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GRA.ND  JRAPIDS,  DECEM BER  19,  1894. 

NO.  587

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WHOLESALE

Flour,  Feed,  Grain,  Hay, Straw,  Etc.

CAR  LOTS  A  SPECIALTY.

Will  make  up  mixed  Cars  on  Application.  First Quality 

Goods at Lowest Prices Guaranteed.

F a n c y   S t r a i g h t   F l o u r .

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,  112- 1R. 

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

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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Boston Belting Co.’s 
EL  Disston <fc Sons’ 
E.  C. Atkins  Co.’s 
H. R.  Warthington’s,  = 
A..  Gr.  Spalding &  Bros.’ 
u. Candee &  Co.’s 
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Rubber  Belts,  Etc.,

-  Saw s,
Saw s,

=  Steam   Pum ps,

Sporting Goods, 

-  Rubber Boots and Shoes.

Hill and  Fire  D epartm ent Supplies. 

Manufacturers of Pure Oak  Short=Iap  L eather  Belting, 
Jobbers of S k ates.  Large  Stock.  Low  Prices.

S T U D L E Y   &   B A R C L A Y ,   g f g   R [g$  MlCfl.

4  MONROE  ST.

B R A N D   R A P I D S  

B R U S H  

G O M P ' Y . i l i B P

B R U S T T F I S »   ““T c i r 1“3
Our  Good,  are  .old  hv  all  Michigan  Jobbing:  houMf.

M3 ECTORg:0^teR}S*D ETaoir^W 1

EDWARD A. MOSELEY, 
TIMOTHY F. MOSELEY.

Established 1876 

P E R K I N S   &   H E S S ,

DEALERS  IN

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SEEDS,  BEANS.  PEES. POTATOES.  ORANGES  and  LEMONS. 

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Egg  Cases and Fillers a Specialty.
36,  38.  30 and  33  Ottawa  St., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

Jobbeisjof

H i d e s ,   F u r s ,   W o o l   &   T a l l o w ,

Nos.  122  and  124  Louis  Street,  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.

WE CARRY A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL USE.

l i O l B T ,   H E R P 0 L 8 H E I M E R   4   G O .,

To the  Retail  Shoe  Dealers===

Wholesale

Our  line is  complete  in  Boots,  Shoes,  Rubbers,  F elt  Boots, 

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D R Y   G O O D S   a n d   N O T I O N S
Socks,  Etc.,  for  your  fall  and  winter  trade.  Place your’Jorders  with  us  J 
now and  g e t th e   b est to sa v e   m oney.  Our C elebrated  B lack  B ottom s 
in  Men’s  Oil  G rain   and  S a tin   Calf,  tap  sole  in  Congress  and  Balmorals, 
a re  th e   lead ers and u n su rp a sse d .

M ackinaw  Coats  and  Lumbermen’s  Outfits. 

Specialty of Underwear and  Over Shirts.

Our  W ales-G oodyear  R ubbers  are  g re a t  tra d e   w in n ers. 

Mail  orders given prom p;  attention.

H E R O L D -B E R T S C H   S H O E   C O ,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.  (

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A.  E.  BROOKS 

Overalls of Our Own  M anufacture

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for holiday trade ?  You can find  it in great variety and right prices at

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iGO.,  5 »7  Ionia  St.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Oyster Crackers
Are now in season.  We manufacture j All Kinds
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A rich, tender and crisp cracker packed  in  1  lb.  cartoons 
Is  one  of  the  most  popular 

with neat and  attractive lai el. 
packages we have ever put out.
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Handsome embossed  packages, 

packed  2 doz. in case 
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$2.40  per doz.
(  2  lb.  $4.80 per doz.

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These  goods  are  positively  the  finest  produced  and  we

guarantee entire satisfaction.

SEND US  YOUR  HOLIDAY  ORDERS

N ew  York Biscuit Co

S.  A. SEARS,  Manager,

Spring & Company,

GRAND  RAPI OS,  MICH.

IMPORTERS  AND  WHOLESALE  DEALERS  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 loves,  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  a n d   D o m estic  C ottons

We invite the attention of the trade to our com plete  and  w el 

assorted stock at low est  market  prices.

Spring & 
Duck 

. Kersey 
Coatsand  Pants

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

Manufacturers  of  Show  Cases  of  Every  Description.

FIRST-CLASS  WORK  ONL1.

3 8   an d   0 6   C an al  S t ,  G rand  R a p id s,  M ien

W RITE  FOR  PRICKS.

Standard  OH  Co.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  fllCHIGAN

D E A L E R S   IN

niifmlnating  and  Liibrioating

Naptha  and  Gasolines.

Office,  Hawkins  Block. 

Works,  Butterworth  Ave.

BULK  WORKS  AT

GRAND  RAPIDS, 
BIG  RAPIDS, 
ALLEGAN,

MVSKEGGN, 
GRAND  HAVEN 
HOWARD CITY,

MANISTEE, 
TRAVERSE  CITY. 
PETOSKEY.

CADILLAC.
LCDINGTON,

Highest  Price  Paid  for

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EMPTY  CARBON 

lGASOLINE  BARRELS.

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.

L a n s i n g   P a n t s   &  O v e r a ll  C o .

LANSING,  niCH.

Importers  and

Wholesale  Grocers

Grand  Rapids.

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GEANT)  R A PID S,  W EDNESDAY,  D ECEM BEE  19,1894.

NO.  587

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Makes a Specialty of acting as

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Executor of W ills, 
A dm inistrator of  Estates, 
Guardian of Hinors and In­
Trustee or Agent

competent Persons, 

in the management of any  business  which  may 
be entrusted to it.
Any  information  desired will  be  cheerfully 
furnished.
Lewis  H.  Withey,  Pres.

Anton  G.  Hodenpyl,  Sec’y.
'Township Bonds.
Cash  Paid  for  Township  and  County 

W arrants.

Special attention given to examining and direct­
OHAS.  E.  TEMPLE,  Grand  Bapids. 

ing proceedings for bond issues.

8557 Michigan Trust Co.  Bldg.
M I C H I G A N

Fire & Marine Insurance Go.

Organised  1881.

DETROIT,  MICHIGAN.

PROMPT« 

J.  W.  CHAMPLIN,  Pres.

CONSERVATIVE. 

«APR. 
W.  PEED  McBAIN, Sec.

■B T X B I.IB H E P  1841.

THE MERCANTILE AGENCY

R . G. D u n   &  Co.

Reference Books issued  quarterly.  Collections 

attended to throughout United States 

and Canada

65  MONROE  ST.,

COMMERCIAL  CREDIT  CO.
Have on file all reports kept by  Cooper’s  Com­
mercial Agency and Union  Credit  Co.  and  are 
constantly revising and adding  to  them.  Also 
handle collections of all kinds for  members.
L. J. STEVENSON. 

Telephone 166 and 1030 for  particulars.

C.  E. BLOCK.

W.  H. P. ROOTS.

A .   B. KNOWLSON,
Cement,  Lime, Coal, Sewer Pipe, Etc.

Wholesale Shipper

CABLOTS  AND LESS 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH,
Special Notice.

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.
S.  P.  Bennett Fnel  &  Ice  Co-,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

P. G. WHITE, 

P. M. SHAPER.

20 Scribner St., Grand Rapids.

Brand  Rapids  Paper  Go.,
All  U s   Wrapping  Paper  and  Paper  Bags.
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Telephone 1355.
o T 7 P T T  > Q   HEADACHE
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POW DERS
Pay the best profit  Order from your jobber

Twines a Specialty.

THE  MOVER'S  CREED.

Words  of  Warning  to  the  Discon­
Written for The Tradesman.

tented.

A young  man  recently  fell  victim  to 
the  demon  of  unrest.  He  was  uneasy 
and discontented with his  surroundings. 
One day,  while walking in a lonely place, 
cogitating on the gloom  of  his  environ­
ment and the better  chances  that  might 
await him in  some  other  place,  he  met 
an old white-headed man.  The  old  man 
thoughts  of 
divined 
the 
thus  ac­
costed him:

restless  cogitator  and 

innermost 

the 

“Young man,  harken  unto  my  words. 
They are the words of wisdom and of ex­
perience and will do you  good,  provided 
yon treasure them  up  and  square  your 
future actions by them.

“I was once young  like  you,  and, like 
you,  was tossed about by a merciless and 
reasonless craving that gave me  no  rest. 
That  craving  I  mistook  for  ambition. 
Fatal mistake!  True ambition is a noble 
attribute. 
It  bursts  not the confines of 
reason,  nor reaches not out after the  un­
attainable. 
It 
does not blind our eyes to  the  real  peb­
bles which lie in our  pathway,  by  hold­
ing up mental  images  of  great  nuggets 
strewn along some other pathway.  True 
ambition points out the real  in  life  and 
inspires us with a burning desire  to  em­
brace  onr  opportunities  and  make the 
most of our present surroundings.

It deals not in illusions. 

“Young man, it is not  noble  ambition 
that prompts this unrest;  if it were,  you 
would perceive all around  yon  opportu­
nities for doing  good.  Ambition  would 
not make you mope in idleness  and long 
for distant and unknown fields of  useful­
ness;  it  would  set  you  at  work  where 
you are and  keep you so busily at it that 
you  would  have  no  time  to  dream  of 
other  and  different  work.  You  have 
simply been hypnotized by  the  spirit  of 
unrest.  You  have  been  dreaming;  but 
it is your first  dream,  and,  if  the  fatal 
spell can  at  this  stage be  broken,  your 
life  may  yet  be  a  useful  one  and  the 
world  be  the  better  for  yonr  having 
lived in it.

“It was many years ago when 1 dreamed 
my first dream. 
I need not acquaint yon 
with the circumstances  surrounding  my 
birth,  my  education,  or  the  influences 
brought  to  bear  npon  me  during  the 
process  of  development  into  manhood. 
I say,  it  is  needless  to  dwell  on  these 
things, for the tale would contain nothing 
new or  startling.  My  experience wonld 
but echo that of every other man  in  our 
favored  commonwealth.  All  I  need  to 
say is that it all happened  in one  of  the 
countless little worlds which,  in  the  ag­
gregate,  constitute 
the  great  world. 
What I  wish  to  impress  on  your  mind 
more  particularly 
is  the  similarity  of 
these little worlds.  This truth is learned 
only in the school  of  experience;  it  can 
be learned in no  other  way. 
I  see  you 
are  incredulous.  You  think  that,  be­
cause you have visited  some of these lit­
tle worlds, and have heard  vague stories 
abont some others,  yon  know  all  abont

them.  Ah,  well,  I was  once  young  my­
self and shall not censure  yon  for  your 
incredulity.

“When I stepped  upon  the  threshold 
of active life, I, too, dreamed  a dream.  I 
dreamed that society in some  other little 
world  wonld  be  more  congenial 
to 
my  tastes;  that  the  people  there  were 
more  clever  and  less exacting,  and  that 
they would  better  appreciate  the  supe­
rior  talents  which  I  imagined  I  pos­
sessed. 
I did not realize that  I had only 
been  dreaming,  and  so  I  exchanged 
worlds.  The  realization 
followed—it 
was only a dream.  Self was not  the  su­
perior being I took him  for,  and I began 
to  look  at  life  more  seriously. 
I  en­
gaged in  business,  but  difficulties  soon 
presented 
themselves  and  1  dreamed 
again. 
In my dream I saw a little world 
where the difficulties I was  encountering 
did not exist.  Conditions were such that 
any man  possessing  my  business  quali­
fications  could  make  money  without 
exerting himself. 
It seemed so real  that 
I changed  worlds  again.  Was  this  but 
another dream?  No,  it could  not  be—it 
was only a mistake.  1 had simply failed 
to get into the right one.  And  so I went 
from world to world,  finding  each  simi­
lar to the one I had left  behind,  until  1 
wore myself oat in  the search  and  satis­
fied  myself  that  the  whole  thing  was 
only a dream,  after all.  The  best  years 
of  my  life  had  been  squandered  in  a 
wild,  impetuous chase after the unattain­
able.  Do you call  this  ambition, young 
man?  Nay,  it was the lack of ambition. 
Real ambition might not  have taught me 
that all little worlds are  strikingly  sim­
ilar in  the variety and  sum total of diffi­
culties found in each,  but it  would  have 
helped  me  to  encounter  and  overcome 
the difficulties  in my  own  little  world; 
in other words,  it  would  have  kept  the 
demon of  unrest from  taking  possession 
of my soul,  it wonld have  saved me from 
being dragged  to  death  by  the  mover’s 
phantasm,  it would have  conserved  and 
turned to practical account all my wasted 
energies.

“But  I  was  not  yet  done  dreaming. 
The  onward  march  of 
time  had 
quenched  my  insatiate  desire  to  make 
money in some easy,  rapid  manner,  bat 
it had left  its  impress  on  my  physical 
constitution,  and I  again  dreamed—this 
time that  the climate  had  fallen  into  a 
backslidden state.  And  so I dreamed of 
a little world where the  sun  shone with 
greater brilliancy  and  the  clouds  were 
less leaden;  where gout and  rheumatism 
were  unknown,  and  where  poverty, 
disease and death  were  less  destructive 
of human happiness. 
I never found it— 
it was only another dream.

“I felt as  though my  life’s  work  was 
nearly completed.  The spell was broken 
and the demon of unrest  left me,  to take 
up bis  abode  in  the  heads  of  younger 
men.  The scales  have  fallen  from  my 
eyes,  and, old  and  decrepit,  I  have  re­
turned to my first  little  world,  where  I 
shall end my days.

“ Yon do not recognize me. Yon belong 
to  the  second  generation  of  men  who

have  grown  up  into  manhood  since  I 
romped over in those fields, a heart-happy 
and  care free  boy;  and  yet  I  find  that 
you are possessed  with the same  old  un­
rest, and that,  in spite of  all  yonr  mod­
ern,  ideas,  you  are  about  to  make  the 
same fatal mistake I made forty years ago. 
The experiences I  have  recounted  have 
cost me my life,  and  yet  you  may  reap 
the benefit  of  them  for  nothing. 
I  re­
peat, do not  imagine  that,  because  you 
may  have  visited  other  little  worlds, 
your  chances for success will  be greater 
in them than in  your  own  little  world. 
There is a law which governs the eternal 
fitness of things that will  subject  you to 
the same test no matter  where  you  may 
go.  The great world is  full  of  dangers 
to be avoided, troubles to be  borne,  sor­
rows to be endured, pain to  be  suffered, 
difficulties to be overcome  and  obstacles 
to be surmounted;  and each  little  world 
has its fail quota.  The Creator  has  not 
so ordained that any portion of his  crea­
tion shall be exempt from  the  universal 
conditions of  human  existence,  or  that 
any  one  community  of  human  beings 
shall escape from the innumerable ills to 
which  human flesh is heir.

“ Young  man,  disinthrall  yourself 
from this fatal enchantment  before  yon 
take  your  first  step  in  pursuit  of  the 
mover’s phantasm.  Do  you  fancy  that 
the inhabitants of  your  little  world  do 
not appreciate  you  as  they  should?  If 
this be the  case, I assure you  that  your 
trouble will be magnified  a hundred fold 
if yon go to a new world  where  you  are 
unknown.  Get  this  fancy  out  of  your 
mind,  and rest  assured  that  the  people 
who know you best will show you all the 
respect  yon  merit,  and  that  is  all 
to 
which you are entitled.

“Are business  conditions  unfavorable 
where yon are?  Are  you  casting  about 
for some place where you would  be more 
successful?  You  will  never  find  it. 
There is no trade center,  large  or  small, 
on the face of the globe,  where just such 
fellows as yon are not  telling  the  same 
tale.  Start in quest  of  more  favorable 
business conditions—you will  waste your 
life in the search and,  in the end,  will be 
than  you 
no  nearer  the  coveted  goal 
were  in  the  beginning. 
I f  you  want 
more favorable conditions, you  must look 
within and  not  without.  Nowhere  will 
yon find  them  ready  made.  You  mast 
make  them  yourself,  out  of  material 
found  within  your  own  resources,  no 
matter where  you go.  Why not  accom­
plish it in your own  little  world  and  so 
save  valuable  time?  If  you  feel  that 
competition is too much for you,  meet  it 
where you are or ‘throw up  the  sponge.’ 
You cannot escape  it  by  running  away 
to  some  other  place—you  will  find  it 
wherever you go.

“ Young man,  harken  unto  my  voice. 
Business success does  not  depend  upon 
the kind of business you  may engage in, 
or upon the particular  place  where  you 
do business. 
If you  possess  the  neces­
sary qualifications for,  and bend all your 
energies to,  the  business  in  hand,  and 
yonr stock of  perseverance does  not ran

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out, you  will  succeed  in  the  end.  Re­
member  that  each  little  world  has  its 
own ups and its own downs, and  that all 
these different ups  and  downs  are  gov­
erned by the same general laws.

“I  have  but  little  more  to  say. 

In 
many of these little worlds  have  I  been 
a living unit,  sharing  the  common  bur­
dens and  participating  in  the  common 
blessings,  and now,  casting  my  eye  on 
the past, I  cannot  recall  one  that  pos­
sessed  advantages  superior  to  another 
for the acquirement  of business  success. 
Each  had  its  tidal  waves  of  business 
activity  and  business  depression; 
its 
prompt-paying customers  and  its  dead­
beats; 
its  big-hearted,  good-natured, 
fair-dealing merchants, and its scheming, 
two-faced,  throat-cutting  dealers.  Each 
had its roses and  thorns;  its joys and its 
sorrows; 
its  smiles  and  its  tears;  its 
realities and  its  counterfeits;  its  heart- 
gladdening  sunshine  and 
its  dreary 
shadows;  its virtues and its  crimes,  and 
everything else necessary to make each 
separate little world of its own.

“I  now  bid  you  adieu.  And  let  me 
say  again  and  again,  young  man,  stay 
where  you  are.  Give  your  own  little 
world the best that is in  you and  it  will 
make your life a  grand  success.  Desert 
it for another—the chances are  that  the 
disappointment  following  your  experi­
ment will set you adrift  and make you a 
sort of delegate at  large with credentials 
from nowhere  in  particular.  Farewell, 
young man.  Forget not the advice born of 
a bitter experience.”

After the old  man had departed  on his 
way.  the young man  pondered  long  and 
deeply on  the  words  which  had  fallen 
upon  his  ears.  Would  he  teach  the 
world as great a lesson  as  the  old  man 
had taught him—that  it was possible for 
a young man to profit by  the  experience 
of the old?  A look of firm determination 
drove away  the expression of discontent 
The scales had  fallen from his eyes,  and, 
looking around,  he was  surprised to find 
on  every  hand,  golden  opportunities 
where none had appeared  before  to  ex 
ist,  and he determined to use them to the 
best possible advantage.

The  following,  which  I  shall  name 
“The Mover’s Creed,” had dominated his 
actions so far in life,  and  had  been  the 
ruination  of  many  an  otherwise  well- 
meaning man.

T h e  Moveb’s  Cr eed.

I believe that  the  talents  with  which 
the Creator endowed me are not suited to 
my meager surroundings.

I  believe  that, 

in  some  other  place 
known to me,  the people  are  more  hon­
est, more obliging and less exacting than 
they are here.

I believe the place where I am located is 
a bad place in which to do business;  that 
I can find a place where  money  is  more 
plentiful  and  where  a  fortune  can  be 
more  easily  acquired—a  place  where 
competition  does  not 
interfere  with 
profits,  and where  the  dead-beat  is  un­
known.

I believe that where I  have my habita­
tion the water is  bad and  the  air  is  sur­
charged with malarial  poison;  that  in  a 
certain other place  the water and the air 
are perfection;  that in  that  other  place 
the sun shines  brighter  and  the  winds 
are not  so  penetrating,  and  dyspepsia, 
the gout,  neuralgia,  rheumatism, and all 
the other tisms,  are  unknown,  and where 
taxes and death are not tolerated.

Finally,  I  believe  that  it  is  time  to 

move again anyway. 

E.  A.  Ow en.

STICK   CANDT.
Cases

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Standard. 
Leader.... 
Royal.
English  Rock.........................  
Conserves  .......................  
BrokenTaffy............'..".baskets
Peanut Squares................. 
French Creams..............’’
Valley  Creams......... ...................
Midget, 30 lb. baskets........  ”* 
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T*ADf  “ AN ia ,oath to believe that the traveling men of the Saginaw Val­
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ley are coming to Grand Rapids next week  to make  “Rome howl.”  It believes thev 
are coming here in a sober condition on a mission  of  business  and  pleasure 
that 
cond«ct themselves in a gentlemanly manner and that the  intimation that 
they will make “Rome bowl”- i n  other words,  indulge in the drunken orgies  which
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dayS °f R°me- is a base and  unwarranted  libel  on  their  in

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T h e T radesm an is,  very  naturally,  gratified  over  such  a  voluntary  acknowl
IlthouIhS  T  GraDd.R*PidS 18 the p,ace for S»«iuawians to purchase their trunks,
¡ £ 2 ?  ST T  aDd Bay CUy dea,ers m8y crltlcize tbe intimation and  fail  to  ap­
preciate such attempts on the part of the  writer to divert the trade of  Saginaw and 
Bay City people to a competing market.  The fact that  managers  of  trade  papers 
are generally interested to keep such trade in their own cities may  tend  to  c  l 
to question the sincerity of the writer. 
1  ,n
»na.Th. t T P<? lti0“ t0 “takeltiD   trade”  i8  ^nerally  considered  unprofessional 
price asked for it will
resort to such expedients to obtain  business.
«mhTT  J BA®KSMAN ,s assured that the reference to a local jobber is  entirely  un­
authorized  being on a par with the spurious  testimonials  invented  by  vendors  of
questionable remedies. 
y  venuors  or

say the least, and no trade paper whose space is worth the 

Paul  Bifert,

Manufacturer of

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SAMPLE  TRUNKS and 

SAflPLE  CASES

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50  Canal  St.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Of any description  to  order  on  short 

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

A   H I N T   T O   M E R C H A N T S .

“How comparatively few persons make 
really good salesmen  in  a  store  of  any 
kind, at the present time,”  said  an  eld­
erly lady, not  long  ago.  “Tbey  should 
be educated  especially  for  that  work,” 
she continued.  “They should be able  to 
read character quickly and  well,  should 
possess the traditional  patience  of  Job, 
and exhibit a spirit of constant  sunshine 
in the presence of  customers.”

I thought there was a suggestive lesson 
in her words which  it  would  pay  those 
interested to heed.

Youthful salesmen of  either sex, other 
qualifications being equal,  are  generally 
most attractive to  customers.  Salesmen 
must constantly be on their guard against 
permitting favoritism to  influence  them 
ia  the  least.  During  business  hours, 
strict  equality  toward  every  customer 
must be observed, without respect to age, 
wealth,  or  rank,  else  losses  in  trade— 
possibly never known  why  by  them  er- 
chant—will take  place.  Customers  pos­
sess their imperfections,  and  they  come 
to a store in all the  “moods and tenses;” 
but the  good  salesman  will  so  conduct 
himself as to be blind  and deaf to every­
thing except the one desire  to  serve  the 
individual to the best of his ability.  Two 
qualifications  are  worth  more  than  all 
others put together,  viz., good nature and 
kindness.  These  will  win  customers, 
even away from  those  who  occasionally 
give better bargains,  as nothing  is  mere 
attractive than a pleasant greeting and  a 
courteous bearing.

I heard one  lady  say  to  another,  not 
long ago,  “Yes, I know  that  I  can  save
more by dealing with Mr.  --------,  but  I
prefer  to trade  where  they  are  always 
kind and obliging, even if I lose  a  little 
money.”

While  this  is  admittedly  the  age  of 
haste, it ia often the  case that customers 
cannot or will not be  hurried  in  making 
purchases,  especially  old  persons  or 
those to whom money is worth more than 
time.  The humble dollar or  two  in  the 
hand must be  cautiously  expended,  and 
much  thought  and  deliberation  are  re­
quired before  deciding  upon  each  pur­
chase.  A spirit of patience  in  such  in­
stances,  with now and then a kindly sug­
gestion, instead  of  an  overbearing,  im­
patient or hurried  manner,  as if anxious 
to get rid of the customer  will,  in  every 
case,  prove  valuable  to  the  employer. 
Time  should  never  be  deemed  so  val­
uable  by  the salesman  that  he  cannot 
take enough of it to give a civil  reply  to 
a customer’s question.

While waiting in a  store the other day 
for my purchase, I could not  help  over­
hearing  the  conversation  of  two  ladies 
standing near  me.  They  were  discuss­
ing the merits—or demerits, rather—of  a 
clerk who had just gone to  the other end 
of the store.  Said one:  “I can’t  bear to 
be waited on by that girl!  Every  time I 
come in here (and I do most of  my  trad­
ing here,  amounting,  in a  year,  to  some 
hundreds of  dollars), I steer clear of  her 
locality.  I asked her a courteous question 
one time, several years ago,  in  regard  to 
some  goods  lying  on  the  counter,  and 
she gave me  such  an  unmannerly,  curt 
reply, as if 1 were beneath the  grass  she 
trod on, that I vowed I never would enter 
this  store  again.  After  thinking  the 
matter over,  however, I saw  my  foolish­
ness in  depriving  the  proprietor  of  my 
custom, just for incivility  on the part of 
one  of  his  employes.  So  I  swallowed 
my anger  and  pocketed  my  pride,  and

came back here to  trade;  but  trom  that 
time (five  years ago) to  this, I  have not 
once had that girl wait on me.”

Said the other lady,  “I  had  much  the 
same  experience  with  her  myself. 
I 
came in one  time to  ask  the  price  and 
quality of  some  goods  in  the  window. 
This girl came  forward  to  wait  on  me. 
On making the enquiry, her  frowns  and 
hurried manner gave  me  to  understand 
that she was  either  desirous  of  getting 
rid of me,  or that she inferred I wished to 
look at the goods as a matter of curiosity 
or pastime,  with not the remotest idea of 
buying.  She pulled the  goods out of the 
window with a  yank.  The  pattern  was 
exactly what I  wanted,  and  examination 
of the  goods  proved  the  quality  to  be 
satisfactory;  but I was unable,  from  the 
girl’s insolent  manner,  to  instantly  de­
cide upon the number of'yards I wished, 
and,  while I  was  hesitating  a  moment, 
she startled me by  snapping  out,  “How 
many yards shall I cut off?”  For  an  in­
stant I couldn’t think,  but in the  next  I 
found my speech and replied,  “You need 
not cut off  any!”  And  I  turned  on  my 
heel and  left  the  store,  never  to  have 
that miss wait on  me  again.  While  los­
ing the dress pattern that  suited me to a 
T,  So-and-So lost my little  twelve or  fif­
teen  dollars.  Perhaps  I  deserved  cen­
sure for not entering a complaint  to  the 
proprietor,  but 1 was not obliged  to  pat­
ronize this establishment,  and  I  consid­
ered it  his  business,  and  not  mine,  to 
know whether his customers were treated 
courteously or otherwise.”

Thus, as I said before,  merchants never 
know the extent of the  losses due  to  in­
competent employes,  unless they observe 
personally the treatment  accorded  their 
patrons. 

Ob ser v er.

Happy  Medium  between  Credit  and 

Cash.

A good many merchants are  now  pon­
dering over a problem which causes them 
much uneasiness.

it  be  after  January  1— 

What  shall 
credit or cash ?

To continue the credit system involves 
a continuance of  the  losses  which  have 
proved so burdensome and annoying.

To  abandon  the  credit  system  and 
adopt the cash system  involves  the  loss 
of a good many desirable customers  who 
pay promptly at regular intervals but are 
not in a position to pay spot  cash  on  the 
occasion of every purchase.

Luckily,  there is a happy  medium  by 
means of which the merchant  can  aban­
don  credit  and  place  his  business on a 
cash  basis—a  combination  of  cash  and 
coupon  books  which  works  admirably 
wherever introduced.

Cash for those who can pay cash  every 
time they come into the store, and coupon 
books  for  those  whose  trade  is  just as 
valuable as that of the spot cash  custom­
er  and  who  pay 
their  accounts  on  a 
certain  day  each  week  or  month  with 
the regularity of clockwork.

Such  customers  are  too  valuable  to 
every  store  to  be  driven  away by iron­
clad rules and harsh methods.

If you are a merchant and are unfamil­
iar  with  the  advantages  of  the coupon 
book system,  we invite you to correspond 
with us without delay.

January 1 is  an  excellent  time  to  in­
troduce  changes  in  your business—if it 
needs  any—and  New  Year’s  day  will 
soon be here.  T radesm an Company.

Lae  Tradesman  Coupon  Books.

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

CURTICE  BROS.*  Fruits and  Vegetables, 

and

FONTANA & CO.’s Columbus  Brand California  Fruit.

Inspection of our stock and correspondence solicited.

HERCULES POWDER

SEND
FOR

DESCRIPTIVE

PAMPHLET

Stump before a Blast.  I  Fragments after a Blast.
Strongest and Safest Explosive
POWDER, FUSE, CAPS

KNOWN  TO  THE  ARTS.

Electric  Mining  Goods,
AND  ALL  TOOLS  FOR  STUMP  BLASTING.

FOR  SALB  BY  TH E

HERCULES  POWDER  COMPANY, 

C u y a h o g a  B u ild in g,

C L E V E L A N D ,  O H IO .

H E R C U L E S ,  

CHE  GREAT STUMP AND  ROCK 

ANNIHILATOR.

Hercules Powder is carried iu stock by all of the following’jobbers:

Foster,  Stevens  &  Co.,  Qrand Rapids, 
A. Austin,  No. 93 Jefferson Ave.,  Detroit, 
J. J.  Post & Co.,  Cheboygan, 
Popp & Wolf, Saginaw, 

Potter Bros.,  Alpena,
Buechner & Co., Kalamazoo,
Seavey Hardware  Co., Ft.  Wayne,
Camper & Steadman,  South  Bend.

Lake  Station—W.  H.  Caiubrey  has 

leased a new circular  mill  built  here 
year  ago  by  W.  S.  Thomson,  and will 
stock and operate it this winter  and  an 
other season. 
It has a  cutting  capacity 
of about 35,000 feet daily 

Marquette—F.  E.  Haines  has  a  camp 
in near Kitchie  and  will  get  out  about 
2,000,000 feet of nice white  pine,  besides 
a  quantity  of  timber  for  mining  pur­
poses.  The logs have  been  sold  to  the 
Dead River Mill Co.  and  will  be  manu 
factured here.

Marquette—Thomas  Sheridan  has 

camp  on  the  Escanaba  River,  the  logs 
from  which  will  probably  be  railed  to 
this city for manufacture.  Joseph Kisick 
has been getting out some timber  in  the 
same vicinity,  which has gone to Oshkosh 
over  the Chicago  &  Northwestern  Rail 
way.

Ludington—The O.  N.  Taylor  sawmill 
shut down last week.  The mills  of  the 
Cartier Lumber Co.  and Butters & Peters 
will continue running until  ice  compels 
them  to  shut  down.  The  Cartier  mill 
will  start  up  again  about  February  l 
with night and  day  tour,  cutting  hard 
wood logs for Albert Vogel.  *

Manistee—The weather  in  the  woods 
has not been first class for  the past week 
or so,  having been too  soft  for  comfort­
able work,  and those that  were  working 
in swamps  or  low  ground  have  had  to 
abandon their operations for the present. 
Some camps have been moved in the last 
few days,  and  from others the men  have 
been  withdrawn  till  the  cold  weather 
settles on  us.  This  is  in  marked  con­
trast with what we had at this  time  last 
season,  as  the weather  set  in  hard  the 
first of the month and  logging continued 
without intermission.

Ewen—The  Phoenix  Lumber  Co.  has 
been formed here,  with a  capital of $25,- 
000. 
It will operate the mill plant of the 
Ontonagon River  Lumber Co.,  under  the 
management  of  D. A.  Neuse.  The com 
pany will slock  the store  connected with 
the mill with goods to the amount of $10,
000. 
It has contracts  sufficient  to  keep 
the mill running all  winter and next sea 
son.  About 25,000,000 feet  of  logs  will 
be  sawed  during  the  year  on contract 
The  officers  of  the  company  are  S.  M 
McElroy, Cashier Citizens’National bank 
Pittsburg,  Pa.,  President;  Alex.  M. 
Jenkinson,  President  of  the  R.  &  w. 
Jenkinson Co., Pittsburg, Vice-President; 
Nelson A.  Burdick, National Bank, Sault 
Ste.  Marie, Secretary and Treasurer,  and 
Joseph  Totten,  general  superintendent. 
Peter Drummond  is in  charge  of  woods 
operations.

Bay City—There  is no ice in the river, 
the weather  is balmy,  and if  this  sort of 
thing  could  be  guaranteed  navigation 
and  lumber  manufacturing  might  be 
revived.  The indications  are  decidedly 
of an open winter,  yet  the  prognostica­
tors have given out  that  it  is  to  be  an

old  snifter  with  the  trade-mark  blown 
into the bottle.  Snow  and  cold weather 
will  be needed for those who have logs to 
put in,  bnt an open winter will  not  pos­
sess the terrors that it did ten and twenty 
years  ago.  Now  those  having  small 
quantities of  logs  to  get  in,  if  remote 
from a railroad or stream,  require snow, 
but nearly all  the  timber  is  contiguous 
to railroads.  The improvement  that has 
taken  place  in  the  general  business 
of  the  country  and  in  lumbering  will 
stimulate a good deal  of winter  lumber­
ing on a small scale.  Owing  to  the  de^ 
pression in the  stave  and cedar business 
not as  much  will  be  done  as  in  years 
gone by,  but the  hardwood  lumber  out­
look  is  better  and  in  the  aggregate  a 
large quantity of logs will be  put in dur­
ing the winter  in  Northern  and Eastern 
Michigan.

Manistee—It is somewhat strange  that 
no effort has ever  been  make  to  get  the 
sunken  logs  out of  the  Manistee  River, 
but the time has not yet  arrived,  as with 
active operations going on every  year  it 
would not be feasible to  do much in  that 
line.  The matter  has  been  talked  over 
rith a good many old  loggers,  who  say 
that  there  are  quantities  of  good 
logs 
scattered  along  the  River  which  will 
never see the sawmills at the mouth, and 
that the best  way  to  reach  them  would 
be to have a portable sawmill on  a  scow 
to saw the logs as fast  as  they  are  met. 
This would obviate the difficulty  of  get­
ting the logs out on the bank to  dry,  and 
also  save  all  chance  of  their  sinking 
again,  as  they  are  likely  to  do,  even 
though  well  dried. 
It  is  well  known 
that most of these sunken  logs are shaky 
butt  logs  and  small  sap  pine  which 
would hardly  float  when  first  put  into 
the water,  and many of  them  would  be 
of little value even should they be gotten 
to the mills,  so  that  by  the  scheme  of 
sawing  where  they  are  found  in  the 
River  they  could  leave  the  worthless 
without  handling  and  only  take  those 
which it would pay to turn  into  lumber.

New Turkish  Baths.

Mr.  M.  S.  LaBourslier,  who  for  ten 
years has been  very  favorably  known  to 
Michigan people  in  connection  with  his 
Turkish bath establishment,  has  opened 
the  Morton  House  block  newly 
equipped  and  elegantly  furnished  bath 
rooms and  will  furnish all the baths of  a 
first-class  establishment.  He  will  con­
tinue his attention to removing corns,  in­
growing  nails  and  bunions  from  men 
women and children.

The  Grand  Rapids  Fire 

Insurance 
Company has  issued  two very  fine  cal­
endars for 1895—one intended for  homes 
and  the  otjier  for  business  houses. 
If 
you  have  not  received  one,  telephone 
No.  S3, or drop the company a postal and 
”ou will  be supplied.

4

AROUND  THE  STATE.

MOVEMENTS OF  MERCHANTS.

Edmore—Heath  &  Sanderson  succeed 

Frank Heath in the drug  business.

Jonesville—The  Hix  Hardware  Co. 

succeeds Gilbert & Hix at this  place.

Scottville—Reader  Rros.  &  Hunter 

succeed Reader Bros,  in general  trade.

Holland—Thomas  Price,  late of Grand 
Rapids,  has opened a new  meat  market.
Coldwater—Adams  «&  Perry  succeed 
W.  H.  Adams  in  the  grocery  business.
succeeds 
Charles Babo & Sons in the grocery  busi­
ness.

