VOL.  X II

G R A ND   R A PID S,  M ARCH  13,1895.

NO.  599

E  E. ALDEN.

M.  R.  ALDEN.

M.  Ft  A L D E N   &  CO.,

W H O L E S A L E   -   P R O D U C E .

S tric tly   F resh   E gg-  and  C hoice C ream ery  and  D airy  B u tte r  a S pecialty. 

N m th e m   ti¡icie  s u p p lie d   at  low est  m ark et  prices.

We buy on track at  point of shipm ent or receive on  consignm ent. 

‘Phone 1300.

76 So.  Division S t.,  Grand Rapids.

S p r i n g -   &  Com pany,

IM PORTERS  A N D   W HO LESALE  D E A LE R S  IN

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

We  invite  the  Attention  o f  the  Trade  to  our  Complete  and  Well  Assorted 

Stock  at  Lowest  Market  Prices.

S p r i n g -   A   Com pany.
R 1 N D G E ,   K  A L M B A C H   &  CO.,

12,  1 4 ,  i6  Pearl  St.,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  HICH.

» 

flANUFACTURERS  AND  JOBBERS  OF

B O O T S, 
S i Z O B S ,  
and
R U B B B H S.

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

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

Do  Y ou 

S ell  S o a p

IF  YOU  DO,  WE  CAN  INTEREST  YOU

OUR

D -

Will  Increase

Your  Sales

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

H
G r a n d   R a p i d s   S o a p  

OR

"W^orks.

M.  S.  LaBOURSLlER,  Proprietor.

i  l Russian Ms

91  Monroe st.,  under  norton  House.

The onl

M ichigan  Hotel  w ith Turkish  Baths in connec- 
night.  Every Tuesday  forenoon and Friday
tioll.  Opfctn mi  111 Siu t>. 
t ucauuj  1-.
all day  reserved exclusively for Ladies.
Corns.  Bunions, Club or  inverted  Nails,  Enlarged Joints 
Chilblains  an d   all  troubles  of  the  feet  skillfully  treated 
Tw enty years’ experience.
Chiropodist Office Hours, 9 a.  m.  to 12 m., 2 to 5:30 and S t< 
9 p. m.

Annum t Water Gagc.

F o r  t h e  B o il e r   a n d  E n g in e.  A re  t h e   E n g in e e r s*  F a v o r it e s 

85,000  P enberthy Automatic I njectors in use, crivinpr perfect satisfaction 
n nder u.i conditions.  O u r J e t Pum ps, W ater Gages a n d  Oil Cups a re  U neijuai.r-d.
De t r o i t ,
s . wo  for 
C a t a l o g u e . 

P ’ N B E R T H Y   I N J E C T O R   C O . 

b r a n o h   f a c t o r y   a t   W I N D S O R ,  O N T , 

M ICH.

44J c S S ”   w h a t   y o u   w a n t .

We 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 
“JE SS,”  is  a  club  shaped  plug,  2x 12,  spaced  for  3  cuts and shows  a 
good  margin  to  the  retailer. 
It  weighs  1G  Ounces to the plug and the 
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.  Why?  Because it is  “Jess”  what they  w a n t and 
have  been looking lor.

S i   Giocer  Co.
LEMON 
k WHEELER
Wholesale  Grocers

m jjo rto rs  unit

G r a n d  

Use  Tradesman’s  W ants  Column

Standard  Oil  Co.,S u g a r M ak ers’

S upplies

GRAND  RAPIDS,  HICHIGAN

dealers,n 

Illuminating  and  Lubricating

Naptha  and  Gasolines.

Office, Michigan  Trust  Bldg. 

Works,  Butterworth  Ave. |

BULK  WORKS  AT

GRANT)  RAPIDS, 
BIG  RAPIDS, 
ALLEGAN, 

M rSKEGON, 
MANTSTEE, 
GRAND  HAVEN, 
TRAVERSE  CITY. 
HOWARD  CITY, 
PETOSKEY. 
Highest  Price  Paid  for

CADILLAC,
LUDINGTON,
REED CITY

EMPTY  GARBON  I   GASOLINE  BARRELS.
O yster Crackers

A r c   n ow   in  season. We manufacture j  fl]|  KifltìS

S A IE   WAFER  01  SQUARE  OYSTER,

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

with  neat and  attractive  lai »el. 
packages we have ever put  out.

T r y   O u r

Handsome embossed  packages,

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

guarantee entire satisfaction.

