V

PUBLISHED WEEKLY

TRADESMAN  COMPANY, PUBLISHERS:

VOL. X II.

GRAND  R A PID S,  JA N U A R Y   9,  1895.

ABSOLUTE  TEA.

The  Acknowledged  Leader

SOLD  ONLY  BY

S P I C E  

C O .,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

T E L F E R  
GRAND  RAPIDS 

BRUSH  GOMP’Y,
KRS OF B R U S H E S GRAND  RAPIDS, 

MICH

MANUFACTUR 

O a r  Goods  a re   sold  b r   a ll  M ichigan  Jo b b in g   b o u ses.

EDWARD A  MOSELEY, 

TIMOTHY F. MOSELEYM O SELEY   BROS.

Established 1876

SEEDS  BEANS,  PEAS,  POTATOES,  ORANGES  and  LEMONS.

Egg  Cases and Fillers a Specialty.
86,  28,  30  and  38  O ttaw a  St., GRANI»  R A PID S,  M ICH.

Jobbeis'of

Lansing, Mich.  rWJrACTUBER  LouisyiIIe.Ky

Duck 

C oats 

NO.  590

, Kersey 
P an ts

We  manufacture  the  best  made  goods  in  these  lines  of 
any  factory  in  the  country,  guaranteeing  every  garment  to 
give entire satisfaction, both in fit and wearing qualities.  We 
are  also  headquarters  for  Pants,  Overalls  and  Jackets  and 
solicit  correspondence  with  dealers  in  towns  where goods of 
our manufacture are not regularly handled.
L a n s i n g   P a n t s   &  O v e r a ll  Co.,

LANSING,  n iC H .

MU8SELMAN  GROßER  GO.,
fi  H  B l l l i f i s M i M l l l

WESTERN  MICHIGAN  AGENTS  FOR

SPRINGDALE  (dairy)  in  1  and  2  lb.  rolls  and  tubs.
SPRIN GD ALE  CREAH ERY  in  1  lb.  rolls,  2  lb.  prints  and  tubs.
GOLD  NUGGET  (fancy  creamery) in  1  lb.  prints.

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

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

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

Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow,

DEALERS  IN

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

WE  CARRY  A  STOCK  OF  CAKE  TALLOW  FOR  MILL USE.

Rubber
Clothing 

and  Oiled

Clothing 

Mackin toshes,

Large Line, 

Prices Right,

WEST  MICHIGAN  AGENTS

L,  Candee  C o .’s  Rubbers,

OUR  STOCK  IS  COMPLETE. 

CAN  SHIP  PROMPTLY.

s t u d l e y   &  BARCLAY,  Grand Rapids.  Mich.

4  MONROE  ST.

Do You W ant Some Nice

§mm CA N D Y

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

A, E.  BROOKS i GO., 5 i 7 loaia 8b, GrandRapids, Mich..

Are now in season. We manufacture j All  Kinds
V 11  WAFER 01I I O M ,
Try  Our gum  —.

with neat and attractive label. 
packages we have ever put out.

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

Handsome embossed  packages,

packed  2 doz.  in  case  '
These  goods  are  positively  the 

guarantee entire satisfaction.

1  lb. $2.40  per doz.

2  lb.  $4.80  per doz.
finest  produced  and  we

SEND  US  YOUR  HOLIDAY  ORDERS.

New York Biscuit C o .,

S.  A .  SBAJRS,  Manager,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

We  Are  Headquarters  For

CANNED  GOODS,

Carrying in stock the  largest  and  most  complete  line  of 

any house  in the State, including full assortments of

CURTICE  BROS.’  Fruits and  Vegetables, 

and

FONTANA & CO.’s Columbus  Brand California  Fruit.

Inspection of our stock and correspondence solicited.

Im p o r te r s   a n d

Wholesale  Grocers

G ra n d   R a p id s.

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

Manufacturer*  of  Show  Gasea  of  Every  Description.

FIRST-CLASS  WORK  ONLlf.

08  and  60  Canal  S t ,  Grand  Rapids,  Mien

WRITE  FOR  PRICKS

Standard  Oil  Co.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  fllCHIGAN

D E A L E R S   IN

Illuminating  and  Lubricating

Naptha  and  Gasolines.

Office, Michigan  Trust Bldg. 

Works,  Bntterworth  Ave.

BULK  W ORKS  AT

GRAND  RAPIDS, 
BIG  RAPIDS, 
ALLEGAN,

MUSKEGON, 
GRAND  HAVEN, 
HOWARD  CITY,

MANISTEE, 
TRAVERSE  CITY. 
PETOSKEY.

CADILLAC,
LUDINGTON,

Highest  Price  Paid  for

EMPTY  CARBON  i  GASOLINE  BARRELS.

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Makes a Specialty of acting'»«

Executor of W ills, 
Adm inistrator of  Estates, 
Guardian  of  Hinors and  In­

competent  Persons, 

Trustee orJAgent

In the management of any  business  which  may 
be entrusted to it.
Any  information  desired  will  be  cheerfully 
furnished.
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Anton  ti.  Hodenpyl,  Sec’y.
MICHIGAN

Fire & Marine Insurance Go.

O rganised  1881.

DETROIT,  MICHIGAN.

.T H E

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INS.
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PROMPT.  CONSERVATIVE. 

J.  W.  CHAMPLIN,  Pres.

8STA.B1JSHEP  1841.

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R. G. D u n   &  Co.

Reference Books Issued  quarterly.  Collections 

attended to throughout United States 

and Canada

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

Telephone 166 and 1030 for  particulars.

C.  E. BLOCK.

W.  H. P. ROOTS.

A .  B. KNOWL,SON,
Cement,  Lime, Coal, Sewer Pipe, Etc.

Wholesale Shipper

CARLOTS  AND LESS 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH,

D  O ’  p  T£  f Q   HEADACHE
Jl  H iV I V   O  
p o w d e r s
Pay the best profit.  Order from your jobber

Try  OLD  LEE  inthracitB.
I P.  BENNETT  FUEL  X 
ICE  CO.

Most durable coal in the market.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

GRAND  R A PID S,  W EDNESDAY,  JA N U A R Y   9,  1895. 

NO.  590

T H E   B A C K   O FFIC E .

W ritten for  Thb Tradesman.

With  the  employer  “freedom  of con­
tract”  means:  “Heads  I  win,  tails  you 
lose.”—Typographical Journal.

Well,  now, 1 don’t know about that.  Is 
it true that a  man,  having  invested  bis 
money  in  business  when  everything  is 
all  ready  to  start  up,  takes  out a cent 
and says to the men who  are to work for 
him:  “Now,  boys,  this is a game  of  flip- 
up.  Here  goes.  Heads 1 win,  tails  you 
lose?”  Let  ns  make  believe  that  it  is 
that game.  So  long as  the  outcome  de­
pends on chance,  what difference does  it 
make which condition is mentioned first? 
Again,  granting  that  what  is  implied 
should  be  done,  that,  when  the  time 
comes for the fun to begin,  the employer 
puts  the  coin  into the hands of the  em­
ploye who hasn’t any coin  and  lets  him 
do the flipping  up. 
It is still  a game  of 
chance with the same result; and because 
it is chance, the  man  who  owns the  #ent 
naturally  does  the  flipping;  and  what 
sort of a fellow is that  who won’t play if 
he can’t flip somebody’s else cent? O, I see. 
“When he says heads, he flips it so that it 
will come up heads  every  time.”  Then 
there  is  a  little cheating going  on,  and 
the man without a  penny wants  mine  to 
cheat me out of some other pennies which 
l  happen  to  have  in  my  other  pocket. 
That  being  the  condition  of  things,  1 
guess we won’t fiip-np after all.

That,  however,  is not the  condition  of 
things. Going into business isn’t a game at 
all,  much less that kind of game.  The em­
ployer  doesn’t  stand at bis factory  door 
and  toss  up  with  the  boys  to  see who 
wins and who loses, 
it  happens to be  a 
matter where win or  lose for  one  means 
win  or  lose  for  the other.  Here is  an­
other little matter  to be  remembered. 
I 
put $10,000  into  a  newspaper  plant.  1 
set  up  presses,  and  whether I own  the 
building or not the use of it must be paid 
for. 
I furnish  everything  with my $10,- 
000, and now I  want  twenty  men  to  do 
the  work.  They  come  and  1  engage 
them  and  we  start  in.  One  man takes 
care  of 
the  engine,  another  does  the 
press work,  and still  another  sets  type. 
The success or the  failure depends  upon 
me.  1  buy,  I  sell,  I  am  on  the jump 
from the time I get out of bed until 1 get 
into  it,  and  long  after  the  wheels  are 
stopped, and the help,  without a business 
care to trouble them are resting,  1 am de­
vising  ways  and  means  to  keep  the 
presses  going  and  to  pay  them  their 
wages  at  the  end  of  every week.  The 
men work ten  hours a  day  and  I  eight­
een.

that  man, 

Now,  if  either  of  those  men  should 
that 
change  places  with  me  on 
to 
first  morning  when  we  went 
taking
work,  would 
a  penny  from  his  pocket,  say  as  he 
tossed it  to  me,  “Go  ahead.  Heads  or 
tails—heads  1  lose  and  tails  you win?” 
That man would answer:  “What do  you 
take  me  for?  Work against work, 1 get 
eight  hours  more  of  it  every  day than 
you  do. 
Is  that  going  to  count,  and 
where, I should like to  know is the  $10,-

000 that I put  into  this  business? 
Isn’t 
that going to  count,  either?  Yon  are  a 
chump,  that’s  what  you  a re !  Capital 
versus labor and  be  banged  to  yon !  It 
is  eighteen  hours  of  hard  work against 
ten  with  my  capital  thrown  in.  That, 
confound you, is exactly what it  is !”

When the employed get ready to admit 
that  there  are  other  workers  besides 
themselves, it will be plenty time enough 
for  them  to  talk  about  employers  and 
contracts and flipping-up.
*  *  *

It is always well to have a  high  ideal. 
The old advice-burdened legend,  that the 
arrow, 
to  bit  the  sun,  must  be  aimed 
above that luminary, cannot be pondered 
too much,  and yet,  in  the  practical  con­
cerns of life it must be remembered  that 
the ideal,  if too faithfully followed,  will 
often be found impracticable.  The ideal 
and the lesson of the legend  was brought 
home  the  other  day  in  reading  what a 
noted  woman  has  written  of  the  great 
need  there  is  of  girls  preparing  them­
selves  for  the  coming  privilege  of  the 
ballot.  After mapping out  an  extended 
course of stndy with  that  end  in  view, 
she urges the girls  to  “ become  familiar 
with  the  principles  which  make a good 
government and a clean people,  and your 
politics  will  take  care  of  themselves 
when the times comes.”

There is not a word of this to be  gain­
said.  The  ideal is plainly  placed.  The 
arrow  is  aimed  far  above  the  shining 
sun; but if the  twang of the  silver  bow 
is  to  be  as  fearful  as  we  hope,  there 
should be no risk run by  overtraining.

When,  then,  it  is  asked,  if  the  great 
and  sacred  right  of  human  citizenship 
shall  overtake  the  girl  leaning  on  a 
fence and chewing gum,  or  buying  bead 
trimming, or reading love stories,  or  co- 
quettishly dressing for  parties,  none  of 
which teach her how to  make  laws  and 
to execute them for the salvation of soci­
ety and of the land, the  plain  matter-of- 
fact voter who goes to the polls and,  vot­
ing, goes off about his business,  wonders 
if  the  arrow  isn’t  aimed altogether too 
high to hit the sun or anything  under  it. 
To him there is nothing out  of  the  way 
in  having  the  “sacred  right”  overtake 
the girl  as  she  leans  on  the  fence  and 
chews  gum,  be  it  ever  so  vigorously, 
any more than there would be should her 
brother be similarly overtaken while  sit­
ting  on  the  top  rail  of the same fence 
and  chewing  tobacco.  What  would  it 
matter  if  Samantha  on  that  eventful 
morning be found deep in  the  mysteries 
of  bead-buying ?  There  is  Tom  busy 
just now with Trilby,  and if he  can  turn 
from the brain-exhausting task  and  cast 
his vote without accident,  is it not possi­
ble for Samantha without  disaster  to  do 
the  same ?  It  is  true  that  she  cannot 
throw  a  vote  into  a  ballot-box  as  she 
sews  braid  upon  her  dress-skirt  and 
think no more about it; but if Tom  man­
ages to throw in his without  concern,  it 
is not exactly clear why  Samantha  need 
make such an everlasting fuss about hers.
Some years ago  alarmists  predicted  a 
convnlsion in the financial world  on  the

forward 

resumption of specie  payment  and  long 
arguments  were  brought 
to 
prove that the night of that  New  Year’s 
day  would find everything  upside  down; 
but the fateful day came  and  went  and 
left no  sign.  As  a  matter  of  fact,  all 
that was needed was to  resume when the 
time came,  which  was  found  to  be  the 
conclusion of the whole matter.

Now,  then—and the question  is  asked 
in all seriousness—when the voting  time 
comes to the parties on the fence or lean­
ing against it,  isn’t it true that the young 
woman,  mother-trained,  will  cast  as  in­
telligent a vote as  her brother;  and isn’t 
it,  also,  true  that  her  vote,  when 
it 
comes right down to a question  of  prin­
ciple,  will be  cast  more  conscientiously 
than his?  No?  Then Tom’s  father  has 
done  his  duty  which  the  majority  of 
fathers do not do,  but the  fact even then 
is the same that the  girl  with her “regu­
lar bringing up”  is as ready for  the  bal­
lot as her brother  is with his,  and,  that 
when permission has been given,  all that 
remains for her is to vote and to  be  con­
tented with the result.

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

T h e  W h e a t  M a rk e t.

The wheat market  for  the  first  week 
of 1895 opens  auspiciously,  with  a  gain 
for the week of lc.  While  prospects are 
not  as  bright  as  could  be  wished,  yet, 
considering the depression of  1894,  it  is 
quite encouraging to see the market  tak­
ing an advance the first of the year.  Al­
though  but  lc  a  bushel  it  will  be wel- 
comely  received  by  the  farmer,  as  all 
agree they  should  have  more  for  their 
wheat than the ruling  prices  have  been 
for  some  time.  The  decrease,  689,000 
bushels  in  American  stocks  during  De­
cember,  as  against  an  average  increase 
of four  to  five  millions  bushels  in  the 
same stocks during  the  same  month  in 
the four preceding years,  as  reported  by 
Bradstreet, is looked upon  as a favorable 
indication  to  speculators.  The  visible 
supply of wheat,  also, decreased  for  the 
week 675,000 bushels.  The movement of 
wheat from farmers’  hands in  this  vicin­
ity is very light.

The  receipts  in  this  city  during the 
week  were  38  cars  of  wheat,  5 cars of 
corn and 2 cars of oats. 

F .  A.  V o ig t.

A s  M an   to   M an.

All business is built  upon man’s integ­
rity to man. 
If  you  would  build  your 
business upon  a sure and firm foundation 
you must know to whom your credit may 
be given.  The Commercial  Credit  Com­
pany keeps a record of the  integrity  and 
business ability of every man in  the com­
munity.  Their book for 1895 will be ont 
next week. 
If you  would do a  safe  and 
profitable business you  should  be a  sub­
scriber.  The company’s  business  is  in­
creasing 
importance 
every day as  the  absolute  reliability  of 
their reports become more widely known.

in  volume  and 

Weidman—J.  S.  Weidman  has  let  the 
contract for the construction of a shingle 
mill,  which he will operate  here  in  con­
nection with his sawmill.

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

of labor,  which has  been  so  aptly  illus­
trated by the process of making pins and 
needles,  is the  outcome  of  centuries  of 
civilization,  and is now nearly universal. 
The  savage  state,  in  which  every man 
had to be Jack  of  all  trades,  has  given 
way  to  that  in  which he practices only 
one.  The housewife no longer spins and 
weaves and sews, but  procures  her  gar­
ments ready made;  the  farmer no longer 
cuts the wood of the forest for  fuel,  but 
buys coal mined hundreds  of miles away 
and brought  to  his  door  by  a  railroad. 
All  kinds  of  occupations  are every  day 
becoming more and more divided and spe* 
cialized,  until now a  hundred  hands  are 
employed  upon  a  single  article  where 
formerly one sufficed.  The result is that 
industry has been rendered more efficient, 
and,  aided by  modern  mechanical inven 
tions, its productiveness  has  been  enor­
mously increased.  At the  same time  its 
organization  has  become  more  complex 
and delicate, and is more easily deranged. 
Workers familiar with  only  one  branch 
of  it  do  their work much better  for  the 
limitation,  but when  the demand for  the 
fruit of their skill slackens  it  is  harder 
for  them  to  supply their wants in other 
ways.

O v e rp ro d u c tio n   o r  U n d e rc o n su m p tio n !
Whatever reason may  be  assigned  for 
it,  there  is no doubt of the fact that  the 
world’s productive  capacity  has  tempo­
rarily  outrun its  willingness to consume 
the  products  of  industry  and  that  the 
volume of  trade  has  become  smaller  in 
consequence. 
It  is  equally certain  that 
with  the  present  lessened  consumption 
nobody la«ks the  necessaries of life.  As 
everybody  had  enough  food,  clothing, 
fuel,  and  shelter two years ago, so every­
body has enough now.  The sufferings of 
the  unemployed,  of  which  so  much  is 
said, are sufferings from  the  deprivation 
of comparative luxuries.  They  are none 
the less real,  but  they  do  not  endanger 
existence.  Otherwise,  we  should  long 
ago have heard of deaths from starvation, 
exposure, and the sickness which‘follows 
insufficient  nutrition  and  the  want  of 
protection  against  the  elements.  We 
have,  to  be  convinced  of  this,  only to 
read  the  history  of  famines in  Europe, 
the  most  recent  of  which  was  that  of 
Ireland  in  1846  and  1847,  and  the  ac­
counts of the frequent  calamities  of  the 
same character which have overtaken the 
densely populated  countries of  Asia,  as, 
for  instance,  India  and  China.  There 
This  division  and  specialization  of 
are, iudeed,  limited sections of this coun­
labor  has  found  its  way  even  into the 
try, 
in  which  the  supply  of  food  is 
primitive and simple  occupation of  agri­
scanty,  such as  the  western  portions  of 
culture,  and the present condition of that 
Kansas  and  of  Nebraska,  where 
the 
form of industry signally  illustrates  the 
drought of last season destroyed the com 
advantages and the  disadvantages of  the 
crop,  but the necessities of these sections 
modern  system.  We  see immense areas 
have  been  supplied  from  the  surplus 
of territory almost exclusively devoted to 
products of those more  favored.  A  fur­
the raising of  cotton,  others  to  that  of 
ther proof that  the  unemployed  are  not 
wheat,  others  to  that  of  ludiau  corn, 
in  actual  physical  distress  is  the  fre­
others to that of  tobacco,  and  others  to 
quency  and  extent  of the  strikes which 
that of sugar.  Until lately the consump­
have occurred since  the  present  depres­
tion  of  each  of 
commodities
sion in  trade  began.  People  who  were
on  the  point  of  perishing  from  want  equalled its production and ail went  well
Latterly, however, this equality has been 
could  not  refuse  the  smallest  pittance 
disturbed,  notably in  the case  of  cotton, 
which  promised  to  relieve  them. 
If 
wheat  and  sugar.  Our  cotton  planters 
castaways at sea  can  be  driven  by  hun­
have so increased their  crop,  that,  com­
ger  to  kill  and eat one another,  men  on 
bined  with  a  similar  increase  in  other 
land in a similar condition could not pos­
parts of the world,  the  market  for  it  is 
sibly spurn  any  wages,  however  «mall, 
oversupplied.  Wheat  is  now  raised  by 
which would save them from death.
the millions of  bushels in  India, Austra­
lia and Argentina, where none was raised 
before,  and these  millions  compete  with 
ours wherever wheat  is  consumed.  The 
sugar made in  Germany  from  beets  has 
been added to that derived from the cane 
of  the  West  Indies  and  of  Louisiana, 
while both  have  been,  for  certain  pur­
poses, supplanted by  glucose made  from 
Indian  corn.  That  the  price  of  these 
great staples should fall  is  unavoidable, 
and,  although the  producers  of them are 
partially compensated by the fall of some 
of the articles which they  buy,  they  are 
deprived  of  the  ability  to  consume  as 
much as they did of  those  of  which  the 
supply has not increased,  and  of  which 
the price, consequently,  has not fallen.

The inequality between the world’s ca­
pacity to produce and its actual consump­
tion of articles of  necessity  and  of  lux­
ury  is  called  by  some  overproduction, 
and by others underconsumption;  and  an 
absurd dispute has sprung upas to which 
is the correct expression,  one  party  con­
tending  that  more  articles  of  use  and 
luxury are  produced  than  can  possibly 
be consumed,  and  the  other  that  there 
cannot be an excess  of such  articles,  but 
that the trouble is a lack of ability among 
consumers to buy them.  The distinction 
is of no importance  except  as  it  affects 
the question of curing  the evil. 
If over­
production is to blame  the  obvious  rem­
edy is to curtail it;  if  consumption  only 
needs  to  be increased  the power of  con­
sumers to buy must be  brought  up  to  a 
level with that of  producers to  sell,  and 
an  equilibrium  established  between  the 
two.  The truth is,  that  both  things  are 
requisite; production must be diminished 
and  consumption  increased  until  each 
balances the other.

these 

The fate which  has  overtaken  cotton, 
wheat,  and  sugar  has  also been that  of 
the  products  of  many  mechanical  pur­
suits.  The machinery for manufacturing 
iron,  steel,  cotton  and  woollen  cloth, 
cordage,  paper,  glass  and  other  articles 
of wide utility has been  so perfected and 
augmented  that  much  of  it  at  present 
has to  lie  idle  for  want  of  occupation, 
and  the  rest  is  employed  only  because 
the conditions for its  employment are  so 
favorable that it can  be kept going with­
out loss. 
Indeed,  it may  be  said,  gener­
ally,  that all the contrivances  for  minis­
tering to human wants  in  their  present 
state  of  development are more than suf­
ficient  for  the  purpose,  so  that  those

All the industrial activity of the world 
is co-operative,  whether  it be that  if the 
agriculturist and  the  miner,  devoted  to 
the production of  raw  material,  that  of 
the  manufacturer,  employed in creating 
out of such  material  articles  of  greater 
value, that of the merchant  and  the  car­
rier in distributing  commodities, or  that 
of the arts and professions  which  minis­
ter to health and pleasure.  This division

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

STICK  CANDY. 
Cases 

Bbls.  Palls.
1
l
7

5 
6 
6 

3

Standard,  per  lb.............. 
“  H .H .................... 
T w ist...............  
“ 
Boston Cream  ................. 
8?4
Cut  Loaf...........................
Extra H  H.......................   8 =4 
MIXED  CANDT. 

_
Palls
Bbls. 
6)4
Standard  .........................................5 
6H
Leader............................................. 5)4 
Royal............................................... 6
8
Nobby..............................................7 
8H
English  Rock.................................7 
Conserves  ...................................... 6)4 
7)4
Broken Taffy.....................baskets
8
Peanut Squares..................  
7 
“
French Creams................................ 
®
Valley  Creams........................... 
1*»
. 
Midget, 30 lb. baskets........................................ 8
Modern. 30 lb. 

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

“ 
fancy—In bulk

 

•* 

fancy—In 5 lb. boxes. 

Palls
Lozenges,  plain................................................   8)4
printed.............................................  W
Chocolate Drops................................................  11
Chocolate Monumentals.................................   12
Gum Drops.........................................................  5
Mobs Drops.........................................................  h i
Sour Drops.........................................................  8
Imperials............................................................  8
Per Box
Lemon Drops................  
SO
Sour Drops..........................................................SO
Peppermint Drops...............................................60
Chocolate Drops...................   ............................65
H. M. Chocolate  Drops.......................................75
Gum Drops.............................................  .. .35@50
Licorice Drops..    ............................................1  00
A. B. Licorice  Drops....................................... ..75
Lozenges, plain....................................................60
printed.....................................-........65
Imperials.............................................................. 60
Mottoes................................................................. 70
Cream Bar.............................................................55
Molasses  Bar....................................................... 50
8'‘wWt
Hand  Made  Creams......  
Plain Creams.................................................6)©«0.
Decorated Creams............................................... 90
String  Rock......................................................... ‘0
Burnt Almonds......................  .................90@1  25
Wlntergreen  Berries........................................   60

“ 

 

CARAMELS.

3 
2 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

No. 1, wrapped, 2 lb.  boxes...........................   34
No. 1, 
...........................  51
 
No. 2, 
28
ORANGES.

Floridas, Fancy Brights  126.........................   3 E0
Flor.das, Fancy Briguts,  iso................................3 75
Floridas Fancy  Brights, 176,  200.  216 ..............   4 25
Florida Tangerines,  100 to 150 In  fl it  ...........  2 50

 

LEMONS.

Choice, 300...............................................................  3 00
Extra Choice,  300  .............................................  3 25
Fancy, 300 
........................................................   3 5
Choice,  360  ............................................. 
3 Uli
Fancy, 36J................................................................  3 50

. 

BANANAS.

OTHER  FOREIGN  FRUITS.

Large bunches........................................................  t 75
Small bunches.................. .....................   1  u0@l  50
Figs, fancy  layers  161b........................... 
“  SOlfc............................. 
“  14tt>......................  
.................... .................... . 

12
74
II
664
© 7
Persian. 50-lb.  box........................  ©  564
lib  Royals............................................   664

 
Dates, Pard, 10-lb.  box  ............................... 

“ 
“ 
“  extra 
“  bags 
“ 
“ 
“ 

...........................  ©

“  50-lb.  “ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

Almonds, Tarragona 

NUTS.
.......
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 .......................
Ooe.ne.untH. full sacks 
.................
Butternuts  per  b u .........................
Black  Walnuts, per bu....................

“ 

.........1364 ©14

©12)4 
©  7)4
i©lb 
©12 
©12 
©13 
©14 ©1064 
© 9 
6  ©  714 
4  00
4  00 
75 
60

PEANUTS.
.........................
.. 

Fancy, H.  ?., Suns 
Fancy, H.  P., Flags 
Choice, H. P.,  Extras..............................   ©

©  5)4
“  Roasted  ......................  6 J 6)4
.......................  
©  5H
“  R oasted........ ...........  
6 J   6%
5© 6
“  Roasted..................  

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

FKESH  MEATS.

BEEF.

C arcass.....................................  ..............5)4©  7
Fore  quarters............................................  4  @ 5
sj4@ 8
H indquarters...  .......... ................... ... 
Loins No. 3................................................ 8  ©10
Ribs............................................................ 8  ©10
R ounds......................................................  5  ©  6
| Chucks   
................. 3)4© 4)4
Plates.........................................................3  ©  3)4

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

PORK.

Dressed.............................. ......................  
Loins.......................................................... 
Shoulders  ........... 
 
Leaf Lard......................................... 

 

 

5©  5"a
~i%
6
8

 

C arcass......................................................4  © 5
Lambs.........................................................  5)4©5

MUTTON.

WHAT  STOVE  MERCHANTS

With  Experience in the  Trade  Haire 

To  8ay  ahoiit the  Majestic,

Hughes & Otis, Fond du Lac, Wis.

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

D. & F.  Lusel, W atertown, 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  busi­
ness.)

Newark & Drury, Cadillac, Mich.

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

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.  Ray & 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.

D u n n in g  B ro s. &  Co., M e n o m in e e ,M ic h . 
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 and gratifying to us.  Every user 
(of which there are  a large  uumber)  says we 
did not tell them half  the advantages  of the 
Majestic over the cook stoves they  had  been 
using.
H.  K  Johnson  Hardware  Co.,  Alton,

111.

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

Traverse City, Mich.

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

Mich.

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

Kan ter 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 
b usiness,  are above  criticism and conclu 
sively  prove  beyond  a  doubt  that  the 
Majestic is in every  particular all that is 
claimed fur it.

For further particulars  address

J.W. JOHNSTON,  Manager»

C arcass............................................. :....  6 ©7)4

VEAL.

Grand  Rapids, Mich.

which  are 
stances might as well be destroyed.

least  favored  by  circurn-1 

This indicates the first step toward the | 
cure of overproduction. 
It  is  obedience I 
to the Darwinian law of the  survival,  in i 
the  struggle  for  existence, of  the fittest 
to survive.  The land, the labor,  and the 
machinery best suited to  the  production 
of  the  article  of  which  the  supply ex­
ceeds the quantity demanded by consum­
ers must seek employment  in  producing 
other  articles  for  which  the  demand is 
not yet fully satisfied, or, better  still,  in 
creating new articles  which  will so min­
ister to human enjoyment  that a demand 
for them will  spring  up.  On  the  other 
hand,  the abundance  and  the  cheapness 
of  a  commodity  stimulate  ingenuity  in 
finding new uses  to which  that  commod­
ity may be put,  and  by  thus  increasing 
its consumption  help  to  diminish  over­
production.  As  an  illustration  of  this 
we have seen lately  how  the  abundance 
and  the  cheapness  of wheat have led  to 
its use as food for hogs  and  cattle,  thus 
at the same time lessening the  over  sup­
ply  of  it  for human use, and increasing 
the supply,  as  yet  insufficient,  of  pork 
and beef.  So too, the  cheapness and the 
abundance of iron and  of steel  are  lead 
ing  to  their  extensive  employment  a: 
building  materials,  and  are  enlarging 
their  usefulness  for  other  purposes 
That this will also be  the case  with  cot 
ton and with sugar  there is  every reason 
to believe.  How skilled  labor finds new 
fields of occupations is seen in the recent 
rapid growth of the manufacture of bicy 
cles,  which is only paralleled  by  that  of 
sewing  machines  not  many  years  ago, 
Necessity  Is  the  mother  of  invention 
and though  her  offspring  are  born  with 
pain they do their  work  thoroughly  and 
well.

The era of business depression through 
which we are passing  is only a necessary 
phase of  industrial  progress,  the  dura­
tion  of  which  cannot  be  shortened  by 
currency bills,  the free coinage of silver, 
bimetallism,  or  by  any  other  form  of 
financial  quackery.  We  shall  emerge 
from it  gradually,  through  the  adapta 
tion of our  industries  to  the  conditions 
which  the  development  of  civilization 
has  imposed  upon  them.  When  it  has 
ended we shall enter upon another course 
of what is called prosperity,  but which is 
really  only  an  overstimulated  activity 
from which  will  come  another  reaction 
like  the  present one.  “While the earth 
remaineth;  seedtime  and  harvest,  and 
cold  and  heat,  and summer  and winter 
and day and night shall not cease.”

Ma t t h e w   Ma r s h a l l .

T h e   B e a u ty   o f  N ia g a r a

can never be described and  it  has  never 
been pictured so adequately and satisfac 
torily as  in  the  splendid  portfolio  just 
issued  by  the  Michigan  Central,  “The 
Niagara Falls Route.”  It contains fifteen 
large plates from  the  very  best  instan 
taneous  photographs,  which  cannot  be 
bought for  as  many  dollars.  All  these 
can be bought for ten  cents at the Michi 
gan Central Ticket Office. 

595

P a y   Y o u r  P o s t  D u e s.

G r a n d   R a p id s , Jan. «—I  wish  all the 
members of Post E, Michigan  Knights of 
the Grip,  who have not paid their annual 
dues for  1895  would hand  me  50  cents 
with  as  little  delay  as  possible.  The 
amount is small and I trust the  response 
will be prompt.

J.  H e n r y  D a w l e y ,  Sec’y.

PROVISIONS.

LARD.

SAUSAGE.

The Grand Rapids  Packing  and Provision Co 

12 50
*2  50
14 00
13 25
13 50
13 50
13 75
6-4
5
0
SV4
0
10
7)4

quotes as follows:
PORK  IN  BARRELS.
Mess................ 
......................................... 
S h o rtc u t........................................... ........ 
Extra clear pig, short c u t........................ 
Extra clear,  heavy...................................
Clear, fat  back..........................................  
Boston clear, short cu t............................. 
Clear back, shortcut................................  
Standard clear, short cut. best...............  
Pork, links................................................. 
Bologna, ..................................................... 
Liver......................................................... 
T ongue.....................................................  
B lo o d ............  
...................................... 
Head cheese..............................................
Summer......................................................  
Frankfurts.................................................  
Kettle  Rendered................................................ 8
G ranger............................................................... 7)4
Fam ily....................................................................6
Compound...........................................................  5H
Cottolene...........  ........................................... 
 
