VOL. XII
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Manufacturers  and  Jobbers  of

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New  lines in  warm goods and  Holiday 

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PEACH-TREE  JOE.

1  had  mounted  the  corner of a grain- 
bin  in  the stable,  and sat there  swinging 
one  foot  and  idly  watching  John,  the 
master-of-horse,  who  was  devoting  an 
hour of leisure to my favorite mare.  She 
blinked her eyes  in the  spring  sunlight 
that streamed in across  the  stable  floor, 
and lifted tenderly a fore  foot  that  had 
once been lame.  This  foot  was  apt  to 
draw attention to itself, as if former com­
fortable rubbings were still remembered. 
1 could not disguise the truth,  as I looked 
at her, that she was no longer young,  but 
1 flattered myself that she might be  good 
for many years yet.
John brushed and smoothed  her  silky 
coat  again  and  again,  and  carefully 
picked  the  few  tangles  out  of  her thin 
mane; flicked at her sharp ears, and then, 
holding  her  firmly  by  the  nose,  stood 
looking her full in the face  with  an  ab­
stracted air.  At  last  she  gently  moved 
and glanced round  at  an  imaginary  fly. 
She  was  full  of  feminine  subterfuges; 
none of the other horses appealed  as  she 
did  to  John’s  gallantry,  and she gained 
many attentions and  advantages  beyond 
her rightful  currycombing  and  rubbing 
down.
“There,  there!”  said  John,  as if she 
could understand,  “you know  there isn’t 
a  live  fly  in  this  stable;  yon  wouldn’t 
feel  a  bee-sting  through such a shock of 
winter  hair  as  you’ve  got  on. 
I never 
saw  them keep their  winter  hair  so  late 
as they do this year,”  he  added,  looking 
over at me,  and I nodded assent.

He gave his currycomb a final tap, and 
leaned  against 
the  doorway.  There 
were shining little pools of water  on  the 
floor near the stable-bucket,  and  an  ad­
venturous  sparrow  came  hopping  in. 
Sheila  looked  at  him  jealously,  as she 
drank, and arched her neck  and  pointed 
her ears at him,  as if she meant to frown 
disapproval.  Then  she  thought  best  to 
lift  a  foot  slowly,  by  way  of  distinct 
menace,  and 
fluttered 
away. 
I  laughed,  and she gave me a re­
proachful glance.
and let you go thirsty,” said John.

“Too bad if he drank up all that water 

sparrow 

the 

“I  mean  to ride her to-day,” I said de­
cisively,  “and she can have  some  brook- 
water”—to  which  proposition  John 
agreed,  after a moment’s  reflection.  He 
still  leaned  against  the  doorway,  and I 
sat  on  the  grain-bin.  Beyond,  in  the 
garden, there was great activity.  I could 
hear the ring of tools and the click-clack 
of  shears  in  the  shrubbery.  Sommer 
bad  come  all  at  once  after  much  dark 
weather.  There was a young peach tree 
in  foil  flower  at  the  left  of the stable 
door.
“Those blooms always make  me  think 
of war-time,”  said  John.  “Out  in  Vir­
ginia  the  country  is full of them, and I 
thought the first spring I was  there  they 
were  the  handsomest I ever  saw;  but I 
got  to  classing them with powder smoke 
before  I  came  away.  The  sight  of  a 
peach tree will bring those days right up 
fresh before me.  Dear, dear !—”

He  did  not look at me, and I made no 
I hoped for  one  of  those  sim­

answer. 

ple thrilling stories of  army  life,  which 
are more touching,  or  more  exactly  de­
scriptive,  than  any  studied 
reminis­
cences.

“There’d be one day after another like 
this,” he went on; “none of your  hinder­
ing east winds after spring  once  got  its 
mind made up.  For  my  part,  I  always 
like  any  other  part  of  the  year full as 
well.  We got out there in the early part 
of March, you know. 
I hadn’t any busi­
ness  in  the  army  anyway; I was  under 
age,  but 1 was bound to  go  to  war  with 
the  rest  of  the  fellows. 
I  owned  to  a 
year  and  a  half  more than belonged to 
me when I ’listed !”

1 had  often  heard  this  statement and 
did not think it  necessary  to  make  any 
comment,  but  I  thought  in 
the  brief 
silence  that  followed,  how  unwittingly 
the  country  boy  of  sixteen  had  been 
swept southward by that  great  wave  of 
excitement,  and  I  thought,  too,  of  the 
flood of new experience which  had  gone 
over  him.  No  wonder  that  the  home­
sickness  and  strange  surroundings  and 
unlooked  for  hardships  had  made  him 
remember clearly that first spring in Vir­
ginia.

“There was a little peach  tree just the 
size  of this one that I sha’n’t forget in a 
hurry,”  John  said,  as if he spoke only to 
himself.  “It had just such a bend  in the 
stem,  and we  used  to  be  full  of  jokes 
about  it,  saying  that  we  were  going  to 
stop  right  there  until  the  fruit  was 
ripe.  There  had  been  some  kind  of  a 
little  old  house  and  garden  just  where 
our  company  was  quartered,  and  some 
of  the  old-fashioned  garden  flowers  and 
gooseberry bashes and  things  came  up, 
but  coming  and  going we soon trampled 
’em out.  Most  of  us  was  young  fel­
lows,  green  as  grass;  but  you’d  have 
thought  ’twas  old  campaigners  that  re­
membered  back  as  far  as  Waterloo,  to 
hear  ns  scolding  over  tactics,  and  what 
McClellan ought to do.  You see we went 
first 
they 
lugged  us  over  to  Arlington  Heights, 
and  set  us  down  in  the  red  mud  for  a 
week,  and  then  we  got  orders  to  go 
down Fredericksburg way.  We  used  to 
talk  the  goodness  all  out  of  us  before 
word  came  to  move,  aud  you  never 
saw  snch  a  bunch  of  foolishnesss  as 
those  camps.  We  were  hived  together 
so  thick  that  you  could  see  clusters  of 
lights,  like  towns,  all  over  that  low- 
rolling  country,  and  the  officers  hadn’t 
learned  their  business  extra  well,  and 
we  knew  it,  and  we  dallied  along 
awhile,  and  so  ’twas.

to  Washington,  and 

then 

fellows 

and  high 

“We  got  to  know  each  other,  and 
fights  came  up,  and  lots  of  us  got  to 
chumming like young-ones.  There were 
plenty  of  good,  stout,  knockabout  men, 
dare-devils 
that 
didn’t  think  of  anything  bat  fighting 
and  fooling,  and  would  as  soon  be 
there  as  anywhere,  but  that  camp  life 
came  hard  on  some  folks. 
I was think­
ing  just  now  of  one  poor  galoot  that 
was  about  roughed  to  death. 
don’t 
see  how  they  ever  came  to  ’list  him. 
His  father’d died,  and  he’d got a mother '

and  some  little  sisters,  but  he’d  come 
to  the  front  from  high  notions  o’  duty 
and  saving  his  country.  Makes  me 
feel  bad  to  think  him  over,  now  I’ve 
got  to  be  older  and  know  something  of 
the  world,  but  I  used  to  tease  him 
long  of  the  rest  then,  and  be  kind  o’ 
friendly  with  him  at  odd  times  when  I 
could get  him  alone  out  in the  shade of 
one  of  those  crooked, rail  fences.  He’d 
set  there  and  tell  me  about  his  folks 
by  the  hour.  You  never  did  see  snch 
a  girl-faced 
to  play 
soldier  as  that  was,  and  he  was  scary 
to  match.

trying 

fellow 

“We  used  to  tell  him  every  day  or 
two that  we’d  got  orders  to  march,  or 
that  he  was  picked  out  to  make  a  dash 
over  into  the  enemy’s  liDes,  and  he’d 
turn  jnst  as  white  as  sand  and  get  all 
’Twas  a  kind 
blue  around  his  mouth. 
of  nervous  fit  he’d  seem 
to  have,  and 
he’d have to  go  aud  lie  right  down  and 
get  over  it.  The  Captain  used  to  tell 
us  we’d  better  let  him  alone,  but  that 
only  set  us  on  the  faster.  We  used  to 
try  and  see  if  we  could  anyway  man­
age  to  get  him  mad,  but  he  was  so 
simple  aud  pleasant ’twant worth  while, 
and  we  learned  to  let  him  him  alone 
pretty  much.  He’d  run  and  get  our 
pipes,  or  mend  up  our  clothes, 
if  we 
came  in  with  ’em  torn,  as  handy  as  a 
woman.  They’d rigged  us  out  in  a  lot 
o’ cheap contract stuff to  go to war with. 
Then  he  had a pretty  voice to  sing,  was 
real  good  company,  and  never  seemed 
to fail us for a joke.

“That  little  peach  tree  I  was  speak­
ing  about  grew  right  in  front  of  our 
‘A’ tent,  and  I  saw  him  crawl  out  one 
moonlight  night  and  pick  some  of  the 
blossoms  and  wrap  them  up  in a news­
paper.  He’d know ’twas just  the  thing 
he’d  get  laughed  at  for  by  day. 
I 
stepped  out  after  him  and  put  him 
under arrest, and says I,  'Don’t you know 
word has  come  that the  army  must pick 
all  the  peach  trees  in  the  fall,  aud  the 
peaches are going to be sold  up North to 
help get  money  to  carry  on  the  war?’ 
He looked scared,  and  told me as solemn 
as  could  be  that  be  wouldn’t  do  it 
again;  he only wanted  a  little  piece  to 
send home to show his  mother  how  for­
ward the season was.  So  I said I wasn’t 
going to report him  that  time.  He  was 
a year older than I  was,  but  some  used 
to  say  1  acted  old  enough  to  be  his 
father.”
that  bucket 
now!”  and the mare looked up reproach­
fully  and  gave a  longing  glance  at  her 
stall. 
I scratched a row of x’s on the top 
of the oat bin with a  nail that lay there.
“What  became  of  the  poor  lad?”  I 
asked at last.  “They ought to have sent 
him home.”

“Whoa!  stop  gnawing 

“He  wouldn’t  go,”  answered  John 
with  enthusiasm.  “I  always  thought 
that he was scared out of his life.  Plenty 
of  big  backwoodsmen  died  of  nothing 
but homesickness, but nothing  ailed him 
but terror.  The greatest  comfort in life 
while we were  in  camp  that  time  was 
his little peach tree.  He  was  naturally

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kept  his  blanket  folded  tight  as  any 
a boy  of  a  farming  turn,  and  he  dug 
body  and  was  always  trying  to  do  a 
round it  and used  to  lug  water  for  it, 
touch  of  work  for  the  rest  of  us.  He 
and he made a little  fence out of sapling 
was  bound he’d do what  he  could,  that 
stuff that he stuck down  so we shouldn’t 
poor boy was.  Plenty  of  the  boys  was
tumble on it  when we  were  scuffling  or
anything;  or to keep  off  any  mule  th a t! down sick of army life by  that  time  and 
might  wander  by  and  browse.  After-  were complaining of their health to make 
wards  we left  there  and  the  Rebs were  excuses to get home  to  their  folks,  and 
scattered  about;  we  could  see  their  the company  was all thinned out. 
I sup- 
lights  by  night,  and  we  used  to  talk  pose that the officers  didn’t  know  what
to do, and they  had to hold on  to  every­
across and do trading  on picket,  and one 
thing that looked like a man.
time they  sent  word  if  we  would  stop 
fighting for an  hour  or  two  they  would 
stop;  ’twas while we were having a good 
smart  skirmishing  all  along  the  lines. 
They all had plenty of tobacco,  and  were 
glad to give us any quantity of that for a 
little  salt  or  whatever  they  wanted. 
After we had been  chumming  and  trad­
ing  an hour  or  so,  we would set  to  and 
go to fighting again.

“ 1  was  wandering  round  one  night 
while supper  was  cooking,  and  waiting 
till my turn came to go on picket.  1  had 
spoken for Joe to  go  with  me;  the  cap­
tain  and I looked after  him  the  best we 
could;  Joe felt safer  with  me,  1  knew, 
and we were short  of  men.  1  saw  him 
leaning up against a  tree,  and  his  bead 
was dropping li. e  a  sick  bird’s,  and  1 
went over close  to  speak  to  him  about 
picket duty,  but he didn’t  say  anything, 
and  reached  out  one  of  his  hands  to­
wards me.

“We weren’t  quite  so  ready  to  go  on 
picket  by  night as  we  had been,  but we 
went  all the same,  and the Captain made 
no excuse,  but poor old  Joe  was  let  off 
easy one way  and  another,  and  he  got 
sick with chills and  went  off to hospital. 
Everybody thought that was  the  last  of 
him,  but back he  came.  He  surely  did 
have pluck enough  some  ways,  and  the 
right kind,  too,  but any sudden  sound of 
tiring that went to our heads  like  drink, 
aud made us hope  something  was  going 
on,  would take all  the soldier out of Joe, 
and he’d drop right down  in  his  tracks. 
He told me one  night  that  ’twas  some­
thing that come over him  quick,  and  he 
couldn’t help  it  to  save  his  life;  he’d 
never been called  a  scary  fellow  nor  a 
coward as he knew of,  till  he  come  out 
there.
“Seems to me now, whenever I come to 
think it  over,  that  there  was  dreadful 
foolish actions that first  summer  of  the 
war down  in  Virginia.  We  all  felt  as 
if something had got to be  done,  but we 
didn’t  know  just  what,  and  the  Rebs 
hung round,  and  we  hung  round,  and 
orders wouid  come  for  us  to  march  off 
thirty or forty  miles,  and  we  wandered 
about like stray  cattle,  but  ’twas  pleas­
ant weather and we liked it well enough. 
Somehow you don’t think so  much about 
killing folks or any of those  things  that 
come to you afterward,  but  when  those 
old band tunes  would  begin  to  rip  the 
air,  we’d  all  catch  hold  aud  sing  and 
step right out along the road—well, ’twas 
like something that got into your head.

“But that poor chap, quick as the word 
come to move, he’d go all  to pieces,  kind 
of frost struck,  and the  boys  would  tell 
him we were going into action  aud  he’d 
try and step out in line,  but he’d lag and 
lag,  aud I’ve seen him tumble right  over 
and lie there on the grass.  The  Captain 
would stop.  I’ve  seen  him  myself—and 
pin a piece of paper to  him  with  order 
to let him pass,  so when we’d get through 
the day’s scurry,  along  would  come poor 
Joe looking in all our faces to  see  if  we 
meant to twit him.

“ ‘Chirk  up,  Joe,’  said  1,  Took  how 
pleasant  it  is!’  and  then  I  mistrusted 
something was  wrong,  and  I  sat  down 
and  put  back  his  head  to  look  at  him. 
He  was  white  as  a  piece  of  cloth 
and his eyes were glazing all over.

“ ‘I’m ’shamed,’  says  he;  T  ought  to 
I  ain’t  fit 

have  stayed  right  at  home. 
for  a  soldier—’

“ ‘No more you  ain’t!’  says  1. 

‘Come, 

cheer up,  Peach-tree.’

“ ‘I  wasn’t  never  called  a  coward,’ 
says he  again. 
‘I  ain’t  afraid  of  any­
thing  myself,  but I can’t  make my body 
I  don’t  blame  the  boys  for 
serve  me. 
I  could  lay  down  an’  die  of 
laughing. 
shame  when 
those 
scares—’

I  come  out  of 

“ ‘You never had a fair smell  of  pow­
I’d heard all  this before and 1 

der yet.’ 
didn’t know what else to say.

“ ‘I’ve  got  to  go  right  home,  now,’ 
ays he;  ‘I meant to serve  my  time, if  it 
killed me,  but I’m  all  played  out,’  and 
he  let  his  head  drop;  but  that  minute 
there  came  the  noise  of  firing,  and  1 
heard  the  old  bugle  yell  out. 
I started 
up,  and  the  poor  chap  was  on  his  feet 
before  I  was,  his  eyes  blazing  out  of 
his  head. 
‘Come  on!’  says  he,  ‘come 
on! 

I  ain't afraid this timer

“He  sung  out  just  as  pleased  as  if 
something  was  lifted  right  off  of  him 
and  ran  forward  two  or  three  steps— 
then  stumbled  and  fell right over heavy 
on  his  face. 
I  stopped  and  turned  him 
over,  and  he  was  stone  dead—just  as if 
the  lightning  had  struck him—”

John turned away,  hesitated  a minute 
at the stable doorway as if he  was  look­
ing  for  some  one  in  the  garden;  then 
he  took  the  mare  by  the  head and went 
quickly  into  the  stall. 
I was  oppressed 
the  silence—somebody  must  say 
by 
something.

“They  ought  to  have  sent  such  a 
poor  fellow  home,”  I  insisted,  stoutly, 
but  John  had  quite  regained  his  every­
day manner.

“And at  last  we  came  round  to  the 
very spot where we’d camped the longest 
in the spring—we’d lost a good many out 
of the company;  we  were on our way up 
to Harper’s Ferry.  Everybody  had been 
noticing that old  Joe looked as slim as a 
spear o’  hay,  and we told the captain and 
some  other  of  the officers  that  he ought 
to be discharged or  go back  to  the  hos­
pital,  one of  the two. 
’Twas  no use for 
him to think: he could serve out his time, 
and if  they  gave him orders he’d have to
He
0  whether  or  no,  don’t  you  see
ouldn’t more than crawl  about,  but  he  front  of  us  as  we  sat  talking. 

The  horses  were  munching  in  a  row. 
I  heard  footsteps  coming  toward  the 
stable and alighted  from  my  high  seat 
“There  was  that  little peach tree just 
breaking  down  with  fruit  on account of 
| his  tending  it  so  much;  ’twas  right  in
I  don t

“We  did  send  him  home;  we  boys 
and  some of the other companies helped. 
’Twas  done  handsome as  if  he had been 
the general himself.”

I know whether  he  saw  it,  he  was  so  far 
gone,”  John  added,  looking  at  me  and 
lowering his voice.  “ How  soon  do  you 
want to go out?”  (in  a  louder  and  per­
fectly business-like tone.)  “I  must  see 
to your new saddle girth first, but  every - 
thing’U be ready when you are.”

“Perhaps  the  rest  of  you  served  all 
the  better,  and  that  poor  boy  helped to 
save his  country  after  all,”  1  said,  lin­
gering.

“ ’Twas this weather made me think of 
him,” John  apologized;  “he  never  was 
cut  out  for  a  military  man,  poor  old 
Peach-tree  wa’n’t.  But  he  got  home, 
and  there  he  lays  somewhere  up  coun­
try,  in  one  o’  those  old,  bushy burying- 
grounds. 

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undertaking  and  embalming  establish­
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A   PUBLIC  MARKET.

C ogen t  R ea so n s  in F a v o r  o f th e  O ver- 

th e-R iyer  Site.

that 

informs 

Chairman  Kinney 

The  special  committee  appointed  by 
the Common  Council  to  investigate  and 
report on a market site seems to be hope­
lessly divided on the subject.  The chair­
man of the committee. Aid.  Kinney, is in 
favor of the Comstock site.  Aid.  Kinney 
lives in the north  end and  is,  naturally, 
anxious to locate the market as far north 
as possible.  Aid. Gibson favors  the Mc­
Connell site.  Aid.  Gibson resides out on 
Madison avenue.  Aid.  Wurzburg wants 
a  bridge  market.  He  is  a  grocer  and 
does business  not  far  from  the  central 
portion  of  the  city. 
It would  be inter­
esting to know how  these gentlemen will 
reach  an  agreement.  At  present  there 
seeme  to  be  little  hope  of it.  Perhaps 
Aldermen Kinney and  Gibson  may  com­
promise  on  the bridge  scheme;  it would 
be the most sensible thing they could do.
T h e  
the  Comstock  site 
T k a d e s m a n  
would  cost  the  city  $49,000,  or $11,000 
less than  was stated last  week.  That  is 
giving the city the land at the rate of $60 
per foot front. 
Is there  a business  man 
in the city who  would be  willing to  pay 
that  amount  for  land  in the vicinity of 
the  proposed  market  site?  It  is  not 
worth $40 a foot,  and those  who are urg­
ing,it as a market  site  ought to know  it. 
As stated last  week,  it is  not  the  inten­
tion  of  the  city  to  purchase  a  site  at 
present,  but only to lease the  laud  for  a 
term of years.  Mr.  Comstock  will  lease 
his  land  to  the  city  for  ten  or twenty 
years  at an annual rental equal to  5  per 
cent,  of  the  purchase  price, or $2,400  a 
year.  At that  rate  the  city  would  pay 
$24,000  rent in ten years.  Mr.  Comstock 
claims  that  the  land  is  worth,  at  the 
present  time,  more  than  he asks for it, 
and that it is increasing in  value  all  the 
while.  What it tnay be  worth at the  ex­
piration of ten years  it would  be  impos­
sible to  conjecture.  Suppose,  for a mo­
ment, the city were to lease a market site 
for ten  years:  while  it  is  true  that  the 
option of purchase  would be  included in 
the  conditions  of  the  lease,  it  must  be 
borne in mind  that such  option  will  ex­
pire with the lease,  and if it  be  true,  as 
claimed,  that  real  estate  is  constantly 
rising in  value, then  the  city  must  pur­
chase before the ten years have passed or 
find the price raised.  Such  is  the  man­
ner of real estate holders the world over. 
In the meantime,  the city  will  grow;  all 
the land desirable  for the  purposes  of  a 
market  will  have  been  taken,  and  the 
city will be forced to  take the leased site 
at the  owner’s  price.  Such  is  the  pre­
dicament in which the city will  place  it­
self  if  a  land site is leased for even  ten 
years.  This  argument  is  applicable  to 
any of the proposed  sites and is irresisti­
ble.  On the other  hand,  if it  be decided 
to build  a  bridge  market,  the  site  will 
cost nothing and room for enlargement is 
always available.  The  only objection to 
a bridge is its estimated  cost,  which City 
Engineer  Collar  puts  at  $473,000;  but 
Engineer Collar has never got beyond the 
amateur  period  in  his  profession.  His 
estimates are always  high—out of  sight, 
in fact.  A  better engineer than Mr.  Col­
lar ever will be, aftercareful calculation, 
estimated  the  cost  of  a  66-foot  bridge 
from Lyon to Allen  streets,  with  a  con­
necting bridge from the  new structure to 
West Bridge  street  bridge,  at  $135,000. 
There  is  no reason to  doubt the correct­

THE  MICMI6 A N

ness  of  this  latter  estimate.  Win.  T. 
Powers,  a  gentleman  well  acquainted 
with the cost of structural iron and steel, 
and  who  is  in  a position  to know what 
the  substructure  of such a  bridge ought 
to cost,  gives it as his opinion that $135,- 
000 would be found to  be  not  much  be­
low actual cost. 
Is Mr.  Collar’s estimate 
be discounted as were his  figures  on  the 
cost of the Valley  City and  Oakhill cem­
etery  walls,  it will bring the  cost  of  the 
bridge down to  about the  proper  figure. 
He estimated the cost of a 12-foot wall  at 
$17,000.  A  5-foot  wall  was  built  for 
$3,500.  He was  probably  $4,000  off  on 
the cost of a 12-foot wall.  So long as Mr. 
Collar  holds  his  present  position, 
it 
would  seem but right  that the  Board  of 
Public Words  and  the  Common  Council 
should  be  influenced by his conclusions; 
at the same time, all his estimates should

W A S  W ELL  PREPARED.

A  R ailroad  M an  W h o  W a s  T ried  b y  

th e   P u nch.

Supt.  Agnew, of the C. &  W.  M.  Rail­
way,  has  the  reputation  of  being very 
particular  in  the  matter  of  employing 
train men,  desiring only those  who  have 
had  considerable  experience 
that 
branch of the service.  The  following  is 
a conversation said  to  have  been  over­
heard by an employe a short time ago be­
tween  Agnew  and  an  applicant  for  a 
position as a passenger conductor: 

in 

“Where did you come from ?”
“From General  Manager  St.  John,  of 

the C., B.  & Q.”

“What did you come here to do ?”
“To learn to  subdue  my  energies  and 

improve the railroad  service.”

“Then  you  are  a  railroad  man,  1 

infer ?”

man ?”

who know their business.”

amining me in the signal.  Try me.” 

“By looking  over  my  letters  and  ex­

“I am  so taken by all  railroad  officials 

“How may I know you to be a railroad 

“Where were you first prepared to be a 

“How will you be tried ?”
“ By the punch.”
“Why by the punch ?”
“Because it is  an  emblem  of  honesty 
and  the  principal  working  tool  of  my 
profession.”

extend from the present Bridge street bridge to a proposed bridge  at  Lyon  street. 
The stone abutments of the Bridge street bridge will form the ice breakers  for  the 
new  structure.  Stone  will  not  be used under the market bridge,  instead of which 
steel  caisous,  filled  with  concrete,  will  be  sunk  to  bedrock.  These will  be put 
down  in  line  with  the  stone abutments of the old bridge.  The bridge which it is 
proposed to build from Lyon street to Allen street will have abutments of masonry, 
except in the center,  where two of them will be steel caisons,  as under  the  market 
bridge. 
It is proposed to make the Lyon street bridge 66 feet wide.  The  width of 
the river at this point is 472 feet.  The market bridge will be  1,100  feet  long  and 
125 feet wide.
be carefully scrutinized.  His estimate of 
$473,000 would more than cover  the  cost 
of  such  a  structure  as  he  figured  on, 
which was of the most expensive charac­
ter,  and  entirely  beyond  the  range  of 
possibility  or  necessity.  The  proposed 
bridge is  sufficiently strong  for  all  pur­
poses,  and is adequately protected against 
all contingencies of flood  and  storm. 
It 
would not cost to exceed  $150,000.  Such 
a sum, it is estimated, would give the city 
a market which would  afford  the  neces­
sary  protection  from  the  weather,  pro­
vide the needed facilities for  doing busi­
ness, and,  in addition,  be an ornament to 
the  city. 
It  is  said  that  the  financial 
condition of the  city  will  not  admit  of 
such  a  sum  being  expended,  neither at 
present nor for some  time  to  come.  To 
those  who  urge  this  as  an  argument 
against a bridge market,  it should be an­
swered that the market  is not to be built 
for a year,  nor for ten years,  but  for  all 
time,  and  payment of the debt proposed 
to  be  incurred  should, 
therefore,  be 
spread over a long term of years.  Then, 
again,  T h e   T r a d e s m a n  is informed upon 
good authority  that a  syndicate could be 
formed to build the bridge  if  the  neces­
sary franchise could be secured.  A num­
ber of capitalists have already talked the 
matter over  informally and  plans of  the 
proposed  structure  have  been  made. 
That  these  gentlemen  mean  business 
there can  be no doubt and that they know 
what  they  are  doing  is  equally  sure. 
They are not  yet ready  to  make  known 
their  plans,  but  their  standing  in  the 
business world, of which  this  journal  is 
well  assured,  should  entitle  them to  at 
least a respectful hearing, and until they 
are ready to meet the Council with a pro­
posal,  the matter of a  site should  be left 
undecided.

“How were you received ?”
“Upon  the  gaze  of  the  trainmaster, 
applied  to  my  physiognomy,  which was 
thus explained:  As it is always a source 
of great pleasure  to  the  trainmaster  to 
receive company,  I  should  drop  in  and 
chat with him a little  while  upon  every 
possible occasion.”

“How were you prepared ?”
“By  breaking  upon  a  threshing  ma­
chine for six months,  after which I went 
to  town  and  sought  admission  to  the 
trainmaster’s office.”

“Tour answer ?”
“Not if  I know  myself, I don’t.” 
“What was then done to you ?”
“I  was  then led up and down the yard 
three  times to accustom me  to  the  noise

railroad  man ?”
“In my mind.”
“Where next ?”
“Upon  a  farm  adjoining  the  right of 

“How were you disposed of ?”
“I was seated in a chair  by  the  train­
master’s  desk  and  asked  if  I  put  my 
trust in the safety-coupling devices.” 

“How gained you admission ?”
“By  three  cigars  placed  in  the  open 

hand of the trainmaster’s clerk.”

way.”

b
then  to  the  chief  dis­

of  the  trains, 
patcher.”

everlastingly 

“How were you then disposed of ?”
“I was seated upon  a  brake-wheel  be­
fore a train box and  caused  to  take  the 
following  horrible  and  binding  oath: 
I,  Steve  Sears,  do  hereby  and  hereon, 
most 
and  diabolically 
swear,  by  the  Great Horn Spoon, that I 
will always remit and never conceal  any 
of the cash collected by me as conductor, 
and that I will not  cut,  make,  use,  col­
lect  or  remit  any  cash  fares  less  than 
those found in the regular tariff book. 
I 
further  promise  and  swear  that  1  will 
not carry on my  train  free  any  railroad 
man’s wife,  sister,  daughter  or  widow, 
or permit any other conductor  to  do  so, 
if I can  prevent  it. 
I  further  promise 
and  swear  that I will  freely  contribute 
to all subscriptions  circulated to buy my 
superior officer a  ‘token of  esteem,’  etc. 
so far as he  may  desire  and  my  salary 
will  permit;  to  all  of  which  I  most 
solemnly  swear,  binding  myself  under 
no less penalty than  that  of  having  my 
salary cut from year  to  year,  all  of  my 
perquisites taken away  and expended for 
sand ballast to put  under  the  McKinley 
extension where the trains  come  and  go 
twice in twenty-fours.  So  help  me Bob 
Ingersoll,  and keep  my  backbone  stiff.” 

“What  did you then behold?”
“The  trainmaster’s  clerk  approached 
me  and  presented  me  with  a  Bishop 
safety coupling knife,  and instructed me 
to take it to the yard master,  who  would 
teach me how to use it.”

“How are the Bishop  coupling  knives 

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used ?”

“By  sticking  them 

in  the  left  hip 

pocket with the blade turned up.”

Mr.  Agnew  informed  the  applicant 
that  he  was  satisfied  he  was a railroad 
man and asked him if he would  be  “off” 
or “from.”

“I will be “off” from here if  you  will 

give me a passenger train.”
“Have you any cigars ?”
“I have.”
“Will you give them to me ?”
“That  is  not  the  manner  in  which I 
got them and cannct so dispose of them.” 

“How can I get them,  then ?”
“I will match heads or tails for them.” 
“I will  go you—begin.”
“You begin.”
“No,  begin  yourself—you  have  the 

cigars.”

“Board!”
“A P  
“All !”
“All  aboard!  You’re  o.  k.  Come 
around  again  in  the morning and 1 will 
arrange to send you on the hog train.”

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rECE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

AROUND  THE  STATE.

MOVEMENTS OF  MERCHANTS.

Port Huron—Chas. Grieb, Jr., of Grieb | 

& Son, grocers, is dead.

Hillsdale—Wolf & Collins succeed Jobn 

C.  Wolf in the drug  business.

Menominee—Cate  &  Cate  succeed  H. 

B. Cate & Co. in the drug business.

Duck Lake—Leonard Monroe  succeeds 

Monroe & Andrews in  general trade.

Port H u ron — Chas.  F.  Brophy,  of Bro- 
phy  Bros.,  boot  and  shoe  dealers,  is 
dead.

Harrison—J.  (Mrs. J.  O.) Shadbolt has 
removed her  general  stock  to  Hibbing, 
Minn.

Lansing—Walter  E.  Perry  has  pur­
the  grocery  stock  of  J.  F. 

chased 
Schroek.

Dryden—Smith & Farley  succeed John 
S.  Smith  in  the  agricultural  implement 
business

Lamb—Houghton  &  Camell,  general 
dealers,  have  dissolved,  Philip  Camell 
succeeding.

Dollarviile—McArthur  &  McMillan, 
general  dealers,  have  dissolved,  John 
McMillan continuing the  business.

Ontonagon—C.  L.  Hollopeter continues 
the  cigar  manufacturing  business  for­
merly conducted by Francis & Hollopeter.
Berlin—A.  E.  McCulloch  succeeds  R. 
the  drug,  book, 
paper 

B.  McCulloch  in 
stationery,  grocery  and  wall 
business.

St.  Johns—Hicks & Seaman, dealers  in 
millinery  and  fancy  goods,  have  dis­
solved.  The business  will be  continued 
by Hattie L.  Hicks.

Grattan—E.  E.  Lessiter,  grocer  and 
hardware dealer, and  Geo.  Whitten,  gen­
eral  dealer,  have  consolidated 
their 
stocks  under  the  style  of  Lessiter  & 
Whitten.

Muskegon—E.  R.  Suuderliu  &  Son, 
grocers  of  the  Eighth  ward,  have  dis­
solved  partnership.  The  sou,  Fred  A., 
will go to Casuovia,  where he  expects to 
embark in general trade.

Belding—Holmes Bros,  will  close  out 
their clothing stock and retire from  busi­
ness.  Lyman W.  Holmes will remove  to 
Lansing Jan.  1 and  take  the  position  of 
Secretary of the Lansing  Pant and Over­
all  Co.,  in  which  corporation  Holmes 
Bros,  are  interested  in  the  capacity  of 
stockholders.

Marshall—T.  F.  Giddings,  receiver  of 
the National City  Bank, has sold a seven- 
twelfths interest in Eagle Block  to M.  B. 
Brewer for §5,300.  The property known 
as the Bullard property was sold to G. A. 
Bullard  for  §2,200.  The  selling  of  the 
above  property  will enable  the receiver 
to close up  the affairs  of  the  bank  and 
pay  a 5 per  cent, dividend  to the credit­
ors of the bank.

Detroit—The  Michigan  Alkali  Com­
pany,  with a capital  stock of  §1,000,000, 
all of which is represented to  have  been 
paid in, has filed articles  of  association. 
The company is  organized  for  the  pur­
pose of dealing in  salt,  limestone,  min­
erals, alkalis and all  kinds  of  minerals, 
etc.  There are 100,000  shares  of  stock, 
apportioned among the  incorporators  as 
follows:  J. B.  Ford,  Jr.,  trustee, 99,996; 
Edward Ford, 1, and B. Ford, 1, of Creigh­
ton,  Pa., C.  L. Ford, of Allegheny Pa.,  1, 
and R. G.  Emer,  li of Detroit.
Muskegon—The  will  of 

late 
Andrew Wierengo has been filed for  pro­
bate,  the  petition  being  set  for  hearing 
Oct. 24.  The value of the estate,  as esti­
mated for probate, is placed at a total  of

the 

§85,000,  §50,000  personal  property  and 
§35,000 real estate.  It is thought that the 
property  will overrun this figure and well 
informed people place it at  nearer  §100,- 
000.  By the terms of  the  will  the  mag­
nificent  wholesale  business  which  Mr. 
Wierengo had built  up  here  in  the  last 
ten years is to  be  closed  out  in  a  year 
and  all  the  available  assets  converted 
into cash.  The will provides  for the pay­
ment  of  §1,000  to  Marie  Wierengo,  the 
mother of Mr.  Wierengo and §500 each to 
his  sisters,  Mrs.  Jennie  Horn  and  Miss 
Josie Wierengo.  The sum  of  §500  is  to 
go  to  Mrs.  Catherine  DeHaas,  Mrs. 
Wierengo’s  mother,  and  §500  each  to 
Mrs.  Anna  Eraai  and  Miss  Nellie  De- 
Haas,  Mrs.  Wierengo’s sisters.  Andrew, 
the elder son, gets  his  father’s  diamond 
pin  and  John  Leslie, the  younger  son, 
his father’s diamond ring.  The boys  be­
come the owners of the  Hotel  Wierengo 
property and the  store  block  adjoining, 
when they shall reach the age of 25 years, 
respectively.  The 
remainder  of  the 
estate goes to the wife,  who is  named  as 
sole executrix.  The  boys,  Andrew  and 
John,  are  aged  respectively  12  and  10 
years.

MANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

Ironwood—Martin  Kallender  will  cut 
5,000,000 feet of logs this  winter  in  the 
vicinity cf Ewen,  for  the Ketcham Lum­
ber Co.,  of  Chicago.  He  will  also  log 
for other parties in the same section.

Muskegon—Hovey  &  McCracken  will 
finish sawing about  November  1.  They 
will not log this season,  aud  the running 
of their mill  next  year  will  depend  on 
the price of logs,  which  now  they  con­
sider too high.

Crystal  Lake—Josiah  Horning,  of 
Clare, aud T. P. Horning, of Mt.  Pleasant, 
have  formed  a  partnership  and  pur­
chased a sawmill  here.  The mill will be 
at once repaired and  put in  commission. 
It will cut hardwood chiefly,  and a  stock 
will be secured for it.

Saginaw—The  sawmills  are  on 

the 
home stretch of the season’s  sawing,  and 
owing to the accumulation of  lumber  on 
the mill docks,  nearly  all  of  the  mills 
will shut  down  early.  The  output  for 
the season  will be considerably  less than 
was the cut in 1893,  which was 585,0000,- 
000 feet.

Detroit—The World  Specialty Co.  has 
incorporation.  The 
filed  articles  of 
capita]  stock  is  §10,0000 aud  §2,000 
is 
paid in.  The object of the  company  is 
given as  the  manufacture  and  sale  of 
patented specialties.  The  incorporaters 
are  George  W.  Childs,  Jr.,  Walter 
G.  Morley aud S.  Olin Johnson

Iron Mountain—Judge Stone has issued 
a decree in the Circuit  Court  for the sale 
of the plant and other  real and  personal 
' property of the Upper Michigau Brewing 
Co. to satisfy  the claims of  the  National 
Loan &  Investment  Co.  and  the  Third 
National Bank of  Detroit,  amounting  to 
§69,079.36.  The  brewing  company  has 
been in the hands  of  the  receiver  for  a 
year.  The  sale  will  take  place Jan.  2, 
1895.

Beaverton—The  mill 

frame  erected 
here  by  Seely,  Eastman  & Phipps  is 
ready for the machinery,  and  the  latter 
is  being  set  up.  The  saw  and  hoop 
machinery will be put in  first and  stave 
and  heading  machinery  will  be  added 
later.  Contracts have  been  let  for  the 
manufacture of 1,000,000 hoops to  be de- 
j livered prior to  December  1.  The  saw 
' mill  will consist of  circular,  edger  and

¡planer.  The  hoop  machinery  will  be 
operated  days and the  saw  mill nights. 
A  shingle  mill  is talked of to  be added 
! to  the  plant  another  season.

recent 

Muskegon—There is a visible quicken­
ing in the  lumber  trade,  and  were  the 
prices only to advance  a  little we would 
begin to think  trade  might  be  of  some 
good this  fall.  Buyers  have  been  here 
recently and all seemed to  get what they 
wanted.  Among 
sales  were 
1,000,000  and  500,000  hemlock  piece 
stuff.  One man  bought  300,000  feet  of 
assorted pine piece stuff, the  stock being 
shaped to suit his needs.  He also took  a 
cargo of inch assorted pine and hemlock. 
Another man bought a  lot  of pine  piece 
stuff which was to  run  largely  to  small 
timber  from 4x4 to  8x8, about 300,000 in 
the lot.

Saginaw—October did not start in very 
energetically  for  the  lumber  trade,  al­
though there  has  been  some  slight  im­
provement.  All along the  line  it  is  re­
marked that the  reason the  Saginaw val­
ley market has been  dull,  as regards  the 
volume of business,  is  that  prices  have 
been asked for stock so much higher than 
sales have been  effected at  on  Lake  Su­
perior that the people up there have sold 
the boards while  they are  still drying  in 
the October sun  on the mill  docks of the 
Saginaw River.  One  old lumberman  re­
cently remarked that the  day of the Sag­
inaw  valley  as  a  wholesale  market  is 
over,  that  the  bulk  of  the  business  in 
future  will  be  done  in  the  yards;  and 
there would seem to be some force in the 
idea.  The fact is that  the stumpage has 
cost too much,  in  the  opinion  of  many 
lumbermen,  to permit them  to sell  as low 
as  they  do  on  Lake  Superior.  The 
average cost of  stumpage of  the  lumber 
cut in the Saginaw district in the last ten 
years is about  §7,  while up  in  Lake  Su­
perior  probably  it  will  not  exceed  §3. 
Others assert  that  Saginaw  valley  lum­
bermen  are  not satisfied  with as narrow 
margins of profit as those  at  some  other 
points,  that they made  money  so rapidly 
a few years ago  that  they  cannot  come 
down to a closer business as to profits.

Don’t Carry it Too  Far.
E. P. Van Harlingen in Dry Goods Reporter.

The matter of special  sales,  their  use 
and abuse, is an important one,  and  one 
that is receiving a good deal  of consider­
ation just now.  That they  are  of  great 
advantage to  the  merchant,  if  planned 
judiciously,  is beyond  doubt,  but  there 
is  a strong tendency to over-do  the  mat­
ter and  thus  destroy  much  of  the good 
that  might  otherwise  accrue.  We  are 
speaking  particularly  now  of  the  mer­
chants in the  smaller  towns  and  cities. 
In a nut-shell, an occasional special sale, 
when one has new goods to  introduce  or 
old  ones  to  clear  out,  is  an  excellent 
thing,  but the advisability  of  constantly 
advertising  special  sales,  with  accom­
panying special  prices,  with  the  inten­
tion merely of pushing trade  or  distanc­
ing a rival, may welllje called into ques­
tion.  Avoid conveying the  idea  that  it 
is  necessary  for  you  always  to  reduce 
your regular prices in order  to  do  busi­
ness. 
In order to  compete  successfully 
with aggressive rivals  you  should  have 
prices down to  the  closest  margin  pos­
sible to make a fair  and just profit,  and 
the heavy cuts be only made in  rare  and 
justifiable  instances.  People  will  not 
be misled by baits  long;  they  will  soon 
learn where they will  save  the  most  in 
trading in the  long  run  and  where  the 
big  spasmodic  reductions  are  always 
made up by extra prices on  other  goods.

John  F.  Reinke,  formerly  a  market 
gardner  on  West  Leonard  street,  has 
opened  a  grocery  store  at  200  Watson 
street.

P R O D U C E   M A R K E T .

Apples—Spies,  Baldwins  and  Greenings  are 
the leading  varieties.  There  are  a  few  scrubs 
but they don’t count.  The supply of  good  fruit 
appears to be ample for all needs.  Dealers  hold 
the best at $2@2.25 per bbl.

Beans—Handlers  pay  $1.25@1.40  for  country 

picked, holding hand-picked at 11.50.

Beets—Washed bring 30c per  bu.  on  the  mar­

ket; unwashed 25c.

Butter—Best  dairy  is  held  by  dealers  at  20c 

per lb.  Creamery Is worth 24c.

Cabbage—Small heads are worth  25c  per  doz. 

on the market; large 30c.

Cauliflowers—The market price is  81  per  doz. 
for good, but they can be bought as  low  as  75c, 
while soma fancy lots bring as high as 81.25.

Celery—Is  now  at  its  beBt  and brings 10@15c 
per doz.

Cucumbers—They are nearly out;  25c  per  bu. 

is still the price.

Egg Plant—The supply is still good; the  price 

on the market is 75c3$l per doz.

Eggs—Strictly fresh bring 15@16c per doz.
Grapes—Niagaras, prime fruit, are sold on  the 
market for 17c per iO-lb. basket.  New York Con­
cords bring 15c, but they  are  inferior  to  home­
grown.

Green Corn—Is still coming in.  It  is  sold  on 

the market at  10c per doz.
Lettuce—Grocers pay 10c per lb
Mushrooms—First-class bring 40@50e per lb.
Onions—Yellow  Denvers and reds are held by 
dealers at POc  per  bu.  Spanish  bring  81.30  per 
box.

Peaches—Smocks aud Solways  are  about  the 
only varieties left, and the supply  is  small  and 
uncertaiu.  They are held at $1.60.

Parsley—Grocers pay 15c.
Peppers—Red  and  green  are  in  fair  supply 
with good demand.  The market price is  81  per 
bu.

Pumpkins—Grocers  pay  75c@81  per  doz.  for 

prime.

Potatoes—Through an inadvertence  the  price 
was put at 55c last week 
It  should  have  been 
60c—the price at present.  One can see a vast im­
provement in the size  and  general  appearance, 
as well as in the quantity, of the tubers brought to 
this market.  It is still held by those  who  claim 
to be possessed of definite information,  that  the 
crop of potatoes this year is not much more than 
half  the  average  of  former  years.  The  same 
cause, drouth, has operated  it  is  said,  all  over 
the continent, as in  Michigau,  to retard  growth. 
There  can  be  no  doubt  of  this,  but if, as in 
Michigan,  tha drouth was  broken  soon  enough 
to  give  the  potatoes  a  chance to  recover some 
of the ground  lost,  it  may  reasonably  be  sup­
posed that the result will be  the  same  in  other 
States  as  in  this,  namely,  a  crop fully 40 per 
cent,  larger  than  was  anticipated.  Anyway, 
predictions as to the condition of the  crop  were 
based upon reports made previous to the coming 
of rain.  Would the prophets speak in  the  same 
strain now. is a question.

Pears—Californias bring 82.25 per box.
Quinces—Dealers hold them at 81.10.
Radishes—Grocers pay 10c per  doz.
Spinach—Growers get  40c per bu.
Sweet  Potatoes—Dealers  hold  Jerseys  at  80c 

per bu.

Tomatoes—The supply still holds up.  Dealers 

are billing them out at 40c per bu.

Squash—Are held by dealers at lyjc per lb.
Turuips—Washed are sold  on  the  market  for 

Vegetable  Oysters—Grocers  pay  25@30c per 

30c per bu.

doz.

Henry  J.  Vinkemulder,
Fruits  anil  Vegetables,

JOBBER  OF

418,  420,  445  and  447  So.  Division 

St  Grand  Rapida.

We have some very nice  Red  and  Yel­
low  Onions. 
If  you  can  use  a carload 
can  make  you a low  price.  Quote  you 
Fancy  Yellow  Onious  at  48c  per  bu. 
Fancy  Red  Onious  48c  per  bu.  No.  1 
Winter Apples §2 per bbl.  No. 2 Winter 
Apples  §1.75  per  bbl.  Fancy  Jersey 
Sweet Potatoes §2.75  per  bbl.  Cabbage 
30 to 40c per doz.
If  you  have  any  Fresh Eggs to offer, 
please quote us  price.
Favor us with  your  orders,  they  will 
always have our prompt and  careful  at­
tention  and  benefit  of  any  decline  in 
prices.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADEBMAN

GRAND  RA PID S  GOSSIP.

E. Graves,  grocer  at  1066  Madison 

avenue,  is succeeded by Fred  Rouse.

Morhard & Rauser,  meat dealers at 193 
Broadway,  have  removed  their  business 
to 549 Ottawa street.

Conrad Schneider has opened a grocery 
store at Horton’s Bay.  The 1.  M.  Clark 
Grocery Co. furnished the stock.

Stein & Arnold,  undertakers at 13 West 
Bridge street, have dissolved.  The busi­
ness will be continued  by  Jacob  F.  Ar­
nold.

John  Allgier,  grocer  at  160  Clancy 
street,  has sold  his stock  to John  S.  De- 
Groot,  who will continue  business at the 
same location.

C.  A. Birge,  formerly  engaged  in  the 
upholstering business here,  has arranged 
to embark in the furniture and undertak­
ing business at Hart.

Cornelius Visser  has removed  his gro­
cery stock from  the corner  of South East 
and  Sherman  streets  to  the  corner  of 
Fifth avenue and South  Union street.

Elverton C.  Bemis, grocer  on  the  cor­
ner of  Hall  and  So.  Lafayette  streets, 
has purchased the grocery  stock of  Jas.
A.  Harris, at 235  South  Division  street, 
and removed his stock  to the latter loca­
tion.

John Caulfield  has begun  the  erection 
of  four  stores  on  the  corner  of  Grand- 
vilie  and  Hughart  avenues,  with  red 
brick and plate glass fronts.  The build­
ing  will  be 60x82 feet in dimensions and 
two stories high.

Geo.  W.  Williams,  meat  dealer  at  the 
corner of Fifth  avenue aud  South Union 
street,  has removed to the corner of South 
Division street and Wenham avenue,  and 
taken his brother into partnership,  under 
the firm name of Williams Bros.

The Champion Cash  Register  Co.  has 
leased  the  second  floor  of  the  Peirce 
block, across  the  hall  from  its  present 
offices, and is fitting the floor  up  for  re­
pair rooms,  warehouse and  storage  pur­
poses.  The  front  portion  of  the  floor 
will be occupied by offices as  fast as  the 
work of the  company  requires  the crea­
tion of additional departments.

“ 1 saw a novel  sight  the  other  day,” 
said  Frank  Jewell  the  other  evening. 
‘‘We were coming down  through  Minne­
sota on the  D., S.  S.  & A.  Railroad,  and, 
not  having  had a chance for even a shot 
at a  deer,  we  were  watching  for  them 
along the track.  We had almost reached 
the Wisconsin  border when the headlight 
showed us a big  buck standing beside th6 
track.  The  locomotive  passed  him  all 
right,  but  the  step  of  the  first  coach 
struck  him on  the  left  side.  The  engi­
neer stopped the  train and  backed  up  to 
where  he  lay.  The  blow had laid open 
his side for a distance of about a foot, ex­
posing the heart and lungs.  He probably 
never  knew  what  struck  him.  He  was 
put  into  the  baggage  car  and  divided 
among  the  train  hands.  He  weighed 
fully 200 pounds.  The  engineer told  me 
killing a deer on the track  was a common 
occurrence.  The  headlight  appears  to 
dazzle them,  and  they make  no  effort  to 
get  out  of  the  way.”  M.  J.  Clark 
vouches for the truth  of the above story, 
and says he was on the  train  when it oc­
curred.  Readers  need  not, 
therefore, 
hesitate to accept it as a fact. 

1

The drug  trade  of  Western  Michigan 
has  lately  been  honored  by visits from 
one of the shrewdest  salesmen who  ever 
crossed  the  threshold  of  a  retail  store. 
The name of  the gentleman  is  Theo.  U. 
Johnson and he claims  to  represent  the 
Novelty Plaster Works, manufacturers of 
the  Mitchell  plasters  at  Lowell,  Mass. 
His principle business, however,  appears 
to be the sale of certain  formulas for the 
manufacture  of  glossy  colored 
inks, 
which  he  claims  to  have  originated, 
patented and  copyrighted, and which  he 
offers to sell  at figures,  varying from $10 
to  $800.  He  recently  called  on  Ezra 
Ware,  the Cherry street druggist, offering 
him  the  sole  right  to  manufacture  the 
inks from his formulas  for $800.  On de­
murring to this offer,  he  reluctantly  re­
duced  the  price  to  $80,  subsequently 
coming down by degrees to $10, at which 
figure  the  deal  was  closed,  Mr.  Johnson 
expressly  stating  that  he  had  sold  the 
formulas  to  no  other person in the city. 
Greatly to Mr.  Ware’s  surprise,  he  sub­
sequently  learned that  Johnson  had pre­
viously sold  the same  formulas  to  Wm.
B.  Knapp  and Thos.  A.  Baxter, both  of 
whom  conduct  drug  stores  on Wealthy 
avenue.  The formulas appear  to  be  all 
right and the inks  appear to be  all  they 
are  represented  to  be,  but if any dealer 
purchases  them with  the idea  that he  is 
getting sole control of the goods, it would 
be well for  him  to  disabuse  himself  of 
the  idea,  as  such  is  not the case.  Mr. 
Johnson is described as a most persuasive 
talker,  and so fascinating in  his  manner 
that  he  could  secure  the  consent  of  a 
wooden  Indian  to  most  any  kind  of  a 
deal.  Some  of  his  transactions  look  a 
little shady  to an  outsider,  but  he  may 
be able to  explain them  satisfactorily  to 
prospective purchasers of his recipes.  In 
this case,  as well as  in all other matters, 
The Tradesman advises caution in deal­
ing with strangers,  unless they are satis­
factorily  vouched 
reputable 
parties.

for  by 

P u rely P erson al.

W. J. Clarke,  the Harbor  Springs gen­
eral  merchant,  was  in town last week,  in 
attendance on the  annual  convention  of 
the Grand Chapter, O. E.  S.

C. G.  Pitkin,  the  Whitehall  druggist, 
was  in  town last week  on his way home 
from Detroit and  Brighton,  where he en­
joyed a ten  days’  respite  from  business.
E.  D.  King,  in  charge  of  the  agency 
department  of 
the  Champion  Cash 
Register  Co.,  will  remove  his  family 
from  Milwaukee to this  place  and  take 
up his residence on Paris avenue.

J.  M. Cassil,  formerly with  the  Grand 
Rapids Veneer  Works,  has  taken the po­
sition of  manager of  the  office  force  of 
the  Champion  Cash  Register  Co.,  com­
prising three typewriters and seven clerks 
in  the  mailing  and  correspondence  de­
partments.  Mr.  Cassil is  an  accountant 
of acknowledged ability and  brings to his 
new  connection  a  fund  of  experience 
which will be of inestimable value to the 
Champion Co.

The D rug M arket.

Opium  is  very  firm  and  advancing. 
Cables report higher prices at the primary 
market.

Morphia is steady at the late decline. 
Quinine is steady.
Oil anise  is scarce and higher.
Linseed  oil  is  firm  and  another  ad­

vance  probable.

G ripsack  B rigad e.

M. J.  Rogan,  traveling  representative 
for Moore, Smith  & Co., of Boston, is now 
visiting the large towns of the State with 
his line of straw hats and  will  probably 
be in Grand Rapids  for  a  few  days  be 
fore the end of the month.

The 

The  Champion  Cash  Register  Co. 
the  following  additional 
has  engaged 
traveling  salesman  during 
the  past 
week:  J.  R.  Kersten,  H.  V.  Hughes, 
M.  M.  Hughes,  Frank  D.  Prindle 
and  Frank  E.  Mix. 
latter 
gentleman  was for many years in  charge 
of  the  Northwestern agency of  the  Na­
tional  Cash  Register  Co. 
and  has 
opened  handsome  headquarters  at  Min­
neapolis.
A St.  Louis drummer,  who was travel­
ing in Texas,  was  very  much  surprised 
the  other  day to read in the papers  that 
his wife,  with whom he had always lived 
in perfect accord,  and  to  whom  he  had 
transferred all  his property, had sued for 
and obtained a divorce.  He  wrote to ask 
her why in the  world she had  taken  such 
a step and she replied  that  it  was  all  a 
mistake.  He hurried  home  to see  about 
it aud  found that he  was really  divorced. 
It seems  that  his  wife  had  employed  a 
lawyer to petition the  court to make  her 
a  femme  sole,  and  on the  same day an­
other woman  had  employed  him  to  get 
her a divorce.  He got  the two mixed up 
so that the court had  divorced the wrong 
one.  The  unlucky  drummer is afraid to 
go home to live  until  the  decree  of  the 
court is annulled or he aud  his  wife  can 
be  remarried.  The  lawyer  is  just now 
the butt of his professional  brethren.

Saginaw 

(E.  S.)  News:  Saginaw 
Knights  of the Grip  have not  forgotten 
the exceptionally  good 
time  they  had 
when the annual convention  was held  in 
this city,  and also the nice time they  had 
at Detroit last year.  The annual  convo­
cation is held this year at  Grand  Rapids 
December 26 and 27, aud the local branch 
is even now preparing for the trip. 
It  is 
expected  that  the  turnout from this city 
will be  exceptionally  large,  as  Saginaw 
and  Grand  Rapids  are  on  very  good 
terms.  A  special  train  will  be  run  to 
accomodate  the  party,  and  Bay  City 
will be invited to join  forces  and  make 
the  party  a  happier  one.  The  Grand 
Rapids traveling  men  are determined to 
outdo the hospitality of Saginaw  if  pos­
sible,  but  admit  that  they  must  work 
hard  to  do  it,  for  the  meeting  in  this 
the
city 
best 
far.
At  the  meeting  in  December  Saginaw 
will  again offer to entertain  the  gather­
ing  in  1895,  and 
is  a  general 
understanding that, if  the offer  is  made, 
it will  be snapped up on the spot.

is  acknowledged 
be 
the  order  ever  held  so 

there 

to 

The  Grain  M arket.

The market  closed  strong  last  week, 
owing to light receipts  aud  to  the  fact 
that  exports  increased  about  1,000,000 
bushels.  The  increase  in  the  visible 
supply  amounted  to  about  1,460,000 
bushels.  There  has  been  no  improve­
ment, as yet, in  receipts from  first hands, 
as farmers are busy marketing their fruits 
aud  vegetables.  The  Government  crop 
report  for  and  up  to  Oct.  1  makes  the 
amount of  wheat  raised  in  the  United 
States about 40,000,000 bushels more than 
earlier  estimates,  which 
is  probably 
nearer  the mark thau previous estimates. 
This, however,  will  not  be  burdensome 
when the amount  of  exports  are  taken 
into consideration and the amount  fed to 
stock,  which,  it  is  claimed,  is  18  per

cent,  of the crop  in  Michigan—a  rather 
conservative estimate.  These are bound 
to be factors in influencing  prices  in the 
near future.

Corn, owing  to  the  exceptionally  fine 
weather,  has declined some in price since 
last  week and,  taking the shortage of the 
crop into  consideration,  present  figures 
are low.

Oats have,  also,  dropped about l@13<c 
since a week ago,  but  they  may  still  be 
considered high,  as  we have a  good crop 
—about  6,000,000  bushels  more  visible 
than at this time last year.

Receipts in  this  market  for  the  week 
were,  wheat,  73  cars;  corn,  5  cars,  and 
oats,  2 cars.  Wheat receipts  were better 
than for the previous week but not up  to 
the  requirements  of  the  mills  if  they 
were running to their full  capacity.

C.  G. A.  Y o is t .

FOR  SALE,  WANTED.  ETC.

Advertisements  will  be  inserted  under  this 
head for two cents a word  the first insertion and 
one  cent a word  for each  subsequent  insertion. 
No advertisements  taken for  less  than 25 cents. 
Advance nayment.

’ 

- 

610

selected 

AKDVVAKE  FOR  SALE—A  NICE  CLEAN 
stock,  good  opening  and  will  inventory 
$  ,50o  to  $2,000.  Address  “ Hardware”  care  of 
Michigan Tradesman. 
618
F OR  SALE—AT  A  SACRIFICE,  A  WELL 
stock  of  groceries,  hardware, 
drugs, crockery, notion«, etc , In a thriving  rail­
road village of 250 people.  Owner wishes  to  go 
into other business and offers entire stock  at  75 
cents on  the dollar for  cash.  Address  No.  019, 
care Michigan Tradesman. 
fjg
>R SALE—A  FULLY EtJlIPPK D SHINGLE 
mill  Perkins machinery,  haying a capacity 
of  45,fiOt  shingles  per  day,  now  in  operation. 
Situated on a good stream and  in a cheap shingle 
timber district.  First-class Huvett & Smith  dry 
kiln  in  connection.  Will  sell  cheap  for  cash. 
Good chance  for  mill  man  with  some  money. 
Reasons  for  selling  given  to  one  who  means 
business.  Morse & Schneider, Seney,  Mich.  620
TX^ILL  PAY  CASH  FOR  STOCK  OF  CLOTH- 
ing if price  Is  right.  Address  Box  1166 
Cadillac  Mich. 

IjlOR  SALE  OR  EXCHANGE—HOUSE.  LOT 

and  barn  in town of 2,500.  The house  is  a 
large, roomy, two story  building.  Five bearing 
fruit trees on the premises.  Good  water  in con ­
nection.  Cost  $2,0  0.  Will  sell  very  cheap  or 
exchange for farm  property.  What  have  you? 
Address No. 615 careMichigan Tradesman. 
615

acre  fruit  farm 

T^IOR  SALE  OR  EXCHANGE—ONE  THIRTY 

in  Oceana  county  about 
half  way  between  Hart  and  Shelby,  with  500 
fruit trees about  four  years  old.  Will  sell  for 
cash, or exchange for stock  of  dry  goods  Ad­
dress Lock  box 29, Hart, Nich. 
614
Me n   t o   s e l l   b a k i n g   p o w d e r  t o   t h e
grocery  trade  Steady  employment,  ex­
perience unnecessary.  $75 monthly  and  expen 
ses or com.  If offer satisfactory address at once 
with  particulars  concerning  yourself.  U.  S. 
Chemical  Works, Chicago. 

■ HOiCE  FARM  OF  160 ACRES,  DEEP  SOIL, 

living water,  in Dickinson county, Iowa, to 
exchange for stock of  goods  or  other  property. 
Give  full  description—quality,  quantity  and 
value—in first letter.  O.  F. Conklin, 26  Madison 
Ave., Grand Rapids, Mich. 
■T r e a t   o f f e r —f i n e   s t o c k   o f  w a l l
T  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,non.  Address  Mrs 
Theresa Schwind, Grand Rapids. 

■   BUSINESSCHANCE—FOR  SALE  OR  EX' 

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

13LANING  MILL—WE  OFFER  FOR  SALE 

the North Side Planing Mill,  which is first- 
class in every  respect,  or  w ill  receive  proposi­
tions to locate the business in some other  thriv­
ing town.  Correspondence and inspection sollc- 
ited.  Sheridan. Boyce A Go, Manistee, Mich.  613

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

for  sale  at  a  great  reduction  from  cost- 
Reason for selling, we desire another  pattern of 
same make o f machine, which  we  consider  the 
best  on the  market.  Tradesman  Company,  100 
Louis St., Grand  Rapids._______________  
564

597

608

«61

SITU A TIO N S  W A N T E D .

ANTED—POSITION'  AS  CHEMIST  OR 
drug clerk by assistant pharmacist.  Grad­
uate  of Pharmacy School, Michigan  University, 
degree Ph.  C.  M.  F.  Nichols,  223  East  Bridge 
St., Grand Rapids. 

617

SITUATION  WANTED  BY  A  PRACTICAL 
commercial  book-keeper.  Speaks  German 
! fluently and understands dry goods  and  grocer- 
1  ies.  References.  Address No.  609,  care  Michi 
1 gan Tradesman. 
609

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iHf fi  MICHIGAN-  TOADEBMAN.

R E P R E SE N T A T IV E   R E T A IL E R S.

Dry Goods Price Current.

D EM IN S.

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Amoskeag................ 12  (Columbian  brown.. 12
9 o z.......14  Everett, blue.............11
brown .14 
brown........11
Andover................... 1134  Haymaker blue........  734
BeaverCreek  AA...10 
brown...  <34
iJaffrey.......................ll'/s
B B ...9  
CC__  
(Lancaster  .................. 1234
Boston MfgCo.  br..  7  Lawrence,9oz.........1234

“ 
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blue  834 
“  d A twist  1034 
XXX  bl.19  I

Columbian XXX  br.10 

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N o.220.... 12
N o.250. ...10
N o.280  ...  8

GINGHAM S.

Amoskeag  ............... 

[Lancaster,  staple...  534

“ 

“ 
“ 

staples.  6 

fancies  ....  6
Normandie  6

“  Persian dress  63» 
“ 
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“ 
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“ 

Canton ..  7 
AFC.........  834 Lancashire...............   434
Teazle.. .1034  Manchester...............  434
Angola  . 1034  Monogram................   434
Persian..  7  Normandie.............   634
Arlington staple__   ¿^ P ersian......................  634
Arasapha  fancy  ...  444 Renfrew Dress.........734
Bates Warwick dres  734'Rosemont..................  634
[Slatersvllle..............6
Centennial..............   1034  Somerset...................   7
Criterion  ............ 
1034¡Tacoma  ....................734
Cumberland staple.  534  Toil  duN ord...........834
Cumberland.............  5  Wabash.....................   734
E ssex.........................  434 
seersucker..  734
Elfin..........................   734 Warwick..................  8
Everett classics.......834'WhIttenden................  8
Exposition................  7341 
heather  dr.  734
Indigo blue  9 
Glenarie...................   63*
W amsuttastaples...  634
Glenarven................ 634
Westbrook................  8
Glenwood...................734
Hampton...................5
........................10
Wlndermeer.............  5
Johnson Chalón cl 
34,
i

“  
Indigo blue  934lYork 
zephyrs__ 16 

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634

“ 

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GRAIN  BAGS.

Amoskeag.................13
Stark........................   1634
American................. 12341..............................

Georgia

13

TH REA D S.

Clark’s Mile E nd....45 
|Barbour's................. 95
Coats’, J.  & P ..........45  Marshall’s  ................ 90
Holyoke....................22341

KN ITTIN G   COTTON.

White.  Colored 

White.  Colored

No.
“ 
“ 
“ 

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

No.  14. 
“ 
16. 
18.
2 0 .
“  

38
36
40
41
CAMBRICS.

Slater.........................   4 
[Edwards..................  4
White Star..............  4  Lockwood...................4
Kid G love.................  4  Wood’s ...........  
. . .   4
Newmarket..............  4 
...........  4

(Brunswick 

R ED   FLA N N EL.

Fireman.................... 3234 IT W ..........................   2234
Creedmore................2734  F T .............................. 3234
Talbot XXX............. 30  J R F, XXX...............35
Nam eless.................. 27341 Buckeye.....................8234

M IXED  FLA N N EL.

Grey S R  W ...............1734
Red & Blue,  plaid..40 
Union  R 
2234|WesternW  ...............1834
Windsor 
1834 D R  P ......................... 1834
6 oz W estern............20
-   Flushing XXX.........2334
Union  B ................... 22341 Manitoba...................2334

....... 9

DOMET  FLA N N EL.
Nam eless.  ...  8  @  9341 
8  @  9341 
834@10  I 

CANVASS  AND  PADDINC
934
1934
1134
1234

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Brown. Black. Slate
1034
1034 1U4
1134 12
1234 20

@1034
1234
Brown. Black.
Slate.
1034
934
m i
1034
12
1134
20
1234
West  Point, 8 oz
Severen, 8 oz...........   934
.1034
Mayland, 8 oz..........IO34
10 oz 
.
“ 
1234
Raven, lOoz..............1334
Greenwood, 734 oz..  934 
............ 1334
Stark 
Greenwood, 8 oz — 1134
Boston, 8 oz.............. 1034¡Boston, 10 oz.............1234

1034
1134
12
20

“ 

W ADDINGS.

ä\

SILESIA B.
8 

|Per bale, 40 doz 

White, doz...............25 
88 5f
Colored,  doz............20  IColored  “ 
............7  5t
i Pawtucket................1034
Slater, Iron Cross.
I \ B I a 
Red Cross.
Dandle
B est...............1034 Bedford................... 1034
Best  A A .......1234 Valley  City............ 1034
K K ........................... 1034
............................834

«•
•*
L ..
G
Cortlcelll, doz.......... 55 Cortlcelll  knitting

SEW ING  SILK .

per  340Z  ball....... 30

twist, doz.. 37 4
50 yd,doz. .3734
HOOKS AND  ETES— P E R  GROSS.
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No 1  Bl’k & White.. 10 No  4 Bl’k &  White..15
“
..12
“ 
‘‘ 8 
20
..12
“ 
“  10 
“
25
PIN S .
No 2—20, M C. 
|No 4—15 J   334......... 40
...50 
...45 
I
*'  8—1 8.S C ..
COTTON  T A PE .
No 2 White & Bl’k..!2 |No  8
11 4
..15 1  “  10
..18 1  “  12
6
“
SA FETY   PIN S .
...............28 |N o 3 ,.

White & Bl’k..20 
..28
..26
No 3 .............................85

No 2...........

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2
3

N E E D L E S— P E R   M.

A. Jam es....................1  401 Steamboat  ................  40
Crowely’s.................... 1 35 Gold  Eyed..................... 1 50
Marshall’s .................. 1 00|Amerlcan........................1 00
5  4 ....  1  75  6—4 ... 

15—4. — 1  65  6—4.. .2 30

TA B L E   O IL   CLOTH.

COTTONT W IN ES.

Cotton Sail Twine. .28
Crown.......................12
D om estic.................1834
A nchor.....................16
B ristol......................13
Cherrv  V alley.........15
I X L .......................... 1834
Alabama......................6fc
Alam ance.................13
A ugu sta..................... 734
A r  sapha..................  6
Georgia........................61*
G ranite.....................  544
Haw  R iver.............. 5
Haw  J .................  5

N ashua..................... 14
Rising Star 4 ply__ 17
3-ply__ 17
North  Star................20
Wool Standard 4 ply 1734 
P ow hattan..............16

“ 

Mount  Pleasant__ 634
Oneida.......................  5
Prym ont....... ..........  5%
Randelman..............   6
Riverside..................  534
Sibley  A ................... 6K
Toledo  .....................
Otis checks...............75£

P L A ID   OSNABCRGS

A
HONEY
MAKER

for both merchant and  con­
sumer.  Quick  seller  for 
merchant and wears  slowly 
for  housewife.  To  what 
can  we  refer  except  Atlas 
Soap ?

Manufactured  only by

H EN R Y   PASSOLT,

SAGINAW,  MICH.

ATOM.  LYON & GO.

u

NEW  STYLES  OF

20 &  22  Monroe  St.,

GRAND  RAPIDS

Avoid  the
Cilrse  of  Credit 
C O U P O N

BY  USING

#

B O O K S

THREE  GRADES:

Tradesman,
Superior,
Universal.

&  
'ip-

Manufactured only by

TRADESMAN  COITPANY,

Grand Rapids,  Mich.