1  lb. $2.40  per doz.

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

N o w  York. B iscu it C o .,

S. A. SBARS,  M anager,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Anchor Tap  Spouts 
Sap  Pails
Galvanized  Sap  Pans 
Black  Sap  Pans 
Tapping Bitts

F oster^STEVENS
r&<S/ & f / O N R O t  

S T   K

Duck 

C o ats3 

. Kersey 
P an ts

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

LANSING,  niCH.

VOL. XII,

G R A ND   R A P ID S,  W ED N ESD A Y ,  M ARCH  1 3 ,  1 8 9 5 .

NO.  599

MICHIGAN

O rg a n iz e d   18 8 1 .

DETROIT,  MICHIGAN

PROMPT,  CONSERVATIVE. 

SAPS.

«

J .  W.  CHAMPLIN,  Pres.

W.  FRED   McBAIN, Sec.

COMMERCIAL  CREDIT  CO.

65  nONROE  ST.

Reports on individuals for th e retail trade,honse 
renters and professional m en.  Also local agents 
for the F u rn itu re Commercial  Agency Co.’s“ Red 
Book."  Collections handled for members.

T e le p h o n e s   16 6   a n d   1030
B   J.  B U L L A R D
Rubber  Stamps

M anufacturer of

All kinds of  Stencils,  Notary  Seals, 
Checks,  Badges,  House  N um bers, 
Door Plates, etc.
58 Pear! St., Grand  Rapids

Makes a Specialty of acting’as

Executor of  W ills, 
Administrator o f  Estates, 
Guardian  of  Hinors and In­

competent  Persons, 

Trustee  or Agent

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

Any  Inform ation  desired  w ill  be  cheerfully 

fam ish ed .
Lewis  H.  W ithey,  Pres.

WEALTH  AND  ITS  USES.

WEALTH,  Mr.  Gladstone  has recently 

said,  is  the  business  of  the  world. 
uTbat the acquisition of money  is the 
business of the world  arises from the for­
tunate fact  that,  with  few  unfortunate 
exceptions,  young  men  are  born to  pov­
erty,  and  therefore  under  the  salutary 
operation  ot  that  remarkably  wise  law 
which enacts for their  good:
Thou shalt earn thy bread by  the  sw eat  of  thy 
brow.
It  is  the  fashioD ¿nowadays  to  bewail 
poverty  as an evil,  to pity the young man 
who is not born  with  a  silver  spoon  in 
bis  mouth;  but  1  heartily  subscribe to 
President Garfield’s doctrine,  that  “The 
richest heritage a young man can be born 
to is poverty.”  1  make  uo  idle  predic­
tion  when  1 say that it is from that  class 
among you from  whom  the good  and  tne 
great  will spring,  and  that  the  reputa­
tion  of  Union  College  in  the future  is 
to be not ouly maiutaiued  but  enhanced, 
it  is not from the sons of the millionaire 
or the noble that the  world  receives  its 
teachers,  its  martyrs,  its. inventors,  its 
statesmen,  its poets, or even  its  men  of 
affairs. 
It  is  from  the  cottage  of  the 
poor  that  all  these  spring.  We  can 
scarcely recall  one among the  few  “im­
mortal names that were not born to die,” 
or who has rendered  exceptional  service 
to our race,  who had  not  the  advantage 
of being cradled,  nursed  and  reared  in 
the 
stimulating  1 school... of  j  poverty. 
There is nothing so  enervating,  nothing 
so deadly in its effects  upon the qualities 
which  lead  to  the  highest  achievement, 
moral  or 
intellectual,  as  hereditary 
wealth.  And  if  there  be  among  you  a 
young man who feel3 that he is not  com­
pelled to exert himself in  order  to  earn 
and  live  from  his  own efforts,  1 tender 
him  my  profound  sympathy. 
Should 
such a one prove an exception  to his  fel­
lows,  and  become  a  citizen  living a life 
creditable to himself  and  useful  to  the 
State,  instead of my  profouud  sympathy 
1  bow  before  him  with  profound  rev­
erence; for one  who  overcomes  the  se­
ductive 
surround 
hereditary  wealth  is  of  the  “salt of the 
earth,” and entitled to double honor.
It is not the poor young  man who goes 
forth  to  his  work  in  the  morning and 
labors until evening that we should pity. 
It is the son of  the  rich  man  to  whom 
Providence has not  been  so  kind  as  to 
trust with this honorable  task. 
It is not 
the busy man,  but the  man  of  idleness, 
who  should  arouse  our  sympathy  and 
cause  us  sorrow.  “Happy  is  the  man 
who has found his work,”  says  Carlisle. 
I  say  happy is the man who has to work 
and  to  work  hard  and  work  long.  A 
great poet has said:  “He prayeth best who 
this  may  be 
lovetb  best.”  Some  day 
parodied  into:  “An  honest  day’s work 
well  performed 
is  not  a  bad  sort  of 
a prayer.”
1 will  assume for  the  moment,  gentle­
men,  that you  were ail fortunate  enough 
to be born  poor.  Then the first question 
that  presses  upon  you  is  this:  What 
shall 1  learn  to  do  for  the  community 
which will bring me, in exchange, enough 
wealth to feed, clothe,  lodge,  aud  keep 
me independent  of  charitable  aid  from 
others?  What  shall  1  do  for  a living? 
Aud the young man  may  like,  or  think 
that  he  would 
like,  to  do  one  thing 
rather  than  another; 
to  pursue  one 
branch or another; to be a  business man, 
or craftsman of some  kind,  or  minister, 
physician,  electrician,  architect,  editor, 
or 
I  have  no  doubt 
some of you  in  your  wildest  flights  as­
pire  to  be  journalists.  But it does  not 
matter what the young man likes or  dis­
likes,  he always has to keep in  view  the 
main  point:  Can I attain  such  a  meas- 
'  ure  of  proficiency  in  the  branch  pre- 
I  ferred  as  will  certainly  enable  me  to 
|  earn a livelihood by its practice?

