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Among the passengers who left  Johan­
nesburg by the early coach  for  Pretoria, 
on  the  day  following  that  on  which 
Thomas  Clarkson’s  death  sentence  had 
been pronounced,  was a girl who,  thickly 
veiled,  sat in a corner of the  coach  with 
bent  head,  clasped  hands  and a melan­
choly  mien. 
It  was  Minnie  Colbeck. 
She had made a desperate,  firm,  though 
wild  resolve  to  go  to  the  capital,  see 
resident Kruger and  plead  for  the  life 
of  Thomas  Clarkson.  Only  a  woman 
would  have  carried  out  such  a  resolu­
tion.

The  coach  traveled  at  the  utmost 
peed of its eight spirited  horses,  but  to 
her  heated  and 
it 
seemed to crawl along the smooth,  dusty 
road. 
It was still early in the day  when 
it dashed  into the streets in  Pretoria.

impatient  fancy 

Half  an  hour later Minnie stood  at the 
gates of the presidency, an unpretentious 
ordinary  looking  residence 
in  a  quiet 
part of the  principal  street.  Her  heart 
beat,  her hands trembled,  and  her  whole 
bodily  frame  shook  so  violently  that 
she  could  scarcely  trust  her  voice  to 
ask  for  an 
interview  with  his  honor. 
That morning the  executive  was  sitting 
at the presidency, as it occasionally does 
and Minnie had to wait  a  long  time  be 
fore  the  president  could  give  her  an 
audience.  Every minute seemed an hour 
to the anxious girl.  She  had  been  cou 
ducted to a small room, which seemed  so 
oppressively silent that she could  almost 
hear the beating of her own heart.  Pres­
ently there was a firm,  heavy step heard, 
and the president,  pipe in  hand,  homely 
and  kindly  in  appearance,  entered  the 
apartment.  Minnie  does  not  know  to 
this  day  how  she  told  her  tale,  what 
words she spoke,  or  what  argument  she 
employed.  She  remembers  that  when 
she  had  finished  speaking  she  looked 
earnestly and intently at the countenance 
of the president.  His face was stern and 
sad,  but there was a  kindly  look  in  his 
eyes and some sympathy in his  voice,  as 
he said—his honor can speak  good  Eng­
lish when he likes—

“It  cannot  be,  my  child.  The  jury 
have found the  young  man  guilty,  and 
the judge has sentenced him to death.  It 
is not for me or  my  executive  to  inter­
fere with their decision.”

“Oh,  your honor,  but he  is not guilty,” 
went  on  the  girl,  with  feminine  logic. 
“1 know he is  not  guilty.  He  does  not 
deserve to die.  Do  not  permit  such  an 
act of injustice to be perpetrated  in  this 
land.  He is innocent.”

“ The jury have found  him guilty,” re­
plied the  president,  kindly  but  firmly. 
“1  pity you,  my poor child,  but 1 cannot 
do what you  wish.”

“The jury are but  men;  they  are  not 
infallible,”  answered  Minnie,  passion­
ately.  “Oh,  your  honor,  for the sake of 
justice, for the sake of all that  you  hold 
dear  on  this  earth,  for  your  hope  of 
heaven,  be  merciful,  that  you  may de­
mand mercy for yourself at the throne of 
grace.  Pardon him !  Pardon  him !”  She

flung  herself  at  his  feet  and raised her 
white face with such an agony of suppli­
cation  that  the  president  was  moved. 
Sentiment seldom moves this firm-handed 
ruler,  and only at his  religions  exercises 
has he  for a long time been known to ex­
hibit emotion.

I would do  what  you  ask  willingly, 
gladly,  if I thought it right,  but 1 do not 
think  so.  To  pardon  this  young  man 
would be to encourage crime in  the state. 
Besides which I have not the prerogative 
alone. 
It is shared  by  the  executive.” 

But he is innocent; 1 know he is.”
The jury found him  guilty,  and  the 
judge  condemned  him to death.  People 
would  say,  and  justly,  that  we  did 
wrong to reverse their decision  and  par­
don a murderer.”

He  is  no  murderer !  And  he  is  so 
young,  and he has suffered so much,  and 
1 love him.  and—”  Here her voice broke 
and  she  buried  her face despairingly in 
her hands for  a  moment,  the  president 
meanwhile sitting in deep thought.  Then 
he rose and abruptly left the room.  Min­
nie  waited,  bewildered,  agonized,  for a 
few minutes.

Then the  president  returned,  bearing 
in  his  hand  a  slip  of  paper,  Minnie’s 
heart reached her mouth,  if there is any­
thing in the  phrase.

“I have seen my  executive,”  said  the 
president.  “We  cannot pardon him  and 
set  him  free,  as  you  wish,  but his sen­
tence shall be  commuted.  Give  this  to 
the landdrost to-night.  He shall further 
hear from me.”

Minnie took  the paper from  the  presi­
dent’s hand, scarcely able  to  repeat  the 
burning  words  of  gratitude that rose to 
her lips.

I cannot thank you as I  should,”  she 
murmured,  “but  I  shall  never  forget 
your  goodness  and  God  will  bless  you 
forever.”

She  took  the  big  hand  of  President 
Paul,  pressed  it  reverently  to  her  lips, 
and was speedily  gone.

Once more in the coach on  the  way  to 
Johannesburg,  Minnie’s  tears  fell  fast, 
but they  were tears of  gratitude,  thank­
fulness and joy that she had so well  suc­
ceeded in her mission.

Arriving  in  Johannesburg she lost not 
a  moment  in  seeking  the  landdrost,  to 
whom she handed  the  president’s  paper 
The landdrost  read  it  carefully,  and 
then  sternly  said:  “The  president  and 
executive have been pleased  to  commute 
Thomas Clarkson’s sentence to penal ser­
vitude for life. 
I  am sorry  to  say  that 
he  has  proven  unworthy  of  the  kind­
ness—he has escaped from  our  charge.” 
“Escaped !” repeated  Minnie,  half-be­

wildered,  “escaped from where ?”

“From  the  jail,  of  course.  'Where 
else ?  But he cannot have gone far,  and 
will soon be recaptured.”
“When did he escape ?”
“Early this morning,  so far  as  anyone 
chooses to tell.  He must have  had  help 
It  would  have  been  im­
from outside. 
possible for  him  to  escape  unaided. 
I 
am sick of these  cases  of  jail-breaking. 
Somebody must have helped him.”  And

Without replying the  girl  went  away, 

bewildered,  almost stupefied.

Midnight found Minnie  sitting  in  her 
room,  wide-eyed and  wakeful.  She  had 
gone  through  a  wearying  and  exciting 
day,  but  she  was  unable  to rest.  Her 
thoughts were,  of course,  with  Thomas. 
How  had  he  contrived  to  escape?  she 
wondered.  Who  had  helped  him ? 
Where  was  he now ?  Could  he get safely 
out of the country,  or  would  he  be  re­
captured  and  dragged 
ignominiously 
back to prison ?  A  thousand  fears  tor­
mented her.

“Minnie!”  It  was  a 

borne  on  the  midnight  breeze. 
started to her feet,  listening intently.

Then she heard  a  footstep  outside  the 
It was soft  and  stealthy,  but 

window. 
she knew it well.

Wrapping  a  cloak  closely  round  her 
she softly  opened the  door  and  stepped 
outside.  For a moment she  was inclined 
to think that her excited imagination  had 
played  her  false,  but  the  next  instant 
both her hands  were grasped  in  a  tight 
clasp.

“Thomas !”  she  softly,  eagerly  whis- 

low  whisper 
She 

| pered,  “is it really you ?”

“Yes, it is I.”
“Oh,  why did you come ?”  she cried  in 
terror.  “Why  did  you  run such a terri­
ble,  terrible risk?  Go !  oh,  go at once !” 
“I  am  going instantly; but I could not 
go until I had seen  you  once  more,  Do 
not  tremble  so,  Minnie.  There 
is  no 
danger.  No one dreams that  I  am  still 
here.”

“How did  you  escape ?  Who  helped 

you ?”

“A man  who is almost a  stranger,  and 
on  whom  I  had  not  the  slightest  claim. 
He  is  waiting  with  horses  in  the  next 
street now.  We shall travel through the 
night,  and  in  the  morning  he  will con­
ceal  me  in  the  house of  a  friend.  To­
morrow night we shall go  on  again.  He 
has  provided  me  with  a  disguise  and 
given me money.  He planned  it  all.” 

“Who is he ?”
“He  is—but,  no,  1  will  not tell you. 
You may be  questioned,  and  what  you 
do not know you cannot tell.”

“Where  will  you  go,  Thomas ?  But 
perhaps yon had  not better tell  me  that, 
for I may be questioned.”

“ 1  could  not  tell  you  if 1 would,  my 
darling, for I do not  know. 
I am a cow­
ard to run away,  Minnie,  but I could not 
face death on a scaffold.”

Minnie shuddered.
“Thank-God,  you  are  free,  Thomas, 
from that danger.  They could  not  have 
taken your life,  for the president has  or. 
dered a commutation of  yonr  sentence.’ 
instiga 

“The  President!  At  whose 

tion—who asked him to—”

“I did.”
“You,  Minnie ?  Heaven  bless  you, 
my brave darling !  But  now 1 must go.” 
“ Yes,  go.  There  is  danger  in  every 
moment that you  linger  here.  Goodbye 
Thomas.”

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1 ' H j K   M I O M I G A J S r   T R A D E S M A N

“Goodbye !  May heaven  bless you and 
keep you,  my darling.”  And with a lov­
ing embrace they  separated.

Would  they  ever  meet  again  on this 

earth ?  It seemed improbable.

Clarkson  went  out  into  a dark  night 
and  into  a darker  future.  Minnie  was
left alone—alone in  great misery.

*  *  *

The blazing sun  of  a  December  noon 
cast its fierce rays on the “dry”  diamond 
diggings at Hebron,  on  the  broad,  slug­
gish Vaal;  on  the rough  red  and  brown 
kopjes,  with their glaring  gravel  heaps, 
and on the  square,  shallow claims  where 
the digger gazed eagerly over his  sieves. 
In a claim  at  the  bottom  of  the  Natal 
kopje  was  a  young  man.  He  was  not 
sorting or  digging,  nor,  in  fact,  doing 
work  of  any  kind.  He  was  sitting  idly 
on a huge rock,  his  elbows  on  the  edge 
of his gravitating  tub,  his  chin  resting 
on his hands.  Do  you  know  him?  Do 
you  recognize the tall,  slight  figure,  the 
worn,  anxious face,  the  weary,  sad eyes, 
with such a  weird,  dark,  far-away  look 
in  them?  You  have  met  him  before. 
Once,  wandering through  the  streets  of 
Johannesburg—hungry,  friendless,  pen­
niless.  Once again you  saw  him  in  the 
crowded courthouse and  beard  him  sen­
tenced to  death.  You  heard  him,  too, 
reader,  in  the  midnight  darkness,  bid­
ding to his betrothed  what  seemed  to  be 
a tender,  final  farwell.  You  know  him, 
for he is Thomas Clarkson.

Was Minnie thinking of him  that  day, 
he wondered.  Was his  mother  praying 
for her ruined son  as she did  in  the  old 
days?

Clarkson  left  his  claim  and  walked 
away to his little, lonely, dusty tent, and, 
throwing  himself  down  on  a  heap  of 
rugs and sheep skins that served  him for 
a  bed,  he  covered  his  eyes  with  his 
hands,  as if to shut  out  the  memory  of 
those  faces  that  so  often  haunted  his 
waking hours and  his  sleeping  dreams. 
He gave  way to a mighty grief.

Who  cannot  be  brave  when  fighting 
with  a host?  Who cannot march  to bat­
tle with drums  beating  and  banners  fly­
ing?  But  what  of  the  man  or  woman 
who has to fight  the  small  battle  unen­
couraged,  unprotected and alone?  Who, 
as the struggle goes on  through  the  long 
watches of the  weary night,  and the heat 
of the burning day,  can  fight bravely and 
persistently  with scant prospects  of vic­
tory and small  hope of reward.

God help all such.
Presently Clarkson  was  aroused  by  a 

tap  at the tent pole.

“May I come  in?”  asked  a  voice  and 
without waiting for a reply  a  tall  man, 
carrying a sieve in  one  hand and  a  roll 
of newspapers in  the other,  entered.

“Not well?”  he  inquired,  glancing  at 

the bed.

swered,  wearily.

“ Yes,  I’m  well  enough,”  Thomas  an­

It is a year and  a  half  since  all  that 
happened,  aud  he has  been at the Hebron 
diggings ever since.  Christmas eve is at 
hand,  and he is thinking of  the past with 
a dull,  aching pain  at  his  heart,  a  pain 
not now  so  sharp aud  maddening  as  it 
used  to be  at  first,  for  the  shame  and 
hopelessness  have  beeorne  familiar  to 
him.  He 
is  accustomed  to  them,  aud 
they have grown  to be a  part of himself. 
A lonely, dreary  life he  has lived  at Heb­
ron—an  existence  bereft  of  every  joy, 
hope  and  cheering  prospect.  He  had 
worked on from day to day, not in the hope 
of lindiug a fortune;  for of what  use  was 
money to him now?  He  was disgraced— 
his name  was a scorn  and  a  byword  to 
those who had  been  proud  to  know  him 
in former days. 
It  was  well  he  did  not 
wish  for wealth,  for,  like  the  other  dig­
gers,  be found  but few stones,  and  those 
not of great value.  He had often worked 
for  mouths  aud  only  found  what  was 
barely  sufficient  to  pay  for  his  coarse 
food and the rough clothes he  wore.

A  week  before,  however,  greatly  to 
his surprise,  he  had  found  in  bis  baby 
sieve a large and beautiful  diamond. 
It 
was  a  brilliant  of  the  first  water—a 
stone  which  would  have meant  a fortune 
to any other digger.  But to  him  it  was 
useless.  He could  not sell it;  for reports 
of its beauty and  value  would  be sure  to 
be spread  and the finder would  become a 
person of consequence and  concern.  He 
dared not risk  being  thus  talked  about. 
So he  put it away and tried to  forget  it.
Strange aud  stern  necessity.  But  in 
human  life there  is  no  contending with 
necessity and  we should  be very  careful 
how  we censure those  who submit  to  it. 
it is one thing to be at  liberty  to do what 
we  will  and auother to be tied  up  to  do 
what  we must.

And  to-morrow  would  be  Christmas 
day.  Alas,  what  had  he  to  do  with 
Christmas  aud its  associations?  He had 
written once to Minnie and to his mother 
telling them  that  he was  well  and  safe, 
but giving them no hint as  to his  where­
abouts.

“Oh!  Taking  a  holiday  because  it’s 
Christmas eve,  1 suppose. 
I’ve  knocked 
off work,  too,  till the  day  after  to-mor­
I’ve  come  to  ask  you  to  come 
row. 
along  with  us 
if  you’ve 
nothing better to  do.”

to-morrow 

“Where  are you  going?”
“My  wife and  1  are going for a bit of a 
picnic,  to  give  the  youngsters  a  treat, 
you  know,  and  we  want  you  to  come 
I  cannot  promise  you  anythiug 
along. 
very  grand,”  he  added,  with  a 
laugh, 
“but  it  will  be  better  than moping here 
alone all day.  Will you come?”

“I  don’t  think  so.  Thank  you,  Mr. 
Uock;  I’m  fond  of  moping,  you  know; 
and  1  should  only  spoil  the, children’s 
pleasure if 1 took  my gloomy  face among 
them.”

“That’s all nonsense.  The youngsters 
will  be disappointed  if  you  don’t  come. 
They think there is no one like you.”

But Clarkson still  persisted  in  his  re­

fusal.

I  won’t  press  you 

“ Well,  if you  won’t,  you  won’t,  I  sup­
pose. 
to  come 
against  your  will,”  said  Rock,  and  he 
left  the  tent-looking  rather  vexed.  He 
returned  in  a  few  minutes  and  threw 
a  roll  of  newspapers  on  the  bed.

“They  are  a  week  old,”  said  Rock, 
look 

“ but  perhaps  you  would 
at them.”

Thomas  thanked  him.  But  when  he 
was  gone  he  threw himself down  in  the 
old  attitude  of  silent  despair.

like  to 

*  *  *

Christmas  day  broke 

fair,  bright, 
genial,  lovely—the  very  ideal  of  South 
African  weather.  The sky was  a  stain­
less blue;  the  river  glistened  like  bur­
nished gold;  the air was balmy  and  fra­
grant.  Clarkson spent the morning  wan­
dering up and down the river  bank.  He 
gazed upon all the  beauty  of  earth  and 
sky callously—it did not seem  to  be  for 
him.  A  dark  sky  and  a  wild  storm 
would have better suited his mood.

In  the  afternoon  he  returned  to  his 
tent,  wishing that  Christmas  was  over, 
that he might get back  to  work.  Labor 
was all he  cared  for  now,  for  physical

weariness  brought with it  some measure 
of  mental  rest.  Listlessly  he  took  up 
one  of  the  newspapers  Rock  had  left 
him.  What mattered  it to  him  how  the 
rest of humanity  were moving, what men 
were  buying and selling,  who  was grow­
ing rich,  and who had become  poor.  He 
was about to fling  the paper down again, 
when  something  caught  his  eye—some­
thing that instantly  bauished  the  weari­
ness  and  indifference,  and  brought  the 
hot blood rushing  to  his  cheek. 
It was 
a  Johannesburg  Journal,  and  he  read:

A  DEATH BED  CONFESSION.

Truth 

is,  after  all,  stranger  that  fic­
tion,  and  murder  will  out.  The  truth 
of  these  well  known  adages  has  just 
been  proved  in  a  remarkable  manner. 
Few  people  will  have  forgotten  the  ex­
citement  into  which  Johannesburg  was 
thrown  about  eighteen  months  ago  by 
the  murder  of  Mr.  Diblin,  a  wealthy 
and  much  respected  merchant  of  this 
town.  A  young  man  named  Clarkson 
was accused of the crime and  after  trial 
sentenced to  death.  The  sentence  was 
afterward commuted  to  penal  servitude 
for  life. 
It  will  be  remembered  that 
Clarkson escaped  from  prison  and  that 
all efforts to trace  him were  unavailing. 
It seems,  however,  that the young fellow 
was innocent of the crime  for  which  he 
nearly paid the  awful  penalty.  A  man 
named Dick Carter,  who  was  injured  in 
the dynamite explosion  at the  Gladstone 
mine yesterday  and  who  is  now  dead, 
confessed  to  the  murder. 
It  appears 
that for some  time  there  had  been  ill- 
will  between Mr.  Diblin  and Carter,  and 
on the day of the  murder  it  terminated 
in  a bitter and terrible  quarrel.  Late in 
the  evening,  as  Carter  was  returning 
home,  he met Mr.  Diblin,  who was  very 
angry  that,  as be thought,  Carter should 
be  dogging  him.  Carter  was  insolent, 
and  Mr.  Diblin threatened  to give him  in 
charge,  whereupon Carter,  who  was  not 
sober,  pulled out his  revolver—which  he 
had  bought from a  native  a  few  weeks 
before—and  shot  Mr.  Diblin.  Carter 
did not at first think  that Mr.  Diblin  was 
dead  but imagined  that  he  had  merely 
fainted.  Being  hard  up  he  took  from 
the pockets of the prostrate  man  all  the 
money  he carried,  a  large  sum,  amount­
ing in notes and gold to several  hundred 
pounds.  He  took  also  a  watch  and 
chain.  Carter had scarcely accomplished 
this  when  a  man  turned  the  corner  of 
the street and came toward  him.  Carter 
shrank  back to the shadow of a  building 
and  waited  for  the  man  to  pass. 
In­
stead of this,  however,  the man lay down 
on a  stoop  a  few  yards  away.  Carter 
waited some time,  but  as  the  man  did 
not move he came to the  conclusion  that 
he must be asleep.  Then Carter  slipped 
out of the shadow,  and,  going up  to  Mr. 
Diblin once more, discovered that be was 
dead.  Sobered  by  the  horrible  discov­
ery and fear of  consequences,  he  threw 
the revolver  from  him.  Then  he  took 
Mr.  Diblin’s  watch  and  a  few  of  the 
notes and placed them in the  pockets  of 
the sleeping man. 
It was a  devilish act. 
Carter did not know  till  afterwards  who 
it  was that  be  had  so  cruelly  injured. 
He tried,  he said,  to  make  what  repara­
tion he could by helping Clarkson  to  es­
cape  from  prison,  providing  him  with 
money and a  disguise  and  helping  him 
out of the country.  Johannesburg  is  as 
much excited about the confession  as  it 
was  about  the  crime,  and  everyone  is 
now asking:  “Where is  Thomas  Clark­
son?”  But  that  is  a  question  no  one 
seems able to answer.  He  has  vanished 
as completely as if  the  earth  had  swal­
lowed him up. 
If be is still  in the  land 
of the living  the  newspapers  will  soon 
reach his eye and  be will  learn  that  he 
need no  longer  skulk  about  in  hiding, 
but that he is free to return to Johannes­
burg whenever he  wishes.

So that was  why  Dick Carter, a strang­
er,  had helped  him  to escape,  and done 
so  much  for  him!  Why  had  he  never 
suspected  the  reason  before?  He  read 
the  newspaper  account  over  and  over 
again  that  bright  Christmas  afternoon. 
Each time,  it.seemed,  it  brought  him  a 
greater,  deeper joy.  The iron was lifted 
from  his  soul;  the  deadening  weight 
from his breaking heart.

Wa lt er  Bbuce.

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

STICK CANDY.
Cases

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

9
9

614
614
614

Bbls. Palls.
714
714
714
9

MIXED CANDY.

•' 

Bbls.

4
..............714
.............. 7; 4
.. baskets
“  8

Standard......................
..............6
Leader.......................  . ...............6
Royal  ........................
Nobby  .........................
English  Rock..............
Conserves ....................
Broken Taffy...............
Peanut Squares............
French Creams............
Valley  Creams............
Midget, 30 lb. baskets  .
“  __
Modern, 30 lb. 
FANCY— I n   b u l k

Palls
7
7
8
814
814
814
814
9
914
18J4
..  9
..  814
Palls
Lozenges, plain............
9
printed.........
9* 13 
Chocolate Drops............
13 
Chocolate Monumentals
Gum Drops....................
514 
.  8 
Moss Drops.....................
8*
Sour Drops....  
...........
Imperials 
....................
10
fancy—In 5 lb. boxes.
Per Box
Lemon Drops__,..............................
........... 55
Sour Drops......................................
...........56
Peppermint Drops.............................
........... 60
Chocolate Drops................................
...........75
H. M. Chocolate  Drops.....................
.......... to
Gum Drops................................4
__4C@50
Licorice Drops........................... ?....
.......1  00
A. B. Licorice  Drops.........................
.......... 80
Lozenges, plain.................................
............65
printed..........................
......... 65 
Imperials...........................................
.......... 65
Mottoes.............................................
......... 70
Cream Bar.........................................
......... 55
Molasses  Bar.....................................
.........55
Hand  Made  (•»earn».  ... 
................
...35095
Plain Creams.............................
......... 80
Decorated Creams.............................
.........90
String  Rock......................................
......... (5
......1 CO
Burnt Almonds..................................
WIntergreen  Berries.........................
......... <5
No. 1. wrapped, 2 lb.  boxes.........................  34
No. 1. 
51
28
No. 2, 

3 
2 

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,

“ 

“ 
“ 

CARAMELS,
 
 
ORANUEH.
Fancy  Seedlings.  9 6 s .................
lift'8 ....................
Rodis, 
Rodis,  200s  ... 
.........   ...
LEM ONS.
Choice 300.............................
Extra choice 360  .................
Extra fancy 300....................
Extra fancy 360....  .........
BANANAS.
Large bunches..................
Small bunches  ....................
O TH ER   FO REIO N   FR U IT S.
Figs, fancy  layers, Sit.........  .........
“ 
“  20l t ....................
“  extra 
.................
“  141b 
Dates,  Fard, 10 lb.  box....................
“  501b.  “ 
“ 
....................
“ 
Persian  50-lb.  box...............
“ 
1 lb Royals............................

“ 

N U T8.

*' 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

Almonds, Tarragona.......................
Ivaca..............................
.................
California 
Brazils, new..............................
Filberts.......................  .................
... 
Walnuts. Grenoble 
.  ..........
French  .........
C a lif...............................
Tame  Nuts,  fancy..........................
choice.........................
Pecans. Texas, H.  P., 
..
Chestnuts........................................
Hickory Nuts per bu  .....................
ocoanuts, full sacks  ....................
Fancy, H.  P., Buns..........................
“  Roasted..............
Fancy, H.  P., Flags.........................
“  Roasted  ........
Choice, H.  P.,  Extras.....................
“  Roasted...........

“ 
“ 
“ 

P E A N U T S.

. . . . .  

“ 
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...... 4  50
....  4 50 
......   4 50

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013 
012 
011
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0   7 
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0  7 
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0   6

The  Standard  oil  Co.  quotes  as  follows: 

OILS.

B A RRELS.

. . .  

Eoceue 
giz
....................................  
XXX  W.  W. Mich.  Headlight.............. 
7
Naptha...................................................  © 514
Stove Gasoil s e.......................................  ©738
Cylinder 
............................. .............. 27  086
Engine.................................................13  ©21
Black, 15 cold  test 
..........................  
Eocene................................................... 
XXX  W. W.  Mich.  Headlight.............. 

0  8M
7
5

FROM  TA N K   WAGON.

BEEF.

FRESH  MEATS. 
Carcass........................................
Fore quarters................................
Hind quarters.............................
Loins No. 3  ............... ...................
Ribs.............................................. .
Rounds........................................ .
FChucks........................................
Plates............................................
Dressed............ .......................
Loins............................................
Shoulders  ....................................
Leaf Lard......................................
Carcass.........................................
Lambs...........................................
Carcass

MUTTON.

PO R K .

VEAL.

. 5 0 6  
. 3 0 4  
6  0  7 
.  8  010 
. 6 0 8  
. 5 0 6  
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8

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 tBe purchase  of  a

-M THK  p l a y in g   c a r d   t a x .

th e  N ew   T ariff L aw .

Som e  P ecu liarities  of  th is  F e a tu re   of 
The  appropriation  by  Congress  for 
carrying out the  Gorman  act  is  that  of 
$9,000 to furnish  stamps  for  payment of 
the  new  internal  revenue  tax  of  two 
cents  on  every  pack  of  playing  cards 
manufactured in this country. 
It  is  es­
timated that the  annual  product  of  do­
mestic  cards  is  fully  30,000,000  packs. 
American  manufacturers  control 
the 
home trade,  as  there  are  few  cards  im­
ported. 
In  fact there  is  a  considerable 
export  trade,  because  of  the  superior 
quality and cheapness  of  the  American 
goods.  The domestic product  comes  al­
most  exclusively  from  factories  in  In­
dianapolis  and  Cincinnati  in  the  West 
and in  New  York  and  Philadelphia  in 
the  East.  There  are  two  factories  in 
New York,  the longest  established  being 
that of Andrew Dougherty,  who has been 
making  playing cards for  the  past  fifty 
years.  The  New  York  manufacturers 
are  supplied  with  paper  by  a  single 
New England  mill,  whose entire product 
they  consume.  This  paper  requires  to 
be  of  a  certain  degree  of  lightness, 
flexibility and strength,  qualities  which 
are  heightened  by  the  manufacturer, 
whose method  of  treatment  constitutes 
his trade  secret.  Before  the  invention 
of improved  machinery,  a  card  had  to 
go  under  the  roller  as  many  differ­
ent 
there  were  different 
colors.  Now all the colors  are put on at 
one impression.  Formerly the  faces and 
backs  were printed  on  separate  sheets, 
which  were  pasted  on  a  more  substan­
tial  body.  Now,  in  the  best cards,  face, 
back and interior are all  in  one,  so  that 
there is no fraying at  the  edges.  More­
over,  the  corners  have  been  rounded, 
and  on  the  inside  have  been  equipped 
with  “indicators.”  Improved  methods 
of manufacture have  reduced  the  price 
so that cards which formerly sold  for  50 
cents a pack are sold  now for 10  cents.

times  as 

The  new  revenue  tax  on  cards  is  but 
a  revival  of  the  war  tax  on  the  same 
product. 
It requires a  two  cent  stamp 
to  be affixed4o every pack manufactured 
and sold, in  this  country.  The  special 
design  for  this  stamp  which  has  been 
adopted by the Treasury  Department,  is 
an anomalous creation. 
It is a miniature 
representation of four cards  of  the  suit 
of  diamonds,  held 
in  fan 
shaped  fashion.  Why  diamonds,  and 
why only four  cards,  is  something  that 
will not be  at  all  clear  to  the  average 
American card player.  There  is a game 
of cribbage played with four  cards  as  a 
hand,  and  possibly  the  design  was  se­
lected in order to  give  the  tariff  law  a 
still stronger English coloring.

in  a  hand 

The act imposing  the  tax  has  become 
operative,  and  compliance with the pro­
visions is next in order.  Many subscrib­
ers to T h e T radesm an  have  written  to 
the Collector of Internal  Revenue for the 
district,  making  enquiries  as to  the tax, 
the method of procedure in  order  to  se­
cure stamps apd in relation to the cancel­
lation of the stamps.  As  to the tax it  is 
sufficient to say that the Government has 
imposed it upon all playing cards remain­
ing  unsold  at the time  the act went into 
operation,  whether  in the  hands of man­
ufacturers,  wholesale  dealers,  or  retail­
ers.  As to how  to procure  the stamps it 
is necessary to make  affidavit  as  to  the 
number of  packs of cards  the dealer  has 
in his possession,  accompanied by an ap­
plication for  the  number  of  stamps  re­

it 

quired  and  the  amount  of  cash  repre­
sented  by  the  stamps.  To  illustrate: 
Suppose a dealer has  100 packs  of cards; 
he makes affidavit to  that  effect;  applies 
to the Collector of Internal  Revenue  for 
his district for 100 tax stamps,  and sends 
$2,  the amount of the tax on 100 packs of 
cards  at  2  cents  per  pack.  The  cash 
must in every case  accompany the appli­
cation—your Uncle Samuel does not do a 
credit  business,  neither  does  he  send I 
goods C.  O.  D. 
In  order  to  cancel  the 
is  only  necessary  for  the 
stamps, 
dealer  to  write  across  the  face  of  the 
stamp  the  initials  of  his  name  and  the 
date upon  which the stamp  was  affixed to 
the pack.  This must  be done as  soon  as 
the stamp is affixed, or as soon thereafter 
as  possible.  Up  to  Thursday  of  last 
week the Collector  for  this  district  had 
received  but  15,000  stamps.  As  one 
dealer in this city requires  12,000 for  his 
“stock on hand,”  and several  other deal­
ers here require almost an equal  number, 
only a few can be sent  to any one dealer, 
but,  as fast as  stamps  are  received,  ap­
plications will be  attended  to.  None  of 
thff blanks necessary for  the  work of im­
posing the tax  have been  received,  but  a 
supply is expected  in  a  few  days.  Let 
everybody  possess  his  soul  in  patience 
and  he  will  soon  be  given  an  opportu­
nity  to contribute to  his country’s neces­
sities. 
It  seems strange  that,  while the 
new tariff bill  imposes  an  additional  tax 
on  spirits,  it  does  not  apply  to  goods 
dealers may have in  stock.  The new tax 
on cards is imposed on dealers as  well  as 
on  manufacturers. 
In  other  words,  a 
stationery  merchant  is  compelled  to  in­
crease  the  national  revenues  while  a 
liquor  merchant is  not,  which,  like  the 
heathen  Chinee,  is  somewhat peculiar.

Shoes ? 

Have you seen  our  “ Sunbeam ”  line 
of  Machine  Sewed  Children’s  and 
Misses’ 
Dongola  Patent 
Tip,  Heel or Spring.  6  to  8 @ 65c—8% 
to  11K  @ 75c—12  to 2  @  90c.
H IR T H ,  K R A U S E   &  CO.

STATE  AGENTS  FOR

The  Lycoming  Rubber Company, 
keep constantly ou  baud 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  in  the  mar­
ket  Our  line  of  Leather 
Boots  and  Shoes  is  com-
plete  in  every  particular, 
also Felt Boots,  Sox,  etc.
rhanking you for past favors  we  now 
ait your further  orders.  Hoping  you 
il  give  our  line  a  careful  inspection 
ien  our  representative  calls  on  you, 
SEEDER BROS’. SHOE CO.
i are 

^ H A M P I O N   ^ A S H

would place them in  line  with  the  enterprising  and  progres­
sive merchants of the day, enabling them  to take  rank  as lead­
ers in tra1 le and  finance.

Do You  W ant to be a Leader or a  Drone ?

Our No. 9 Machine with lid open, exposing interior view, showing accounts as sepa­

rated into proper columns.

Grand  Ra pid s,  Mich.,  Aug.  20,  1894.

Cham pion  Ca sh  Reg iste r  Co.
G e n t i .e m e n :—I have  been  using your register for the  past  six  months,  and  find 
the system  works to the best satisfaction.  1 have investigated  a  number  of  differ­
ent kinds of registers,  but became convinced  that yours was the  best for my line  of 
business.
I did away  with the cashier and slip  system,  and would not return  to same  again. 
By  our present system  we can  keep all Cash Business Transactions  accurately,  and 
in a small space.  No trouble to look over a day’s .business  in  an instant.

Wishing you much success,  1  remain,

Yours truly,

J u liu s  J.  Wa g n er.

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

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

Manufactured only  by

CHAMPION  CASTI  7?I*CTSTrtH  C O .,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

4

ABOUND  THE  STATE.

MOVEMENTS  OF  MERCHANTS.

Chapin—D. V.  Bell  has opened  a  new 

shoe store.

New  Lathrop—M.  N.  Park & Son have 

opened a new hardware store.

Mancelona—A.  Young  succeeds  J.  D. 

Lewis in the bazaar business.

Ovid—C.  E. Jillson  succeeds  Jillson  & 

Hazel in the dry goods  business.

Duck Lake—Leonard  Munroe succeeds 

Munroe & Andrews in general  trade.

Battle Creek—A.  S.  Beeson  succeeds 

H.  W. Pidgeon in  the  meat business.

Frederic—W.  T.  Lewis succeeds T. W. 

Lewis & Co.  in the grocery  business.

Centerville—Thos.  E.  Shaffer  has sold 

his grocery business to Jas.  F.  Cook.

Saginaw—W.  H.  Lewis has  purchased 

the grocery business of  J.  M.  Gaynor.

Albion—Mrs.  D.  C.  Keynolds succeeds 

Gleason & Knapp  in the drug business.

Kalamazoo—Wm.  H.  Dailey  succeeds 
P.  Keynolds & Son  in the  grocery  busi­
ness.

