COAL,  WOOD, 
LIMB,  CBMBNT, 
LATH,  SBWBR 
F*1F*B  and  BRICK.

R ig h t  P rices.
R ig h t Q ualities.

8.  K.  MORMON  b  GO.,

Office 19 Lyon S t.

Telephone  455.

Umbrellas

= >   FOR  HOLIDAY  GIFTS,

F or  L adies  a n d   G ents.

The  largest  and  most  complete  line  of 
Umbrellas ever shown in  the  state,  mostly 
our own make.  The “Two-in-Hand”  (Um­
brella  and  Cane  combined)  is  one  of»our 
latest novelties.

Gold  and  Silver  Headed

CANES.

E n g r a v in g   D on e  F re e   o f  C h a r g e .
Save half by having good Umbrella Frames 

Covered.

J.  P. PLÄTTE,  64  Monroe  8t.

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EDWARD A  MOSELEY, 
TIMOTHY F. MOSELEY.

M O SELEY   BROS.

SEEDS  BRANS,  PEAS. POTATOES,  ORANGES  and  LEMONS.

Jobbet s^of

Egg  Cases and Fillers a Specialty.
36,  88,  30 and  38  Ottawa  St., GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Established  1876

To the  Retail Shoe  Dealers===

Our line is complete in  Boots, Shoes,  Rubbers,  Felt  Boots, 
Socks,  Etc.,  for  your  fall  and  winter  trade.  Place your orders with us 
now and g e t th e   b e st to sa v e   m oney.  Our C elebrated  B lack  B ottom s
in Men’s Oil  G rain   and S a tin   C alf,  tap sole in  Congress  and  Balmorals, 
a re  th e  lead ers and u n su rp a sse d .

Our W a le s’G oodyear  R ubbers are  g re a t  tra d e   w in n e rs. 

Mail orders given proirj  •’.Mention.

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P E R K IN S   &  H ESS,

Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow,

Nos.  laa  and  124  Louis  Street,  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.

DEALERS  IN

WE  CARRY A  STOCK  OF  CAKE  TALLOW  FOR  MTT.T. USB.

Boston Belting Co.’s 
H.  Disston 
Sons’
E.  C.  Atkins <fe Co.'s 
H. R.  Warthington’s,  = 
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L.  Candee & Co.’s

Rubber  Belts,  Etc., 
Saws,
Saws,
Steam  Pumps,
Sporting Goods,
Rubber Boots and Shoes.

flill and  Fire  Department Supplies. 

Manufacturers of Pure Oak  Short-lap  Leather  Belting, 
Jobbers of Skates.  Large  Stock.  Low Prices.

STUDLEY  &  BARCLAY,

4  MONROE  ST.

I * a u l 

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Manufacturer of

TRUNKS,  TRAVELING  BAGS, 

SA M PLE  TRUNKS an d  

S A flP L E   CASES

Of any description to  order  on  short 

notice.

50  C anal  S t.,  G ran d  R apids.

Tbis is Our Latest Furniture Photo Case.

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Pants

We  manufacture  the  best  made  goods  in  these  lines  of 
any  factory  in  the  country,  guaranteeing  every  garment  to 
give entire satisfaction, both in fit and  wearing qualities.  We 
are  also  headquarters  for  Pants,  Overalls  and  Jackets  and 
solicit  correspondence  with  dealers  in  towns  where goods of 
our manufacture are not regularly handled.

LANSING,  niCH.

L a n sin g   P a n ts  &  O verall  Co..
Oyster Crackers
Are now in season.  We manufacture \ All Kinds.

S IS '  S U E   PEER  OF  SIRE OYSTER,

A rich, tender and crisp cracker packed  in  1  lb.  cartoons 
Is  one  of  the  most  popular 

with neat and  attractive label. 
packages we have ever put out.
T r y   O u r

Handsome embossed packages, 
packed  2 doz. in case

1  lb. $2.40 per doz.
2 lb. $4.80 per doz.

These  goods  are  positively  the  finest  produced  and  we 

guarantee entire satisfaction.

SEND  US  YOUR  HOLIDAY  ORDERS.

N ew  York B iscuit Co.,

S .  A .  S B A R S ,   Manager,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Spring & Company,

IMPORTERS  AN D   W H OLESALE  D E A L E R S  IN

R ib b o n s, 

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

W e invite the attention of the  trade  to  our  com plete  and  well 

assorted  stock  at lowest  m arket  prices.

Spring & Company.

Naptha  and  Gasolines.

Office,  Hawkins  Block.

Works,  Bntterworth  Ave.

BULK  W ORKS  AT

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Wholesale  Grocers

G ra n d   R a p id s.

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

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FIRST-CLASS  WORK  ONLI.

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  fllCHIGAN

DEALERS  IN

lllilminating  and  Ldbrisating
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GRAND  RAPIDS, 
BIG  RAPIDS, 
ALLEGAN,

MDSREGON, 
GRAND  HAVEN, 
HOWARD  CITY,

MANISTEE, 
TRAVERSE  CITY. 
PETOSKEY.
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T ru ste e  o r A g en t

in the management of any  business  which  may 
be entrusted to it.
Any  information  desired  will  be  cheerfully 
furnished.
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W arrants.

Special attention given to examining and direct­
CH AS.  E.  TEMPLE,  Grand  Rapids. 

ing proceedings for bond issues.

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Organized  1881.

DETROIT,  MICHIGAN1.

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constantly revising and adding  to  them.  Also 
handle collections of all kinds for  members.
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C.  E. BLOCK.

W.  H. P. ROOTS.

A .*   B .   K N O W L S O N ,
Cement,  Lime, Coal, Sewer Pipe, Etc.

Wholesale Shipper

CARLOTS  AND  LESS 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH,

S p e c i a l   N o t i c e .

All smithing coals sold by us we  guarantee  to 
be mined from  the  BIG  VEIN  in  the  Georges 
Creek  District.  This  is  the  coal  so  favorably 
known as  Piedmont  or  Cumberland  Blossburg 
and stands unrivalled for smithing purposes.
8.  P.  Bennett Fuel  &  Ice  Co-,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

for a

Attend  the

Brand Rapids Business College

Catalogue address 

w riting  Education.

Business or  a  Shorthand  and  Type­
Its GRADUATES are always in  demand.  For 
Grand  Rapids, Mich,
HEADACHE
POW DERS

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Pay the beat profit  Order from your jobber

A. S. PARISH,

X T ’ 

T H E   B A CK   O F F IC E .

T h e   Mic h ig a n   T r a d e s m a n   has taken 
me in,  after  seeing  me  hanging  around 
the  door  at  one  hundred  Saint  Louis 
street,  until  he  could stand it no longer, 
and,  doubtless observing, from the signal 
that  demands  a  patch,  that  1  am  not 
wholly  prepared  for  cold  weather,  his 
charity  got  the  better  of  his  judgment 
and he let me come in to get warm.  The 
unexpected kindness so  far overcame my 
prejudices against labor that  I offered  to 
return  the  favor  with an  item now  and 
then for  the  paper.  The  offer  was  ac­
cepted.  And here,  in the Back  Office,  I 
hope to materialize  gray  matter  enough 
to  make  my  company  better  than  my 
room. 

R ic h a r d   M a lcom  S t r o n g.

*  *  *

The outline of the Postmaster-general’s 
policy, as indicated  in his last  report,  is 
a proof that his collar is  bigger than  his 
hatband.  Two  years  ago,  when  every­
body  voted  for  a change—and got it—it 
might have been a  matter  of  some  con­
cern  if  this  recommendation of revising 
the postal law pertaining  to second-class 
matter bad been  made;  it  can  be  easily 
understood  how  the  ganglia of national 
life at the country  crossroads and on  the 
farm might have been  sensitive on  hear­
ing  that  “the  change” would put a stop 
to free delivery in  the  country,  and  the 
surprise, expressed everywhere at the in­
creased postal  facilities  recommended in 
cities and towns where  so  much  has  al­
ready  been  done,  would have then made 
something of a stir:  but now,  with  pub­
lic opinion overwhelmingly  against such 
recommendation,  the  report  will  be  as 
harmless as the amusement it will create.
If there has been  one  movement  more 
marked  than  another  during  the  last 
twenty-five years, it is the  rush from  the 
country to the  town.  The  city  has  ab­
sorbed—and is still absorbing—in crowds 
the village and  the farm  life.  They  are 
after the facilities which they do not and 
cannot  have  in  country  lanes  and  by­
ways.  A daily  paper  is  a  necessity  in 
the city,  but the man  in  town  does  not 
need the bows  any more than the man on 
the farm.  A letter for  Bridget  O’Hearn 
is no more important than one  for  Mary 
Smith,  but  Bridget  gets  hers  an  hour 
after  its  arrival  at  the  city  post office, 
while Mary’s lays for days—it may be for 
weeks—in the country post office.

Now,  if this rush for the  city  is  to  be 
stopped—and that  it should  be  seems to 
be the prevailing opinion—it is submitted 
that cutting  off  the  very  facilities  that 
check the movement  towards the town is 
hardly the proper thing to do.  What the 
country needs more than anything else is 
development— the good things which peo­
ple, wherever  they  are,  not  only  want 
but  need.  With  every  means  of  rapid 
communication the country  may hope  to 
keep within hailing distance of the city— 
and  that  is  near  enough—but  without 
that communication the  conntryman will 
continue to  be the  hayseed  that  he  has 
been willing to be so long—a reproach to 
himself and to  that  kind  of  statesman­
ship  whose  chief  characteristics  are  a

little  hatband,  a big  collar  and a doable 
chin.

*  *  *

The  price  of  flour  has  declined very 
materially during  the  past  decade,  but 
the bakers have  maintained the  same re­
tail price for  their  product.—New  Eng­
land  Grocer.
While not in the  baking  business  my­
self, and knowing nothing  of its ins  and 
outs,  I  acknowledge considerable sympa­
thy for the under dog,and propose to stand 
by and see this fight out. 
It must be ad­
mitted  that  his  grip  is  simply  tremen­
dous,  and  in  all  the  changes  of  this 
financially  transitory  life  that  dog  has 
adhered to his  purpose with  a  grip  that 
nothing  has  been  able  to  relax.  The 
odds are against him,  bat he clii gs.  He 
knows a good thing  when he gets hold of 
it, and then, like any other dog, he settles 
right  down 
to  business.  Kicks  and 
blows amount  to  nothing.  The  hose  of 
public  opinion  has  been turned on with 
full force and with extra pressure  at  the 
waterworks,  but to no effect.  The tradi­
tional dipper of  scalding water alone  re­
mains  untried,  and in the meantime  the 
dog doesn’t let go.

By chance, or by  calculation,  the price 
of the breadloaf ten years  ago  was  fixed 
at  five  cents.  The  price  of  flour went 
down,  but the unfickle  loaf,  true  to  its 
trust, stood firm.  At a nickel or nothing 
remained the price of  bread.  Why  not? 
Grant that,  ten years ago, with flour at  a 
certain  price,  bread  was  sold  for  five 
cents.  Grant that,  to-day,  according  to 
this Atwater man,  bread  can be sold at a 
fair profit for  two  cents,  the  weight  of 
the  loaf  constantly  diminishing.  Two 
from  five—that  makes  a  difference  of 
three  cents.  Who’s  goin’  to  have  that 
three cents?  1 guess, mother,  yon’il have
to bring on your bilin’  water!

*  *  #

“Remember  that  organized  labor  has 
two effective weapons  which are  beyond 
the power of capital;  they  are the ballot 
and the label.”

And remember,  too—and you  had  bet­
ter wait until the mental machinery is in 
good  working  order—that  labor,  organ­
ized  or  unorganized,  has  never  accom­
plished—and never will accomplish—any­
thing  for  that  cause—or  for  any other 
cause—without  some  organized  brain 
work behind it.  There isn’t a doubt that 
grievances,  and  a  good  many  of  them, 
too, exist in the working world, and there 
isn’t a doubt that the public sympathizes 
heartily with the  workingmen;  but,  just 
as the public are  getting ready to  lend  a 
helping  hand,  some  Smart  Aleck  with 
just wit enough to make a fool of himself 
is pushed to the  van of  the  labor  army, 
and that’s the last of that movement.

Capital,  in this country at least, hasn’t 
so much to brag of in  the way of  brains. 
Many, if not most,  of  the  capitalists  of 
to-day  were  workmen  in 
the  ranks 
twenty-five  years  ago;  but 
the  strong 
point abont the capitalist is  that  in  cer­
tain lines he knows  that he  “don’t  know 
nuthin’,”  and  he  puts his case into  the 
most skillful  hands he  can find.  Not  so 
with  labor;  all  he  wants  is  a  chance. 
He  “hain’t  be’n  t’  school  r ay  t’  speak

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1894. 

NO.  586
on,”  but,  put  him  up  in  front  of  this 
labor movement,  “n’ he’ll patch it up so’s 
’twill  run.”  Patching,  however, 
isn’t 
statesmanship, and,  while the union man 
is  remembering  “the  ballot”  and  “the 
label,” he might just  as  well  put  down 
that  patching  business  and  give  it  a 
“chewing over.”

*  *  *

“Shoot  the  militia!”  says  a  union 
paper which  has  drifted  into  the  Back 
Office.  But we just “dassen’t” do i t !  We 
had some  of  that  promiscuous  warfare 
last summer and it didn’t  work.  A  few 
cars  were  burned  and  a few shots were 
fired, just to scare  the crowd,  you know; 
and then, I’ll be  everlastingly kicked,  if 
the boys didn’t bring  up  plump  against 
some United States bayonets!  Shoot the 
militia?  Don’t le’s.  Le’s  bang away  at 
suthin’ else.

*  *  *

“There never was  a strike  that  was  a 

complete  failure.”

to  make  a  showing, 

That’s right.  Of course, there are peo­
ple starving at such times—by thousands 
if  the  strike  is  a  good  big  one.  The 
wives and children of  men who ought  to 
be  at  work,  and  would be  if the strike 
had not been ordered,  suffer more or less 
from hunger  and cold,  bnt,  for  all  that, 
no strike  was ever  “a complete failure.” 
There is a principle,  you see,  underlying 
the strike;  and  when George M. Pullman 
was  finally  brought  to  time  and  com­
pelled 
it  didn’t 
amount to much, but it saved the strike— 
the biggest thing of  the kind on record— 
from being  “a  complete  failure.”  And 
there,  it may be added by  way of  round­
up,  is where  the  strike  differs  from  its 
leaders—as  complete  failures  as  ever 
crawled into notice to be laughed at after 
they get there! *  #  #
Sec.  5.  Bread,  when  sold,  shall  be 
weighed in  presence of  the  buyer,  and, 
if  found  deficient in  weight,  bread shall 
be added to make up the legal  weight.
The above is  Massachusetts  law and it 
won’t work. 
If it can’t be gotten around 
in any other way,  every  establishment in 
Yankeedom will turn out bread too heavy 
to be digested—the  baker  is  determined 
to come out ahead.

*  *  *

Eli  says  that  a  young  man  who will 
not think is a failure  from the start,  and 
he might as  well settle  down  in  life  on 
the theory that he will  never  amount  to 
much,  because  of  his  own indifference. 
Settle?  He  is  settled  already,  and  has 
been from the foundation  of  the  world. 
A  lamp  of  putty  has more chance of  a 
rise  in  the  world  than  he.  Push him, 
and  he  stays  pushed.  Punch  him,  and 
the finger doesn’t find  resistance  enough 
to  feel  it.  Kick  him,  and he besmears 
the shoe.  The only thing  to  be  done  is 
to put him out with  the rest of  the  lum­
ber in the back shed;  and  even  then,  if 
one isn’t careful, he  will always be right 
in  the way.  A  young  man  who  doesn’t 
think !  The  world  has no use for him.

*  *  *

There is mischief brewing at the Home­
stead  Works  in  Pennsylvania.  They 
have put in a machine  which  places  the

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YOUR  PET  DOG 
YOUR  STO RE  FR O N T 
THE  OLD  HORSE 
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ARE  NOTHING 
NOW-A-DAYS 

IF  YOU 
ARE  NOT 
ORIGINAL.

/ ^ N Y T H I N G :

You would like to  hand  out  to your friends 
or custom ers on January  1st.  W e will  re­
produce it and  get  you  up  a  Calendar with 
an  individuality  th a t  won’t   need  a  trade­
mark or a patent.

WE ALSO  HAVE  A VARIETY  OF  DE­
SIGNS  IN  STOCK  WHICH  WE 
CAN 
FURNISH  ON  IMMEDIATE
NOTICE.

ingots in the  heating furnaces  and  with 
draws them,  which is all right so far,  but 
the machine does away  with the services 
of quite a number of  skilled  workmen,  a 
fact that will raise  a howl from  one  end 
of  the  country  to  the  other.  See  if  it 
doesn’t !

*  *  »

Right  in  the  face  of  the  depression 
from  which  it  was  hoped  the  country 
was emerging,  the  United  States  Labor 
Commissioner comes out with a statement 
to the  effect  that  there  has  been  a  re' 
markable  improvement  in  the  condition 
of the wage earner  during  the  last  half 
century !  That  Commissioner  has  been 
rooting up turnips in the wrong field.

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

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

STICK  CANDY.
Cases

6)4
6)4
6)4

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

MIXKD  CANDT.

Standard. 
Leader__
Koval............................
Nobby.................. ...............
English  R o c k ....::" ;..................
Conserves.... 
 

French Creams............ 
Valley  Creams........
Midget, 30 lb. baskets.  . 
Modern.30lb. 
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Bbls.
5)4
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•7)4

Palls
6*
6)4
88*
8H
8)4
8)4
9
9H
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"

They had a  little  practical  astronomy 
in Philadelphia,  the other day.  A young 
woman  was  knocked  down  while 
crossing the track at Norristown  at  half 
past six in the  morning.  She  called  for 
damages,  which the railroad company re­
fused to give,  on  the  ground  that  it  is 
light  at  that  hour.  The  astronomers 
were called in and  declared  that  it  was 
pitch-dark  at  that  time in the morning. 
The 825,000 which the jury rendered as a 
verdict in the young woman’s  favor  will 
probably open the eyes of the unthinking 
world to the fact  that there is something 
practical,  after  all,  in  this  stargazing 
business which it may  be just  as well 
look up.

W O M A N ’S  F IE L D   O F  IN D U STRY .

S h e   Is  A c tiv e ly   C o m p e tin g   W ith  

M an

in   C h icag o .

The  Chicago  Tribune  has  taken  the 
trouble to  hunt  out  the  women  of  the 
city who are earning a living  in  the  va 
rious ways which nsed  to  be  man’s  ex 
elusive  property,  and 
it  would  seem 
from  the result,  that  what woman cannot 
do in the  field  of  employment  is  much 
more simple than  what  she  can  accom 
plish.

The first on the list  is that of a woman 
undertaker,  who  has  been  in  the  busi 
ness fifteen years.  Several other women 
are engaged in the same unattractive em­
ployment.  They make their offices cosy 
and homelike with  dainty  things,  hiding 
the  gruesome  reality  of  their  work  as 
much as possible,  and  in most cases they 
make a success of the business.

A  dozen  different  barber  shops  are 
conducted  by  women,  with  women  as­
sistants.  and  most of their customers  are 
men.  Again,  woman’s  daintiness  and 
taste  in  making  the  surroundings  at­
tractive  are  an  advantage  over  man’s 
conservative 
ideas,  and  her  business 
prospers accordingly.

Women engaged in art  of  various  de­
grees of excellence are legion.  Now and 
then one masters the art of photography, 
and Chicago has several successfully em­
ployed  in  this  business.  One  secret  of 
their success is their appreciation  of  the 
fact that photographs must flatter  to  be 
quite satisfactory,  and  another  is  their 
winning way  of  making  each  man  be­
lieve he is a  perfect  Adonis.  Each  one 
has gotten into the business by  studying 
it from the ground up.

Dentistry  is  found  to  be  a  lucrative 
business for a dozen women, and they ex­
press their  confidence  in  woman’s  skill 
in this profession with a great deal of as­
surance.  Many  of  their  patients  are 
children, for women  succeed  better than 
men in  winning their confidence.

Miss Sara  Steenberg  is  an  insurance 
broker,  the  only  one  in  Chicago.  The j 
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tradesman  company,

G e tte rs-u p  of O riginal  P rin tin g .

Holiday  Presents in  Miisieal  Goods.

An Immense Stock of

W eber,  H azelton,  F isch er,  S chaff 

a n d   o th e r  P ian o s.

A.  B.  C hase  a n d   A nn  A rb o r 

V io lin s,  M a n d o lin s,  G u ita rs, 
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Use  Tradesm an's  W ants  Golilmn.

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business are a thorough knowledge of in­
surance  law,  a  clear  head,  ability  to 
grasp details,  and  a  disposition  not  to 
ask for business simply because  she is a 
woman.

Another  woman  i3 in  pension  agent, 
and has been looking after  soldiers’ pen­
sions for years.

Chicago  claims  more  women  lawyers 
than any other  city  in  the  Union,  and 
these number nearly a  dozen.  The  rep­
resentative woman  in  the  profession  is 
the  wife  of  a  lawyer,  and  co-operates 
with his firm to such an  extent as is cus­
tomary  among  lawyers  who  find  it  to 
their advantage to work  together.

Women in the  medical  profession  are 
so numerous  and  well  established  that 
they are accepted as a  matter  of  course 
in every city,  and  Chicago  has  her  pro­
portion. 
In  connection  with  them  are 
the  professional  nurses,  who  are  em­
ployed  in  hospitals,  sanitariums,  and 
private  families;  and  the  demand  for 
teachers in nursing schools is  a  growing 
one.

Physical culture furnishes  a wide field 
for  woman’s  work,  and  parlors  filled 
with all  the  appliances  of  a  first-class 
gymnasium  are  successfully  conducted 
by  women  who  direct 
the  exercises 
scientifically with specific results in each 
case.  They have taken  a  regular  med­
ical course,  have  made  a  special  study 
of  the  anatomy  of  women  and  under­
stand the effect of all they teach.

The laundry business is not  one which 
suggests ease and pretty  surroundings or 
possible fame,  yet a great  many  women 
in Chicago are making  a nice  living  out 
of  it.  Each  one  has  a  specialty—cur­
tains, fine laces,  linens—and  that  gives 
her a  clientage.  Their  places  of  busi­
ness  are  filled  with  modern  machin­
ery,  and  in  some  of  them  women  are 
employed to the exclusion of men.

A few women have  ventured  into  the 
caterers’  field, and  the  making  of  pies, 
cakes,  bread,  preserves  and  jellies  is  a 
profitable business for many others.

One woman in the suburbs  of  Chicago 
has a  butcher’s  shop,  and  another  one 
has a milk route;  still  another carries on 
the  largest  cooperage  business  in  the 
city.

Brewing is certainly a  unique  employ­
ment  for  women;  yet  one  woman  was 
left  by  her  husband’s  death  with  this 
business and some boys to care  for,  and 
with the aid of a foreman she has carried 
it  on  for  many  years.  Now  the  sons 
have  the  management,  and  she  is  the 
proud possessor of a handsome home and 
and a fine property.

A number  of women  are  in  the  boot 
and  shoe  business,  and  in  big  depart­
ment stores there  are  many  women  oc­
cupying responsible places as  buyers.  It 
seems,  in fact,  that  there  are  very  few 
branches  of  commercial  life  in  which 
women are not  engaged.  Women  drug­
gists are plentiful enough  and one wom­
an  owns  a  wholesale  drug  business. 
There are women florists,  who  own their 
establishments,  women  furriers,  dealers 
in  musical  instruments,  grocers,  hard­
ware merchants,  commission merchants, 
and women  who  deal  in  almost  every­
thing, from furnaces to  cigarettes.

The dimensions of the I. M. Clark Gro­
cery  Company’s  new  building  can  be 
foreseen  by  the  excavation,  now  com­
pleted.  The old  buildings  were  moved 
away by the Grand  Rapids  Heavy  Mov­
ing  Company  and  one of  them went  up 
the entire length of Cherry street hill.

Hughes &  Otis, Fond du Lac, Wis.

The Majestic Steel Range  is  without  a  peer 
as to cooking apparatus.  (Thirty years’ expe­
rience in the stove business.)

D.  &  F. Lusel, Watertown, Wis.

After a most thorough  test  with  both  hard 
coal and wood,  we  unhesitatingly  say  that 
the Majestic Steel Range is the  best  cooking 
apparatus we have  seen in  our  forty  years' 
experience in the cook stove business. 

Janies Montgomery, Warsaw, Wis. 

Fifty Majestic Steel  Ranges  in  use.  Every 
user  delighted.  The  Majestic  is,  without 
doubt,  the  best  cooking  apparatus  in  the 
world. 
(Thirty years in the cook stove  busi­
ness.)

Newark &  Drury, Cadillac, Mich.

We are glad  we control in  Cadillac the  best 
cooking apparatus made—the grand Majestic 
Steel Range.
A.  H.  Sheldon &  Co.,  Janesville,  Wis. 
After a most thorough  and  scrutinizing test, 
we  believe that the people who do not  use  a 
a Majestic Steel  Range waste  the  cost  of  it 
every  year  in  the  unnecessarv  amount  of 
fuel consumed and the waste of food  by  im­
proper  baking.

H arry Daniels, Jerseyville, 111.

I never  learned  what  a  cooking  apparatus 
was until, during the  exhibit,  the  value  of 
the Majestic and its  many excellencies were 
demonstrated to me.  Over  one  hundred  in 
use.  Every user delighted.

P. D.  Hay &  Son, Arcolo,  111.

Two  years  ago  we  bought  one  Majestic 
Range  and  kept  it  on  our  floor.  Since we 
have  had  a  practical  demonstration  of  its 
value, we have sold nothing but Majesties. 

H . Krippene, Oshkosh, Wis.

I have been selling the Majestic for over four 
years.  Every user says  they  enjoy  it  more 
and  more  each  day  as  they  become  more 
familiar with its virtues.

W. D. Cooke, Green Bay, Wis.

Have sold the Majestic  Steel  Range for four 
years.  Have not  furnished  one  cent  of re­
pairs  or  had  one  single  complaint.  The 
users  unite  in  saying that no words written 
or spoken can speak more highly of it than it 
deserves.
Dunning Bros. & Co., Menominee,Mich. 
It  is  simply  absurd  to  compare  any  other 
cooking stove or range that  we have  sold  in 
our  experience  in  the  cook  stove  business 
w ith the “Majestic” in  economy  of fuel and 
facility and dispatch  in  properly  preparing 
food for the table.

V. Tausche, La Crosse, Wis.

The  virtues  of  the  Majestic  Steel  Range, 
which have been demonstrated to us and our 
people  during  the  exhibit  here,  were both 
surprising ana gratifying to us.  Every user 
(of which there are  a large  number)  says we 
did not tell them half  the advantages  of the 
Majestic over the cook stoves they  had  been 
using.
H.  K.  Johnson  Hardware  Co.,  Alton,

111.

Since the  Majestic exhibit  at  our  store,  the 
people who are able  are looking only for  the 
Majestic Steel Range when they  want  some­
thing with which to  cook.
The  H annah  &  Lay  Mercantile  Co., 

Traverse City, Mich.

The Majestic is  substantial  in  its  construc­
tion,  perfect  in  its  operation  and  the  best 
that can be had.  Our  personal guarantee  of 
every part and place  in this  range goes with 
every one we sell.
Edwards  &  Chamberlin.  Kalamazoo, 

Mich.

The Majestic, for durability, economy of fuel, 
perfect  operation,  and all  the  qualities  that 
go  to  make  a  perfect  cooking  apparatus, 
stands without a rival.

K anter Bros., Holland, Mich.

The  Majestic  is  perfect,  the  delight  of  its 
users, and stands without a rival as a cooking 
range.
The opinions of the  above  merchants, 
who  have  given  a lifetime to  the  stove 
business, are above  criticism and conclu­
sively  prove  beyond  a  doubt  that  the 
Majestic is in every  particular all that is 
claimed for it.

For further particulars address

Majestic  Manufacturing  Co.,

St. Louis,  Mo.

t h e   m c a iG A i^
WHAT  STOVE  MERCHANTS

With  Experience in  the  Trade  Have 

To  8ay  ahoilt the  Majestic.

is

Twenty thousand dollars is a tidy little sum, but  we  have 

$ 20,000
that amount invested in machinery alone, just to makeCandy

We  turn  out  goods  in  proportion  with  the  investment, 
too.  We make a full  line and to get fine  fresh-made goods at 
rock bottom prices come to us  or  t* 11  your  jobber  you  want 
our make.
T h e   l*u til urn  C a n d y   Co.
G. II. BEHNKB,
Flour,  Feed, Grain,  Hay, Straw, Etc.

WHOLESALE

CAR  LOTS  A  SPECIALTY.

Will  make  up  mixed  Cars  on  Application.  First Quality 

Goods at Lowest Prices Guaranteed.

Fancy Straight  Flour.

It’s  the  newest  thing.  Contains  more  nutriment  and  makes 

whiter bread  than any other flour.

Thoroughbred  Poultry  Stock  and  Eggs.  Poultry Supplies.

Office Telephone,  113-lR. 

30 East Bridge St.,  Cor.  Kent St.,

GBAND  HAPIDS,  MICH.

Xmas  Goods.

Handkerchiefs,  Mufflers,  Neckties,  Ribbons»

Wash and  Filo  Silks,  Plush Caps, Fancy Goods 

General Line  of Novelties as Jewelry and 
Perfumes for Christmas trade.

Our line of LINENS and TOWELS has never been excelled. 

Prices are always the lowest.

P.  Steketee  & Sons,
Grand  Rapids, flich.

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ABOUND  T H E   ST A TE.

IT3CK  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.
Bendon—F. 0. Pratt has sold  his  gen­

eral stock to H.  W. Carpenter.
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new meat market.

MOVEMENTS OF  MERCHANTS.

Tanner—L.  F.  Hall  has  opened a  new 

Filer  City—John  Roseman  has  pnr-
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Hastings  Mead &  Co.  have  opened  a  chased  the  grocery  stock  of  John  Me
Anley and  will continue  the  business  at 
j the same location.
j  Davison—Thos.  Dugan  will  re-engage 
in the drug business  in  the  new  Griffin 
[ block Dec.  15,  his  stock  having  been  de­
stroyed  by fire last spring.

Amble—G. C.  Ward has  put in a small 

Alto—Hunsicker & Scott  succeed  Mc­

stock of boots and shoes.

grocery store  here.

They are talking  of  getting  up a  mani­
festo,  signing  their  names  to  it,  and in 
this  way  let  the  public  know  that  all 
but one are down  upon  this  uncivilized 
custom.

