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ABSO LU TE  TEA.

T h e  A c k n o w le d g e d   L ea d er.

SOLD  ONLY  BY

(¡RAM»  RAPTRS,  MICH

T E L F E R   SP IC E   CO
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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  of other  things,  why  not  keep  the 
best  of  Salt.  Your  customers  will  appreciate  it  as  they  appreciate 

|  pure sugar,  pure coffee,  and  tea.

Diamond Crystal Salt

Being free I com 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 
obtain. _ from jobbers and dealers.  For prices, see price current on other  page 

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Coats and Kersey
Duck
Pants

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

LANSING,  niCH.

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

Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow,

DEALERS  IN

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

W E  CARRY  A  STOCK  OF  (  AKE  TALLOW  FOR  M ILL  USE.

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35'

R I N D G E ,  K A L M B A C H   &  CO

12,  14,  16  Pearl  St.,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  HICH.

HANUFACTCRERS  AND  JOBBERS  OF
B O O T S ,
SH 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 
-ee.  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.

A re   th e   b e s t.  A ll

Anchor Brand
orders will  receive  prompt  attention  at  lowest  market  price.
jF .  J .  D E T T E H T H A L E R .

Use  Tradesman’s  Wants  Bolilmn.

T h e y   R e tu r n   E x c e lle n t  R esu lts.

Our “N ew  Gem.” Standard  Oil  Co.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  fllCHIGAN

The  Pride 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 CESS”,  and  will  do the  same  amount  of  work,  and  consume  much 
less  fluid.

flame  and  heating  power  as 

the  same 

Made  with  our  celebrated  tank,  which  is  neither  L A Y -D O W N   nor 
E L E V A T E D ,  and  regarded as  the  most  C O N V E N IE N T ,  R E L IA B L E  
and  A B S O L U T E L Y   S A F E   tank  ever  made.

W e  Have  the  A gen cj  for  This  C E L E B R A T E D   STOVE.

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

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Wholesale  Grocers

Importers  and

Grand.  Rapids.

D E A L E R S   IN

Illilminating  and  Urinating

Naptha  and  Gasolines.

Office, Michigan  Trust Bldg. 

Works,  Butterworth  Ave.

BULK  W O R K S  A T

GRAND  RAPIDS, 
BIG  RAPIDS, 
ALLEGAN,

MUSKEGON, 
GRAND  HAVEN, 
HOWARD  CITY, 

M ANISTEE, 
TRAVERSE  CITY. 
PETOSKBY.

CADILLAC.
LUDINGTON,

Highest  Price  Paid  for

EMPTY  GARBON  I   GASOLINE  BARRELS.
Oyster Crackers
Are now in season. We manufactuie 1 fill Kinds.

A rich, tender and crisp cracker packed  in i  11».  cartoons 
Is  one  of  the  most  popular 

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

T ry  O ur IB

Handsome embossed  packages, 

packed  2  doz.  in  case  j  „  ,, 
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Per *l°z-
(  2  lb.  $4.80  per  doz.

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These  goods  are  positively  the  finest  produced  and  we

guarantee entire satisfaction.

N ew  York B iscuit C o.,

S .  A .  S B A JR S ,  Manager,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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N O .  595

Makes a Specialty of acting'as

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

com petent  Persons, 

Trustee  or  A gen t

In the m anagem ent of any  business  w hich  may 
be entrusted to it.

Any  inform ation  desired  w ill  be  cheerfully 

furnished.
Lewis  H.  Withey,  Pres.

Anton  (j.  Hodenpyl,  Sec’y.
MICHIGAN

Fire Marine l i n e e  Go.

Organised  1881.

DETROIT,  MICHIGAN.

PROM PT, 

CONSERVATIVE. 

SANE. 

J .  W.  CHAMPLIN,  Pres.

W.  FR ED   McBAIN, Sec.

B 9 T A B IJ8 H E D   1841.

THE MERCANTILE AGENCY

R . G. D u n   &  Co.

R eference Books issued  quarterly.  Collections 

attended to throughout U nited States 

and C anada

6S  MONROE  ST.,

COMMERCIAL  CREDIT  CO.
H ave on file all reports kept by  Cooper’s  Com­
m ercial Agency a n a   U nion  C redit  Co.  and  are 
constantly revising and adding  to  them .  Also 
handle collections of all kinds for  members.
L. J . STEVENSON. 

Telephone 166 and 1030 for  particulars.

C.  E. BLOCK.

W.  H. P. ROOTS.

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POWDERS
I   J u i V I V   O  
Pay th e best profit.  O rder from  yonr jobber

WANTED
Everybody in­
terested  in  pat­
ents  or  patent 
law  to  send his 
name;inreturn a 
book containing 
valuable  infor­
mation  will  be 
s e n t  free  by 
mail.
L. Y.  Moulton, 
Patent Att’y. 
Grand  Rapids.

Mich.

»THE-ACTIVE POWERS* 

-«•INVENTIVE •iENIUS.

.  T H E   B A C K   O F F IC E . 

W r itte n  f o r  T h e  T r a d e s m a n .

The  Brooklyn  strike  is,  practically, 
one of the has beens.  Many of  the  men 
have gone grumblingly back to work, tbe 
public is  congratulating  itself  that  the 
vexations trouble is over, and the parties 
most interested are sitting down to count 
up  the  gains  and  the  losses.  After  a 
respite,  the grumbling  will  begin  again, 
one side or the other, pushed to the wall, 
like the traditional  worm,  will turn,  an­
other  strike  or  another  lockout will be 
the result, the cars  will  be  stopped,  the 
soldiery will be called out and a few will 
get hurt, order  will at  last  prevail,  and 
the public, breathing  freely  once  more, 
will go on again  with  the  avocations  of 
life.

It is an old-fashioned idea which comes 
to me, and,  in  comparison  with  modern 
management, it will  provoke some good- 
natured laughter;  but 1 have about come 
to  the  conclusion  that  what  is  needed 
most  to-day,  in  the  treatment  of  such 
publie  matters, is that  for which the old 
ungraded school system was famous—the 
settlement of  a  case  of  discipline  once 
and  forever.  A boy,  big or little,  knows 
when he’s “licked,”  and,  until he has all 
he wants,  and one or two  cuts thrown in 
as a clincher,  that boy is  going  to  make 
trouble.  Settle  him  once  and he is  set­
tled for all time, and yon  then  have  the 
most  “likely”  boy  in  the whole school. 
Let the job  be  left  unfinished  and  you 
have  an  overbearing  bnlly  who  will 
make more trouble than  any  ten  pupils 
ought.

I don’t believe, if 1  live to be as old as 
Methuselah, I shall ever forget  tbe  win­
ter  that  Willis  Berry taught  the winter 
school in Scrabbletown.  He  was  a  col­
lege student and,  wanting  funds,  taught 
school winters to piece  out  funds for his 
college expenses.  He was twenty-two or 
three, nearly six feet  tall,  staight  as  an 
arrow  and  strong  as  an  ox,  and,  like 
many another farm boy  who went to col­
lege, carried  with  him  a  determination 
to  fight  his own  battles in his own way. 
Tbe minute  ’Lige  Johnson  set  eyes  on 
him be made up his mind that he was go­
ing to put  him  out  of  the  schoolhonse. 
“These  blame  students  are  too  dumb 
smart.  They ain’t one on ’em  but  wbat 
needs takin’ daown,” and  that was a  job 
after ’Lige’s  own  heart.  He  early  saw 
that rebellion in the schoolroom wouldn’t 
do, for  Berry  got  tbe  good  will  of  tbe 
scholars  tbe  first  fifteen  minutes  after 
tbe  school  began.  Finally,  chance  fa­
vored the rowdy, as it always  does  who­
ever is watching for it.  At recess,  a nine 
year old had been  “plagued” beyond  en­
durance by a sixteen year  old,  until  the 
small  boy  bit  and kicked  his tormentor 
into a  towering passion.  The  little one, 
of course,  went  into  school  crying,  and 
tbe teacher,  after settling  the  difficulty, 
laid  down  the  law that,  hereafter,  who­
ever wanted that kind of fun must tackle 
one of his size.

The  very  next  recess  ’Lige  Johnson 
took it upon himself  not  to  follow  that 
particular  programme.  A  boy  smaller

than  he,  in  a spirit of mischief,  tripped 
tbe  heavy-heeled  lubber,  who,  seeing 
that  bis  time  had  come,  beat  the  boy 
most  unmercifully.  The  whole  affair 
had been seen  from  the  window  by  the 
teacher,  and,  when  the  boys  came  in, 
’Lige was promptly  called up to give  an 
account of  himself.  Of  course,  he  was 
impudent  and ugly,  and,  of  coarse,  he 
was  handsomely  thrashed  for  that  and 
for beating the boy who had tripped him. 
A fter’Lige had his  straightening  out  to 
Berry’s  satisfaction  and  that  of 
the 
school—for the teacher  was now more of 
a  favorite  than  ever—and  the  pupils 
were settling down  to  work,  to  the  as­
tonishment  of  everybody,  the  boy  who 
did the tripping was called np and, as he 
afterwards  expressed  it,  “got  the  gol 
durndest  wallopin’ 
I  ever  got  any­
where !”  That done, the master—he had 
earned  his  right  to  the  title—made  a 
speech.

“This school,” said he,  “is a public in­
stitution,  and  what  interferes  with  its 
success can’t  be  allowed.  Plaguing and 
fighting  interfere  and  we  can’t  have 
them. 
I never knew either  to  be  going 
on without there  being two  parties,  and 
the one that begins  the trouble is just as 
bad as the other.  Anyway,  I’m going to 
settle such fusses by giving both  a  good 
trouncing.  Do  yon  understand 
that, 
’Lige?”

“I aint going to have  anybody trip me 

u p !”

The  teacher  reached  for  his  ruler. 

“Did you  understand what I said?”

they 

“Yes, sir”  (tone and manner above  re­
proach).  And that was the last squabble 
of the kind for that  winter in  the Scrab­
bletown  school.

Hcec  fabula  docet  that  the  Brooklyn 
schoolhonse  has  some  unmanageable 
boys.  A big  boy  has  been  plaguing  a 
little one  beyond all  endurance, and  tbe 
little  boy  is going to kick and bite until 
his tormentor is  willing to let him alone. 
After things are quited down a little,  the 
Mayor  wants  to  take  down  that  good 
8tout hickory of bis and warm the jackets 
of 
cry, 
“Enough!”  Each deserves it.  A city is 
a public institution  and strikes interfere 
with it, and both the party that begins it 
and  the  party 
that  helps  carry  it  on 
should  have  their  jackets  dusted,  for 
they are both to blame.

fellows  until 

those 

It sounds all right to  say that  whaling 
the  ringleaders  will  settle  the  matter; 
but it won’t settle the  matter,  unless the 
ringleaders on both  sides are taken good 
care of.  Debs got what he bad been long 
aching for;  but 1 haven’t seen  or  heard, 
so  far,  that  the ringleader  on the other 
side has  found  it  convenient—though  a 
trifle  ignominious—to  take  his  meals 
standing !  And, just  so long  as one boy 
in a squabble can  taunt  tbe  other  with, 
“ You got a lickin’  and I didn’t,”  just so 
long there is going to  be  trouble  in  the 
schoolhonse. 
If  tbe  Brooklyn  school­
teacher can’t manage his school,  put him 
out and,  for the  good  of  the  town,  get 
somebody  in  there  who knows bis busi­
ness well enongh to know  that there  are 
always two  in every  fnss,  and  that  tbe 
fuss  is  never  settled  until  tbe  two get 
the thumping which  they richly deserve.

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

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

General  trade  is  only  fairly  good. 
The extreme cold  weather  we  have  had 
has,  in a great measure,  interfered  with 
trade.  Business,  however,  for  January 
seemed to be better  than  one  year  ago. 
Indications all  point  to  a  good  spring 
trade.  Prices remain  firm and,  in many 
lines, 
there  is an  indication  of  better 
values  being  secured.  Manufacturers 
say it is impossible to make  many  goods 
at present ruling figures.

Barbed  Wire—The  extreme  prices 
which  have  been  made  are  withdrawn 
and an advance of from 5@10c has taken 
place in some mills.  All  manufactnrers 
are  loaded  np  with  orders  for  spring 
shipment and  it  seems  impossible  that 
any lower prices  than  those  at  present 
prevailing  should  be  made.  We  pre­
sume in  many instances  dealers  will  be 
disappointed in  getting  their  wire  jast 
when wanted.

Wire Nails—Are moving along in sym­
pathy with barbed  wire,  and the extreme 
quotations  have  been  withdrawn.  All 
the nail mills report more orders on hand 
than they can  ship with promptness.

Window  Glass—Many 

factories  are 
closing down on account of the  very cold 
weather,  and it is doubtful  if  they  will 
start up again,  as the  low price at which 
glass has been  selling  gives  them  very 
little  encouragement  to  resume  opera­
tions.  We  look  for  higher  prices  in 
window glass.

Sheet Iron—Both black and galvanized 

is in good demand.

Tin—American  manufacturers  claim 
that at present price their profits average 
only 8c per box, and,  unless there  is  an 
improved feeling,  they  will  have  to cat 
wages or close down their  mills.

Spring  deliveries,  in  many  lines  of 
goods, such as  steel  goods,  wire  cloth, 
screen  windows  and  doors, 
potato 
planters,  etc.,  are  being placed  with  a 
good deal of freedom.

If there is a hotel  in  the  State  which 
needs  to  be  renovated  and modernized, 
it is tbe Hibbard House at Jackson.  This 
hostelry may  have been  a  credit  to  the 
Central  City  a quarter of a century ago, 
but it is now so far behind the times that 
it is a disgrace to the city and a reflection 
on  the  people  connected  with  it.  The 
furniture is aged,  the  carpets  are  vile, 
the  table  is  by  no means first-class and 
tbe closets are a menace  to the health  of 
the guests.  For such service—or lack of 
service—the  public  is  mulcted  to  the 
tune  of  $2.50  per  day.  since  the pur­
chase  of the  Hurd  House,  the  Hibbard 
House  people  have  evidently  acted  on 
the assumption  that they  were  in  abso­
lute control of the situation, but, judging 
by tbe adverse criticism  of the  traveling 
public,  the  time  has arrived  where for­
bearance has ceased to be a virtue.  More 
anon.

Swizerland  is  about  to  establish  a 
state bank at  Berne,  which  shall  have 
the exclusive right  to  issue bank  notes 
and tbe national credit will stand behind 
the  circulation.

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T H E   M I C H ia ^ J S r   TR-A-DESMLAJST.

F O U R   Y E A R S ’  W O R K .

c e r s ’  A s s o c ia tio n .

Brief H is to r y  o f  t h e  J a c k s o n  R e ta il G ro ­
J a c k s o n ,  Feb.  8 —T h e   Jackson  Gro­
cers’  Union  was  organized in the  spring 
of 1891 at the store ot Jacob oagendoiph, 
where,  after repeated efforts,  a  few  gro­
cers  assembled  aud  decided  to form an 
organization.
Mr.  bageudorph  was  chairman  of  the 
meetiug  aud  continued  in that capacity 
until the  formal  organization  was  per­
fected on June 3,  1891, when officers  were 
elected as follows:

President—CUas.  G.  Hill.
Vice-President—B.  S.  Mosher.
Treasurer—H.  11.  Neesley.
Secretary—O.  A. Pierce.
A hard but eventful year it was for the 
faithtul officers.  At the time  of  the  or­
ganization  there  weie  in  the  city about 
eighty grocery  stores aud of that number 
only  twenty-six  firms  were  represented 
in  the  Union.  Ot  the  original  twenty- 
six  charter  members,  nine  have  grad­
uated aud retired from  trade.  The  first 
home  of  the  Union  was  the old hall ot 
the A.  O.  II., on the  first  floor  from  the 
roof,  over  Scratchley  &  McQuillan’s 
store,  where we  remained  until  the next 
winter,  when  we  moved  to the A.  O.  U. 
W.  hall  in  the  Bennett  block.  We  re­
tained  these  quarters  about  two years, 
until a chauge in  our  night  of  meeting 
conflicting  with  other  occupants of  the 
hall,  and  we secured  the hall over Sauer 
& llaetuer’s store; from  there  we  moved 
into the front office  on  the  floor  below, 
where we are now  located,  the Secretary 
having a desk in  a very  comfortable and 
commodious room, which  is large enough 
to accommodate all the  regular  business 
meetings of  the  Association.
Nov.  25,  1891,  the  Jackson  Grocers’ 
Union  gave  its  first  banquet.  Tables 
were spread  in  the  hall of the  B.  L.  E. 
and a very  pleasant and  enjoyable affair 
it  was, as a number who are here to-night 
can testify.
The worthy President,  C. G.  Hill,  was 
toastmaster,  and  I only  remember of one 
serious blunder  he  made  that  evening, 
and that  was when he called upon  me to 
respond  to  a  toast.  1  don’t  know who 
was the  most  frightened,  he  or  1.  He 
acted  as  if  he  was  pretty  badly scared 
aud 1 know 1  was.  1  haven’t  got over it 
yet. 
I  do  remember  part  of  the  pro­
gramme,  however,  before  he  called  on 
me;  that is, the banquet  was fine. 
(Par­
ker  &  Fleming  furnished  it).  U.  S. 
Griggs  waited upon a table and responded 
to a toast in  behalf  of the wholesale gro­
cers.  T.  E.  Howard  was  expected  to 
speak for the commission  men,  but as he 
was  veteran  at  banquets,  he  probably 
mistrusted he  would  be  called  upon  to 
speak,  and  the idea of taking a table and 
light  down  by  the  tire  in  the  banana 
room  bad  not  been  thought  of  at that 
time, so he sent  his city  salesman,  Win. 
Engle, to represent  him. 
If  Mr.  Engle 
ever did  his  firm  a  good  turn  he  did  it 
then.  He  made  the  hit of the evening. 
This first  social  gathering  was  a  great 
success,  both socially  and for the  Union, 
as a number  of  new  members  were  ob­
tained  that  night.  The  ice  was  broken 
and new life  thrown  into  the  organiza­
tion.  The grocers  began to realize there 
was  something  else  to  live  tor besides 
striving for an oppm tunity to get the ad­
vantage of a competitor.  They  began to 
feel  that  there were other quite respect­
able fellows in the  grocery  business  be­
sides  themselves.  That  was  just  what 
the  Union  was  striving  to  accomplish— 
to make the retaii grocers  feel  that  they 
were brothers in trade,  not enem es; that 
they could  help one another  and thereby 
help  themselves.  That  they  have  ac­
complished  something  aioug  that  line 
this gathering to-night can  testify.
Since that first  banquet,  the  Associa­
tion has  had  several  social  gatherings, 
but as my time is limited to  one  hour,  1 
will not stop to mention  any  except  the 
one given June 29,  1893,  by  the  ladies. 
It was originated  and  perfected  by  the 
wives of the members  aud  will  long  be 
remembered as one  of  the  bright  spots 
in the  history  of  this  organization.  A 
tine literary  aud  musical  program  was 
rendered.  The principal address  of  the 
evening was given  by Geo.  W.  Baker,  on 
“The  Consummate  Business  Man.”  If

in 

full 

Mr.  Baker was  not  here  this  evening  1 
should  be tempted to say something about 
that address,  but suffice it  to say  it  was 
printed 
in  T h e   M ic h ig a n  
T r a d esm a n and commented  upon  quite 
largely.  After  the  literary  exercises 
the guests were invited  to the  frout  hail 
where tables had been spread for  nearly 
200,  and  all partook of  the  delicious  re­
freshments.  A  most delightful evening 
was spent.  Right here let me  suggest it 
there are any cakes  left after this crowd 
has been  tilled,  Mr.  Baker  is  the  best 
cake auctioneer  1  ever  met.  He  made 
the people believe  1  bid  a  dollar  for  a 
25  cent  cake  that  night.  He  realized 
something like  SS  for  cakes  the  ladies 
had left.  1 deserve  to  be  excused  this 
evening  before  he  opens  the  auction. 
We have cakes to sell.
The  must  popular  social  features  of 
the Association,  however,  have  been our 
three  annual  excursions  aud  picnics. 
These events are looked  forward  to  not 
only  by  the  grocers  and  their  families, 
but their patrons as  well.  Even  as early 
in  the sea-on  as this we have been asked, 
"Where are the grocers  going  for  their 
excursion  next  summer?” 
It  has  be­
come a recognized tact,  if not an  unwrit­
ten law,  that the grocers  are to have one 
play day each year,  and it would  be  bet­
ter for the social growth  of  trades  peo­
ple in general if more  of  the  merchants 
in  other  lines  of  trade  would  join  us 
and take a day off.
The first annual  excursion  was  given 
Wednesday,  Aug.  10,  1892,  when  two 
special  trains  were  run  to  Bawbeese 
Lake,  carrying  975  people,  who  ex­
pressed  themselves  as  highly  pleased 
with the Jackson grocers’ first excursion. 
It was a big success.  The records of the 
secretary show that the net  profits  from 
that excursion were $127.80. 
It required 
a great deal of persuasion to  make  some 
of the dealers believe it  was  the thing to 
do to close up  their  stores  for  a  whole 
day,  but  they  finally  consented,  and, 
whether they went  with us or  not,  their 
stores  were  closed.  They  found  their 
patrons were all  in  sympathy  with  the 
movement, and since then the  ones  who 
were most opposed to it  then  are  ready 
and willing to do all  they  can  to  make 
this popular feature a success.
excursion  was  given 
Thursday,  Aug.  10,  1893,  when  two 
special trains  took  1,800  people  to  the 
same  delightful  spot,  Bawbeese  Lake. 
The  conductors  paid  us  a  compliment 
by  remarking  to  their  Superintendent 
that a more genteel  and  orderly  excur­
sion  party  had never  been  carried  over 
the  Lake  Shore  Railroad.  The  first 
year  we  furnished  our  own  reports  to 
the local paper.  This second  year  both 
dailies  and  two  of  our  weekly  papers 
sent special reporters, and  devoted  from 
one to two and one-half columns  each  to 
their reports of the  event.
So much  for  popularity.  These  gro­
cers’  picnics are being  recognized as the 
popular events  of  the  summer,  not only 
in Jackson,  but in Grand  Rapids,  where 
all 
including  dry  goods, 
clothing,  hardware,  etc.,  join  with  the 
grocers and make  it  a  grand  fete  day. 
Saginaw,  Bay City and other large towns 
of the Slate have their “Grocers’ Day.”
from  this 
second effort $252 80,  besides  the  satis­
faction of knowing it had conducted  the 
largest  excursion  ever  taken  from  the 
city  by  private  enterprise,  without  a 
single accident of the  slightest nature to 
mar the pleasure of anyone.
The third annual excursion  was  given 
Thursday,  Aug. 9.  1894, and for a change 
the  committee  decided  to  go to Devil’s 
Lake,  where they had been assured every 
convenience would  be  provided  for  the 
comfort of their patrons,  and  that  they 
could accommodate  5,000  people.  They 
found,  however,  to  their  chagrin  and 
disappointment, 
that  the  accommoda­
tions  were  very inadequate.  The party 
from  Jackson  was  not  as  large  as  the 
year before,  but two special trains under 
the charge of the same  efficient  conduc­
tors were well  filled.  About  1.200  pas­
sengers  from  Jackson  were  joined  by 
about  an  equal  number  from  Hudson, 
the  grocers  of  that  place  having  been 
invited to join  us in our third excursion. 
Had this been  the  first,  everyone  would 
have  been  satisfied,  and  declared  they

The  Association  cleared 

the  stores, 

second 

The 

STEEL RANGE  MAJESTIC.

Wliat  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  cookiug  apparatus,  uuite  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 uuite 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.

PJESYIG  IISecle

inn nnn housew ives pronounce it th e greatest 
11111,1)1111  cooking range.  1896 fire linings g u ar­
anteed  for  five  years  against  burning; other 
parts  for  tw enty five  years  against  breaking. 
D escriptive  cook book, 2  cents.
MAJESTIC  MFQ  CO ,  St  Louis, Mo.

COMMENTS  OF  THE  TRADE.

Five  Testimonials  Selected  From  More 

Than  a  Hundred

The M ajestic Steel  Range is  th e  finest  article 
of m erchandise to sell th a t I have handled  in  30 
ye  rs th at I have been  in  the hardw are business, 
o f all the ranges we have sold  there is  p  sitive- 
ly not one but  w hat  is  giving  perfect  satisfa c­
tion  Our dealings w ith  the M  jestic  M anufac 
luring Company, w hich  have been  more  exten­
sive  than  we  bad  expected  by a large degree, 
have been the  most pleasant and satisfactory in 
every way th a t  we could desire  They are hon­
orable business men in every  respect  and  it  is 
not only  profitable  but a pleasure  to do business 
w ith them . 
Manager  Stove  D epartm ent,  Foster,  Stevens  & 

FRANK H  GRAVES,

Co.. G rand Rapids, Mich.

I 

Before accepting the M ajestic  agency  w e  in ­
vestigated the m erits of this  range  thoroughly. 
We expected great  things  of  it  from  w hat  we 
heard from  others, but 1 m ust say  in   justice  to 
the  M ajestic  th a t  every  expectation  has  been 
more th  n realized 
T here  - re other good steel 
ranges,  but we believe th a t the  M ajestic isw   th 
out a  fault,  as  far  as  the  abiliiy  of  m an  can 
m ake it. and com pared to other steel ranges it is 
|  perfei tion in itself.  The  m ethod  em ployed  Dy 
the M ajestic M anufacturing co.  in  introducing 
this range to the public is  the most original  an a 
effective I have ever seen in  business.  Our  ex 
perience w ith  the com pany  has been very  pleas­
an t indeed  and  it has been a  positive  pleasure, 
as well as a benefit, to do business w ith  so  large 
and well conducted a firm.

WILLIAM  SEYFFARDT, Sec’y,

Saginaw H ardw are Co., Saginaw,  W.  S., Mich.
Our recent experience In selling  the  w onder­
ful M ajestic Meel  Range  has  been  most  pleas 
ant  and  pr  fitable  to  us.  M echanically  and 
scientifically  the range is th e cooki  g apparatus 
par excellence.  T heie  can  be  no  economy  in 
the household w ithout a  M ajectlc  Steel  Range 
upon w hich to do cooking and  w ater heating.
E B E R B aCH  HARDW ARE  CO , 
Ann  Arbor,  Mich.
The  experience  of  a  lifetim e  In the general 
hardw are business has yet to show  me a cooking 
range  th at  can  be  com pared  w ith  the  Steel 
Range  Majestic.  We  sold a  la-ge  num ber  d u r­
ing  th e  exhibit,  and  since  then  o u r  patrons 
unite in praise of it. 

H.  S.  ME  sING ER, 
Pontiac.  Mich.

D UNNING  BROS,

It is simply absurd to com pare any other cook 
ing • tove or cooking range th at  we have sold in 
our experience in the cook stove  business  w ith 
the  M ajestic  in  econom y  of  fuel  and  facility 
and  despatch  in  properly  preparing  food  for 
the table. 
M enominee, 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 . JOHNSTON,  Manager.

Grand  Kapids, Mich.

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Ribs.......................................................
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Gum Drops.......................
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Chocolate D rops..................................................... 65
H. M. Chocolate  Drops......................................... 75
Gum  Drops................................. 
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A. B. Licorice  D rops.............................................75
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Im perials.................................................................. 60
Mottoes.............................................  
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Molasses  B ar...........................................................50
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26-28  Louis  S t.,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

We take pleasure in announcing th a t  the corporate  nam e  heretofore  existing a s ‘  The  M ichi­

gan M anufacturing Company” has changed this day to

G b »n d   R a p i d s ,  M ich., Ja n   15,1895.

TH E  ID EAL  CLOTHING  COM PANY.

The change has been  m ade w ith a view to obtaining  a more significant  nam e,  and  at th e same 
tim e  to  bring  into greater prom inence the word  “ IDEAL,”   w ith  w hich  every garm ent is branded.
T he business rem ains the same throughout and the m anagem ent continues unchanged.  Thai Ic­
ing all  for the favors  bestowed under th e old name,  and  assuring  them   of  every  effort  to  m erit 
their continnance under the new,  we rem ain, Yours trulv,

THE  IDEAL CLOTHING  CO„

Successor to the M ichigan  M anufacturing Company.

Do  You 

Sell  Soap

bad had a delightful  time.  The  profits 
from this excursion  were $231.92.
These  are  only  a  few  of  the happy 
social features which have resulted from 
our organization,  As  to  what  we  have 
accomplished for  the  good  of  the  trade 
which we  represent, I  will  try  and  re­
call a few of the principal acts:
Early  in  the  spring  of 1892—April, I 
think—the Jackson Grocers’  Union  was 
incorporated under the laws of the State, 
and  May  16  of  that  year it established 
the Bureau  of  Collection  and  Informa­
tion,  with  Frank  Cummings  as  Super­
intendent.  While this was  used  to  ad­
vantage and appreciated by a few  of  the 
members of the Union,  enough  of  them 
did not realize its benefits and  use  it  to 
make  it  self  supporting. 
It  was  con­
tinued,  however,  until  March  9,  of  the 
following year,  when the burden  was de­
clared too heavy  for the Union to  longer 
bear,  and it was  disposed of to  the  sup 
erintendent,  who is still conducting it  as 
the  Traders’  Mercantile  Agency,  and a 
few of the old patrons of the  Bureau  are 
still enjoying the benefits of  the  agency.
Oct.  19.  1893, our  present  constitution 
and by-law were adopted,  and  our  name 
changed to the  Jackson  Retail  Grocers’ 
Association.
Nov. 16,  1893,  the Association  adopted 
a resolution  to  discontinue  the  practice 
of giving Christmas presents  to  custom­
ers,  which was becoming  a  very  serious 
burden 
to  some  of  the  dealers  of the 
city.  A  petition to that  effect  was  cir­
culated and,  with  one or two  exceptions, 
every grocer in  the city,  whether a mem­
ber of tne Association or not, was glad  to 
sign  it,  and,  so  far  as  we have heard, 
there has been no trouble in  getting  the 
signers to live up to that resolution.
Another effort of the  Association  that 
has not been lived uptoquite  as  rigidly 
as  the  one  just  mentioned,  but  which 
has,  without doubt, put more dollars into 
the pockets of the retail grocers of Jack- 
son during the past two  years  than  any 
other  one  thing  that  has  been  accom­
plished by this organization is that much 
abused little production,  the Sugar Card, 
and 1 regret that there  are  any  grocers 
in this city who do not realize the advan­
tage to he derived by themselves as  well 
as every other dealer,  by  maintaining  a 
uniform  price  on  that  one  great  com­
modity. 
I do not  advocate  an  exhorbi- 
tant profit on sugar,  but  I  do  maintain 
that “the laborer is worthy of  his  hire” 
and that the  grocer  should  be  paid  for 
the actual  service  rendered  in  putting 
up and delivering sugar  to  his  custom­
ers,  and  his  customers  will  be j ust as 
well and, perhaps,  better satisfied,  as  it 
would remove that suspicion that he was 
making it up on  something else.
One  other  matter  of  importance  to 
every grocer in the  city,  that  has  been 
accomplished after a great deal  of  hard 
work and peristent effort upon  the  part 
of its officers and the  committee  having 
the matter in charge was the  passage  of 
the  ordinance  governing  peddlers  and 
hucksters,  which  was  adopted  by 
the 
Council March 19th, 1894,  and  approved 
by the Mayor the following date.  It-was 
afterward  vigorously  attacked  by  the 
hucksters, and it was feared  at one time 
they might accomplish its  repeal,  but  a 
compromise was effected,  by this  Associ­
ation consenting  to  a  reduction  in  the 
price of the  license,  and  the  ordinance 
still  stands  as  one  of  the  laws  of  our 
city. 
It only remains now  for  the  gro­
cers to see that it is enforced.
With the present efficient corps of offic­
ers  at  the helm, and the co-operation aud 
support of the remaining  forty members 
of the Association there is no reason why 
at least ninety per  cent,  of  the  grocers 
of this city should not join the procession, 
and become a power for  good,  not  only 
to  himself  and  the  grocers  in  general, 
bnt to the community  in which he lives. 
If this great branch of  Jaxon commerce, 
which represent  more  capital  invested, 
more people employed and  more  money 
expended each year for  rent,  taxes  and 
insurance  than  any  other  one  line  of 
trade, is established upon a firm  founda­
tion,  it cannot  help  but  strengthen  the 
commercial standing of  this  proud  city 
of ours,  and this can be  accomplished  if 
every groeer  in  this city will  become an 
active  member  of 
the  Jaxon  Retail 
Grocers’ Association.  D. S. Fleming.

The  New  Development  of  Trade.

