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THE  BEVERAGES  WE  INFUSE. 

W ritten f o r  Thb T r a d e s m a n .

in  detail 

to  discuss 

Under the above  title  the  writer  pro­
poses 
two  ex­
tensively used and—when  unadulterated 
—valuable  foods  of  the  world.  The 
words “ valuable” and  “foods”  are  here 
nsed in a double sense.  They are valua­
ble as food,  although  generally  taken  in 
liquid  form,  because  chemistry  reveals 
the same constituents which are found in 
solid foods;  and they  are  valuable  iu  a 
commercial  sense  from  the  fact  that 
their  production  and  consumption  are 
world wide and involve  m*re  than 8250,- 
000,000  annually.  These  two  kinds  of 
liquid  food  are  our  tea  and  our coffee, 
and which,  at  the  present  moment,  are 
consumed 
900,000,000 
human beings, or nearly  one-half  of  the 
whole human  race.

least 

by 

at 

The following  table  will  exhibit  the 
nutritive  value  of  tea  and  beans—100 
parts—as they are generally placed upon 
the market:
Water............................. ............... 5
Starch and  gum............ ..............27
Gluten............................ ....20 to 25
Fat.................................. ..............3
Tannic  acid................... ..............15
Husk or  woody  fiber  ... ..............20
Ash  .............................. ..............  5
100

14
48
24
2
ÌÓ
2
100

Beane.

Tea.

The starch, gum, tannic acid and woody 
fiber  are  variable  in  the  tea leat, and, 
while the analysis may not be exact, it is 
approximately  correct  Coffee  will  be 
considered hereafter.  Of  this large per­
centage of gluten, the water in which we 
usually  infuse  our  tea  extracts  only  a 
part;  hence we throw  away in the waste 
leaves  quite  a  portion  of  the nutrition 
they contain.  A few grains of bicarbon­
ate  of  soda  thrown  into  the  water  in 
which the tea is  steeped  would  dissolve 
a larger  portion  of  the  gluten  and  the 
beverage  would, 
in  consequence,  be 
more nutritious.  Some half-civilized na­
tions  or  tribes  prepare  a  “ brick  tea,” 
which is believed to extract  most  of  the 
nutriment from the  leaf.  They  rub  the 
tea  to  fine  powder,  boil  it witb a mild 
alkali water to  which salt  and  fat  have 
been  added,  and pour off and drink  this 
decoction.  Sometimes  they mix this de­
coction  with  a  little  milk,  batter  and 
roasted meal.  Harris,  in his  “Highlands 
of  Ethiopia,”  says:  “They  drink  from 
twenty to thirty cups daily,  when travel­
ing, and can subsist  upon this  alone  for 
weeks in succession.”  .The  effects of tea 
used  in  this  way  seem  to be  two  fold: 
first,  it directly  nourishes  by the gluten, 
butter, milk  and  meal  it  contains;  sec­
ond, 
farther, 
through the waste retarding  influence  of 
the thelne,  or active  principle,  which  is 
now  quite  thoroughly  extracted.  The 
tea  plant,  Thea  Sinensis,  has much  re­
semblance  to  the  Camellia  Japonica,  a 
flowering plant now  grown in  this coun­
try—and 
is  the  original  Chinese  tea 
plant or shrub.  There  are,  in China,  as 
distinguished  by  botanists,  several  va­
rieties  of  this  species  of  plant,  as  the 
Thea  Vlridis,  T.  Bohea  and  T.  Stricta. 
These  plants  grow  from  three  to  four

it  makes  this  food  go 

feet in  height,  and  are  now  cultivated 
somewhat in one of our  Southern States. 
There are many other shrubs  and  a  few 
herbs  found  in  various  parts  of  the 
world,  the leaves of  which are dried and 
their infusion used in  the  same  manner 
as Thea Sinensis.  The native Indians of 
this  continent  had  their  favorite  herb 
drinks, all  of  which  grew  wild  in  the 
country,  under  the  names  of  Appa­
lachian, Oswego, Labrador,  sloe and sage 
teas.  The Central American  and  mixed 
races  indulged  in  their  chocolate  and 
coffee,  which were  produced  upon  their 
own soil. 
In South  America,  coffee  and 
mate  have  been  the  favorite beverages 
for  centuries,  while, 
the 
United  States  and  the  British  posses­
sions,  at the present day,  tea  and  coffee 
seem to have become a daily necessity.

throughout 

Artificial drinks are  prepared  in  both 
civilized  and  semibarbarous  lands  and 
extensively used,  viz.,  tea,  coffee,  choc­
olate,  beer,  wine,  and  various  alcoholic 
drinks  under  a  variety  of  names,  and 
each country has its favorite.  As a rule, 
these drinks are  classed among  the  lux­
uries of life,  rather  than  the necessities, 
and  are  prepared  from  vegetable  sub­
stances.  They  are  divided 
into  two 
classes—infusions and fermented liquors 
—although  some  of  them  should  more 
correctly  be  called  decoctions,  as  they 
are boiled.  The  infusions  are generally 
drunk warm or hot,  while the brewed or 
distilled drinks are generally taken cold. 
It is a somewhat singular fact that a love 
for hot drinks, more especially  infusions 
and decoctions,  should  alike  prevail  in 
all parts of the globe.  One would natur­
ally suppose that,  in  the  most  northern 
portions  of  the  earth,  the  inhabitants 
would desire  hot  drinks,  while,  in  the 
more  tropical  parts,  cold  drinks would 
be preferred,  bnt  the  latter  is  not  the 
case.  This general  predilection  for  hot 
drinks can hardly be accounted for.  Man­
kind is,  to a great extent,  the creature of 
habit; 
thus,  sometimes  we  follow  for 
several  generations  the  path  and  the 
habits of  our  ancestors.  The  tastes  we 
acquire in our youth  often  remain  with 
us, increasing in  intensity,  it may be,  to 
the end of life.

Tea  has  been  drnnk,  as  a  beverage, 
from  very  remote  periods.  Tradition 
tells ns that  it was used  by  the  Chinese 
as early as the year  300 of  onr  era;  but, 
Chinese  tea  merchants  in  this  country 
have assured the writer  that an infusion 
from this plant was  used in  China  more 
than a thousand years before the birth of 
Christ, and that there is  proof of this  on 
record.  An ancient legend of the Chinese 
reads as follows:  A pious hermit who, in 
his watchings and prayers, had often been 
overtaken by sleep,  so  that  his  eyelids 
closed,  in  holy  wrath against the weak­
ness of the flesh cut  them off  and  threw 
them  on  the  ground.  But  one  of  the 
gods  caused a tea  shrub to  spring  forth 
from them, the leaves of whieh exhibited 
the shape  of  an  eyelid,  with  eyelashes 
also,  and  which,  when  steeped  and 
drank,  possessed  the  gift  of  hindering 
sleep.  A  similar  story  is  related  con­

cerning  the  introduction  of  coffee  into 
Arabia.

Neither  the  tea  nor  the  coffee  plant 
was ever found to be native  to the West­
ern Continent. 
It was  after  the year A. 
D. 600 that the use of tea became general 
in China, and in  the year 810  it  was  in­
troduced  into  Japan.  Tea  was  not 
brought into Europe  until the  beginning 
of the seventeenth century, although  hot 
infusions  of  sage  and  other leaves had 
already been familiar  as  drinks  in  that 
country.  About this time a Russian em­
bassy to China brought  back  to  Moscow 
some  carefully  packed  green tea,  which 
was highly prized. 
In  the same century 
—1664—the English East India Company 
considered  it  a  rare  gift  to present the 
reigning sovereign  of  England with  two 
pounds  of  tea.” 
f“The  Tea  Plant,” 
Schleiden,  p.  142].

Tea was,  without doubt,  first  brought 
to America from Europe  by its early dis­
coverers,  and the  colonists  had  more  or 
less  of  this  luxury  among  them  from 
their first settlement, and history records 
a first great tea party, at Boston,  Dec.  16. 
1773.

Our  teas  are  principally  grown  and 
prepared for use in China and Japan,  in­
cluding the  kingdoms  of  Corea,  Assam 
and  Java.  Coffee  is  also  produced 
in 
some of these countries,  but only a small 
portion of this  reaches  our  markets,  as 
I we  are  largely  supplied  from  our  own 
continent and the adjoining islands.

The method of infusing tea in China is 
different from ours;  it  would be better if 
we adopted it.  The tea is put iuto a cup 
for each person  and boiling  hot water  is 
poured upon it. 
It is  allowed to stand  a 
few minutes—from five to ten,  according 
to the temperature of the room—and  the 
hot infusion is then drunk off the leaves, 
and  without  the  admixture  of  milk  or 
sugar.  This  method  of  making  tea  is 
followed by the Chinese residing  in  this 
country as well. 
In our country,  the use 
of  cream  and  sugar  with  tea probably 
arose from the desire to make  the  bitter 
infusion  of  the  leaves  palatable.  This 
practice  has  been  generally  continued 
and  is  an  improvement  in  several  re­
spects.

The  tea  leaf  acquires  its  fine  flavor 
from  the drying by artificial heat and the 
manipulation  in  preparing  it  for  use. 
The green leaf from the shrub has an en­
tirely different flavor and is not relished. 
Sixty  years  ago,  few  tea  leaves  were 
thrown  away,  at  least  in  the  United 
States,  after being  infused.  Among  the 
country people there were generally sev­
eral females in the family who  ate them, 
much as they  would  “greens.”

The first effect  of  tea  is  exhilarating. 
It excites the  brain to  increased activity 
and produces  wakefulness; hence its use­
fulness to those who devote much time to 
mental  labor. 
It  soothes  and quiets  the 
vascular system,  and thus  is useful  as  a 
remedy for  inflammation  and  for  head­
ache.  The active  principle  (Theine,  or 
caffeine,  for  they  are  identical)  is  the 
medicinal part of the plant.  To obtain a 
sample of Thelne  it  is only necessary  to

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take a small quantity  of dry,  finely pow­
dered  tea  leaves,  place  them  upon the 
concave  surface  of  a  watch  crystal 
covered over  with a  conical cap of  cleau 
paper,  and  place the  whole  upon  a  hot 
plate.  A  white  vapor  will  gradually 
rise from the tea and condense on the in­
ner  side  of  the  paper,  in  the  form of 
minute colorless  crystals.  This alkaloid 
is the  true  Theine.  These  crystals,  ob­
tained also from  roasted  coffee,  were  at 
first supposed to be a different substance, 
and  the  name  ‘‘caffeine”  was  applied; 
but  they  have  since  been  found  to  be 
identical.  Tea and coffee,  as brought  to 
our  merchants,  contain  nearly  2  per 
cent,  of  this  principle,  and,  odd  as  it 
may seem,  were  it  not  for  the  delicate 
aroma  residing  in  their  volatile  oils— 
this  aroma  differs  widely—we  might 
drink them in the dark with equal relish.
It is  quite  remarkable  that  Theine  is 
not only  found  present  in  Chinese  tea, 
but  also  in  mate,  or  Paraguay  tea,  of 
South  America, 
in  all  coffee,  and  in 
guarana, a substance prepared  and  used 
in Brazil in the  same  manner  as  coffee. 
Another curious  fact is that in countries 
remote from each  other,  plants  so  very 
unlike  in  appearance should  have been, 
by a kind of instinct, as it were, selected 
by  the  natives  for  the  same purpose— 
that of  yielding a  slightly  exciting,  ex­
hilarating and  refreshing beverage;  still 
further, that those  plants  should  all  be 
found  to  contain  the  same  remarkable 
active principle.  Another fact  may sur­
prise us;  that is,  that all  the food we eat 
and all the beverages  we infuse  contain, 
in  varied  proportions,  the  same,  or  a 
part of the same, nourishing constituents 
which sustain  our lives,  and  that  either 
or both,  taken in excess, instead of prov­
ing beneficial,  will,  like all  other  trans­
gressions, evoke Inj ury.  As these various 
beverages have been used  to some extent 
for centuries  past,  the  selection  of  the 
plants must have been  made  by  the  in­
dependent  discovery  of  each  people  or 
nation that these  plants were  capable  of 
gratifying a natural  craving in all, or  of 
supplying—like 
newly-launched
newspaper—“a  long-felt  want.”  The 
observed effects of this substance—Theine 
—when taken into the stomach of human 
beings,  justify  this  conclusion.  Every 
where,  nonintoxicatiug  and  nonnarcotic 
beverages  are  in  general  use—among 
tribes of every color,  beneath every sun, 
in every condition  of  life.  The custom, 
therefore,  must  meet  some  universal 
want of our frail human nature.  Every­
one  knows 
the  animal  body, 
while living,  undergoes  constant  decay 
and  renovation.  Mental  and  bodily 
labors waste it and food renews  it.  The 
introduction into the stomach  of  even  a 
minute portion  of  Theine—gay  three  or 
four  grains  a day—has the effect of sen­
sibly diminishing  waste  of  the  tissues. 
This fact indicates  that the waste of our 
bodies may be  lessened  by  the  drinking 
of tea  and  coffee;  and,  if  the  waste  be 
lessened,  the necessity  for food to repair 
it will be  lessened  in  equal  proportion. 
Tea  and  coffee,  therefore,  are not only 
far from being useless luxuries, but save, 
and  stand,  to  a  certain  extent,  in  the 
place of,  food,  while,  at  the  same  time, 
they soothe  the  nerves  and  enliven  the 
mind.  Tea,  particularly, also serves an­
other purpose for the  aged  and  infirm— 
it serves as a  medicine. 
It  is  a  fallacy 
to  suppose  that  old  people  drink  tea 
merely from  force  of habit. 
In  the  life 
of  most  persons  a  period  arrives when

that 

the 

the stomach no  longer digests  enough of 
the ordinary  elements  of  food  to  make 
up for the daily  waste of the body.  This 
fact  may  be  noticed  in  the  size  and 
weight of our bodies,  which  then  begin 
to  diminish  more  or  less  perceptibly. 
The fat which assists  to  round  out  the 
features  and  furnish 
the  healthy  and 
beautiful contour of the  countenance de­
creases and  wrinkles  change the  expres­
sion.  At  this  period,  the warm cup  of 
tea is not only  a  grateful food,  but  it  is 
a medicine to arrest this waste and to en­
able the feeble powers  of  digestion  still 
to supply  what is needed  for the wear of 
the solid tissues.  Is it, then, any  wonder 
that  tea  should  be  a  favorite—on  the 
one hand with the poor,  whose  supplies 
of  substantial  food  are  scanty,  and,  on 
the other,  with  the aged  and  infirm,  es­
pecially  of 
sex,  whose 
strength  has  begun  to  fail?  Nor  is  it 
surprising  that  the  aged  female whose 
income will  barely purchase the common 
necessaries of life should spend  a  some­
what  extravagant  portion  of the where- 
withall  for  tea.  She  can  live quite  as 
well  on  less  common  food,  when  she 
takes her cup of tea with it, and,  because 
of this indulgence,  she feels  more cheer­
ful,  more active and  better fitted for  her 
work.

feebler 

the 

In  some  countries,  among  the poorer 
classes, an infusion  of the  husks  of  the 
cocoa—the  refuse  of the chocolate mills 
—is largely used  as  a  beverage.  These 
husks  are  often  sold  by  our  grocers, 
under the name of “cocoa shells.”

Coffee  seems  to  possess  greater med­
It  is  noticed 
icinal  powers  than  tea. 
that,  in France and Turkey, where coffee 
is  the  principal  beverage,  gravel  and 
gout are almost unknown.  “One French 
gentleman,  who  was  50  years  old  and 
had chalky deposits in the joints of  both 
hands  and  feet,  and  for  whom  strong 
coffee  alone  was  prescribed,  was  com­
pletely  cured.”  [Pharmaceutical  Jour­
nal, Vol.  13, p. 330].

The  composition  of  nnroasted  coffee, 
compared with the tea from China,  as  it 
comes to us, is very  nearly  shown in the 
following table:
Water................... __ 5
Starch  and  gum  . ...27
Gluten 
. ..25
...........
F a t.....................
....  3
......
Tannic acid 
..  15
Woody fioer.........
.20
A sh......................
...  5
100

Tea—[Mulder].  Coffee—[Payen].

12
15
15
13
5
31
6
100

It  will  be  seen  that  gluten,  in  tea, 
forms one-fourth  of the  dry  leaves  and 
perhaps  one-eighth  of  gum;  so,  if  we 
chose to eat the leaves in  the  mass,  they 
would  prove  as  nutritious  as  beans  or 
peas;  but. as an excess of the gluten and 
gum is not dissolved in the beverage,  un­
less an alkali is added, our coffee is near­
ly or quite as nourishing  as  this  and  is 
almost five times as rich in oil or fat.

Natural waters are found to  be  differ­
ent in the making of tea  or coffee.  This 
has been traced  to the  slight  proportion 
of alkali which some waters contain.

Never allow tea or coffee to boil, if you 
desire to enjoy their  exquisite flavor and 
odor.  Boiling,  for even  a  few  minutes, 
dissipates the volatile oil  into the atmos­
phere, leaving an odorless,  bitter and as­
tringent  decoction  for  your  beverage. 
Remember,  it is  an  infusion  and  not  a 
decoction or broth you desire to make.

Both  tea  and  coffee,  if  kept dry and 
away from  noxious  odors,  improve  with 
age. 
therefore,  a  question 
merely  of  dollars  and  cents,  with  the 
more  wealthy  of  our  people  who  pur-

It  is  not, 

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VEAL.

Grand  Kapids, Mich.

CANDIES,  FR17IT8  and  HUTS 
The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows:

STICK  CANDT.Cases  Bbls.  Palls.
7
7
7
8
0

Standard,  per lb............  
“  H.H..................  
T w ist.............. 
“ 
Boston Cream................. 
8 >4
Cut  Loaf......................... 
Bxtra  H  H...............  ...  314 
MIXED  CANDT.

5 
6 
6 

Standard...................
Leader.......................
Royal.........................
Nobby.......................
English  Rock.........
Conserves.................
Broken Taffy............
Peanut Squares.........
French Creams.........
Valley  Creams.........
Midget, 30 lb. baskets 
Modern. 301b.  “ 
.,

Bbls.
..5
.514
.6.7
.7
■614
baskets

Palls
614
814
714
8
814
714
8
9
1214 
... 8

fancy—In s lb. boxes. 

fancy—In bulk
Losenges, plain...........................
printed........................
Chocolate Drops...........................
Chocolate Monumentals..............
Gum Drops...................................
Moss Drops.................................
Sour Drops...................................
Imperials.....................................

Palls 
.  8*
■  914 
.  11■  12 
.  6
•  714 
.  8 
.  9
Per Box
Lemon Drops...................................................50
Sour Drops......................................................60
Peppermint Drops........................................... 60
Chocolate Drops.............................................. 65
H. M. Chocolate Drops................................... 75
Gum Drops..............................................35® 50
Licorice Drops.............................................. l 00
A  B. Licorice Drops...................................... 75
Losenges, plain..........................  
60
printed........................................... 65
Imperials................................ 
60
Mottoes............................................................70
Cream Bar....................................................... 55
Molasses  Bar...................................................so
Hand Made  Creams................ 
  HO®»
Plain Creams............................................6 J@S0
Decorated Creams........................................... 90
String  Rock.................................................... 60
Burnt Almonds......................................90@1  25
Wlntergreen  Berries.......................................80

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CARAMELS.
No. 1, wrapped, 2 lb. boxes... 
No. 1, 
No. 2, 

3 
2 

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ORANGES.

Floridas, Fancy Brights  126..............
Flondas, Fancy Brlgnts, 150.............
Fiorldas Fancy  Brights, 176,  200.  216
Choice, 300..........................................
Extra Choice, 300  .............................
Fancy, aoc 
...................................... .
Choice, 360  ........................................
Fancy, 360...........................................
Common........................................... .

LEMONS.

BANANAS.
Large bunches.....................
Small bunches......................

“  

OTHER  FOREIGN  FRUITS.
Figs, fancy  layers  161b.....................
801b.................................
“  
“  141b........................
........................................ .
Dates, yard, 10-lb.  box.......................
.....................
Persian.  G. M.50-lb  box...... .
1 lb Royals,  new.....................

•T 
“  extra 
“  bags 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“  50-lb.  “ 

NUTS.

“ 
“ 
“ 

Almonds, Tarragona.....................
Ivaca........... 
.......
California, soft shelled
Braslls, new...................................
Filberts  ........................................
Walnuts, Grenoble 
.....................
French............................
Calif................................
Soft Shelled  Calif...........
Tame  Nuts,  fancy........................
choice.......................
Pecans. Texas, H.  P.,  ..................
Chestnuts.......................................
Hickory Nutsper  bu., Mich.........
Cocnnnuts, full sacks..................
Butternuts  per bu.........................
Black  Walnuts, per bu...................

“ 

PEANUTS.

Fancy, H.  P.,Suns.........................
“  Roasted.............
Fancy, H.  P., Flags.......................
“  Roasted............
Choice, H. P., Extras....................
“  Roasted.........

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FRESH  HEATS.

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51
28
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4 00 
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3 Ou 
3 51 
3 00 
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2 50

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BEEF.
Carcass................................
Fore quarters.......................
H indquarters....................
Loins No. 3.......................
Ribs......................................
Rounds.........................
Chucks  .......................  
Plates...................................
POBK.

,

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

..  5K© 7
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Lambs....................................................   5*4@5

MUTTON.

STEEL RANGE  MAJESTIC.

What  the  Hardware  Trade  of 

Michigan Says of It.

The most  prominent  stove  merchants 
in  Michigan who  have  given  a  lifetime 
of study and  observation to  the  subject 
of  cooking  apparatus,  unite  in  saying 
that the Steel Range Majestic is the  best 
constructed,  the most economical  in  the 
use of fuel,  the  most  perfect  and  satis­
factory in  its operation  of  any  stove  or 
range that has come within  their  notice.
Besides this,  more  than  one  hundred 
thousand housewives unite in saying that 
it is so far superior  to other  cook  stoves 
and  ranges  they  have  used  that  their 
cooking  by  its  use  is  made  a  positive 
pleasure.

The Steel  Range Majestic is backed by 
the strongest  and  most sweeping guar­
antee  ever  made  upon  any  commercial 

article.PJE8TIC  R A N G E

in n   nnn  housewives pronounce it the greatest 
IUU,UUU  cooking range.  1896 fire linings guar­
anteed  for  five  years  against  burning; other 
parts  for  twenty-five  years  against  breaking. 
Descriptive  cook book, 2 cents.
MAJESTIC  MFG  CO ,  St. Louis, Mo.

COMMENTS  OF  THE  TRADE.

Flue  Testimonials  Selected  From  More 

Than  a  Hundred

FRANK H  GRAVES,

Co.. Grand Rapids, Mich.

The Majestic Steel Range is  the  finest  article 
of merchandise to se 1 that I have handled  in  30 
years that 1 have been iD the hardware business. 
Of all the ranges we have sold there Is  p  sitlve- 
lv not one but  what  is  giving  perfect satisfac­
tion  Our dealings with the M  jeslic  Manufac 
luring Company, which have been  more  exten­
sive  than  we  bad  expected  bv a large degree, 
have been the most pleasant ana satisfactory in 
every way that  we could desire  They are hon­
orable business men in every  respect  and  it  is 
not only profitable but a pleasure  to do business 
with them. 
Manager  Stove  Department,  Foster,  Stevens  & 
Before accepting the Majestic  agency  we  In­
vestigated the merits of this  range  thoroughly. 
We expected great  things  of  it  from  what  we 
heard fr >m others, but I must say  in  justice  to 
the  Majestic  that  every expectation  has  been 
more tb-.n realized.  There «re other good steel 
ranges, but we believe that the Majestic is with 
out a  fault,  as  far  as  the  ability  of  man  can 
make it, and compared to other steel ranges it is 
perfei tion in Itself.  The  method  employed  Dy 
the Majestic Manufacturing co.  in  introducing 
this range to the public is  the most original  and 
effective I have ever seen in  business.  Our  ex 
perience with tbe company has been very  pleas­
ant indeed, and it has been a  positive  pleasure, 
as well as a benefit, to do business with  so  large 
and well conducted a firm.

WILLIAM  SEYFFARDT, Sec’y,

Saginaw Hardware Co., Saginaw, W. 8., Mich.
Our recent experience in selling  the  wonder­
ful Majestic steel  Range has  been  most  pleas­
ant  and  profitable  to  us.  Mechanically  and 
scientifically the range is the cooking apparatus 
par excellence.  Theie  can  be  no economy  in 
the household without a  Mujectic  Steel  Range 
upon which to do cooking and water beating.
EBERBaCH  HARDWARE CO, 
Ann Arbor, Mich.
The  experience  of  a  lifetime  in the general 
hardware business has yet to show me a cooking 
range  that  can  be  compared  with  the  Steel 
Range Majestic.  We  Bold a large  number  dur­
ing  the  exhibit,  and  since  then  our  patrons 
unite in praise of i t  

H. S. ME LINGER, 
Pontiac.  Mich.

DUNNING  BROS,

It 1b simply absurd to compare any other cook­
ing ► tove or cooking range that we have sold in 
our experience In the cook stove  bnsiness  with 
tbe  Majestic  in  economy of  fuel  and  facility 
and  despatch  in  properly  preparing  food  for 
the table. 
Menominee, Mich,
The opinions of the  above  merchants, 
who  have  given  a lifetime to  the  stove 
business, are above  criticism and conclu­
sively  prove  beyond  a  doubt  that  the 
Majestic is in every  particular all that is 
claimed for it.

For further particulars address

J . W . JO H N S T O N ,  M a n a g e r.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,

3

Spring 1895.

Our salesman  will shortly  call  on  you 
with  a  complete  and  magnificent  line  of 
Novelties in Hair Ornaments, Belt  Buckles 
and Pins, Garter Clasps, Czarina Collarettes, 
and everything produced for the  season,  in 
connection with our usual  complete  line  of 
Jewelry.  Wait  until  you  have  seen  our 
goods before placing your order.

♦

t

chase a chest or two  of tea at a  time and 
from  100  to  200  pounds  of green coffee 
and consign them to the larder;  it is that 
age may ripen  them—that  Father  Time 
may perform for them what they cannot. 
“Exactly  how  it  comes—by  what  slow 
chemical change  within  the  bean—that 
coffee  of  the  most  inferior  quality  so 
ripens by keeping as,  at length, to yield, 
on roasting,  a coffee  equal  to  the  finest 
Mocha,  we  do  not,  as  yet,  know.” 
[Payen].

As  most  people  are  aware,  coffee  is 
seldom prepared for the table in its high­
est state  of  perfection. 
In  this  age  of 
haste,  time seems too valuable  to  devote 
to the pleasures of  eating  and  drinking. 
We  just  “ bolt”  our  food and “skip” — 
anything will do,  if it  only sustains life. 
Thus we purchase coffee nicely roasted— 
we know not  how  long  ago;  often  it  is 
kept  ready  ground—we  know  not  how 
long since. 
If it were possible  to  roast, 
grind and prepare  our  coffee  for  drink­
ing within the  same hour,  one could  not 
imagine a  more  grateful,  delicious  and 
nourishing beverage.

It is  not  positively  known  how  long 
coffee  has  been  used. 
In  Persia,  it  is 
known to have  been in  use  as  early  as 
A. D. 875. 
It  is a  native  of  Abyssinia, 
and  was  introduced  into  Arabia  in  the 
beginning of the  fifteenth  century.  “In 
1652, the first public coffee  house was es­
tablished 
in  London,  England,  by  a 
Greek named Pasqua.” 

[Ellis].

The coffee tree  varies  in  height  from 
eight  to  twenty  feet,  according  to  the 
soil and climate in  which it is grown.  Its 
foliage is evergreen,  resembling  that  of 
the  orange  and 
lemon,  being  dark, 
smooth and glossy.  The  seed is sown in 
nurseries,  the  same  as  the  orange  and 
lemon,  and  is  transplanted when about 
six  months  old. 
In  three  years  from 
transplanting it  comes into full  bearing. 
It may not be generally  known  that  the 
leaf of  the  coffee  tree  is  used  in  some 
parts of the world as a substitute for tea, 
and,  without doubt, this is  the best  sub­
stitute known;  of  course,  there  is a vast 
difference  between  a  substitute  and  an 
adulteration.

This article has  confined  itself  so  far 
to pure tea and coffee,  and it  will not  be 
out of place,  now,  to  speak  of  the  sub­
stitutes  and  adulterations  of  these two 
world-known  beverages.  As  early  as 
1845, Prof.  Blume, of  Leyden,  who  had 
traveled  much  in  Java, made known  in 
Holland that the coffee  leaf was used,  in 
the Eastern Archipelago,  in place of tea, 
and recommended its use in Europe;  and 
at  the  great  Exhibition  in  England  in 
1851, Dr.  Gardner  showed  specimens  of 
prepared coffee  leaves,  which  attracted 
much  attention.  He  announced  that 
they contained Thelne and suggested that 
they be substituted for  our ordinary tea. 
In 1850, on the  Island  of  Sumatra,  pre­
pared coffee leaves,  formed the only bev­
erage of  the whole population, and from 
their  nutritive qualities  had  become  an 
important  necessary  of  life.  The  na­
tives there prefer the leaf to the berry or 
“fruit” of  the  coffee  tree,  giving  as  a 
reason that it is  more  nutritious.  Many 
kinds of leaves which  possess  a  slightly 
bitter taste,  as some  varieties  of the box 
shrub,  the  willow,  wild  plum,  bitter 
wintergreen,  red  currant,  etc.,  are  ex­
tensively  used  to  adulterate  the  true 
teas.  Of course, this  is  done  solely  for 
gain,  and,  while in one sense the adulter­
ation  is  comparatively  harmless, 
the 
It  is  said  that
consumer  is  swindled. 

Probably  the 

half a century ago the  Chinese did  use  a 
compound of  four  parts  of  roasted  and 
ground  gypsum  (plaster  of  Paris) 
to 
three  parts  of  Prussian  blue,  to  color 
teas for the  American  market,  but  it  is 
doubtful if anything  of  this kind is now 
used.  Prepared  coffees,  as  roasted  and 
ground,  are also adulterated with various 
substances, most of  which,  however,  are 
harmless,  but are a direct  swindle to the 
purchaser. 
latest  and 
most ingenious adulteration of coffee is a 
factitious or  “artificial  bean,”  composed 
principally of  starch  and  gluten. 
It  is 
made  by  machinery  to  closely  imitate 
both  the  raw  and  roasted  coffee berry, 
and is sometimes found mixed with them 
in the proportion  of  from  12  to  25  per 
cent.!  The attention  of  the  writer  was 
first called to a sample  in the raw coffee, 
but within the past  year we  have  found 
them  in  samples  of  the  roasted  coffee. 
Upon  close  examination,  these  berries 
seemed to have  been made  into a dough, 
then  passed through  metallic  moulds,  as 
in the process  of  making  crackers,  and 
afterward  dried  or  baked.  The  manu­
facture is so  perfect  that  it  is  only  by 
close  observation  that  they  can  be  de­
tected, except in  the  infusion,  when  of 
course, they are  dissolved and  the fraud 
is then  discovered.

When  we  consider 

the  enormous 
amount of tea and coffee alone which the 
world is consuming daily, and of its  vast 
commercial 
importance,  we  are  filled 
with amazement  at the  development and 
increasing growth of a taste and habit so 
universal  over  the  entire  globe. 
It 
might be well, in closing, to compare the 
present  consumption  with  statistics  of 
the  past,  and  gaze  with  prophetic  eye 
into the  future.  The  world’s  consump­
tion  of  coffee  is  many times that of tea 
and  has  probably  distanced  it  forever. 
We will not  pretend  to give  a reason for 
this fact.  Mr.  Ingham  Travers  tells  us 
that,  as  far  back  as  1853,  “The  total 
product of the cured  tea  in  China  alone 
was  1,000,000  tons  annually.  To  this 
must  be  added  the tea of  Japan, Corea, 
Assam and Java.”  Mr. Travers estimates 
one acre of land to  yield  600  pounds  ot 
tea,  when  cured.  The  consumption  ot 
tea  in  Great  Britain, 
in  1852,  only 
amounted to  24,000  tons,  or  about  one- 
forty-fifth  of  the  estimated  product  of 
China.  “The  consumption  of  coffee  in 
Great  Britain,  in  1852,  was  35,000,000 
pounds.  About that time,  the  total  Eu­
ropean consumption of coffee  was  75,000 
tons  annually,  valued  at  $22,500,000.” 
[Dr.  Stenhouse].