Cotosuet................................................................  634
0 lb. Tins, )4G advance.
01b. palls, %C 
“  34c 
50 lb. 
15 lb. 
“  ,  %c 
131b. 
'•  1  C 
Extra Mess, warranted 200  lbs........................7 25
Extra Mess, Chicago packing........................  7  00
Boneless, rump butts......................................   9 50
Hams, average 20 lbs......................................... 9  14
16 lbs.......................................... 934
12 to 14 lbs...................................10
picnic......................................................... 7H
best boneless............................................  834
Shoulders...........................................................   634
Breakfast Bacon  boneless................................  9
Dried beef, ham prices......................................  10
Long Clears, heavy................................ 
 
634
Briskets,  medium...............................................  7J4
lig h t....................................................
Butts..........................  .......................................
D. 8. Bellies........................................................
Fat Backs............................................................

smoked  meats—Canvassed or Plain.

BEEP  IN  BARBELS.

DBT  SALT  MEATS.

“
“
“
“

“ 
“ 

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PICKLED  PIGS'  PEET.

Half  barrels........................................................3 25
Quarter barrels...................................................175
K its...................................................................... 90

75
55

TRIPE.
Kits, honeycomb 
......................................... 
Kits, prem ium ..................................................  
H IR T H , 
K R A U S E  
&  CO.
lets end Lein

Headquarters for

$2 .5 0   per  dozen 

and Upwards.

in 3 grades.

Slippers.

Mall  us  vour  order 
and we wil 1 guarantee 
In  botb 
satisfaction 
price  and quality.

Avoid  the
Cline  of  Credit 
C O U P O N

BY  USING

#

THREE  GRADES!

B O O K S .
Tradesman,
Superior,
Universal.

M anufactured only by 

TRADESMAN  COMPANY,

Grand Rapids,  Mich.

Chas.  Pettersch,

JOBBER  OP

Imported and Domestic Cheese

Swiss, Brick and  Llmburger a  Specialty. 

Concealment of truth  is  but  little  re 

moved from lying.

161—163  W est B rid g e St.  T elephone 1*3. 

G RAND  R A PID S

T H E   M I C H I G A N   T R A .E E S M L A J N " .

3

S E E   Q U O T A T IO N S

M a r tin   L<• 

S w G et  lias  assumed  control  of 
S w e e t ’s  Hotel, retaining the  Messrs.  Irish  as  mana 
gers.  Extensive  improvements  will  be made throughout the 
■ M
house  Steam heat is being put in every room,  and  it  is  ex­
pected that the office,  remodeled  and newly decorated, will be 
one of the handsomest in Michigan.

GRAND RAPIDS, 

MICH.

18 and 19 Widdicomb  Bid.

N.  B.  Cl a r k ,  Pres,
W. D.  W a d e ,  Yice-Pres.
C. N. Cl a r k ,  Sec’y  and  Treas.

We  are  now  ready  to make 
contracts for bark  for  the  sea­
son of 1895.

Correspondence Solicited.

PALACINE.
Why? BECAUSE  it  gives  a  clear,  bright  light. 

BECAUSE  it  does  not  cloud  the  Chimneys. 
BECAUSE  it does  not  char  the  wicks.
And last but not  least,  does  not  emit  a  bad  odor.

Has  proved  itself  the  only  perfect  illum inating  oil.

For  sale by  all  first class  dealers,  and  refined  only by

8G0FIELD, 8HURMER  l  T E M E ,

Grand  Rapids.

Telephone  865.

Our

-BE

5 and 7 Pearl S t.,

Line  for  1895  is 

Greater  in  variety  and 

finer  than 
ever attempted before.  Every one of the 
old Favorites have been retained.

Your  inspection  is  kindly  solicited 

when in the city.

Our representatives will  call  on  you 
early and  will gladly show  you  through.
Keep your eye on our Oil  Grain  line 

in “Black  Bottoms.”

Headquarters 

Rubbers.

for  Wales-Goodyear 

TRAJDJSSMA.N  W A N T S   C O L U M N ,

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

AROU N D   T H E   ST A TE.

MOVEMENTS OF  MERCHANTS.

Buchanan—V.  E.  Bell succeeds  Bell  & 

Teller in the grocery  business.

Manton—Ernest  Hartley has purchased 

the grocery stock of C.  O. Blake.

Adair—August Rammer has purchased 

the general stock of Isaac C.  Burch.

Ovid—Hazle  <&  Clark  succeed  F.  E. 

Hazle in the boot and shoe business.

Clio—Herbert F.  BoJine has purchased 

the drug business of Alonzo  Kellogg.

Morgan—C.  J .  Munton  &  Co.  succeed 

J. C. Creiger in  the elevator business.

Deckerville—Boice  &  Morrison  suc­
ceed  Geo.  Boice  in  the  furniture  busi­
ness.

Kalamazoo—Bennett  &  Co.  succeed 
C.  D.  Waldo & Co.  in  the  grocery  busi­
ness.

Hastings—  E.  W.  Morrill  &  Co.  are 
closing  out their stock of dry goods  and 
clothing.

Piainwell—T.  G.  Batchelder  &.  Co. 
succeed  T.  G.  Batchelder  in  the  meat 
business.

Burlington—E.  L.  McPherson  is  suc­
ceeded  by  A.  W.  Gay  in  the  grocery 
business.

Sidnaw—Galin  &  Eisenberg  succeed 
Wacht  &  Eisenberg  in  the  dry  goods 
business.

North Adams—Fillio &  Holcomb, gro­
cers,  have dissolved,  Frank Holcomb suc­
ceeding.

Brooklyn—J.  S.  North  has  removed 
his  clothing  stock  from  Constantine  to 
this place.

Battle Creek—Willard E.  Edmonds has 
removed his general  stock  from  White- 
ville to this place.

Saginaw—D.  E.  Siawson 

succeeds 
Henry Turner as proprietor  of  the  Val­
ley Hardware Co.  at this place.

Belding—Cobb  <& Bricker  is  the  style 
of the new grocery  firm,  the  copartners 
being Will Cobb and  W.  F.  Bricker.

Greenville—The  style  of  the  plow 
works of F.  N.  Wright & Co.,  not  incor­
porated,  has  been  changed to the Green­
ville Implement Co.

Sault Ste.  Marie—The Sault  Furniture 
&  Undertaking  Co.,  not  incorporated, 
have  dissolved.  The  business  is  con­
tinued by Malcolm Blue.

Detroit—S.  A. James &  Co.,  wholesale 
dealers  in  caps  and  gloves,  have  dis­
solved.  The business  will  be  continued 
by S. A.  James under the same style.

Ada—W. R.  McMurray  is  out  with  a 
circular  to  the  trade,  announcing  that 
cash  is  the  only  medium  of  exchange 
which  will  be  recognized  at  his  store 
hereafter.

Muskegon—Dow & McComb  have  sat­
isfied the claim of the  Muskegon  Milling 
Co.,  amounting  to  $124,  and  the latter 
has released its  attachment  on  the  gro­
cery stock.

Detroit—Chas.  S.  Bigsby  and  Chas. C. 
Bowker,  for  a  number  of  years  with 
Burnham,  Stoepel  &  Co.,  have  opened 
an office at 149 Jefferson avenue,  and will 
act as  manufacturing  agents  in  cloaks, 
dry goods and carpets.

Kalamazoo—C.  A.  Baker  has  uttered 
mortgages  on  his  grocery  stock  to  the 
amount of $2,040 in favor  of  the  follow­
ing creditors:  Susanna  Baker (his wife), 
$1,140;  John  Stonechest  (his  father-in 
law), $500;  Lemon &  Wheeler  Company, j 
Grand  Rapids,  $400.  Hawkins  &  Com­
pany have  attached  Baker’s  real  estate 
for  $383  and  the  Pliny  Watson  Co., of 
Toledo,  has attached both  stock and real 
estate on a claim of $300.

Rogers City—You  can  get  credit of  a 
Preque Isle county  merchant  on  mighty 
slim  security.  A  grocer named  Barker, 
doing business at an  interior village,  re­
cently  received  a  visit  from  a  home­
steader who  wanted a barrel of flour.  He 
had  neither cash  nor collateral,  but said 
that he had  just  got  on  the  track  of  a 
bear,  and  if  Barker was willing to  take 
the bear as  security  he  would  shoulder 
his gun the next day and  camp  right  on 
his  track  until  he  got  him. 
It  was  a 
trade—which the  bear  squared  up  with 
his  skin  two  weeks  later,  and Presque 
Isle honesty and  sagacity  were both vin­
dicated.

MANUFACTURING MATTERS.

West Branch—Freude  &  Co.’s  shingle 
mill  will  resume  operations  .about  the 
|15th.

Bay City—The Davidson  shipyard  is a 
scene of busy  activity, over  500 men  be­
ing  employed.  There  are  five  wooden 
craft on  the  stocks,  one  steamship  and 
four schooners.  The  yard has  an ample 
stock of timber on hand.

Gladstone—The  Gladstone  Washboard 
Co.  resumed  operations  with  a  largely 
increased force and in enlarged quarters, 
the  firm  having  outgrown  its  former 
capacity.  They  have  acquired  a  new 
site adjoining the  Buckeye  stave  plant, 
and  will  probably  erect  a  commodious 
factory in the spring.

Cheboygan—The  purchase  price  of 
hemlock logs in  this county has gone  up 
lately.  A Cleveland  syndicate  began  to 
purchase logs  when  the  price  was  $2  a 
thousand,  and  the  Cheboygan  mill  men 
made the price  $2.25.  Since  then it  has 
gone  by small  jumps  to  $2.50,  and  will 
probably not stop  there.

Detroit—Articles  of  association of  the 
Novelty  Knitting  Mills  Co.  have  been 
filed  with the county clerk.  The  capital 
stock  is  $5,000,  divided into 500 shares 
$1,410, or 281-5 per  cent,  of  the stock  is 
paid in.  The incorporators are Lewis E, 
Maire, Percy D. Dwight, Charles S. Rich 
ardson and Constance Andussi.

Saginaw  (W.  S.)—Ring,  Merrill  & 
Tillotson  have  merged  their  furniture 
manufacturing  business 
into  a  stock 
company  under the style of  the  Saginaw 
Furniture Co.  The capital stock is  $20,- 
000, all  paid in.  The officers of the  cor 
poration, 
follows:  President 
Thomas  Merrill;  Vice-President,  Levi 
Tillotson;  Secretary and Treasurer E.  J 
Ring.

are  as 

Bay City—Russell  Bros.,  whose  box 
factory was partially  wrecked by a boiler 
explosion,  have  purchased  two  boilers 
and an engine and will at once begin  the 
work of rebuilding their plant.  The new 
purchase will give them double  the  run­
ning  power  of  the  old  machinery.  As 
soon as the necessary  improvements  can 
be made the plant will  be  put  in  oper­
ation  with  an 
increased  force.  They 
have a number of  orders for  box shooks 
booked.

Manistee—The year  opens with a state 
of affairs more auspicious for the lumber­
men than we  have  had  to  chronicle  for 
some  time.  Most  of  the camps bad  let 
their men go,  but with the understanding 
that as soon as there  was  a  freeze  they 
would return.  The Canfield Salt & Lum­
ber  Co.  was  running  four  camps  near 
Tallman and  hauling to  the  Manistee  & 
Grand Rapids Railroad.  They had about 
100 men employed,  but  were  compelled 
to  let  about  sixty  go.  They  will  have 
them all back again in a few days.

TH E  R E B IT IN G   EV IL.

T h e   T r a d e s m a n   gave  place, 

last 
week,  to a  second  communication  from 
John H. Goss, of this city,  defending the 
practice of accepting rebates  from sales­
men,  but it was received too late to make 
any reply in connection therewith.

As Mr. Goss does not seem to  see  any 
comparison between  the  dishonest  con­
sumer who forfeits his honor  and the re­
bating salesman,  suppose  we  view  the 
case  from  another 
standpoint:  The 
buyer knows full  well that when a sales­
man sells him a case  of  contract  coffee, 
for instance,  at a dollar “cut”  and  sends 
in bis order at full list, that he  is  doing 
something  which  his  house  does  not 
sanction.  He  knows,  also,  that  the
salesman,  to cover his tracks and  recoup 
himself,  will—and, of  necessity, must— 
when he pays his $2 hotel bill,  charge  it 
up to the house  as  $3.  He  knows  that 
charging up a $2 hotel bill at $3  is  both 
dishonest  and  dishonorable;  still  he 
“stands  in”  with 
the  salesman  and 
gathers  in  his  share  of  the  plunder. 
Now,  wherein is he any  better  than  the 
salesman?  Would  the  buyer  feel  like 
to  handle  his 
employing 
money?  Would  he  consider 
the  deal 
honorable? 
If so,  and the buyer  is  per­
fectly innocent,  why  not,  on  receipt  of 
the invoice,  report the overcharge  to the 
house?  That  would  “give  the  snap 
away” and he would get no  more  dollar 
rebates.

that  man 

In introducing pother Eve’s story, Mr. 
Goss  refutes  his  own  argument,  comes 
over to our side and admits more than we 
claim.  The devil was the  tempter—Eve 
the tempted—and we believe  the  world, 
while  not  exonorating  Eve,  lays  the 
greater guilt on the devil;  but  we  never 
heard  of  any  one—not even lngersoll— 
accusing  the  apple  of any  blame in  the 
matter, and nowhere in our argument can 
Mr.  Goss  point  to  any  such  inference. 
The apple was all right,  so  are  contract 
goods.

In regard to the  rebates  paid  by  rail­
road  and  insurance companies,  they  are 
always paid with the  full  knowledge  of 
the officers  of  such  companies.  Not  so 
with a jobber whose  salesman  cuts  con­
tract goods.  When a house bills contract 
goods at regular prices and then  sends  a 
credit  memorandum,  there  is no  decep 
tion as between buyer, salesman and job 
ber.  The  dishonorable  feature 
then 
transfers itself to the  jobber  himself,  as 
against his more honorable and more con­
scientious  competitor,  and  the  question 
arises,  Dare you trust such a jobber?  If 
he  is  dishonorable  with  his  neighbors, 
will  he  not  be  so  with  you?  Can you 
place any confidence in such a house.

We will agree on  one  point,  at  least, 
and that is,  no good salesman will rebate 
to a time customer.  We will  go  farther 
and say,  to  any  customer;  but,  be  he  a 
time or a cash customer,  we  see  no  dif­
ference in  the degree of dishonor.

We  believe  we  have  answered  all of 

Mr. Goss’ points.

Prom  Out of Town. 

i Calls  have  been  received  at  T h e  
T r a d e s m a n  office during  the  past week 
from the following gentlemen in trade:
Hannah & Lay  Mercantile  Co.,  Trav­
erse City.
Wm. K. Pringle,  Muir.
F. E.  Bushman, Kalamazoo.
N. F.  Miller, Lisbon.
Frank Hamilton,  Traverse City.
" •  H.  Parsons  has  opened  a grocery 
store at Weidman.  The Olney & Judson 
Grocer Co. furnished the  stock.

PRO D U CE  M A R K E T .

Apples—The advent of the new year finds  the 
market for apples steadier and  in  some  instan 
ces a little higher  than  a  month  ago,  although 
Improvement has been  most  gradual.  Supplies 
of autnmn fruit are pretty well out  of  the  way, 
although some of this is  still  going  the  rounds 
and largely  distributed through peddlers In  the 
large cities.  Sound  winter  stock  held  in  cold 
storage is firm in tone and choice to fancy varie­
ties in  some cases  show an actual scarcity  with 
high prices  obtainable.  The  exports  of  apples 
from  the Atlantic coast fell  off  materially  dur­
ing Decemoer, but are still  large,  and  the  for 
eign  shipments to date are  greater  than  during 
the big season of  ’8 -93.  The  English  markets 
are, apparently,  ready to absorb  moderate quan 
tities  of  American  and  Canadian  apples each 
week but require select fruit and  good  packing 
to insure anything like  remunerative  prices  to 
shippers.  During the season to date more  than 
1,000,000 bbls. have been  exported,  going almost 
exclusively  to  England  and  Scotland.  This 
total exceeds the big movement of two years ago 
and Is ten times that of a year ago.

Beans—The  market  is  about  the  same  as  a 
week ago.  Handlers  pay  $1.2531.30  for  coun 
try  picked,  holding  city  picked  at  $1.55  in 
small lots  and  $1.50  In carlots.

Butter—A drug  on  the  market.  Good  stock 
goes begging at 16c and  creamery is  correspond­
ingly depressed.

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

cording to size and quality.

Celery—Is held by dealers at 12315c per  doz.
Cranberries—Leach’s Walton Junction  fruit is 
eagerly sought for by the trade at $3.50@3.75  per 
crate, according to quality.

Eggs—20c for strictly fresh and 18c for pickled 

and cold storage stock.
Lettuce—12%c per lb.
Onions—Red Weatherfields  and  Yellow  Dan­
vers  command  40c  per  bu.  Spanish  stock, $1 
per box.

Parsnips—40c per bn-
Potatoes—The  home  market  is  a little more 
active, but there is almost an  entire  absence  of 
shipping  demand.  Local  handlers  hold  their 
stock at 45c per bu.

Radishes—Hot house stock commands  30c  per 

doz. bunches.

Sweet Potatees—Illinois Jerseys  are  the  only 
variety  still  in  market.  They  command $3  per 
bbl.

Squash—Hubbard brings l^ c  per  lb.,  but  the 
market is strengthening and may go to 2c before 
the end of the month.

Edward Jansma,  grocer at  281  Alpine 

avenue,  is succeeded  by Stadt & Glas.

Phe Bradsireei Mercantile Apncy.

T he B ro d street  C om pany, P ro p s.

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

CHARLES  F.  CLA RK ,  P ros

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

Grand  Rapids Office, Room 4, Widdicotnb Bldg.

HENKY  P  *VCK.  Supt.

ALBUflS,
DOLLS,
TOYS,

GAMES,

BOOKS.

EATON,  LYON A CO.

20 &  22  Monroe  St.,

g r a n d   r a p i d s .

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

5

G RA N D   R A P ID S   G O S S IP .

Sale  of the  Grand  RapldB  Gas  Co.
The largest financial deal ever consum­
mated  in this city is likely  to  be  closed 
daring the  next  few  days—the  sale  of 
the property and franchises of the Grand 
Rapids Gas Go.  to  an  Eastern  syndicate. 
The deal  has  been  negotiated  by  Hon. 
Thos.  J.  O’Brien  and  involves  the  ac­
ceptance by each stockholder of an agree­
ment to sell  his  holdings at double their 
par value, in  three  payments  of  20,  40 
and  40  per  cent.,  all  payments  to  be 
made within  a  space  of  three  months. 
The  original  proposition  embodied  the 
provision that the stock be  sent  to  New 
York City,  and  the  payments  therefore 
be  made  at  that  place.  Some  of  the 
stockholders demurred to this  plan,  but 
subsequently accepted a  modified propo­
sition providing for  the  transfer  of  the 
stock in this city.  The  method  of  pro­
ceeding involves  the  assignment  of  all 
stock in blank,  when  it is deposited  with 
H. D. Wal bridge.  Secretary  of  the  Gas 
Co.,  who turns it over  to  N.  L.  Avery, 
as trustee, and the  latter gentleman  is to 
deposit  the  stock in his  private  box  in 
the deposit vaults of the Michigan  Trust 
Company and keep it  there  intact  until 
all the  payments  have  been  made.  As 
the capital stock of the Gas Co.  is  $600,- 
000,  the  sale  involves  the  payment  of 
$1,200,000,  and it is estimated  that  fully 
a million dollars  of  this  money  will  re­
main in Grand Rapids  for  re-investment 
in  other  enterprises.  The  purchasers 
will  bond the plant  for  a  large  amount 
and,  probably,  increase the  capital stock 
to $2,000,000,  thus reducing its dividend­
paying capacity to a considerable extent.
The history of the Gas Co.  is a most re­
markable one,  in many  respects,  being  a 
monument to  the  shrewdness  and  good 
management of the late Thos.  D. Gilbert, 
who was for  many  years  its  President. 
Beginning  with  a  small  capitalization, 
the capital stock was gradually increased 
to  $400,000,  where  it  remained  many 
years.  Three or four  years ago Mr. Gil­
bert 
injecting 
“young blood”  into  the  enterprise  and 
succeeded in persuading the other  stock- 
holds  to  increase  the  capital  stock  to 
$600,000.  The $200,000 new  stock found 
eager takers on the basis of 125,  so  that 
$250,000 was realized  from  the  increase 
of stock.  This money  was used  in retir­
ing  the  bonded  and  floating  indebted­
ness,  in erecting and equipping  new  gas 
works  and 
in  greatly  extending  the 
mains and other aveDues of  distribution, 
thus enabling  the  company  to  increase 
its earning capacity to a large extent.

the  necessity  of 

felt 

As a dividend payer,  the  Gas  Co.  has 
always been  regarded as one of the model 
institutions  of  the  city.  For  a  great 
many years  the  company  has  paid  2X 
per cent, each quarter with the regularity 
of clockwork, and for  the past two years 
the net earnings  have  averaged  $96,000 
per  year—16  per  cent,  on 
the  par 
value  of  the  stock.  This  has  kept  a 
handsome sum to the credit  of  the  sur­
plus fund  or  the  construction  account, 
enabling the company  to  increase its ca­
pacity or enlarge its plant  whenever nec­
essary.  Were  the  business  to  be  con­
tinued  under  the  same  management, 
there is little  doubt  that  the  dividends 
could be increased to a 15  per cent,  basis 
in the near future and  still  leave  suffic­
ient  undivided  earnings to  provide  for 
necessary extensions of  service  and  in­
crease of capacity.

Few men  who are  conversant with the 
record  of  the  corporation  will  dispute 
the statement that,  in  large measure,  the 
success of the company  was  due  to  the 
careful and conservative management  of 
the late Mr. Gilbert.  Close  and  penuri­
ous in some  things,  his  management  of 
the Gas Co.  was broad in scope  and  far- 
reaching in  effect  and  results,  and  the 
magnificent  property  now  about  to  be 
turned over to alien hands is a tribute to 
the wisdom of his methods and the econ­
omy of his management.  The same unself­
ishness which marked  his career in many 
respects caused him to serve the corpora­
tion  for many years without  salary,  and 
in  later  years,  when  the  directors  in­
sisted on  voting him the  modest  sum  of 
$1,000 a year,  he refused  to  take  it  for 
his own use,  but divided it among clerks 
in the employ  of  the  corporation.  The 
gradual reduction in the price  of gas,  as 
the city increased  in  size  and  the  per­
centage of consumers enlarged,  was  Mr. 
Gilbert’s pet theory and to his persistent 
efforts in  this  direction  is  due  the  low 
price of gas to-day—lower,  it is  claimed, 
than  in  any  other  city,  similarly  sit­
uated,  in the United States.
♦ 

_________ __ 
_________
The Grocery  Market.

Sugar—No  new  feature  to  note  this 
week.  The demand is  fair,  but the mar­
ket is by no means  active  and prices  are 
without change.

Molasses—No  further  advances  have 
occurred at New Orleans,  but the market 
is firm  and steady at the  recent  advance.
Cheese—The  market  is  steady.  The 
export trade is  nominal and  home  trade 
is hardly as good as  it  was  a  few  weeks 
ago.

Fish—Reports  from  Gloucester  are  to 
the  effect  that  the  mackerel  catch  has 
proved to be nearly  a  complete  failure, 
in  consequence  of  which  higher  prices 
are 
confidently  predicted.  Halibut 
proves  to  be  an  average  catch  and  no 
change of any consequence is anticipated. 
The receipts  of  herring  are  the  largest 
on  record,  resulting  in lower prices and 
a weakening  tendency.  Codfish  show  a 
small gain over the previous year.  Lake 
trout  are  scarce  and  higher  and  still 
higher prices are looked for.

Bananas—Few  left  in  the  hands  of 
local dealers,  but  the weather  has  been 
too cold  to  ship  safely.  Prices  are  in 
favor of the buyer,  if they  see fit to take 
the chances.

Figs—There is  no  change  to  note  in 
this item.  Prices are very  low  and  lib­
eral  orders can  be placed  with safety.

Dates—The market is easier  on  dates, 
especially  Persians.  Prices are now low 
enough to warrant buying liberally.

Some  of 

Oranges—What  few  Florida  oranges 
that were loaded and in  transit  prior  to 
the  recent  freeze  are  commanding  ex­
tremely  high  prices. 
the 
growers  and  commission  men  at  Jack­
sonville  are  sending  out  a  good  many 
cars of stock  which  became  more or less 
chilled,  in hopes that  it  can  be worked 
off before decaying, 
it  will  be  sure  to 
give more or  less  dissatisfaction  and  it 
would  be  much  better  to  pay  a  good 
price for such  fruit as  may  be  obtained 
which  is strictly  sound and  in  good con­
dition.  California growers  and  import­
ers of Sicily  fruit are the  ones  who  are 
going to reap the  benefit  from Florida’s 
severe  blow.  Prices  will  advance  rap­
idly, and Sicily  fruit is  being quoted now 
at $1 per box more than  it  was  held  at 
ten days ago.

Lemons—The lemon  market is 50c@$l 
lower  than  last  week,  owing  to  the 
bunching of several cargoes  at  the  auc­
tion  sales.  The  severe  weather  which 
has  prevailed  has  rendered  shipping 
somewhat  hazardous,  and it is  better  to 
pay a  little  more  for  stock  that  came 
through  in good weather.

New Nuts—It  is  seldom  that  foreign 
nuts get down  to  as  low  a  basis  as  at 
present.  Tarragona almonds  and  wal­
nuts of  all  kinds  are  lower  than  they 
have  been  for  years.  California  Los 
Netos walnuts and paper shelled almonds 
are largely the  cause  of  imported  nuts 
being so low.  California products are of 
excellent quality  and  the  price  is  cer­
tainly in their favor.

Candy—Manufacturers report  a  fairly 
good demand,  much better than  was  ex­
pected  right  after  the  holidays.  The 
low  price  of  sugar  will  warrant  fac­
tories  running  a  great  portion  of  the 
time and manufactured stock  can  be put 
up  without any  fear that  a  loss  by  de­
cline in price will occur.

Magnificent Linen Exhibit.

Dry  goods  merchants  throughout  a 
territory much wider than  the  State  of 
Michigan  are  surprised  at  the  beauty, 
the  varieties  and  the  amount  of  linen 
fabrics that are being  sold  at  wholesale 
and retail by Spring &  Company,  of this 
city.  Mr.  Henry  Spring  recently  re­
turned  from  an  extended 
trip  among 
the  linen  looms  of  Europe.  His  pur­
chases  exceed  by  twenty  thousand  dol­
lars  the  supply  of  any  former  year and 
embrace  everything  from  common crash 
to 
the  richest  novelties  in  exquisite 
weaves and colorings.  Their  linen sale, 
which is now  on,  their  unique  window 
displays and  their  gorgeously  decorated 
show  rooms  are  educating 
the  people 
with  object  lessons  to  a  higher  appre­
ciation  of  the  economy  and  art  of  the 
linen industries.

Eugene  Field,

When recently in this city lecturing, said 
that Jim Travis had the largest collection 
of second-hand goods in the world and he 
purchased several pieces of antique China 
there.  The entire building at  67  Canal, 
five floors, are filled with antiquities.

Fully  Up to the Times 

Are the methods and ideas  taught  at the 
Grand Rapids Business College.

Jas.  F.  Haldaman,  confectioner  at  128 
West Fulton street,  has bought out P.  H. 
Kilmartin  at  65  South  Division  street, 
and is running both stores.

J.  C.  Herbine*& Co. 

i ave  opened  a 
wholesale cigar  store  at 7  South  Divis­
ion street as a  branch of  their  Philadel­
phia  establishment.

Egbert Bakker, grocer at 166 Ellsworth 
avenue,  has  sold out  to  Dirk  Bos,  who 
has moved the stock to  his store on  East 
street.

J. P. Visner is on the way  with Gillies 
& Co.’s fine New York coffees.  They are 
not matched.  Wait for values.
I  W i s h   T o   B u y
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- 
te r of unincumbered lots in this  city and in one 
of the cleanest and best located new suburbs  of 
Chicago,  where  property  will  soon  double  in 
value.  If you wish to get  out  of  business  and 
get  yoursiock of goods 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.

Wants  Column.

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

H C s lM is S   C H t N l   t s .

665

eea

669

6T0

F OR  SALE—A  GOOD  RETAIL  GROCERY 

store d  ing nice business  in  best  location 
in  Grand  Rapids;  *120  stock.  Address  No.
669, care Michigan Tradesman.____  
STOCK  OF  GKOt  ERIES  AND  FIXTURES 
for sale  cheap.  Correspondence  solicited. 

5U4  South  -uperior St., Albion,  Mich. 

F OR  KENT—A  DESIRABLE  STOKE  Bl'ILD- 

ing  formerly occupied by  Elliott &  Co ,  on 
northea  t corner  of  Monroe  and  Ionia  streets 
One of the best locations in the  city.  Inquire of
Peter Doran. 20 Tower  Block.____  
rjlO   EXCHANGE  Ft)R 
IKST-CLAbS FARM— 
-i-  a St . ,000 stock of  dry  goods.  Central  loca­
tion.  Finest store in city  4,000 inhabitants  Do­
ing the leading business.  Address No. 662  care 
Michigan Tradesman. 
fp io   EXCHANGE  FOR  STOCK  OF  MER- 
chandise—a  first-ilass  improved  140  acre 
farm, good buildings.  One mile from post office. 
City of 3,500 inhabitants.  County  seat  Central 
Michigan.  Value 19 oOO.  Address  No. 663  care 
Michigan Tradesman.__________________ j j f f r
YX7ANTED—BUSINESS MSN  DESIROUS  OF 
changing their line of business  to  corres 
V V 
pond  with  us.  We  have  gilt-edge  vacant lots 
and  improved  residence  property 
in  Grand 
Rapids for sale or exchange for goo’d  clean  dry 
goods, grocery, hardware  stocks,  etc.  Brooks & 
Clark, 25 Canal street. Grand Rapids, Mich,  666
St o c k  o f c l o t h in g  a n d  g e n t l e m e n ’s
furnishing  goods, to  trade  for  real  estate. 
Address No. 660, Care Michigan Tradesman. 660
X \T ANTED—1TO  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 
*3,0 0 in clothing. *  .000 in boots and shoes.  Ad­
dress  F.  C.  B.,  113  Washington  ave.,  North. 
Lansing, Mich.__________________  
O O O D   FARM  NEAR  STATE  CAPITOL, 
”   clear title, to exchange for boots and shoes. 
G. W, Watrous, Lansing.  Mich. 
\A T ANTED— TO  EXCHANGE  A  CLEAN 
V V 
stock  of  boots,  shoes  and  rubbers for a 
stock  of  hardware,  or  will  sell  cheap for spot 
cash  Will invoice *  ,i 0J.  Address No. 646  care 
Michigan Tradesman._ 
T F   YOU  WANT  TO  BUY  OR  SELL  REAL 
J.  estate, write me.  I  can satisfy  you  Chas.
E. Mercer,  Rooms 1 and 2, Widdicomb  building. 
__________________________ _______  

■ OR  SALE  AT  A  BARGAIN—NEW  STOCK 

of groceries invoicing  $',ron.  Good  trade, 
good  location.  Reas  n  for  selling,  death  in 
family.  Write G.  B  ,care Michigan  Tradesman.

