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H EN R Y   ROYCE, Snpt.

THE  PUG DOG.

Incidents of Taking  Summer  Boarders 

on Grand Traverse  Bay.

Now  that  September  has  come,  and 
they have gone, and the pug dog has gone, 
and the canary has gone,  and life  begins 
to look sweet again,  I have a feeling that 
it will  be a  pleasure and a relief if 1 tell 
some things.

Last  year  Mrs.  Spalding,  our  next 
door neighbor,  whose  house,  like  ours, 
looks  out  on  the  broad  blue  expanse 
of  Grand  Traverse  Bay, 
took  a  few 
boarders through July and August.

She said they were just as agreeable  as 
they could  be,  and  never  looked  down 
on  her,  and  paid  a  large price,  so that 
they,  the Spaldings,  bought a new set  of 
purple rep for  their  parlor  in  the  fall, 
after  their “guests” had gone.

We did not want purple rep, but we did 
want  a  new  L on the back of the house.
We knew that to live on a farm  and  to 
keep a few  hens,  and a  cow,  and a Gor­
don setter,  is not the way  to  get  money 
enough to build  an  L.  Mrs.  Spalding’s 
example was before  us.  Early  in  June 
we  sent  an advertisement to the Chicago 
Tribune, soliciting a few  quiet  boarders, 
who  could  be  accommodated  in a large 
old-fashioned 
shaded  by 
gigantic trees.

farmhouse 

It was  so  sweet. 

For the first week no one replied.  But 
the answers began to  come  very  rapidly 
after  that.  Nearly  all  the  notes  were 
written by people  who  wanted  hot  and 
cold  water  in  their  rooms,  and  who de­
sired to be on the same floor as  the  bath­
room. 
It  seemed  superfluous  to  take 
any  notice  of  such  letters.  But  I  was 
much pleased with a note that came from 
Hyde Park. 
I told my 
sister,  who  is  joint  proprietor  of  the 
place,  that  I  hoped  this  person  would 
come.  The  note  was  signed  Flora  E. 
Billings. 
It said she wanted utter quiet. 
She  longed  for  perfect  stillness  as  a 
salve  for  wounded  sensibilities.  She 
should  need  no  society  whatever,  save 
that  of  a pet  dog,  who  went  with  her 
everywhere and who was the  only  being 
who  understood  her.  Her  tastes  were 
perfectly simple.  She liked to breakfast 
on  fruit  and  sup  on  bread  and  milk. 
She should be out of  doors  most  of  the 
time, communing with nature; therefore, 
her room would not make so much differ­
ence—only  a  place  in  which  to  rest  a 
weary  head  when  the  sun  had sunk in 
the west and the  burning  stars  were  in 
the skies.

I do not know  why  it  was  that  Cath­
arine, that is my sister, did  not  approve 
of this note.  She  said  she  knew  it was 
sweet; she was afraid that  Miss  Billings 
was  almost  too  sweet.  But  as  she did 
not require hot and  cold water  and  elec­
tric light,  we were only  too  grateful  to 
have her come.

She  arrived  early  in  July.  She  said 
she  could  not  endure  the  noise  of the 
Fourth in town.  She was not  as  young 
as 1  thought  she  was.  But,  then,  she 
was younger than Catharine had thought. 
In  point  of  f|pt,  it  was  impossible  to 
guess her age.

She  brought  an 

immense  amount  of 
luggage and she was dressed with  an  ir­
reproachableness that was  very  discour­
aging to  us,  who never bought more than 
one  new  gown  a  year.  Her  dog,  who 
was the only being who  understood  her, 
was  a  pug,  and  did  not  look,  at  first 
sight, as if he understood anything.  But 
the appearance of  pugs  is  very  deceiv­
ing. 
It  cannot  be  said,  even  by  their 
admirers, that this kind  of  a  dog  looks 
intellectual.  The fact  is,  however,  as I 
learned  this last summer,  that a pug can 
know  a  great  deal.  This  particular 
specimen  was  dressed  in  a  very  much 
ornamented  harness  of  Russia  leather. 
The ornaments  appeared  to  be  of  gold 
and  precious  stones.  His  nose  turned 
up  after  the  manner  of  his kind.  His 
eyes bulged out  and  were  watery-.  His 
whole  aspect  was  the  aspect  of  one 
whose  “little  body  is  aweary  of  this 
great world.”  He  would sit in the front 
hall  on  bis  haunches  by  the  hour  to­
gether,  and  doze and wake to catch a fly 
or to snap at someone who  wanted  to  go 
out at the door.  Then his harness would 
jingle  for  an  instant  and  his  mistress, 
who  was  just  outside  the  door,  would 
say  plaintively:

“Now, Ferdinand,  you  must  be  ami­

able.”

Ferdinand  would  wag  his 

tail  curl 
when  he  heard  his  friend’s  voice,  and 
would  then  go  to  sleep  again,  and  his 
little bells would be silent.

Miss Billings often explained that Fer­
dinand did not mean  the  least  thing  in 
the  world  by  snapping;  it  was  only  a 
cunning  little  way  he  had,  and  she 
hoped that nobody would mind it.

When she used to  say  this  we  would 
all smile and  simper—all  except  one  of 
our  gentlemen  boarders,  who  wore  a 
ferocious face every time he saw the pug 
or heard him mentioned.

When he thought  he  was  unobserved 
he used also to  kick  Ferdinand. 
I  saw 
him do this once,  and,  f rqm the creature’s 
manner  when  Mr.  Heaton  approached, 
I am sure he did it more than once.

I  am  one  who  loves dogs; I can even 
be  friendly  to  a pug,  but I was not pre­
pared  to  have  this  little  beast,  when I 
spoke kindly to him,  stand up,  brace  his 
front legs, jingle his gold bells and  show 
his  front  teeth  at me. 
I trust 1 may be 
pardoned if I say too  much  about  Ferdi­
nand,  but he was one of the  most  promi­
nent  of  our  boarders,  aud he helped to 
increase  the  fund  for  our  L.  Still, 
though  a lover of dogs,  I was not pleased 
when, on the third morning after her  ar­
rival,  Miss Billings entered  the  kitchen, 
where  my  sister  was beating eggs and  I 
was  rolling  out  the pie-crust.  She had 
on  an  almost  divine  tea gown; her hair 
was  fluffed  down to her eyebrows,  and I 
was more uncertain than ever  about  her 
age.  She  held a pen  in  one hand, as if 
she had been  what we call  “composing.” 
She  had  let  drop  the  fact,  at  her first 
breakfast  with  us,  that  she  sometimes 
did compose  verses.  She  said  they  re­
lieved the  pent-up  volcano  within  her.

She  did  not  look  in  the  least as if she 
were  carrying  about a pent-up  volcano. 
But  one  can  never  tell  about 
those 
things.

She said she thought  she  would  men­
tion that it was  the  morning  for  Ferdi­
nand’s  bath.  Catharine  had  stopped 
beating  eggs  to  hear  what our boarder 
had to say.  She now  replied  that  Miss 
Billings  might have  a  footbath  tub  for 
Ferdinand’s use,  if she wished.

Miss Billings looked at her in cool  sur­
prise, as she  heard  this  response.  She 
did not speak for  several  moments,  and 
my sister resumed her  work.  The  lady 
put  the  glittering  end  of her penholder 
to her lips,  and appeared to  be  shocked. 
At last she said  that  she  never  washed 
Ferdinand herself.

Catherine said,  “ Indeed !”  and I relied 

out a pie-crust.

•‘Where  I  boarded  last  year  and the 
year  before,”  went  on  Miss  Billings, 
“the washing of Ferdinand  was  thrown 
in.”

Catherine again said,  “Indeed !”  and I 
nipped  an edge to my crust. 
I mentally 
decided  to  let  Catharine  deal  with  this 
person.

“It  is  his  day  for a bath,”  repeated 
Miss  Billings. 
“I  don’t  know  what 
would happen if he should miss his  bath 
on the proper day.”

“Perhaps  he  would  have more fleas,” 
suggested Catharine,  with great  suavity.
The  face of the mistress  of  Ferdinand 
flushed deeply as she heard  these  words. 
She announced with asperity  that  dear­
est  Ferdy  never  had  had  a  flea  in  his 
life.

“I’m sure I congratulate him,”  replied 

my sister.

Miss  Billings  was  again  silent. 

If a 
woman so stylish  and  so  sensitive—she 
said she was full of sensibility—could be 
said to  “hang round,”  that  is  what  she 
did in our kitchen  for  the  next  quarter 
of an hour,  and it was  very  hot  in  that 
kitchen.

“Do  you  feel  disposed  to  throw  in 

Ferdy’s bath ?” she asked finally.

When she found out  that  we  did  not 
feel so disposed she burst into  tears,  and 
I felt like a hard-hearted wretch. 
If the 
pug had not had such a way of snapping, 
1  think  1  should  have  said  then  and 
there that I would be his  maid.  But my 
sister was firm.  She said,  with decision, 
that if Ferdinand were washed  while  in 
that house, the washing would  probably 
be none by Ferdinand’s mistress.

When Catharine had  made  this  state­
ment  Miss  Billings  dried  her  eyes  and 
left  the  room,  taking  the  png  in  her 
arms, after she had put  her  pen  behind 
her  ear.  The  dog 
looked  over  her 
shoulder  at  us,  and  his eyes were very 
watery,  as if with grief.

“I suppose we shall lose that boarder,” 
said 
“Catharine, 
couldn’t  you have made up your mind to 
wash Ferdy ?”

despondently. 

I, 

“Couldn’t you ?” she asked.
But  I  did not reply. 

I  was  absorbed 

in pie-crust.

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T H E   M IC H IG A N   TRAJDBSMAJST.

“I’m afraid we shan’t  have the L,” re­
marked  my  sister,  after  a  while.  She 
added emphatically that she did  not  be­
lieve  that  anybody  ever  threw 
in  the 
png’s bath.

The  rest  of  the  day  passed calmly. 
Ferdinand  sat,  as  usual,  at  the  open 
front door  and  snapped  at  flies  and  at 
passing ankles. 
If  you  have never been 
obliged to go frequently very near  a  dog 
that snaps at  your  ankles,  you can  have 
no idea into what a nervous state you will 
fall.

My  duties  called  me  often  into  that 
hall and near the door—in fact,  the  hall 
was so small that you could  not  go  into 
it at all  without going near  the  amiable 
brute who was  stationed  there.  1  used 
to  wait  in  the kitchen or upstairs  each 
time until 1 had screwed  up my  courage, 
and then 1 would  make  a  dash  through 
the place;  but I always  heard  the  teeth 
snap together as I brushed  by.  At last 1 
would almost cry  when  I  found  that  1 
must  go  there;  it  seemed  mean  to  ask 
Catharine to take my  place.

Nothing  but  the thought of the L sus­
tained me during those days. 
It was not 
soothing, either,  to see the edge  of  Mis 
Billing’s  frizzes  outside,  and  to  know 
that she was sitting  there  and  eujoyin 
herself,  while I was so unhappy.

Mr.  Heaton had seen me on these  skir­
mishes many  times.  He  was  a  middle 
aged man  who was quite stout.  He had 
a large  face  adorned  by a small  grizzled 
mustache.  He  had  answered our adver­
tisement  because  he  wanted a great deal 
of fresh milk.  He  drank  two  or  three 
quarts daily, and said at  breakfast  each 
morning  that  the  milk  did  him  a  vast 
amount of good,  but as  that  confounded 
pug boarded  in  the same house with  him 
that fact neutralized all the benefit, so he 
really  was not any  better  off  than  when 
he left the  city.

When he would say this  Miss  Billings 
would  remark  that  dearest  Ferdy  was 
her  one  comfort  iu  this world,  and she 
could not see why people were  not  will­
ing  he  should  live.  Mr.  Heaton  would 
then sniff and  say  with  great  contempt 
that he should try and  not  be  the  cause 
of removing Miss Billings’s sole comfort 
but  he  could  not  swear  that he should 
not  sometime  kick  that  pug  into  the 
next  world.

The three other boarders  would  try  to 
laugh,  as  if  these  remarks  were pleas­
antries.  Occasionally Mr.  Marks,  a  very' 
young  man  who  said  he had not a drop 
of Jewish blood iu  him,  would  break  out 
into indignant  words  addressed  to  Mr. 
Heaton,  but  the  elder  gentleman  with­
ered him directly.

Miss Billings would cast an  expressive 
glance  of  the  most  ardent  gratitude  at 
the young man and he would blush.  We 
all  understood  that  Mr.  Marks  was  an 
admirer of Miss Billings.  He  had  even 
been known to carry Ferdinand  for  her, 
in spite of his growling and  grinning  all 
the  time.  She  would  walk  beside  and 
pat him—the  dog,  you  understand—and 
tell him that the darling  petsy  ought  to 
know his friends,  and  she  must  punish 
him if he did  not.  But  she  never  pun­
ished him.  That  pug was almost as bad 
in the  house  as  a  modern  child  would 
have been—not quite so  bad;  for nothing 
is as bad  as  the  modern  child.  So  my 
sister  and  I  used  to  tell  ourselves  and 
try to be thankful that we had a  dog  in­
stead of a child.

“For,”  said  Catharine,  one  day, 

in 
confidence, and in  a  burst  of  gratitude, I

“a pug  may be poisoned,  but a little boy 
or  girl  could  not  be  treated 
that 
way.”

in 

Not  that  we  ever  dreamed  of  poison 

ing  Ferdy.

Mr.  Heaton  seemed  to wish to be very 
kind.  He  had  witnessed,  as I have said 
my  transits  by  the  pug.  One  day  he 
appeared  in  the  kitchen  with  a  long 
legged pair of hunting boots in his hand 
He said  he  hoped  I  would  excuse  him 
but he would suggest that I  put on those 
boots when 1  went near that  confounded 
little beast.  He said they would give me 
a  feeling  of  safety,  and  he  thought  1 
would like them. 
I was  extremely  glad 
of them. 
It  is  true  it  was  a  bother  to 
be  obliged  to  stop  to  put  on  hunting 
boots every time  I  went  into  the  front 
entry;  but 1 was paid  for  my  trouble  in 
the sense of security they gave.

It  was  a  joy  to  be  able  to  saunter 
calmly by Ferdinand and see him  slowly 
raise his upper  lip  until  his  dear  little 
teeth  became  visible  and  he  thrust  his 
head  forward and snarled.  1  knew  that 
the leather encasing my feet  and  ankles 
was tough,  and the knowledge gave me a 
serenity 1 had not enjoyed since  the  ad­
vent of Ferdinand.

1  had  been  wearing  these  hunting 
boots on my visits to  the  front entry  for 
nearly  a week  when  Miss  Billings  had 
that  interview  with  us  concerning  the 
dog’s bath.  By  the  time  the  next  day 
dawned I was convinced  that  something 
ought  to  be  done.  Without  consulting 
my sister,  1  sought  Miss  Billings  after 
breakfast,  and told her that, although we 
could  not ourselves  wash  the  pug,  we 
would permit her to have the use  of  the 
kitchen  and  the  kitchen  sink  for  that 
purpose.

Mr.  Marks was sitting with her  at  the 
time.  He bad just been reading “Lueile” 
to her.  When 1 caught sight of this vol­
ume 1 recalled the remark  made  by  Mr. 
Heaton  the  day  before.  He  said  he 
knew a  young  man  who  every  time  he 
fell in love always borrowed  his  sister’s 
copy of “Lueile” to lead to his inamorata. 
He finished bis remark by asserting  that 
there were always plenty of  jackasses in 
the world.

Miss Billings  thanked  me  with  some 
effusion,  but she said  she  did  not  know 
what  would become of  poor  Ferdy,  for, 
even though  she  should  die,  she  could 
not  wash  him  herself.  She 
turned 
sweetly to Mr.  Marks  and  explained  to 
him how the pug’s  washing  had  always 
been  thrown  in,  and  she  had  no  idea 
what she should do,  but  she  hoped  she 
should live through it.

1 said that I hoped so,  too;  and  then  1 
left them,  feeling that 1  had  done  all  1 
could,  even for our L.

It was with considerable  surprise  that 
1 found  Mr.  Marks  in  the  kitchen  that 
afternoon  when 1 came  downstairs  after 
my daily nap.

He turned very red,  but he managed to 
say,  stammering  a  good  deal,  that  he 
hoped I would pardon him.

1 looked at him. 

I  could  not  imagine 
what he wanted there,  but I said I would 
pardon him.

He grew more red  and  he  stammered 
worse  than  before,  and  said  again  he 
really  trusted  I  would  overlook  it  in 
him.  1 assured him 1 would overlook it.
I sat down. 
It would not be time  to  be­
gin to get supper for an hour yet.

Mr.  Marks  now  informed  me  that  I 
I did not  deny  this  as­
was very good. 
sertion.  He appeared  to  struggle  with

himself for  a  moment  and  then  he  re­
marked that he thought he had  seen  me 
wearing a  large  apron  that  must  be  a 
great protection  to  my  gown. 
I  began 
to be somewhat  alarmed  at  this,  for  it 
seemed  to  hint  at  incipient  madness. 
But I told him pleasantly that I had such 
an apron,  and that  it  was  a  great  pro­
tection. 
I thought of adding  that  hunt­
ing boots,  worn in the  front entry,  were 
also very useful  under  existing  circum­
stances;  but I  did not know but such an 
observation  might  irritate  him,  and  I 
did not yet know how mad he was.

Now  he  asked  me.  point  blank,  if  1 

would lend him that apron.

“Yes,” 1 said to myself, as  I went  for 
the article,  “be is mad.  He  may ask me 
for the carving knife  next,  and  I  must 
not refuse him.”

I brought him  the  garment.  He  tim­
idly asked if I would  assist him to put it 
on.  1  did  so. 
I  was  sorry  for  him. 
When he had the apron ou and  buttoned 
all the way up behind,  he glanced  at  the 
doer leading into the dining-room and in­
quired if I had any objection  to  locking 
that door,  for some  one  might  come  in. 
i was frightened,  but 1 locked  the  door. 
Mr.  Marks was  very slight  iu  build  and 
did not look strong, 
i thought  that in a 
hand  to hand conflict,  1  should,  perhaps, 
tand as good a chance for  victory  as  he 
would.  There was another  door leading 
into  the  woodshed. 
I  casually  moved 
round so that I was  near  this  means  of 
exit.  Glancing at the  door,  I  was  hor­
ror-struck to see that  there  was  no  key 
in that lock—where was that key?  I did 
not  say  these  words  aloud,  but  Mr. 
Marks answered my look.

“1  have it in my pocket,”  he said.
His whole  appearance  indicated  such 
mental  wretchedness,  and  his  gingham 
apron  was  so  unbecoming,  that  l  was 
tormented by a conflict of emotions.

“ You  see,”  he  said  desperately,  “1 

told her I’d do it.”

I stared helplessly.  He went on.
“She seemed so unhappy about it;  and 
you did  not  feel  as  if  you  could  fling 
it in.”

“Oh!”  I  said,  a  light  breaking  upon 

my  mind.

1 brought the  bathtub  to  him. 

“Yes,” he continued,  “I  want  you  to 
let me have  the  footbath  tub—she  said 
you said she could  have that—and l want 
the doors kept locked—and  I  don’t want 
you  to  say  anything  about  it—and”— 
still  more  desperately—“don’t  let  any­
body come in while  1  wash  Ferdinand.”
I  in­
structed him about  the  warm  water  in 
the tank ou the  stove. 
I  brought,  also, 
an  old  sheet  in  which  to  wrap  Ferdy 
when  he  came  out  of  the  tub.  Then 
I  asked  him  where  the  dog  was.  He 
opened  the  woodshed  door  and  showed 
the  mat,  with 
me  the  pug  asleep  ou 
a  string  going  from  his  neck 
to  the 
latch.

At  the  earnest  desire  of  Mr.  Marks,
I  left  him.  1  heard  him  turn  the  key 
as  I  walked  into  the  woodhouse.

1  went back and,  with my  lips  to  the 
keyhole, 1 told  him  I  should  want  the 
kitchen in an hour.  He  replied  that  if 
he had not washed Ferdy in  an  hour  he 
never should wash him.

I strolled down into the orchard, where 
Catharine frequently sat  during  our  lei­
sure  time in the  afternoon. 
I  told  her 
that now I knew that  Miss  Billings was 
truly  beloved,  for  Mr.  Marks  was  in 
our kitchen,, and in my  apron,  and  was 
washing  Ferdinand.

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Oases

“ 
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H .H ....................
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English  Rock................................ 7*
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Conserves...................................... 7V4
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Broken Taffy......................baskets
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Peanut Squares..................  
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French Creams..............................
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Valley  Creams...........................
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Lemon Drops................  
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Mottoes.................................................................[70
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Molasses  Bar............................................................ .55
H&nd Made  Creams......................................85@95
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Decorated Creams................................................90
String  Rock............................  
 
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Burnt Almonds.........................................  
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Wlntergreen  Berries...........................................<5
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She rose from her seat in  considerable 

CUTTING PRICES.

excitement.

“Poor boy!”  she  exclaimed.  “He will 
get bitten;  perhaps he  will  have  hydro­
phobia.  How can she do it?”

“She is not  doing it,”  I  said.  “It  is 
Mr.  Marks  who  is  doing  it.  What  a 
thing  it  must  be  to  be  truly  loved! 
Catharine, do yon think if I were  as  old 
as Miss Flora K.  Billings, and had a pug, 
and  boarded  where  his  washing  was 
not  thrown  in—do  you 
think  anyone 
would love me as much as-----■”

But my sister was  moving  rapidly  to­

“Where are you going?”  I  asked,  hur­

ward the house.

rying after her.

help.”

“I want to be  near  in  case  he  needs 

“But you can’t get in,” I replied.
The hour went by and still the kitchen 
remained closed.  The thought of supper 
began  to  worry  us.  When  a  half-hour 
more  had  passed  we  knew  we  must 
get  in,  for  boarders  must  have  their 
meals.

Suddenly  we  heard  a  voice  close  to 
the door leading to the woodhouse, where 
we were waiting.

“I’m  going  to  unlock  it,”  said  Mr. 
Marks.  “But do  wait  a  minute  before 
you come in.”

We  obeyed.  When  we  entered  we 
stepped  in  a  pool  of  water,  and  we 
kept  on  walking  in  water,  which  had 
been  very  ineffectually  sopped  up  with 
my  apron.  This  apron  was  lying  in  a 
wet  wad  in  the  middle  of  the  room.

There  were  fragments  of  silk  scat­
I  recognized  these  frag­
tered  about. 
ments  as  parts  of 
the  necktie  Mr. 
Marks  had  worn  when  I  had  left him.
On the kitchen table,  near  a  bowl  of 
cream,  which I had forgotten in  the con­
fusion of finding the  young  man  in  the 
kitchen,  was  Ferdinand,  very  wet  and 
shiny, and showing his  teeth and growl­
ing.  But he was washed.

Catharine ^immediately  went  some­
where and brought back  Miss Billings to 
take her dog away.

“Oh,  you  precious,  precious!”  cried 
that lady,  gathering Ferdy  to  her  heart 
and carrying him out of our sight.

Mr. Marks did not  come  down to  sup­
per.  Late in the  evening I  ventured  to 
knock at his  room.

He did not let me see  him,  but  talked 
to me from behind the door,  as he held it 
a little open.

He said he had a good  many  scratches 
on  his  hands,  and  his  under  lip  was 
torn;  otherwise  he  was  perfectly  well. 
He thought,  however,  that he  should  go 
back to Boston by the train  that  started 
at 5 o’clock in the morning, and he would 
send for his trunk.

He handed ont the money for his board 
through the crack between the  door  and 
the wall.  He thanked me  for  my  kind­
ness.  He  said  if  I  ever  wanted  that 
cursed brute shot to send for him.

Miss  Billings  left  us  before  it  was 
time 
to  wash  Ferdy  again.  She  -ex­
plained that she  went  because  she  was 
so sensitive that she required a  frequent 
change.
The lady  who had the  room after Miss 
Billings  brought  a  canary  who  never 
stopped singing from  the  time  the  sun 
rose until it set.  But, as Mr.  Heaton re­
marked,  there were times when the force 
of contrast made even  a  singing  canary 
seem a blessing.

Perhaps I  ought to  state  that  we  are 

going  to have the L.

Ma r ia   L o u is e  P oo l.

t e l e   M i c m e A H  

t e a d e b m a i n ,

b

Cutting Evil.

How the  New York  Grocers  Meet  the 
Gra nd  Ra pid s,  Sept.  10—There  is  a 
great  difference  of opinion as to the best 
method  of  meeting  a  competitor  who 
cuts  prices  below  the  line  of  a  living 
profit.  Will  T h e  T radesm an  kindly 
give us its opinion on the subject?

Grocer.

This question was  partly  answered  in 
the reply  to  “Suburban’s”  inquiry  two 
weeks ago.  It is unnecessary to discuss all 
the methods proposed to meet the  cutter, 
as an opinion as to the. best method is  all 
that is asked for; but it may not be out of 
place,  first,  to  mention  the  manner  in 
which the New York Retail Grocers’  As­
sociation deals with the Question.  When 
it is known that a  dealer  is  cutting  the 
Secretary waits on the  offender  and  en­
deavors  to  persuade  him  back  to  the 
path of legitimate dealing. 
If  that  fails 
to  accomplish  the  desired  end  all  tha 
dealers in the section of the  city  affected 
by the cut are instructed to meet the  cut­
ter and “go him one better,”  the  Associ­
ation standing whatever loss may be sus­
tained in the effort to bring the  cutter to 
terms.  This method, while it seldom fails 
of  its  object,  requires  the backing of a 
strong  association  and  the  expenditure 
of considerable money  and  may  be  dis­
missed from  consideration,  at  least  for 
the present.  The answer to the question 
as to what is the best method  of  meeting 
the  cutter  is  not  altogether a matter of 
opinion.  Cutters  have been  cutting and 
honest  dealers  have been endeavoring to 
meet them for years, and  the  experience 
of  these  years  ought  to  demonstrate 
something.  What  it  has established be­
yond  question  is  that  nothing  is  ever 
made by “fighting the devil  with  fire” — 
he rather likes It.  The  cutter  asks  for 
nothing  better  than  that  his  neighbors 
shall  meet  his  cut  with  one  a  little 
deeper, 
ltgiveshim an  opportunity  to 
make another cut and,  in  the  end,  gain 
the notoriety he is  seeking.  The  better 
and more business-like way is  to  ignore 
him.  He is hoping all the while that his 
neighbors will take up the gage of battle 
he has thrown down; but,  before  accept­
ing the challenge,  it  would  be  wise  to 
pause and enquire what the  probable  re­
sults would be.  One result would be the 
demoralization 
prices.  Grocers 
should bear in mind  that it  is  an  almost 
universally  accepted 
low 
prices  benefit  no  one. 
If  the  retail 
dealer sells bis wares at a low  price,  the 
wholesaler will be  obliged  to  lower  his 
prices,  the  manufacturer  must  follow 
suit,  aad  the  manufacturer’s  employes 
must  take  lower  wages,  who,  in  turn, 
because of reduced wages, cannot buy  as 
extensively  as  they  would;  so  the  re­
tailer  is  a  loser  at  both  ends.  This is 
not theory,  it is fact.

truth 

that 

of 

The effect upon the minds  of  custom­
ers of cutting prices  is  bad.  They  will 
accept  the  cut,  but, 
if  an  attempt  is 
made  to put prices back where  they  be­
long,  there is  trouble.  Working people, 
especially,  want  to  get  everything  as 
nearly for nothing as  they  can,  because 
they do not understand the  effect  of  low 
prices,  and 
they  may  patronize  the 
dealer  who  will  give  them  low  prices. 
The  thickest  headed  dealer  will  some­
time discover  that he cannot do  business 
that way, and when  he  puts  his  prices 
back where they  ought  to  be,  he  finds 
out that his customers have  traded  with 
him for “ what there was in it.”  As soon 
as he  raises  his  prices  they  take  their 
trade to some other store.

Now,  suppose for a moment that  it  is 
decided to fight the cutter  with  his  own 
weapon,  can anyone tell where  the  fight 
will  end?  After  “cutting  the  heart 
out” of one article, another is  taken  up, 
and still another, and so on,  without end. 
The  loss  to  the  participants  in  a fight 
of this kind  is  sometimes  enormous. 
It 
would have been much cheaper  and  bet­
ter in every way if the  cutter  had  been 
allowed  to  dq  all  the  cutting.  The 
dealer who  sold  “straight”  might  have 
lost  a  few  customers,  but  that  would 
have  been  cheaper  than  to  follow  the 
cutter through the mud of a  trade  fight. 
As has already been said, the cutter seeks 
notoriety,  and,  if he is  ignored,  he  will 
be  forced  to  adopt  some  other  way  of 
satisfying his  craving.  Let  him  alone; 
let him cut if he wants to,  but pay  no  at­
tention to him and cutting will soon  lose 
its charms.  Cutting is opposed to sound 
business principles and is unbusineslike. 
A  retail  grocer  has  as  much right to a 
fair profit on his  sales  as  any  man. 
If 
he does not get a profit on  his  goods  he 
cannot do  business,  for  he  cannot  pay 
his  legitimate  expenses.  He  must  be 
continually  drawing  on  his  capital,  or 
lessening his stock,  instead of increasing 
both  as  he ought to be doing.  There is 
no business in such a course;  in  fact,  it 
is business suicide.

tions  at  Baltimore.

Instead of worrying  about  what  your 
neighbor is doing,  attend strictly to your 
own  business;  keep  good  goods,  sell 
them at a fair price,  treat  your  custom­
ers honorably and  courteously,  and  the 
cutter will do you  no  harm.  Run  your 
own business and run it upon the lines of 
scund  business  policy  and  common 
sense,  and  if  your  neighbor  wants  to 
make a fool of himself let him, but don’t 
try to imitate him.  Da n ie l  A bbott.
Boston  as  a  Fish  Market—Observa­
Frank  J.  Dettentbaler  returned  last 
week  from  an  extended  trip  East  and 
South  and  favored  T h e  T radesm an 
with  a  short 
talk  about  seme  of  the 
things he saw.  “After spending  several 
days  in  New  York,”  said  Mr.  Detten- 
thaler,  “I went over  to  Boston. 
I spent 
hours every day of my stay down  on  the 
fish  and  oyster  docks  and  among  the 
fish houses. 
It is a sight to see  the  way 
they  handle  fish.  Fish  boats  are  as 
thick every morning there as  are wagons 
on our market during the fruit  and  veg­
etable season, and there are ten  times as 
many.  The  fish  are  thrown  from  the 
boats  with  big  pitchforks  onto  large 
weigh scales,  and  from  the  scales  they 
are run on  slides  to  the  various  stalls, 
where they are  packed  for  shipment  or 
sold to city buyers. 
If  any  remain  un­
sold at the  close  of  the  day’s  business 
they are salted.  Each  boat carries about 
twenty tons of ice.  Most of the  salt fish 
are packed  at  sea,  the  boats  in  which 
they are  packed  taking  salt  instead  of 
ice and remaining out from  six weeks to 
two months. 
It is astonishing  the quan. 
tity of salt water fish which is  consumed 
in the Eastern cities. 
I had  it served to 
me every day  while  in  Boston  and  did 
not tire of  it  in  the  least.  Our  people 
do not appear to know  how to cook  it  to 
make it appetizing. 
If they  would  cook 
it as they do in  the  East  the  fish  trade 
would 
improve.  Take  salt  mackerel, 
for instance:  Usually  it  is  put  on  the 
table so salt as  to  destroy  the  taste  of 
the  fish  almost  entirely. 
It  should  be 
soaked for hours, with  frequent changes 
of  water  in  order  to  remove  the  salt.

The fish should be put  in the water with 
the  skin  up.  Properly  prepared  salt 
mackerel  is  one  of  the  most  palatable 
dishes  which  can  be  prepared. 
I  was 
told in Boston that  both  fresh  and  salt 
fish  would  be  scarce  this  year.  The 
mackerel  catch,  especially, 
is  short. 
Lobsters,  also,  will be  scarce.  Fish  did 
not seem  scarce  to  me  as  I  stood  day 
after day on the docks  and  watched  the 
almost  endless  stream  pouring  into  the 
fish houses,  but I  suppose  the  shippers 
knew  what  they  were  talking  about. 
The  wholesale  business  is  conducted 
somewhat differently there  from  what it 
is here,  at least in some  lines. 
I  called 
on  Reiss  &  Brady,  importers  of  fancy 
canned goods.  At  their  piace  of  busi­
ness they keep only  samples,  their stock 
being left in bond  until wanted  for ship­
ment.  They  have  their  own  canneries 
in  Europe,  where  Mr.  Reiss  resides. 
Boston  is  a  great  oyster  market,  also, 
the oyster boats being as plentiful as the 
fish  boats.  Chesapeake  Bay  and  its 
tributaries'are the  greatest  oyster  beds 
in the world, although  the water  in  the 
Bay  itself is too deep for  fishing,  except 
along the banks.  The  best  oysters  are 
taken at the  mouths  of  the  tributaries, 
as they are only out of  salt  water  for  a 
short  time  and  salt  water  oysters  are 
always the best. 
If  they  stay  too  long 
in fresh water  they  get  soft.  The  best 
early  oysters  are  taken 
in  Benedict 
Sound, an enlargement  of  the  Patuxent 
River;  later the best  come from Tangier 
Sound.  The  greatest  oyster  market  in 
the world is Baltimore,  as  it is,  also,  the 
greatest fruit packing  center.  At  pres­
ent the packing houses  are running from 
4 in the morning until 7 in  the  evening. 
The work is all done  by  the  piece.  All 
the establishments have  immense stocks 
on hand,  which  is  unusual,  as  in  ordi­
nary years they  are  sold  up  close  with 
orders  ahead.  This  may 
in 
cheaper canned  fruits  the  coming  win­
ter. 
I  noticed  one  thing  in  Baltimore 
which 1 don’t suppose can  be  seen  any­
where else in  America.  Her sewers  are 
nearly  all  on 
It  seemed 
strange to see a stream of water  running 
constantly  down  the  streets.  All  the 
sewage  of  the  city flows down the  gut­
ters,  and 1 remarked to a  native  that  it 
did  not  seem  just 
‘Well,’  he 
said,  ‘we don’t have  any  sewer  gas.’ 
I 
told him  that,  judging  from  the  smell 
from the  gutter,  they  did  not  need  it; 
but  Baltimore  is  a  fine  city,  notwith­
standing the filth  in  her  streets  and  is 
one  of  the  handsomest  towns  I  have 
ever visited.”

the  surface. 

result 

right. 

An  Efficient  Drink  Cure.