In 1891, there  was  a  statement  going 
the  rounds  of  the  press  in  the United 
States,  said  to  be  based  upon  Govern­
ment  statistics,  that,  during  the  year 
then  just  closed,  our  consumption  of 
coffee  was  fifteen  pounds  annually  to 
every citizen of  the  republic!  There  is 
no reason to doubt the  above  statement, 
neither are  we  surprised  that  coffee  is 
yearly advancing in price,  with the stim­
ulus of ever increasing demand,  and that 
teas as  gradually  declining.  Coffee  has 
hardly  been  higher  in  price  for  years 
past than it is to-day  and this  at  a  time 
of  general  financial depression in Amer­
ica,  while tea is at as low a point as ever 
was known.

This  subject  may  be  deemed  incom­
plete without a description  of  the  proc­
ess of preparing tea and  coffee  for  mar­
ket, but, the article is  already  long,  and 
such a paper will be given at some future 
time. 

F. A. Howie.

WURZBURG  JEWELRY  CO.,

76  nonroe  St., 

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Orand  Rapids.

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SW EET’S   HOTEL

MARTIN  L.  SWEET  has assumed  control  of  Sweet's  Hotel,  retaining  the 
Messrs. Irish as manager.  Extensive  improvements  have  been  made  throughout 
the house.  Steam heat has been put in every  room, and the  office,  remodeled  and 
newly decorated, is one of the  haudsomest in Michigan.

4

AROUND  THE  STATE.

MOVEMENTS OF  MERCHANTS.

Horseshoe—J.  N.  Gilpin  has  opened 

Manton—John  Hill  has  opened  a  new 

a  grocery  store.

grocery store.

North Star—Chas.  Brooks  has sold his 

general stock to H.  W.  McBride.

Ovid—C.  C.  Dodge  has  purchased  the 

grocery stock cf VV.  G.  Cameron & Co.

Petoskey—Andrews  &  Clapper,  meat 
dealers,  have  added a  stock of groceries
Lakeview— Jacob  Weiss  has  removed 
his general stock from  Kalkaska  to  this 
place.

Climax—Perren & Riley,  general  deal­
ers,  have dissolved,  Kiley & Gustiue suc­
ceeding.

Schoolcraft—Neeley  &  Dewey  have 
opened a branch  clothing  store  at  Con­
stantine.

Parma—Hans  &  Godfrey 

succeed 
Hodges  &  Dean  in  the  drug  and paint 
business.

Negaunee—Henry  W.  Bregstone  suc­
ceeds Alexander Heyne  in the  dry goods 
business.

Albion—E.  A.  Davis succeeds N.  & E. 
A.  Davis  in  the  grocery  and  produce 
business.

Muskegon—Smith &  Wellington,  gro­
cers, have dissolved,  A.  W.  Wellington 
succeeding.

Bessemer—C.  W.  Hanson  has  pur­
chased  the  book and stationery business 
of Frank J.  Doris.

Alpena—Masters & Barrett,  boot  and 
shoe  dealers,  have  dissolved,  W.  S. 
Barrett succeeding.

Escanaba—Gilmette &  Cleary  succeed 
P.  M.  Peterson in  the grocery, crockery 
and furniture business.

Big Rapids—F.  Fairman  has  sold  his 
dry goods stock to  Mrs. E.  Patrick,  who 
will continue the business.

Jackson—The  Bortree  corset  factory 
has  been  sold  on  chattel  mortgage  to 
Louis F.  Boos, the musician.

Sault Ste.  Marie—Lipsett  & Campbell, 
meat  dealers,  have  dissolved,  A.  M. 
Campbell continuing the  business.

Alpena—Masters &  Barrett,  boot  and 
shoe dealers,  have  dissolved.  The busi­
ness  will  be continued  by W.  F.  Barrett.
Big  Rapids—Barker  Bros,  have  pur­
chased the  grocery stock of  J.  S. Barker 
and moved their stock to  the  latter loca­
tion.

Freeport—J.  W.  Edwards is now doing 
business  at  S.  C.  Woolett’s  old  stand. 
He carries lines of boots, shoes, groceries 
and crockery.
•  Mackinaw  City—C.  U.  Zimmerman 
succeeds  Zimmerman  &  Williams 
in 
general trade and  the  shingle  manufac­
turing business.

Muskegon—Frank  Johnson,  who  has 
carried on a grocery  business  in  Lower- 
town  for  years,  has  gone  to  Anderson, 
Iud.,  for permanent residence.

Albion—W.  H.  Sampson  has  bought 
the  grocery  stock  of  A.  P.  Wolcott and 
will  ship  it  to  Battle  Breek.  Mr.  Wol­
cott  retires  from  trade.

Olivet—A.  C.  Shallear  is  adding  a 
stock  of  groceries  to  his  meat  and 
canned  goods  business.  Frank  H.  Clay 
(W.  J.  Quan  &  Co.)  sold  the  goods.

Mancelona—J.  J.  Gage  has  resigned 
his position  as manager  of  the  Antrim 
Iron Co.’s store  and  will soon remove to 
East Jordan,  his  mercantile  interests  at 
that  place rendering it  necessary that he 
should give the business his  personal at­
tention.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

Boyne  Falls—C.  C.  Batchellor  has 
closed  his  general  store,  near  Boyne 
Falls,  and  removed 
the  stock  to  this 
place and consolidated it  with  his  stock 
here.

Holland—William Swift  has  sold  his 
grocery stock to  Henry  Olert,  who  will 
continue the business at  the  same  loca­
tion.  Mr. Swift  will  continue  the  flour 
aud feed business.
Bellaire—U.  A.  Snyder  has  retired 
from the  grocery  and  provision  firm  of 
Hemstreet Bros.  & Snyder.  The  business 
will be  continued  by  H.  M.  Hemstreet 
a  d  E.  Hemstreet  under  the  style  of 
Hemstreet Bros.  & Co.

Manistee—The  Manistee  Liquor  Co. 
has been organized,  with a  capital  stock 
of  $10,000, 
to  continue  the  wholesale 
liquor  business  established  by  F.  J. 
Pomeroy & Co.  Patrick  Noud  is  Presi­
dent  of  the  corporation  and  Michael 
Fay is Secretary.

Detroit—Suedicor  &  Hathaway’s  shoe 
stock  was sold at receiver’s sale to  J.  L. 
Hudson for 60  cents on the  dollar.  Pin- 
gree & Smith bought the  machinery  and 
leather.  Mr.  Snedicor  will  probably re­
sume  business  on  a  smaller  scale  in  a 
short time.

Lowell—L.  H.  Hunt  and  his  son, 
Ernest,  have formed a  copartnership un­
der the style  of L.  H.  Hunt  &  Co.  and 
purchased 
the  drug  stock  of  W.  M. 
Clark,  who has  concluded  to take up his 
residence in  the West  on  account  of  his 
wife’s health.  The  elder Hunt Is one of 
the oldest druggists  in the  State,  having 
been  a  member  of  the  former  firm  of 
Hunt & Hunter for  about a  quarter  of  a 
century.

Detroit—Henry  A.  Newland  &  Co. 
have filed  articles of  copartnership  with 
the  county  clerk.  James  F.  Joy  is  a 
special  partner of the  firm,  and  invests 
$30,000, on  which  he  is  to  draw  7  per 
cent,  interest.  Charles Montague invests 
$22,500; Arba M. Seymour, $11,250; Frank 
L.  Hyde, $11,250.  They are to  receive 6 
per cent,  a year on the  investment and a 
salary. John A. Gleeson and Burr Wilbur 
are partners who invest nothing. 
James 
F. Joy receives nothing but the  percent 
age of interest agreed  upon, and is not to 
be  held 
the 
amount of his investment.

liable  for  losses  beyond 

MANUFACTURING MATTERS.

Battle  Creek—Silas  C.  Bellamy  suc­
ceeds  F. C.  Locklin in  the  manufacture 
of gloves and  whips.

Battle  Creek—The  Union  Manufac­
turing Co.,  at this place, has reorganized 
under  the  style  of  the  Union  Steam 
Pump Co.

Detroit—The  Excelsior Button Co.  has 
filed  articles  of  association  with  the 
county  clerk.  The  capital  stock 
is 
$27,000, of which  $11,000 is paid in.

Thompsonville—M.  E.  Brown  &  Co., 
who were formerly  engaged  in  the  saw 
and  planing  mill  business,  have  dis­
solved.  The business will  be  continued 
by W.  C.  Brown.

Big  Rapids—C.  H.  Olds  has  retired 
from  the  Michigan  Cigar  Co.  and  will 
embark in  business elsewhere.  The busi­
ness will be  continued  by  Jas.  Vanden- 
berg  and  Jas.  O’Beck  under  the  same 
style.

Boyne  Falls—Hankey & Son have pur­
chased  the  grist  mill  and  water  power 
belonging  to  the  Horne  estate  and  will 
| rebuild  the  mill  and  change  it  to  full 
! roller  process  during  the  coming  sum- 
| mer  season.

Novi—Hon.  Fred  M.  Warner  has  de­
cided to erect and operate  his  third  fac­
tory, locating it at this place.  The build­
ing  will  be  24x70  feet  in  dimensions, 
with a  cold  storage  24x24.  Chas.  Deer 
will have charge of the factory.

Adrian—The  Bond  Steel  Fence  Post 
Co.  has been  organized with  a capital of 
$40,000 to embark in  the manufacture of 
steel posts.  Geo.  W.  Bond  is  President 
of  the  corporation,  Seymour  Howell  is 
Treasurer and A.  M.  Keeney  is  General 
Manager.

Aral—Dr.  O’Leary  has  sold  the  saw­
mill  and  real  estate  formerly owned by 
Chas.  T.  Wright to Chas. Secor,  of  Man­
istee,  who will put the mill in repair and 
begin  operations  as  soon  as  a stock  of 
logs can  be  secured.  Lyman  Dailey has 
been placed in charge of  the  enterprise.

The Grain  Market.

The past week has been a week of sur­
recorded  a  lower 
prises.  Every  day 
point.  While all  the  preponderance  of 
news seemed in favor of higher  markets, 
the reverse  took  place.  We  shall  have 
to have more exports,  while  the  visible 
made  quite  a  decrease  last  week  and 
probably only a moderate one this  week. 
The traders  are  looking  on  the  recent 
great fall of  snow,  completely  covering 
the fields,  as  a  good  omen  for  another 
good crop  of  winter  wheat.  The  fact, 
also,  is gaining that one  month  of  1895 
is about gone,  and  that  we are  working 
toward another harvest with  a  big  load 
of wheat to carry.  While  50c  wheat  is 
carried easier  than  $1  wheat,  the  ques­
tion  arises.  What are  we  going  to  do 
with our next crop  of winter wheat?  It 
seems  as  though  the  Government  crop 
reporter is all  wrong  in  his  reckoning.
In the early  part  of  the  1894  crop  it 
was given out that the United States  was 
short probably  390,000,000  to 400,000,000 
bushels,  while the last  report was about 
460,000,000,  and many  authorities  claim 
this  is  way  below.  Why  cannot  the 
Government  come  nearer 
the  actual 
amount?  Unless it can do better, it  had 
better  quit.

Corn, in sympathy with  wheat,  is also 
lower.  The  trouble  seems  to  be  that 
traders are  disgusted  with  the  markets 
and let them alone, and  they  sag  lower, 
until it begins to  look  as  though  there 
were no bottom.
Oats remain  firm and strong  and  there 
is more inquiry  for  them  than  for  the 
other cereals.
Receipts in this market were 66 cars of 
wheat,  21 cars of corn and 10 cars of oats.

C. G.  A.  V oigt.

His Customers Want Coffee, Not Paper.
Ad v a n ce,  Jan. 22—Can’t you do some­
thing for us retail tradesmen who handle 
package  coffee—more  particularly  Mc­
Laughlin’s? 
I have  handled  XXXX  for 
the past twelve years.  From four to  six 
slips of paper are  put  in  each  package 
which,  more or less, get into the mill and 
clog it,  thus necessitating frequent clean­
ing of the  mill,  which  takes  time  and 
money. 
I  grind  nine tenths  of  all  the 
package coffee 1 sell,  and the time  spent 
in  cleaning  the  mill  amounts  to  more 
than the  profit on the goods,  besides  the 
loss  of the coffee which  patrons  will not 
accept,  where  paper 
is  ground  up 
with it.  1 think  that  merchants  ought 
to  “kick” ,  and if  that  won’t do,  cease 
patronizing all firms that work so against 
our  interest.  What  say  you?  Please 
answer in your valuable paper.

A.  B.  St e e l e.

This  is  an  old  complaint  and  it  is 
time the matter  was  given  proper  con­
sideration by manufacturers  of  package 
coffees.  Will  Mr.  McLaughlin  please 
stand up and  answer for himself?

The  Drug1  Market.

Opium is weak and lower.
Morphia is  unchanged.
Quinine is in good demand  but  steady 

Linseed oil is  firm  and  an  advance  is 

in price.

probable.

Salacine has advanced.
Blue vitriol is firm and advancing.
Gum camphor is lower.
Oil anise has declined.
Serpentaria is scarce and higher. 
Turpentine has advanced.

PRODUCE  MARKET.

Apples—All  winter  varieties  command  12.50 
per bbl., if in good c  ndition, while fancy  st jck 
-eadily  commands  $3.
Beaus—The  price  continues  to  advance  and 
sti 1 higher prices are looked for  as the  country 
is, appirently, getting  bare  of stock.  Handlers 
pay 81.40&1.15 for country  picked,  holding  eity 
picked at  $1.7o@1.75.

Butter—In  a  little  better  demand  in  some 
quarters, in consequence of  which  the  glutted 
condition of the m a r k e t has disappeared.  Choice 
stock is salable at 15«tl8c.

Cabbage—Price ranges from $2®4  per  100,  ac­

cording to size and quality.
Celery—Sustained a sharp advance  during the 
week—in  fact  doubled  In  price—dealers  who 
have any stock holding it  at 20®25c  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— 18c for  strictly  fresh,  15c  for  pickled 
and  18c  for  cold  storage  stock  The  cold 
weather  has  depleted  the  accumulations  of 
fresh eggs and the price may go to 20c  in  conse­
quence.

Lettuce—12}4c per lb.
Onions—Red Weatherflelds  and  Yellow  Dan­
vers  command  40c  per  bu.  Spanish  stock, Si 
per box.

Parsnips—35c per bu.
Potatoes—Stronger and higher, the  local  mar­
ket having advanced to 50c.  Unless the weather 
moderates soon, so that shipments may be  made 
in safety, the price will go still  higher.

Radishes—Hot house stock commands  30c  per 

doz. bunches.

Sweet Potatoes—Kiln dried Jerseys  command 
S3 per bbl.  Kiln dried Illinois  stock  is  held  at 
25c less.

Squash—Hubbard  brings  l(4c  per  lb.,  if  the 
quality is up to standard.  Poor stock sells at %
me.

M.  R.  A LD EN   &   CO.,

M.  R.  ALDEN. 
E. E.  ALDEN.
W h o le s a le   -  P r o d u ce ,
Strictly  Fresh  Eggs  and Choice  Creamery  and 

Dairy  Butter a Specialty.

76  So.  Division St., Grand Rapids.

We  buy on track at point of shipment or receive 

on consignment. 

'Phone  1300.

A .   H .   K J S O W L S O N ,

Wholesale Shipper

Cement;,  Lime, Coal, Sewer Pipe, Etc.

CARLOTS  AND LESS 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH,

EATON, LION & CO.

2 0  &  2 2   M onroe  S t.,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN
A Nefarious  Traffic.

GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

A. C. Fassett succeeds Geo.  Hickox  in 
the bakery and confectionery business at 
135 South Division street.

M.  R.  Alden  &  Co.,  recently  from 
Lake  Odessa,  have opened  a  wholesale 
butter and egg store at 76 South  Division 
street.

Peter  Hanson,  formerly  engaged  in 
trade  at  Morley,  has  opened  a grocery 
store  at  Lakeview.  The  Lemon  & 
Wheeler Company furnished  the stock.

Harry Weod and Albert  Hilliard  have 
formed  a  copartnership  under the style 
of Wood & Hilliard and opened a grocery 
store at Millersville.  The  Worden  Gro­
cer Co.  furnished the stock.

Judge Severens,  of  the  U.  S.  Court, 
handed  down  a  decision  last  Tuesday, 
denying the petition of  the  Heaton-Pen­
insular Button  Fastener  Co.  for  an  in­
junction enjoining  the Eureka  Specialty 
Co.  from  manufacturing 
and  selling 
staples which can be used in the Peninsu­
lar machine.  The Heaton-Peninsular  Co. 
has  never  had  a patent  on  the  staple, 
but has  claimed  the  protection  of  the 
patent  laws  on  the  ground  that  the 
staple must  be used  in  a  machine  the 
patent on which is owned by the Heaton- 
Peninsular  Co.  Judge  Severens refused 
to take this view  of the  matter,  holding 
it to  be an  attempt to maintain a monop 
oly  on  an  un patented  article,  which 
is contrary  to public  policy.

sale  of 

them  that 

Acting on the  suggestion of Treasurer 
Lehman,  a delegation  of  a  dozen  mem 
bers of the  Retail  Grocers’  Association 
waited  on  the  Board  of  Health 
last 
Thursday and entered  a  formal  protest 
further 
against  the 
frozen 
oranges 
in 
this  market.  Secretary 
Wilson  met  the  delegation  with  due 
courtesy  and  assured 
the 
Board  would  endeavor  to  prevent  the 
further sale of frozen goods.  Mr.  Wilson 
said he  had  satisfied  himself  as  to  the 
unwholesomeness  of the frosted  oranges 
and was pleased to note that most  of the 
Eastern cities had  taken  decisive  steps 
to prevent their  sale.  He  deplored  the 
fact that the local Board had  not a more 
stringent ordinance covering the  subject 
of unwholesome fruit,and suggested that 
the  Association  co-operate  with 
the 
Board 
in  securing  the  enactment  of 
such  a  measure  at  the  hands  of  the 
Common  Council. 
action 
was taken  on the matter by  the  grocer 
present and a committee  was  appointed 
to co-operate with the Board in  the man 
ner suggested.

Immediate 

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugar—Raw sugars are slightly  higher 
in Europe and  correspondingly  stronger 
in  this country.  Refined  grades are firm 
and  strong  and  slightly  higher  price 
may reasonably be looked for in  the near 
future.

Provisions—In the  face  of  decreasing 
receipts,  prices  have  steadily  declined 
probably owing to the depression in grain 
and the uncertainty  over the  outcome of 
the currency question.

Oranges—A  few  sound,  heavy,  juicy 
Floridas can yet be had by paying a good 
price and there seems to be no end of the 
frosted  stuff  offered 
in  every  market 
Much of the latter  finds sale  among  cer 
tain classes who eagerly accept anything 
which is apparently cheap.  There  is al 
ways  a  limit  to  the  forbearance of the

public  and  the  soft,  bitter,  unhealthy 
stuff will socn be  repudiated by ail deal­
ers and California  navels and  seedlings, 
together with Sicily brands,  will  be  the 
general  offerings.  The  navels  now  in 
market  show  up  very  finely  and  are 
really of good quality,  barring a tartness 
which is,  as yet, a little  too pronounced.
Lemons—Fancy  grades  are  selling  at 
very reasonable figures and the supply  is 
ample in the hands of all dealers without 
being forced to have goods come through 
while the severe  storms are  raging. 
In­
ferior and second-class stock can  be pur­
chased  considerably  below  quotations, 
as they appear  elsewhere in  this  paper, 
but the “best is the cheapest.”

Bananas—The local  market Is entirely 
bare of any stock  fit to  reship at present 
and such a  condition  will  probably exist 
until the weather becomes moderate.

Fruits—Currants are higher  in  Greece 
and correspondingly stronger in the East­
ern markets.  French  prunes  are a trifle 
lower here but stronger  abroad.  Valen­
cia  raisins  are  dull.  Californias  are 
strong,  with  indications  of  an  upward 
tendency.

Oil—The Standard Oil  Co.  announces 
an advance of  J^c  on  deodorized  stove 
gasoline and 

on naptha.

the 

Candy—Continues  to  move  in  fairly 
good  volume  and,  although  sold at ex 
ceedingly  close  prices,  manufacturers 
keep  up  full  working  forces  and  are 
strong in the belief that  the coming year 
will prove to be fairly remunerative and 
as a whole,  satisfactory to all concerned.
Dates—Have  touched  bottom  and  the 
best goods can  be purchased  as low now 
as they will  probably be at any time dur­
ing the season.

line  under  the  style  of 

Figs—Are  somewhat  firmer,  as the ar­
rivals  are  not  nearly  as  heavy  as they 
were  before  the  holidays.  Prices  vary 
from 9@l5c, according to quality.
Another  Bicycle  Factory  in  the  Field 
Grand  Rapids  will  shortly  have  a 
third  bicycle  factory, 
initiatory 
steps having been taken  Saturday  even­
ing to  inaugurate  a  new  enterprise  in 
that 
the 
Cycloid Cycle Co.  The  new  corporation 
will have a capital  stock  of  820,000,  of 
which 815 000  will now  be  placed on  the 
market,  813,500  having  already  been 
subscribed,  as foliows:
Geo. C. Fitch...............  
Ensley Martin........... 
J. C. Simons...................................... 
Jas. Cooper.......................................................
J. J  W ernette.................................................
A. Vidro 
......................................................... 100
S. A. Wernette...................................................100
Geo. E  Fitch................................................... 10
Robert J. B all........................................   ■ 
♦
Wm  E.  Martin  ..................... ......................... *0
Chauncey H  Fisher.................................  
 
.100
Frank  H.  Simons 
...109
Claude D. Freeman.......................................... 100
At the annual  meeting, above  referred 
to, five directors were elected as follows 
Geo.  C.  Fitch, James  Cooper,  Chauncey 
H.  Fisher,  Frank H.  Simons and  Claude 
D.  Freeman.  The officers  have  not  yet 
been selected,  but it is expected  that the 
election  will result as follows:

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

J00
101
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leased 

President—Geo. C.  Fitch. 
Vice-President—Frank  H. Simons. 
Secretary  and  Treasurer—Claude  D. 
Freeman.
The  new  company  has 
the 
three-story building  at  488  South  Divi­
sion  street,  formerly  occupied  by  Geo. 
C.  Fitch  as  a  carriage factory,  and has 
ordered the necessary  machinery to  em­
bark  in 
the  manufacture  of  the  same 
class  of bicycles which  were turned  out 
by  the  Cycloid  Co.  last  season.  Two 
styles of wheels  will  be  produced,  one 
with  hickory  fork  and  one  with  steel 
I fork.

The action  of  the  dago  and  Russian 
fruit peddlers in  purchasing a carload of 
frozen oranges  which  was  refused  by  a 
local fruit  house,  has  caused  consider­
able comment during the  past week. 
It 
appears  that  a  large portion of  the con­
signment was taken by A. Silverman,  who 
was peddling the stuff without  having  a 
city license,  thus  doubly  violating  the 
law.  The purchasers  of the  trash  suc­
ceeded in selling  some of the  stuff to the 
Morse  department 
store,  but  The 
Tradesman  has  been  unable  to  learn 
that  any  reputable  grocery  house  im­
posed  on  its  customers  in this manner. 
The man Silverman endeavored  to inter­
est M.  C. Goossen in the fruit by offering 
the oranges at 810 per  1,000,  but  an  in­
spection of the  stock  in Silverman’s cel­
lar satisfied  Mr.  Goossen  as  to  its  un­
wholesomeness and  he  refused  to  be  a 
party to such  a  fraud. 
In  consequence 
of the prompt action of  the  Retail  Gro­
cers’  Association,  it  is  improbable that 
any  further  consignments  will  be  re­
ceived here;  and in  case  there  are  any 
further arrivals of  this  character,  it  is 
quite likely  the local  Board of  Health 
will  prohibit their sale.

Merged into a Corporation.

The Grand  Rapids  Dairy  Co.  was  or­
ganized Monday  with a  capital  stock  of 
810,000,  for the purpose of enlarging and 
continuing the milk business established 
here  several  years  ago  by  Woodworth 
Bros.  The capital stock  comprises 1,000 
shares, divided among  four stockholders 
in the following  amounts:
Irving Woodworth............................................324
O. D.  Woodwo-th...............................................l'
Bates & Troutman  (Moline)............................ 333
Jas. S. Toland (Ross) 
The directors are E.  N.  Bates,  Irving 
Woodworth and Jas,  S. Toland, who have 
elected the following  cfficers:

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

President—E.  N.  Bates.
Vice-President—Jas.  S.  Toland.
Secretary—W.  V.  Troutman.
Treasurer—Irving Woodworth.
The out-of-town stockholders  will  sup 
ply a large portion  of  the  milk  distrib­
uted by the company  in  the  city,  super­
intending  the  cooling  and  shipment  of 
the milk, erecting  for that  purpose com­
modious dairy buildings  at  Moline  and. 
possibly,  later on,  at other points  in  Al­
legan  county  along the line of the G.  B. 
& I.  Railroad.  Stringent  rules  for  the 
government of  farmers  furnishing  milk 
will  be  adopted  and  enforced,  with  a 
view to securing the  best possible results 
for all  concerned.

Any druggist in  want  of  a  clerk  can 
usually be  supplied  by  applying  to  B. 
Schrouder,  Sec’y  Grand  Rapids  Phar 
maceutical  Society,  209  East  Bridge 
street.

Gillies’  fine New York coffees are clean 
values.  J.  P.  Visner will  soon  see  you.

Wants  Column.

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“T  GOOD  STORE  BUILDING  AND  *>,w 
stock  general  merchandise,  to  exchange 
for  farm  worth  $5 00» 
For  particulars  ad- 
dr essNo: 6^c^reMiHhigan_TVade2mmn__J^_ 
\ \ T ANTED—1TO E  CHAN  tE,FOR  STOCK OF 
VV  goods, $1,0 0 stock and $1'MO store  build 
ing  at  Henrietta,  stock  comprises  groceries, 
wall  paper,  clothing  notions;  a so  fixtures. 
Store is 20x70, with 10x50 addition.  Three-quar­
ters or an acre of land  good  barn,  apple  trees, 
well and cistern.  Buildings all new and painted 
In  good  shape.  Store  is  one half  mile  from 
fashionable summer res  rt.  For  particulars ad­
dress  so. 69  . care Michigan  Tradesman.  690
B ROCERY  STOCK FOR  SALE—IN VOICIN G 
about $7,000, In  a  hustling  town  of  s.OUO 
Everything cash.  The  only grocery  that  made 
mon ey last year.  Reasons, other irons.  Address 
691
No. 6 91, care Michigan Tradesman. 

688

692

6 5

5
F or  sa le—sh a r es  o f  stock  in   t h e
principle hardware in Cadillac.  Mich.  The 
trade  is  established  and  the  location  is good. 
Wherever this busines  is known it is favorably 
known and an  opportunity  like  this  is  seldom 
offered.  Good  reason  for  sell ins  will  be  fur­
nished.  For narticnlars, address A.  W. Newark, 
Cadillac, Mich 
TOCo Of CLOTHING AND  GENTLEMEN’S 
furnishing goods; established  trade; splen­
did  opening  for  a  general  store  Will  sell 
cheap for cash.  Address No. 680, care Michigan 
Tradesman. 
680
F or  sa le—drug stock, c lea n  and
fresh, new shelving, counters, show  cases, 
soda,  fountain  and  safe,  the  finest location in 
good business town  Will  take  $4,001  payable 
half cash and  balance  on  short  time  Address 
for particulars, No. 085,  care  Michigan  Trades­
man. 
rp o  EXCHANGE—FOR  STO'  A  GROCElOES", 
J-  boots and shoes  or  clothing,  ten  acres  of 
nice land in first  ward.  Coidwater,  Mich.  Ad­
dress S. Spurlock  Sherwood Mich. 
IjlOKSALE—FIR-T CLASS uKO'  EKY STOCK 
"  and fixtures  nearly  new.  Good  location, 
good town.  Good reason for  selling.  Great op­
portunity for the right  man.  Address  No.  683, 
683
case Michigan  Tradesman. 
ITlOR  SALE—OLD  ESTABLISHED  FUKNI- 
- 
ture and second-hand store.  Good  chance 
to add undertaking, in 1 est lake  shore  town  in 
Michigan.  Reason,  poor  health.  Address  Un­
dertaker. care Michigan Tradesman. 
678
"ElOR  RENT—HOTEL  To  RENT,  PARTLY 
furnished, good bar  and  bar  fixtures,  ex­
J- 
cellent location; good chance to the right party. 
Inquire 67 Carrier St.,  Grand  Rapids. 
674
OR  KENT—A  DE-IRABLK STORE Bl  lLD- 
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. kO Tower Block. 
665
STOCK  OF CLOTHING AND GENTLEMEN’S 
furnishing  good-, to trade  for  real  estate. 
Address No. 660, Care Michigan Tradesman. 660
ptOOD  FARM  NEAR  STATE  CAPITOL. 
vT  clear title, to exchange for boots and shoes 
G. W. Watrous. Lansing.  Mich. 
6f>9
TF  YOU  WANT  TO  BUY  OR  SELL  REAL 
1  estate, write me.  I  can satisfy  yon  Chas.
E. Mercer, Rooms 1 and 2, Widdicomb  building.
__ _________________________________653
/"TOOD  OPENING  FOR  DENTIsT.  AD- 
VJT  dres« S.  8. Burnett, Lake  Ann,  Mich.  654
FTOR  SALE—a  shoe  BUSINESS,  ok  HALF 
interest in ssroe.  on  one  of  the  principal 
streets in Grand  Rapids  New stock  good trade, 
location  Al.  Address  No.  624  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
624
■ T ANTED—A  PO-ITlON  BY  AN  KXPKRI- 
enced  drug  cl- rk:  a  graduate  in  phar 
rraey.registered in  Michigan; best references of 
former  employers  as  to  c.harart-r and  ability; 
use no liquor  nor  tobacco;  salary  reasonable. 
Address *>67  care M chi zai Tr ide-’raan. 
tXTANTED  -POSITION 
itY  KE  .ISTERED 
«V 
pha'mac st of experience either  In  drug 
•¡tore or sale-man on the road.  Address  No. 6s8,
care Michigan Tradesman______________68-
KEi.l AHi.E  DUN  goods  AND  SHOE 
salesman  de-ires  position.  Is  eapab e  of 
taking full charge nf s ocks  or  occupying  posi­
tion of gene  al manager.  Address No.671. care 
Michigan Tradesman. 
671
ElOli  EXcIIaNo E— G  »OD  PR  >Di,'OTl VE 
real estate for drug stock worth from $2,000 
to $3 M‘0  Address  Drugs,  Kalamazoo,  care  of 
689
i  arrier No. 9. 
RANTED—v AN sl  PPLY AGENTS  MICHI- 
g  u with shaerfer’s  New  Pancake  Grid­
dle; positive proof  you realize  $5,"  0  annually; 
in capital required; must be financially  respon- 
ible: no other need apply  (Stamp.)  W.  shaef-
687
fer, canton  O.
ANTI
stating
Grand
6S4
Rapids, o  te et'hone 54u.
T  HAVE  TiiE CA>11  To  PAY  PGR  A  GOOD 
L  clean stock  of  hardware  iocat- d  in  an  Al 
town.  Address No  68  ,  care  Michigan  Trades­
man 
'IMlrtKE  HUNDRED  A .'n  MXl Y  A<  RES 
1 
farming land in  Cr-w  ord  county,  Michi 
gan. to exchange for improved farm orstoc,  of 
goods.  Title  perfect.  H.  llarrli.gton,  Reed 
City  Mich. 
EN  TO  SELL  BAKING  POWDER  TO THE
M grocery  trade  Steady  employment,  ex­
perience unnecessary  $7  monthly  "salary  and 
expenses or commission, 
if offer t- satisfactory 
addnss  at  once  with  particulars  concerning 
yourself  U. s  Chemical  Works, Chicago.  677
r a n t e d —b Ct i e r ,  eg g s,  pot  lt r y,
potatoes,  onions,  apple-,  cabbages  etc. 
Correspondence  solicited  Watkins  &  Smith, 
8 -86 south  Division St.. Grand  Rapids. 
673 
ClOK  SA IE—MODERN  NINE  ROOM  HOUSE 
JD  on Jefferson avenue  Price  low and terms 
easy.  Owner  going  South.  For  particulars 
write W. H. Griffiths, 8 Canal St. 
XJEARLY  NEW  BAR-LOCK  TYPEWRITER 
lx  
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. 