temptations  which 

The  young  man,  therefore,  who  re­
solves to make himself useful to his kind, 
and therefore  entitled  to receive  in  re­
turn from a  grateful  community  whom 
he  benefits  the  sum  necessary  for his 
support,  sees clearly one  of  the  highest 
duties of a young man.  He meets the vi­
tal question  immediately  pressing upon 
him  for decision,  and decides it rightly.
So  far,  then,  there  is  no  difference 
about the acquisition  of  wealth.  Every 
one is agreed that it is the first duty of  a 
young man  to  so  train  himself  as to be 
self-supporting.  Nor is  there  difficulty 
about the next step,  for the  young  man 
cannot be  said  to  have  performed  the 
whole of his duty if he  leaves  out of ac­
count the contingencies of  life,  liability 
to accident,  illness and trade depressions 
like  the  present.  Wisdom  calls  upon 
him to have regard  for these  things,  and 
it is a part of  his duty that  he  begin  to 
save a portion of bis earnings and invest 
them,  not in speculation,  but  in  securi­
ties or  in  property,  or  in  a  legitimate 
business,  in such form  as  will, perhaps, 
slowly  but yet surely  grow  into  the  re­
serve upon which  he  can  fall  back  in 
emergencies or in old  age,  and  live  upon 
his  own  savings. 
I  think  we  are  all 
agreed as  to  the  advisability,  nay,  the 
duty,  of  laying  up  a  competence,  and 
hence to retain our self-respect.
Let me give a few rules,  founded upon 
experience,  as to competence and wealth, 
and how to  win them.
First—Concentrate your mind  and  ef­
forts upon one pursuit,  it does  not  mat­
ter  much what that pursuit is,  so  that  it 
be useful and honorable,  and  be  the first 
authority in that.  Of course,  you  have 
heard the  advice,  “Don’t  put  all  your 
eggs in one basket.” 
It is not long since 
1 first told young men to  reject  that  ad­
vice and pursue just the contrary course. 
“Put all  your  eggs  in  one  basket  and 
then  watch  that  basket.”  More  men 
fail to win competence  and  wealth  from 
disregard of this advice,  and  from  scat­
tering one’s  shot,  than  from  any  other 
cause.
There is a second rule:  Tou must not 
be content with  simply  performing  the 
part assigned to you;  you must do  some­
thing beyond  that,  and  watch  your  em­
ployer’s interest at every  point,  no  mat­
ter  whether it is  in your special province 
or not,  and  do  not  hesitate  to  apprise 
him  promptly of anything  that  you  see 
in  any  part of  his  business  which  does 
not commend itself  to  your  august  ap­
proval.  You  have  heard,  “Obey orders 
if you  break  owners.”  Do  not  let  the 
graduate  of  Old  Union  be  so  stupid. 
Break them  any  time  if  you  are  clear 
that  breaking  orders will  save  owners, 
aud then go  boldly  to your employer and 
point out to him  how  foolish he  has  been 
in  giving  such  an  order.  Believe  me, 
the young man  who  does  not  know  the 
business of  his special  department  much 
better than his employer can  possibly  do 
has not the elements of  the  future  mil­
lionaire in  him.
There  is  another  point:  Never try  to 
make too good a bargain  either for your­
self  or  for  your  employer.  Be  always 
fair,  avoidiug anything  like  sharp  prac­
tice. 
It  is  a  ‘poor  bargain  when  both 
parties to it are not  benefited,  and  there­
fore  happy  at  having  made  it.  Every 
unjust  advantage 
in  business 
sooner or  later  proves  a  serious  disad­
vantage.  Men  who  oecome  great  mil­
lionaires, co-operating as they  must  with 
others,  must secure aud hold  the implicit 
confidence of their  associates and  bear  a 
reputation as  being,  in  all  things,  fair, 
liberal and considerate;  their  word must 
be better than their bond,  and  their  de­
sire  to  do the fair  aud liberal thing bet­
ter than either word or bond.
Never speculate.  The man  who  gam­
bles in stocks in Wall  street is  not  more 
culpable  than  he who gambles at Monte