Riverdale—G.  W.  Saunders  recently 
sold bis drug stock at  this  place  to  Dr. 
C.  P.  Sayles,  of  Kalamazoo,  taking  in 
I payment two notes secured  by  a  second 
mortgage on real estate in Grand  Rapids, 
which Mr.  Sayles claimed to own.  A day 
or two after  the  transaction  was  made, 
Mr.  Sayles  is  alleged  to  have  sold the 
stock at an advance of $50 over  the  pur­
chase price to a man  named  Kingsbury, 
who is alleged to have reached  Riverdale 
on  the  same  train  which  brought 
the 
Doctor  here.  A  day  or  two  later,  Mr 
Kingsbury began  packing  up  the  stock 
preparatory  to  removing  it  to  another 
location,  whereupon  Mr.  Saunders  be­
came alarmed and went to Grand  Rapids 
for the purpose  of  looking  up  the  real 
estate on  which  he  had  taken  security 
is 
for  the  stock.  He  learned,  so  it 
claimed, that Dr. Sayles sold the property 
a  couple  of  years  ago,  and,  therefore, 
had  no  right,  title  or  interest therein. 
Mr. Saunders thereupon  began  proceed­
ings to secure the return of his stock.

j  Manistee—The sawmills of  the  Peters 
I Salt & Lumber Co., the  Canfield  Salt  & 
j Lumber  Co.  and  Filer  &  Sons  are  the 
I only ones now in operation.  The weather 
is as fine as though it were September in­
stead of December, and  with no  snow  or 
j ice in sight the logs come  into  the  mills 
as clean and fit for sawing as at any time 
during the season,  and just as good  work 
can  be  done  now  as  in summer.  Filer 
&  Sons  will  probably  run  for  at  least 
two  weeks  yet,  and  the  Canfield  and 
Peters mills as long,  if  not longer. 
It is 
doubtful if the White & Friant mills will 
be  operated  next  season.  They  have 
been  sawing  for  the  past two years for 
Ward & Root,  who  have  sorted  out  all 
their stock  for rail shipment.  However, 
they have decided not to operate any this 
winter,  and  have  sold  what  logs  they 
have—about 3,000,000 feet—in  the  river 
to the Union  Lumber Co. 
It is rumored 
that the price paid  is about $13, delivered 
at the mill.  Ward «ft Root say  they  will 
probably only skip one year  and  let  the 
prices of lumber get back to their normal 
condition,  when they  will  begin  operat­
ing again.  They  still  have about  4,000,- 
000 feet  of lumber on  stick  here,  which 
they  will ship out by rail.

m a n u f a c t u r in g   m a tt er s.

Port  Crescent—J.  Atkinson,  of  Bad 
Axe, is putting up a small  sawmill  near 
this place.

West Branch—F.  W.  Freeman  &  Co. 
will start their shingle mill  here  shortly 
after Jan. I.

Evart  Shore Bros., of Hartwick,  have 
leased the Cox sawmill at this  place  and 
will  stock  and  run  the  mill during the 
winter.

Manistee—P.  H.  Sheridan  has  pur 
chased  the  half  interest  of  Margaret 
Stronach in the North  Side  planing mill 
and now owns the entire plant 

Saginaw—The  Melchers  &  Nerreter 
sawmill has gone out of  commission  and 
has  been  dismantled.  The  cut  of  this 
mill last season  was  less  than  4,000 000 
feet.

Edenville—Wellman Bros. &  Co.,  who 
operate  a  small  sawmill  at  this  place 
have  put  in  planing  machinery.  The 
product of the mill is hauled  to  Averill 
for  shipment.

W o lv e rin e   O y ste rs.

inquiries  come 

This brand of  oysters  is  not  excelled 
by anything offered to  Michigan  buyers. 
Every  day  new 
into 
Oscar  Allyn’s  for this brand  from  mer­
chants whose customers have  repeatedly 
asked for them  and  will  take  no  others. 
The  Wolverine  may not  have the oldest 
reputation,  but, perhaps,  they  have  the 
best. The wholesale trade for these favor­
ite oysters, White Plume celery and choice 
poultry  is cared for at  106  Canal street, 
or telephone  1,001.

Want  Choice  Onions  for  40c? 

If  so, 
mail your  order at once  to  H. J.  Vinke- 
mulder,  445  South  Division  St.,  Grand 
Rapids.

PRO D U CE  M A R K E T .

Apples—The  market  is  strong,  the  demand 
Jonathans  command  $3;  fancy 
being  active. 
Kings, 82.50; Greenings and Canada Reds,  82.25: 
Spys and Baldwins. 82.

Beans—Coming  in  more  freely,  owing  to the 
fact that  the weather has  been  more  favorable 
for  threshing.  The  price  is  unchanged.  Han­
dlers pay S1.2a@l 30 for country picked,  holding 
city picked at 81.60.

Grand  Ledge—The chair company here 
has  broken  ground  for  an  addition  to 
their already large factory.  This makes 
the  second  addition  so  far  this  year. 
Considerable building has  been going on 
here and a careful estimate shows  that a 
total of  $26,000  has  been  spent  in  this 
way.

Detroit  Articles of association of  the 
Port Huron FiberGarment Manufacturing 
Co. have been tiled  with the County Clerk 
The  capital  stock  of  the  company  la 
$5,000,  divided into 500 shares.  The paid 
up  capital 
is  $1,000,  and  the  incorpo­
rators  are  Thomas  Hunter,  Enoch  C 
Bowling,  Craig  8.  Bowling, of  Detroit,’ 
and  James  S.  Hastings,  Jr.,  of  Port 
Huron.

Manistee  The 

low  price  at  which 
hemlock lumber has sold  all  the  season 
has been rather  disastrous  to  the  small 
operators. 
It has gotten so  on this river 
that  hemlock  is  about  the  only  timber 
that can be picked up from  the  farmers 
and small jobbers,  and at the  price  paid 
for  logs,  $3.25  on  the  river,  there was 
very little profit the  past  season  unless 
one could work in some bill stuff  or  else 
get an extra price for his long.

cording to size and quality.

ing to quality.  Creamery. 22325c.

Butter—Unchanged.  Dairy,  18321c,  accord 
Beets—30c per  do*
Cabbage—Price ranges fromo81®4  per  100,  ac 
Cauliflowers—81 per doz. for choice stock. 
Celery—Is held by dealers at 10312c per  doz. 
Bggs  Strictly fresh are very hard  to  get  and 
readily command 20c per doz.  Picklers  are  be­
ginning to take out their stock, holding at 18c.

cording to size.  Malagas, 86.50 per 50-lb.  keg. 

Grapes  Tokays, 82.50 and  83.75  per  crate,  ac. 
Lettuce—I2%c per lb.
Onions—Red Weatherfields  and  Yellow  Dan­
Spanish  stock, 81 

vers  command  40c  per  bu. 
per box.

Parsnips—40c per bu.
Parsley—25c per doz.
Pears—Californlas bring 82 per bu.  box. 
Potatoes—The  demand  is  more  general  and 
the market is a little stronger than  a  week  ago 
Local handlers pay 38c, holding at 40c in  carlots 
and 45c in small quantities.

Radishes—Hot house stock commands  30c  per 

doz. bunches.

Rye—Small stocks  and  relatively high  prices 
ave  resulted  in  a  total  cessation of exports. 
During the first ten months of  the  present  year 
these were next to nothing at barely 232  bushels 
against about 750,000 bushels a year ago.

Sweet Potatees—Illinois Jerseys  are  the  only 
variety  still  in  market.  They  command 83 per 
bbl.

Squash—Hubbard brings l%c per lb.
Turnips  30c  per  bu.  In  small  demand  and 

adequate supply.

Cartney Bros,  in general trade.

Albion—W.  Groff has enlarged  the  ca­
pacity of his  wagon factory at this place.
Ionia—Oscar Whorley is succeeded  by 
Whorley Ac Reynolds  in  the  meat  busi­
ness.

Cold water—M.  W.  Brainerd  succeed 
Brainerd Ac  Perry  in  the  grocery  busi 
ness.

Galesburg—L.  K.  Townsend, of Town­
is 

send  &  Zinn,  millers  at  this  place, 
dead.

Traverse  City—W.  W.  Miller  has 
opened  a  new  grocery  store  on  State 
street.

Muskegon—H.  L. Patrick  will  shortly 
open  a  meat  market  at  22  West  Clay 
avenue.

Jonesville—Gilbert  Ac  Hix,  hardware 
dealers,  have  dissolved,  Fred  Hix  suc­
ceeding.

Manistee—E.  H.  Gardner  Ac  Co.  have 
sold their grocery  business  to  Fagan  & 
Me Evoy.

Ed more—Heath  &  Sanderson  succeed 
Frank  Heath in the drug  and  stationery 
business.

Menominee—John 

succeeds 
Thompson & Payne in the butter and egg 
business.

Payne 

Peutwater—L.  D. Pollard  succeeds  C. 
C.  Ambler  in  the  book  and  stationery 
business.

Big  Rapids—Chas.  Uangstorfer  has 
purchased the meat  business of  Wm.  C. 
Uangstorfer.

Port  Huron—Smith  Bros,  have  pur 
the  grocery  business  of  Chas. 

chased 
Grieb & Son.

Petoskey—Henry  Leismer  &  Randall 
succeed  Henry Leismer in  the  flour  and 
feed business.

New Era—Martin  Vauderveen has pur­
the  store  and  general  stock  of 

chased 
John Achterhoff.

Davison—Mapes  &  Carpenter,  of  La­
peer,  have  opened  a  branch  clothing 
store at this place.

Ovid—A.  M.  Eaton  succeeds Eaton  & 
Pearl  in  the  carriage  and  agricultural 
implement business.

Loomis—O.  Bennett  has  leased  S. C. 
Zeiter’s shingle mill here and  is  operat­
ing it to its full capacity.
Quincy—James  Baird, 

formerly  of 
Lansing,  succeeds Robert Hyslop  in  the 
drug and grocery business.

Homer—E.  B. Smith,  formerly engaged 
iu general  trade of Seneca,  has embarked 
in the grocery  business at this  place.

Seneca  E.  B. Smith has sold  his stock 
of  general  merchandise  to  Rothfuss  & 
Bodine,  who  will continue  the  business.
Davison—C.  L.  Worden, whose grocery 
stock was  destroyed  by  fire  last  April, 
has opened a grocery and  crockery  store 
at this place.

Quincy—Emmett  J.  Condra  has  em­
barked in the drug  and  grocery  business 
in 
the  store  building  just  vacated  by 
Robert Hyslop.

Ashland Center—Pollard & McKinley’s 
store and general stock were  entirely de­
stroyed by fire December  1.  The  loss is 
estimated at $5,000,  with no insurance.

Albion—Francis Hogmire has removed 
his stock of groceries from Cass street  to 
the north half of the store  building  now 
occupied  by Young & Co.’s meat  market.
Davison—Geo.  H.  Moss,  whose grocery 
stock was destroyed  in the  recent fire  at 
this  place,  has  erected a  new two-story 
brick store,  which he  will occupy with  a 
stock of general merchandise  Dec.  15.

Saranac—Daniel  E.  Rogers,  who  has 
been  engaged  in  the  meat  business  at 
Clarksville for the  past  two  years,  has 
removed to this place  and  embarked  in 
buying  and  shipping  of  produce  and 
poultry.

Henrietta—W.  C.  Loomis  has  pur­
chased  the  general  stock  of  Geo.  J. 
Kirdeudall,  at  Charlesworth,  and  will 
shortly remove his general stock  to  that 
place and consolidate  it  with  the  stock 
he has purchased.

Rockford—Geo.  A.  Dockeray  has  re­
tired from the wholesale produce firm  of 
Towne  &  Dockeray  and  purchased  the 
lumber  yard  of  S.  Fincham.  The pro­
duce business will  be  continued  by  the 
remaining partner.

Detroit—The  entire 

interest  of  the 
Henry A. Newland estate and of  the  es­
tate of James Burns in the wholesale fur 
store of H.  A. Newland &  Co.  has  been 
purchased  by Charles Montague,  of Caro, 
to take effect January 1.

Grant  Station—W.  N.  Hutchinson, 
who has conducted a furniture store here 
for  the  past  twelve  years  and  a hard­
ware  store  for  the  past  ten  years,  has 
sold  both stocks  to Alexander J.  McKin­
ley and will retire from business.

lraverse  City—The  officers  of 

the 
Hamilton  Clothing  Co.  are  as  follows: 
President,  Frank  Hamilton:  Vice-Presi­
dent,  J.  W.  Milliken<  Secretary,  Thos.
U.  Sherman;  Treasurer, Eva  Hamilton; 
Assistant Manager,  B.  H.  Bracken.

Detroit—N.  Burton  & Co., clothiers at 
90  Woodward avenue,  have given a chat­
tel  mortgage on their stock  and  fixtures 
for $16,053.04,  and a mortgage  of  $9,000 
on  their real estate.  The Union National 
Bank,  whose claim is $6,000, is  the  larg­
est creditor.

the 

Detroit—The  Consumers’  Grocery Co., 
which  has  demoralized 
farmers’ 
trade in many localities  in this  State  by 
claiming to sell goods to gullible agricul­
turists at wholesale prices,  has evidently 
reached the end of  its rope,  having  been 
attached by an anxious  creditor for $450.
formerly 
traveling representative for the St. Johns 
Mercantile Co.,  has formed  a  copartner­
ship  with  Mr. Dubois, who was connected 
with  the  wholesale  department  of  the 
same house,  and the two  have  opened  a 
grocery  store  here  under  the  style  of 
Chick & Dubois.

St.  Johns—A.  A.  Chick, 

Mt.  Morris—W.  H.  Durham,  formerly

Lansing—The butchers of this city are
of  the  firm  of  Durham  &  Bush,  whose j greatly agitated over the recent exposure 
general  stock  was  destroyed  by  fire  a  of the methods of one their number  who 
year ago, has opened a new grocery store  fed raw horseflesh to  hogs,  which  were 
^ere‘ 
Itben  hilled and  placed on  the  market.

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5

G R A N D   R A PID S  G O SSIP.

B. J.  Launier  has closed his meat mar­
ket  on  West  Bridge  street  and  retired 
from the business.

Chas.  A.  Loughlin  has  removed  his 
produce and  commission  business  from 
290  South  Division  street  to  412 South 
Division street.

John  D.  Wickham  has  sold  bis  meat 
market  at  117  Butter worth  avenue  to 
Bert Hatch,  formerly  in  the  employ  of 
the Consolidated Street Railway Co.

The  Palmer  hardware  stock  at  676 
Wealthy avenue has been  purchased  by 
Jacob  Dykema,  formerly aclerk for Jos. 
Berles, 
street  hardware 
dealer.

the  Canal 

Frank E.  Winsor,  formerly engaged  in 
the grocery  business at 152 North  Divis­
ion street, has opened a grocery store  at 
24  Fountain  street.  The  I.  M.  Clark 
Grocery Co.  furnished the  stock.

Peter  VanKolken,  formerly  with  the 
Atlantic & Pacific  Tea Co.,  has formed  a 
copartnership  with  Paul  Tanis,  of  Chi­
cago, and the two will shortly embark in 
the tea and coffee business at  Holland.

The Musselman  Grocer  Co.  took  pos­
session of the  G. L. White & Son grocery 
stock,  at Mancelona,  last week,  by virtue 
of a  bill of  sale,  subsequently  transfer- 
ing the stock to  Wisler &  Co.,  who  con­
solidated the stock with their own.

T h e   T r a d e s m a n   gladly  gives  place 
this  week  to  an  excellent  paper  on  the 
“Progress of  Pharmacy,”  prepared  and 
read before the last meeting of the Mich­
igan  State  Pharmaceutical  Association 
by Dorian M.  Russell, of the Thum Bros. 
& Riechel pharmacy, of this city.

The Standard Oil Co.,  which has occu­
pied rooms in the Hawkins block for  the 
past ten years,  will shortly remove to the 
fifth floor of the Michigan Trust Company 
building,  where  it  will  occupy  rooms 
503,  505,  507  and  509.  The  principal 
reason  for  removing  is  to  secure vault 
room,  which  could  not  be  had  in  the 
present location.

Pollard  &  McKinley,  whose  general 
stock at Ashland Center was recently de­
stroyed by fire, have  placed  orders  with 
local  jobbers  for  new  lines.  Foster, 
Stevens &  Co.  capture  the hardware  or­
der,  the I. M. Clark Grocery  Co.  furnish 
the groceries,  P.  Steke^ee & Sons supply 
the dry goods  and  Rindge,  Kalmbach  & 
Co. put In the boots and shoes.

Geo.  N.  Davis is  agitating  the  matter 
of  organizing  a  stock  company  with a 
cash capital of 840,000 for the purpose of 
erecting and conducting a mammoth cold 
storage  warehouse,  using  ammonia  re­
frigeration  instead  of  ice.  A  location 
has been selected on the West side, pend­
ing the  conclusion  of  negotiations  now 
under  way for the  exclusive  use  of  the 
process of refrigeration in this city.

A good many of  the  retail  grocers  of 
the city appear to be of the opinion  that 
the  oil  trade  has  been  ruined  by 
the 
peddlers.  Has it ever occurred  to  them 
that it might be a good  idea to sell oil at 
cost for a few weeks and thus  drive  the 
peddlers out of  business?  Such  an  ex­
pedient has been adopted in  other  cities 
with success,  and T h e   T r a d e s m a n  sees 
no reason why such a measure would not 
work  advantageously in this city.

Tbe stockholders  of the  Sintz Gas  En­
gine  Co.  have voted  to increase the cap­
ital stock of the corporation from 830,000 
to  8100,000,  and  a  portion  of  the  new 
stock has already  been spoken for.  Tbe 
increased  capital  will  enable  tbe  com­
pany to push  tbe sale of  its gasoline  en­
gines,  both  stationery  and  marine,  and 
also enable  it  to  increase  its  output  of 
boats of all sizes and varieties.  This en­
terprise  has  worked  up  a  considerable 
business  without  special  effort  in  the 
way of advertising or the employment of 
traveling representatives,  but  the stock­
holders have reached the conclusion that 
they have something  worth  pushing  and 
augmented  capital  will  enable  them  to 
pnt this idea into practice.

There is a  proposition now  before the 
Common Council of this  city  to  enforce 
the use of the union label on  all  munici­
pal printing.  The measure  is  clearly  a 
violation of the charter,  which  provides 
that all  work of the kind shall  be  let  to 
the lowest bidder; but there are probably 
a half dozen members of the Council who 
owe their position to the machinations of 
unions and  who will  violate  their  honor 
as men and their oaths as  public  officers 
to  secure  this  approval  of  tbe  allied 
interests  of  unionism  and  rum.  The 
business public,  however,  expect  honest 
men to do their  duty  in  such  an  emer­
gency  and  will  note  the  vote  on  this 
question  with  watchful  interest,  as  it 
will indicate the exact  position  of  each 
member on  tbe question of  perpetuating 
monopolies.

T h e   G ro c e ry   M a rk e t.

Sugar—The course of tbe  market  is  a 
conumdrum  on  which no one appears  to 
be willing  to  venture  a  prediction.  Ou 
Monday the refiners reduced cut loaf and 
domino J£c and the  remainder of the list 
%c, but later in the  day a slight advance 
occurred in New York. 
It is the general 
opinion that the  refiners are  holding  the 
price of refined down below living figures 
so as to purchase the Louisiana sugars at 
a low valuation and be  in  shape to scoop 
the Cuban crop of raws in the same man­
ner a little later  on.

Molasses—The  low  prices  prevailing 
for  Louisiana  sugars  have,  naturally, 
caused a material decline in all grades of 
New Orleans molasses,  which  are  badly 
demoralized.  Syrups  are  rather firm  on 
accouut of scarcity  of  low  grade  goods, 
which are most  in demand.

Fruits—Currants  in barrels are a little 
stronger.  Large arrivals  of  dates  have 
tended to weaken  the  market.  Figs  are 
expected to advance materially before the 
new  crop  arrives.  French  prunes  are 
stronger,  owing  to  firmer  advices from 
Bordeaux.  California  prunes  are  with­
out  change.  California  raisins  are  in 
good request and  reports  from  handlers 
are  to  the  effect  that  supplies of really 
desirable grades are not large.  Valencias 
are without particular change.

Oranges—Tbe local  market  is  full  of 
oranges,  and  very  low  prices are being 
made to move them.  All  of  our  dealers 
are  confident  of  a  heavy  trade  before 
Christmas, and it is  safe to  say  that  no 
market in tbe  country can,  or does,  give 
better prices than ours.  Prices range all 
the way from S2@2.50  for Fancy Brights 
and  from  81.75@2.25  for  Golden  Bas­
setts.

Lemons—The new Messinas which have 
reached 
somewhat 
streaked  with  green,  but  are  entirely 
sonnd  and  are  packed  very  fancy.

this  market 

are 

Prices,  as  quoted  elsewhere  this week, 
will undoubtedly be 50c  lower  inside  of ! 
ten  days.  We  advise  the  trade  to buy j 
just  as  their  needs  require,  instead  of | 
stocking up with  fruit which  is  slightly i 
green.

Bananas—Two  cars  came  into  our l 
market  this  week,  one  from New York j 
and one from  New  Orleans.  Prices  are | 
rather  firmer  than  previous  quotations, 
owing to the fact that  there is  not  much 
competition.  The  trade  take  hold  of | 
them  very  sparingly,  however,  and  ex­
treme prices will not be realized.

Foreign  Nuts—Are  easy  and  dealers 
report that there is not such  a  brisk  de­
mand as had been expected just previous 
to the holidays.

Peanuts—No change  to  speak  of  this 
week,  and  prices,  as  quoted,  will  be 
shaded to best trade.

Candy—The usual  rush  for this article 
which always comes  just before  the hol- 
days  is  now  on  and  manufacturers 
throughout the country  are working full 
forces,  and,  in some cases, extra hours.

T h e  G ra in   M a rk e t.

There  is  absolutely  nothing  new. 
Prices on  wheat are  a  trifle  lower  than 
last  week,  although  all sigus point to a 
higher level of prices,  but it  seems  hard 
work to lift  prices  at  preseut  with  the 
enormous visible supply—probably  over 
86,000,000  bushels—while 
receipts  all 
over seem to fall  off.  Shipments, owing 
to  high ocean rates, are  also  much  less 
than they would be were the rates lower, 
but,  owing to  the  lack  of  vessel  room, 
rates 
Investments  in 
wheat have been  reduced to a  minimum, 
as investors seem to be  waiting  until  af­
ter the holidays,  and  they  also  want  to 
see the visible reduced somewhat  before 
making new investments.

remain  high. 

Corn holds it  own.  Some  traders  are 

looking for lower prices.

Oats  are  still  firm  with  about  1  cent 

advance.

Receipts for the past week  were wheat, 
81 cars; corn, 20  cars; oats, 1  car—rather 
more than  usual  amount  received.  Es­
pecially is this true of corn.

C.  G.  A.  V o i« t .

P h o e n ix  B lo ck   T ra n s fe r.

The largest real estate  transfer  which 
has been consummated in this city in the 
past  two  years  was  recently negotiated 
with much skill by Chas. E. Mercer.  The 
Phoenix  block,  valued at  845,000, which 
is generally considered  to  be  gilt-edged 
property,  owned  by  L.  G.  Dunton,  was 
exchanged for the famous Spoon  farm of 
800 acres, near  Nunica,  which  is  valued 
at  835,000,  and  $10,000  in cash and  per­
sonal property.

H id e s,  P e lts   a n d   F u r s .

Hides and calf  skins are  stronger, ow­
ing to better demand  on the  part  of  the 
tanners, due to a scarcity of hides.

Tallow is stronger and a  little  higher.
Wool is weaker—in fact,  “dead”  about 

expresses it.

The Whitney-Marvin Music Co.,  which 
recently  opened  an  office  at  25  and 
27 South Division  street,  this  city,  wa3 
induced to use a 4-inch  advertisement in 
T h e   T r a d e s m a n   last  week and  reports 
four sales to merchants outside  of Grand 
Rapids.  This,  naturally, 
the 
W.-M.  Music Co.  to  believe  that  it pays 
to advertise in T h e  T r a d e s m a n .

leads 

Florida  expects to ship 5,000,000 boxes 

of oranges this year.

Wants  Column•

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

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

■piOR  SALE-A  WELL SELECTED  DRUG 
A- 
stock and first class fixtures  in good order: 
also store buildint: with  hall  overhead,  located 
at Bradley, one or the best  Hading  points in Al­
legan  county.  Reason  for  selling,  present 
owner is not a druggist  Excellent  opening  for 
good man.  M.  A.  Ross. South  Monterey.Mich. 044 
p lO R   SALE—FOR  CASH  ONLY, NEW.  WELL 
. 
as?°r£ed stoc  of hardware.  Only store In 
town of 7 0; surrounded  by good farming  coun- 
t~y, doing paying cash business  A snap  Good 
Bel' inK-  Will  take  small  grocery 
stock.  Write  at  once.  Address  No.  643  care 
¿»43
Michigan Tradesman. 
T°  KXp iA N GE—FOR  STOCK  GENERAL 
A   merchandise  or  clothing,  fruit  fa*m  in
TraedesmCa°n.nlAddrCSS Ka 
care Mich^ an
T T 0 R   SALE  o r   r e n t - b l a c k s m it h   s h o p 
f -  
in small village and in good farming  coun- 
W e,Ien .railes from the nearest shop.  Address 
J.  H.  Purvis.  Ironton, Mich. 
■DIOR  SALE-CLEAN DRUG STOCK  FINE LI 
r  u  ou  e<l  n a Prosperous Northern Michigan 
Lake Shore town  of  8,5(>o  population.  Invoicef 
from *3.  0 to *4.000.  Address No. 640, care Mich 
igau Tradesman._____
E ° ™ n ^ ET ? I0NEJER  DRCO  »TORE  AND 
*000 stock in Copemish, Mich.  Established 
A . 
five years.  Must be sold by  < hristmas.  Giob <& 
«35
W I L L   SELL  STOCK OF  CLOTHING CHEAI 
.V, 
ior ca®h.  Good  location  in  good  town 
Address No. 6-3 care Michigan Tradesman.  «33
r p o   RENT—VASSAR,  MICH., BRICK  STORE 
concrete cellar, good location, general  dry 
J -  
goods  or grocery business.  Apply to  C.  H. Rip 
ley, Flint, Mich. 

_________________  

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good  farming  lands;  abundance  of  fruit; rea 

Br ic k   s t o r e   t o   r e n t ;  l iv in g   r o o m : 

above; good trading point,  surrounded  b’ 
sonable terms.  Address A. L. Power, Kent Citv 
626
Mich. 
DIOR  SALE—A  SHOE  BUSINESS,  OR  BALI 
interest in ssme,  on  one  of  the  princips 
streets in Grand  Rapids  New stock  good trad« 
location  Al.  Address  No.  624  care  Michiga 
Tradesman. 
¿.¿j

SITUATIONS  W ANTED.

Tj ILRNITURE BUYER AND MANAGER WILL 
be open  for  engagement  Jan.  1.  Sixteen 
A- 
years’ experience.  References  furnished.  Ad 
dress No. 638, care Michigan Tradesman. 

638

MISCELLANEOUS.

W*fv  ANTED— WE  WISH  TO  LEASE  A  15- 
V 
horse power  portable  engine  and  boiler, 
ith or without engineer, during the Ice cutting 
season  Consumers’ Ice Co , Grand Rapids.  «,45
I  WILL  BUY  LARGE  GENERAL  STOCK 

merchandise in Northern Central  Michigan 
if cheap.  Pay Cash.  Address Box 327,  Stanton, 
Mich.________ __ ______________________637
TAT ANTED—LOCATION 
* v 
Leonidas, Mich. 

FOR  HARNESS 
shop.  I have  good  stock,  S.  Lamport, 

¿31

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

for  sale  at  a  great  reduction  from  cost- 
same make of machine, which  we  consider  the 
best  on the  market.  Tradesman  Company.  100 
Louis St.. Grand  Rapids. 

Reason for selling, we desire another  pattern  of 

started to use our system of poison labels.  What 

■ ' ANTED—EVERY  D R U G G IS T   JU S T  

starting in business and every one already 
has cost you $15 yon can now  get  for  II  Four­
teen  labels  do  the  work  of  113.  Tradesman 
Company,  Grand Rapids.
Of  Course

564

you are going 
to the

T raw lers’  B all?

and you may 
need a

Suit  of  Clothes.

If you want a

Stylish  Suit
Living  Figures

call on

FRANK  M.  WILLIAMS,

139-141  Monroe  St.,

Cor.  Dlv.

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D E P A R T M E N T   STO RES.

V iew s  o f  th e   V e te r a n   E d ito r  o f  th e  

" A m e ric a n   G ro c e r.”

The question involved  in  the  depart 
nsent store is not a simple,  but a complex 
one. It involves principles which are at the 
foundation of the  great changes that are 
being worked out in the economy  of  our 
times.  The  local  dealer  gives  to  the 
community  in  which  he  is  located  a 
needed service;  his store is  a  local  con­
venience,  doing for each of its customers 
a work at less expenditure of  time,  trou­
ble and expense than if people attempted 
to do the same work  for  themselves. 
If 
there were no stores  opened  voluntarily 
by those  who saw the need of a place and 
forestalled the  demand,  the  community 
would  be quick to  take  steps  to  secure 
the needed service, even  at  considerable 
eost.  Every  store  is  the  center around 
which  a  fixed  trade  revolves,  which 
trade is arbitrary and exacting in  its  de­
mands. 
It  insists  that  from  daylight 
until  late at night the  local  dealer  shall 
be prepared to meet certain demands,  for 
which patrons should be  willing  to  pay 
a fair price.  Competition  from  outside, 
more or less irregular in character, comes 
in, not to perform all of  the  service  de 
manded of the local  store,  but only such 
portion of it  as  the  competitor  selects, 
and naturally he strives  for  that  which 
will be the most easily handled  and  pay 
the best profit.  Local dealers resent  in­
terference,  and they are  right  in taking 
every legitimate measure to check, and if 
possible to stop,  the inroads  upon  their 
business,  which  in  all  fairness  is  en­
titled  to  the  undivided  support  of  the 
section  or  community  served.  When 
the jobbers  encroached and sold goods to 
consumers, the  grocers  formed  associa­
tions  aud  demanded 
that  the  jobbers 
should  choose  between  their  trade  and 
that of  the  consumer.  The  equity,  the 
fairness of the retailers’ position, was not 
challenged,  and the  jobbers,  in  recogni­
tion of a just demand,  made  an  impera­
tive rule  not  to  sell  consumers.  Now, 
the territory  and  the  rights  of  the  re­
tailer are invaded by a modern leviathan, 
a  giant  octopus,  the  department  store, 
and  some  portions  of 
the  trade  are 
greatly  exercised  thereby  and  demand 
that the jobbers,  the  manufacturers,  the 
importers,  shall choose  between  service 
to  a  score  of  department  stores,  and 
300,000  honest,  hard  working,  poorly 
compensated distributers  of  food.  The 
majority of the importers,  manufacturers 
and  jobbers,  recognizing  the  equities  in 
the position of the retailers and  the  fact 
that the retailers helped  build  them  up 
and sustain them, positively refuse to sell 
department  stores.  One  looks  in  vain 
for certain  brands  of  goods  in  depart­
ment stores,  while  others  are  there  be­
cause obtained in  some  underhanded  or 
irregular  manner.  The retailers  do  not 
object so much  to the  department  stores 
as to their methods.  They claim that they 
misrepresent  quality,  sell  some  things 
at or below cost and others at high prices, 
but convey the  impression  that  all  are 
cheap, and make misstatements as to the 
comparative  value  of  goods  sold  by 
them and  the  best  retail  stores,  as  for 
Instance: 
tea  at  35  cents,
equal to that sold in regular  stores  at 60 
cents.”  There is  much of  truth  in  the 
charge.  The methods of the department 
store demoralize  the  trade  of  the  local 
dealers,  whose customers compare prices, 
do  not  discriminate  as  to  quality  or 
brand, and  make  complaint that  excess-

“Oolong 

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D ir iL U C H lS  COTTONS.