Bay  City—Charles  Babo 

Hillsdale—Howe  &  Carter  succeed 
Barrows  &  Howe  in  the  grocery  busi­
ness.

Negaunee—J.  Mitchell  &  Co.  have 
purchased  the  general  stock  of  Oscar 
Field.

Gobleville—Richardson  &  Teman have 
sold  their  hardware  stock  to  Wm.  S.
Crosby.

Saginaw—Uowenstine  &  Wrege  sue 
ceed  J.  H.  Howenstine  in  the  jewelry 
business.

Manistique—Herman  Winkle 

suc­
ceeds  Shuster  &  Winkle  in  the  meat 
business.

Jonesville—D.  L.  Powers  has  pur­
chased the general stock  of  D.  A.  Wis- 
ner’s Sons.

West  Branch—Neilson  &  McFadden 
have  purchased, the  grocery  stock  of 
Lewis Benaway.

Mason—Henderson  &  Parkburst  suc­
ceed  Ashel  W.  Parkburst  in  the  dry 
goods business.

Lansing—C. Alsdorf & Son,  druggists, 
have dissolved,  Fred M.  Alsdorf continu­
ing the business.

Columbiaville— McDermott  &  Bro. 
have purchased the  general  stock  of  J.
L.  Preston at this place.

Bay City—T.  W. Davidson & Co., drug­
gists,  have  dissolved,  T.  W.  Davidson 
continuing the business.

Bagley—H. G.  Lord & Co.  succeed  Os­
trander  & Lord in general  trade and  the 
cedar  post  lumbering business.

Grand Ledge—A. I.  Kramer & Co., dry 
goods  dealers,  have  dissolved,  A.  E.
Kramer continuing the business.

Holland—C.  Blom, Jr.,  announces that 
he  will  shortly  erect a  two-story  brick 
building, 60x80 feet in dimensions, which 
he will occupy as a candy factory.

Saginaw—Lavin  &  Gregory,  grocers, 
have  dissolved  partnership.  The  busi­
ness will  be continued  by J.  H.  Lavin.

Stanton—T.  S.  Earle  has  purchased 
the  grocery  stock  of  G.  W.  Sharp  and 
will consolidate it with  his own stock.

Copemish—Gibb & Co.  announce their 
intention of selling their drug  stock  and 
retiring from business, owing to the  fact 
j that  W.  W.  Gibb has been elected  Regis 
ter  of  Deeds  of  Manistee  county  and 
must immediately remove to Manistee.

Kalamazoo—The Gates  Vapor  Engine 
Co.  has  begun  the  manufacture  of  the 
Spaulding gas  and  vapor  engine  in  the 
Chase Mantle Co.’s  building.  The  pres­
ent headquarters are temporary only,  the 
present 
to  erect  and 
equip a  modern  factory  building  early 
next season.

intention  being 

Sutton’s Bay—W.  S. Johnson  has  sold 
his  interest  in  the  store,  general stock 
and docks of  W.  S.  Johnson  &  Co.,  to 
John  Plathner,  of  Milwaukee, and E.  R. 
Daily, of Empire.  John Litney  still  re­
tains his interest in  the  business,  which 
will  be  conducted  hereafter  under  the 
firm  name  of  John  Litney  &  Co.  Mr. 
Johnson  still  owns  a  large  amount  of 
hardwood lands in  Leelenaw county.

Whitehall—The  Forum  says:  J.  D. 
Meinhardi,  the  druggist,  was arraigned 
before Justice Collins,  at  Muskegon,  Fri­
day,  charged  with  violating  the  phar­
macy law.  The complaining witness is a 
man named Ewing, of  Grand Rapids,  at­
torney for the State  Board  of Pharmacy. 
The specific charge is  the selling of mor­
phine and iodine without  being  a  regis­
tered  pharmacist  or  having  one  in  his 
employ.  Meinhardi  pleaded  not  guilty 
and his trial was adjourned until Dec.  17. 
He gave a $50  bond  for  his  appearance 
and retained Arthur Jones to defend him 
Detroit—By the  breaking  of  a  cable 
the  elevator  in  the  store  of Stanton  & 
Morey,  recently fell from the fourth floor 
to the basement.  Mary J. Judson, a sew 
ing  woman  in  the  employ  of  the  firm, 
was in the elevator,  and was  so  severely 
injured  that  she  avers she is still  a suf 
ferer.  She  brought suit for $10,000 dam­
ages,  and  the  trial  was  commenced  one
day last week in the Wayne Circuit Court. 
The  testimony  showed  that  the  person 
who  was  operating the elevator was  not 
the one  employed  by  the  firm  for  that 
purpose, and that Miss Judson was aware 
of that fact.  Judge Frazer thereupon in­
formed the jury that  she  was  guilty  of 
contributory negligence, that the elevator 
was in good condition,  and  the  firm  not 
liable.  He directed a verdict for the  de­
fendant.

MANUFACTURING MATTERS.

Sparta  Hammond & Warner  are  suc­
ceeded by the Sparta Brick &  Tiling  Co.
South  Haven—E.  Van  Arden has pur­
chased the flour and feed mill business of 
S.  M.  Trowbridge &  Son.

Farwell—H.  M.  Roys  has  sold  his 
drug  stock to  A.  H.  Roys  &  Co.,  who 
will  continue  the  business at this place.
Clinton—Lindsey  &  Kisbpaugh  suc­

Prescott—The  Cliff Manufacturing Co. 
is running its shingle mill  full blast and 
is shipping in  bolts by rail.
ceed Brown  &  Kishpaugh  in  the  hard- j  Bagley-H.  G.  Lord  &  Co.  succeed 
ware  and  agricultural  implement- busi-  Ostrander &  Lord  in  the  general  trade
ness.
and  the wholesale cedar lumbering busi 
ness.

Bagley

Detroit—The  Lohrman  Seed  Co.,  not 
incorporated,  succeeds  Lohrman,  Broth- 
erton & Co.  in the  wholesale  seed  busi­
ness.

Sturgis—Thos.  H.  Berridge  &  Son, 
manufacturers of patent tinners’  shears, 
have dissolved,  Thos.  B.  Berridge  con­
tinuing the business.

Mascn —A.  McDonald  has  bought  the 
undertaking business of S.  P. Stroud and
Shingleton—J.  M.  Carr  has  sold  the
will join forces with  F.  L.  Stroud in  the  Bice Manufacturing' Co.  306,000  f e e /of
sl7udU& M c W d .Under  the  Dame  o f| ^ 8’ wh^ w i l l   be  railed  to  Marquette
Stroud & McDonald.
and  worked up  in  the  purchaser’s  fac-
tory there.

Mulliken—A.  O.  Halsted,  formerly  in 
the drug business at  Muskegon, has pur­
chased  a  part  of  the  Anderson  drug 
stock,  at Grand Ledge,  and has moved to

Bad Axe—Eagan Bros,  have  erected  a 
small sawmill  here  and  expect  to  start 
it next month. 
It is  also  equipped with

M artin   L.  S w e e t   has  assumed  control  of 
S w e e t ’s  H o tel, retaining the  Messrs.  Irish  as  mana­

gers.  Extensive  improvements  will  be made throughout the 

house, and it is expected that the office,  remodeled  and  newly 
decorated .will be one of the handsomest in Michig*ran.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

5

GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

A. W. Cobb has opened a grocery store 
at Crapo.  The OIney  &  Judson  Grocer 
Co.  famished the  stock.

John Borst  has opened  a grocery store 
at Vriesland.  The OIney &  Judson Gro­
cer Co. furnished the stock.

J. Balyhan & Son have  opened  a  gro­
cery store at  Big Rapids.  The Lemon  & 
Wheeler Company furnished the stock.

M.  B.  Thomas  has  embarked  in  the 
grocery business at  Ed more.  The  stock 
was furnished by the Lemon  &  Wheeler 
Company.

H.  C.  Greiner  has  embarked  in  the 
grocery business at Rockford.  The stock 
was furnished  by  the  OIney  &  Judson 
Grocer Co.

Faulkner & Aldrich,  dealers  in  hard­
wood lumber,  have dissolved.  The busi­
ness  will be continued by John N.  Faulk­
ner,  Henry E.  Stanton and Elmer L. Mad­
dox under the style of John N.  Faulkner 
& Co.

H.  S.  Welch has retired from  the  firm 
of Welch & Co., grocers and meat dealers 
at the  corner  of  South  Ionia  and  Hall 
streets.  The business will  be continued 
by the remaining partners,  W.  S.  Brad­
ley  and  Elmer  J.  Worden,  under  the 
style of Bradley & Worden.

Dennis Bros,  have taken  possession of 
the den Bleyker carriage plant,  at  Kala­
mazoo, to secure themselves for  a  claim 
for lumber sold  Mr.  den  Bleyker  when 
he  was engaged  in  the  manufacture  of 
carriages at  Saginaw.  The  property  is 
now  occupied  by  the  Michigan  Buggy 
Co.  as  auxiliary  to  its  main  establish­
ment.

The Grocery  Market.

Sugar—Reports from New  York are to 
the effect that the refineries did  an  enor­
mous business last Monday and Tuesday, 
during  which 
time  granulated  was 
marked  down  a  sixpence  below  4c. 
Wednesday both standard  and  fine gran­
ulated  were  marked  up  l-16c,  when 
business slacked off.  The  next  turn  in 
the market is looked forward  to with in­
terest,  but what it will  be  none are will­
ing to  foretell.

Molasses—The  New  Orleans  market 
has exhibited considerable  strength  dur­
ing the past week, actual  advances rang­
ing from 1 to  2c  per  gallon  having  oc­
curred.

Fruits—Lemon  peel 

is  scarce  and 
strong.  Currants have sustained  an  ad­
vance of 
in Greece,  which has  had  a 
tendency  to  strengthen  the  market  in 
this  country.  Domestic  prunes  are 
scarce  and  firm.  French  prunes  are 
qqiet and unchanged.  California raisins 
are firm.  Sultanas are celling freely.

Coffees—Brazil grades  are without ma­
teria) change, the market being character­
ized  by  frequent  unimportant  tiuctua 
tions.  Mild  grades  are  quiet. 
is 
feared that a large  portion of  the  Mexi­
can crop will be  lost  on  account  of  the 
scarcity of labor.

It 

Bananas—The  local  market  has  two 
cars of bananas with which to supply the 
holiday  trade.  Chicago,  Detroit  and 
other large  places  are  making  such  ex­
tremely low prices  on this article that  it 
is  difficult  for  borne  dealers  to  realize 
enough profit to  pay for  handling  them; 
still our dealers  dislike to  see  the  trade 
go  elsewhere  and  have  prepared  them­
selves to take care of voluntary orders.

Lemons—The  new  crop  of  Messina 
stock that is now coming in is fairiy well 
ripened  and  grows  better  every  day. 
Prices are also  getting lower,  and quota­
tions,  as they appear elsewhere, compare 
most favorably  with  other  markets  and 
are in favor  of the  buyer.  The  fruit  is 
packed very nicely and,  outside of a  few 
green spots,  is sure  to  give  satisfaction 
to the trade.

Oranges—Our market is  fairly  glutted 
with the finest of Florida oranges.  Every 
wholesale  dealer  and  commission  man 
has from one to three  cars in  stock,  and 
all  are  making  extremely  low prices  to 
secure the orders of outside buyers.

Foreign  Nuts—The  local  market  is 
well  supplied  with  all  grades,  except 
larragona  Almonds. 
In  place of them, 
however,  California Paper Shells are  be­
ing  offered  at  very  low  figures,  and, 
though somewhat smaller  than  the  reg­
ular Tarragonas,  are  giving as  good  sat­
isfaction  to  a  majority  of  the  dealers. 
The  meat  is  large,  bright  and  of  fine 
quality and  the  goods are  being  sold  at 
prices  never  seen before  in this market.
Peanuts—Remain easy at previous quo­
tations.  New  nuts  are  rapidly  coming 
into market but local  dealers report that 
orders are small,  as the trade do not care 
to stand the shrinkage  that naturally oc­
curs  on  the  new  stock.  Shelled  goods 
are aiso slightly  lower.

Figs—Are  in  good  supply  at  prices 
most  favorable  to  the  buyer.  Bag  figs 
seem to take well with  the outside trade 
and,  although  many  of  our  dealers 
stocked  up  liberally,  they  report  that 
first invoices are nearly closed out, owing 
to the large outside demand.

Dates—Hallow! dates have  dropped off 
a quarter and are selling to  the  trade  at 
from 5 to 5j^c.  The new  crop  seems  to 
be  very  fine  quality,  the goods opening 
up clean  and  bright.  There  is  nothing 
to  warrant  a further  decline,  as present 
prices are about as  low  as  they  usually 
get.

is 

Candy—This 

the  manufacturer’s 
busy  season.  All  of  the  factories  are 
working hard  and all  report that trade is 
extremely  good. 
Prices  have  been 
whittled down to a  point that  leaves but 
a very small  margin,  but  they  are,  un­
doubtedly,  in accordance with other lines 
of goods.

Gripsack  Brigade.

A.  J.  Quist  has  engaged  to  represent 
the cigar and  tobacco department  of  the 
Ball-Barnhart-Putman  Co.  among 
the 
city trade.

Preparations  for  the  annual  conven­
tion of the Michigan Knights of  the Grip 
are now practically completed,  and nearly 
everything is in readiness for  the  troops 
of  tramping  traveling  men  who  will 
invade the Valley City on  the morning of 
Dee. 26.  A  final  meeting of all  the com­
mittees of arrangements will  be  held  at 
the Livingston Hotel  Saturday  evening.
Jos.  P.  Visner,  who  has  covered  the 
city trade the past year for the  John  A. 
Tolman Co., of  Chicago,  has  handed  in 
his resignation and  gone  to  New  York, j 
where he  will spend  a week  posting  up 
with E. J.  Gillies & Co.,  with  whom  he 
has signed for  1895.  Mr.  Visner  repre­
sented Gillies & Co.  here  for  four  years 
and 
thoroughly  familiar  with  the 
goods and methods of the  house.

is 

Oliver C.  Shuits, formerly salesman for 
the defunct firm of Curtis &  Dunton,  but 
for the past four years a resident of  Chi­
cago, during which time he  has  traveled

for the Indurated Fiber Ware Co. and the 
Samuel  Cupples  Woodenware  Co.,  has 
signed with L.  Gould & Co.  (Chicago) for 
1895 and  will  cover  the  entire  trade  of 
this State.  He  has, therefore,  returned 
to  Grand  Rapids  to  reside  and  taken 
possession of his own  home at  605  North 
Front street.

Chairman Gonzalez issues a  call  for  a 
final meeting of the Reception Committee, 
to  be  held  at  the  Morton  House  at  3 
o’clock Saturday afternoon.  The Commit­
tee  has  been  divided  into  several  sub­
committees,  the following members bein 
designated to meet the trains  and  escort 
the visiting grip carriers to headquarters: 
J.  H.  Roseman,  chairman;  W.  E.  Rich­
mond, V. A. Johnston,  Hal Montgomery, 
A.  E.  McGuire,  D.  S.  Haugh, John  Cum 
mins,  John  M.  Shields,  Frank  R.  Miles, 
J.  F. O.  Reed,  W.  A.  Van Leuven,  M.  M. 
Mallory,  Frank  Hadden, Chas.  Wood, J. 
H.  Dawley,  Geo.  J.  Heinzleman,  J.  M. 
Fell, Chas. S.  Brooks,  W.  F.  Wurzburg, 
H.  P.  Winchester,  P.  H.  Fox,.  H.  L. 
Gregory, Jesse C.  Watson.

Tbe  Grain  Market.

Wheat  has  been  extremely  sluggish 
during the past week  and  rather  lower 
than  the previous two  weeks,  owing  to 
the expectation of another large increase 
in the  visible and  small  exports,  while 
receipts  in 
the  Northwest  have  been 
more than were anticipated, also owing to 
the lack of  buying  orders.  We  do  not 
look for any improvement  until after the 
holidays,  at  least  not  until  there  is  a 
falling  off  in receipts, and  more  export 
orders,  so  as  to  diminish 
the  visible, 
which  will  probably  exceed  87,000,000 
bushels,  which is about  double  what  it 
was in  former years,  with  the  exception 
of  the  last  two  years. 
In  the  winter 
wheat  belt  deliveries  have  been  very 
moderate and are likely to be  less,  as the 
roads  are  getting  very  heavy  with  the 
rains of the last two days,  which are  re­
ported  to be general.

Corn has  remained  stationary,  owing 
to the high price,  and  it  seems  lifeless 
and in a waiting mood.  Oats have  been 
very active.  While the  price  has  been 
only a trifle higher, the demand  has been 
of such a nature that any  offerings  have 
been picked up at full  prices.

Receipts during the  week have  been 57 
cars of wheat,  13 cars  of  corn  and  two 
cars of oatss which is  a  little  less  than 
the usual  amount  of  wheat  and  rather 
more than the usual  amount  of corn  re­
ceived. 

C.  G.  A V oigt.

Christmas  Trade Oysters 

Should be better  than you  have ever  be­
fore  had  in  your store.  Such occasions 
may  bring  new  customers,  who will  al­
ways be your patrons if  they are pleased 
with their first purchases.  The Wolverine 
oysters,  in bulk and cans,  for  which  Os­
car  Allyn  is  city  agent,  cannot  be  ex­
celled.  Headquarters  at  106  Canal 
street.  Telephone 1001  for  quick  deliv­
ery.  Mr.  Allyn  claims  to  carry  at  all 
times  the  choicest  stock  of  live  and 
dressed  poultry  in  the  city,  if  not the 
largest stock.

Store  Fixtures  and  Shelving 

In  large  assortment,  as  good as new, 
are included in the “Everything on Earth” 
at Jim  Travis’,  67 Canal street.  Also  a 
saloon outfit complete.

Complete  line  of  white  goods,  Nain­
sooks and India linens will be  ready  for 
inspection at P.  Steketee & Sons’  Whole­
sale department Jan.  15 to 20.

Wants  C o lu m n •

.  Advertisements  will  be  inserted  under  this 
nead 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 Dayment.

B C slSBsS  CHANt/ES. 

Will invoice 

TATANTBD—-TO  EXCHANGE  a  clea n 
,  stock  of  boots,  shoes  and  rubbers for a
. 
stock  of  hardware,  or  will  sell  cheap for spot 
Address No. 646  care
Michigan Tradesman.
TF  YOU  WANT  TO  BUY  OK  SELL  REAL 
J.  estate, write me.  I  can  satisfy  you  Chas. 
E. Mercer, Rooms 1 and 2, Widdicomb  building.
653
T ^ K  SALE-SECOND-HAND MEDIUM SIZED
n  *  5a£ebi , Geo-  M‘  Smith>  157  Ottawa  street, 
Grand Rapids. 
|jlOK  SALE  AT  A  BARGAIN—NEW  STOCK 
-a-  of groceries invoicing  $l,'0n.  Good  trade, 
good  location.  Reas  n  for  selling,  death  in 
family.  Write G. B , care Michigan  Tradesman.
651

652

¿gg

T ^ Xn?L-iy 0 « !STB£ M LAUNDRY, o f g ran d 
Rapids, Mich., for sale; good location; long 
lease; cheap rent; brick  building:  good engine 
and  machinery.  This  property  for  sale.  Tor- 
Mictf *  Barber. 208  Ottawa  St.,  Grand  Rapids, 
647
(TJOOD  o pe n in g  
fo r  d e n t is t!  a d-
v-*  dress S. S. Burnett, Lake Ann, Mich.  654

:---------------------------------- ------  

■  YOLNG  MAN  WITH  GOOD  HABITS 

wishes to change location.  Experience  in 
Hardware and groceries.  References  furnished 
Address L. B. B.  .Jackson. Mich. 
(555
BOOTS  AND  SHOES—A  RARE  OPPORTUN 
" ,   ity to  purchase the stock, fixtures and good 
wr.ii .  ®n  AJ  sboe  business,  in  city  of 5.000. 
Will invoice  *3,500. 
best  reasons  for  selling. 
Will  sell  for  15c  on  a  dollar, spot cash  Can’t 
use real estate.  Address No. 650,  care Michigan 
Tradesman. 
lflOK  SALE—A  WELL SELECTED  DRUG 
, 
stock and first-class fixtures  in good order- 
also store building with  hall  overhead,  located 
at Bradley, one of the best  tiading  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. 644 
Tj'tOK  SALE—FOR  CASH  ONLY, NEW. WELL 
assorted stoc.  of hardware.  Only store in 
J- 
town of <  0; surrounded by good farming  conn- 
t-y, doing paying cash business  A snap  Good 
reasons  for  selling.  Will  take  small  grocery
",Llte. at  once-  Address  No.  643  care 
Michigan Tradesman 
T°  BXCHANGE—FOR  STOCK  GENERAL 
-m.  merchandise  or  clothing,  fruit  fa’m  In 
Oceana county.  Address No. 612, care Michigan 
Tradesman,_______  
642
"CIOR  SALE  OR  RENT—BLACKSMITH  SHOP 
~~ 
small village and in good farming  conn- 
try  seven miles from the nearest shop.  Address 
J.  H.  Purvis, Ironton, Mich. 
TpOR  SALE—CLEAN DRUG STOCK  FINELY 
x. 
located in a prosperous Northern Michigan 
Lake Shore town  of  8,5no  population.  Invoices 
from $3.5 0 to $4,000.  Address No. 640, care Mich- 
lgan Tradesman._______  

040

^43

611

RICK  STORE  TO  RENT;  LIVING  ROOMS 
above; good trading point,  surrounded  by 
good  farming  lands;  abundance  of  fruit-rea­
sonable terms.  Address A. L. Power, Kent City 
Mich. 

streets in Grand Rapids  New stock, good trade 

f lOR  SALE—A  SHOE  BUSINESS,  OR  HALF 
interest in ssme,  on  one  of  the  principal 
location  Al.  Address  No.  624,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman._______ 
F u r n it u r e b u y er and m a n a g er w ill
be open  for  engagement  Jan.  1.  Sixteen 
years’experience.  References  furnished.  Ad- 
dress No. 638, care Michigan Tradesman.  638

SITUATIONS  WANTED,

626

034

MDVELLAN h u  Us.

T ’HK  CITIZENS  OF  DORR  WILL  PAY  A 
liberal bonus to any party who has a  small 
A 
capital to Invest in  a flouring mill at Dorr.  For 
further information write J.  C.  Newman,  Dorr
Mii-h. 
049  ’
END  FOR  THE  LITTLE  BOOK—-HOW  TO 
speculate  Successfully  in  the  Stock  and 
free.  Comstock, 

Grain  Markets.”  Mailed 
Hughes & Co.. Ria'to Building.  Chicago.  648
WANTED—WE  WISH  TO  LEASE  A  15 
Ne a r l y   n ew   b a r lock  t y p e w r it e r

horse power  portable  engine  and  boiler, 
with or without engineer, during the ice cutting 
season.  Consumers’ Ice Co , Grand Rapids.  ms
for  sale  at  a  great  reduction  from  cost- 
Reason for selling, we desire another  pattern of 
same make of machine, which  we  consider  the 
best  on the  market.  Tradesman  Company,  100 
Louis St., Grand  Rapids. 
\X 7 ANTED—EVERY  DRUGGIST  JUST 
* v  starting in business and every one already 
started to use our system of poison labels.  What 
has cost you $15 you can now  get  for  $4.  Four­
teen  labels  do  the  work  of  113.  Tradesman 
Company, Grand Rapids.__________________
“GEORGE RIDER S GO..  SSSSL S S
Store  Fixtures,  Counters,  Shelving,  etc.,  made 
to  order.  Corner  of  Kent  and  Newberrv  St., 
Grand  Rapida.
I  Wish  To  Buy
A good retail business  in  any  of  the  fol­
lowing  lines:  Groceries,  crockery,  dry  goods, 
boots and shoes, clothing or  gents'  furnishings. 
Am short of ready money, but have a  large num­
ber of unincumbered lots in this  city and in one 
of the cleanest and best located new suburbs  of 
Chicago,  where  property  will  soon  double  in 
value.  If you wish to get  out  of  business  and 
get  your stock of goods where the rise  in  value 
will be from 50 to 110 per cent, in  the  next  few 
years, better write quick to  R. A. J.,50 Fremont 
St., Battle Creek, Mich, j

504

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN".
Dry Goods Price Current.

DEVINS.

GETTING  ON  IN  THE  W ORLD. 

W ritte n   fo r  Th e  Tradesman.

Ambition,  enterprise  and  thrift  are, 
without question,  royal  virtues  well  be­
fitting citizens of a great republic, where 
no one can be  a king, yet  where  all  are 
sovereigns.  Whenever,  in  the  struggle 
for wealth,  power or fame,  honest means 
are  used,  and  the  purpose  is  secured 
without prejudice to the rights of others, 
success may well crown one’s efforts. 
In 
such event public opinion freely concedes 
to the fortunate  one  his  well-earned  re­
ward,  whether his  field  of  action  be  in 
war,  politics,  business, 
literature  or 
science.

In  a  territory  so  extensive  as  ours, 
with hardly  a  tenth  of  its  naturnal  re­
sources yet developed,  it  is  possible  for 
some  to  become  very rich,  the majority 
prosperous,  and  the  rest  doing  fairly 
well.  Should  the  fortunes  of  half  our 
millionaires disappear,  the  general  con­
dition of the  people  would  not  be  per­
ceptibly changed. 
In spite  of  the  need 
less  waste  and recklessness of our  large 
cities the wealth of this nation is steadily 
accumulating, and every decennial census 
surprises us  with the  immense total. 
If 
every  citizen  would  become  an  active 
factor  in  this  prosperity,  our  republic 
might be  considered a  perfect model  for 
the  world’s  imitation.  But  this  is  far 
from hopeful  realization at  present. 
In 
every  community  some  persons  allow 
themselves  to  be,  wholly  or  in  part, 
maintained at the  expense of  others. 
If 
this results from sickness, accident or ad­
verse conditions beyond personal control, 
it is unfortunate  and  they  deserve sym­
pathy rather than reproach.

But there is another class, one or more 
samples of which may be seen  in  nearly 
every  portion  of  the  land,  who have  a 
way of getting on in  the  world  peculiar 
to themselves.  Their ways  and schemes 
are ever new  and varied;  but  all tend  to 
one  end,  and  that is to obtain whatever 
they desire of value  in the  world  at  the 
least expense to  themselves,  however ex­
pensive  may  be  the  result  to  others. 
They are “as smoke to  the  eyes,  and  as 
vinegar to the teeth”  of  every  business 
man  so  unfortunate  as to have dealings 
with them;  and I am  compelled to admit 
that their success  in life  financially is in 
inverse ratio to  the merit of  their  meth­
ods.

This type of a class to be  found every­
where,  all  enterprising men,  always get­
ting  up  in the world at the cost of  some 
one else, is not so uncommon as some may 
imagine.  He may be a member of any of 
the learned  professions,  he  may  be  en­
gaged  in  manufacturing  or  commercial 
pursuits, or he may pose  as  a  moral  re­
former sui gciieris.  He  has  but one  be­
lief concerning the laws of meumettuum, 
and  this  is  his  free translation thereof, 
“What Is yours is mine, and what is mine 
is my own.”

To get on in the  world by  the methods 
he chooses to adopt requires cheek of the 
largest  dimensions.  Principle, 
like  a 
grain of mustard seed in proportion, may 
exist,  but usually as a  thin  veneer  that 
is soon  worn away by the friction of com­
petition until  scarce  a  vestige  remains.
An  excessive  self-esteem  takes its place 
which swells into resentment at any lack 
of  popular  appreciation,  or  voices  a 
volume of abuse against any one who of­
fends by doubt or  suggestion  of personal 
ego.  He firmly believes  in a  credit  sys­
tem,  using  it  ad  libitum, to the farthest 
extent of his  creditor’s  endurance,  from

U N I U A C B I D   COTTONS.

Adriatic
“  Arrow Brand 4 Vi 
Argyle................... 5M
**  World Wide.  6
“  LL............. 4M
Atlanta AA.............6M
Atlantic A.............. 6 Vi
Full Yard Wide...... 6 Vi
“  H .............. 6
Georgia  A..............6 V
P .............   5
" 
Honest Width........  6
“  D .............. 8
Hartford A  ............ 6
.  “  LL............. 4Vi
Indian Head...........  svi
Amory.................... 6M
King A  A................6V4
Archery Bunting...  4M 
King EC.................5
Beaver Dam  A A ..  4V4
Lawrence  L L........  4M
Blackstone O, 32__5
Madras cheese cloth 6M
Black Crow............ 6
Newmarket  G.......   5v
Black Rock  ...........5V4
B ...... 6
Boot, AL...............   7
N........6*
Capital A................GM
DD....  5M 
Cavanat V.............. 5*4 
_
X ......6M
Chapman cheese cl. 3M Nolbe R.........  . .. 
5
Clifton C R .............5M Onr Level  Best....... 6
Comet.....................5M Oxford  R...............   g
Dwight Star............  6M Pequot................ 
7
CliftonCCC...........5>4 Solar.........................  6
ITopof the Heap....  7
ABC.................. 8M
Geo. Washington...  8
Amazon..................8
Glen Mills.............   7
Amaburg.......  ...... 6
Gold Medal..............7Vi
Art Cambric.......... 10
Green  Ticket........... 8M
Blackstone A A......6 Vi
Great Falls.............   6M
Beats All................ 4
Hope.........................7J4
Boston ...... ............. 12
Just  Ont........  4V£@ 5
Cabot...................... 6M
King Phillip............ 7M
Cabot,  \
OP.....  7V4
Charter  Oak__  ... 5Vi
Lonsdale Cambric..  9%
Conway W..........  7M
Lonsdale...........  @  8
Clevelan d .............  8
Middlesex........   @ 4V4
Dwight Anchor__   7V4
No Name................   7Vi
shorts  8
Oak View................. 6
Edwards.................. 6  I Our Own..................  5*4
Empire.............. . 
7  Pride of the West... 11
Farwell.....................6* Rosalind.................. 7 14
Fruit of the Loom.  7 Vi ¡Sunlight..................   4Vi
Fitch vllle  ............  7
Utica  Mills............. 8 Vi
First Prize............6
Nonpareil ..10
Fruit of the L 00m \ . 7 Vi
Vlnyard..................  8V4
Falrmount............ 454
White Horse.
Full Value............ 6M
Rock..
HALT BLEACHED COTTONS.
Cabot....................6 3£l Dwight Anchor
Farwell..................7 til

B L E A C H E D   COTTONS.

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

“ 

Bleached. 
Housewife  Q .... 

R.
S.
T. 
U-
V..
w .
X.
Y . 
z ...

.10
• 10M 
•11V4
• 12V4 
•13 Vi

.

Unbleached.
Housewife  A........
-5M
B........
“ 
—5VÍ
* 
C........ -6
D........ - 6V4
“ 
‘ 
E ........ ..7
F ........ •7V.
“ 
G  ...... —7V4
■ 
H ........ -7M
• 
I ........ ••«M
“ 
‘ 
J ........ -  8Vi
* 
K.......
»M
L ......... .10
• 
‘  M.........
iovi
‘ 
N ......... 11
“ 
O......... 21
P ............14VÍ
“ 

CARPET  WARP.

DRESS  SOODB.

Peerless, white.......13V41 Integrity  colored... 18
colored.... 16 
White Star..............17
Integrity................. 18V4
colored  .19
Hamilton................   8
Nameless.................20
.................9
......... 25
 
....27VÍ
.........30
.........32 Vi
....35

10V4
G G  Cashmere........16Ví
Nameless  ...............16
................18

“ 
“  

“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Corallne..................... 19 00
Schilling’s ................... 9 00
Davis  Waists......   9 00
Grand  Rapids........4 50
Armory.................:  6M
Androscoggin.........7M
Blddeford...............6
Brunswick..............6V4
Allen turkey  reds..  5Vi
robes.......... 5 V4
pink a purple 5V4
buffs...........  5 Vi
pink  checks.  5Vi 
staples  ......  5
shirtings...  3M 
American fancy....  5
American indigo...  4M 
American shirtings.  8M 
Argentine  Grays...  6 
Anchor Shirtings...  4
Arnold 
__ 6
Arnold  Merino...... 6
“ 
long cloth B.  9 
.. 
c   ?
“  oentnry cloth 7
“  gold seal......10 Vi
“  green seal TRiovi 
“ 
yellow seal..iovi
“  serge............ 11 Vi
“  Turkey red.. 10V4 
“ 

.. 

“ 

.. 

Ballou solid black..
“  oolors.
Bengal bine,  green, 
red and  orange...  6
Berlin solids...........5V4
“  oil bine.........6
“  “  green ....  6
“  Foulards....  5Vi
“  red M........... 7
“ 
“  * • ..........9Vi
4 4......... 10
“  
“  3-4XXXX 12
Cocheco fancy........5
“  madders...  5 
XXtwills..  5
solids........5  I Harmony

“  

t i c k i n g s .

“ 
“ 

Amoskeag A C A. ...I1V4
Hamilton N .............7
D.............. 8
Awning.. 11
Farmer..................... 8
First Prize..............iovi
Lenox M ills........... 18
COTTON  DRILL.
Atlanta,  D..............6M| Stark  A 
Clifton,K  ....... 

CORSET  JEANS.

CORSETS.

“ 

“ 
“ 

Wonderful. 
•4 50 
Brighton..
4
Bortree’s ..............9 00
Abdominal...........15 00
Naumkeagsatteen..  7*4
Rockport.................6
Conestoga............... 7V4
Walworth.............. 6M
Berwick fancies__svi
Clyde Robes...........
Charter Oak fancies 4 
DelMarine cashm’s.  4V4 
monrn’g  454 
Eddy stone fancy...  5 
chocolat  5
rober__ 5
sateens.. 5 
Hamilton fancy.  ...  4M
staple__ 5
Manchester fancy..  5 
new era. 6
„  
Merrimack D fancy.  5 
Merrfm’ck shirtings.  4 , 
_  “  Keppfnrn .  8 Vi
Pacific fancy..........5
„  “ 
robes............5 Vi
Portsmouth robes...  6 
Simpson mourning..  5
greys........5
_  
solid black.  5 
Washington Indigo.  6Vi 
“  Turkey robes..  7 
India robes....  7 
'  Plain T’kyXM  7
!  —“ 
“  X...10
Ottoman  Tur­
key red.................6 vi
Martha Washington
Turkeyred M...... 7
Martha Washington
Turkeyred.......... 9Vi
Rlverpomtrobes....  5
Windsor fancy........6 Vi
gold  ticket 
Indigo blue......... :
.1014
*a
AC A ...................... njz
Pemberton AA A .... 16
York.......................iovi
Swift River............ 714
Pearl River........... 12
Warren.................. 1244
Con os toga............. 16
.............8
7  ITopof H eap........  g

7V4

— „■............... CM No  Name.............. 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

brown. 

Amoskeag  ...... 

Columbian brown.. 12
Everett, bine.........11
brown.......11
Haymaker bine......  7
71 
Jeffrey, XX..9 XXX..i
Lancaster.............12Vi
Lawrence, 9oz.......12 vi
“ 
NO.220....12
NO.250....1P
“ 
“  No.280....  8

Amoskeag..............12
9 os...... 14
brown .14
Andover.................livi
Beaver Creek AA... 10 
“ 
BB...  9
« 
CQ
Boston Mfg Co.  br!!  7 
“ 
blue  8Vi 
“  d a  twist 10Vi 
Columbian XXX  br.10 
XXX  bl.19
GINGHAMS.
...  5
Lancaster,  staple...  5 
“  Persian dress 6v*
“ 
fancies....  6 
Canton..  7
“ 
“  Normandie  6
AFC....... 8 Vi
“ 
Lancashire.............   4M
Teazle... I0)i
“ 
Manchester............   4%
“ 
Angola.. 10Vi
Monogram..............  4M
“ 
Persian..  7
Normandie............  SVi
Arlington staple__  6)4
Persian...................  6M
Arasapha, fancy__454
Renfrew Dress........7Vi
Bates Warwick dres 7Vi!Rosemont............ 64
staples.  6
Slatersvllle............ 6
Centennial............   iovi
Somerset.................7
Criterion...............10V4
Tacoma  .................7V4
Cumberland staple.  5V4
Toll  du Nord......... s Vi
Cumberland........... 5
Wabash.................. 7V4
Essex....................4  vi
seersucker..  7Vi
Elfin.......................  7V4
Warwick...............   6
Everett classics......8V4
Whlttenden............  8
Exposition...............7V4
heather dr.  7V4 
Glenarie.................  gu
Indigo blue 9 
Glenarven................6M
Wamsuttastaples...  6M
Glenwood..............  7V4
Westbrook..............8
Hampton............... 5
.................... 10
_
Johnson Chalón cl  Vi 
Wlndermeer........... 5
Indigo blue 9Vi 
York  ......................6M
zephyrs  ...16  I

“ 
“ 

“ 

“  

 

SRAIN  BASS.