S E E D S !

Everything  in seeds is kept by  us— 

Clover, Timothy,

Hungarian,  Millet,

Red Top, Blue  Grass, 
Seed  Com,  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 fillers.
W.  T.  LAM0REAUX B Q .,;£M 8c f t

GRAND _ RAPIDS,  MICH

C.  Sengenberger,  the  Wellington Flats 

Grocer.

Grand Rapids is always ready and anx­
ious  to  welcome  any  man  who  comes 
here  to engage in legitimate trade and to 
make this city his home.  The  latest  ac­
quisition  to  the  ranks  of  the  business 
men of the city  is  Casper  Sengenberger, 
late  of  Joliet,  111.  Mr.  Sengenberger 
was born in  Baireuth.  Bavaria,  the home 
of Wagner and the site of the great Wag­
ner  theater,  in  I860. 
Ilis  father  died 
when  Casper  was  4  years  old,  and, 
after attaining his  seventh  year,  he  be­
gan to earn  his own  living.  There  was 
little he couid do at that tender  age,  but 
he could and did run errands and did mauy 
other odds and ends  of  work  that  were 
within the  scope  of  his  ability.  When 
10 years of age  he  was  brought  to  this 
country,  going  direct 
to  Joliet,  III., 
where  he  has  resided  ever  since.  He 
worked at anything  he  could  get  to  do 
until  be  was 17,  when he secured a situ­
ation in a dry goods store,  where  he  re­
mained  six  months.  The  following  six 
months  were  spent  as  a  clerk in a gen­
eral store.  He  then went into a grocery 
store,  as  clerk,  where  he  remained  six 
years.  Two of his  friends  being  about 
to open a grocery  store,  Mr.  Sengenber­
ger  was  engaged  to  put  the  store into 
shape for business.  Four  years  later he 
purchased  the  interest  of  one  of  the 
partners.  Later  this  business  was  dis­
posed  of  and  Mr. Sengenberger  started 
the "Spot Cash  Grocery.”  His  observa­
tions as a clerk  and  his  experience as a 
dealer had led him to see the evils of  the 
credit  system,  and  he determined to do 
business on  a strictly  cash  basis  or  not 
to do business at all.  His partner in  the 
new  venture  was  J.  Fred Wilcox,  gen­
eral agent for the United States  for  Carl 
Upmann, of New  York,  and H. Upmann, 
of  Havana,  Cuba,  head  of  the  largest 
tobacco  and  cigar  house  on  the island. 
The  firm  name  was  C.  Sengenberger & 
Co.  They did  business  for  nearly  four 
years in a single store,  and  then  moved 
into a large double  store  in  one  of  the 
best locations in the city.  The store was 
fitted  up  in  magnificent  style,  the  fix­
tures alone costing §8,000.  Mr.  Seugen- 
berger had the entire management  of the 
business,  Mr.  Wilcox’s  other  interests 
employing  all  his  time.  The  business 
had a remarkable growth,  the total  sales 
in  1890 being -576.640,  while in  1893  they 
were §164,300,  with not a dollar of credit 
accounts.  The  hard  work and close ap­
plication to  business,  together  with  the 
malarial climate,  were too much  for  Mr. 
Sengenberger and,  early  in  the  present 
year,  he was compelled  to  lay  aside  all 
work and devote his  time  and  attention 
to regaining his health.  He has traveled 
over the greater  portion  of  the  United 
States in quest for health,  and  has  been 
so  far  successful  that  he  is  once more 
able  to  re-engage  in  business.  As the 
climate of Joliet would  not  permit  him 
to  return  to  that  city,  where  so  many 
years  of  his  life  have  been  passed,  he 
was compelled to seek anew location and 
a new home.  A visit to this  city,  made 
several years  ago,  impressed  him  with 
an  idea  of  the  city’s  importance  as  a 
commercial  and  industrial  center,  and, 
when the time arrived for him  to  choose 
another business home,  he determined to 
come here and look over the ground.  The 
result was his location  in Grand  Rapids. 
He has leased the east half of the ground 
floor  of  the  Wellington  Flats and is fit­
ting it up in a style which  will  make  it 
one of the finest retail  grocery  stores  in 
the State.  His  success  in  Joliet  in  the 
face  of  tremendous  opposition  is  evi­
dence of his ability and staying qualities, 
and there is no reason  why he should not 
make a name and a place  for  himself  in 
the Yalley City.

63a
-•734
-.834
■934
.10
.1034
.1134
■ 1234
■ 1334

U N B LEA C H ED  COTTONS.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

BLEA CH ED   COTTONS.

¡K ingEC ................... 5

A driatic...................   7  I 
“  Arrow Brand  434
A r g y le .....................   5 *  
“  W orldw ide.  6
“  LL....................434
Atlanta A A ..............   6 
Atlantic  A .........—   ôîijFull Yard W ide.........634
“  H  ................634  Georgia  A .................  634
“ 
P ..............  5  Honest W idth.........  6
D ................6  Hartford A  ...............   5
“ 
“  LL  ................  434jlndlan Head............   S34
Amory........................63£jKing A  A ...................... 634
Archery  B unting...  4 
Beaver Dam  A A ..  434|Lawrence  L L .........434
Blackstone O, 32__   5  Madras cheese cloth 64t
Black Crow................. 6  ¡Newmarket  G ..........  53£
B .........  5
Black  Rock  ............   544 
Boot, AL..................  7  I 
N .........  6 *
Capital  A  ................ 534 
D D —   534
Cavanat Y ................534i 
X ........ 634
Chapman cheese c l.  344  Xolbe R .....................  5
Clifton  C R ..............   534iOur Level  B est....... 6
Comet.........................534 Oxford  R ....................  6
Dwight Star..............  64£jPequot.......................   7
Clifton C C C ............ 5J4  Solar.............................  6
¡Top of the  Heap—   7
A B C . 
....................  834 ¡Geo. W ashington...  8
Amazon.........................8  Glen M ills.................  7
Amsburg.......................6  Gold  M edal..................734
Art  Cambric..............10  Green  Ticket............ 834
Blackstone  A A .......  734 Great F a lls...............   634
Beats A ll....................   4  ¡Hope............................. 734
B oston.......................12  ¡Just  Out.........   434@  5
Cabot..........................  63£|King  Phillip 
..........734
abot,  %
OP....... 734
6341 
5 34 ¡Lonsdale Cambric.. 10
Charter  Oak..........
7J4|Lonsdale............   @  8
Conway W ..............
Cleveland 
.............
6 
¡Middlesex..........  @434
8  No Nam e.....................734
Dwight Anchor—
8  Oak V iew ..................6
shorts
“ 
6 
¡Our  Own...................  534
Edwards..................
7 
'Pride of the W est...12
E m pire....................
7  Rosalind......................734
Farwell.....................
734  Sunlight....................  434
Fruit of the  Loom.
7 
[Utica  M ills.............. 834
Fltchvllle 
..............
6 
Nonpareil  ..10
First  Prize..............
734  Vlnyard.....................  834
Fruit of the Loom 34
434 White Horse............  6
Falrmount..............
Full V alue................6341 
834
Cabot..........................  6341 Dwight Anchor
Farwell.............. —   7 4 |

H A L F   BLEA CH ED   COTTONS.

“  Rock

“ 

“ 

CANTON  F L A N N E L

Bleached. 
Housewife  Q—  
“ 
R . . .

Unbleached. 
“ 

Housewife  A.
B
C.
D. E 
7>*
F. 
G H 
.734 
• 734 
-834
I 
J
834 93*
K.
L. 
10 
M  . 
1034 
11 
N ..
21
P ............ 1434

“ 

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Peerless,  white........17 
Integrity................... 1834! 
Hamilton 

..............8
...................  9
.................1034
G G  Cashmere.........1634
Valueless  .................16
..................18  I

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“ 

C A R PET  W A R P.

¡Integrity  colored.,
colored  ...19  White Star...........
“  colored

“ 

D R E SS  GOODS.

Nam eless...................20
.............25
, 
....2734
............30
............3234
....35

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.84 50 
C irallne  ................ 89°5olWonderful
75
Schilling’s ...............  9 00 Brighton..
Davis  Waists  —   9 00 Bortree’s ...............   9 00
Grand  Rapids.......  4  50|Abdomlnal.............15 00
Armory.....................   644 [Ñaumkeagsatteen..  734
Androscoggin...........  734 Rockport................... 634
Biddeford................  6  Conestoga..................734
Brunswick................  634!Walworth 
...............634
Allen turkey  reds..  534¡Berwick fancies—   534

CORSET  JE A N S.

P R IN T S .

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“  C.  7 

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Washington indigo.  634 

robes............   534 Clyde  Robes............
pink a purple  534  Charter Oak fancies  4
b u ffs ............   534  DelMarlne cashm's.  534
moum ’g  534
pink  checks.  534 
sta p le s.........  5  Eddy stone fa n cy ...  5
chocolat  5
sh irtin g s...  334 
American  fancy —   5 
rober  ... 5
sateens.. 5
American in d ig o ...  4341 
American shirtings.  334  Hamilton fancy.  ...  5 
Argentine  Grays...  6 
staple ...  5
Anchor Shirtings...  4  Manchester  fancy..  5 
Arnold 
new era.  5
“  —   6 
...  6  Merrimack D fancy.  5 
Arnold  Merino 
long cloth B.  9  Merrlm’ckshirtings.  4 
“ 
“  R eppfurn.  834
“ 
century cloth  7  Pacific  fan cy............5
“ 
gold seal.......1034 
“ 
“ 
robes..............534
“  green seal T R 1034  Portsmouth robes...  6 
“ 
yellow  seal.. 1034  Simpson mourning..  5
“ 
serge— ........1134 
greys......... 5
“  Turkt-y  red  . 1034 
solid black.  5
“  Turkey robes.. 7
“ 
7
“ India robes 
“  plain T k y X 34 7
red and  orange  ..  6 
“  “ 
“  X...10
“  Ottoman  Tur-
“ 
oil blue  . . .   8 
key red  ..................634
“ 
“  green 
...  6 
“  Foulards 
...  534  Martha Washington
Tnrkeyred 44....... 7
“ 
red 34.........  7 
“ 54  ...........934  Martha  Washington
“ 
Tnrkeyred............  934
“ 
“ 4 4 ...........10 
“ “  3-4XXXX12 

Ballon solid Dlack.. 
colors. 
Bengal bine,  green, 
Berlin solids.............  534 

R lverpolntrobes....  5
Cocheco fancy____ 5  Windsor fan cy.....634
“ gold  ticket
Indigo  blue.......1034
Harmony...........   434
[NOS.
T IC K IN G S.
A C A  
1134
Pemberton A A A __ 16
York...........................1034
Swift R iver..............734
Pearl  R iver............. 12
Warren  .....................1234
Con os to g a ............... 16
.............  8
¡Top of  H eap............   9

Amoskeag A C A — 1134
Hamilton N  ............   7
D .................8
A w ning..11
F arm er........................8
First  Prize  ..............1034
Lenox M ills .............18
Atlanta,  D ................  6341Stark  A 
Boat— .................... 634  No  N am e...............   ..  734
Clifton, S  

madders...  5 
X X tw ills..  5 
solid s.........5 

COTTON  D R IL L .

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7

SEX  LETTERS  TO  A   CLERK— IV.

Moral  Anchors  Which  Young  Men

Should  Hold  By.

An Old Merchant in Hardware.

Don’t turn away from  my letter, Tom, 
because 1 have headed it like a trade dic­
tionary;  I am not intending  to  write  an 
essay  on  ship  anchors,  their  uses  and 
value,  but  I  want  to  write  about  the 
moral  anchors  which  every  young  man 
should heave  out,  once  in  a  while,  on 
his course, not to  prevent  his  progress, 
but  to  keep  him  from  falling  out  of 
the right track.
The boy who stays in the  town  where 
he was born and bred  and  still  has  his 
parents’  watchful  care  over  him  will 
find  it a tolerably easy  task  to  keep  on 
the right course,  but when he  goes  to  a 
strange place,  and if that place is a large 
city,  with  the  temptations  and  allure­
ments  that  are  found  in  nearly  every 
city,  he will find that it requires no small 
amount of force of character to keep him 
on the right track.
Youth is full of desire to  see and have 
a part in all that goes  to  make  up  life. 
While the boy has been at home,  he  has 
felt  the  eyes  of  friends  upon  him  so 
closely that he has avoided much that he 
would like to see.  The good things of the 
world have  been  brought  to  him  until 
they  have  lost  their  value,  while  the 
other side of life has been  carefully kept 
from his sight.  When he  is  away  from 
all control,  perhaps unkt own to a person 
in the city except his  employers,  he  de­
termines to see all  sides  and  corners  of 
life. 
If there are but two or three clerks 
in the store with him,  there  is sure to be 
among them one who can gratify his cur­
iosity by  tales of the under  side  of  life, 
and as be gets acquainted  at  his  board­
ing-house he soon hears his  cronies  dis­
cussing  and  dilating  upon  matters  of 
which he has yet to  learn  the  alphabet. 
But there will  be plenty of opportunities 
for him to learn the whole book.  Scarce­
ly a night but some  one  will  suggest  a 
trip or  a walk  that will lead him a little 
nearer to the ground that  has  been  for­
bidden him, and as his  acquaintance  ex­
tends so do his  opportunities  for  seeing 
what he calls “life.”
If I were writing a sermon or  drawing 
a moral lesson,  1  might  stop  here  and 
speak of the hollowness of all such pleas­
ures  as  this  young  man  is  anxious  to 
taste;  but 1 am not attempting a sermon, 
and am  looking  at  a  young  man’s  life 
only as it may affect bis  business career. 
Now I cannot  write  that  a  young  man 
who takes  a  step  downward  in  life  is 
surely lost,  because 1 do  not  believe  it; 
but I do believe that it is  very  easy  rid­
ing when you  are going  down  hill,  and 
the farther down you get  the harder it is 
to stop.  And so 1 come  to  my  anchors.
1 advise you to put out,  here and there, 
anchors that will  help  you  to  keep  on 
the right course.  And the first  of  these 
might be to select  a  church  where  you 
will  attend,  if  not  regularly,  at  least 
with  some  degree  of  regularity.  1  do 
not say that you  must  not  do  anything 
more than simply go to  church  once in a 
while;  you can go as often as  you please 
after you have  decided  where  you  will 
attend.  Going to  this  church,  you  will 
soon  get  acquainted  with  some  of  the 
members,  and through them  with  others, 
and then you  will feel  at home there, and 
the people will have an  interest  in  you. 
And the time may  come  when  you  will 
go  there  carelessly,  just  because  it  is 
your habit to go there of  a  Sunday,  and 
you may hear a  sermon  that will appeal 
personally to  yourself,  and  your whole 
life  may  be  changed  by  it,  until  your 
past life will  be a shame to you and your 
future be better and  brighter  because  of 
your resolutions formed that day.
Or it may be that no  such high motive 
shall ever enter your heart,  and you may 
go  on  from  Sunday  to  Sunday  simply 
from habit,  but the nod of welcome from 
those  you meet is  pleasant  to  you,  and 
the  hearty  hand-shake  from  pastor  or 
deacon makes you feel  more  of  a  man. 
And an hour may come when you  will be 
held back from evil just  by  the  thought 
that you will  lose  the  respect  of  these 
good men,  and  then  you  will  feel  that 
this  anchor  holds  you  on  your  course.
Another  anchor  will  be  getting  ac­
it  is  easily
quainted with good women, 

done  by  a  young  man  whose  name  is 
without reproach.  Some of your brother 
clerks have sisters and will  be willing to 
make  you  acquainted;  your  employers 
will be glad to see you calling upon their 
wives;  your church  will  have  sociables 
and opportunities where you can  extend 
your acquaintance among the ladies,  and 
you should avail  yourself  of  these. 
In 
all this I am not advising  you to be with 
the girls;  you  will  do  this  without  ad­
vice,  but my advice is to make friends of 
the women.
Women who  have  passed  young  girl­
hood  appreciate  attention  from  young 
men.  Girls accept these  attentions as  a 
matter of course, and as being homage to 
which they are justly entitled,  but wom­
en accept  them at  their  value  and  feel 
kindly  toward  those  who  offer  them. 
One can sit with a company  of  girls  for 
a month and  know no more about life  as 
it really is,  than  if he  had  sat  before  a 
cage of canaries,  but a woman’s instincts 
tell her what a young man  needs,  and he 
cannot  spend an hour  with  her  without 
learning  something  that  it  will be well 
for him  to  remember.
Another  source  of  strength  to  any 
young man is the love of reading  and  of 
good books.  This is a taste that  can  be 
cultivated, and will  be a source of infinite 
pleasure  through  all  the  years  of  life 
whether  one  is  rich  or  poor,  clerk  or 
merchant.  The  man  who  reads  has  a 
fund of pleasure to draw  upon whenever 
there is danger of time  hanging  heavily 
on his hands.  He need  not  yawn  about 
billiard rooms,  nor hang  around  saloons 
because the hours  are  so dreary;  he  can 
turn  to a book  and enjoy  the company  he 
finds therein. 
I count the love  of  read­
ing as one of  the  accomplishments  that 
ought to be  cultivated  in  every  family. 
Most men set altogether too light a value 
upon it,  and in  some  households  a  hun­
dred  dollars  are  expended  on  a  party 
with less thought than  one dollar is used 
for  good  reading. 
If  children  are  not 
encouraged to read,  it is  a  taste  not  so 
readily learned in after life,  and  one  of 
the surest anchors that parents  can  give 
to their sons as  they  send  them  out  in 
the world is this one—a  love  for  books.
1 am afraid that  some  of  our  friends, 
my dear Tom,  will  read  this  letter  and 
blame me  for  not  writing  on  a  higher 
plane,  and perhaps they  would  be right; 
but 1 have written  for those  who need it, 
those who are liable to be drawn into the 
temptations of life;  others who  will  not 
be so tempted are not in need of anchors.

The  Courts  Must Decide.

Secretary Carlisle  has  concluded  that 
he cannot decide satisfactorily the  vexed 
questions arising out of the  wool  sched­
ule, and  says that the  matter  will  have 
to be settled by the courts.  He says that 
the department will  adhere to  the  posi­
tion  taken  by  the  board  of  appraisers 
that  the  McKinley  bill 
rates stand  on 
wool, and that  all  hair of  animals  must 
Importers can  file  protests, 
go as wool. 
and 
thus  protect  themselves  until  the 
courts give a  decision. 
If  the  decision 
be against the government, the difference 
of duty collected  will  be refunded.

Une Tradesman Coupon  Books.

Hardware Price Current.

These  prices are  for cash  buyers,  who 
pay promptly  and  buy in  full  packages.
dls.

AUGURS AND BITS. 

Snell’s . ................................................................... 60*10
Cook’s ....................................................................  
40
Jennings’, genuine............................................. 
25
Jennings’,  Im itation..........................................50*10

m s .

First Quality ,S. B. Bronze..  ......................... I  5  50

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D. B. Bronze.....................................   i l  00
S.  B. S. Steel.....................................  6 50
D. B. Steel........................................... 13 CO

dlS.

dlS.

BA&BOWS. 

BOLTS. 

Railroad  .......  ....................................... 912 00  14 00
Barden  .................................................. . 
net  30 00

Stove.  .....................................................................50*10
..............................................75*10
Carriage new list 
Plow ........................................................................ 40*10
Sleigh shoe...........................................................  
70

BUCKBTS.

Well,  plain  ......................................................... I 8 50
W ell,sw ivel.........................................................   4 00
dls.
Cast Loose Pin, figured............................ 
70*1"
Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint  40  ....... 60*10

butts, oast. 

dls.

dls.

23
23
dlS.
50
50
50

Wrought Loose  Fin...............................................   40
Wrought  Table.......................................................  40
Wrought Inside B lind....... ............................ 
  40 |
Wrought  B rass................................................... 
75
Blind,  Clark’s ...................................................... 70*10
Blind,  Parker’s .................................................... 70*10
Blind, Shepard’s 
70 |

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

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

CRADLES.

CROW BABB.

Grain............................... 

 

40&1C

Cast Steel....................................................per lb 

5
Ely’s 1-10...................................................per m  65
55
Hick’s  C. F 
...........................................  
G. D ............................................................. 
85
Musket 
....................................... 
60

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CABTBIDeXB.

chisels. 

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

59
25

Socket Firm er..................................................... .75*10
Socket Fram ing...................................................75*10
Socket Corner.......................................................75*10
Socket S lick s.......................................................75*10
40
Butchers’ Tanged  Firmer................................. 

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

40
25

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

combs. 

CHALK.
COPPER.

“ 

Planished, 14 oz cut to size.........per pound 
14x52,14x56.14x60 ...........................  
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60.................... 
Cold Rolled, 14x48........................................ 
Bottom s................  

 

28
26

22

 
DRILLS. 

Morse’s  Bit  Stocks..................................... 
Taper and straight Shank.........................  
Morse’s Taper Shank..................................  

DRIPPING PANS.

 

 

5*4

75

06

elbows.

Small sizes, ser p o u n d ...................  
Large sizes, per  pound..............................  
Com. 4  piece, 6 in ................................ dos. net 
iTrrugated................................................................ dls 50
Adjustable.................................................................dls. 40*10
Clark’s, small, 9i8;  large, 926..................  
Ives’, 1, 918 :  2, 924 ;  3,930  ................................. 
25
Disston’s .........  ..............................................60*10-10
New American  ..............................................60*10-10
Nicholson’s ................................................60*10-10
50
Heller’s  .................................................................  
50
Heller’s Horse Rasps  ....................... 
 
GALVANIZED IRON.

piles—New List. 

EXPANSIVE BITS. 

diS.
30
dls.

 

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

13 

12 

15 

28
17

Discount, 70

14 
GAUGES. 

dls.
50
dls.
55
55
55
70
dls.

55

LOCKS— DOOR.

knobs—N ew List. 

Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’b..................  
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 ................................................

55 
55
55
55
Adze Eye  ..........................................916.00, dls. 60-10
Hunt Bye  ..........................................915.00, dls. 60-10
Hunt’s ........................... 
.............918.50, dls. 20*10.
dls.
50
Sperry A Co.’s, Post,  handled.........................  
dls.
40
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s .........................................  
P. S.  & W.  Mfg. Co.’s  Malleable?__  
40
40
Landers,  Ferry *  Cla ik’s .................... 
30
Enterprise 
............................................ 
MOLASSES OATES. 
dig.
Stebbln’s  Pattern.................................................60A1C
Stebbln’s Genuine........................... 
60*10
30
Enterprise, self-measuring..............................  

............................................... 
............................................... 
MATTOCKS.

MAULS. 
mills. 

 

NAILS

 

 

 

 

Advance over  base,  on  both  Steel  and Wire.
Steel nails, base............................................................1 35
Wire nails, base............... ..................................... 1  35
60................................................................................Base Base
50...............................................................  
10
25
40...............................................................  
25
30...............................................................  
35
20........... 
45
16...............................................................  
45
12...............................................................  
50
10............................................................... 
8................................................................. 
60
7 * 6 . ........................................................ 
75
4..................................................... 
90
3 ....................................... 
120
1  60
2 ................................................................  
Fine 3 ...............................................................  
Case  10....................................................  
65
75
8....................................................  
6 ....................................................  
90
Finish 10.................................................  
75
8 ..................................................  
90
6 ..................................................  
10
70
Clinch; 10.......................................   . . . .  
8................................................. 
80
6 ...  .......................................... 
90
.......................................................... 

Barren \
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fa n c y ....... ..............................  ©40.
8clota  B ench....................................................  
©50
Sandusky Tool  Co.’s, fancy.....................  
  ©40
Bench,first quality.............................................  ©40
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s  w ood............. 50*10
Fry,  A cm e....................................................dls.60—10
Common,  polished......................................dls. 
70
dls.
Iron and  Tinned...............................................  50—10
Copper Rivets and Burs..................................  50—10

FLAKES. 

rivets. 

dls.

PATENT PLANISHED IRON.

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

Broken packs rfo per pound extra.

HAM M ERS.

25
Maydole  *  Co.’s .......................................... dls. 
Kip’s ................................................................dls. 
26
Yerkes *  Plumb’s ....................................... dls. 40*10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel............................ 30c list 60
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steel  Hand__ 30c 40*10
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2, 3 ...................................dls.60&10
State.................................................. per dos. net, 2  50
Screw Hook  and  Strap, to 12 In. 4<4  14  and
3 *
K ............ .............. net
10
% ............. ...............net
8«
M............ ...............net
7*4
%............ .............. net
7%
.............dls.

H IN G ES.

HANGERS. 

dls

 

 

. 

_  

dls

wire goods. 

HOLLOW WARE.

l e v e l s . 
ROPES.

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS.

Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track. ...50*10
Champion,  antl-frietion..................................  60*10
40
Kidder, wood tra ck ....................................... 
Pots........................................................................ 60*10
Kettles................................................................... 60*10
Spiders  .................................................................. 60A1C
Gray enam eled....................................................40*10
Stamped  Tin Ware................................   new list 79
26
Japanned Tin Ware........................................ 
Granite Iron W are......................... new lie 
2t
B lig h t.........................................................   70410*10
Screw  E yes.....................................................70*10*10
70*10*10
Hook s . . . . . . .  
Gate Hooks and E yes.........................  
70*10*10
dls.Tn
_  
Stanley R ule and Level  Co.’s .............. ..........
Sisal, % inch and larger.............................. 
Manilla  .....................................................................10
dls
Steel and  Iron................................................  
">&in
gn
Try and Bevels....................................... 
M itre..............................................................................20
_  
Smooth. Com.
|9   50
Nos. 10 to  14....................
Nos. 15 to 1 7 .........................
a  =0
2 ÓÒ
Nos.  18 to 21.......................
4  fi!S
Nos. 22 to 2 4 .............................
9  Q0
a  ss
Nos. 25 to 2 6 .....................
..3  65 
2  90
s 7*
No. 27.........................................
3  00
over 30 inches
wide not less than 2-10 extra
List acct. 19, ’8 8 ............................................dis.
Silver Lake, White A ...................................)i*t 
Drab A ...........................„ 
'  ;i 
White  B ........................... 
 
 
D rabB .................................. ”   » 
White C ....................................  “ 

All  sheets No.  18  and  lighter, 

SAND PAPER.
SASH CORD.

50
50
«
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«
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SHEET IRON.

SQUARES. 

Com. 

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Discount, 10.

SASH WEIGHTS.

dls

dl*

wire. 

SAWS. 

TRAPS. 

..................dls.

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

Silver Steel  Dia. X Cuts, per foot,  . 
Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot 
Special Steel Dia.  X  Cuts, 

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Cuts,  per  foot..................................................  

Solid E yes....................................................per ton 920
20
70
50
per foot . 30
30
Steel, Game............................................................60*10
43
Oneida Community, Newhonse’s ............  
Oneida  Community, Hawley a Norton’s. .70-10  10
Mouse,  choker.........................................15c per dos
Mouse, delusion....................................31.25 per dos
’ 
Bright Market....................................................  7g; 10
75
Annealed Market......................................' .  
70
Coppered Market.................................  
Tinned Market................................ ... 
62tt
Coppered  Spring  Steel....................”  ” 
¿g
Barbed  Fence, galvanised...................................2  56
painted.....................................2  10
HORSE NAILS.
An  Sable...................................................dis. 
40410
Pntaam ................................................. 
dls.  05
dls. 10*10
Northwestern...................................... 
'dlS
Baxter’s  Adjustable, nickeled.......................  
go
50
Coe’s  G enuine............................................. 
’ 
75
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought, . . . . . . . . 
Coe’s  Patent, m alleable................................. 75*H,
dl®
50
B irdcages 
.........................................................  
7f * l0
Pumps, Cistern............................................... 
Screws, New L ist.......................".!.70*1''*10
Casters, Bed  a  ,d  Plate............................. .50*10*10
40
Dampers,  American...........................................  
Forks, hoes, rakes  and all steel goods.... '.* 65*10 

MISCELLANEOUS. 

WRENCHES. 

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M ETALS,

PIG TIN.

ZINC.

26e
oRc

solder.

Pig  Large............................................................. 
Pig Bars.............................................................  
Duty:  Sheet. 2V4c per pound.
680 pound  casks............................................... 
Per  pound....................................................... .. . .  

g^
7
........................................... .
Extra W ip in g.........................................................   1*
The  prices  of  the  many  other  qualities  of
solder In the market Indicated by  private brand* 
vary according to composition.
1 60
ANTIMONY.
Cookson..............................................per  pound
Hallett’s ........................................... 
10x14 IC, Charcoal.............................................  I  7  50
...............................................  7  50
14x20 IC, 
925.
10x14 IX, 
 
..............................................   9  2f
14x20 IX, 

TIN—MELYN GRADS.

Each additional X on this grade, 91.75.

13

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

75
...............................................  6  75
...............................................  s  25
...........................................   p  25

Each additional X on this grade 91.50.

ROOFING PLATES

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Allawav Grade................... 

“  Worcester...............................   6  5*
14x20 IC, 
.................................  8  50
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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

fcfflGANÜîADESMAN

A WBSSLY JOURNAL T.*TOT*D TO TBS

B est  In te r e sts  o f  B u sin e ss  M en.

Published at

lOO  Loh)8  St., G rand R apids,

—  BY  T H E  —

TRADESMAN  COMPANY.

O ne  D o lla r  a  T ear,  P a y a b le  In  A dvance.

A D V ERTISIN G   RA TES  ON  A PPLIC A TIO N .

Communications  invited  from practical  busi­

fested with  the  emotional  madmen  who 
thirst for an opportunity to  make  them 
selves  notorious  by  the  perpetration  of 
sensational  murders.  They  are  every 
where,  and  they  would  ask  no  better 
means  of  becoming  objects  of  general 
curiosity than the opportunity to murder 
this  wretched  Czar,  broken  down  by 
disease  and  fleeing  from  greatness,  so 
that he  may  find  in  retirement a  little 
real  rest which possibly awaits him  only 
in the grave. 
It is a  high  price  to  pay 
for  any  honor, even  the  diadem  of  an 
autocrat and the imperial  purple.

employe stops at  that  point—he  has  no 
right  to  interfere with anyone who  may 
be willing to take  his place.  Since  it  is 
vital to the  success of  a  strike  that  the 
strikers’ places remain vacant,  it will  be 
seen that Judge Harlan’s  delivearnce ac­
tually  deprives  the  labor  agitator  and 
walking  delegate  of 
their  vocation. 
Workingmen  may  leave  their  employ­
ment,  but  henceforth  the  unionist  dis­
turber  must  ply  his  trade  outside  the 
factory  and  workshop  and  in  darkness 
and secrecy.  This was  really  the  stone 
of offence to  unionists in  Judge Jenkins’ 
decision,  for no  one  doubted  for  a  mo­
ment that  workingmen  had  a  legal  and 
moral right to leave  their work  when  no 
contract  was  violated  by  their leaving. 
The success of a strike  has depended ab­
solutely upon the success  of the  strikers 
in preventing  their  places  being  filled. 
This has been  accomplished  in  the  past 
by cajolery,  by  intimidation,  by  incen­
diarism,  and  by bodily  assault and mur­
der.  Judge  Harlan  has  declared  that 
when a workman leaves his employment, 
while  he  has  exercised  his  inalienable 
right in so  doing,  beyond  that  he  must 
not  go.  Let  unionists  beware  of  the 
wrath to  come in  case  they  violate  the 
spirit or  letter  of  Judge  Harlan’s  deci­
sion,  for  honest  people  are  becoming 
weary of the  rioting and  murder usually 
resorted  to  by  union  men  the  moment 
they  go  out  on  strike  and  will  exert 
their influence to  compel  the  proper  of­
ficers to do their duty and  put  down  all 
disorder with a strong hand.

In a suit brought recently  by  Geo.  W. 
Lucke,  a  non-union  clothing  cutter  of 
Baltimore,  against Clothing Cutters’  As­
sembly,  K.  of  L., 
the  plaintiff  was 
awarded  $2,500  damages.  The  union 
had demanded bis discharge and  refused 
to admit  him  to  membership. 
It  is  in 
order now for  trades  union  organs  and 
some papers which are not  trades  union 
organs,  and for  the bum jawsmiths  who 
control the unions to  asseverate that the 
courts are opposed  to  honest  (?)  work­
men.  Lucke was  driven  from  his  em­
ployment  by  the  union  named  for  no 
other reason  than  that  he  was  a  non­
union cutter, for  which  terrible  offense 
be was not to be allowed  to  earn  a  liv­
ing for himself and  family.  What  mag­
nificent courage  these  union  gentlemen 
display—a mob against  one man!  What 
humanity—the helpless wife and children 
of their victims may starve or  beg,  it  is 
all one  to  them!  What  eloquent  expo­
nents  and  advocates  of  the  American 
doctrine of equal rights for all  men—the 
man  who will not submit  his neck to the 
heel of the union tyrant is to  be  beaten, 
maimed or murdered,  it  is  little  matter 
which! 
It begins to look as if the  tables 
are to be turned and  that “damages” are 
to be assessed against  the unions,  which 
have hitherto had everything about their 
own way.

Governor Rich  has  taken  another  oc­
casion to give the business public  a  slap 
in the face.  John F.  Murray, of Detroit, 
declined to act as  a  member  of  the  In 
surance  Policy  Commission,  and  Samuel 
H.  Row, of Lansing,  has  been  named  in 
his place.  Ex-Governor  Luce  conceded 
that this  position  should  be  held  by  a 
representative of  the  business  interests 
of the State,  but the present Executive is 
too good a friend to corporations  to  con­
sider the needs and  requirements  of  the 
business public.

C anadian  an d   A m erican   M eth od s C on­

tr a ste d .

James McQuarrie,  of  Hamilton,  Ont., 
spent a few hours in town some days ago. 
Mr.  McQuarrie is  a clerk  in the large re­
tail grocery store of  W.  H.  McLaren  in 
the  “Ambitious City.”  He reports trade 
as fair and promising. 
In company with 
a T r a d e s m a n   reporter  he called  on sev­
eral of the leading groceries  of  the  city 
and was  both surprised and delighted  at 
their  appearance  and  general air  of  ac­
tivity  and  prosperity.  The  differences 
between  the  grocery  trade  of  the  two 
cities,  especially  in  the  lines  carried, 
were noted by  Mr.  McQuarrie,  who said:
“You carry many kinds  of  goods  that 
we  consider  belong  to  other  lines  of 
trade.  For  instance,  I  see  you  have  a 
full  line of vegetables.  We  sell nothing 
in that line but potatoes;  the rest are left 
to the green  grocers.  We do not  handle 
fruits,  either,  with the  exception of ap­
ples.  The  green  grocers  take  care  of 
them,  also.  Your  line  of  baked  goods 
would do credit to a bakery;  we leave all 
that to the bakers.  Bread is delivered to 
the  people  direct  from 
the  delivery 
wagons  of  the  bakeries,  as  is  much of 
their other products.  Our stock consists 
of  what may be called straight groceries; 
we  have  no  ‘side  lines.’ 
I  don’t  know 
what our people would  think of us if  we 
were to add some of the  lines  you  carry 
over here and  which appear to be as much 
a part of a regular grocery stock as sugar 
or tea.  They would  probably  regard  us 
as monopolists and  treat us  accordingly. 
We are an old-fashioned  people living in 
an old-fashioned town  and are not  much 
given to change, so we are  not  likely  to 
give them an opportunity to regard us in 
that light.  This is my first visit to Grand 
Rapids and  I am  surprised  at  the  busy 
aspect  which  business  generally wears. 
It is the biggest  little  city  I  have  ever 
seen.”