A good story is told of how  Neal  Dow, 
when  he  was  mayor  of  Portland,  Me., 
many  years  ago,  cured  an  inebriate of 
his  taste  for  drink.  The  man  was 
brought  before  the  mayor  accused  of 
abusing  his  wife  while  he  was  drunk. 
The  mayor  ordered  the  prisoner  to  be 
brought before him with his whisky  bot­
tle.  The bottle was set on the  table  be­
fore the prisoner,  who looked  at  it,  and 
admitted that it was the  bottle which he 
customarily used in  his  potations.  The 
mayor sent him to jail  for  two  months, 
and with him he sent  the  bottle,  order­
ing the turnkey to set it just  outside  the 
cell door  Where  the  prisoner  could  see 
it.  The sight worried the fellow terribly. 
He  begged  to  have  the bottle removed, 
and once when the door  was  open  made 
a dash at it,  and tried to kick it with  bis 
foot. 
It is said that when  the  man  was 
released  he  hated  the sight of whisky so 
that he never touched another drop.

Worry tnd the grave  digger  are  good 

friends.

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l H E   MICmGLAJST  TRADESM A N.

j  Charlevoix—The sale  of  the  Beaman j 
drug stock to Bert  Mason,  reported  last j 
j week,  has fallen  through,  but  it  is  ex- 
pected that another  gentleman  will come 
to the front and go  in  with  Mr.  Miller in 
the purchase.
Manistee—The drug and  grocery stock 
belonging to the estate  of  the  late  Geo. j 
R. Scoville  was  sold  at  public  auction 
Sept.  10 and bid in by E.  A.  Gardner 
Co. at  81,800.  The  purchasers  immed 
ately opened the store for business.

Elysium—The  merchants  here  have 
organized a society  in  which  the  mem 
bers agree that they will not hold conver­
times,  dull  trade 
sation  about  hard 
small  orders,  slow  collections, 
low 
prices  of  wheat,  etc.  As  a  result  of 
the  organization,  business  has  already 
jumped ahead 25 per cent.

some  of  it  is  moved.  The  docks  of the 
South  End  Lumber  Co.  are  also  full, 
but the company is  piling  on  neighbor­
ing docks,  and the mill is humming.

Manistee—The receiver of  the  Wilkin 
Manufacturing  Co.,  of  Milwaukee,  was 
engaged  in  a  suit  in  the  Circuit  Court 
here last week against  the  Canfield  Sait 
! &  Lumber  Co.  for  81,600  due  for  two 
band  mills  made  by  the  Wilkin  Manu 
facturing  Co.  about  two  years  ago  for 
that  concern.  Tho  Canfield  claim  was 
that the  mills  had  not  been  completed 
according to contract  in  regard  to  time 
or anything  else,  and  they  had  a  cross 
suit for  damages  of  830,000.  The  jury 
gave  Wilkin  81,488  being  81,200  and 
interest, and allowed Canfield about  8300 
for turning the wheels,  which,  it  seems, 
were not true, and were the  cause of the 
greater part  of the trouble.

AROUND  T H E   ST A TE. 

M OVEM ENTS  OF  M ERCHANTS.

Oakville—L.  H.  Yeddar  succeeds  J. 

A.  Blaekmar in general  trade.

Nashville—Henry Roe  succeeds Clever 

& Ackett in the meat business.

Muskegon—C.  D.  Haines  has opened  a 

grocery store at 17 Pine street.

Stephenson—A. F. Carlson is succeeded 
by the Stephenson Shoe Co.  at this place.
Grayling—Lucian  Fournier  succeeds 
Loranger  &  Fournier  in  the  drug  busi­
ness.

Monroe—C.  B.  Southworth  succeeds 
Osgood & Southworth in the  hotel  busi­
ness.

Vickery ville—Mrs.  M.  F.  Horr i 

ceeded  by  A.  Shaw  &  Co. 
trade.

in  gener 

Novi—W.  W.  Brown  has  removed  hi 
tinware  stock  from  Northville  to  tb 
place.

Leonidas—Damon  &  Damon,  groce 
have  dissolved,  Damon  &  Dunlap  si 
ceeding.

Harrietta—Thos.  M.  Tennant succet 

Stanley & Tennant  in  the  tlour and  feed 
business.

Battle Creek—Mrs. M.  O. Stone has re 

moved her bazaar stock  from Allegan 
this place.

Macon—Harrington &  Hatch,  grocer 
have dissolved,  Harrington  &  Burlesc 
succeeding.

Sault  Ste.  Marie—Royce  &  Bacon 
druggists,  have  dissolved,  W.  R.  Bacon 
succeeding.

Northville—Chas.  R.  Smith  ha 

moved  his  dry goods stock from Cadillac 
to  this  place.

'  M ANUFACTURING  M ATTERS.

Clare—The  Valentine-Clark  Co.  ha 
12,000 cedar poles piled  up  in  its  yard 
here.

Blendon—The  Blendon  Brick,  Tile  & 
Pottery Co.  is  opening up its  clay bank 
and getting ready for work.

Oscoda—The  Oscoda  Lumber  Co.’ 
sawmill started up nights  last  week and 
will be operated night and  day  the  rest 
of the  reason.

Bass River—Chas.  Fox & Co.  are build 
ng  a  flour  mill  with  a  capacity of 100 
>arrels per day.  The  De Jong & Bekins 
lawmill is also being reconstructed.
Detroit—The  McRae  &  Roberts  Co. 
has  tiled articles of association  with  the 
ounty 
is 
8125,000;  paid  in, 860,000.  The company 
will manufacture steam  goods  and  sup­
plies.

clerk.  The  capital  stock 

Battle  Creek—Chas  E.  Dibble  ha 
purchased the grocery and  meat busines 
of J. C.  Carson.

Vandalia—Mrs.  J.  D.  Bon ine has pui 
chased  the  milliuery  business  of  Mrs 
Lina  McKinney.

Coldwater—Powers &  Lakin  have  re 
from 

moved  their  clothing  business 
Adrian to this place.

Howard  City—llallock  &  Toan,  deal 
in  boots  and  shoes,  have  beei 

ers 
closed  under  chattel  mortgage.

Bellaire—J.  E.  McCutcheon  &  Co 
their  dry  goods  stock 

have  removed 
from Marine City to this place.

Frankfort—Kiefer  &  Wickert,  boot 
and shoe  and  harness  dealers,  have  dis 
solved, C. A.  Kiefer succeeding.

Clare—W.  H.  El den  succeeds  Elden 
& Holbrook in the  book,  stationery  and 
agricultural implement business.

Clare—J. Schilling has  purchased  the 
grocery stock of Wm.  Ross and  will con­
tinue the business in the  Ross  building.
Lake  City—Strong,  Lee  &  Co.  have 
begun  suit  against  D.  D.  Walton  to  re­
cover  SI,000  alleged  to  be  due  them for 
goods  and  merchandise.

Sturgis—James  Ryan  is  succeeded  by 
Ryan & Newman in the grocery  business. 
This  is  not  Mr.  Newman’s  first  intro­
duction to the  grocery trade.

Climax—L.  E.  Finout  and  M.  Cole 
have formed  a  copartnership  under  the 
style  of  Finout  &  Cole  and  opened  a 
grocery  store.  The  stock  was  supplied 
by  Godsmark,  Durand  &  Co.,  of  Battle 
Creek.

Cadillac—Wilcox Bros,  have sold their 
meat business to Wilcox & Pulver.  They 
have also purchased the interest  of  Mrs. 
Smith in the brick and stone  business of 
Wilcox Bros.  & Smith and  will  continue 
the business under  the  style  of  Wilcox 
Bros.

Saginaw—The shingle  manufacture on 
the Saginaw River will cut a small figure 
this season, 
It  is  doubtful  if  the  out­
put is much more  than  one-half  that  of 
last year.  The  condition  of  the  trade, 
and  in  several 
instances  the  lack  of 
timber,  has  discouraged  manufacturers.
Detroit—A chattel mortgage  has  been 
filed  on  the  stock  and  business  of  the 
Schulenburg Cycle Co.,  at 244  Woodward 
avenue.  It was given to Charles Flowers 
as trustee 
the 
heaviest of whom is Charles Schulenburg, 
ith an  account  of  83,180.  The  Black 
.anufacturing  Co.  has  an  account  of 
of 82,558,  and  the  total  indebtedness is 

for  fifty-one  creditors, 

'.847.
Ontonagon—John Caldwell,  laudlooker 
or the Diamond  Match  Company’s  pine 
holdings in Upper Michigan,  says that a 
fair estimate of the amount of timber be­
longing to  that  company  lately  burned 
over  by  forest  fires  is  100,000,000  feet. 
Manager J.  H. Comstock  states  that this 
pine will have to be cut in order  to  save 
from damage  by worms.  Contracts to 
cut 50,000,000 feet have already been let. 
The  Nester  estate  had  20,000,000  feet 
burned over and  other  owners  lost  80,- 
000,000 feet,  so  that  the  total  of  burned 
pine  in  the  Ontonagon  district  will  ap­
proximate 200,000,000 feet 

Bay City—There have been  some  very 
large blocks of  lumber  sold  during  the 
last three weeks, yet there  does  not  ap­
pear to have been much of  a  hole  made 
and some  of  the  mill  firms  are  put  at 
their wits’ end to find room to  pile  lum­
ber and keep  their  mills  going.  Green 
Braman gave it up  as  a  bad  job  and 
their  mill has  been  idle for  some  time. 
The  mill  has  logs,  but  there  is  12,000,- 
000  feet  of  lumber  piled  on  the  docks 
}and  the  mill  cannot  be  started  until

corn  remains  firm,  with  still  higher 
tendencies.

the 

Oats 

share 

same  outlook  as 
corn,  but it should  be  remembered  that 
both corn and  oats  are  extremely  high; 
and  it  is  our  opinion  that  wheat  will 
have to advance,  to be iu  harmony  with 
these cereals.

During the past week  this  market  re­
ceived 50 cars of wheat,  one  car of corn, 
and two cars of oats.

C. G. A.  Voigt.

That  Artistic  Crease.

Some  genius  has  invented  a  simple 
little  instrument,  by  the  use  of  which 
the dudelet  can  always  easily  keep  his 
trousers  properly  creased  without  the 
expense  of  sending  them  to  the  tailor 
every  few days,  or the trouble  of resort­
ing himself to the sad-iron. 
It  is a  pair 
of small iron rollers,  mounted on  scissor- 
like handles,  so arranged that  the  cease 
can  be  clamped  between  them  and 
pressed  hard.  A  daily  rolling  every 
morning is  warranted  to keep the  desir­
able  crease in first-rate condition.

I7*e  T ra d esm a n   C o u p o n   Books.

PRODUCE  MARKET.

Apples—Strawberries  are  about  done  and 
¿0 oz. pippins have taken their place; they  bring 
30@35c per bu.  Kings about the same, other va 
rieties 25®30c per bu.

Beans—Dealers pay  *1.65  for  country  picked, 

holding hand picked at *2 per  bu.

Beets—Dealers hold them at 40c per bu.
Butter  The late rains have  greatly  improved 
the pasturage  and  prices  are  s ationary.  Best 
dairy is held at 20^ 21c per lb.; creamery, 22@2ic. 

Cabbage—Dealers hold them at 50c per doz. 
Carrots—Are held at 40c per bu.
Celery—Dealers pay 12j4c, holding at ISc. 
Cucumbers—Are sold on the market for 30c ner 

Eggs  Strictly  fresh  are  held  by  dealers  at 

bu.

16c per doz.

Grapes -Wordens  are  about  done,  they  are 
held by dealers at  15c per 8-lb basket.  Niagaras, 
10c, some other varieties, 20c.

Green Corn—Is sold on  the  market  for  8@10c 

per doz.

Muskmelons—Are  held  by  dealers  at  20@25c 

per doz.

Onions—Dry  are  worth  50c  per  bu.  Green 

have disappeared.

Peaches—Crawfords still lead both as to  qual 
ity  and  price:  they  bring  *1.60.  Chilis  are  of 
fair quality and bring *1.25;  other  varieties  75c 
@*l.

Potatoes—Dealers are  paying  more  attention 
to them at present than they have for sometime, 
as more orders are being received  for them from 
outside points.  They bill  them  at  70c.  A  raise 
is bound to come.

Plums—Egg are the leading variety and  bring 
*2 per bu.  Other varieties are worth  from  *1.50 
@1.75 per bu.

Pears— Bartletts have about disappeared, other 

varieties  are held indiscriminately at *1.25. 

Tomatoes—Are held at 35@i0c per bu.
Squash  Hubbard still brings 2c per lb., crook- 

neck, l>,fc.

Turnips—Are held by dealers at 30c per bu. 
Watermelons—Homegrown  bring  8@10c  per 

melon.
Henry  J.  Vinkemulder,
Fruits  and  Vegetables,

JOBBER  OF

418,  420,  445  and  447  So.  Division 

St  Grand  Rapids.

TJ?  9 week we wish to call your  attention  par- 
ticularly to Grapes.  They are Fine  and  Cheap.
w  y°u Worderi and Concords at  16c  per  8-lb 
basket.  Niagaras I8e;  Brightons  20c;  Delawares 
”eat‘hes are not all gone yet ;can  give  you 
»«?ie>&00d  Sarga™ 8 at Prices  ranging  from  75c 
^ S   - £ p! r b F-  Floras, *1.50 to  *2.  Pears,  *125 
’  «p?les> cooking, *1.50 to  *1.75  bbl.;  eat­
ing, *2.  Quinces, *1.50 bu.

VEGETABLES.

2

o ^ i,ceKn,0n.s,’ ®0e bu-  Choice tomatoes, COc bu. 
^
be.r.B;  4  c b»-  Green peppers, *i.25.  Water 
l!jc  each.  Fancy  Jersey  sweets,  *3 25 
PfJ,  bbl--G 9ftKe  melons,  *1.50  per  bbl.  Musk­
melons, 81.35 per bbl  Choice cabbage 30  to  40c 
doz.  Homegrown celery, 15c doz.
w i
i ? your  others  by  mail  or wire.  They 
Personal  attention  and benefit  of
v 
a‘ y ^®®£ne in Prices.  State how to ship, freight 
or  express and over what lines. 

6

You can make money on grapes now.

Saginaw—The  improvement  noted  in 
lumber  trade  circles  a  week  ago  seems 
to  hold  its  own,  and  a  gradual  but  un­
mistakable  revival  has  set  in  all  along 
the  line,  although  some  manufacturers 
profess  to  have  felt  the  effects  of  it  as 
yet  in  only  homeopathic  doses.  The 
skies,  however,  are  undoubtedly  clear­
ing, and while no one expects  that there 
will  be anything that can  be classed  as a 
boom, it is  confidently  believed  that  it 
will  be  such  an  improvement  over  the 
the last fifteen  months as  will  make  the 
heart  of  the  average  lumberman  beat 
faster  and  happier.  Last  week  there 
was  considerable  life  iu  the  wholesale 
market.  Col.  A. T.  Bliss  sold  3,000,000 
feet,  to go to Chicago,  for  850,000  cash.
It is very good stock and  will  relieve the 
pressure on Col. Bliss’ docks,  as  he  has 
been  carrying  about  20,000,000 
feet. 
Fisher &  Turner  are  reported  to  have 
old 3,000,000 feet;  J. T.  Hurst  as  much 
more,  and a firm here  sold 2,500,000 feet 
on  Friday  to  Eastern  parties.  The  fig­
ures  were not named,  but  the  manufac­
turers as well as  buyers seem  to  be  sat- 
fied.  The  yard  dealers  also,  with 
scarcely  an exception,  report that  sales 
are increasing.

The  Wheat Market.

During the  past week nothing extraor­
dinary  has  developed  in  cereal  prices. 
While  reports  claim 
lower  prices,  we 
find it is hard  work to  get  good  milling 
wheat  for  less  than 
in  the  previous 
week.  Prices  remain  the  same.  The 
to  say  the  least,  very 
movement  is, 
sluggish in  the  winter  wheat  belt. 
In 
the spring  wheat  section  there is  more 
doing,  as it is their threshing  season and 
farmers’ deliveries are large,  which will, 
however,  show a decrease before long, as 
the  first  rush  is  nearly  over;  and  as 
South Dakota has none  to  spare,  all we 
can see  where  any  amount  is  to  come 
from  is  North  Dakota  and  Minnesota. 
As soon as the  present  rush  is  over  we 
shall  see  better  prices.  Exports 
last 
week  were  about  as  usual  this  year— 
about 3,000,000 bushels. 
If  we  keep on 
even at this rate  it will soon  make great 
inroads in our visible,  which  is  not  ex­
pected  to  show  as  much  as  last  week. 
Farmers are busy  seeding  and  it  is  too 
early  to  say  what  amount  of  winter 
wheat acreage will  be  put  in—probably 
25 per cent,  less than  last  season,  as  the 
agriculturist  is  getting  weary  of  put­
ting  in  wheat  at  the  low  prices  which 
have  ranged  for  the  past  two  seasons. 
They  are  going  to  raise  something  be­
sides wheat.

As expected  the  crop  report  on  corn 
was a point below  the  July  report  and

GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

Stuart & Metzger have  sold  their meat 
market at 388  Jefferson avenue  to  S.  B. 
Anway  &  Son,  who  hail  from  Lake 
Odessa.

ffm,  Remus  has  purchased  the  drug 
stock  of  W.  A.  Swarts  &  Son  and re­
moved it  to  its  former  'ocation  at  the 
corner of Jefferson and Wealthy avenues.
John  H.  Epley,  of the drug firm of J. 
H.  Epley  &  Co.,  at  Constantine,  has 
opened  a  drug  store  at  Athens.  The 
stock was furnished  by  the  Hazeltine  & 
Perkins Drug Co.

D.  C.  Scribner  has  purchased  a block 
of  stock  in  the  Grand  Rapids  Paint 
and  Color  Co.  and assumed the duties of 
Secretary  and  Treasurer, Jno.  G. Carroll 
taking  the  position  of  President  and 
H. B.  Fairchild  that  of  Vice-President.
It  is  reported  that  the  Fox  Machine 
Co.  has decided to embark  in  the  manu­
facture of bicycles and that  an  arrange­
ment has been closed with  Pike  Pierson 
to get up a  new  wheel  in  return  for  a 
royalty  of  50  cents  for  each  machine 
manufactured.

Gaylord H.  Plato,  Moses H.  Renwick, 
David Wolf and Benj.  Wolf have formed 
a copartnership  under the style of Plato, 
Renwick  & Co.  for  the  purpose  of  em­
barking in the  lumber  business and gen­
eral trade at  the  new  town—as  yet  un­
named—in  Mecosta  county.  The  I.  M. 
Clark Grocery Co.  furnished the  grocery 
stock  and  the  hardware  order  went  to 
Morley Bros.,  of East Saginaw.
Gripsack  Brigade.

W.  U.  Tuthill  has  engaged-  with  the 
Grand Rapids Yeast Co.  and  will  super­
intend the work of the traveling men and 
the  introduction  of  the  goods  to  the 
trade.

Frank  H.  Clay,  Southern  Michigan 
representative for W. J.  Quan  &  Co.,  is 
rejoicing over the advent of a nine pound 
boy at his home in  Albion.  The  young­
ster dates his arrival  from Sept.  12  and 
is  understood  to  be  satisfied  with  the 
present political situation.

F.  C. Adams,  the sturdy shoe salesman, 
»recently  accompanied  E.  P.  Montieth, 
the  Marquette  caterer,  on  a  fishing ex­
pedition  to  Baraga,  culminating  in  the 
capture  of  five  trout  weighing  15% 
pounds.  The  largest  fellow  balanced 
the scales  at 4  pounds.  Photographs  of 
the  fishermen  and  their  catch  may  be 
s  en on application to  either  gentlemen.
“Hub” Baker  has  resigned  his  posi­
tion  with  Daniel  Scotten  &  Co.  ami  en­
gaged to travel for the I. M. Clark Grocery 
Co.,  covering 
the  trade  in  Northern 
Michigan  which  he  visited  so  many 
years  for  the  Lemon  &  Wheeler  Com­
pany.  He  will  put  in  this  week  at  the 
house  “posting  up,”  starting  out  on 
his  initial  trip  in  the  new  connection 
next  Monday.

In spite of the protests  of  his  friends 
and the  expressed  desire of no incon.-id- 
erable  number  of  the  members  of  the 
Michigan  Knights  of  the  Grip,  L.  M. 
Mills  positively  declines  to  permit  his 
name to  be  presented  at  the  December 
convention as a candidate for re-election, 
owing to the fact that  the  duties  of  the 
office  are  so  arduous  and  exacting that 
they afford  him no  time  whatever  for re­
laxation. 
In  view of Mr.  Mills’  positive 
stand in the  matter,  Geo.  F.  Owen  has 
jumped into  the  breach  and  authorizes 
T hk T radesm an to announce that  he  is

raCK  MICHIGAlvi

St  Louis  Olobe-Democrat: 

a  candidate for  the position.  Mr. Owen 
has  been a  traveling  man  about  thirty 
years,  is  now  employed  by  one  of the 
best houses in the State, and is well qual­
ified,  both  by  experience  and  acquaint­
ance, to assume the duties  and  responsi­
bilities  of  the  office.  As it is generally 
conceded that the Presidency  of  the  or­
ganization  will  go  to  Detroit next year, 
and that the Treasurersbip will  remain at 
Saginaw,  there  appears to be  no  reason 
why  Grand  Rapids  should  not continue 
in possession  of  the  Secretaryship;  and, 
in view of Mr.  Owen’s  fitness for the po­
sition, it is  not probable  that  any  other 
candidate  will  aspire  to  the  office,  at 
least so far as Grand Rapids is concerned.
“1  was 
snowbound in Michigan  a few years ago, 
between Coopersville  and  Nunica,”  said 
a traveling  salesman.  “ The  snow  was 
four  feet  deep  and  still  falling.  The 
passengers  had  eaten  up everything the 
train-boy  bad, 
including  even  mixed 
candies,  and  children  were  crying  for 
food.  A grocery salesman offered his tea 
and coffee, and these were  boiled  at  the 
engine.  Then I started,  accompanied by 
another  passenger,  to go to a farmhouse 
and  get  some  bread  and  butter.  We 
waded 
through  the  snow,  and  by  the 
time  we  get  there  were  nearly  frozen; 
but we could detect  the  odor  of  cooking 
victuals and felt that our  mission  would 
be successful. 
In answer to our knock a 
woman  came  to  the  door  and flatly re­
fused to let us have bread  at  any  price. 
Five  large  loaves, just baked,  were on a 
table  and  a  jar of butter near it. 
I told 
my  friend  to  go  to  the  front  door and 
argue with them  while I stole  the  food. 
This  programme  was  carried  out and I 
started  back through the  snow  with  my 
I had not gone far be­
bread and butter. 
fore  I  could  hear 
the  farmer  behind 
swearing  at  me.  Then  came  a  race 
through  the  snow.  Twice  I  fell  down 
and  soaked  the bread in the snow, but I 
hung  onto  it,  and reached  the train  at 
the  same  time the farmer did.  There a 
hundred  passengers  were  ready to help 
me,  and  we had one  square  meal. 
I had 
offered  $1  a  loaf  for  the  bread,  and 
started  to  make  the  promise  good, but 
the  passengers 
insisted  that  the  man 
should  get  nothing  except  the  empty 
butter jar.”

The  Grocery Market.

Sugar  (Edgar)—Refined  sugars are un­
changed in any particular and  the  situa­
tion  is devoid  of  new  features.  Heavy 
oversales continue on  the  active  grades 
of soft  whites,  but  on  the  general  list 
deliveries  are  fairly  prompt. 
Stocks 
throughout the  country  have  been  rap­
idly reduced under the pressing demands 
for consumption  and  a  second  demand 
is generally  looked for in  the near future 
and  may  have  the  effect  of  advancing 
prices  on  soft  grades.  Owing  to  con­
tinued  offerings  of  foreign  sugars  no 
future advances are likely on granulated, 
and as the present basis is about normal, 
under the new conditions,  no  shading of 
the list appears probable before the close 
of the present campaign.

Such  was the condition of  the  market 
Saturday, 
as  viewed  by  an  expert 
authority.  Monday  morning  brought  a 
decline of  %c on  all  grades except  Nos. 
13 and  14,  which  were  marked  down  a 
sixpence.

Pork—Prices  have 

remained  un­
changed  at  this  point,  although 
the 
Chicago  market  has  undergone  another

sharp  advance.  Business  for  the  past 
week  is  reported  quiet,  buyers  merely 
filling  immediate  and  pressing  wants. 
Lard  has  advanced  from 
per
pound.  There  have  been  a  few  slight 
changes in smoked meats,  as will  be seen 
by reference to market reports.

Lemons—The  offerings at  present  are 
composed of new  Verdellas, chiefly,  ami 
great dissatisfaction  results from  the ir­
regularity  in  packing.  The  360s  grade 
in size from walnuts up and there are just 
as apt to be 450 to the box  as  any  other 
number.  The  Choice  grades,  so-called, 
are made up of  the scarred,  rough  fruit, 
while the Faucies are  hardly better  than 
what should  be expected in fruit branded 
as Extra Choice.  The 300  size of  Fancy 
fruit  is  what should be  ordered at pres­
ent.  The poorer  grades  range  in  price 
frcm  $2.50@3  per  box,  while 
fancy 
Maioras are worth from $4.50@5, and are 
well  worth the difference in price.

Oranges—None  ip,  the  Western  mar­
kets  to  speak of,  at  present, and  no  de­
mand for them anyway.  The Rodis and 
Sorrentos look nice,  but are  really  light 
weight  and  puffy.  The Jamaicas which 
are landing at Eastern  ports are  like  all 
other  Jamaicas—too  green  and  sour  to 
please any one—and the dealers  who buy 
a few  barrels  do so  simply to be able  to 
say,  “ We have them.”

Bananas—The  domestic  fruits  have 
crowded  out  bananas  for  a  while  and 
this market  will  be  bare  of  stock  for  a 
week or so,  until there is enough demand 
to enable the  shippers to  get  something 
like first cost out of them  before they de­
cay.

Candy—Manufacturers  are  busy  and 
the prospect for a good fall’s business are 
excellent.  The  prices  on  staples  and 
standard  mixtures  remain  unchanged 
from last week’s  quotations.

The  Hardware  Market.

the 

General  trade  is  improving.  Manu­
facturers and jobbers  agree  in referring 
to an  increased  demand,  better  feeling 
and excelent prospect for  continued  im­
provement.  Naturally, 
improve­
ment is more marked in  some lines  than 
in others and some  manufacturers speak 
in stronger terms than others  of  the  in­
crease in their business;  but  all  jobbers 
agree  that  in  orders  that  reach  them 
there is a marked increase  in  their  vol­
ume.  While this is the case,  there  does 
not  seem  to  be  a  desire  to  over  buy, 
either  by  the  jobbers  or  the  retailers, 
and while prices are low in  many  lines, 
any marked advance  is  not  looked  for, 
nor does it seem as though  prices will go 
any  lower. 
If the demar  should  be  so 
great  as  to  warrant  it,  manufacturers 
will surely  make advances,  as they claim 
that present  prices  do  not  afford  them 
any profit.

Wire Nails—The  improvement  in  the 
demand  for  wire  nails  still  continues 
and it is evident dealers’ stocks  are  run­
ning  low.  Prices  remain  the  same  as 
last  week  and  makers  are  not  able  to 
make any advance.

Barbed  Wire—While  the  volume  of 
business  is  not  heavy,  the  demand  is 
good and prices are firmly  held  by  both 
the  mills  and  the  jobbers.  Prices  are 
firm at last week’s quotation.

Loaded ¡Shells—The demand  seems  to 
increase with each  year  and  at  present 
the manufacturers report they  are  eight 
weeks  behind  on  their  orders.  Nearly 
all jobbers have withdrawn  the  extreme 
quotations they  have  been  making  and

5
40,  10,  10  and  5  is  now  considered  the 
market

Shot—is  firm  at  last  quotation.  An 
advance has  been  looked  for,  but,  owing 
to the  low  price  of  pig  lead,  it  is  not 
probable any  advance  will  be  made  at 
present.  We  quote  drop  at  $1.25  and 
B.  B.  and  buck  at  $1.50.

Cordage—There  has  been  but  little 
change in the cordage market  during the 
past few weeks,  prices remaining  at  the 
same  figures as for some time  past.

There is  only  one  thing in  the  world 
easier to make  than  a  good  reputation; 
that is to make a bad one.

FO R   S A L E ,  W A N T E D .  ETC.

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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.
T  HAVE  FOR  SALE  A  CLEAN  STOCK  OF 
A  dry goods  and  notions.  Will  sell  or  lease 
the building  This is  a  rare  bargain.  Address 
Mrs.  \  . A. Melntrye, White Cloud,  Mich. 
rrtO   KENT—'VAsSAK  MIOI1., BRICK STORE. 
A   concrete cellar, good location,  general  dry 
goods or grocery business.  Apply  to  C. H  Rip. 
ley, Flint, Mich. 

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OK  SALE  CHEAP—A  DRUG  STOCK  AND 
fixtures  taken  on  chattel  mortgage.  The 
fi- tures are new snd modern  and  well  adapted 
for a grocery  store intending to put in  drugs, or 
for  a  new  drug  store.  A  good  chance  to buy 
nice fixtures  cheap.  Address  B.  F.  Barendsen 
1-9 Monroe S t, Grand Rapids,  Mich. 
(505  ’
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A- 
interest in one of the  most  desirable  lum­
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carriage, edger and trimmer, hoop  and  heading 
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 woodenware Co., Midland, Mich. 
TGTOR  SALE—LARGE  STORE  AND  STOCK 
°£_ general  merchandise  in McBain, Mich. 
Gillls  McBain, McBain. 
A  BE LIABLE  DRY  GOODS  AND  SHOE 
-ex.  salesman  desires  position.  Is  capable  of 
taking full charge of stocks  or  occupying  posi- 
bon of general mauager.  Address F. A. M.  care 
Michigan Tradesman. 
Y \7IL L   PAY  A  REASONABLE PRICE. CASIL 
’  „°S,a lady's wheel in good condition.  Ad­
dress H. T. C., care Michigan Tradesman.  601

gqo

603

612

Grand Rapids, the Harris mill property  situated 

604

597

599

Big   s n a p—a   r e a l   e s t a t e   o f f ic e

having  half  a  million  dollars’  worth  of 
property listed, fS 0 takes it.  Price of  office  fix- 
tures only.  100  other  business  chances.  Send 
stamp for list.  Mutual Business Exchange, Bay 
City. 
/CHOICE  FARM  OF  1(50 ACRES,  DEEP  SOIL 
living water, in Dickinson county,  Iowa  to 
exchange for stock of  goods  or  other  property. 
Give  full  description—quality,  quantity  and 
O up - Conklin, 26  Madison 
Ave., Grand Rapids, Mich. 
T | BUG  STORE  FOR  SALE—ABOUT  11500 
PaJt  ca?h  and  balance  on  time  to  good 
party.  Location first-class; rent low ; good open 
ing for a physician; new industry to  employ  100 
hands now building  near  by.  Fred  Brundaee 
Muskegon, Mich. 
’
ANTED—A DEALER IN EVERY’ COUNTY 
to handle the Peerless typewriter.  Send
for circular.  Barker  & Saunders, State Agents 
583  ’
19 and 21 Fountain St,G rand Rapids. 

I  TOR  SALE—TWO  PRESCRIPTION  CASES- 

one  pair  druggist’s  prescription  scales,’ 
rour section  druggist’s drawers (only  one  year 
old), six four foot show cases, verv  cheat)  Ad- 
dress  C. G. Pitkin, Whitehall. Mich. 

Ne a r l y   n e w   b a r  l o c k  t y p e w r it e r

for  Bale  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. 
REAT  O FFER -FIN E ' STOCK-  o f   Wa/.£ 
VA  paper,  paints,  varnishes,  picture  frames 
and room mouldings for  sale.  Reason  for  sell­
ing,  death of proprietor.  Good paying business 
in a very desirable location.  All  new  stock  in­
voicing  from  *2,500  to  *3,ooo.  Address  Mrs 
Theresa Schwind, Grand Rapids. 

■   BUSINESS CHANCE—FOR  SALE  OR E x ­

change for farm or city property In or near 
in Paris, Mecosta, Co., Michigan, on  the G. R. & 
I. Railroad, consisting of saw and planing mills, 
store and 39 acres of land, a  good  water  power, 
22 foot fall, side track into mill, plenty of  hard­
wood timber.  This is a good chance for anyone 
wishing to engage In any kind of  mill  business. 
For further particulars address B.  W.  Barnard, 
35 Allen street, Grand Rapids, Mich. 
/BANNING  FACTORY  WANTED—A  PARTY 
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. Hemlngsen,  Village Clerk,  Grant, 
Mich. 

■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
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'I’H Hi  M IC H IG A N   TRADESM AN

Manufacture of Bock  Candy.

Dry Goods Price Current.

UNBLEACHED  COTTONS.

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“  Arrow Brand 4% 
Argyle  ............. ....
“  World Wide.  6
Atlanta AA...... ....  6
’*  LL.................414
Atlantic  A ........
Pull Yard Wide.......  6ft
...  SX
“ 
H ........ ....  3ft
Georgia  A ...............6ft
“ 
P ........ ...  5
Honest Width........   6
“ 
D ........
...  6
Hartford A  ............. 6
“  LL...............  4 >4
Indian Head...........   6ft
Amory...................... 6%
King A  A.................6ft
Archery  Bunting
King E C ..................  6
Beaver Dam  A A 
4ft|Lawrence  L L ........  4ft
Blacks tone O, 32....  5
Madras cheose cloth 6ft
Black Crow..............6-
Newmarket  G........   5ft
Black  Rock  ............5ft
B..........5
Boot, AL.................  7
N .........6ft
Capital  A ................. 5ft
D D ....  5ft
Cavanat V ................5ft
X .......6ft
Chapman cheese cl.  3ft|Nolbe R ...................   5
Clifton  C R ..............5ft Our Level  Best........6
Comet.......................dftlOxford  R ..................   6
Dwight Star.............  6ft Pequot..................    7
Clifton CCC............5ft Solar...........................  6
(Top of the  Heap__   7
ABC...................8ft
Geo. W ashington...  8
Amazon.................... 8
Glen Mills..............   7
Amsburg...................6
Gold Medal.............7ft
Art  Cambric............10
Green  Ticket..........8ft
Blackstone A A.......7ft
Great Falls..............  6ft
Beats A ll...................4
Hope.........................7ft
Boston...................... 12
Just  Out........   4ft@ 5
Cabot.........................  6ft
King Phillip........... 7ft
Cabot,  f t ...................8ft
OP.......7ft
Charter  Oak............5ft
Lonsdale Cambric. .10
Conway W ...............7ft
Lonsdale............  @  8
Cleveland..............  6
Middlesex.........  @  5
Dwight Anchor__   8
No Name..................  7ft
shorts  8
Oak View.......  .......  6
Edwards....................6
Our Own..................  5ft
Empire.......................7
Pride of the West... 12
Parwell...................... 7ft
j Rosalind...................7ft
I Sunlight...................   4ft
Fitch ville
Utica  Mills..............8ft
First Prize-----------6 
“  Nonpareil  ..10
Fruit of the Loom ft.  7ft Vlnyard...................   8ft
Fairmount.................4ft White Horse............6
8ft
Fall Value.................6ftl 
Cabot.........................   6ft I Dwight Anchor
Farwell...................... 7ft|

“  Rock
HALF  BLEACHED  COTTONS.