From  th e New  York Sun.
The addition  of  groceries  to  the  va­
riety of goods supplied  by  the  so-called 
department stores,  is only the  latest  ex­
tension of the  range  of  their  business, 
and it is not likely to be the last.  Begin­
ning on a comparatively  small  scale  as 
dry goods stores furnishing material and 
articles for women’s  use more especially 
and almost exclusively,  they  have  grad­
ually  extended their trade  by  introduc­
ing supplies of boots and shoes,  clothing 
for men and  boys,  upholstery,  carpets, 
furniture,  china,  crockery  and  glass­
ware,  kitchen 
appointments,  harness 
and  carriages,  eonfectionery,  hardware 
and  cutlery,  jewelry, 
traveling  equip­
ments,  books and  stationery,  and  now, 
finally,  groceries.  How  much  further 
this variety is to go  will  be  determined 
solely by  considerations  of profit to  the 
merchants. 
It will go as far  as  it  pays 
them  to carry  it,  even  if  it  includes  all 
departments  of 
trade  and  business. 
Plumbing,  carpentering,  painting, 
the 
sale of coal and wood, catering, the rent­
ing of houses and  rooms,  the  supply  of 
servants,  and  whatever  else  they  can 
make attractive of custom by serving  the 
convenience  of  the  public,  and  conse­
quently  profitable  to  themselves, 
they 
may be expected to add.  The  wider  the 
range of their business, the more system­
atic it must be  in  its  conduct,  and  the 
more  readily  can  its  machinery  of  or­
ganization be extended  and  adjusted  to 
new and further uses.
This development having proceeded so 
far,  its continuance may be  accepted  as 
inevitable, aud  business  generally  must 
accommodate itself to  the  changed  con­
ditions it is producing.  There  is no use 
of  fighting  against  it,  for  it  is  going 
ahead under a  law of  progress which  is 
irresistible. 
It  caunot  be  profitable  to 
the merchants engaged in it  unless  it  is 
profitable to the public;  and  being  thus 
advantageous  nothing  can  stop  it. 
It 
cannot be successful except by  cheapen­
ing prices, and,  doing that,  society  gen­
erally  will  lend  assistance  to  acceler­
ate its progress, though the consequences 
be  disastrous  to  many  smaller  dealers 
unable  to  withstand  the  new  competi­
tion.
Such an establishment  serves  the  pur­
pose which co-operative stores have tried 
vainly to perform in  this  country.  The 
vast  volume  of its business enables  it to 
buy  its  supplies  at  the  lower  cost  at 
which great quantities  are  purchasable, 
and to sell them  with a  margin  of  profit 
so small that  their  prices  to  customers 
may  be  no higher than those which deal­
ers  with  a  narrow  trade  and a limited 
credit are obliged to pay for them  to  the 
jobber.  Even such a disadvantage,  how­
ever,  need not be destructive of the mul­
titude of shopkeepers who supply  a con­
tiguous demand,  and  therefore serve  the 
convenience of many people  who  are too 
far away from the great bazaar  to  profit 
invariably  by its lesser prices.  The cor­
ner grocery,  the neighboring  thread  and 
needle shop,  and the near-by shoe  dealer 
will  thus  always  have  an  opportunity 
for  a  modest  trade,  though  the  great 
sources of supply will be  establishments 
in  which are concentrated all varieties of 
business.
Moreover, the means by  which  the de­
velopment  of  these  enormous  concerns 
has  been  made  possible  still  remain 
open  for  the  employment  of  others. 
These concerns  have  been  built  up  by 
advertising,  from  the  time  when A.  T. 
Stewart started his  little  shop  in  lower 
Broadway  until  now;  and  only  by  the 
use  of  the  same  means can they secure 
the  continuance  and  extension  of  their 
prosperity.  Without exception they have 
been and they are  now  distinguished  as 
the  largest  and  most  persistent  adver­
tisers  in  town,  until  they  have  made 
their  names  and  places  of  business 
known to almost  every  citizen  through­
out the Union.  The  more they grow the 
more they increase  their  advertising,  as 
the  first  necessity  for  progress.  The 
method  is  no  secret. 
It  is  patent  to 
everybody.  They have gained the profit­
able distinction they enjoy  by liberal and 
unremitting advertising.

Try the new cigar, Signal Five, 5c.

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O r d e r  f r o m   Y o u r   J o b b e r

G r a n d   R a p i d s   S o a p   W o r k s .

OR

We  Think

that  we  can  truthfully  say  that  never  before  has  the  demand  for  novelties 
in  Jewelry  of  every  description  been  so  great  in  early  season  as  this.  We 
have  the  line  to  fill  your  wants.  You  cannot  afford  to  be  late  in  placing 
your  order.  Our  line  of  Hair  Ornaments,  Belt  Buckles  and  Czarina 
Buckles  are  as  staple  as  your  dress  goods  by  the  yard.  Send  us your  or­
der if  our  salesman  has  not  called  on  you.  Our customers  can  rest  assured 
that whenever  orders sent in  for  anything  in  our  line  they  will  receive  our 
careful  attention.

WURZBURG  JEWELRY  CO.,

76  Honroe  St., 

- 

- 

Grand  Rapids

The Globe
Metal

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.

Grand. Rapids.

J .M. HA.YDBN  «fi  C O .,
69  PEARL  ST.

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ABOUND  THE  STATE.

M O V E M E N T S  GF  M E R C H A N T S.

Marshall—W.  H.  Burke  has  opened a 

new cigar  store.

Bravo—\V.  A.  Nash  succeeds  Mrs.  C. 

V.  Nash in general trade.

Leslie—B.  C.  Fisher  succeeds  Henry 

Wood in  the jewelry  business.

Brooklyn—Palmer,  Coulson & Co.  suc­

ceed E. J.  Ennis in general trade.

Hpringport— Latayette Seavey succeeds 

Pratt <& Seavey in  the  meat business.

Grawn—Henry  Autnouy  succeeds An­
thony  &  atone  in  the  sawmill business.
Ann  Arbor—Cbas.  Dwyer succeeds E.
H.  Andrews & Sou in  the  grocery  busi­
ness.

Detroit—W.  H. Gonne  &  Son  succeed 
McLaughlin  Bros,  in  the  grocery  and 
meat business.

Utica—Switzer  &  Stevens,  druggists 
and grocers,  have sold  their  drug  stock 
to  Fred Stevens.

Mullikeu—Heed  &  Webster  succeed 
Chas. A.  Webster in the agricultural  im­
plement  business.

Jackson—H.  J. Davis  &  Co.  are  suc­
ceeded  by  Lambert B. Cowley in the boot 
and shoe business.

Hillsdale—Levi  Gugenheim  has  sold 
one-half interest in  his stock  of  clothing 
to Sanford Manheimer.

Kalamazoo—Harry  B.  Hoyt  has  sold 
his hat, cap and men’s  furnishing  goods 
stock to Isaac B.  Wentworth.

Detroit—Forsyth & McFeeters,  grocers 
and  meat  dealers,  have  dissolved,  G. 
Forsyth continuing the business.

Negaunee—Henry  W.  Bregstone  has 
purchased the  dry  goods,  clothing  and 
boot and shoe  business of Alex.  Heyn.

Carson City—W. S.  Daniels,  who  con­
ducts a grocery  store five miles  north  of 
this place,  proposes to add a line  of  dry 
goods in  the spring.

Sullivan—Hiram  Munger  has  pur­
chased the general stock of  the  Sullivan 
Lumber  Co.  and  will continue the busi­
ness at the same location.

Petoskey—Pauline Cole  has  sold  her 
drug and stationery stock to her sou, who 
will continue the  business  at  the  same 
location  under the style  of Vernon  Cole.
Manistee—Chas. G. Audersou  has pur­
chased the  drug  stock  formerly  owned 
by  Geo. S.  Goldsmith and  will  continue 
the business  at  the  same  location,  351 
River street.

Muskegon—Wm.  McComb  has  retired 
from the grocery  firm of Dow & McComb. 
The business  will  be  continued  by  the 
remaining  partner  under  the  style  of 
Matthew J.  Dow.

Kewadiu—A.  Anderson  &  Sou,  who 
formerly  conducted  a  general  store  at 
Clearwater,  VanBuren and at this  place, 
have  dissolved.  The  busiuess  will  be 
continued by the son,  W.  U.  Anderson.
Traverse  City—Frank  Friedrich  has 
sold his interest  in  the  shoe  stock  and 
brick  block  of  Friedrich  Bros, 
to  bis 
brother,  who will coutiuue  the  business 
under the style of  Alfred  V.  Friedrich. 
The  retiring  partner  will  re-engage  in 
the shoe busiuess about  March  15.

Detroit—Articles  of  association  of 
Sidney Corbett,  Jr.,  & Co.,  limited  part­
nership,  have been  filed  with the county 
clerk.  Katherine  M.  Corbett 
the 
special  partner,  and  has  contributed 
815,000 to the common  stock.  The  firm 
will  conduct  a  general  brokerage  and 
mercantile  busiuess.  The  partnership 
began  February  6,  and  lasts  for  three 
years.

is 

T H E   M IC H T G A J S T   T E A D E S M A K ,

Menominee—Local  merchants  who 
have their stock in sight  every  day  and 
all  the time are getting tired  of  the  fly- 
by-night fellows  who jump into town  for 
a few days  with  bankrupt  stocks,  clean 
up a good sized roll  of  money  and  then 
leave the  town,  paying  not  a  cent  into 
the  general 
treasury.  They  say  they 
will  organize  and  work  hard  to  secure 
legislation compelling the skin game fel­
lows to  pay something  toward  the  good 
government  under which  they  prosper. 
Auother thing  the merchants  object  to, 
that  the  ordinary  man  seldom  thinks 
about,  is the  fabulous amounts they  pay 
fur  the  desirable  locations,  which,  of 
course,  they rent but a short time.  This 
compels  the  legitimate  business  men 
either to meet a price which  they cannot 
not afford or move out.

MANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

Port  Huron—Chas.  E.  Mudford  suc­
ceeds Chambers & Mudford in  the  cigar 
manufacturing business.

Plymouth—The style  of the  Plymouth 
Irou  Windmill Co.  has  been  changed  to 
the Daisy Manufacturing Co.

Lowell—The Globe Sprinkler  Co.  has 
begun  the  manufacture  of  sprinklers, 
plaster  sifters, creaming cans  and  stove 
pipe holders in the building formerly oc­
cupied by Severy & Son.

Bay  City—The  Monitor  Coal  Co.  has 
been  organized  with  a  capital  stock of 
$20,000.  It will proceed to mine coal five 
miles west of the city,  a vein of 5 feet 10 
inches having been found at  a  depth  of 
130 feet.

Saginaw—The Palmerton Woodenware 
Co.  is  receiving  an  average  of two log 
trains a day,  and is operating  a  force  of 
300 men.  The logs are cut  into material 
for  tubs,  pails  and  other  articles  pro­
duced at the  company’s  factory.

Somerset—L.  T.  Smith,  of  Addison, 
and  C.  E.  Strong,  of  this  place,  have 
formed a copartnership under the style of 
Strong  &  Smith  and  will  erect,  equip 
and operate a cheese factory here, expect- 
to  be 
ready  to  begin  operations  by 
April  15.

Owosso—The  Owosso  Lumber,  Land 
<&  Fuel  Co.  is  extensively  engaged 
in 
lumbering this  winter on the  line of  the 
Toledo,  Ann Arbor & Northern  Michigan 
Railroad, in  the vicinity of Cadillac.  The 
stock  is railed to  this  place.  The  com­
pany employs eighty  men.

Coleman—The Michigan  Head  Lining 
&  Hoop Co.  has 2.000,000 feet of elm  logs 
at the mill and  a large  stock  of  shingle 
timber.  The  hoop  and  lining mills run 
days and the  shingle  mill  nights.  The 
former will start March 1.  The company 
employs nearly  100 men.

Jackson—The  Bortree  Corset  Co.  has 
been organized,  with  a  capital  stock  of 
$30,000, to  continue the  business  of  the 
defunct Bortree Manufacturing Co., hav­
ing acquired the plant, patents and  good 
will of the former concern.  R. H.  Emer­
son will  act as President of the new com­
pany, C.  W. Gregg as Secretary and S. H. 
Camp as Treasurer.

Saginaw—A..  T.  Brown, who purchased 
the Mitchell,  McClure &  Co.  sawmill,  at 
Zilwaukie,  recently,  will  put  in  about 
3.000,000 feet of logs on his own account, 
and  has  arranged  for  logs  to  cut  for 
other parties.  About the first  of  March 
he  will  begin  to  make  some repairs to 
the mill,  which  was  idle last season,  and 
only cut about  5.000.000  feet  of  lumber 
in 1893.

Morenci—C.  A.  Conrad  has purchased 
the  Fountain  Valley  cheese  factory  of 
Benj.  Roberts and  will continue the busi­
ness.

Belding—The  Belding  Cigar  Co.  has 
been organized  by  E.  C.  Watkins,  R.  L. 
Hale.  M.  B.  Divine,  F.  A.  Washburn, 
B.  P.  Angell  and  Geo.  S.  Kent  with  a 
capital  stock  of  $10,000,  one-half  of 
which  has been  paid in.  Mr. Divine has 
been elected  President  and  will  act  as 
traveling  salesman;  Mr.  Hale  will serve 
as  Vice-President  and  E.  C.  Watkins 
will fill the  dual  positions  of  Secretary 
and  Treasurer.

Plymouth—Jolliffe Bros., general deal­
ers  and  proprietors  of  the  Plymouth 
cheese factory, have  closed  negotiations 
with the Salem  Butter and Cheese Manu­
facturing Co.,  at Salem,  under the terms 
of  which  they  will  operate  that  enter­
prise as a  cheese factory  during the sea­
son of 1895.  Jolliffe Bros, are successful 
cheesemakers and  business men and  will 
give the people of Salem  value  received.
Frankfort—The Crane Lumber Co. will 
stock up  this  season  heavier  than  ever 
before.  This firm is  the  pioneer  of  the 
lumber firms in this locality. 
It  has  al­
ready put in  8,000,000 feet of  maple and 
elm,  and  is  banking  4,000,000  feet  of 
hemlock.  The  company  has  had  500 
men  on  the  pay  roll  some  of the time 
this season,  and has paid out to date $40,- 
000.  Last  year  over  2,000  acres  of  its 
lands were sold to  actual  settlers.  This 
mill is being  overhauled, and  operations 
will  be begun as  soon as the ice goes out 
of the  lake.

PRODUCE  MARKET.

Apples—Russets  command  $  JO  per  bbl., 
Baldw ins and Spy* 13  and  extra  choice  w inter 
varieties $3.r>0©‘.00 per bbl.

Beans—The m arket is still stronger and higher 
than a week ago, w ith every indication of going 
to  the  $2  m ark  before  w arm   w eather 
Local 
dealers bold at $1 7u in  carlots  and  11.75  in  less 
than  ca r ots.

B utter—The  supply  is 'am ple,  th e  price  for 
dairy ranging from 16  19c, according to quality.
tu 

per  doz.,  accoiding 

Cabbage- 35®5Qc 

Celery—Still higher in price, com m anding ¿5® 

quality.

30c per doz.

C ranberries—14 per  crate.
Eggs—Sustained  a  .sharp  advance,  ow ing  to 
th e  prolonged  cold  w eather. 
Pi  kled  have 
w alked  up  to  18c,  cold  storage  to  21c,  w hile 
strictly  fresh  com m and all the  way  from 25® 0c 
per doz., according  to the necessity of the buyer 
and  the greediness of the seller.

Lettuce—14 »15c per lb.
O nions—Red  W eatherfields  and  Yellow  D an­
vers  com mand 45c'per bu.  Yellow  Globes com­
m and 55c and  Red Globes are eagerly sought for 
ou the basis of 60c.  Spanish stock has  declined 
lo.9  c per box.

P arsnips—35c per bu.
Potatoes—Strong 

in  the  local  m arket,  but 
w eaker a t mo -t of the outside m arkets.  Present 
transactions are on the basis of 55c.

Radishes—Hot house stock com mands  30c  per 

doz. bunches.

Squash—H ubbard  brings  ltic   per  lb. 

Sweet  Potatoes—Kiln dried  Jerseys  command 
$3 per bbl.  K iln dried  Illinois  stock  Is  held  at 
2oc less.
if  the 
quality is up to staudard.  Poor stock sell  at  % 
<a lc.
#

John Brechting 

ARCHITECT

79 W onderly  B’ld. G rand Rapids. 
Correspondence  Solicited  from   all 

who intend to build.

M.  R.  ALD EN   &   CO., 

M .  R.  ALDEN. 
E.  E.  ALDEN.
W h o le s a le   P ro d u ce
S tric tly   F resh   E ggs  and Choice  Cream ery  and 

D airy  B u tter  a  Specialty.

76  So.  D ivision S t., G rand Rapids.

We  buy on track at point of shipm ent  or  receive 

on consignm ent. 

’P hone  l3oo.

CYCLE
STEF*
LAOOER.

WRITE

HIRTH,  KRAUSE 

GO.,

MICHIGAN  STATE  AGENTS, 

for Catalogue.

W estern
B eei
and
Provision
Co.

These prices are right at the tim e  of  going  to 
press and  a  e  subject  to  m arket  changes.  We 
enter  orders  at  m arket  prices  at  the  tim e  re 
ceived.

Sansa.e.

Pork  Sausage...............................................6Ji@  7H
V erm ont Sausage  in  bags........................ 
9
Bologna. 
.......................................   ....... 4H  ®  5
Smoked  Meats.
................................................  S2£©  9
No  1  llam a 
....................6%©  6*4
Picnic  Hams 
Breakfast Boneless  B acon......................  87,®   8%
/lied Beef,  Ham  S ets............................. 
9 *

—  

Fresh  Meats.

•'eef «Ides.  row s and  neifers................   5  @ 6
Beef Sides  No, 1 Steers 
......................... 696®  7
Loins of  Beef  .............................................8  @10
Rin  Roasts  ..  .............................................7  ©   9
Pork Loins 

7>4

Boneless Rum p B utts....................................... $ 9   £5

.............................................  
Reef  in  Barrels.
Barrel  Pork.
Mess P ork........  
....................................
Boneless  Pig. bean  po r* .......................
E xtra Heavy clear  back......................
Short Cut 
..
Standard Short C ut, clear back ...........
Medium, clear back................................
Lard  in  Tierees.
K ettle Rendered..............   ....................
K a m ilv .......... ...........................................
Com pound...................................................... 4
V egetole.........................................

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lb 75

% @5 
6&
Ask  for  prices  on  any  provisions 
or fresh meats.  Special  attention  to 
mail and telegraph  orders.
Telephone  1254.

71  Canal  St.,  Grand  Rapids.

$11  00 
.  11 B0 
13  00 
i l l   25 
.  2  50 
.  12  00

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Bananas—There is a little  stock  in the 
hands of local  commission  meu,  but,  as 
the  weather  is  too  cold  to  risk reship­
ment, sales are few  and  confined  exclu­
sively to city trade.

Figs—The  demand  continues  to  be 
fairly  good.  Arrivals are falling off and 
prices  are  stiffening  up  a  little.  Bag 
stock goes very  slowly,  as  street venders 
who take much of it cannot  do  business 
when  the  mercury drops  so far down in 
the tube.

Dates—Are moving  freely as the price 
is  very  low  and  has  evidently touched 
bottom.

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

J. 

F.  Gook,  the Martin general  dealer, 

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

Patrick Keating succeeds  H.  J.  Keenan 
in the grocery business at 796South Divi­
sion street.

W. A.  Butzer,  general dealer  at  Roth- 
bury  has  added  a  line  of  hardware. 
Foster,  Stevens  &  Co.  furnished  the 
stock.

L. S.  Dickinson,  whose hardware stock 
at Fennville was  recently  destroyed  by 
fire,  has resumed  business  at that  place 
Foster,  -Stevens  &  Co.  furnished 
the 
stock.

C.  Dogger,  who  conducted  a  grocery 
store at  70  Houseman  street  about  two 
years,  retiring from the  business  a  year 
ago,  has decided to re-engage in the same 
business at the same  location.  The  01- 
ney  &  Judson  Grocer  Co.  has the order 
for the stock.

T b e   G r o c e r y   M a r k e t .

The  wholesale  oyster  dealers  of  this 
city have been  on  the  anxious  seat  for 
tbe  past  week,  as  each  day has chron­
icled an advance by the  various  packers 
at Baltimore and  gave  promise  that  the 
ability to  procure  stock  would  soon  be 
overcome  by  the  severe  storms.  The 
packers  were  charging  85c  per  gallon 
Thursday  of last  week;  on  Friday  they 
advanced to 90c and  ¡Saturday quotations 
ranged from  $1@1.10  and  local  dealers 
were loathe to place orders for more than 
immediate wants for  fear  that  a  slump 
would  come  before  they could  work out 
of a surplus.  Monday morning telegrams 
naming prices all the  way  from  $1.20@
1.40 per gallon  for standards came in and 
played  havoc  with  the  quotations  sent 
out Saturday and caused  a  hasty  edition 
of postals to be sent out  advising  of  the 
advance.  Our merchants are slow to put 
up the price of goods,  but,  in the present 
instance,  they  have  been  forced  to  and 
the  trade  who  draw 
their  supply  ot 
oysters from  Grand  Rapids  may  be  sure 
of  getting  stock at the closest price that 
It is to  be hoped that  the 
can be made. 
storms  will  abate  and 
tbe  supply  of 
oysters soon  become adequate for the de­
mand  at  the  old  prices.  Those  being 
asked now will temp  captains  and other 
men  to  rake  the  bottom  of  the  beds if 
possible for a boat to be out.

Oranges—Nothing  has  been  coming 
into our market during the past week, on 
account of the severe  cold  weather,  and 
the same may be said as to shipping fruit 
out.  City  trade  has  been  taking  what 
the  commission  men  and  fruit  dealers 
had to offer and,  until  the  trains  get  to 
running more regularly,  there  will  be  a 
scarcity.  The  various  California  fruit 
exchanges are now  making  daily  quota­
tions  and  report  that  they  can  make 
shipments  promptly.  Riverside  Seed­
lings are the cheapest thing offered  while 
navels  are  the  best.  The Messinas are 
in good order,  as  a  rule,  but  most  too 
tart  to  please the general  taste.  A  few 
moderate days will  stimulate  shipments 
and,  possibly,  result  in  a  reduction  of 
price.

Lemons—The  majority  of  the  stock 
coming  forward  is  very  fine  and hand­
somely packed and,  withal,  very  cheap. 
Nothing  warrants  the  belief  that  good 
fruit can be picked  up  at  better  prices 
later on than  present  quotations  and  it 
may  be  that  with 
the  better  demand 
which  will come  with moderate weather, 
prices will  be  advanced.  Stock  that  is 
free  from  frost  will  make  the  buyer 
money at present prices.

«aim '

F in a n c ia l  C o n d itio n   o f   P o s t   E .

At the regular meeting of Post E,  held 
at  Elk’s  Hall 
last  Saturday  evening. 
Treasurer  Dawley  presented  his  finan­
cial report,  as follows:
Receipts 
D isbursem ents

EN TER TA IN M EN T  F U N D .
................................................  81,817  95

1,766

B alance on  h a n d ..... ............8  51  18

G EN ERA L  F U N D .
Received  for Post dues................
D isbursem ents to date..................

Balance on h a n d ..................$  3i  20
The social  party following the business 
meeting was one of the most  pleasant  ot 
the series, albeit tbe attendance was  not 
as large as  was anticipated, owing to tbe 
the  prolonged  “cold 
prevalence  of 
spell.” 
_

T h e   D r u g   M a r k e t.

Gum opium is dull and  lower.
Morphia and quinine are unchanged.
Carbolic  acid  has  been  advanced  by 
manufacturers  lc  per  pound.  Higher 
prices  are  looked  for  when  spring  de­
mand opens.

Gum gamboge has declined.
Gum kino is  almost out  of market and 

extreme prices rule.

Cod liver oil has advanced S8  per  bar­
rel  of  30  gallons  and  higher prices are 
indicated, on  account of small  supply.

Linseed  oil  is  very  firm  and  higher 

prices are looked for.

P r o p e r t y   O w n e r s ’  P r o te c tio n .

The Commercial  Credit  Company  has 
on  file over 40,000 reports  of  the  paying 
ability  and general character of residents 
of Kent county,  These reports  are  cor­
rect  up  to  date  and  show  individual’s 
records  for  many  years  back.  Land 
lords  who are seeking tenants  and  pur­
chasers  can thoroughly rely  upon  these 
reports  being  the  best  obtainable  and 
without the inconvenience of waiting  for 
reports to  be  gathered.  Their  office  is 
over 65  Monroe street.

T h e  O y s t e r  S u p p ly .

F.  J. Dettenthaler, of this city, receives 
information that the oyster  beds  are  all 
frozen up and that they are liable to stay 
frozen for some time to come.  The mar­
ket price of  oysters  is  increasing  every 
hour  and,  before  the  week  ends,  there 
may  be no  oysters  in  the  market.  All 
dealers  should  mail  or  telegraph  their 
orders in at once for supplies.  Mr.  Det 
tentbaler will have them if any one does.

F r o m   O u t  o f   T o w n .

Calls  have  been  received  at  The 
T r a d e s m a n  office during  tbe  p a s t  week 
from the following geutiemen in trade:

Sullivan Lumber Co.,  Wallin.
Bates & Trautman,  Moline.
Sterken  Bros., Zutpben.
Hamilton Clothing Co.,  Traverse  City.
J.  L. Covey,  Reno.
John  Westover.  Fruitport.

A   L a r g e   D e m a n d .

always  be active,  I should  think.

Smith—The  real  estate  market  must 
Brown—Why so?
Smith—There  are  so  many  fellows 

nowadays who want the earth.

The reeent damage by fire to the Y.  M. 
C. A.  building,  of this city,  was satisfac­
torily  adjusted through the  office  of  tbe 
Grand  Rapids  Fire  Insurance Company. 
Losses through  this  agency  are  always 
promptly settled, as  there is no delay  in 
waiting for an outside adjuster.

A Baltimore man stole a cat,  and when 
brought before  the court  was discharged 
on the grouud that  a cat  caunot  be  con­
sidered as  property.
A  German  manufacturer  advertises. 
“ If auy  person  will show that my tapioca 
is adulterated, three  boxes  will  be  sent 
him free of charge.”

change  for  stock  groceries.  A ddress  Box  8», 

Wants  Column*

A dvertisem ents  w ill  be  Inserted  under  this 
head  for two cents a  word  the first insertion and 
one  cent a word  for each  subsequent  insertion. 
No advertisem ents  taken for  less  than 25 cents. 
A dvance navm ent.

695

i l / ' I N K ' s   <  h

699 

Iilo R   SALK—TA .  LB  FACTORY.  LOCATED 

in a live town  of  2 -1 o  inhabitants  P lant 
includes boiler  engine,  kilns  sawmill and  nee 
essary machinery  to m anufacture ta'-les or other 
lines <>f  fu rn itu re  Town  has  three  railroads, 
furnishing excellent shipping  facilities.  P lant 
cost 817.0  o and is  well  w orth  810.000.  but will be 
sold  for 85,"00. ow ing to inexperience  of  ow ner, 
ddress  Vo  97, care  Michigan  Tradesm an.  697
|R S A L E  OK  TRADE  -FOR  SMALL STOCK 
of goods—shoe stock  preferred—tw o tracts 
of  land,  one  of  forty  and  the other ten acres, 
Address  Lock  Box 984, Big  Rapids,  M  rh. 
VSTANTED—TO  EXCHANGEAN  IMPROVED 
■  v 
farm  in  southern  M ichigan  for a stock of 
m erchandise.  A ddress Box 29 j,  Plain well,  Mi  h. 
______________________  

GOOD  N IN E  ROOM  B O ISE   NICELY  L o ­

cated  in  ML  Pleasant,  Mich.  Will  ex­

S tanton,  Mich. 
r r o  EXCHANGE—FRUIT FARM  IN OCEANA 
X  
county  for general  m erchandise.  A ddress 
No. 694  care M  chigan Tradesm an. 
A  GOOD  STORE  BUILDING  AND  8t,000 
f t .   stock  rener-d  m erchandise,  to  exchange 
for  f> rm  w orth  8\(HR 
For  particulars  ad- 
dress No. 686  care  M ichigan  Trade-m an 
/G R O C ER Y   VIO<  K  F o il  -A L E —IN VOICING 
\ I   about 87.000, in  a  hustling  tow n  o f  8.000. 
E verything cash.  The  only grocery  th at  made 
money  last year.  Reasons  other irous.  Address 
No.  191  care  Michigan  Trade-m an. 

■OR  SALE—DRUG  STOCK,  CLEAN  AND 

fresh, new  shelving, counters, show  cases, 
good business town  Will  take  81,000,  pavable 
h alf cash and  balance  on  short  tim e  Address 
for particulars, No. 685,  care  M ichigan  T rades­
man._____________________________________ 685
m o   EXCHANGE— FOR  sTO'  t   GROCERIES, 
-a 
boots and  shoes  or  clothing,  ten  acres  of 
nice land  in  first  w ard.  Coldwater,  Mich.  Ad- 
dress S. Spurlock 

FOR SALE—FI R -T  CLASS t.K O   EKY STOCK 

and fixtures  nearly  new.  Good  location, 
good town  Good  reason  for  selling.  G reat op 
portu-  ity  for the right  man.  A ddress  No.  683, 
eare M ichigan  Tradesm an. 

rwood  Mich 

683

694

686

t96

691

bk3

soda  fountain  and  safe,  the  finest location  in 

674

<*R  R E N T -H O T E L   T  .  RENT,  PARTLY 
furnished, good  bar  and  bar  fixtures,  ex­
cellent location ;  good  chance to the right pat ty 
Inquire e7 Carrier  Sfc,  G rand  Rapids. 
Q TO C K   OP CL< »THING AND GENTLEM EN’S 
furnishing  good-  to  trade  for  real  estate. 
A ddress No. 660, Cate M ichigan Tradesm an. 660
/ ' 0 0 >   FARM  NEAR  STATE  CAPITOL, 
’  * 
clear t !tle, to exchange for boots and shoes 
Q,  W  W atrnus,  Lansing.  Mich. 
T F   YOU  WANT  TO  BUY  OR  SELL  REAL 
lo a n   satisfy  von  Chas. 
I 
E.  Mercer,  Rooms  1  and 2. W iddicomb  building. 
653
_____________________________________ 
interest in  ssm e  on  one  of  the  principal 
location  Ai.  A ddress  No.  674  care  M ichigan 
Tradesm an. 

■OR  SALE—A  SHOE  BUSINESS.  OR  HALF 

estate, w rite me. 

624

rsg

streets in  (4rand  Rapids  New  stock  good trade, 

» IT C A T IO N S   w  a  a t e o ,

6  8

well recom mended  Address  statingsalary,  P. 

Crinit  1  to invest in a  fl  uring mi  1 at  i'orr.  For 

clerk having citv  experience.  Can come 

S  ifendershott,  Tecum seh  AUrh. 
M 1 -C E L L A  N KOIig.

■PANTED -  POSITION  BY  A  GROCERY 
9H IE  CITIZENS  OF  D  >RR W ILL  PAYA  LIB- 
■PANTED—TEA  LEAD  IN  ANY  yU A N TI 

ernl  bonus  to sny  party  who  has  a  small 
fo rth er inform ation  w rite J . C.  N eum an,  Dorr, 
Mich.___________________________________ P93

ties from everyw he  e.  Address,  stating 

Rapids, o  te epbone 510. 
T llA V E   THE CA>H  T o  PAY  FOR  A  GOOD 
L  clean stock  of  hardw are  locat  d  in  an  Al 
town.  A ddress No  68',  care  M ichigan  T rades­
m an 

t rice. J.  M.  Hayden  &  Co.,  69  Pearl  St.,  G rand 

684

682

Correspondence  solicited  W atkins  &  Sm ith, 

Reason  for selling,  we desire another  pattern  of 

673

EN  TO  Sr.l.L  BAKING  PuWDKK  To THE 
-  grocery  irade  Steady  employment,  ex­
perience unnecessary  87  monthly  "salary  and 
expenses or commission. 
If offer is satisfactory 
addn ss  at  once  w ith  particulars  concerning 
yourself  U. S. Chem ical  Works, Chicago,  6,7

8.-86 South  Division St.. G rand  Rapids. 

potatoes,  onions,  apples,  cabbages,  etc. 

for  sale  at  a  great  reduction  from  Cost- 
same make of  m achine, which  we  consider  the 
best  on  the  m arket.  Tradesm an  Company,  100 
Louis St., G rand  Rapids. 

■RANTED—B I T I ER,  EGGS,  P o l  LTRY, 
■ EARLY  NEW   BAR-LOCK  TY PEW RITER 
■PANTED—sV ERY   D R U G G IS T   J U S T  
FARM  FOR  MERCHANDISE.

starting in  business and every one already 
has cost you #15 you can  now  get  for  84.  F our­
teen  labels  do  "the  work  of  113.  Tradesm an 
Company,  G rand  Rapids.

564

started to use our system of  poi-on  labels.  W hat 

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

was in  town Monday.

C. C.  Philbrick  (Foster, Stevens & Co.) 
is  dow   in Mexico,  on  a  trip  combining 
pleasure and the pursuit of health.

L.  C.  Hayden  (J.  M.  Hayden  &  Co.) 
is spending a week at  Tecumseh,  Adrian 
and other Southern  Michigan points.

W. E.  Nesbitt,  who has been  with  the 
Michigan Grocery Co., of  Kalamazoo,  as 
salesman,  has taken  a  similar  position 
with Neil & Higgins,  of Chicago.

Cbas.  F.  Alderton,  the  Saginaw  City 
grocer and meat dealer, submitted  to  an 
operation for appendicitus last Thursday. 
He is doing as  well as could  be  expected 
under the circumstances.

J.  W.  Marvin,  formerly  with  Allan 
Sheldon & Co.,  of  Detroit,  has  engaged 
with Voigt,  Herpolsheimer  & Co.,  and is 
covering the Chicago  &  West  Michigan 
and the Michigan  Central.

Chas.  S.  Withey, 

tbe  merchandise 
broker,  submitted to  an  operation at the 
U.  B.  A.  Home  last  Friday  and  nearly 
lost his life through loss  of blood result­
ing from  the  puncturing  of  an  artery. 
He  rallied  later,  however,  and  is  now 
considered out of danger.