A  visit 

to  some  of  the  wholesale 
houses followed,  and Mr. McQuarrie gave 
it as his unqualified  opinion that no  city 
in the State equals Grand  Rapids  in  the 
matter of facilities  for serving the  retail 
trade.  The  well-appointed,  finely  fur­
nished offices, the  neatness  and  cleanli­
ness which characterize  them  generally, 
are something unknown in the wholesale 
grocery trade elsewhere.  Mr.  McQuarrie 
was assured  that  his  opinion  of  Grand 
Rapids and her mercantile establishments 
was shared by all  who  come  within  her 
gates.  The  gentleman  carried  back  to 
his Canadian home a good  opinion of the 
thrift and enterprise of the people of our 
city.  He  will  be  a  welcome  visitor at 
any  time.

M en  A g a in st  O xen.

Few people know that a man,  bulk  for 
bulk,  is stronger  than  an  ox,  but  it  ap­
pears that is  the  case.  The  matter  was 
tested the other  day  at  the  Cumberland 
county (Maine)  fair,  a  feature  of  which 
was a contest of a  yoke  of  oxen  against 
an equal  weight  of  men.  A  drag  was 
loaded with  granite  blocks,  weighing  in 
the aggregate 4,959 pounds.  The yoke of 
oxen, that made  the trial,  weighed  3,220 
pounds,  and  twenty  men,  allowing  160 
pounds  to  the  man,  were  set  against 
them.  The  men  took  hold  of  the  drag 
first, and easily walked off with it,  cover­
ing a distance of  95  feet in two minutes. 
The oxen at their trial made  but  85  feet 
in the same length of time,  and  the  men 
were declared winners.

Andrew Carnegie has been giving some 
more of his  American  money  for  public 
libraries in Scotland. 
It was only $2,500 
this time,  and the library is at Jedburgh.

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W E D N E SD A Y   OCTOBER  t:

THE  PRICE  OF  A  CROWN.

The announcement recently made pub 
lie that Alexander III, Czar and  autocrat 
of all the Russias, is  afflicted  with  mor 
tal  sickness, must  be  taken  with  some 
degree  of  allowance,  because  the  phy­
sicians,  like  all  other  sorts  of  people, 
sometimes  make  mistakes. 
It  is  not 
always true that the cases of the sick are 
correctly diagnosed.

Nevertheless,  it should not be  thought 
strange  that,  under  the  circumstances 
under which the  Czar  has  lived  for  the 
last  dozen  years  and  more,  his  health 
should  be  seriously  disordered.  He 
ascended the  throne  of  Russia  in  1881, 
and  since  then  he  has  lived  virtually 
the life of a prisoner condemned to death. 
Cut off from all healthful freedom by the 
constant menace  of a  band  of  assassins 
organized to destroy his life  in  the  most 
summary  way,  he does not  eat  a  morsel 
of food, or drink from a cup,  until  he  is 
assured that no poisen  is present.  There 
are men, and  women, too,  and the female 
nihilists  are  the  most  formidable,  who 
constantly seek to blow up his palace,  to 
derail the train on  which he  travels,  and 
to murder him in church or on the street. 
Death_threatens him  in  public places,  or 
in the bosom of  his  family,  in  his  bed­
room,  at his  meals,  in  the  midst  of  bis 
diversions,  at  his  imperial  work  and 
while  engaged  in  his  devotions. 
It  is 
only for a brief moment  that  this  auto­
cratic ruler  can  free  himself  from  the 
impending menace of murder.

MORE  GOLD  EXPORTS.

Although  the  balance  of  trade, 

between the United States and Europe,  is 
nominally in favor  of this  country,  it is, 
so far as practical results are concerned, 
against us.  Although  the  grain  crops 
have been coming to market  for  several 
months,  and cotton is moving, there have 
been no imports of gold, nor  has  any  of 
the large amount of the  yellow metal ex 
ported last summer been recovered.

The exports of  grain  have  been  very 
though 
light  this  season,  and  cotton, 
moving  freely, 
is  relatively  so  much 
cheaper  than  in  former  years, that  it 
takes a much great volume of  the  staple 
to pay our  debts  abroad  than  formerly, 
As a  result  of  these  causes,  there  has 
been much less exchange  making in this 
country to offset the  balance  against  us 
on the other side of  the  Atlantic,  hence 
there has not  only  been  an  absence  of 
imports of gold,  but exchange  has  come 
so  near  the  gold  shipping  point  as  to 
have  occasioned  during  the  past  week 
some fear of a renewal  of  gold  exports.
While  we  have  been  shipping  less 
grain abroad than formerly,  and our cot­
ton  is  bringing  much  less  money,  we 
have  been  importing  freely  sugar  and 
coffee  and many other articles,  the  con­
sumption of which  has  been  stimulated 
by 
the  recent  reduction  in  the  tariff 
taxes.  London,  instead of  being  a  free 
purchaser  of  American  securities,  has 
been a seller,  hence the stock market has 
not aided in  balancing  the  merchandise 
account.

Added  to  the  causes  enumerated  as 
having prevented gold imports and likely 
to cause an early renewal  of  the  export 
movement,  is  the  fact  that  Austria  is 
again in the  market  as  a  purchaser  of 
gold  for  currency  purposes,  To  what 
extent this will  figure  in the gold  move­
ment is  matter  for  speculation  merely, 
but it is  worth  recalling  that  Austria’s 
demand  for  gold  played  an  important 
part in the drain on this country summer 
before last.

The  nervous  strain  upon  a  man  con­
demned to such  a  life  is  enormous,  and 
no  courage, or  fortitude,  or  intrepidity, 
can  be proof  against  such  continual  as­
saults.  The pressure upon the mind un­
der  these  circumstances  must 
react 
powerfully  upon  the  physical  vitality, 
and in time  the  constitution  will  break 
down  under  the  pressure. 
It  makes 
little difference just  what  bodily  organs 
are  specially  affected,  their  manifesta­
tions only  testify  to  the  general  break­
down of the entire  constitution,  physical 
and mental,  and the extraordinary strain 
placed upon it.

The recent decision  of  Judge  Harlan, 
overruling  the  celebrated  injunction  of 
Judge Jenkins, restraining  the employes 
of  the  Northern  Pacific  Railroad  from 
triking,  has been  hailed  by  trades  un­
ionists  everywhere  as  a  “great  victory 
for  organized  labor.”  It  is  difficult  to 
see upon  what such a  claim is based. 
It 
is  not  denied  that,  in  so  far as  J udge 
Jenkins’  decision  denied the right of em­
ployes to strike, either  as a body  or  sin­
gly,  when such a striking  would  cripple 
the property or prevent  the operation  of 
the road, Judge Harlan’s decision is a re­
versal  of  it.  At  the  same  time  Judge
Harlan declares it  to  be  illegal  for  em- 
complete  retirement  from  all
responsi-1 ployes to  combine  or  conspire  together 
bilities  of  government  and  an  absolute  for the purpose of raising wages.  While 
retreat  from  the  scenes  where  danger I conceding the right of  one  individual  to 
threatens.  But  where 
shall  he  go? | quit the service of  another,  the  learned 
There is not a country  which  is  not  in-  judge makes it clear that the right of the

The doctors are right  in  prescribing  a 

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

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RESERVE  FORCES  OF  A  NAVY.
The  British  Government,  which 

is 
ever alive to  every  available  means  of 
strengthening  its  naval  establishment 
and  increasing the efficiency  of its ships, 
has now under consideration a scheme to 
enlist  tweaty-six  of  the 
largest of  the 
subsidized merchant vessels  of  the  size 
and speed of the  fast  ocean  greyhounds 
plying between New York  and Liverpool 
in  a special reserve  force,  which,  while 
not taking them from their ordinary peace 
avocations,  would keep  them in a  better 
state  of  preparation 
It  is 
proposed to man them with  crews  taken 
from  the  royal  naval  reserve,  which 
thoroughly 
would  be  uniformed  and 
drilled,  and 
thus  made 
ready 
for 
immediate service in the event of war.

for  war. 

The  royal  naval  reserve  consists  of 
about  24,000  men  belonging  to  the mer­
chant marine.  The men of this force are 
given a specified period of  training  each 
year,  and from the ranks of this force the 
regular  navy  would  be  promptly 
recruited in  the  event of  war.  As  the 
regular  naval  establishment  has  not 
nearly sufficient men to man  all the  war 
ships in the British navy,  the calling into 
active service of the ships held in reserve 
would  necessitate a  draft  on  the  naval 
reserve forces.

The  British  Government 

the 
utmost store on this reserve naval  force, 
and steps are constantly  being  taken  to 
iucreaseits  numerical  strength  and  effi­
ciency.  The plan outlined above  is  the 
latest  move  in  this  direction,  and as it 
appears to be entirely feasible,  it will; no 
doubt,  be adopted.

sets 

The  United  States  Government  has 
frequently  endeavored  to 
imitate  the 
British naval  reserve  force,  and  it  has 
already  succeeded  in  enrolling  a  num­
ber  of  merchant  ships  as  auxiliary 
cruisers in the event of war.  The  Navy 
Department  now  has  fully  forty  fast 
steamers  belonging 
the  merchant 
marine on its list which could  be utilized, 
in the event of war,  as fast cruisers.  To 
this list belong the large ships New York 
and Paris,  and  the  new  vessels  now 
being built for the  American  Line  will 
also belong to the naval reserve.

to 

The attempts  to  create  a  naval 

re­
serve  force  from  the  merchant  marine 
have  proven  failures,  however, 
largely 
owing  to  the  liberal  percentage  of  for­
eigners  in  the  merchant  service.  A 
force  of  an  entirely  different  sort  has 
been  created,  nevertheless,  known  as 
the  naval  militia.  This  special  service 
has  been  very  succesful,  and  is  looked 
upon  by  the  Navy  Department  with 
high  favor.  Although 
this  body  of 
militia is not drawn  from  the  ranks  of 
the merchant marine,  it  has  developed 
capabilities  of  acquiring  considerable 
proficiency  in  the  duties  likely  to  be 
exacted of it,  and  the  esteem  in  which 
it is held by naval  officers  is  increasing 
from  year 
to  year.  The  numerical 
strength of this  force is  now  2,500  men 
and there is every reason to  expect  that 
it will be double that within a few years.
What is now  needed  more  than  any­
thing else to 
increase  the  efficiency  of 
our navy is an increase in the number  of 
enlisted men in the regular  naval  force. 
There is not a  sufficient  complement  of 
men to man all the ships now in  service, 
and  some  of  the  vessels  are  compelled 
to get along  with  crews  depleted  con­
siderably below  the  usual  complement. 
Congress  should  at  once  provide  this 
additional force of enlisted  men,  as  the 
pressing interests of the country actually 
demand it

W herein  th e   C ountry  S tore  Can  C om ­

p e te   w ith  th e  C ity M erchant.

to 

them 

the  large  cities; 

From  the Dry Goods Chronicle.
Many stores in small and medium sized 
places  are  complaining  at  the  present 
time that  all  their  trade  is  going  away 
from 
that 
whenever people  have  anything  to  buy 
that amounts to anything, they get on the 
cars and go to  some  large  place,  where 
I they  can  have  a  larger  selection,  and 
I where they suppose they  can  get  better 
prices.
How to counteract  this  evil  and  keep 
the trade at home is a  matter  worthy  of 
It is impossible,  in 
great consideration. 
all  cases,  to  do  this.  There  are some­
times  people  who,  under  no  circum­
stances, could be induced to buy at home, 
even  if  the  home  merchant  gave  them 
better  values  than  they  could  get else­
where.  This is  a  necessary  evil  which 
must be endured;  but  outside  of  a  very 
few  the  great majority of people can  be 
induced to trade at  home if  they can  get 
the same  advantages that they can in  the 
cities.  Now the question  is, how to give 
them equal advantages  with those which 
may be had in the city.
In the first  part,  the country merchant 
is not able to carry j ust as large  a  stock 
as the city merchant,  but  he can see to it 
that his goods are all new and fresh,  and 
that the stock  that he does  carry is  well 
adapted to the wants of the people whose 
trade  be  wishes  to  secure.  The  fault 
with 
the  majority  of  stores  in  small 
places is not that  they cannot  get all the 
better home trade,  but that  they  do  not 
try to keep the things which this class of 
trade calls  for.
The country store,  to make a success in 
this day,  must be  just as  alive  and  just 
as  progressive  as its  larger city compet­
itors. 
Its methods and its style  of doing 
business must be liberal and up  to  date. 
Again,  it  must  make  closer  prices,  if 
necessary,  in  order  to  keep  the  home 
trade.  The country  merchant can afford 
to make a less profit if  he  can  win  this 
extra  amount  of  trade. 
It is better  for 
him at  the  present  time  to  do  a  large 
business  on  a  small,  reasonable  profit 
than  to  do  a  small  business  on an ex­
orbitant  profit;  and  the  only  way  in 
which he can compete  with the city mer­
chant is to make  the  price  low  and  de­
pend  upon  the  quantity  of his sales for 
profit  rather  than  upon  a  large  profit 
upon a few  articles.
Another  method  which  the  country 
store might  adopt is that  of  being  more 
accommodating  to  its  home  customers 
than it has ever been  in the past. 
If the 
country merchant finds that  the ladies in 
his town are in  the habit of  going to  the 
city to buy dress goods,  why  not  make it 
a point to do this for them?  Let the peo­
ple know that,  in the  event  that  he  has 
nothing  in  his  stock that  they  wish,  he 
will  undertake  any  commission  which 
they may wish to give,  and purchase tbe 
goods for them at  some large  city  store. 
This will save  them the  trouble of going 
to  the  city  and  will  bind  them  more 
closely to the  home  store  than  if  it  al­
lowed them to go themselves.  There are 
hardly  any  large  retail  stores  in  the 
cities which would not be glad  to  co-op­
erate with the country  merchant in  sup­
plying  his  customers.  They  will  be 
pleased to  send him  samples  and  allow 
him  a  commission on  any sale which  he 
may effect.
Then,  when  he  finds  that  any  of his 
patrons  are  contemplating  going  to  the 
city to buy  goods, let  him  inform  them 
that  he  can  save  them  the trouble and 
will  secure  them  a  line  of  samples  of 
such goods as they  may desire, and show 
them  the  styles  and  save  them  all  the 
trouble of  buying.  Even,  if  necessary, 
he  might  offer  to divide his commission 
with them,  thus making  them trade with 
him on all occasions,  and not  only  mak­
ing a small margin  himself  which would 
cover his trouble,  but  also  giving  them 
tbe  idea  that  he  can  sell  cheaper than 
even the city merchants do.
It is by watching  all these  points  and 
showing  a  progressive  up-to-date  spirit 
that the small stores in the  country  will 
have  no  trouble  in doing  their share  of 
business.

Use  Tradesman  Coupon  Books.

“ R O Y A L . ”

These  brands are  Standard  and^have a National  reputation. 

Correspondence solicited.

VOIGT  .MILLING  GO..  Grand  Rapids.  Midi.
QUALITY - UNIFORMITY - PRICE

SEARS

CRACKERS

and

CAKES

Have pH tried oilrnew goods?

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

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A dd  a  b o x   o r  b a rre l 
to  y o u r  n e x t  o rd er. 
T h e y   a re  
sp len d id  
sellers  a n d   su re  
to 
please.
New  York Biscuit Co,f

S.  A.  SfîARS,  Manager,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  HICII.

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1 J±E  Ä1 1 CHIGA1S  TRADESMAN.

MU38ELH1  GROCER  GO.,
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WESTERN  MICHIGAN  AGENTS  FOR

SPRINGDALE  (dairy)  in  1  and 2  lb. rolls and  tubs.
SPRINGDALE  CREAnERY  in  1  lb.  rolls,  2  lb. prints and tubs.
GOLD  NUGGET  (fancy  creamery) in  1 lb. prints.

These  goods 'took  the  lead  in  this  market  last season'and  we"havt 

reason to believe they will maintain their supremacy the coming season.
MUSSLEMAN  GROCERICO.

B08INE8S  AND  LIFE.

A man returning  to  some  great  mod­
ern metropolis,  after an  absence  of  two 
or three decades in some distant  and  un- 
progressive land,  would hardly recognize 
the place,  though it  had  been  the  home 
of  his  youth.  What  would  strike  him 
most at first would be  the  altered  aspect 
of the city’s  external  life—the  increase 
•f its population  and  area,  the  growth 
and  rushing  hurry  of  its  business  ac­
tivity,  its mechanical  advance  in  many 
directions.  His  amazement  would  give 
place to admiration  as  fast  as  he  could 
be  made  to  understand  the  ways  and 
means of all this prodigious material  de­
velopment, 
representing  a  seemingly 
complete mastery over the  secret  forces 
of nature aud an  industrial  organization 
of  the  utmost  complexity.  A merchant 
prince of our time, at work in a  counting 
room,  the  walls  of  which  are  covered 
with maps of every quarter of the  globe, 
conversing  thrcugh  a  telephone  with 
agents and  customers  in  every  part  of 
his  own  and  of  neighboring  cities,  in­
formed  by  a  telegraphic  apparatus, 
which clicks at his elbow, of  the  arrival 
of his shipments in foreign ports,  and  of 
the fluctuation of prices  in  the  markets 
of Chicago,  New  York,  Liverpool,  Cal­
cutta and Shanghai, presents an amazing 
embodiment of material power and  pros­
perity, 
in  touch  with  all  the  world, 
triumphing  over  time  and  space,  con­
stantly and instantly informed  of  every 
change that affects his interest anywhere 
on the wide battlefield of commerce.

No  intelligent  observer  can  contem­
plate such a spectacle without some feel­
ing  of  enthusiasm.  But  presently  the 
philosophic mind  will ask itself  whether 
these obvious changes on  the  surface  of 
civilization are the most important which 
have  taken  place  in  the  last  hundred 
years.  What  the  deep  thinker  would 
rather know  is what changes  have  taken 
place  in  opinion,  in  sentiment,  in  that 
practical philosophy  which  is  translated 
in  the  conduct  of  individuals  and  the 
government of  society.  What  men  call 
business  is  not  life; it supplies,  for the 
most part,  merely  the  means  of  living. 
When the merchant leaves his  office  and 
goes home at the end of  his  day’s  labor, 
he retires from  business for  a  while  and 
enters  a  realm  of  more  intimate  rela­
tions.  He  is  husband  and  father,  not 
merchant, there.  If you ask him, he will 
tell you that he lives there,  although  bis 
place of business is  over  yonder,  in  the 
midst  of  the  city’s  uproar. 
It  may  be 
that his bouse is beautified  with pictures 
aud statuary, things  which  only  money 
can  buy,  and  which  only  successful 
business men or their heirs can  own,  but 
they  have  been  made  by  artists  who 
cherished ideals beyond the  demands  of 
physical  subsistence.  The  rich  man’s 
daughters  have,  perhaps,  been  reading 
poetry  and  novels  during  his  absence, , 
feeding their young  minds  with  stories 
of love or romantic  adventure,  dwelling ! 
in air castles,  living in imagination.  His 
sons are at college, occasionally,  at least, 
occupied  with  those  great  problems  of 
human origin and  destiny  which  nearly 
all the sciences suggest.  His  wealth has 
removed them  from  the struggle in which 
he passes so great a part of  his days, and I 
afforded  them an opportunity  to discover ! 
the mystery aud to seek  the  meaning  of ! 
life. 
It may  be  that  the  thoughts  and | 
dreams  of  his  children  are  somewhat! 
strange to him:  but in his home he  lives,  | 
nevertheless;  he  lives  in his  affections a

life  that extends to the depths of his na­
ture.  What a man  really  thinks,  what 
he believes,  is vastly  more  important  to 
him  than  any  or  all  of  his  material 
possessions.  The  real  life  consists  in 
thought and feeling.

The sculptor finds it difficult to impart 
ideal grace and dignity  to  a  figure  clad 
in the fashionable attire of the  day.  He i 
prefers the  simpler  drapery  of  antique 
dress—a  Greek  cloak  or a Roman  toga. 
So  it  seems  to  us,  a  less  luxurious 
society,  less magnificently  housed,  with 
a code of etiquette less elaborate  and  ar­
tificial, might be quite as attractive.  We 
can  imagine  a community  wholly  igno­
rant or careless of the mechanical inven­
tions  and  swift  business  methods  that 
distinguish our age,  which  might  be  in 
advance of us in respect to the happiness 
of  its  people  and  everything  that  con­
cerns the culture of intellect and charac­
ter.  The  civilization  of such a commu­
nity  would be expressed  in a higher  re­
gard for justice and neighborly kindness, 
in a completer exemption  from  the  con­
flicts  of  rapacious  selfishness,  and in a 
profounder realization of the significance 
of life,  because  its  simplicity  affords  it 
more time to live.  The protest that from 
time to time is heard from  high  quarters 
against the passion for  luxury  and  dis­
play which is so general nowadays shows 
that some glimpse  of  this  possibility  is 
beginning to make  a  serious  impression 
upon  thoughtful  minds.  When  society 
has grown weary of the  dull round of its 
pompous  “functions” and dress  parades, 
it may turn at last to plainer  living  and 
higher thinking, if only  for  relief  from 
the ennui  of a rapid existence.

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

J u st  W h at  H e  S aw .

The  country  store of the sunny  south 
is  the  rendezvous  for  all 
the  village 
inhabitants,  large and small,  black  and 
white,  where the news is  circulated  and 
the  jokes  perpetrated.  A  group  of 
loungers  were seated  in a  store  of  this 
kind,  when  a  coffee-colered  coon  with 
sloping  shoulders  and  ears  at 
right 
angles  to his head,  shuffled  through  the 
doorway.  “Hello,  Pompey!” said one of 
the loungers.  “You’re  looking just like 
that lion  1  saw  this  morning.”  Lion!” 
said Pomp,  with his hair on end,  “ where 
is he?”  “ in Jake Smith’s livery  stable.” 
“Sho! what’d he look like?”  “Oh, he had 
legs  and  body  and  long  ears.”  “Dat 
wasn’t  no  lion,  yo’  poor  white  trash,” 
returned the darky, disgusted.  "Dat  was 
a jackass.”  “ Well,  you  look  just  like 
him,” answered the lounger,  with a grin. 
Pomp saw the joke, though he didn’t like 
it to be on him.  Just then a neighboring 
planter entered the store,  aud  the  negro 
saw a chance  to  repeat  the  jest  at  an­
other’s expense.  “Morning,  Mas>a John­
son,”  said  he;  “yo’  look  just  like  dat 
lion 1 saw yest’dy.”  "Wbeie did you see 
a lion,  you fool?”  was  the courteous re­
sponse.  “ Down  Massa  ¡Smith’s 
lib ry 
stables.  Had legs an’body an’  long ears.” 
“That  wasn’t  a  lion,”  said  the planter. 
“Den  what was it?”  asked  Pomp eagerly. 
“ Why, a looking-glass, you  black  coon,” 
answered  the  planter,  contemptuously, 
amid a general  roar of laughter.

Lettuce,  radishes,  and  like  small  veg­
etables  are  cultivated all winter long  in 
southern Georgia by a simple device that 
would be effective in  mild  winters much 
further north.  A frame of  wood enclos­
ing rich earth  is  placed  in  the  garden, 
aud  seeds  are  sown  from  time to time. 
When a cool night  comes,  a  frame  bear­
ing  a  sheet  of  coarse  musiiu  is placed 
over the growing  plants,  and  thus  they 
are protected from  frost.  Now and then 
ice the thickness of a  cent  forms  in  the 
night,  but the  vegetables  so  covered  es­
cape injury.

Use Tradesman Coupon  B o o ks.

SOCIETIES,
CLUBS,
CONVENTIONS,
DELEGATES,
COKMITTEES.

The Largest Assortment of  Ribbons  n  
and Trimmings in the State.

TR AD ESM AN   CO M PA N Y .

F a ll  ’94

Underwear,  Overshirts,  Hosiery,  Socks,  Kersey  and|Cotton- 

ade Pants, Caps,  Outing  Shirts,  Yarns,  Flannels,  Cotton 

Flannels,  Skirts,  Cotton  and  Woolen  Dress  Goods, 

Ginghams, Seersuckers, Satines, in  black and fig­

ured,  Batts,  Comforts,  Blankets.

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

P.  Steketee  & Sons,
Grand  Rapids,  Hich.

General Stampede
Curse of Credit.

FROM  THE

Hundreds of merchants  are now abandoning the 
old-time credit system  and discarding  the passbook 
for the cash  and  coupon  book  system,  wliieh  en­
ables the dealer to  avoid all  the losses  and  annoy* 
ances^inseparably connected  with  the  credit  busi 
ness.

If  you  are  a  victim of  the  credit  business  and 
desire to  place your business on  a cash  basis,  send 
to  us  for  a  catalogue  and  samples  of our several 
kinds of coupon  books,  which  will  be  forwarded 
free on  application.
Tradesman Company,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  1*1ICH.

FURNISHED  HEA D S  FOR  RENT.

T hinking th e  C au se o f  M any Ills.

Too  M uch  sh o u tin g   and  N ot  E nough  
Heads for rent have never been a rarity, 
but perhaps are  not so common now as of 
yore.  Their scarcity is not what it ought 
to be,  but with  what  can  be  spared  it  is 
a  comfort  to  know that the list is being 
shortened.

In the American section of modern his­

tory this is an age of education.
‘  Of arithmetic and syntax, of the map of 
the world and the mountains of the moon, 
of history,  politics and science,  of cosmic 
laws  and  the  happenings  in  our  own 
country and the suburbs  of  the  equator 
and the poles,  we carry  more under  our 
modern  hats  than  could  be  found under 
the domes of ancient  libraries.

We live in an age  of  mental activity in 
which all  things  iiviug  and  dead,  past, 
preseut and to come,  the biography of an 
antediluvian  skeleton,  the  anatomy of  a 
house  fly,  the  decimals  that  constitute 
the filaments  of  a  dollar  and  the  laws 
that regulate the waltzes of the Atlantic, 
are as accessible and  common as are  our 
finger  nails  and  noses.  We  find  news­
papers and books  where  but a few years 
ago they would have  been as unintelligi­
ble as Sanscrit to the  average  man,  and 
where a boy  who could  read  was as  rare 
an article as a third horn or a fifth leg on 
a  calf.
What we know,  what we  are  studying 
to  know  and  what  we  have  forgotten 
would  probably  keep  a  steam  printing 
press  in  perpetual  motion.  Our school 
houses are our  boast and  our  graduates, 
both in pantaloons and petticoats,  a fam­
ily pride.  Of professors, artists, orators, 
statisticians,  clerks  and  stenographers, 
there is no end.

TTdLIli  J M lC ± Í ± C jr ^ Í L l\ 
If any far-off  citizen of  Mars,  looking 
on  the  western  hemisphere of its neigh­
boring planet,  should think  that its pop­
ulation  knows  nothing,  that  gentleman 
in  the  distance  would  make  a  greater 
mistake than he would by emigration.

It is said,  and said  with strong  justifi­
cation,  that many  of our  follies, such  as 
needless strikes,  organized boycotts,  our 
efforts  to  make  a  paradise out of paste­
board, and our  making  chopping  blocks 
of  non-union  men’s  heads,  are  due  en­
tirely to the ignorance of the masses.

It is,  however,  a  fact  that  our gravest 
dangers  and  some  of  our  most  monu­
mental follies are chargeable not so much 
to the empty beads  carried under hats as 
those  that  can  aptly  be  described  as 
“ furnished apartments.”

A  political  fraud,  as  a rule,  is by  no 

means an  ignoramus.

An agitator is not  usually a  man  who 

cannot read.

A demagogue is not necessarily  illiter­
ate, nor is the man  who lays out the boul­
evards of a New  Jerusalem in  Dakota or 
elsewhere a  gentleman who  cannot  sign 
or spell his  name.
The  fact  is  that  brains,  like  money 
bonds  or  real estate,  can  be made an  ar­
ticle of commerce and it  is  as  certain  a 
fact  that  they are  so used. 
In catching 
a fish it is the man  who  knows how to do 
it that can fill his bucket.

With ail our  boasted  intelligence  and 
our warehouse stock of graduates, it is  a 
I question  whether  we  are  not  run­
ning  more  into  nervous  filaments  than 
into common  sense.

We suffer from  a national  itch for  ex­
citements  and  when  the blood  boils the 
average  man  becomes  simply  a  soup 
bone.

I  K A   Í Í K H M   vA  IN

11

A  politician  with  his  eye  on  a  Con­
gressional  salary  knows  just  where  to 
tickle  a  crowd  to  make  the  ballot box 
laugh  with a majority.
4 A Jingo who can  inflame  public senti­
ment  with  imaginary  wrongs  and  with 
fond  regard  for  a  private  friend,  who 
will make money  out of gunpowder,  can 
inoculate a nation  with war  vaccine.

A  so-called  labor  leader  can  lead  a 
hundred thousand  men by the nose  who, 
if  they  did  their  own  thinking,  would 
never trust a coach  and four  to  a  blind 
driver.
Here lies one of  our  gravest  dangers. 
We  think  too little and  shout too much. 
There are  too  many  heads  to  rent  and 
some  men  would  as  soon do  their  own 
washing as do their own  thinking.

Personal  convictions,  based  ou  sober 

judgment, cannot  be counted by noses.

Opinious are  borrowed  as  we  borrow 
umbrellas,  and  it  not  a  mile  from  the 
truth to say that on both  sides  of  every 
question the man  who  thinks for himself 
and  has  the  backbone  to  abide  by  his 
honest  convictions  is the missing man  in 
an average crowd. 
W here  Som e  C orporations  M ake  a 

Fr k d   W o o d r o w .

M istake.
From the New York Shipping List.
It is announced that as a result  of  the 
recent  concentration  of  business  inter­
ests the seven wine houses  embraced  in 
the  California  syndicate  will  dispense 
with a number of clerks, traveling agents 
and accountants hitherto employed.  The 
reduction in expenses  through  the  con­
solidation  is  estimated at $75,000 a year. 
The syndicate or association  was  organ­
ized with  the  object  of  controlling  the 
wine  output of  the  State  through  con­
tracts with the grape  growers  and  wine 
makers.
fre­
The  economical
quently  been  made, 

announcements  have 

Similar 

feature of every consolidation in the var­
ious  industries  was  made  the  strong 
drawing card for  stockholders,  and  big 
in  some  in­
dividends  were  promised 
stances  from 
the  saving  in  expenses 
alone.  Three  other  so-called 
trusts 
started out  with this idea,  but  bad  to  be 
reorganized 
to  protect  their  creditors. 
There  was nothing wrong  with  the  idea 
of economizing  by  abolishing  some  de­
partments  and  concentrating  all  the 
work of the others under one supervision 
—in  fact,  it  was  a  very  good  business 
stroke.  But the unfortunate  companies 
in  mind  made the fatal  mistake  of  clos­
ing  the  spigot  and  opening  the  bung- 
hole,  by  increasing  the  salaries  of  the 
officers  to  an  aggregate  amount  far  in 
excess  of  the  total  saved  by  consolidat­
ing  departments.  We  have known offi­
cials 
to  have  their  salaries  increased 
from $5,000  to $40,000 per year  each,  not 
because  they  performed  any  additional 
duties,  but  because  they  assisted  to  or­
ganize the  amalgamated  firms,  and  held 
stock  until 
the  price  reached  a  satis­
factory  figure,  when  the  high  salaried 
officers  condescended  to  sell  out  to  the 
confiding  and  credulous  public,  but 
still retained  their  positions. 
In  times 
of  financial  distress 
the  salaries  have 
been cut  in  half,  and  in  some  instances 
two-thirds  have  been 
to 
save  the  corporation  from  Wall  street 
wreckers,  but when new  men  come  into 
the  management  with  a  hurrah, 
the 
high  salaries  are  restored  with  some­
thing  added.

lopped  off, 

The wine  combination  of  the  Pacific 
Coast may avoid the  pitfalls  pointed out 
here by working in the interest  of share­
holders, 
thorn  by 
means of an official conspiracy to take all 
the profits in salaries.

instead  of  robbing 

There is $134,000,000 invested in  bank­
ing in  the  State of  Massachusetts,  about 
half of this being in  Boston  institutions. 
Sixty  national  banks  in  Boston  at  the 
last  comptroller’s  call  showed a capital­
ization  of $54,000,000;  a surplus  of  $17,- 
000,000;  undivided profits,  $5,250,000.

It  Has No  Equal.

We  know  it  because  we  sell  more  each  year.
The  Jobber  sells  more!
The  Retailer  sells  more !
The  Consumer  buys  more!
The  Babies  cry  for  more,  and  more  mothers  write  us 
Gail Borden Eagle Brand Condensed Milk

stating  that  the

Is  unequalled  as  a  food  for  infants.

It  Pays  to  Handle  Such  Goods 

For  Quotations  See  Price  Columns

KING

of

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Be  Sure  and  Get  Them.

1  G ra n d   K a iiid s   Wholesale  Grocers  and
T N  A M   C A N D Y   CO.

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A-fcUn,  miirBÜLGr^lSi  TKADJESMAJS;

SPECIALTIES  A N D   GENERALITIES.

M oney-M aking:  P oin ts  A n n iicab le ~ to  

A n y  B u sin ess

You  sell regulars because you nave to. 
You  sell  irregulars  because  there  is 
extra profit in them.
Soap, molasses, sugar,  castor oil,  pare­
goric,  ginger, are regulars, (or folks must 
have them.