646

659

■ OOD  OPENING  FOR  DENT1  T.---- I F

65!
dress  S. $. Burnett, Lake Ann,  Mich.  654 
RICK  STORE  To  KENT;  LIVING  ROOMS 
above; good trading point,  surrounded  by 
good  farming  lands;  abundance  of  fruit: rea­
sonable terms.  Address A. L. Power, Kent City, 
Mich.________________________ _________ 626

ElOR  SALK—A  SHOE  BUSINESS,  OR  HALF 

interest in ssme  on  one  of  the  principal 
streets in Grand  Rapids  New stock  good trade, 
location  AI.  Address  No.  624  care  Michigan 
Tradesman,_________  

621

653

666

SITUATIONS  W A S T E » .

ANTED —POSITION 

«Y  REGISTERED 
pharmacist of experience either  in  drug 
store or sale-man on the road.  Address  No. 6s8, 
ea re M ich 1 a an Tradesm < n. 
TI7A N TED —A  PO-1TION  BY  AN  EXPERI- 
“ » 
enced  drug  clerk ;  a  graduate  in  phar­
macy. registered In Michigan; best reference* of 
former  employers  as  to  eharacn r  and  ability; 
use  no  liquor  nor  tobacco;  salary  reasonable. 
Address 661, care Michigan Tradesman 

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MISCELI. A NEU US.

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TXT ANTED—MANAGER  FOR  A  RETAIL 
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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. cieve and. Ohio. 
VJEARLY  NEW  BAR LOCK  TYPEWRITER 
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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. 
YITANTED—EVERY  D R U G G IS T   JU S T  
t t  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.___________________

564

FOR  RENT.

TWO  GOOD  STORES  AND 
Well  located  at  139-141  South  Division 

BASEMENT.

Street.

FINE  BRICK  HOUSE

124  N.  Division  Street,  opposite  post 
office.  Will repair or enlarge to  suit  de­

sirable tenant.

C. 8.  WÄRD.  Y,  M.  c.  A. Bldg.

DRUMMERS  AFLOAT.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

Office  Telephone  1055.

259  OTTAWA  ST.

S a le sm e n  W h o  W o rk  th e   O hio a n d  M is­

s iss ip p i  B o a ts.

From  th e New T ork Sun.

“Say,  what would you  think  of  going 
up  in  one  of, the  big Albany day  boats 
and having her stop and  set  you  ashore 
long  enough  to  sell a  gun to a country­
man, 
then  pick  you  up  again  and 
go on?”
Such a question could be asked only  by 
a commercial traveler. 
It would  be  un­
just to him to say that the little bottle of 
wine with a half-dollar  table  d'hote  din­
ner made him talkative,  because he is al- j 
ways  talkative;  always  interesting,  too, 
and full of good  stories.
“ Knock  you  crazy,  wouldn’t  it?”  he 
went  on,  not  expecting  any answer  be­
yond  alook  of  surprise.  “Of  course  it 
would.  But I had just that thing happen 
to me down  on  the  Ohio  River  four  or 
five weeks  ago.  That’s  my  country  for | 
business,  the Ohio basin and  the  Missis­
sippi  basin  and  all  the  other basins  in 
It’s about the  finest  racket 
that region. 
that any traveling  man  in  this  country 
has,  too. 
I take a boat at Pittsburg, and 
with two changes I  go  right  through  to 
New  Orleans,  putting in  a little time  at 
every  town  on  the  way.  1  reckon  on 
four or five  weeks for  the trip,  and  from 
eight to ten trips a year.
“There are—well,  I  can’t say just how 
many  of  us  work  the  river  boats.  1 
never strike a boat  without  meeting  two 
or  three  others,  and,  to  draw it mild,  I 
should say there  were  several  hundred. 
It’s just like a profession,  the river busi­
ness is;  takes a long  time to  get  into  it, 
but when you once get there you’re solid. 
It’s a snap,  when you have the right line. 
You don’t want to go  down there  selling 
French clocks or ball  slippers, you know.
In my line—light hardware, cutlery,  and 
firearms—it’s  about  as  soft a berth as  a 
man could crawl into.  Come back by the 
river?  Of course 1 don’t. 
It  would take 
me, say,  a month to get from New Orleans 
to Cincinnati by  boat,  and  that  would be 
a month wasted.
“ 1 make up  my list and have the goods 
boxed  and  shipped  to  Pittsburg  about 
three days  before  1  am  ready  to  start. 
The  first  night  out,  from  Pittsourg  to 
Wheeling,  would drive  a  Hudson  River 
steamboat man into  an  early  grave,  es­
pecially  in  the  summer  and  fall.  The 
river is  generally low then, but the boats 
are  built for shallow  water.  They  keep 
a man  taking soundings all  night.  When 
he gets down to  four,  three  aud  a  halt, 
three,  it’s  a  pretty  good  sign  that  the 
water is low.  That’s not fathoms,  either; 
it’s feet.
“My  business is not  in full swing till I 
get to Cincinnati.  That’s  where the  big 
Ohio  River  packets  start  from,  and  to 
one of them my goods are transferred. 
I 
don’t go through to  New Orleans on that 
boat, only to Memphis,  because the Ohio 
River boats don’t make  many stops after 
they get into the  Mississippi.
“No matter what boat 1 take from Cin­
cinnati,  there’s sure to be  a queer  lot  of 
passengers on  her.  Nobody is supposed 
to travel by the boats  nowadays who can 
afford  to  ride  in  the  cars.  Last 
time 
down was right in  the  swamper  season, 
and  we  had  about  thirty  of  them  on 
board.  You’d  thiuk from  their  appear­
ance  that  the  swampers  were  a  lot  of 
dare-devil  cowboys  hungry  for  a  fight, 
but  they’re  not.  There’s  always  work 
to be  had in  the  swamps  of  Louisiana, 
especially along the  Red  River,  cutting 
lumber  for  barrel  staves  and  shingles; 
and when winter comes  on in  the North, 
hundreds  of  farmer  boys  in  Ohio  and 
Indiana and Illinois go down in the boats 
and put in a winter’s work in the swamps. 
They’re  the  swampers.  They’re  great 
on guns and pistols  and  knives,  not  for 
fighting,  but to give  them  a  real  sporty 
appearance,  1  suppose;  and  I  work  my 
cards  to  sell  them  all  1 can. 
It’s  very 
much like peddling,  to  be  sure.  Some­
times I sell as much as $600 or§800 worth 
on the boat  between Cincinnati and Mem­
phis. 
any 
money,  but pay with  orders on their  em­
ployers.
“This  work  on the  boat,  of course,  is 
only a side show;  my  main  business is in 
the towns.  How long  the  boat  stops  at 
a place depends entirely  upon how much

swampers  haven’t 

The 

P. Steketee & Sons

Expert Packers and Careful, Competent Movers of  Household  Furniture.  Estimates  Cheerfully 

Given.  Business Strictly Confidential.  Baggage  Wagon at all hours.  F. S. ELSTON, Mgr.

Barn Telephone  1059.la

rioving,  Packing,  Dry  Storage.

will show  a  large  line  of  Outing  Shirts 
ranging  in  price  from  $2.25  to  $6  per 
d. z.  in  Outing  Flannels,  Chevoits,  Mad­
ras«  cloth  and  printed  fabrics; also  a  fine 
line  of  Pants  from  $4.50  to  $27 per  doz., 
all  well  shaped  and  new patterns.  Deal 
ers  will  do  well  to  look  at  these  goods 
before  buying, as  they  are  choice  goods.

FEED  YOUR  MULE

freight there is to take on.  At least, tis’ 
supposed to depend upon that;  but some­
times it depends more  upon the commer­
cial travelers on board,  as you  shall see. 
We’re approaching  Shawneetown,  on the 
Illinois shore,  let  us  say,  and  when  we 
get  up  close  enough we see that there’s 
very little freight for  us—not  enough  to 
keep us more than ten or fifteen minutes. 
There  are,  we’ll  say,  four  commercial 
men on  board, and  we all  want  to  spend 
two or three hours in Shawneetown.  We 
get right down into our pockets and  pull 
out  about  a  dollar  apiece  and  put  the 
j money where it  will  do  the  most  good; 
no  matter  where,  but somehow the boat 
is delayed,  and  we  do  our  business  on 
shore.  At  the  next  landing  there may 
be enough freight to  keep us four or five 
j  hours,  and we  don’t  have  to  spend  any 
I money there.
“If  you  were  to  go down to Memphis 
you’d find all the gun stores carrying fine 
stocks of  a  new  rifle  I  introduced  last 
year;  we’ll  call  it  the  Brown  &  Green 
! breechloader,  because  that’s  not 
the 
name  of  it.  Now,  it’s  hard work to in­
troduce a new rifle, you must understand, 
and I  had to do some heavy  brain  work. 
There  was  a  bright  young swamper  on 
board who wanted  one  of  my  rifles  the 
worst  way,  but he couldn’t  afford to  buy 
it.  So  when  we  got  down 
toward 
Paducah 1  took  him  aside  and  made  a 
little bargain with  him, and the result of 
it  was he left  tne  boat  at  Paducah  and 
took  the train over to Memphis.  You see, 
the  boat had a long trip  to  make  before 
she’d  reach  Memphis—four or five days, 
anyhow—and he could  cut across  by rail 
in about  seven  hours.  Well,  sir,  when 
that young fellow got to Memphis he  put 
in his time at the  gun  stores  and  hard­
ware  stores.  Gun  stores  are  thicker 
down  that  way  than  they  are up here. 
He’d go into a store,  and he’d say:
“ ‘I’d  like  to  look  at  some  of  your 
rifles.’
“Sure, they were only too glad to show 
them.  But somehow  none  of  the  rifles 
seemed to suit him.
“ ‘Let me see a Brown & Green breech­
loader,’ he’d  say.  But  they  didn’t  hap­
pen  to  have  a  Brown  &  Green breech­
loader.  Well,  sir,  he  did  that  act  in 
every gun  store  and  hardware  store  in 
Memphis,  and by the time 1 got there that 
town  was just  hot  for  Brown  &  Green 
breechloaders.
“ 1  was going to tell you about stopping 
in  order  to  thin out  our  stock  for inventory  we  will  quote
the boat and having it set me ashore while 
I sold a gun  to  a  countryman.  1  don’t
suppose such a  thing  could happen  any-  ridiculously low  prices  to  anyone  who  is  anxious  enough  to 
Where in the world except along the Ohio 
River.  We were pokiug along one morn­
ing pretty close  to  the  Kentucky  shore, 
somewhere  between  Owensborough  aud 
Evansville.  The river is very wide there, 
aud  in some places almost six  feet  deep. 
1  was  up  on  the  Texas  deck,  leaning 
agaiust  one  of the  pilot house  windows, 
talking to the captain,  when  I  happened 
to  see  an  old  chap  walking  along  the 
shore  with a gun over his shoulder.  The 
captain was a  great  friend of  mine,  and 
just for a joke 1 said to him:
“ ‘Bay, Cap, I wish  you’d stop the boat 
while 1 go ashore  and sell  that  fellow  a 
decent gun.’
“ Well, sir,  the words were  hardly  out 
of my mouth  before  the  captain’s  hand 
was  on  the  whistle  cord,  and  the  old 
thing gave a most unearthly  screech. 
It 
was  the  big  whistle,  you  understand, 
that they blow  only when  they’re  going 
to make a landing.  Most of  these  boats 
carry two whistles, one for  ordinary  use 
and a diabolical one of about  2,000 horse 
power to let people  know  they’re  going 
to make a  landing.  The  old  fellow  on 
shore  acted  surprised,  but  he  was  no 
more surprised than I was.  They set me 
ashore,  and I braced the old  hunter,  and 
in  mighty  short  order  I  sold  him  a 
breechloading  shotgun. 
I  had  to  wait 
nearly half an hour,  too,  while  he  went 
up to his house to get the money.  When 
1 got back to the boat they started her up 
again,  and away  we  went.  A  man  can 
hardly appreciate how queer  that looked 
without seeing  one of those  boats.  Try 
to imagine one of the biggest Albany day 
boats so piled up with boxes  and barrels 
and  boxes and other freight  that  there’s 
hardly anything to be  seen  of  the  boat 
but her pilot house and smokestacks, and 
then imagine that  whole  thing  stopped

REMEMBER that we  make  several  grades  of  feed,  our 
st. car feed and No.  1  feed having an  enviable  reputation  not 
confined  to  Michigan,  and that this special sale will last for a 
few days only [ten perhaps]  we are  ALWAYS  able  to quote 
lower prices on feed  than  any  one  else  [quality  considered], 
because  we  buy  grain  in  large  quantities  for  cash  and  buy 
CHEAP.  This  is  an  IMPORTANT  POINT  to  consider.
BUY  cheaper  and  conse-

if you have one, and while talking of  feed  remember  that  we 
have the largest and  best equipped feed mill in  Michigan  and

VALLEY  CITY  MILLING  GO.,

FOR  A  m   DAYS

OYSTERS

O S C A R   A.L,JLYNf

106 Canal St.

The LARGEST  dealers  can 

quently SELL cheaper.

GRAND  RÄPID8, 

MICH.

— 

1 

make a little money to enquire.

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Mention Tradesman to receive benefit of this offer.

WH OLE S A L B

For Fish, Game and Poultry telephone 1001.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

“Poker?  Oh,  yes, 

and tamed around and held  for  half  an 
hour  while  a  passenger  goes  ashore  to 
sell a gun.
“But those Ohio River  boats  stop  for 
’most anything. 
If a man on shore has _ 
few bags of stuff ready to send down  the 
river,  he stands  on the bank  and  wave_ 
his arms when the boat comes along, and 
it whistles  and  stops.  Sometimes  they 
stop for no reason  at  all. 
I  have  often 
seen the biggest boats tied  up to acoupl 
of trees and left to rest  all  night.  That 
makes  great  sport  for  the  swamper 
when  they  do  that.  They  get  a  plan] 
ashore  and  build  a  big  bonfire  on  the 
bank,  and some of them take  their  gun 
and go off in the woods  after  coons. 
It 
doesn’t seem to make any difference to the 
captain  whether  he  reaches  his  desti 
nation  this  week  or  next.  Of  course 
there’s no such thing as schedule time,
there’s  always 
plenty of poker on the boats.  But when 
you hear one of those  tall  stories  about 
the  stiff  game3 they  play,  you  can  just 
wink the other eye. 
It stands  to  reason 
that they can’t play high,  for  the  peopl 
who  go  by  boat  haven’t  the  money, 
and professional  gamblers  don’t  bother 
much  with  poor  crowds.  Sometimes 
they play a dollar-limit game but,  that’ 
the  highest.  There’s  always  a  bar  on 
board,  and  before  breakfast  you’ll  see 
every blessed man march up and take hi 
little  cocktail.  Outside  of  that  there 
isn’t very much  drinking.  The  napkin 
are  as  good  as  a  time-table.  You  see 
from Cincinnati to Memphis may  take 
week, or it may take two weeks or three, 
according to  the  state  of  the  river  and 
other things; but no matter—the  napkin 
that you get in Cincinnati  is  still  going 
to  be ••your  napkin  when  you  get  to 
Memphis.  You get so after a while  that 
you can gauge the  distance  pretty  well 
by the  state  of  your  napkin.  When  it 
has only  a  few  egg  spots  on  it  you’re 
about at Louisville.  A sort of  a  brown 
tinge all over means  Paducah.  When  it 
gets so it will stand alone  you  are  prob­
ably  within 
of 
Memphis. 
tell  the  dis 
tance pretty well by my complexion, too 
I get a little yellower every  day  on  the 
river  boats.  Not  on  account  of 
the 
climate,  but  on  account  of  the  feed 
Everyting  except  raw  fruit  is  fried  ii 
grease.  They give us a great variety  on 
the river boats and plenty of  it,  but  it’s 
all  spoiled  in  the  cooking.  And  don 
speak of the  water!  All river  water,  of 
course,  a little  darker  and a  great  deal 
thicker than new ale.
“They have a good many accidents  on 
these boats,  but not bad ones.  You  see, 
the passengers can generally wade ashore 
if  it  becomes  necessary.  The  falls  of 
the  Ohio  just  below  Louisville  have 
knocked holes in many  a good boat’s bot­
tom.  They couldn’t help doing it,  when 
often there’s not more than  four  feet  of 
water,  and,  of  course,  a  rocky  bottom. 
But it’s worth taking the trip from  New 
York to see the way  they  manage  when 
they have such an accident.  First  thing 
you know,  the darkies make  a  rush  for 
the staterooms,  and away  go  your  mat­
tresses and  pillows  and  blankets.  They 
carry them down to the lower  deck,  and 
one of the mates goes into  the  hold  and 
stuffs them  into the  holes.  This  checks 
the flow of water,  and the boat begins  to 
whistle for all  she’s  worth—not a  few 
toots like making a landing,  but a steady 
shriek kept up  by the half hour.  Such a 
whistle  Is a  call  for  help,  and  two  or 
three boats come alongside.  As they  all 
burn  wood  and  make  a  tremendous 
smoke, you can  imagine the state  of  the 
atmosphere after these boats  have  been 
tied  together  for  a  while.  The  other 
boats put big pipes into the  hold  of  the 
crippled  boat and start their pumps, and 
the water  is  soon  pumped  out  of  her. 
The next  thing  is  to  build  a  bulkhead 
around the  holes,  a  big  square  box  of 
solid  planks  which is filled in  with  mat­
tresses and mud and pillows  and  things 
and then boarded over.  This takes about 
twenty-four hours,  and  makes  the  boat 
sound enough to go on to  Paducah,  Ky., 
where there is a marine railway.

forty-eight 
I  can  always 

hours 

Give  the  devil his due- 

out of his debt.

-and then  stay

Use  Tradesman Coupon Books

A sso c ia tio n .

M ee tin g   o f th e   J a c k s o n  R e ta il G ro c e rs ’ 
J a c k so n,  Jan.  5—The  regular  busi­
ness meeting of the Jackson  Retail  Gro­
cers’  Association was  held  in  the  office 
of  the  Association  on  the  evening  of 
Jan.  3,  President Haefner presiding.
The special  Committee  on  Office  and 
Place of Meeting reported  that it had se­
cured a location  at 206  East Main street, 
with desk room,  ample  room  for  meet­
ings.  fuel,  lights and telephone, centrally 
located and  easy  of  access.  The  Com­
mittee also presented a bill of sale  for  a 
roll  top  desk,  a  table  and  four  office 
chairs.  The  report  of  the  Committee 
was accepted and adopted.

The Secretary  reported  several  mem­
bers  who  were  delinquent  with 
their 
dues,  and,  on motion,  they were  dropped 
from  the  roll.  Several  members  who 
had retired from  business  who  were  in 
debt to the Association  were also ordered 
dropped and their account-  balanced.

An amendment to  the  by-laws  chang­
ing the amount of the  annual  dues,  sub 
mitted at the last meeting, was  taken up 
for consideration.  After  discussion, the 
amendment was lost.
Bills for hall rent,  office rent,  supplies 
and  Secretary’s  salary  were  presented, 
and,  on motion,  were audited.
On motion,  the Association  decided  to 
hold a social meeting in the  near  future 
and invite the wholesale  and retail trade 
of the city and  their friends to meet with 
C.  G.  Hill,  P.  W.  Haefner,  M.  M. 
Whitney,  W.  H.  Branch  and  P.  Murray 
were appointed a Committee of  Arrange­
ments.
The Financial  Secretary  reported  $19 
receipts  since  the  last  report  and  the 
meeting adjourned.

W.  H.  P o r t e r ,  Sec’y.

Keep your troubles to  yourself, 

are no good to anybody else.

They

If  You  W ant  an OFFICE DESK, 

ROLL  OR  FLAT  TOP,
Send for  Caiftlos-n« “ A.**

NELSON=M ATTER FURNITURE  CO.,
_  
ORANO  RAPIDS, 
HICH.

33  t039  Canal  St.,
.  

• 

.  

■ 

L.  G.  DUNYON  i  CO.

W ill  buy  all  kinds  of  Lumber—  

Green  or Dry.

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

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Hardware Price Current.

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

AUGURS AND BITS. 

dlS.

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1 

AXES.

barrows. 

Snell’s .................................................................60&10
4Q
Cook’s ................................................................  
Jennings’, genuine.......................................... 
25
Jennings’,  Im itation....................................... 50&10
First Quality, S. B. Bronze.............................$550
D.  B. Bronze............................   i i   00
S. B. rJ. Steel.............................   6  50
D .B. Steel.................................13 00
die.
Railroad  ...............................................112 00  14 00
Garden......................................................  net  30 00
Stove....................................................................50*10
Carriage new list..............................................75*10
P lo w .................................................................40*10
70
Sleigh shoe........................................................ 
Well,  plain  ......................................................$3 50
W ell,swivel......................................................  400
Cast Loose Pin, figured....................................70*10
Wrought Narrow, bright 5aat Joint  40  ....... 60*10

BUTTS, OAST. 

BUCKETS.

BOLTS. 

dlS.

dlS.

Wrought Loose  Pin............................................   40
Wrought  Table...................................................   40
Wrought Inside Blind.................................   "   40
75
Wrought Brass.............................................  
Blind,  Clark’s ...................................................70*10
Blind,  Parker’s .................................. 
70*10
.............................. 
Blind, Shepard’s 
70
BLOCKS.

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

. 

 

CRADLES.

G raln.................................................................40410
Cast Steel  ............................................... p e iib  5

CROW BARS.

SKK'5f 

GAPS.

........ per.m  “

g. d .............................................. 
Musket 

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go

CARTRIDGES.

Rim  F ire............................................ 
«
Central  Pire.............................................................25

CHIBBLS. 

dis.
Socket Firm er...................................................75*10
75* 1«
Socket Framing...................................  
Socket Corner.  ......................... ...J ................754S
75*10
socket slick s............................................. 
40
Butchers’ Tanged Firmer............................... 

 

Curry,  Lawrence’s.................................. 
Hotchkiss..................................................... '*** 

40
gg

combs. 

dis.

White Crayons, per gross............... 12012J4 dis. 10

COPPER.

“  

Planished, 14 os cut to size........ per pound 
„  
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60................. 
“ ■ 
Cold Rolled, 14x48............................. 
Bottoms............... ............................... ! ! " " ”  
Morse’s  Bit  Stocks............................. 
Taper and straight Shank.................! 
Morse’s Taper Shank................................50

28
14*52,14x56, 14x60 .................................26
zt
m
22
50
50

DRILLS. 

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DRIPPING PANS.

elbows.

Small sizes, ser p o u n d ................................... 
06
Large sizes, per pound..................... .."**** 
Com. 4  piece, 6 In...............................dos. net 
75
50
Corrugated................................................... 
Adjustable...................................................dis. 40*10
Clark’s, small, $j8;  large, $26....................  
Ives’, 1, $18:  2, $24;  3,$30  .............................. 
 
'  dis.
Disston’s . . ................................................. 60410-10
New American.......................................... 60*10-10
Nicholson’s ............................................... 60* 10- 0
Heller’s  ............................................................. 
50
Heller’s Horse Rasps...............**** 
GALVANIZED IRON.

piles—New List. 

EXPANSIVE BITS. 

dis

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14 

18 

12 

15 

28
17

GAUGBS. 

Discount, 70

knobs—New L ist 

Nos.  16  to  20;  22 
List 

and 24;  25  and  26 :  27 
16 
dis
'50
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s ........................... 
dis
'55
Door, mineral, jap. trim m ings......................... 
55
Door,  porcelain, jap. trim m ings....’.!.’. ’"  
55
Door, porcelain, plated trimming« 
55
Door,  porcelsln, trimmings  .................... *** 
Drawer  and  8hutter, porcelain.............!!!!!!  70
'55
Russell *  Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new list  ..........  
Mallory, Wheeler  *   Co.’s ..............................  
Branford’s .....................................................  
Norwalk’s .

LOCKS—DOOR. 

dlS

55

j 35

dls
dls

N A ILS

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

MAULS. 
mills. 

MOLASSES GATES. 

■Sperry *  Co.’s, Post,  handled........................ 
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s ....................................... 
“  P. S. *  W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleabies.... 
“  Landers,  Ferry *  d s  rk’s ................... 
“  Enterprise 
......................................... 

Adze Bye................. .816.00, dlz. 60-10
Hunt Bye........................................ $15.00, dls. 60-10
• ..........................................$18.50, dis. 20*10.
50
‘40
40
40
30
eo*in
Stebbln’s  Pattern....................................... 
Stebbln’s Genuine......................................... .” 66*10
30
Enterprise, selfm easuring..........................." 
Advance over  base,  on  both  Steel  and Wire
Steel nails, Dase..................................................... 
Wire nails, base........................................"!!.’!! 1  35
60.
Base
.............................Base 
50.
10
............................... 
40..............
....................................................... 25
30.............
20.....  .
..............................  
26
....................................................... 35
16..............
......................................................  45
12........
....................................................... 45
10........
8..........
....................................................... 50
............................... 
7 A 3........
....................................................... 75
4...............
...................................................... 90
8 
1  20
.............................. 
2.........
1  60
F in e s ... 
1  60
..............................  
Case  10...
....................................................... 65
8 . . .  
6... 
......................................................  75
......................................................  90
Finish 10.. 
...................................................... 75
8.. 
......................................................  90
6.. 
10
..............................  
Clinch; 10. 
......................................................  70
8. 
..............................  
80
6.
...............................  
90
Barrel! %
.................................................   1 75
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fan cy ...................................   «¿40
Sclota Bench....................................... 
K £
Sandusky Tool  Co.’s, fancy.......................         m o
Bench, first quality........................................   «340
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s  wood............50*10
Fry,  Acme.................................................dls.60—10
Common,  polished................................... dls. 
70
_ 
Iron and  Tinned...........................................  50-10
Copper Rivets and B u n ................................  50—10

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

PLANES. 

rivets. 

dls.

dll.

60

PATENT PLANISHED IRON.

A” Wood’s patent planished. Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 26 to 27...  9 20 
Broken packs 440 per pound extra.

HAMMERS.

HINGES.

May dole  *C o.’s ........................................ail. 
25
25
Kip’S........................................................  dis 
Yerkes *  Plumb’s ...................................  dls’40*10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.................... 
aOc list 60
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steel  H and.... 80c 40410
Gate, Clark’s, 1 ,2 ,3 .................................. dls.60410
state................................................per doz. net. 2 50
Screw Hook and  Strap, to 12 In. 454  14  and
ow
Screw Hook and Bye, >4...................          .net 
to
96............................net  8H
* ...........................net  7*
A ............................ net  744
f*
Strap and T .................................................. dlz. 
(Jig
Baxn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track. 
5041C
Champion,  antl-frictlon............................ 
Kidder, wood tra c k ................................................40

longer................................................. 

HANGERS. 

“ 
„ 

„ 

„ 

HOLLOW WARB.

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

gOAm

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS.

Gray enameled.................................. 
Stamped  Tin Wwfi................ 
Japanned Tin Ware..............«
Granite Iron W are.....................  new lis’’* 
n  

 
40*10
new Hat 70
at

aoOD8- 

dls.

T5

 

. 

. _ 

, .  
 

SHEET IRON

.  _  
. 

LEVELS. 
ROPES.

... 
SQUARES. 

20
Com. 
$2  50 
2 61 
2  70 
2 80 
2  90 
8 00
AU  sheets No. 18:  and  lighter,” over 30  inche 

Gate Hooks and Byes!!.’."!.!!!!!!!!! ' .  70* 10*10
dls 7n
_ 
0
Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s  ..............  
 
7
Sisal, 44 Inch and larger 
M anilla............................................. " ! ! ” . .. '  10
— 
...................dlS
Try and Bevels....................   ............................
M itre................................  ...............................
„ _ 
Com.  Smooth.
13  50
g *  
Nos.  18 to 21...................... 
4  £!
"   o  «
Nos. 22 to 24...................... 
qu
nos. 25 to 26......................... 8
N o .2 7 ...................................... 
 
 
wide not less than 2-10 extra 
s a n d  PAPER.
. ,  
List acct. 19, ’8 6 ........................................ dls.
__  
at
Silver Lake, White A ... 
i«„,
r>.oK * 
•• 
25
Drab A
" 
White  a ................... 
* 
D rabB .....................  ............   « 
“ 
“  White C .............  
SASH WEIGHTS.

in
«
in
m
5«
Solid By es................................................per ton $20
d ls
.. 
•  “ 
alB-an
Silver Steel  Dia. X Cuts,per foot,'....  m 
„  Speda  Stee  Dex X Cuts, per foot.... 
50 
»Pedal Steei Dia. X Cuts, per foot....  30 
11 
Champion  and  Electric  Tooth  X 
Cuts,  per  root............................................... 
gg

— 
H and.........................  

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

Discount, 10. 

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

SASH  CORD.

SAWS. 

50

3 

painted.

OwCi....................  

Steel, Game...............t h a p s.
in
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s............  ' 
Oneida Community, Hawley * Norton’s! ' ?c-io 10
Mouse,  Choker........................... 
’Benni-iln«
Mouse, delusion.............................. '.'.'$'1.25 p®r doz
d ls .
w ir e . 
Bright Market__
....................................  7C-10
Annealed Market 
«
75
Coppered Market 
55
Tinned M arket... 
Coppered  Spring  Steel
vupuviuu  Wjl* 
¡v
Barbed  Fence, galvanized............. !!!!!!!!!  2 50
10
An  Sable  __
40*10 
Putnam..........
fill.  06 
Northwestern
dls. 10*10 
dls.80
WRENCHES.
Baxter’s  Adjustable, nickeled
Coe’s  Genuine 
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,............ 
tb
'.. .75*10
Coe’s  Patent, malleable.........................  
Bird C ages................................ 
‘so
7*«.?);
Pumps, Cistern  ......................... 
Screws, New 1 1st  ....................’.!!!”.”. ”  70*1  *10
Casters, Bed  a  d  Plate.................  ...  50* 10*10
Dampers, American......................  ..........
Forks, hoes, rakes  and all steel goods." ” ’65*10 

MISCELLANEOUS. 

HORSE NAILS.

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

...........d ll

-dls.

METALS,
PIG TIN.

Pig  Large................................................. 
Pig Bars.............................................  
Duty:  Sheet. 2Hc per pound.
600 pound  casks.......................
Per  pound................................... !.!!..! .!!!. 
SOLDER.

ZINC.

oe„
£ £

' 

7

Extra W iping.............................................  _ 
•[«
The  prices  of  the  many  other  qualities  of
solder In the market Indicated by private brand» 
vary according to composition.
ANTIMONY.

.............   .......   .................per  pound

Haliett 8...... ................................... 
TIN—MELYN GRADE.
10x14IC,Charcoal............  ....... 
14x2010, 
10x14 IX, 
14x20 IX, 

 
 
Each additional X on this grade, M.75.

«710
............................. ..............   7 iX
A™
 
9 «
 

“ 
“ 
“ 

jg

«* 

 
 

 

 

7«
10x1410,  Charcoal...................... 
14x20 IC, 
......................... ; 
.........  6 ~
10x14 IX, 
............  o  AS
................... 
................. ..!!;;;;;!;.  I .1,
14x20ix, 

TIN—ALLA WAY GRADS.
“ 
“ 
“ 

ROOFING PLATES
Worcester 

Each additional X on this grade 81.50.
..........  ...

*  Allaway Grade.....................  
* 

6 5o 
8 50 
8  50
6 00
...................  7  50

14x20 IC, 
14x20 IX, 
20x28  IC, 
14x20 IC, 
14x20 IX 
20x28  IC, 
20x28 IX,
14x28 EX............................................................. 814  00
  “ g 00
14x31  IX .......................................................... 
14x56 IX, for No. 8 Bollen, 
"   II
j- per pound —   1000
14x60 IX,  “  «  9 

BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE.

“ 
“ 
“ 

g 

“ 

 
 

 
 

12 50
15 50

R

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

will  not  increase  its  obligations  to  a 
greater  extent  than  common  business 
prudence will justify.  Rut  if  the  Gov­
ernment were to set in  and  issue  a  vast 
amount  in  treasury  notes, or stamp  un­
limited 50 cent  slugs  of  silver  and  call 
them  dollars,  public  confidence  in  the 
ability of the Government  to  pay  would 
decline, and this distrust would be shown 
by the unwillingness  of the people to ac­
cept paper and silver at gold values.

