
market  for  both  raw  and  refined,  with 
prospects  of  still  higher  prices  in  the 
near future.  There  is  now  practically 
no doubt as to the  tariff bill  becoming a 
law by limitation,  at  midnight  Monday, 
and it is interesting to note  the extent to 
which the increased cost contingent upon 
the imposition of  a  duty,  has  been  dis­
counted.  The  normal  basis  for  centri­
fugals is generally held to be  3c,  but the 
market  in  January  sold  down  to  2%c 
and again in April at the same  price; the 
total advance,  therefore,  has been lc and 
Saturday’s advance in  refined  scores  an 
ven advance of lc from the lowest price. 
If 2%c is to be accepted  as the  basis for 
centrifugals,  then  the  raw  market  can 
hardly  be  expected  to  advance  beyond 
«c  per  pound,  but  on  the  basis  of 
English and  Holland  offerings of refined, 
there is still  room for an  advance  of  % 
to >Vc  per  pound  on  the  manufactured 
article;  from Germany  a  lower  basis  is 
juoted for October delivery,  which  may 
have a tendency to affect  our market for 
refined  after  the  close  of  the  active 
campaign,  but for the immediate  future, 
further  advances  are  freely  predicted, 
and  the heavy consumption now in effect 
and which will naturally  increase mater­
ially  and continue  during  the  next  six 
weeks,  may so  affect  the  position  as to 
visible  supplies,  as  to  bring  about  an 
entirely  new  set  of  quotations.  The 
apparent surplus of 700,000  tons in early 
to 
estimates  has  now  been  reduced 
nearly  200,000  tons,  and 
it  is  safe  to 
predict that before the close  of  the  cam­
paign there will  be no visible  surplus of 
sugar.  The invisible suplies would have 
a marked effect  on the  situation  were it 
not for the fact that the change has come 
just  at  the  season  of  largest  consump­
tion,  and  while large dealers unquestion­
ably  have speculative holdings,  the rank 
and  file of trade  have only  fair  working 
stocks.

Pork—The Chicago  live  stock  market 
is  quiet.  Receipts  of  hogs  show a loss 
of 24,000,  as compared  with  a  week ago, 
and 29,000  as  compared  with  the  same 
period a year ago.  Business in the local 
market is on the  gain  and  was  good  for 
the  entire  week.  Mess  pork  has  ad­
vanced 50c per bbl.  Extra  Mess  beef is 
up 25c per bbl.  Cottolene  has advanced 
Me per lb.

ing will  begin  in  some  of  the  earliest 
Florida  groves  about  October  15  and 
from that time until the following March 
the luscious  Floridas  will  take  preced­
ence over all other varieties  of  orauges.
Lemons—The demand  is  rather  light 
and prices are  a little  weaker.  Most  of 
the  fruit  now  being offered in the West 
is graded from choice  to  extra choice,  as 
stocks  were  purchased 
two  or  three 
weeks ago, when fancy goods were consid­
ered  too  high  to  realize  a  profit  on. 
There  are  a  good  many  of  extremely 
small ones, 430s to  500s  being  offered at 
Eastern sales,  but,  being  too  small  and 
inferior  for  good  retail  trade,  they are 
taken  up  locally and by such outside job­
bers as  cater to  peddlers.  Fancy  Rodis 
and  Sorrento  lemons  bring  good  prices 
but average sales are small.

Bananas—Are in good  supply  at  very 
reasonable prices.  The demand continues 
fairly  good  in  spite  of 
the  fact  that 
peaches,  melons  and  vegetables  are  in 
abundance,  showing  that the  trade  con­
sider bananas as one of the standbys.

Candy—The  manufacturers  are  very 
busy now,  as the price  keeps  pace  with 
the  sugar  market  and  wholesalers  are 
placing large orders.  All  the  manufac­
turing confectioners are looking forward 
to a continued busy  season  clear  up  to 
the  holidays.

Peanuts—Remain steady at last  week’s 
quotations  for  fancy  hand  picked,  but 
shelled  goods  are a tritle  higher and an­
other advance is looked for soon.

Purely Personal.

O.  A.  Ball is spending his  leisure time 
nowadays on the  Bailey  farm,  in  Paris 
township,  superintending the  placing of 
a hydraulic ram.

Thos.  Heffernan, 

the  Baldwin  drug­
gist and grocer,  was in town  last Friday. 
He was beside himself  with  joy  over the 
recent accession to his household  in  the 
person of a  son  and  heir  and  received 
the congratulations of his  friends in  the 
trade with  undisguised  pleasure.

Wm. T.  Hess, of Perkins &  Hess,  has 
gone East.  He is at  present  in  Boston, 
and  will  visit  New  York,  Portland, 
Quebec  and  Montreal  before  returning 
home.  Mr.  Hess is not  taking  this  trip 
merely for his health,  but  is  “on  busi 
ness bent.”  He is  accompanied  by  hi: 
wife.

The  New  York  Biscuit  Co.  has  re 
ceived a check from Whitbeck Bros.,  the 
Hudson  grocers, 
bearing  handsome 
portraits of John  and  Frank  Whitbeck 
Mr.  Sears  is  so  much  pleased  to  learn 
that he has customers  as good  looking as 
himself  that  he  proposes  to  frame  the 
check,  instead  of  using  it  in  the  usual 
way.

Will  P.  Granger,  Treasurer  of  the 
Grand Rapids Packing  &  Provision  Co 
resigned  his  position  Monday  and  left 
the same evening for  Duluth,  where  he 
takes charge of the fresh meat  branch of 
Swift  &  Company.  Mr.  Granger  has 
been  connected  with 
the  Packing  Co. 
since its organization,  twelve  years  ago. 
during  which  time  be  has  made  many 
friends  who  deplore  his  departure  but 
wish  him success in his new field.  He is 
a young man of  energy  and  ability  and 
T h e   T r a d e s m a n  joins with the  trade  in 
hoping  that  he  may  make  his mark in 
the city of bis adoption.

Oranges—The  price  of  fancy  Rodis 
was so high that very few  dealers  cared 
to order them during the past month and, 
in  consequence,  arrivals  at  Eastern 
ports were more  than  sufficient  to  sup­
ply the nearby  markets.  The  result  is 
that prices are lower,  but not enough  so 
to  stimulate  a  very  brisk  demand,  as 
it is a common thing  to blame a man’
California  and  domestic  fruits  are  so
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party.  Location  first-class:  rent low: good open­
ing for a physician: new  industry  to  employ  1(H) 
hands now building  near  by.  Fred  Brundage, 
Muskegon.  Mich. 
V V  ANTED—POSITION  AS  MANAGER  OR 
v v 
clerk in dry goods or general store.  Good 
rindow  dresser.  References.  Box  AA,  New 
Hayen, Mich. 

TORE  FOR  SALE—ABOUT  »1 
rt  cash  and  balance  on  time  to  1 

594

sot

‘ 

&a8

IjlOR  SALE—CHEAP  FUR CASH.  SHINGLE- 

mill  In  first-class  repair.  40,000  capacity. 

As  CLERK  OR 
.  general  store.  Good 
Address  A.  D.  Diehm,

Holmes & DeGoit, Tnstin  Mich. 
TA7ANTED—POSITION 
tv 
book  keeper  in 
references  furnished, 
Remus, Mich.
YATANTED— FURNITURE  AND  FIXTURES 
for  a  drug  store.  Price  must  be right. 
t v 
Address C. W. Vining, Lakeview,  Mieli. 
\\ T ANTED—TO EXCHANGE STORE  BUILD 
vv 
ingin  Vassar,  Mich.,  for  stock  of  mer­
chandise worth about $1 ,600.  Store to rent.  Ad 
iress T. W., 506 Cherry St., Toledo,  Ohio.  ’ 582
YYT-ANTED—A DEALER IN EVERY COUNTY 
Send 
>  v 
for circular.  Barker  A Saunders, State Agents, 
19 and 21  Fountain St.,Grand Rapids. 
583

to handle the Peerless typewriter. 

336

four section  druggist’s drawers (only  one  year 

’ 581 

F  YOU  WANT  TO  SELL  OR  TRADE,  SEND 
3 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. 
530

Fo r  s a l e —t w o   p r e s c r ip t io n   c a s e s 
one  pair  druggist’s  prescription  scales,’ 
old), six four foot show cases, verv  cheap.  Ad- 
iress  :C.  G. Pitkin, Whitehall, Mich. 
TXTANTED- 
EVERY  D liU G G  1ST  JU S T  
1 1   startir
ng in  business and every one already 
tarted to use our system of poison labels.  What 
has cost you $15 you can now  get  for  $4.  Four­
teen  labels  dd  the  work  of  113.  Tradesman 
Company,  Grand Rapids.
"fYrANTED—sto c k  o f  g r o c e r ie s —n o t
to  exceed  $1,50°—in  exchange  for  cash 
1 1  
and real estate in a thriving Nebraska city.  Ad 
dress F. II. Clark, Ashley, Ind. 
573
f in  e   CONFECTIONERY 
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. 

F OR  SALE—a 

■   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. 

5G6

»67

N EARLY  NEW  BAR LOCK  TYPEWRITER 

for  sale  at  a  great  reduction  from  eost- 
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. 
p K E A T   OFFER—FINE  STOCK  OF  WALL 
\JT  paper,  paints,  varnishes,  picture  frames 
and room mouldings for  sale.  Reason  for  sell­
ing,  death of proprietor.  Good paying business 
in a very desirable location.  All  hew  stock, in­
voicing  from  $2,500  to  $3,000.  Address  Mrs. 
Theresa Schwind, Grand Rapids. 

564

561

A BUSINESS CHANCE—FOR  SALE  OR  E x ­

change for farm or city property in or near 
Grand Rapids, the Harris mill property  situated 
in Paris, Mecosta, Co., Michigan, on  the G. R. & 
I. Railroad, consisting of saw ana planing mills, 
sto*e and 39 acres of land, a  good  water  power. 
22 foot fall, aide track into mill, plenty of  hard­
wood timber.  This is a good chance for anyone 
wishing to engage in any kind of  mill  business. 
For further particulars address B.  W.  Barnard, 
35 Allen street, Grand  Rapids, Mich. 

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

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

IILANING  M ILL-W E  OFFER  FOR  SALE 

the North Side Planing Mill,  which is first- 
class in every  respect,  or  will  receive  proposi­
tion s to locate the business in some other  thriv­
ing town.  Correspondence and Inspection solic­
ited.  Sheridan, Boyce & Co., Manistee, Mich. 613

556

553

> 

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

Are the Times  Hard, After All.

Are the times  hard?  The average cit­
izen, if asked  this  question,  would  an­
swer in the affirmative  ninety-nine times 
out of a  hundred;  but  if  the  times  are 
hard  there  is  not much  evidence of the 
fact to be seen.  The resorts in the vicin­
ity of the city are  thronged at  all  hours 
of  the  day  and  night.  The street rail­
way  officials  say  that  traffic  to  Reed’s 
Lake,  especially,  has  been  unusually 
heavy  this  seasou.  Since  the  season 
opened the city has acquired the name of 
being one of the best base ball  towns  in 
the  country,  large crowds  attending al­
most every game.  One picnic held at the 
Lake drew fully 15,000  people and  other 
events were equally  well  patronized. 
It 
is a significant  and  gratifying  fact  that 
the  saloon  men are  about the only class 
who are complaining of any considerable 
falling off in  trade  during  the  past  six 
months,  the  people,  apparently,  either 
not spending their  money at all,  or  else 
spending it in  other and more  useful di­
rections.  The  foregoing 
is  true,  not 
only of Grand Rapids,  but,  if  the papers 
are to be believed,  of nearly  every other 
city of importance  in the  country. 
It is 
not the rich or well-to-do classes who are 
most  numerous  patrons  of  the  resorts 
and  games,  but  the  so-called  laboring 
class, who have, seemingly,enough money 
to  live  on  and  some  to  snare.  These 
facts would  appear to  indicate  that  the 
times are not as hard as has been claimed, 
while, as a matter of  fact,  they are fully 
as “hard,”  if not  harder, than they have 
been supposed to be.  How does  it  hap­
pen,  then,  that so much  money is being 
spent on  recreation  and  pleasure?  The 
reason, or  reasons,  are not  far  to  seek. 
In the first place  few  of those  who have 
work are working full time,  and so have 
more time to give to  pleasure,  and,  with 
the natural  improvidence of  their  class, 
the  little  they  have to  spare after their 
household expenses  have  been  paid,  is 
devoted to the  resorts,  ball  games or the 
theater.  Then,  it is  generally  believed 
that the worst of the  hard times  is past, 
and that, from now on,  there will be con­
tinuous  improvement. 
If  this  be  so, 
then there is  no reason  why  the  people 
should  deny  themselves  the  pleasures 
within their reach. 
It  is the  natural re­
action from the  fear—indeed  the  actual 
experience—of hard  times to the exhilir- 
ating  anticipation  of  good  times.  The 
result is  self-indulgence  ta   an  unusual 
degree.  The  consequences  of  this  im­
providence  may  be  serious  during  the 
coming  winter, 
is 
greater  improvement  than  now  seems 
probable,  there  will  be  more  idle  men 
than  there  were  last  winter.  The  re­
sources of the city for the  relief  of  dis­
tress  will  be  less,  and.  altogether,  the 
outlook  is  not  very  encouraging.  Ex­
perience does not seem to have impressed 
her lessons very deeply on the  minds  of 
the  people  who  should  have  profited 
most by her teachings.

for,  unless  there 

D a n ie l  AnnoTT.

No  Harm  Done.

some chips,  dear?
me ten blue.

Wife  (at  breakfast):  Will  you  have 
Hubby  (absentmlndedly):  Yes,  give 
Wife:  What did you say?
Hubby:  1 said give  me a few.
Where  Doctors  Agree.

Bolus on  Bibb’s case did you agree?”

“In your consultation, doctor, with Dr. 
“Only on one p o in t.”
“ A h!  W h at  w as  th a t? ”
“Our fees.”

Dry Goods Price Current.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

A d riatic...................7
Argyle  ....................   534
Atlanta AA..............  6
Atlantic  A ...............  634
“ 
H ...............   654
“ 
P ..............  5
“ 
D ...............   6
“  LL  ..............  454
Amory...................... 634
Archery  B unting...  4 
Beaver Dam  A A ..  454 
Blackstone O, 32—   5
Black Crow............. 6
Black  Rock  ..............554
Boot, AL.................  7
Capital  A  ............... 554
Cavanat V — ........ 554
Chapman cheese c l.  334
Clifton  C R ..............554
Comet......................... 654
Dwight Star.............  634
Clifton C C C ............  534

UNBLEACHED  COTTONS.Arrow Brand  4R 
••  w orldw ide.  6
“  LL.................  04
Pull Yard Wide.......654
Georgia  A ...............  6)4
Honest Width........   6
Hartford A  ..............  S
Indian Head............  654
King A  A ........ 
654
King E C ...................  5
Lawrence  L L ........   454
Madras cheese cloth 634
Newmarket  G........   534
B  ........5
N .........   6*
D D ....  B!4
X ........ 634
Noibe R ....................  5
Our Level  Best.......6
Oxford  R .................  6
Pequot......................  7
Solar.........................   6
Top of the  Heap—   7
BLEACHED  COTTONS.
Geo.  W ashington...  8
A B C ........................  854 1
Glen Mills...............  7
Amazon.... 
.......... 8
Gold  Medal............. 754
Amsburg.................. 6
Green  Ticket..........854
Art  Cambric............10
Great Falls...............  654
Blackstone  A A.......  754  1
Hope......................... 7 ¡4
Beats A ll.................. 4
Just  O ut........  434®  5
B oston....  ............. 12
King  Phillip........... 734
Cabot...........................634
OP.......754
Cabot,  34.........  
*34
Lonsdale Cambric.. 10 
Charter  Oak..............554
@ 8
Conway  W 
Middlesex.......  @  5
Cleveland  .............  6
No Name..................  754
Dwight Anchor__   8
Oak View  ...............6
shorts  8
Our Own..................  554
Edwards...................6
Pride of the W est.. .12
Empire......................  7
Farwell......................  7 541 Rosalind.....................754
Fruit of the  Loom.  8  I Sunlight...................  454
Utica  Mills  . . . .......854
Fitch ville
“  Nonpareil  ..10
First Prize............... 6
Vlnyard....................  854
Fruit of the Loom 34.  7 s
White  Horse..........  6
Falrm ount............... 454
Full V alue...............   634 
854
Cabot........................   63t|DwlghtAnchor
Farwell.................... 7*1

“  Rock.
HALF  BLEACHED  COTTONS.

..  .  ...  734|Lonsdal8.

“ 

“ 

CANTON  FLANNEL.

Bleached. 
Housewife  Q ....
634 7
R —
...........734
S 
T .............854
U............. 9>4
V ............ 10
.1034
X ............1154
X ........... 1254
Z.............1354

“ 
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“ 
“ 
“  W .... 
•* 
“ 
“ 

Unbleached
“ 

Housewife  A............554
B ........... 554
6 
654 
7 
V 
54 
34 
854 
854 
9*
10 
1054 
11 
21 
1454

C A R PE T   W A R P.

“ 

“ 

Peerless, white........17  ¡Integrity  colored... 18
colored__19  ¡White Star................ 17
Integrity...................18541 
“  colored  .19
Nameless..................20
Hamilton..................  8
___....25
...................9
............2754
 
............30
GG  Cashmere........ 20
............. 3254
Nameless  ................16
....35
.................18

DRESS  GOODS.

1054

•• 
“  

•• 

CORSETS.

11 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 
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“ 

PRINTS.

“ 
“ 
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“ 
“ 
“ 

CORSET  JEANS.

84 50
Coraline................... 19 501Wonderful 
Schilling’s ...............  9 00 Brighton....................4 75
Davis  Waists  __   9 00 Bortree’s ................  9 00
Grand  R apids........  4  50|Abdomlnal............15  00
Armory....................   634|Nanmkeagsatteen..  754
Androscoggin.......... 754 Rockport.................... *54
Biddeford..............  6  ¡Conestoga.................. 754
Brunswick...............   6541 Walworth  ................634
Berwick fancies 
Allen turkey  reds..  554
554
Clyde  Robes  ...
robes............554
Charter Oak fancies  4 
pink a  purple 554
DelMarine cashm's.  554 
b u ffs............  554
mourn’g  554 
pink  checks.  554
Eddystone fancy...  554 
staples  ........   5
chocolat  554
shirtings 
..  334 
rober__ 554
American  fancy—   5* 
sateens..  554 
American Indigo  ..  454 
Hamilton fancy.  ...  554 
American shirtings.  334 
staple —   554 
Argentine  G rays...  6 
Manchester  fancy..  554 
Anchor Shirtings...  4 
new era.  554 
“  —   6
Arnold 
Merrimack D fancy.  5)4 
...  6 
Arnold  Merino 
Merrtm’ck shirtings.  4 
long cloth B.  9
“ 
Repp furn .  854
“ 
“  C.  754
Pacific fancy...........554
“ 
century cloth  7
robes.............  6
“  gold seal.......1054
Portsmouth robes...  654 
“  green seal TR 1054 
Simpson mourning..  534
“  yellow  seal.. 1054
greys.........534
“ 
serge..............1154
solid black.  534 
“  T u rk b /re d .. 1054 
Washington Indigo.  654 
“ 
“  Turkey robes..  7H 
“  India robes—   754 
“  plain T k y  X 34  854 
“ 
“  ottoman  Tur­
key red  ...................654
Martha Washington
Turkey red 34.........754
Martha Washington
Turkey red........... 954
Rlverpoint robes....  554
Windsor fancy........ 654
Indigo  blue..........1054
Harmony...................  454
A C A ......................1154
Amoskeag AC A ....1154
Pemberton AAA— 16
Hamilton N  ............  7
York..........................1054
D ................8
Swift River............. 754
Awning.. 11
Pearl R iver.............12
Farm er........................8
W arren.....................1254
First P rise...............1054
Conostoga  ............. 16
Lenox M ills............ 18
Atlanta,  D ............... 63i|Stark  A .....................8
Boot...........................634 No  Name...................754
Clifton, K 
................7  ¡Top of Heap.............  9

red and  orange...  6
“  oil bine  . —   6
*•  “  green 
..  6
“  Foulards 
...  554 
“ 
7
“  “  X  ... 
9!
“  “ 44  ....  10
“  3-4XXXX 12
“ 
Cocheco fancy........ 5
madders...  5 
“ 
“  XXtw ills..  5 
“ 
solids........ 5

Ballon solid black..
colors.
Bengal blue,  green, 
Berlin aollds............  554

COTTON  DRILL.

gold  ticket

“  X...10

TICKINGS.

red 34 

“ 
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“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

DEMINS.

“ 
“ 

Amoskeag................12
9 o s.......14
brown .14
Andover  ................. 1154
Beaver Creek  A A... 10 
B B...  9
CC....
Boston MfgCo.  br..  7 

“ 
“ 
“ 
bine  854 
“  d a  twist  1054 

Columbian XXX br.10 
XXX  bl.19

“ 
“ 

Columbian  brown.. 12
Everett, blue......... 1254
brow n........1254
Haymaker blue.........7M
brow n...  734
Jeffrey.......................1154
Lancaster  ................1234
Lawrence, 9 o s.........1354
No. 220___13
No. 250...1154
No.280  ...1054

“ 
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" 
GINGHAMS.

“ 

Amoskeag................  5
“  Persian dress  65«
Canton ..  7
“ 
AFC........   854
“ 
“ 
Teazle.. .1054 
“ 
Angola.. 1054 
Persian..  7 
“ 
Arlington staple —   654 
Arasapha  fancy 
434 
Bates Warwick dres  754 
staples.  6
Centennial................1054
Criterion 
...............  1054
Cumberland staple.  554
Cumberland.............. 5
Essex..........................454
Elfin........................ 
Everett classics  —   854
Exposition...............7 **
Glenarie..................   634
Glenarven..................634
Glenwood........   ....  754
Hampton.................... 5
Johnson Chalon cl 
54 
Indigo blue  954 
zephyrs — 16

“ 
“ 

Lancaster,  staple...  5 
fancies ....  7 
“ 
“  Normandie  7
Lancashire...............  6
Manchester..............  534
Monogram................. 654
Normandie.............  7
Persian.....................7
Renfrew Dress.........754
Rosemont...................654
Slatersvllle..............6
Somerset.................. 7
Tacoma  .....................754
Toll  duN ord.......... 854
W abash...................... 754
seersucker..  754
W arwick.................  6
Whlttenden.............   8
heather dr.  754 
indigo blue  9 
Wamsutta staples...  634
Westbrook...............   8
....................10
Windermeer............ 5
York  ........................634

“ 
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“ 

“  

  754

GRAIN  BAGS.

Amoskeag..............  .13  ¡Georgia  ...................1354
Stark...........................17 
American.................. 13 

........................ .
|  ........................

THREADS.

Clark’s Mile E nd....45  IBarbour s ................95
Coats’. J. A P ........... 45 Marshall’s 
................90
Holyoke....................22541

No.

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

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

KNITTING  COTTON.
White.  Colored.
38 No.  14...
“ 
16...
39
40
“  18...
“  20...
41
CAMBRICS.
Slater........................  4  Edwards 
...............  4
White S ta r ............  4  Lockwood.................4
Kid Glove  ...............4  Wood’s ....................   4
Newmarket  ............  4  Brunswick 
............  4

White.  Colored
42
43
44
45

...37
...38
...89
...40

BED  FLANNEL.

Firem an...................3254 IT W 
.......................»54
.......................... 3254
Creedmore...............2754 F T  
35
Talbot XXX............ 30  J  R F, XXX 
Nameless.................275i|Buckeye  .................. 3254

MIXED  FLANNEL.

DOMBT  FLANNEL.

Red A Blue,  plaid. .40  Grey 8 R W ............. 1754
Union  R ...................2254 Western W  .............. 1854
Windsor...................1854 D R  P ........................ 1854
6 oz W estern...........20  Flushing XXX......... 2354
Union  B ..................22541 Manitoba..................2354
“ 
Nameless.......8  @  9541 
.......  9  @1054
1234
....... 
“ 
.......  854@10  I 
Black.
Brown.
Slate
Brown.  Black.
1054
1054
IO54
9M
1154
1154
1154
1054
12
12
12
1154
1254 20 
20
20
DUGK6.
.1054 
.1254 
•  1354 
.1354 
.1254

» 
Slate.
954
1054
1154
1254
Severen, 8 0* ..........   954  West  Point, 8 os
Maylana, 8oz..........1054 
10 o*
“ 
Greenwood, 754 os..  954 Raven, lOoz.........
Greenwood, 8 o s— 1154 Stark 
-----
Boston, 8 oz............. 1054 Boston, 10 01......

CANVASS  AND  PADDING.
954 
1054 
1154 
1254

“ 

WADDINGS.

“ 
“ 
•• 

8ILEBIA8.

White, dos...............25  IPer bale, 40 dos  .
Colored,  dos............20  ¡Colored  “ 
.......
Slater, Iron Cross. .  8  1 

Red Cross....  9
B est..............1054
Best  A A ......1254
L ................................754
G ................................ 854
Corttcelll, doz......... 86  (Cortlcelll  knitting,

S3  SO 
.  7  50
Pawtucket................1054
Dundle.....................   9
Bedford.................... 1054
Valley  City..............I054
K K ............................1054

SEWING  BILK.

per 54os  ball  .......30

tw ist,dos.  40 
50yd,doz..40  I 
HOOKS AND ETEB—PER GROSS.
“ 
« 

No  1 Bl’k A White..10  INo  4 Bl’k A White.,15
•• 
.20
“ 
.25
No 2-20, M C........60  INO 4—15  J   354.........40
’•  3—18, S C ...........45  I
No  2 White A Bl’k.,12  INo  8 White A Bl’k..20 
“ 
.28
“ 
..26

.1 2  
" 8  
..12  I  “  10 

FINS.

"  
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4 
6 

“ 
“ 

a 
3 

COTTON  TAPE.
..15 
“  10 
“  12 
-18 
s a f e t y   ran. 
....28 
|N o 3 ..
NEEDLES—FEB  M.

A. Jam es...................1 401 Steamboat................   40
Crowely’s................ 1  85 Gold Eyed................ 1 GO
M arshall's............... 1  00| American.................. 1  00
5—4....  1 75  6—4... 
IS—4 —  1  65  6—4. ..2 30

TABLE  OIL  CLOTH.

OOTTONTWINES.

Cotton Sail Twine. .28
Crow n...................... 12
Dom estic.................1854
A nchor.....................16
B ristol......................13
Cherry  Valley.........15
I XL...  ...............1854
Alabama.....................634
Alamance.................15»
A ugusta................... 754
A r sapha.................  6
Georgia.....................634
G ran ite....................  534
Haw  R iver..............  6
Haw  i ......................   6

7‘ 

N ashua......................14
Rising 8tar 4-ply__ 17
3-ply.... 17
North Star................20
Wool Standard 4 plyl754 
P ow hattan.............. 16

Mount  Pleasant__ 654
Oneida......................  5
Pry m o n t.......  .......  534
Randelman.............   6
Riverside  ...............  534
Sibley  A .................... 634
----- 734
Otis checks. 

PLAID  OSNABURGB

No 2.

.38

V-  ;   *

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S E B O S !

Everything  in seeds is kept by  us— 

Clover, Timothy,

Hungarian,  Millet,

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

If you have  Beans to  ►'ell, 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.  LiM 8RERUXG0,^W dVIt8:

GRAND  RAFIDS,  MICH.

EATON.  LYON & CO.

NEW  STYLES  OF

20 &  22  Monroe  St.,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

Avoid  the
Cilrse  of  Credit 
C O U P O N

BY  USING

#

B O O K S

THREE  GRADES:

Tradesman,
Superior,
Universal.

Manufactured only by

TRADESMAN  COITPANY,

Grand Rapids,  Mich.

WOMEN.

Are  credited  with  pur­
chasing  eighty-five  per  cent, 
of  all  goods consumed in  the 
household  or  used  by 
the 
family.  The observing mer 
chant  cannot  fail 
to  have 
noted  that  the  woman  who 
once  uses  ATLAS  SOAP 
never  takes  any  other  there 
after.  Manufactured only by

H ENRY  PASSOLT,

SAGINAW,  MICH.

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An  evening  paper 

Government  Ownership  of  Railroads.
in  this  city,  in 
speaking of  the  government  ownership 
of  railroads  and  telegraphs,  calls  the 
idea  utopian,  which  means,  of  course, 
that  it  is  impracticable.  Apart  alto­
gether  from the question of its desirabil­
ity, no reasonable man  can  fail to see its 
practicability at a glance,  the only  diffi­
culty  being  the  cost  to  the  country  of 
acquiring the various  railroad  and  tele­
graph properties.  But even this obstacle 
could easily be overcome  by the  issuing 
of bonds,  the  charges  for  service  being 
fixed at a figure which,  while  vastly  re­
lieving  the  country,  would  in  a  short 
time enable  the  government  to  redeem 
the bonds.  The postal service  is  in the 
hands of the government,  and  few  will 
claim that it  is  not  efficiently  and  eco­
nomically conducted,  while,  at  the same 
time, the tendency has  been  toward  the 
reduction of rates. 
It may be  said  that 
the expenditures exceed the receipts,  but 
this is due to the expansion of the service 
and  to the excessive cost of carrying  the 
mails on the frontier.  The postal service 
of this country is  the  best aud  cheapest 
in the world,  and there can  be  uo  ques­
tion that this is due to the  fact  that  the 
postal officers are responsible  directly to 
the people,  who are the governing power. 
It cannot be proved,  through  it  is  often 
asserted,  that there is any  more crooked­
ness in connection  with  the  conduct  of 
the postal  service  than  there  is  in  any 
private  business  enterprise.  But  how 
about  the  railroads  as  at  present  con­
ducted?  Does anyone think  that govern­
ment ownership  would  result in  greater 
crookedness  than 
there  is  at  present? 
Hardly; 
indeed  one  might  reasonably 
hope  for  improvement  in  many  direc­
tions.  The  government  has 
several 
times been compelled to step  in between 
the public and the  railroads for  the pro­
tection of the former; the Interstate Com­
merce Act was passed to  prevent  unjust 
discrimination 
favor  or 
against,  any  section. 
It  is  safe  to say 
that if the  Government  owned  the  rail­
roads  the  rates  would soon be arranged 
with  absolute  equity.  The  one  reason 
why  wages  have  been  reduced  on  rail­
roads  is  because  the falling  off in  busi­
ness  had  cut  into  the  profits. 
If  they 
were owned by the  Government it would 
not be a question of profit but of econom 
ical administration and  efficient  service, 
No one blames  the railroad  corporations 
for getting as good a  return  for the capi 
tal  invested  as  possible,  but  the  com 
merce of the country is  dependent  upon 
the adequacy and  efficiency of  the trans 
portation facilities,  and to a considerable 
extent upon  the  cost  of  transportation 
All  the people are vitally concerned  with 
this  question,  just  to  the  same  extent 
and for the  same  reason  that  they  are 
with the postal  business  of the  country 
and  they  have the same  right to control 
the  one  that  they  have  to  control  the 
other.  The New  York Sun fears  a mil 
itary despotism if the  Government  were 
to acquire control of the railroad and  tel 
egrapb  business  of the country and  say: 
it would  result in  the  enslaving  of  the 
employes  of  the  Government.  Are  the 
postal and other employes of the Govern 
ment slaves?  Is is not true that  a  posi­
tion  under the Government  is considered 
very  desirable?  There 
is  not  a  whit 
more danger of the  railroad  employes of 
the people becoming enslaved than there 
is of the postal  employes and  no one has 
ever  thought  of  them  as  slaves.  The

rates  in 

in 

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

Base

METALS.
PIG TIN.