Edwin  Densmore,  formerly of this city, 
but now a resident of  Los Angeles, Cal., 
has recently  embarked  in  tbe  manufac­
ture  of  surgeons’  splints and sp'int ma­
terial  from  the  yucca  plant.  Jos.  H. 
Spires,  formerly of this city, is associated 
with Mr. Densmore in the  business.

T h e   G r a in   M a r k e t.

The wheat market showed considerable 
strength during the past week and closed 
very firm,  under  diminished  receipts  in 
grain  centers  and  demand  from  ex­
porters.  While exports  have  not  beeu 
up to  previous  weeks,  there  will  prob­
ably  be  more  exported,  providing  this 
blizzard weather lets  up.  Farmers’  de­
liveries  are,  also,  small,  owing  to  tbe 
snow 
blockade  and  extremely  cold 
weather.  The  visible  is  expected  to 
show another 1,000,000  bushel  decrease, 
against  about  one-quarter  the  amouut 
for  the  corresponding  week  last  year. 
Takiug  everything  into  consideration, 
the wheat market looks firm  and  higher 
prices are in sight.

Corn has,  likewise,  taken  an  advance 
of 2@3e,  owing to Eastern  demands  and 
small  receipts,  making  holders  firm  in 
anticipation of still further advances.

Oats  have  advanced  a  trifle  and  are 
very strong,  with  an  upward  tendency.
Receipts of wheat  were 38  cars,  being 
rather  below the average,  which  is  par­
tially owing  to  tbe  superabundance  of 
snow.  There were  29  cars  of  corn  re­
ceived, which is rather an unusually large 
amount.  Oats received were 3 cars.

C.  G.  A.  VoiGT.

Signal Five cigar, all.imported stock,5c.

Clifton Arrow  B’nd 44 

U N BLEA CH E D COTTON S.

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B L E A C H E D   COTTONS.

A d ria tic ....................64
A rg y le........................5
**  W orld W ide  6
A tlanta A A ...............6
“ 
L L ..................4 4
F ull Y ard W ide.......64
A tlantic  A ................3
Georgia  A ................  64
H .................. 5 4
P ...............  5
H onest W idth.........   6
D ................ 6
H artford A ...............  5
Indian H ead.............  64
L L ...................4 4
K ing A  A .................. 6 4
A m ory.......................... 6*4
K ln g E C .  ................   5
A rchery  B u n tin g ...  314 
Beaver Dam  A A ..  44 
Law rence  L L .........  44
¡Madras cheese cloth 64
B lackstone O, 32__   5
B lack C row ...............6  N ew m arket  G ......... 5
B ..........4 4
Black  R o c k .............5 4  
N ..........6
Boot, A L ..................   7 
C apital  A ..................5 4  
D D ....  5
C avanat  V ................ 5 4  
X .........6
C hapm an cheese c l. 3 4  Nolbe R .....................  5
C lifton  C R ...............5 4 |O u r Level  B est.........6
C om et........................... 54 O xford  R ...................6
D w ight S ta r..............  64 P equot.......................... 6 4
C lifton C C C .............5 4   S olar...........................   6
iT opof th e  H eap__ 7
Geo. W ashington...  8
A B C ......................... 8 4
G len M ills................  7
A m azon...................... 8
A m sburg...................,5 4
Gold  M edal................ 7 4
G reen  T ick et.............84
A rt C am bric............ x0
G reat F a lls ...............   64
Blackstone  A A ....... 6 4
Beats A ll....................4
H ope............................. 64
Boston ....................... 12
J u s t  O u t.........  4J£@  5
C abot..........................6
K ing  P h illip .............. 7 4
OP___ 7 4
Cabot,  % ..................... 3 4
Lonsdale C am bric..  9%
C harter  O ak ............ 5 4
L onsdale.............   &  64
Conway W .........—   7 4
M iddlesex..........  @ 4 4
C lev elan d ...............   6
D w ight A nchor—   7 
No N am e...............—  7 4
shorts  6
“  
Oak V iew ....................6
Our  O w n...................   5 4
E dw ards.. 
.............6
P ride of th e W e st...11
Em pire.......................   7
Farw ell.......................  6%¡Rosalind......................7 4
F ru it of th e  Loom.  74!S u n lIg h t....................   4 4
U tica  M ills.............. 8 4
F itch ville  ..............  ?
N onpareil  ..10
F irst P rize................ 6
V lnyard.....................  8 4
F ru it o f the Loom X. 6 4
— 
6
F airm ount.................1 4  W hite Horse
F u ll V alue.................141 
3 4
C abot.......................... 6 
F arw ell...................... 7 

“  R o ck ....
I D w ight A nchor
I

H A L F   BLEA C H ED   COTTONS.

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CANTON  F L A N N E L .

Bleached. 
H ousewife  Q —  K.
S  . 
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U  . 
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X .. 
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U nbleached.

H ousew ife  A . . ------ 54
.5 4
..6
. 6 4
..7
•  7 4  
..7 4  
..7 4  
..84 
..8 4•  94 
.10
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CA K FET  W A R P.

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D B E SS G O O D S.

Peerless,  w hite____ 1441 Integrity  colored... 18
co lo re d .... 17  W hite S tar....... ........17
In te g rity .................... 1841 
“   colored  .19
acific  B A W .......... 104
A tlantic, 45 in ... 
Hamilton  grey m ix.104 
plains — 104 
“ . 
36 in.  fancy
i -6 in. 
___
36 in. 
. . .
n in.  F lannels 
36 in. 
7 in.
GOBBETS.

3 ’4
Serge, 45 in 324
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F
.18
“ 
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....3 2 4  
Pacific, 45  in 
...30 
“  AA1  . 
. ..26 
“   A l.... 
....2 0  
“  T C ...
....1 6
“   MC.  .

.18
.20
.374
.25
.20

O oraline................... <9 (»¡W onderful.  .. 
.  #4 50
00 B righton.............. 4  75
Schilling’s ................   9 
Davis  W a is ts ___  9 00 Bortree’s .................   9 00
G rand  R ap id s.......  4  501 A bdom inal.............15 00

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C O SSET  JE A N S .

N aum keag................ 7 
IB lddeford..................  5
Androscoggin  .........7  Rockport.....................  5 4
A rm ory......................  6 4 1 Pepper w ell................  74

COTTON A D FR,
I < tratford....................16
___21 
M oscow ... 
A lp h a .......   ............ 2 
Ionic 
................16
......................16
D undee 
...................124  Holt 
u n k erh ill............  12  ,  Beaver  J e a n ............. 17
W oodstock 

........... 15 

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A tlanta,  D ...........
B oot.......................
C lifton. K

..  6 4  ¡Stark  A 
..  64lN o  N am e...........
.

7 Top of  Heap 
D E M IN *.

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8
7 4
9

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Amoskeag  .......

Law rence, 9 oz...
No. 220.
No. 250.
No. 280.
brow n.  .

..12 Otis, AXA................ 10
“  B B ..................
9 4
..11
“   CC...................... 8 4
..  94
..  8 Amosxe&g, blue  ■. 114
9 o z ....... 134
E verett, b lu e........ ..104
brow n 114
..104
GIN G H A M S.
..  5
Lancaster,  sta p le .. 5
fa n c ie s __ 6
“  Persian dress  6 s
N orm andie 6
Canton ..  7
“ 
L ancashire................  44
A FC.........  8 4
M anchester..............   44
T eazle.. .104 
M onogram ................  44
A ngola.. 104 
N orm andie.............   64
P ersian ..  7
................64
  64
P ersian ..... 
A rlington stap le 
A rasapha  fa n c y ....  4 4
R enfrew  Dress.........7 4
Bates W arw ick dres  74lR osem ont..................64
staples.  6  Slaters v ille .............. 6
C entennial.  . . . . . . .   104
Som erset....................  7
C rite rio n ..................104
Tacom a  ....................7 4
Toil  d u N o rd ...........8 4
Cum berland stap le.  5 4
W abash.....................   74
C um berland.............5
seersucker..  7 4
E ssex ..........................4 4
W arw ick..................  6
E lfin...........................  7 4
W hlttenden..............   8
E verett classics.......8 4
E xposition................74
heather dr.  7 4  
G lenarle..................  64
Indigo blue  9 
W am sutta staples...  64
G lenarven.................64
W estbrook................   8
G lenw ood................... 7 4
H am pton................... 5
..................... 10
W Inderm eer__  
...  5
Johnson Chalon cl 
4
Y o r k ......................... 6 4
Indigo blue  9 4  
zephyrs  ...16

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G RA IN   B A S S .

Amoskeag..............
S tark __ 7............
A m erican.............. ..12 

.12  ¡Georgia 
. 
15 Mil................... 

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TH R EA D S.

Clark’s Mile End.. ..45  1 B arbour's  __ ........95
.  90
Coats’, J.  A P .......
H olyoke.................

.45  M arshall’s
.224!

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No.

K N ITTIN G   COTTON.

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

W hite.  Colored.
38 No.  14.......
.37
39
.38
16.......
18....... 39
40
41
2 0 ..,.
.40
CAM BRICS.

W hite.  Colored
42
43
44
45

..33
...34
...35
...86

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34
W hite S tar..............   3 4   Lockw ood................... 34
Kid Glove  ...............   3 4   Wood’s .....................  3 *
N ew m arket..............   3 4 1 Bruns w ic k .............   34

B ED   FL A N N EL.

F irem an................... 27
Creedm ore............... 21
Talbot X XX.............30
N am eless..................274

T W ...........................224
F T   .............................824
J R F ,  X XX.............25
B nckeye...................324

N IX E D   FL A N N E L .

Red & Blue,  p la id ..40
Grey S R W ...............174
Western W  ............... I84.
Union  R ....................224
D R  P ..........................164
W indsor....................184
6 oz W estern............20
F lushing X XX..........234
Union  B ................... 224|M anltoba................. .234

N am eless.

DOMEX  FLA N N EL.

.  8 
.  8 4  
.10

CANVASS  AND  PA D D IN G .
94
104
114
124

Brown. Black-
Slate.  Brown.  Black. Slate
104
94 104
9 4  
104 
104 114
114
114 12
12
114 
124120
20
124 
D U C K S.
Severen, 8 oz.......... .  8 West  Point, 8 oz ...10
May laud, 8 o z ......... .  9
10 oz ...12
9 4 Raven, lOoz.......
G reenwood, 7 4  os.
...12
.......
Greenwood, 8 oz 
... 134
Boston, 8 oz............ .10 Boston, 10 oz__ ...124

. .114 Stark

104
114
12
20

M

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W ADDINGS.

W hite, d o s................20  I Per bale, 40 doz
Colored,  doz............ 19  ¡Colored  “  ___
SILERTAB.
I24 IVictory  J   ..........
“  M.  ...
“  K K ..  .
“  S ............

Royal...............—  
Red C ro s s ................ 7 4  
Laconia 
..................9 4  
V ictory  0 ................ 6 
I 

.38  10 
.  6  50

..  104 
• ••124

Cortlcelll, doz...........75

SEW IN G   SIL K .

Corticelli  knitting, 
. ..30

per 4 o z  ball. 

tw ist, d oz.  37 ».
50 yd, d oz.. 374
HOOKS AND  EYES— F E B   GBOSS.
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.  9
..10
|N o4—15  J 1  3 4 .......... 40

8 
S  I  “  10 
FIN S .

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No  1 Bl’k A  W hite..  5 

2 

6

A   D e a l  (?)  in   C r a c k e r s .

W ritten for th e Tradesman.

-J.  H.  Van  Zolenberg  is  a  reputable 
dealer of Petoskey,  and  Willis P.'  Town­
send sells crackers for M. E. Christenson, 
of Grand Rapids.

Long  and  faithfully  has  Willis 

laid 
the siege at the door of  the  Van  Zolen- 
berg grocery,  for he was anxious to have 
its proprietor introduce the crackers  and 
the sweet goods and the  pretzels  of  the 
little Canal street bakery.

For a long,  long time  Mr.  Van  Zolen- 
berg  couldn’t  see  it that  way.  He  was 
satisfied with the goods he was handling, 
the  people  of  whom  he  bought  were 
using him well,  he disliked a .change.

W.  P.  may not be the handsomest  man 
that makes his home in the  Valley  City 
but he  is  persistent.  He  can sit  down 
on a man’s neck,  ride there till the  train 
starts,  then take an order  for goods  and 
catch his car at the  last crossing.

Mr. Van Zolenberg  is  a  church  mem­
ber good  and  true,  and  Willis’  voice  is 
as soft and low and  touching as  a  love­
lorn maiden’s sigh;  so,  finally,  through 
his perseverance,  his  apparent piety and 
his soothing speech,  he began to impress 
the veteran dealer, who one day  told  the 
drummer that he might  bring in his  grip 
after supper.

Willis  does  not  always  take 

the 
trouble to change his  samples  when  he 
is  in  the  house,  so  it  occurred  to  him 
that, as he  had carried  the  same  crack- ' 
ers for a number  of  weeks,  they  might 
be getting a  trifle  stale.  At  the  hotel, 
therefore,  he  induced  the  landlady 
to 
warm his triple  X  butters  in  the  oven 
and they were soon  returned  to him  in  a 
much improved condition.  The prospect 
of inakiug a new customer  lent  inspira­
tion to his  tired  feet  and  he  was  soon 
standing before the  merchant.
“Now.  Mr.  Van  Zolenberg,”  gurgled 
Willis,  deftly  removing  the  trays  from 
his grip the  while,  “ in judging the  qual­
ity of these crackers,  you  must take into 
consideration the fact that  they  are  old 
samples.  You  know  as  well  as  I 
that 
craciters which have knocked  about  the 
country for three or four months are  not 
as good as when first baked.”

“Of course,”  answered the  grocer.
“Now,  Mr. Van Zolenberg, I  am  very 
sorry that  L  haveu’t  a  fresh  sample  of 
our superior crackers to show you,  for I 
should like to  have  you  compare  them 
with those of  our  would-be competitors. 
But  1 will  gladly  submit  my  samples 
here to a comparison with  anything that 
you may happen to  have  that  has  been 
baked  equally  long.”  Aud  Mr.  Town­
send  triumphautly  laid  before  his  cus­
tomer the tray  of butter crackers.
Mr. Van Zolenberg looked critically at 
the  goods  aud  stirred  them  around  a 
little with  his hand.
“ Humph!” said he.
“ Nice  looking,  ain’t  they?”  bubbled 
Willis,  uublusliingly.  “Sorry 
they’re 
not fresh; but just try  them.  You’ll find 
that they’re not half bad,  as it is.”  Aud 
he  beamed  joyfully  upon  the 
store­
keeper,  his 
that 
in 
heavenly smile for  which  he  is  known 
aud  noted from  Michigan  to  the  North 
Pole.
“How long  did  you say  these crackers 
have  been baked?”  queried  the  grocer, 
looking  Willis fairly and squarely  in the 
eye.
“Four months at the very  least  calcu­
lation.”
“ Wonderful,  young man,  wonderful!” 
exclaimed  Mr.  Van  Zolenberg,  as  he 
gave the crackers  a final  stir  and  then 
leaned listlessly back in his  chair.
“ Wonderful?”  queried Willis.  “ What 
do you mean by that?  Are tney so much 
better  than  those  you  have  been  sell­
ing?”
“Oh,  no; but  it  strikes  me  as one  of 
the  strangest  things  I  ever  heard  of. 
Here these crackers have been out of the 
oven 
for  four  long  months,  and  they 
haven't cooled off  yet!"

face  wreathed 

G e o .  L .  T h u r s t o n .

T H E   M IC H T G A J S T   T R A D E S M A N .
Dry Goods Price Current.

COTTON  C B IL L .

PB IN T S.

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H am ilton R aven’tes  5 
staples  ...  5
tw ill  dran.  6
dragon c’h  8 4
Im perial  solid cloth  5
blue D G   .  6 4
p’k. purple  5 4  

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A llen  dress  goods..  4 4  
“  Turkey  r e d ...  44
“  robes................5
A m erican indigo b’l  4% 
sh irtin g ..  3- 
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delaines 
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b’lk  w hite  44
“ 
5
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long cloth A. 11 
B.  7 4
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C.  64
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“  gold seal T  R  94 

A rnold 

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Pacifie—

COTTON  T A PE.

NEEDLES—FEB  H.

SAFETY  PIN S.
...28 
|N o 3

3—18, S C ........... 40  I

No 2—20, M  C ..........45 

No  2 W hite A Bl’k.. 12  ¡No  8 W hite A  Bl’k..20

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B 
D 

India tw ill  and  tu r­
key red  robes....... 7 4
....... 3 4
Lodi  fancy 
“  shirtings__   34
M anchester fancies.  5 
m ourn.  5
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M artha W ash i ngton
S tan’rd  A percaJelU 
iDdigo  blues  7..
8
•  4 4
74
turkey  re d .........
-  6 4
C harter Oak fancies 34 
funcies  .............. ..  4 *
Elberon s o lid s " " ..  454
104
blk  ct  w hite pts.
.  5
F ountain  red 
......... 7 4
A ventine.
.  5
c a rd in a l.  5 4  
fancie-  blk, w hite 5 
G arner’s—
stand, ind.  b lu e.. 104
solid blk p rin ts ...  5 
fa st color ro b es...  54 
8» t i n e s .....................5 4
Bedford  cords  ...  7 4  
c a rd in a ls ...............  8
.  44 
Passaic  fancies 
Flow er P ot............ 94
m o usseline...........  54
clarion  rbs  5 
Peabody solid bl’k..  44 
Del M arine M gs...  5
solid  color  54 
Q uaker style  ___ 54
.  44 
Simpson’s m’ing fac  5 
Harmony fancies 
solid  bl’k   5 
chocolates  4 
H am ilton fancies...  44
crepon...  5 4
Amoskeag A C A .... 114
Im p e rial....................  8 4
Mount  P lea sa n t__ 6 4
■»wift CC.......... 
7
.............. 15
Conostoga 
in e ld a .......................   5
Swift  > S ..................8
H am ilton N ............   64
Prymont  .......   .......   5 4
G alveston  B ............   8
E B ............ 6 4
R andelm an...............  6
Lenox.........................13
E R ........... 6 4
R iverside..................  5 4
D  ............ 7 4
Sibley  A ....................
K im ono......................17
B B ............104 Salem .........................10
Toledo 
....................
A A ...........10* W arren.......................114 Haw  J .......................  5 Otis ch e c k s...  ------7

Cotton Sail T w in e ..28
C ro w n ....................... 12
D om estic..................184
A n c h o r.....................16
B risto l...................... 13
Cherry  V alley.........15
I X L ...........................184
A labam a....................6%
A lam ance.................. 6 4
A u g u sta ....................74
A r  sa p h a .. 
G eorgia......................6 ^
G ranite 
...................   5 v
Haw  R iv e r...............5

...............  40
A. Jam es  ..................1  4U| Steamboat 
Crowely’s.................. 1  35 Gold  Eyed 
.............1  50
M arshall’s .................1  00| A m erican...................1  00
15—4 ....1   65  6—4...2  30
5—4  ...  1  75  6—4 ... 

N a sh u a ...................... 14
Rising Star 4-ply___17
3-ply___17
.............20
N orth  Star 
Wool S tandard 4 ply 17 4  
Pow hattan  ..  ..........16

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P L A ID   OSNABTJBGB

TA B LE  O IL   CLOTH.

COTTON T  W IN ES.

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Dry  Goods,

New  Fabrics  for  Spring  of 

1895.

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

Parkhill Zephyr,  28  inch,  plaids  and 
stripes,  thirty patterns,  retail  at  12%c, 
formerly sold for 15c.

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

Caraleigh  is  the  name  of  the new 5c 

gingham,  twenty  styles.

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

Corean Crepe, 30  inch and entirely new 

fabric,  woven designs.

Serpentine Crepe and Art  Novelties  in 

high colors.

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

Jaconet and Morley  Lawns  and  Dimi­

ties.

Pacific  and  Scotch  Lawns  in  stripes 

and floral effects.

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

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

Bates  seersuckers  open  up  with  new 

styles and colorings.

Cameo Drapery, cream grounds.
Pacific  Twills,  cream  and  colored 

grounds,  also  plain.

Pacific Challi and Scotch  Lawns.
Pacific Black Ground  and Fancy Prints 
are among the best made.  We shall open 
25  cases  Jan.  10th.  also  a  new line of 
American  Indigos,  Shirtings  and  wide 
goods; also  showing  Simpsons,  Coechco, 
Allens,  Hamilton,  Garners,  Manckesters, 
Harmony and Merrimack goods.

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

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

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

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

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

White  Goods.  We  show sample lines 

of it now,a complete assortment.

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

P.  STEKETEE  &  SONS,

Wholesale  Dry Goods,

Grand  Rapids, 

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Mich.

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

7

T h e   W h o l e s a le   G r o c e r . *

There are two occasions in the  current 
of events which always produce  a  chilly 
sensation in the region  of  my  vertebral 
column—one  is wben 1 am invited to ad­
dress an assemblage like  this,  the  other 
wben 1 arise to do so.
Your  worthy  president  had  the  au­
dacity to ask me to  talk  to  you  on  this 
occasion,  and selected  the subject,  “The 
Wholesale  Grocer.” 
In  an  unguarded 
moment I consented to do so,  and,  while 
I consider the invitation and  the  privil­
ege an honor to myself,  i am of the opin­
ion that you will  wish he  had  consulted 
you in making the selection.
The  wholesale  grocer  seems  to  be  a 
necessary  factor  in  the  world  of  busi­
ness.  There  have been  wholesale  gro­
cers  almost  from time immemorial—not 
so numerous as they are now,  however— 
and they will  probably  continue  to  oc­
cupy  a  space  in  the  commercial  world 
for some time to  come.  They  have  ex­
isted in  the city of  Jackson,  to  my  cer­
tain  knowledge,  for  nearly a quarter of 
a century,  and a very  loyal  support  has 
been accorded them by their  friends,  the 
retail grocers, who are very closely allied 
to  them  in  a  business  way.  Their in­
terests would seem to be  identical.  The 
wholesaler,  whether he deal  in groceries, 
crackers,  oysters,  soap,  or  what  not, 
must take care of  the  retailer  and  look 
squarely out for his interest.  He cannot 
afford to do otherwise, even  were  be  so 
disposed,  any more than can  the  retailer 
sell  fifteen  ounces for a pound,  and  in 
other ways cheat and  so  lose  the  confi­
dence of the consumer. 
In the one case 
success  will  crown  our  efforts,  in  the 
other,  disaster is sure to come.  Happily, 
however,  we have  arrived at a period in 
the world’s history when  we  can  safely 
claim  that  a  majority—and a very large 
majority—of the  tradesmen  are  honest; 
not from selfish  motives  alone,  but  be­
cause all men are better and the world is 
better and growing better each  year.
Wholesaling like  retailing, or,  in fact, 
any other  branch  of  business,  requires 
constant  application,  perseverance,  in­
dustry,  energy,  courage  and  integrity, 
in order to attain success or make it even 
a desirable  or  pleasant  occup  tion. 
In 
all  cases  strenuous  individual  applica­
tion  is  the  price  paid  for  distinction, 
excellence of any  sort  being  invariably 
placed  beyond  the reach of  indolence;  it 
is  the  dilligent  hand  and  head  alone 
that  maketh  rich  in  self-culture  and 
growth in  wisdom and in  business.  The 
doctrine that excellence in any pursuit is 
to be achieved  by  laborious  application 
only holds as true in  the case of  the man 
of  wealth  as  in  that  of  the  humblest 
tradesman.  The lives of  all  truly  great 
men and of all  successful  men  of  busi­
ness are eminently illustrative of  a  rare 
quality  of  perseverance.  Geo. Stephen­
son,  when  addressing  young  men.  was 
accustomed to sum up his best  advice to 
them in the words,  “do as I have  done— 
persevere.”  Practical 
industry,  wisely 
and  vigorously  applied,  never  fails  ot 
success. 
It carries  a  man  onward  and 
upward,  brings out his  individual  char­
acter and  po wertully  stimulates  the ac­
tion of ethers.  All may not rise equally, 
yet each,  on the  whole,  very  much  ac­
cording  to his deserts.  Step  by  step  a 
man  may rise,  slowly  but surely,  to  that 
eminence  and  distinction  which  ever 
follow  a  career  of  industry  honorably 
and  energetically 
pursued.  “ Where 
there is a will there is a way,”  is just  as 
true to-day  as it was centuries  ago,  and 
he who resolves upon doing  a  thing,  by 
that  very  resolution,  often  scales  the 
harriers  to  it  and  secures  its  achieve­
ment.  To th in k   we are able is  almost to 
do so, thus, earnest resolution  has  often 
seemed to have about it  almost  a  savor 
of omnipotence.  1 don’t know,  I  can’t, 
and impossible are words to be  detested 
above all others.  One great maxim,  well 
worth  practicing, 
is,  “never  begin  a 
thing without finishing it.”
There is only  one way  that is safe  for 
any man, or for any  number  of  men,  to 
maintain  a  present  position  i: 
it  be  a 
good  one,  or  rise  above it if it be a bad 
one—that is,  by the practice  of  the  vir­
tues  of  industry,  frugality,  temperance, 
honesty.  The  truth  of  the  old saying,
* Response by Geo.  W.  Baker  at  annual  ban­

quet o f Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association.

“honesty is the  best  policy,”  is  upheld 
by the daily experience of  life,  upright­
ness  and  integrity  being found as abso­
lutely necessary  to  success  in  business 
as in anything else.  In all your dealings 
give your neighbor the best of the bank— 
good  measure,  heaped  up  and  running 
over—and  you  will not  lose by it in  the 
end.  Although  honesty  is,  happily,  in 
the ascendant among common people and 
the  general  business  community  still 
sound  at  heart,  putting  their  honest 
character  into  their  respective  calling, 
there  are,  unhappily,  to-day,  as  there 
have  been  in  all  times,  too  many  in­
stances of flagrant dishonesty  and  fraud 
exhibited by the  unscrupulous, the over- 
speculative and  the  intensely  selfish  in 
their haste to get rich.
Dr. Chalmers once said,  “The implicit 
trust with  which  merchants  are  accus­
tomed to confide in  distant  agents,  sep­
arated from them,  perhaps,  by  half  the 
globe,  often  consigning  vast  wealth  to 
persons recommended only by their char­
acter,  and  whom,  perhaps,  they  hever 
saw,  is probably,  the finest act of homage 
which men can render one to another.”

I  have probably taken  up  as  much  of 
your time as you  would  desire  to  have 
me,  and 1 am aware that  there is at least 
one lengthy speech still to  be  delivered. 
(I refer to the one written by the light of 
a lantern,  in the banana  room  of  a  cel­
ebrated wholesale house in this  city).
I  will  close  with  again  enumerating 
some of the qualifications  for  successful 
business:  accuracy,  dispatch,  prompti­
tude,  economy  of 
time,  punctuality, 
personal  attention  to  details,  firmness 
and self-reliance.

W e a l t h   o f  t h e   R o th s c h ild s .

The Rothschild family  still  holds  the 
record as the richest family  in the world, 
although  the  wealth  of  its  individual 
members is not as great as that  of  some 
other  individuals  in  England,  France, 
Germany  and  the  United  States. 
In 
round numbers the  Rothschilds  own  at 
present 10.000.000,000 francs ($2,000,000,- 
000).  A 
tenth  part  of  this  immense 
wealth is in  the possession of the  French 
branch of the family.  In 1875 the Roths­
childs  owned  less than a  thousand  mil­
lions;  their  wealth  has  therefore  more 
than  doubled  within  the  last  eighteen 
years. 
It  has  been  calculated  that  in 
1965 this enormous  wealth  will  have  in­
creased to  S60.000 000.000.  The interest 
of this immense capital  would  be  suffi­
cient to support 37.000.000 of human  be­
ings, or about the population  of  France. 
Yet the grandfather  of  the  Rothschilds 
did not own a penny in  1800.  his wonder­
ful  financial  success dates  since the Bat­
tle of Waterloo.

Cigarettes  in Mexico have,  in  future, 
to be put up in packages  with both  ends 
covered.  The tobacco dealers have been 
given  two months in  which  to get  rid  of 
their  present  stock, 
the  packages  of 
which  are open at one end.

A  Missouri drug firm is offering a prize 
of 850 for the druggist  who  can identify 
the  largest  number of drugs by  the smell 
alone.

Hardware  Price Current.

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

AUGURS AND  B IT S. 

d l l .

Snell’s .....................................................................60*10
Cook’s ....................................................................  
40
J  ennlngs’, gen u in e............................................. 
25
Jen n in g s’,  Im itation 
........................................ 50*10
AXBS.

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First Q uality, 8. B. Bronxe.............................. 8  5 50
D.  B. Bronxe...............................  i l  00
S .B .S . Steel................................  6  50
D .B . Steel....................................  13 00

barrows. 

allroan 
Garden 

dls.
...... 
......................................812 00  14 00
.................................................... net  30 00
dls.
Stove........................................................................ 50*10
Carriage new  list 
75*10
P low ........................................................................ 40*10
Sleigh shoe  .......................................  
70

bolts. 
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8U C K R T S.

W ell,  plain  ..........................................................8 3 5 0
W ell, sw ivel...............................................................  4 00

d lS .
Cast Loose Pin, figured...................... 
70*1«
W rought N arrow , bright 5aat Joint  40  -----  66*10

B U T T S,  CA ST. 

 

Stanley R ule and Level Co.’s ............  ..... 

... 

Cuts,  per  foot

CRADLES.

CBOW BARS.

CAPS.

W rought Loose  P in ...............................................   40
W rought  T able.......................................................  40
W rought Inside B lin d ....... ..................................  40
75
W rought B rass....................................................  
Blind,  Clark’s ...................................................... 70*10
Blind,  Parker’s .....................  
70*10
Blind, Shepard’s 
70

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BLOCKS.

O rdinary Tackle, list A pril  1833...................60*10

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

Cast S teel....................................................p e r »  

E ly's 1-10....................................................per m 
H ick’s  C .F  
...........................................  
G. D ............................................................. 
M usket 
........................................... 

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CARTRIDGES.

R im   F ire ............................................................... 
C entral  F ire ...........  ....................................dls. 

chisels. 

die.
Socket F irm e r....................................................75*10
Socket F ram ing ................................................... 75*1«
Socket C orner.......................................................75*10
Socket S lic k s.......................................................75*10
Butchers’ Tanged  F irm er................................. 
40

5

65
55
85
60

56
35

Curry,  Law rence’s ............................................. 
H otch k iss.............................................................  

40
25

W hite Crayons, per  gross................12©12V4  dls. 10

dls.

COMBS. 

CHALK.

C O PPE R .

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14x52,14x56,14x80 ................  

Planished. 14 os cut to sixe.........0 t   pound 
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60...........................  
Cold Rolled, 14x48............................................... 
B ottom s................................................................. 

 

 

DRILLS. 

Morse’s  Bit  S tacks.......................  
 
 
Taper and straight S hank...................  
M orse's Taper S nank.........................................  

 

 

 

28
26
23
23
22

50
50
50

dlS.

DRIPPING FANS.

Small sixes, ser p o u n d ...................................... 
Large sixes, per  p o u n d ......... ............................ 

6VS
06

ELBOWS.

EXPANSIVE BITS. 

Com. 4  piece, 6 in ................................ das. net 
75
C orrugated.......................................................dls 
50
A dlustable.................. .................................dls.  «n*io
Clark’s, sm all, 3x8;  large, 126.......................... 
30
Ives’, 1, 818 :  2, 824;  3,830 
............................... 
25
Dlsston’s .......................................................... 60*10-10
New American  ..............................................60*10-10
Nicholson’s ........................................................60*10- 0
............................................................... 
Heller’s 
50
Heller’s Horse R a s p s ........................................ 
50

piles—New List. 

dls.

dls.

GALVANIZED iron.

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

12 

13 

and  26;  27 
16 

15 

D iscount, 70

14 
GAUGES. 

28
17

50

dls.

dls.

knobs—New List. 

Door, m ineral, jap. trim m ings 
 
Door,  porcelain, jap. trim m in g s .................. 
Door, porcelain, plated trim m ings................  
Door,  porcelain, trim m ings  ........  
 
Drawer  and  Shutter, porcelain................... 
dls.

LOCKS—DOOR. 

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

Russell *  Irw in  Mfg. Co.’s new list  ........... 
Mallory, W heeler  &  Co.’s ................................  
Branford’s ........................................................... 
Norwalk’s ............................................  

 

 

55
55
55
55
  70

55
55
55
55

MATTOCKS.

MAULS. 
mills. 

Adxe B ye.......................................... 816.00, dls. 60-10
H unt B ye.......................................... 815.00, dls. 60-10
R a n t's........................... 
.............818.50, dls. 20*10.
dls.
Sperry *  Co.’s, Post,  h an d led .........................  
50
dls.
46
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s .........................................  
40
P. S. *  W. Mfg. Co.’s  M alleable*.... 
•• 
•*  Landers,  F erry *  Cls rk’s .................... 
4f
“  B nterprlse 
.......................................... 
30
dll.
Stebbln’s  P a tte rn .................................................60*u
Stebbln’s G en u in e....................................... ,. .80*!'
Enterprise, self m easuring..............................  
30

MOLASSES OATES. 

N A IL S

A dvance over  base,  on  both  Steel  and Wire.

Base
10
25
35
45
45
50
60
75
90

Steel nails, ca se............................................................ i 35
W ire nails, base............................................................ 1 35
60............................................................. Base 
50...............................................................  
40............................................................... 
2o” !!’. ’. i .
16...............................................................  
12...............................................................  
10............................................................... 
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7 * 6 .......................................................... 
4................................................................. 
3  ........................................................................  
2 .......................................................................... 
F ine 3  ..............................................................  
Case  10....................................................  
8....................................................  
6 ....................................................  
F inish 10.................................................. 
3 ................................................... 
6 ..................................................  
Clinch; 10................................................. 
8 ................................................  
6 ..  ............................................ 