Menominee—L.  D.  Lewis  & Son  suc­
ceed Ellsworth & Lewis  in  the drug bus­
iness.

Elsie—O.  J.  Dutton  has  removed  his 
harness  business  from  Ashley  to  this 
place.

Northville—A.  E.  Rockwell 

is  suc­
ceeded  by  Meritt  &  Co.  in  the  jewelry 
business.

Midland—E.  W.  Berryman succeeds L. 
A.  (Mrs.  P.  H.)  Maloney  in  the  grocery 
business.

Charlevoix—A.  A.  Miller  «&  Co.  suc­
iii  the  drug 

ceed  Mrs.  E.  A.  Beaman 
business.

Laiugsburg—Doty,  Webster & Co.  suc­
ceed J.  H.  Webster & Co.  in the  clothing 
business.

Elsie—E.  L.  Mort succeeds  Snelling & 
Mort in  the  hardware  and  agricultural 
implement business.

Mendon—The  style of  F.  L.  Burdick 
& Co.,  grocers,  has  been  changed  to  D. 
L.  Worthington  &  Co.

Adrian—Schneider  Bros.,  boot  and 
shoe  dealers,  have  dissolved,  Louis 
Schneider  succeeding.

Lapeer—Lockwood &  Mahon,  general 
dealers,  have  dissolved,  Geo.  W.  Mahon 
continuing the business.

Detroit—Mizner  &  Hawkins,  dealers 
in oil,  have dissolved,  Harry  R.  Mizner 
continuing the business

Cadillac—Wilcox  Bros.  &  Smith,
grocers and meat dealers, have dissolved, 
Wilcox Bros,  succeeding.

Detroit—The National  Wine  Co.  (not 
incorporated)  has  dissolved.  The  busi­
ness will be continued  by Geo.  W.  Keib 
ling under the same  style.

Ferry—Theo.  P.  Landon has opened  a 
grocery store  here.’  The stock  was  fur­
nished  by Andrew  Wierengo.

Detroit—Reindell  &  Sprung,  dealers 
in  bicycles,  guns,  etc.,  have.dissolved, 
John  M.  Reindel succeeding.

Traverse City —John J. Ash  has bought 
in  the  Traverse  City 

a  half 
Candy Co.  from G.  B.  McLellan.

interest 

Battle  Creek—Brown  &  Manchester 
have put in  a  new grocery  stock.  They 
are both old  hands  at the business.

Battle  Creek—Sherwin  &  Ball  have 
opened  a  new  stock of  groceries in  the 
building formerly  occupied  by  Mr.  Mur- 
phy.

Bay  City—Altman  &  .Grossman  write 
The T radesm an that  the report  that M. 
Grossman succeeds to the business (cloth­
ing,  shoes  and  men’s  furnishing  goods) 
of that firm is  incorrect.

I t-rre  MICHIGAN  TRAJDESMAN.

Shelby—Griffin  Bros,  have  opened  a 
new grocery  store here.  The  stock  was 
furnished by Andrew Wierengo,  of  Mus­
kegon.

Hersey—O.  L.  Millard  succeeds  Whit­
ney & Millard in the hardware  business. 
Mr.  Whitney  retires  from  business  to 
embark in  rural pursuits.

Traverse City—T.  A.  Choals, merchant 
tailor at Bay City,  has  decided to remove 
to  this  city.  He  has  leased  the  north 
store in the Bostrum  building.

Traverse City—A.  Pohoral  will  move 
his  hardware  store  into  the  Wilhelm, 
Bartak  & Co.  building  on  Front  street, 
just vacated by J.  S.  Cramer.

Belding—Eddy & Son have  bought the 
boot and shoe stock of Lowman  & Kester 
and  will move the stock  from  its present 
location on Bridge street  to the  Meloche 
block.

Albion—Reynolds & Co.  succeed Glea­
son &  Knapp  in  the  drug  businss,  Mr. 
Knapp  retiring  from  trade to enjoy  the 
fortune left him  by the  death  of  a  rich 
relative.

Shelby—A.  J.  Rankin  has  purchased 
tbe hardware  business  and  building  of 
E.  B.  Gaylord.  Mr.  Gaylord will  devote 
his entire attention to the fruit  and  pro­
duce  business 
in  connection  with  the 
firm of Loomis, Gaylord & Gunn.

in 

Lansing—An enterprising  citizen here 
is an  undertaker,  a  furniture  dealer and 
a coroner.  He recently sold a man a bed 
and the unlucky customer  was  killed by 
the thing closing up on him and smother­
ing  him  to  death.  Tbe  Lansing  mer­
chant then ascertained the cause of death 
in  his  official  capacity  as  coroner  and 
afterwards  officiated 
the  mournful 
proceedings  which followed.

Belding—The  Fred  Higbee  stock  of 
groceries  was  sold  at  mortgage  sale  to 
Clarence  Bond  for  $700,  he  being  the 
highest  bidder.  L.  E.  Hawkins, of  the 
firm of Hawkins &Co., was present in the 
interest  of  the  second  mortgage.  The 
stock  was purchased by  Mr.  Bond,  who, 
in company with  William  Spencer,  will 
add to it and continue the business under 
the style of Bond &  Spencer.

Lowell—C.  G.  Stone  &  Son  have  as­
signed their  dry  goods  stock  to  Henry 
W.  Booth.  The  failure  is  attributed  to 
the  loss  of  $8,000  through  the  failure 
of  the  Lowell  National  Bank,  a  smaller 
loss  through  the  failure  of  the  Lowell 
Furniture  Co.,  and  to  unforturate 
in­
vestments in lumber  and  mining  stocks. 
The  senior  member  of  the  firm  has 
been in  business  here  twenty-nine  years 
and  the  failure  is  a  matter  of  genuine 
reget to all concerned.

Detroit—Charles  F.  Rich  & Co.  have 
been succeeded by  the  Charles  F.  Rich 
Co.,  which  is  composed  of  new  stock­
holders and  been  placed  on  a  business 
basis.  By  way  of  explanation  of  past 
events  the  new  corporation  makes  a 
statement to the  effect that  the creditors 
of the old company took  no  action  with 
regard  to  its  insolvency  and  the  mort­
gage  given  by  the  firm  was  foreclosed 
and  purchased  by  F.  M.  Thompson,  to 
protect the bank indebtedness of $15,000. 
It was then sold at private  sale  to a new 
company,  organized  by  Mr.  Rich,  who 
says that the old  stockholders  sacrificed 
every dollar’s worth  of  stock  to  enable 
them to pay the indebtedness  of  tbe  old 
firm  of McDonald,  Rich & Co.  Mr.  Rich 
says the new  concern  starts  in  without | 
a dollar of  indebtedness,  and  that  with 
reduced expenses and increased  business, 
the new corporation will be  of  sufficient'

commercial  importance  to the  creditors 
of the old  company to  make  up  for  old 
losses.

Cadillac  (News)—More  than  a 

little 
interest  and  excitement 
in  business 
circles  in  this  city  was  occasioned  last 
week by the  effort  of  a  shrewd  sharper 
to secure possession  of several  thousand 
dollars’ worth of dry goods,  through  the 
use  of  the  name  of  Mitchell  Brothers. 
An  active,  business-like  fellow  came 
here on Tuesday of last week, registering 
at 
the  American  House  as  W.  W. 
Mitchell.  He forthwith announced that, 
together with his brother,  H. S. Mitchell, 
he would soon  open  up  a  general  mer­
chandise  store  here.  A  storeroom  was 
rented,  a small deposit was  made  at the 
bank and  advertisements  were  inserted 
in the local  papers  all  in  the  name  of 
H.  S.  Mitchell  &  Bro.  These  details 
were merely incidental to  the  scheme  of 
Mr.  Sharper alias H.  S.  Mitchell  &  Bro. 
It seems that about  the  date  of  his  ar­
rival  here large orders for dry goods  had 
been  sent,  in  the  name  of  “Mitchell 
Brothers”  to  many  of  the  leading  dry 
goods  houses  in  Detroit  and  Chicago. 
The letter heading  on  which  the  order 
was sent was about the same as that used 
by  Cadillac’s  well-known  lumber  firm, 
the Mitchell  Brothers.  The preliminary 
scheme  was to get the  goods here  in  the 
possession of  “H.  S.  Mitchell Bros ”  As 
it didn’t work successfully,  even  so  far 
as that,  further details of  the plan  weie 
not  disclosed.  Letters  of  inquiry  were 
sent  her6,  and,  through  -the  efforts  of 
Postmaster Law,  Marshal Cooke  and the 
genuine Mitchell Brothers,  the  full pur­
pose and plan of  the fraud was soon dis­
closed.  The visible member  of  the new 
firm,  the “W.  W.  Mitchell”  who claimed 
to  come 
from  Dill  Rapids,  Houghton 
county, soon  ascertained  that  his  game 
here had entirely failed,  and  on  Friday 
noon he left Cadillac  and  has  not  since 
been seen or heard from.

MANUFACTURING MATTERS.

Benton  Harbor—Platt &  Co.  are  suc­
ceeded  by the Benton Harbor Milling Co.
Beaverton—Ross  Bros,  are building  a 
dam across the  Tobacco, near their shin­
gle mill,  at a cost of $800.

Gaylord  —  Crawford,  McGregor  & 
Canby,  of Dayton,  Ohio,  have decided  to 
locate a last factory here, as this point is 
tributary to a large supply of maple tim­
ber used in the manufacture of lasts.

Menominee—There  is  more  evidence 
of improvement in  the  lumber  business 
as viewed from along  the  river  and  bay 
shore  docks  than  at any  time since  the 
opening of navigation  at this  port.  The 
mills are all running 10 hours a day,  and 
most of the product  is being  shipped di­
rect from the saws.  Six large cargoes of 
lumber,  lath and  shingles  left  this  port 
between  Aug.  31  and Sept.  3 for Buffalo 
and Tonawanda,  and there are  five more 
vessels loading for the  East at  the  pres­
ent  time.  These  shipments  alone  will 
amount  to  upward  of  10,000,000  feet, 
while the  shipments from  both  Menom­
inee  and  Marinette to  Chicago, Milwau­
kee and other Lake  Michigan  points  for 
a corresponding period  will undoubtedly 
foot up about 30,000,000 feet.  Several of 
the mills both on the river and bay shore 
are running night and day, and the pros­
pects are  that the  stock  of  logs  put  in 
last  winter,  which  is  only  about  one- 
third of the usual cut,  will  be exhausted 
long before the  streams  are  frozen  over 
this season.

|  Cheboygan—It is reported that the mill 
of the Whitehall  Lumber Co.  will be shut 
I down  in  the  near  future,  the  stock  of 
I logs  having  been  exhausted.  Employ- 
i ment  will  be  furnished a  number of  the 
mill crew  by  Pelton  &  Reid,  who  will 
put on a night shift,  and  run  their  mill 
night and  day.

Empire—The Empire  Lumber Co.  pro­
poses to plant large  orchards  on  its  de­
nuded lands  next  season,  confident  that 
the  results  will demonstrate the fact that 
the  land  is  worth  more  for  fruit  pur­
poses  with  the  pine off  than  it  was  for 
lumbering  operations  before  the  timber 
was cut.

Manistee—Tbe  R.  G.  Peters  Salt  & 
Lumber Co.  (operated  by  the  Michigan 
Trust  Co.)  is  extending  its  Manistee & 
Luther Railroad into a  group  of  timber 
which  will  give a  supply  of  timber  for 
two or  three  years.  The  same  interest 
is also building a logging  road in  the vi­
cinity of Grayling,  which  will  be twelve 
miles  long when completed,  and will  tap 
the  Manistee River further down.  There 
will be about  900,000,000 feet  of  timber 
tributary to  it.

in  the 

Manistee—There  are  visible  signs  of 
lumber  business. 
improvement 
Although no large sales have  been made, 
buyers  have  been  here 
looking  over 
stocks.  Salt  matters  are  very  quiet at 
present and  the association is finding it a 
difficult matter to take  care of  the  prod­
uct as fast as made.

Saginaw—The  stave  manufacturers in 
Michigan  have built  up one  of  the  most 
extensive  industries  in the  country  and 
are not  a little  alarmed  at  the  outlook. 
The  new  tariff  puts  staves  on  the free 
list.  Under tbe  McKinley  law a duty  of 
50 cents a thousand  was levied,  and even 
with  this protection the Canadian compe­
tition  has  been  keenly  felt.  John  C. 
Liken,  one  of the most  extensive manu­
facturers of staves in  the  country,  says 
that  the  only  way  in  which  Michigan 
manufacturers can  meet  Canadian  com­
petition is to reduce  wages and the price 
paid for stave timber.  The  sugar  trust, 
which handles the  greater portion of  the 
Michigan, product,  seems  to  have  had 
things pretty much its own way,  not only 
as to  sugar,  but  in  having  staves  and 
beading put on the  free list.

H ie  D rug M arket.

Gum opium is steadily declining.
Morphia is as yet unchanged.
Quinine is  very firm,  but  has  not  ad­

vanced as anticipated.

Balsam  Peru  is  in  better  supply  and 

lower.

and lower.

Gum assafcetida is again  in  full  stock 

Oil sweet almond has declined.
Oils erigeron and fireweed are lower.
Oil  wintergreen,  true,  has  declined. 
On  account  of  small  demand,  the syn­
thetic is now  largely used.

Oil spearmint is  lower,  on  account  of 

large crop.

are lower.

marked  up.

Oil croton  has  declined.
Chlorate potash,  crystals and  powered, 

Coriander seed has again advanced.
Sulphuric ethers,  all grades, have been 

Ergot is in  large supply and  lower.
Quicksilver is lower.
Lycopodium  is  in  small demand  and 

lower.

Imported bay rum has declined, on ac­

count of lower duty.

Spirits nitre has advanced.

GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

August  Kiscbel  has  opened  a  meat 

market  at  177  Stocking  street

Emil Riechel has  purchased  the  drug 
stock of Max Blank at  416  West  Bridge 
street.

W.  L.  McLeod has  opened  a  new  gro­
cery  store  at  Holland.  The 1.  M.  Clark 
Grocery Co.  furnished  the stock.

G.  H.  Wilmot  his  removed  his 
ness  and  carriage  busiuess  from 
West  Bridge  street 
to  197  and 
South  Division  street.

har-
369
199

Ingersoll &  Co.,  milliners  at  250  East 
Fulton  street  (Wellington  Flats),  have 
removed across the street and opened  for 
business at 257 East  Fulton  street.

John  D.  Wickham,  formerly  engaged 
in  the  meat  business  at  111  Butter- 
worth avenue,  has  purchased  the  mar­
ket of Hezekiah  Smith,  at 61  East  Leon­
ard street._________________

Willard  Purchase  will  shortly  remove 
his  grocery  stock  from  70  Houseman 
street  to  780  South  Division  street. 
He  has  sold  a  half interest  in  the stock 
to D.  Van  Allen,  his  brother-in-law,  but 
the  style  of  the  new  firm  has  not  yet 
been decided  upon.

Pike Pierson  has  sold  his  interest  in 
the bicycle business of Pierson & Marlin, 
at  36  Mill  street,  to  his  partners— 
Ensley  and  Wm.  E.  Martin—who  pro­
pose  to  solicit  the  co-operation  of  ad­
ditional  capital  and  increase  the  busi­
ness  very  materially.

The  Bissell  Carpet  Sweeper  Co.  has 
shipped  several  carloads  of  machinery, 
patterns  and  special  tools  to  Toronto, 
for  the  purpose  of  equipping  a  factory 
at  that  place,  which  will  manufacture1 
sweepers  for  the  Canadian  and  English 
trade.  This  arrangement  will  enable 
the  company  to  save  the  duty  levied on 
manufactured  goods  by  the  Canadian 
provinces.

Casper  Sengenberger  has  leased  the 
east  store in  Wellington  Flats  and  will 
shortly occupy same with a line of staple 
and fancy groceries* including wines and 
bottled  goods.  Mr.  Sengenberger  hails 
from Joliet,  111., where he was a  partner 
in the Spot Cash Grocery Co.,  one of  the 
most  successful  grocery  establishments 
in  the country.  He has  visited  a  large 
number of cities in pursuit of  a  new lo­
cation,  reaching 
that 
Grand Rapids  offers  greater  attractions 
in  a business way  thau any  other city.

the  conclusion 

At the close of  the  Western  Michigan 
Fair  last  fall, 
the  Association  found 
itself $2,200 in debt.  At a meeting  held 
to discuss ways and  means  for  liquidat­
ing  this  debt,  the  wholesale  trade  of 
Grand Rapids  generously  came  forward 
and subscribed the entire  amount.  This 
sum was made from  the  retail  trade  of 
Western Michigan,  and  the one  thought 
in the minds of  the jobbers  in  giving it 
back  through  the  medium  of  the  Fair 
Association was the benefit of  the whole 
section 
from  which  it  was  received. 
Will  not  the  retail  trade  respond  in 
similar spirit and encourage  the manage­
ment of the Fair  by  their  presence  and 
patronage?  There is no reason  why  the 
Western  Michigan  Fair should not be the 
equal if not  the superior  of  any  similar 
event held  in  the country. 
It only  needs 
the  attendance  of  the  people,  and  es­
pecially of the busiuess  men,  to make  it 

80.

FOR  SALE,  WANTED,  ETC.  __
a  little I  Advertisements  will  be  Inserted  under  this 
head for two cents a word the first insertion and 
one  cent a word  for each subsequent  insertion. 
No advertisements  taken for  less  than 25 cents. 
Advance payment.
F OR SALE—ONE QUARTER OR ONE-THIRD 
interest in one of the  most  desirable  lum­
ber  mill  plants  in  the  State.  New band  mill, 
carriage, edger and trimmer, hoop  and  beading 
mills complete.  Ten miles  of  logging  railroad, 
with  plenty  of  timber  for  a  term of years.  A 
good business man who wishes to engage  in the 
lumber business as an  active  partner  will  find 
here  a  fine  opportunity.  Will  take  a  stock  of 
general  merchandise  In  part  payment.  Cleve 
land Wooden ware Co., Midland.  Mich. 
603
F or  sa le—la r g e  store  and  stock
of  general  merchandise  in McBain. Mich.
Giilis  McBain  McBain.
6 S
A r e l ia b l e  dry  goods  a n d  shoe

qqo

salesman  desires  position.  Is  capable  of 
taking full charge of stocks  or  occupying  posi­
tion of general manager.  Address P. Â. M., care 
Michigan Tradesman. 
Eio r 
sa le—second  HAND  TINNERS’ 
tools, also r>. Sander’s  Sons  I XL  pipe  cut­
ting and  threading  machine,  hand  and  power 
combined,  steam  Heat  Evaporator  Co.,  Char­
lotte, Mich.
V y iL L   PAY  A  REASONABLE PRICE. CASH, 
“ » 
for a lady’s wheel in good condition.  Ad­
dress H. T. C., care Michigan Tradesman.  601
E>IG  SNAP—A  REAL  ESTATE  OFFICE 
>  having  half  a  million  dollars'  worth  of 
property listed, 82 0 takes it.  Price of office  fix­
tures only, 
too  other  business  chances.  Send 
tamp for list.  Mutual Business Exchange. Bav 
City- 
6  590
■ HOICE  FARM  OF  160 ACRES,  DEEP  SOIL 
living water, in Dickinson county, Iowa, to
exchange for stock of goods  or  other  property! 
ive  full_description—quality,  quantity  and 
value—in first letter.
P. Conklin, ¿6  Madison 
Ave., Grand Rapids, Mich.

591

594

583

597
ANTED  FOR  CASH—STOCK  OF  GOODS 
TV  Must  be  cheap.  Also  store  hntlrtim»  I« 
cheap.  Also  store  building  in 
Northe 
Northern Michigan.  W.  H.  Pardee,  Freeport
Mich.
584  ’
D RUGGIST—GRADUATE,  OF  TEN  Y'EARS’ 
experience in city and country—wishes sit 
uation.  Competent  to  take  full  charge  if  de­
sired.  Wages moderate.  No. 1 references.  Ad 
dress No. 591, care Michigan  Tradesman. 
■ ANTED-A  SITUATION  BY  A PHARMA- 
cist of 15 years’ experience.  Best  of ref­
erences.  Address 
Pharmacist,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman.
593
D rug  sto re  fo r  sa l e- a bou t  *1,500,
part  cash  and  balance  on  time  to good 
party.  Location first-class: rent low: good open­
ing for a physieian: new industry to  emplov  100 
hands now building  near  by.  Fred  Brunhage, 
Muskegon, Mich. 
■ ANTED—POSITION  AS  MANAGER  OR 
clerk in drygoods or general store.  Good
window  dresser. 
References.  Box AA,  New 
Haven, Mich.
587
F or  sa l e—c h ea p  fo r ca sh,  s iiin g l e-
mlll  in  first-class  repair,  40,000  capacity. 
Holmes & DeGoit. Tustin  Mich. 
588
I l f  ANTE D—POSITION  AS  CLERK  OR 
»▼ 
bookkeeper  in  a  general  store.  Good
references  furnished 
Address  A.  D. Diehm.
Remus, Mich.
589
■ ANTED—FURNITURE  AND  FIXTURES 
for  a  drug  store.  Price  must  be right. 
Address C  W. Vining, Lakeview,  Mich. 
586
ANTED—A DEALER IN EVERY COUNTY 
< V 
to handle the Peerless typewriter.  Send 
for circular.  Barker  & Saunders, State Agents, 
19 and 2! Fountain St.. Grand Rapids 
OR  SALE—TWO  PRESCRIPTION  CASES, 
one  pair  druggist’s  prescription  scales, 
frmr section  druggist’s drawers (only  one  year 
old), six four foot show cases, very  cheap.  Ad­
dress ?C. G. Pitkin, Whitehall, Mich. 
604
■   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 
vears for himself..  Address “Pharmacist,” care 
Michigan  Tradesman. 
566
N e a r ly  n ew   ba r-lock  t y p e w r it e r
for  sale  at  a  great  reduction  from  cost- 
Reason for selling, we desire another  pattern of 
same make of machine, which  we  consider  the 
best  on the  market.  Tradesman  Company.  100 
Louis St., Grand  Rapids. 
I "T r e a t  o f f e r —f in e   stock  or  w a il
T  paper,  paints,  varnishes,  picture  frames 
a n d  room mouldings for  sale.  Reason  for  sell­
ing,  death of proprietor.  Good paying business 
in a very desirable location.  All  new  stock, In­
voicing  from  82,500  to  83,000.  Address  Mrs 
Theresa Schwind, Grand Rapids. 
561
■   BUSINESS CHANCE—FOR  SALE  OR Ex­
change for farm or city property in or near 
Grand Rapids, the Harris mill property  situated 
in Paris, Mecosta, Co., Michigan, on  the G. R. & 
I. Railroad, consisting of saw and planing mills, 
store 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. 
559
Ba n n in g   fa c to r y  w a n t ed—a  pa r t y
with some capital and who understands the 
business, to build and operate a canning factory 
at Grant, Newaygo Co.,  Mich.  For  particulars 
write to H. C. Hemingsen, Village Clerk,  Grant, 
Mich. 
_________________553
■ LANING  MILL—WE  OFFER  FOR  SALE 
the North Side Planing Mill,  which is first- 
class in every  respect,  or  will  receive  proposi­
tions to locate the business In some other  thriv­
ing town.  Correspondence and Inspection solic­
ited.  Sheridan, Boyce St Co., Manistee, Mich. 613

564

'J lT tL K   m ic t e t t o a n   t r a d e s m a n
Buyers  and  sellers  on  the  morning  Packing  &  Provision  Co.,  who  could 

It  was  in 

they  leave  the  market  hauling  the  fish  ashore. 

market have received more or less  atten-  vouch  for the  facts. 
tion in this journal during  the  past  few 
lake back of St.  Ignace and the two were 
weeks,  but one class of  buyers  were  ap-  putting about for shore  when  a jerk and 
parently overlooked.  No  disrespect was  a whiz and a wild commotion  announced 
meant by this—it was merely  the  result  trouble.  After a desperate  struggle  and 
of inability to do justice  to  the  subject,  a vain  attempt to bring  the fish  into the 
The Hebrew and  Dago peddlers are  very  boat a landing was  made  in  safety  and 
extensive buyers,  so far as  the  quantity  by  running the  line  arouud  a  big  tree 
goes.  Their  wagons  are  loaded  to  the  with a running  knot  they  succeeded  in 
gunwale  when 
It  was a  four 
and make  their  way  towards  their  vari-  foot-and-a-half  muskallonge pretty  near 
ous  fiejds of operation. 
If  there  is any-  as  big around as a  barrel.  They  strung 
thing  in  quantity  the  foreign  peddlers  it  on  a  broom-stick  (there  are  always 
are  “in  it,” but quality  is  a  minor  con-  broom-stic  s  lying around  loose  on  the 
lakes 
sidération,  or no cons'deration at  all,  to  shores  of  the  Upper  Peninsula 
this  class  of  itinerants.  There  is  one I for  this  purpose)  and  proceeded 
in 
man,  who  loads  his  wagon  in  front  of  Indian  file for the  town,  the  tail  of  the 
T he  T radesman  office  every  morning,  | fish being worn off several inches by drag- 
whose name is  B.  Orvant,  and  the  num-  ging on  the ground.  Mr.  Burns  says he 
ber of whose license is  72,  who  may  be  never saw  such a mouth  as that fish  had, 
taken  as a fair sample and representative  and  will  be  glad as  long as  he lives that
it could  not talk.  Any  o  e  who  doubts 
of th's class  of  peddlers.  Some  of  his 
the story cau go to the spot  and  see  the 
vegetables  are  fair;  bis  potatoes  are 
tree that served  as  a  snubbing  post,  or 
poor  mangy little things which  only peo­
call ou  Mr.  Robinson  fcr the  head of the 
ple  of  the  most  limited  means  would 
fish,  which  he  has  preserved  in alcohol.
think of buying.  His apples  are  scrubs 
—windfalls,  wormeaten  and  scabby;  but 
his  peaches,  in  their utter  worthlessness, 
almost  defy  description. 
If  they  had 
been 
left  on  the  trees  to  ripen  they 
would  have been  bad  enough,  but  they 
have  evidently  been  blown  from  the 
trees  before  attaining 
their  growth. 
Many  of  them  are  dried  aud  shriveled 
almost beyond  recognition; others  are  in 
an advanced stage of  decomposition,  and 
all  are dirty  and  utterly  disreputable,  fit 
only  for  the  refuse  barrels.  One  won­
ders  if  there  are  people  in  this city  so 
poor  that  they  must  either  buy  such 
fruit or  go  without.  Why  should  any­
one buy  such stuff ? 
It  is  not  fruit—it 
is simply a rotting heap  of  putrifaction. 
There is a clause  in  the  peddling  ordi­
nance which provides for  the  inspection 
of  the  fruit  and  vegetables  offered for 
Is  that  clause  inop­
sale  by  peddlers. 
erative?  Or 
is 
it  possible  that  the 
Board of Health  see nothing  wroDg  with 
this  fruit, or  have  not  seen  it  at  all ? 
Passersby pause and look  at  it,  express 
their disgust  and  pass  on.  How  comes 
it  that  the  health officers do not see it ? 
The stuff should  be  condemned  and  the 
man  who offers it for  sale  punished. 
It 
is a serious menace to the  public  health 
which  should  not  be  allowed.  This 
load is only an  average  sample  of  many 
which leave the  market  every  morning, 
all of which  are equally bad.

Sugar  (Edgar)—Refined  sugars  remain 
firm at  unchanged  prices,  and,  all  things 
considered 
the  demand  is  very  satis­
factory  and,  in  a  measure,  surprising. 
Soft sugars are in  request  and  the  mar­
ket on  Standards, one to six  inclusive,  is 
largely  oversold  (two  weeks  on  grades 
Nos.  3,  4  and 5).  A  marked  improve­
ment  is  noticeable 
in  the  demand  for 
yellows,  the consumption of  which  is in­
creasing  rapidly  under 
the  changed 
conditions.  The  constantly  increasing 
supplies of fruits  are  bringing  about  a 
rapid depletion  of  stocks,  the  close  of 
the  week  developing  requirements- 
many  unexpected  directions;  a 
full 
volume of business is  now assured  until 
the close of the campaign.  We  are  con­
vinced that the new crop year  will  begin 
with all  stocks reduced  to  actual  neces 
sities.  The  European  markets  are  ex 
ceedingly strong,  with few  sugars  avail­
able for  export.  Cuba  has  only  18,000 
tens stock and  all other cane  producing 
countries  have 
long  since  exhausted 
their  supplies.  With  the  exception  of 
Louisiana  sugars,  which  will  begin  to 
appear in October,  no new crop cane will 
be available until about the close  of  the 
year,  when  Brazil  and  East  India  sup 
plies come forward.

The  Grocery  Market.

Gripsack  Brigade.

Frank  H.  Clay  (W.  J.  Quan  & Co.)  has 
again  taken  his grip  on  the  road,  after 
enjoying a summer attack of la grippe at 
his home for ten days.

The rascal  who  stole  the  gripsacks  of 
Mr.  Goodspeed  (Woolson  Spice  Co.)  at 
Jackson,  subsequently  ruining  them  by 
cutting  out  the  sides  of  each  gripsack, 
has  been apprehended  and  is 
likely  to 
get  the  full  extent  of  the  law  for  his 
vandalism,  which is  three  years of  hard 
labor  at  Jackson.

Grand Traverse (Traverse City) Herald: 
W.  C.  Burns,  traveling  representative 
of the Standard Oil Co.,  was  in  town  a 
day or two this week with a  chip  on his 
shoulder.  The 
instant  any  man  ex­
pressed  the  slightest  doubt  of  the  fish 
story  he  had  to  tell  that  chip  dropped 
and Mr.  Burns  squared  for  battle.  He 
was diffident about telling the  story  but 
when  urged  would  do  so,  referring  to 
Chas. S.  Robinson,  of the  Grand  Rapids

the 

Pork—Mess  has  been  given  another 
sharp  push  upward,  being now quoted  at 
75c advance.  There  is no  other change. 
Local  business is reported in good condi­
tion,  notwithstanding 
enhanced 
prices.

Lard—Has advanced  in  all grades,  but 
family,  from  M  to %c  per lb.  Cottolene 
has advanced  ¿¿c.

Beef—Extra mess has advanced 25c per 
bbl.  Extra mess  (Chicago  packing)  has 
declined 25c.

Oranges—Nothing  doing,  owing to the 

abundance of domestic fruits.

Lemons—The new crop  will  be  along 
soon  and  lower  prices may be expected.
Bananas—No  demand,  although there 
is plenty of good stock in dealers’  hands.

From  Out of Town.

Galls  have  been  received  at  The 
Tradesman office during  the  past week 
from the following gentleman in trade: 

N.  Harris, Conklin.
J. L.  Felton,  Burnip’s Corners.
Martin  Alflen,  New  Salem.
A.  Denton,  Howard City.

TIGHT  BINDING

THE  DAYS  OF  YORE.

In terestin g   R em iniscences  R ecalled  by 

M artin  L.  S w eet.

As one walks along the busy  streets of 

this  thrifty  city  occasionally  there 
seen  the  white  head  of  an  “old  timer. 
There are not  many  of  them  now,  and 
the time cannot be far distant  when  the 
last  of  the  men  who  “hewed a fortune 
out of the wilderness” will  have  become 
a  victim  to  the  grim  destroyer.  They 
are full of stories of the past, of reminis­
cences of their neighbors and  friends  of 
long ago,  and of  anecdotes  of  the  days 
when Grand  Rapids was  but a straggling 
country  village.

Martin  L. Sweet, is one of the  few  sur­
vivors of those  early  times.  Mr.  Sweet 
came to this city in  1844,  anu  eugaged  in 
the  milling  business.  He  was  born in 
Oneida  county,  N.  Y.,  in  1819.  “The 
topographical  features of the  city,”  said 
Mr.  Sweet,  “ were  altogether  different 
fifty years ago from what  they  are  now. 
The  old channel of  the  River  has  been 
filled  up and  the  water  confined  to  the 
west channel.  The eastern  bank  of  the 
River was about on a line  with  the  cen­
ter of Sweet’s Hotel,  going north.  There 
was a steamboat dock  where  the  Weston 
building  on  Canal  street  now  stands. 
Canal street has  been graded  up  sixteen 
, feet since then,  but  when  it  was  at  the 
old  grade  I  have  many  times  seen  the 
steamboat,  which  plied  between  Grand 
Haven and this city,  left  high  and  dry 
on  the street during  a  freshet.  At  one 
time  the  steamer  was  carried  by  the 
water beyond the bank of the  River  and 
left  where the Union depot  now  stand 
It took  four  weeks  to  get  her  back  into 
the River.  I remember a man  being 
rested  for  killing  an  Indian.  He  wa: 
brought  to  this  city  and  put 
in  the 
lockup,  which was then  in  the  basement 
of a  buildiug on Canal  street  near Lyon 
street.  The  water  was  rising  in  the 
River,  when  he  was  locked  up,  at  the 
rate of about a foot an hour. 
It soon  be 
gan  to fill the basements on  the east  side 
of the street aud  it was  not  long  before 
the prisoner began to realize  his  danger 
He shouted long aud  loud  for  help  and 
finally,  managed  to make  himself  heard 
I  was  one  of  the  party  which  went 
to his assistance, and  we managed  to  get 
a rope  on  him and drag him out. 
If the 
water  had  risen  six  inches  higher  and 
had  he  not  been  takeu  out,  he  would 
have been  drowned.  1  don’t  remember 
what  became  of  him  afterwards,  but I 
know he  was  taken  to  Kalamazoo  to  be 
tried,  and  I  think  he  was  banged,  for 
capital  punishment  was 
in  vogue 
Michigan then,  as  it  should  be  now. 
I 
do  remember,  however,  that,  after  we 
got  him  out  of  the  lockup,  we had to 
watch him all  night and part of the  next 
day,  for the sheriff was  out of  town  and 
there  was no one to look  after him.

“I suppose yon  have heard of Prospect 
hill ?  Its highest point was  about at the 
intersection of  Lyon  and Ottawa  streets, 
sloping north  and  south  for  a  consider­
able  distance.  There  was  a  big*  kick 
when the removal  of that hill  was talked 
about.  Daniel Ball,  Judge  Martin  and 
several  other  prominent  citizens  had 
their residences on  the  hill  and,  natur­
ally,  they did not like the idea of  having 
to  tear  down 
their  houses.  Before 
Daniel Ball  built his  house  he  came  to 
me and asked me  if  I  thought  the  hill 
would  ever  be removed ?  I  told him to 
dig  a  hole  twenty  feet  deep and build 
his  house  in  the bole.  He laughed and

rTHK 
Dry Goods Price Current.

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U N BLEA C H ED   COTTONS.

