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to one, the  class  of  ’29,  Oliver Wendell 
Holmes’ class, never came so near killing 
a watchman as th a t!

Lake Quinligamond  is to be  the  scene 
of a boat race.  The windfall is on hand 
He yells for his  alma  mater,  and,  when 
the race is over, in her dear name he does 
his best to turn the old Bay0 State  House 
inside  out. 
“Bill?  Send  it  to  the old 
man!”   And the old  apple  tree  that 
looking  forward  to  a  little  champagne 
cider one of these  days pays  the bill, re 
joiced.to see  such proof  that  “the  boy 
gittin’  o n !”  Foot  ball?  Stand 
right 
back.  There’s  where  he  shines.  The 
spirit of a long  line of windfalls rises 
the occasion,  and if he cannot  be  one  of 
the eleven to sing his man, he can be and 
the one to do a little fighting on  his  own 
account,  when  the  touchdown  game 
over.  So New York has a double Thanks 
giving—one for the day and the other for 
seeing  the  last  windfall  safely  out  of 
town.  So San Francisco with her saloon 
keepers implores the college president to 
protect her from the ontrage  of  the  stn 
dents.

Is endurance the  only  remedy?  Be 

If the third  generation  is to amount 
so. 
to anything,  the beginning,  unpromising 
as  it  is,  must  be  made  now.  Be  it so, 
If the boy—that  kind of  a boy—must  go 
to college, that matter  is  settled.  Web 
ster and Choate have  been faithfully fol 
lowed so far.  Let  the imitating  go  vig 
orously on.  They were faithful students 
In  good,  plain,  homely  talk,  “they  got 
their lessons;”  and the lessons were long 
enough to keep them busy.  Let the mat 
ter center right there.  Make  the  lesson 
long enongh and  insist  that  it  shall  be 
learned.  That  one  simple  rule  will  in 
six weeks start homeward  this objection 
able material, the  working  up  of  which 
can  be  carried  on  better  under 
the 
parental rooftree than anywhere  else and 
with better promise for  that third gener 
ation.

With this  wheel-clogging  element  out 
of  the  way,  the  student  born  and  not 
made will once more come  to  the  front 
There  may  not  be  quite  so  much  gate 
money in different  parts of  the  country 
but there will  be less slagging  going on 
the namber of killed  and  wounded  will 
be lessened, and the  colleges  can  go  on 
again  with  the  old  work  of furnishing 
educated men for the places in the world 
which  are  calling  for  them;  while  the 
Websters and  the Choats  who  are  mak 
ing  the  college  training  the  means  of 
reaching those places will not toil in vain, 
and so bring back to these higher institu­
tions of learning the  legitimate work for 
which they were  founded.

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

When Abraham Lincoln once presented 
bill for #1,000 for  services  rendered  to 
General  George  B.  McClelland,  then  su­
perintendent of the Illinois  Central Rail­
road,  that gentleman  refused  to  pay  it, 
saying:  “That is as  much as  a first-class 
lawyer would charge.”

Founders’  shares  in  the  Suez  Canal, 
which  twenty-five  years  ago were worth 
#250 each,  are now quoted at #250,000.

STRINGS  TO  LITTLE  SHOES.

The child in a  family  is  greater  than 
king  or  queen,  potentate, or even politi­
cian. 
In the divinely regulated economy 
of human life,  by which  what is  good  in 
it is kept from the flies,  and what is  bad 
is restrained or corrected,  the little child 
is one of its living  and  forceful  factors. 
It  was said some thousands  of years ago, 
and  the  words  are  as  full  of  sap  and 
throb to-day as they were then,  “A little 
child shall  lead them.” 
It will be so un 
til the last cradle on the planet is rocked. 
Every  child,  lordly  or  lowly  born, fair 
and  shapely  or  distorted  in  feature  or 
limb,  with  the  faint  impress  of noble­
ness or hereditary sins  on  its  face,  has 
its  beneficent,  though  unconscious, mis­
sion.  . It is as innocent  of  design  or  re­
sponsibility as the daisy  that  inspired  a 
Burns,  the  star  that  led the shepherds, 
or the bird that sings  to  a  hungry  Laz­
arus.  With  the  roughest  or  rudest  of 
men, the trustfulness and innocence of  a 
little child are  a recall  to what time and 
the devil have not  spoiled  in his  nature. 
What  he  once  was,  but is not now,  and 
may never be  again,  is  mirrored  in  the 
face that looks in  his from  the cradle  or 
the  knee.  A  manacled  criminal,  with 
stained  hands and  a frozen  heart, spares 
a farewell tear for  the  little  hands  that 
never stole and  the lips that  never  lied. 
Verily,  In that dreary  and  desolate  soul 
there is yet left a lone  blossom on a dead 
tree.  Besotted  and  brutalized  fathers 
and brothers, soaked with rum and beast­
liness, when reason relights its lamp,  and 
virtue struggles out of  dead leaves like a 
crocus in spring, look in  the face a child 
and  for a moment  repent  of  their  sins. 
No  spoken  or written  word, and no pic­
ture by pen  or  brush,  could  so  readily 
and vividly rebuke a drunkard or a brute. 
Men  who are lazy in  bone  and  practice, 
who  would  rather  hunger  than  sweat, 
who leave empty cupboards at home, and 
return at night with more  free  lunch  in 
their  bowels  than cash  in their pockets, 
can lie to a landlord and curse  a  patient 
wife,  without spoiling  their sleep or dis­
turbing their  conscience.  We  have  yet, 
however, to put our eyes on  the  man  of 
this  type  who  could  look squarely into 
the pinched and pallid face of his hungry 
child without wincing.

The same holds true with men who are 
neither drunken or lazy,  but at the dicta­
tion of an agitator will drop  their trowel 
or  hammer,  and  with  it  the  means  of 
paying their debts or feeding  their  fam­
ily.  The  man  may  be  obstinate,  and, 
from his standpoint,  a  reasonably  reso­
lute and justifiable  striker.  Orators and 
writers  may  sublimate  his  folly.  Un­
paid rent,  a fireless stove,  and one meal a 
day  may  not  reverse  his  opinion  or 
change his purpose.  He  can  stand  this 
sacrifice without a murmur,  but the little 
folks at  home,  with  little  to  wear  and 
less to eat, can do and have done more, and 
forever  will  do  more,  to  checkmate  a 
human and economic folly than anything 
else on the face of the planet.  Bayonets 
are nowhere when little white fingers en­
ter the  contest. 
In  the  general  ran  of

THE  BACK  OFFICE.

Written fo r  Th e  Tbabbsmaw

It was a shameful story which the wires 
flashed  eastward  from  San Francisco on 
the incoming of the  month,  and  for  the 
first  time  in  many a day,  if ever before, 
the  saloonkeeper  had  the  sympathy  of 
that class of citizens who are wont,to look 
upon him and his calling with unfriendly 
eyes.  On  that  day,  however,  the  city 
and the saloons at the Golden  Gate  were 
invaded  by  a  gang  as  merciless  as “ the 
Assyrian  [that] came  down like the wolf 
on the fold.”  They  went  the  rounds of 
the  city  in  hundreds.  They  swarmed 
into the saloons and beer halls, smashing 
chairs and glasses to emphasize their  de 
light,  and  they  terrorized  the  citizens 
wherever  they  went.  The  police  were 
powerless to control them and all that re 
mained for the  saloonkeepers  to  do  was 
to appeal for protection to the authorities 
of the University of California and of the 
Stamford University,  protesting  against 
the  conduct  of  the students  of those in 
stitutions  of  learning after the foot  ball 
match.

Some days before this,  in  the  cnltnred 
East, when the date  and the place of  the 
foot ball contest between Harvard—if we 
do not mistake—and  Princeton,  was  an 
nounced,  the rumor went abroad that the 
New York theaters, after  the experience 
of a year ago, had taken  due  precaution 
to prevent the repetition of a similar out 
rage;  and  they  who  care  to  read  the 
record  of  the  collegiate  foot  ball  en 
counters need not be told of the brutality 
which is constantly taking place.

The question is often  asked  why these 
gentlemen and the sons of gentlemen are 
willing  to  engage  in  public  fights,  for 
they are  nothing  else.  Can  the  reason 
be,  because  they  are neither gentlemen 
nor the sons of gentlemen?  Is  it  really 
true that  these  young  men  are  sent  to 
college,  because,  when  the  fathers  of 
these same yonng men were at the college 
age,  the sons of.men  of  mark' were  col 
lege-trained?  Do  the  boys  themselves 
want to go,  because  Daniel  Webster and 
Rufus Choate  made  the  college  a  step­
ping-stone to success?  And do their par. 
ents have the faintest idea that the wind­
falls  from  the  apple  orchard  can  be 
dumped  into  the  hopper  of  the  cider 
press with a  superior  quality  of  “extra 
dry” as a result?

If it takes three  generations to furnish 
gentleman,  all  the  improved  cider 
presses  and  the  most  skillful  treatment 
known  can  only  furnish  a  little  better 
cider out of that first generation of wind­
falls.  So  the  college, 
like  the  cider 
press, takes them in.  They are a  w o r m y  
lot.  They  are  of  the  earth—earthy. 
They  smack  intensely  of  the  soil;  but 
they are  “college  boys”  now,  and  they 
must do as they have heard that collegians 
do.  The  old  trick  of  stealing  a  ware­
house sign is passe  or,  in  common  par­
lance, 
It  must  be  en­
larged upon  and  improved;  so  the  sign 
taken  down,  the warehouse windows 
smashed with it, and  it is then hurled  at 
the  interfering  watchman’s  head.  Ten

is  a  chestnut. 

T H E   M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N .
WHAT  STOVE  MERCHANTS

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daily life the  influence  of  a  child  is  as 
strongly  manifest.  Many  a  man  with 
hard hands and aching arms, knotted and 
gnarled like an old oak in the struggle of 
life, will  be  cheery  and  hopeful  at  his 
forge,  furnace, or lathe,  when  he  sees  a 
little face in  the  hot iron,  and  hears  the 
ring of a voice in the  rhythm  of  his  an­
vil.  Men who  in the  stern  struggle  for 
existence  have  lost  the finer feelings  of 
humanity,  their sympathies  run  into pig 
iron,  and their faith in  human  kind gone 
forever,  have a  recall  to  their old selves 
when a child  twines  its  arms  around  a 
rugged  and  perverted  nature,  as  green 
ivy  on  the  trunk  of  a  dead tree.  The 
touch and confidence of innocence have no 
rival force in  this  mundane  sphere. 
It 
would  be  well if the qualities that gives 
childhood  its 
lost 
when we get out of  short clothes.  As  it 
is,  the truest and best of human kind are 
those who have carried  the strings of lit­
tle shoes into the duties of maturer years.

influence  were  not 

F red  W oodrow.

A m erican   B e e f in  E n gland .

Boast beef is John Bull’s standard fare, 
and some  physiologists  have  attributed 
to  the  influence  through  many  genera­
tions of  this sort of food the  great  phys­
ical stamina and  constitutional  vigor  of 
the English people.

The  ox  is  one  of  the  sturdiest  and 
most muscular animals in the world.  He 
is  purely  a  vegetarian  and  one  of  the 
cleanest  of  all  feeders.  He  has  abun­
dant  courage  along  with  his  great 
strength;  but  be  is  not  quarrelsome  or 
vicious. 
It  is  not  unreasonable  that 
people  who  for  many  centuries  have 
been  nourished  chiefly  on  beef  should 
have drawn  from it  particular  qualities, 
not only of  body,  but of mind.

On  the  other  hand,  it  should  be  ex­
pected that those  people  who  habitually 
feed on the flesh of  the  hog,  and  whose 
ancestors  have  done  so  before  them, 
would derive  from their daily  food  some 
qualities  special  and  peculiar  to  them­
selves.  The  people  of 
these  United 
States chiefly consume hog  meat,  and  if 
there were no other reason  for  their  be­
ing different from the beef-eaters  of  Old 
England,  that wonld  be at least one suffi­
cient reason.

Of course, the “tight  little  island”  of 
Great  Britain  does  not  afford  enough 
beef  to  feed  its  people,  and  so  great 
quantities have to be carried  there  from 
other countries.  The  Argentine  Repub­
lic and other  of  the  pampas  or  prairie 
countries  of  South  America  are  large 
sources of beef  supply;  but  so,  also,  is 
the United States.  The  statistics  gath­
ered by the  Department  of  Agriculture 
at  Washington  show  that  during  the 
nine  months  of  1894,  ending  Sept.  30, 
the  farmers  and  stockraisers  of  the 
United  States 
to  Great 
Britain more than  300,000  head  of  beef 
cattle, of a value of over $26,000,000.

exported 

These  cattle  are  all  shipped  on  the 
hoof, and,  although there  is  some  trade 
in slaughtered beef carried  in  refrigera­
tor ships, it does  not  compare  with  the 
export of live cattle,  it being  difficult  to 
overcome the prejudices of the  people in 
favor  of  live  beef  cattle.  The  regula­
tions governing the importation  to  Eng­
land of live stock are the same as to  ani­
mals  from the United States and Canada, 
no  discrimination  being  made  for  or 
against  either  class.  All of the animals 
are, under the  English  law,  slaughtered 
immediately  upon  arrival  at  British

ports.  Large  proportions  of  the  meat 
thus taken to England are sold in the  re 
tail markets  of  London,  Liverpool  and 
other cities as “prime Scotch”  or  “Eng­
lish beef.”  Under that classification the 
butcher  demands  and  secures  a  better 
price than he could  with the meat known 
and sold as Canadian or American.

Some facts of economic importance are 
learned from the department’s report.  It 
appears that  the  live beef  trade  is  con 
ducted at different ports  with  slight  dif­
ferences.  At Deptford sales  are  private 
on the hoof.  At  Liverpool half the  ani­
mals are sold privately.  The  other half 
are slaughtered  on  account  of  shippers 
and sold to buyers by  the  carcass.  The 
Liverpool surplus makes its way to  Lon­
don, and a large part of it,  beyond  ques­
tion,  is  so  cut  up  as  to simulate prime 
Scotch joints.  At  Glasgow  and  Bristol 
nearly all animals are sold  at  auction on 
the hoof.

The charges do not differ materially  at 
the various ports.  They  are about $3.75 
per head  for  all  terminal  costs,  includ­
ing  commissions  for  selling.  Add  to 
that the freight,  $11,  and  $1.50  for  the 
feed and attendance  of  each  animal  on 
the voyage, and $1.60 for  insurance,  and 
we have a total expense for  each  animal 
shipped of $17.85.  This  represents very 
nearly accurately the expense  of  getting 
a beef animal from the American port in­
to  the  hands  of  the British buyer.  On 
Oct. 25,  1894, good American  steers were 
bringing in the British market $85  each, 
so that it is easy to see  what  the  encour­
agement is for exporting beef  cattle.

In  England 

the  offal—especially  in 
London and Liverpool,  where large num­
bers of poor people purchase  it—is  con­
sidered  of  great  importance.  Heads, 
tails, livers,  kidneys,  lights and hoofs go 
to one buyer,  and  the  hides  and  inside 
fat  to  another.  Parliament  disinclines 
toward the encouragement of  a  trade  in 
dressed meat,  because  that  would  shut 
out  the  offal.  But  the  Commissioner 
thinks  that  if  the  American  cattle  are 
killed  at  home,  properly  dressed,  and 
sent to Europe in a state of refrigeration, 
the cost of American beef will be reduced 
in all those markets.  By killing at home 
and shipping only the  dressed  carcasses, 
bulk  is  compacted,  value  is  enhanced, 
and the cost of transportation is reduced, 
so  that  the  poor,  who  heretofore  have 
bought  offal,  may  be  able  to buy good 
meat 
the  first  six 
months of  the year  1894  there  was  ex­
ported  into  the  United  Kingdom  of 
Great  Britain  112,000,000  pounds  of 
dressed beef,  valued  at  nearly  $10,000,- 
000.  This  trade  in  dressed  beef  is  al­
most entirely in the  hands  of  American 
citizens.

instead.  During 

the 

the 
influence  of 

The  question  of  the  differences  of 
races  of  people  is most interesting, and 
one that may  possibly  never  be  solved; 
but the anthropologists  must  find  much 
investiga­
worth  attention 
tion  of 
the 
food 
of  a  people  on 
their  physical  and 
mental  characteristics.  The  people  of 
the  British  Islands  have,  of  all  mod­
ern races and nations,  made  the  largest 
impression upon  the  history,  the  prog­
ress and the literature of the world.  How 
much  of  it  is  to  be  attributed  to  the 
roast beef of Old England ?

in 

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

There is as much to learn about spend­

ing money as in making it

With  Experience in the  Trade  Have 

To  Say ahoift the  Majestic.

Hughes & Otis, Fond du Lac, Wig.

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

D.  & F.  Lusel, Watertown, Wis.

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

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

Harry 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 A Son, Arcolo,  111.

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

H. Krippene, Oshkosh, Wis.

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

W. D. Cooke, Green Bay, Wis.

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

V. Tausche, La Crosse, Wis.

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

III.

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  Hannah  &  Lay  Mercantile  Co., 

Traverse City, 58 i< h.

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. 
I
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. 

Banter Bros., Holland, Mich.

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

For further particulars address

J.W . JOHNSTON,  Manager,

Grand  Bapids, Mich.

HIRTH, 
KRAUSE 

&  CO.
Headquarters for

over Gaiters 

and Leggtns
$2 .5 0   per  dozen 
and Upwards.
lamb  wool  soles
Duck  mid  Sheepskin 

in 3 grades.

suppers.

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

Notice  of  Collection  of  State, 

Coitjf  and School  Taxes

IN  THE  CITY  OF  GRAND  RAPIDS,

For  the  Year  1894.

City or Grand R apids,
K e n t  County, Michigan, 
November 30th, A.  D.  ¡894.

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  H*ll.  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  wees  (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  ’895, Doth inclusive.

Marsh H. Sorrick,

Treasurer of the City of Grand Rapids.

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  tbe  best  satisfaction 
of any rubber  in  the  mar­
ket.  Oar  line  of  Leather 
Boots  and  Shoes  is  com­
plete  in  every  particular, 
also Felt Boots,  Sox,  etc.
Thanking yon for past favors  we  now 
await your further  orders.  Hoping  you 
will  give  onr  line  a  careful  inspection 
when  oar  representative  calls  on  yon, 
we are  BEED ER  BROS’. SHOE OO.

T H E   M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N .

O N E   A I M   I N   B U S I N E S S .

justifiable.  The  mistake 

Probably  nothing  would  more  effec­
tually serve to elevate  every  honest  oc­
cupation,  and  to  ennoble  every  worker 
therein,  than  a  realizing  sense  of  the 
service thus rendered to  the community. 
Most  people  pursue  their  various  em­
ployments as a  means  of  livelihood,  or 
of increasing  their  personal  advantages 
and comforts,  and these  motives are per­
fectly 
they 
make is that  they have  no  other.  They 
do not reflect that  their  work  is  also  a 
means of promoting  the  welfare  of  the 
community;  or if they admit  the fact,  it 
does not come home to them  in  that  im­
pressive way which would  lead  them  to 
receive  it  as  an  aim  to  be  achieved. 
There are a few pursuits where it  is  ex­
pected  that  this  end  will  be  kept  in 
view,  and  where  the  worker  that  has 
within him no motive  but that of self-in­
terest is held to have  degraded  his  high 
calling, but that all employments demand 
so high a standard of  action  is  an  idea 
floating in the  air,  perhaps,  but  by  no 
means brought into general  or  practical 
use.

In commercial  life,  for  example,  the 
profit of the individual  usually  occupies 
so  large  a  proportion  of  the  attention 
that but little is  left  for  the  real  bene­
fits which commerce itself  bestows  upon 
the people at large.  That  it furnishes a 
livelihood to multitudes and  fortunes  to 
some, are by no means the greatest of its 
benefactions. 
Its  contributions  to  the 
comfort and conveniences  of  the  public 
by bringing  necessities  and  enjoyments 
within the easy reach of  all  is  incalcu­
lable. 
In this respect alone It  is  one of 
the chief factors of  civilization.  But  it 
It  draws 
does  much  more  than  this. 
men together  by  common  interests. 
It 
binds the East to the West and the North 
to the South. 
It  even  unites  countries 
between which oceans roll,  enabling  va­
rious nations to mingle,  and thus  to  un­
derstand and to respect  each  other.  By 
encouraging travel It  spreads  ideas  and 
methods, conversing and establishing the 
best, and planting them where they have 
hitherto been unknown.  Thus,  through 
the influence  of  commercial  enterprise, 
the differences that  mark different states 
and nations, instead of  proving  insuper­
able barriers to friendly  intercourse,  are 
made  to  subserve  mutual  improvement 
and  to  enable  each  one  to  make  con­
tinual advance.

the 

exception 

and  not 

There is  another  and  even  more  im­
portant benefit which commerce  bestows 
upon  society, 
that  of  increasing  trust 
and confidence by promoting honesty and 
equity.  We hear and  read  of  so  many 
instances of cheating and  overeaching in 
trade  that  we  forget  that  these  are 
the 
rule. 
Every ease of dishonesty  is  pointed  out 
and emphasized,  when of  the  thousands 
of honorable  merchants  and  tradesmen 
of all kinds nothing  is said.  We are ac­
customed  to  think  much  of  the  great 
temptations  to  unfairness  and  double­
dealing that beset the young  man  enter­
ing  business,  and  it  is  well  that  he 
should  be  put  upon  his  guard  against 
them, but it is also true  that  mercantile 
life as a whole  is  a  school  wherein  in­
tegrity and rectitude  must be among the 
chief  lessons.  For  commerce  is  built 
upon trust, and whatever  shakes  or  un­
dermines that  trust weakens  the  whole 
structure. 
If  roguery  and  unfaithful­
ness  were  general,  the  foundations  of 
business would give way, and commercial

enterprise would no  longer  be  pua&ible. 
It is but a poor and  temporary  gain that 
the shortsighted swindler or  the  dishon­
est trader  obtains.  He  is  speedily  dis­
covered and shunned, and sooner or later 
he is ostracised from the  business  world 
as completely  as  the  sensualist  or  the 
drunkard is ostracized from good society. 
True  gain  is  not  the  transference  of 
money from one man’s purse to another’s, 
without adequate return,  but the increase 
of social welfare by efficient  and  intelli­
gent labor.  When  this  is  realized  and 
acted upon,  commerce will attain  a  sure 
and permanent success, in which  all  en­
gaged in it will be sharers.

Thus,  while business life  depends  for 
its true prosperity upon good  faith,  rec­
titude and honor,  so in its  turn it fosters 
and  encourages 
these  virtues.  Mr, 
Lecky, 
in  his  “History  of  European 
Morals,” speaks of industrial veracity as 
that  “accuracy of statement or fidelity to 
engagements which  is  commonly  meant 
when we speak of a truthful  man.  *  * 
This  form  of  veracity  is  usually  the 
special  virtue  of  an  industrial  nation, 
for,  although  industrial  enterprise  af­
fords  great  temptation 
to  deception, 
mutual confidence, and,  therefore, strict 
truthfulness,  are  in these occupations so 
transcendently  important  that  they  ac­
quire in the minds of  men  a  value  that 
they  had  never  before  possessed.” 
If 
this be so,  it  gives  to  business  life  an 
ethical character that is seldom accorded 
to it.  Nor do  the  virtues  it  inculcates 
end with itself.  When we occupy a high
standard of action in one part of  life,  it 
raises that of all the  rest  One who has 
been accustomed to be faithful  and loyal 
in his home is not likely  to  be  false  in 
his friendships,  and if  business  requires 
integrity in its followers, the  seeds  thus 
sown will blossom out  in  other  spheres, 
and thus a better character, as  a  whole, 
will result as the fruits of  its  influence. 
Is not such a  result worth  reflecting  on 
and  planning  for?  Do  not  let  us  lose 
sight of it in the effort for  personal gain. 
Let us ponder on the  good of  trade,  not 
only to the individual  trader,  but also to 
the  community, 
to  the  nation,  to  the 
world.  Just  as  the  faithful  physician 
feels himself bound by the  honor  of  his 
profession to  promote  health  and  alle­
viate suffering,  so  let  the  upright  mer­
chant realize the  noble mission of his oc­
cupation and strive  to  do  his  share  to­
ward furthering it.  The  duty of service 
comes to us all,  and nothing  tends  more 
directly to elevate our  employment  and 
to dignify our relation  to  it than to hold 
this duty close to our  hearts  and  prom­
inent in our lives.

Actual  Business Practice,
requisite  book-keeping, 

With 
is  ex­
acted of  students  at  the  Qrand  Rapids 
Business College.

The Bradstreet Mercantile Apcy.

T he B ra d stree t  C om pany, P ro p s.

Executive Offices, 279,281,283 Broadway, NT

CHARLK8  F.  C L A R K , P res.

Offices  n the principal cities of the United 
States,  Canada,  the  European  continent, 
Australia, and in London, England.
Brand  Rapids Office, Bon 4, Widdicomb Bldg.

H EN R Y   BOTOX, S ap t.

V A «  VAJBOf

The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows

STICK CANDY.
Cases

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

9
9

Bbls. Palls.
7M
6H
6M 7M
6M 7M

9

MIXED  CANDY.

“ 

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r  ah o y—In  b u lk

Losenges,  plaln..............
printed..........
Chocolate Drop«..............
Chocolate Monumentala
OumDrops...................... .
MoasDrops.......................
Sour Drops.......................
Imperlala......................... .

B M a.
Standard...........................................
Leader............................................... sm
BotM........................................7H
Nobby............................................7jj
English  Rock............................... 7M
Conserve«..................................... 7^
Broken Taffy.....................baskets
Peanut Squares................... 
“  8
French Creams................................
Valley  Creams............................  .
Midget, SO lb. baskets.............................
Modern. 30 lb. 
............................

P a lls814
6M
8
8*
8H
8M
8H
9
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18)4 
...  9 
...  8)4
Palla 
.  9 
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.  13 
.  13 
.  »H 
.  8 
.  8)4 
.  io
Per Box
Lemon Dropa............... ..............................'.........55
Sour D rops........................................................... 66
Peppermint Dropa............................................... 60
Chocolate Drops...................................................75
H. M. Chocolate  Dropa....................................... 80
Gam Drops..............................................  ...40050
Licorice Drops..................................................1 00
A. B. Licorice  Drops.......................................... 80
Losenges, plain....................................................66
66
Imperials...............................................................60
Mottoes..................................................................70
Cream Bar.............................................................56
Molaasea Bar........................................................56
Hand Made  Creams.......  ................... .....86096
Plain Creams........................................................80
Decorated Creams................................................go
String  Bock..........................................................65
Burnt Almonds............................................... 1  00
Wlntergreen  Berries.......................................... 60
No. 1, wrapped, 2 lb.  boxes...........................   34
No. 1, 
61
No. 2, 
28

printed.......................... 

fancy—In  5 lb. boxes. 

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ORANGES.

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Florida«, Fancy Brights, 126..........................   2 25
Fiori «las Fancy Brights, 150............................   2 40
Floridas, Fancy Bright«, 176,200, 216............  2  50
Florida«, Golden Russets, ISO, 176, 200, 216..’  2  40

LEMONS.

Choice, 300.......................................................... 3 50
Extra Choice,  300........................; ....................3 75
Fancy, 800 
........................................................  4  25
Choice,  380  ........................................................  350
Fancy, 360.......................................... ................  4  00

PROVISIONS.

SAUSAGE.

The Grand Rapids  Packing  and Provision Co 

quotes as follows:
PORK  IN  BARRELS.
Mess....................................................
S h o rtcu t...........................................
Extra clear pig, short out...............
Extra clear,  heavy...........................
Clear, fat back..................................
Boston clear, short cut....................
Clear back, short cut........................
Standard clear, short cut, best.......
Pork, links.......................................
Bologna............................................
Liver.................................................
Tongue ............................................
Blood...............................................
Head cheese................................
Summer............................................
Frankfurts.......................................
LARD.
Kettle  Rendered...  ............
G ranger......................*____
Fam ily...................................
Compound.............................
Cottolene................................
Cotosuet.................................
0 lb. Tlas, Me advance. 
0 lb. palls, Me 
i c  
501b.  “ 
251b.  “  %c 
131b. 
"  
l c  
Extra Mess, warranted 200 lbs........................7 £5
Extra Mess, Chicago packing........................  7 oo
Boneless, rump butts........................................  950

12 50
12 50 
14 00
13 25 
13 50 
13 50 
13  75
6M5
6
8M6
6
10
7)4
8M
7M
6
5)47M
6M

BEEP  IN  BARRELS.

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shored  heats—Canvassed or Plain.
Hams, average 20 lbs.......................................
16 lbs.......................................
12 to 14 lbs..............................
picnic....................................................
best boneless........................................
Shoulders..........................................................
Breakfast Bacon  boneless............................
Dried beef, ham prices...................................
Long Clears, heavy..........................................
Briskets,  medium...........................................
light.......................................
Butts..................................................................
D. S. Bellies......................................................
Fat Backs..........................................................

DRY  SALT  HEATS.

,, 

5» M
.  9M 
.10 7« 
8* 
6M 
.  9 
10
6M
7M

PICKLED  PIGS’  FEET.

Half  barrels........................................................3  25
Quarter barrels................................................... 1  75
K its...........................................................................go

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

TRIPE.

75
so

— IF  YOU  WISH AN —

Engraving  of

Your  Stores  — -

BANANAS.

Large bunches.......................................
Small bunches.......................................
OTHER  TORSION  FRUITS.
Figs, fancy  layers  16k>.......................
“  80»....................
“  “ 
141)..........................
“  extra 
“ 
“   b a g s...............................................
Dates, P u d , 10-lb.  box.........................
"  
.........................
Persian, 60-lb.  box....................
“ 
“ 
l i b  Royals..................................

60-lb.  “ 

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NUTS.

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Almonds, Tarragona................................
Ivaca........................................
California,soft  shelled  .  ...
Brazils, new...............................................
Filberts.......................................................
Walnuts, Grenoble.  ................................
French........................................
Calif............................................
Soft Shelled  Calif.....................
Table Nuts,  fancy...................................
choice................................
Pecans. Texas, H.  P.................................
Chestnuts...................................................
Hickory Nuts per b u ................................
Coooanuta, full sacks...............................
Butternuts, per  bu....................................
Black  Walnuts, per bu.............................

“  

FBANTTH.
Fancy, H.  P .,8una..................
“  Roasted...,
Fancy, H.  P., Flags...............
“   R o a stJ d   ..
Choice, H. P.,  Extras.............
“  Roasted.

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changes yon  may  wish  in  the  view  ar­
rangement  of  signs,  etc.  (we  can  make 
any  changes), and it will surprise you at 
how low a price we  can  make  it  and  do 
the finest  work.

TRADESMAN  COMPANY, 

Orand  Rapids,  flich.

FR ESH   MEATS.

BEET.

Carcass........................................................ 5  0   6
Fore quarters............................................3)40 4)4
H indquarters................. ..............   .........6  0   7
Loins No. 3.........................  
................... 8  ©10
Ribs.............................................................6  0  8
R ounds......................................................5  0  6
C hucks.......................................................  8)40 4)4
P lates.........................................................   3  0  3X

PORK.

D ressed......................................................4M0 5
7
Loins........................................................... 
Shoulders  .................................................  
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Leaf L ard................................................... 
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C arcass...................................................... 4  0   5
Lambs..........................................................5)405

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AROUND  THE  STATE.