In regular^tock is regular profit.
The  antique  excuse,  “Just  out,  have 
some to-morrow.” has driven  away many 
a regular customer, and kept many a fam­
ily from becoming customers.
Complete business cannot be run  with­
out complete stock.
The grocer,  the druggist and everybody 
else in trade,  must supply  instantly  any 
regular line of goods,  if  they  propose  to 
do regular business.
People won’t wait for things they wear, 
eat and drink.  The  foundation  of  gen­
eral business is upon general stock.
the 
The  foundation  of  extra  profit, 
great out-reacher for  new trade,  is built 
upon special offers of special goods, or of 
some older goods  made  to  appear  to  be 
specials.
Regular  customers  will  buy  special­
ties.
Irregular  buyers  will  not  only  buy 
specialties,  but  through 
them  become 
regular buyers.
Women and  men  have a  natural appe­
tite for bargains and  mark-down sales.
The fascination of  buying at less  than 
cost is  with you and everybody.
The man or woman  who says he or  she 
is not iufiuenced by a mark-down,  inten­
tionally or unintentionally, denies a self- 
evident  fact.
¡Specialties  may consist  of  mark-down 
goods,  shop-worn  goods, damaged goods, 
out-of-season goods, or any  unsalable ar­
ticle  of  any  kind,  and  odds  and  ends 
which are liable to go  out of the market, 
or which the dealer  finds unprofitable  to 
carry as regular stock.
About 10 per ceut.  of every  stock con­
sists  of  unsalable  goods,  that  is, goods 
for which constant demand  has  stopped, 
and  which consequently  cannot easily be 
sold at regular prices.
Good money was  paid for  these unsal­
able goods, and most  storekeepers would 
prefer the money to the goods—even less 
money than the goods cost.
No man can tell  why a certain brand of 
soap, just  as  good  as  auother,  will  not 
sell in a certain community.
No man knows why  it  is  that  certain 
people  will buy a certain  kind of ginger, 
and will not buy  any other,  when one  is 
just as good as another.

There is no use butting against fact.
If Smithville people will  drink vanilla 
soda,  and care nothing about orange  and 
pineapple,  the druggist must sell vauilla, 
even if he have a barrel of  orange  syrup 
on hand.
Take down those fifty boxes of soap, as 
good soap as ever was made,  and  partic­
ularly  advertise  it.  Put  two  or  three 
boxes in the window.  Make people think 
it is your specialty.  Don’t tell them you 
have had it on  hand  five  years.  Simply 
present it as  something special,  aud  tell 
the truth about it.  Make  it the  soap  of 
the store,  and in a few days you will have 
to order some more  just like it,  for there 
won’t be any left.
Anything that is  good, no matter what 
the prejudice may be  against  it,  can  be 
sold  with  a reasonable amount of adver­
tising,  if it be properly presented and in­
troduced as a specialty.
Perhaps you  have a  thousand  cans  of 
tomatoes,  aud  for  some  reason  people 
won’t buy them.  They are just  as  good 
tomatoes as any,  and very likely they are 
put up by the same canner who  puts  up 
a more popular brand.
Get a mallet,  dent  the  cans  here  and 
there,  rip  off  part  of  the  labels,  make 
them look as if they had  had a hard time 
of it,  but  be  careful  not  to  injure  the 
contents.
You have been  getting twelve  cents  a 
can for them.  Mark them  down to nine. 
You only paid eight, and you  had  better 
have a profit of one  cent  than  no  profit 
at all.
It  doesn’t  do  any harm to have a bar­
gain counter in  full  blast  all  the  time. 
You can always  keep it full,  for you can 
draw from regular stock  if necessary.

Hundreds  of  people  who  won’t  buy 
regulars  will  buy  specialties  whether 
they want them or not.
The Thompson door-plate  buyer  is  in 
your  own,  and  in all other towns.  She 
hasn’t any daughter,  but she may have  a 
daughter who may marry a Thompson. 4
There are people  who  will  pay  more 
for  bargain  goods than they will for the 
same goods sold as regulars, but of course 
it is not policy  to  advertise  bargains  at 
regular prices because  there are compar­
atively few people innocent enough to be 
so completely fooled.
The bargain counter must be as honest 
as the others.
Bargain methods  are  as  legitimate  as 
the regular ways of selling regular stock.
There are odds and ends everywhere.
These  can  be  lumped  into  depart­
ments,  and sold for as much money as can 
be obtained for them.
The  best  salesman  should  be  behind 
the  special  counter,  a  man  who knows 
how to tell the truth in a convincing way, 
who is scrupulously honest, because hon­
esty in bargains nowadays is  as essential 
as the bargains themselves.
Let each thing stand out  as a specialty 
by itself.
Don’t lump.articles together.
Let everything of  a  kind  be  with  its 
Give them plenty of elbow-room.
Be careful  not to have your specialties 
iuterfere with your regulars.
If  you  have  a stock  in a certain line, 
don’t handicap  the sale  of that  stock by 
selling  something  substantially  as  good 
at a much reduced price.
A  little  judgment  will keep  your spe­
cialties from  interfering with  your regu­
lars.
Your  fundamental  profit  is  in  your 
regulars.
Your extra profit is in your specialties.
Work them both for more profit.

kind.

To Keep Out the Devil. 

Every  well-bred  person,  when he
yawns, put his band  over his mouth,  but 
not many of them know  how the  custom 
came to  be  considered  the  proper  thing 
to do.  The fact seems to be that it is the 
survival of a superstitious  habit,  origin­
ating  in  Europe  in  the  middle ages, or 
before. 
In those  days it  was  commonly 
thought in Europe that  the devil  was  al­
ways  waiting  about  for an  opportunity 
to take  possession of a  man, and that  he 
must  get  iu  by  the  mouth.  When  the 
person  whom he  had selected  as his  vic­
tim did not open  his  mouth  wide enough 
for the purpose within a reasonable time, 
the devil made him yawn,  and  while  his 
mouth  was  stretched  wide  jumped down 
his throat.  So many cases  of  this  kind 
occurred that the people learned to make 
the sign of the cross over their mouths in 
order to scare away the devil.  The peas­
antry in  Italy  and Spain  still  adhere  to 
this method,  but most  other people  have 
dispensed  with  the cross  sign,  and keep 
out  to devil  by simply  placing the  hand 
before the lips. 
It  is a most remarkable 
survival  of  a  practice  after  its  signifi­
cance has perished.

H e  A p p ea ls  to   th e   B urglars.

J. C. Emmett, general dealer at Liberty, 
Ind.,  has  bad  his  safe  ruined  several 
times by  burglars,  who  got  nothing  but 
their trouble for  their  pains,  and he  has 
posted on it a notice informing intending 
robbers that there is  nothing  inside  but 
books aud papers.  The notice tells them 
the  combination  of  the  safe  and  asks 
them 
to  inspect  the  contents  if  they 
choose,  but to pleas«  lock the  safe after­
ward,  for fear of fire.

A   B argain.

asked one business man of  another.

“Where  did  you  go  this  summer?” 
“We boarded in the country.”
“Was it  expensive?”
“Not  very.  We  got  a  good  deal for 
our  money.  My  wife  got  the  rheuma­
tism,  my boy Tommy  got his  leg  broke, 
and  little  Mamie  got  poisoned  with 
nightshade,  and  all  we  paid  was  $5  a 
week apiece.

(Joe  T radesm an  C oupon  Rooks.

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TRADESMAN  COMPANY, 

Grand  Rapids, 

Agents,
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  Mich,

pm.

Established  1868

H  M.  Reynolds  &  Son.
Building Papers,

Carpet  Linings,

Asbestos  Sheathing.

Asphalt  Ready  Roofing,

Asphalt Roof Paints,

Resin, Coal Tar.

Roofing and Paving Pitch,

Tarred Felt, Mineral Wool,

Elastic  Roofing Cement. 

Car, Bridge and Roof Paints,  Oils.

Practical  Roofers

In  Felt,  Composition  and  Gravel.

Cor.  L ou is  and  C am pau Sts., Grand  R apids

s.  c. w.

T h e   L e a d in g   N iek le  C ig a r 
M a d e in  th is M ark et.

The Only Brand in the state (outside of Detroit) 

Made by Improved  Machinery.

This  Cigar  is  made  with  Long  Mixed 

Filler,  Single  Connecticut  Binder 

and  Sumatra  Wrapper.
S o ld  a t $ 3 5   p er  1 ,0 0 0  

Byjthe  Manufacturer,

G.  J.  Johnson.

347 South Division St. 

G rand  Rapids, 

/lieh.

Telephone  1205.

STATE  AGENTS  FOR

The  Lycoming  Rubber Company, 
keep constantly on hand a 
full  and  complete  line  of 
these goods made from the 
purest  rubber.  They  are 
good style, good fitters  and 
give  the  best  satisfaction 
of any rubber  iu  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  REEDER BROS
SHOE'CO.
M i c h i g a n  (T e n t r a l

“ The Niagara Falls Route.”

(Taking effect  Sunday,  May 27,1894.) 

»Dally.  All others dally, except Sunday.

Arrive. 
Depart
10 20 D m .............Detroit  E xp ress............. 7 00 a m
5 3 0 a m   — «Atlantic and  Pacific.......11  20 pm
1  50 p m ....... New York E x p r e ss.........  6 00p m
Sleeping cars  run on Atlantic  and  Pacific  ex 
press trains to and from Detroit.
Parlor  cars  leave  for  Detroit at  7:00 am ;  re 
turning, leave Detroit 4:35 pm, arriving at Grand 
Rapids 10:20 p m.
Direct  communication  made  at  Detroit  with 
all through  trains east  over  the  Michigan Cen­
tral Railroad  (Canada Southern Division.)
A.  A ljujuist, Ticket  Agent, 
Union Passenger3tation.

CHICAGO

Sept. 23,1894.
AND  WEST  MICHIGAN  R’T.

GOING  TO  CHICAGO.

TO  AND F R O »   M USKEGON.

RETURNING  FROM  CHICAGO.

Lv. G’d Rapids...............7:25am  1:25pm  *11:30pm
Ar. C hicago................... 1:25pm  6:50pm  *6:45am
Lv.  Chicago......................8:15am  5:00pm *11:45pm
Ar. G’d Rapids................ 3:05pm  10:25pm  *6:25am
Lv.  Grand  Rapids 
.  7:25am  1:25pm  5:30pm 
A r. Grand  R.  9:15am  3 :05pm
7:30am  3:15pm
Lv. Grand  Rapids.. 
Ar.  Manistee............   12:20pm  8:15pm
Ar. Traverse City__  
1:00pm  8 :V pm
Ar. Charlevoix 
3:15pm 11:10pm
... 
Ar.  Petoskey. 
3:45pm 11:40pm

TRAVERSE CITT. CHARLEVOIX  AND  PBTOBKKY.

Trains arrive from  north  at 1:00 pm and  *10:00 

F A R L O R   A N D   SL E E PIN G   CARS.

Parlor  cars  leave  for  Chicago  1:25pm.  For 
north  3:15pm.  Arrives  from  Chicago  10:35pm. 
From north l:pm.  Sleeping cars leave  for  Chi­
cago 11:30pm.  Arrive from Chicago 6:25.
»Every day.  Others week days  only.
DETROIT,

Sept.  23,  1894
LANSING St  NORTHERN R .  R .

GOING  TO  DETROIT.

Lv. Grand Rapids..........  7:00am 1:20pm  5:55pm
Ar. D etroit....................... 11:40am 5:30pm  10:40pm

RETURNING  FROM  DETROIT.

Lv.  Detroit.......................  7:40am 1:10pm  6:00pm
Ar. Grand Rapids...........12:40pm 5:15pm  10:45pm

TO  AND  FROM   SA GINAW ,  ALMA  AND  ST .  L O U IS.

Lv. G R  7:40am  4:45pm  Ar. G R. 12:35pm 10:55pm

TO  AND  FROM   LO W ELL.

Lv. Graud Rapids  ........... 7:00am  1:20pm  5:55pm
Ar. from Lowell................ 12:40pm  5:15pm  ............

THROUGH  CAR  SERVICE.

Parlor  Cars on all trains  between  Grand Rap 
ids and Detroit.  Parlor car to Saginaw on mora - 
tog train.

Trains  week days only.

GEO. DeHAVEN, Gen. Pass’r Ag’t.

TA ETRO IT ,  G R A N D   H A V E N   St  M IL - 
JLf  W A U K E E   R ailw ay.
EASTWARD.
O 

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Trains Leave
G’d  Rapids,  Lv
Io n ia .............Ar
St.  Johns  ...A r
O w o 6 S 3.........Ar
E. Saginaw..Ar
Bay C ity.......Ar
F lin t............ Ar
Pt.  H uron...A r
P ontiac.........Ar
Detroit...........Ar

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6 45am
7 40am
8 25am
9 00am
10 50am
11 32am 
10 05am 
1205pm 
10 53am 
1150am
WESTWARD.

10 20am 
1125am 
1217pm 
1 20pm 
3 45pm 
435pm
3 45pm 
5 50pm 
305pm
4 05pm

325pm
4 27pm
5 20pm 
ö 05pm 
8 00pm 
S37pm
7 05pm 
850pm
8 25pm 
925pm

1100pm 
12 35am 
1 25am 
3 10am 
6 40am 
715am 
5 40am 
730am 
537am 
700am

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For  Grand Haven  and Intermediate
Points  .................................................. *7:00 a.  m.
For Grand Haven and  Muskegon.......tl :t0 p. m.
Chicago.......t4  55 p.  m
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For  Grand  Haven  and  Milwaukee.tlO :05 p. m. 
tDaily except  Sunday. 
Trains  arrive  from  the  east.  0:35  a.m.,  12:50 
p.m., 4:35 p.  m. and  10:00 p.  m.
Trains  arrive  from  the  west, 6:40  a.  m., 10:19 
a. m., 3:16 p. m.  and  10:50  p.  m.
Eastward—No.  14  has  Wagner  Parler  Buffet 
car.  No. 18 Parlor  Car.  No. 82 Wagner  Sleeper.
Westward— No. 11  Parlor Car  No. 15 Wagner 
Parlor  Buffet car  No. 81  Wagner Sleeper.

»Daily.

J as. Campbell, city  r'ckei Agent.

G rand  R apid s  <5* In d ian a.

TRAINS  GOINS  NORTH.

North

Leave going 
For Traverse City, Petoskey and Saginaw__7:10 a.  m.
For Traverse City and  MacKina w...... .............115 p. m.
For Cadillac and Saginaw.................................4  45 p. n.
For  Mackinaw.................... ............ ...............10:35 p  m.
Leave going
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South.
For  Cincinnati..................................................6 50 a . m.
For Kalamazoo and  Chicago..........................2:16 p.m.
For  Fort Wayne and  the  East........................8:15 p.m.
For Cincinnati  .............................................. *5:40  p.m.
For  Kalamazoo and Chicago....................... *11:40 p. at

TRAINS GOING SOUTH.

C h icago v ia  G.  R.  & I.  R.  R.

Lv Grand Kapids...........0:60am  8:16 pm  *11:40pm
Arr  Chicago...................8:00pm  0:00pm 
7:10am
2:15 p  m  train has through  Wagner  Bnffet  Parlor 
Car and coach.
11:40 p m train dally,  through Wagner Sleeping Car 
and Coach.
11:30pm
Lv  Chicago 
Arr Grand Rapids 
7:80am
3:30  p m  has  through  Wagner Buffet  Parlor  Car. 
11:30 pm train daUy,throogh  Wagner  Sleeping  Car.
For Muskegon—Leave. 
From Muskegon—Arrive

M nsksgon, Grand Rapids Sc Indiana.
7:15 am 
3:85am
1:15pm
1:00pm 
810 pm
“:40 pm 
O. L. LOCKWOOD*
General Passenger and Ticket Agent.

3:30pm 
0:15pm 

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T R A D E SM A N   CO., 

Grand  Rapids, Mich.

THB  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN
where the sinner and the  saint  are  con­
siderably mixed up. 
It is  not his money 
or his power that makes him  a  wart  on 
the public body—it is the abuse  of these 
things and  blindness  to  their  responsi­
bilities;  the  larger  the  tree  the  broader 
the shadow. 

Fr e d   W o o d ro w .

A   LATER  ADAM .

It 

the 

and 

fashion, 

is  very 

Every change in  our  social  or  indus­
trial conditions produces its  special type 
of  man.  The  original  Adam  was  a 
creation;  the later  gentleman  is an evo­
lution.  He  grows  out  of  his  environ­
ments.  He may be open to criticism and 
by no means void of sins  and follies,  and 
when he ripens  into maturity as the type 
of a class we are very likely  to  condemn 
the  apple  but  to  spare  the  tree.  The 
two, however,  are as  closely  and  natur­
ally related as is an acorn to an oak, or a 
gooseberry to its  native  bush.  We  are 
apt to overlook this  fact in dealing with 
those  who  are  strictly  representative 
men  in  our  industrial  and  commercial 
life.  They may not be what  they  ought 
to be, nor, indeed,  what  we  want  them 
to be,  but from top to  bottom,  and  in  a 
vital and thorough  sense,  they  are  just 
what we made them.  They are  bone  of 
our  bone  and  flesh  of  our  flesh.  The 
monopolist of to-day, with  all  the  vices 
and  evils  belonging  to  his  mercantile 
sovereignty, 
the  stuff  of  which  he  is 
made and  the spirit that  vivifies  it,  has 
nativity in the  age  that  produced  him. 
In fact,  he is as much a product as  he  is 
a sinner,  the difference between  him and 
the  smaller  fry  being  that  be  carries 
under one  hat  what  a  thousand  others 
have only in  the  shape  of  mince-meat. 
The man is simply  a  type  of  a  system. 
To reform this gentleman we  must begin 
by  reforming  ourselves,  and  it  is  just 
here  where  the  cure  of  some  of  our 
commercial  diseases 
industrial 
easy, 
must  commence. 
and,  in  fact,  quite 
to 
raise  our voices against the cupidity and 
despotism  of  monopolies  and  corpora­
tions,  and at the same time  be  ready  to 
seize  the  biggest  egg  on  the  table  for 
our  own  breakfast,  and  compel  a  sick 
wife to take in washing  to  pay  for  our 
own beer.  The difference  in such a case 
between a monopolistic  monstrosity  and 
ourselves is one of size and not of  spirit. 
He can swallow a Jonah and  we choke at 
a sprat. 
In dealing  with  such  men  let 
us not forget  the  conditions  that  make 
them a possibility.  When the industries 
of the  world  were  on  a  smaller  scale, 
and the means and  the  markets  thereof 
narrower,  it was not possible  to mobilize 
either  men  or  money  as  it  is  to-day. 
The pendulum swung in a smaller clock. 
If an employer was  tyrannical or bilious 
the reach of  his  whipcord  was  limited, 
and if he was avaricious and greedy there 
were but few trees from  which  to  shake 
the persimmons.  These pea-in-a-thimble 
conditions  have  passed  away;  the  pea 
may  be  as  small,  but  the  thimble  in 
some cases  would  make  a  hat  for  the 
planet.  That this power is  abused  is no 
surprise,  for to have power and not abuse 
it is one of the rarest of  human  virtues. 
Of course,  in this age of  so-called  equal 
rights,  personal freedom,  and a consider­
able amount of paper religion,  it  is  not 
in fashion to be without some respect for 
law and humanity. 
If there is  any  iron 
in our souls it  must have a  velvet  skin, 
and if we are  Shylocks  in  business  we 
must inclose that  gentleman  in  Samari­
tan cloth.  Hence  the  later  Adam.  He 
builds towns,  endows  libraries  and  do­
nates to charities,  and yet in  a  business 
sense his soul  would  find  hotel  accomo­
dations in a gooseberry.  He loves money 
and the world loves him because  he  has 
it.  He is the god of the  crowd,  not  for 
what he is,  but  for  what  he  has.  We 
have evolved this type of man in  an  age

The  Grocer  of  the  Future.

It was  no easy task 

John T. Burgess in National Grocer.
Those  of our  readers  who  remember 
the condition  of the grocery trade  thirty 
years ago,  will  recall  a  wide  difference 
to  what  it 
is  to-day.  But  there  are 
many  living  to-day  who  can  go  back 
even  further  than 
that—not  perhaps 
entirely with their own  personal  remin­
iscences,  but from  what they  know from 
contact  with 
the  older  men  of  their 
earlier associations.
In  the past the grocer was much  more 
a slave of  the  public  than he is  to-day, 
and his work was  of  the  most  exacting 
character.  He  had 
to  prepare  every­
thing.  Packages  of any  kind  were  en­
tirely unknown  and  even his  sugar  had 
to  be  mixed  and  ground  by  himself. 
Sugar refining  was  of  the  crudest  char­
acter,  and  it  was  not  an  uncommon 
thing for a grocer to  find a  shipment  of 
West  India  white  sugar  one solid cake, 
so hard that he had difficulty to  break  it 
with a  hatchet  sufficiently  small  to  be 
ground in this mill.  This  was a tedious 
process and it caused no  end  of  trouble 
and  hard work. 
to 
turn  the  handle  of  those  old-fashioned 
sugar-mills with such stuff to grind.
Again,  there were  not  only no  cubes, 
but there were no  machines  to  cut  loaf 
sugar, it all having  to  be done  with  an 
ordinary  hatchet.  A  dreary  long  job 
and one that was in no ways inspiring.
There  were  no  bag  makers  and  the 
grocer had  the  edifying  job  of  making 
them in his  spare  moments.  And  there 
were  few spare  moments in  those  days 
of  long,  long  hours. 
It  was  one  con­
stant slave from morning till night.
All  this  has  been  changed  and  the 
grocer  of  to-day can  buy  almost  every 
article  ready  to hand  to  his  customers. 
Bad as we regard  the life of the  modern 
grocer,  he  is blest,  nay, doubly blest,  in 
comparison with  his  predecessor Qf long 
ago.
But we are not  so much  concerned  in 
this  article with the grocer  of  the  pres­
ent, although he has our sympathy,  good 
will  and best wishes. 
It is to the grocer 
of the future that  we would  like to say a 
word.  What shall  he be. and  what  rank 
shall  his  business 
take?  To  a  large 
extent, 
everything 
depends entirely upon  himself.  He will 
be what he himself  makes.  He  will  be 
the  framer of his own fortune as it were, 
and  the  more 
intelligence,  practical 
common sense, he brings to  bear  on  his 
business, the higher rank it will take.

indeed, 

almost 

Cannot you  all see the drift of modern 
progress? it is in the  direction  of brains 
and not  of  drudgery. 
In  all  cases  the 
merchant who is  ahead  of  his  times  in 
a  practical sense is the  man who  in  all 
cases  wins out.
The grocery trade is by  no  means  an 
exception to  the  rule. 
It  is  not reason­
able or natural that  it  should  be.  The 
dingy,  dirty  old  grocery  must  pass 
away  just  as  all  old  useless  methods 
and  systems  have  done  before* 
It 
hardly  matters  what  way  we  turn,  we 
see  that 
the  progressive  man  or  mer­
chant  is  gradually  forging  ahead.  As 
•the stage-coach has  been  superseded  by 
the express train, so  is  the  old  fogy  in 
business  dying  out. 
If  you  must  live 
and  prosper  in  these  times  you  must 
keep abreast  of  them.  There  must  be 
no  method  followed  simply  because  of 
its age.  This  test,  or  rather standard, 
must never  be  considered  worthy  of  a 
moment’s consideration.
The  inevitable battle of  the  grocer  is 
the  one  of  brains  over  matter.  Work 
with  your  head  and  not  with  your 
hands.  The  succesful  grocer  of 
the 
future  will  not  be  the  one  who  can 
grind  the  most sugar,  but  the  one  who 
can,  by his tact and his ability,  transact 
the most  business  at  the least  expense. 
Brains must direct and guide the  ship.

The  change is gradually  going  on  on 
Its  force  as  time  proceeds

all  sides. 

will  become  quicker 
impelled  by  the 
force of circumstances.  The  question, 
then,  with  all who  are  engaged  in  the 
business is not only  to  be  in  the  race, 
but to be in it  to  win.  There  must  be 
no compromise.  Such a thing is  impos­
sible.  There must be no  turning  to the 
right  or to the left,  but a steady, earnest 
effort  to  constantly  improve  the  work. 
The machinery must  be  kept  clean,  in 
good  order  and  well  oiled.  No  oppor­
tunity  must be allowed to slip by  where 
an improvement  can be made. 
In short, 
the one idea which should  be  constantly 
kept  to  the  fore  is  the  everlasting  use 
of  your head instead of  your  hands.  A 
great reward awaits  those  who  can  not 
only realize the conditions,  but who  can 
have the ability and the force of  charac­
ter to take advantage of  them. 
It  rests 
with each individual to act his part.

Sugar 

Production 

T he  G rocery  M arket.
(Edgar)—Refined  sugars  are 
without quotable  change,  but  slight  de­
lays  attend  deliveries  of  some  of  the 
lower  grades. 
continues 
light, but sufficient to  supply  the  exist­
ing  demand,  which,  while  improving 
steadily,  has  not  yet  reached  a  point 
necessitating increased working capacity. 
Buyers evidently prefer  to  supply  their 
moderate  requirements  from  hand 
to 
mouth,  and  more or less exchange trade 
is repbrted in  the  larger  cities,  but  the 
stocks of soft sugars  are  extremely light 
and the trade in  grades other  than gran­
ulated has increased materially.  There- 
fined market  is  firmly  held  and,  unless 
some decided  change  takes  place in  the 
raw situation,  we see nothing  to warrant 
any further shading of the list; but there 
is so much of uncertainty in  the  preseut 
outlook, 
investment 
will doubtless be  the rule for  some  time 
to come.

that  conservative 

Bananas—The  local  market  is  well 
supplied  with  a  good  grade  of  fruit 
which is held at reasonable  figures.  De­
mand continues to be light.

Lemons—Sell slowly  in  a  small  way. 
Good stock  is scarce  and  the  new  crop 
will  not  be  in  much  before  Dec.  1. 
Sorrentos,  360  size,  bring  $4.50  while 
fancy Maioras are worth $7 per box.

Oranges—Shipment  from  Florida  are 
slow in getting  under  way, as  the  fruit 
does not color as fast as it  was  expected 
to.  The  first  car  for  our  market  left 
Jacksonville  Oct.  13,  and  will  be  here 
about next Saturday.  A few  boxes now 
in market are selling  for  from  $3.50@4, 
according to size.

New Figs—Are now with us  and  open 
up very fine.  The stock does not average 
quite  as  large  as  in  former  years,  but 
the quantity is just  as  good.  Prices  as 
quoted will be somewhat lower after  the 
markets get filled up more.

Cocoanuts—Are  held  firm  at  prices 
quoted.  The  stock  is  new,  clean  and 
in every way desirable.

Oatmeal—Quotations  have  been 

re­
duced  by  both  manufacturers  and  job­
bers.

Fish—Mackerel and scaled herring  are 

both lower.

Sh arp  A d vertisin g.

A  German  perfumery  manufacturer 
who does a  large  business  in  Italy  evi­
dently knows something  about  advertis­
ing.  Not long ago he published a  notice 
offering to pay for  good  short  stories  in 
Italian, the most important condition  be­
ing that the  writer  should  puff  “ in  the 
most delicate manner possible”  the  won­
derful merits of his perfume. 
It  is  said 
that  he  has  received  more  than  1,000 
manuscripts, many of  them  by  the  first 
writers  of  Italy.  Signor  Montegazza  is 
named as one of the writers.

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M ercantile  Friendship.

the  merchants 

From the Chicago  Dry Goods Reporter.
In many towns the envy and rivalry be­
tween  merchants  are  such  as  to really 
hold back the progress  of  the  town  and 
react  on 
themselves. 
Fair,  above-board competition  is  always 
to  be  expected,  but  backbiting and  the 
making of derogatory remarks  regarding 
one merchant  by  another  is  sure  to  be 
boomerangical  in  its nature,  and to ren­
der co-operation in matters of mutual in­
terest  impossible.  The  influence  of  the 
mercantile  elements  in  a  community  is 
always strong,  and  united effort can  fre­
quently  bring  about  many  needed  im­
provements by bringing  pressure to bear 
on the town  or  village  council—matters 
of hitching posts  and  watering  troughs, 
the  securing of  better train service from 
country  points,  Saturday  or  occasional 
special railroad  rates,  are  points  in  in­
stance.  Frequently matters  such  as  the 
time of closing can  be  settled  easily  by 
concerted  action  if the proper spirit  ac­
tuates  merchants  in  their  relations 
to 
each other,  while otherwise much unnec­
essary  trouble  and  injustice  to  both 
clerks and employers must ensue.

F inancial  Ju gglin g.

S.  B. Gorham,  assignee  of  the defunct 
G.  W.  Chapin  &  Co.  banking  house,  at 
Stanton,  has sent  the  creditors  a  state­
ment which is not  calculated to  enhanca 
his reputation in their  eyes.  He  shows 
cash  receipts  of  $5,365.69  and  expen­
ditures  of  $3,777.74,  leaving  a  balance 
on hand of  $1,585.95.  Out  of  this  sum 
he wishes $1,000 for his own  services  as 
assignee,  $2,500  for  attorney  fees  and 
$556.15  for  expenses  of  attorney.  The 
account comes up  for  allowance  in  the 
Montcalm  Circuit  Court  Oct. 29  and,  if 
the creditors are not on  hand  to  protest 
against the allowance  of  such  accounts. 
T h e   T r a d e s m a n   will  be  greatly  disap­
pointed.

J a c k so n   J o ttin gs.

J a c k s o n ,  Oct.  13—Jas.  Greenwood has 
opened a grocery store at 206  West Trail 
street,  the  former  location  of  Frank  C. 
Wood.
Charles A.  Ham succeeds C. A.  Ham <& 
Co.  in the dry goods trade.
W.  H.  Wynans  has moved  his  grocery 
stock from South  Mechanic to East Main 
street, near Summit  avenue.
Frank C.  Wood has  moved his stock of 
groceries to Port Huron.
C. 
ceries  in  the  store  lately  occupied  by 
Travis & Son at the corner of Fourth and 
Franklin  streets.

Brown will put  in  a  stock  of  gro­

H id es  an d   P elts.

Tanners still  refuse  to  take  hides  at 
the  prices  recently  made  by  dealers. 
They do not like  the idea of  “high hides 
and low leather,’’ as one  of them  put  it 
the  other  day,  and,  as  a  consequence, 
the  market  is  dull  and  spiritless;  but 
dealers are slowly cutting prices down to 
where the tanners  can  do  business  and 
the  situation  may  improve.  See  price 
current for quotations.

Travelers are  occasionally  puzzled  by 
the now frequent  addition  of  the  words 
“dark  room’’  to  the  advertisements  of 
hotels and  boarding-houses.  So  numer­
ous  are  the photographers,  amateur and 
otherwise,  who  now  travel  about  the 
country provided with kodack and camera 
that the provision of a dark room for  the 
purpose of  their  pastime,  or  profession, 
as the case may be,  has become a feature 
with many hotels. 
It is  sometimes  only 
a shed or out-house, rendered  absolutely 
light-proof, and provided with a red light 
for the use  of  the  photographer,  and  a 
little water with a cistern for  containing 
it.  Some hotel-keepers have at hand  for 
these customers some of the stock  chem­
icals they require, the general use of  the 
dry  plate  rendering 
such  dangerous 
poisons as are scheduled  under  the  sale 
of drugs act unnecessary for the  produc­
tion of the photographs.

14

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,

D r u g s ^ M e d l c i n e s

S ta te  B oard  o f P k arm acf* 

Y e a r—Ottmar E b e rb & c h , Ann A rb o r. 
Two Yean—George G u n d ru m , Ionia.
Three Yean—C. A. Bag bee. Cheboygan. 
Ponr Yean—8. E. Parkill. O w o sso .
Five Years—F. W. R. Perry, Detroit. 
President—Fred’k W. R. Perry, Detroit, 
e eoretary—Stanley E. Parkill, Owosso. 
Treasurer—Geo. Gnndrnm, Ionia.
Coming  Meetings—Lansing, Nov.  7 and 8.

M ich igan   S tate  P h a rm a c eu tica l  A ss'n 
President—A. B. Stevens, Ann Arbor. 
Vice-President—A. F. Parker, Detroit 
Treasurer—W. Dupont, Detroit.
Secretay—8. A. Thompson. Detroit.

G rand  R a p id s  P h a rm a c eu tica l S ociety  
President, Walter K. Schmidt; Secretary, B. Schroude

PHARM ACEUTICAL  BACTERIOLOGY 
The impression  prevails  that  medical 

men alone should  interest themselves 
It is  assumed  that the subject 
bacteria. 
contains nothing of  interest  to  pharma 
cists. 
It  requires  no  prophet to foresee 
that this attitude is not likely to be main 
tained  very  much  longer.  The  indica 
tions are  that  Pharmaceutical  Bacterio 
logical Laboratories are a certainty of the 
future,  and that they may exceed in vast 
ness and importance those now conducted 
by  the  medical  profession.  As  yet  we 
have only hints of what is in store for us 
Here and there a  rift  in  the  cloud  that 
obscures the future from  our vision  let 
through an illuminating  beam of light 

It is said in Holy Writ that “that which 
hath  been is now and that which is to  be 
hath already  been.” 
In the  vast labora 
tory of nature long before  mau had  syn 
thetized  a  single  remedy  or  combined 
secundum artem,  a  single pair  of  syner 
gestic  remedies,  plants  had  done  the 
same.  Yes,  and  more,  it  can  now  be 
maintained with  a  formidable  array  of 
evidence  that  the  aim of  such combina­
tion  was precisely that of the pharmacist 
and  physician  when  a  remedy  is  com 
pounded for a patient. 
In both cases the 
overcoming of pathological disease germ 
was  the  ultimate  result  and  the  object 
aimed  at,  if  there  was  any  aim.  The 
resins,  the essential oils, the tannins,  the 
alkaloids, the glucosides,  the bitter prin 
ciples are all so many  bacteria  killers or 
inhibitors devised  by  plants or produced 
by  the  direct  action  of  bacteria  them 
selves,  that  in  the  economy  of  nature 
serve to give  immunity to plants against 
the ravages of other  organisms.