“ 
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A driatic.................. 7
Arrow Brand 4M 
A rg y le.................... 53*
World Wide.  6
Atlanta AA............. 6**
“  LL.................434
Atlantic A ................. 53*
Full Yard Wide.......634
H ...............6
Georgia  A................ 6k
P .............   5
Honest Width........   6
D ...............  6
Hartford A .............   6
»  “  LL............... 4 34
Indian Head...........   334
Amory........................ 63*
King A A .................634
Archery  Bunting...  43* 
King EC.  ...............   5
Beaver Dam  A A ..  4*
Lawrence  L L ........ 41*
Blackstone 0 , 32__ 5
Madras cheese cloth 63*
Black Crow............. 6
Newmarket  G.........5k
Black  Rock  ..............5*
B .......5
Boot, AL.................  7
N ........ 63*
Capital  A .................
D D ...  53*
Cavanat V .................534
X ....... 63*
Chapman cheese cl. 33*
Noibe R ....................  5*
Clifton  C R ............1 51* Our Level  Best;.!.".  6
Comet.......................53*¡Oxford  R ...................6
7
Dwight Star.............  63*¡Pequot.................  
Clifton CCC---------  534 Solar........................... 6
|Top of the  Heap__ 7
f B C ..........................83*
Geo. W ashington...  8
Amazon....................8
Glen Mills..............   7
Amsburg..................6
Gold  Medal.............734
Art Cambric............ 10
Green  Ticket.......... 81*
Blackstone A A........ 6 It
Great Falls..............   61*
Beats All.................... 4
Hope.........................7}*
Boston...,  ..............12
Jnst  Out........ 43*@  5
Cabot..........................63*
King  Phillip........... 73*
Cabot.  3*..................
O P.....  734 
„  M 
Charter  Oak............. 534
Lonsdale Cambric..  9v
Conway W .................7}*
-----„  Lonsdale.............  <a 8
Clevelan d ..............  6  Middlesex........  a  434
7
Dwight Anchor—   7 *  No Name...........  
shorts  8  Oak View...............! e
Edwards....................6  Our O w n..:...............534
Empire..................... 7  Pride of the W est... 11
Farwell..  . . . . ............63* Rosalind....................7,.
434
Fruit of the Loom.  7341 Sunlight.... 
Fltchvllle  .............  7
*  Utica  Mills...........'.  834
First Prize............... 6
Nonpareil  ..10
FruttoftheLoom  X. 7 3*
Vlnyard...................   834
Falrmount................11*
White Horse............6
Full Value................33*
. 834
Cabot........................63* I Dwlgh t Anchor
•  734
Farwell....................7h |

HALF  BLEACHED  COTTONS.

BLEACHED  COTTONS.

R ock.... 

, - 

“  

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CANTON  FLANNEL.

1 

Unbleached.

Bleached. 
Housewife  Q .... 
R .......
S.
T.
U.
V . 
W.
X.
Y.
Z . ..

Housewife  A...........53*
'
534
..... 6
.......634
.......7
.......73»
.......734
.......73*
.......83*
.......834
..  .  93*
...10
.
....1034
.
...11
.
....21
.
....1434
CARPET  WARP.
—1834¡Integrity  colored.

B 
C 
D 
B 
F 
G 
H 
I 
J  
K
L.M. 
N . 
O . 
P . 

...63*
...7
...73*
...834
...93*
.
.10
.103*
• 1134 
.1234
• 1334

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PRINTS.

Nameless.

.............18

DRESS  GOODS.

CORSET  JEANS.

COR8
Corallne....................... 89 00
Schilling’s ..  ...........9 00
Davis  W aists.......  9 00
Grand  Rapids.........4 50
Armory...................... 63*
Androscoggin..........73*
Biddefora................6
Brunswick...............634
Allen tnrkey  reds..  534
robes............534
“ 
pink a purple 534
“ 
b u ffs ...........   53*
“ 
pink  checks.  534
“ 
stap les........   6
“ 
sh irtings...  33*
“ 
American  fancy__ 5
American indigo  ..  43* 
American shirtings.  83* 
Argentine  G rays...  6 
Anchor Shirtings...  4 
....  6
Arnold 
Arnold  Merino.  ...  6 
long cloth B.  9 
“  C.  7
century cloth  7

Peerless, white------13341 integrity  colored..  18
colored  ... 16  White Star...............17
“  colored  .19
Integrity...................18341 
Hamilton..................  8
........20
 
9
.......25
...............IO34
....2734
G G Cashmere........1634
....30
Nameless  ................ 16
....3234
....35
W onderful.
...84 50 
Brighton..  ,
4 75
Bortree’s .............. 9 ÖÖ
Abdominal............15 00
Naumkeagsatteen..  734
Rockport..................6
Conestoga................734
W alworth................63*
Berwick fancies
>34
Clyde  R ob es....__
Charter Oak fancies 4 
DelMarlne cashm’s.  434 
monrn’g  434 
Eddy stone  fancy...  5 
chocolat  5 
rober  ...  5 
sateens..  5 
Hamilton fancy.  ...  43*
staple__ 5
Manchester fancy..  5 
.   new era. 5
„  
Merrimack D fancy,  s 
Merrlm’ck shirtings.  4 
.R eppfurn .  834
_  “ 
Pacific fancy...........5
robes.............534
_  “ 
Portsmouth robes...  6 
Simpson mourning.. 5
greys.........5
_  
«olid black.  5 
Washington Indigo.  634 
,,  Turkey robes..  7
India robes__ 7
‘  Plain T h y  X k   7 
“  X...10 
634

“ 
“ 
“ 
“  gold seal.......1034
“  green seal TR 1034 
"  yellow seal.. 1034
serge............. 1134
“ 
“  Turkey red.. 1034 
“ 

Ballon »olid black..
colors.
Bengal blue,  green, 
red and  orange...  6
Berlin solids............534
oil blue.........  6
“ 
“  g reen __   6
“ 
“  Foulards  ...  534
“ 
red 3*............ 7
“  % ...............934
;; 
44...........10
“ 3-4XXXX12
“ 
Cocheco fancy.......... 5
“  m adden...  5
“  XXtw ills..  5 
“ 

Ottoman  Tur­
key red .............. 
Martha Washington 
Tnrkeyred 3* ....  7 
Martha Washington
Tnrkeyred..............934
Riverpolntrobes....  5
WlsdBorfancy.......  634
___ „„
indigo  bine..........10*
• solids............5  I Harmony
4*
AC A ........................     u
Pemberton AAA__16
York........................ in u
Swift River..............71*
Pearl R iver.............12 71
.. ... 12*
Warren
Conostoga...............ie
OOTTON  D RILL.
............8
....  63*|Stark  A 
....  63* No  Name...................714
. .. .   7  (Topof Heap............9

Amoskeag A C A __ m u
Hamilton N  ............  7
D................8
Awning.. 11
_ 
Farm er........................8
First  Prise...............1034
Lenox M ills............ 18
Atlanta,  D.
Boot............
Clifton, K  .

gold  ticket 

TICKINGS.

“  

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“ 

“ 
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Amoskeag................12
9o*.......14
brown .14
Andover.................. 1134
Beaver Creek  AA... 10 
cc
B B...  9
Boston MfgCo.  b r"  7 
blue  634 
“  d & twist  1034 
Colombian XXX br.10 
XXX  bl.19
•' 
Amoskeag  ..............  5
“  Persian dress 63«
Canton ..  7
“ 
AFC........ 834
"  
Teazle...1034 
“ 
Angola.. 1034 
“ 
Persian..  7
Arlington staple__ 53*
Arasapha  fancy__ 43*
Bates Warwick dres  734 
staples.  6
„ 
Centennial.............   1034
C riterion.................1034
Cumberland staple.  534
Cumberland............ 5
Essex.....................  4U
Elfin.........................  7%
Everett classics.......834
Exposition...............73*
Glenarle..................   63*
Glenarven................63*
Glenwood..................73*
Hampton..................6
Johnson Chalon cl  34 
Indigo bine 934 
zephyrs__ 16  I

“ 
“ 

“  

“ 
“ 

brown 

Colombian  brown.. 12
Everett, bine........... ll
brown........11
Haymaker bine.......73*
74* 
Jeffrey, XX..9XXX..10
L ancaster................1234
Lawrence, 9oz........ 12*
No.220.,.,12
NO.250....1P
No.280....  8

“ 
“ 
“ 
GINGHAMS.

Lancaster,  staple...  5
fancies__   6
“ 
“  Normandie  6
Lancashire..............   43*
Manchester..............43*
Monogram...............43*
Normandie.............  834
Persian.....................  63*
Renfrew Dress........734
Rosemont.................6m
Slatersvllle............. 6
Somerset..................   7
Tacoma  ...................734
Toll  dnN ord..........834
Wabash....................734
seersucker..  7*
Warwick.................  6
Whittenden............. 8
heather dr.  734 
indigo bine 9 
Wamsutta staples...  6k
Westbrook............... 8
....................... 10
Wlndermeer............ 6
York......................... 63*

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GRAIN  RAGS.

t h r e a d s .

Barbour’s................95
Marshall’s  ............. 90

A*jHjskeag............... 123*|Georgla...................... 1234
American.......12* 1.— .." " " " .!!!!!!!!'
Clark’s Mile End....45
Coats’, J. & P .........45
Holyoke...................2234
KNITTING  COTTON.
No.  6White.  Colored. 
38 No, 14
..  ..33 
8 ....... 34
“ 
39
10 .......35
“ 
40
11  12. ....... 36
41
CAMBRICS.
Slater..........................4
White Star...............   4
Kid Glove.................. 4
Newmarket..............4

White. 
....... 87
«
16 ....... 38
••
18 ....... 39
“ 20. ....... 40
Edwards.................   4
Lockwood..................4
Wood’s ....................  4
Brunswick............   4 *
Firem an.................. 27 
[T W ............ 
w u
Creedmore.............. 24 
p t  
 
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TalbotXXX............30 
J R F , X X * :;.;" " -» !
Nameless.................2734 Buckeye.....................§jj*

RED  FLANNEL.

m ix e d   f l a n n e l .

DOMRT  FLANNEL.
“ 
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Grey 8R W .............. 1734
Western W .............. 16M
D RP................   «it
Flushing XXX.........2334
Manitoba..................2334
O 10*  
12*
10* 
Black. 
H *  
12 
20

Red A Bine,  plaid..40
Union R ...................2234
Windsor...................I834
6 oz Western........... 20
Union  B .................. 2234
„  
Nameless.......8  @ 9341 
...  834010  I 
;;;;;
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.  
CANVASS  AND  PADDING.
Slate.  Brown.  Black.ISlate  Brown 
934 
1034 
11*  
12*  
Severen, 8 oz............. 9*
May land, 80s ...........10*
Greenwood, 7* o s..  9*
Greenwood, 8 os___11*
Boston, 8 oz..............10*

93* 1034 
1034 1134 
11*12 
12*|20 
DtJOKâ.
West  Point,8 o s.... 10*  
10 os  ...12*
„  
“ 
Raven, lOos..............is *
Stark 
..............| S
Boston, 10 os......... :.12*

.. 
934 
1034 
11*  
12*  

10M
11*
12
20

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WADDINGS.

SILE8IA8.

[Per bale, 40 dos__ 88  50
......  7 55
IColored  “ 
Pawtucket................iom
Dundle.....................   9*
Bedford............ ........101»
Valley  City.............lie*
“ 5 ......... 10*
[Cortlcelll  knitting, 
per *oz  ball........ 80

............... 25 
Colored,  dos............20 
Slater, Iron Cross...  8 
Red Cross....  9
Best.............. 10*
Best AA.......12*
7*
__ 8*
SEWING  SILK.
Cortlcelll, dos..........56
twist, dos.. 37* 
50yd,doz..87*
HOOKB ilTD  STBS—PER GROSS
No  1 Bl’k *  White..10 
*“  'No  4 Bl’k A White.,15
“  2 
..12
..20
“  8 
..12
..26
*°£iu;?cc::.".:::S  p 4- 15' 8*.....«
„  
COTTON  TAPE.
|No  8 White A Bl’k  wi
No  2 White *  Bl’k.. 12 
..15
.18

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SAFETY  P a rs . 
—  28  INoS...
NEEDLES—PUR  M.
-----—

Crowelv’s..... 
Marshall’s __
5-4.
1  75

.................. 1 40! Steamboat....

Î * ^ < 1 Kyed::;;;;;::;i So
. 
........... 1 OOjAmerlcan..................i  no
15—4....1  65  6—4 .2 30
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TABLE  OIL  CLOTH.

OOTTOHT WINES.

Cotton Sail Twine. .28
Crown..................... 12
Domestic................is *
A nchor....................15
B ristol...........  ........ 18
Cherry  Valley.........15
’ X L ......................... 18*
, .  
Alabama...................6k'~*
Alamance.............. $ H
A ugusta..................714
Ar sapha.................e
Georgia....................63*
Granite.......................
Haw  River..............5*
5
Haw  f ............. 

.. 

Nashua..............  ...14
Rising Star 4-ply.. .’.17 
17
North Star...1;..."" m
Wool Standard 4 plyl7M 
Pow hattan..............jg

8-plv. 

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Mount  Pleasant....  6M
5*
Oneida...............  
Prymont...............V  5k
Randelman............6
Riverside.................  514

Otis cheeks..............7

PLAID  OSNARUBGS

TTUK  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN
Dry Goods Price Carrent.

DEMINS.

WE  W ANT

B E A N S

and  will  pay  highest  market  price  for 

them.

If  you  have  any  stock  you  wish  to 
dispose  of,  seek  headquarters  for  an 
outlet.

ALBUF1S, 
DOLLS,
TOYS, 

GAMES, 
BOOKS.
EATON,  LYON A CO,
Betsy a i I Are  Ont.

20 &  22  Monroe  St.,

GRAND  r a p i d s .

Draw up the papers, lawyer.

And make ’em good and stout,

For things at home are crossways,

And Betsy and I are out.
It’s only a very little thing 
That’s a-partln’ of us two;
I Insist on usin’ Atlas Soap 
And she’s got to use it, too.

And if she don’t, I declare to yon,

I’m a-goln’ to git up and g it;

I ve alias been boss of the roost at home 

And I’m going to be boss y lt

If Betsy'don’t come to terms to-day,

And git Atlas  Soap at the store,
I ’m goin’ to leave."without delay,’
And I’ll not  come back any more.

Manufactured only by

HENRY  PASS0LT,

Saginaw,  Mich.

i  hirth,
KRAUSE 
&  CO.

Headquarters for

Over Goners 

ond Leggins
$3.50  per  dozen 
and Upwards.
M   wool  soles
Buck  oim Sheepskin

In 3 grades.

Mall  ns  your  order 
and we will guarantee 
satisfaction  In  both 
price and quality.

ive prices are asked.  They  fail  to  take 
into account that their demands upon the 
local store are more exacting  than  upon 
the  department  stores,  which  in  New 
York and Brooklyn  do  not  render  cus­
tomers  as  complete 
that 
service  as 
given  by local  dealers. 
In  Chicago  the 
department stores keep a  complete stock 
of groceries,  while everywhere their con­
duct of business is far superior to that of 
the  average  grocery.  They  excel  in 
cleanliness,  in  management  of  details, 
and the character and  quality of counter 
service.  Retail  grocers  must  improve 
their service  if  they are  to  compete. 
I 
believe that  the  department  stores  are 
here to stay and that they will not injure 
the  wide-awake,  pushing,  competent, 
brainy men who are retail  grocers.  They 
are  liberal  advertisers,  and  this  helps 
every grocer in some  measure,  for  their 
announcements increase  demands  which 
the retail grocers are competent  to meet. 
The  service  of  the  exclusive  grocery 
store can  be made superior to that of the 
department  store.  The  managers  of 
some of  these  stores  are inexperienced, 
and certainly they are no  match for men 
trained all their lives to a  knowledge  of 
the retail grocery  business.  The  lesson 
of the time is that retail grocers must im­
prove the appearance and service of their 
stores,  stop  selling  staples  at  cost  and 
add new  departments  to  their  business 
as fast  as  they  are  able  to  do  so  and 
must maintain excellent service.

F r a n k  N.  B a r r e t t .

New York, Dec.  1.

Cutting  Prices  of H ardw are.

This  foolish,  expensive  and  hurtful 
practice  in 
retail  country  hardware 
stores,  brought  about  more by personal 
rivalry  than  by  honest  competition,  is 
greatly to be  deplored,  not  only  on  ac­
count of  the mischief it  causes in regard 
to values generally, but it is  entirely un­
necessary. 
If the merchant  will  stop to 
consider  before  he  makes  “cut”  prices 
and ask himself,  “ What good  is this  go­
ing  to  do me?”  the chances are he won’t 
do it. 
In the  first  place,  his  action  in 
cutting prices tends to create a suspicion 
in the  buyer’s  mind  that  heretofore  he 
has been  paying  too much for his  goods, 
and  he  will certainly expect it in future 
purchases.  Secondly,  he should disabuse 
his mind of the idea  that  he  is  hurting 
his  competitor’s  business;  he  has  not 
done  so  and  the  probability  is that the 
latter is laughing in his sleeve,  while the 
customer thinks none the  better  of  him 
for  it.  Thirdly,  there is  the loss of  his 
self-esteem and the esteem of  his  neigh­
bors, as well as of his customers, who can 
have little reliance on  a  man  who  sells 
goods  too  close  to  cost.  The merchant 
may sometimes  recoup  himself  on  some 
of the  goods called  for in a bill of  hard­
ware,  but in nine  cases out of  ten it (the 
overcharge)  will  sooner or  later come  to 
the surface and injure  him.  Close figur­
ing is one thing,  and cutting prices to the 
cost mark is another,  and  should  never 
be indulged in.  Nails,  barbed  wire and 
similar staples are already sold at such a 
small  margin  of  profit  that  in  many 
towns fence wire is now entirely handled 
by the  implement  trade—brought  about 
by the pernicious habit of  price  cutting. 
Let a merchant  mark his  goods at a  fair 
percentage for  profit and  then adhere  to 
those  figures,  and  his customers will re­
spect him and look  up to him with  a  de­
gree  of  confidence  they  will not accord 
the man who cuts prices.

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Address  THE  SUN,  New  York.

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STATE  AGENTS  FOR

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

C has.  P e tter se h ,

JOBBER  or

Imported and Domestic Cheese

Swiss, Brick and Limburger a  Specialty. 

161—163  West Bridge St.  Telephene 123. 

GRAND  RAPIDS

Hardware Price Current.

A n a .

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* 
* 

▲ u eu as a n d   b it s.

These  prices are  for cash  buyerg,  who 
pay promptly  and  buy in  fall  packages.
dls.

Snell’s ......................................................
Cook’s ......................................................
Jennings’, genuine................................
Jennings’, Im itation............................
Pirat Quality, S. B. Bronze....................
D.  B. Bronze..................
S.B .S. Steel..................
D .B. Steel........................

.......60*10
.......  
26
..  ..50*10
.........8  5 50
.......a   00
.......  6 50
.......18 00
Railroad  ...............................................n s  00  14 00
Garden  ....................................................   net  SO 00
Stove.  .......... . . .................................................. 50410
Carriage new list  .............................................75*10
Flow....................................................................40*10
70
Sleigh shoe  ...................................................... 
Well,  plain  ......................................................s 8 50
W ell,sw ivel......................................................  400
_  
Cast Loose Pin, flgrred....................................70*10
Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint  4 0 ....... 30*10

BUTTS,  OAST. 

BUCKETS.

B ARROW S. 

bolts. 

dls.

d ls .

d ig .

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,

7

gg
!.<Hs. 25

dll.

Wrought Loose  Fin............................................   40
Wrought Table.  ................................................   40
Wrought Inside Blind.......................................   40
Wrought Brass................................................. 
75
Blind,  Clark’s...................................................70*10
Blind,  Parker’s ................................................. 7O&10
Blind, Shepard’s 
70

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

Ordinary Tackle, list April  1898................. 60*10

®raln............................. 

 

40*10

CRADLES.

OBOW BARS.

Cast Steel.................................................per jb 
_ 
Ely’s M O................................................. perm  
86
Hick’s C .F ...............................................................55
8 . D ................................... 
 
M usket........  ...........................................   «* 
go

CAPS.

5

 

 

CARTRID6B8.
Rim  F ire...................................................... 
Central  F ire..............................  

 

CHISELS. 

Socket Firm er...................................................75*10
Socket Framing.............................................   75*10
Socket Corner 
.............................. . ” . . .. .."75 4 10
8ocket Slicks....................................................75*10
Butchers’ Tanged Firm er..................................... 40

Curry,  Lawrence’s.................................. 
40
Hotchkiss........................................ ............ . 
25
White Crayons, per  gross...............ia®12K dls. 10

dls.

COKES. 

CHALK.
COPPER.

“ 

Planished, 14 os cut to site........ per pound 
14x52,14x58,14x80.........................  
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60....................  
Cold Rolled, 14x48........................... 
’ 
Bottoms............... ........................... ..I I " I ! "  
Horse’s Bit  Stocks................................ 
Taper and straight Shank...........................' 
Morse’s Taper Shank....................................... 

drills. 

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

88
2g
23
23
gg

50
50
50

DRIPPING PANS.

„  

gu

. .  

ELBOWS.

Small sizes, ser p o u n d ...................................  
Large sizes, per pound.............................gg
Com. 4  piece, 6 In.............................. dos  net 
75
Cornw ated................................................inis
Adjustable................................................... dls. 40*10
„  
Clark’s, small, 818; large, 186.............. 
ao
Ives’, 1, 818:  8, 884;  3,830  ..........................  "  
25
Dlsston 8 " ................................................... 60* 10-10
New American............................................ 60410-10
Nicholson’s ................................................. 60*10-10
Heller’s ........................................................... 
50
Heller’s Horse Rasps....................
50
GALVANIZED IRON.

piles—New List. 

expansive bits. 

.........dls.

dls.

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

15

18 
Discount, 70

12 

14 
GAUGES.

knobs—New List. 

Stanley Role and  Level Co.’s .......  .........
Door, mineral, jap. trim m ings............ 
Door,  porcelain, jap. trimming*........ 55
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.......... ” ”  
Door,  porcelvln, trimmings........................  
Drawer  and  Shutter, porcelain................. I”  
Rnssell *  Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new list  .... 
Mallory, Wheeler  *   Co.’s ................... 
Branford’s ............................................  
 
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locks—door. 

 

 

dls.
_ _
dls.

50
"55

55
  55
70

dls

"55
55
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HATTOCKB.

HAULS. 
hells. 

Adze Eye........................................ 816.00, dig. 60-10
R ant Bye........................................ 815.00, dls. 60-10
Hunt’s ..........................................818.50, dls. 20* 10.
Sperry A Co.’s, Post,  handled...................... 
go
Coffee. Parkers  Co.’s ....................................... 
40
F. S. *  W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleabiei." ! 
40
Landers,  Ferry *  Cle rk’s ...............  
40
Enterprise 
........................................' 
30
60*in
66*10
30

Stebbln’s Pattern..................................... 
Stebbln’s Genuine....................................... 
Enterprise, self-measuring............................. 

MOLASSES GATES. 

dls
dls

" d ll

N A ILS

. 

*6.

Base 

Advance over  base,  on  both  Steel  and Wire

FlneS..................................................
Case  10...............................................
6 ...............................................................................
Finish 10..............................................
S...............................................
6 ............................................................................

8..................................................................................................
8............................................................................................

Steel nails, base................................................. 
< «
Wire nails, base.............................................. *!.'."!l 35
Base 
10
25
26 
35
45
45 
50 
60 
75 
90 
1  20 
1 60 
1  60 
65 
75
90
75 
90 
10 
70 
80 
90 
.........................................
Barren %..............................................
1  75 
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy...................................   <¿40
Selota  Bench..................................................  
« ¡)
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy...........................  <340
Bench, lint quality..........................................  Z g
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s  wood............ 50*10
Fry,  Acme  . . . ........................................... dls.60-10
Common, polished................................... dls. 
70
_ 
Iron and  Tinned..............................................50—10
Copper Rivets and Burs................................  50—10
“A” Wood’s patent planished. No«. 94 to 27  10 20 
”B” Wood’s  pat. planished, Nos. 26 to 27...  9 30 

Clinch; 10..........................................

PATENT PLANISHED IRON.

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

RIVETS. 

p l a n e s . 

PANS.

“ 

Broken packs %s per pound extra.

dll.

dls.
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HAMMERS.

Maydole  & Co.’b.........................................dls. 
25
Hip’8........................................ ................... dls 
25
Yerkes A Plumb’s ......................................dls  40*10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel........................... 30c list 60
Blacksmith's Solid Cast  Steel  Hand. . . .30c 40*10

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HANGERS. 

HOLLOW  W A B E.

Clark’,,’ l < 8’ 8 .................................dls.60*10
Sinew Hook  a id   Strapl to 12 i n . ^ ^ W ’ 2 50
SX
Screw Hook and  Eye, X ............. . . . . .. . .net
k   ..........................net
5 ........................... net
” .7.735!

longer............................................
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Strap and T .................-
_ 
‘dl«
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track... .50*10 
Champion,  anti friction...............  
miAin
Kidder, wood track
40

.......  
la S ir ä ..................................................................
SSSSL'................................................. W*10
. .........M*10
Gray e n a m
e i e d .
a .  
Stamped  Tin Ware...................... 
Japanned Tin Ware..." ........................  w  1,4£
Granite Iron W are.................. .. .new lis’ *‘ 
at
Blight.
s^ w ^ E ye*....;:;::;;;;;;;;;::;:;;;.;;  .S S jo fio  
Gate Hooks and Byes’.;.’” .”.'."” ."";' 
-nAlOAio
Stanley Rale and LeveTca’s ......................  ®*-7°
„  
Sisal, K Inch and larger....... 
Manilla...................................... ‘  m
Steel and Iron..................
Try and Bevels............. . ....................
Mitre........................

H OUSE  F U R N ISH IN G   GOODS..............

71*10 
60

WERE  GOODS. 

n e w  n«t

RO PES.

d ig .

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.. 

. 

SHEET IRON.

Com.  Smooth.

Com. 
8P  50 
2 60 
2  70 
2 80
2 90
3 00
.AH  sheets No. 18  and  lighter,  over's»  lnche 
»«one
50

Nos. 10 to  14..................  
Nos. 15 to 17..................  
................. ,  S
Nos.  18 to 21................... 
.................
Nos. 22 to 24......................................  0«
Nos. 25 to 86............... 
.............., 2 2
................5  do
jjp  27 
wide not less than 2-10 extra 
______ SANDPAPER.
List acct 19, ’86  .........................................die. 
„ „  
Silver Lake, White A ....................  .........u rt
. 

8ASH CORD.

T 

. 

w hite  a ............;;;■...........  
D ra b s ................................. 
White C............................ 

S
.<  22
« 22
w
......................per ton K0

 
......... 

 

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Solid Eyes..................  

H and..........8AWB* 

» 
Silver Steel  Dla. X Cut's,’¿¿r'fTOt,'....  m
11 
l pecia} l i ee! 2«* X Cuts, per foot....  50
«1  Special Steel DIa. X Cuts, per foot....  30
Champion  and  Electric  Tooth  x ’
Cuts,  per  foot................................

« *

Steel, Game...............
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s'.’...............  

40
i S nunitr' Hawley a Norton’s'. . 7t-10 10 

 

 

 

 

Mouse, delusion.............................. ’’.8L25 pe£ do!
Bright Market............7*^?I. 
*7nlin
Annealed Market.............. 
7U~i2
Coppered Market................. 
¿2
Tinned Market................................................
Coppered  Spring  Steel..................................  ““¿S
Barbed  Fence, galvanised............  ..............  9  ¡2
painted............... I " .............  2  22
HORSE NAILS.
An  Sable...........................
40*10 
Putnam.............................. . . . . . ”.
dls.  05
Northwestern.........................
dls. 10*10
•••••• ...............  
_  
WRENCHES. 
d ls
*i
Baxter’s  Adjustable, nickeled.... 
Coe’s  G enuine............... 
 
S
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,;..........  
n
........
Coe’s  Patent,m alleable.................. 

dls.

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miscellaneous.................... dis

.  _ 

Pumps, Cistern...................7 ............. ...........   75*10
Screws, New List................................  "ao& if& in
Casters, Bed  a  .d Plate.............................50*10*10
Dampers.  American................. 
wkmiuieiu
Forks, hoes, rakes  and all steel goods. '. ”   85*10 

_ 

Pig  Large........................................  

METALS,
P I»  TIN.

2fir

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SOLDER.

Duty:  Sheet, 2&c per pound.
,>u
680 pound  casks........................ 
S’*
Per pound.................................. 
,«
X Q X .................................................... 
Extra W iping............................................ 
J;
The  prices  of  the1  many  other  qualities  of 
solder in the market Indicated by pri vate bran««« 
vary according to composition.
_  
ANTIMONY.
Hallett 1.......................................... 
TIN —MELTS  GRADE.
10x14 IC, Charcoal................. 
14x2010, 
 
10x14 ix , 
14x20ix , 

 
Bach additional X on this grade, 81.75

........................................... P®r  pound

J3
s ? * n
* ¿2 2
¿22
2 s

, ________ ___  
10x14 IC, Charcoal..................  
......................  ................... 
14x20 IC, 
.................- 
10x14 IX, 
14x20ix , 
 

TEN—  ALLAWAY GRADE.
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.................  2 *
I f*

Each additional X on this grade 81.50.

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ROOTING PLATES

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11  Worcester...........................  
,| 
•  Aliaway G rade...  .... 

14x20 IC, 
14x20 IX, 
20x28 IC, 
14X20IC, 
14x20 LX, 
 
20x28 id, 
 
80x28 IX,
 
_________ 
14x28 IX .................................................... 
14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers, I M   ’ 
14x60IX,  « 

g  5
.............................  ^8  50
g  on
7  50
12  50
15 50
«14  (U

\p e r  pound....  100c

BOILER SIZE TIN  PLATE.