■J ANTED—'TEA  l.E \ D  IN  ANY  yi 

rice. J.  M.  Hayden <fc  Co.,  6 i  Pearl  St., 

ties from everywhe  e.  Addr* ss, 

SirCATIoiNS  WANTISl*.

.VII-CELL VNEOÜS.

667 

682

67>

564

68

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FARM  FOR  MERCHANDISE.

The Michigan Hardwood Land  Co.,  of 
Mancelonia,  will  trade  best  farming 
lands for stock  of  general  merchandise.

THE  MICHZG^JSr  TRADESMAN,
Dry Goods Price Current.

son my first bill. 
I plugged  around  for 
two straight  weeks  after  that  before  I 
sold another bill. 
I had  very hard work 
making  sales,  and,  after  trying  it  one 
year  and  making  just  $220  over  and 
above my traveling expenses,  I  decided 
to  go  into  the  clothing  business 
in 
Otsego,  Mich.  After running  the  store 
for  six  months,  I  concluded I  was  not 
adapted for country  store  life  and  was 
eager  to again  try my  luck on the road, 
thinking that,  with  my eighteen months’ 
experience in the United  States,  and my 
store experience,  1  would  be better able

COTTON  DRILL.

Atlanta,  D ..............  6341 Stark  A 
Boot........................   634 No Name..................7M
Clifton, K 

........... 8
7  ¡Top of  Heap  .........   9
DEVINS.

.........  

UNBLEACHED COTTONB.

“ 

“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

G IN G H A M S.

BLEACHED  COTTONS.

Otis, AX A............... 10
“  B B .....  
...... 9M
“  CC....................8M
A m o sx e a g ,  blue  ...11M
9os...... 13M
brown .11M

Adriatic...................6M
Argyle....................&
Atlanta AA............ 6
Atlantic A ..............6
H ................5M
P ............   5
D ..............  6

“ 
“ 
“ 
“   LL................4M
Amory...................... 6M
Archery Bunting... 3M 
Beaver Dam  A A..  4M 
Blackstone0,32....  5
Black Crow............ 6
Black Rock  ...........5M
Boot, AL...............   7
Capital A............... 514
Cavanat V..............5M
Chapman cheese cl. 3 34
Clifton C R..............514
Comet.......................514
Dwight Star............  6%
Clifton CCC...........5*

Lawrence, 9 os.......12
No. 220....11
No.250....  9M
No. 280 __ 8
Everett, bine..........10M
brown...... 10M
Amoskeag  .............  5
Persian dress 6M 
Canton ..  7
AFC........8M
Teazle.. .10M 
Angola., iom 
Persian..  7 
Arlington staple....  6M
Arasapha  fancy__  434
Bates Warwick drei  7M 
staples.  6
Centennial............   10M
Criterion............... 10M
Cumberland staple.  5M
Cumberland........... 5
Essex......................4M
Elfin.......................  7M
Everett classics......8M
Exposition..............7M
Glenarle.................  6M
Glenarven..............634
Glenwood................ 7M
Hampton................ 6
Johnson Chalon cl  M 
Indigo bine 9M 
zephyrs__16

Clifton Arrow  B’nd 414
•*  World Wide 6
“  LL............... 4M
Full Yard Wide.......6M
Georgia  A..............614
Honest Width........  6
Hartford A .............5
Indian Head...........8M
King A A................6M
King EC................. 5
Lawrence  L L........  414
Madras cheese cloth 614
Newmarket  G........  5
B ...... 4M
N.........6
DD....  5
Nolbe R..................  5
Our Level  Best.......6
Oxford  R ............... 6
Peqnot....................  654
Solar.......................  6
Top of the Heap__7
A B C ..................... 814
Geo. Washington...  8
Amazon.................. 8
Glen Mills.............   7
Amsburg................ ,5M
Gold Medal............7M
Art Cambric...........*0
Green  Ticket......814
Blackstone AA......614
Great Falls......... 614
Beats All.................4
Hope....................6M
Boston....................12
Just Out.......   44446 5
Cabot...................... 6
King Phillip...........7J4
Cabot, \
.................614
OP......7M
Charter  Oak...........5 M
Lonsdale Cambrlo..  9?.
Conway W..............714
Lonsdale...........  46 #M
Clevelan d .............  6
Dwight Anchor—   7 
7M
shorts  6
6
Edwards................. 6
5M11
Empire.................... 7
Farwell....................644i
7M
Fruit of the  Loom.  7MISunilght................. 4M
4M
Fitch ville.............  7 
" 
8M Clark’s Mile End. ..45 Barbour’s...............
First Prize..............6
“  Nonpareil ..10
FrultoftheLoom X. 6M
Vlnyard....................8M
Falrmount..............414
White Horse...........6
Full Value..............614
“  Rock............ 8M
Cabot...................... 6  ¡DwightAnchor........7
Farwell.................. 7  I

Lancaster,  staple...  5
“ 
fancies__6
“  Normandie  6
Lancashire.............   434
Manchester............ 434
Monogram..............  434
Normandie............  6M
Persian......  ............6*
Renfrew Dress........7M
Rosemont............... 6M
Slatersvllle.............6
Somerset.................7
Tacoma  ...................7M
Toll  dnNord......... 8M
Wabash...................7M
seersucker..  7M
Warwick...............   6
Whlttenden............   8
heather dr. 7M 
Indigo blue 9 
Wamsutta staples...  634
Westbrook..............  8
..............10
Wlndermeer........... 5
York....................... 634

Coats’, J. A P .........45  Marshall’s ............. 90
Holyoke..................22MI
White.  Colored.
38 No.  14... ....37
38
“  10... ....38
40
“  18... ...39
41
“  20... ....40
CAMBRICS.

GRAIN BAGS.
..12 Georgia..................
-  15M 
..12
THREADS.

White.  Colored
42
43
44
45

Amoskeag...........
Stark.................
American......  ..

6  .
..33
...34
8...
10... ....35
.38
12...

HAL T BLEACHED COTTONS.

Pride of the West.

TJnbleached. 

O ANTON  TLANNBL.

KNITTING  COTTON.

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TIRELESS  TRAVELERS.

M.  J.  Hogan,  Western  Representative 

for  Moore,  Smith  &  Co.

T h e T radesm an recently  asked  M.  J. 
Rogau for such data as  would enable the 
writer 
to  prepare  a  comprehensive 
sketch of his life,  whereupon  his  Celtic 
tongue wagged with  such  rapidity  that 
the stenographer was called  into requisi­
tion,  with the following  result:

“I was born Sept.  18,  1860,  in  a  small 
town  on  the  borders  of  England  and 
Scotland,  my  parents  having  moved 
there from  Ireland  a  short time previous 
to  this  event.  Considerable  argument 
has  been  indulged  in  by  my  acquaint­
ances regarding my nationality—whether 
Irish or English.  1 claim to be an  Irish­
man, of which country  l am very  proud. 
A  gentleman  remarked  to  me  lately, 
‘Mike, you must be English,  as you were 
born  in  England.’ 
that  I 
would not be a horse  if I  were born in  a 
stable.  My  father  conducted  a  small I 
clothing business and  we  lived over  the 
store.  I had several  brothers and sisters, 
who died young,  and now I am  the  only 
one of the family left;  but  the  name  is 
not likely  to  die  out,  as  I  have  seven 
children, four boys and three girls.

replied 

I 

job 

time 

latter 

At the age of 10 years  I  became  tired 
of going to school  and  was  determined, 
against the wishes  of my  father,  to  go 
out  to  work. 
In  the  following  three 
months I  tried five  different jobs—tailor, 
twine  spinner  and 
carpenter,  grocer, 
carriage  painter.  The 
I 
worked at just three  days.  This was in 
the winter time and 1 did not find  wash­
ing  carriages  at  one  shilling  and  six­
pence  (36cents)  a  week  to  my  liking. 
For  about  a  year previous to this 1 bad 
been learning telegraphy  at  the  railway 
station,  where  I  spent  a good  many of 
my evenings,  and  at  the age of 10 years 
and  three  months—at  which 
I 
would be taken  for a lad  cf  14  years—1 
secured  a  position  at a small station on 
the  North  British  Railway  Co.’s  road, 
about seventy miles  from  home,  at  ten 
shillings  a  week 
($2.50),  paying  $2 
for  my  board.  When  1 
a  week 
arrived  at  my  new  home, 
I  had 
only 36 cents in  my  pocket,  my  father 
refusing to give me any  money,  as I  left 
home  against  his  wishes. 
I  remained 
on the  railroad  about  three  years,  and 
then went into a clothing store  to  work, 
where 1 remained  until  1  was  between 
18 and 19 years of age,  when  I  accepted 
a position  to travel on the  road  with  a 
line of clothing,  my  territory  being  the 
North of England and parts of  Scotland. 
During this same year,  1879,  I  got  mar­
ried. 
In the spring of 1888 I caught the 
foreign  fever  and  made up my mind to 
go to Australia.  Several friends of mine 
induced me to try the United States first, 
saying  if I  did  not  like  Yankeeland  1 
could then go to Australia.  I changed my 
plans,of which I have been very thankful, 
and came to New  York,  landing there on 
Sunday, June 3rd,  1888, a total  stranger. 
On  Monday  morning  I  started  down 
Broadway,  looking for a position as trav­
eling  salesman  among  the  wholesale 
clothing houses, that being my ambition. 
However,  I failed  to  find  any  clothing 
houses looking for a  greenhorn to repre­
sent them, so I accepted  a  position  with 
an overall  and  shirt  factory  in  Pough­
keepsie,  to  sell  goods  in  Michigan  on 
commission. 
I  secured  this  position 
after being in this country three days.  I 
then started for Michigan, my  first  stop 
being at Detroit,  where I sold J. L.  Hud­

the 

and 

Illinois, 

to achieve success. 
I secured  a position 
with Walter Buhl & Co.,  Detroit,  to  sell 
their line of hats in  Michigan.  My  suc­
cess dates from that event.  A good  deal 
of the credit belongs  to  Mr  Hempstead, 
Mr.  Buhl’s general  manager,  who  really 
gave me  my first  start.  As  a  proof  of 
how well I succeeded for  Buhl  & Co.,  1 
may say I received the first year a salary 
of $1,000 and remained  with  them  four 
years,  at  the  end of  which  time  I  was 
accorded  $2,300  a  year, 
largest 
salary,  I  have  understood,  ever  paid 
any Detroit hat salesman. 
I  then  went 
with a New York hat house  for  a  year, 
when  the  old-established  and  popular 
hat  house  of  Moore,  Smith  &  Co.,  of 
Boston, had a  vacancy  in  the  West. 
I 
accepted a position with  them in October 
last to represent them in Michigan,  Ohio, 
Indiana 
three-quarters 
of  my  time  being  devoted  to  Michi­
gan. 
I expect to sell hats  for  this  con­
cern as long as I am on the road.”
So  much for  the  history  of  a  career 
almost meteoric  in the  speed  which  has 
marked  its  progress.  Even 
the  most 
casual reader will note between the lines 
of  Mr.  Rogan’s  graphic  description  of 
his career that whatever  success  he  has 
achieved has  been earned  by  solid  hard 
work,  be  never  knowing what it was  to 
get discouraged or have the blues.  About 
two and one-half years  ago  be  disposed 
of his clothing stock in Otsego  to  M.  S. 
Keeker,  of  Middleville,  receiving $3,300 
for the stock and  owing  $4,350,  the dis­
crepancy being paid his creditors  out  of 
his  salary  afterwards.  While  he  had 
unfortunate  experience  in  the  retail 
business,  having 
lost  $4,000  of  hard 
famed cash,  he never got the  blues,  be­
lieving he would yet be on top some day. 
He has  now  the  best  position  he  ever 
had  and  his  prospects  were  never 
brighter.  He  belongs  to  the  Catholic 
church and is a member of the C. M. B. A. 
and A.  O.  H.,  being Vice-President  of 
the  Kalamazoo  Division  of  the  latter 
order. 
In politics  he  is  a  very  ardent 
Republican.  Taking 
into 
consideration,  Mr.  Rogan  has  had  re­
markable good luck for a man  who came 
to this country an entire stranger a little 
over six years ago, and his career affords 
a  striking  illustration  of  the success  a 
man may  achieve,  even  under the most 
discouraging circumstances, in  the  land 
of the free and the home of the brave.

everything 

Bleached.
Housewife  Q...........6I4
R .......... 7
“ 
S............. 734
“ 
“ 
T ............ 8M
“  U...........914
“   V.......... 10
“  W ....  1034
X...........11M
“ 
“ 
Y...........12M
“ 
Z........... 13M

Housewife A......... 514
• 5M 
..6 
..6M 
..7
• ■75» 
..7M 
-.7*
• •814
•  8M 
»14
.10
----- ¡» 7 1
...11 
....21 
....14M
CABPBT  WART.

“ 

Peerless, white.......13MI Integrity  colored... 18
colored.... 16  White Star..............17
Integrity................. 18MI  “  
“  colored  .19
DRESS GOODS.
Atlantic, 45 in... 

3?»
“ 
Serge,45!n32M
“ 
;r
F  _____ 
18
“ 
FF  ... 
Pacific 45 i n .........32H
“  AA! 
..........30
“  A l...............26
“  TC.............. 20
“  MC..............16

CORSETS.

 

.....  

COTTONADEB,

CORSET  JEANS.

Stratford.................16
Io n ic......................16
Holt 
16
Heaver Jean........... 17

Oorallne.....................99 00
Schilling’s..  ..........9 00
Davis Waists......   9 00
Grand  Rapids........4 50
Naumkeag..............7  IBlddeford................   5
Androscoggin  ........7  Rockport..................  fM
Armory...................6M¡ Pepper well...............   7M
Moscow...................21
Alpha......................2 1
Dundee 
...............12M
unkerhill...........  12 -,
Woodstock 
..........15
FRIl
Allen  dress goods..  4M 
“  Turkey red...  4M
“  robes................5
American indigo b’l  4M 
shirting..  3- 
“ 
delaines  4* 
“ 
“ 
b’lk white  4M
5
........... 
“  longclothA.il 
‘ 
B.  734
-  
“ 
C.  634
“ 
“  gold seal T R i*M 
Bear Mill - 
B 
D 

Stan’rd  A percaleiu 
8

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Arnold 

“ 
..

“ 
.. 

“ 

Charter Oak fancies 334 
Biberon solids"*’..  4* 
Fountain red 
....  ?M 
cardinal.  5M 
Garner’s—
stand. Ind.  blue, .lot,
satines..................5M
cardinals............ 8
Flower Pot...........9M
mousseline.........   t>%
Del Marine Mgs...  5 
....  &M 
Quaker style 
.  4M 
Harmony fancies 
Hamilton fancies...  4M
Amoskeag A C A.

chocolates  4 

“ 

BB.. 
EK. 
D 
. 
BB.. 
AA.

Slater......................  3% ¡Edwards................  334
White Star............   334 ¡Lockwood.................334
Kid Glove...............  334 Wood’s..................   3g*
Newmarket............   3 341 Brunswick...........

BED  TLANNBL.

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

!TW........................22 M
F T ......................... 82*M
JR F , XXX............25
Buckeye.................82M

MIXED  TLANNBL.

Grey S R W............17M
Western W ............16M
D R P .....................16M
Flushing XXX.......28M
Manitoba............... 23 M
Nameless..

DOM ET  TLA N N BL.

Red A Blue,  plaid..40
IJnlon R................. 22M
Windsor................. 18 M
60s Western.......... 20
Union  B.................22 M
Nameless................334
44a
5
6

.  8 
-  8M 
.10

 
 

____ 5
 
 

°acific  BAW...........10M
Hamilton  grey mix.104 
plains  .  10H
“ 
36 in. fancy 
Slate. Brown Black slate
1«
'6 in. 
“ 
9M 1«M
9M
2»
“ 
36 in. 
10M 11M
10M
»■ in. Flannels  .....3?M
11M12
UM
•• 
36 in. 
25
12M20
12M
:7 in. 
20
“ 
Severen, 80s...........  8
Wonderful............ 94 50
May land, 8 oz........... 9
Brighton..................4 75
Greenwood, 7M os..  9M
Bortree’s ..............   9 00
Greenwood, 8 os__11M
Abdominal............ 15 00
Boston, 8 oz.............10

Brown
10M
UM
12
20

CANVASS  AND  PADDING.
9M
1UM
11M
12M

Black*
10M
UM
12
20
West  Point, 801__ 10
10 os  ...12
“ 
Raven, lOoz.............12
.............ism
Stark 
Boston, 10 os............12M
White, dox............... 20 ! Per bale, 40 dox___98  10
Colored, dox............19 ¡Colored  “ 
...........6 50
Royal...................   12H
Victory J .................7
Red Cross..............7M
“  M ............... 8
Laconia 
............... 9 a
“  K K .......... 10M
Victory  0 ..............  6
“  S................. 12H
Cortlcelli, doz........ 75  [Corticelll  knitting,

SEWING  SILK.

WADDINGS.

SILXBTAB.

“ 

 

twist, doz.  37 *  per Mo«  ball........80
50yd,doz..37Mi
HOOKS AND XTXS— PEE GROSS.
“ 
“ 

|No  4 Bl’k A White..  7 
..9
..10
|No 4—15  F 3M........ 40
|

..  5  “  8 
..  6 I  “  10 

PINS.

No  2 White A Bl’k.. 12  ¡No  8 White A Bl’k.,20 
..28
"  4 
6 
..28
No 2

COTTON  TAPB.
..15  “  10 
..18 I  “  12 
SATBTT  TINS.
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NEEDLES—PER  M.

A. James................1  401 steamboat............... 
to
Crowely’s...............1 85 Gold  Eyed  .............1  50
Marshall’s..............1 00|American................ 1 OO
15—4....1  65  6—4...2 30
5 -4 .... 1 75  6—4... 

TABLE  OIL  CLOTH.

COTTON TWINES.

2 
8 

“ 
“ 

Pacific— 

No  1 Bl’k A White..  5 

“  shirtings... 
“ 

No 2-20, M C......... 45 
3-18, S C .......... 40 

Hamilton Raven’tes 5 
staples  ...  5 
twill  dran.  6 
dragon c’h 8M 
Imperial solid cloth 5 
blue D G..  6M 
p’k, purple 5M 
India twill and  tur­
key red  robes...... 7M
Lodi  fancy 
........334
334
Manchester fancies.  5 
mourn.  5
Martha Washington 
Indigo  blues  ....  4M
turkey red...........6M
fancies  .................434
K>M
bis A white p*s.  .  5
Aventlne............. 5
fancle - blk, white 5 
solid blk prints...  5 
fast color robes...  53t 
Bedford  cords  ...  7M 
Passaic fancies 
.  434 
Cotton Sail Twine..28
“ 
clarion  rbs 5 
Crown................... 12
Peabody solid bl’k..  44 
Domestic...............18M
“ 
solid  color 5M 
Anchor..................16
Simpson’s m’ing fac 5 
Bristol...................13
“ 
solid  bl’k 5 
Cherry  Valley........15
“ 
crepon...  5M
'X L .......................18M
JrLiAlU
TICKINGS.
• UM Imperial........... ....  8M
Alabama.................
-lï
-swift C C ......... ....  7
Alamance...............
6H Swift -S  ...... ....  8
Augusta.................
. 6MGalveston  B.... ....  8 Ar  sapha..............
.  »M Lenox........   ... ....13
Georgia................
•  7M Kimono........... __17
•10M Salem............. ....1 0
Haw  River...........
.10» iVarren............ ....UM Haw  J .................

Nashua................... 14
Rising Star 4- ply__ 17
3-ply.... 17
North Star.............. 20
Wool Standard 4 plyl7M 
Powhattan............. 16

* 

Mount  Pleasant__ 6M
lu eld a...................  5
Prymont................  534
Randelman.............  6
Riverside...............   SM
Sibley  A...................6M
Toledo 
Otis checks.............7

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

Limited  Money  and  Excess  of  Crops.
Now that  the  farmers  are  beginning 
to investigate the laws of supply and de­
mand,  with a view to seeking the cause of 
the low pricesofthe principal staple prod­
ucts of the farm, it would be well for them 
to  be informed  in regard to some simple 
principles which underlie all commercial 
business.

Of  all  the wealth which  is  produced 
by the combination of  labor and capital, 
the surplus over and  above  what  is  re­
quired  for  daily  consumption  for  the 
uses of life is stored up in the form of im­
proved land; houses for all  the  purposes 
of  residence,  manufacturing  and  other 
business and  pleasure;  machinery,  rail­
ways, and  their  equipments;  ships  and 
boats; jewelry and ornaments; furniture, 
musical instruments, and  all  other  arti­
cles, except food and clothing.  In these is 
embraced the visible  material wealth ac­
cumulated  by  a  people.  What  is  con­
sumed in the process of  living  does  not 
appear in any  visible form,  but is repre­
sented by money.

Of course, a great part  of the earnings 
of labor is consumed for  necessaries  for 
which cash is paid.  The balance  is pre­
served in  the  visible  manifestations  of 
wealth  which  have  been  mentioned. 
From this it will  be seen  that  money  is 
needed chiefly for  supplying  the  imme­
diate necessities of the entire population, 
and is  of  practical  use  only  so  far  as 
it is placed  and kept in circulation.

The  amount  of, money,  in  a  country 
varies but little  from time  to  time,  but 
there is great fluctuation in  the  amount 
in circulation at different  periods. 
In  a 
season  of  business  depression,  when 
little  or 
many  people  are  earning 
nothing,  they  have  not  the  money 
to 
spend,  and  are  forced  to  practice  ex­
treme economies;  but,  of  course,  there 
is always a large amount of  money  paid 
for necessaries,  and it  may  be  assumed 
that this money in the  hands of the peo­
ple  is  the gauge of  the  extent  of  busi­
ness.  When  the  people  have  more 
money they  will  live  better  and  enjoy 
more  luxuries:  but  when  money 
is 
scarce,  so  far  as  the  masses  are  con­
cerned,  the people will live more frugally 
and confine themselves  more  closely  to 
the bare necessaries.

Hut suppose, for the convenience of il­
lustration,  that  the  people  had  every 
year the same amount of money to spend. 
It will be  seen  that  the  necessaries  of 
life must be first provided for.  There is 
rent,  which wili  require  so  much;  then 
there will be so much more for food,  and 
a certain proportion for  clothing.  Then 
there are taxes and doctors’  bills.  After 
the  earnings  have  been  apportioned 
to meet the necessary demands,  then,  if 
something remains, it may  be devoted to 
the savings’ bank and to  a  few  luxuries 
and  indulgencies.

It will be seen  that,  under  these  con­
ditions,  the  people  have  just  so  much 
money with which to buy the necessaries 
of life,  and,  if any  of  these  should  un­
duly rise in price, the allowance for  that 
article  will  be  insufficient,  and  there 
must bean enforced economy somewhere 
to meet the change. 
If flour should sud­
denly go up from $3 to $10 a  barrel,  the 
allowance  apportioned  for  bread would 
have to be largely increased,  and that in­
crease would mean cutting off some other 
allowance.  When the prices of any nec­
essary  are  greatly 
reduced,  the  con­
sumers get  the  benefit correspondingly.

But it should  be  understood  that  the ^

people  as  a  mass  have  only  a  certain 
amount  of  money  with  which  to  buy 
each article of necessity,  and  they  have 
no means of getting  any  more;  so  that, 
when there is a rise  in  any  price,  it  is 
necessary to  cut  off  some  other  allow­
ance  the  meet  the  emergency. 
In  the 
matter of cotton,  there is only  a  certain 
amount of money that can  be  spent  for 
that  necessary.  This  sum  cannot  be 
increased,  save  by  diminishing what  is 
devoted  to  some  other  purpose,  and, 
therefore,  whether  the  cotton  crop  be 
great or small, it will bring from  year to 
year about the same  amount  of  money. 
The more cotton, the lower must  be  the 
price.
This rule holds good  in  every  depart­
therefore, 
ment  of  consumption,  and, 
any  idea  that  great  riches  are  to  be 
gained  by  an  excessive  production  of 
necessaries is most  false  and  deceitful. 
Of course, there is some difference in the 
amount the people  have  to  spend  from 
year to year;  but, for the  illustration  of 
the principle stated above, it  is easier to 
assume that  the  amount  is  always  the 
same;  but the variations of  the amounts 
of money in circulation in different years 
do not affect the principle;  they strength­
en it;  and when it  happens that  an  ex­
cessive crop comes in a  year when many 
people are earning little or  nothing,  that 
aggravates the  depressing  effect  of  the 
overcrop.  Let  it  be  remembered  that 
the masses can earn only a given amount 
of money, and  that  is  affected  by  what 
are called bad  years;  but  they  have  no 
means of adding to  it without sacrificing 
their  accumulated  property,  and  they 
cannot spend  more  than  they  can  get. 
Thus it is that  an  excessive  production 
of any article of value is never profitable, 
since there is no increase  in  the  money 
for which it is to be sold. 

Ba d ix.

Rubber  Stamp  Signatures.

A business house which permits careless 
office methods, especially in the matter of 
signing receipts, is in constant danger of 
annoyance and probable litigation.  The 
legality of  a  rubber  stamp  receipt was 
recently passed upon by  a  Philadelphia 
judge,  who  pronounced 
it  null  and 
void.  The principal of  a  house  or  the 
manager of a department  is  too prone to 
delegate too  important  powers  and  re­
sponsibilities to subordinates.  The  lat­
ter may be faithful,  honest  and  intelli­
gent,  but  there  are  certain  important 
duties which,  in the interest of employer 
and employe,  the former  should assume. 
A slight mistake in  the office has caused 
many a weary and expensive hour on the 
witness stand in court.

Hardware Price Current.

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

Snell’s ...........................................................60410
Cook’s ........................................................... 
40
Jennings’, genuine....................................... 
26
Jennings’, Imitation....................................50410

AUGURS AND BITS. 

AXBB.

dlS.

,r 
• 
• 

BARROWS. 

¡first Quality,8. B. Bronse.......................... 8 5 50
D.  B. Bronze...........................  .1 00
S.B.S. Steel..........................   6 50
D.B. Steel.............................   13 00
Railroad  ...........................................CIS 00  14 00
Garden  ................................................  net  80 00
d ls .
Stove.  ...........................................................50410
75410
Carriage new list  ...................... 
Plow..............................................................40410
Sleigh shoe  .................................................  
70
Well,  plain  ................................................. I 8 50
Well,swivel......................................................  4 00
Cast Loose Pin, figured.................................7041'*
Wrought Narrow, bright 6aat Joint  40  .......66410

BUTTS, OAST. 

BUCKETS.

b o l t s. 

d ls .

 

Wrought Loose Pin........................................   40
Wrought Table...............................................  40
Wrought Inside Blind...... ........................ 
  4o
Wrought Brass............................................. 
75
Blind,  Clark’s.............................................. 70416
Blind,  Parker’s.............................................70410
Blind, Shepard’s 
70

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

Ordinary Tackle, list April  1893................60410

Grain.............................................................40410

CKADLS6.

CBOW BABB.

Cast Steel............................................per»  5
...................................per m  66
Bly’sl-10 
 
os
.....................................   “ 
Hick’s C. P 
G. D ....................................................   “ 
85
Musket 
.....................................  
•• 
go

CAPS.

Rim  Fire...................................................... 
Central  Fire........................................... di*. 

so
25

OABTBIDOB8.

ohisbls. 

Socket Firmer.............................................  75410
Socket Framing.............................................75416
Socket Corner................................................75410
Socket Slicks................................................75410
Bntchers’ Tanged Firmer................. 
40

 

c o m bs. 

Curry,  Lawrence’s....................................... 
40
Hotchkiss....................................................  
25
White Crayons, per gross..............12012*4 dls. 10

c h a l k .

dls.

 
d ls .

c o p p e r .

“ 

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

DBILLS. 

 

dls.

28
26
23
23
22
50
50
50

b l b o w s.

......................  6H
06
............  
.das. net 
75
56
.......dls 
.....dls. 40410 
......................  30

DRIPPING PAMS.
Small sizes, ser pound................
Large sizes, per pound............... .
Com. 4  piece, 6 In.........................
Corrugated...................................
Adjustable...................................
BXPANSrVB BITS.
Clark’s, small, S18;  large, 826......
Ives’, 1, 818 :  2, 824 ;  3,830  ............
p il e s —New List.
Dlsston’s ..................................... .
New American.............................
Nicholson’s ................................
Heller’s  .......................................
Heller’s Horse Rasps...................
GALVANIZED IBON.

.60410-10
60410-10
.60410-0
50
60
.... 
28
Nos.  16  to  20;  22  and  24;  26  and  26;  27 
List 
16 
17

dls.

15 

18 
Discount, 70

12 

14 
8AUSBB. 

d ls .
dls.

d l l .

d ls .

dll.

m il l s . 

MAULS. 

MATTOCKS.

NAILS

lo c k s— d o o b . 

MOLASSES SATES. 

k n o b s—New List. 

50
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s...................... 
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings....................  
56
Door,  porcelain, jap. trim m ing«................. 
55
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.............. 
55
56
Door,  porcelain, trimmings......................... 
Drawer  and  Shutter, porcelain................... 
70
Russell 4  Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new l is t.........  
56
56
Mallory, Wheeler  4  Co.’s............................ 
se
Branford’s ................................................... 
Norwalk’s ....................................................  
56
Adse Bye.....................................816.00, dls. 60-10
Hunt Bye.....................................815.00, dls. 6(M0
Hunt’s...................................... 818.50, dls. 20410.
Sperry 4  Co.’s, Post,  handled...................... 
50
d ls .
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s ...................................  
*
4r
“  P. 8. 4  W. Mfg. Co.’l Malleable*.... 
Landers,  Ferry 4  d s   rk’s...............  
4f
“  Enterprise 
...................................... 
ar
Stebbln’s Pattern..........................................6041(
Stebbln’s Genuine........................................ 6641«
Enterprise, self-measuring..........................  
sc
Advance over  base,  on  both  Steel  and Wire
Steel nails, Dase..............................................1  35
Wire nails, base..............................................1  35
60.................................................... Base 
Base
50......................................................  
10
40......................................................  
25
26
80...................................................... 
35
20...................................................... 
16......................................................  
46
45
12......................................................  
50
10...................................................... 
60
8 ...................................................... 
7 4 6 .................................................  
75
4.......................................................  
90
8 ...................................................... 
12!
1 60
2.......................................................  
160
Fine 8 ............................................... 
65
Case 10............................................. 
8............................................. 
75
90
6.............................................  
75
Finish 10........................................... 
S...........................................  
90
6...........................................  
10
Clinch!»).......................................... 
70
8.................... ..................... 
80
6.......................................... 
90
Barren %.......................................... 
175
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy................................   ©4t
9dota Bench..............................................  OS'
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy.........................  Q4<
Bench, first quality......................................   ©4f
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s  wood......... 50 sir
Fry,  Acme............................................ dls.60—10
Common, polished................................ dls. 
70
Iron and  Tinned..........................................50—10
Copper Rivets and B un.............................   60—10

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

planes. 

rivbtb. 

PANS.

dls.

dls.

PATENT PLANISHES IBON.

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

Broken packs Ko per pound extra.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

7

HANGERS. 

HOLLOW WABS.

Maydole  4 Co. ’s.................................... dls.
Kip’s .......................................................dls. 
2
Yerkes 4  Plumb’s..................................dls. 40410
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel........................ 80c list 60
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steel  Hand__80c 40410
Gate, Clark’s, 1 ,2 ,8 .........^?*..................dls.60410
State...........................................per doz. net, 2 50
Screw Hook and  Strap, to 12 In. 4)4  14  and
3*
*4........... ............ net
10
%........... — ...... net
8H
........... ............ net
\
7*
* ........... ............ net
7*
...........dls.
dlS.

HOUSE PUBNIBHINO  GOODS.

Bam Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track__50*10
Champion,  antl-frlctlon.............................   60410
Kidder, wood track.....................................  
40
Pots................................................................60416
Kettles...........................................................60410
Spiders......................................................... 6041C
Gray enameled........... 
40410
Stamped  Tin Ware...............................new list T>
Japanned Tin Ware..................................... 
26
Granite Iron W are......................new 11s 
3»
Blight...................................................  70410*10
Screw  Eyes.............................................70410410
Hook’s .....................................................70410*10
Gate Hooks and Byes.........................  70410410
dli.7n
Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s......................
Sisal, *4 Inch and larger............................. 
7
Manilla.........................................................  10
dlS.
Steel and Iron.............................................. 7t*10
Try and Bevels............................................. 
60
Mitre............................................................ 
20
Com.  Smooth.  Com.
I? 50
2 61
270
280
2 90
8 00
All  sheets No. 18  and  lighter,  over 30  Inches 

Nos. 10 to 14.................................... 13 50 
Nos. 15 to 17.................................... 3 50 
Noe.  18 to 21...................................   4 06 
Nos. 22 to 24.....................................  355 
Nos. 25 to 26.....................................3  65 
No. 27 ...............................................   3 75 
wide not less than 2-10 extra
List acct. 19, ’8 6 .....................................dls. 
Silver Lake, White A..............................list 
Drab A.................................  “ 
White  A ...............................  ' 
DrabB..................................  “ 
White C...... ........................