MOVEMENTS  OF  M ERCHANTS.

Alamo—Fred J.  McCall succeeds W.  R. 

Maltby in general  trade.

Millington—A.  C.  Allen succeeds  F.  E. 

Kelsey in the drag business.

Fairport—Jas.  Seams  succeeds  Alvin 

D. Rice in the grocery business.

Mt.  Morris—W.  F.  Durham  succeeds 

Durham & Bush in general trade.

Springport—Fred Gregory  has  sold  bis 

hardware stock "to Allen Crawford.

Gooding—Gooding & Co. succeed  K.  B. 

Gooding & Son  in the grain  business.

Marquette—H.  E.  Kellan  succeeds 

Watt & Kellan in the grocery  business.

Ovid—E.  H.  Danforth is  succeeded  by 
A.  B. Danforth in  the furniture business.
Yale—Holden  & McNair,  general  deal­
ers, have dissolved, J. C. Holden succeed­
ing.

Chadwick—E.  T.  Bolster  succeeds  G. 
W.  &  E.  F. Bolster  in the grocery  busi­
ness.

Falmouth—The  drug  stock  of  G.  Y. 
Brown  has  been  seized on chattel  mort­
gage.

Cassopolis—Grant Underhill & Co.  suc­
ceed Underhill  &  Dever  in  the  grocery 
business.

Flint—Geo.  Sturt & Son,  grocers,  have 
dissolved,  Geo.  H.  Sturt  continuing  the 
business.

Detroit—L.  Black & Co.  succeed  Black 
& Connolly  in the jewelry and silverware 
business.

Sturgis—Thos.  H.  Berridge  succeeds 
Thos.  Berridge & Son in the manufacture 
of shears.

Frontier—Robt.  W.  Swift  has  pur­
chased the general  stock  of  Chas.  Hig- 
ley & Son.

Lake  Odessa—Theo.  Forster  has  re­
moved bis jewelry stock  from  Lakeview 
to this place.

Sault Ste.  Marie—C.  E.  Ainsworth suc­
ceeds Ainsworth & Alexander in the saw­
mill business.

Lansing—Robert Shaw  has  purchased 
the  agricultural  implement  business  of 
A. L.  Harlow & Co.

Manistique—MacLaurin  Bros., 

boot 
and  shoe  dealers,  have  dissolved.  Geo. 
MacLaurin  succeediug.

Clinton—The Clinton  Plow Co., not in­
corporated,  has  dissolved,  Frank  Wood­
ward succeeding to the business.

Port  Huron—C.  A.  Kuhn,  who  was 
formerly engaged  in  the  tailoring  busi­
ness at Cheboygan,  has  removed  to  this 
place.

Burlington—A.  W.  Gay has purchased 
the  grocery  stock  of  D.  L.  McPherson, 
and will  continue  business  at  the  same 
location.

Mendon—Geo. Speelman has purchased 
the meat business of E.  C.  Whiting  and 
will continue the  business  at  the  same 
location.

Detroit—Speck Bros.,  furniture  deal­
ers,  have  dissolved.  The  business  will 
be continued  by Jacob  Speck  under  the 
same style.

Burlington—A.  W.  Gay has  purchased 
the grocery  stock  of  D.  L.  McPherson 
and  will  continue  the  business  at  the 
same location.

Three  Rivers—Alonzo  Vosburg,  who 
has  been engaged in the lumber and plan- 
ingmill  business,  has  sold  his  lumber 
yard to Case & Coon.

Harrisville—Scahar, Stern & Co.,  deal­
ers  in  clothing,  dry  goods,  etc.,  have 
been  closed  up  on  a  chattel  mortgage 
held by Max Jasspon, of Alpena.

fronton—The  merchandise  in  the  de­
funct Pine Lake Iron Co.’s store was  bid 
in on attachment sale Dec.  17 by the  Mil- 
lerton  National  Bank of Millerton,  N.  Y. 
The  purchaser  immediately  resold  the 
property to Mrs.  Adams, who  has been in 
charge of the business for some time.

Grand Ledge—A.  J.  Kramer  has  pur­
chased  the  interest  of  S.  W.  Kramer 
(who is also  engaged  in  the  dry  goods 
business at  Cadillac)  in  the  dry  goods 
and  furnishing  goods  stock  of  A.  J. 
Kramer & Co.  and  will continue the busi­
ness under the style of A. J.  Kramer.

MANUFACTURING MATTERS.

Port Huron—The  American  Egg  Case 
Co.  has  merged its business into a  stock 
company.

Lake George—J.  W. Sutton,  who  oper­
ates a sawmill near this  place,  has  shut 
down for the  season,  and  is  putting  in 
logs for next season’s cut.

Pinconning—Charles  Ford, of Chicago, 
has purchased  an  interest  in  the  Ford 
stave  and  heading  mill  at  this  place. 
The capacity  of the  plant is  to  be  in­
creased.

Hillman—Four 

sawmills  are  being 
erected in  Montmorency  county  for  the 
purpose of manufacturing hardwood  lum­
ber—one at Hetherton,  one at  Big Rock, 
one  at  Vienna,  and  another  at a place 
known as Tingell’s.

Saginaw—Wickes  Bros.,  of this  city, 
have purchased the  entire  sawmill  ma­
chinery  outfit  of  the  West  Michigan 
Lumber  Co.’s  mills  at  Woodville  and 
Diamond  Lake.  The machinery includes 
double band saw outfits. 
It  will  be  re­
moved to this city.

Mt.  Pleasant—Horning  &  Root,  man­
ufacturers  of  heading,  have  dissolved, 
Mr.  Root  retiring  to  devote  bis  entire 
attention to the  manufacture  of  staves, 
having purchased a half  interest  in  the 
Prentice Stave Factory.  Horning  & Son 
will manufacture heading.

Cadillac—The  Oviatt  Manufacturing 
Co.,  which is the successor to the Cadillac 
Veneer & Basket  Co.,  expects  to  start 
up the factory in this plaae with the  be­
ginning of the new  year.  The  manager 
is  purchasing  a  supply  of  hardwood 
logs and bolts to stock the plant.

Detroit—N.  E.  Manuel,  C.  W.  Harrah 
and  John  Butterworth  have  organized 
the  Detroit  Manufacturing  Novelty  Co. 
and  have  filed  articles  of  association. 
The  capital  stock  is  $10,000,  and  they 
will construct road  carts,  and  manufac­
ture  hooks  and  eyes,  lamp wicks,  medi­
cines and novelties.

Detroit—The American Pepsin Cracker 
Co.  has  been incorporated with a capital 
stock of $100,000 of which $10,000 is paid 
in.  The stock is held by C.  S.  Edwards, 
T.  L.  Riggs, Mark Lewis, D.  F.  Starker, 
F.  L.  Aubery  and  Edison Goodrich, of 
Detroit, 
of  Port 
Huron,  and  P.  E.  Atchison  and  R. E. 
Atchison, o f Wyandotte.

James  Mackenzie, 

Morton  House.

T H E   M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N .
Jackson—The  W.  M.  Bennett  &  Co. j 
j 
I dry  goods  stock  was  sold  at  chattel! 
j mortgage sale last Wednesday  to  Alfred  i 
! Vandereook,  who  resold  the  stock  the 
I next day  to  Clarence  N.  Bennett,  who | 
j  will continue the  business  at  the  same 
I location.
Detroit—W.  H.  Schieffelin  &  Co.,  of 
New  York,  who  claim  to  be  the  sole 
agents for  phenacetine  and  sulfonal  in 
the United States,  have filed a bill  in the 
United  States  Circuit  Court,  to  enjoin 
Leon Caron from manufacturing  or  sell­
ing phenacetine in  this  country.

The  Leading  Hotel 

in  the  City.

^ l a r t m   L .  S w G G t  lias  assumed  control  of 
S w e e t s  Hotel, retaining t' e  Mes>rs.  Irish  as  mana* 
geis.  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  Michigan.

O

Compliments of the Season from

Hen^yJVinke
Fr u it s

___  W holesale

OYSTERS.

Special attention to mail and  telegraph orders.

OSCAR  ALLYN

Wholesale,
io6 Canal.

POULTRY.

FISH'_______________________________________ GAME.

Paul  Eifert

W elcumes the  traveling  fraternity  from 
all  points  of  the  compass  and invites attention to his line of 
runks, Bags and  Sample Cases  Anything made to order at
50  Canal  St

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E. 

H.  Cady,  formerly on the road  for 

GBAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

Bear,  Boon  &  Co.,  Limited,  general 
dealers at 1161 South  Division  street,  is 
succeeded by Bear, Son & Co.

Mrs. S. P.  Barnard,  general  dealer  at 
Hesperia,  has  added  a line of groceries. 
The Musselman Grocer Co.  furnished the 
stock.

D.  Leak  &  Son have embarked in  the 
dry  goods  and  grocery  business  at Bo- 
sina.  The Lemon  &  Wheeler  Company 
furnished the grocery  stock.

M.  M. Calkins,  manager of  the  Phelps 
Lumber Co.,  near  Woodville,  has  put  in 
a  supply  store  in  connection  with  the 
mill.  The  Ball-Barnhart-Putman  Co. 
furnished the stock.

The Champion Cash  Register  Co.  has 
leased the third floor of the Bissell build­
ing, 6,  8 and 10 Erie street,  and will  oc­
cupy the premises with its buffing, nickel 
plating and finishing  departments.

John Allgier,  formerly  engaged in  the 
grocery  business  at  160  Clancy  street, 
has formed a  copartnership  with  Ernest 
O. Goss under the style of Allgier & Goss 
and opened a meat market  at  351  South 
East street.

P u rely  P ersonal.

H.  H.  Hoffman has taken  charge of A. 

ee Smith’s  drug store at Crystal.

A.  H. Doolittle,  formerly of  Bingham­
ton,  N.  Y.,  succeeds  Will  C.  Wood  as 
book-keeper for C. N.  Kapp & Co.

D.  E. Corbitt  has sold  his $2,500 stock 
in the Champion Cash Register Co.  to the 
other  stockholders at a  considerable ad­
vance over  the  amount  represented  by 
his original investment.

W. A.  Stowe,  formerly Secretary  and 
Treasurer of  the  Tradesman  Company, 
but now engaged in the wholesale  paper 
business at 22 South Ionia street,  will be 
married Jan.  2 to  Miss  Blanche  Robert­
son,  of  Chicago.  They  will  be  “at 
home” to their  friends  at  310  Jefferson 
avenue after Feb.  1.

How  about  that  “house  warming” 
Charley  McCarty,  the  versatile  Lowell 
merchant,  was to give his friends in com­
memoration  of his  moving  into  his  new 
residence? 
It is possible he has struck a 
streak of ill  luck—an  unheard  of  thing 
in the career of Mr.  McCarty—which has 
impelled him to omit  that important cer­
emony?

J.  H.  Thaw  may  be  an  authority on 
prohibition topics,  but-he will,  probably, 
not  attempt  to  prognosticate  the  bean 
market  again  very  soon.  So  confident 
was he last summer that  beans  would go 
to  $2  per  bushel  before  the end of  the 
year that he purchased  a  carload  of  the 
W.  T.  Lamoreaux  Co.  at $1.50,  Dec.  15 
delivery.  He paid $50  the other  day  for 
the privilege of being  released  from  the 
deal.

Rubber old  and  Asphalt  Roofing 

Are gaining great popularity in the West 
and Middle  States,  as  their  great  dura­
bility is appreciated.  H.  M.  Reynolds & 
Co., of  this  city,  are  introducing  them 
widely and yesterday shipped 110 squares 
to Great Falls,  Montana.

G rea t  Goode  fo r  H oliday  T rad e.
Edwin Fallas has received at  the Lake 
Shore depot a  full  car  of  Mason’s  Pint 
Jars.  No wonder  Mrs.  Withey’s  jellies 
are in such great  demand  when  grocers 
can them in Mason’s jars  for  one  dollar 
a dozen.

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Robert  N.  Burch,  city  salesman  for 
Oscar Allyn,  has a new 8 pound daughter 
at his home at 14 Olive street.

S. A.  Goss,  formerly  traveling  repre 
sentative for the I.  M. Clark Grocery Co., 
but more recently on the road for E.  Fal­
las, has engaged for  1895  with  Merriam 
& Collins,  wholesale  grocers of  Chicago. 
His territory includes the entire southern 
portion of the State.

The thirteen salesmen of the Champion 
Cash Register Co.  have  been called in  by 
Manager Geiger for the  purpose  of  get­
ting acquainted with  each other  and  ex­
changing ideas as to  the best methods of 
pushing  sales.  Sessions  are  held  daily 
at the company’s office on Canal  street.

W.  F.  Bowen  (Ball-Barnhart-Putman 
Co.)  was married Monday to Miss Eleanor 
Norrisb,  stenographer for the  Berkey  & 
Gay  Furniture  Co.  The  happy  couple 
spent  Christmas  with  the  bride’s  rela­
tives  at  London,  Ont.,  and  will put in 
the remainder of the  week with relatives 
of the groom at Mormara, Ont.

the Goshen Sweeper Co.,  but for the past 
year traveling salesman for A.  E.  Brooks 
& Co.,  is taking a course of instruction at 
the  Indianapolis  School  of  Embalming, 
preparatory to his going on the road, Jan. 
1, for Hurd.  Gray  &  Co.,  manufacturers 
of  embalming  fluid  at  Syracuse,  N.  Y. 
His territory will include all  the  availa­
ble towns in eight Western  States.

E.  A. Bishop,  for the  past  four  years 
Michigan  representative  for  the  H.  J. 
Heinz  Co.,  of  Pittsburg,  has  gone  to 
Clinton, Ind.,  to spend the holidays  with 
his parents.  The first  week in  January 
he  will  go  to  Pittsburg  to  attend  the 
sixth annual convention of the 144 travel­
ing salesmen of the Heinz  Co., returning 
to  Frankfort,  Ind.,  where  he  will  be 
married Jan.  9 to Miss Fanny Deming, an 
estimable young lady of that place.  Mr. 
and Mrs. Bishop will take  up their  resi­
dence in Grand Rapids, and  will  be  “at 
home”  to  their  friends  on  and  after 
Feb. L

Saginaw Evening News (Dec. 24):  The 
leading candidate  for  Treasurer  of  the 
Knights  of  the  Grip  will  probably  be 
Herman  E. Vasold, of  this  city,  whose 
name will  be  proposed  by  some  of  his 
numerous friends.  He is one of Saginaw’s 
oldest and best known traveling men and 
it is is understood that Post  F  will  vote 
as a unit for  him.  The  Light  Infantry 
band  will accompany  the  Saginaw  dele­
gation  which will have  its  headquarters 
at the  Morton  House.  The  royal  man­
ner in  which  the Saginaw  knights enter­
tained their fraters last year  leads  them 
to expect reciprocal treatment  at  Grand 
Rapids.

Wm.  Connor  (Michael  Kolb  &  Son) 
writes  from  Rochester:  “I  greatly  re­
gret  that  the  Saginaw  trade 
journal 
should have made  such  remarks  reflect­
ing on the honor of the traveling  men  of 
the  Saginaw  Valley.  1  am  intimately 
acquainted with many of  them  and  can 
vouch for their good  conduct  on  all  oc­
casions.  1  had  hoped  to  be  in  Grand 
Rapids on the occasion  of the  K.  of  G. 
convention,  but  find  it  will  be 
impos­
sible for me to  follow  my  own  inclina­
tion in  the matter.  You  will be  pleased 
to learn that my house  is  greatly  elated 
over their trade for  the past  year  and— 
best  of  all—that  money  is  coming  in 
much more freely than  was  anticipated. 
So anxious  was one of  our  customers  to 
settle his bills and get his discounts  that

he actually  overpaid  his  account  $275. 
Of course,  the amount was promptly  re­
turned to him.”

Whitehall  Forum:  B.  F.  Emery,  who 
has been  gradually  declining  with  con­
sumption, expired at the  home  of  Robt. 
Goffin, Sunday.  He was  born  at  Farm­
ington, Mich.,  Feb. 26,  1846,  and  was  a 
member  of  Grand  River  Lodge,  No.  34,
F.  and A.  M.  He served  three  years  in 
the U. S.  Navy  on  the  steamers  Hornet 
and Augusta.  He  was numbered among 
Whitehall’s  business  men  in  the  early 
days,  but  after  leaving  here  became  a 
commercial salesman and was well known 
and respected among that  fraternity.  A 
few  years ago  the  insidious  disease  be­
gan to  show  upon  him,  and  he  went  to 
Colorado  in  hope of  being  benefited  by 
the change  of  climate.  He  did  not  im­
prove, however,  and  gradually  declined 
to the moment of his death.  He leaves  a 
wife  and  two  sons.  The  funeral  was 
held Tuesday  under the  auspices  of  the 
Whitehall Masons.

J. A.  Gonzalez  and F.  M.  Tyler  both 
announce  themselves  as  candidates  for 
the position on the  Board  of  Directors, 
M.  K.  of  G.,  rendered vacant by  the  re­
tirement of Geo.  F.  Owen,  whose term of 
office  expires  this  week,  but  who will 
probably continue on the Board in  an  ex 
officio capacity as  Secretary.  Both  gen­
tlemen  are men of ability and energy and 
the organization  will  not  suffer  in  the [ 
event of the election of either.  Mr. Gon­
zalez  remained  at  the  helm  during  the 
time the organization was nearly wrecked 
by  an incompetent officer, and to his fidel­
ity  and activity  at  that  time  is  largely 
due the remarkable record  made  by  the 
organization since those days of darkness 
and  uncertainty.  Mr.  Tyler  is  a  man 
of marked ability  as  a  parliamentarian 
and is a decided  success  as  a  presiding 
officer,  besides being calm  and candid in 
matters requiring  careful  consideration 
and deliberation.

The  M ichigan M an u factu rin g  Co., 

Makers of Pants, Shirts and Overalls, for- | 
merly of Otsego,  now  permanently  loca­
ted in this city,  in the Reid building, cor- 
ner Louis and Gampau  streets,  is  ready 
for the spring  business  and  is  showing j 
excellent  things  in  its  line.  The  addi­
tion of new and  improved  machinery  to 
a larger and more conveniently  arranged 
factory makes  it  possible  for  the  com­
pany to produce better goods at the same 
price. 
In consideration of this  fact,  to­
gether with that  of  the  shipping  facili­
ties offered here,  the  management  does' 
not hesitate to assure the trade of prompt 
shipments and satisfactory goods.  Sales­
men will call early with spring line.

The  B rid ge  S tre e t  H ouse.

This well-known  hostelry,  under  the  , 
new management of Mr.  G.  A.  Pickle, is 
making new  friends  among  commercial! 
travelers  and  visiting  merchants.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Pickle give  their  personal  at­
tention to making  a  pleasant  home  for j 
all patrons.  Changes for the better have | 
been made in  the cuisine and  the  entire j 
house is being refinished and  made new.

East Saugatuck—The  Pleasant  Valley j 
Creamery Co.  has  closed its  first season’s ] 
business.  The sales of the year amounted 
to $21,000, but the  balance  sheet fails  to 
disclose any profit  for  the  stockholders. 
The  latter  are  not  disheartened,  how- 
eves, as they feel  that  they  have  estab­
lished the enterprise on a firm foundation 
and  are  now  in  shape  to  make  some 
money on future transactions.

W a n ts   Column.

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

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QTOCK  OP CLOTHING AND GENTLEMEN’S 
k?  furnishing good4. to  trade  for  real  estate. 
Address No. 660, Care Michigan Tradesman. C60D

HJ.OOD  OPENING  FOR  A  RUBBER  STAMP 

I  and stencil business in a city of 10  ,000 peo­
ple.  Address  No.  657,  care  Michigan  Trades­
man^____________  
\ \ T ANTED—TO  BUY  AN  INTEREST  IN  A 
* v 
country  store, well located, where a good 
trade  can  be  worked  up  General  store  pre­
ferred.  In  payment  for  same  would  furnish 
$3,0i>0 in clothing, i  .000 in boots and shoes.  Ad­
dress  F.  C.  B.,  113  Washington  ave..  North. 
Lansing, Mich.  _______ 
fjO O i)  FARM  NEAR  STATE  CAPITOL, 
V*  c,J*Rr title, to exchange for boots and shoes. 
G. W, Watrons, Lansing, Mich. 
TXT ANTED— TO  EXCHANGE  A  CLEAN 
stock  of  boots,  shoes  and  rubbers for a 
V ▼ 
stock  of  hardware,  or  will  sell  cheap for spot 
,  Will invoice $.-,) 0'.  Address No. 646  care 
Michigan Tradesman._____
TF  YOU  WANT  TO  BUY  OR  SELL  REAL 
J.  estate, write me.  I  can  satisfy  yon  Chas. 
E. Mercer, Rooms 1 and 2. Widdicomb  building
______________________ ___________ 6*3

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652

■CIOR SALE—SECOND-HAND MEDIUM  SIZED 
rr 
safe by  Geo.  M.  Smith,  157  Ottawa  street, 
Grand Rapids. 
TTIOR SALE  AT  A  BARGAIN—NEW  STOCK 
of groceries invoicing  $i,?on.  Good  fade 
good  location.  Reas  n  for  selling,  death  in 
family.  Write G. B ,care Michigan  Tradesman.
OOOD  OPENING  FOR  DENTIST.  *AD- 
VA  dress S. S. Burnett, Lake Ann, Mich.  654 
A  young  MAN  WITH  GOOD  HA PITS 
t x   wishes to change location.  Experience  in 
hardware and groceries.  References  furnb bed 
655
Address L.  B.  B.  Jackson.  Mich. 
OOTS  AND  SHOES—A  RARE  OPPOR1UN 
ity to purchase the stock, fixtures and good 
will  of  an  A1  shoe  business,  in  city  of 5 000. 
Will invoice  $=>,500. 
best  reasons  for  selling. 
Will  sell  for  75c  on  a  dollar, spot cash.  Can’t 
use real estate.  Address No. 650,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman.
Tfi^OR  bALK—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  trading  points in A1 
iegan  county.  Reason  for  selling,  present 
owner is not a druggist  Excellent  opening for 
good man. M. A. Ross. South  Monterey.Mich. 644
assorted stoc•  of hardware.  Only store in 
town of 7 0; surrounded bv good farming  eoun- 
t-y, doing paying cash business  A snap  Good 
reasons  for  selling.  Will  take  small  grocery 
stock.  Write  at  once.  Address  No.  643  care 
Michigan Tradesman.______  

F OR  SALE—FOR CASH  ONLY, NEW. WELL 

643

good  farming  lands;  abundance  of  fruit; rea­

Brick  sto re  to  r e n t ;  l iv in g  booms 
above; good trading point,  surrounded  by 
sonable terms.  Address A. L. Power, Kent City 
Mich.___________________ _______  626  ’
F or  sa l e—a  shoe  b u sin ess,  o r  h a lf
interest in sstne,  on  one  of  the  principal 
streets in Grand Rapids  New stock  good trade 
location  Al.  Address  No.  624  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 

M iSCKLLANKOlS. 

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649

658

VX?"ANTED—MANAGER  FOR  A  RETAIL 
TV  hardware store within one hundred miles 
of this city;  we  want a man of large experience 
and unquestioned  ability.  This is  a  first-class 
opportunity for the right  party.  Address  Lock 
Drawer X, Cleve and. < ihio. 
661
ANTED  EVERYBODY  IN'¡KnK&ifau IN 
patents or patent  law,  to  send  their  ad 
dress; and a book containing valuable  informa 
tion will be sent free  by  mail.  L.  V.  Moulton, 
Patent Attorney. Grand Rapids,  Mich. 
rI*HE  CITIZENS  OF  DORR  WILL  PAY  A 
1 
liberal bonus to any party who has a  small 
capital to invest in  a flouring mill at Dorr  For 
further information write J.  C.  Newman,  Dorr,
Mi  h ____________________________ 
W T ANTE¡5— vvE  WIS 1  TO  LEASE  A  15" 
7 v 
horse power  portable  engine  and  boiler, 
with or without engineer, during the ice cutting 
season.  Consumers’ Ice Co , Grand Rapids.  M5 
EARLY  NEW  BAR-LOCK  TYPEWRITER 
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. 
■flTANTED—EVERY  D RU G G IST  JU ST 
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.
dc^ a V o °£ i
lEO R G ElD fifCO ..  S
Store  Fixtures,  Counters,  Shelving,  etc.,  made 
to  order.  Corner  of  Kent  and  Newberry  St., 
Grand  Rapids.
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- 
t er of unincumbered lots in this  city and in one 
of the cleanest and best located new suburbs  of 
Chicago,  where  property  will  soon  doable  In 
value.  If you wish to get  out  of  business  and 
get  your stock of good» where the rise  in  value 
will be from 50 to li 0 per cent, in  the  next  few 
years, better write quick to  K. A. J.,50 Fremont 
St., Battle Creek, Mich. |

564

G R O W TH   OB’ TH E  M ATCH.

Dry Goods Price Current.

L e ss TUan N in e ty  Y e a rs  S in ce T h e  F ir s t 

W a s  M ad e.

From the Pittsburgh Dispatch.
Few  people  waste  a  thought  about a 
match.  Merely  a  little  commonplace, 
every-day trifle of a thing,  made of wood 
or wax, tipped with latent flame,  where­
with they kindle fires and light the sooth­
ing  pipe  or  comforting  cigar. 
It  does 
its humble work and is cast  aside.  And 
yet the match is an evolution representa­
tive of much human patience, ingenuity, 
and skill,  and  is  one  of  the  best  gifts 
sought  out  and  elaborated  by  human 
genious for the benefaction of  the  race. 
When  Prometheus  stole  the  sacred  fire 
from Olympus it wasn’t in the form  of  . 
lucifer match that he  did so, or his  pun 
ishment from Jove might have been even 
more terrible than it was, because its use 
fulness to upstart man would  have  been 
sq  much  more  formidable.  Long  ages 
had to pass,  and the  nineteenth  century 
after Christ was  well  on its way  before 
the match,  as we see it to-day,  was  even 
thought  of.  Trifle as  it  is,  few  things 
have  had  more  thought  and  ingenuity 
expended on their production. 
In  Great 
Britain  alone,  during  the  first  ninety 
years of this century,  considerably  more 
than  100 patents  have  been applied  for, 
having reference,  wholly  or in  part, to 
improvements or novelties in  machinery 
for  the  manufacture  of  matches,  and 
during the  same period at least as  many 
more patents were  applied  for with ref 
erence to the the composition  of  the  in 
fiammatory  part of  the  matches,  the ms 
terial composing the stem, etc.
As  an  industry  the  manufacture  of 
matches has  very  imposing  proportions, 
There is something impressive about  fig­
ures to the average mind, and a few  sta 
tistics will carry weight,
Just to take one of  the largest English 
factories for example.  Ordinary wooden 
matches  are  turned  out  of  that estab­
lishment yearly at the  rate  of 2,500,000 
gross  boxes.  Each  box  contains  from 
ninety to  100  individuals. 
If any  one 
has the  curiosity  to figure out what this 
amounts to he will find it means  a  great 
total  of  36,000,000.000  of  these  wooden 
splinters,  each  one  of  which  is  a  tiny 
magazine of  fire  and  potential  agent  of 
mighty mischief.  The same factory pro 
duces “safety” matches to the amount of 
about  one-seventh  of 
the  ordinary 
matches—L e.,  about  5,000,000,000 in the 
year.  It also produces about 52,000 gross 
boxes  of  vesuvians.  while  wax  vestas 
are poured out at the rate of 35,000,000  a 
day or 10,500,000,000  annually.  This  is 
all very imposing,  and  is  calculated  to 
inspire increased respect for  the  match. 
For the  vestas produced by that one fac­
tory three tons of  wax  are  used  every 
working  day,  meaning a total of  some 
750  tons  in  tho  year.  Cotton  to  the 
amount  of 250 tons  is  also  annually  re­
quired  to  produce  these  little  effects. 
The same factory’s  annual  consumption 
of vitreous phosphorus is thirty  tons  or 
more,  while the  number  of  persons  em­
ployed is in the  neighborhood  of  2,000. 
Now,  in  the  neighborhood  of  London 
alone there are about a dozen factories of 
varying  size,  so  that  from  facts  like 
these one can begin to have a  faint  con­
ception of what the match  making of the 
world  really  means.  The  total  annual 
value of English match manufacture  has 
been  estimated  at  from  £1,500.000  to 
£2,000.000, and England is not the great­
est producer of matches.

The  man  who  grumbles  because  he 
must rise betimes on a cold, frosty morn­
ing, and  light a fire  for the  household 
while  it  is  yet  dark,  should  thank  his 
stars  that,  unlike  the  ancient  Roman 
similarly situated,  he  does  not  need  to 
spend his strength rubbing  together two 
pieces  of  hard  wood  until  the  spark 
comes.  He has no such trouble in  start­
ing a fire as many a better  man  than  he 
among his forbears has had with flint and 
steel.  For 400 years,  from  the  time  it j 
made  its  appearance  during  the  four­
teenth century,  the clumsy and ill-smell­
ing tinder box,  with  its  assortment  of 
steel, flint, and sulphur-tipped “spunks,” 
was  the  mainstay  of  our  forefathers
when they wanted to start a fire. 
It was 
the discovery  of phosphorus  in  1673  by 
Brand,  of Hamburg, ,which«first set  hu-

Ü S B U A C E I D  COTTO IT 6.

Arrow Brand 
“  World Wide.
“  LL.................

A driatic...................7
Argyle......................534
Atlanta AA..............6 k
Atlantic A ................. 6U
Pull Yard Wide.......614
H ............... S
“ 
Georgia  A ............... 614
“ 
P ..............  5
Honest Width........   6
D ............... 6
“ 
Hartford A ..............6
. 
“  LL...............   4*
Indian Head............  614
Amory........................ 6X
King A  A..................6
Archery  B unting...  4X 
King E C ..................   6
Beaver Dam  A A ..  4)4
Lawrence  L L........ 414
Blackstone 0 , 82__ 5
Madras cheese cloth 6X
Black Crow..............6
Newmarket  G........ 5X
Black  Bock  ............5K
B ........ 6
Boot, AL.................  7
N ........ 614
Capital  A ...................5<£
DD....  514
Cavanat Y .................5)4
X .......6*
Chapman cheese d . 3 X
No!be B....................  5
Clifton C B ................514
Onr Level  Best.......6
Comet......................... 5X Oxford  B .................  6
Dwight 8ta r.............6«   Pequot..........................7
Clifton CCC............5* Solar............................ 6
I Top of the  H eap....  7
Geo. W ashington...  8
Glen Mills..............   7
Gold Medal..............71
Green  Ticket...........8k
Great Falls..............   654
Hope.........................7 '
Ju st  Out........ 414®  5
King  Phillip........... 714
OP.......71?
Lonsdale Cambric..  9J4
Lonsdale............   @ 8
Middlesex..........  @ 4 %
No Name....................7)4
Oak View...................6
Our Own..................  5)4
Pride of the West. ..11
Bosallnd...................7)4
Sunlight...................4)4
TTtlca  Mills..............8)4
“  Nonpareil  ..10
Vlnyard....................8)4
White Horse............6
Bock............... 8)4
7)4

A B C ........................814
Amason....................8
Amsburg.................. 6
Art Cambric...........10-
Blackstoae  A A .......614
Beats All...................4
Boston..................... 18
Cabot.......................... 614
Cabot,  X ..................814
Charter  Oak........... 514
Conway W ...............714
Clevelan d ..............   6
Dwight A nchor....  714 
shorts  8
Edwards...................6
Empire......................7
Farwell..................... 614
Fruit of the  Loom.  714
Fitchvllle..............   7
First Prise................6
Fruit of the Loom X. 714
Falrm onnt............... 414
Full Value................614
Cabot......................... 614|Dwlght Anchor
Farw ell.................... 7K|

HALT BLEACHED  COTTONS.