Whenever any of  the  creditors  of  the 
Government shall present at the treasury 
a demand for payment  in  gold,  and  the 
Government, not  being  able  to  pay  the 
gold,  shall  enforce payment in silver  or 
paper,  then gold  will go to a premium in 
the  business  of the country.  From 1861 
to 1878 all business in the  United  States 
was  done  with  paper;  but  the  Govern­
ment required customs duties to  be  paid 
in gold,  and all imported  goods bad to be 
paid for  also  in  gold.  Then  the  payer 
would  take  his  greenbacks  to a banker 
and purchase gold,  paying  the premium 
whatever it might  be.  For  a  long  time 
$140  in  currency  was  required  to  pur 
chase $100  in  gold,  and  often  the  pre 
mium  was greater and  for a period twice 
as much.

The paper dollars were  called  dollars 
they had the  term  “dollars”  printed  on 
them;  but the fact was there all the time 
that a paper dollar was not as  good  as 
gold  dollar.  The  Government  stamp 
could not bridge  over  the  chasm  in  the 
credit  of  the  Government.  And this  is 
the law of  all  credit  money,  or  money 
that is not made of  material  which is in 
trinsically  worth  what  the  stamp  on  it 
calls 
for.  An  ounce  of  pure  gold 
whether stamped or unstamped,  is  worth 
$20.67,  while  an  ounce  of  silver  un 
stamped is only worth half of  what  it  is 
when  stamped.  Plainly,  then,  a  silver 
dollar is intrinsically  worth  half  a  dol 
lar,  and  the  Government  credit  must 
make up the other half.

Then,  in order  to  keep  all  the  credit 
money  as  good  as  the  intrinsic money, 
it is absolutely necessary  that the  credit 
of 
shall  not  be 
strained  by any excessive  issue of credit 
money.

the  Government 

T H E   N IC A RA G U A   C A N A L .

The obstacles placed in  the way of  the 
Nicaragua Canal bill make the passage of 
that measure a more doubtful event than 
it appeared  when Congress  first reassem­
bled.  The hostility which  has  been  de­
veloped is sufficiently formidable to make 
the task of the advocates of the construc­
tion of  the canal with Government money 
uneasy;  nevertheless, the  obstacles  pre­
sented should  only nerve  the  friends  of 
the measure to fresh exertions.

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W EDNESDAY  JANUARY  9.

IN TRIN SIC   OR  C RED IT  V A L U E .
The notion  that  a  government  stamp 
on metal,  or a printed promise to  pay on 
paper,  will give to the  material  stamped 
or  printed  fixed  and  certain  values  as 
money is entertained  by  many,  and  has 
led  to  much  misapprehension  and  con­
fusion.

It ought to be  understood  that  a  gov­
ernment,  like  an  individual,  can  only 
give such value to its  promises to pay as 
may be determined by its resources.  JJo 
government has any other way of getting 
money, save by  imposing  and  collecting 
taxes on the people, and it cannot tax the 
people to  any  greater  degree  than  they 
are willing to pay.  When the burden  of 
taxation  becomes  excessive,  the  people 
will rise  up  in  rebellion  and  refuse  to 
pay.  Many  violent  and  bloody  revolu­
tions have been caused,  and governments 
have been overturned  by  the  people  re­
belling  against  an  overburden  of  taxa­
tion.

Governments  often  issue  more  prom­
ises to pay than  they can make good, and, 
consequently,  this credit  money declines 
below its face value.  The  first issues  of 
the  Continental  Congress  during 
the 
Revolutionary War were  known  as  con­
tinental  money. 
It  never  had  a  very 
high value at any time,  because the abil­
ity of the colonies  to win  their  indepen­
dence  was  extremely  doubtful,  and  al­
though,  after seven years  of war,  victory 
crowned the colonies,  their paper money 
had been issued so much  in excess of the 
ability  of  the  country  to  make it good 
that the entire lot of it was finally repudi­
ated.  The same fate overtook  Confeder­
ate  money,  and  at the same time,  under 
the stress of a great war,  the  reputation 
of  the  paper money of the United States 
was so much damaged  that  280  cents  in 
greenbacks  were  required  to  pay  100 
cents in gold.

Many of those opposing the Senate bill 
claim,  notwithstanding,  to be in favor of 
the construction  of  the  canal.  For  in­
stance,  some oppose  the guaranteeing  of 
bonds,  while still  willing  that  the  Gov­
ernment  should  undertake  the  work  of 
completing the  canal  Itself  without  be­
To-day,  in a period of  profound peace, 
coming in any way  associated with a pri­
the credit of the United  States  is  excel­
vate corporation.  Such opposition should 
lent,  and  when the Government wishes to 
certainly  be  overcome  by  compromise.
borrow a hundred  million  dollars  ot  so,
Whether the canal is  built  by  the  Gov- 
it can do it at the low  rate of about 3 per I eminent  itself,  or by the canal company 
eent.  interest.  At  the  same  time,  the I with  money  furnished  by  the  Govern- 
Government  can  stamp  48  or  50 cents’  ment,  under  proper guarantees,  the  re­
worth of silver  and call it  100 cents,  and  suit will be the  same—that is,  the enter- 
it will readily be accepted  for  so  much; j  prise will  remain  under  American  con- 
but  this  is all because  public confidence I trol,  which 
the  principal  object 
in the  Government  is  complete.  There' aimed  at  in  both  the  bills  now before 
la an implicit belief that the Government  Congress.

is 

The  present  Congress  should  not  be 
permitted  to  adjourn  without  having 
acted on either the Senate  or  the  House 
bill providing for the construction of the 
Nicaragua  Canal. 
Should  Congress 
either fail to act on  the  question,  or  re­
fuse to aid the construction  of the canal, 
the enterprise would,  to  a  practical  cer­
tainty, fall under the  control  of  British 
capital. 
It is  already  understood that  a 
London syndicate is  prepared to  furnish 
sufficient  money  to secure the control 
the canal concession,  and  the  Nicaragua 
Government would not hesitate to aid the 
work as a British  enterprise  should  our 
Congress show unwillingness to complete 
the canal.

Were the  Nicaragua  Canal  built  with 
British capital,  neither the  Monroe  doe 
trine nor any other  consideration  would 
serve to keep  England  from  practically 
controlling that portion of Central Amer­
ica through which the canal  would  run 
The  presence  of  the  English  in  Egypt 
against the protest of  the  whole  of  Eu 
rope  should  prove  a  sufficient  warning 
to  the  United  States,  and  indicate  to 
our  Congress  the  danger  of  permitting 
the canal to  pass  from  under  American 
control.

Unless  this  country  decides  to  build 
the canal itself,  it  cannot  logically  find 
fault with Nicaragua  for seeking capital 
in  Europe,  and  if  European  capitalist 
are willing to put  their  money  into  the 
canal, no good or sufficient reason can  be 
advanced  why  they  should  not  be  per­
mitted to control  it  in  their  own  inter­
ests.  The people  of  the  United  States 
are fully alive to the importance of build­
ing  the  canal  and  retaining  it  under 
American control,  hence,  should the  en 
terprise be secured  by  Europe,  members 
of the present Congress will be held to  a 
strict  accountability.

home  continues  without 
interruption, 
and this amounts to a  steady withdrawal 
of foreign capital  heretofore  invested  in 
this  country.  This  withdrawal  of  for­
eign  capital,  added  to the adverse  com­
mercial balance against  us  abroad,  occa­
sions demands  which the  supply of  bills 
of exchange,  accruing as a  result  of  our 
exports of  products, cannot  meet;  hence 
the balance  must  be  made  up  by  ship­
ments of the precious metal.

It must be admitted that the  prospects 
for an early cessation  of  the  gold  ship­
ments is not very  promising. 
If  gold  is 
needed  for  export  now,  when the mar­
keting of our staple crops should furnish 
an  ample supply of exchange to liquidate 
all foreign indebtedness,  and even divert 
the flow of  gold  in  this  direction,  how 
much  more will the precious metal be re­
quired  a  few  months  hence,  when  the 
marketing of the crops will have come to 
an end,  and  the  importation  of  foreign 
goods, temporarily  checked by  the going 
into effect of the new tariff law,  will have 
been resumed?

The worst feature of  the gold  drain  is 
the baneful effect it  produces  on the  na­
tional  treasury.  The  reserve  fund  of 
gold maintained to secure  the  legal  ten­
der  notes  is  being  continually  drawn 
upon to furnish  what  is  needed  for  ex­
port,  and,  as  the  Government  has  no 
means of securing gold except by issuing 
bonds,  the  continuance  of  the  outward 
movement  of  the  metal  actually means 
an  increase  in  the  national  debt  com­
mensurate with the amount  of  the  ship­
ments.
Owing to the  intimate  relations  exist­
ing  by  reason  of  present  laws between 
the  national  treasury  and  the  money 
markets,  the commerce of  the  country is 
being unfavorably  affected  by  the  gold 
hipments  and  their  baneful  influences 
upon  the  national  finances.  Unless, 
therefore,  Congress  takes  prompt  steps 
either  to  enable  the  treasury  to secure 
gold,  by demanding it in payment of cus­
toms dues,  or to provide  for the redemp­
tion of the  legal  tender  notes,  business 
must continue to be  unfavorably affected 
by the existing state of things.

The control of the Nicaragua Canal  by 
Great Britain would be a serious menace, 
not only to  American  trade,  but  to  the 
influence of the United  States in  Amerl 
can  affairs. 
In  the  event  of  war, snch 
foreign control of the canal would be dis 
astrous,  because  our ships  of war would 
have to make the long voyage around the 
Horn,  in passing  from  one  coast  to  an­
other;  whereas  Great  Britain  would  be 
able  to  move  her  ships  expeditiously 
through the canal. 
It  Is,  therefore,  not 
only necessary to the commercial suprem­
acy of the country,  but to its very safety, 
that the control of the canal should be in 
American hands.

T H E   EX PO R T S  O F  GOLD.

According to a recent  decision  of  the 
Supreme Court of Minnesota,  the bicycle 
has come to stay,  with  ail  the  right  of 
any vehicle.  The horse of a man  named 
Thompson was scared  at  a  bicycle,  ran 
away, demolished the  buggy and  nearly 
demolished Mr.  Thompson,  who brought 
uit for heavy damages,  setting  out  that 
the bicycle had no right to the road.  The 
Supreme  Court  of  Minnesota  decided 
that the defendant’s  bicycle was as good 
as the  plaintiff’s  buggy,  and  in  its  de­
cision the court used this  sweeping  lan­
guage:  “The bicycle is neither unlawful 
nor prohibited,  and  cannot  be  banished 
because  it  is  not  an ancient  vehicle  or 
was not used in the Garden  of  Eden  by 
Adam  and  Eve.  Because  the  plaintiff 
chose to drive a horse hitched  to  a  car­
riage does not give  him  a  right  to  dic­
tate to others their  mode  of  conveyance 
upon a public highway.”

The drain of gold to  Europe  still  con­
tinues,  the  shipments  on  last  Wednes­
day’s steamers having aggregated $2,200,- 
000.  The  shipment  of  so  large  an 
amount in the  middle  of  the  week,  and 
mmediately after the holidays at that,  is 
not  an  encouraging  symptom  by  any 
means,  particularly as the  shipment can­
not be altogether  explained  by  the  pay­
ments of dividends  and  interest  to  Eu­
ropean stock and bondholders.  Of course, 
the  remitting  of  earnings  to  European 
holders of American securities is a factor 
in the exchange market at this time;  but. 
owing to the  unusual  unloading  by  Eu­
rope of  American  securities  during  the 
past year,  the remittances  to be made on 
account of  dividends  and  interest  must 
necessarily be  much  smaller than usual.
Owing to the unpopularity  into  which 
American  securities  have  fallen  in  the 
European markets,  the  process  of  send-
ing back such  securities to  be carried  a t' changed for  a given value.

The fact that  the  world’s  product  of 
gold  for  1894  was  over  12  per  cent, 
greater than that for the  preceding  year 
and that the annual output has increased 
75 per cent,  in the past seven years,  pre-. 
eludes the idea  that  a  security  of  that 
metal is the cause of  its  apparently  en­
hanced  value.  That - cause  is 
to  be 
looked  for  in  the  increased  industrial
output  which  affords  more  to  be  ex- 

’H E   A Ö C R I I G L A I S I   T R A D E S M A N .

9

¿ a

M ISSIN G   M ER CH A N D ISE.

W ritten fo r T an Tradhsman.

“Did  you  ever  give  attention  to  the 
subject  of  lost  goods—goods  for  which 
no owner can  be  found?”  said  a  gentle­
man  to  me,  the other  day,  who in early 
life had been a commercial traveler.  “If 
not,”  he  continued,  “you  have  but  a 
faint idea  of  the  amount  of  money—or 
its equivalent—some have lost and others 
have gained.  And  these  goods  include 
almost  every  article  of  trade,  from  a 
small package by mail or  express  to  an­
imals for a menagerie.  But the singular, 
accidental, and  seemingly  comical  man­
ner  of  their  disappearance  from  the 
rightful owners is most surprising of all. 
It is quite probable that  the  larger num­
ber  of  these  lost  packages  are  either 
stolen property, or are  in some  way con­
nected with  criminals  at  large  who  are 
unwilling  to  run  the  risk  incurred  by 
claiming ownership. 
If you care to take 
the time,  I will relate a  few  incidents of 
this kind  which have come under my no­
tice.
“A  grocery  firm,  located  in  a  small 
town in Northern Michigan, was, at a cer­
tain time,  visited by a  commercial  agent 
from  Cincinnati.  After  an  invoice  of 
goods, amounting to several hundred dol­
lars,  had  been  selected,  the  agent  was 
asked  if  his  firm  also  dealt  in hickory 
nuts.  He  replied  in  the  negative  but 
said that,  in the course of  a  few  weeks, 
he would be in a part  of the  State where 
he knew they were found  in  abundance, 
and  would  be  pleased  to  purchase  and 
ship  as  much  as they desired.  He  was 
asked what they  would cost  and  replied 
that,  for the best quality, the price would 
be  $3  a  barrel.  The  gentleman  of  the 
grip  was thereupon given $6  and  told  to 
purchase and ship two barrels of them at 
his convenience.  About six weeks  after 
the agent left,  two barrels directed to the 
firm, and marked  ‘Hickory  Nuts,’  were, 
with other merchandise,  unloaded at the 
store.  As  they  were  rolled 
into  the 
store  by  one of the clerks,  he remarked, 
‘Both barrels  contain  good  sound  nuts, 
judging  by  the  way  they  rattle.’  The 
barrels were placed in a  back  room  and 
remained  in  the  same  spot  over  two 
months,  when, one  dull  stormy  evening 
toward Christmas,  it was  suggested  that 
the nuts should be sampled.  According­
ly,  one  barrel  was  opened,  revealing  a 
first-class quality of shagbark nuts in the 
most perfect  condition.  They  were  the 
new  crop  and  could  be  sold  at a good 
profit.  Not a line bad  yet been  received 
from the agent who  purchased  them,  as 
the  firm  had  supposed  would naturally 
occur.  During the winter,  the  contents 
of one  barrel  were  nearly  disposed  of, 
but the  other  remained  unopened  until 
late the following autumn. 
In the mean­
time,  neither  seeing  nor  hearing  from 
the  man  who  had  represented  the  firm 
they were still dealing with,  a letter was 
written  as  to  his  whereabouts,  which 
brought the answer that he had suddenly 
died about two months after he  had  vis­
ited  the  Upper  Peninsula.  When  the 
second  barrel  of 
this  shipment  was 
opened,  imagine  their  astonishment  to 
find  the  barrel  filled  to  the  very brim 
with  a  first-class  quality  of—nutmegs! 
then  worth  in  the  market  65  cents  a 
pound. 
Inquiries  were  at  once  insti­
tuted by the firm to  discover  from whom 
the  barrels  were  purchased,  and,  with 
the aid of the  Cincinnati  firm,  these  in­
quiries were kept up for a long time,  un­
til,  with the  further aid  of  the  railroad 
companies,  the station whence they were

shipped  was  found;  but,  as  so  long  a 
time had elapsed,  the agent  could  recall 
nothing  connected  with  their  shipment 
except  the  marking  of  them  by 
the 
shipper.  Years  have  passed  since  the 
I incident,  but it  still  remains  a  mystery 
how that barrel of nutmegs  came  to  the 
I firm in place of hickory  nuts,  with  both 
barrels  evidently  marked  by  the  same 
person. 
It  would  seem  that,  unless 
those  nutmegs  were  stolen  goods,  the 
sender  would  have  also  instituted  in­
quiries and have traced  them to  this sta­
tion.  The  most  plausible  explanation 
suggested was  that  the  nuts  were  pur­
chased from  a  wholesale  grocery  house 
which had barrels of both kinds of goods 
without specific marks, and  that  the  er­
ror  was  unknown  at  the  time to either 
purchaser or seller,  and,  being  paid  for 
at the time of delivery,  were taken away 
without marking,  and the place  of  their 
destination, also,  was unknown.”

*  

*   #

About  twenty  years  ago,  a  friend of 
mine was selling goods at a small hamlet 
southwest  of  Ogdensburg,  New  York, 
and seven or eight  miles from  a  landing 
on  the  St.  Lawrence  river. 
I  will  let 
him tell the story.

“Fish and firewood,”  he  began,  “ were 
the principal  articles  of  commerce  that 
came  or  went  to  or  from  this landing, 
and,  as I kept a  general store,  they were 
both in my line. 
I therefore kept a good 
span of horses,  wagon  and sleigh,  and in 
my  employ,  as  man  of  all  work  and 
driver,  was a stalwart Dane,  by the name 
of Anderson.  An old  dilapidated  ware­
house,  an  apology  for  an eating house, 
where the fishermen  could  get  a  lunch, 
and a comfortable  country  hotel,  closely 
huddled together,  were  what  constituted 
‘the landing’ at  the  river.  To  be  sure, 
we may except  a smack  or two and some 
half  dozen  small  boats  which  were 
moored  here  when  not in  use, and  were 
owned by the fishermen.

“Late one afternoon  in  April,  Ander­
son  had  taken  a  load  of  wood  to  the 
river, and,  as was sometimes the case, re­
mained over night at the hotel.  Just be­
fore daylight the  next  morning,  he  was 
hitching his horses to the wagon,  when a 
man came up from the river,  trundling  a 
wheelbarrow containing a  box,  and  a tin 
lantern hung in front;  and he inquired if 
that wagon was  going  out  to  Johnson’s 
Corners?  On  being  answered  in  the af­
firmative,  the man  said  that  James  Par­
dee  wished  to  send  that  box  of fish to 
Johnson’s store,  where he would call for 
it in a few days and pay all charges.  ‘Ail 
right,  sir,’  replied  Anderson,  ‘wheel  it 
right this way and  I  will  help you put it 
in  the  wagon.’  Then,  taking  from  his 
pocket blank book and  pencil,  while  the 
man held the lantern near,  he made  out, 
in the name of  Ezra  Johnson,  a  receipt 
for 100 pounds of salt fish  from Mr.  Par­
dee,  the man’s employer, and,  handing it 
to the stranger, jumped  into  the  wagon 
and drove  off.

“There was nothing unusual about this 
incident,  it  often  occurring,  Anderson’s 
team  being  known  by every one as  ‘the 
fi lighter,’ and,  from the size and color of 
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person.  The box containing the fish was 
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but,  as an odd  size was  sometimes  used, 
and  as  this  appeared  to  be an old box, 
little  was  thought  about  it.  The  box 
was placed in the  warehouse,  and  three

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weeks passed away.  No one  calling  for 
it in all that time. I one day examined  it 
more closely and found two places on one 
side  that  seemed  to  have been branded 
with a hot  iron  and  afterwards  to  have 
been gone over with  a  plane.  This  had 
evidently been done long ago, and the en­
tire box looked as if a strong brine might 
have been dashed over it;  and  perhaps it 
was a trick of the  imagination,  but  that 
box did certainly smell fishy. 
I told An­
derson to move it to the  end of the ware­
house,  out  of  our way,  and to make  in­
quiries at the landing  for  the  man  Par­
dee,  and also to be on the lookout for the 
person to whom he had given the receipt, 
that we  might  obtain  some  clue  to  the 
owner.  All  inquiries,  however,  proved 
fruitless.  No one  knew anybody  by the 
name of  Pardee,  and  the  man  with  the 
wheelbarrow was an  equally  mysterious 
personage.  Time went  on—as time  will 
do occasionally—and I had  quite  forgot­
ten about the box of fish,  until  we  were 
engaged  in  taking  stock  the  following 
January, some nine months  after  it  had 
been received. 
I then ordered it opened, 
that we might  see  the  condition  of  the 
contents  and  decide  in  regard  to  the 
charges for  freight  and  storage.  Upon 
removing the cover, a  mass of dry leaves 
was  revealed,  as  an  apparent  external 
covering,  and  beneath  these,  squeezed 
closely  together,  the  entire  space  was 
filled with irregular balls of  from two to 
four pounds each in weight, of an almost 
solid substance,  apparently  gummy  and 
tenacious  in  character,  and which,  upon 
closer examination,  proved  to  be  crude 
opium.  The  secret  of  its  long  storage 
seemed to be revealed.  There had either 
been a mistake in the box  intended to be 
left, or the drug had been smuggled from 
Canada and  the  owner  did  not  dare  to 
call  for  it;  or, possibly  he was dead. 
I 
was in a dilemma.  What customs official 
would listen to my  story  without  an  in­
credulous  smile,  should I make a volun­
tary statement  of  the  case  and  offer  to 
pay  the  duty?  And,  in  point  of  fact, 
after such a  length of  time,  was, or was 
not, this property mine  by  right  of  dis­
covery  and  possession?  But, at least,  1 
would  first  attempt  to  find  the  owner, 
and,  so,  to that end I inserted the follow­
ing advertisement in three different news­
papers in the county:

To whom it mat concern : 

James  Pardee,  or 
any of his legal heirs, holding my  receipt  for  a 
box  of  fish  (said  box  being  delivered  to me 
about nine months ago  and  still  in  my  posses 
sion) will please call  at  my  Btore,  present  said 
receipt, pay charges  due,  and  remove  the  box 
without delay. 
“No  answer  to  this  notice  being  re­
ceived  within  the  ensuing  six  months,

E zba J ohnson.

the opium  was  appraised  and  sold  to  a 
Western  wholesale  druggist,  at  $6.25  a 
pound,  bringing a trifle over $600.  Now, 
of course,  I  might  have  told  the  public 
the  entire  fish  story  in plain English— 
might have given the history of  my  con­
nection  with  that  box  of  opium  called 
‘fish’  in  the  receipt  for  it  given  to  a 
stranger, but I  thereby  would  have  oc­
casioned  myself  much  annoyance;  or,  1 
might have quietly  turned  the  box  over 
to the American custom house.  But why 
should  I,  under  the  circumstances,  do 
this?  Sufficient to say  that  I  have  suf­
fered no compunctions  of conscience  for 
the course I took.  Should the legal heir, 
or heirs,  to the  property  ever  put  in  an 
appearance,  1  am  ready  and  willing  to 
make the proper  restitution.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRAHESMAJN".
William had intimated,  in a modest way, 
that he had accumulated a  fair  share  of 
worldly  wealth,  and  twice,  at  least, as 
the holidays  returned,  he  had  strongly 
intimated that  “Santa Claus would prob­
ably remember brothes James  in  a  sub­
stantial  manner.”  As  the  fifth year  of 
their separation was drawing to  a  close, 
the musings of James  were naturally  di­
rected  toward  the  mythical Santa Claus 
once  more.  He  said  to  himself,  “ )^ill 
knows  that  I  am  to go  home soon after 
New Years,  and somehow I feel as if this 
will be the year that  ‘old Santa’ will ma­
terialize  and  ‘make  me  a  boy  again.’ 
Perhaps  1  ought  to  return  the compli­
ment by asking  Santa  Claus  to  carry  a 
gift  westward,  but—well,  as  second 
thoughts are best,  I  think  I’ll  wait  an­
other year  and send  something from  the 
old home.  That will  seem nicer to  both 
of us.”

“ Many  theories  were  advanced  con­
cerning this incident, but all agreed upon 
one point—that,  the box  being  found  so 
near the border of a foreign government, 
the probability  was  that  it  was  contra­
band  property.  The  appearance  of  the 
action  of  brine  or  salt  upon  the  box 
might be accounted for  by a  presumable 
ocean  voyage and its storage in  the  hold 
of the vessel.”

The morning of Dec. 24,  as James was 
posting some letters  for the firm,  he  was 
handed  a  small  package  strongly,  but 
not  very  elegantly,  wrapped  in  brown 
paper. 
It  was  plainly,  though  appar­
ently hurriedly, addressed to “Mr. James 
Davis,  Little  Falls,  Minn.”  The  post­
mark of the mailing office  was  so  indis­
tinct that it was impossible to tell whence 
it  came.  The  package  was  not  sealed 
and the amount of  stamps  indicated  the 
contents to  be  merchandise.  A  pleased 
smile crossed his  face  as  James  turned 
the package over in his hand,  and he said 
to himself,  “I  expected  this,  but  what 
can it be?”  And, carefully  placing  it  in 
his pocket,  he left the office. 
It chanced 
to be an  unusually  busy  time  with  the 
young man,  and,  arriving  at his place  of 
business,  he turned the  key  of  the  safe 
upon the gift, until a convenient time  in 
which  to  examine  it.  That  evening, 
when  seated  alone  in  his room, he  laid 
the package on the table beside him.  As 
he examined it,  he noticed,  for  the  first 
time,  the  handwriting.  Closely  scru­
tinizing it, he mused,  “Either that is not 
Will’s writing, or he had a  bad  pen  and 
was in too much of a  hurry.”  Then, re­
moving the brown  wrapper,  a square tin 
box came to light—just  such a box as  he, 
had often seen contain  seidlitz  powders. 
This was also well tied  with cord,  which 
he cut  and  cautiously  removed  the  lid. 
A  mass  of  cotton  was  exposed, tightly 
pressed down. 
Inside this  was  a  heavy 
gold  watch  and  chain.  As  he  laid  it 
upon  the  table,  it  seemed  ablaze  with 
diamonds.  “How careless  of  Will,”  he 
thought,  “to send so much  value  in  this 
manner.  He  should  have sent it by  ex­
press,  but,  if  by mail,  then  in  a  sealed

#  

*  

*

Two  brothers,  James  and  William 
Davis—I  knew  but  one of them person­
ally—came West as far as the Mississippi 
river, soon after the  close  of  the  rebel­
lion.  For a time,  they were settled near 
each  other  in  Minnesota.  Will  ran  a 
meat market,  while  James was clerk  for 
a lumber firm  which  had  a  large  store 
and  sawmill  on  the  shore  of  a  lake  a 
short  distance  away.  The  two  young 
men  had  been  brought  up  on  a  farm, 
were frugal  in  their  habits,  and  calcu­
lated 
save  money. 
William was  the more  ambitious  of  the 
two.  and,  feeling  anxious to do better  in 
the world,  after a year or two in the meat 
business,  accepted  an  opportunity 
to 
engage  in  mining  in  the  Territory  'bf 
Idaho, and the two brothers  thus became 
separated.

to  make 

and 

For a while after  their  separation,  let­
ters were frequent between them,  but, as 
time wore on,  two or three a year became 
the limit;  but these were  of the  most af­
fectionate nature.  James  still remained 
with the firm by whom  he  was  first  em­
ployed.  He had been  economical  in  his 
habits and was  accumulating money,  in­
tending,  in the  future,  to  return  to  his 
father’s  old  farm  in  Western  Pennsyl­
vania.

*  *  *

The brothers had  now  been  separated 
for  over  four  years.  The  letters  from

and  registered  package.”  He  took  the 
watch in his hand,  and,  as  he  examined 
it  more  closely,  it seemed evident  that, 
with all its richness and  beauty,  neither 
the  watch  nor  the  chain  were  strictly 
new—that they  had been  worn  by  some 
one before.  “But how  fortunate at  this 
time, when I have r.o other watch !”  And 
he proceeded to  attach  the  chain  to  his 
vest and place the watch in his pocket.

Notwithstanding James  was  delighted 
with  his  valuable  present,  he  was  far 
from being vain and made  no  display  of 
it at any time.  Soon  after  receiving  it, 
however,  he  called  the  attention  of  his 
employer to the  gift,  that  he  might  es­
timate its value,  as he was a  good  judge 
of such things.  That gentleman assured 
him that  the  diamonds  imbedded  in  its 
surface were  all  of  the  first  water  and 
would,  alone,  readily  bring  over  $500; 
that the large one on the  end of the stem 
would, without doubt,  sell for $300,  and 
that the chain,  with its  setting  of  small 
diamonds, topazes and rubies,  was worth 
more than any ordinary  gold  watch  and 
chain  together,  and  that,  while  he  be­
lieved it had been  purchased by William 
Davis at second hand,  he  was  confident 
the  watch  and  chain,  jewels  included, 
would  easily sell in the  New  York  mar­
ket for over $1,000.  “Some impecunious 
gambler or foreign count,”  said he,  “has 
been compelled to part  with it,  and  your 
brother has purchased it at less than cost, 
probably.  You  may  well  be  proud, 
James, of such a watch  and chain and be 
thankful that you have  such  a  brother I 
It is a Swiss watch,  as you  may  notice,” 
he  continued,  “but a  singular omission, 
considering its  great  value,  is  that  not 
even an initial of the  owner’s name,  nor 
any address or mark of recognition,  Is  to 
be found upon i t ”

James thought  he  should  surely  hear 
from his brother in  a day or two,  and  so 
concluded not to  write him  until the let­
ter  should  reach  him.  But  the  days 
came and went  and  still  no  word  from 
the far-off brother regarding the princely 
gift  When it  came time to  start on  his 
visit to the  old home in the East,  he hur­
riedly mailed a grateful  letter  of  thanks 
to his brother,  and in  it  pleaded  for  an 
early reply.  No reply  ever came to that 
letter.  Late in the  following spring,  he 
received one directed  to  Minnesota,  and 
forwarded  to  him. 
It  was  postmarked 
the city of Mexico, and proved to be from 
his long unheard from  brother,  who  had 
been sent there several  months before on 
business for  the  mining  company  with 
which  he  was  connected.  The missive 
was as affectionate as ever,  but contained

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nor did it even mention the gift presented 
at Christmas.

*  «  *

Three  more  years  had  passed  and 
the  Christmas  bells  were  ringing  in  a 
fourth,  when there was a family  reunion 
at  the  old  Davis  home  in Pennsylvania. 
The brothers once more  met  each  other, 
older in experience  as  well  as years,  and 
each  comparatively  wealthy.  Mutual 
revelations  followed,  and  the  fact  was 
disclosed  that  no  gift  of  a  watch  and 
chain had ever  been  sent,  and  that  no 
letter acknowledging the  receipt of  such 
by  James  was  ever  received  by  his 
brother.  The entire  affair was shrouded 
in mystery. 
It was merely  by  accident, 
not design,  that James  Davis was still in 
possession of  the box  and  wrappings  in 
which the watch and chain  had  come  to 
him several years before,  and these  were 
now produced  for  examination. 
It  was 
conceded by  all  present  that  the  hand­
writing on the wrapper  was  not  that  of 
any  member  of  the  Davis  family,  nor 
that of any known  friend, and no magni. 
fying glass could  reveal  sufficient of  the 
postmark to even  hazard a guess as to its 
mailing point.  But, as James was a con­
scientious fellow and the  soul  of  honor,
he  at  once  placed  a  cautiously worded 
“ adv.” in  the "Lost and  found”  column 
of a number of prominent  city papers  of 
the country,  as,  if  the  real  owner  were 
dead,  heirs  might  be  living  who could 
furnish  proof  of  ownership.  Nothing, 
however, ever came from  this  advertise­
ment.