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E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

W EDNESDAY.  D ECEM BER  13.

A  little  handful  of  trades  unionists, 
calling themselves the  “Michigan Feder­
ation of Labor,” met  in  annual  conven­
tion  at  Detroit  last  week, endorsed  Alt- 
geld and all  the  other  anarchists,  com­
mended the affiliation of the trades union 
and the saloon,  and decided to organize a 
State label  league  and  put  an  organizer 
and an agitator in  the field,  with a  view 
to  creating  sentiment  in  favor of a uni­
versal label,  by  means of  which it is  ex­
pected  that  consumers  will  be  coerced 
into using  goods  of  union  make  exclu­
sively. 
In  other  words,  the  American 
people are to be forced to use goods man­
ufactured  by union  men  only,  and  mer­
chants  who handle goods other than those 
which bear this badge of  serfdom and in­
famy are to be boycotted.  This is a beau­
tiful scheme—in theory—but  it  will  not 
work.  The  slave  owners  of  the  South 
undertook  to  establish  just  such  a  tyr­
anny  as  this to secure  the  perpetuatiou 
of colored slavery,  but a  million  Boys in 
Blue,  marching to the  tune  of  Freedom 
and chanting the  song of  Liberty,  wiped 
every  vestige of serfdom  off  the  face  of 
the  earth,  so  far as this country is  con 
cerned,  and  for all  time to  come  put  an 
end to any further attempt on  the part of 
tyrants  to  re-establish  human  serfdom 
The pet  scheme of  the  trades  unionists 
may alarm  a few timid creatures,  but be 
fore it has gained any  considerable head­
way the sober sense of the American peo­
ple will  realize the  thralldom  sought  to 
be  established  by  the  trades  unionists 
and  take  concerted  action  to  stem  the 
tide  of  treason.  The  God-given  right 
vouchsafed by the  constitution, entitling 
every  citizen  of  this  country  to  “life, 
liberty  and  the  pursuit  of  happiness” 
will be maintained at all times and at any 
hazard,  no  matter  how  subtle  the  in­
fluence  or  how  venal  the  attempt  of 
those who seek to controvert  the  consti­
tution by depriving American citizens  of 
the right of freedom.

The agressive  attitude  assumed  by the 
Michigan Liquor  Dealers’  Protective As­
sociation, in forcing  every business  man 
who  caters  to  the  saloon  trade  to pay 
tribute to the organized representative of 
rum,  is  beginning  to  alarm  the  retail 
drug trade of the State, which sees in the 
shadow the hand  of  Esau. 
It  is  begin­

for  the  faithful  manner  in  which they 
had discharged the duties devolving upon 
them,  which  was  unanimously  adopted 
by a rising vote.
The newly elected Chairman  was  then 
escorted to the  chair and  announced  the 
appointment of B.  G. VanLeuven as Sar- 
geant-at-Arms,  and  W. E.  Richmond,  B. 
G.  VanLeuven  and  Peter H.  Fox as En­
tertainment Committee.  He  asked leave 
to defer  the appointment  of  the  Execu­
tive  Committee  until  the  next meeting, 
which was granted.
Geo.  W. Stowitts, chairman of the Com­
mittee  on  Decorations,  reported  that  a 
Detroit  decorator  would  embellish  both 
halls with bunting and flags for $250.  A 
considerable  discussion  followed,  cul­
minating in the adoption of  a  resolution 
offered  by  Jas.  N. Bradford that the  bid 
be not accepted,  but that local decorators 
be engaged to do the work instead.
L.  M.  Mills  introduced  the  following 
resolution,  which  was  unanimously 
adopted:
Resolved—That  we request  the  Board 
of Directors of the  Michigan  Knights  of 
the  Grip  to  adopt  the  following house 
rules at the annual  convention:
in­
structed  to  admit  no  person  upon  the 
floor of the  convention,  during  the  ses­
sions,  except  members  presenting  re­
ceipts for death assessment No. 3 of 1894, 
or who  have  joined  since  Sept.  20  (as 
only  such  are  in  good  standing);  also 
that the same officer be instructed  to  al­
low no member to leave  the room during 
any session,  without permission from the 
chair,  and  to  allow  no  smoking  in  the 
convention hall during the sessions.
There  being  no  further  business  the 
meeting adjourned.

the  Sargeant-at-Arms  be 

That 

T h e  H a r d w a r e   M a rk e t.

General trade continues fairly good, al­
though,  as usual in December, everybody 
is restricting buying and getting ready for 
inventory time,  which,  with  most  of the 
trade, comes the 1st of January.  Changes 
in prices are few  and what  there are  we 
find mostly declines.  All manufacturers 
and jobbers are looking forward to better 
times  and  prices,  but  when  they  will 
come is hard to tell.  Now that the hunt­
ing season is over but  little  ammunition 
is  moving—dealers  confining  their  pur­
chases  mostly  to  Christmas goods,  such 
as  cutlery,  skates,  silverware,  hand- 
sleighs, etc.  The absence of snow keeps 
many lines of goods  in  the  background, 
but,  when  it  does  come,  snow shovels, 
sleigh  bells,  saws,  axes  and  lumbering 
tools generally  will begin to move.  Job­
bers  are  busy 
looking  up  orders  for 
spring  shipments—in  wire  cloth,  gaso­
line stoves,  barbed wire,  wire nails,  agri­
cultural tools, poultry netting, potato and 
corn planters, etc.  It is wise for dealers to 
anticipate their  requirements,  as  manu­
facturers  need  to know  about the quan­
tity that will be wanted,  so there may  be 
no disappointment to those who  want the 
goods.  A shortage  in  skates  is  already 
apparent,  as  the  demand has been  very 
large.  Bar iron and sleigh shoe steel re­
main low in  price  with  no  prospect  of 
any improvement.  Sheet  iron  is in good 
demand and prices are firm.  A brisk de­
mand  among  the  large dealers  for  win­
dow  glass  has sprung up and the factor­
ies are having all they can  do, the  result 
of which gives a much  firmer tone to the 
market.  There is talk of an  advance  in 
stamped  ware,  but we can see no reason 
for it,  as tin is low and  no  advance  can 
take  plaee  unless  a  combination 
is 
formed—and  they  are  hard  things  to 
maintain.  A  meeting  of  the  hardware 
jobbers of the country  is  called  to  take 
place in Cleveland this week.  They will 
undoubtedly solve  the  problem  of  how 
every  hardware  merchant  can  make 
money.  We will advise oar readers how, 
if we find out

T K E E   MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.
connected  with  a  Cleveland  dry  goods 
| house,  succeeds  J.  F.  Hogle as Eastern 
Michigan 
for 
that corporation.

traveling  representative 

ning to be understood by  the  drug  trade 
that the saloonkeepers  propose  to go  be­
fore  the  Legislature  the  coming winter 
and secure a change in the present liquor 
laws,  compelling  every  dispenser  of 
liquor—whether  spirituous  or  malt  and 
whether sold as  a beverage  or  for  med­
icinal  purposes—to  pay  the  same price 
for a license. 
In other words, the saloon­
keepers are  using every  effort  to  fortify 
themselves  by  resorting  to  blackmail, 
boycotting  and  cajolery  and other infa­
mous methods to  secure a  following suf- 
I ficiently strong to enable  them to accom­
plish what they have  undertaken  to  ac­
complish for several  years  past—getting 
the druggists  placed on  the  same  plane 
as the saloonkeeper.  While there are oc 
casional  druggists  who  deserve  to  be 
placed  in  the category of liquor dealers 
the majority live up to the law  and  con 
fine  their  liquor  sales  to those who use 
I liquor for medicinal purposes only.  Un- 
I less this large class of  dealers  is  active, 
however,  the  coming  Legislature  will 
surely amend  the law in accordance with 
the liquor dealers’ desires,  and they  will 
find  themselves  in  the  unenviable posi­
tion of being  compelled to take  out a sa­
loonkeeper’s  license  in  order  to  sell 
liquors, even for medicinal purposes. 
It 
behooves the trade,  therefore,  to  be  up 
and  doing  in  the matter,  with a view  to 
overthrowing  the  infamous  policy  of 
blackmail  and  boycotting  now  pursued 
in  the  name  of  the  liquor meD,  having 
for its object the  debasement  of  the  re­
tail druggist.

John Burns,  the  exponent  of  English 
trades  unionism  landed  in  New  York 
last  week  for  the  avowed  purpose  of 
ascertaining the condition of  American 
workingmen.”  With this end in view he 
accompanied Samuel  Gompers, President 
of  the  American  Federation  of  Labor, 
on a two  days’  tour  of  the  saloons  of 
New York  City. 
It  is  understood  that 
he has already formed an opinion,  based 
on the statements  of  saloonkeepers,  bar­
tenders,  walking  delegates  and  other 
union  habitues  of  groggeries,  that  the 
American  workingman 
is  very  much 
oppressed  by employers of labor and that 
the unions of this country  must redouble 
their  exertions 
to  rescue  the  laborer 
the  cruel  exactions  of  shylock 
from 
manufacturers.  Perhaps,  however, 
a 
few thoughtful men in  the ranks of labor 
will wonder if the saloon and the brothel 
are the proper places  in  which  to  study 
the condition of  American  workingmen!

G ripsack  B rigad e.

Hull Freeman, formerly engaged in the 
grocery business  at  Mancelona,  is  post­
ing up preparatory to working  a  portion 
of  the  city  trade  of  the  I.  M.  Clark 
Grocery Co.

S. O. Brooks,  formerly with  Stanton & 
Morey (Detroit),  but now  General  Mana­
ger of Cooper,  Wells & Co.  (St.  Joseph), 
was in  town  over  Sunday,  the  guest  of 
Geo. F. Owen.

E.  W.  Griffin, of Albion,  formerly  en­
gaged  in  the  book  and stationery busi­
ness at that place,  has  accepted  a  posi­
tion  as  Michigan  traveling  representa­
tive for A.  S.  Barnes & Co.,  of  Chicago.
J. A.  Gonzalez,  chairman  of  the  Re­
ception Committee of  the  coming  K.  of 
G.  convention,  requests  The  Trades­
man to notify all members of  that  Com­
mittee to meet  at  the  Livingston  Hotel 
Saturday, Dec.  15,  at 3 o’clock p.  m.

F.  P.  Bush,  formerly  with  the  New 
York Biscuit Co.,  but  for  the  past  year

The  annual  meeting  of  the  Grand 
Rapids  Pharmaceutical  Society  will  be 
held at the office of the Hazeltine &  Per 
kins Drug Co. on the evening  of  Dec. 12 
for the election of officers and the  trans 
action  of  other  important  business.  A 
large attendance is desired.

Marshall D.  Elgin  has  come  on  from 
to  take  his  new  position 
Minneapolis 
with the Musselman Grocer Co.  and  will 
put in the next  three  weeks  among  the 
retail trade of the  house,  accompanying 
the  traveling  salesmen  on  their  trips. 
He is out with Charley Brooks this  week.
C. G. Allen, of Albion,  who  represents 
the Toe Pad  Co.,  of  Three  Rivers,  had 
his  sample  and  catalogue  case  stolen 
either from the hotel or carriage at White 
Pigeon  by  a  member  of  a  theatrical 
troupe.  Boys, look out for your valuable 
grips,  as this is  the  third  one  taken  in 
that vicinity.

Lewis K.  Townsend,  formerly  on  the 
road for the Telfer Spice Co., died at  his 
home in  Galesburg Dec. 2- Deceased was 
born in Richland 39 years ago, and was a 
son of the Rev.  and Mrs. Geo.  W.  Town­
send,  who are yet living.  He  was  given 
good educational  advantages,  and  upon 
arriving at a suitable age engaged in  va­
rious pursuits,  having been at one time a 
clerk with the late  firm of  Schroder  & 
Olin.  After a short career  as  traveling 
salesman,  he purchased an interest in the 
flouring  mill  at  Galesburg,  and,  after 
having several associates in the business, 
three years ago entered  into  a  partner- 
hip  with A.  K.  Zinn.  Under  the  firm 
name of Townsend & Zinn  the  business 
has been conducted with exceptional suc­
cess.  In 1876 he married Elida, daughter 
of Samuel Carsen.  She,  with a daughter 
of  six  years,  survive  him.  Possess­
ing 
undemonstrative 
nature,  Mr.  Townsend had a rare faculty 
for winning and retaining the  esteem  of 
his fellow men.  Attendingjmost assidu­
ously  to  his  own  affairs  he  yet could, 
upon invitation,  take equal  and effective 
interest in those of others and of the pub­
lic.  Upright in all his  dealings,  public 
spirited upon all  occasions,  his  charac­
ter  approached  very  nearly  that  of  the 
ideal citizen.  Mr.  Townsend  was  treas­
urer  of  the  village  school  board,  of 
which  he  was  a  valued  member,  and 
was  one  of  the  village 
trustees.  He 
was also a member of the  Masonic  order 
and a Maccabee.

singularly 

a 

A n n u a l M ee tin g  o f P o s t E .

total 

At the annual meeting of Post E, Mich­
igan Knights of the  Grip,  held  at  Elk’s 
Hall Saturday evening,  Dec.  8, Chairman 
Bradford presided.
The annual report of the Secretary and 
Treasurer  showed 
receipts  of 
8287.20 and total disbursements of $271.50 
leaving a balance on hand of $15.70.  Thè 
report was accepted and adopted.
Election of officers for the ensuing year 
being then in order,  Manley  Jones  nom­
inated  Jas.  B.  Mclnnes  for  Chairman. 
Will Richmond  nominated  C.  L. Lawton 
for the same position.  An  informal  bal­
lot resulted in  twenty-four  votes for Mr. 
Lawton and nine  votes for  Mr.  Mclnnes' 
and the former was declared unanimously 
elected.
F.  M.  Tyler  was  elected  Vice-Chair­
man by acclamation  andJ. Henry Dawley 
was elected  Secretary  and  Treasurer  in 
the same mauner.
On motion of E. A.  Stowe,  Ad.  Baker 
was elected Sweet Singer of the Post.
*KF ™M\ I yler moved that  the  thanks  of 
the Post be accorded the retiring  officers

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A L W A Y S  IN   T H E   FU T U R E .

»  It  was  Sunday  evening  in  July—an 
evening aglow  with warmth  and  splen­
dor;  an  evening  when  even  the  streets 
of London  were glorious  with  the  light 
of the splendid  west;  an  evening  when, 
if you are young (as  l sincerely hope you 
are), only  to wander  hand in hand  over 
the grass and under  the trees  with  your 
sweetheart should be  happiness enough. 
One  ought  to  be  ashamed  to  ask  for 
more;  nay,  a great many do  not  ask  for 
more.

They  are  engaged.  Some  time,  but 
not  just  yet, 
they  will  marry.  They 
work  separately  all  the  week,  but  on 
Sunday  they  are  free  to  go  about  to­
gether.  Of all the  days  that  make  the 
week  they  dearly  love  but  one  day— 
namely  the  day  that  lies  between  the 
Saturday and the Monday.  Now that the 
voice of the Sabbatarian  has  sunk  to  a 
whisper or a  whine;  now  that  we  have 
learned  to  recognize  the  beauty, 
the 
priceless boon,  the true  holiness  of  the 
Sunday,  which not  only  rests  body  and 
brain, but may be so used  as  to  fill  the 
mind  with  memories  of  lovely  scenes, 
of sweet and  confidential  talk,  of  love- 
making and of  happiness,  we  ought  to 
determine that of  all  the  things  which 
make up  the  British  liberties,  there  is 
nothing  for  which  the  working  man 
should more fiercely  fight  or  more  jeal­
ously watch than the full freedom  of his 
Sunday—freedom uncontrolled to wander 
where he will, to make his  recreation  as 
he chooses.

If the church doors are open  wide,  let 
the doors of the public galleries  and  the 
museums  and  the  libraries  be  opened 
wide,  as  well.  Let  him,  if  he  choose, 
step from church to  library.  But  if  he 
is wise, when the grass  is  long  and  the 
bramble is in blossom,  and  the foliage is 
thick and  heavy  on  the  elms,  he  will, 
after dinner, repair to the  country,  if  it 
is only to breathe  the  air  of  the  fields, 
and lie on  his  back  watching  the  slow 
westering of the sun and  listening to the 
note of the blackbird in the wood.

Two  by  two  they  stroll  or  sit  about 
Hemstead  Heath  on  such  an  evening. 
If yon were to  listen  (a  pleasant  thing 
to do,  but  wrong)  to  the  talk  of  these 
couples  you  would  find  that  they  are 
mostly silent, except that  they  only  oc­
casionally exchange a word or two.  Why 
should  they  talk?  They  know  each 
other’s cares  and  prospects;  they  know 
the burden  that  each  has  to  bear—the 
evil temper of the boss, the uncertainties 
of  employment,  the  difficulties  in  the 
way of an  improved screw,  and  the fam­
ily  troubles—there  are  always  family 
troubles, dne to some inconsiderate mem­
ber  or  other. 
I  declare  that  we  have 
been teaching  morality  and  the  proper 
conduct of life on quite a  wrong  princi­
ple—namely,  the selfish principle.

We say,  “Be good, my  child,  and  you 
will go to heaven.”  The  proposition  is 
no doubt perfectly true.  But it proposes 
a  selfish  motive  for  action. 
I  would 
rather say to that  child,  “Be  good,  my 
dear, or else you will become an  intoler­
able  nuisance  to  other  people.”  Now, 
no child likes to consider himself  an  in­
tolerable nuisance.

These lovers, therefore,  wander  about 
the Heath,  sometimes up  to  their  knees 
in bracken, sometimes sitting  under  the 
trees,  not talking much, but,  as  the  old 
phrase  has  it,  “enjoying  themselves” 
very much  indeed.  At  the  end  of  the 
Spaniards’  Road—that  high  causeway

whence one  can  see,  in  clear  weather, 
the  steeple  of  Harrow  Church  on  one 
side and the dome of  St.  Paul’s  on  the 
other—there is a  famous  clump  of  firs, 
which have been represented by painters 
over and over again.  Benches have been 
placed under these trees,  where  one  can 
sit and  have  a  very  fine  view  indeed, 
with the Hendon  Lake in the middle  dis­
tance, and a range of  bills  beyond,  and 
fields and rills between.

On one of  these  benches  were  sitting 
this evening  two—Adam  and  Eve,  boy 
and  girl—newly  entered  into  paradise. 
Others  were  sitting  there  as  well—an 
ancient gentleman  whose  thoughts  were 
seventy years back,  a working  man  with 
a child of three on his  knee,  and  beside 
him his  wife,  carrying  the  baby.  But 
these lovers paid no heed to  their  neigh­
bors.  They sat at the end of  the  bench. 
The boy  was holding the girl’s hand,  and 
he was talking eagerly.

“Lily,”  he  said,  “you  must  come 
some  evening  to  onr  debating  society 
when we begin again and  hear me speak. 
No one speaks better.  That  is acknowl­
edged.  There  is  to  be a  debate on  the 
House of Lords in  October. 
I  mean  to 
come out grand.  When  I’m  done  there 
will be mighty little left  of the  Lords.” 
He was a  handsome  lad,  tall and well 
set  np,  straight  featured  and  bright 
eyed.  The girl looked  at  him  proudly. 
He  was  her  own  lad—this  handsome 
chap.  Not  that  she  was  bad-looking 
either.  Many  an  honest  fellow  has  to 
put up with a  girl  not  nearly  so  good- 
looking, if  you were to compare.

He was a clerk in  the  city.  She  was 
in  the  post-office.  He  attended  at  his 
office daily,  from  half-past  nine  to  six, 
doing such work as  was  set  before  him 
for a  salary  of  a  pound  a  week.  She 
stood all day long at the counter,  serving 
out postal orders,  selling stamps,  weigh­
ing  letters,  and 
receiving  telegrams. 
When I add that she was  civil  to  every- , 
body you will  understand  that  she  was < 
quite a superior clerk—one of the queen’s 
It  is  not  delicate  to j 
lucky  bargains. 
talk about a young  lady’s  salary,  there­
fore, I shall not say  for  how  much  she I 
gave her services to the  British  Empire.
He  was  a  clever  boy  who  read  and 
thought.  That is to say, he thought that 
he  thought—which  is  more  than  most 
do.  As he took his facts  from the news­
papers  and nothing else,  and  as  be was 
profoundly ignorant of  English  history, 
English  law,  the  British  Constitution, 
the duties of a  citizen,  and  the  British 
Empire generally,  his opinions,  after  he 
had done thinking,  were not of  so  much 
value  to  the  country, 
it  is  believed. 
But  still  a  clever  fellow,  and  able  to 
spout in a frothy way which  carried  his 
hearers along,  if  it  never  convinced  or 
defeated an opponent.

To this kind of clever boy there are al­
ways two or three dangers.  One  is  that 
he should be led  on  to  think  more  and 
more of froth and  less  of  fact;  another, 
that he should  grow  conceited  over  his 
eloquence and  neglect  his  business.  A 
third  temptation  which  peculiarly  be­
sets this kind is that  he  should  take  to 
drink.  Oratory 
is  thirsty  work,  and I 
places  where young men orate  are  often 
in  immediate  proximity  to  bars.  As 
yet,  however, Charley was  only  twenty. 
He was still at the  first  stage  of  every­
thing—oratory, business,  and  love;  and 
he was still at the stage when everything 
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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,

as 

He 

oppression,  greed, 
sweating,  poverty, 
suffering—by the simple process of  tink­
ering the constitution.

them 

enumerated 

“Oh,”  he  cried,  “ we  shall  have  the 
most glorious,  the  most  splendid  time, 
Lily!  The power of the  people  is  only 
just beginning;  it hasn’t begun yet.  We 
shall see  the  most  magnificent things.” 
above 
indicated.  Well,  it  is  very  good  that 
young men should have such dreams and 
see such visions. 
I never  heard  of  any 
girl being  thus  carried  out  of  herself. 
The thing  belongs  exclusively  to  male 
man in youth,  and  it  is  very  good  for 
him.  When he is  older  he  will  under­
stand that over and  above  the  law  and 
the constitution there  is  something  else 
more 
that 
every individual man  should  be  honest, 
temperate and industrious. 
In  brief,  he 
will understand the force of the  admoni­
tion:  “Be good, my  child,  or  else  you 
will become  an  intolerable  nuisance  to 
everybody.”

still—namely, 

important 

The sun  sank  behind  Harrow-on-the- 
Hill.  The red light of  the  west  flamed 
in the boy’s bright  eyes.  Presently  the 
girl rose.
“Yes, Charley,” she said,  less  sympa­
thetically than might have been expected; 
“yes,  and it will  be a very  flue  time,  if 
it  comes.  But  I  don’t  know.  People 
will always  want to get rich,  won’t they?
I think this beautiful time  will  have  to 
come after  us.  Perhaps  we  had  better 
be looking after our own nest first.”
“Oh, it will come—it will come!”
“I  like  to  hear  you  talk  about 

it, 
Charley.  But if we are ever to marry— 
if I am  to  give  up  the  post-office,  you 
must make  a  bigger  screw.  Keuiember 
what you  promised—the  shorthand  and 
the French class.  Put them  before your 
speechifying.”

“All  right,  Lily dear,  and then we will 
get married,  and  we will  have  the  most 
splendid  time.  Oh, 
there’s  the  most 
splendid time for us—ahead!”

*  *  *

It is six months later  and  mid-winter, 
and the time is again  the  evening.  The 
day has been gloomy,  with  a  fog  heavy 
enough to cause the offices  to  be  lighted 
with gas, so that the eyes of  all  London 
are red and the heads of all  London  are 
heavy.

Lily  stepped  outside  the  post-office, 

work done. 

¡She wa> going home.

At the door stood  her sweetheart, wait­
ing for  her.  She  tossed  her  head  and 
made as if  she would  pass  him  without 
speaking.  But  he  stepped  after  and 
walked  beside her.

“No,  Lily,” he said.  “I  will  speak  to 
you;  even  if you don’t answer my letters 
you  shall hear me speak.”

said.

“You  have  disgraced  yourself,”  she 
“Yes,  I  know.  But  you  will forgive 
I  swear  it  is 

It is the first  time. 

me. 
the first time.”

Well,  it was truly  the  first  time  that 

she had seen him in such a state.

“Oh, to be  a  drunkard!”  she  replied. 
“Ob, could  I ever believe  that  I  should 
see you rolling about the street!'’

“It  was the first time,  Lily, and it shall | 
be the last.  Forgive me and  take me on 
again. 
If you give me up I  shall  go  to 
the devil!”

“Charley”—her voice  broke into a sob 
—“you have made  me  miserable—I was 
so  proud  of  you.  No  other  girl, 
I 
thought,  had  such  a  clever  sweetheart; 
and  last  Tuesday—oh. 
it’s  dreadful  to 
think of!”

“Yes, Lily, I know.  There’s  only one 
excuse. 
I spoke for more than  an  hour, 
and I  was  exhausted.  So  what  I  took 
went to my head.  Another time I should 
not have felt it a bit.  And when I found 
myself staggering I  was  going  home  as 
fast as possible,  and, as  bad luck  would 
have it,  I must needs meet  you.”

“Good  luck,  I  call  it,  else  I  might 

never have found it out until too late.”

“Lily,  make it  up.  Give  me  another 
I’ll  take  the 

I’ll  swear  off. 

chance. 
pledge.”

He caught her hand and held it.
“O Charley,”  she said, “if I  can  only 

trust you.”

tions.

“You can, you  must,  Lily.  For  your 
sake I will take  the  pledge.  1  will  do 
whatever you ask me to do.”

She gave way,  but  not  without  condi­
“Well,” she said,  “I will try  to  think 
no more about it.  But,  Charley, remem­
ber, I could never,  never,  never marry a 
man who drinks.”

“You never  shall,  dear,”  he  replied, 

earnestly.

“And  then,  another  thing,  Charley. 
This speaking work—I know  it is clever

and all that—but it doesn’t  help  us  for 
ward. How long is it since you determined 
to learn  shorthand,  because it would ad­
vance you  so  much?  And  French,  be­
cause a  clerk who  can  write  French  is 
worth  double?  Where  are  your  fine 
resolutions? ”

“I  will  begin  again—I  will  practice 
hard;  see, now,  Lily,  I  will  do  all you 
want.  1 will promise anything to please 
you—and  do  ii,  too.  See  if  I  don’t, 
only not quite  to give  up  the  speaking. 
Think how people are beginning  to  look 
up  to  me.  Why,  when  we  get  a  re­
formed House, and the members are paid, 
they  will  send  me  to  Parliament. 
I 
shall  be  a  member  for  Camden  Town. 
Then  I  shall  be  made Home Secretary, 
or Attorney General, or something.  You 
will  be  proud,  Lily,  of  your  husband 
when he is a distinguished man.  There’s 
a splendid time for us—ahead!”

“Yes, dear.  But  first  you  know  you 
that  we  can 

to  get  a  salary 

have 
live on.”

He left her at her door with  a kiss and 
a laugh, and turned to go  home. 
In  the 
next street he passed a public  bouse.  He

stopped,  he  hesitated,  he  felt  in  his 
pocket, he went  in  and  took  a  drink— 
Lily would never find  it  out—of  Scotch 
whisky.  Then he went home and played 
at practicing shorthand for an hour.  He 
had promised his  Lily.  She  should  see 
how well he could keep his promise.

*  *  *

“It is good of you  to  come,  my  dear. 
Of course,  I understand that it is all over 
now. 
It  is  not  in  nature 
that you should keep him  on any longer. 
But I thought you  would see my poor boy 
once more.”

It must  be. 

It  was  Charley’s  mother  who  spoke. 

He was the only son of a  widow.

“Oh,  yes,  I  came—I  came,”  Lily  re­
plied,  tearfully.  “But what is the good? 
He will promise everything  again.  How 
many times has he repented and promised 
—and  promised?”

“My poor boy !  And we were so proud 
of  him,  weren’t  we,  dear?”  said  the 
mother,  wiping away  a  tear.  “He  was 
going to do  such  great  things  with  his 
cleverness and his speaking.  And now— 
I have seen it coming  on,  my  dear,  for  a 
year  and  more,  but  I durstn’t  speak to

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you.  When he  came  home  night  after 
night  with  a  glassy  eye  and  a  husky 
voice,  when be reeled across the room, at 
first I  pretended not to notice it.  A man 
mustn’t  be  nagged  or shamed,  must he? 
Then  1  spoke  in  the  morning,  and  be 
promised to pull  himself  up.”

‘‘He  will  promise—ah,  yes—he  will 

promise.”

“If  you  could  only  forgive  him  he 

might keep his promise.”

Lily shook her head doubtfully.
“I  went to the  office this  morning,  my 
dear.  They  have  been  expecting  it  for 
weeks.  The head clerk warned him. 
It 
was known that he  had  fallen  into  bad 
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I 
can’t help forgiving  him.  We  two must 
forgive him,  whatever he does.  We love 
him, you see,  that’s what it is.”

“Mother,” said Lily,  “it’s like this. 

“Yes, dear, yes.”
“It isn’t  the  poor  tipsy  boy  we  love, 
but the real  boy—the clever  boy behind. 
We  must  forgive  him.  But” —her  lips 
quivered—“I cannot marry him.  Do not 
ask me to do that unless—what will never 
happen—he reforms altogether.”

“ if you  would, dear,  1 think he  might 
If you  were  always with 

keep straight. 
him to watch  him.”

“I could not be always with him.  And 
besides,  mother, think  what  might  hap­
pen as well.  Would  you have me  bring 
into the world children whose lives would 
make me wretched by  a drunken father? 
And how should we  live?  Because,  you 
see,  if I marry I  must give up  my place.” 
The mother sighed.  “Charley is in his 
own room,” she said.  “I will send  him to 
you.”

Lily sat down  and buried  her  face  in 
her  hands.  Alas,  to  this  had  her  en­
gagement  come!  But  she  loved  him. 
When he came into  the  room  and  stood 
before her and she looked up,  seeing him 
shamefaced and  with hanging  head,  she 
was filled with pity as  well as love—pity 
and  shame  and sorrow for the boy.  She 
took his hand and pressed it between her 
own and burst  into  tears.  “O  Charley, 
Charley!”  she cried.

‘il am a brute  and a wretch,”  he  said. 
“I  don’t  deserve  anything.  But  don’t 
throw me over—don’t,  Lily !”

He fell on his knees  before her,  crying ! 
like a  little  school-boy.  A  tendency  to I 
weep sometimes readily accompanies  the | 
consumption of strong drink.

“You have forgiven me, Lily,” he cried. 
I can get an­
“Oh, I can face the future. 
other place easily. 
I shall  very  soon re­
trieve my character.  Why,  all  they  can 
say  is  that  1  seemed  to have taken  too 
much.  Nothing—that is nothing !”

“ What  will  you  do?  Have  you  any 

money?”
“No. 

I must go and look  for  another 
place.  Until  I  get  one I  suppose there 
will  be  short  commons. 
I  deserve  it, 
Lily.  You shall not hear  me  grumble.”
She took out her purse.  “I  can  spare 
two  pounds,”  she  said. 
the 
money,  Charley.  Nay—you  must—you 
shall.  You  must  not  go  about  looking 
half starved.”