B LB A CH S D  COTTONS.

“ 

Bleached.

CANTON  FLANNNL.

Unbleached. 

Housewife  A ...........514 Housewife  Q.
3 .
“  
8
“  
T.
“  
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U.
V.
•« 
“   W
X.
“  
"  
Y.
“ 
Z.

B .......... 5 «  
C...........6 
D ...........614 
E .......... 7 
F ...........7 k  
G  ..........71? 
H ...........714 
1 ...........814 
J ...........814 
K ..........  914
L ...........10
M ...........1014
N ...........11
O ...........21
P ...........1414

•  6)4 
..7 
-714 
..8)4
.9 k
10*
1014
11) 4
12) 4
13) 4

OOBSXT  /BANS.

OABPST  WABT.

“ 

“  

Peerless, white....... 13141 Integrity  colored...18
colored.... 16  White Star................17
Integrity.................. 18141 
“  colored  .19
Hamilton..................8
Nameless..................20
...................9
............ 25
 
....27)4
............30
.......... 82)4
....35

DRBS8  HOODS.

N am eless................16

“ 
“  
10)4
G  Cashmere........ 16)4
18  j
CORSETS
Coralino....................... 69 00
Schilling’s .....................9 00
Davis  W aists.......  9 00
Grand  Baplds.........4 50
Armory.................... 6)4
Androscoggin..........7)4
Blddefora................6
Brunswick...............6)4
Allen turkey  reds..  5)4 
robes............5K
pink * purple 5K
b u ffs............5K
pink  checks.  5)4
stap les.........5
shirtin g s...  3Xi 
American fan cy ....  5 
American Indigo...  4M 
American shirtings.  8X 
Argentine  G rays...  6 
Anchor Shirtings...  4 
Arnold 
....  6
Arnold  Merino.......6
long cloth B.  9 
“ 
.. 
c .  7
“  
century cloth  7
“  gold seal.......10K
“  green seal TB10)4 
“  yellow seal..lOK
u 
serge............. 11)4
“  Turkey  red  . 10«
” 

>• 

.. 

11 

“ 

W onderful. 
*4 50 
Brighton..
4  75
Bortree’s ............... 9 oo
Abdominal............15 00
Naumkeagsatteen..  7K
Bockport...................6
Conestoga.................7K
Walworth  .............. 6)4
Berwick fancies__ 3)4
Clyde  Robes............
Charter Oak fancies 4 
DelMarine cashm’s.  4)4 
mourn’g  4K 
Bddystone fancy...  5 
chocolat  5
rober__ 5
sateens..  5
Hamilton fancy.  ...  434
7 -----
staple__ 5
¥fa
Manchester  fancy..  5
new era. 5 
Merrimack D fancy.  5 
Merrim’ek shirtings.  4
_   “  Reppfum  .  8)4
Pacific fancy......... 5
robes.............5K
Portsmouth robes...  6 
Simpson mourning..  5
greys........5
solid black.  5 
“  Turkey robes..  7 
India robes....  7 
plain T k y X M   7 

Washington indigo.  6K 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“  

Ballon solid bleak..
colors.
Bengal blue,  green, 
red and  orange...  6
Berlin solids............ 5K
“ 
oil blue........6
11  green  ....  6
“ 
“  Foulards ....  5)4
“ 
r e d * ............7
“   * • ............9K
“ 
“ 
“  4 4............10
“ 8-4XXXX12
“ 
Cocheco fancy.........5
madders... 5
XX tw ills.. 5
solids........ 5  Harmony.

»
■■  Ottoman  T ur­
key red ....................6K
Martha Washington
^Turkey red 34.......7
Martha Washington
Turkey red............9)4
Blverpolnt robes  ...  5 
Windsor fancy........ 8)4
.  '1.  ?oM  Hchet 
indigo  Dine
10K
«X

“ 

Amoskeag AC A ....IIK
Hamilton N ............7
D .............8
_  “ Awning..11
Farm er.....................8
First Prise.............. 10)4
Lenox M ills........... 18
Atlanta,  D.
Boot............
Clifton, K

A C A ...................... n u
Pemberton AA A .... 16
York.........................MK
Swift Hiver..............7 14
Pearl Rlvâr.............127*
Warren  ....................u%
Conostoga.............. ig
COTTON  DRILL.
....  6X1 Stark  A 
............8
....  6X No  Name................. 7K
. . . . 7   IT opofH eap............9

TICKINGS.

“ 
“ 

Amoskeag............... is
9 os.......14
brown .14
Andover...................11)4
Beaver Creek  AA... 10 
B B...  9
cc...
Boston Mfg Co.  br!!  7 

“  
** 

blue  8)4 
“  d a  twist 10)4 
Columbian XXX br. 10  i 
“ 

“  Persian dress OH 
“ 
“  
“ 
“ 
“ 

XXX  bl.19
Amoskeag...............  5
Canton ..  7
AFC........ 8)4
T eazle...10)4 
Angola.. 10)4 
Persian..  7
Arlington staple__ 6)4
Arasapha  fancy__ 4)4
Bates Warwick dres  7)4 
staples.  6
Centennial..............10)4
C riterion..........   ..  10K
Cumberland staple.  5)4
Cumberland............ 5
Essex........................4)4
Elfin..........................  1 %
Everett classics.......8%
Exposition...............7)4
Glenarle..................   6)4
Glenarven................6)4
Glenwood  ................ 7)4
Hampton..................5
Johnson Chalon cl 
)4
Indigo blue 9)4
zephyrs....16  j

* 
* 

“  

DEMINS.

“ 
“ 

brown 

[Columbian  brown.. 12
Everett, blue........... 11
brown........11
Haymaker blue.......7%
7% 
Jeffrey, XX..9XXX..10
Lancaster  ................12)4
Lawrence, 9os........ 12)4
No. 220.. ..12
No. 250 
IP
No. 280....  8

“ 
“ 
“ 
HINHHAM B.

Lancaster,  staple...  5 
fancies....  6 
“ 
“  Normandie  6
Lancashire..............   4)4
Manchester................4)4
Monogram.................4)4
Normandie.............  6)4
Persian....... ...............6)4
Renfrew Dress........7)4
Bosemont...................6)4
Slatersvllle............. 6
Somerset.................. 7
Tacoma  .....................7)4
Toll  du Nord.......... 8)4
Wabash......................7)4
seersucker..  7)4
Warwick.................  6
Whlttenden.............   8
heather dr.  7)4 
Indigo blue  9 
W amsuttastaples...  6)4
Westbrook............... 8
.........................10
Wlndermeer............ 5
York  ..........................6)4

“ 

“  

GRAIN  BASS.

Amoskeag.................12)4|Georgla
Stark.........................16)4..............
American.................i2Kr..............

•12)4

TH R EA D S.

Clark’s Mile End....45  I
Coats’. J. A P ..........45
Holyoke................... 22)41

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

KNITTING  COTTON.

White.  Colored.

No.

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

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

38 No.  14. ....... 37
39
“ 
16. ....... 38
40
*•  18
41
“  20. ....... 40
CAMBRICS.
Slater..........................4
'Edwards.................  4
White Star...............   4
Lockwood..................4
Kid Glove................   4
Wood’s .....................  4
Newmarket................4
Brunswick............   4

b e d   f l a n n e l .

Fireman..................27
Creedmore..............24
Talbot XXX............30
Nameless................ 27)4

!TW..........................22W
F T ............................32)4
JH F .X X X .............35
Buckeye.................. 32)4

MIXED  FLANNEL.

Bed A Blue,  plaid..40  IG reySB W ......... 
17)4
Union B ....................22)4 Western W ..............16)4
Windsor....................18)4 D B P ........................ie 2
oz W estern............20
Flushing XXX.........23)4
Union  B................ 22)4 ! Manitoba.
-23)4
DOXBT  FLANNEL.
Nameless.......8  @ 9)41 
®10K
8K®10  I 
12K
Slate.
Black. 
Black 
9) 4
9 X 
10K 
10) 4
10)4
11K 
11) 4
11K
12 
12) 4
12K
20
20
Severen, 80s ............. 9K
West  Point, 8 os__ 10)4
May land, 80s ...........10)4
“ 
„  
10 os  ...18K
Greenwood, 7K os..  9K
Raven, lOos.............. 13)4
Greenwood, 8 os__ 11)4
Stark 
..............18)4
Boston, 8 os.............. 10)4
Boston, 10 os.............12)4

CANVASS  AND  PADDING.
9)4
10)4
11K
12K

“
«•
Slate

10K
UK
12
20

10K«K12

Brown.

Brown.

“ 

Dry Goods.

New  Fabrics  for  Spring  of 

1895.

Imperial Zephyrs, 28 inch,  plaids  and 
stripes,  fifty  patterns, a beautiful  ging­
ham to retail at 10c.

Parkhill Zephyr,  28  inch,  plaids  and 
stripes, thirty patterns,  retail  at  l 2J^c, 
formerly sold for 15c.

Normandia Ginghams for ’95  are  rich, 
the new effects will certainly make  them 
big sellers,  as heretofore.

Caraleigh  is  the  name  of  the new 5c 

gingham,  twenty  styles.

Flutter Ducks, 28 inch, piece dyed, put 
up in half pieces,  in navy bine  and  light 
colors to retail at 12>£c, they  are  shown 
in all neat effects,  stripes  and  small  fig. 
ares.

Corean Crepe, 30 inch and entirely new 

fabric,  woven designs.
high colors.

Serpentine Crepe and Art  Novelties  in 

Percales,  we  have  over  one  hundred 
styles  in  fancy  and  white  grounds, all 
fast colors, 36 inches wide.
ties.

Jaconet and Morley  Lawns  and  Dimi­

Pacific  and  Scotch  Lawns  in  stripes 

and floral effects.

Aniline  plain  black  satines,  we  will 
show BC, TT, Berlin,  Mulhouse,  Export 
Pacific and Coechco lines.

grounds,  also  plain.

Fancy Satines,  black  ground  in  floral 
and  striped  effects,  all  grades,  over  a 
hundred patterns to show.
styles and colorings.

Bates  seersuckers  open  up  with  new 
Cameo Drapery, cream grounds.
Pacific  Twills,  cream  and  colored 
Pacific Challi and Scotch  Lawns.
Pacific Black Ground and Fancy Prints 
are among the best made.  We shall open 
25  cases  Jan.  10th.  also  a  new line of 
American  Indigos,  Shirtings  and  wide 
goods; also  showing  Simpsons,  Coechco, 
Allens,  Hamilton,  Garners,  Manchester, 
Harmony and Merrimack goods.

In Dress Goods  we shall  carry  Pacific 
Plain Cashmeres, 5 grades to  retail  from 
12)i to 50c per yard.

WADDINGS.

.......  

BILE STAB

White, dos...............25  IPer bale, 40 dos...  88 so
Colored,  dos............20  IColored  “ 
750
Slater, Iron Cross...  8 Pawtucket................10)4
Dandle.....................   g
Bedford.................... 10)4
Valley  City..............10)4
K K ............................10K

Red Cross....  9
“  Best................10)4
“  Best  AA........12)4
L ..................................7K
G ................................. 8KI
Cortlcelli, dos.........55  [Corticelll  knittlng

SSWING  SILK.

twlst, dos. .37K  per Kos  ball. “ 77.30 
50 yd, dos..37X1
HOOKS AND STBS—PER GROBS
“ 
“ 
“ 
•• 

No  1 Bl’k A White..10  INo  4B l’kA W hlte  15
."20
..25
N o2—20, M  C..........50  IN04—15  F   8K ....  40

..12  " 8  
..12 I “ 
PINS.

2 
8 

10 

3-18, S C ............45  I

No  2 White A Bl’k..12  INo  8 White A Bl’k. 20 
. '2s
..26

..15  “ 
..18 I “ 

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“ 
11 

COTTON  T A N .
10 
12 
SAMNTT  PINS. 
-■■28  INoS..

4 
6 
No 2

NEEDLES— PER  M.

.1  401 Steamboat...

gow ely’s.................1  85 Gold  B yed.\\ï.ï.‘!” i  50
Marshall ■..............1  oo! American...............1   00
00
6-4. ..2 30

TABLE  OIL  OLOTH.

15—4....1  65

6 -4 ... 

COTTONT WINES.

Cotton Sail Twine. .28
Crown......................12
Domestic.................18)4
A nchor....................16
B ristol.......... ...........18
Cherry  VaUey....... 15
I X L ............... .........18)4
Alabama...................ex
Alamance...............6 K
A ugusta.................. 7)4
A r sapha................. 6
Georgia.................... 6k
G ran ite....................5*
Haw  River..............5
Haw  J ..........................

. 

Nashua.....................14
Rising Star 4-ply___17
_  
3-ply___17
North Star................20
Wool Standard 4 plyl7K 
Pow hattan...............16

" 

Mount  Pleasant__ 6)4
Oneida......................5
P rym ont.................  5*
Randelman..............6
Riverside............ 
s u

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

PLAID  OSNASURGB

Pacific fancies,  32 and 36 inch goods. 
Stevens’,  Flannel  Dress  Goods,  mix­
tures,  beautiful  new  weaves.  27  to 50 
inch same widths in plain colors.

Atlantic Serges,  45  inch,  all colors.
28  inch,  double-fold  novelties,  exact 
copies of the better goods in Swivell Silk 
effects,  stripesand plaids to retail at 12K 
are  beauties  and  should  be a first-class 
leader in the dress goods department.

28  and  30  inch  Swivell  Silks, never 
shown  by jobbers before in  this  market 
We will have 25 patterns, goods to  retail 
at 45 to 50c, very best quality, they make 
beautiful waists.

Lace effect ginghams should be seen to 
be appreciated,  they are made In  all  the 
high colors and are marvels of  American 
mannfactnriug art.

White Goods.  We  will  show  sample 
lines of it in January,  a complete  assort­
ment.

If our men do not call on you  In  time, 
step into the store whenever  you  are  in 
the  city  and  we  will  take  pleasure in 
showing you the best  assortment  of  the 
above named goods (to be delivered early 
in January) ever shown in Grand Rapids.

P.  STEKETEE  A  SONS,

Wholesale Dry Goods,

Grand  Rapids, 

- 

Mich.

T H E   M I C H i a ^ I S r   T R A D E S M A N ,

7

in  use, 

man ingenuity at work searching  for im­
provement  on the  old  order of  things. 
The first efforts,  though  not  groping  in 
the dark altogether, were far enough from 
successful.  Phosphorus was  soon found 
to  be both  inconvenient  and  dangerous. 
One of the earliest schemes for  its utiliz­
ation was to rub a piece of it between two 
folds  of  coarse  paper  and  allow 
the 
spark  of fire so produced to fall  upon  a 
“spunk.”  The long and the last of such 
clumsy  methods  was  that  phosphorus 
fell into disuse. 
It was  another  chemi­
cal discovery about the  beginning of the 
present century that gave an  impetus  to 
invention,  and finally led to the match as 
it is to-day.  Berthollet was the chemist, 
and the  discovery  was  known  as  “the 
principle  of 
the  oxidation  of  com­
bustible bodies by chlorates in  the  pres­
ence of strong acids.”  Making practical 
application of this  principle, Chancel, in 
1805,  produced his so-called “oxymariate 
matches,” 
in  which  strips  of  wood, 
tipped with a mixture of  chlorate of pot­
ash,  sugar,  and  gum,  were  ignited  by 
contact  with  sulphuric  acid.  About 
this time  also  there  were  various  non- 
phosphoric light producers more  or  less 
in vogue.  One of  these  was  known  as 
“pyrophorus.” 
It  was  prepared  by 
roasting alum  with  flour  and  honey  or 
sugar,  and inflating  by  exposure  to  the 
air.
As early as 1780  there  were  "electro­
pneumatic  fire  producers” 
in 
which a jet of hydrogen was  inflamed by 
an  electric  spark.  The  Dobereiner 
“platinum  lamp”  belonged  to  a  later 
date, 1823. 
In this hydrogen gas was ig­
nited by contact with  spungy  platinum. 
About this time also there were in use in 
parts of Prussia  small  glass  tubes  con­
taining equal  parts  of  phosphorus  and 
sulphur  carefully  fused  together. 
Into 
this splinters of  wood  were  thrust  and 
then ignited by friction.
It  was  not  until  1827  that  the  real 
precursor of our present  day  match  ap­
In  April  of  that  year  John 
peared. 
Walker  of  Stockton-on-Tees  invented 
lucifer matches, or congreve, as they were 
called,  after  Sir  William  Congreve,  in­
ventor of  the  rocket  These  congreves 
consisted of wooden splints  or  strips  of 
cardboard tipped with a mixture  of  sul­
phide of  antimony,  chlorate  of  potash, 
gum,  and  starch.  No  phosphorus  was 
used.  They were ignited  by rubbing on 
glass or sandpaper.
From this time  on  incessant  attempts 
were made in different places to  produce 
a really practicable and satisfactory fric­
tion  match. 
In  1834  wooden  friction 
matches  containing  phosphorus  were 
made in  Vienna,  Darmstadt,  and  other 
places in Europe.  The first patent in the 
United  States  for  phosphorus  friction 
matches was granted  Oct. 24,  1836, to A. 
D. Phillips,  whose  igniting  composition 
was  a  mixture  of  phosphorus,  sulphur, 
chalk and gum.
From time to time  loud  outcries  were 
made about the dangers attending the use 
of phosphorus in match  making. 
It was 
not only poisonous and  too  inflammable, 
but the workmen  employed were subject 
to  a  curious  disease  of  the  jawbones, 
which  was  loathsome  and  distressing. 
Between the  years  1840  and  1865  there 
was  much  warm  discussion  on  these 
points. 
It is by this time pretty well  es­
tablished that the danger of “ phosphorus 
disease”  is reduced to a minimum  by the 
employment of such preventive means as 
good ventilation,  impregnation of the air 
of the factory with  the  vapor of  turpen­
tine,  and  the  enforcement  of  absolute 
cleanliness on the part of the  work  peo­
ple. 
In  1884  stringent regulations were 
put  in  force  in  German  factories. 
In 
Denmark  and  Switzerland  the  use  of 
matches  containing  the  ordinary  phos­
phorus was forbidden by law in  1875 and 
1879, and in Denmark  since 1875 the  use 
of  “Swedish  safety  matches”  only  has 
been allowed. 
In  1882 the Swiss Govern­
ment forbade the use  of  any  but  safety 
matches.  It was in  1855 that Lundstrom, 
of  Jonkoping,  Sweden,  made  the  first 
true “safety” matches.  He  put  his  ox­
idizing  mixture  on  the  splints, and  the 
red phosphorus (a safe  form of phospho­
rus) on the box.  This  process  was  pat­
ented the same year  in  England.  Since 
then  there  has  been  no very  important 
departures in  the art  of  match  making,

though various  machines  have  been  in­
vented  and  various  igniting  mixtures 
tried with greater or less  success.

Increasing' the Tribe Tenfold.

In  the  United  States  there  are 80,000 
commercial travelers representing almost 
every article for sale, and  each doing his
level best to reach  the  customers  before 
his rival.  Keen race  this !  The push of 
the football contest  is  as  nothing  to  it. 
It  is  figured  that  each  of these stirring 
fellows spends $3,000 a  year on the road, 
and  that  their  salary  averages  $1,500. 
Big sum  of money this to be paid out an­
nually along the  lines  of  our  railways. 
These are picked men,  some of them get­
ting as high as  $6,000  a  year,  and  now 
they are mostly  all steady men and many 
of them religious men  helping  along  the 
churches as they  tarry over  Sunday here 
and there.  They  have  their  own  well- 
known hotels which  are  crowded  in  the 
busy seasons when the  trains get in of  a 
Saturday night.  This is the  new way of 
doing business.  The  customer  must  be 
seen and pressed and  seen early.  These 
smart  fellows  don’t  jog  along  on  the 
slow local trains; they’d like to get ahead 
a mile a  minute.  The  railways  that  do 
best by them get  the heft  of  the  travel. 
That’s so everywhere.  Those  who serve 
us best get  our  money. 
In  olden  times 
we used to push along seven or ten miles 
more  to  reach  the  inn  where man  and 
beast  were  kindly 
treated,  not  with 
whisky,  but  with  good  stalls  for  our 
horses, fine table and  beds for ourselves.
It is with nations,  as with  individuals, 
we must have profitable customers.  Many
of  our  young  men  are  far  beyond our 
own lines pushing trade.  We  have com­
mercial travelers  in  all  the  commercial 
nations  of  the  world  doing  the  same 
thing.  The war in the East  is  going  to 
open up new and  extended  markets,  and 
there will be a big field  to  occupy.  Let 
us,  by treaty  and other mutually helpful 
arrangements, get there before  the  Eng­
lish  or  Germans.  We  wish them no ill, 
but  we  want  customers.  We  want  to 
shoe the world,  and getting  all  mankind 
into  the  way  of eating  corn bread.  By 
and  by,  instead  of  having  only  80,000 
travelers  offering  good  things  for  sale 
we’il  have  800,000—a  profitable  by  and 
by,  when every factory  will  be busy and 
every willing worker  will have  a paying 
job. 

Ge o .  R.  Sc o tt.

A young woman in London  has  found 
a new way to make a living.  She acts as 
nursery maid to  pet  dogs,  taking  them 
out for an airing  and attending  to  their 
meals and toilets.  Her charge is 75 cents 
a week.

Hardware Price Current.

These  prices are  for cash,  buyer»,  who 
pay promptly  and  buy in  full  packages.
dlS.

AUGURS AND BITS. 

Snell’s ................................................................ 60*10
Cook’s ................................................................ 
40
Jennings’, g en u in e........................................  
25
Jennings’, Im itation.......................................50*10
First Quality .8. B. Bronze............................ I 5 50

AXBS.

“ 
* 
• 

D.  B. Bronze..................................  il 00
S .B .9. Steel.........................  
  8 50
D .B. Steel....................................... 18 00

 

BOLTS. 

BABBOWS. 

dlS.
Railroad 
................. .................  .......*12 00  14 00
.................................................. net  80 00
Garden 
d lS .
Stove.......... .........................................................50*10
...........................................75*10
Carriage ne «r list 
Plow.  ................................................................ 40*10
Sleigh shoe  ...................................................... 
70
Well,  plain  ......................................................• 8 50
W ell,swivel......................................................  4 00
Cast Loose Pin, figured....................................70*10
Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast joint  40.........00*10

BUTTS, CAST. 

BUCKBTS.

dlB.

Wrought Loose  Fin............................................   40
Wrought Table...................................................   40
Wrought Inside Blind.......................................  40
Wrought Brass................................................. 
75
Blind,  Clark’s ...................................................70*16
Blind, Parker’s................................................. 70*10
Blind, Shepard’s 
70

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

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

G rain.................................................................. 40*10

CRADLES.

CROW BABB.

CAPS.

CARTRIDGES.

Cast Steel  ...
Bly’s 1-10 .... 
Hick’s  C. P  .
G. D .......
Musket

Rim  P ire__
Central  Pire.

CH18XLB.
Socket Plrm er.........................
Socket Fram ing......................
Socket Corner.........................
Socket Slicks......................... .
Butchers’ Tanged Plrmer 
corns.
Curry,  Lawrence’s .................
Hotchkiss.............................. .
CHALK.
White Crayons, per  gross__
OOFPBB*

“  

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

DRILLS. 

BLBOWS.

DRIPPING PAMS.
Small sixes, ser p o u n d ..................
Large sixes, per pound..................
Com. 4  piece, 6 In...........................
Corrugated..................................... .
A " Instable.......................................
ESPANSIVE  BITS.
Clark’s, small, 1x8;  large, 826.......
Ives’, 1, *18:  2,124;  3 ,« 0 .............
p il e s —New List.
Dlsston’s ..........................................
New American...............................
Nicholson’s ...................................
Heller’s ............................................
Heller’s Horse Rasps.....................
«ALVABIZBD IRON.

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

15

18
Discount, 70

12 

14
OATTBSS.

dls.

MATTOCKS.

l o c k s—DOOR.

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

k n o b s—New List.

Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s ...........
Door, mineral, jap. trim m ings.........
56
Door,  porcelain, jap. trimmings__
55
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings..,
56
Door,  porcelain, trimmings.............
55 
Drawer  and  Shutter, porcelain.......
70
L
Russell *  Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new list
56 
Mallory, Wheeler  *   Co.’s .................
56 
Branford’s ...........................................
56
Norwalk’s ............................................
55
Adse Bye........................................ *16.00, dls. 60-10
Hunt Bye.........: ..............................*16.00, dls. 60-10
Hunt’s ..........................................*18.50, dls. 20*10.
dlS.
so
Sperry *  Co.’s, Post,  handled........................ 
dls.
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s .......................... 
40
 
40
“  P. S. *  W. Mfg. Co.’s  MalleaDies.... 
•*  Landers,  Perry *  Cle rk’s ................... 
40
"  Enterprise 
......................................... 
80
Stebbln’s  Pattern..............................................60*10
Stebbin’s Genuine............................................66*10
Enterprise, self-measuring............................. 
30
Advance over  base,  on  both  Steel  and Wire.

MOLASSBS SATBB. 

HAULS. 
mills. 

N A IL S

dlS.

 

 

 

Steel nails, base.............................................. 
l 85
Wire nails, base........................................................l 35
Base
60.........................................................Base 
50...........................................................  
10
40...........................................................  
25
26
30........................................................... 
20...........................................................  
85
16...........................................................  
45
45
12...........................................................  
50
10........................................................... 
8............................................................  
60
75
7 * 8 ......................................................  
90
4................................ 
8............................................................  
1  20
2............................................................  
1 60
Pine 3 ................................................... 
160
65
Case  10.................................................  
8.................................................  
75
90
8.................................................  
Finish 10..............................................  
75
90
4................................................ 
6...............................................  
10
70
Clinch. 10.............................................. 
80
8.............................................. 
6-.  .........................................  
90
Barren %.............................................. 
175
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fan cy ...................................   ©4t
Sclota Bench.................................................. 
*50
Sandusky Tool  Co.’s, fancy...........................   040
Bench, first quality..........  .............................  040
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s  wood............ 50*10
Pry,  Acme.................................................dls.60—10
Common,  polished................................... dls. 
70
dls.
Iron and  Tinned..............................................50—10
Copper Rivets and Burs................................  60—10

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

FLA neb. 

aivars. 

BAMS.

dls.

PATEET PLANISHED EBON.

“A”  Wood’s patent planished. Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
“ B” Wood’s n o t planished, Nos. 26 to 27...  8 20 

Broken packs % o per pound extra.

per tb  5
perm  
“ 
.  “ 
.  “ 

66 
65
85
60
56
25

...............  
.........dis. 

dis.

................75*10
................75*10
................75*10
................75*10
................ 
40

dis.

40
...............  
...............  
25
12Q12K dis. 10

d ls .

28
26
23
28
22
50
50
50
...........  6K
06
.............. 
.dos. net 
75
.......dls 
50
.....d ls. 40*10 
.............. 
30
.............. 
25
.........60*10-10
.........60*10-10
.........60*10-10
.............. 
50
.............. 
60

dls.

dls.

HAMMERS.

hangers. 

dls.

Maydole  *  Co.’s ........................................dls. 
25
Kip’S............................................................ dls. 
26
Tcrkes *  Plumb’s ..............: .....................dls. 40*18
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel...........................80c list 60
Blacksmltn’s Solid Cast  Steel  H and__ 80c 40*10
Gate, Clark’s, 1 ,2 ,3 .................................dls.60*10
State............................................... per dos. net, 2 50
Screw Hook  and  Strap, to 12 In. 414  14  and
814
10
>4............ ............. net
%............ ----------net
8*
* ...........................net
7H
%............ ............. net
7V4
............dis.

 

HOLLOW WARS.

HOUSB  FURNISHING  GOODS.

Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track ... .50*10
Champion,  antl-frlctlon..................................60*10
Kidder, wood tra c k ......................................... 
40
Pots..................................................................... 60*16
Kettles................................................................ 80*10
Spiders  .............................................................. 60*10
Gray enameled................................... 
40*10
Stamped  Tin W are..................................new list 79
Japanned Tin Ware......................................... 
26
Granite Iron W are........................new lls 
at
Blight........................................................  70*10*10
Screw  Eyes................................................. 70*10410
70*10*10
Hook’s .................... 
Gate Hooks and Byes...........................  
70*10*10
<Hs.7n
Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s ............. .........
Sisal, H Inch and la rg e r................................  
7
Manilla..............................................................   10
dls.
Steel and Iron................................................. 7; *10
Try and Bevels. 
M itre.

levels. 
ROPES.

wire goods. 

squares. 

dls.

SHEET IRON.

Com.  Smooth.
Com. 
Nos. 10 to  14..............................................(3 50
*5> 50 
Nos. 15tO l7............................................... 3 50
2 60 
Nos.  18 to 21............................................... 4 05
2  70 
Nos. 22 to 24............................................... 3 55
2 80
Nos. 25 to 26.................................. ...3   65
2 90
No. 27....................................................3 7 5 ____
3  00
All  sheets No. 18  and  lighter,  over 30  inches 
wide not less than 2-10 extra
List sect. 19,’86  ........................................ dls. 
Sliver Lake, White A ................................list 
“ 
Drab A .................................. 
“  White  a ...................................  * 
“ 
Drab B......................................  “ 
“ 
White C ..................................*« 

SAND PAPER.
SASH CORD.

50
50
55
50
55
so

Discount, 10.

BASH WEIGHTS.

dls.

SAWS. 

traps. 

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

Solid Byes................................................ per ton «20
20
70
50

“ 
Silver Steel  DIa. XCuts, per foot,.... 
“  Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot.... 
“  Special Steel Dla. X Cuts, per foot_ 
“  Champion  and  Electric  Tooth  X
Cuts,  per  foot............................................ 

80
30
dls.
Steel, Game...................................................60*10
Oneida Community, Newhonse’s ............  
40
Oneida Community, Hawley * Norton’s. .70-10  10
Mouse,  choker....................................... 15c per do«
Mouse, delusion.................................. *1.® per dos
dls.
Bright Market......................................................
Annealed Market......................................... 
75
70
Coppered M arket......................................... 
Tinned Market............................................   62)4
Coppered  Spring  Steel............................... 
50
Barbed  Pence, galvanised..................................  2 50
painted.......................................  2 10

wire. 

“ 

horse nails.

WRENCHES. 

An  Sable.............................................................. dls. 40*10
dls.  05
Putnam .............................................. 
Northwestern...................................  
dls. 10*10
dlS.
Baxter’s  Adjustable, nickeled...................... 
30
Coe’s  G enuine................................................. 
50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,....................... 75
Coe’s  Patent, malleable.................................. 75*16
B ird c a g es.......................................................  
50
Pumps, Cistern..................................... 
75*10
Screws, New List.................................70*10*10
Casters, Bed  a  .d Plate......................50*10*10
40
Dampers, American......................................... 
Forks, hoes, rakes  and all steel goods.........65*10

MISCELLANEOUS. 

dls.

METALS,
PIG tin.

ZINC.

26c
28c

SOLDER.