Amoskeag.............. 12M|Georgla...................12V4
.
Stark......................16 Vi 
American...............i2Vil...............................

.........  

WE  WANT

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.

«BRADS.

Clark’s Mile End....45  IBarbour s............... 95
Coats’, J. A P .........45  Marshall’s  ..............90
Holyoke..................22Vil

KNITTING  COTTON.

8-------34 
10.........35 
12.........36 

White.  Colored.
White. Colored
38
No. 6  ..  ..33 
42
No.  14-------37 
“ 
39
16......... 38 
“ 
43
“ 
40
'• 
18......... 39 
44
“ 
41
“ 
45
20  
40 
CAKBRICS,
Slater........................4
’Edwards................  4
White Star...............  4
Lockwood................ 4
Kid Glove................  4
Wood’s..................  4
Newmarket............   4
Brunswick...........   4

RED  FLANNEL.

Fireman................ 27
Creedmore.............24
Talbot XXX...........30
Nameless...............27V4

IT W........................¡SV4
F T ..........................32 Vi
JR F , XXX............35
Buckeye.................32%

MIXED  FLANNEL.

Brown. 

Brown.
10V4
11 Vi
12 
20

CANVASS  AND  PADDING.
9V4 
10V4 
UV4 
12 Vi

Red A Blue,  plaid..40
Union R.................22 Vi
Windsor................. 18V4
6 oz Western.......... 20
Unlop  B.................22 V4
DOXBT  FLANNEL.
Nameless...... 8  ®  9 Vi | 
8V4@10  I 

Slate. 
Black
9VÍ 
9M
10V4 
iovi
11V4 
livi
12 Vi
12 Vi
Severen, 8 oz..........   9V4
May land, 8 OZ..........10Vi
Greenwood, 7V4 oz..  9V4
Greenwood, 8 oz__ 11 vi
Boston, 8 oz.............10V4

Grey 8 R W.............17^4
Western W ............. 18V4
D R P ......................16V4
Flushing XXX........23V4
Maaltoba................ 23V4
•<
©10Vi
•*
12V4
Slate
Black.
10Vi
10V4
llVi
m i12
12
20
20
West  Point, 8 oz__iovi
„  
10oz  ...12V(
Raven, lOoz.............i3v<
Stark  « 
...........1jg
Boston, 10 os............i2vi
18 50
White, d(M.............25  IPer bale, 40 dos 
Colored, doz..........20  IColored  “ 
..........  7 50
Slater, Iron Cross...  8  Pawtucket..............iovi
Dundie................ ”  9'
Bedford................. 
iovi
Valley  City........... !inv{
K K ........................   10Vi

Red Cross....  9
Best.............10V4
Best A A......12 vi
....................... 8Vil

WADDINGS.

SILESIAS.

“ 

SEWING  SILK.

_  

Cortlcelll, doz......... 55  [Cortlcelll  knitting,

..12 
" 8  
-12  j  “  10 

twist, doz..37V4  per Vioz  ball. 
50 yd, doz..37 Vi I 
HOOKS AND  EVES— PER GROSS
“ 
« 

'so 
...........
No  1 Bl’k A Whlte..l0  INo  4 Bl’k A White  15 
"20
25
’P£afo®::.“ ::8  I**“ » ' * .....•
„  
__  
No  2 White A Bl’k..12  (No  8 White A Bl’k. 20 
4 
.28
6 
;;g
8........................28  |N 03...............................

COTTON  TAPE.
-16 
“  10 
- i s  
| »  12 
SAFETY  PINS.

« 
•• 

PINS.

“ 
“ 

Jsmes................1 40| Steamboat.

NEEDLES— PER  K.

.......... ! 

Byed.';;;;;;:::i so
Marshall's...............1 OOlAmerican................1 00
.2 30

TABLE  OIL  CLOTH.
6—4... 

15—«— J  65  6—4.

COTTONT WINES.

Cotton Sail Twine. .28
Crown....................12
Domestic...............is vi
Anchor..................16
Bristol................... 13
Cherry  Valley....... 15
’ ” 1*...  .................18 Vi
Alabama.................6M
Alamance............. 6 Vi
Augusta................ 7vi
A r sapha............... 6
Georgia.................. 6M
G ranite..................54
Haw  River............ 5
Haw J ................. ...

. 

Nashua................... 14
Rising Star 4-ply.... 17 
_  
8-ply....17
North Star.............. 20
Wool Standard 4 plyl7V4 
Fowhattan.............is

T‘ 

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

Otis checks.............7

PLAID  O8NABUBG8

A L B U flS, 
D 0L L 5,
TOYS, 

GAMES, 

BOOKS.

EATON,  LYON 4 CO.
Betsy  m I Âre  Ont.

20 &   22  Monroe  St.,

GRAND  RAPID3.

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-partin’ 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 you,

I’m a-goin’ to git up and git;

I’ve alius been boss of the roost at home, 

And I’m going to be boss ylt.

If Betsy'don’t come to terms to-day,

And git Atlas  Soap at the store,
I’m goin’ to leavejvithout delay,
And I’ll not come back any more.

Manufactured only by

HENRY  PASS0LT,

S a g in a w ,  M ic h .

HIRTH, 
KRAUSE 

&  CO.
Headquarters for

Over Goiiers

$2 .5 0   per  dozen 

and Upwards.

in 3 grades.

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

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

7

tributed, in part, to the  laxity in general 
morals concerning the sacredness of busi­
ness promises made by  consumers.  The 
credit system seems  to  be  a  necessity— 
it  certainly  is  to many  poor men strug­
gling  to  reach  better  conditions;  but 
there  is  a  limit to its advantages.  The 
credit system is a curse  to  one  who  can 
get  along  without  it, though usually  he 
is the  man most likely to abuse it. 
It  is 
the  recourse  of  the  careless,  pleasure- 
loving  spendthrift,  as  well  as  of  the 
shiftless and the criminal. 
Its history is 
mainly  a  record  of  broken  promises. 
Some  of  these  may have  had honest ex­
cuse,  but long experience  with  all  sorts 
of men convinces me that the  latter  will 
not  exceed  10  per  cent.  Looking  over 
the accounts of many years once listed as 
hopelessly bad,  nearly  all  of  which  are 
now  barred  by the statute  of limitation, 
I do not believe  there is  a  dollar  of  the 
total  that  could  not  have been  paid  by 
the debtor when  due  without  the  sacri­
fice of a single comfort  to  himself  or his 
family.

One who  wilfully  takes  advantage  of 
another’s  confidence,  by  purchasing  on 
credit either  luxuries or  necessities  with 
no  intention  of  paying  for  them,  is  a 
criminal in fact,  however  much  a  legal 
fiction  may  gloss over the animus of  the 
deed. 
In comparison, larceny, be it petit 
or  grand,  is  a virtue,  because universal 
opinion condemns the  cowardly  act of  a 
stab^in  the  bask,  while  excusing blood 
spilt in open and fair combat.  Those  of 
the first mentioned class befog their  con­
duct  with  all  manner  of excuses,  when 
the reason apparent to every  observer  is 
a  want  of  manly  courage to show their 
true colors.

A  majority  of  bad  debts,  the  world 
over,  if we take the most charitable view, 
may  reasonably  be  charged  to  improv­
idence  of  the  buyer.  They  are  what 
every  intelligent  dealer  who 
is  com­
pelled  to  do  a  credit  business expects. 
Upon his shrewdness and intimate knowl­
edge of  each  customer’s  habits  depends 
his  freedom  from  excessive  loss.  But 
the class of thrifty ones whose profits de­
pend on defaulted promises represent the 
real  vampire  sucking  the  lifeblood  of 
commercial  prosperity.  Rather 
than 
pay for “a dead horse,”  as  the  slang  of 
the day designates an  article bought  and 
consumed but not paid  for,  creatures  of 
this  ilk  prefer to  steal a dozen live ones 
before the eyes of  the owners,  expecting 
the theft will  be  condoned  by law under 
the  name  of  “ uncollected debt9.” 
If  it 
were not for the tax  this class impose  on 
trade, the enterprising dealer would stand 
better chance of getting on in the world.

S.  P.  W HITMAB8H.

Hardware Price Current.

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

d ls

AUeUBS AMD BITS. 

Snell’s ........................................................... 60*10
Cook’s ........................................................... 
4Q
Jennings’, genuine....................................... 
25
Jennings’, Imitation....................................60*10
First Quality, 8. B. Bronze..........................$ 5 50
D.  B. Bronze...........................  il 00
8. B. 3. Steel............................  6 60
D.B. Steel...................................  13 00

AXIS.

* 

whom  a  dun,  however  courteously  ex­
pressed,  is considered  an  affront,  and  a 
repetition of it a sure casus belli.

Yet, however  immoderate  may  be  his 
impositions  on  the  forbearance of cred­
itors,  he claims the same financial  stand- 
ins; accorded to prompt payers and howls 
piteously  if  it  is  not  conceded  on  the 
commercial record. 
In  this line he  does 
business on the smallest capital  of merit 
yet expects to receive the largest net div 
idends in the alphabet of financial rating, 
His system of  book  keeping  does not  in 
dude double entry,  unless it be in dupll 
cate charges of the same item. 
It has no 
column  for off.-ets,  aud  all  reference  to 
them  is  carefully  ignored.  Should  ac 
counts payable  be  pressed  upon  his  at 
tention,  they  are  audited  by  a  scaling 
down process to which decimation affords 
no parallel;  or,  if  admitted,  a  demurrer 
is  entered  on  the plea  of lack of funds 
At the same time he does  not  deny  him 
self  anything  so  long  as  it can be  pro 
cured from  a  contingent  fund  which  is 
always available,  and,  thanks to our  ex 
emption laws, always  beyond  the  reach 
of  creditors.  He  has  no  trouble  to se 
cure bargains whenever a profitable spec 
ulation heaves in sight.  He  has  fictions 
to account for every seeming discrepancy 
between the alleged poverty of yesterday 
and the extensive cash  purchase of prop 
erty to-day.  Thus, everyone’s  extremity 
is  compelled  to  serve  his  opportunity 
while he preserves a remarkable serenity 
of mind concerning the  mountain  of  un 
fulfilled  obligations  he  is  heaping  up 
year  after  year,  to the injury of accom 
modating neighbors and tradesmen.

You  should  see  him  brought  face  to 
face with a  grocer’s  bill  that  has  crept 
up  from  nothing  to a fearful aggregate, 
in spite of casual payments.  Watch how 
he scans each item from  January  to  De­
cember,  for  the purpose  of finding some 
weak spot on which  he may  base  a  dis­
claimer of contract, if not an actual alibi. 
The  pathetic  appeals  of  his  washer­
woman  or  poverty-bound 
seamstress 
never  loosen  his  purse  strings,  since, 
by  reason  of  cardiac  ossification,  they 
fail to reach a responsive  feeling  in  the 
vital  portion  of his anatomy.  He treats 
all accounts against him  as  though  they 
were  plaintiffs  in  a legal  action and  he 
counsel for the  defense,  pleading  every 
technicality  in  mitigation  or  arrest  of 
judgment,  but having  otherwise  no  per­
sonal  interest  therein,  except  to grieve 
that there are no  fees coming  to him  for 
quibbling the  complainant’s  case  out  of 
court.

Such  an  enterprising  citizen  in  any 
community  is  sure  to  breed  a  general 
distrust of honesty  of  human action. 
If 
he be an  employer  of  labor,  every  man 
subjected  to his  peculiar  methods  loses 
not only a  portion  of  his  earnings,  but 
also that faith in humanity that holds the 
business world true in its orbit and  helps 
to keep his own moral system in a healthy 
condition. 
It is not  strange if, at times, 
he is tempted,  by injured  feeling,  to sus­
pend the rules of honest  dealing and  en­
ter  on  a  similar  course,  acting  on  the 
theory  of  “Do  unto  others  as  they  do 
unto you.”  He  forgets  that  the  better 
Oolden Rule was made for  universal  ap­
plication,  and,  like  natural law, cannot 
be broken  without  a  resulting  penalty. 
Just  to  the extent that injured creditors 
adopt such business heresy will the moral 
tone of society be lowered.

b a b b o w s. 

d ls .

Railroad............................................ $12 00  14 00
Garden.................................................  net  80 00
.......................................................60*10
Carriage new l i s t .........................................75*10
.lu..................................................................40*10
Sleigh shoe................................................... 
70
Well, p la in ................................................  $860
Well,swivel................................ 
4 00
_____ 
Cast Loose Pin, figured.................................70*10
dealers all  over the  country  may  be  at- I Wrought Narrow, bright 6«st j o in t 40..."."60A10

The  failures  that are occurring among

BUTTS, OAST. 

BUCKXTS.

b o l t s. 

d lS .

d ls .

Wrought Loose Pin.................................... 
40
Wrought Table.................................. 
40
Wrought Inside Blind......   ...................."   “  40
Wrought Brass...................................................75
Blind,  Clark’s...........................................   70410
Blind, Shepard’s 
70

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

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

CRADLES.

CAPS.

OBOW BABB.

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

Gr8,n.............................................................40*10
Cast Steel................................................... per lb 5
81y 8 1-10........................ 
.per
 
.
Hick’s C.P 
g. d ................................ ;;;;;............  «
.......... 
" 
 
 
Musket 
11
.........   “ 

66 
65
86
60
CARTRIDGES.
Rim  Fire.................................. 
m
Central  Fire...................................               !l<Us. 35
dig.
Socket Firmer..................................... 
tsaio
?5*te
Socket Fram ing............................... 
Socket Corner................................  
75*10
Socket Slicks.................................... 
75*10
Butchers’ Tanged Firmer.................................. 40
uis.
Curry,  Lawrence’s....................... 
40
Hotchkiss...........................................................^
White Crayons, per  gross............. 12Q12H dls. 10

OHIBBLS. 

combs. 

 

 

HAMM MBS.

&IK6E8

Maydole  *  Co.’s.....................................dls. 
26
Kip’s....  
................................... dls. 
26
Yerkes *  Plumb’s................................. dls ’40*10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel...............  
*oc list 6i
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steel  Hand. .. .80c40*10
g 8*0- Clark’s, 1 ,2 ,8 ..............................dls.60*U
siaie  ...... — ...........................per do*, net. 2 f.o
Screw Hook  and  Strap, to 12 In. 
8*4
Screw Hook and  Eye, *,....
1‘
8-4
7‘4
7Vi

%...........
X............

Strap and T .......................
„  
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track. 
Champion,  anti friction....................  
Kidder, wood tra c k .............................. . . . . . . 

(1).
60*1C
anAin
40

14  and

HANGERS. 

_  

HOLLOW WABX

K e f t« ::::: :::::::: :::::;:..............................
sp id e rs ............................ ;; ; ; ; ; ; .....................
Gray enameled............................ .7.7."’*........
-  HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS..........
new Hat n
Stamped  Tin Ware....................  
Japanned Tin Ware. ..1 1 7 7 7 7 .......... new list 79
Granite Iron W are..................... new "lie  *" 
2»
R  1„hf 
SCTew  EvM  ............................................  70*10*10

WIHB SOODS. 

dls.

 

 

 

, 

“ 

„  T 

HOPES.

SKILLS. 

DRIPPING PAMS.

CHALK.
COPPER.

Gate Hooks and B/ee^ 7 7 ‘.7 7 7 ! " .  "70* 10*10 
Stanley Rule and LeveMJof’s ........................
Sisal, *4 Inch aud la rg e r......... 
7
Manilla......................••  . 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 . . 7   10
...................dls
_. 
squares. 
¡»Am
Steel and Iron................. 
Try and Bevels...............  
   
.S
M itre..........................7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 ; ; "  
20
Com. 
8? 50 
2 60 
2 70 
2 80 
2 90 
8  00 
nohes

Planished, 14 os cut to size........per pound 
28
26
14x52, 14x56, 14x60 ......¡7 7  „ 7 7  
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60............. 
zt
Cold Rolled, 14x48............................ 
03
Bottoms..............................................................22
..........dls.
Morse’s  Bit  Stocks.................... 
gn
Nos. 10 to  14................... 
Taper and straight Shank.............. 77*’* 
in
Morse’s Taper Shank..........................................go
Nos. 15 to 17..................   ...................,  Si
Nos. 22 to 24..................   ...................  5 2
Small sizes, ser pound...................... 
>u
Nos. 25 to 26..................  
................«  «3
Large sizes, per pound.......................................¿6
no. 27..................................;;;;;; 
;;;  3 £
All  sheets No. 18  and  lighter,  over 30 
o £ ^ t . p‘2.0e,6,n........................... doz.net 
76
wide not less than 2-10 extra
_ , 
Adjustable....................................................... dls. 40*10
List acct 19, ’8 6 ........................................dls
..  _ expansive bits. 
™ 
__ 
T 
Clark’s, small, $18;  large, 126... 
Silver Lake, White  A ... 
11.»
Ives’, 1, $18:  2, $24; 3,$30............. 
 
Drab A ...........................  
“  
=T‘
films—New List. 
.......   1
“  White  is......  
Dlsston*8...................................................... 
“ 
DrabB.................................  •<
N f w im n le u ....................................... .so&litio
“ 
W hiteC  .... 
............... a
a a * * ...............
O  . . .  „  
Heller’s Horse R asps................................’ 
Solid Eyes........ *..................
SAWS.

SAND PAPER.
SASH COBS.

on
25
60 0-10

 
........dls.

SASH WEIGHTS.

GALVANIZED IBOH.

Com.  Smooth.

Discount, 10.

SHEET IRON.

blbowb.

dls.

50

50

 

16 

12 
_  

locks—DOOR. 

14 
eAueis. 

18 
Discount, 70 

Nos.  16  to  20;  22  and  24;  25  and  26:  27  28
U st 
16  17
1
dls
_ 
50
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s........................ 
_  
KMOBS—New List. 
dls-
55
Door,mineral, jap. trimmings .... 
Door,  porcelain. Ian, trimming. 
............  
»
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings........ . 7 7  
55
Door,  porcelain, trimmings........................ 
gg
70
Drawer  and  Shutter,porcelain............., 7 7  
Russell A lrw ln  Mfg. Co.’s new l i s t ..........  
»
«
Mallory, Wheeler  A  Co.’s ................. 
Branford’s ................................  
n
 
Norwalk’s .................................. . . 7 7 7 7 7 7  
gg
Adze Bye.........................................$16.00, dls. 60-10
Hunt Bye.........................................$15.00, dls. 6O-10
Hant ■..........................................$18.60, dls. 20*10
dll
Sperry A Co.’«, Port,  handled................... 
’50
dlS
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s .................................... 
Landers,  Ferry *  Cls rk’s...............  

“  P. 8. *  W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleable*. .7  
......................................... 
“  Enterprise 
__   .  _  

MOLASSES SATIS. 

MAULS. 
MILLS. 

MATTOCKS.

.......... dig

dls

_  

, 

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

'40
46
40
30
60*in
66*10
' 
30

 

N A ILS

..........................................................Base 

Advance over  base,  on  both  Steel  and Wire 
Steel nails, Dase...............................  
,  «i
Wire nails, base............................................ . 7 7 7 l  35
Base
32...............................................  
IP
i
»
«
20........... 
£
16.......................................................... 
12.........................................................  
«
1°...............................................  
W>
2 « ......................................................  
75

:

 

!

f

Hand

§te0^ 

X Cuts, per foot 
°

■ per ton $20 
dls.
. . .   ®
50
Special Stee! Dla. X Cuts  per foot 7 ;:  30
. "

.. 
11 
cn ^<& r c ,..an.d..®ecf
Steel, Game..............
in
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s . .'.’. .'....... 
™  10
Moused &
Mouse, delusion...............7".7777".n.»; P « doz
dlz.
Bright Market.
Annealed Market........................................
Coppered Market  ........................................
Tinned Market..................  
Coppered Spring  Steel................................ 
Barbed  Fence, galvanized.......  

-„T”
2
............   2 S
painted..............7 7 7 .......   2  in

Un,ty' HaWlt*  * 

“ 

 

 

HOBSB  NAILS.

 

 

. 

d(a

p n to w  6.:;;;;;;..;;;;;;:..................* *
Northwestern..................... .7 .7 !  
„  
WBBNCHES. 
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled 
Coe’s  Genuine  ........... 
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,........... 
Coe’s  Patent,malleable...... 
B irdcage....................................................
Pumps, ClBtern............................................ rs* ?n
Casters, Bed a  d Plate.............. 
viAVni1,«
Dampers, American..... 7 .7...................«»10410
Forks, hoes, rakes and all steei goods’.'.'.;" "66*10 

dls^OAW
wi
S
to
............. 70* 1?

m etals,
PIS TIN.
Pig  Large..................................
« k8««.....................................................IS
.  
ZINC.
Duty:  Sheet, 2#cperpouod.
680 pound  casks....................
Per pound............................. ..7 7 7 7 * 7  

7*

_ 

 

SOLDER.

Extra W iping................................... ; ; ” .......... i?
1?® P  .9ei  of Jb e   many  other  qualities  of 
solder In the market Indicated by nrt vate brands 
vary acoordlng to composition.
ANTIMONT.

 

 

 

“ 

  *  66
Case  10..............................................  
2.................................................  
75
on
_  
O . . . . . .............................................. 
75
Finish 10.............................. 
90
5 ................................................ 
70
Clinch; 10.......................................... ;; 
so
;;  ®..................................... 
go
o ..........................................  
B arrell* .........................................  "  
175
dlS.
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fan cy ...................... 
«5411
Sdota Bench................................... 
............  x K
cm
Sandusky Tool  Co.’s, fancy......................  
Bench,first quality.........................................  JS40
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s  wood.  .  .
. 50*10
_ 
Fry,  Acme.................................................dli.60—10
Common,  polished................................... dls. 
70
_ 
dlB.
Iron and  Tinned....................................... 
5P-10
Copper Rivets and B u n ................................  60—10

FLAMES. 

RIVETS. 

PAMS.

_  

 

 

FATEET FLAMISHXD IRON.

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

Broken packs Ho per pound extra.

S f f l S 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 : ; : ; ; 7 7 ; ; ;   p"  ^ naa  ,8
10x14 IC, Charc™ 7?!^”  ^»bade.
14x20 IC, 
10x14 IX, 
14x20 IX, 

.................
......................
....................   2 5

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

“ 
“ 
“ 

Each additional X on this grade, $i;TO.

-.
10x14 IC, Charcoal............ 
14x20 IC, 
.........................................
...................  s i :
...............  
10x14IX, 
14x20IX, 
................. 7 7 7 .7 7 7 7 .  p 25

TIN— ALLA WAT GRADE
“ 
“ 
“ 

Bach aiddltlonal X on this grade $1.50

ROOFING PLATES

“ 

14x20 IC, 
14x20 IX, 
20x28 IC, 
14X20IC, 
14x20 IX 
20x28 IC, 
30x28 IX,
14x28 IX 
14x31  IX
14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers, 1  .....................*
14x60EX,  '•  “  9 

*  Woroester  .........................  550
I, 
•  Allaway  Grade..;".'.".;’.’.".;  *6 00
 
7  50
„ 
.................   12 50
.................  15 50
BOILBB SIZE TIN FLATS.
................................................814  00
15 00
h  ’  f P«r pound....  1000

“ 
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............  8 50

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lie do with  his  money?  Why,  just  pre­
cisely  what  he  does with his gold when 
he gets that coined.  He commonly hides 
it away to be used in  business.  He does 
not give  it  to  his  friends;  he  does  not 
hand  it  out  to  the  public;  he  keeps 
it for  his  own  use.  Nobody  would  get 
one  of  those  new  dollars except in  the 
way of  business,  and yet there is  a  wild 
outcry  for  free  coinage,  just as  if  any­
body  would  be 
individually  benefited 
by it.

It is a remarkable fact that,  in spite of 
the strange demand for the  free  coinage 
of silver,  the people will not  handle  sil­
ver dollars.  The total  coinage  of  these 
dollars under  the  act  of  Feb.  28,  1878, 
was  378,166,793;  but,  instead  of  going 
into circulation,  they  are  nearly  all  in 
the  vaults  of  the  treasury.  There  are 
364,726,543 of these silver  dollars  stored 
up  in the Government  vaults,  but  they 
are represented in  circulation  by  paper 
certificates.

^ “When  writing to any of  our  advertisers, 
please  say that  you  saw  their  advertisement in 
T h e   M i c h i g a n  T r a d e s m a n .

E. A. STOWE, Editor.

® -----«.—   —— , „uu,

FREE  COINAGE  OF  SILVER.

WEDNESDAY.  DECEMBER  19.

The people  talk  loudly  about  silver 
but  all the  time  they  mean  paper,  be­
cause every paper dollar,  whether it rep­
resents gold,  silver or what  not,  will  on 
presentation draw gold out of  the  treas 
ury.  All the money in the United States 
is based on a gold  standard,  and,  despite
coinage  of  silver unless it were believed  tbe fact that on the first  day  of  Decem- 
by those who advocate it that some good,  ber  nearly  8600,000,000  of  silver  coin 
some  public  general good wonld come of Iand buHion was  covered  by  paper  cer- 
it. 
It is important to look  into this mat-  tificates, every dollar of that silver paper 
ter and see what  good,  if any,  can  result I stonds for its face value in gold, 
from free coinage. 

There would be no outcry for  the  free . 

I  Every man who earns wages, every man
Let it first be understood what the free  wbo seIls tbe  products  of  his  labor,  is 
coinage of silver is. 
It  means  that  any  Paid virtually  in  gold,  because  all  the 
holder  of  silver  bullion  shall  have  the  money in  the  United  States  is  guaran- 
right to go to the mint  with  it  and  have  teed by tbe Government to  be  worth  its 
it  coined  into  standard  dollars.  That I iace in K°,d*  Every  silver dollar,  which 
right  does  not  exist  to-day.  The  mint Iis intrinsically worth about  50  cents,  Is 
will  not  coin  silver  for anybody on any | reaHy  worth  100,  because  the  Govern
terms. 
It will only coin  silver  which  is 
ment says it shall be so.  The situation  is 
practically the same as if there were only 
owned by the Government.  The right of 
free coinage in gold exists,  however,  and 
gold  dollars in  circulation,  because  the 
the  mint  will  coin  gold  for  any  per 
Government has guaranteed  every dollar 
in the country to be as good as gold.
son  and  hand  out the  eagles for ail  the 
bullion  that  is  turned  in.  The  mint 
makes its seigniorage or  fee,  which need 
not be described here,  since the question 
of free coinage alone is  under  considers 
tion.  Free  coinage  means, 
then,  not 
that the mint  will  coin  free  of  charge, 
but that it will coin without limit all  the 
precious metal that  is brought to  i t   As 
has been stated,  there is  free  coinage  in 
gold,  but not in silver.

But the power  of  the  Government  to 
maintain such a guarantee is limited.  It 
can make its pledge good  with  $600,000,- 
000 of silver, but  it  cannot  maintain  it 
with  unlimited  silver. 
there  were 
free coinage  of  silver,  the  Government 
would  have  to  guarantee  every  dollar 
coined, no  matter  for  whom,  and  it  is 
plain  the  end  of  guaranteeing  would 
soon come.  No credit is  unlimited,  not

If 

But suppose that free coinage in  silver  even tbat of a government 

were authorized by act of Congress; what I  The credit of  the  United  States  rests 
would  be  the  consequence?  Would  it  upon its ability to raise all the  money  it 
make money more plenty?  The only way I needs by  taxation, 
it  has  not  reached 
to make money  plenty is to  put it in  ac-  the limit of taxation yet, and it  can  pile 
tive circulation,  and this is done only  by  on a good  deal  more  before  the  people 
whatever will arouse and stimulate every [ will rebel.  Some  nation s  have  reached 
sort of business and industry. 
those  limits,  and  they  can  raise  their
When all the mills,  furnaces  and  fac-  taxes  no  higher.  When  taxation  be- 
tories in  the  country are  running at  full  comes so oppressive that the  people feel 
capacity and full  time,  working  up  the  tbey  are  being  robbed,  they  refuse  to 
raw material from the  fields,  forests and  Pay? 
the 
mines  of  the  country;  when  the  ships,  Government.  That has been done  many 
boats  and  railroads  are  busy  carrying  times 
in  the  past,  and  will  be  done 
products of all sorts  from the  interior to  »gain whenever the limits of the people’s 
the coasts, and  from the ports  to the  in-  endurance have been overreached, 
tenor;  when  all 
The United States’ credit  is first class 
earning fair wages,  then,  and then only,  because it is a country rich in natural re- 
.  \  °Dey  bt P enty'  11 wil1 be Plenty.  sources, and its full  development  is  far

they  rise  np  and  overthrow 

the  work  people  are 

! 
lars, instead of being locked up in  vaults, 
will be in the hands of the  people.
, What effect would the  free  coinage  of 
silver have in producing such  a  state  of 
things?  When  a  man  carries his silver 
to the mint and has it  coined,  what  will

"ut because those  del-1 »ill stand » good deal more  of  taxation.
and that  is  the  reason  its  credit  is  so 
good in  the  world’s money markets.  But 
this credit,  like all others,  has  its limita­
tions, and if  the  free  coinage  of  silver 
were permitted,and the Government were 
l° continue  to  guarantee  100  cents  for

■am—mm

every 50 cent dollar, it is  plain  that  this 
magnificent  credit  would  break  down, 
and the first time there was  a  failure  to 
haud out  100  cents  for  a  dollar  silver 
certificate, 
the 
money of the country to a  silver basis.

then  down  wonld  go 

THE  CURRENCY  PROBLEM.

It is surprising with what unanimity the 
press comments on President Cleveland’s 
message  agree  that  the  currency  prob­
lem  has  become  the  most  important 
question before the  country.  This  con­
viction loses nothing of its  force  by  the 
fact that there is not  the  least  evidence 
that  party  lines  have  anything  to  do 
with the matter.  The  inelasticity of the 
present  currency  system  is  generally 
recognized,  and even  the  hitherto  most 
pronounced opponents of State bank  cir 
culation are now apparently  drifting  in 
the direction of  the  full  recognition  of 
the rights of the  banks to issue notes,

The President  and  Secretary  Carlisle 
are clearly in favor of the repeal  of  the 
tax on  State  bank  circulation  and  the 
issue of notes by the State  banks  where 
their  solvency is approved by the  Treas 
ury Department.  This is a long  step  in 
the direction of a more  elastic currency, 
and  the  further recommendations, that 
Government  bonds  be  no 
re 
quired  as  security  for  circulation,  and 
that notes be  guaranteed  solely  by  the 
credit of the banks issuing them,  supple­
mented by  a  guarantee  fund to  protect 
the notes of failed banks, promise  to  re 
move  from  the shoulders of  the  Govern 
ment a burden which should  be  no  part 
of its proper functions.

longer 

The manifest  tendency  of  legislation 
on the currency  question is in  the direc 
tion  of the  elimination of  the  treasury 
from  the bankipg  business,  and  its  re­
striction  to  its  legitimate  and  proper 
duties,  namely,  the administration of the 
revenues of the  Government.  There 
a growing belief that the only  money the 
treasury should issue is gold  and  silver, 
the circulation  of  paper  being  left  en­
tirely to the banks.

The only other plan claiming attention, 
besides that of Secretary Carlisle,  is that 
known as the  BaltimoreJPlan,  advocated 
by the  American  Bankers’  Association.
It calls for the issue by  the  Government 
of  a  sufficient  amount  of  low  interest- 
bearing bonds to retire all  the  outstand­
ing paper currency.  These bonds are to 
be afterward used  by  the  banks,  State 
and national,  to secure circulating notes. 
This Plan,  it will  be noted,  also  contem 
plates  the  retirement  of  all  the  paper 
money  of  the  Government,  and 
the 
recognition  of  the  State  banks  on  an 
equal  footing with the national banks.

The recommendation of  the  President 
and Secretary  Carlisle that  all  banks  be 
permitted to issue  notes,  with  no  other 
restrictions than  an official  approval  by 
the treasury of  their  solvency,  is a  full 
recognition of the justice of the demands 
made by the advocates of  the  repeal  of 
the 10 per cent.  tax.  There will be many 
financiers,  however,  who  will  oppose 
Secretary  Carlisle’s  proposition  that the 
notes should be secured by the deposit of 
bonds.  Some security, whether State  or 
national bonds,  would  undoubtedly  in­
crease  public  confidence  in  the  notes, 
and,  if such security were  exacted  upon 
an equitable  basis—as,  for  instance,  to 
the  extent  of  75  per  cent,  of  the  total 
amount of notes issued—the  elasticity of 
the proposed currency would  in  no  way 
be impaired.

It is doubtful if the present  short  ses­
sion of Congress will be able  to  enact  a 
new currency law;  but an attempt should 
certainly  be  made,  even 
if  nothing 
further  than  the  repeal  of  the  tax  on 
State bank  circulation  Is  accomplished 
in the way of a beginning.

It  is  a  curious  thing  that  the  most 
radical  monopolistic  organizations  for 
protection—the labor anions and  federa­
tions—in  nearly  all  their  publications 
are  strenuous  advocates  of  free  trade. 
This means,  o f  course,  that  all  differ­
ences in the value of labor in  this  coun­
try,  England,  Germany,  Belgium,  India 
and China should be  ignored,  so  far  as 
trade is concerned, only  protesting  that 
the  laborers,  themselves  be  excluded 
from immigration.  They ask  that  there 
be no restriction in the product  of  their 
labor.  At  the  same  time  they  form 
themselves into organizations  embracing 
a small minority  in  each of the different 
trades  as  a  whole  in  the  country,  the 
first  principle of which,  in  those  locali­
ties where their numbers  give  them  the 
power,  is the exclusion  of  all  others  of 
the same trade from  participating in the 
labor of  that  locality. 
Is  there  a  nar­
rower form  of “protection” conceivable?

The  Subject Uppermost with  All. 
The currency  question  is  uppermost. 
Congress  and  the  country  are  engaged 
upon it.  We are sure to find a  solution, 
and one which  will be nearly right.  We 
may make mistakes in the  working,  but 
we’ll “get there all the same”.  Discussion 
enlightens,  and  we  are  having  discus­
sions,  not  in  banks  only,  but  in  the 
homes.  Every thinking  man  is  talking 
on the important  subject of the  nation’s 
money.  We  must  have  the  best.  On 
that we are all agreed.  Our judgment is 
that national recovery  and  progress  are 
hindered more by  this  uncertainty  than 
by anything else.

There is some talk  of  gold  shipments 
the  next  six  weeks.  Exchange  keeps 
well up to the shipping  point,  and expe­
rienced bankers look for  shipments  this 
month and next;  and if we  get  our cur­
rency put into good shape this  winter ail 
will  be well.  Our industries will revive, 
and  all  willing  workers  will  again  find 
jobs.  There  are  indications  of  an  in­
creasing demand  for iron and steel at the 
present low prices.  Our 170,000 miles of 
railway  must  come  gradually  into  the 
market  for  replenishing  supplies,  and 
this will help  to  make  things  hum  and 
lessen the number of pessimists  who are 
ever insulting the present by  talking  of 
the good old times,  when  stage  coaches 
and wheelbarrows were more in  use.

Geo.  R.  Scott.

Lakeview  Laconics.