*  *  *

One evening,  almost twenty years after 
the brothers had first gone West,  a young 
lady  visiting the family of William Davis 
was perusing  a  New  York  paper.  The 
strange  story  of  the  magnificent watch 
had been told her,  and she  suddenly  ex­
claimed,  "Here is something that will  in­
terest you all.  Shall I read it,  for  I  no­
tice  the  name of  William Davis?”  Per­
mission granted,  she  read  the  following 
article:
In the whitewashed  cell of a  Southern 
prison, there came through the iron grat­
ing the faint rays of  a single  jet  of  gas. 
An  old  man  was  seated  near  a  cot on 
which a sick man  lay.
"And are  you sure  you  have  told  me 
all?  Is there nothing further you wish to 
confess?”  asked the father,  for  such  he 
was.  "You have only a  short  time  left 
in this world,  so tell  me  all,  and  I  will 
make  such  restitution  as  lies  in  my 
power.”
There was silence for a moment.  Then 
the sick  man  turned  his face toward his 
father and,  in a feeble voice, said slowly: 
"There is one  thing  more.  There  were 
three  of  us  and  we  cracked a safe in  a 
fine mansion  in  Chicago.  We  knew  the 
family  had left for the  East.  The house 
was closed and  we  broke  into it one dark 
stormy  night. 
I  was  the  man  on  the 
watch and the other two did the job,  and, 
as they came out to me  in  the  dark  one 
of them whispered,  ‘Here’s  your  share.’ 
He  put  a  tin  box  in  my  hand  and  I 
.-kipped.  When  1 came  to  examine  the 
find—saints  preserve  us,  but  1  was 
frightened then! 
I never  saw  anything 
like  it  for  a  watch  and  chain. 
It was 
solid gold aud all a blazin’ with di’mon’s! 
I didn’t dare keep it, nor offer to sell  the 
thing,  and what could  I  do  with  it? 
It 
wer’ only a short time  till  Christmas;  so 
I could send it out of my sight to brother 
James.  That  was  the  winter  he  was 
trappin’  up in  Minnesota.  So  I  mailed 
it to him that very day.”
"And  what  did  James  do  with  that 
watch  and  chain? 
I  never  heard  him 
speak of your sending  him such a  thing, 
and never saw them in his possession.”
“ I directed the box,  just as  1  received 
it from  my  pals,  to  ‘James Davis,  Little 
Falls,  Minnesota;’ but I never heard from 
him from that day  to this.”

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,
“Oh,  what a rascal my son  has  been !” 
murmured the old  man to  himself, as  he 
slowly  rose  from  his seit  and  buttoned 
his coat about him.  Then he said,  "Good­
bye,  Peter.  I’ll  call  again  in  half  an 
hour.”
But the hand he  reached  out  to  clasp 
offered  no  response.  His son was dead 1 

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TRADESMAN  COMPANY, 

finest fruit, aud heaviest package in the market.

Every box guaranteed  full count and perfectly sound.  The handsomest  pack, 

Grand  Rapids, 

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Mich.

Agents,

ALFRED  J  BROWN  GO.,  fJinliigan  Agents.

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of  tl)c  Unitcì»  States  of  America,

To

H E N R Y   K O C H ,   your  C l e r i c s ^   attorneys,  ager  j, 
salesmen and  workmen,  and  all  claim ing  or 
holding  through  or  under  you,

j   it  has  been  represented  to  us  in  our  Circuit  Court  of  the  United  States  for  the  District  ot

G reetin g :

Ulhcrcas

N e./  Jersey,  in  the  Third  Circuit,  on  the  part  of  the  ENOCH  MORGAN’S  SONS  COMPANY,  Com plainant,  that 
the  District 
it  has  lately  exhibited  its  said  Bill  of  Complaint  in  our  said  Circuit  Court  of  the  U nited  States  for 
of  New  Jersey,  against  you,  the  said  HENRY  KOCH,  D efendant, 
therein 
complained  of,  and  that  the  said

to  be  relieved 

the  m atters 

touching 

ENOCH  MORGAN’S  SONS  COMPANY,

Complainant,  is  entitled  to  the  exclusive  use  of 

the  designation  "S A P O L IO ”  as  a  trade-m ark  for  scouring  soap.

Itoni, ftljcrefore. we  do  strictly  command  and  perpetually  enjoin  you,  the  said  HENRY

KOCH,  your  clerks,  attorneys,  agents,  salesmen  and  workmen,  and  all  claim ing  or  holding  through  or  under  you, 
.  ider  the  pains  and  penalties  which  m ay  fall  upon  you  and  each  of  you  in  case  of  disobedience,  that  you  do 
absolutely  desist  and  refrain  from  in  any  m anner  unlawfully  using  the  word  “ SA PO LIO ,”  or  any  word  or  words 
substantially  sim ilar  thereto  in  sound  or  appearance,  in  connection  with 
the  m anufacture  or  sale  of  any  scouring 
soap  not  made  or  produced  by  or  for  the  Complainant,  and  from  directly,  or  indirectly,

By  word  of  mouth  or  otherwise,  selling  or  delivering  as 

“SAPOLIO,”  or  when  “SAPOLIO”  is  asked  for,

that  which 
false  or  m isleading  m anner.

is  not  Com plainant’s  said  m anufacture,  and  from 

in  any  way  using 

the  word  “ SA PO LIO ”  in  any 

The  honorable  M elv ille  W.  F uller,  Chief  Justice  of 
the  City  of  Trenton, 
United  Stages  of  America,  at 
Jersey, 
the  year  of 
eight  hundred  and  ninety-two.

i6th  day  of  December, 

this 

in 

[ signed]

[ seal]

ROWLAND  COX,

C om plain an ts  Solicitor

the  Supreme  Court  of  the 
in  said  District  of  New 
thousand.
our  Lord,  one 

S.  D.  OLIPHANT,

Cleri

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PO R TER   TO  PA R T N E R S H IP.

P r o g re s s   o f  a   C le rk   W h o   W a s   N o t 

A fra id   o f  W o rk .

An Old M erchant  in   H ardware.
I began my  second year  with  my  em­
ployer feeling well towards me,  but with 
the envy of the  older  clerk  against  me. 
Harry  had  been  two  years  longer with 
Mr. Ely than I had,  and had always been 
the favorite,  but he thought he saw in me 
a rival, and he began to show  his ill will 
against  me  in  numberless  little  ways. 
When  I  first  came  to  the  store Mr. Ely 
had said that I was  to  obey  Harry,  and 
he consequently had  the  power to annoy 
me as much  as he  wished.  Of course,  I 
understood that we were in a great meas­
ure in competition  for the same end,  and 
it  was  impossible  that  two  ambitious 
boys could  be  anything  else.  We  both 
had our ways to make in life, and we both 
saw that the first step was  to  win  favor 
with Mr.  Ely.
In every store where there  are  two  or 
more  clerks,  it  is  inevitable  that there 
should  be  some  clashing  among  them, 
but the moment one turns from his  legit­
imate work to try to damage a competing 
clerk, just that moment  he begins to fall 
out of the race.

I determined to have  no  quarrels  and 
make no complaints,  but I was bound  to 
go on my own way and  trust to faith  for 
the  end.  1  was  anxious  to learn book­
keeping,  but Harry kept  me  away  from 
the  books  as much as he could.  Just as 
sure as 1 went  to the desk  be  called  me 
to do something in the store.  But where 
there is a  will there  is a  way.  One  day 
there  was  but  little  doing  in the store, 
and  Mr.  Ely  was  doing  nothing,  so  I 
went up to him and asked if he was will­
ing that I should look over the  books  so 
as  to  learn  book-keeping.  He  said  be 
was not only  willing but glad to have me, 
and if 1 wanted any help  he  would  give 
it to me.
The le»son he gave me that day is  still 
fresh  m u.y  unuii,  and I  have  used  it  a 
great many times with my own clerks.
Turning  to  a  book  on  the  desk,  he 
said:  “ This,  Mark, is  my  day-book—in 
it are recorded the  transactions  of  each 
day, just as they happened; you  see here 
is the bill sold  Mrs.  ¡Smith,  there  is  the 
one  sold  Brown,  and  so  on;  this is the 
most  important  book  in  the store. 
If 1 
should sue a customer this would  be  the 
book  to  take  to  court;  this  is  what  is 
called the original entry.  All  the  other 
books  are  copied  from  this,  and hence 
are  liable  to  mistakes  being made,  but 
here is the entry made  while  the  trans­
action is fresh,  and to the  correctness  of 
this  men  are  usually  willing  to swear. 
Now, if there was no other book but this, 
it would make it a tedious task to  gather 
together  a  man’s bills,  supposing he had 
a long account; you would have  to  begin 
at  the  beginning  of  the book and scan 
each  page  closely  to  find  every  item 
against him,  aud you  would  have  to  go 
through this work every time you wanted 
to  see  how  much  his  account was.  So 
we have ledgers—here is  mine.  1 take a j 
page and  head it John Smith, say; then 11 
look through the day-book  from  the  be­
ginning,  and  whenever  I  find  a  bill 
against Smith I write the  amount  here— 
‘posting’  we call it—until I have  all  the 
bills  against  him  on  this  page  here. 
Then if he wants to pay,  or I want to see 
how  much  he  owes  me, I have  only  to 
turn to this page and  foot  up  the  bills. 
These two  books are  all  that  are  abso­
lutely  necessary  to  carry  on  business, 
but no merchant feels like taking  in  and 
paying  out  money  without  having  a 
special cash account; this may be  in  the 
ledger or in a separate book; here  is  my 
cash  book,  on  one  page  is the cash we 
get  in,  on  the  other  the cash paid out; 
footing up these two pages and  subtract­
ing one from the other shows the amount 
of cash on hand. 
If  I  didn’t  have  this 
cash book when anyone paid me I  would 
have to credit him the amount on the day­
book,  but  instead of that I credit it here 
and then post direct from the  cash  book 
to  the  ledger. 
In  keeping  books  by 
single  entry as I do, these three are all I 
need; they show me what I buy and  sell, 
how much I owe and  what is due  to  me, 
and this is all I want of books.  There is 
no secret about them,  and I advise you to 
get the run of them early.”

1 needed no second  urging.  I sat down 
to the books and  studied  them  and  fol­
lowed the  entries  and  postings  until  I 
got the hang of it.  Those  of us who are 
old at the business and who handle  a  set 
of double entry books as easily as we  re­
cite  the  multiplication  table  have  for­
gotten how much of glory  there  is  to  a 
boy in  mastering  so  simple  a  thing  as 
single entry book-keeping, but  it  is  one 
of  the  many  steps  made  between  boy­
hood and business.
Soon after this I  gained  another  step 
in life.  One morning,  in  sweeping  out 
the store,  I  found  a  twenty-dollar  bill 
under the  stool  before  the  dress  goods 
counter.  My first move was  to  call  out 
to  Harry,  but  he  wasn’t  down  yet. 
I 
put it in my pocket and went  on  sweep­
ing.  No  sooner  was  it  snugly  in  my 
pocket than  something  began  to  tempt 
me to keep it and  say  nothing;  whoever 
had lost it would not know whether they 
had lost it  in  our  store  or  not,  and  of 
course if I said 1 had  not  found  such  a 
bill they would go looking  elsewhere for 
it.  1 wanted some new clothes the worst 
way;  three  or  four  of  my  cronies  had 
lately  come  out  in  new  suits  and  I 
wanted to look as well  as  they  did,  but 
mother had need of the  money and could 
not get  me  any  clothes  just  then,  and 
there was a  book  just  out  1  especially 
wanted to get,  for I was a lover of books, 
but no means  of  gratifying  my  taste;  I 
could see a score of ways where  I  could 
spend  the  twenty  dollars  to  advantage 
and no one be any the wiser.  But there 
was  another  side.  Would  it  be  right? 
Just then Mr. Ely came  in  and  without 
waiting a moment I pulled the bill out of 
my pocket  and  gave  it  to  him,  telling 
him where 1 had  found  it. 
I  was  hap­
pier the moment it was out of my  hands.
“We will hear from it,” said he,  and  it 
wos not long till Mrs.  May  came  in  and 
claimed  it.  Mr.  May  was  the  leading 
lawyer of the town and  a  brother-in-law 
of Mrs. Ely’s.  Mr.  May  was  very  gra­
cious to me  and  offered  me two  dollars, 
which,  however,  I  refused  to  accept. 
Somehow  I  fancied  after  ttie  wicked 
thoughts  the  money  put  in  my  head  I 
would be punishing myself properly  not 
to accept any  reward.  But  a few  days 
afterwards Mr.  May left a package in the 
store for me, and in that  were  two  vol­
umes giving the  autobiography  of  Ben­
jamin Franklin, and a note to  me  saying 
Mr.  Ely had said I was fond of books and 
that he and Mrs. May would be glad if  I 
used his library  freely.  There  may  be 
boys who read this that think  this  latter 
offer was not of much consequence,  but I 
did not think so. 
I was anxious  to  edu­
cate myself and  delighted  to  read,  and 
I look back to that library  as  being  one 
of the important  stepping  stones  in  my 
life.

If  Y o u   w o u ld  
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kn ow  

How  to  conduct  your 
business  without 
the 
loss  and  annoyance  at­
tendant upon the use  of 
the  pass  book  or  any 
other  charging  system, 
send  for  samples  and 
catalogue of our

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Which is the  best meth­
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Tradesman
Company.

THE  MICHIGLAJST  TRADESMAN,

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

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GRAND  R A PID S  .MICH.

BanK,

I J no.  A.  Covodb  Pres.

Henry  Idema, Vice-Pres.

J.  A.  S.  Verdikr,  Cashier.

K. Van Hop, Ass’tC ’s’r.
T ransacts a  G eneral B an k in g   Bnslness. 

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

D eposits.

DIRECTORS:

Jno. A. Covode, D. A  Blodgett,  E. Crofton Fox. 
T. J. O’Brien,  A. J. Bowne,  Henry Idema, 
J. A. S. Verdler
Jno.W.B)odgett,J. A. McKee 

D eposits  Exneed  O ne  M illion  D ollars,

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them.

If  you  haye  any  stock  yon  wish  to 
dispose  of,  seek  headquarters  for  an 
outlet.
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“ The Niagara Falls Route.“

(Taking effect  Sunday,  May 27,1894.) 

♦Daily.  All others dally, except Sunday.

Arrive. 
Depart-
10 20d m ............Detroit  E xpress............ 7 00am
5 30 a m .......»Atlantic and  Pacific....... 11  20 pm
1  50p m ........ New York Express..........  6 00 p m
Sleeping cars  run on Atlantic  and  Pacific  ex­
press trains to and from Detroit.
Parlor  cars  leave  for  Detroit a t 7:00 a m ;  re­
turning, leave Detroit 4:35 pm , arriving at Grand 
Rapids 10:20 p m.
Direct  commnnicatloR  made  at  Detroit  with 
all through  trains ee*t  over  the  Michigan Cen 
tral Railroad (Canada Southern Division.)
A. ALMquisT, Ticket Agent, 
Union PassengerStatlon.

CHICAGO 

Nov^ 18*
a n d   w K s i  M i c h i g a n   b t ,

GOING  TO  CHICAGO.

TO AND FROM  MUSKEGON.

RETURNING  FROM  CHICAGO.

Lv. G’d Rapids..............7:15am  1:25pm  *11:30pm
Ar. Chicago.................. 1:25pm  6:50pm  *7:20am
Lv.  Chicago...................8:25am  5:00pm *11:45pm
Ar. G’d Rapids..............3:05pm  10:25pm  *6:25am
Lv. Grand Rapids........ 7:25am  1:25pm  5:30pm
Ar. Grand Rapids.........11:45am  3:05pm 10:25pm
7:30am  3:15pm
Lv. Grand  Rapids.. 
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

TRAVERSE CITT. CHARLEVOIX AND  PBTOSKET.

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

PARLOR  AND  SLEEPING  CARS.

Parlor  car 

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

♦Every day.  Others week days  only.

pm.

DETKOIT, 

oct 2811894

LANSING7 A  N O RTH ERN   R .  R .
GOING  TO  DETROIT.

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

RETURNING  FROM  DETROIT.

Lv.  Detroit........................7:40am  1:10pm 6:00pm
Ar. Grand Rapids.......... 12:40pm  5:2Cpm 10:45pm
L v.G R  7:40am  5:00pm  A r.G R . 11:35am 10:45pm

TO AND PROM SA G IN A W , ALMA AND ST. LOUIS.

TO AND PROM LOWELL.

Lv. Grand Rapids............  7:00am  1:30pm  5:25pm
Ar. from Lowell............... 12:40pm 6:20pm  ...........

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’i.

EASTW ARD.

w a u k e e   R ailw ay.

De t r o i t ,  g r a n d   h a v e n   a   Mi l ­
tNo.  14 tNo.  l6|tNo.  18 •No.

Praia» Leave
G’d  Rapids, Lv 6 45am li  20am 325pm 1100pm
Ionia .......... . Ar 7 40am 1125am 4 27pm 1235 am
St.  Johns  .. • Ar 8 25am 12 17pm 5 20pm 1 25am
Owosso--- Ar 9 uoam 1 20pm 605pm 3 10am
E. saginaw. Ar 10 50am 3 45pm 8 00pm 6 40am
Bay City — . A t 11 » ’am 4 35pm 8 37pm 715am
F lin t.......... . Ar 10 05am 3 45pm 705pm 5 40am
.Ar 1205pm 5 50pm 8 50pm 7 30am
Pt.  Huron.
P ontiac__ .Ar 10 53am 305pm 8 35pm 5 37am
. Ar 1150am 4 05pm 935pm 700am
Detroit......

WESTWARD.

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For  Grand Haven  and Intermediate
Points.................................................*7:00 a. m.
For Grand Haven and  Muskegon.......tl :00 p. m.
“ 
“  Mil. and Chi.. .+5:35 p.  m
tDaily except  Sunday. 
Trains  arrive  from  the  east,  6:35 a.m.,  12:50 
p.m., 5:30 p. m.,  10:00  p.m.
Trains  arrive from  the  west, 10:10 a.  m.  3:15 
p m.  and 9:15 p. m.
Eastward—No.  14  has  Wagner  Parlor  Buffet 
car.  No. 18 Parlor Car.  No. 82 Wagner  Sleeper.
Westward— No. 11  ParlorCar.  No. 15 Wagner 
Parlor Buffet car.  No. 81 Wagner Sleeper.

»Dally.

J a s . Ca m p b e l l , C ity  T’cket Agent.

G ra n d   R a p id s   St In d ia n a .

TRAINS  GOING  NORTH.

L eave g o in g  

North

F o r T ra v e rse  C ity , P eto sk ey   a n d  S a g in a w .... 7:40 a .  m .
For  Traverse  C ity ..................................... .............. 6:25 p .m .
For S a g in a w ................................................................6:00 p. m.
For  P etoskey and  M ackinaw............................. 10:85 p  m .
L eave g o in g  

TRAINS GOING SOUTH.

South.
For  C in c in n a ti...........................................................7 :26a.m .
F or K a la m azo o  and  C h icago..............................2:16 p. m .
For  F ort W ayne a n d   th e  E ast...........................8:15 p.m .
F o rC in cin n a ti.........................................................*5:40  p .m .
F or  K alam azoo and C h icago............................*11:40  p. m

C h ic ag o  v ia  G.  R.  St I. R . R.

Lt Grand R apids..............7:25 a m   2:15 p m   »11:40 p m
Arr  C h icago.......................2:40 p m   0:06 p m  
7:10 a m
Oar and coach.

2:15 p  m   train   ha* th ro u g h   W agner  B uffet  P arlor 

11:40  p m  tr a in  d a lly ,  th rou gh  W agner S leep in g Car 

and Coach.
11:30 p m
Lv  C hicago 
Arr Grand R apids 
7 :2 0 a m
3:30  p  m  h a s th rou gh   W agner  B uffet  P arlor  Car 
11:30 p m   train d aily .th ro  n gh  W agner  Sleep ing  Oar 

3 :3 0 p m  
9:1 6 p m  

6:50am  
2:60pm 

For Muskegon—L eave. 

M uskegon, G rand R ap id s A  I n d ia n a .
7:25  a m 
8:56 a  m
1:00p m  
1:15pm
5 :2 0 p m
5:40 p m  
O .L. LOCKWOOD*

From  M uskegon—A rrive.

G eneral P assen ger and  T icket A gent.

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The Mayor of Cincinnati,  who  was  in 
Washington  the other  day,  purpose  not 
stated,  says:  “Some  time  ago  I  was 
talking  with  a  chemist.  He  declared 
that in time the food  problem  would  be 
solved by the  concentration  of  eatables 
in  wafers,  and  that  the  span  of  life 
would be lengthened into  the  centuries. 
In  fact,  he  thought that  in  a  hundred 
years men  would  begin  to  live  longer, 
and that even 200 years would not be the 
limit of human existence.” 
If the chem­
ist  has  the  handling  of  wafers,  people 
will not live so long as  they might under 
other 
em­
ployed by brewers and all sorts  of liquor 
makers are responsible for much adulter­
ation.  Besides,  what does it matter how 
long  people  live  who  begin  their  ex­
istence 100 years from  now  after  every­
body of to-day is dead?  We  shall  know 
some day;  but not here.
*  *  *

circumstances.  Chemists 

It is difficult  to  account  for  some  of 
the 
literary  “crazes”  that  obtain  so 
largely  in  this  country.  A  few  years 
ago  the  magazines  were  crowded  with 
war  literature.  This,  perhaps, could be 
accounted for in  the  fact  that  the  war 
had become the  great  interest  of  mem­
ory to so  many  of  its  participants;  but 
it is not easy to  account  for  the  Napo­
leonic  craze  which  is  now  ransacking ] 
every corner  of Europe for  data  having 
even  the  most  remote  bearing  on  the 
career of that most unscrupulous embod­
iment of invincible selfishness.

*  *  *

The  question  of  retaliation  between 
the United States and the  various  Euro­
pean  countries,  on  account  of  discrim­
inations in tariff,  is  causing  much  dip­
lomatic correspondence and has been  the 
principal subject of discussion  in  the re­
cent sessions of  the  Cabinet.  The  first 
official act of the new  Austrian  Minister 
was a protest  against  the  imposition  of 
one-tenth of  a  cent  additional  duty  on 
sugar from  countries  paying  an  export 
bounty  on  that  product,  claiming  that 
such  duty  is  a  discrimination  against 
Austria and, consequently,  a  violation of 
our treaty of  commerce. 
It  is  probable 
that this  protest will be followed  by  re­
striction on some of our  exports  to  that 
country.  The principal sources of Amer­
ican  sugar  supply  are  Cuba,  Germany 
France and Austria,  and  there is already 
correspondence  with  three  of  these  on 
the  sugar  question.  The  threat  of  re­
taliation in the case of  Spain will  prob­
ably bring that country to terms in short 
order,  as  Cuba  would  be  quickly  dis­
tressed by a restriction of  its  market  in 
this country.  Our  power  of  retaliation 
against the others  may  not  be  as  sum­
mary,  but it is not probable that  any  or 
all of them can  interfere  seriously  with 
the trade of this country without  its  af­
fecting their  trade  more  than  they  are 
willing to stand.

*  

*  

*

A committee of the  New  York  Cham 
ber  of  Commerce,  directed 
to  recom­
mend a plan  for  municipal  reform,  has 
reported that,  in its opinion,  there could 
be no complete  reform  until  the  muni­
cipal  government  “ was 
lifted  out  of 
politics.”  The case seems  hopeless,  as, 
up to  date,  no  derrick  has  been  made 
strong enough to lift the  government  of 
a big city out  of  politics.  The  unscru­
pulous Hungry-Joe people who  hang  on 
to politics for a  living  cannot  afford  to 
let go  of the fat offices for a  little  thing 
like reform.

The Peoria Canal  Co.,  of which  Presi­
dent  Greenhut  of  the  Whisky  Trust  is 
principal  stockholder,  put nearly a mil­
lion into irrigation works  at  Gila  Bend, 
Ari., which were sold  last  week  by  the 
sheriff.  Mr.  Greenhut  claims,  from  a 
judgment  which  the  company  holds  of 
$100,000  and  the  proceeds  of the  land, 
which is greatly enhanced in  value  since 
its purchase from the  Government,  that 
the stockholders will eventually  recover 
the major part of their investment.

G rip s a c k   B rig a d e .

Geo.  A.  Newhall (I.  M.  Clark  Grocery 
Co.) is entertaining his father and mother, 
Mr.  and Mrs. Joseph Newhall, of Saugus, 
Mass.

J.  E.  Houghton  was in  Milwaukee  last 
week and signed for 1895 with B. Leiders- 
dorf  & Co.  His territory includes the en­
tire trade of the State.

L.  W.  Holmes, of  the  firm  of  Holmes 
Bros., clothiers atBelding, has purchased 
a block of stock in the  Lansing  Pants  & 
Overall Co.  and gone on the road  for that 
corporation.

H.  A.  Hudson has severed  his  connec­
tion with the I.  M. Clark Grocery Co.  and 
taken the position  of  Western  Michigan 
representative for the  J.  G.  Butler  To­
bacco  Co.  formerly  held  by B.  G.  Van- 
Leuven.

Chas.  I.  Flynn,  formerly  with  H.  H. 
Freedman,  when the  latter  was  engaged 
in 
the  manufacture  of  cigars  at  Reed 
City,  but for the past twelve years  iden­
tified  with John  E.  Kenning,  has  handed 
in his  resignation,  to  take  effect  about 
Feb.  15,  when  he will  unite his  fortunes 
with the newly organized  United  States 
Cigar  Co.

P u r e ly  P e rs o n a l.

F.  C.  Bushman,  the  Kalamazoo cigar 

jobber,  was in town last  Saturday.

Wm.  K.  Pringle, 

the  Muir  general 
dealer,  was  in  town  over  Sunday,  the 
guest  of  B.  S.  Davenport.  He  was  ac­
companied by his wife.

Chas.  McCarty, the Lowell  Poo Bah, is 
likely to have a damage suit on his hands, 
the prospective  plaintiff  being  a  Grand 
Rapids gentleman who purchased a dress 
suit  for  the  purpose  of  attending  Mc­
Carty’s  “house  warming.”  Contrary  to 
announcement  McCarty  began  living  in 
the  house  without  observing this neces­
sary preliminary, and,  unless  the  matter 
is promptly adjusted,  the  aggrieved gen­
tleman threatens to  seek  satisfaction  in 
the courts.  Charlie  usually  manages  to 
win  over  everybody  by  means  of  his 
stereotyped laugh,  which would, ordinar­
ily, cause a stone image to  smile,  and  it 
will  be interesting to note what effect the 
laugh has on a jury.

In my opinion,  a merchant  who  has  a 
retail counter and sells goods to  the  con­
sumer must be classed as  a  retailer,  no 
matter how many goods  he  may  sell  at j 
wholesale.  From all I  can  learn,  deal­
ers of this kind represent less  than 5 per 
cent, of the total number  engaged in the 
retail  business. 
in  my  opinion, 
unjust  that  95  per  cent,  of  the  retail 
dealers of the country  should  be  forced 
to meet the competition of the 5 per cent, 
who buy their goods as they now do from 
first hands at jobbers prices.

It  is, 

The  legitimate  jobber  will  certainly 
agree  with  me  that  very 
frequently 
small  retail  dealers  undertake  to  meet 
prices  made  by  their  larger  and  more 
fortunate retail competitors.  The result 
is inevitable failure,  and  the  loss  gen­
erally falls on the wholesaler. 
It  is  the 
sense of organized jobbers  in  this  coun­
try  that  manufacturers  should  confine 
the distribution  of  their  product  to  ex­
clusive jobbers, but when forced  to  sell 
to retailers they should do  so at  a  price 
sufficiently  above  the  jobbing  price  to 
pay  the  expense  of  distribution.  This 
plan  is  not  only  just  and  equitable  to 
the exclusive jobber,  but protects a large 
body  of  small  retail  dealers  against 
ruinous competition by the favored  few.
The manufacturer has no more right to 
sell goods at the  same  price  to  jobbers 
and  retailers 
jobber  has 
to sell his goods to the consumer  and  to 
the retailers at  the  same  price.  Manu­
facturers  are  frequently  prone  to  con­
sider  a  merchant  as  a  jobber  who  oc­
casionally sells  in  original  packages  to 
restaurants, consumers or hotels. 
If the 
jobbers  as  a  body  do  not  resent  such 
practice and insist on  treatment  that  is 
fair to them,  the time is  not  far  distant 
when the manufacturer will lose sight of 
the  jobber  altogether,  do  his  business 
direct with the retail  dealer,  and,  even­
tually, perhaps,  with  the consumer. 
In 
my opinion, the only way this can be pre­
vented is for every jobber in  the  United 
States to join a  local,  State  or  national 
organization and convince  the manufact­
urer that the jobbers are a  unit  on  this 
question,  and that  by conforming to  the 
system  herein  outlined  a  benefit  will 
accrue not only to the jobber,  but to  the 
manufacturer and retailer as  well.

than 

the 

Sec’y Ohio Wholesale  Grocers’ Ass’n

Or r in   T h a c k e r ,

Somebody  stole  10,000  cigars  from  a 
New York factory  recently,  and  the  es­
tablishment has succeeded  in  getting  at 
least  $2,000  of  free  advertising  on  the 
strength of it.

R e ta ile r.

R e la tio n s  o f M a n u fa c tu re r, J o b b e r   a n d  

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,
Advocates of the cause  of  temperance 
will  be gratified  to  learn  of  the  rapidly 
increasing  demand  for  hot  “soft  stuff” 
among  men.  During  the  winter  there 
are many men not habitual  drinkers who 
get into the way of dropping into saloons 
for a hot scotch or something of the kind 
to warm  them  up,  but  since  the  drug­
gists and light  lunch  cafes  have  begun 
furnishing  hot  drinks  saloon  men  say 
that there has been a great falling  off  in 
their  profits.  With  hot  soda,  coffee, 
cocoa,  chocolate,  beef  tea,  clam  broth 
and hosts of other grateful beverages the 
man who is  only  an  occasional  drinker 
finds  it  just  as  comforting  and  much 
cheaper  to  warm  up  in  the  drug  store 
rather than the saloon.
*  

The  establishment  of  Wholesale  Gro­
cers’ Associations throughout  the  entire 
country  has  tended  to  draw  the  line 
sharply between the exclusive jobbers on 
one side and the large retailers and semi­
jobbers on the  other.  Self-preservation, 
the  great  law  of  nature,  has  prompted 
the exclusive jobbers  to  take  the  stand 
that  manufacturers  should  choose  be­
tween the  system  of  distributing  their 
product through  the  jobber  exclusively 
or  entirely  through  the  retailer. 
It  is 
impossible for any  manufacturer  to  use 
both systems at the  same time, and I  be­
lieve  that it is to the advantage  not only 
of the jobber,  but  of  the  manufacturer 
and 
that  this  dis­
tinction be kept in view, and the  system 
of  distribution  through  the  jobber  ex­
clusively be fully and practically carried 
out.

legitimate  retailer 

*  

#

I B

A   RECO RD   O F  G R O W T H

T h a t M u st B e P le a sin g  to  th e  S to c k h o ld ­

e r s — T h is  C ity   is  P ro u d   o f 

th e   C o m p a n y .

At a  meeting  of  the  directors  of  the 
Grand Rapids Fire Insurance Co.,  a  div­
idend  of  7  per cent, on its capital stock 
of $200,000 was  declared.  The  company 
shows a marked increase in business  and 
resources over 1893 as follows:  in assets, 
$46,121.19;  in surplus,  $29,539.66;  in  re­
insurance reserve,  $19,162.78;  in income, 
$33,244.92. 
Its  annual  statement  shows 
cash assets of $392,498;  net surplus, $50,- 
351.60;  re-insurance reserve, $132,664.60. 
The company will  add the  State of  Ohio 
to its list,  making twelve states in which 
it will operate through some  500  agents. 
No financial  institution in this  city is  in 
better repute than this  company  for fair 
dealing,  promptness and reliability.  The 
advantages to this city of having  a  local 
fire  insurance  company  are  many.  A 
company possessing  all  the  elements  of 
strength and carefully  managed not only 
I advertises this city abroad,  but brings to 
j it a large amount of money  to be distrib­
uted in  various ways  for its  benefit.  To 
the insuring public in this  city  it  offers 
speedy and satisfactory indemnity in case 
of loss.