65
75
90
75
90
10
70
80
90

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PLANES. 

B arren %.......................................................... 
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fa n c y ......................................  ©40
Selcta B ench ....................................................  
®50
Sandusky Tool  Co.’s, fa n c y .............................  040
Bench, first q u a l ity ...........................................  ©40
Stanley R ule and  Level Co.’s  w ood.......... 50*10
Fry,  A cm e....................................................dl*.60—10
Common,  polished..................................... dls. 
70
dls.
Iron and  T in n ed .................................................50—10
Copper Rivets and B u rs..................................  50—10

rivets. 

FANS.

PATENT PLANISHED IRON.

‘A”  W ood’s patent planished. Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
■B”  Wood’s  pat. planished, Nos. 26 to 27...  9 20 
B roken paoks g o  per p ound extra.

HA M M ERS.

Maydole  *  Co.’s ..........................................dls. 
25
Kip’s ......................................... .......................dls. 
25
Yerkes *  Plum b’s ....................................... dls. 40*10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel............................30c list 60
Blacksm ltn’s Solid Cast  Steel  H and__ 30c 40*10

H IN G ES.

 

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HOLLOW  W A R S.

w ire goods. 

HOUSE  F U R N ISH IN G   GOODS.

G ate, Clark’s, 1, 2 , 3 ...................................dls.60&10
S tate...................................................per do*, net, 2  50
Screw Hook  and  Strap, to 12  In. 414  14  and
3V4
lo n g e r................................................................. 
Screw Hook and  Bye, V4...........................n et 
10
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Strap an d  T ...................................................dls. 
5"
Barn Door K idder Mfg. Co.,  Wood tra c k __ 50*10
Champion,  anti fric tio n ..................................   60*10
K idder, w ood tr a c k .................  
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P ots.......................................................................... so&ld
K ettles.....................................................................60*10
Spiders  ...................................................................SC&1C
Gray enam eled..................................................... 40*10
Stamped  Tin W are  ..  ............................new  list 70
Japanned Tin W are...........................................  
25
G ranite Iron W a re .........................n e w lis 
St
B lig h t...........................................................   70*10419
Screw  Byes.................................................... 70*10*10
Hook’s ..............................................................70*10*10
G ate Hooks and B /e s .............................  
70*10*10
dls.7o
Stanley R ule an d   Level  Co.’s .........................
Sisal, V4 Inch and la r g e r .................................. 
M anilla..................................................................  
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Try and B evels..
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2  70
2 80
2  90
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Nos.  1 5 to l7 .......
Nos.  18 to 21....... ................................   4  05
Nos. 22 to 2 4 ....... .................................. 3  55
Nos. 25 to 2 6 ....... .................................. 3  65
No. 27.................... ..................................  3  75
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SASH  W EIG H TS.
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SAW S.

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Sliver Steel  D!a. X Cuts,  per foot, 
Special Steel Bex X Cuts, per foot
Special Steel Dla.  X Cuts, per foot  ... 
Champion  and  Electric  Tooth  X

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Steel, Game 
60*10
40
O neida Community, N ew house’s 
O neida  Community, Hawley & N orton’s .." f-10  10
Mouse,  choker  .....................................igc per dos
Mouse, delusion....................................81.25 p.;r do*
Bright  M arket..............................
ro-10
Annealed M arket.........................
75 
’oppered  M arket.........................
70 
Tinned  M arket............................
62 Vi 
Coppered  Spring  Steel...............
50 
Barbed  Fence, g alv an ised ..... 
2  50 
p a in te d ..............
2  10
HO RSE  N A ILS.
An  S able.................................................. dls. 
40*10
Putnam   ...............................................  
dl*.  05
dls. 10*10
N orthw estern.....................................  
dls.
W R EN C H ES. 
Baxter’s  A djustable, n ic k eled .......................  
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Coe’s  G *nulne 
 
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Coe’s Patent  A gricultural, w rought..............  
75
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Coe’s  Patent, m alleable....................... 
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Bird Cages 
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75*10
Pumps. Cistern  .............................................  
.  . . . 7ii*K * io
"»crews. New 1 1st 
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Casters,  Bed  a  d  P late.............. .. 
....  50*10*10
  40
Dampers.  A m e ric a n ............................ 
Porks, hoes, rakes  and all steel goods.........55A1P

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P IG   T IN .
Pig  L arge...................................... 
Pig B ars..................................................   . 
D uty:  Sheet, 2V$e per pound.
tXO pound  casks....................................  ........ 
Per  p o u n d ...........................................................  

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SO LD ER.

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1 20
nolder In the m arket indicated by nrtvate brandr 
vary according to  composition.
1 50
1 60
ANTIM ONY.
Cookson.............................................. per  pound
H allett’s ............................................. 
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10x14 IC, C harcoal.............  ...........................
14x20 IC, 
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10x14 IX, 
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14x20 IX, 
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Each additional X on this grade, 81.75.
10x14 IC,  C h arc o al.........................................
1 75
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14x20 IC, 
10x14 IX, 
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14x20 IX, 
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Bach additional X on  this grade 31.50.

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7  50 
.  9  25 
9  25

75 
6  75
8  25
9  25

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20X28  IC, 
“  AHaway  G rad e................
14x20 IC, 
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20x28  IC, 
20x28 IX , 
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14X28IX .............................................................
14X31  IX .............................................................
14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers, 1
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14x60  X  "  

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WEDNESDAY  FEKHU IEY  13.

H A N D W O R K   V S .  M A C H IN E R Y .
T h e   T r a d e s m a n   gave  place, 

last 
week,  to a communication  from an occa­
sional  contributor,  “Radix,”  deploring 
the curtailment  of  labor  brought  about 
by the introduction and  use of labor sav­
ing  machinery.  Commenting  on 
this 
contribution,  a reader  of  T h e   T r a d e s ­
m a n   suggests that,  as  a  solution  of  the 
problem,  the people discard the elaborate 
mechanisms now in  use and return to the 
antiquated  processes  of  hand-labor  or­
iginally employed,  assuming that such  a 
step backward  will  furnish labor for the 
people whom machinery has displaced in 
manufacturing and has turned out of em­
ployment.

Revolutions  never  go  backward,  be­
cause people never adopt a new idea and 
undertake to substitute it for the old,  un­
less they  are  convinced  that  there  is  an 
advantage in it;  and when a great major­
ity of the people  engage in a  revolution, 
it is impossible  for a  mere  minority,  no 
matter  how  conservative,  to  stop  the 
movement, 
it  is  as  impossible  to dam 
up a great flood  of  human  energy  as  it 
would  be  to stop,  by any human opposi­
tion,  the flow  of  the  Mississippi  River. 
Machinery  has  become  necessary to the 
world’s progress,  and, so  far  from being 
abandoned,  its use and  potentiality  will 
be constantly  increased.

The civilized races of men are  not  go­
ing to give up steam and  electricity, and 
go back  to the slow and painful processes 
of horse power and  speed for  the  trans­
mission  of  merchandise,  passengers and 
the news.  They are not going to discard 
the  wonderful  mechanisms  which  are 
now  considered  indispensable  in  every 
sort of industry and return to handwork; 
but the movement will be constantly for­
ward  to  new  triumphs  of  science  and 
progress.  This is the verdict  of  all  the 
millions of the  civilized races,  and  it  is 
useless to talk of a single backward step.
But it cannot be  controverted that,  al­
though the mission  and  functions of ma­
chinery were from the  very  first  benefi­
cent  to  the  workers themselves, as weil 
as to the balance of thepopul  tion, there 
is  a  point  where  the use of mechanism 
operates to displace human  workers who 
can find no place or market for their ser­
vices,  and,  with  the  multiplication  of 
such machines,  this process  of  displace-

ment  will  go  on until large nnmbers of 
competent people will be driven  to  idle­
ness.
Such a state of  things  presages  much 
misfortune  to  those  who  shall  be  .so 
turned  out  of  the  means  of earning an 
honest  living  by  their  labor.  But  the 
number of such  sufferers  will  be  small 
compared with those  who  will enjoy the 
assistance  given  by  machinery,  and  so 
the minority will  be forced  to  submit  to 
the situation,  because the  vast and  over­
powering majority will  have it so.  More­
over,  the abolition  of  machinery  would 
not  make  employment  for  all  who are 
able to work.

The 

extraordinary  cheapness  with 
which  many  things  that  were  once  ar­
ticles of luxury are now produced by ma­
chinery has  vastly  increased  their  con­
sumption by the masses,  and  if  any  at­
tempt were now  made  to  produce  them 
with  handwork,  the  supply  would  de­
crease  and  the  price go up so high  that 
only the nch could purchase  them.  But 
science,  with 
the  aid  of  machinery, 
chemistry and electricity,  has  succeeded 
not  only  in  being  able  to  cheapen the 
processes of manufacture of almost every 
article of luxury,  as well as of necessity, 
but  in  so  increasing  the  quantity  that 
they can  be procured at the lowest possi­
ble prices and made available to all.

impossible.  Unfortunately, 

One of the most common as well as im­
portant contributions  by  science  to  the 
needs of the  working  classes is  the elec­
tric  street  railway,  which,  for  an  ex­
tremely small cost,  furnishes the laborer 
a luxurious carriage  in  which  to  travel 
to and from his  work.  Without  the  aid 
of this modern  magic snch a thing would 
be 
the 
dream of the latterday  Arcadian,  that he 
can  spend  all  his  time  in  study  and 
amusement,  while an ingenious  machine 
does all his work,  is impossible  of  reali­
zation,  because he is not able  to  possess 
the  machine.  A  manufacturing  estab­
lishment is a vast  system  of  machinery 
and scientific processes,  created by com­
binations of capital;  but it  is  powerless 
to  accomplish  the purposes for which it 
is intended unless combined  with human 
skill and intelligence, and, therefore, ma­
chinery  which  is  a  creation of science, 
encourages  and  stimulates  the  intelli­
gence of the men who  operate it,  empha­
sizing the fact that brain is  more  poten­
tial than muscle.

But so long as it deprives men of their 
places in industry,  and  finally ceases  to 
furnish new empio) ment  for  them,  ma­
chinery,  great blessing as it is,  is not un­
mixed with evil,  and  it  becomes  neces­
sary for statesmanship and philanthropy 
and patriotism to find  some  remedy  for 
that  evil.  What  shall  it  be?  Hereto­
fore,  in the history of the world,  when  a 
population  became  too  numerous  to be 
subsisted in a country,  the excess  of  in­
habitants were disposed of partly by  de­
structive  wars,  partly  by  deadly  epi­
demics  of  disease,  which  formerly  in­
vaded every country and carried  off  mil­
lions of the  people.  But  the  most  effi­
cient source of relief from the  evils of  a 
superabundant population  was  the  dis­
covery of new and sparsely settled coun­
tries, into which floods of  peoples  over­
flowed and found homes  and  the  means 
of livelihood.

But conditions  have  changed.  Popu­
lation  increases  as  rapidly  as  ever; 
while  wars  are 
and 
certainly epidemics of disease are  vastly 
fewer  and  less  deadly.  As  to  emigra­

frequent, 

less 

tion,  all  the  new  countries  have  been 
discovered.  They  have  not  yet  been 
filled up,  but they are all filling up. 
It is 
well known that there  are  no  more  ex­
tensive lands on the  globe  available  for 
human  habitation.  The  polar  regions 
are not to be thought  of;  but  the  Amer­
icas and Australia will  yet accommodate 
many millions more of people.  And it is 
possible in all  these  vast  countries  for 
every family to have a home.

If  every  family  possessed  a  patch  of 
ground with shelter  on  it,  there  would 
be only food and clothing  to  be  earned. 
Something like that seems to  be  the  so­
lution of the population problem.  Let it 
be  remembered  that  there  never  has 
been before an age of  machinery  and  it 
is that which has cheapened  the  cost  of 
living so enormously. 
In  ancient  times 
when population increased,  the prices of 
necessaries rose.  To-day, by the  aid  of 
machinery,  the  increase  of  population 
does not raise the price  of  clothing  and 
provisions, 
because  mechanism  and 
science produce those articles faster than 
they can be consumed.

People are lamenting at the  low  prices 
of necessaries,  but really that is one great 
compensation for the miseries  of  a  sea­
son  of  great  commercial  depression. 
And this cheapening  of  necessaries will 
go on.  Science will renovate  the  worn- 
out fields and make  them  as  productive 
as  virgin  lands.  New  machines  will 
plant,  tend and gather the crops with in­
creased  saving  of  labor.  All  food  is 
composed  of  a  few  gases,  fluids  and 
earthly salts,  and  chemistry  will  draw 
these  from  the  air,  earth  and  water, 
and combine them into  bread  and  beef, 
without the  intervention  of  the  farmer 
or the cattle grazier,  and as the elements 
which compose bread  and  beef  exist  in 
unlimited quantities,  the  cost of feeding 
the people will be constantly cheapened.
Science has wrought  the  evil  of  dis­
placing men  from the field  and from the 
factory,  but  it  should  not  be  doubted 
that  science will  solve  the  problem  of 
taking  care  of  them.  Electricity  has 
just begun to  develop  its,  perhaps,  in­
finite  economic  potentialities,  while 
chemistry is truly modern  magic  and  is 
capable  of  producing  all  the  wonders 
that  were  wrought  by  Aladdin’s  lamp 
and 
the  beneficent  genii  of  Oriental 
story.  Science  will  work  out  the  in­
dustrial  problems  of  such  intense  im­
portance to-day;  but it  must  be  supple­
mented by  statesmanship,  *philanthropy 
and patiotism.

W H Y   T H E   A D V A N C E ?

One effect of the  President’s  message, 
announcing  the  purchase  of  gold  with 
bonds  at  3%  per  cent.,  was  a  decided 
downward movement of  all  Wall  Street 
securities.  The last bonds had been sold 
at  2.8  per  cent,  and  it  could  not  be 
otherwise  than that such an advance  in 
the rate of  interest should create  a  sen­
sation.  The only explanation  seems  to 
be that the last transaction is  not  justi­
fiable on business principles.  There has 
been no sufficient explanation of the fact 
that the  purchase  of  gold  in  exchange 
for  bonds  was  made  privately  and  no 
opportunity given for bids.

The  responsibility  is  thrown  upon 
Congress of an opportunity  of  ten  days 
in  which  to  exchange  these  for  fifty 
year bonds,  payable  explicitly  in  gold, 
at 3 per cent., but even  this is  a  higher 
rate than the less  favorable  bonds  6old 
for in open market a few weeks ago.

THE  TREASURY  PROBLEM.

In  the  defeat  of  the  administration 
currency  bill,  last  Thursday,  the  last 
possibility of currency legislation by this 
Congress is destroyed, and the prediction 
of T h e   T r a d e s m a n   several  weeks  ago 
that  there  would  be no such legislation 
becomes  a  certainty.  The  reason  for 
this result is not far to seek. 
It  is  sim­
ply that there  is already ample and suit­
able provision in the existing  legislation 
on  this  subject  for the relief of the em- 
embarrassment  of  the  Treasury. 
It  is 
evident that  the belief  that  the  present 
laws are sufficient and  that there is, con­
sequently,  no  need  of  action  for  tem­
porary relief,  prevents agreement on any 
measure ti at carries with  it  a  plan  for 
currency  reform,  because  it is  too near 
the end of the session for a sufficient con­
sideration of this question.

Immediately  following  the  defeat  of 
this  bill 
the  President  negotiated  the 
purchase of  enough gold  to  restore  the 
reserve  to  the  $100,000.000  limit,  at  a 
price three-fourths of 1  per  cent,  higher 
than  if  the  time  had  been  made  fifty 
years instead  of  thirty,  and  if  the  law 
had read  “gold” instead of “coin.”  This 
last is merely a pretext, as no one thinks 
for an instant that  this  Government will 
ever pay its bonds in anything not equiv­
alent to gold.

France and other countries which have 
been the most prosperous in  their  finan­
cial affairs would  have raised any amount 
of money needed  by a  popular  subscrip­
tion  or  the  sale  of  bonds  to their own 
financiers,  thus  putting  into  use  their 
own capital.  But because  gold has been 
going to Europe in  quantities  seemingly 
large,  although  comparatively  insignifi­
cant,  in the alarm there is nothing  to  be 
done but to have  it back at  any cost,  re­
gardless  that  our  own  idle  millions  of 
wealth  are  crying  for  employment. 
Vastly  better to have paid  this  immense 
amount  of  interest  into the channels of 
trade  of  our  own  country,  rather  than 
employ the surplus wealth  of  Europe  at 
our expense.

It  will  be  remembered  that  Judge 
Gaynor,  of the Brooklyn Supreme Court, 
in a recent decision of a mandamus  case 
makes the assertion that  the  striking  of 
the employes  of  a  street  railway  com­
pany is no excuse for even  a  temporary 
interruption of business and that to  pre­
vent a strike any  demands  as  to  wages 
must be acceeded to,  and then,  as  oppor­
tunity should offer, the men might be dis­
charged and replaced by  cheaper  ones— 
a  proceeding that  any  one  of  sense  fa­
miliar  with  labor  combinations  must 
know  would  invariably  precipitate  a 
strike. 
It has been said  that  this  deci­
sion put a premium on the  disorders and 
riots  of  that  city  and  that  it  was  evi­
dently dictated by a wish to curry politi­
cal  favor.  This  inference  is  substanti­
ated by the fact that this same judge,  in 
his capacity as a private citizen as he ex­
plains, 
comes  out  with  a  mani­
festo to the State Board if Mediation and 
Arbitration reciting  that  the  manipula­
tions of  Wall  Street  and  the  combina­
tions  and  inflation  of  Brooklyn  street 
railway  capital  are 
for 
the 
strike.  That  this  learned  judge 
should feel it incumbent upon himself to 
champion the cause of  anarchy as a  pri­
vate citizen  will go far  to neutralize  any 
influence his remarkable  decision  might 
have carried.

responsible 

T H E   M IC H IG ^ L lS r  T R A D E S M A N

9

T H E   D R IF T   O F   S O C IE T Y .

Much  comment  has  been  directed  to 
several  social  scandals  which  have  re­
cently come  to  light  in  several  of  the 
wealthiest  American  families,  and  the 
conclusion  has  been  drawn  from  them 
that the standard of American  morals  is 
deteriorating.

It would be manifestly unjust to predi­
cate of the great  body  of  the  American 
people  what  has been observed in a few 
individuals  whose  high  social  promi­
nence is chiefly  due  to  their  extraordi­
nary material wealth.  There is  no more 
reason  that  those  people  who  are  the 
possessors  of  many  millions  of  dollars 
should be better than other  people  than 
that they should be worse.

Persons of great wealth  and  conspicu­
ous social position constitute but a small 
part of any community,  and  they cannot 
be considered  as  peculiarly  representa­
tive  of  the  American  people.  Never­
theless,  it cannot be denied  that,  in  the 
absence of social  distinction  created  by 
law,  there is a growing  disposition  to set 
up a class with  social  precedence  based 
on  riches,  and  so  establish  a  moneyed 
aristocracy.

There is no question that  such  condi­
tions  exist  to a far greater degree in the 
great cities of  the  country  than  in  the 
country towns.  When a man in any sec­
tion  of  the country amasses a large  for­
tune and comes to be a multi-millionaire, 
he finds that  the  provincial  towns  and 
cities where he made his money grow too 
narrow for his increasing financial scope, 
and so he removes to a wider field of  op­
erations.

In  this  way  most  of  the  owners  of 
great  material  wealth  have  gathered 
from all parts of the country at that  city 
which is the  American  metropolis,  and 
there in  the rivalry  and struggle^for  as­
cendency,  they  are  classified  according 
to their riches and claim social station  in 
the  ratio  of  their  money power.  Thus 
has  been  formed 
that  much-vaunted 
social  circle  known as New York’s  Four 
Hundred, and while the claims of  “ blue” 
blood and ancient descent are not wholly 
disregarded by the members of  the  Four 
Hundred,  it is certain that no family  not 
possessed of a  great  fortune  can  main­
tain the  outward  state  and  display  re­
quired  of  those  who  belong  to 
the 
charmed circle,  and even iQ that there is 
a select coterie composed  of  the  super­
eminently wealthy.

Thus it comes about that  the  wealthy 
classes acquire  a  superior  conspicuous­
ness,  not only in the community in which 
they live,  but  throughout  the  country, 
and their acts seem specially to  call  for 
admiration or condemnation,  and  natur­
ally the examples of  social  morality  set 
by such people  must  exert  considerable 
influence  on  others  below  them  in  the 
financial scale.

But  it  is  not  the  effect of wealth on 
mere social amenities  that  is  of  impor­
tance.  The  influence  of  money  upon 
business and politics  is  of  vastly  more 
It is not necessary  to enter in­
moment. 
to details. 
It is merely  needed  to  men­
tion the growing tendency  of  the  money 
power to  form  great  and  overpowering 
commercial  monopolies,  and  to  control 
national,  State and municipal  legislation 
in  their  interest,  while  the  power  of 
money to thwart  and  defraud  and  defy 
justice is too well known to require com­
ment.

It is not surprising, then,  that the vast 
power of  money  has  excited  the  envy,

the cupidity, the fear and the jealousy of 
many  who  have  never  heretofore  been 
considered grasping or avaricious.  They 
realize that money  has  more  than  ever 
grown to be a tremendous social and  po­
litical power, the  greatest  power  in  all 
human  economy,  and  that  everybody 
wants it.  Men see that money is all that 
can save them from  virtual  slavery. 
It 
means home, competency,  independence.
It means comfort and  social  respectabil­
ity for their families,  and  it  means  the 
easiest  way  to  social  and  political ad­
vancement.

The result is that, within a few decades, 
there has grown up the  inordinate desire 
to accumulate wealth  which  now  exists 
throughout the  population. 
In order to 
get money,  men who are considered hon­
est and upright do  not  hesitate  to  take 
every  possible  advantage  in  finance. 
They speculate and take  desperate  risks 
in business in the hope of making  lucky 
turns.  Men  in  public office do not hesi­
tate  to  use  their  official  influence  and 
position  to  acquire  wealth,  and 
they 
push  their  enterprise 
the 
far  past 
boundary  which  separates honesty  from 
crime, so that any  class  of  violators  of 
law can purchase immunity from punish­
ment.

This is a serious situation, but  it is the 
situation all the  same.  And  the  conse­
quence is a steady, if not  swift,  drifting 
away from the highest standards of  pub­
lic and private morals.  Many men only 
take  care  in  their  struggle  for  wealth 
not to overstep the line on the other side 
of  which is the door of a felon’s cell.  All 
they ask is to be able to keep out of that; 
while others who have crossed  the  fatal 
boundary only hope  by the  use  of  their 
money to buy their way to safety.

Is  there,  then,  any  general  decay  of 
morality and a falling away from the  old 
landmarks of  honor and  honesty ?  The 
prospect  is  not  inviting, 
it  is,  on  the 
contrary, forbidding. 
It  is  easy  to  see 
that there has beeu  a  great  lapse  from 
the ancient standards;  but,  then,  the  ob­
server  does  not  see  the  whole people. 
He sees only  the  conspicuous  examples 
of  degeneracy.  But  he  hears  a  deep 
and growing  murmur  of  dissatisfaction 
among the masses.  There  are no oppor­
tunities,  or  even  hopes,  of  acquiring 
wealth for them,  and  they  are  demand­
ing that the Government  shall  interpose 
in their behalf,  either to seize on the vast 
accumulations of capital and make a new 
distribution,  or  else  create  money and 
hand it out to the working classes.  The 
seriousness  of  the situation calls  for the 
profoundest  consideration  of  statesmen 
and philanthropists.

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

can never be described and  it  has  never 
been pictured so adequately and satisfac­
torily as  in  the  splendid  portfolio  just 
issued  by  the  Michigan  Ceutral,  “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

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.

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The retailer’s friend,  Signal  Five,  5c. 

cigar.

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

when  it  will  save you more each month than  you 
are paying|for it.

E v e r y  essential feature of the CHAMPION  is  fully  protected  by  patents 
owned and controlled by the Champion Cash  Register Co.  Users  will  be protected 
and infringements will not  be allowed. 
If you have never seen our machine  and  desire  an  opportunity  to  inspect  the 
merits of the mechanical  marvel of the age, call at our office, or at the  office  of  any 
of our agents; or, if you are located  at a distance from  either,  write us a letter tell­
ing  us  vour  line of business and  what features of your business you  wish depart- 
mentized and  we will send you illustrations, descriptions  and  voluntary 
testimo 
ials of the  Register that will meet your requirements.

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M A N U F A C T U R E D   O NLY  B Y

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

PALACINE.
Why? BECAUSE  It  gives  a  clear,  b rig h t  light. 

BECAUSE  It  does  not  cloud  th e   C him neys. 
BECAUSE  it  does  n ot  c h a r th e   w icks.
And la st b u t not  least,  does  n ot  em it  a  bad  odor.

Has  proved  itself  the  only  perfect  illum inating  oil.

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

SCOFIELD. 

SPURNIER 

i   TERGLE.

Grand  Rapids.

Telephone  865.

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C o m m e r c ia l  A s p e c t o f  t h e  B ic y c le .

W r lte n  f o r   T h e  T r a d e s m a n .

The  establishment of the third bicycle 
factory in  Grand  Rapids  impresses  one 
with  the  fact  of  what  an 
immense 
amount of business has been done in this 
line during the past two years.

The  bicycle  has  passed  the  age  in 
which it was simply used  for  sport,  and 
is now considered  by  all  who  have  be­
come acquainted with its usefulness as  a 
time and money saver,  and as one of the 
necessaries of life.  All classes of people 
use  the  wheel,  both  for  business  and 
pleasure. 
It has even invaded the ranks 
of New York’s swell Four Hundred, who 
have organized an exclusive bicycle club, 
which now has a membership of over 300 
millionaires and their families.

The  bicycle  trade  is  a  peculiar one. 
Outside  of  four  or  five  of  the  largest 
cities in  the  country,  exclusive  bicycle 
stores are rarely, if ever, found.  Wheels 
are carried  as a  side  line  to  any  other 
business in which a man  wishing to take 
an agency may happen to be engaged.  In 
the  smaller  towns  of  Michigan  bicycle 
agencies have  been  placed  with  photo­
graphers, 
jewelers,  grocers,  hardware 
and  furniture  dealers,  carriage  repos­
itories—almost every kind of  a  business 
house  that  could  be  mentioned.  They 
sell as well in one  place  as  in  another, 
and  they  are  a  money-making  line  of 
goods for any man to carry who has busi­
ness  ability  in  his  make-up.  They  are 
easy to handle, no large  stock being nec­
essary.  The agent simply  orders a sam­
ple wheel of the line  he intends  to  han­
dle.  This  he  puts  on  exhibition at  his 
place  of  business,  with  catalogues  de­
scribing its general mechanical construc­
tion. 
If a  customer  likes  the  machine 
and price, he leaves his  order,  which  is 
sent to the factory and in a  few days the 
wheel arrives. 
In small towns the buyer 
is almost always a cash  customer,  while 
the  agent  has  thirty  or  sixty  days  in 
which  to  pay  for  the  goods  he orders. 
Thus, if he is in a town of any size at all 
(say 1,500  inhabitants) and can  sell  but 
half a dozen  wheels in a  season,  he  has, 
practically,  no  money  invested,  and,  if 
his customers  are  all  cash,  he  actually 
has the use of the manufacturer’s or job­
ber’s money  from the  time  he  sells  the 
wheel  to  the  time  his  bill  comes  due. 
They are given  these easy  terms  by  the 
manufacturers  and  jobbers,  because  of 
the custom—or,  rather, necessity—in the 
larger cities and towns, of selling wheels 
on a time interest-bearing contract.  The 
necessity  arises  from  the  fact  that  so 
many wheels are sold  to men  who  draw 
salaries  weekly  or  monthly,  spending 
their money as they go and never having 
enough saved up to pay  cash down for  a 
wheel.  Faying cash  and selling on time 
would inevitably  swamp  an  agent  who 
did  not  have  a large capital to draw on, 
if he sold very many  wheels;  and,  in or­
der  to  do  business,  the  manufacturer 
gives his agent long time and easy terms, 
even going so far,  sometimes,  as to carry 
the contracts himself. 
In the  country it 
is different, as the rural customer  almost 
always pays cash, and the  agent gets the 
advantage of  the  long  time  and  a  dis­
count for cash besides.

In  most  cases  the  small agent orders 
but one wheel, that  being all that  is  ab­
solutely necessary,  but,  if  he  wishes  to 
be somewhat pretentious, he orders three 
or four,  all of one line but no  two  alike. 
They will be the light and heavy  models 
and  a  lady’s  model. 
If  there  are  any

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young men in his town who have athletic 
aspirations,  he  orders  a  racer  to  show 
them;  which,  generally  being  the  most 
carefully and finely built  of  any  of  the 
line,  takes  their  fancy—also  their coin, 
if they happen to have any.  A man can, 
in this way, do quite a business,  in addi­
tion to his regular trade,  on a very small 
capital and clear from $20 to $50 on every 
wheel  he  sells.  Occasional  losses  will 
be met,  it is true,  but to the  careful  and 
businesslike agent their total  is so small 
as to amount to almost nothing. 

Many men, although understanding the 
money-making capability  of  the  bicycle 
trade,  hesitate  to  enter  it because they 
cannot ride a  wheel  themselves  and  do 
not  understand  its mechanical construc­
tion.  At first,  this  would,  of  course,  be 
of some disadvantage,  as, not  being able 
to ride,  one could not  give  his  personal 
experience of the easy  running  qualities 
of the wheel  he  represented,  and  could 
not  explain  some  things  about  it  he 
would be supposed  to know;  and,  as  he 
would  not  comprehend  the  meaning of 
his  catalogue  descriptions,  which  are 
couched  in  the  technical  terms  of  the 
trade,  he would be bothered  in  replying 
to the questions of would-be  purchasers. 
But it takes but a day  or two to learn  to 
ride a little, and he  would  be  surprised 
at the agility he developed in this line in 
a week,  and at the  glibness  with  which 
he  would  learn  to  rattle off “catalogue 
talk” to a prospective customer.

As stated above, a line of bicycles may 
be added to  any business  profitably,  but 
the best place  of all with which  to place 
an  agency  is  with  a  hardware  dealer. 
Several makers and  jobbers of  hardware 
also  manufacture  and  handle  lines  of 
bicycles,  thus  making  them  an  appro­
priate line of goods for a retail hardware 
dealer to  carry.  His  business  relations 
with the manufacturer  will  enable  him 
to take advantage of the liberal discounts 
generally allowed in the hardware trade. 
Some  of  those  firms  make  very  good 
wheels, too,  though, as a rule,  a  bicycle 
made as a side issue to some other line is 
not strictly high  grade.  They  are  usu­
ally listed  high—much  higher  than  the 
article made in an  exclusive  bicycle fac­
tory—which  gives plenty  of  leeway  for 
the agent to take  advantage of  in selling 
for cash.

It is not necessary to  sell a  high-grade 
wheel in order to be successful.  It is es­
timated that there  are  over  200  bicycle 
manufacturers in the United States.  Out 
of  the  whole  lot  there are just five who 
can honestly be said to be sending out an 
absolutely  high-grade  bicycle.  There 
are dozens of others  whose  output  can­
not,  with  propriety,  be  classed  as  low 
grade,  but there are some half a dozen or 
more  weak  points  about  the  wheels 
which debar them from  the class of “top 
notch.”  The very highest  grade  wheels 
are made in factories which  have  in  use 
all the improved  machinery on  the  mar­
ket.  While  making, 
the  wheels  are 
thoroughly tested,  piece by piece,  before 
being put together.  One firm even makes 
a chemical analysis of  samples of all the 
steel they buy before any of it is allowed 
to go into their machines.

It  is  such  fine  details as these which 
constitute the  essential  requirements  of 
a strictly high-grade  bicycle  and  which 
make  it  cost so much  more than others. 
But the price of a wheel  does not always 
denote its quality.  Very few makers but 
claim that theirs is  the  best  wheel  ever 
made.  They  are  all  listed  at the price

IT  IS  WRONG  TO  THINK

that  you  cannot  buy goods  right  and  the 
right  goods  in  Grand  Rapids.  Our  lines 
are  “ up  to  date.”

Voigt,  Herpolsheimer &  Co.,

WiiOLKSALK

DRY  GOODS,  NOTIONS,  ETC.

New
Specialties

in CANDY Now  in.

Oranges,  Lemons, Nuts,  Figs,  Dates,  Etc.  always  in 

stock and of the finest quality.
A.  E.  8RQ0KS h  CO.,  5 &7  Ionia  61,  grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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set by the leaders in the business,  in  or­
der  to  give them the advantage of being 
able to give larger discounts on their less j 
expensively made  goods. 
In  selling  for j 
cash  the  agent  for  a  cheap wheel thus j 
has a  decided  advantage  over  the  man j 
who  is  handling  a  strictly  high-grade 
one,  for  he  can  claim that his wheel is 
just as good as  ai y  on  earth,  and  then 
quote a cash price which will  net  him  a 
handsome  profit  on  his sale,  and  which 
would  be  simply  suicidal  to  the  agent 
for  a  high-grade  wheel  attempting  to 
meet it.  The  latter  has  the  advantage 
over  the  former  in 
the  fact  that  his 
wheels will invariably give perfect satis­
faction,  and that they will always have a 
ready market in the old  riders who want 
new wheels,  and  who  have  learned  by 
experience that  the  best  is  cheapest  in 
the end.  And so it is a pretty even thing 
all around.