Lakeview,  Dec.  15-N early  all of  the 
new brick  buiidings  erected  here  since 
thS®re.w,Llb e  occ«Pie<l  within  a month.
lhe  Stebbins  Manufacturing  Uo.  has 
its  new  factory  building  nearly  com­
It is also patting in an elevator, 
pleted. 
several new machines and a  steam  heat^
$ a 000y8tem’  C0Sting  alto£ether  about
C.  Newton Smith  will erect a brick ad­
dition  to  his  warehouse,  24x28  feet  in 
dimensions.
The  eleetric  lights  have  shone  two 
nights in  onr  village,  but  some  of  the
C wu  “dad9.”  bardly  seem  to  be pleased 
with the job.
Lakeview will have  her first repntable 
banking house about  Jan.  1,  with  L.  P. 
Sorenson as proprietor.

The self conceited man  who  says he Is 
too smart to be  fooled  comes  very  near 
being a fool.

THE  SEARCH  FOR  GOLD.

It matters not In the  least whether the 
consummation of the free coinage of silver 
shall redace  all  business  and  money  in 
this  country  to  the  silver  standard  or 
not,  henceforth  there  is  to  be a  deter 
mined, 
indefatigable  and  almost  mad 
search for  gold.

In  London, 

The  great  commercial  nations  of  the 
earth have established  the gold standard 
as the measure of commercial  and  finan­
cial  values. 
the  world’s 
money  market,  which  gives  laws  in 
values to  the other  nations,  gold  is  the 
rule,  and so  the  world  must  have  gold. 
Should the silver standard be forced upon 
the United States,  as  is  not  at  all  un­
likely, the  prevalence  of  a  depreciated 
silver  currency  will  make  the  demand 
for the yellow metal  all the  more imper­
ative.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.
In this connection,  there  is no  wisdom  ness up with figures,  and,  since  figures 
°ff  t0  dlstant countries to find I never lie,  the  claims  of  such  high  de 

gold.  Whether  Mexico,  Honduras,  or  scent are easily settled, 
other Central  and South  American coun-  Allowing thirty-three years as a gener 
tr es,  be  the  goal,  the  same  costs  and  ation, there  have  been  twenty-six  gen 
toil and uncertainties  are  present,  with  erations  since  1066.  William  the  Con 
the  additional  difficulties  arising  from  queror had four sons and  six  daughters 
the fact that the laws and customs of for-  Averaging  each  of 
these  as  having 
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countries have to be contended with. I three  children,  with  the  same  average 
There is still a great deal of  gold  in  the  for each  of  their  descendants  down  to 
United  States,  and  there  is po need for  the present,  and the children of  William 
the explorers  to go  out  of  their  limits,  in  the present,  or 
twenty-sixth,  gen- 
and  Sierra  eration, by a simple  arithmetical  calcu- 
The  Rocky  Mountains 
evadas in the West, and the Blue Ridge I lation,  would  have  2,824,295,314,810  de- 
Mountains In the East,  are  all  producers  scendants now living in the British Isles, 
of  gold,  and  they  are all  being worked  in America, in the colonies,  or  wherever 
over with favorable results. 
to  be
lhe  present  business  depression  is  found.  As this is  fully  25,000 times  as 
slowly passing  off,  to be  succeeded  by  a  many  as  there  are  people  of  British 
season of  active  trading,  and,  later,  by  descent on the globe,  it shows that many 
vigorous  business  enterprise  and  lively  families  died  out  and  became  ex­
speculation.  The eager demand for gold  tinct;  but  it  is  good enough  for  those 
will excite a large interest  in mining op-  who  survive.  Here  every  person  of
erations,  and gold property will be eager-  British descent has a share in  the  blood 
ly sought. 
1
of the Conqueror.  Then there are all the 
other  English  kings, 
including  Henry 
VIII, with his six wives, and the Stuarts, 
whowere generous in their favors.
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The  people  of  the  United  States, 

men  of  British  descent  are 

THB  TRUE  NOBILITY.

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l n n r m r   I h n   I  t h i l l  O'  a h n t i  f   t h a   f a  m i l . .   / ) a a /.a h 4  — 

When,  in  1893,  the  Congress  of  the
V»  i 

When,  at  the  close  of  the  American 
civil  war, the restoration of peace turned 
the minds of the people  to  the  demands 
of commerce, they realized  that their de­
preciated  paper  currency,  which  then 
fluctuated from 140 to  280 to 100 of gold, 
to 
emphasized  all  the  more  energetically 
whom  titles  of  nobility  are  specially
the urgent demand  for gold,  and,  in  re­
But, after all,  in  a democratic form of
denied by the national  constitution,  are,. 
sponse to this demand,  the  vast region of 
nevertheless, in many  cases  desirous  to I government, where every man, as Sancho 
the  Northwest,  now  occupied  by  the 
trace their  descent from  royal  or  noble  I i*anza has said,  “Is the  son  of  his  own
States of Montana,  Idaho and  Wyoming, 
blood, and they often  base  their  claims 
works,’’ what boots it that a man has de­
was  covered  with  bands  of  white  men 
on extremely flimsy evidence.
scended from a robber or a  rakish  king, 
searching  for  gold.  Their  efforts  were 
if that claim will gain  him  no  consider­
In this country,  where there is extreme
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1U  tuc. 
rewarded  with  such  success  that in the
ation and  will not even secure a meal  of 
decade  between  1864  and  1874  gold I neglect as to records of marriages, births 
victuals?  There is much in heredity,  but 
enough  had  been  secured  to enable the I and baptism,  it is not easy,  after the eye- 
it is not necessary to go back for it 800 or 
United  States,  with  more 
two  witnesses  shall  have  died,  to  prove  a
500  years.  It is worth while for a man to 
marriage,  and  when 
is 
thousand millions of  dollars in outstand­
know  that  his  father,  his  grandfather 
sought for,  a few generations  back,  into 
ing  obligations,  to  resume  specie  pay­
and  his  great-grandfather  were  honest 
the history of a family,  it  often  happens 
and respectable  men. 
If  he  can trace 
ments.
back still farther and  find an  honest  an­
that  there  is no  evidence that  would be
cestry,  and be able to call his progenitors
United  States  declared  the  Inability  o[  ««pected In a eeurt ot  1.»  to  tell  an,-  “/ ‘na’i “  ‘nS*rS'te iSS''ilsW ?,?fo m S
vv  tow   a n y -
the  nation  to  maintain  any  longer  the J thing about the family descent  and  con- 
I  i l .   l  _ a 4 
t h f l   T1 A t i n n  
 
the better.  But who  can  trace  out  the 
gold  value  of  the  flood  of silver which I nection.
direct  line  through  which  he  claims 
I descent from royal  personages?  In  the 
the Sherman law  had turned  loose  upon I  There are  families,  of  course,  which 
[ absence of records, such pretensions  are 
the country, there  came a collapse in sil- j possess  records  and  various  heirlooms 
of little worth.  A man is  a  gentleman, 
ver  mining,  and  a  mad  rush  into  the | that have been handed  down  for  gener- 
not because of any claims whatever,  but 
Western mountains  to  search  for  gold. I ations and which  give satisfactory infor- 
because his behavior proclaims his noble 
spirit,  his generous disposition,  his  high 
Under  this  impulse,  the  stock  of  gold I mation; but the claim,  so often  made  in 
sentiment of honor,  and his  desire  to  do 
was increased from  the  new  mines  that I this  country,  of  royal  descent  must  be 
always  what  is  right.-  This  is  God’s 
were discovered and  improved  processes | regarded  rather as a romantic and fan ci-
stamp  of  nobility,  and  there 
is  no 
other.
that were employed in  the old.  For sev­
ful matter than as  a  solid  and  reliable 
fact.
eral years past there has  been  increased 
SUPPRESSING  THE  SOCIALISTS.
Nevertheless,  for  the  satisfaction  of 
activity  in  the  search  for  the  yellow 
such claimants,  a  very  ingenious  calcu­
The first  work  to  which  the  present 
metal,  and the  production  has  consider­
session of the German Reichstag  will  be 
lation has  been put  forth which answers 
ably  increased.  According  to  the  best 
directed will be the bill  for  the suppres­
statistics, the world’s  production for  the 
all objections and satisfies all doubts.  The 
sion  of  revolutionary  movements  and 
past three years is given as follows:
English  nobility of to-day claims descent 
punishing  seditious  utterances.  This 
from  William of Normandy,  who,  with a 
bill is, of course,  aimed at the Socialists, 
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Product. 
and will restrict liberty  of  speech,  pro­
1591  .........................  833,1.5,000 
French army,  largely composed  of  “free 
1892  .........................   33,014,000 
tect  the  State  from  public  attack  and 
lances’’  and  adventurers,  in  the  year 
1893  .................   ......  35,959,001) 
monarchy from all disloyal utterances.
1066 crossed the water into  England  and
Although the measure  will  meet with 
production,  there is nothing in sight like I conquered  the  country  in  a  very  brief 
vigorous opposition and will have  to  be 
materially amended,  it  is,  nevertheless 
the great yields of California and Austra-j campaign,  in  which  only  one  consider- 
admitted that it is likely  to  pass. 
It  is 
lia,  or even like the rich  mines  of  Mon-1 able battle was fought.
becoming  generally  recognized that the 
tana  and  Idaho,  as  they  were  in  the 
drift of Socialism is toward  active  revo­
period from  1864  to  1874.  The  depend­
lution, and all adherents of  the  existing 
order  find  it  necessary  to  subordinate 
ence is no  longer in  those  deposits  that 
other differences to a united fight against 
made  men  fabulously  rich  in  a  single
the disintegrating leaven of  Socialism.
season;  but iu the use  of  processes  and I the Conquest, although there were Saxon, 
The  socialists  themselves  have  don. 
methods  which  give  superior  economy I Welsh  and  Scottish  Kings  when  Wil- 
much to aid the  agitation  against  them 
Their open defiance  of  the  Emperor  in 
and  increased  power  of  reducing  ores I liana’s ancestors were Norwegian  pirates
the  Reichstag,  a  few  days  ago,  has 
that were once rejected.  Old  mines  are  prowling  about  the  European  seas 
,
aroused popular sentiment  against  their
». 
, 
. 
aroused popular sentiment  against  their
being  worked  over  and inferior ores are  those  peculiar  barks  like  the  one  sent  party, as it served  to  show  clearly  that
their  ultimate  aim  was  revolution  and
made to pay. 
I from Sweden to the  Chicago Exposition, 
the overthrow oi a11 existing institutions, 
There is probably no  rich deposits left I and subsequently  down  the  M ississippi 
Heretofore, the  Socialists have carefnlly 
Heretofore, the  Socialists have carefnllv
undiscovered anywhere,  save  in  Africa, I River to New Orleans. 
absented  themselves  from  ceremonies 
and  nobody  knows  what may be hidden j  But the Pirate Rolla,  having settled on 
where  cheers  for  the  Emperor  were 
there.  But it is becoming  manifest  that I the coast of France, founded  what  after- 
likely to be called for;  but, on  the  occa­
sion  of  the  opening  of  the  Reichstag, 
the gold hunters  must  depend  upon  im- J wards came to be the  Dukedom  of  Nor- 
they  evidently  sought  an  opportunity 
proved  methods  of  extraction  rather  mandy, and from this stock  sprang  this 
purposely of openly displaying their  dis­
than upon special  rich finds.  But  there  conqueror  who  started  a  new  order  of 
loyalty.  This  coarse,  while  probably 
is  still  every  reason  why  the  search  things in the British  Isles.  Since it is a 
calculated to enthuse the Socialists them­
selves, cannot fail to consolidate  all  the 
should go on, as it will,  with  the  great-1 very important matter to be a descendant 
patriotic 
conservative  elements 
est activity. 
Indeed, this is what  is  be-  of such a robber king, the arithmeticians 
against the  party of revolution  and  dis­
J have been  kind enongh to  fix  the  busi-
ing done. 
integration.

World’s 
Product.
813U.65  ,000
146,297 OO0
155,521,000
While there is an increase  in  the  gold

William made  himself  king  and  con- 
I structed a peerage, or order  of  nobility, 
out of his chief lieutenants. 
It is,  tbere-

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United States 

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WHAT  STOVE  MERCHANTS

With  Experience in the  Trade  Have 

To  8ay ahodt the  Majestic.

Hughes <fc 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.)
& F. Lusel, Watertown, Wis.
After a most thorough  test  with  both  hard 
coai 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.
Jam es Montgomery, Warsaw, Wis.

Fifty Majestic Steel  Ran ges  in  use.  Every 
user  delighted.  The  Majestic  is,  without 
aoupt,  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  unnecessary  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.  Bay & 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 
deserves11 Can speak more highly of it than it
Dunning Bros. & Co., Menominee, Mich.
It  Is  simply  absurd  to  compare  any  other 
cooking stove or range that  we have  sold  In 
in  the  cook  stove  business 
with the  Majestic” in  economy  of fuel and
food for“  efable.tCh  “   pr°perly  preparin«

V.  Tausche, La Crosse, Wis.

virtues  Of  the  Majestic  Steel  Range, 
which have been demonstrated to ns and our 
people  during  the  exhibit  here,  were  both 
surprising and gratifying to us.  Every user 
(or 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,

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, 
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.

Mich.

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Kan ter Bros., Holland, Mich.

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

For further particulars address

J.  W.  JOHNSON,  Manager»

Grand  Bapids, Mich.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,

The
Poor Merchant

io

GOTHAM GOSSIP.

Special Correspondence

the  Markets.
Delayed Letter.]

News  from  the  Metropolis— Index 

New  Yobk,  Dee.  8—Business  among 
grocery jobbers is rather  quiet this week 
and everything seems to be of  a  holiday 
character.  Staples  take  a back seat  for 
the present and Christmas goods take  up 
the room in the  windows.  Retailers  are 
doing  an  excellent  trade and the major­
ity of people  certainly have  more money 
to spend  than  last  year.  Goods  are 
cheap that very  little  money  will  fill 
big stocking with goodies this season.
Coffee is decidedly firm and holders are 
not  at  all  anxious,  seemingly,  to  part 
with No.  7  for less  than  16c.  Not  very 
much trading  is reported,  but there  is  a 
steady current all the  time,  and,  in  the 
aggregate,  the  volume  of business must 
be quite satisfactory. 
In store and afloat 
there  are  559,106  bags,  against  462,76. 
last  year.  Mild  coffees  are  firmly held 
with Mocha  26}£@27c;  Padang  Interior 
24K@25c.
Teas are gradually getting  into  better 
shape and the market is firmer.  Holders 
are anticipating an inevitable increase in 
rates,  and even the  arrival in  two steam­
ers of  nearly  4,500,000  pounds,  did  not 
create  any  weakness  in  the  situation. 
Good  teas  bought  now,  it  is  generally 
conceded,  will  prove to  be  an  excellent 
purchase  before  many  weeks.  The  de­
mand is not large,  but stocks are small in 
the interior and replenishment must soon 
follow.  Fine to  choice  Japans,  19@25c 
in  an  invoice  way;  fine  Formosas,  28 
@S0c.
The  demand  for  granulated  sugar  I 
light—in fact, only of the lightest  every 
day  character.  Prices  have  gradually 
declined slightly and  the  tone  is  weak 
The daily press has informed your  read 
ers  of  the  tremendous  transactions  in 
sugar stocks. 
It  is a good thing to trade 
in, seemingly.
There is a slow movement  in  molasses 
and  syrups,  in  fact,  the demand is con­
siderably short of previous  seasons,  and 
there is seemingly no better  prospect  in 
the near future.  Common to prime New 
Orleans  molasses,  15@28c;  syrups,  good 
to choice, 17@22c.
Spices are dull and holders  are  disap­
pointed in the demand,  which  is  of  the 
lightest possible  character.
Rice  is  fairly  active  for  the  time of 
year,  although there is no  excitement  in 
the market.
Canned goods  are  extremely  “tired.” 
There is no life or snap whatever  in  the 
trade and holders are calmly waiting  the 
dawn of  a  brighter  day  with  what  pa­
tience they can.  Prices have  not  varied 
one way or the  other to  any  extent  and 
the  outlook  all  around  is  not  for any­
thing better at once.  Advices  from Bal­
timore report that market,  also,  as  dull 
beyond reason and prices way down.
Trade in foreign fruits has been disap­
pointing, but, with the  incoming  of  the 
next week, a  turn  is  looked  for.  Rates 
are low all around and it seems as though 
there should  be  an  improvement in  de­
mand very soon.
The butter market shows  no  material 
change.  Arrivals,  while  not  large,  are 
yet sufficient to meet the demand,  wihch, 
at best,  is  moderate.  Extra  creamery,
24c for State and 25c for Western 
Cheese is  firm  in a  jobbing  way  for 
large full cream  State,  which  is  worth 
113ic,  with small sizes M@%e higher.
Eggs of strict reliable quality  are  not 
in abundant receipt and  quickly  take  at 
25@27c for Western and near-by, respec­
tively.  The scarcity of the better  stock 
leads, of course, to a higher range on the 
grades which have been  in  storage  and 
the profits must be very satisfactory.
Potatoes are  worth  from  $1.25@$1.62 
per bbl.  moderate transactions.
Provisions are very quiet  and  no  ma­
terial change is to be  noted.  New  mess 
pork,  S13.50@14.25;  family  beef,  $10@
Retail grocery stores are fast becoming 
Christmas  shows  and  trade  in  fancy 
package goods is active.  The huge piles 
of  Christmas  trees  along  the  landing 
places  of  incoming  boats  from  Maine 
betoken the coming season,  and  the sale 
thereof promises to be large.

from  customers. 

fashionable  np-town 

The postal clerks are bearing the brunt 
of the public dissatisfaction over the two- 
cent stamps with  as  much  fortitude  as 
they can command, but  they  are  begin­
ning to show  the  strain.  The  question 
of the durability of the stamps is of great 
importance to the  numerous  commercial 
houses  in  New  York  who  purchase 
stamps in great quantities, and  who also 
receive stamps in payment  for  merchan­
dise 
It  is  still  the 
practice  throughout  almost  the  entire 
country for  people  who  wish  to  remit 
small sums to  make  up  the  amount  in 
postage  stamps. 
It  is  not  an  effective 
or by any means  a  safe  way  of  making 
payments,  but  it  seems  impossible  to 
change the  custom.  As  people  do  not 
generally have several dollars’  worth  of 
stamps on hand,  they  buy  them  at  the 
post  office  without  seeming  to  under­
stand that a postal order  is  a  safer  and 
more expeditious way of  sending money. 
When the new stamps are  sent  in  sheet 
form they are often entirely  destitute  of 
mucilage,  and in order to  be  used,  fresh 
mucilage must be put on each stamp. 
If 
the sheet is carelessly folded,  so that the 
fold runs across the stamps,  they invari­
ably break when the sheet is unfolded as 
though made of dry toast. 
In  the  ordi­
nary  business  of  mailing 
letters  the 
clerks find it impossible  to  proceed  with 
their usual dispatch,  for  the reason that 
only a  small  percentage  of  the  stamps 
cling to  the  envelopes.  Altogether  the 
new stamp is a  failure  for  many  other 
reasons than a purely artistic one.
Several  of  the  jonrnals  that  are  de­
voted to the things we eat  are  proclaim­
ing vigorously  against  the  “white  oys­
ters” which are in such  large demand at 
the 
restaurants. 
Nobody  knows  exactly  where  the  idea 
started, unless it took root in a  belief  in 
the feminine brain that  everything  that 
is white  is  pure;  but  it  is  a  fact  that 
women have made unusual demands dur­
ing the past few seasons for  oysters  that 
were white,  and rejected  those that  were 
yellowish or brown as being  unfit  to eat. 
Two of the most popular  restaurants  up 
town have made a point of  serving small 
Blue Points on the  half shell,  packed  in 
ice, the oysters in  almost every instance 
being as  white as snow.  They  look  far 
more palatable and delicate than the reg­
ulation oysters,  but experts declare them 
to  be  injurious  in  the  highest  degree. 
Salt water,  which is the  natural  element 
of the oyster, gives it a  yellowish  tinge. 
To produce the  white  color  the  dealers 
throw the oysters into fresh water,  when 
they turn  white,  become  abnormally fat, 
and soon die.  Some of the  Fulton  Mar­
ket dealers class  them  as  diseased  oys­
ters. 
It is  not  likely,  however,  that  a 
little detail of this  sort will  have any ef­
fect upon the fashionable demand for the 
white oyster.
Too Proud To Beg, but Beady  To Steal.
A  leading  retail  grocer  thus pays his 
compliments  to  a  well-known  character 
about town:
About  a  year  ago,  a man came to me 
and asked to have  a  few  goods—grocer­
ies—on  credit,  stating  that  he  did  not 
wish  to  run  up  a  bill,  as  he expected 
some money that was due  him that even 
ing and would  pay  then.  He  also  gave 
me to understand that  he  was  employed 
in  the  tax  office.  Through  one  excuse 
and another he  managed to  run up quite 
a bill,  until I refused  to fill any more or­
ders.  He then stated  that  what  he  bad 
said about being  employed in  the tax of­
fice was not true,  but  that he got the  po­
sition  that  day,  which  proved  to  be  a 
fact.  He  managed  to  run  up  a  bill of 
$80,  which  1  am  unable  to  collect,  al­
though  this  man  has  a  first-class  posi 
tion now—not in  the  tax  office—and  his 
daughter is a  school teacher.  Now,  this 
man would not degrade himself by asking 
for  pennies,  and  I  am  positive that he 
will not,  although a  first-class  musician, 
join a street band,  but he  will pledge his 
honor and swear by all  that is holy to get 
something to eat,  and lie  out  of  it  after 
he  has  i t   Begging  or  playing  in  the 
street for  pennies  may  not  be  very  ex­
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far above the one  who lives in  a  brown- 
stone  house,  dresses  in  the  height  of 
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“ What  for?”  exclaimed  Mrs.  Bliven. 
“I  can  dress  myself.”  But  they  were 
persuaded, and  went to an  office kept by 
a broken down  gentle  lady,  who took in 
the situation  at  a  glance  and  supplied 
them  with a discreet  elderly person  who 
did  more  to  educate  the  Blivens  that 
summer than a whole library of books on 
etiquette could have done.

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IN  THE  SWIM.

ciety.

How Mrs.  Orlando  Bliven Got into  So­

Mrs. Orlando Bliven,  of  Bliven  Mills, 
Minn.,  went  to  New  York  with a fixed 
purpose.  That pnrpose was  to  get  into 
New  York society.  She  was a widow  of 
48,  with a mind  of her own  and a  pretty 
daughter.  The  late  Bliven  had  owned 
and  chopped  down  some  twenty square 
miles of forest,  and his mills  turned  the 
wood into bedsteads and bureaus.  When 
one of his own buzz saws  cut  his  career 
short and separated  Mr. and Mrs. Bliven 
forever, the widow sold out  her  interest 
to  a  syndicate  for  a eool three millions 
and  went  East  to  establish  herself  and 
daughter.

Mrs.  Bliven  chafed  under  the  limita 
tions  of  a  country  town.  The  puffed 
sleeves she copied from the  local gazette 
seemed to her like wings to  waft  her  to 
broader fields of social activity.  She had 
thought of moving  to  St.  Paul  or  Min 
neapolis,  or  even  to Chicago.  She  had 
been to the World’s  Fair  and  was great­
ly  impressed  with  the  splendor  of  that 
city.

“But, ma,” pleaded the  pretty  daugh 
ter,  “the  swellest people we saw at Chi­
cago  were  New  Yorkers.  What’s 
the 
matter with going to  New York to live?” 
It was early in  the  summer  when  the 
Blivens  moved  to  Gotham.  Their  only 
acquaintances  were  the  local  agent  for 
the Bliven bureaus and  the banking peo­
ple on Wall street with whom Mrs. Bliven 
had deposited her large fortune.

The  Blivens  snubbed  their  former 
agent  and  were  made  much  of  by  the 
bankers.  They  were  stopping  at  the 
most  expensive  hotel  on  Fifth  avenue, 
where  the  senior  partner  of  the  bank 
called.

“My dear madam,’’ he explained, “you 
must not think of remaining in New York 
now.  Every  one  is  going  away,  you 
know.  You  must  follow  the  throng  to 
Long Branch  or  Newport  or  Narragan 
sett  Pier.”

“This seems very  elegant to  me,” said 
Mrs. Bliven,  looking  proudly around the 
twenty-dollar-a-day  little  drawing-room.
“And oh,  ma,  the  stores !”  exclaimed 

the pretty daughter.

“Ah, yes!  You  ladies must  shop a  bit 
first, of course,”  and  the  banker  bowed 
himself out.

“Splendid gentleman,”  remarked  Mrs. 

Bliven.

ter.

“Old stuff!”  replied the  pretty daugh­

And shop the Blivens did,  and to much 
good purpose, and when they didn’t shop 
the Blivens read the  newspaper accounts 
of doings at the  various summer  resorts. 
Pretty Miss  Bliven read with the idea  of 
finding out where there was the most fun; 
Mrs.  Bliven  with  the  idea of following 
the greatest fashion.

“Ob, ma,  we  must go to Long  Branch. 
They’ve*  a  big  swimming  tank 
there 
and an actress who turns handsprings  in 
the water.”

‘‘Nonsense,  my  child;  the  papers  say 
Long  Branch  has  run  down dreadfully 
without the  horse  racing,  and  no  swell 
people go there any more.  Now listen to 
this account of  a  garden  party  at  Sara­
toga.’'

So,  after  more  parley  and  consulta­
tions with their  banker, the  Blivens  de­
cided  to  make  a  tour  of  the  watering 
places,  but not before  their  adviser  had 
suggested  the  propriety  of their  having 
•  maid.

It would  hardly be  fair  to  follow  the 
Blivens through their  first summer  cam­
paign.  They did no better  and no worse 
than thousands of other women who have 
followed  the  same  beaten  track.  The 
natural  shrewdness of the  mother was  a 
foil to the fresh beauty  of  the  girl,  and, 
go where you  may in  America,  the  per­
fume of the dollar hangs about the lucky 
possessor.

The  newspaper  correspondents,  too, 
were especially kind in passing comment 
upon the  Blivens.

The Long Branch Surf volunteered this 

remark:

Mrs.  Bliven,  one of the richest widows 
of thq  West, is sojourning  at  the  South 
End  Hotel.  Her  lovely  daughter  is  a 
most  accomplished  pedestrian,  and  is 
daily seen  walking  the bluffs  arrayed  in 
Worth’s  latest creations.  Mrs.  and Miss 
Bliven will go to  Saratoga  and  Newport 
later.

The editor of the Saratoga Springs was 
naturally attracted by  such a notice,  and 
when his  turn  came,  expressed  himself 
like this:

Miss MacBliven, the beautiful Western 
heiress,  is  summering  at  the  Reunion 
Hotel.  Her costumes are noted for their 
elegant  simplicity.  Her  mother,  Mrs. 
MacBliven,  wears some  of the finest  dia­
monds ever seen at the Spa.

So,  by the time  the  Blivens  arrived  at 
the Ware House,  at  Newport,  it  was  no 
wonder  that  the  Breeze found room  for 
this puff:

Miss  Mac Van  Courtlandt  Bliven,  the 
great  beauty  and  heiress,  has  arrived, 
and  created  a  sensation  at  the  Casino 
this  morning. 
She  was  charmingly 
gowned in pale pink, with a  great broad- 
brimmed feathery hat.  Prince  Poloponi 
and  Count  Goff  were  her escorts.  The 
young lady has been  educated  in  a  con 
vent  in  Paris,  and not  only speaks sev 
eral foreign languages,  but is  a  delight 
ful musician.  Mrs. and Miss Bliven will 
join a coaching party  to  Lenox  later  in 
the season.

At first the Blivens were inclined to re­
sent such absurd misrepresentations, but 
their circumspect  maid told them that  it 
would do them more good than harm, and, 
in fact,  intimated that she had something 
to do with having  such  glowing  notices 
printed.

It had all  been so new  and  strange  to 
the Blivens  that they wereTialf annoyed, 
half pleased when  they got a letter  from 
their banker to say that, owing to the fail­
ure of Kite & Co.  a  very  desirable  fur­
nished  house  in  Fifth  avenue  could be 
obtained by them for the modest rental of 
>,000 a year,  and  wouldn’t  they  like  to 
come on and see  it?  People  would  soon 
be coming back to town, etc.

To  tell  the  truth,  Mrs.  Bliven  was 
rather tired of her summer campaigning.
She recognized  the  futility  of  trying  to 
make  correct  acquaintances  at  summer 
resorts.  She already  realized  the power 
and influence of  her money, but  she also 
felt how it  was  being  abused.  She  had 
been  especially  nice  to  a finely dressed 
woman at Long  Branch,  whom  she  took 
to  be  a  great  swell,  but  the  discreet 
maid  almost  broke her  heart by inform­
ing  her  that  the  woman  wa3  a  book­
maker’s  wife.

So, at Newport, the pretty daughter had 
met a rather English looking swell at the

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Wave  House,  and  bad  been  taken  out 
on  a  four-in-hand brake by him, only to 
be told afterward that the man  was a pro 
fessional  whip who  gave driving  lessons 
at so much an  hour.

While Mrs.  Bliven felt  that she  would 
rather get back to  New  York,  thè  pretty 
daughter could  have stopped  on at New 
port forever.  Her  brown eyes had  been 
opened a little wider  each day as she  sat 
on the Casino  veranda  and  watcted  the 
swells stroll to  and fro.  She caught  the 
women’s gait,  their poise,  their  manner­
isms.  She managed  to get  the  Western 
burr out  of  her  naturally  sweet  voice, 
and to speak with the  fashionable inflec­
tion,  and one day  when  a  young  fellow 
with whom she  had danced  in the parlor 
of the Wave Hotel came up and spoke  to 
her she gave him the  real  society  shake 
of the hand.

No one can deny the American girl her 
imitative powers, her adaptability,  which 
make her the most  plastic  and attractive 
woman in the world.

When  the  Blivens  got  back  to  their 
New  York  hotel  and  had  had  a  “ rub 
down,”  as  they  called  it,  mother  and 
daughter sat down  seriously  to  compare 
notes and tote up the results of their first 
campaign.

The  acquaintances  they  had  made, 
whether they knew it or not,  were as fol­
lows:

Three bookmakers,  one  Italian and one 
Russian prince  (so-called),  five  German 
barons,  three  race  judges,  two  riding 
masters, one  professional  whip,  several 
very  respectable  Chicago  families,  as 
badly off for acquaintances as the Blivens; 
a half dozen  kindly  old  ladies,  who  al­
ways  scrape  summer  friends;  three  or 
four people who live  in cottages at Sara­
toga  and  Newport,  and  about  twenty 
dudes,  who  had  been  attracted  by  the 
•  pretty daughter,  but  had  paid  no  more 
attention to the  mother than  if  she  had 
been one of the Bliven bureaus.

Mrs. Bliven was very much pleased with 
a visit she received a few days after her re 
turn to  New York.  The banker bad sent 
his wife to call upon his rich client.  The 
wife had demurred and protested against 
the impossibility of getting on at all with 
“those horribly rich Western people.”

“ You won’t find  her at all  vulgar,” he 
had  explained,  “only  new,  brand  new, 
and  with such a pretty girl.”

So  the  visit  was  accomplished,  with 
much satisfaction  to both  women.  Mrs. 
Bliven  was  full  of  the  people that she 
had met during the  summer  and  took  it 
for  granted  that  her  visitor  knew  all 
about them.  Being a woman of the world, 
the banker’s wife had  heard some of  the 
names quoted, 'but never  turned  a  hair, 
and explained that society was getting to 
be so large that it was  really  impossible 
to keep track of every one.

And was  Mrs.  Bliven  really  going  to 
take the Fifth avenue  house?  Yes,  that 
was very nice—such a charming neighbor­
hood and so  many  people  one  knew  all 
about  And poor  Mrs.  Bliven,  who  had 
only seen the house  once  and  had  been 
dazzled  by 
its  grandeur,  was  more 
pleased still and  could hardly  wait until 
Nov.  1 to move in.

“And, by the  way,  Mrs.  Bliven,” said 
the banker’s wife,  glancing,  perhaps un­
consciously,  over that  lady’s  trim  little 
figure,  “may I not  recommend  my dress­
maker to you?  I know how hard it is for 
a  stranger  to  find  suitable  people  who 
won’t rob them.”

So the next day  “ ma”  and  the  pretty 
daughter spent a delightful morning in a 
Fifth avenue  modiste’s,  where  the  per­
fume of the dollar  seemed  again to  have 
preceded  the  Blivens,  for  there  never 
were so many stuffs and  so  much  atten­
tion showed  to  two  women  before,  and 
when they were permitted to leave, an or­
der  had  been  left  behind  that  would 
clothe most women for years.

As the Blivens  strolled  back  to  their 
hotel,  whom  should  they  meet  on  the 
street but young Tallow,  who had danced 
with  the  pretty  daughter  at  Newport, 
and he greeted them with a splendid bow 
and a handshake  to the  girl,  and  might 
he  walk  back  to  the  hotel  with  them? 
You  see,  it  was  only  October,  and  he 
wasn’t apt to  meet  any  of  his  own  set 
and  the  pretty  daughter  really  looked 
stunning.

Then they went to a  stable to see some 
horses,  and found  there the  professional 
whip who had driven the pretty daughter 
out at Newport, but he was all deference 
now,  although 
the  pretty  daughter 
greeted him cheerily and cordially, much 
to the horror of young Tallow.  So a pair 
was  bought  at  a very fancy price, upon 
which Tallow, of course, got his commis­
sion,  and  then  Mrs.  Bliven  suggested 
lunch at the hotel.

Oh, no!  Tallow  couldn’t think of that 
So,  feeling  rich  after  the  sale  of  the 
horses, he took  the ladies to a fashionable 
restaurant, and laughed  at Mrs. Bliven’s 
surprise over  “those  queer  little  bugs” 
(they  were  oyster  crabs),  but  desisted 
when she declared that she could shoot a 
better partridge than the one served, from 
her back window at Bliven Mills.

Some of the pretty women from Hemp 
stead and the Country  Club  happened in 
to  lunch,  and  Tallow,  though  at  first 
abashed at being found in such company, 
braced up and  argued  that  Mrs.  Bliven 
didn’t  look  at  all bad sitting down, and, 
as  for  the  pretty  daughter,  she  would 
pass in any  crowd.

Then 

they  bought  harness,  and  the 
maker  had  a  very  steady  coachman  to 
recommend,  thoroughly sober and a care­
ful  driver.  Mrs.  Bliven  thought  his 
breath smelled  of whisky when  he came 
to  apply  for  the  place,  but  the  pretty 
daughter reassured  her with the whisper 
that he  “looked  the image of  the bishop 
of Minnesota.”

By the time the  carriage was mounted, 
the new gowns had been duly  fitted  and 
sent home. 
It was a proud  day,  indeed, 
for Mrs.  and  Miss  Bliven  when  a  hall 
boy knocked  and  said:  “Please,  mum, 
your carriage is at  the  door.” 
I wish  I 
could describe the  confections which the 
clever modiste had devised for these new 
customers.  There  was  some  red  about 
the pretty girl’s throat  that well  became 
her bright face, and  “ma”  was  resplen­
dent in some sort of brocade and furs.

To most people it is a  frightful  ordeal 
to  drive  out  in  a  brand  new  carriage, 
with brand new harness  and  brand  new 
reins.

Not so with the Blivens.  “Ma” sat bolt 
upright in  the  victoria,  but  the  pretty 
daughter lolled back as she  had seen the 
Newport women do.

As  they  passed  Tallow’s  club,  who 
should be  standing  in  the  window  but 
that young dandy himself.

“Oh, look, ma!  There’s Tom Tallow,” 
and the pretty daughter gave  him a jolly 
littl nod and a wave of her band.

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Horrified, yet pleased  in spite of  law- 
self, Tallow started  in to  bow,  then  he 
thought  better  of  it  and  pretended  he 
hadn’t seen anybody.

“What’s  the  matter  with  him,  any­
how?”  exclaimed  the  pretty  daughter. 
“Got the airs bad to-day,  I guess.”

Tommy,  we  are  onto  your 
curves,” came in  chorus  from  the  club 
window.  “ Who’s your pretty mash?” 

The  first  of  November  had  come and 
the new house was  occupied.  The  visit 
to the banker’s wife  had  been returned, 
and she had proved invaluable in the way 
of  getting  servants  and  making  sugges­
tions.