B a n k   N o te s.

Hannett, Adams Bros.  &  Co.,  bankers 
at  Shepard,  have  been 
incorporated 
under the style of the  Commercial  State 
I Bank.

So far as T h e   T r a d e s m a n ’s  informa­
tion goes, three names  are  mentioned  in 
connection  with  the  presidency  of  the 
National City Bank—Hon. T.  J.  O’Brien, 
Hon. J. C.  Fitzgerald  and  Col.  Geo.  G. 
Briggs.  All  are  gentlemen  of  unusual 
strength  and  any  one  of  them  would 
prove  to  be  a  worthy  successor of  the 
lamented  gentleman  whose  place  he 
would take.

Lester J.  Rindge (Rindge,  Kalmbach & 
Co.)  takes the place on the  Board  of  Di­
rectors  of  the  National  City  Bank ren­
dered  vacant  by  the  death  of  the  late 
Thos.  D.  Gilbert.  The honor is worthily 
bestowed, Mr.  Rindge  being  one  of  the 
shrewdest  and  most  reliable  business 
men in the city.  As the  manager  of  an 
important  manufacturing  and  jobbing 
establishment and  its  credit  man  for  a 
quarter of a century,  Mr.  Rindge  is  ad­
mirably  adapted,  both  by  temperament 
and  experience,  to  discharge the duties 
devolving upon him in  his  new  position 
with credit to himself,  with  profit to  the 
bank and  with  fairness  to  its  patrons. 
Few men enter the portals of a directors’ 
room so well equipped  for  the  work  as 
Mr. Rindge.

L a k e v ie w   L a c o n ic s.

L a k e v ie w ,  Jan.  5—L.  P.  Sorenson 
opened  his  new  bank  for  business  the 
morning  of  Jan.  2.  Mr.  Sorenson  is  a 
good citizen and has the best  wishes of  a 
large  circle  of  business  men.  H.  W. 
Stone, of Lowell,  is in charge of the bank 
in the capacity of  cashier.
Geo. D.  Lovely,  our  hardware  dealer, 
was  married  last Sunday to Miss Bertha 
Hollier,  who  has  been  employed  as  a 
clerk in his store for some time past.
Fred Sreaves has purchased a  stock  of 
bazaar goods and will occupy one side  of 
L. L.  Bissell’s  new  brick store building.
The  Stebbins  Manufacturing  Co.  has 
received an order for 25,000 puzzles from 
Toronto.
S p e c ia l  M ee tin g   o f W h o le sa le   G ro c e rs.
A  special  meeting  of  the  Michigan 
Wholesale  Grocers’  Association  will  be 
held at Jackson, Jan.  15,  for  the purpose 
of considering  matters  of  grave  impor­
tance to the organization.

4 4
Drug Department•

S tate  B oard  of P h arm a c y .

O ne  Year—O ttm ar Eberbach, A in   Arbor.
Two  Years—George Q-undram, Ionia.
Three  Years—C. A. B ag bee. Charlevoix.
Fott  Years—8. E. P ar k ill, Owosso.
F ive Y ears—F . W. R. p erry, Detroit.
P resident—Fred’k W . R. P erry, D etroit.
E ecretary—S tanley E. P arkill, O wosso.
T reasurer—Geo. Gundrnm, Ionia, 
d o m in g   M eetings—D etroit,  Jang;  Grand  RapidB 
March S; D etroit (Star Island), J u n e » ; Lansing, Nov. 5
M ichigan  S tate  P h a rm a c e u tica l  A ss'n. 
P resident—A. 8. Parker, Detroit.
V ice-President—John E.  Peck, Detroit. 
Treasurer—TV. Dupont,  Detroit.
Secretav—F. C. T hom pson,D etroit.

G rand  R apids  P h arm a c e n tlca  1 Society. 

P resident, John E. Peck; Secretary, B. Schrouder.

THE  SUCCESSFUL  SALESMAN.
The successful  man  of  to-day  is  the 
successful salesman,  I  care  not  in what 
occupation or in what station  of life you 
find him.  The young man who goes out 
in the world takes his future into his own 
hands;  his success in life means  his sue 
cess as a salesman.  What is the success 
ful salesman?  Simply the man who sub 
serves to the greatest possible degree the 
best interests of his employer or the peo- 
pie he serves and  whose life is permeated 
with  a  conscientious  desire  to  earn 
his money.  What a broad  field  is  this 
It is as far reaching on either  side as the 
utmost stretch of  our  imagination,  and 
reaches  up  to  Heaven.  George  Wash 
ington  was  a  successful  salesman;  so 
was  Abraham  Lincoln.  Phil  Armour 
Marshall Field,  O.  S.  A.  Sprague,  and 
other  successful  men,  are  successful 
salesmen.  Whether he deals in merchau 
dise over the counter  in a country cross­
roads store,  or in  the great marts  of  the 
world,  handling  the  products  of  the 
world;  whether  he  practices  medicines 
dispenses  law  or  occupies  the  highest 
station under the government of any  na­
tion—if he is successful in  any  of  these 
he  is  a  successful  salesman.  All  suc­
cess is attained  only  by  the  most  con 
tinued  and  determined  effort  of  our­
selves—the  work  of  a  lifetime. 
I  re­
member when I left home, to  go  out  in 
the world to hew out  for  myself  a  pos­
sible success,  twenty-two  years  ago  the 
20th  of  last  month,  my  mother  (now 
among the angels)  took me  by  the  hand 
and said:  “My dear boy,  you  cannot  at 
this  time  appreciate  the  great  impor­
tance to you of the step you  are about to 
take.  You  are going out in the world to 
do  battle  for  yourself.  Two  roads  lie 
before  you—one  leads  to  success,  the 
other to failure.  You are  going to work 
for  Mr.  Hannah.  He  is  a  successful 
man.  Study his ways,  follow his  direc­
tion  carefully  and  closely;  make  your­
self as indispensable to  his  business  as 
possible;  earn  your  money  every  day; 
and,  mark  my  words, as  your  mother, 
who has  the  greatest  anxiety  for  your 
good, success will  follow.  The road is a 
long one,  the way is rugged  and  uneven 
and beset on either side  with  the  skele­
tons of failure, and one needs  almost  to 
possess the courage of a Daniel to enable 
him to keep on  in the straight  track  and 
not be drawn  off  the  narrow  way  that 
leads to success.”  Had  I  known,  twen­
ty-two years ago, of this route  my  heart 
must have failed  me,  and  I  doubt  if  I 
should have had the courage to press on; 
but the Great Ruler of heaven  and earth 
has wisely planned that we  may not look 
into the future,  but learn  of the ups and 
downs of life  through  our  own  experi­
ence. 
In  the  issue  of  T h e   M ic h ig a n  
T r a d e s m a n  of May 9 appeared a  sketch 
in which I was much  interested. 
I need 
it  was  of  our  respected
ardly  say 

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.

■

ly's Lemon.
(Wrapped)
Doz.  Gro. 
1 oz.  $  90  lO  2C
2 oz.  1  90  12  6C
4 os.  2  00  22  8«
6 oz.  3  00  33  OC
[’s  Vanilh
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Wrapped)
Doz.  Gro. 
1 oz. $ 1  so  16  2<
2 oz.  2  00  21  6<
4 oz.  3  75  40  8C
6 oz.  5  40  57  6C
P la in   N. S.  wltl] 
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p rice if  p referred,
C orrespondence 
Solicited
flich.

T H E   M ICHIOAISr  TRAJDESMAJSL

friend, Mr.  W. J.  Gould, of  Detroit.  He 
is a  successful salesman,  and,  although 
his  years  now  number  above the  sixty 
mark and he has not for  years taken the 
active part of a salesman,  yet  1  venture 
to  say,  without  fear  of  contradiction, 
that when the young  men  in  his  estab­
lishment get a customer who  is  hard  to 
please and  well  nigh  impossible  to  sell 
to,  and the boys have given him  up,  Mr. 
Gould can take him in hand  and  satisfy 
him to the extent that  he will  leave  his 
order with them,  and  the  customer will 
go away with  the idea well  fixed  in  his 
mind that W. J.  Gould &  Co.  is  a  most 
excellent house to do business with.

The successful  salesman must have, in 
addition to all else,  the  unusual  facultj 
of putting  himself  in  the  place  of  his 
customer  and  appreciating  his  wants, 
conditions  and  likes.  He  must,  also, 
have that fine sense and delicate study ol 
the touch of human nature  that will  en­
able him at the right time  to  accost  the 
customer  with  a  very  polite  “Good 
morning,  Mr. Jones,”  and  the  next with 
“Hello,  Marks.”  Of  the  great  division 
of the great army of life but few are suc­
cessful,  and there are numbers who come 
down to the end of life with  a record  of 
failure, cursing their  fate  (as  they  call 
it)  or laying  the  blame  at  the  door  of 
somebody else.

One branch of the business  of the con­
cern which I belong to is  running  a  ho­
tel,  and in the course  of  a  year  a  good 
many traveling  salesmen  come  and  go, 
and we have an  opportunity  of  looking 
deeper into their lives and  habits than is 
disclosed as  they  present  themselves to 
us  in  a  business  way.  That  many  of 
them are  not  successes  is  no  surprise. 
Gambling,  drinking  and  inattention  to 
business is  the  order  with  some;  while 
others pursue the  wiser  course  and  are 
keenly alive at all times  to  the  best  in­
terests  of  their  houses.  They  get  the 
orders, please their customers,  earn their 
salary,  and are general successes.

H e r b e r t   Mo n t a g u e.

Mr.  Frank  J.  Gaskill,  grocer,  Granc 
Rapids, says:  “I  saved  last night forty- 
five minutes and my accounts  posted  ui 
to  date  this morning.”  He uses Shaw’s 
File book.

l/se Tradesm an C oupon Books.

Is  T h is   A Good  T h i n g  ?

$15 for $4

Yoil  Want  It !
Yoil  Have  To  Have  It  !
The  Law  Says Yoil  Shall  Have  It!

A ll  in  convenient form  for immediate  use  as  illustrated  below,  with  in­
structions  for  using.

2,800  Labels

NO  LABEL CASE  NECESSARY. 
THEY  NEVER  CURL.
THEY NEVER GET HIXED  UP.

There are 113 poisonous drugs sold, which must all be labeled as such,  with the 
proper antidote attached.  Any label bouse will charge you  but  14  cents  for  250 
labels,  the smallest amount sold.  Cheap enough, at a glance,  but did you ever  fig­
ure it out  113 kinds at 14 cents ?—§15.82.  With  our  system you get the same re­
sults with less detail, for less than one-third the money.

bent prepaid to any address,  when cash accompanies order, for §4.

T r a d e s m a n   C o m p a n y ,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

SEELY  MFG.  CO.,  Detroit 

_____ Wholesale Price  Current•_____
Advanced—Kennedy’s Goods, Hood’s Pills.  Declined—Gum  Opium,  Oil  Anise,  Oil  Cassia 
Borax, Borax po.________  
’

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

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TIN C TU R ES.

2 00
Cubebae........................ 
Bxechthltoa................  1  20®i 30
Aconltum  Napellla R ..........  60
E rlgeron....................... 1  20@1 30
50
G aultherla....................1  50@1 60
Aloes.......................................... 60
Geranium,  ounce.......  ®  15
and  m yrrh..................   60
Gossipll,  Sum. gal.......  70®  75
A rn ica...................................   50
Hedeoma  .....................l  25@1 40
Asafcetlda..............................   <0
Jum peri........................  50@2 00
Atrope Belladonna...............   60
Lavendula...................  90®2 00
Benzoin..................................  60
Llm onls............................. 1  40@1 60
„ 
Co.............................  50
Mentha Piper................2  10@3 00
Sanguinarla...........................  50
Mentha Verld..............1  80@2 00
Barosm a................................  50
Morrhuae, g al................... l  30@1 40
Cantharldes..........................   75
M yrda, ounce.............   ®  50
Capsicum...............................  50
O live.............................  90@3 00
Ca damon..............................   75
PlCls Liquids,  (gal.,35)  10®  12
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Co...........................  75
R lclnl.........................  
88®  96
Castor................................... 1 00
Rosmarlni............ 
i  00
Catechu..................................  50
Rosae,  ounce.................6 50@8 50
C inchona..............................   50
Succlnl.........................   40®  45
Co...........................  60
Sabina.........................   90@1  00
Columba................................  50
Santal  ..........................2 50®7 00
Conlum ..................................  so
Sassafras......................  50®  55
Cubeba...................................   50
SlnaplB, ess, ounce....  ®   65
D igitalis................................  50
Tlglfl............................   ®  fo
Ergot.......................................  50
Thym e.........................   40®  60
G entian..................................  50
o p t..................   @1  60
_ .  ‘ 
Co..............................   60
Theobromaa.................  15®  20
G ualca...................................   so
ammon......................   60
Z ingiber................................  50
Hyoscyamua...... ..................  so
Iodine.....................................  75
Colorless....................   75
Ferri  Chlorldum...................  35
K in o ...................................  .  50
Lobelia...................................  so
M yrrh.....................................  50
Nux  Vomica.........................  50
O pll........................................   85
“  Camphorated.................  50
“  Deodor..........................2 oo
Aurantl Cortex......................  50
Q uassia..................................  50
K hatany................................  50
Rhei........................................  50
Cassia  Acutlfol....................   50
Co...............   50
Serpentaria...........................  50
Stromonlum.............................  60
T olutan..................................  60
V alerian................................  50
VeratrumVerlde..................   50

BICarb......................... 
is®  18
Blohromate.................  13®  14
Bromide...................... 
40®  43
ia®  15
Carb..............................  
Chlorate  (po. 17@19)..  16®  18
Cyanide........................  50®  55
Iodide................................ 2 96@3 00
Potaesa, Bltart,  pure..  23®  25 
Potassa, Bltart, com ...  @  15
Potass Nltras, opt....... 
8®  10
Potass N ltras............... 
7®  9
Prusslate......................  28®  80
Sulphate  po.................  15®  18

POTASSIUM.

“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

8.  N. Y. Q.  A

Morphia, 8.  P. A W.  3 05@2 80 
C.  Co......................  1  95@2 20
Moschus Canton........   @ 4 0
Myristlca, No  1 .........  65®  70
Nux Vomica, (po 20)..  @ 1 0
Os.  Sepia......................  15®  18
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D.
Co........................   @2 00
PlCls Llq, N.»C., H gal 
doz
@2 00 
Plcla Llq., q u a rts.......
@1  00 
p in ts..........
“ 
@  85 
PI1 Hydrarg,  (po. 80)..
®  50 
Piper  Nigra,  (po. 22)..
@  1 
Piper Alba,  (po g5)__
@  3 
Pilx Burgun.................   @
7
Plumbl A cet...............   12®   13
Pulvls Ipecac et opll. .1  10@1  20 
Pyrethrum,  boxes  H
& P. D.  Co., doz.......  @1 25
Pyrethrum,  pv............  20®  30
Quasslae...................... 
8®  10
Qulnla, 8. P.  & W .......34tt@39H
8.  G erm an....  27®  37
Rubla  Tlnctorum.......  12®  14
12®  14
SaccharumLactlspv. 
Salacln......................... 2 10@2 25
Sanguis  Draconls.......  40®  50
Sapo,  W ........................  12®  14
.  M....................   10®  12
“  G .........................   @  15

“ 

Sddlltz  M ixture.........   @  20
Slnapla..........................   @  18
“  opt.....................   ®  80
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  De
V oes...........................  @  35
Snuff .Scotch, De. Voes  @  35 
7®  9
Soda Boras, (po. 8-10). 
Soda  et Potass T art...  24®  25
l%@  2
Soda Carb................... 
3®  5
Soda,  Bl-Carb.............. 
Soda,  Ash....................  3H@  4
Soda, Sulphas.............   @  2
Spts. Bther C o ............  50®  55
“  M yrda  Dom.......  @2 00
“  M yrda Im p........   @2 50
*'  Vlnl  Rect.  bbl.
.  . .7...........................2 49@2 59
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Strychnia  Crystal.......1  40@1  45
Sulphur, Subl............... 2H@ 3
Roll............... 2  @ 2H
Terebenth Venice.....  28® 90
Theobrom ae.......... ...45  @ 48
Vanilla.................... ..9 00® 16 00
Zlncl  Sulph............ ... 
7® 8

“ 

OILS.

Whale, w inter........ ..  70
Lard,  extra.............. ..  SO
Lard, No.  1............. ..  42
Linseed, pore raw .. ..  56

Bbl.  Gal
70
85
45
59

“ 

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

f a in t s. 

lb .
Red  Venetian...............i n   2@8
Ochre, yellow  Mars__ 1M  2@4
“  
Ber.........1H  2®3
Putty,  commercial....2H  2H@8
“  strictly  pure...... 2H  2H@3
Vermilion Prime Amer­
ican .....................  
13@15
 
Vermilion,  English__  
65®70
Green,  Peninsular....... 
13@16
Lead,  red ......................   5H©6
“  w h ite ................. 5H@6
@70
Whiting, white Span... 
@90
Whiting,  Gliders’......... 
1 
White, Paris  American 
Whiting,  Paris  Bng.
c liff............................. 
l  40
Universal Prepared  ..1  C0@1  15 
Swiss  Villa  Prepared 
P aints...................... 1  00@1  20

VABNISHKS.

N o.l  Turp  Coach.... 1  10@1  20
Extra Turp..................160@1  70
Coach  Body................2 75®3 00
No. 1 Turp F u rn ........1  00@1  10
Butra Turk Damar__1  56®1  60
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 
70®75
Turp...........................  

P E R I  DR 11

VALLEY  CITY

POULTRY POWDBR

A conltum ....................   20®  25
Althae...........................  22®  25
A nchusa......................  12®  15
Arum,  po......................  @  25
Calamus........................  20®  40
Gentlana  (po. 12)....... 
8®  10
Glychrrhlza, (pv. 15)..  16®  18
Hydrastis  Canaden,
(po. 35)....................  
@  30
Hellebore,  Ala,  po__   15®  20
Inula,  po......................  15®  20
Ipecac,  po....................1  30@l  40
Iris  plox (po. 35®38)..  35®  40
Jalapa,  p r....................   40®  45
Maranta,  Ha...............  ®  35
Podophyllum, po........   15®  18
Rhei..............................   75@1  00
o u t ......................  @175
pv.........................   75@1  35
Splgella........................  35®  38
Sanguinarla,  (po  25)..  @ 2 0
Serpentaria..................   30®  35
Senega.........................  55®  60
Simllax, Officinali!.  H  @ 4 0
M  @ 2 5
Sclllae,  (po. 85)............  10®  12
Symploearpus,  Fmtl-
  @  35
Valeriana, Bng.  (po.30)  @  25
German...  15®  20
Inglbera..................  
18®  20
Zingiber  j.
18®  20

dus,  po..............  

“ 

“ 

Anlanm,  (po.  20). 
@ 1 5
. 
Aplum  (graveleons)..  14®  16
Bird, la .......................  
4®  6
Carni, (po. 18)...............   10® 12
Cardamon..........................1  00@1 25
Corlandram...................  12®  14
5
Cannabis Sativa..........  4® 
Cydonlum......................  75®1 00
Chenopodium  ..............  10® 12
Dlpterix Odorate  .......2 40®2 60
Foenlonlum.................  @  15
Foenngreek,  po.......... 
6®  8
L in i................................3y*@ 4
Lini, grd.  (bbl. 8H) • ■  3*@ 4
Lobelia...........................  35® 40
4® 
Pharlarls Canarian__  
5
R apa..............................  4H@  5
Slnapla  A lbn................ 
7®  8
r   N igra............  11®  12

8FIBITUB.

i‘ 
» 
f  

Frumenti, W., D.  Co..2 00@2  50
D. F. R ........2 00®2 25
1  25®1  50
 
Junlperls  Co. O. T — 1  65@2 00
“ 
.............. 1  75®3 50
Saacharum  N.  B .........1 90@2  10
Spt.  Vini  Galli............ 1  75@6 50
Vini Oporto...................... 1  25@2 00
Vini  Alba..........................1  25@2 00

SFONSBS.

Florida  aheepa’  wool
carriage......................... 2 50@2 75
Naaaan  aheepa’  wool
carriage  ...................
Velvet  extra  sheeps’
wool  carriage..........
Extra  yellow  aheepa’
carriage....................
Graia aheepa’ wool car­
riage .........................
Hard for  alate  use__
Yellow Reef, for  slate 
n a e ............................

2  00 
1  10

1  40

MISCELLANEOUS.

“ 

“ 

“ 

ground, 

squlbbs.. 

ASther, Spts  Nit, 3 F ..  28®  SO 
“  4 F ..  32®  34
Alum en......................... 2H@ 3

(po.
7)................................ 

3®  4
Annatto........................  55®  60
Antimoni, po...............  4®  5
et Potasa T.  55®  60
A ntlpyrln....................   @1  40
Antlfebrln...................   @  25
Argenti  Nltras, ounce  @  43
Arsenicum..................   5®  7
Balm Gilead  Bud__  
38®  40
Bismuth  8.  N ............. 1  40@l  50
Calcium Chlor, la, (Ha
@  11
12;  Ha,  14)...............
Cantharldes  Russian,
P O ........................ ..
@1  OO 
Capsid  Fructua, a f...
®  26 
PO
®  28 @  20 
B po.
Caryophyllus,  (po.  15)
10®   12 
Cannine,  No. 40..........  
.....
@8 75
Cera  Alba, 8. A F .......  50®  55
Cera Flava..................   38®  40
Coccus  ........................  @  40
Cassia Fructua............  ®  25
Centrarla......................  ®  10
Cetaoeum....................   ®  40
Chloroform.................  60®  68
@1  25
Chloral Hyd Crat........ 1  25©i  50
Chondrus....................   20®  25
Clnohonldlne, P.  A  W 
is®   20
German  3HO  12 
Corks,  list,  dia.  per
cent  ........................
75 
Creasotum ...............
35 
O
Creta,  (bbl. 75).........
®5®
2 
prep
5 
11 
9®
u b ra.........
8
Crocus .................
35®  40 
Cudbear............
O   24
Cuprl Sulph.................  5 ®   6
D extrine......................  10®  12
Bther Sulph.................  75®  93
Bmery,  all  numbers..  ®
po....................   ®   6
JLP°-)  40..........   * 9   35
Flake  w nlte...............   12®  15
G alla.............................  ®  23
Gambler.......................   7  @  8
Gelatin,  Cooper..........   ®   60
French............  30®  50
Glassware  flint, by box 80.
Less than box  75.
Glue,  Brown...............  
9®  15
“  W hite.................  18®  25
G lycerins....................   14®   20
Grana Paradlal............  @  22
Humulus......................  25®  55
Hydraag Chlor  Mite..  ®  75 
“  C o r.... 
@  65
Ox Rubrum  ®  85
Ammonlstl..  ®   95
Unguentum.  45®  55
Hydrargyrum..............  @  60
Tcnthyobolla, Am..  ..1  25®1  50
Indigo................................  75@1 00
Iodine,  Resubl............3 80@3 90
Iodoform.'.........................   @4 70
L upulin.............................  @2 25
Lycopodium...............  60®  65
M a d s ...........................  70®  75
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy-
drarg lo d ..................   @  27
Liquor Potass Arslnltls  19®  12 
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
Manuls,  8. F ...............  60®  68

1H)...............................2H@ 4

“  
“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 

-  

Nothing  Like  It  to  Make  Hens  Lay  in  Winter.

A  valuable addition to the  feed  of  laying  Hens  and  growing 

chicks, and a sure preventative for Cholera 

Roupe and Gapes.

Price 2 Ö  Cents•

HRZELT1NE  Ì  PERKINS  DRUG  GO..

Manufacturing Chemists,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

ACLDUK.

.1  25@1  60 
.  1M@  5 
.1  40@1  60 
30®  33

A cetlcum ....................  
8®  10
Benzoicnm  German..  65®  75
Boraclc 
......................  
15
20®  30
Carbollcum  .  ............ 
C ltrlcum ....................  
41®  44
H ydrocbior..............      3®
Nltrocum 
...................  10®  12
O xallcum .....................  10®
Phosphorlnm  dll
Sallcylicum...............
Sulphurlcum..........
Tannlcum .................
Tar tari cum ...............
AMMONIA.
Aqua, 16  deg..............
20  deg..............
Carbonai  ...................
C hlorldum .................
ANILINE.
Black...........................
Brown.........................
Red..............................
Yellow........................
BACCAB.
Cubeae (po  25).........
Juniperus..................
Xanthoxylum............
BALBAXUX.

.2 00@2 25 
80@1  00 
.  45®  50 
.2 50@3 00

4®  6 
6®  8 
.  12®  14 
.  12®  14

20®  25 
8®  10 
.  25®  30

“ 

Copaiba..........................  45® 50
Peru.....................  .......  @2  CO
Terabln, Canada  .... 
45®  50
T olutan..........................  35® 50

COBTBX.

Abies,  Canadian...................  18
Casslae  .................................. 
IT
Cinchona F la v a ............   .  .  18
Buonymus  atropurp............  30
Myrlca  Cerlfera, po..............  20
Prunus Vlrglnl......................  12
Qulllaia,  grd.........................   10
Sassafras  ...............................  12
Ulmus Po (Ground  15)........   15

BXTBACTUM.

“ 
“ 

Glycyrrhlza  G labra...  24®  25
po............  33®  35
Haematox, 151b. box..  11®  12 
la.................   13® 14
14®  15 
Ha-
16®  17
H «....
F E B R U

Carbonate Preclp........   ®  15
Citrate and Qulnla —   @3 50
Citrate  Soluble............  @  80
Ferrocyanldum Sol__   @  50
Solut  Chloride............  ®  15
Sulphate,  com’l ............... 9®  2
pure..............  ®  7

“ 

A rnica.........................   12®  14
A nthem la....................   30®  35
Matricaria 
50®  65

 

FLO RA .

 
FOLIA.

“ 

“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Barosma 
Cassia  Acutlfol,  Tln-

....................   14®  30
nlvelly......................  25®  28
Alx.  35®  50
and  H8......................  15®  25
8®  10

Salvia  officinalis,  Ha
Ura Drsl 
....................  
a m i.
“ 
“ 

Acacia, lat  ploked —  
2d 
.... 
3d 
.... 
lifted aorta... 
p o ......  ..... 

®  60
®  40
®  30
®  20
60®  80
Aloe,  Barb, (po. 60)...  50®  60 
“  Cape, (po.  20)...  &  12
Socotrl, (po.  60).  ®  50
Catechn, la, (Ha, 14 Ha,
16)..............................   ®  1
Ammoniac..................
50® 6j
Assafcetlda,  (po 60)
.  50® 55
Bensoimun...............
Camphor«................... .  46® 55
Bnpnorblum  po  —
10
©2 50
Galbanum..................
Gamboge,  po............. .  70® 7b
@ 30
Gnalacnm,  (po  35)  ..
@1  75
Kino,  (po  1  75).........
@ 8«
M astio..............
@ 40
Myrrh, (po. 45)--------
Opll  (po  8 30@3  50) .2  5~@2 61
Shellac  ...................... .  40® 60
4l@ 45
Tragacanth  ................ .  50® 80

“ 
h e r b  a—In ounce packages

bleached.......

Abslnthlnm ................
Bnpatorlum ................
Lobelia.......................
M alorum ......................
Mentha  Piperita.......
“  V lr...............
R ue................................
Tanacetum, V ............
Thymus,  V ..................
MAGNESIA.

25
20
25
28
23
25
30
22
25

Calcined, P at...............  55®  60
Carbonate,  P at............  20®  22
Carbonate, K. d>  M —   20®  25
Carbonate, Jennings..  35®  36

olbuh.

Absinthium .................2 50@3 00
Amygdalae, Dulc.........  30®  50
Amyaalae, Amarae___8 00@8 25
A nlsl..............................2 50@2 60
Aurantl  Cortex........... 1  80@2 00
Bergamll  .....................3 00@3  20
C ajlpud...................... 
60®  65
Caryophylll.................  75®  80
C ed ar...........................  35®  65
C hencpodll.................  @1  60
C lnnam onll.................. 1  40© 1 50
C ltronella....................   @  45
Conlum  Mao...............  85®  6;>
Copaiba........................  so®  90

BYRUPS.

A ccacla.................................   50
Zingiber  ................................  50
Ipecac.....................................  60
Ferri Iod.........................   ...  50
Aurantl  Cortes......................  50
Rhei  Arom.............................  50
Simllax  Officinalis...............   60
....  50
Senega...................................'.  50
Sclllae.....................................  50
“  Co..........................  50
Toiatan...........................  50
Prunus  vlrg....................... 
.  50

»« 

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GROCERY  PR IC E   CU RREN T.

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

CATSUP.

COUPON  BOOKS.

FLA VO RIN G   EXTRACTS. 
Oval Bottle, with corkscrew. 
Bestin the world for the money.

8o u d ers’.

Peel.

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

“ 
“ 

25 “ 
“ 
25  “ 
“ 
Raisins.

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

62  3
© 754

Prunes.
California,  100-120 ...............  554
90x100 25 lb. bxs.  6
80x90 
7
70x80 
60x70 

“ 
Turkey...........................
S ilver...........................

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

.6 5 4

.  754

“ 
“ 

ENVELOPES.
XX rag, white.
 

No. 1,654.............................  81  35
1  10
No. 2. 654..............  
1  25
No. 1,6........ 
No. 2, 6................................  1  00

 

 

Manilla, white.

654  ..........................................  
6...............................................  

Coin.

Mill  No. 4............................... 
FARINACEOU8  GOODS.

115 lb. kegs.

Farina.
Grits.

2* 

Hominy.

Walsh DeRoo  &  Ce.’s 
2  10
Barrels............................ 
  3 00
G rits......................................  354
Dried...............................  5©554

Lima  Beans,

Maccaronl and Vermicelli. 
Domestic, 12 lb. box.... 
Imported..................... 1054011

55

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

8

75
70

90

Peas.

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

Schumacher, bbl...............   85 00
54 bbl..............2 62
Monarch,  bbl 
.....................4  25
Monarch, 54  bbl........................ 2 .5
Quaker,  cases............................3 20

“ 

5
6
854
9
754

Germ an... 
9
Bast India.
10
10
854 Cracked__
6*

Sago.

Wheat.

F IS H —Salt.

Bloaters.

Cod.

Yarmouth.............................
Georges cured...................  454
Georges genuine..............7
Georges selected..............  754
Boneless,  bricks................644
Boneless,  strips................. 6M©9

Halibut.

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

11©12

Herring.
Holland, white hoops keg
0 
,  
..............T
bbf  8  75
Norwegian
Round, 54 bbl 100 lbs........   2 65
........   1  35
Scaled..........................  
16

M  “  40  “ 

 

Mackerel

No. 1,  100lbs....................  
lin o
No. 1, 40 lbs  ....................... 4  70
No. 1,  10 lb s.........................  1  25
No. 2,100 lbs....................... 8 50
No. 2, 40  lbs.........................   3  70
No. 2,10  lbs.........................   1  00
Family, 90 lbs......................
10  lb s ...................

Sardines.
Trout.

Russian,  kegs...................... 
55
No. 1,  54 bbls., 1001bB............5 00
No.  1 M bbl, 40  lbs...............2  3C
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs...............  
65
No  1,81b  kits................... 
55

Whlteflsh.

No. 1  family
% bbls, 100  lbs........... 86  75  3 (X)
M  “  40  “  ............   3 00  1 50
10 lb.  kits  ................... 
45
lb. 
39
..................  
MATCHES.

63 
69 

“ 

Regular
Grade
Lemon.

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

Regular 
Vanilla.

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

“ 
“ 

Jen n in g s.
Lemon. Vanilla 
120
2 oz regular panel.  75 
2 00
4 os 
...1  50 
601 
3  00
...2  00 
No. 3  taper.............1  35 
2 00
No. 4  taper.............1  50 
2 50
N o rth ro p ’s
2 oz  oval taper  75 
“  1  20 
3 oz 
2 oz regular  “ 
85 
4 oz 
“  1  60 

Lemon.  Vanilla.
1 10
X  75
1 20
2c25

“ 
“ 
GUNPOW DER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.