BLEACHED  COTTONS.

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CANTON  FLANNEL.

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Housewife  A .... - - 5 X Housewife  Q ...
...6ft
R ...
s... — 7X
T ...
....8ft
U ... —  9ft
V — ...10
w ...
-10X
X ...
- • lif t
Y... ...12ft
Z ....
...13ft

Unbleached.
B.... ....5ft
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C ..„
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E .... ... .7
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F . . . — 73»
G  ... - - 7 f t
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H .. . — TX
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J . . .
...8 ft
‘ 
K  ... ■ 
9ft
L ...........10
‘  M ............10ft
“  -  N ............11
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O............21
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P ............14ft

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Inclosed  around 

Rock  candy  is  a  crystallized  sugar 
syrup  which,  after  boiling  and  being 
kept  at  a  certain  temperature,  forms 
itself  onto strings  suspended  across the 
interior  of  circular  copper  pots.  The 
first  process  in  its  manufacture  is  the 
boiling of the syrup.  About four barrels 
of the  finest  grade  of sugar,  with about 
sixteen gallons of water,  is  first put into 
a circular copper boiler,  about  five  feet 
in diameter and about three  and one-half 
feet  in  height. 
the 
sides  and  bottom  of  the  boiler  are  a 
number  of  coils  of  steam-pipe,  which, 
when turned on, causes  the  material  to 
boil and form itself into a syrup.  Water 
is also applied to the  sides of  the  boiler 
to prevent the syrup from sticking.  After 
the material  has  boiled  for  about  one- 
half hour,  it is run off  through a number 
of fine sieves at the  bottom,  and  passes 
down  through  a  four-inch  hose  to  the 
copper  candy-pots  below.  These  pots 
are  circular  in  form,  being  about  two 
feet  in  diameter  across  the  top,  and 
tapering  to  one  foot  at 
the  bottom. 
The  sides  of  each  pot  are  perforated 
with small  holes,  ranging  from  one-half 
inch  to  one  inch  apart;  through  these 
holes a piece of cotton  cord  is  run,  the 
ends of which  are  fastened  to  the  out­
side by a small  piece  of plaster of  Paris,
The  pots are  then  filled  up  to  the  top | F?u»of "th¿ Lo¿¿
with the  boiling  syrup—each  pot  holds 
about  five  gallons  and  weighs  forty 
pounds—and  carried  away  by  two  at­
tendants to what is called  the hot house. 
This hot house is  made entirely of brick, 
and is about  fourteen  feet  square  with 
walls about one  foot  in  thickness,  each I 
side being fitted  up  with  shelves  made 
of  heavy  planking.  Underneath  these 
shelves, attached  to the  side  walls,  are 
a  number  of 
two-inch  steam  pipes 
which,  when  turned  on,  furnish 
the ! 
required heat.  The attendants place the j 
heated pots side by side on these shelves, 
where they are left for two or three days 
in a  temperature  of  about 160  degrees, 
the heat of which causes the better part of 
the sugar to crystallize  onto  the strings. 
After  the  expiration  of  three  days,  a 
crust of crystallized sugar  is  formed  on 
the top of  each  pot  of about one-eighth 
inch  in  thickness.  The  interior  sides 
and bottom also have a  crystallized coat­
ing of about one inch,  while the  inferior 
part remains in a liquid  form.  The pots 
are then taken out of  the  hot house,  the 
plaster  scraped  off,  and  the  uncrystal­
lized liquid  poured off  into  a  tub,  after 
which it  is remelted and filtered  and run 
into barrels,  to be sold to liquor and soda 
water dealers.  The pots are  then  taken 
and rinsed out  with  water  to  take  the 
syrup off  the caudy,  and  then  taken  to 
the draining-room  where  they are placed 
bottom up in  an  inclined  position,  one 
against another,  in a  trough,  and left to 
drain about one day iu  a  temperature of 
about 70 degrees,  which  dries the  candy 
and  also gives it a glossy appearance.

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CARPET  WARP.

Peerless, white....... 17  ¡Integrity  colored..
colored — 19  White Star..............
Integrity..................18ft| 
“  colored
Hamilton 

DRESS  GOODS.

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Nameless................. 20
..........25
....27ft
..........30
..........32ft
....35

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.................. 9
...................10ft
G G  Cashmere........20
Nameless  ................16
.................18

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CORSET  JEANS.

Corallne.................S96ofWonderful
*4  50 
Schilling’s ..............  9 00 Brighton..
4 75
Davis  W aists.......  9 00 Bortree’s ....................  9 00
Grand  Rapids.......  4  50|Abdomlnal............15 00
Armory....................  OftlNaumkeagsatteen
Androscoggin..........7ft Rockport.................
Blddeford................  6  Conestoga.............
Brunswick...............6ft | W alworth...............
Allen turkey  reds..  5ft
robes............5ft
pink a purple 5ft
b u ffs............  5ft
pink  checks.  5ft
stap les........   5
shirtings  ...  S \  
American fancy—   5ft 
American Indigo...  4ft 
American shirtings.  3% 
Argentine  Grays...  6 
Anchor Shirtings...  4 
Arnold 
....  6
Arnold  Merino.......6
long cloth B.  9 
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“  C.  7ft
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century cloth  7
“ 
gold seal.......10ft
“  green seal TR 10ft 
“  yellow seal . .10ft
“ 
serge..............lift
“  Turkey red.. 10ft 
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Berwick fancies__   5ft
Clyde  Robes............
Charter Oak fancies  4 
Del Marine eashm’s.  5ft 
mourn’g  5ft 
Bddystone fancy...  5ft 
chocolat  5ft
rober__ 5ft
sateens..  5ft 
Hamilton fancy.  ...  5ft
staple__ 5ft
Manchester fancy..  5ft 
new era.  5ft 
Merrimack D fancy.  5ft 
Merrlm’ck shirtings.  4 
Repp furn .  8ft
Paelflc fancy  ......... 5ft
robes...............6
Portsmouth robes...  6ft 
Simpson mourning..  5ft
greys........   5ft
solid black.  5ft 
Washington Indigo.  6ft 
“  Turkey robes..  7ft
“  India robes__ 7ft
“  plain T k y  X ft  8ft 
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“ X ..10
•  Ottoman  Tur­
key re d ...............     6ft
Martha Washington
Tnrkeyred f t .......7ft
Martha  Washington
T nrkeyred...........   9ft
Rlverpolntrobes  ...  5ft
Windsor fancy........ 6ft
|  Indigo bine..........10ft
Harmony.................  4ft
INOS.
Amoskeag A C A .... lift
AC A ........................lift
Hamilton N  ............  7
Pemberton AAA___16
D ............... 8
York.......................... 10ft
Awning.. 11
Swift River............. 7ft
Fanner....................... 8
Pearl  R iver..............12
First  Prize...............10ft
W arren......................12ft
Lenox M ills............ 18
Conostoga............... 16
Atlanta,  D ...............6X|8Urk  A .................... 8
Boot...........................6*  No  Name............... 
7ft
Clifton, K  ............... 7  ¡Top of Heap...........   9

Ballon solid black..
colors.
Bengal bine,  green, 
red and  orange  ..  6
Berlin solids............5ft
“  oil bine.........  6
.  6
“  “  green 
“  Foulards 
...  5ft 
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red X .
“  “  \
»ft
.10
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“  3-4XXXX 12
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Cocheco fancy........ 5
madders...  5 
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“  XXtwills..  5 
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solids........ 5

COTTON  DRILL.

gold  ticket

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burned 

It  is  then 

For  yellow  rock candy  the  liquid  is 
colored  with 
sugar.  About 
eighty pounds of sugar and  three gallons 
of water are mixed  together  and  placed 
in a shallow  circular  copper  pan  about 
three feet iu diameter and  placed  over a 
hot fire,  where,  by  boiling  and  constant 
stirring,  it is allowed to get thick,  black, 
and burned.  When  properly  burned,  it 
is  taken  out  and  placed  in  a  tub  and 
diluted  with  water. 
run 
through  fine brass  sieves,  and  is  ready 
for use.  An intense  smoke  issues  from 
the  burning  sugar,  compelling  the  at­
tendants  to  wear  respirators.  The  red 
rock candy  is  colored  with  No.  40  car­
mine.
the  contents  of  the 
pots are knocked out  onto  boards  about 
two  feet  square.  This  is  done  by  an 
attendant turning the pots  upside  down 
and  whacking  the  sides  with  wooden 
mallets, causing the  candy to  fall  down 
into  a  heap.  The  strings  are 
then 
separated  from  each  other and  weighed 
out and  packed  into  from  five to forty- 
pound  boxes.  Twenty-one  hands  turn 
out about 182,324 pounds  of  rock  candy 
and 106,359  gallons  of rock  candy syrup 
yearly.  The material  is  sold  principal­
ly to confectioners,  liquor  dealers,  and 
grocers.  The  wholesale  price  for  a 
thousand pounds  of  rock  candy  is  7.44 
cents per pound.

After  draining, 

DEMINS.

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Amoskeag................12
9oz.......14
brown .14
Andover  .................lift
Beaver Creek  A A... 10 
BB... 9
“ 
CC....
“ 
Boston MfgCo.  br..  7
“ 
blue 8ft
“  d a twist  10ft 
Columbian XXX br.10 
XXX  bl.19
“ 

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“ 

Columbian  brown.. 12
Everett, bine............12ft
brown........12ft
Haymaker bine.......  7ft
brown...  7ft
Jaffrey......................lift
Lancaster................12ft
Lawrence, 9 o*.........13ft
No. 220___13
No. 250---- lift
No. 280---- 10ft

“ 
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“ 
GINGHAMS.

“ 

“  Persian dress  6ft 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

6 
Amoskeag...............   5  Lancaster,  staple.
7
fancies 
Normandie  7
Canton ..  7
Lancashire..............  6
AFC........ 8ft
Manchester............. 5ft
Teazle...10ft 
Monogram...............6ft
Angola.. 10ft 
Normandie............   7
Persian..  7 
Persian__ :..............7
Arlington staple —   6ft 
Renfrew Dress........ 7ft
Arasapha  fancy__ 4ft
Bates Warwick dres  7ftlRosemont................ 6ft
Slatersville............. 6
staples.  6
Somerset..................7
Centennial.............   10ft
Tacoma  .................. 7ft
C riterion................10ft
Toil  duN ord..........  8ft
Cumberland staple.  5ft
Wabash....................7ft
Cumberland............  5
seersucker..  7ft
Essex......................... 4ft
Warwick................   6
Elfin.........................  7ft
Whlttenden.............   8
Everett classics...... 8ft
heather dr.  7ft 
Exposition................ 7ft
Indigo blue  9 
Glenarle..................  6ft
Wamsutta staples...  6ft
Glenarven —   ........ 6ft
Westbrook...............8
Glenwood........ .......  7ft
Hampton....................5
10
Wlndermeer............5
Johnson Chalon cl 
ft 
York  ........................6ft
Indigo blue 9ft 
zephyrs__ 16

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“ 

ORA IN  BASS.
Amoskeag.............   .13  ¡Georgia
Stark...........................17 
.............
American.................. 13 | ..............

THREADS.

Clark’s Mile End.... 45  I Barbour's................95
Coats’, J. & P ..........45  Marshall’s  ..............90
Holyoke...................22ft |

No.

KNITTING  COTTON.

..33
6  .
8... ....34
10... ....35
...36
12...

White.  Colored.
38 No.  14... ...87
39
...38
“ 
16...
40
•*  18... ...39
41
“  20...
...40
CAMBRICS.

White.  Colored
42
43
44
45

Slater.......................   4
White Star.............   4
Kid Glove  ...............  4
Newmarket.............   4

Edwards.................  4
Lockwood..................4
Wood’s ...................   4
Brunswick............   4

RED  FLANNEL.

Fireman..................32ft
Creedmore..............27ft
Talbot XXX............30
Nameless................27ft

MIXED  FLANNEL,

Red & Blue,  plaid..40
Union R ..................22ft
Windsor.................. 18ft
6 oz Western...........20
Union  B ..................22ft ¡Manitoba
DO MET  FLANNEL.
8  @9ft|  “
“
8ft@10  I 
Slate. Brown. Black. Slate
9X 10ft
9ft
10ft lift
10ft
lift 12
lift
12ft
12ft 20
DUCKS.
Severen,80s...........   9ft
May land, 8 os...........10ft
Greenwood, 7ft os..  9ft
Greenwood, 8 os__ lift
Boston, 8 oz..............10ft

9ft
10ft
lift
12ft

T W ............................22ft
F T ............. .............. 32ft
JR F .X X X .............35
Buckeye...................32ft
Grey SR W..............17ft
Western W  ..............18ft
D R P ........................18ft
Flashing XXX.........23ft
■ 23ft
@10ft12ft
Black.
10ft
lift12
20

10ft
lift
12
20

Brown.

West  Point, 8 oz..  . 10ft 
10 oz  ...18ft
“ 
Raven, lOos..............13ft
..............13ft
Stark 
Boston, 10 os............ 12ft

“ 

WADDINOS.

8ILE8IAS.

White, dos................ 25 [Per bale. 40 dos___ 38 50
Colored,  dos.............20 IColored  “ 
............7 so
Slater, Iron Cross...  8
Red Cross....  9
Best............. 10ft
Best  AA......12ft
I-................................7ft
G ............................... 8 ftl
Cortlcelll, dos.........85  [Cortlcelll  knitting

Pawtncket............... loft
Dnndle.....................  g
Bedford....................loft
Valley  City..............loft
K K .............................10ft

8SWING  SILK.

per ft os  ball......... 80

twist, dos.. 4P 
50yd,dos..40  I
HOOKS AND ETES—PER GROSS.
No  1 Bl’k & Whlte..lO  |No  4 Bl’k & White  15
“ 
“ 
“  8 
"ao
"i»
“  3 
“ 
“ 
No 2—20, M C ......... 50  INO  4—15 J   8ft 
40
■  8-18, S C ...........45  I
No  2 White & Bl’k..12 

--12  “ 8 
..12 I  “  10 

f in s .

|No  8 White <b Bl’k  20 
. ' a
..26

“ 
11 

“ 
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COTTON  TAPE.
..15  “  10 
..18 I  “  12 
SAFETY  PINS.
-..2 8  
|N o8. ..
NEEDLES—FEB  M.

4 
6 
No 2.

.38

A. Jam es.................. l  40! Steamboat  ... 
to
Crowely’s................ 1  85 Gold  Eyed............ill  so
Marshall’s ............... 1 00| American.............. ..i  oo
15—4— 1  65  6—«...280

TABLE  OIL  CLOTH.

6—4... 

COTTONT WINES.

Cotton Sail Twine.. 28
Crown....................12
Domestic................. 18ft
A nchor..................16
B ristol...................18
Cherry  Valley...... 15
I X L ..........................18ft
Alabama......................... ox ~~
Alamance............... . t y
A ugusta....................7ft
Ar> sapha.................6
Georgia......................6ft
G ranite....................  5X
Haw  River..............6
Haw  J ......................e

N ashua.....................14
Rising Star 4-ply.... 17 
„  
8-ply.... 17
North Star............... 20
Wool Standard 4 pi vl7ft 
Pow hattan..............jg

_ 

Monnt  Pleasant__ 6M
Oneida.....................   5™
Prymont  ............. 5*
Randelman...............g
Riverside.................  5*4
Sibley  A ............  ...  ox
Otis checks...............7X

PLAID  OSNABUBGS

13ft

Everything  in seeds is kept  by  us— 

Avoid  the
Giim  of  Credit 
C O U P O N

BY  USING

%

BO O K S.

THREE  GRADES:

Tradesman,
Superior,
Universal.

Manufactured only by

TRADESMAN  COflPANY,

Grand Rapids,  Mich.

S B B D S Î

Clover, Timothy,

Hungarian,  Millet,

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

If you  have  Beans  to  sell,  send  us 
samples,  stating  quantity,  and  we 
will  try to trade with  you.  We are 
headquarters for egg cases  and  egg 
case tillers.
W.  T,  UM0RERUX  GO •l W . B ridge  St.,
And
his wife 
said:

G R A N D   R A P I D S ,  M IC H .

“Be sure and  buy  nothing but
ATLAS  soap,  for  it  makes  the
washing easy  and  keeps 
the  hands  so  soft  and 
white.”

Manufactured  only by

HENRY  PASSOLT,

SAGINAW,  MICH.

EATON.  LYON & CO.

NEW  STYLES  OF

20 &  22  Monroe  St.,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

 

1

T H E   MICETTO A N   TR A D ESM A N .

7

SIX LETTERS  TO A  CLERK—II.

Which  Place Shall  Be  Chosen:  the City 
An Old Merchant in Hardware.

or the Country.

I can readily understand, my dear Toro, 
why your eyes  should look  longingly to­
wards  a  situation  in the  city, and I  ap­
preciate all of what  you call  the  advan­
tages  that  the  city  clerk  has  over  his 
country brother;  but  there are  two sides 
to  this  question  as  to every  other,  and 
while  I  do  not  propose  to  say  either 
“stay” or “go,” I think  1 can give you  a 
few points  that  you,  as  a  young  man, 
may be in danger of overlooking.

First, then, you must take into account 
the fact that the  competition in  the  city 
is  a  thousand-fold  greater  than  in  the 
country,  and this rivalry  is  not  only  in 
money-making,  but  in  brains  and hand 
and brain service.  As a rule, the bright­
est and sharpest of the  country boys find 
their way to the city.  Some of them  get 
there as easily and  as  naturally as water 
runs down hill;  others are  pushed  there 
by the stories  they hear of  large salaries 
and of the wonderful fortunes made.  So 
that the result is that the country is con­
stantly  pouring  its  best  blood  into  the 
city, and the competition to be met there 
by the young man commencing life is en­
tirely different in  degree  from  what  he 
has to overcome iu his own village.
Another reason  why  the city  does  not 
always  lead  to  fortune  is the  fact  that 
salaries  are  not  proportionately  higher 
than country salaries, as the cost  of  liv­
ing is higher. 
I am  aware  this is not  as 
you  have  been  looking  at  things,  but 
nevertheless it is  the fact.  The  country 
clerk  hears  only  of  the  fancy  salaries 
paid;  of the $2,500 to this  man. $2,000 to 
that  man,  and  $1.800  to  another  man. 
and nothing is said  about  the  hundreds 
who work for $800 a year, and  are hardly 
able to keep out of debt.
A few days  ago I was  speaking  to one 
of the leading New  York  importers in  a 
certain  line  of  goods  about  a  country 
merchant who had just failed,  and  I said 
the man expected  to get a situation from 
some of the New York houses.
“What  salary  will  he  expect?”  my 
friend asked.
I suggested that the  man  was a capital 
salesman and ought to  command  a  good 
salary;  that  I  thought  he  was  worth 
more than another traveling man I named 
who was getting $2,500 a year.
“Yes.” said  the-importer,  “ we  hear  a 
great  deal  about  some  of  these  fancy- 
priced men,  but  I  happen  to  know  the 
man yon mention does not get $1.800, and 
the day has gone by when we care to hire 
traveling men at any such prices.”
A young man  came to  me  this  spring 
who had been clerking in  a country town 
in Ohio  for  five  years  and  in  business 
two years for himself, but had been “laid 
out” by the  hard times,  and  wanted  me 
to  help  him towards getting a situation. 
His first ambition  was to  be  a  traveling 
salesman,  and my experience leads me to 
think that nine clerks  in the country out 
of ten are satisfied that they  are  exactly 
fitted to sell goods on  the road,  and their 
ambition seems  to  point  always  in  that 
direction. 
It is somewhat amusing when 
a raw clerk from  the  country comes  into 
your office and  applies for  a situation as 
drummer;  and one doesn’t know whether 
to laugh at his conceit  or pity  his ignor­
ance.  At the same time,  of course, some 
of our best traveling men are  those  who 
have had experience in the country  retail 
stores.
I  told  my  young  friend  he  would 
hardly be able to get a situation  as  trav- 
eling salesman,  but if  he wanted  to  try, | 
I would give him a few letters by  way of 
introduction. 
In  a  few  hours  he  came 
back  and  announced  that  the  jobbing 
houses  were  not  needing  any traveling 
I  went with him among  the retail 
men. 
stores, and  I  was surprised  at  the  small 
salaries  paid  to  the  clerks. 
In the  dry­
goods stores, young  men  with two years’ 
experience were getting  $8  a  week,  and 
some  of  the  better  class of  clerks were 
I  learned  that 
working for $10 a  week. 
the  merchants  were overrun with appli­
cations  for  situations,  and 
they  had 
hundreds of names of  boys of from 15  to 
18  years  of  age who would  be very glad 
to work for  their  board. 
I  advised  my 
friend to go back to his  village  and wait

for a chance in some of  the stores  there.
The  argument  held before young men 
to  draw  them  to  the  city  is the better 
chance there for  rapid  advancement. 
I 
have some doubts as to  the  soundness of 
this  argument. 
In  one  of  the  towns 
where I used to sell a great  many  goods 
were  a  couple  of  young men  who were 
clerks in the  two  leading  stores  of  the 
place.  They  had  many  consultations 
with  me  over  their  chances  of  getting 
situations in  the city if they should move 
that  way,  and  my  constant  advice  to 
them  was  to  stick  where  they  were. 
Some business called me to their  town  a 
few months  ago,  and I  found  these  two 
young  men  at  the head of  the two lead­
ing stores  there,  and  each  of  them was 
well fixed in money matters. 
I  am  con­
fident that had they gone to the city they 
would be  working  on  small  salaries  to­
day.
Two young men of  my early  acquaint­
ance began life  together;  one  went  into 
the  city  and  secured  a situation in  the 
leading dry goods  store;  the other began 
clerking in a small New England village. 
The  village  clerk  became  acquainted 
with the  doctors,  lawyers  and ministers, 
and from being associated  with such men 
was induced to  keep on  with  his  books 
and  study,  and  as  he grew  in years  he 
grew in influence in  the  community,  all 
things  combining  to  give  him  greater 
self-respect and self-reliance.  A change 
in  circumstances  led  him 
to  seek  the 
western country,  and  success  following 
him there he soon worked  himself into  a 
prosperous business.  The boy who went 
to the  city  changed  from  this  store  to 
that  store,  always  bettering his position 
a little, either  in salary  or  in  the  posi­
tion,  but when the two  friends met after 
many years the country clerk  was a mer­
chant,  with a large  income,  and the  city 
clerk was still  a clerk and  nothing more.
And if  this story  does  not  prove  that 
the  country  is not a  tomb  where all  en­
ergy and ability is  wasted,  it proves that 
the city is not  always  the  high  road  to 
fortune.  The  possibilities of  the future 
is a view that young men  rarely  take  of 
themselves.  A  small  salary  is  not  of 
much consequence to  a young  man  pro­
viding  it  is  enough  for his  wants, if it 
only leads to  a  sure  fortune  by-and-by. 
If you are sure that you  possess abilities 
out  of  the  common  order,  then  there 
rises a question whether you cannot make 
more with them  in a  smaller  than  in  a 
larger town.
1 would discourage no young man from 
being ambitious;  on the contrary,  I  will 
do  all  I  can to  keep him onward,  but  I 
am always anxious that the glamour of a 
few  prominent  names  that  have  been 
made  famous  by  their  owners’  success 
may  not dazzle other men to destruction.
To  bring  about  a  brewery  strike  or 
beer  boycott  is  a  very  difficult  thing. 
The  men  are  fond  of  beer and they do 
not want to  walk  out  and  leave  it  for 
scabs  while they go  dry, as  walking del­
egates  cannot  promise  free  beer  and 
wages both from the strike fund.

Try to find out  the business  for  which 
you are best  adapted,  aud  stick  to  that 
one thing.  A young  man  should  have  a 
real  love,  amounting  to ,a  passion,  for 
bis calling.

Hardware Price Current.

These  prices are  for cash  buyers,  who 
pay promptly  and  buy in  full  packages.
AUGUBS AMD  BITS. 
d ts.
Snell's................................................
..........  60*10
Cook’s .................. ......... ....................
Jennings’, genuine.........................................  
25
Jennings’,  Imitation ........................ ..............50*10
First Quality, S. B. Bronze..............
D.  B. Bronze  ............. ...........*  5 50
............  il  00
S. B. % Steel............... ............  6  50
D.B. Steel.................. .............   13 CO
Railroad  ...............................................*13 00  14 00
Garden.....................................................   net  80 00
d ig .
Stove.............  
50410
Carriage new list 
  75410
•••••........................................................40*10

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

RARSOWS. 

BOLTS. 

AXKÖ.

“ 
* 

dlS.

 

BUCKETS.

Well,  plain  .....................................................« 3  50
W ell,swivel......................................................  400
Cagt Loose Pin, figured....................................70*10
Wrought Narrow, bright 5agt joint  40.........60*10

BUTTS, CAST. 

d ig.

CRADLES.

CROW BARS.

CAPS.

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

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

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

G rain..................................................  

Cast Steel................................................ per 1b 

Ely’s 1-10.................................................perm  
...........................................  “ 
Hick’s  C. P 
G-D -....................................................... 
Musket 
...........................................  » 

85
55
“  85
80

 

CABTBIDSXR.

50
35

Rim  Fire................................................ .......... 
Central  Fire........................................ 
dig. 

OHISKLS. 

dig.
Socket Firmer 
  .................................75*10
Socket Fram ing...............................................75*10
Socket Corner.................................................. 75*10
Socket Slicks.................................................. 75*10
Butchers’ Tanged Firmer....................  ... .. .  
40
dig.

combs. 

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

40
25

White Crayons, per  gross....  ...... 12ffll3Vi dts. 10

CHALK.
COPPER.

“ 

Planished, 14 os cut to size........ per pound 
14x52, 14x56, 14x60 ...... 1............... 
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60.......................... 
Cold Rolled, 14x48............................................ 
Bottoms...................................................................... 22
Morse’s  Bit  Stocks........................................  
Taper and straight Shank..............................  
Morse’s Taper Shank....................................... 

38
26
28
23

DRILLS. 

50
50
50

dig.

DRIPPING PANS.

gvi
Small sizes, ser po u n d ...................................  
Large sizes, per  pound...................................  
¿6
SL30W8.
Com. 4  piece, 6 in .............................. ass. net 
75
50
Corrugated..........................  
dig 
Adlustable.  ..............................................dig.  40*10

EXPANSIVE BITS. 

dlS.

Clark’s, small, 818;  large, 126......................  
30
Ives’, 1, 818:  2, 824;  3,830  ..............................  
25
Hiss ton’s .....................................................60410-10
New American  ..........................................60*10-10
Nicholson’s ................................................60*10- 0
Heller’s  ............................................................. 
50
Heller’s Horse Rasps  ....................................  
  50

piles—New List. 

dis.

GALVANIZED IRON.

28
17

15 

12 

13 

Discount, 70

14 
GAUGES. 

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

Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s....... 
 
knobs—New List. 
Door, mineral, jap. trim m ings__  
. . .  
Door,  porcelain, jap. trimmings 
...............  
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings 
Door,  porcelain, trimmings  .........................  
Drawer  and  Shutter, porcelain....................  
........  
Russell *  Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new list 
Mallory, Wheeler  &  Co.’s ..............................  
Branford’s .......................................................  
Norwalk’s ...................................................  
 

locks—door. 

dig.

 
. 

50
55
55
55
55
70
55
55
55
55

MATTOCKS.

 

 

dig

NA ILS

MAULS. 
mills. 

MOLASSKS GATES. 

Adze E y e .......................................»16.00, dig. 60-10
Hunt Bye 
.....................................«15.00, dig. 60-10
Hunt’s .........................  
............«18.50. dig. 30*10
dig.
Sperry *  Co.’*. Post,  handled.......................  
dig.
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s ....................................... 
“  P. 8. & W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleable*__  
Landers,  Ferry *  Cls rk’g..................  
“  Enterprise 
......................................... 

50
40
40
40
30
Stebbin’s Pattern..............................................60*10
Stebbin’s Genuine............................................ 66*10
Enterprise, self-measuring............................. 
30
Advance over  base,  on  both  Steel  and Wire.
Steel nails, Dase...................................................    35
Wire nails, base.......................................  ..." 11  35
00......................................................... Base 
Base
10
50.................................................. 
 
25
40 
........................................................ 
30  .........................................................  
25
20  .........................................................  
35
16...........................................................  
45
45
12 
10........................................................... 
50
3  • • •..  .................................................  
60
7 * 6   ....................................................  
75
90
........................................  
4 
8 ......................................  
................. 
1  20
2 - • •  -...................................................  
1  60
F in e3 ....................................... 
65
Case  10................................................. 
75
8........................................ 
6.....................  
go
75
S...............................................  
90
10
6  .............................................  
70
80
8.............................................  
go
6 ........... 
Barrell *   ............................................ 
175
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fan cy ...................................   Q40
Sdota Bench................................................. 
«60
Ssndnsky Tool  Co.’*, fancy...........................  ©40
Bench, first quality..........................................  «40
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s  wood............ 50*10
Fry,  Acme.................................................dls.60—10
Common,  polished................................... dig. 
70
Iron and  Tinned.............................................50__10
Copper Rivets and Bora................................  60—10

Clinch’10..................................... 

Finish 10............ 

FLANKS. 

“ 
1 
“ 

BTVKTS. 

PAMS.

dig.

dls.

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PATENT PLANISHED IRON.

“A” Wood’s patent planished. Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
“B” Wood’s  n a t planished,No*. 25 to 07...  9 20 

Broken packs Ho per pound extra.

40*10

5

HAMMERS.

 

 

 

" 

“ 
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HINGES.

HANGERS. 

Maydole  *  Co.’s ........................................dls 
£f
Hip’s ............................................................dls! 
??
Yerkes *  Plumb’s .....................................dig. 40*10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel........ ................. goc list CO
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steel  Hand.  . .80c40410
Gate, Clark’s, 1 ,2 ,3 .................................dls.60*i<i
State 
................................... per do*, net, 2  50
Screw Hook  and  Strap, to 12 In. 414  14  and
3^
to
.net 
Screw Hook and  Bye, V4............. ....... 
%...........................net 
f'ii
X ...........................net  7*4
P

longer.......................................................  
¡1 

Strap and T ................................................dis. 
dig
Barn Door Kidder M fg. Co.. Wood track 
504  C
Champion,  anil-friction..............  
an.tin
Kidder, wood tra c k ............................................... 40
HOLLOW WAKE.
Pots...................................................... 
60*11!
f 6“1®8....................................................
.......................................................60*10
Spiders  ... 
Gray enameled.............................................   40*11*
HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS.
new Hat to
Stamped  Tin Ware....................  
-Japanned Tin W are..................." ! " ! !  
“  g
Granite Iron W are....................... new lie 
2t
„  . 
dls.
S r f 1“ ™ "".............................................   70* 10*10
5 ° ® M • ••• ......................................... 70*10410
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THE  UNEMPLOYED POPULATION.
The highest  problem of  statesmanship 
is to make the country  prosperous.  The 
conditions of prosperity are that  the  en­
tire able-bodied population  shall  be  en­
gaged in some regular labor  that  affords 
the  people  of  all  classes  a comfortable 
subsistence.

In  a  rich  country  like  the  United 
States  it  cannot yet be said that there is 
an  excess  of  population,  but  the  in­
creasing  numbers  of  criminals,  both in 
and  out  of  prisons,  of  the  helpless 
classes in public  asylums, and  the  enor­
mous numbers,  such as tramps  and  beg­
gars,  who  live  without  contributing to 
the common stock of  wealth,  show  that 
there is an undue proportion of  the  peo" 
pie who are not  productive  and  live  on 
the  earnings  of  others. 
If  the  entire 
population were industrious  and  thrifty 
there should never be any  large  amount 
of popular distress in  this  country  save 
in times of  great  industrial  depression. 
But in such a period which  this  country 
has  been  passing  through, 
industrious 
and  honest  workers  have  been  turned 
out on the world in vast numbers.

The 

statesmen  who  are  able,  by 
wise  and  just  laws,  to  guard  against 
periodical financial depressions have  not 
yet  appeared  in this country. 
It is true 
that  oftentimes  financial  storms  have 
their origin in other countries,  and  pass 
in a sort of panic wave from one  land  to 
another,  and  so  the  United  States  is 
struck in turn by the storm,  which  must 
have  more  or  less  effect  in  disturbing 
finances and industries.

But  it ought at least to be possible,  in 
a rich country like this, to prevent finan­
cial  panics  from  originating  here. 
In 
Europe,  from very early  times,  coloniza­
tion and deportation  of  the  unemployed 
were  practiced  to  relieve  the  principal 
centers from the evils of overpopulation. 
The American  continent  and  Australia 
were made the receptacles for millions of 
the  people  who  were  overcrowding the 
Old  World  countries. 
In  that  way 
Europe  was  relieved of a vast amount of 
poverty  and  criminality.  Then 
the 
destructive wars helped  to  thin  out  the 
population,  but the main  dependence for 
getting rid of the surplus people  was  in 
the colonies of  the  new  countries.  To­
day  Europe  is  actively  dumping a vast 
pauper  emigration 
into  the  Americas, 
and this  sort of thing has been  going  on

until  the  people  of  this  rich  country 
have  began  to  feel the stress of having 
to support a numerous criminal and help 
less class.

In good times this incubus  is  not seri­
ously felt,  but in a period of  great  busi­
ness disturbance the burden of having to 
take care of a large and constantly grow­
ing,  non-productive  population  weighs 
most heavily. 
It is not too  much  to  say 
that a million of people had to be wholly 
supported  for  mouths  during  parts  of 
1893 and  1894 in the United States.  The 
United  States,  receiving  always  crimi­
nals  and  p  upers  from  Europe,  has no 
outlet for them.  Possessing  no  colonies 
and no national  prisons  and  few  public 
workshops,  all 
the  helpless  and  idle 
classes  are  necessarily  saddled  on  the 
people of states and cities.