SAND PAPER.
SASH COBD.

levels. 
ROPES.

WIRE goods. 

SHEET IBON.

30
50
56
so
55

SQUARES. 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

dls.

Discount, 10.

SASH WEIGHTS.

dls.

saws. 

traps. 

Hand........................................ 

Solid Byes............................................ per ton *®
“ 
20
Silver Steel  Dla. X Cuts, per foot,....  70
50
“  Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot.... 
“  Special Steel Dla. X Cuts, per foot....  80
“  Champion  and  Electric  Tooth  X
Cuts,  per  root............................................. 
30
Steel, Game................................................... 60410
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ...............  
40
Oneida Community, Hawley a Norton’s..70-10  10
Mouse,  choker....................................15o per doz
Mouse, delusion............................... 81.25 per dos
dls.
Bright Market.............................................  70-10
\nnealed Market.......................................... 
75
Coppered Market.........................................  
70
Tinned Market............................................   62*4
Coppered  Spring  Steel................................  
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanised...............................  2 50
painted....................................  2 10

wire. 

dls.

“ 

HORSE NAILS.

WREVCUSS. 

An  Sable.......................................................   dls. 40*10
Putnam  ........................................  
dls.  05
Northwestern............................... 
dls. 10410
dig.
Baxter's  Adjustable, nickeled.................... 
so
loe’s  Genuine  ........................................... 
50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought...................... 75
Coe’s  Patent, malleable............................... 75416
MI8CELLANNOUS. 
Bird Cages  ................................. 
50
Pumps, Cistern........................................   75410
................................ 70*lf 410
Screws, New List 
Casters, Bed a  d Plate...........................50410*10
Dampers, American...............  
40
Forks, hoes, rakes  and all steel goods.......  65410
METALS,
PIG TIN.

dll.

 

 

 

 

g^
7

ZINC.

26c
28c

SOLDER.

Pig  Large.............................................. 
. 
Pig Bars....................................................  
Duty:  Sheet, 2*4c per pound.
580 pound  casks........................................ 
Per pound.................................................... 
*©*4  ................................................................. 16
Extra W iping................................................. 
is
The  prices  of  the  many  other  qualities  of 
colder In the market Indicated by private brands 
vary according to composition.
ANTIMONY.
Cookson............ .......................... per  pound
Hallett’s......................................  
13
TIN— HELVE GRADE.
10x14 IC, Charcoal........................................$ 7  50
7  50
14x20 IC, 
10x14 IX, 
9  26
14x20 IX, 
S 2?

Each additional X on this grade, 81.75.

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TIN—ALLA WAT GRADE.
“ 
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75
6  75
8  25
9 25

Boovrse plates

10x14 IC, Charcoal  ..................................... 
14x20 IC, 
10x14 IX, 
14X20 IX, 

 
Bach additional X on this grade 81.50.
“  Worcester....................  
“ 
“ 
“  Allaway  Grade....................  
* 
“ 
“ 
BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE.

14x20 IC, 
14x20 IX, 
20x28 IC, 
14x20 IC, 
14x20 IX, 
20x28 IC, 
20x28 IX, 
14x23 IX.............................................................81« 00
14X31  I X ............................................................ 15 00
14x56 LX, for No. 8 Boilers, I 
14x60  X,  " 

6  5*;
..........................   8  50
.........................  18 50
7  50
12  50
15 50

fP®* pound—   10 00

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WEDNESDAY  JA N lU K I^iO .

FOOLISHNESS  OF  ARBITRATION.
When  the  striking  operatives  of  the 
Brooklyn street car  lines  came to realize 
that  their  cause  was  unjust,  their  de­
mands  unreasonable  and  that  their  ac­
tion was destined to end in disaster,  they 
offered to submit the differences between 
themselves and their employers  to  arbi­
tration. 
it is probable that  most  of  the 
strikers believed that in this action there 
was involved a possibility,  if not a prob­
ability, of the  termination  of  the strike; 
for  it  is  astonishing  to  what  extent  a 
belief in the possibility  of arbitration  in 
such  cases  obtains,  and  this in view of 
the fact that all  experience  has  demon­
strated  the  contrary.  The  instance  is 
yet to he placed on record  where  an  im­
portant  strike  of  this  character  in any 
line of industry has been  settled by such 
means.  Yet  “arbitration”  is  not  only 
the cry of  the  demagogue  but  is  heard 
from the lips of  philanthropists and stu­
dents of industrial philosophy,  until it is 
not to he  wondered at that  there  should 
be  so  widespread  popular  belief  in  its 
practicability.  The astonishing thing  is 
that so many  well-iuformed  and  appar­
ently  sincere  workers  in  the cause of  in­
dustrial  progress should  continue  to  re­
iterate the fallacy.

The  word in  its  primary meaning does 
not  indicate  a  peaceful  or  conciliatory 
manner  of  settling  disputes. 
It  is  the 
most  arbitrary  word  in  our  language; 
but there has been  given to it a different 
meaning in its use to designate  a  volun­
tary submission of  differences to the  de­
cision  of  others.  This  manner  of  set­
tling disputes,  where  the  circumstances 
are  such  that  others may  become cogni­
zant of all the  conditions of  the  case,  is 
of value,  and,  frequently, saves the great 
expense  and  uncertainty  of  submitting 
such questions to the regular courts; and 
there  has been  given  a  meaning  to  the 
word  in  such  use  of a peaceable,  volun­
tary character  that it  does  not  deserve. 
This secondary meaning  has  caught  the 
popular  ear,  and  no  wonder  when it  is 
so largely the  shibboleth of  the  popular 
teachers—the press and platform.

There has resulted  from the secondary 
meaning of the word a  curious,  paradox­
ical idea of  compulsory  arbitration,  that 
should be  somehow  different,  more cou- 
cilatory and  peaceful  than  the  arbitra­
ment  of  the  present  courts.  Thus  we

hear a clamor  for  commissions  of  arbi­
tration to be created by  legislatures, and 
other  similar  schemes,  which  can  be 
nothing more than the  establishing  of  a 
new form of courts,  necessarily more ar­
bitrary and  absolute than  the  ones  now 
existing.

The reason why arbitration in the case 
of any important  industrial  controversy 
is  impossible  is that  the conditions gov­
erning  every  industrial  enterprise  are 
peculiar to that particular enterprise, and 
these conditions are  only fully known  to 
those  in  Immediate  charge  who  have 
learned them by long experience.  Every 
employer knows  how  slowly  and  grad­
ually the knowledge of  these  conditions 
has become,  as it were,  a part of his very 
nature,  and  it  is  simply  impossible  to 
convince  him  that  any  one can become 
sufficiently cognizant,  by  simple investi­
gation, of these  conditions  to decide  the 
most important  questions  for  him.  An 
employer  even  may  think  in  a  general 
way that there  may be  sueh  a  thing  as 
this  kind  of  arbitration,  but  when  it 
comes to  questions of  his  own  business 
its impossibility  becomes  quickly  mani­
fest. 

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WINTER  NAVIGATION.

The wreck of  the  Chicora,  involving 
the loss of twenty-seven lives  and  prop­
erty to the value of $175,000,  revives dis­
cussion of the q uestion to what extent win­
ter  navigation on  the Great Lakes is  ad­
visable or justifiable, and whether regula­
tions should  not  be  enacted  to  govern 
such navigation.  The  financial  loss  to 
the  Graham  &  Morton  Transportation 
Go.  demonstrates 
that,  so  far  as  that 
company  is  concerned,  winter  naviga­
tion does not pay;  but it is  unreasonable 
to cry out against the greed of  the  com­
pany  which  prompts  to  such  risks  so 
long as it is  subject  to  the  competition 
of others assuming the same risks.

The laws  which govern in  the  qualifi­
cation of officers  and  the  inspection  and 
licensing  of  vessels  should  be  extended 
to govern  the seasons  of navigation, and 
boats  should  not  be  permitted  to  run 
during the  season  when  underwriters re­
fuse to take  risks  upou  them. 
It  does 
not  necessarily  follow  that  ail  winter 
navigation should  cease,  for  the  science 
of lake shipbuilding  has become so exact 
that certain specifications  may  be  made 
to govern in the  construction  of  vessels 
for  winter  work,  and these specifications 
should be sufficient to warrant the recog­
nition of underwriters.  The  Chicora  is 
said to have  been  built with reference to 
winter use,  and to  have  been the strong­
est  passenger  steamer  on 
the  lakes. 
This would tend to show—what  is  prob­
able—that a passenger steamer  for  win­
ter cannot,  at  present,  be  commercially 
constructed,  and  no  such  should  be 
licensed or allowed  to  run  during  that 
season.

Freight  vessels  may  be  bnilt  strong 
enough to stand any  storms  experienced 
on the lakes.  The line of  transfer boats 
from  Frankfort  to  Manitowoc  seem  to 
have demonstrated  this,  as  have  other 
similar boats;  so  it  is  fair  to  say  that 
specifications may  be  easily  made  that 
can  be  commercially  complied  with  in 
the construction of freight  carriers,  and 
no  laws  of  competition  will  be  inter- 
ferred with if all others  are  subjected to 
considerations of safety,  for  the  cost  of 
the  construction  of  those  permitted  to 
run will be relatively m uch greater,  that 
is,  taking  into  consideration  that  they 
are only freight  boats at any season.

THE  CURRENCY  PROBLEM.

One  of  the  principal  arguments  ad­
vanced against the adoption of either the 
Baltimore  plan  of  reforming  the  cur­
rency,  the  Carlisle  plan,  or  any  other 
similar  project, 
is  the  claim  that  the 
banks would not issue a sufficient amount 
of circulation to absorb the  Government 
legal tender notes  as  security  for  such 
circulation, or to  supply the place of the 
legal tenders, should the Government de­
cide to retire them altogether.

This  claim  is  based  mainly  on 

the 
banking  statistics of  ante helium  days, 
when,  under  the  best  conditions,  the 
bank note circulation amounted  only  to 
50 per cent, of the capital  of  the  banks 
issuing  notes.  This  is  scarcely  good 
reasoning,  as the conditions  which  pre­
vailed prior to the great civil contest are 
dissimilar in every  respect  to  those  ex­
isting at the present  time.

In the first place,  there  was  not  then 
the same demand for money  there  is  at 
the  present  time,  and,  secondly, 
the 
banks did not exert such  paramount  in­
fluence on the country’s trade  as  is  the 
case to-day.  The increased  influence  of 
the banks is shown by the fact  that,  al­
though the total capital iu  1859  was  al­
ready $403,000,000,  at the present time it 
has increased to $668,000,000 for  the  na­
tional  banks alone. 
In 1859  the propor­
tion of circulation to capital was  50  per 
cent, the proportion of  deposits to  cap­
ital 60 per  cent.,  and  the  proportion  of 
loans to  capital  was  150  per  cent.  At 
the  present  time, 
taking  the  national 
banks alone, the  proportion of  deposits 
to  capital  is 337 per cent,  and  the  pro­
portion  of loans  to  capital  is  300  per 
cent. 
that  the 
banks have  not  only  greatly  increased 
their capital, but have  augmented  their 
influence many hundred fold in  the  way 
of deposits  and  loans  in  proportion  to 
capital.

It  is,  therefore,  clear 

The value of circulation to  the  banks 
would  be  based  upon  their  ability  to 
keep their notes out,  and  thus  make  a 
profit  on  their  credit  as  well  as  upon 
their  actual  capital.  The  larger  their 
deposits  and  loans,  the  greater  will  be 
their ability to keep notes  in circulation. 
As the loans  and  deposits  are  now  so 
very much  larger in proportion  to  capi­
tal, compared  with  what  they  were  in 
ante helium  days,  it is  but  reasonable 
to  suppose 
circulation  would, 
under  favorable  laws,  be  proportion­
ately expanded.

that 

by 
the 

The reasons why the circulation of na­
tional  banks  is  not  larger  than 
it  is 
under existing laws are obvious. 
In the 
first place,  there is no elasticity possible, 
and,  secondly,  at  the  present  price  of 
Government  bonds,  the  notes  are  un­
profitable.  Not  only  are 
the  notes 
the  deposit  of  bonds, 
secured 
but,  at 
of 
present  valuation 
of  Government  bonds,  the  security  ex­
ceeds the total issue of notes by  at  least 
33 per cent.  Of course,  under any of  the 
currency  reform plans which  have  been 
proposed,  the issue  of  notes  would  be 
made  profitable  to  the  banks;  heuce, 
with their  immense  deposits and  loans, 
there would be little fear  that  the  note 
circulation  would  be  taken  out  to  the 
full limit and suffice fully  to  replace the 
legal tenders.

recalls  the  street  car  strike  here three 
years ago,  about the  only  difference  be­
ing  that  the  Brooklyn affair  was larger 
and more expensive  to  handle.  As  was 
the  case  in  Grand  Rapids,  the strikers, 
acting under the instruction  of  the  offi­
cers of the trades unions,  resorted  to in­
timidation,  obstruction,  assault,  incen­
diarism and mnrder,  thus  placing  them­
selves under the ban of the law as rioters 
and criminals.  As  is always  the case in 
such  outbreaks, 
the  strikers  received 
large  accessions  to  their  ranks  in  the 
persons of idlers  and criminals,  who  in­
variably take advantage of  every  oppor­
tunity  of  this character  to indulge their 
propensity to destroy life  and  property. 
Of  course,  the  strike  was  destined  to 
failure as soon as the strikers resorted to 
unlawful methods,  but  the  event  tends 
to confirm the opinion which is gradually 
assuming the form  of  a conviction—that 
strikes  must  eventually  be put down by 
the strong arm of the law and that viola­
tions of law at  such  times  must  not  be 
treated with  any  more  leniency than the 
same  offenses  are  treated  in  times  of 
peace.

Gripsack: Brigade.

W.  D. Simmons has  taken the position 
of  local  representative  for  the  Toledo 
Rubber Co.

M.  J.  Rogan  (Moore,  Smith  &  Co.) 
will be at  Sweet’s  Hotel  Thursday  and 
Friday,  Feb.  7 and 8,  on the last  trip  of 
the season.

Fred  Evans, 

formerly  with  Cusino 
Bros., of Detroit, succeeds Cbas.  I.  Flynu 
as traveling  representative  for  John  E. 
Kenning & Co.

Chas.  W.  Payne,  house  salesman  for 
the  Musselman  Grocer  Co.,  will  visit 
the  trade  formerly  covered  by-  W.  F. 
Blake  until  a  permanent  arrangement 
is  made  with  a  regular  representative.
W.  F.  Blake shook bands with  his  as­
sociates  at  the  Musselman  Grocer  Co. 
Saturday and started  out  Monday  with 
the grip of the Worden  Grocer  Co.  His 
numerous  friends  among the  trade  join 
T h e T radesm an  in  wishing him success 
in  his new connection.

William  H.  Bennett,  a  traveling sales­
man from Chicago,  is  missing  from  the 
Franklin  House,  Detroit.  All of his bag­
gage  was  left  at  the  hotel.  He  is  65 
years of age, 5 feet 8  inches tall,  weighs 
about 175 pounds and  has grey hair, blue 
eyes,  hooked nose and a scar on  his chin. 
He  wore  a  black  suit  of  clothes  with 
slouch hat.

Arthur Squires,  traveling  representa­
tive for the Soapine Co.,  was recently ar­
rested at Bay  Bity on a charge of larceny 
of a mileage book from  L.  H.  Allen,  cir­
culator for the Detroit Jour.ial.  The ac­
cused  admitted  his  guilt  and  told  the 
officer making the  arrest  where  he  had 
pawned  it.  He  subsequently  pleaded 
guilty  and  was  fined  $10  and costs.

L.  Williams,  who goes  by the  euphon­
ious title of  Windy Williams,  writes T h e 
T radesm an  that he has severed bis con­
nection with P.  Lorillard & Co. to accept 
the offer  of  an  interest  in  the  Detroit 
Cigar  Manufacturing  Co.—otherwise 
known  as  John  McLean.  Windy  will 
continue to travel  in  Eastern  Michigan, 
chanting the virtues  of  Green  Seal  and 
other brands  manufactured  by  his  new 
connection.

The  great  strike  of  street  car opera­
tives at  Brooklyn,  which  has  been  the 
chief  topic  of  discnssion  in  the  news­
papers  for the past  fortnight,  naturally 1

It is said to be of no nse to  whisper  in 
the  presence  of  Queen  Victoria.  Her 
ears  are  so  sharp  that  she  can  almost 
hear a person wink in tne next room.

PHE  MICHIGAN T R ^ D E S M ^ N .
The  Rebate  Matter  from  a  St.  Louis j 

9

that  lie  occasionally  loses  money  by  failing  to 
charge goods sold on credit; and where he hears 
of one case there are twenty occui which he does 
not discover.

Standpoint.
Jacob Fnrih in  Inter-State  Grocer.
That  is  a  nice  little correspondence— 
and,  if  we  may  term  it  so,  controversy  j 
—in  T h e   Mic h ig a n   T r a d e s m a n ,  pub- j 
lished  at  Grand  Rapids,  between  a  gro­
cer,  who  tries  to  justify 
the  retailer 
when taking rebates  from salesmen,  and 
the editor of the paper,  who  controverts 
the grocer’s position. 
It  is a little early 
for  us  to  tackle  that  question  in  this 
issue,  but we will certainly  endeavor  to 
discuss it as we get  along  in  our  work. 
As to the ethics of the  practice but little 
can  be  said 
that  would  in  the  least 
serve  to  make  it  appear 
right  and 
proper;  but  everyday  ethics  and  every­
day  business are  two  separate  and  dis­
tinct  matters.  Whether the retailer who 
takes money  from  a  salesman,  knowing 
that  it  is  against the  rules  of the house 
and  against  the  moral  character  of  the 
man  to  pay  it,  is  as  T h e   T r a d e s m a n  
calls him,  a  “tempter,”  or  whether  the 
grocer  is  right  when  he  says  that  he 
would be foolish not to take money or its 
equivalent when  offered  to  him,  is  but 
one  portion  of  the  controversy.  One 
thing is  certain,  the  practice  is  a  per­
nicious  one  that  has  led  to evil,  to deg­
radation  and  to  infamy  many  of  the 
salesmen  who  have 
it. 
Houses which  condone  the  offense  are, 
in our opinion,  as culpable and,  perhaps, 
more so than the salesman.  A little more 
stiffening to the moral  backbone  of em­
ployer  and employe,  a little more regard 
for the inner voice  which,  like  the  om­
nibus strap of old, is said to be the inner 
check  to  the  outer  man,  would  soon 
bring matters into better shape.

indulged 

in 

SOUTH  AMERICAN  DEVELOPMENT.
After several years of extreme  depres­
sion, owing to bad financial management 
and revolutions,  South  American securi­
ties are again  commanding  attention  in 
the European markets.  So vast  are  the 
resources of that portion of the  Western 
Hemisphere  that,  notwithstanding  the 
perpetual political  disturbances and the 
reckless  destruction  of  property  thus 
occasioned,  South American investments 
still hold out inducements  to  the  Euro­
pean  investor.  A  few  years  of  peace 
have helped greatly to restore prosperity 
in Argentina and Chili,  and the same ex­
perience has been repeated in  Venezuela 
and  Columbia,  although  on  a  smaller 
scale.  Brazil and Peru,  however,  have 
gone  steadily  backward,  owing  to  the 
constant political disturbances which are 
maintained in those countries.

In Brazil, the  inauguration  of  a  new 
President  has  been  the  signal  for  the 
breaking out afresh of the fires of  rebel­
lion. 
In Rio Grande do Sul, which prov­
ince has been in  a  state  of  revolt  ever 
since  the  overthrow  of  the  monarchy, 
the rebels have recently been very active 
and have gained a  number  of  victories. 
Admirals da Gama and de Mello,  though 
in exile,  are  still  assisting  Rio  Grande 
rebels,  and will doubtless be again in ac­
tive service  against  the  Brazilian  Gov­
ernment  at  the  first opportunity.  All 
over Brazil there have recently been dis­
turbances of more or  less magnitude, in­
dicating popular unrest, and the Govern­
ment has experienced  much  uneasiness.
In 
that country there is  a formidable rebel­
lion in progress against the  Government 
of General Caceres, and the  rebels under 
Pierola  have  recently  gained  victories. 
As a result of  the  civil  war,  commerce 
has languished in Peru,  and  there  have 
been serious bread riots in Lima.

In Peru the same conditions  exist. 

This  disturbed  condition  of  a  great 
portion of South  America  is  much to be 
regretted,  as  it  unquestionably  retards 
the  development  of  that  part  of  the 
world,  with  its  splendid  resources  and 
almost boundless  opportunities  for  en­
terprise.  That  these disorders  are  fos­
tered and abetted by European influence, 
for some sinister purpose,  there  is  little 
room to  doubt, and on  several occasions 
British  manipulation  has  been  clearly 
apparent. 
If  the United States  is  ever 
to  play  the  important  role  in  foreign 
affairs which the position  among the  na­
tions clearly points to,  it would  be  well 
to  begin  with  South  America.  This 
country should aid in bringing  order out 
of chaos in that part  of  the  world,  and 
where  European  machinations  are  ap­
parent  in  connection  with  the  revolu­
tions,  strong  representations should  be 
made by this country.  A  powerful fleet 
should  be  maintained  at  all  times  in 
South American waters to protect Ameri­
can interests.  There  is  no  doubt  that 
the presence of the  United States squad­
ron at Rio during the de Mello  rebellion 
prevented a much more active assistance 
being  extended  the  rebels  by  Europe 
than there was.  That European aid was 
forthcoming at that time there  is not the 
slightest  doubt.

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

The  Proverb  of the  Dead-Beat.

in 

A dead-beat  that  is  hatched from lazi­
ness  is  of  few  days and  full of  trouble.
He  cometh  forth  like  a  flower  and  is 
cut  down;  he  fleeth  also  as* a  shadow 
and  continueth not.
As  for  the  dead-beat’s  wife,  her  days 
are  as  grass;  as  a  flower  of  the  field, 
so  she  flourisheth. 
In  the  morning  she 
is  alive  and  clucketh;  but 
the 
evening  she  moveth  her  household  ef­
fects to another  town;  she hath  no abid­
ing habitation.
Even  so  it  is  with  the dead-beat.  To­
day  he  plumeth  himself;  he  strutteth 
abroad  and  maketh  a  great  show  of 
himself.  To-morrow  he  falleth  a  prey 
to  the  collector.
In  his  pride  he  eateth  the  grocer’s 
food  which  he  payeth  not  for and  wax- 
eth  fat,  saying  to  himself:  “All things 
are  made  for  my  enjoyment.”  When 
bis  fall  cometh,  there  is  none  who  re- 
membreth  the  day  of  his triumph, and 
men mock him.

A few days ago the little son of-a well- 
known  physician  was  entertaining  a 
playmate at his father’s  house.  As chil­
dren  will,  they ransacked every nook and 
corner of the  building.  Their  curiosity 
led  them  to  explore  the  recesses  of  a 
closet in which  the doctor  keeps  his  in­
struments  and  other  personal  effects, 
among  which  is  a  complete  skeleton. 
The strange boy was  frightened when he 
first  beheld  the  grinning  remnant  of 
what once had been a  human  being,  and 
started to run  away.  The  doctor’s  son, 
however,  had seen  the skeleton  so  often 
that he entertained for it only  that  feel­
ing of contempt  begotten by  familiarity, 
and  in a little while  succeeded  in  so  al­
laying  the  fears  of  his  companion that 
the youngster began to  handle  the thing 
and  rattle  its  dry  bones.  “ Where  did 
your father get it?”  he finally asked.  “I 
don’t know,” was the reply; “ but I guess 
it was his first patient,  for he’s had it an 
awful long time.”

The announcement  is  made  that  the 
earth does not revolve  as  rapidly  as  it 
did  a  thousand  years  ago;  but  it  still 
swings round fast enough to  satisfy  the 
man who has a note coming due.

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THE  BACK  OFFICE.

W ritte n  fo r T a n  Tradesman.

The story is told of a servant girl, New 
England born  and  bred,  who  concluded 
to give op a good position  with a family 
who had lately came from the  West,  be­
cause they did not  like,  and  would  not 
have,  baked beans  for supper  on  Satur- 
dap night, no family,  in  her  estimation, 
being  respectable  who  ever  had  any­
thing else on the last night of  the  week. 
She was finally induced  to  remain,  and, 
if we  may  believe  the  story,  admitted, 
after a fair trial, that a family  might  be 
respectable and  not wind  up  the  week 
with a supper of brown bread and  beans. 
Life, to the  servant  girl,  had  been  un­
consciously 
reduced  to  the  bean  pot 
standard  and  anything  varying  from 
that  standard was just  so  much  out  of 
the way.

I have a friend who has  built  a  home 
—not simple a house—in the most  desir­
able part of the town.  Days and nights 
he and his worthy wife have given  to the 
plan and the building their best thought. 
Home life has been the idea “ from turret 
to  foundation  stone.”  Hating  a  cold 
hall, they have taken  advantage  of  the 
reception hall idea  and have made it the 
‘‘snuggery” of the  house,  so  that  who­
ever enters the door is made glad at once 
by the  sense  of  comfort  that  pervades 
the  place.  Here  is  an  open  fireplace, 
there  a  windowed  nook,  and  glimpses 
through this curtained doorway  and that 
hint  of  the  comfortable  homelife  that 
the inmates enjoy.  The  good  wife  has 
all the closet and store room  she  wants, 
the good man has  his  easy  chair where 
lamp and firelight give him exactly what 
he wants,  and they—the  wife  and  he— 
believe  that  theirs  is  the  ideal  house, 
because they know it  is  the  home  they 
have been dreaming  of  all  these  years. 
And they have  a wide  circle  of  friends 
who believe the same  thing—that is, the 
most  of  them.  However, Tip  Williams 
was in here the other day  and,  in  speak­
ing of the dinner party we both  attended 
recently at the new house,  he  said  right 
out  and  out  that  Robson  had  spent 
money enough on his new  house  to have 
a fine one, and  that  it was  doubtful  if, 
hunting the country over,  a  clumsier  af­
fair could be found,  outside and  in,  than 
that same house  of  Robson’s.  “In  the 
first place, you can’t get into  it  without 
popping  right  into the  family  the  first 
thing.  There never was a  stairway  yet 
handsome enough  to be part  of  the  sit­
ting room, and the only thing  to  be done 
with it  is  to  partition  it  off  with  just 
room enough for the hatrack  and  a  hall

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,

chair.  For my part,  I  must  say  that  1 
couldn’t feel quite—well, I won’t say re­
spectable,  in such a  house  as  that—but 
you know what  I  mean.” 
(And  I  did, 
for the man  was gauging Robson’s house 
by bis own bean  pot standard.)

“Of  course,”  Tip  went  on,  “ ’tis  a 
mighty easy^thing for one man  to tell an­
other  what  he  ought  to  do  with  his 
money, but,  to my way of thinking, Rob­
son did a mighty foolish  thing in buying 
that big lumbering  grand  piano  for  his 
parlor, the other day.  Ob,  he  can  afford 
it,  and all that sort o’  thing—there’s  no 
doubt about that;  but  what  he  wants  it 
for,  for the life of  me,  I  can’t  see.  He 
doesn’t know one tune, or even one note, 
from  another, and,  while  his  wife  sings 
a little,  her singing never’ll set the river 
afire;  and  there  that  big  thing  stands, 
from one week’s end to the other, a thing 
to be  dusted  and  a  plague  forever  and 
ever.  Now, what the man ought to have 
done was to put that fireplace in the hall 
to one side,  and  build  in  one .of  these 
handsome'hall organs,  right  where  that 
fireplace stands.  That would have been 
worth something and would  have  added 
more to the appearance of  that reception 
hall—I  hate  ’em,  anyway—than  all  the 
fireplaces in  creation.”  And  yet.  when 
“the toils of the day are over,”  and Rob­
son runs his fingers over  the keys  of his 
parlor grand,  and bits  of melody,  sacred 
to the memory  of  "the  springtime,  the 
only  pretty  ring  time”  rise  from  the 
trembling strings and float  away,  carry­
ing with them the day’s vexations and its 
cares,  he believes,  although he can barely 
pick from  the notes the commonest tune, 
that  the  parlor  grand  is  the  grandest 
thing he has;  and,  when  his wife  comes 
in and sings the old  tunes  that won  his 
heart and made  possible  the  realization 
of this happy home,  he might  not say  to 
the criticisms that it is only  a  difference 
in bean pots,  but he would say that every 
man has a fair idea of what he  wants  to 
make him happy,  and  will  do  his  level 
best to get what  he  thinks  will  accom­
plish that result.

I  was  thinking  of  Robson  and  his 
grand piano,  the other day,  when my eye 
fell  upon an item  in  a  trade  paper  de­
nouncing,  with a  great  deal  of  earnest­
ness, the fact that two many trade papers 
are giving place in their columns to long 
and  stupid  stories. 
“A  trade  paper 
should furnish trade news,  and anything 
else in the trade paper  is  wholly  out  cf 
place. 
If a grocer wants  stories, he  can 
find  them  in  his  Sunday  paper  where 
they  belong.”  It  is  not  for  me,  after 
what has been so  far  said,  to  say  that |

HATS,  CAPS,

A N D

STRAW  GOODS.

M oore,  S m ith   &  Co.f  B oston,  will  be  pleased  to  have 
their agent, M  J.  Rogan, Kalamazoo, Mich., call on  any  mer­
chants who may wish to look over their line.

E ST A B L ISH E D   O V ER   3 0   Y E A R S.

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GRAND RAPIDS, 

MICH.

18 and 19 Widdicomb  Bid.

N.  B. Clare,  Pres.
W.  D.  W a d e ,  Ylce-Pres.
C. U.  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.

Has  proved  itself  the  only  perfect  illum inating  oil.

BECAUSE  it  gives  a  d e a r,  b rig h t  light. 
BECAUSE  it  does  not cloud  th e   C him neys. 
BECAUSE  it  does  not  ch ar  th e   w icks.
And last b u t  not  least,  does  not  em it  a   bad  odor.

F or sale  by  all  tirst-class dealers,  aDd  refined  only yb

SCOFIELD,  SHUHMER  i  TEW

Grand  Rapids.

Telephone  865.

BORDEN’S  PEERLESS  BRAND

EVAPORATED  CREAM

Is  pure  milk  reduced  to  the  consistency  of  cream,  light  in color,  natural 

It  cannot  be  compared  with  any unsweetened  milk  or  evaporated  cream 

in  flavor.

heretofore  offered.

It  is  not  dark  in  color. 
It  is  not  disagreeable  in  flavor. 
'Prepared  and guaranteed  by  the . . . .

It  does  not  thicken  with  age.
It  does  not  spoil.

NEW  YORK  CONDENSED  MILK  COflPANY

ABSOLUTELY  PURE

F or Q uotations  See  Price Columns

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P  &  B.  OYSTERS 
Beat  Them  All.

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P. &  B. Standards

PER  GALLON,  $1.10.

CLEANLINESS and NEATNESS characterize our goods and packages.

7 h e   P u tn a m   C a n d y   Co.

TftCm 
IfidtSaUL $a£t~

S a £ f

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

Diamond Crystal Salt

Being free from all chlorides of calcium  and magnesia, will  not get damp and 
soggy  on your hands. 
Put  up  in  an  attractive and salable manner.  When 
your stock of salt is low, try a small supply of “the salt that's all salt."  Can be 
obtair  _ from jobbers and dealers.  For prices, see price current on other page. 
For other information, address

DIAMOND  CRYSTAL S ALT CO.,  ST. CLAIR, MICH.

Florida 

Tan gerin e s

Sound, high-colored fruit, untouched by frost.  Flats  of  from 
100 to  150, each $2.50.
T h e   P u tn a m   C a n d y  Co.