Events  moved  rapidly  from  now  on 
with the  Blivens.  Tom  Tallow  offered 
to bid for a  box  at  the  horse  show  for 
them,  and got  one  of  the  best  for  $800. 
It was a week  of  wild  excitement,  with 
dinners at  Delmonico’s  and  an  ever  in­
creasing  list  of  acquaintances.  Every­
one  was  asking,  “Who 
those 
Blivens?”  And  the  answer,  “Awfully 
rich people  from  the West,”  seemed  to 
be  a  sesame  that  passed  them  every­
where.

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Mrs. Bliven had never heard  an  opera 
in her  life,  but  the  banker’s  wife  had 
and wanted  to  hear  more,  so  she  sug­
gested to Mrs. Bliven that  a  box  at  the 
opera would be a very  enjoyable  feature 
of the winter; so one on  the parterre was 
rented and was a  source  of  infinite  de 
light to Miss Bliven,  who,  of  course,  fell 
in love with Jean  de  Reszke  and  fairly 
overwhelmed Melba with flowers.

One evening a dignified,  portly gentle­
man,  who had great  influence in society, 
was  brought  to  the  Bliven  box  by  the 
banker,  and  presented  to the ladies, and 
before leaving he had  promised  to  send 
the Blivens cards for the  first  Patriarch 
ball.

That good lady’s cup of  happiness was 
now filled to the brim.  Her only trouble 
was that she could not  remember haifof 
the people’s names,  and had  no  visiting 
list.  She  felt  that  she  would  like  to 
send out cards for “at homes” in January, 
but she didn’t know whom to  send  them 
to.  But  somebody told her that  all those 
things could be arranged for  her, so  she 
went to a  shop,  where  they  printed  her 
cards,  provided her with  a  visiting  list, 
and sent her cards out.

Miss  Bliven  could  never  decribe  her 
first  ball.  “It  was  all  a  whirl  and  a 
swirl I”  she said.  Her ball  gown  was  a 
perfect dream of beauty,  white  satin and 
chiffon, and snowballs.  “Ma” had bought 
her a string of lovely  pearls.  Tom  Tal­
low had sent her a great bunch  of  white 
violets,  the first she’d ever  seen, and the 
banker’s son contributed another of  pale 
purple orchids,  which she  didn’t  appre­
ciate. 
the  cotillon,  of 
course,  and got home at half past  4  in  a 
high state  of exhaustion and nervous ex­
citement.

She  danced 

Mrs.  Bliven now consulted the banker’s 
wife  about  the  propriety  of  giving  an 
entertainment  in  her  own  house.  She 
had had several large dinners, which had 
gone off rather well,  although  the  com 
pany  had  been  mixed.  Mrs.  Bliven 
wanted to  give  a  grand  evening  recep­
tion,  such as she imagined  were  held  at 
the white  house.  The  pretty  daughter 
wanted to have  a dance.  So  a  compro­
mise was made, and  1,000  cards  for  an 
evening “at  home”  were  sent  ont,  and 
“dancing” was printed in the corner.

The Bliven house was  a  large  double 
one.  The back drawing-room was  to  be

The banker’s wife, who was to  receive 
with her, was the earliest arrival.  Then 
some of her Western friends came,  and  a 
few  old gentlemen—but  where  was  so­
ciety?  Ten,  half-hast 10,  came  and  the 
front  room  was  only  half  full.  The 
banker’s  wife had told  Mrs.  Bliven  that 
she  must  not  expect  early  hours,  and 
that women didn’t go out  much at  night 
—a harmless sort of lie  that might spare 
Mrs.  Bliven much mortification.

By 11 o’clock some girl friends  of  the 
pretty  daughter  showed  up,  and  soon 
after a  batch  of  young  men,  who  had 
evidently been dining at their club, made 
a noisy entrance.

This party had been made up like this: 
‘Who’s going to the Blivens’  to-night?” 
asked  Tom  Tallow  of  a  group  at  the 
Noodle Club.  “Don’t know  them,”  was 
the general answer.  “That doesn’t  mat 
ter.  Got  a  ripping  house,  plenty  of 
fizz’  and  all  that.  They  told  me  to 
bring any  one  I  chose.”  So  the  whole 
party started off to  be  amused,  as  they 
would go to the play or a dog fight.

When  these  ingenuous  young gentle 
men got down to  the drawing-room they 
made things hum. Dancing of the most vig 
orous sort was immediately begun,  inter 
spersed with frequent visits  to  the  din 
ing-room.  Then some  of  the  men  dis 
covered a smoking-room  further on, and 
soon the heavy  odor  of  Dimetrino  ciga­
rettes penetrated even the front drawing 
room.

That’s right, boys, have a good time,” 
said Mrs. Bliven, pleasantly, as she came 
back to give an  order  to  some  servant 
Not  one  of  these  dandies  got  out  of 
his chair or  laid  down  his  cigarette  as 
she looked into the room,  but  she  didn’ 
notice their bad manners, and  might  al 
most  have  overheard  “The  jolly  old 
girl!”  that greeted her departure.

Mrs. Bliven,  in  summing  up  the  net 
results of her first  entertainment,  could 
not see that she had gained much  in  the 
social scale. 
It was a disappointment to 
her that the fine ladies of  New York  had 
not vouchsafed  to  come.  She  felt  that 
she and her pretty daughter  had already 
mastered  the  masculine  portion  of  so­
ciety. 
Indeed,  the trim little  widow  al­
ready had several very  promising  flirta­
tions of her own on foot,  and,  as  for the 
pretty daughter, she was  fairly  besieged 
by admirers, one  old bachelor  in partic­
ular, who wrote  sonnets  to  the  “Prairie 
Flower,” as he  called  Miss  Bliven,  and 
proved himself a nuisance generally.

Mrs. Bliven had a serious talk with the 
banker’s wife on the subject  Of course, 
the  Neyr  York  woman  knew  exactly 
what the trouble  was.  A  good  looking 
widow  from  out  of  the  West,  with  a 
pretty daughter and  three  millions,  was 
the worst sort of a detriment  The mere 
fact that all the men  were  running  after 
her was enough  to  condemn  her  In  the 
women’s eyes.

NORTHROP,  ROBERTSON  &  CARRIES,

LAMSINO,  m i c h . 

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. 

LOUISVILLE,  KY>

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

r

If  Y o u   A r e   a  M e r c h a n t

and  desire  to  establish  a  BIG  flour  trade,  we 
would  say  that  you  can  make  quicker  sales, 
easier sales, more sales,  and,  consequently, more 
profitable sales with

Lily  W hite  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.

VALLEY  BUY  MILLING  CO.,
RINDGE,  KALMBAGH  Î   GO 12,  14  i 16  Pearl 81. 

GRAND  RAPID8, 

MICH.

GRAND  RAPIDS.

Manufacturers  and  Jobbers  or

Boots,  Shoes  and  Rubbers.
Our stock for fall and winter trade is  complete. 

New lines in warm goods and Holiday 

Slippers.  We have the best 

combination Felt Boot 

and Perfection 

made.

Agents for the Boston Rubber Shoe Co.

Inspection Solicited.

COUPON  B00K8 YOU  BUY  OF  HEADQUARTERS,  YOU 

T R A D E S M A N   C O M P A N Y

a RK  CUSTOMERS  OF  THE 

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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

tensive  European  tour.  They  will  oc­
cupy  the  same  house  on  Fifth  avenue 
that they had  last  winter,  and  are  ex­
pected 
lavishly.  Miss 
Bliven has announced her engagement to 
Mr.  Harry Bond,  Harvard  ’82,  the son of 
the well-known  Wall  street  banker  and 
philanthropist.”

to  entertain 

Sugar  a  Valuable Food.

The  Royal  Society  of  England  has 
been experimenting with  sugar to  deter­
mine its value as a food.  Several healthy 
men were selected  for  the  experiments. 
The  first day  they  were  given  nothing 
but water,  being expected to do ordinary 
work.  The next day 500 grams of  sugar 
were taken in an equal quantity of water, 
and it was found that  the sugar not only 
prolonged  the  time  before  fatigue  oc­
curred,  but caused  an  increase  of  from 
68 to 76 per cent  in the amount  of  mus­
cular  work  done.  Then  sugar  was 
added to regular meals,  and it was found 
to  have  a  great  effect  in  putting  off 
fatigue  and  increasing  the  power  to 
work.  The  experiments  are  held  to 
prove that sugar is one of  the  most  val­
uable of foods.

John Dimlin,  a  confectioner  of  Pitts­
burg,  has been elected  permanent  presi­
dent of the national sangerfest,  which  is 
to be held in that  city in 1896.

DRINK

Pronounced by Dr. Seeley, one  of  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 
towels.  He used it in  the  years  1848  and  1849. 
His opinion has been  verified  by  scores  of  our 
patrons  in  Grand  Kapids  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.

Tie Bradstreet Mercantile Agency.

The Bradstreet  Company, Props.

Tour Bank Account Solicited.

Kelt County Savings Beil,

J n o .  A.  O o v o d e   Pres.

GRAND  KAPIDS  ,MICH.
Hsnrt  Idema, Vlce-Pres.

J.  A.  S.  Vbbdibb,  Cashier.

K. Van Hop, Ass’tC’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, 
Jno.W.Blodgett,.!. A. McKee 
J. A. 8. Verdier
Deposits  Exceed  One  Million  D ollars.

Exeeative Offices, 279,281,283 Broadway, N.Y

C H A R L E S   F .  C L A R K ,  P r e s.

Offices  n the principal cities of the United 
States,  Canada,  the  European  continent, 
Australia, and In London, England.

Grand  Rapids Office, Room 4, Widdicomb Bldg.

HKNRT  ROYCK,  Sapt.

(5 AND 7  PEAPL STREET.

“My dear Mrs. Bliven, I’m sure I don’t 
know what more yon  can  do,  except  to 
try charitable work.  Lent is  soon  com­
ing on.  There are  a  dozen  fashionable 
church and sewing classes  being formed. 
If  you  could  associate  yourself  with 
these I think you would  meet many  very 
nice women, and get to  know  them  bet­
ter than in a ballroom.”

Mrs.  Bliven  had  been  going  to  St 
James’ church,  which numbered many of 
the  four  hundred  in  its  congregation. 
The rector had  called,  and  Mrs.  Bliven 
had  made  a  very  handsome  Christmas 
offering to  the  church.  She  decided  to 
go now and  offer  him  her  services  as  a 
worker  in  the  vineyard  during  Lent. 
He  was,  of  course,  delighted.  Great 
wealth,  when  sanctified  by  works,  is as 
acceptable in the church as  elsewhere.

Mrs. Bliven met a  number  of  leading 
ladies of the parish at the  rectory,  after­
wards at their houses,  and finally had the 
ineffable pleasure  of  holding  a  meeting 
of the class at her own house.

By the end of Lent she had  got  to  be 
on very friendly terms with three or four 
matriarchs, a half dozen colouial  dames, 
and  twenty  or  thirty  other  prominent 
women, but she still  looked  ahead,  with 
awe and longing, at the “howling swells,” 
the dinner dance set, although  the bank­
er’s wife told her frankly  that  it  might 
be years before she could even  get to  be 
on bowing terms with any  one  of  them.
In one winter’s work, then, Mrs. Bliven 
had skirmished  all  along  the  line,  and 
been victorious in every  instance  except 
to  penetrate  to  the  holy  of  holies. 
Money—of  course  the  most  irresistible 
factor  lever—the  open  sesame  in  New 
York  society,  was  the  chief  reason  of 
Mrs.  Bliven’s  success.  The  beauty  of 
the  pretty  daughter  and  Mrs.  Bliven’s 
pluck or cheek filled the rest.

*  

*  

*

The Blivens went aboard  in the spring, 
but not before there  was  a  well-defined 
rumor that the pretty  daughter  was  en­
gaged to the banker’s son, and not before 
Mrs. Bliven had had  the  satisfaction  of 
exchanging  visits  in  propria  persona 
with most of the people  worth  knowing.
A paragraph in a  New York  paper  of 

recent issue reads:
“Mrs.  and Miss  Bliven  have  returned 
from Europe on the Majestic after an ex­

'p H B Y   A J ,J ,  S A r

“ It s  a s   g o o d   a s   S a p o l i o ”  w h e n   t h e y   t r y  
to  sell  y o u  
th e ir   e x p e r i m e n t s .  Y o u r  
o w n   g o o d   s e n s e   w ill  tell  y o u   t h a t   t h e y  
a r e   o n l y   t r y i n g   to  get  y o u   to  a id   t h e ir  
n e w   a rticle.

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

Is 
it  n o t  th e   p u b l i c ?   T h e   m a n u f a c t u r e r s  
b y   c o n s ta n t  a n d  
ju d ic io u s   a d v e r t i s i n g  
b r in g   c u s to m e r s   to  y o u r   s to re s   w h o s e  
v e r y   p r e s e n c e   c re a te s   a  d e m a n d  
fo r 
o th e r   articles.

the best trade is a perplexing problem  to  some people, but  its  solu­
tion is simple.
First.  Make  the  best  goods  possible ;  not once in a while, but 
always.
Second.  Let the people know of  it, early and often.
T h ir d .  Don’t neglect details.
Attention to these principles has placed the

Qail  Borden  Eagle  Brand

CONDENSED  MILK  at the head, and

Borden’s  Peerless  Brand
EVAPORATED  CREAM  is sure  to  obtain an equally high place in 
the consumer's favor, because it has  INTRINSIC  MERIT.
Prepared and guaranteed by the NEW  YORK  CONDENSED  niLK  CO.

Don’t fail to order a supply now.

Fob  Quotations  See  Price  Columns

A B S O LU T E LY   PU RE.

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ISP-WRITE  FOR  NET  PRICE  LIST  BEFORE  THEY  ARE  ALL  GONE

-  A  LEADER.
Address  G .  R. MAYHRW,  Grand Rapids, Mich.

Ju st  the  thing  for

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15

Storekeeping a Hundred Tears Ago and 

Now.
Written (or Thn Tradesman.

The  present  generation  have  but  a 
faint  idea  of  the  goods  contained  in  a 
store seventy or eighty years ago.  Not a 
tenth  of  the  kinds  of merchandise now 
on  sale  in  nearly  every  department  of 
trade and ready for instant use,  was then 
in existence, such  has been  the  wonder 
ful advance in science,  art and  improve 
ment.  Within  the  memory  of  persons 
now  living  there  were  no  retail  stores 
with special lines of goods only, atdeven 
in the wholesale departments  such  were 
rarely  seen  and  were  confined  to  dry 
goods,  groceries  and  hardware.  Goods 
were generally  retailed from the original 
packages as much  as  possible  and  with 
no attempt at  display  or  attractiveness. 
Sugar  was  sold  direct  from  the barrel, 
box or hogshead,  tea and  coffee from box 
or bag,  nails direct  from  the  keg,  etc 
and  the  customer who  had the boldness 
to ask that his purchases  be delivered  at 
his residence would have received a mild 
lecture on the subject of laziness.

The medium  of  exchange  was  princi­
pally the products of the  farmers, as  the 
larger  portion  of  the  small  amount  of 
money  in  the  country  was  in  but  few 
hands.  However,  with  the  increase  in 
population  from  immigration  and  other 
sources,  and  an 
increasing  commerce, 
came an  increase  of  money  per  capita, 
and with this a demand  for different and 
better  classes  of  goods,  and  in  greater 
quantity.

As the number  of  stores  increased  in 
greater proportion than  the  inhabitants, 
the percentage of customers  to  each  de­
creased,  and  new devices became neces­
sary  in  order  to  attract  trade  which 
might  otherwise  go  to  one’s  neighbor. 
Since  a  decade  dating  from  1825 there 
has been no greater  change  in  the  gen­
eral  retail  stores  of  the  country  than 
this.  An  exceptional  departure  was 
made in the convenience,  as  well  as  the 
beauty,  of  the  store room  ftself,  so  that 
little  remains  to remind one of the past. 
The style and size of front windows were 
changed,  the room was  better lighted  by 
both day and night,  and  oil  lamps  took 
the  place  of  candles.  Counters  and 
shelves  were  made  more  artistic  and 
rows of handsome drawers  began  to  ap­
pear.  All  this  was  found  to  facilitate 
business, and goods were kept in  far bet­
ter  order.

It was also discovered  that if  a  single 
line—or, at the most,  two—of goods were 
kept  and  sold, 
the  profits  would  be 
greater,  as  the  amount  required  would 
admit of purchasing direct from the man­
ufacturer  or  producer, 
thereby  saving 
the percentage of the  jobber.  Thus,  tea 
and  coffee  stores,  book  and  stationery 
stores, and soon afterward stores of other 
special  lines  of  goods,  were  opened  in 
numbers of the larger towns and villages. 
During the last quarter of the eighteenth 
and the first quarter of  the  present  cen­
tury,  a  majority of  the retail merchants 
paid for their  stocks  quarterly  or  semi­
annually  in  certain  kinds  of  products 
from the farms, mines or forests.  These 
products  must  be  such  as  would  not 
readily decay or suffer injury from trans­
portation, and  which  were  in  good  de­
mand  in  foreign  countries,  where  the 
great  bulk  of  our  merchandise  came 
from;  such was the  system  of  barter  in 
the  early  days  of  our  republic.  Boats 
and wagons were  the  vehicles  of  trans­
portation for all  this produce  to the sea­

board (from whose large  cities nearly all 
merchandise was  obtained)  and  for  the 
return  of  the  goods  it would purchase, 
for the railway  was yet an infant.

Villages were not  numerous  and cities 
were  far  apart,  which  necessitated  the 
crossroad or country  store,  often in  sev­
eral places in  each county.  As  at  pres­
ent,  in  the  new and sparely settled sec­
tions  of  the  country,  at  these  isolated 
stores  the  post  office  was  usually  lo­
cated.  A hotel,  then  known as  a  “pub­
lic house,” or “house of entertainment,” 
was  generally  situated  near  it,  where 
public  meetings  of  various  kinds  were 
held,  and  where the business of the town, 
and sometimes  of the county,  was trans­
acted. 
(I may state, in passing,  that the 
mails of the  country  were  then  carried 
on horseback or  by corporate  stagecoach 
lines which,  with  relays  of  horses  sta­
tioned at  these  hotels  along  the  route, 
ran day and night between  all  principal 
commercial cities.)  In those days nearly 
all public  houses  were  provided  with  a 
bar,  or  small  enclosure  within  a  front 
room, near the  huge  fireplace,  having  a 
narrow  counter  in  front  and  provided 
with a few shelves,  and  sometimes  slid­
ing  sash  and  glass,  behind  which,  iu 
tempting  array, 
stood  decanters  of 
rum,  brandy and gin,  ready  for  dispens­
ing; and here, also,  was an  embryo store 
for  the  convenience  of  travelers  and 
others.  On these shelves were exhibited 
tobacco  in  various  forms,  clay  pipes, 
crackers, cheese,  pies  of  various  kinds, 
and a barrel of  cider  stood  underneath, 
from  which  “good  cheer”  might  be  en­
joyed for a very limited amount of money. 
A  limited  credit  was  given  to  neigh­
boring farmers only,  the  accounts  being 
kept  on 
long  narrow  slips  of  paper 
tacked against the  wall,  in  plain  sight, 
that the debtor might,  from time to time, 
be silently reminded  of the amount, and, 
should his vision  or  memory  be  faulty, 
a  neighbor  might  now  and then jog  his 
memory.  1 have in my possession one of 
these accounts—unpaid—which belonged 
to  one  of  my  ancestors,  from  which  1 
produce a verbatim copy:

J ohn Sel~rid«e, Dr.

 

 

 

. 

14th 

Peb. .Oth, 1821  To 1 Plug Tobacco......  

20th 
¡.2nd 
March 5th 
26th 

05
1  Pipe.............................   ii
2 Dry  Herring..............   02
1  Drink Oin  .................  ( 3
1  Drink Whisky............  03
Crackers......  
  ol
Cider for  the  Crowd..  17 
1  Paper Smoking  .........07
2 Pipes..........................   02
.................  14
1  Pint Bam 
1  “  Brandy...............   40
Crackers and Cheese..  o8
2 Glasses Cider.............   04
H  Pie...............  
06
2 Pings  Tobacco  .........   10
It .28
I am enabled  to  explain  the  unusual 
expenditure by Mr. Selfridge on February 
22 only by inferring  that  his  patriotism 
and love for the Father of his Country in­
duced him to  celebrate his  birthday in  a 
proper spirit.

The country  “house of entertainment” 
has disappeared forever and  with  it  the 
bar and its incipient store. 
It is an open 
question  whether,  with  all  the  radical 
changes  and  so-called  improvements  in 
storekeeping,  the  merchant  himself  has 
been  benefited. 
In  some  respects  his 
customers may  be  reaping  the  harvest, 
but I incline to the opinion that the mer­
chant is not.  The per  cent,  of  failures 
among  the  retail  merchants  to-day,  as 
compared with  fifty  years  ago,  will  be 
found  to  be  four  to  one.  What is  the 
cause of this?  Is it  not a  fact  that,  for 
nearly every innovation  with  a  view  to 
increasing  sales,  an  additional  expense

Milskep  Bakery  Grackers

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

Are  Perfect  Health  Food.

There area great many  Butter Crackres  .»n  the  Market- 

one can be best—that is  the original

-only

Muskegon
Bakery
Butter
Cracker.

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

Nine
Other
Great
Specialties
Are

Muskegon  Toast,
Rosal  F ruit  Biscuit, 
Muskegon  Frosted  Honey, 
Ictd  Cocoa  Honey Jumbles, 
Jelly Turnovers,
Ginger Snaps,
Hom e-M ade  Snaps, 
Muskegon  Branch,
Mlik  Lunch.

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

United  States  Baking  Co.

LAW BEN CE  DEPEW ,  Acting  Mftn&ger,

M u skegon , 

- 

M ich

Are You Selling

The  Celebrated 

Cleaned  Greek  Cnrrants 

and the Genuine 

Cleaned Sultana Raisins.

Prepared  by

Grand Rapids Frnit

IF  NOT, W H Y NOT?

Cleaning  Company.

These currants are cleaned by a new process (they are not 
washed  like  other  so-called  cleaned  currants)  and  are war­
ranted the year round; ask your jobber for them  and  take  no 
others claimed to be just as good.  Be  sure and get them.

Sold  by  Ball-Barnhart-Putman  Co.,  Musselman  Groeev 
Co.,  Olney  &  Judson  Grocer  Co.,  I.  M. Clark  Grocery  Co., 
Hawkins <fc Co.

HTFor Quotations see Price Current.

CHICAGO

Nov. 18,1894.
AND  W E S T   MICHIGAN  R’V. 
GOING TO  CHICAGO.

TO AND FROM MUSKEGON.

^  RETURNING  FROM  CHICAGO.

Lv. G’d Rapids............ 7:15am  1:25pm *11:30pm
Ar. Chicago.................1:25pm 6:50pm  *7:20am
„ 
Lv. Chicago.................8:25am  5:00pm *11:45pm
Ar. G’d Rapids............ 3:05pm  10:25pm  *6:25am
Lv. Grand Rapids.......7:25am  1:25pm  5:30pm
Ar. Grand Rapids........11:45am  3:06pm 10:25pm
TRAVERSE OITT.  CHARLEVOIX AND  PETOSKKY.
Lv. Grand  Rapids..  7:30am  3:15pm
Ar.  Manistee...........  12:20pm  8:15pm
Ar. Traverse City.... 
1:00pm  8:45pm
Ar. Charlevoix........  3:15pm  11:10pm
Ar.  Petoskey  ....  ..  3:45pm  11:40pm
pm.

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

P A R L O R   AND  B L EEPIN G   CARS.

Parlor  car  leaves  for  Chicago  1:25pm.  Ar­
rives 
from  Chicago  10:25pm.  Sleeping  cars 
leave  for  Chicago  11:30pm.  Arrive  from  Chi­
cago 6:25am.

»Every day.  Others week days only.
DETROIT,

Oct.  28,  1894
LANSING A  NORTHERN  R . R ,
GOING TO  DETROIT.

Lv. Grand Rapids........  7:00am  1:20pm  5:25pm
Ar. Detroit.................. 11:40am  6:30pm  10:10pm

RETURNING  FROM  DETROIT.

Lv. Detroit..................   7:40am  1:10pm  6:00pm
Ar. Grand Rapids........12:40pm  5:2Cpm  10:45pm
Lv.GR 7:40am 5:00pm  Ar.GR.11:35am 10:45pm

TO AND  FROM  SAGINAW,  ALMA  AND  ST.  LOUIS.

. 
Lv. Grand Rapids...........7:00am  1:20pm 5:25pm
| Ar.from Lowell..............12:40pm 5:20pm  ..........

TO AND FROM LOWELL.

^THROUGH  CAR SERVICE.

Parlor  Carson all trains  between Grand Rap- 
Ids and Detroit.  Parlor car to Saginaw on morn­
ing train.

Trains  week days only.

GEO. DbHAVBN, Gen. Pass’r Ag’t.

lengthy  and  expensive 

to  the  storekeeper  is  entailed?  And, 
further,  unless  the  innovation  is  one 
which  is patentable, every competitor  in 
trade can  adopt it;  in  fact,  as  with  the 
delivery  wagon, they  are forced  to do so 
or “go to the  wall.”

who has  deliberately  made  up his mind 
to  adopt  either  system  always  laments 
that he had not  adopted  the other.  One 
curious phase  of  the  credit  business  is 
that it depends  more  upon  the  class  of 
avocations  than  upon 
the  individuals 
The tendency in trade  to-day is  to  de­
who follow  them  whether  they  pay  in­
structive competition.  Gradual  changes 
debtedness or not.  Many  persons whose 
have  brought  this  about.  Fifty  year 
avocations  are  supposed  to  be  very  re­
ago, such  a thing as  outdoor  display  of 
munerative  never pay  except at  the  end 
goods,  as  at  present  prevails,  was  un
of 
litigation;
thought of,  and window decoration was a  others who earn  very little pay promptly, 
dream of  the  future.  Now.  special  art-  I  speak  from  personal  experience,  and 
ists  are  engaged,  at  large  salaries,  for  other merchants will  corroborate my tes- 
It is as a  correspondent of T h e 
this line of  work.  Buildings  must  now  timony. 
be constructed and fitted up on extensive  Mic h ig a n  T radesm an  said 
several 
costly plans,  and rents,  lights  and  other  years ago-«The  wealthiest  men are  the 
expenses  are  correspondingly  higher,  poorest  pay,  because  they  always  keep 
The strategic means now adopted by new  their money at work  accumulating  inter­
devices to tempt the  public  to  purchase | est. and  upon the prestige of real or sup-
all point to the  fact—whether  expressed 
posed  bank  deposits  purchase  all  they 
in words or not—that  the  cost  of  doing 
want on time,  and without  interest,  few 
business is far greater than formerly.  In 
storekeepers having the nerve to demand 
regard  to  exposure of goods for display, 
the  cash  from  wealthy  families  when 
a  loss  in  their  value  naturally  accom­
goods are delivered.”  The  poor  classes 
panies such  exposure,  especially  in  the 
possessing no  available assets,  generally 
case of dry goods  and  groceries,  and  in 
make their honor and  their name a relia 
the  aggregate  this  is  no smail sum. 
If 
ble  guarantee,  knowing  that, 
if  these 
we could  know  the  value  of  the  fruit 
fail, all is lost,  and,  their  purchases  be 
and  vegetables  which  have  perished  on 
ing small and short time given  in  which 
their  hands  and  been  thrown  away by 
to  pay,  they generally make every effort 
grocers,  we  would  wonder  where  their 
to pay their store accounts  when due.
profits come in.

For several years past,  the majority of 
persons purchasing  goods at  retail  have 
somehow  obtained 
the  idea  that  they 
were paying  exorbitant,  if not extortion­
ate,  prices for merchandise, and, whether 
this idea  has been  true  or  false,  it  has 
produced a marked change in  customers, 
they being anxious  to try not  only other 
firms near home  with  which  to deal,  but 
also to try other towns  and  cities.  The 
result of this  has  been  injurious to  both 
dealers  and  customers,  as  both  parties 
were  no  longer 
in  contact  with  old 
friends.  New  acquaintances  have  been 
made and new whims and tastes gratified 
in the  matter of  goods,  aud,  in  making 
the  acquaintance  of  new  dealers,  both 
parties have taken  a  certain  amount  of 
risk,  which is always unavoidable among 
strangers.  There  was a  time—not  very 
far  in  the  past  either— when  “the  old 
storekeeper” who had  grown  in  the busi­
ness from  boyhood,  and had  been  thirty 
or forty years in one  store,  possessed the 
implicit  confidence  of  every  customer, 
and vice versa.  But  this is  not  true  to­
day.  Dissatisfaction  has  arisen on both 
sides,  much to the  detriment of  trade  in 
general,  and  especially  to  that  of  the 
smaller  towns.  Customers  are  to-day 
“ trying  their  luck”  in  different  towns 
about,  as well as different stores at home, 
and  with  unsatisfactory  results. 
It  is 
the order of the day that the storekeepers 
who  make  their  places  most  attractive 
are  those  who  command  the  heaviest 
trade. 
In  this esthetic age it  is  the  eye 
as well as the stomach  which seeks  grati­
fication.

The  axiom  that  “A  twofold  cord  is 
stronger than  one,  and  three  not  easily 
broken” has caused  many copartnerships 
in mercantile  business,  in  order  to  save 
expense in many  ways, and,  by the com­
bination of capital,  to  do  business  on  a 
larger scale and crush out small competi­
tors,  and this tendency  is extending.

And there is the problem of credit with 
which to grapple.  The battle of “strictly 
cash”  and  “ both  cash  and  credit”  has 
been fought over  and over  again  during 
the  past  quarter  of  a  century  at least, 
and is no  nearer  ended.  The  merchant

In conclusion:  The  store  of  our civili­
zation  is  an  imperative  necessity.  We 
cannot  dispense  with  it,  nor  with  the 
storekeeper with  his sharp  and  decisive 
rivalry.  What,  then, will specially char­
acterize the store of the  coming century? 
Its  general  trend  to-day  is  toward  the 
store  of  seventy-five  or  100  years  ago, 
that is, a shop wherein everything under 
the name of merchandise  can  be  found. 
Business,  as  now  conducted,  is really  in 
excess of the demand, and, consequently, 
not as lucrative as formerly, and is grow­
ing less so, yearly;  and one of two things 
must inevitably  take  place—either there 
will be a less number  of  stores,  accord 
ing  to  the  population,  or the specialis 
will  be gradually frozen  out,  leaving  us 
the  general  or  department  stores  only 
and  these on  a scale  the  magnitude  and 
magnificence of which was  never  before 
equaled. 

S t o r e k e e p e r

M iscellaneous  H ints.

From the Chicago Dry Goods Reporter.

A  good  idea  to  incorporate  in  your 
newspaper advertisements  or in  a  win 
dow card at this time of the year is a state 
ment of the number of days between the 
current date and  Christmas.  This  calls 
the attention of the reader,  in a  forceful 
manner,  that the  time for  the  selection 
of  Christmas presents is  at hand.
A contemporary calls  attention  to  the 
fact that merchants should  hunt  up  all 
the  empty  pasteboard  boxes  they  can 
find  and  hold  them  subject  to  the  de­
mands  of 
their  customers.  They  are 
much  needed  for  inclosing  Christmas 
presents by the latter, and  they  are  apt 
to  feel  hurt  and  offended  by  a  refusal 
when they  ask for them,  no matter what 
the reason.
some  mer­
chants  to  make  presents  to  children 
coming into the store at the holiday  sea­
son. 
If this is  done  the  giving  should 
be  indiscriminate,  but  it  is  extremely 
doubtful  if the custom really  swells  the 
volume of a  merchant’s  business  to  an 
extent that warrants the trouble and  ex­
pense.

the  custom  of 

It 

is 

The slot machine is to have another  il­
lustration  of  its  usefulness.  One  has 
been arranged that will sell six street car 
tickets for a quarter.  A number of them 
are to be used in Cincinnati. If a success, 
they  will probably have a wide  sale.

Use Tradesman Coupon Books.

BAR-LOCK

The  Modern 
W riting  ilachine.

The Most Complete and  Best  Made 

Typewriter  on the Market.

M il.-

TV ETROIT,  GRAND  HAVEN  & 
U   WAUKKE Railway.
EASTWARD.
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645am
7 40am
8 25am
9 00am
10 50am
11 30am 
1005am 
1205pm 
10 53am 
1150am

Trains Leave
G'd  Rapids,  Lv
Ionia...........Ar
St. Johns  ...Ar
Owosso....... Ar
E. Saginaw..Ar
Bay City......Ar
F lin t...........Ar
Pt.  Huron...Ar
Pontiac....... Ar
Detroit.........Ar

10 20am 
1125am 
12 17pm 
1 20pm
3 45pm
4 35pm 
345pm
5 50pm 
305pm 
4 05pm

325pm
4 27pm 
520pm
5 05pm 
8 00pm 
637pm
7 05pm
8 50pm
8 25pm
9 25pm

1100pm 
1235am 
125am 
3 10am
6 40am 
715am 
5 41 am 
730am 
537am
7 00am

WESTWARD.

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For  Grand Haven  and Intermediate
Points  ...........................................*7:00a-m
For Grand Haven and  Muskegon..... tl :oo p. m 
“  Mil. and Chi... +5.35 p.  m
tDaily except Sunday. 
Trains  arrive  from  the  east,  6:35* a.m.,  12-60 
1  ".•*
[ p.m., 5:30 p.m . 
Trains  arrive from  the  west, 10:10a.  m  3-15 
pm   and 9:15 p.m.
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car,
Parlor Buffet car.' ‘Ño.'*8Í'wagner Sleep«»9“61161 

»Daily 

J as. Cam pbell, City Ticket Agent.

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Four  Cardinal  Points:

Visible  W riting, 
Autom atic  Action, 
Perfect  Alignment, 
Ease  of Operation.

It  is  Impossible  for  an  Operator, 

however Expert, to reach the 

Limit ot Speed on this 

Machine.

Tradesman  Company, j

Western  Michigan  Agents.

WORLD’S  F t   SOUVENIR  MET!!

ONLY  A  FEW  LEFT.

- 

Original set of four 
Complete set of ten  - 

2SC
50c
Order  quick or lose the opportunity of 
a  lifetime  to  secure these souvenirs at a 
nominal figure.  They will  be worth ten 
times present cost within five years.
T radesm an Company,

Michigan P bntbat,

“ Tie Niagara Falls Route.”  " 
(Taking effect  Sunday,  May 27,1894.) 

Arrive. 
D e n a rt.
19 20 ° m...........Detroit Express........... 7 00 a m
5 30am ...... »Atlantic and  Pacific...... li  20pm
1  50p m ...... New York Express.........  6 00 dm I
•Daily.  All others dally, except Sunday.F 
Sleeping cars ran on Atlantic  and  Pacific ex­
press trains to aud from Detroit 
Parlor  cars  leave  for  Detroit at 7:00 a m;  re- 
turning, leave Detroit 4:35 pm,arriving at Grand 
Rapids 10:20 p m.
Direct  commnnlcatlOR  made  at  Detroit with 
all through  trains erst  over the  Michigan Cen 
tral Railroad (Canada Southern Division.)
A. ALMqmsT, Ticket Agent,
Union PassengerStaUon.

Grand Rapids St Indiana.

TBAXK8  GOINS  NORTH.

For Traverse City, Petoskey  and Sagina 
For  Traverse  Citar............ 
For Saginaw.........................................V” .............“ •
For  Petoskey and  Mackinaw......... 

*

TRAINS  GOING  SOUTH. 

North  "  
w....7:10a.  m

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South.
For  Cincinnati................
For Kalamazoo and  Chicago..
For  Fort Wayne and  the  E a s t.'..................• •••..2:16 p. na.
For  Kalamazoo and Chicago

Chicagro v ia G.  R.  & I.  r   r

Sleeping Car

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Arr Grand Rapide 
11:30 p m  train dally .throng £  Wagner 
For 
For Mnekegon-Leave. 

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SJnildlngs,  Portraits,  Cards  and  Stationery 

Headings, Maps, Plans and Patented 

Articles.
TRADESMAN  CO., 

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Purely Personal.