As if quinine was not enough  to shield 
the true cinchonine  and  other synergists 
that accompany it,  with morphine is com 
bined  codeine,  narceine,  and  a  host  of 
other alkaloids having  analagous effects 
The life history  of  these  plants  casts  a 
flood  of  light  on this subject, and if  we 
had anything like a  perfect  genealogical 
history  of  any  genus  there  can  be but 
little doubt  that it  would  fully  confirm 
all we are able to  infer  from  the  imme­
diate  data  at our command. 
In the cin­
chonas we  have more  material on  which 
to base an inference in  this respect  than 
any  other.  Their  habitat  is a region of 
perpetual fog and drizzle.  For months  a 
ray of sunshine seldom, if  ever,  reaches 
them.  The  region  is  utterly  unfit  for 
human  habitation  and  intermittent  and 
remittent fevers are  the penalty paid for 
a temporary residence  near them.  Now, 
the  fact  so  thoroughly  established  that 
plants are  as  frequently  the  victims  of 
the parasitism of micro-organisms as  are 
animals,  placed beside the fact that their 
home is such an  ideal  one  for  micro-or­
ganisms,  would naturally lead us to think 
that if these trees owe their  immunity  to 
some  chemical  secreted  by  them  we 
should  be  able  to discover it. ¿Now  let

us add the further  fact that  quinine and 
these  other  alkaloids  they  secrete  are 
powerful antiseptics,  and do destroy just 
such germs either  out  of  or  within  the 
body,  and the conviction begins  to  grow 
upon us that something  like a purpose is 
manifested in this  arrangement.  But on 
reasoning further we learn more.  These 
alkaloids are always  found  in  the  very 
part of the plant where  the attack of the 
germs would be most likely  to occur  and 
when occurring"  would prove  most injur­
ious to the tree.  Why is there not a good 
supply of these  alkaloids in  the wood or 
in the corky layer of the bark?  Why are 
they in the very part  of the  bark where 
a priori,  we would expect them to do the 
most good?  Now let us add another fact 
The  yield  of  these  alkaloids  is  alway 
greatest  the  greater  the  damage  from 
such invasion.  The  season of maximum 
for fog and drizzle is the season  of  max 
imum  yields  of  alkaloids and especially 
of quinine,  the most powerful one.

What is quite  remarkable,  too, in  thi 
connection is the  fact  that the  cinchona 
tree seems to have the power of anticipat 
ing the  bacterial  invasion  by  the  very 
method that we would be likely to use in 
anticipating  it.  The  increase  of  alka 
loids evidently occurs  prior to  the  inva 
ion of the germs  and  following  the  ad 
vent of the conditions  which  make  their 
invasion  possible.  The  cutting  off  of 
their sunshine by fog  is their  signal  for 
an  increased  supply of alkaloids and es 
pecially  of  quinine. 
In  India,  where 
cinchonas are now cultivated  and  where 
fogs  are  not  so common, they cover the 
bark of the trees with  cotton  and  shield 
them  from  direct  sunlight  to  increase 
their  production.  The  dark,  warm and 
damp  forests  where  heavy  growths  of 
pine  abound  would  surely  prove  mias­
matic but for the  good office of the pines 
themselves.  They  load  the  air  with 
germ destroying terpenes,  the  oxidation 
of  which  gives  forth  a  rich  supply  of 
ozone.  These vestiges  of  the  primitive 
world  tell  us  of  their  struggle  against 
disease germs and  survival by  virtue  of 
this protection.

It  seems  a  rather  singular  fact  that 
when  plants  or  animals  do not produce 
destructive agents  by which  to vanquish 
bacteria,  they are sure,  sooner  or  later, 
to  bring  into  existence  a  product  de- 
itructive to themselves.  When we pause 
to think that “the  mill will  never  grind 
with  the water that is past,” nor the  fire 
burn with the  carbon  dioxide  produced, 
we  see  it  is  a universal  fact in nature. 
The germ that runs  sugar down  into  al­
cohol soon perishes in that alcohol.  Fol­
lowing it comes the vinegar germ, giving 
s acetic acid in  sufficient  abundance  to 
stop  its  own  activity.  Next follow one 
by one other germs to carry  the  changes 
farther and farther  down the  hill, till in 
every instance they  work  their  own  de­
struction or at least cessation of activity. 
Each  of  these  products,  final  to  some 
definite species of germ,  is  an  antiseptic 
that  germ  and,  therefore,  a medicinal 
agent for the  subjugation  of  that  germ 
when it becomes pathogenic.

It took us a long  time to learn that  all 
our  alcohol,  wines and  liquors were  the 
products of germs.  Even when  “mother 
vinegar”  was  handed  from  house  to 
house and manufacturer to manufacturer 
they did  not  for  centuries  suspect  that 
they were handling  germs.  Many  drug- 
sts do  not yet  know  that  ergot  is  the 
It  is  only 
product  of  a  disease  germ. 
| lately  that  we  have  discovered that  we

owe  our  nitric  acid,  saltpetre,  sweet 
spirit of  nitre  and  all  our  nitrates  and 
nitrites to  the  useful  labors  of  humble 
bacteria.  Much  of  our  ammonia,  some 
of our benzoic, hippuric  and  buyric acid 
we owe to their kind offices.

As our  knowledge  of  micro-organism 
widens  our  respect  for  their  pharma­
ceutical  and  chemical  skill 
increases 
Within  a  year  Dr.  Carl  Wehmer  has 
reported  the  fact  that  he  has  isolated a 
species  that  converts  sugar  into  citric 
acid  so  that  11  pounds  of  sugar  will 
produce  six  pounds  of  the  crystalized 
acid.  The cost  of  such  conversion  is  so 
trifling that  it  is  scarcely  worth  consid­
ering.  A  discovery  like  this  will  work 
little  short  of  a  revolution.  Sugar  is 
cheap  and  the  acid  is  bound  soon  to be 
sold  for  little  if  any  more  than 
the 
yrice  of  the  cheapest  sugar.  Of  course 
we  will  have  to  wait  till  the  patents 
run  out 
for  such  a  consummation. 
When  we  pause  to  consider  the  fact 
that in  the  plant  world  the  cells  build 
up  the  countless  numbers  of  organic 
compounds  from  simple  carbonic  acid, 
water  and  nitrogen  compounds,  and 
when  we  further  consider  that  the  bac­
teria are isolated  cells capable  of  dupli­
cating much of  or  all  such work  we can 
gain  some  idea  of  the  possibilities  that 
ie  before  us.  We  have  to supply them 
with  the  raw  material  for  their, food 
and  without  money  and  without  price 
they  will  do  the  rest.  We  only need to 
¡olate  the  special  kinds  in  relatively 
pure  cultures  and  set  them  to  work.

When  mixed,  one  kind  undoes  the 
work  of  another,  so  that  no  useful  re- 
ults  occur.  Prof.  Conn  of  Wesleyan 
University has lately isolated the special 
bacterium  that  produces  the  essential 
ether  to  which  is  due  the  rich  flavor of 
our  highest  quality  of  butter.  Follow­
ing  his  directions  the  bnttermaker  can 
now  at  will  produce  a  ripened  cream 
possessing  the  highest, richest  aroma of 
prime  butter. 
If  we  have  successfully 
produced  one  such  product  who  can 
say  where  the  end 
is?  The  highly 
prized  aromas  of  wines  and liquors,  the 
rich  flavors  of  fruits  and  flowers  may 
all  be  within  our  power  to  produce  in 
If  we  can  call these 
the  same  manner. 
pigmy  workers  to  our  aid 
in  making 
alcohol,  acetic and citric  acid,  why  not 
other  acids,  other  alcohols and other or­
ganic compounds?  We  have  found  that 
through  the  magic  of  their  power  cer­
leguminous  plants  are  able  to 
tain 
draw 
from  the  atmospheric  nitrogen 
their  necessary  supplies  of 
re­
fractory  gas.  May  we  not  utilize  their 
services  in  a  similar  manner?  Will not 
our  pharmaceutical  chemists  of  the  fu­
ture  supply  these  same  bacteria  with 
what 
the  leguminous  plants  provide 
them and on  a  vast  scale  procure  our 
itrates,  nitrites,  ammonia  and  am­
monium  compounds,  at  the  same  time 
giving to the farmers all they need to en­
rich  the  soil  of  their  farms?  All  the 
rich mines of Golconda  never  contained 
uch wealth as is promised  in this direc­
tion.

that 

Man first learned of  the  winds  as  his 
foes  but  soon  he  harnessed  them  and 
they became his friends.  At a later date 
he  gained  power  over  fire  and 
the 
conquest found he had a mighty agent to 
do  his  bidding.  Still  later  and  the 
lightning  that he so long  dreaded  as the 
bolts of heaven, came  within  his  grasp 
and we are beginning to realize  the maj­
esty  of  such  a  victory.  Now  he  has

in 

just begun the conquest of  the  most  di­
rect force he has ever  had  to  fight—the 
microbes—and if our  vision  is  not  dis­
torted he  will find here  a  power  second 
to none of the  rest in  the benefits it  can 
bestow upon  him.

R o b e r t   G.  E c c l e s,  P h .  G.  M.  D .

Seely’s Flavoring  Extracts
Every dealer should sell  them.
Extra Fine quality.
Lemon,  Vanilla,  Assorted  Flavors. 
Yearly sales increased by  their  use. 
Send trial  order.
Seelif’s Lemon.*

(Wrapped)  r~  ' 
Doz.  Gro.

o i.  $  0 0   10  8 0  

1 
9 ox. 
4 o s. 
6 ox. 

1  8 0   18  6 0  
8  0 0   8 8   8 0  
3  0 0   3 3   0 0

Seelu’s Vanilla

(Wrapped)

Doz.  Gro.

ox.  3  75  4 0   8 0

oz. $  1  5 0   1 6   8 0

8  0 0   81  6 0

1 
* ox. 
4 
6  ox.  5  4 0   5 7   6 0
P la in   N . 8.  w ith  
co rk screw  a t sam e 
p ric e If  p referred .
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T H E   MICflEUGkAJST  T R A D E S M A N

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A cetlcum ......................
Benz oleum  German..
Boracic 
........................
Carbollcum ................
C ltrleum ......................
Hydrochlor..................
Nltrocum 
....................
Oxallcam  ......................
Phosphorlum  a ll.........
Sallcylicum ..................
Snlphurlcum................
Tanni cum .....................
Tartarlcum..................
AMMONIA.

m   10
65®  75 
15
20®   30 
42@  45 
3® 
5
10®  13 
10®  12 
20
25®1  60 
IK®  5 
40®1  60 
30®  33

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Aqua, 16  d eg...................  
4®  g
20  d eg................  
8
Carbonas  ...................... 
J4
Cblorldum ......................  I2®  14

6® 

a n il in e.

Black.............................. 2 00®2  25
Brown...............................  8001 00
part 
........................2  S'1© 3 00
Yellow 

 

 

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B1CCA1.

ubeae (po  25)  ..........  
20® *
Juniperus.......................   J ®   m
X anthoxylum ..............
B A L 8A K B H .

Copaiba...........................   45® ) ®9
Peru  ...............................  @2 00
Terabln. Canada  .. . .  
55®  60
T olutan....................   35® 8®

CORTEX .

Abies,  Canadian....................  18
Casslae  ....................................
Cinchona F la v a ....................
BuonymuB  atropurp.............
Myrlca  Cerlfera, po...............
Prunus Vlrglnl........................  "
Quill ala,  grd...........................
if
Sassafras  ....................... 
 
Ulmus Po (Ground  16)......... 
lo

EXTRA CTUM.

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lycyrrhlsa  Glabra.
p o ......
aem atox, 15 lb. box
Is.............
ks.........
k».........
m m )
arbonate Preclp—
1 trate and Q ulnla.. 
Urate  8oluble. . . . . .
errooyanidum Sol. •
slut  Chloride.........
ulphate,  com’l .......

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pore.

FLORA.

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

@  15 
@3 50 
@  80 
@  50 
@  15 
2 
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7
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A rn ica...........................
Anthemls 
....................  
Matricaria 

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Cassia  Acutlfol,  Tin-

l4®
n iv e llv ...................—   25®
A lx.  35® 
and  MB........................  »go

Salvia  officinalis,  k»
Ura TJrsl 
......................

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Acacia, 1st picked 

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2d 
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sd 
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@
sifted s o rts... 
po  .  .................   60®
Aloe,  Barb, (po. 60)...  50®
“  Cape,  (po.  20)-.• 
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Socotri,  (po.  60).  @
Catechu, la, 04s, 14 k*.
16)............................. 
®
A m m onlae........... -••••-  86®
Assaf ostlda,  (po. 30). - 
28®
Bensolnum ....................
Camphor»......................  48®
Buphorbium  po  .........
8 *
Galbanum...................... 
Gamboge,  po..  .. 
•  •  70®
Guaiacum,  (po  35)  .. 
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Kino,  (po  1 7 5 )........... 
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M astic........................... 
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...  @
Mvrrh,  (po  45) 
Opil  (po  3  10®3 40). -2  30@2
Shellac  ......... 
 
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bleached.......  
83®
Tragacanth.................. -  40@1
herb a—In ounce packages.

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A b B ln th ln m .................................
Bupatorlum .............................
Lobelia....... .............................
M ajorom....... .........................
Mentha  Piperita....................
V lr .............................
H ue.............. .............................
Tanacetum, V .........................
Thymus,  V ...............................

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MAGNESIA.

Calcined, P at................ 
j*®
Carbonate,  P at.............  20®
Carbonate, K. &  M ....  20g 
Carbonate,  JenningG ..  35<©

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AbBlnthlnm................... 2 50®3
Amygdalae, D ulc.........
Amydalae, Amarae.... 8 0008
A n lsl................................2 y ® 2
Aurantl  Cortex.............1 80@2
Bergamll  ......................3 00®3
Cajlputl........................ 
60®
Carvophylll..................   75®
C ed ar.............................  35®
C hencpodli..................  
®1
C lnnam onll....................1 2501
C ltronella......................  @
Conlum  Mao................   860
Copaiba.........................   80®

Cubebae......................... 
2 00
Exechthltos................  1  20®1  30
B rlgeron............................. 1 2001 30
G aultherla..........................1 5001 60
Geranium,  ounce.......  
®   75
Gossipll,  Sem. gal.......   70®  75
Hedeoma  ......................1  2501  40
Jum ped...........................  5002 00
L avendula......................  90@2 00
L lm onls...............................1 40®! 60
Mentha Piper......................2 10@3 GO
Mentha Verld.................... 1 8002 00
Morrhuae, g a l....................1 30@1 40
Myrcla, ounce........... 
®   50
O live................................   9003 00
Plcls Liquida,  (gal..35)  10®  12
R icin i.............................. 
96®1 04
Rosmarini..............  
1  00
Rosse,  ounce..............   6 50@8 50
Succi n i.............................  40® 45
Sabin a.............................  9001 00
San tal  ........................... 2  5007 00
Sassafras..........................  500 55
®   65 
Slnapls, ess, ounce.
T iglfi............
®   10 
400  50 
T h ym e.........
®1  60 
opt  . 
15®  20
Theobromas

POTASSIUM.
15®  18
BICarb.........................  
Bichrom ate..................  130  14
Bromide.....................  
40®  43
Carb................................   12®  15
Chlorate  (po. .7019)..  160  18
Cyanide.........................   500  55
Iodide............................ 2  9803  00
Potassa, Bltart,  pure..  230  25
®   15
Potassa, Bltart, com ... 
Potass  Nltras, opt.......  
8 0   10
Potass N ltras.............. 
7® 
9
Prussiate.......................  280  SO
Sulphate  po..................   150  18

RADIX.

(po. 85)........... 

A conltum .....................   200  25
A lthae............................   22®  25
A nchu sa.......................   120  15
0   25
Arum,  po.......................  
Calamus.........................   200  40
Gentlana  (po. 12)....... 
8 0   10
Glychrrhisa, (pv. 15)..  160 
18
Hydrastis  Canaden,
®   30
Hellebore,  Ala,  po—   150  20
Inula,  po.......................  15®  20
Ipecac,  po.....................1 3001  40
Iris  plox  (po. 35038)..  35® 
40
Jalapa,  pr.....................   40®  45
Maranta,  Ks ................  @  35
Podophyllum, p o.........  150  18
Rhel  ...............................  7501  00
“  out  .......................   @1  75
“  p v ...........................  7501  35
S plgella.........................  35®  38
Sangulnarla,  (po  25).. 
0   20
Serpentaria....................  30®  35
S en ega...........................  55®  60
Slmllax, Officinalis.  H 
0   40 
®   25
M 
Sdllae, (po. 85)............   10®  12
Symplocarpus,  Foetl-
0   35
dus,  po.......................  
0   25
Valeriana, Bng.  (po.80) 
German...  150  20
lnglber a ....................... 
18® 20
Zingiber  J....... 
20
18® 

“ 

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SEMEN.

.. 
.4®  

Anlsnm,  (po.  20) 
O   15
Aplnm  (graveleons)..  140  18
Bud, Is............  
6
Carul, (po. 18)................   10® 12
Cardamon-----   ---------1  00@1  25
Corlandram....................  12®  14
4® 
Cannabis Sativa—  
5
Cydonlum......................  
7501 00
Chenopodlnm 
10®  12
..  2 4002  60
Dlpterix Odorate 
Foenicnlnm ..................  @  15
6® 
Foenngreek.  po—  
8
L ln l.............................  
3v*® 4
Llnl, grd.  (bbl. 8)4)..  3)4®  4
Lobelia.............................  86® 40
5
Pharlarls Canarian.... 
4® 
R apa.................................  
5 8   I
Slnapls  A lbu.................  
7®  8
N ig r a ...........  11®  12

r  

 

8PIBITU8.

 
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ir 

Frnmeutl, W., D.  Co  .2 00©£ 50
D. F. R ........1  7502 00
1  2501  50
Juniperls  Co. O. T ....1   6502  00
............1  7503 50
Saacharum  N.  B .........1  7502 00
Spt.  Vlnl  G alll............ 1  7506 56
Vmi Oporto.................. 1  2502  00
Vlnl  A lba......................1  2502 00

SPONGES.

 

Florida  sheeps’  wool
oarrlage.... 
Nassau  sheeps’  wool
carriage  ...................  
Velvet  extra  sheeps’
wool  oarrlage........... 
Extra  yellow  sheeps’
oarrlage...................... 
Grass sheeps’ wool oar-
r la g e ........................... 
Hard for  slate  n se .... 
Yellow Reef, for  slate 
n s e ............................... 

2  5002  75
* 00
1  10
85
*
75
140

STROPS.

A ccacla....................................  50
Zingiber  ..................................  50
Ipecac........................................  80
Ferri  Iod..................................   50
Aurantl  Cortes.......................   56
Rhel  Arom...............................  59
Slmllax  Officinalis................  60
. . . .   50
S en ega......................................  50
S d lla e.......................................   50
CO..................................  M
T oiatan ....................................  50
Pranas  rlrg.............................  50

“ 

TIN C TU R ES.

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

Aconltum  Napellls R ...........  60
F ...........  50
A loes..........................................  60
and  myrrh....................  60
A rn ica......................................  50
Asafcetlda................................   >0
Atrope Belladonna................   60
Benzoin....................................   60
Co...............................  50
Sangulnarla.............................  50
Barosm a..................................   50
Cantharldes.............................  75
Capsicum .................................  50
Ca  damon.................................  75
Co..........................   75
Castor......................................1 00
Catechn....................................   50
C inchona................................   50
Co..........................   60
Colum ba..................................   50
Conlum ....................................   50
Cubeba......................................  50
D ig ita lis..................................   50
Brgot.........................................   50
G entian....................................  50
Co................................   60
G nalca......................................  50
ammon......................  60
Z ingiber..................................  50
Hyoscyam us...........................  50
Iodine.......................................   75
Colorless....................  75
Ferri  Chlorldum..................  35
K in o .........................................   50
Lobelia.....................................   50
Myrrh.......................................   50
N ux  Vomica...........................  50
O p li...........................................  85
“  Camphorated..................  50
“  Deodor........................... 2 00
Aurantl Cortex........................  50
Q uassia....................................  50
..................................  50
R hel...........................................  50
Cassia  A cutlfol......................  50
Co................   50
Serpentaria.............................  50
Stramonium.............................  60
T olutan....................................  60
V alerian..................................  50
Veratrum Veride....................  50

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M ISCELLANEOUS.

. 

11 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

‘ 
“ 

0  
0  
600 

r‘ 
ground, 

zBther, Spts  Nit, 3 F ..  280  30 
“  4 F  .  320  34
Alnmen

(po
7 )................................
Annatto.......................
Antimoni, p o..............
et Potass T
Antlpyrln....................
Antifebrin...................
Argenti  Nltras, ounce
Arsenicum ...........
Balm Gilead  Bad
Bismuth  S.  N __
Calcium Cblor, Is,  ()4s 
12:  k s.  14) 
Cantharides  Russian
p o .............................
Capsid  Fructus, a f.
r p o

2k ®   3
4
3® 
55®  60 
4® 
5
55®  60 
®1  40 
®   25 
®   50 
7
5® 
38®  40 
1  6001  70
0   11
0 1   00 
0   26 
0   28 
0   20
Caryophyllns,  (po.  15)  100  12
Carmine,  No. 40........... 
0 3  75
Cera  Alba, 8. & F .  50® 
55
Cera  Flava.............   380 
40
Coccus 
®   40
.......................  
0   25
Cassia Fructus............ 
Centrarla................. 
10
Cetacenm ...............  
40
Chloroform ........... 
68
0 1   25
sqnlbbs 
Chloral Hyd Ä s t ........ 1  2501  50
Chondros............  
200  25
Cinohonldlne, P.  A  W  15®  20
German  8)4®  12 
Corks,  list,  dls.  per
cent  ......................... 
75
0   35
Creasotum ......... 
0  
Crete, (bbl. 75).......  
2
“  prep..............  
5
5® 
“  preclp........... 
9®  11
8
“  Rubra.................. 
®  
C roons.........................  
35®  40
Cudbear.........................  
®   34
Capri Snlpb..................  5 ®  
6
D extrin e.......................   10®  12
Bther Sulph..................  75®  90
Emery,  all  numbers.. 
6
Krgota.  (po.)  40...........  30®  35
Flake  W hite................   12®  15
G alla..............................   @  23
Gambler.........................7  0   8
Gelatin,  Cooper........... 
O   60
French.............  30®  50
Glassware  flint, by box 80.
Less than box  75.
Glne,  Brown................  
9 0   15
“  W hite..................  130  25
G lycerlna......................  14®  20
Q   22
Grana Paradlsl............. 
H nm nlns.......................   25®  55
Hydraag  Chlor  M ite..  @  75
“  C or____  
O   65
Ox Rnbrnm  @  85
Am m onlad..  @  95
Unguentum.  45®  55
Hydrargyrum...............  @  60
lihthyobolla, A m ..  ..1  2501  50
Indigo.............................  7501  00
Iodine,  R esnbl............3 8003 90
Iodoform........................ 
0 4   70
L npnlln.........................  
0 2   25
Lycopodium ................  600  65
M a d s .............................  70®  75
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy-
orarglod .................... 
0   27
Llqnor Potass Arslnltls  100  12
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
Mannte,  S .F ................  600  63

O
p o......................  @ 

. .............. 2)40 4

“ 
“ 
“ 
11 

) 4

“ 

11 

1

)

“ 

s  

19502  20 

8.  N. Y. Q.  &

Morphia, S.  P.  4;W. 
V.  v u ................... ..
40
Moschus Canton__
0
Myristlca,  No  1  ..  . ..  65® 70
10
N ux Vomica,  (po 20)
0
18
Os.  Sepia.................... ..  150
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D.
0 2  00
Plcls Llq, N..C.,  H gal
dos  ......................... .
0 3   00 
Plcls Llq., quarts  —  
0 1   00
@ 85
pints .......
PII Hydrarg,  (po. 80)
50
0
Piper  Nigra,  (po. 22)
1
0
Piper Alba,  (po g5)..
3
0
Pllx Burgun..............
@ 7
Plumb! A c e t............ ..  12® 13
Pulvls Ipecac et opll ..1  10@1  20
Pyrethrùm,  boxes  1U
@1 25
Pyrethrum,  p v ......... ..  20® 30
Q uasslae...................
8® 10
.. 
Qulnla, S. P. A W ... 
. .34)4 @39)4
S.  German..
..  27® 37
Rubia  Tlnctorum... ..  12® 14
Saccharum Lactls pv . 
12® 14
Salacln...........................2  1003  25
Sanguis  Draconls... ..  40® 50
Sapo,  W ..................... ..  12® 
14
12
..  100
® 15

& P. D.  Co., d o z ...

“  G .......................

“ 

0   20
Seldllts  M ixture......... 
®   18
Slnapls............................ 
®   30
“  opt...................... 
Snuff,  Maccabov,  De
V o e s........................... 
®   35
Snuff. Scotch, De. Voes  ®   35 
Soda Boras,  (po. i l ) .  .  100  11 
Soda  et Potass T art...  240  25
Soda Carb....................  1)4®  2
5
®  
Soda,  Bl-Carb............... 
Soda,  A sh........................3)4® 
4
Soda, Sulphas............... 
®  
2
Spts. Ether C o .............  500  55
“  Myrcla  Dom .......  
0 2   00
“  Myrcla Im p.........  @2  50
'•  V lnl  R ect  bbl.
. . . . 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . .......   25303 63
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Strychnia  Crystal........1  4001  45
Sulphur, Subl.................2 k ®  3
Tam arinds.................... 
8®  10
Terebenth V enice.......   28®  30
Theobrom ae........................45  @ 48
V anilla.........................9 00016 00
Zlnci  Sulph..................  
8

R oll......................... 2  @ 2)4

7® 

“ 

bbl. 

p a in t s. 

Linseed,  boiled..........  57 
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
strained.............   65 
Spirits Turpentine....  33 

60
70
40
lb.
Red  V enetian................ I k   203
Ochre, yellow  Mars___l k   204
“ 
Ber.........I k   203
Putty,  com m ercial....2k  2)403
“  strictly  pore....... 2)4  2k® 3
Vermilion Prime Amer-
le a n ....................  .......
13016
65070
Vermilion,  E nglish__
Green,  Peninsular.......
13015
Lead,  red....................... 6  0 6 k
w h ite .................. 6  @6k
Whiting, white Span...
@70
Whiting,  Gliders’ .........
090
White, Paris  American 
1
Whiting,  Paris  Eng.
c l if f ..............................
1  40
Universal Prepared  ..1  0001  15 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared
P ain ts.........................1  0001  20

“ 

YABNI8HSS.

OILS.

Whale, winter  ...........  70 
Lard,  extra..................  SO 
Lard, No.  1..................   42 
Linseed, pare raw —   54 

Bbl.  Gal
70
85
45
57

No. 1  Turp  Coach....1   1001  20
B xtraT urp...................16601  70
Coach  Body................. 2  7503 00
No. 1 Turp Furn.........1  0001  10
Butra Turk Damar__ 1  5501  60
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 
Turp....................  .... 
70075

Mills  Pill  Case.

EVERY  DRUGGIST  knows  how  inconvenient 
it is to keep his pills in  drawers  or  cigar  boxes, 
necessitating the handling of the entire lot to  find 
the  kind  wanted  at  each  sale,  and  also  when ordering new stock.  Being out of 
sight of customers they never suggest a sale of themselves.

The M ills^ P ill Case does away with all the above objections,  and  offers  many 
new attractive features to the trade.  Has 24 and 40 separate  compartments,  hold* 
to 1 dozen boxes each.  Easily filled.  Protected from dust  and  pilfer­
ing from 
ers.  Always  in  sight.  Glass  front and rear. 
Increases sales.  Can be placed  on 
showcase,  counter  or  shelf.  You  can  see  at  a  glance  how stock is.  Costs no 
more than ordinary drawers.  Ton draw a box out of opening at rear bottom, when 
sold, and the next drops into the same place. 
It’s  a  very  useful  and  ornamental 
addition to every drug store.  Finely finished, complete  and  securely  packed  for 
shipment, and made regularly at following prices:

No.  1,  40  compartments, Natural  or  Antique  Oak.......................86  50
No.  3,  24  compartments, Natural or Antique Oak.........................5  00
No.  2,  40  compartments,  Imitation  Cherry,  Walnut,  Mahogany
or Ebony......................................................... ................................5  50
No.  4,  24  compartments,  Imitation  Cherry,  Walnut,  Mahogany 
or Ebony....................................................................  .................... 4  00

Made  Special  on  Orders,  in  all  Popular  Woods,  Finishes 

and Sises to  Mateh  Store  Interiors.

F o r   Sale By

HBSELTP 

S  PERK P  DRUB  GO.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

16

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

G R O C E R Y   P R IC E   C U R R E N T .

The prices quoted in this list are  for the  trade only,  in  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.

FLA V O R IN G   EXTRACTS. 

Soudera*.

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

Regular
Grade
Lemon.

doz
2oz  __ I  75
4 oz  .. . .   1  50

Regular
Vanilla.

doz
I 2 o z .........81 20
o z......2 40
4 

XX Grade 
Lemon.
2 o z.........II 50
4 o z.......... 3 00
XX Grade 
Vanilla.
2 o z.........91 75
4 oz..........3 50

“ 
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J en n in g s.
Lemon. Vanilla 
120
2 oz regular panel.  75 
2  00
4 oz 
...1   50 
601 
3  00
...2  00 
No. 3  taper............ 135 
200
No. 4  taper............ 1  50 
2  50
N orth rop ’s
2 oz  oval taper  75 
1  20 
“ 
3 oz 
2 oz regular  “
85 
4 oz 
" 
1  60 

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

“ 
“ 
G U N PO W D E R .
Rifle—Dupont’s.

Kegs.........................................3 25
Half  kegs...............................1  90
Quarter  kegs........................1  10
1  lb  cans............................   30
ft  lb  cans.......................... 
18
 
Cboke Bore—Dupont’s

K egs.........................................4  25
Half  kegs............................... 2 40
Quarter kegs..................    ..1 3 5
1 lb c a n s...............................34
Eagle Duck—Dupont’s.

H E R B S.

IN D IG O .

Kegs.........................................11  00
Half  k e g s ............................... 575
Quarter kegs..........................3  00
1  lb  cans............................ 
60
Sage..........................................16
Hops......................................... 15
Madras,  5 lb. boxes.............  
S. F„ 2,3 and 5 lb. boxes.. 
JE L L Y .
15  lb. palls.................... 
“ 
17  “ 
..................  
30  “  “ 
 
LICO RICE.
Pure......................................  80
Calabria.............................. 
26
Sicily....................................   12
Root......................................  10

55
50
©   62
©   53
@ 88

 

LYE.

Condensed,  2  doz..................1  20
4 doz................ 2  25

11 

M IN CE  M EA T.

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

“  “ 
“ 

Peel.
25 
25  “ 

“ 
“ 
Raisins.

Oiidura. 29 lb. boxes.. 
“ 
Sultana, 20 
.. 
Valencia, 30  “

©  7
© 8

Prunes.

“ 
“ 
“ 
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California,  100-120 ................6
“ ..6 f t
“ 
“
Turkey...........................\
S ilver............................

90x100 25 lb.  bxs. 5ft
80x90 
70x80 
6ft
60x70 

ENVELO PES.
XX rag,  white.

...........................  91  33
No. 1, 6ft 
1  10
No. 2, 6 f t ........................... 
1  25
No. 1, 6 ............................ 
4 50
No. 2. 6 ............................ ..  1  Oil
Manilla, white.

6ft  ........................................ 
6............................................. 

Coin.

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

75
70

90

FA R IN A CEO US  GOODS. 

ion lb.  kegs.

Farina.

3ft

Hominy.

Lima  Beans.

B a r r e ls..................................3 00
G rits........................................  3ft
Dried................................ 4  @4 ft
Maccaronl and Vermicelli.
Domestic, 12 lb. box 
55
Imported....................... 10ft @11

 

Pearl Barley.

Kegs.......................................  

2ft

Peas.

Green,  bu............................  1  15
Split  per l b .................... 

3

5
5ft
7

10

Rolled  Oats.

“ 

Schumacher, bbl................  $5  f0
ft bbl_______ 2  63
Monarch,  bbl 
..................  4  25
Monarch, ft  bbl.....................2 25
Quaker,  cases........................ 3 20

Sago.

German..................................  4ft
East India...............................  5

Cracked...................................  8ft

Wheat.

F IS H —S alt.

Bloaters.

Cod.

Yarmouth..............................
Georges cured....................  4ft
Georges genuine...............6
Georges selected..............   6ft
Boneless,  bricks.............. 6ft
Boneless,  strips.................. 6ft©9

Halibut.

Herring.

Sm oked.........................  

11@12

“ 

“ 

6-1 
Holland, white hoops keg 
bbl 
8  00
Norwegian  .........................
Round, ft bbl  100 lb s.........  3  20
1  69
.......  
35
Scaled.................................... 

ft  “  40  “ 

“ 

“ 

Mackerel.

No.  1,  100 lbs.........................10 50
No. 1, 40 lb s ...........................  4  ro
No.  1,  10 lbs...........................  1  20
No. 2,100  lbs......................... g  50
No.  2, 40  lbs.................................. 3 70
  1  ¿0
No. 2, 10  lbs................. 
 
Familv, 90 lbs..................

“  ' 

10  lbs ....................

Sardines.
Trout.

55
Russian,  kegs.......................  
No.  1,  ft  bbls., luoibs............. 4  60
No.  1  ft  bbl, 40  lbs......................2 1C
No  1  kits, 10 lbs................  
60
51
No  1, 8 lb  kits.................... 

First Prize.............................. $6  5i
Darling........................................... 5 00
Standard.......................... 
Leader............................................3 60

CRACK ERS.

Butter.

Seymour XXX.........................5
Seymour XXX. cartoon.......  5ft
Family  XXX.........................  5
Family XXX,  cartoon.........  5ft
Salted  XXX............................   5
Salted XXX,  cartoon  .........  tft
Kenosha 
..............................   7ft
Boston.......................................  7
Butter  b iscu it.......................   6
Soda.  XXX  ...........................  5ft
Soda, City.................................. 7ft
Soda,  D uchess......................... 8ft
Crystal Wafer............   .........10ft
Long  Island Wafers 
..........11
S. Oyster  XXX.......................  5ft
City Oyster. XXX......................5ft
Farina  Oyster.......................   6

Ovster.

Soda.

CREAM   TA R T A R .
30
Strictly  pure......................... 
30
T elfers  Absolute................. 
Grocers’.................................15@25

D R IE D   FRUITS. 

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.
70 lb. bags...........................
25 lb. boxes........................
Peeled, In  boxes............
Cal. evap.  “ 
.............
“ 
In bags  .......
California in bags.......
Pitted  Cherries.
Barrels..............................
50 lb. b o x e s......................
25  “ 
......................
Prunellas.
301b.  boxes.....................
Raspberries.
In  barrels.........................
501b. boxes.......................
.........................
25 lb.  “ 
Raisins.

Pears.

“ 

“ 

Loose  Muscatels In Boxes.

2 crow n..................................
3 
..................................
1 
2  c r o w n ..............................  
8 

“ 
........................ 5
“ 
Loose Muscatels in Bags.
“ 

4ft
..  4ft

» F oreign .
Currants.

Patras,  bbls..............................3
Vostizzas, 56 lb.  cases  .......  3*4

CATSUP.

Blue Label Brand.