Adriatic
“  Arrow Brand  434 
A rgyle...................  5£
World Wide.  6
Atlanta A A............ 6
“  LL...............   4H
Atlantic A ..............6¥
Full Yard Wide......6ft
H ..............6)4
“ 
Georgia  A................614
“ 
P ............   5
Honest Width........  6
D..............6
“ 
Hartford A  ............6
“  LL  ..............4)4
Indian Head..........   3)4
Amory...................... 634
King A  A............... 6 ¡4
Archery  Bunting...  4 
King EC.................5
Beaver Dam  A A ..  4)4 
Lawrence  L L.......   4Vi
Blackstone O, 38....  5 
I Madras cheese cloth 634 
Black Crow............ 6
Newmarket  G........534
B  .......5
Black  Rock  ...........534| 
614
N .... 
Boot, AL...............   7 
Capital  A ............... 514 
DD__ 5)4
X 
6V
Cavanat V..............5 Vi 
Chapman cheese cl.  3% Nolbe R..................  5
Clifton  C R ............ 514 Our Level  Best........6
Comet..................... 6!4| Oxford  R.................  6
Dwight Star............  SVjPequot....................  7
Clifton CCC...........534 Solar.........................  6
¡Top of the  Heap__  7
A B C ..................... 814|Geo.  Washington...  8
Amazon...................s
-------  
-  Qien Mills..............  7
Amsburg..................6
Gold Medal..............7)4
Art Cambric............10
Green  Ticket.......... 814
Blackstone A A........7%
Great Falls.............   6)4
Beats All................  4
Hope........................714
Boston..................... 12
Just  Out......  4V@ 5
abot........................  6%
King Phillip.......... 734
Cabot,  % ................. 6%
OP......7V4
Charter  Oak............ 5)4 ¡Lonsdale Cambric
10
Jonway W..............7)4|Lonsdale............   u   „
Cleveland.............  6  Middlesex.........  @  5
Dwight A nchor...  8  No Name......... 
7«
" 
shorts  8  Oak View...............6
Edwards................... 6  Our Own................   514
mpiie....................  7  Pride of the West... 12
Parwell......................7 V4 Rosalind..................7)4
Fruit of the  Loom.  8  iSunilght.................  414
Fltchvllle
Utica  Mills............ 8V4
First Prize..............6
Nonpareil  ..10
Fruit of the Loom X. 7 Vi
Vlnyard..................  8V4
Falrmount..............4)4
White Horse...........6
Full Value..............634
Rock............ 8 Vi
Cabot....................... 63i|Dwlght Anchor
8
Farwell...................7^4)

H A L F   BLEA C H ED   COTTONS.

BLEA C H ED   COTTONS.

Bleached.
Housewife  A...........514 Housewife  Q ....

CANTON  FL A N N E L .

“ 

R

Unbleached. 
B..........5 Vi 
“ 
C
‘ 
D..........6V4
“ 
E ..........7
* 
F .......... 7)*
“ 
G  ..........7Vi
‘ 
H ..........7M
“ 
1.......... 8)4
“ 
J .......... 8 Vi
‘ 
K.........9)4
‘ 
L.......... 10
* 
1  M...........10Vi
“  N ...........11
“  O...........21
“ 

P ........... 14)41

C A R PE T   W A R P.

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Peerless, white.......17  ¡Integrity  colored...18
colored  ... 19  White Star..............17
“  colored  .19
Integrity................ 18)41 
Hamilton 
Nameless............... 20
.................25
.................27)4
..............30
................ 32)4
............... 35

.............   8
.  9 
.10)4
GG  Cashmere........20
Nameless  ...............16
.18
CORSETS.

D R ESS  ROODS.
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PR IN T S .

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11 
11 
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CORSET  JE A N S.

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Corallne................. IS 501Wonderful 
14 50
Schilling’s ...............  9 00 Brighton....................4 75
Davis  Waists......  9 00 Bortree’s ..................   S 00
Grand  Rapids......   4 50|Abdomlnal............15 00
Armory.................... 634
Naumkeagsatteen..  7)4
Androscoggin.........7M
Rock port.................. 6)4
Blddeford..............   6
Conestoga.................7)4
Brunswick............. 6)4
Walworth................634
Allen turkey  reds..  5)4
Berwick fancies
5)4
robes...........5)4
Clyde Robes__
pink a purple 5)4
Charter Oak fancies 4 
buffs...........   5)4
DelMarlne cashm's.  5)4 
pink  checks.  5)4
monrn’g  5)4 
staples........  5
Eddy stone fancy...  5)4 
shirtings  ..  3M
chocolat  5)4
American fancy__  5V4
rober__5)4
American Indigo...  4)4 
sateens.. 5)4 
American shirtings.  334 
Hamilton fancy.  ...  5)4
Argentine  Grays...  6 
staple__5)4
Anchor Shirtings...  4 
Manchester fancy..  5)4 
....  6
Arnold 
new era. 5)4 
Arnold  Merino___6
Merrimack D fancy. 5)4 
long cloth B.  9 
Merrlm’ck shirtings.  4 
“  ,  C.  7)4
“  Reppfnrn.  8)4
century cloth 7
Pacific fancy  ..........5)4
gold seal......10)4
“ 
green seal TR 10)4 
Portsmouth robes...  6)4 
yellow seal.. 10)4
Simpson mourning..  5£
serge........... 11)4
greys........534
Turkey red.. 10)4 
solid black.  534 
Washington Indigo.  6)4 
“  Turkey robes..  7M
“  India robes__7)4
“  plain T’ky X 34  8)4
“ 
“  X...10
Ottoman  Tur­
key red.................. 6)4
Martha Washington
Turkeyred 34........7)4
Martha Washington
Turkey red..........   9)4
Rlverpolntrobes....  5)4
Windsorfancy........6)4
Indigo bine......... 10)4
solids........5  ¡Harmony..............   I"*4)4
Amoskeag AC A....¡IK
AC A.....................11)4
Hamilton N  ...........  7
Pemberton AAA__16
D............8
York.......................10)4
Swift River............ 7)4
Farmer......................8
Pearl River............12
First Prize............. 10)4
Warren...................12)4
Lenox M ills........... 18
Conostoga............. 16
Atlanta,  D..............6*  ¡Stark  a ................. 8
Bj»t  ......................   634 No  Name..................7)4
............. 7  (Topof Heap.............9
Clifton, K 

Ballon »olid black..
colors.
Bengal bine,  green, 
red and orange ...  6
Berlin solids...........5)4
oil bine.......  6
“  green  ..  6 
Foulards  ...  5)4 
red 3£.... 
7
“  X --------  9)4
“  4 4......... 10
“  3-4XXXX 12
Cocheco fancy........5
“  madders...  5  I
“  XXtwills..  5 
“ 

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gold  ticket 
..... ...................

“ 
“  Awning..11

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

COTTON  D R IL L .

T IC K IN G S.

“ 

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TR A DESMAN,

D EM IN S.

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Ainoskeag.............. 12
9oz......14
brown .14
Andover..................11)4
Beavercreek  A A... 10 
BB... 9
“ 
CC....
“ 
Boston Mfg Co.  br..  7
11 
bine 8)4
“  d a  twist 10V4 
Columbian XXX br.10 
XXX  bl.19  ;
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Columbian  brown.. 18
Everett, blue..........18 V4
brown....... 12)4
Haymaker blue......  7%
brown...  734
Jaffrey.................... 11*,»
Lancaster  .............. 12)4
Lawrence, 9 os........ 18)4
No. 220___13
No. 250— 11)4
No. 280___10V4

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Amoskeag..............  5
“  Persian dress 6)»
Canton
“ 
AFC....... f)4
“ 
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Teazle.. .10)4 
“ 
Angola. 10 )i
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Persian..  7
Arlington staple__  6)4
Arasapha  fancy__4)41
Bates Warwick dres  7)41 
staples.  6
Centennial............  10)4
Criterion................10)4
Cumberland staple.  5)4
Cumberland...........  5
Essex....................... 4)4
Elfin.......................  7)4
Everett classics......8)4
Exposition...............7)4
Glenarle................   6)4
Glenarven................6)4
Glen wood....... ........ 7)4
Hampton..................5
Johnson Chalon cl 
)4 
Indigo blue 9)i 
zephyrs__ 16

Lancaster,  staple...  5
fancies__7
“ 
“  Normandie  7
Lancashire.............  6
Manchester............  5)4
Monogram............. 6)4
Normandie...........   7
Persian.....................7
Renfrew Dress........7)4
Rosemont...............  6)4
Slatersvllle............6
Somerset.........  ....  7
Tacoma  .................7)4
Toll  du Nord.........  8)4
Wabash..................7)4
seersucker..  7)4
Warwick...............  6
Whittenden............  8
heather dr.  7)4 
Indigo blue 9 
Wamsutta staples...  6)4
Westbrook..............  8
..............10
Wlndermeer...........  6
Y ork......................6)4

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GRAIN* BAGS.

| Amoskeag............   .13  ¡Georgia.................. 13)4
.................................
Stark..................... 17 
American................ 13  | ..............  ..............

6)4

9*10
10)4
11) 4
12) 4
13) 4

THREADS.

Clark's Mile End....45  ¡Barbour's............... 95
Coats’, J. & P.......... 45  Marshall’s 
.............90
Holyoke.................22)41

KNITTING  COTTON.

No.

R ED   FLA N N EL.

M IX ED   FLA N N EL.

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

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

White.  Colored.
38 No.  14... ...37
39
...38
40
...39
41
...40
CAMBRICS.
Slater......................  4
White Star............   4
Kid Glove  .............  4
Newmarket............  4

42
“  16...
43
“  18...
44
“  20...
45
Edwards...............   4
Lockwood................ 4
Wood’s.............   ..  4
Brunswick...........  4
Fireman................ 32)4 IT W..........................22)4
Creedmore.............27)4 F T ........................... 32)4
TalbotXXX...........30  JR F , XXX..............35
Nameless...............27)41 Buckeye...................32)4
Red & Bine,  plaid..40
Union R.................22)4
Windsor................. 18)4
1 oz Western.......... 20
Union  B................ 22)4|Manltoba
DOMET  FLANNEL.
Nameless......8  @ 9)4| 
8)4010  I 
Black.
Slate.
9*
9) 4
10) 4
10) 4
11) 4 
11) 4
12) 4
d)4
Severen, 8oz..........   9)4
May land, 8 oz..........10)4
Greenwood, 7)4 os..  9)4
Greenwood, 8 os__ 11)4
Boston, 8 oz.............10)4

Grey SR W.............17)4
Western W  .............18)4
D R P ......................18)4
Flushing XXX........23)4
23)4
010)4
12)4
Black.
10)4
1D4
12
20

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Slate
10) 4
11) 4 
12 
20
West  Point, 8 oz..  . 10)4 
10 oz  ...12)4
“ 
Raven, lOoz.............13)4
............ 13)4
Stark 
Boston, 10 oz........... 12)4

CANVASS  AND  PA D D IN G .
Brown.
9)4
10)4
11) 4
12) 4

Brown.
10)4
1D4
12
20

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W ADDINGS.

BILESIA S.

White, dos............. 25  ¡Per bale, 40 dos
Colored, doz.......... 20  iColored  “ 
...
Slater, Iron Cross...  8 
Red Cross....  9
Best..............10)4
Best AA.......12)4
........................ 7)4
........................ 8)4

S3 50 
7 50
Pawtucket.............. 10H
Dundle...................   9
Bedford.................. 10)4
Valley  City............ 10)4
KK  ................ 

 

SEW ING  SIL K .

[Cortlcelli  knitting

per %o»  ball....... ao

Cortlcelll, doz........85 
twist, doz.. 40 
50yd,doz..40  I 
HOOKS  AND  BTX8— P E R  6 BOSS
No  1 Bl’k & Whlte..l0  INo  4 Bl’k & White  15 
“ 
“  2 
"20
“  8 
«
No a - 20, M C........ 50  ¡No 4—15  F 8)4 
•'  8-18.8C ..........45 
No  2 White & Bl’k.,12  ¡No  8 White A Bl’k..20
,*.2g
!!  * 
..26
6 

..12  “ 8 
..12  | “  10 

P IN S .

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COTTON  T A PE .
--16  “  10 
..18  I “  12 
SA FETY   P IN S .
|No3 

NO 8........................28 

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N E E D L E S— P E R   M.

A. James................ 1 40| Steamboat...................... 40
Crowelv’s................1 85 Gold Eyed........... i.i  bo
Marshall’s.............1 00|Amerlcan.................j  qo
15—4 — 1  65  6—4. ..2 30
5—4—   1 75  6—4... 

TA B LE  O IL  CLOTH.

COTTONT W IN ES.

Cotton Sail Twine. .28
Crown.....................12
Domestic................18)4
Anchor...................16
Bristol.........   ........13
Cherry  Valley........15  j
IX L ...  ..................18)4
Alabama.................. 63t‘
Alamance............... < y
Augusta................. 7)4
Ar< sapha...............   6
Georgia................... 6)4
Granite..................  534
Haw  River............ 5
Haw  J ...................  5

Nashua...................14
Rising Star 4-ply.. ,!l7
8-ply__ 17
North Star..............20
Wool Standard 4 plyl7)4 
Powhattan.............16

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Mount  Pleasant__ 6K
Oneida....................5
Prymont...............   534
Randelman............   6
Riverside...............   534
Sibley  A.................6M
Otis checks...  ___734

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B O O K S .

THREE  GRADES:

Tradesman,
Superior,
Universal.

Manufactured only by

TRADESMAN  COriPANY,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

HAKE 

NO

MISTAKE

Retailers make  no 
mistake in putting in a line of Atlas 
Soap, as it invariably  meets a ready 
sale and  satisfies the consumer.

Manufactured  only by

10)4
H ENRY  PASSOLT,

SAGINAW,  MICH.
S B B U S  !

Everything  in seeds is kept by  us— 

Clover, Timothy,

Hungarian,  Millet,

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

If you have Beans to  sell, send  us 
samples,  stating  quantity,  and  we 
will try to trade with you.  We are 
headquarters for egg cases  and  ess 
case tillers.
W. T. LXM89EJH1X

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

fH E   MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

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went away.  He  graded  down  four feet, 
however,  thinking that  would do.  When 
the hill  was finally graded  they  cut  un­
der  him  twenty-five  feet;  so that I was 
five feet out of the way.  Every  house on 
the hill had to  be  torn  down  or  moved 
away.  They used to grow great  fruit  on 
Prospect  hill. 
Judge  Martin  brought 
two  peaches  down  to  my  office  that 
weighed  two  pounds and two ounces, or 
one  pound  and  one  ounce  each.  Of 
course,  they  were  very 
large,  but  all 
kinds of fruit  seemed  to grow  larger and 
better in those days  than  they  do  now. 
I don’t know why it  was  but  such  was 
the fact.  There was  a  colony  of  Cana­
dians  who came over here and settled on 
land  at the foot of the  hill  on  the  west 
side.  They took  to  fruit  growing  right 
away  and  raised  the  finest  fruit I ever 
saw.  They did not get anything like the 
prices  then  that  are  paid  now.  The 
prices of all  kinds of produce  were  very 
low;  butter  was  from  7  to  10  cents  a 
pound  and  eggs  were  5  cents  a  dozen. 
Pork  was  only  ten  shillings a hundred, 
and.  if  you  owned  a  gun,  you needn’t 
pay that much—you could go out into the 
woods and shoot all you  wanted.  Thous­
ands  of  hogs  were  running  wild  in the 
in  Washtenaw  county 
woods.  Down 
there  were  more  of  them  than  there 
were  here.  The  woods  were  full  of 
them.  How did they  get  there ?  Well, 
years before the farmers  had  been  com­
pelled to turn them  loose  in  the  woods, 
where they continued breeding  and  get­
ting wilder until the clearing  up  of  the 
country  destroyed 
them.  When  we 
wanted to shoot a hog we went  out  into 
the woods,  got as close  to  the  drove  as 
we could,  climbed a tree and  waited  for 
the hogs.  We did not dare to shoot them 
from 
if  we  only 
wounded  a  hog,  we  would  have  the 
whole  drove  after  us.  A  wild hog is a 
dangerous 
antagonist  when  aroused. 
He  would eat a man up in no time.

the  ground, 

for, 

“When  I  came  here  in  1844 the city 
had a population of from  1,000  to  1,300.
1  was  elected  to  the  Common  Council 
about two years after the  place  was  in­
corporated  as  a  city,  and  the  Council 
thought  it  would be a good thing to take 
a census of the population. 
It  took  two 
men about two days to do the  work  and, 
when  we saw  the  result,  we  coucluded 
not to publish it.  We  were not as big as 
we  thought  we  were.  Each member of 
the Council but one paid  a  share  of  the 
cost of taking the  census  and  that  was 
the  last  ever  heard  of it.  At that time 
and  for  some  years  afterwards,  there 
were only four houses on  the  west  side 
of  the  river  within  the  town 
limits. 
Bilious  Stocking,  whom everybody knew 
and  from  whom  Stocking  street  was 
named,  lived  away out at the foot  of  the 
hill.  Few people ever expected  that  the 
West Side would  amount to  much.  Just 
think  what it is to-day !

“What men  we had here in  those days ! 
There was Judge  Morrison,  A.  W.  Pike, 
James Lyman, A.  Roberts,  Daniel  Ball, 
Ranson  Luce,  John  Ball,  Julius  Abell, 
Warren  P.  Mills,  ‘Tanner’  Taylor,  J.  W. 
Squiers,  Aaron Turner,  W.  D.  Foster,  C. 
C.  Comstock,  T.  D.  Gilbert and a host of 
others equally  worthy of mention.  They 
were  all  good  men—shrewd  business 
men—who  would  have  been  successful 
anywhere aud  in any circumstances.  De­
voted to business,  as they  were,  they  yet 
found time for many  a  jolly  prank  and 
practical joke; but it  was a game  of  give 
and take that everyone played.  To them  .

j the  city  owes  its  success  and splendid 
standing  in  the  business  world.  They 
believed in the future  of  Grand  Rapids 
and  labored not only for  their  own  day 
but for all time.  There  are not many of 
them  left  now;  you  can  count the sur­
vivors of early days upon  the  fingers  of 
your  hands.  Judge  Morrison  is  living 
yet,  but well  up toward 90; so  is  Abram 
Pike,  who is past four-score.  T.  D.  Gil­
bert  is  yet  one  of  our most prominent 
business  men,  in  spite  of his  79  years. 
Ranson  Luce  looks  good  for years,  al­
though  he is over 70.  C.  C.  Comstock is 
as active and energetic as  a  man  of  50, 
although  he 
is  76.  There  are  a  few 
others,  but  I  can’t  recall  their  names. 
If we could only  bring  all  these  old  fel­
lows  together  and  start  them  talking 
about  old  times—well,  you  would have 
hard work  to stop  them.  We  get  talka­
tive,  you  know,  as  we  grow  old;  our 
minds  naturally  dwell  much  upon  the 
past and  we like to  run  across  someone 
who will listen  to us.”

CURRENT  CRITICISMS.

A  daily  paper  with  a  brass band at­
tachment is  not  altogether  a  novel  ex­
periment,  but  it suggests possibilities in 
the  way  of  schemes  for  working  up  a 
circulation which are startling.

*  *  *

How  would  a  monkey  and  a hand-or­
gan  do;  or  a  six-legged  calf,  or  the 
horned  woman?  There 
is  no  end  tc 
the “inducements”  that might be offered. 

*  *  *

Then,  if  everything  else  should  fail, 
how  would  it  do  to try making a news­
paper?  If the Evening Press  wishes  to 
try any or all of  these  suggestions  it  is 
at liberty to do so.

*  *  #

The 

saloon  keepers  of  the  State, 
through  the  medium  of  the  Michigan 
Liquor Dealers’  Protective. Association, 
have formed an alliance with  the .trades 
unions and the local  lodge of  that  order 
has been  admitted  to  an  equality  with 
the various  unions in  the  Central  Labor 
Union.  This is entirely in  keeping with 
the  tenets  of  trades  unionism. 9  Saloon 
keepers  are  certainly  more  entitled  to 
the  designation  of 
laborers  than  the 
leading  exponents  cf  trade  unionism, 
who work only with their tongues,  while 
about the only  use  they  have  for  their 
hands is  to  convey  the  saloon  keepers’ 
product to their mouths.
*  *  *

The prolonged  drought  did  not inter­
fere  with  the mudslinging of politicians 
and  political  candidates.  They  manu­
factured their own mud.

Use Tradesman Coupon Books.

Hardware Price Carrent.

d id .

AXES.

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These  prices are  for cash  buyers,  who 
pay promptly  and  buy in  full  packages.
A UGURS AND B IT S . 
Snell’s ............................................
...........  60*10
............  
40
Cook’s ............................................
Jennings’, genuine........................
Jennings’,  Imitation..................... ............  
25
............ 50*10
First Quality, S. B. Bronze............
...........S 5 50
D.  B. Bronze............
............  il 00
S. B. 9. Steel............. ...........  6 50
D.B. Steel.............................   13 CO
d ig .
Railroad  .........................................  *12 00  14 00
Garden  .  .............................................Det  80 00
dig.
Stove.  ...........................................................50*10
Carriage new list 
....................................... 75*10
Plow..............................................................40*10
Sleigh shoe  .................................................  
70
Well, plain  ..................................................*350
Well .swivel......................................................  4 00
Cast Loose Pin, figured............................... 70*10
Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast Joint  40  __ 60*10

butts, oast. 

■ c o in s .

bolts. 

BARROW S. 

dig.

dig 7|i

7

jo

. 

. 

, 

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

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

Ordinary Tackle, list April  1892...............  00*10
Grain............................................. 

CRADLBb.

41*10

 

CROW BARS.

Cast Steel............   ............................. per lb  
Sly's 1-10 
per m 
Hick’s C. P 
G. D ......
Musket

CAPS.
 
 
..................  

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5

65
55
35

Rim  Fire.
Central  Fire

CARTRID G ES,

Soeket Firmer . 
.............
Socket Framing
Socket Corner...................
Socket Slicks....................
Butchers’ Tanged  Firmer

Curry,  Lawrence’s 
HotchklBB..............
White Crayons, per  gross..........

CH ALK.

I 

50
25 
dts. 
'5*10 
.75*10 
.'5*10 
.'5*10 
40
dis.

40
25

..1 2 Q 1 2 H   d i s .   10 

C O PPER .

28

“ 

D R IL L S.

per pound 

Planished, 14 os cut to size........
14x52, 14x56, 14x60 ....
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60.  ..
Cold Rolled, 14x48......................
Bottoms.....................................
Morse’s  Bit  Stocks....................
Taper and straight Shank.........
Morse’s Taper Shank.................
D R IPPIN G  PA N S.
Small slses, ser pound..............
Large sizes, per pound..............
Com. 4  piece, 6 in ............................dot. net 
75
Corrugated........................................... dig 
50
Adjustable............................................ 11».  40*10
dls.
EXPANSIVE BITS. 
Clark’s, small, #18;  large, 826................. 
30
Ives’, 1, #18:  2, #24;  3,#30.............. 
 
35
piles—New List. 
Dlsston’s ..................................................60*10-10
New American  ....................................... 60*10-10
Nicholson’s ............................................60*10- 0
Heller’s......................................................... 
50
Heller’s Horse Rasps  ............  
50

ELBOWS.

dls.

 

 

galvanized iron.

dig.
 
dls.

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

15 

12 

13 
Discount, 70

28
17

14 
gauges. 

 

 

 

 

dll.

dig.

NAILS

MATTArna

LOCKS—DOOR. 

MOLASSES GATES. 

Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s......  
50
knobs—New List. 
Door,mineral, jap. trimmings .... 
55
Door,  porcelain, jap. trimmings  ... 
55
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings 
. 
55
Door,  porcelain, trimmings........................  
55
Drawer  and  Shutter, porcelain................... 
70
Russell & Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new list  ......... 
55
Mallory, Wheeler  &  Co.’s............................ 
55
Branford’s ................................................... 
55
Norwalk’s .................................................... 
55
Adse Rye..........................  .  "....#16.00, dls. 60-10
Hunt Bye.................................... #15.00, dls. 60-10
Hunt’s...............................  
(18.50, 
dls.
mauls. 
Sperry *  Co.’s, Post,  handled...................... 
mills. 
dls.
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s ...................................  
“  P. S. *  W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleable*__ 
■*  Landers,  Ferry *  Cle rk’s................. 
“  Enterprise 
.....................................  

50
40
40
40
30
Stebbin’s Pattern..........................................60*10
Stebbln’s Genuine........................................ 68*10
Enterprise, self-measuring..........................  
33
Advance over  base,  on  both  Steel  and Wire
Steel nails, base................................................... 1 35
Wire nails, base...................................  
135
60......... ..........................................Base 
Base
10
50...................................................... 
25
40......................................................  
25
80...................................................... 
20.........  
35
 
45
16.....................................................  ... 
45
12...................................................... 
50
10...................................................... 
60
8.......................................................  
75
7 * 6 .................................................  
4..............................................  
90
 
1  20
3.....................................  ................  
1 60
2.......................................................  
Flne3......................................................  
65
Case  10............................................. 
75
8............................................. 
90
6............................................. 
Finish 10..........................................  
76
90
8.................... 
 
6...........................................  
10
Clinch*. 10.......................................... 
70
80
8.........................................  
go
.................................... 
6.. 
Barren * .......................................... 
175
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy................................  {340
Solota Bench.............................................  ®so
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy.........................  f in
Bench, first quality......................................   Q40
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s wood............. 50*10
Fry,  Acme............................................ dls.60—10
Common,  polished................................ dls. 
70
dls.
Iron and  Tinned..........................................50—10
Copper Rivets and Bnra.............................  50—10

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planes. 

rivets. 

PANS.

dls.

.. 

 

 

PATENT PLANISHED IRON.

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

Broken packs Mo per pound extra.

HAMMERS.

 

 
 

HIN G ES.

a»
.11* 
Maydole  A Co.’s ..............................  
2-
dig. 
Kip’s............................................  
Yerkes *  Plumb’s ...........................  
dig  40*10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel...............  
30c list 60
Blacksmith’s*8olid Cast  Steel  Hand.  ..80c40*10
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2, 3 ...............................dis.60&l<>
State...........................................per do*, net, 2 50
Screw Hook  and  Strap, to 12 In. 4*4  14  and
3*10
M..........
............ net
%........... ............net
8*
\ ........... ............ net
7M
\ .......
...........  net
7-4
strap and T
...........<11«
fr‘
dis.
HANGERS.
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track
50*10
Champion,  anti friction..............
60*1040
Kidder, wood track.................
HOLLOW  WARE.
60*10
Pots  ...............................................  
60*10
Kettles..  ............................................. 
80A1C
Spiders........................ 
 
Gray enameled................................ 
40*10
HOUSE  F U R N ISH IN G   GOODS.
Stamped  Tin Ware...  .........................new list 75
Japanned Tin Ware. .................................... 
25
Granite Iron W are.....................new lis 
it
Bilght. 
..............................................   70*10*10
Screw  Eyes.............................................70*10*10
H ookJ............................................  
70*10410
Gate Hooks and Eyes.....................  
70*10*10
Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s ....... .............
Sisal, ft Inch aud larger.........................  
Manilla  ..............................................  
Steel and Iron  . 
Try and Bevels. 
Mitre...............
„  
Nos. 10 to  14.....................................1350 
Nos. 15to 17 ..................................... 350 
Nos.  18 to 21...................................   4 05 
Nos. 22 to 24.......................... 
3 55 
No«. 25 to 26...........................  
" /I   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.....................   . 
“ 

Com.  Smooth.  Com
gg w
2 61
2 70
2 80
2 90
3 00
All  sheets No. 18  and  lighter,  over 30  Inches 

50
50
  =<  55
50
55
po

SAND PAPER.
SASH CORD.

 
dls.
7f *10 
6(

LEVELS. 
ROPES.

wire g o o d s . 

SH E E T   i r o n .

SQ U ARES.

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dis

. 

Discount, 10.

SASH WEIGHTS.

“ 

dls.

dls.

saws. 

wire. 

TRAPS. 

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

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

Solid Eyes............................................ per ton ISO
20
70
50
30
30
„ 
Steel, Game.................................................  60*10
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ............ 
40
Oneida Community, Hawley a Norton’*. ,7C-10  10
Mouse,  choker................................... 15c per dos
Mouse, delusion.............................. $1.25 per dos
dig
Bright Market.............................................  “ *-10
Annealed Market.....................................  ‘ 
'7 5
Coppered Market........................ . . . . . .. . .  " 
70
Tinned Market........................... .  .. . . . ! 
62Vt
Coppered  Spring Steel.......................... ........... iso
Barbed  Fence, galvanised..............................2  5it
  2  jo
“ 
Au  Sable  .......................................... dls.  40410
dls. 20*10.
dts.  05
Putnam.......................................... 
dls. 10*10
Northwestern................................ 
dig
Baxter’s  Adjustable, nickeled..........  
30
Coe’s  Genuine....................................................” 50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,  .. 
76
Coe’s  Patent, malleable............................... 75*i(.
dig
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

painted....................... 

MISCELLANEOUS. 

HORSE NAILS.

WRENCHES. 

 

 

 

METALS,
PIG TIN.

 

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514

26e
28f

ZINC.

SOLDER.

Pig  Large....................................................  
Pig Bars............................................ 
Duty:  Sheet, 2Mc per pouDd.
600 pound  casks........................................ 
Per pound..............................................7
HOM .................................................................. ..
Extra W iping.................................................  
jf
The  prices  of  the  many  other  qualities  of 
solder In the market indicated by nrfvate brand* 
vary according to composition.
ANTIMONY
1 60
Cookson........................................per pound
Hallett’s......................................  
13
TIN—MELYN GRADE.
10x14 IC, Charcoal........................................# 7 50
7 50
14x20 IC, 
10x14 IX, 
9  25
14x20 IX, 
9 2f

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BOOPING PLATES

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

Bach additional X on this grade 61.50.

Each additional X on this grade, 11.75.

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

14x20 IC, “  Worcester................................  6  5o
................   8  50
14x20 IX, 
......................  .  18  50
20x28 IC, 
14x20 IC, 
6 00
“  
14x20 IX, 
750
20x28 IC, 
.................   12 50
.................   15 50
20x28 IX, 
14x28 r x .........................................................#14 00
14x31  IX................................. 
15  0G
14x56IX, for No. 8 Boilers, 1
f P8r pound—   10 00
14x80 IX,  “ 

75
6  75
B  25
9 25

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JTETK  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,

P chiganH adesman

A  WEEKLY  JOÜF.SAÏ,  D1 TOTCD  TO  T h *

Best  Interests  of  Business  Men. 

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E.  A.  STOWE. Editor.

WEDNESDAY  SEPTEMBER  18.

ELEVEN  YEARS  OLD.

the 

With 

issue  of 

last  week  T h e 
T radesman completed  its  eleventh  year 
of publication.  This week’s issue, there­
fore,  marks the beginning  of  its  twelfth 
volume.

It is  a source  of  much  gratification  to 
the  publishers  th at T he  T radesm an  has 
beeu  able  to  w eather  the  panic  of  1893 
w ithout  the  loss  of  a  single  subscriber, 
in  the  aggregate,  and  th at  its advertising 
patronage  has  shown  scarcely  any  dim ­
inution.  T his  is  a  record  which  can  be 
duplicated  by 
few  other  journals  and 
speaks  well  for  the fidelity  of  it  patrons. 
T h e  T radesm an  will  eudeavor  to  show 
its  appreciation  of  the  constancy  of  its 
friends  by  striving  to  furnish  a  more 
valuable  publication  in  the  future  than 
it  has in  the past.

Heartily  thankful  for  past  patronage 
and  bespeaking  a  continuance  of  the 
generous  support  which  has  enabled  it 
to  take  rank  with  the  leading  trade 
journals  of  the  day.  T h e  T radesman 
enters  upon  its  new  year  with  bright 
hopes,  cherishing  the  belief  that  the 
future holds  in store for it  a  measure  of 
success  which  will 
far 
the 
achievements of the  past.

exceed 

Governor Rich  has  given  the  business 
interests  of  the  State  another  slap  in 
the face by the appointment  of  John  F. 
Murray,  State  agent  of the Continental 
Fire Insurance Co.,  to a  position  on  the 
Insurance  Policy  Commission.  When 
the  Commission  was  created,  Governor 
Luce conceded that  the  insuring  public 
should  be represented  and  named  Chas. 
Buncher  (Edson,  Moore  &  Co.),  of  De­
troit,  as  one  of  the 
initial  members. 
Governor  Rich  was  asked  to  recognize 
the same element,  but declined  to  do  so, 
finding  it  more  congenial  to  obey  the 
behest  of  the  corporations  and  name 
Geo.  W.  Chandler,  who  served  on  the 
Commission  until  succeeded  by  Mr. 
Murray last week. 
It is  unfortunate for 
the great insuring  public that  the  Chief 
Executive  of  the  State  should  lean  so 
strongly to the  side  of  corporate  greed 
and rapacity.

A  SECTIONAL  ISSUE  IN  THE  W EST.
It is  rather remarkable,  although it can 
be nothing more than  mere  coincidence, 
that the most noted  examples of  Federal 
invasion  of  States  of  the  Union  have 
taken place  under  Democratic  adminis­
trations.  The first was that in President 
Buchanan’s time,  in  1861.  The next was 
in  President  Cleveland’s  time,  in  the 
great  labor disturbances of 1894.

The right  of the  Federal  Government 
to enter a State  to execute  Federal  laws 
and the  processes  of  Federal  courts  has 
been  sustained  by  press and people,  by 
Congress  and  the  Federal  courts  in  the 
latest  instance  of  the  sort. 
In  1861, 
in  the  Southern 
Federal 
States resulted in a titanic civil  war. 
In 
1894.  the  advent  and operations of Fed­
eral  forces  in  several  Western  States 
were  warmly applauded  by the Southern 
people,  showing  that  it  makes  a  vast 
difference whose ox  is gored.

interference 

But the invasion  by Federal  troops  in 
the  West  was  strongly  resented  and 
hotly protested against  there.  This was 
particularly  the  case  in  Illinois, Color­
ado, California and  several others of  the 
mining  States  of  that  section.  The ar­
rest,  by a  United States  marshal, of  the 
Governor  of  Colorado,  within  the  last 
few  days,  on  a  warrant  charging  him 
with some minor offense against the Uni­
ted States  postal  laws,  is  another  inci­
dent of interest in  this connection,  and it 
will go into the sum of complaints against 
the Federal  Government-

The complaints of the Federal invasion 
of States are going into the political can­
vass  in  several  of  the  Western  States, 
and,  while they will not  cut much figure 
in  shaping  the  general  result,  it  must 
not  be  forgotten  that the  anarchist,  so­
cialist and trades unionist elements cher­
ish  a  great  deal  of  resentment  against 
the  use  of  Federal  soldiers  in  putting 
down  the  railway  strikes.  They  have 
set up  the complaint that the troops were 
constantly  employed on  the  side  of  the 
railway  corporations,  and  against  the 
strikers, and that the failure of the strike 
was wholly  due  to  the  presence  of  the 
United States army on the scene.