WE  WANT

B E A N S

them.

and  will  pay  highest  m arket  price  for 

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

WORLD’S  L i   SOUVENIR  TICKETS

O NLY  A   F E W   LEFT.
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O riginal se t of four 
Com plete se t of te n  

  25c 
50c

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

Your  Bank Account Solicited.

out County Savins Mi,

G R A N D   R A P ID S   ,M IO H .

J no.  A.  Covodb  Pres.

Hsnrt  I dema,  Vice Pres.

J.  A.  S.  Ver d ie r,  Cashier.

K. Van Ho p, Ass’tC’s’r.
Transacts a General Banking  Business. 

Interest  Allowed  on  Time  and  Savings 

Deposits.

DIRECTORS:

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

Deposits  Exceed  One  ’Vfllllon  Dollars.

the criticizing trade paper  is wrong,  but 
it does seem to me that the  paper  is  in­
sisting  that  the  large  family  of  trade 
papers  shall  have,  willy  nilly,  baked 
beans for the  Saturday night  supper,  if 
they  are  to  be  considered  respectable; 
and it also seems to me that the majority 
of these trade papers  (and  a  large  ma­
jority,  at  that)  are  determined  not  to 
follow the bean  pot  diet.  Let  me  take 
the first one that come to  hand—no  mat­
ter what its name or where it is  printed. 
It is^a  goodly  sheet  and  a  prosperous 
one. 
If I do not mistake,  it has  a  large 
constituency that depend upon its quota-  ; 
tions in the  management  of  their  busi­
ness;  and,  yet, this same first-class trade  j 
paper devotes a number of  pages to mat­
ter wholly outside of trade,  and,  what  is 
these  pages  are  in 
more  remarkable, 
German. 
I  do  not  read  the  language 
with ease,  but  I  read  enough  to  know 
that there are capital stories  in  this  de-  < 
partment of that trade paper,  and  some  j 
of the best jokes that I  have  seen  have I 
been  hidden  under  that  same  German 
type.  What can a German  grocer  want 
of snch stuff in  his trade  paper,  when  he \ 
can have hfs pick of Sunday  papers, and 
of German papers,  for that matter, direct 
from the Fatherland?  The  fact  is,  the 
German,  as well as his American brother, 
has made up his mind that he won’t have 
bean porridge,  hot or cold.

Here is  another  one;  it  doesn’t  make 
any difference where it  comes  from. 
It 
is a long-established trade paper,  and its 
columns  are  quoted  wherever  there  is 
trade;  and,  yet, that  trade paper,  whose 
counsels are sought by the highest  finan­
cial authorities in the  land,  indulges not 
only in stories and items of  interest out­
side of the  trading  world,  but  actually 
furnishes  rebuses  and  riddles  for  its 
readers.  Such lack of  the  bean  pot  is 
there in Celestial minds!

A great deal has been  said  from  time 
to time, about what  snould be the make­
up of a trade paper. 
In  nine  cases  out 
of ten the fact is that the man who makes 
it  up  knows  better  than  anybody  else 
what  his  particular  paper  wants,  and 
just as often what it must have.  1 can’t 
tell  what  will  take  in  Indiana  half  as j 
well as the editor of the  Trade  Journal; 
and I am  quite  sure  that  the  Merchant 
Sentinel would give  me  food  for  reflec­
tion if i  should  insist  on  its  eating the 
Yankee supper of pork and beans.  There 
is one thing J can say, and  will,  and that 
is that a  list  of  subscribers  to  a  trade 
paper limited to a price  list,  and  to  an 
item recording the trade fact that Grocer 
Jones  staid  over  night  in  Smithville, 
would turn  out  a  lot  of  men  so  hide­
bound  that you couldn’t move a  hair  on 
one of them  without dislocating a  rib—a 
condition of things  not  possible  in  this 
day and generation.

The  Back  Office  claims 

to  be  no 
prophet,  but,  if it  reads aright  the signs 
of the times,  the  real  trade  paper  has 
before it a  promising  future, 
it will  be 
made up of all that is  best;  the  novelist 
will bring here his best  work  for his rich 
reward;  the poet will have no  verse  too 
fine for his  widening  circle  of  readers; 
science will lay  upon  its  altars  the  re-

p H  B Y   A T T  S A Y

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

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

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

JOBS  IN  RUBBERS Ju st  the  th in g   for

-  -  A  LEADER.

i S f  WRITE  FOR  NET  PRICE  LIST  BEFORE  THEY  ARE  ALL  GONE.

Address  C.  R.  M A Y  H E W ,  G ra n d   R a p id s,  M ich .

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suits  of  her  research, 
that  they  may 
reach sooner the masses  for whose  good 
they  were  intended;  all  that  learning 
can do,  all that art can accomplish,  will, 
sooner or later,  be found  in  the columns 
of the trade paper.  These things are al­
ready  creeping  in.  Within  the  month 
this Back Office  received  a  trade  paper 
of such artistic beauty that  I  put  it  by 
as a marvel;  and I have among  my  clip­
pings for future use some  editorial  work 
from a trade paper that could  only come 
from a pen  trained  in  one  of  the  best 
colleges of the  country.  The  trade  pa­
per may have begun  with the  price  list, 
but it will not end there,  and  he who in­
sists that its field  is  not  the  world  will 
wake  up to find, as did  poor Rip,  his gun 
broken,  his  dog  dead,  and  himself  a 
stranger  in  the  village  where  be  was 
born.

*  *  *

Here is a piece of the  Heathen  Chinee 
in  prose.  A  grocer—well, 
in  Alaska, 
let  us  say—has  been  having  a  mighty 
tough time of it lately.  He  sold  a  man 
some peaches put up in a  glass  jar. 
In 
getting the peaches out,  the man,  or  his 
wife, or his maid servant  broke  the  jar 
and,  in eating the fruit, a piece  of  glass 
got  into  his  mouth  and  played  “ High 
Betty Martin”  with his  palate.  The  re­
sult was a lawsuit.  The Alaskan  grocer 
won the case but had to  come down  with 
a  good  bill  of  costs.  Later,  a  woman, 
walking  one  way  and  looking  another, 
fell on  this same  grocer’s  sidewalk  and 
wanted something  and  three  ciphers  to 
ease  the  pain  in  her  damaged  ankle. 
His lawsuit bad taught him  a  lesson,  so 
he kept out of  this  one  by  settling  for 
several  hundred  dollars.  One  of  his 
horses  is  pretty  particular  about  hav­
ing  anything  touch  his  heels.  What 
does a little girl  in the  neighborhood  do 
but waltz right up  to  that  horse’s  hind 
legs to the  tune  of  something  and  two 
ciphers,  which the grocer had to  pay for 
damages.  He made  up  his mind that he 
had had enough of that sort of  fun,  and 
he insured his team  in  a  casualty  com­
pany,  so that,  when  his  horse  rau  over 
another child,  he didn’t have to pay any­
thing  but his  insurance  dues;  but  they 
amuuut  to  a  pretty 
let  me 
tell  you,  and,  if  anybody  can  furnish 
any better reason for making a  profit  of 
a cent a pound on sugar,  there’s a grocer 
up in Alaska who is ready to call him  an 
ignorant,  demagogic,  blatant-mouthed 
agitator,  and is all ready to “go for” that 
Heathen Chinee! *  *  *
Mr. Carnegie,  the millionaire  of  Pitts­
burg,  if  report  be  true,  surprised  his 
friends, the other day,  by saying  that  it 
is disgraceful  for a man to  die  rich. 
It 
scarcely need be said that  Mr.  Carnegie 
will  disgrace  neither  himself  nor  his 
family by any such condition. 
It brings 
up the old story of  the  farmer who  said 
that,  when he was  married,  he  told  his 
wife that he wanted  to  be  a  rich  man. 
She reproved him and  said she would  be 
satisfied if she could only be comfortable. 
“ Years went by,”  said the farmer.  “ For­
tune favored us and I became a rich man 
—richer than I had ever dreamed  of  be­
coming;  but  my  wife  ain’t  ‘comfort­
able’ yet.”

figure, 

If  Mr.  Carnegie  will  tell  us  what 
amount,  in his  estimation,  would  make 
him “rich,” we can  tell  better  whether 
the threatened disgrace will be  likely  to 
imperil the fair name of him and his.

*  •  *

It seems that  the  New  York  Legisla­

ture has  passed  a  law  against  certain  i 
persons in the State riding  free  on  any j 
public conveyance;  and it seems that the  i 
President of the New  York  Central  Rail­
road  has  taken  this  opportunity  to  re­
voke certain half rate  tickets  which  cer­
the  State 
tain  clergymen 
throughout 
have been making the most  of. 
It  may, 
.or it may not,  be true  that  some  of  the 
holders of these tickets  have disposed of 
them  to the scalpers,  a  statement which 
1 believe to be untrue;  but the real  point 
to be  looked  after  is,  why  these  same ! 
clergymen should enjoy  these  half  rate 
courtesies  any  more  than  the  poorest 
sheep in the pasture,  who in so  many in­
stances need the half rate so much mare.
For some  unaccountable  reason,  there 
is, and  always has  been,  a  feeling  that, 
if there are any favors  to be  bestowed in 
the  clergyman  is  the 
the  community, 
only proper recipient.  Not  only  is  the 
fattest chicken  killed,  when the minister 
comes to the farm,  but the  choicest  part 
is sure to  find  its  way  to  the  visitor’s 
plate. 
In  fact,  from  the  beginning  of 
the good man’s life to the end of it, there 
is  a  continual  giving; 
indiscriminate 
giving, it may be called,  for it  seems  to 
include  everything  under  the  sun—ex-
cept a fair salary promptly paid.  A boy 
showing a fondness for books  and  study 
is  “called”  to  the  ministry—that  is,  a 
friend,  iu  the  kindness  of  his  heart, 
thinks so,  and the Society  sends  him  to 
school and to college and to the seminary 
and then turns him over to  some  parish, 
which takes him iu  hand  and  continues 
the giving,  until  the  fair  student,  the 
poor minister and  the worn-out preacher 
finds rest and peace at last,  where  alms­
giving is  no  more.  This  may,  or  may 
not,  be considered an  exaggerated  state­
ment of a  pitiful  fact.  Admitting  this, 
there is still good reason  for  saying that 
this  sort  of  treatment  is  degrading  in 
tendency and works  evil  to  all  parties 
concerned.  The  donation  party,  the 
oyster supper, the thousand and one con­
trivances to give something to  the minis­
ter, are, in too many instances,  so  many 
schemes to reduce  to  the  minimum  the 
money which a minister has  earned  and 
ought to have  without scheming.  A city 
clergyman,  with a good  salary,  deserves 
no  half  rate  ticket,  and  he,  above  ail 
men,  should refuse to take  it.  A  couu - 
try clergyman,  with a small  salary,  can­
not afford to take it, for it  not  only  les­
sens the independence  which  he,  of  all 
men, should  possess,  but it furnishes the 
schemers of his  congregation  an  excuse 
for not paying  him  in  full  the  meager 
salary which he earns several times over, 
and which is too often doled out  to  him 
long after it is due.  A minister,  in  the 
majority of cases,  is  more of a man than 
the rest of us, and he  should  be  treated 
as well,  at least, as the  rest  of  us,  and 
there U no surer  way to do this  than  to 
give  him a good salary,  pay  it  promptly 
and let him assert his  manhood  by  pay­
ing full prtce for a ticket when he wants 
one. 

R ic h a rd  Malcom  Strong.

The  Beauty of Niagara 

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

Use  Tradesman  Coupon  Books.

m  ipSTATE

S'. Ä I,

The  Lycoming

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

H.  M.  R e y n o ld s  &  S o n ,

STRAW  BOARD,

Jobbers  of

BUILDING  PAPERS, 

BUCKSKIN and MANILLA

WRAPPING  PAPER, 

ROOFING  MATERIALS,

COAL  TAR  and  ASPHALT;

also

P r a c tic a l  R o o fe r s ,
Grand  Rapids, 
  Mich.

Corner Louis and Campau Sts.,

.

.

.

L. 6. DUNTON 1 GO.

W ill  buy  all  kinds  of  Lumber—  

Green  or  Dry.

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

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

The Largest Manufacturers  of

WALTER BAKER & GO.
PURE,  HIGH  GRADE
COCOAS AN D  
CHOCOLATES
on  this  continent, 
HIGHEST  AWARDS

have received

from  the  great

EXPOSITIONS

IN

Europe and America.

Unlike the D utch  Process 
no  Alkalies  or  other  Chemicals or Dyes 
are  used  in  any  of their  preparations. 
Their delicious
BREAKFAST  COCOA

is absolutely pure and soluble, and 

costs less th a n  one cent a  cup.

SOLD  BY 6R0CEBS  EVERYWHERE.

I  ALTER BASERA CO. DORCHESTER. MASS.

Michigan (Tentral

“ Tie Niagara Falls Route.”

(Taking effect  Sunday,  May 27,1894.) 

•Dally.  All others dally, except Sunday.

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

CHICAGO

a n d   w e s t   M ic h ig a n   r ’y .
GOING TO  CHICAGO.

TO  AND FROM  M CSK EO O N .

RETURNING  FROM  CHICAGO.

Lv. G’d Rapids............ 7:15am  1:25pm *11:30pm
Ar. Chicago.................  1:25pm  6:50pm  *7:20am
Lv.  Chicago..................0:25am  5:00pm *11:45pm
Ar. G’d Rapids............. 3:05pm  10:25pm  *6:25am
I,v. Grand  Rapids  ......  7:25am  1:25pm  5:30pm
Ar. Grand Rapids........ll:4tam  3:05pm 10:25pm
T R A V ZR SB  C IT Y . C H A R LEV O IX   AND  PB TO SK EY . 
7:30am  3:15pm
Lv. Grand  Rapids.. 
Ar.  Manistee...........  12:20pm  8:15pm
1:00pm  8:45pm
Ar. Traverse City__ 
Ar. Charlevoix  ...... 
3:15pm  11:10pm
Ar.  Petoskey........... 
3:45pm  11:40pm

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

pm.

PA R L O R   AND  B LEEPIN G   CARS.

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

»Every day.  Others week days  only.
DETROIT, 

1894
LANSING7 &  NORTHERN  R. R .
GOING TO  DETROIT.

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

- 

RETURNING  FROM  DETROIT.

Lv.  Detroit..................   7:40am  1:10pm  6:00pm
Ar. Grand Rapids....... 12:40pm  5:20pm  10:45pm
Lv. G R 7:40am 5:00pm  Ar. GR.U:35am 10:45pm

T O AND PROM 8ASINAW, ALMA AND  ST.  LOUIS.

TO AND  FROM LOWELL.

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

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.

w a u k e e   Railway.
EASTW ARD.

GEO. DbHAVEN, Gen. Pasa’r Ag’t.
D e t r o i t ,  g r a n d   h a v b n   a  Mi l ­
Trains Leave
G’d  Rapids,  Lv
Ionia...........Ar
St.  Johns  ...Ar
Owobso........Ar
E. Saginaw..Ar
Bay City......Ar
F lin t...........Ar
Pt.  Huron...Ar
Pontiac....... Ar
Detroit.........Ar

tNo.  14 tNo.  16 tNo.  18
325pm
6 45am
4 27pm
7 40am 
5 20pm 
825am 
605pm 
9 00am
10 50am 
800pm 
113'ain 
8 37pm 
1005am 
705pm 
1205pm 
850pm 
1053am 
8 25pm 
1150am
925pm

10 20am 
1125am 
1217pm 
120pm
3 45pm 
435pm 
345pm 
5 50pm 
305pm
4 05pm

1100pm 
1235am 
125am 
310am 
6 40am 
715am 
540am 
730am 
537am 
700am

WESTWARD.

“ 

“ 

For  Grand Haven  and Intermediate
Points.............................................*7:00 a. m.
For Grand Haven and  Muskegon...... tl:00 p. m.
“ 
“  Mil. and Chi...75:35 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, 10:15 a.  m.  3:15 
pm.  and9:15p.m.
Eastward—No. 14  has  Wagner  Parlor  Buffet 
car.  No. 18 Parlor Car.  No. 82 Wagner Sleeper.
Westward—No.ll Parlor Car.  No. 16 Wagner 
Parlor Buffet car.  No. 81 Wagner Sleeper.

»Dally.

J ab. Ca m p b e l l , City T'cket Agent.

G rand  R apid b  & In d ian a.

TRAINS  COINS  NORTH.

North

Leave going 
For Traverse City, Petoskey  and Saginaw .. ..7:44a. is.
For  Traverse  City................................................6:25 p .m .
For Saginaw ...................................................... ...6:00 p. a .
For  Petoskey and  Mackinaw............................ 10:26 p  a .
Leave going 
South.
F or  C incinnati.............................. .........................7:26a.m .
For K aiam asoo and  Chicago............................2:16 p. a .
For  F o rt W ayne a n d   the  E ast..........................2:16 p.m.
F o rC in d n n a tl....................................................*6:40  p.m .
For  Kaiamasoo and C hicago......................... *11:40 p. m

TRAINS  SO IN S  SOUTH.

C hicago v ia  G.  R.  &  I.  R. B.

11:40 p m  tra in  d aily ,  through W agner Bleeping Car 

Lt Grand Rapids............ 7:26 a m   2:15 p m   *11:40 p m
Arr  Chicagro.....................2:40pm   9:06pm  
7:10am
2:16 p  m  tra in  has th ro u g h   W agner  Buffet  P a rlo r 
Oar and coach.
and Coach.
L t   Chicago 
A rr Grand Rapids 
3:30  p  m  has through  W agner  Buffet  P arlo r  Car 
11 :S0 p m  tra in  daily .th ro u g h   W agner  Sleeping  Oar 

11 :S0 p m
7:20am

3:30pm  
9:16 p m  

0:60am 
2:60pm 

For Muskegon—L eare. 

Muskegon, Grand Rapids A Indiana*
7:26 a m 
9:65 a  m
I:15pm
1:90pm  
6:20pm
*  40  pm  
O .L. LOCKWOOD*
General Passenger and Ticket Agent.

From Muskegon—Arrive.

Buildings,  Portraits,  Cards  and  Stationery 

Headings, Maps, Plans  and  Patented 

Articles.
TRADESMAN  CO., 

Grand Rapids, Mich.

T H E   M IC IT IG ^ J S r   T E A JD E S M A JS T .

13

CORPORATION  QOS8IP.

Gen.  R.  A.  Alger  has  sold his $5,000 
stock in  the Grand Rapids Fire Insurance 
Co.  to Dwight Cutler.  The  annual  elec­
tion  of  directors  will  occur Wednesday 
afternoon,  at  which  time  successors  to 
Got.  Alger  and  the  late  F.  B.  Stock- 
bridge,  as well as five local members, will 
be  chosen.

Stockholders  of  the  Diamond  Match 
Company,  at the annual meeting  in  Chi­
cago, on  Feb.  6,  will vote upon the prop­
osition of the directors to declare a stock 
dividend of 10,000 shares,  to  reduce  the 
accumulated surplus, and to issue $1,000,- 
000 additional stock  for  sale  at  par,  in 
order  to  extend  and  improve  the busi­
ness.  These two items  will increase the 
capital stock to  $11,000,000.  Of  course, 
the stockholders  will  favor both proposi­
tions,  and,  after  the  benefits  have  been 
distributed,  it  is natural to expect a big 
slump in the price of the stock.  The in­
tention of the directors has been paraded 
before the public  so  long  that  it  would 
seem as if insiders  wanted  to put up the 
market price,  so as to  unload what stock 
they  had  purchased  before  making the 
announcement.

The sale of the plant and  franchise  of 
the  Grand  Rapids Gas Co.  has been con­
summated, the first 10  per cent,  payment 
on the purchase price of  the  stock  hav­
ing  been  made.  T h e  T radesman  was 
the first journal to  announce  the  condi­
tions of the sale and  it is now the first to 
announce  the  intentions  of  the  pur­
chasers in regard  to  the  re-organization 
of the  enterprise.  The  promoters  have 
the  plant  for  $1.200,000—the 
bonded 
amount  of 
the  purchase  price—and 
stocked  it  for  $1,000,000.  Each  pur­
chaser of $1,000  worth  of  bonds  at  par 
receives $500 in stock,  so that $600,000 of 
the  stock  will be disposed of in  this man­
ner.  This  leaves  a  balance  of $400,000 
in stock,  which  is  being  offered  to  in­
vestors at 40 cents on the dollar.  Recent 
advices from  Wall Street  lead to the  be­
lief that the stock  will find a  ready mar­
ket at that price,  so  that  the  promoters 
of the sale will reap the  handsome profit 
of $160,000 for  conducting  and  consum­
mating the negotiations.  So  far as  T he 
information  goes,  only 
T radesm an’s 
$75,000  of  the bonds has  been set  aside 
for  Grand  Rapids  investors,  although 
three  or  four  times that  amount would 
be  likely  to  find  ready  sale  here.  So 
scanty an assignment  to  local  investors 
is surely mistaken  policy on  the  part  of 
the  managers  of  the  re-organized  com­
pany,  for  the  time  may  come  when  it 
will be desirable  for  the  corporation  to 
have a  considerable  number  of  influen­
tial  friends  at  this end of the line to se­
cure favorable,  and attempt to defeat un­
favorable,  legislation at  the hands of the 
Common  Council.  What  the  policy  of 
the new company  will be in  its  dealings 
with  the  public is,  as yet, entirely prob­
lematical,  but  ordinary  business  fore­
sight would naturally dictate  a  continu­
ance  of  the  same  liberal  policy  which 
characterized the management of the late 
Mr. Gilbert,  who,  despite some peculiari­
ties of a minor  character,  was  as  broad 
minded and far seeing a business man  as 
Grand  Rapids  ever  possessed. 
In  case 
the new corporation does  not  adopt  Mr. 
Gilbert’s  methods,  or  pursue  a  policy 
equally as liberal,  it will  be  a  compara­
tively easy matter  to create and put into 
operation a competing  company,  as  the 
franchise  of  the  present  corporation  is 
not an exclusive one, municipalities hav­
ing no authority to  grant exclusive fran­
chises to any corporation.

V

w

T he  H ard w are  M arket.

General  Trade—January  has  been 
quite a busy month  in  many lines.  The 
snow has been more  than  welcome  and 
has  given  lumbermen  and  farmers  a 
chance to  get  in  their  logs  and  wood. 
This has resulted in a  good  demand  for 
all kinds of lumber  tools,  such  as  saws, 
cant hooks,  files,  saw handles, chain,  etc. 
In price there has been  but little change 
to note.  Advances are  few and declines 
many.  The  demand  for  snow  shovels, 
hand sleighs and  skates  has  been  very 
good.  Especially  has  this  been  so for 
skates,  such a demand  not  having  been 
known in years.  A general  scarcity has 
been the result,  and  manufacturers have 
all been sold out and  jobbers  have  been 
accommodating each other, so  far as pos­
in  many  cases  paying 
sible, 
retail 
prices 
in  order  to  accommodate  their 
trade.

Barbed  Wire—While  none  is  being 
used at precent,  the majority  of  dealers 
have  gotten 
their  orders  in  for  early 
spring shipment,  and those who have are 
fortunate, as the manufacturers are  try­
ing to advance prices.  The present price 
from mill  is:  Painted,  $1.60@1.55;  gal­
vanized, $2@1.90.  A  lower  price  need 
not be looked  for.

Wire  Nails—Have  been  very  weak, 
but  at  the  present  time  a  firmer  tone 
pervades  the  market.  Manufacturers 
are  withdrawing 
low 
prices  made  during  the  first  part  of 
the  month  and  are  doing  their  best  to 
improve  prices.

the  extremely 

Window  Glass—Firm,  with  advancing 

Horse  shoes—Weak  and  we 

look  for 

tendencies.

lower  figures.

Bar  iron  and  steel  have  touched  bot­

Cistern and  drive  pumps  are  as  last 

Gas  pipe  is  mentioned 

for  higher 

tom.

year.

prices.

P u rely P erso n a l.

in 

Will  D.  Tuxbury,  who  is in charge of 
the  Sullivan  Lumber Co.’s operations  at 
Wallin,  was 
last 
week.

town  one  day 

Burridge D.  Butler,  Advertising  Man­
ager for the Majestic Manufacturing Co., 
of St.  Louis,  has been  trying his haud at 
selling  ranges  to  the  trade,  with  such 
marvelous  success 
that  his  employers 
may wish to  transfer  him  from  the  ad­
vertising to  the selling  department.  He 
placed  seven  ranges  at  Ann Arbor and 
ten times as many  at Jackson in one day 
last week.

Greg.  M.  Luce,  formerly  a Grand Rap­
ids  traveling  man,  but  now  a  leading 
lumberman 
in  Southern  Mississippi, 
sends T h e T radesm an an announcement 
of  the  Scranton  (Miss.)  State Bank,  of 
which  he  is  a  director,  informing  the 
stockholders  that a cash  dividend  of  10 
per  cent,  has  been  declared  from  the 
earnings of 1894,  besides  carrying  7  per 
cent,  to the surplus account.

Strikers never seem to  learn  anything 
from experience.  Everybody  recognizes 
the right of men  to  quit  work,  and  no 
striker  can  be  denied  that  right.  But 
when  men  claim  not  only  the  right  to 
quit work but to prevent by  force  other 
men from  working, they doom  to  failure 
any  strike based upon such claims. 
It is 
curious that men still  insist  on  making 
such strikes, in view of the fact  that  no 
such  strike  has  ever  succeeded  in  this 
country.

False pretense  does not serve  the man 
who cannot obtain money under any pre­
tense.

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Importers and Jobbers of

2i  LAKE  ST.,  CHICAGO,  ILL.

The  Globe  Box

pours  like  water  and 
is as tough as tripe.  Used 
in  babbitting 
counter 
shafts,  emery  grinders, 
carving  machines  and 
all high speed machinery. 
Its  trial  costs  you  noth­
ing  if  not  satisfactory. 
If it proves its merit it is 
the  cheapest  high-grade 
babbitt metal made.

Telephone 540.

J.  W•  H A .Y D E N   &   CO.,  G ra n d   R a p id s.
R I N D G E ,  K A L M B A C H   &  CO.,

69  PEARL  ST.

12,  m ,  i 6  Pearl  S t.,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

flANUFACTURERS AND JOBBERS  OF
B O O T S , 
S H O E S , 
and
R U B B E R S .

Our  aim  is  to  please  our  customers.  We 
know  what they  want and  have got it.  Come and 
see.  WE MAKE and handle the  best  lines  in  the 
market—everything up to date.

Agents for the Boston Rubber Shoe Co.
We carry as large a  stock as any jobber.  Or­
ders filled promptly and always at  best  terms and 
discounts.

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,  which  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.

THE  MICHZG^JSr  TRADESMAN,

14
Drug Department•

State  Board  of Pharmacy»

On« T ear—O ttm ar Eberbach, A a n   Arbor.
Two  Years—George Guudrum, tonia.
Three  T ears—C. A. Bag bee. Charlevoix.
Fo'\r Years—8. E. Parkill, Owosso.
Five Y ears—F. W. R. P erry, Detroit.
President—Fred’k W .R. P erry, Detroit, 
f  ecretary —Stanley E. Parkill, Owosso.
Treasurer—Geo. Gundrum, Ionia.
Com ing  Meetings—Detroit,  J a n 8;  G rand'  Rapids. 
March 5; D etroit (Star Island), June 24; Lansing, Nov. 5,
Michigan  State  Pharm aceutical  Ass’n. 
President—A. 8. Parker, Detroit.
Vice-President—John E.  Peck, Detroit.
T reasurer—W. Dupont,  Detroit.
S ecretar—F. C. Thompson. Detroit.
Grand  Rapids  Pharm aceutical Society. 

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

INDIVIDUALITY  IN  ADVERTISING.
There should  be  an  identity  between 
the advertiser  and  the  article  he  sells 
which will make it  impossible  to  disso­
ciate the two.  When the man’s  name  is 
spoken,  his business should  be  immedi­
ately brought to mind,  and if the product 
he controls is  in demand,  his  name will 
naturally follow as indicating  the  place 
of supply;  one should suggest  and  be  a 
sequence to the other.

It remains for  each  merchant  to  dis­
cover for himself the style of advertising 
best adapted to his trade.  An attraction 
that  proves  wonderfully  profitable  in 
one locality will  fail  completely  in  an­
other.  One  druggist  spends  time  and 
money in arranging his windows—he has 
confidence in  this  medium  and  will  at­
tempt  no  other.  Another  retailer  will 
deem artistic  display  a  waste  of  time; 
his pet method partakes possibly  of  the 
lottery—a valuable present given  to  the 
holder of  a  certain ticket, or to the best 
guesser of the number  of  beans in  a jar. 
Another  pharmacist  believes  in  sign­
boards scattered throughout the country ; 
he  follows  the  railroad  track, 
leases 
ground  at  intervals,  and  builds  board 
fences on which to  paint  his  name  and 
business.  Books and pamphlets  for dis­
tribution are found effective by some ad­
vertisers;  but the book, to  save  it  from 
the usual  fate  of  the  printed  circular, 
should be something  more  than  a  cata­
logue of his  own  goods—it  should  con­
tain fire-alarm signals,  theatre diagrams, 
a list of poisons and  antidotes, or a  con­
densed materia medica.

A  New  York  druggist  who  pins  his 
faith devoutly to advertising  by window 
displays  is at present exhibiting a  beau­
tiful representation  of Northern  Lights. 
When questioned concerning the expense 
of  such  an  elaborate  arrangement,  he 
stated that  the  cost  was  comparatively 
little,  much less than one would  suppose 
from the  artistic  effect  produced.  The 
display  consists  of  huge  blocks  of  ice 
piled high;  underneath,  an  arc-light  of 
probably 1,000 candle power is stationed, 
and  behind  the  ice  a  wheel  revolves, 
with  pieces  of  colored  glass  pendent 
from the  circumference.  At  each  turn 
of the wheel  a  procession  of  prismatic 
colorssis reflected through  the  ice,  giv­
ing flashes  of  brilliancy  that  rival  Na­
ture’s own borealic fireworks.  An  auto­
matic ventilator in the  upper part of the 
window  exhausts 
the  warm  air  and 
moisture, and a drain attachment carries 
off the  water.

The adoption of a  trademark  or  coat 
of arms has found favor with some drug­
gists;  something  unique  is  most  desir­
able—a two-tailed cat,  winged  horse,  or 
a  symbolic  emblem  suggested  by  the 
name of the apothecary. 
It appears con­
spicuously  upon  wrapping-paper,  sta­
tionery,  labels,  bottles,  window-panes, 
etc., and as  soon  as  the  mark  becomes

identified  with the merchant every bearer 
of a  bundle from  his  place  becomes  an 
unconscious  advertiser.  A  combination 
of colors is good for this  purpose,  but to 
be most effective the  idea  must  be  car­
ried out in detail;  the  colors  should  be 
constantly  visible  in  window-dressing, 
inside decorations,  labels  and wrappers, 
even string for tying packages.  A trade 
mark soon becomes  characteristic  and is 
recognized at a  glance.

the  author  of 

teaches  a  new 

It is said that a worthless article needs 
only to be extensively advertised to make 
it  a  successful  seller.  This  is  partly 
true;  the  advertiser  may  get  back  the 
amount of his investment,  but the  intel­
ligent  pnblic  will  not  be  twice  fooled 
when it comes to a question of merit.  It 
is characteristic of Americans  that  they 
take a humbug philosophically,  but  the 
lesson  in 
experience 
shrewdness,  and 
the 
swindle has  acquired  a  reputation  that 
will  stick  to  him  through  his  entire 
career.  Advertising  goes  a  long  way, 
but the quality of  the  goods  must  sus­
tain the  promises  or  the  business  will 
meet an  early  death  in  the  mercantile 
world. 
In these  days  of  press  investi­
gation the  precept  “Honor  for  Honor’s 
Sake” must be followed  by  “ Honor  for 
Safety’s Sake.” 
If the manufacturer of 
a new article, particularly a  patent  nos­
trum,  appears to reap large  returns  and 
great profits from his  advertising,  he  is 
at once  “looked after,”  his  product  an­
alyzed,  the actual cost of its  ingredients 
compared with the  selling price,  its pre­
tensions to medicinal value are  assailed, 
and its possible injurious effects upon the 
system  told  with  harrowing  detail. 
If 
it is  proof  against  this  searchlight  at­
tack, it has earned  the  right  to  live;  if 
not,  it goes out  like  a  candle,  or  seeks 
new fields where the  daily  newspaper is 
unknown.