The  burden  of taking care of all these 
classes for some time  past has  amounted 
to many  m illions of dollars, and  there  is 
no  p ro sp ect  of  any  considerable  relief 
from  this  tax,  because  people  who  are 
supported  in  idleness  soon  become  en­
amored  of  such  a  life  and  refuse  to 
work.

Necessarily,  when there are  no  means 
of  getting  rid  of  such  a  population  it 
must  be  supported,  and  the  American 
people  have  been  forced  to ,study  the 
problem of how to deal  with  the  unem­
ployed.*  Statesmanship  would  seek  to 
employ  all  the  population,  but  in  the 
absence of any such  wisdom  the  people 
must wrestle with  the evil instead  of be­
ing relieved of it.

The 

extreme  business  depression 
which  has  continued  during  the  past 
year, and affected all  parts  of  the  coun­
try, has brought  various schemes  in  aid 
of the unemployed forcibly to  the  atten­
tion of every industrial community. 
In­
formation  respecting  methods  of reliev­
ing the hardship due to lack of work and 
of dealing  with the unemployed has been 
eagerly  sought,  and  the lack of definite 
knowledge as to the best method  of  pro­
cedure in such exigencies has led  to  the 
adoption of plans more or  less  tentative 
and  experimental. 
Similar  problems, 
although hardly yet seriously considered 
in this country,  have  long  been  studied 
abroad.  The lower stratum of the popu­
lation 
in  every  industrial  community 
consists  of  those  who,  for various rea­
sons,  such  as  personal  incapacity,  evil 
habits,  misfortune of  condition,  etc.,  are 
constantly  in  danger  of  lapsing  into 
pauperism,  and  who  are  frequently  in 
need of temporary assistance.

It  will  be  necessary  to  borrow ideas 
from Europe if we are to support  all  the 
European paupers.

SOME  LABOR PROBLEMS.

There  is  no  question  that  the  chief 
European nations are  far  ahead  of  the 
United States in efforts to solve the  vari­
ous problems created by  the  relations  of 
labor to capital.

Upon a  successful  adjustment  of  the 
controversies  that  are  growing  out  of 
the differences on the subjects of  wages, 
working hours and  other  issues  between 
employers  and  employes  depends  the 
peace, order and welfare  of  society  and 
the prosperity of this country and  of  all 
the  chief  industrial countries.  What  is 
at present a state of  unrest,  dissatisfac­
tion and anxiety among the people  of  all 
classes,  will develop into war  and  revo­
lution unless the danger shall be averted 
by the  Intervention  of  wise  statesman­
ship and a large measure  of  forbearance

and a patriotic disposition to do  all  that 
is possible for the general good.

In this connection should be mentioned 
the excellent  results  which  have  grown 
out of efforts in England to  prevent  sud­
den and arbitrary reductions of  wages in 
certain industries.  These important ar­
rangements  have  been  secured  by  the 
labors of joint  conciliation  boards  com­
posed of employers  and  employes.  The 
coal miners  and  the  North  of  England 
iron ship-builders have both come  to  an 
understanding  with  the  employers  on 
the question of wages—the  central  prin­
ciple of both settlements being the same, 
viz., a recoil from the  excessive  fluctua­
tion  of  wage  scales.  The  conciliation 
board established  to  settle  the  miners’ 
strike of last year has cut  wages  10  per 
cent,  from Aug.  1, on the express under­
standing that there shall be no change in 
the rate until Jan.  1,  1896. 
If trade im­
proves after Jan.  1,  1896,  the  men  may 
claim 15 per cent,  advance Aug.  1,  1896. 
The minimum living wage is fixed  at  30 
per cent,  above the  prices  of  1888.  The 
maximum,  which  can  only  be  claimed 
between  January  and  August,  1896,  is 
fixed  at  45  per  cent,  above  the  1888 
standard.  The iron and steel  shipbuild­
ers, masters and men,  between  the  Tyne 
and Tees, have voluntarily  entered  into 
an agreement forbidding  all  changes  in 
wages excepting at six months’ intervals, 
and then no change is to be  made  either 
way  of more than 5 per cent.

Probably  there  is no feature of the re­
lations between labor  and  capital  more 
aggravating to workingmen than  the  ar­
bitrary  cutting  down  of  wages.  The 
employers in a bad time find it necessary 
to reduce expenses,  and  the  work  peo­
ple, as is just, must bear  their  share  of 
the  reduction.  On  the  other  hand,  as 
soon as business shows signs of  reviving 
and employers begin to figure on  getting 
even on the money they have lost  during 
the  period  of  depression,  they  are  met 
with exorbitant demands on the  part  of 
employes,  increasing  wages  to  a  point 
which  leaves little  or  no  margin.  But 
for the machinations of  unionist  leaders 
and the pernicious  doctrines  of  socialis­
tic  agitators,  employers  and  employes 
would get together and arrange some sys­
tem of profit sharing,  from which  happy 
results  would  flow  and  by  which  both 
parties to the agreement would  be  enor­
mous gainers.  There would be no longer 
a feeling  of  distrust  and  unrest  which 
constantly  threatens  to  break  out  into 
strikes  and  lockouts,  but,  on  the  con­
trary,  both  employers  aud  employes 
would  be  constantly  stimulated to work 
for the common good.

The great problems of  the  proper  re­
lations of labor  and capital must  be  sat­
isfactorily  worked  out  in  the  lines  of 
peace  and  mutual  interest,  or  else  the 
most radical doctrines of  socialism,  end­
ing  finally  in 
the  establishing  in  all 
countries  of  powerful  despotic  govern­
ments,  will be pushed to  the extremes of 
violence and revolution.

THE  DUTY  OF  THE  CITIZEN.
The new tariff law has now been in ef­
fect loug enough to  enable some opinion 
to be formed as to its  probable  practical 
working.  Evidence  multiplies  to  show 
that the business  of the  country  is  rap­
idly adjusting  itself  to  the  new  condi­
tions imposed by the  law,  and  a  steady 
improvement in business,  both  commer­
cial  and  manufacturing,  is  confidently 
expected  by  those  whose  acquaintance

with  commercial  affairs  and 
freedom 
from extreme and unreasonable partisan­
ship  makes  them  best  able 
to  judge. 
The bill, as finally passed,  probably  does 
not entirely  and in every  particular suit 
a single  citizen  in  the  country  in  any 
party;  it  is  a  compromise,  as  in  fact 
most, if not all,  general  tariff  bills  are 
and must be,  but  iu  this  case  the  espe­
cially regrettable feature  of  the compro­
mise is that impudent rascality  and  per­
fidy had  to  be  dealt  with  and  allowed 
for in the final result.

Now that the feeling  of  intense  exas­
peration  at  the  unreasonable  delay  of 
Congress has in a measure  passed  away, 
and people have a chance to consider the 
law itself,  it is  seen  that  the  reduction 
of  import  duties  amounts  to  about  25 
per  cent.,  and  that  with  a  number  of 
very important  exceptions  the  duty  re- 
mainiug added to the cost  of  production 
abroad is more than the prices  at  which 
domestic  goods  have  been  selling  here 
for  some  time—prices  fixed  by  home 
competition.

Whether or not this law as  it stands is 
in the right direction,  is a question which 
time  and  experience  only  can  answer. 
It is the law of the land and  no  possible 
good can come from mere railing at it, or 
calling names. 
It is  the  duty  of  every 
good American  citizen,  a duty which  he 
owes to his country and  to himself,  to go 
to  work,  attend  strictly  to  business, 
study,  without  allowing  prejudice  to 
prevail,  the tariff question,  and  be  pre­
pared to vote  upon  it  in  future  in  ac­
cordance  with  bis  honest  convictions. 
And when the people have so voted,  it is 
the duty of  every  citizen  to  accept  the 
result as philosophically as  may be.

Mayor  Pingree  has  been  heard  from 
again.  During the recent railroad strike 
he telegraphed the  mayors  of  sixty-four 
cities,  asking  them  to  co-operate  with 
him in an effort to settle the strike by ar­
bitration.  The  bill  for  those  telegrams 
amounted  to  856,  which  Mr.  Pingree 
modestly asked the Detroit  City  Council 
to  pay.  The  Council  ordered  it  paid. 
Whether they desired to “stand in”  with 
the Mayor or  whether they  honestly  be­
lieved  the  city  ought to pay his private 
bills is,  of  course,  unknown;  but  when 
such  men  as  Jacob  and  Hoffman  and 
Weidner are found  advocating  and  vot­
ing for the payment of the bill,  it looks a 
little suspicious,  to  say  the  least.  The 
city of Detroit was do more concerned in 
the settlement of  the  late  labor troubles 
by arbitration than was the city of Pekin. 
It authorized no  one to  propose  arbitra­
tion;  and  when  Mayor  Pingree  took  it 
upon himself to ask  the  intervention  of 
the  mayors  of  a number of other cities, 
it  was  upon  his  personal 
responsi­
bility;  he had  not even the  right to do it 
as Mayor of Detroit but as plain Pingree. 
The city of Detroit,  a municipality  with­
in the jurisdiction of  the United  States, 
would  hardly  have  dared  to  interfere 
when  the authority of the  United  States 
was being  defied and her mandates set at 
naught.  But it seems  that  Mr.  Pingree 
thinks  differently  about  it,  and expects 
the city to pay the  bills  he  incurred  at 
the time of his unwarranted Interference.

If  to  the pure all things are pure,  one 
brand  of  baking powder does not have a 
great advantage over another.

We  have  noticed  that  the  man  who 
always speaks  well of his neighbor bas a 
pretty good reputation at home.

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WHO  PAYS  THE  TAXES?

The  most  serious  problem 

statesmanship is that of  taxation. 
certainly so in the United States.

in  all 
It  is 

The  expenses  of  the  Great  Republic 
are enormous,  and  they  are  constantly 
growing.  The  country  cannot  get  on 
with much less than  $500,000,000 a year. 
The Democratic Congress  has  contrived 
to reduce the allowance to the  extent  of 
a few millions;  but that,  after  all,  is  a 
mere bagatelle,  and it  is  largely  at  the 
expense of the navy,  too,  in  the  failure 
to provide for  the  construction  of  new 
ships.

It may be set down  that  the  expenses 
of the  Government  can  be  paid  out  of 
$500,000,000 a year so long  as  the  army 
is  not  increased,  and  no  provision  is 
made for the public defense  in  the  con­
struction of fortifications and armaments 
and an adequate  navy.  Many  hundreds 
of millions of money will be required for 
those matters if it  should  ever  be  con­
sidered necessary to make  any  provision 
for national defense.

But one direction in which the expenses 
of  all  government,  State  and  Federal, 
are enormous is in the necessity  for  the 
support of a vast dependent  class.  The 
Federal  Government  spends  something 
less than $200,000,000 a year in pensions, 
while all the States have an ever-increas­
ing burden in supporting  the inmates  of 
asylums  and  convicts  in  prisons.  The 
growth of the dependent  classes  is  in  a 
ratio  which  rapidly  responds 
to  the 
growth of population,  and  they  all  have 
to be supported out of taxes  paid by  the 
people.

The  Coxey  idea  has  introduced  an­
other serious  feature  for  the  taxpayers 
to consider. 
It is the fact that it will be­
come the rule for all the  idle men  in  the 
country  to  organize  into  armies  and 
march  to  Washington  to  demand  from 
Congress  appropriations  of  money  or 
other financial  legislation  for  their  re­
lief.  The Coxey experiment  became  ri­
diculous because of the  inability  of  the 
men engaged in it to  reach  the  national 
capital.

But  suppose  that,  instead  of  a  few 
hundred 
tatterdemalions,  Coxey  had 
gathered at Washington  100,000 men,  or 
50,000,  or  even  10,000. 
The  results 
might have been more  serious.  But  the 
fact was,  after all,  that some  10,000 men 
who  were  seeking  to  join  Coxey,  and 
started from various parts  of  the  coun­
try, were actually  subsisted  for  several 
months by the people among  whom  they 
were operating.  Here were some 10,000 
men living on the country, and giving no 
labor in return for it.  When  the people 
of one place could support one  of the so- 
called armies no longer,  they  paid  their 
passage by rail or  furnished  them  with 
boats, so that the Coxeyites  could  move 
to another place and  quarter  themselves 
on the people there.

Thus these waifs were  able to live and 
travel  at  somebody’s  expense  without 
themselves having to give up a cent,  and 
that, after all,  was  not  such  hard  fate.
It was just what many of  them  desired. 
When  it  is  considered  that  there  were 
about 10,000 of  these  people,  and  their 
operations extended through  some  three 
or four months, it will be  seen  that  the 
burden they imposed on the  people  was 
very  considerable. 
It  was  a  tax,  al­
though not one imposed  by  the  Govern­
ment.  There was enough  of  success  in 
the Coxey scheme to  commend  it  to  all 
the idle loafers  in  the  country,  and  in

all probability it will be  tried  again  by 
largely increased numbers.

But to come  back  to  the  question  of 
taxation does not require that the Coxey­
ites should  be  lost  sight  of.  The  day 
may come  when Congress will be intimi­
dated  into  making  provision  for  them, 
and,  after all,  the people who have  here- 
fore paid their expenses will be extreme­
ly glad to have  the  burden  assumed  by 
the Government. 
In shifting  such  bur­
dens on  the  publie  administration,  cit­
izens think they relieve themselves.

Unfortunately, the masses of  the  peo­
ple do  not  yet  realize  that,  no  matter 
the 
how  the  taxes  may  be  regulated, 
masses pay them  after  all. 
It  was  the 
favorite idea  in levying  the  income  tax 
that it would only fall on the  rich  men. 
Those  who  have  no  incomes  will  not 
have to  pay  anything.  This  is  a  most 
deceptive  notion.  The  rich  man  who 
pays an  income tax  immediately  gets  it 
refunded  by  the  people  who  rent  his 
houses or purchase his goods.  He raises 
rents or increases the prices of his goods, 
and soon gets his income tax  out  of  his 
customers,  or else he  reduces the  wages 
of his employes. 
It is the  same with  all 
taxes.  The  masses  of  the  people  pay 
them in the end,  and yet it  seems impos­
sible to make the people understand this. 
People who own no property  may  think 
they pay no taxes,  but they  are  handing 
out their money to pay their share  of  all 
the taxes.  Everybody shifts off  his bur­
den upon somebody’s shoulders,  and  this 
shifting goes on until  the  last  man  can 
put it off on nobody else.  This  last man 
is the workingman.  He has  nobody  be­
low him in the financial scale,  and,  as  a 
consequence,  he must carry the load.

All  the  ingenious  and  high-sounding 
expedients to make the rich men pay the 
taxes will fail, because the rich  men can 
always dump their load  upon  the  work­
ing  masses. 
Instead  of  seeking  to  in­
crease the expenses  of  the  Government 
by resorting to strikes and  violence,  ne­
cessitating the use of  military  force;  by 
creating useless offices solely  to  provide 
salaries for  political  henchmen;  by  re­
ducing  the  hours  of  labor  below  the 
present 10 hour  basis;  by delaying legis­
lation intended to benefit  the people as a 
whole—workingmen should cease  to  lis­
ten to the  siren  voice  of  unionism  and 
join hands with statesmen in using every 
endeavor to secure an economical admin­
istration  of  the  affairs  of  the  Govern­
ment,  as by so  doing  they  reduce  their 
expenses  to  that  extent  that  they  are 
able to lay aside  something  for  old  age 
and a heritage for their children.
A  Defense of Hot Bread.

So  much  has  been  said  and  written 
about  the  unhealthfulness of  eating hot 
bzead that its lovers will  be  comforted to 
know that the doctors do not all  talk  the 
same way about it.  Dr.  Treitzki,  writ­
ing to  a  Russian  medical  journal,  says 
that, after  careful  examination,  he  has 
found  that  new  and  uncut  bread  con­
tains  no  micro-organisms,  as  the  heat 
necessary  to  cook  the  bread  has  de­
stroyed them all.  After  bread  has bees 
cut and  allowed  to  stand  around  for  a 
while it quickly collects bacteria, as it  is 
an excellent medium for  them  to  thrive 
in.  Wheat  bread,  he  thinks,  gathers 
bacteria faster than rye,  as the latter has 
more acidity.  Now all people  who  love 
hot bread can eat it with the comfortable 
feeling that, while it may not be quite as 
digestible  as  stale bread,  it is free  from 
bacteria,  which  are  making  the  world 
so uncomfortable in these days.  A little 
dyspepsia is better than the  cholera.

Use Tradesman Coupon Books.

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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T H E   M ICH IG A N   TRA D ESM A N .

A  Blind  Man

Has about as many chances of becoming a good  marksman  as 
the  merchant  has  of  succeeding  by  careless,  haphazard 
methods.
Yet many  merchants run along in  the  old  rut,  unable  to 
shake off the antiquated methods of their fathers,  when the in­
troduction  of modern  methods and the  purchase of a

CHAMPION  ^ A S H  

VIOLENCE  AND REACTION.

Dynamite  does  not  seem  likely 

to 
prove of much value as  a remedial agent 
in politics. 
Its use has nowhere brought 
about  that  condition  of  terror, 
in  the 
minds  either  of  individual  rulers  or  of 
the  governing  classes,  which  the  prac­
titioners  of  a  certain  school  of  reform 
have considered essential as  preparatory 
to  the  genenal  emancipation  of  society 
from  every  form  of  despotism.  From 
their point of view,  the  effect  has  been 
distinctly bad.  It has been demonstrated, 
indeed, that the cause  of  anarchy  has a 
peculiar fascination for some  disordered 
minds, and  that  it  can  even  inspire  a 
fanaticism which  is  capable  of  martyr­
dom; but it has clearly  not  yet  attained 
a strength with which  the  ordinary con­
stabulary force is not  competent to deal.
A  czar  of  Russia  is  murdered  on  a 
street of the capital  of his  empire.  His 
son immediately succeeds him, the assas­
sin is punished,  and  the  desperate  deed 
does not lead to one single  forward  step 
in the direction of  popular  government. 
Similar  deeds, or  similar  attempts,  are 
found equally  futile in  other  countries. 
Within a few years a  number  of anarch­
ists have  been  executed  in  France  and 
Spain,  and  a  few  have  been  promptly 
brought  to  justice  in  England.  Not  a 
single throne has tottered, not a single mu­
niment of order has been shaken, and the 
reign  of  terror  is  as  far  off  as  ever. 
These  are  discouraging  facts  for  the 
wild enthusiasts  who  believed  that by a 
combination  of  mystery  and  violence 
they would so affright men in power that 
they would either drop the reins of terror 
from their trembling  hands or,  at  least, 
make some substantial concessions at the 
demand  of  their  hidden  but  audacious 
and  unrelenting  foes.  But  what  has 
happened  has  been  a  marked  reaction 
along  the  whole  length  of  the  radical 
line.  Society  has  not  been  terrorized, 
but it has been  taught  to distrust  every 
phase and every exponent of  revolution­
ary doctrines.

In France this  reaction  has  found ex­
pression in the passage of sweeping anti­
anarchist  laws  by  overwhelming  major­
ities,  and these  laws  are  in  accordance 
with popular feeling in that country.  A 
correspondent  of  the  F iqaro,  who  has 
been feeling  the  public  pulse  of  rural 
France  on  this  question,  reports  that 
even  the  sturdiest  republicans  are  be­
coming convinced  of  the  importance  of 
strengthening 
the  government.  One 
citizen,  for example, expressed  his  view 
as  follows:  “I  am sa  republican,  you 
understand,  and  havejbeen  ever  since 
the time of Thiers. 
I  cried,  with  Gam­
betta,  ’Le  cléricalisme,  voila  Venemi.’
I believed,  with Carnot,  that  the danger 
was from  the  conservatives. 
I  thought 
the  secularizing  laws  were  necessary, 
and approved'thcmilitary  law  and  the 
school 
laws,  and  the  organization  of 
trade unions, and^indorsed  strikes.  But 
what’s  the  use?  2 The  evidence  is  clear 
that we’ve  gone  too  far,  and  everybody 
is convinced of that, even ;iif he  dare not I 
say  so.  We ¿are  simply perishing  with I 
these iniiamatory  measures,  destructive  I 
of all authority  as  they  are.  What  we  ; 
want of Casimir-Perier is  to  reverse the ! 
engine.”

In England'the situation is  very differ- ! 
ent,  in  some important  respects,  from  ! 
what it is in France.  France  is a young I 
republic,  with  -a  government  which  has  I 
to deal  with  various elements  of  opposi­
tion,  not the  least  formidable  of  which

is  a  numerous  and  aggressive  radical 
faction. 
It  would  not  be  easy  to  say 
precisely what the real end  aimed  at  by 
that faction  is,  but  its general  tendency 
seems to be an  attack  upon  established 
institutions.  In England the actual form 
of  the  government  has  undergone  no 
change  for  centuries;  but  power  has 
gradually  passed  from  the  crown 
to 
Parliament  and  in Parliament has  been 
lodged more and  more  in the  House  of 
Commons,  until  it  has  now  become  an 
unwritten but perfectly  well-understood 
law that the Lords must  not  reject  any 
measure  which  is  clearly  the  mandate 
of  a  considerable majority of the people. 
The Lords  go  as  far as  they  dare go  in 
opposing the advance of liberalism.  They 
will  not yield to a small  majority  in the 
House  of  Commons,  nor  are  they  dis­
posed  to  respect  any  majority  that  is 
It  is 
dependent  upon  the  Irish  vote. 
upon  these  grounds  that 
they  have 
ventured to throw out  several  important 
measures which have originated with the 
present Liberal  Ministry.  But  now  the 
main question in England  is whether the 
House of Lords  shall  not be  abrogated, 
or,  at least, deprived of  its  veto  power. 
The reaction to which  we  have  referred 
as  general 
to 
strengthen the hands of the Lords  in the 
coming contest.  The House  of Lords  is 
still  something  more  than  a  symbol  of 
ancient authority  and  privilege. 
It is a 
break upon the headlong rush of  radical 
movements,  with  power  to  check  legis­
lation  until  men  have  had  time  for 
sober  second  thought.  And  just  now 
men  are  disposed  to  ask  themselves 
whether they can,  in view of the signs of 
the times,  afford  to  destroy  that  break. 
It  may be very  true  that  the  House  of 
Lords  is  a  house  of  landlords  imbued 
with the prejudices  and  wedded  to  the 
interests  of  their  class,  but  whenever 
the nation  speaks in unmistakable  terms 
they will  know  bow  to  yield,  as  they 
have yielded in the past,  and  meanwhile 
they  exercise  a  conservative  influence 
which  is  by  no  means  altogether  un­
wholesome.  We  anticipate 
this 
view  will  be  sufficiently  prevalent  to 
maintain  the status  quo  in  the  English 
constitution for some years to come.

in  Europe  will 

tend 

that 

look 

The  peaceful, scientific socialists,  rep­
resented in this  country  by  the  nation­
alists, have always  deprecated  violence. 
It  would  be  the  height  of  injustice  to 
charge  men  like  Bellamy  and  Howells 
with the slightest sympathy  with assassi­
nation,  or  with  incendiarism,  for  any 
purpose  whatever.  They 
rather 
to 
the  slow  evolution  of  society  by 
natural and logical  processes  of  change 
for  the  results  which  they  regard  as 
necessary to  the  greatest  prosperity  of 
mankind.  But, justly  or unjustly,  even 
their mild advocacy of a  doctrine  which 
is  at  war  with  the  rights  of  property 
shares  the  discredit  which  attaches  to 
those who propose to usher in a new  and 
ideal era of universal  peace  and  plenty 
by bloodshed and rapine.

F r a n k   St o w e l l.

Mamma—What whs  the  sermon  about 
this morning, Willie?
Willie—Well,  I  guess  it  was  tellin’ 
about cash boys.
M am m a—What  did  the  minister  say 
about them?
Willie—Nothin,’but his text was:  ‘‘All 
the  days  of  my  appointed  time  will  I 
wait, till  my change come.”

A fact is something that will  keep  go­

ing straight on forever.

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own affairs and take up  matters  for  his 
ward with which he may  be  wholly  un­
familiar.  His business and  that  of  his 
ward are not identical. 
If  one  must  be 
neglected  at  the expense of the other,  it 
is  very apt to be the  ward’s.  But  when 
a trust company  is  appointed  guardian 
the  case  is  different.  The  business  of 
the ward is the business of the company. 
When  it  is  attending to the former it is 
at the same time attending to  the  latter. 
It is organized for the purpose of  taking 
the  care  and  management  of  the prop­
erty and business of others.

In  such  care  and  management, 

the 
combined judgment of the men  of  affairs 
and experience who  compose  the  board 
of  directors,  is  invaluable.  They  will 
avoid mistakes into which one man alone 
would be very  likely to fall.

The advantages of the  appointment  of 
trust  companies as guardians  for  minors 
and  other  incompetent  persons,  where 
the utmost fidelity  to the interests  of the 
ward is  required,  are  being  recognized 
more and  more  every  day.  Every  con­
sideration  of  convenience,  security  and 
competency  favors  the  appointment  of 
these companies rather  than  individuals 
who may be  lacking in  the  most  essen­
tial qualities requisite  for  a good guard­
In the  case  of  the  companies  the 
ian. 
fitness  of  the  appointment 
is  always 
assured, and the court  is  not  compelled 
to investigate  that  subject,  whereas  in 
the  case  of  individuals that is always a 
delicate  and  sometimes a difficult  ques­
tion  to  decide,  with  great  danger,  in 
some  instances,  of  making  grave  mis­
takes. 

Re u b en  H atch.

Made the Gambler Disgorge.

Mrs. Michael Carr, of Brockton, Mass., 
has beaten one  of the  sharpest  gamblers 
of Boston.  Her husband is a well-meaning 
merchant,  and recently he  made  a  visit 
to  Boston  and  dropped  §300  in  a  faro 
game.  The money had been saved to pay 
a  mortgage,  and  when  Carr  lost  it  he 
went  home  and  confessed  to  his  wife, 
with some  down-hearted  remarks  about 
ending his life.  Mrs.  Carr  told him  not 
to  do  that,  and  the  next  morning  she 
went to the city  and,  after  a  little  care­
ful  watching,  managed  to  find out how 
to get into the  place,  and,  walking up  to 
the proprietor,  demanded  the  $300.  He 
put her  off  and made an  appointment  to 
meet her at a lawyer’s office the next day, 
and there tried to bluff  her with a threat 
of a suit for blackmail.  They  said  that 
they did not know her  husband  and told 
her to bring him with her.  She said that 
she would,  and  that  if  the  money  was 
not forthcoming at once she would apply 
for  a  warrant.  The  next  day  she  ap­
peared with her husband, and,  after some 
demur, the money  was  handed over. 
It 
is said that she let  the gamblers off  very 
easy,  as the law of  Massachusetts allows 
her to recover thrice the amount.

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TRUST  RELATIONS.

Trusts Companies  as  Guardians for Mi­

nors and Incompetent Persons.

The  statute  under  which  trust  com­
panies  are  incorporated,  in  this  State, 
provides that they  shall  have  power  to 
act as guardians for minors,  incompetent 
persons and lunatics.  This  is  an  office 
of  great  responsibility  and 
it  is  one 
which  trust  companies  are  especially 
fitted to hold.  The guardian is entrusted 
with the managemeut of the  estate' of  a 
person  who 
is  incapable  of  judging 
whether it is being  properly managed or 
not.  Under  such  circumstances,  the 
temptation to  manage  it  negligently  or 
dishonestly,  and for the  personal gain of 
the guardian rather than for  the  advan­
tage of tne ward,  is ever present.  There 
is  always mure or less danger in  the  se­
lection of an individual for guardian that 
the estate of the ward will  fall  into  the 
hands of a person  not  altogether  quali­
fied for  the  position.  This  danger  can 
be  avoided  by  the  appointment  of  a 
trust company organized under  the  laws 
of this State.

Great care has been  taken  in  the  en­
actment  of  the  statute  authorizing  the 
organization of trust companies,  to  pro­
vide  every  possible  safeguard  for  the 
protection of  all  persons  who  may  en­
trust their business to  these  companies. 
Nothing  has  apparently  been  omitted 
which would tend to  strengthen  the  se­
curity of  those  who  are  dependent  on 
others «for 
the  management  of  their 
affairs.

The law requires  that  there  shall  be 
kept  constantly  on  deposit,  with 
the 
State treasurer, not less than  one-half of 
the capital of  the  company,  which  may 
be invested in bonds or notes  secured by 
mortgages on unincumbered  real  estate, 
situated in  this  State,  worth,  at  least, 
double the amount  secured  thereby;  or 
public stocks and  bonds  of  the  United 
States,  or  any  state  that  has  not  de­
faulted on its  principal or interest with­
in ten years, or of any organized  county, 
or  township,  or  incorporated  city,  or 
village, or  school  district  in  this  State 
or in  any  other  state  and  upon  which 
bonds or other securities there shall have 
been no default in the  payment of inter­
est or principal.  This  deposit is for the 
purpose of securing those persons against 
loss who leave their  money,  property  or 
business in charge  of  the  company. 
It 
is for the protection of  the  ward  in  all 
cases where  the  company  is  appointed 
guardian.  The  securities  so  remaining 
on deposit  with  the  State  treasurer  all 
bear interest,  so that this portion  of  the

capital  is  not  idle.  The  remainder  of 
the capital is invested  in  similar securi­
ties,  which are selected with the greatest 
care by the  directors  and  officers.  The 
chance of loss is  so  slight  that  it  need 
not be taken  into  account.  While  these 
securities are not deposited in  any  pub­
lic office,  yet they  remain  in  the  vaults 
of the company  and  are  likewise  avail­
able for the protection of  depositors and 
help give responsibility to the  company.
In addition to this the stockholders are 
all 
for  all 
debts of  the  company  to  the  extent  of 
the amount of stock held by them,  at  its 
par value,  over  and  above  the  amount 
invested in  such stock.  When the stock­
holders are business  men  of  known  in­
tegrity and stability this  adds  greatly to 
the security of those having  fiduciary re­
lations with the  company.

individually 

responsible 

Another reason why  a  trust  company 
is  especially  fitted  for  the  position  of 
guardian, is  the  fact  that  its  responsi­
bility is not  liable  to  change.  The cap­
ital is all invested in the  best of interest 
bearing securities, one-half of  which  re­
mains on deposit with the State treasurer 
and the other half is  held  by  the  com­
pany.  The capital is not subject  to  the 
risks of  ordinary  banking,  where  com­
mercial  paper,  more  or  less  of  which 
is in danger of turning out  badly,  is dis­
counted,  nor to  the  hazards  of  general 
business,  where a  fire,  a  failure,  or  an 
unwise  investment  or  speculation  may 
wipe it out.  An individual may be abun­
dantly responsible at the time  he  is  ap­
pointed  guardian, 
afterwards, 
through reverses  in  business,  an  indis­
creet 
friend,  or 
through some  other  cause,  he  may  be­
come irresponsible. 
It is true, his bonds­
men would be liable for  any  default  or 
misconduct in  his office.  But  the  rem­
edy  against bondsmen is always attended 
with more or less risk. 
It  is  better  for 
the ward to have a  responsible guardian 
and  no bondsmen, than an irresponsible 
guardian  with  good  bondsmen.  The 
trust  company  is  always  responsible. 
In addition  to that, the  stockholders  are 
all in a sense sureties  directly  and  per­
sonally interested  in  the  good  conduct 
of their principal.

indorsement 

for  a 

but 

Every  precaution  has  been  taken  in 
the  law  to  prevent  any  impairment  of 
the  capital.  Almost  unlimited  inquisi­
torial powers are vested  in  the  commis­
sioner  of  banking  whereby  he  has 
authority at any time  to  investigate  the I 
condition  of  the  company.  Besides re­
quiring not less than four  reports  to  be I 
made  by  the  company  to  the  commis- j

sioner  during  each  year  which  shall 
state in detail the  resources,  assets  and j 
liabilities of the company,  and  shall  be 
published 
in  a  newspaper  in  the  city 
where the company  is  located,  the  law 
authorizes the  commissioner  to  call  for 
special  reports,  whenever  in  his  judg­
ment the same are necessary to fully dis­
close the condition of the company.

Within ten days  after  every  dividend 
is declared,  a further  report  is  required 
showing the amount of the  dividend,  the 
amount carried to surplus fund,  and  the 
amount  of  the  net  earnings  in  excess 
thereof.  All reports must be  verified  by 
the  oath  or affirmation of one or more of 
the  officers,  and  the  regular 
reports 
must  also  be  signed  by  at  least  three 
directors.  Heavy  penalties are imposed 
for a failure to make these reports.  The 
company  is  at  all  times  subject to the 
inspection and  supervision  of  the  com­
missioner. 
It  is  made  his  duty  once a 
year to examine the cash,  bills,  collater­
als,  securities,  books  of  account,  condi­
tion  and  affairs  of  the  company.  For 
this purpose he must go  to  the  office  of 
the  company,  and  he  has  the  right  of 
free access  to all the  books  and  papers. 
If  he  shall  at  any  time have reason to 
believe  that  the  capital  is  impaired or 
reduced  below the  amount  required  by 
law,  it is his duty to  make  an  examina­
tion  to  ascertain  the  facts,  and  if  he 
find  any  deficiency 
in  the  capital,  to 
order it to be  made  good.  On  the  neg­
lect of the company,  for  ninety  days,  to 
comply  with such order,  a receiver  may 
be  appointed  and  the  business  wound 
up.  With such  stringent  provisions  in 
the organic law,  it is difficult to  see  how 
it would be possible for any loss to occur 
to the ward when one  of  these  compan­
ies is appointed  guardian.

An  individual  is  liable  to  die at any 
time,  leaving the affairs  of  his  ward  in | 
an  unsettled condition for  his  successor 
to straighten out as best he can.  A trust 
company  has  a fixed  and  certain  dura-1 
tion,  with power to  renew  its  existence 
for  another  definite  period.  When 
it 
once enters upon any undertaking,  there 
is  no  doubt  about  its  living to carry it 
through to completion. 
It is not subject 
to  an  unexpected  demise,  carrying  it 
beyond the  reach  of  those  who  remain 
to  perform  the  task  of  winding  up its 
affairs and leaving  them  to  grope  their 
way  unaided  through  the  bewildering 
mazes of  accounts improperly kept.

It cannot,  in that  manner,  escape  the 

embarrassment of a final  settlement.

When  an 

is  appointed 
guardian,  he  must  turn  aside  from  his

individual 

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S E C U R E   A N D   H O L D
the best trade is a perplexing problem  to  some people, but  its  solu­
tion  is simple.
always.

F i r s t .  Make  the  best  goods  possible;  not once  in a while, but 
S e c o n d .  Let the  people  know of  it,  early and  often.
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How Pelt Hats Are Made.