It should  be recalled  to  mind  that  in 
1861  the interstate commerce law was not 
in existence,  and  it  is  that  which  has 
greatly increased the field  for the use  of 
the Federal  power in  the States. 
In 1861 
the pretext  which  the  Federal  Govern­
ment  employed  for  moving  troops into 
the Southern States  was to  protect  Uni­
ted  States  forts and  the  public property 
in  them.  The  functions  of  the  postal 
and  revenue  departments  in  the  South 
were  not  stopped.  They  were  only 
seized  by  the  Southern  authorities and 
conducted  without 
interruption.  The 
United States courts did  not  cease  their 
operations.  The trial of causes went  on 
as  usual,  but under the  direction of Con­
federate jurisdiction.  But the  Southern 
people  occnpied  Federal  fortifications, 
and  seized  the  arms  and  munitions  in 
Federal  arsenals. 
In  one  case,  at  Fort 
Sumpter,  which was occupied by  a  Fed­
eral  garrison,  the  post  was  attacked and 
reduced  in  formal  warfare.  The United 
States Government had  the  right  to  re­
take  its  forts  and  other  property  if  it 
could,  and  hence the invasion by Federal 
armies.

But in  1894,  in  the  West,  there was no 
seizure and  occupation of  United  States 
reservations;  but  there  was  a  stoppage 
of  the  United  States  mails  in  transit. 
There  was a stoppage of interstate travel

and freight  transportation.  These  were 
acts sufficient to call for the army,  and  it 
was sent. 
It restored the carrying of the 
mails  and  the  transportation  of  inter­
state commerce.

The interstate  commerce  law  and  the 
act  of  Congress against  combinations in 
restraint of  trade  have  enormously  en­
larged the scope of the military power in 
the States.  Under  these  laws  the  Fed­
eral courts can  issue  mandates that  will 
paralyze  almost  any  extensive 
labor 
strike,  and then  the troops  can  be  used 
to execute the mandates of the courts.

M eeting of th e   Ja c k so n   R etail  G rocers’ 

A ssociation.

J acksqn,  Sept. 7—At the regular meet­
ing  of  the  Retail  Grocers’  Association, 
held Sept.  6, applications for membership 
were  received  from  P.  Murray,  1114 
Cooper street and  L.  Farrell,  1011  East 
Main street.  On motion,  the rules  were 
suspended  and  Vice-President  Hill cast 
the vote of  the  Association  in  favor  of 
the applicants.
The Committee on  Trade  Interests  re­
ported  that  it  had  issued  a  new sugar 
card,  making the  price 17  pounds for $1.
The Committee on  Excursion  reported 
receipts,  since the  last meeting of picnic, 
funds to the  amount  of  $22.20  and  dis­
bursements at $6.50,  leaving a balance of 
$15.70 turned over to the Treasurer,  thus 
making the  net receipts  from  excursion 
to date of $247.62,  with  some small items 
yet unsettled,  which  will make the  total 
net  receipts  for the third  annual  picnic 
$250—a trifle less  than the  amount  from 
our excursion of last year.
The  captains  of  ball  teams  of  the 
wholesale  and  retail  grocers  were  re­
quested  to  select  their  players  and ar­
range for a game as  soon  as  convenient, 
the barrel of flour named as a prize in the 
game to be given to  the  city  kindergar­
ten, or some other charity.
A  letter  was received  from J.  T.  Bur­
gess,  Secretary  of  the  National  Retail 
Grocers’  Association,  asking  this  Asso­
ciation to join the  national  organization. 
On motion,  the letter  was placed  on file, 
to be considered at  a future meeting.  A 
letter  was  presented 
from  President 
Henry C.  Hall, of  the  Hudson  Business 
Men’s Association,  relative to the forma­
tion of a  Southern  Michigan  Retail Gro­
cers Association.  Placed on file.
A committee of four  members was  ap­
pointed to arrange for a  place  of  meet­
ing and office for the work of the A ssoci- 
ation,  and to confer  with  the  secretary, 
in regard to salary  for  that  office.  The 
committee appointed  were  Messrs W.  H. 
Branch,  C.  G.  Hill, J.  F.  Helmer  and  B.
S.  Mosher.
The interchange report  system  of  de­
linquent debtors was discussed  by  mem­
bers,  and also by  visiting  grocers.  The 
matter of sending letters  to  delinquents 
from the  Secretary’s  office  was  consid­
ered and,  after  considerable  argument, 
was laid  over until  next meeting.

W.  H.  P orter,  Sec’y.
A Woman’s  Business Directory.
A woman’s  business  and  professional 
directory  is  shortly  to  be  published in 
Boston,  and  for  the  first  time  will  be 
clearly  shown  what  progress  has  been 
made by the  fair sex  in  encroaching  on 
the  industrial  domain,  which  formerly 
was  monopolized  by  men.  Among  the 
articles  that  women  in  Boston  are  en­
gaged in making are  galvanized  cutlery, 
artificial flowers,  false  teeth,  bangs  and 
cotton gins.  Women  are also  druggists, 
dentists, 
insurance 
agents,  decorators,  sculptors,  and,  of 
course, 
lawyers  and  physicians.  One 
woman  in  Boston  is  a  “supervisor  of 
funerals,”  another  is  a  business  “ad- 
viseress,”  another is  a printer  and  pub­
lisher,  and  still  another  an  optician. 
Then there  are  women  who  make  um­
brellas and piano-stools,  and  women who 
repair  shoes.  Others  own  retail  stores 
and conduct the business as profitably as 
men.  Female advertising  agents are not 
uncommon,  and there is a woman in  Bos­
ton  who drives  bargains  for  sinking  ar­
tesian  wells,  and  another  who sells ex- 
i haust fans on  commission.

[harness-makers, 

REPRESENTATIVE  RETAILERS.

B erend  Z evalkink, th e   G randville  A ve­

n u e G rocer.

Of the many  nationalities  represented 
in this country,  which  combined make it 
the  most  cosmopolitan  country 
in  the 
world,  none  are  more  desirable  as  citi­
zens than  the  Hollanders.  Their frugal­
ity and industry,  their  general  trustwor­
thiness and  uprightness,  are  universally 
recognized  and  acknowledged.  Among 
the  many  Hollanders  who  have  made 
their home in  this  city  not  one  is  more 
deserving  of  honorable  mention  than 
Berend Zevalkink.  He  was  born  in  the 
village of Ruulo,  Province of Gilderland, 
Holland,  in 1843.  His father was a tailor 
in  his native village,  who,  like  most  of 
his  fellow  tradesmen,  was also a farmer 
in a small way.  When  of  sufficient  age 
Berend  became  an  apprentice  at  his 
father’s business.  “But,” said  Mr.  Zeval­
kink,  “tailoring was an altogether differ­
ent bnsiness in  Holland forty  years  ago 
from what it is  in  this country. 
It  took 
me  ten  years  to  learn it,  but I had more 
to learn than  apprentices  do  here.  We 
had to fit a man  out from  head  to foot— 
make his cap,  coat,  vest, trousers and un 
derwear,  and even  make his socks.  Tai­
lors  in  our  country  in  those  days  did 
dressmaking  for  the  ladies,  and  made 
clothing for  children  of  both  sexes,  as 
well;  so that ten years  was not too much 
time to spend  as an apprentice; but  then, 
you  know,  we  were farmers,  and  so,  in 
addition  to  our  own  calling,  we had  to 
learn farming.  We  ‘traded  work’  with 
the  farmer—we  would  make his clothes 
and he would  plough our land or harvest 
our crops in return.  A good tailor could 
make 30 cents a day  and  his  board  if  he 
worked  hard.  Board  was  worth  about 
20 cents a day.  We did  little shop  work 
in the country  districts,  bnt  went to  the 
houses of our  customers,  generally  hav­
ing  several  weeks’  work  at each house. 
The first week I  worked in this country I 
made $9,  and  have often made as high as 
$18 a week—quite  a  difference  from  50 
cents a day at home.”

When Mr. Zevalkink  was  30  years  of 
age  he  left  his native land  and came  to 
this country,  settling  in  this  city.  For 
seven  years he worked  at  his  trade  for 
E.  S.  Pierce and the Housemans.  Then 
for two  years  he  was  with  the  Widdi- 
comb  Furniture  Co.,  after  which  he 
opened a  grocery  store at 253 Grandville 
avenue.  Seven  years  ago he erected the 
store  building  he  still  occupies  at  255 
Grandville  avenue.  He  enjoys  a  fair 
share of the trade  of  his  neighborhood, 
and has the confidence  of all  with  whom 
he does business.  He  is  assisted  in  his 
business by his son John,  a bright yonng 
man of  about  20  years.  Mr.  Zevalkink 
is an earnest and devoted member of  the 
Fifth Reformed  Church.

ping P each es.

N ecessity o f S m aller P a c k a g e s fo r S hip­
Detour,  Sept.  7—Your  article in T h e 
T radesm an  of  Sept, 
to 
smaller fruit packages,  is  a stroke in the 
right  direction.  We  had  some  peaches 
come in  bushel baskets  with one-third of 
them spoiled, so that we do not dare order 
any  more in  that way.  We could handle 
a large quantity  if  in  smaller  packages 
and sound.  Hit ’em again!

l,  relative 

Detour  L umber & Ced a r Co.,

Per  H.  R.  Hitchcock.

Wife—“How people  gaza  at  my  new 
dress!  I  presume  they  wonder  if  I’ve 
been shopping in Paris.”
Husband—“More  likely  they  wonder 
If I’ve been robbing a bank.”

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,

QUALITY ■ UNIFORMITY - PRIGE

a

SEARS

CRACKERS

and

CAKES

Have pif tried oi/r new pods?  cream Jumbl,-S’

I Currant Drop Cakes. 
Imperials,

ream  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 l e n d i d  
a r e  
sellers  a n d  
to 
s u r e  
p le a s e
N ow  York Biscuit C o.,

S.  A•  SBARS,  Manager,

GRAND  RAPTUS,  MICH.

AMERICAN  ARISTOCRACY.

It would not be quite  accurate  to  say 
that the besetting weakness of the Amer­
ican people is that they are too much de­
voted  to money-making,  but such a state­
ment would not be far from the truth.

It  is  certain  that  the  Americans are 
not specially avaricious.  They are much 
less so than are  many  of  the  European 
peoples.  They 
furnish  fewer  misers 
than do any other race.  The effort of the 
American  is  not  by  slow  degrees  and 
painful  exertions  to  amass  and  lay  up 
money  for  the  future,  but  to  get  rich 
rapidly and have  money  for  immediate 
spending.

The fact is  the  Americans  in  Europe 
are  regarded  as  profligates  and  spend­
thrifts,  and  all  the  shopkeepers,  inn­
keepers,  servants,  guides and all sorts of 
people who can  get  at  strangers  in  Eu­
rope  lay themselves out  to  get  the  bet­
ter  of  the  Americans  who  are  touring 
abroad.  The fact must be admitted  that 
the  American,  as  a  rule,  wherever  he 
may be traveling,  is prone  to  attract  at­
tention by the liberality  with  which  he 
spends money.

The reason of all this is  plain  enough. 
In a  country  where all  are  equal  before 
the law,  where  there  are  no  social  dis­
tinctions recognized  by  custom  or  stat­
ute, where there  is  no  privileged  class, 
and in the midst of conditions which con 
stantly stimulate to  individual  competi­
tion,  people  are  always  struggling  to 
rise in the social scale,  and,  as  much  as 
we may talk of  the aristocracy  of  blood 
or  of  brains,  it  must  be  admitted  the 
only  foundation  for  the  forming  of  a 
privileged class, in this Republic of which 
we boast so much,  but whose  democratic 
manners so  many  of  its  citizens  would 
gladly exchange for the conditions  which 
pertain  to  monarchical  institutions,  is 
wealth. 
is  only  a  rich  American, 
like George Gould,  who  can  hobnob with 
the Prince of Wales,  and  it  is  only  the 
American  girl  whose  father  is  able  to 
dower her with a million of  dollars  who 
is sought for  in marriage  by  the  much- 
worn aristocracy of the Old World.

It 

in 

Nothing  is  more  in  accordance  with 
our democratic principles  than  that  in­
dividuals  should  want  to  rise  to  the 
best  place possible, socially and intellec­
tually, and it is a laudable aspiration that 
moves them. 
It is  possible  for  persons 
possessing  great  intellectual  ability  to 
become  celebrated 
the  world  of 
science,  literature or art;  but  these  are 
few.  The vast masses of the people are 
not endowed  with the  genius  or  talents 
necessary to make them famous as artists, 
poets,  musical  composers  or  inventors, 
and  they  are,  consequently,  excluded 
from  that  high  distinction  they  would 
love to enjoy.  Then  there are not many 
capable of gaining celebrity as  interpret­
ers of the genius of  others,  in  the  roles 
of  actors,  singers,  musical  performers 
and the like.  And,  with  the  exception 
of painters, musical composers, poets and 
literary  persons  of  the  first  class,  it is 
most unlikely  that  proficiency  in  those 
departments of  art  would  gain  for  the 
proficients 
recognition 
abroad.

special 

any 

But the  possession  of  large  wealth  is 
sure to attract attention to the possessor. 
He  is  a  personage  whose  acquaintance 
may be made productive to  many classes 
of people,  and  even  titled  society is  not 
necessarily  averse  to  knowing  wealthy 
Americans.  At  any  rate,  as  a  general 
rule,  our  countrymen  have  no  other

means of attracting attention abroad than 
by the possession,  if  not  the  display,  of 
large riches.  At any  rate,  so  provided, 
they  are seldom  reduced  to the  mortifica­
tion of going  unnoticed.

Moreover,  there is something  dazzling 
about the  possession  of  great  riches  so 
that  people  seldom  inquire—if,  indeed, 
they  care—how they  were  acquired.  No 
stain  adheres  to  gold.  No  matter  how 
won,  it is always  bright  and  always  in 
demand.  Few persons are endowed  with 
genius,  and comparatively few can attain 
to eminence through the exercise of their 
intellectual  faculties;  but  almost  any 
sort of a person  may  aspire  to  be  rich. 
The  multimillionaire  may  be unusually 
intelligent and  be  possessed  of  cultiva­
tion,  or  he  may  be 
illiterate.  Gentle 
blood  may  flow  in  his  veins,  or  he  may 
be the  veriest  churl;  but if  he have  the 
faculty or the  luck  of  getting  rich,  he 
has the key  to a  certain  social  position 
which,  while  he  remained  poor,  would 
never have been open to him.

Thus it  is  that  the  American  people 
seeing  the  power  of  wealth,  and  expe­
riencing,  in  the  absence  of any titled or 
privileged class,  a strong desire for some­
thing of the sort,  have begun to establish 
an  aristocracy of wealth and to claim for 
it the merit that  it  is  a  class  in  which 
every  man  creates  his  own  nobility. 
Birth,  so  far  as  the  individual  born  is 
concerned,  is a mere accident.  He is not 
to be held respousible if his parents were 
or  were not honest  people. 
Intellectual 
endowments are the  gifts of nature,  and 
they to whom  they  are  given  merit  no 
praise;  but the man  who becomes rich by 
his own exertions is  entitled to a certain 
applause,  because he has fulfilled  the re­
quirements of the  democratic  conditions 
of competition and individual effort.

Probably  not  all  who  strive  to  gain 
riches reason  on the  object  which  they 
have in  view;  but they all  recognize that 
wealth gives them influence  and position 
in the  community,  and  these  are  what 
they  want,  and  they  want  it  now,  for 
themselves,  and not for  posterity.  This 
is  the  reason  why  men  are engaged in 
the  tremendous  struggle  to  accumulate 
wealth  and to  get  it  rapidly,  and  it  is 
terrible to contemplate  the  desperate ef­
forts men take to  accomplish  their  end. 
They  will  wink  at  crime and  take any 
risk that will not  actually land  them  in 
the  penitentiary,  while  not  a  few will 
not stickle at  crime,  but  will  even brave 
the  felon’s  cell,  confident  that,  should 
they  be  fairly  successful  in  securing 
plenty  of  plunder,  they  can  buy  their 
way out of  the  toils  of  the  law  and  re­
tain  a certain public toleration,  and even 
favor,  so long as their money lasts.

It is humiliating to many  that  society 
in  the Great Republic is  gradually being 
built upon the  basis of wealth,  and that 
money is to  be the  only sure  passport to 
its favors;  but  that  is  what  is  coming, 
and  the  time  is not  far  distant when it 
will be consummated.

A man may guy,
And a man may lie,
And a man may puff and blow;
But he can’t get trade 
By sitting in the shade 
Waiting for business to grow.

Nothing  hurts  a  boy’s  feelings  more 
than to act smart in front of  a  girl  who 
is staying all night with  his  sister,  and 
then get  whipped  for it in  her  presence.

The man  who goes out to meet  trouble 

will have a short walk.

“CRESCENT," 

“WHITE, ROSE, 
99

“ROYAL."

These brands  are Standard  and have a National  reputation. 

Correspondence solicited.

1/018T ¡MILLING  GO.,  Grani Rapids,  Mieli.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

IO

AT  THE  SODA  FOUNTAIN.

Hot Weather.

What  New  Yorkers  Drink  During  the 
“It is remarkable  how a  man  gets  to 
know just what the people want,”  said  a 
soda  water  boy  in  a  large  New  York 
drug  store.  “ When  you  see  a  woman 
come in, it is ten  to one  that she wants a 
vanilla ice cream soda.  You  never  saw 
a  woman  yet that  took soda without ice 
cream.  Men have not got  time  for  that 
sort  of  thing. 
If  they  want  ice cream 
they are not going to dawdle  over  about 
three  cents’  worth  covered with foam— 
not by a good deal.  They  will  go  to  a 
restaurant.

“But women are  different.  They  like 
to fiddle and fuss tjie  spoon  around after 
the  last  bit  of  the  cream  and  look  at 
themselves in  the glass over the fountain 
at  the  same  time.  You  know  when 
women are shopping they  often  have  to 
get a soda so as to  kind of have  a mirror 
and get fixed up.

“The school girls always call for choc 
olate  with  ice  cream—invariably.  The 
small boys  are just like  the girls.  Now, 
a  business  man  wants 
something  to 
quench  his  thirst  and  that  he  can get 
down quickly,  consequently  he takes  an 
orange or lemon phosphate or else a min­
eral water—usually vichy.

“The old men  drink  mostly  calisaya. 
It is a kind of a tonic—made from  a bark 
and contains  about  a  grain  of  quinine 
and  20  per  cent,  of  alcohol.  Conse­
quently it is a sort  of  a  bracer.  Minis­
ters, too,  usually drink  that,  and once in 
a while they wink at me  when  they  call 
for it.  Cocoa wine,  too,  is popular with 
the old folks.
“Whenever I see a man or woman  that 
looks like  hayseeds  come  in,  l  always 
get  ready  to  give  them  a  sarsaparilla 
cream.  They kind  of  fight  shy  of  the 
other thing.  They want  something,  and 
run their eyes down  the list.  They light 
on sarsaparilla cream;  that  seems famil­
iar and safe,  and they can for it.  It  used 
to be thought that sarsaparilla possessed 
great  medicinal  powers,  but  that  idea 
has been exploded.  The  hayseeds think 
they are still  getting  a  medicine  and  a 
quenched thirst all for ten  cents,  and  it 
tickles them.”
The  talkative  soda  water  dispenser 
ceased his harangue for a moment to mix 
three chocolate sodas for a  trio of young 
girls who had  just  entered.  There  was 
a  sputter  and  a  phiz  as  he  pitched  a 
bromo seltzer on  the  counter  to  a  dys­
peptic-looking  man  with  one  hand  and 
dealt  out  four  checks  with  the  other. 
Then,  walking  goose-fashion, 
three 
Chinese entered and  lined up  in front of 
the fountain.
The soda water boy leaned his hand on 
a spigot and then gazed  with  a far away 
look in his eyes at the ceiling, and  asked: 
“What’llyehave?”
Two of the Celestials stared blankly at 
the  polished  fountain,  while  the  other 
gazed for a  moment  at  them,  and  then 
murmured:

the 

“Thlee stlawbelly.”
“Ice?”  interrogated 
soda  boy 
briskly.
“Lice,”  murmured  John,  and  a  mo­
ment  later  the  three  Celestials  were 
fondly  fingering  the  chop 
stick-like 
spoons and casting the pupils of their al­
mond eyes in behind their noses.  A look 
of perfect bliss  overspread  their  yellow 
faces.  The  last  drop was down  and  the 
interpreter  seized  the  check,  thrust  hi* 
hands deep into the  pocket of  his blouse 
and drew out the  coin.  Then  all  three 
filed out.
“Awful  fond  of  soda,  these Chinese. 
They are among  the  best  customers  we 
have,”  said  the  boy.  “Chinese  always 
take ice cream,  and  usually  strawberry.
“It  is  noticeable  that in  the morning 
we sell  most  of  the  mineral  and  medi­
In  the  afternoon,  always 
cinal  waters. 
the thick,  rich stuff.

“Of  all  we  sell  here  in  twenty-four 
hours,  I should say  that 20  per  cent,  is 
orange  phosphate,  15  per  cent,  lemon 
phosphate,  10 per  cent,  mineral  waters, 
vanilla  soda  13  per  cent.,  chocolate 10 
percent.,  strawberry 8  per cent.,  lemon 
soda 7 per cent.  The rest  is  made up of 
such  drinks  as  pistachio  cream,  rasp­
berry,  apricot,  nectar and so forth.”

Peculiar Complication  of a  Couple  of 

Drummers.
From the Manchester (N. H.) Mirror.

A great  deal  of  amusement  was  had 
recently  at the expense of  two  traveling 
salesmen,  who came  to  Manchester  and 
j before they had  been  in the  city  many 
I hours innocently became enveloped  in  a 
1 most interesting  series of complications, 
in which two carriages  which  were  very 
much  alike  figured  prominently.  The 
source of all  troubles lay in the fact  that 
both men had  hired  turnouts  of a well 
known  local  stable  keeper,  which  con 
siderably  resembled  each  other.  The 
horses were not of exactly the same color, 
it  is true,  but  the  drummers  evidently 
did not take much notice of horseflesh.

Drummer number one,  in the course of 
his drive, left his team  untied  for a short 
in  front  of  the  Manchester  Tea 
time, 
store,  while  he  attended  to  some  busi 
ness. 
In the meantime the horse became 
tired of standing and  wandered up street 
a  distance,  where  some  one  kindly 
stopped  him  and  hitched  him  near  the 
corner  of  Amherst  street.  When  the 
drummer  came  out  his  rig  was  not 
where he had left it,  but  the  horse  had 
evidently started to  walk  off  and  some 
one had tied  him  over  on  Stark  street, 
for there stood  a  team  which  looked like 
his.  He therefore went over  and  drove 
off with the team  belonging  to  drummer 
number two,  who was  patiently  waiting 
his  turn  in  Orrill’s  barber  shop  across 
the  way.
He  had  driven  but  a  short  distance, 
however,  before he  noticed that his grip, 
which he had left in the wagon, had disap­
peared.  He was seen to drive back to the 
place from which he had  taken  the team 
and make a  careful  search  for the  mis­
sing article,  but obtaining no satisfaction 
drove  to  the  police  station  and  gave 
notice  that  his  valise  had  been  stolen 
from  his carriage.

About this time  drummer number two 
came out to  drive  away  and  discovered 
his loss.  He  was informed  that  a  man 
had been seen to  take  the  carriage  and 
ride off in it   He immediately telephoned 
to the livery stable  that the  turnout had 
been stolen  and  the  proprietor  at  once 
started  out  to 
look  the  matter  up.  A 
considerable  crowd  of  people  who  had 
found out about the  affair  had  gathered 
and were  discussing  the  matter  of  the 
theft when drummer number one hove in 
ight in company  with  a  police officer  in 
earch  of the missing grip.
There might  have  been  more  serious 
complications had not  someone,  who had 
been  an  interested  witness  of  a  con­
siderable portion of the amusing episode, 
introduced  the  man  who  had  lost  the 
grip to the man  who had  lost the team  as 
the one  who had  stolen  the  horse.  Ex­
planations 
followed,  but  number  one 
was now in  a  still  worse  situation,  for 
he  had  lost  not  only  his  grip  but  his 
team.  Further search followed  and  the 
missing  animal  was 
found  standing 
quietly in  front of Campbell’s  drug store 
with  the  missing  grip  still  under  the 
seat,  where it  had  been all the time.  The 
perplexed  but  persevering  drummers 
then  proceeded  on  their several  ways re­
joicing.

There  is only  one  spirit  that  achieves 
a  great  success.  The  man  who  seeks 
only  how  to  make himself useful,  whose 
aim  to  render  himelf 
indispensable  to 
his employer,  whose whole being  is  ani­
mated  with  the purpose to fill  the largest 
place in  the  walk  assigned  to  him,  has 
in the exhibition of the spirit the guaran­
ty of success.  He commands the situation, 
and shall  walk  in  the  light  of prosperity 
all  his  days.  On  the  other  hand,  the 
man  who  accepts  the  unwholesome  ad­
vice  of  the  demagogue,  and  seeks  only 
how  little  he  may  do,  and  how  easy  he 
may  render his place and not lose his em­
ployment altogether,  is  unfit for service. 
As  soon as there is  a  supernumerary  on 
the list,  he  becomes  disengaged  as  least j 
valuable to his employer.  The man  who j 
is  afraid  of  doing  too  much  is  near  of I 
kin to him  who seeks  to  do nothing,  and I 
was  begot  in the same family.  They are j 
neither  of  them  in  the  remotest  degree 
a relation to the  man  whose  willingness I 
to  do  everything  possible  to  his  touch ! 
places  him at the  bead  of the active list, j

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from  leading merchants expressing their pleasure on  finding that  we  have in­
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Our Clay  and Fancy  Worsted suits are in great demand,  and  our  large  line  of. 
Double and  Single-Breasted Suits  in  Unfinished  Worsteds,  Chevoits,  Gassimeres, 
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ag e  T aste.

F rom   th e  Mew Y o rk  Sun.

If,  as was  Shakespeare’s  opinion,  mis­
ery acquaints a man  with  strange bedfel­
lows,  travel  makes  him  familiar  with 
strange food.  Even in civilized countries 
there  are  national  dishes,  and  dishes 
famous  in  certain  localities,  of  whose 
composition no one  knows  anything cer­
tain,  except the cook;  as,  for example,  a 
Spanish olla podrida, or  a Florentine pie. 
These instances,  however,  do  not  come 
under  the  head of  uncanny edibles,  and 
the intention  is to give some illustrations 
of eccentricities  in eating.
No snake  is  succulent.  An  anaconda 
cutlet looks  nice,  but it  is  distressingly 
dry.  So  with  other  species,  and  it  i.- 
probable that all the wandering race will 
agree with Dr.  Lumholtz in saying that a 
man might as  well eat  chips as serpents. 
They  are  relished  by  savages  in  many 
places,  but savage opinions upon gastron­
omy do not  count.  Primitive  taste  is  a 
very  undeveloped  sense,  and  when  bar­
barians have good things  they  generally 
spoil them.
There is a lizard in equatorial  America 
that  is  one  of  the  ugliest  extant,  but 
steaks cut from  its tail are  not to  be sur­
passed.  Nevertheless,  it  makes a differ­
ence whether  a  Tupi  Indian  offers  one 
flavored with ashes on the end  of a sharp 
stick, or an ingratiating waiter at a break­
fast table in the  West  Indies  says  confi­
dentially;
“You try  liily bit  dis  iguana,  massa; 
him  werry fine, sah.”  This reptile is the 
only  member  of its  family  that  has  any 
merit  except  a  first  cousin  with a  long 
Greek  name.  Both  are  terrible fighters 
when roused  by natives with grass ropes. 
They also present rather  a  horrible  ap­
pearance in  process of preparation.  But 
broiled,  and with cayenne and lime juice, 
iguana  should  be  classed  with  the dia­
mond-backed  terrapin  and  green  turtle.
An  armadillo  is  a  degenerate  little 
beast,  naturalists  say,  and they despise 
it because its  teeth  are  defective.  This 
is  a  very  limited  view to  take,  for it is 
exceedingly  good  to  eat. 
In  habits  of 
life  and  the  general  appearance  of  its 
head,  this  animal  is  not  unlike  a  pig. 
Its nose,  however,  is  wanting in charac­
ter,  being weak,  like  its  mind;  and  be­
sides  that,  there are  African armadillos 
much more  swinish  than  any  living  in 
America.
It  has  always  seemed  to  the  writer, 
who has been  intimate  with  armadillos, 
that one of these  creatures,  with  its  ears 
cocked  and  tail  up,  prancing along side­
ways on the tips of its fore claws, was an 
exquisite  caricature of  a  mediaeval  war 
horse  in  full  panoply.  There are those 
who contend  that  the  old  simile  of  “a 
hog  in  armor” is the most apposite com­
parison,  but there are aesthetic objections 
to such a parallel.  Anyone who  remem­
bers  how  armadillos  taste  must  recall 
with a certain  regret  the fact that zoolo­
gists call them  “brutes.”  These loricates 
are likewise  said  to  be utterly  incapable 
of learning  anything.  Now,  this  is  not 
the truth,  because,  for example  if you go 
into  any  house  in  the  interior of Nica­

; deavor,  and  will  always make  the  great 
i valleys of the  Amazons a savage and  un­
traveled  land,  Master Jocko disports him­
self and grows  fat  on  plums,  plantains, 
bananas,  nuts,  and  many  other  nice 
things.  Occasionally  he  may  diversify 
his  diet  with  birds’  eggs,  or  even  a 
fledgling;  but as for Iarvie or worms, tney 
are seldom  touched,  whereas  a woodcock 
gorges  a mass equal  to  his  own  weight 
every day,  and  is one of the best of game 
birds.  Perhaps  the  views  of  American 
monkeys  are  more perverted  than  those 
of  Asiatic  and  African  species  by  the 
habit of  looking at  things  upside  down 
while  hanging  by their  tails,  which  the 
latter cannot do.  At  all events  they ap­
pear to receive  strangers  with  more con­
tumely  than  is  customary  abroad,  and 
their morals as  well as their manners are 
at a low ebb.  They  are  not  to  be  shot 
without much experience,  and oven tiger- 
oats  have  to  bestir  themselves to  catch 
them  An Indian  with a blow-gun  whose 
tmy  shaft  is  tipped  with  curare  is  the 
| most; dangerous  enemy  these abandoned 
little  wretches have,  and,  as all  the  for­
est  tribes  are  very  fond  of them,  great 
numbers perish every year.
Imagine this scene which is taken from 
real  life.  A young  cebus  that  has  just 
rubbed  its  parents,  or  been  guilty  of 
some  other  villainy,  sits  out  at the ex­
treme end of a  limb  where  nothing  can 
get  at  him.  There the small malefactor 
swings safely  in  the  wind,  rejoicing  in 
the dissensions of  peccaries,  triumphing 
over some bird that has been caught by a 
hawk,  and expressing a contempt for an­
imated  nature  in  his  own  way.  The 
creature  sees  most  of what  is going  on 
around,  but not all.  An Indian out after 
something to eat has  heard  him  chatter­
ing,  and  stalked the  sound  with infinite 
skill and precaution, from trunk to trunk 
of great  trees,  behind  dense  screens  of 
lianas,  through clumps of tail rank grass, 
until  within  shooting  distance.  Then  a 
lean  tube that looks  like any  other piece 
of cane goes slowly  up,  there  is  a  faint 
puff,  the  arrow  flies,  and  with  ail  his 
muscles  of  voluntary  motion  paralyzed 
by  its  poison,  Jocko  the  wicked  falls. 
He is  forthwith taken away to  be cooked, 
and it is a solemn  fact that in  this condi­
tion the  creature is much  better than  he 
ever was in any other.

THE  MICHlbAiN I  ' ± t u \   Ï JIS jX S ^ L ^ ^ S   .
ragua, 
there  will  be  found  armadillos 
who have acquired a  coherent  idea  that 
they are at home, and comport themselves 
accordingly.  They  are  semi-domesti­
cated  to keep  down the  ants  that  make 
life  a  burden,  and  they do so with some 
success,  being  very  partial  to  these  in­
sects. 
It is  execrable taste  to like  ants, 
which,  even  when  parched,  ground  up, 
and baked  in  thin  cakes,  are  the  most 
abominable  things that anybody  can  eat. 
But  fat  young Tatusidse,  baked in their 
own armor,  might be  rejoiced  over  by  a 
gastronome.  This  is  the  best  way  to 
cook them,  and they have the  flavor  of  a 
particularly  good  little  black  pig from 
the mountains of  Spain,  with  some  sug­
gestion of that  savor  given  by the chest­
nut stuffing  which  those  people know  so 
well  how to insert  into a small  porker.
Habitually armadillos are  vegetal  feed­
ers.  Still,  like  swiue,  they have  a  ten­
dency  to  be  omnivorous.  There  is  nc> 
difficulty  in  killing  one with  an ordinary, 
charge of heavy shot.  Nevertheless they 
display  a good deal of dexterity  in  atEoics- 
ing an  accident  of  this  kind. 
If  come 
upon  suddenly,  they  curl  themselves up 
and pretend to be knots of  dry  wood  or 
nests that  have  fallen from  trees.  Very 
often  the  stratagem  succeeds,  and  any 
way,  if it  were  not for its  greed,  an  ar­
madillo  would  be  tolerably  safe.  By 
rights  it  is  a nocturnal  creature,  and  if 
it stayed at  home  and  slept  during  the 
day,  as  it  ought  to  do,  very few of the 
species would become the victims of man­
kind.  But  this  little  glutton  is always 
hungry,  and in  consequence goes  out  at 
unseemly hours to  gormandize,  and gets 
killed.
There  is a natural  transition  from  in­
sect eaters to  eating insects.  These  are 
all  bad.  They  have  either the nauseous 
bitter-sweet taste  of  ants  or  that  inde­
scribable  combination  of detestable sav­
ors which  grasshoppers  possess  in  per­
fection.  Savages eat grubs—Australians 
especially.  These people  are,  however, 
the  lowest  among  mankind.  All  larval 
forms are hateful  to human  beings  with 
any refinement.  Some  persons of  whom 
better things might  be expected  pretend 
to  like  fried  locusts.  Each one accord­
ing to his taste,  of  course;  but,  in a gen­
eral  way,  the  man  who  can  swallow  any 
kind of insect  with satisfaction has  some­
thing the matter  with  his  gustatory  ap­
paratus.
It  is to be  feared  that among northern 
nations  there is a prejudice against mon­
keys as articles of food.  The  word prej­
udice  is  used,  because  against the meat 
itself  no  objection  can  be  made.  Of 
sacred  monkeys,  which  are  not  eaten, 
nothing need  be said except that they are 
the  most  impudent  and,  in  an  Indian 
“kirui-ghar,”  the most intrusive animals 
as yet unexterminated.  Foreign simians 
are not so excellent as  domestic  species.
A  cebus,  together  with  others  whose 
titles are as long as  their tails,  might  be 
esteemed  a  delicacy  by  any  gourmet. 
Cooked in  the  Tapuyo  style  on  a  spit, 
there are objections  against the  dish  on 
account of  its  cannibalistic  suggestions; 
but as a grill or fricassee it  is  delicious, 
and  no other meat  makes such  hash.
Amid  that  vast area  of  overwhelming 
vegetation  which  dwarfs  human  en-

A  short  time  since  1  noticed  in  the 
daily  press  an  item  to the  effect that a 
young  man of the fourth  generation of a 
family  that  has  been  in  the  furniture 
business for eighty-seven  years  had just 
been appointed a clerk  in the main  office 
of the firm.  The youth  has spent a year 
in  the factories of the firm  studying  and 
working  at  the  business  of making the 
goods that are dealt in  where  he  is  now 
to  be  a  clerk.  The fact narrated  above 
is interesting as bearing upon the subject 
of  what  some  rich  men  do  with  their 
boys.  Nearly  everyone 
is  acquainted 
with  the  way  James  Gordon  Bennett’s 
father obliged  him  to  commence  at  the 
bottom  of  the  business  of  making  the 
Herald,  not only  in  the press  room but' 
also in other departments, either to  work 
at or acquaint  himself  with  all  details.