“Take 

He hesitated and changed color,  but he 

took the money.

Half an hour later he  was laughing, as 
they all three sat at their  simple supper, 
as  light-hearted  as  if  there  had  never 
been such a scene.  When  a man  is  for­
given  he  may as well  behave according­
ly.  Only,  when  he  lifted  his  glass  of 
water  to  bis  lips,  he  gasped—it  was  a 
craving  for  something  stronger  than 
water  which  tightened  his  throat  like 
hydrophobia.  But  it  passed;  he  drank 
the water and set  down the  glass witn  a 
nod.

“Good water, that,”  he  said.  “Noth­
ing like water.  Mean to  stick  to  water 
in  future—water  and  tea.  Lily,  I’ve 
made  up  my  mind.  For  the  next  six 
months I shall give up  speaking,  though 
it’s against my interests.  Shorthand and 
French in the  evening.  By  that  time  I 
shall  get  a post worth  a hundred—ay, a 
hundred and twenty—pounds  a  year,  if 
I’m lucky,  and  we’ll  get married  and  all 
live together and be as  happy as  the day 
is  long.  You  shall  never  repent  your 
wedding day,  my dear. 
I shall  keep you 
like a lady.  Oh,  we will have a splendid 
time.”

At  ten  o’clock  Lily  rose  to go home. 
He sprang  to his  feet  and  took  his  hat 
and  went.

“No, no,”  he said.  “Let you go alone? 

Not if I know it.”

She  laid  her  hand  on  his  arm  once 
more,  and tried to believe  that his prom­
ise  would be kept this  time.  He led  her 
home,  bead in air, gallant and brave.  At 
the door he kissed her.  “Goodnight,  my 
dear,”  he  said.  “You  know  you  can 
trust me.  Haven’t I  promised?”

On the way home he  passed  a  public- 
house.  The  craving  came  back to him, 
and the  tightness of  his  throat  and  the 
yearning of his heart;  his  footsteps were 
drawn and dragged toward the door.

At eleven o’clock his  mother,  who was 
waiting up  for him,  heard  him  bumping 
and  tumbling about the stairs on  his way 
up.  He  came oin—his  eyes  fishy,  his 
voice  thick.  “Saw her home,”  he  said. 
“Good girl, Lily.  Made—(hie)—faithful 
premise—we are going to have—splendid 
tim e!”

Then he made  confession,  such confes­
sion  as  one  makes  who  puts  things  as 
prettily  as  their  ugliness  allows.  He 
had  given  way  once  or  twice;  he  had 
never intended to get drunk; he had been 
overtaken yesterday.  The day was close; | 
he had a headache  in  the  morning.  To j 
cure  his  headache he took a single glass ■ 
of beer.  When  he went back to  the  of- ] 
fice  he  felt  giddy.  They  said  he  was I
The  two  women  stood  outside  the
drunk.  They  bundled  him  out  on  the | prison  doors.  At  8  o’clock  their  man 
spot without even  the  opportunity of ex-1 would  be »released—the  son  of  one,  the
plaining.
lover  of  the  other.  The  elder  woman 
What  could  she  say  or  looked  frail and bowed; her face was full
answer?  The weakness of the man’s na-  of trouble—the kind of trouble that noth- 
ture only came out  the  more  clearly  by  ing  can  remove.  The  younger  woman
his confession.  What could she say?  To 
stood beside  her  on  the  pavement;  she 
reason  with him  was  useless.  To  make 
was thiner,  and  her cheeks were pale; in 
him promise was useless.
her  eyes,  too,  you  could  read  abiding 
trouble.

Lily  sighed.

*  *  *

“Charley,” she said at  length,  “if  my 
forgiveness will do any good, take it  and 
welcome.  But you cannot undo the past. 
You have  lost your place and  your char­
acter.  As for the future-----”

“We will take him home between  us,” 
said the girl.  “Not a  word of  reproach. 
He has  sinned  and  suffered.  We  must

NORTHROP,  ROBERTSON  &  CARRIER,

LANSING,  MICH. 

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LOUISVILLE,  KY.

W e   H a v e   S a ck ed   th e  T o w n s
ot Michigan pretty thoroughly with our different 
brands  of  flour,  and  especially  is  this  true  of
LILY  WHITE  which  has  a  world-wide  repu­
tation.

If  Y o u   A re  a  M erch an t

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would  say  that  you  can  make  quicker  sales, 
easier sales, more sales,  and,  consequently, more 
profitable sales with

Lily  White  Flour

than  with any other brand in the State.

W h y  ?

Because LILY WHITE flour is put  up  in  neat, 
attractive sacks, is backed by quality  and  repu­
tation  and  the  constant,  expensive,  aggressive 
and  effective  advertising  of  the  manufacturers. 
You  can  lose nothing  by  trying  it,  but  have 
everything to gain,

Because  Success  Attends  the  Man  Who  Takes  a  Good 

Thing  When  He  Can.

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COUPON  BOOKS IF  YOU  BUY  OF  HEADQUARTERS,  YOU 

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GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICH.

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forgive. 
give!”

Oh,  we  cannot choose but for-

Alas,  the  noble  boy—the  clever  boy 
she loved—was further off than ever.  He 
who loses a place and  his character  with 
it  never  gets  another  berth.  This  is  a 
rule in  the  city.  We  talk  of  retrieving 
character  and  getting  back  to  work. 
Neither the one nor  the other  event ever 
comes  off.  The  wretch  who  is  in  this 
hapless plight  begins  the  weary  search 
for  employment  in  hope.  How  it  ends 
varies with his  temperament or with  the 
position of his  friends.  All day long  he 
climbs stairs,  puts his  head  into  offices, 
and asks if a clerk is  wanted.

No  clerk  is  wanted.  Then  he  comes 
down the stairs  and  climbs  others,  and 
asks  the  same  question  and  gets 
the 
same reply. 
If ever a  clerk is  wanted a 
character is  wanted  with him;  and when 
the  character  includes  the  qualification 
of  drink  as  well as  of  zeal  and  ability, 
the owner is told that he may move on.

I am told there  is a  never-ending  pro­
cession  of  clerks  out  of  work  up  and 
down the London  stairs.  What becomes 
of them is never known. 
It is,  however, 
rumored that short commons, long tramps, 
and hope deferred bring most of them  to 
the hospitals,  where it is  tenderly called 
pneumonia.

Charley began  his  tramp.  After a lit­
tle—a very little  while—his  money,  the 
money that Lily  lent him,  was  all  gone 
He was ashamed to borrow more,  because 
he would have to confess how that money 
was chiefly  spent.

Then he pawned his watch.
Then  he  borrowed  another  pound  of 

Lily.

Every  evening  he  came  home drunk. 
His mother knew  it  and told Lily.  They 
could  do  nothing.  They  said  nothing. 
They left off hoping.

Then  his mother  perceived that things 
began to disappear.  He  stole  the  clock 
on the  mantelshelf  first  and  pawned  it.
Then he stole other things.  At last,  he 
took the furniture, bit by bit, and pawned 
it,  until his mother was left  with nothing 
but a mattress  and  a  pair  of  blankets.
He could not take her money, because all 
she had  was an  annuity  of  fifteen  shil­
lings  a  week;  otherwise  he would have 
had that, too.  He  then  borrowed Lily’s 
watch and pawned it, and her little trink­
ets and pawned  them;  he took  from  her 
all the money she would give  him.

Both women half starved themselves to 
find  him  in  drink and to save him  from 
crime.  They did  not use  these  words— 
they  understood,  for  now  he  had  be­
come  mad  for  drink.  There  was  no 
longer  any  pretense;  he  even  left  off 
lying;  he  was  drunk  every  day;  if  he 
could not get  drunk he  sat  on  the  bare 
floor and  cried.  Neither  his mother nor 
Lily reproached him.

An  end—a  semicolon,  if  not  a  full 
stop—comes  to  such  a  course,  unfor­
tunately  not  always  the  end  which  is 
most  to  be  desired—the  only  effectual 
end.

The end  or  semicolon  which  came  to 
this young man  was that, having nothing 
more of his mother’s that he could pawn, 
one day he slipped into the  ground  floor 
lodger’s room  and made up  quite  a  val­
uable  little  parcel  for  his  friend, 
the 
pawnbroker. 
It  contained a  Waterbury 
watch,  a  seven  and  sixpenny  clock,  a 
mug—electro-plate,  won  at  a  spelling 
competition—a  bound  volume  of  “Tit 
Bits,” and a  Bible.

Five years later  Lily  sat  one  Sunday 
morning  in  the  same  lodgings.  The 
poor old  mother  was  gone,  praying  her 
with her last breath  not  to  desert  the 
boy.  But of Charley  not  a  word  bad 
come to her—no news of any kind.

She was quite alone—in those days she 
was generally  alone;  she  had  kept  her 
place at the  post-office,  but  everybody 
knew  of  her  trouble,  and  somehow  it 
made a kind of  barrier  between  herself 
and her  sister  clerks.  The  sorrows  of 
love are sacred,  but when they are mixed 
up with a criminal and a prison  there  is 
a feeling—a kind of feeling—as  if,  well, i 
one doesn’t like somehow to be mixed up 
with it.  Lily was greatly  to  be  pitied 
no doubt; her lover bad turned out shame 
fully,  but she ought to have given up the 
man long before he got so bad.

She  was  alone.  The  church 

bells 
were beginning to ring.  She thought she 
would go  to  church.  While  she  con­
sidered this point, she heard  a  woman’s 
step on the stairs, and there was a knock 
at the door.

It was a nurse, or  probationer, dressed 
in  the  now  familiar  garb—a  young 
nurse.

“You  are  Lily  Chesters?”  she  asked. 
“There is a patient just brought into  the 
London Hospital  who wants to  see  yon. 
He is named Charley,  he  says,  and  will 
give no other name.  He wrote your  ad­
dress on paper,  ‘Tell her.’ he  said,  ‘that 
it is Charley.’ ”

Lily  rose  quietly. 

“I  will  go 

to 

him.”

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When the lodger came home and found 
out his loss he proved to  be of an  irasci­
ble,  suspicious,  and  revengeful disposi­
tion.  He immediately,  for instance,  sus­
pected  the  drunken  young  man  of  the 
first  floor.  He caused  secret  inquiry  to 
be  made,  and—but  why  go  on?  Alas, 
the  conclusion  of  the  affair  was  eight 
months’  hard.

“Here  he  comes,”  said  Lily.  “Look 
up,  mother;  we  must  meet  him  with  a 
smile.  He  will come  out  sober,  at  any 
rate.”

He was looking much better for his pe­
riod of seclusion.  He  walked  home  be­
tween them,  subdued,  but ready,  on  en­
couragement,  for their old confidence.

In fact,  it broke out,  after  an excellent 

breakfast.

“I  made  up  my  mind,”  he  said, 
“ while I was  thinking—oh,  I had plenty 
to think about and  plenty of  time  to  do 
my 
thinking  in.  Well,  I  made  up 
my mind.  Mother,  this is no country  for 
me any longer.  After what has happened 
I  must  go.  You  two  go  on  living  to 
gether, just for company, but I shall go—
I shall go  to  America.  There’s  always 
an opening,  I am  told,  in  America,  for 
fellows  who  are  not  afraid  of  work. 
Cleverness tells there.  A man isn’t kept 
down  because  he’s  had  a  misfortune. 
What  is  there  against  me,  after  all? 
Character gone, eh?  Well,  if  you  come 
to  that,  I  clon’t  deny  that appearances 
were agaiifft me. 
I  could explain,  how­
ever.

“But there nobody cares  about charac­
ter nor what you’ve done here.”  (This re­
markable belief is widely spread concern­
ing the  Colonies,  as  well  as  the  United 
States.)  “It’s  what  can  you  do,  not, 
what  have  you  done?  Very  well. 
I 
mean to get rich now.  Oh, I’ve sown my 
wild oats!  Then  you’ll  both  come  out 
to me,  and  then  we’ll  be  married,  and 
Lily,  we’ll  have a most  splendid  time !”

Is he ill?”

“He  is your brother?”
“He is my  lover. 
“ He is very ill.  He  came  in  all 

in 
rags, dirty and penniless—he is  very  ill 
indeed.  Frepare yourself.  He  is dying 
of pneumonia.”

(I told you before what they call it.)
Lily sat at the  bedside  of  the  dying 

man.

“It  is  all  over,”  he  whispered.  “I 
I  have  quite 
have  reformed,  Lily. 
I have  now 
turned  over  a  new 
resolved 
take  the  pledge.  Kiss 
me, dear,  and tell  me  that  you  forgive 
me.”

leaf. 

to 

“Yes,  yes, Charley.  God knows that I 
forgive you.  Why,  you  will come  back 
to yourself in a very little while.  Thank 
God for it,  dear!  Your  own  true  self. 
You  will be my dear old  boy  again—the 
boy that I always  loved;  not  the  drink­
ing,  bad  boy—the  clever,  bright  boy. 
O  my  dear,  my  dear!  You  will  see 
mother  again  very  soon,  and  she  will 
welcome her boy,  returned  to  himself.” 
“Yes,” he  said,  “that’s  it—a  serious 
reform this time.  Lily,  I dare say I shall 
be up and  well again  in  a  day  or  two. 
Then we will see what to do  next. 
I am 
going out to Australia,  where  everybody 
has  a  chance—America  is  a  fraud. 
I 
shall get rich  there,  and  then  you  and 
mother will come to me and we shall  get 
married,  and—O  Lily,  Lily,  after  all 
that we have suffered,  we  shall  have—I 
see that we shall have”—he paused,  and 
his voice grew faint—“ we  shall  have— 
the most splendid time!”

“He is gone,” said the nurse.

W a l t e r   B e s a n t .

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Original set of four 
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Complete set of ten  - 

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Order  quick or lose the opportunity of 
a  lifetime  to  secure these souvenirs at a 
nominal figure.  They will be worth ten 
times present cost within five years.
T r a d e sm a n  C o m p a n y ,

CHICAGO

Nov.  18,1891
AND  w w r   M ICHIG A N   R*Y.

GOING  TO  CHICAGO.

TO AND FROM MUSKEGON.

RETURNING  PROM  CHICAGO.

Dv. G’d Rapids..............7:15am  1:85pm  *11:80pm
...............1:25pm  6:50pm  *7:20am
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Ar. Grand Rapids........ 11:45am  3:05pm 10:25pm
7:30am  3:15pm
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1:00pm  8:45pm
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TRAVERSE CITT.  CHARLEVOIX AND  PBTOSKET.

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

pm.

PARLOR  AND  SLEEPING  CARS,

Parlor  car  leaves  for  Chicago  1:25pm.  Ar- 
from  Chicago  10:25pm.  Sleeping  cars 
rives 
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DETROIT,

Oct.  28,  18S4
LANSING  A  N O RTH ERN   K .  R ,
GOING  TO  DETROIT.

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TO AND  FROM SAGINAW, ALMA  AND  ST.  LOUIS 

TO AND FROM LOWELL.

Lv. Grand Rapids............7:00am  1:20pm  5:25pm
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THROUGH  CAR  SERVICE.

Parlor  Carson all trains  between  Grand Rap­
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Trains  week days only.

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vass of Mr.  Massie’s  territory,  resulting 
in the conclusion that  his  shortage  was 
due, to a considerable  extent, to the per 
nicious system of  giving  rebates  to  se 
cure orders. 
In one case  it was learned 
that he had given  «2.68 on a «63 bill,  and 
other instances equally  as reprehensible 
were  disclosed.  This  may  account,  in 
part,  for  Mr.  Massie’s  popularity  with 
the retail  trade,  but  in  the  opinion  of 
T h e   T r a d e s m a n   the  dealer  who  will 
tempt a  salesman  to  offer  a  rebate  on 
contract goods, thus  influencing  him  to 
violate  the  confidence  of  his  employer 
and the honor of his house,  is  no  better 
than the man who actually  pays  the  re 
bate. 
It is to be hoped that Mr. Massie’s 
experience  will  serve  as  a  warning  to 
other  salesmen  who  are  suspected  of 
pursuing the same  method  in  obtaining 
trade,  and that they  will  profit  by  that 
experience and  thus  save  themselves  a 
repetition of the weeks of bitter  anguish 
through which Mr. Massie has passed.

“There  is  a  future  in  store  for  any 
man who has the courage  to  repent  and 
the  energy  to  atone.”  Having  made 
atonement,  so far as he is able, and  hav­
ing  eaten  the  bread  of  bitterness  as a 
punishment for his  misdoings,  Mr.  Mas 
sie should  now  be  accorded  the  cordial 
co-operation of the trade and  the  hearty 
sympathy  of  the  traveling  men  in  re­
gaining  the  position  he  has  lost.  Mr. 
Massie asserts that he  is  determined  to 
regain the esteem of his friends  and  the 
confidence  of 
trade,  and  T h e 
T r a d e s m a n  trusts that none  will  be  so 
uncharitable  as  to  cast  a  stone  in  his 
pathway, but that all  will join  hands  in 
assisting him to recover the  ground  lost 
through his own misdeeds,  for  which  he 
is truly penitent  and  for  which  he  has 
made,  so  far  as  he  was  able,  ample 
atonement.

the 

The Largest Ply  Wheel in  Michigan 
Will  soon  be  at  the  Grand  Rapids 
School  Furniture  Company’s  plant. 
It 
weighs  45,000  pounds  and  belongs  to 
their new 550 horse power engine,  which 
will weigh 130 000 pounds and be  one  of 
the largest and  most efficient  engines  in 
the State,  having a driving  belt  100  feet 
long.  Five cars will bring  it  from  Mil­
waukee,  and  the  Grand  Rapids  Heavy 
Moving Company  will escort  it from  the 
railroad.

The  Oakdale  Park  Episcopal  church, 
which is in the  form of a  cross,  measur­
ing 40x60  feet,  has been moved two miles, 
to  the  corner  of  Highland  and Central 
avenues,  without  even  a  crack  in  the 
plaster.  The  Grand Rapids Heavy Mov­
ing Company did  it.

MAGNANIMOUS  TO  MASSIE.

The  Charge  of  Embezzlement  Against 

Him  Withdrawn.

sign, 

T h e   T r a d e s m a n  very  reluctantly last 
week gave place to the  bare  facts  relat­
ing to the arrest of James  A.  Massie  on 
the charge of embezzlement  preferred by 
his  former  employer, 
the  I.  M.  Clark 
Grocery Co.  The  ink was hardly dry on 
the paper before the city was  visited  by 
Will H. Bradley,  the  Greenville  grocer, 
who came here  for  the  purpose  of  en­
deavoring to effect a  settlement with the 
aggrieved party  and  secure  the  discon­
tinuance  of  the  criminal  proceedings 
brought against the accused.  His efforts 
met a hearty response at the hands of the 
Clark Grocery  Co.,  the  officers  of which 
corporation  cheerfully  and  magnani­
mously  offered  to discontinue  the  suit, 
providing Mr.  Massie would  sign  a  vol­
untary statement  admitting  the  embez­
zlement and controvert the reports which 
had gone out through him and his friends 
to the effect that the shortage was  due to 
the condition of the company’s books and 
not  to  any  lapse  on  the  part  of  Mr 
Massie.  This statement Mr.  Massie was 
very  willing  to  make  and 
in 
justice  to  himself  and  his  former  em 
ployer—especially as  he  was  unable  to 
repay any portion  of  the  sum  collected 
and not turned in—and  as it was a condi­
tion of the agreement  that  it  should  be 
published  in  T h e   T r a d e s m a n ,  it  is 
given  herewith:
To Whom it May Concern:
Charges of embezzlement  having  been 
brought  against me by  the  L  M.  Clark 
Grocery Co.,  by whom  I  have  been  em­
ployed  for  the  past  seven  years,  and a 
criminal  action  having  been  begun 
against me in the Circuit Court  of  Barry 
county, I desire to state  that I admit  the 
truth  of  the charges made, as it is a fact 
that I used money which was paid  me by 
the customers of the L  M.  Clark  Grocery 
Co.,  and I was unable to turn over to  the 
proper owner collections made  by  me  in 
the  name  of  my  employer.  Certain re­
ports having been spread  abroad  to  the 
effect that I was innocent of  this  charge; 
that I was being oppressed by my former 
employer;  that  the  charge  against  me 
was  due  to  the  inaccurate  condition of 
the company’s books, instead  of my  own 
unfaithfulness, 1 desire to  state,  frankly 
and unqualifiedly,  that  such  reports  are 
false and misleading, and that  the L  M. 
Clark Grocery Co.  in this  case  has  been 
consistent and in the line of strict justice 
and equity to all concerned.
I* having been brought to my attention 
that the criminal charge against me  is to 
be  discontinued  by 
the  I.  M.  Clark 
Grocery Co.  by  reason of the intercession 
of  my  friends in my behalf,  I make this 
statement,  frankly admitting  that I have 
been untrue to  the trust  reposed  in  me 
by my former employer, and acknowledge 
Hie  magnanimity  of  the  I.  M.  Clark 
wrocery Co.  in relieving me from  the  re­
sponsibility of meeting a criminal charge 
out of regard for my friends and the wel­
fare of my wife and children.

J a m e s A.  Ma s s ie .

Dated  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.,  Dec.  6, 
Witness—Sydney Steele,  E.  A. Stowe, 

1894.
Will H. Bradley.

T h e   T r a d e s m a n   heartily  commends 
the magnanimity of the I.  M.  Clark Gro­
cery Co.  in dealing  so  leniently with  an 
erring employe,  and  trusts that  the  bit­
ter  experience  of  the  past  month  will 
not only cause a complete reformation on 
the  part  of  Mr.  Massie,  but  will  also 
serve  as  a  warning  to  other  salesmen 
that collections made in  the name  of  the 
house must be held inviolate, as a sacred 
trust,  and under  no circumstances be di­
verted by the  salesman  to  any  purpose 
except  their  legitimate  uses.  Pending 
an investigation  of the matter,  the I.  M. 
Clark Grocery Co. made a  complete  can-

State Board of Pharmacy,

On»  Ve&r—Ottm ar Eberbach, A an Arbor. 
Tw o  T ears—George Onndram , Ionia.
Three  T ea rs—C. a . B a g  bee. Charlevoix 
Fo tt T ears—B. E. ParkiU , Owosso.
W re T e a r s - F . W. R. p erry , D etroit. 
P residen t— Fred’k W  R.  P erry, D etroit. 
P ecretary-StM U ey E. PartdllfO w osso. 
T reasurer—Geo. Gundrum, Ionia.
Com in g  Meetings—D etroit, Jan 8.

Michigan  State  Pharmaceutical  Ass’n. 
P re s id e n t-A . B. Stevens, Ann Arbor." 
Vice-President—A. F. Parker, D etroit 
Treasurer—W. Dupont,  D etroit.
S ecretar—S. A. T bom oson, Detroit.

Grand  Rapids  Pharmaceutical Society 

President, W alter  K. Schm idt; Secretary, B. Schrouder

PBOGRESS  OP  PHARM ACY.

In seeking proof that progress is being 
made  in  pharmacy,  one  must  note  the 
condition of its followers,  the work  they 
are  doing 
toward  perfecting  the  art, 
elepating the profession  and  developing 
new  ideas  and  facts.  That much  work 
has been done  during the  last  decade  is 
seen  in  the  new  Pharmacopoeia,  which 
became official on Jan.  1 of this year. 
It 
could hardly be  expected  that a work  of 
its nature would please all, and since the 
first volume was presented  to  the  A.  P.
A. 
last year for inspection,  pharmaceuti­
cal  journals,  both  at  home and abroad, 
have been filled with  flattering  and com­
plimentary  reports,  criticisms  just  and 
unjust

in order  to stand  on  the  same  plane  to 
which  its  compilers  intended  it  should 
elevate the profession.

That a good  demand has  been  created 
for  the  new work is shown by Mr. Curt- 
man’s report on U. S.  Pharmacopoeias  to 
the Missouri State  Pharmaceutical Asso­
ciation  (A. J. P.,  p.  355), 
i n  August  an 
edition  of  8,200  copies was placed upon 
the  market,  followed  by  an  edition  of 
5,000  copies,  and  again,  in 1894,  a third 
edition of 5,000,  a  large  portion of  these 
being already sold.

The Committee on Revision of the 1890 
edition of the Pharmacopoeia has  already 
commenced  its  work.  The  Research 
Committee B  has reported on the follow­
ing subjects:

1.  Arsenic  testing by  Strouton’s  ehlo- 
n '^Pharm aceutical Era,  Aug.  1,  1894,
2.  Volumetric Determination of liquor, 
plumbi subacitatis,  Pharmaceutical Era, 
Aug.  1,  1894, p.  103.
3.  Artificial manganese  dioxica,  Phar­
maceutical Era, Aug.  15, 1894,  p.  151.

The  new  issue  of  the  Pharmacopoeia 
has led to a complete revision of both the 
national and United  States  Dispensator­
ies, and will,  no doubt,  be followed by  a 
new edition  of the  National  Formulary. 
The  various  sub-committees  submitted 
the  following  reports  to  the  forty-first 
meeting of A.  P. A.  (Additions, Proc.  A. 
P.  A.,  p.  42,  1893):

Tbe first to be  noticed  among  the  im­
portant  changes  is  the  adoption  of the 
metric system of  weights  and  measures 
and the principle of solids  by weight and 
and  liquids  by  measure,  except  when 
liquids may be weighed easier.

The change in  chemical and  botanical 
nomenclature  has  caused  many changes 
in  Latin  and  English  titles.  For  the 
adoption  of  the  rules  of  the  Botanical 
Club  of  the  A.  A.  A.  S., the  Committee 
on Revision has  been  severely  criticised 
by  Mr.  Beringer (A.  J.  P.,  1893,  p. 513) 
Sixty  pages  have  been  devoted  to 
instruction,  of  which 
purely  chemical 
eight  pages  are  required  for  a  list  of 
chemicals  and  formulas;  nineteen  are 
required  in giving  a complete  list of  re­
agents  and  instructions  for  preparing 
them;  twenty-seven are  devoted  to  vol­
umetric  solutions  and methods of analy­
sis 
(volumetric  methods  supplanting 
graveometric of last  edition).  The Com­
mittee has thus  placed  in  the  hands  of 
every  pharmacist  official  methods  for 
testing his chemicals and pharmaceutical 
preparations. 
It also  shows that a more 
thorough  knowledge  of  chemistry  is  re­
quired in pharmaceutical  training.

For the first time in any pharmacopoeia, 
standardization has been settled;  but the 
Committee,  in  considering  this  subjeet 
(page XXX),  found  that  reliable  meth­
ods, ensuring uniform  results  when  car 
ried  out  by  different  operators,  were 
available at present for only a few drugs. 
Opium, cinchona  and  nux  vomica  were 
selected.  Opium should contain 13 to 15 
per  cent,  morphine;  cinchona  not  less 
than 5  per  cent,  total  alkaloids  and  at 
least 2.5 per  cent,  of qninine;  nux  vom­
ica should contain 15 per cent,  by weight 
of alkaloids.

Each  revision  of  the  Pharmacopoeia 
shows that the profession of pharmacy is 
setting a higher standard  for  its  follow­
ers,  and  the  1890  edition is remarkable 
for its advanced position from a scientific 
standpoint; and it should stimulate many 
pharmacists to renewed  efforts  to  main­
tain  their  reputation  as  educated  and 
progressive men,  and  impel the  younger 
students to a  more  thorough  education,

’ 

1.  Liquor magnesi® effervescens.
2.  Elixir paraldehyde.
3.  Elixir digestives comp.
4.  Glyceriti guaiaci.
5.  Syr.  pinns alb®  comp.
6.  Tr.  pinns alb® comp.
7.  Aromatic  elixir.
Eliminations (Proc. A. P. A.,  p.  45).
Nos.  4,  6,  9,  10,  14,  15,  17,  32.  75  113
’
192,  207, 232, 236, 249, 268, 315. 
Corrections.  Nos. 27,  40, 41, 42, 63,  67, 
85, 93, 95, 96, 99,  105,  122,  193.  241  256 
’
310, 363, 370, 376,  390. 
The educational  requirements of phar­
macy students have ever  been a perplex 
ing question, and is at  present  receiving 
the attention of many able writers.  The 
result of  all this  agitation  may  be  seen 
in  a  few  of our college announcements^ 
where  the  truth  that  a  common school 
education  and  an  examination 
in  its 
branches prior to  entering  the college is 
supplanting the idea that  practical expe 
rience is all that is  necessary  to  the  at­
taining  of  perfection  in the  practice of 
pharmacy.  To elevate  a profession,  the 
foundation  must  be  strengthened  upon 
which the profession is to be built, and a 
more  rapid  progress  toward  a  higher 
professional standing may be attained by 
stimulating  the  desire  among  the  ap­
prentices to attain a better  education.

Has this progress been  what it  should 
within our own State  since the existence 
of  our  pharmacy  laws,  whose  require­
ments  are  more  exacting  than  most  of 
those  in 
the  Western  and  Southern 
States?  For  answer  we  have  only  to 
look  about  and  observe  under  whose 
management a large number of the phar­
macies are placed.  Boys  are  taken  into 
the stores as  apprentices  irrespective  of 
their  educational  attainments.  Their 
minds not being in  condition to study, it 
is  practically  impossible  for  them  to 
analyize the theoretical  part  of  the  art, 
thus  making  a  stupid  blunder  of  thè 
practical. 
It  is  quite  evident  that  to 
read understandiugly  our  present  phar­
maceutical  literature,  and  to be able  to 
answer questions  intelligently, one must 
have more than a store education.

At the last meeting of the international 
Pharmaceutical Congress, the  Committee j

should be  admitted  a9  apprentice  by  a 
pharmacist  unless  such 
student  has 
passed the preliminary examinations sat­
isfactorily in such subjects of general ed­
ucation as may be  best suited  to  the  re­
quirements  of  the  several countries  not 
yet  having  enforced  much  requirement 
of  compulsory  education,  and 
such 
student’s  time  of  apprenticeship  shall 
date from the time of that examination.” 
As the  enforcement of  such  a  resolu­
tion 
is  practically  impossible  in  this 
country, the duty rests  upon  each  phar­
macist to carry out  the  principle  in  his 
own  store.

The  manufacturing  chemist,  aided  by 
the physician,  is rapidly  absorbing  some 
of the essences of the drug business, and, 
in fact,  infringing upon  the  professional 
part.  With their  advantages  for  inves- 
tigating,  facilities  for  producing,  and 
schemes  for  introducing  their  pharma­
ceuticals, they have  compelled the phar­
macist to stock his shelves with the prod­
ucts of their laboratories.

introduced  by 

The unfamiliar]ty  of the  greater num­
ber of the physicians with chemistry, the 
United  States  Pharmacopoeia  and  Na­
tional Formulary may  account  for  their 
readiness  in  prescribing  new  prepara­
tions, 
smooth-tongued 
salesmen and well-worded literature that 
has been sent out to  instruct  the  physi­
cian  and  aid  him  in  his  practice. 
I 
must be admitted, however, that the man 
ufacturing pharmacist  has done wonders 
toward advancing an  elegant  pharmacy 
Skilled  in  the  art  of  preparing,  he  has 
robbed many a  detested  drug  of  its  re 
pugnance.  Often in  being so progressive 
in  transforming  these  rank-odored,  dis 
agreeable-tasting  drugs  into  palatable 
preparations, the character  and  identity 
are changed at the  expense of  their  use 
fulness.