Saint  Clement  is  called  the  patron 
saint of the hatters,  not because  he  was 
the  first  man  to  wear a  derby or broad 
brimmed straw, but for the reason that— 
so  tradition  has  it—he  unwittingly  in­
vented felt.  And all derby hats are made 
of felt.
The good man,  it seems,  was about  to 
set out on a  pilgrimage to  Jerusalem,  as 
was  the  habit  of  the  holy  men  of the 
early centuries,  and,  realizing  that many 
dusty miles lay between him and his des­
tination,  he decided that he might as well 
make himself  comfortable  for  the  jour­
ney.
It  was  not  good  for  a  pilgrim  to be 
comfortable; so the  worthy  man  had  to 
confine  his  endeavors  to such places  as 
would not be noticed  by any  other  saint 
with whom he might come in contact.  He 
decided to  ease  up on  his  feet,  and  ac­
cordingly placed a nice big  pad  of  wool 
in each sandal.
When the pious pilgrim  reached  Jeru­
salem  and  removed  his  sandals he  was 
surprised to find that his woolen padding, 
under  the  influence  of  constant  heat, 
moisture  and  rubbing,  had  become  a 
tightly packed,  strong  and flexible mass. 
That was the first felt made.  How Saint 
Clement spread the knowledge of his dis­
covery,  or whether he went into the man­
ufacture of hats,  tradition does not  tell.
In  the  first hats  made the  woolen felt 
was used,  but to-day only  a  cheap grade 
is  manufactured  out  of  this substance, 
the felt made  from the  fur  of  the  hare 
and  the  coney  having  taken  its  place. 
The hare’s  fur  used  in  hat  felt  is  ob­
tained  largely  in  Russia  and  Germany. 
The animals are raised there by the peas­
antry, not for the  value  of  their  skins, 
but  for  food.  The  skins,  however, are 
saved and sold  in small  lots  to  dealers, 
who  in  turn sell  to  larger dealers,  until 
the  aggregation  of  the  little  pickings, 
made here and  there over  a  wide  terri­
tory,  makes  a  great  bulk  of  fur  to  lie 
transformed yearly into hats.  The skins 
of the coney are  obtained  in a like  man­
ner  from  Frauce,  Scotland  and  Aus­
tralia.
The skins gathered,  the  first operation 
of  the  long  series  through  which  they 
are put before they are  transformed into 
derbys,  is the  plucking  from  the  coney 
skin  and  the  shearing  from  the  hares’ 
of  the  hairs,  which  are  always  longer 
than the fur, and of no use.
Then the skins  pass into the  hands  of 
the cutters,  who  operate in  France, Ger­
many,  England  and  the  United  States. 
They  first  put  them  through  a process 
called carrotting,  rubbing with  a  chem­
ical  composition,  one of  the ingredients 
of which is nitrate of  mercury.  The  ef­
fect of this is to give  it the power of  be­
ing worked,  which it exhibits in the sub­
sequent processes. 
It  is  next  cut  from 
the skin by  machinery. 
In  this  state  it 
is called  “hatters’  fur.”
From the time  it becomes  hatters’  fur 
until  it  is  made  into  a  hat  it  passes 
through  many  complicated  operations, 
usually carried on  by machines  intricate 
in their mechanism,  so that to describe in 
detail the  whole  process  would  require 
much spaoe. 
It is  possible,  however,  to 
give in  brief a general  idea of the opera­
tions  which  the  fur  undergoes  in  the 
making of a derby.
First it is “blown” or cleaned by means 
of  a  machine  that  forces  through  it  a 
heavy  draft  of  air,  carrying  out all  the 
air and  dirt, and  leaving  only  the  pure 
soft fur.
This  fur  is  taken  and  weighed  into 
portions of from two to  three ounces, ac­
cording  to  the  weight  of the  hat  to  be 
made.  Each  of  these  portions  is  sepa­
rately blown, almost hair by hair,  upon a 
revolving  brass  cone, the apex of which 
is slightly rounded,  and which has a per­
forated surface.  A great suction is kept 
up through  these  perforations, and  con­
sequently  the  fur  clings  to  the mould. 
These  cones  are  from  twenty-four  to 
thirty inches deep.
The  fur-covered  mould  is  next  care­
fully  wrapped  about  with  a  cloth  and 
dipped into hot  water,  which causes  the 
particles of fur to  cling to each other,  so 
that the whole becomes a strong web that 
is  easily removed  from  the  brass  cene. 
This is the original body of the hat.
The conical shaped body is next taken, 
and, under  the  influence  of  hot  water,

i rolled,  either  by  hand or  in a machine, 
I until  the fur  has  become  closely  packed 
| and  the whole length  decreased to  about 
eight inches,  or in  proportion to  the size 
of the hat in course of construction.  The 
operation is called sizing.
The body is then stiffened  by a coating 
| of shellac,  dissolved  either in  alcohol  or 
water,  and  applied  with  brushes. 
It  is 
placed on another brass mould,  and after 
having been  softened with  hot  water  is 
forced  either  by a machine  or hand into 
the shape of a hat crown,  the apex of the 
cone  being  rounded,  and 
the  base 
slightly bent out where  the brim is to be 
made.  When in this shape it is dyed.
Next the brim is flattened out straight, 
perpendicular to the  axis of the  original 
conical  body.  Then the  whole  is placed 
under great  hydraulic  pressure  and  the 
crown  moulded  into  the  correct shape, 
and the felt  forced into  a  more  compact 
condition  and  given  a  smooth, finished 
surface.
The last operation  is the  one  of  curl­
ing  up  the brim and  trimming it and  of 
placing the band upon the hat.
Cleanliness and  Cash.

From  the Cash Grocer.

These are two attributes  of  a  success­
ful  retail  grocery,  the one  supplement­
ing  and  helping  to  make  possible  the 
other.
Both  attract  customers,  each from its 
own standpoint.  No  refined  lady  cares 
to  buy  groceries  from  a  retail  grocer 
whose store  is  in  an unkempt condition, 
the goods besmeared with dust or fly dirt, 
or where decayed  fruit or  vegetables are 
permitted 
to  contaminate  the  air.  or 
where the  hands and  clothing  of  clerks 
or  merchant  are bordering  on filthiness.
Cleanliness attracts; the reverse repels. 
Cleanliness  pays;  the  reverse  does  not. 
This  is  t:ue  whether it be said of  show 
windows,  doorway display or interior ar­
rangement of goods.
Two things  are most  necessary  in  or­
der to sell goods—attractiveness  and  low 
prices.  The  former  cannot  be  realized 
without cleanliness,  and the latter  is at­
tained surest and with  profit  by  selling 
only for cash.
The cash grocer has such an immensely 
self-evident  advantage  over  the  credit 
grocer that it would seem  almost  unnec 
essary to refer to the minutUc of the mat 
ter,  were it not the fact that the majority 
seem to be oblivious to it,  though it may 
be they feel unable  to make  the  change 
or fear to make it.  The old adage “from 
the frying-pan to the fire” has  been  mis 
applied  so  often  that  people fail to un 
derstand that the fire would have been no 
worse for  the  fish  than  the  frying-pan 
was.
Then  the  adage  about  “A bird in  the 
hand,” etc., is another  often  misapplied 
mediaeval piece  of unwisdom. 
It doesn’t 
mean stick  to  your  credit  business  for 
fear  you  will  lose trade by changing  to 
the cash plan, though that is the applica 
tion quite often  given it.  Let  the  mod 
era  business  man try a  modern applica 
tion,  and  apply  it  to  goods—in  other 
words,  “Groceries in  hand are  better for 
the  retail  grocer  than  groceries in pos 
session of customers  who will  never pay 
for  them.”
There never  was a  credit  grocer  who 
changed  to  the  cash  plan  who  ever re 
gretted it, or  went back  to  credit.  The 
better  prices  that  a  cash  grocer  is en­
abled to offer  the public  bring custom to 
him,  and  he  does  not  have  to  sit  up 
nights  over  a  lot of credit accounts try­
ing to  make out whether or not such and 
such customers will  pay up  in  time  for 
him to  meet  some  promissory  note  ma­
turing  in  a  few  days,  the  money  for 
which he has not in hand.
The  eash  grocer  has  the  money  and 
knows  it.  No  midnight  musings  for 
him.
Cash and cleanliness  are  paying  rules 
for any  retail  grocer.  They  will  never 
disappoint  him.

“Are you very badly hurt,  Mrs.  Geta- 
long?”  inquired  the  anxious  neighbor, 
sitting down by the side of the bed.
“I don’t know  how  badly  I’m  hurt,” 
said the victim of  the  railway  accident, 
feebly,  “ until I’ve seen my lawyer.”

A  hypocrite  fools  some,  but  none  so 

badly as he does himself.

Patronize  Home  Industry.

Ask  Your Jobber for

G e n u in e

BEST  QUALITY  GUARANTEED.

Greek  Currants
Gleaned,  Stemless,  Extra  Fine,
GRAM  RAPIDS  FRIT  CLEA1RG  CO.,

IMPORTED  AND  CLEANED  ONLY  BY

(PETER  SCHUIT,  Manager.)

Grand Rapids,  Mich•

Foi  Sale  by Hawkins  Co., Oluey 

Judson Grocer Co., 

I.  M.  Clark Grocery  Co.,  Musselman  Grocer Co.

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

Look 
For the 

W aterm ark 1 fill W.”

We control it in this locality

It’s first-class stock.
It’s easy to  write upon.
It’s always the same, 
t’s a credit to your business.  ON

U S E   Your Note Heads.
IT Your  Letter Heads. 
Your  Legal  Blanks. 
Your Checks and  Drafts
It  always  gives  satisfaction,  and,  compared  with  other 

took,  the juice is nothing.

TRADESMAN  COMPANY.

'1H K   M ICH IG A N   TR A D ESM A N .

FROM  STRIKER  TO  TRAMP.

An  Infamy  Which  Should  Be  Wiped 

Off the  Slate  of  Industry.

The  public  idea  of  a strike is simply 
that of a  struggle  between  two  parties, 
one or both of  which  have a real  or  im­
aginary justification for  the  act.  There 
is also a vague and nebulous  idea  as  to 
the general effect of a strike  on  business 
and  public  convenience. 
It  is  known 
that it costs more to bake a pie or boil an 
egg during a coal strike,  and, in the  case 
of railway trouble, the delay of a passen­
ger or a firkin of butter, with divers mis­
haps to switches and bridges  and  scabs, 
are all  forcible reminders of  the  kicking 
powers of a strike.  There  is  also  some 
curiosity  aroused  among grocers,  bakers 
and landlords as to whether  the  strikers 
have gained their point in adding to their 
wages or in keeping the  scissors  off  the 
pay-roll.  The  professional  agitator, the 
politican,  and the  statistician  have  also 
their  several  fingers  in  the  pie.  The 
amount  of  revenue  lost  or  gained,  the 
duration  of  the  struggle  or  the  folly, 
whichever  it  may  be, 
the  causes  are 
found out or guessed  at,  and  the  general 
damage done to business are each and all 
the various phases of a  strike  on  which 
the  public  looks  with  or  without  its 
colored  glasses. 
The  bulletin  board, 
however,  is  one  thing,  but the man be­
hind it is another,  and it is the unnoticed 
and  unrecorded  phases  of  a  strike,  of 
which some men unfortunately know too 
much,  and the orowd in the pit  that  fur 
nish the hurrahs know nothing at all.  It 
is in the home  side  of a strike,  and  not 
the  shop  side,  where  you  can  come in 
touch  with  humanity  and  forget  your 
arithmetic, and you can learn more  from 
a thin hand than from a big slate.  There 
is more in the cold toe of a  hungry  child 
peeping through a worn-out shoe and the 
pinched  face  of a mother  sitting  over a 
fireless  stove  than  in  all your stump or 
platform  oratory  on  the  financial  and 
economic  sins  and  wrongs  of  man. 
It 
matters not whether these  pallid  cheeks 
and shrunken limbs are due  to  the  sins 
of  millionaires  or  the  follies of toilers, 
not a cupboard without bread nor a child 
without shoes  but has its  dumb  message 
to  such  as  would search for what a pro­
tracted strike means in the homes  of  the 
people.  We are convinced that  an  edu­
cation of this kind  would thaw  out  some 
of the ice, of which  we have too  much in 
business,  and  might put  a  bridle  in  the 
mouth of the wild ass who finds  his  fod­
der in agitating strife.

We do not forget that in much  of  this 
unwritten history,  in  sufferings  untold, 
in cold,  famine,  and nakedness, in homes 
broken  up,  in families separated,  and in 
tragedies  unseen  from  the street side of 
a  window-curtain, 
there  has  been 
patience, fidelity and heroism  to  gild  the 
cup  that  held the bitter drink.  No man 
can deny this; but where this is  needless 
and  could  be  prevented,  the sin of it is a 
brand on the brow of modern civilization. 
Looked at from all sides,  the unnecessary 
strike is a curse to body, soul and  spirit.
In its sanitary phase,  semi-starvation  is 
hand-in-hand  with  disease  and  death. 
Epidemics find dry straw  for  the  match 
where men are idle and children half-fed. 
Morally  many  men are ruined by a spell 
of  loafing. 
Idleness  and  the  devil,  as 
everybody knows, are in partnership, and 
many a man can date the day  of  bis  de­
scent  into  vice from the time of a strike. 
No work and too much beer are too often

synonym ous.  H ow  m any  of o u r nom ads, 
w ith   th in   shoes an d  d u sty  satch els, w ould 
n e v er  h av e  le ft  m o th er,  w ife,  o r  child 
h ad   n o t  th ey   been  com pelled  to  do so  by 
th e ir  in a b ility   to   ob tain   w ork  a fte r  a 
s tr ik e !  T o u   can  see  th ese  h e lp le ss  p il­
grim s  ev ery w h ere,  to   w hom   th e  nam e of 
hom e  w as  once  th e   sw eetest  on  e arth , 
an d   th e   love of  m o th er,  w ife,  or  ch ild   a 
d eep  an d   sacred  joy. 
is  tim e  th a t 
th e se   p h ases  of s trik e s sh o u ld   be  stu d ied , 
and  e v e ry th in g   done  th a t  can  be  done  to 
w ipe  them   off th e   sla te  o f in d u stry .

I t  

F r e d   W oodrow.

S ta tu s   o f  th e   S to n e   F a ilu re .

H en ry   W.  B ooth,  assignee  of  C.  G. 
S tone  and  C.  G.  S tone  &  Son,  th e  L ow ell 
d ry   goods  house,  has  filed  th e   schedule 
of  assets  and  lia b ilities  w ith   th e   C ounty 
C lerk.  T h e   firm ’s  lia b ilities  are  $9,813.- 
09,  div id ed  am ong  tw en ty   c red ito rs  in the 
follow ing  am o u n ts:
Edson, Moore & Co..  Detroit....................$3490 60
Strong, Lee & Co.,  Detroit.........................  
69 81
Barnes, HengreerCo., Buffalo..................   8099 R8
Lyon Table Supply Co., Buffalo............... 
18  75
Lee. Treedy & Co., New  York  .................  699  38
Carson,  Pirie,  Scott & Co., Chicago  .......  149  68
Coats’ Thread Co., C hicago....................  
128  46
A. E. Walters,  Chicago  ............................. 
6  75
4 54
Standard Fashion Co., Chicago.  .............  
.  118  S6 1
Root & McBride Bros.,  Cleveland. 
Wm. Taylor, Sons & Co.,  Cleveland  ....... 
84 34 '
Richardson Silk Co., Belding.................... 
17 66
Yysilantl D. S.  Mfg. Co., Ypsilanti.......... 
16 00
15 25
Amsterdam Silk Co., Amsterdam, N. Y... 
Geo. Merritt & Co., Indianapolis,  In d .....  106  18
«  A. Stowe, Grand  R ap id s....................  
66 00
Village of Lowell........................................  
71  95
C. J. Church & Son, Lowell................   ...  800  00
H. N. Stone, Lowell.....................................  400 00
C. G. Stone  guardian of H. Frederick  ...  1650 00
T h e  in d iv id u a l  c red ito rs  of  C h ester  G. 

S tone  are  as  follow s:
Chas  J. Church & Son, Lowell.................$  800  CO
.............................  8,'00 00
Chas. R. Hein,  Lowell 
J. O  Chapin,  Lowell.................................   750 00
J. Edwin Lee,  L o w ell................. 
1,000 00
B esides  th e  above  lia b ilities  M r.  S tone 
is  liab le  as  e n d o rser  on  v ario u s  notes  of 
th e  E u re k a   L u m b er  Co.  w ith  W ym an  & 
L ukw oof.  am o u n t  unknow n.

T h e   ap p raised   value  of th e  assets  is  as 

follow s:
Stock of C. G. Stone & S o n ....................... 19.653  78
Book Acc  unts.................  ........................  400 00
Bills  receivable  ....................................... 
i i o
Cash  .............................................................  
76 30
Assets of Chester G.  Stone.......................   2,500 00
.$18,636 08

Total.

Lakeview  Laconics.

L a k e v ie w ,  Sept.  15—Claude E. White, 
for the past two years  in the  employ  of 
C.  H.  Wagener,  the Big Rapids druggist, 
has  opened  a  new  drug  store  at  this 
place.

There  are  now  sixteen  good  brick 
buildings going  up  here.  Many  of  the 
fronts  are  being splendidly  ornamented 
with fancy stone.  With  two  days more 
good  weather,  M.  H.  Youngman  will 
have his brick work completed.
Some are cumulating  to build  another 
year and it is  believed  that  the  end  of 
’95 will see Lakeview built up with brick 
as solid as ever it was.

Purely Personal.

E.  A.  Stowe has been elected a director 
of the State Bank of Michigan  vice  Gen. 
I. C. Smith,  resigned.

Jacob  Jesson,  the  former  Muskegon 
druggist,  leaves in a few  days  for  Cali­
fornia,  which State he proposes to  adopt 
as his place of residence.

Geo.  McDonald,  the  Kalamazoo  drug­
gist,  attended  the  forty-second  annual 
convention of the  American Pharmaceu­
tical Association at Asheville,  N. C.

The Drug Market.

Opium is dull and lower.
Morphia is, as yet, unchanged.
Quinine is firm  and an advance  is  ex­

pected in the near future.

Linseed oil is very  firm and advancing 
daily  on  account  of  the  high  price  of 
seed.

MEN  OF  MARK.

Wm  T.  Lamoreaux,  the Bean  Kins' of 

America.

at 

William  T.  Lamoreaux  was  born  in 
Newark, N.  ¥., Aug. 2,  1847.  His  early 
boyhood was about the  same  as  that  of 
the average boy, nothing  unusual occur­
ring until he reached his 13th year,  when 
he became chief engineer on a canal boat. 
Such  an  event  is  not, 
in  itself,  very 
startling;  but  when  it  is  remembered 
that 
least  one  President,  many 
Senators  and  a  host  of  Congressmen 
began  their  public  career  on  the  tow- 
path  of  the  raging  Erie, 
its  probable 
significance 
in  connection  with  Mr. 
Lamoreaux  will  readily  be  recognized. 
At  14  years  of  age  he  was  chosen  as 
captain of one of his father’s line of  five 
canal boats which  were  run  in  connec­
tion  with his lumber business.  At 17 he 
enlisted  in 
the  111th  N.  T.  Infantry 
under Col McDougall.  The regiment was 
then in  front of  Petersburg  and  thither 
young Lamoreaux and a number of other 
newly enlisted men  proceeded to  join it. 
He  was with the  Army of  the  Potomac 
under Grant through the many important 
engagements in which  it  took  part until 
the close of the war, and was at Appomat-

13
In 1891-92-93  he  bought  wool 
pounds. 
on his own account,  but has  since  aban­
doned the business.  The  W. T.  Lamor­
eaux Co.  gives  employment to  about 150 
people 
for  ten  months  of  the  year, 
occupying one  of  the  most  commodious 
warehouses  in  the  country  especially 
erected and equipped  for the  purpose at 
the  intersection  of  West  Bridge  street 
and  the C.  & W. M.  and  G.  R.  & I.  Rail­
ways.

Personally,  Mr.  Lamoreaux  is  one  of 
the most peculiar men in  the city.  Cor­
pulent in frame,  rugged in  exterior  and 
bluff in statement,  he bears  beneath  his 
portly contour a  big,  warm  heart  and  a 
constant supply of joviaity  which  are  a 
sure  preventive  of  sorrow  and  down­
heartedness  wherever  he  goes.  His 
contagious  smile  and  resonant  laugh 
would be worth their  weight  in  gold  to 
any  physician  as  an  antidote  to  the 
“blues” and the modest  stories  he  tells 
of  his  own  achievements  and  those  of 
his friends surely entitle him to front rank 
as a  disciple  of  Ananias.  As  a  friend 
Mr.  Lamoreaux  will  go  to  the  ends  of 
the earth to assist one  in time of trouble 
and there is a lingering suspicion  in  the 
minds of some people that he will  go  as 
far—and  perhaps  a 
trifle  further—in 
camping on the trail of  a  man  who  has 
wronged him—all of which goes  to  sub­
stantiate  the  truth  of  the  homely  old 
adage that the man  who is  a  good  lover 
must be a good hater,  also.  Despite  his 
peculiarities, Mr.  Lamoreaux manages to 
worry along in  this vale of  tears without 
losing a meal or a night’s restand it goes 
without saying that there are  many  peo­
ple in  this  community  who  could  bear 
unimpeachable  testimony 
to  the  big­
heartedness and princely  courtesy of the 
Bean King of America.

I tox Court  House  when  Lee surrendered.
! Of the 32 who went with him to the front 
only six came back.  At the close of  the 
war Mr.  Lamoreaux returned  to Newark 
and  shortly  after  entered  Eastman’s 
Commercial  College,  at  Poughkeepsie, 
taking  the  full  commercial  course. 
In 
April,  1867, he arrived in Grand  Rapids, 
and a few days  later  entered  into  part­
nership  with  Samuel  Miller,  under  the 
firm name of Miller <fc Lamoreaux.  Their 
business  was  furnishing  camp  supplies 
to  lumbermen,  and  was  located  where 
Col.  Briggs’  splendid  Peninsular  block 
now stands,  on Canal street.  That build­
ing  was  then  known  as  the  Franklin 
House,  which  gave  way  to  the  Ball 
block,  and  that, 
in  its  turn,  to  the 
Peninsular  block.  This  partnership 
continued eight years,  when  Mr.  Lamor­
eaux  purchased  his  partner’s  interest 
and for five years conducted the business 
alone.’  In 1885 he  turned  his  attention 
to beans,  and in 1890,  the  business  hav­
ing increased to  so  great  an  extent,  he 
deemed it  advisable  to  merge  it  into  a 
joint  stock  company,  which  has  since 
been known  as the W. T. Lamoreaux Co., 
with  Mr.  Lamoreaux  as  President  and 
Treasurer.  The  company  is  now  the 
largest  handler  of  beans  in the  United 
States, the  works  having  a  capacity  of 
2,500 bushels per  day.  The  corporation 
is  also a heavy shipper of fruit  and pro­
duce.  From 1876 to 1890 Mr. Lamoreaux 
represented a large wool  firm in  Boston, 
some years buying  as  high  as  1,250,000

Indorsed  for  a  Consideration.

There is more  or  less  talk  in  Boston 
about the large amount of  money  which 
is practically tied  up  through  the  oper­
ations  of  impecunious  makers of  notes, 
who  succeed,  somehow, 
in  getting  in­
dorsers  satisfactory to  the  directors  of 
the Boston  banks.  The  Boston  Adver­
tiser  is authority  for  the  following ac­
count of the peculiar proceedings:
These notes are said  to  be  negotiated 
in some such fashion as this:  The notes, 
having  been  made  by  Jones,  Smith, 
Brown or some other irresponsible  party 
about town,  are  sent  to  New York,  and 
there receive  (for  a  consideration,  pre­
sumably,) the indorsement  of some  per­
son or firm satisfactory  to  Boston  bank 
directors,  who  proceed  to  discount  the 
paper.
These notes,  when  due,  are  taken up 
by money realized through the  discount­
ing of  similar  paper,  and  a  practically 
endless system of  kiting  is  inaugurated 
which keeps money  out of the legitimate 
trade channels.
As  long as the indorsers  are  good and 
the 
indorsements  genuine,  of  course 
it is a perfectly legal  business.  But  the 
extent  of  these  indorsements  is  an  un­
known  quantity.  Each  bank  knows 
how much it holds of  a  certain  person’s 
indorsements,  but  it  has  no  means  of 
knowing  how  much  other  banks  hold, 
and  unless  the  bank  examiner  in  his 
periodical  examinations  has  his  suspi­
cions aroused, the state of  things  might 
continue  indefinitely.
But there is another  and more  signifi­
cant rumor abroad  concerning this  kind 
It is suggested  that  these  in­
of paper. 
dorsements  are  not  all  genuine; 
that 
persons hard pressed during the business 
stagnation  have  resorted  to  forgery  in 
order to meet their obligations,

Jhomas Edison,  when  asked  by  Miss 
Willard why  he  was  a  total  abstainer, 
said that it was because he had  a  better 
use  for  his  head  than  pouring  liquors 
into it.

T H E   M IC H IG A N   TR A D ESM A N .

The  Selection,  Care  and  Sale  of  Per 

ftim os.

In buying perfumes, I  would  say  buy 
often, 
that  they  may  have  that  fresh 
look which can be obtained  in  no  other 
way so well  as  by  ordering  frequently 
Always keep a few  of  the  standard  fa 
vorites in  stock  to  please  those  whos 
taste never  changes,  and  buy  different 
varieties which the  capricious  tastes  of 
some of your patrons may demand.

We  believe that the  principle  of  buy 
ing the best goods holds good  in  the  se 
lection of  perfumes,  as  well  as  in  the 
purchase of  other  lines  of  drugs.  But 
in view of the many who  delight  in  the 
sweet  odor,  but  whose  purse  will  not 
permit them to indulge  in the  best,  I be 
lieve it to be profitable to  keep  a  small 
line of cheap perfumery.

In the care of perfumes while in stock, 
they should  be  kept  bright,  free  from 
dust, and in as prominent  a  position  as 
possible,  in order to attract the attention 
of the  public.  At  the  same  time  they 
should  not be subjected to  too  strong* a 
light, nor to the direct rays of the sun.

A very good test is  to  dip  a  piece  of 
white tissue paper into the perfume,  and 
allow the alcohol to evaporate,  when the 
delicate odor of the perfume will  remain 
on the paper.

In exhibiting perfumes with a view  to 
selling,  shake  the  bottle,  take  out  the 
stopper,  and allow the customer  to smell 
the stopper,  as in smelling from  the bot­
tle you  get  too  strong  an  odor  of  the 
alcohol in the perfume.

To handle perfumes with profit, adver­
tise them,  show them,  talk  about  them, 
keep a good stock,  and, last but not least, 
sell  them at a good profit.

Ol iv e  Ramsey.

Jobbers  of

CffsiDl  Springs  voter  X  Fuel  Co.,

COAL, COKE  and  WOOD,

dealers.5.  C.  W.

Correspondence  solicited  with  outside 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

65  Monroe  St.,

The  L eading  Niekle  C igar 
M ade in this M arket.

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 a t $35 p er  1,000 

Byjthe  Manufacturer,

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Telephone  1205.

347South Division St.

I n l i n e n n  
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aran;i,R1?pids’

bi  j.  donnson, 
Seely’s Flavoring Extracts
Every dealer should  sell  them.
Ultra Fine quality.
Lemon,  Vanilla,  Assorted  Flavors. 
Nearly sales increased  by  their  use. 
Send trial order.

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D n / g s l ^ M e d í c i D e s .

State Board  o f Pharm acy, { 

One  Tear—O ttm ar Eberbach, Ann Arbor. 
Two  Tears—George Gundrnm, Ionia.
Three  Tears—C. A. Bagbee, Cheboygan. 
Fonr Tears—8. E. P arkin, Owosso.
Five T ears—F. W. R. P erry, Detroit. 
P resident—Fred’k W. R. Perry. Detroit, 
fec re ta ry —Stanley E. P arkill, Owosso. 
"reftiu rer—Geo. Gnndrum, Ionia.
Coming  Meetings—Lansing, Nov.  6 and 7.

M ichigan  State  Pharm aceutical  Ass’n. 
President—A. B. Stevens, Ann Arbor. 
Vice-President—A. F. Parker, Detroit 
Treasurer—W. Dupont,  Detroit.
Seeretay—8. A. Thomason, Detroit.

Grand  Rapids  Pharm aceutical Society 
President,W alter K. Schmidt;  Seo’y , Ben. Scbroader

A  Medicinal  Preparation.

According  to  the  provisions  of  an 
amendment to the tariff law,  alcohol used 
in the manufacture of medicinal or other 
products will henceforth  be  relieved  of 
revenue tax.  The Secretary of the Treas­
ury  is  now  ealled  upon  to  formulate 
rules governing the  free  use  of  alcohol 
in the arts,  and the  proper  definition  of 
the term “medicinal preparation”  will at 
once be in order.  Then  will  arise  some 
of the difficulties and  perplexities which 
are inevitable when determining to  what 
category—beverage or  medicine—certain 
preparations  rightfully  belong.  The 
Government will  have  to  contend  with 
all the sharp shifts and schemes by which 
the unscrupulous  will  endeavor  to  dis 
guise as medicines preparations which 
reality  are  mere intoxicating  beverages 
and it is to be feared that after a few such 
attempts the rulings of  the Treasury De 
partment will  exhibit  rather  an  excess 
than a lack of severity in this respect.

along  in  the  old-time,  easy,  mechanical 
way.  He who would  grow and  develop 
must frequently  project  himself  out  of 
and beyond his work,  so  to  speak,  must 
scrutinize,  review,  and  compare,  must 
correct  mistakes,  and  must  set  out  on 
new courses.

The New  England  Druggist  devotes  a 
long editorial to the subject of  vacations 
for  druggists,  and  their  benefits. 
Its 
plea is without a  flaw.  A  vacation  not 
only strengthens a  body  frequently  dis­
ordered  by  sedentary  life,  but  it  also 
offers the druggist a means of  refreshing 
a jaded  mind. 
It  lifts  him  out  of  his 
routine. 
It renews his fund of ideas.  It 
imparts an aspect of  strangeness  to  his 
store and stock,  on  his return,  enabling 
him to rearrange  and  improve,  to  intro­
duce needed reforms,  to infuse new vigor 
into certain lines of  work.

then,  regard 

Nature has surely  made  no mistake in 
fitting us  all  out  with  this  craving  for 
relaxation,  variety, and  novelty.  Let no 
druggist, 
the  occasional 
spell  of  rest  or  travel  amid  new  sur­
roundings as a  mental luxury  or  idler’s 
treat.  He will find both time and money 
well invested; he  will  note  an  improve­
ment in the quality of  his  work; and  he 
will  accumulate  a  store  of  pleasant 
memories  which  will  help  him  over 
many of the  cares and  worries  of  busi­
ness life.

It is precisely of  such  undue  severity 
on the part of the inland-revenue author 
ities  that  French  pharmacists  are  now 
complaining. 
Action  was  brought 
against two of their  number  engaged 
the manufacture and sale of kola wine and 
similar  preparations, on the  ground that 
the use of the latter as beverages renders 
only  just 
the  payment  of  the  tax  im 
posed  on  alcoholic  liquors;  koia  wine 
might have its  medicinal  uses,  as  doe 
brandy,  but  being  a  quasi-luxury  and 
stimulant it was not entitled  to  the  ex 
emption  which  covers  true  medicinal 
preparations.

In the lower court  and  in  the  appeal 
court, judgment was  given  in  favor  of 
the manufacturers  on  the  testimony  of 
experts that extract or alcoholic  tincture 
of  kola  nut  is  exclusively  medicinal, 
that it is  manufactured  for  pharmacists 
in pharmaceutical  laboratories;  that it ii 
in daily use as,  and has all the character­
istics of,  an  energetic  medicinal  agent, 
and, finally,  that large doses give  rise  to 
toxic symptoms which would render dan 
gerous the employment of  kola as a food 
or beverage.

The 

internal-revenue  people  were 
mulcted of all the costs  for  their  pains; 
the makers of kola wine will  pay no tax, 
and the preparation remains  hereafter a 
medicine, not a beverage,  in the  eyes  of 
the level-headed Frenchmen.

Vacations for the  Druggist.

Few business men lead more sedentary 
and monotonous lives  than  the  average 
druggist.  Confined  to  bis  store  during 
long hours,  and  excluded  from  many of 
the social and intellectual  benefits which 
follow  frequent  intercourse  with  one’s 
bind,  the druggist is  peculiarly  liable to 
fall into a mechanical, deadening routine 
which in time becomes a  second  nature. 
To do intelligent  work  and to  leaven  it 
regularly  with  new  ideas,  a  man  must 
constantly fight the  temptation  to  move

Labels  and  Labels.

the 

in  addition, 

A druggist’s label may he  a  very  use­
ful or a comparatively useless detail.  A 
useful label bears  not  only  the  title  of 
the medicament,  hut  the  various  doses, 
and,  in the case of poisons,  the  antidote. 
From two drug stores within  one  square 
of each other came during  the past week 
one-ounce bottles of chalk mixture.  The 
bottle  from one  store bore a label giving 
simply the name of  the  remedy  and  the 
name  and  address  of  the  druggist;  the 
other  bore, 
legend 
‘Shake  well  before  using,”  the  word, 
‘Freshly  Made”  preceding  the  title  of 
the mixture,  and  full directions as to the 
doses for various ages,  with  instruction 
as to the uses and  proper  administration 
of  the  remedy.  The  poison  labels  of
these two stores are also  characteristic_
one  bears  simply  the  customary  “skull 
and 
the  word 
‘Poison;” the other  has  added  the  anti 
dotes  and  directions  for  treatment  in 
case of accidental poisoning by  the  con 
tents—and  besides, every bottle  contain­
ing poison that leaves this store  is  trian­
gular  in  shape.  One  of  Sie  stores  in 
question has been a drug store  in  charge 
of  the  same family for more than half a 
century,  and the  other  was  opened  less 
than six years ago.  One has a tiled floor, 
beautiful soda fountain,  a curved plate- 
glass  bulk  window,  and  fretted  wood 
ork  over  doors  and  windows; and the 
other lacks all these points of attraction; 
one continually gains and the other  con­
tinually  loses  custom.  Now  which  is 
which,  and  how  much  of  these  differ­
ences depends upon the labels  used  and 
what they imply ?

crossbones,”  with 

New  Drug  House  at Toledo.

Erastus D.  Peck,  of the  former  whole­
sale drug  house  of  West  &  Truax,  of 
Toledo,  has organized  a  new  company, 
with a capital stock of $65,000,  to embark 
in the wholesale drug business under the 
style of the Toledo  Drug Co.  Mr.  Peck 
will serve the corporation in the capacity 
of President  and General Manager.