F. A.  Rockafellow,  President  of  the 
Rockafellow  Mercantile  Co.,  at  Carson 
City,  was in town  a couple  of  days  last 
week.

Chas. E.  Temple left  Monday for Den­
ver,  where he will stop a  few days,  and, 
perhaps,  go  on  to  San  Francisco  and 
Stockton before returning home.

A.  E.  Pickard,  formerly  engaged  in 
trade  at  East  Jordan,  has  removed  to 
Ellsworth,  where he has  taken  the  posi­
tion  of  book-keeper  for  the  Ellsworth 
Lumber Co.

Jas.  E.  Granger,  Secretary  of 

the 
Stone-Ordean  Co.,  wholesale  grocers  at 
Duluth,  arrived in this  city  Monday  for 
a  ten  days’  visit  with  his  family  and 
friends.

Geo.  D.  Van  Vranken,  the  Cadillac 
druggist,  has erected a handsome pagoda 
in the center of his store,  from  whijh  he 
is dispensing  hot  chocolate and  beef tea 
free to his customers during the holidays.
Clarence C.  Beatty, junior  member  of 
the dry goods firm of S.  S.  Beatty & Son, 
at  Morenci,  was  married  recently,  to 
Miss  Viola  Lester,  of  the  same  place. 
The wedding  is the sequel  to a  pleasant 
World’s Fair trip.

Edwin White,  President  of  the  Grand 
Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association, leaves 
the city the second  week in  January  for 
a visit to England,  where he  will  spend 
a month  with  .relatives  and  friends  at 
London,  Leeds and  Manchester.  During 
his absence he will attend  the  marriage 
of a sister near Leeds.

Baumgarten Bros.,  the  Bay  City  gro­
cers,  exhibit  a  front  window this week 
which is the admiration  of all beholders. 
It is the  handiwork of  Ed.  Baumgarten. 
who  has  acquired  considerable  distinc 
tion  as  a  window dresser in  the grocery 
line,  and  represents  a  rural  scene  de­
picting a stream  of water  spanned  by  a 
bridge, over which  a  wagon, loaded  with 
people,  is  passing.  The  work  is  con­
structed entirely of nuts  and  is  remark­
able  in  point of ingenuity and effective­
ness.

Bank  Notes.

The  State  Bank  of  Michigan  (Grand 
Rapids) elected two new  directors at  the 
annual meeting,  last  week—E.  H. Foote, 
Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  Grand 
Rapids Chair  Co.,  and Edward Crawford, 
Secretary and  Treasurer of the Michigan 
Chair Co.

The  Commercial  Savings  Bank  of 
Adrian has declared a 10  per  cent,  divi­
dend and passed $5,000 to the surplus ac­
count.

The  Adrian  State  Savings  Bank  has 
declared  a  7  per  cent,  dividend  and 
passed 2 per  cent, of the  capital stock to 
surplus account.

The creditors of the  defunct' National 
City Bank of  Marshall  will  receive  the 
remaining 5 per cent,  due them,  with  in­
terest,  before the end of the week.

D. B.  K.  Van Raalte  has  been  elected 
President  of  the  Holland  City  State 
Bank,  to fill the vacancy  caused  by  the 
death of Jacob Van Putten,  Sr.  The va­
cancy in  the board of directors  has  been 
filled  by the election of R.  Venekloasen, 
of  Zeeland.

Skillful Business  Correspondence,
As taught at  the  Grand  Rapids  Busi­
ness College, is worth many times its cost.
Eight  hundred  dozen  boys’,  youths’ 
and men’s outing  shirts,  from  $2.25 to $6 
per dozen,  will be  ready  to  show  about 
Jan.  20  at  P.  Steketee  &  Sons.  Wait 
until  our salesman  shows  you  our  line 
before  buying.

Statement from Dr. Sayles 

Kalamazoo,  Dec.  12—Believing  that 
you have no desire to injure any person’s 
character,  I  wish  to  call your  attention 
to the statement you made to-day through 
your  columns.  According  to  an  agree­
ment, I  met  G.  W.  Saunders  at  Grand 
Rapids, to look over my property, consist­
ing of a house and lot.  We agreed on the 
value and I went home with Mr. Saunders 
and looked over his stock  of  drugs,  and 
made  a  purchase  of same,  by giving se­
curity satisfactory to Mr. Saunders,  when 
I again  returned  to  Riverdale  and  took 
possession.  Mr.  Saunders  with  his 
mortgage went to Grand  Rapids and, not 
being  careful  in  his  looking  up  the 
record, thought I  did not own  the  prop­
erty mortgaged.  On his return to River- 
dale,  I proved title to his  entire satisfac­
tion,  and  Mr.  Kingsbury  packed  and 
moved the goods, and Mr.  Saunders  fre­
quently  asked  to assist him in his work. 
The title is perfect so far as I know,  as I 
obtained it from an honorable man.

C.  P.  Sa y les.

The  Drug  Market.

Opium is very  firm and  an  advance  is 
is 

looked  for.  The  primary  market 
higher than ours.

Morphia is,  as yet,  unchanged.
Quinine is steady.
Citric  acid is a trifle lower.
Gum camphor is weak.
Bismuth salts  will  probably  be  lower, 
on account of lower prices for the  metal.

DIAMONDS,

Precious Stones, Rings, Pins,  Swiss and 

American  Watches,  Silver­

ware, CiockB and Opti­

cal Goods.

This is a list that will  make  a  Christ­
mas  present  hunter look happy and if  a 
visit shall  be paid to the  elegant jewelry 
store of Zlerleyn &  Carstens,  89  Monroe 
street,  the  large  display  of these goods 
and the remarkably low prices will make 
them feel happy.
This firm  is one of the substantial ones 
of the city  and  all  orders  entrusted  to 
them either personally  or  by  mail  will 
receive prompt and honorable  attention.

PRODUCE  MARKET.

Apples—The  market .is  about  the  same  as  a 
week ago.  Baldwins are still sold at S3 per bbl., 
but Greenings and Spys are held at S3 25.

Beans—The market is  weaker  and lower,  the 
price  having  dropped 3®5c  per bu.  Handlers 
pay  81.20@1.25  for  country  picked,  holding 
city  picked  at  $1.55 in small lots  and  $1,50  in 
carlots.

Butter—Dull  and  slow sale,  owing  to  favor­
able  weather,  good  roads  and—last  but  not 
least—the  competition  of  butterine.  Good 
quality dairy stock finds  few  purchasers  at  16c 
and creamery is correspondingly  depressed.

Beets—30c per doz.
Cabbage—Price ranges from $1@4  per  100,  ac­

cording to size and quality.

Celery—Is held by dealers at 10ai5c per  doz.
Cranberries—Leach’s Walton Junction fruit is 
eagerly sought for by the trade at $3.50@3.75  per 
crate, according to quality.

Eggs—Easy  and  weak.  The  price  will prob. 
ably  go  below  20c  unless  a  cold  snap comes 
along  to  stiffen  the  market.  Pickled stock  is 
dull at  18c.

Grapes—Tokays, S2.50 and  13.75  per  crate,  ac. 

cording to size.  Malagas, $6.50 per 50-lb. keg.

Hay—Handlers  grumble  over  the  new tariff, 
which reduces the duty from $5 to S3 per ton and 
thus  enables  Canadian  dealers  to  supply New 
England markets, thus cutting  off  shipping  de. 
mand in that direction.
Lettuce—li%c per lb.
Onions—Red Weatherfields  and  Yellow  Dan­
vers  command  40c  per  bu.  Spanish  stock, Si 
per box.
Parsnips—40c per bu.
Parsley—25c per doz.
Pears—Californias bring S3 per bu. box.
Potatoes—The  market  is  drooping  and  the 
price is not so firm as a week ago.  Local  hand­
lers pay 3sc, holding at 40c in carlots  and 45c  in 
small quantities.
Radishes—Hot house stock commands  30c  per 
doz. bunches.
Sweet Potatees—Dlinois Jerseys  are  the  only 
variety  still  in  market.  They  command S3 per 
bbl.

Squash—Hubbard brings l%c per lb.
Turnips—25c  per  bu.  In  small  demand  and 

adequate supply.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,

General  Warehousemen  and  Transfer  Agents.

Dealers in

Carriages,  Wagons,  Agricultural  Implements  and  Binder  Twine.

General Office, 83 South Division Street, Grand  Rapids

COLD  and  DRY  STORAGE.

General Office, Telephone 945. 
Warehouse, Telephone 954.

B« J   B R O O K S , MoLii’g.

T R Y   T H E

5c
5c
5c
5c
Use  Tradesman’s  Wants  GoIUmn.

Sold  by All Wholesale Dealers Traveling from Grand Rapids.

N IC K L E   C IG AR .

W

It  B r i n g s   G o o d   R e tu r n s .

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.
The Putnam.  Candy Co.

For SOCIETIES,

CLUBS,
CONVENTIONS,
DELEGATES,
COMMITTEES.

The Largest Assortment of  Ribbons 

and Trimmings in the State.

T R A D E S M A N   C O M P A N Y .

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D ru g  D e p a r tm e n t

State Board  of P harm acy.

One Year—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor.
Two Years—George Gundrum, Ionia.
Three  Years—C.A. Bug bee. Charlevoix.
Four Years—8. E. Parklll, Owosso.
Five Yeare—F. W. K. Perry, Detroit.
President—Fred’k W . R. Perry, Detroit.
F eoretary—Stanley E. Parklll, Owosso.
Treasurer—Geo. Gundrum, Ionia.
Coming  Meetings—Detroit,  Jan 8;  Grand  Rapids 
MarchS; Detroit (Star Island), June t i ; Lansing, Nov  ■
Michigan  State  Pharm aceutical  Asa’n. 
President—A. 6. Stevens, Ann Arbor., 
Vice-President—A. F. Parker, Detroit 
Treasurer—W. Dnpont, Detroit.
8ecretav—8. A. Thompson.Detroit.
G r a D d   Rapids  Pharm aceutical 8oclety 

President, John E. Peck; Secretary, B. Schrouder.

“Substitution’* by Druggists 

Periodically a desperate  raid  is  made 
by  certain  manufacturers  upon  those 
wicked  druggists  who  may  have  been 
guilty of the unpardonable  sin  of  “sub 
stitution.”  A new proprietary compound 
has been added to the list of  a  thousand 
or  more  with  which  the  hapless  drug 
gist’8 shelves  were  already  loaded,  and 
when  in  his  despair  he  seeks relief by 
supplying  a  preparation  of  his  own  in 
place  of  “Smith’s  Heavenly  Elixir, 
down  swoops  the  majesty  of  the  law. 
hauls him into court and lashes him with 
disgrace and  a  fine.  Professionally  and 
commercially the druggist is supposed  to 
have no right to complain.  He  does  lit 
tie or nothing to  create  the  demand  for 
these  proprietary  marvels.  The  manu 
facturer  makes  and  booms  them,  the 
physician prescribes them,  and the drug 
gist is in consequence  compelled  to  buy 
them.  What  if  he  be  obliged  to  wipe 
out his profits  and mortgage  his store  in 
order to  “keep  up  with  the  times’’  by 
converting his shelves into  a  world’s ex 
position of medicinal mixtures?  What is 
he but  a  purveyor  of  merchandise  that 
he  should  raise  his  voice  in  protest 
against the  joint  edict  of  manufacturer 
and  physician?  He  carries  already  i 
dozen or more brands of  the  same  prod 
uct  under  as  many  different  hifalutin 
names;  he  has  bought  about everything 
proprietary that every prescription called 
for;  he has tried to accommodate himself 
to every whim and fancy  of  the  modern 
physician,  and  when  at  last  realizing 
that he is but  forging  firmer  the  chains 
for his own captivity he  rises in defiance 
with the only weapons at his command— 
the United States Pharmacopoeia, the Na 
tional Formulary and his  conscious  pro­
fessional skill—he must  be  hunted  as  a 
criminal and branded  as a felon.

No reputable pharmacist has a word of 
apology for fraudulent substitution.  The 
physician or patient is entitled to receive 
precisely  what  his  order  calls  for, and 
any  material  deviation  from  the  direc­
tions  without  the  knowledge or assured 
concurrence of the  patron  is  an  act  of 
fraud  and  properly  punishable as  such. 
The deliberate substitution  of the “same 
thing” or “something just as good” is not 
a  sufficient  defense  in  either  ethics  or 
law.  The  substitution  even  of  some­
thing better or of  something designed  to 
avert fraud  upon the  physician  or  dan­
ger to the patient is clearly not permissi­
ble.  What then is the  pharmacist’s pro­
tection against the  multiplying  horde  of 
brands  and  proprietaries  which  appar­
ently have but just  commenced their  de­
vastating  march  into  the  province  of 
legitimate pharmacy?  To remain passive 
is but to invite  pillage  and  dishonor;  to 
resist as individuals is to be trampled un­
der  foot  by  the  servile  druggists  who 
prefer peace with the  enemy and a share 
in the spoils.

It is only by  organized  resistance  that 
an effective  defense  can  be  made.  The 
American  Pharmaceutical  Association 
through the Pharmacopoeia  and  particu 
larly  through  the  National  Formulary 
has already taken action.  These volumes 
complete in information as to compounds 
and processes,  official and  unofficial,  af 
ford  a  solid  foundation  for progressive 
work.  Physicians having  the welfare of 
their patients at heart  (and the  vast ma 
jority are happily of  this  class)  will  as 
suredly welcome  information which  will 
enable  them  to  prescribe  more  intelli 
gently  and 
to  retain  association  with 
known  remedies  and  processes  rather 
than with  the  mysteries  of  secret  com 
pounds  which  their own  ethics officially 
denounce.  The  medieal profession  has 
equally  with that  of  pharmacy,  a  deep 
natural  antipathy  to  any  sort  of medi 
cinal  pretender  which,  while  it  vaunts 
its virtues,  conceals  its identity and thus 
puts at defiance all laws of  medicine and 
pharmacy.  The solution  of the problem 
therefore requires the co-operatioD of the 
physician—a task to which  tha  pharma 
cist in whose skill the physician has con 
fidence is  as a  rule  fully  equal.  When 
the allied professions shall come into sin 
cere and active accord with their avowed 
principles,  the life of  unworthy  proprie 
taries will be at an end.

T ab let  T ritu ra te s.

Although triturate tablets  possess,  in 
many  instances,  an  obvious  superiority 
over pills, they are,  however,  objection 
able in others.  For example,  in  exhibit 
ing the bitter substances,  such as strych 
nine, quinine,  aloes, etc.  Owing  to  the 
absence of a  coating  it  is  quite  impos- 
sible to swallow a tablet  containing  any 
of the bitter medicaments  without  leav 
ing  some  indication  of  its  bitterness 
upon the sense of  taste.  An  occasional 
objection  is  found  in  some  instances 
where the active constituent of  the  tab 
let is crystalline  in  character;  owing  to 
the recrystallization in the tablet,  it  be 
comes hard,  and  consequently  is  rend' 
ered difficult to reduce to  a  powder  un­
less subjected to extraordinary  pressure: 
thus destroying, to some  extent,  one  of 
the advantages claimed for it.  Again,  if 
the  quantity  of  adhesive  matter  intro­
duced into the tablet for the  purpose  of 
maintaining its form  and  holding  it  to­
gether has been used to  excess,  its ready 
reduction to  powder  is  impeded.  Care, 
therefore, should  be  intelligently  exer­
cised  in  their  preparation,  or,  again, 
their  superiority  over  coated  pills  be­
comes weakened.  From personal  obser­
vation it must be  admitted  that  in  pro­
portion  to  the  increased  demand  for 
triturate tablets  there  appears  to  be  a 
decreased  demand  for  pills,  capsules, 
and powders.  While there  still remains 
an active demand for  pills,  powders are 
being rapidly supplanted  by  tablets. 
It 
not  claimed  by  the  writer  that  this 
condition  exists  wherever  tablets  have 
have  introduced.  The  reverse  of  this 
condition may exist in many sections.

It is a settled  fact  that  triturate  tab­
lets  have  come  to  stay,  at  least  until 
some better means  has  been  discovered 
that will accomplish the  same  end.  As 
there  is  no  secrecy  about  the  modus 
operandi for the manufacture of triturate 
tablets they can be produced by the aver­
age pharmacist through the  employment 
of ordinary skill and the utensils he now 
has at  band.  With  mortar  and  pestle, 
glass or  porcelain  slab,  spatula,  and  a

Annual  Meeting of  the  Grand  Rapids 

Pharmaceutical  Society.

At the annual  meeting  of  the  Grand 
Rapids Pharmaceutical  Society,  held  at 
the  office  of  the  Hazeltine  &  Perkins 
Drug Co.,  last  Thursday  evening,  Wm. 
Remus, druggist at the corner of Wealthy 
and  Jefferson  avenues,  was  elected  to 
membership in the  organization.
Walter K.  Schmidt  presented  his  an­
nual  address  as  President,  congratula­
ting the Society on the work accomplished 
during the past year and offering a  num­
ber of  pertinent  suggestions  relative  to 
the duties and  obligations  of  the  mem­
bers.  The  address  was  discussed  at 
some length and accepted.
Benj. Schrouder presented  his  annual 
report as Secretary and Treasurer, show­
ing total receipts of  $65.09 and disburse­
ments  of  $49.94,  leaving  a  balance  on 
hand of $15.15.  The report was accepted 
and adopted.
Election of officers being then in order, 
H. B.  Fairchild  moved  that  the  Presi­
dent appoint a  committee of three mem­
bers to recommend  suitable  persons  for 
the  several  offices. 
The  report  was 
adopted and the President  appointed  as 
such  committee  H.  B.  Fairchild,  H. 
Riechel and C. G. Dykem*».
The committee  withdrew  for  a  short 
time,  subsequently  recommending  the 
election of the following  persons  to  the 
various offices for the ensuing year: 

President—John E. Peck. 
Vice-President—R. A.  McWilliams. 
Secretary  and  Treasurer—Benjamin 
Schrouder.
Board  of  Trustees—President,  F.  J. 
Wurzburg,  C.  G. Dykema, John Steketee 
and G.  Hahn.
The report  was  adopted  and  the  offi­
cers  named  were  declared unanimously 
elected.
Mr. Peck protested against  taking  the 
office  of  President, stating that he much 
preferred to serve in the ranks and would 
act a member of any  committee,  but was 
finally prevailed upon to accept the honor, 
in view of the fact  that the action of  the 
Society was unanimous.
A resolution was adopted directing the 
Secretary  to  address  a  letter  to  those 
manufacturers  who  put  out  25  and  50 
cent remedies  which job at more than  $2 
and $4 per dozen,  requesting  them to re­
duce their jobbing prices.
After an interesting discussion and the 
adoption of  several matters of interest to 
the trade, the meeting adjourned.

Liked the Coffin and Bought It.

From the Philadelphia Record.

For over a year the show window of an 
Eleventh  street  undertaker  has  been 
adorned by an  elaborately  modelled  and 
beautifully finished  burial  casket.  Peo­
ple who have  occasion  to pass the estab­
lishment regularly  noticed  one  day  last 
week  that  the  familiar object was miss­
ing from the window. 
Its fine workman­
ship  had  attracted  no  small  amount of 
attention, and its  removal naturally  was 
remarked upon.  The  proprietor  of  the 
establishment,  upon  being  questioned 
about the  matter,  admitted  that  it  had 
been purchased by a wealthy customer.

“And the strangest  part  of  it  is,”  he 
remarked,  “that it has  been stored away 
for safe keeping until  needed.  Yes, sir; 
that man came in  here  one  day,  looked 
at the casket, said he would like to buried , 
in  it  when  his  time  came,  and  finally I 
bought it.  Of course, it wouldn’t  do for 
me  to  tell  his name,  but if 1 did I think 
you would be rathor  surprised.”

T H E   M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N .
few set of hard-rubber or metallic molds, 
he finds himself equipped for the produc­
tion, on a small scale, of any  tablet  that 
the  large  manufacturer  is  capable  of 
making,  with  the  exception,  as  in  all 
other  things,  that  they  can  be  made 
on a  larger  scale  at  a  greatly  reduced 
cost.  The  possible  danger  of  ultimate 
injury to  the  prescription  business  can 
only result where the pharmacist fails to 
recognize  the  preference  the  physician 
is disposed to show toward  the  triturate 
tablets,  and  refuses  to  supply  them 
when  prescribed. 

D.  J.  T homas.

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S.  N. Y. Q.  &

pints...............   © 85

Morphia, S. P. & W.  2 05©2 80 
C. Co....................  1  95®2 20
Moschus Canton........  ©  40
Myrlstlca, No  1 ........  65®  70
Nux Vomica, (po 20)..  @  10
Os.  Sepia....................   15®
18 
Peseta Saac, H. & P. D.
®2 00
P Ids LIq,' N.»c], M gai
_ doz  .........................  @2 ou
Plcis LIq., quarts......   @1  00
PllHydrarg, (po.80)..  ©  50
Piper Nigra, (po. 22)..  ©  1
Piper Alba, (po g5) __  ©  3
PllxBurgun................  ©  7
Plumbl A cet..............  12®  13
Pulvls Ipecac et opll..l  io@i 20 
Pyrethrum,  boxes  H
& P. D.  Co., doz...........  @1 25
Pyrethrum,  pv...........  20®  30
Quasslae.................... 
8®  10
Qulnla, S. P. & W.......34M@39M
S.  German__   27®  37
Rubla  Tinctorum......   12©  14
SaccharumLactlapv. 
12®  14
Saladn.......................2 10@2 25
Sanguis  Draconls......   40®  50
Sapo,  W......................  12®  14
M.......................  10®  12
‘  Q.......................  ®  15

“ 

Seldlltz  Mixture 
Slnapi
opt......................  ® 30
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  De
Voes.......................   @  35
Snuff .Scotch, De. Voes  ®  35 
Soda Boras, (po. 11).  .  10®  11 
Soda  et Potass Tart...  24®  25
SodaCarb.................  1M@  2
Soda, Bl-Carb............  
3®  5
Soda, Ash....................3H@  4
Soda, Sulphas............  ©  2
Spts. Ether C o...........  50®  55
“  Myrcla  Dom.....   ®2 00
“  Myrcla Imp.......  ©2 50
*'  Vlnl  Rect.  bbl.
....7 .........................2 49@2 59
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Stirchnla Crystal......1 40@1  45
Sulphur, Subl.............. 2 m@ 3
™  Roll................2  @ 2M
Tamarinds.................  8®  10
Terebenth Venice......   28®  30
Theobromae.............. 45  @  48
Vanilla...  ............... 9 00@16 00
Zlncl  Sulph................  7®  8

OILS.

Whale, w inter. 
Lard,  extra__
Linseed, pure raw .

Bbl. Gal
70
70
80
85
42
45
56
59

bbl. 

paints. 

Linseed,  boiled..  ....  59 
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
strained...............   65 
SplrltsTurpentlne__  34 

62
70
40
lb.
Red Venetian..............im  2@8
Ochre, yellow  Mars.... IX  2©4
“  Ber......IX  a@s
Putty,  commercial....2M  2M@8
“  strictly  pure.....2M  2X®8
Vermilion Prune Amer­
ican ..........................  
13@15
Vermilion,  English__  65®70
Green,  Peninsular......  
13®16
Lead,  red....................6  ®6M
“  w hite................6  ®6M
Whiting, white Span...  @70
Whiting, Gliders’........  @90
1
White, Paris  American 
Whiting.  Paris  Eng.
cliff.......................... 
1  40
Universal Prepared  ..1  G0@1  15 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared
Paints.....................1 00®1  20

VABNISHES.

No. 1  Turp  Coach.... 1  10®1  20
Extra Turp................160@1  70
Coach  Body...............2 75@3 00
No. 1 Turp Fum ....... 1  00@1  10
Butra Turk Damar... .1  55@1  60
span
Turp
70® 7 5

No.  1

m

ACIDUM.
Acetlcum .................
Benzolcum  German
Boraclc 
......................
20®
Carbolicnm  .  ............  
41®
Cltricom ..................... 
Hydrochlor....... ......... 
3®
Nltrocum 
...................  10®
O xallcnm ....................   10®
Phosphor!um  d ll........
Salley Ileum ................ 1  25® 1  60
Sulphurlcum...............   Hi®  5
Tannlcum....................1  4(@1  60
Tartarlcum................. 
30®  33
AMMONIA.

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Aqua, 16  deg.
20  deg...............  
6®
9(1  d e tr .
Carbonas  .....................  12®
Chlorldum ...................  12®

A N ILIN E.

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

BACCAX.

Cubeae (po  25)......... 
20®
Junlperus...................  8®
Xantnoxylum..............  25®

BALSAMUM.

Copaiba........................  45®
Peru..............................   @2 00
Terabln. Canada  —  
45®
T olutan........................  35®

Abies,  Canadian.................  18
Casslae  ...............................  12
Cinchona F lav a...........  ...  18
Buonymus  atropurp...........  30
Mvrlca Cerlfera, po............   20
PrunueVlrglnl....................  12
Qulllala,  grd.......................  10
Sassafras  ............................  12
Ulmus Po (Ground 16)........  15

EXTBACTUM.

Glycyrrhlza  Glabra...  24® 25
po...........  33® 35
“ 
Haematox. 15 lb. box..  11® 12
“ 
Is................  13®  14
“  MB..............  14®  15
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Carbonate Predp........
Citrate and Qulnla....
Citrate  Soluble...........
Ferrocyanldum Sol —
Solut  Chloride...........
Sulphate,  com’l ..............9®
pure............   ®

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®
1*80 
®  SO 
®  15

f l o b a .

Arnica.........................  12® 14
Anthemls....................   30® 35
Matricaria 
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Cubebae.................. . . 
2 00
Bxechthltos..............   1  ¡>o@l 30
Erlgeron.....................1  20@l 30
Gaultherla..................l  50@1 60
Geranium,  ounce......   ®  75
Gosslpll, Sem. gal......  70®  75
Hedeoma  ...................1 25@1  40
Jumperl......................  50@2 00
Lavendula.................  90@2 00
Llmonls...............................1 4o®1
Mentha Piper.......................2 10@3
Mentha Verld......................1 80@2
Morrhuae, gal  ...........l 30@1
Myrcla, ounce............   @
Olive..........................  90®3
Plds Liquida, (gal..36)  10®
Ricini....................... 
88®
Rosmarini............  
1
Rosse, ounce.......................6 50®8
Succlnl.......................  40®
Sabina.......................  90@1
San tal  ....................... 2 50@7
Sassafras....................  50®
Slnapls, ess, ounce__  ®
Tlglfi..........................  ®
Thyme.......................  40®
opt  ................  ©1
Theobromas...............   15®
POTASSIUM.
Bi C ub....................... 
is®
Bichromate...............   13®
Bromide.................... 
40®
C ub............................  12®
Chlorate  (po.'.7@lfl)..  16®
Cyanide......................  50®
Iodide.......................2 90@3
Potassa, Bltut,  pure..  23® 
Potassa, Bltut, com...  ®
Potass Nltras, opt...... 
8®
Potass Nltras.............. 
7®
Prusslate....................  28®
Sulphate  po...............   15®

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(po. 35).........  

Aconitum..................   20®  25
Althae............. 
22®  25
 
Anchusa....................  
la®
Arum,  po....................  ©  25
Calamus......................  20®  40
Gentiana  (po. 12)......  
8®  10
Glychrrhlsa, (pv. 15)..  16®  18
Hydrastis  Canaden,
  @  30
Hellebore,  Ala,  po__  15®  20
Inula,  po....................  15®  20
Ipecac, po..................1 30@l  40
Iris plox (po. 35©38)..  35®  40
Jalapa,  pr..................   40®  45
Maranta,  Mb..............  @  35
Podophyllum, po.......   15®  18
Rhel............................  75@1  00
“  cut  ....................  ©1  75
pv.......................  75@1  35

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86®
Splgella
Sanguinarla,  (po  25)..  ®
Serpentarla...................  30®
Senega.........................  55®
Slmllax, Officinalis.  H  ® 
M  @
Scillae, (po. 86)............  10®
Symplocarpus,  Fmtl-
  ®
 
Valeriana, Bng.  (po.80)  ®
German...  16®
In g lb u a ................... 
18®
Zingiber  j ................. 
18®

dns,  po............. 

“ 

FOLIA.

Barosma 
Cassia  Acutlfol,  Tin-

.....................  14®

nlvelly........  ...........   25® 28
Alx.  35®  50

“ 

“ 

.....................  
•moo.

Salvia  officinalis,  Ms
and  Me......................  15®
UraUrsl 
8®
Acacia,  1st picked—   ®
2d 
....  ®
sifted sorts...  ®
Aloe,  Bub, (po. 60)...  50®
“  Cape, (po.  20)...  ®

“ 
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“ 

Soootrl, (po.  60).
Cateohu, Is, (Ms, 14 M*>
16)...;......................
Ammonlae.................
Assafcetlda,  (po 50)
Bensomum................
Camphor»..................   46<;

« orblum  po  ........  35®

innm..............
Gamboge,  po..............  70®
Gualacnm, (po  85)..
Kino,  (po  1  75).........   @1  75
X astlo.......................  ®  80
Myrrh, (po. 46)--------   ®  40
Opll  (po  3 30®3 50). .2 60®2 70
8hellac  ......................  40®  60
bleached  ....  40®  45
Tragacanth................  50®  80

“ 
h b b b a — In ounce packages.

Absinthium.........................  25
Bupatorlnm.........................  20
Lobelia.................................  26
Majornm.............................   28
Mentha  Piperita.....
“  V ir.........................  26
fine......................................   80
Tanacetum, V......................  22
Thymus,  V ..........................  25

MAONBBIA.
Calcined, Pat..............  56®
Carbonate,  Pat...........
Carbonate, K. A  M__
Carbonate, Jennings..

OLEUM.

Absinthium................ 2 50®3 00
Amygdalae, Dulo........  30®  50
Amydalae, Amarae___8 00®8 26
A nlsl...........................2 65®2 80
Aurantl  Cortex...........1  80®2 00
Bergamll  ...................3 00®3  20
Cajlputl....................   60®  65
Caryophylll................  75®  80
Cedar.........................  86®  65
Chencpodll..... ..........  ®i  60
Clnnamonll................. 1 60®1 76
Cltronella...................  ©  45
Conlum  Mao..............  36®  65
opalba  ...................... 
go

Anlsnm,  (po. 20)..
'.plum  (graveleons).
trd, Is......................
Carul, (po. 18)............   10®  12
Cudamon..................1  00® l  26
Corlandrum...............   12®  14
Cannabis Sativa.........   4®
Cydonlum..................   75®!  00
Cnenopodlum  ...........  10®  12
Dlpterlx Odorste....... 2 40®2 60
Foenlculum...............   ©  15
Foenugreek,  po —
L lnl........................... 3M
Llnl, grd.  (bbl. 3M) ■ ■  3M
Lobelia....................
Pharlarls Canarian.
Rapa..........................  4M
Slnapls  Albu............... 
7<
r  Nigra...........  11«

1 
7 

BFIBITU S.
Frumentl, W.. D.  C0..21
D. F. R .......1
.................1
Junlperls  Co. O. T....1
“ 
...........1
Saachuum  N. B........ 1
Spt.  Vlnl  Galll........... 1
Vlnl Oporto................1
Vlnl  Alba...................1

SPOHCMS.

Florida  sheeps’  wool
oarrlage.......................2 50®2 75
Nassau  sheeps’  wool
oarrlage  .................
Velvet  extra  sheeps’
wool  oarrlage.........
Extra  yellow  sheeps’
oarrlage..................
Grass sheeps’ wool c u ­
rl age .......................
Hard for  slate  use__
Yellow Reef, for  slate 
use..........................

2 00 
1  10

1  40

SYBUPS.

A c ca d a ..................................  50
Zingiber  ................................  50
Ipecac.....................................   60
Ferrl Iod................................  50
Aurantl  Cortes......................  50
Rhel  Arom.............................  50
Slmllax  Officinalis...............   60
....  50
Senega...................................   50
S dllse.....................................  60
“   Co................................  50
T o iatan ..................................  60
Pranas  rlrg...................... 
.  so

“ 

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TINCTURES.

“ 

“ 

Aconltum Napellls R.........   60
F ..............  50
and myrrh.................  60
Arnica................................  50
Asafoetida........................ "   0
A trope Belladonna..............  60
Benzoin...............................  go
i~  “  .  CO..........................  BO
Barosma.............................  50
Cantharldes..........................   75
Capsicum...........................   50
Ca damon...........................   75
Co..........................   75
_  “ 
Castor................................. 1 00
Catechu...............................  50
Cinchona...........................   50
„  . “ 
Co..........................   60
Conlum...............................  50
Cubeba................................  50
Digitalis.............................   50
Rrgot............ ......................   50
Gentian...............................  50
„  “.  Co............................  60
ammon.....................   60
Zingiber.............................   50
Hyoscyamus.......................  50
Iodine..................................  75
“  Colorless....................   75
Ferrl  Chlorldum..................   35
Kino...................................  50
Lobelia................................  50
Myrrh..................................  50
Nux  Vomica.......................  50
CPU....................................   85
Camphorated...............   50
Deodor.......................2 00
Aurantl Cortex....................  50
Quassia...............................  50
Hhatany.............................  50
Rhel.....................................  50
Cassia  Acutlfol...................  50
Co..............  50
Serpentarla........................  50
Stromonlum.........................  60
Tolutan...............................  60
Valerian.............................  50
VeratrumVerlde.................  50

“ 

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MISCELLANEOUS.

' 
“ 

¿Ether, Spts  Nit, 3 F.
T* 
“  4 F .
Alumen..................... 2M<
ground,  (po.
7)...........
Annatto......................
Antlmonl, po..............
et Potass T.
Antlpyrln..................
An tlf ebrin..................
Argentl  Nltras, ounce
Arsenicum....................  
_
Balm Gilead  Bud__ 
88®  _
Bismuth  S.  N............ 1  60@1 70
Calcium Chlor, is, (Ms
12;  Ms,  14)..............  ®
Cantharldes  Russian,
po............................  ©l
Capsid  Fructus, af...  ©
•
et

‘ 

German  8M1 

!!  £?■••• 
“  B po. 
Caryophyllus, (po.  15)
Carmine,  No. 40.........
Cera  Alba, 8. A F ......
Cera Flava.................
Coccus .......................
Cassia Fructus...........
Centrarla....................
Cetaoeum...................
Chloroform...............
sqnlbbs..
Chloral Hyd CSrst.......1
Chondrus..................
Clnohonldlne, P.  A W
Corks,  list,  dls.  per
cent  ......................
Creasotum.............. 
©
©
Crete, (bbl. 75)....... 
prep.............. 
50
9®
predp.............. 
Rubra...............   ©
Crocus......................  35®
Cudbear......................  ©
Cuprl Sulph....... .......   5 ©
Dextrine....................  10®
Sulph................  75®
Emery,  all  numbers..  ©
_   “ 
po..................   ®
Ergota, (po.)  40 .........   300
Flake  White..............  12®
G alls.......................... 
o
Gambler..................... 7  © 1
Gelatin,  Cooper.........   ©
French...........  30®
Glasswue  flint, by box 80.
Less than box  75.
Glue,  Brown..............
White...............
Gly oerlna...................
Grans Paradl si...........
Humulus....................
Hydraag Chlor  Mite..
“  Cor__
Ox Rubrum 
Ammonlatl.. 
Unguentum.
ydrargyrnm............  
ihthyobolla, Am..  ..1 2S®1 50
Indigo........................   75©1 00
Iodine,  Resubl...........3 80@3 90
Iodoform....................  ©4 70
Lupulln......................  ©2 26
Lycopodium..............  60®  65
70®  75
;uor  Arsen  et  Hy-
ru g  Iod.................  ©  27
Liquor Potass Arslnltls  10®  19
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
2MO 4 
Manilla,  8. F ......
00®  63

1M).......................... 2V

“ 

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VALLEY  CITY

PO U LTRY POWDER

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A valuable addition to the  feed  of  laying  Hens  and  growing 

chicks, and a sure preventative for Cholera 

Roupe and Gapes.

P r ic e  2Ö  C e n ts •

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THE  mxchxoaüt  t r a d e s m a n .

G ROCERY  PR IC E   CU RREN T.