The activity in  analysis  and  syntheti 
cal  chemical  research  has done wonders 
in  the  development  of  new  ideas  and 
facts. 
Its influence upon  pharmacy  has 
not only been confined to solving myster 
ies,  but has promoted  simplicity  and ac 
curacy.  Drugs which  cannot  always  be 
relied  upon  for  definite  percentage  of 
medicinal properties,  thus  not  insuring 
uniform  results,  are  being  replaced by 
their  alkaloids  and  alkaloidal  salts  of 
definite chemical composition,  and whose 
action is always the same.  Medicaments 
which had fallen into  disuse  because  of 
their  toxic  properties,  by products here­
tofore considered  inert,  have  been  ana­
lyzed,  their  constituent parts separated, 
and,  when united with certain acids from 
non-toxic, non-irritant  definite  chemical 
compounds,  which may be taken into the 
system in large doses  without  producing 
any evil  effects.  But  the  extraordinary 
activity in  synthetical  developments has 
flooded the market with  worthless chem­
ical  compounds in  such  numbers  as  to 
produce  confusion  and  uncertainty  to 
both physician and pharmacist. 
In look­
ing over several  pharmaceutical  periodi­
cals,  under the head of  “New Remedies,”
I was able to enumerate  343 new  name's. 
Fifty-nine  of  these  have  been reported 
since the first of the year,  and  no  doubt 
tbe  greater  number will serve their use­
fulness  in  furnishing  material  for  a 
long article in the drug and medical jour­
nals.

The  pharmacist, 

in  order  to  keep 
posted  on  the  recent  developments and

terests,  but  must devote a  portion of  his 
long hours to reading and  studying  cur­
rent pharmaceutical li  erature. 
If be be 
a recent college  graduate or  an  old-time 
practical  pharmacist,  he  cannot assume 
the air  of  perfection.  Associations  and 
institutions of learning  whose  object  is 
to promote the interests  and elevation of 
American  pharmacy  should  receive  his 
influence and support.

D o r ia n  M.  R u s s e l l , Ph.  C.

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.................9 00@16 00
Zlncl  Snlph....................  7©  g
OILS.

Whale, winter............  70 
Lard,  extra.................  so 
Lard, No.  1.................  42 
Linseed, pore raw ....  53 

Bbl.  Gal
70
85
45
59

15

69

Linseed,  boiled..........  59
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
strained.................  66
8plrltaTurpentine....  34

“ 

b b l. 

p a i n t s . 

lb .
Bed  Venetian................i v   amx
Ochre, yellow Mars___1^   2©4
Ber.........l v   2©8
Putty,  commercial__ 2K  2K©3
•a»  8,i?cUI P uro.......3K  2X@3
Vermilion Prime Amer-
I3cai6
lean ............................. 
Vermilion,  English...’!  6fi©70
13©15
Green,  Peninsular....... 
H f4 ’  '»J” -.............................  6 ©6«
w hite.............................. 6 ©6K
©7#
Whldng, white Span... 
©9G 
GUdersV/T... 
1 
White, Parle  American 
Whiting,  Paris  Eng.
c liff.................... .77.. 
1 4(5
Universal Prepared .."l  C0©1  15 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared 
p»lnts.............................1 oo©l 90

VARNISHES.
Turp  Coach....1  io@l  30
................... 160@1  70
£oa®h  Roaj^-...................2 7503 00
S°-IT urp Piirn......... 1  00@1  10
EutraTurkDamar....l  55©1  60 
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 
T m p...........................  
70®75

VALLEY  CITY

PO U LTRY POWDBR

Nothing  Like  It  to  Make  Hens  Lay  in  Winter.

A. valuable addition to the  feed  of  laying  Hens  and  growing 

chicks, and a sure preventative for Cholera 

Roupe and Gapes.

P rice 25  Cents•

HMELTINE  Ì  PERKINS

Manufacturing Chemists, 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

TINCTUBE8.

r b e o

,  »nd m y r

Aconltum Napellls R........  go
Aloes....................... 59
A rnica.............  
Asafcedda.....  ......................
A trope Belladonnà.!!.” ! 

rx
«9
............:::::  S
Songnlnarià 
.............   59
Barosm a..........  
rx
 
Cantharides.....  ...................  ~
Capslcum.............   .............. 
ix
Ca damon...................                75
Castor 
............. ,  15
............1 25
Catechu..........  
C lnchona..............................  29
„  
ftn
' ‘  ?9
Columba..........  
Conlum ................................   5°
59
Cubeba............ 

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

 

 

 

 

“ 

“ 

"   59
G entian............ 
Co............; ; ; .............  59
 
G ualca............ 
 
59
ammon.............. 
an
Z ingiber...................... 
"   59
*  v<
Hyoecyamus............ 
75
Colorless....... 
 
Verri  Chlorldum.......... 
£
"   59
Lobelia..... 
 
M yrrh........................................ 50
'  «i
Nux  Vomica.......... 
op« .......................... ;;..........  52
50
Camphorated............ 
Deodor.................. '.ÜÜ200
«1
A aranti Cortex......... 
Q uassia.................................  59
R hel...............  ......................  59
cassia  a c u t i f o i . . . . »  
Co.... 
50
Serpentaria.................. 
"   £{
Stramonium..........................   sn
, T olutan....................   ..........
V alerian.................. !  '
M
[ VeratrumVeride...!...!!.!!  80

11 

“ 

MISCELLANEOUS, 

ACIDTTH.

Aceticum....................
Benzol cum  German..  65©
Boradc 
......................
20©
Carbollcnm  .  ............... 
Cltrlcum .......................  
42©
Hydrochlor................. 
)B
.....................  10©
Nltrocum 
Oxallcum ......................   10©
Phosphorlum  d ll........
Sallcylicum.................1  25©1  60
Snlphurlcum_______   1^@  5
Tannlcum.................... 1  40@1
Tartarlcum................. 
30©  33
AMMONIA.

“ 

Aqua, 16  deg.................. 
Carbonas  ..................... 
Chlorldum ................... 

90  deg...............   6©
la©
la©

4©

A N IL EKE.

Black...........................2 00©2 as
Brown...........................  80©1  00
Bed................................  45©  SO
Yellow........................ 2 S0©3 00

BACCAB.

Cubeae (po  25)......... 
20®  25
Junlperus....................  8©  10
Xanthoxylum..............  25©  30

BALSAHUM.

Copaiba........................  45©  SO
Peru..............................   @2 CO
Terabln. C an ad a__  
45©  50
Tolutan........................  35©  50

Abies,  Canadian...................  18
Cassias  ..................................  12
Cinchona F la v a ...................  18
Buonymus  atropurp............  SO
Myrlca  Cerifera, po..............  20
Prunus Virglnl......................  12
Qulllala,  grd..........................  10
Sassafras  ...............................  12
Ulmus Po (Ground  15).........  15

EXTBACTTJM. 
GlycyrrhUa  G labra...
“ 
po.........
Haematox, 15 lb. box..
1s............
“ 
“  Kb...........
*■ ..............
“ 
F E B B U

24©
33©
11©
13©
14©
16©

Cubebae 
Bxechthitos. 
-i  ao@i »
Krlgeron.......................  givai  so
Gaultherla............................... ..J ^
Geranium,  ounce.......  ©   71
Gosslpll,  Sem. gal.......  70©  7!
S S . : : : : : ; : : .....> 5 S S
..... :::::::  S Ô S
1  i/Mk]  cn
iilniODlS................. 
2 fDÌ?a?TPei!a..... •  • • 2 1^3 00
Ventba Verid............1  go@a oo
Wwo?4®’ gaI......... 1 *©1 40
ojE «  a’ ounee.............. 
a   so
îo©3 îa
« ^ L iq u id a; ¿ á L is) 
a ™ - ......« sy s
Santal  ........   . . .......... 2 srwv-99
Sassafras.................. ”  50©'  «
©  65
Slnapls,ess,ounce.... 
..................   40©  60
15© 1 ao
in a  40

1 heobromas  . .. .. .. .. . 
POTASSIUM.
Bi Cftrb........  

¡I “

16©

20©
22©
12©
„ ©

20©8©

Cari»....................;••• 
[SÌ
ie©
¡Chlorate  (po.l7@19).. 
Cyanide
50©
Iodide.......................   g anas
Potassa, Bitart,  pure!!  23©  25 
Potaasa, Bit art, com ...  @
Potass  Nltras, opt.......  8©
7a
Potass N ltras........  
2»»
Prusslate.................  
Sulphate  po........ ........  15©
RADIX.
Aconitum..................
Althae...................
A nchusa........ !....'.!!
Arum,  po........
Calamus.......................
Gentiana  (po.12) !.’."!! 
Glychrrhl*a, (pv. 15)..
Hydrastis  Canaden,
.(P°-85).
eilet
Hellebore,  Ala,  po....  15©
Innla,  po......................  15©
iS?®*?’ 1,0....................1 30@i  40
Iris  plox (po. 35©38)..  35©  40
Jalapa,  p r....................  40®  45
Maranta,  « s ...............  @  35
Podophyllum, po........   15©  18
. . . j .................  75@1  00
B h d .. 
on‘ .......................   ©1  75
_  .  P J.........................   75@1  35
Splgella ........................  35©
Sangulnarla,  (po  25)..  ©
Serpentarla..................   30©  35
ff n e g a .........................  55©  go
Slmllax, Officinalis.  H  ©  40 
1 _ 
M 
©  25
Sdllae, (po. 85)............ 
lo©
Symplocarpus,  Po9tl-
dus,  po...................... 
<a
Valeriana, Eng.  (po.30)  ©
1 
German...  15©
, 
,  Inglber a ..................  
jggi
| Zingiber  3................  
igg
SEMEN.
I Anlsum,  (po. 90).. 
..  ©  is
Aplum  (graveleons)..  14©  16
4©  6
Bfrd.lB.......................  
Carol, (po. 18).............   10©  12
Cardamon....................1 00©1  25
Corlandrum.................  12©  14
Cannabis Satlva..........   4©
Cvdonlum 
—
_  
.............   7 5 0 1   00. 

“ 

 

“ 

" 

" 

®

(po.

—  

FLO R A .

“ Alx. 

ground, 

........  50©

-   -- 1 Chondros 

„ ........ ................  ^

P01.1A.
.................

picked__
“ 
« 

Acada, 1st 
«  2d 
“  8d 
“ 
“ 

A rnica.................   12©
Anthem ls.............  an©
Matricaria 

Salvia  officinalis,  «8
and  K s...............  15©
Ura Ural 

Barosma 
Cassia  Acutlfol,  Tla-

14©
nlvelly........ ............   25©
35©

Carbonate P red p ........
Citrate and Q uim a__
Citrate  Soluble............
Perrocy anldum Sol....
Solut  Chloride............
Sulphate,  com’l ..........
pure..............

* 
Poenlcnlum.................  ©
Poenngreek,  po..........   6©
H n! 
_  
 
Fharlarls Canarian__   4©
R ap«.............................  4K©
Slnapls  Albn.............  7©
r   Nigra...........   11©

dither, Spts  Bit, 8 P ..  28©  30 
“  4 P --  89©  34
.•)•--■....................  3a  4
Annatto........................  55«*  go
5©  5
Antimoni, po............. ! 
.  et Potass T.  55©  60
. 
f
j
i S » v r r . : : : : :  
©  sa
Argenti  Mitras, ounce 
s a   7
Arsenicum..................  
38©  40
Balm Gilead  B ud.... 
Bismuth  8.  N ..........  1  60©l  70
Calcium Chlor, is, (* s 
70
12;  Ms,  14)...............  ©  11
Cantharldes  Russian,
P ° ..............................   @1  00
Capsid  P rn ctu s,af...  ©  25
©   28
CaryophyUns, (po.^j)  10©  12
.....................  8©
a 8  75
Carmine,  No. 40..........  
GUMMI.
Cera  Alba, S. A P .......  50©  56
Cera Playa..................   38©   40
©
©
a   40
Coccus......................... 
....
O 
Cassia F ractal............ 
a   25
....
Centrarla......................  ©  10
sifted sorts...
© 
a   40
Cetaceum....................  
60©  80 
p o ....................
50©  60
Chloroform.................  60©  63
Aloe,  Barb, (po. 80)...
^  
  «,
©   121 Chenopodluni  ............  10©  121_ .  
sqnlbbs..  © la s
“  Cape, (po.  20)... 
©   50 I Dlpterlx Odorate  .......2 40©2 601 Çhloral Hyd w s t.........1  25©i  50
Socotrl,  (po.  80). 
Catechu, Is, (K®, 14 Ms,
1 6 ).......................................  
_
Ammoni a e ...................  58©
3«©   4
Anafcetlda, (po.&0)  '  50©  601 I*t^.frd.  (bbl. SK)...  3K© 4
Bensommn...................  50a   55 I l*pDella.........................   35a   4
Bensomtun...................  50©  55
Camphor«....................   46©  55
Enphorblnm  po  .........  35©  lo
Galbanum.....................  ©2  50
Gamboge,  po...............   70©  7b
Gnalaoum, (po  35) —   ©  30
Kino,  (po  1  75)..........   ©1  75
M astic.........................   ©   80
Myrrh, (po. 45)------ - 
©  40
Opll  (po  3 30©3 50). .2 60©2 70
Shellac  ........................  40©  60
“ 
40©  45
bleached  .... 
Tragacanth.................   SO©
.........1  nSM w   «   ** 
PO.....................  A   6
35
40........  
—In ounce packages. 
herba—In ounce packagei
urn................  25 I Vini Alba............1 *53 00  SS? 
.........  «2  »
Absinthium ...........................   2s
Galls 
.....................  
_
Bupatorlnm...........................   20
Gambler.................... . .  7  ©  g~
Lobelia....................................  26
Gelatin,  Cooper..........   ©   60
H ajorom ................................   28
French............  30©  50
Mentha  Piperita...................  23
Glassware  flint, by box 80.
“  V lr...........................   25
Less than box  75.
Bue..........................................   so
an  15
Glne,  Brown...............  
Tanaoetum, V ........................  22
is©  25
‘‘ White................. 
Thymus,  V .............................  25
Glycerins....................   14©  20
Grana Paradlsl............  ©   22
Hu mains......................  25©  55
©   75
Hydraag Chlor Mite.. 
©   65
“ Cor  .... 
©  85
Ox Rubrnm 
©  95
“  Ammonlad.. 
“  Unguentum. 
45©  55
Hydrargyrum..............  ©  60
lohthyobolla, Am..  ..1 25@1 60
Indigo...........................  75@1 00
Iodine,  Resnbl............3 80@3 90
Iodoform......................  @4 70
Lnpnlln.............................©225
Lycopodium...............  60©  65
M ads...........................  TO©
70©  75
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy- 
ar*— ’  '
arg Iod
Liquor Potass ArslnlUe  10©  IS 
Magnesia,  Snlph  (bbl
Mannla,  & P ...............   60©  68

zr9
Clnobonldlne, P.  A  W  15© 
German 8K© 
_ _   “ 
Corki,  llst,  dis.  per
cent  .......................
©
Creaaotnm...............  
Creta,  (bbl. 75)....... 
X
5©
prep...............  
p redp...............  
g©
Rubra.................  ©
Crocns.................  ... 
35©
Cudbear.......... 
...  ©
Cuprl Snlph.................  5 ©
D extrine......................  10©
Ether Snlph.................  75©
Bmery,  au  num bert..  ©

Accada  .. :.............................  50
Zingiber  ..............................  
so
Ipecac.....................................   60
  50
Porri Io d ............................ 
Aurantl  Cortes......................  50
Rhel  Arom.............................  50
Slmllax  Officinalis...............   60
o 
••••  80
Senega....................................  50
Sdllae.....................................   60
_   ‘‘ Co................................  50
T oratan..................................  50
Prunai  vlrg...........................  50

Florida  sheeps’  wool
carriage....................2 50©2 75
Nassau  sheeps’  wool
2 00
carriage  ................... 
Velvet  extra  sheeps’
1  10
wool  carriage..........  
Extra  yellow  sheep«’
carriage....................  
86
Grass sheeps’ wool car­
riage .........................  
(W
Hard for  slate  nae....
Yellow Reef, for  slate 
u s e ............................. 

Absinthium ................2 50@3  00
Amygdalae, D nlc........   30©  60
Amydalae, Amarae... .8 00©8 25
A lllll..........................   2 65<7?i2  Rft
Anrantl  Cortex..........1  80@2  00
.....................S00®3 20
caryophylli...................  75® 80
Geaar  .............................  35© 65
C hencpodll.................  @1  go
^ » mbohU .................1  60©1  76
2® ?.??  M“ ..................  86© 65
opaiba  ......................  
jQ

SPIRITUS.
Frumenti, W., D.  Co..2 00©2  50
D. P. B .......1  7502 00
...................1  25®1  50
„ 
Jnnlperls  Co. O. T ... .1  65©2 00
_ 
“ 
............1  75®3 50
Saacharom  N.  E ........1  7S©2 00
I V?ni Oporto ...........1 2bQ2 001 

Calcined, P a t...............  55©  60
Carbonate,  P at............  20©   22
Carbonate, K. A  M ....  20©  25 
Carbonate, Jennings..  35©

.................  50@  801 g«»  v ini  Galli 

IK ).............................2K©  4

MAGNESIA.

“ 
. 
‘f. 

SPONGES.

8TB UPS.

26©2I

OLEUM.

1  40

35©

 

 

“  

“ 

“ 

46

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

G RO CERY   PR IC E   CU RREN T.

T he prices quoted in this list are for the  trade only,  in such quantities as are usually purchased by  retail  dealers.  They are prepared  lust before 
going to press  and  are an accurate  index of  the local  market. 
I t is impossible  to give  quotations  suitable for all conditions o f ^ c h a s e   an d X Z  
below are given  as  representing  average  prices  for average  conditions of  purchase.  Cash  buyers or those of  strong credit  usually  buy closer than

^

  earDe8tly —

d to  ^

  ~   ^

  —  -  omissions, as it is our  5 m to  make  ¿ i s  ' ¿ £

t f Z

Apricots.

Cherries.

1  40
Live oak....................... 
i  40
Santa  Cruz................... 
1  50
Lusk’s ........................... 
1  40
Overland....................  
Blackberries.
R- &  W.........................  
85
«»1 20
Red................................ 
Pitted Ham burgh.......
1  40
W hite...........................  
M e ..............................  
1  15
Damsons, Egg Plums and Green 
135
B rie-............................. 
1  25
California....................  
Gooseberries.
1  2s
Common...................... 

Gages.

Peaches.

CATSUP.

“ 

Blue Label Brand.
 
Triumph Brand.

Half  pint, 25 bottles...........2 75
4  SO
K nt 
Quart 1 dos bottles............ 3 50
Half pint, per  dos..............1  35
Pint, 25  bottles....................... 4 50
Quart, per  d o z ......................3 75

 

CLOTHES  PINS.

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

COCOA  SHELLS.

351b  bags............................  @3
Less  quantity.................  @31*
Pound  packages............

I Peerless evaporated cream. 5 75

36  1-lb cartoons....... 
0
*8 lb. b o x e s,b u lk __ . ..   5
50 lb. boxes, b olli............  41
1   l b ,   c a r t o o n s ............................ 

Sultana  Raisins.

I

Globe Match Co.’s Brands

*1' 25
Columbia Parlor......... 
XXX Sulphur............i ........  j  55
Diamond  Match  Co.’s  Brands.
No. 9 sulphur........................ 7
Anchor parlor.....................  1 m
No. 2 home........................... "1 in
Export  parlor......................” 4 qq

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

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

BAKING  POWDER.

• 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Queen Flake.

Acme.
>4 to.  ;iuis. 3  doz__
4
“  ............
M lb. 
..  1  t
1  “  ..............
lib . 
1
Bulk.................................
Arctic.
M 3> cans 6 doz  case....... .. 
5
....... ..  1  1
V4 
“  4 doz  “ 
....... ..2  0
1  ft  “  2 doz  “ 
....... ..  9 01
5  1b  “  1 doz  “ 
3  oz cans 6 doz  “ 
....... . . 2  7
6  oz  “  4 doz  “ 
....... •k 3  2
....... *4  8
9  oz  “  4 doz  “ 
1  lb  “  2 doz  “ 
.......
.  4  0
ldoz  “ 
5  lb  “ 
.......
.  9 0
Red Star, M 3>  cans........
.........
M  ®>  “ 
1  tt>  “ 
........ ..  1  4
Telfer’s,  M lb. cans, dos
“ 
A lb. 
••
1 lb. 
'
Our Leader, M -b cans...
A lb  cans__
lib  c an s.....
BA TH   B RICK . 
2 dozen In case.
E nglish............................
Bristol................................
Domestic.........................

.  9f
..  7i
Gross
.  3 60
............. .  6  75
.  9 0C
.  2  75
.  4  00
.  8 00
1 os ball  ................. .  4  50
.  3 60
.  6  80

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

Mexican Liquid, 4  oz.......
8 oz.........

BLUING.

..  1  5f

.  1  5t

“  

“ 

“ 
BROOMS.

Ho. 2 Hurl........................... .  1  90
........................... .  2 00
No. 1  “ 
No. 2 Carpet....................   .
.  2  15
No. 1 
“ 
2  50
.......................
Parlor Gem.........................
2 50
85
Common W hisk.................
1  00
Fancy 
.................
Warehouse.........................
2 85

1 

BRUSHES.

“ 
“ 

Stove, No.  1.......................
“  10.......................
“  15.......................
Bice Root Scrub. 2  row ...
Rice Root  Scrub, 3 row ...
Palmetto, goose.................

1  25
1  50
1  75
86
1  25
1  50

CANDLES.

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

“ 

grated 

1  50
M axw ell...................... 
1  50
Shepard's....................  
California....................   160@1  75
Monitor 
......................
Oxford........................
Pears.
Domestic. 
1  85
175
™ 
Riverside.
Pineapples.
Common.......................1 00@1  30
2 50
Johnson’s  sliced........  
2 75
grated........  
Booth’s sliced.............  @2 5)
@2 75
Quinces.
1 10
Common......................
„  
Raspberries.
Red............... ; . ............
95 
Black  Hamburg........ "
1  40 1 20
Erie,  black  .................
Strawberries.
Law rence....................
1  25 
Ham burgh........
1  25 1 20 
Erie............................;;
T errapin..............
1  05
Blueberries.................
85
Corned  beef  Libby’s ........... 2 20
Roast beef  Armour’s .........2  35
Potted  ham, A lb ...................1 25
“  )<ib.....70
tongue, A lb ............... l 35
,.   _ 
F 1
chicken, a  lb .. 
V egetables.

Whortleberries. 

. n 

Beans.

“ 

Com.

Hamburgh  stringless......... l  15
Prench style......2 00
Limas..................1 35
Lima, green..........................115
soaked......................  70
Lewis Boston Baked...........1  se
125
Bay State  Baked............ 
World’s  Pair  Baked.......... t  25
PIcnicBaked.........................   95
_  
j  25
Hamburgh................... 
Livingston  E d e n ........ 1. 1   10
P u rity .....................................1  nn
1  ¿5
Honey  Dew............... 
Morning Glory..........
Soaked......................... ” '** 
«
Peas.
_  
Hambnrgh  m arrofat............1  go
early June  .  ...1  50 
Champion E n g ..l  40
petit  pois..........1  40
fancy  sifte d ....l  go

. 

. 

CANNED  GOODS.

Vinti.
Clami.

“ 

“ 

Little Neck,  i lì».................  î  an
“  *  11»..................1  90
Clam Chowder.
Standard, 3 lb .......................2 as
Cove Oysters.
Standard,  1 lb......................

21b ......................135
Lobsters.
Star,  1  lb .............................2 45
“  2  lb ............................. 3 so
Picnic, 1 lb ............................2 00
21b .......................... 2 90
“ 
Mackerel.
Standard, 1 lb .......................110
8  lb .....................2 10
Mnstard,  21b........................225
Tomato Sauce,  a lb .............2 25
Soused, 2 lb ..............
.2 25
Salmon.
Columbia River, flat.. 
..1  85 
“ 
tails..
..1 50 
Alaska, Red.................
-.1  30 
pink.................
-.1  20 
Kinney’s,  flats............
.1  95
American  14s ...................... 4A@ 5
„  A s...................... 6A@ 7
_ 
“ 
Imported  Ms......................  @jo
.  Ha...................... 15016
—  “ 
Mnstard Ms........................  607
22
Boneless............................. 
Brook 8, lb..................................a gg

Sardines.

“ 
-  

Trout
Fruit«.
Apples.

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

fo
2 60

,  

Harris standard..............75
VanCamp’s  m arrofat......."7  10
early .June.......1  80
. 
Archer’s  Early Blossom...  1
Prench
2 15 I
Mushroom«.
French.........................
Pumpkin.
_ .  
E rie...............................
Squash.
_  
Hubbard............
Succotash.
Hamburg................. _
,,. ,  ..,
Soaked 
I“ ®7 Dew..........40
.  Tomatoes.’
_  
Hancock................... 
on
 
 
Excelsior ... ™ . .  
q™
Eclipse......................  
’. I l l "   on
"1  30
.. 
Hamburg. 
G allon........................ . . i l l .3 00

...19021
80
.1 15
...1 40 80

 

CHOCOLATE,

Baker’s.

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

11*11*UK

CH EESE.
Amboy.........................
Acme.........................
Lenawee...................
R iverside...................
11*
Gold  Medal.................
Skim .........................
839
Brick.........................
11
Edam........................
1  00 
Leiden.
20
Limburger..................   ©15
Pineapple.....................  ©24
Roquefort. —................  ©wt
Sap Sago......................  ©20
Schweitzer, Imported.  @24 
a \4

domestic  .... 

“ 

To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 

,  -   . «pffee.add  Ac. per lb. for roast
............1  ® I lng and 15 per  cent,  for shrink

I acre,
P ackage.
I M cL aughlin’s  X X X X ..  £7  30
............................   20 80
Bunola 
j Lion, 60 or 100lb.  case....  21  30 

 
 

COFFEE.
Green.
Mo-
P air.........................................  lg
10
Good....................  
Prim e............... . ’................. 21
I Golden.................. 
21
^23
I Peaberry................ 
Santos.
Pair.
.19
Good....................  
on
Prim e.....................!!!!!!!! i a
Peaberry  ............! .*23
Mexican and Gnatamaia.
21
P air...............  
good.................
Fancy......................................^4
_ 
Prim e.....  
M illed.....................
_ 
Ja v a
25
Interior................... 
27
Private Growth.. 
M andehling..................."."28
_ 
Mocha
Im itation.................
Arabian..................!. 
Roasted.

Maracaibo.

no

. 

!

 

Extract.

VsJley City A gross............  75
..........1  15
rCllX 
Hummers, foil,  gross........   i  05
.........2 85
“ 

“ 

“ 

Hu 
CHICORV.

Bulk......................... 
Red..............................?

CLOTHES  LINES.

5

“ 

Jute 

«' 
•• 
« 
« 
« 

Cotton,  40 f t ..........per dos.  1  26
50 f t ............  
140
80ft..........  
la c
1  75
70 f t..........  
1  go
80ft..........  
80 ft............ 
85
12«.....  “  1 «
600, any one denom’n .......13 00
....5 00
Steel  punch.........................  75

CREDIT  CHECKS.
“  “ 
CONDENSED  MILK. 

“ 

4’dos. in case.

First Prize............................$6 i
Darling................................... 51
Standard................................ 4 i
Leader....................................3 1

CRACKERS.
___Butter.

Seymour XXX......................... 5
Seymour XXX, cartoon.........5 A
Family  XXX.........................   5
Family XXX,  cartoon........   5 A
Salted XXX.............................5
Salted XXX,  cartoon  ...........5 a
Kenosha  .  ............................ 7A
Boston.......................................7
Butter  biscuit........................6
Soda,  x x v . .. . . . . . . . . . . . .  
Sts
Soda, City..............................  7*,
Soda,  Dnchess........................¿34
Crystal W afer............  .........10-
.........11
Long  Island Wafers 
S. Oyster  XXX......................  534
City Oyster. XXX.................... svt
Farina  Oyster......................  6

Oyster.

Soda.

CREAM  TARTAR.

Strictly  pure........................  30
Telfer’s Absolute...............   30
Grocers’...............................15®*

D R IE D   FRUITS. 

D om estic.

Apple«.

Apricots.

Sundrled..........................
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  .....’

Peaches.

“ 

Pears.

6M

« 

California In bags.......
Pitted  Cherries.
Barrels............................
50 lb. boxes...............
25« 
..................;
Prunelles.
301b.  boxes....................
Raspberries.
In  barrels........................ 
601b. boxes..........  
251b.  “ 
....................;; 
Raisins.

j
9
j
Loose  Mnscatels in Boxes
crow n...........................  

j u

.......

Loose Mnscatels in Bags.
crown..............................T.  3M
.....................................
“  

F oreign.
Currants.

Patras,  bbls....................  

gv
ostlzzas.56lb.  cases".!.’.’  s '8

N. Y.Cond’ns’d Milk Co’s brands
Gall Borden Eagle.............   7 40
Crown.........................  
e os
Daisy.....................5 %
Champion.........................  4  so
Magnolia  ...............I  " " i !   4 ¡5
Dime................................ 35

23
3»
43

Peel.

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

“ 
« 

25  “ 
“ 
25 “ 
“ 
Raisins.

Ondura. 29 lb. boxes..  @ 9
“ 
Sultana, 20 
Valencia. 30  “

@ 7M

California,  100-120 ...............  5 A

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

“ 

Turkey 
Silver ..

ENVELOPES.
XX rag, white.

No. 1, 6A ............................   «
No. 2 ,6A  ...........................  1
No. 1,6................................  1
No. 2, 6......................  
1

 

Manilla, white.

Coin.

Mill  No. 4.
FARINACEOUS  GOODS,

115 lb. kegs.

Parina.
Grits.

Hominy.

Lima  Beans.

Walsh DeRoo  &  C a’s .......2
8arrels....................................3
G rits.....................................   314
Dried...............................  5@5K
Maccaron! and Vermicelli.
Domestic, 12 lb. box__
Imported.......................10A@11
  8
1

Green,  bu......................... 
Split  per l b ...................’ ’  2 A

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

Pearl Barley,
 

Peas.

Rolled  Oats.