Pig  Large...................................................... 
Pig Bars............................................................  
Duty:  Sheet, 2)4c per ponod.
614
680 pound  casks.................................... 
Per pound.........................................................  
7
ViffiK  . .. ..................................................................16
Extra W iping.....................................................  15
The  prices  of  the  many  other  qualities  of 
solder fn the market Indicated by raivate  brands
vary according to composition.
ANTIMONY.
Cookson...........................................per  pound
Hallett’s  ........................................  
,  TIN—MELYN GRADE.
10x14 IC, Charcoal............................................• 7 50
14X20 IC,
7  50 
10x14 IX, 
9 25 
14x20 IX, 
9 2f

.......................................
.......................................
Each additional X on this grade, H.75.
10x14 IC,  Charcoal.....................................
.......................................
14x20 IC, 
10x14 IX, 
.......................................
14x20 IX, 
.......................................
Each additional X on this grade V1.50.

“  
“ 
TIN— ALLA WAY GRADE.
“ 
“ 
“ 

76 
6  75
8 25
9 25

13

“ 

ROOFING  PLA TES

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
11 

“  Worcester..................................   6 so
“ 
" 
“ Allaway  Grade.....................  
’ 
“ 
“  
BOILSB SIZE TIN PLATE.

14x20IC, 
14x20 IX, 
20x28 IC, 
14x20 IC, 
14x20 IX 
20x28 IC, 
20x28 IX, 
14X28IX ...................................................................114 00
14X31  IX ..................................................................  15 00
14x56 H , for No. 8 Boilers, I 
14x60IX,  “  

.............................  8  50
...........................   18  50
6  00
7  50
12  50
15 50

,non
fP®1 pou n d ....  1000

“ 5 

“ 
“ 
“ 

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WRDMKSDAY  D K C tM U E K   26.

THE  REBATIN G   EVIL.

John  H.  Goss,  a  reputable  Grand Rap­
ids  grocer,  writes  T h e   T r a d e s m a n   as 
follows:

1 noticed in T h e   T r a d e s m a n   of  a  re­
cent date an article  touching on the  sub­
ject of rebates.  As  one of a  great many 
1 think that whoever wrote said article is 
perverse to quite an extent.  1, as a buyer 
of groceries,  for  instance,  think  that  1 
understand my  business. 
I think—and 1 
think that you  will agree  with  ^ne—that 
it would be very foolish in me to  not  ac­
cept  a  rebate  if  it  was  offered. 
It  is 
hardly natural for any of us to say,  “No, 
Mr. Agent,  we will not  accept  a rebate.” 
We, as  buyers,  wish  to buy goods at bot­
tom prices.  We not only owe it as a duty 
to ourselves,  but  we  owe it  as a   duty  to 
our patrons. 
I think it  is a  great  many 
times understood by the  agent  from  the 
house which  he  represents  that  certain 
goods may be sold at less  than the estab­
lished price,  but  they must be  sold  in  a 
way  that they may  be  billed at  the regu­
lar price.
We  will  take  another  view  of  of it: 
Suppose,  for  instance, Mr.  Agent  comes 
to  my  store  and  1  am  a customer who 
turns him and nis house in a  good  many 
dollars during  the year. 
I pay cash  and 
discount my  bills.  Now,  my neighbor is 
making a lead on A. F.  soap.  He is sell­
ing  it  for  5  cents  a  bar.  He  buys  in 
larger quantities than 1 do,  as I have just 
so much capital to do business  with  and 
I  buy  within  my  means.  1  say to  Mr. 
Agent,  "Now,  I want some  A.  F.  soap! 
What  is  the best you can do?”  He says 
that unwrapped is  worth $3.27. 
I reply 
“My neighbor is selling it at 5 cents and! 
if 1 cannot buy it for what  he  is  selling 
it  for,  1  cannot  buy It. 
I have not  the 
money to invest in  ten boxes,  but if  you 
want to send over three boxes  at the  ten 
box price,  all right.”  The salesman says 
he cannot do it,  but the soap comes and a 
rebate is taken  off  the  next week  when 
Mr.  Agent comes along. 
I  know  that  1 
received the soap and I see it billed $3 27. 
Isay to him,  "The  A.  F.  soap  1  must 
send back, as I will  not  pay  that  price 
tor it.  He does not  tell me he will taxe
,,V eubate’  but tells  me  to  go  on  and 
sell fish and  when  1 come to  A.  F.  soap 
to sell it at 5 ceuts it 1  wish.  1 note mat 
wfien he is figuring up  my  bills  that he 
has taken  off  an  amount  to  correspond 
with  the  difference.  Am  1  a  thief  or 
have I robbed his house,  as  your  article 
infers?
In common with not a few others,  1  do 
not credit your  paper with  it,  but  give 
the credit  of  said  article  to  the  1.  M. 
Clark Grocery Co.;  and  if  this  company 
did write said article,  I  think,  tor  one 
that it would be to their interest  to  tone 
it down a little, as 1 and not a few others 
will lay it up against them.

The  article  referred  to  by  Mr.  Goss 
was written in T h e   T r a d e s m a n  office by

a regular member of the staff  and  the  I 
M.  Clark Grocery Co.  had no more  to  do 
with it than Mr.  Goss did.

T h e   T r a d e s m a n  fails  to  see  wherein 
Mr.  Goss  has  made out a case in his de 
fense of the practice of rebating.  He of­
fers no  valid  reason  why  the  salesman 
should  violate  bis  own  honor or betray 
the confidence  of  his  house,  which  can 
obtain  no  contract  goods  unless  it  has 
first signed an agreement to maintain the 
prices established  by the manufacturers.
To  bring  the  case  nearer  home,  Mr. 
Goss  may  compare  the  position  of  the 
salesman with that of  a  consumer  seek­
ing credit at  the  hands  of  the  retailer. 
The customer obtains  credit by  register­
ing a solemn promise that be will pay the 
account  at  a  certain  time. 
In  case he 
fails to make  good  his  promise,  the  re­
tailer  loses  confidence in him and places 
no  more  reliance  on  his  statements. 
Wherein  is the salesman who violates his 
promise to his  house any  better than the 
consumer who violates his promise to the 
retailer?  T h e   T r a d e s m a n   fails  to  see 
any  difference.  Both  are  doing  wrong 
because they are violating the confidence 
of the jobber  and enter  into collusion  to 
defeat, by subterfuge,  an  agreement  en­
tered  into  for  a  laudable  purpose—the 
maintenance  of a  legitimate  profit  on  a 
staple article.
A  TARIFF  WAR  WITH  GERMANY.
The German  Government  is  evidently 
in earnest in its efforts  to retaliate  upon 
this  country  for  the  damage  done Ger­
man trade by  the  l-10th  of  a  cent  dis­
criminating  duty  on sugars produced  by 
bounty-paying countries.  The  duties on 
cotton seed oil and  cotton  seed  products 
have  been  made  practically prohibitive, 
and  the  recent  prohibition  of  the  im 
portatlon  of  American  cattle  is  being 
rigidly  enforced.

To  meet  this  menace  to  our  foreign
trade,  President  Cleveland  ad v ised _
his message that  the  obnoxious  duty  of 
l-10th of  a  cent  be  repealed;  but,  from 
the  present  outlook,  it  is  by  no means 
certain  that  this  will  be done.  Unless 
Congress comes to the  rescne, it  will  be 
necessary  for  the  Government  to  meet 
the unfriendly course of  Germany by  re 
prisals in the way of  increased duties on 
German  products.

The  inauguration  of  a  tariff  war be 
tween  the  two  countries  would  be  l 
serions matter,  because  this  country can 
ill afford at the  present time  to  sacrifice 
any  of  its foreign  trade,  and then  there 
is.  also,  the  more  serious  consideration 
that mere tariff reprisals might eventually 
lead to more important hostilities.

The Government  was empowered  by  a 
law  passed  in  1890  to adopt retaliatory 
measures  where  foreign  countries  un­
justly  discriminated  against  American 
goods.  There  would,  therefore,  be  no 
real need for an appeal  to  Congress. 
It 
would be a  much  more  satisfactory  ar­
rangement  were  Congress  to  adopt  the 
President’s  suggestion  and  repeal  the 
discriminating duty on  beet sugar,  as all 
danger of commercial  friction  would  be 
overcome.

The  United  States  Government  has 
notified Spain  that,  unless  the  present 
policy of imposing prohibitive  duties on 
American products  imported  into  Cuba 
be  promptly  abandoned,  the  President 
will exercise the powers  conferred upon 
him by an act passed in 1890 and  impose 
a heavy duty  on  Cuban  sugar  imported 
into the United States.

WELCOME,  TIRELESS  TRAVELERS!
It  affords  T h e   T r a d e s m a n   much 
pleasure to extend to the  visiting delega­
tions of traveling men the  cordial  greet­
ings  of  Grand  Rapids business men. 
It 
trnsts that their meeting  will  be produc­
tive of great  good  to  themselves  and  to 
traveling men generally, and that the en­
tertainment features of the  occasion will 
be  as  enjoyable  as  the  business  pro 
gramme will be beneficial.

leaving the  present  national  bank  sys­
tem,  and the general  financial  policy  of 
the government, in  relation  thereto  un­
disturbed.

It seems that  tea  is  to  be  no  longer 
considered the cup  that  cheers  but  not 
Inebriates.  A  New  York  doctor  de­
clares that,  of  the patients  applying  to 
the dispensary,  fully io per cent,  are  tea 
drunkards, and that tea ranks  as  an  in­
toxicant second  only to  alcohol.  These 
patients  suffer  from  vertigo,  headache, 
insomnia, palpitation of the heart, night­
mare,  nausea,  hallucination,  depression 
of  spirits  and  sometimes  suicidal  im­
pulses—surely a formidable list of symp­
toms.  Dr.  Wood  thinks  that  this  evil 
may be greatly lessened  if  only  freshly 
steeped tea is drunk.

The  municipal 

It is  being  generally  recognized  all 
over the country that  domestic  tranquil­
ity and good order,  as  well  as  security 
from  possible  foreign  foes,  dictate  the 
wisdom  of  steadily  improving  and  in­
creasing  the  organized  and  equipped 
militia  force.  Having so small a stand­
ing army, it is very  essential  that  there 
should be a  formidable  body  of  militia 
sufficiently well drilled and  equipped  to 
become Immediately  available  for  serv­
ice, either in the event  of  serious  inter­
nal disturbance or trouble  with  an  out­
side power.

In some respects  Christmas  has  come 
to  be  a  dreaded  holiday.  The excite­
ment and exertion  which  come  with  It, 
and the spending  of  money  which  goes 
before  it,  and  the  worry  to secure fine 
presents which cannot  well  be  afforded 
and really are  not needed,  take  much  of 
the merriment away  from  Merry  Christ­
mas.  These  handicaps  on  Christmas 
make the average man  like  New  Year’s 
day  better,  as a  day when all a man has 
to do is to go aronnd  wishing  everybody 
a Happy  New  Year,  without spending a 
cent.

reform  movement, 
which has gained such headway  in  New 
York,  seems likely to run through  many 
of  the  cities  of  the  country.  Nearly 
every hearing before the  Lexow commit­
tee brings out startling  developments of 
bribery and  corruption,  involving  more 
and more of  the  highest  police  officials 
of that city.  The amounts  involved  In­
dicate that the receipts of the  police and 
police  authorities  interested,  from  un­
lawful  resorts  of  various  kinds,  were 
many  times  greater  than 
the  salaries 
paid  by the  city.  The  fact that a single 
captaincy cost the  incumbent  $15,000  is 
sufficiently suggestive of  the  magnitude 
of  the  transactions.  The  question  is 
naturally suggested whether  such a con 
dition  of  affairs  can  obtain  and  reach 
such  development 
in  one  city,  even 
though it be the  metropolis,  without the 
same spirit  of  enterprise  being  carried 
to,  or  developing  in,  the  other  great 
cities of  the  country.  This  thought  is 
leading to the suggestion  of Lexow com­
mittees and is  turning  the eyes of public 
inquiry in that direction in many  places, 
and  the movement  can  scarcely  fail  of 
startling  developments  elsewhere.  One 
curious phase  of  the  agitation  in  New 
York is that  the  proprietors  of  the  re 
sorts have not only  stopped  paying  the 
requisitions,  but  in many  cases  are,  In 
turn,  demanding  and 
receiving  large 
amounts  of  hush  money  from  the  offi 
cials.  Taking  it  altogether, it  may  be 
Soft and  really  beautiful  effects  may 
imagined that there is uneasiness  in  the 
be  obtained  by  enlarging  well-taken
circles of the “rings,” and that mnnicipal
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corruption stock  is not at all  stable any-  case of  the  cheap  portraits  is  so  atro-
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1 ciously executed that the last  vestige  of
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Congress has been a matter of  much  so-  ess  and  the  crayon  treatment 
licitude in relation to  the  return  of  im-  matter of a few hours,  so that the cheaD
proved  economic  conditions,  and  w hen'-----------
ness of the professed crayon  portraits  is 
the Secretary of the  Treasury  presented 
a matter of astonishment.
his financial scheme  in  the  shape  of  a 
bill  which  failed  to  meet  the  approval 
of the banking and  commercial  Interests 
of the country, there  was  an  immediate 
response  in  the  increased  demand  for 
gold from the Treasury,  which shows the 
sensitiveness of the country  to  snch dis­
turbances.  The  manner  in  which  the 
bill  was  received,  however,  and  the 
promptness with which it was withdrawn 
seems to have restored  confidence.  The 
farcical character of the  proposed  legis­
lation is sufficient to suggest  to  the  op 
ponents of the administration  that in its 
introdnction its  influence  on  the  inter­
ests of speculation was the  only  consid­
eration;  and that,  if so,  it  was  probably 
a  success.  The  substitute  presented, 
while a great improvement, is not doing so 
much to restore confidence as the manner 
in which it is received.  There is  a  con­
servatism manifested by those who  have 
taken up the question  that  gives  assur­
ance that the action  taken  will  be  con­
fined to the correction  or  absurdities  in 
the circulation  and  the  similar  details,

The  richness  and  beauty  of  the new 
woodwork  interior  of the  Morton  House 
are attracting much  attention, especially 
from the traveling public,  who have had 
liberal opportunities to see  the  interiors 
of other public houses  in all parts of  the 
country,  with any  of  which  the  Morton 
House  will  compare  very 
favorably. 
Very  choicely  selected  quarter  sawed 
white  oak  has  been  mostly  used,  with 
mahogany veneers in  contrast.  One  en­
tire room Is finished In mahogany veneer. 
The hand carving shows to  great  advan­
tage,  and  all of the designing and execu­
tion are much to the credit of F.  Letellier 
&Co.,  whose  work  is  recognized,  also, 
throughout  the  Michigan  Trust  Com­
pany’s building and many of  Grand Rap­
ids’  finest residences.  The  same  firm  is 
now completing similar work at Cadillac, 
Mich., South Bend, Ind., Springfield, Mo.,' 
and in other parts  of the  country, where 
the  excellence  of  Grand  Rapids  work­
manship i3 being advertised  as  not  con­
fined wholly to fnrnitnre.

lb 0  financial  policy  of  the  present I Photographs  is  an 

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I ’J A A i J i j i B J i L a J i ' i i

The
Poor Merchant

t h e  NATUBAL  LAWS  OF  MONET 
When low prices and  general  business 
depression  prevail  there  is  a tendency 
to  look  to  the  Government  for  relief 
There  are,  however,  certain  economic 
laws  whose  operation  cannot  be  effec 
tnally and permanently arrested by legis 
lation.  Money will ordinarily  go  where 
there is  a  genuine  commercial  demand 
for  It*  and  where  it  can be secured, as 
naturally as water  seeks  its  level.  But 
mere  poverty  does not constitute a com 
mercial  demand. 
If  the  industries  of 
given region are, from any  cause,  unre 
munerative,  money will not go there any 
more  than  water  will flow uphill.  Nor 
can relief be had in such a case by simply 
increasing  the  amount  of  money  avail 
able for investment.

in 

stated 

In bis recent message to  Congress,  the 
President 
“The  first  day  of 
November,  1894, the money of  all  kinds 
in  circulation,  or  not  included  in  the 
treasury  holdings,  was  81.672,093,422, 
824.27 per capita,  upon an estimated pop 
ulation of 68,887,000.”  
In the course of 
his hearing before the  House  Committee 
on Banking and Currency,  the other day, 
Comptroller  Eckels  said,  in  reply  to  a 
question put by a member  of  that  com 
mittee, that  there  was no neeessity for a 
change in the present system of  banking 
in this country so far as the necessity for 
a greater abundance was  concerned. 
In 
there  is,  in  Mr.  Eckles’ 
other  words, 
view,  already  enough  money 
the 
country  to  meet  all  the natural and le­
gitimate demands  of  its  business.  His 
scheme,  like that suggested by  Secretary 
Carlisle,  is  intended  mainly  to  relieve 
the treasury from the  embarrassments to 
which  it  is  subjected  by 
the  banking 
business into which the  Government  has 
been forced.  But both of these plans, as 
well as the one known  as  the  Baltimore 
plan, will be  opposed  by  the  advocates 
of the free and  unlimited coinage  of  sil­
ver. 
It will be said that  the  per  capita 
estimates  are  misleading,  that  a  great 
part of the money is in a few hands,  and 
that what is needed is more  silver—“the 
money of the people.”  So  it  will  prob­
ably  be  necessary  to  repeat  again  and 
again the truism that money will go only 
where it can be profitably and securely in­
vested,  and that there is no  force  of  at­
traction  in  the  poor  man’s  pocket  to 
draw any  kind of  money irresistibly into 
its vacant depths.  What  is  needed is to 
inspire confidence in the paying capacity 
of  our  actual  or  possible 
industries. 
When that desideratum has been met the 
problem  will have been solved.

There  is  yet  another  law  of  finance, 
unwritten  on  the  statute  books  of any 
nation,  but inexorable, which  the  silver- 
ites  either  ignore  or  ignorantly deride.
It  is  the  practical,  automatic principle 
known as Gresham’s law,  and  which  has 
recently  been 
formulated  by  a  well- 
known  economical  writer,  Mr. Dunning 
McLeod,  as  follows:  “ (L)  If the coins 
consist of one  metal  only,  and  clipped, 
degraded and debased coins  are  allowed 
to circulate together with good coins,  all 
the good coins disappear; they are  either 
hoarded,  or  melted  down, or exported, 
and the bad coins alone  remain in  circu­
lation.

“ (2.)  If  coins  of  two  metal,  such as 
gold and silver, ace  allowed  to  circulate 
together  in  unlimited  quantities  at  a 
fixed legal ratio  which  differs  from  the 
market  ratio  of  the  metals,  the  coin 
which is underrated disappears from  cir­
culation, and the coin which is overrated

alone  remains  current.”  Mr.  McLeod 
adds:  “It is exactly the same in all  cases 
in  which  persons  are  allowed  to  pay 
their debts in  things  which  have  nomi­
nally the same value,  but  are  in  reality 
of different values.”

This law bears the name of  one  of  its 
discoverers,  a  master  of 
the  English 
mint under Queen  Elizabeth.  It was first 
announced by Nicolas Oresme, one of the 
counselors  of  Charles  the  Fifth,  of 
France,  surnamed  the  Wise,  and  160 
years later by Copernicus, for  the benefit 
of Sigismund the First, King  of  Poland, 
who had sought his advice.  All  of these 
authorities stated  the  law  substantially 
in the terms  employed  by  Mr.  McLeod. 
Oresme declared,  further,  that  the  sov­
ereign “can in no case  fix  the  value  of 
the purchasing power of  the  coins.” 
If 
he could do so,  he could fix the  value  of 
all  other  commodities;  which  was,  in­
deed,  the  idea  of  the  mediaeval  sover­
eigns, as says Mr.  McLeod.  Whatever the 
explanation may  be,  there  is  no  doubt 
about  the  operation  of this law. 
It has 
been tested repeatedly in  the  history  of 
the  world. 
It  made England practically 
a gold monometallic country in 1718,  and 
monometallic  by  statute  in  1816. 
It 
made France practically  a  silver  mono­
metallic country in 1726,  and  the  United 
States  practically  a  gold  monometallic 
country in 1834.  Under the operation of 
this law,  the free and  unlimited  coinage 
of silver would drive gold out of  circula­
tion in the United  States,  and  no  more 
gold  would be coined  here.  There is no 
need 
to  abstract  reasoning 
on this subject.  From  1834  to  1873  the 
silver in a silver dollar was  worth  more 
than  100 cents,  and a man could not  coin 
his silver without loss.  So,  according to 
the report of the Master  of  the  Mint  in 
1816,  during the whole of the  long  reign 
of George the Third, no  more than  £64, 
500 of silver was coined at the  mint,  be­
cause 
silver  commanded  a  premium 
through all those years.

to  resort 

The natural laws of money  will always 
prevail,  no matter what contradictions or 
limitations  may  be  prescribed  by  legal 
enactment.

The Horse Meat Question.

The sale of  horse  flesh,  ass  flesh  and 
even mule meat has grown  to  such  pro­
portions  in  Paris as to make the dealers 
in  beef,  mutton,  etc.,  seriously  uneasy, 
as  it  affects  their sales  very materially, 
and they recently  held  a  conference  to 
consider  the  matter.  After  long debate 
they passed resolutions  calling  upon the 
assembly to put duties on such meats, the 
same, in proportioq to their selling value, 
as is imposed on other meats, and to make 
regulations  forbidding  the  dealers 
in 
such  to handle the regular meats.

A   C o stly  W atch .

Attorney-general  Hensel,  of  Pennsyl­
vania,  sometimes amuses his  friends  by 
showing them what he  calls  his  810,000 
watch.  Some time ago Mr.  Hensel  sub­
scribed that amount  of  money  to  estab­
lish a watch factory at his home, in  Lan­
caster, Pa.  The managers of the' factory 
made and presented to each of  the  large 
subscribers a handsome  gold watch.  The 
factory soon failed, and all that  the sub­
scribers  got  out  of  the  enterprise  was 
their watches.

Why Florida  Oranges  are Late.

From the Philadelphia Record.

Continued warm weather has made the 
Florida orange crop later than  usual this 
year.  A temperate season  increases  the 
size of the fruit,  but cold weather  is nec­
essary for it  to  ripen  properly.  Conse­
quently the oranges arriving  from  Flor­
ida are as yet a trifle green,  though large 
in size.

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

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

the Following  Advantages Are  Obtined:

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

ness by noting the margin on each sale.

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

dise exchanged for produce.

Clothing and  Furnishing Goods' Dealers are enabled to note at a glance 
just what they have sold, the profit on each transaction and the 
total profit for the day.

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

Hardware Dealers  can  keep  separate  accounts  with  their  stove  depart­
ment  or  their  tin  shop  or  any  other  department  of  their 
business.

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

But what is the use of enumerating  the  advantages  of  our  Register 
over  those  of  all  other  registers  heretofore invented ?  They are to our 
machine like moonlight unto sunlight; like water unto wine.  Suffice to say 
that  our  system  is  the  only  one  which  enables  the  merchant to have a 
triplicate check of every charge transaction with but one entry.

If you have never seen our machine and desire an  opportunity  to  in­
spect the merits of the mechanical marvel of the age, call at our  office,  or 
at the office of any of our agents; or, if you are located at a distance from 
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of your business you wish departmentized  and  we  will  send  you  illustra­
tions,  descriptions  and  voluntary  testimonials  of  the Register that will 
meet your requirements.

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Factory, 6, 8 and  10 Erie St.,
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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Job  Dobson’s  Experiment  and How It 

Resulted.

the 

Job Dobson was a sort of fixture in the 
considerable city in which he lived.  His 
father before him had been in  the  groc­
ery business and the phrase “got at Dob­
son’s”  meant,  when 
town  was 
younger and  consequently  smaller,  that 
it was the best  that  could  be  had.  For 
the  Dobsons,  father  and  son,  prided 
themselves on being that  now  somewhat 
obsolete  production,  merchants  who 
hoped to get rich,  if at  all,  in  slow  and 
modest  manner,  and  who  relied on the 
excellence of their stock and their power 
to  attract  trade  because  of  honorable 
dealings for financial success, rather than 
on “flyers” outside their business, on the 
stock board, the grain markets,  and  the 
like.

The town of A--------,  in which  the  el­
der Dobson had settled  in  that  dim  and 
uncertain period known  vernacularly  as 
“an  early  day,”  was  know  as  a smart 
place  and  had  thriven  amazingly,  and 
here  Mr.  Dobson,  Sr.,  had 
literally 
grown up with the town.  Only  this  in­
volved  that  Mr.  Dobson  senior  should 
grow  up  toward  heaven  and  when  the 
town became a city,  he  had  gone  hence 
and the son ruled in his stead.

Mr. Job Dobson had imbibed  the  slow 
and sure methods of his respected  ances­
tor,  which meant that things  should  run 
as they always had  run,  and  that  there 
should be little of infusion of new  ideas, 
and  few  of  modern  notions.  Thus  it 
chanced  that  the  store  of  Dobson con­
tinued  in  the  same  manner  as  it  had 
in the past, while there sprung  up  com­
petitors  on  every  hand  as  the  census 
showed yearly gains; and  when  it  came 
about that in the fullness of immigration 
and a high birth rate the city  of  A
was possessed of a round 100,000 souls, or 
at least bodies supposed to contain souls, 
for not all were seized of that useful  but 
often  wearing  commodity,  a  soul,  Mr. 
Job Dobson occupied the same store  that 
his father had,  and  bought  and  sold  in 
the  good,  old-fashioned  way.  Each 
Christmas  found  him  as  the  preceding 
one had left him and the common  saying 
was  that  the  Dobson  store  was a land­
mark.  And so it was.

to 

In at the capacious front door came an­
nually fat turkeys which seemed to  have 
waddled 
the  block  voluntarily; 
plethoric pigs, their  cheeks  swelling  as 
though in happy memory of  having  died 
for  so  good  a  cause  as  Christmas,  and 
their  shaven  crowns  seeming  to  shed a !

sort of benediction  on  the  approaching 
festivities.

The front of  the  store  was  garnished 
with great bunches  of  celery,  entwined 
as brothers’ arms in  affection,'and  over­
looking baskets of nuts, boxes of  raisins, 
gorges of yellow citron,  blushing  pump­
kins,  beseeching  for  the  knife  of  the 
housewife and -fairly expiring for  the as­
sociation of the long sticks  of  cinnamon 
which stood hard by.  Fat  and  unctions 
geese hung  heavily  on  the  hooks,  and 
shivered not at the  absence  of  feathers, 
so  well  warmed  were  they  by the pre­
vailing  Christmas  cheer,  and  so  snug 
were  they  in  the  midst  of  surfeit  for 
table and lunch.  The  very  cranberries 
blushed  at  the  squash,  which  in  turn 
nudged  the  sweet  potatoes  for  more 
room for their crooked  elbows,  while the 
red  and  green apples stood, like a troop 
of merry school children,  near the  pota­
toes,  which latter were begging  for  boil­
ing  pot  that  they  might emerge from a 
bath therein with their  jackets  bursting 
with whiteness and  attractiveness.

In  the  midst  of  these  surroundings 
moved Job Dobson, his white  apron  cov­
ering  his  honest  heart,  and  his  face 
aflame with good  fellowship  and  honest 
traffic.  The  scales  were  not  more  ac­
curate,  and they were true as a die,  nor 
were  the  measures,  overflowing  with 
good things,  more attractive than  honest 
Job.  At  the  time  of  which  this  tale 
treats,  Mr.  Dodson  had  but  recently 
taken unto himself  a  wife,  and  already 
there was a young Job Dobson practicing 
gravely that mysterious avoeation,  walk­
ing,  which we scarcely learn  ere  we  re­
nounce and  again  go  tottering  whence 
we came.  The  wife  was  of  one  of  the
“best” families in A--------, and held her
head  as  high  as  the  next.  Her father 
had  settled  in  A—   some  months
prior to the advent of the deceased parent 
of  her  husband,  and  her  mother  had 
come into the town when  it  was  young, 
as the cook of a passing steamship.  But, 
as these are  the  somewhat  common  ac­
cessories  of  blue  blood,  and  as  her 
mother had grown mightily  exclusive  in 
the latter days of her life.'looking  down 
on the common herd who delved  and  did 
not keep a girl, Mrs. Dobson  was  recog­
nized  everywhere  as a social  leader,  in 
respect  of  the  fact  that she had been  a 
Worlding, and that her pa had  once been 
mayor of the town, and that  they had al­
ways  held  their  heads  very  high  in­
deed.

So when this particular  Christmas  day 
came,  or  at  least  when it was coming, 
Mrs. Dobson had insisted  to  her  spouse

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

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

We  turn  out  goods  in  proportion  with  the  investment, 
too.  We make a full  line and to get fine  fresh-made goods at 
rock bottom prices come to us  or  t  11  your  jobber  you  want 
our make.
T h e   Putnam   C a n d y   Co,

H O W   TO  S E C U R E   A N D   H O L D

the best trade is a perplexing problem  to  some people, but  its  solu­
tion  is simple.
F i r s t .  Make  the  best  goods  possible ;  not once in a while, but 
always.
S e c o n d .  Let the people know of  it, early and often.
T h i r d .  Don’t neglect details.
Attention to these principles has placed the

Gail  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  nil if  CO. 

ABSOLUTELY  PURE

order a  supply now. 

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_Por  Quotations  S ce  Price  Columns.

that he should  advertise,  she  esteeming 
the  name  of  the  concern  in  big  black 
type as giving some sort  of  prominence. 
“And  then,”  she  had  said,  “you must 
remember  that  there  are  many  people 
who have come here  to  live  since  your 
father  began  business,  and  you  cannot 
expect to succeed unless you let the  pub­
lic know yon are in business.”

These,  and  sundry  other  arguments, 
appealed to the heart of Mr. Job  Dobson, 
and  some  three  weeks  prior  to  the 
Christmas  day  of  which  this  narrative 
treats, he concluded  that  he  would,  for 
the first time  in  his  life,  advertise. 
In­
deed, so well known had  been  the  aver­
sion of the elder Dobson  to  advertising, 
that the several solicitors  of  the  papers 
with  which the  city  now  swarmed,  had 
long since given that establisement up as 
a bad  job,  and  never  called  there  for 
business.  Thus  it  was  that  Mr.  Job 
Dobson  was not approached  in  this  par­
ticular, and so had ample  opportunity to 
adjust the matter as he pleased.

After  long  and  careful  consideration 
he  concluded  that  he would confine his 
efforts to one particular  paper,  and  that 
the leading daily of the town,  which also 
had a Sunday issue.  He  mentally  com­
puted what amount he could afford to ex­
pend and set aside the sum of $20  as  the 
maximum,  hoping meantime to reduce it 
to at least half that amount.  For this he 
expected to secure at least  a  week’s  ad­
vertising,  and so, after closing hours,  re­
mained  at  the  store and devoted  much 
time and thought to  the  construction  of 
the advertisement.

Having  at  last  arrived  at  a  display 
which  to  him  seemed  admirable,  and 
which  be  concluded  should bring him a 
vast deal of business, he untied his apron 
one morning and  betook  himself  to  the 
office of the paper upon which he had de­
cided to bestow his patronage.

Arriving there,  he  announced  his  in­
tentions, and,  when the  members  of  the 
recovered 
office  force  had  sufficiently 
from  their  astonishment,  was 
turned 
over to the business  manager  for adjust 
ment.

“Do you want a  position?”  asked that 
worthy, after he had proffered the grocer 
a seat.