L earn in g   a   B usiness. 

Correspondence Business.

One  rumor,  which  is  generally accred­
ited,  is  to  the  effect  that  one  of  the 
younger members of a great manufactur­
ing concern  in the  East  was  ordered  to 
learn  the business from the bottom of the 
ladder  up. 
Instead  of taking  a common 
laborer’s  position  he  went  to  the  fore­
man of each department to which he rose 
and  promised  him  a  vacation  of a certain 
length  on  condition  that  he  should  be 
able  to  take  the foreman’s place during 
such  vacation  within  a certain  period of 
time.  The plan  the  young  man,pursued 
was  to hurry along and  to spend  only six 
or nine months in  a  department,  which, 
if  by himself and  unaided,  he  might not 
master in a year.  A  peculiar  yet almost 
cast-iron custom  which  many  Europeans 
who  wish  to  continue  their  businesses 
from  generation  to generation  is to send 
the  boys  to rival establishments.  The ob­
ject  is  plain  to  everyone.  One  of the 
benefits  to  be  derived  from  following 
such a course is that the  boy will  imbibe 
methods of doing  business  different  and 
perhaps  better  than  what  his  father is 
pursuing.  Another strong reason  is  that 
the  boy  will  get  no  favoritism. 
If  the 
young  man  was in  the  home factory his 
fellow  workmen  might  curry  favor  with 
him or lighten  his  labor,  or the  foreman 
might take so  much off his hands  that he 
would  miss  a  great deal  of  that  which 
he  was expected to learn.  Being located 
in  a better  and  larger  establishment  he 
will  not  only have  his ambitions stirred 
and learn improved  methods of working, 
but he  will  receive  treatment  precisely 
as  if  he  were  dependent  on  his wages 
and ability to earn them. 
It is obviously 
necessary in  this age of advancement and 
competiton  that the men  who manage es­
tablishments shall  be  familiar  with  all 
the  details  of  the  business  for  which 
they are made responsible.

B a rg ain s  in  D am aged  Cake.

Bargain  day  in  dry  goods  establish­
ments  has  become a feature,  and on  that 
day the  women  make  their  purchases  in 
this 
line  at  “less  than  cost.”  Quite 
recently  the  bargain-hunting  craze  has 
taken  a new  turn  in  Brooklyn,  striking 
an enterprising bakery  on  Fulton street. 
Pedestrians  were  first  attracted  to  the 
novel  idea by a large  sign  in  front of the 
door,  reading  as  follows:  “ Bargains  to­
day  in  Cake and  Bread.”  Another sign, 
located  in  the  window,  read:  “Special 
Sale!  These  Loaves  at 5 cents.  Reduced 
from  T  n  Cents.”  Still  a  third  sign 
made thk  announcement:  “ All  Kinds of 
Cake at Half Price To-day.”  Judiciously 
distributed  around  the  window  were  a 
series  of  highly-colored 
signs  setting 
forth  the fact that  yesterday’s  bread  was 
being sold  at  less than  half  price.  The 
place was at times  crowded  to  such  an 
extent as  to  make  it 
impossible  to  get 
within fifty feet of the  door.

Many  are  more  concerned  about  what 
they  will  have  for  dinner  than  where 
they will  spend eternity.

The man  who has an appetite for glory 
will  never  get enough of it to make him 
fat.

Example is  more  contagious  than  the 

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ishness  or  inattention 
is  a  personal 
affront  which he will  resent  all  the  more 
j because he has  no  direct  redress.  The 
I next time  he wants anything  he  will go 
| to another store for it,  and  will  have  a 
feeling of satisfaction in the thought that 
his money isn’t going  into  the  hands of 
the man who offended  him,  particularly 
| if he meets in the second  store  with  the 
deference due to one who  has  money  to 
spend and  patronage  to  bestow. 
If  he 
stops to reason  the matter  out he will do 
it thus*  “Stores live by  the  will of  the 
people;, i,  when I have a want  to  fill and 
money.fc §pe,n-l,. repyesentrin my  -persq.il 
the purchasing  pupj-ie -and-am.eBtitied.ro 
consideration as a  patron.  To  the  man 
j whom.  I. address;  my  desire?  should  be 
, for  the.moment -of  paramount  inte.rest.
I whether  I  want  to  stock  a  store  or  to 
buy  two  brass  rivets  of 
impossible 
dimensions.  1 choose to buy  and  he  is 
there to serve  me.”  And anything  that 
conflicts  with  his 
ideas  and  tends  to 
I belittle  bis 
importance  meets  with 
! decided disapproval.
|  There are two  kinds  of  clerks  whom  I 
I cordially  dislike—the  Time  Server  who 
| waits  upon  me  with  an  1-wouldn’t-if-I- 
didn’t-have-to  air,  and  the  Little  Tin 
God  who  condescends  to  fill  my  need 
with  a  manner  that  implies  that  he  is 
rather  above  that  sort  of  thing.  My 
order 
is  not  of  much  consequence  to 
either of them,  and the chances  are  that 
before 1  get  what  I  need  something  of 
more importance  to  them  diverts  their 
| attention and  I  am  left  to  await  their 
I good pleasure. 
It  takes  longer  than  is 
necessary  to  get  what  I  want,  and  my 
selfesteem  suffers  at  their  hands.  Ten 
to  one  their  stock  is  in  bad  shape,  and 
if  the  article  I  want  is  at all  special or 
out  of the ordinary  I  can get  no  inform­
ation  from  them about  it.

I would  not  have  in  my  store  a  man 
whom 1  could  not interest  in his work— 
who  would  count  the  minutes  or  con­
sider  anything  that  would  further  my 
iuterests as too much trouble,  aud  whom 
it would  be necessary  to prod  up  to  get 
the  service  I  should  require.  The  in­
different  man  and  the  one  too  big  for 
bis  place  should  have  no  part  in  my 
business,  and  with  the multitude of am­
bitions  young  men  eager  for  advance­
ment there is no reason  why they should. 
All the help and encouragement  possible 
should  be  given  my  clerks  and  every­
thing  done  that  I  could  do  to  make 
their  interests identical  with  mine,  and 
if I failed to secure their very  best work 
their  places  should  be  filled  without 
delay.

LIFE.

P aro d y  on  ' ‘Y our M ission.”

If you think, because you’re little.
And no heavy splurge can make,

Life is, therefore, void of duties,

You had best a tumble take.

Life is crammed with various duties,

Every station has its own;
And the glory lies in doing 

Seldom in the thing that’s done.
Though you cannot, on the ocean,

Sail among the swiftest fleet.
Hocking on the highest billows.

You can chase the foaming schooners,
You can help the weary bummers,

Laughing at the storms you meet,
On a free-lunch route all day,
As they stow the chuck away.

Though you cannot, with the pilgrims, 
Climb the mountains steep and high.
You can start a ten cent chop house.
Where they’ll stop as they go by;
You can have a tempting counter,

Spread with bread, and cheese, and meat, 

Though they may forget to pay  you,

They will not forget to eat.

Though you cannot sing like Patti,

Oausing tears of joy to start.
You can whistle circus ballads.

Till you break your neighbor's heart.
To the prettiest girl of all,

You can warble songs by moonlight 
Till the watchdog comes to chase you 

Gaily o’er the garden wall.
If you cannot beat a  foeman 
In the ring like Jimmy C.,

You at least can beat your tailor.

And that answers to a ‘ T.”

If three kings are out against you.

While to you but deuces fa 1,

You can scoop the pot too quickly 

With a little nerve and gall.

Never think, because you’re little.

Earth has naught in store for you—

Hornets' stings are funny weapons,
But just think what they can do.
Whisky glasses look like  thimbles 
When a schooner's standing near,
But the whisky knocks men groggy 
Who would soon grow fat on beer.

Though you cannot, like friend Coxey,

Be a terror a;.d a cuise,

You need only go to < ongress 

To become a durned sight worse.
On the field  whereheroes fell,

Though you dared not seive your  country 
In some aldermanic office 

You can  pinch it” just as well.

If you cannot get  a contract 
Out of which to make a million.

Of the city dads so high 

You need not sit down and cry;

If you only stand in soiid 

With the chief of your police.

You a bunko room may open.

Where the grangers you can tieece.
Though you cannot play at base ball 

You can win at three-card monte,

And get beaten every day.
Or at Coon-can, if you  play.

You can ply a bloke with liquor 
Till he's laid out cold and blue 

And, when thus you’ve got him  pickled,

All his dust belougs to you.
So in ail life’s fitful  struggles 
You can surely gain a place,
If you only hold your head up 
And don’t falter in the race.

Never think because you’re little,

That you cannot name your price,

If no other game you fancy 

You can try three loaded dice.

Edward W. Rowell.
Good  S ervice  B ehind  th e   C ounter.
1 had a talk with the Oldest Inhabitant 
the other day,  and he told  me of happen­
ing in at Bingham’s some forty odd years 
ago  and  hearing  their  clerk  receive  a 
lesson in etiquette. 
It  seems  the  luck­
less  wight  had  been  discourteous  to  a 
customer and his conduct  brought  forth 
a reproof that must  have  been  stinging 
indeed  to  have  left  such  a  lasting  im­
pression  upon  a  chance  listener.  The 
O.  I.  told  me  that  the  words  were  few 
and spoken in a low tone,  but that  every 
one cut,  and he shook his head  in gentle 
deprecation as he recalled the rebuke the 
young man received. 
It  is  safe  to  say 
the lesson never had to be repeated. 

I

^p H E Y   A T T   S A T

“ It’s  a s   g o o d   a s   S a p o l i o ”  w h e n   t h e y   t r y  
to  sell  y o u  
t h e i r   e x p e r i m e n t s .   Y o u r  
o w n   g o o d   s e n se   w ill  tell  y o u   t h a t   t h e y  
a r e   o n l y   t r y i n g   to  get  y o u   to  aid   t h e i r  
n e w   article.

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

Is 
it  n o t  th e   p u b l i c ?   T h e   m a n u f a c t u r e r s  
b y   c o n s t a n t   a n d  
j u d i c i o u s   a d v e r t i s i n g  
b r i n g   c u s t o m e r s   to  y o u r   s to re s   w h o s e  
v e r y   p r e s e n c e   c r e a te s   a  d e m a n d  
for 
o t h e r   articles.

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l'HiC  MTOTÎIGA.JSr  TRADESMAN.

The  W h e a t  M arket.

it 

looked 

is  anxiously 

The  cereal  has  moved  in  a  narrow 
range  of  prices  during  the  past  week 
All  the  influences  were  bearish.  The 
visible supply  was  disappointing,  owing 
to the fact of the increase  far  exceeding 
the  calculations.  Not  much  doing  for 
the past few days,  because  everybody  is 
waiting for the  Government  crop report, 
which  will,  in  all  probability,  show a de­
crease of several points  in spring wheat, 
and,  probably,  a  few  points  better  in 
winter  wheat.  As  this is  the  last  Gov­
ernment  report,  so  far as  wheat is con­
cerned, 
for. 
Corn,  as  everybody  expects,  will show  a 
further  decrease  from  the  already  low 
estimate  of  a  59  per  cent.  crop. 
It is 
now claimed  that  the corn  crop  will  not 
exceed 1,300,000,000 bushels,  and  wheat 
prices  are  governed  by  the corn  market 
at  present.  With  nearly  25  per  cent, 
more wheat in  sight than  last year at this 
time,  it would  seem  as  if  wheat  would 
still  be lower,  but the  trade  forgets  that 
our  deliveries  have  been  very 
large, 
more  than  was  anticipated;  that  spring 
wheat 
is  not  turning  out  as  good  as 
was expected,  and  that the general  feed­
ing of wheat  goes  on—not  in  Michigan 
alone,  but  largely  in  Kansas,  Ohio,  In­
diana,  Illinois;  and  all  through  the  East­
ern States wheat  is fed  in  all  shapes,  as 
it  is  relatively  cheaper  than  corn. 
It 
would not be  surprising if wheat  should 
take an advance  most  any  time,  as  de­
liveries in the  Northwest,  as  well  as  in 
the  winter  districts,  are  falling  off. 
Prices  remain  unchanged.  Receipts  of 
wheat in this market the  past week were 
92 cars;  corn,  4 cars;  oats, 4 cars.

bu.

bu.

16c.

P u re ly  P erso n al.

John  Buys  is  spending  a  couple  of 
weeks  in  Detroit,  exhibiting  A.  Buys 
patent barrel rack  at the State  Fair.

Alex.  Massie,  the  veteran  Greenville 
grocer,  was  in  town  over  Sunday,  the 
guest  of  his  son,  Jas.  A.  Massie  (I.  M 
Clark Grocery Co.),  at  Wellington  Flats, 
Will S.  Jones,  Secretary  and Treasurer 
of the Commercial Bulletin Co., publisher 
of the Minneapolis  Commercial Bulletin 
was in town  a couple of  days  last week, 
Mr.  Jones has  many  friends  among  the 
trade,  which  ensures  him  a  cordial  re­
ception wherever he  goes.

Going into politics has been the Jericho 
road on  which many  a  man  was  robbed 
of the raiment of self-respect.

p r o d u c e :  m a r k e t  

Apples—Fancy strawberries bring  *1.75$2  per 

bbl; other varieties, 81.50®1.75.

holding hand picked at 82 per  bu.

Beans—Dealers pay  $1.65  for  country  picked 
Beets—Per bu., on the market, 35c.
Butter—Best  dairy  is  held  at  20@21c  per lb; 

creamery,  22@24c.

Cabbage—Are held at 50c per doz.
Carrots—Are bought on the market for 30o  per 

Celery—Is down to  12H@18c.
Cucumbers—Are sold on the market for 30c per 

Eggs—Commission houses hold them at 

Grapes—First-class fruit is now arriving in al­
most unlimited quantities.  The  best  and most 
lentiful, though not the highest priced,  are the 
Worden’s, 5-lb baskets of which are sold  at  10c, 
8-lb  at  15c.  Niagaras  bring  the  same  figures. 
Brighton’  and Delawares are in  limited  supply 
and bring 20c per 5 lb basket.

Green Corn—Evergreen, the  only  kind  arriv­

ing, brings 10c per doz. on the market.

Muskmelons—Home-grown are  held  by  deal­

ers at 30c per doz.

Onions—Dry are held by dealers at 60c  per  bu 

C.  G.  A.  V oigt.

Green are about done.

Peaches—Crawfords  are  held  by  dealers  at 
$1.50 per bu..  Some extra fine lots change hands 
at $2, but the  above  is  the  usual  price  Chili’s 
bring $1@1.25; Mixons, Wagers, and other varie­
ties, $1.
Potatoes—The  growers  have  advanced  the 
price to 70c with a threat  of a further  raise.  If 
they would give good potatoes for  that  price  it 
would  not he so bad, but  that is the price asked 
for  anything  that  looks  like  a  potato, and the 
best  of  these  are  not  much  like  the  splendid 
tubers of last year.

Plums—Egg are held by dealers  at  82  per  bu. 

Lombards and  other varieties, $1.50.

Pears—Dealers hold Bartletts at $1.25  per  bu. 
other varieties, such as Flemish Beauty,Duchess 
and the little Sickles, $1.

DU.
and growers get 2c per lb.  Summer  brings  lc.

Radishes—Are about out of the market.
Tomatoes—Dealers hold' them  at  35@i8c  per
Squash—Hubbard is just  beginning  to  arrive 
Turnips—Growers get 30c per bu.
Watermelons—Southern are held by dealers at 
Whortleberries—Such as they are, are  held  at 

15c.
9c per qt.

13
Henry  J.  Vinkemulder,
Pnlits  and Vegetables,

418,  420,  445  and  447  So.  Division 

JO B B E R   0 7

St.  Grand  Rapids.
Don’t  Delay

buying  peaches.  Season  will  be  short 
this year.
Quote  you  good  white peaches 75c to 
$1.25.
Some yellow at the same  price.  Chili’s, 
$1  to $1.50.  Fancy peaches  $1.50  to  $2. 
Pears $1 to $1 40.  Plums  $1.23  to  $1.75.
This is  the week to buy tomatoes.  We 
quote 35c per bu.
Muskmelons,  Celery,  Cabbage,  Sweet 
Potatoes,  Onions,  Peppers,  etc.,  at  the 
lowest market prices.
Send in your orders by mail or wire and 
I assure you they  will  have  our  prompt 
and  personal  attention  and  benefit  of 
lowest possible prices.

mm

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SELECTED

GRAPES

Every  Package  Warranted to  be 

Full  Weight  or  Measure.

And of Same Quality from Top to Bottom

Wordens,  Concords,  Brightons,  Niagaras.

Fruit billed at same price I receive on our morning market same day.

Orders of the trade solicited.

IF
YOU

VISIT THE  STATE  FAIR Don’t  Fail  to 

Stop at 

the

Booth  of  W. J. Gould  & Co.  and get a  Free  Cup  of  Our Celebrated

and  a 
Hot 
Biscuit 
made  from

the Best Brand on the Market for the Money

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'  W .  J.  GOULD  &  CO.,

T ea   Im p o rters  a n d   C offee  R o a ste r s,

DETROIT, 

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MICH.

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Drugs 0  Medicines.

State  Board  of PltarinacT.{ 

One Y e ar—O ttm a r Eberb& eh, A nn  A rbor. 
T w o  Y ears-—G eo rg e G undrum , Io n ia.
T h re e   Y e ars—C. A. B ug:bee. C beboygan. 
F o 'ir  Y e ars—S. E. P a rk ill, O w js s o .
F iv e Y e ars—F . W . R. P e rr y , D e tro it. 
P re s id e n t—F red ’k W . R. P e rry , D etro it, 
f  e c re ta ry —S ta n ley  E. P a rk ill, Owosso. 
T re a s u re r—Geo. G u n d ru m , Io n ia .
C o m in g   M eetings—L an sin g , Nov.  6 an d  7.

Michigan  State  Pharm aceutical  Ass’n. 
P re s id e n t—A. B. S tevens, A nn A rbor. 
V ice -P resid en t—A. F. P a rk e r, D e tro it 
T re a s u re r—W. D up o n t,  D e tro it.
S e e re ta y —S. A. T h o m p so n . D e tro it.

Grand  Rapids Pharm aceutical Society 
P re s id e n t,W a lte r K .S cb n iid t; Sec’y , Ben. S c h ro u d e r

DOSES  FOR  PHARMACISTS.

It 

The calling of the pharmacist is  in  re­
sponsibility on a parity  with  its  ancient 
honorable and sacred history.  His duties 
as a servant of the public are many,  and 
their number does not seem  to  diminish 
with the advance  Of  time  and  tread  of 
new inventions. 
It is not my  purpose to 
remind  you  of  the individual  amenable 
ities or write an essay on  the  vocation 
>of  the  compounder  of  prescriptions. 
What I crave is your attention  to but one 
feature  of  the  pharmacist’s  life. 
one which renders his  vocation  at  once 
grave  and  responsible.  1  refer  to  the 
fact that a druggist  must compound  pre­
scriptions containing,  and  sell  over  the 
counter  medicines  constituting,  agents 
potent  to  the  extent  of  taking  human 
lives.  What adds to  the  seriousness  of 
the occupation  is  the  innocence  of  the 
customer and patient,  who is in  no  posi­
tion  to judge of the  nature  or  power  of 
the substances  bandied.  The  confident 
customer, trusting the  knowledge  of  his 
physician and  assured of  the  ability  of 
the  pharmacist,  will  take a prescription 
half-grain doses of strychnine 
•ankness of a friend  eating  at 
at dinner.  So it  is  with  the  cus­
tomer who calls for oxalic  acid  when  he 
wants tartaric acid.  To him

“A rose

By any other name would smell as  sweet." 

and “oxalic” does not  startle his  caution 
unless the pharmacist mentions the  dose 
and lethal action of the poison.

How  important  it  is then that a phar­
macist have at his  wits’ end  the  dose  of 
each  remedy.  True,  the  list  of  reme­
dies is too long for  mortal  memory,  but 
those doses not in mind  must  be  within 
ready access to the prescription case  and 
dispensing-counter.  Never  guess  at  a 
dose;  if  ki doubt look  it up,  and see to it 
that reference books are  always  conven­
ient for this  purpose.

The word “dose”  is  a  short  combina­
tion  of  letters  coming  from  the  Greek 
word,  to give. 
In our  minds  and  prac­
tice must be associated not only  the  idea 
of giving,  but also that of the  “amount” 
given. 
It is of  this  quantity  that  con­
stitutes a dose,  and  the  conditions  that 
increase  or  decrease  the  amount  to  be 
taken,  that I propose to speak.

dose  is  the  quantity  of  a  medicine  re­
quired to produce  a  given  effect  and  is 
usually given at one time.”  A still more 
common  application  of  the  word  is  to 
consider  the  amount  of a remedy given 
at  one  time to be a  “dose.”  Thus  it  is 
considered  by  the  laity.  The  pharma­
cist,  however,  should  consider  the  dose 
as  the  amount  required  to  produce  an 
effect.  This leads  him  to  read  the  di­
rections on the prescription and  see  how 
often  as  well  as  how  much  is  to  be 
taken.

The size of the  dose  is  regulated  not 
only by the frequency of the  administra­
tion,  but  by  several  other  conditions 
worthy of our consideration.

The  weight  of  the  patient  should be 
taken into account,  for the result  of  the 
action of a remedy is  in  proportion  to the 
weight of healthy  tissue  with  which  it 
comes  in  contact.  Thus,  one  grain  of 
medicine  will,  other  conditions  being 
equal,  produce  the  effect  on  a  person 
weighing one hundred  pounds  that  will 
result  from  a  two-grain  dose on  a two- 
hundred-pound 
Patients 
with  dropsy,  tumors or excessive fat are 
not amenable to this rule.  The  average 
man  weighs  143  and  the  woman  121 
pounds.  Women  require  smaller  doses 
than  men,  not only  on  account  of  their 
being  less  in  weight  but  also  from  a 
greater  susceptibility  to  the  action  of 
medicine.

individual. 

The  method  of  administration  affects 
the size of the dose.  We  give  but  one- 
half  or  one-quarter  as  much  hypoder­
mically  as  by  mouth,  while  enemata 
require  about  twice  the  ordinary  dose. 
It has been  found  that  different  tissues 
of the body take up medicine  with  vary­
ing  rapidity,  and  the serous  membranes 
are most active,  intercellular tissue next, 
and mucous  membranes  next.  The  size 
of doses should  be in  the ratio of  this ab­
sorption.’  Liquid  preparations  are read­
ily absorbed when  compared  to  powders 
and  pills.  This calls  for  smaller  doses 
of  tinctures  and  fluid  extracts  than  of 
powder or pills of the same remedy.

Familiarity  breeds  contempt  for  the 
power of  medicine,  as  is  evidenced  by 
the excessive doses of morphine  that  an 
habitue will take without serious results. 
Kace has its peculiarities,  and only about 
half the ordinary dose is required  by  the 
Indians,  Chinese,  Negroes and other dark 
Some  claim  that 
and  yellow  races. 
blonde  Anglo-Saxons 
larger 
doses than  the brunettes.

require 

in 

ipecac 

The  dose  of  the  same  remedy  varies 
greatly with the  object  for  which  it  is 
administered.  Thus, 
large 
doses is an emetic,  while  smaller  doses 
will cure  obstinate  vomiting  due  to  de­
pression.  The effect on dose of the age, 
purity and strength in the  active  princi­
ple of drugs  requires no more than  mere 
mention  to pharmacists.

From  the  dogmatic  manner  in  which 
doses  are  stated  in  text  and  reference 
books  we are led to believe that a dose  is 
a dose and  that  we  can  depend  on  the 
size  with  mathematical  exactness.  Far 
be this from the physiological  and  ther­
apeutical truth.

The dose of a medicine  is  the  amount 
of  the  substance  which  exists  in  the 
blood or comes in contact  with  and  acts 
upon the  tissues  at  one  time.  This  is 
the true meaning of the  word  when  con­
sidered from the  standpoint  of  pharma- 
co-dynamics.  A  more  common  defini­
tion,  and one that applies  to  the  every­
day  use  of  the  word,  would be that  “a

New  remedies  are sometimes given in 
j doses  that time and experience revise by 
either  increasing  or decreasing the size.
The  minim  and  drop  are  sometimes 
used  as equal  measures  when  designat­
ing doses.  The drop,  unless made under 
proper conditions of temperature,  size of 
container,  nature ef  orifice  from  which 
drop is  passed,  quantity of liquid in con­
tainer,  and  rapidity  of  dropping,  will 
vary greatly  with the same  liquid.  The 
relative size of drops of  different  liquids 
is shown by tables to  be  found  in  most 
standard works of reference.

The age of the patient  plays  such  an 
important part in the  regulation  of  the

THE!  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,

size  of  the  dose  that  many  rules have 
been  devised  to  estimate  the  approxi­
mate dose  in  relation  to  age,  Perhaps 
Dr. Young’s is as safe and generally used 
as any. 

It is as follows:

Add  12  to  the  age  of  the child,  and 
divide  the  age  by  this  sum.  The quo­
tient is the  fraction  of  an  adult  dose  to 
be  administered.  Thus:  a  child  two 
¡p ears old  would  require  (2  plus  12 equals 
14; 2 divided by  14  equals)  one-seventh. 
If the adult  dose  was  seven  grains  the 
dose for a child  of  two  years  would  be 
about one grain.

Age.

Old age again calls  for  smaller  doses,
as generally

but the requirement  is  not 
respected  as in childhood.

A table of doses is given bel ow  which
will  assist  in  determining the  amount
for different  ages:
Dose.
3 grs. 
One month.....................
..1-20
0.200
Three months................
0.250
4 “ 
..1-15
Six months  .................... ...l  m 6 “ 
0.400
Nine m onths.................
7 “ 
0.450
..  1-0
One year........................
0.550
9 “ 
.  1-7
Two years.....................
0.050
10 u 
..  1-6
Three years.................
1-2 “ 
0.750
..  1-5
Four y ears................
0.950
15 “ 
..  1-4
Five to six years........... ...  1-3
1.250
20 “ 
Seven to eight vears  __ ..  1-2
2.000
30 “ 
Ten to twelve  vears___
2.500
2-S 40 44 
45 “ 
Thirteen to fifteen  vears ..  3-4
3.000
Eighteen to twentv vears ..  5-6
50 “ 
3.250
..
Twenty to fifty vears 
t dra’m  4.01X1
.. 
i
Fifty years 
............   .
..  5-6
50 grs. 
3.350
Sixty to seventy vears...
..  3-4
45 44 
3.000
40 44 
Eighty to ninety  years..
2.500
One hundred years........
30 44 
2.000
..  1-2
Aside  from  these 
influences  on  the 
size of the dose the physician  must  keep 
in  mind  the  condition  of  the  stomach, 
personal  idiosyncrasy,  temperature,  tem­
perament,  climate,  season,  time  of  day, 
effects of disease, city or country patient, 
passions  under  which  the patient may be 
laboring,  and  many  other  controlling 
conditions.

1 have  endeavored to illustrate that no 
“rule  of  thumb”  can  be  applied  to 
dosage, so at  best our  posological  tables 
are  suggestive  rather  than  dictatorial. 
It is  unfortunate that we  have  no  abso­
lute guide,  but  such  is  the  fate  of  the 
professional  mau.  Study,  consideration 
and  the  exercise  of  judgment  are  re­
quired. 
Call  for  th e   A nnual  C onvention  o f th e 

H.  M.  Wh e i.p i.ey,  Ph .  G.

M ichigan  S ta te   P harm aceu tical 

A ssociation.

Detroit,  Sept.  4—The  12th  annual 
meeting of the M.  S.  P.  Association  will 
be held in the main  parlors of  the  Hotel 
Cadillac,  Detroit,  September  18  to  21, 
1894.  This is during the second  week of 
the State Fair,  at  a  time  when  everyone 
can secure half-fare-rates  on  all  railroad 
and steamboat lines or one fare for round 
trip,  tickets  good  from  September  10 to 
21.
An  urgent  invitation  is  extended  to 
every  druggist  of  Michigan  and  his 
family to take advantage of  this  special 
rate and  find  out  what  a  pleasant  and 
beneficial  time  they  can  have  at  our 
meetings.  The  manufacturers 
and 
wholesalers have joined hands  with  the 
retailers  and  arranged  entertainments 
which it is hoped no one  will  be  obliged 
to miss.
To enable the Entertainment Committee 
to make satisfactory  arrangements,  it  is 
requested  that you  notify  the  Secretary 
of your  intention  to  be  present  at  the 
earliest date possible.  State  the number 
of  non-members  accompanying 
you, 
especially ladies,  and  the  date  you  wish 
rooms  engaged.  This  is  important,  as 
the  hotels will  be  crowded  with  visitors 
at the State Fair.

The following programme  will  be  ob­

served:

TUESDAY—10 A.  M.

Donovan.

Roll Call
Address of Welcome,  by  Judge  J.  W. 
Response.
President’s Address.
Election of new  members.
Secretary’s Report.
Treasurer’s Report.

TUESDAY—2 P.  M.

Address.

ests.
Queries.

Report  of  Committee  on  President’s 
Report of Executive Committee.
Report of Committee  on  Trade  Inter­
Report of Committee on  Pharmacy and 
Reading of Papers.
General  Business.
Report of State Board of Pharmacy.
Report of Committee on  Legislation.
Report of Committee on  Adulterations.
Election  of Officers.
Reading of Papers.

WEDNESDAY—9 A.  M.

THURSDAY'—9 A.  M.

Selection of place of next meeting.
Reading of  Papers.
General  Business.
Adjourn  for Excursion at  12 o’clock.
Wednesday afternoon  will  be  devoted 
to visiting  the  laboratories  and  whole­
sale houses of the city.
Thursday afternoon the steamer Sappho 
will take you  up the  River,  p’assing  the 
beautiful  Belle  Isle  Park,  across  Lake 
St.  Clair,  through  the  St.  Clair  Canal 
into the St.  Clair  River.  After  passing 
the  various  club  houses  and  numerous 
summer cottages,  a landing  will be made 
at  the  Star  Island  House,  where  a 
banquet  will  be  served  to  satisfy  the 
pangs  ef  hunger  caused  by  the  lake 
breezes.  Music  will  be 
furnished  for 
dancing on  the return  trip  to the city.
A  final  session  will  be  held  Friday 
morning to attend to the  appointment of 
committees  and  the  completion  of  un­
finished business.
Address  all  communications  to F.  A. 
Thompson,  Sec’y, 559 Third  Ave.

Chairman Entertainment  Commitee.

A.  Bassett,

It  W as  a   T hriving  B usiness.

II. C.  Ridenour,  of Cedar county, Iowa, 
has been doing a thriving  trade  in  wolf 
scalps  for some time past,  but at  last  he 
has run against a  snag,  as crooked  busi­
nesses  commonly  do. 
Iowa  pays  a 
bounty of $5 each  for  every  wolf  killed 
in  the county,  and Ridenour  has devoted 
his time to earning this  bounty.  Lately 
he has presented such large  numbers  of 
scalps for  redemption  that  the  authori­
ties  grew  suspicious  and  undertook  a 
private 
investigation  of  his  methods, 
which has led to his arrest.  It was  found 
that  he  was  purchasing  wolf  hides  in 
Omatha for 60 cents  apiece  and  turning 
them over to the auditors of Lynn,  Mus­
catine  and  Cedar  counties  for  redemp­
tion. 
It  was  discovered  that  he  has 
recently  received  a  consignment  of 
seventy-five wolf hides from Canada.

A  civil  tongue  is  a better  protection 

for the head than  a steel  helmet.

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

■Iy’8 Lemon.

(Wrapped)

(Wrapped)

Doz.  Gro. 
lo z .  $  90  10  20
2 ox. 
I  20  12  60 
4 oz.  2  OO  22  80 
6 oz.  3  00  33  OO
Seely's  Vanilla
Doz.  Gro. 
1 oz. $ 1  SO  16  20
2 oz.  2  00  21  60
4 oz.  3  75  40  80
6 oz.  5  40  57  60
Plain  N. S.  witli 
corkscrew at same 
price if  preferred.
Correspondence

'Solicited
SEELY  MFG.  CO.,  Detroit.¿'nich

THE  MICHIGAN  TR^lDESMAJST

Wholesale  Price  Current.

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TINCTURES.

Cubebae...................... 