“ 

Half  Dint. 25 bottles............ 2  75
Pint 
...........   4  5C
Quart 3  doz b ottles....... ...... 3  50
Half pint, per  doz................1  35
Pint, 25  bottles  .................... 4 Sf
Quart, per  doz  .....................3 75

Triumph  Brand.

CLOTHES  P IN S.

5 

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

COCOA  SH ELLS.

@3 
©3ft 
6ft ©7

35 lb  bags__
Less  quantity 
Pound  packe;

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

packages.........
CO FFEE. 
G reen. 
Rio.
Fair.........................
Good......................
Prim e...............
Golden.........................
Peaberry 
Santos.
F a ir.................
Good.....................
P rim e......................

.......18
___ 19
.......21
.......23
.......19
....... 30
....... 22
Mexican and Guatamala.
Fair............................................21
Good.......................................... 22
Fancy.................................!. !.24
23
Prim e........................ 
M ille d ................................; ..; 24
Interior.....................................25
Private Growth...................... 27
M sndehling............................28
Im itation................................. 25
Arabian.....................................28

Maracaibo.

Mocha.

Java.

Roastod.

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

Package, 

M cL augh lin ’s  X X X X ..  ¿1  30
Bunoia  ................................  21  8!
Lion, 60 or 100 lb.  case....  21  to 

E xtract.

Valley City  ft  gross............  
75
...........1  35
Felix 
Hummel’s, foil,  gross.........   1  65
.........  2  85
“ 

“ 

“ 

tin 
CHICORY.

Bulk...................................  
R ed....................................... 
CLOTHES  LINES.

5
.  7

Cotton,  40 ft. 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
Jute 

50 ft.
60 ft.
70 ft.
80 ft.

60 ft.
72 ft-

per doz.  1  25
1 40
1 80
1 75
1 90
85
1 00

“ 
“ 
“ 
11 
“ 
“  

C R E D IT   CHECKS.

600, any one denom’n ....... 13  00
........5 00
1000,  “ 
“ 
2000,  “  “ 
...... 8 00
75
Steel  punch........................... 
C O N D E N SE D   M IL K .

“ 
“ 

4 doz. In  case.

A X L E   G R E A SE .
Aurora.......................  55 
Castor O il................  
60 
Diamond...................   50 
Frazer’s .................... 
75 
Mica 
.........................   65 
Paragon 
..................  55 

doz  gross
600
7  t:0
5  50
9  00
7  fO
6  00

B A K IN G   P O W D E R . 

Acme.
45
“  ...............  76
1  “  ....................  1  00
10
55

 
case........... 

 

‘ 

Arctic.

u  id.  ;ann. 3  doz—  
*!b. 
1 lb. 
B ulk...................... 
ft  ft cans 6 doz
ft ft “  4 doz
“  2 doz
1  ft
“  1 doz
5  ft
Cream
3  oz “  6 doz
4  oz “  4 doz
oz “  4 doz
o z “  4 doz
ft “  2 doz
lb “  3 doz
“ 
“ 
“ 

Red Star, ft tb  cans 
-
f t f t   “ 
1 ft  “ 
..
Teller’s ,  ft lb. cans, 
ft lb.  “ 
lib .
45
Our Leader,  ft -b cans. 
75
ft lb  cans__
l i b  cans. — .  1  50

• 

.

B A T H   B R IC K . 
2 dozen in case.

E n glish .........................  - •...  90
Bristol.................................. ...  so
...  70
Domestic.  .......................

“ 

BLU IN G .

Gross
Arctic, 4 oz  ovals............. ..  3 60
............. ..  ü  75
8oz 
pints,  round......... ..  9 00
..  2  75
. .  4  no
“
..  s  on
“
1 oz ball  ................ ..  4  50
. ..  3  60
8 oz....... ..  6  80

“ 
“ 
“  No. 2. sifting box. 
“  No. 3, 
“  No. 5, 
“ 
“ 

Mexican Liquid, 4  o z. 

“ 
BROOM S,

No. 2 H url........................... ..  1  90
........................... ..  2  no
No. 1  “ 
..  2  15
No. 2 Carpet  .....................
..  2  50
No. 1 
“ 
.......................
Parlor Gem .......  ............... ..  2  50
85
Common W hisk................ .. 
................ ..  1  00
Fancy 
.  2 85
Warehouse.........................

1 

B R U SH E S.

“ 
“ 

Stove, No.  1........................ ..  1  25
.  1  50
.  1  75
85
.  1  25
.  1  60

“  10.......................
“  15.......................
Rice Root Scrub, 2  row  .
Rice Root  Scrub, 8 row  .
Palmetto,  goose................

CAN D LES.

Hotel, 40 lb. boxes...........
Star,  40 
.............
Paraffine  ...........................
Wieklng 
...........................

“ 

.  10
.  9
.  10
.  24

C A N N E D   GOODS. 

F ish .
Clams.
Little Neck,  l i b ....................i   20
2  lb ....................3  90

“ 

“ 
Clam  Chowder
Standard, S ic ................
Cove Oysters.
Standard,  1 lb ..............

“ 

" 

•* 
“ 

21b......................1  35
Lobsters.
Star,  1  lb ..................
2  lb ..................
Picnic, 1 ib ................
21b...............
Mackerel.
Standard. 1 lb .........
2  lb .........
Mustard,  2 lb ..........
Tomato Sauce,  2 lb .
Soused, 2  lb ..............
Salmon.
Columbia River, fiat 
...1   80 
“ 
tails
. . . 1   65 
Alaska, R ed ..............
....1   25 
pink..............
.1  10
Kinney’s,  flats.......................1  95

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

Sardines.
American  fts ..................4ft@  5
A s...............  .6ft©   7
Imported  ft*...........
©SO 
As........
15@16 
Mustard  X *.............
.  6©7 
B oneless..................
21
Trout.
Brook  S, lb ..............
. .  2 50
F ru its.
Apples.
3  1b. standard..............  
York State, gallons 
Hamburgh,  11 
....

120
4 00

Apricots.
Live oak................  ....
Santa  Cruz....................
Lusk’s .............................
Overland.....................
Blackberries.
F.  &  W ...........................
Cherries.
Red..................................1  !0@1  25
Pitted Hamburgh  ...
White 
................ 
...
Erie 
.........................
1  25
Damsons, Egg Plums and Green 
Gages.
E rie................................
California.....................
Gooseberries,
Common 
.....................
Peaches.
P ie .................................
M axw ell.......................
Shepard's.....................
California......................  160@1
.....................
Monitor 
Oxford...........................
Dom estic........................ 
Riverside.......................  
Pineapples.
Common.........................1  00@1  30
Johnson’s  sliced ......... 
2  50
grated......... 
;
Booth’s sliced..............  @2 5)
grated.........   .  @2  71
l  10

1
1  10 
1  50 
1  50

Quinces.

Pears.

“ 
“ 

l
l

85

Com m on.......................  
Raspberries.
Red  ................................
Black  Hamburg...........
Erie,  black  ......... ...... .
Strawberries.
Law rence......................
Hamburgh....................
Erie.................................
Terrapin...........................
Whortleberries.
Blueberries.................. 
Corned  beef  Libby’s.
Roast beef  Armour’s.
Potted  ham,  ft lb .......
ft lb .........
“ 
ft lb.
V egetab les.

Meat«.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 

Beans.

tongue, ft lb ...............1  a>
95
chicken, ft lb ........... 

“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Peas.

soaked...............

Hamburgh  stringless...........1  15
French style........2 00
Limas  .................. i  35
Lima,  green.............................1  25
Lewis Boston  Baked............1  35
Bay State  Baked...................1  35
World’s  Fair  Baked............  1  35
Picnic Baked.......................... 1  00
Corn.
.............................1  25
Hamburgh 
Livingston  E d en ................. 1  20
P u rity..........................
Honey  D ew .............................1  49
Morning Glory...........
  75
Soaked.................................  
Hamburgh  marrofat............ 1  30
early June  .  ...1  
so
Champion Eng. .1  40
petit  pols............. 1  40
fancy  sifted. ...1   90
Soaked......................................  65
Harris standard......................  75
VanCamp’s  marrofat...........1  10
early .June.......1  30
Archer’s  Early Blossom__ 1  25
F rench.....................................2  15
Mushrooms.
French....... .......................... I9©21
Pumpkin.
E rie...........................................  75
Squash.
Hubbard.................................. 1  35
Succotash.
Hamburg.................................. 1  40
Soaked....................... 
go
Honey  D ew ............................. 1  50
E rie........................................... 3  35
H ancock..................................
Excelsior 
Eclipse 
Hamburg.................................
G allon............................... .
CHOCOLATE.

Tomatoes
.................
......................

“ 

 

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

C H E E SE .
Amboy..............   .........
Acm e..............................
Lenawee.......................
R iverside.....................
Gold  Medal..............
Skim ...............................
Brick..............................
Edam.
L eiden.......
.Imburger 
Pineapple..
Roquefort.. 
Sap  Sago.......................  
Schweitzer,  imported. 

domestic  I

23
37
43

lift
11
n ft
n
10ft
8©9
32

___
©20
©23
©13

N.Y.Cond’ns’d Milk Co’s brands
ail Borden Eagle..............   7  40
Crown.....................................   6  25
D aisy..........................................5  75
Champion..............................   4  50
.............................  4  25
Magnolia 
D im e..........................................3  35

Peerless evaporated cream.  5  75

36  1-lb   c a rto o n s ___ ...  SJj
25  lb .  boxes, b u lk ..........  
4 \
5 0  lb . bo xes,  b u l k . . . . . ..  435
r 
1  lb ,  c a rto o n s ................... 1 1

Sultana  Raisins.

Mince meat, 3 doz.  in case.  2  75
Pie Prep. 3  doz. 
in case___ 3 08

M EA SUR ES.
Tin, per dozen.

 

.........................  11  75
1  gallon 
Half  gallon.......................  
1  40
70
Q u a it.................... 
 
P in t........................................ 
45
Half  p in t ...........................  
40
Wooden, for vinegar, per doz.
1  g a llo n ..................................   7 00
Half g a llo n ...........................   4 75
Q uart.............  .....................  3  75
Pint 

2

Whiteflsh.

No.  I  family
ft  bbls,  100 lbs.............$7  25  2  50
ft  “  40  “  .............  3 20  1 25
10 lb.  k its..................... 
40
81b. 
35
...........  
M A T C H E S.

88 
75 

“ 

Globe Match Co.’s Brands.

Columbia  Parlor........................ 91 25
XXX Sulphur.............................  1 no
Diamond  Match  Co.’s  Brands.
No. 9  sulphur...............................1 65
Anchor parlor.............................. 3 70
No. 2 hom e.................................... 1 10
Export  parlor............................[.4 00

..........................  
M GLASSES. 
Blackstrap.
Cuba Baking.
Porto R iu .

Sugar house.........................  
Ordinary.............. 
.... 
P rim e....................................  
F an cy. 
N “w Orleans.
Fair 
................................. 
Good  ....................................  
Extra good...........................  
Choice 
...............................  
F ancv... 
............................ 
Half  barrels 3c.extra

)4
le
20
30
18
22
27
32
40

THE  MXCHXG.AJSr  TRADESMAN,

17

P IC K L E S.
Medium.

Barrels, 1,200  cou n t... 
Half bbls, 690  count..
Small.
Barrels, 2.400  count
Half bblB, 1,200 count
P IP E S .

@5  GO 
@3 10
6 00
3 50

Clay, No.  216......................
...1   70
...  70
“  T. D. fu ll count.......
Cob, No.  3 ......................... ...1   20

P O T A SH .

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

“ 
“ 

Imported.

Japan, No. 1........................
N o.2.......................

“ 

....5)4
....5

Patna.................................... • •  4)4

S P IC E S . 

W hole Sifted.

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
11 
“ 

A llspice................................ ..  9)4
Cassia, China In m ats....... -  9)4

Batavia In bund..,..15
Saigon In rolls__ ..32
Cloves,  Amboyna.................22
Zanzibar....... ........ .11)4
Mace  Batavia..................... ..80
..75
Nutmegs, fan cy..................
...70
No.  1.....................
No.  2..................... ...60
...10 
Pepper, Singapore, black..
,  .20
w hite...
shot....................... -.16
Pure Ground In Bulk.
AllBplce................................ ..15
Cassia,  B a ta v ia ................ ..18
and  Saigon.25
Saigon.................. ..35
Cloves,  Amboyna.............. ..22
Zanzibar.............. ..18
..16
Ginger, A frican..................
.  20
Cochin..................
.22
Jam aica............
Mace  Batavia..................... ..65
Mustard,  Bng. and Trieste..22
Trieste.................. ..25
Nutmegs, No. 2 ...................... 75
Pepper, Singapore, black — 16
w hite........24
Cayenne...................20
Sage............................................20

“ 
■‘Absolute” In  Packages.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

H«
A llsp ice...............  
84  155
C innam on....................  84  155
Cloves.............................  84  155
Ginger,  Jam aica.........  84  1  55
A frican............   84  1  55
Mustard..........................  84  1  55
Pepper...........................   84  155
Sage..................................  84

&s 

“ 

“ 

“ 

 

SA L   SO D A .

** 

Granulated,  bbls...............
751b  cases__

...  IX 
...  1* 
1  15
1451b  kegs.................  IX

“ 

SE E D S.
A n ise .............................
Canary, Smyrna.  .......
C araway.......................
Cardamon, Malabar...
Hemp,  Russian...........
Mixed  Bird..................
Mustard,  w h ite...........
Poppy.............................
R ape..............................
Cuttle  bone..................
STAR C H .

@15
45Ü
8
90
4
5@6
10
9
5
30

“ 

Corn.
20-lb  boxes..............................  53£
40-lb 
............................  5)4
Gloss.
..  5
1 -lb packages.......................
..  5
3-lb 
.......................
6-lb 
....................... ...  5)4
40 and 50 lb. boxes...........
-■  3X
Barrels.....................................  3 *

“ 
“ 

SN U FF .

Scotch, In  bladders........... .8 7
Maccaboy, In jars..............
. .35
French Rappee, in Jars...
.43

SO D A,

SALT.

Boxes 
.................................. ...5 X
Kegs, Bngllsh  .................... ...4M

“ 

Diamond  Crystal.
Cases, 24 3  lb.  boxes......... *  1  60
Barréis,  320  lbs..................
2'50
115 2)4 lb b ags.... 
4  00
“ 
lb  “ 
....
60 5 
“ 
3  75
30 10  lb  “ 
....
“ 
3  50
Butter,'56 lb  bags..............
65
“  20141b bags..............
3 50
“  280 lb  b b ls.............
2  50
“  224 lb 
.............
225
Worcester.
115 2)4-lb sacks................   . .14  CO
60 5-lb 
“ 
.................... .  3 Ï5
“ 
3010-lb 
.................... .  3  50
24  14 lb.  “ 
...................... .  3  30
3201b. bbl............................. .  2  PO
81b  sack s... 
.................. -  32)4
60
100 3-lb. sacks..................... .12  10
60 5-lb. 
.  1  90
2810-lb.  sacks.................... .  175
56 lb. dairy In drill  bags.. 
. 
30
281b. 
.
16
. 
56 lb. dairy in linen sacks .. 
75
56 in. dairy in linen  s&cke1. 
75
56  lb.  Backs......................... . 
22
S agin aw ..............................
90
M anistee..............................
90

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

Ashton.
Higgins.

Common Fine.

Soiar Rock.

Warsaw.

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

. 

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

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

Rococo—Second
Lemon. 
Vanilla.

*10 30 gro 
12 60  “ 
14  40  ■*

16  20 gro 
21  60  “ 
25  50 
Grade.

SA LER A TUS. 

Packed 60 lbs. in box.

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

SEELY ’S  EXTRACTS. 

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

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

SO A P.
L a u n d r y .

Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.

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

Proctor & Gamble.

“ 

Concord....................................3  45
Ivory, 10  o z.............................6  75
6  oz................................4 00
Lenox 
................................   3  65
Mottled  German....................3  15
Town Talk  .............................3  25

Dingman Brands.

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

Jas. S.  Kirk & Co.’s  Brands. 

“ 

“ 

American  Family, w rp d ..|3   33 
p la in ...  3  27
N.  K.  Falrbank & Co.’s Brands.
Santa C laus...........................  4  00
Br jwn, 60 bars........................2  40
80  bars  ......................3  25

“ 
Lautz Bros. & Co.’s Brands.

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

S ilver....................................... 3 66
M on o.........................................3 30
Savon Improved  ................   2  50
Sunflow er................................2 SO
G olden......................................3 25
.  2 25
Economical  ................. J 
Single  b ox............................... 3 65
5 box  lots...............................  3  go
10 box lots................................3  50
25 box  lots del........................3 40

Passolt’s Atlas  Brand.

Scouring.

S apolio, kitchen, 3  d o z...  2 40
hand, 3 doz..............2 40

“ 

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  his  shipping 
point, including 20  pounds  for 
the weight of the barrel.
Domino....................................85 18
Cut  Loaf.................................  5 is
C ubes..................................".  4  87
Powdered................................ 4 §7
XXXX  Powdered.................  5  2
G ranulated...........................   4 55
Fine Granulated...................  4 je
Extra Fine Granulated...  4  t9
Mould  A  .................................4  31
Diamond Confec.  A ............  4 62
Confec.  Standard  A ..............4 50
No.  1.....................................  4  31
No-  2 .....................................  4 31
No.  3.......................................  4 31
No.  4.......................................  4 25
No.  5.........................................4 jjj
No.  6.................................."   4 co
No.  7.........................................3 94
No.  8.........................................3 81
No.  9........................................ 3 75
No.  10......................................   3 69
No.  11........................................ 3 62
No.  12......................................  3 5i
No.  13.........................................3 50
No.  14......................................   3 44

Corn.

Barrels..................................... 24
Half bbls..................................25
Fair................................  19
G o o d .„ ................................’ ’  25
Choice  ................................. ’ ’  30

Pure Cane.

T A B L E   SAUCES.

Lea & Perrin’s, la r g e .........4 75
sm all........  2 75
Halford, la r g e ......................3 75
sm all......................2 25
Salad Dressing,  la r g e ....... 4  55
sm a ll........2 66
*' 

“ 
'* 

TEAS.

japan—Regular.

SUN C U BED .

BASKET  F IR E D .

P a ir ................................  @17
G ood...............................  @20
Choice.............................. 24  @26
Choicest...........................32  @34
D u st.................................10  @12
F a ir................................   @17
G ood..............................   @20
Choice...............................24  @2e
Choicest...........................32  ©34
D ust............ ................... 10  @12
P a ir..................................18  @20
Choice.............................  @25
Choicest.......................  
@35
Extra choice, wire leaf  @40
Common to  fa il.............25  @35
Extra fine to finest___ 50  @65
Choicest fancy...............75  @85
@26
Common to  fair.............23  @30
Common to  fair.............23  @26
Superior to fine...............30  @35
Common to  fair.............18  @26
Superior to  fine.............30  @40

YOUNO HYSON.

GUNPO W D ER.

oolono. 

IM PE R IA L .

EN G LISH   B R E A K FA ST.

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

TOBACCOS.

F in e Cut.

P. Lorillard & Co.’s Brands.
Sweet Russet................ 30  @32
30
Tiger............................... 
D. Scotten &  Co’s Brands.
60
H iawatha...................... 
C uba............................... 
32
R ocket........................... 
30
Spaulding & Merrick’s  Brands.
Sterling......................... 
30
Private Brands.
B azoo.............................  @30
Can  Can.........................
Nellie  B ly...................... 24  @25
Uncle B en......................24  @25
McGinty........................ 
37
25
V4 bbls........... 
Colum bia.........................  
Columbia,  drum s..........  
Bang  U p ......................... 
Bang up,  drums  ........... 

*4
23
“I
1»

“ 

F la g .

Sorg’s Brands.

 

40

Spearhead.........................  
Jok er.............................
Nobby T w ist................. --■ 
Scotten’s Brands.
K y lo .-................................. 
Hiawatha............................ 
Valley C ity .......................  
Fiuzer’s Brands.
Old  Honesty...................... 
Jolly Tar...................................32
Lorillard’s Brands. 
39
Climax  (8  oz., 4 1 c).... 
Gr'en Turtle.....................  
Three  Black Crows... 
27
J. G. Butler’s Brands.
Something Good......... 
38
Out of  Sight..................  . 
24
Wilson  «   McCaulay’s Brands.
Gold  Rope.......................... 
Happy Thought........... 
37
M essmate...........................  
N oT ax................................  
Let  Go................................. 

39

25
*
34
40

30

43
32
31
37

S m okin g.

Gatlin’s  Brands.

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

Kiln  dried........................... 17@t8
Golden  Shower...................... 1»
Huntress 
.................29@o0
Meerschaum 
American Eagle Co.’s  Brands.
Myrtle  N avy.....................••••**
Stork  .................................30@s~
German....................................
Frog...............................33
Java,  Mis fo il...........................*-
Banner Tobacco Co.'s Brands.
Banner......................................¿jj
Banner Cavendish................ 38
Gold Cut 
...............................28

Scotten’s Brands.

W arpath..................................
Honey  D ew............................. 2b
Gold  Block...................  
30
F. F. Adams Tobacco Co,’s 
Peerless.................................... 26
Old  Tom.................................. 1°
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..............,.........30@32
Corn  Cake................ 
16

V IN E G A R .

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

81 for barrel.

WET  MUSTARD,
Bulk, per gal  ...................... 
30
Beer mug, 2 doz in case...  1  75

Y EAST.

M agic,...................................... 1  00
Warner’s  ............ ................... 1  00
Yeast Foam  ...........................1  00
Diamond..................................  75
R o y a l.........  
..........................  90

W O O D E N W A R E .

splint 

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‘ 
“ 

IN D U R A TED   W A RE.

“ 
“ 
“ willow cl’ths, No. 1  5  25
“ 
“ 
“ 
•* 

Tubs, No. 1.............................  6 00
“  No. 2.............................5  50
“  No. 3.............................4  50
.  130 
Palls, No;  1, two-hoop.. 
“  No. 1,  three-hoop—   1  50
Bowls, 11 Inch.......................
13  “ 
......................... 
“ 
90
15  “ 
“ 
........  .............1  25
17  “ 
“ 
........................  1 80
19  “ 
“ 
......................2  40
21 
“  
.......................
Baskets, market............ 
35
shipping  bushel..  1  15
fu ll  hoop  “ 
.. 1  25
“  No.2 6 25
“  No.3  7  25
“  N o.l  3  75
“  No.2 4 25
“  No.3 4 75
Pails.......................................   3  15
Tubs,  No.  1............................ 13 50
Tubs, Ño. 2 ..............................12 00
Tubs, N o .3 ..............................10 50
2 50  1  0C
No.  1............................. 
60  2  10
70  2 45
No.  2.............................  
80  2 80
No.  3............................  
No 
.............................  1  00  3 50
Washboards—single.
U niversal.................................2  25
No.  Q ueen...............................2 50
Peerless Protector..................2  40
Saginaw G lob e...,...............  1  75
Water W itch..........................2 25
W ilson.................................... 250
Good Luck............................. 2 75
Peerless..................................  2  85
H ID E S   F E L T S   a n d   F U R S
Perkins  &  Hess  pay  as  fol­

Butter Plates—Oval.

Double.

“ 

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“ 

H ID E S .

©  3)4
....................  @  4)4

lows:
G reen................................  2@3
Part  Cured.................. 
Full 
Dry..................................  5  @ 6
Kips,green  ..................  3  @ 4
cured....................  @ 5
Calfskins,  green.........  5  @  6
cured.........  5)43  7
.10 @25
Deacon skins.............
No. 2 hides H off.
PE L T S,

Shearlings.................. ..  5 @  20
..................... ..25 @  60
Lambs 
WOOL.
.12 @17
W ashed......................
U nw ashed.........  — ..  8 @13
T allow ....................... ..  4 ©   4)4
Grease  butter  .......... ..  1 @  2
Sw itches.......................   1)4@  2
G inseng.........................3  Q0©3 25
G R A IN S   a n d   F E E D S T U F F 8

M ISCELLANEOUS.

W H EA T.

Less

47
47

M EAL.

FLO U R   IN   SACKS.

No. 1 White (58 lb. test) 
No. 2 Red  (601 b. test) 
Bolted....................................  1  40
Granulated...........................  1  65
»Patents................................   2 05
»Standards...........................  1  55
Bakers’..................................   1  35
»Graham..  .........................   1  40
Rye.........................................   1  40
•Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour I11 bbls., 25c per bbl. ad­
ditional.

M IL L ST U FFS.

Bran................ *14  50 
Screenings__  12  00 
M iddlings......  16  00 
Mixed Feed...  23 CO 
Coarse meal  .  22 00 

Car lots  quautity
*15 00
13 00
17 00
24 50
23  00

CORN.

Car  lots...................................53)4
Less than  car  lots.............. 55)4

OATS.

Car  lots...................................3 ‘;
Less than car lots.................38
HAY.
No.  1 Timothy, car lots— 11  f0 
N o .l 
ton lots.........12 50

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FISH   A N D   OYSTERS.
F.  J.  Dettenthaler  quotes as

F R E S H   F IS H .

follow s:
Whlteflsh 
....................  @10
T ro u t.............................  @8
Black Bass.................... 
Halibut...........................  @17
Ciscoes or Herring —   @ 5
Blneflsh.........................   @10
Fresh lobster, per lb .. 
20
Cod.................................. 
10
No. 1 Pickerel..............   @ 9
P ike................................   @  8
Smoked  W hite.............  @ 8
15
Red  Snappers............... 
Columbia  River  Sal­
mon ............................. 
12)4
Mackerel........................  18@25
o y s t e r s — Cans. 
Fairhaven  Counts —   @35
F . J. D.  Selects........... 
30
S elects...........................  @25
23
F. J. D............................. 
Anchors.........................  
2J
Standards...................... 
18
F avorite.................................. 13
o y s t e r s — Bulk.
C ounts........................... 
Extra Selects..per gal. 
S elects........................... 
Standards...................... 
Scallops......................... 
Shrimps  ....................... 
Clam s.............................
SH E L L   GOODS.
Oysters, per  100...........1  25@1  75
Clams, 
.  75@1  00

2  20
1  75
160
1  10
1  50
1  25

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FR O  VISIONS.

The Grand Rapids  Packing  and Provision Co 

quotes as follows :
p o r k   i n   b a r b e l s .
15  0J
Mess........................................................ 
Short c u t .............................................. 
@  15  25
Extra clear pig, short  cu t................ 
16  00
Extra clear,  heavy.............................
Clear, fat  back....................................  16 03  @  16  50
Boston clear, short c u t..............   ...
Clear back, shortcut.........................  15  75 @  16  25
Standard clear, short cut. best
SAUSAGE.
Pork, links..................................
Bologna.......................................
Liver................... .......................
Tongue  ......................................
Blood ...........................................
Head ch ee se..............................
Summer........................................
Frankfurts..................................
L A R D .
Kettle  Rendered....................
G ranger......................................
F am ily.........................................
Compound..................................
Cottolene... 
.;  ......................
50 lb. Tins, 14c advance.
20 lb.  palls,  )4c 
10 lb. 
“  =£c 
51b.  “  %c 
3 lb. 
’* 
1  c
Extra Mess, warranted 200  lb s.........................  7  75
Extra Mess, Chicago packing.........................  7  75
Boneless, rump butts...........................................lu 75
11
18 lb s...........................................M X
12 to 14 lb s..................................  n it
p icn ic...........................................................  g
best boneless.................................................9
Shoulders........................................................... 714
Breakfast Bacon  boneless................... ,. iox@ ll
Dried beef, ham prices...............................11@1134

Hams, average 20 lb s..................................  

s m o k e d   m e a t s —Canvassed or Plain.

B E E F   IN   B A R R ELS.

9 *
9
OX
«)4

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D R Y   SALT  MEATS.

„ 

Long Clears, heavy 
Briskets,  medium.
lig h t.......
Butts.........................
D.  S.  Bellies.............
Fat Backs................
Half  barrels...........................................................3
2
Quarter barrels................................................  
K its.............................................................................. 00
90
75
Kits, honeycomb......................................... 
Kits, premium.......................................... ’ 
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PIC K L E D   P IG S ’  F E E T .

T R IP E .

C R O C K E R Y   A N D   G L A S S W A R E

LA M P  B U R N E R S.

No. 0 Sun..................................................................   40
N o .l  “ 
4 ,
Ho. 2  “  ..................................................................   65
Tubular....................................................................   50

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

 

l a m p   c h i m n e y s .  Per b o x .

6 doz. In box.

No. 0 Sun...................................................................1  75
Ho. 1  “ 
...................................................................1  88
N o.2  “ 
...................................................................2  70
No. 0 Sun, crimp  top................................................... 2 10
No. 1 
“ 
“ .................................................... 3 25
No. 2 
No. 0 Sun, crimp  top...................................................2 60
NTn  1 

First quality.
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XXX Flint.

2  25

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9

 

 

 

Pearl top.

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La Bastle.

No. 1 Sun, wrapped and  labeled... 
“ 
N o.2  “ 
No. 2 Hinge,  “ 
Fire Proof—Plain Top
No.  1, Sun,  plain  bulb......................
No. 2,  “ 
“ 
......................
No.  1 Sun, plain bulb,  per doz.......
N o.2  “ 
...  .
No. 1 crimp, per doz..........................
“ 
No. 2 
“ 
...........................
LA N TER N   GLOBES.
No. 0,  Tubular, cases 1 doz. 
No. 0, 
“   
“  
No. 0, 
No. 0, 

.3  70 
.4  70 
■ 4  82
.3  40 
.4  4J
.1  25 
.1  50 
.1  35 
.1  60
each...................  45
“ 
45
2  “ 
40
bbls 5  “ 
bull’s eye, cases 1 doz each. 1  00

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ROCHESTER STORE  LAMPS.

STREET  LAMPS.

No.  10, Brass, 40o  caudle  power......................2 75
No. 9, Globe, automatic  extinguisher..........3  25
LAMP WICKS.
No. C,  per  gross..................................................   20
.............................................   28
No. 1, 
No. 2, 
.............................................  38
No. 3, 
.............................................   65
Mammoth, per doz.............................................   75
FRUIT JARS.

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Masou—old  style.

 

 

Dandy—glass  cover.

P in ts.................................................................. 5  00
Q uarts.................................................................. 5 50
Half  gallons....................................................... 7 00
Pints.......  .......................................................... 8  50
Q uarts............................................  
900
Half  gallons.....................................................12 00
Boyd’s extra caps...............................................2  25
Rubber rings...................................................... 
35
Sealing wax, red or white, 5 lb  packages__ 2)4
JELLY  TUMBLERS—Tin Top.
% Pints,  6 doz in box, per box  (box 00).......1  64
24 “ 
% 
doz  (bbl  35)........   23
“ 
6  “  “  box,  “  box  (box 00) __   1  80
)4 
)4  “ 
18 “ 

“  bbl, 
“  bbl,  “ doz  (bbl35)......  26

Supplies.

STONEWARE—AKRON.
Butter Crocks,  1 to 6 gal................................  06
X  gal. per  doz.:.....................  60
Jugs, )4 gal., per doz.......................................  70
07
Milk Pans, % gal., per  doz.................... ... 
60
...........................  72

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“ 

1  “ 
STONEW ARE— BLACK GLA ZED .

6)4
Butter Crocks,  1  and 2 g al............................. 
Milk Pans, )4 gal. per  doz...............................  65
78

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48

THE  STORY  OP  JOE.

Concluding-  Chapter  of  an  Eventful 

Career.