T H E   MICHIG-AJSr  T R A D E S M A N .

Sun has discovered a mare’s nest, that is 
all. 
It is even doubtful if it meant what 
it said.  Something must be done for the 
protection of the people  against  the  ex­
tortion  of  the  railroads  and  telegraph 
companies  The  condition  is  well-nigh 
unbearable. 
It is  not asserted  here that 
Government ownership  is the  best  rem- 
eds. 
It  is  proposed  as  a remedy,  how­
ever, and,  so far,  is  the  only  one  men­
tioned. 
If its  opponents  have  a  better 
one  they  should  bring  it  out  into  the 
light where it can  be seen.

Wrought Boose  Pin............................................   40
Wrought  Table...................................................  49
Wrought Inside Blind__   , 
...........................  41
Wrought  Brass................................................. 
75
70*10
Blind,  Clark's........................................ 
Blind,  Parker’s ................................................. 70&10
Blind, Shepard’s 
70

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

Ordinary Tackle, list April  1892..................60*10

G rain.................................................................. 41*10

CRADLES.

CROW BARS.

Cast Steel................................................per lb 
Ely's 1-10................................................per m 
Hick’s  C. F
“ 
G. D .........................................................  
Musket 
......................................... 
“ 

CAPS.

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

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

CABTRineBS.

chisels. 

A Valuable  Customer.

•Well,  have  you  any  cambric 

It  was in a country  store.  The  clerk 
was seated  near  the  stove  reading  the 
morning  paper  when  the  door  opened 
and an old lady stepped in.
“Good morning,” said  the  clerk,  as he 
rose,  "what cau I do for  you this  morn­
ing?”
“ Have you any cotton this color?”  she 
asked.  After  hunting  through  several 
boxes, the clerk  replied  in  the  negative.
this 
color?”  she  asked,  producing  a scrap of 
cloth of the desired shade.
A  search  on  several  upper  shelves 
produced some  of  the  exact  color,  and 
the  clerk  felt  sure  that  no  complaint 
could  be  made about it.
lady, 
“haven’t you anything thicker?”

“It’s  too  thin,”  said  the  old 
“Nothing.”
"Then let me  see  what  you  have  for 
"What size,  please?”
She did  not  know,  so  the  clerk  pro­
duced  several  pairs  of  various  sizes 
which  he  gave  to  the  customer.  Ten 
minutes later,  having  tried ou each pair, 
she decided  that  none  fitted  well,  and 
the clerk plunged  his  arm into  the  box 
for  more.  At  last  a  pair  was  found 
which fitted perfectly.
"How  much  are  they?”  queried  the 
purchaser.
“Sixty-five cents,”  was the  reply.
“ Haven’t you any cheaper ones?”
“Some  for  60,  but 

these  are  much 
better,”  said  the  clerk, glancing  at  the 
clock and sighing.

rubbers.”

“Let me see them.”
Fifteen minutes later  a  pair  was pro­
duced  which  fitted so well  that  even the 
old lady was pleased.
“How much did you  say these  were?” 
she asked.
“Sixty cents.”
“Well,”  she said,  hesitating,  “I  don’t 
know as I  want to buy  any this morning. 
1 thought that 1  would  like  to  know  if 
you had  any  that  fitted  me,  for  I  may 
need a pair in a couple of mouths.  How­
ever,  1  suppose  1  ought  to  buy  some­
thing to pay you for  your  trouble.  The 
clerk’s face lighted up.
“Give  me  a  postal  card,"  said  the 
woman.  The  card  was  produced  and 
the lady departed-,  while  the  clerk went 
back to his  seat and spent a  half hour in 
trying  to  calculate  his  profit  on  that 
postal card.

Socket F irm er.................................................. .75410
Socket Framing  ................................................75&10
Socket Corner....................................................75*10
Socket Slicks....................................................75&IO
Butchers’ Tanged  Firm er..............................  
40

Curry,  Lawrence’s .......................................... 
H otchkiss.........................................................  

40
25

White Crayons, per  gross...............12©12i4 dls. 10

combs. 

CHALK.
COPPER.

“ 

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

DRILLS. 

dls.

28
26
28
23
22
50
50
50

DRIPPING PAMS.

6V4
Small sixes, ser p o u n d ...................................  
06
Large sixes, per pound...................................  
Com. 4  piece, 8 In.............................. do*, net 
75
40
Corrugated................................................dls 
Adinstable.................................................di*.  40*10

ELBOWS.

EXPANSIVE BITS. 

dls.

files—New List. 

Clark’s, small, S18;  large, 826........................ 
30
Ives’, 1, 818 :  2, 824 ;  3,830  ............................... 
25
Dlsston’s .......................................................60*10-10
New American  ...........................................60*10-10
Nicholson’s .....................................................60*10- 0
Heller’s ..............................................................  
50
Heller’s Horse Rasps  .....................................  
60

dls.

GALVANIZED IRON.

15 

12 

13 

dls.

28
17

LOCKS—DOOR. 

Discount, 60 -10

50
55
55
55
55
70
55
55
55
55

knobs—New List. 

14 
GAUGES. 

Nos.  16  to  20;  22  and  24;  25  and  26;  27 
16 
List 
dls.
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s ................  
 
dls.
Door, mineral, jap. trim m ings...................... 
Door,  porcelain, jap. trimmings..................  
Door, porcelain, plated trim m ings.............  
Door,  porcelain, trimmings........................... 
Drawer  and  Shutter, porcelain....................  
Russell *  Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new list  .......... 
Mallory, Wheeler  *   Co.’s ..............................  
Branford’s .......................................................  
Norwalk’s .........................................................  
Adze Eye  ............. .. .816.00, dls. 60-10
Hunt Bye  ......................................815.00, dls. 60-10
H unt's..........................................818.50, dls. 20*10.
50
Speiry *  Co.’s, Post,  handled........................ 
40
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s ....................................... 
“  P. S. *  W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleable*__  
46
■*  Landers,  Ferry *  Cls rk’s ................... 
40
“  Enterprise 
......................................... 
80
Stebbln’s  Pattern..............................................60*10
Stebbln’s Genuine............................................ 66*10
Enterprise, self-measuring............................. 
25
Advance over  base,  on  both  Steel  and Wire.

molasses gates. 

mauls. 
mills. 

dls.
dls.

NA ILS

dls.

Use Tradesman Coupon Bonks.

Hardware Price Current.

T h e se   p rices  a re   fo r cash,  buyers,  w ho 
p a y   p ro m p tly   an d   b u y   in   fu ll  pack ag es.

AUGURS AND BITS. 

dis.

“ - 
• 
* 

b a r r o w s. 

Snell’s ..............................................................   60*10
Cook’s  ............................................................... 
40
Jennings’, genuine..........................................  
25
Jennings’,  Imitation  ........................................50*10
First Quality, 8. B. Bronze............................. 8650
D.  B. Bronze  ............................   ix,  00
S.B .S. Steel.............................  7  50
D. B. Steel................................   13  50
Railroad.................................................812 00  14 00
Garden  ....................................................   Det  30 00
dls.
Stove.................................................. 
50*10
Carriage new list 
75*10
......................... 
Plow.................................................................... 40*10
Sleigh shoe  ......................................................  
70
Well,  plain  .......................................................8850
W ell,swivel...........................................................   4 00
dlB.
Cast Loose pin. flgnred..........................  
70*10
W rjoght Narrow, bright Oast joint  40  — 60*10

BUTTS, CAST. 

BUOKRTS.

b o l t s. 

dls.

 
 

dlS.

PLANES. 

Barren %.............................................  
1  75
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fan cy ...................................   ©40
Solota  Bench................................................. 
©50
Sandusky Tool  Co.’s, fancy...........................  ©40
Bench, first quality..........................................   ©40
Stanley Rale and  Level Co.’s  wood............ 50*10
Fry,  Acme.................................................dls.60—10
Common,  polished....................................dls. 
70
Iron and  Tinned..............................................50—10
Copper Rivets and B urs................................  50—10

r iv e t s. 

PANS.

d ls .

PATENT PLANISHED EBON.

“A” Wood’s patent planished. Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
“B” Wood’s  pat. planished, nos. 26 tc 27...  9 20 

Broken packs mo per pound extra.

5
65
35
60

se
25

dls.

dls.

list 60

HAMMERS.

.dia.  2*
Maydole  *  Co.’s .....................................  
dia.  25
Kip’S............................................................  
Yerkes A Plumb’s ....................................  dia. 40*10
80c 
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel....................... 
Blacksmith's Solid Cast  Steel  Hand.  . .80c40*10 
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2, 3 ................................. dls.60*ic
State...............................................per do*, net, 2 50
Screw Hook  and  Strap, to 12  In. 4tf  14  and
3*
* ............ ............. net
10
% ............ ............. net
8^
V ........... ..............net
7Vt
%............ ............. net
7*
............dls.

HTNGES.

HANGERS. 

dls.

 

WIRE goods. 

•  HOLLOW WARE.

levels. 
ROPES.

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS.

Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track__ 50A1C
Champion,  anti friction................................  60*10
Kidder, wood tra c k ......................................... 
40
Pots..................................................................... 60*16
Kettles..............................................................   60*10
Spiders  .............................................................. 60&1C
Gray enameled................  
40*10
Stamped  Tin Ware..............................   .new Hat T3
Japanned Tin W are........................................  
26
2t
Granite Iron W are....................... new 11s 
dis.
B lig h t....................................................   70*10*10
Screw  Eyes................................................. 70*10*10
70*10*10
Hook’s ........................... 
Gate Hooks and Eyes........................ 
70*10*10
dls.7o
Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s .......................
Sisal, a  Inch aud larg er................................ 
7
Manilla..............................................................  01
dls.
Steel and Iron...................................................7i&10
Try and Bevels................................................. 
60
M itre.................................................................  
20
Com.  Smooth.  Com.
82 50
2 69
2 70
2 80
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
55
“  ro

SHEET IRON.

SqUARES. 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

 

Discount, 10.

SASH WEIGHTS.

dls.

saws. 

traps. 

H and............................................ 

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

Solid Eyes................................................ per ton 825
20
70
SO 
80
30
Steel, Game........................................................60*10
Oneida Community, Newhonse’s ................. 
35
Oneida Community, Hawley * Norton’s __  
70
Mouse,  choker....................................... 18c per do*
Mouse, delusion.................................. 81.50 per dos
dls.
Bright Market..................................................   70
Annealed M arket..........................  
70—10
Coppered Market..............................................8C—10
Tinned Market.................................................  62H
Coppered  Spring  Steel...................................  
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized  .............................  2 70

WIRE. 

dla.

“ 

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

HORSE NAILS.
 

dls. 

WRENCHES. 

Au  Sable....................  
40*10
dls.  05
Pntnam .............................................. 
Northwestem....................  ............ 
dls. 10*10
dlS.
Baxter’s  Adjustable, nickeled...................... 
30
Coe’s  G enuine................................................. 
50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,......................  75
Coe’s  Patent, malleable........ ..........................75*10
dls.
Bird Cages.........................  
50
 
Pumps, Cistern............................................ 
75*10
Screws, New List....................................... 70&P *10
Casters, Bed  a  .d Plate............................. 50*10*10
Dampers, American......................................... 
40
Forks, hoes, rakes  and all steel goods........ 65*10

MISCELLANEOUS. 

 

ZINC.

260
28c

6 Mi
7

SOLDER.

Pig  Large...............................'......................... 
Pig Bars............................................................. 
Duty:  Sheet, 2}4c per pound.
680 pound  casks............................................ 
Per  pound........................................................ 
* © H .........................................................................16
Extra W iping......................................................  15
The  prices  of  the  many other  qualities  of
solder In the market Indicated by nrivate brands
vary according to composition.
ANTIMONY.
Cookson..............-............................per  pound
Hsllett’s .......................................... 
13
TIN— MXLTN GRADE.
10x14IC,Charcoal............  ..............................1750
7  50 
14x20 IC,
10x14 IX, 
9 25 
9  25
14x20 IX, 

........................................
........................................
Each additional X on this grade, 81.75.

“ 

” 
“ 
TIN—ALLA WAY a  BADE.
“ 
“ 
“ 

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

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

Each additional X on this grade 81.50.

ROOFING PLATES

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“ Worcester 
“ 
“ 
“  Allaway  Grade.................  
" 
“ 
“ 
BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE.

14x20 IC, 
14x20 IX, 
20x28 IC, 
14x2010, 
14x20 IX, 
20x28 IC, 
20x28 IX, 
14x28 IX ...................................................................814 06
14x31  IX..................................................................  15 00
| S “ g ; f SrN , ? - |Bo,.1,enl- } p « p o11nd 

...........................  6  5u
.............................  8 50
...........................   18  50
6  00
7  50
12  50
15  50

10 00

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In 

of Nicaragua would  permit the  prosecu­
tion of  the  enterprise.  But  the  money 
was soon  spent  and  no  more  could  be 
secured on any terms.  A  vigorous effort 
was made to have Congress  take  hold of 
the scheme and give it  a  national  char­
acter.  There were two great  difficulties 
in the way.  Congress,  in  the first place, 
while  willing  to  accord  sympathy  and 
sentiment,  would  give  no  substantial 
support. 
the  next  place,  such  a 
scheme,  undertaken  with  the  money  or 
credit  of  the  Government,  would  have 
committed the United  States to the  pro­
tection  and  maintenance  of  an  interest 
outside  its  own  territory  limits.  That 
is against the policy of  this  country. 
It 
will not protect its own honor  or its own 
citizens  when they  are  attacked  in  for­
eign countries. 
It  will  only  defend  it­
self against invasion.

'Vhm  M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N .
eral  oil  to  the  value  of  $1,809,437, the 
trade  in  the  latter  commodity  being 
wholly  controlled  by  the  Standard  Oil 
company.  During  the  past  July  $292,- 
943  worth  of  cotton  cloth  and $124,864 
worth  of  mineral  oil  were  shipped  to 
China from New  York  City.  These  fig­
ures were below the average at  that  port 
for the time of year,  so  that  the  figures 
for 1893 probably  make the fairest show­
ing as to the extent of  our  export  trade 
with China.  Thus  far this trade has not 
been  affected  by the war,  and it may not 
be,  for the reason that  nearly  all  goods 
are  landed  at  treaty  ports,  which  are 
likely to remain open.  The  demand  for 
American  cottons  may  increase because 
the production  of China’s own mills may 
be curtailed.  Our  exports  to Japan the 
past year were  valued  at  $3,195,494,  of 
which mineral oil amounted to $1,724,972, 
tobacco $232,662 and flour $193,945.  There 
is little  market  now  for  American  cot­
tons in the island empire,  as - its  people 
not  only  manufacture  enough  of  these 
goods  for  their  own  use,  but  actually 
have been exporting  considerable  quan­
tities to China.

This insured  the  failure of  the  Nica­
ragua Canal. 
It is bankrupt, and  at the 
end of a period,  whose  close  is  near  at 
the  franchises 
hand,  it must  soon  lose 
which  it  holds  from 
the  Nicaraguan 
Government. 
In  view  of  the  necessity 
for getting money for the  work  the  pro­
moters  of  the  enterprise  dropped  the 
patriotic 
feature  with  which  it  had 
started  and  have  sailed  for  Europe  to 
beg  money.  The  Toronto,  Canada, 

the case,  and one which  has proved very 
annoying to the police  force, is  the  put­
ting of the number of the permit  on  the 
wagon,  as  has  been  done  by 
two  of 
those named above—Klaasen  and Gilsen. 
Both the numbers used by these  men  are 
also the numbers of  two  licenses  which 
have  been  regularly  issued  and  appear 
on other wagons.  The police  have been 
annoyed and exasperated  almost  beyond 
endurance by this doubling  of  numbers, 
but  they  can  do  nothing.  This  is  an 
outgrowth  of  the  system  which  allows 
the  granting  of  permits. 
It  is  a  most 
pernicious system and  one which should 
find no place in the practice of  the city’s 
executive.  Another  case  which  has 
given the police  considerable  trouble  is 
that of the man  Shook,  who has  a  fruit 
stand  on the corner of  Monroe  aud  Ot­
tawa streets.  He has claimed for months 
to  have a permit,  hut,  on  being  pressed 
last  week  to  produce  it,  acknowledged 
he  had  none,  but  said  the  Mayor  had 
promised him  one.  A  summons  was  is­
sued for him,  but  before  it  was  served 
he had applied to President  Campbell,  of 
the Common Council (Mayor Fisher being 
out of town)  who  told detective  Mooney 
that he would give Shook a  permit  good 
until  the  Mayor’s  return.  But  Shook 
was arrested,  pleaded guilty  and was re­
leased  on  payment  of  cost.  Though 
warned by Judge Haggerty  that  he  was 
liable to re-arrest if he did  not stop sell­
ing,  he at  once  resumed  business.  The 
first  point  desired  to  be  made  here  is 
that  Alderman  Campbell  claimed 
the 
right  to  issue  permits  just  as  Mayor 
Fisher  has  done.  Well,  why  not? 
If 
one  man  has  the  right  to  override  the 
law and suspend its  operation,  why  has 
not another  man  the  same  right?  The 
fact that one man is  Mayor  of  the  city, 
while the other is  only  an  alderman,  is 
without  significance.  The  city  charter 
nowhere  gives  the  Mayor  the  right  to 
suspend the operation  of  any  ordinance 
or resolution passed by the  Council.  On 
the contrary,  by  resolution  the  council 
last  year  distinctly  affirmed 
that  the 
Mayor had no right  to  issue  permits  in 
defiance of the  law.  Though  that  reso­
lution was not reaffirmed  by the  present 
Council,  the City  Attorney  has  given  it 
as his opinion that  it  persists and  is  in 
force until recinded by  the  body  which 
adopted  it.  That  being  the  fact,  the 
granting of permits is not only a defiance 
of the law,  but it shows,  also a  contempt 
of  the  Council  which  passed  the  law. 
The  permits  are  not  worth  the  paper 
they are written on if it  were not for the 
respect  with  which the office  of  Mayor 
is regarded,  and,  if no other  way can  be 
found to put a stop  to  the  practice,  the 
matter  had  better  be  taken 
into  court 
aud decided.  Perhaps T h e  T r a d e s m a n  
misunderstood Mayor  Fisher  last  week, 
but he was understood  to say  that  only 
two of  the  permits  had  been  renewed. 
At  the  same  time  be  claimed 
to  have 
issued less  than  his  predecessor,  Mayor 
Stuart. 
It  is  not  a  question  of  how 
many are issued  but  of whether  he  has 
the right to issue any.  T h e T r a d e s m a n  
does not believe he has such a right, and, 
moreover,  doubts 
the  expediency  of 
granting permits  although  the  right  to 
grant  them  were  not  in  question.  No 
attempt has ever  been  made,  either  by 
the Mayor  himself  or  by  anyone  on his 
behalf,  to  show  upon  what the  claim to 
the right to grant  permits  is  based. 
It 
is a groundless assumption,  which a man 
of  Mayor Fisher’s good  sense  ought  not 
to entertain,  for,  while  it  may do  credit 
to his heart. It is a  base  libel  upon  his 
head.

W EDNESDAY  AUGUST  29.
NO  NICARAGUA  CANAL  IN 

CENTURY.

The  American  people  are  apt 

in 

THIS
to  be  Globe, commenting on  the fact,  says:
British diplomacy seems to have chosen 
its 
the  present  moment  to  make  good 
foothold 
the  Central  American 
isthmus.  The people of France  are  dis­
traught with domestic  troubles,  and  are 
more concerned  about  the fight with an­
archy now in progress than  the  comple­
tion of the Panama Canal.  The financial 
panic  in the United  States  has  brought
with it disaster  to the  Nicaragua  Canal 
Company,  which,  it  was  hoped,  would 
succeed  in holding its ground,  and  thus 
retain the control of the enterprise in the 
Republic.  The  announcement  is  now 
made that the chief financial agent of the 
company  has  sailed  for  Europe  to  sell 
the canal  to an English  syndicate.  That 
abundance of money  will be forthcoming 
in England  to  complete  the  canal  and 
link the  Atlantic  and  Pacific,  provided 
British  control is once secured,  few  who 
have followed the history of the  Panama 
and Nicaragua  canals  will coubt.  With 
a cordial  understanding  between  Great 
Britain and Nicaragua,  and the purchase 
of the assets of  the  bankrupt  American 
Canal Company,  now  in  progress,  there 
seems  to  be  little doubt that the British 
Foreign Office  is playing  for the  control 
of what,  when completed,  will be a high­
way  of  the  world’s  commerce  scarcely 
less important than the Suez Canal.  The 
completion of  the  Nicaragua Canal  will 
also  have  the  result  of heading off  the 
Panama project.
In spite of the sanguine  hopes  of  the 
Olobe  the  prospects  of  the  canal  pro­
moters  are not  bright.  England has the 
Suez Canal,  with all  the  advantages  for 
commerce  and war it gives.  An  Ameri­
can interoceanic canal  would only  dam­
age the business  of  the  African-Asiatic 
route.  England would not  wish to have 
an American route  constructed  and con­
trolled  by  any  other  great  nation,  but 
canal  projects  through 
the  American 
isthmus are not in favor,  and  so England 
can  wait  The American  canai  will not 
be built in these  last  few  years  of  the 
nineteenth 
anybody’s 
money. 

century  with 
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

carried  away  with  enthusiasm  concern-1 
ing  matters  which  happen  to  please 
them.  They  are  immensely  generous 
with  their  sentimental  and  sympathetic 
outbursts,  but  too  often  it  is  the  case 
that after the  babbling  foam  and  froth 
have  subsided  it  is  seen  that  no  prac­
tical  results  remain.

This  sort  of  thing  has  been  many 
in  a  variety  of 
times  demonstrated 
ways. 
It is particularly  so in the build­
ing  of  monuments  to  great  men.  The 
project is started with a  mighty  flourish 
of trumpets.  When some moderate  sum 
of money  is mentioned excited sentimeu- 
tilists  ridicule  its  smallness,  and  pro­
claim  that  ten  times  as  much  will  be 
readily  given.  The  enthusiasm  soon 
passes away,  aud  the result is that there 
is  no  money,  and,  by  consequence,  no 
monument. 
It  required  a  century  to 
build a grand monument  to Washington, 
and the major part of the money  was paid 
out  of  the  National  Treasury. 
If  the 
work had been  left  to popular  subscrip­
tion the  500-foot  shaft  at  the  National 
Capital  would still  be the unfinished ruin 
it was at the close of the civil  war.
But  probably  there  has  not 

lately 
been  a more  striking  example  of  froth­
ing enthusiasm than  is  seen  in  the  fate 
interoceauic  canal 
of 
project.  After 
the  announcement  of 
the  failure  of  the  Panama  scheme,  the 
route  by  way  of  Lake  Nicaragua  was 
brought  into prominence. 
It  was  to  be 
a  purely  American  enterprise,  under 
control  of  the  United  ¡States  and under 
the  protecting  folds  of  the  Stars-and- 
Stripes.  A great shout  of  patriotic  en­
thusiasm  went  up.  The  newspapers 
were filled with  tables  of  distances  be­
tween  the  various  commercial  ports  of 
the  principal  countries  of 
the  globe, 
showing how,  by season  of  the  shorten­
ing  of  ship  routes, 
the  commerce  and 
wealth of the world  was to be  poured in­
to the Great Republic.

the  Nicaragua 

OUR  TRADE  AND  THE  WAR.
The export trade of the  United  States 
will  be little affected by the war between 
Japan and China,  even should  hostilities 
be long  continued.  During  1893  China 
bought  of  us  only  $3,900,457  worth  of 
merchandise.  Nearly all of this  was rep­
resented by two items—uncolored  cotton 
cloth to the value of $1,638,657,  and min­

On the strength of this outburst a little 
money  was  raised,  a  company  was  or­
ganized and quickly  set to work  to com­
ply  with  the  terms  of  the  grants  and 
concessions  under which the Government

The war,  if long continued,  may  make 
considerable  difference  in  our  import 
trade with Japan and China.  We bought 
in 1893 from the latter  country  820,636,- 
525 worth of goods,  the  principal  items 
being:  Tea,  $7,414,090; raw silk, $5,470- 
000;  raw wool, $1,812,000; matting, $756,- 
000; rice,  $528,000;  furs,  $512,000.  The 
imports of lesser  value  were  hides  and 
skins, opium for smoking,  millinery  ma­
terials,  silks,  leather  and  coffee.  We 
bought last year from Japan,  $27,454,220 
worth  of  goods.  The  principal  items 
were:  Raw silk. $14,792,000; tea,  $5,650,- 
000;  silks,  $3,348,000.  The  imports  of 
lesser value were pottery,  rice  and  rice 
meal,  camphor and paper and  its  manu­
factures.

So far as our  tea  trade  with  the  two 
countries  is  concerned,  even  a  serious 
blockade ought not to have any effect for 
some time, as last  year’s  crop  has  been 
prepared for the  market  and  is  already 
here or on its way.  Besides there are now 
other sources of supply outside  of  China 
and Japan.

The police department  officials  assert 
that  either  T h e   T r a d e s m a n   or 
the 
Mayor  was  mistaken  in  the  statement 
made  last  week  that  only  two  permits 
to peddlers had been renewed.  Detective 
Mooney  has given  T h e   T r a d e s m a n   the 
names of four whose  permits have  been 
extended 
for  varying  periods,  while 
there are  others  who claim to  have  per­
mits.  The names of the  men  who  have 
shown  their  permits  to  the  police  are 
Martin  Gilsen,  whose  permit  has  been 
extended  to  Aug.  30;  Peter  Klaasen, 
Aug. 30;  Jacob Vandenberg  and  L.  Sof- 
ferin.  Gilsen  is  said  to  possess  some 
property and  to  be  abundantly  able 
to 
pay the license fee.  S.  Farber,  who has 
a fruit stand In addition  to his  peddling 
outfit, has  been  given  the  privilege  of 
paying for his license on  the installment 
plan.  Without questioning  the  legality 
or expediency of this method  of  collect­
ing fees,  it is,  at least,  vastly  preferable 
to the  granting  of  permits.  But  why 
was  Farber  compelled  to  pay  for  his 
license while the  others  are  given  per­
mits? 
the  others  plead  poverty, 
Farber is as poor as the  joorest,  and  he 
should not be discriminated  against.  He 
is certainly as deserving of  special  priv­
ileges as  the  rest.  Another  feature  of

if 

Ï H K   M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N .

QUALITY - UNIFORMITY - PRIBE

9

A NARROW  POLICY.

It has commonly been the rule that po­
litical offenders, fleeing  from  a  country 
in  which  their  offenses  bad  been com­
mitted,  were granted asylum in the coun­
try to which  they had  escaped,  and  were 
not given op even on demand,  unless the 
country of refuge was under  special  ob­
ligations  to  or  in  fear  of  the  country 
where the offenses were committed.

Political  offenses  include  revolution 
and treason,  but these have usually been 
excluded from  the lists of  crimes  speci­
fied in extradition treaties,  and,  in main­
taining  this  rule,  England  has  always 
set a distinguished example.  Within the 
past few years,  when the anarchists have 
been engaged in their shocking atrocities 
in  almost  every  country,  efforts  have 
been  made to  exclude their  crimes  from 
the  exceptions  heretofore  recognized in 
favor of political  refugees,  and  to  place 
their attacks upon the  lives of monarchs 
and rulers in the lists of extraditable  of­
fenses.  This,  however,  does not mater­
ially alter the conditions under which the 
right  of  asylum  for  political  refugees 
has  been 
commonly 
granted.

claimed 

and 

The  United  States  Government  has 
never held to any  fixed  rule in  the  mat­
ter  of  granting  asylum. 
Sometimes 
there has been a  brave and  high-spirited 
administration  which  would  even  go to 
the extent  of  protecting  American  citi­
zens  when  they  were  wronged  and op­
pressed  in  foreign  countries,  and  then 
the  right  of  refuge  was  courageously 
maintained.  But  more  commonly 
the 
rule with this  country  has  been  to  give 
up political refugees, or to allow them to 
be retaken and  killed by  their  pursuers 
on  United  States territory,  or in  United 
States ships,  whenever found.

Every American  citizen  was  shocked, 
a  few  years  ago,  at  the  bloody fate of 
General  Barrundia, a  Central  American 
revolutionist,  who,  being unsuccessful in 
an effort to overthrow the Government of 
his country,  fled  and  took  refuge  on  a 
steamer of the United States Pacific Mail 
Company.  His  pursuers  followed  him 
aboard the ship and shot him to death un­
der  the  United  States  flag,  wi ile  two 
United  States  warships  were  lying  al­
most alongside,  and their  officers did not 
even  interpose  a  protest.  Commander 
Keiter,  of  the  man-of-war  Ranger,  was 
the senior officer on  that  disgraceful oc­
casion,  and  Mr.  Tracy,  who  was  then 
Secretary  of  the  Navy,  administered to 
him a most stinging  rebuke,  which  was 
applauded  from  one end  of this country 
to the  other.