One of the queer things to be  seen  on 
the  Bowery 
is  the  “puller-in.”  The 
man or woman engaged for  this purpose 
stands  outside  the  store,  and  pounces, 
like the historical spider,  upon  a victim, ] 
coaxes,  wheedles,  and  drags  him  over 
the threshold of the establishment.  This 
is no doubt forcible advertising, but, out­
side the limits of the Bowery,  such  deli­
cate methods would not  be  appreciated. 
In localities less  enterprising  and  more 
conservative,  hypnotism  might  be  sub­
stituted.  This  subject  seems  to  have 
been inoculated into the public recently, 
and it may be  that  the  development  of 
the germ will result  in the “professional 
hypnotist” —an open  field,  by  the way, 
of unbounded resources and possibilities. 
With a person of such ability as  a  drug­
store attache, no other advertising would 
be necessary; business would be brisk and 
profitable in the dullest  times,  simply at 
the will of the hypnotizer.

The advertiser must be  bold—an Ajax 
defying competitors and the money  mar­
ket.  Like  everything  else, 
if  entered 
into with half a heart, returns  will  be as 
weak as the spirit that called them forth.
It requires strength to achieve  great  re­
sults. 

L.  H.  F o s t e k .

The Chinese customs post  office has is­
sued a new series of nine stamps to com­
memorate the birth day  of  the  empress 
dowager.

Mrs.  Havemeyer, 

the  sugar  king’s 
wife, employs  sixty  servants  and  pays 
her boss cook $10,000 a  year.  Plenty  of 
sugar in that.

If he  who hesitates is  lost,  the  moral 

of it is that he should not hesitate.

T he  M icroscope  in  P h arm acy.

is 

That  pharmacy  is  a  profession,  we 
know from her direct relation to the sev­
eral  sciences;  the  greater  the  scientific 
requirements  in  pharmacy,  the  higher 
will  be  her  rank  as  a  profession;  the 
greater the pharmacist’s  intellectual en­
lightenment, the higher will be  his posi­
tion in the social world.  His  relation to 
science actually identifies  him with  spe­
cific social functions, as it  is  a  common 
thing that the druggist is called upon  by 
the pnblic to enlighten them with the re­
sults of such scientific  research  as  they 
need. 
the  place 
where  they  will  be  furnished  with 
just  as  much 
they 
seek—they need as much light as they can 
get,  and for the most part  have  no other 
hall of science at which to apply.

information  as 

The  pharmacy 

The  pharmacist  of  to-day  should  at 
least be able to  ascertain  the  purity  of 
the drugs and chemicals  carried in stock 
by  him.  This  necessarily  demands  a 
thorough knowledge  of the physical and 
anatomical properties and characteristics 
of the crude material. 
In  the  study  of 
this material many of the  external  char­
acteristics are indistinct  to  the  unaided 
eye.  These,  however,  may  be  clearly 
distinguished  by  the  aid  of  a  simple 
microscope or lens;  the study of  the  an­
atomy or inner  structure  of  the  tissues 
must be made with the compound  micro­
scope,  an instrument of  higher magnify­
ing power.

Probably  no  one  instrument  has  so 
revolutionized  science  and  contributed 
so much to progress and a  knowledge  of 
the works of nature  as  the  microscope. 
The  great  advancement 
in  structural 
anatomy of organisms which  our knowl­
edge  has  made  in  the  last  decade  we 
owe 
,..DeIy  to  the  microscopical  re­
searches made by pharmacists and botan­
ists.

By virtue of  his  profession,  the  edu­
cated pharmacist should  be  the  chemist 
and analyst of the people; thus, he would 
be called upon to make microscopical ex­
aminations  of  urine,  sputum,  animal 
tissues, stomach contents, water, etc.

These examinations may  not  only  re­
sult in a gain  from  a  pecuniary  stand­
point,  but  necessarily  terminate  in  a 
gain of confidence as  to  his  capacity  in 
his  profession,  as  well  as  esteem  and 
friendship—all  of  which  are  most  es­
sential to success in business.

instrument,  and 

The  microscope is  an exceedingly del­
icate 
its  use  must 
be learned.  The faculty of  seeing  with 
it mnst be acquired;  this  requires  some 
perseverance if we  wish to attain  the ac­
curate vision here indispensable; through 
experimental  training  alone will  we  be 
able to discover the presence  of  objects 
that were in the early part  of  our  work 
entirely overlooked.

There is hardly  a  substance  that  we 
could prepare for microscopical examina­
tion  but  would  reveal  something  new 
and of  interest.  This  excites  the  curi­
osity,  which only lasts for  a  short  time 
before  something  offering  particularly 
interesting  peculiarities  will  be  found 
and will turn  our  investigations  into  a 
certain one of the manifold  branches  of 
microscopy. 

Louis  Rominger.

A recent  medical  writer  asserts  that 
careful examination of a number of cases 
shows that loss of hearing  is  almost  al­
ways due to some disease  of  the  throat 
or nose.

Use Tradesman Coupon Books

D etails W hich W ill T ake C are o f T hem ­

s e lv e s.

If there ever was an occupation requir­
ing watchful care,  it is that of the  phar­
macist.  One by  one  new  remedies  ac­
cumulate,  and,  as  time  goes  by,  it  be­
comes difficult in some  cases  to  get  re­
liable data  referring  to  the  dose,  pro­
perties and  solubilities of these once new 
remedies.

If the druggist will trim a  neat  blank 
label and gum it on the back of each bot­
tle,  he fill find that he will need all of its 
space in  which  to  write  a  few  things 
down—details  that  will  take  care  of 
themselves.  The  first  thing  to  note 
down is the cost price  per ounce.  Then 
follows  the  selling  price  per  grain 
or drachm. 
If the  pharmacist will  con­
tinue  his  statistics  further,  he  should 
add the dose, usual  and maximum,  then 
the effect on the  system,  in  one  or  two 
words—and we have plenty in the vocab­
ulary to describe each therapeutic effect, 
by the  way—giving  also  the  incompat­
ibles and solubility,  concluding with  an 
advisable vehicle.

It may  be  a  year  or  two—yes,  even 
longer—before  these same facts,  gleaned 
at the time from the books and  journals, 
will be of great  service  to  the  one  dis­
pensing.  Maybe it will be  a  new clerk, 
or assistant, or the  proprietor,  who  will 
be asked by a  physician  or  patient  the 
dose, effect, compatibility or  solvent  for 
this identical yet  out-of-the-way remedy.
By embodying all this in  a  few  words, 
and writing it on  a  small  label  on  the 
bottle,  the  answer  will  always  be  at 
hand,  and where it is most needed.

It is jnst these peculiar  remedies  that 
your physician may ask  you  about,  and 
it is your business to  furnish  the  infor­
mation.  He  may  doubtless  know  the 
therapeutic value and  dose,  yet  inquire 
for its solubility and a  pleasant  method 
of  administration. 
If  every  out-of-the- 
way  chemical  or  preparation  is  thus 
labeled,  the compounding of  a  prescrip­
tion calling for it  would  be  more  of  a 
pleasure than a task,  and  still  serve  to 
relieve the druggist’s memory  of details, 
which will then take care  of themselves.

F r a n k   T.  G r e e n .

“None but the  brave deserve the fair” 
and none  but  the  brave  can  live  with 
some of them.
Seely’s Flavoring Extracts
Every dealer should sell  them. 
Extra Fine quality.
Lemon,  Vanilla,  Assorted  Flavors. 
Yearly sales increased by  their  use. 
Send trial order.

• 
Doz.  Gro. 
1 OE.  $  90  10  20
2 oz.  1  20  12  60
4 os.  2  OO  22  80
6 oz.  3  00  33  00
fs Vanilla
■
Wrapped)
Doz.  Gro.
1 oz. $ 1  AO  16  20
2 oz.  2  00  21  60 
4 oz.  3  75  40 80 
6 oz.  5  40  57  60
Plain  N. S.  w ith 
corkscrew at same 
price If  preferred.
Correspondence

Solicited
filch.

SEELY  MFQ.  CO.,  Detroit 

9

¥

A

*

Wholesale Price Current•

Advanced—Salaclne, Blue  Vitrol,  Serpentina,  Turpentine.  Declined—Opiom,  Gum  Camphor. 

q!1 Anise.

THE  MICHIGLAJST  TRADESMAN.

15

 

“ 

Linseed,  boiled.........  59
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
strained...............   65
Spirits Turpentine__  35
b b l. 

p a in t s . 

lb .
Red  Venedan..............lft  2®8
Ochre,yellow Mars... 1M  2@4
“ 
Ber........1M  2®8
Patty,  commerdal....2M  2M®8
“  strictly  pure.....2M  2M®3
Vermilion Prime Amer­
  13@15
ican ................. 
Vermilion,  English__  
65@70
13®16
Green,  Peninsular...... 
Lead,  red....................   5M@6
“  w hite................5M®6
Whiting, white Span...  @70
Whidng,  Gllders’TTT...  @96
1 
White, Paris  American 
Whidng;  Paris  Eng.
cliff.......................... 
1  40
Universal Prepared ..l  (0@ri5
No.l Turp  Coach.... 1  10@1  20
Extra Turp................16001  70
Coach Body.............. 2 75@3 00
No. 1 Turp Furn.......1  00®1  10
Butra Turk Damar__1 56@1  60
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 
Turp.........................
70® 75

VARNISHES.

* 

8.  N. Y. Q.  A

Morphia, S. P. A W.  2 06®2 SO 
C.  Co....................  1 95®2 20
Moschus Canton........  @ 40
Myrisdca, No  1 ........  66®  70
Nux Vomica, (po20)..  @  10
Os.  Sepia....................  15®  18
Pepsin Saac, E A P .D .
Co............................  @2 00
Plds Llq, N.*C., M gal
doz  .........................  @2 00
Plds Llq., quarts......   @1  00
Pints.........   ©  85
Pll Hydrarg,  (po. 80)..  ©  50
Piper Nigra, (po.22)..  ®  1
Piper Alba, (po ¿1)__   @  3
PllxBurgun................  ©  7
Plumbl Acet..............  10®  12
Pulvis Ipecac et opll. .1  10©1 20 
Pyrethrum,  boxes  H
A P. D.  Co., dos......   ®1 25
Pyrethrum,  pv...........  20®  30
' ’.uaaslae.................... 
a®  10
Ulnla, 8. P. A W......34MQ89M
8.  German__   27©  37
“ 
Rubla  Tinctorum......   12®  14
Saccharum Lacds pv. 
12®  14
Salacln.......................2 30@2 50
Sanguis  DtscouIs......   40®  50
9apo,  W......................  12®  14
“  M.......................  10®  12
G.......................  @  15

Sddllts  Mixture........  ©  20
Slnapls................   © 
18
30
"   opt...........   ® 
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  De
Voes.................   ...  @ .35
SnuffyScotch, De. Voes  @  3*
Soda Boras, (po.S-10).  7®  9
Soda  et Potass Tart...  24®  25
Soda Carb.................  1M@  2
Soda, BI Carb............   3®  5
Soda, Ash....................3M@  4
Soda, Sulphas............  ©  2
Spts. Ether C o....   50® 
55
“  Myrda  Dom......   ®2 00
“  Myrda Imp.
i 50
*'  Vlnl  Rect.  bbl.
• - .7 ........................ 2 49®2 59
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Sdychnla Crystal......1 40® 1  45
Sulphur, Subi............ 2M@ 3
Roll..............2  @ 2M
Terebenth Venice.. ...
..  28® SO
45  @ 48
Theobromae.........
Vanilla..................
.9 00016 00
Zlncl  Snlph...........
..  7® 8
OILS.

Bbl.  Gal
Whale, winter........ ..  70
70
Lard,  extra............
.  SO
85
Lard, No.  1............
.  42
45
Linseed, pore raw ....  56
59

II y

ACIDUM .

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

Acetlcum...................  8®  10
Bensoicum  German..  65®  75
Boradc 
15
Carbollcum..............  20®  so
Cltrlcum...................  41®  41
Hydrochlor................  3®  5
Nftrocum 
.................   10®  12
Ox all cum ...................  10®  12
Phosphorium dll........ 
20
Salley ileum ...............1  25® 1  60
Sulpnurlcum.............. 
lî£@  5
Tannlcum..................1 40®1  60
Tartarlcum...............   30®  33

AMMONIA.

“ 

Aqua, 16  deg..............  4®  6
20  deg..............  6®  8
Carbonas  ...................  12®  14
Chlorldum.................  12®  14

ANIUNX.

Black..........................2 00©2 26
Brown........................   80®1 00
Red.............................   45®  50
Yellow.......................2 50®3 00

BACCAE.

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

b a l s a m u m .

Copaiba......................  45®  50
Peru...................-.......   ®2 CO
Terabln. Canada  ....  45®  50
Tolutan......................  35®  50

CORTBX.

Abies,  Canadian.................  18
Casslae  ...............................  12
Cinchona Flava  .................   18
Ruonymus  atropurp...........  30
Hyrlca  Cerlfera, po.............  20
Prunus Vlrglnl....................   12
Qulllala,  grd.......................   10
Sassafras  ................  
\z
Ulmus Po (Ground 15)........  15

 

 

BXTRACTUM.

1 

•< 

Glycyrrhlsa  Glabra...  24®  25
po...........  33®  35
Haematox, 15 lb. box..  11®  12
is..............  13®  14
its............   14®  15
jjs.............  16®  17
FKRBU

Carbonate Preelp........  ®  15
Citrate and Qulnla....  ©3 50
Citrate  Soluble...........  @  80
FerrocyanldnmSol....  ©  50
Solut  Chloride...........  @  15
Sulphate,  com’l .............. 9®
pure............   ®

« 

Vl o u .

Arnica.......................  J2@  14
Anthemls...................
Matricaria 
ls®.5
........ 

TOMA.

Barosma 
Cassia  Acutlfol,  Tin-
nivelly 

...................  14®  30
......... —   18®  25
“  Alx.  25®  3(1
and  Mb  ...................  129  20
8®  10

Salvia  officinalis,  Me
Ura Ursl 
................... 

“ 

OUKMI.

“ 
" 

Acacia, 1st picked  ... 
®  60
©  40
2d 
“ 
.... 
“  Sd 
.... 
©  30
sifted sorts... 
“ 
®  20
p o ................  60®  80
“ 
Aloe,  Barb, (po.60)...  50®  60 
«  Cape, (po.  20)...  O  12 
Soootrl, (po.  60).  ©  50
Catechu, Is, (Ms, 14 M*<
16)............................  ®  1
Ammonias.................  55®  60
Assafcetlda, (po.50) 
50®  6 1
Bensoinum.................  50®  55
Camphor*  .................  40®  48
Ruphorblum  po  ........  35©  lo
Galbanum...................  @2 50
Gamboge,  po......  ....  70®  7b
Gualat am, (po  85)....  ©  3o
Kino,  (po  2 00).........   @2 00
Mastic ... 
................  @  80
Myrrh, (po. 45)...........  ©  40
Opll  (po  3 30®3 50)..  ®
Shellac  .....................   40®  60
bleached  ....  4c@  45
Tragacanth................  SO®  80

“ 
hkrba—In ounce packages.

Absinthium.........................  25
Bupatorlum.........................  20
Lobelia.................................  25
Majorum.............................   28
Mentha  Piperita.................   28
“  Y lr.........................  26
Rue.......................................  30
Tanaoetum, Y......................  22
Thymus,  V ..........................  25
Calcined, Pat..............  55®  60
Carbonate,  Pat...........  20®  22
Carbonate, K. A  M —   20®  25
Carbonate, JennlngS..  35®  36

MASKBSIA.

o l e u m .

Absinthium................ 2 50®3 00
Amygdalae, Dale........  30®  50
Amydalae, Amarae— 8 0G®8 25
Anlsl........................... 2 10@2 20
Aurantl  Cortex...........1  80®2 00
Bergamll  ...................3 00®3 20
Cajlpnd....................  60®  65
Caryophylll................  75®  80
Cedar 
.......................   35®  65
Chencpodli...............   ®1  60
Clnnamonll................. 1 25®i 4
Cltronella  .................  ©  45
Conium  Mao..............  35®  6s
Copaiba  ....................  80©  90

Cubebae...................... l  40@1 60
Bxechthltos..............  1  20@1  30
Erigeron.....................1  20@1 30
Gaultherla..................1  50®1 60
Geranium,  ounce......  ©  75
Gosslpll, Sem. gal......  70®  75
Hedeoma  ..................l 25@l  40
Juniperl.......................   50®2 00
Lavendula..................   90®2 00
Llmonls........:........... 1 40®!  60
Mentha Piper.............. 2 1P@3 00
Mentha Yerld.............1  80®2 00
Morrhuae, gal 
........1 30@1  40
Myrda, ounce...............   ® 50
Olive............................  90@3 00
Plcls Liquida, (gal.,35)  10®  12
Rlelnl.......................  88®  96
Rosmarlnl........... 
1  90
Rosae, ounce............   6 50®8 50
Succlnl.......................  40©  45
Sabina.........................   90@1 00
Santal  .......................2 50®7 00
Sassafras....................  50®  56
Slnapls, ess, ounce....  ®  65
Tlglfl.............................   © fO
Thyme.......................  40®  60
o p t...  .........   ©160
Theobromas...............   15®  30
B IC arb ....................  15®  18
Bichromate...............   13®  14
Bromide...... .............  40®  43
Carb............................ 
ia®  15
Chlorate  (po. 17@19)..  16®  18
Cyanide......................  50®  55
Iodide..............................2 96@3 00
Potassa, Bltart,  pure..  23®  25 
Potassa, Bltart, com...  ®  15
Potass Nltras, opt......   8®  10
Potass Nltras..............  7©  9
Prusalate....................  28©  30
Sulphate  po................  15®  18

POTASSIUM.

“ 

RADIX.
 

“ 

Aconitum...................  20®  25
Althae............... 
  23®  25
Anchusa......................  12® 15
Arum,  po....................  @  25
Calamus......................  20®  40
Gentiana  (po. 12)......   8®  10
Glychrrhlsa, (pv. 15)..  16®  18 
Hydrastis  Cauaden,
(po. 35)...................
®  30 
_
Hellebore,  Ala,  po.... 
15®  20
Inula,  po......................  15® 20
Ipecac,  po...................l  30®l  40
Iris plox (po. 35®38)..  35®  40
Jalapa,  pr...................  40®  45
Maranta,  Mb..............  ®  35
Podophyllum, po........  15®  18
Rhel.............................   75@1 00
“  cut......................  ®1  75
“  pv.......................  75@1  35
Splgella.......................   35® 38
Sangulnarla, (po  25)..  @ 20
Serpen tarla...................  59® 55
Senega.........................  55® 60
Slmllax, Officinalis.  H  @ 40
M  ©  25
Scillae, (po. 35)............   10® 12
Symplccarpus,  Frad-
dus,  po....................  @  %
Valeriana, Eng. (po.30)  ©  25
German...  15®  20
tnglber a.................... 
18® 39
Zingiber  j .................. 
18® 20
e n n .
Anlaum,  (po.  20). 
..  © 1 5
A plum  (graveleons)..  14®  18
Bird, Is......................... 
4® 6
Carol, (po. 18)..............  10® 12
Cardamon........................1 00@1 25
Corlandrum.................   12® 14
Cannabis Satlva.........   4® 
5
Cydonlum....................   7501 00
CnenopodluiB  .............  10® 12
Dlpterlx O dorste...... 2 40®2 60
Foenlculum...................  @ 15
Foenugreek,  po.........   6®  8
L in t.........................
Uni, grd.  (bbl.SM).
Lobelia.........................  85® 40
Pharlarls Canarian.... 
4®  5
Rapa.......................... 4M<
Slnapls  Albu
Nigra.

11®

“ 

Frumend, W., D.  Co..2 00@£ 50
D. F. R......2 00®2 25
................. 1  25®1  50
Junlperls  Co. O. T....1  65@2 00
“ 
1  75©8 50
Saacharum  N.  B........1  90@2 10
Spt.  Ylnl  Galll........... 1 75®6 50
Vlnl Oporto................1
Ylnl  Alba..................1  25@2 00

 

SPOKOSS.

Florida  sheeps’  wool
carriage..................2 50®2 75
Nassau  sheeps’  wool
2 00 
carriage  .................
Yelvet  extra  sheeps’
wool  carriage.........
1  10
Extra  yellow  sheeps’
carriage..................
Grass sheeps’ wool car­
riage  ......................
Hard for  slate  use__
Yellow Reef, for  slate 
use..........................

1  40

SYRUPS.

A ccada...............................  50
Zingiber  .............................  50
~ pecac..................................  60
'erri Iod.............................  50
Aurand Cortes....................   56
Rhel  Arom...............  
  50
Slmllax  Officinalis..............  60
50
Senega................................   50
Sdllae..................................  50
50
Toiatan..........................  
  50
Prunus  rirg........................  50

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

 

 

TIN C TU R ES.

“ 

“ 

“ 

™ 

Aconltum Napellls R.........   60
F ..........  50
Aloes...................................   60
and myrrh..................   60
Arnica................................   SO
Asafoedda............................  o
Atrope Belladonna................  60
Bensoln...............................  60
“  Co............................  50
Sangulnarla.........................  50
Barosma.............................   so
Cantharides....  ...................  75
Capsicum............................  50
Ca damon............................  75
Co.........................  75
Castor..........................;....l 00
Catechu...............................  50
Cinchona............................  50
Co......................  .  60
Colomba.............................   50
Conium...............................  50
Cubeba................................   50
Digitalis.............................   50
Ergot...................................   50
Gendan...............................  50
“  Co............................  60
Guaica................................   50
ammon....................  60
’* 
Zingiber.............................   50
Hyoscyamus.......................  50
Iodine..................................  75
Colorless...................  75
Ferri  Chlorldum.................  35
Kino...................................   50
Lobelia................................  50
Myrrh..................................  50
Nux  Vomica.......................  50
Opll.....................................  85
“  Camphorated...............   50
Deodor.........................2 00
Aurand Cortex....................   50
quassia...............................  50
mstsmy.............................   so
Rhel.....................................  50
Cassia  Acudfol...................  50
Co..............  50
Serpentaria.........................  50
Stromonlum.........................  60
Tolutan...............................  60
Valerian.............................  50
VeratrumVeride.................  50

“ 

‘ 

MISCELLANEOUS.

“ 

* 
“ 

Æther, Spts  Nit, 8 F..  35®  38 
“  4 F ..  38®  40
Alumen....................... 2M© 3

11 
ground,  (po.
7).............................
Annatto......................
Andmonl, po..............
et Potass T.
Antlpyrln..................
Andfebrin  ................
Argend  Nltras, ounce
Arsenicum................. 
5®  7
Balm Gilead  Bud__  38®  40
Bismuth  S.  N ............ 1  40® 1  50
Calcium Chlor, Is, (Ms
@  11
12;  Ms,  14)..............
Cantharides  Russian,
PO............................
@1  00 
Capsid  Fructus, af...
®  26 
@  28 
I po.
O   20
Caryophyllus,^po.  15)
.  10®  12
Carmine,  No. 40.........  ©8 75
Cera  Alba, S. A F ......   50®  56
Cera Flava.................  88®  40
Cocous  .....................   @  40
Cassia Fructus...........  ©  25
Centraria....................  ©  10
Cetaceum...................  @  40
Chloroform...............   60®  68
squlbbs..  @126 
Chloral Hyd erst.  __ 1  25Q1  50
Chondrus 
Clnchonldlne, P.  A  W  15® 
German 3MO 
Corks,  litt,  dis.  per
cent  ......................
Creasotum.............. 
Creta, (bbl. 75)......  

.  „ 

.

.

.

 

po

prep
ubra......
Crocus  ..............
Cudbear...........
Cuprl Sulph......
Dextrine.
Ether Sulph...............   75®
Emery,  all  numbers..  @
BrgotajTpo.)  40 .........   30®  35
Flake  w lite..............  13®  15
Galla..........................  @  28
Gambler.....................   7  @  8
Gelatin,  Cooper.........   Q  60
French...........  30®  50
Glassware  Hint, by box 80.
Less than box 75.
Glue,  Brown............
“  White...............   18
Glycerins...................  14
Grana Paradis)...........
Humulus....................
Hydraag Chlor  Mite..
“  Cor —
Ox Rubrum
Ammonlad..
Unguentum.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Hydrargyrum. 
Icnthyobolla,.Am..  ..1 25®1  50
Indigo......... ..............   750100
Iodine,  Resubl...........3 80@3 90
Iodoform.......................   ®4 70
Lupulln.........................  @2 25
Lycopodium..............  60®  65
M ads.........................  70®  75
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy-
drarg Iod.................  ®  27
Liquor Potass Arsinlds  10®  IS
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
Mannla,  8. F ..............  60®  68

1M)............................2M@  4

75 
©
@  35 
@
®  2 
5®  5
9®  11 
@  8 
35®  40 
@  24 
5©   6
10®  ¡ I

VALLEY  CITY

POULTRY POWDER

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.

0

Price 25  Cents•

HÄXELTINE  Ï  PERKINS  DRUG  GO.,

Manufacturing Chemists,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

1 6

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

GROCERY  PR IC E   CU RREN T.

The  prices  quoted  in  this  list  are  for the  trade  only,  in  such  quantities  as  are  usually  purchased  by  retail  dealers.  They  are  prepared  just  before 
^oimr  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.

CREAM  TARTAR.

Strictly  pure......................  30
Telfer’s Absolute..............  30
Grocers’............................ 15025

CATSUP.

“ 

Blue Label Brand.
Half  pint, 25 bottles...........2 75
 
Pint 
Quart 1 doz bottles 
.......8 50
Triumph Brand.
Half pint, per  doz...................1 35
Pint, 25 bottles.........................4 50
Quart, per  doz  ...................3 75

4 60

CLOTHES  PINS.

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

COCOA  SHELLS.

351b  bags........................  03
Less Quantity  ... 
0314
Pound  packages..........6M07

 

 

COFFEE.
Green.
Rio.

Santos.

Mexican and Guatamala.

Fair......................................18
Good.................................... 19
Prime.................................. 21
Golden.................................21
Peaberry............................. 23
Fair......................................19
Good....................................20
Prime.................................. 22
Peaberry  ............................ 23
Fair..................................... 21
Good.................................... 22
Fancy.................................. 24
Prime.................................. 23
Milled.................................24
Interior......................... 
Private Growth...................27
Mandehllng........................28
Imitation............................ 25
Arabian............................... 28

Maracaibo.

Mocha.

Java.

 

Roasted.

To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add %c. per lb. for roast 
lng and 15 pier cent,  for shrink 
age.
McLaughlin’s  XXXX..  Si 80
Bnnola.............................  21  30
Lion, 60 or 100 lb.  case....  21  80 

Package. 

Extract.

Valley City V4 gross...........  75
Felix 
1  15
Hummel’s, foil, gross........1  65
........2 85
“ 

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“ 

tin 
CHICORV.

  25

Bnlk. 
Bed  .

CLOTHES  LINES.

Cotton, 40 ft...
50 ft...
60 ft...
70 ft...
80 ft...
60 ft...
7 2 ff..

**
»
“
Jute
“

...per doz.  1  26
140
1  60
175
1  90
8b
1  00

“ 
“ 
“ 
» 
“ 
“ 

CONBKN8ED  MILK. 

4 doz. In case.

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

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

doz  gross
600
7 00
5 50
9 oo
7 50
6 00

BAKING  POWDER.

, 
‘ 

u  id.  nuns. 3 doz —
“  .....
li b . 
1  “  .........
Bulk............ .Arctic.
54 lb cans 6 doz  case. 
54 
“  4 doz  “ 
.
1  lb  “  2 doz
s  sk  **  9 dnz 
“
5  lb  “  1 doz
3  oz cans 6 doz  “ 
6  oa  “  4 doz  “ 
9  oz  “  4 doz
1  9>  “  2 doz
5 
Red Star, 54 

Queen Flake.
..
............ “

Teller’s,  54 lb. cans, doz 

............  9
,
..........  I

lb “  ldoz  “ 
cans
“ 
54 ®>  “ 
15.  “ 
“ 
541b.  “ 
.. 
li b . 
«• 
‘ 
54 lb  cans..........
•« 
1 lb cans..........1

Our Leader, % .b cans

..  1

“

BATH  BRICK. 
2 dozen in case.

English ..
Bristol__
Domestic.

 

“ 

soz 

BLUING. 

Gross
Arctic, 4 oz  ovals................3 60
“ 
“  pints,  round...........8 00
“  No. 2, sifting box...  2 75 
“  No. 3, 
• ■ •  4 00
»  No. 5, 
...  8 00
i os b a ll..................  4 50
“ 
Mexican Liquid, 4  oz........  3 60
•* 
8 oz.........   6 80

“ 
“ 

“ 
BROOMS.

AO. 2 Hurl  .......................... I  *
No. 2 Carpet............................. 2 ^
Parlor Gem.......................... 2
Common Whisk................. 
Fancy 
 
Warehouse...............................* 30

85

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b r u s h e s .

“ 
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“ 
“ 

Stove, NO.  1........................  J 25
10.....................   1 50
15.......................1
Rice Root Scrub. 2  row....  85
Rice Root  Scrub, 8 row....  1  25
Palmetto, goose.................  1  50

CANDLES.

Hotel, 40 lb. boxes............  10
Star,  40 
..............  9
Paraffine  ..........................  16
Wieklng............................24

“ 

CANNED  GOODS. 

Pish.
Clams.

“ 

» 

Little Neck,  l lb................ 1  20
«  2 lb.................1  90
Clam Chowder.
Standard, 3 lb.....................2 2
Gove Oysters.
Standard,  1 lb....................  7
21b....................1 35
Lobsters.
Star,  1  lb........................... 2 45
2  lb........................... 8 50
Picnic,1 lb..........................2 00
2 90
21b.
Mackerel.
Standard, 1 lb.......................1 10
2  lb.....................2 10
Mustard,  2 lb ...................... 2 25
Tomato Sauce,  2 lb..............2 25
Soused, 2 lb..........................2 25
Salmon.
..1  75 
Columbia River, flat 
..1 50 
“ 
'all*
..1 30 
Alaska, Red............ .
1 20
pink............
Kinney’s,  flats..................... 1 75
Sardines.
American  54s  ..............454® 5
/4s.............6540 7
Imported  54s...................   010
54s................... 15016
Mustard
Boneless.............. .........
Brook 3, lb........... — .... ...2 5t

“ 
“ 

“ 

Tioab
Fruits.
Appwr.
3 lb. standard__  —
York State, gallons —
Hamburgh,  “ 
....

9C
2 5C

.

Gages.

Apricots.
1  40 
Live oak.....................
1  40 
Santa Crus.................
1  50 
Lusk’s.........................
1  40
Overland..................
Blackberries.
85
F. &  W.......................
Cherries.
Red.............................
0 1   20
Pitted Hamburgh......
1  40 
White.........................
1  15
Erie............................
Damsons, Egg Plums and Green 
1  35 
Brie............................
1 25
California..................
Gooseberries.
1  25
Common....................
Peaches.
1  10 1  50 
Pie............................
Maxwell....................
1  50
Shepard’s ..................
California..................   16001  75
Monitor  ....................
Oxford.......................
Domestic.................... 
1  25
Riverside.................... 
1 75
Pineapples.
Common.....................1 0001  30
Johnson’s  sliced.......  
2 50
grated........ 
2 75
02 5)
Booth’s sliced............ 
grated........... 
0 2
Quinces.
Common.................... 
1  10
Raspberries.
Red............................. 
95
Black  Hamburg.........  
1  40
Erie,  black  ...............  
1  20
Strawberries,
Lawrence..................  
1  25
Hamburgh................. 
1  25
Erie............................ 
1  20
1  05
Terrapin....................... 
Whortleberries.
Blueberries............... 
85
6 75
Corned  beef  Libby’s..........2 20
Roast beef  Armour’s..........2 35
Potted  ham, 54 lb.....................1 25

Meats.

Pears.

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“  54 lb.