Somewhat  astonished  at  this  perspi­
cacity on the part of the newspaper man, 
Mr. Dobson  admitted  that  position  was 
of  little  moment  to  him,  but that Mrs. 
Dobson thought an  advertisement  might 
assist  her  in  that direction.  Explained 
that this position  did  not  refer  directly 
to  society,  but  to  top  of  column,  first 
page, or next to reading  matter,  as offer­
ing greater  advantages, Mr.  Dobson said 
he wanted the best  and was  able  to  pay 
for  it.  How  much  space  did  he wish? 
Well,  seeing  that  he  did  not  advertise 
often,  he thought  that  perhaps  two  col­
umns  every  day  for  a  week  would  be 
about the thing.  “Sunday, too?” queried 
the  business  manager.  Mr.  Dobson 
thought not, as Mrs.  Dobson  occupied  a 
front pew at the  Oilded church;  but this 
was shown  to him  as  having  nothing  to 
do with the case, and he  decided to go in 
for  the  Sunday  issue,  being  informed 
that the Sunday paper bad a wider circu­
lation than the  daily  issue,  and  that  it 
was  read  more  closely.  These  matters 
having been settled to the  satisfaction of 
both parties, the price was  announced as 
$100.

When  Mr.  Dobson  had  regained  his 
breath,  he  said  that  be  had  not  come 
prepared to buy the  paper  outright,  but

But  when  he  reached  the  house  he 
found that lady  had  forestalled  him,  as 
she was engaged at the moment of his ar­
rival  in  reading  a  copy  of  the  Grind. 
“Dear  me,”  exclaimed  that  good  lady, 
“ 1 did not know you were so fine a man!”
“What  now,  my  dear?”  queried  the 

grocer.

“ Have you seen the Grind?’
“ Yes,  my dear.  What of it?”
“ Why,  here  is  half  a  column  telling 
what a fine man  you  are,  how  well  you 
understand your business,  what a superb 
stock—yes,  it  says,  ‘superb’”  (referring 
to  the paper in  an excited manner)  “and 
how  cheaply you sell goods.  See there!” 
pointing triumphantly to a column of the 
paper where,  in reading  type,  the  glory 
of “our well-known  townsman,  Mr.  Job 
Dobson,”  was  set  forth  with  alluring 
repetition of adjective and comment.

As this was evidently thrown in  in  the 
excess of good  will  and  because  of  his 
patronage of the Grind, Mr.  Dobson  felt 
more  comfortable  over  the  investment 
of his $40, and ate his  supper  and drank 
his tea in silent  admiration of himself.

Having  finished  and  kissed  his  wife 
and baby—they had been  married  but  a 
few  years,  it  will  be remembered—Mr. 
Dobson  donned  bis  overcoat  and  again 
sought  the  store.  Scarcely  had  he  en­
tered,  when he was met by the proprietor 
of the morning Ponder,  who, by the way, 
was  a  member  of the same lodge as  Mr. 
Dobson, who approached him  with  smil- j 
ing  countenance  and  remarked  on  the 
excellence of Mr.  Dobson’s  personal  ap­
pearance,  and concluded by  stating  that 
he had called to  secure his  order for  the 
insertion of Mr.  Dobson’s  advertisement 
in the Ponder, as  appearing  that  day  in 
the Grind.

Here  was  a  situation  for  which  Mr. 
Dobson had  made  no  preparations,  and 
he simply said that he bad decided not to 
extend his advertising beyond the Grind.
“But you cannot afford  to  confine your 
business 
to  one  paper,  Mr.  Dobson. 
Haven’t I always been  a  good  customer 
of  yours?  And  always  paid  my  bills 
promptly?”

The  outcome  of  all  this,  and  much 
more  of  the  same  tenor,  was,  that  the 
daily morning Ponder  appeared the  next 
morning with a  duplicate  of  the  adver­
tisement of Mr. Job Dobson  and  another j 
fulsome  and 
laudatory  reading  notice, 
free.

The  opening  of  business the next day 
saw  Mr.  Dobson  early  at  his  task, but 
not so early  but that  the representatives

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merely wished to  gratify his  friends and 
Mrs. Dobson for  the  time  being  in  the 
direction  of  advertising.  The  business 
was  finally  adjusted  by  reducing  the 
amount of space to  10  inches  for  Tues­
day,  Thursday,  Saturday  and  Sunday, 
and the  sum  agreed  upon  was  $40,  for 
which  amount  Mr.  Dobson  drew  his 
check  and  walked  out  of  the  office  in j 
somewhat of a daze.
The next day being  Tuesday, Mr.  Dob­
son did not wait until  he  reached  home j 
to  see  his  name  in  pr.int,  but  secretly j 
purchased a copy of the daily Ghrind, and, 
retiring to the  upper  floor  of  the  store, 
regaled himself with a sight of his  name 
in  big  black  type  on  the  first  page  of 
that  publication.  Then  he  folded  the  ' reason to  believe  they will maintain their supremacy  the coming season.
paper cdrefuily, and,  swelling  with  dig­
MUSSLEMAN  GROCER  CO.
nity,  advised  the head clerk that he was 
going to tea a little earlier than common, 
and wended his way home, that he  might 
have the'pleasure of first showing the ad­
vertisement to Mrs.  Dobson.

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

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

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

j If  Y o u   A re  a  M erch an t

an<l  desire  to  establish  a  B IG   flour  trade,  we 
would  say  that  you  can  make  quicker  sales, 
easier sales, more sales,  and,  consequently, more 
profitable sales with

Lily  White  Flour

than  with  any other brand in the State.

W h y

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

Because  Success  Attends 

the  Man  Who  Takes  a  Good 

Thing  When  He  Can.

VALLEY  CITY  MILLING  GO..
GRAND  RAPIDS, 
RINDGE,  KALMBAGH  i   GO 12.  14  i  IE  Pearl At. 
GRAND  RAPIDS.

MICH.

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.
Inspection Solicited.

Agents for the Boston Rubber Shoe Co.

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But he never forgot  the  experience  of 
his first  attempt  to  advertise,  and  now 
points out to Job  Dodson  3rd,  grown  a 
lusty,  healthy  grocer, 
the  dangers  of 
launching  into  anything  without  first 
counting the cost and giving  the  matter 
intelligent  study. 

Cow.

After China gets through with her war, 
she will feel as if  she  had  taken  a  full 
course of study at  the University of Civ­
ilization.

The French way of putting  a  head  on 

an Anarchist is to take it off.

■  T g jtd iM

WE  WANT

B E A N S

and  will  pay  highest  market  price  for 

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

them.

of  the  evening  Buncombe,  the  evening 
Snorter and the evening Sewer were there 
before  him.

Long arguments followed on the merits 
of the respective papers,  and  the upshot 
of  the  matter was that before 10 o’clock 
these  had  his  orders  and  check  for  ad 
▼ertisements,  costing  in  the  aggregate 
J50.  That  is, all  but  the  Sewer,  which 
being a sort of a nondescript  sheet given 
to blackmailing  and  divers  methods  of 
extorting  money  without equivalent,  he 
debarred from  the  scheme.  The  adver 
tising  agent  of  this  paper stated to him 
in the broadest  of  broad  language  that 
except  he  gave  to his paper such adver 
tising as  was its  due,  the  paper  would 
certainly  give  him  some  “free advertis 
ing;”  but,  as Mr. Job Dobson did not com 
prehend  what that meant,  the  threat had 
little terror.

Thinking  that  at  last he  had reached 
the  end  of  the  cost  in  regard  to  his 
scheme  to  touch  the  public  heart,  and 
that  at  last  he  had  expended  all  the 
money  possible,  it  is  stating  the  case 
mildly  to  say  that  Mr.  Dobson  was 
alarmed and astounded when  the follow­
ing  morning  he  found  his  store simply 
gorged  with  agents  for  publications  of 
the existence of which  he bad heretofore 
had no knowledge.  There was the Dent­
ists’  Weekly,  the  Earth—printed  in  the 
interests of the combined societies of one 
denomination  of  the  city,  the  weekly 
United  States,  the  Social Exponent,  the 
Sociological  Weekly,  the  Business  Man, 
the  Marriage  Guide,  the  Phrenological 
Monthly,  the  Bee  Culture,  the  Carpen­
ters and Joiners'  Own,  the  Blacksmiths' 
Friend,  the  Street  Sweepers'  Advocate, 
the Printers' Espouser,  the  Housemaids' 
Entertainer,  and  thirty or more  publica­
tions of which he had never heard before. 
All these came to him, and in a thousand 
and one ways  made appeal  for  his  sup­
port.  He  had  advertised  in  the  other 
papers;  he  had  sent  out  bis  advertise­
ment to the four  winds  of  the  heavens; 
he had had their trade and they, too, must 
be recognized and at last,  for very peace, 
he recognized the entire  crowd and  gave 
them  all  and  severally  orders which,  in 
the  aggregate,  reached  the  comfortahli 
sum of nearly $90.

But the  end  was  not  yet.  The  dayi 
seemed  to  bring  representatives  of  pa 
pers,  weekly and  monthly,  of which  he 
had never heard,  and  of  which  he  had 
no idea as to their merit.  But  they  ad­
vocated  themselves,  or  at  least  their 
agents did, so well  that  the  only  thing 
Mr.  Dobson could  do was to engage him­
self to advertise  with  them  and  to  pay 
them  a  comfortable  sum.  Then  there 
came a grist of men  and  boys  with  one 
excuse or another.  Some had  a  scheme 
which  was  simply  a  matter  which  he 
could not  avoid  with  safety.  One  had 
the notion of printing  a  list  of  the  fire 
alarm  calls  in  the  city  and  wished  to 
secure so prominent an  advertiser as Mr. 
Dobson  for  one  of  his  patrons.  The 
charge  was  only  $5,  and  that  surely 
would  not  break  him.  Another  had  a 
a Christmas scheme which was resplend­
ent  with  pictures,  and  which  was  in­
tended to make  glad  the  hearts  of  the 
children, and  surely  Mr.  Dobson would 
wish  to  be 
represented  in  that.  Of 
course,  and  there  went  another  $10. 
Then along came the  man with the right 
to advertise  in  the  street  cars,  and  he, 
too, made so good a showing  of  his busi­
ness that he managed  to seeure $5 of the 
grocer’s hard-earned money, and the end

was not.  There followed  the  man with 
the  program  of  the  opera  house;  the 
man with  the coming  entertainments  of 
the Y. M. C. A.;  the man with the church 
papers;  the man with  the  secret  society 
organizations, and  there  was  really  no 
end to the matter.

And the upshot of the  whole  business 
was  that when  Mr.  Dobson  took  down 
his shutters on the  morning  of  the  day 
before Christmas  he was  out  $250  hard 
cash, to say nothing about  sundry  trade 
contracts which he had made and of which 
he  had  made  no  account.  He  thought 
to himself that he had  made a  miserable 
fool of himself,  and  so  indeed  he  had, 
for he  might have gotten the major  por­
tion of the advertising  for less than half 
the  sum  he  had  expended;  indeed,  he 
might well have  omitted  the  entire  list 
of fakirs without loss.  And,  to  cap the 
climax, 
the  advertising  agent  of  the 
Sewer came in and showed  him  a  proof 
of the “free  advertising”  which  he  had 
promised  him  in case  he failed to come 
into that publication.  Mr. Dobson might 
have been puffed up with the  notices  he 
had  had  from the other papers,  but this 
took the starch out of him.  He had no idea 
that there was so thoroughly bad  a  man
in A--------as was shown  by  the  article
in the Sewer.  Charged with having com-
mitted every crime in  the  decalogue, he 
trembled in his boots and  willingly  paid 
the  $50  demanded  without  a  murmur; 
that is,  without an outward  murmur,  for 
iu  his  heart  he  murmured  vigorously. 
But how could  he  help  himself?  He, a 
respectable  merchant,  bearing  on  his 
shoulders the respectability of bis father, 
and having a wife  and  child  looking  to 
him for support, did  not want  his  name 
dragged in  the dirt.  And  how  could  he 
ever  make  his  wife  believe  that  what 
was thus printed  in  cold  type  was  not 
the  truth?  No;  mauifestiy,  his  way 
was to pay the money, and that was  pre­
cisely  what he did 

* 

* 

*

When Mr.  Job  Dobson  came  down  to 
the store in the morning he  was  sore  of 
heart  and  troubled.  He  had  paid  out 
nearly $400 where  had  purposed  to  ex' 
pend but $20 at the outside,  and he really 
believed  that  he  was  on  the  verge  of 
ruin.  But in this he was in  error.  The 
business had taken a  sudden  and  unac­
countable boom,  and  there  were  names 
on  his  books  of  which  he  had  never 
heard prior to the insertion  of the adver­
tisements,  and  the  Christmas  trade  at 
Dobson’s  was  something  phenomenal. 
In vain did he order fresh supplies of tur­
keys;  in  vain did  the  wagons  from  the 
fruiters roll up  to  his  door  laden  with 
apples  and  celery  and  vegetables;  in 
vain did he order and re-order  and order 
still  again  stocks  of  fat  oysters  and 
game:  it was all useless and at last there 
happened what  had  never  before  been 
known—the  Dobson  store  was  out  of 
goods in  many lines before  9  o’clock  on 
the night before Christmas.

And Mr. Dobson,  seeing  that  he  had 
made a hit, although  a costly one,  there­
after continued  the  insertion  of  adver­
tisements in the  newspapers,  but  never 
again indulged every  schemer who came 
in,  by  accepting  his  estimate  on  that 
which he had to sell, and was  not  again 
guilty of submitting  to  the  demands  of 
the  blackmailer, 
nor  of  employing 
hand bills,  whether  these  were  thrown 
about the  opera  house,  hung  in  street 
cars, or the result of  moribund  publica­
tion.

CHICAGO

Nov. 18,1894.
A ND  W EST  M IC H IG A N   B T .

GOING  TO  CHICAGO.

„  

TO AMD FBOM MUSKX&ON.

_  RETURNING  FROM  CHICAGO.

Lv. G’d Rapldi..............7:15am  1:25pm *11:80pm
At. Chicago  .................1:25pm 6:50pm  «7:20am
,  
Lv.  Chicago.................. 8:25&m  5:00pm *11:45pm
At. G’d R apids.... .. .. .3 :05pm  10:25pm  *5:25am
_ 
Lv. Grand Rapids........ 7:25am  1:25pm  5:30pm
Ar. Grand Rapids.........11:45am  3:05pm 10:25pm
TRAVERSE OITT. CHABLBVOIX AMD  PETOBKEY
Lv.Grand  R apids.. 
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

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

PABLO R AMD  BLUFU8  OAKS.

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.

pm.

DETKOIT, 

°ct- ”■1894

LANSING  A   N O RTH ERN   R ,   R ,
GOING TO  DETROIT.

Lv. Grand Rapids.........7:00am  1:20pm  5:25pm
Ar. D etroit.................... li :40am  5:30pm  10:10pm

RETURNING  FROM  DETROIT.

Lv.  D e tro it................ 7:40am  1:10pm  6:00pm
Ar. Grand Rapids........ 12:40pm  5:2Cpm  10:45pm
Lv.G R  7:40am 5:00pm  Ar. GR. 11:35am 10:45pm

TO AMD FROM  SASIMAW, ALMA AND ST.  LOUIS.

TO AMD FROM LOWELL.

Lv. Grand Rapids............7:00am  1:20pm 5:25pm
Ar.from Lowell............... 12:40pm 5:20pm  ___T7?

(THROUGH  CAR  SERVICE.

Parlor  Cars on all trains  between  Grand Rap­
ids and Detroit.  Parlor car to Saginaw on morn­
ing train.

Trains  week days only.

GEO. DeHAVEN, Gen. Pass’r Ag’t.

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Articles.
T  RADIOS M AN  CO., 

Grand Rapids, Mich.

The Grocery Market.

Sugar—The  raw  market  has declined 
%c  and  the  recent  slight  advance  on 
granulated proved  to  be  only  nominal, 
the schedule having been reduced to  the 
old basis the middle of  last  week.  The 
impression among the trade appears to be 
that no changes of note  are likely  to  oc 
cur in  the  immediate  future,  the  most 
noteworthy feature In  the  situation  be­
ing  the  present  session  of  Congress, 
which is apparently  disposed to take an­
other turn at  the crank,  in  consequence 
of which the Trust is keeping  very quiet 
and exciting  as  little  comment  as  pos­
sible.

Fish—The  large  amount  of  poultry 
marketed during the past  month  has,  to 
a  certain  extent,  restricted  the request 
for fish,  but  the  demand  is  expected  to 
improve  from  now  on.  The  recent ad­
vance is  well  maintained,  owing  to  the 
light stocks  at nearly all  markets of  im­
portance.

Molasses—Reports  from  New  Orleans 
are to the effect  that prices  on the entire 
list have been advanced  from  1 to 2c per 
gallon,  the latter figure  on fine grades  of 
open kettle goods.  Syrups continue dull 
and in small request.

Bananas—The  two cars of this kind of 
fruit  which  the  local  dealers  had  en 
gaged  for  Christmas  trade  came  in  as 
per arrangement,  but the quality was not 
up to expectations and many dealers who 
had  placed  orders  for  stock  to  arrive 
were sorely  disappointed.  Bananas  are 
very  unsafe  and 
treacherous  stuff  to 
handle,  at  best,  and,  while  wholesale 
dealers,  as  a  rule,  aim 
to  buy  only 
selections,  many  cars,  which start from 
the pier in good condition and give  every 
promise  of  “coming  up”  nicely, reach 
their destination  either  frosted,  on  the 
one hand,  or  overheated,  on  the  other, 
and in any event  far  from  being  up  to 
grade.  The  commission man with a clip 
full of orders is in a quandary.  “To ship, 
or  not  to  ship,  that  is  the  question” 
which perplexes. 
If a pause is  made  to 
consider,  the  prospect  of  a  large  loss 
convinces  him  that  the  fruit  must  be 
moved,  and  at  once,  and  he  takes the 
chances  of  a  customer  charging back a 
percentage of the loss, well knowing that 
the odds are as seven to ten  that  the  re­
ceiver  will  be  displeased and register a 
strong kick,  if nothing  more.  Such  are 
daily occurrences  with  all  who  deal  in 
bananas,  and  the  retailer  should  bear 
with the  one who ships him,  if the goods 
do not prove to  be  “plump,  sound  and 
all yellow,” as there is not a commission 
man or wholesaler dealer who  would not 
prefer  to  send  to  every  customer just 
what was wanted.  For  the  week  divid­
ing Christmas and New Years, the supply 
will be light,  but as  there  are  so  many
other fine fruits to be had, It will  not  be 
of much moment.

by 

orders 

executed 

Oranges  Prices have been advanced a 
little this week—enough so  to  cover the 
cost of repacking and  actual  shrinkage. 
Holiday 
the 
wholesalers  of  Grand  Rapids  were 
strongly In evidence of the popularity  of 
the  brands  handled  and  of  the  prices 
made.  All of our local dealers  are  gen­
erous providers  of  stock,  and,  usually, 
anticipate  the  full  volume  of  holiday 
wants,  and although  in  the  present  in­
stance  they  took  a  larger  view  than 
usual of the probable  wants,  it  appears 
that  they  were  looking 
the 
wrong end of the telescope and,  the  end 
of  actual  holdings  was  reached  much

through 

sooner than they had counted on.  There 
were, at least,  fifteen  carloads  shipped 
from  Grand  Rapids  to  interior  towns 
immediately  preced 
during  the  week 
ing  Christmas, 
and  outside  parties 
who buy from this  market  need  not  be 
surprised if there is a slight delay in get 
ting oranges ordered during  the  present 
week.  There  are  plenty  more  on 
the 
way,  however,  and  a  strong  effort  will 
be made to avoid running entirely out  of 
stock.  The fruit Is  getting better  every 
day,  and the  color  and  flavor  will  suit 
anyone. 
It would be well  to  look  over 
quotations,  as made elsewhere,  and  note 
the advance,  and not order  blindly,  and 
then be  dissatisfied  upon  receiving  the 
bill.

Lemons—New  Messinas  have  effectu­
ally crowded out the Florida  stock,  and, 
while the fruit that has come  forward so 
far is not fully matured  or  colored,  it  is 
growing better every day and by the mid­
dle of January  it  will  be  in  its  prime. 
Prices  have  kept  up  remarkably  well, 
considering the  weather,  and  the  pros, 
pects  now  are  that  shortly  after  New 
Years prices will materially  decrease,  as 
there is a  large  number of boxes afloat 
estimated at 153,000—therefore  it  is  ad 
visable  for  dealers  to buy sparingly un 
til  the  market  has  reached  its  lowest 
point.

Foreign Nuts—There  is  no  change 

speak  of  in  foreign  nuts.  Brazils  are 
easy at last week’s quotations,  while it 
expected that Tarragona almonds, filberts 
and Naples walnuts  will sag  off  a  little 
after January.  Nearly all the large deal 
ers have been holding off with that end in 
view,  and,  as  a  consequence,  most  of 
them are In a good  position  to  stock  up 
liberally,  as  the  holiday  trade  has  re 
duced stocks in hand to a very low point 
Peanuts—The  old  crop  of  peanuts  is 
pretty well cleaned  up and  nearly all  of 
the  quotations  from  the  cleaners  are 
based  on  new  goods.  Small  orders are 
the rule, owing  to  the  shrinkage  which 
will naturally follow the shipment of the 
new  stock.  Shell  goods  are  slightly 
weaker, both on Virginia and  Spanish.

Figs—Have been in great  demand dur 
ing the past week and prices at the recent 
sales have stiffened  up a trifle, especially 
on the better grades and  on small boxes 
such as are needed for holiday trade.

Dates—Prices  on  new  Hallowis  and 
Fards have sagged off  a  trifle  since  last 
Quotations,  and,  as  they  have  been  in 
good demand up to the present, stocks in 
the hands of the  retailers  must  be  very 
low and the wholesale  dealers anticipate 
a good demand at prices ruling.

Candy—Manufacturers  have  worked 
hard up to  the  present  time  and  all  of 
them  have  enjoyed  a  first-class  trade. 
While it Is true that prices have not been 
as strong as they  should  have  been,  the 
volume of business has been good and all 
are fairly well satisfied.  A visit through 
some of our wholesale  concerns  Monday 
showed great activity,  giving ground for 
the belief that all  have  worked  to  their 
utmost  capacity. 
It  is  expected  that 
trade  will  be  a  little  slack  after  New 
Years,  but  most  of  the  factories  will 
keep running in order to get stock ahead. 
Better prices are also  looked for, as it  is 
believed that sugar  may  go  considerably 
higher before long.

A Grammatical Fine Point. 

Teacher—Tommy,  would you  say  that 

a man lies easy, or lies easily?

Tommy—It depends on the man.

j g l E   M IC T H Q A JN "  T B A D E S M  a  TVJ-

Bank Notes.

Hopkins  Station—E.  P. Arnold  &  Co. 
will shortly  remove  their  hoop  factory 
from Allegan to this place.

The  Oceana  County  Savings  Bank 
(Hart) has reduced its capital stock from 
$65,000 to $50,000 and  increased  its  sur 
Plus  fund  from $6,500 to  $20,000.  $The 
former  officers  have  been  re-elected  for 
another  year.

Frank Howard announces his intention 
of organizing a savings  bank at Jackson, 
with a capital of  $100,000.  Mr.  Howard 
is a director in  the  Ann  Arbor  Savings 
Bank;  also  in  the  Peninsular  Savings 
Bank of  Detroit

On  May  26,  1894,  W.  H.  Harris,  a 
sharper,  obtained  $580  cash  from  the 
Oakland County Savings  Bank (Pontiac) 
on a certificate  of  deposit given  him  by 
the Pontiac  National  Bank.  Harris  de­
posited a check with the National for the 
amount,  which he had raised  from  $250. 
The Pontiac  National  refused  to  honor 
the certificate.  The  Savings  Bank  sued 
for the amount and a  jury  brought  in  a 
verdict 
the  full 
amount,  with interest up to date.

in  their  favor  for 

For some  weeks  past  there  has  been 
apparent  a  steady  improvement  in  all 
classes of local  securities—bonds,  mort­
gages,  bank  stocks  and manufacturing 
and jobbing  stocks.  This  improvement 
has not been due to  unusual  activity  in 
general business, as trade has been much 
quieter than  usual  at  this  time  of  the 
year,  with prices for the  leading  staples 
low and the margin of  profits  small. 
It 
has been,  in fact,  this  comparative  dull­
ness in trade,  with the consequent  abun­
dance and low rates of  money,  that  has 
turned attention to  securities  as  invest­
ments likely  to  yield better results than 
ordinary trade ventures. This demand for 
local securities argues  a  firm  conviction 
that existing trade depression  is  merely 
a temporary feature,  and that  at the bot­
tom  things  are  sound  and  healthy  in 
Grand  Rapids,  with  no  fear  for  the 
future to add to the discomforts of exist­
ing unfavorable  business.  The strength 
of bank stocks is  particularly  gratifying 
as  they  are  the  leading  values  on  the 
market, 
the  most  commonly  accepted 
collateral,  and in every sense  the barom­
eters  of  the  local  financial  situation. 
With  securities  steadily  advancing  in 
value,  there  is  every  reason  to  expect 
hat the  improvement  will  soon  extend 
real estate.  The  same  causes  which 
are operating in the security market can­
not fail to also influence  real  estate, the 
more particularly a§ the  money  market, 
which is already easy,  is  likely  to  rule 
even lower after the opening  of  the new 
year.

Use Tradesman Coupon Books.

18

Commercial Travelers’  Resort.

Messrs. Ed  Peck and  Frank  Goold,  in 
their  new  restaurant,  at 30 North Ionia 
street, pleasantly  entertain  many travel­
ers and merchants on their  way  to  their 
trains.

Beaverton—A survey is being made for 
a branch road running from the  Flint  & 
Pere Marquette from this place into  tim­
ber owned  by  the  Eastmans. 
It  is  re­
ported that a mill will  be  built  on  this 
tract In the spring.
H.  M, R eynolds & Son,

STRAW  BOARD,

Jobbers of 

BUILDING  PAPERS, 

BUCKSKIN and MANILLA

WRAPPING  PAPER, 

ROOFING  MATERIALS,

COAL  TAR  and  ASPHALT; 
Practical  Roofers,
Grand  Rapids, 
Mich.

Corner Louis and Campau Sts.,

also

L  G.  DUNTON  It GO.
Will  buy  all  kinds  o f  Lumber— 

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Green or Dry.

Office  and  Yards,  7th  St.'and C. & W. M. R.  R .(

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Your  Bank Account Solicited.

lo t  County Sayings Ml,

Jno.  A.  Covode,  Pres.

GRAND  R A P ID S   ,MIOH.
Hbnky  Idema, Vlce-Pres.

J.  A.  S.  Verdieb. Cashier.

K. Van Hof, Ass’tC ’s’r. 

T ransact« a G eneral B an k in g   B usiness. 

In te re st  A llow ed  on   T im e  an d   Savinas 

D eposits.

J?_2yode> D- A- Blodgett,  E. Crofton Fox, 

DIRECTORS:
A. J. Bowne,  Henry Idema,
J. A. 8. Verdier
D eposits  E xceed  O ne  M illion  D ollars.

Jno.W.Blodgett, J. A. McKee 

The  Scene  Has  Changed.

Doubt and uncertainty have yielded to the 
steadily increasing conviction that

Good 'Times

are  actually  returning.  Those  who  are 
wise will do everything to encourage pop­
ular  confidence  in  future  business  pros­
perity. 

Of course, after so many  months  of  de­
pression  and  small  business,  grocers  are 
each anxious to have a

*

Large Share

of the revival.  To get it they must be  ac­
tive.  Success never comes unasked or un­
sought.  The  grocer  who  aims  to please 
his  customers  will  carry a full  supply  of 
ATLAS SOAP,

Manufactured only by

HENRY  PASSOLT,

Saginaw,  Mich.

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D r u g   D e p a r tm e n t*

S tate  B oard  o f P harm acy*

On* Tear—Ottm&r Eberbach, Ann Arbor.
Two  Y©art—George Guidrum, Ionia.
Three  Tears—0. A. Boa: bee, Charlevoix.
Pott Tears—8. E. Par kill, Owosao.
Five Years—F. W. R. Perry* Detroit.
President—Fred’k W .R. Perry, Detroit.
Secretary—Stanley E. Par kill, Owosso.
Treasurer—Geo. Gundrnm, Ionia.
Coming  Meetings—Detroit,  Jan 8;  Grand  Rapids, 
March 5; Detroit (Star Island), June84; Lansing, Nov. 5.

M ichigan  S tate  P h a rm a c e u tica l  A ss’n.
President—A. 8. Parker, Detroit.
Vice-President—Joh n s. Peck, Detroit.
Treasurer—W. Dupont,  Detroit. 

flBecretav—F. C. Thompson .Detroit.

G rand  R ap id s  P h a rm a c e u tica l Society. 

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

JONES’  CHRISTMAS.

“That!  Oh  that’s Jones.  Odd looking 
chap though,  ain’t  he,”  said  the  night 
clerk in  answer  to  my  query  as  to  the 
Identity of one of the day clerks who had 
just  passed  out.  “Yes,  most  eccentric 
fellow Jones is,  not  only  iq  appearance 
but in his  actions  and  speech;  yet  one 
year ago to-night he was no different from 
the average run of drug assistants.”

It was Christmas night. 

I was waiting 
while the  night  clerk  dispensed  a  pre­
scription,  and  to  liven  the  waiting,  the 
clerk chatted pleasantly.

tall,  somber,  somewhat  mystical 
looking  person  had  just  come  into  the 
back  shop,  lit  a  cigar  and  passed  out 
without speaking a  word  or  apparently 
noticing the presence of either the  clerk 
or myself.  To my inquiry the clerk  had 
said,  “That’s Jones.”

A 

“You  say  one  year  ago  he  was  not 
marked  by  any  pronounced  peculiar­
ities?” 
I asked  by  way  of finding  out 
something more about the  mystic  Jones. 
“May  I  ask  the  cause  of  his  sudden 
transformation?”

“Certainly,  sir,  certainly,”  was  the 
answer.  “Enow’em all pat.  Just  wait 
a moment till I  slap  on  this  label,  get 
one  dollar  from  you,  and 
then  having 
finished business  I  shall  tell  you  about 
Jones.”

The prescription  being  finished  and 
the  night 

the  “business”  transacted, 
clerk handed me a cigar and proceeded:

“Yes, sir,  one year  ago  to-day  Jones 
was one of the gayest devil-may-care fel­
lows you would wish to meet, full of life, 
full of fun,  in short  a  most  companion­
able person; now he is a  sphynx,  a  per­
fect funeral; and as the causes leading to 
this transformation are a  strange  blend­
ing of recklessness  and tragedy  and you 
have  an  insatiable  appetite  for 
such 
scraps  from  human  experience  I  shall 
read  you a page from Jones’  life book.