The  enormous  strides  lately taken by 
the business indicate that  it will soon be 
one of the leading industries of the coun­
try  and the motto of  every  one  will  be, 
“Get a Bicycle.”  It doesn’t matter much 
what kind so long as  they  “get  a  bicy­
cle;”  and the man  who enters this line of 
business will,  very  probably,  never have 
cause to regret it.  Morris J.  W h it e, 

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.

M Coity Savins Ml

GRAND  RAPIDS  .MICH.

J no.  A.  Covodb,  Pres.

H bkrt  Idema, Vlce-Pres.

J .  A.  S.  V e r d it s k ,  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,  E. Crofton Fox, 
T. J . O’Brien,  A. J . Bowne, 
Jno.W .Blodgett,,!. A. McKee 

H enry Idem a, 
J . A. S. V erdler

Deposits  Rxceed  One  Million  Dollars.

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P r o s p e c t s   f o r   H a r d w a r e   D u r in g   1 8 9 5 .
As a rule and  with  but few exceptions, 
the  purchases  of  miscellaneous  hard­
ware  by  the  country  trade  throughout 
the past year have  been  very  conserva­
tive,  so much so in some sections,  that in 
goods of a specially seasonable character 
three, four  and  five  orders  in  as  many 
weeks  have  been  noted  from  the same 
merchant  and  practically  for  the  same 
quantities.  While  this  may  have  been 
an exceptional instance, yet in  all  cases 
the  cautiousness  which  characterized 
buying in all  departments  has  been  the 
subject of comment by all trade journals, 
and was unquestionably  justified  by  the 
generally  depressed  condition  of  busi­
ness.  The promise of the year before the 
trade now is better in every respect  than 
that  which  confronted it  in  1894,  when 
business  of  all  kinds  was  at  low tide; 
but signs of revival on all  sides are seen 
as the result of  renewed confidence,  and 
“very  hard times”  will soon be relegated 
to the past along with its cousin-german, 
adversity.  All  jobbers  in  Chicago  re­
port  that  salesmen’s  orders  in  many 
lines now being  taken  for  future  deliv­
ery  are  indicative of  resumption  of  en­
terprising  aggressiveness  on the part  of 
country merchants,  and  that  trade  will 
be  pushed  with  its  accustomed  vigor. 
Traveling salesmen also  state that doubt 
and distrust on the part of merchants are 
giving way to a more hopeful  and  confi­
dent feeling for the future.  Manufactur­
ing industries of all kinds  are  wakening 
up  to  the  “signs  of  the  times,” and at 
many of  them  extensions  and  improve­
ments 
long  contemplated  are  being 
pushed  to  completion—progressiveness 
appears on all sides.  Renewal  of  activ­
ity in manufacturing means more employ­
ment  for  labor—skilled and otherwise— 
and  a  freer  distribution  of  money,  a 
large  proportion  of  which  will  be  ab­
sorbed by the  “butcher,  the  baker  and 
the candlestick  maker.”  Hence the out­
look for 1895 grows  decidedly  more  en­
couraging  as  the  weeks  roll  by,  and 
barring  unforeseen  calamity,  the  pros­
pects for the new year  are  hopeful and, 
promising in  all  branches  of  the  hard­
ware  trade.

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WE  WANT

B E A N S

them.

and  will  pay  highest  market  price  for 

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

The Bradstreet  Company, Props.

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

CHARLES  F.  CLARK,  Pres.

Offices  n th e principal cities of th e U nited 
States,  C anada,  the  European  continent, 
A ustralia, and in  London.  E ngland.

Brand  Rapids Office, Room 4, Widdieomh Bldg.

HKNRV  BOYCE. Snpt.

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; 
Practical  Roofers,
Grand  Rapids, 
-  Mich.

Corner Louis and Cam pan Sts.,

also

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reconsigned from  G rand 
Rapids to all points north 
on short  notice.

Coal
5.  P.  B EB I  FUEL  X 

ICE

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

T H E   M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N .
WORLD'S FI SOUVENIR TICKETS

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O riginal se t of four 
Com plete set of te n  

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50c

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IER01D-BERTS(!I SHOE  Cu„

5 uiiu 7 Pearl S t.,

Our  Line  for  1895  is

Greater  in  variety  and 

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

Your  inspection  is  kindly  solicited 

when in the city.

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

in “Black  Bottoms.”

Headquarters 

Rubbers.

for  Wales-Goodyea 

WH OLE S A L E

O Y ST E R S

For Fish, Game and Poultry  telephone 1001.

O S C A R   A L L Y N ,

106 Canal St.

Office  Telephone  .o55- 

cpri JPITY sxtoragfea£d

O L i v U  fy *   ■  1  Transfer Co

Barn Telephone  . 0 5 9 .

257—259  OTTAWA  ST.

Hoving,  Packing,  Dry  Storage.

xpert Packers and C areful, Competent Movers of  Household  F u rniture.  Estim ates  C heerfully 
& v e n   Business Strictly Confidential.  Baggage  W agon at all hours.  *   « 

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Show  Cases, 
Store  Fixtures, 

Etc.

Silent Salesm an Cigar Case.  Send fo r C ircular.

J.  P H IL L IP S   &  CO.,  D etroit,  M ich
P.  &  B.  OYSTERS 
Beat  Them  All.

B a c k   to  th e
Old  P rice

P. &  B.  S ta n d a rd s

PEE  GALLON,  $1.10.

CLEANLINESS and NEATNESS characterize out goods and packages.

The  Putnam  Candy Co.

S W E E P 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 handsomest in Michigan.

Poultry  Raisers,  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.

G.  H.  BEHNKE  &  SONS,

30  E.  Bridge  St.,  Grand  Rapids.

The  Lycom ing  Rubber  Com pany, 
keep constantly on hand a 
full  and  complete  line  of 
these goods made from the 
purest  rubber.  They  are 
good style, good fitters and 
give  the  best  satisfaction 
of any rubber  iu  the  mar­
ket  Our  line  of  Leather 
Boots  and  Shoes  is  com­
plete  in  every ‘particular, 
also Felt Boots,  Sox,  etc.
ThankingTyou 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  REED ER BROS’. SHOE CO.

Send  me  a trial  order  for 

a mixed  car of
Flour,
Feed.,
M ay,
E t c .
6.  [I.  Betinke,

30  East 

Bridge  Street, 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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D E V IO D S   P A T H S .

W ritten fo r  Th e Tradesman.

The question  has been  asked.  Are  not 
merchants more to blame  than their cus­
tomers for the large  amount  of  adulter­
ated  and  fraudulent  goods  now  on the 
market all over the country?  Of course, 
there 
is,  occasionally,  a  demand  for 
them, but seldom more than  once by  the 
same person. 
It  would  seem  to  be  the 
duty of  every  dealer  to  discourage  the 
sale of inferior goods  of any  kind,  as  it 
is only a question of time when  the  sale 
of  such  articles  will  “return to torment 
him.”  But,  says one,  “If I do  not  keep 
what is wanted,  another will, and I shall 
lose a  sale.”  People,  however,  do  not 
want factitious  goods of  any  kind;  they 
simply  want a lower grade  of  a good  ar­
ticle,  and which you  can  generally  fur­
nish  them,  and  convince  them  that  it 
will answer their purpose until  a  better 
can be afforded. 
If cloth  of any kind,  it 
will  outwear  and  look  better  than any 
“shoddy,”  if not quite  as  warm;  if  gro­
ceries or provisions,  it is then a question 
of health,  as  well  as  economy,  and  no 
adulterated food should  be  used  at  any 
price.

“Look  at  this  eoat  you  sold  me  six 
weeks  ago!”  said  a  man  who  stepped 
into  a  clothing  store  the  other  day. 
“Why.  the  cloth  is  all  dropping apart 
and isn’t  worth  the  stuff  it  was  made 
with,  and yet you told me it was a pretty 
good  coat.”

“I said it was  a  pretty  good  coat  for 
the price I asked,” answered  the  dealer. 
“Of course,  I have better ones.”

“Well,  you should be  ashamed  to  sell 
this  one  at any price,” retorted the cus­
tomer, and one would  readily agree with 
him.

The store contained coats at  the  same 
price,  made of far better quality of cloth, 
although not as  heavy as this one,  which 
was really shoddy.  All  this might  have 
been  explained  to  the  customer  and  a 
satisfactory sale made  him,  even  if  not 
quite as remunerative to the dealer,  who 
lost  the  profit  of  several  coats  in  this 
transaction.

It  is  the  same  in  all  departments of 
cheap  goods,  and,  in  using  the  word 
“cheap,” I do not  mean simply less than 
their value,but poor, worthlessand trashy. 
If it is  deemed  indispensable  that  such 
stock  should  be  kept,  let  it  be  in the 
background,  to be  brought  forward only 
ai a last resort,  and  then  better  under­
rate than overrate  such to  the customer; 
then,  should a sale be made,  you will not 
be blamed.  Far  better  to  say,  “I  will 
sell you a really good  spring  or fall coat 
at the price of this, and with  which  you 
will  be  better satisfied even during win­
ter weather;”  or, if  it is  groceries  he  is 
buying,  frankly  tell him that  the tea for 
which he asks is  not  profitable  for  him, 
and recommend a less  quantity  of better 
goods.  Any  sensible  person  will  soon 
learn that you are  anxious to  look  after 
his  interest a little as  well as  your own. 
Really  good  articles  always  speak  for 
themselves, and the  store  keeping  them 
in stock is certain to be remembered  and 
visited again;  besides,  a majority of peo­
ple talk to others about  a good article  of 
merchandise,  and,  in  praising  it,  are do­
ing  you  good  service  in  advertising, 
which is often  worth  more  than  all  the 
profits you  may make from any  one  cus- 

F r a n k   A.  Ilowio.

Signal  Five  cigar  is  Spanish  hand­

made, 5c.

Conflict between Law and Justice.
There is no misunderstanding  the  lat­
est  decision  of  the  Kentucky  Court  of 
Appeals  on  the  subject  of  dispensing 
liquor,  as  set  forth  in  the  interesting 
opinion  of  Judge  Hazelrigg.  The  case 
(Commonwealth,  appellant,  v.  Fowler, 
appellee)  has  excited  a  keen  interest 
among  the  entire  Kentucky  trade,  and 
the  present  decision  compels  the drug­
gist to pay.

The statute under which Mr. Fowler, a 
respectable  druggist  of  Louisville,  was 
indicted,  requires  a  fifty-dollar  license 
ere 
the  druggist  may  sell  spirituous 
liquors  in  quantities  not  less  than  a 
quart,  the liquor not to  be  drunk  on  or 
near  the  premises;  for  quantities  less 
than a quart,  a  physician’s  prescription 
and a li cense are the conditions  of  legal 
sale.  Mr.  Fowler sold a  pint of  whisky 
without a prescription and without  a  li­
cense.

The lower court looked upon  the  stat­
ute as  a revenue statute,  and declared  it 
unconstitutional,  since it  singles out for 
purposes of  taxation  a ' particular  com­
modity  necessarily  handled  as a part of 
the druggist’s line,  and  encumbers  that 
commodity with a specific  tax.  The leg­
islature  may tax the  drug  business,  but 
not  a  drug—it  may  tax  the whole,  but 
not the parts—it may require a license to 
practice pharmacy,  but  not  a  license  fo 
sell a particular medicine.

in 

the  exercise  of 

The Court of Appeals reversed the rul­
ing and now contends that  the  Act  was 
not intended as a  revenue measure;  that 
it  simply  contemplates  the  exercise  of 
the ordinary police power of the Govern­
ment.  While  the  legislature  has  no 
power to  prohibit  the  prescription  and 
sale  of  liquors  for  medicinal  uses,  the 
State, 
its  police 
powers,  may  place  watches  over  the 
traffic in  whisky,  may  enact  all sorts of 
police  regulations,  may  require  license 
and establish  strict  police  surveillance. 
Judge Hazelrigg quotes  approvingly  the 
decision in  Woods v. State,  36  Ark.,  36, 
wherein the Court held that  the  defend­
ant druggist could not lawfully,  without 
a  license,  sell  spirits  even as medicine 
upon the prescription of a physician.

We have here a striking illustration of 
the  chasm  which  yawns  between  law 
and  justice.  Legally ,the  ground taken 
above seems to be unassailable; but from 
the view-point of equity it is  an  outrage 
to place the  reputable  pharmacist  on  a 
level  with  every  keeper of a dramshop. 
But,  as a  learned  Judge  maintains,  the 
remedy for unwise  or  unjust  legislation 
is  not  to  be  provided  by the judiciary. 
Vicious laws may be  good law;  a  detest­
able statute may be  constitutionally  and 
judicially  beyond 
the 
hardship must be  removed  by effecting a 
repeal of the  obnoxious  measure  in  the 
legislature.  The  druggists of  Kentucky 
have no right to  feel  bitter  against  the 
latest  ruling—it  is  certainly  no severer 
than  the  precedents  cited;  and  if  they 
properly  resent 
that 
druggists and saloonkeepers  are  worthy 
of  equal  suspicion  in  the  eyes  of  the 
State,  their  only  recource  is  agitation 
and pressure made to  bear  on  the  Ken­
tucky Legislature  until the present stat­
ute is no more.

reproach,  and 

implication 

the 

My maple syrup is very  fine.  Now  is 
the time to sell it and get  a  good  profit. 
See price list on  last  page  of this paper.

E d w in   F a l l a s .

Use Tradesman Coupon Books.

T H E   M IC H IG A N   TEA-DES3EAJN’.

CHICAGO 

Novlg-^

A N D   WURST  M I C H I G A N   B ’T .

GOING  TO  CHICAGO.

Lv. G’d R apids...............7:15am  1:25pm  *11:30pm
At. Chicago 
1:25pm  6:50pm  *7:20am
3
Lv.  C hicago....................S :25am  5:00pm  *11:45pm
Ar. G’d  R apids...............3:05pm  10:25pm  *6:25aro

RETURNING  FROM  CHICAGO. 

. 

TO  AMO  FROM  M DSKBOON.

Lv. G rand R apids.........  7:25am  1:25pm  5:30pm
A r. G rand R apids......... 11:45am  3:05pm 10:25pm

T R A V ER SE  C IT Y .  CH A RLEV O IX   AND  PETOBKEY.

7:30am  3:15pm
Lv. G rand  Rapids .. 
Ar.  M anistee.............  12:20pm  8:15pm
1:00pm  8:45pm
Ar. Traverse City —  
Ar. C harlevoix......... 
3:15pm  11:10pm
Ar.  P etoskey............. 
3:45pm  11:40pm

T rains arrive from   north a t  1:00 !pm >nd 10;0Q 

P A R L O R   A N D   SL E E P IN G   CABS.

Parlor  car 

leaves  fo r  Chicago  1:25pm.  A r­
rives 
from   Chicago  10:25pm.  Sleeping  c a n  
leave  fo r  Chicago  11:30pm.  A rrive  from   C h i­
cago 6:25am.

»Every d ay...O thers w eek d ay s  only.

pm.

DETROIT, 

°ct-*’-1-8?

LANSING A  NORTHERN  R. R.

GOING  TO  DETROIT.

Lv. G rand R apids.........7:00am  1:20pm  5:25pm
Ar. D e tro it..  ................ 11:40am  „5:30pm  10:10pm

RETUKNINGjFROM   D ETRO IT.

Lv.  D etroit......................7:40am 
l:10pm .  6:00pm
Ar. G rand R apids.........12:40pm  5:2Cpm  10:45pm
T O  AND  FROM   SABIN AW ,  ALM A  A N D   ST.  LOOTS.  Q
Lv. G R  7:40am  5:00pm  Ar. G R .11:35am 10:45pm

T O  AND  FROM   LO W ELL.

Lv. G rand R apids.............7:00am  1:20pm  5:25pm
A r.from  Low ell................12:40pm  5:20pm  ............

THROUGH.CAR  SERVICE.

Parlor  Cars on a ll train s  betw een  G rand R ap­
ids and D etroit.  P arlor c a r to Saginaw  on m orn­
ing train.

T rains  w eek days only.

GEO. D bHAVEN, G en.  Pass’r  Ag’t.

De t r o it ,  g r a n d   h a v e n   a  Mi l ­

w a u k e e   Railway.

T rain s L e  ve 
G’d  Rapids,  Lv
I o n ia .............A r
St.  J o h n s — A r
O w osso.........A r
E. S aginaw ..A r
Bay C ity ....... A r
F l i n t ..............Ar
Pt.  H u ro n ...A r
P o n tia c .........Ar
D etroit...........A r

EA STW A BD .

,tN o.  14 tN o.  16 th o .  18 *ho.
645am 
7 40am 
825am 
900am
10 50am
11 30am 
1005am 
1205pm 
1053am 
1150am

1020am  
1125 am 
1217pm 
1 20pm
3 45pm
4 35pm 
3 45pm
5 50pm
3 05pm
4 05pm

325pm
4 27pm 
520pm 
605pm 
800pm
5 37pm 
705pm 
8 50pm 
825pm 
925pm

1100pm 
1235am 
1 25am 
3 10am
6 40am 
715am 
5 41  am  
730am 
537am
7 00am

W ESTW A R D .

“ 

“  

For  G rand H aven  and Interm ediate
P o in ts....... ............................................*7:005a. m.
F or G rand H aven an d   M uskegon....... t l  :00 p. m.
“  Mil. and C h i.. .15:35 p. m.

“ 
tD ally except  Sunday. 
T rains  arrive  from   th e  east,  6:35  a.m .,  12:50 
p.m., 5:30 p. m .,  10: a)  p.m. 
i— i
T rains  arrive  from   th e  w est, 10:10 a.  m. k3:15 
p m.  and 9:15 p. m.
E astw ard—No.  14  has  W agner  P arler  Buffet 
car.  No. 18 Parlor  Car.  No. 82 W agner  SleepeT.
W estward — No. 11  P arlor Car.  No. 16 W agner 
Parlor B uffet car.  No. 81  W agner Sleeper.

»Daily.

J a s . Ca m p b e l l , City T icket A gent.

Grand  Rapids  <S* Indiana.

TRAINS  c o i n s   n o r t h .

.  North

L eave going 
For T raverse C ity, P etoskey and S a g in a w ... ,7:40 a.  m.
For S a g in a w ...................................................................5:00 p. m.
For  P etoskey  and  M ackinaw.................................6:25 p m .
L eave g o in g  
For  C in cinn ati.............................................................7:25 a  .m .
For K alam asoo and  C h icago............................... 2:15 p.  m.
For  F ort W ayne an d   th e  E ast.............................2:15 p.m .
For C incinnati  .........................................................*6:40  p .m .
For  K alam asoo and C hicago............................ *11:40  p. m

TRAINS  GOING  SOUTH.

South.

C h ic a g o  v ia .G .jR .  &  I  R  R

Lv Grand R ap ids___ ...7:25 a m  
Arr  C h icago...................... 2:40p m  
Car and coach. 

2:15 p m   *11:40 p m
7:10am
8:15 p  m  train  ha» th rou gh   W agner  Buffet  P arlor 
j

0:05 p m 

11:40  p m tra in  d a lly ,  through  W&gnei  S leep ing Car 
and C oach.
11:30 p m
Lv  Chicago 
Arr Grand R apids 
7:20 a m
3:30  p  m   h as  through  W agner  Buffet  P arlor  Car 
11:80 p m  train  d a ily , th ro  ugh  W agner  Sleeping  Car 

3:30 p m  
0:15 p m  

0:50a m 
2:50pm 

For M uskegon— L ea**. 

M u sk e g o n , G r a n d   Kapiui* k   I n d i a n a .
9:50 a u<
7:25  a m 
1:00pm  
l:l5 p m
*»:40  p m 
620p m
O  L. LOCKWOOD4
General  P assenger and  T icket  A gent.

Krom  M usk eg o n - A rrive.

B uildings,  Portraits, □  Card s 

and  statio n ery  

H eadings, Maps, Plans  mid  Patented 

A rticles.
T R A  *»•*>► M „% N  r o . ,

G rand  Rapids,  Mich.

L.  g:  DUNTQN  i  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.

/Mic h ig a n  (T e n t r a i

“ The Niagara Falls Route.’*

(T aking effect  Sunday,  May 27,1894.) 

•D aily.  All others daily, except Sunday. 

A rrive. 
Depart-
10 20 d  m .............D etroit  E x p re ss ............. 7  00 & m
5 3 0 a m   __ »A tlantic and  Pacific........1  20 p m
1  50 p m  ....... New York E x p re ss...........  6 00 p m
Sleeping cars  run on A tlantic  and  Pacific  ex 
press train s to an d  from  Detroit.
Parlor  cars  leave  for  D etroit a t  7:00 a m ;  re 
ta m in g , leave D etroit 4:35 p m . arriving at G rand 
Rapids 10:20 p m . 
D irect  com m unication  m ade  at  D etroit  w ith 
all through  trains e rs t  over  the  M ichigan Cen- 
I tra l R ailroad  (Canada Southern Division.)
A.  A l m q o t s t , T icket  Agent,
I 
Union  PassengerStati o n .

*

THE  MICmG^îsr  TILAlDESMAJSr,

1 3

D A N G E R   A H E A D .

Michigan Merchants  Must Be Active  to 

Defeat Inimical Legislation.

formula  printed 

L a n s i n g ,  Feb.  11—Referring  to  your 
friend, 
the  Dairy  and  Food  Commis­
sioner,  I  wonder  if  your  attention has 
been called to any of the  various  propo­
sitions now before your Legislature to in­
crease his power and emoluments.
My objection  to  that  spirit  of  pater­
nalism  in  government,  which  promotes 
the  appointment  of  office  holders  with 
that power to enter and  search,  which is 
generally so offensive  to  American  citi­
zens, is that,  when once started, it is dif­
ficult to  limit  or  control  it.  My  belief 
has always been  that it is  much  wiser to 
find remedies  for many  evils without ap­
pealing  to  political  patronage;  for  the 
moment  a  new  fountain  of  political 
“ pap” is placed “on tap,” there is no end 
to the ingenuity in devising  means to in­
crease  the  supply.  So,  now  that  the 
Dairy and Food Commissioner has gotten 
into  saddle,  he  is,  apparently,  pressing 
the Legislature  to  increase  his  powers, 
and especially,  his patronage and emolu­
ments,  by means of assistants and liberal 
appropriations.
House  Bill  No.  2  now  proposes  to 
amend  the  Act  which  created the office 
of Dairy  and  Food  Commissioner by pro­
posing that  “it shall  be  unlawful to sell 
any  kind of compounded  article for food 
or drink or any kind of  cooking  purpose 
without  first  putting  on  a  label giving 
the 
in  English  and 
placed in a prominent  place on each and 
every package,  with the true  analysis of 
the exact proportion  of  each  ingredient 
used in the manufacture or in compound­
ing the same.”
Just imagine,  for instance,  the  manu­
facturer of  Worcestershire  Sauce  being 
obliged to give away  his  recipe  in  this 
manner to his competitors.  Or imagine, 
if  you  please,  every  bake  shop  which 
sells  “manufactured”  or “compounded” 
bread,  pie or  doughnuts,  being  obliged 
to label  as  above  prescribed.  You  can 
go through any grocery store  in  Lansing 
and  find  anywhere  from  a  dozen  to a 
hundred “compounded” articles  of  food 
which,  according  to  this  law,  must be 
labeled 
this  ridiculous  manner  in 
Michigan,  as  is  not  required  anywhere 
else in the civilized world,  to  say  noth­
ing about the  destruction  of  the  rights 
of an enterprising manufacturer who has 
gotten  up  a  new  article  of food,  more 
convenient,  more  economical  and  more 
wholesome for the use of  any  intelligent 
cook or housewife, and who  must  imme­
diately  advertise  and  give  away his re­
cipe to his indolent or unscrupulous com­
petitor.  Can you imagine anything more 
absurd ?
Another bill,  known  as  No.  1  in  the 
Senate and No.  8  in the House,  proposes 
the  most  outrageous  and  unheard  of 
regulations  for  almost  every  kind  of 
business you can think  of.  Section  18, 
for  instance,  provides  that  compound 
lard shall  be sold  only  under  the  name 
of  “lard substitute,”  giving  ground  for 
the belief that the measure  originated in 
the fertile  mind  of  some  lithographer, 
who  realizes  the  new 
labels  such  a 
change of name will  involve.  The  next 
section requires that when  anybody sells 
any  “ lard  substitute”  (compound)  he 
must hand the  purchaser  “a  card  upon 
which is  distinctly  and  legibly  printed 
the name of the article and a list  of  the 
several  components  of  the  mixture  to­
gether  with  the  relative  proportions 
thereof.”
1 have cited only a few instances of the 
harsh  and  uncalled  for  provisions  em­
the  measure  proposed  and 
bodied  in 
fathered  by the Dairy Commissioner,  but 
enough  has  been  said  to  convince  the 
trade that, unless  these  obnoxious  bills 
are  defeated,  it  will  be  decidedly  un­
pleasant to conduct  a  grocery  or  meat 
business  in  this  State,  as  every  dealer 
will  be  subjected  to an espionage  which 
is  decidedly  offensive  to  the  American 
idea  of  freedom. 

R a d i x .

in 

*  *  *

T h e   T r a d e s m a n   pleads  guilty  to the 
charge  of  being  responsible,  in  some 
small  measure,  for  creating  the  senti­
ment  which resulted  in  the  creation  of 
the  office  of  Dairy  and  Food  Commis- j

sioner,  but right there the  responsibility 
ends. 
In agitating the matter  of  better 
food  laws,  T h e   T r a d e s m a n   acted  on
,  the assumption that whenever  the  office 
of  Food  Commissioner  was  created  by 
the Legislature, the  Governor would see 
to it that  it  was  filled  by  a  competent 
person. 
Instead of  doing  so,  however, 
the executive  saw fit  to  appoint  a  man 
who knew nothing about the subject and 
does not appear to be inclined to increase 
his knowledge;  and even after  the  Gov­
ernor had had an opportunity to note the 
inefficiency of  his  appoiutee,  he  re-ap­
pointed  the same individual for  the  full 
term of two years. 
It is  a  common  re­
mark that  ignorance is the  hardest thing 
with which to deal  and that  an  ignorant 
man  Is the most difficult to  control,  and 
the experience  of  the  people  with  the 
present Food Commissioner is an  apt  il­
lustration of  this  truism.  As  proof  of 
the  inefficiency  and  inexcusable  ignor­
ance of  the  present  Commissioner,  the 
merchants of Michigan  have only  to  pe­
ruse the Brundage  bill,  so-called,  which 
was prepared in  the  office  of  the  Food 
Commissioner,  and may,  therefore,  rea­
sonably  be  supposed 
to  represent  his 
ideas (or lack of  ideas)  on  the  subject. 
The bill as a whole is a compilation of all 
of the crudities, mistakes and vicious fea­
tures  which  have  been  tried  in  other 
states,  and have been, or are  being,  rap­
idly  abandoned  altogether,  because  of 
their  injustice and  impracticability. 
If 
any dealer is inclined to doubt this state­
ment,  he  has only to send to his Senator 
or Representative  for  a copy of the bill, 
and T h e   T r a d e s m a n  guarantees  that  a 
perusal of the measure will cause him  to 
used his best endeavors to accomplish  its 
defeat,  for in casa it is enacted into a law 
no dealer,  reputable  or  otherwise,  will 
be safe from constant annoyance and ex­
pense of persecution and prosecution.

*   #  

•

At the  annual  meeting  of  the  Michi­
gan  Dairymen’s  Association,  held  at 
Adrian  last  week,  the  pure  food  bills 
were discussed at some length,  culmina­
ting  in  the  adoption  of  the  following 
rosolutions:

Your  Committee, 

to  whom  was  re­
ferred the consideration of the pure food 
and  dairy  bills  now  pending  in 
the 
Legislature,  so far as  they  refer  to  the 
manufacture  and  sale  of  batter  and 
cheese  and  all  Imitations 
thereof,  re­
spectfully  reports  that  it  has  had  the 
same  under  consideration  and  submits 
the following recommendations as  a  re­
sult thereof:
1.  We recommend  the enactment  of  a 
law similar in all essential particulars to 
the Massachusetts  law  recently  upheld 
by  the United States  Supreme  Court  in 
the case of Cone vs.  Plumley.  The  bill 
introduced in the  House  of  Representa­
tives by Hon.  C.  K.  Hoyt,  of  Hudson- 
ville,  meets our approval in this particu­
lar.
2.  We approve Se?.  8 of House bill No. 
30,  file  No.  8,  in  relation  to the sale of 
olemargarine, etc.

3.  We  recommend  the  enactment  of 
the  Massachusetts  law  regulating  the 
use of butter substitutes  by  keepers  of 
hotels, restaurants, eating saloons, board­
ing bouses,  etc.,  which  requires  actual 
notice of such  fact to be given  to  guests.
4.  We recommend the  imposition  of  a 
revenue  tax  of,  at  least,  2  cents  per 
pound on filled  cheese.
5.  We  recommend  the  enactment  of 
Sec.  13 of House bill No.  31,  File  8,  in 
reference to the prohibition of the manu­
facture and sale of filled cheese.
the  adoption  of 
only  one  brand  for  Michigan  cheese, 
which  shall  be  “Michigan  Full  Cream 
Cheese,”  and  that  the  adoption  of  the
I same be made optional  with  the  manu-

6.  We  recommend 

facturer,  similar  to  the  laws  now  in 
operation in New York,  Ohio and Minne­
sota.
7.  We dissaprove of the  naming  of  a 
mininum percentage of fat to  constitute 
full cream cheese;  but favor  any  proper 
legislation  which  will  prevent  and 
punish the voluntary removal of any  fat 
or cream from milk made into full cream 
cheese.

A  Wisconsin  woman,  after  getting  a 
divorce from her  husband on  the ground 
of desertion,  learned  that  he  had  been 
dead for two years.

Only men  of small  minds  and  preju­
diced and envious dispositions engage in 
the outlaway of boycotts.

Gas making was invented by a French­
man in 1802.  He made gas by the dry dis- 
filiation of wood.

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TRADESMAN  COMPANY, 

Agents,

Grand  Rapids, 

- 

- 

Mich.

DO  YOU  WANT  A  HAND  CART ?

Diam. o f W heels. 

Ifo, 
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No.  1...............................................  
No.  2 ............................................... 
Carts  of  this  kind  are  grow ing  in   popular  favor  daily.  Painters. Carpenters,  Bill  Posters, 
Masons,  etc.,  find  th a t  they  are  ahead  of  anything  else  for  carrying  tools  and light m ater­
ial.  Farm ers,  too,  use them   to  good  advantage  In th e  orchard  or  garden.  Box easilv ad ju st­
able 
H a n d le s  on carts No. 0 are not bent.  Made also w ith springs and third wheel.  W iite fo r 
catalogue.  L A N SIN G   W H E E L B A R R O W   CO.,  Lansing. Mich.

48x28 in.
40x23 in.
32x20 in.

42  in. 
36  in. 
30  in. 

Price  Each. 
$10  50 
9  00 
8  25

Size o f  Box Outside.

GRAND  RAPIDS 
BRUSH COMPÌ
MANUFACTURER  OF B R U S H E S   GRAND  RAPIDS, MICH.

Our  Goods  are  sold  by  all  Michigan  Jobbing  Houses.

Mißhael Kolb l Son,

Clothing M a n u f a c t u r e r s

Rochester, N,  V,

Wm.  Connor  will  be  at  Sweet’s  Hotel,  Grand  Rapids, 
Wednesday,  Feb 
13;  also  Thursday  and  Friday,  Feb. 
21  and  22,  with  his  full  line  of samples in  Men’s,Youth’s, 
Boys’  and Children’s Clothing;  also an elegant line  of  Spring 
Overcoats.  Customers’  expenses allowed

MICHAEL  KOLB  &  SON.

This  stinging  cold  weather  reminds  us  of  Buckwheat  Cakes  when  we 
get  up  in  the  morning.  Absolutely  pure  and  unadulterated  Buckwheat 
Flour  made  from  sound  and  well-cleaned  grain  is  an  essential  and  we 
make  it  and  put  in  up  in  barrels,  24  and  10 lb.  sacks.  Quality  guaranteed 
the  best.  Prices  right.  Write  us.

The  Walsh=DeRoo  Milling  Co.

Holland, Mich.

T H E   M I C H I G A N   T E A U E S M A N .

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D r u s   D e p a r t m e n t•

s it a t e   B o a r d   o f   P h a r m a c y «

O ne  T ear—Ottraar Eberbach, A .m   A rbor.
Two  Y ears—Greorge Guadrum, lo n ia .
Three  Years—C. A. B ug bee. C harlevoix.
Fo'ir  Y ears—8. E. P&rkill, Owosso.
F ive Y ears—F . W. R. Perry, D etro it.
P resid en t— Fred’k W .R.  P erry, Detroit.
S ecretary—S tanley E. Parkill, Owosso.
T reasurer—Geo. G undrum , Io n ia.
C om ing  M eetings—D etroit,  Jan 8;  Grand  Rapids 
March 5; Detroit (Star Island), J u n e  24; L ansing, Nov  5

M i c h i g a n   S t a t e   P h a r m a c e u t i c a l   A s s ’s .  
President—A. 8. Parker, D etroit.
Vice-President—John E. Peck, D etroit.
Treasurer—W. Dupont,  D etroit.
Sec re ta v—F. C. T hom pson. D etroit.

Grand  Rapids  Pharmaceutics 1 Society. 

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

THE  LANGUAGE  OF  TRADE.

Words  Which  Do  Not  Describe  the 

Things  They  are  Applied  To.