4®  6 
6®  8 
.  12®  14 
12®  14

.1  2501  60 
1M@  5 
.1  4001  60 
30®  33

Brlgeron.................1 
Gaultherla...................1 

ACIDUM.
2 co
„  . gxechthitos..............   :  20@1  30
8® 10
Acetlcum..................  
65®  75 
2001 30
Benzolcum  German
Aconitum Napellis H.........   60
50@1 60
-----------
15 . 
Boraclc 
...................  
50
Aiwa.............................;;;;
20®  301 Geranium,  ounce
Carbollcum.............. 
©  75
Cltrlcum...................  42®  45  | Goaslpll, Sem. gal
and myrrh.................  60
Arnica
Hydrochlor...............  
.................. .............  
3®  5
Hedeoma  .................. 1 2501  40
uy
Asafcetlda.................... 
g
..-trocum 
.................  10®  i2 |Juniperi........................  50@2 00
Nit
Oxallcum..................  
io®  12  Lavendula...................   9o@2 00
Atrope Belladonna............   60
Benzoin.......................... . 
gg
Llmonls..................... 1  40®'  60
Phoaphorlum dll.
Sallcylicum..............
Mentha Piper..............2 25@3 CO , „ 
---
Co............................. 50
Mentha Verld............2 00@2 10  Sangulnarla.........................  50
Sulphurlcum............
Morrhuae, gal............1 30@1  40  Barosma..............................  sg
Tannlcum.................
Myrda, ounce............  @  50 I  Cantharldes........................   75
Tartarlcnm............ ..
90@3 00  Capsicum...............................50
0*Iye......................... 
AMMONIA.
io@  12 I.Ca aamon............................  75
Plcls Liquids, (gal. 35) 
Co..........................  75
v.  
Aqua, 16  deg............
Ricini....................... 
96@1  04
M A I   m l  
R l f iin l 
f in
Rosmarini...
1 00  Castor..................................i oo
20  deg............
Rosae, ounce
6 50@8 50 I Catechu...............................  gg
Carbouas  .................
Cinchona..............................  gg
Succiai.......................   40®  45
Chlorldum...............
Sabina.......................  90@1  00
Co.............................60
ANILINE.
Santal
Coni urn........... 
ui
Black........................
55
Si
65  I Cubeba............. 
Brown.......................
w  ?o Digitalis................................. s>
Red............................
Yellow......................
50
@1  60 Gentian...............................  gg
BACCAE.
go
Gualca................................   gg
ubeae (po  25)........
Junlperus.................
15®  18  Zingiber..................  
so
Xantnoxylum............
00
...........  £
BAL8AMUM.
 
40@  43  Iodine............. 
n
Colorless... ;............   75
Copaiba......................
35
Peru............................
Terabln. Canada__
Tolutan......................

1 heobromas.............. 
POTASSIUM.
B1 Carb
 
bichromate...............   13®  «■*1 
mcnromate...............   13®  14  Hyoscyamus........  
Bromide...................... 
Carb............................  12®  15 
, 
Chlorate  (po.  7@19)..  16®  18
Cyanide......................  50® 55

“  ammon...............60
 

Ferri  Chlorldum__ 
R ino...........................»

2 50®7 00 I Columba..................... gg

.2 0002 25 
8001  00 
.  45®  50 
.2 50®3 00

 
Potassa, Bitart, com.
_  15 I  Nux  Vomica.........  
8®  10  OplI............................. 
Abies,  Canadian.................  18 | 
°P‘
................„
Potass Nltras 
701 
Cassi ae  ...............................  11
Prusslate....................  28®
Cinchona Flava  .................  18
Sulphate  po...............   15®
Buonymus  atropurp...........  30
Myrlca Cerifera, po.............  20
Prunus Virgin!....................  12 I Aconitum...................   20®
Qulllala,  grd.......................  10 I Althae.........................  22®  g>  Rbei..
Sassafras   
...........  12 | Anchusa....................  12®  15 I Cassia
Ulmus Po (Ground  16)........  151 Arum,  po....................  ®  25
«~i0 
ja

fen
50
; ;  gg
o 1 11  Camphorated............... ..  5g
Deodor........................2 00
Aurantl Cortex........ 
50
g n « « ia ..........................:::  so
latan y .............................  50
Acutlfol..................   5g
P I P .................... 
Go..............  50
iv\a 
I Pfllomna 
Calamus......................  20®  40 J Serpentaria........................   5g
EXTRACTO M.
Gentiana  (po. 12) ...... 
8®  10 1 Stromonlum........................   60
Glycyrrhlza  Glabra. 
.  24®  25 I Glychrrhlzà, (pv.15)
16®  18  T°!uLan 
5g
38 I Hydrastis  Canaden,
|—  —
Haematox, 151b. box..  11®  12 
(po. 35). 
'  5g
„   . 
I 
14
"eilet
Hellebore, Ala, po.... 
15

1 Valerian........................  
Veratrum Veride........... 
MISCELLANEOUS.

45®  50 
@2 CO 
40®  45 
35®  50

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

Co......................... 

40®  50 
15@
20

20®  % 
8®  10 
25®  30

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

........ 

opt

25

.  

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po...  33® 
Is.......  13® 
*8. 
Xs....

I Iris plox (po. 35@38). 

.............................. 15® 20

...............   @ 30
15®  20
14®
16®  171 Ipecac, po.................. 1  40@1  50
35®  40
tm  15 I i? )aPa>  pr..................   40®  45
----------   @  35
fff,  80 I * 
in j......... 
a   Hl I R£eI...........................   75@1  00  Annatto......
@  50 
out  ....................  @1  75 I Antimoni, po
@  15 
PV.........................   75@1  35 1
.9®  2
ilia......................

i- i Maranta, 

law

ground,  (po.

et Potass T

Carbonate Predp... 
Citrate and Quinta.
Citrate  Soluble......
Perrocy anldum Sol.
Solut  Chloride......
Sulphate,  com’l —  
.

pure... 

■’ 

5a   "7
«

60®1

' 
6®  8 1 Clnchonidlne, P.  4   W  15®  20 

"" 1

,1«   on I Senega.................... 

j Serpentario.................  30®  35  Argenti  Nltras,'ounce
55®  60  Arsenicum.............. 

Ä n ü '. : : : : : : : : : : : : :   $ 1   g   s a a , o M n a i t o . h  @ 
Matricaria 
Barosma 
Cassia  Acutlfol,  Tin-

......   50®  65 I gdllae.(do. 35)........ 

ina  191Daininn. 

‘
Sdllae, (po. 85)..........   10®  12  Caldum Chlor, is,' (ks
Symplocarpus,  Fœtl- 
12;  üs,  14) ...... .
dus,  p o...........  —   @  35 I Cantharides  Russian,
I Valeriana, Eng. (po.30)  ®  25 I  po .........................
!ng1bera..Gennan:; 
Capsid  Fructus, af! 
Zldglber  J...............  
SEMEN.

ÎI® 
18® 

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“ 
“ 

“  Alx. 

Salvia  officinalis,  lis
and  Hs...........   15® 
UraUrsl 
..................... 
OUMMI.

....................   18® 50
nlvelly........  .........   25®  28
35®  50
25
8® 10
@  60 I BIld. 1*..................... 
@  40  Carul, (po. 18)...
ff*  30  Cardamon.........
@  201 Corlandrnm......
ooa  sg I Cannabis Satlvs.
50®  W | Cydonlum........
@  12 I Chenopodluac  ..
-   — 1 Dlpterlx Odorate
@  50
@ 
55®
28®  30 
50®  55 
48®  52 
35®  IQ
@2 50
70® 7b
® 30
@1 75
® 80
® 40
2002 25
45® 42
33® 35 1
4001  00

Acacia, 1st  picked —
“  2d 
....
“  3d 
....
sifted sorts...
“ 
“  po..................
Aloe,  Barb, (po. 60)... 
“  Cape, (po.  20)... 
Socotrl, (po.  60). 
Catechu, Is, (Ms, 14 )is,
16)..........................
Ammoniae.................
AssafcBtlda, (po. 3 )..
Benzoin um.................
Camphor®..................
Eupnorblum  po  ........
Galbanum..................
Gamboge,  po..............
Guaiacum, (po  35)....
Kino,  (po  1  75).........
M astic.......................
Myrrh, (po. 45)...........
Shellac bleached.
kxbba—In ounce packages.

D. F. R
Junlperls  Co. O. T.

Frumenti, W„ D.  Co 

Cera  Alba, S. & F.

Anlsum,  (po.  20) 
@
Aplum  (graveleons)..  18®
4®
10®  12  S0C(?,a
12®  14  Centrarla..
4^  
5 I Cetaoenm .
■  75®l  001 Chloroform 
.  10®  121 _  . 
~  40®2 60 I Chlor*’ Hyd Crst

. 1  00®1  25  Cassia Frnotu*... 

Foenloulum......  ......   @  15 I Chondrus
Foenugreek,  po...... 
L ini.........................
I Lini, grd.  (bbl. 3)4).
Lobelia....................
Pharlarls Canarian..
Rapa.......................
Slnapls  Albu.........
Nigra........

4  O  4M 
3)4®  4 
86®  40 
4®  5
6®  7
7®  8
11®   12

Corks,  list,  dis.
cent  .....................
Creasotum..............
Creta, (bbl. 75)......
I   prep............
predp.........
Rubra..............

_   »qulbbs

? 2 9 ^  551 Cudbear........”
1 
...
Sn  Copri Sulph... 
1  ¡was! m  Dextrine..................
1 
Ether Sulph..............
i  I5®3  50  Bmery,  all  numbers.

per

Spt. Vini Galli.... ..!!l 75®6 50 ! Breota  ?no i  40.........  sn«
Vini Oporto............... 125®2 00  FÌake'yJElii 
vim  A lba................ iS® 2oo  a

..........

l m

a

Abslnthlnm.........................  25
Bupatorlum.........................  20
Lobelia................................   25
Malorum.............................   28
Mentha  Piperita  ................  23
*'  V ir.........................  25
Rue......................................   80
Tanacetnm, V ......................  22
Thymus,  V..........................  25
Calcined, Pat..............  55®  60
Carbonate,  Pat...........  20®  22
Carbonate, K. 4   M —   20®  25 
Carbonate, Jennlng5..  35®  36 

MAGNESIA.

OLEUM.

Absinthium.................... 2 50@3 00
Amygdalae, Dulc........  30®  50
Amydalae, Amarao —  8 00@8 25
Anlsl............................... 1 9ii@2 g0
Aurantl  Cortex..........1  8002 go
Bergamll  ...................3 0003 20
Cajlputl.................... 
60®  gs
Caryophylli...............   75®  go
C edar.........................  85®  gs
Chencpodll...............   @1  go
Cinnamon!!.....................1  2501 2s
Cltronella..................   @  45
Conlnm  Mac..............  86®  g;
Copaiba......................  80®  90

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

STBUFS.

Accacla...............................  50
Zingiber  .............................   50
Ipecac..................................  60
Ferrl Iod.............................   50
Aurantl  Cortes....................  56
Rhei Arom..........................   50
Slmflax  Officinalis..............  60
....  50
Senega................................   50
Sdllae..................................  50
“  Co.............................   GO
Tomtan...............................  so
Pranas  rlrg.........................  50

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

la£   IS
Galla..........................  ®  23
Gambler.....................   7  ® g
Gelatin,  Cooper.........  @  go
French...........  30®  go
Glassware  flint, by box 80.
Less than box 75.
Glue,  Brown.............. 
9®  15
“  White................  13®  25
Glyoerlna...................  14®  20
Grana Paradis!...........  ®  22
Hnmnlns....................  25®  56
Hydraag  Chlor  Mite..  ®  75
*  Cor ....  ®  65
Ox Rubrum  @  85 
Ammoniatl..  @  % 
Ungnentnm.  45®  55
Hydrargyrum............   @  go
Tchthyobolla, Am..  ..1  2G®1 50
Indigo........................   75@1 00
Iodine,  Resubl...........3 80®3 90
Iodoform....................  @4 70
Lupulin......................  @2 25
Lycopodium..............  60®  65
M ads.........................  70®  75
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy­
drarg Iod..."............  @  27
Liquor Potass ArslnltlB  19®  19 
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
Mann)»,  B. F ..............  60®  M

1H)..................... 

  9)4® 4

* 

S.  N.Y.Q.  &  ^

Morphia, 8.  P. & W.  2 06@2 30 
„Ç .Ç 0 ....................  1  9o@2 20
Moschus Canton... 
.  @ 40
Myrlstlca, No  1 ........  65®  70
Nue.Vomica, (po20)..  @  10
Os.  Sepia.................... 
is®  is
Pepsin Saac, H. 4  P. D.
@2  00
Plcls Llq, N.»C., H gai 
doz
.......................  @3 00
di  , 
Plcls Llq., quarts......  @1  00
Pll Hydrarg, (po. 80)..  @ 50
Piper  Nigra, (po. 22).  @ 1
Piper Alba, (po g5)  ...  @  3
™ x B?rgun...............   @  7
Plumbi A cet..............  12®  13
Pulvls Ipecac et opll.. 1  io@l  20 
Pyrethrum,  boxes  H
*  P. D.  Co., doz......  @1 25
Pyrethrum,  pv...........  20®  30
Quasslae....................  g®  jo
Qulnla, S. P. & W......34*@39Vi
8.  German__  27®  37
Rubla  Tlnctorum......  12®  14
19®  14
8accharnmLactlspv. 
Salacln.......................2 10@2 25
Sanguis  Draconls......  40®  60
Sapo,  W.....................   12®  14
io@  12
G.......................  @  15

*  M....................... 

“ 

Seldllts  Mixture.......   @  __
Slnapls.......................   @  is
_  “  opt..................   ®  30
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  De
Voes.......................  @  35
Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes  @  35 
Soda Boras, (po. 11).  . 
io@  11 
Soda  et Potass Tart...  24®  25
Soda Carb.................  1 u®  2
Soda,  Bl-Carb............   @  5
Soda, Ash..................   3)4®  4
Soda, Sulphas............  @  2
Spts. Ether C o...........  50®  55
“  Myrda  Dom......  @2 00
“  Myrda Imp.......   @3 50
2 43@2 53
i -  ^   .... 
Less 5c gal., cash ten davs.
Strychnia  Crystal......1  40@1 45
Sulphur, Subl............ 2^@ 3
Tamarinds................. 
8®  10
Terebenth Venice......  28®  30
Theobromae..............45  @  48
S S F i - . v ..............9 00®16 00
Zlncl  Sulph...............  
7®  8

VInl  Rect.  bbl.

......  

. 

tm.  , 
Whale, winter...........  70 
Lard,  extra.................  so 
Lard, No.  1.................  42 
Linseed, pure raw__  50 

Bbl.  0*1
70
85
45
56

1Ö

“ 

paints. 

Linseed,  boiled.........  53 
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
strained...............   65 
SpirltsTurpentlne__  35 

14
70
40
bbl.  lb.
Red  Venetian..............1«   2@8
Ochre, yellow  Mars__ im  a@4
Rer........1*   2@8
Putty,  commercial__2%  2)4®3
“  strictly  pure...... 22  2V®3
Vermilion Prime Amer-
„ •can .......................... 
18@16
Vermilion,  English__ 
65®70
Green,  Peninsular...... 
70@75
Lead,  red....................  6  @6)4
_ “  w hite............... 6  @6)4
—
Whiting, white Span. 
Whltlmr  HIM or.’
Whiting,  Gilders'
@90
White, Paris  American 
1
Whiting,  Paris  Eng.
cliff.....................   ..
1  40
Universal Prepared  ..i (0®1  15 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared 
Paints..................... 1 00@1  20
VARNISHES.
No. 1 Turp  Coach.... 1  io@l  20
Extra Turp.................160@1  70
GoaCh  Body  ............... 2 75@3 00
No. 1 Turp Furn........1  00@1  10
Eutra Turk Damar  ... 1 55@1  60 
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 
70@75
Turp......................... 

Glass  and  Nickle

DIM ENSIONS : - 

hiRh.

-13 inches square at top;  3 1  inches  square  at  base;  63  inches

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

P R I C E   $ 2 0 .

HMEUINE  i  PERKINS  DRUB  GO.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

GROCERY  PRICE  CURRENT.

The prices quoted in this list are for the  trade only, in such quantities as are usually purchased by_ retail  dealers.  They are 
It is impossible to give  quotations  suitable  for all con^ ° 8i^
k 

.joins to press  and  are an accurate  index of  the local  market. 
below are given  as  representing  average  prices  for average  conditions of  purchase.  Cash  buyers or those o  s‘ 
those who  have poor  credit.  Subscribers  are  earnestly requested to  point  out  any  errors or omissions, as it is our  aim to make  this teature
greatest possible  use to dealers.

 
tJ ig ^ ture 0f  the

antUhose

CATSUP.

“ 

Blue Label Brand.
.  2 75
Half  pint, 25 bottles  ... 
4 60
Pint 
. 
Quart 1 doz bottles 
8 50
Triumph Brand.
Half pint, per  doz  .............1  35
Pint, 25 bottles.....................4 50
Quart, per  doz  ...................3 75

. 

CLOTHES  PINS.

5 gross boxes...............   40345

COCOA  SHELLS.

351b  bags...........
Less quantity__
Pound  packages

33
@3M6*37

COFFEE.
Green.
Rio.

 

 

Santos.

Fair..............................     ..18
Good...  ..........................   .19
Prime.................................. 21
Golden.................................21
Peaberry  ......... 
23
Fair......................................19
Good....................................20
Prime.................................. 22
Peaberry  ............................ 23
Mexican and Guatamala.
Fair..................................... 21
Good....................................22
Fancy.................................. 24
Prime.................................. 23
M illed.................................24
Interior..  ...........................25
Private Growth...................27
Mandehling....................... 28
Imitation............................ 25
Arabian...............................¡8!

Maracaibo.

Mocha.

Java.

Roasted.

To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add Me. per lb. for roast 
ing and 15 pier cent,  for shrink 
age.
Package.
McLaughlin’s  XXXX.  22 30
Bnnola 
..........................   21  70
Lion, 60 or 100 lb.  case 
22 30

Extract.

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

“ 

“ 

tin 
CHICORV.

Bulk
Red

CLOTHES  LINES.

50 ft.

Cotton,  40 ft
60 ft
70ft.
30 ft
raft

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
Jute 
“ 
CONDENSED  MILK. 

per dos.  1  25 
1 40 
1  60 
1  75 
1  90
85
1  00

80 ft.

“ 
“ 

4*doz. In case.

COUPON  BOOK?,

1 books, per  auudred 
5 
t 
5 
) 
i 

“Superior."
11 
“ 
“ 
“ 
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m  

“ 
“ 
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“ 
» 

“ 
“ 
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2  50 
3 00
....  3 50
. . .  4 00
.  .  5 00
6 no

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“
“
“

“
“ 
“
“ 
“ 

Universal ”
83 00
8  1  books, per hundred 
8 2
3 50
8 3
4 00
8 5
5 00
810 
6  00 
7 00
820 
Above prices on coupon books 
are  subject  to  the  following 
quantity discounts:
200 books or over..  5  per cent 
500 
.10 
“ 
1000  “ 
.20 
COUPON  PASS  BOOKS. 
ICan  be  made-to represent any 
denomination  from 810  down. |
20 books........................8  1  00
2  00 
3 00
....................... .  6 25
...................... .  10 00
....................... .  17 50

250  “ 
500  “ 
1000  “ 

Butter.

CRACKERS.
Seymour XXX................
Seymour XXX, cartoon ...  5M
Family  XXX................
5
Family XXX,  cartoon... ...  5M
Salted XXX.................... ...  5
Salted XXX,  cartoon  ... .. .  6M
Kenosha 
..................... .  7M
Boston............................ ...  7
Butter  biscuit.............
...  6
Soda, XXX.....................
.  5M
Soda, City.....................
. . .  7M
Soda,  Duchess............... ...  8M
Crystal Wafer................ -  10M
Long  Island Wafers 
8. Oyster  XXX.............
City Oyster. XXX..........
Farina  Oyster..............

5M
...  5M
...  6

.  ....11

Oyster.

Soda.

CREAM  TARTAR.

Strictly  pure.....................   30
Telfers Absolute..............  30
Grocers’..........................  15325

FLY  PAPER. 

Thnm ’s Tanglefoot.

Single  case..’.....................3  60
Five case lots.................... 3  50
Ten case  lots.................... 3  4f>
Less than one case, 40c  per box 

DRIED  FRUITS. 

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

4 00
I 50

AXLE GREASE.
doz
Aurora........... ........  55
60
Castor Oil...... ...... 
.......   50
Diamond.......
75
...... 
Frazer’s .........
Mica  ............. .......   65
..  .. ........  55
Paragon 

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

BAKING  POWDER. 

1 doz
Cream  Flake.

45 
75 
1 60 
10
55 
1  10 
2  00 
9 00
45 
60 
SO 
1  20 
2  00 
9 00 
40 
75 
1  40 
45 
35 
1  50 
45 
75 
1  50

Acme.
u   id .  »ans. 3  dor... .
4 ^ ,  
“  -----------
1  “  ......
lib . 
‘ 
B utt............ .Arctic.
14 lb cans 0 doz  case. 
14 lb  “  4 doz  “
1  lb  “  2 doz  “
5  1b
3  oz  “  6doz  “ 
........
........
4  oz  “  4 doz  “ 
........
oz  “  4 doz  “ 
........
oz  “  4 doz  “ 
.......
lb  “  2 doz  “ 
lb  “ 
ldoz  “ 
........
Red Star, % S> cans
“  M B>  “ 
.........
.........
“ 
l b   “ 
Teller’s,  *4 lb. cans, doi 
“ •
>4 lb.  .“ 
“ 
1 lb. 
‘ -
“ 
' 
Our Leader, 14 -b cans—
14 lb  cans......
...
1 lb cans 
BATH  BRICK.
2 dozen In case.
English........................ 
  90
jj”
Bristol.................................. 
Domestic.............................  *o
Gross
Arctic, 4 oz  ovals............   3  60
“  pints,  round 
..........  9 00
“  No. 2, sifting box...  2 75
“  No. 3, 
*“ 
“  No. 5, 
...  8 00
“ 
“ 
Mexican Liquid, 4  oz........  3 60
“ 
8 oz.........   6  80

l oz ball  .............. 

BLUING. 

8oz 

“ 

• 

 

 

 

 

“ 
BROOMS,

40.2 Hurl 
....................1  50
................. .......I 55
No. 1  “ 
No. 2 Carpet  ..................... f 00
NO. 1 
“ 
.......................I 25
Parlor Gem.......................... 2 50
Common Whisk................. 
80
Fancy 
.................   100
Warehouse.......................... 2 75

* 

BRUSHES.

“ 
« 

Stove, No.  1.......................  125
“  10.......................   1  50
“  16.......................   1  75
Rice Root Scrub, 2  row....  85
Bice Root  Scrub, 3 row  ...  1  *  
Palmetto, goose.................  1  50

CANDLES.

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

“ 

 

 

CANNED  GOODS. 

Fish.
Clams.

“ 

“ 

“ 
“ 

Little Neck,  1 lb..................1 20
“  2 lb..................1 90
Clam Chowder.
Standard, 8 lb................... 
2 25
Cove Oysters
Standard,  lib ...........
21b....................135
Lobsters.
Star,  1 
lb.....................2 45
lb..................8 50
2 
Picnic,lib...........................2 00
21b...........................2 90
Mackerel.
Standard, 1 lb........  ...........1 10
2  lb....................2 10
Mustard,  21b..................... 2 25
Tomato Sauoe,  2  lb........... 2 25
Soused, 2 lb.........................2 25
Columbia River,  fiat...........1  80
tails...........1 65
Alaska, Red......................... 1 25
pink......................... 1  10
Kinney’s,  flats.................... i  95
Sardines.
American  Ms.................4M@ 5
A t.................. 6M@7
Imported  ! ii....................  R B
Mi.................... i5©ie
Mustard * s................
..  6@7
Boneless......................
21
....2 5(
Brook 8, lb........

Salmon.
“ 

“ 
*• 

“ 

Trout.
Fruits.
Apples.

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

1  2C
4 0C

Apricots.

 

 

Gages.

Live oak............  
1  40
Santa Crus................. 
1  40
1  50
Lusk’s ......................... 
1  10
Overland..................  
Blackberries.
F. A  W 
90
....................  
Cherries.
Red............................1  1031 25
Pitted Hamburgh......
1  50
White  ......... 
Brie....... .................... 
1  25
Damsons, Sgg Plums and Green 
Brie............................ 
1 20
1  40
California................... 
Gooseberries.
Common.................... 
1  25
Pie............................ 
1  10
Maxwell.................... 
1  50
Shepard’s ..................  
1  50
California..................   160@1  75
.................
Monitor 
Oxford.......................
Pears.
Domestic.................... 
1  25
Riverside.................... 
1  75
Pineapples.
Common.................... 1  OOtgtl 30
Johnson’s  sliced....... 
2 50
2 75
grated.......  
Booth’s sliced............  @2 51

Peaches.

“ 
“ 

grated...........  @2

Quinces.
Common.................... 
1  10
Raspberries.
Red  ...........................  
1  10
1 40
Black  Hamburg.........  
Brie,  black  ...............  
1  25
Strawberries.
Lawrence..................  
1  25
Hamburgh................. 
1  26
Brie......................... .. 
1  20
Terrapin....................... 
1  05
Whortleberries.
Blueberries............... 
85
6 75
Corned  beef  Libby’s.........2 10
Roast beef  Armour’s.........180
Potted  ham, M lb.....................1 25
“  14 lb.................  70
tongue, M lb..........  ..135
“ 
14 lb...........   75
chicken,  14 lb.......... 
95
Vegetables.

Meats.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Beans.

“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Peas.

Corn.

Hamburgh  stringless.........1  15
French style...... 2 00
Limas  ................1  35
Lima, green........................1  25
soaked......................   70
Lewis Boston Baked........... 1 85
Bay State  Baked......................1 35
World’s Fair  Baked........... 1  85
Picnic Baked............................ 1 00
Hamburgh  ........................ 1  25
Livingston  Bden.............. 1  20
Purity  ................................
Honey  Dew..............................1 40
Morning Glory..................
Soaked...............................  76
Hamburgh  marrofat............1 30
early June 
..1 50
Champion Bng..l  40
petit  pols............1 40
fancy  sifted___ 1 90
Soaked................................   65
Harris standard..................   75
VanCamp’s  marrofat..........1  10
early June.......1  30
Archer’s  Early Blossom__1  25
F ren ch ...................  
2  15
Mushrooms.
French  .............................19@21
Pumpkin.
Brie 
Squash.
Hubbard.................................. 1 15
Succotash.
Hamburg  ............................1 40
Soaked...... .........................  so
Honey  Dew  ........................1  50
Erie.......................................... 1 35
Hancock.............................
Excelsior............................
Eclipse................................
H am b u rg .......................
Gallon.......................... .
CHOCOLATE.

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

Tomatoes.

“ 

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

23
37
43

CHEESE.
Amboy......................
Acme........................
Lenawee....................
Riverside.................
Gold  Medal..............
Skim.........................
Brick.........................
B dam .......................
Leiden......................
LImburger  ..............
Pineapple.................
Roquefort...... ..........
Sap Sago.
Schweitzer, imported. 

11 
11 
11 
11
10M 
839 
15 
1  00 

21 315s320

“ 

324 
domestic  ....  @14

10

Domestic.
Apples.

“ 

Peaches.

quartered  “ 

Sundried. sliced In  bbls.
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes 
Apricots.
California In  bags.......  
Evaporated in boxes 
Blackberries.
In  boxes.....................
Nectarines
70 lb. bags.......................
251b. boxes.....................
Peeled, in  boxes..........
Cal. evap.  “
“ 
in bags........
California in bags  __
Pitted (merries.
Barrels.........................
50 lb. boxes..................
25  “ 
...................
Prnnellee.
30 lb.  boxes................
Raspberries.
In barrels.....................
501b. boxes....................
.....................
251b.  “ 
Raisins.

Pears.

“ 

“ 

Peerless evaporated cream.  5 75 

CREDIT CHECK8.

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

“ 
“ 

Loose  Muscatels in Boxes.

2 crown.............................
3 
.............................

“ 
Loose Muscatels in Bags.
2  crown.............................. 4*
...............................4M
" 
3 

Foreign.
Currants.
Patras,  bbls. 
Vostizzas, 56 lb. cases 
25  H». boxes........ 
4%
50  lb.  boxes.....................  4S
36  1-lb. cartoons..............  5H

...................3
...  8*

Scliuit’  Cleaned.

 

Peel.
Citron, Leghorn. 25 lb. boxes  13 
“ 
25 
Lemon 
8
Orange 
“ 
10
25  “ 
Raisins.
Ondura. 29 lb. boxes 
“ 
Sultana, 20 
Valencia, 30  “
California,  100-120.............

“  “ 
“ 
3
3  8

Prunes.
90x100 25 lb. bxs.  5*
80x90 
6I4
70x80 
6*
60x70 

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

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

81 35
1 10
1  25
100

No. 1,6M 
No. 2, 6M 
No. 1, 6 ......................  
No. 2.6.......  
Manilla, white.
6M  .................................  
75
6....................................  
70
Mill  No. 4........................ 
90
FARINACEOUS  GOODS. 

Coin.

Farina.
Hominy.

. 

... 

Peas.

Lima  Beans.

Maccaronl and Vermicelli.
..10M@11

100 lb. kegs................. 
3*
Barrels.............................. 300
Grits.................................   8M
Dried...........................  4  34M
Domestic, 12 lb. box__ 
55
Imported 
Pearl Barley. •
Kegs 
..............................   2 60
Green,  bn......................  
1  15
3
Spilt  per l b ..................... 
Schumacher, bbl.........  ..  $5 50
M bbl............3 00
Monarch,  bbl 
...........  4 90
Monarch, M  bbl......................2 60
Quaker,  cases.......................  3 20
German...........................   4M
Bast India..........................  5
Cracked...............................   3*

Rolled  Oats.

Wheat.

Sago.

“ 

FISH—Salt.

Bloaters.

Cod.

Yarmouth...... ..................
Georges cured................   4M
Georges genuine............ 6
Ceorges selected  ...........  6M
Boneless,  bricks.............. 6M
Boneless,  strips..............  6M

Halibut.

Herring
“ 

Smoked..........................  

@

“ 

70
Holland, white hoops keg 
“  bbl  9 50
..............
Norwegian 
Round, M bbl 100 lbB.......   2 50
...  . 
1  30
Scaled  ............................. 
19

54  “  40  “ 

“ 

 

 

4  40
.  8 00
95

Mackerel
No. 1,  100 lbs.......................... 10 00
No. 1, 40 lbs  ......... 
No. 1,  10 l b s ........................   1 00
No. 2,100 lbs................. 
No. 2,40 lbs...........................   3 50
No. 2,10 lbs....................... 
Family, 90 lbs....................
10  lb s.................
Russian,  kegs.................... 
55
No. 1, M bbls., lOOlbs........... 4 75
No. 1 M bbl, 40  lbs...................2 2C
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs........  
No  1,81b  kits........... 

Sardines.
Trout.

63
53

“ 

WhlteflBh.

No.  1 family
M bbls, 100 lbs..........86 2 5 2 25
M  “  40  “  ..........   2 80  1 20
10 lb.  kits..............  ..  78 
38
8 lb.  “ 
.................  65  33

MATCHES.

Globe Match Co.’s Brands.

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

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

Soaders*.

Regular
Grade
Lemon.

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

XX Grade 
Lemon.
2 oz.......81  50
4 oz......  3 00
XX Grade 
Vanilla.
2 oz.......81  75
___ 4^oz..........  3 50
Jennings.
Lemon. Vanilla
2 os regular panel.  75 
1  20 
4 oz 
...150
2  00 
3 00 
6 oz 
.. .2 00
No. 3 ta p e r......... 1 35
2 00 
2 50
No. 4  taper  .........1  50
N orthrop’»
Lemon. .Vanilla. 
2 oz  oval taper  75 
“  180 
3.oz 
2 oz regular  “ 
85 
4 oz 
“  1  60 

“ 
“ 
GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.

“ 
“ 

1 10
1 75
1 20
2’ 25

HERBS.

11  00 
5 75 
3 00 
60

Choke Bore—Dupont’s

Kegs......................................... 3 25
Half  kegs................ ...........1  90
Quarter  kegs..........................-1 10
1 lb cans..............................  30
M lb  cans............................  18
Kegs..........................................4 25
Half  kegs.....................  
..2  40
Quarter kegs.........  ............1  35
1 lb cans.................................34
Eagle Duck—Dupont’s.
Kegs
Half  kegs  .......................
Quarter kegs........ 
........
1  lb  cans..........................
Sage..................................
Hops.................................
Madras,  5 lb. boxes  ........
S. F., 2, 3 and 5 lb. boxes.. 
JELLY.
@  63
15  lb. palls...............
......................... @  57
“  
17  “  
30  
“  
.........................
90
“  
LICORICE.
Pure............................... ....  30
Calabria.............................  25
..  12
Sicily.........................
Root............................
10
LYE.
1  20
Condensed, 2   doz......
4 doz......... ...  2 25

INDIGO.

. 
.......... 

“ 

@  

MINCE  MEAT.H is

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

MEASURES.
Tin, per dozen.

.........................  81  75
1  gallon 
Half  gallon......................  1  40
70
Q uait........  ..................... 
Pint..................................  
45
Half  p in t................. 
 
40
Wooden, for vinegar, per doz.
1 gallon............................  7 00
Half gallon......................  4  75
Q uart...............................  3 76
Pint 

..............................   3

MOLASSES.
Blackstrap.
Cuba Baking
Porto Rico.

Sugar house...................... 
Ordinary......................... 
Prim e............................... 
Fancy........ 
Fair..................................  
Good  ...............................  
Extra good.......................  
Choice 
........................... 
Fancy 
Half  barrels Sc.extra

Vpw Orleans.

14
16
20
80
18
22
27
32
40

Medium.

Barrels, 1,200 count... @5 50
Half bbls. 600  count.. @3 25
Small.
Barrels, 2,400  count.
6 00
Half bbls, 1,200 count
3  50
PIPES.

Clay, No.  216................. ....1  70
“  T. D. full count__ ....  70
Cob, No.  3....................... ...1  20

POTASH.

48 cans In case.

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

R I V E .
Domestic.

Carolina head...................... 6
“  No. 1.......................5K
“  No. 2.......................  5
Broken  .............................  4
Japan, No. 1............. ............5¡4
No. 2........................ 5
Java  .......................... « ...  &
Patna 
.....................   454

Imported.

“ 

SPICES.

Whole Sifted.

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

“ 

SALEKATUS.

Packed 60 lbs. In box.

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

........................... 3 30
3 31
............................3 00

SEELY’S  EXTRACTS. 

Lemon.
1 oz. F. M. $  90 doz.  810 20 gro
2  “  N. S.  1  20  “ 
12 60  “
2  “ F. M. 1  40  “ 
14  40 “
Vanilla.
1 oz. F. M.  1  50 doz. 
2  “  N  S  2 00  “ 
F. M. 
2  “ 
Lemon.
Vanilla.

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

Rococo—Second  Grade. 

2 doz. 

...  1  00doz......10 50  ■'

16 20 gro
21  60 “
2 50 “ 25 50 •*

SOAP.
Laundry,

Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.

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

Proctor & Gamble.

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

............................  3 65

Dingman Brands.

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Single box.........................  3  95
5 box lots, delivered........... 3 85
10 box lots, delivered  ........3  75
Jas. S. Kirk & Co.’s  Brands. 
American  Family, wrp d. .13 33 
plain...  3 27
N. K.  Fairbank & Co.’s Brands.
Santa Claus.......................  4  00
Brjwn, 60 bars....................2 40
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80  bars  ...................3 25
Lautz Bros. & Co.’s Brands.