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

Choke Bore—Dupont’s

Eagle Duck—Dupont’s.

H ER B 8.

IN D IG O .

Kegs  ..................................... 11  00
Half  k e g s ..............................5 75
Quarter kegs...........................3 00
1  lb  cans............................... 
60
Sage....................................... 15
Hops.......................................15
Madras,  5 lb. boxes..........  
55
S. F ., 2, 3 and 5 lb. boxes.. 
50
JE L L Y .
15  lb. palls  .................  ©  38
“ 
17  “ 
.................   ©  42
30  “  “ 
.................   ©  65
LICO RICE.
Pure.........................................  so
Calabria..................................  26
Sicily............... -......................  12
Root.........................................  10
LYE.
Condensed, 2  dos................1  20
4 dos................2 25

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M INCEsM EAT.

Mince meat, 3 doz. In case. 
Pie P rep.3 doz.  in  case... 

MEASURES.
Tin, per dozen.

1  gallon.........................   ..  I
Half  gallon.......................
Q uart..................................
P in t.....................................
Half  p i n t .........................
Wooden, for vinegar, per i
1 gallon..............................
Half gallon........................
Q u art..................................
Pint 
.................................

MOLASSES. 
Blackstrap.
Cuba Baking
Porto RIl j.

Sagar house........................
Ordinary...........................
Prime 
................................
Fancy
N«w Orleans.
Fair ...  ...............................
Good  ..................................
Extra good..........................
Choice 
..................   .......
Fancy 
....................
Half -barrels 3c.extra

36  1-lb carto o n s............  6
25 lb. boxes, b u lk ..........  5
SO lb . b o x e s , b u l k . . . . .  
4%
Sultana  Raisins.
1  lb,  c arto o n s..................11

Globe Match Co.’s Brands.

Colnmbla Parlor.......... ....81 25
XXX Sulphur............... ....  1 00
Diamond  Match  Co.’s Brands.
No. 9  snlpbHr............... .......1 65
Anchor parlor............... .......1 70
No. 2 home.................... ...... 1 10
Export  parlor............... .......4 00

Peerless evaporated.cream.  5  75

Blue Label Brand.

“ 

Half  pint, 25 bottles........... 2
Pint 
............  4 50
Qnart 1 doz bottles 
............8 50
Half pint, per  doz.............. 1  35
Pint, 25  bottles  ....................4 50
Quart, per  doz  ....................37

Triumph Brand.

CLOTHES  PINS.

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

COCOA  SHELLS.
35 lb  bags........................ 
Less  Q uantity...............   ©354
Pound  packages.

0 3
.65407

CO FFEE.
G reen.
Rio.

Santos.

F air......................................... is
Good........................................19
Prim e......................................21
Golden....................................21
Peaberry...  ......................... 23
F air.........................................19
Good....................................... 20
Prim e.................................. ].22
Peaberry  ...............................23
Mexican and Guatamala.
F air.........................................21
Good........................................22
Fancy......................................24
Prim e......................................23
M illed....................................24
Interior.................................. 25
Private Growth.....................27
M andehling..........................28
85
Im itation...............................25
Arabian..................................28

Maracaibo.

Mocha.

Java.

Roasted.

To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add 54c. per lb. for roast­
ing and 15 per  cent,  for shrink­
age.

P ackage. 

M cL aughlin’s  X X X X ..  21  30
Bunola  ..............................  20 80
Lion, 60 or 100 lb.  case....  21  30 

E xtract.

Valley City 54 gross............  75
Bellx 
..........1  15
Hnmmel’8, foil,  gross........1  65
........   2 85
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tin 
CHICORY.

Bulk........................................5
7
R ed.................................... 
CLOTHES  LINES.

Cotton,  40ft.
50 ft.
60 f t ......... 
70 f t......... 
am.......
60 f t.......... 
72 f f .......  

‘ 
‘ 
■ 
Jute 
“ 

.perdos.  1  25
1  60

“ 
“
“ 
“
“  
“ 
>■
“
“  

1 40
1 75
1 90
8b
1  00

C RE D IT  CHECKS.

500,  any one denom’n ....13  00
1000,  “ 
5 00
 
“ 
2000,  “  “ 
......8  00
Steel  punch.........................   75

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CONDENSED  M ILK .

4 doz. ln case.

“Tradesman, 

" 
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“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
..................... 

t   1  books, per hundred  ...  2 00 
....  2 50
t   2 
....  8 00
S3 
....  8 00
S 5 
810 
....  4 00
820 
...  5 00
8  1 books, per  hundred  ..  2  50 
8 2 
. . . 3  00
8 3 
....  3 50
8  5 
....  4 00
810 
....  5 00
820 
.. 
6 00

“ 
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“ 
“ 
“Superior.”
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
..................... 
« 
“ 
“ 
Butter.

CRACKERS.

Seymour XXX....................... 5
Seymour XXX, cartoon.......554
Family  XXX........................  5
Family XXX,  cartoon........   554
Salted XXX...........................5
Salted XXX,  cartoon  ...........554
K enosha................................  754
Boston.....................................  7
Butter  biscuit.....................   6
Soda,  XXX...........................  554
Soda, City..............................   754
Soda,  Duchess........................¿54
Crystal W afer....................... 1054
Long  Island Wafers 
S. Oyster  XXX......................  554
City Oyster. XXX.....................554
Farina  Oyster......................  6

........ 11

Oyster.

Soda.

CREAM   TARTAR.
30
Strictly  pure........................ 
Telfer’s  Absolute................  30
Grocers’.......... ....................15026

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....................
25  “ 
.....................
Prnnelles.
801b.  boxes....................
Raspberries.
In barrels........................
501b. boxes......................
........................
251b.  “ 
Raisins.

Pears.

“ 

“ 

20
2054
2054

Loose  Muscatels In Boxes.

2 crow n................................   354
8 
..........................  fii

" 
Loose Muscatels In Bags.
“ 

2  crown  ................................354
3 
........................... 4M

F oreign.
Currants.

Patras,  bbls...........................3
Vostizzas, 56 lb.  cases  .......  354

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

23
37
43

A X LE  GREASE.
doz
.... 
60
.......  50
.... 
75
.......  65
.......  55

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

gross Live oak.......?.  . 
.  ..
6 00 Santa  Crus..................
7  00 Lusk’s ...........................
5 50 Overland....................
9 00
Blackberries.
7  50 F. &  W.........................
6 00
Cherries.

1  40
1  40
1  50
1  10
85
@1 20

B A K IN G   PO W D ER .

t 
‘  1 

acm e.
45 T6 
>4 id.  ;am>. 3  d o t—
V -b. 
.  “  •••
1 60 
“ ....
lib . 
10
Bulk.........................
Arctic.
u   ft cans 6 doz  case.......... 
55
54 
lb  “  4  doz  “ 
.............   1 10
1 
So  “  2  doz  “ 
.............. 2 00
“  1  doz  “ 
5  ft 
.............   9 00
Queen Flake.
3  oz cans 6 doz  “ 
..........   2 70
6  oz  “  4  doz  “ 
..............3 an
oz  “  4 doz  “ 
9 
.............   4 30
1 
So  “  2 doz  “ 
.............. 4  00
lb  “  1  doz  “ 
5 
.............  9 00
40
Red Star, M ft cans........... 
54 ft  “ 
“ 
*
.............  
.............  1 *
l ft  “ 
“ 
TeHer’s.  M lb. cans, do*. 
45
“ 
541b.  “ 
lib . 
' 
« 
Our Leader, M -b cans...... 
45
54 lb  cans........ 
75
1 lb cans........... 1  50

“
‘ ..1 5 0

“ 

BATH  B R IC K .
2 dozen In case.

BLUING. 

E nglish..................................  90
Bristol.....................................  80
Domestic................................  70
Gross
Arctic, 4 oz  ovals.................3 60
Soz 
pints,  round............9 00

“ 
“ 
“  No. 2, sifting box...  2 75 
. . . 4  00
“  No. 3, 
...8  00
“  No. 5, 
“ 
“ 

i  oz ball  .....................4  50
Mexican Liquid, 4  oz........ 3 60
8oz........     6  80

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“ 

 

“ 
BROOMS,

 

Jo. 2 H url.............................. 1  90
NO. 1  “ 
No. 2 Carpet...........................2  15
No. 1 
“ 
Parlor Gem.............................2 50
Common W hisk.............. 
...................  1 99
Fancy 
Warehouse.............................2 85

85

1 

 

BRUSHES

“ 
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“ 
“ 

Stove, No.  1.........................  125
10......................   1  50
15......................   1  75
Rice Root Scrub, 2  ro w .... 
85
Rice Root  Scrub, 3 row ....  1  25 
Palmetto,  goose.................... 1  50

CANDLES.

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

“ 

CANNED  GOODS.

Fish.
Clams.

“ 

....1  20
Little Neck,  l i b ..........
“  2  lb ..........
...1  90
Clam Chowder.
Standard, 31b...............
....2  25
Cove Oysters.
....  75
Standard,  1 lb ...............
21b ...............
. .. 1   35
Lobsters.
...2 45
Star,  1  lb ........................
“  2  lb .......................
...3 50
Picnic, 1 lb ...................... . . . 2  00
21b...................... ...  2 90
“ 
Standard, 1 lb................. ..  .1  10
io
Mustard,  2 lb ............... __ 2 25
Tomato Sauce,  21b....... ....2  25
Soused, 2  lb .................... . 
.2 25
Columbia River, flat — ...Ï  75
tails.... ....1  50
...1 30
Alaska, R e d ..................
...1 20
pink....................
Kinney’s,  flats...............
...1  75

Mackerel.
2  lb ...............

Salmon.
“ 

“ 
•• 

“ 

Sardines.
American  M*.................
As...............
Imported  Ms...................
54s...................
Mustard  M*....................
Boneless.........................

“ 
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Brook 8, lb ......................

T rout
F ru its.
Apples.
. 

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

4540  5
6540  7
.  ©10
15@16
.  6©7 
22

..  2 60

90
2 50

Pears.

Gages.

1  25 
1

Red.......................
Pitted Hamburgh
W hite..................
E rie......................
Damsons, Egg Plums and Green 
E rie..............................
1  35 
1
California....................
Gooseberries.
Common......................
1  25
Peaches.
1  10 
P ie ...............................
M axw ell......................
1  50 
Shepard’s ....................
1  50
California....................  180@1  7!
Monitor 
Oxford.
Domestic. 
Riverside.
Pineapples.
Common.......................1  00@1  30
Johnson’s  sliced........  
2 50
grated........  
2 7!
Booth’s sliced.............  @2 5
grated............  @2 75
l  io
95
1  40
l  20
l  25
l  25
l  20
l  05

Quinces.
Common...................... 
Raspberries.
Red................................ 
Black  Hamburg..........  
Erie,  black  .........  
Strawberries.
Lawrence....................  
Ham burgh..................  
Erie..............................  
T errapin......................... 
Whortleberries.
Blueberries........................ 
6 75
Corned  beef  Libby’s ...........2 20
Roast beef  Armour’s ...........2 35
Potted  ham, 54 lb ................. l  25
“  54 lb ...................  70
tongue, 541b...............1 35
“ 
54 lb ............
chicken, 541b............. 
95
V egetables.

M eats.

“ 
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“ 
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Beans.

Peas.

“ 
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“ 
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Corn.

“ 
2 00
“ 
2 50
“ 

Hamburgh  strfngless............1 15
French style.........2 00
Limas.................... l 25
Lima, green............................l 15
soaked............................._
Lewis Boston Baked............ 1 25
Bay State  Baked...................l  25
World’s  Fair  Baked............ 1  25
Picnic Baked...........................   95
Ham burgh..................................1 25
Livingston  E d en .......................1 10
P u rity ..........................................1 00
Honey  Dew................................ 1 35
Morning Glory....................
Soaked....................................   75
Hamburgh m arrofat............1  80
early June  .  ...1  50
Champion Eng.. 1  40
petit  pols............ l  40
fancy  sifted....1  65
Soaked....................................  gs
Harris standard....................   75
VanCamp’s  m arrofat...........1  10
early Jn n e........1  30
Archer’s  Early Blossom___1  26
French.........................................2 15
Mushrooms.
French.................................19021
Pumpkin.
E rie..................................—   80
Sqnash.
H ubbard......................................1 15
Succotash.
Hamburg.................. 
Soaked —  
Honey  Dew.................................1 40
B rie.............................................. 1 35
Hancock................................  90
Excelsior  . . . , .......................   9,
90
Eclipse............................ 
Hamburg................................1  25
G allon.........................................3 00

1  31
. ....................  so

Tomatoes.

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CHOCOLATE.

Baker’s.

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

CH EESE.
Amboy.........................
Acme............................
Lenawee......................
R iverside....................
Gold  Medal  ...............
Skim .............................
Brick............................
Edam  ..........................
L eiden.........................
Limbnrger  .................
Pineapple................
Roquefort...................
Sap  Sago......................
Schweitzer, Imported, 
domestic  ....

12
1H4
12
12
839
11
1  00 
20 
015 
024 
035 
020 
024 
«fl4

TEm  m OHIGAH  TEA TOEBMAN,

17

*

¥

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PIC K L ES.
Medium.
Barrels, 1,200  count... 
Half bbls, 600  count..
Small.
Barrels, 2,400  count.
Half bbls, 1,200 count
P IP E S .

@5  00 
@3 10
6 00
3  50

Clay, No.  216..................
....1  70
....  70
“  T. D. full count___
Cob, No.  8  ....................... ...1 20

POTASH.

48 cans in case.

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

R IC E .
Domestic.

Carolina head.................. ....6
...5ft
No. 2................... ...  5
Broken.............................. ..  4

“  No. 1...................
“ 

Imported.

Japan, No. 1............................5ft
“  No. 2...............................5
Java.................... . 
5
Patna......................................  4ft

SPICES.

Whole Sifted.

“ 

“ 

“ 
Pare around in Balk.

A lls p ic e ...........................................   9 ft
Cassia, China In m ats.........  9ft
“  Batavia in b an d ____15
“  Saigon in rolls........... 32
Cloves,  Amboyna................22
“ 
Zanzibar................. lift
Mace  Batavia...................... 80
Nutmegs, fancy...................75
“  No.  1...................... 70
“  No.  2...................... 60
Pepper, Singapore, black — 10 
w hite...  .20
shot............................16
Allspice................................ 15
Cassia,  Batavia................... 18
and  Saigon.25
“ 
“  Saigon...................... 35
Cloves,  Amboyna................22
“  Zanzibar................... 18
Ginger, African................... 16
”•  Cochin...................... 20
Jamaica  ...........    ..22
“ 
Mace  Batavia.......................65
Mustard,  Eng. and Trieste. .22
“  Trieste......................25
Nutmegs, No. 2 ................... 75
Pepper, Singapore, black — 16 
“  w hite.......24
uayuuuo..........
Cayenne.................20
..20
Sage................................
ft«
Allspice........................ 84 1  56
84 1  55
Cinnamon....................
84 1  55
Cloves...........................
84 1  55
Ginger,  Jam a ic a .......
84 1  55
A frican............
M ustard........................ 84 1  55
84 1  55
Pepper .........................
84
Sage.............. ................
SAL  SODA.
Granulated,  bbls...........
751 b  cases..
Lump, bbls 
.................
1451b  kegs..........

•‘Absolute” in Packages.

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

.  1ft
.  1ft
.1  15
•  1ft
@15
4ft
8
90
4
5@6
10
9
5
80

.  6
•  5ft
•  5ft
•  5ft
•
■  3ft
.  3ft

SEEDS.
A nise...........................
Canary, Smyrna..........
Caraw ay......................
Cardamon, Malabar...
Hemp.  Russian..........
Mixed  B ird.................
Mustard,  white  ........
Poppy...........................
R ape............................
Cuttle  bone.................
STARCH.

“ 

Corn.
20-lb  boxes......................
....................
40-lb 
Gloss.
1-lb packages...................
3-lb 
..................
6-lb 
.................
40 and 50 lb. boxes........
Barrels............................

“ 
“ 

SNUFF.

“ 

SALT.

SODA,

.37
.35
.43
-.5ft
•4ft

Scotch, In  bladders.......
Maccaboy, In Jars..........
French Rappee, In Ja rs.
B oxes..............................
Kegs, English.................
Diamond Crystal.
Cases, 243  lb. boxes__ ..$ 1  60
Barrels, 320  lbs.............
2  50
115 2ft lb bags..
“ 
4  00
..
tO5 
lb  “ 
“ 
3 75
“ 
3010  lb  “ 
..
3  50
Butter, 56 lb  bags..........
65
“  20141b bags..........
3 50
“  280 lb  b b ls........ .
2  50
“  224 lb 
.........
2 25
Worcester.
115 2ft-lb sacks............... ...$4 fO
...............
60 5-lb 
“ 
3 75
3010-lb  *• 
...............
3  50
22  14 lb.  “ 
.................
3 30
2 50
3201b. bbl........................
8 lb  sacks......................
32ft
linen acks........   .
60
Common Grades.
100 3-lb. sacks................... ..$2  10
60 5-lb. 
..................
1  90
28 10-lb. sacks............... .
1  75
56 lb. dairy In drill  bags
30
28 lb.  “ 
16
56 lb. dairy In linen sacks..
75
56 Jn. dairy in linen  sacks.
75
Soiar Rock.
22
56  lb.  sacks......................
Common Fine.
Saginaw ...........................
90
Manistee 
........................
90

Ashton.
Higgins.

Warsaw.

“ 

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SALERATCS. 

Packed 60 lbs. in box.

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

SEELY'S  EXTRACTS. 

Lemon.
1 oz. P. M. $  90 doz.  $10 20 gro
12 60  “
2  “  N. 8. 1  20 
’• 
2  “  F. M.  1  40 “ 
14  40  “
Vanilla.
1 oz.  P. M.  1  50 doz. 16  20 gro
2  “  N S  2 00.  “ 
21  60  “
2 
25 50
P. M.  2  50 “ 

Rococo—Second  Grade.

2 oz............... 75 doz.......8_00  “

Lemon.

Vanilla.

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

SOAP.
L aundry.

Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.

Old Country,  80  1-lb............3 20
Good Cheer, 601 lb .................... 3 60
White Borax, 100  ft-lb.........3 65

Proctor & Gamble.

“ 

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

Dingman Brands.

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

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Jas. S. Kirk & Co.’s  Brands.
American  Family, w rp d ..$3 33 
plain...  2 27
N.‘ K.  Fairbank & Co.’s Brands.
Santa Claus.........................  3  90
Brjwn, 60 bars......................2  10
80  bars  .....................3  10

“ 
Lautz Bros. & Co.’s Brands.

A cm e......................................3 65
Cotton Oil...............................6  00
Marseilles.............................. 4  00
Master 
..................................4 00
Thompson & Chute Co.’s Brands

Silver...................................  3 66
M ono..................................... 3  30
Savon, Improved...................2  50
Sunflow er.............................2  80
Golden  ..................................3 25
Economical  ..........................2 25

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

“ 

SUGAR.

Below  are  given  New  York 
prices on sugars, to  which  the 
wholesale  dealer  adds  the  lo­
cal freight  from  New  York  to 
your  shipping  point,  giving 
you  credit  on  the  Invoice  for 
the  amount  of  freight  buyer 
pays from the market  in which 
he  purchases,  to  his  shipping 
point, including 20  pounds  for 
the weight of the barrel.
Domino......................................$4 75
Cut  Loaf..................................... 4 75
C ubes..........................................4 37
Powdered................................... 4 37
XXXX  Powdered....................  4 62
Granulated 
........................3  94
Fine Granulated......................  3 91
Extra Fine G ranulated...  4 16
Mould  A  ...............................4  37
Diamond Confec.  A ............ 4  00
Confec. Standard  A ............3 94
No.  1..................................   3 SI
No.  2 .........................................3 81
No.  3..........................................3 St
No.  4.......................................... 3 81
No.  5.......................................... 3 75
No.  6.......................................... 3 69
No.  7........................................   3 62
No.  8..........................................3 56
No.  9 ..:..................................... 3 tO
No.  10........................................  3 44
No.  11..........................................3 37
No.  12...................................   3 31
No.  13...................................   3  18
3  12
No.  14................................ 

SYRUPS.

Corn.

Barrels.............................. ...18
Half bbls................................20

Pure Cane.

F a ir........................................   18
Good.......................................  25
Choice.....................................  28

TA B L E   SAUCES.
“ 

Lea <& Perrin’s, large  ......  4  75
small........  2 75
Halford, la rg e ...................... 3  75
small...................... 2 25
Salad Dressing, la rg e .......4  55
“ 
sm all.......2 65

“ 
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TEAS.

jafan—Regular.

SU N  CUBED.

BASKET  PIK ED.

P a ir..................................  ©17
Good................................   @20
Choice............................24  @26
Choicest........................32  @34
D u st............ 
..............10  @12
P a ir..................................  @17
Good................................   @20
Choice.............................24  @26
Choicest........ ...............32  @34
D ust................................10  @12
F a ir............................... 18  @20
Choice..............................   @25
Choicest..........................  
@35
Extra choice, wire leaf  @40
Common to  fa ll........... 25  @35
Extra fine to finest___50  @65
Choicest fancy............. 75  @85
@26
Common to  fair........... 23  @30
Common to  fair............23  @26
Superior to fine............. 30  @35
Common to fair............18  @26
Superior to  fine............30  @40

oolong. 
IM PERIAL.

fO U N G   HYSON.

GUNPOWDER.

ENGLISH  BREAKFAST.

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

TOBACCOS.

F ine Cut.

D. Scotten & Co’s Brands.
32

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

Private Brands.

23
19

“ 

24
28

P lug.

27
40
25
38

30

24

39

Sorg’s Brands.
Spearhead................... 
Jo k e r................................  
Nobby Twist...................... 
Scotten’s Brands.
Kylo.................................... 
Hiawatha..........................  
34
Valley C ity .................  
Finzer’s Brands.
Old  Honesty..............  
40
Jolly Tar.........  ........... 
32
Lorillard’s Brands.
Climax (8  oz., 41c)__  
39
Green Turtle....................  
27
Three  Black Crows... 
J. G. Butler's Brands.
Something Good........  
38
Out of  Sight..................... 
Wilson dt McCaulay’sJBrands.
43
Gold  Rope..................
37
Happy Thought..........
32
Messmate....................
31
No T ax.........................
27
Let  Go.........................
Sm oking.

Catlin’s  Brands.

Kiln  dried.................... ...17@18
Golden  Shower............ .......19
.......... ...29@30
Meerschaum 
American Eagle Co.’s Brands.
Myrtle  Navy................. .......40
...  30
Stork..............................
15
. . .  
Java, fts foil................. ___ 32
Banner Tobacco Co.’s Brands.
.......16
Banner Cavendish....... .......36
..................... .......30
Gold Cut 

Scotten’s Brands.

W arpath........................ .......'.4
Honey  Dew.................. .......36
Gold  Block................... .......30
F. F. Adams Tobacco Co,’s
Peerless......................... .......26
Old  Tom........................ .......18
Standard.......................
.......22
Globe Tobacco Co.’s Brands.
Handmade......................

Brands.

Leidersdorfs Brands.

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

Spaulding & Merrick.

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

VINEGAR.

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

$1 for barrel.

W ET  MUSTARD.
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
R oyal....... 
90

 

 

 

CROCKERY  A N B   GLASSW ARE 

LAMP  BURNERS.

No.OSnn..............................................................  40
No. 1  “  ..............................................................   45
NO. 2  “  ..............................................................   65
T ubular..............................................................  
go
Security.  No.  1...................................................  60
Security,  No.  2...................................................  80
Nutm eg.................................................................  50
Arctic......................................................................X 25

LAMP  CHIMNEYS.— 6  d o z . in  bOX.

Per box.
„   „ _ 
No.OSnn..............................................................  i 75
N o.l  “  ....................................................  
l  88
No. 2  “  ...............................................................2  70

 

No. 0 Sun, crimp top, wrapped and labeled. ..210 
No. 1  “ 
...2 25
No. 2  “ 
' ".3  25

>• 
** 

1 
“ 

“ 
“ 

First quail tv.
“ 
“ 
XXX Flint.

“ 
‘ 

No
No,
No.
No.
No,
No,
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.

“ 

“ 

. 0 Sun, crimp  top, wrapped and labeled.  2
■*  “ 
1 Sun, wrapped and  labeled......................3
“ 
■ 2  “ 
................  4
......................4
2 Hinge,  “ 
Fire Proof—Plain Top.
Tl, Sun,  plain  bulb.......................................3

“ 
Pearl top.
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 

“

La Bastie.

“ 

1 Sun, plain bulb,  per doz.........................1
1 crimp, per doz...............................  .  ""1
3  “ 
................................"l
Rochester.
11, Ime (65c doz)..........................................3
2. lime  ( 0c d oz)......................................” 3
2, flint  (SOcjdoz)........................................ ’  4
2, lime (70c d o z ).......................................... 4
flint (80c d o z)....................... ’. ...............4

Electric.

Miscellaneous.

Doz.
Junior, R ochester..........................................  
50
Nutm eg................................................................   15
Illuminator Bases..................................................... 1 00
Barrel lots, 5 doz  ................................................  go
7 in. Porcelain Shades........................................ 1  10
Case lots, 12 doz...................................................  90

Mammoth Chimneys for Store  Lamps.

OIL  CAMS.

Pump Cans.

Doz. 
No.  3  Rochester,  lim e ........  1  58 
No.  3  Rochester, flint.  ..........1  75 
No.  3  Pearl top or Jewel gl’s.l 85 
No.  2  Globe Incandes. lim e...l 75 
No.  2  Globe Incandes. flint...2 00 
No.  2  Pearl glass..................... 2  10 

Box
4 20
4  80
5 25
5  10
5 85
6 00
Doz.
1  gal  tin cans with spout..............................   1  to
1  gal  galv iron,  with spout............................. 2 00
2 gal  galv  iron with spout  ..........................3  25
3  gal  galv  iron with spout............................  4  50
5 gal  McNutt, with spout.....................................  6 00
5 gal  Eureka, with spout........................................6 50
5  gal  Eureka with faucet.....................................   7 00
........................  750
5  gal  galv  iron  A  & W 
5 gal  Tilting  Cans,  Monarch......................... 10 OO
5  gal  galv iron Nacefas..... 
...................  9 5o
3  gal  Home Rule..................................................... 10 50
5  gal  Home Rule....................................................12 00
3  gal  Goodenough...................... 
12  00
5  gal  Goodenough  ...........................................13  50
5 gal  Pirate  King 
...........................................10  50
LAHTERN  GLOBES.
No. 0,  Tubular, cases 1 doz.  each....................  45
No. 0, 
2  “ 
“ 
.....................   45
No. 0, 
.......... 
bbls 5  “ 
40
No. 0, 
bull’s eye, cases 1 doz each. 1  00
No. 0,  per  gross
10
28
 
No. 1, 
No. 2, 
38
 
65
No. 3, 
 
Mammoth, per doz.............................................   75
ft Pints,  6 doz in box, per box  (box 00)...
ft  “
ft  “
STONEWARE—AKRON.
Butter Crocks,  1 to 6 gal........ ..........
ft gal. per doz..........
Jugs, ft gal., per doz.........................
Milk Pans, ft gal., per  dos.............................  60
...........................   72

“ 
“ 
“ 
JELLY TUMBLERS—Tin Top. 
24  “
6  “
18  “ ■’  bbl,

“  bbl,  •*  doz  (bbl  35)__ ..  23
“  box,  1‘  box (box OO)__ 1  80
26

1 to 4 gal., per gal.
“ 

“ 
“ 
LAMP WICKS.

“  doz  (bbl35).... . 

1  “ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

 
 
 

 

 

STONEWARE—BLACK GLAZED.
Butter Crocks,  1  and 2 gal....................
Milk Pans, ft gal. per  doz......................

6ft
65
79

OILS.
BABRELS.

The Standard Oil Co. quotes as follows

Eocene............................................  .........
XXX W. W.  Mich.  Headlight....
Naptha..........................................
Stove Gasoline..............................
Cylinder.........................................
Engine............................................
Black, zero  test............................
Black,  15 cold test........................
FROM TANK WAGON.
Eocene..................  
 
XXX W. W. Mich. Headlight................. 
Scofield Shurmer  &  Teagle  quote  as  follows;

8 ft
©   6ft © 73£ 
©36 
@21
12
10
7
5

.13

BARRELS.

Palacine.................................................................10
Daisy W hite.........................................................   8ft
Red Cross, W W  Headlight................................ 7
N aptha.................................................................   6ft
Stove Gasoline....................................................   1%

FROM TANK WAGON,

PUBS.

13  “ 
15  “ 
17  “ 
19  “ 

Palls, No. 1, two-hoop.. 
“  No. 1,  three-hoop.
Bowls, 11 inch................
...............
“ 
.................
“ 
“ 
.................
“ 
...............

W O OD EN W A RE.
Tubs, No. 1...........................  5  75
No. 2...........................  4  75
No. 3...........................  4 00
1  25 
1  35
90
1  25 
1 80
2 40
H IB E S   PELTS  and  FURS 
Perkins  &  Hess  pay  as  fol­
lows:
Mink...................
30 @   1  00
Coon  .................
30 @  80
Skunk.................
75 @   1  25
Rat,  w inter.......
08 @  11
03 ©   C8
Rat, fall.............
Red  Fox__   ...
1  to ©  1  40
40 @  61
Gray Fox.,........
Cross Fox.......... 3 00 @ 5  00
Badger...............
50 @  1  00
Cat, wild............
50 ©  75
10 @  25
Cat,  house........
F ish e r............... 5  00 @ 6 00
Lynx...................
1  on © 2 50
Martin, dark__ 2 00 ©  3  00
Martin, pale, yel  1  00 @  1  50
Otter.................. 5  00 @ 8 Oil
W olf................... 1  00 @  2 00
Beaver............... 3 00 ©  7  00
Bear.................. 15 00 @25 00
Opossum............
10 @  25
10 ©  25
Deer Skin, dry..
05 ©  
Deer skin, green
12ft
G reen...........................
Part Cured........
Full 
.........
g ry ......................
Kips, green  .......
“   cured.......
Calfskins,  green
cured
Deacon skins___

2 ft@ 3 ft
@  4ft
©   5 f t
5  @   7
3  @   4
@   6
5  @   6
7  ©   8ft
10  @25

H IDES.

“ 

“  

No. 2 hides ft off.
PNLTB.

WOOL.

WHEAT.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Shearlings.....................  5 @  20
Lambs 
........................25  @  50
W ashed.........................12 @15
U nw ashed........ ............8  @12
Tallow .........................   3ft©  4*
Grease  butter  .............  1 @ 2
Switches......................  lft@   2
Ginseng........................3 00@3 25
GRAINS and FEEBSTUFFS
No. 1 White (58 lb. test)
53
No. 2 Red  (60 lb. test)
53
Bolted................................ .  1  40
Granulated..................
1  65
FLOUR  IN  SACKS.
.  1  95
»Patents.........................
1  45
•Standards.........................
1  J.5
Bakers’................................
1  30
•Graham .............................
Rye.......................................
1  40
•Subject  to  usual  cash  dis-
connt.
Flour In bbls., 25c per bbl. ad­
ditional.

MEAL.

MILL8TUFF8.

Less
Car lots  quantity
$15  00 
13 00 
17 00 
24  OO 
23 00

B ran................ $14 58
Screenings —   12 00
Middlings.......16 00
Mixed Feed...  23 00 
Coarse meal  .  22 00 
Car  lots.................................. 44
Less than  car  lots...............46
Car  lots  ........ 
34
Less than car lots  ..............  35
HAY.
No. 1 Timothy, car lots__   9  50
No. 1 
ton lo t s .......1100

CORN.

OATS.

“ 

FRESH  PISH
..................