“ 

Schumacher, bbl................. $4
M bbl..............  2
„  
Monarch,  bbl  ......................4
Monarch,-A  bbl................... 2
Quaker,  cases...................]  3
_ 
Germ an................................  g
B astln d la .................
3 K
Cracked.................................  3

Wheat.

Sago.

FISH—Salt.

Bloaters.

Cod.

Yarmouth.............................
Georges cured..................   434
Georges genuine.............   g
Georges selected............. 6 A
Boneless,  bricks............!  6M
Boneless,  strips...............6&@9

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

Sonders*.

“ 
“ 

Jen n in g s.
Lemon. Vanilla
1 20 
2 os regular panel.  75 
4o* 
...1  50
2  00 
60* 
...8 00
3 00 
No. 3  taper...........1  35
2 00 
No. 4  taper...........1  50
2 50
N o rth ro p ’s
Lemon.  Vanilla.
1 10
2 oz  oval taper  75 
1 75
1  20 
“ 
3 oz 
2 oz regular  “
85 
1 20
1  60 
4 oz 
“ 
2 25

“ 
“ 
GUNPOW DER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.

Kegs.......................................... 25
Half  kegs................................. 1 go
Quarter  kegs.......................... 1 10
1  lb  c a n s...!.........................   30
M lb  cans.......... ...................  
i8

Choke Bore—Dupont’s

feg»  ...................................... .. 25
Half  kegs................................. g 40
Quarter kegs.............................1 35
1 lb c a n s................................34
Eagle Duck—Dupont’s.
.............   ...... 11 00
Half  k e g s ................................5 75
Quarter kegs.............................3 00
1  lb  cans......................... 
go

h e r b s .

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

IN D IG O .

55
Madras,  5 lb. b o x e s......... 
S. F., 2, 3 and 5 lb. boxes..
50
JELLY.
5  lb. palls...............
4>1 
43 
30  “  “ 
I " " " "
65
Calabria:.'.".".'.'.'".............   5
Pure.
Sicily......................................
Root........................ 
in
LYE.  ..............
Condensed, 2 dot............. 1 20
* do*...............  2  25

LICORICE.

‘ 

MINCE  MEAT.

Halibut.

U@12

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

Herring.
Holland, white hoops keg 
“ 
„   “ 
bbl
“ 
Norwegian 
..................
Round, A bbl 100 lbs...
„  “  M  “  40  “ 
.......
Scaled............................

2
1  4C 
16
No. 1,  100 lbs....................   10 50
450
No. 1,40 lb s..................... 
1  55
No. 1,  10 lbs................. 
2, 100  lbs...................  "   K 05
§’ « } b s .......................l.’ s io
2, 10 lbs..................

Mackerel

Family, 90 lbs............

10  lb « ...............;;

Sardines.
Trout.

Russian,  kegs......................   55
No. 1, M bbls., looibs............4 00
1.  1  M bbl, 40  lbs...............1  gn
55
11, kits, 10 lbs................ 
4?
No  1,81b  kits................... 

Whlteflsh.

M  bbls, 100 lb s...  .N0.'»7 00 "3  00
............ 3  10  1 50
.H,. 
101b.  kite............... . 
45
8,b- 
39

85 
71 

*  

.......  ........... 
MATCHES.

Mince meat, 3 doz. in case.  2 7 
Pie Prep. 3  doz.  in  case... .3 06 

MEASURES.
Tin, per dozen.

giallon . .............................  n   75
Half  gallon......................  7  40
70
.................................. 
45
i n t ......................... 
 
40
Half  p i n t .....   ................ 
Wooden, for vinegar, per doz.
gallon 
Half gallon 
Q u art........................
Pint 

............■
.................

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

00 
4  75 
3 75

MOLASSES. 
Blackstrap.
Cuba Baking.
...
Porto B it j .
 

Sugar house........
Ordinary..............  , 
Prime..................................  
Raney 
 
_   . 
P a ir........................ 
G o o d ......................";;; 
Extra good.......................... 
Choice 
...................  
. 
.... 
Raney 
Half -barrels 3c.extra

New Orleans.

 

14
16
20
x
40
o2
27
fa
®

PICKLES.
Medium.
Barrels, 1,200  count... 
Half bbls, 500  count..
Barrels, 2.400 count. 
Half bbls, 1,200 count
P IP E S .

Small.

@5  00 
@3 CO
6  00 
3  50

• Clay, No.  218......................... 1  70
“  T. D. full count............  TO
Cob, No. 3..............................1 20

POTASH.

48 cans in case.

Babbitt’s ............................   4  00
Penna Salt  Co.’s ............:.  8 00

“ 
“ 

R IC E .
Domestic.
Carolina bead........................6
No. 1.......................5K
No. 2.....................   5
Broken..................................   4
Imported.
Japan, No. 1............................ 5)4
No. 2.......................5
Java.............................. 
5
Patna........................... .........  4£

“ 

8PICES.

Whole Sifted.

“  w hite... 

“ 
Pure Ground In Bulk.

Allspice...................................  &H
Cassia, China In m ats.........  9ft
“  Batavia in b u n d .... 15
Saigon  In rolls.......32
“ 
Cloves,  Amboyna................ 22
“ 
Zanzibar..................!i)4
Mace  Batavia.......................80
Nutmegs, fancy....................75
“  No.  1........................ TO
“  No.  2........................ 60
Pepper, Singapore, black__ 10
.20
shot........... ............ 16
Allspice..................................15
Cassia,  Batavia.....................18
“ 
“ 
Saigon......................35
Cloves,  Amboyna..................22
“  Zanzibar...................18
Ginger, African.....................16
“  Cochin....................  20
" 
.22
Mace  Batavia........................ 65
Mustard,  Eng. and Trieste..22
Trieste......................25
Nutmegs, No. 2 .....................75
Pepper, Singapore, black___is
“  w hite.......24
Cayenne...................20
Sage........................................20

“ 
“ 
'‘Absolute’’ in Packages.

Jamaica  ...........  

“  and  Saigon.25

“ 

Ks
Allspice  ......................
84
1  56
Cinnamon............. ......
84 1  55
Cloves...........................
84 1  55
Ginger,  Jam aica........
84 1  55
“  A frican............
84 1  55
Mustard........................ 84 1  55
Pepper .........................
84 1  55
Sage...............................
84
SAL  8ODA. 
Granulated,  bbls........
751b  cases
Lump, bbls 
...............
1451b kegs........

1)4
1H
1  15
1)4

“ 

“ 

SEEDS.
A nise........................  
Canary, Smyrna.........
Caraway......................
Cardamon, Malabar...
Hemp,  Russian..........  
Mixed  Bird................. 
Mustard,  w hite.......... 
Poppy...........................  
R ape............................. 
Cuttle  bone.................  
STARCH.

Corn.

  @15

4M8

90
4
5®«
10
g
5
80

 

 

“ 

“ 
“ 

20-lb  boxes...........................   ss
51
40-lb 
Gloss.
1-lb packages  ........................  5
8-lb 
.........................   5
6-lb 
.........................   5)4
40 and 50 lb. boxes................  354
Barrels...................................   3*
Scotch, In  bladders..............37
Maccaboy, In Jars.................35
.french Rappee, In Jars.......43
Boxes...................................   aw
Kegs, English.........................4«

SNUFF.

SODA,

SALT.

Diamond Crystal.

Cases, 243  lb. boxes.........3  1  60
Barrels, 320  lbs.................  2 50
115 214 lb bags....  4 00
“ 
....  3 75 
to 5 
lb  “ 
....  3 50
3010  lb  “ 
.  t “ 
Butter, 56 lb  bags.............
20141b bags.............  350
“ 
“  280 lb  b b ls...........   2 50
2!»
“ 
2241b  “ 

 

 

Worcester.

1» b lb8^ k8....................
» » »  

:::::::::::::  I  So

-  

. 

Warsaw.

81b  sacks...  ........  

b b i .................... ::::
linen acks...! ’.!’.'.’.!! 
Common Grades.

3314
60
1003-lb. sacks......................62 10
60 5-lb.
1  90
28 10-lb. sacks................1  75
561b. dairy IndrUl  bags...  30 
281b.  “ 
16
56 lb. dairy In linen sacks..  75
58 lb. dairy In linen  sacks.  75 
58 It,,  sacks.......................... 
gg
Saginaw................  
an
Manistee............................ 90

Ashton.
Higgins.

Common Fine!  ”

Soiar Rock.

.. 

s 

“ 

8ALERATUS.

Packed 60 lbs. In box.

............................... 3 30
3  ir
DeLand’s ...............  
Dwight’s ................::::::::  330
Taylor’s  ................................3 oo

SEELY’S  EXTRACTS. 

610 20 gro 
12 60  « 
14  40  •*

Lemon.
1 oz. F. M. 8  90 doz.
2  “  N. 8.  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  “ 
Lemon.
Vanilla.

16 20 gro 
21  60  “ 
____
25 50  •■
Rococo—Second  Grade. 
2 oz............... 75 doz.......8.00  “

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

SOAP.
L aundry.

Allen b . Wrisley’s Brands.

Old Country,  80  1-lb............3 20
GoodCfoeer,6011b ................3 90
White Borax, 100  X-lb.........3 65

Proctor & Gamble.

3 45
Concord................. 
Ivory, 10  oz.................. !!"   6 75
6  oz...........................4 00
T 
Lenox.................................   3 65
3 15
Mottled  German...........  
Town Talk...........................3 25
Dingman Brands.

Single box...........................  3  95
5 box lots, delivered..........  3 35
10 box lots, delivered........ 3 75
Jas. S. Kirk & Co.’s  Brands. 

“ 

American  Family, w ip'd..$3 33 
plain...  3 27
N.  K.  Falrbank & Co.’s Brands.
3  93
Santa Clans.............  
Brjwn,60 bars............. 2  10
80  bars  .................... 3  10

“ 
Lautz Bros. <& Co.’s Brands.
3 75
A cm e............................. 
Cotton Oil..........  ................e 00
  4  00
Marseilles....................... 
Master  ................................... 4 oo
Thompson & Chute Co.’s Brands

Savon Improved  ... ! ' .......2 31
Sunflow er......................  ‘ '  9  Si
Golden  ~.!!!'.!!!'..'!!!.......1 as
Economical  ...!.!!!.’! " " ,'  225 
■> «
Single  box....... 
5 box  lots..............  ............ I  ¿X
10 box lo ts.... 
............,  S
25 box  lots del.......3 40

Passolt’s Atlas  Brand. 

Scouring.
Sapolio, kitchen, 3  doz...  2 40
hand, 3 doz.......... 2 40

 

SUGAR.
D  , 
Below  are  given  New  York 
augars. 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 io f  freight  buyer 
pays from the market  In which 
he  purchases  to  his  shipping 
point, including 20.,pounds  for 
the weight of the,barrel.
4
Cut  Loaf.................  
Cubes...............  
7 „
Powdered..............................4 S
XXXX  Pow dered....!.......4 82
Granulated 
Fine G ranulated....!!!!!.’!  394 
Extra Fine Granulated..! *  4(6
Mould A ...................  
4  07
Diamond Confec.  a !!!!!"'  4  no 
Confec. Standard  A  
3  94 
No'  1...........................  
" 3  81
No.
3 81 
No.
3 81 
No.
3  81 
No.
......................
.............
3 75 
No.
3 69 
No.
......................
.............
3 62 
No.
3 56
No.
No.  10............. 
§ Í«
no.  n ............;.....................
No.  13.............! ...................
a®-  w ............... :::!!!!:::*:  i l l

6 
8 

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

5 
7 
9.

Corn.

SYRUPS.
„ 
Barrels___ .•............. 
, q
Half bbls..................!!!!!!'!.20
_   . 
Pure Cane.
f a i r ..............................
Good....................   ...............
Choice............ ' . . ..................   55

TA B LE  SAUCES.
'!  . 

Lea & Perrin’s, la rg e .........4  75
small........   2 75
„   . .  
Halford, la rg e .................... 3 75
small........ !!!!!!!  2 25
Salad Dressing,  large.......4  55
sm all.......2  gg

TEAS.

. 

Japan—Regular.

palr 
@17 @20 
Good..!!!!!!!!!!"!;;;
Choice................!.".!."24
@26 
82
Choicest............... 
@34 
D ust........................ .'.'.'10
@12
_  
SUN CUBED.
F a ir..........................
@17 
Good....................!” *'
@20 
Choice.................’.'!!"  24
@2e
Choicest.
32  @34 
10  @12
Dust.......
_  
BASKET  FIR E D .
f a i r .............................is
@20 
Choice........................
@25 
Choicest.......................
@35 
Extra choice, wire leaf
@40
H U NFOW DER.
Common to  fa ll......... 25
@35 
Extra fine to finest__50
@65 
Choicest fancy............75
@85 
@28
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

00L0N8.
IM PE R IA L .

TOUNO  HYSON.

ENG LISH   B REA K FA ST.

f a i r ................................18  @22
Choice............................24  @28
Best................................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....................  
32
C uba............................  
Rocket.........................  
30
Spaulding & Merrick’s  Brands.
Sterling........................ 
30
Private Brands.
Bazoo..............................  @30
Can  Can...........................  @27
Nellie  Bly...................24  @25
Uncle Ben....................24  @25
McGinty...................... 
27
25
“  % bbls........... 
Columbia.......................  
Columbia,  drum s.......... 
Bang  Up......................... 
Bang up,  drums............ 

24
23
21
19

39

PI««*

Sorg’s Brands.
Spearhead........................ 
Jo k er........................... 
27
40
Nobby Twist..................  
Scotten’s Brands.
Kylo..............................  
25
38
Hiawatha.....................  
Valley C ity................. 
34
Finzer’8 Brands.
40
Old  Honesty................ 
Jolly Tar...................... 
32
Climax (8  oz., 41c)__  
39
Gr-en Turtle............... 
30
27
Three  Black Crows... 
Something Good......... 
38
Out of  Sight...............  
24
Wilson «s.MeCaulay’s.Brands.
Gold  Rope.................. ‘ 
43
Happy Thought.......... 
37
Messmate.........................  
N oTax..............................  
Let  Go..............................  

J. G. Butler’s Brands.

Lorillard’s Brands.

Sm oking.

Catlln’8  Brands.

Klin  dried..........................17@18
Golden  Shower.....................19
Huntress 
............................. 26
Meerschaum 
................29@30
American Eagle Co.’s Brands.
Myrtle  Navy..........................40
Stork.....................................30
German..................................15
F ro g ..................................... 32  •
Java, Ms foil....................... 32
Banner Tobacco Co.'s Brands.
Banner..................................16
Banner Cavendish..............36
Gold Cut 
............................ 30

32
31
27

Scotten’s Brands.

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

Brands.

Leidersdorf s Brands.

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

Spaulding & Merrick.

Tom and Jerry...................... 25
Traveler  Cavendish............38
Buck Horn.............................30
Plow  Boy........................30@32
Com  Cake.................
VINEGAR.

16@8

@9

40 gr.. 
50 gr.

61 for barrel.

W ET  MUSTARD,
Balk, p e rg a l....................
Beer mug, 2 doz In case...

30 
1  75

YEAST.
Magic.....................................1  00
............................ 1  00
Warner’s 
Yeast Foam  .........................l  OO
Diamond................................  75
Royal.....  
........   go

WOODEN WAKE.

‘I 
„ 
„ 

splint 

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

Tubs, No. 1...........................  6 00
“  No. 2...........................5 50
1  No. 3...........................4 50
130 
No. 1,  three-hoop  ...  1  50
...................... 
13  “ 
go
1$  “ 
......................  1  26
......................  1  80
JI 
2 1 « 
: ; ! ! : : : : : : : : ! 840
Baskets, market..............!!!  35
shipping  bushel..  1  15 
full
I  hoop
op 
_____
1  25
willow cl’ths, No.l  5 25
“ 
“ 

“  No.2 
6 25
7 25
“  No.3 
“  No.l 3 TO
H ID E S  PELTS  and  FURS 
Perkins  &  Hess  pay  as  fol­
lows:
FURS.
Mink................... 
30  @  1  00
Coon  ................. 
80
30  @ 
Skunk.................  1  00  @  1  35
Rat,  w inter....... 
08  @ 
13
Rat, fall.............  
03  @  C8
Red  F o x ...___   1  C0  @  1  40
Gray Fox.,........   40  @  6)
Cross Fox..........  a on
1 00 @ 5 00
Badger.......
50 @ 1 00
Cat, w ild...
50 @ 75
Cat,  house____
10 @ 25
f is h e r ....................   5 00
Í 00 @ 6 00
Lynx............
0« @ 2 50
Martin, dark 
! 00 @ 3 00
Martin, pale,
00 @ 1 50
Otter.............."...  5  66
00 @ 8 01
Wolf
00 @ 2 00
Beaver....................  3 66
00 & 7 00
Bear.....................15
00 @25 00
Opossum............
10 @ 2i
Deer Skin, dry..
10 @ 25
Deer Skin, green
05 @ 12)4
2@3
G reen........................... 
Part Cored.................  @4
fu ll 
..................   @  5U
Kips, green  .................3  @4
11  cured..................   @  e
Calfskins,  green..........  5 @  6
cured............6 @  8
Deacon skins................. 10 @25

HIDES.

“ 

“ 

No. 2 hides a  off.
PELTS.

WOOL.

WHEAT.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Shearlings........................5 @  20
Lambs 
........................25  @  50
W ashed..........................12 @15
Unwashed.....................  g @ia
Tallow . . ......................  3*@  4*
Grease  bntter  .............  1  @2
Switches......................  i*@  2
Ginseng....................... 3 00@3 25
GRAINS and FEEDSTUFF8
No. 1 White (58 lb. test) 
No. 2 Red  (60 lb. 
test) 
MEAL.
Bolted..................................  1  40
Granulated.........................  1  55
♦Patents...................................   1 95
♦Standards...............................  1 45
Bakers’.....................................   1 15
♦Graham..................................  1 20
Rye............................................  1 40
count
ditional.

♦Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
Flour in bbls., 25c per bbl. ad­

FLOUR  IN  BACKS.

52
52

MILLSTUFFS.

Less

Car lots  quantity
B ran............... 114 50 
615 00
Screenings ....  12 00 
13  00
Middlings.......16 OO 
17  00
Mixed F eed...  23 00 
24 00
Coarse meal  . .  22 00 
23 00
Car  lots..................................45
Less than  car  lots................48
Car  lots  ................................ 33
Less than car lots................. 35
HAY.
No. 1 Timothy, car lots__ 10 no
N o.l 
ton lots..........1100

CORN.

OATS.

“ 

ig%

FISH   AND  OYSTERS, 
f .   J.  Detienthaler  quotes as 

@ 8 

follows:
FRESH  FISH.
......................  @10
Whlteflsh 
T ro u t..............................   @9
Black Bass........................ 
Halibut............................   @ r
Ciscoes or Herring
@  5
Blnefish........................  @10
Fresh lobster, per lb.
20 
Cod................................
10 
No. 1 Pickerel..............
@10 
Pike..............................
@9 
Smoked  W hite............
Red  Snappers..............
15
Columbia  River  Sal­
mon ...........................
12)4
Mackerel......................
1S@25
oysters—Cans.
Falrhaven  Counts__
@32
F. J. D.  Selects.
28
Selects.........................   @25
23
F. J. D........................... 
Anchors....................... 
20
Standards....................  
is
15
Favorite...................... 
o y s t e r s — Bulk.
Counts......................... 
2 20
165
Extra Selects..per gal. 
1  40
Selects.........................  
110
Anchor Standards__  
1  00
Standards....................  
1  50
Scallops............. .......... 
1  25
Shrimps  ...................... 
1  23
Clams........................... 
SHELL  HOODS.
Oysters, per  luu.......... 1  2S@l  73
Oys
Clai
.  75@1  00

** 

TEK  MIOHIGAN  TKAXOESMA2 T.

17

CROCKERY  AND  GLASSW ARE 

l a m p   b u r n e r s .

No.OSnn 
No. 1  “ 
No.2
T ubular.......................  
.........................   —   «5
Security.  No. 1...............   . ' ..............................   2JJ
Security,  No. 2................. 
.............................
86 
..............................   30
Nutmeg.......................... 
50 
Arctic.....................  
1  15

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

l a m p   c h im n e y s .— 6 doz. In box.

“ 

“ 

» 

u 

■“ 

XXX Flint.

First quality,

No. 0 Sun................. 
No. 1 
No. 2

Per box
.  1  75 
.1  88 
-.2 TO
No. 0 Sun, crimp top, wrapped and labeled..  2 10
..................................  
: : : ! *
__ 
NO. 0 Sun, crimp  top, wrapped and labeled.  2 60
No! 2  “ 
•••*80
...3 80
—  „  _ 
No  2 S“ n ’ wr®pped a“ d  labeled........................ 70
No!2Hinge,  “ 
.'!!!!:.'.'.';::::2 »
fire  Proof—Plain Top.
„  
No. 1, Sun,  plain  bulb.............  
v 
,   in
No. 2,  “ 
“ 
— 
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb,  perdoz......................... x  25
No. 1 crimp, per doz...........  
......................... i  ~
No.3 
...............................J  ®
— 
No.  1, ime (65c doz)....... 
No. 2, Ume:(70c doz).........!!............................. |  S

•< 
LaBastie.

•» 
Pearl top.

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

. Rochester.

,  _ 

,  . 

,  „ 

“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

, 

„

N o o n  
*
No.2, lime (70c d o z )............... 
No.  2 flint (80cdoz)..................   .V.!!‘.!!!!"'4 40

,  Electric..................  

,

Miscellaneous.

Junior, R ochester............
...................................   «0
N utm eg........................ 
Illuminator Bases.!".!!!!..!..............................,  J®
Barrel lots, 5 doz  ... 
7 in. Porcelain Shades.!.!!!'!!.........................1  m
Case lots, 12 doz..........................!!!!.'!.............1  go

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

Mammoth Chimneys for Store  Lamps.

No.  3 Rochester,  lim e ___   ^ f j
1 75 
|  Rochester, flint. 
No.  3  Pearl top or Jewel gl’s.l  85 
llme.,.1 75 
* gi°beIncandes. 
flint...2 00 
2 ° '  % gicbe Incandes. 
No.  2  Pearl glass.........................2 10 

 

4
2  Si
5
5  05
«00

OIL CANS.
1  gal  tin cans with spout........
1  gal  galv iron, with spout.......... ! ‘  ...........  a m
2 gal  galv iron with spout  .... 
..............
f  eal  galv iron with spout............. .................4  S
5 gal  McNutt, with spoilt.  .. 
. 
...............   b
5 gal  Eureka, with spout..........   ...................«
5 gal  Eureka with faucet....... 
................? m
5  gal  galv iron  A  & W  ........ !.......................  i  ^
5 gal  Tilting  Cans,  Monarch..!!.................. in  m
5 gal  galv Iron Nacefas.... 
...................  9 »0
„ 
„ 
3 gal  Home Rule.................
........................75 55
5  gal  Home Rnle................. 
.................... 7.? XX
3  gal  Goodenough............ 
5  gal  Goodenough  .............. 
....................
5 gai  pirate  K in g _____!!.!!!!!!!!!;;'.:;:;;lo  50
«■  n  m  v  1  LASTEBN  OLOBE8.
No. 0, Tubular, cases 1 doz.  each.........  
45
“  2  “ 
No. 0, 
“ 
..............   12
bbis 5  “ 
No. 0, 
“
bull’s eye, cases i doz each! 1  00
No. 0, 
„   „ 
No. 0,  per  gross............ 
„„

„   ,  Pump Cans.

LAMP WICKS.

............... „

“ 
“ 
“ 

,  „  

_ 

bbl, 
bbl, 

JELLY TUMBLERS—Tin Top.
2|   „ 
ia 
18 

Mammoth, per doz.................. ...! ! ! ................   75
(box O0) ...  64
% Pints,  6 doz in box, per box 
(bbl 35) ......  23
•  doz 
^   „ 
,  box  (box 00) ....  1  so
U 
•< 
>4 
doz 
(bbl 35)......  26
„  
Butter Crocks,  1 to 6 gal...........................  
Qg
60
)4 gal. perd o z__ ..!...! 
XX
Jugs, % gal., per doz..................  
« ‘.‘•w i104841’ 1*61841.................... ..!!!’  !'  07
Mlik Pans, >4 gal., per dos.............................  go
..................1.1.  72

..  „ 
.  STONEWARE—AKRON.

1  " 

“ 

„  ^   ^  STONEWARE—BLACK BLAZED.
Butter Crocks, 1  and 2 gal..................
Milk Pans, % gal. per  doz.......!!!!!."!!

6)4
65
78

OILS.
BARRELS.

The Standard Oil Co  quotes as follows:

Eocene............................................ 
XXX W.W.  Mich.  Headlight.....'.'.'.'.'.'. 
Stove Gasoline............................. 
B“*1“6...................................................... 13  @21
Black, zero  test..............................  
Black,  15 cold test......................! ...".. "! 
Eocene........................................................ 
XXX W. W. Mich. Headlight....... !!.'! 

FROM TANK WAOON.

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7

at 7*7

10
10
7
5
If you want to buy or 
sell  a  stock  of  mer­
chandise,  invite  cor­
respondence  through 
our  Wants  Column.

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48

THE^ MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.'

The
Poor Merchant

_ 

I  TIP TO 

• 

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___________ 

« 

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P l i c t n m o r  

"  ■ M  

H i «   —  .AA _ 

—   —*’* *- -  • 

---  ---- I W U  U A J S,

TH A N K SG IV IN G   DAY.
A s  S e e n   in   a   T rip   A c ro ss   th e  
W ritte n   fo r  Tu b  Tradesman.

and  slow  collections,  and  smiled  just 
from  force of habit. 
I  did  not  censure 
him 
for  smiling  mechanically,  for 
would  have  done  the  same  thing  if 
could. 

State.
Thanksgiving Day, 1894, with  its hand 
shakings, its friendly greetings, its wish-
I deem it a  duty  on  the part  of
bones and its drumsticks, has  come  and  every m*n to  smile—occasionally—if  he 
gone.  Like  unto  its  predecessors,  and I ®an*  and,  if he cannot do  so naturally or 
like unto all other days, it was subject to  K°od-naturedly,  then,  by  all  means,  let 
the perils which beset our  pathway from I 
smile mechanically,  or  even  under 
the cradle  to  the  grave.  The  whirl  of  Pr°t®8t.  The demand for smiles  in  this 
human events respects not one day above  world is greatly in excess of  the  supply, 
another;  and,  though we  may  set  apart  and  even  a  bogus  smile  may  deceive 
one day only out of all the  365  in which  some P°°r simple soul and  make  it  hap 
to eat  turkey  and  give  thanks  for  the  pier*
good things of life which  have  been  al- 
J es’ a11 kinds of People  are found in a 
lotted to us,  yet,  commingled  with  our  raiIwaytraiB on  Thanksgiving Day, and 
’a description of each would fill a volume
rejoicings,  will be heard the  cry  of pain 
The  drummer  was  there  in  profusion 
and the mourner’s wail  of  despair.  Not 
He was careless,  indifferent  and passive 
even for one short day  in  the  year  will 
His traveling was like the  smile  on  the 
the specter of  misfortune  and  the  grim 
face  of  the  man  of  business—merely
messenger of death halt  in their sorrow­
force of habit.  He  knew  that  busines. 
dispensing work among  the  children  of 
was suspended and would remain  so  un 
man. 
It is only on days  like  this  when 
til bis customers had  gorged  themselves 
pleasure seems to predominate  that  one 
with turkey and  had had time  in  which 
is especially impressed with  this strange 
I 
«1 J V J  €»U U S U U U W . 
to digest It.  This would  take two days,
blending of joy and sorrow.
The day was damp,  cold  and  uninvit-  leavinR Saturday,  always a poor  day,  to 
ing.  As the  people  wended  their  way I c*ose out 
week.  And so  he  yawned 
toward their various  depots,  they  drew  *u a  ^ tle ss  sort  of  way,  smoked,  and 
their wraps closer about them  in  a  vain  played pedro-  What  a  happy-go-lucky 
attempt  to  shield  themselves  from  the I sor* 
^®^ow ®h® drummer is,  to be sure. 
1 H« is never in a hurry, yet he  never gets
------ .------ r 
raw atmosphere that hung over  the  city.
left.  He  is  never  discouraged  or  dis-
It  was  that  kind  of  atmosphere  that i 
—  — —  -.«.»«.»gDu  w  ui»-
skips over the water in the ditch  to  con-  heartened because  he  fails  to  secure  a
geal the  marrow  in  human  joints.  No Inew  customer.  His  motto  is,  “Never 
m /v al  Al 
wonder the thanksgivers looked  blue  as I g*ve  up’  **  you  don’t  catch  him  this 
whetstones when they arrived at  the  de- I ^ me* change your  bait  and  try  again.’" 
eni°ys implicit  faith  in  himself. 
pot,  and no wonder they  looked  ghastly I 
If 
in their efforts to smile  and  pass  pleas-1 
rece*ves  a  letter  from  Importer  & 
antries  while  waiting  for  trains.  The I ®0D’  informing him  that their orders are 
bluish tint of their faces may  have  been  aI1 placed for this  season,  but that a call 
caused by  hunger,  as they had, no doubt,  from him Dext season will receive proper 
been  fasting  for  some  hours  previous!  COD9ideration» be straightway takes it for 
but I attributed it to  the  graveyard  pe-  granted that a mysterious  something be- 
culiarities of Western Michigan air.  Come  tween the Iines indicates  the  possibility 
to think about it,  though,  the  whole  dif-  of securin*< a present order;  and so  away
ficulty may be traced to the glasses I wore  h®  flies  500  miles  0Qt  of  his  regular
that day, for I was destined to  spend the  conrse *° see  Importer  &  Son.  Travel- 
eve.n  on  Thanksgiving  D ay,  would
day in a railway coach, homeless, friend-1 
be less  interesting  were  it  not  for  the 
less,  and turkeyless.
drummer.  May he  never  lose  his  grip! 
Oh, how bleak,  bare  and cheerless the 
And let us  hope  and  pray  that  a  plan 
outside  world  looked  as  we  rolled  out 
may yet be devised whereby the  services 
into  the  country.  Nature  was  clothed 
of the drummer—yea,  even the drummer 
in her meanest  wardrobe.  She  had  put 
may be made available in  the  Beyond. 
off her autumn gown of  lovely tints,  but 
As the train pulled into an old interior 
she had not yet donned her robe of rest— 
town,  the writer had a glimpse  of pover 
the pure white robe  of winter.  Thanks 
ty that eclipsed anything he had ever be­
giving Day  had  caught  her  “in  disha 
held. 
It  was  a  dilapidated  old  stable 
bille”—only  a  mass  of  flying  withered 
converted into a human habitation!  Two 
dead  leaves  to  cover  her  cold  lifeless 
or  three holes that  had  once  served  as 
form.  One  might  as  well  go  to  a  de­
windows  were  stuffed  with  cornstalks. 
serted  brickyard  for  inspiration  as  to 
An old stovepipe protruded  through  the 
look for it among the oak crowned knolls 
roof. In the open doorway stood three ema­
and hills.  A hue of  dirty  brick  is  not 
ciated, half-clad children Exclamations
the particular  kind  of  hue  with  which
nrst  from  every passenger,
lovers  of  the  beautiful  become  enrai-1 
Sf0Bthern Michigan, and was
tured,  and,  when this hue  is set to music  fh, 
by the bleak November winds,  it  is  cal- 
*  Than*sglVing  DayI  What  an  en- 
culated to freeze the milk of human kind-  ™ronment f°r innocent  childhood!  And 
ness In  a  sensitive  soul.  Those  knolls  ****  * C°“ e t0  pass  that  sq“alid  scenes 
to  the  reek- 
and  hills  reminded  me  of  a  dirty  red- 
di8trict8  of  onr  great
headed pockmarked freckle-faced  gypsy 
and  if  such  a  fellow  is  an  object  rf 
Wh°  witnessed
beauty,  then I beg  Nature’s  pardon  for  ^  exhibitl0n  of  abject  Poverty  could 
eat  bis  Thanksgiveng  dinner  without 
my unkind remarks.
thinking  of  this  wretched  picture  and 
wondering what those  little  unfortunate 
victims of cruel fate had  to  make  them 
thankful?  There are certain things that 
serve as appetizers,  but this  is  certainly 
not one of them.