From   th e  New  York  Sun.

run 

“Your cloth is better than  that,”  said 
the tailor to  the  customer,  placing  two 
pieces of worsted diagonal  side  by  side.
“ What’s  the  difference?”  asked  the 
customer.
“ Well,” said the tailor,  “ the  other  is 
good part cotton.”
“And mine’s all wool?”  asked the cus­
tomer.
“ Yours  is  mostly  wool,”  replied  the 
tailor, 
looking  at  the  customer  with 
evident surprise at his innocence.
The cant phrase “all  wool  and a  yard 
wide”  has come to mean half  cotton  and 
twenty-seven  inches  wide.  Some  per­
sons believe that  the  difference  between 
phrase and fact is to be  attributed to the 
high tariff on woolens  and worsteds,  but 
such  discrepancies 
through  all 
branches of trade,  whether  they  are  af­
fected  by the tariff  or  not.  Every  real 
thing  has  come  through  modern  inge­
nuity to  have  an  admirable  counterfeit 
bearing  the  real  thing’s  name,  and  so 
meaningless have names become in trade 
that  the  retailer  sells  the  counterfeit 
under the name of the  real  with  little or 
no 
consciousness  of  untruthfulness. 
Male  customers  usually  fail  to  under­
stand this,  and are outraged on discover­
ing that the  thing  does  not  correspond 
to its  name,  but  women  who  are  born 
shoppers long ago accepted  the situation 
and  adopted 
the  false  nomenclature. 
They do not resent as dishonest  the  con­
duct  of  the  grocer  that  offers  “fresh 
eggs”  at so much and  “strictly fresh new 
laid eggs”  at fifty  per cent.  more.  Every 
woman  knows  that  the  shops  sell  tor 
silk  material  that  has  a  cleverly  made 
surface of pure silk ou a  back of cotton. 
Women judge not  by  the  name,  but  by 
the price, the “feel,”  and the other indi­
cations to  which men  are  blind. 
It  was 
discovered  a few years ago that many im­
ported silks were made with only a small 
percentage of real silk  aloug  with  cla> 
for  weight  and  soap  for  luster,  while 
American  manufacturers  were  turning 
out the real thing and finding it despised.
There is a regularly  recognized  set  ol 
substitutes in every department of trade, 
just  as  the  druggists  have  substitutes 
that are made to serve  when some unim­
portant  ingredient  in  a  prescription  is 
not at hand.  The word porcelain has ac­
tually  lost  its  true  significance,  save, 
perhaps,  in  the  fine  arts,  and  cooking 
utensils  are  glibly  sold  as  “porcelain- 
lined” that have merely  an  inner surface 
of coarse glazed  clay.  A  Philadelphian 
invented,  a  good many  year* ago, a sort 
of white glass for lampshades and called 
it  hot-cast  porcelain,  and  now  many 
forms of white glass  are  sold  as  porce­
lain. 
It  has  ceased  to be a lie, because 
all  tffe  world  knows  that  the  term  is 
purely conventional.
The  phrase  “antique  oak”  has  grad­
ually  come  to  mean, in  the language of 
the cheap furniture makers, stained  ash, 
or even poorer  material,  and the rug im 
porters  have  contributed  to  trade  the 
verb “to antique,”  with its past  partici­
ple  “antiqued,” the form commonly used. 
“Mahogany”  will soon  mean in  the  lan­
guage  of  thfe  cheap furniture trade  any 
wood  stained  into  distant  imitation  of 
new mahogany.  Of course the latter,  in 
turn, is stained to imitate old mahogany, 
and is sold  as  such.  Celluloid  has  be­
come a counterfeit for  almost  anything, 
and  its  protean  devices are immeasnra-

It goes  as  often  as  not  as  ivory, 
ble. 
and doubtless there are shopkeepers that 
sell it as such with no sense of fraud.
The terminology of the hardware trade 
is in a chaotic state by reason of the way 
in which counterfeits have obtained  cur­
rency.  “Steel  hatchets,” made of cheap 
iron,  are sold at 25  cents,  and  the  sub­
stitution  of 
iron  for  steel  runs  all 
through 
The  merchant 
trade. 
the 
guages his customer, and offers the coun­
terfeit or the real,  as the  case  seems  to 
demand,  without any sense of dishonesty. 
Electro-plated iron goes  for  bronze,  and 
cast  iron  goes  for  wrought  iron.  The 
fraud is  so transparent to any  one  buy­
ing with his  eyes  open  that  it  scarcely 
seems  worth  quarrelling  about.  The 
merchant acknowledges the nature of the 
•ouuterfeit when pressed,  and  takes  no 
shame  in  the  acknowledgment.  Per­
haps  some  of  them  never  see  the real 
thing, and are innocent of even construc­
tive fraud.
When  it  comes  to  leather  goods  the 
same system of  counterfeiting  prevails. 
You  may get  what is  technically  called 
an  “alligator skin” traveling  bag at  any 
price you wish to pay,  but no  man  with 
an eye in his head  is  ever  deceived  by 
the transparent device,  and  the  dealers 
deem it an innocent trick  to please  per­
sons in search of what they cauuot  buy.
the  far  east  side  shops  a 
grotesque mimicry of  fashionable  shops 
in Broadway and Fifth  avenue.  Things 
in the latter are reproduced in conterfeit 
in  the former  at  prices  to  suit  custom­
ers.
It is possible to  furnish  an  east  side 
house and clothe an east  side  family  in 
the queerest counterfeits of  the  articles 
that go to  furnish  a  fashionable  home 
and clothe its inmates.  The  thing  long 
ago ceased  to  be a  reprehensible  fraud 
because  it  was  too  transparent,  and 
when  the east side customer  wishes  the 
real  thing he pays the real  price without 
grumbling.  The language of  trade  has 
ceased to be a lie and  has become a huge 
joke.
The  Manufacture  of  Wooden  Shoes.
W ritten  f o r  Th e T r a d e s m a n .
Grand  Rapids can  boast  of  a  unique 
industry,  which  is  recognized  all  over 
the country,  although little  known  here, 
and has  not  its  duplicate  in  Michigan. 
This is the Wooden Shoe Factory.

You  find 

the  methods  and 

It  was  started  in  a  small  way,  on 
Goodrich street,  by  the present  manager, 
J.  H.  Ten Braak,  in  1873.  Six years ago 
he  moved into the  present building,  cor­
ner  Spring  and  Bartlett  streets.  Six 
men  are  now  employed 
there.  The 
trade  has  steadily 
increased,  and  has 
been especially  prosperous the  past  two 
years  wheu  people  have  substituted 
wooden shoes  for  leather  ones  for out­
door work.  The work is  done  by  hand 
and 
tools  employed 
seem  peculiarly foreign to  an  American.
Only  such  woods  as  basswood,  soft 
maple and  willow are  used,  and  a cord a 
day  is required.  The  blocks,  which  are 
twelve to fourteen  inches  in  length, are 
split into  several  sections,  the  number 
depending on the diameter of  the  wood.
With a few seemingly  careless  strokes 
of a hatchet and  a  queer  tool  called  a 
“distel,” the chunk assumes the  general 
shape of a shoe.  A “broad-knife”  gives 
the curves of grace—if the term  may  be 
applied to such an ungainly  object  as  a 
wooden  shoe.  To  an  outside  observer 
the most interesting part of  the  work  is 
the “digging  out.”  Spoon-shaped  bores 
of different sizes are deftly  manipulated, 
making the  shavings  fly,  and  in  a  few 
minutes lo!  there is  room  for  the  foot. 
Then comes  the  polishing  of  the  shoe 
with glass and it is  ready  for  the  mar­
ket.

Each man can make ten  pair  of  these 
shoes in a  day,  and  so  the  capacity  is 
three hundred and sixty pair weekly, 
i  The  shoes  are  in  sizes  to  tit  men,

women and  children,  and  their  corres­
ponding prices  at  wholesale  are  25,  20 
and 15 cents,  with 5 cents  added  for  re­
tail.  Only 3 per cent,  are  sold in Grand j 
Rapids,  and  these  are  mostly  worn  by 
Hollanders and some Germans.

Such shoes last from six  months  to  a 
year. 
Farmers,  gardeners,  engineers, 
firemen  and  workers  in  breweries  find 
them especially  desirable, on account of 
their  protection 
from  moisture  and 
from  fire.

Large  quantities  of  these  shoes  are 
shipped to eighteen  states of the Union, 
and smaller  quantities  to  nearly  every 
other state.  Recently,  a  pair was  made 
and sent to  President  Cleveland  to  use 
on his fishing tours—if he so desires.

Z.  E.  U.

Mr.  J. C. Shaw:  Your name File Book 
has become a necessity with  us.  “So say 
Pettit Brothers, the  well-known  grocers 
of this  city.  “Valuable  time  is  saved 
for personal attention to customers.”

Some  S143.000.000  worth  of  property 
passed through the Salt Ste.  Marie  canal 
during the last season.

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.
Seely's Lemon.

(w rapped)

Doz.  Gro.

1 oz.  $  90  10  20 I
2 oz. 
I  20  12  60 
4 oz.  2  OO  22  80 
6 oz.  3  OO  33  OO

Seely's  Vanilla!

(W rapped)

Doz.  Gro.
1 oz. $ 1  60  16  20
2 oz.  2  OO  21  60
4 oz.  3  75  40 80
6 oz.  5  40  57  60
Plain  N. .8.  with 
corkscrew at same 
price if  preferred.
Correspondence

'Solicited
riich.

SEELY  MFG.  CO.,  Detroit 

C has.  P e tte r se h ,

JO B B E R   OF

Imported and Domestic Cheese

Swiss,  Brick and  Lim burger a  Specialty. 

161-163.W est  Bridge  St.  Telephone  123 

GRAND  RAPIDS

A .  B ,  K N O W JLSO N ,
Cement,  Lime, Coal, Sewer Pipe, Etc,

W holesale Shipper

CARLOTS  AND  LESS 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH,

D eaf and Dumb Men

DO THIS

when  they want the

BEST sc CIGAR
5.  C.  W.

on the market.

is sold by  all W holesale D ruggists,  Confection­
ers and G rocers  traveling  from   G rand  Rapids 
Ask your Jobber to send you a sam ple w ith n ext 
order or apply to

G.  J.  JO H N S O N ,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

- 

-  MICH.

S ig n a l  F iv e
I  Hflvong  f ir  5c  Gigor.

M anufactured by

Ed.  W .  R u h e,
47  Dearborn  St.,  Chicago.

Represented by 

F .  E.  B u s h m a n ,

523 John St.,  Kalamazoo,  Mich.

Mail and  telrgr  ph orders  receive special  attention.

VAN  TW1LLER

T h e   B est Be  C igar E v er  P u t in  a  B o x

ei  8  lion  !..  Moie.  1

Wholesale  Distributers.

J.  A.  Gonzalez,  Michigan  Representative.

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

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p in ts ........... 

S.  N. Y.  Q.  &

M orphia, S.  P.  A W.  2 05@2  30 
C.  Co  .....................   1  95@2  20
Moschus  C anton.........  @ 4 0
M yrlstlca, No  1 .........   65®  70
N nx Vomica,  (p o 20).. 
®   10
Os.  S epia.......................   15®  18
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D.
C o ................................   @2 00
P lcls Llq, N>C., M gal
doz  .............................  @2 00
Plcls Llq., q u a r ts .......  @1  00
®   85
P ll H ydrarg,  (po. 80)..  @ 5 0
Piper  N igra,  (po. 22)..  @ 1
Piper A lba,  (po g5)__   @  3
Pllx B n rg u n ..................   @ 
7
in®  12
Plum bl A c e t................ 
Pul vis Ipecac et opli. .1  10@1  20 
Pyrethrum ,  boxes  H
& P . D.  Co., doz.......   @125
Pyrethrum ,  p v ............   20®   30
Q uas8lae.......................  
8®  10
Q ulnla, S. P.  & W .......34K@39M
..  27®  37
R ubla  T lnctorum .......   12®  14
Saccharum  Lactls p v . 
12®  14
S a la d n .......................... 2 80@2  50
Sanguis  D raconls........  40®  50
Sapo,  W .........................   12®  14
,T  M ...........................  10®  12
“  G ...........................  @  15

S.  G erm an. 

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7® 

®  20 
Seidlltz  M ixture....... .
©   18 
Slnapls...........................
@  30
“   o p t.....................
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  De
V o e s ...........................  @  35
Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes  @  35 
Soda Boras,  (po. 8-10). 
9
Soda  et Potass T a rt...  24®  25
Soda C arb....................  1 M@  2
Soda,  Bl-Carb..............  
5
3® 
Soda,  A sh.....................   3M@ 
4
Soda, Sulphas............. 
@ 
2
Spts. E ther C o ............   50®  55
“  M yrcla  D om .......  @2 no
“  M yrcla Im p .........  @2 50
•’  V lnl  Rect.  bbl.
....7 ...................................2  47@2 57
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.

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R o ll.......................  2  @ 2M

Strychnia  C rystal.......1  40@1  45
Sulphur, S u b l................ 2&@ 3
T a m arin d s...................  
8®  10
Terebenth V enice.......  28®  30
T heobrom ae........................45  @ 48
V anilla......................... 9 00@16 00
7® 8
Zinc!  S ulph.

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70
W hale, w in te r.
SO
Lard,  e x tra __
.  42
Lard, No.  1 ..................  4S
.  58
Linseed, pure raw

Bbl. Gai
70
85
45
61

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bbl. 

paints. 

Linseed,  boiled..........   61 
N eat’s  Foot,  w inter
s tra in e d .................. 
65 
Spirits T urpentine —   35 

64
70
40
lb.
Red  V enetian ................15£  2@8
O chre,yellow   M ars...  15£  2@4
“ 
B er.........1 £   2@8
Putty,  com m ercial__ 2%  2M@3
“  strictly  p u re ....... 2M  2£@8
V erm ilion Prim e Am er­
ican ............................... 
13@15
Vermilion,  E n g lish __  
65070
Green,  P en in su lar.......  
13Q16
Lead,  re d .......................   5M©6
w h ite ..................5M@6
W hiting, w hite S p an ... 
@70
W hiting,  G ild ers'......... 
@90
W hite, Paris  American 
1 
W hiting  Paris  Eng.
c l if f ..............................  
1  40
U niversal Prepared  ..1  C0@1  15

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N o.l  T u rp   C oach__ 1  10@1  20
E xtra T u rp ....................166@1  70
Coach  B ody..................2 75@3 00
No.  1 T urp  F u rn .........1  00®1  10
E utra T urk D am ar.  . 1   55@1  60 
Jap an   Dryer,  No.  1 
T urp  ........................... 
70®78

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We Sell  for

M e d ic in a l  P u r p o s e s   O n ly .

Canada  Malt 

Whisky

A  Pure  Medicinal  Whiskey  Distilled  for  Us  from  the  Best

Grain.
Price  $4.00  per doz.

7.50  per case  of  2 doz.

W holesale  P r ic e   C u rren t•

A dvanced—Carbolic Acid, Qnm Kino, Cod Liver Oil.  D eclined—Gum Gamboge, Gum Opium.

ACIDT7M.

8®  10
A cetlcu m ...................... 
Benzoicum  G erm an..  65®  75
Boraclc 
........................ 
15
21®  31
Carbollcum   .  ............. 
C itrlc u m ...................... 
41®  44
H y d ro ch lo r..................  
3®
....................  10®  12
N ltrocum  
O x& llcum ......................  10®  12
Phosphorlum   d ll......... 
20
S alleylicum ..................   70®  75
Sulphnrlcum ................   1M@  5
T annicum .......................1  40@1 60
T artaricum .................. 
30®  33
AMMONIA.

n 

Aqua, 16  d e g ................  
6
8
20  d e g ................  
Carbonas  ......................  12®  14
C h lo rld u m ....................  12®  14

4® 
6® 

A N ILIN B .

B lack................................2 U0®2 25
B row n.............................  80@1  00
R ed ..................................  45®  50
Y ellow ............................ 2  50®3 00

BAC'CAB.

Cnbeae (po  25)......... 
20®  25
8®  10
Ju n lp e ru a .....................  
X antnoxylum ...............  25®  30

BALBAHUIE.

C opaiba.........................   45®  50
P eru ................................   @2 00
Terabln. C a n a d a ----  
45®  50
T o lu ta n .........................  35®  50

COBTBX.

Abies,  C anadian....................  18
Casslae  ...................................    Jf
Cinchona K la v a ....................  18
Bnonymus  atropnrp.............  30
Myrlca  Cerlfera, p o ...............  20
P runus V irgin!.......................   12
Q ulllala,  g rd ...........................  1«
Sassafras  ................................
Ulmus Po (G round  15).........  15

B XT BACTUM.
G lycyrrhlia  G lab ra...
p o .............
H aem atox, 15 lb. b o x ..
I s ................
M s..............
548..........
FB B B U

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Carbonate P reclp.........
C itrate and Q ulnla
C itrate  Soluble  ...........
Ferrocyanldum  Sol....
Solut  C hloride............
Sulphate,  com’l ...........
p u re ..............

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24®  25 
33®  35 
11®   12 
13®  14 
14®  15 
18®  17

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@  80 ®  50 
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7

A rn ic a ..........................  
A n th e m ls......................  18®
M atricaria 
 

Jf®   J*
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FLO RA .

 
FO L IA .

Barosma 
Cassia  A cutlfol,  Tin- 

nivelly  . . . . . .  
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Salvia  officinalis,  54«
and  V4s 
.................... 
U raU rid 
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A ix.  25®  30
I*®  20
8®  10

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Acacia,  1st  picked  ... 

s c io n .
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2d 
 
  ®   40
3d 
....  @  30
sifted sorts. . .  @  20
p o ....................  80®  80
Aloe,  Barb,  (po. 60) . ..  50®  60 
®   12
“  Cape,  (po.  2 0 ;... 
®   50
Socotrl,  (po.  60). 
Catechu. Is, 04s, 14 Ms,
16). . . -.................  
»   L
A m m onise 
................  55®  w
50®  6 >
Assafoatida,  (po 50 
Benzoinum ............... • ••  >o@  55
Cam phor» 
..................  40®  48
K uphorblom  po  .........  35® 
lo
G afbanum 
® 2 5o
Gamboge,  po 
65®  80
■ • 
G ualacum ,  (po  35>  .. 
®
Kino,  (po  2 50)...........  @2  50
M a s tic .................  
®   80
 
@ 4 0
M yrrh, (po  45) 
Opli  (po  3 30®3  50)  .2  35®2  40
Shellac  .......................  
40®  eo
4  @  45
bleached  —  
T ra g a c a n th ..................  50®  80

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A b sin th iu m .............................  25
B upatorlum .............................  20
L obelia......................................  25
M ajornm ..................................  28
M entha  P ip erita....................  28
V ir .............................  25
R u e................  
30
Tanacetum , V .........................   22
Thym us,  V ...............................  25

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Calcined, P a t................  55®  60
Carbonate,  P a t............   20®  22
Carbonate, K.  A  M —   20®  25 
Carbonate,  Jennings. 
35®  36

OLBUM.

C nbebae..........................1  40®1  50
E xechthltos  ..............   1  20@1  30
E rig e ro n ........................1  20@1  30
G a u lth e rla .....................1  50@1  60
G eranlnm ,  o u n ce ...  .  @  75
Gosslpll,  Sem.  g a l.....   70®  75
Gedeoma  ...................... 1  25®1  40
Ju m p er!.........................  50@2 00
..................  90®2 00
L avendula 
L lm onls..........................1  40@1  60
..  .......2  10@3 OO
M entha Piper 
M entha  V erld............... 1  80@2 00
M orrhuae, gai 
......... 1  50@1  60
M yrcla, o u nce..............   @ 5 0
O liv e..............................   90@3  00
Plcls Liquida,  (gal..85)  10®  12
R ic in i........................... 
88®  96
R osm arini............. 
1  00
Bosae,  o u nce......................6 50®8 50
S u c d n l...........................  40®  45
S a b in a ...........................  90@1  00
Santa] 
...........................2  50@7 00
S assafras.......................  50®  55
Slnapls, ess, o unce__   @  65
T lg lll..............................  
®   50
T h y m e ...........................  40®  50
opt  ..................  @1  60
Theobrom as..................  15®  20

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B iC arb .........................  
15®  18
B ich ro m ate..................  13®  14
Brom ide.......................  
40®  43
G arb................................   12®  15
Chlorate  (po. 17@19)..  16®  18
C yanide.........................   50®  55
Io d id e...................................2 90®3 00
Potassa,  B itart,  p u re ..  23®  25 
®   15
Potassa, B itart, co m ... 
Potass  N ltras, o p t....... 
8®  10
Potass N ltra s................ 
7® 
9
P ru ssla te.......................   28®  30
Sulphate  p o ..................  15®  18

RADIX.

A c o n itu m ......................  20®  25
A lth ae.............................  22®  25
A n c h u sa ........................  12®  15
Arum,  p o .......................   @  25
C alam us.........................   20®  40
G entiana  (po. 12).......  
8®  10
G lychrrhlza, (pv.  15)..  16®  18 
H ydrastis  Canaden,
@  30
(po. 35)...................... 
H ellebore,  Ala,  p o __   15®  20
Inula,  p o .......................   15®  20
Ipecac,  p o ............................1  30@1 40
Iris  plox  (po. 35038). 
35®  40
Jalapa.  p r..............  
...  40®  45
M aranta,  \ s ................  @  35
Podophyllum , p o .........  15®  18
R hel..................................   7501 00
“  C ut.........................  @1  75
 
75@1  35
“  pv.  ...........  
S p ig ella....................... 
35® 38
 
Sanguinarla,  (po  25)..  @ 2 0
Serpentario..................... 
50® 55
S e n e g a .............................  55® 60
Simllax, Officinalis.  H  @ 4 0  
M  @  25
Scillae,  (po. 85)............   10®  12
Symplocarpus,  Foetl-
duB,  po.......................   @  35
V aleriana, Bng.  (po.30)  ®   25
G erm an...  15®  20
inglber a ....................... 
18® 20
Zingiber  j  ................ 

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O   15
A nlsnm ,  (po.  20) 
Api am   (graveleons)..  14®  16
Bird, I s ............................. 
4®  6
Carni, (po. 18)................ 
10® 12
C ardam on............................l  oo@i 25
C orlandrum ....................   12®  14
Cannabis S atlva...........  4® 
5
C ydonlnm .......................   75® 
Chanopodium  ..............   10®  12
D lpterfx Odorate  ........2 4002  CO
F oenlcnlnm .................. 
Q  
Iti
Foenngreek,  po....... 
8
6® 
L i n i...........................  
 
  3),®  
Lini, grd.  (bbl. 3M  ■  3 * ®   4
L obelia.............................  35® 40
5
P harlarts C an arian .... 
v .ap a.........................  
4M© 5
Slnapls  A lba  ...  —  
8
M ig ra ...........  11®  12

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F rum enti, W ..D .  Co. .2  0Q@i  50 
..  2  «  @2 25
Juniperis  Co. O. T   ... 1  65@2 00
........  1  7503  50
Saacharum   N.  B ..........1  9U@2  10
Spt.  V ini  G alli.........  1  75@6  50
V ini O p o rto .....................   1  25©2 00
V ini  A lba.........................  1  2502 00

SFONteBB.

F lorida  sheeps’  wool
N assau  sheeps’  wool
......... 
Velvet  extra  sheeps' 
Bxtra  yellow  sheeps’
Grass sheeps’ w uoi e»; - 
Hard for  slate  use —  
Yellow  Reef, tor  slate 
....  .................... 

carriag e....... .............. 2  5002  70
2  00 j
carriage 
1 10
wool  carriage 
Carri age 
85 |
tö
rlage 
75
1  4b

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A bsinthium  
............. 2  50®3  00
A m ygdalae, D nle.........  30®  50
A m yaalae, A m arae— 8  oo@8  25
A n ls l.................................... 2  10@2 20
A uranti  C ortex............1  80®2 00
Bergam ll  ......................3 00@3 20
C a jlp u tl.......................  
60®  65
Gary ophy111..................  75®  80
Cedar 
...........................  35®  65
C h e n c p o d li..................  @1  60
............... .1  25®l  41
Cinnam onll 
C ltro n ella.....................   @  45
Conlum   M ac................  36®  65
C o p a ib a .... 
..............   80®  90

ST R O PS.

AuC&Cla  .  ................................   50
Zingiber  ..................................  50
Ip ecac........................................  60
F errl  Io d ..................................  50
A uranti  C ortes.......................   50
Rhel  A rom ..............................   50
Sim llax  Officinalis................  60
. . . .   50
S en eg a......................................  50
Sclllae........................................  50
“  Co..................................   50
T o ia ta n ....................................   50
P ran as  rlr g .............................  50

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A conitum   N apellls R ...........  60
50
A loes.......................................  60
and  m y rrb ....................  60
A rn ic a ......................................  so
o
AsafoBtlda................................  
Atrope B elladonna  ..............   60
B enzoin....................................   60
C o..............................   50
S anguinaria.............................  so
B aro sm a..................................  so
.....................  75
C antharldes....  
C apsicum .................................  50
Ob  dam on.................................  75
Co.....................  75
C asto r....................................... 1 00
C atechu ....................................   50
C in c h o n a ................................   50
C o.....................  60
C olum ba..................................  so
C o n in m ..................  
50
C ubeba......................................  50
D ig ita lis..................................   50
E rgot.........................................   50
G e n tia n ....................................  50
C o................................   60
G u a ic a ......................................  50
am nion................  60
Z in g ib e r................................  
50
H yoscyam ns...........................  50
Iodine........................................  75
Colorless..............  75
Ferrl  C hlorldum ....................  35
Kino 
.......................................   50
Lobelia...................................... 
so
M yrrh........................................  50
N ux  V om ica...........................  50
O p li...........................................  85
“  C am phorated..................  50
“  D eoaor.............................2 00
A uranti C ortex.......................   50
Q u a ssia ....................................  50
R hatany  ..................................  50
R hel...........................................   50
Cassia  A cutlfol......................  50
C o................   50
S erp e n ta ria ............   .............  50
Stram onium .............................  80
T o lu ta n ....................................  60
V a le ria n ..................................  50
V eratrum  V erlde....................  50

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“  G erman 

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.... 
... 
prep..............  
precip  .......  
R ubra 

.Ether, Spts  N it, 3 F . .  35®  38 
“  4 F ..  38®  40
A lu m en ......................... 3
(po.
3® 
7)  ............................... 
4
A nnatto.........................  55®  60
4®  5
Antim onl, p o ................ 
55®  60
et Potass T. 
A n tip y rin ............  @1 
40
A ntifebrln.....................  @  25
A rgentl  N ltras, ounce  @  43
7
A rsenicum .................... 
5® 
Balm Gilead  B u d __  
38®  40
Bism uth  S.  N .............. 1  40@1  50
Calcium  Chlor, Is,  (Ms
12;  M*.  14)..............  
@  11
C antharldes  Russian,
00
p o .......................  @1 
C apsid  F ructus, a f ...  @  26
p o —  @ 2 8
B po. @ 2 0
Caryophyllns,  (po.  15)  10®  12
Carmine,  No. 40.  @3 
75
Cera  Alba, S. *  F .......   50®  55
Cera F la v a ....................  38®  40
Coccus 
.........................   @  40
Cassia F rn o tn s............   @  25
C entrarla....................... 
©   10
C atacenm ......................  @  40
C h lo ro fo rm ..................  60®  68
@1  25 
Chloral H ydO rst 
..]  2501 50
SO®  25
Cbondrns 
Cinchonldine.  P.  A  W  15®  20 
8M@  12
CorSts. 
cent 
75
i rpHsomci 
@ 3 6
@ 2
Greta,  (bbl. 75) 
5
5® 
9®  11
©  
?
Crocus 
35®  40
©   24
Cudbear 
Capri S u lp h ................  5 ©  
6
10®  12
D extrine 
E ther S u lp h ....... 
...  75®  90
Emery,  all  cum bers..  @
 
6
......... 
  ®  
Ergota.Jpo.)  40  .........  80®  35
.............  12®  15
F lake  W hite 
G a lla ............................. 
®   23
G am bler.....  
............   7  ® 8
G elatin,  Cooper 
®   60
.. 
French 
30®  50
G lassware  flint, by  box 80.
Less than box  75.
G lue,  B row n................ 
9®  15
“  W h ite..................  13®  25
G ly o erln a.....   .............  13®  20
©  22
G rana P aradis!............  
H cm nlus 
..............  25®  55
©   75 
Hydr&ug  Chlor  Mite 
©  
“  Cor 
f.5
Ox  Rubrnm   ®   85 
®   95 
U nguentum .  45®  55
G ydrargyrnm ..............  
®   60
Ichthyobolla,  A m ..  ..1  25®1 50
In d ig o ...................  75@1 
00
Iodine,  R esnbl..............3  8003 90
Iodoform ..............  @4 
70
L upnU n...............   @2 
25
L ycopodium ................  60®  65
M a d s .............................  70®  75
Liquor  A rsen  et  Hy-
drarg Io d .................... 
®   27
Llqnor Potasa A rslnltla  10®  12 
M agnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
M annia,  S. F ..............  

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PERKINS  DRUG  CO,

Manufacturing Chemists,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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THE  MICHIGAN  rrjRAJDi5SJVLAJN

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

CREAM  TARTAR.
Strictly  p u re.........................  
80
30
T elfer’s  A bsolute................  
Grocers’................................15©25

CATSUP.

Bine Label  Brand.

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H alf  pint, 25 bottles  ... — 2  75
Pint 
.............4 50
Q uart 1 doz bottles 
.. .8  50 
H alf pint, per  d o z ................ 1  35
P int, 25  bottles  ......................4  50
Q uart, per  doz  ......................3  75

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Trium ph  Brand.

CLOTHES  PIN8.

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

COCOA  SHELLS.

35 lb  bags.........................   ©3
Less  quantity  ................   @3M
Pound  packages........... 6£©7

G reen .

Rio.

Santos.

M exican and G uatam ala.

F a ir.............................................18
G ood.......................................... 19
P rim e.........................................21
G olden.......................................21
Peaberry 
................................ 23
F a ir............................................19
G ood..........................................20
P rim e ........................................ 22
Peaberry  ................................. 23
F a ir............................................ 21
G ood.......................................... 22
F ancy........................................ 24
P rim e........................................ 23
M ille d ...................................... 24
In te rio r.....................................25
Private G row th...................... 27
M an d eh lln g ............................28
Im ita tio n ................................. 25
A rabian .................................... 28

M aracaibo.

Mocha.

Java.

R o aste d .

To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add 44c. per lb. for roast 
lng and 15 per  cent,  for shrink­
age.

P a c k a g e . 

M c L a u g h lin ’»  X X X X  
22 30
Bnnola  ................................  21  80
Lion, 60 or 100 lb.  case  ...  22  30 

E x tra c t.

Valley City  44  gross............. 
75
.. 
Felix 
I  15
H um m ers, foil,  gross......... I  65
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Bulk.
R ed..

CLOTHES  LINES.

Cotton,  40 f t ...........per d o i.  1  25
1  40
160
175
1  9b
85
I   90

5 0 f t ....... 
60 f t ............ 
70 f t ............ 
8 0 ft............  
80 f t ............ 
72 f f ..........  

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4 dot. In case.

N. Y.Cond’ns’d Milk Co’s brands
Gail Borden E agle..............   7  40
C row n....................  
6  25
D aisy..........................................5  75
Cham pion.................................4  50
M agnolia  ................................ 4  25
D im e..........................................3  35

 

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AXLE GREASE.
doz
A urora............. .........  55
60
Castor O il....... ....... 
.........  50
D iam ond.........
....... 
75
FTazer’s ...........
.........................  65
Mica 
..  .............  55
Paragon 

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

B A K IN G   P O W D E R . 

Acme.

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“  1 d oi 

45 
u   id.  itiu . 3  d o s..................
T5 
1  60 
li b . 
1  “  ...........
10
B ulk...............................
A rctic.
55 
14 1b cans 0 <ioz  c a se ..
1  10 
V41b  “  4 doz  “ 
..
2  00 
1 
“  ..
9  00
5  1b 
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Q ueen F lake.
2  70 
3  oz cans 6 doz  “ 
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3 20
“  ..
6  oz  “  4 doz 
9 
“  .............. 4  80
oz “  4doz 
1 
“  .............. 4  00
lb “  2 doz 
5 
“  .............. 9 00
lb “  ld o z 
40
Red Star, M lb  ca n s............  
“ 
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“ 
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............. 
..............1  40
1 1b 
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45 
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“ . . 8 5
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Onr Leader, % .b can s.......  
45
14 lb  c a n s ...... 
•* 
75
1 lb ca n s...........1  50
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B L U IN G . 

E n g lis h ..........................  
30
Bristol.......................................   70
Domestic.........................   60
Gross
Arctic, 4 o*  ovals................3 60
“ 
................  6  75
“  pints,  ro u n d ....  9 00
“  No. 2, sifting b o x ...  2 75
«■  No. 3, 
... 4 00
“  No. 5, 
... 8 00
i  os ball  ....................  4  50
“ 
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6  80

80S 

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BROOMS,

1  90
No. 2 H url 
2 or
No. 1
No. 2 C arpet...................... ...  2 14
No. 1 
Parlor G em ....................... ...  2  60
Common W hisk .............. ... 
85
............... ...  1C
Fancy 
W arehouse........................ ...  2  85

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Stove, No.  1...................... ...  1  25
“  10...................... ...  1  5Í
“  15..................... ...  1  75
Rice Root Scrub, 2  row. .. .  
85
Rioe  Root  Scrub, 8 ro w ....  1  25
Palm etto,  goose............... ...  1  50

C A N D L E S .