“Last Christmas the  fates  willed that 
Jones should be on duty all day, which, to 
one of his disposition, was particularly irk­
some, more especially as he had  planned 
a ‘jolly’ day with a few of his boon  com­
panions.  But there was no  help  for  it, 
so with ill-concealed bad  humor  he  took 
his place behind the  dispensing  counter 
Christmas morning,  inwardly  consigning 
everything pharmacal to  a  place  where 
soda  water  would 
continuous 
sale.

find 

“Through our back  window  one  may 
get a good  view  of  the  interior  of  the 
8well jag-shop of the city,  and  as  Jones 
watched  the  reckless  revelers  priming 
themselves  with 
tom-and-jerry,  cock­
tails,  and such seasonable  libations,  his 
spirit  ‘soured  within  him,’  to  use  bis 
own expression.  So he  decided  to  play 
solitaire.  To  get  the  ingredients  and 
prepare a punch of generous proportions 
was but the task of a few moments to his 
practised  hand.  Having set up his  lone

T H E   M I C H I Q A I s r   T R A D E S M A N ,
Random  Reflections  of  a  Prosperous 

bar-room,  he  constituted  himself  bar­
tender  and  customers  all  in  one,  and 
keeping his eye fastened on the  proceed­
ings across  the  alley,  essayed  to  enjoy 
himself.  When  the lush-slingers  in the 
saloon  would  lean  forward 
in  an  in­
sinuating way  to  receive  the  orders  of 
some thirsty rounders, Jones  would  imi­
tate  him;  and  when  the  glasses  were 
raised and toasts proposed,  Jones  would 
vacate his imaginary position  behind the 
bar, raise his glass,  propose a  toast  and 
drink in unison  with  the ‘sons  of  free­
dom,’ as he termed those at liberty  when 
he  was  at  work.  There  could  be,  of 
necessity,  but  one  result of  such  pro­
ceedings.  Ere  two  hours  was  passed 
Jones was  the gayest  of  the  gay,  wish­
ing any  number  of  imaginary  compan­
ions a  ‘Merrychsmasanahappynyear;’  in 
fact, he was soon  hopelessly,  gloriously 
drunk, and by no means a  desirable  per­
son  to  undertake  the  dispensing  of  a 
prescription.

“It  was  midnight  when  Jones  found 
himself at the door of  bis  home,  trying 
to  solve  that  old-time  problem:  gin,  a 
door,  a key-hole, a  key,  and  a  jag, 
to 
make  a successful  combination.  After 
fumbling for some time at  the hinge side 
of  the door,  he  tried the other. 
‘Shome 
body’s hung a rag over the key-hole,’  he 
muttered;  ‘but  they  can’t  fool  Jones.’ 
He managed,  after much effort,  to  strike 
a  match.  Then  he  saw  what  the  ‘rag’ 
was,  and the sight not only  sobered  him 
but  froze  every  drop  of  blood  in  his 
veins.  A  long  piece  of  white  crape, 
with a  card  attached,  was  fastened  to 
the door knob.  With direst  forebodings 
he opened the  door;  all  was  still  save a 
sound  of  convulsive 
sobbing  which 
issued from the library on  his  right.  A 
cold,  stony  hand  seemed  clutching  his 
heart and drawing him toward the  nurs­
ery.  There he  found,  all  prepared  for 
burial, Mb favorite little  sister,  a  sweet 
child  about  8  years  of  age,  who  was 
but recently past the crisis of  a  danger­
ous  illness.  Mechanically  he  touched 
his lips to the fair,  cold  forehead,  and, 
through dint  of  long  habit,  picked  up 
the bottle from which she had taken  her 
last  medicine.  He  took  out  the  cork, 
smelled  and  tasted  the  contents.  His 
face  grew  as  white  as  marble;  short, 
gasping sounds came through his parched 
lips,  and,  still keeping tight  hold  of  the 
bottle, he turned and rushed madly from 
the house.  On through the  darkness  he 
sped, taking no  account  of  the  time  or 
locality,  till  he  found  himself  miles 
from the  city.  He sat down in the snow 
at the side  of the  road,  and  during  bis 
stay in that spot Jones changed  to  what 
you see him now.  Toward  early  morn­
ing  he  returned to  his  home,  but 
the 
Jones we had known never came back; he 
was as completely lost as though he were 
dead.”

“Strange,  most strange,”  I said;  “yet 

I do not quite understand—”

“Don’t you see,” continued  the  clerk, 
“Jones  dispensed  that  prescription  for 
his sister; Jones was drunk.”
I asked.

“And the bottle?” 
“Was  never  found.  Have  another 

cigar,  ©ood night.”

Morton House Lunch Counter.

Warren  Swetland  is  maintaining  his 
reputation  among  the  traveling  frater­
nity and  the city people for  serving  the 
finest  and  freshest  sea  food  known  in 
Michigan. ^Meet your friends  there.

City Merchant.

The starting point of  many of the  suc­
cessful  merchants  of  the  day  was  the 
country  store.  Such  merchants  fondly 
recall the  familiar  touch  with  the  cus­
tomers in those days, as well as the prin­
ciples of  business  there  learned.  Time 
may come and time may  go, but in many 
cases the  country  store  goes  on  in  the 
same  old  way—forever.  The  railroad 
enters the quiet  community,  the summer 
visitor comes, the  city  family  moves  in 
the  place  and  desires  the  same  line  ef 
goods they have been accustomed to  pur­
chase.  The merchant  wonders  why  the 
new trade, as well  as  some  of  the  old, 
use the more rapid  transit of  later years 
to visit the  larger  centers  and  do  their 
trading.  No  wonder  at  all;  the wonder 
would  be  that  they  should  not  do  so. 
Our friends in  the country  should  wake 
up.  They should  understand that at this 
age  of  the  world’s  history  people  will 
have what they want, even if it be a little 
higher in  price,  and if the  country  store 
doesn’t,  some one else will procure  it for 
them.

*  *  *

Window dressing, cleanliness and neat­
ness about the store and all that category 
help the grocer to  succeed,  but  after  all 
the essential  requirement is that be be  a 
man.  A man who  will  take  the  condi­
tions  under  which  be  may  be  placed, 
whatever they may  be,  and honestly  and 
cheerfully do his  best;  who  will  be  too 
much of a man to  lower  himself  by  any 
mean  dealing  or  “too  sharpness;”  who 
will value his reputation and self-respect 
too highly to sell  them for  the few cents 
which are to be  gained by  misrepresent-1 
ing  to  a  customer  or  trying  to deceive 
him regarding any goods he may wish  to 
sell,  has  the  elements of  success within 
him.  Then, too, such  a  man  influences 
his whole establishment.  Let a clerk  see 
his employer do a mean  or  an  unmanly 
act and he will be  likely to do  the same. 
It is not to be  expected that he  will  rise 
much above the example given him.  The 
clerks in a store can generally be gauged 
by the  character  of  their  employer. 
It 
behooves,  then,  every  grocer  so  to  act 
that he keep his manliness  and  his  rep­
utation unquestioned.  Telling the exact 
facts about his goods  and dealing with  a 
customer 
in  all  honesty  pay  from  a
purely business standpoint.

*  *  *

Undoubtedly,  the  majority  of  retail 
grocers,  if  asked  what  was the greatest 
evil  in  connection  with  their  business, 
would say the credit  system.  We  ques­
tion this prevailing  statement and assert 
that 
the  greatest  evil  is  bad  debts. 
“But,” some one says,  “are not bad debts 
the outcome of this system?”  Certainly, 
but  only  one  outcome,  and,  to  use  the 
same argument, the  credit  system is  the 
outcome  of  doing  business.  Does  it, 
therefore, follow  that  doing  business  is 
evil?  The credit system is  with  the  re­
tail grocer and  with him  it  will remain. 
To  find  a  successful  grocery  business, 
built up on a purely cash basis,  is a very 
marked  exception,  and  the  fault,  after 
all, is not in the system  but in the appli­
cation of it.  Certainly every seeker after 
credit should not  have it.  How shall we 
discriminate?  Oftentimes  we  do  not 
know the characteristics of the individual 
applying  for  credit  and  must  act with 
the very  slightest  basis  for  such  judg­
ment.  The main difficulty is lack of pro­
tection. 
Is  it  necessary,  because  Mr. 
Poorpay’s account is closed with a heavy

debit against him at one store,  that every 
other  store  in  the  vicinity  should  be 
called upon to  go through  the  same  ex­
perience?  Yet  such  is  the  case  gener­
ally,  and it goes to show how  completely 
in the dark the retail grocer is compelled 
to do  business  on  this  line.  How  may 
protection be secured?  Only  one  way— 
by an organization  of  the  retailers  and 
then just as careful a rating  of  the  cus­
tomers  in  the  retail  as in the wholesale 
world.

*  *  *

“Competition is the life of trade.”  Oh, 
yes, if  it’s fair,  square,  open  and  above 
board competition, but this guerrilla war­
fare, and  cut-throat,  cut-price,  marked- 
down,  no-profit  competition  that  is  so 
prevalent, or a competition  that  leads  a 
retailer  to  quote  to  a  customer  of  an­
other prices  lower than his  regular  sell­
ing  prices,  are  evils  indeed. 
In  this 
connection attention  might  be  called  to 
the  so-called  grocery  departments  of 
some  of  the  sell-everything  stores,  so- 
called,  because the staples they  will  not 
and do not tackle, but those goods, most­
ly in packages,  which are  easily handled 
and on which there should be  more  pro­
fit,  they  slaughter.  Right  here  is  an­
other  place  where  organization  on  the 
part  of  the  retailers,  with  the  Golden 
Rule for a motto,  would come  into  play. 
There  should  be  an  understanding  in 
reference to a fair ratio  of  profit  on  all 
goods,  including  staples,  and  a  deter­
mination to  fight  everything  unfair  for 
the  best  interests  of  the  organization.
—bit*.

W hat'  “Cut  Rate”  Prices  Do  for  the 

Drug  Trade.

During  the  past  year  a  campaign  of 
demoralization  has  been  conducted  by 
the retail drug  trade  of  Detroit,  nearly 
every  store  in  that city bearing an omi­
nous-looking sign,  announcing  that  cut 
rate prices rule  therein.

A few months  ago  the  drug  trade  of 
Detroit was in excellent condition,  finan­
cially speaking,  but at  the  present  time 
it  is  estimated  that  60 per  cent, of  the 
druggists are chattel  mortgaged and that 
25 per cent,  of the remainder  are  unable 
to buy goods except for  cash.

Surely the way  of  the  transgressor  is 

hard!

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

Doz.  Gro. 
lo z .  $  90  lO  20
2 ox.  1  90  19  60
4 os.  9  00  39  80
6 oz.  3  00  33  00

Doz.  Gro. 
1 oz. $ 1  60  16  90
9 oz.  3  00  21  60
l o z .   3  75  40  80 
6 oz.  5  40  57  60
P la in   N. S.  w ith  
corkscrew  a t sam e 
p rice if  p re fe rred .
C orrespondence

S olicited
flieh.

SEELYiaMFQ.  CO.,  Detroit 

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

1  2001  30  Aconltum  Napellls B ..........  eo
so

6 00
Acetlcum ..................... 
8®
10  /gjechthltos............ Z/’l  2o@i 30.
Bemolcum  German..  66®
75 
Boradc 
......................
15  G aultheria....................1  50@l  601 
30  Geranium,  ounce.  ®   751 Aloes 
20®
Car bólleme . -............... 
Cltrlcum .......................  
41®
4i  G°5*IpU,  Sem. gal.......  70®  76
8®
Hydroehlor.................... 
Arnica .
5  Hedeoma  .....................1 25@i  10
Asafoetlda................................n
18  Jnm perl  .....................   50®2 00
NÍtrocum  ......................  10®
O xallcum ......................   10®
IfT e n d u la ..................  90®6 00
18 
Atrope Belladonna.......  "  ’ 
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Phosphorium d ll.........
Benxoln.............................. "   gg
60  “ monte 
....................I40@i  60
Sallcylleum................1  25®1  60
 
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i i enHlaI2 per................8 10@3 OO
Mentha Verld..............1 80@2 00
Snlpnnrlcnm .... -.........  15í @ 5
Sanguinarla...................... 
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Barosma................. 
*  5!
Tanni Cum....................1 40@1  60
Morrhuae, gal..............1 3001  40
Cantharides............ ...........  ™
Myrcla, ounce..............  ®  .......................... ...............
Tartarlcnm....................  30® 83
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Pancl/tnM 
w4rer i "  Vi...................  9003 00 Capsicum..................Z/.'/Z///  so
10® 18  Ca damon...............................   75
1 S ° i8 liquida, (gal.,35) 
6 |™ o h jl" -;................... 
Co...........................  75
88®  96 I _ 
8  Rosmarini.............. 
1  <K
14  f 0» « . ounce.  ............6 5008 50  £?techu................... ¿n

1  gp  Castor....................  

Aqua, 16  deg..................  
4®
60  deg..................  
6®
Carbonea  ......................   16®
Chlorldum.....................  16®

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Black............................2  0002 25  Sassafras......................  50®  56  Conlom ........................... 
Brown...........................  80®1  00
Yellow..........................8 50@3 00

81napls, ess, ounce.. ! !
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iheo bromas.................  15®

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Morphia, S.  P. AW.  3 05@2 80 
G-  Co......................  1  95@2 60
Moschus Canton.........  @  40
Myrlstlca, No  1 .........  65®  70
Nnx Vomica, (po 60)..  ®  10
go-Sepia......................  15®  18
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D.
® 2  00
P ld s LIq, N>C., H ¿áj 
Plcls Llq., quarts  !... .  ©1 00

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Piper  Nigra,  (po. 22).. 
®  1
Piper Alba,  (po 85) .... 
®  3
« lx  Burgun.................  @  7
PlumbI A cet...............   12®  13
Pul vis Ipecac et opll.. l  io@l  20 
Pyrethrum,  boxes  H
*  P. D.  Co., do*.......  ©1 25
Pyrethrum,  pv............  20®  30
Qnssslae..................  3®  in
Qulnia, S. P. <h W .......34K039M
d  v..  Ji-  Germ an....  27®  37
Rubia  Tinctorum.......  12©  14
Saccharum Lactls pv. 
16®  14
Salacln.. ......................2 io®2 25
Sanguis  Draconls.......  40®  50
S*P°’i y ........................  S ®   14
„  “ ....................  10®  12
G.........................   ®  15

Seldllts  M ixture........   ©  20
Slnapls..........................  @ 
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„ 
_   opt....................   ©  30
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  De
„ V oes.........................   @  35
Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes  ©  35 
Soda Boras, (po. 11).  .  10®  11 
Soda  et Potass T art...  24®  25
Soda Carb...................  1M®  2
Soda,  Bl-Carb............... 
3®  5
Soda,  Ash....................... 3u@   4
Soda, Sulphas.............   ©   2
Spts. Bther C o ............  50®  55
Myrcla  Dom.......  ©2 00
“  Myrcla Im p........   @2 50
vlni  Beet.  bbl.
. .. .7 .....................2 4905 59
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Strychnia Crystal.......1 4001 45
Sulphur, Subl............. 2M®  3
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Roll............... 2  © 2H
Tam arinds..................  
8®  10
Terebenth Venice.......  28©  30
Theobrom ae.............. 45  ©  48
.................9 00016 00
Zlncl  Sulph................. 
7©  8

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Whale, w inter............  70 
Lard,  extra...................  SO 
Lard, No.  1...................  42 
Linseed, pure raw __   58 

Bbl.  Gal
70
85
45
59

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Linseed,  boiled..........  59 
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
strained................. 
65 
8plritsT urpentine....  34 

15
62
70
40
bbl.  lb.
Bed  Venetian............... iw   20*2
Ochre, yellow  Mars__ 144  a©4
Ber.........13£  2@8
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Putty,  commercial__ 2V  2K®3
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«trlctly  pure.......2M  2M©8
Vermilion Prune Amer­
13015
 
Vermilion,  Bngllsh__  
66070
Green,  Peninsular....... 
13016
Lead,  red.......................5  ©6 >4
w h ite.................. 6  u t u
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Whiting, white Span...  @79
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Whiting,  Gliders’ /!?... 
White, Paris  American 
1
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c l i f f . . ...................}  44,
Universal Prepared ..'l  C0@1  15 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared 
Points.......................1  oo@i 20

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N o.l  Turp  Coach. ...1   1001  20
...................166©1  70
Coach  Body.................2 75©3 00
No. 1 Turn  F u rn ........ 1  0001  10
Butra Turk Damar__ 1  56©1  60
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 
Ton»........................... 
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P O U L T R Y  P O W D E R

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D igitalis........... ..."...............  2
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G entian................................”  yj
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Z ingiber................................  50
Hyoscyamus............ 
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Nnx  Vomica.........................  50
O pll......................................  
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Deodor..........................2 00
Amanti Cortex...................  m
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Juníperas.......
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8®  10 
65®  30

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Potassa, Bitart,  pure..  23®  25 
Potassa,-Bitart, com ...  ®   15
Potass  Nltras, opt....... 
8®  10
Potass Nltras...............  
7®  9
Prasslate......................  ®®
Sulphate  po.................  15®  is

EX TR A  CTUM.

Abies,  Canadian.............  18
Casslae  ..................................  18
Cinchona F la v a ............  181
Buonymus  atropurp......  30
Myrlca  Cerifera, po........  60
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20a   2s
Qulllala,  grd.........................   10 I Althae...................... 
fia®  g
.........  18 | A nchusa......................  12®  15
S assafras.,......... 
Ulmus Po (Ground  15)........   15 I Aram,  po......................  ©   25
I Calamus...............//.".'/  20®  40
I Gentiana  (po. 12)....... 
8 0   10
Glycyrrhlsa  Glabra
24®  25  Glychrrhl*aV(pv.l5)..  16®   18 
po............  33®  35
1 Hydrastis  Canaden,
Haematox, 15 lb. box..  11®  12 
(P °-® )...   ............  
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Is...............   13®  14
, 
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Í4»..............  16®  171 Ipecac,  po.................... 1 30@1  40
15*» PlOX (po. 35038)..  35®  40
VBRRÜ 
J*l»pa.  p r....................   40®  46
Mar anta,  X s...............  ©  35
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Carbonate P red p ........  
0   15
Citrate and Gulnla__
a 3 801 |cd?Phy’llum¡ po.//!!/  15®
Citrate  Soluble............  ®  80
Ferrocyanldum Sol__   ®  50
Solut  Chloride............  ®   15
8ulphate,  com’l ................9©
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VJ.........................   7501  35
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spigeila 
Sanguinaria,  (po  25).. 
...............   55®  601 Arsenicum...........  
Senega 
a, ,n I  o . :_.• 11.... J  T.
SimilflT  rMfipfnoHo  U 
Slmllax, Officinalis.  H
0   40  Balm Gilead  Bud.
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50@  65 I sclllae, (po. 35) ......./**. 
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1 Symplocarpus,  Fcstl-
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Valeriana, Bng.  (po.30)  ®   25
Inglbera................... 
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A m ica..........................  12®
Anthem is.....................  30®
Matricaria

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Cassia  Acutlfol,  Tln-

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Alx.  35©
and  U s......................   15©
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Anlsom,  (pa  20). 
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Aplum  (graveleons)..  14©   16
Bird, Is........................ 
4®  6
Carol, (po. 18)..............  10®  12
Cardamon....................1  0001  251 Cassia F ractus............   ©
Corlan drum ................. 
Cannabis Sativa.............   4©  5
^ d o n lu m .......................   7501 00
lenopodlum  ............  10©  12
Dlpterlx O dorate.......2 40©2  60
Foenioulum.................  ©  15
Foenugreek,  po..........  
6®  8
L in i.............................  sm® 4
Lini, grd.  (bbl. 8M) ..  3MC
Lobelia.........................   ss©
Pharlaris C anarian.... 
4© 
R ap a.............................4M®
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11©

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0   40
.... 
....  ®  30
©   20
sifted sorts... 
p o ...................   600  80
Aloe, Barb, (po. 60)...  50© 
60
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Cape, (po.  20'
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Soco tri, (po. 60). 
50 
Catechu, Is, (Ms, 14 Ms,
1
16)..............................   ©
601 6J 
Ammoniac...................  55®
Assafetida,  (po.50) 
50©
56 
Bensotnum...................  50©
55 I
C am phora....................   46©
Hup]
ih erbium
p o .........  35©  10
Galleban urn.
Gamboge,  po...............   70©
Gualaeum, (po  85)....  ©
v * » ™ » ......
Mastio 
Myrrh, (po. 45)
Opll  (po  3 3003 50) . .2  6^02 70 I TmüraH.  c i   Ó  T  " i  
Shellac 
.........  40©  60  Jnn?^erlB  co- o. T ... .1 
T ragacanta.................   50©  80
T ragacanta.................   50®  80  s T v K S   fd iii 

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bleached  ....  4<®  45  gaaoharam  N.  B-'."  1  7502 00 
...............  .  75®>u.
Spt.  Vini  Galli.............1 7506 50
Vini Oporto.................. 1 2502 00
Vini  Alba......................1 2502 00

D. F. B .......1  7502 00  rhiurf Hr,
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7501  00 I A nnatto........................  ag®
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4®
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............................. *3® 
5®
38©  40
Blsmutn  S.  N ............. 1  60®1  70
Calcium Chlor, Is, (Ms
12:  Ms,  14)...............  ©  lj
Can th arides  Russian,
PO..............................  ©1  00
Capalcl  Fractus, a f...  ©  26
TO....  ®  28
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J po. 
®  20
CaryophyUus, (po.  15)  100  12
Caroline,  No. 40.......... 
0 8  75
Cera  Alba, 8. & F .......  500  55
Cera Flava..................   ss©  40
Coccus.........................  ©  40
©  25
Centraria......................  ©  10
Cetsceum ....................  ©  40
Chloroform.................  60©  68
squlbbs..  ©125
Chloral Hyd Crst........ 1  25©l  50
C hondral....................  20©  25
Clnehonldlue, F.  A  W 
is©  20 
_ 
German  3M©  12
Corks,  list,  dig.  per
cent  .......................  
R
Creaaotum  ....
©  35 ©  2 
Crete,  (bbl. 75) 
5©  5
90  11 
®  8 
350  40 
0   24
Cupri Sulph.................  5  ~
S  12 ® ? ^ ® *   .............  10®
12 
00  Ether Sulph..................  75®
90
numbers..  ®
0   6
0
)  40..........   800  35
Flake 
15
te.
12
Galls
23
Gambler........ ..............   7  ©  g
Gelatin,  Cooper..........  ©  eo
French............  30©  50
Glassware  flint, by box 80.
Less than box 75.
Glue,  Brown...............  
9 0   15
“  W hite.................  130  25
G lycerins....................  14®   20
Grana Paradlsl............  ©  22
Humulus......................  260  55
O  75 
Hydraag Chi or  Mite.. 
“  Cor  ....  ®   65
Ox Rubrum  ®  85 
0   95 
Ammoulad.. 
Unguentum.  450  55
Hydrargyrum.............   ©  60
lohtayobolla, Am..  ..1  2501  50
Indigo........................     750100
Iodine,  Resubl............3 8003 90
Iodoform.........................  
0 4  70
Lupulln...........................  ©2 25
Lycopodium...............  600  65
M acis...........................  70©  76
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy-
ararg lo d ..................   ®  27
Liquor Potass ArslnltlB  100  12 
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
Mannla,  8 .F ...............   600  68

1M)...............................2HO 4

P O ................. 

7502 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

1  40

“ 

Absinthiu m ...........................   25
Bup&torlum...........................   20
Lobelia....................................  26
M ijoram ................................   28
Mentha  Piperita...................  23
“  V lr...........................   25
Rue..........................................   30
Tanacetum, V ........................   22
Thymus,  V .............................  25

XAeXBSIA.

Calcined, P at...............   55©  60
Carbonate,  P at............  20©  22
Carbonate,K. A  M ....  20©  26 
Carbonate, JennlngS..  36©  86 

OLBUH.

Florida  sheeps’  wool
carriage....................2 5002  75
Nassau  sheeps’  wool
carriage  ...................
2 00 
Velvet  extra  sheeps’
110
wool  carriage..........
Extra  yellow  sheeps’
oarriage....................
Grass sheeps’ wool car­
riage  .........................
Hard for  ilate  u se....
Yellow Reef, for  slate 
u s e .............................

S T R U T «.

Absinthium...................... 2 5003 00
Amygdalae, Dulc.........  SO©  60
A c ca d a ..................................  50
Amyaalae, Amarae__ 8 0008 25
Zingiber  ................................  50
f n ld  • -...............................2 6502 «0
Ipecac.....................................   60
Aurantl  Cortex...........1  8002 00
Ferri I o d ........................ 
  50
Bergamli  .....................3 0003 20
Aurantl  Cortes......................  50
C ajfputl...................... 
600  65
Rhel  Aram.............................  50
Caryophylll.................   750  80
Slmllax  Offidnalls...............   60
C ed ar...........................   sg©  «5
„ 
....  50
Chenopodll.................  © l  60
Senega....................................  go
d n n a m o n ll.......................1  6001 76
Sclllae.....................................   go
Cltronella....................  
S   45
_   “  Co................................   60
Conlum  Mao...............   860  65
T o iatan ..................................  so
opalba  ........................  
90
Pranas  rtrg ......................  ..  go

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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.

--

Price 2Ö  Cents.

(f/K E L T P 

i 

PE8KIK8  DRUB  GO.,

Manufacturing Chemists,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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T H  H!  H I C H I Q A N   T R A D E S M A N ,

GROCERY  PRICE  CURRENT.

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

CATSUP.

Blue Label Brand.

“ 

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

Triumph Brand.

CLOTHES  PIN S.

5 gross boxes.................. 40045

COCOA  SHELLS.

351b  bags...'...................  ®3
Less  quantity   
Pound  packages............ 6AO?

.........  ©3M

CO FFEE.
G reen.
Rio.

Santos.

F air..........................................is
Good........................................19
Prim e......................................21
Golden....................................21
Peaberry................................23
.......................................19
Good....................................... 20
Prim e.................................¡'.22
Peaberry  ...............................23
Mexican and Guatemala.
F air...................................1...21
Good........................................22
Fancy......................................24
Prim e................................ 
23
M illed....................................24
Interior.................................. 25
Private Growth.....................27
M andehllng..........................28
85
Im itation............................... 35
Arabian..............................'..SB

Maracaibo.

Mocha.

Java.

R oasted.

To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add Ac. per lb. far roast 
tag and 15 per  cent,  for shrink 
age.

P ackage.

M cL aughlin's  X X X X ..  £1 30
Bunola  . .•...........................  90 80
Lion, 60 or 100 lb.  case__ 21.30

E x tract.

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

“ 

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tin 
CHICORY.

Bulk... 
R ed...

CLOTHES  LIN ES.

Cotton,  40 f t .......... per dos.  1  26
1  4f' 
1  Si 
1  16 
1  9T 
86 
I  OC

soft. 
60 ft. 
70 ft. 
80 ft. 
60 ft. 
72 ft-

Jnte

C R E D IT   CHECKS.

600, any one denom’n .......IS 00
1000,  “ 
....... 5 00
2000,  “ 
........8 00
Steel  p u n c h ................. 
75

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“ 
“ 

CONDENSED  M ILK . 

4’dos. In case.

N.Y.Cond’ns’d Milk Co’s brands
Gall Borden Eagle..............  7 40
Crown..................................... 6  25
Daisy....................................... 5 75
Champion...............................4 50
M agnolia...............................4 a
Dime.......................................8 35

First Prize............................88 50
Darling....................................5 00
Standard................................ 4 50
Leader.................................... 3 60

CRACKERS.
__ Butter.

Seymour XXX..........................5
Seymour XXX, cartoon.......5 A
Family  XXX........................  5
Family XXX,  cartoon........   5 A
Salted XXX...........................5
Salted XXX,  cartoon  .........6A
K enosha................................  7A
Boston.....................................  7
Butter  biscuit......................  6
Soda,  XXX...........................  5 A
Soda, City..............................   7A
Soda,  Duchess......................  8 A
Crystal W afer........................ 10A
Long  Island Wafers  ..........11
S. Oyster  XXX........................5A
City Oyster. XXX.....................5A
Farina  Oyster......................  6

Oyster.

Soda.

CREAM   TA RTA R.
Strictly  pure........................  30
Teller'«  Absolute................ 
30
Grocers’...............................15025

D R IE D   FRUITS. 

D om estic.

Apples.

Peaches.

Apricots.

Blackberries.
Nectarines.

Sundrled........................... 
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes 
California In  bags........  
Evaporated In boxes.... 
In  boxes......................... 
701b. bags.........................
251b. boxes....  ............... 
Peeled, In  boxes............ 
Cal. evap.  “ 
............ 
In bags........  
“ 
California In bags....... 
Pitted  Cherries.
Barrels.............................
50 lb. boxes.....................
.....*............
26“ 
Prunelles.
801b.  boxes....................
Raspberries.
In barrels........................ 
501b. boxes...................... 
........................ 
861b.  “ 
Raisins.

Pears.

“ 

» 

6
8
8A
9
7 4

9
10
10
8 A
6A

20
90A
20A

Loose  Muscatels in Boxes.

2 crow n................................   3^
8 
................................   4A
4 
5
2  crown....................................3m
3 

“  
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Loose Muscatels In Bags.
.................................. ...
“ 

 

 

F oreign.
Currants.

Patras,  bbls......................  ..  2%
Vostlzzas, 56 lb.  cases.......  3

A X LE GREASE.
doz
(Aurora.....................   55
Castor Oil........ ___ 
60
........  50
Diamond..........
......  
75
Frazer’s ...........
Mica  ............... .......  65
........ ........  55
Paragon 

gross
6 00
7 00
5 50
9 00
7 60
6 00

B A K IN G   PO W D ER . 

‘ 

A.cree.
45 
u   ID,  ;ans. 3  doz....
75 
v*:b. 
“  .......
1 60 
i  " ..........
lib . 
10
Bulk............ .Arctic.
55 
)4 % cans 6 doz  case.
1  10 
.
V4 lb  “  4 doz  “ 
1  B>  “  2 doz  “
2  00 
9 00
5  lb  “  1 do*  “ 
-
Queen Flake.
3  oz cans 6 doz  “ 
.........   f W
6  oz  “  4 doz  “ 
...........3  2n
...........4  80
9  oz  “  4 doz  “ 
1 9 ) “  2 doz  “ 
...........4 00
..........  9  00
ldoz  “ 
5  lb  “ 
Red Star,  A lb cans.........  
40
A 1b  “ 
.........  75
...........   1 40
19,  “ 
45
35
Mi lb.  “ 
U b. 
..1 5 0
45
% lb  cans..................  75
1 lb cans..........1  50.

Teller’s,  A lb. cans, do*. 
“  .. 
Our Leader, A .b cans....... 

“ 
■■ 
“ 
“ 
*• 
“ 

' 

BA TH   B R IC K .
2 dozen In case.

BLUING.

English...............................  jjO
Bristol.....................................  30
Domestic.............................  to
Gross
Arctic, 4 o*  ovals...............  3 60
“  80s 
............... 6  75
“  pints,  round............9 00
“  No. 2, sifting box...  2 75 
“  No. 3, 
. .. 4  00
“  No. 5, 
...  8 00
l os ball  ..................   4  50
“ 
Mexican Liquid, 4  oz........   3 60
“ 
8 oz..........   6  80

“ 
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“ 

“ 
BROOKS.

.40,  2 H u r l............
No. 1  “ 
..........
No. 2Carpet  ....
No. 1 
“ 
.......
Parlor Gem........
Common W hisk. 
Fancy 
Warehouse.........

‘ 

1  90
2 00 
2  15 
2  50 
2 5t
85 
1  00 
2 85

BRUSHES.

“ 
“ 

Stove, No.  1.........................I  25
“  10.........................   1 50
“  15.........................   1 75
Sice Root Scrub, 2  row—   85
Sice Root  Scrub, 8 row —   1 25
Palmetto, goose..................   1 50

CANDLES.