?°  longer  con fined 

¡JJL 

Aboard the train  this  dingy  forenoon 
were all kinds of people.  The  city  man 
of business  was  there  with  his  family.
They were going  out  to  Podunk’s  Cor­
ners to eat turkey.  The man of business 
smiled—while his wife did  all  the  talk­
ing,  as usual. 
I  don’t  think  he  smiled 
in  anticipation of eating  turkey,  or  es­
pecially at the remarks of his wife.  No, 
he  was  thinking  of  accumulating  bills

At every  stop  of  the  train  the  same 
variety of people get off and on.  Friends 
are waiting  at  every  station  to  receive 
friends and escort them to  happy  homes 
where the turkey is being basted and the

Because he is haunted with visions of cash accounts which  do not balance 
and cash drawers which are the prey of careless clerks.  He  could  easily 
and quickly remedy this difficulty and secure the peaceful  slumber  which 
nature brings to those whose business is conducted accurately and method­
ically by the purchase of a 

y

M l   U   B I ,

and the adoption of our triplicating check  charge  system,  which  can  be 
conducted without additional effort. 
De
By the Use of Our Register

1

’ 

the Following  Advantages Are Obtained:

Boot and Shoe Dealers can  keep track of the  profits  of  each  day’s  busi­

ness  by noting the margin on each sale.

Grocers can keep track of produce purchased and  the amount of  merchan. 

dise exchanged for produce.

Clothing: and  Furnishing: Goods  Dealers are enabled to note at a glance 
to M p m ltfo i £ o  day  ’ tbe PTOlit °n ea°h transaction and the

Commission  Merchants and Produce  Dealers  can  keep  track  of  each 
department of their business,  keeping  purchases of game  pro- 
duce and fruit separately, if desired 

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Hardware Dealers  can  keep  separate  accounts  with  their  stove  depart- 
E e s ^   hCir  tm   ah° P  ° r  aDy  ° ther  dePartm ent  of  Jheir

Druggists are enabled to keep separate accounts of the transactions of their 
prescription department or their cigar sales, or their stationery 
department, or any other special feature of their business. 

^

6 u ^ 0,8*!  °f  a 

nv»rBt i l WhaV 8nhe  v8e enum eratin g   the  advantages  of  our  Register 
,?ther  reS18tere  heretofore invented ?  They are to our 
machine like moonlight unto sunlight; like water unto wine.  Suffice to say
ly8tr y 8  the  °“ly  0ne  which  cables  the  merchant to have I  
triplicate check of every charge transaction with but one entry.

W  

spect^the°meriuf oi^tbe 
i ekier 

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V ° U ^  1<>Caied at a distance^om

[me“ V o r ^ u r m e an i TOlUntary  te8timoniaI» 

the Register that will

CHWPIOR  GUSH  REGISTER  GO.,

Main Office,  73 and 75  Canal St.,
Factory, 6, 8 and 10 Erie St.,
Grand  Rapids,  Mich,

O R A N G E S  :

STETSO/V§

Hat Bran d  Or a n g e s

REGISTERED

FROM

JOHN B,  STETSON’S
GROVES

DE LAND.

FLORIDA.

Every box guaranteed full count and perfectly sound, 

finest fruit,  and heaviest package in the market.

ALFRED  J.  BROWN  00.,  JWidiigan  Agents.

The handsomest pack,

SOCIETIES,
CLUBS,
CONVENTIONS,
DELEGATES,
COMMITTEES.

The Largest Assortment of  Ribbons 

and T rim m ings in the State.

T R A D E SM A N   c o m p a n y .

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ABSOLUTE  TEA.

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SOLD ONLY  BY

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH

cranberry sauce Is being  cooled.  At one 
station  my  Lord  Loftus  steps  off  the 
train with his immaculate  3ide whiskers. 
With  a  holier-than-thou  expression  he 
looks about the station grounds  and then 
a sullen frown settles  down  and  claims 
him for  Its  own.  He  is  evidently  dis­
gruntled at not  finding  a  brass  band  to 
escort him;  and so he stalks off haughtily 
down the street with my  Lady Loftus on 
his arm,  perfectly oblivious  to  the  con­
cealed smiles of those  about  him.  Self- 
important  old  prig!  Pity  the  cartload 
of good things that  await  to  be  stowed 
away in  that capacious  John  Bull  grub 
depository of his could not be  made  bet­
ter use of!  Pity it  could  not  be  boxed 
up and sent to the  children  in  the  win­
dowless stable.

And now it is high noon,  and  in  thou­
sands  of  happy  homes  comes  a  savory 
odor from  as  many  kitchens—apetizing 
in the extreme.

The scene in the car suddenly changes. 
A bridal party boards  the  train.  Merry 
voices,  happy  laughter,  bright  colors, 
floral fragrance—it is a sudden  burst  of 
sunshine illuminating the  face  of  every 
one in the car!  All realize the  fact  that 
there are  two  souls,  at  least,  who  are 
sincerely thankful  for  the  good  things 
vouchsafed them.

Common  Occurrence.

“Did you get butter at Steinburg’s,

1 suggested?”  I  enquired  of  a  friend 
few days ago.

“No, I did not  The fact is,  Will, 

. 
continued,  ‘‘the butter itself looked pas* 
ably good,  but  I took the liberty  of  fol 
lowing the clerk into  the  back  room 
examine it,  and found  the  surroundings 
decidedly unfavorable.  His  butter  was 
broken  into  the  geometrical  shapes 
triangles,  hexagons,  rhomboids, 
trape 
ziums,  etc.,  and  thrown  promiscuously 
into  a—probably  new—washtub,  which 
food on the floor.  Near by, on top  of  „ 
barrel of oil,  was an open  box  of  codfish 
and half a bushel of  onions.  As  butter 
always  absorbs surrounding odors,  I de 
clined taking  my  chances  and  dropped 
into Smith’s  where  I  found  some  rolls 
just from the country.  No, I  didn’t  of 
fend Steinburg, as I took in the situation 
at a glance. 
I merely  said,  ‘Oh,  I  was 
looking for butter  in  rolls,’  and,  fortu 
nately,  he had none.  As I walked home 
mused upon the  mutability  of  trade  in 
general,  and wondered whether  thought 
less and careless grocers ever  found  out 
why a desirable  customer  failed  to  call 
as often as  usual,  or  why  it  seemed  so 
hard to sell goods  from  the  back  room 

A Customer.

But this  revival  proves  of  but  short 
duration.  A  young  mother  is  taken 
aboard at a station  further  on,  but  she 
is cold in death and  sleeps  the  everlast­
ing sleep in her flower-covered casket  of 
white.  An  aged  and  grief-stricken 
mother, a heartbroken husband,  weeping 
brothers 
and  sisters  and  sorrowing 
friends  fill  the  coaches,  while  men 
white gloves,  with  bits  of  white  crape 
attached to their coat  lapels,  completely 
It was  a  Maccabee 
fill the smoking car. 
funeral.  When 
the  destination  was 
reached,  a large  assembly  of  sorrowing 
friends were in waiting and the body was 
borne to its last resting place.

It was a swiftly passing  scene,  but  it 
left a sad impression on  all,  not  except­
ing the bridal party.  The bright laughter 
ceased, the merry voices became hushed, 
the drummer forgot what was trumps and 
put  away  his  cards,  and  the  Day  of 
Thanksgiving seemed gloomier at its close 
than at  its  beginning, .and—we were  at 
Detroit. 

E.  A.  Ow e s .

Seven  iron 

trusses,  weighing  9,000 
pounds  each,  were  raised  twenty-four 
feet above the  roof of  the  Fox  building 
and lowered to their permanent positions 
by the Grand Rapids Heavy Moving Com­
pany.

The  Clerk  and the  Cartridge.

Levi Noland, a clerk  in  Mellor  Bros 
Hardware  store,  Boone, Iowa,  wanted 
small ferrule to place on some  tool  with 
which he was working.  Looking through 
the  show  cases,  he  discovered  a  small 
shell about an  inch long and in diameter 
about equal  to  a  .22  caliber  cartridge. 
There was no  bail  in  the  thing  and  he 
didn’t know  just  what  it  had  been  de­
signed for.  He knew, however,  that,  by 
sawing off the bead of the closed  end,  it 
would  suit  his  purpose  exactly.  He 
therefore placed the little shell  firmly in 
a vice and commenced operations  with  a 
small  hack  saw.  He  was  progressing 
nicely when suddenly  there was  a  flash 
and  a report.  Noland’s  hat  was  blown 
into smithereens.  Blood  began  to  ooze 
from several places in  his  face,  and  he 
felt positive that  something  had  struck 
him. 
It  was  then  discovered  that  the 
harmless looking little  shell was a dyna­
mite  cartridge  and  was  prepared  for 
business.  A  doctor  picked  pieces  of 
cartridge  and 
saw  out  of  various 
places in the  young  man’s  face.  Luck­
ily,  none  of  the  flying  particles  struck 
the eyes and  the injuries  received  were 
only slight.  The cartridge was  such  as 
are used  for  various  blasting  purposes 
and was very powerful.  There  are  sev­
eral of the cartridges  left,  but the box is 
now labeled  “Dynamite.”

All the expert heavy  moving  now  be­
ing  done  in  the  city  seems  to be man­
aged by the Grand Rapids Heavy Moving 
Company.

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now exists which, recognizing the importance  of  having plenty of  pure 
milk  on  hand  for  cooking  purposes,  has  found  its requirements fully 
met by

Borden’s  Peerless  Brand 

Evaporated  Cream,

and it highly indorses same.  Merchants  interested  in  supplying their 
customers with satisfactory goods,  at a reasonable  profit to themselves, 
will find that the  Peerless  Brand  is a good article to purchase and a 
reliable one to sell.

Prepared and guaranteed by the New  York Condensed Milk Co.

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Bank Notes.

At the annual election  of  directors  of 
the Peninsnlar Trust  Go., held Tuesday, 
Geo. H.  Davidson  and  John  B.  Martin 
succeeded  to  the  places  on  the  board 
formerly filled by E. H.  Foote and Cbas.
B.  Judd.

A.  G.  Hodenpyl,  Secretary  of  the 
Michigan  Trnst  Go.,  succeeds  Jas.  A. 
McKee as a director of the  Kent  Gounty 
Savings  Bank.  Mr.  Hodenpyl 
is  a 
financier of conceded ability and  his  ad­
vice will be of  great  value  to  his  asso­
ciates in his new connection.

B. E. Quick,  of the  banking  firm of B. 
E. Quick  &  Co.,  at  Freeport,  has  been 
bound over for trial  in the  Barry Circuit 
Court  on  a  charge  of  compounding  a 
felony.  Mr. Quick protests his innocence 
of the charge and  asserts that he will  be 
able to disprove the allegations of his ac­
cusers before the legal tribunal.

Some time ago  a bank  was  started  at 
Peck with Frank  Battersbee  in  charge. 
B. R.  Noble,  the Yale banker, thought  it 
an  infringement  on  his 
territory  and 
started a second bank at Peck.  Now the 
Battersbee bank is  putting  in  a  second 
bank  at  Yale,  with  C.  J.  Reynolds  in 
charge, and a war  of  extermination  has 
been inaugurated.

Nehemiah Chase has resigned from the 
board  of  directors  of  the  Kalamazoo 
National Bank,  and  the  resignation  has 
been accepted.  Mr. Chase says  the  rea­
son of his action was because he was also 
a director in the Home Savings Bank and 
he  did  not  consider  it  quite proper to 
hold  such  an  office  in two banks.  The 
vacancy will be filled at the annual meet­
ing.

Twenty-one years ago B.  C.  Hoyt was 
a prosperous banker at St. Joseph, being 
rated  at  $200,000  above  all  liabilities, 
most of which was  invested  in  real  es­
tate.  He was owing  $61,000,  and  when 
the panic of 1873  came  on  his  creditors 
put him into bankruptcy before he  could 
realize on his  real  estate.  An  assignee 
was appointed,  and eight  years after the 
creditors were paid 11 per cent, on giving 
receipts  in  full.  Five  years  ago  Mr. 
Hoyt began suit to  recover his property, 
which is now valued at $600,000,  on  the 
ground that the legal period  of time had 
not  elapsed  before  his  creditors  threw 
him  into  bankruptcy.  The  case  has 
reached  the  United  States  Appellate 
Court and a  decision  is  expected  soon. 
The property involved includes 249 acres 
within  the city limits,  a hundred platted 
lots, a number  of  houses  and  business 
blocks,  the Masonic Hall and the  ground 
upon which the Chicago  &  West  Michi­
gan and Big Four have  their tracks, ele­
vators,  depots, etc.  Mr.  Hoyt is 88 years 
old,  and  feels  confident  that  he  will 
again live in luxury. 
If  he  succeeds  it 
will  throw  200  families  out  of  their 
homes.

Purely Personal.

C. E.  Blakeley,  the  Mancelona  drug­
gist, was in town  Monday  to  select  his 
holiday line of fancy goods.

Qnincy A. Hynes,  the Delton  druggist 
and grocer, died a few days as ago  the re­
sult of a sudden attack of  heart  disease.
H.  W.  Rodenbaugh,  the  Breedsville 
druggist, mourns the  death  of  his  wife, 
whose  demise  was  due  to  quick  con­
sumption.

Jerome  Bush, 

the  Ashley  hardware 
dealer, was  in  town  last  week  for  the 
purpose of purchasing a  fire  engine  for 
the village.

Thos.  H.  Atkins,  general  dealer  at 
West  Carlisle,  was  married  Dec.  6  to 
Miss Daisy E. Crocker, of the same place. 
The ceremony occurred  at  the  residence 
of W. E. Ames, of this city.  The  happy 
pair spent a conple of days at Allegan on 
their way home.

ciation.

The Majestic Manufacturing  Co.  is  to 
be  congratulated  on  securing  the  ser­
vices  of B. D.  Butler,  for  several  years 
on the editorial staff of the Grand Rapids 
Democrat, as manager of  its  advertising 
department.  Mr.  Butler  is a gentleman 
of unbounded  energy  and  unusual  dis­
cernment and is admirably adapted,  both 
by experience and  temperament,  to  dis­
charge the difficult duties devolving upon 
him in his new connection.
Grand  Rapids  Retail  Grocers'  Asso­
The regular meeting of the Grand Rap­
ids Retail  Grocers’  Association  was held 
at  Elk’s  Hall,  Monday  evening,  Dec. 3, 
President White  presiding.
Mr. White renewed his suggestion of  a 
few weeks before  that cash  prices be of­
fered for the best  series of contributions 
on the evils of the credit  business.
On motion of J.  H.  Goss,  the  sugges­
tion  was  adopted  and  Messrs.  Wagner, 
Schuit and Vinkemulder  were appointed 
a  committee  to decide on the amount  of 
the premiums and pass  upon  the  merits 
of  the  various  contributions  entered in 
competition therefor.
Considerable discussion  followed  over 
the silverware scheme introduced by sev­
eral local grocers, but no conclusion as to 
the merits or demerits of  the system was 
reached.
J. J.  Wagner stated that at one time he 
offered a  cook  book  with  $10  worth  of 
cash trade,  and that, as a  result  of  such 
offer, some of his customers have enough 
cook books on band  to  supply  the  chil­
dren and grandchildren of the family for 
a century to come.
J.  H.  Goss  moved  that  the  grocery 
stores close  all  day  Christmas  and  that 
no Christmas presents be given customers, 
both of which resolutions  were  adopted.
There  being  no  further  businss  the 
meeting adjourned.

From  Out of Town.

Calls  have  been  received  at  T h e 
T r a d esm a n office dnring  the  past week 
from the following gentlemen in trade: 

L. M. Wolff, Hudsonville.
Phin Smith,  Hastings.
David Cornwell, Monterey.
W. H.  Harrison,  Harrisburg.
Grattan Merc. Co., Grattan.
L. A. Knowles, Stetson.
C.  H. Osborne,  Hastings.
E.  L.  Brooks, Grattan.
N. B.  Blain,  Lowell.
T.  H. Atkins, West Carlisle.
W.  N. Hutchinson, Grant.
Sullivan Lumber Co., Sullivan.
Wm. Fowler & Co.,  Kalamo.
W. C. Loomis, Henrietta.
Atkins & Hall, Ross.

The  Drug  M arket.
There are no changes to note.
Gnm opium is steady.
Morphia is unchanged.
Quinine  is  in  good  demand  at  un­

changed prices.

The Porous Plaster  Co. has  placed  its 
goods  on  the rebate  plan at a slight  ad­
vance over jobbers’ prices.

By a typographical error in last week’s 
issue, Miles’ Remedies  were  reported  as 
having been advanced to$7 per dozen.  It 
should have been $8.

Foreign  potatoes  are  coming  to  this 
country  in  moderate  quantities.  They 
consist  chiefly  of  Scotch  and  German 
Magnums.  The amount received  so  far 
is not targe, yet sufficient to unfavorably 
affect  the  market  for  home  grown. 
German potatoes sell at about 70@72 cents 
per bushel and Scotch at a price  a  little 
below that.  Under the new  taw  foreign 
potatoes are admitted at an  import  duty 
of only 15 cents per bushel of 60  pounds 
compared with old of 25 cents.

A   SPLEN D ID   EN G IN E .

New  Steam   Plant  of the  Grand  Rapids 

School  Furniture  Co.

for 

The  Grand  Rapids  School  Furniture 
Company  recently  purchased 
its 
plant one of  the  Nordberg  Manufactur­
ing  Company’s  latest  improved  Corliss 
engines and a complete line  of  shafting, 
with the Nordberg friction  clutches  and 
pulleys.  Mr.  Bruno Nordberg was  born 
in Finland  and  for  fourteen  years  was 
the chief designing  engineer  for  the  E. 
P.  Allis  Company  of  Milwaukee.  Six 
years ago he started  the Nordberg  Man­
ufacturing Company and now holds more 
patents than any man  in this country ex­
cept  Thomas  A.  Edison.  Mr.  Nordberg 
made the  principal  designs  for  all  the 
heavy machinery that is now being sold by 
the  E.  P.  Allis Company.

The  Nordberg  Manufacturing  Com­
pany has built up a business  that  stands 
high in  the  engineering  profession,  all 
due to the skill  of  Mr. Bruno  Nordberg. 
They are the only  builders  of the  Nord­
berg  patent  high  grade,  automatic cut­
off  poppet  valve  engine.  The  poppet 
valve type of  engine  is  very  favorably 
known in Europe but has  not  been  used 
as extensively in this  country until now.
The  Nordberg  Manufacturing  Com­
pany is turning  out  a  great  number  of 
them,  for  they  have  given  the  best  of 
satisfaction and are  of  higher  efficiency 
than  any  known  in  this  country.  Be­
sides the poppet valve  engine they make 
a high grade Corliss  engine,  which  pos­
sesses features very superior  to  the  or­
dinary Corliss engine.

for 

furnished 

The  Nordberg  Manufacturing  Com­
pany’s principal trade  is among the roll­
ing mills  about  Pittsburg  and  different 
manufacturing plants  in  the  New  Eng- 
land’States and throughout the East. 
In 
Michigan  they  have 
targe 
plants  in  Detroit,  Saginaw,  Bay  City, 
Kalamazoo  and  nine  plants  in  Grand
Rapids.  They are now  erecting  a  very 
high  grade  pnmping  engine 
the 
United States Government  for  the water 
supply of Washington,  D. C., which was 
sold in strong competition with  the  best 
manufacturers  of  pumping  engines  in 
the  country.  The  Michigan  agent  for 
the  Nordberg  Manufacturing  Company 
is Mr.  D. A.  Heikel.
#   OYSTBRS  #
I  am  keeping  down  prices  notwithstanding 
the advance.  Order  at  once for  your  Thanks 
giving trade.
Solid Brand, Extra Selects, per can. »..........%  26
Solid Brand, Selects, per  can......................... 
24
20
Solid Brand, E. F.,  per can............................. 
20
Solid Brand, Standards, per can................... 
Daisy Brand, Selects, per  can  ...................... 
22
16
Daisy Brand, Standards, per can  ................. 
Daisy Brand, Favorites, per  can..................  
14
Standards, per  gal............................................ 
90
Extra Standards, per  gal................................  1  00

best made.  85c per doz.  3 doz. in case:

OyBters fine and cans well filled.
The Queen Oyster Falls at bottom  prices.
green apples, very fine:

Mrs. Wlthey’s Home Made Jelly, made  with 
30-lb.  pall...........................................................
iO-lb. pail................... 
17-lb.  pail...........................................................  
15-lb. pall............................................................  
Mrs. Wlthey’s Condensed Mince Meat,  the 
Mrs.  Withey’s balk mince  meat:
40-lb. pail, per  lb...............................................  6
25-lb. pails, per lb ..............................................  634
10-lb. pailB,per lb.............................................   634
io
Pare Cider Vinegar, per gallon...................... 
Pare Sweet Cider, per  gallon.........................  
12
Fine Dairy Butter, per lb ................................ 
20
Fresh Eggs, per doz.......................................... 
17
New Pickles, medium, barrels........................5 00
New Pickles,  ¡4 barrel.....................................3 CO
New Sauer Kraut,  barrels.............................. 4  00
New Sauer Kraut, % barrels...........................2 50

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EDWIN  FALLAS,

Oyster Packer  and  ITanufacturer.
VALLEY  CITY  COLD  STORAQE,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

DRINK 

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Ponce ne Leon  Water.

Pronounced by Dr. Seeley, one  o f  the  most  fa­
mous water-cure physicians  of this century  and 
country, to be equal if not better than any water 
in his knowlekge  for the kidneys,  stomach  and 
bowels.  He used it in  the  years  1843  and  1849, 
His opinion has been  verified  by  scores  of  our 
patrons  in  Grand  Rapids  since  the  water has 
been placed on the market.  Purest  table  water 
extant.  Address  Ponce  de^Leon  W ater  Co., 90 
First Ave.  Telephohe 1382.

Best  Single  Harness  on 

Earth  for the  Money,

A ll  H a n d   M a d e .  O n ly   $8.

A strong, durable harness, especially  adapted to 
the  hard  times.  The  saddle  is  leather  lined, 
with imitation rubber  or  white  trimmed.  This 
harness Is single strap  throughout.  Traces,  1J4 
in .;  Breast  foliar,  \%  in.;  Brichlng,  134 in.; 
Bridle  with  blinds  and  overcheck,  or,  if  de­
sired  we  will  send  a   v e r y   n e a t   l i g h t   o p e n  
b r i d l e .  I am so confident that this harness will 
suit that I will send it by express C. O. D. to any 
point in the State, with the privilege of  examin­
ing it before paying for it  and,  if  not  satisfac­
tory,  return  it  at  my  expense.  No  R isk.  I t  
W ill Cost  You N othing to  * ee  It.

6. H. WILMQT,  Grand Rapids,

197  and  199  South  Division  St.

ESTABLISHED  1868.

Headquarters for
STRAW  BOARD
for lining
POTATO  CARS.

Telephone 188.

Corner  Louis  and  Campau 
Sts.,  Grand Rapids.

The Bradstreet Mercantile âpncy.

The Bradstreet  Company, Props.

Executive Offices, 279,281,283 Broadway, NT

CHARLES  F.  CLARK, Pro».

Offices in th è  Principal citles of thè United 
oStates,  Canada,  thè  European  continent, 
^Australia, and in London, Bngl&nd.
Grand  Rapids  Office,  Room  4,  Widdicomb  Bldg.

HENRY  ROYCE, Supt.
Tour  Bank Account Solicited.

Kent  County Savinas Beni,

GRAND  RAPIDS  ,MICH.

J no.  A.  Covods,  Pres.

Henry  I dem a. Vice-Pree.

J.  A.  S.  Vkr d ier,  Cashier.

K. Van H oe, Ass’t C’s’r.
Transacts a General Banking  Business. 

Interest  Allowed  on  Time  and  Sayings 

Deposits.

DIRECTORS:

Jno. A. Covode, D. A.  Blodgett,  E. Crofton Fox, 
T. J. O’Brien,  A. J. Bowne,  Henry Idema, 
J. A  S. Verdier.
Jno.W.Blodgett,J. A. McKee, 
Deposits  Exceed  One  Million  Dollars.

We  Are  Headquarters  For

CANNED  GOODS,

Carrying in stock  the  largest  and  most  complete  line  of 

any house in the State, including full assortments of

Oysters
ANCHOR  BRAND

OLD  RELIABLE

All orders receive prompt  attention  at 

lowest  market price.

See  quotations in Price Current.

CURTICE  BROS.*  Fruits and  Vegetables, 

and

FONTANA & CO.’s Columbus  Brand California Fruit.

F .   J .  B E T T  E N T  H A L E R .

117  and  119  Monroe  3t.,  Grand  Ranids.

Inspection of our stock and correspondence solicited. A Majestic Exhibit

Muskegon  Bakery  Crackers

(U n ited   S ta te s  B a k in g   Co.)

Are  Perfect  Health  Food.

There area great many  Butter Crackres  *»n  the  Market—only 

one can  be best—that is  the original

Muskegon
Bakery
Butter
Cracker.
R o y a l  F r u it  B iscu it, 
M u sk e g o n   F ro ste d   H o n e y , 
Iced   C o c o a   H o n e y   Ju m b le s , 
H o m e -M a d e   S n a p s , 

Je lly   T u r n o v e rs,
G in g e r  S n a p s ,

M u sk e g o n   T o a st,

I 

Nine
Other
Great
Specialties
Are

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

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

M u sk e g o n   B r a n c h ,
M lik   L u n c h .

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

L A W R E N C E   D E P S W ,  A cting  M anager,

M u s k e g o n ,

M ic h

For  the  next  two  or  three 
weeks there  will  be a Grand Dis­
play of Majestic Steel  Ranges  in 
our  Retail  Department,  and  we 
want  all  merchants  in  Western 
Mich igan, if in  the  city,  to  drop 
in  and see them.

Coffee and Hot Rolls will‘be

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served daily.

TRADE MARK  Re g i s t e r e d -

Steel Ranges are fast sup 
erseding the Cast Range.  Dur­
ing  this  exhibit  expert  range 
salesmen  direct  from  the  fac­
tory will be  on  hand  to  show 
up their good  qualities.

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The  Dayton  Computing  Scale

WflRNING-To  Users  of  Scales.

The trade are hereby  warned against  using any  infringements on  W eigh­
ing and  Price  Scales  and  Computing  and  Price  Scales,  as  we  will  pro­
tect our rights and the rights of our general  agents under Letter sPatent of the 
United  States  issued  in  1881,  1885,1886,  1888,  1891,  1893 and 1894.  And we 
will prosecute all  infringers to the full extent of the law.

The  simple  using  of  Scales  that  infringe  upou  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 
is apparent. 

5 ^   Respectfully

THE  COMPUTINGTSCALE  CO.

BE SURE  1

  BUY  THE  DAYTON  COMPUTINO  SCALES.
S e e   W h a t  U se r s  S a y :

“We are delighted with it.”  The Jos.  R.  Peebles Son’s Co., Cincinnati, o - 
“Would not part with it for Sl.'iuo.” 
Dan.  W. Charles, Hamilton, O*
Charles Young, Adrain, Mich- 
"It saves pennies ever time we weigh." 
“They are worth to us each year five times their cost.”
Ranp &  Hay m an, Constantine, Mich. 
“We are  very much pleased with its work.”
Henry J.  Vinkemulder *  Bro., Grand Rapids, Mich. 
“Since the adoption of your scales have made more money  than  ever  be­
Prank  Daniels. Traverse City, Mich.
“ itake pride in recommending them  to every  user of sea es ”
Chas.  Railsback, Indianapolis, Ind. 
“I heartily recommend them to all grocers who wish  to save money.”
Geo.  F.  Kreltline, Indianapolis, Ind. 
“ It is the best  investment I ever made ” 
I. L. Stultz, Goshen, Ind.

fore.” 

For  further particulars drop a Postal Card to

HOYT  4  CO,  General Selling  A pts,

D A Y T O N ,  O H IO .

H .  L E O N A R D   &  SO N S, 

134-140  East  Fulton  St.,

Im porters and flan u factu rers’  A gents of

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Grand  Rapids, Mich.,  Dec.  12,  189 4

As  far  as  the lines  carried by us  are concerned  it  is not  too 

Five one Ten  cent specmiiies. Etc.
GENTLEMEN:--
For  the last  time  this  season we address you on  the subject of 
HOLIDAY GOODS FOR CHRISTMAS TRADE. 
As  is well  known,  this  trade is 
very  late  this year,  and many merchants have delayed buying  their 
Holiday goods,  owing  to  the past year’s business depression,  and now 
believe  that  it  is  too  late  to put  in a line of  Christmas Novelties, 
although  those who have done so  report  the advance  trade as very much 
better  than anticipated.
late  for  this business. 
Believing as we did,  that  this was  to be a 
year when a LARGE ASSORTMENT of Holiday goods would be appreciated, 
we are still  able  to show (after an unexpected large  trade) a 
magnificent  selection,  and we  guarantee  to surprise all  late buyers.
stating about  the  amount and kinds of  goods desired,  and we will  see 
that you are well  satisfied with  the  goods  and  their  prices,  and  that 
you receive  them VERY PROMPTLY.
In  the lines  of  China and Glass Novelties  and  in Dolls and Toys, 
we have some splendid "Job Lots”  to offer you at  prices  actually 
below the  import price— popular  goods on which you can certainly 
double your money.
Awaiting your  commands  in person or by letter,  and hoping you 
will  have a large and profitable Christmas  trade,  we remain,

Make your selections  from our Catalogue,  or  leave  it  to us, 

Respectfully yours,

H.  LEONARD & SONS.