Now it is  given out  from  Washington 
that  there  is  to  be no  more asylum  for 
anybody in the United States, or on  Uni­
ted  States  ships.  The  old  regulation, 
No. 287,  was as follows:
1.  In reference to  granting  of  asylum 
iii the territorial water of a foreign State, 
the ships of the  United States  shall  not 
be made a refuge for criminals.
2.  In  the  case  of  persons  other, than 
criminals, they shall be  afforded  shelter 
wherever  it  may  be  needed,  to United 
States citizens first of  all,  and to  others, 
including political refugees, as far as the 
claims of humanity  may  require and the 
services  upon  which  the  ships  are  en­
gaged will permit.
In its place a new  regulation  has been 

promulgated, to the following effect:

The  right  of  asylum  for  political  or 
other  refugees  has  no  foundation in in­
ternational law. 
In  countries,  however, 
where frequent insurrections  occur,  the 
constant instability of government exists, 
local usage sanctions the granting of asy­

lum;  but,  even  in  the  waters  of  such 
countries, officers should refuse all appli­
cations for asylum, except when required 
by  those  interests  of  humanity  in  ex­
treme or exceptional  cases,  such  as  the 
pursuit of the refugee by a mob.  Officers 
must not directly or indirectly invite ref­
ugees to accept asylum.

This is the expression of a narrow,  sel­
fish  and  shirking  policy,  which  is dis­
graceful to a  country  like  this.  But  it 
may  be  necessary.  The  United  States 
has  no  navy  with  which  to  protect its 
people or to maintain its national dignity, 
and, therefore,  it  may  be  necessary  to 
avoid  all  questions  with  any  country, 
great or little,  and the  granting  of  asy­
lum  for  political refugees  is very apt to 
bring on  controversies.  England,  which 
is at the  head of  the  world’s  commerce 
and  is  at  the summit of  prestige on the 
sea,  can  afford  to  follow  a  grand  and 
magnanimous  policy  of  protecting  the 
oppressed of all nations  when they fly to 
her for ref uge.  The United States,  which 
has no commercial  marine  and  no  pres­
tige on the sea,  cannot  afford such a pol­
icy.
W hat  an  American  Silk  Manufacturer 

Says

Henry  Doherty,  of  Doherty  A  Wads­
worth silk maufacturers, Paterson, while 
visiting  Macclesfield,  the  silk  center  of 
England,  was interviewed by  a  local  re­
porter,  as announced  by  the  Dry  Goods 
Chronicle, in part as follows:
“Thirty years ago,”  said  Mr Doherty, 
“there were  only  five  or  six  weavers  in 
Paterson,  all  but  one  were  Macclesfield 
men. The other, I belive, was a Stockport 
weaver.  Now there  are thousands upon 
thousands  of looms.
“Money began to flow in,and many oper­
atives 
from  Macclesfield,  finding  their 
employers were  reaping  the  larger  har­
vest  from 
their  skill  and  experience, 
joined two or three together,  and  so  the 
industry began to take a firm root in Pat­
erson.  Now  there  is  a  population  of 
110,000  where  twenty  years  ago  there 
were only 30 000.”
“Can you suggest any remedy  for  the 
depression in  Macclesfield ?”
“They  are  not  enterprising  enough 
there.  The manufacturers  seem  afraid 
to strike out. 
If they  would  only  bring 
a  few  weavers  from  Lyons,  and  have, 
say,  one  or  two  in each of the works, I 
would guarantee  that  the  whole  of  the 
weavers would  soon  imitate  them. 
It’s 
against  an  Englishman’s  grain  to  be 
beaten by anyone,  and he would work  to 
beat his instructor.  That’s what we did 
in Paterson,  and the consequence  is that 
the trade is highly  developed  there. 
In 
America the finest work is  done  by  the 
power-looms; in  fact, finer  work  is  now 
done  by  power  than  by hand.  The re­
sults are more  reliable,  too.  Until  the 
Macclesfield manufacturers become more 
energetic  they  will  stick  in  the  mud. 
Why,  look  at  our  works  in  Paterson. 
There laces and satins and  brocades  are 
mingled  in  the most beautiful combina­
tions and in never ending variety.  That 
the policy of the best was none  too  good 
for the American  people has been  shown 
in the success of our firm.”
“How  do  the  Macclesfield  weavers 
compare with the Americans?”
“The  superiority  of  the Americans is 
remarkable. 
I do not mean  to  give  the 
impression that the Americans cannot  be 
equaled, for they can,  by dint of  practice 
alongside of them.”

The  use  of  silk  for  all  purposes  is 
largest, in  proportion  to the  population, 
in  England,  which,  however,  produces 
less than 50  per  cent,  of  the  manufac­
tured silk used.  This  percentage  is  al­
most  exactly  reversed in  France,  which 
produces  twice  as  much  silk  as  is  re­
quired,  the  other  half  being  exported. 
Italy and Switzerland produce considera­
bly more  manufactured silk  than  is  re­
quired  for  the local  market, the margin 
for export being  about  10  per  cent,  in 
Italy  and  more  than  300  per  cent,  in 
Switzerland.

SEARS

CRACKERS

and

CAKES

/

Have god tried oUr new goods?

Currant Drop  Cakes. 
Imperials,
Cream Jumbles, 
Cream  Drops, 
Cornhills,
Nonpareil Jumbles.

\
A d d   a  b o x   o r   b a r r e l  
to  y o u r   n e x t  o r d e r. 
T h e y  
s p le n d id  
a r e  
sa ile rs  a n d  
to 
s u r e  
p lease.
N ew  York B iscuit C o .,

S .  A .  S B A R S ,   M a n a g e r ,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

IN
YOUR
STATIONERY

Look 
For the 
W atermark

We control it in  this locality.

USE
It’s first-class sto<  k .  
IT
It’s easy to  write upon. 
It s always the same.
It’s a credit to your business.  (jlN

Your  Note  Heads.
Your  Letter  Heads. 
Your  Legal  Blanks. 
Your Checks and  Drafts

It  always  gives  satisfaction, 

stock, the price is nothing.

and,  compared  with  other

TRADESMAN  COMPANY,

They  are the coolest  shoe in summer,
The warmest shoe in  winter,  and 
The easiest shoe ever made,
Combining  ease,  comfort  and  good  looks 

in  one pair of shoes.

In  addition  to  the  above,  our factory 
and jobbing lines are complete. 
Styles 
attractive.  Prices at the bottom.  *

We carry  all  the leading lines of 
.Socks and Wool Boots; also Bos- 
’ton  Rubber Shoe Co.’s goods.

P .   &   B .

O-y-s-t-e-r-s

first 

issued 

lost.  When 

DILAPIDATED  MONEY.

finement by  Bard  Times.

Coins  and  Notes  Dragged  out of  Con­

first coinage act  under the  Constitution, 
which provided among  other  things  for 
the issue of “dismes” and  “ half-dismes.” 
The silver half-dime  and  the  three-cent 
silver  piece  were  discontinued 
in i 
I February,  1873.  The  three-cent  piece 
| was brought into being by  the  same  act 
of Congress which created  the  three-cent 
I postage stamp.  For some reason it seemed 
to be taken for granted that it was neces­
sary to have a coin of the  same  denomi­
nation as the postage stamp.  The Treas­
ury  will not sell the fish scales nowadays 
to anybody.  They are sent to  the  melt­
ing pot as fast as they are  received,  and 
on that  account  they  are  likely  to  in­
crease in value as curiosities.
The  melting  pot  at  the  mint  is  the 
bourne toward which all  the  out-of-date 
coins that reach the Treasury  do  travel. 
Among them are  the  silver  twenty-cent 
pieces,  which were authorized by  an  act 
of March,  1875.  They only ran for three 
years,  because 
they  made  themselves 
obnoxious,  being so frequently  mistaken 
for  quarters.  Even  more  objectionable 
were the nickels with  a V on  which  the 
word  cents  did  not  appear.  Of  these 
2,000,000  were  thrown  into  circulation 
before  their  dangerous  character  was 
perceived.  Then 
they  were  altered. 
Persons of an imitative inclination gilded 
them and  passed  them  off  for  $5  gold 
pieces.  The  nickel  three-cent  pieces, 
minted  from  1865 to 1890, are rarely seen 
nowadays.  Three millions of them exist 
somewhere  unaccounted  for.  Of  4,500,
000  bronze two-cent pieces,  issued  from 
1864 to 1873, 3,000.000  remain  outstand­
ing.  Yet is is not often that a  specimen 
is found in one’s change.
What has become of all  the big copper 
cents,  of  which  119,000,000  are  unac­
counted for?  Nearly  all  of  them  have 
been 
they 
weighed 264 grains,  the  intention  being 
to  put  into  them  one  cent’s  worth  of 
copper,  but in  less than  a  year Congress 
reduced  the weight  to 203  grains.  Sub­
sequently,  in  1795,  the  President  was 
authorized to diminish the weight of  the 
copper coins of the  country  at  his  dis­
cretion, so long as the  reduction  should 
not  exceed  two  pennyweights  in  each 
cent.  This  applied,  of  course,  to  the 
copper half-cents, which corresponded in 
value to English  farthings.  They  were 
issued from  1792 to  1857,  and  800,000 of 
them  are  still  outstanding.  The  metal 
“blanks” 
for  the  bronze  cents  now 
minted  cost  the  Government  only  one- 
tenth of  a  cent  apiece,  being,  like  the
1 
three-cent  nickels,  merely  tokens. 
was only  a  short  time  ago  that  a  man 
was put in prison for importing Austrian 
pfennigs by the  bushel and passing them 
in this country as  cents.
People often apply to the Treasury for 
gold $1 pieces,  the minting  of  which  was 
discontinued in  1890.  But  the  Govern­
ment will not sell them. 
It  is desired  to 
withdraw them entirely from circulation,
I because they  proved  inconvenient,  being 
I so  easily  lost. 
the  same  year  the 
issue of gold $3 coins  was stopped.  They 
were a first-class  nuisance,  being  often 
mistaken for other pieces,  and  to  count 
them was no end of a bore.  The number I 
three  is  about  the  most  awkward  im­
aginable,  and these  coins  could  not  be 
put  up  in  bags  of  $1,000 or $5,000.
This  Government  started  in  to  adopt 
decimal money, but the  habit  of  the  old | 
English  system was  bound to  be  a  dis­
turbance.  What  have  quarters  and 
halves  to  do  with  decimals?  How  ac­
commodate with them a three-dollar gold 
piece and a three-cent silver piece.  The 
original  banking  act  of  June,  1864, 
which is the  law  to-day,  authorizes  the 
Treasury  to  issue  $3  banknotes.  The 
only  reason  why  there are  no  $3  bank­
notes is that no  Secretary of  the  Treas­
ury  has been so lacking  in  sense  as  to 
pay attention to this legal provision.
An  odd  sort  of  coincidence  marked 
two recent bank-robberies,  one of  which 
occurred  in  Ohio  and  the  other  in  In­
diana.  In both cases the burglars blew up 
the  safes,  but  used  such  an  extensive 
quantity of nitroglycerine that the  paper 
in  the  strong  boxes 
In  this 
I shape,  looking as if  it had been  ebewed 
by  mice  for  making  nests,  it  was  for-
The 
to  the 
in  1792  by  the ; Treasury.  The sum represented  in  one

The hard times have  forced  people  to 
rake in every odd corner for cash.  Every­
where they are extracting  ancient hoards 
from  stockings  and  teapots,  and  much 
queer  and  out-of-date  money  thus  put 
into circulation is now finding  its way to 
Washington.  Suspicious-looking  notes, 
doubtful  coins,  and  even  fragments  of 
old  greenbacks  are  received  by 
the 
Treasury  every  day  from  the  owners, 
who want to know if they are worth any­
thing.  The  cash  thus  transmitted  in­
cludes Canadian paper  money,  taken  by 
persons  along the  northern  border; also 
Confederate notes  and  “ wild cat”  bank 
notes  of  antebellum  date.  During  the 
last  year,  by way of novelty,  the  Treas­
ury  has  received  many  counterfeits  of 
the  7.30  notes 
issued  by  the  Federal 
Government during the  rebellion.  They 
are made from woodcuts,  some  of  them 
printed only on one side,  and  a  few  ap­
parently have been torn  out of old scrap | 
books. 
It  is  imagined  that  they  were 
executed  by  Confederate  sympathizers 
in  war times.
During the panic  of  last  Summer  al­
most no money was sent into  the  Treas­
ury for redemption.  People were biding 
away and saving whatever they  had.  Of 
late  a  good  deal  of  the  old  fractional 
currency  has  been  received.  Only  the 
other day a lot of  it  arrived  which  had 
been found by workmen  in tearing down 
a dwelling at Beaver Falls,  Pa.  Though 
partly rotted, enough of  the  pieces were 
put together to credit  the  remitter  with 
$52.  A good  deal  of  money  is  lost  in 
that way.  Persons secrete  big  wads  in 
the walls of houses and then die.  During 
the last twelve months the  Treasury has 
received  and  destroyed  $3,367  in  frac­
tional currency.  This exceeds the record 
of  the  previous  year  by  nearly  $400. 
Most of that sort of cash comes  from the 
estates of  old  people,  who  leave  small 
quantities of it stuffed  away  in  disused 
pocketbooks and other odd  places.  The 
heirs send in  the  queer  little  pieces  of 
money  for  redemption.  Last  week  a 
handkerchief  full  of  this  currency  ar­
rived,  consisting of  the earliest issues in 
fine  condition,  each  note 
signed  by 
General  Spinner.  The  collection  was 
worth  far more  than  face  value,  if  the 
owner  had  known  it.
fractional  currency 
reaches the  Treasury  even  now  in  the 
shape  of  blocks  of  sheets  from  banks 
which  have  held 
the  money  unused 
for a quarter  of  a  century  perhaps. 
It 
was issued in sheets originally,  the notes 
being cut  apart  at  first  with  scissors. 
Afterward  they  had  perforations  like 
postage stamps,  so as  to be  torn  apart. 
There  is  now  outstanding  $15,273,791 
worth of this currency.  In 1879 Congress 
estimated that $8,000,000 worth had been 
lost  and  destroyed,  and  this  sum  was 
transferred to the funds for the  payment 
of pensions. 
It is now believed that this 
reckoning  was  a  mistake,  and that  not 
more than $1,000,000  has  passed  out  of 
existence.  The  remaining  $14,000,000 
are supposed to  be  held  to-day  by  col­
lectors and  private individuals.  Ever so 
many  persons  have  put  away  a  few 
specimens  of  the  fractional  paper  for 
curiosities.
Out-of-date  United  States  coins  are 
Mowing into the Treasury in  small quan­
tities.  Among them  are some of the old 
three-cent  and  five-cent  silver  pieces, 
which  used  to  be  contemptuously  des­
ignated as  “fish scales."  It was  a  great 
relief to the  officials in  charge  of  Uncle 
Sam’s coffers when they were  withdrawn 
from  circulation.  Counting  them  was 
fearfully  hard  work.  Assistant  Treas­
urer  Moline  tells  bow  he  once  had 
to 
count about  a peck of  them  in  the Sub- 
Treasury of  Baltimore.  The  labor  was 
rendered much  greater by the  fact  that 
nearly everyone of  the little  pieces  had 
been  bent by biting,  so  that  they  over­
lapped  on  the  flat  counting  board  like 
veritable  fish  scales.  For  some  reason 
unknown,  people  could  not  rest 
temptation 
to  bite  these  small 
coins.
and  one  part  copper, 
silver piece  was created

the I money  contained 
ilver  were  blown  to  small  scraps. 

The fish scales were three  parts  silver

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instance was  $2,200,  and  about  half  of 
it  was 
to  the 
owners.
An occurrence to  which  the  attention 
of the redemption bureau is often  called 
is the alleged destruction  of  one-half of 
a note  or  certificate.  According  to  the 
statement made, the other half  has  usu­
ally been chewed  up  by a baby  or a pup­
py dog.  Strangely enough,  at  about the 
same  time,  perhaps  even  by  the  same 
mail,  will  arrive  the  other  half  of  the 
same bill,  sent  by  somebody  else  from 
the  same  town,  with  another 
story, 
asking for repayment.  A  double  appli­
cation of this sort was  made  only a few 
days  ago  from  Philadelphia.  The  ob­
vious solution of the problem  usually  is 
that a person who may  be  designated as 
A has torn a  note  in  two  and  has  lost 
one-half of it.  A wants  a  new  note,-of 
course; B finds the lost  half  and  invents 
a yarn to fit  the  case.  One  way  out  of 
the difficulty  is to notify A and B of  the 
circumstances  as  they  appear,  leaving 
them  to  fight  it  out  The  contest  is 
likely to develop some facts.
One day  a  man  wandered  into  a Re­
demption Bureau and  banded  the  official 
in charge a very  disorganized  $20  note, 
asking for  a  new  one.  The  person  ad­
dressed said  it  looked  as  if  a  railway 
train had  run  over  it.  “You  are  mis­
taken,  mister,” said the visitor,  who was 
evidently  from  rural  parts.  My  wife 
has been  wearing that bill in her shoe all 
of this week in Washington.”

colleges 

the  baker,  became  soiled 

A great deal of  the money that  is sent 
into  the Redemption  Bureau  has  to  be 
returned without  payment.  Some  of  it 
is real enough,  but  reduced to  ashes  or 
so far destroyed  otherwise as  to  render 
identification impossible.  Such  rejected 
paper cash is  ordinarily  marked  with  a 
big R,  in order that it may be recognized 
if it makes its appearance again.  During 
imitations  of  Uncle  Sam’s 
the  war, 
fractional currency  were issued  in  large 
in 
quantities 
by  business 
various parts  of  the  country.  Scrip  of 
this  sort  comes  in  even  now. 
In  that 
period of  national  peril,  Kentucky  and 
Tennessee were flooded with counterfeits 
of this currency.  The little  notes,  pass­
ing  through  the  hands  of  the  butcher 
and 
and 
blurred,  so  that  it  was  difficult  to  tell 
the real from  the false.
It was at this time that a good  deal  of 
damage was done  to the  national  credit 
by a gang of counterfeiters in  New York 
eity.  At the head of this original organ­
ization  was  a  scientific  forger  named 
Tom  Ballard,  who  was  an  expert  en 
graver  and a very  fair  chemist.  Capital 
for  the  enterprise  was  furnished  by  a 
contractor  and  a  Broadway  carriage 
dealer.  The  work  was  done  at  256 
Rivington 
the 
fractional  currency  were  run  off  by 
sheets,  millions  on  millions  of  dollar’s 
worth.  Duplicate  plates  were  actually 
sold to other persons,  who were  thus en­
abled  to  do  their  own  printing.  This 
went on until 1871,  when  the  gang  was 
exposed by a “shover.”
A t  th a t  period  th e   G ov ern m en t  w as 
co m p arativ ely   lie lp le »  a g ain st a tta c k s by 
c o u n te rfe ite rs.  T h e   la th e  en g ra v in g   of

Imitations  of 

street. 

to-day,  which sets the forger’s art almost 
at defiance, had not  been  invented.  No 
such  police service  then existed  for  the 
detection of this sort of crime.  A private 
engraving  establishment  at  Williams­
burg,  N.  Y.,  which  was 
issuing  great 
quantities  of  fractional  currency,  was 
only  discovered  by  accident.  A  fire 
occurring in the  house,  a  mattress  was 
thrown  out  of  the  window. 
It  broke 
open and was found  to  be  stuffed  with 
fifty-cent  notes.  The  plates  were  cap­
tured,  but  the  forger,  an  Englishmen, 
made his escape.
Some of the fractional  currency  notes 
were engraved with portraits  of General 
Spinner,  Treasurer of the  United States. 
He got tired signing his  name  on  every 
piece  of  money after awhile,  and it  was 
engraved upon the  plates.  But  his per­
sonal signature would have been no safe­
guard  agaiust counterfeiters,  who copied 
the designs of the little securities as fast 
as  they  were  issued.  Alarmed  by  one 
particularly  successful  forgery,  Spinner 
suggested that his  own  likeness  should 
be  substituted  for an  allegorical  design 
in the middle of a  note.  This was done, 
and the imitative  criminals  at  once  did 
likewise.  A portrait  of  Mr.  Clark,  then 
chief engraver  for the  Government,  was 
used  in  like  manner.  But  soon  after­
ward Congress made a law,  which is now 
in  force,  to the effect that the likeness of 
no  living  man  should  appear  on 
the 
money of the United States.
Some of  the  old  fractional  notes  are 
quite valuable  now.  A  limited  number 
of fifteen cent pieces,  signed by Spinner, 
with the heads of Grant  and Sherman on 
them,  were issued  as  curiosities.  They 
are worth $6 to-day  each.  A few  of the 
notes  were  printed  with red  backs,  and 
they are quite rare  and  correspondingly 
precious.  Some specimens  were printed 
on cardboard, only on one side,  and were 
sold at face value.  When silver dropped 
out of circulation  during the  war,  being 
hoarded,  people  began  using  postage 
stamps for  small  currency.  They  were 
inconvenient  for  many  reasons,  one of 
which was that they got  stuck  together. 
So the Post Office Department issued  un­
gummed stamps. 
In place  of this  a  so- 
called  “postal  currency”  was  issued in 
1862,  the  engraving  on  the  face  repre­
senting postage stamps,  with the head of 
Washington.  For  this  the  fractional 
currency was  finally  substituted. 
It  is 
rather  odd  that  at  present the proposi­
tion  for a return  to  a  postage  currency 
should  be urged in Congress.

To  Dispense with  Hatpins.

Frank  E.  Fowler, a  waiter in a Boston 
restaurant,  is in trouble with the post of­
fice department.  Some  time  ago  he  in­
serted  in the papers an  advertisement to 
the effect that  for 10 cents he would send 
to any  woman an  invention  for  keeping 
her hat on without using the troublesome 
hatpins.  He got  a good  many  answers, 
and to each inquirer,  who remembered to 
send the dime,  he sent  two  small rubber 
bands,  with the direction to sew them in­
side the hat on either  side, and put them 
over the ears.  The ladies complained of 
the swindle, and the post office authorities 
arrested the man  for wrongful  use of  the 
mails.

T H E   IN ST A LM EN T  PL A N .

This  long-headed  man  realized 

From the New York Tribune.
There is one trait in  which  people  of 
the  present  day  have  departed  widely 
from the  example  of  their  forefathers. 
Without giving  the  latter  credit  for  all 
the virtues,  it is safe  to say  that,  gener­
ally speaking,  they didn’t buy things un­
til they had the money  with which to pay 
for them.  They  were  not  victims  of the 
“instalment” habit,  which  now  numbers 
its thousands in every  large city.
An Irishman who  kept a little store in 
Barclay street  some thirty  years ago has 
the credit of being the  first man to grasp 
the fact that there were unnumbered peo­
ple in this city who would  be glad to buy 
merchandise  of  all  sorts  pertaining  to 
home-makiug,  but  whose  circumstances 
would not allow them to  pay cash  down 
for  it.  They  were  ambitious  to  have 
more clothes, more  furniture,  more bric- 
a-brac,  to  rise to  a  higher  plane  or  to 
keep pace with their  better-to-do  neigh­
bors;  but  alas!  their  income  would  npt 
allow it.  They bad never been taught to 
save,  which is a slow, uncertain, old-fogy 
method anyway,  and so they  sighed  and 
longed in  vain.
this 
fact  and  sat  him down to cogitate.  He 
had a little capital  which was  not  turn­
ing over as quickly as  he could wish, and 
he wisely reasoned that these people who 
wanted all sorts of things so badly might 
be willing and glad to buy  them  if  they 
could  have  a  little  “accommodation.” 
Of course these  good  citizens  had  been 
allowed  a  little  occasional credit at the 
grocers’  and  butchers’  shops,  and  per­
haps even at the tailors  where they were 
known.  But  he  would  do  better  than 
that.  He would  sell  them  almost  any­
thing  a  reasonable  person  might desire 
and deliver it to them,  and  he  would  al­
low them to make payment at such inter­
vals and of  so  small  amount  cash  that 
they  “would  not feel  it” —magic words!
He  commenced  in  a  small  way;  en­
gaged half a dozen good  men, gave them 
some samples and  a list of  the  different 
goods he would furnish on this plan,  and 
before long the returns began to come in. 
It  was  immediately  evident 
that  this 
“filled a long-felt  want.”  People at last 
saw a way to  satisfy  their  longings  for 
fine  things  without  bankrupting  them­
selves to pay-for them.  The  goods  first 
sold  in  this  manner  were  neither large 
nor  costly. 
Lamps,  clocks,  albums, 
bibies,  rugs aud the  like.  But  the busi­
ness has been gradually systematized  un­
til now a man can step into  an  immense 
shop,  select from a large stock furniture, 
carpets,  stoves,  crockery,  kitchen  uten 
sils,  pictures,  everything wanted to fur­
nish  his  house  or  flat  completely,  then 
supplement his own wardrobe with  what­
ever is lacking,  and  that of  his wife and 
children;  more than that,  he can  buy the 
| house  which is to  contain ail  this  on the 
same plau, can  insure his and their lives, 
I and  last of ail, can arrange  with a  “fun- 
| eral  director”  (the  undertakers  are  all 
’ dead)  to bury him.  ail on  this  beautiful 
instalment plan.

T H E   J V U C t L U o r ^ I N  

I K t i .U  ¿L,»JVL A i N

Its  Blessings  and  Its  Bane—Origin  of 

the  Scheme.

the 

But,  if  you  are 

instalment  plau,  giving 

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the  intending  pur­
chaser,  don’t fancy  that  the  goods  you 
have selected will he immediately loaded 
on a van aud  sent  to  your  house.  You 
must first  go  through  the  hands  of  an 
“investigator.”  This interesting  person 
takes your name,  address  and  place  of 
business at the office,  and  goes  out on a 
still hunt  to find out  what  he  can in  re­
lation to your income,  your habits,  your 
moral  character,  etc.  He 
is  an  im­
portant factor in  the scheme,  and  a good 
man  commands  a  good  salary.  His 
report  being  satisfactory,  then  are  you 
soon  made  happy  with  a  house  filled 
with  new  goods,  and  your  duty  and 
pleasure  now  consists  only  in  having 
the weekly  or  monthly  payment  ready, 
when  the collectors calls.
Don’t imagine that  he  will  forget  you, 
or be bashful in  claiming  his money, or 
can  be thrown  off  the  scent  by  moving 
away.  He  has  ways  you  would  never 
guess  at  of  following  your  movements 
and will  stick  to  you  closer  than  your 
shadow  until  he  has  extracted  the  last 
cent due.  For a man  who  has  a  horror 
of being duuned  the plan  is  not  an  un­
mixed  good.
Then there  is the  ironclad  mortgage, 
which is  an  interesting  accompaniment 
of 
the 
creditor the  right  to  replevin  his  goods 
whenever the payments  are  not  prompt 
This 
and  according  to  contract. 
is 
practically never enforced,  except in the 
case  of  sales  of 
sewing 
machines,  safes and  the  like.  Clothing, 
carpets,  boots  or  shoes  and  bonnets,  it 
can readily  be seen,  would  be useless  to 
offer  for sale a second  time. 
It  is  said 
that  the commissions of  a good canvass­
er  for  safes on this plau  are  enormous. 
It is  hard  to effect  much  damage  on  an 
iron  safe.  When 
the  purchaser  gets 
tired of the never  ending  payments  and 
says he will  pay no more,  and  his safe is 
“lifted” and  returned  to the  warehouse, 
unkind people  hint that  it is  very  easy 
to apply  a  little  putty,  paint  and  var­
nish,  and send it out as a new  article,  to 
go the rounds again;  but  this is probably 
a slander.
The number employed  in the  business 
I as  canvassers,  investigators,  deliverers 
I and collectors is  enormous  and  increas­
ing.  They can  be seen on  every car and 
ferryboat,  pulling  out  their  books  and 
slips,  making  memoranda,  calculating 
! expenses and worrying  their  brains over 
| the  ingratitude of  some  one  they  have 
| just come in contact  with  who  has  pos- 
I sibly received them coldly,  has  frowned 
| at them,  has  no  money,  doesn’t  know 
] when he will  have any,  and  wishes from 
| the bottom of  his  heart  he  had  never 
I listened  to  the  entreaties  of  the  siren 
| who sells  her  blandishments  by  instal­
ments.

furniture, 

Before  a  working  man  goes  out on a 
I strike he should be  certain  that  sympa­
thizers  will  pay  him  living wages while 
I he  is  out  doing  nothing.  Debs  is  not 
troubling  himself  about  getting  posi- 
' tions  for  his  strikers  who  left  their 
work.

Keep away  from  a  buzz  saw  and  any 
person  who wants  to  talk  ail  the  time.

M E R IT   IS  E S S E N T I A L

to  successful  sale  of  goods.  Consumers  have  a  habit  of determ ining 
whether  an  article  of  food  is  pure,  wholesome,  reliable,  convenient 
and  economical.
Borden’s  Peerless  Brand  Evaporated Cream
possesses intrinsic merit, with all the above  qualifications.  W e recom­
mend  it,  and  you  are  safe  in  doing  the  same. 
It  is  rich  and  whole­
some  Milk, condensed,  with  its  entire  proportion of Cream,  and  with­
out  sweetening. 
Its  keeping quality is assured by perfect processing. 
People  who like  to  use  an  unsweetened  preserved  Milk  are  learning 
of  its  merits,  and  will  want  it.