Hotel, 40 lb. boxes.............   10
Star,  40 
...............   9
Paraffine  .............................10
W lcklng.............................. S*

“ 

CANNED  GOODS. 

F ish.
Clama.

“ 

Little Neck,  1 lb ................. i  20
“  2  lb ..................1  90
Clam Chowder.
Standard,Sib.......................2  25
Cove Oysters.
Standard.  1 lb......................  75
21b.....................1  35
Lobsters.
Star,  1  lb ..............................2  45
“  2  lb..............................3  60
Picnic,l lo ............................2  00
21b............................2  90
Mackerel.
Standard, î  lo .......................1 10
2  lb ..................... 2  io
Mustard,  210  ......................2 25
: lb..
Tomato Sauce,
.2  25 
Soused, 2 lb .............
.2 25
Salmon.
Columbia River, fiat.......... 1  75
tails..........1  50
“ 
Alaska, R ed......................... l  30
pink......................... i  20
Kinney’s.  flats.................... 1  75

“ 
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“ 

Sardines.
American  U s..................4*4©  5
A s.................6A© 7
Imported  A*......................  ©10
A s....................   15©18
Mustard Ms.......................   607
Boneless............................  
22

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Brook 8, lb ........................... 2  50

Trout.
F ru its.
Apples.

3 lb. standard............. 
YorkState, gallons.... 
Hamburgh,  “ 
....

go
2  50

Gages.

Apricots.
Live oak.......................
1  40 
Santa Cruz..................
1  40 
Lusk’s...........................
1  50 
1  10
Overland....................
Blackberries.
F. A  W.........................
85
Cherries.
Red................................
®1  20
Pitted H am burgh.......
W hite...........................
1  40 
E rie ..............................
1  15
Damsons. Egg Plums and Green 
E rie ..............................
1  35 
California....................
1  25
Gooseberries.
Common......................
1  25
Peaches.
P ie ...............................
1  10 
M axw ell......................
1  50 
Shepard’s ....................
1  50
California....................  160@1  75
.............
Monitor 
Oxford....................
Domestic..... ......__  
l  25
Riverside....................... 
l 75
Pineapples.
Common.......................l  00@1  30
Johnson’s  sliced........  
2 50
2 75
grated........  
Booth’s sliced.............   @2 51
grated............  @2 75
1 10
95
1 40
1 ao
1  25
1  26
1  20
1  05

Common...................... 
Raspberries.
Red................................ 
Black  Hamburg..........  
Erie,  black  ................. 
Strawberries
Law rence....................  
H am burgh..................  
Erie............................... 
T errapin.........................  
Whortleberries.
Blueberries........................ 
Corned  beef  Libby’s ...........2 20
Roast beef  Armour’s ...........2 35
Potted  ham, A lb ..............  1  25
tongue, A lb  ............1 35
“  A lb ..............   75
chicken, A lb ..........  
95
V egetables.

Quinces.

“  A lb

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

Beans.

“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Peas.

Corn.

Hamburgh  stringless.......... l  15
French style...... 2 00
Limas.................. l  «5
Lima, green.............................115
soaked.........................   70
Lewis Boston Baked............ 1 25
Bay State  Baked................... 1  ®
World’s  Fair  Baked............ 1  25
Picnic Baked...........................   95
Ham burgh.............................1  26
Livingston  E d e n ...............].l  10
Parity 
................................1  eo
Honey  Dew................................ j 35
Morning Glory
Soaked...................... ........... 
75
Hamburgh  marrofat............ l  80
early June 
...1   50
C ham pionEng..l  40
petit  pols............1  40
fancy  sifted___1  65
Soaked.....................................   g5
Harris standard......................  75
VanCamp’s  marrofat  ........ l  io
early Ju n e..........130
Archer’s  Early Blossom__ 1  25
F rench................................... 2  15
Mushrooms.
French...................... ..........19021
Pumpkin.
B rie................................... .. .   gi
Squash.
H ubbard......................................1 15
Succotash.
Hamburg.................... . ......... 1 33
Soaked..... ..................  
  go
Honey  Dew.................................1 40
E rie.........................................  35
Hancock................................  90
Exceisinr .............  
99
90
HamDurg............................  1  25
G allon.......................................3  00

iipse............................ 

Tomatoes.

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CHOCOLATE.

Baker’s.

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

23
37
43

HA
HA
11A
11*

CH EESE.
Amboy.........................
Acme.............................
Lenawee......................
Riverside....................
Gold  Medal  ...............
Skim .............................
Brick.............................
Edam............................
Leiden.........................
Llmbnrger  .................
Pineapple.....................
Roquefort— .........
Sap  Sago......................
Schweitzer, Imported. 
domestic  ....

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8 0 9
11
1  00 
20 
0 3 5  
O S 4  
035 
0 8 0  
084 
«14

Peerless evaporated cream. 1 76

86  1-lb carto o n s............   6
15 lb. boxes, b u lk ..........   g
5 o p b 4 b o x e s, b a l k .. . . . . . .   4%
1  I b .c a r t o o n s .....................11

l  Sultana  Raisins.

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

Peel.
25
• 
25 «
Raisins.
Ondura, 29 lb. boxes 
“
Sultana, 20 
Valencia. 3U  “

O   3 
O  7A

‘ 
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California,  100-120 ...............  5A
6A
7A

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

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Turkey...........................
Silver...........................

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ENVELOPES.
XX rag, white.
No. 1,8A .......................  
  31  33
No. 2,6 A ............................   1  10
No. 1,6........ 
1  25
No. 2,6................................  1  00

 

Manilla, white.

6A  ....................................... 
6............................................ 

Cota.

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

FARINACEOUS  GOODS.

115 lb. kegs.

Farina.
Grits.

8A

Hominy.

Walsh DeBoo  &  Co.’s .......2  10
Barrels.................................3 00
G rits.....................................   3A
Dried...............................  5©5A

Lima  Beans.

M&ccaronl and Vermicelli.
Domestic, 12 lb. box__  
Imported......................10 A® 11

55

Pearl Barley.
Kegs............................. 

8

Peas.

Green,  bn..........................   1  05
Split  per l b ...................
Rolled  Oats.

Schumacher, bbl............... lb 00
A bbl............. 2 62
Monarch,  bbl  ....................  451
Monarch,-A  bbl.................2 34
Quaker,  cases.................... 3 20

“ 

75
70

go

Sago.
Germ an....................
East In d ia ...............
Wheat

Cracked..............................  3

FISH—Salt.

Bloaters.

Cod.

Yarmouth..........................
Georges cured.................  4A
Georges genuine............ 7
Georges selected............   7A
Boneless,  bricks............ ey
Boneless, strips..............6K©9

Halibut.

11018

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

Herring.
“ 
“ 

“ 

Holland, white hoops kei 
bbl
Norwegian  ....................
Round, A bbl 100 lbs.......   2 6’
“  A  “  40  “  ......   1  35
Scaled............................... 
16

Mackerel.

No. 1,  100 lbs..................... n   50
No. 1, 40 lbs  .....................   4 70
No. 1,  10 lbs.......................1  25
No. 2, 100 lbs.....................8 25
No. 2, 40 lbs....................... 3 60
No. 2.10 lbs  .....................   98
Family, 90 lbs....................
10  lbs .................

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Sardines.
Trout.

Russian,  kegs....................  56
No. 1, A bbls., lOOlbs........... 4 OR
No. 1 A bbl, 40  lbs...................1 go
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs.............. 
55
No  1, 8 lb  kits................. 
47

Bonders’.

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

Regular 
Grade 
Lemon.

dos
2 or  . . . I   75 
4 os  ....  1  50

Regular 
Vanilla.

doz
2 oz  . .. ,|i   2u 
4 oz.........2 40
XX Grade 
Lemon.
2 oz....... II  50
4 oz.........3 00
XX Grade 
Vanilla.
2 oz....... II  75
4 oz.........3 50

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

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GUNPOW DER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.

1 10
1 75
1 20
2 25

  34

H ER B 8.

: . . . ....... 136

Choke Bore—Dupont’s

Kegs.............................................3 25
Half  kegs....................................1 90
Quarter  kegs............................. 1 10
1  lb  cans...........................  30
A lb  cans.........................  18
Kegs.............................................4 25
Half  kegs....................................2 40
Quarter kegs.. 
1 lb c a n s............................ 
Eagle Duck—Dupont’s.
 

Kegs  .............................. 
  11 00
Half  k e g s ..................................5 76
Quarter kegs...............................3 00
1  lb  cans.......................... 
60
Sage........................................is
Hope....................................... 15
Madras,  5 lb. b o x e s......... 
55
S. F ., 2,3 and 5 lb. boxes.. 
50
JE L L Y .
15  lb. palls..................  @  38
“ 
.................  @  42
17  “ 
30  “  “ 
@ 6 5
 
LICO RICE.
Pure....................................  so
Calabria.............................  26
Sicily..................................  12
Root....................................  10
LYE.
Condensed, 2 dos.......................l 20
4 dos...................... 2 25

IN D IG O .

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ipasiiS

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

MEASURES.
Tin, per dozen.

1  gallon..............................   *1  75
Half  gallon..........................  1 40
Q uart.................................. 
70
P in t.....................................  
45
Half  pint  .......................... 
40
Wooden, for vinegar, per doz.
1 gallon................................   7 00
Half gallon..........................  4 75
Quart..................................  3  75
Pint 

 

2

Whlteflsh.

No. 1  family
A bbls, 100 lbs..........17 00 3 00
A  “  40  “  .......... 3  10  1 SR
101b.  kits............... 
85  45
81b.  “ 
71  39

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

Globe Match Co.’s Brands.

Columbia Parlor.....................$1 25
XXX Sulphur.........................  1 00
Diamond  Match  Co.’s  Brands.
No. 9  BUlpbur......................  66
Anchor parlor.................... ....1  70
No. 2 home............................... 1 10
Export parlor.......................4 00

......................... 
MOLASSES.
Blackstrap.
Sugar house................ 
 
Cuba Baking.
Ordinary............................. 
Porto B it j.
P rim e.................................. 
Fancy 
 
 
F a ir.....................................  
Good  ...........  
Extra good....................... 
.............................  
Choice 
F a n c y ........................... 
 
Half -barrels 3c.extra

N«w Orleans.
 

 

14
u
20
30
18
22
07
3g
40

SALERATUS.

Packed 60 lbs. In box.

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

SEELY’S  EXTRACTS. 

Lemon.
1 os. F. M. 8  90 doz.  810 90 gro
2  “  N. 8.  1  20  •* 
12 60 *•«
F. R . ; 1  40  “ 
14 40  “
2 
Vanilla.
1 oz. F. M.  1  50 doz. 
2  “  N  S.12 00  “ 
2  “  F. M. 2 50 

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

Lemon.
Vanilla.

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

SOAP.
Laundry.

Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.

Old Country,  80  1-lb..........3 20
Good Cheer, 601 lb.............3*90
White Borax, 100  )4-lb....... 8 65

Proctor A Gamble.

Concord.............................3 45
Ivory, 10  oz.......................g 75
_ “ 
6  O*.........................4 00
Lenox...............................  365
Mottled  German................3  15
Town Talk.........................3 35

Dlngman Brands.

“ 

Single box.........................3 95
5 box lots, delivered..........3 85
10 box lots, delivered........3 75
Jas. S. Kirk A Co.’s Brands. 
American  Family, wrp’d. .83 33 
plain. . .  8 27
N.  K.  Falrbank A Co.’s Brands.
Santa Claus.......................  3 99
Brjwn, 60 bars.................. 2 10
“ 
80  bars  .................3 10
Lautz Bros. A Co.’s Brands.
Acme.................................3 65
Cotton Oil..........................g 00
Marseilles..........................4 00
Master  ...............................4 00
Thompson A Chute Co.’s Brands

g iv e r..................................     66
Mono .... 
• • .............. .  5 gp
Savon Improved 
2 Si
Sunflower.......................’  o «1
Golden  .......................  
3 «
Economical  ........................    25
Single  box  .......................3 65
5 box  lots................. 
3  An
10 box lots................ ........  3 Kn
26 box lots del.............. .."  3 40

Passolt’s Atlas  Brand.

SUGAR.

Scouring.
Sapollo, kitchen, 3  doz...  2 40
hand, 3 doz......... 2 40
1 
„   , 
Below  are  given  New  York 
prices on sugars, to  which  the 
wholesale  dealer  adds  the  lo­
cal freight  from  New  York  to 
your  shipping  point,  giving 
you  credit  on  the  invoice  for 
the.  amount  of  freight  buyer 
pays from the market  in which 
he  purchases  toxhis  shipping 
point, including 20  pounds  for 
the weight of the barrel.
Domino...................................$4 75
Cut  Loaf..........................  
4 75
Cubes..........................  "   4 87
Powdered....................  ’"   4 37
XXXX  Powdered........4 ¿2
Granulated............................. 3 94
Fine Granulated.............     3 94
Extra Fine Granulated...  4 C6
Mould A  ............................ 4 37
Diamond Confec.  A......."   4 00
Confec. Standard  A........  3 04

no.  3...................8 !!
S®-  t .................................3 81
No.  6................................ ... 69
No-  7................................   3 ea
No.  8................................ 8 56
No.  9............   .............. 
8 tO
No.  11...................... 
3 37
NO.  12....................... .........3 3j
No.  14................................  3  12

no. £........... s S

Barrels..................................
Half bbls..............................20

SYRUPS.

Corn.

Pure Cane.

PIC K L ES.

Medium.

Barrel!, 1,200  count...  CO 00
Half bbla, 600  count..  C3 CO
Barrel«, 2.400  count. 
6 00
Half bbla, 1,200 count 

Small.

3 SO

P IP E S .

Clay, No.  216............................... 1 TO
"  T. D. full c o u n t........  TO
Cob, No.  8 .................................... 1 20

PO TASH .

48 cam  in cage.

Babbitt’s ............................   4  00
PennaSalt  Co.’s ...............   3  00

B IC E .
Domestic.

Carolina bead.......................6
“  No. 1....................... 5M
“  No. 2.......................   5
Broken..................................   4
Japan, No. 1.......................... 5K
R  No. 2...............................5
Java...................  
Patna......................................   4K

Imported.

5

 
SPICES.

Whole Sifted.

Allspice..................................  9K
Cassia, China In mats.........  9K

“ 

“   Batavia in bund____is
“  Saigon In rolls...........82
Cloves,  Amboyna..................22
“ 
Zanzibar............ ....U K
Mace  Batavia........................80
Nutmegs, fancy.....................76
“  No.  1.........................TO
“  No.  2..........................60
Pepper, Singapore, black.... 10 
" 
w hite...  .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
*  Cochin......................20
Jam aica...................22
“ 
Mace  Batavia........................65
Mustard, Eng. and Trieste. .22
“  Trieste......................25
Nutmegs, No. 2 .....................75
Pepper, Singapore, black__ 16
“ 
w hite.......24
"  Cayenne...................20
Sage.........................................20
’’Absolute” In Packages.

“ 

“ 

M«  Ms
Allspice........................  84  156
Cinnam on.......... ........  84  155
Cloves...........................  84  1  56
Ginger,  Jam a ic a .......  84  1  56
“  A frican............  84  1  56
Mustard........................  84  1  56
Pepper..........................  84  156
Sage...............................  84

SAL  SODA.

“ 

Granulated,  bbls..................  IK
751b  cases........   1*
Lump, bbls 
..........................1  15
.  1)4

1451b k egs............ 

“ 

SEEDS.

A nise...........................   @15
Canary, Smyrna.........  
Caraway............................  
Cardamon, Malabar... 
Hemp,  Russian..........  
Mixed  Bird.................  
Mustard,  w hite..........  
Poppy.................................  
R ape................................... 
Cuttle  bone.................  

4)4
00
4
5@6
10

80

8

9
5

STARCH.

Corn.

 

“ 

20-lb  boxes..............................  6
40-lb 
5)4
1-lb packages............................5K
8-lb 
6K
6-lb 
B)4
40 and 50 lb. boxes...............   3)4
Barrels.....................................  3*

Gloss.
 
 

•' 
“ 

SNUFF.

Scotch, In  bladders..............87
Maccaboy, In Jars................. 35
French Rappee, In Jars.......48
Boxes.................................. 
 
Kegs, English..........................4*

SODA,

5K

SALT.

Diamond Crystal.

Cases. 24 3  lb. boxes.........8  l  60
Barrels, 320  lbs.................  2 50
115 2K lb bags—   4 00
“ 
....  3 75
tO5 
lb  “ 
“ 
J“ 
3010  lb  “  
....  3 50
65
“  20141b bags..............  3 50
“  280 lb  ^bbls............   2 50
“  224 lb 
............   2 25

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

“ 

Worcester.
115 2K-lb sacks..........................|4  co
« 
60 5-lb 
...................... 3 TB
 
3  £)
•* 
3010-lb 
24  141b.B‘* 
......................  3  80
320 lb. bbl.............................  2 50
8 lb  sacks............................32K
go

,  linen acks................. 

Common Grades.

 

 

1  flo

Warsaw.

100 8-lb. sacks............................92 10
60 5-lb.  “ 
2810-lb. sacks............................1 75
561b. dairy in drill  bags... 
281b.  “ 
561b. dairy In linen sacks.. 
56 In. dairy in linen  sacks. 
Soiar Rock.
„  , 
66 1l.  sacks.................... 
 
Common Fine.

Ashton.
Higgins.

80 

•' 

* 

n

........................  
M anistee............................  

75 
75 
22
90
90

Choice............................. 28
TA B L E   SAUCES.
“ 

Lea A Perrin’s, large........4 75
small...... .  2 75
Halford, large...................3 75
small...................2 25
Salad Dressing, larg e...... 4 55
'* 
small.......2 66

“ 
“ 

WET  HUSTARD.
Bulk, per g a l.........   ....... 
30
Beer mug, 2 doz in case...  1  75

YEAST.

Magic.................................. 1 00
Warner’s ............................ 1 00
Yeast Foam  ....................... 1 00
Diamond.............................  75
Royal......  
90

 

 

 

TETE  M 1CHI0AK  TBAJDEmÆAJST,

TEAS.

SUN CUBED.

basket naan.

Japax—Regular.

_   , 
...........................   ©17
Good.............................  ©20
Choice..........................24 ©26
Choicest.......................32 ©34
Dust............................ 10 @12
P air...............................  @17
Good.............................  @20
Choice.......................... 24 @26
Choicest....................... 32 ©34
Dust............................. 10 @12
J**;—......................... 18 @20
Choicest.........................  @35
Extra choice, wire leaf  ©40 
Common to fair............25 ©35
Extra fine to finest....50  ©66
Choicest fancy............75  ©86
@26
Common to fair..........23  @30
Common to fair.......... 23  @28
Superiortoflne............30  ©85
Common to fair.......... 18  ©26
Superior to  fine.......... 30  @4G

ooloxo. 
IM PE R IA L .

rouNG HYSON.

gunpowder.

B X 8L I8H  B R E A K FA ST.

P air.............................18  @22
Choice...................„ „ H   @28
Best.............................40  @50

TOBACCOS.

Fine Cut.

P. Lorillard A Co.’s’Brands.
Sweet Russet.'..............30 @32
Tiger............................... 
30
D. Scotten A Co’s Brands.
Hiawatha.......................  
60
Cuba............................... 
32
Rocket............................ 
30
Spaulding A Merrick’s  Brands.
Sterling..........................  
30
Bazoo............................  @30
Can Can.........................  @27
Nellie  Bly.................24  @25
Uncle Ben.....................24 @25
McGlnty......................... 
25
Columbia...................... 
Columbia, drums......... 
Bang  Up....................... 
Bang up,  drums........... 

“  K bbls.........  

Private Brands.

27
24
23
2)
19

Plug.

Sorg’s Brands.

Spearhead...................... 
Joker.............................. 
Nobby Twist.................... 
Scotten’s Brands.
Kylo................................  
Hiawatha........................ 
Valley City....................  
Finzer’s Brands.
Old  Honesty................... 
Jolly Tar......................... 
Lorillard’s Brands. 
39
Climax (8 oz., 41c).... 
30
Green Turtle.............. 
27
Three Black Crows... 
J. G. Butler’s Brands.
Something Good........ 
38
Out of  Sight................... 
Wllson.di.McCftulay’a Brands.
Gold  Rope...................... 
Happy Thought.........  
37
Messmate.......................  
No Tax............................ 
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 Eagle Co.’s Brands.
Myrtle Navy..  ...................40
Stork................................... 30
German...............................15
Frog....................................32
Java, H* fell.....................  32
Banner Tobacco Co.'s Brands.
Banner.................................16
Banner Cavendish.............. 36
Gold Cut............................. 30

Scotten’B Brands.

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

Brands.

LeldersdorTa Brands.

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

Spaulding A Merrick.

Tom and Jerry.....................25
Traveler  Cavendish........... 38
Bnck Horn.......................... 30
Plow  Boy........  ........... 30032
Corn  Cake.......................... 16

VINEGAR.

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

•1 for barrel.

WOODEN WARE.

FURS.

Tabs, No. 1.!......................  5 75
“  No. 2.......................... 4  75
“  No. 8.......................... 4  00
1  25
Palls, No. 1, two-hoop. 
“  No. 1,  three-hoop....  1  35
Bowls, 11 Inch....................
13  “  .................... 
“ 
90
“ 
15 “ 
.....................  1  25
17 “  .....................   1  80
“ 
 
19 “ 
2 40
“ 
21  “ 
...................
HIDES  PELTS  and  FURS 
Perkins  A  Hess  pay  as  fol­
lows :
Mink.................  30  @  1  00
Coon  ...............   30  © 
80
Skunk...............  
re  @  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
Badger..............  50  @  1 00
Cat, wild........... 
;o  ©  75
Cat,  honse.......  
10  @  25
Fisher..............   5  00 @600
Lynx..................  1  0ft © 2 50
Martin, dark__   2  00 @ 3 00
Martin, pale,  yel  1  00 0   1  50
Otter..................  5  00 @ 8 0J
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  @  1254
Green........................  
a@3
Part Cored.................  ©  4
Full  “ 
©  5M
Dry..............................  5 @ 6
Kips, green  ................  3 @ 4
“  cured.................  ©  6
Calfskins,  green.......   5  © 6
cured........6  © 8
Deacon sklnB............... 10 ©26

HIDES.

“ 

 

 

No. 2 hides it off.
FXLTS.

WOOL.

WHEAT.

M ISCELLANEOUS.

Shearlings...................   5 ©  20
Lambs 
......................25  ©  50
W ashed......................12 @15
Unwashed..................   e @12
Tallow.......................  3K@  4k
Grease  batter  ............  1  @ 2
Switches....................  IK©  2
Ginseng............ .........3 0003 25
GRAINS and FEEDSTUFF'S
No. 1 White (58 lb. test) 
No. 2 Red (60 lb. test) 
Bolted..............................   1  40
Grannlated................. 
1  65
FLOUR  IX  SACKS.
'Patents............................  1  95
'Standards.......................  1  45
Bakers’.............................   -1  x5
'Graham..........................  1 30
Rye...................................  
l 40
'Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Floor in bbls., 25c per bbl. ad­
ditional.

M EAL.

52
52

XILLSTUFFB. Less

quantity 
815 00
13 00
17 00
24 00
23 00

Car lots 
Bran...........
.. 514 50
Screenings.....  12 00
Middlings......  16 00
Mixed Feed. ..2 3  00
Coarse meal ..  22 00
Car  lota...... COBH.
......44
Less than  car lots...... ...... 43
Car  lots...... OATS.
...... 34
Less than car lots........ ....  35
No. 1 Timotb HAT.
No. 1

y, car lota . . . .   9  50
ton lots.. ....11  00

12K

OYSTERS.

FISH  AND  OYSTERS.
FRESH  FISH.
Whltefisb 
.................  ©10
T rout.........................  @  9
Black Bass........  ...........  
Halibut.......................  @15
Ciscoes or Herring__   @6
Blneflsh......................  @10
Fresh lobster, per lb.. 
20
Cod......... ................... 
10
No. 1 Pickerel............   @10
Pike............................  @9
Smoked White...........  @8
Red Snappers............  
15
Colombia  River  Sal­
12K
mon ......................... 
Mackerel....................   18025
F. J. Dettentbaler’s Brands. 
FalrUaven  counts —   @33
F. J. D.  Selects.........  
28
Selects.......................   @25
F. J. D......................... 
23
Standards..................  
18
Favorite....................  
15
New York  Counts................. 32
Extra  Selects.......................  28
Selects....................................25
I A L....................................... 20
  18
Standards........................... 
 
Mediums........................... 
15
oysters—Bulk.
Counts............... . —  
2 20
165
Extra Selects..per gal. 
Selects....................... 
1  40
1  10
Anchor Standards.... 
1  00
Standards..................  
Scallops............ ......... 
1  50
Shrimps  .................... 
1  -a>
Clams........................  
1  2j
SHELL  GOODS.
Oysters, per  100......... 1  2S@l  50
Clams, 
.  75@i  70

¡Oscar Allyn’s Brands.

17

CROCKERY  AND  GLASSWARE

„  
LAUF  BURNERS.
No. 0 Snn....................................  
40
N0.1  » ..............................
No. 2  “  ...................................................... 
65
Tubular............................................ 
£}
 
Security.  No. 1....................................... 
’ 
an
Security,  No. 2.................... 
...........
Nutmeg...............................................;;;;;;;;  g
Arctic...............................................................    gg

l a m p   c h i m n e y s  —6   dos. l u  box.

■ box.
.  1  re 
-.1 88 
..2 70

.2  10 
.2 25 
.3 26

« 

:: 

«• 
• 

“ 
“ 

First quality.
•« 
» 
XXX Flint.
:: 
a 
Pearl top.
« 
.1 
<• 
“ 

No. 0 Sun......................
No. 1  “  .................... ...........................
No. 2  “  ..........................
„   „ „ 
No. 0 Sun, crimp top, wrapped and labeled.. 
NO. 1  “ 
i>
No. 2  “ 
<•  "
„  
No. 0 Sun, crimp top, wrapped and labeled.  2 60
;::! g
K
« 
. „ 
■w 
No. 1 Snn, wrapped and labeled........... 
3 70
No. 2  “ 
.........J ¿x
“ 
" " ’*'4 89
No.2 Hinge,  “ 
Eire Proof—Plain Top.
_  
No. 1, Snn,  plain  bulb............  
tin
No-2-  “ 
“ 
“ ................
_  
La Bastle.
No. 1 Snn, plain bulb,  per doz.......................1  95
No. 1 crimp,per doz................ 
........1  %
Ka  9  n 
....................................... .  60
„   „  , 
Rochester.
No. 1, ime (65c doz)...............  
o 4«
No. 2, lime ( 0c doz).................. 
' " 3 ?n
No. 2, flint (80c doz)..................... " . ." " " " 4  39
„  
No.2, lime (70c doz).................... 
4  ,
No.  2 flint (80c doz).................. .” ‘." " .4   40

Electric.

. _ 

. 

tt

 

 

Mlscellaneons.
Junior, Rochester....................
Nutmeg...... ........................................................«
Illuminator Bases.......................   .. 
* ’ 1  on
Barrel lots,5 doz  .........................' 
90
7 in. Porcelain Shades............... .....................1  no
Case lots, 12 doz.......................................  *  ’  gjj

v  . ■ 

Mammoth Chimneys for Store  Lamps.

...........iq

OIL CANS.

Pump Cans.

Box
Doz. 
No. 3 Rochester,  lim e........1  50 
4 go
No. 3 Rochester, flint.  ___ 1  75 
4 80
5 25
No.  3 Pearl top or Jewel gl’s. 1 85 
5 10
No.  2 Globe Incandes. lime...l  75 
5 85
No. 2 Globe Incandes. flint...2 00 
No.  2 Pearl glass.................... 2 10 
6 00
Doz.
« 
1  gal  tin cans with spout........................... 
j
1  gal  galv iron, with spout..................... 
2 00
2 gal  galv Iron with spout  ......................' 
3 25
3 gal  galv Iron with spout.........................4 50
6 gal  McNutt, with spout.............................6 11O
" "  6 00
5 gal Enreka, with spout................... 
5 gal  Eureka with faucet............................7 no
5 gal  galv iron  A. A W  ....................... ’ 
r 50
5 gal Tilting Cans,  Monarch.............. 
10 co
5 gal galv iron Nacefas....  ...............'.'.'.'.^95o
3 gal  Home Rule................................. 
m 50
5 gal  HomeRnle................................." "  "12 00
3 gal  Goodenough........................... 12 00
5 gal  Goodenough  ............  
5 gal  Pirate  King  .............................................50
„  
No. 0,  Tubular, cases 1 doz.  each........ 
45
No. 0, 
4*
“  2  “ 
bbls 5  “ 
No. 0, 
40
boll’s  eye, cases 1 doz each' 1 00
No. 0, 
or,
No. 0, per  gross.................................. 
“ 
................................ '.'.‘.'."'.  28
fi
 
“ 
 
no. 3, 
Mammoth, per doz................  
75
JELLY TUMBLERS—Tin Top.
K Pints,  6 doz In box, per box (box 00)... 
64
24 it  n  bbl,  “  doz  (bbl 35) ....   23
K 
6  “  “  box,  “  box (box 00) __   1  80
H  “ 
K  “ 
18 “  “  bbl,  “  doz  (bbl 35).....  26
STONEWARE—AKRON.
Butter Crocks,  1 to 6 gal.............................   06
K gal. per doz
...........   60
Jugs, K gal., per doz............
TO
..................  
”  1 to 4 gal., per gal.........
.........   07
Milk Pans, K gal., per dos... 
...........  60
“ 
...........  78
6K
Butter Crocks, 1  and 2 gal......................... 
Milk Pans, K gel. per  doz..........................   65
79

LANTERN  GLOBES.
“ 
“ 
LAMP WICKS.

1  “ 
STONEWARE—BLACK GLAZED.

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

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“

1 

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“ 
OILS.

The Standard Oil Co. quotes as follows :

B A R R ELS.

Eocene...........................................
XXX W. W.  Mich.  Headlight..............
Naptha...................................................
Stove Gasoline......................................
Cylinder...............................................
Engine...................................................13
Black, zero  test.....................................
Black,  15 cold test.......................... . .  .
Eocene...................................................
XXX W. W. Mich. Headlight...............

FROM  TA N K  WAGON.

8K
@ 6K © 7% 
©36 
©21
12
10

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

T r a d e sm a n Co.,  grand rapid&mich.

T H E   M I C H I G A N   T R A D K S M A t j .

5c
5c

TRY  THE

S.C.W.

NICKL.E  CIGAR.

Sold by All Wholesale Dealers Traveling from Orand Rapids.

!

18

CASH  VS.  CREDIT.

Some  N ew   Thoughts  on  a  Threadbare

Subject.