A   Boycotting Suggestion Which Would 

Not Work.

L.  H.  W arner  in  Bulletin  of  Pharm acy.

Noticing various  suggestions  of  phar­
macists  for  overcoming 
the  cutting 
system,  1  respectfully  submit  my  idea 
on the  subject.  Let  the  proprietors  of 
drug stores in every city,  county or State 
torm a sort of pharmaceutical union,  and 
then and there decide upon a  meeting  in 
the near future.  Let them pass a resolu­
tion that on a certain date  every  retailer 
of  drugs  shall  take  off  his  shelves  or 
counters all patent medicines,  no matter 
how large a stock  he  has  on  hand,  and 
refuse to sell  any  even  if  full  price  is 
offered. 
1 thmk  the  manufacturers will 
then soon  notice the  decline  in  demand
t-he.ir K00ds> and prevent cutters from 
obtaining supplies.
An objection may be made to  my  sug 
gestión, on the ground  that it is  imprac­
ticable and  unreasonable,  hut  I  should 
like  to  illustrate  the  working  of  mv 
plan. 
J
As everyone  knows,  the  patent medi­
cine  trade is the largest  at  night,  when 
the  large  drygoods  and  most  cutrate 
stores  are  closed.  A  man  leaves  his 
family in perfect health,  going  to  work 
in  the  morning;  returning  at  night,  he 
finds someone ill.  He  goes  to  the  drug 
store  to  get  Castoria,  Pain-killer,  etc. 
but is informed that no patent  medicines 
are handled.  He tries two  or three drug 
stores with the same  result.  Dry  goods 
houses are closed; so  he  seeks  advice of 
his druggist,  who,  if  sensible,  counsels 
him to consult his physician—which  will 
create a better feeling  between the latter 
and  the  druggist.  Should  any  person 
decline 
the 
chances are nine to one  that  by  morning 
his patient will get well  without  the  use 
of a patent medicine,  and the direct  loss 
of a sale would  fall  back  on  the  manu­
facturer. 
the 
opinion  of  my  brother  pharmacists  on 
this idea.

take  either’s  advice 

like  to  have 

I  should 

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Doz.  Gro. 
1 o i.  $  90  lO  20
2 oz.  1  20  ] 2  60
4 oz.  2  00  22  80 
6 oz.  3  OO  33  OO

Seelif’s  Vanilla

(Wrapped)
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1 oz. $  l  50  16  20
2 oz.  2  00  21  60
* oz.  3  75  40  80
6 oz.  5  40  57  60
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at 
l»OS8 who can  call  at  my office or
at  the office of my agents, provided  the head is
W here’^lm  hr t j e -p0r1?-s °*  th e   scalp  n o t closed! 
W here  th e  head   is  shiny  o r  the  p o res  closed

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loafer.

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Morphia, S.  P.  A W.  2 05@2 30 
C.  Co......................  1  90@2 20
Moschus Canton........   @  40
Myrlstlca, No  1 ........   65®  70
N uz Vomica, (po 20)..  @ 1 0
Os.  Sepia...................... 
is®  18
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D.
„ C o ..............................   @2 00
Plcls Liq, N.»C., K gal
doz  ...........................   @2 00
Plcls Llq., q u a rts.......  @1  00
„  P ints..........  @  85
PUHydrarg,  (po. 80)..  @  50
Piper  Nigra, (po. 22)..  @ 1
Piper Alba,  (pog5)....  @  3
Pilz Burgun.................  @  7
Plumbl A cet...............   12©  13
Pulvls Ipecac etopll  .l  lo@l  20 
Pyrethrum,  boxes  H
& P. D.  Co., doz.......  @125
Pyrethrum,  pv............  20®  30
8®  10
Quasslae...................... 
Quinia, 8. P. A W .......34KQ39K
S.  German  ...  27®  37
“ 
50
Bubia  Tlnctorum.......  12®  14
Saccharum Lactls pv. 
12®  14
gn
Salacln.........................2  io@2 25
60
Sanguis  Draconis.......  40®  50
60
Sapo,  W ........................  12®  14
2,
io@  12
;  M......................... 
<a  15
 

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Seldlltz  M ixture.........  @  20
Slnapls..........................  @  is
opt....................   ®   80
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Snnff,  Maccaboy,  De
V oes.........................   @  ^
Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes  r @  35 
Soda Boras, (po. 11).  .  10®  ll 
Soda  et Potass T art...  24®  25
Soda Carb................... 
iu@   2
Soda,  Bl-Carb.............   @  ■
Soda,  A sh....................3K@ 
(
Soda, Sulphas.............   @  2
Spts. Ether C o ............  50®  55
“  Myrcia  Dom..........  @2 00
“  Myrcia Im p...........   @3 50
••••7.......-...................2 4302 53
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Strychnia  Crystal........ 1 40@1 45
Sulphur, Subl............... 2^@ 3
Roll..............   2  @ 2K
Tam arinds..................  
8®  10
Terebenth Venice.......  28®  80
Theobrom ae.............. 45  @  48
Vanilla....................... 9 oo@i6 00
Zincl  Sulph................. 
7®  8

Vlni  Beet.  bbl.

“ 

Whale, winter 
Lard,  extra__
Linseed, pure raw .

Bbl. Gal
70
70
80
85
42
45
50
56

“ 

paints. 

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

Efl
70
40
bbL  lb.
Red  Venetian................i x   2®3
Ochre, yellow  Mars___l x   2@4
Her.........i x   2@8
Putty,  commercial__ 2Q  2K®3
“  strictly  pure.......2%  2M®8
Vermilion Prune Amer­
ican ........♦.................. 
13016
Vermilion,  English.... 
65@70
70@75
Green,  Peninsular....... 
Lead,  red.................................   6 @6K
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@6K
Whiting, white Span!!!
@70
Whiting,  Gliders’ .........
@901
White, Paris  American 
Whiting.  Paris  Eng.
c liff....................... . 
j  4o
Universal Prepared  ..l  C0@1  15 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared 
P aints...................... 1  oo®l  20

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VARNISH® S.

No. 1 Turp  Coach.... 1  io@l  20
Extra Turp..................16001  70
Coach  Body  ............... 2 7508 00
No. 1 Turp  F urn........ 1  00@1  10
E utraT u rk D am ar....l  55@1  60 
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 
T urp........................... 
70®75

W holesale  jPrio©  C u rren t•

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ACIDUM.

2S@l 40

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20@1 30
20@1 30
50@I 60

I Cubebae........................ 
Exechtoltos  .............   J 
A cetlcum ....................... 
8©
, B rlgeron....................... 1 
Benzolcum  German..  65®
15 I G aultherla....................l 
Boraclc 
......................
30 I Geranium,  ounce.......  @  75
Carbollcum  .  ............  
20®
45 I Gossipil,  Sem. gal.......  70®  75
C ltrlcnm ..................... 
42®
Hedeoma  .....................1 
3®
H ydrochlor.................... 
...................  10®  121 Jum perl........................  50@2 00
Lavo n d u la..................   90®2 00
O xallcum ....................  
io@
Lim onis....................... 1  40@!  60
Phosphorlum  dll
Salley Ileum ..................1 35®1 60 I Mentha Piper.....................2 25@3 CO
Sulphurlcum__   ..  ..  1^@   5 I Mentha Verld..............2 00®2  10
Tannlcum..................... 1  40®1 60 I Morrhuae, gal....................1 30@1 40
—   mr  Myrcia, ounce..............  @  50
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Tartarlcum................. 
30®
O live...........................   90@3  00
Plcls Liquida, (gal..35)  10®  12
R icini......................... 
96®1  04
Rosmarini.............  
1  oo
Rosae,  ounce..................  6 50®8 50
Succlnl.........................   40®  45
Sabina.........................   90@1  00
San tal  ..........................2 50@7 00
Sassafras......................  50®  55
Slnapls, ess, ounce... 
®  65
Tlglli............................  
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T hym e.........................  40®  50
...  ......... 
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iheobrom as................   15®  20

Black........................... 2 U0®2 25
Brown...........................  80@1  00
Bed................................  45®  50
Yellow........................ 2 50@3 00

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

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20®  25
8®  10 j
JunlperuB.................... 
Zanthoxylum .............   25®  30
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40®  45
Terabln, Canada   
T olutan.......................   35®  50

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POTASSIUM.
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BICarb................. 
 
Bichrom ate.................  13®
Bromide...................... 
40®
Carb..............................   12®
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Cyanide........................  50®  __
Iodide...........................2 9G@3 00
Potassa, Bitart,  pure..  23®  25 
Potassa, Bitart, com ...  @  15
Potass  Nltras, opt....... 
8®  10
Potass N ltras............... 
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Prusslate......................  28®  30
8ulphate  po........ ........  15®  18

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pure.

@  30

BXTRACTUM.

Abies,  Canadian...................  18
Casslae  ..................................  11
Cinchona F la v a ...................  18
Buonymus  atropurp............  30
Myrlca  Cerlfera, po..............  20
RADIX.
Prunus Vlrglnl......................  121 A conitum ...............  
20ffi
Quillala,  grd.........................   10 I A lthae...........................   22®
Sassafras  ..............................   12 I A nchusa......................  12®
Ulmus Po (Ground  15)........   151 Arum,  po......................  ®  25
'C alam us............. ......'  20®  40
Gentiana  (po. 12)....... 
'   Hydrastis  Canaden,
(po. 35)....................  
eile

po............  33®  35
Is
15®
Ms.............  14®  15 I Inula,  po......................  15®
Kb

8®
24®  25 I Glychrrhiza, (pv. 15)..  16®
“  
11®
13® 14 I Hellebore,  Ala,  po.
16®

Glycyrrhlza  Glabra
Haematoz, 15 lb. boz 

A rn ica.........................  18®
A nthém is....................  30®
Matricaria

..................
Barosma 
Cassia  Acutlfol,  Tin
nlvelly......................
Alz.
Salvia  officinalis,  )4s
and  Kb......................
Ura Ursl 
....................

Ipecac,  po..................   1  40@i  50
Iris ploz (po. 35038)..  35®  40
16 I JBJaPA  pr....................  40®  45
Carbonate Preclp...
So  ¿X I Maranta,  14s ...............  @  35
Citrate and Q uinta.
(fo  ftn I Podophyllum, po........   15®  18
@  80 
Citrate  Soluble.......
a  
Rhel...............r .  ........  75@1  00
®  50 
Ferrocyanldum Sol.
out.......................   @1  75
“  15
Solut  Chloride.......
Sulphate,  com’l ............... 9®
Splgelia.......................   35®  38
®
Sanguinaria,  (po  25)..  @ 2 0
Serpentaria...................  30®  35
Senega.........................  55®  60
Slmllax, Officinalis.  H  @ 4 0
50®  65 I Sclllae, (po. 35).......,M.  10®  *
Symplocarpus,  Fmti-
dns,  po......................  @ 3 5
18®  50
Valeriana, Bng.  (po.30)  @  25
German...  15®  20
25®
lnglbera..................  
35®
Zingiber  j ................. 
15®8®
@  60 
@  40 
@  30 @  20 
60®  80 
50®  60 
@  li 
@  50
0  1 
55®  60 
28®  30 
50®  55 
48®  52 
35® 
lo 
@2 50 
70®  7b 
@  3u 
@1  75 
@  80

Acacia, 1st  picked....
2d 
...
3d 
sifted sorts...
p o ..........  .....
Aloe,  Barb, (po. 60)... 
“  Cape, (po.  20)... 
Socotri. (po.  60). 
Catechu, Is, (Kb, 14 )*§,
16)............................
Ammonlae  . .: ..............
Assaf ostlda, (po. 3 )..
Benzolnum.............
Cam phors...............
Buphorblom  po  ...
Galbanum...............
Gamboge,  po..........
Gualacum,  (po  35) 
Kino,  (po  1  75) —
M astic....................
Myrrh, (po. 45)
Opll,  (po  3 3003 50) ..2  1502 20 I junlperls  Co. Ó. T
0U.6IJS.C.......... .. 
T ragacanth.................  40@1  00  8 p t  vini  Galli

SBMBM.
@18®
I Anlsum,  (pa  20)..
Api urn  (graveleons)..
Bird, Is........................
_   _
I Carui, (po. 18).............. 
10®   12
Cardamon....................1  oo@l  25
@
Corlandrum.................  12®  14
Cannabis Sativa.
4® 
5
rdonlum..................
75®1  00 
10©  12 
_  lenopodium  ..........
Dipteri! Odorate.......
2 4002 60 
Foeniculum...............
©  15 
Foenugreek,  po......
6© 
8 
L in i............................
4  @  4X
3K@ 4
Lini, grd.  (bbl. 8K) -.
Lobelia........................
35®  40 
Pharlarls Canarian  ..
4®  5
R ap a...........................
6©  7
Slnapls  A lba...........
7©  8
11©  12
Nigra..........
sumiros. 
Frumenti, W., D.  Co.
D. F. K  ...

2 0002 50 
1  7502 00 
1  25@1  50 
1  65®2 00 
1  75®3  50 
..1
5@2 00 
1  75@6  SO
Vini Oporto.................1  25®2 00
Vini  Alba....................1  2502 00

HBRBA—In ounce packages.

33®  351 gaacharum  N.  E

bleached....... 

18®
18®

“ 
“ 
11 
“ 

“ ....

***  I 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

r 

i* 

tt

Absinthium ................... . 
..  25
Bnpatcrlum .................. .......  20
Lobelia........................... .......  25
M ajoram ....................... .......  28
Mentha  Piperita.......... .......  23
....  25
Bue.................................. ......   80
Tanacetum, V ............... .......  22
Thymus,  V .................... .......  85

“  V ir..................

MASNMSIA.

Calcined, P a t...............  55®   60
Carbonate,  P at............  20®  22
Carbonate, K. A  M__   20®  25
Carbonate, Jennings..  35®  36

OLEUM.

A bsinthium ................2  5003 00
Amygdalae, D ulc........   30®  50
Amydalae, Amarae__ 8 00@8  25
A nlsl............................1  9»@2 oO
Aurantl  Cortex......... l  8002 00
Bergamli  ....................3  0003 20
C ajlputl...................... 
60®  65
Caryophylll.................  75®  80
Cedar  ...........................  35®  65
Chenopodll................. 
01  60
CtnnamoHli................1  2501  25
C ltronella....................   ®  45
Conium  Mao...............  35®  65
Copaiba........................  so®  go

Florida  sheeps’  wool
carriage....................2  50©2 75
Nassau  sheeps’  wool
carriage  ..................  
2 00
Velvet  extra  sheeps’
wool  carriage.......... 
l  10
Extra  yellow  sheeps’
carriage....................  
8b
Grass sheeps’ wool car­
riage  .......................... 
65
Hard for  slate  use__  
75
Yellow Beef, for  slate 
u s e ............................. 
1  40

SYRUPS.

A ccacia.................................   50
Zingiber  ................................  50
Ipecac.....................................   60
Ferrl  Iod................................  50
Aurantl  Cortes......................  50
Rhel  Arom.............................  50
Slmllax  Officinalis...............  60
„ 
....  50
Senega...................................   50
Sclllae.....................................   50
_   "   Co................................  50
T o iatan ..................................  50
Prunes  vlrg...................... 
.  50

“ 

“ 

TINCTURES.

Aconltum Napellls R ..........  eo
A Ina 
P .........   50

“ 

 

 

11 

'* 

K  Co.. . . . . . . . . .  

and  m yrrh..... ro
A rn ica........................... 
M
Asafoatlda............. 0
A trope Belladonna.......... 
ro
Benzoin..............................   '  gg
11  Co............................  
5Q
Sanguinarla........................... 
gn
Barosm a.........................  '  '  «1
Cantharldes............. 75
Capsicum..................!!.!!..  50
Ca  dam on..........................                 75
Co...........................  75
Castor. . . . . . . . . . .  
1  m
Catechu..................'  .............  S
C inchona.........................  
bo
Colum ba.i........................... 
 
C onium ..........................  
Cubeba............................. 
 
D igitalis.......................... 
"  '  «j
Ergot......................... 
G entian......................| '; * "   gfi
C o ................ 
11 
RO
G uaica.......................................^
........   ro
ammon........  
_  “ 
Z ingiber.................... 
‘  go
Hyoscyamus................. 
‘  go
Iodine................................  "   75
Colorless.......... .........  75
Ferrl  Chlorldum....... 
35
go
K in o ........................ 
Lobelia.............   ...................  go
M yrrh.........................................s
Nuz  Vomica.........................   50
O pil..................................... 
gg
Camphorated.................  50
Deoaor..........................2 00
Aurantl Cortez......................  50
Quassia
“« a n y ..................................  50
10l ................................  
Cassia  Acutlfol....!! 
"   50
Serpentaria........ °.  . . . .   . .  50
Stramonium.......... 
m
T olutau...........................  
 
V alerian....................................50
VeratrumVeride__ 50
MI8CBLLANKOU8.

pn

 

gn

ground, 
................................. 55® 60

3®  4

“ 

“ 

. 
Cent

Æther, Spts  hit, 3 F ..  28®  30 
32®  34
A Inm an 

“  4 P  
(po.
.7 )................................ 
AntimoDl, po....................... 
. 
.  et Potass T.  55®  60
A ntipyrin....................  ®1  40
Antlfebrln...................   @  *
Argenti  Nltras, onnee  @  53
Arsenicum ..................  
5© 
7
Balm Gilead  Bud. 
38®  40
.. 
Bismuth  S.  N ............. 1  60® i  70
Calcium Chlor, Is, (Ws 
12;  Kb,  1 4 )........
11
Cantharides  Russian, 
@1 00 
p o ..............................
Capsid  Fructus, af.
@  26 
@  28 
(po.
®  20
Caryophyllus,  (po.  15)  10®  12 
Carmine,  No. 40..........   @3 75
Cera  Alba, 3. A F
50®  55 
Cera Flava..........
•  38®  40 
Cocons  ....................
@ 4 0  
Cassia Fructus........
@ 2 5  @10 
Centrarla..................
Cetacenm.................
@ 4 0  
Chloroform.............
60®  63 
_  ,  “ 
sqnibbs 
@1  25 
Chloral H ydCrst... 
..1  25®i  50 
Chondrns
20®  25
Clnchouldlne, P.  A  W  15®  20 
„  
German  SK@  12
Corks,  list,  dis.  per
Craasotum ...............
Creta,  (bbl. 75)__
Prep.............
preclp..........
Bnbra........

©  35 @  2 
5®  5
9®  11 @  8 
Crocns  ......................
35®  40 
Cndbear....................
@  24 
Cnprl Sulph..........
5 @  6
D extrine..................
10®   12 
Iph.............
„  
75®  90 
Emery,  all  nnmbers
@@  6 
_ 
Po........ ........
Ergota^ipo.)  40.......
30®  35 
Flake  W hite............
12®  15 
Galls
@  23 @ 8 
Gambler 
w
 
Gelatin,  Cooper........  
"  ©
60 
„   “ 
French............  30©
50
Glassware  flint, by box 80. 
Less than box 75.
Glne,  Brown.............  
9©
“  W h ite..............  
ia®
Glycerins...................  14©
Grana Paradis!............ 
©
Ham ulus......................  25®
© 
Hydraag  Chlor  Mite. 
©
“  Cor  .... 
Ox Bubrnm 
©  85 
Ammonlatl.. 
©  95 
Unguentum.
45©  55 
Hydrargyrum. 
©  60
Ichthyobolla, j
.  Am..  ..1  25®1  50
_  „   - 
75©1  00
i”^ g0 
 
Iodine,  Beenbl............3 8003 90
Iodoform......................  @4  70
Lupulln  ......................  @2 25
Lycopodium...............  60®  65
M acls...........................  70®  75
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy-
ararg lo d ...................  ©  27
Liquor Potass Arslnltis  10©  12
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
Manilla,  S .F ...............   60©  68

1K);. . . . . . . ................. 2K© 4

“ 
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Glass  and  Nickle

5

5/Ssi

M k

D IM E N S IO N S  

high.

-13 inches square at top;  34  inches  square  at  base;  83  inches

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

P R IC E   $ 2 0 .

fllBELTlflE 

i  

PERKINS 

DRUG

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

A

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T H E   M IC H IG A N   TTtAEESMAM.

GROCERY  PR IC E  CU RREN T.

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

CATSUP.

Blue Label Brand.

“ 

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

Triumph Brand.

CLOTHES  PINS.

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

COCOA  SHELLS.

351b  bags..........................   @3
Less  q u a n tity ...............  @3^
Pound  packages  .  . 
6*@?

G reen.
RiO.

Santos.

Fair..........................................is
Good................................... ’ '19
Prim e.................................' [21
Golden............................      ” 21
Peaberry 
.............................. 23
F air......................................... 19
Good....................................   .20
Prim e..........................            .22
Peaberry  ..........................’ ’ ’23
Mexican and Guatamaia.
F air...............  
21
Good........................
Fancy......................................24
Prim e.......... 
as
M illed.................................2 i
Interior.................................. 25
Private Growth.....................27
M andehling..........................28
Im itation............................... 25
Arabian................................2S

Maracaibo.

Mocha.

Java.

Roasted.

To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add Vic. per lb. for roast 
ing and 15 per  cent,  for shrink 
age.

P ackage.
...........................  2i

M cL aughlin’s  XXXX 
Bunola 
Lion, 60 or 100 lb.  case 

22 30
22 30 

E xtract.

Valiey City Vi gross............
Felix 
__
Hummel’s, foil,  gross.........1  65
“ 
.........2 85

“ 

“ 

Uh 
CHICORV.

Bulk.
Red..

CLOTHES  LIN ES. 
Cotton,  40 f t ..........per doz.

40 f t . . . 
50 ft... 
60 f t... 
70 ft... 
80 f t ...

C R E D IT   CHECKS.

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

“ 
“ 

CONDENSED  M ILK .

4 des. In case.

First Prize.
Darling..................................5
Standard.............................. 4
Leader...................................3  60

CRACKERS.

Butter.

Seymour XXX................. 
5
Seymour XXX, cartoon.......  5Vi
Family  XXX.......................   5
Family XXX,  cartoon........   5Vi
Salted XXX...............
Salted XXX,  cartoon
Kenosha 
Boston....................................   7
Butter  biscuit.

............................   7vi

Soda.

Soda,  XXX...........................
Soda, City..............................
Soda,  Duchess 
..................
Crystal W afer.......................
Long  Island Wafers 
S. Oyster  XXX........................514
City Oyster. X XX.................  5Vi
Farina  Oyster......................  g

Oyster.

CREAM   TARTAR.
Strictly  pure.......................  
Telfer’s  Absolute...............  
Grocers’...............................15@25
D R IE D   FRUITS. 

j
j

D om estic.

Apples.

“ 

Peaches.

Apricots.

quartered  “ 

Sundrled. sliced in  bbls.
Evaporated, 50 lb.  boxes 
California in  bags........
Evaporated In boxes.  .. 
Blackberries.
In  boxes.......................
Nectarines.
701b. bags.....  .................
25 lb. boxes.......................
Peeled, In  boxes__ ___
Cal. evap.  “
In bags........
“ 
California In bags.......
Pitted  Cherries.
Barrels............................
50 lb. boxes....................
....................
25  “ 
Prunelles.
801b.  boxes....................
Raspberries.
In  barrels.......................
50 lb. boxes......................
.......................
25 lb.  “ 
Raisins.

Pears.

“ 

“ 

Loose  Muscatels in Boxes 

2 crow n...............................

....  a 
lags. 
. . . .   4% 
• ■  4 )i

Loose Muscatels in 
crown.........................

F oreign. 
Curran ts.

Patras,  bbls...................
Postizzas, 56 lb.  cases.

A X LE  GREASE.
doz
.......  55
Aurora............
■Jastor Oil....... __  
60
Diamond........
.......  50
.... 
75
Frazer’s ..........
.....  65
Mica  .............
.......  55
Paragon 
..  ..

Apricots.
gross Live oak.......................
6 00 Santa  Crus..................
7  CO Lusk’s .............
5 50 Overland....................
9  no
Blackberries.
7  50 F. A  W.......................
6 00
Cherries.

1  40
1  40
1  10
90

B A K IN G   PO W D ER . 

‘ 

1  “  

Arctic.

A.C320.
¡4 ID.  3M1B. 3  doz----
vfi -*»-
l i b .  
...........
Bulk............................
14 lb cans 6 doz  case.
Vi ft 
lb

4b 
75 
1  00 
10
55 
1  10 
2  00 
9 00
45
60
. ........  
. ......... 
80
........   t  20
.........2 00
.........  9 00
Red Star. 14 ft cans............  40
75
............ 
............  1  40
Teller’s,  !4 lb. cans,  do* 
45
“  ..  35
Our Leader,  14 .b cans........  45
1  50

4 doz 
2 doz  “ 
... 
1 doz  “ 
.. 
Cream  Flake. 
6 doz
4 doz 
“ 
“ 
4 doz 
4 doz  “
44 2 doz 
“
1 doz 
“
Vi ft  “ 
1 ft  “ 
vs lb.  “ 
1 lb. 
VS lb  cans 
lib  cans.

4  oz  1
OZ  4
oz  4
lb   •
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

’  *..  1  50

• 

BATH  B RICK .
2 dozen In case.

E nglish.......................
Bristol.................................
Domestic............................

BLUING.

“ 

Arctic, 4 oz  ovals............
“ 
8oz 
............
“ 
pints,  round........
“  No. 2, sifting box. 
“  No. 3,
11  No. 5, 
“ 
“ 

Mexican Liquid, 4 oz.... 
S oz........

“
1 oz ball  . . . .

“ 
BROOMS,

.  3 60
.  6  75
.  9 00
.  2 75
4 00
.  8 00
.  4  50
.  3 60
.  6  80

<40.2 H u r l.......................
1  75
........................... .  1  90
No. 1  ** 
No. 2 Carpet.......................
.  2  15
.  2 40
No. 1 
.......................
“ 
Parlor Gem......................... .  2 50
Common W hisk.................
80
Fancy 
.................
.  1 oc
Warehouse......................
.  2 75

1 

BRUSHES.

“ 
“ 

Stove, No.  1....................... .  1  25
1  50
1  75
85
1  25
1  50

“  10.......................
“  15.......................
Rice Root Scrub, 2  row ...
Rice Root  Scrub, 3 row ...
Palmetto,  goose................

CANDLES.

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

“ 

CANNED  GOODS. 

F ish.
Clams.

“ 

Little Neck,  i lb ...................120
“  2  lb ...................1  90
Clam  Chowder.
Standard, 3 lb.................  ...225
Cove Oysters.
Standard,  1 lb .........
21b........
Lobsters.
Star,  1  lb ..................
“  2  lb ...................
Picnic, 1 lb.................
•• 
2 lb.................
Mackerel.
2  lb.

.1  35
.2 45 
.3 50
.2 no
.2 90
Standard, 11b....................... 1  10
.2  10 
Mustard,  21b...........
....2  25
Tomato Sauce,  21b..
.......2 25
Soused, 2  lb ...............
..  . .2 25
Salmon.
Columbia River, S at. 
.  ...1  80
“ 
tails.
.......1 65
Alaska, Red..  ...........
....... 1  25
..... 1  10
pink...............
Kinney’s,  fiats...........
.......1  95
Sardines. 
..4V4@
American  Ms
ris.................. ¡¡H® 7
Imported  14s ......................  ®fo
Vis  .....................15@1S
Mustard Ms.......................   6@7

“ 
** 

** 

Trout.
Brook  3, lb .............
F ru its.
Apples.
3  lb. standard............
York State, gallons 
Hamburgh, 

“

2 50

1  20 
4 00

Pitted Hamburgh  ...  .
W hite.............   ..........  
l  50
l  25
B rie.................. 
 
Damsons, Egg Plums and Green 
Gages.
E rie .......... 
..............
1  20 
California...................
1  40
Gooseberries.
1
Common 
...................
Peaches.
1  10 
P ie ................. ............
M axw ell......................
1  50 
Shepard’s ....................
1  50
California....................  160®1  7!
Monitor 
Oxford.
Domestic. 
Riverside.
Common.......................1  00@1  30
Johnson’s  sliced 
grated
Booth’s sliced.............  @2  5)

Pineapples.

Pears.

©2
grated............ 
Quinces.
Common...................... 
i
Raspberries.
Red 
i  io
............................  
1  40
Black  Hamburg..........  
Erie,  b la c k ................. 
i
Strawberries.
Lawrence....................  
i
i  25
Ham burgh................... 
i
Erie............................... 
T errapin......................... 
i  05
Whortleberries.
Blueberries................  
85
Corned  beef  Libby’s ...........2 20
Roast beef  Armour’s ...........2  10
Potted  ham,  V4 lb ............... 'i  25
.  70 
.1  35 
.  75 
95

tori gue, Vi lb __
11 
14 lb ...
chicken, 14 lb ... 
V egetables. 

Bleats.

14 n i­

“ 
“ 

Beans.

“ 

“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

Peas.

Corn.

Hamburgh  stringless......... 1  15
French style......2 00
Limas.................. 1  35
Lima, green................................1 28
soaked........................  7c
Lewis Boston Baked............ 1 ¿5
Bay State  Baked...................1  35
World’s  Fair  Baked..........,!i  35
Picnic Baked..........................1  00
.1  25
Ham burgh...................... 
Livingston  E d e n .......... . 
1  20
P u rity .....................................
Honey  Dew................................ 1 40
Morning Glory....................
Soaked................................ 
75
Hamburgh  m arrofat............ 1  30
early June  .  . ..1  50
Champion Eng.. 1  40
petit  pois 
1  40
fancy  sifted. ...1   90
Soaked...................................   65
Harris standard.................. ’  75
VanCamp’s  m arrofat...........1  10
1  30
early Ju n e 
Archer’s  Early Blossom___1  25
French.......................... 
,2  15
Mushrooms.
French.................................19@21
Pumpkin.
Erie.  ................................. 
75j
Squash.
H ubbard.....................................
Succotash.
Hamburg......................................1 40
Soaked........... .......................  30
Honey  Dew............................... .’1 50
S rIe........ ...............................1  35
Hancock................................
Excelsior  ......................’” ‘
Eclipse..........................
Hamburg.— . . . . . . . . ............
G allon.............................
CHOCOLATE.

Tomatoes.

“ 

 

Baker’s.

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

CH EESE.
Amboy.......................
Acme..........................
Lenawee......................
Riverside........
Gold  Medal.................
Skim ............................  
Brick......... 
Edam  ......
L eiden__
Limburger 
Pineapple.
Roquefort.
Sap Sago 
Schweitzer, Imported, 
domestic  ....

s@9
-
15 
1  00 
21 
@15 
@25 
@35 
@20 
@24 
@14

Peel.

“
“

25  “ 
25  “ 

Citron, Leghorn, 251b. boxes 
Lemon 
Orange 

“ 
“ 
Raisins.
Ondura, 29 lb. boxes 
“ 
Sultana. 20 
Valencia. 30  “

@
@

California,  100-120...............

Prunes.
90x100 25 lb. bxs.  I
“ 
80x90 
., I
70x80 
“ 
I
“
60x70 
Turkey 
....................
Silver...........................

“ 

EN VEI.OPES.
XX rag. white.

No. 1, 6Vi 
No. 2. 6Vi 
No. 1, 6 
No. 2, 6  •  .

6........................

Manilla, white.
.................................

6Vi 

Coin.

Mill  No. 4.......................

81
1
1 2i 
1 00

FARINACEOUS  GOODS.

Farina.

Homlnv.

100 lb. kegs.

3*
Barrels...............................  3 00
G rits.....................................  3 Vi
Dried.............................. 4  @414
Maccaronl and Vermicelli. 
Domestic. 12 lb. box...
Imported......................10Vi@ll

Lima  Beans.

Pearl Barley.

Kegs.

2 60
Green,  bn..........................   1  15
Split  per l b ................... 

Peas.

3

Rolled  Oats.

“ 

Schumacher, bbl.............   35  60
H bbl............. 2 95
Monarch,  bbl 
..................  4 90
Monarch, Vi  bbl...............9 60
Quaker,  cases........................... 3 20

German ... 
Bast India

Cracked.

Sago.

Wheat.

F ISH —Salt. 

3*

Bloaters.

Cod.

Yarmouth.................  .........
Georges cured..................   4$$
Georges genuine..............6
Ceorges  selected.............   6Vi
Boneless,  bricks............... 6Vi
Boneless,  strips................. 6V4

Halibut.

^

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

Herring.
“ 
“ 

“ 

Holland, white hoops keg
bbl 
9
Norwegian.........................
Round, Vi bbl 100 lbs.....’!  2
.........  1
Scaled..............................

14  “  40  “ 

“ 

Mackerel.

No. 1,  100 lbs....................... 10 00
No. 1,40 lb s......................... ...  40
No. 1,  10 lbs.........................  j  eg
8  00
No. 2, 100  lbs............ 
No. 2,40 lbs......................3 g.
No. 2,10  lbs 
95
Family. 90 lb s....
10  lbs ..

.. 

Sardines.
Russian,  kegs............
Trout. 
So. 1,  Vi Obis., loOlbs. 
o.  1 54 bbl, 40  lbs...
" Its, 10 lbs.......
lb  kits..........
Whltefish

No

55
-.4  75 
..2  2C 
63 
53

No.  1  family
1  bbls. 100 lbs............86 2 5 2  25
l  “  40  “  ............  2 80  1 20
\R>-  kits.................... 
38
•b. 
33
 
MATCHES.

78 
65 

“ 

 

2 00
2 50

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

Sonders’.

Regular 
Grade 
Lemon.

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

Regular 
Vanilla, 

doz
2 oz.......81  20
4 oz.........2 40
XX Grade 
Lemon.
2 oz.......81  50
4oz.......  3 00
XX Grade 
Vanilla.
2 oz.......81  75
_____4^oz............3  50
Jen n in g s.
Lemon. Vanilla 
120
2 oz regular panel.  75 
4 os 
...1  50 
2 00
60s 
...2  00 
3 00
No. 3  taper.............1  35 
No. 4  taper.............150 
N ortliro p ’s
75 
1  20 
85 
1  60 

Lemon.  Vanilla.
1 10
1 75
1 20
2 25

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

“ 
“ 

GUNPOW DER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.

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

Choke Bore—Dupont’s

 

Eagle Duck—Dupont’s.

H ER B S.

IN D IG O .

Kegs.......................... 
11  00
Half  kegs................................5 75
Quarter kegs...........................3 00
1  lb  cans..............................  
60
Sage....................................... 15
Hops.......................................15
Madras,  51b. boxes..........  
S. F., 2, 3 and 5 lb. boxes.. 
15  lb. palls..................   @
“ 
17  “ 
@
30  “  “ 
@
LICO RICE.
Purs........................................
Calabria.............................
Sicily.......................................
Root.....................................
LYE.
Condensed,  2  doz..............  1  20
4 doz..............  2 25

JE L L Y .
 