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THE  BIGHT  TO  WORE.

let  alone  to  choose 

Independent  Workingmen  M u st  be 
Protected  from  Onion  Guerrillas. 
From the Northwestern Lumberman.
In the excitement of tbe time resulting 
from 
the  late  transportation  boycott, 
and  the  discussion  about  how 
to  pro­
tect  the  public from another such  block­
ade. one class  of  suffering  people  seems 
to  be  generally  overlooked.  This  class 
iucludes  the  industrious,  frugal,  honest 
men  who  only  ask  for  tbe  privilege  of 
being 
their  own 
employment  and  accept  such  wages  as 
can  be  obtained,  so  that  they  may  earn 
a  living  and  thus  avoid  becoming  ob­
jects  of  charity  and  a  tax  on  the  com­
munity.  Of  all 
the  various  human 
rights  there can be none  greater,  higher, 
or  more  vital  than  this.  But  while  the 
governments,  national,  state  and  local, 
are  arming and  massing  forces,  at great 
expense,  to protect  the public in respect 
to  the  mails  and  commerce,  non-union 
workmen  are  being  conspired  agaiust, 
assaulted and  hammered  into  insensibil­
ity,  and  in  many  instances,  killed,  be­
cause  they  simply  insist on  working for 
a  living.  Of  all  the  atrocities  in  the 
annals  of  crime  there  is  none  greater, 
aside  from  those  that  shall  be nameless 
here,  than  that  of  assaulting  aud  mal­
treating  a  workman  because  he  has  re­
fused  to  join  a  gang  which  has  gone 
this  atrocity 
on  strike.  And  yet 
is 
perpetrated  every  day  in  the  year 
in 
some  portions  of  the United  States, and 
the  authorities  either  wink  at  it  or 
treat  it  as  if  it  were  a  small  disorderly 
act that  deserves  only  a  slight  fine. 
In
the  majority  of  instances  the  perpe­
trators  are not  arrested,  and when  they 
are,  tbe  sufferers  dare  not  appear  in 
evidence  because  they  know 
that  the 
assailants  are  backed  by  a  gang  that 
revenge.  They 
will  afterward  seek 
also  know  that  the  average  policeman 
or  deputy  sheriff  is 
in  favor  of 
the 
unions  on  political  grounds,  or  for  the 
purpose  of  standing  in  with  the  gang 
at 
the  corner  groggery.  So,  after  he 
has  received  his  pounding, 
if  he  can 
stand, 
the  assaulted  workman  drags 
himself  to  his  home,  sore,  sick and  dis­
couraged,  to  meet  the  terror and  appre­
hension  of  his  family,  and  wait  weeks 
for  recovery,  and  meantime  endure  tbe 
loss  of  wages.  What  more  wretched 
condition  could  a  man  be  placed 
in? 
Yet  such 
incidents  are  of  every  day 
occurrence,  while  we  boast  that  this  is 
a  laud  of  liberty  and  law,  where every­
one  has  a  right  to  work  for  a  living. 
As  a  matter  of  fact 
the  non-union 
workman  has  little  more protection than 
be would  have  among  the  wild tribes of 
Africa.  The  Bashi-Bazouks  are  ail 
about  him,  ready  to  pounce  upon  him 
from  ambush,  and  maim  or  murder 
him.  A  man  would  be  better  protected 
among  the  wild  Arabs,  for  there  the 
sheik,  who  embodies  the 
law  of  the 
desert,  would 
the 
in  a  hurry,  at  the  point  of  his 
abuse 
spear.
Now  that  tbe  mobs  that  gathered  as 
the  support  of  Debs’  late  “peaceable 
the 
strike”  have  been  dispersed  by 
bayonet,  bullet  and  billy,  stories  of  as­
saulted  so-called  “scab”  workmen  begin 
to  come  in  by schools, and not a quarter 
of  them  is  reported.  A  guerrilla  war­
fare  against  “scabs”  will  go  on  for 
months,  while  few  of  tbe  devils  who 
commit  them  will  be  apprehended,  and 
fewer still  punished.  One  of two things 
should  be  done  as  a  protection to work­
men 
in  districts  where  the  bitterness 
against  “scabs"  is  the  more  pronouced. 
Either  every  workman  should  be  pro­
tected  by  officers  to  and from  his  home, 
or else each  workman should  be  licensed 
to  carry  a  gun  that  is  good  for  shoot­
ing  to  kill.  That  engineer  out  at  the 
stock  yards  in  Chicago  did  a  good  job 
in  killing  his  assailant.  The  woman 
on the  west  side,  in  the  same city,  who 
saved  the  life  of  her  fireman  husband, 
did  another  good  job  when  she  shot  to 
kill. 
If  the  police  authorities  cannot 
protect honest workmen from the murder­
ous attacks  of  strikers, each  man should 
licensed  to  protect  himself,  and 
be 
coroners’  juries  should  not  be  allowed 
to  exercise  their  function 
in  a  way 
prejudicial 
to  justice,  either.  A  man, 
under  the  law,  has  a  right  to  kill  au-

interfere  and  stop 

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intimidated  or 

other  in  self  defense.  Of  course,  in 
every 
instance  tbe  law  should  deter­
mine  as to whether the  shooting is justi­
fiable.  But  in  tbe  present  emergcucj, 
or in  any  cass  wherein  an  honest work­
ingman 
assaulted 
because he  insists on  earning something 
for  bis  own  and  his  family’s  support, 
he should  be allowed  to  protect  himself 
without  much  bother  from  meddlesome 
prosecution.  Once  establish  that  priv­
ilege,  we  would  soon  see  tbe  union 
savages hunting their  holes  and  keeping 
under  cover.  Besides,  it  would  greatly 
elevate the position  and  manhood  of the 
independent  workingman,  because  he 
would  realize  that  the  law  upheld  him 
in  defending  his  own  right  to  work  for 
a living—a  right  certainly  as  sacred  as 
property,  citizenship or home possession.

The Grocer’s  Boy.

From th e Tri-State Grocer.
From time to time  we come  across  an 
article  or  an item  in a trade paper stat­
ing  what  a  boy  or  young  man  should 
study to fit him for his  daily life  behind 
the counter or on the delivery wagon.  It 
would be foolish to find fault with any of 
these,  for they all tend towards one  very 
desirable result,  and that  is  the  mental 
improvement  of  the  young  man. 
It  is 
doubtful,  however,  if  any  of  the  pre­
scribed courses  of reading  and study are 
followed.  Clerking  behind  the  counter 
or  work  on  the  delivery  wagon  is  not 
conducive  to  study.  “Too tired”  is the 
ready  and  sufficient  excuse—there 
is 
none  better.  The  conclusion  we  long 
ago  reached  is  that  the  boy  or  young 
man,  as  the  case  may  be,  does  know 
enough  on  general  principles  when  he 
begins such work.  We are not to be un­
derstood  that  a  college  diploma  is  ex­
pected;  but we do insist that a  boy  who 
ever  expects  to  amount  to  anything in 
any  kind of  employment  to-day ought to 
have the training  that  a  good  grammar 
school  can  give  him,  and  that he is not 
ready to go intelligently to work  until he 
has such training.  There is too much of 
the seven times eight  are forty-nine bus­
iness going on in  the ranks  of the grocer 
clerk, and tbe only way  to stop  it  is  to 
give  the whole  thing  a twist of the civil 
service reform.
is  getting  fashionable—altogether 
too  fashionable—for  the  boy  to  leave 
school about the time he is  willing to bet 
that he can  spell  cat.  He  “haint  goin’ 
t’  school no more,”  and so he  “starts in” 
in the same  way that  Abraham  Lincoln 
started in.  Lincoln, some of our readers 
may possibly remember,  was a  poor  boy 
who  became  President  of  the  United 
States because be went barefoot when  he 
was a  “kid,” because he  split rails when 
he  was  sixteen,  and  because  he  never 
went to school six weeks in his life.  The 
logic is invincible, and every grocer  with 
the idea that young  Abraham is working

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for him  puts up  with more condensed  ig- 
norauee  and  stupidity  than  would  be 
needed  to start a dozen young presidents 
on  their way  to the White House.  They 
can’t  read,  they  can’t  spell,  they  can’t 
multiply—they  “can’t  do  nothin’”  but 
whistle  and  drive  “ boss.”  What’s  the 
use  of  asking  or  expecting  that sort of 
cattle to read or study—or even think?
Well,  such  fellows  can  sweep,  can’t 
they?  Yes, if you stand  over them with 
a club;  but as for  the sweeping,  that  is 
quite auother thing.  They sweep as they 
wash—and you know that they have done 
either as they  tell you  so.  They can do 
up bundles,  if  that sort  of  wad  can  be 
called a bundle.  The  fact of  the case is 
they can do nothing  because  they  know 
nothing,  and  they know  nothing  because 
they have removed  themselves  from  the 
schools where there is the only chance of 
their beginning to learn  something.
The grocer is not  the only  trader  who 
has  such  help  to  work  with;  but  the 
point we make is that the boy should not 
be put to work in  school time  unless  he 
can show a little  of that  mental training 
which the every-day work of the world is 
wanting everywhere  now.

Deliver on Collection.

Every  glossary  of  commercial 

terms 
contains  an  explanation  of  the  well 
known letters, C. O.  D.  There is also an 
explanation of this  legend  in  every  list 
of  abbreviations.  While  some  of  tbe 
young people of the day give it  a  famil­
iar  interpretation,  to  the  effect  that  it 
means  “Call  on  Dad,”  it  is  ordinarily 
used in the sense of “Collect on Delivery.”
A  good  story  is  told  of  an  Irishman 
who ordered a quantity of  haddock  fish, 
to be delivered  by carrier.  He was some­
what indignant upon  the  delivery of the 
fish to find on the outside of the package, 
the letters,  “C. O.  D.”  "An’ sure.”  says 
Pat,  “ I didn’t  order cod  fish.”  The car­

rier  examined  the  fish,  and  pronounced 
them haddock.  “ Well,” says Pat, "C. O. 
D.  don’t spell  haddock.”  “Ob,  no,”  the 
carrier  replied,  “C.  O.  D.  spells  cod.” 
‘iThen,”  says  Pat  triumphantly,  point­
ing  to  the  fish,  "them’s  fish?”  “Yes, 
you’re right  there.”  “ Well,  that makes 
cod fish, don’t it?”  “But where  do  you 
get  the  cod  from?” returned the carrier. 
’’Look here,” says  Pat,  pointing  at  the 
pretentious  C.  O.  D.,  "That’s cod to be 
sure.-’  “Oh,  no,  that’s C.  O.  D.,  which 
means ’collect  on  delivery.’ ”  "Ah,  be- 
dad,  1 didn’t think  of  that,”  cried  Pat, 
scratching  his  head  with  one hand and 
feeling for his purse with the other.  “But, 
young man,  let me  give  you a  bit of ad­
vice,  when yez bring  any  more  bundles 
for me, don’t put on  anything so myster­
ious  again,  but just  reverse the  big  let­
ters,  making it  D.  O.  C. and  then ye can 
‘deliver  on  collection,’  which  any  fool 
can  understand.”
We doubt very much if there  is  to  be 
found any  better  play  upon  commercial 
this  reversal  of  the  well 
terms  than 
known letters, C. O.  D.

A   Boomerang  Boycott.

It  is  said  that  the boycott  which the 
socialists,  anarchists  and  trades  union­
ists jointly  placed  on certain  brewers of 
Berlin has proved  a great  advertisement 
to tbe  boycotted  establishments,  and  a 
serious  injury  to  the  cause of  the boy- 
cotters.  The  attendance  of  the  general 
public at tbe beerhouses and restaurants 
where the boycotted  beer  is  offered  for 
sale is noticeably greater  than it was be­
fore,  and  the  proprietors  of  h a lls,  of­
fended at the high-handed course  of  the 
boycotters,  are more and  more generally 
refusing their  places  for  anarchist  and 
trades union  gatherings.  At the same a 
great many of tbe  public houses,  includ­
ing 101  restaurants  at  Rixdorf,  a suburb 
of Berlin,  have cut off  their subscription 
for the socialistic organ.  Vorwaerts.

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in 

The  annual  meeting  of 

the  Grand 
Rapids  Retail  Grocers’  Association  was 
held  at  Elk’s  Hall,  Monday  evening, 
Aug.  20,  President  Yiergever 
the 
chair.
O. W.Pettit, grocer in Wellington Flats, 
applied  for admission to the  Association 
and was accepted.
The  annual  address  of  the  President 
was brief and  to the point.  He  congrat­
ulated the members  on the  several  con­
cessions  which  have been  obtained  dur­
ing the past year as the  result of  associ­
ated  effort;  but  deplored  the  fact  that 
some  of the members did  not  make  it  a 
point to attend the meetings  more  regu­
larly.
Secretary Stowe presented  his  annual 
report as follows:
In presenting my annual report as Secretary of 
the Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’  Association.  I 
assume  that  the  first  thing  you  will  want  to 
ascertain  is  our  financial  condition.  Our  re­
ceipts—exclusive of picnic  receipts—during  the 
past year  have  been  $255.25,  which  have  been 
turned over to Treasurer Lehman in the  follow 
ing sums  on  the dates named, and for  which  I 
hold his receipts:
June 19............................................ ....... ........ $ 28 00
July 16.................................. 
14  Ofi
Aug  6  ...............................................   16 50
Aug.  20  ........................................................... 
6 75
Aug,  20  .................... 
176 00
Total receipts.................  $255  25
During  the  year  I  have  drawn  twenty-three 
orders on the Treasurer  in  settlement  of  bills 
approved  by  the  Executive  Committee,  as fol­
lows:
Order No
4. Albert Stryker.................
23.  Oct.
.  *  5 ro
24.  Oct.
...  3  00
4. A. Rasch.............................
4. O.  Emmons..... 
..........
25.  Oct.
...  2 00
23.  Oct.
.  1«  ro
4. Protective  Brotherhood..
4. E. A.  Stowe........................ ...  50 00
27.  Oct.
28.  Jan/ 12. T.  R  Renwick................... ...  6  no
29.  Jan. 12. Protective  Brotherhood
.  12  50
30.  Jan. 12. E.  A. Stowe  ...  ................
..  50 00
2  Sfi
31.  Feb. 19. A.  Hoffman 
.................
32.  Feb. 19. Daane & W itters...............
..  1  25
31.  Mar. 7. A. H offm an....................... ...  3  is
34.  Apr. 24. Liquor  Dealers’  Ass’tion.
..  1 ! 50
35.  Apr. 24. E  A.  Stowe......................
..  50 CO
36.  Apr. 24. Daane & Witters 
..  2  « 5
............
1  50
37.  June 19. Elliott & C o........................
38.  June 19. E  J. Herrick. 
.................
.  1  60
..  1  50
39.  June 19. O.  H. DeGraaf........
40.  June 19.
..  1  50
J.  F. Ferris.........................
41.  June 19.
..  1  50
J. Geo. Lehm an.................
..  50  00
42.  June 30. E. A. Stowe......................
43.  July 31. Postage account...............
..  75  26
44.  July 31. Tradesman  Company.......
..  9  25
45.  Aug.  20. Tradesman Company 
..
Total.................
.$390 56
With  the work  achieved  by the  Association
during the past year you are all more or less famil-
iar, but a brief retrospect may not be out of place 
on this occasion.
A level price  on  granulated  sugar  has  been 
maintained throughout the year.  This has been 
a somewhat difficult matter, as there  are  several 
dealers in the city—not members of the  Associa 
tlon -whose one object in life seems to be to  sell 
sugar  at  or  below  cost.  Some  timid members 
have been shaken by the action of these  pirates, 
but. on the whole, the card price has  been  well 
maintained.
The operation  of  the  Sealer  of  Weights and 
Measures ordinance has  been,  at  least  tempor­
arily, suspended.  This was the result, undoubt­
edly, of the vigorous protest  of  the  Association 
against  the  unjust  and  inefficient  manner  in 
which the ordinance was  being  enforced.  Pro 
test  was  also  entered against the imposition of 
fees,  as  it  was  held  by the Association that if 
the people want inspection of weights and meas­
ures,  they  should  be  willing  to  pay for it, and 
not  saddle  the  cost  upon  dealers,  who  have 
already enough  to  contend  with. 
If  the  ordi­
nance is ever again enforced it will be  upon  an 
entirely new basis.
In  the  matter  of  the  peddling  nuisance the 
Association  has  spoken  with  no  uncertain 
sound.  Not  as  much  was  accomplished  in 
this direction as could have been  desired, partly 
because of the hard times, but, more  especially, 
because a License Committee was  appointed  by 
Mayor Fisher who seemed  anxious  to  give  the 
peddlers  the  earth  and  compel  the grocers  to 
build  a  fence  around  it.  This  work  has  not 
been abandoned, however  but is  in  good  shape 
for next season. 
In the  meantime  the  Associa 
tlon has carefully  noted  the  course  of  events, 
keeping track of the manner in which the police 
department has enforced the  law.  In  my  opin­
ion the Association should return  its  thanas  to 
Superintendent Carr, and those under him.  who 
have had charge of  the  work  of  enforcing  the 
peddling  ordinance.  They  have  done  their 
whole  duty  in  a  most  commendable  manner. 
The adoption of  the  bond  feature  to  the  ped 
dling ordinance has done more  than  any  other 
safeguard to curtail the number  of  peddlers  at 
the same time raising the standard of  those who 
do peddle,  surely  no  one  who  cannot  give  a 
$50  bond should be allowed to cater to the daily 
wants  of the people.
Grocers, like others, have asocial side to  their 
natures, and this feature of the work  of  the  As­
sociation has b,  no means been neglected.  As a 
consequence, the members  have  become  be ter 
acquainted with each other  and  a  better  spirit 
has prevailed  This  has  tended  to  harmonize 
the membership and give to each a better under 
standing of the needs of all.
Taken as a whole, I consider that the  Associa­
tion  Is  to  be  congratulated  upon  the  success 
which has attended  its  efforts  during  the  past 
year.  With  the  advent  of  better  times, which 
cannot be much longer delayed, there is  the  as­
surance  of  a  still  larger  measure  of success in 
the ensuing year.

to the Executive Committee.
nual report as follows:
Balance on hand  ..  .....................................$277 49
Net proceeds of Ottawa Beach  excursion.  122  93
Received from Secretary,  June 19 
-.8 00
Received from Secretary, July 16.................   14 no
Received from Secretary, August 6  ............   16 50
Received from Secretary, August 20............  26 75
Received from Secretary, August 20...........  170 00
Interest on certificate of  deposit............... 
8 00
Contributions from Reed’s Lake...... ..........  150 00
$813 67

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

Total  receipts.......
DISBURSEMENTS.
............ ..................................$  5

Order  No.  23 
Order  No.  24.......... ..............3
Order  No.  2 5 ................................ ... ..  
Order  No.  26  ............................................ .’  12
Order  No.  2 7 ......................... . . . . . .  
50
Order  No.  28....................................................... 6
Order  No.  29  .............   ......................   '." .. 
12
Order  No.  30..  .  ..........................................  50
  2
Order  No.  31........................................... 
 
Order  No.  32............  .................... . .] 
4
Order  No.  33  .  .................................. _____  
3
Order  No.  34......................... ...................... '  12
Order  No.  » 5 ................................................  50 1
Order  No.  36  ................................................ 
2
i  ;
Order  No.  37....... 
j  j
Order  No.  38................................. .  „*4 
Order  No.  3 9 ............................................... ’ 
i  j
Order  No.  40........................................................j  i
Order  No.  41....................................................... 1  i
 
Order  No.  42..................................  
50 1
Order  No.  43.................................................    75  ;
Oriier  No.  44..................................................
9 :
Order  No.  45.................................................. 
Picnic prizes and  expenses...........................117  1
Total disbursements.......$508  48
RECAPITULATION.

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Total  receipts...................................................... $813 67
Total disbursements..........................................   508 48
Balance on hand................... $305 19
The Executive Committee presented its 

annual report,  as follows  :
Your Executive Committee,  to  whom  is  dele­
gated the duty of auditing all bills atid  examin­
ing the books and accounts of the Secretary and 
Treasurer previous to each annual meeting, begs 
leave to report as follows :
The Secretary's report, showing  total  receipts 
of  $255.25,  is  corroborated  by memorandums of 
credits  he  has  made  from  time  to  time  for 
moneys coming into his hands.  This money has 
been correctly paid  to  the  Treasurer,  who  has 
properly receipted  therefor.
The Treasurer correctlv  reports  moneys  com­
ing into his hands and furnishes  proper  vouch­
ers for money disbursed.  These vouchers  agree 
with the stubs of the Secretary’s  book,  showing 
conclusively  that  the  disbursements  have  all 
been properly  made.
We congratulate the members on the excellent 
financial condition  of  the  Association  and  as­
sure them that the financial management  of  the 
organization has been marked by  economy  and 
shrewdness.

A.  J .  E l l io t t,
A.  B u t s ,
A.  B r in k .
B.  Van A nrot,
Peter  Schuit,
Executive  Committee.
B.  Van Anrooy moved that the  recom­
mendation of  the  Secretary,  relative  to 
extending a hearty vote of  thanks to  the 
police department for  its activity in  en­
the  peddling  ordinance,  be 
forcing 
adopted.  Adopted.
A communication  was  received  from 
Wm. K.  Munson,  inviting the members of 
the  Association  to  visit  his  grape farm 
some  afternoon  during  the  next  two 
weeks  to  partake of his hospitality.
On motion of Mr. Elliott, the invitation 
was thankfully  accepted  and the  Secre­
tary was instructed to notify Mr. Munson 
of the action of the Association
closed during the afternoon of the day of 
the visit.  This motion  was  discussed at 
some length,  but was subsequently with­
drawn,  as it did not  appear to meet with 
a hearty response,  inasmuch as  proprie­
tors of stores  only  were  included  in  the 
invitation.
A considerable  discussion  followed on 
the question  whether the  grocers should 
all go  In  their  own  conveyances  or  in 
carryalls, and whether the expense should 
be borne by  the  grocers  individually  or 
by  the  Association  as a  whole. 
It was 
finally decided  to  employ  carryalls  and 
pay for same out of the  funds of the As­
sociation.

J. 

H.  Goss  moved  that  the  stores  be 

T H E   M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N .
In conclusion, I desire to express my thanks to 
President Viergever and  the  other  officers  and 
committees of the Association for the  ready  as 
sistance  they  have  accorded  me  on  every  oc 
casion where assistance was possible, and to the 
members generally for their kindly  forbearance 
and hearty co-operation.
Having served you two years to the best of  my 
ability, I think you  will  agree  with  me  in  the 
statement that rotation in the office of  Secretary 
is just as desirable  as  rotation  in  the  office  of 
President  or  Treasurer,  and I assure you that I 
shall feel In no ways disappointed if you  decide 
to place the  Secretaryship  the  coming  year  in 
the  hands  of  an  active  groceryman  who is in 
closer touch with  the  trade  and  more  familiar 
with its needs and  requirements  than  I  am  or 
possibly can be.
The report was accepted  and  referred 
Treasurer  Lehman  presented  his  an­

On  motion  of  Mr.  White,  the  yeast 
men  were requested  to secure  the signa­
tures of all grocers who would join in the 
excursion.
On  motion  of  Mr.  Van  Anrooy,  the 
President appointed  a Committee  on  Ar­
rangements  composed  of  Messrs.  Wag­
ner,  Lehman and White.
It being reported that a certain grocery 
house was peddling goods  from  door  to 
door,  Mr.  Elliott and  the  Secretary were 
appointed a  committee to  interview  the 
Prosecuting  Attorney and  ascertain if  a 
prosecution cannot be lodged against the 
house in question.
Election of officers being then in order, 
Homer Klap and B. Van Anrooy were ap­
pointed  tellers,  with  the  following  re­
sult:

RECEIPTS.

is 

In 

operative 

for  arrest.  Any 

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law  does  not  come  into  conflict  with 
the  ordinance  of  any  municipality, 
but 
communities 
which  have  no  peddling  ordinance. 
“Merchant” and his  friends  are  warned 
against  hasty  action  on 
insufficient 
It it not  enough  to convict  a 
grounds. 
mau  of  violating  the  law 
to  see  him 
with fish in a wagon;  a sale of  fish  must 
be  proved  before  the  issuance  of  the 
warrant 
reputable 
lawyer in the village  should  be  able  to 
give a satisfactory opinion  on  the  point 
as to whether the ordinance  is  sufficient 
to cover the  case  under  discusssion. 
If 
it is not,  and  the  peddler  mentioned  Is 
exempt  under  that  ordinance,  then  re­
course cannot be had  to  the  State  law; 
but the exemption must be  stated in  the 
ordinance—in  other  words  he  must  be 
the  operation  of  the 
“excepted”  from 
ordinance. 
If 
the  ordinance  neither 
provides for licensing,  nor  excepts from 
the license provisions of  the  ordinance, 
the hawker of  fish,  then,  without doubt, 
the machinery of the State  law  could be 
put in operation.  “ Merchant”  in advised 
to consult a  lawyer.

The  Potato  Prospect.  • 

the 

is  smaller;  but 

Speaking  of  the  prospect  for  a  good 
crop of potatoes, E.  A.  Moseley  said:  “I
think  the crop  will  be.  at  least,  a  fair 
one.  That  refers  to  the  needs  of  the 
market.  The  acreage  is  much  larger 
this year than  last,  while  the  yield  per 
acre 
increased 
acreage will about  supply the  deficiency 
in  yield.  For  this  reason  I  think  the 
market will be fairly  well  supplied;  but 
the price  is  likely  to be  high.  As  you 
know, it is  holding  up  well  now,  when 
as a general thing  at  this  time  of  year 
they are on the  decline. 
I  am  not  pre­
pared to say just what  effect the  change 
in the tariff  will  have  on  potatoes,  but 
one would  naturally  expect  that  a  de­
crease of 40 per cent,  in  the duty  would 
stimulate  their 
importation.  The  de­
crease  amounts  to  about  10 cents  a 
bushel,  which  will  reduce  the  freight 
charges  over  one-third.  This  ought  to 
have the effect of  holding down the price 
in this country,  and I think it  will.  The 
dry  weather  has 
interfered  with  the 
growth of  the tubers,  and,  as  a  general 
thing,  they  are  small.  Reports  from 
Wisconsin,  however,  are  to  the  effect 
that rain came just  in  the  nick of  time, 
and the  yield  will  be  fully  up 
to  the 
average, and of good  quality.”

It Was  Unlawful  Money.

Many of  the  merchants  of  the  small 
towns  of  Kansas are in trouble with the 
Treasury  Department.  Mr.  Murphy,  of 
the  Secret  Service,  has  been 
looking 
around the  country,  and has  found  that 
they were issuing  money contrary to the 
law.  The money  does not profess  to be 
money,  but due  bills.  They  are printed 
in different colors,  and of  denominations 
ranging from 5 cents to  $2.  These  bills 
the  merchants  have  been paying to  the 
farmers for  produce,  and  redeeming  in 
goods at their stores.  On the face of the 
note was the statement:  “On demand the 
undersigned will  redeem  this due bill in 
goods according to conditions on  the  re­
verse side.”  The conditions were in the 
statement:  “This  due  bill  possesses  no 
money value whatever, but simply repre­
sents a credit on merchandise, which will 
be delivered  on surrender  hereof.”  Mr. 
Murphy seized 70,000 due  bills,  also  the 
lithographing  stone  from  which 
they 
were printed  by  the  Hall  &  O’Donnell 
Lithographing  Company, of  Topeka,  for 
the J.  M.  Padgett Coupon Company.  Mr. 
Murphy  said  that  the  last-named  com­
pany  disposed  of  the  due  bills  to  the 
merchants.  No  arrests  were  made,  but 
the business was ordered discontinued.

President—E.  White.
Vice-Presidents—B.  S.  Harris.  J.  J. 
Wagner,  H. J.  Vinkemulder,  E.  J.  Her­
rick and  Homer  Klap.

Secretary—E. A.  Stowe.
Treasurer—J. Geo.  Lehman.
Mr.  Harris offered  the  following  reso­
lution  and  moved  its  adoption,  which 
was carried:
Resolved—That  the thanks of  this As­
sociation  be  tendered  the  officers  and 
committees to  whose  efforts  are  due the 
remarkable success  attending our eighth 
annual  picnic.  Especially  do  we  com­
mend  the  painstaking  efforts  of  A.  J. 
Elliott,  chairman of the  Executive  Com­
mittee,  who was  compelled  to make fre­
quent visits  to  Reed’s  Lake  to  perfect 
preliminary arrangements  and  complete 
collection of voluntary  contributions.
On  motion  of  Mr.  Vinkemulder,  a 
hearty vote  of thanks  was  tendered  the 
business men at the Lake  who  raised the 
fund of $150 as a bonus  to  the  Associa­
tion  and  also  to all who  contributed to 
the success of the event.
There  being  no  further  business  the 
meeting adjourned.
More  Light  Needed  for a  Conclusive 

Reply.

Morley,  Aug. 22—A perplexing ques­
tion has arisen  in this  locality,  and,  as 
its solution  may  be of  benefit  to  other 
merchants of other towns, you may not be 
averse  to  giving  an opinion or some in­
formation  regarding  it.  A  man  here 
buys fish at Newaygo and  Petoskey, sell­
ing  them  through  the  country  and  in 
the village of Morley.  The village  ordi­
nance  says  that  peddlers  shall  pay  a 
some  hook  or 
license,  bat, 
through 
crook,  a fish hawker is exempt. 
Is it so? 
If this is  of  sufficient 
importance,  will 
you kindly answer through The Trades­
man  and oblige 

Merchant.

“Merchant” has failed to state whether 
his question  has reference to the exemp­
tion  of  the  peddler  under  the  village 
ordinance,  or under  the  State  law;  but, 
from the fact that the  village  ordinance 
is mentioned,  it may be  inferred that the 
former is intended.  He should  be  able 
from  reading the ordinance to determine 
whether 
the  peddler  is  exempt  under 
that enactment or not.  T h e  T r a d e s m a n  
does  not  know  what  the  village  enact­
ment on the subject is,  but  the State law 
is plain and positive. 
(H. S., Sec. 1257)  “No  person shall be 
authorized to travel from  place to  place 
within  this  State,  for  the  purpose  of 
carrying to sell,  or exposing  to sale,  any 
goods,  wares or merchandise,  or  to  take 
orders  for  the  purchase  of  any  goods, 
wares or  merchandise,  by  sample,  lists 
or catalogues,  unless  he  shall  have  ob­
tained a license as  a  hawker  or  peddler 
in  the manner hereinafter  directed,”

It is as follows:

The  fee  under  the  State  law  for  a 
peddler with one  horse  is  $40;  for  two 
horses,  $75.  Fish  offered  for  sale  are 
merchandise within  the  meaning of  the 
Act,  and  anyone  hawking  them  from 
bouse to house must  take  out  a license. 
If “Merchant”  had given  us  an  idea  of 
the  scope  of  the  peddling  ordinance 
of  the  village,  the  liability  or  other­
wise  of 
in  question 
could  have  been  readily  determined. 
This  much  may  be  said:  The  State

the  peddler 

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S tate  B oard  o f P K arm acr.f 

One  T ear—O ttm ar Eberbach, Ann  Arbor.
Two  Year®—George G on dram , Ionia.
Three  Y ears—C. A. Bug bee. Cheboygan.
Fomr Years—8. E. P ark in , Owosso.
Five Years—F. W. R. P erry, Detroit.
President—Fred’k W. R. P erry, D etroit.
£ eeretary—Stanley E. P ar kill, Owosso.
Treasurer—Geo. Gandrnm, Ionia.
Doming  Meetings—H oughton, Aug.  29  and  30;  Lane- 
ng, Nov.  6  and 7.
M ich igan   State  P h a rm a c eu tica l  A m ’d . 
President— A. B. Stevens, Ann Arbor. 
Vice-President—A. F. P arker, D etroit 
T reasurer—W. Dupont, Detroit.
Secretajr—8. A. Thompson. Detroit.