Hotel, 40 lb. boxes......... ...  10
........... ...  9
Star,  40 
Paraffine  ......................... ...  10
W lck ln g ........................... ...  24

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Clams.
“ 
2  lb .............
Clam Chowder.
Cove Oysters.

L ittle Neck,  1 lb ............. ....1   20
...1  90
Standard, 8 lb .................. ....2  26
Standard,  l i b ................ .. . .   75
21b................ ....1   35
Lobsters.
Star,  1  lb ......................... ....2  45
2  lb ......................... ....8  50
Picnic, l i b ........................ ....2   00
21b........................ ....2  90
M ackerel.
Standard, 1 lb .................. ....1   10
2  lb ................ ....2   10
M ustard,  2 lb ................
....2   25
Tom ato Sanee.  2 lb ....... ....2   25
Soused, 2  lb ...................... .  ..2  25
Colom bia River, flat — ...1   75
fa lls .... ....1   5<
Alaska, R ed ..................... ....1   30
p in k ...................... ....1   20
....I   9
K inney’s,  fla ts...............

Salmon.
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A m erican  Ms.................. ■ 444©  5
Á *.................. • 644© 7
Im ported  44*.................... ..  ©10
44s.................... ..I5© ie
M ustard  fc*...................... ..  6©7
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B oneless........................... .. 

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Brook  Si lb ..............
F r u its .
Apples.

3 lb. standard 
.......
York State, gallon*—
H am burgh, 
“   —

....2   50

2  75

Pears.

Gages.

Cherries.

AprlCOtS.
1  40 
Live oak ...................
Santa  C ru s....................
1  40 
1  50 
L usk's.............................
1  10
O verland......................
Blackberries.
85
F. A  W ...........................
R ed..................................
@1 20
Pitted H am b u rg h .......
1  40 
W h ite .............................
1  15
E rie ................................
Damsons, Egg Plum s and Green 
1  35 
E rie ................................
1  25
C alifornia......................
Gooseberries.
C om m on.......................
1  25
Peaches.
1  10 
P ie .................................
1  50 
M ax w ell.......................
1  50
Shepard’s ......................
C alifornia.....................   160@1  75
.......................
Monitor 
O xford...........................
D om estic.......................  
1  25
Riverside........................ 
1  75
Pineapples.
Common.........................1  00@1  30
Johnson’s  sliced......... 
2  50
g rated ......... 
2  75
Booth’s sliced..............  @2  5)
©2  75
g rated ............. 
C om m on.......................  
1  10
Raspberries.
95
R ed .................................. 
Black  H am burg........... 
1  40
Erie,  black  ...........  
1  20
Straw berries.
1  25
L aw ren ce...................... 
1  25
H am b u rg h .................... 
E rie................................. 
1  2>.
1  05
T e rra p in ........................... 
W hortleberries.
B lu eb erries.................. 
85
Corned  beef  Libby’s ........... 2  20
Roast beef  A rm our’s ............2  35
Potted  ham , 44 lb ........................ 1 25
“  14 lb ....................  70
tongue,  V4 lb .............135
“  
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95
\  e g e ta b le s.

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Quinces.

M eats.

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Peas.

Com.

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H am burgh  stringless............1  15
F rench sty le ....... 2 00
L im as....................1  -<5
Lima, g reen .................................. 1 15
soaked..........................  70
Lewis Boston B aked............. 1  25
Bay State  B aked..........................1 25
World’s  F air  B aked............. 1  25
Picnic B aked...........................   95
H am b u rg h .................................... 1 15
Livingston  E d e n ...................1  0
P u rity .............................. 
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Honey  D ew ...................................l 25
Morning Glory 
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S oaked....................................  
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early J n n e   .  ...1   50
Cham pion E n g .. 1  40
petit  pole............ l  40
fancy  sifte d . ...1  65
S oaked......................................  gs
H arris stan d a rd ......................  75
VanCamp’s  m arrofat............1  io
early J u n e ........1  30
A rcher’s  Early Blossom ___1  25
F re n c h ........................................... 2 15
French 
B rie ..................................... 
H u b b ard ........................................ 1 15
Succotash.
H am onrg................... 
S oaked...............  
 
Honey  D ew...................................1 40
E rie ................................................. 1 35
H an co ck ..................................   go
E x c elsio r................................   9.
90
E clipse.............................. 
Earn b u rg .................................1  25
G a llo n ..............................^ . . . 3   00

Mushrooms.
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Pum pkin.
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115 lb. kegs......................  

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Grits.

244

W alsh DeRoo  &  Co.’s .......   1  95
B arrels............................. 
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G rits ........................................  344

Hominy.

 

Lima  Beans.

D rie d ...  .......................... 

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M acearont and Vermicelli.
Domestic, 12 lb. box___ 
Im ported.......................1044@11

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3

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Pearl Barley.

S chum acher........................ 
C om m on............................... 

Peas.

Green,  b n ............................. 
Spilt  per l b .................
Rolled  Oats.

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H b b l ............  2  50
...................   4 ro
M onarch,  bbl 
M onarch,  44  b b l.................    2  13
Q uaker,  cases.....................  3  20
Oven  Baked........................... 3  25

Sago.

W heat.

G erm an ................................. 
E ast In d ia ...............................  344

3

C racked..................................   8

F IS H —S alt.

Bloaters.

Cod.

Y arm outh..............................  1  65

Georges cured...................   4
Georges gennine...............6
Georges selected...............  7
Boneless,  bricks.............  6*
Boneless,  strips...................61£©9

H alibut.

Smoked 

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11©12
H erring.
71 
H olland, w hite hoops keg 
9  5
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N orw egian 
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Round, 44 bbl 100 lb s .........  2  ’5
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1 30
15
Scaled.........................  . . . . .  

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M ackerel.

No. 1,  100 lb s.........................11  50
No. 1,40 lb s ........................... 4  9u
No. 1,  10 lb s ..........................  1  30
No. 2,100  lb s........................ in  no
No. 2, 40 lb s..........................   4  30
No. 2.10 lbs  ..........................   1 15
Fam ily, 90 lb s........................
10  lbs ....................

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Sardines.
Trout.

Russian,  kegs........................ 
55
No. 1,  44 bbls., 1001 bs...........5  00
No.  1  bk  bbl, 40  lb s .............. 2  3G
No. 1, kits, 10 lb s................. 
to
No  1,8 lb   k its .................... 
55

Whitefish.

No.  1  fam ily
44  bbls, 100 lb s............ 86  25  3  00
“  .............  2  80  1  50
M  “  40 
78  45
101b.  k its ...................... 
81b. 
........  ...........  
39
65 
H A T C H E S .

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Colum bia  Parlor........... ....81 25
XXX  S ulphur................ .  ..  1 no
D iam ond  M atch  Co.’s Brands.
No. 9  su lp h u r................ ....... 1 66
A nchor p arlo r............... ........1 70
No. 2 h om e..................... ........1 10
E xport  p arlo r................ ........4 00

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Sonde»’.

Oval Bottle, w ith corkscrew. 
Best In the w orld for the money.

R egular 
G rade 
Lemon.

dos
2 oz  ___8  75
4 oz  ....  1  50

R egular 
Vanilla.

doz
2 o z ........81  20
4 o z ......... 2  40

XX Grade 
Lemon.
2 o z........81  50
4 o z .......   3 00

XX G rade 
V anilla.
2 o z........81  75
_____   4 oz....... 3  50
Jennings.

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1  20 
2 os regular p an el.  75 
2  00 
4 os 
...1   50
60s 
...2  00
3  00 
2 00 
No. 3  ta p e r______1  35
2  50
No. 4  ta p e r............1  50
N o rth ro p ’s
oval taper  75 
1  20 
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GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—D upont’s.

2 oz 
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3 oz 
2 oz regular  “
4 oz 
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Lemon.  V anilla.

1 10
1 75
1 20
2 25

K egs................................................3 25
H alf  keg s...................................... 1 90
Q uarter  k egs............................... 1 10
1  lb  c a n s..................................   30
44 lb  ca n s.................................  18

Choke Bore—D upont’B

K egs................................................ 4 25
H alf  kegs......................................2 40
Q uarter k eg s.................. 
I  lb c a n s ..........................  

..  1  35
... 34

Eagle D uck—D upont’s.

.................................. 11  00
..............................5  75
60

Kegs 
H alf  kegs 
Q uarter keg s.................................3 00
1  lb  ca n s................  
Sage........................................... 15
Hops.......................................... 15

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50

Madras,  5 lb. boxes  .........  
S. F ., 2, 3 and 5 lb. boxes.. 

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15  lb. palls  ...................... 
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30  “  “ 
 
P u re...........................................   80
C alabria....................................   26
Sicily.........................................   12
R oot...........................................   10

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Condensed,  2  d o s.. 

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4  do*  ................. 2  25

MINCE  HEAT.

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M ince m eat, 3 doz. in case.  2  7
Pie Prep. 3  doz. 
In ca se___ 3 00

M E A SU R E S .
Tin, per dosen.

1  g allo n ................................   81  75
H alf  g allon.........................   1  40
70
Q u a rt....................................  
P in t........................................ 
45
H alf  p i n t .......   ................. 
40
W ooaen, for vinegar, per doz.
1 g a llo n ....................     ........  7  00
H alf g a llo n .........................   4  75
Q n a rt....................................  3  75
P int 

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M O LA SSES.
Blackstrap.
Sugar house............... 
Cuba Baking
O rd in ary ......... 
Porto R itj.
P rim e ....................................  
Fancy 
N ew  O rleans.
F air 
................................. 
Good  ....................................  
E xtra good...........................  
Choice 
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F a n c y ... 
............................  
H alf -barrels 3c.extrs

14
16
20
80
18
22
27
32
40

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Peerless evaporated.crearn. 5  75

  444
P atras,  b b ls......................... 
Vostizzas, 6 > lb.  cases  ....... 444
25 lb.  boxes  ...........................544
1 lo.  packages 

Scbuit’s Cleaned,

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Medium.

B arrel!, 1,200  c o u n t... 
H alf bbls, 600  c o u n t.. 
Barrels, 2,400  count. 
H alf bbls, 1,200 count 

Small.

©4  < 0
©1  50
6 00
3  50

P IP E 8 .

Clay, No.  216...........................1  70
“  T. D. fu ll co u n t.............  70
Cob, No.  8 .............................. 1  20

P O T A S H .

48 cans In case.

B abbitt’s ..............................   4  00
P enna Salt  Co.’s ................  3 00

R IC K .
Domestic.

Carolina b e a d ........................... 5)4
No. 1............................5
No. 2 .........................   4)4
B roken....................................   3)4

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Im ported.

Jap an , No. 1................. 
J a v a ......................... 
P a tn a ........................................  4)4

5)4
No. 2 ..............................5
5

SPIC K S .

W hole Sifted.

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A llspice....................................  6)4
Cassia, China In m ats.........  9>4

P ure G round In B ulk.

B atavia In b u n d ___15
Saigon In ro lls..........32
Cloves,  A m boyna...................22
Z anzibar.....................1154
Mace  B atavia.........................7u
Nutmegs, fan cy .....................65
“  No.  1.......................... 80
"   No.  2.......................... 54
Pepper, Singapore, bla ck — 10 
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sh o t............................ 16
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A llspice................................... 15
Cassia,  B atavia.....................18
and  Saigon.25
s a lg o n .......................35
Cloves,  A m boyna..................22
Z anzibar....................18
d in g er, A frican .....................16
C ochin.....................  20
J a m a ic a ................... 22
M ace  B atavia.........................65
M ustard,  Bng. and Trieste. .22
T rieste .....................25
N utmegs, No. 2 .....................75
Pepper, Singapore, b la c k — 16
w h ite........24
C ayenne.................... 20
Sage...........................................20

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A llsp ice.........................   84
1  55 
C innam on.............  . . . .   84
1  55
Cloves.............................  84
G inger,  J a m a ic a .......   84  1 55
A frican .............  84  1 55
1  55 
M ustard.........................   84
1  55
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75lb  cases.. ....  IK
....  1*
Lump, bbls 
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.  1)4
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1451b  keg s...........

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A n is e .............................
Canary, Smyrna.  .......
C a ra w a y .......................
Cardamon, M alabar...
Hemp,  R ussian ...........
M ixed  B ird  ................
M ustard,  w h ite ...........
P oppy.............................
R a p e ..............................
C uttle  b o n e................
S T A R C H .

Corn.

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4
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4
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9
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....................... ....  5*
40-lb 
Gloss.
. . . .   5*4
1-lb packages....................
---- 634
8-lb 
....................
.................... ....  534
6-lb 
40 and SO lb. b oxes......... ....  3 *
B arrels............................... ....  3 *
Scotch, In  bladders...............37
M accaboy  In Jars.................. 35
French Rappee, In Ja rs   ....43 

SNUFF.

SO D A ,

Boxes  — .................................51*
Kegs, English 
...................4 £

SA L T.

D iam ond  Crystal.

Cases, 243  lb. boxes.........3  1  60
Barrels, 320  lb s..................  2  50
“ 
1152)4lb b ag s....  4  00
“ 
lb  “ 
. . . .   3 75
tO 5 
“ 
3010  lb   “ 
....  3  50
61
“  20141b bags  ...............  3 50
“  280 lb  b b ls .............  2  50
“  2241b 
2 25

B utter, 56 lb  bags..............  

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W orcester.
115 214-lb sacks........................... 34 TO
3
60 5-lb 
“ 
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30 10 lb 
3  30
24  14 lb.  “ 
3201b.  b b l...............................2  50
8 lb  sack s............................. 3214
60

linen ack s.................. 
Common G rades.

100 3-lb. sack s..............................12 10
60 5-lb 
28 10-lb.  sacks..............................1 75

1  90

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Higgins.

56 lb. dairy In drill  b ag s... 
281b. 
.. 
56 lb. dairy In linen sacks.. 
56 lb. dairy in  linen  sacks 
56  lb.  sack s...........................  
S a g in a w ............................... 
M an iste e.............................. 

Common Fine.

Soiar Rock.

30
16
75
75 
22
90
90

T H E 2  M IC H ÏO A ^ r

S A L E R A T U S.

Packed 60 lbs. in box.

C hurch’s  ................................330
DeLand’s ................................3  15
D w ight’s ................................ 3 30
Taylor’s 
...............................3 00

S E E L Y 'S   E X T R A C T S . 

Lemon.
1 oz.  F.  M.  3  90 doz.  310  20 gro
2  “ N. S.  1  20  “ 
12  60  “
2  “ F. M.  1  40  “  
14  40  “
V anilla.
1 oz. F.  M.  1  50 doz. 
N  S  2 00  “ 
2 
F.  M. 2 
2  “  
Rococo—Second  G rade. 
Lemon.
V anilla.

2 oz.............. 75 doz.........   8 00  “

16 20 gro
21  60  “

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

50 “ 25 5) •*

S O A P .

L a u n d ry .

G.  R. Soap  W orks Brands. 

Concordia,  100 % lb. b a rs .. .3  50
5  box  lots  ......... 3  35
10 box lo ts..............3 30
2r  box lots 
.3 20
........................... 2  25

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Best G erman Fam ily.

60 1-lb  bars 
5 box lo ts.................................... ^ 15
25box  lo ts................................... •- 00
A llen B. W rlslev’s Brand
Old Country,  80  1-lb.............3  20
Good Cheer, 601 lb ......................3 90
W hite Borax, 100  M l b ....... 3 65

Proctor & Gamble.

Concord.................................... 3  45
Ivory, 10  o z...........................
Lenox 
................................. 
M ottled  G erm an.................... 3  la
Tow n T a lk ....................................3 ®

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D ingm an Brands.

Single  box 
........................I   ®
5  box lots, delivered...........g  ga
10 box lots, deliv ered .........  3  75

ja s . S. K irk & Co.’s  Brands. 

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p la in ...  2  27
N.  K.  F airbank & Co.’s Brands.
Santa Claus  .........................  3  90
B rjw n,60 b a rs........................2  }0
80  b a r s ......................3  10

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A cm e............................  
3 65
Cotton O il.................................6  00
M arseilles.................................4  00
M aster 
4 00
Thom pson & ChuteCo.’s Brands

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S ilv e r......................................  3  65
M o n o ....................................... 3  30
Savon Im proved................... 2  50
S u n flo w er.............................. 2  80
G olden  .................................. 325
Econom ical  ......................... 2  25

S c o u rin g .

S a p o lio , kitchen, 3  d o z ...  2 40 
hand, 3 doz............ 2 40

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Below  are  given..New   York 
prices on sugars,  to  w hich  the 
w holesale  dealer  adds  the  lo­
cal freight  from   New  York  to 
your  shipping  point,  giving 
you  credit  on  the  invoice  for 
the  am ount  of  freight  buyer 
pays from the m arket  in w hich 
he  purchases  to  his  shipping 
point, including 20  pounds  for 
the w eight of the.barrel.
D om ino...................................$4  69
Cut  L oaf..................................  4 69
....................................  4  jl
Cubes 
Powdered 
.............................4 31
XXXX  P ow dered.................   4 5i
G ranulated 
......................  3  87
F ine G ranulated ...................   3 87
E x tra Fine G ran u lated ...  4  no
M ould  A  ...............................4  31
D iam ond Confec.  A ............ 3  94
Confec.  S tandard  A ............3 87
No.  1  ...................................  3 75
No.  2  .................................... 3  75
No.  3 .......................................  3  75
No.  4...............................  ...  3  75
No.  5.......................................   3 t9
No.  6.......................................3 62
No.  7....................................... 3  56
No.  8 .......................................3  tO
No.  9 .......................................3  44
No.  1 0 ...................................   3 37
NO.  11.......................................3 31
No.  12....................................  3  25
No.  13.......................................  3  i2
No.  14.................................. 
3 06

B arrels.................. ...................17
H alf bbls..................................19

SY R U PS.

Corn.

Pure Cane.

F a ir ...........................................   17
G ood .........................................   20
Choice.......................................   25

T A B L E   SAU CES.

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Lea & P errin's, la r g e ......... 4  75
sm all.........   2 75
H alford, la r g e .......................3  75
sm all.......................2  25
Salad D ressing, la r g e ....... 4 55
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BASKET  FIRED.

j a p a n —Regular.

TEAS.
@17
F a ir ..............................
@20
G o o d .............................
Choice........................... 24 @26
C hoicest....................... .32 @34
D u s t.............................. .10 @12
SUN CUBED.
@17
F a i r ..............................
@20
G o o d .............................
Choice........................... .24 @26
C hoicest....................... .32 @34
D u st................................ 10 @12
F a ir .............................. ..18 @20
@25
Choice............................
@35
Choicest........................
@40
E xtra choice, w ire leaf
GUNPOWDBB.
Common to  fa ll............25 @35
E xtra flue to finest — 50 @65
Choicest fa n c y ............ 75 @85
@26
Common to  fa ir .......... 23 @30
Common to  fa ir.......... 23 @26
Superior to fine............ 30 @35
Common to  fa ir........... 18 @26
Superior to  fine........... 30 @40

OOLONG.
IMPERIAL.

fOCNG HYSON.

EN G LISH   B R E A K FA ST.

F a ir ..................................18  @22
Choice......................  
  24  ©28
B e s t..................................40  @50

TO BA CCO S.

F lu e  C u t.

,, 
 

P.  Lorillard & Co.’s Brands.
Sweet R usset................30  @32
30
T iger............................... 
D.  Scotten & Co’s Brands.
H iaw ath a...................... 
®o
C u b a...............................
R o ck et........................... 
30
Spaulding & M errick’s  Brands.
S terlin g ........................  
30
P rivate Brands.
B azoo.............................
Can  Can.........................   @g7
N ellie  B ly.................... 24  @25
Uncle Ben.  ..................24  @25
M cG lnty........................ 
27
54 bbls...........  
25
C olum bia.........................  
Colum bia,  d r u m s ......... 
Bang  U p .........................
Bang up,  drum s  ........... 

24
23
**

“ 

P lu g .

Sorg’s Brands.

F inzer’s Brands.

Lorillard’s Brands. 

S p earh ea d ....................
J o k e r .............................
Nobby T w ist....................
Scotten’s Brands.
Kylo................................
H iaw atha.......................
Valley C ity ..................
Old  H onesty................
Jolly T a r.......................
Climax  (8  oz., 41c) —
Green T u rtle ................
Three  Black C row s...
Something G ood.........
Out of  S ight................
W ilson  <s M cCaulay’s Brands.
Gold  Rope.......................... 
Happy T ho u g h t........... 
37
M essm ate...........................  
N o T a x ................................  
Let  G o................................. 

J . G.  B utler’s;Brands.

S m o k in g .

Catlin’s  Brands.

K lin  d rie d ............................17@18
G olden  Show er...................... 19
H untress 
................................26
M eerschaum 
.................29@30
A m erican Eagle Co.’s Brands.
M yrtle  N avy............................40
Stork  ......................................  30
G erm an .................................... 15
F r o g ..........................................32
Jav a,  Ms fo il.....................— 32
Banner Tobacco Co.'s Brands.
B an n er............   ...................... 16
B anner C avendish.................36
Gold Cut 
............................... 30

Scotten’s Brands.

W a rp a th ...................................14
Honey  Dew..............................26
Gold  Block.................- ..........30
F. F. Adams Tobacco Co.’s 
P eerless.................................... 26
Old  T om ...................................18
S tandard...................................22
Globe Tobacco Co.’s Brands.
H andm ade............................... 40

Brands.

L eidersdorfs Brands.

Rob  Roy...................................26
U ncle  Sam........................28@32
Red Clover............................... 32

Spaulding & M errick.

Tom and J e rry ........................25
Traveler  C avendish.............38
Buck H orn...............................30
Plow  Boy.........   ............. 30@32
Corn  Cake  ............................. 16

40 g r.. 
50 gr.

VINEGAR.

II for barrel.

@8
@9

WET  MUSTARD.
B ulk, per g a l ...................... 
30
Beer m ug, 2 doz In case...  1 75

YEAST.
M agic........................................1  00
...............................1  00
W arner’s 
Yeast F o im   ...........................1  00
D iam ond................... 
75
Royal..............................  90

 

 

43
32
31
27

WOODENWARE.

Tubs, No. 1..............................  5 75
“  No. 2...............................4  75
“  No. 3..............................  4 00
1  25
Palls, No. 1, two-hoop.. 
“  No. 1,  three-hoop  ...  1  35
Bowls, 11 In ch .......................
........................ 
“ 
90
Sf‘ 
.........................1  25
“ 
........................   1  80
HIDES  PELTS  and  FURS
Perkins  &  Hess  pay  as  fol-

13  “ 
15  “ 
17  “ 

PUBS.

lows:
30 @  100
M ink....................
30 @ 
70
Coon 
..................
75 @  1  -5
Skunk..................
08 @ 
11
Rat,  w in te r.......
08
03 @ 
Rat, fall..............
Red  F o x __ — 1  CO @  1  40
40 @ 
6)
Gray  F o x .,.........
Cross F ox........... 3  00 @  a  0 1
50 46  1  00
Badger...............
7a
fO @ 
Cat, w ild.............
10 @ 
25
Cat,  h o u se.........
F is h e r ................ 5  00 @  6  00
L ynx.................... 1  0** @  2  50
M artin, dark — 2 00 ©   3  00
M artin, pale, yel 1  00 46  1  50
O tter.................... 5  00 @ 8   0)
W olf  ................... 1  00 @ 2 0 0
B eaver................ 3 00 @  7  00
Bear.................... 15  00 @25  00
25
Opossum.............
2o
D eer Skin, d ry ..
12)
D eer Skin, green
H 1DE8.
G reen 
.......................
P art  C ured................
F ull 
“ 
................
5 @  7
D ry..............................
..  3 @  4
Kips, green  ..............
@  6
.......
Calfskins,  g reen -----..  R @  6
Deacon sk in s............. ..10 @25

10 @ 
10 @ 
05 @ 

c u re d ....... 

“ 

“ 

cared — ..  7 @  8)4

@  4)4
@  3)4

5 @  20
..25 @  50
.12 @15
8 @12

No. 2 hides X  off.
PELTS.
Shearlings..................
Lambs 
.....................
WOOL.
W ash ed ..................
U n w a sh e d ................
T a llo w ...........................  3 @  3K
1 @  2
Grease  butter  ..........
S w itch es.......................   1M@  2
G inseng 
.  ..................2  00@2 25
GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFS 

MISCELLANEOUS.

W H EA T.

1 65

48
48

M EAL.

No. 1 W hite (58 lb. test) 
No. 2 Red  (60 lb. test) 
B olted....................................  1  40
G ranulated.........................  
FL O U R   IN   SACKS.
•P aten ts....................... .. 
1  95
•S tandards...........................   1  45
Bakers’....................................   1 *5
•G rah am ..  ..........................  1  30
Rye....................................... -  140
•Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
c o u n t
F lour in  bbls., 25c per bbl. ad ­
ditional.
B ran .............. 
114  59
S creenings...................................13 00
M iddlings.........   .......   . . . .   15 50
No.  1  F e e d .................................  18 00
Coarse m e a l............................   17 50
Car  lo ts....................................44M
Less than  car  lo ts.........—  46
Car  lo ts....................................32)4
Less than car lots  ..............   36
No. 1 Tim othy, car lo ts—   9  50 
No. 1 
...  11  00

H A T.
ton lots 

MILLS T U F F S .

CORN.

OATS.

“ 

lb .. 
10

FRESH  FISH

FISH  AND  OYSTERS.
W hlteflsa 
....................  @10
T rout 
...........................  @ 9
Black B ass......... 
15
H alibut, c h u n k s____ _  @14
H alibut, strip s.............  @11
Ciscoes or H erring —   @ 6
B luefish.........................   @11
F resh lobster, per 
20
C od...................... 
No. 1 P ickerel..............   @ 8
P ik e ................................   @  8
Smoked W h ite............   @ 8
Red  Snappers — . 
Colum bia  River  Sal­
mon  ............................. 
13)4
M ackerel........................  18@25
1  50
Scallops...............  —  
1  26
Shrim ps  ....................... 
C la m s............................. 
1  36
SHELL SOOD8.
Oysters, per  100...........1  25@l  50
7*@1 00
Clam* 

13

O TSTER S— IN  CANS.

27
20
17

O YSTER»— IN   B U L K .

F. J . D euenthaler’s Brands.
Fairnttveii  Uuunts —  
33
F . J. D.  Selects........... 
30
S ele cts................................. 
F.^T. D., S tandards  ... 
25
A nchors............................... 
S tandards............ 
22
F a v o rite .............................. 
Standards  per gal.............. 1  "¡0
A nchor standards per gal 1  50
Counts, per g a l........................2  40
Selects  “  
.......................  1 80
E x tra  Selects,  per gal.........1  65
New  York  C ounts.................... 35
E x tra  selects..................  
30
.  ....................27
Selects 
IX L -ta n d ard s...........................25
S tandards.........................  
22
M e d iu m s..................................... -**
Standards, per  g a l............... 1  0
IXL Standards,  per  g a l......1  30
E x tra   Selects, per gal  ___  1  90
Selects, per gal...................... 1  85

Oscar A llyn’s Brands.

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4 30

1 7

CROCKERY  AND  GLASSWARE 

LAMP  BURNERS.

 

 

 

 

l a m p   c h i k n b t s .—6  doz. In box.

No. 0 S u n ..................................................................   40
No. 1  “ 
..................................................................   45
No. 2  “  ...................................................................  65
T ubular  .................  
so
Security.  No. 1........................................................  60
Security,  No. 2........................................................  86
N utm eg.....................................................................  50
A rctic......................................................................... 1  25
Per box.
No. 0 Sun 
___   i  75
No. 1  “ 
.......1  88
No. 2  “
....... 2 70
No. 0 Sun, crim p top, w rapped and labeled... 2  10 
No. 1  “ 
...2   25
.  .3  25
No. 2  “ 
No. 0 Sun, crim p  top, w rapped and labeled. 
2  60 
No. 1  “ 
..
.2  80 
No. 2  “ 
.3  80

F irst qnalltv
“ 
“ 
XXX Flint.
“ 
“ 

*' 
“ 

“ 
• 

‘ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
*•

Pearl top.
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 
La Bastle.

Fire Proof—Plain Top.
“ 

No. 1 Sun, w rapped and  labeled....................... 3  70
......................  4  70
“ 
No. 2  “ 
....................4  8$
No. 2 Hinge,  “ 
No.  1, Sun,  plain  b u lb ...............................................3 40
......................................... 4  40
No. 2, 
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb,  per doz...........................1  25
No. 2  “ 
...........................150
No. 1 crim p, per doz  ............................................1  35
............................................ 1  80
No. 3 
“ 
No  11, ime  (65c d o z )...................................................3 40
No. 2. lime  (  0c d o z )...................................................3 70
 
No. 2, flint  (80c doz).................................. 
No.2, lim e (70c d o z ) ....................... .....................4  10
No.  2 flint  (80c d o z ).............................................4  40
Doz.
Ju n io r, R o c h e ste r.................................................  80
15
N u tm eg ....... 
Illum inator B ases..................................................1  00
Barrel lots, 5 doz  ...................................................  90
7 in. Porcelain Shades.......................................... 1  00
Case lots,  12 doz......................................................  go

M iscellaneous.

Rochester.

Electric.

 

 

 

M ammoth Chim neys for Store  Lamps.

o n .  CAES.

Doz. 
No.  3  Rochester,  lim e  ..........  1  50 
No.  3  Rochester, flint. 
. .1  75 
No.  3  Pearl top or Jew el gl’s .l  85 
No.  2  Giobe lncandes. lime.. .1  75 
No.  2  Giobe lncandes. flint.. .2  00 
No.  2  Pearl glass........................2  10 

Box
4  20
4  80
5  25
5  10
5  85
6 00
Doz
1  gal  tin cans w ith sp o u t................................   1  oo
1  gai  galv iron, w ith spout...................................... 2 00
2 gal  galv Iron w ith spout  ................................3  25
3  gal  galv iron w ith  spout......................................  4 50
5 gal  McNutt, w ith sp o u t.......................................   6 00
5 gal  E ureka, w ith spout..........................................6 50
5  gal  E ureka w ith faucet........................................  7 00
5  gal  galv iron  A  &  W 
5  gal  Tilting  Cans,  M onarch.................................10 00
5 gai  galv iron N acefas............................................. 9 5o

.............................  7  50

Pum p Cans.

3  gal  Home R ule........................................................10 50
12  00
5  gal  Home Rnle................................. 
3  gal  G oodenough.........................  
12  00
5  gal  G oodenough  ..............................................13  50
5 gal  P irate  K ing 
..............................................10  50

 

“ 
“ 
“ 

2  “ 
“ 

LANTERN  GLOBES.
No. 0,  Tubular,  cases 1  doz. each.....................  45
“ 
No. 0, 
“ 
45
40
No. 0, 
bbls 5 
“ 
bull’s eye, cases 1 doz ea c h .l  00
No. Ö, 
LAMP WICKS.
.  20 
.  28 
.  38 
.  65 
.  75

No. 0,  per  gross...........................................
No. 1, 
.............................................
No  2, 
......................................
.............................................
No. 3, 
M ammoth,  per d oz......................................

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“ 
“ 

JELLY  TUMBLERS—Tin Top.
24  “ 
6  “ 
18  “ 

K Pints,  6 doz in box,  per box  (box 00)
“ bbl,  ■*  doz (bbl  35)
M 
M 
“ box,  “ box (box 00)
)4 
*' bbl,  “  doz  (bbl 35)
STONEWARE—AKRON.
B utter Crocks,  1  to 6 g a l...........................
)4 gal. per  doz..................
Jugs,  % gal., per doz..................................
1 to 4 gal., per g a l...............................
Milk P ans, *  gal., per  d o z.....................
......................
STONEWARE— BLACK GLAZED.

1  “ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

64 
.  23 
1  80 
26

06
60
70
07
60
72

6)4
B utter Crocks, 1  and 2 g a l............................. 
Milk Pans,  )4 gal.  per  d oz...............................  65
78

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

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OILS.

The Standard Oil Co  quotes as follow s:

B A R R E L S.
 
 

 

 

 

E ocene...................... 
9
XXX W.  W.  Mich.  H eadlight................... 
7J4
@ 7
N aptha...... 
Stove G asoline.............................................  @  8
t yU nder.........................................................  @36
E ngine........................................................... 13  @21
Black, zero  te st........................................... 
B lack,  15 cold t e s t ....................................  

12
10

 

FROM TANK.WAGON.

E ocene.................... 
7)4
........................ 
5*4
XXX  W.  W.  Mich.  H eadlight  ................ 
Scofield, Shurm er  &  Teaele  quote  as  follow s;

BARRELS.

P alacine................................................................... 10
Daisy W hite...................... ........................... 
..  9
Red Cross,  W W  H eadlight................................   7)4
N aptha  ..... ........................................................... 
7
Stove G a so lin e ........... 
Palacine.................. 
Red Cross W W H ead lig h t........................... 

.................................... 8
..................... — ........... 8

FROM TANK WAGON,

5)4

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,
per cents,  this time really  for redeeming 
the legal tenders,  but,  instead of comply­
ing with the letter of the  law  and  mak­
ing them run thirty years to maturity, he 
proposes to shorten  the  term  to  twelve 
years and a half.

WANTED.

Beans,  Potatoes,  Onions.
If  you  have  any  to  offer write  us stating quantity and lowest price.  Send us 
sample of beans you have to offer,  car lots  or less.
M O SELEY   BROS.
■  HR IK id 111 t,

General  Warehousemen  and  Transfer  Agents.

26  38.  30  and  32  Ottawa  St.,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

D ealers In

Carriages,  Wagons,  Agricultural  Implements  and  Binder  Twine. 

General Office. S3 South  Division  Street, G rand  Rapids.