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

Allspice.....................   84  155
Cinnamon  .................  84  155
Cloves........................   84  155
Ginger,  Jamaica  ----   84  1 55
“  African  .........  84  1  55
Mustard.....................   84  1  55
Pepper.... .................   84  1  55
Sage........ 

84

 

 

SAL  SODA.

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Granulated,  bbls................   IH
751b  cases........  lv%
.......1  ;
..............
Lump, bbls 
........   1!
1451b kegs.......
....................... @15
4
8
90
4
5@6
10
9
5
30

SEEDS.
Anise 
Canary, Smyrna.........
Caraway....................
Cardamon. Malabar...
Hemp,  Russian.........
Mixed  Bird  ..............
Mustard,  white.........
Poppy .........................
Rape..........................
Cuttle  bone...............
STARCH.

Corn.
20-lb  boxes..........................  5»£
40-lb 
.........................  554
Gloss.
1-lb packages.......................  5
3-lb 
.......................5
6-lb 
........................  554
40 and 50 lb. boxes..............  3%
Barrels................................Z%

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SNUFF.

Scotch, In  bladders............37
Maccabov, in jars............... 35
French Rappee, In Jars......43
Boxes.................................. 5Jn
Kegs, English...................... 4J£

SODA.

SALT.

 

 

 

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Diamond Crystal.
Cases, 24 3  lb. boxes......
Barrels, 320  lbs..............
115 2% lb bags...
lb  “ 
...
€0 5 
3010  lb  “ 
...
Butter, 56 lb  bags...........

.8  1  60
2 50 
“ 
4 00
“ 
3 75 
“ 
3 50
61
“  20141b bags............   3  50
“  280 lb  bbls...........  2  50
“  224 lb 
2  25
Worcester.
115 254-lb sacks....................84 (0
60 5-lb 
“ 
 
3  1ft
...................3 50
” 
3010 lb 
2 2 14 lb.  “ 
....................  3 30
320 lb. bbl..........................  2 P0
...........  3254
8 lb sacks... 
linen acks...............   60
Common Grades.
100 3-lb. sacks......................12 10
60 5-lb.  “ 
2  00
28 10-lb. sacks....................  1 85
56 lb. dairy In drill  bags...  30
281b.  “ 
16
Ashton.
56 lb. dairy in linen sacks..  75 
Higgins.
75 
56 lb. dairy In linen  sacks. 
Soiar Rock.
56 lb.  sacks..................
22
Common Fine.
Saginaw  ......................
Manistee.......................

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Silver................................3 65
Mono................................ 330
Savon Improved  ..............  2 50
Sunflower.........................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.

SUGAR.

Scouring.
Sapolio, kitchen, 3  doz...  2 40
hand, 3 doz......... 2 40
Below  are  given  New  York 
prices on sugars, to  which  the 
wholesale  dealer  adds  the  lo­
cal freight  from  New  York  to 
your  shipping  point,  giving 
you  credit  ontthe  invoice  for 
the  amount fof  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
Cubes  .................................5 25
Powdered  .. 
...... 7 . 5 ®
XXXX  Powdered..............  5 50
Granulated 
....................  5 00
Fine Granulated...............   5 00
Extra Fine Granulated...  5  12
Mould  A  ........ 
........  525
Diamond Confec.  A.........   5 00
Confec. Standard  A......... 4 87
No.  1  ..............................  4 75

No.  4................................   4 69
No.  5................................  4 62
No.  6  ...............................  4 56
No.  7...............   ....  
4  44
no.  8 ..........................::::  43i
No.  9................................ 4 25
No.  10 ........................... 7  4  18
No.  11................................  4  22
No.  12..............................!  4 os
No.  13................................   3 8 I
3 62
No.  14............................. 

SYRUPS.

Corn.

Barrels................................ 04
Half bbls............................. 26

Pure Cane.

TABLE  SAUCES.

Pa1* ,...................................   19
Choice..........................V.".".".  30
Lea & Perrin’s, large........4 75
small......  2 75
Halford, large.................. 3 75
small.................. 2 25
Salad Dressing, la rg e ......4 55
*' 
small...... 2 65

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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

17

TEAS.

japan—Regular.

SUN CUBED.

BASKET  PIKED.

F air............................  @17
Good..........................  @20
Choice..........................24  @26
Choicest  .................... 32  @34
Dust  ..........................10  @12
F air..........................  @17
Good..........................  @20
Choice..........................24  @26
Choicest.......................32  @34
Dust.............................10  @12
F air.............................18  @20
Choice.............  .......   @25
Choicest....................  @35
Extra choice, wire leaf  @40
Common to fall...........25  @35
Extra fine to finest__50  @65
Choicest fancy............ 75  @85
@26
Common to  fair...........23  @30
Common to fair...........23  @26
Superior to fine............ 30  @35
Common to fair........... 18 @26
Superior to  fine........... 30 @40

OOX1ON6. 
IMPERIAL.

YOUNG HYSON.

GUNPOWDER.

ENGLISH BREAKFAST.

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

TOBACCOS.

Fine Cut.

D. Scotten &  Co’s Brands.

P. Lorillard &_Co.’s Brands.
Sweet Russet................ 30 @32
Tiger..........................  
30
60
Hiawatha..................  
Cuba..........................  
32
Rocket....................... 
30
Spaulding & Merrick's  Brands.
Sterling...................... 
30
Private Brands.
Bazoo.........................  @30
Can Can.....................   @27
Nellie  Bly.....................24 @25
Uncle Ben..................... 24 @25
27
McGinty................... 
y2 bbls.........  
25
Dandy Jim ................. 
29
24
Torpedo.........  
........ 
In  drums__ 
23
Yum  Yum  ...............  
28
1892 ............................ 
23
“  drums................. 
22

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Plug.

Sorg’s Brands.

34

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

Smoking.

39
27
40
26
38

40
32
39
30

24
43
37
32
31
27

Kiln  dried........................17@18
Golden  Shower  ..................19
Huntress  ......................  
26
Meerschaum  ...................29@30
American Eagle Co.’s Brands.
Myrtle Navy........................40
Stork  ............................30@32
German...............................15
Frog..................................  33
Java, %s foil..................— 32
Banner Tobacco Co.'s Brands.
Banner.................................16
Banner Cavendish.............. 38
Gold Cut 
...........................28
Warpath..............................-4
Honey  Dew......................... 26
Gold  Block......................... 30
F. F. Adams Tobacco Co,’s 
Peerless........  .................... 26
Old  Tom..............................18
Standard..............................22
Globe Tobacco Co.’s Brands.
Handmade...........................41

Scotten’s Brands.

Brands.

Leidersdorf’s Brands.

Spaulding & Merrick.

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

VINEGAR.

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

81 for barrel.

WET  MUSTARD.
Bulk, per g a l...................
Beer mug, 2 doz In case...

Magic,........
Warner’s  ... 
Yeast Foam 
Klamond —  
Royal.........

30 
1  75

.1 0 
.1  00 
.1  00

 

WOODEN WARE.
Tubs,No. 1.................  600

Palls, No. 1,  two-hoop.. 
Bowls, 11 Inch.....................

“  No. 2......................... 5  50
“  No. 3.........................  4 50
1  30
“  No. 1,  three-hoop__  150
 
“ 
90
“ 
....................  1  25
....................  1  80
“ 
“ 
..................   2 40
...................
Baskets, market..........  35

13  “ 
15  “ 
17  “ 
19  “ 
21  “ 
shipping  bushel..  1  15
.. 1  25
full  noop 
“ 
No.2 6 25
“  No.3 7 25
“  No.l  3 75
“ 
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“ 
“ 
“ willow cl’ths, No.l  5 25
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

No.2 4 25
No.3 4 75

splint 

“ 
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INDURATED WAKE.

Double.

Butter Plates—Oval.

Palls.................................   3  15
Tubs,  No.  1............................13 50
Tubs, No. 2.........................12 00
Tubs, No. 3.........................10 50
250  1000
60 2  10
70 2 45
80 2 80
.........................  1 00  3 50
Washboards—single.

No.  1...........................  
No.  2...........................  
No. 3 ........................... 
No 
Universal...............................  2 25
No. Queen...........................2 50
Peerless Protector............... 2 40
Saginaw Globe..................   1  75
Water Witch......................  225e
  2 55
Wilson............................  
Good Luck.............................   2 7<i
Peerless..............................   2 8
HIDES  PELTS  and  FURS 
Perkins  &  Hess  pay  as  fol­
lows :
Green...........................   2@3
Part Cured........  .....  @354
Full 
@454
Dry..............................  5 @6
Kips, green  ...............   3  @  4
“  cured.................  @ 6
Calfskins,  green.......   3  @  4
cured........  6540  8
Deacon skins...............10 @25

HIDES.

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No. 2 hides 54 off.
PELTS.

WOOL.

Shearlings....................  5 @  20
Lambs 
......................25  @  60
Washed.......................12 @17
Unwashed....................8 @12
Tallow........................  4 @5
Grease  butter  ............  1 @ 2
Switches....................  i)4@ 2
Ginseng..................... 2 00@2 50
GRAINS and FEEDSTUFF8 

MISCELLANEOUS.

WHEAT.

MEAL.

48 
48

FLOUR  IN  SACKS.

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

MILLSTUFFS.

Less

Car lots  quantity

Bran.............. 815 00 
816 00
Screenings__  12 00 
12 00
17 60
Middlings......  16 00 
24 50
Mixed Feed...  23 00 
23- 00
Coarse meal  . 
22 00 
CORN.
Car  lots..................
61 
Less than  car  lots..
■  64
OATS.
Car  lots  ..............................32
Less than car lots................35
RAY.
No. 1 Timothy, car lots__11  no
No.l 
ton lots........12 50

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FISH  AND  OYSTERS.
F.  J.  Dettenthaler  quotes as 

follOW8:
FRESH  FISH.
Whltefish 
....................   @10
T rout............................  @8
Black Bass................. 
1254
Halibut..........................   @17
Ciscoes or Herring__  @4
Bluefish.........................  @10
Fresh lobster, per lb .. 
20
Cod.............................  
10
No. 1 Pickerel................  @9
Pike.  ............................  @7
Smoked White...........  @ 8
Red  Snappers............  
15
Columbia  River  Sal­
mon ......................... 
15
Mackerel....................  18@25
oysters—Cans. 
Falrhayen  Counts —   @45
F. J. D.  Selects.........
Selects..........................   @30
F. J. D.............................. 
Anchors.................
Standards................... 
OYSTERS—Bulk.
Extra Selects..per gal. 
Selects .......................
Standards...................
Counts............................ 
Scallops............ .........
Shrimps  ......................... 
Clams.....................
Oysters, per  100......... 1  2S@l  75
Clams,. 
.  75@l 00

SHELL GOODS.

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22
1 85

2 20
1 25

PROVISION S.

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§
§

7)4
554
854

PO R K   IN  B A R R ELS.

The Grand Rapids  Packing  and Provision Co 

quotes as follows:
S’688............................................................  16 0J
Extra clear pig, short cut....................... 
17
Extra clear,  heavy.....................................
Clear, fat  back...............................................17
Boston clear, short cut............  
17
Clear back, short cut........................ 7 777  17
Standard clear, short cut. best...............
Pork, links..
Bologna...... .
Liver...........
Tongue ........
Blood...........
Head cheese .
Summer........
Frankfurts...
_  
gu
Kettle  Rendered........................... 
Granger................................... ............................n
iu
Fam ily...................................... 
Compound.......................... 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7   7**
Cottolene.................................. 7 7 7 7 .............
50 lb. Tins, 54c advance. 
a
20 lb.  pails, 54c 
\ c  
10 lb.  “ 
51b.  “  %c 
31b. 
1  c 
•• 
Extra Mess, warranted 200 lbs....................   8 00
Extra Mess, Chicago packing..................  
7  75
Boneless, rump butts................................. ”  11  uo
Hams, average 20 lbs................. 
12
"13

16 lbs............................
12 to 14 lbs....................... 

smoked  meats—Canvassed or Plain.

B E E P   IN   BA RR ELS.

LA R D .

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picnic....................................................”  854
best boneless........................ 
nuz
Shoulders.......................................... ...." 7 7 7   754
Breakfast Bacon  boneless.................7 7 7 7   1054
Dried beef, ham prices..................... 
13
D R Y   SA LT  MEATS.
Long Clears, heavy................................
Briskets,  medium.........................
light..................... . . 7 7 7 7 . ............
Butts................................
d . s. Bellies....................7 7 7 7 7 ” ...............
Fat Backs....................................... 
' ‘'
pickled  pigs’  peet.
Half  barrels................................................... 
Quarter barrels 
«  
K its.................
Kits, honeycomb........................... 
Kits, premium.............................7 ........7  

3  50
.................7 7 7 7 7 .7  .7.2 00
..........................................  90
T R IP E .
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LAMP BURNERS.

 
 

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£
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75

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

No. 0 Sun  ............................... 
N0.1  “ 
 
 
N0.2  “  .............................................. 
Tubular  .....................................  ...........7. 
LAMP CHIMNEYS.  Per bOX

11   
“   

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

Pearl top. 

>< 
“ ................................. 

6 doz. In box.
No. 0 Sun................................  
j  75
no!2 
fg
First quality.
No.0 Sun,crimp  top.....................  
am
” 
No. 1  “ 
....................7 7 .......... S i?
No. 2 
“ 
11 
3 25
No. 0 Sun, crimp  top.......................................    60
Hd* 1 
2  at)
No.2 
o gX
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and  labeled....................3 70
“ 
No. 2  “ 
.................  4 70
No. 2 Hinge,  “ 
..................   4 gg
Fire Proof—Plain Top.
No. 1, Sun,  plain  bulb...................................3 -q
No- 2>  “ 
“ 
.......................... 7.7.7.4  70
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb,  per doz.......................1  25
No. 2  “ 
.......................1  50
No. 1 crimp, per doz................................77 71  35
.............................. 7 7 7 l  60
No.3 
“ 
No. 0, Tubular, cases 1 doz.  each..................   45
No. 0, 
“  2  “ 
..................   45
bbls 5  “ 
No. 0, 
..................  40
No. 0, 
bull's eye, cases 1 doz each.l  00
No. 10, Brass, 400 candle  power....................3 25
No. 9, Globe, automatic  extinguisher...........3 25
No. 0, per  gross........................................ 
23
No. 1, 
28
No. 2, 
....: ........................................  38
No. 3, 
 
75
Mammoth, per doz..................... "..................  75

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ROCHESTER STORE  LAMPS.

“ 
LAETERN  GLOBES.
“ 
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STREET LAMPS.
LAMP WICKS.
 

La Bastle.

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FRUIT JARS.

Mason—old  style.

 

 

Supplies.

Mason—one doz  In case.

Pints.................................................................... e 00
Quarts..................................................................5 50
Half  gallons  ..................................................7 06
Pints..................................................................   4 76
Q uarts...................................... 
 
Half  gallons......................................................  7 75
Dandy—glass  cover.
Pints.....................................................................8 50
Quarts..........................................  
Half  gallons...................................................... 12 00
Boyd’s extra caps................................................2 25
Rubber rings................................................. 
35
Sealing wax, red or white, 51b  packages__   254
54 Pints,  6 doz in box, per box (box 00).......   1 64
•• doz  ( b b l   35)__ ..  23
b o x   ( b o x  00) __ 1  80
54 
d o z   ( b b l  35)....
54 
26
“  
—AKRON.
s t o n s w a b b -
Butter Crocks,  1 to 6 gal.............................   06
54 gal. per doz.
60
Jugs, 54 gal., per doz............................
70
•r  1 to 4 gal., per gal..........................
07
Milk Pans, 54 gal., per dos....................
60
1  “ 
“ 
..................
72
STONEW ARE— BLACK  G LAZED.
Butter Crocks, 1  and 2 gal....................
65465
Milk Pans, 54 gal. per  doz—   ............
78

JELLY TUMBLERS—Tin Top.
24 “  
6 “  
18 “  

“   b b l ,  
“   b o x ,   “
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9 00

18

MEN  OF  MARK.

Ludwig:  Winternitz,  General  Manager 

of the  Fermentum  Company.

Ten years ago next  month  the  writer 
met a gentleman who was  introduced  to 
him as the new agent of  the  Fermentum 
Compressed  Yeast  Co.,  succeeding  the 
late P.  Spitz,  who was the pioneer  in in­
troducing compressed  yeast  to  the  gro­
cers and bakers of  this  city.  The  new­
comer was a handsome  appearing  young 
fellow,  but his  English  vocabulary  was 
so meager and his knowledge  of  Ameri­
can  methods  was  so  limited  that  even 
the most casual  observer would note the 
fact that he was sadly  hampered  at  the 
inception of  a  business  career  in  com­
petition  with  native  Americans  more 
favored in  these  respects.  Judging  by 
the rapid manner in  which he has forged 
his way to the  front,  however,  the  ap­
parent  disadvantages  under  which  he 
labored at  the  beginning  of  his  career 
served only to spur him on  to  more  en­
ergetic  endeavor,  for  in  the  short space 
of ten years he has risen from the position 
of  local agent in charge of  a  retail  dis­
tributing  point 
that  of  General 
Manager  of  the  entire  business,  with 
full control  of half  a  hundred  agencies 
in  as  many  cities  and  towns.  The  his­
tory  of  Mr.  Winternitz’  life is  best  told 
in his  own  words:

to 

in 

“It was in the city  of  Prague,  in  Bo­
hemia,  on April 29, 1854,  that  1  spoiled 
the  full dozen  and made  my  appearance 
as No.  13,  the last one among the Winter­
nitz  and  Spitz  company  of  boys  and 
girls.  My father was a celebrated school 
teacher and,  like most  all  school  teach­
ers,  very rich. 
I cannot say  much about 
my early youth.  My father  died when I 
was only  11 years old,  leaving us  a good 
honest  name  and  the  fortune  of  six 
gulden.  At the age of  13  I  started  my 
commercial career as office boy in a grain 
establishment,  remaining 
it  about 
three  years  and  attending  an  evening 
commercial  college,  with  good  results.
I remember that I did not then  have two 
kinds of pie daily on  my  bill  of  fare— 
was glad  to  get  meat  once  or  twice  a 
week.  This I remark to  show  the  com­
parison  between the nourishment  of  the 
young American  and that of  the average 
foreign  youth.  At  ‘sweet  sixteen’  1 
went into the  cotton  and  yarn  business 
of Ignatz Gerstel,  of Prague,  where  1 re­
mained for about  fifteen  years.  Started 
as clerk  and  wound  up  as  head  book­
keeper  and  traveling  representative  of 
the house.  My dear  mother stayed with 
me as long as she lived.  First  she  took 
care of me and then I tried tp  make  her 
old age as happy as  possible.  She  died 
in 1883.

“In 1884 I gave  up  my  good  position 
in  Prague  and 
followed  a  magnet 
which drew me  to  America.  Very  few 
knew the real  cause  of  my  leaving  Eu­
rope.  My boss was one of  them,  and,  as 
he was the  only one  who knew  my  finan­
cial condition,  be  proposed  to  give  me 
600 gulden to  take  with  me.  He  said, 
‘You may need  that money. 
If  you can, 
if  you  can’t,  it 
pay it back in  a  year; 
won’t  be  much  of  a  loss  to me. 
I  am 
willing to help you any  time.’

“On my way  to  America  I  learned  a 
little English,  and the moment 1  stepped 
on Uncle Sam’s ground  I  had  to  under­
go the first examination.  1 had  to make 
a custom house  affidavit  and  the  officer 
asked me  to swear  to  it.  So  I  uttered 
the worst oath  I  had  ever  heard.  The 
crowd  burst  out  laughing,  and  an  old

TUB  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

lady  said, 
‘Poor  greenhorn!  He  did 
mean no harm.  He  will be all  right in a 
few years from  now.’ 
I  am  still  hunt­
ing after  that old  lady.  Want to ask her 
if I am  now  ‘all right.’

“A few days  after  that  I  visited  my 
friends at Chicago and  was  the  happiest 
man  in  the world—I  was near my  sweet­
heart.  But,  when  I asked the old  folks, 
pa and in a both  wanted to  know how the 
green cousin  would  make an  honest  dol­
lar.  Well,  for a few  days  I  worked  in 
Chicago  and  then  my  half  brother  in 
Brand Rapids,  Mr.  Spitz,  got sick  and  I 
had to go there.  For a while 1  felt bind 
of lost,  but that feeling did not last long, 
as several Grand Rapids  friends came to 
my assistance. 
It seemed  rather strange 
to me when the late  Moses May  told  me 
to take a broom and  sweep my  office and 
clean  my  windows.

“1  will never forget those  first impres­
sions of American  life.  Very soon  1 got 
acquainted  with  the  mode  of  ‘treating’

remarkable  success he  has  achieved  in 
the  course  of  a  decade.  Generous  to  a 
fault,  loyal  to  friends  and  employers, 
persistent in effort,  happy in  disposition, 
prosperous in  business,  Mr.  Winternitz 
has  every  reason  to  regard  his  future 
with  complacency,  as it is pregnant with 
even  greater achievements,  so far  as  be 
is concerned,  than the  past has been.

The quack doctor  says:  “No cure;  no 
pay.” .  The quack contingent fee lawyer, 
who hunts customers  instead  of  having 
them come to him,  is  of  a  lower  grade 
than the  quack  doctor.  He  says:  “No 
verdict;  no fee.”

agent,  and in June,  1894,  I  received  my 
present position.

“I  paid  my  old  employer  in  Prague 
the 600 gulden  before  the  first  year  ex­
pired,  and own  to-day  in  Grand  Rapids 
some  property. 
I  hold  a  membership 
there  in  several  societies.  Have  been 
an officer in Doric  Lodge,  F.  &  A.  Ma­
sons.  1 shall  never  forget  what  Grand 
Rapids  was to iue,  and may  yet  make  it 
my resting place.”

T h e   T r a d e s m a n   can  add little to Mr. 
Winternitz’  modest recital  of  the  events 
of  his own  life  except  to  say  that  his 
career in  this  country  furnishes  an  ad­
mirable example of  the  effectiveness  of 
honesty of purpose and constant  applica­
tion  to  business,  properly  combined. 
Mr.  Winternitz has  a  faculty of  making 
friends  wherever  he  goes  and  to  this 
faculty is due,  in  no  small  degree,  the

Patronize  Home  Industry.

Ask  Your Jobber for

G e n u in e

Greek  Currants

BEST  QUALITY  GUARANTEED.

Cleaned,  Stemless. 

Extra  Fine,

IMPORTED  AND  CLEANED  ONLY  HY

«PETER  SCHUIT,  Manager,)

II

Grand Hapids,  JMich,

t  oi  bale  by  Hawkins tfo Co., Gluey <fe Judson Grocer Co., 

M.  Clark Grocery  Co.,  Mussel man  Grocer Co.

Send  in  your  order  and  make  a  leader of these goods. 
If  your  jobber  does 
They are bound to make  you  friends. 
not handle these currants, send your order direct to  us and  we 
will see that you  are supplied and  at right prices.

SIEGEL’S

50  and  52  flonroe  St.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH. 
Manufacturers  and  Importers  of

CLOAKS,  SUITS.  TLA  GOWNS, 

ILL

To give  the  benefit  to  low
priceson  millinery, Lwe  will 
save  the  expense  of travel-
era.  Write for  prices. 

SPECIAL  W H O L E SA L E   PRICES  to 

M ILLINERS.

it  pretty 

and  spent  more  money  than  1  earned 
introducing  myself  and  Fermentum  to 
the  trade.  New  opposition  came  into 
market and  that was life to trade.  They 
made 
lively  for  me,  but  1 
learned  to rise  with  the  sun  and  some­
times I beat the sun.  How  often  did  I 
drive up and down  Canal  street  at  4:30 
of a winter’s morning,  waiting  till  Tom 
Wasson opened his bakery,  so  as  to  be 
the first one to sell  him his half pound of 
Fermentum,  taking a cup  of  coffee with 
him  for  early  breakfast!  With  the  in­
crease of our yeast business  the  popula­
tion  of  Grand  Rapids 
increased,  also, 
and  we put out one wagon  after another, 
until,  at this  time,  we have  four.  Well 
do I remember  when  E.  Bleyer,  of  the 
Paul Bechtner Vinegar Co.,  came  to  me 
and  induced  me  to  sell  his  vinegar.  1 
started at  it  and  the  second  and  third 
season many carloads of Star  brand vine­
gar did  1  sell.  Then  came  pickle  and 
mustard  agencies,  and  finally  I  was 
lucky enough  to get the  agency  for  the 
Woolson  Spice  Co.’s  Lion  coffee,  and 
that 1 made a success for  them  in Grand 
Rapids is a certain  fact.

“But all this  was not to  be credited to 
me alone,  for in  April,  1885,  1  married 
my dear  Clara  (born  Kadish).  She  as­
sisted me a  great  deal  in  my  business.
I  used to call her my  ‘living dictionary,’ 
for  when  I  got  stuck  and  my  Dutch 
tongue wouldn’t twist in the  right direc­
tion, she would help me out.

“The Fermentum Company  called  me 
to Chicago  in  1892  to  act  as  traveling I

T H E   M IC H IG A N   T R A D B 8 M A JN .

1 »

have little weight;  he has  lost the confi­
dence of  the  people  and  can  never  re­
gain  it.  His  utterances  on  Labor  Day 
savored  more of the defeated  and  disap­
pointed  politician  than  of  the  business 
man  and statesman,  while his  references 
to his successful  rival  for  the  guberna­
torial nomination showed  thenarrowness 
of  his  mind.  His  adoption  by 
the 
trades  unions  will  not  help  him,  but 
will  most  certainly 
injure  the  “cause” 
of labor.

The remarks  of  “Hon.”  W.  C.  Pome­
roy  are  unworthy  of  notice  except  on 
one or two  points,  and on these  there  is 
a very good  understanding on the  part of 
all  who have followed the  course  of  or­
ganized 
labor.  Mr.  Pomeroy  said  the 
watchword  of  trade  unionism  is  "All 
must be free,”  and  that  the  mission  of 
organized  labor  was  “to  secure  equal 
rights  to  all  and  special  privileges  to 
none.”  But the unions  have  served  no­
tice on  all  laboring  men that they can  be 
free  only  on  condition  of  submitting 
themselves,  body and soul,  to the  tyran­
nical domination of the  unions,  and  that 
equal  rights  can  be  secured  only  upon 
the  terms  subscribed  by  unionism.  A 
non-union  laborer has no rights—he  is  an 
outlaw in the eyes of the unionist.  It is not 
a question  of  right  between  laborer and 
employer,  but  between  the  unionist and 
his  employer.  Mr.  Pomeroy’s  plati­
tudes about the  rights  of  labor  have  a 
very  narrow  and  sinister  significance; I 
but he is  a  demagogue  and  an  agitator 
and  naturally  finds  little  occasion  for 
breadth or liberality of view, even  if Tie 
were capable of exercising them.

Established  1868.

. 

,  _ 

Carpet  Linings,

H  M.  Reynolds  &  Son.
Building Papers,
. 
Asphalt  Ready  Roofing,
_  _ 
Roofing and Paving Pitch,
_ 
Car, Bridge and Roof Paints.  Oils.

,,  .. 
P r a c tic a l  R o o fers

Tarred Felt, Mineral Wool.

Elastic  Roofing Cement.

Asphalt Roof Paints,

Asbestos  Sheathing.

Resin, Coal Tar.

liomposition  and  Gravel,
In  Felt, 
Cor.  Louis and  Carnpau Sts., Grand  Rapids

9 Q l  HEADACHE 
POWDERS

F 3   FT C " 
A 
Pay the best profit.  Order from your jobber

s.  c. w.

The  Leading  Nickle  Cigar 
Made in this Market.

The Only Brand in the State (outside of Detroit)

Made by Improved  Machinery.

This  Cigar  Is  made  with  Long  Mixed 

Filler,  Single  Connecticut  Binder 

and  Sumatra  Wrapper.
Sold at $3§ per  1,000

By! the  Manufacturer.

G.  J,  JotlfiSOD,

347 South Division St. 

Grand  Rapids,

n id i.

Telephone  1205

The  "safety" Slone  Pipe  c o n   and  Homer
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 
One  dealer 

to the trade.
towns  of  1.000  or 
less.
Write  for  prices 
to I.. I). .Sanborn, 
Grand  Rapids, 

Mich.,

Foie Agent for this State- 

Manufacturer, tfuiney, 111.

CHICAGO

July 1, 1894.
AND  WEST  MICHIGAN  B’T. 
GOING  TO  CHICAGO.

TO  AND  FROM   M U SK BSO N .

CHICAGO  VIA  ST  JO B   AND  STEA M ER.

RETURNING  FROM  CHICAGO.

Lv. G’d Rapids............ 7:25am  1:25pm *11:30pm
Ar. Chicago.................  1:25pm  6:50pm  *6:45am
Lv.  Chicago.................. 8:15am  5:00pm *11:45pm
Ar. G’d Rapids............. 3:05pm  10:35pm  *6:25am
Lv- Grand  Rapids..................... 1:25pm **6:30pm
Ar. Chicago................................8:00pm  2:00am
Lv. Chicago 9:30am, ar Grand Rapids  5:25  pm
Lv. Grand Rapids.......   7:25am  1:25pm  5:30pm
Ar. Grand R.  9:15am  3 :05pm  5:25pm  10:35pm
7:30am  5:45pm  11:15pm
Lv. Grand  Rapids .. 
Ar.  Manistee...........  12:20pm  10:35pm 
....
Ar.TraverseCity.... 
il:20am  11 :l„pm  4 :55am
7:27am
1:00pm  
Ar. Charlevoix........ 
7:55am
Ar.  Petoskey......... 
1:25pm  
Ar. Bay View..........  
.  8:00am
I:i0pm 
Local  train  making  all  stops  leaves  Grand 
Rapids *7:45am.  Trains  arrive  from  north  at 
6:00am, 11:50am,  1 x0 pm and *10:00pm.
P A R L O R   AND  B LEEPIN G   CABS.

TR A V ER SE  C ITY ,  CH A RLEV O IX   AND  FB TO SK EY .

 
 

Parlor cars leave for Chicago 7:25am  and  1:25 
pm.  For north 7 ;30am and 5:45pm.  Arrives from 
Chicago 3:05pm and 10:3opm.  From north 11:50 
pm and 1:00pm.  Sleeping cars leave for Chicago 
11:30pm.  For north 11:15pm.  Arrive from Chi­
cago 6 ;25.  Erom north 6 xO.
•Every day.  »»Except Saturday.  Others wee 
days only.
DETROIT,

June 24,  1894
LANSING 4k  NORTHERN  R.  R.
GOING TO  DETROIT.

TO  AND  PROM   SAGINAW ,  ALMA  AND  ST.  LOUIS

RETURNING  FROM  DETROIT.

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

THROUGH  CAR  SERVICE.

TO  LOW ELL  VIA  LO W ELL  *   HASTINGS  R .  It

325pm
4 27pm
5 20pm 
5 05pm 
8 OOprn 
S 37 pm
7 05pm
8 50pm
8 25pm
9 25pm

11 00pm
12 35am 
1 25am 
3 10am
6 40am
7 15am 
5 4' am 
7 30am 
537am 
7 00am

WAUKEE  Railway.
EASTW ARD.

Trains  week days only.
GEO. DeHAVEN, Gen.  Pass’r Ag’t.
■ ETROIT,  GRAND  HAVEN  &  MIL­
Trains Leave 
tNo.  14
(•No.  161+JNO.  18¡»No.
G’d  Rapids,  Lv 1  6 45am
10 20am
Ionia...........Ar:  7 40am
11 25am
St.  Johns  ...Ar  8 25am
12 17pm 
1 20pm
Owossd.........Ar]  9 00am
E. Saginaw.  Ar  10 50am
3 45pm
Bay City......Ar  11 32am
4 35pm 
F lin t........... Ar  10 05am
345pm
Pt.  Huron.. .Ar  1205pm
5 50pm 
Pontiac....... Ar  10 53am
305pm 
Detroit...  .  .Ar 111 50am
4 05pm
For  Grand Haven  and Intermediate
Points  ..................................  ...... t7:35 a. m.
For Grand Haven and  Muskegon......+1:00 p. m.
.......+4.55p.m.
*7:30 p.  m.
For  Grand  Haven  and  Milwaukee,+10:05 p. m. 
For Grand Haven  (Sunday only)........8:00 a. m.
tDaily except  Sunday. 
Trains  arrive  from  the  east,  6:35  a.m.,  12:60 
p.m.  4:35 p. m. and 10:00 p. m.
Trains  arrive from  the  west, 6:40  a.  m., 10:10 
a. m., 3:15 p. m. and  10:50  p.  m.  Sunday,  only, 
8:00 a. m.
Eastward—No. 14  has  Wagner  Parlcr  Buffet 
car.  No. 18 Parlor Car.  No. 82 Wagner  Sleeper.
Westward— No. 11  Parlor Car.  No. 15 Wagner 
Parlor Buffet car.  No. 81 Wagner Sleeper. 
____________ .Tab, C a m p b e l l .  City T'cket Agent.

“ 
“  Chicago and Milwau­

kee,  Wis 

W ESTW A R D .

»Daily.

“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

LABOR  DAY  ORATORY.

is 

It 

a n d   M isleading  S tatem en ts.