G -ra n d   R a p i d s   P h a r m a c e u t i c a l  S o c ie ty  
President,W alter K.Schm idt;  Sec’y , Ben. Sohrouder

How 

to  Managre 

the  Soda-Water 

Counter.

It is impossible, of course,  to say much 
upon this subject in the limited  space at 
my command, hut I wish to  touch  upon 
a few of the points which are  most  com­
monly overlooked  by the dispenser.

To begin with,  there is  a  question  of 
novelty.  This applies  as  much  to  the 
apparatus  as  to  the  drinks  dispensed.
Every  confectioner  is  familiar  with 
the fact that while there are a  few  stan­
dard drinks which have  a  constant  sale 
year  in  and  year  out,  it  is  absolutely 
necessary to offer  one  or  two  novelties 
every  season.  Even 
those  customers 
who  do  not  call  for  the  new  drinks 
would leave  your  store  if  you  did  not 
advertise  them.  The  title  of  the  new 
drink  seems  to  act  upon 
the  “fizzo- 
phagous” portion  of  the  population  in 
two ways: 
In the first place,  it  attracts 
them  into  the  store,  and,  secondly,  it 
makes them feel  that you are  up  to  the 
times.  Hence,  even  though  you  may 
sell very few of the  novelties,  yet  it  is 
profitable to keep them on hand,  as  they 
increase the sale of the  standard drinks.
A point which is  still  less  recognized 
is the importance of frequently changing 
the  appearance  of  the  dispensing  ap­
paratus.  A man who has  a  large  trade 
is apt to imagine that his best plan  is  to 
buy a very fine apparatus,  and then keep 
this in his establishment  for  ten  or  fif­
teen years;  but no greater  mistake could 
be  made.  With  very  few  exceptions, 
the large bulk of  any  dispenser’s  soda- 
water  trade  is  done  among  a  certain 
number of regular customers,  and  it  is 
essential that the appearance of the soda- 
water apparatus should  not  become  too 
familiar  to  them.  Progress of any kind 
implies change, and if they see no change 
in your store they will imagine  that  you 
are unprogressive,  and  will  carry  their 
patronage elsewhere.  They do  not  rea­
son the  matter  out  in  so  many  words, 
hut feel  it  instinctively,  and  act  upon 
this  feeling.  Hence  the  wise  confec­
tioner will make  occasional  changes  in 
the  appearance  of  his 
soda-water 
counter.

I 

knew the case of a man who  used  to 

make it a point to  trade  his  dispensing 
apparatus for  an  entirely  different  one 
every  spring;  and,  although  he  was 
obliged  to  pay  a  difference  of  two  or 
three hundred dollars each time he made 
the  exchange,  he  nevertheless  found 
the planvery profitable.

Of course,  with  little  ingenuity  it  is 
possible to alter completely  the  appear­
ance  of  the  counter  without  buying  a 
new apparatus.  The mere  change of its 
position in the store  will  often  produce 
the same result, or  the  placing  of  stat­
uettes or other ornaments around it.

For very large dispensers the  question 
becomes a most difficult one, for it  is ex­
ceedingly difficult to dispose  of  some  of I

the  mammoth  marble  structures  which 
are to be found to-day in our large cities. 
For sach,  instead of purchasing  a single 
large  apparatus,  I  would  recommend 
getting a  number  of  separate  medium­
sized  wall  apparatus,  with  plate-glass 
mirrrrs  between 
them.  The  separate 
apparatus can then  be  readily  disposed 
of for new ones of entirely  different  ap­
pearance at a  comparatively  small  out­
lay.

An  important  question  which  arises, 
with  large  or  even  with  medium-sized 
apparatus, is  how  to  prevent  slopping 
up the floor behind the counter. 
I know 
of no satisfactory method  of  preventing 
this,  for even if the greatest  care  is  ex­
ercised  it is  impossible  not  to  wet  the 
floor more  or  less.  But  what  can  and 
should  be  done  in  all  establishments, 
and what is done in the best stores,  is to 
employ some device which  will  prevent 
the water from leaking through  the ceil­
ing below and  at  the  same  time  allow 
the  dispensers  to  keep  their  feet  dry. 
The best  plan  which  has  come  to  my 
notice in this connection is that employed 
by some of the largest Mew York  stores. 
They have behind the  counter  a  water­
tight, lead-covered floor,  inclined suffici­
ently to  allow the water to run  off  into 
some  convenient  drain.  Wooden  racks 
are  placed  over  the  lead,  so  that  the 
operators need  not  get  their  feet  wet. 
These racks  are  not  fastened  down  in 
any  way,  and 
they  can  therefore  be 
readily  removed  when  it  is  desired  to 
sweep  the  floor.  This  seems  to  me 
about as convenient  an  arrangement  as 
could be desired and is,  withal,  not  very 
expensive.

Turning now to the  drinks  dispensed,

I  wish to say a few words in  regard  to  a 
drink,  which,  it seems  to  me,  does  not 
receive  the  attention 
it  deserves,  al­
though I must  confess that  its sa>e is in­
creasing  every  year.  This  is  what  is 
known  as  soda  lemonade  or  lemonade 
soda. 
It  is  really  nothing  more  than 
the juice of a fresh  lemon, mixed  with a 
little  simple  syrup  to  sweeten  it,  and 
dispensed  with  a  glass  of  plain  soda. 
Yet it is one of  the  most  healthful  and 
refreshing drinks  existing,  and  with  a 
little judicious pushing  its sale could be 
increased to  an  enormous  extent.  The 
value of lemon juice  for  refreshing  the 
system is well  known,  and  it  is  highly 
recommended  by  physicians  in  fevers 
and  similar  illnesses.  Moreover,  the 
carbonic acid gas  itself  possesses  anal­
ogous properties, and the combination of 
the two  makes  an  ideal  summer drink. 
Consequently,  if the dealer is careful not 
to sweeten too much,  but  to  be  sparing 
in the use of his  simple  syrup,  he  will 
produce  a  drink  that  will  quench  the 
most insatiable thirst,  and  this  is  what 
few drinks will do.  Most of the syruped 
soda waters,  far from  quenching  thirst, 
really  increase  the  thirst,  but  a  well- 
made  soda  lemonade  goes  to  the  right 
spot;  and  if  people  only  realized  this 
fact the sales of  this beverage  would in­
It is al­
crease to an astonishing extent. 
most  unneccessary 
the 
lemons  should  be  perfectly  fresh.  A 
good  way  to  keep  lemons  is  to  wrap 
them separately in tissue paper  and sus­
pend  them  in  open  wire  baskets.  A 
wooden,  or  preferably,  a  glass,  lemon 
squeezer  should  be  used.  Galvanized- 
iron lemon squeezers  should  be,  by  all 
means,  avoided,  as the citric acid  of  the 
lemon forms poisonous  compounds  with 
the zinc.  Porcelain lemon squeezers are 1

to  add 

that 

good if the porcelain is  not  glazed  with 
lead,  which  is,  however,  too  often  the 
case.

Another point which deserves mention 
is that of courtesy to  customers.  There 
are a great many  disagreeable  people in 
this  world, and they will  often say or do 
things which are apt to irritate the dealer’s 
feelings,  but he should school himself to 
avoid  taking  any  notice  of  such  rude­
ness. 
I do not wish to say that a trades­
man should  be  obsequious,  or  that  he 
should  lack proper self-respect;  but  the 
mere fact that a customer is impudent or 
uneducated and says disagreeable  things 
is  no  reason  why  the  salesman  should 
make  a  sharp  or  sarcastic  retort.  Re­
member that you are not responsible  for 
the  education  of  your  customers,  and 
that if they are badly brought up it is no 
fault of  yours.  But  if  you  forget  you 
are a gentleman  and try  to  answer  sar­
casm  with  sarcasm,  you  do  no  good 
whatever and you  lose a certain  portion 
of your self-respect.

This question is often  brought forcibly 
to my notice  at  the  sodawater  counter. 
It  is a widespread belief among  the soda 
water  drinking  public 
that  the  dis­
penser,  in  order to  make a  large  profit, 
draws  each  glassful  of  the  beverage 
with as much foam as  possible,  in  order 
to sell froth instead of soda water.  There 
are, accordingly,  quite  a number of  fair 
damsels  who  make  it  a  point,  after  a 
glassful of the beverage  has been  served 
them,  to let it staud on  the counter  until 
the froth settles,  in the hope of having it 
filled up again.  The  wise  dispenser  in 
all such cases will  do  well  to  make the 
best of a bad matter and refill the tumbler 
without waiting to be asked to do it.  Of 
course, this acquiescence  encourages the 
habit,  but  it pleases  the  customer,  and 
the extra amount of soda water  required 
is inappreciable.

case of this  kind,  which  I  think  worth 
recording, 
in  the  hope  that  other  dis­
pensers may  profit by it.  A  young man 
had  called for a glass of  soda water,  and 
when it was served out to  him  he  let  it 
staud awhile until the foam  had  settled. 
As the  dispenser was industriously  look­
ing out of the window  in order not to ob­
serve  the  diminution, 
the  young  man 
called to him,  asking  him  to  fill  up  the 
glass.  Not caring  to refuse,  the knight 
of the draught arm acquiesced, but he had 
struck  a tough customer,  for  the  young 
man, 
instead  of  quaffing  the  beverage, 
let it  stand  again  a  few  minutes,  and 
then coolly asked to  have  it  filled  up a 
second time.

This  was too  much  for  the  dispenser, 
who curtly replied that he  couldn’t  give 
three glasses of soda water for five cents.
“Oh,  never  mind  that,”  replied  the 
customer.  “I’m  willing  to  pay  ten  or 
fifteen cents to get a good glassful.”

“Well, even so, I can’t do it,” returned 
the dispenser,  “for it’s against our  rules 
to  take  more  than  five  cents  for  each 
glassful.”

The  angry  customer  dropped  a  dime 
on  the  counter  and  went  out  without 
touching the  soda  water,  hut  he  never 
set foot in that store again.

The majority of the  people  who  were 
in  the  store  at  the  time  sympathized 
with the dispenser,  and  he  really  could 
not  be  blamed  for  his  conduct;  but  I, 
nevertheless,  felt  that  he  had  made  a 
mistake in  refusing to fill up the tumbler 
again.  There are,  fortunately,  not many 
and  it
such  disagreeable  customers, 

seems to me better to  be  willing to  lose 
something on these  than to have any  un­
pleasantness arise  in the  establishment. 
If the same man  repeats the practice too 
often it is time then to  try to put  a stop 
to the  matter;  bat  it  is  well 
to  endure 
such things as long as possible.

In recommending this course it  is  not 
the  mere question of profit  that is  to be 
considered,  for the  rule  does  not  apply 
only to a tradesman selling  goods,  but in 
all  branches  of  public  and  private  life. 
The rule is this:  “Never  be  too quick to 
take offense,  and always try to be concili­
ating  in  manner,  even 
if  you  have  to 
sacrifice  some  of  your  own  rights  and 
liberties.”  Life will be much pleasanter, 
and you  will,  curiously enough, get more 
than the man who is  all  the time  claim­
ing his full share,  and who always shows 
fight  at  the  least  infringement  of  his 
rights.

In  concluding  this  article  I  wish  to 
give advice in regard to.two other points. 
The first is to use side-opening  cocks  on 
your portable fountains.  The  top-open­
ing cocks are more apt  to  break off,  but, 
above all things,  they are  more  difficult 
to get under the counter and the  counter 
requires to be  made  higher.  Hence  the 
side-opening cocks  are greatly to be pre­
ferred.

Secondly, 

j  would  advise  all  dis­
pensers,  except  in  the  very  smallest 
establishments,  to use what is  know as a 
multiple valve or deplex cock.  This is a 
device  by  means  of  which  an  empty 
fountain may be shut off  and a  full  one 
turned  on  without  an  instant’s  delay, 
and  without  having  to  dive  under  the 
counter.  The  mere  turning  of  a  stop 
cock accomplishes the desired result.

T h o s.  W a r w ic k .

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T H E   M I C fflG A N   T R A D E S M A N

________Wholesale P rice  Current»________
Advanced—Oil Anise, Oil Cassia, Nitrate Silver.  Declined—Cubeb Beeries, Cubeb  Berries,  po., 

Gum Opium, Oil Peppermint, Po  Ipecac Root, Serpentania Root, Coriander Seed, Sugar Lead.

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S.  N. Y. Q.  A

Morphia, S.  P. A W.  2 05@2 30 
C.  Co......................  1  90@2 20
Moschus  Canton........   @ 4 0
Myrlstica, No  1 .........  66®  70
Nux Vomica, (po20)..  @  10
Os.  Sepia......................  15®  18
Pepsin Saac, H. A P. D.
C o..............................   @2 00
Plcls Llq, N.»C., )4 gal
doz  ...........................  @2 00
Plcls Llq., q u a rts .......  @1  00
p in ts..........  @  85
Pll Hydrarg,  (po. 80)..  @ 5 0
Piper  Nigra, (po. 22)..  @ 1
Piper Alba,  (po g5)__   @  3
Pllx B urgun.................   @  7
Plumbl A c et...............   12®  13
Pulvls Ipecac et opll.. 1  io@l  20 
Pyrethrum,  boxes  H
& P. D.  Co., doz.......  @1  25
Pyrethrum,  pv............  20®  30
Q uasslae...................... 
8®  10
Quinla, S.  P. A W ......34R®39K
S.  German__   27®  37
Rubla  Tinctorum.......  12®  14
Saccharum Lactlspv. 
12®  14
Salacln..........................2  10@2 %
Sanguis  Draconis.......  40®  50
Sapo,  W ........................  12®  14
M.........................   10®  12
“  G .........................   @  15

“ 

@  20 
Seldlltz  M ixture.......
Slnapls..........................
@  18 
“  opt....................
®  30
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  De
V oes.........................  
_
@  35
Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes  @  35
Seda Boras,  (po. 11).  .  10®  11 
Soda  et Potass T art...  24®  25
Soda Carb...................  IK®  2
Soda,  Bi-Carb.............   @  5
Soda,  A sh......................3)4®  4
Soda, Sulphas.............   @  2
Spts. Ether C o ............  50®  55
“  Myrcia  Dom.......  @2 25
“  Myrcia Im p........   @3 00
’*  Vlnl  Rect.  b b l
....7 .......................... 2 43@2 53
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Strychnia  Crystal.......1  40@1  45
Sulphur, Subl.............   2Q@ 3
Roll...............   2  @ 2K
Tam arinds..................... 
8® 10
Terebenth Venice.......  28®  80
Theobrom ae.............. 45  @  48
Vanilla........................9 00@16 00
Zlncl  Sulph.................... 
7®  8

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Bbl. Gal
Whale, w inter............  70
70
70
Lard,  extra.................  SO
80
85
42
Lard, No.  1.................  42
45
Linseed, pure raw
58
59

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paints. 

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

15
62
70
40
bbl.  lb.
Red  Venetian...............i x   2@8
Ochre, yellow  Mars__ IX  2@4
Ber........ IX  2@3
Putty,  commercial__2X  2)4@3
“  strictly  pure......2)4  2x@3
Vermilion Prime Amer­
13@16
ican ............................. 
Vermilion, English.... 
65@70
Green,  Peninsular....... 
70@75
Lead,  red ......................  6  @6)4
“  w h ite .................6  @6)4
Whiting, white Span...  @70
..  @90
Whiting,  Gilders’
1
White, Paris  American 
Whiting,  Paris  Eng.
c liff............................. 
1  40
Universal Prepared  ..1  C0@1  15 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared 
P ain ts.......................1  00®l  20

V A RN ISH ES.

No. 1 Turp  Coach__ 1  10@1  20
Extra Turp..................160®1  70
Coach  Body................ 2 75@3 00
No. 1 Turp  F u rn ........ 1  O0@l  10
Eutra Turk Damar__ 1  55®1  60
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 
T urp........................... 
70®75

Glass  and  Nickle

Hr

„  i .

«. j i   è

s i /

ACIDUM.

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

A ceticum ....................  
8®  10
Benzoicum  German..  65®  75
Boraclc 
Carbollcum ...............  
20®  30
C ltrlcum ....................  
52®  55
HydrocJblor................. 
3®  5
...................  10®  12
Nltrocum 
O xallcum ....................   10®  12
Phospborium  d ll........  
20
Salicyllcum ................ 1  25@1  60
IX®
Sulph urlcum ...............  
Tannicum ....................1  40@1  60
Tartaricum ................. 
30®  33
AMMONIA.

Aqua, 16  deg............... 
4®  6
6®  8
20  deg...............  
Carbonas  ....................   12®  14
Chlorldum ...................  12®  14

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ANILINE.

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

BACCAK.

ubeae (po  25)......... 
Jun ip eru s.................... 
Xanthoxvlum ............ 
BALSAMUM.

20®  25
8®  10
25®  30

Copaiba........................  45®  50
Peru..............................  
®2 25
Terabin, Canada  .... 
40®  45
T olutan........................  35®  50

COBTBX.

Abies,  Canadian....  ............  
IS
Cassiae  ..................................
Cinchona F la v a ..................... 
IS
Euouymus  atropurp..............  30
Myrica  Cerlfera, po...............   20
Prunus Virgin!........................  12
Qulllala,  grd...........................   10
Sassafras  ............................ 
Ulmus Po (Ground  15)..........   15

 

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EXTBACTUM.
Glycyrrhlza  Glabra..
p o . .. .. .
Haematox, 15 lb. box.
Is..............
KS...........
XS...........
rBBBC

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Carbonate Preclp.......
Citrate and Quinla
Citrate  Soluble..........
Ferrocyanldum Sol. • •
Solut  Chloride..........
Sulphate,  com’l ........

24®  25 
33®  35 
11®   12 
13®  14 
14®  15 
16®  17

@  15 
@3  50 
®  80 
@  50 
®  15

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pure.............  w

A rnica.........................  
IS®
A nthem ls....................   30®
Matricaria 
 
50®

FLORA.

 
rohiA.

Barosma 
Cassia  Acutifol,  Tin 
nlvelly 

....................   18®
  §>§

^

Salvia  officinalis,  X*
UraUrsl 
................... 
•man.

and  K*......................  15®
8®

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*> 
•• 
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2d 
3d 
sifted sorts... 
p o .........  60®

Acacia,  1st  picked.  ..  ®
....  ®
...  @
®
Aloe,  Barb, (po. 60)...  50®
“  Cape,  (po.  20)...  ®
Socotri, (po.  60).  ®
Catechu, Is, 04«, 14 54®,
®
16)............................. 
A mmn n lae...................  55®
Assafostlda, (po. 85).. 
40®
Benioinum...................  50®
Cam phors....................   48®
Enphorblum  po  .........  3a®
Galhanum....................
Gamboge,  po...............   <o®
;
Guaiacum,  (po  35) —   @ 
Kino,  (po  1  75)..........   @1
M astic.........................  
®   1
Myrrh, (po. 45) 
® 
 
;
Opll  (po  3  50@3 70) ..2  2d®2 ,
Shellac  ............-..........  «@
“ 
,
33® 
T ragacanth.................  40@l i
h b b b a —In ounce packages.
Absinthium ...........................  ]
Bupatorlum .................... ••  • 
;
Lobelia................................  *  •
M ajorum................................
Mentha  Piperita.......................
11  V ir........................... 
;
Rue.............  
......................
Tanaeetum, V ............................
Thymus,  V ........... .............

bleached....... 

 

m a g n e s ia .

Calcined, P a t .............   55®  ]
Carbonate,  P at............  20® 
,
Carbonate, K. A  M....  20®  : 
Carbonate, Jennings..  35® 

o leu m .

45®

Absinthium 
..............2  50@3 j
Amygdalae, Dulc 
Amydalae, A m a r a e ■
Auranti  Cortex............1  80@2 |
Bergamli  .....................3  W®3 !
C ajiputI...................... 
l
Caryophylli.................  55®  I
Cedar  ........................... 
I
Chencpodli  .................  ^@1  I
Clnnamonii  .............   -1 35®1 i
C ltronella....................  ©  <
Conium  Mao...............  » ®
C opaiba.................. . 
80®  i

2 00
Cubebae....................   . 
Exechthltos...............   1  50® 1  60
E rlgeron.................... 1  50@1  60
G aultherla.................1  70@1  80
20
Geranium,  ounce.......  @  75
Gossipli,  Sem. gal.......  70®  75
Hedeoma  ....................1  25®l  40
Juniperl........................  50@2  00
Lavendula..................   90®2 00
Llm onls......................1  40@1  60
Mentha Piper..............2 25@3 00
Mentha  Verld............2 20®2 30
Morrhuae, gal............1  30®1  40
Myrcia, ounce..............  @  50
O live.............................  90@3  oo
Piets Liquids,  (gal..35)  10®  12
R lcln l..........................  1  22®1  28
Rosmarlnl.............. 
l  00
Rosae,  ounce..............  6 50®8 50
Succlni.........  ..............  40®  45
S abina.........................   90@1  00
Santal  ......................... 2 50@7 00
Sassafras.  ...................  50®  55
Slnapls, ess, ounce__   ®  65
Tlglli.............................  @1  00
T hym e.........................   40®  60
“ 
opt  .................  @160
heobromas............  15®  20
1 

POTASSIUM.

B IC arb........................  15®  18
bichrom ate.................  13®  14
Bromide...................... 
40®  43
Carb...........................   .  12®  15
Chlorate  (po  23@25)..  24®  26
Cyanide........................  50®  55
Iodide.......................... 2 90@3 00
Potassa, Bitart,  pure..  23®  25 
Potassa, Bltart, com ...  @ 1 5
Potass Nitras, opt....... 
8®  10
Potass N itras...............  
9
7® 
Prusslate......................  28®  30
Sulphate  po.................  15®  18

BADIX.

A cocltum ....................   20®  25
Althae...........................   22®  25
A nchusa......................   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  40®)  50
Iris plox (po. 35@38)..  35®  40
Jaiapa,  p r....................  40®  45
Maranta,  Ms...............  @  35
Podophyllum, po........   15®  18
Rhei..............................   75@1  00
“  c u t........................  @1  75
“  pv .........................   75@1  35
Splgella........................  35®  38
Sangulnaria,  (po  25)..  @  20
Serpent aria...................  30®  35
Senega.........................   55®  60
Slmllax, Officinalis.  H  @ 4 0  
M  @  25
Scillae, (po. 85)............  10®  12
Symplocarpus,  Fasti-
dus,  po...................... 
®  35
Valeriana, Eng.  (po.30)  @  25
German...  15®  20
Ingiber a ..................... 
18® 20
18® 20
Zingiber  j .................... 

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6® 

eXMXN.
..  @ 1 5
Anlsum,  (po.  20).. 
Aplum  (gray el eons)..  18®  20
Bird, Is...........................  
4® 6
Garni, (po. 18)................  10® 12
Cardamon....................1  00®1  25
Corlandrum...................  10®  12
Cannabis Satlva..........  4® 
5
Cydonlnm......................   75®1 00
Chenopodium  ..............  10® 12
Dlpterlx Odorate........2 40®2  60
Foenlculnm.................  @  15
Foenugreek,  po....... 
8
U n i ................... 
4  ®  4X
. 
Uni, grd.  (bbl. 8)4)..  3)4©  4
Lobelia...........................   35® 40
4®  5
Pharlarls Canarian__  
R apa................................ 
6®  7
Slnapls  Albu................  
7®  8
N igra............  11®  12

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SFOUTUS.
Frumentl, W..D.  Co..2 00@2 50
D. F. R ....... 1  75®2 00
lunlperls  Co. O. T —  1  65®2 00
..............1  75@3 50
Saacharum  N.  B ........ 1  75®2 00
Spt.  Vlnl  G ain........... 1  75@6 50
Vlnl O porto.................1  25@2 00
Vlnl  Alba....................1  25@2 00

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SPONSBS.

Florida  sheeps’  wool
carriage.................... 2  50@2 75
Nassau  sheeps’  wool
2 00
carriage  ................... 
Velvet  extra  sheeps’
wool  oarrlage..........  
1  10
Extra  yellow  sheeps’
carriage....................  
86
Grass sheeps’ wool car­
riage  .........................  
65
75
Hard for  slate  use—  
Yellow Reef, for  slate 
u s e ............................. 
1  40

A ccacla..................................  50
Zingiber  ................................   50
Ipecac......................................  60
Ferri  Iod................................   50
Auranti  Cortes......................  50
Rhel  Arom.............................  60
Slmllax  Officinalis...............   60
....  50
Senega...................................   50
Scillae.....................................   50
“  Co................................   50
T o iatan ..................................  50
Prunns  vlrg...........................  50

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TINCTURES.

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Aconitum  Napellls R ..........   60
F ..........   50
. .   “ 
Aloes.......................................  60
•* 
and m yrrh...................  60
A rn ica....................................  so
Asafoetlda...............................  4)
Atrope Belladonna...*..........   60
Benzoin..................................   60
„  “ 
Co.............................   50
Sangulnaria...........................   50
Barosm a................................   50
Cantharldes...........................  75
Capsicum ...............................  50
Ca damon...............................  75
„   “ 
Co........................   75
C astor......................................1 00
Catechu..................................   50
C inchona..............................   50
Co........................   60
Columba................................   50
C onium ..................................  50
Cubeba....................................  50
D igitalis................................   50
Ergot............  ........................  50
G entian..................................  50
Co...............................  60
G uatea....................................  50
ammon....................  60
Z ingiber................................  50
Hyoscyamus..........................  50
Iodine.....................................   75
Colorless..................  75
Ferri  Chlorldum................   35
K in o .......................................  50
Lobelia...................................   so
M yrrh.....................................   50
Nux  Vomica.........................   50
O pll.........................................  g5
Camphorated.................  50
“  Deodor.................................2 00
Auranti Cortex......................   50
Q uassia..................................  50
H h atan y ................................   50
Rhei........................................   50
Cassia  A cutifol.....................  50
Co...............   50
Serpentaria...........................   50
Stromonlum...........................   60
T olutan..................................  60
V alerian................................   50
VeratrumVerlde...................  50

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MISCELLANEOUS.

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u 
ground, 

.Ether. Spts  Nit, 3 F ..  28®  30 
“  4 P ..  32®  34
A lum en........................2X® 3

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“ et Potass T.  55®  60

(po.
7)................................  
3®  4
Annatto........................  55®  60
Antlmonl, po............... 
4®  5
A ntipyrin....................   @1  40
Antlfebrln....................  @  25
Argenti  Nitras, ounce  ®  59
Arsenicum................... 
5®  7
Balm Gilead  B ud__  
38®  40
Bismuth  8.  N ............. 1  60®l  70
Calcium Chlor, Is, (Xs
12;  Ms,  14)...............   @  11
Cantharldes  Russian,
p o ..............................  @1  00
Capsid .Fructus, a f...  ®  26
p o ....  @  28
®  20
Bpo. 
Caryophyllus, (po.  15)  10®  12
Carmine,  No. 40..........   @3 75
Cera  Alba, S. A F .......  50®  55
Cera Flava...................  38®  40
Coccus 
.......................   @  40
Cassia Fructus............  @  25
Centrarla......................  @  10
Cetaceum ....................   ®  40
Chloroform .................  60®  68
squlbbs..  @1  as
Chloral Hyd Crst....... 1  25©1  50
Chondrus....................   20®  25
Clnchonldlne, F.  A  W  15®  20 
German  8)4®  12 
Corks,  list,  dls.  per
cent  ........................ 
75
@  35
Creasotum ...............  
@  2
Creta,  (bbl. 75)....... 
“ 
5®   5
prep.............. 
“  preclp..........  
9®  11
. 
“  Rubra.................  @ 8
C rocus........................ 
35®  40
Cudbear........................  @ 2 4
C uprlSulph.................  5 ®   6
D extrine......................  10®  12
Ether Sulph.................  70®  75
Emery,  all  numbers..  @
po....................   @ 
6
Brgota, (po.)  75 ..........   70®  75
Flake  W hite...............   12®  15
G alla.............................  ©  28
Gambler........................  7  @ 8
Gelatin .Cooper..........   @  60
French............  30®  50
Glassware  flint, by box 80.
Less than box  75.
Glue,  Brown...............  
9®  15
“  W hite.................  ISO  25
G lycerine.....................  14®  20
Grana Paradlsl............  ©  22
Humulus......................  25®  55
Hydraag  Chlor  Mite..  @  75
“  C o r__   @ 6 5
Ox Rubrum  ®  85
Ammonlatl..  @  95 
Unguentum.  45®  55
Hydrargyrum..............  @  65
Ichthyebolla, A m ..  ..1  25®1 50
Indigo...........................  75@1 00
Iodine, Resubl...........3 80®3 90
Iodoform......................  @4 70
L upulin........................  @2 25
Lycopodium...............  70®  ’S
M acis...........................  70®  75
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy-
drarg Io d ..................   @  27
Liquor Potass Arslnltls  10®  12 
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
Mannla,  8 .F ...............  60®  68

IK )...............................2H@ 4

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1 25@1 50

DIMENSIONS: —13 inches square at top;  2;  inches  square  at  base;  62  inches 

high.

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

PRICE  $20.

PXELTINE 

i  PERKINS  DRUG  GO.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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T H E   M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N .

G RO CERY   PR IC E   CU RREN T.

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

CAT8UP.

COUPON  BOOKS.

5 

CLOTHES  PIN S.

gross boxes..............40©45

COCOA  SHELLS.

I  1  books, per  hundred 
12 

“Tradesman.
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A X L E  G REA SE.
Aurora......................  55 
60 
Castor Oil................ 
Diamond...................  50 
Frazer's..................  
75 
Mica  ........................  65 
Paragon 
.................  56 

doz  gross
600
7  CO
5 50
9
7  50
600

B A K IN G   PO W D ER .