The prices quoted in this list are for the  trade only, in such quantities as are usually purchased by  retail  dealers.  They are prepared just before 
going to press  and are an accurate  index of  the local  market. 
It is impossible to give  quotations  suitable for all conditions of  purchase, and those 
beiow are given  as  representing  average  prices  for average  conditions of  purchase.  Cash  buyers or those of  strong credit  usually  buy closer than 
Subscnber8  are  earnestly requested to  point  out  any  errors or omissions, as it is our  aim to make  this feature of  the
th°8te t  ° 

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AXL£ GREASE.
doz
......   55
....  60
......  50
75
......   65
......  55

Aurora...........
Castor Oil......
Diamond.......
Frazer’s ......... __  
Mica  ............
Paragon 
..  ..

gross
6 0C
7 C(
5 5(
9 0(
7 5C
6 00

BAKING  PO W D ER 

‘ 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Acme.
45 
>4 10.  jail» .8 do*....
“  ..............
n:b. 
75 
1 60 
l i b .  
1  “  
...............
Bulk.............................
10
Arctic.
55 
14 9> cans 6 doz case...
...
“  4 doz  “ 
Vi lb 
1  10 
“  2 doz  “ 
i  lb 
...
2 00 
...
5  tt> 
“  1 doz  “ 
9 00
Queen Flake.
...... ..  2 70
3  oz cans 6 doz  “ 
...... ..  3 20
6  oz  “  4 doz  “ 
.  4 80
......
9  oz  “  4 doz  “ 
1  lb  “  2 doz  “ 
......
.  4 00
ldoz  “ 
5  lb  “ 
.  9 00
......
40
Red Star, Vi B> cans........
75
Vi lb  “ 
........
.  1  40
1 #>  “ 
........
Teller’s.  >4 lb. cans, dos
45
35
Vi lb.  “ 
“
1 lb.  *
.  1  50
45
Our Leader, Vi .b cans...
Vi lb cans__ .  75
1 lb cans......
.  1  50
BATH  BRICK.
2 dozen In case.
English..........................
Bristol.............................
Domestic.......................

..  90
..  80
..  70
Gross
Arctic, 4 oz  ovals..............  3 60
“ 
..............  6 75
“  pints,  round..........   9 00
“  No. 2, sifting box...  2 75 
“  No. 3, 
...  4 00
“  No. 5, 
...  8 00
“  1 oz ball  .................4 50
Mexican Liquid, 4  oz........  3 60
“ 
8 oz......... 6 80

BLUING.

8oz 

iT 
“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 
BROOMS,

Gages.

Peaches.

Apricots.
Live oak............... . 
140
1 40
Santa Crus................. 
Lusk’s......................... 
1 50
1 40
Overland................... 
Blackberries.
F .A W ....................... 
85
Cherries.
Red.............................   ©j 20
Pitted Hamburgh......
W hite......................... 
1  40
Brie............................ 
1  15
Pamsons, Egg Plums and Green 
Brie............................ 
1  35
1  25
California................... 
Gooseberries.
Common.................... 
1  25
Pie............................  
1  10
Maxwell.................... 
1  50
Shepard’s ................... 
1  50
California.................... 180@1  75
Monitor  ....................
Oxford.......................
Domestic. 
1  25 
Riverside.
1 75
Pineapples.
Common..................... 1  00@1 30
Johnson’s  sliced........ 
2 50
grated........ 
2 75
Booth's sliced............  @2 5 J
grated...........  @2 75
j  jo
95
1 40
j  20

Quinces.
t e n o n .................... 
_  
Raspberries.
Red............................. 
Black Hamburg.........  
Brie, black................. 
Strawberries.
Lawrence........................ 
Hamburgh.............. 
j ’25
| ri0--v........................ 
120
Terrapin.......................  
jp 5
_ 
Whortleberries.
Blueberries...............  
85
Corned  beef  Libby’s......... 2 20
Ro&Bt beef  Armour’s 
Potted  ham, % lb... 

Pears.

.. 
“  V4 lb..............

2
"j
tongue, Vi lb.............1
Vi lb...........
chicken, V4 lb.........

“ 
Vegetables.

“ 

“ 

Beans.

Ac. SHnrl.........................1  90
No. 1  “ 
.......................... 2 00
No. 2 Carpet.......................2 15
No. 1 
“ 
....................... 2 50
Parlor Gem........................ 2 50
Common Whisk................. 
85
Fancy 
.................  1 00
Warehouse........................ 2 85

• 

BRUSHES.

“ 
“ 

Btove, No.  1.......................  125
“  10.......................  1  50
“  15.......................  1  75
Bice Boot Scrub, 2  row....  85
Bice Boot  Scrub, 3 row__1  25
Palmetto, goose.................  l  50

CANDLES.

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

“ 

CANNED  GOODS.

Fish.
Clams.

 

Little Neck,  l lb.............. 

i  ao
“  2 lb................ i  so
Clam Chowder.
Standard, 81b..................... 2 25
Cove Oysters.
Standard,  1 lb....................  75
f ib ....................135
Lobsters.

“ 

“ 

Star,  1  lb................................ 2 45
“  2  lb.................................3 50
Picnic, 1 lb.......................   2 00
21b „ ......... 
“ 
2 90
Mackerel.
Standard, 1 lb........  ........... 1  10
2  lb.........................2 10
Mustard,  2 lb.......................... 2 25
Tomato Sauce,  2 lb .........  '2 25
Soused, 2 lb............
.2 25
Salmon.
..1 8! 
Columbia River, flat. 
“ 
tells.
.1  60 
Alaska, Red..............
.1 30 
..1 20 
pink...............
Kinney’s, fiats......... .
.1  95
Sardines.
American  V£i............
Imported  M s.....'.'"!.
Vis..............
M u stard   M s....................
Boneless....................
„ 
Brook 8, lb............  ...

4Vi© 5 
• 6Vi@ 7 
..  @10 
..15016
22

“ 
•• 

“ 

.2 60

Trout
Fruits.
Apples.

3 lb. standard............
Fork State, gallons__
Hamburgh,  “ 
....

90 
2 50

Bulk.
Bed..

. 

“ 

. 
“ 

Peas.

.  Corn.

Hamburgh  strlngless..........1
French style...... 2
Limas................. j
Lima, green.........................j
soaked.....................I
Lewis Boston Baked.......".’j 25
Bay State Baked........... 
125
World’s Fair  Baked...........1 25
PlcnicBaked...........................95
_  
Hamburgh.................  
j  25
Livingston  Bden......... „ " 1   jn
Purity..................................j  «j
Honey  Dew.......................  j  35
Morning Glory.......
Soaked....................................75
_  
Hamburgh marrofat...........1  30
early June  .  ...1   50
Champion Eng.. 1  40  Jute
petit  pole......... 1  40
fancy  sifted— l  90
„ 
S0U 6q ••••• a. «... •••#»# 
(J5
Harris standard...........75
VinCanr,'. 
.   i?
VanCamp’s  marrofat......... 1  10
early June....... 1  go
Archer’s  Barly Blossom__ 1  25
French................................ . 15
Mushrooms.
French.......................
.19021 
Pumpkin.
_   . 
Brie............................
...  80
Squash.
_  
H ubbard................................. j j5
Succotash.
<  ^
Hamburg................... 
an
Soaked____________  
Honey  Dew.............Il'iiili 
40
Erie.
.1  35
„  
Hancock.......................  
90
Bxcelsior .......... 
o.,
Eclipse............  
 
S
H«nbnr*  ~ ..........II......"l »
S ellen...............................3 00

Tomatoes.

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CHOCOLATE.

Baker’s.

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

CHEESE.
Amboy......................
Acme.......................I
llVi 
Lenawee...................
11* 11V»
Riverside..................
Gold Medal..............
Skim......................
809
Brick.......................
11
Bdam.........................
1  00 
_
Leiden.......................  
20
Llmbnrger.................   ©j=.
Pineapple...................  ©24
f e y
R o q u e f o r t™ » ............. 
fe n
Sap Sago....................  
Schweitzer, Imported. 
€924
014

domes tlo

“ 

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

Soudera*.

Regular
Grade
Lemon.

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

Regular
Vanilla,

doz
2oz......81  20
4 oz........ 2 40
XX Grade 
Lemon.
2 oz........81 50
4 oz.......  3 00
XX Grade 
Vanilla,
2 oz........81 75
4 oz.........3 50

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Jennings.
Lemon. Vanilla
2 os regular panel.  75 
1  20
4 OZ 
...150
2  00 
6 0Z 
...2 00
3 00 
No. 3 taper...........1  35
2 00 
No. 4  taper...........l  50
2 50
N orthrop’«
Lemon.  Vanilla. 
2 oz  oral taper  75 
1  10
“ 
3oz 
1 20 
1  75
2 oz regular  “
85 
4 oz 
“  1 60 

“ 
“ 
GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.

1 20
2 25

HERBS.

Choke Bore—Dnpont's

Eagle Duck—Dupont’s.

Kegs.........................................3 25
Half  kegs............................1  90
Quarter  kegs........................... 1 10
1 lb  cans..............................  30
Vi lb  cans............................   18
Kegs..........................................4 25
Half kegs.................................2 40
Quarter kegs........................1  36
1 lb cans.................................34
Kegs..................................11 00
Half  kegs............................ 5 75
Quarter kegs........................3 00
1  lb  cans
60
Sage..................................
Hops..................................
Madras,  51b. boxes.........
S. F., 2,3 and 5 lb. boxes.. 
15  lb. palls 
80  ..  ••
Pure.....................................  so
Calabria......................... 
26
siciiy...............................;;;  12
Root............................. 
jo
LYE.  .
Condensed, 2 doz..................1  20
4 doz..................225

LICORICE.

INDIGO.

JELLY.

“ 
MINCE  MEAT.

©

Peel.

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

“ 
“ 

25  “ 
“ 
“ 
25  “ 
Raisins.

Ondura, 29 lb. boxes..  ©  3
“ 
Sultana, 20 
© 7*
Valencia, 30  “

Prunes.
California,  100-120 .............   5Vi
90x100 25 lb. bxs.  6
.. 6Vi
80x90 
70x80 
7
60x70 
. 8

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Turkey........................
Sliver........................

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

ENVELOPES.
XX rag, white.

No. 1, 6Vi..........................  tl  35
No. 2, 6Vi......... ................  1  10
No. 1,6.............................  12*,
No. 2, 6.............................  1  00

Manilla, white.
6Vi  ........................... .......  
6.......................
Mill  No. 4.........................
FARINACEOUS  GOODS.

Coin.

75

115 lb. kegs.

Farina.
Grits.

2Vi

Hominy.

Walsh DeRoo  &  Co.’s.....2
Barrels......................... 
Grits..................................  8vi
Dried............................  5@5Vi

Lima  Beans.

3

Maccaronl and Vermicelli. 
Domestic, 12 lb. box.... 
1
Imported....................10Vi@ll
Kegs....................... .........   3
j  <
Green,  bu........................ 
Split  per l b ................. "" 
21

Pearl Barley.

Peas.

“ 

Rolled  Oats.
Schumacher, bbl.........
...85 00
Vi bbl......
Monarch,  bbl 
........
...  4  5 •
Monarch, Vi  bbl.........
..  2 38
Quaker,  cases.............. ...  3 20
Oerm&n.......................
Bast India....................

...  s
...  3Vi

Sago. 

...  3

Wheat.
Cracked....................

KISH—Salt.
Bloaters.
Yarmouth....................
Georges cured...........
4«
Georges genuine............ 7
Georges selected............ ,734
Boneless,  bricks...........I  ¿V
Boneless, strips

Cod.

11©12

Smoked,

Halibut.
.................  
Herring.
“ 
“ 
.................

. 

Holland, white hoops keg 
„   “ 
bbl  9 00
Norwegian 
5v
Round, Vi bbl 100 lbs......I  2 6
11  Vi  “  40  “  ...... . 
j  35
Scaled..............................  
jo

Mackerel.

No. 1,  100 lbs....................  10 50
No. 1,40 lbs......................  4  ¿0
No. 1,  10 lbs................. 
1  20
No. 2, 100 lbs....................I  g 05
” 0. 2, 40 lbs.......................  3 60
00
Family, 90 lbs........

0. 2,10 lbs................. 

10  lb s........... ;;i;

“ 

Sardines.
Trout.

Russian,  kegs....................  
55
No. 1, Vi bbls., lOOlbs...........4 00
No. 1 % bbl, 40  lbs..............1  or,
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs............. 
55
No  1,81b  kits................. 
47

Mince meat, 3 doz. in case.  2 7
Pie Prep. 3 doz.  in  case__3  06

MEASURES.
Tin, per dozen.

gallon............................  11  75
Half  gallon......................  1  40
..................................  
Pint..................................  
45
Half  pint  ........................... 
Wooden, for vinegar, per doz.
ng?ilon„-................. 
  7 00
Half gallon......................  4  75
Q uart...............................  3  75
Pint 

2

 

70
40

Whlteflsh.

,. 
No. 1  family
Vi bbls, 100 lbs..........87 00 3  do
Vi  “  40  “  .......... 3 10  1 50
» « v   Wts..................   85  «
8,b- 
......   .........   71  39
MATCHES.

Globe Match Co.’s Brands

Columbia Parlor.........  
si' 25
j  55
XXX Sulphur................... 
Diamond  Match  Co.’s  Brands.
-No.  »  f c u i p h u r .......................................... j  o s
Anchor piarlor..........................j 70
No. 2 home...............................’j jo
Export  parlor.......................... 4 00

...................  
MOLASSES."" 
Blackstrap.
Sugar honse............... 
 
Cuba Baking.
Ordinary..........................  
Porto Rico.
Prime................................... 
Fancy.............................. 
? a lr..................... 
 
Good  ............ 
 
Extra good........................... 
Choice 
.............................. 
Fancy................................ 
Half -barrels 3c.extra

New Orleans.
 

 

 

14
jg

 
is
22

20

30

27
30

40

 

4 50

CATSUP.

“ 

Blue Label Brand.
 
Triumph Brand.

Half  pint, 25 bottles...........2  75
Wnt 
Quart 1 doz bottles............ 8 50
Half pint, per  doz.............. 1  35
Pint, 25 bottles....................4 50
Quart, per  doz  ...................3 75

CLOTHES  PINS.

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

COCOA  SHELLS.

351b  bags........................   @3
Less quantity...............   @314
Pound  packages..........6V£ @7

COFFEE.
Green.
Rio.

'

IQ
20
22

.................... .
„ 
. 
Fair.
Good..........................  
lg
Prime..................................21
Golden........ I.
.
. 21
Peaberry...... *.'.""."."."."...23
Santos.
Fair.
M l . . .............. 
Good................... 
Prime..................’.'.'.'.‘.'.'.'.‘
Peaberry...........23
Mexican and Guatemala.
Fair.
.21
Good........................... .""” '22
Fancy.................................. 94
_ 
Prime............
M illed................;;;..........si
125
_ 
Java.
Interior............. 
25
Private Growth........1.........27
Mandehllng................... ' ” 28
.   . 
Imitation.........................  25
Arabian...........................2 8

Maracaibo.

Mocha.

Boasted.

To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add Vic. per lb. for roast 
mg and 15 per cent,  for shrink 
age.
M cLaughlin’s  XXXX..  £1 30
Bunola.............................  20 8C
Lion,60or ioolb.  case....  21  30 

Package.

Extract.

Valley City Vi gross........... 
75
..........j  j5
Felix 
Hummel’s, foil, gross....... 1 65
“ 
........2 85

«■ 

“ 

tin
Hn 
CHICOBV.

CLOTHES  LINES.

•• 

Cotton,  40 ft......... per dot.  1  25
it  * . —
1 40 
1  60 
1  75 
1  90 
86
1  00

ten*. 
50 ft 
60 ft 
70 ft 
80 ft 
60 ft 
72 ft

CREDIT CHECKS.

500, any one denom’n ...... *3 OO
.....  5 00
1000,  “  “ 
a*».,  “  “ 
...... 8 00
Steel  punch....................... 
75
CONDENSED  MILK. 

“ 
“ 

4*doz. In case.

First Prize.................  
Darling.....................................5 00
Standard..................................4 50
Leader..................................... 3 60

  $6 50

CRACKERS.

Butter.

SeymonrXXX.......................5
Seymour XXX, cartoon......5 Vi
Family  XXX.....................   5
Family XXX,  cartoon........  5V4
Salted XXX.......................... 5
Salted XXX,  cartoon  ..........5V4
Kenosha...............................jyt
Boston................................... 7
Butter  blscnit....................  6
Soda, XXX........................   5Vt
Soda, City...........................  7Vi
Soda,  Duchess......................¿Vi
Crystal Wafer......................lovt
Long  Island Wafers  ......... 11
S. Oyster XXX....................  5Vi
City Oyster. XXX...................5*
Farina  Oyster......................6

Oyster.

Soda.

CREAM TARTAR.
Strictly  pure...................... 
30
Tellers Absolute..............  30
Grocers’............................ 15©25

8
8*9
7Vi _ 
9
10
10
8Vi
6%

DRIED  FKUTTS. 

Domestic.
Apples.

Peaches.

Apricots.

Sundrled,.......................
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes 
California In  bags........
Evaporated In boxes.... 
Blackberries.
In  box es.......................
Nectarines.
701b. bags.......................
25 lb. boxes.....................
Peeled, In  boxes. .........
Cal. evap.  “ 
...........
In bags......
California In bags......
Pitted (merries.
Barrels..........................
501b. boxes............... I
...................
25 * 
Prunellas.
801b.  boxes..................
Raspberries.
In barrels...................... 
501b. boxes....................... 
25 lb.  “ 

Pears.

“ 

“ 

20

20«
.........................  m u
Raisins.

Loose Muscatels In Boxes 
crown.............................  
“  ..................   «
,  
 
Loose Muscatels In Bags 
crown.......................  .7 .,
“ 

Ill  4jy

 

 

 

314

Foreign.
Currants.

Patras,  bbls...................... ..  oy
Vostizzas, 56 lb.  cases....II  3

„ ■ V.Cond’ns’d Milk Co’s brands 
Gall Borden Eagle
Crown__
Daisy......
Champion 
Magnolia 
Dime......

as
37
43

Peerless evaporated cream,

36  1-lb cartoons...........   6
25 lb. boxes, b u lk .........  5
50.1b. boxes, bulk...........
1  lb, cartoons....... ......1 1

Suita nac Raisins.

8ALERATCS.

Packed 60 lbs. in box.

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

SEELY’S  EXTRACTS. 

Lemon.
1 oz. F. M. 8  90 doz.  810 20 gro
12 60
2  “  N. 8.  1  20  *• 
2  “  F. M. 1  40  “ 
14 40
Vanilla.
1 oz.  F. M. 1  50 doz.  16 20 gro
21  60 “
2  “  N  S.  2 00  “ 
2  ’•  F. M. 2 50  “ 
25 50
Lemon.
Vanilla.
SOAP.
Laundry.

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

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

Rococo—Second  Grade. 

Allen B. Wrisley's Brands.

Old Country,  80  1-lb...........3 20
Good Cheer, 601 lb.................. 3 go
White Borax, 100  34-lb....... 3 65

Proctor & Gamble.

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

Dingman Brands.

“ 

Single box...........................3  95
5 box lots, delivered......... 3 85
10 box lots, delivered........3 75
Jas. S. Kirk & Co.’s  Brands. 
American  Family, wrp'd..33 33 
plain...  3 27
N.  K.  Fairbank & Co.’s Brands.
Santa Claus.......................  3  99
Brjwn, 60 bars.................... 2  10
80  bars  ...................3  10

“ 
Lautz Bros. & Co.’s Brands.

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

 

FICKI.ES.
Medium.

Barrels, 1,200 count...  @5  go
Half bbls, 600  count..  @3 CO
6 00
Barrels, 2,400 count. 
Half bbls, 1,200 count 
3 50

Small.

PIPES.

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

POTASH.

48 cans In case.

Babbitt’s ..........................  4 oo
FennaSalt  Co.’s..............  3 oo

RICE.
Domestic.

Carolina head...................... 6
“  No. 1...................... 5)4
“  No. 2.......................  5
Broken...............................   4
Japan, No. 1......................... sit
“  No. 2........................... 5
Java.......................... . 
5
Patna..................................   4*4

Imported.

8PICE8.

Whole Sifted.

“ 

“ 

Allspice...............................  9H
Cassia, China In mats........  9*4

“  Batavia In bund___15
“ 
Saigon In rolls.........32
Cloves,  Amboyna................22
“  Zanzibar..................... 11 jj
Mace  Batavia..................... 80
Nutmegs, fancy.................. 75
“  No.  1.......................70
“  No.  2...................... 60
Pepper, Singapore, black__10
“ 
white...  .20
shot....................... 16
“ 
Pure Ground In Bulk.
Allspice..............................15
Cassia,  Batavia..................18
“ 
and Saigon.25
“  Saigon....................35
Cloves,  Amboyna................22
“  Zanzibar.................18
Ginger, African..................16
K  Cochin....................20
Jam aica.................22
“ 
Mace  Batavia..................... 65
Mustard, Eng. and Trieste..22
“  Trieste....................25
Nutmegs, No. 2 .................. 75
Pepper, Singapore, black__18
“  white...... 24
“  Cayenne.................20
Sage....................................20
•’Absolute” In Packages.
... 
¡4»  Hs
Allspice......................  84  155
Cinnamon...................  84  1  55
Cloves.........................  84  1  55
Ginger,  Jam aica......   84  1  55
“  African...........  84  1  55
Mustard......................  84  155
Pepper.......................   84  155
Sage...............  

84

. 

 

SAL  SODA.

“ 

8EED8.

Granulated,  bbls................   la
751b  cases........  lvt
Lump, bbls 
.......................1  15
1451b^kegs............... 114
Anise.........................  @15
Canary, Smyrna......... 
434
Caraway....................  
8
Cardamon, Malabar... 
90
Hemp,  Russian.........  
4
Mixed  Bird................ 
s@6
Mustard,  white.........  
10
Poppy......................... 
9
Rape..........................  
5
Cuttle  bone................ 
so
STARCH.

 

“   

20-lb  boxes..........................  5V
40-lb 
5H
Gloss.
1-lb packages.......................  5
8-lb 
....................... 5
6-lb 
5)4
 
40 and 50 lb. boxes..............  394
Barrels.................................  3,4

“ 
“ 

 

Corn.

SNUFF.

Scotch, In  bladders.............37
Maccaboy, In jars................35
French Rappee, in Jars......43
Boxes...................................
Kegs, English........................44

SODA.

SALT.

Diamond Crystal.

Cases, 24 3  lb. boxes........8  1  60
Barrels, 320  lbs.................   2 50
115 2)4 lb bags....  4 00
“ 
lb  “ 
....  3 75 
605 
3010  lb  “ 
....  3 50
t “ 
6i
“  20141b bags............   3 50
“  280 lb  „bbls ...........  2 50
“  224 lb 
...........   2 25

Butter, 56 lb  bags............  

Worcester.
115 2H-lb sacks....................... 84 CO
 
60 5-lb 
“ 
3010-ib  » 
..............'  3 So
330
................ 
22  14 lb.),“ 
3201b. bbl..........................   2 50
•8 lb  sacks...  ...................32)4

“ 

 

.  linen acks...... 60
Common Grades.
100 3-lb. sacks.............. 
«210
605-lb.  “ 
....................   1  90
2810-lb. sacks...................  1  75
56 lb. dairy In drill  bags...  30
281b.  “ 
16
56 lb. dairy In linen sacks..  75
75 
56 lb. dairy In linen  sacks. 
56 lb.  sacks.......................  
22
Saginaw..........................  
90
Manistee..........................  m

Ashton.
Higgins.
Soiar Rock.
Common Fine.

.. 

“ 

“ 

?>lver...................................1
Mono
3 30
Savon Improved................2 vi
Sunflower.........  
a  XX
Golden................;;;;••••  i 2”
Economical..........2 25
Single  box...................  
« »
5 box  lots............  
'  o  ¿X
10 box lots.........................  q
25 box lots„del............. ’ ’'  3 49

Passolt’s Atlas  Brand.

SUGAR.

Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz. 

Scouring.
2 40
hand, 3 doz......... 2 40
_  , 
Below  are  given  New  York 
prices on sugars, to  which  the 
wholesale  dealer  adds  the  lo­
cal freight  from  New  York  to 
your  shipping  point,  giving 
you  credit  on, the’jnvoice  for 
the  amount  of  freight  buyer 
pays from the market.in which 
he  purchases  to ; his  shipping 
point, including 20  pounds  for 
the weight of the.barrel.
Domino.............  
«4 re
Cut  Loaf...........................  4 7=
Cubes........  ......... ............
Powdered.................... 
4 37
XXXX  Powdered.... .........4 «2
Granulated.............. 
 
  3 9 ,
Fine Gran ulated...... . . . . . .  394
Extra Fine Granulated.!.  4 t 6
Mould A  ................. 
4 37
Diamond Confec,  A. . .. ..  4 no 
Confec. Standard  a . . !  ’ "   3 94
S °’  A...........................3 81
No!  3.
No.  5........ 
S   5.... JS
No 
no.  io ! :::::;;:................... i
No.  11......... 
No.  13............ ;  ............... 

l ...............................   ?56
..................   f A4
m.........:::::::::: ill

..............  i  5i

i

SYRUPS.

Corn.
Barrels............... 
in
Half bbls....................!!!’.! !20
Pure Cane.
„  . 
F air.......................  
.0
Good.......................!!!.'!!'.'  »
Choice.....................................28

TABLE  SAUCES^

Lea <fe Perrin's, large........4 75
small......   2 75
Halford, large....................     75
small............” ..2  25
Salad Dressing, larg e...... 4 55
“ 
«nail...... 2 66

“ 

3 re

IT cT B   m C H I Q A N   T R A JD E S M A JS T .

21

TEAS.

SU N  C U BED .

BA SK ET  P IK E D .

japan—Regular.
_ 
P air............................  @17
..........................   @20
££°iceli...................... 34  @28
Choicest......................32  @34
Du«*........................... 10  @12
_  
g a,„r.............................  @17
..........................  @20
Choice.................................. 24 @26
Choicest...............................32 @34
Dust.....................................10 @12
E l* ..................................... 18 @20
Choicest.........................  @35
Extra choice, wire leaf  @40
Common to fair..........25  @35
Extra fine to finest__ 50  @65
Choicest fancy........... 75  @85
@26
Common to fair..........23  @30
Common to fair..........23  @26
Superior to fine........... 30  @35
Common to fair..........18  @26
Superior to  fine..........30  @40

oolong. 
IM PE R IA L .

rotms HYSON.

GUNPO W D ER.

ENG LISH   BR EA K FA ST.

P air............................is  @22
Choice.........................24  @28
Best............................40  @50

TOBACCOS.

Fine Cut.

30
60

P. Lorillard & Co.’s.Brands.
Sweet Russet/...........'.30  @32
Tiger...............................  
D. Scotten & Co’s Brands.
Hiawatha.......................  
Cuba..........................  
32
Rocket....................... 
30
Spaulding & Merrick’s  Brands.
Sterling...................... 
30
Private Brands.
Bazoo............................  @30
Can  Can.........................  @27
Nellie Bly.................. 24  @25
Uncle Ben...................24  @25
McGlnty.................... 
27
“  % bbls.........  
25
Colombia...................... 
Columbia, drums......... 
Bang  Up— ................. 
Bang up,  drums........... 

24
23
22
19

Ping.

Sorg’s Brands.

Spearhead...................... 
Joker.............................. 
Nobby Twist....................  
Scotten’s Brands.
Kylo................................  
Hiawatha........................ 
Valley City....................  
Flnzer’s Brands.
Old  Honesty................... 
Jolly Tar......................... 
Lorillard’s Brands.
Climax (8 oz., 41c).... 
39
Green Turtle.............. 
30
Three Black Crows... 
27
J. G. Butler’s Brands.
Something Good........ 
38
Out of  Sight................... 
Wilson.A.McCaulay’s Brands.
Gold  Rope...................... 
Happy Thought.........  
37
Messmate.......................  
NoTax............................ 
Let  Go............................ 

Smoking.

39
27
40
25
38
34
40
32

24
43
32
31
27

Catlln’s  Brands.

 

Kiln  dried....................... 17@18
Golden  Shower................... 19
Huntress  ...................... 
.26
Meerschaum 
.............. 29@30
American Ragle Co.’s Brands.
Myrtle  Navy....................... 40
Stork................................... 30
German...............................15
Frog....................................32
Java, %s foil....................... 32
Banner Tobacco Co.'s Brands.
Banner.................................16
Banner Cavendish.............. 36
Gold Cut 
...........................30

Scotten’s Brands.

Warpath.............................. 14
Honey Dew..........................26
Gold  Block..........................30
F. F. Adams Tobacco Co,’8 
Peerless............................... 26
Old  Tom.............................18
Standard..............................22
Globe Tobacco Co.’s Brands.
Handmade...........................40

Brands.

Leldersdorf’s Brands.

Rob  Roy..............................26
Uncle Sam.....................28@32
Red Clover...........................3a

Spaulding & Merrick.

Tom and Jerry.....................25
Traveler  Cavendish........... 38
Buck Horn.......................... 30
Plow  Bov......................30@32
Corn  Cake...........................16

VINEGAR.

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

81 for barrel.

WET  MUSTARD.

Balk, per g a l...................... 
Beer mug, 2 doz In case...  1  75

30

YEAST.

Magic....................................  00
Warner’s ........................... 1 00
Yeast Foam  ...................... 1  00
Diamond...............................  75
R oyal....... 
 

 

go

WOODEN WARE.

“ 
“ 

splint 

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

Tubs, No. 1.........................  6 00
“  No. 2.........................5 50
“  No. 3.........................4  50
.  130
“  No. 1,  three-hoop__  l  50
13  “  ....................   90
“ 
15  “ 
....................  1  25
17 
‘ 
‘  ....................  1  80
19  “ 
............ . 
2 40
21  “ 
............ !...
Baskets, market.................  35
“ 
shipping  bushel..  1  15 
“ 
..  1  25
full  hoop  “ 
“  willow Cl’ths, No.l  5 25 
“  No.2 6 25
“ 
“  No.3 7 25
" 
“  No.l  3 75 
HIDES  PELTS  and  FURS 
Perkins  <k  Hess  pay  as  fol­
lows:
FURS.
Mink.................  30  @  1  00
30 @.  80
Coon .................  
Skunk...............  
75  @  1  10
Rat,  winter......   08  @ 
11
Rat, fall............  03  @  C8
Red  Fox....  ...  1  CO  @  1  40
Gray Fox.,........ 
40  @  6)
Cross Fox.........   3 00  @ 5 00
50  @  1  00
Badger.............. 
Cat, wild........... 
eo  @ 
75
Cat.  house........ 
10  @ 
25
Fisher..............   5 00  @600
Lynx..................  1 00  @ 2 50
Martin, dark....  2 00  @3 00 
Martin, pale, yel  1  00  @  1  50
Otter.................  5  00  @ 8 00
Wolf..................  1  00  @ 2 00
Beaver..............  3  00  @ 7 00
Bear......  ......... 15 00  @25 00
Opossum........... 
10  @  25
Deer Skin, dry.. 
10  @  25 
Deer Skin, green  05  @  12)4
Green......................... 
2@3
Part Cared.................  @ 4
Fall  “ 
Kips, green  ............... 3  @ 4
“  cured.................  @ 6
Calfskins,  green........  5 @  6
cured.........6  @ 8
Deacon skins.............. 10  @25

.................   @ 5M

HIDES.

“ 

No. 2 hides a  off.
FELTS.

WOOL.

WHEAT.

MISCELLANEOUS.
....................  3)4@  4)4

Shearlings....................5  @  20
Lambs 
......................25  @  50
Washed...................... 12  @15
Unwashed..................  g @12
Tallow 
Grease  butter  ............  1 @ 2
Switches....................  i)4@ 2
Ginseng..................... 3 00@3 25
GRAINS and FEEDSTUFF8 
No. 1 White (58 lb. test) 
No. 2 Red (60 lb. test) 
Bolted...............................  1 40
Granulated.......................  1  65
•Patents............................  1  95
•Standards.......................   1  45
Bakers’.............................   1 ¡,5
•Graham..........................   1  30
Rye...................................   1  40
•Subject  to usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour in bbls., 25c per bbl. ad­
ditional.

FLOUR  IN  SACKS.

MEAL.

52
52

MILLSTUFFS.

Car lots  quantity
815 00
13 00
17 00
24 00
23 00

Bran.............. 114  50 
Screenings....  12  00 
Middlings......  16  00 
Mixed Feed...  23  00 
Coarse meal  ..  22  00 
Car  lots.............................. 45
Less than  car lots..............48
Car  lots.............................. 33
Less than  car lots.............35
HAY.
No. 1 Timothy, car lots__10 «0
No.l 
ton lots........1100

COEN.

OATS.

“ 

FISH  AND  OYSTERS.
F.  J.  Dettenthaler  quotes as 

follows:
FRESH  FISH.
Whlteflsh 
.................  @10
T rout.........................  @ 9
Black Bass................. 
12w
Halibut.......................   @15
Ciscoes or Herring__   @ 6
Blueflsh......................  @10
Fresh lobster, per lb .. 
20
Cod.............................  
10
No. 1 Pickerel............   @io
Pike...........................  @9
Smoked White...........  @ 8
Red  Snappers......... . 
15
Columbia  River  Sal­
mon ......................... 
12)4
Mackerel....................   18@25
o y s t e r s — Cans. 
Falrhaven  Counts....  @33
28
F. J. D.  Selects.........  
Selects.......................  @25
F. J. D......................... 
23
Anchors.....................  
20
Standards.............. ... 
is
Favorite....................  
15
o y s t e r s — Bulk.
Counts....................... 
2 20
1  65
Extra Selects..per gal. 
Selects.......................  
i  40
1  10
Anchor Standards__  
1  00
Standards..................  
Scallops......... ........... 
1  50
Shrimps  .................... 
1  25
Clams......................... 
l
SHELL  GOODS.
Oysters, per  100......... 1  25@l  75
Clems, 
.  75@l  00

“ 

CROCKERY  AND  GLASSWARE

tn
No. 0 Sun......................... 
N0.2  “ .................;; ....................................
?X
Tubular.............................  
Security.  No. 1...........J” ..............................   XX
Security,  No.2. .............. 
Hx
Nutmeg................... 
rx
Arctic..........................................H

 

 

 

 

 

 

lamp chimneys.—8 doz. In box.

No. 0 Sun................. 
Per box.
  75
No  1  “ 
 
N0.2  » " I :::::::::::::::::;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;» “

.2  10 
.2 25 
.3 25

No. 0 Sun, crimp top, wrapped and labeled..
No.2  “ 
fta 

First quality.
H 
XXX Flint 

, 
“ 
. 

*„

11 

« 

-

“ 

•• 

-  

,0  

Pearl top.

,  „ 
*  
,  _ 

Fire Proof—Plain Top.

No. 0 Sun, crimp top, wrapped and labeled.  2 60
............................... 
„  
No  2 S»n’ wr?Pped a“d  labeled....................3 70
No.2 Hinge,  “ 
^
■kt 
No. 1, Sun,  plain  bulb.................?...............3 40
................................... . .
„  
No  2 8“D’ Pl‘^ n bdlb’  per,d0*.......................1  25
No. 1 crimp, per doz.......................................i  ~
No- 8  “ 
No.l,ime(65cdoz)R.°"be8ter' 
,
No. 2, lime’(roc doz)...........  .........................,
No. 2, flint (80c doz)..............!."!!!"!.'” "!.  4 30
,T  „ 
No.2, lime (70c doz).........  
.  ,
No.  2 flint (80c doz)..............7.7.V.!!'.'.!! .." 4  49

....................:::::::

LaBastle.

Electric.

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Miscellaneous.