Of all the varied  and  various  systems 
of running a store,  I doubt if there is one 
which has  not  numerous  earnest  advo­
cates and practitioners.  There  are  men 
who  have  won  signal  success  in  all 
branches  of 
trade,  and  by  an  endless 
variety of methods; yet it may  safely  be 
said that  those  who  have  gained  afflu­
ence  in  mercantile  pursuits  have  been 
the  men who have come  the  nearest  to 
doing a cash business.
*  

•  

*

There  is  much  in  favor  of  the  cash 
plan of selling  goods  at  retail,  and  un­
questionably a  far  larger  proportion  of 
merchants in  this country are now doing 
a strictly C. O. D.  business than ever  be­
fore.  There is  a  legitimate  reason  for 
this.  Credits have  been  too  freely  ex­
tended  in 
the  past.  Almost  anybody 
who hung out a grocery  sign  could  buy 
all  the  goods  be  wanted  at  wholesale 
and on time.  The goods  once  obtained, 
the length of accomodation  was  in  great 
measure at the option of the  debtor.  By 
an easy method of deduction the  retailer 
disposed of his goods wherever he could, 
taking a large share of his pay  in  prom­
ises.  There  came  a  day  of reckoning, 
however, and some jobbers and  number­
less  retailers  were  closed  up,  while  a 
great  many  more  barely 
squeezed 
through, and are  even  now  hanging  on 
the  “ragged edge,”  waiting for  business 
to  pick  up.  Business will  “pick  up,” 
but it will be a long time  before  credits 
will be as easy  as they were up to a few 
months  ago.  The  lesson  has  been  a 
severe one, but it  may  be  a  blessing  to 
the majority,  after all,  for  it  will  of  a 
certainty  weed  out  the  weaklings  and 
teach those  who  remain  that  it  makes 
less  difference  about  the  aggregate  of 
sales than the amount  of  net  profits  on 
January first.

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Some reputable wholesale houses have 
joined in the general breaking away from 
the chains of credit. 
I  have  before  me 
the circular of a shoe house  which  says: 
“If you wish  your  goods  quickly,  send 
cash with order.  No goods sold on  time 
and no discount allowed.”  There is  also 
another firm whose terms are “Spot cash. 
No deviation under any  circumstances.” 
It  hardly  seems  as  though  these  terms 
would prove attractive to merchants who 
are at a distance from the  markets,  and 
who are  at all anxious  to  inspect  goods 
before  paying  for  them.  One  would 
think for this reason, as well as for some 
other reasons,  the jobber doing a strictly 
cash business, might  find  his  trade  re­
stricted to rather narrow  limits;  but,  as 
the  houses  referred  to  appear  to  be 
having  a  good  trade, 
this  conjecture 
may be wrong.

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*

In the retail way, it  is often urged,  by 
those who hesitate to adopt the cash plan, 
that the  volume  of  their  regular  trade 
would be immediately reduced and might 
so remain.  That there  is  some  ground 
for this fear, it  would  be  folly  to  dis­
pute.  The  merchant  who  has  been 
“carrying”  people  on  his  books 
for 
years,  has educated  his  trade to  expect, 
as a right,  something  to  which  it  is  in 
no manner entitled.  The bare  announce­
ment that  he  will  henceforth  trust  no 
man will  arouse  a  spirit  of  antagonism 
which may easily  work  to  his  disdvan- 
tage.

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Storekeepers  have  so  long patted  the 
public  upon the  back  that  it  must  be 
handled  more  carefully  than  a  spoiled 
child.  Having decided  to sell  for  cash 
only,  no  matter  for  what  reason,  you 
must set the matter before your  custom­
ers in a pleasing,  as well  as  a  plausible 
manner, and in a way calculated  to  give 
the least possible  offense.  There  are  a 
number  of  points  which  the  merchant 
may work into  his  announcement  if  he 
so desire.  For instance, a cheapening in 
the  price  of  goods;  a  lessening  of  the 
labor of running  the  store;  the  liability 
of  error  in  keeping  book accounts;  the 
advantage  to  the  customer  in  paying 
“spot,” as he does not then go beyond his 
means,  as is so often  the  case  with  the 
ruinous pass book system.

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*

It is as well to keep in the  background 
such matters as your  losses  from bad ac­
counts,  unless it be to  especially  intelli­
gent and,  above  all,  to  good paying cus­
tomers.  Tell  a  dead-beat  thaj you  lost 
money  on  another  fellow,  and  he  will 
think it was good  enough for you. 
If he 
thinks you have lost  enough to seriously 
embarrass you,  he will  leave  your  store 
and trade with your  competitor  who  ap­
pears to be making  money, for,  after all, 
a prosperous man has many  points  wor­
thy of admiration.

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*

There is only one way  to run a strictly 
cash business,  and the  principles of that 
system  are  embodied  in  a  short,  plain 
sentence:  “No credit  to  anybody  under 
any circumstances.”  Just so long as you 
stick to this you  can  run  a  cash  store. 
The minute you deviate  the breadth of a 
hair, you have gone back to credit.

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There  are  many  pleasant  things con­
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principle. 
It  is the cleanest  mercantile 
business in the world.  There  is no  hes­
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you know that  the  cash  is  forthcoming 
when the package is  tied up.  Tou  have 
no  accounts  to collect,  and none to keep 
with customers.  At night  the cash is  in 
the till for all  the  goods  that  have  left 
your shelves.  If you are moderate in ex­
penditures and do not  overbuy,  you will 
always be able to  pay  your  bills  before 
maturity. 

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than upon the  white.  A  moderate  dose 
will  drive him  to frenzy, from which  he 
does not  recover  until  he  falls  into  an 
overmastering stupor.  While the Indians 
were living in tribal  relations, under the 
direction  of  officers  appointed  by  the 
United  States  Government,  the  sale  of 
liquor was prohibited  under  heavy  pen­
alties;  but, now  that  each  individual  in 
the various tribes is receiving his specific 
allotment of land,  instead  of  possessing 
their lands in common with the tribe, the 
ingenious  traders  who  want  to  enrich 
themselves by  debauching  the  wretched 
savages have enlisted  the aid of the law, 
and,  under a decision of a  United  States 
court,  an  Indian  who  will  sell  his  last 
horse,  or  his  wife,  or  his  daughter,  for 
whisky, is allowed  to do it.

The Secretary of the Interior, in his re­
port  to  Congress  on  the  pernicious ef­
fects of the sale of  liquor to the Indians, 
recites that saloons established along the 
boundary line of the  Black-feet  reserva­
tion,  and on  the strip of  land segregated 
from the Uintah reserve,  are  demoraliz­
ing  the  Indians,  of  those  agencies,  and 
the attempt is being made  to break them 
up.  Navajoes  obtain  liquor  freely  in 
towns of New  Mexico,  and  it  is  almost 
impossible  to  prevent  such  sales there, 
since a New  Mexican jury  will  not  con­
vict a whisky  seller on Indian testimony. 
A decision has recently been rendered by 
Judge  Bellinger,  of  the  United  States 
Court of the District  of Oregon,  that  the 
sale of liquor  to an  Indian  who  has  re­
ceived his land in severalty is not in viola­
tion of law,  because  by allotment he  has 
become  a  citizen.  The  Grande  Bonde 
agent  reports  that  since  this  decision 
many Indians  of his agency have become 
“gloriously  drunk,”  and  the  Shoshone 
agent expresses the  utmost  solicitude  if 
this decision is to prevail.

Thus  it  is  that  the  Indians,  like the 
buffalo,  are fading away on the approach 
of the white man,  and the natives  in  the 
interior  of  Africa  who  are  being  sup­
plied with  rum  are  destined to the  same 
fate. 
It  is  entirely  possible  that  the 
only hope for the  Africans  is in those of 
them  who,  by  centuries  of  association 
with  the  whites  under the restraints  of 
slavery,  have  learned  some  lessons  of 
self-government.  The  wild  man,  freed 
from  all  wholesome  restrictions,  and 
confronted with the  vices of civilization, 
cannot  withstand  them.  He  inevitably 
succumbs. 

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Destructive Influence of Civilization.
The  destructive  effect  of  civilization 
on  the  wild  races  of  men  has been re­
peatedly  observed,  but  the  result 
to 
which it is tending  is  not seriously  con­
sidered.

Savage  people,  of  course,  have  their 
vices;  but  they are of  a  nature  adapted 
to their conditions and constitutions,  and 
their effects are not extensively injurious. 
But when  the  simple  people  are  intro, 
duced to the vices  and  excesses  of  civi­
lized  races,  these  are  found  to  be of so 
destructive  a  nature 
savages 
quickly succumb to them.

that 

Unquestionably, the  white  races  pos­
sess more self-control than do any of  the 
dark-skinned peoples.  They  are less in­
tensely endowed  with  nervous  sensitive­
ness;  they are less  subject to be  the vic­
tims  of  excessive  nervous  excitability. 
They consume more  intoxicating  liquors 
than do all the dark  races  put  together, 
and,  injurious as these liquors  are to the 
whites, they would  be vastly  more so  to 
the  peoples  with  darker  skins.  The 
passions of the  dark races  are  infinitely 
more  violent  and  unrestrainable 
than 
are those of the whites,  and to  this  fact 
physiologists have  attributed the beastly 
ferocity  which  characterizes  the  negro 
ravisher.

It  follows,  then,  that  when  the  dark 
races are made  acquainted  with  the  al­
coholic  drinks  of the  whites,  the former 
become completely  overwhelmed and be­
sotted  by  them,  having  none  of  the 
powers  of  resistance  possessed  by  the 
whites.  But, of course,  alcoholic liquors 
are  not  the  whole  of  the  destructive 
agencies which  the whites  have imposed 
on the dark peoples.  They have brought 
their peculiar  diseases,  which  have  as­
sisted to depopulate tribes and communi­
ties.  There  are  many 
islands  in  the 
South Seas which  were once  densely  in­
habited,  but  which  have  been  depopu­
lated of  their  original  races  since  they 
came in contact  with  the  whites.  This 
is particularly true  of the black races  of 
Australia.  They  are  being  rapidly  ex­
tinguished, despite the fact that the Brit­
ish Government has endeavored to protect 
and care for them.  But  it  is  too  mani­
fest that the wild  peoples cannot  endure 
civilization.

The rapid  deterioration of  the  Ameri­
can Indians under the influences  of  civi­
lization has been remarked  by  every  ob­
server.  Under  their  operation  entire 
tribes have disappeared,  and  the  others 
have decreased in numbers most rapidly. 
Smallpox,  measles  and  other  diseases, 
which have swept off  enormous numbers 
of  these  people,  were  unknown  until 
they were introduced  by the whites;  but 
probably  nothing  has  exerted  such  a 
destructive  effect  upon  the  savages  as 
has  whisky.

The Indians had tobacco  from  the  be­
ginning  of  their  residence  in  America, 
for on this continent, and in use by  them, 
it was found at the time of the discovery; 
but it does not seem  to  have  hurt  them 
in  any  way.  The  American  Indian  is 
one of the most  nervous and  impressible 
and emotional creatures in the world.  In 
these 
is 
thoroughly  Oriental.  Tobacco,  which 
was  never used by the savages to excess, 
had the effect of soothing the nervous ac­
tivity  of  the  Indians,  without  hurting 
them.  They  were  entirely  Ignorant  of 
stimulants.

respects  his 

constitution 

Intoxicating  liquors  exercise  vastly 
more powerful  effects upon  the red  man

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GOTHAM GOSSIP.

News  from  the  Metropolis- - -Index of 

the  Markets.

Special Correspondence
N e w  Y o r k,  Dec.  23—Business  daring 
the past week has been almost  wholly of 
a  holiday  character.  The  weather  has 
been superb for  shopping,  and  the  big 
stores have been  jammed  from  morning 
until 10 o’clock at night.  The girls who 
wait upon this crush are not sad when  it 
is over.  They  work  until 10 and get no 
extra compensation.  Of  course, it is bet­
ter than no work at all,  but they shed no 
tears when the whole affair  comes  to  an 
end.
Jobbing  circles  have  been  compara­
tively quiet.  Salesmen  are  being  quite 
generally called in, and  the  time  is  de­
voted to clearing up  the  odds  and  ends 
of a year which  nobody  is  sorry  to  see 
depart.
Trading in coffee is limited to  this  lo­
cality almost altogether.  Very few  buy­
ers have been present  from  the  interior 
and the market is rather flat.  Spot  Rio, 
No.  7,  15J£@15%c.  Total  stock  in
United  States  and  afloat,  567,682  bags, 
against 466,201 bags the  same  time  last 
year.  Mild sorts  in  only  everyday  de­
mand.  Fancy  Javas,  18@21c;  do,  Ma­
lang, 21@22c. Pad an g Interior, 22X@25c.
The  market  for  teas  is  fairly steady 
and  some  very  good  sized  lots  have 
Imports are fully up to 
changed  hands. 
last year and ample  supplies  are  found 
of all kinds.
Molasses is firm and prices  are  practi­
cally unchanged.
Trade in sugar is light for refined  and 
business is very  limited.  Granulated re­
mains at 4c.
Rice  is  firm  and a good  business has 
prevailed all the week.  The  position  at 
primary  points  is  reported  firmer  and 
higher prices  are  confidently  predicted.
Trading in  beans  is  light  and  prices 
are unchanged,  the  market  price  being 
$2.12 >£@2.15 for best  marroes  and  $1.70 
for both pea and medium.
Butter  has  lost  much  of  its firmness 
and,  as the market is  well  supplied,  of­
ferings are freer.  Extra Western cream­
ery, 24c; firsts, 21@22c.; State  creamery, 
extra, 22c.
Cheese is dull,  with prices  unchanged. 
The demand is inactive  and  holders  are 
waiting for something to turn up.
Eggs  are  lower,  but  the  lessening of 
prices has  not  induced  any  further  de­
mand.  Western, 21J£@22c.
Potatoes are in full supply and  selling 
for $1@1.63 per bbl.
Provisions  have  settled  into  a  rut 
which seems very hard to  get  out  of  be­
fore the turn of the year, yet the  general 
tone is  a  strong  one.  New  mess  pork, 
$13.25@13.75; family mess,  $12@12.50.
Doubtless  canned  goods  might  be 
duller,  but  they  never  were,  and  the 
prospect  grows  no  more  enchanting. 
The one redeeming  feature is that stocks 
on the shelves of retailers must  be light. 
But,  notwithstanding  this,  they do  not 
scramble for more.  Corn  and  tomatoes 
are  particularly  dull. 
It  was  hoped 
that  the  convention  that  recently  as­
sembled  in  Baltimore  would  be  well 
attended by representative  packers, but, 
on the contrary,  it might almost  be  said 
to have  been  conspicuous  by  their  ab­
sence.  Why  is  it  that  Eastern  people 
will not meet and form such  an  associa­
tion as they have in the West?
There  has  been  an  active  trade  in 
fancy dried fruits, such as raisins, dates, 
prunes in fancy packages,  etc.,  and  the 
groceries have made a big  effort  in  this 
direction  during  the  past 
fortnight 
Everybody can indulge to  excess  with  a 
very limited amount of cash.
Fresh fruits are selling well, especially 
fancy apples.  Foreign  fruits,  bananas, 
oranges and lemons are all on  the jump. 
For  oranges,  however,  the  demand  is 
confined  more  to  the  Florida  produet, 
and the Jamaica article  is  not  so  much 
sought after.
Spices are weak and  the  demand  dur­
ing the past week  has  been  almost  nil. 
Prices have showed no particular change 
for a long time.
A great sale of cottons took  place  last 
Wednesday  and  $2,225,000  worth  of 
goods changed hands.  The  prices  were 
only about 5@10 per  cent,  below regular

T H E   M I C H I G A N   T R A J D E S M A I i.

rates and the  result  was  very  satisfac­
tory all  around.  No  appreciable  effect 
was observable upon the  cotton  market.

Lakeview  Laconics.

L a k e v ie w ,  Dec.  22—The  Stebbins 
Manufacturing Co.  is now  taxed  beyond 
its capacity, although it has been doubled 
a  half  dozen  times  in  the  past  three 
years.
Some men here seem to have gone wild 
over the grocery business.  There are, or 
soon  will be,  eleven  men  in  that  busi­
ness—just five too many for  profit.
If men here mean  what  they  say,  and 
say  what  they  mean,  the  electric light 
plant will not be  accepted,  unless  a  big 
improvement in  Its  lighting  capacity  is 
brought about.
Every Lakeview citizen claims that we 
have the  most  beautiful  main  street  to 
be found in any town  of its size in Mich­
igan.
It is believed that, at no  distant day,  a 
first-class  gravel  driveway  will be built 
the entire circuit of our lovely lake.
Many of our farmers are  holding  back 
their  potatoes,  believing  that  the  price 
will be higher.
Our lumbermen  are getting  in  doubly 
good shape  to rush logging, should a fair 
fall of the “beautiful” occur.
Peter  Hansen,  of  Morley,  has  rented 
Jas.  M.  Beech’s  new  brick  store  here, 
and  will  conduct  the  grocery  business 
therein.
Immediately  after  the  big  fire  here, 
Chas. M.  Northrop  transferred  his  gro­
cery and clothing  business  to  his  ware­
house  at  the  depot  He  has leased  his 
new brick store to a Grand  Rapids  man, 
and will continue his own business where 
be  now  is.  Mr.  Northrop  owns  the 
creamery property here,  and  should  the 
next season be  favorable,  will  push  the 
buttermaking business  for  all  that  it  is 
worth.
It is said that a  young druggist  of this 
place  will  soon  wed  one of Lakeview’s 
most estimable  daughters.
After the fire, John  T.  Butler  located 
his grocery business  near the depot,  and 
is so well pleased with  his  location  that 
he will remain where he is.
H.  C.  Thompson  has  bought  a  new 
store, changed his location for the better, 
and added a stock of grain, flour and feed 
to his business.

The  Grain  Market.

The receipts for  the  past  week  were 

as follows:
Wheat................................................. ...........40  cars.
Corn 
•*
.......: ..................................................83 
Oats.................................................................3 
-‘
This is above the average for corn,  about 
the normal for oats,  but  below the  aver­
age for wheat  One cause for  the  small 
amount of wheat is the Gar  Service rules 
working harm to the  millers.  We  have 
done  all  we  could,  but  are  unable  to 
comply  with  the  arbitrary  rules  of the 
Car  Service  Association. 
In  order  not 
to be annoyed all the time, th e mills will 
consume  less  wheat,  which  will  prob­
ably please the  railroad  officials  better.
Prices have been very steady, although 
the visible increase  was  twice  as  large 
as  was  anticipated,  and  will  probably 
reach the 90,000,000 mark,  if  not  more. 
The great question which is agitating the 
speculators’  mind  is,  how  long  it  will 
take to ship this out.

The  trade  papers  are  talking  about 
Texas,  South  Dakota,  Missouri  and 
Kansas  being  bare  of  wheat.  Should 
receipts diminish in the  near  future,  as 
is anticipated,  the  enormous visible will 
not be burdensome and higher prices will 
prevail before long.  The market has the 
usual holiday appearance.

Oats seem to be rather scarce,  as  there 
seems  td  be  6,000,000  bushels  less  in 
sight than there was one year ago.  Corn 
has  been at a stand off, and, from present 
appearances, not much of a change is ex­
pected in the  near  future,  at  least  not 
nntil after the  holidays.

C.  G. A. Voiot.

ciation.

Grand  Rapids  Retail  Grocers’  Asso­
At the  regular  meeting  of  the  Grand 
Rapids Retail Grocers’  Association,  held 
Monday  evening,'  Dec.  17,  President 
White  announced  that  he  would  leave 
the  city  early  in  January  for a visit to 
his former home and friends in  England, 
whereupon the  following  resolution  was 
presented and adopted:
W h e r e a s ,  It has come to our attention 
that oar worthy President  is soon to  pay 
a visit to Merry England; therefore
Resolved—That we wish our  President 
a speedy voyage,  a happy visit and a safe 
return and trust that he  will  investigate 
the grocers’ associations of  England  and 
present us an exhaustive  report  thereon 
on his return.
The resolution adopted Feb.  19,  1894, 
agreeing to discontinue the sale of  Soap- 
ine, owing  to  the  fact  that  the  manu­
facturers sell it to the  consumer  cheaper 
than it can be purchased by  the  retailer, 
was re-affirmed.
Julius  J.  Wagner,  of  the  Committee 
on Essays, asked for farther time,  which 
was granted.
A considerable  discussion followed  on 
the rebate method of  selling  flour,  clos­
ing  with  the  adoption  of  a  resolution 
that the entire matter be held  over  until 
the third Monday In January and that no 
meeting  be  held  the  first  Monday  in 
January.
There being  no  farther  business,  the 
meeting adjourned.
Announcement  of  the  State  Board  of 

Pharmacy.

Owosso, Dec. 12—The  Board will hold 
a special meeting for  the  examination of 
candidates in Arion Hall,  corner of  Wil­
cox  and  Barclay streets, Detroit, Jan.  8, 
1895, commencing at  9  a.  m.,  and  con­
tinuing  for  two  days.  All  candidates 
must report at  Arion  Hall,  at  9  a.  m., 
city time.
Candidates must file  their applications 
with  the  Secretary,  and  must  furnish 
affidavits showing that they have had the 
practical  or  college  experience  required 
before  taking  the  examination.  Appli­
cations for examination and  blank forms 
for affidavits for practical  or  college  ex­
perience  may  be  obtained from the Sec­
retary.
Commencing  with  the  Grand  Rapids 
meeting, the writing, grammar and spell­
ing,  as shown in  the  candidate’s  paper, 
will be taken into consideration In mark­
ing percentages.  This step  is  taken  in 
compliance with  a  resolution  passed  by 
the State  Pharmaceutical  Association  at 
its meeting in Detroit last summer.
Other meetings will be held during the 
year as  follows:
March 5—At Grand Rapids.
June 24—At Detroit (Star Island).
August—At some  point  in  the  Upper 
Nov. 5—At Lansing.

Peninsula.

S t a n l e y   E .  P a r k i l l ,  Sec’y.

PRODUCE  M A R K ET .

for 

Apples—The  market  Is  about  the  same  as a 
week ago.  Baldwins are still sold at  t i  per bbl., 
but Greenings and Spys are held at S3 85.
Beans—The  market  Is  a  little  stronger,  the 
price  having advanced  3®^c  per bu.  Handlers 
pay  $1.2531.30 
country  picked,  holding 
city  picked  at  81.55 in small lots  and  81.50  in 
carlota.
Butter—A drug  on  the  market.  Good  stock 
goes begging at 16c and  creamery is  correspond­
ingly depressed.

cording to size and quality.

Beets—30c per doz.
Cabbage—Price ranges from 8134  per  100,  ac­
Celery—Is held by dealers at 18315c per  doz.
Cranberries—Leach’s Walton Junction fruit Is 
eagerly sought for by the trade at 83.5033.75  per 
crate, according to quality.
Eggs—In fair demand and adequate  supply—a 
condition seldom prevailing in this latitude dur- 
the  Christmas  holidays.  Strictly  fresh  com 
mands 2>c and pickled stock  18c.
Grapes—Tokays, 88.50 and  83.75  per  crate,  ac 
cording to size.  Malagas, 86.50 per 50-lb. keg.
Lettuce—l-H cper lb.
Onions—Red weatherflelds  and  Tellow  Dan 
vers  command  40c  per  bu.  Spanish  stock, 81 
per box.

Parsnips—40c per bu.
Parsley—85c per doz.
Pears—California« bring 88 per bu. box.
Potatoes—The  m arketls  featureless,  most  of 
the recent shipments having  resulted  in  losses 
to the shippers, so that they  are  afraid  to  take 
hold of them.  Retail dealers  here  pay  45c  for 
their supplies.
Radishes—Hot house stock commands  30c  per 
doz. bunches.
Sweet Potatees—Hllnols Jerseys  are  the  only 
variety  still  In  market.  They  command 83 per 
bbl.

Squash—Hubbard brings IKo per lb.

T h e   D ru g   M a rk e t.

T h e  u su al  s ta te  o f tra d e  of  th e   ho lid ay  
season ex ists,  and  as th e re   is  little   b usi­
n ess  tra n sac te d   in   th e   e aste rn   m ark ets 
th e re  are few  ch an g es  to   note.

G um  o pium   ru le s stead y   a t  u n c h an g e d  

prices.

M orphia  is  in  lig h t d em an d   an d   p rices 

a re   steady.

Q u in in e  is u n ch an g ed .  C o n tracts  fo r 
1895  a re   b ein g   m ade  a t low   p rices  an d  
it is b elieved  th a t  a n   ad v an ce  w ill  com e 
w ith   th e  s p rin g  dem and.

M enthol Is ru lin g   firm ,  w ith   a  lim ited  

su p p ly .

F o reig n   co m p etitio n  

h am m erin g  
th e   p rice  o f  borax .  T h e   A m er­

dow n 
ican  p ro d u cer w ill  n o t be  u n d erso ld .

is 

C an ary  an d   hem p   seeds a re   a  frac tio n  

low er.

Caffeine  is  ag ain   in   good  s u p p ly   an d  

m u ch  low er in  p rices.

P ilo ca rp in e   is  bein g   sold  a t  alm o st 
in   open 
p ro h ib itiv e   prices. 
m a rk e t a t from  $75 to  $100  p e r  ounce,  as 
to  view  of  holders.

I t   is  h eld  

O il  an ise h as  d eclin ed  an d   th e   m a rk e t 

is  w eak.

 

 

O il  cloves  is  a  fra c tio n   low er.
$   OYSTBRS  %
I  am  keeping  down  prices  notwithstanding 
the  advance.  Order  at  once for  your  holiday 
trade.
14
Daisy Brand, Favorites, per  can................... 
Daisy Brand, Standards, per can  ................. 
16
Daisy Brand. Selects, per  can  ......................  
88
Solid Brand, Standards, per can................... 
80
Solid Brand, B. F.,  per can.............................  
80
Solid Brand, Selects, per  can.........................  
84
Solid Brand, Extra Selects, per can.............8  86
Standards, per  gal...................  
90
Extra Standards, per  gal..............—...............  1  00

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

Oysters fine and cans well filled.
The Queen Oyster Palls at bottom  prices.
Mrs. Wlthey’s Home Made Jelly, made  with
green apples, very fine:
30-lb.  pall.................................................... 
 
»0-lb  p all............................................................. 
17-lb.  pail.............................. 
15-lb. pall.................................. 
Mrs. Wlthey’s Condensed Mince Meat,  the
Mrs.  Withey’s bulk mince m eat:
40-lb. pall, per  lb........................ 
851b. palls, per lb ..............................................  5)4
10-lb. pails, per lb ..............................................  6V%
Pure Cider vinegar, per gallon...................... 
10
Pure Sweet Cider, per gallon.................. 
 
12
Fine Dairy Butter, per l b ............................... 
80
Fresh Eggs, per doz..........................................  
17
New Pickles, medium, barrels........................6 00
New Pickles,  Vt barrel..................................... 8 00
New Sauer Kraut,  barrels...............................4 00
New Sauer Kraut, % barrels...........................   2 60

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

75
57
5G
45

 

 

EDWIN  FALLAS,

Oyster Packer  and  rianulacturer.
VALLEY  CITY  COLD  STORAGE, 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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,  1J4 
In.;  Breast  Collar,  \ \   In.;  Brlchlng,  1% In.; 
Bridle  with  blinds  and  overcheck,  or,  if  de­
sired  we  will  send  a   v s r t   n z a t   l i g h t   o p e n  
b r i d l e .  I am so confident that this harness will 
suit that I will send it by express C. O. D. to any 
point In the State, with the privilege of  examin- 
Ing it before paying for it.  and,  If  not  satisfac­
tory,  return  It  at  my  expense.  Mo  Risk.  It 
W ill Cost  You Nothing to see  It.

6. H. WILMOY, Grand Rapids,

187  and  198  South  Division  St,

Muskegon  Bakery  Crackers

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

Are  Perfect  health  Food.

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

one can  be  best—that  is  the original

fluskegon
Bakery
Butter
Cracker.

Oysters
ANCHOR  BRAND

OLD  RELIABLE

A1 lorders receive prompt  attention  at 

lowest  market  price.

See quotations in Price Current.

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

Pure, Crisp, Tender,  Nothing  Like  it  for  Flavor.  Daintiest, 

Most Beneficial  Cracker you can get for  constant table use-CAR STOVE.

117  and  119  Monroe  St.,  Grand  Ranids.

Nine
Other
Great
Specialties
Are

Muskegon  Toast,
R o\al  F ruit  Biscuit, 
Muskegon  Frosted  Honey, 
Ietd  Cocoa  Honey Jumbles, 
Jelly T urnovers,
Ginger Snaps,
Hom e-M ade  Snaps, 
Muskegon  Branch,
Mlik  Lunch

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

United.  S ta te s   B aiting  Co.

LAWRENCE  DEPEW,  Acting  Manager,

Muskegon,

Mich.

Are You Selling

The  Celebrated 

Cleaned  Greek  Currants 

and the Genuine 

Cleaned Sultana Raisins.

Prepared  by

Grand Rapids Fruit

Cleaning  Company.

«E»,.  Clea*eob>

*C "D8AP,Ds

* W a n i n g  co.J

THE
ONLY
PERFECT
8T01/E

FOR
u s e
IN
SHIPPING
POTATOES.

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

IF   N O T ,  W H Y  N O T ?

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  Grocer 
Co.,  Olney  &  Judson  Grocer  Co.,  I.  M.  Clark  Grocery  Co., 
Hawkins & Co.

iW F or Quotations see Price Current.

Write For Price.

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T h e  D a y to n   C o m p u t i n g   S c a l e

WflRNINfi-To  Users  of  Scales.

The trade are hereby warned against  using any infringements on  Weigh­
ing  and  Price  Scales  and  Computing  and  Price  Scales,  as  we  will  pro­
tect our rights and the rights of oar general  agents under Letter sPatent of the 
United  States  issued; in  1881,  1885,1886,  1888,  1891,  1S93 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  and  Price  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.
  DAYTON COMPUTING SCALES.

  BUY  I

BE H

I

See  W h a t   U sé is   S a y :

“We are delighted  with it.”  The .Tos.  R. Peebles Son's Co., Cincinnati, u- 
“Would not part with it for $1,000.” 
Dan. W. Charles, Hamilton, O.
“It saves pennies ever time we weigh." 
Charles Toung, Adrain, Mich.
“They are worth to us each year five times their cost.”
Ranp & Hayman, Constantine, Mich. 
“We are very much pleased with its work.”
Henry J. Vinkemulder * Bro., Grand Rapids, Mich. 
“Since the adoption of your scales have made more money  than  ever  be­
Prank Daniels, Traverse City, Mich.
“ Itake pride in recommending them to every user of sea es.”
Chas. Railsback, Indianapolis, Ind. 
“I heartily recommend them to all grocers who wish  to save money.”
Geo ;P. Kreltline, Indianapolis, Ind. 
“It is the best investment I ever made ” 
T. L. Stultz, Goshen, Ind.
ZW" For further particulars drop a Postal Card to

fore.” 

HOYT  &  CO.,  Creneral Selling  Aunts,

H.  LEONARD  &  SONS.

DAYTON,  OHIO.

W  e  w ill  be  read y  for  y o u   the First  of  J a n u a r y   1 8 9 5   to  talk

G A S O L IN E   S T O V E S .

The  “ New  Process”  Stoves 

The  Michigan  Generator  Stoves

Have been greatly  improved and are,  without  a  question,  the 
best vapor stove  in  the  market.  Don’t  think  of  selling  any 
other  stove  this  coming  season  if  you can  get the agency for
the “ New  Process.”

Write  Us  Early.

Don’t cost any more than to wait until some one  else  gets  the 
best selling stove.  Be up with the times and get there first.

An  entirely  new  line  for  the  coming  season.  They  con­
tain some new features never before shown on  gasoline  stoves 
and are only found on the ITichigan Stove.
Write  Us  Early.

We  are  going  to  give  the agency of these stoves to but 
one dealer in a town, see  that  you  get  it—for  they  are  the
easiest and best selling generator stoves ever offered.

' W r i t e   for  C atalogu e  an d   D iscounts.

H.  LEONARD  &  SONS,  QRAN£ $ P,DS'