 

 

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Acme.
45
>4 in.  jans. 3  doz.... 
“  .................   5
u  ;b. 
i  “ .................. i «
l lb. 
Bulk.................. 
10
Arctic.
u   ti cans 6 doz  case.............   55
............  1 10
4  jb  “  4 doz  “ 
1 
lb  “  2 doz  “ 
............2  00
5  lb  “  1 doz  “ 
............9  00
Cream  Flake.
3  oz  “  6 doz  “ 
45
............ 
 
4  oz  “  4 doz 
“ 
 
60
oz  “  4 doz  “ 
............  
80
............  1 20
oz  “  4 doz  “ 
B>  “  2 doz  “ 
............2  00
lb  “  1 doz  “ 
............  9 00
Red Star, 4  ft  cans...............  40
4  ft  “ 
“ 
............ 
75
•* 
i lb  “ 
............  1  40
Teller’s,  4  lb. cans,  doz. 
45
Mlb. 
“  ..  ®
“ 
“ 
1 ..  1  50
1 lb. 
» 
• 
Our Leader, 4  -b cans....... 
45
M lb  cans........  
75
1 lb cans........... 1  50

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BATH  B R IC K .
2 

dozen In case.

BLUING. 

E nglish..................................  90
Bristol.....................................   §0
Donv'stlc................................  70
Gross
Arctic, 4 oz  ovals............... 3 60
«  
80S 
............... 6 75
pints,  round............9 00
“ 
“  No. 2, sifting box... 2 75
“  No. 3, 
...  4 oo
“  No. 5, 
...  8 00
1 oz ball  ...................  4 50
“ 
Mexican Liquid, 4  oz........   3 60
“ 
8 oz..........   6  80

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BROOMS.

.............................  |
.........................   jj

.40. 2 H url.............................   1  J5
No. 1  “ 
No. 2 Carpet.........................  8 25
No. 1 
“ 
Parlor Gem........................... 2 75
Common W hisk................... 
80
Fancy 
.............   160
Warehouse...........................2 75

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BRUSHES.

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Stove, No.  1..........................  125
“  10.........................   1  50
“  15.........................   1  75
Rice Root Scrub, 2  row—  
85
RioeRoot  scru b ,8 ro w .... 1  25
Palmetto,  goose...................  1  50

CANDLES.

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

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CAMMED  GOODS.

P ish .
Clams.

“ 

“ 

« 

“ 
Clam Chowder. 
Cove Oysters.

Little Neck,  1 lb .................. l  20
2  lb ................1  90
Standard, 8 lb....................... 2 25
Standard,  1 lb ......................   75
21b......................135
Lobsters.
Star,  1  lb ..............................2 45
“  2  lb ..............................8 50
Picnic, l i b ............................ 2 00
21b.............................2 90
« 
Mackerel.
Standard, 1 lb....................... 1  10
2  lb .................... 2  10
Mustard,  2 lb ..................... 2 25
Tomato Sauce,  2 lb ...........2 25
Soused, 2  lb .......................... 2 25
Columbia River, flat...........1  80
tails.......... 1  65
Alaska, R ed..........................1  25
pink.......................... 1  10
Kinney’s,  flats..................... 1  95
Sardines.
American  Me..................44©
4«................ 64© 7
Imported  Ms......................  ©w
MS.......................15@16
Mustard Ms........................  607
Boneless............................. 
21
Brook  >, lb ............................2 50

Salmon.
“ 

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“ 
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Trout.
F ru its.
Apples.

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

" 

1  20
4 00

Apricots.

Pears.

Gages.

Peaches.

Cherries.

140
Live oak...............  .... 
Santa  Crus................... 
1  40
1  50
Lusk’s ...........................  
1  10
Overland....................  
Blackberries.
F.  &  W.....................  
90
Red................................1  10O1 25
Pitted H am burgh.......
W hite........................... 
1  50
E rie ..............................  
1  25
Damsons, Egg Plums and Green 
E rie ..............................  
1  20
1  40
California....................  
Gooseberries.
Common...................... 
125
1  10
P ie ............................... 
M axw ell...................... 
1  50
Shepard’s ....................  
1  50
California....................   160@1  75
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  5)
grated............  ©2  75
Quinces.
1  10
Common...................... 
Raspberries.
1  10
R ed................................ 
Black  Hamburg..........  
1  40
1  25
Erie,  black  ................. 
Strawberries.
Law rence....................  
1  25
1  25
H am burgh................... 
Erie............................... 
1  20
1  05
T errapin.........................  
Whortleberries.
Blueberries................. 
85
Corned  beef  Libby’s...........2  10
Roast beef  Armour’s...........1  80
Potted  ham, 4  lb .......................1 25
“  4  lb ...................  70
tongue, H lb .............. 1  35
4 1 b ............  75
chicken, 4 1 b ..........  
95

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V egetables.

M eats.

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Beans.

“ 

11 
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Peas.

“ 
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Corn.

Hamburgh  stringless...........1  15
French style.......2 00
Limas.................. i

Lima, green.................................1 25
soaked............   70
Lewis Boston Baked............ 1 85
Bay State  Baked........................ 1 %
World’s  Fair  Baked............ l  %
Picnic Baked............................... 1 00
Ham burgh............................. 1  26
Livingston  E d en ..................1  20
P a rity .....................................
Honey  Dew.................................1 40
Morning Glory....................
Soaked.................................. 
75
Hamburgh  m arrofat............. 1 30
early June  . 
...1  50
Champion Eng.. 1  40
petit  pole............ 1 40
fancy  sifted___ 1 90
Soaked....................................  65
Harris standard.....................  75
VanCamp’s  m arrofat...........1  10
early .June....... 1  30
Archer’s  Early Blossom___1  25
F rench.........................................2 15
Mushrooms.
F rench...................  
Pumpkin.
E rie.........................................
Squash.
H nbbard......................................l 15
Succotash.
Hamburg......................................1 40
Soaked.................... 
Honey  Dew.................................1 50
E rie.............................................. l 36
Hancock................................
E xcelsior.............................
Eclipse........................... .......
Hamburg.— . . . ...................
G allon........................... .....
CHOCOLATE. 

Tomatoes.

19©21

80

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Baker’s.

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

23
37
43

Bine Label Brand.

“ 

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

Triumph Brand.

35 lb  bags........................  ©3
Less  quantity.................   @34
Pound  packages...........64©7

C O FFEE.

G reen.
Rio.

Santos.

F air.........................................¡8
Good.......................................19
Prim e..................................... 21
Golden................................... 21
Peaberry .*............................. 23
F air........................................ 19
Good.......................................20
Prim e.....................................22
Peaberry  ...............................23
Mexican and Guatamala.
F a ir........................................ 21
Good.......................................22
Fancy.....................................24
Prim e.....................................23
M illed...................................24
Interior................... 
...........25
Private Growth....................27
M andehllng.........................28
Im itation..............................25
Arabian................................. 28

Maracaibo.

Mocha.

Java.

R oasted.

To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add Me. per lb. for roast 
lng and 15 per  cen t  for shrink 
age.
M cL aughlin’s  XXXX ..  22 80
Bunola  ..............................  22  30
Lion, 60 or 100 lb.  case__   22 80

P ackage.

E xtract.

Valley City M  gross............ 
75
1  15
Felix 
Hnmmel’s, foil, gross.........1  65
“  
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7‘ 

 

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CHICORV.

Bulk..................................  ...  5
Red..........................................7

CLOTHES  LIN ES.

Cotton,  40 f t .......... perdos.  1  25
140
1  60
1  75
1  90
85
1  00

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

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Jute 
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CONDENSED  M IL K .

4 dos. in case.

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

C H EESE.
10
Amboy.......................... 
9
Acme............................. 
Lenawee......................  
10
R iverside....................  
10
Gold  Medal................. 
9
5©7
Skim ............................. 
15
Brick............................. 
Edam  ........................... 
1  00
L eiden.........................  
22
©15
Llmbnrger................... 
Pineapple....................   ©25
Roquefort— — ......... 
©35
Sap  Sago  .................... 
©20
Schweitzer, Imported.  ©24 
domestic  ....  ©14

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Peerless evaporated cream. 5  75

C R E D IT   CHECKS.
500, any one denom’n ....... 83 00
.......
1000,  “ 
5 00
.......
2000,  “ 
8 00
Steel  punch.........................
75

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Foreign.
Currants.

Patras,  In barrels.............. 
In  M-bbls...............  
In less quantity —  
cleaned,  balk ........  
cleaned,  package.. 

2%
2%
3
4M
5 

Peel.

Citron, Leghorn. 25 lb. boxes  13 
Lemon 
8
Orange 
10

25  “ 
25 “ 

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Raisins.

Ondura, 29 lb. boxes..  ©
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Sultana, 20 
Valencia, 30  “
California,  100-120...............

©  8

Prunes.
90x100 25 lb. bxs.  5% 
80x90 
70x80 
60x70 

.  8

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Turkey...........................
Silver  . . . ; .....................
ENVELOPES.
XX rag, white.

No. 1, 6M.............................  61  75
No. 2. «M............................. 
t  60
No. 1,6................................  165
No. 2, 6................................   150

XX  wood, white.

Manilla, white.

No. 1, 6M.............................  135
No. 2, 6M  ...........................  1  25
6M  .......................................  1  0G
6............................................ 
95
Mill  No. 4...........................   100
FARINACEOU8  GOODS. 

Coin.

34

Farina.
Hominy.

Oatmeal.

Lima  Beans.

100 lb. kegs.......................... 
B a rre ls...............................3 00
2 00
G rits........................................  34
3 00
6 25
Dried...............................4  @44
10 00
Maccaroni and Vermicelli.
17 50
Domestic, 12 lb. box__  
55
Imported...................... 10M@11
Barrels  200..............................   5 00
Half barrels  100 .................  3  00
Kegs..........................- ........   2 60
Green,  bn...........................  1  15
Spilt  per’l b .......................  
3
Barrels  180...................  @5 on
Half  bbls 90...............   @2  75
G erm an................................  44
Bast India.............................  5
Cracked.................................  34

Pearl Barley.

Rolled  Oats.

Wheat.

Sago.

Peas.

F IS H —Salt.

Bloaters.

Cod.

Yarmouth.............................
Georges cured..................   44
Georges genuine..............6
Ceorges  selected.............   6M
Boneless,  bricks................64
Boneless,  strips..................64

Halibut.

Herring.

Sm oked....  -................... 

@

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Holland, white hoops keg 
70 
bbl 
9 50
Norwegian.........................
Round, M bbl 100 l b s .......  2 50
.........  1  30
Scaled.................................. 
19

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4   “  40  “ 
Mackerel

“ 

80

Sardines.
Trout.

No. 1,  100 lbs........................ 1000
No. 1, 40 lb s.................................4 40
No. 1,  10 lbs...............................  1 00
No. 2,100 lbs...............................7 no
No. 2,40 lbs..............................   3 10
No. 2,10 lbs.........................  
Family, 90 lbs...................
10  lbs ...................
Russian,  kegs......................  
55
No. 1, 4  bbls., lOOlbs............ 4 75
No. 1 4  bbl, 40  lbs.....................2 2C
No. 1, juts, io lbs................ 
63
No  1, 81b kltB................... 
53
No. 1  family
M bbls, 100 lbs........... 86 25  2 25
“  40  “  ..........  2 80  1 20
4  
101b.  k its.................... 
38
8 lb. 
33
....................  
MATCHES.

Whlteflsh.

78 
65 

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Globe Match Co.’s Brands.

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

2  00 
2 50 
8 00 
8 00
4 0U
5 00
2  50
3 00
3 50
4 00
5 00
6  00

“Superior.”

8  1 books, per  bnndred 
6 2 
6 8
6 5
810 
620 

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..20 

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8  1  books, per hundred...  63 00 
....8 5 0
8 2  
....  4  00
8 3
....  5  00
8 5 
810 
....  6  00
820 
. 
7  00
Above prices on coupon books 
are  subject  to  the  following 
quantity discounts:
200 books or over..  5  per  cent 
500 
1000 
COUPON  PASS  BOOKS. 
ICan  be  made to represent any 
denomination  from 810  down, f
20 books............ ..............8 1  00
50 
100 
250 
500 
1000 

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CRACKERS.

 
 
 
 
 
Butter.

SeymonrXXX......................  5
Seymour XXX, cartoon.......5M
Family  XXX........................  5
Family XXX,  cartoon........   5M
Salted XXX...........................  5
Salted XXX,  cartoon  .........5M
K enosha................................  7M
Boston.....................................  7
Batter  biscuit......................  6
Soda,  XXX...........................  5M
Soda, City..............................   7M
Soda,  Dncbess......................  8M
Crystal W afer............  ......... 10M
Long  Island W afers...........li
8. Oyster  XXX......................  5M
City Oyster. XXX.....................5M
Farina  Oyster......................  6

Oyster.

Soda.

 
 

CREAM   TA RTA R.
Strictly  pure........................ 
80
T ellers  Absolute...............  
so
Grocers’...............................15©25

FLY  P A P E R . 

T h n m ’s  T anglefoot.

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

D R IE D   FRUITS. 

124 

D om estic.

Apples.

“ 

Peaches.

Apricots.

quartered  “ 

Sundried. sliced In  bbls.
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes 
California In  bags.........
Evaporated in boxes.  .. 
Blackberries.
In  boxes.........................
Nectarines.
701b. bags.........................
251b. boxes.......................
Peeled, in  boxeB............
Cal. evap.  “ 
............
“ 
in bags.........
California In bags.......
Pitted  (merries.
Barrels.............................
50 lb. boxes....................
26  •• 
.....................
Prnnelles.
801b.  boxes....................
Raspberries.
In  barrels........................
50 lb. boxes......................
........................
251b.  “ 
Raisins.

Pears.

“ 

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Loose  Muscatels In Boxes.

2 crow n................................
3 
................................
4 
2  crow n.................................   4%
3 
.................................. 4M

“ 
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Loose Muscatels In Bags.
“ 

........................  5

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

Souders'.

Regular  ; 
Grade 
Lemon.

doz
2  oz  _8  75
4  oz  ....  1  50

Regular
Vanilla.

doz
I 2 oz....... 81  20
4 oz.........2  40

XX Grade 
Lemon.
I 2 oz....... 81  50
4 oz.......  3 00
XX Grade 
Vanllla.j
2 oz.......81  75
_____  4’oz.......3 50
Jen n in g s.
Lemon. Vanilla 
2 oz regular panel.  75 
1  20 
...1  50
4 os 
“ 
2  00 
3 no 
6  os 
“ 
...2  00
No. 3  taper 
 
1  35
2  00 
2  50
No. 4  taper............1  50
N o rth ro p ’s 
Lemon.
“  1.20 
85 
“  1  60 

Vanilla. 
1  Iff
1’75
1  20
2 25
GU N PO W DER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.  itT'7”’*

2 oz oval taper  75
3 oz 
2 oz regular  “ 
4 oz 

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

Choke Bore—Dupont’s

Eagle Duck—Dupont's.

60

H ER B S.

IN D IG O .

Kegs.......................................11  00
Half  kegs....................................5 75
Quarter kegs...............................3 00
1  lb  cans............................... 
Sage..........................................15
Hops.........................................15
Madras,  5 lb. boxes..........  
55
50
S. F., 2, 3 and 5 lb. boxes.. 
JE L L Y .
©  53
15  lb. palls................... 
“ 
17  “ 
.................   ©  65
30  “  “ 
.................   ©  90
LICO R IC E.
P are.........................................   80
Calabria..................................   25
Sicily.......................................  12
Root.................................  
10
LYE.
Condensed,  2 doz....................   1 20
4 doz...................... 2 25

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r  i  ft

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

M EASURES.
Tin, per dozen.

1  gallon  .............................  81  75
Half  gallon........................  1  40
Q u a it.......... .......................  
70
P in t...........................  
45
Half  p i n t .........................  
40
Wooden, for vinegar, per doz.
1 gallon...............................  7  00
Half g allon........................  4  75
Q u art............  ...................   3  75
Pint 

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MOLASSES.
Blackstrap.
Cuba Baking.
Porto Rloo.

Sngar bouse................. —  
O rdinary............................. 
P rim e..................................  
Fancy......... 
F a ir...................................... 
Good  ..................................  
Extra good.......................... 
Choice 
............................. 
Fancy 
Half  barrels Sc.extra

New Orleans.

14
16
20
30
18
22
27
32
40

N i/*

PIC K L E S.
Medium.

Barrels, 1,200  count...  @s  00
Half bbls, 600  count.. 
Barrels, 2.400  count. 
Half bbls, 1,200 count 

Small.

3  50

@3 CO
6 00

PIPES.

Clay, No.  216............................... 1 70
“  T. D. full count............  70
Cob, No. 8.........................120

PO TASH .

48 cans in case.

Babbitt’s ..................................  4 00
PennaSalt  Co.’s ....................   3 00

R IC E .'
Domestic.

No. 1..........................5J4

Carolina head..........................6
“ 
“  No. 2................'.....  5
Broken..................................   4
Imported.
Japan, No. 1............. 
“  NO. 2............................. 5
Jav a...............................« . . .   6
Patna........................  
8PICES.

5ft

414

 

 

Whole Sifted.

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Pure Ground In Bulk.

Allspice..................................  914
Cassia, China in mats.........  8
Batavia In bund — 15
Saigon In rolls........ 32
Cloves,  Amboyna................22
Zanzibar..................1114
Mace  Batavia........................80
Nutmegs, fancy.....................75
“  No.  1.......................70
“  No.  2.......................60
Pepper, Singapore, black — 10 
“ 
w hite...  .20
shot........................... 16
“ 
Allspice...................................15
Cassia,  Batavia.....................18
and  Saigon.25
“ 
Saigon......................35
“ 
Cloves,  Amboyna................22
“  Zanzibar...................18
Ginger, A frican.....................16
’■  Cochin....................  20
Jam aica...................22
“ 
Mace  Batavia........................65
Mustard,  Eng. and Trieste.. 22
“  Trieste...................... 25
Nutmegs, No. 2 .....................75
Pepper, Singapore, black — 16 
» 
“  w hite.......24
“  Cayenne..................20
Sage........................................ 20
•‘Absolute” In Packages.

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Ms  Ms
A llspice........................  84  155
Cinnamon....................   84  1  55
Cloves...........................  84  1  55
Ginger,  Ja m a ic a .......  84  1  55
A frican............  84  1  55
M ustard........................  84  155
Sage?................. ...........   84

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Corn.
20-lb  boxes.......................... .-  5M
....................... ...  5M
40-lb 
Gloss.
Mb packages......................
3-lb 
.....................
.........................  6M
6-lb 
40 and 50 lb. boxes........... ...  3M
Barrels...................................  3%

..  5

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SNUFF.

Scotch, In  bladders......... ...37
Maccaboy, In Jars................35
...43
French Rappee, in Jars

SODA,

SALT.

B oxes................................ ....5W
Kegs, English................... ....4M

Diamond Crystal.

“ 

Cases, 24 3  lb. boxes....... .*  1  60
Barrels, 320  lbs................ .  2 50
.  4  00
115 2M lb'.bags... 
“ 
3  75
00 5 
...
lb  “ 
“ 
... .  3 50
“ 
3010  lb  “ 
67
Butter, 56 lb  bags............
“  20141b bags............ .  3 50
“  280 lb  b b ls .......... .  2  50
.......... .  225
“  224 lb 
Worcester.
..14 (0
115 2M-lb sacks...............
................. ••3 7 5
“ 
60 5-lb 
................. ..  3  50
“ 
3010-lb 
................... ,.;3 30
24  14 lb.  “ 
320 lb. bbl.......................... ..  2 60
8 lb  sacks...
..  32M
60
100 3-lb. sacks................... .12  10
................... ..  2 00
60 5-lb. 
28 10-lb. Backs................. ..  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  In.  sacks..........................
Saginaw .............................
M anistee............................

Ashton.
Higgins.
Soiar Rock.
Common Fine.

linen acks.............
Common Grades.

Warsaw.

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•  1H 
■  1* 
.1  15 
■  134

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SAL  SODA.
Granulated,  bbls..........
751b  cases.
Lump, bbls 
.................
1451b kegs........
SEEDS.
A n ise...........................
Canary, Smyrna..........
Caraw ay......................
Cardamon, Malabar...
Hemp,  Russian..........
Mixed  Bird  ...............
Mustard,  w hite..........
Poppy ...........................
R ape.............................
Cuttle  bone.................
STARCH. 

T H E   M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N .

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SALERATUS.

' 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.

$10 30 gro 
12 60  “ 
14  40  ’*

16 20 gro 
21  60  “ 
25 50 
Grade.

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

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

SOAP.
L aundry.

Allen B. Wrlsley’s Brands.

Old Country,  80  1-lb............3 20
Good Cheer, 6011b............... 3 90
White Borax, 100  M-lb.........3 65

Proctor & Gamble.

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

Dingman Brands.

Single box............................. 3  95
5 box lots, delivered.......... 3 85
10 box lots, delivered.........3 75
Jas. S. Kirk & Co.’s  Brands. 
American  Family, WTp'd..l3 33 
p lain...  3 27
N.  K.  Fairbank & Co.’s Brands.
Santa Claus.........................   4  00
Brjwn, 60 bars...................... 2 40
80  b a r s .....................3  25

“ 
Lautz Bros. & Co.’s Brands.

“ 

“ 

Acm e..................................    3  75
Cotton O il...............................6  00
Marseilles...............................4 00
M aster.........................................4 00
Thompson & Chute Co.’s Brands

Silver....................................365
M ono....................................3 30
Savon Improved.................2 50
Sunflow er...........................2 80
Golden  ................................ 3 25
Economical  ........................  2 25
Single  box  ..........................3 65
5 box  lots.............................  3  60
10 box lots............................ 3  50
25 box  lots del.....................3 40

Passolt’s Atlas  Brand.

S c o u rin g :.

Sapolio, kitchen, 3  doz...  2 40 

hand, 3 doz.......... 2 40

“ 

SUGAR.

Below  are  given'N ew   York 
prices on sugars, to' which  the 
wholesale  dealer  adds  the  lo­
cal freight  from  New  York  to 
your  shipping  point,  giving 
you  credit  on. the  invoice  for 
the  amount  of  freight  buyer 
pays from the market  in which 
he  purchases  to  his  shipping 
point, including 20  pounds  for 
the weight of the barrel.
Domino...........................
.$5 56 
Cut  Loaf.  ......................
.  5 56 
C ubes..............................
.  5  25 
Pow dered.......................
.  5  25 
XXXX  Powdered........
.  5 50 
G ranulated...................
.  500 
Fine Granulated..........
.  5 00 
Extra Fine Granulated
5  12 
Mould A .......................
.  5  25 
Diamond Confec.  A __
.  5  00 
Confec. Standard  A ..  .
.  4 87 
No.  1..........................
4  75 
No.  2 ......................
.  4  75 
No.  3...........................'
■  4 '5  
No.  4.............................
.  4 69 
No.  5.............................
.  4 62 
No.  6.............................
.  4 56 
No.  7...........................
.  4  44 
No.  8.............................
.  4 31 
No.  9.............................
.  4  25 
No.  10...........................
.  4  18 
No.  11...........................
.  4  12 
No.  12.............................
4 06 
No.  13.............................
.  3 81 
No.  14.............................
.  3  62

SYRUPS.

Corn.

.24
9ft

Barrels............... .................
Half bbls......................
Pure Cane.

10
F a ir....................................
Good...................................
25
Choice.................................. ..  an
TA B LE  SAUCES.
Lea & Perrin’s, la rg e ........ .  4 75
small.......
2 75
Halford, la rg e .................
.  3 75
.  2 25
Salad Dressing,  large  ___
.  4  55
sm all..,.
.  2  66

sm all.............
*’ 

“ 
“ 

TEAS.

j a p a n —Regular.

BASK ET  F IR E D .

@17
F a ir..............................
@20
Good............................
Choice............................24 @26
Choicest...................... .32 @34
D u st..............................10 @12
SUN  CU RED .
@17
F a ir............................
©20
Good...........................
Choice........................... 24 @26
Choicest...................... .32 @34
D ust.............................. 10 @12
F a ir............................. .18 @20
@25
Choice.........................
@35
Choicest......................
Extra choice, wire leaf @40
GU N PO W D ER.
Common to  fa il...........25 @35
Extra fine to finest — .50 @65
Choicest fancy.......... .75 @85
@26
Common io fa ir........ .23 @30
Common to  fair........ .23 @26
Superior to fine.......... .30 @35
Common to  fair........ 18 @26
Superior to  fine......... .30 @40

YOUNG  HYSON.

IM PE R IA L .

OOLONG.

K N SL ISH   B R E A K FA ST .

F a ir................................ 18  @22
Choice.............................24  @28
B est................................40  ©50

TOBACCOS.

F in e  Cut.

P. Lorillard & Co.’s Brands.
Sweet Russet.................30  @32
Tiger........................... 
. 30 ■
D. Scotten & Co’s Brands. 
. 
H iaw atha..................... 
60

Private Brands.

Spaulding & Merrick’s  Brands.
Sterling......................• 
30
Bazoo...........................  @36
Can Can.........................  .  @*J
Nellie  Bly.....................24  @25
CncleBen..................... 24  @25
27
McGinty......................  
“  M bbls..........  
25
"
Dandy Jim ................... 
¿4
Torpedo....................... 
in  drum s—  
23
Yum  Yum  ................. 
~8
1892............................... 
23
■»
“  drum s................... 

“ 

P lug.

Sorg’s Brands.

38
40
26
«8
34
40

39
30

Spearhead........................ 
J o k e r...........................
Nobby Twist......................  
Scotten’s Brands.
Kylo.................................... 
Hiawatha........................... 
Valley C ity ......................  
Finzer’s Brands.
Old  Honesty..................... 
Jolly .Tar.......32
Lorillard’s Brands.
Climax (8  oz., 41c)-------- 
G r'en Turtle....................  
27
Three  Black Crows... 
J. G. Butler’s Brands.
Something Good......... 
38
Out of  Sight..................... 
Wilson & McCaulay’s Brands.
Gold  Rope........................ 
Happy Thought.......... 
37
Messmate.......................... 
No T ax............................... 
Let  Go............................... 
Catlin’s  Brands.

Sm oking.

24
43
32
31
27

Kiln  dried..........................17@18
Golden  Shower..................... 19
Huntress 
............................  -26
Meerschaum  .....................29@30
American Eagle Co.’s Brands.
Myrtle Navy....................••••40
StOTk  .................................30@32
Germ an.................................. J?
F ro g ....................................... j®
Java, Ms foil......................... 32
Banner Tobacco Co.'s Brands.
B anner...............  
J6
Banner Cavendish................38
Gold Cut 
............................. 28
W arpath.................................^
Honey  Dew.............................
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.

 

LeidersdorrB.Brands.

Spaulding & Merrick.

Rob  Roy.......................... — 26
Uncle  Sam.......................28@32
Red Clover............................. 32
Tom and Jerry.......................25
T raveler  C avendish............. 38
Buck H orn.............................30
Plow  Bov........................ 30@32
Corn  Cake............................. 16

V IN EG A R.

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

II for barrel.

W ET  MUSTARD.
Bulk, p e r g a l....................  
30
Beer mug, 2 doz In case...  1  75

YEAST.

Magic,.........
Warner’s  ...
Yeast Foam 
Rl&mond...
R oyal.......

1  00 
.1  00 
.1  00 
.  75 
■  90

W O OD EN W A RE.

splint 

Tubs, No. 1...........................  6 00
“  No. 2...........................  5 50
“  No. 3...........................  4 50
.  130
Palls, No. 1, two-hoop.. 
“  No. 1,  three-hoop__   1 50
Bowls, 11 Inch.....................
13  “ 
...................... 
“ 
90
15 
........ ............  1  25
“ 
17  “ 
“ 
.......................  1  80
19  “ 
“ 
.....................  2 40
21 
“  
...........................
Baskets, market...................  35
“ 
shipping  bushel..  1  15
..  1  25
“ 
full  hoop  “ 
“  willow cl’ths, No.l  5 25
“  No.2 6 25
" 
No.3 7 25
“ 
‘ 
No.l 3 75
“ 
“ 
“ 
« 
No.2 4 25
“ 
*■ 
No.3 4 75
Pails.....................................  3  15
Tubs,  No.  1...............................13 50
Tubs, No. 2................................ 12 00
Tubs, N o.3................................10 50

IN D U R A TED   W A RE.

“ 
“ 
1 
« 

2 10
2 45
2 80

250  1000

Butter Plates—Oval.
60 
70 
80 
...........................  1  00  3 50
Washboards—single.

No.  1...........................  
No.  2...........................  
No.  3...........................  
No 
U niversal....................................2 25
No. Q ueen.................................. 2 50
Peerless Protector......................2 40
Saginaw Globe.........................   1 75
Water W itch........................  225u
W ilson.........................................2 5^*
Good Luck.................................. 2 7-»
Peerless................................   2  8
H IDES  PELTS  and  FURS
Perkins  <&  Hess  pay  as  fol­

Double.

“ 

R ID E S .

lows:
G reen...........................—  2@2M
Part  Cured...................  @  3
Full 
"..................   @  4
Dry.................................  4 @ 5
Kips,green  .................  2  @ 3
"  cured...................  @ 5
Calfskins,  green........   4  @ 5
cured.........5M@  7
Deacon skins...............10  @25

“ 

No. 2 hides M off.
FE L T S .

WOOL.

Shearlings.......................5 @  20
Lambs 
........................ 25  @  60
W ashed.......................12  @17
U nw ashed..................  8  @12
Tallow .........................   3M@  4M
Grease  butter  ............  1  @ 2
Switches......................1H@  3
Ginseng........................3 00@2 50
GRAINS and FEEDSTUFF8

M ISCELLANEOUS.

W H EA T.

48
48

M EAL.

No. 1 White (58 lb. test) 
No. 2 Red (60 lb. test)
Bolted........................... ....  1  40
.  1  65
Granulated..................
FL O U R   IN   SACKS.....  2 05
«Standards................... ....  1  55
Bakers’......................... ....  1  35
«Q ra.bn.TY i................................ . .. .   1  40
Rye..........   ................... ....  1  40
♦Subject  to  usual cash  dis-
count.Flour in bbls., 25c per bbl. ad-
ditional.

M IL L 8T U F F 8.