It will be remembered that we left  Joe 
and  his  master  at  Grandville. 
It  was 
Mr.  Elliott’s  intention to ship the dog to 
Iowa to his (Mr.  Elliott’s) father,  who  is 
a respectable dealer  in  boots  and  shoes 
out there and  deserved  better  treatment 
at  the  hands  of  his  son,  who never re­
ceived anything  but  kindness  from  his 
father.  Elliott  routed  out  the  express 
agent at Grandville and told him  he  had 
a  dog  be  wanted  to  ship.  The  agent 
came  out  and  when he saw Joe he said: 
“Are you going to send that  dog  by  ex­
press?” 
“Yes;  why?”  “I  think  you 
had better send him in a refrigerator car. 
1 am afraid he’ll spoil if you send him by 
express.”  “What  makes you think so?” 
“Because  he  has  a  bad  look  now.” 
Elliott  sat  down  on a truck to rest after 
that and Joe dropped  his  caudle  appen­
dage  and  never  raised  it  again.  Mr. 
Elliott had taken the precaution  to  send 
out a slatted box in  which tbe dog  might 
be transported  to  his  destination.  This 
box was brought out,  tbe door in the end 
opened,  and  Joe  was  invited  to  enter. 
He walked around the box,  peered  in  at 
the opening and turned a look of  mourn­
ful enquiry upon his master.  “Yes, Joe,” 
said  Mr.  Elliott,  in  a  lachrymose tone, 
It’s  hard, old  boy,  but 
“You’re  right. 
there  is  no  help  for  it. 
If  you didn’t 
have so much reputation we  could  keep 
you  in  Grand  Radids;  but  there  isn’t 
room there for you and  your  reputation. 
Out  on  the  prairie,  perhaps,  you  will 
have room to throw yourself.  1  hope so, 
anyway.  Gome, old fellow,  get  in,”  he 
added,  as  the  whistle  of  the  midnight 
train  sounded  in the distance.  Without 
a word Joe walked into the  box  and  lay 
down, the door  was  shut  and  fastened, 
and the box properly labeled  The train 
pulled 
the  box  was 
placed  in the express car,  and  the  train 
was soon thundering  on  its  way  again. 
Mr. Elliott stood where the dog left  him, 
buried in thought.  Joe had  gone.  The 
only dog he had  ever  loved  had  passed 
from  his  sight—perhaps  forever—torn 
from his embrace when he  was  just  be­
ginning  to  learn  his worth.  Suddenly, 
without warning,  he  continued  to  stand 
there,  until  the  return  of  the  agent, 
when,  heaving a sigh that made the very 
air  vibrate  and concealing  his  emotion 
under his macintosh,  he  left  the  place. 
Going to the hotel and ordering  bed  and 
breakfast for one,  he  retired,  to  forget 
his  sorrow  in the embrace of Morpheus.
In the meantime Joe was  speeding  to­
ward tbe  home  of  Uncle  Horace  Boies 
and the badger,  sometimes  called  Iowa. 
His destination was Marion, Linn county. 
He  appeared  strangely  silent  and  pre­
occupied  during  tbe  journey.  The  ex­
press messenger tried to rouse  him,  but 
without avail.  His  mind  was  evidently 
not on his surroundings.  Was  he think­
ing  of  his  master,  who  was sorrowing 
with a sorrow  which  refused to be com­
forted ?  Perhaps his mind  was dwelling 
upon the stirring events in which he had 
mingled,  or  the  history  which  he  had 
been chiefly instrumental in making.  Or 
did he mourn, like the  Macedonian  con­
queror,  because,  having  vanquished  the 
world, there  remained  no  more  worlds 
to  conquer?  On  this  point  deponent 
hath nothing to say, for,  during  the  en­
tire  journey,  Joe  preserved  a  dogged 
silence.  Marion  was  reached  in  due

in  and  stopped, 

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

course,  and  on  the  platform  stood Mr. 
Elliott,  Sr., and  George  Lake,  better 
known  as  George  Washington  Lake, 
from an annoying habit he has of always 
telling  the  truth.  When  the  box  was 
brought  out  of  the  car  and  the  door 
opened, Joe stepped out  upon  the  plat­
form  with  an  air  of  resignation which 
impressed  the  beholders  as  being  very 
well  done.  Something  ailed  Joe.  He 
seemed weary,  and  his  air  was  listless; 
but still there was something  about  him 
which  protected  him  from  the  vulgar 
familiarity of the rabble which  thronged 
the platform.  There was  a  certain  dis­
tingue  air  about  him  which  prevented 
anyone from taking  liberties  with  him. 
When  Mr.  Elliott  saw  Joe  he  was  not 
favorably impressed;  but  it  was  other­
wise with  Mr.  Lake.  Joe  was  just  the 
dog he had been looking for.  Now,  be it 
known  to  a  curious  public  that Uncle 
George Lake was  superintendent  of  the 
Marion  stock-yards; a position which,  at 
times,  will  try  a  man’s  temper  and 
nerves  as  nothing  else  will; a fractious 
pig  or  a  steer  on  a  rampage may be  a 
great aid to digestion,  but  it  won’t  im­
prove  a  man’s  chances  of  getting  to 
heaven.  Lately  Mr. Lake had  been hav­
ing a terribly profane time of  it.  Never 
had  hogs  been  so  hoggish  or  cattle  so 
cantankerous.  Life  had been  a  contin­
uous nightmare with horns.  Here was a 
chance for  relief.  Joe  would  help  him 
out.  He knew by tbe  dog’s  general  ap­
pearance that he could take the twist out 
of  a  hog  in  a  little  less  than no time. 
So, noting Mr.  Elliott’s hesitation,  he ap­
proached  him  and  said,  “Bad  looking 
pup,  ain’t  he?”  “He  is,”  replied  Mr. 
Elliott,  “he looks  as if his moral  and  re­
ligious education had  been  neglected.  1 
wish Will  had  kept him in Grand Rapids; 
he  could  not  hurt  that  town.”  “ Look 
here,” said Mr.  Lake,  “I’ll tell you  what 
I’ll do. 
I  need just such a dog as he ap­
pears to be,  and I’ll  take him over to the 
I think I can 
yards and keep him there. 
use  him,”  he  added  grimly. 
It  was 
finally arranged that Joe should go to the 
stock-yards.  Mr.  Lake fastened a string 
to the dog’s collar and led him away,  fol­
lowed  at  a  respectful  distance  oy  a 
crowd  of  small  boys.  On  reaching  the 
yards he was  taken  into  the  office  and 
Mr.  Lake waited  with  some  impatience 
an opportunity to  put  his  new  assistant 
at work. 
It came in the  course  of  half 
an hour or so.  A  big  porker,  weighing 
about  300  pounds,  had got into a corner 
and refused to move, showing fight when 
an  attempt  was  made  to  move  him. 
“Never  mind,”  said  Mr.  Lake  confi­
dently,  “I have a  persuader  here  which 
will  move  the biggest pig in the yards.” 
Joe  was  led  out  and when near the pig 
the rope was taken off, and  he  was  told 
to “sick’em.”  He didn’t.  The  pig  saw 
Joe first, and with a grunt  that  loosened 
the fish-plates on  the  railway  track,  he 
“charged.”  When  Joe heard  that  grunt 
he  gave  vent  to  one  yelp  of  dismay, 
turned  tail  and  incontinently  fled.  He 
fled so fast that the  wind  blew him  loose 
from his hair;  out of the  gate  and  down 
the  street,  making  his way out into  the 
prairie, running for dear life, 
if he had 
kept  up  that  rate  of  speed  for  a  few 
hours he would  have  reached the  Rocky 
Mountains.  When found, finally,  he was 
about  two  miles  out  on  the  prairie. 
Nearly all his hair was gone and he wore 
an air of  the  deepest  dejection  and  de­
spair.  He  was  taken  back,  and,  when 
near the  stock  yards,  showed  so  much

terror that  he was  taken to Mr.  Elliott’s 
home.  Mr. Lake did  not like the idea of 
taking the dog back. 
It would  not  look 
right.  So, on the way over, he constructed 
the story about Joe killing the pig.  There 
was not a word of truth  in  it.  The  dog 
did  not  touch  the  pig.  He  had  no 
thought of  injuring  the  pig,  and  if  he 
has  his  way  he  will  never  again  look 
upon a pig. 
In  the  telling  of  that  one 
story G. W.  Lake broke  the  record  of  a 
lifetime  and  from  henceforth  remorse 
must be his meat  by  day  and  his  drink 
by night.  As for Joe,  from that time on­
ward he was a changed dog.  He has not 
lifted up his head since, so to speak.  He 
has been  whipped by every cat in Marion, 
and there is not a dog in the town,  big or 
little,  which has not walked all over him. 
Joe is, indeed,  changed;  his  once  proud 
spirit is broken;  he is no longer monarch 
of all he surveys;  in  fact, he  is not  now 
in the surveying business.  He  has  been

sent  into  the  country  in  the hope that 
the country  air  and  rural  fare  may  do 
something  for  him,  for  he  is in a very 
bad  way.  His  western  trip  has  not 
panned out as well as was hoped for.

His master  started from  Grand Rapids 
last Saturday  for  Iowa.  He  had  borne 
the separation as long  as he could.  Per­
haps a sight  of  his  master  may  do  Joe 
good.  Mr. Elliott  was asked,  just as  he 
was about to start  for the  west,  how  he 
accounted for Joe’s  fear of  the  pig.  He 
said he thought Joe’s dislike of pork was 
hereditary.  The  dog’s  grandfather  was 
ewned by a Hebrew.

The English Pharmaceutical  Society is 
contemplating taking  steps  to  have  the 
sale of carbolic acid restricted, on account 
of the numerous poisonings with it.  The 
Society thinks that  it  ought  to  be  de­
clared a poison,  to be  sold  by  chemists 
only. 

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BUY  RIGHT  WHEN U

T h e   C eleb ra te d

BUY

CLEANED  GREEK  CURRANTS

an d   th e   G e n u in e

CLEANED  SULTANA  RAISINS

GRAND  RAPIDS  FRUIT  CLEANING  CO.

PREPARED  ONLY  BY

Ihese currants are prepared from 

CHOICE  NEW  FRUIT 

ported from Greece.

im­

Being carefully Cleaned and as­
sorted,  they  are  READY  FOR 
IMMEDIATE USE and require  no 
further preparation.

Cleaned currants cost in reality 
less than  uncleaned,because dirt and 
stones weigh more  than Fruit.

Try  Them.

Ask your jobber for them and take no others claimed to be just as good,  o *
N.  B. See that your Package of Currants are the same as the  above  fac  simile. 
ESP” For Quotations see Price Current.

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MEN  OF  MARE.

H.  Montague,  Manager of  the Hannah 

&  Lay Mercantile  Co.

Perhaps it is not too  much to say  that 
a majority of  the  more  prominent  busi­
ness men of Michigan are natives  of  the 
old Empire State.  Being the  most  pop­
ulous State in the Union,  as  she  is  one 
of the oldest,  her sons have  followed the 
course  of the  setting  sun,  seeking  new 
fields of usefulness and  new  avenues  to 
wealth.  As a rule, they have  been  men 
of  sterling  worth,  who  have  given 
strength and dignity to the State of their 
adoption.  Among the  large  number  of 
New York’s sons who have  made  Michi­
gan  their  home  is  Herbert  Montague, 
Secretary and  General  Manager  of  the 
Hannah &  Lay  Mercantile  Co.’s  exten­
sive  mercantile  business 
in  Traverse 
City.  He was born  at  Sacket’s Harbor,

than 

imagined 

August 29, 1849.  Four  years  after  this 
important event  in  his  life,  his  father 
took the family and journeyed westward, 
stopping in Ohio,  where  they  remained 
two years.  Again the stakes were pulled 
and their faces once  more turned toward 
the West.  On reaching  Milwaukee,  the 
few articles of household  furniture  they 
had taken  with  them  were  put  into  a 
wagon, the oxen were  yoked  to  it,  and 
the family  started  for  their  destination 
forty-three miles distant. 
It was a slow, 
tedious journey, but,  like all journeys, it 
came  to  an  end  at  last.  A  small 
log 
cabin was hastily erected and  the family 
settled down to life in  the  woods.  The 
dreary isolation of their position  can  be 
better 
described. 
Enough  to  say  that  they  were  far  re­
moved  from  schools  and  churches  and 
their nearest neighbor  was  miles  away. 
On all sides of them was  the almost  vir­
gin forest,  whose “dim aisles” resounded 
by day to the sturdy blows  of  the  fron­
tiersman’s axe,  and by night to the howl­
ing  of  wild  beasts.  Here  for  thirteen 
years the family resided,  when the father 
determined 
to  make  another  move. 
Crossing the Lake  to the  eastward  they 
entered the  State  of  Michigan,  settling 
at Old Mission, Grand  Traverse  county, 
on a  farm  of  214  acres.  Herbert,  who 
had  never  enjoyed  robust  health,  fol­
lowed the family  to  Michigan  in  a  few 
months and  for  two  years  assisted  his 
father on the farm.  Finding  his  health 
partially restored,  he began  to cast about 
him for  some  different  occupation.  He 
applied 
to  Hannah,  Lay  &  Co.,  of 
Traverse City,  and succeeded in securing 
a  situation.  Here  he  “cleaned 
lamp 
chimneys, swept floors,  held bags for the 
boys—in fact,  did anything there  was  to 
be done.”  Later  he was promoted  to  a

clerkship  in  the  grocery  department, 
which  position  he  occupied  for  about 
ten years.  He then  went into  the  office 
to acquire a knowledge of the  details  of 
the business,  which could  not be  had be­
hind the  counter.  After  a  year  and  a 
half of close study  he  was  given  charge 
of the grocery department,  doing his own 
buying.  Three  years  ago,  Mr.  Smith 
Barnes, Manager of  the  business,  died, 
and Mr.  Haunah  was  elected to the posi­
tion.  The  work  of  management,  how 
ever,  fell to Mr.  Montague,  and  a  year 
later the Board of Directors  elected  him 
Secretary  and  General  Manager,  and 
since that time he has had  entire  charge 
of the  business.

Short as is the above sketch  of  a  suc­
cessful business man,  it  is  yet  pregnant 
with significance.  A  green country  lad, 
whose boyhood and  youth  were spent in

the wilds of Wisconsin,  a  lad with  abso­
lutely no business  training, applies for a 
situation, at 21 years of age, to the head of a 
great mercantile house; at 43 years of age 
he is chosen General Manager of the busi­
ness,  which in  the  meantime  had  been 
greatly  extended.  At the  time  Herbert 
Montague entered Hannah,  Lay  &  Co.’s 
employ,  he  found  a  number  of  young 
men there who had already  been  in  the 
establishment several  years.  How  does 
it happen that to-day he is  found  at  the 
head of  the  business,  while  they  have 
never been heard of?  The reason is not 
not  far  to  seek.  When  he  was  about 
leaving home to  take  his  humble  place 
in  the  big  store,  his  godly  and  now 
sainted mother  said  to  him:  “Remem­
ber,  my boy,  that every young  man  may 
make himself  indispensable  to  his  em­
ployer.  Do so,  and  you  will  succeed.” 
These simple yet wise  words became his 
watchword and are the secret  of his suc­
cess.  He made himseif  indispensable to 
his employers and  his  advancement was 
sure and steady.  But  such  a  character 
as Mr. Montague’s could not be formed out 
of a  simple  phrase,  however  true  and 
wise.  During all those  lonely  years  in 
the forests of Wisconsin  his  mother was 
his only  mentor  and  teacher.  An  edu­
cated Christian  lady,  she  early  instilled 
into the minds of her  children  the  prin­
ciples of  truth  and righteousness,  which 
have ever since governed their  lives  and 
made them what  they are.  Herbert had 
his  lessons  each  day,  and  each  night 
mother and  son  knelt  in  prayer  beside 
the  little  leather-covered  trunk  which 
held  the  family  wardrobe.  That  little 
old trunk,  battered  and  weather-beaten, 
occupies an honored place  in  Mr.  Mon­
tague’s  home  and  is  one  of  his  most 
treasured possessions.  Round  it cluster 
tender memories of the mother who eight 
years ago passed  to the  Beyond,  and  to 
whose wise counsel and  judicious  teach­
ing he ascribes  whatever  of  success  he 
has achieved.

Champion

In  Reality  as  Well  asjin  Name!

All  other cash  registers take  a back seat when  entered  in 
competition with the  CHAMPION, the Latest and  Best Regis­
ter ever put on the market.

One  of  Many  Voluntary  Testimonials.

Grand  Ra pid s,  Mich., Aug.  1, 1894.

Ch a m p io n   Ca s h   R e g is t e r   Co.
Gentlem en—We  have  been  using  for  some  time  past your Champion No. 9, 
and are pleased to say it fills the  bill.  We  are  enabled  to  keep  absolutely  correct 
account of each one of our clerks,  and a detailed account of all our sales.
Also,  we are especially pleased with your method of keeping the  “Paid in” and 
“Paid outs.” 

It supplants everything else that has been  brought to our notice.

T httm B r o s.  & S c h m id t .

f W   Merchants  desiring  to  inspect  our  Register are re­
quested to drop us a card,  so that  one  of  our  agents  can  call 
when in the dealer’s vicinity. 
It will cost nothing  to  see  the 
machine  and have its merits explained.

Manufactured  only by

Bhampion  Bask  Register  Go._

Grand Rapids, iTich.

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GOTHAM GOSSIP.

N e w s  from   th e  M etrop olis- - -In d ex  o f 

Special Correspondence

th e   M ark ets.

N e w   Yoke, Oct.  13—The coffee market 
is  said  to  be  unsatisfactory.  Holders 
cannot maintain  the  high  prices  which 
they  have  obtained  for  some  time and 
every  day  develops  new  weakness. 
Quotations of Brazil No.  7  are  nominal, 
and it is quite likely that not  over  14%c 
could be  obtained.  Dealings  have  been 
very limited  and  few  buyers  are  in  the 
market.  European  markets  are  cabled 
lower, and the primary markets in Brazil 
are  well  supplied.  There  are  450,000 
bags  afloat,  against  391,000  last  year. 
Mild  grades  are  in  light  request  and 
rates are weaker,  in  sympathy with Bra­
zils.  Some Interior Padaug sold at 22Jic, 
but this is regarded as  outside price.

Foreign sugar is almost “in sight,” but 
it has not  been  purchased  in  any  great 
quantities, although it is said that a good 
many buyers  are  holding  off,  hoping  to 
purchase it.  The demand for grauulated 
is dull and the  supply is so  large that  it 
seems as though a further drop  would  be 
inevitable  very  soon.  Quotation 
for 
granulated here at writing  is 4 7-16c.
The tea market is dull  and  quotations 
are  practically  unchanged.  Supplies  of 
some sorts are  growing  smaller,  but  no 
one seems to be eager to  purchase.
Molasses is steady and  the stock of old 
is rather low. 
It is  likely to  hold  until 
the  new  arrives,  however.  Prime  to 
choice New Orleans,  18@2Sc.
Rice  is  well  held  and  some  very re­
spectable sales in point  of  volume  have 
been made.  Not much foreign here,  and 
market not abundantly supplied with any 
sort.
Canned  goods  show  little  movement 
and  the  whole  line  is  meeting  with  a 
auiet  reception.  Purchases  are  of  a 
hand-to-mouth  character,  and  no  one  is 
anxious to carry  more  than  a  “needful 
present” supply.
Dried fruits  are  in  light  request, and 
rates for some kinds of  California  kinds 
are lower  here  proportionately  than  in 
California.  The producers on  the  Coast 
have made some concessions.
Butter took a  slight  drop  during  the 
week,  and  demand  was  stimulated  to 
more activity.  For  best  State  and  Pa., 
24@24%c  have  been  paid;  Elgin,  25c; 
Western firsts, 20@23c.
Cheese shows a little more demand and 
dealers  are  hopeful,  but  quotations  are 
no  higher, and,  in  fact,  are  fractionally 
less than a week ago;  this for the  higher 
grades;  for the grades below  the  market 
are dull and to an extent demoralized.
Eggs are  in  large  accumulation  and, 
while  really  fresh  goods  are  firm,  the 
general  tendency  is  downward.  State 
are worth  22c  and  for  fancy  Michigan 
perhaps a fraction more  than  19c  might 
be obtained.
The  wines  sold  in  the  big  dry goods 
stores are  distinguished  by  a  profusion 
of labels, more gorgeous  and varied than 
any circus posters ever turned out in this 
or  any  other  city  in  the  world.  The 
wines which are  supposed to  come  from 
the  champagne  districts  are 
labelled 
“champagne” in very  large  letters,  and 
are put up in regular champagne bottles, 
covered with gold and silver labels of ex­
traordinary garishness.  The tops  of  the 
bottles are covered  with tin  foil  or  with 
sealing wax,  after the fashion of genuine 
champagne.  The  price  of  these  gor­
geous-looking bottles of wine—if the mild 
liquid which they  contain  can  really  be 
called wine—varies from  27 to 71 cents a 
pint.  The display  of  bottles  is  always 
impressive.  People  interested 
in  the 
prices of wines  and  liquors  should  look 
about in these dry  goods establishments, 
if only  for  amusement’s  sake.  At  one 
big  store  on Sixth avenue whisky which 
is plainly  labelled  “20  years  old,”  and 
which is guaranteed by the clerk to be as 
good as any other  whisky in  New  York, 
is  offered  at  64  cents  a bottle.  People 
who have been paying 8°  and 84 a  bottle 
for  cognac,  under  the  impression  that 
that  is  the market price  for this invalu- 
ble aid to digestion after  dinner,  should 
look into a big  Broadway  establishment, 
where  the  best  French  cognac,  beauti­
fully done up in  pink  tissue  paper,  can 
be  bought  for  55  cents  a  bottle.  The

Ja y .

Association.

clerk in this  place  was  asked  who  pur­
chased the gorgeous bottles,  and he said, 
“ Women, mostly.  I think they buy it be­
cause the bottle look  kind o’  sporty  and 
gay on the sideboard. 
I don’t think they 
drink it,”  he  added,  thoughtfully,  “ be­
cause they often buy a second  and  third 
time.”
The 20,000 Columbian  half  dollars  re­
ceived at the Sub-Treasury last  Wednes­
day and given  in exchange for gold found 
a ready market in this city,  and  at  noon 
yesterday the last coin had been disposed 
of.  The  souvenirs,  for  the  most  part, 
were exchanged in small quantities rang­
ing from 810 to 820, the purchasers being 
mainly  coin  collectors.  The  Treasury 
officials have requested the Treasury  De­
partment  at  Washington  to  forward  a 
fresh supply.
Trade is somewhat interfered  with  by 
politics, and the local campaign is one of 
the most lively aud interesting for years. 
All  things  considered, 
the  volume  of 
trade is fair,  and,  perhaps,  all that could 
be  expected.  Retailers  are  doing  well 
and grocers are in a comparatively happy 
frame of mind. 
Meeting of the  Jackson Retail  Grocers’ 
J a c k s o n ,  Oct.  4—The regular business 
meeting  of  the  Jackson  Retail Grocers’ 
Association was  held  Oct.  4.  Ex-Presi­
dent  D.  S.  Fleming  was  called  to  the 
chair,  in  the  absence  of  the  President 
aud Vice-Presidents.
The Committee to whom  was  referred 
the matter of purchasing desk aud furni­
ture and securing  a  room  for  meetings 
and  office  use reported that they did not 
consider it necessary to procure a  safe at 
the present time; that they had purchased 
a  good  desk,  writing  table  and chairs, 
and  asked  that  their  purchase  be  ap­
proved  and  a  warrant  ordered  for  the 
payment,  which was adopted. 
In regard 
to room for office  and meetings  the Com­
mittee reported that they had visited sev­
eral locations,  but had not  found a place 
that they could recommend.
The  committee  on  the  salary  ©f  the 
Secretary reported that they favored pay­
ing  the  Secretary  for  his  services  last 
year and recommended that he be paid an 
annual  salary,  to  begin  with  the  fiscal 
year.
On motion,  the  resignation  of  the  Fi 
nancial  Secretary,  which  was  tendered 
in July,  was accepted and  the  duties  of 
the  office  added  to the  duties of the Re­
cording Secretary.
in­
structed  to  examine  the  books  and  ac­
counts  of  the  Treasurer  and  Financial 
and Recording Secretaries.
A  committee  was  appointed  to visit 1. 
N. Branch and ascertain if the room over 
his store could be  secured  for  office  and 
meeting purposes.
M.  M.  Whitney  was  instructed  to  dis­
pose of a barrel of flour  to  the  best  ad­
vantage for the Association and report at 
the next meeting.
The  sugar  card  and  the  cutting  of 
prices  by  members  of  the  Association 
and others was discussed  at  length.  On 
motion,  a committee  of three,  consisting 
of  the  President,  Secretary  aud  H.  H. 
Neesley,  were  appointed  to  interview 
person's  who  are  in the  habit of cutting 
prices. 

The  Auditing  Committee  were 

W.  H.  P o r t e r ,  Sec’y.

From the Indianapolis Journal.

E vid en tly  M eant for  C om m erce.
“No,” said Mr.  Haicede,  “I ain’t goin’ 
It’s  second­

to pay no 810  for  this suit. 
hand.”

“Vat?” shouted Mr. Achheimer.
“ 1 say it is second-hand.  Second-hand 
close is them  that  has  been  wore,  ain’t 
they?  An’ didn’t I have to wear  the suit 
when 1 tried it on?”
“Vat  a  pity,” said  Mr.  Achheimer,  in 
admiration,  “ vat a  pity  it  vas  dot  you 
vas brought up to be a farmer.  You  got 
a pizness  head  dot  vas  simbly  owit  of 
sight.”
F u ture o f th e  W ieren go  E stab lish m en t.
Muskegon,  Oct.  13—The  employes  of 
the  wholesale  grocery  establishment  of 
the late Andrew Wierengo are  endeavor­
ing to enlist outside capital in a  proposi­
tion to merge the  business  into  a  stock 
company, with a capital stock of 850,000, 
to  continue  the  business  conducted  so 
successfully by the  founder.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

IN  LINE  FOR  ACriON.

C om m ittees  A ppointed  to   A rrange  for 

D ecem b er  C onvention.

At  the  regular  monthly  meeting  of 
Post E,  Michigan  Knights  of  the  Grip, 
held at Elk’s Hall  last Saturday evening, 
it was decided to lease Lockerby Hall for 
the meetings of the annual convention in 
December and the Lockerby banquet hall 
for the banquet on  Wednesday  evening, 
Dec. 26.
Jas.  B. Mclnnes moved that the  Chair­
man appoint an Executive  Committee  of 
five members, of  which the  Chairman  of 
the  Post  shall  be  chairman,  to  assume 
the  general  management  of  the  annual 
convention and delegate the  detail  work 
to sub  committees, to  be  designated  by 
the Executive Committee.

The motion  was adopted and the Chair­
man  named  as  such  Committee  J.  N. 
Bradford,  W.  F.  Blake,  Henry  Dawley, 
L.  M.  Mills and Jas.  B.  Mclnnes.
retary of the Committee.

L.  M.  Mills was selected  to act as  Sec­

THE  SUB  COMMITTEES-

At a subsequent meeting of the Execu­
tive  Committee,  the  following  sub com­
mittees were appointed:
Finance and  Soliciting—Geo. F.  Owen, 
Chairman;  H. B.  Fairchild,  Milton Fitch, 
Chas.  Findlater, Chas.  S. Brooks,  Manley 
Jones,  J. B.  Orr.
Invitation—P.  H.  Carroll,  Chairman; 
E.  C.  Groesbeck,  W.  R.  Foster,  E.  N. 
Thorne,  W.  Y. Barclay.
Entertainment, Program and Banquet— 
B.  G.  VanLeuven,  Chairman;  F.  M.  Ty­
ler,  W.  L.  Freeman,  H.  L. Gregory, E. E. 
Stanton, G. F.  Rogers,  W.  H.  Pipp.
Reception—J.  A.  Gonzalez,  Chairman; 
W.  H.  Goodspeed, V.  A.  Johnston, John 
Grotemat,  S.  V.  DeGraaf,  W.  F.  Wurz­
burg,  A.  E.  McGuire,  D. E.  McVean, J. 
B. Evans, D.  McWhorter,  D.  S.  Haugh, 
H.  A.  Hudson,  W.  H. Jennings, C. Craw­
ford,  Frank Conlon,  W. S. Canfield,  F. E. 
Chase,  H.  N.  Brandon,  John  Cummins, 
E.  P.  Dana,  Frank  Miles,  W.  A.  Van­
Leuven,  C. I.  Flynn,  F.  H.  White,  M.  M. 
Mallory, Geo.  F.  Schumm,  Capt.  W.  H. 
Sheller, John  M. Shields,  J.  A.  Massie, 
A.  J.  Quist, C.  B. Parmenter, J. H.  Rose- 
man, J.  P.  Reeder,  J.  E.  Kenning,  Ed. 
Huyge, E.  H.  Poole,  W.  F. Bowen,  G. C. 
Oswald.
Transportation—J. T.  Flaherty, Chair­
man;  B. S. Davenport,  A.  S  Doak, Peter 
Lankester, Sam. R.  Evans.
Badges—C. L.  Lawton, Chairman;  Jud 
Houghton,  J. F.  O.  Reed.
Decoration—E.  E.  Woolley,  Chairman; 
Jos. Finkler, E. Kuyers,  Henry Snitzeler, 
G.  W.  Stowitts.
Music—W.  E.  Richmond,  Chairman; 
J. A. Morrison,  E.  P.  Andrew.
Printing—A.  D.  Baker,  Chairman;  E. 
A. Stowe,  F.  W.  Hadden,  Geo.  J.  Hein- 
zelman,  F.  M.  Atwood.
Hotels—M.  H.  N. Raymond,  Chairman; 
N.  B. Clark, J.  M.  Fell,  Harry  p.  Win­
chester, A. J. Cozzens.
the  committees  is 
A  meeting  of  all 
called  at  Elk’s  Hall,  Saturday, Oct. 20, 
at 7:30 p. m., sharp,  and  the chairmen of 
the several committees  are  requested  to 
report progress as far as possible.

J.  N.  B r a d f o r d ,  Chairman.
L. M.  Mill s,  Sec’y.

Executive  Committee.

From   O ut  o f  T ow n.

Calls  have  been  received  at  T h e  
T r a d e s m a n  office during  the  past week 
from the following gentleman in trade:

J.  W.  Milliken, Traverse City. 
Thurston & Co., Central Lake.
Julius Steinberg, Traverse City.
Ross & Cooper,  Charlevoix.
D.  Gale, Grand Haven.
D.  L. Worthington & Co.,  Mendon.
J. W.  Runner, Shelby.
C. G.  Pitkin,  Whitehall.
Frank Hamilton,  Traverse City.
J.  L. Felton,  Burnip’s Corners.
Jos Raymond, Berlin.
A. E. Me Culloch, Berlin.

Business men will  have  themselves  to 
blame if trade  is  allowed  to  grow  slack 
again.  Let  every  individual  and  every 
house sell all the goods they can  without 
regard to any of  the  other  issues  which

are thrust upon  them.  Keep the  wheels 
of the business of  this  great  country  in 
motion  for a short time, replenish stocks, 
distribute goods, start consumption—and 
presently the  weak  and  doubtful  move­
ment  will  be  accelerated  into  a  natural 
aud  powerful  activity  which  will  give 
permanent prosperity.

WE  BUY

SiMried  and  Evaporated

APPLBS

HASTINGS & REMINGTON,

GRAND  R A P ID S ,  MICH.

MOORE,  SMITH  l  GO.,

240  Devonshire  St.,

BOSTON.

We beg to inform the trade  that we 
will  be represented  in Michigan  and 
the West the coming season by 
fir.  M.  J.  Rogan,
(As the Successor of Mr. Yiets.)

Mr.  Rogan  expects  to  visit  you 
soon  with  ah  unnsually  attractive 
line of STRAW  HATS,  both  as  re 
gards quality, style and  price.

We are  giving  especial  attention 
to a line of EXTRA  FINE STRAWS 
FOR MEN, among which will be the 
ENGLISH  FINISH  SPLITS; also, a 
line  of  CHILDREN’S  GOODS, su­
perior to anything on the market.

A  postal  to  Mr.  Rogan at Kala­
mazoo  will  at any  time  secure  his 
immediate  response.

Taking this occasion to thank you 
for past favors,  we hope  to  continue 
to  merit  your  patronage  and  confi­
dence.

Respectfully yours,

MOORE,  SMITH  &  CO.

Mr.  Rogan  will  be  at  Sweet’s 
Hotel soon  with nearly  500  samples 
of Men’s, Boys’ and  Children’s Hats. 
Both styles aud  ¿rices will  be  found 
O. K.
m  OYSTERS  #
Solid Brand,  Extra Selects, per cau 8  28
Solid Brand, Selects,  per can........... 
26
Solid Brand, E.  F.,  per  can............. 
22
Solid Brand, Standards,  per can.... 
20
Daisy Brand, Selects, per  can.........  
24
Daisy Brand,  Standards, per can... 
18
Daisy Brand,  Favorites,  per can.... 
16
Best Baltimore  Standards,  per  gal  1  10 
The Queen Oyster Pails at bottom prices. 
Mrs.  Withey’s  Home  Made  Jelly, 
made with green apples,  very fine
30-lb  pail............................................  1  oo
17-lb  pail...........................................  
65
Mrs.  Withey’s  Condensed  Mince 
Meat,  the  best  made.  85  cents
per  doz.  3  doz.  in  case.

Mrs.  Withey’s bulk mince meat:
40-lb pails,  per  lb.............................  
6
25-lb pails,  per  lb.............................   6}£
10-lb pails, per  lb.............................
p ure Cider Vinegar,  per  gallon. . . .  
10
Pure Sweet Cider,  per  gallon.........  
12
Fine Dairy Butter, per pound.........  
20
Fresh Eggs, per  doz.......................... 
17
Fancy 300 Lemons, per  box.............4  50
Extra Choice, 300 lemons per  box..  4  00 
Extra Choice, 360 lemons per  box..  8  50
Choice 300 Lemons,  per  box........... 3  50
Choice 360 Lemons,  per  box........... 8  50

EDWIN  FALLAS,

Oyster  Packer  and  flanufacturer. 

VALLEY  CITY  COLD  STORAOE, 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Are  You Selling|the Hunting Season

is  upon  us

I F   N O T , 

WH N O T V

Muskegon  Bakery  Grackers

(United  States  Baking  Co.)

Are  Perfect  Health  Food.

There are a great many  Butter Crackres  • >u  the  Market—only

one  can  he  best—that is  the original

Muskegon
Bakery
Butter
Cracker.

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

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Other
Great
Specialties
Are

M u sk e g o n   T o a st, 
R o \a l  F r u it  B isc u it, 
M u sk e g o n   F r o s te d   H o n e y , 
Ic e d   C o co a   H o n e y   J u m b le s, 
J e lly   T u r n o v e r s , 
G in g e r   S n a p s , 
H o m e -M a d e   S n a p s , 
M u sk e g o n   B r a n c h , 
M lik  L u n ch  

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ALWAYS
ASK
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j  GROCER

FOR
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|  BAKERY’S
j  CAKES  and
I  CRACKERS

U n ite d .  S t a t e s   B a k i n g   C o.

LAWRENCE  DEPEW,  Acting  Manager,

F .  J .  

M u s k e g o n ,  

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M i c h •

117  and  119  Monroe  St.,  Grand  Ranids.

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We  are  agents  for  all  the  leading  lines of  Guns and 

Ammunition.

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  Wt stern  Michigan on  this line  of  goods,

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ANCHOR  BRAND

OLD  RELIABLE

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All orders receive prompt  attention  at 

lowest  market  price.

See quotations in Price Current.

B E T T  B N T H A U

H.  LEO N A R D   &  S O N S ,  G ra n d   R a p id s ,  M ic h ,

Reduced  Prices  on  Mammoth  Store  Lamps.

Mammoth  Banner.
20 inch 
Tin Shade 

Brass................................................  2  50 
Nickle..............................................   3  75 

Globe  Incandescent.

Brass.................................................  3  75 
Nickle...............................................  3  00 

Mammoth  Rochester.

Brass.................................................  2  75 
Nickle...............................................  3  00 

flam moth  Pittsburgh.

Brass................................................   3  00 
Nickie...............................................  3  25 

White Dome

14 inch
Shade
2  15
3  00

3  00
3  25

3  00
3  25

3  25
3  50

No.  06229  Mammoth  Rochester.

Complete with spring extension and 14 Inch white dome shade  (like  cut)
Brass 
........................................... 
Nickle............................................. 

4  50
4  75

Globe Incandescent.

Mammoth  Chimneys.

By  Box 
Rochester  Lime..............................   1  20  doz. 
Rc Chester  Flint...............................  1  40  “ 
Incandescent Lime.........................   1  50  “ 
Incandescent Flint.........................   1  75  “ 

Open Stock
1  50 doz.
1 75
1  75 “
2 00

No.  00229 Mammoth  Rochester

Warning!

To Merchants and  Dealers throughout the 

United States and Territories 

Using Scales.

The trade are warned against  using  any  infringements  on  WEIGHING  AND  PRICE  SCALES  and  COMPUTING 
AND  PRICE  SCALES,  as  we  will  protect  our  rights  and the  rights  of our  General  Agents  under  Letters  Patent of the 
United States issued in  1881,1885,  1886,  1888,  1891,1893  and  1894,  and we will prosecute  all  infringers  to  the  full  extent 
ot the  law.

The simple using of scales that infringe upon  our patents makes the user liable  to  prosecution,  and  the  importance  of
buying and  using any other COMPUTING AND PRICE SCALES than those manufactured by us and bearing our name and
date of patents,  and thereby incurring liability to prosecution for infringement, is apparent.

Respectfully,

The  Computing  Scale  Co.,

DAYTON,  OHIO,  U.  S.  A.