 
 
 

55
50

M INCE  MEAT.

Mince meat, 3 doz. in case.  2  75 
Pie  Prep,  3  doz.  In
case...................................   3 00

MEASURES.
Tin, per dozen.

 

 

gallon 

.........................   81  75
Half  gallon.......................   1  40
70
Q uart............... 
Pint —   ............ 
 
46
Half  pint  .........................  
40
Wooden, for vinegar, per doz.
gallon................................  7 00
Half g a llo n ........................  4 75
Q u art...............................  
Pint 

...........................  
MOLASSES. 
Blackstrap.
Sugar house.................  
Cuba Baking.
Ordinary........................ 
Porto Kit j.
P rim e......  
F ancy........  
F air..
Good
Extra good.
Choice” 
Fancy 
Half  barrels 3c.extra

  14
jg
20
30
18
22
....................................32
®

Now Orleans.

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

 

 

 

3 75
2

NY.Cond’ns’d Milk Co’s brands
Gail Borden Eagle__ _  ...  7 40
Crown............................ 
  6  25
Daisy.......................................5  75
Champion............................   4  50
Magnolia 
............................. 4  25
Dime....................................... 3  35

 

23
37
43

Peerless evaporated cream.  5 75

36 1-lb. cartoons................. 53g
25  lb.  boxes..........................4%
60  lb.  boxes........................  ik

Globe Match Co.’s Brands.
olumbla Parlor.................. 81 25
XXX Sulphur....................... ’ 1 00
Diamond  Match  Co.’s  Brands.
No. 9  sulphur.........................1 65
Anchor parlor........................ 1 70
No. 2 home............................ ..  io
Export parlor.........................4 00

T H E   MICïUGAJSr  T B A D E 8M A N .

17

5‘lC a.L E S.
Medium.
Barrels, 1,200  count... 
Half bbls, 600  count..
Small.
Barrels, 2,400  count.
Half bbls, 1,200 count
P IP E S .

@5  50 
@3 25
6 00
3  50

Clay, No.  216..................
....1  70
“  T. D. full count__
....  70
Cab, No.  8......................... ...1 20

P O T A S H .

48 cans In case.

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

R IC E .
Domestic.

Carolina head..................

...6
“  No. 1................... ....5)4
No. 2................... ...  5
“ 
Broken...............   ............ ..  4
Japan, No. 1.....................
....5)4
“  No.2......................
....5
Jav a.............................
..  5
Patna................................. ..  4)4
SPICES.

Imported.

Whole Sifted.

Allspice..................................  9)4
Cassia, China In mats.........  9ft

“ 

“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

Batavia in bund__15
Saigon In rolls.........32
Cloves,  Amboyna................22
Zanzibar.................11 %
Mace  Batavia.......................80
Nutmegs, fancy....................75
“  No.  1......................70
“  No.  2......................60
Pepper, Singapore, black__10
“ 
w hite...  .20
shot............................16
“ 
Pure Qround In Bulk.
Allspice................................ 15
Cassia,  Batavia...................18
and  Saigon.25
“ 
Saigon......................35
“ 
Cloves,  Amboyna................. 22
“ 
Zanzibar..................18
Ginger, A frican................... 16
“  Cochin...................   20
Jam aica.................22
“ 
Mace  Batavia.......................65
Mustard,  Eng. and Trieste..22
Trieste..................... 25
Nutmegs, No. 2 ....................75
Pepper, Singapore, black — 16
“  w hite....... 24
Cayenne................. 20
Sage........................................ 20
i^g  yjg
Allspice........................  84  155
C innam on...................  84  155
Cloves...........................  84  155
Ginger,  Jamaica  .......  84  1  55
“  A frican............  84  1  55
Mustard........................  84  1  55
Pepper 
84  155
Sage.....................  —   84

“ 
“ 
•‘Absolute” in Packages.

...................... 
SAL  SODA.

“ 

“ 

Granulated,  bbls..................  IH
751b  cases........   lv*
Lump, bbls
1  15 
...  1*
1451b kegs__
SE E D S.
A nise.........................
@15
Canary, Smyrna.........
8
Caraway 
...................
Cardamon, M alabar..
90
Hemp,  Russian........
4
Mixed  Bird  .............
5@6
Mustard,  w hite........
10
Poppy.........................
9
R ape............................
5 
Cuttle  bone...............
30
S T A R C H .
Corn.
54C
20-lb  boxes  ................
...............
40 lb 
5)4
Gloss
lib  packages  ........ .
5
3-lb 
.............
5
61b 
...............
5)4
40 and 50 lb. boxes...............  3.|
Barrels...................................   3H

“ 
“ 

“ 

SN U F F .

Scotch, In  bladders............. 37
Maccaboy, In ja rs.................35
French Rappee, In Ja rs...... 43
Boxes.......................................51«
Regs, English......................... «£

SO D A .

S A L T .

Diamond Crystal.

Cases, 24 3  lb. boxes........ $  1  60
Barrels,.¿320  lbs.................  2 50
1152)4 lb bags....  4  00
“ 
.. ..  3  7 
fcO5 
“ 
“ 
3010  lb
3  50 
Butter, 56 lb  bags.
65 
“  20141b bags
3 50
“  280 lb. b b ls............  2 50
“  224 lb 
“ 
............  2 25

lb  “ 

 

 

“ 

Worcester.
115 214-lb sacks..........................64 CO
“ 
605-lb 
 
3 IS
“ 
3010-lb 
3  50
 
22  14 lb.  “ 
......................  3  30
320 lb. bbl....................................2 50
8 lb  sacks........................... 32)4
60

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

1003-lb. sacks........................... (2 lo
60 5 lb. 
2810-lb. sacks..........................  l 75
30
56 lb. dairy In drill  bags... 
16
281b. 
.. 
75
56 lb. dairy In linen sacks.. 
56 lb. dairy In linen  sacks. 
75 
56 U*.  sacks.........................   22
Saginaw ............................. 
80
M anistee............................ 
80

Soiar Rock.
Common Fine.

Ashton.
Higgins.

1  90

“ 

“ 

“ 

 

SALERATUS.

3 Packed 60 lbs. in box.

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

 

 

SEELY’S  EXTRACTS. 

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

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

Rococo—Second  Grade. 

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

SOAP.
L aundry.

Allen B. Wrlsley’s Brands.

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

Proctor & Gamble.

“ 

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

Dingman Brands.

Single box............................. 3  95
5 box lots, delivered.......... 3 85
10 box lots, delivered........   3  75

“ 

Jas. S. Kirk & Co.’s  Brands. 
American  Family, wrp’d..83 33 
plain...  3 27
N.  K.  Falrbank & Co.’s Brands.
Santa Claus.........................  4  00
Br jw n, 60 bars...................... 2 40
80  bars  .................... 3  25

“ 
Lautz Bros. & Co.’s Brands.

A cm e....................................  3  75
Cotton OH.............................. 6 00
M arseilles.............................4  00
Master 
..................................4 00
Thompson & Chute Co. ’s Bra nds

Silver...................................  36B
M ono................................... 3 30
Savon Improved  ........   "   2 50
Sunflow er............ 
2  so
Golden................................"  3 25
Economical  ................ . . . .  2 25
Passolt’s Atlas  Brand.
Single  box  ......................... 3  65
ip*».............................  3  60
10 box lots.................. 
t i j i
25box  lots del........ ! 
340
Scouring.
Sapolio, kitchen, 3  doz...  2 40
hand, 3 doz.......... 2 40

1 

SUGAR.

Below  are  given  New  York 
prices on sugars, to  which  the 
wholesale  dealer  adds  the  lo­
cal freight  from  New  York  to 
your  shipping  point,  giving 
you  credit  on  the  invoice  for 
the  amount  of  freight  buyer 
pays from the market  in which 
he  purchases  to  bis  shipping 
point, including 20  pounds  for 
the weight of the barrel.
Cut  Loaf.    
...................s 4I
c u b es...............;;;;..........* U
Pow dered.......... 
XXXX  Pow dered............. 5  vj
G ranulated................. 
Fine Granulated........  . . .  4 87
Extra Fine Granulated...  5 00
Mould  A  ........  
5  jo
Diamond Confec.  A .. ..'..'.  4*7 
4  75
Confec. Standard  A . 
No.  1............................ 
'  ’  4  82
}§
18
is

' .......... =
"   4

I-' 

No.  13.  ..  . 

......*g

............  %

SIR U PS.

Corn.

Barrels.........................  
Half bbls...................'. . . . '. . 
„   , 
Good............................... ;;;; 
ir
Choice. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   30

Pure Cane.

0=
in

TA B LE  SAUCES.

Lea &  Perrin’s, la rg e .........  4  75
small.......  2 75
Halford, la rg e .................... 37*
small........ !! ” ' ”   2 25
Salad  Dressing, 
sm all........ 2 65
“ 

“ 

large  '.!!'.!  4 55

TEAS.

japan—Regular.

SUN CUBES.

BASKET  PIBED.

F a ir.............................. 
©17
Good.............................  @20
Choice......................... ..34  @26
Choicest  ......................32  @34
Dust  ............................10  @12
F a ir..............................   @17
Good............................   @30
Choice.............................24  @36
Choicest.........................32  @34
D ust................................10  @12
F a ir................................lg  @20
Choice...........................  @25
Choicest...................... 
©35
Extra choice, wire leal  @40
GUNPOWDER.
Common to  fa ll............ 25  @35
Extra fine to finest___ 50 @65
Choicest fancy..............75 @85
@26
Common co  fair............ 23 @30
Common to  fair.............23 @26
Superior to fine..............30 @35
Common to  fair............18  @26
Superior to  fine............30  ©40

oolong. 
IMPERIAL.

YOUNG HYSON.

ENGLISH BREAKFAST.

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

TOBACCOS.

F in e Cut.

 
Private Brands.

P. Lorillard & Co.’s Brands.
Sweet Russet. .............. 30  @32
Tiger............................. 
30
D. Scotten & Co’s Brands.
Hiawatha...................  
60
C uba............................. 
32
Rocket.........................  
30
Spaulding & Merrick’s  Brands.
Sterling................. 
30
Bazoo..... 
Can  Can...........................   @27
Nellie  Bly................... 24  @25
Uncle Ben............. — 24  @25
McGinty ........................... 
25
Columbia........................ 
Columbia,  drums  ........  
Bang  Up......................... 
Bang up,  drums 
......... 
P lug.

V4 bbls.......... 

“ 

27
24
23
20
19

 

 

39
27
40
25
38

Sorg’s Brands.

Lorillard’s Brands.

Spearhead........................ 
Jo k er................................ 
Nobby Twist...................... 
Scotten’s Brands.
Kylo.. - i,.......-.................. 
Hiawatha..........................  
Valley C ity ................. 
34
Finzer’s Brands.
4»
Old  Honesty................ 
Jollv Tar......................  
32
39
Climax (8  oz.,41c).... 
30
G r'en Turtle............... 
27
Three  Black Crows... 
Something Good......... 
38
Out of  Sight...............  
24
Wilson «  McCaulay’s.Brands.
43
Gold  Rope................... 
Happy Thought..........  
37
Messmate....................  
32
No Tax......................... 
31
Let  Go.........................  
27

J. G. Butler’s Brands.

Sm oking.

Catlin’s  Brands.

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

Kiln  dried......................... 17@18
Golden  Shower.....................19
26
Huntress 
Meerschaum 
........ — 29@30
American Eagle Co.’s  Brands.
Myrtle  Navy..........................40
Stork  ...............................3G@32
Germ an..........   .................... 15
F ro g ....................................... 33
Java, )4s foil......................... 32
Banner Tobacco Co.'s Brands.
Banner....................................15
Banner Cavendish............... 38
Gold Cut 
.............................28

Scotten’s Brands.

W arpath............ ...................14
Honey  Dew........................... 26
Gold  Block...........................30
F. F. Adams Tobacco Co.’s 
Peerless.................................. 26
Old  Tom................................ 18
Standard...........................— 22
Globe Tobacco Co.’s Brands.
Handmade............................. 40

Brands.

Leidersdorf’s Brands.

Rob  Roy.......... ......................26
Uncle  Sam.......................28@32
Red Clover............................. 32

Spaulding & Merrick.

Tom and Jerry.......................25
Traveler  Cavendish............ 38
Buck Horn.............................30
Plow  Boy........................3G@32
Corn  Cake........ .......  
16
VINEGAR.

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

11 for barrel.

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

so
1  75

Y E A S T .
Magic,.......................
...............
Warner’s 
Yeast Foam  .............
Diamond.
Royal.......... . 

............ 1  00
............. 1  00
..............1  00
.¡III  90

W OODENW ARE.

“ 

“ 
“ 

splint 

INDURATED WARE.

Butter Plates—Oval.

Baskets, market................... 

Tubs,No. 1...........................  600
“  No. 2..........................5  50
“  No. 3..........................  4  50
130
Pails,  No. 1, two-hoop.. 
No. 1,  three-hoop  ...  1  50
“ 
Bowls, 11 inch.....................
...................... 
13  “ 
“ 
90
“ 
15  “ 
......................  1  25
“ 
17  “ 
......................  1  80
“ 
19  “ 
....................   2 40
21  “ 
...................
35
“ 
shipping  bushel..  1  15
“ 
..  1  25
full  hoop  “ 
“  willow cl’ths, No.l  5 25
“  No.2 6 25
“ 
“ 
No.3 7 25
“  No.l  3  75
“ 
“  No.2 4 25 
“  No.3 4 75
Pails.....................................  3  15
Tubs,  No.  1..........................13 50
Tubs, No. 2...........................12 00
Tubs, No. 3........................... 10 50
250  1000
No.  1.............................. 
60 2  10
No.  2.............................. 
70 2 45
80 2 80
No.  3.............................. 
No 
...........................  1  00  3 50
W ashboards—single.
Universal...............................2  25
No. Q ueen.............................2  50
Peerless Protector.................2 40
Saginaw Globe....................   1  75
Water W itch........................  2250
W ilson....................................2  5
Good Luck............................. 2  75
Peerless................................  2  85
H ID E S  PELTS  and  FURS 
Perkins  &  Hess  pay  as  fol­
lows:
G reen........ .....................   2@3
Part  Cured................. 
@3)4
Full 
..................   @  4*
Dry................................  5  @  6
Kips, green  .................  3  @ 4
“  cured..................   @ 6
Calfskins,  green........   3  @  4
cured.........6)4 @  8
Deacon skins...............10  @25

Double.

HIDES.

“ 

" 

@30

No. 2 hides a  off.
PELTS

WOOL.

Shearlings....................... 5 @  20
Lambs 
........................25  @  60
W ashed..........................12 @17
Unwashed  .....................8  @12
Tailow ...........................  4 @ 5
Grease  butter  .............  1  @ 2
Switches   
.................  l)4@ 2
Ginseng........................2 0u@2 50
GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFS

MISCELLANEOUS.

WHEAT.

47
47

MEAL.

No. 1 White (58 lb. test)
No. 2 Red  (6Ö lb. test)
Bolted................................ .  1  40
Granulated.........................
1  65
FLO TIB  IN  SACKS.
»Paten ts..............................
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
Brau........
815 00 
816  00 
Screenings
12 00 
12  00 
Middlings
16 00
17 00 
Mixed Feed...  23 00
24  50 
Coarse meal
23:  00
22  00
CORN.
■ 59)4 
Car  lots..................
Less than  car  lots.
.62
Car  lots.................................. 34
Less than car lots................. 37
HAY.
No. 1 Timothy, ear lots__ 11  00
ton lots........ 12 50
N o.l 

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FISH   AND  OYSTERS.
F.  J.  Dettenthaler  quotes as 

12)4

follows:
FRESH  FISH.
Whiteflsh 
©10
..................  
T ro u t...........................  @8
Black Bass..................  
Halibut.........................   @17
Ciscoes or Herring__   @ 4
Bluefish........................  @10
Fresh lobster, per  lb .. 
20
Cod................................ 
10
No. 1 Pickerel.............   @ 9
P ik e.,...........................  @ 7
Smoked  W hite...........   @ 8
Red  Snappers.............  
15
Columbia  River  Sal­
mon ........................... 
15
Mackerel......................  18@35
oysters—Cans.
Fairhaven  Counts__   @40
F .J . D.  Selects......... 
35
Selects.........................   @30
F. J. D................... 
Anchors.............. 
Standards............ 
oysters—Bulk.
Extra Selects.. per gal. 
Selects................ 
standards........... 
Counts................ 
Scallops.............  
....
Shrimps  ...................... 
Clams...........................
SHELL  GOODS.
Oysters, per  100.......... 1  25@i  75
Clams, 
.  75@l 00

1  75
1  j r,
2 20

25
22
20

2 00

1  25

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s a u s a g e .

The Grand Rapids  Packing  and Provision Co 

quotes as follows:
PORK  IN  BARRELS.
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Mess................ 
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s h o rtc u t......................................... 
JS xx
Extra clear pig, short  cu t............... 
17  so
Extra clear,  heavy..
Clear, fat  back...................................................17  no
Boston clear, short cu t__  
17  on
Clear back, short cu t............... 
17  on
Standard clear, short cut. best..........
Pork, links..
Bologna.......
Liver............
Tongue ........
Blood ............
Head cheese,
Summer.........
Frankfurts...
„  
.  
Kettle  Rendered...  .
.10
g a n g e r ......................... ...I..'.'.'.'.'."'.... 
9*
Compound........ ..................................................  -■
7 hi
Cottolene................. 
50 lb. Tins, )£c advance.
20 lb.  palls, )4c 
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101b. 
“
51b. 
31b. 
1  c 
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5)4
3)4

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LARD.

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7)4

BBBF IN BARRELS.

Zjxtra Mess, warranted 200  lbs.
Extra Mess, Chicago packing 
Boneless, rump butts..........0
a QTY,  smoked  meats—Canvassed or Plain. 
Hams, average 20 lbs. 
s

.
picnic................... 
best boneless.  .

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12 to 14 lb s....  ........................... is
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8)4
10
7)4
11
12)4

Shoulders.................................................
Breakfast Bacon  boneless .
Dried beef, ham prices......

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8 00

DRY  SALT  MEATS.

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Long Clears, heavy........
Briskets,  medium........
lig h t............. ”  ‘ *...........
Butts..........  
.......
D. S. Bellies___ . ............................
Fat Backs...............
Half  barrels. KC™   PIM’  FEET'
Quarter barrels.....  
K its....... 

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Kits, honeycomb........................
Kits, prem ium ........  

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No. 0 s u n ..................
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No.2  “  ............................................................
Tubular....................... ......................................

LAMP  BURNERS.

LAMP  CHIMNEYS

Per box.

6 doz. in box.
No. 0 Sun........
______
n o . i  
No.2  “  ......................
First qnallty.
No. 0 Sun, crimp  top__
“ 
No. 1  “ 
No.2  “ 
“ 
No. 0 Sun, crimp  ton....
N o.l  “ 
No. 2  “ 

XXX Flint.

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Pearl top.

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1  75 
■ 1  88

..2 60 
..2 80 
—3  80

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Fire Proof—Plain Top. 
“ 

No. 1 Sun, wrapped and  labeled 
no. 2 Hinge,  ■* 
« 
No. 1, Sun,  plain  bulb...........  
No.2,  “ 
“ 
„  
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La Bastie.
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb,  per doz 
«
No. 2  “ 
No. 1 crimp, per doz.........
No. 3 
“ 
„   „  _   . 
No. 0,  Tubular, cases 1 doz.  each.......
“ 
No. 0, 
No. 0, 
“ 
No.0, 
“ 

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.........*  w
. . . . . . . . . . . "V.'.V.........4 70
-...1  25 
...1  50 
....1   35 
...1  60

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lantern  globes.'
“ 
2  “ 
..........   25
bbis 5  “ 
bull’s eye, cases i doz each! 1  00

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

.........

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ROCHESTER  STORE  LAMPS.

STREET  LAMPS.

No. 10, Brass, 40u  candle  power............... . 
g ,k
No. 9, Globe, automatic  extinguisher............3 25
LAMP WICKS.
No. 0, per  gross.......................  
00
...................................................   sf
N0. 1, 
No!3,’ 
!!!!!!!!;!!!!!!!!!!!'; 
.........  ~
Mammoth, per doz.........................!.'!!.!!! 
7s

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FRUIT  JARS.

Mason—old  style.

Dandy—glass  cover.

Q uarts................................................... . 
c  uo
Half  gallons  ..........................................!....!  7  50
Pints........................................................
8 50
Q uarts..........................  ........ 
.  .
9 00 
Half  gallons......................
2  00
Supplies.
o  25
Boyd’s extra caps..............................  
35
Rubber rings.............................  ..'.!...!......... 
Sealing wax, red or white, 51b  packages... .  2)4 
Vi Pints,  6 doz In box, per box  (box 00)  ...  1  B4
doz (bbl  35)........   23
>4 
)4 
box (box 00).
1  80
% 
doz (bbl 35).
Butter Crocks,  1 to 6 gal...........................
.!!.’.!.’
Jugs, )4 gal., per doz..................................
Milk Pans, h  gal., per  doz..................."

JELLY  TUMBLERS—Tin Top.
24 “  “  bbl, 
“  box,  “ 
6 
18 **  "  bbl,  “ 

STONEWARE—AKRON.
)4 gal. per  doz... 

1 to 4 gal., per gal.......................
.............
Butter Crocks,  1  and 2 g a l............... 
Milk Pans, )4 gal. per  doz............
“  ..........

STONEWARE—BLACK GLAZED.
...
1 

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T H E   M Icm G A JN T  T R A D E S M A N .

18

r e p r e s e n t a t i v e   r e t a i l e r s .

Flats.

O.  W. Pettit,  the  Grocer of Wellington 
Orlando W. Pettit was born  in  Somer­
set,  Niagara county, New York,  in  1846. 
His education was obtained  in the justly 
celebrated Medina Academy, from  which 
he  graduated  when  17  years  of  age. 
Soon after graduating he was engaged to 
teach  the  district  school  at  Cambria, 
New York, through the winter  term.  At 
the  close  of  the  term  he  returned  to 
school  for  another  year’s  study,  at  the 
close  of  which  he  left  his native State 
and came to Portland,  Mich.,  whence  he 
was  followed  in  a  short  time  by  his 
father’s family..  His  father  purchased a 
farm near Portland  and  for  one  season 
Orlando had full charge  of  the  farming 
operations.  Never  of robust health, the 
hard work of the farm proved  too  much 
for him and for several years he was  un­
able to do  work  of  any  kind.  Finally, 
with  his  health  partially  restored,  he 
started a grocery  in  Portland, which  he 
conducted  with  profit  for  about 
five 
years,  but again ill health compelled him 
to suspend work, and for  three years the 
battle with his relentless enemy  was car­
ried on.  Once  more  he  conquered  and 
then he came to Grand Rapids  and  went 
into  the  lumber  business  with  L.  M. 
Cutcheon where he continued four years. 
He then purchased the grocery  stock  of 
John  Killean  at  52  Lyon  street, which 
business  he  conducted  for  about  four 
years.  He then disposed  of  the  grocery 
and  entered  the  real  estate  business. 
Later he purchased  and  remodelled  the 
block on the corner of  Plainfield  avenue 
and Quimby street,  in which he opened a 
grocery.  Last  month  he  secured 
the 
west half of the ground floor of the  Wel­
lington  fiats,  the  dimensions  of  which 
are 20x164 feet.  Here  he  opened  what 
is.  undoubtedly, one  of  the  handsomest 
and best appointed groceries in  the  city. 
Mr.  Pettit is building up a good trade in 
his  new  location,  which  is  one  of  the 
best  in  the  city.  To  a  naturally quiet 
and  unobtrusive  disposition  has  been 
added a reserve which is the result of his 
years of ill health, but his  heart  is  still 
in the right place and he has the  respect 
and  esteem  of  a  large circle of friends. 
He was a  short  time  ago  elected  to  the 
deaconate of the Fountain  street  Baptist 
church, of which he is a member.

A bounty of  25  cents  per  tree  is  of­
fered by the government of Costa Rica to 
all persons who plant 500 or  more  cocoa 
trees  and  cultivate them  for a period of 
three years.  The law took effect July 29 
last, and will continue in force until 1900 
unless sooner repealed.

Blackmailing  Tactics  of  the  Trades 

Unions.

One of  the  most  annoying  things  the 
city merchant has  to contend with is the 
blackmailing tactics of  the trades unions 
in forcing  dealers  to  advertise  in  their 
handbooks  and  directories on penalty of 
being  boycotted  for  refusing  to  do  so. 
The  New  York Sun recently referred to 
an instance of this kind as follows:

The arrest  of a  couple  of  advertising 
agents of a labor union upon a charge  of 
blackmailing merchants  brings to  notice 
a practice from  which many shopkeepers 
suffer.  Such agents are constantly going 
to stores and factories for the purpose  of 
extortion.  They say  that  the  union  or 
the assembly  is getting  out a handbook, 
or a souvenir, or  a list  of  their  business 
friends,  and  demand  an  advertisement 
for  it.  They  threaten  to  blacklist  or 
boycott the  dealers  who refuse to accede 
to their demands,  and they  are  in  some 
cases  able  to  carry  out their threats  to 
some  extent.  We  know  of  a  case  in 
which the blackmailing  agent of a union 
was thus able to get over $1,000 worth of 
advertisements, and to get the money for 
them,  too, although  probably  not one  of 
the advertisers ever realized the slightest 
advantage from his  advertisement.
thus  ap­
proached  and  menaced  ought  to  do  as 
did Chris.  Munger,  the milk dealer, when 
two of these fellows demanded his adver­
tisement  under  penalty  of  a  boycott, 
“turn  the  rascals  out.”  No  merchant 
ought to submit to them,  and the respect­
able unions  (if there  is such  a  thing  as 
respectability  among  trades  unionists) 
ought  not  to  tolerate  their  existence. 
Capt.  Price,  of  the  police  department, 
did well in arresting  one  of  these  vam­
pires who  entered  Munger’s  place  blus- 
teringly and  threatened  to  break up  his 
business if he  refused to  give  an  adver­
tisement to a catchpenny handbook.

The  merchants  who  are 

Danger from Cocaine.
Geo. C. Stout in Philadelphia Polyclinic.

The large number of  cases  of  toxicity 
would  indicate  that  the  present  use of 
cocaine is rather  too  free;  it  should  be 
regarded  as  a dangerous remedy to tam­
per with and  should  be used  with  espe­
cial  cautiousness and  moderation,  for  in 
addition to its  toxic  properties its use  is 
prone to grow habitual.
It is more agreeable than morphine,  al­
cohol, or any  other  narcotic,  and  there­
In 
fore  more  alluring  and  seductive. 
this  connection  I  may  say  that  I have 
met  with  five  physicians  who  have 
formed the habit,  much to the  detriment 
of their  moral  and  physical  well-being. 
Two of these have  fortunately  been able 
to break themselves  of it,  but only  with 
much difficulty and persistence.
In using  cocaine  on  the  mucous  sur­
face of the nose, the  question is not sim­
ply to obtain the  desired anaesthesia,  but 
to obtain it with a  minimum quantity of 
the drug, thus eliminating the unpleasant 
toxic effects as  nearly  as  possible.  For 
the purpose of  diagnosis  the  2 per cent, 
slightly  alkaline  solution  is  of  ample 
strength.

CANDY

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for  S u m m e r   R eso rt T rad e.
Nice  Line  of  Package  Goods.  Our  io cent  package  of  Fine  Chocolates is a 
Hummer.  Send for sample order.
A .  H .  f f K O O K S   <£  C o .

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Office

Grand  Rapids.

W E  

Y.  M.  C.  A.  Building 

Correspondence  Solicited.

Wholesale and  Retail Dealers in Anthracite and Bituminous Coal. 

W A N T  TO  B U Y
1.000  to  2,000  Cords Dry, 16 in.  Beech and Maple.  C.  & W. M.  delivery preferred.
GRANT  FUEL  l  ICE  GO.,
In  returning  thanks  for  the  large  increase  in  trade for the fall and  winter of 

1894-5,  it affords  us much  pleasure  to  acknowledge  receipt  of  many  letters 
from  leading merchants expressing their pleasure on finding that  we  have in­
troduced so many Impoved Styles in Overcoats  and  Ulsters.  The  Paddock  Over­
coat is a surprise and leading feature, is dressy and shows the figure  to  perfection.
Our Clay and Fancy Worsted suits are in great demand, and  our  large  line  of 
Double and Single-Breasted Suits  in  Unfinished  Worsteds,  Cbevoits,  Cassimeres, 
Etc.,  sold  at  popular  prices,  have afforded our customers the pleasure to meet all 
competition.
Write our Michigan  Representative,  V V IL L IA n  CONNOR,  Marshall,  Mich., 
Box 346  (his permanent address),  who will  be  p leased   to  call  upon  you,  and  you 
will see and learn something to your advantage.

All mail orders promptly attended to.

MICHAEL  KOLB  &  SON,

W h o l e s a l e   C lo th ie rs,

ROCHESTER, 

N.  Y.
William Connor will  be at Sweet’s Hotel,  Grand Rapids,  Mich., on  Wednesday 
Thursday  and  Friday,  Sept.  26,  27  and  28,  being  West  Michigan  Fair  week’5 
Customers  who meet him there will be allowed expenses.

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T H E   M I O H I Ö A N   T B A D B 8 M A K I.
in 

How  to  Catch  Mackinaw  Trout 

Orand Traverse  Bay.

“If the Mackinaw trout could be fished 
for with a light rod and tackle, as salmon 
are,” said a  well-known  business  man, 
who has been trying these gamey  fish  in 
Grand Traverse  Bay,  “the  title  of  the 
salmon as king of  game  fish  would  fall 
at once.  The Mackinaw trout is stronger 
than  the  salmon,  of  greater  average 
weight, equally as tactful,  and  as  fierce 
a fighter as that  Goliath  of  fresh water 
fish,  the muskallonge.  A bout  with  one 
of these trout at  the  end  of  a  hundred 
feet  of  line  on  a  supple  split  bamboo 
rod  would  give  the  sturdiest  salmon 
fisherman enough  of  hard  and  exciting 
work to satisfy him  for the  day.  Eight­
een, 
twenty-five 
pounders  are  by  no  means uncommon, 
and thirty pounders excite no more  than 
ordinary comment.

and  even 

twenty, 

“Bat  the  Mackinaw  tront,  like 

the 
salmon  trout  of  the  New  York  lakes, 
isn’t  built  for  fine  tackle,  and  if  you 
want  him  you  must  work  the  oars  of  a 
boat  faithfully,  and  trail  your  whirling 
troll  at  the  end  of  200  or  300  feet  of 
heavy  line  in  from  50  to  100  feet  of 
water.  Sometimes the fisherman ties his 
line to his leg as he  rows  his  boat,  but 
the usual style is to hold  it in his mouth 
—that is, if he is  fishing  for  trout  any­
where on the lake but Traverse Bay.

“From  time  out  of  mind  Mackinaw 
trout have been fished for in  Lake Mich­
igan  with  a  slender,  minnow-shaped 
troll, so made  that  it will  whirl  rapidly 
when drawn through the water, and fast­
ened  to  a  staring  white  line  as  big 
around as  a  led  pencil.  A  good  many 
fishermen bad  held  for  years  that  this 
trolling line was a  detriment  to  fishing, 
as  it  acted  as  a  menace  to  the  trout, 
which are shy and wary,  and  that with  a 
line less in evidence  in  the  clear  waters 
of the lake greater  success would attend 
the  sport  of  Mackinaw  tront  fishing. 
But no one seemed courageous enough to 
try any other  kind  of  a  line  until  two 
years ago,  when  a  citizen  of  Traverse 
City,  who was not a fisherman,  made  up 
his mind  that  he  knew  how  more  and 
bigger  trout  conld  be  caught,  and  he 
went fishing one day with  a  fine  copper 
wire for his line  instead  of  the 'staring 
white  twine  of  the  fathers.  This  wire 
was  absolutely  invisible  in  the  water, 
and when let out with  the  troll  carried 
no  suspicion  to  the  Mackinaw  trout’s 
watchful eye.  The result was  that  this 
citizen came ashore with a  boat  load  of 
the biggest Mackinaw trout any  one  had 
ever seen in one lot  from Traverse  Bay. 
•Since  then  the  fishermen  in  that  part 
have adopted the copper wire for a  troll­
ing line,  but elsewhere  on  the  lake  the 
hide-bound old sportsmen stick  to  tradi­
tion and white twine.

fisherman,  ‘You’ve  got 

“There is no mistaking  the strike of a 
Mackinaw trout on the troll,  and  the  in­
stant he makes it all other business must 
be subordinated to  that  of  getting  him 
safe  into  the  boat. 
In   the  expressive 
and comprehensive  parlance of the Lake 
to 
Michigan 
keep a  Mackinaw  trout  a-goin’.’ 
It  is 
no  easy  matter  to  keep  a  fifteen  or 
twenty  pound  Mackinaw  trout  a-goin’, 
and the  inexperienced  angler  will  find 
that  the  first  thing  he  knows  the  trout 
will  be  ‘keepin’  him  a-goin’.’  If  the 
big  fish  gets  the  least  bit  of  slack  line 
he  will  turn  and  dash  away,  some­
times  actually  pulling  the  boat  arouud, 
if  not  towing  it.  Once  headed  away

this  gamey  and 
from  the  fisherman, 
lusty  fish  rarely  fails  to  break  the hold 
of  the  hook.  The  angler  who  can keep 
his  trout  a-goin’ as he hauls in  the  line 
hand  over  hand  may  get  his  prize 
alongside  or  within  spearing  or  shoot­
ing  distance  in  the  course  of  fifteen  or 
twenty minutes.

“The Mackinaw trout fishermen  never 
take  the  risk  even  of  gaffing  a  big 
trout. 
Indeed,  some  carry  revolvers  of 
large  caliber,  and  when  the  trout  is 
hauled  alongside  the  boat  or  within 
safe range they shoot it  in the head,  and 
fight  beyond  all  question. 
put 
Others  spear  their  catches  with 
long- 
handled,  sharp tined gigs.”

the 

Getting1 the Best of Phil Armour.

Eugene Field in  Chicago Record.