Less
Car lots quantity
$16 00
12 00
17 00
24 50
23.  00

B ran...............115 00
Screenings —   12 00
M iddlings.......16 00
Mixed Feed...  23 00
Coarse meal  .  22 00
Car  lots..................................06
Less than  car  lots............... 63
Car  lots..................................35
Less than car lots.................38
No. 1 Timothy, car lots — 11  n0 
N o.l 
ton lots........ 12 50

CORN.

OATS.

“ 

FISH   AND  OYSTERS.
F.  J.  Detteuthaler  quotes  sb

12M

follows:
FR E SH   F IS H .
@10
Whltefisb 
...........................
@8
Trout  .......................................
Black Bass..................
H alibut......................... @17
@  4
Ciscoes or Herring . . . .
@10
Blueflsh.......................
20
Fresh lobster, per lb . .
10
Cod................................
@   9
No. 1 Pickerel.............
@   7
Pike ............................................
@   8
Smoked  W hite.................
15
Red  Snappers....................
Columbia  River  Sal-
15
.... ................................................
18@25
Mackerel................................
o y s t e r s — Cans.
@45
Falrhaven  Counts —  
F. J. D.  Selects...............
Selects..................................... @30
f . J. D...........................
Anchors...................
Standards....................
o y s t e r s — Bulk.
Extra Selects..per gal. 
Selects.........................
Standards....................
Counts............................... 
Scallops........................
Shrimps  ........................... 
Clams...........................
SHELL  ROODS.
O y s t e r s ,  per  100..........1  25@1  75
.  75@100
C la m s, 

1  85

“  

2 20
1 25

PROVISIONS.

PO R K   IN   B A R R E L S.

The Grand Rapids  Packing  and Provision Co

qnotes as follows:
Mess.................... 
14  50
Short c u t .................................................. 1.. 
14  75
Extra clear pig, short  cu t..............................   16  50
Extra clear,  heavy..........................................
Clear, fat  back...............................................   16
Boston clear, short cu t........   ........................  16 00
Clear back, short cu t.......................................  16 00
Standard clear, short cut. best..................  
16  00

 

 

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“
“
“

B E E F   IN   B A R R ELS.

SAUSAGE.
Pork, links...............................
Bologna....................................
Liver.........................................
Tongue ....................................
Blood.......................................
Head cheese...........................
Summer....................................
Frankfurt».............., ...............
LA R D .
Kettle  Rendered..................
G ranger...................................
F am ily.....................................
Compound..............................
Cottoleue... 
........................
50 lb. Tins, Me advance.
20 lb. p&IIb, Me 
10 lb. 
“  Me 
51b. 
“  %c 
3 lb. 
‘  1  c 
Extra Mess, warranted 200  lbs....................
Extra Mess, Chicago packing.......................
Boneless, rump butts.......................................
s m o k e d   m e a t s —Canvassed or Plain.
Hams, average 20 lbs.......................................
16 lbs.......................................
12 to 14 lbs..............................
picnic....................................................
best boneless........................................
Shoulders..........................................................
Breakfast Bacon  boneless.............................
Dried beef, ham prices...................................
D R T   SA LT  MEATS.
Long Clears, heavy  .........................
Briskets,  medium............................
lig h t..................................
Butts....................................................
D. S. Bellies.......................................
Fat Backs............................................
P IC K L E D   P IG S ’  F E E T .
Half  barrels......................................
Quarter barrels................................. .
K its.....................................................
T R IP E .
Kits, honeycomb..................
Kits, prem ium ......................

“ 
'• 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

CROCKERY  AN D  GLASSWARE

7X
SM
6
SM
6
10
7M
SM
SM
6M
6M
7M

3 ¿0
11  uo
12M
13
-13M 
.  8M 
10M
10M
13

.  8M 

9
9
8M
3  00 
.2  00
90

LA M P  B U R N E R S.

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

Pearl top.

6 doz. In box.

First quality.
“ 
“ 
XXX Flint.

No. 0 Sun..............................................................   45
No. 1  “  ...............................................................  50
No. 2  “  .............................  
75
Tubular................................................................   75

 
LA M P  CHIM N EY S.  Per bO X .
No. 0 Sun.......................................  .........
1  75 
No. 1  “ 
...................................................
1  88
No.2  “  ...................................................
2 70
No. 0 Sun, crimp  top..............................
....... 2  10
No. 1  “ 
“  ..............................
.".'."I 25
No. 2  “ 
“  —   ......................
.  ...2   60
No. 0 Sun, crimp  top..............................
.......2 80
No. 1  “ 
“  ..............................
.......3  80
No.2  “ 
“  ...............................
No. 1 Sun, w r a p p e d  a n d   l a b e l e d ...............
.......3 70
.........4 TO
“ 
“ 
No. 2  “ 
..........
.......4  88
“  —
No. 2 Hinge,  “ 
Fire Proof—Plain Top.
3  70 
No. 1, Sun,  plain  bulb......................
.4  70
No. 2, 
“ 
......................
“ 
La Bastie.
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb,  per doz......................... 1  25
“ 
No.2  “ 
........................150
No. 1 crimp, per doz........................................... 1  35
No.2 
“ 
........................................... 1  60
No. 0,  Tubular, cases 1 doz. each....................  45
No. 0, 
“  3  “ 
.....................   46
bbls 5  “ 
No. 0, 
.....................  40
bull’s eye, cases 1 doz each.l  00
No. 0, 
3 25 
No. 10, Brass, 400  candle  power.................
.3  25
No. 9, Globe, automatic  extinguisher.......
23
No. 0,  per  gross..............................................
28
No. 1, 
...............................................
38
NO.2, 
....................................
75
No. 3, 
...............................................
Mammoth, per doz.................  ....................

STREET  LAMPS.
LAMP WICKS.

“ 
LA N TER N   GLOBES.

ROCHESTER  STORE  LAMPS.

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

FRUIT  JARS.

Mason—old  style.

Dandy—glass  cover.

Mason—one doz  in case.

P in ts................................................................
Q uarts.............................................................
Half  gallons..................................................
P in ts................................................................
Q u arts............................................................
Half  gallons.........................   ......................
Pints................................................................
Q uarts............................................................
Half  gallons.................................................
Supplies.
Boyd’s extra caps........................................
Rubber rings......................... . 
.......-........
Sealing wax, red or white, 5 lb  packages
JELLY  TUMBLERS—Tin Top.
«  Pints,  6 doz in box, per box  (box 00)..
24  “  “  bbl,  “  doz  (bbl 35).. 
“  6  “  “  box,  “  box (box 00)..
U 
M 
11  bbl,  “  doz  (bbl35)..
“  18  “ 
STONEWARE—AKRON.
Butter Crocks,  1 to 6 gal............................
“  M gal. per  doz....................
Jugs, M gal., per doz...................................
1 to 4 gal., per gal.............................
Milk Pans, M gal., per do*.........................
........................
Butter Crocks, 1  and 2 gal.........................
Milk Pans, M gal. per  doz.........................

l  “ 
STONEWARE—BLACK GLAZED.

» 

“ 

“ 

“ 

1 

“ 

“ 

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

4  75
5  00 
7  00
4  75
5 76
7  75
8 50
9 00 
12  00

35 
.  2M
1  64 
.  23 
1  80 
. 
26

06
60
70
07
60
72
8M
66
78

18
SENDING  SIGNALS  TO  THE  STABS.
A few years ago  it  occurred  to  some 
person,  with a  very  lively  imagination, 
that it  might  be  possible  to  arrange  a 
set of  signals  by  which  the  people  of 
this  earth  could  exchange  intelligence 
with the  inhabitants  of  the  nearest  of 
the  heavenly  bodies.  These  would  be 
the  moon,  which  is  only  240,000  miles 
away, and Mars, which,  although  vastly 
farther off, is yet, in certain positions  of 
its travel through  space,  in  very  favor­
able conditions for observation.

The moon  is brought so near to  us  by 
means of  large  telescopes  that  a  great 
city would  be visible;  but  nothing  like 
the works of men is  discernible, and  the 
side of the moon which is always turned to 
us is such a scene of volcanic disorder, of 
wreck and ruin, that the astronomers de­
clare it to be unfit for human habitation. 
People like us could never live  upon  its 
craggy  rocks,  devoid  of  vegetable  ex­
istence,  or  in  its  deep  valleys,  strewn 
with  sand  and 
lava  and  destitute  of 
water,  and, 
therefore,  none  of  their 
works would be found in  such  a  barren 
waste.  There are no  signs  of  water  in 
the moon, and  that  fact  shuts  out  the 
possibility of human  life  there.  Never­
theless,  as we see  only  one  side  of  our 
satellite, it is impossible  to  say  what  is 
on the other. 
It may be  a  fine  country 
to live in,  and  we  may  imagine  the  in­
habitants making excursions to the  sum­
mit of the wild  and  desolate  mountains 
which border  the  wrecked  hemisphere, 
whence they may see the  earth swinging 
in the sky like a vast  moon,  four  times 
the diameter of  theirs  as  it  appears  to 
us. 
It must be  a grand  sight,  but  one 
only to be got  by  a  long  journey  to  a 
dreadful rocky desert.

It  is  not  likely,  under  the  circum­
stances,  that  we  will  get  any  signals 
from the moon;  but  there  is  a  talk  of 
signals  from  Mars.  Mars  is  so  placed 
that we may note its  red  continents,  its 
green seas, and the ice caps at  its  poles. 
The shapes of coast lines are easily made 
out, and the  great  canals,  200  and  300 
miles wide and  1,000  miles  long,  which 
connect the seas and water the  dry  con­
tinents, are clearly made out  in  the  tel­
escopes of power.  These  canals,  being 
straight and connecting distant bodies of 
water,  are so unlike anything  which  oc­
curs in nature that the  conclusion seems 
inevitable that they were made by  intel­
ligent beings,  while their  enormous  s.ze 
and numbers—for there  are  scores, and, 
perhaps,  hundreds  of  them—show  that 
the people of Mars are  the  grandest  en­
gineers  ever  imagined,  far  surpassing, 
in the extent and vastness of their works 
anything in  this  world.  The  fact  that 
Mars is very poorly  watered, having two- 
thirds more of land than  sea,  while  our 
earth  has  nearly  three  times  as  much 
water as  land,  demonstrates  the  neces­
sity for extensive works for  tbe  uses  of 
navigation, but particularly for  counter­
acting the dryness of that globe.

The mighty engineering works  of  the 
people of Mars have stamped them  as  a 
race endowed  with  great  scientific  skill 
and sagacity,  which have  given  rise to a 
hope that they, of all the  inhabitants  of 
any  other  planet,  would  be  the  right 
ones with whom to open  up  communica­
tion. 
It has been suggested that  a  peo­
ple so ingenious  and  intelligent  should 
already have thought of  making  signals 
to the  inhabitants  of  other worlds—our 
earth,  for instance—and they  have  been 
endeavoring to study our system  of men­

T H E   M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N .
BEPBESENTATIVE  RETAILERS.

“What,” 

tal  development.  The Martians are en­
gineers  and  builders. 
they 
may well ask,  “are the people of Earth?” 
The inhabitants of our planet  are chiefly 
characterized  by  their  genius  for  war 
and destruction.  None of  our works are 
big enough to be seen in  Mars, unless  it 
might be the burning of a city;  but there 
is no regularity or system  in  that.  Tbe 
great canals of Mars are  always there to 
show for their builders and to  testify  to 
their  peaceful  nature. 
It  is  only  be­
cause tbe  lands of their  planet  are  red 
that it has been dedicated  by  us  to  the 
God  of  War;  but  the  real  destroyers, 
burners and  wanton  shedders  of  blood 
are the people of this earth of ours.

For all the centuries the Martians have 
been waiting for a sign  from  the  earth. 
It is now supposed  they  have  got  it  in 
the electric lighting of  cities.  No cloud 
ever obscures the clear sky  of  their  red 
planet.  They can look  straight through 
the transparent ether  until  their  vision 
is  interrupted  by  the  clouds  that  so 
often obscure our sky.  But,  under  fav­
orable conditions, the  innumerable elec­
tric lights of our cities may  be  in  some 
way visible,  and  possibly  the  Martians 
have undertaken to reply  to  them.  Re­
cently, 
the  astronomers  have  noticed 
many  brilliant points of light in  the  red 
planet.  They were  supposed to  be  the 
effect  of  sunshine  upon 
ice-covered 
mountain  peaks;  but thi3 is  not  certain.
Celestial  photography  has,  within  a 
few years past,  been  carried  to  a  high 
degree of excellence,  and  some  wonder­
ful pictures  of  sky  scenery  have  been 
obtained.  A number of  views  of  Mars, 
presented 
the  August  number  of 
Astronomy and Astro-Physics,  show the 
star points of light which have  been  re­
cently photographed. 
In one  case there 
are three of  these  lights  arranged  in  a 
row. 
In another there are only two, and 
in a third there are no less than thirteen. 
Who can say what  they  are?  The  cau­
tious  astronomer  thinks 
they  are  tbe 
sunlight glinting on the summits  of  ice- 
covered peaks.  The imaginative theorist 
says they are signals  set  by  tbe  people 
of  a  far-off  world  to  attract  attention 
and to open  communication.

in 

But  how  will  this  be  done  without 
concert of action?  What  do  three,  two 
and thirteen  mean when  read  in  lights 
in the world of Mars? 
Is that  a  lottery 
“gig?” 
Perish  the  suggestion.  The 
mighty builders of canals 300 miles wide 
aud  1,200  miles  long  are  too  wholly 
given to grand and noble thoughts to  in­
dulge in trifles.  All  intelligence  is  the 
same 
in  nature,  only  differing  in  de­
gree.  There  is  but  one  sort  of  mind. 
There  is  but  one  quality  of  spirit 
Minds addressed to  the  work  of  think­
ing out a particular  problem  will,  in  a 
certain sense,  come  together.  They will 
not reach  the  same  conclusion;  but,  in 
certain limitations,  they  will  reach  the 
same sorts  of  conclusions.  Thought  is 
projected through space from  one  mind 
to another.  Why  should  there  be  any 
limitation of  space  throngh  which  the 
communication may be carried on?  Why 
may it not be projected from  a  mind  in 
one planet to a mind in  another  planet? 
These are questions which  it will not be 
safe to answer precipitately.

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

It is  unlawful  to  bring  foreigners  to 
this country under  contract  to do honest 
labor,  but paupers can  be  brought  over 
to  become  loafers  and  anarchists  and 
i American politicians  without limit.

Dealer.

N. Silvius, the Ottawa Street Dry Goods 
Nicholas Silvius was  born  on  May  8, 
1851,  in  Zierikzee,  Province  of Zeeland, 
Holland.  His  father  was  a  grocer  and 
dealer  in  builders’  supplies  in  the  old 
country,  while  his  son,  some  time  pre­
vious  to  coming  to this country,  taught 
school.  The year  1873  will  be  remem­
bered as the year which  inaugurated the 
great “panic of  the  seventies.”  It  was 
felt,  and  severely,  in  Holland,  as it was 
in this country,  and  the  senior  Silvius, 
rather than fail in business, sold out,  and 
emigrated to America.  The destination of 
the family was Holland, but, when Graud 
Rapids was reached,  the wife and  mother 
was taken ill and they were compelled to 
remain here,  locating  in the Fifth  ward, 
where  they  have  resided  ever  since. 
Nicholas soon  secured a situation  in  11. 
M.  McConnell’s  dry  goods  store,  which 
was  located  where  Seigel’s  cloak  store 
now is on Monroe  street.  Later  he  en­
gaged as clerk in  Iloogerhyde’s  grocery. 
In  Nov.,  1878,  he  started  business  for 
himself, opening a dry goods store at 551 
Ottawa  street,  and  two  years  later  he 
moved  into  his  present  location  at 521 
Ottawa street.  About two years ago Mr. 
Silvius built acotnfortable home for him­
self and wife at  418  Ottawa  street.  He 
is  a  quiet  and  unassuming  gentleman, 
who has been  Content  with  a  moderate 
share  of  business  success,  which  has 
been gained  by  strict  honesty  aud  up­
rightness  in  his relations  to his custom­
ers.  He is an earnest and devoted mem­
ber of the  Christian  Reformed church of 
Le Grand street, and  possesses the confi­
dence and respect of  all who know  him.

From Traffic.

Some  Incongruities of Arbitration. 
As long as laws cannot  be  enacted  in 
this country which  will  compel  an  em­
ployer to conduct bis business at  a  loss, 
or to pay wages that his profits  will  not 
permit,  and  to  do  which  would  surely 
lead to bankruptcy,  as long  as the work­
ing man cannot  legally  be  forced to ac­
cept wages he considers insufficient,  it is 
folly to endeavor to settle labor  disputes 
by arbitration.  The employer has a per­
fect right to fix the  price he  will pay for 
either material or  labor,  and  the  work­
ingman  has  a  like  power  to  decide 
whether  he will  accept  or  decline  the 
pay offered.  There  the  legal  rights  of 
both cease.  The employer bas  no  more 
right to oblige  the  workingman  to  fur­
nish his labor at such figures  as the  em­
ployer chooses  to  dictate  than  has  the 
laborer to  compel  the  manufacturer  to 
either  pay  the  wages  demanded  or  to 
close his plant by preventing others from 
working at the rate offered.  No  author­
ity exists in a free  country  to  confiscate 
either capital or  labor by obliging either 
party to accept the decision  of  any  one 
person  or  any  number  of'  persons. 
While tbe arbitrator  or  arbitrators  may 
suggest  or  advise,  it  remains  optional 
with tbe interested parties  to  accept  or 
reject the  decisions.  Wbat  we  need  is 
legislation that will make it unlawful  to 
form  combinations  for  tbe  purpose  of 
arbitrarily fixing the price of  either pro­
ductions or of labor, or with  tbe view of 
restricting the privilege of those  outside 
of the membership  from  doing  as  they 
wish  with  that which  is  their  absolute 
property.  Trusts  should  not  be  per­
mitted to exist in this  country.  Corpor­
ations  rendering  public  service  should 
not  be  allowed  to  interfere  with  the 
operation  of 
concerns; 
neither should  it  be  possible  for  labor 
unions  to  prescribe  how  tbe  employer 
shall conduct his business, or to  deprive 
of a living workingmen  who  differ with 
them  in  the  estimate  of  the  value  of 
their services.
I  Use Tradesman Coupon Books.

competitive 

Crystal  Springs  Water  8  Fuel  Go.,

Jobbers  of

COAL,  COKE  and  WOOD,

G5  M onroe  St.,  hi

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Correspondence  solicited  with  outside 

dealers.

WALTER BAKER & CO.

T h e   Largest 
M an ufacturers o f

COCOA and 

CHOCOLATE
IN  T H I S  C O U N T R Y ,
have  received  from  tbe 
Judges  of the

W orld’s 
Colum bian 
Exposition
The Highest Awards
on  each  of  the  following  articles, 
namely :
BREAKFAST  COCOA,
PREMIUM  NO.  I  CHOCOLATE, 
CERMAN  SWEET  CHOCOLATE, 
VANILLA  CHOCOLATE,
COCOA  BUTTER,

(Medals and Diplomas)

For “ purity of material,” “ excellent 
flavor,"  and  “ uniform  even  composi­
tion.” 
S O L D   B Y   G R O C E R S   E V E R Y W H E R E .
W a l t e r  B aker  &  Co.t

__ ______

DORCHESTER,  MASS.

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

Shoes ? 

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  tbe  best  satisfaction 
of any rubber  iu  the  mar­
ket.  Our  line  of  Leather 
Boots  and  Shoes  is  com­
plete  iu  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, 
we are  REEDER BROS’. SHOE CO.

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me “MY" Slow  Pipe Conor  s  Holder.

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

Holds  any  pipe. 
Fits any flue.  Ab­
solutely  soot  and 
spark  proof. 
Im­
possible  for  pipe 
to  work  loose.  It 
is  neat,  durable, 
inexpensive. 
Patented. 

Liberal discount 
to the trade.
One  dealer 
in 
Y towns  of  1.000  or 
less.
Write  for  prices 
to L. I). Sanborn, 
Grand  Rapids, 

Mich.,

Sole Agent for this State. 
R andles,  M anufacturer,  Q uincy,  111.

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 fe rs

la  Felt,  Gompositioa  and  Gravel.

Cor.  Louis  an d   C am pau Sts., G rand  R apids
HEADACHE
POWDERS

P E C K ’S

Pay the best profit.  Order from your jobber

5.  C.  W.

The  Leading  Niekle  Cigar 
Made in this Market.

The Only Brand in the State (outside of Detroit) 

Made by Improved  Machinery.

This  Cigar  is  made  with  Long  Mixed 

Filler,  Single  Connecticut  Binder 

and  Sumatra  W rapper.
Sold at $35 per  1,000

By  the  Manufacturer,

6. J. Johnson

347 South Division St. 

Grand  Rapids, 

nich.

Telephone  1205.

BALD
HEADS

STICK CANDY.
Cases

“ 
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Standard,  per  lb ..........
H .H .................
Twist  ............
9
Boston Cream  .............
Cut  Loaf.......................
Extra H.  H .................... ..  9

Bbls. Palls.
7)4
7)4
7)4
9

6)4
6)4
6)4

MIXED CANDY.

“

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.. baskets

Ibis.
.6
6
..7)4
• 7)4
7)4
■ 7)4
8

“
fancy—In bulk

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

Palls
7
7
8
8)4
8H
8)4
8)4
9
9)4
13)4
..  9
■■  8)4
Palls
printed.............................................   9)4

Lozenges, plain.................................................  9
Chocolate Drops.................................................  13
Chocolate Monnmentals..................................  13
Gum Drops.........................................................   5)4
Moss Drops.................................................  
 
8
Sour Drops..........................................................   8 Hi
Imperials......................  ...................................  
lo
Per Box
Lemon Drops 
.....................................................55
Soar D rops........................................................... 55
Peppermint Drops............................................... 60
Chocolate Drops...................................................75
H. M. Chocolate  Drops....................................... 80
Gum Drops.............................................  
40
Licorice Drops..................................................1  00
A. B. Licorice  Drops...........................................80
LozengeB, plain.................................................... 65
65
Imperials...............................................................65
Mottoes.................................................................70
Cream Bar............................................ 
55
Molasses  Bar...........................................  
55
Hand Made  Creams....................... .............85®95
Plain Creams........................................................ 80
Decorated Creams................................................90
String  Rock..........................................................65
Burnt Almonds.................................................1  00
Wlntergreen  Berries...........................................60
No. 1, wrapped, 2 lb.  boxes...........................   34
No. 1, 
51
28
No. 2, 

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

fancy—In 5 lb. boxes. 

3 
2 

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CARAMELS.
 
 
ORANGES.

“ 
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Fancy  Seedlings,  96s.......................................  5  75
Rodis, 
160s.................................................   5  00
Rodis,  200s  ........................................................

LEMONS.

 

 

 

Choice 300 ...........................................................  4  50
Extra choice 380.............  
4  50
Extra fancy 300.................................................   5  00
Extra fancy 360.................... 
5  00
BANANAS.
Large bunches.....................  
t  75
Small bunches.........................................  1  00@1  50
Figs, fancy  layers, 8f t .............................  @12)4
201t ...........................  @12)4

“ 
“  14ft  ...........................   @15
Dates, Fard, 10 lb.  box.............................  @ 7
.............................  @5)4
Persian. 50-lb.  box........................  @ 5
1 lb Royals..............................................  6)4

“ 
“  extra 
«• 
“ 
“ 

OTHER  FOREIGN  FRUITS.

«  50-lb.  “ 

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NUTS.

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Almonds, Tarragona................................   @16
Ivaca........................................   @15
California...............................  @
Brazils, new...............................................  @ 8
Filberts...................................................... 
,
Walnuts, Grenoble...................................   @12)4
French........................................  @10
Calif............................................  @12)4
Taoie  Nuts,  fancy...................................   @12
choice............................... 
@11
Pecans. Texas, H.  P.,  .............................  @7)4
Chestnuts...................................................
Hickory Nuts per b u ................................
Cocoanuts, full sacks..............................
Fancy, H.  P., Suns...................................   @5)4
Fancy, H.  P„ Flags..................................  @ 5)4
Choice, H. P.,  Extras..............................   @  4)4

“  Roasted......................   @ 7
“  Roasted...........  .......  @ 7
“  Roasted...................  @  6

PEANUTS.

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C U RR EN T  C R ITIC ISM S.

“Hello!  Fritz.  Heard  you  were  sick 
and  not  expected  to live?”  “So I was, 
but  my  doctor died two weeks ago and I 
got  better.”  Moral—Respectfully  dedi­
cated to Congress.

*  *  *

When you  are in company  with a mem­
ber of the present  Congressional  major­
ity,  don’t  ask him to pass the sugar. 
It 
revives too many  painful memories.

*  

*  

*

The editor of the  Denver  Commercial 
Tribune says Mrs.  Rorer  is  “an  efficient 
and  ablebodied  female  bunco.”  What 
that editor needs is a dyspepsia cure.

*  *  *

Ingersoll  is  devoting  considerable  of 
his  valuable  space  to  the  defense  of 
suicide. 
Is  Bob  really  as  miserable as 
that would appear to indicate ?

*  *  *

Debs says there was no  rioting  or  dis­
order in Chicago  during  the  late  strike 
until  after  the  Federal 
troops  were 
called out.  Most of us have labored un­
der  the  delusion  that  the  troops  were
called out to quell disorder.

*  *  *

“Government  ownership  of  the  rail­
roads is preferable to railroad  ownership 
of  the  Government”  said  an  A.  R.  U. 
leader the other day.  That  is  what  we 
call  a  very  neat  epigram,  if it is some­
what misleading.

*  

*  

*

Governor  Altgeld snubbed  Vice-Presi­
dent Wickes, of  the  Pullman  company, 
the other day  Now, and  forever  after, 
let Wickes hide his diminished head.

*  

*  

*

Santo’s  dying  “Vive  Vanarchie”  was 
not a very enthusiastic one; but then  the 
attending circumstances  were  rather de­
pressing.

*  

*  

*

The man  who can’t find what he wants 
It
in the new tariff bill  is hard  to  suit. 
is  a  protection-free-trade-tariff-for-revu-
nue-only measure.

*  #  *

Dave Hill is a pretty  shrewd  political 
poker player, .but  he  should  remember 
that a full hand won’t help him much on 
the show down; and a straight flush don’t 
turn up once in a dozen  years.

*  *  *

Cleveland’s obesity is easily  accounted 
too  much 

for.  He  has  Gormandized 
lately.  All rights reserved.

*  *  *
Pomeroy and Pingree. 

If  there is any 
virtue in alliteration  that ought  to  be  a 
paying combination.

Said  a dealer 

the  other  day:

wouldn’t give a  copper  for all  the  trade 
papers or all  the advertising in  the coun 
try.”  That is not all  he said,  but it was 
the most sensible remark he made.

So far as  that individual  dealer is con­
cerned he is right.  The best trade paper 
iu this vale of tears would not  help  him 
any.  What he wants is a child’s primer. 

*  *  *

In that  immense  vacuity  he  calls  his 
mind there is room  for  at least  as much 
knowledge as Is possessed by the average 
citizen.

*  *  *

He uever thiuks.  He sometimes thinks 
he thinks,  but he  doesn’t.  He has noth­
ing to think with.

Crushing a man’s vanity  is  like  step­
ping on his corns,  so far  as  making  him 
admire you is concerned.

D IPH T H E R IC   C H E E S E .

Initial  Discovery  of  Germs  of Contagi­

ous  Disease in  Cheese.

N e w   Y o r k , Aug.  16-Assistant Chemist 
Beebe of the  division  of  bacteriology  of 
the  Health  Department,  made  a  report 
to  Sanitary  Superintendent  Roberts I 
Monday  of  the  examination  by  him  of 
specimens pf cheese  seized  last week  by 
Inspector  Fuller,  and  which  the  State 
Board  of  Health 
reported  contained 
germs  of  diphtheria.  Dr.  Beebe  found 
the  true  bacillus  of  diphtheria  in  the 
cheese.  The  cheese  was  made  at  the 
factory of  the  Star  creamery  at  Afton, 
Chenango  county.  Fifty-one  packages, 
each  weighing 
sixty  pounds,  were 
shipped to a commission  house in Wash­
ington street,  this  city.  The  entire  lot 
was  seized  by 
inspector  Fuller.  Dr. 
Roberts,  after  receiving  the  report  of 
Assistant  Chemist  Beebe,  order  all  of 
it to be immediately destroyed.
This is the first time  that  the germ  of 
contagious  disease  has  been  found 
in 
cheese.  The State Board of  Health  had 
a  sample  of  the  cheese  from  the  Star 
creamery examined, and found the bacilli 
of diphtheria in it.  The Board of Health 
of this city  was told  to  seize  the  entire 
lot sent to the  Washington  street house, 
and  this  was  done.  Assistant  Chemist 
Beebe grew cultures  from  specimens  of 
the cheese,  and  found that  it  contained 
the true  bacilli of diptheria.  The germs 
were  alive  in  the  cheese.  To  make  a 
urther test,  several  guinea pigs  will  be 
inoculated  with  the bacilli,  and they  will 
be carefully  watched to  see  if  they  de­
velop diphtheria.
In the case of the  cheese from  the Star 
creamery the  farmer  who  supplied  the 
milk to the dairy  from  which the cheese 
was made had a fatal  case of  diphtheria 
n his family.  He milked the  cows  dur­
ing the  time that the disease  was  preva­
lent,  and  in  that  way  the  germs  were 
communicated 
to  the  milk,  and  they 
ived  in  the  cheese  after 
it  had  been 
manufactured.
N o r w ic h ,  N.  Y.,  Aug.  19— Later  dis­
coveries in the Afton diphtheritic  cheese 
case show that the bacilli  probably came 
from one of the employes  of  the factory, 
and not from the  dairyman  whose  child 
had 
the  disease.  On  July  12  Frank 
Smith,  an  employe of  the  factory,  died 
from  a  malignant  attack  of  diptheria. 
The  factory  was  closed  by  the  Afton 
Board of Health  and  instructions  asked 
from the State Board.  Dr.  F.  C. Curtis, 
of the State  Board  came  and  gave  per­
mission  to  ship  the  June  cheese,  but 
ordered the  July cheese held for  further 
examination.  Dr.  Curtis  ordered  a 
sample  of  the  July  cheese  sent  to  Pro­
fessor  J.  H.  Stoller,  Union  college, 
Schenectady,  for  bacteriological  tests, 
and instructed the Afton Health Board to 
allow the cheese to  be  shipped  on  July 
30  if  not  advised  to  the  contrary.  On 
that date,  no word  having  been received 
from Dr. Curtis, the cheese  was  shipped 
to McCabe & Son, New York.  The  next 
day,  July 31,  a letter was  received  from 
Dr. Curtis saying  that  bacilli  had  been 
found in the cheese examined by Profess­
or  Stoller.? He  was notified by  wire  of 
the shipment and the destruction  of  the 
cheese followed.