F IS H   A N B   OYSTERS. 
WhltefiBb 
@10
Trout  ........................... @  9
Black Bass........
12ft
H alibut.........................
@  6
Ciscoes or Herring—
@10
Blueflsh.......................
20
Fresh lobster, per lb ..
10
Cod................................
@10
No. 1 Pickerel.............
@9
Pike..............................
@  8
Smoked  W hite...........
Red  Snappers.............
15
Columbia  River  Sal-
m o n ...........................
12ft
Mackerel......................
C ounts.........................
2  20
Extra  Selects 
1  65
Selects.........................
1  40
Anchor Standards__
1  20
1  20
I X L S tandards........
Standards....................
1  10
1  50
Scallops.............   ......
1  25
Shrimps 
....................
Clam s......  
..............
1  2j
SHELL  HOODS.
Oysters, per  100. ........ 1 25@1  50
Clara*.
75@1  70

OYSTERS— IN  BULK.

18@25

.......

OYSTERS—IN CANS.

F. J. Dettenthaler’s Brands.
Falrhaven  counts —
@33
F. J. D.  Selects..........
28
@25
Selects.........................
23
F. J. D., Standards,.  .
Standards....................
18
Favorite...................  .
15
New  York  Counts..  .. .......... 32
Extra  selects............... ........ 28
...................... ..........25
Selects 
IX L standards............. .........20
Standards.................................18

Oscar Allyn’s Brands.

Red Cross W W Headlight................................ 5ft

edium s....    ........................15 Waits Coin If you want to buy or 

sell  a  stock  of  mer­
chandise,  invite  cor­
respondence  through 
our  Wants  Colum  .

18

THE  MICHIGAN  T~R A DKSAIA TsT.

The
Poor M erchant

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 aAMI GASH ill,

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’s  busi- 

ness  by  noting the margin  on  each  sale.

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

Gum opium is lower,  on  account  of  a 

decline in  Smyrna.

Morphia is unchanged.
Quinine is weak  and a trifle  lower  for 

foreign brands; domestic is unchanged.

Sub-nitrate  and  other  bismuth  salts 
are lower,  as was prodicted would be the 
case  when  the  price  of  metal  was  re­
duced.

Borax is decidedly lower.  The Ameri­
can  manufacturers  have  reduced  their 
price below any competition from foreign 
brands.

Hood’s pills have been advanced  to  $2 

per dozen.

Donald Kennedy’s medicines have  been 

advanced to the following prices:
Discovery........................................................  $13.00
Dissolvent......................................................  13.00
Scattering Liniment  ...................................  
8.80
8.t0
Scrofula  Ointment............................. 
 
8.80
Prairie  Weed 
.............................................. 
Hair  Grower  .................................. 
8.80
 
4.E0
Rheumatic  Liniment  .................................. 
Salt Rheum  Ointment  ................................ 
4.50
Healing  Ointment 
...................................... 
4.50
Oils  anise and cassia are in better sup­

 

 

ply and lower.

her sister’s young man’s knee.

S h e   B u ild e d   G r e a te r   T h a n   S h e   K n e w .
Pretty little  Margaret  was  sitting  on 
“Mr. Softy,  did God make me?”
“ Yes, my child,” was  the reply.
“Mr. Softy,  did  God  make  you?”  she 
"Yes, my child.”
“Did He make you before He did me?”
“Certainly.”
“ Well,  He is  doing  better  work  now, 

asked after a moment’s  pause.

isn’t He?”

r

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.

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

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 
either,  write  us  a  letter telling us your line  of business  and  what  features 
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.

GHHIHPION  GASH  register  go.,

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

age, and only at long  intervals were  de­
livered to  death.  But  sin  entered  and 
there  followed  a  decline  of  health, 
strength,  happiness,  and,  finally,  men 
were brought to so low a state  that little 
was left but hope.

It was the hope of a  restoration,  of 

recovery, of a blessed resurrection to the 
former  blest  estate.  This  restoration 
this  redemption,  was the theme of along 
succession of the  ancient  holy  prophets 
from  Enoch  to  Christ;  while  the  wise 
men of .heathendom bear  also their testi­
mony to man’s loss and his final recovery 
of the golden age.

Why, then,  are not the centuries bear 
ing him on to that grand  goal?  It is not 
for  nothing  that  a  wisdom  almost  in 
spired  has  girdled  the  earth  with  the 
steamship,  the rail and the  electric wire, 
It  is  not  for  nothing  that  Jove’s  own 
lightning has  been  forced  into  the  ser­
vice of man to work his will  and  to  en­
lighten  the  world  with  its  wonderful 
lamps and  with messages  of intelligence 
and greeting darted over  continents  and 
under the seas. 
It is not for nothing that 
the wisdom of every age is  being  multi­
plied in millions on  millions  of  printed 
pages,  and that land and  sea  are  throb­
bing  under  the  beat  of  swift  wheels 
to  carry  men  and 
their  commerce  to 
and fro.

No,  it is not for nothing that  all  these 
wonders of the  Nineteenth  Century  are 
being wrought. 
Is it  not,  indeed,  that 
they are intended to warn  the peoples of 
the nations that the day is fast approach­
ing when men will  again  be  given  wis­
dom from on high,  that  they  may  walk 
in  righteousness  and  again  know  and 
commune witn the holy  gods?  There  is 
the promise of the restoration,  of the re­
demption.  Who shall say  that  the  day 
of its ushering-in is  not  nearer  than  it 
was?  Who  shall  say  that 
it  is  not 
strangely,  tremendously,  terribly  near?

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

TH E  EN D   O j ’  TH E  A G E .

The century is fast  drawing to a close. 
The Nineteenth Century has  been  one 
of the most momentous in the  history  of 
the  human race,  and there  is  good  rea­
son  to  believe  that  the  remaining  six 
years of it will be no less important than 
were  the  ninety-four  that  have  passed 
away and have gone on record.

If the century can  be characterized  in 
a single  brief  expression,  it  should  be 
called the “Century of Revolution.”  Its 
work has been to accomplish human  lib­
erty, liberty of the  man  and  liberty  of 
the  mind. 
It  has  seen  the  shackles 
struck off from the limbs  of  millions  of 
slaves and serfs;  it has  seen  democratic 
republican government set up over many 
countries;  it has seen the  gross darkness 
of religious superstition  and  fanaticism 
dispelled from all  the  civilized  nations, 
and it has  been  essentially  a  period  of 
mental development,  of  intellectual  en­
lightenments,  of  scientific  discovery 
and  of  enormons  material  as  well  as 
spiritual progress.

Never in the whole compass of modern 
history has mankind marched forward  at 
so prodigious  a  rate.  But,  despite  the 
fact that it is the century of the triumphs 
of peace, it was  filled with wars.  Mate­
rial advancement and  educational  pro g- 
ress are  commonly  supposed  to  be  the 
results  of  long  periods  of  peace  and 
quiet.  The  establishing  of  schools,  of 
factories,  the great  development of agri­
cultural and  industrial  enterprises,  the 
extension  of  railways  and  remarkable 
triumphs of scientific  discovery are com­
monly supposed to constitute  the special 
victories of peace,  but  it  is  doubtful  if 
peace is to be credited with them.

The Nineteenth Century was  a  period 
of great wars. 
It opened with Napoleon 
on horseback  and  the  whole  of  Europe 
in  arms.  Since  then  there  have  been 
many great wars and  innumerable lesser 
ones.  Three times  in  the  century  was 
North America shaken by  the  roar  and 
turmoil of continental  warfare, the most 
momentous conflict being the  titanic  in­
ternecine struggle between  the  states of 
this Union.  Europe,  America, Asia and 
Africa,  in every part,  have  experienced 
the shock  of  battle,  and,  nevertheless, 
the material and  intellectual progress of 
all countries have been enormous, all the 
men in  the whole  world  having  appar­
ently  been  spurred  into  extraordinary 
activity  by  the  turmoil  and  energy  of 
revolution.

the  dreams  of  philosophy, 

Revolution  has been the characteristic 
feature of the age.  The traditions of the 
past, 
the 
clouds and gloom  of  superstition,  have 
all been  brushed aside,  and  with,  as  it 
were, one grand  impulse,  mankind  has 
arisen and joined in a forward  march.

Whither are they going?  To wh at goal 
does 
the  mighty  movement  tend?  It 
would require the ken  of  the  wisest  of 
all prophets, the most daring  of  all  the 
searchers into the mysteries  of  futurity, 
to declare what shall  be  the  end  of  all 
these  things;  but  let  not  the  view  be 
clouded by any  hopeless  pessimism;  let 
hope color the picture.

The  most  hoary  traditions,  the  most 
ancient sacred records, tell  of  a  golden* 
age when  men  associated  with  the  im- 
m  ortal gods, drew  daily  lessons  of  wis 
don from them,  and walked in  the  ways 
of  righteousness.  The  earth was  filled 
with peaceful  and  happy  peoples,  and 
men, free from many of  the  ills  of  sins 
of weakness and disease,  lived  to  great

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

19

Tile  W h o lesale  T rad e  of M ichigan.*
The wholesale trade  of the  great State 
of Michigan greet  you  here  to-night,  at 
this your sixth annual  banquet,  and  are 
pleased  to  have  this opportunity to  ap­
prove  of  your  annual  meetings  and  to 
emphatically say,  we believe in the grow­
ing  custom  of  the  convening  of  repre­
sentative  men  in  every  vocation to dis­
cuss affairs of mutual interest  and  ques­
tions of general importance.  The educa­
tional and  broadeniug  influence  exerted 
in  your  annual  meetings  will,  in  my 
opinion, extend throughout  the year and 
make better knights  of  every  man  par­
ticipating  therein;  and  the  better  the 
man,  the  stronger  the  house  he  repre­
sents.
The  wholesale  trade  of  Michigan  is 
constantly growing in every line. 
It has 
been  only  a  comparatively  short  time 
since the markets of this  State  could  be 
depended upon to furnish the retail trade 
with the goods,  prices and  credit accom­
modations accorded by  the  larger  cities. 
We can all  well remember  that  a  Michi­
gan traveler was at a disadvantage  when 
in  competition  with  Eastern  or  other 
markets.  To-day  the  Michigan  whole­
sale  trade  in  its  own  territory  stands 
firmly upon its own basis and the careful, 
thoughtful  observer  notices  a  growing 
confidence and loyalty on  the part of  our 
retail  friends  to  their  home  markets. 
The tendency of the times  points  unmis­
takably to the growth of the interior job­
bing towns,  and  it  is  an  acknowledged 
fact that the nearer the  wholesaler  is  to 
the trade,  the better servant he can  be to 
the  customer  who  favors  him  with  his 
business.
I  have  spoken  of  the  growth  of  the 
wholesale  trade  in 
this  great  State— 
great,  because of  its  commercial  safety; 
safe,  because of its  diversified  interests. 
It is strong in agricultural,  horticultural 
and forest products, fisheries, mining and 
manufacturing.  We do not depend upon 
any one product,  and  we  never  will  fail 
in ail our lines;  so, I say,  we have a safe 
and a substantial basis to  work  upon—a 
basis  the  wholesaler 
recognizes  and 
values.
The  successful  wholesaler  must  be  a 
man  of  honor.  He  must  have  capital 
and  credit,  and  the  confidence  of  the 
manufacturers and Importers from  whom 
he buys his stock.  He  must  have  judg­
ment to buy  what is  needed  by  his  cus­
tomers and the wisdom to anticipate their 
wants.  He must be  broad  and  friendly 
to  all  competition,  and,  above  ail,  he 
must  have  the  very best representation 
on the road.
It is the plain duty of the house to pro­
tect  and  honor  every  member  of  the 
house.  The  term  “house”  does  not 
mean one man  who is  trusted with a cer­
tain  line  of  duty.  The  term  is  much 
broader  than  that. 
It  takes  in  every 
single member,  and  the  wholesaler  who 
has  not  the  breadth  to  recognize 
this 
fact,  is not,  in the true sense of the word, 
a wholesaler.  As  every  member  of  the 
Michigan  Knights  of  the  Grip  at  this 
banquet  to-night  is  a  member  of  the 
house  he  represents,  it  may  not be un­
wise to consider his  responsibilities  and 
his plain duties for a  moment.
When any mau becomes a  member of a 
wholesale firm,  by engaging  to represent 
that firm on the road,  he takes  upon  his 
shoulders grave  responsibilities. 
In the 
first place,  if  he  is  not  a  man  of  un­
doubted  honor,  integrity  and  industry, 
he should  never become a member of this 
organization. 
If he  is  such  a  man,  he 
should demand  and receive  a  compensa­
tion worthy of  the  responsible  position 
he assumes.
The  member  of  the  wholesale  house 
who takes his grip in  his hand and leaves 
his home early Monday morning, starting 
in  with  customer  No.  1, 
immediately 
upon  the arrival of his train  at  his  first 
town,  taking the  customers  in that town 
in  regular  order,  going  over  the  town 
with  accurate and good  judgment,  recog­
nizing that his salary and  expenses  hav­
ing been paid to that town  by  the  house 
of which  he is a responsible  member,  he 
should  make  that  town  thoroughly  be­
fore leaving it,  not  staying  in  it  a  mo­
ment longer than  necessary,  going  on  to 
the  next  town  after  taking  the  orders
* Besponse by Wm. Judson at annual  banquet 

of  Michigan Knights of the Grip.

and collecting for former  bills,  not  for­
getting to send in  by  first  mail  the  or­
ders taken and money  collected,  observ­
ing all this integrity and  honesty all the 
week, getting in Saturday, or  at the  end 
of  his  trip,  and  settling  up  with 
the 
book-keeper,  carefully 
looking  over 
stock,  noting  all  changes  of  prices,  so 
that by the time he goes out  again  Mon­
day morning,  he is in  full touch with all 
new conditions. 
I say,  the  man  who  is 
worthy to be a member  of  the  Michigan 
Knights of the Grip is entitled  to  a  sal­
ary that will support his family and him­
self in a manner worthy of the honorable 
position he occuplies.
It is,  also,  his duty by his example and 
by his  methods  to  uphold  the  strictest 
line of habits,  to  make  his  daily  life  a 
record as open as the  day,  that  all  may 
know that  he is a man in  whom  all  the 
other  members  of  his  house  may  take 
pride and in whom they  have unbounded 
confidence,  thus upholding the dignity of 
his calling and the  honor  of  the  whole­
sale trade.
I  have  mentioned the  fact  that  no 
wholesaler can  succeed  without  proper 
It is a fact, 
representation on the road. 
beyond dispute,  that the reputation  of  a 
wholesale house is  judged  by  the  char­
acter of its traveling  men.  A  customer 
comes in  close contact  with  the  traveler 
and  trusts him,  in  a  great  measure,  to 
keep him posted.  He expects correct in­
formation at  all  times  on  all  subjects, 
and,  to  the  extent  that  a  traveler  can 
merit the confidence of  his  trade,  to that 
extent is the house successful;  and  I  re­
peat,  the  wholesaler’s  reputation  is  en­
tirely in the keeping  of  his  representa­
tives and it behooves him to see to it that 
only trusted and  honored  men  are  sent 
out on the road.

T o ots from  R am ’s Horn.

than worry.
it a mistake.
than we live.

A  kicking cow often  gives  good  milk.
There  is  no  more  foolish  foolishness 
It doesn’t make a sin any whiter to call 
There is no use in  talking  any  higher 
The devil lays down  his  gun whenever 
he  hears  a  preacher  begin to apologize 
for preaching the truth.
If the devil can persuade  you  to  take 
one  step,  he will make it an unanswera­
ble argument as to  why you should  take 
another.
The  poorest  people  in  the  world  are 
those who are trying the  hardest to keep 
all they get.
There is no work so humble that faith­
fulness in it will not be  noticed  and  re­
warded.
A hypocrite only wears his mask while 
he thinks he is being  watched.
If there were no fools  in the world the 
lawyers  would all be out of work.
The  only  thing  about  some churches 
that points to heaven is the steeple.
The  real  duty  is  neglected  when we 
step over one duty to perform another.
To  have  to  hoe  the  same  row  over 
every day soon  takes  the  poetry  out  of 
life.

Why  impose  on  a  confiding  public 
with  cheap, 
tasteless,  insipid  Chicago 
jelly,  when you  can  buy  Mrs.  Withey’s 
Homemade Jellies,  which are  really  fine 
flavored,  nice  and 
tart,  at  such  low 
prices?  See  this  week’s  price  list  of 
Edwin Fallas on last page in  this  paper.

Use  Tradesm an  Coupon  Books.
H. M.  Reynolds & Son,

STRAW  BOARD,

Jobbers  of 

BUILDING  PAPERS, 

BUCKSKIN and MANILLA

WRAPPING  PAPER, 

ROOFING  MATERIALS,

COAL  TAR  and  ASPHALT; 
P r a c t i c a l   R o o f e r s ,
-  Mich.
Grand  Rapids, 

Corner Louis and Campau Sts.,

also

- 

- 

WHOLESALE

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

CAR  LOTS  A  SPECIALTY.

Will  make  up  mixed  Cars  onTApplication.  FirstJJQuality 

Goods at Lowest Prices Guaranteed.

Fancy Straight Flour.

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

whiter bread  than any other flour.

Thoroughbred  Poultry  Stock  and  Eggs.  Poultry Supplies.

Office Telephone,  U2-1R. 

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

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

I1S1 It, 111.

General  Warehousemen  and  Transfer  A gents.

Dealers in

Carriages,  Wagons,  Agricultural  Implements  and  Binder  Twine. 

General Office. 83 South  Division  Street, Grand  Bapids

COLD  and  DRY  STORAGE.

Warehouse, Telephone 954. 945 

E. J   R R O U R S ,   M a n ’g .

Sw artout  A

JOBBERS  OF

LADIES’  AND  GENTLEMEN'S  FURNISHING  GOODS

and

STAPLE  NOTIONS.

Full  and  Complete  Lines  in  All  Departments.

41  South  Division  St.

G r a n d  R a p id s ,  M i c h •

TRY  THE

5. C. W.

NICICLE  CIGAR.

Sold  by All Wholesale Dealers Traveling from Grand Bapid».

5c
5c

5c
5c

Mail  and  telegraph orders receive special attention.

P a u l B i f e r t ,

Manufacturer of

TRUNKS,  TRAVELING  BAGS, 

SAM PLE  TRUNKS  and 

SAM PLE  CASES

Of  any  description  to  order  on  short 

notice.

5o  Canal  S t.,  Grand  Rapids.

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L O O K   F O R  
Q U O T A T I O N S

20

GOTHAM GOSSIP.

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

th e  M ark ets.

Special Correspondence

smaller 

supplies 

N e w   Y ork Jan. 5—Not much  is  doing 
in the coffee market this first week of the 
new  year.  Tbe  demand  is  decidedly 
light,  buyers  are  few,  and  holders  are 
disposed to make concessions when sales 
can be made thereby.  Bio No. 7 is worth 
15 @15% c.  A little  more  interest  has 
been manifested in Javas and some other 
mild  sorts,  but,  altogether,  there  is  no 
visible strengthening of  prices.  Nor  is 
there any reason  to  anticipate  any  rise 
in prices, for we are on the eve  of heavy 
receipts, and by another  season it  is  al­
together likely the rates at  present  paid 
will seem excessive.
The tea  market possesses  elements of 
great strength  and  holders  are  not  dis­
posed  to  give  way  at  all.  They  think 
they have a sure thing in the  future  and 
do  not  propose  to  lose  any  profits  by 
giving away goods just at this time.
Tbe  conditions  governing  the  sugar 
market still exist which have prevailed for 
quite a length of time. There is observable 
a little more demand for refined,perhaps, 
but  prices  are  unchanged.  Few  mer­
chants  are  buying  beyond  their  ordi­
nary  requirements  and  there  seems  to 
be  no  reason 
to  expect  any  change 
for  some  time, 
if  indeed,  we  see  any 
marked variation during the entire  year.
Rice shows as  much  life  as  anything 
on the list.  Primary markets  all  report 
firmness,  and  brokers  and  dealers  here 
are very well satisfied with the present and 
future outlook.  Supplies are well under 
control,  and purchases  made,  it  is  gen­
erally conceded,  will  be a  good  invest­
ment.
Syrups and molasses  are  selling  only 
in  an  everyday  way,  with  nothing  to 
hope  for  in  the  line  of  advancement. 
There is a lot of stock that  is  not “up to 
mark” and great effort is required to dis­
pose of it.
Spices are being urged upon  the  trade 
by the jobbing houses which are reporting 
diminution of area  planted,  consequent­
ly 
and  advanced 
prices;  but  purchases  can  be  made  at 
very moderate rates as yet, and, although 
there is certainly some  stronger  feeling, 
there  is  no  advance  worth  mentioning 
in the rates that have prevailed for some 
time.
Dried  fruits  are,  without  exception, 
fiat, stale and  unprofitable,  so far as  the 
market is  concerned.  California  raisins 
have touched the lowest  rate  on  record, 
and they are fairly thrown away.  At the 
moment some better  feeling  is  reported 
than  prevailed  during  the  previous  ten 
days.  For the  rest,  prunes,  figs,  dates, 
etc., there is but the usual  demand.
Canned  goods are  dull  and  without  a 
glimmer  of  light  in tbe darkness.  The 
rapid increase in the number  of  canner­
ies 
this  country  has  completely 
swamped the  good people  of  the  nation 
with canned goods.  The  very streets  in 
front of our big retail  groceries are piled 
with cases of tomatoes from  every  quar­
ter of the land—mostly from  Maryland— 
and they  are  labeled at  figures which in­
dicate that  the  farmer  who  makes  any 
money canning must be of a  mighty  eco­
nomical turn of  mind.
Butter presents  a  firmer  front.  Sup­
plies are only moderate and  tbe  demand 
sufficiently  lively  to  keep  the  market 
pretty well cleaned  up.  The  best West­
ern is now held at  25%c,  with  23c  paid 
for best State  creamery.
Cheese is firmer  and  the  market, not­
withstanding some  disturbances,  is  one 
Tbe 
of 
stocks of cheese at  all  points,  as  given 
by the  produce  exchange  Jan.  1,  were 
873,878—nearly  200,000  more  than  last 
year.
Eggs  show  some  weakness  and  the 
highest point has been  clipped  off  some 
during  the  week.  Receipts  are  not 
large,  but  seem  sufficient  for  all  de­
mands,  except 
that  for  fancy  fresh, 
which are taken by choice trade.
There  is  a  moderate  trade  in  green 
fruits, with apples held  at  $2@3.50  per 
bbl.
Potatoes  and  vegetables  are  selling 
slowly.  Potatoes  are  worth  $1.75@2.50 
per bbl.  The  cold  wave  which  did  so

cheerfulness. 

considerable 

in 

much damage in  Florida,  has  been  the 
cause of a rapid appreciation  in  oranges 
and some of the best  marks are worth as 
much as $5 per box.
Peas  are  improving  in  demand  and 
range  from  $1.70@1.75  per  bn.  Cali­
fornia Limas are worth $2.80 per  60  lbs.
Provisions  are  firmer  and  the  whole 
line  is  well  held.  New  mess  pork  is 
worth $12.75@13.25; short clear,  $13.50@ 
16.
As this letter closes reports of  the  ef­
fects of the Florida cold wave have  been 
received  in  greater  detail.  From  these 
it appears that the mercury in some parts 
of  the  State  was  as  low  as 10 deg. and 
from  every section of the State  come  re­
ports  of  ruined  orange groves  and  the 
destruction in  all  lines seems  complete. 
It was not a very happy New Year’s  day 
for the residents of that State.

During 1894 there were received in this 
city 1,468  carloads  of  live  poultry—300 
more than in any other year; the receipts 
of  dressed  poultry  were  419,186  pack­
ages, against  366,362  packages  in  1893; 
of eggs there were  received  42,080  bbls. 
and 2.293,069  cases—an  increase  of  the 
latter  of  163,223  cases. 
It  is  only  a 
question of a short time when the  barrel 
will  go  out  of  date  as  an egg carrier. 
Apples were more  plenty,  457,133  bbls. 
having arrived against 352,639  bbls.  last 
year. 

J ay.

N ew   C ig a r  F a cto ry .

The United States Cigar Co. was organ­
ized  at  the  Eagle  Hotel  last  Saturday 
with a capital stock of $25,000, the stock­
holders of  record being as follows:
Chas. I.  Flynn  ................  
W. E.  F lynn........................................   5t0 
Frank J.  Flynn  ..................................  200 
2 
............................. 
J. K. Johnston. 
Henry J.  Vinkemulder...................... 
2 

500  shares.

“
“
“
“

 

The Board of Directors comprise all the 
original subscribers  to the  capital stock, 
the officers being as follows:

President—W. E.  Flynn.
Vice-rresident—F. J. Flynn.
Secretary  and  Treasurer—Charles  I. 

Flynn.

The new corporation will  manufacture 
eight brands of cigars,  ranging from  $25 
to $70 per M,  using  an  improved  strip­
ping machine, which is  the  invention  of 
W. E.  Flynn,  by  means  of  which  it  is 
claimed that a saving  of 10 per cent,  can 
be effected in tbe process of manufacture. 
It is intended  to  conduct  operations  on 
the co-operative plan,  and  with  that end 
in view merchants, cigar  dealers and im­
porters of leaf  tobacco will  be  given  an 
opportunity  to  take a limited amount of 
stock in the  company.

m  O Y S T E R S   m
I  am  keeping  down  prices  notwithstanding 
the  advance.
14
Daisy Brand, Favorites, per  can................... 
Daisy Brand, Standards, per can  ................. 
16
22
Daisy Brand, selects, per  can  ..................... 
Solid Brand, Standards  per can................... 
20
Solid Brand, E. F.,  per can............................. 
20
Solid Brand, Selects, per  can  .......................  
24
Solid Brand, Extra Selects, per can............. $  26
Standards, per  gal............................................ 
90
Extra Standards, per  gal................................   1 00

Oysters fine and cans well filled.
The (¿ueen Oyster Palls at bottom  prices. 
Mrs. Wlthey's Home Made Jelly, made  with
green apples, very fine:
30-lb.  p a.l...........................................................   £5
¿0-lb  pall  ...........................................................  53
li-lb.  pail...........................................................   45
15-lb. pall.............................................................  40
1  quart Mason  Cans, per doz........................  1  40
1  pints  Mason  Cans, per doz........................ 
95
Mrs. Wlthey’s Condensed Mince Meat,  the 
best made.  85c per doz.  3 doz. in case: 
Mrs.  Withey’s bulk mince meat:
40-lb. pail, per  lb...............................................
25-lb. pails, per lb ..............................................
10-lb. palls, per lb ..............................................
Pure Cider Vinegar, per gallon......................
Pure Sweet Cider, per  gallon.........................
Fine Dairy Butter, per lb ...  ..........................
Fresh Eggs, per doz..........................................
New Pickles, medium, barrels.......................
New Pickles, J4 barrel.....................................
New Sauer Kraut,  barrels...............................
New Sauer Kraut, 
barrels...........................

66Üauu

10 
12 
20 
17 
5 00
3 00
4 00 
2 50

EDWIN  FALLAS,

Oyster  Packer  and  rianufacturer.
VALLEY  CITY  COLD  STORAOE,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

ON

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kids lie

NEXT  WEEK  FROM

W E S T E R N  B E E F
71  Canal  St.,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

P R O V I S I O N  CO,

Telephone  1254.

O Y S T E R S .

A n c h o r  Brand.

Are the best.  All orders will receive  prompt-  attention  at  lowest  market  price.
F. J .   DBTTBNTHALBR.

S P R I N G
T R A D E

Are you ready for it ?

Note the following.  Place orders  early.

W E   A R E  
S H O W IN G

new and beautiful designs.

A fine line of Dress Goods, single and double fold.
Toile-du-nords,  Seersuckers,  Domets  and  Prints  in 
PANTS—Men’s and  Boys’ at all prices.
SHIRTS—Domets, Cheviots and Percales.  Finest and 
most complete line ever shown in  Western Michi­
gan.

V o ig t,  H e r p o l s h e i m e r   &  Co.

General Stampede
Curse of Credit.

FROM  THE

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

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

TRADESMAN  COMPANY.

Use Tradesman’s Wants Golilmn.

Muskegon  Bakery  Crackers

(United  States  Baking  Co.)

Are  Perfect  Health  Food.

Our “N ew  Gem.99

The Pride of the Household.

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

one can be best—that is the original

fluskegon
Bakery
Butter
Cracker.

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

Muskegon Toast,
Ron al  Fruit  Biscuit, 
Muskegon  Frosted  Honey, 
Iced Cocoa  Honey Jumbles, 
Jelly Turnovers, 

Nine
Other
Great
S p e c ia ltie s  Ginger Snaps,
A fg 

Home-Made  Snaps,
Muskegon  Branch,
Mlik  Lunch

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

U n ited  S ta te s   B a k in s   Co,

LAWRENCE  DEPEW,  Aeting Manager,

M uskegon , 

- 

Mich

Are  You  Selling

The  Celebrated 

Cleaned  Greek  Currants 

and the Genuine 

Cleaned Sultana Raisins.

Prepared  by

Grand Rapids Fruit

Cleaning  Company.

IF  NOT,  WHY NOT?

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

|W F o r Quotations see Price Current.

MANUFACTURED  ONLY  BY 

THE  DANGLER  STOVE  &  MFG.  CO.,

C LEV ELA N D ,  OHIO.

•

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The  Burner  has  the  same 

the 
“ PROCESS” ,  and  will do the same  amount  of  work,  and  consume  much 
less fluid.

flame  and  heating  power  as 

Made with  our  celebrated  tank,  which  is  neither  L A Y-D O W N   nor 
E L E V A T E D ,  and  regarded as  the  most  C O N VE N IEN T,  R E L IA B L E  
and  A B SO LU T E LY   SA F E   tank  ever  made.

•  We  Have  the  Agencj  for  This  CELEBRATED  STOVE.

No.  415  3-Burner,  High and Step,  List  - 
No.  414  3-Burner, High and Step,  List 
Regular Gasoline Stove Discount.

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812
10

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BsterS tevens

&   ( g -  

^ ° s T ° e
Spring & Company,

IM PORTERS  A N D   W H O LESALE  D E A L E R S  IN

Dress  Goods,  Shawls,  Cloaks, 
Notions,  Ribbons,  Hosiery, 
Gloves,  Underwear,  W oolens, 
Flannels,  Blankets,  Ginghams, 
Prints and  Domestic Cottons.

We invite the attention of the trade to our complete and well 

assorted stock at lowest market  prices.

Spring & Company.

The  Dayton  Computing  Scale

WARNIN8--T0  Users  o f  S G a le s.

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

The  simple  using  of  Scales  that  infringe  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. 
THE  COMPUTING  SCALE  CO.

Respectfully'

BE IR E  YOU  BUY  THE  DAYTON COMPUTING  SCALES

See  W hat  Users  Say:

“ We are delighted  with it.”  The Jos.  R.  Peebles Son’s Co., Cincinnati. U. 
“ Would not part with it for 81,000.” 
Dan.  W. Charles, Hamilton, O.
“It saves pennies ever time we weigh.” 
Charles Young, Adrain, Mich. 
“They are worth to us each  year five times their cost.”
Raup & Hayman, Constantine, Mich. 
“We are  very much pleased with its work.”
Henry J. Vinkemulder 4  Bro., Grand Rapids,  Mich. 
“Since the adoption of your scales have made more money  than  ever  be­
Frank Daniels, Traverse City, Mich.
“ Itake pride in recommending them to every user of scales.”
Chas.  Railsback, Indianapolis, Ind. 
“I heartily recommend them to all grocers who wish  to save money.”
Geo.  F.  Kreltline, Indianapolis, Ind. 
“It is the best investment I ever made ” 
1.1>. Stultz, Goshen, Ind.
lWm For further particulars drop a  Postal Card  to

fore.” 

HOTT  &  CO.,  General Selling  Apts,

DAYTON,  OHIO.

H.  LEONARD  &  SONS.

W e   w ill  be  r e a d y   for  y o u   th e  F i r s t   o f  J a n u a r y   1 8 9 5   to  t a l k

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

The  '‘New  Process”  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.

The  Michigan  Generator  Stoves

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 riichigan 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   fo r  C a ta lo g u e   a n d   D is c o u n ts .

H.  LEONARD  &  SONS,  QRANK,STDS'