Our respected  townsman,  Phil  D.  Ar­
mour,  has  the name  of  being pretty lib­
eral with  his  employes.  He  pays  good 
salaries,  but  he  wants  faithful service. 
It is his custom to make  occasional pres­
ents  to  his  men,  either  in  cash  or  its 
equivalent, and it  is  not  an  uncommon 
practice with him  to give an  employe an 
order for a new suit of clothes.  He called 
one of his young  men aside  one day  and 
said:  “I  want to make  you a little pres­
ent.  You  wouldn’t  object  to some  new 
clothes,  would  you?  Here  is  an  order 
for a suit;  please  accept it as  a token of 
my recognition of your service.”
The young man was very much pleased, 
but when  he came  to  think  the  matter 
over  he  said  to  himself:  “The  chances 
are that  I’ll never  get  this  opportunity 
again.  Mr. Armour  has an  army of  em­
ployes,  and it is altogether  unlikely that 
my  turn  will ever come  round again. 
I 
I need a business  suit,  but I  can  buy  it 
with  my  own  money. 
I’ll  do the smart 
thing and get a dress suit  on this order.” 
And  the  young  man  chuckled  to  think 
what a real shrewd game he was playing.
When  Mr.  Armour  got the  bill for $80 
for that  dress suit  he  was  considerably 
surprised.  He leaned  his head  upon his 
hand and  considered  the  affair  calmly; 
then be sent for the young man.
“My young friend,”  said  Mr.  Armour 
to the fellow,  “is this  bill correct?”
The young man  looked at  the bill  and 
said yes.
“When I gave you the order,” said Mr. 
Armour,  “I specified  no amount which  1 
I took it for granted 
was willing to pay. 
that you  would pay that consideration to 
my  friendly  liberality  which  others  in 
my employ have  always observed;  I sup­
posed  that  a  young  man  occupying  a 
comparatively  humble  position  would 
be contented  with moderate-priced attire. 
You see I  wear  very  inexpensive  cloth­
ing.  Forty dollars  would, I  think,  have 
purchased as fine a suit of clothes as you 
should have.  I am not finding fault with 
you;  I shall pay this bill  and shall never 
allude to it again.  But I have called you 
in here to  ask you,  as  a  business  man, 
whether you  really think  it was a  smart 
business  procedure  upon  your  part  to 
practice that which  might  be  construed 
as  an  imposition  upon a kindly diposed 
employer?  Do  you  not  think  I  would 
naturally have been  more pleasantly dis­
posed toward you had  you  been  as  gen­
erous in your use of my friendliness as  I 
was in extending it to you?”
The young  man was  greatly  abashed. 
He tried to  apologize  and  he stammered 
confusedly.
“ Yon are a young man,”  said  Mr.  Ar­
mour,  kindly,  “and  you  have  much  to 
I want to  impress upon you  that 
learn. 
you should  never  take  even  a  seeming 
advantage of a friend;  for, aside from ail 
other considerations,  that is not  a smart 
business move.”
This lesson had its desired effect.  Mr. 
Armour never alluded to the affair again, 
but he was pleased to see that young man 
prove by his devoted  service  genuine re­
gret  for  his  foolish  error.  The  young 
man  has  been  promoted  from  time  to 
time  and  is  now  one  of  Mr.  Armour’s 
trusted lieutenants. 
It is he himself who 
tells this story of his employer’s generos­
ity,  amiability and forbearance.

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CHICAGO 

-i* *1’1894-
AND  WEST  MI  HIOAN  R’Y.
GOING  TO  CHICAGO.

TO AND FROM  MUSKEGON.

CHICAGO  VIA  ST  JOB  AND  STEAMER.

RETURNING  PROM  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. C hicago.................................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
TRAVERSE CITY, CHARLEVOIX  AND  PETOSKEY.
Lv. Grand  Rapids .. 
7:30am  5:45pm  11:15pm
Ar.  Manistee............  12:20pm  10:35pm 
..........
Ar. Traverse City....-  11:20am  11:10pm  4:55am
7:27am
Ar. Charlevoix........  
Ar.  Petoskey.......... 
7:55am
Ar. Bay View............ 
8:00am
Local  train  making  all  stops  leaves  Grand 
Rapids *7:45am.  Trains  arrive  from  north  at 
6:00am, 11:50am,  1 ;00 pm and *10:00pm.
PARLOR  AND  SLEEPING  CARS.

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

Parlor cars leave for Chicago 7:25am  and  1 ;25 
pm.  For north 7 ;30am and 5:45pm.  Arrives from 
Chicago 3:05pm and 10:35pm.  From north 11:50 
pm and 1:00pm.  Sleeping cars leave for Chicago 
11:30pm.  For north 11:15pm.  Arrive from Chi­
cago 6 ;25.  Erom north 6 :G0.
•Every day.  »»Except Saturday.  Others wee 
days only.__________
JUDe i 1894
DETROIT, 
LANSING  A  NORTHERN  R.  R.
GOING  TO  DETROIT.

 
 
 

 
 
 

RETURNING  FROM  DETROIT.

TO AND FROM SAGINAW,  ALMA  AND  ST. LOUIS.

Lv. Grand Rapids.........  7:00am  1:20pm  5:55pm
Ar. D etroit.....................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. GR.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.

TO LOWELL VIA LOWELL A HASTINGS B.  It.

THROUGH  CAR  SERVICE.

Trains  week days only.

GEO. DeHAVEN, Gen.  Pass’r Ag’t.

"TVETROIT,  GRANO  HAVEN  &  MIL- 
U   WAUKEE  Railway.
EASTWARD.

+No.  14 tifo.  löj+JNo.  IS •No.
6 45am
7 40am
8 25am
9 00am
10 50am
11 32am 
10 05am 
1205pm
10 53am
11 50am
WESTWARD.

Trains Leave
G’d  Rapids,  Lv
Io n ia ............Ar
St.  Johns  ...A r
Owosso........ Ar
E. Saginaw.. Ar
Bay City.......Ar
F lin t............Ar
Pt.  H uron...A r
Pontiac........ Ar
Detroit..........Ar
For  Grand Haven  and Intermediate
For Grand Haven and Muskegon......... tl :C0 p. m.
+4:55 p.  m.
“ 

1020am 
11 25am 
1217pm 
1 20pm
3 45pm
4 35pm 
3 45pm
5 50pm
3 05pm
4 05pm

3 25pm
4 27pm
5 20pm
6 05pm 
800pm 
8 37pm
7 05pm
8 50pm
8 25pm
9 25pm

lioopm 
1235am 
1 25am 
3 10am
6 40am 
7 15am 
5 40am 
730am 
5 37am
7 00am

Points.......................................................t7:35 a. m.

“  Chicago and Milwau­

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kee,  Wis 

For  Grand  Haven  and Milwaukee,+10:05 p. m.
For Grand Haven  (Sunday only)........ f :00 a. m.

»Daily.

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 Bnffet car.  No. 81 Wagner Sletgper. 
___________ J ab. Ca m p b e l l, City T*dreTAgent.

*7:30 p. m.

Grand. Rapids <5* Indiana

TRAINS  GOINS  NOBTH.

Leave goto
North
For Cadillac  Saginaw....................................... 7:00 a.  m.
For  M ackinaw.......................................................8:00 a .m .
For Traverse City and Saginaw.........................4:45 p. m.
For  Mackinaw.......................................................10:36 p  m.
Leave going 
South.
For  C incinnati...................................................... 7:00a.m .
For Kalamazoo and  Chicago............................2:30 p.  m.
For  F o rt W ayne an d   th e  Bast......................... 3:30 p.m .
For Cincinnati..................................................... *5:40 p.  . m
For  Kalamazoo and Chioago..........................*11:40  p. m

TRAINS  GOING SOUTH.

Chicago via G. R. Si I. R. R.

Lv Grand Rapids............ 7:00 a m  2:30 p m  *11:40 p m
A rr  Chicago.....................8:00pm   0:00pm  
7:10am
2:30 p  m  tra in   has through  W agner  Bnffet  P arlor 
Oar and coach.
11:40  p m  tra in  daily,  through W agner Sleeping Car 
and Coach.
11:30pm
Lv  Chicago 
A rr Grand Rapids 
6:65 a  m
3 80  p  m  has  through  W agner  Buffet  P arlor  Car. 
11:30 p m   tra in  daily, th ro u g h   W agner  Sleeping  Oar.
From Muskegon—Arrive

Afaskegen, Grand Rapid*» & Indiana*
8:25 a  m
7:15  a m 
1:00pm  
l:!5 p m
*:40pm  
8 45pm

For Muskegon—Leave. 

3:30p m  
9  15pm  

0:50 a m  
2:00 p m 

O. L. LOCKWOOD4
_____________ General  Passenger and Ticket  Agent.
PHOTO
WOOD
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Buildings,  Portraits,  Cards  and  Stationery 

Headings, Maps, Plans  and  Patented 
Articles.
T R A D E S M A N   CO.,

Grand Rapids, Midi.

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 UK  @ 75c—12 to 2  @ 90c.
H IR T H ,  K R A U S E   &  CO.

The  Lycom ing  Rubber Company, 
k eep   c o n sta n tly   on  h an d   a 
full  and  complete  line  of 
these goods made from the 
purest  rubber.  They  are 
good style, good fitters and 
give  the  best  satisfaction 
of any rubber  in  the  mar­
ket.  Our  line  of  Leather 
Boots  and  Shoes  is  com­
plete  in  every  particular, 
also Felt Boots,  Sox,  etc.
Thanking you for past favors  we  now 
await your further  orders.  Hoping  you 
wiil  give  our  line  a  careful  inspection | 
when  our  representative  calls  on  vou, 
we are 
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TRADESMAN  COMPANY, 

Grand  Rapids, 

.

  Mich.

Agents,
.

.

Established  i86S.

H.  M.  Reynolds  &  Son.
Building Papers,

Carpet  Linings,

Asbestos  Sheathing.

Asphalt  Ready  Roofing,

Asphalt Roof Paints,

Resin, Coal Tar.

Roofing and Paving Pitch,

Tarred Pelt, Mineral Wool.

Elastic  Roofing Cement. 

Car, Bridge and Roof Paints,  Oils.

P r a c t i c a l   H o o fe rs  

la  Felt,  Gompositioa  and  Gravel.
Cor.  Louis and  Campau Sts., Grand  Rapids

M ic h ig a n  (T e n t r a i

“  The Niagara Falls Route/* 

(Taking effect  Sunday,  May 27,1894.) 

»Daily.  All others daily, except Sunday.

Arrive. 
Depart
10 20d m ............Detroit  E xpress...........7 00am
5 30am    
»Atlanticand  Pacific.......11  20pm
X  iOp m ........ New York Express  .........  6 00 p m
Sleeping cars  run on Atlantic  and  Pacific  ex 
press trains to and from Detroit.
Parlor  cars  leave  for  Detroit at  7:00 a m ;  re 
turning, leave Detroit 4:35 pm, arriving at Grand 
Rapids 10:20 pm .
Direct  communlcatloB  made  at  Detroit  with 
all through  trains eest  over  the  Michigan Cen 
tral Railroad (Canada Southern Division.)
A. A l m q u is t, Ticket  Agent, 
Union PassengerStation.

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GOTHAM GOSSIP.

News  from  the  Metropolis--- Index of

the  Markets.

Special Correspondence

hand-to-mouth 

N e w   Y ork,  Sept.  15—There  are  in 
store aud atioat 473,272 bags of llio coffee 
to date, while last year  the supply at the 
same  time  was  245,409.  Prices  a  year 
ago  on  the  Exchange  were  about  3c 
higher  than 
this  year,  but  the  next 
twelve months seem destined  to  witness 
a  still  greater  drop.  We  will  see  the 
supplies  greatly  increase  and  it is  this 
that  keeps  our  coffee  market  so  quiet. 
The majority of dealers  anticipate  a  de­
cided  drop  and  well-posted  buyers  are 
purchasing 
supplies. 
Quotation on Rio No.  7 at the  moment is' 
15>£c.  Mild sorts just at present are not 
in abundant supply, and prices are firmer 
than for Brazils.
Molasses,  both  foreign  and  domestic, 
are  very  well  cleaned  up.  Prices  are 
firmly  held  and  dealers  profess  a good 
deal of confidence  in the  future.  Prime 
to choice New Orleans,  19@24c  for  cen­
trifugal  and  30@36c  for  open  kettle; 
Porto Rico,  26@34c.
The chief supply of rice  is  the foreign 
article and the  market  is  firm.  No  do­
mestic to speak of here.
There has been no  change in the  price 
of  granulated  sugar  for  three  weeks. 
The demand  remains about as  usual and 
orders are  small.
Teas are increasing  constantly in  firm­
ness  and  holders  will  soon  find  them 
netting a handsome  profit.  A lively dis­
cussion is going on between  the  import­
ers  of  certain  teas  and  the customs of­
ficials who have not  allowed  all  teas  to 
come  through.  There  have  been  great 
quantities rejected and public sympathy, 
whether right or  wrong,  seems  to  be  on 
the side of the customs officials. 
Indeed, 
to see some displays  of tea here one can­
not help thinking it ought to be rejected, 
just as we reject inferior immigrants.
Canned goods meet  with no  special re­
quests.  The packing of tomatoes  is  go­
ing on briskly.
Lemons  sell  slowly  and,  in  fact, the 
whole  foreign  fruit  market  is  flat  and 
stale.  Bananas  are  selling,  perhaps,  a 
little better,  but, as a  rule,  the  demand 
is  dull  all ’round.  Lemons  sell from $2 
to $4.50,  as to size and quality.  Oranges, 
Sorrento,  $3.25@3.50:  Jamaica,  per bbl., 
$4.25.  Bananas,  S5c@$1.10  for  firsts. 
Pineapples,  $5@10. 
Some  new  crop 
Florida  oranges  have  been 
received. 
They  are held at $2.25  for 176s.  Domes­
tic green  fruit is in very free receipt and 
prices are  low.
The butter market Is  quiet and  lower. 
The range for good to best is 20@24c.
Cheese is quiet,  103^@l0%c being  out­
side rates.  Exports are light.
Fancy Michigan  eggs bring 18c  aud  it 
takes  something  “fresh  every  hour” to 
beat this price.
People who associate  the  idea  of  ad­
vanced age with feebleness  aud  decrepi­
tude should rise early  one  of  these  fine 
mornings and go to Central Park  and see 
the procession of ruddy  vigorous  men of 
mature  years  who 
into  New 
York’s big pleasure grounds  long before 
the majority of their sons  and grandsons 
are out of bed.  Very few of them drive. 
The majority of them  may  be  seen  sit­
ting erect on  sharp-gaited horses,  riding 
with the ease  and  confidence  of  accom­
plished horsemen.  Many  of  them  have 
adopted the bicycle,  and  gray beards are 
more numerous before  working hours on 
the Park drives than  beardless  chins.  It 
is altogether a remarkable exhibition and 
one that few people would look for.
Trade continues fairly good.  The job­
bers say generally they  have  nothing  to 
complain  of  and  retailers  are  doing an 
excellent  business.  While  there  will, 
probably, be  more  destitution  than  has 
prevailed for  some years  this winter,  no 
one  expects  to  see the long line of free- 
bread people on  hand that the community 
fed last winter—at  least,  we  hope  there 
will be no such  spectacle. 

throng 

J a y .

Prominent  Hebrew  residents  of  New 
York  are  preparing  to  erect  a  bronze 
statue to the  memory  of  the  late  Jesse 
Seligman, 
the  banker  and  philanthro­
pist.

The Japanese  Government has  fretted 
under this provision  of the treaties  with 
foreign countries for some years.  Japan 
has made such vast  strides in the  arts of 
civilization that she has earned the  right 
to  a  place  among  the  civilized nations. 
The Japanese themselves are exceedingly 
proud of the progress  their  country  has 
made,  aud naturally they resent the con­
tinuance of the old extra  territorial  jur­
isdiction  claimed  by  the foreign powers 
as a slur upon the  civilization of the  na­
tion.  The demand for the withdrawal of 
the consular  courts  has  thus  become  a 
matter  of  prime  importance  to  Japan, 
and  she  has  undertaken  a  revision  of 
her foreigi.  treaties  with  that  object  in 
view.

It has recently  been  announced that  a 
new  treaty  has  been  arranged with  the 
British  Government,  in  which  England 
abandons  the  right  of  extra  territorial 
jurisdiction leaving  British  subjects  re­
siding in Japan under  the sole control of 
the Japanese courts.  Of  course,  British 
subject  are  guaranteed,  in  return,  full 
protection of their  rights and  all the ad­
vantages attaching to the customary fav­
ored nation clause.

The  course  of  Great  Britain  practi­
cally insures the  entire  abandonment  of 
the consular court system, as far as Japan 
is concerned.  The United States will no 
doubt  soon  concede  the  same  point  to 
Japan,  aud  the  European  powers  will 
not  be  slow  to  follow  the  lead  of  Eng­
land.

The first of the  foreign  treaties  nego­
tiated  by Japan,  in  which  abandonment 
of extra territorial  jurisdiction  was  ex­
pressly stipulated,  was that with Mexico, 
which  went  into  effect  less  than  two 
years  ago.  That  treaty  gave  Mexican 
citizens the right to reside in any part of 
Japan.
I  The  treaty  with  Great  Britain  just 
concluded  is  an  announcement  to  the 
world that Japan has  definitely  and  for 
all time passed from the list of  semi-clv- 
ilized countries,  and that, for the future, 
it is  as  safe  for  foreign  residence  and 
travel as any other portion  of  the  civil­
ized  world.  This  concession  is  a  just 
and fitting recognition of the  enterprise, 
courage and intelligence of the Japanese, 
and cannot fail  to  win  them  sympathy 
and  encouragement  in 
the  war  with 
China.
The  Banker  From  Scott’s  Standpoint.
I note that the rate for  call  money  in 
New York is 1 per cent.—that’s been  the 
figure there for six months or more.  Over 
in London the rate  is  a  quarter  of  one 
per  cent,  per  annum.  This  tells  the 
story  of  idle  money,  and  idle  money 
means  idle  men  always. 
It  goes  best 
with us all when  the  bankers  are  busy

TMEî  MIOHIGAJS  TJKA 1
JAPAN  A  CIVILIZED  COUNTRY.
For some time past the  Government of 
Japan has been seeking  to  secure  a  re­
vision  of  the  treaties  existing with the 
various foreign powers,  including  Great 
Britain and the United States.  The main 
purpose in view in seeking such revision 
was to secure the abandonment of the ex­
tra  territorial  or  consular  jurisdiction 
maintained by  the powers  in  Japan. 
It 
has  been  the  custom  for  all  the  great 
powers,  including this  country,  to  insist 
that  their  citizens  residing  in  China, 
Japan and a number  of other uncivilized 
or semicivilized  countries  should not  be 
subject  to  the  jurisdiction  of  native 
courts,  but must be tried upon all charges 
before the consular courts  established in 
such countries.

S. I BENNETT  FUEL  l  ICE W,

ALL  KINDS  OF  FUEL,

J U N E   A G E N T S

A n d   J o b b e rs o f

G R A N D   R A P I D S ,  M IC H

O y s t e r s .

N ote  L ow er P rices.

Solid Brand,  Extra Selects,  per can $  28
Solid Brand,  Selects,  per can........... 
26
22
Solid Brand,  E.  F.,  per  can............. 
20
Solid Brand,  Standards,  per can.... 
Daisy Brand, Selects,  per  can.........  
24
Daisy Brand, Standards, per can... 
18
Daisy Brand,  Favorites,  per can.... 
16
Mrs.  Withey’s  Home  Made  Jelly, 
made with green apples,  very fine
30-lb pail  .........................................   1  00
17-lb  pail........................................... 
65
Mrs.  Witbey’s  Condensed  Mince 
Meat,  the  best  made.  85  cents 
per  doz.  3  doz.  in  case.  Will 
quote bulk mince meat later. 
10
p ure Cider Vinegar,  per  gallon.... 
Pure Sweet Cider,  per  gallon.........  
12
Fine Dairy Butter,  per pound.........  
19
Fancy 300 Lemons,  per  box.............4  50
Extra Choice, 300 lemons per  box..  4  00 
Extra Choice, 360 lemons per  box..  4  00
Choice 300 Lemons,  per  box...........3  50
Choice 360 Lemons,  per  box...........  3  50

EDWIN  FALLAS,

Oyster  Packer  and  Hanuiacturer. 

VALLEY  CITY  COLD  STORAOE,

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

and getting good  rates. 
In  thinking  of 
banks,  we mustn’t make  the  mistake  of 
supposing that the concern is owned  and 
run  by  a  millionaire  or  two.  That 
would  be all wrong.  A bank has a great 
many small  stockholders  scattered  over 
the country—people of small  means who 
hold the stock for the  interest  it  earus. 
We mention this so  that  when  you  are 
cursing  the  bank,  you  may  know whom 
you  are  cursing.  We  pity the man  who 
is  so  ill  informed  and  so  full  of hatred 
as  to  look  upon  banks  as  extortioners, 
to  be  annoyed  or  suppressed.  To  all 
our friends we keep saying,  Don’t  quar­
rel  with your banker. 
If  you do quarrel 
with him,  change your  account  at  once, 
for  your  applications,  such  is  human 
nature, may not be well received.  These 
are  times  when  bankers, 
the  world 
round, are real pleasant  fellows.  When 
a customer comes in now,  he  is  treated 
as one treats a loving  friend  who  drops 
in to dinner—“real glad  to see you,  sir.” 
Will  this  behavior  change?  Ah,  yes, 
’twill  change.  By  and  by 
they’ll  be 
rough again and stingy.  The  wise  bor­
rower  makes  timely  provision  against 
these returning fits.  When these fits are 
on, you wouldn’t think  the  banker  was 
the same man.  He is though,  for  before 
he put on his pleasantry, but  now  he  is 
himself again,  ugly,  natural.  Again  a 
bank is a concern where the  most of the 
money loaned out  belongs  to  thousands 
of depositors  who  leave  much  of  their 
money in the bank  for  convenience  and 
safety.  Every person should  bank their 
money, for in doing that every  dollar  is 
turned into use  for the general  good—to 
be loaned out. 

Geo. R. Soott.

Use Tradesman Coupon Books.

FIRST  PRIZE  BRAND  CONDENSED  MILK.

QUALITY  ABSOLUTELY  GUARANTEED.

Prepared by Michigan Condensed  Milk Co., at its  factor­
ies  at  Lansing  and Howell,  drawing their milk supplies 
from  the  finest  dairy  region  in the country.  Natural 
advantages,  long experience,  thorough knowledge of the 
business and the latest and most approved  methods  and 
machinery  combine  to  make  FIRST  PRIZE  the  most 
perfect milk prepared In Europe or America.

No  matter  what  price  you  pay,  you  cannot  buy  a 

better article.

Our  other  brands  are,  DARLING,  STANDARD  and  LEADER.  See  quo­

tations  in  Price  Current.

MARSHALL  BROTHERS,  General  Sales  Agents,

39  W.  Woodbridge S t,  DETROIT,  MICH.

OLD  RELIABLE

ANGHOR BRAND

All ordere receive prompt  attention  at 

lowest  market  price.

See quotations In Price Current.

F .  J .  D E T T E N T H A E E R .

117  and  119  Monroe  St.,  Grand  Rapids.

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Muskegon  Bakerg  Grackßrs

(U n ite d   S ta te s   B a k i n g   Co.)

Are  Perfect  Health  Food.

There area great  many  Butter Crackres  >n  the  Market—only 

one can  be  best— that is  the original

Muskegon
Bakery
Butter
Cracker. 

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

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Specialties 
A r e  

i  M uskegon  T oast,

R o sal  F ru it  Biscuit,
M uskegon  F rosted  H oney, 
Iced  Cocoa  H oney  Jum bles,
Jelly  T u rn o v ers,
G inger  S naps,
H om e-M ade  S naps,
M uskegon  B ran ch ,
Mlik  Luneii

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

U n ite d   S t a t e s   B a k in g   Co.

LAWRENCE  DEPEW,  Acting  Manager,

M uskegon,

Mich, i

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

in  one pair of shoes.

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

W e carry  all the leading lines  of 
Socks and Wool Boots; also Bos­
ton  Bubber  Shoe Co.’s goods.

We  are  agents  for  ali  tin-* 

Ammunition.

leading  lines of Guns and

Winchester,  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

OSTEmXTEVENS

&  

M°sNtR° E
I
RINDGE,  KALMBfiGH  l  GO  V m W  ”

HEALTH  SHOES.

ASK  TO  SEE  THEM.

No ¡-Charge  for  Cartage  on 

Fruit  Jars.
Mason’s  Fiuit  Jars.

From  now on is the season to push  the sale of 
these goods.  The most  profitable  line  you  can 
find.  New redured prices.
Per Oro
Pints, 6 doz in case.......... 
.............................5 25
...........................15 •'#
Quarts. 8 do.-, in box  . 
Half gallons. 6 doz in  box............... 
•  7  ! 0
Extra covers for pint, quart and half gallon  2 25 
Rubber rings for  Mason's  jars.......................  55

Flint  Glass  Mason  Fruit  Jars.

Clear fine glass.

gro in case, per  gro.......................$5 5-
Quarts. 
Half Gallons, 14 gro in case, per gro 
.........  7 5*1
Best quality, selected jars.

Jelly  Tumblers.

34  Pints, 6 doz in box  (box 0  )  per  box—   $1  64
Aj  Pints, 21 doz iu bbl,  ibbl 35) per  doz......  
23
Pints, 6 doz in box,  (box ■ 0)  per box.......  1  80
34  Pints, It doz in bbl (bbl 35c)  per  doz 
26

Common  Tumblers.

34  Pint, plain, 6 doz in box. (box 00) per box  81  80 
34  Pints, plain, 20 doz in bbl, (bbl 35c)  per doz 
27

Engraved  Tumblers.

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

................................... 83 00

Common  Stoneware.

Stone Butter Jars 3,  gal,  per  doz.................. 8  60
Stone Butter Jars  1 to 0 gal,  per  gal............. ( 6
Stoue  Preserve Jars and covers,  Yt  gal,  per
doz  ............................................................ 
Stone Preserve Jars m d  covers,  1  gal,  per
d o z.............................. 
1 
Tomato or Fruit Jugs  34  gal,  per  doz  ......  
Tomato nr Fruit Jugs. 1 gal.  per  doz........... 
Stone  Mi'k  Pans,  v,  gal. per doz..................  
Stone Milk i ans,  ’  gal.  each.........................  

90
....................  1  40
75
90
60
06

Fine  Glazed  Stoneware.
1  Gal. Fine all  White  Milk Pans,  pergal.f  OS 
0734 
1  Gal, Fine all Black  Mils  Pans, per  gal 
65
34 Gal, Pineali  Black  Milk Pans,  per doz 
0?
1  Gal, Fine all  Black  Butter Jars,  per gal 
1  Gal. Fine all White  Butter Jars  per gal 
08
34 Gal, Fine all White  .  utter Jars, per doz 
75

CoTks  and  Sealing  Wax.
C orks fo r  u,  gal Tomato Jugs  per d o z __ $ 
corks f«>r 1 gal Tomato  ugs, per  Ooz—  
sealing Wax, 51b  pkg.-. per lb....................  

15
)8
0*3*

Flask  and  Jug  Corks.

Per Gro
1 lask and  Bottle Coras, assorted  sizes,  No.
6- 0,  5 gro  in  bag.....................................  $  M'
Jug  Corks, arsorted sizes. Nos.  11-tO.  1  gro
'6
in  b ig ........................................................... 

Crimp  Top  Sun  Chimney, 
oinmon grade.  Sold by the case only
i.  0  Sun, 6 doz in case, 
i.  1  Sun, 6 doz in  case, 
i.  2  Sun. 6 doz iu case.

H  L   A  s   F lin t   «  liim u e y . 

selected firsts.  Each wrapped and labeled.

Case of 6 

Open  Stock 

Candy  Jats.

I  doz in case.  No charge for case.

TIM  COVER

per doz.
..$1  <5 
Quart Squat...............................
. .  2 tO 
s* Gal squat..............................
..  3 tO 
1 Gat Squat......... 
.............
..  V 00 
U Gal  Tall 
........   ..................
.  3  50
1 Gal  T all........ .........................
RING  JABS—GLASS COVERS
..  2 50
34 Gal Squat or Tall..................
X  51
34 Gal Squat or Tall..................
1 Gal Squat or Tall....................
5  to
FRENCH  JARS—GLASS COVERS
.............................  2 50
34 Gal Squat 
S Gal  Squat..................................3  50
1 Gal Squat..................................... 5  00

Per
Case
*  25 1  tO 
3  10

Doz.
No. 11  Sun  Crimp  Top. ........ 52  10
2 25
No. 1  >un Crimp Top
No. 2  Sun Crimp Top
....  a  .5
No. 2 Sun Hinge.......... ........ 3 6u
No. 2  E lectric............. ........ 4 00
No. 2  Rochester............ ........   <00

Open, Per 
Doz.
$  40
45
6»
65
75
75

F lint  XXX  lburti  Lend  G1h»s.

ped and labeled.  Will not crack from heat.

No seconds iu this line.  Each chimney wrap­
Case of 6  Open, Per 
Doz.
3 Oi No.  0 Sun  Crimp__
$  4
4  50 No.  1  Sun Crimp..........
No.  2  Sun Crimp..........
6-:
See our lamp  catab gue  for  complete  assort­
2  15
ment Showing chimney for  every  burner.  Sent 
3 00
4  50
by mail on receipt of postal.

...  $2 60
.........2  80
.........3  8.1

Doz. 

Flasks.
Pic-Nic or Shoo Fly Shape

Per  Gro
34 Pint, 3* gro in case......................  ............$240
Pint,  34  gro in  case........................................3 8 '!
Quart,  3-2 gro in case........  
...............  6  0

Lamp  Chimneys.

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

-‘ La. B a t t le ”   G lass.

No.  1  Sun  Bulb,  per doz................................ $1 25
No  2  ~nn  Bulb,  per  doz 
......................... 1  50
No  s  Electric,  per doz 
.............................1  6u
No.  l  sun  Crimp Ton  per doz......................  1 35
No.  2  Sun  Crimp Top. per doz........................1 60
The  well-known, easy selling,  pomtlar  "Pearl 
Tops.”  NoMo'c  can  get  along  without  them, 
and no good merchant  wishes  to  Prices  guar­
anteed  6 doz in case.  No charge for case.
No.  1  Sun Pearl Top, per  rase............ 
S3 70
No.  2  Sun Pearl Tup  i er C a s e ........................ 
.  4  70

P e a r l  T u p   (  li m n e y s .

Tubular  Lanteres.

Only  the  latest  patterns  of  the  heaviest ma­
terial.  Every  lantern  warranted.  No  charge 
for case.  1  doz  in case.  Price per doz.
No.  0  Side spring  lift,  inside  guards,  best
flint globes  .................................................I t 50
No.  u Crank  side lift,  tabular....................... 3  75
No.  o Tubular, copper finish.........................   4  75
No.  15  Jap’d Tuba ar, dashboard and reflec­
tor attachment, bulls eye globe 34 doz In
box  .......................  
.............................5 on
No.  B  Tubular  Side  spring  lift  takes  1 in
wick.. 
.................................................551
No.  0  Tubular Crystal Glass  front........  
6 10
Tubular Search Light,  Headlight  each__   1  7

Store  Lamps.

400 candle  power.

Rochester, complete.  20  in  reflector  .. 
Pittsburgh, complete  .0  in  reflector
Banner, complete. 20 in reflector............
Incandescent, complete. 20  In  reflector. 

Send for catalogue showing all.

MASON  FRUIT  JARS

H.  LEONARD  &  SONS

Grand  Rapids, 

Mich.

No  Charge for  Boxes  on 

Fruit Jars.

Lan  ern  Globes.

Per Doz
Per Case  No.  Tubular, open  stock  ...........................$  45
__ $1  ; 
40
.  1  -8 ! No.  O  Tubular  Bull’s Eye Globe...............   1  25
2 70

'< Bv  the barrel. 5 doz  (barrel 35) 

.......  .. 

Clothes  Lines.

Jute,  ?o foot line, per  doz.................
Jute.  60 foot line,  per doz..........  ...
Jute, 120 foot line, per doz.................
Cotton  0 foot line, per  doz__

......... $  41
....... 
80
..........  1 60
..........  1 28

W riting  Paper.

Per Ream.
Com’l Note. 3 lb Excelsior................. ............$  29
C’om’l Note, 5 lb Excelsior................. ............ 
49
.....   59
ComT Note  61b  Excelsior.............

Envelopes.

Size

X5  White. 
X6  White. 
XX5 White. 
XX6  White

Net

Per 1.000 
....  $  75 
85
. . .  
85
.  ...  1 00

Oil  Cans.

__

34 Gal Tin, with spout, per doz__
1 Gal Tin, with spout, per doz —
1 Galvanized Iron.i  doz in crate  .............
1 Gal Glass with Tin Jacket,  1 doz  in case
2 Gal Galv  Iron, oil or  gaso lin e..............
3 Gal Galv iron, oil  or  gasoline.................
5 Gal Galv Iron, with  faucet....................
5 G«1 Galz Iron  tilling 
5 Gal Galv Iron,  Home Rule  “Pump” .  ... 
3 Gal Galv Iron. Home  Rule  “Pump” .....
5 Gal Galv Iron,  “Good Enough”...............
5-Gal Galv iron, “Good enough” ...............

Per Doz. 
$  1  50 
1  60
2  00
2  25
3  75 
5 00 
7 00
10 CO 
12 00 
10 80 
13 50 
12  00
See our catalogue for full  line  grocers’ 
sundries  as  Pails.  Tubs,  Fibre  Ware, 
Wash  Boards,  Tin and Iron Pails, Lamps, 
Slates,  Papeterie.  Toilet  Soaps,  Station­
ery,  Shaving  Soaps,  Blank  Books,  Pen 
Holders,  Slate Pencils,  Toilet  Paper and 
Step Lad  ers.

THE  ONLY  SCALE  ON  EARTH  for  the  Retail

Dealer.

They  Are  The 

EIGHTH  WONDER 

of  the  World.

An  Investm ent 
P aying from 

10  to  100  Per Cent. 

Per A nnum .

Thousands of the 
BEST MERCHANTS 

are Using Them.

If  Your  Competitor  Says  They  are  a  Good  Thing 

for  Him,  WHY  NOT  EQUALLY 

SO  FOR  YOU ?

S e e

W h a t   U sei s  S a y :

liiONWODD,  Mich., Sept.  4,  1894.

Messrs.  Hoyt  &  Co.,

General Selling  Agents, Computing Scale Co.,

Dayton, Ohio.

Gentlemen:  We  have  received  your 
Computing scale and are using it  to  our 
entire  satisfaction.  We  are  sure it will 
soon  pay  for  itself,  and then expect to 
buy another.

Yours truly,

Ironwood  Store  Co.
For further particulars drop a  Postal  Card  to

HOYT 

C O ., General  Selling Agents,
Dayton,  Ohio•