“ 

“ 
“ 

tongue, 54 lb..............1 85
chicken, 54 lb.........   95

“ 
54 lb
Vegetables.
Hamburgh  stringless. 
-  1  15 
French style 
.  2 00
Limas........  —   1  25

Beans.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Corn.

soaked__

Lima, green..............................1 15
Lewis Boston Baked............1 25
Bay State  Baked.................. 1 25
* S
World’s Fair  Baked............1 25
Picnic Baked.......................   95
Hamburgh............................... 1 25
Livingston  Eden.....................1 10
Purity...................................... 1 00
Honey  Dew.„......................... 1 35
Morning Glory...
Soaked...............................  75
Peas.
Hamburgh marrofat............1 80
early June  . 
...1 50
Champion Eng.. 1  40
petit  pols.............1 40
fancy  sifted____1 65
Soaked................................   g5
Harris standard...................  75
VanCamp’s  marrofat..........1  10
early Jane.......1  30
Archer’s  Early Blossom__ 1  25
French..................................... 2 15
Mushrooms.
French...................... .....19021
Pumpkin.
Erie................................ 
  85
Squash.
Hubbard........... ..................1  1!
Succotash.
Hamburg................  
l 3
Soaked............... ~ ............  80
Honey  Dew.............................. 1 40
Erie.......................................... 1 35
Hancock.............................   90
Excelsior ...........................  9,
Eclipse.........................  
90
Hamburg...... ...................... 1 25
Gallon..........................—...3 00

Tomatoes.

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CHOCOLATE. 

Baker’s.

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

CHEESE.
Amboy.......................
Acme..........................
Lenawee....................
Riverside...................
Gold  Medal................
Skim..........................
Brick..........................
Edam ........................
Leiden.......................
Limbnrger  ................
Pineapple...................
Roquefort..-™ ........
Sap Sago....................
Schweitzer, Imported.
domestic  ....

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23
37
43
12%
11
12
1214

8®9
11
1 00 
20 
015 
024 
035 
020 
024 
014

COUPON  BOOKS.

“Tradesman.’

“
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“ 
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“ 
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«> 
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1 books, per hundred.
8 
5 
jo 
320 
3  1 books, per hundred 
3 2 
3 3 
3 5 
310 
320

“Superior.”

“ 

“ 

“

2 50
3 00
3 50
4 00
5 00
6 00

Universal.”

“ 
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“ 
“ 
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“ 
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3 1  books, per hundred...  33 00 
....  8 50
3 2 
....  4 00
3 3
....  5 00
3 5 
810 
....  6 00
320 
. 
Above prices on coupon books 
are  subject  to  the  following 
quantity discounts:
200 books or over..  5 per  cent 
500  “ 
1000  “ 
COUPON  PASS  BOOKS.
I Can  be  made to represent any 
denomination  from 810  down.' 
20 books........................ 8 1  00
50
2  00 
3 00 
100
6 25 
250
500
10  00 
17 50
1000

..10 
.20 

“ 
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“
“

CREDIT  CHECKS.

500, any one denom’n ...... S3 00
1000,  “  “ 
.......5 00
2000,  « 
....... 8 00
“ 
Steel punch.......................  75
CRACKERS.

“ 
“ 

Butter.

Seymour XXX......................5
Seymour XXX, cartoon......5H
Family XXX.....................
Family XXX,  cartoon........  5V4
Salted XXX.........................5
Salted XXX,  cartoon  ........5)4
Kenosha 
..........................  7)4
Boston..................................7
Butter  biscuit....................  6
Soda, XXX.........................  5)4
Soda, City..............................7)4
Soda,  Duchess......................8)4
Crystal Wafer..................... 10)4
Long  Island Wafers...........11
S. Oyster  XX X ...................5)4
Cflty Oyster. XXX.................5)4
Farina  Oyster.................... 6

Oyster.

Soda.

DRIED  FRUITS. 

Domestic.

Apples.

Peaches.

Apricots.

Blackberries.
Nectarines.

Sundrled,....................... 
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes 
California in  bags........ 
Evaporated in boxes.... 
In  boxes....................... 
70 lb. bags..............  ......
251b. boxes..................... 
Peeled, In  boxes........... 
Cal. evap.  “ 
........... 
“ 
In bags...... . 
California In bags......  
Pitted Cherries.
Barrels..........................
50 lb. boxes...................
25" 
...................
Prunelles.
Raspberries.

301b.  boxes...................
In barrels...................... 
SOlb.boxes.................... 
...................... 
251b.  “ 
Raisins.

Pears.

“ 

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6
7 
8 Vi
9
7

9
10
10
8)4
6)4

20
20)4
20)4

Loose Muscatels in Boxes.
2 crown.............................   3)4
.............................   4
3 
4 
5)4
2  crown................................ 3)4
3 

“ 
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Loose Muscatels in Bags.
“ 
...............................4

 

Foreign.
Currants.

Peel.

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

25  " 
25  “ 

“ 
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“ 
“ 
Raisins.

Ondura. 29 ib. boxes.. 
“ 
Sultana, 20 
Valencia. 30  “ 
.. 

0  6
©7)4
5

Prunes.
California,  100-120 ..............  5)4
90x100 25 lb. bxs.  6
.. 6)4
80x90 
7
70x80 
60x70 
. 754

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

“ 
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ENVELOPES.
XX rag. white.

No. 1,6)4..........................  «1  35
No. 2, 6)4..........................  1  1«
No. 1,6.............................   1  2b
No. 2, 6.............................   1  00

Manilla, white.

6)4  ...................................  
6........................................ 

75
70

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

90
FARINACEOUS  GOODS. 

Coin.

Farina.
Grits.

115 lb. kegs................... 

2)4

7 00

Hominy.

Walsh DeRoo &  Co.’s......   1  85
Barrels.........................  
  2%
Grits........................... 
 
3)4
Lima  Beans.
Dried............................   505)4

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

55

Pearl Barley.

“ 

354

Schumacher....................  
Common......... ................   3
Green,  bu........................  1  10
Split  per l b .................
Rolled  Oats.

Peas.

54 bbl............   2 50
.................  4 00

Schumacher, bbl.................... 34 65
Monarch,  bbl 
Monarch, V4  bbl......................2 13
Quaker,  cases.......................  3 20
Oven Baked............................. 3 25
German.............................   3
East India..........................   3)4
Cracked..............................  3

Wheat.

Sago.

FISH—Salt.

Bloaters.

Cod.

Yarmouth...............................  1 65
Georges cured................   4
Georges genuine............ 6
Georges selected............   7
Boneless,  bricks............ 65i
Boneless, strips................6M09

Halibut.

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

11012

Herring.
“ 
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“ 

bbl  8

Holland, white hoops keg 
Norwegian.......................
Round, V4 bbl 100 lbs........  2 £5
“  %  “  40  “  .........     1 30
Scaled......................  ..... 
15
No. 1,  100 lbs..................... 11  E0
No. 1, 40 lbs....................... 4  90
No, 1,  10 lbs....................... 1  3n
No. 2,100 lbs.....................10  no
No. 2, 40 lbs.......................  4  30
No. 2,10  lbs......................   1  15
Family, 90 lbs....................
10  lbs .................

Mackerel.

“ 

Sardines.
Trout.

Russian,  kegs....................  55
No. 1, 54 bbls., lOOlbs..........5  00
No. 1 54 bbl, 40  lbs............ 2  3C
65
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs.............. 
55
........... 
No  1, 8 Id  kits. 

Whlteflsh.

No. 1  family
% bbls, 100 lbs..  ......86 75 3 00
......3 Oil  1 50
M  “  40  “ 
101b.  kits..................   83  45
81b.  “ 
......   .........   69  39
MATCHE8.

 

Globe Match Co.’s Brands.

Columbia Parlor.....................31 25
XXX Sulphur.........................  1 00
Diamond  Match  Co.’s  Brands.
No. 9 sulphur............... — 1 65
Anchor parlor............... 
.  1  70
No. 2 home............................... 1 10
Export parlor.......................... 4 00

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

Bonders’.

Regular
Grade
Lemon.

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

Regular
Vanilla.

doz
2 oz...... 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

“ 
“ 

Jennings.
Lemon. Vanilla 
120
2 oz regular panel.  75 
4 os 
...1  50 
2 00
6 oz 
...2 00 
3 00
No. 3 taper.... 135 
No. 4 taper.... 1  50 

N orthrop’s
Lemon.  Vanilla.
2 oz  oval taper  75 
“  1 20 
3 oz 
2 oz regular  “
85 
4 oz 
“  1 60 

“ 
“ 
GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.

1  20

2 00
2 50

1 10
1 75
2 25

HERBS.

Choke Bore—Dupont’s

Eagle Duck—Dupont’s.

Kegs......................................... 3 25
Half  kegs.................................1 90
Quarter  kegs...........................1 10
1 lb  cans.............................   30
)4 lb  cans............................  18
Kegs......................................... 4 25
Half  kegs.................................2 40
Quarter kegs............................ 1 35
1 lb cans.................................34
Kegs  .................................11 00
Half  kegs................................ 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
JELLY.
15  lb. palls................. 
0   33
“ 
................ 
17  “ 
0   38
30  “  “ 
................  ©  69
LICORICE.
Pure.....................................   30
Calabria...............................  25
Sicily....................................  12
Root—..................................   10
LYE.
Condensed, 2 doz.....................1 20
4 doz.................... 2 25

INDIGO.

“ 
MINCE  MEAT.

Mince meat, 3 doz. in case.  2 7
Pie Prep. 3 doz.  In case___3 06

MEASURES.
Tin, per dozen.

1  gallon...........................   81  75
Half  gallon.....................   1  40
70
Quart............................... 
Pint..................................  
45
Half  pint  .......................  
40
Wooden, for vinegar, per doz.
1 gallon.....................  ....  7 00
Half gallon......................  4  75
Q uart......................... .....   3 75
Pint 

..............................  2

MOLASSES.
Blackstrap.
Cuba Baking.
 
Porto Ritj.

Sugar house................—
Ordinary.............. 
 
Prim e............................... 
Fancy 
.— ... 
Fair  .............  
Good  .......  
Extra good........................ 
Choice 
..........................  
Fancy... 
—  
Half -barrels 3c.extra

N«w Orleans.
 

■ 

 

 

14
16
20
30
18
22
27
32
40

Peerless evaporated cream. 5*75

Patras,  bbls......................... 4
Vostizzas, 60 lb.  caseB........ 4

PICKLES.
Medium.
Barrels, 1,200 count...
@ 4   no
Half bbls, 600  count.. @1 50
Small.
6 00
Barrels, 2,400  count.
3 50
Half bbls, 1,200 count
PIPES.

....1  70
Clay, No.  216.................
....  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

RICE.
Domestic.

Carolina head................
“  No. 1.......................5
“  No.2...............

5)4
....  4)4
Broken...............................  3)4
»*  No.2..........................5)4
Japan, No. 1...................
5
Patna............................. ...  4)4

Imported.

SPICES.

Whole Sifted.

“ 

Allspice...............................  9v4
Cassia, China in mats........  9)4

“  Batavia in bund— lb
Saigon in rolls........32
“ 
Cloves,  Amboyn»................22
“ 
Zanzibar..................11)4
Mace  Batavia......................70
Nutmegs, fancy...................85
«  No.  1.................••••60
“  No. 2.......................5s
Pepper, Singapore, black— 10 
“  
»  white...  .20
shot.........................16
“ 
Pure Ground in Bulk.
Allspice............................... 15
Cassia,  Batavia...................18
and  Saigon.25
« 
Saigon....................35
“ 
Cloves,  Amboyna................22
“ 
Zanzibar................18
Ginger, African...................16
“  Cochin..................  20
Jam aica................22
“ 
Mace  Batavia......................65
Mustard, Eng. and Trieste..22
“  Trieste....................25
Nutmegs, No. 2 ...................75
Pepper, Singapore, black — 16
“  white...... 24
Cayenne................20
Sage.......................... ..........20

•• 
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•‘Absolute” in Packages.

34» 

SAL  SODA.

.>4»
Allspice......................  84  155
Cinnamon...................  84  1  55
Cloves.........................  84  155
Ginger,  Jamaica........  84  1 55
“  African...........  84  1  55
Mustard......................  84  1  55
Sage?...........................  84
Granulated,  bbls.......... ....  1)4
751b  cases.. ....  1%
.....   1M
Lump, bbls 
.................
.  1)4
. 
1451b kegs.........
SEEDS.
Anise......................... @13
4
Canary, Smyrna.........
Caraway....................
so
Cardamon. Malabar...
4
Hemp,  Russian.........
Mixed  Bird...............
4)4
9
Mustard,  white.........
8
Poppy.........................
4)4
Rape..........................
30
Cuttle  bone..............
STARCH.

Corn.
20-lb  Doxes.................... __ 6
.................... ....  5*
40Jb 
Gloss.
....  5*
1-lb packages.................
---- 6)4
8-lb 
.................
................. ....  6%
6-lb 
40 and 50 lb. boxes........ ....  3X
Barrels.......................... ....  3)4
Scotch, in  bladders.............87
Maccaboy  in jars................35
French Rappee, in Jars.......43
Boxes....................................6J*
Kegs, English....................... 4£

SNUFF.

SODA,

» 
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“ 

“ 

“ 

SALT.

Diamond Crystal.

 

 

“ 

Cases, 243  lb. boxes........*  1  60
Barrels, 320  lbs...............   2  50
1152)4 lb bags....  4 00
“ 
....  3 75
tO5 
lb “ 
“ 
“ 
....  3 50
3010  lb “ 
Butter, 56 lb  bags..... 
65
“  an 141b bags............   3 50
“  280 lb  bbls............   2 50
“  2241b 
2 25

Worcester.
115 2V4-lb sacks........................*4 CO
“ 
60 5-lb 
..................3  if
..................3  50
•* 
3010-lb 
2«  14 lb.  “ 
..................3  30
520 lb. bbl.................................2 50
8 lb  sacks........................32)4
linen acks...............   60
Common Grades.

100 3-lb. sacks......................... *2 10
60 5-lb.  “ 
2810-lb. sacks....................... 1 75
56 lb. dairy in drill  bags...  30
281b.  “ 
16
Ashton.
56 lb. dairy in linen sacks..  75
Higgins.
56 lb. dairy in linen  sacks.  75 
Soiar Rock.
56 lu   sacks.................
22
Common Fine.
Saginaw......................
Manistee.....................

1 90

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SALERATUS.

Packed 60 lbs. in box.

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

SEELY’S  EXTRACTS. 

Lemon.

1 oz. F. M. $  90 doz.  *10 20 gro
2  “  N. S.  1  20 
12 60  “
2  “  F. M. 1  40  “ 
14 40 “
Vanilla.

1 oz.  F. M. 1  50 doz. 16 20 gro
2  “  N  S  2 00  “ 
2  “  F. M. 2 50  “ 

Rococo—Second  Grade. 

2 oz..............75 doz.......  8.00  “
2 doz........  1 00 doz...... 10 50  •'

Lemon.
Vanilla.
SOAP.
Laundry.

j a p a n — Regular.

t h e   m c m a A K
TEAS.
F air..........................
@17
@20
Good.........................
Choice....................... .24 @26
Choicest.................... .32 @34
Dust......................... .10 @12
SUN C U RED .
F air..........................
@17
Good.........................
@ 2 0
Choice....................... .24 @26
Choicest.................... .32 @34
Dust............................10 @12
F air.......................... .18 @ 20
@25
Choice.......................
@35
Choicest....................
Extra choice, wire leaf @40
Common to  fall......... 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
F air............................18  @22
Choice.................. ..  24  @28
Best........................... 40  @50

EN G LISH  BR EA K FA ST.

21  60  “
25 50  ••

B A SK ET  F IR E D .

FOUNG  HYSON.

GUNPO W D ER.

IM PE R IA L .

OOLONG.

G. R. Soap Works Brands. 

“ 
“ 
“ 
Best German Family.

Concordia, 100 % lb. bars.. .3 50
5 box lots  ..........3 35
10 box lots.......3  30
20 box lots  ........ 3 20
601-lb  bars  ....................... 2  25
5 box lo ts .............................. 2 15
25 box  lots................................2 00
Old Country,  80  1-lb...........3 20
Good Cheer, 60 l i b ...................3 90
White Borax, 100  5£ lb........3 65

Allen B. Wrisley’s Brand

Proctor & Gamble.

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Concord...............................3 ¡J5
Ivory, 10  oz.........................6  75
6  oz...........................4 00
Lenox 
............................  3 65
Mottled  German.................3  lo
Town Talk.......................... 3 25

Dingman Brands.

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Single box...........................3  95
5 box lots, delivered......... 3 85
10 box lots, delivered........3 75
Jas. S. Kirk & Co.’s  Brands. 
American  Family, wrp’d ..*3 33 
plain...  3 27
N.  K.  Fairbank & Co.’s Brands.
Santa Claus.......................  3  93
Br jwn, 60 bars.................... 2  10
80  b a rs...................3 10

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Lautz Bros. & Co.’s Brands.

Acme...................................3 65
Cotton Oil............................6 00
Marseilles............................4 00
Master 
* 60
Thompson & Chute Co.’s Brands

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p a r   ^

Silver..................................3 65
Mono;.................................. 3 30
Savon Improved...............   2  50
Sunflower.......................... 2  80
Golden  ...............................3 25
Economical  ....................... 2  25

Scour lug.
Sapolio, kitchen, 3  doz...  2 40 
hand, 3 doz......... 2 40

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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
Cubes...................................... 4 37
Powdered..........................  4 37
XXX X  Powdered..............  4 62
Granulated 
......................3 94
Fine Granulated...............   3 91
Extra Fine Granulated...  4 16
Mould A  ............................4  37
Diamond Confec.  A......... 4 00
Confec. Standard  A......... 3 94
No.  1...............................   3 81
No.  2 .................................3 81
No.  3................................   3 Si
No.  4................................   3  81
No.  5..................................3 75
No.  6...................................3 69
No.  7.................................. 3 62
No.  8................................  3 56
No.  9............  
3 60
No.  10...................................3 44
No.  11...................................3 37
No.  12...............................  3 31
No.  13...................................3 18
No.  14............................. 
3  12

 

SYRUPS.

Corn.

Barrels................................17
Half bbls............................. 19

Pure Cane.

F air.....................................  17
Good...................................   26
Choice..................................  25

TABLE  SAUCES.
“ 

Lea & Perrin’s, large........4 75
small...... .  2 75
Halford, large.........................3 75
small.........................2 25
Salad Dressing, la rg e -----4 55
small...... 2 65
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TOBACCOS.

Fine Cut.

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

“ 

24
23
20
19

Plug.

39
40

Finzer’s Brands.

Lorillard’s Brands. 

Sorg’s Brands.
Spearhead................. 
Nobby T w i s t ......... 
Scotten’s Brands.
Kvlo............................
Hiawatha...................
Valley City...............
Old  Honesty..............
Jolly Tar....................
Climax (8 oz., 41c) —
Green Turtle..............
Three  Black Crows...
Something Good........
Out of  Sight..............
Wilson is McCaulay’s Brands.
Gold  Rope...................... 
Happy Thought.........  
37
Messmate.......................  
NoTax............................ 
Let  Go............................  
Catlln’s  Brands.

J. G. Butler’s Brands.

Smokiug.

 

Kiln  dried....................... 17@18
Golden  Shower................... 19
Huntress  ................. 
-26
Meerschaum 
.............. 29@30
American Eagle Co.’s Brands.
Myrtle Navy.......................40
Stork  ................................   30
German...............................¿5
Frog....................................32
Java, Hs foil.......................32
Banner Tobacco Co.'s Brands.
Banner.................................¿6
Banner Cavendish.............. 36
Gold Cut 
...........................30

43
32
31
27

Scotten’s Brands.

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

Brands.

Leidersdorf’s Brands.

Spaulding & Merrick.

Rob  Roy..............................26
Uncle Sam.....................28@32
Red Clover...........................Si
Tom and Jerry.....................25
Traveler  Cavendish........... 38
Buck Horn.......................... 30
Plow  Hby......... ............ 30@32
Corn  Cake...........................16

VINEGAR.

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

tl for barrel.

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

YEAST.

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

3 40

17

CROCKERY  AND  GLASSWARE

LA M P  B U R N E R S.

 

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Electric.

Miscellaneous.

“ 
La Bastle.

Pearl top.
“ 
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l a m p   c h i m n e y s .— 6 doz. In box.

Mammoth Chimneys for Store Lamps.

First qualitv.
“ 
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XXX Flint.
“ 
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No. 0 San.........................................................  40
No. 1  “  ..........................................................................................   45
No.2  “  .........................................................  65
Tubular.............................  
......................  50
Security.  No. 1................................................  60
Security,  No. 2................................................  80
Nutmeg...........................................................  50
Arctic............................................................. 1  25
Per box.
No. 0 Sun...................................................  ..  1  75
No. 1  “  .........................................................1  88
No.2  “  .................................................... . ..2 70
No. 0 Sun, crimp top, wrapped and labeled.. .2  10 
No. 1  “ 
...2 25
No. 2  “ 
...8 25
No. 0 Sun, crimp  top, wrapped and labeled.  2 60 
...2 80
No. 1  “ 
No.2  “ 
...3 80
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and  labeled....................3 70
“ 
No. 2  “ 
.................  4 70
No. 2 Hinge,  “ 
....................4  8*
Fire Proof—Plain Top.
No. 1, Sun,  plain  bulb................................... 3  40
“ 
No. 2,  “ 
................................... 4  40
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb,  per doz.......................1  25
No. 2  “ 
....................... 150
No. 1 crimp, per doz....................................... 1  35
................’...................... l  60
No. 2 
“ 
Rochester.
No. 11, ime (65c doz)............................. 
 
No. 2, lime  (:0c doz).......................................3  70
No. 2, flint (80c doz).......................................  4 30
No.2, lime (70c doz)......................................4  10
No.  2 flint (80c doz)...................................... 4 40
Doz.
Junior, Rochester..........................................  50
Nutmeg...........................................................  15
Illuminator Bases...........................................1  00
Barrel lots, 5 doz  ...........................................   90
7 in. Porcelain Shades.....................................1  00
Case lots, 12 doz..............................................   90
Box
4  20
4  80
5 25
5  10
5  85
6 00
Doz.
1  gal  tin cans with spout.........................     1  60
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
5 gal  galv Iron  A  & W 
5 gal Tilting  Cans,  Monarch............................ 10 00
5 gal  galv iron Nacefas..... 
3 gal  Home Rule................................................ 10 50
5 gal  Home Rule.........................................   i2 00
3  gal  Goodenough............................................. 12 00
5 gal  Goodenough  .......................................13 50
5 gal  Pirate King  ........................................ 10 50
LA N TERN   GLOBES.
No. 0,  Tubular,  cases 1 doz. each..................  45
“ 
No. 0, 
“ 
45
2  “ 
No. 0, 
40
bbls 5  “ 
“ 
bull’s eye, cases 1 doz each. 1  00
No! 0, 
LAM P W ICK S.
20
No. 0, per  gross......................................
28
........................................
No. 1, 
“ 
38
No  2, 
........................................
“ 
65
No. 3, 
........................................
“ 
75
Mammoth, per doz..................................
JE L L Y   TU M BLERS— Tin Top.
64 
% Pints,  6 doz in box, per box (box 00).
.  23 
24  “  “  bbl,  •*  doz  (bbl  35).
1  80 
It  “ 
6  “  “  box,  “  box (box 00).
26
18  “  11  bbl,  “  doz  (bbl 35).
14  “ 
STONE W A RE— AKRON.
06
Butter Crocks,  1 to 6 gal........  ..............
60
a  gal. per doz.................
70
Jugs, )4 gal., per doz..............................
07
1 to 4 gal., per gal..........................
6U
Milk Pans, *  gal., per doz....................
................ .
“ 
1  “ 
72
STONEW ARE— BLACK GLA ZED .
Butter Crocks, 1  and 2 gal............................  
6)4
Milk Pans, )4 gal. per  doz..........................   65
78

Doz. 
No. 3  Rochester,  lim e.......  1  50 
.  ..1 75 
No. 3  Rochester, flint. 
No.  3  Pearl top or Jewel gl’s.l  85 
No.  2  Globe Incandes. lime.. .3 75 
No. 2  Globe Incandes. flint.. .2 00 
No.  2 Pearl glass....................2 10 

.........................  7  50
9 5o

Pump Cans.

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O IL  CANS..

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OILS.
B A R R E L S.

The Standard Oil Co  quotes as follows:

Eocene.......................  .. 
?
, ................. 
XXX W. W.  Mich.  Headlight................ 
<)4
Naptha.....  ...........................................  @ 6)4
Stove Gasoline......................................   @  734
C ylinder.........................................................
Engine...................................................13  @21
Black, zero  test.....................................
Black,  15 cold test................................
Eocene................. .................................
5)4
XXX W. W. Mich. Headlight...............  
Scofield, Shurmer  &  Teagle quote  as  follows;

FROM  TA N K  W AGON.

10

B A R R ELS.

ls c u s y   v v u i i c ..........• • • • • • • • • • ............................
Red Cross, W W  Headlight.................. .........  7)4

........9
........7

FROM   TA N K   WAGON,
Red Cross W W Headlight........... 

.............8
........  5)4

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WOODENWARE.

FU R S.

Tubs, No. 1.........................5 75
“  No. 2.........................  4 75
*«  No  3 
............ 4 00
.  125
Pails, No. 1, two-hoop.. 
“  No. 1,  three-hoop__  1  35
Bowls, 11 Inch...................
.................... 
13  “ 
“ 
90
15  “  ......   ...........1  25
“ 
17  " 
** 
....................  1  80
“ 
Ï9  “ 
...................2 40
21 
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HIDES  PELTS  and  FURS
Perkins  &  Hess  pay  as  fol­
lows:
30 @  1  00
Mink...........................
30 @  60
Coon...........................
75 @  1  *5
Skunk.........................
08 @  
Rat,  winter..........
11
03 @  C8
Rat, fall...................
Red  Fox. . . . ___ 1  CO @  1  40
40 @  6)
Gray Fox.,............
Cross Fox............... 3 00 @ 5 00
50 <&  1 00
Badger......................
50 @  75
Cat, wild.................
10 @  25
Cat,  house............
Fisher...................... 5 00 @ 6 00
Lynx........................... 1  00 @ 2 50
Martin, dark___ 2 00 @ 3 00
Martin, paie, y el  1  00 @  1  50
Otter........................... 5 00 ® 8 00
Wolf............................ 1  00 @  2 00
Beaver...................... 3 00 @  7 00
Bear.............................i15 00 @25 00
10 @  25
Opossum..................
10 @  25
Deer Skin, dry..
05 @  12)4
Deer Skin, green
Green........................
2)4@3)4
Part Cured............
@  4)4
Full 
@ 5)4
............
Dry....................
Kips,green  ......
“  cured......
Calfskins,  green
cured
Deacon skins—

5  @ 7
3  @ 4
@ 6
5  @  6
7  @ 8)4
10  @25

H ID E S.

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No. 2 hides % off.
PE LTS.

M EAL.

WOOL.

W H EA T.

48 
48

M ISCELLANEOUS.

5  @  20
Shearlings.........
25  @  50
Lambs 
............
12  @15
Washed............
g  @12
Unwashed........
3  ©  3)4
Tallow..............
1  @ 2
Grease  butter  ..
1)4®  2
Switches..........
2 00@2 25
Ginseng............
GRAINS and FEEDSTUFF8 
No. 1 White (58 lb. test) 
No. 2 Red (60 lb. test) 
Bolted...............................  1  40
Granulated................. 
1 65
FL O U R   IN   SACKS.
•Patents............................  195
•Standards.......................   1  45
Bakers’.............................   1 >5
•Graham..........................   1  30
Rye...................................  1  40
•Subject  to usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour In bbls., 25c per bbl. ad­
ditional.
MILL8TUFF8.
Bran.............................. ..*14 00
..  13 00
Screenings..................
Middlings..................... ..  15 00
No. 1  Feed.................... ..  18 00
..  17 50
Coarse m eal...............
Car  lots......................... __45
Less than  car  lots........ .... 47
...33
Car  lots  ......................
Less than car lots  ........ ...  35
HAY.
No. 1 Timothy, car lots. 
No. 1 
ton lots  ..

...  9  50
...11  00

CORN.

OATS.

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FISH  AND  OYSTERS.
FRESH  FISH.
................. @10
Whlteflsb 
@  9
Trout  ........................
15
Black Bass.................
Halibut....................... @15
Ciscoes or Herring — @  6
Bluefish..................... @11
20
Fresh lobster, per lb..
10
Cod.............................
No. 1 Pickerel............ @10
Pike............................ @9
Smoked White........... @  8
15
Red  Snappers............
Columbia  River  Sal-
m on........................
12)4
Mackerel....................
2 20
Counts  .....................
1  65
Extra Selects 
.......
1  40
Selects.......................
1  50
Scallops — ...... .........
1  25
Shrimps  ....................
1  2j
Clams  .......................
SHELL GOODS.
Oysters, per  luo......... 1 25@1  50
75@1 70
CÍams.

OYSTERS—IN  BULK.

18@25

OYSTERS—IN CANS.

F. J. Dettenthaler’s Brands.
33
Fairnaven  couuib—
28
F .J. D.  Selects.........
25
Selects  .......................
23
F. J. D., Standards  ...
20
Anchors......................
18
Standards..................
15
Favorite....................
Standards, per gal............1  00
Anchor Standards per gai 1  10
New York  Counts..  .. ......... 32
..  28
Extra  selects..............
....................... ......... 25
Selects 
IX L Standards............
Standards.................... ..........i?
Mediums.................................15
Standards, per  gal...... ...... 1  00
IXL Standards,  per gal ......1  10

Oscar Allyn’s Brands.

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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,

else it wanted from the plantations along 
the route.  The depredations of this law­
less  body have already been very serious, 
and the local authorities  have been pow­
erless to do anything  with it.

n ò

Show  Cases, 
Store  Fixtures, 

Etc.

>>

9

CURRENT  COMMENT.

An  amusing  blunder  occurred  in  a 
Chicago bank  the  other  night,  when  a 
squad of  policemen  thought  they  were 
about to gather in  a  desperate  band  of 
cracksmen. 
It appears that  the  watch­
man of the bank  was  found  to  be  very 
ill, and was sent to the  hospital,  suffer­
ing,  as  the  bank  people  thought,  with 
measles.  After examination the doctors 
pronounced it smallpox,  and, having  no­
tified  the  president  of  the  institution, 
they sent a squad of men with  a  pail  of 
sulphur to disirfect  the building.  They 
arrived,  with the bank  president,  about 
midnight,  and  immediately  set  about 
their  work,  that  the  bank  might  not 
have to be closed the  next  day.  Just as 
they  were fairly at it,  the  police  discov­
ered them.  The bank  was  quietly  sur­
rounded, and  two  officers,  revolvers  in 
hand,  made  a  dash  into  the  building, 
calling on the supposed burglars  to  sur­
render.  These took the officers for burg­
lars,  bat concluded  that  discretion  was 
the  better  part  of  valor,  and  held  up 
their hands.  The  matter  was  soon  ex­
plainer  and the  policemen were glad to 
retire  from  the  fumes  of  the  sulphur 
faster than they came in.

*  

*  

*

A Chicago saloonkeeper has been play­
ing a sharp trick  on  his  creditors.  He 
seemed to have  a  good  stock  on  hand, 
and on the strength of it  managed to get 
a  good deal of credit;  but,  as  he  did not 
pay up,  he was sued,  and  execution  is­
sued on his stock.  A constable drove  up 
to the saloon with a  wagon,  and,  enter­
ing,  found a number of barrels of whisky 
stacked up against the  wall.  He  ascer­
tained that  they  were  full  by  tapping 
them,  and ordered his  men  to  load  five 
of them into a wagon.  This they  did  at 
the expenditure of a good deal  of muscle 
and sweat,  but  the  last  one,  as  it  was 
being put on the wagon  slipped  and fell 
to the  sidewalk,  starting  the  bung.  A 
stream of colorless fluid  ran  out,  which 
looked  like  such  odd  whisky  that  the 
constable  tasted  it. 
It  proved  to  be 
water.  An examination showed that the 
other barrels on the wagon,  and  all  the 
rest in  the  saloon,  contained  the  same 
exhilarating,  but  not  inebriating,  fluid, 
and the discomfited  constable was forced 
to retire with  his  execution  unsatisfied.

*  

*  

•

There is a new hope for the dyspeptic, 
albeit not a pleasant  one.  Prof.  Pictet, 
of  Paris,  has  discovered  that  extreme 
cold promotes a healthy  appetite and in­
sures  the  digestion  of  what  is  eaten. 
The  apparatus  necessary  is  a  refriger­
ating  tank,  and,  in  addition,  a  warm 
suit  of  fur.  Clothed  in 
the latter,  the 
patient enters  the  former,  which  has  a 
temperature  below zero.  Upon  emerg­
ing,  the  appetite is  very  keen  and  the 
power of  digestion  perfect.  Dr.  Pictet 
is having a  freezing  chamber  built  for 
his dyspeptic patients. 
If  the  idea  de­
velops,  it will be strange to  hear  people 
talking of “taking  their  freeze”  before 
dinner as they would  of  some  digestive 
liquid. 
It is  a  cold  day  when  a  Paris 
doctor gets left.