Junior, Rochester............
Nutmeg......   ............. 
............................
Illuminator Bases...... !!'” .............................1  Ax
Barrel lots, 5 d o z ........................................... 1
7 in. Porcelain Shades........  ...........................,  XX
Case lots, 12 doz..........................11* .7.7 **''"'  go

Mammoth Chimneys for Store Lamps.

fillipalro nritk f

No. 3 Rochester,  lim e........  i°fn
No. 3 Rochester, flint.  ........1  75
No.  3 Pearl top or Jewel gl’s. 1  85 
No.  2 Globe Incandes. lime... 1  75 
No.  2 Globe Incandes. flint...2 00 
No.  2 Pearl glass....................2 10

Box 
4 20
4 80
5 25 
5  10
5 85
6  00
OIL  CANS.
Doz. 
1  gal  tin cans with spout........
1  60 
1  gal  galv iron, with spout.........'
:  00
2 gal  galv iron with spout
- o— 6"*' nun v, ill, tjpuill  ...............  
1 qs
3 gal galv iron with spout... 
......... 4
5 gal  McNutt, with spout........ .......................  I   ™
5 gal  Eureka, with spout............   ..............  «
D 
.......••••••  " vll
5 gal  Eureka with faucet...... 
................. 7
5 gal  galv iron  A  & W 
......................  i  Xn
5 gal  Tilting Cans,  Monarch'.’.'.'.'............... in m
5 gal  galv Iron Nacefas.................’ .7'.!!!.'  9 5«
„ 
Pump Cans.
3 gal  Home Rule...................  
,n
5 gal  Home Rnle.....................  ................... ,g XX
3 gal  Goodenough........... 
5 gal  Goodenough  ......... ............................i, XX
5 gal  Pirate King  ............... !.!!!.!'.'.!’.!!!'.!io 50
No. 0,  Tubular, cases 1 doz.  each.........  
4*
No. 0, 
 
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No. 0, 
 
^
No’ °> 
„   „ 
No. 0,  per gross.................

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“ bull’s eye, cases 1 doz each! 1  00

l a n t e r n   g l o b e s .
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bbis 5  “ 
LAMP WICKS.

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Pints,  6 doz In box, per box (box 00)... 

Mammoth, per doz......................!!.".’.'!!........   7?
, , 
64
** 
23
“."OX,“  box  (box 00)....  180
bbl,  “  doz  (bbl 35)........   26

JELLY TUMBLERS—Tin TOP.
24  “  “  Bbl,  “  doz  (bbl 35) ....... 
18 

, 

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STONEWARE—AKRON.
)4 gal. per doz...! ..!..!! 

Butter Crocks,  1 to 6 gal.............................  og
60
Jugs, )4 gal., per doz....................... 
re
»r7»,i>to4Ka1’’ P®1 «*1....................!!!!'."   07
Mlik Pans,)» gai., per doz..........................  eo
......................!!  72
Butter Crocks, 1  and 2 gal........... 
«u
Milk Pans, )4 gal. per  doz............ !.!..!!!!  65”
-..............  .......  78

STONEWARE—BLACK GLAZED.

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OILS.
BARBELS.

The Standard OH Co. quotes as follows:

.......

Eocene..........................  
XXX W. W.  Mich.  Headlight...... '.'" '' 
7
Naptha................................  
Oh  ku
Rtnia naanlln. 
“  Y
Stove Gasoline 
@
Cylinder
Engine.......................... IT!:;:" !!!!‘  "13  @21
Black,zero  test.........................!!!!!.! 
®  1
Black,  15 cold test....................... ."!!."!
Eocene......................................
XXX W. W. Mich. Headlight................. 

FROM TANK WAGON.

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

T radesman Co.,  grand rapids.mich.

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OBSTACLES  TO  CURRENCY REFORM.
The reform of  the  currency  bids  fair 
to take, for a while at least, the  place  of 
the silver  question as  a  topic  of  discus­
sion.  The  scheme  for  the  issue of cir­
culating  notes  by  both  national  and 
State  banks  otherwise  than  upon  the 
pledge of Government bonds,  which  was 
approved  by  the  recent  convention  of 
bankers at Baltimore,  and  is,  therefore, 
known as the Baltimore plan,  has,  with 
some  modifications,  received  the  sanc­
tion,  first, of the Comptroller of  the Cur­
rency,  next,  of  the  Secretary  of  the 
Treasury, and,  finally, of  the  President, 
who has recommended it in  his  message. 
A bill embodying it will  probably,  if  it 
can be  prepared  in  time,  be  submitted 
either  to  the  Senate  or  to the house of 
Representatives during  the  present  ses­
sion of Congress, and although  it  is  ex­
tremely unlikely that such a  bill  can  be 
passed  at  this  session,  it  will none the 
less serve as a peg  upon  which  to  hang 
debate  in  the  newspapers  and  among 
citizens, as well as in the  national Legis­
lature.

That  our  currency  needs  reform  is 
universally conceded,  but as to  what  the 
reform should be, and how  it  should  be 
accomplished, a complete chaos  of  opin­
ion  prevails.  There  is  a  radical  dis­
agreement  as 
fundamental  prin­
ciples  and  a  multitude  of  conflicting 
ideas as to details. 
In all sections of the 
country errors are entertained  as  to  the 
true character and  functions  of  money, 
which it will take a long time to remove, 
and which, until they are  removed,  will 
greatly obstruct  reform.

to 

In the eyes of bank officers,  and  of  the 
commercial  community  generally, 
the 
chief defect of  our  present  currency  is 
what is called its want of elasticity.  The 
volume of silver coin,  silver  certificates, 
and  legal  tender  notes  being  fixed by 
law,  that of national  bank  notes  by  the 
requirement  of  the  deposit  of  Govern­
ment bonds as security, and that  of  gold 
by the  production  of  the  mines  which 
yield it,  an unusual demand for currency 
at a given point can  be  met,  now,  only 
by  drawing  it  from  another  point and 
thus  causing  a  scarcity there.  For ex­
ample,  when the wheat,  corn  and  cotton 
crops are ready to  be  marketed,  the  re­
quisite currency to be employed in bring­
ing them from the farmers  and  planters 
has  to  be  drawn  from  New  York  and 
other Eastern financial centers,  with  the 
effect of producing at those centers a rise 
in the rates of interest,  a  contraction  of 
loans,  and  a  fall  in  the  prices of com­
modities and securities.  To remedy this 
evil the bankers assembled at  Baltimore, 
and those who agree with  them  unite  in 
recommeuding  that  the  requirement  of 
Government bonds as  security  for  bank 
circulation  be  abrogated,  and  that  all 
banks,  both State and national,  shall  be 
allowed upon certain conditions  to  issue 
circulation against their own assets,  sup­
plemented  by  a  deposit  of  a  certain 
amount  of  legal tender notes as a safety 
and a redemption  fund.  The  theory  of 
this  plan is that  when  any  special  de­
mand for currency arises the  banks  will 
make a special issue of notes to supply it, 
that and as soon as this demand ceases the 
banks  will  retire  the notes  it has called 
out.  Thus 
the  quantity  of  currency 
available  will,  it  is  assumed,  never be 
either deficient  or  excessive,  and  there 
will  never  be  at  any  point  either  a 
monetary 
stringency  or  a  monetary 
plethora.

Again,  the idea prevails extensively in 
the agricultural districts of the West and 
South  that  the  chief business of a bank 
should be the lending  of  money  to  bor­
rowers who desire to use  it  for  the  im­
provement of their property. 
In the de­
bates in Congress  upon  the  removal  of 
the  prohibitory  10  per  cent,  tax  upon 
State  bank  circulation, 
this  idea  was 
very  prominent. 
It  was  repeatedly 
pointed out by the opponents of  the  tax 
that,  while money was piled  up  in  New 
York  and  could  not  be  loaned even at 
ridiculously  low  rates of interest, it was 
not  to be had  by farmers and planters at 
any rate whatever.  This was  attributed 
to  the  want  of  local  banks,  and it was 
contended that the  remedy  was  the  es­
tablishment  of  State  institutions,  free 
from the restrictions of Federal  laws  in 
the  issue  of  circulation,  to  supply the 
wants  of  the  agricultural  community. 
Evidently,  banks  conducted  upon  this 
theory could not be  expected  to  redeem 
their notes on demand even in  legal  ten­
ders,  much  less  in  gold.  They would 
lend the notes first to farmers and  plant­
ers on the security of their land  and  live 
stock.  The borrowers  would  next  pay 
them out,  in  the purchase  of implements 
and  fertilizers  and  in  the  erection of 
buildings,  to people who would use them 
in  turn  in  the  payment  of their debts, 
and so they would eventually  come  into 
the  hands  of  persons  who  would want 
them redeemed, either in legal tenders or 
in coin.  Then trouble would begin.  The

S w artou t  &  D ow ns,

JOBBERS  OP

LADIES’  AND  GENTLEMEN'S  FURNISHING  GOODS

and

STAPLE  NOTIONS.

Full  and  Complete  Lines  in  All  Departments.

41  South  Division  St.

Grand. R apids,  M ich»

MUSSELMAN  GROßER  GO..

WESTERN  MICHIGAN  AGENTS FOR

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.
Were the  function  of  currency  exclu­
sively that of facilitating exchanges, any 
scheme which  would  insure  the  expan­
sion and contraction  of  its volume at the 
pleasure of  bank  officers  would  be  un­
objectionable  and might be  useful.  But 
currency serves  the  additional  purpose 
of  measuring  the  value of commodities, 
and,  since its value in  relation  to  those 
commodities is determined by its volume, 
any  change  of  its  volume  changes  its 
value  also,  and,  consequently,  impairs 
its stability as a measure  of  values. 
In 
this aspect inelasticity  in a currency is a 
merit and not  a  defect.  The  advocates 
of elasticity complain that  when  an  in­
creased amount of wheat,  corn,  and  cot­
ton  is  offered  for  sale  a  dearth of cur­
rency ensues,  prices fall, and the  rate  of 
interest rises.  This natural  and  logical 
result they desire to  prevent 
In  effect, 
they take the same ground that  is  taken 
by the advocates of  free  silver  coinage, 
who demand that,  since  the  quantity  of 
wheat,  corn, cotton,  and  other  commodi­
ties annually produced has of  late  years 
immensely increased,  while the  quantity 
of  gold  in  use  as  money has remained 
substantially  unchanged,  and  thus  a 
general fall in  prices  has  been  caused, 
either gold shall be discarded  in favor of 
silver, of which  the  production  has  in­
creased to as great an  extent  as  that  of 
other  commodities,  or  silver  shall  be 
added to it, so that  in either  way  prices 
shall be raised to their  former  level. 
It 
is extremely doubtful  whether  any  sys­
tem can be devised  which  will  contract 
the volume of currency  when it has once 
been  expanded,  but  if  it  can,  such  bd 
arbitrary  contraction would  be  resented 
by the sellers of commodities  and  by the 
borrowers of money as much as  they  re­
sent the same result when it  is  produced 
by natural causes.  Before the Baltimore 
plan can  be adopted,  therefore,  it  must 
first be determined whether this  varying 
value  of  currency  is  desirable,  and 
whether it can be secured.

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

These  goods  took  the  lead  in  this  market last season and  we have 

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

Holiday  Presents in  Mifsioal  Goods. 

%   *

An Immense Stock of

Weber,  Hazelton,  Fischer,  Schaff 

and  other  Pianos.

A.  B.  Chase  and  Ann  Arbor  Or­

gans.

Violins,  Mandolins,  Guitars, 
Banjos,  H arm onicas, A c - 
eordians,  Music  Boxes, 

Etc.

Julius A. J.  Friedrich, 30,32 Canal St.

TUcm 
iK dtS a& L   $ a £ t~

SG&t" 

is fast being recognized by everybody as the best salt for every pur­
pose. 
I t’s  made from  the  best  brine by  the  best  process  with  the 
best  grain.  You  keep  the  best  of other  things, why not  keep the 
best  of Salt.  Your customers will appreciate it  as  they appreciate 
pure sugar, pure coffee, and tea.

Diamond Crystal Salt

Being free from all chlorides of calcium  and magnesia, will  not get damp and 
soggy  on your hands. 
Put up  in  an  attractive and salable manner.  When 
your stock of salt is low, try a small supply of "the salt that's a ll salt.'*  Can be 
obtain' _ from jobbers and dealers.  For prices, see price current on other pave.
1  For other information, address
1  DIAMOND CRYSTAL SALT CO..  ST. CLAIR. MICH.

banka  which  issued 
the  notes  would 
have  plenty  of  mortgages  on  real  and 
personal estate,  but  they  could  not  im­
mediately  convert  them 
lawful 
money, and for want of this  money  they 
would have to fail and be wound  up.  A 
bank  currency  redeemable  on  demand 
would, therefore,  fail  to  satisfy  South­
ern and Western requirements.

into 

This matter of redemption  is  also  left 
by  the  original  Baltimore  plan of bank 
currency in a singularly incomplete  con­
dition.  The  plan  seems  to  have  been 
devised to provide for no more  than  the 
occasional failures of banks  which  may 
occur  in  the  ordinary  course of events, 
leaving  out  of  consideration  the  extra­
ordinary demands for redemption  which 
may follow a drain of gold to  Europe  or 
be caused by a financial  panic.  A safety 
fund of five per cent,  and  a  redemption 
fund  of  another  five  per  cent.,  both in 
legal tender notes,  would  manifestly  be 
insufficient  in  a  crisis  like  that of last 
year, and even the 30 per cent,  fund  pro­
posed  by  Secretary  Carlisle,  also  to be 
composed of legal  tenders,  might  prove 
inadequate.  A  great  deal  is said about 
making bank currency safe,  but ultimate 
safety and  immediate  convertibility  are 
two very different  things.  Of  the  ulti­
mate safety of the legal  tender  promises 
of  our  Government  there  can  be  no 
doubt, but if they should cease to  be  re­
deemed on demand  in  gold  they  would 
lose much of the value as currency.  Still 
less  would a bank  currency  redeemable 
only after the collection of the  assets  of 
the  banks  issuing  it  be  available in a 
crisis in which a  large  number  of  them 
should  be  forced  to  suspend  payment. 
To be as good as  gold  a  currency  must 
be  redeemable  on demand in  gold,  and 
the fund of gold applicable  to  this  pur­
pose must be so large as to  dissipate  all 
fears of its sufficiency under any  circum­
stances.

The disposal of  the  outstanding  legal 
tender notes is another matter to  be  set-
tied before we can  have  any  satisfactory 
currency  reform. 
These  notes  now 
amount  to  $300,000,000,  and,  as the law 
now stands,  not one dollar  of  them  can 
be  cancelled  or  even  locked  up  in the 
Treasury.  They  must  be  reissued  as 
fast  as  they  are  redeemed. 
If to them 
and  to  the  $000,000,000  of silver,  silver 
certificates  and  national  bank  notes, 
which the Government practicaily  under­
takes  to  maintain  at  par  with  gold, 
should be added an indefinite  amount  of 
bank notes,  no matter how well  their  ul­
timate payment may be secured,  gold re­
demption,  already difficult,  will  become 
well-nigh  impossible.  Unless  the  vol­
ume of legal tenders  is  reduced  that  of 
bank  notes  cannot  safely  be  increased. 
Now,  to reduce the volume of  legal  ten­
ders they must either be redeemed out of 
a surplus revenue or be  funded  into  in­
terest-bearing bonds.  At  present  there 
is no surplus revenue and no  probability 
of any for a long time to come, and fund­
ing  is  our  only  resource.  To fund the 
whole  of  the  legal  tenders  even at 2)^ 
per cent,  per annum would cost the coun­
try $12,500,000 a  year,  and  the  proposi­
tion to impose this burden  upon tax-pay­
ers for the benefit of the  banks  would  be 
sure to be defeated  in  Congress.  Since, 
then, the legal tenders cannot be retired, 
we should rather seek to reduce  the  vol­
ume of bank circulation  than to  increase 
it,  for,  by  withdrawing the present$200,- 
000,000 of that kind  of  paper  currency, 
we should insure the  use in its  place  of

a corresponding  amount  of  Government 
paper, and to that extent lessen the  diffi­
culty of maintaining gold payments.

These are not all the obstacles that the 
framers of a scheme for  currency reform 
have  to  deal  with,  but  the  mention of 
them suffices to exhibit the thorny nature 
of their task, and ought to enlist in their 
behalf our most charitable consideration.

Ma tth ew   Ma r sh a ll.

S w etlan d ’s S ea Food 

Is  again  offered  at  his Morton House 
lunch counter.  The  finest  shell  oysters 
and live lobsters are  received by express 
every  day  direct from the seacoast,  and 
the way they  are  served  has  won  wide 
fame for Mr. Swetland.

Notice  of  Collection  of  State, 

County  and School  Taxes

IN  THE  CITY  OF  GRAND  RAPIDS, 

For  the  Year  1804.

Cit y  o p Gran d R a pid s, 
) 
K en t Co un ty, M ic h ig a n ,  V 
November 30th, A. D. 1894. j

, 
m 
To the Taxpayers of  the  City  of  Grand Rapids, 
in the County of  Kent  and  State  of  Michi­
gan:
You are  hereby notified  that  the  general  tax 
rolls  of  the  respective  wards  of  the  city  of 
Grand  Rapids  for  State,  County  and  School 
Taxes have been delivered to me for collection, 
and the payment of taxes  therein  assessed  and 
levied may  be made to me  on  all  sums  volun­
tarily  paid  before  the  lo th   day of January, 
1895,  with  an  addition  of  One  Per  Cent,  for 
collection fees.  And  upon  all  taxes paid on or 
after said tenth day of January, 1895,  there  will 
be added Four Per Cent, for collection fees.
That  my  office  for  the  receipt of payment of 
such  taxes  is  located  on  the  first floor of the 
City Hall,  in said City of Grand Rapids, near the 
east  end  of  City  Hall.  That said office will  be 
open for the receipt of such taxes,  in  said  rolls 
assessed,  from  8 o’clock in the forenoon until 5 
o’clock in the afternoon of each and every  week 
day, up to the First Day of March, A. D. 1895.
And said office will also be open on  Friday  of 
every week (unless such Friday be a legal  holi­
day),  and  on  Tuesday  of  every  week  (unless 
such Tuesday be a legal holiday), from the hour 
of 7 o’clock p. m. to the hour of 9 o’clock  p.  m., 
from the first of December, 1391, to the  10th  day 
of January, 1895,  Doth inclusive.

Marsh H. Sorrick,

Treasurer of the City of Grand Rapids.
C has.  P e tter se h ,

JOBBER  OF

Imported and Domestic Cheese

Swiss, Brick and  Limburger a  Specialty. 

161—163  West Bridge 8t.  Telephone 133. 

GRAND  RAPIDS

WALTER BAKER & GO.

The  Largest 
Manufacturers of

COCOA and 

CHOCOLATE

IN THIS COUNTRY,

have  received  from  tbs 
Judges  of the

World’s
Columbian
Exposition

(Medals and Diplomas)

The Highest Awards
on  each  of  the  following  articles, 
namely:
BREAKFAST  COCOA,
PREM IUM   NO.  I  CH O C O LATE. 
GERM AN  SW EET  CH O C O LATE. 
VAN ILLA  CH O C O LATE,
CO CO A  BUTTER,

For “ parity of material,” "excellent 
Savor,” and  “uniform  even composi­
tion.” 
SOLO  BY  C ROCE R3   EVERYWHERE.

W a l t e r   Baker  &  Co.,

________

DORCHESTER,  M ASS.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

CAR STOVE.

2 3

THE
ONLY
PERFECT
ST01/E

FOR
USE
IN
SHIPPING
POTATOES.

We  also  carry  a  good
stock of plain board for  lining 
cars.

W rite  F o r  F ric e •

IOSTfR&TVENS

Wash  Goods  for  January  ’95  Delivery

Toilet  du  Nord,  Bates,  Normandie.  Fancy 
Lace  effect  Gingham,  Palmer  Seersucker  in 
250  patterns.  All  New  Spring  Goods;  also 
100  Oases  New  Spring  Prints,  prices  range 
from  3  3-4 to 5c in  Simpsons, Hamiltons, Pa- 
cifi  ,  Cochecos  and  Manchester  Makes.  Our 
Dress Goods for Spring are unsurpassed,  sam­
ples will be shown Jan- 2nd.

:•  P.  Steketee  l  Sons,  Grand  Rapids,

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADJESMANf

P R O V IS IO N S .

SAUSAeK.

PO R K   IN   B A R R ELS.

The Grand Rapids  Packing and Provision Co 

quotes as follows:
Mess,.....................................................
Shortcut......................... ..............." "
Extra clear pig, short cut............
Extra clear,  heavy................................
Clear, fat  back............... ......................
Boston clear, short cut..............
Clear back, shortcut.............................
Standard clear, short cut. best...........  .
Pork, links...
Bologna.......
Liver...........
Tongue........
Blood...........
Head cheese.
Summer........
Frankfurts...
_  
su
Kettle  Rendered.................................  
" 7  £
' 
Granger............................................. 
Family................................................ .  .....* 6
Compound........................................  
' 
514
Cottolene....... ................................... 
iu
Cotosuet............................................................gv
0 lb. Tins, itc advance.
01b. pails, He 
501b. 
“  He 
251b. 
“  %c 
131b. 
l c  
'• 
Extra Mess, warranted 200 lbs..................... 7 so
Extra Mess, Chicago packing......................  7 75
Boneless, rump butts................................... .  9 50

BEEP  IN  BARRELS.

LARD.

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W holesale M ats,

Boston.

I  will  be  at  Sweet’s  Hotel Thursday 
and Friday, Dec. 20 and 21,  and  shall  be 
pleased to pay the expenses of  any  deal­
er coming to the city for  the  purpose  of 
looking over my line. 

M.  J.  Rogan.

H.  M.  Reynolds  &  Son,

2 4

GOTHAM GOSSIP.

N ew s  from   th e   M etropolis----Ind ex   o f

the  Markets.

Special Correspondence
New York,  Dec. 15—The coffee market 
is rather dull and buyers  are not  scram­
bling over each other in a  “mad rush” to 
make  purchases.  A  fair  trade Is being 
done by jobbers who  have  fine  samples, 
but,  with  a  prospect of  larger supplies 
soon after the turn of the year,  the  feel­
ing  is  one of  unsteadiness  as to present 
quotations.  Rio  No.  7  is  worth  14J^c. 
An  old  firm  of  coffee  brokers, John  C. 
Lloyd & Co., failed Thursday.  No state­
ment of their affairs  has  yet  been  made 
public,  but the amount will  not be large.
Refined sugar is selling  in an everyday 
way, and quotations show no change. 
It 
is likely that good sized orders for stand­
ard granulated would be filled for 4c.
Teas are quite  firmly held  and holders 
are  still  feeling  that  a  rise  is  certain. 
The  demand,  however,  shows no appre­
ciable increase,  and the interior is appar­
ently well  supplied.
In molasses the demand  is  light,  and 
upon  the  whole,  rather  disappointing. 
Trading  is  chiefly  for  small  lots,  and 
prices  remain  unaltered.  N.  0.  open 
kettle,  fair,  28@30c;  do.  good, 31@32c 
do. choice, 35@38c.
Rice is  firm,  with  the  demand  of  an 
everyday character.  The supply is light 
Spices remain in the  game groove,  and 
the entire line is  dull,  with,  perhaps,  a 
little better tone on cloves and  nutmegs. 
Singapore  pepper,  4Js@5c;  Zanzibar 
cloves, 5*£@5%c;  Amboyna  do.,  12J^@ 
lSJfft.
In canned goods the trade  is  dull  be­
yond precedent,  and  prices  of  tomatoes 
have gone down to 65c here  and  corn  to 
50c at the factory.  The pack of  1894, as 
shown by figures coming from canners in 
all sections, has been “simply immense, 
and  those  who  are  looking  for  better 
prices in the future had  better  postpone 
still further their hopes.  Peaches are as 
dull as all the rest of the  list,  and quota­
tions correspondingly low.
Dried  fruits  show  no  animation  and 
the  market  is  about  as  for  some  time 
past.  Quotations  are  not  to  be  relied 
upon,  as the general drift is to cut when­
ever necessary to make sales  of any size.
Rutter is without essential  change and 
receipts of the best grades are seemingly 
sufficient to keep the rate at 24c.

In cheese the market is quiet and  even 
jobbers seem to be taking a  rest.  There 
is a confident  feeling,  however,  regard­
ing the  future.  Full  cream  small  size 
State is worth HJ^@12c.
The egg market is weak,  most  of  the 
stock offered being not  up to  the  mark. 
State and Pennsylvania  are  quotable  at 
25c;  Western,  fresh  gathered,  choice, 
24c.
There  is  a  pretty  good  demand  for 
fresh fruits, both foreign  and  domestic. 
Lemons  range  from 82.25 to  83.25.  Ba­
nanas are selling well and quotations  are 
a little higher,  with holders firm.
Provisions  are  doing  better.  Mess 
pork,  813.25@13.75;  lard, 87.25;  family 
beef, 8l0@l2.
Altogether we have  to  report a  better 
feeling  among  dealers,  both  wholesale 
and retail.  Salesmen are busy,  and,  al­
though the sales are for the most part  of 
a  holiday  character,  staples  are  going 
well, too.  All are looking forward  to  a 
good year  during  1895.  May  the  wish 
come true!
The brilliantly  colored neckties, about 
which so  much  was  written  by  corres­
pondents  early in the season,  are appar­
ently doomed to  the  dusty  obscurity  of 
the  upper  shelves  of  the  shops  along 
Broadway.  The  ties  were  of  great 
variety and of  extraordinarily  vivid  and 
striking colors, ranging  all the way from 
bright  scarlet  to  the  sharpest  possible 
shades  of  blue.  They  were  sent  over 
here from London,  and  the fact has been 
developed that they  were  the  invention 
of  the  Haberdashers’  Association 
in 
Great Britain,  which  started  out  in  an 
effort  to  make the  fashions.  A conven­
tion of haberdashers  and  manufacturers 
was held, and they decided to change the 
dull and rather modest style of neckwear 
now  in  vogue,  and  make  brilliant  and 
showy ties fashionable.  Nobody has ever 
been able to tell  who  makes or unmakes

the fashions  either  for  the  men  or  the 
women,  but It is pretty  certain now  that 
the  haberdashers  cannot make the fash­
ions  for  either  London  or  New  York. 
The  market  was  flooded  with gorgeous 
specimens of neckwear, the shop windows 
were made gay with them, and the newspa­
pers  teemed  with  the  news  of  fashion’s 
new fad in neckties.  This was in London, 
but in a short time the  same scheme  was 
tried in New York.  But  the taste of the 
men who buy  ties  was  evidently  antag­
onistic  to  the taste of  the haberdashers, 
for the public absolutely  refused to buy, 
and  a  brilliant  commercial  scheme  has 
gone to the  wall.

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Ja c k so n

P o st  P re se n ts 
for  T reasu rer.

C an d id ate
J ackson,  Dec.  17—Post  B,  Michigan 
Knights of the Grip,  held an enthusiastic 
meeting at the  Hibbard House  Saturday 
evening and by a unanimous vote decided 
to muster a  goodly number to attend the 
annual  meeting  of  the  parent 
lodge, 
which occurs at Grand Rapids  December 
26 and 27.
The annual election  was  held  at  this 
meeting,  the following  gentlemen  being 
chosen to tote the lodge grip for 1895: 

President—E. A. Ay 1 ward.
Vice-President—H. P. Rockwell.
Secretary—W. S. Mest.
Treasurer—A. W. Stitt. 
Sergeant-at-Arms—A. F.  Peake.
The Post also decided  to  go  to  Grand 
Rapids with the purpose and  full  deter­
mination of electing one of  its members, 
Chas.  T.  McNolty,  to  the  responsible 
office of Treasurer of the  State  Associa­
tion;  and when the members  of  Post  B 
make up their minds to  secure  anything 
they generally succeed. 
In this ease the 
boys feel that there can be no  more suit­
able candidate for the office than Mr.  Mc­
Nolty,  who  is  known,  not  only  to  the 
Jackson  Knights,  but  to  almost  every 
traveling  man  in  Michigan.  Mr.  Mc­
Nolty was one of the charter members of 
the order and has been  among  the  fore­
most in pushing its interests.  When the 
annual  meeting  was  held  in  this  city, 
three  years  ago,  he  labored  night  and 
day for the purpose of making the gather­
ing  a  success.  He is  a  young  man  of 
ability and integrity and  a  safe  man  in 
whose hands to place  the  funds  of  this 
important  organization. 
lVhile  every 
penny of the moneys would  be  carefully 
accounted  for,  were it necessary he could 
furnish bonds  in  any  amount  required 
without  difficulty.  Always  an  active 
member,  he has never asked for  recogni­
tion 
in  an  official  capacity and  is  not 
now seeking the  place,  but  his  brother 
members  believe  he  is  entitled  to  and 
should receive the unanimous  support of 
the State Association.
A special meeting will be  held  at  the 
Hibbard House  next  Saturday  evening, 
at which time all who intend to make the 
trip will report, in order that  some  pre­
liminaries may  be  arranged  and  badges 
supplied.

Organization  of Post J.

Grand  Ha v e n,  Dec.  17—The  travel­
ing men of Grand Haven held  a  meeting 
at the  Cutler  House  Saturday  evening, 
Dec.  15 for the purpose  of  organizing  a 
local Post of the Knights of the Grip and 
elected the following officers:
Chairman—Louis J. Koster.
Vice-Chairman—J.  Woltman.
Secretary-Treasurer—J.  W. Harvey. 
Sergeant-at-Arms—Geo. J. Simpson.
Executive Committee—R.  K. Stallings, 
J. W.  O’Brien and Walter J. Baker.
It was decided to present the  name  of 
J.  Woltman  as  Vice-President  for  the 
Fifth District at  the  coming  convention 
and also to attend the  annual meeting at 
Grand Rapids in a body.  Geo.  F.  Owen 
is the unanimous choice of  the  Post  for 
Secretary and  will be heartily supported.
The new post is to be known  as  “Post 
J,”  but the members  want  it  distinctly 
understood that theirs is  not a “J ”  Post; 
but, on account of nearly  every  member 
having the letter “J ” in his  name,  they 
think the name is rather to the point.
We are very enthusiastic over the com­
ing  meeting  and  every  one  of  us  is 
pledged to go to Grand Rapids,  with  his 
better half, and take in all the  fun  Post 
E is willing to give ns.

Louis  J.  Koster.

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Hams, average 20 lbs.......................... 

smoked  meats—Canvassed or Plain.
p  u
I« lbs...............................9*
12 to 14 lbs.............................  io
picnic.................................................   7 u
best boneless..................... 8«
Shoulders............................................ !...!"  gv
Breakfast Bacon  boneless.................. 9
Dried beef, ham prices........................ . ’ .’io@10H
DRY  SALT  MEATS.
Long Clears, heavy....................... 
gv
Briskets,  medium.  ...................... 
71?
light................................................... *
Butts....................... ................
D. 8. Bellies.........................
Fat Backs.....................................
PICKLED  PISS’  PEET.
Half  barrels............................................. 
3 25
Quarter barrels...................... 
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K its.....................................................*;;*.” ;*

 

 

 

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TRIPE.

Kits, honeycomb............................................. 
Kits, premium................................................... 55
m   O Y S T E R S   §?
I  am  keeping  down  prices  notwithstanding 
the  advance.  Order  at  once for  your  Christ­
mas trade.
Solid Brand, Extra Selects, per can............$  26
Solid Brand, Selects, per  can.......................  24
Solid Brand, E. F.,  per can.......................”  go
Solid Brand, Standards, per can............  
20
Daisy Brand, Selects, per  can  ...... !___22
Daisy Brand, Standards, per can  .......... . . . 
jg
Daisy Brand, Favorites, per  can.............." 
14
Standards, per  gal.....................................‘ ’ 
gn
Extra Standards, per  gal............ ................   j  qq
Oysters fine and cans well fiiled.
The Queen Oyster Pails at bottom  prices.
Mrs. Wlthey’s Home Made Jelly, made  with 
green apples, very fine:
30-lb.  pail.......................................... 

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

Mrs. Wlthey’s Condensed Mince Meat,  the 
Mrs.  Withey’s bulk mince meat:
40-lb. pail, per  lb...........................................   g
c ia
25-lb. pails, per l b ...............................  
10-lb. pails, per lb........................."....".!!!!!!  gy
Pure Cider Vinegar, per gallon...........  ....... 
10
Pure Sweet Cider, per  gallon............................ j2
Fine Dairy Butter, per l b ................................20
Fresh Eggs, per doz........................  . . . . . . . . 
17
New Pickles, medium, barrels!__5 00
New Pickles,  % barrel................ 
” '  3 00
New Sauer Kraut,  barrels............................4 00
New Sauer Kraut, H barrels..................  2 50

EDWIN  FALLAS,

Oyster  Packer  and  nanufacturer. 
VALLEY  CITY  COLD  STORAGE. 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

If  You  W ant  an OFFICE DESK,

ROLL OR  FLAT  TOP,
Send for Catalogue “ A.”

Headquarters for

STRAW  BOARD
POTATO  GARS.

for lining

Telephone 188.

Corner  Louis  and  Cam pau 
S ts.,  G rand Rapids.

Best  Single  Harness  on 

Earth  for  the  Money,

All  H and  Made.  Only  $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,  1 u  
In.;  Breast  rollar,  1%  In.;  Brlching,  1% in  ; 
Bridle  with  blinds  and  overcheck,  or.  If  de­
sired  we  will  send  a  v er y   n ea t  l ig h t  o pe n  
b r id 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  Risk.  I t 
Will Cost  Von Nothing to 

G  H. WILMOT, Grani Rapida,

It.

197  and  199  South  Division  St.60..

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  particnlar, 
also Felt Boots,  Sox,  etc.
Thanking you for past favors  we  now 
await your further  orders.  Hoping  you 
will  give  our  line  a  careful  inspection 
when  our  representative  calls  on  yon, 
we are  REEDER BROS’. SHOE OO.

NELSON-MATTER FURNITURE  CO.,
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GRAND  RAPIDS, 
fllCH.

33  to   39  Canal  S t.,
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TRADESMAN  COHPANY,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

NOW  IS   TH E   T IM E   A N D   H E R E  IS   Y O V R   C H A N C E   TO

BOY  JOB  LOTS of HOLIDAY  GOODS.

If you are looking (or  Bargains, come and  see what  we  are  offering. 

busy to come,  order by mail  We will  guarantee the goods  to suit you at the price.

It  will  more  than  pay  you. 

If  you  are  too 

Lot  No.  1.

Contains  a  good  assortment 
of  Bisque  Figures,  Vases  and 
Perfumery.  Worth  from  80c 
to $1.50 per doz.
Job  Lot  Price  42c Doz,

Lot  No  4.

Contains  a  beautiful  line  of 
Cups and Saucers.  Worth from 
2.25 to 4.00 doz.  Would  make 
a  splendid  Assortment  to  run 
for a quarter.
Job  Lot  Price  $1.89  Doz.

Lot  No.  2.

Contains  Bisque Match Safes, 
Bisque  Figures,  China  Vases 
and  Perfumery.  Worth  from 
$1.50 to $2 per dozen.
Job  Lot  Price  75c  Doz

Lot  No.  5.
Doll  Bargains.  A 

regular 
1.50 per doz. Doll.  15 in.  long, 
washable head,  hands  and  feet, 
with hair and glass  eyes.
Job  Lot  Price  75c Doz.

Lot  No.  3.

Contains Large Vases, Bisque 
Figures, Glass Baskets and Per­
fumery.  Worth  from  $2.25  to 
$4.00.
Job  Lot  Price  $198 Doz.

Lot  No.  6.

Another  Doll  Bargain.  A 
regular  50c  retailer. 
Patent 
washable doll,  19J in.  long, pat­
ent leather shoes,  colored stock­
ings.  Would  make  a big  lead 
er for 25c.
Job  Lot  Price  $2.00  Doz.

H.  LEONARD  &  SONS,  o r a n m i c h p i d s '

T h e   D ayton  C o m p u t i n g '   S c a l e

IM IN G --Y 0   Users  of  Scales,

lhe trade are hereby warned against using any  infringements on  Weigh* 
mg 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  upon  our  patents makes the 
user liable to prosecution,  and the importance of buying and  using  any  other 
Computing  andbPrice  Scales than  those  manufactured  by  us  and  bearing 
our name and date of patents and  thereby  incurring  liability  to  prosecution 
is apparent. 

Respectfully-'

THE  COMPUTING  SCALE  CO.

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