“We don’t  export  many  confections,” 
said  a  New  York  candy  manufacturer, 
“ because Europeans are  not  candy  eat­
ers.  One fashionable  New York woman 
is  worth more to us than a dozen English 
families.  Our products are  still  looked 
upon  as  curiosities 
in  most  English 
households. 
I think  there are  no better 
confections than are made  in New York, 
but we still  import  candied  violets  and 
rose  leaves.  The  French  still  have  a 
finer kuack with  such  things  than  we.”
It  it  proposed  to remove  the Govern­
ment  building  from 
the  world’s  fair 
grounds at Chicago to Atlanta for the ex­
position  there.

E l E Ó ^ Q T y P E ;^

Use 'Tradesman Coupon Books.

T radesman Co..

QUANTITY 
GRAND RAPIDS.MICH.

D AN D RU FF  CURED .

NO  M U S T A C H E ,
NO  PAY.

NO  C U R E, 
NO  RAY. 
1 will take Contracts to grow hair on the head 
or face with  those  who can  call  at  my office or 
at  the office of my agents, provided  the head D 
not  glossy, or the pores of the scalp not closed. 
Where  the  head  is  shiny  or  the  pores  closed, 
there is no cure.  Call and  be examined  free ol 
charge. 
If you cannot  call, write to me.  State 
tho exact  condition of  the scalp and your occu- 
oation. 
«*■—* nHi Matcaio Temple  Chicaoc
/Mic h ig a n ( Te n t r a i

PR O F.  O.  B IK K H O LZ,

“ The Niagara Falls Route.”

(Taking effect  Sunday,  May 27,1894.) 

•Dally.  All others dally, except Sunday.

Arrive. 
» e  pan
10 20p m ............Detroit  E xpress...........7 00am
5  30 a m ..... »Atlantic and  Pacific........ 11  20 pm
1  so p m ........ New York Express  ........   6 00 p m
Sleeping cars  run on Atlantic  and  Pacific  ex 
press trains to and from Detroit.
Parlor  cars  leave  for  Detroit at  7:00 a m ;  re 
turning, leave Detroit 4:35 pm ,arriving at Grand 
Rapids 10:20 p m.
Direct  communicatloH  made  at  Detroit  with 
all through  trains east  over  the  Michigan Cen 
tral Railroad (Canada Southern Division.)
A. Almquist, Ticket  Agent, 
Union PassengerStation.

OILS.

BARBELS.

The  Standard Oil  Co.  quotes  as  folio

Eocene.................... • ■..........-....................
XXX  W.  W. Mich.  H eadlight...............
N aptha........................................................
Stove Gasollxe..........................................
Cylinder....................................................27
E n g in e ......................................................13
Black, 15 cold  test...................................
E ocene.................................................... -
XXX  W. W.  Mich.  Headlight...............

FROM   TA N K   WAGON.

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

BEEF.

FRESH   MEATS.
Carcass..............................................
Fore quarters......................... .
Hind quarters................................
Loins NO. 3 .........................................
Ribs...................................................
R ounds......................................................
F C hucks..—. . . . .............  
•  -
Plates........................................................... 3
D ressed............. ........................................  8
L o in s.............................. .............
Shoulders  ....... 
........................
Leaf Lard.....................................
C arcass........................................................4  @
Lambs........................................................... "
Carcass.........................................

..  5 @  8
.  3 @  4
6 @ 7
.  8 @10
.  6 ®  8
..  5 @ 6
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..  3 @ 3)4
.  6 @6)4
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9)4

..  4 @  5
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.  6 ®  7

MUTTON.

PORK.

VEAL.

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GOTHAM GOSSIP.

News  from  the  Metropolis— Index  of 

the  Markets.

Special C orrespondence
N ew   Yoke,  Aug.  25—It made  quite  a 
sensation when it was  announced in  the 
newspapers that a lot of cheese was on stor­
age which contained  diphtheritic  germs, 
and the lot of fifty  cheeses  was  ordered 
held until a  more  thorough  examination 
could  be  made. 
It  was  made,  and  the 
result  is  that  someone  has  blundered. 
The cheese is all right and  may  be eaten 
with impunity.  Now the question arises, 
is it fair for a State  Board  of  Health  to 
give publicity to the statement  that they 
think  such  cheese  is  being  stored  here 
unless they are quite  sure of  what  they 
are  talking  about?  The  incident  has 
probably worked  some  harm  to a  great 
industry, just  as  the  trichinae  did  with 
the pork trade, and just as the reports of 
poisoning  by  canned  goods  sufficed 
to 
keep  many  from  eating  them  who  had 
always used them  freely  previously. 
It 
is always best  to  be  sure  you  are  right 
before  condemning  as  unfit  for  eating 
what may prove all right after all.
Trade  among  the  wholesale  grocery 
bouses has  been  good.  The drouth  con­
tinues  nearly  all  over the  northern  part 
of the Union,  and from  Maine  to Dakota 
the reports on  this  point  are  discourag­
ing. 
It is likely that the  Maine  pack of 
corn  will  be  reduced  nearly  one-half, 
while  tomatoes  and  other  stuff  usually 
in abundance will  be short  in  the  great 
producing  regions.  The  farmers  who 
will have anything to  sell  will  be  com­
pensated for holding wherever  they can. 
But what is he going  to  do  who  has  to 
buy his corn and potatoes?
Your  correspondent  recently  saw  a 
private letter from Ionia  county,  Mich., 
telling  that  in  one  instance  a  thrifty 
farmer  dug  forty-two  hills  of  potatoes 
and  the result was  one  peck.  He  says 
that from  two  acres  he  will  have,  per­
haps, five  bushels. 
It  seems  as  though 
money might be made  by  purchasing  in 
this city and shipping  to  the  West.  At 
this  writing  spleudid  potatoes  can  be 
bought at retail for 82.50 per bbl.,  but  it 
is  only  a  question  of  time  when 
they 
must go way up.
We are having quite  a  lot  of  visiting 
grocers  here  from  North  Carolina  this 
week,  and it is said that they are making 
some  extensive  purchases  at  the  ex­
pense of Baltimore,  which city they have 
patronized in  the past.  “It  pays to buy 
in New York.”
A  beam  of  light  appears  from  New 
Jersey.  The  chestnut crop  is  going  to 
be ample.  The  trees  are  burdened with 
burrs, and are the only things which with­
stand the attacks of the mosquitoes.
Dried  fruit  is  interesting  the  dealers 
just now by reason of the big crops  here 
low 
and  abroad  and  the  consequent 
prices. 
It is going to be pre-eminently a 
dried fruit year, and  the bulls  are going 
to  make  the  most  of  the  opportunity. 
Raisins and prunes  are  evidently  going 
to be no higher,  and the probabilities  are 
that  they  will  both  seek  still  lower 
levels.  French  prunes,  four  sizes,  are 
quotable  at  5%c,  and 
the  California 
product  in  boxes  ranges  from  6c  for 
90-100s to  11c  for  40-50s.  These  prices 
are not  firm and may  be  shaded  to  suit 
circumstances.
The coffee market has  been  very quiet 
during the  week,  and  the  price  of  16c 
for Rio No. 7 has  hardly  been  departed 
from a fractional part of  a cent. 
¡Specu­
lation is nil.  No one anticipates  higher 
prices.  The stock here  is about  125,000 
bags.
That  gieat  sugar  authority  and  de­
fender of  the  Trust  through  thick  and 
thin,  the  Sugar  Statistical,  says  that 
there is only a four weeks’ supply of raw 
sugar here now, and that on this the pro­
fits of  the  Trust  will  be  only  %c  peri 
pound.  Do  you  realize  how  much  %c 
per  pound  amounts  to  when  the  total 
amount is 150,000 tons?  It is 82,520,000. 
This is the amount  of  profit  obtained in 
only four weeks. 
If it  can  be  made  in 
one  month,  it  can in ten  of every year, 
and it is  hard  to  convince  the  average 
man that this is not too much profit.  Of 
course,  it is  none of his  business  if  the 
Trust keeps  up a rate of  profit that  will 
enable it to  buy all  the  refineries  twice

T H E   M IC H IG A N   T R A D E SM A N S

over every year; but the “average man” is 
keeping  up  a  big  thinking  over  these 
matters and the time will come when the 
Trust will have to be content with a pro­
fit of only a million a month.  Even then 
Havemeyer can afford to pay $60,000 each 
for  pictures  and  indulge in  any  fad he 
chooses.
Molasses and  syrups  show  some little 
firmness.  Perhaps  a  promised  rise  in 
freights from the  South have  something 
to  do  with  the  present  better demand. 
Stocks are not over-abundant of either.
Rice is steady, but with no appreciable 
increase in demand.
The  butter  market  is  firm  and,  with 
the advancing  season,  the  receipts  have 
become  very  moderate.  Best  Western 
and Pa.  are held  at 24j^c,  lower  grades 
from  17@22c.
Cheese is very quiet,  and although the 
present demand is  light, the  situation is 
very favorable for better prices.
Eggs  are in  fairly free receipt and  the 
market  is  meeting  all  demands.  The 
best  near-by  are  worth  from  18@20c; 
western, 16@18c.
Potatoes range from  $1.50@2  per  bbl. 
in round lots.  The market is firm.
Green  apples  range  from  $1.50@2.50 
per bbl.  and arrivals do not turn out very 
excellently.  Other  fruits from domestic 
sources are arriving freely.
The tariff agony will soon be over,  and 
our merchants will  be working night and 
day to make up for  the  time  they  have 
lost during the  past year. 

J a y .

Gripsack  Brigade.

Henry  Dawley  (A.  E.  Brooks  &  Co.) 
has gone to Washington,  D. C.,  to attend 
the K. of P.  convention.

Will A. VanLeuven is still  confined to 
his home by reason  of  the  sprained  leg 
he  sustained  at  the  traveling  men’s 
picnic.
Not content  with his  laurels as an  um­
pire and vocalist,  Ad. Baker now aims to 
figure as a sprinter,  but  a  recent  exper­
ience  at  Nunica  is  not  culculated  to 
enhance his reputation in this line.

Philadelphia  Call:  A  traveling  sales­
man  was talking with the proprietor of a 
downtown drug store the other day, when 
the  prescription  compounder  noticed 
that the  drummer’s vest  pocket  was full 
of lead pencils.  “ What,  are you  carry­
ing  a  line  of  those?”  asked  the  drug 
man,  pointing  to  the  pencils. 
“No,” 
laughingly  responded  the  man  of  sam­
ples.  “Those are for my customers. 
In 
about  eight  houses  out  of  every  ten I 
visit I am asked to  loan some  one a pen­
cil.  Now, you know  how few people re­
member to return a borrowed  pencil, and 
of  course  1  couldn’t  afford  to  bother 
about such  a trifle.  Therefore  I  keep a 
supply of pencils on hand  so  that  I  al­
ways  have  one  to loan.  Several of  my 
customers depend  upon me  entirely  for 
their lead pencils.”

American Machinist: Commercial trav­
elers, as is well known,  are  successful  in 
a  great  degree  in  comparison  as  they 
possess the faculty of making themselves 
agreeable.  This and a  careful  study  of 
the wants of the trade is their stock.  As 
an  example  of  a  combination  of  both 
these traits we remember,  when  dealing 
considerably 
in  pipe  and  fittings,  a 
drummer,, whom to get rid of was  an  ar­
tistic  operation. 
In  fact,  looking  back 
through some years,  we  do  not  remem­
ber to have been the one he  left  without 
some  kind  of  an  order. 
It  wasn’t  be­
cause he was offensively  persistent—you 
can get  along  easily  enough  with  that 
kind of a fellow—but he had  a  way  be­
yond description of convincing  you  that 
you lacked something in his line.  When 
he came in  you  knew  you  didn’t  want 
anything.  When  he  went  away  you 
were satisfied that if  he  had  not  called 
you would  have  missed  something  that 
would have  interfered  with  your  busi­
ness.

Teach Them to Help Themselves.
All boys and girls, all men and  women 
should be early and always taught  to  be 
self-reliant and master of circumstances. 
You do a grand thing,  for  instance,  for 
youngsters when  you teach them  how to 
swim,  how to float comfortably  across  a 
river  on  their  backs.  Three-fourths of 
this earth is water,  and  three-fourths  of 
the  human  kind  can’t  swim  a  stroke. 
Isn’t it pitiful?  Three-fourths  of us are 
no better  off  than  the  animals  without 
reason;  more  helpless,  indeed,  because 
of ignorance.  Place thyself in  the ranks 
of the wise  one-fourth. 
If you have had 
teachers who taught  you  useful  things, 
be good and  grateful. 
Impart  what you 
got.  During  the  last  month  or  week 
have you taught  some few,  useful things 
that will keep them  from  sinking,  buoy 
them  up in emergencies, making them in­
dependent of the world? 
If you find any­
one rowing hard  against  the  stream,  do­
ing things in  the wrong way,  give him or 
her a  lift  by  making  a  suggestion  and 
lending a hand.  When you  come  across 
a good  recipe  distribute  it.  Don’t  be a 
dog  in  a  manger.  An  intelligent  man 
looking at persons and  things  is capable 
of making valuable suggestions.  He sees 
what is wanted to double  the  product in 
half the time.  Speak,  teach.  Leave the 
world richer and  lighter than  you found 
it. 
If you can give new life  by  a  word 
of  cheer,  do  it.  A  word of encourage­
ment at the right time is worth a million.
The words of the  wise are  like  goads. 
That  must  be  something  exceedingly 
good.  Use only those words.  You heard 
a good thing fifty years  ago,  or  twenty, 
that’s still operative in your life;  a word 
uttered in  season  by  a  wise  man.  He 
understood  things who wrote  that if you 
the  day  of  adversity  your 
faint 
in 
strength 
is  small.  Are  you  teaching? 
What about the growing ones in the fam­
ily?  Are you filling them up  with  good 
things  to be  remembered  or with things 
evil  which  cannot,  alas,  be  forgotten? 
Self-reliance,  manly  fellow,  chuck  full 
of pluck.  Let this be the stuffing.  “My 
boy,”  said  the old  schoolmaster,  “don’t 
break a dollar bill,  for you can never put 
it together  again;  put  it  into  the bank, 
and it  will  be broken  into bigger pieces 
for you;  into the bank and  not into your 
mouth.”  American  children  are  being 
enslaved  and  ruined  by  cigarettes  and 
the  brewers’  vat  stuff,  prepared  with 
drugs  which,  when once  or  twice  used, 
hold  their  poor victim  forever and ever. 
Barents,  teach your children by example 
and  precept, 
the  things  that’ll  make 
them strong, that’ll keep them afloat four­
score years and ten  and longer.

G e o r g e  R.  Sc o t t.

The Drug1 Market.

Gum  opium  is weak  and lower.  The 
market has been held  up by speculators, 
who  expected  a  duty  of  $1  per  pound 
would  be  levied,  but as  the matter  has 
been  settled  and  free  opium  is  a  cer­
tainty, all strength has been taken out of 
the market.

Morphia is,  as yet,  unchanged.
Quinine is very firm and foreign brands 
have been  advanced  by  manufacturers. 
Outside  holders  have  partly withdrawn 
from the market.  The few who will sell 
in a  limited  way  ask  nearly  the  price 
quoted by the makers.

Gum  camphor  is very  firm at  the  late 

advance.

Oil peppermint is  much lower,  on  ac­

count of the large crop.

Nitrate of  silver has  advanced, on  ac­

count of the higher prices  for metal.

The advance in  alcohol  has  advanced 

ethers 5c per pound.

Gubeb berries  have declined.
Oils  anice  and  cassia  have  advanced 

with other China and Japan  goods.

Ipecac root has declined.
Serpentaria root is lower.
Senega root is firm and advancing.
Coriander seed is in  better supply  and 

lower.

Sugar of  lead has  declined,  in  antici­

pation of the  lower duty.

The  Wheat  Market.

There was an advance in wheat centers 
in the market on account of wet  weather 
in  England and France,  and  this  caused 
an advance of 2c per bushel  for wheat in 
the local market.  Bradstreet reports ex­
ports of wheat,  flour included,  from both 
coasts,  United  States  and  Canada,  as 
3,821,000  during  the  past  week,  which 
is considerable  more  than  the  previous 
week.  Cables,  also,  were  firmer.  Con­
ditions  have  not changed,  however,  as 
to the feeding  of  wheat  as  in  all  mar­
kets this cereal is cheaper than corn, and 
as  long  as  this  condition  exists  wheat 
will  not  decline  very  much.  Unless 
there is a change this is  bound to reduce 
the available supply  and cut  quite a fig­
ure  before  another  crop.  The yield es­
timate of the wheat crop in now 500,000,- 
000 bushels or  more. 
It is a  question  if 
corn  will pull wheat out of the rut.  The 
visible  decrease  was  not as large as ex­
pected,  being 1,580,000 bushels.  Chicago 
stocks alone increased, 2,073,000 bushels, 
which shows that a decrease  occurred in 
other markets.  The  guesses on the visi­
ble  are  1,500,000  to  2,000,000  increase. 
A year ago there  was a decrease  of 656,- 
000 bushels in  the  corresponding  week.
Receipts for last week were eighty-two 
cars of wheat,  four cars  of oats,  and  no 
corn. 

F. A.  Voigt.

We  Grow  Lazy.

The Boston Herald  remarks  that  man 
is growing  lazier and  lazier  every  year, 
He is living in a machine  age,  when  his 
walking and his climbing,  if not his  eat­
ing,  are done for him  by  some  mechani­
cal invention too obvious to  be recorded. 
If it were not for the athletics  and  gym­
nasiums  it  is  believed  the  race  would 
lose the use of its legs,  as scientists  say 
it is losing its  jaws  and  its  teeth  from 
too much civilization.  Men  who used to 
skip  up  the 
long  flights  of  stairs  of 
down-town buildings without  a  murmur 
now complain if they are asked  to  walk 
up  one.  And  it  isn’t  age,  either,  for 
boys  in  their  teens  will  “ wait  for  the 
elevator”  an  hour  rather  than give their 
legs needful exercise.  The  result  of  so 
much level action  would  be  horrid  was 
there no  bicycle  in  existence.  But  the 
wheelman goes “ upstairs”  for  hours and 
says not a word when  there  is  a  saddle 
under  him. 
It  may  be  this  universal 
, wheel is the  real  cause  of  the  present 
indolence.  On  some  new  principle  de­
veloped by  this  popular  motion,  other­
wise able-bodied  citizens  now  refuse  to 
live in houses with high  stories  and  no 
“lifts,” and kick at  any  “steps” over or 
under  any  railroad 
In  short, 
there are  people who  would  rather  risk 
their lives than have  the grade  changed 
on a road they would  be  in  the  habit of 
crossing.

tracks. 

P O rL T R I.
Local dealers pay as follows:

LIVE.

“ 
“ 

Toms......................  

Turkeys, hens...................................................  e@7
...................  5@6
ow ls,  h e n s...................................................... 8@8H
roosters...................................................5@0
Spring chickens........................................ 9  @10
Spring ducks.............................................7  @ 8
Turkeys.......................................................
Chickens.....................................................
Fowl..............................................
Ducks..........................................................

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Butter
Cracker.

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Muskegon  Toast,
Ro\ al  F ruit  Biscuit,
Muskegon  Frosted  Honey,
Iced  Cocoa  Honey  Jum bles,
Jelly Turnovers,

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Other 
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Great 
Specialties  Ginger  Snaps,
Are 

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H om e-M ade  Snaps,
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B u g g i e s ,   > l e i g h s  a n d   W a g o n s ,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Body, 7 ft.  long, 36 in.  wide, drop  tail  gate. 
Body, 9*4 ft  long. 36 In. wide, drop tail gate..........  

The  Grocers’  Safety—Made  in  Two Sizes Only.
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.$40 00 
.  48 00

FISHING  TACKLE!

O U R
S T O C K
of

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They  Are The 

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Paying from

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T r a v e r se Cit y,  Mich.,  Sept.  21,  I8t2.
The Computing Scale Co..  Dayton, Ohio.
G e n t l e m e n :—Since  the  adoption  of 
your Computing Scales I have made more 
money in  my  business thau  ever  before.
The  Howe  Scale  i  had,  while new,  had 
such  a  radical  variation 
lost 
money every time 1 weighed  upon  it. 
I 
would  retire from business before return­
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regular  weighing 
scales. 
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MASONS  FRUIT  JARS—

H.  LEONARD  &  SON

Grand  Rapids, 

Mich.

No  Charge for  Boxes  on 

Fruit Jars.

No  Charge  for  Cartage  on 

Fruit  Jars.
Mason’s  Fruit  Jars.

Prom  now on is the season to push the sale of 
these goods.  The most  profitable  line  you  can 
find.  New reduced prices. 
perG ro
Quarts. 8 dor. in box  .. 
Half gallons  6 doz in  box...............................  7 00
Pints, 1 doz in case.................... .......... 
Half gallons. 1 doz in case 
■ • ■ •... • • ...  <75
'S x trt covers for pint, quart and half gallon  - 2* 
Rubber rings for  Mason's ja rs...................... 
35
“Dandy”  Glass  Cover  Fruit Jars.
Best all glass, self-sealing jar.

.............................
.........;

Pints, 
Quarts, 
Half gallon,  H  “ 

V4 gro  in  case  ........................8 8 50
9 00 
W 
18 00

.................
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Jelly  Tumblers.

Pints. 6 doz in box  (box 0  ) per  box—   81  64
Pints  21 doz in bbl,  <bbl 35)  per  doz....... 
23
:  pints, 6 doz In box,  (box 00) per box.......  1  80
i  Pints, 18 doz In bbl (bbl 35c) per  doz....... 
26

Common  Tumblers 

Pini  pi ain, 6 doz In box, (box 00) per box  81  80 
Plnts. pialli, 20 doz in bbl  (bb!35c) per doz  27

Kn graved  Tumblers.

Orient Assortment, 3styles, nicely engraved 
thin blown glass, per box of 6 doz,  (box 
00)  ............ .................................................. 83 06

Common  Stoneware.

Stone Butter Jars Vs gal,  per  doz 
............8
Stone Butter Jam, 1 to 6 gal,  per  gai............
Stone  Preserve Jars and cover*  *   gal,  per
d o z ........................... ................. ..................
S t o n e  Preserve Jars and  covers,  1  gal,  per
d o z ................  . ;r ..--------------- ------------
Tomato or F ruit Juga, H  gal.  per  d oz........
Tomato or F ruit Juga.l gal,  per  do*..........
Stone  Milk  Pans, %  gal, per doz...................
-------
Stone Milk Pans, 1 gal,  each----- 
Fine  Glazed  Stoneware.

1  Gal  Pine all White Milk Pana,  per gal  8 
1  Gal. Pine all Black Milk Pana, per  gal. 
u   Gal, Pine all Black Milk Pans,  per doz 
lG a l. Pine all Black Butter Ja n , per gal 
1  Gal  Pine all White Batter Jars, per gal 
tt Gal, Fine all White Butter Jars, per doz

Corks  and  Sealing  Wax.
Corks for % gal Tomato Jogs, per doz.. ..8  
Corks  for 1  ga) Tomato Jugs, per  doz—  
Sealing Wax, 5® pkgs. per lb....................  

15
18
08V4

Flask  and  Jug  Corks.

Per Gro
Flask and Bottle Corks, assorted  sizes,  No.
6-10,  5 gro  In  bag.......................................8  50
Jug  Corks, assorted sizes. Nos.  11-80.  1  gro 
58
In  bag...........................................................  

Candy  Jars.

1 doz in  case.  No charge for caae.

Open  Stock 

per doz.

tin  cover

BINO  JABS—GLASS COVBBS

Quart Squat....................................81  75
4% Gal squat............................—   2 00
1 Gal Squat..................................... 3 50
V4 G alT all 
.................................. * 00
1 Gal  T all................... 
.........3 50
K Gal Squat or T a ll....................  2 50
% Gal Squat or Tall...................... 3 5J
1 Gal Squat or Tall.......................5  to
Ü Gal Squat  ..................................   2 50
V* Gal  Squat.................................. 3 50
1 Gal Squat......................................500

FRENCH  JABS—GLASS COVERS

Flasks.
Pic-Nic or Shoo Fly Shape. 

Per  Gro
Vt Pint, V* gro In case.....................................8  2  40
Pint, Vt gro in  case..........................................   3  80
Quart, \k gro In case..................................—   6 00

Lamp  Chimneys.

Sole Agents for  extrs  toughened  “LaBastie” 
French glass chimney.  Positively  the strongest 
and most durable lamp chimney made.

“ L a B astle”  Glass.

No.  1  Snn Bulb,  per do*........................................81 *>
No.  2  Sun Bulb,  per  do*.....................................   1 50
No.  2  Electric,  per doz...................................  1  60
No.  1  8un Crimp Top, per doz.............................  1 35
No.  2  Sun Crimp Top, per doz.............................   1 60

P e a rl  T op Chim neys.

The  well-known, easy selling,  popular  “Pearl 
Tops.”  No store  can  get  along  without  them, 
ana no good merchant  wishes  to.  Prices  guar- 
I an teed,  o doz in case.  No charge for case.
I No.  1  Sun Pearl Top, per  case............................83 70
J No.  2  Sun Pearl Top, per case— : .......................4 70

Per Caae

Per Doe
No.  0 Tubular, open  stock.............................|   48
43
By the barrel, 5 doz  (barrel 35) 
No.  O  Tubular, Bull’s Eye Globe.................  1  25

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

Per
Case

2 25
3 0U
4  50
2  15
3  00
4  50

_

C rim p   T op  Sun  C him ney.

Common grade.  Sold by the caae only.

No.  0  Sun, 6 doz In case........................................•} J*
No.  1  Sun, 6 doz In  case..........................................* ¡2
No.  2  Sun, 0 doz In case......................................... * <u

H  L  A  S  F lin t  C him ney.

Selected firsts.  Each wrapped and labeled.
Case of 6 Open, Per
Doz.
Doz.
8  40
..«2  10
No.  0  Sun  Crimp  Top 
45
..  2 25
No.  1  sun Crimp Top.
fri
..  3  *5
No.  2  San Crimp Top............  3  *5
05
. .  3 60
No.  2  Sun Hinge......................3 60
75
. .  4  00
No.  2  E lectric......................... 4  00
75
.  4  00
No.  2  Rochester.......................4  00

F lin t  XXX  P o re   Lead  Glass.

ped and labeled.  Will not crack from heat.

No seconds in this line.  Each chimney wrap­
Caae of 6  Open, Per 

Doz. 

Doz.
8 

No.  0  Sun  Crimp................... 82 60 
45
No.  1  Sun Crimp.......... ' .......2 80 
50
No.  2  Sun Crimp..................  3  80 
»
See our lamp  catalogue  for  complete  assort­
ment Showing chimney for  every  burner.  Sent 
_______________
by mail on receipt of postal. 

Tubular  Lanterns.

’ flint globes............... ..................................50

Only  the  latest  patterns  of  the  heaviest ma­
terial.  Every  lantern  warranted.  No  charge 
for case.  1 aoz  In case.  Price per doz.
No.  0  Side spring  lift,  inside  guards,  best
No.  0  Crank side lift, tubular............... .—   3  75
No.  0  Tubular, copper finish. . . . . . . . . . . . . .   .  4  75
No  16  Jap’d Tubular, dashboard and refiec- 
‘ tor attachment, bulls eye globe V4 doz in
box 
.......  5 00
No  B  Tubular  Side  spring  lift  takes  1 In
..................................... .........................5 50
No.  0  Tubular Crystal Glass  fro n t...... —   6 00
Tubular Search Light,  Headlight,  each....  I  78

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

•to re  Lamps.

400 candle  power.

Rochester, complete,  20  in  reflector—  
Pittsburgh, complete, 80  in  reflector....
Banner, complete, 20 In reflector............
Incandescent, complete, 80  In  reflector. 

Send for catalogue showing all.

Clothes  Lines.
Jute,  30 foot line, per  doz.............
Jute,  60 foot line, per doz.................
Jute, 120 foot linei per doz.................
Cotton, to foot line, per  doz__

W riting  Paper.

Com’l Note, 3 lb Excelsior.................
Com’l  Note, 5 lb Excelalor.................
Com’l Note  61b  Excelsior.............

Envelopes

............•   41ft)
.........1 60
.........  1 28

Per Ream.
.......... 8  28
............ 
40
.......  5»

Size 

per l,ooo
X5  White........................ 
............................. t   75
X0  White.......................................................... 
86
XX5  W hite.......................................................... 
86
XX6  White..................................................  1  go

Net

Tn
#

Oil  Cans.

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

Per Doz.
V( Gal Tin, with spout, per doz.....................8 1  SO
1 Gal Tin, with spout, per doz...................... 
l  80
1 Galvanized Iron.l  doz In crate................. 
l  go
1 Gal Glass with Tin Jacket. 1 doz  In caae.  2 25
2 Gal Galv Iron, oil or  gasoline...................  3  75
3 Gal Galv Iron, oil  or  gasoline...................  5 00
5 Gal Galv Iron, with  faucet........................  7 00
5 Gal Galz Iron  tilting  ... 
..  10 00
5 Gal Galv Iron, Home Rule  “Pump” . ......   12 00
3 Gal Galv Don, Home  Rule  “Pump” .........  10 50
5 Gal Galv Iron, “Good Enough".................  13 50
5 Gal Galv Iron, “Good enough” ................. 18 oO
See our catalogue for full line  grocers’ 
sundries  as  Pails,  Tubs,  Fibre  Ware, 
Wash Boards, Tin and Iron Pails, Lamps, 
Slates, Papeterie,  Toilet  Soaps,  Station­
ery,  Shaving  Soaps,  Blank  Books,  Pen 
Holders,  Slate Pencils, Toilet Paper and 
Step Lade ers.