*  #  »

Jacksonville, Fla., is seriously worried 
about the approach of an army composed 
of about a  thousand  tramps  and  labor­
ers,  whom the cold snap  has thrown  out 
of employment.  The gang  is  advancing 
from the south of  Florida  upon the city. 
It moves in  a solid  body,  and  has  been 
helping itself  to  supplies  and  anything

*  

*  

*

Another “cure all”  fake  has  been  ex­
posed,  at Stettin, in the shape  of a  pow­
der which,  it was claimed,  was  an infal­
lible  specific  in  cases  of  dropsy.  The 
powder  was  manufactured  by  Hans 
Weber, of that town,  and extensively ad­
vertised.  The  price  of  the  powder, 
which turned out to be  nothing  more  or 
less than cigar  ashes,  was  140  francs  a 
kilogramme.  The  exposure  of  the fake 
is due to Dr.  Hoffmann,  of  Stettin,  who 
bought  some  of this  secret  remedy  and 
had  it  analyzed  by  the  director  of the 
laboratory  of  analysis  at  Darmstadt. 
The director found  that the  powder was 
composed,  chemically,  of  one-half  car­
bonate of lime, 12 per cent,  of carbonate 
of potash,  with variable portions of coal, 
clay,  phosphate  of  lime,  magnesia  and 
some  other  things,  the  whole,  from  a 
chemical  point  of  view,  being identical 
with cigar ashes.

*  

*  

*

In  England,  nickel-in-tbe-slot  gas 
meters are  just now  attracting  consider­
able attention and  bid fair to  be  largely 
used  in  tenement  houses  where it is  de­
sirable to have a system  of  prepayment. 
The meter operates so  that  when  a  coin 
is dropped in the slot a  certain  quantity 
of  gas  may  be  consumed. 
It  is  sug­
gested  that  the  invention  may  also  be 
used to  advantage  in  this  country;  but 
there is at least one  serious  objection  to 
the  proposition.  Every  slot  machine 
ever placed on  the  American  market  is 
subject  to  the  same  objection,  says  a 
doubting Thomas,  and  that  is,  that  no 
matter how many  precautions are taken, 
some shrewd Yankee  will sooner or later 
contrive some way of  “beating”  the  ma­
chine.  Thomas is  wrong in  his applica­
tion.  The only thing  yet  invented  that 
can beat a gas meter is  electricity.

#  #  #

A  point  of  law  of  great  interest  to 
women has just been decided in  Milwau­
kee,  where Judge Johnson decided that a 
woman is not a chattel  of  her  husband. 
Sophia Marrigold and  her  husband  sold 
ground to the Cudahy  Packing  Company 
for $4,014. 
In addition to this sum, Mrs. 
Marrigold  was  to  get  $500  for  signing 
away her dower.  The packing  company 
gave both  checks  to  Marrigold,  and  he 
refused  to  give  his  wife  her check for 
$500.  She brought suit against  her  hus­
band for  divorce,  and  the  Cudahys  for 
the $500.  They held that the handing of 
the check to her  husband  was  sufficient 
delivery,  but the court held  that  is  was 
not,  and gave plaintiff judgment  for  her 
claim.

*  

*  

•

According to the Albany Times-Union, 
William H.  Forbes, of  Spencer  Corners, 
Fulton  county,  N.  Y.,  has  a  horse 
blanket which  has  a  fine  crop  of  hair 
growing on it.  When he took the blanket 
down from its peg,  where it had hung all 
summer, 
to  use  last  fall,  he  was  as­
tonished to find two patches  of  growing 
hair, on either side,  where  it  had  been 
exposed to light and air.  The hair is  of 
bright  bay  color,  and  is  now  fully  an 
inch  in length.  Probably  the  most  pe­
culiar feature of the  affair,  however,  is 
the fact that the  hair  has  spread  from 
the  two  patches  until  it  has  entirely 
covered the blanket with  a  fine growth, 
It  has  not
varying in shade and  color. 

Silent Salesman Cigar Case.  Send for Circular.

J.  P H IL L IP S   &  CO.,  D etroit,  M ieh.

A nnouncem ent.

We  shake  hands  with  the  youthful  1895;  firm  in  the 
belief that business for the coming year  is  going  to  be  good. 
We want our products to reach the homes of all the  people  in 
Michigan and ask the co-operation  of the general  trade to  that 
end.  Our goods have a recognized standard  of  value—purity 
and quality—and afford the seller a profit 

Join us.

T h e  P u tn a m   C a n d y   C o.

Horse

Sausage

Is something we do  not  care  to  talk  about.  HorSG  Feed is 
what we wish to discuss this week and  we will use horse sense 
in doing so.

Do You Sell Feed? 
Do You Buy Feed? 
Do You Use  Feed?

If so, note this:  Lots of people make  feed.  Lots  of  people
make poor feed.  We make Good Feed.

OUR SPBCIA.B S A B B

W ill  continue  for one  week  more  and  you  will  be  wise  if  you  take  advan­
tage  of  it.  W e  guarantee  satisfaction.  Our  feed  has  never  been  excelled. 
If  you  handle  feed  send  in  your  order  now  and  be  ready  to  rea[ 
the  har­
vest.  Don’t  wait  till  the  demand  for  feed  is  all  gone  before  filling  your 
bins.  W e  send  out  quotations  regularly  every  two  weeks. 
If  you  want 
them  sent  in  your  address  and  we will  put  your  name  upon  our  list.

Valley  Gity  Milling  Go.,  Grand Rapids  ffliGh,

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only  been  subjected to  critical  inspec­
tion by several  reputable  men,  but  has 
undergone  a  microscopic  test  by  two 
prominent  physicians,  of  whom  Dr. 
Henry  G.  Finch,  of  Brodalbin,  makes 
affidavit before Judge Gardner that  “the 
hair, now growing on the  blanket is true 
hair,  and that roots of the same are alive 
and in process of  development.”

*   #  

*

Bicylists  are  gradually  establishing 
their rights.  Duthiel Gabanne,  a promi­
nent bicyclist of St.  Louis,  left his wheel 
standing by the curbstone,  where a baker 
ran over it and smashed it.  Gabanne  first 
punched the baker’s  head and  then sued 
him for damages to  his  wheel.  He  has 
recovered  judgment for  $33.  The case 
has been  watched  with  a  good  deal  of 
interest  in St.  Louis,  the defense  set up 
being that a bicycle is not  a vehicle,  and
has no rights on the street.

*  

*  

*

The fact is  noted in  a  technical  jour­
nal of the  already  considerable,  as  well 
as rapidly increasing, quantity  of cotton 
fiber  that  is  annually  consumed in  the 
manufacture of absorbent cotton for sur 
gical uses.  The process of preparing the 
raw cotton  for such  purposes is  given as 
follows:  After  boiling  In  a solution  of 
potash,  which eliminates  all  the  greasy 
and  waxy  matter,  the  residue cotton  is 
placed  in  a  so-called  “ whizzer,”  and 
dried;  being then treated  to the medicat­
ing  process  by  the  use  of  such  anti­
septics  as  diluted  corrosive  sublimate 
and  carbolic  acid,  the  cotton  is placed 
upon cards and run into  laps,  being thus 
made  ready  for  the  market,  where  it 
brings a comparatively  high price.  Pre­
pared according to this method,  the  cot­
ton  is  in  admirable  condition  for  the 
stanching and covering  of  wounds,  and 
in  the  sick  room  is regarded as equally 
valuable in its  simple  and  effective  ac­
tion,  absorbing,  as it does,  all moistures
with great readiness.
*  

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*

Word  comes  from  Boston 

that  the 
slate has gone  forever  from  the  public 
schools  of  that  town.  Paper  and  lead 
pencil have taken its  place.  The  Tran­
script thinks that this  action  settles  the 
slate’s destiny, and that the creak  of  its 
pencil cannot long  survive  in  the  more 
enlightened  districts  of 
the  United 
States.  Boston’s notions of education, it 
says,  are promptly  copied,  and  wherever 
the  patent  desk  and  normal  teacher 
go, the paper pad will  follow  and  drive 
the slate before it.

L e g i t i m a t e   S t r a t e g y .

appreciative 

From the Western Stationer.
Somebody suggests to  booksellers,  sta­
tioners and fancy goods dealers that it is 
well  not  to  show  all  the new goods at 
once,  but  to  put  a  few  specially .good 
things  in  each  line  aside—say  in  the 
drawer  below 
the  wall  case,  or  in  a ' 
corner  somewhere—to  be  brought  for­
ward when the  buyer  cannot  be  suited 
with the things on display.
“Here is something 1 have been reserv­
ing  for  specially 
cus­
tomers,” etc,, etc.,  and  bringing  it  for­
ward from  its biding  place  will almost 
always effect a sale. 
It gives  an  air  of 
exclusiveness  to  the  article,  and  it  is 
flattering to the  buyer’s  vanity  that  he 
should  be  so  distinguished  from 
the 
average  buyer.  The  vanity  of  human 
nature,  which needs to  be  fed  on  such 
pap,  has  made  the  fortune  of  many  a 
shrewd man in and out of the merchant’s 
vocation ¡Such legetimate diplomacy fur­
ther  conveys  an  idea  of  reserve  forces 
in the  merchant’s  stock,  and  stimulates 
appreciation. The moral  effect  is greater 
than would be believed,  except by those 
who  have  practiced  this  polite  method 
and can testify to its  force.

Chas.  Petterseh,

JO B B E R   OF

Imported and Domestic Cheese

Swiss, Brick and Limburger a  Specialty. 

161—163  West  Bridge  St,  Telephone  123 

BRAND  RAPIDS

HIRTH,
K R A U S E
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Headuarters for
Over Goners 

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$2 .5 0   per’  dozen 

and Upwards.

in .3. grades.

Mall  us  your  order 
and we will guarantee 
in  both 
satisfaction 
price and quality,

Send  me  a  trial  order  for 

a mixed  car of
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G.  Ji.  Behnke,

30  East 

Bridge  Street,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Write  for  Prices  of 

Any Kind.
6 3  »65

Canal  St.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

NEW  CIGAR  SHOW  CASE.

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The Bradstreet  Company, Props.

No  D ay  Book,  No  L edger.  En­
ter  accounts  on  slips  instead  of  day­
book.  File  these  in  pockets.  The 

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

names will  make  an  index.

Mr. J. C.  Shaw—Dear Sir—I  have one 
of your file books.  The only  thing I can 
blame yon for is that your brain  did  not. 
work  quicker,  for  then  1  might  have 
been saved these years of  worry  and  la­
bor, and perhaps my hair would not have 
been as gray as it  is  now;  and  the  only 
thing  more  I  can  say is “Eureka,”  and 
success to  you and your file book.

J.  K.  F a il in g,  Hardware Merchant.

Grand Rapids

CHARLES  F.  CLARK,  Pres.

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

Brand  Rapids  Office,  Room  4,  Widdicomb  Bldg.

HENRY  ROYCE. Sapt.

Poultry  Raiser!!,  Attention!

Thoroughbred Fowls,
Buff Wyandottes,
Buff Brahmas,
Buff Plymouth Rocks,
Buff Columbians,
White Plymouth  Rocks,
White Wyandottes,
Light Brahmas,

Barred Plymouth Rocks, 
White Leghorns,
Eggs, $2 per setting.

Cut clover,  green  food,  Bowker’s  Ani­
mal Meal, Sheridan’s Condition Powders. 
Lambert’s  Death  to  Lice.  Correspon­
dence solicited.

H.  BEHNKE  &  SONS,

30  E.  Bridge  St.,  Grand  Rapids.

Strong testimonials and descriptive circulars furnished by

J.  C. S H A W ,   S o le M n fr.,
29  Canal St.,  Grand  Rapids. 
_________ __ ____

Big  Money  to  Agents. 

WHOLBSA.EB

OYSTERS

For Fish, Game and Poultry telephone 1001.

O S C A R   A .L J L Y N ,

106 Canal St.

Office  Telephone  1055.

Barn Telephone  1059.

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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

GOTHAM GOSSIP.

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

th e   M ark ets.

S p ecia l  C o rre sp o n d en ce
New   Yoke,  Jan.  26—The  firmness 
which has characterized the  coffee  mar­
ket for a long  time  remains  and  prices 
are held very firmly.  There is  no  great 
demand and sales to the interior are only 
of an everyday character. 
It is said that 
the control of  the  situation  lies  in  the 
hands  of  foreigners,  and  there  is  no 
guessing  as  to  what  the  future  will 
bring  forth.  There  are  afloat  about 
528,500  bags  of  Brazil,  which  is  only 
5,000 bags less than  last year.  The quo­
tation  for  Rio  No.  7 is 16@16%c.  Mild 
sorts  are  firm  in  sympathy  and stocks 
are held by so few parties  that  they  can 
have pretty much their own way.
The sales  at the  tea  auction  Wednes­
day  developed  surprising  strength  for 
green  teas  and  the  effect  has  been  to 
place  the  market  in  better  shape  all 
around.  Not many  buyers  are  here and 
such as were  seemed to  prefer  the  auc­
tion  room  to  the  regular  trade outlets, 
which seem to be  rather  neglected  and, 
apparently,  waiting.  Blacks are weaker, 
if anything,  interest centering altogether 
on greens.

Quite an increase in the  number of or­
ders for refined  sugar  lias  been  noticed 
during  the  week  and  the market seems 
to be in better shape,  although for gran­
ulated there has been no change  in  quo­
tations.
The rice market  remains  in  excellent 
shape and not a concession  is  made, 
if 
intending  purchasers  want  to  buy  at 
rates given  they may, and  if they do not, 
there  is  no  arguing.  Better  feeling  is 
reported daily from  the  South.  Good to 
choice domestic, 4%@5)£c.
Molasses are doing better and it is said 
to be difficult to fill orders  for  first-class 
stock.  A  good  consumptive  demand  is 
reported  from  many  points,  and,  alto­
gether,  the situation is one  of  great  en­
couragement.  Syrups,  too, are firm, and 
while  no  visible  change  has been  made 
in quotations, there is a firmer feeling all 
around.

In canned goods there  have been quite 
a  good  many  orders  received  by  mail, 
and they include almost all  lines.  Upon 
the  whole  the  market  is in pretty good 
condition.  There  are,  of  course,  any 
quantity  of  inferior  stock,  particularly 
of corn and tomatoes,  and this has  a  de­
pressing influence;  but  dealers generally 
feel rather more confidence.
Dried  fruits,  particularly  California 
products,  are seemingly working  out  of 
the slough  of  despond,  and  for  raisins 
there  has  been  a  very  encouraging 
strengthening.  Valencia 
raisins  are, 
also,  in  better  position  and  the  whole 
range of  prices  for foreign  dried  fruits 
is one that indicates that  the bottom has 
been touched.  Domestic dried  fruits are 
in  small  demand  and  prices  lag.  The 
best evaporated apples sell at about 8%c.
Not much is doing in  butter.  The de­
mand Is light,and the price for best grades 
has slightly declined.  Under  grades are 
dull and  neglected.  The  best  Elgin  is 
quotable at about 23c,  and  the  range  is 
down to about 16@17c for State  dairy
The cheese market is not as  dull  as  it 
might be,  but there is great room  for im­
provement.  Small size.  State,  fancy  is 
worth ll% c., and this is top price, too.
Keasoey &Mattison, the manufacturers 
of “Bromo Caffeine,”  have  filed  in  the 
United States Circuit Court  bills of com­
plaint  against  the  numerous  makers  of 
other “Bromo” preparations,claiming the 
the word  “Bromo” as the essential part of 
their trade mark,  and alleging  infringe­
ment  by  all  others  who  use  it  in  any 
form.  They  also  charge  that  it  was 
through their efforts and expenditure  of 
large sums of money and the  superiority 
of their article that the word  “Bromo” be­
came synonymous with “Headache-Cure” 
throughout the country: that these manu­
facturers have illegally made use  of  the 
word “Bromo” and  placed  cheaper  and 
vastly  inferior  articles  on  the  market 
which would have found no sale without 
the use of the term  “Bromo,”  and  that 
thereby  the  public  has  been  deceived 
and led  to  suppose  that  such  prepera- 
tions were  real  “Bromo Caffeine.”  It is

alleged  that  the  infringing  “Bromos” 
are all compounded  of  cheap  materials, 
and that,  being  effervescent and  similar 
in appearance,  the  deception  is  carried 
on to an extent which  makes  the  result 
not only a loss to themselves,  but unsafe 
to the  public.

Writen fo r  Th e  Tradesman.

O b solete  T rad es  in  G rand  R apids. 
Talking with  an old settler,  the  other 
day,  he told many interesting facts about 
changes 
in  Grand  Rapids,  dwelling 
especially on methods of work.

“Sixty years  ago,”  said  he,  “ we  did 
everything by band.  A carpenter, then, 
knew his trade and could make anything 
from a chicken coop to a bouse complete. 
Planing mills?  There  was  no  need  of 
them.  A man  knew  enough  to  do  his 
own planing.  The floors seemed just as 
smooth,  and the doors  and window  sash 
fitted just as well, though not  so  fancy, 
and good dry lumber was used.

“Clubs?  Women didn’t have time for 
clubs in those days—their club  was  stay 
at home and tend to their  own  business. 
There were cooking and  baking,  sweep­
ing  and  scrubbing.  When  the  dinner 
dishes were washed,  there was  sewing— 
no sewing machines -  and all our clothes 
were made at home. 
If  a  woman  went 
visiting,  she took her  sewing  along  and 
had something to show for the afternoon. 
Those were ‘thimble parties!’

“Such furniture as we had—good solid 
cherry and  walnut,  made  strong  enough 
to last  more  than  one  lifetime.  There 
wasn’t much carving,  but plenty of hand 
work. 
I suppose you  remember the cot­
tage  sets?  It  isn’t  many  years  since 
they  were  popular.  They  were  made 
when  pine was cheaper than  hard  wood 
here,  and some pretty nice  painting  was 
put on them.  Everything  is  hard wood 
now.  1  see  even  the  carpet  sweepers 
have lost their decoration.

“ This cold weather  and  snow  remind 
me of the first cutter  in town—I think it 
was 1837 or ’38.  Deacon Haldane made a 
'goose neck’  cutter all by hand.  It had a 
square box and tall  knees so as to better 
get over the bushes. 
It  was  considered 
very fine in those days and sold  for  875, 
though now, I doubt,  were it in  style,  it 
would  scarcely  bring  $20.  Not  many 
wagons or carriages were  needed,  and so 
a man in that kind of business  had  time 
to  make  spinning  wheels,  clock  reels 
and swifts for the women.”

Changing  the  subject,  he  continued: 
“Did  you  ever hear  about our bonanza, 
the  salt  springs?  It  must  have  been 
somewhere ’round 1840 men  began  bor­
ing,  and with some  luck,  too.  For  sev­
eral years fifty bushels of salt a  day was 
made from one spring.  The  best  yield­
ing  spring  was  near  Coldbrook,  which 
produced,  at  war  time,  thirty  or  forty 
barrels a day.  There was  much  excite­
ment over a number of borings  and some 
of the springs were  heavily charged,  but 
they proved great  expectations with  lit­
tle  realization,  and  much  money  was 
sunk.  There are plenty of places in this 
State where salt can be made—and  much 
cheaper than here—where fuel is a  drug 
on the market, and the waste of the lum­
ber-mills  can  be  utilized  for  barrel 
staves.

in  my  early  days.  Then, 

“The coopers have an  easier  job  now 
the 
than 
staves were shaved  by hand. 
I suppose 
it won’t be  long  before  machinery will 
do all the work.

“You didn’t know,  did  you,  we  ever 
made our own  flannels  here?  It  seems 
only a little  while  since  Truman  Lyon

was  making  satinets,  cassimeres,  flan­
nels, and other kinds of cloth;  but  1  am 
a good many  years  older.  This  doesn’t 
seem  a  good  place  for  making  cloth, 
for  the  business  didn’t  flourish  as  it 
ought and was given  up long ago.

“Ever  heard  of  ‘Smith’s  saleratus?’ 
We made quite a reputation on that.  The 
making of soda and  potash was  a  brisk 
business here, at one time,  but lately has 
been  given  up,  except  in  connection 
with soap  factories.  Tallow,  too,  goes 
to the same place instead of to  the  can- 
dlemakers.

“Yes, 

times  have  changed.  People 
have got so they  are  regular  machines, 
now’days,  and  I’m  glad  I  spent  most 
of my life in  ‘the good old times.’ ”

Z.  E.  U.

There is a growing  trade in special ar­
ticles of all kinds  for  gift concern news­
Such  articles  are  made  by 
papers. 
wholesale at prices  that  would  astonish 
the  deluded  subscribers,  and sometimes 
objects that have fallen flat  on  the  mar­
ket are  made  up  into  “specialties”  for 
the  gift  concern  trade  and  extensively 
advertised as beautiful,  elegant,  useful, 
and what not else.

PR O V ISIO N S.

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LARD.

BAU8ASE.

The Grand Rapids  Packing and Provision Co 

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PORE  IN  BARRELS.
Mess,..........................................  
 
Shortcut........................................  
 
Extra clear pig, short cut...................... 
Extra clear,  heavy................................
Clear, fat back............................  
 
Boston clear, short cut..........................  
Clear back, shortcut.............................  
Standard clear, short cut. best.............. 
Pork, links............................................. 
Bologna.................................................  
Liver...................................................... 
Tongue.................................................. 
Blood..................................................... 
Head cheese.......................................... 
Summer.................................. ............. 
Frankfurts............................................. 
Kettle  Rendered...........
Granger.........................
Family..........................
Compound....................
Cottolene...  ..................
Cotosuet........................
0 lb. TinB, \ e  advance.
0 lb. pails, He 
50 lb.  “  xc 
251b.  “  %e
131b. 
’•  1  c 
Extra Mess, warranted 200 lbs..................... 7 00
Extra Mess, Chicago packing......................  6 76
Boneless, rump butts.....................................  9*5
Hams, average 20 lbs...................................... P  X
16 lbs......................................   95£
12 to 14 lbs...............................10
picnic.................................................. 7
best boneless........................................  8X
Shoulders........................................................  6V4
Breakfast Bacon  boneless.............................   t-X
Dried beef, ham prices...................................
Long Clears, heavy.........................................  6X
Briskets,  medium.  .........................................  ?X
Half  barrels.................................................. 3 25
Quarter barrels.............................. ................l  75
K its.................................................................. 90
Kits, honeycomb..........................................  75
Kits, premium.........   ..................................  
55
Avoid  the
Gilrse  of  Credit 
C O U P O N

shored  heats—Canvassed or Plain.

PICKLED  PISS’  PSET.

BEEP  IN  BARBELS.

DRY  SALT  HEATS.

BY  USING

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Western 
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Provision
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We  are  making  special  prices  this 
week on barrel  pork,  barrel  beef,  lards, 
compound, Yegetole and butterine.

Smoked  Meats.

No.  1  Hams..................................8%@9
Picnic  Hams..........................................6%
Breakfast Boneless  Bacon...................8%
Dried Beef, Ham  S e ts ......................  9%

Fresh  Meats.

Beef Sides, cows and heifers....... 5@  6
Beef Sides,  No.  1  steers.............6%@7
Loins of Beef.................................8@10
Rib Roasts......................................7@  9
Pork Loins.....................................  

7K

Beef  in  Barrels.

Boneless  Rump  Butts......................$9  25

Lard  in  Tierces.

Kettle Rendered.  “Crystal Leaf” . ...  7%
Family...................................................5%
Compound..............................................5%
Yegetole...............................................  5%

Aak  for  prices  on  any  provisions 
or fresh meats.  Special  attention  to 
mail and telegraph  orders.
Telephone  1254.

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71  Banal  St„  Grand  Rapids.
$   O Y S T E R S   §j
Note  New  Prices.
Daisy Brand, Favorites, per  can 
Daisy Brand, Standards, per can 
Daisy Brand, Selects, per  can  ...
Solid Brand, Standards, per can.
Solid Brand, E. F.,  per can........
Solid Brand, Selects, per  can....
Solid Brand, Extra Selects, per can............ 3
Standards, per gal........................................
Extra Standards, per  gal.............................
Oysters fine and cans well filled.
The Queen Oyster Pails at bottom  prices. 
Mrs. Withey's Home Made Jelly, made with 
boiled cider, very fine:
30-lb.  p a .l................... ...............................
¿0-1 b  pail.......................................................
17-lb.  pail......................................................
15-lb. pall........................................................
1  quart Mason  Jars, per  doz......................
1  pints  Mason  Jars, per  doz.........   ..........
Mrs. Withey’s Condensed Mince Meat,  the
best made.  Price per  case  ......................
Mrs.  Withey's bulk mince meat:
40-lb. pail, per  lb...................... 
.................
25-lb. pails, per lb..........................................
10-lb. palls, per lb..........................................
2-lb. cans, per doz..........................................
5 lb. cans, per  doz........................................
Pint Mason Jars, per doz.............................
Quart Mason Jars, per doz  .........................
Pure Cider Vinegar, per gallon....................
Pure Sweet Cider, per  gallon..................
New Pickles, medium, barrels.....................
New Pickles, % barrel..................................
New Saner Kraut,  barrels............................
New Saner Kraut, X barrels.........................
Maple Syrup, pint Mason Jars, per doz. 
Maple Syrup, quart Maton Jars, per doz....
Maple Syrup, tin, gallon cans, per  doz........
Peach Marmalade, 20-lb pails 
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65
60
45
40
1  40 
95
2 40
6
6J4 
6X 1  40
3 50
1  40
2 25 
10 
10
6 00 
2 75
4 00 
2 50
1  40
2 25 
9 00 
1  00

ED W IN   F A L L A S ,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

THREE  GRADES:

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Tradesman,
Superior,
Universal.

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Manufactured only by 

TRADESMAN  COnPANY,

Grand Rapids,  Mich.

*THE ACTIVE  POWERS# 

-«■  INVENTIVE ÍEHIUS-

their 

send 

W an ted— 

Everybody 
interest e d 
in  patents 
or pat. law 
to 
address;  and  a 
book containing 
valuable  infor­
mation  will  be 
s e n t  free  by 
mail.
L. Y. Moulton,
Patent Att’y. 
Grand  Rapids. 

Mich.

Muskegon  Bakery  Crackers

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

Are  Perfect  health  Food.

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

one can be best—that is  the original

riuskegon
Bakery
Butter
Cracker.

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

Nine
Other
Great
Specialties
Are

M u s k e g o n   T o a s t,
R o j a l  F r u i t  B iscu it, 
M u sk e g o n   F ro s te d   H o n e y , 
Ic e d   C o co a  H o n e y   J u m b le s , 
Je lly   T u r n o v e r s ,
G in g e r  S n a p s ,
H o m e -M a d e   S n a p s , 
M u sk e g o n   B ra n c h ,
M lik  L u n c h

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

U n ite d   S ta te s   Baiting;  C o.

LAWRENCE  DEPEW ,  Acting  Manager,

Mil skegon, 
S P R IN G
T R A D E

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Mich

Are you ready  for it ?

Note the following.  Place orders  early.

WE  A R E  
SHOW ING

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.

1/0I8T,  HERP0L8HEIMER  X  CO

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

General  Warehousemen  and  Transfer  Agents.

Dealer* in

Carriage»,  W agons,  Agricultural  Implements  and  Binder  Twine.

General Office, 83 South  Division Street, Grand  Rapids.

COLD  and  DRY  STORAGE.

General Office, Telephone 945. 
Warehouse, Telephone 954.

B . J .  B R O O K S ,  M a n ’s .

Spr/ng* <£ Company,

IMPORTERS  AND  WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

R ib b o n s, 

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

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

assorted  stock  at lowest  market  prices.

C
Spring; & 
Our “New Gem”

T h e   F*ride of the Household•

MANUFACTURED  ONLY  BY

TH E  D AN GLER   STOVE  &  M FG.  CO.,

CLEVELAND,  OHIO.

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The  Burner  has 

the 
‘PR O C ESS”,  and  will  do the  same  amount  of  work,  and  consume  much 
less fluid.

flame  and  heating  power 

the  same 

as 

Made  with  our  celebrated  tank,  which  is  neither  LAY -D OW N   nor 
I  ELE V A T E D ,  and  regarded as  the  most  C O N V E N IE N T ,  R E L IA B L E  
and  A B SO LU TELY   SA FE   tank  ever  made.

W e  h a ve  the  A gen cj  for  This  CE L E B R A T E D   STO V E.

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No.  415  3-Burner,  High and Step,  List  - 
No.  414  2-Burner,  High  and Step,  List 
Regular Gasoiiue Stove Discount.

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$12
10

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TWO  OF  OUR  BEST  LEADERS.
M I C H I G A N

NEW PROCESS

Gasoline  Stove.

Vapor  Stove.

No.  70.

THE  FAVORITE  FAMILY  SIZE.

Our  two  burner  with  step,  single 
generator,  with our No. 85,  6x9  inch jet, 
cone  burner  under  step,  and  No.  86,7 
inch  round jet burner on top.  Our gene­
rator has a sub-light, so  that  the  burner 
can  be  lighted  quickly,  and  with  very 
little smoke or odor,  and the step  burner 
can  be used  without running the  genera­
tor,  which is a great saving,  when  a  fire 
for ironing or baking  is  wanted,  which 
will give the operator the  benefit  of  our 
jet  cone  burner,  which  distributes  the 
heat evenly.

Our Jet Cone  Burners  Have  No  Equal. 
Splendid  Bakers.

1895.

THE ORIGINAL EVAPORING  VAPOR 

STOVE,

A stove that lights  like gas.  A stove 
that makes no smoke nor smell.  A safe 
stove.  An  economical  stove.  A  stove 
that requires no skill  to operate.  A stove 
that  never  gets  out  of  order,  A stove 
that pleases the user, satisfies the dealer, and stays sold.  The  stove  that has revo­
lutionized the vapor stove business.  Has  a  removable,  cleanable  sight  feed,  re­
movable  valves  and  needles  with  non-corrosive  points.  The  burner  drums are 
brass,  reinforced with a cast iron ring inside,  at the top, that  makes  the  drums  in­
destructible.  The  grate  and  burner  caps  can  easily be removed.  “Evaporates” 
does not “generate,” and  is absolutely  without any  of  the  complicated  and  annoy­
ing devices used on  all  vapor stoves before its introduction.  The  reservoir is read­
ily lifted  from the stove—cannot be filled white the llames are  burning.  By actual 
test during the past five years it has been  proven that the “ New Process” consumes 
less gasoline for the amount of heat given than any other  style  or  kind  of  Vapor 
Stove. 

It is made with a controllable sub-fire.

W E   GUARANTEE  ENTIRE  SATISFACTION 

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W RITE  FOR  AGENCY.

H. 

LBONARD &  SONS,  Grand  Rapids.
The  Dayton  Computing  Scale

WñRNiNá--To  Users  of  Scales.

The trade are hereby warned againsi  using any  itumigemenis on  W eigh­
ing  and  Price  Scales  and  Computing  and  Price  Scales,  as  we  will  pro­
tect our rights and the rights of our geueral  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 datejof patents and  thereby  incurring  liability  to  prosecution 
is apparent. 
THE  COMPUTING  SCALE  CO.

^Respectfully

BE SURE  YOU  BUY  THE  DftYTON  COMPUTING  SCALES

S e e ¿ W h a t  U se r s  S a y :

..unati. u.
“We are delighted with it.”  The Jos.  R.  Peebles Son’s Co..C 
Dan. W. Charles, Hamilton, O.
• Would not part with it for #1.000.” 
Charles Young, Adrain, Mich 
• It saves pennies ever time we weigh.” 
“They are worth to us each year five times their cost.”
Raup & Hay man, Constantine, Mich.
, 
“We are  very much pleased with its work.”
Henry J. Yinkemulder A Bro., Grand Rapids, Mich.
“Since the adoption of your scales have made more money  than  ever  be 
Prank Daniels, Traverse City, Mich.
,, T.  ‘ore:’’ 
Chas. Rails back, Indianapolis, Iud.
,,T. 
“I heartily recommend them to all grocers who wish  to save money.”
Geo  P.  Kreitline, Indianapolis, Ind.
It is the best investment I ever made ” 
I. L. Stultz, Goshen, Ind

Itake pride in recommending them to every user of scales.”

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For further particulars drop a Postal Card to

HOYT  &  CO.,  General Sellini  Apnts,

DAYTON,  OHIO.