B oth  S p eak ers  In dulge  in  D em agogic 
The  actress  of  Mayor  Pingree  on 
Labor Day at Comstock  Park,  while few 
who know anything of  his peculiar tem­
perament  will be surprised  at  it,  is  yet 
unworthy  of  the  man  and  the  exalted 
position  he  occupies  as  chief  executive 
of  the  first  city  of  the  State.  A  man 
less  prominent,  filling a humbler station 
in  life,  may  say  foolish  things  with 
more or  less  impunity,  but  the  impor- 
. tance attached to a man’s  word  is  in  di­
rect  ratio  to  the  prominence  of  the 
position  he  occupies,  and  he  should  be 
careful  of  his  utterances  accordingly. 
Mr.  Pingree has  lived in  the  public  eye 
for many years;  he has  been  known  as a 
successful,  honorable  business  man,  a 
man  of  great  shrewdness  but  equal 
probity.  The people of the  City  of  De­
troit have several  times  chosen  him  as 
their chief executive,  and he has enjoyed 
the confidence of a large number  of  citi 
zens,  irrespective  of  party  affiliations 
This,  apparently,  speaks  well  for  hi 
judgment and sound  business sense.  A 
the champion of  the  rights  of  the  citi 
zens against corporations and monopolies 
his fame has passed  beyond  the  bound: 
of  his  own  State  and  has  become  na 
tional.  That  he 
is  ambitious  of  still 
greater  fame,  of  further  honors,  is  no 
crime. 
the  privilege  of  every 
American citizen to  aspire  to  even  the 
highest office,  and,  if Mr.  Pingree  could 
reach the topmost pinnacle of  his  ambi 
tion,  no fault  would  be found  with  him 
That he has not taken  another  step  up­
ward  towards  the  goal  of  his  desires, 
that he may not be the  next Governor of 
Michigan,  is not his fault,  but  the  fault 
of those who did the  nominating  of  the 
candidates.  For years it has been known 
that  this  was  his  ambition,  and  there 
were many who believed  he  would  make 
an  ideal governor.  To-day it is  hard  to 
find  a  man  who  desires to see  Mr.  Pin­
gree presiding in  the  executive  chair  at 
Lansing,  and the reasons  lor  the  change 
in  sentiment are not  far  to  seek.  Mr. 
Pingree’s  course in connection  with  the 
recent labor  troubles  in  Chicago  stamps 
him  as  a  demagogue  of  the  most  ad­
vanced  type,  and the confidence of sober- 
minded  men in his ability  to conduct the 
affairs of a  great  State  impartially  was 
shaken.  There are few  who  do  not  be­
lieve  that  what  he  said  and  did  on  the 
occasion referred  to  was  dictated  by  a 
desire to stand  well  with  organized  la­
bor,  but,  so far from  helping him,  it  will 
be  the  chief  factor  in  retiring  him  to 
private  life.  Many  a  better  man  than 
Mr.  Pingree  has made  the  same  mistake 
and he cannot  escape  the  consequences 
of his foolishness and  rashness.  Organ­
ized labor is not  the people,  as  he  ought 
to  know; 
is  not  even  a  known 
quantity in  eleation,  and  any  man  who 
stultifies  himself  in  order  to  gain  the 
goodwill of  a  small portion  of  the  com­
munity  will  naturally  be  regarded  with 
suspicion. 
Such  is  the  attitude  of  the 
people  toward  Mr.  Pingree.  His  ad­
vocacy 
time 
when  thousands  were  in  armed  resist­
ance  to  the  Government  of  the  United 
States  could  be  for  no  other  reason 
than  to obtain  favor with  the unions. 
If 
it were not,  then  its  utter  senselessness 
is  incomprehensible coming from  a  man 
possessing Mr.  Pingree’s sound  business 
sense and  undoubted patriotism.  There­
fore, what Mr.  Pingree says can hereafter

arbitration  at  a 

of 

it 

Use Tradesman Coupon Books.

WALTER BAKER & GO,

The  Largest 
M anufacturers of

COCOA and 

CHOCOLATE

IN  TH IS COUNTRY,

have  received  from  the 
Judges of the

W o rld ’s 
C olum bian  
E xposition
The  Highest Awards
on  eaeh  of  the  following  articles, 
namely :
BREAKFAST  COCOA,
P R E M IU M   NO.  I  CHOCOLATE, 
CERM AN  SW EET  CHO CO LATE, 
VA N IL L A   CHOCOLATE,
COCOA  BUTTER,

(Medals and  Diplomas)

For “ purity of material,” “ excellent 
flavor,”  and  “uniform  even  composi­
tion.”
80LD  BY  CROCER8  EVERYWHERE.
W a l te r  Baker  &  Co.,

DORCHESTER,  M ASS.

i  X  Fuel  Go.,

Correspondence  solieited  with  outside 

dealers.

COAL,  COKE  and  WOOD,

65  Monroe  ht.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

D A N D R U FF  CURED.

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

NO  CURE. 
NO  RAY. 
1 wlil take Contract* to grow hair on ths head 
or face with those who can  call  at  my office or 
at  the office of my agents, provided  the head ia 
not  glossy, or the pores of the scalp not closed. 
Where  the  head  is  shiny or  the  pores  closed, 
there is no cure.  Call and  be examined  free of 
charge.  If you cannot  call, write to me.  State 
tho exact  condition of the scalp and your occu­
PROF.  G.  BIRKHOLZ,
pation. 
ion Mascaio Temple, Chicago
M ic h ig a n  (Te n t r a i

“ The Niagara Falls Route.’*

(Taking effect  Sunday,  May 27,1894.) 

•Daily.  All others daily, except Sunday.

Arrive. 
Depart
10 30p m ...........Detroit  Express........... 7 00am
»Atlantic and Pacific......II  20 p m
5 30 a m  
1  50 p m ....... New York Express.........   0 00 pm
Sleeping cars run on Atlantic  and  Pacific  ex 
press trains to and from Detroit.
Parlor  cars  leave  for  Detroit at  7:00am;  re 
turning, leave Detroit 4:35 pm,arriving at Grand 
Rapids 10:20 p m.
Direct  communication  made  at  Detroit with 
ail through  trains erst  over the  Michigan Cen 
tral Railroad (Canada Southern Division.)
A. ALMquisT, Ticket Agent, 
Unlen PassengerStation.

G r a n d   R a p i d s   S t  I n d i a n a

TRAINS  GOINS  NORTH.

N o rth

L eav e go to  
F or C adillac & S ag in aw ........................................... 7 :00 a.  m .
F o r  M ackinaw .............................................................8:00 a.  in .
F or T ra v erse C ity a n d  S a g in a w ............................ 4:45 p. m .
F o r  M ackinaw ...........................................................10:35 p   m .
L eave g o in g  
F o r  C in c in n a ti............................................................ 7:00a .m .
F o r  K ala m azo o  a n d   C h ic ag o ................................2:30 p. m.
F o r  F o rt W ay n e a n d   th e   B a st............................3:80 p .m .
F o r C in c in n a ti...................................................... *5:40 p.  . m
F o r  K alam azoo an d  C h ic ag o ............................*11:40  p. m

TRAINS  GOING  SOUTH.

S outh.

Chicago v ia G.  R.  St I. R. R.

L y G ran d  R a p id s............. 7:00 a m   2:30 p m   *11:40 p m
A rr  C h ic ag o ...................... 2:00 p m   0:00 p m  
7:10 a m
C ar an d  coach.

2:30 p   m   tr a in   h a s th ro u g h   W a g n er  B uffet  P a rlo r 

11:30 p m
6:55 a  m

3 :3 0 p m  
9:15 p  m  

6:60  a m  
2 :00 p m 

11:40  p m  tr a in  d a ily ,  th ro u g h   W ag n er S leeping C ar 

a n d  C oach.
L y  C hicago 
A rr G rand R apids 
3 30  p  m  h a s   th ro u g h   W a g n e r  B uffet  P a rlo r  C ar. 
11:30 p m   tr a in  d aily , th ro u g h   W a g n e r  S leep in g   C ar.

F o r M uskegon—L eave. 

F rom  M uskegon—A rriv e

Muskegon, Grand R a p i d s  & Indiana.
8:25 a  m
7:15  a  m 
1 :0 0 p m  
1:15pm
*:40  p m  
8:45 p m
O. L. LOCKWOOD*

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ENGRAVING PHOTO

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HALF-TONE
Buildings,  Portraits,  Cards  and  Stationery 

Headings, Maps, Plans  and  Patented 
Articles.
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Grand Rapids, Mich.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

GOTHAM GOSSIP.

News  from  the  Metropolis— Index  of 

the  Markets.

S p ecia l C o rre sp o n d en ce

Nkw  York,  Sept.  8—Trade conditions, 
so  far  as  the  grocery  business  is  con­
cerned,  are still distinctly  favorable and 
the doors of our jobbing houses present a 
very  animated  appearance—animated, 
that is,  as compared  with six weeks  ago, 
hut still with  rather more than  standing 
room left for future  comers.  Prices  are 
steady  and  there  seems  to  be  no  de­
cline.  The  crop  of  apples  is assuredly 
short;  and,  whereas orders for future de­
livery  were taken some  time ago at $1.90 
for  gallons,  they  are  to-day  steady  at 
$2.40 or even more.
The  scorched  goods  that  have  been 
taken from the store of R.  C.  Williams & 
Co.  are  being  sold  at  auction,  and  the 
amount  of  canned  goods will  fill a long 
felt  want in certain portions of this town, 
but the country  at  large  will  not  suffer 
from the effects of a “Great Fire Sale!”
The John Macaulay  Company has been 
incorporated  with  a  capital  stock  of 
$10,000 to retail groceries,  and  will make 
another addition  to  the  long list  of  our 
first-class establishments.
Saul  Frank,  of  Gobleville,  Mich.,  has 
been here this  week.  He is  well known 
in  the county  he  hails from,  and  around 
Kalamazoo.  He  has  purchased  a  stock 
of  clothing that  will  doubtless  “startle 
the natives.”
A big strike is on here  now,  but,  luck­
ily,  the peace of the country is not likely 
to be disturbed,  nor troops called out.  It 
relates  to  the  tailoring  trade,  and  a 
sense of fair play  hopes  they  will  win. 
They  seem  to  want a  day’s work and  a 
da>’s pay.  So far they have had to make 
so many garments to make a day’s  work, 
anu frequently  the number  was  enough 
to take two or three days.
The drouth in this section remains  un­
broken.  Rain has fallen upon unj ust Chi­
cago  while  just  New  York  is  literally 
dry as a bone.
Foreign green fruit is about at a stand­
still, although  there  might  be  a  worse 
trade in  lemons.  Bananas, oranges and all 
the rest are suffering from want of atten­
tion.  Lemons are worth  from  $4  down 
to $2 or even less.  Oranges are quotable 
at trom $3@4.50.
The coffee  market  is  dull,  and  prices 
are somewhat  unsettled.  Nominal  quo­
tation for No.  7 Rio is 15)£c.
Refined  sugar  is  moving  very  slowly 
at the moment,  and  holders  and  buyers 
are both in a  waiting mood.  Granulated,, 
4 13-16@5c.
Rice is in a steady position and  quota­
tions are firmly  held.
Spices remain in  about the usual  posi­
tion and,  while prices are not any higher, 
there is more firmness and a  feeling that 
after awhile  “something may happen.”
Canned  goods  are  selling  moderately 
and  brokers  are  having  no  speeial  de­
mand.  Lima  beans  have  advanced 
slightly,  but,  with  this  exception,  there 
is no change. 
It might be supposed that 
with  the  prevailing  drouth  the  market 
for corn,  tomatoes  and  other vegetables 
which promise  short  pack  would  show 
some activity, but  such is  not  the  case
Dried  fruits are dull and  cheap.  New 
apples are quotable  at I0@ llc,  but  this 
is hardly a fair criterion.
Green fruits are in  good  supply,  save 
apples of best sorts,  which are  decidedly 
too  scarce.  Yet  even  they  are  cheap 
enough,  as we can  hardly  find  any  one 
quoting  more  than  $2  per  bbl.  Pears, 
Bartletts, $1.50@$2; Sickles,  $I.50@2.75; 
peaches, 35@80c  per basket.
The butter market is  in  almost exactly 
the same position as last  week  and quo­
tations are practically  unchanged.  Best 
creamery of  Western  and  Pennsylvania 
and State make it  worth  24c,  and  from 
this the range is  down  to  16c.  Matters 
may improve,  as  people  are  coming  to 
town  in  great  numbers  now,  but  we 
doubt if “forty cent  butter” is  seen  very 
soon again.
Cheese is duller and prices have  taken 
a fractional fall.  For fancy  full  cream, 
small size,  lOJic is paid,  but this  is  ex­
treme.
Eggs are doing better and,  as  the qual­
ity of arrivals improves,  the demand also 
increases,  with a satisfactory rise in quor |

latious.  For fresh  Michigan,  17>£c  has 
been  the  standard  quotation  for  a  few 
days,  while for near-by 20c is  the  figure 
at the moment.
The week closes in a  hopeful  manner, 
although there is a feeling of disappoint­
ment,  after all,  that  Congress  adjourned 
with so little actually accomplished.  But 
some people are  never  satisfied,  and  we 
ought to give thanks that it adjourned at 
all. 

J ay.

RETAIL  GROCERS.

Unimportant  Meeting  of  the  Associa­
tion--Visit to the Munson Wineyard.
The  regular  meeting  of  the  Grand 
Rapids  Retail  Grocers’" Association was 
held  at  Elk’s  Hall,  Monday  evening, 
Sept. 3,  President White in the chair.
Regular  reports  were  received  from 
the several committees,  when  President 
White announced  the  standing  commit­
tees for the ensuing year, as follows:  -
Executive—B.  S.  Harris, D.  Viergever, 
John  H.  Goss,  K.  C. Jenkins,  John Ley.
Trade 
Interests—J.  Geo.  Lehman, 
Julius  J.  Wagner,  Henry  J.  Vinke- 
mulder.
in­
President  White  then  read  his 
augural  address, as  follows:
Since  the  organization  of  the  Retail 
Grocers’ Association, I have felt a special 
interest  in  its  prosperity. 
It  has  not 
been as great a  success  as  it  might  be, 
but  it  has  been  an undoubted  success. 
There is not a groceryman in Grand Rap­
ids—whether  a  member of  the  Associa­
tion or not—who has not felt the good ef­
fects of the  Association.  One great  rea­
son  why  we  have  not  reaped  better  re­
sults has been on  account  of  a  lack  of 
interest on the part  of some of our mem­
bers. 
It may  be  that many  of  our  gro- 
cerymen  think that  because  they do  not 
do  a  large  business  they have  no great 
influence.  This is  a mistaken  idea,  for, 
however small a groceryman’s trade may 
be,  his influence will  count when  united 
with  the  remainder  of the trade;  other­
wise he may be a thorn in the side of the 
trade and a  detriment  to  his  own  pros­
perity.  United,  we stand; large or small 
we are a power;  divided,  we fall.
I  would  especially  exhort  every  gro­
ceryman to  urge his  neighbor  to  attend 
It  may  require  some 
every  meeting. 
self-denial,  but if  we make a  special  ef­
fort  during  the coming  year we shall be 
amply  repaid 
time  and 
trouble.
A retired President  of this Association 
urged that there should not be a uniform 
price established on  any  commodity  ex­
cept  sugar.  There  is  a  good  deal  of 
wisdom in his advice,  although it  would 
be wise at the present time to go slow on 
sugar,  as the times  demand it.  We han­
dle staple goods—the hardest thing in the 
world on which to  get a  living margin— 
and for which  reason  we  should  get  as 
close to cash as possible.  If we have one 
object in view—to get a living margin on 
sugar as soon as discretion will allow it— 
a large number of other articles will reg­
ulate themselves. 
I  am not in  favor  of 
touching any other article now but sugar; 
but I am in favor  of taking  the  sense  of 
the  meeting  from time  to time as to-the 
price at which the members are selling  a 
given  article—eggs,  butter, 
lard,  etc. 
This,  to  my  mind,  will do more to keep 
the price of many  articles  uniform  than 
anything else.
There have been a number of questions 
brought up at times  which have been al­
lowed to die a natural death,  such as  the 
garnishee  law  and  some  others,  which, 
during the coming year,  we  ought to stir 
up.  The question box ought  to  be  used 
more.  Then,  too,  we  ought to  make  an 
effort  to  invite  representatives  of  the 
jobbing trade to  give us valuable advice, 
which will insure a good attendance.  Let 
us  not  rest  on  our  oars,  and  leave no 
stone unturned to make  a success of  our 
Association.
J.  Geo.  Lehman  moved that the  meet­
ings  be  called  to  order  promptly  at  8 
o’clock hereafter.  Adopted.
There being  no  further  business,  the 
meeting adjourned.

for  all  our 

GROCERS  IN  A  GRAPERY.

Wednesday  afternoon 

forty  grocers 
boarded carryalls at the  corner of  Canal 
and  East  Bridge  streets  and  proceeded.

in  a  body  to  the  vineyard  of  Wm. 
Munson,  about three  miles north  of  the 
city.  The party were cordially welcomed 
by  Mr.  Munson  and  his  son,  by  whom 
the grocers  were  furnished  baskets  and 
invited  to  eat  and  pick  all  the  grapes 
they  could  carry  home—an  invitation 
they were not at all  backward in accept­
ing.  The party then gathered in the pack­
ing bouse,  where President White  called 
the  meeting  to  order  and 
invited  Mr. 
Munson  to  deliver  an  address.  Mr. 
Munson spoke substantially as follows:

Within  the  past  ten  days  there  has 
been sold  upon  the  Grand  Rapids  mar­
ket over 100,000 bushels of  peaches,  be­
sides several hundred bushels  of  plums, 
pears and apples.  The fruit  business in 
this vicinity is rapidly increasing  in vol­
ume,  and,  unless  our  fruit  gets  some 
great set back,  the amount raised will  be 
doubled in less than three years.  Nearly 
all of the fruit men  are  enlarging  their 
orchards and vineyards  every  year.  By 
judicious  selection  of  varieties,  better 
pruning and right cultivation,  with more 
improved machinery,  our fruit is rapidly 
and yearly improving in  quality.  There 
is also considerable improvement  in  the 
way of systematic handling,  the  growers 
mostly using a uniform package and bet­
ter  methods  of  packing.  The  prices 
have  also  changed  to  a  great  extent. 
Compared with the  price  of  grapes  ten 
years ago, the present value of  grapes  is 
exceedingly  low.  The season of  1885  I 
sold my entire crop of grapes  to Herrick 
& Randall,  delivering them at their store 
at the (ollowing rates:  Wordens, 8 cents 
per pound;  Brightons,  10  cents;  Dela­
wares,  10  cents;  Concords,  4  cents. 
They were delivered in  market  baskets, 
which  were  returned,  and  we  did  not 
have  to  go  down  in  the  night,  either. 
Now  we put the grapes up in  small  bas­
kets,  which go with  the  fruit,  and  have 
to get to market  before  daylight in order 
to  sell  them,  while  we  average  the 
princely sum of 1% cents per pound.
“Ten  years  ago  nearly  all  our  fruit 
was  consigned  to  commission  men  of 
outside  cities,  but  now  almost  all  of 
the  fruit  is  sold  on  the  market  here 
for  cash.  Our  local  commission  men 
have  become  fruit  brokers.  The  num­
ber  of  outside  buyers 
is  becoming 
greater  every  year,  as  they are learning 
where  they can be sure of always finding 
a full assortment of fruit and vegetables. 
Fruit is no longer a luxury  but an every­
day  food,  for  consumers  are  becoming 
aware of the healthy effect  of  fruit  and 
that it is  cheaper  than  paying  doctor’s 
bills.
“Our  city  is  justly  celebrated  for  its 
furniture, yet  many  more  people in this 
vicinity  are  engaged 
in  raising  and 
dealing in  fruit  than  in  manufacturing 
furniture.  Very few of the business men 
of  our  city,  except  the  fruit  dealers, 
realize the  importance  of  the  fruit  in­
dustry. 
It would, 1 think,  be  good  pol­
icy for the Board of Trade to do more  to 
encourage the fruit  interests,  by  adver­
tising, etc.,  and our city should also lend 
a  helping  hand  by  providing  better 
market accommodations  for  both  buyer 
and seller.  Fruit dealers  are  like  other 
people—they spend  their  money  in  the 
town where they get it.
“You grocerymen  think that you  have 
to  get  up  early  to  be  on  the  market  at 
5  o’clock,  but  with  your  present  mar­
ket  arrangements, 
two-thirds  of  our 
growers  start  for 
the  market  at  1 
o’clock,  and  many  of  the  teams  are 
there  before  2 a. m.  The  seller likes to 
get  as  near  as  possible  the  same  posi­
tion every morning in order that  he may 
be found by the same  buyers  each  day; 
if  be  is  late  he  has  to  take his  chances 
on  some  side  street  and 
thus  both 
buyer 
seller  are  discommoded. 
The  fruit  grower  would  be  perfectly 
willing  to  pay  for  better  accommoda­
tions if  he  could  get  them.”
Hon.  Ghas.  W.  Garfield,  who  accom­
panied  the  party  by 
invitation,  was 
called upon  for  remarks  and  responded 
in his  usually  happy  manner,  warning 
the  grocers  that  Mr.  Munson’s  success 
as  a  grape  grower  was  not  due  to  ac­
cident,  circumstance  or  environment, 
but to long years of  experience  and  ex­
perimentation, 
failure. 
He  impored  the  grocers  to  use their In­
fluence  to  get  the  city  to  establish  a

coupled  with 

and 

to  find  places 

permanent  market,  so  that  fruit  and 
vegetable growers,  will  not  be compelled 
to  get  up  directly  after  midnight 
in 
order 
to  stand  their 
wagons.  Mr.  Garfield’s  remarks  were 
well  received  and  secured  for  him  a 
hearty vote of thanks.
Brief addresses were  made  by  Presi­
dent White,  A.  J.  Elliott,  B.  S.  Harris, 
M.  C.  Goossen  and others,  when a  stand­
ing  vote  of  thanks  and  three  cheers 
were  accorded  Mr.  Munson,  and  the 
party  embarked 
in  their  conveyances 
for  home.

Who  Tells  the  Truth?

My attention has been called to  a  boy­
cotting circular,  issued  by  Cigarmakers’ 
Union  No.  46,  asserting that I hire men 
—claiming to be union  men—to  visit  re­
tail  merchants  and  call  for  S.  C.  W. 
cigars.
If  Cigarmakers’  Union  No.  46  will 
prove  this  statement,  I  will  agree  to 
adandon  the  use  of  my  machines and 
bow  down  to  its  imaginary  power and 
pay into its treasury the sum of  $100  in 
cash.  If it cannot do this the public will 
certainly  know  that  it  is  the  greatest 
gang of organized  liars  in  Michigan.

G.  J.  J ohnson.

This brand is having  a  large  sale  all 
over  the  State,  as  its  superiority  over 
hand-made  goods  of  the  same  grade  is 
universally  conceded.  It can  be obtained 
through any  wholesale  drug  or  grocery 
house at this  market.

None but a father has a  good  right  to 
give the bride away.  He has  been  pay­
ing her bills,  and  knows her.

Sometimes a man keeps  his  word  be­

cause no one will take it.

MA80N  FRD1T  JBfiS.

Per Gro.
PINTS,  6  doz in case... $5  00 
QUARTS,  8  doz  in  case  5  50 
HALF  GALLON,  6 doz

in case......................  7  00
—No charge for box or  cartage—
We have full stock  and  can  make  im­
mediate shipments.
H.  LEONARD  &  SONS,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

I P. BENNETT  FUEL  8  IKE  KO.,
ALL  KINDS  OF  FUEL,

JUNE AGENTS

And Jobbers of

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Oysters.

The season  commences Sept. 5.
Note the following  low  prices  for a 

starter:
Solid Brand, Extra Selects,  per can $  30
Solid Brand,  Selects,  per can............ 
28
Solid Brand,  E.  F.,  per  can.............. 
22
Solid Brand, Standards,  per can.... 
20
26
Daisy Brand, Selects,  per  can.......... 
Daisy Brand,  Standards,  per can... 
20
Daisy Brand,  Favorites,  per can.__ 
18
Mrs.  Withey’s  Home  Made  Jelly, 
made with green apples,  very fine
30-lb pail...............................................   i   00
17-lb  pail............................................... 
65
Mrs.  Withey’s  Condensed  Mince 
Meat,  the  best  made.  85  cents 
per  doz.  3  doz.  in  case.  Will 
quote bulk mince meat later.
Pure Cider Vinegar,  per  gallon___ 
10
Pure Sweet Cider,  per  gallon......... 
12
Fine Dairy Butter,  per  pound......... 
19
Fancy 300 Lemons,  per  box.............. 5  00
Choice 300 Lemons,  per  box............ 4  50
Choice 360 Lemons,  per  box............ 4  00

EDWIN  FALLAS,

Oyster  Packer  and  flanufacturer. 

VALLEY  CITY  COLD  STORAUE,

215 and 217 Livingston St.,
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

M M egon  Bakery  GraGkers

(U nited  S ta tes  B a k in g   Co.)

Are  Perfect  health  Food.

There  area great many  Butter Craekres  <*n  the  Market—only 

one can  he  best—that  is  the original

Muskegon
Bakery
Butter
Cracker.

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

Nine
Other
Great
Specialties
Are

1

Muskegon  Toast, 
R os al  F ru it  Biscuit, 
Muskegon  Frosted  Honey, 
Iced  Cocoa  Honey  Jum bles, 
Jelly Turnovers, 
Ginger Snaps, 
Hom e-M ade  Snaps, 
Muskegon  Branch, 
Mlik  Lunch 

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ALWAYS
ASK
YOUR

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FOR
HUSKEGON
BAKERY’S
j  CAKES  and
j  CRACKERS

IRINDGE.  KALMBAGH  i   GO  V ip I A T

HEALTH  SHOES.

ASK  TO  SEE  THEM.

They  are the coolest  shoe in summer,
The  warmest shge  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; alsofBos- 
ton  Rubber  Shoe  Co.’s  goods.

H Hunting Season

is  upon  us

United.  S t a t e s   R a k in g   Co.

LAWRENCE  DEPEW,  Acting  Manager,

Muskegon, 

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We  are  agents  for  all  the  leading  lines  of  Guns and 

Ammunition.

W inchester,  Marlin,  Remington  and  Colt’s Guns 

always in  stock.

We shall  try and  keep  our assortment complete,  and  hope 
to  secure the trade of  W  stern  Michigan on  this line  of  goods*

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The Computing Scale Co.. Dayton. Ohio.

Gen tlem en:—Since  the  adoption  of 
your Computing Scales 1 have made more 
money in  my  business than  ever  before.
The  Howe  S c a le   1  bad,  while new,  had 
such  a  radical  variation  that  1 
lost 
money every  time  l  weighed  upon  it. 
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would  retire from business before  return­
ing  to  the  use  of  regular  weighing 
scales. 

Yours  truly,

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

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

MASON  FRUIT  JARS

H.  LEONARD  &  SONS  QranÄ pids

111

No  Charge for  Boxes  on 

Fruit Jars.

No  Charge  for  Cartage  on 

Fruit  Jars.
Mason's  Fruit  Jars.

From  now on is the season to push the sale of 
these goods.  The most  profitable  line  jou  can 
find.  New reduced pricee.
Per Gro
Quarts, 8 doz in box..  ................................f 5 t)U
Half gallons. 6 doz in  box..........................  
Pints, 1 doz in case.................. .....................4  in
. . . . . . . . .   •  <5
Half gallons, 1 doz in case...... 
Extra covers for pint, quart and half gal.on  •-  -•> 
Rubber rings for  Mason's jars................. ■ • 
«•"»
Flint  Glass  Mason  Fruit  Jars,

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d e a r  fine glass.

Q uarts. % gro in case, per  gro.........................$5 25
H alf G allons, 54 gro in  ease, per gro 
...........  i  2o
Best quality, selected jars.

Jelly  Tumblers.

%  Pints. 6 doz in box  (box 0  ) per  box —
i,-;  pints, 21 doz in bbl,  ibbl 351  per  doz......
J4  Pints. 8 doz in box.  ibox i 0)  per box......
54  Pints. Is doz in bbl (bbl 35ei  per  doz......

Common  Tumblers. 

y   P i n t ,   plain. 6 doz in box, (box no) per box  Cl  80 
34  Pints, plain, 20doz in bbl, (bbl 35c) par doz  27

Engraved  Tumblers.

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

......................................................................................................*3  00

Common  Stoneware.

Stone Butter Jars 54 gal,  per doz.................$  60
Stone Butter Jars, 1 to 6 gal,  per  gal............   C6
Stoue  Preserve Jars and covers, %  gal,  per
doz..........................................................   90
Stone Preserve Jars and  covers,  1  gal,  per
doz..........................................................   1  40
Tomato or Fruit Jugs, 54  gal,  per  doz  ...... 
75
90
Tom ato or F ru it Jugs, 1 gal,  per  d o z........... 
Stone  Milk  Pans, 54 gal, per doz.................  60
Stone Milk Pans, 1 gal,  each  ...................... 
06

Fine  Glazed  Stoneware 

1  Gal, Fine all  White Milk Pans,  per gal  * 
1  Gal, Fine all Black Milk Pans, per  gal. 
54 Gal, Fine all Black Milk Pans,  per doz 
1  Gal, Fine all Black Butter Jars, per gal 
1  Gal, Fine all White Butter Jars, per gal 
54 Gal, Fine all White Butter Jars, per doz

$ 

Corks  and  Sealing  W ax. 
Corks for  % gal Tom ato Jugs, per d o z... 
Corks  for 1  gal  Tom ato Jugs, per  d o z ... 
Sealing Wax, 51b pkgs. per lb ....................
Flask  and  Ju g   Corks, 
Per Gro 
No.
b la st and Bottle Corks, assorted  sizes,
Ju g   Corks, assorted  sizes. Nos. 11-20.  1 gro
,... 

15 
18o*y2

to

in  b ig ......................................
Candy  Jars.

1 doz in ease.  No charge for ease.

Open  Stock 

T IN   C O V E R

.........  

V, Gal S quat..................................
>2 Gal  Tall 
....................
1 G al  T a ll....................
B IN G   J A B S —G L A S S   C O V E R S
54 Gal  Squat or T a ll....................
5» G al Squat or T a ll....................
1 Gal Squat or T all......................
F R E N C H   J A B S—G L A S S   C O V E R S
54 Gal Squat  .................................
54 Gal  Squat..........................
1 Gal Squat.............................

Flasks.
Pic-NIe or Shoo Flv Shane.
54 Pint,  5ï gro in case................
P int.  54 g ro in   case....................

per doz.
.81  75
.  2 tO
.  3  £0
.  2  00
.  3  50
.  2 50
.  3  50
.  5  tO
.  2  50
3 50
.  5 00

Per
Case
1  25
1  ro
3  )0
1  50
3  00
2  25
3  0J
4  50
2  15
3 00
4 50

Per  Gro 
...*   2  40
...  3  80
....  6  tO

Lamp  Chimneys.

Sole Agents for  extra  toughened  “LaBastie” 
French glass chimney.  Positively  the strongest 
and most durable lamp chimney made.
No.  1  Sun Bulb,  per doz....................................*1 25
No. 2  Sun Bulb,  per  doz.....................  
  1  50
No.  2  Electric,  per doz...............   ...... ".....  1  Go
No.  1  Sun Crimp Top, per doz..........................   t 35
No.  2  Sun Crimp Top, per doz..........................   1 60

“La Bastie”  Glass.

P earl Top  Chimneys.

The well-known, easy selling,  popular  “Pearl 
Tops.”  No store  can  get  along  without  them, 
and no good merchant  wishes  to.  Prices  guar­
anteed.  e doz in case.  No charge for case.
No.  1  Sun Pearl Top, per  case...................  $3  70
No. 2 Sun Pearl Top, per case............................4 70

Crimp  Top San  Chimney. 
Common grade.  Sold by the case only.

No. 0  Sun, 6 doz In case
No 1  Sun, 6 doz in  case...
No. 2  Sun, 6 doz In case  ..

........$1 7f>
.1 i-8
70
........2

H  L  &  S  F lint Chimney

Selected lirsts.  Each wrapped and labeled.
Doz
*

Case of 6 Open. 1er
Doz.
40
No. 0 Sun  Crimp  Top...... ..*2  10
45
No. 1  Sun Crimp Top........ ..  2 25
60
No. 2 Sun Crimp Top........ ..  3 *5
65
..  3 60
No. 2 Sun Hinge..............
No. 2 Electric.................. ..  4 00
F>
•o
..  4  00
No. 2  Rochester...............

F lint  XXV  Pure  Lead  Glass.

ped and labeled.  Will not crack from heat.

No seconds in this line.  Each chimney wrap­
Case of 6  Open, Per 
Doz.
No.  0 Sun  Crimp.................*2 60 
*  45
No.  1  Sun Crimp..................   2 80 
50
No.  2 Sun Crimp.................. 3 80 
65
See our lamp  catalogue  for  complete  assort­
ment Showing chimney for  every  burner.  Sent 
by mail on receipt of postal.

Doz. 

Tubular  Lanterns.

Only  the  latest  patterns  of  the  heaviest ma 

l doz  in case.  Price per doz.

terial.  Every  lantern  warranted.  No  charge [ 
for case, 
No.  0 Side spring  lift,  inside  guards,  best
flint globes  .............................................53 50
No. 0 Crank side lift, tubular....................... 3  75
No.  0 Tubular, copper finish.........................4  75
No.  15 Jap'd Tubular, dashboard and retlec- 
tor attachment, bulls eye globe 54 doz in
box  .........................................................  5 00
No.  B  Tubular  Side  spring  lift  takes  1 In
wick  . 
o 50
j No.  0 Tubular Crystal Glass  front..............  6 CO
Tubular Search Light,  Headlight,  each—   1  7i

 

 

Store  Lamps.

400 candle  power.

Rochester, complete, 20  in  reflector —  
Pittsburgh, complete  iO  in  reflector —
Banner, complete, 20 in reflector...........
Incandescent, complete, 20 in  reflector. 

Send for catalogue showing all.

Lantern  Globes.
No.  ti Tubular, open  stock............
By the barrel, 5 doz  ibarrel 35)
No.  O  Tubular, Bull’s Eye Globe..

Clothes  Lines.

Ju te,  3o foot line,  per  doz.................... ...........*  41
Ju te,  60 foot line, per d o z ................... ......... 
80
Ju te,  120 foot line,  per doz..................
...........  1  60
Cotton, :0 fo o t line,  per  doz__
...........  1  28

W riting  Paper.

Per Ream.
t'om ’l Note, 3 lb E xcelsior.................... ...........Î  29
Com’l  Note, 5 lb E xcelsior.................... ........... 
49
Com’l Note  6 lb  E xcelsior..............
.......   59

Envelopes.

Size

Per 1.00O
X5  W hite................................................ ...........$  7b
X6  W hite..............
85
1  Mi

XX5  W hite............................
XX6  W hite............................

........... 

N et

Oil  Cans.

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

Per Doz.
54 Gal Tin.  w ith spout, per doz........... ......... *  1  50
1 Gal Tin, w ith spout,  per d o z............ .........  1  60
1 G alvanized  Iroh.l  doz in  c ra te ....... .........  2  00
1 Gal Glass w ith  Tin Jacket,  1 doz  In case.  2  25
2 Gal  Galv  Iron, oil  or  gasoline......... .........  3  75
3 < .al Galv Iron, oil  or  gasoline......... .........  5 00
5 Gal Galv Iron, w ith  fa u c e t..
7   00
..toco
5 Gal Galz Iron  t i l t i n g .......................
5 Gal Galv  Iron, Home R ule  “ Pum p” ............   12  00
3 Gal Galv Iron,  Home  R ule  “ Pum p” .............  10  80
5 Gal Galv  Iron, “ Good E nough” ....... ........... 
13  50
5 Gal  Galv Iron, “Good enough” .  .,
..........   12  0 0
See our catalogue for full  line  grocers’ 
sundries  as  Pails,  Tubs,  Fitfre  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.