COLD  and  DRY  STORAGE.

G eneral Office, Telephone 945. 
W arehouse, Telephone 954.

JS. J  BROOKS, Man’s

The lack of  concentration upon  a  sin­
gle meritorious measure,  and  the  coup­
ling  with  it of others  not only unimpor­
tant but detrimental,  which  is  displayed 
in  the  President’s message,  also reflects 
the divergence that  reigns  in  regard  to 
financial  measures  all over the country. 
In New  York  the  financiers  have  gone 
mad  with  the  idea  that  not  only  must 
gold payments  be  maintained,  but  that 
the legal  tenders  must  be  cancelled  by 
the sale of interest-bearing bonds and the 
whole business  of  issuing  paper  money 
turned  over  to  the  banks.  Many,  like 
the President,  would  be  content  if  the 
currency thus to be issued by  the  banks 
were based upon  Government bonds,  but 
a large number  clamor for  the  abolition 
of even this safeguard,  and  would  leave 
the bank  notes  unsecured,  except  by  a 
small special deposit of  national  money, 
and make them dependent for the rest of 
their value upon naked bank credit.  This 
is a beautiful scheme for increasing bank 
profits, and in the East it  might  not  oc­
casion  loss  to the public,  but we cannot 
have one law for  the  East  and  another 
for the West and the South.  All sections 
must be treated alike, and  no  sane  man 
who  will  calmly  consider  the  probable 
conseq uences of  allowing  the 3,750 scat­
tered national banks to  control  the  vol­
ume  of  the  currency  and to assume the 
exclusive  responsibility of  providing for 
its redemption in gold can possibly  favor 
the proposition.  Still less can  he  favor 
the further extension of  the  business  to 
the  3,000  State banks  now existing, and 
to the thousand more  that  would  be  or­
ganized  under the stimulus of prospective 
profits, especially if  the  requirement  of 
Government  bonds  as  security  be  dis­
pensed with and the issue of currency be 
permitted upon  bank credit in major part 
or entirely.
J 'HBY  ALL  SAY

-18
The Boot of the Currency Trouble.
Nobody familiar with  the  predominat­
ing sentiment of both Houses of Congress 
can have been  disappointed  because  the 
President’s  message  failed of leading to 
legislation  for the relief of the Treasury. 
Had  the  President  confined  himself  to 
asking for nothing but  plain  and  indis­
putable  authority  to do what he has un­
dertaken to do under the cover of the old 
Resumption act—namely,  sell  bonds  for 
gold  with  which  to  redeem  the  legal 
tenders—he  might  perhaps  have  suc­
ceeded.  But,  having  loaded  down  this 
request with suggestions  for  the  retire­
ment  and  cancellation  of  the redeemed 
notes,  for the creation of additional  bank 
currency,  and  for  an  increased  use  of 
silver  certificates  as  money,  he  aroused 
opposition in so many  different  quarters 
that it was impossible  for  him  to  over­
come it.

in  which 

The  embarrassment 

the 
Treasury finds itself  conspicuously dem­
onstrates the confusion  that  prevails  in 
our currency laws and  the  necessity  for 
their revision  and  thorough  reconstruc­
tion.  The  root  of  the  trouble  is  that 
Congress  has  never  been  even  approx­
imately  united in  its  views  of  what  the 
currency ought to be,  and that  every act 
passed in relation to it  has  been  the  re­
sult of compromise and  patchwork.  The 
Resumption act itself  was purposely am­
biguous as to the disposition  intended to 
be made  by  it  of  the legal tenders then 
outstanding.  According  to  the  obvious 
meaning of its  language,  they  were  not 
only to be redeemed,  but cancelled.  This 
was  the  view  which  Secretary Bristow 
took of the matter,  but when the act was 
under debate in the  Senate  a  motion  to 
make  cancellation  compulsory  beyond 
dispute  was  voted  down,  Senator Sher­
man arguing that the point had better be 
left  open  until  the  act went  into effect. 
When,  in  1878,  a  few  millions  of  the 
notes had been cancelled upon the theory 
that to  “redeem”  meant  to  extinguish, 
Congress hastily passed,  without debate, 
an act  forbidding  a  continuance  of  the 
process,  and ordered the notes thereafter 
redeemed to be reissued.  Then came the 
Bland-Allison Silver Coinage  act,  whicn, 
purporting to be an  act  restoring  silver 
to use  as a  money  metal,  really  did  no 
more than create a metallic  legal  tender 
currency,  depending  for  its value prin­
cipally upon  its legal  tender quality  and 
the  limited  volume  of  its  issue.  Next 
came  the  famous  Sherman  act  of  1890, 
which,  for the sake of  raising  the  price 
of silver, has  saddled  the  country  with 
some thousands of tons of the metal  pur­
chased with  $150,000,000  of  promises  to 
pay either gold or silver at the discretion 
of the Government,  and which also were 
made  legal  tenders.  The  purchasing 
clause of this act again  was  repealed  in 
1893,  but  nothing has  been done toward 
paying  off  the  notes  previously  issued 
under it, nor even toward replacing them 
with notes uniform in character with the 
old legal tenders.  Now,  the  President, 
after having issued  $100,000,000  of 5 per 
cents,nominally for redemption purposes, 
but really to  fill  a  gap  in  the  national 
revenues,  is about to issue $100,000,000 4

California

Navel

Oranges.

All Sizes.  Low est Prices.

T h e   P u t n a m   C a n d y  Co.

« It's  a s   g o o d   a s   S a p o lio ”  w h e n   t h e y   t r y  
to  sell  y o u  
t h e ir   e x p e r im e n ts .  Y o u r  
o w n   g o o d   se n se   w ill  tell  y o u   t h a t   th e y  
a r e   o n l y   t r y i n g   to  get  y o u   to  a id   t h e ir  
n e w   a rticle.

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

Is 
it  n o t  th e   p u b l i c ?   T h e   m a n u f a c t u r e r s  
b y   c o n s ta n t   a n d  
ju d ic io u s   a d v e r t 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 re 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!

t^-WRITE  FOR  NET  PRICE LIST  BEFORE  THEY  ARE  ALL  GONE

Just  the  th in g   for
-  -  A  LEADER.

A d d r e s s   G .  R. MA.YHBW,  Grand Rapids, Mich.

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

1 9

Aside, too,  from its intrinsic  demerits, 
the scheme of  converting  the  legal  ten­
ders  into  interest-bearing  bonds,  even 
though those Wnds  should  not  be  used 
as a basis  of  bank  circulation,  is,  as  1 
have several times lately pointed out, ex­
tremely offensive to the  majority  of  our 
citizens  outside  of  bank  stockholders 
and bank officers,  especially at  the West 
and Southwest. 
It is impossible to make 
them see any  advantage  in  paying  for­
ever  interest  on  $500,000,000  which the 
nation now gets for nothing, and in turn­
ing over that interest to the banks.  The 
more  the  legal  tenders  are  denounced, 
the more firmly do their  friends cling  to 
them,  and the reasoning  by  which  it  is 
sought  to  prove  that  they  have  been 
more costly to the country than the same 
amount of interest-bearing  bonds  would 
have  been is  so palpably sophistical and 
unfair that it works  in  their  favor.  At 
the  time  they  were  issued they took the 
place of an equal  amount of  6  per  cent, 
gold  interest bonds,  for  which  we  could 
not  have  obtaintd 50  cents on the dollar 
in  gold.  Computing  the  interest  that 
would  have  been  paid  on  these bonds, 
and the cost of redeeming them at par in 
gold,  it can  easily  be  shown  that  they 
would  have  been  even  more  expensive 
than the greenbacks have been.  Besides, 
it is not now a question of the past.  We 
are dealing with the  future and  with the 
proposition  to  pay  $15,000,000  a  year 
without any necessity for it.

On the other hand,  many  of our  West­
ern and Southwestern  fellow citizens are 
making  upon  Congress  demands  which 
no honest  man  can  approve.  They  are 
suffering  from  the  low  prices  of  their 
great agricultural staples,  and they want 
to have those prices increased  by  dimin­
ishing the purchasing power  of  the  cur­
rency.  Some of them  seek to do this  by 
admitting silver  to  free  coinage  at  the 
ratio  of  16  to  1,  and  thus substituting 
for the present gold dollar a silver dollar 
worth only half as much.  By this means 
5-ceut cotton  would  become  10-cent  cot­
ton and 50-cent wheat $1  wheat.  Others 
clamor  for  a  dilution  of the paper cur­
rency,  which would  have a similar effect 
in raising prices,  and,  curiously enough, 
they agree with  the  Eastern  bankers  in 
favoring  an  unlimited  issue  of  bank 
notes, so  elastic  in  volume  that  prices 
shall  never  fall,  no  matter  how  great 
may be the quantity  of  commodities  of­
fered  for  sale.  A  suspension  of  gold 
payments  and  a  consequent  currency 
premium  on  gold  would  please  both 
them and the silver men.  Every  cent of 
increase in the rate of  foreign  exchange 
produced by a gold premium would cause 
a corresponding rise  here in the price  of 
exportable products,  and  would thus  af­
ford their producers  a measure of relief. 
Hence, both they and the silver men view 
with complacency the withdrawal of gold 
from  the Treasury,  and  would rather as­
sist it than prevent it.

So long as  this  conflict  of  views  and 
aims continues it is in  vain to expect any 
permanent financial system to be adopted 
by the nation.  We have  to  settle,  first, 
whether gold shall be  the  sole  standard 
of value, or whether we shall try and  add 
silver to it,  with the probability amount­
ing to certainty that if we  do, silver will 
drive out gold and  remain  master of  the 
field.  Bimetallism  is  a  delusion  and  a 
snare. 
It is  only  silver  monometallism 
in disguise,  and  that  its  advocates  are 
secretly  conscious  that  it is  so  appears 
from  their  constant  clamoi  for  it  as  a

means of raising the  prices  of  commod- j 
ities.  No legislation can  lower the com-1 
mercial value of  gold  nor  raise  that  of 
silver,  and  if  silver  is once  adopted as 
the standard for  measuring  prices,  they 
will surely adapt themselves to it.  Next, 
after deciding between  gold  and  silver, 
we must choose whether  our  paper  cur­
rency shall  be issued by the  Government 
or by  banks, and if by  banks  whether  it 
shall  be  secured  by Government bonds, 
by a safety fund, or by the assess of each 
bank  alone.

Meanwhile,  the  turmoil  and  contro­
versy in  which we  are  engaged  and  the 
alarms to which we are from time to time 
subjected, as we are at  present,  are hav­
ing  an  educational  effect  which,  though 
costly,  is beneficial.  For the moment we 
seem to have escaped the  catastrophe  of 
a  suspension  of  gold  payments,  and, 
since any legal  tender  notes  which  may 
be hereafter redeemed will not be needed 
to pay current expenses,  they  can  be re­
tained in the Treasury.  Their retention, 
by curtailing the bank reserves, will con­
tract credits as well as the currency,  and 
will thus tend to raise  the rate  of  inter­
est here and stop the outflow of gold.  In 
fact,  the President could  long  ago  have 
produced  this  result  merely  by issuing 
not only bonds  enough  to  provide  both 
for redemption and for current expenses, 
but enough to lock  up so  great  a  quan­
tity of  legal  tenders  as  to  contract  the 
volume of currency. 
If,  for  example,  a 
year  ago  he  had  sold  $200,000,000  of 
bonds instead of  $100,000,000,  he  would 
have  been  able  practically  to  cancel, 
say, $150,000,000 of  legal  tenders. 
It  is 
true that the act of 1878  requires  him  to 
reissue them,  but it does not require  him 
to throw them away,  and  so  long  as  he 
had  enough  other money to meet appro­
priations he need not pay them out.

The rate of interest  talked  of  for  the 
forthcoming loan  is not  flattering to  our 
national  pride.  British  consols are  sell­
ing upon  a 2J«i  per  cent,  basis,  and  the 
French  3  per  cents  are  at  a  premium. 
For  us  to  have  to  give  3J£  or 3M per 
cent,  for  a  trifling  loan  of  $100,000,000 
indicates a lack of  confidence, not in our 
ability to repay  the  money,  but  in  our 
will  to  do  it. 
Indeed,  unless Congress 
authorizes the bonds to be made express­
ly payable in  “gold”  qnd  not  merely  in 
“coin,” I do not see how any  financier of 
repute can safely recommend them to his 
European customers.  The  fight for free 
silver coinage is by no  means yet ended, 
and if at some future day  the purchasers 
of  bonds  payable  in  “coin”  should  get 
back silver for the gold  they have given, 
they will not have  very  friendly feelings 
for the men  who have led them into mak­
ing the investment.

Ma tth ew   Ma r sh a ll.

W hose  Teeth?

A  well-known  dentist  tried  hard  to 
collect a bill of a shoe seller  who  didn’t 
keep  his stock up,  and  after  many  in­
effectual efforts said to the  debtor:
“ I do not intend to send you any  more 
bills,  and  1 don’t intend to sue  you;  but 
there  is  one  thing  1  want  to  tell  you. 
Every time you cut off  a  pieee  of  beef­
steak,  and pass it to  your  wife,  I  want 
you to remember she is  not  masticating 
that  with her teeth, nor with your teeth, 
but with my  teeth.”
In  two  or  three days  he  received  a 
check.  The  motion  of  those  doubly 
alse teeth in his  wife’s  mouth  was  too 
much for the debtor.

No  drugs,  a  healthy  smoke,  Signal 

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CURRENT  COMMENT.

6 .  R.  Pearsons,  a  capitalist  of Fort 
Dodge, Iowa,  several  years  ago  drained 
Owl lake,  in Humboldt  county.  He  ob­
tained a title  to  the  ground,  and,  after 
spending a good deal of money,  managed 
to make tillable ground of  the bed of the 
lake,  amounting  to  some  1,000  acres. 
Now,  under the advice  of  lawyers,  sev­
eral persons  have  settled  on  the  land, 
claiming that, as the lake was a meander­
ing body,  the land belonged to  the  Gov­
ernment  and was open to  homesteaders. 
Other attorneys hold  that  the  squatters 
had  no  rights,  but  that  the  adjoining 
landowners  had  riparian  rights.  Pear­
sons is likely to spend  more  money  be­
fore he enjoys the fruits of his labors.

*   *   *

The post office authorities  have  inter­
rupted the career of a swindler in Cleve­
land, Ohio, who was making a  bushel  of 
money by a nice little  scheme.  He  was 
publishing a  little  magazine  called  the 
Ladies’  Monthly Gem. 
In this he adver­
tised that everyone  who  solved  an  easy 
riddle would be entitled to  purchase,  for 
$3.50, a fine gold watch and  get the mag­
azine for a year.  So  many  letters came 
in  that  the  department  became  suspi­
cious and investigated the business.  For 
several  days  all  letters  received  have 
been detained and the  contents  of  them 
show that the concern was taking in cash 
at  the  rate  of  $50,000  a  month.  The 
“gold  watches”  which  were  sent  out 
were found to be  brass things,  worth  not 
to exceed $1.

*   *   *

M.  Pictet,  a French  physician, has in­
vented  a  new  remedy  for  dyspepsia, 
which has the  advantage  of  being  very 
simple.  He noticed  that  when  animals 
were exposed to great cold,  the  external 
heat of the body  was  not  lowered,  and 
argued that it must be because  the  cold 
acted as a stimulus to the vital  activities 
of the system.  He  was  suffering with a 
stomach affection,  which  made  eating a 
torture  to  him,  and  determined  to  ex­
periment on himself.  Clothed in a thick 
pelisse,  he entered  a  pit  where  the  air 
was kept at 10  degrees  below  zero.  At 
the end of  four  minutes  he  commenced 
to feel hungry, and at  the  end  of  eight 
minutes  M.  Pictet,  who  had  forgotten 
what  appetite  meant,  was  ravenous. 
After 
lasting 
about ten minutes  each,  he  was  cured. 
Dr. Pictet has since adopted the  plan  of 
retiring  for  a  few  minutes before each 
meal to his ice cellar.  For  bis  patients 
he is fitting up an ice parlor for the same 
purpose.  This  new  method  of  curing 
indigestion  has  received 
the  name  of 
frigotherapy.

similar 

trials, 

eight 

■*  *  *

According to a report from the  United 
States Consul General  at  Frankfort a re­
sult of the  tariff  war  with  Germany  is 
that the imports of American  wheat into 
that country fell  from  6,302,130  tons  in
1892 to a little over 3,000,000 tons in 1893 
and to still less in  1894,  while  the  Ger­
man imports from  Argentine  Confedera­
tion  of  that  cereal  increased  to almost 
the extent of our loss.  The tariff war of
1893  between  Germany  and  Russia  re­
duced the imports of  wheat from  Russia 
from 2,572,991 tons in  1892 to  216,362  in 
1893.  The settlement of the war put the 
imports up to an  amount in  1894  nearly 
equal to that of 1892.#  *  *
The  reason  for  the  removal  of  Mr. 
Greenhut  from  the  receivership  of  the 
Whisky Trust—that he was interested in

private speculation in its  stock,  so  that 
it  was  for  his  interest it  should depre­
ciate  in  value—reveals  a  condition  of 
things  most reprehensible  and  suggests 
the question  as  to  how  much  the  wide 
fluctuations of  that  stock  the  past  few 
years has been caused by  the  manipula 
tion  of  its President  and to what extent 
such manipulation  may have  been a fac­
tor in the final failure.
*  *   *

Hypnotism is rather a dangerous thing 
to play with.  At a yoyng people’s party 
at Rockford, 111., the  other  evening  the 
conversation turned on the  snbject,  and 
one of the young men said  that he could 
hypnotize  anybody 
in  the  room.  A 
young  woman,  Lena  Molsine,  offered 
herself  as  a  subject. 
In  a  minute  he 
had her  unconscious,  but  when  he  at­
tempted to restore her he found  that  he 
was powerless to do so.  The guests  be­
came  alarmed,  shook  her,  threw  cold 
water in her face and shouted frantically, 
“Right, right,” but she would  not  come 
“right.”  Finally  Matt  Cleary,  another 
amateur  hypnotist,  happened  in  and
brought her out of her trance.

#  *  •

A  protest  against  the  decndation  of 
forests in  order  to  secure  material  for 
railroad ties is made  in  a  report  issued 
by the  Agricultural  Department  on the 
use of metal railroad ties  and  preserva­
tive processes and  metal  tin  plates  for 
wooden ties. 
It shows that about 20 per 
cent,  of  the  railroad  mileage  of  the 
world, outside of the  United  States  and 
Canada,  is laid on metal. 
In the  United 
States little practical  progress  in  metal 
ties is reported.  The proportion of track 
laid  with  metal 
total 
length of railways throughout the  world 
has increased from 7 per cent,  in 1890 to
10 per cent,  in 1894.
#  

ties  to  the 

*  

Some  people  appear  to act  on the as­
sumption that the way  to bnild  up  their 
home  town  is  to bestow on other places 
the patronage which  should be  accorded 
local enterprises.  This  is  an  erroneous 
theory and the man  who practices it will 
ultimately learn,  to  his  regret,  that  he 
has made the mistake of his life.

*

«   *   *

The police justice of Haverhill,  Mass., 
must  be  a  keen  observer  of  men  and 
methods.  During the trial of  a  number 
of trades  unionists  for  assaulting  non­
union  men  during  the  recent  strike  at 
that place,  he remarked that  the  “object 
of a strike is  to  gain  notoriety  for  the 
leaders  who go about in dress  coats  stir­
ring up  strife.”

*   *   *

While we are wrangling about whether 
we ought to submit to  an  income  tax or 
not,  the  people  of  Victoria,  Australia, 
are making an experiment  in  a  like  di­
rection.  They exempt all  incomes up to 
$1,000.  From that upward they  classify 
incomes into those derived from personal 
exertions and those  derived  from  prop­
erty.  The former  are  taxed 3 pence  on 
the pound from $1,000  to  about  $11,000, 
and 6 pence from  that  amount  upward. 
The incomes derived from  property  are 
taxed at just double those  rates.

*  *  *

It is claimed that much  of the terrible 
suffering  in  Nebraska  during  the  cold 
term might have been  alleviated  by  the 
proper distribution of  the  supplies  for­
warded  from  the  East  and  South.  A 
fearful responsibility  rests  on  whoever 
had it in  their power to see that the sup­
plies  went  to  their  proper  destination 
without delay.

In the attempts of Congress in the way 
of legislation for the relief  of  the Treas­
ury the mistake has  been  made  of  con­
founding  the  question  of  currency  re­
form with the question  of  revenue  or  a 
provision to meet the  rapidly  increasing 
If,  as  the  Treasury  officials as­
deficit. 
sert, 
the  revenues  now  provided  will
soon change the  deficit  into  a  surplus, 
there is no  need  of  legislation  to  meet 
the  temporary  requirements. 
If  the 
revenues are not enough,  any  amount of 
juggling  with  the  currency  will  not 
avail—they must simply be increased.

In  the  United  States 

Barroom Profits  in the  United  States. 
From B onfort's  W ins  and Spirit Circular.
Over in Canada the tax on  one  of  our 
proof gallons is  about  $1.80,  if  we  are 
not misinformed,  and yet the best grades 
of Canadian  whiskies retail  in  the  lead­
ing saloons of Toronto and  elsewhere  at 
five cents per drink.  This, too, notwith­
standing the fact that the  grog  of  Can­
ada calls for more spirits than  the toddy 
of this country.
the  retailer 
charges the  consumer  fifteen  cents  and 
higher  in  all  of  the  better places,  and 
even  then  hands  ont  a  cheap grade of 
stuff  to  the  average  customer.  Saloon 
men In this country  are  not  unlike  the 
balance of our population,  in  that  they 
want  to  grow  rich  in  a  year,  and they 
are always on the lookout for short  cuts. 
They will fit up  a  saloon  regardless  of 
expense,  put  mirrors  up  for  ceilings, 
pave the floor with mosaics  and  $20 gold 
pieces, finish in the most  expensive hard
wood, and decorate  with  artistic  bric-a- 
brac, pictures,  etc.  And  yet  this  very 
place  will  not  hesitate  to  Dass a $1.50 
per  gallon  whisky  over  the  bar  and 
charge 15 cents per drink for it.
The trouble  is  that  distillers  pay  no 
attention to the retailing of their  liquors 
in  this  country,  while  in  Canada  they 
give much attention to this matter.

Pertinent  Hints  to  Salesmen.

A salesman, to be of  any  value,  must 
be  live  and  energetic,  prolific in  ideas 
and  possessing  the  judgment  to  turn 
those ideas to  account  when  the  favor­
able time comes around.  If the employer 
does  not  recognize bis service, it is only 
a  matter  of  time  before  another  will. 
Merit will meet  its  reward  in  the  long 
run.  The salesman who  would be some­
thing  more  than  a  mere  machine must 
study the customers and must know how 
to cater successfully to their likes or dis­
likes.  It is the clerk who uses his brains 
that the “old man”  takes  into  partner­
ship.

T he L arg est M anufacturers  of

WALTER BAKER & CO.
PURE,  HIGH  GRADE
®   COCOAS AND
CHOCOLATES
on  th is  continent, 

have received

HIGHEST  AWARDS

from   th e   g reat

EXPOSITION S

IN

Europe and America.

Unlike the Dutch  Process 

no  A lkalies  o r  o th e r  Chem icals o r Dyes 
a re  used  in   any  o f  th e ir  preparations. 
T heir delicious

BREAKFAST  COCOA
is absolutely p a re  a nd soluble, and 

costs less than one cent a cup.
SOLO BY 6R0CEBS EVERYWHERE.

VALTER BAKER ft CO. DORCHESTER, MAS8.

PROVISIONS.

T he G rand Rapids  Packing  and  Provision Co

PORK  IN  BARRELS.

quotes as follow s:
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Short c u t .......................................................  
E x tra clear pig, short  c u t.........................  
E xtra clear,  heavy  ....................................
Clear, fa t  b ack .............................. 
 
Boston clear, short c u t..............  
 
Clear back, s h o rtc u t..................................  
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B ologna......................................
L iver...........................................
Tongue  ......................................
B lo o d ...................................... ..
Head c h e e se .............................
Sum m er......................................
F ran k fu rts.................................
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P IC K L E D   P IG S ’  F E E T .

K ettle  R endered 
G ra n g e r...............
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C om pound...............................................................  53^
C ottolene... 
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Cotosuet.................................................................... ....
0 lb. Tins, 54c advance.
0 lb.  pails, 34c 
50 lb. 
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251b. 
13 lb. 
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E xtra Mess, w arranted 200  lb s .........................   7  00
E xtra Mess, Chicago p acking.........................   6  75
9 *5
Boneless, rum p b utts.................................... . 
smoked  meats—Canvassed or Plain.
Hams, average 20 lb s .............................................  9
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16 lb s ...................................... 
12 to 14 lb s ....................................   » 2
p ic n ic ...........................................................   6X
best boneless...............................................  gL
S houlders...............................................................   gyj
B reakfast Bacon  boneless.............................. 1.  f k
D ried beef, ham  prices..............................9x
Long Clears, h ea v y ................................................ 6M
Briskets,  m edium ...................................................6*4
H alf  b arrels............................................................3  25
1  75
Q uarter barrels........................................... 
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K its ...................................................................
Kits, honeycomb 
Kits, prem ium   ...
m  O Y S T E R S   m
Note  New  Prices.
Daisy  B rand, Favorites, per  c a n ....................
Daisy B rand, Standards, per can  ..................
Daisy  B rand, selects, per  can  ......................
Solid B rand, Standards, per c a n ....................
solid B rand, K. F.,  per c a n ......... .....................
Solid B rand,  Selects, per  c a n ......................
Solid Brand, E x tra Selects, per c a n ..............9
Standards, per  g a l..............................................
E xtra S tandards, per  g a l..................................
Oysters fine and cans well filled.
The Q ueen Oyster Palls at bottom  prices. 
Mrs. W tthey’s Home Made Jelly, m ade  w ith 
boiled cider, very fine:
30-lb.  p a tl............................................................
»O-lb. p a il.........................................................
17-lb.  p ail........................................................   **
15-lb. p ail..........................................................
1  qu art Mason  Jars, per  doz.................. .
1  pints  Mason  Jars  per  doz.....................
Mrs. W lthey’s Condensed  Mince M eat,  the
best made.  P rice per  case  .........................
Mrs.  W ithey's  bulk m ince m eat:
40 lb.  pail, per  lb..................................................
25-lb. pails, per lb .................................................
10-lb. pails, per lb ......................................
2-lb. cans, per doz............................................... ’
51o. cans,  per  d oz............................................”
Pint Mason Jars  per  d o z............. 
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Q uart Mason Jars, per  doz  ........................... ’
Pure Cider V inegar, per g allo n ...............” . ' ’
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Pure Sweet Cider, per  gallon................. 
New Pickles, m edium , barrels..................
New Pickles,  54 barrel..................  
 
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New Sauer K raut,  barrels...................  *
New Sauer K raut, H  barrels.............................
M aple  Syrup,  pint Mason Jars, per  doz  ’ 
Maple Syrup, q u art M a ^ n  Jars,  per  d o z ....
M aple Syrup, tin, gallon cans, per  d oz.........
Peach M armalade, 20-lb pails 
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3  50
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1  40
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EDW IN  F A L L A S ,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

EATON, LYON l CO.

20 &  22  Monroe  St.,

GRAND  RA PID S.

44JC S S ”   what  you  want.

W e  are  always  on  the  lookout  for  something  to  please  our  trade  and 
put  dollars  in  their pockets;  and,  after  thorough  investigation,  and  many 
tests  have  secured  a  plug  tobacco  that  just  suits everybody. 
It  is  called 
“JESS,”  is  a  club  shaped  plug,  2 x 1 2 ,  spaced  for  3  cuts  and  shows  a 
It  weighs  16  ounces to  the plug  and  the 
good  margin  to  the  retailer. 
consumer gets full  value for  his  money.  We  propose  to  push  it  to  the 
front  and  make  it  the  leading  plug  tobacco  of  Michigan.  Ask  our 
salesman  to  give  you  a chew,  and  show  you  the  goods  and  you  will  buy. 
Everybody  is  taking  it.  W hy?  Because  it  is  “Jess”  what  they  want and 
have  been  looking lor.

Horse

Sausage

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

Do  You  S ell 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 SPECIAL SALE

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  reaj 
the  har­
vest.  Don’t  wait  till  the  demand  for  feed  is  all  gone  before  tilling  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.

Ualley  City  filling  Go..  Grand Rapids  piisli.
A C M E G R A W  &  CO
•  RUBBER DEPARTMENT.  *
WE STAND AT THE HEAD. w  RUBBERS 
AS WE CADDY THE LADGEST STOCK.
merchants  NOTE OliR TERMS

ALl  R U B B E R S  
SHIPPED  DUPING 
JAN. FEB. or  MARCH  are  not 
PAYABLE  U N TIL  MAY  | s j   1895
OUR SOUVENIR 500/C  
FROM  ' THE TORES T TO 
THE FO O T.' SEN T FR EE 
UPON  APPLICATION •

TROJANS»

GRAND RAPIDS, 

MICH.

18 and 19 Widdicomb  Bid.

N.  B.  Cla r k,  Pres.
W. D. Wade,  Vice-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.

iCi,

Muskegon  Bakery  Crackers 
Are  Perfect  Health  Food.

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

j

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

one can  be  best— that is  the original

fluskegon
Bakery
Butter
Cracker.

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

Nine
Other
Great
Specialties
Are

Muskegon  Toast,
Ro^al  F ru it  Biscuit, 
Muskegon  Frosted  Honey, 
Iced  Cocoa  Honey Jum bles, 
Jelly  Turnovers,
Ginger  Snaps,
Hom e-M ade  Snaps, 
Muskegon  Branch,
Mlik  Lunch

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

United  S tates  Baking  Co.

LAWRENCE  DEPEW,  Acting  Manager,

M u s k e g o n ,

M ich.

Spring & Company,

IMPORTERS  AND  WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

Dress  Goods,  Shawls,  Cloaks,  Notions,
Ribbons,  Hosiery,  Gloves,  Underwear,
Woolens,  Flannels,  Blankets,  Ging­
hams,  Prints and Domestic Cottons.

We  invite  the  Attention  of  the  Trade  to  our  Complete  and  Well  Assorted 

StoQk  at  Lowest  Market  Prices.

Spring & Company.

W H Y   NOT

prices.  It’s  a  Hummer.

buy an  assorted Package of the finest  pattern  of  Engraved  Ruby  Glassware  «n  the  market—we are  selling it  at bottom

No.  15016  —  Ruby  Engraved  Assorted  Package  New 

Glassw are.

gallon Jugs........................................ 

1-6  dozen 4 piece sets...............................................$  9  00
3  0°
Tumblers..................................................  1  00
Celeries....................................................   3  00
Oils...........................................................   4  00
4  50
Molasses Cans................................ 
Salts.......................................................... 
90
Peppers.................................................... 
90
8 inch Berry  Nappies......... ...................   9  00
4% inch Berrry  Comports......................  1  20

 

Package 35c.

Assorted Package  Flint  Blown  Engraved  Tumblers.

$  1  50 
1  50 
1  00 
58 
67 
75 
45 
90 
75 
1  20
S  8  85

15016  Ruby  Engraved  Assorted  Package.

O R   T H I S
2  dozen  Engraved  2 .
2 
4.

“  

Box  35c.

$  1  00 
1  00 
1  00

ijj  3  00

R o b i n   A s s o r t m e n t

//.  LEONARD  A  SONS,  Grand  Rapids.

Try  One  Package  of  Each  of  These  and  Be  Happy.

THE  DAYTON

o

OMPUTING  SCALE
WARNING == To  Users of  Scales.

The trade are hereby w arned against using any Infringem ents on  W eigh* 
ing  and  Price  Scales  and  C om puting  and  Price  Scales,  as  we  w ill  protect 
our rights and the rights of our general  agents  under  Letters  P atent  o f  the 
LTuited States issued in  1881.  1885, Hs6,  1888.  l'-Ol, ’893  and  is  14.  And  we  w ill 
prosecute all infringers to the full  ex ten t  of  the  law.  T he simple  using  of 
Scales th a t  Infringe upon our patents makes  the  user  liable  to  prosecution 
and  the  im portance  or  buying  and  using  any  other Com puting and Price 
Scales th an   those m anufactured by us and  bearing our nam e and date  of pat­
ents and thereby incurring liability to prosecution  is  apparent.  Respectfully
TH E  COMPUTING  S C A L E   CO.

do  -we  ruu  cug  tne  u/muw  ou|Y!FUTlp  5UALK&. 

S E E   W H AT  U SER S  SAY:

We are delighted w ith it. 
Would not part w ith  it for $1,00 \ 
It saves pennies every tim e  we weigh. 
They are w orth  to us each year  five times their cost.

The  Jos. R.  Peebles Sou’s Co., C incinnati. 
Dan  W. Charles,  H am ilton, O.
Charles Young,  A drian.  Mich. 

R aup & Hayman, C onstantine,  Mich. 

We are very m uch  pleased w ith its work.

Henry  J .  V inkem ulder A  Bro., G rand Rapids. 
Since the adoption of your scales have made m ade more money  than  ever 
F rank  D aniels, T raverse City, Mich.

before. 

I take pride In recom m ending them  to ever user of scales.

I  heartily recom m end them  to all grocers who w ish to  save money.

Chas.  Railsback, Indianapolis.

Geo.  F.  K reitiine, Indianopolis.

I. L.  Stultz, Goshen, Ind

It is the best investm ent I ever  made.

For  Further  Partictlars  Drop  a  Card  to

HOYT &  CO.,

General  Selling  Agents.

D a y to n ,  O h io