Carlo,  but he  has  much  less  sense,  be­
cause the chances  between  winning  and 
losing are not as equally  divided  in New 
York as at  the  regular  gambling  estab­
lishment.  The life  of  a  speculator,  of 
course,  is the life of a gamester,  and  this 
is fatal to the development of the reason­
ing and judging faculties  in  man. 
It  is 
a  life  of  intense  excitement  fatal  to 
thought  aud  to  study.  There  are  but 
few instances of men who have won a for­
tune upon the exchange.
It is indispensable that the future com­
petence-maker or millionaire  should  be­
gin  to  save  a  portion  of  his  earnings 
early, no matter  how  small  these  earn­
ings may  he. 
It is a great  mistake, gen­
tlemen,  to  think  that  good  habits  and 
ability go unrecognized in this age.  The 
millionaire employer is  constantly  keep­
ing his eye open just for  these  qualities 
in young men. 
It is not  capital  that  he 
desires,  but ability, character,  and  good, 
thrifty  habits.  Begin  to  lay  by a por­
tion of your earnings  every  month,  and 
keep  up that  habit,  aud 1  should  like  to 
insure,  at  a  very  low  rate,  your  fu­
ture milliouaireship.
You always hear  that  drinking  liquor 
is the dangerous rock in the  path  of  the 
young.  This is true;  perhaps  the  most 
serious temptation to which a young man 
is  exposed.  Believe  me,  my  young 
friends,  there  is  nothing  that  so  com­
pletely spoils  a  young  man’s  career  as 
giving way, even once,  to  intemperance. 
Avoid intemperance as  you  would  vice. 
Obedience  to  these  things 
is  requisite 
to win  competence and wealth.
Now  what is wealth?  How Is it created 
and distributed?  There are not far from 
us immense beds of coal  which have lain 
for millions  of  years  useless.  Through 
some experiment,  or perhaps accident,  it 
was discovered  that  black  stone  would 
burn  and  give  forth  heat.  Men  sank 
shafts,  erected  machinery,  mined  and 
brought  forth  coal,  and  sold  it  to  the 
community. 
It  displaced  the  use  of 
wood as a fuel,  say  at  one-half  the  cost. 
Immediately  every  bed  of  coal  became 
valuable  because  useful,  or  capable  of 
being  made  so,  aud  here  a new  article 
worth hundreds,  yes,  thousands  of  mil­
lions,  was  added  to  the  wealth  of the 
community.  A Scotch mechanic one day, 
so  the  story  goes,  gazing  into  the  fire 
upon  which  water was boiling in a kettle, 
saw the steam raise the  lid,  as  hundreds 
of thousands  had  seen  before  him,  but 
none saw in  that sight what  he  did—the 
steam engine,  which  does  the  work  of 
the  world at a  cost  so  infinitely  trifling, 
compared  with  what  the  plans  known 
before involved,  that  the  wealth  of  the 
world  has  been  increased one dares not 
estimate  how  much.  The  saving  that 
the  community  makes 
is  the  root  of 
wealth  in any  branch  of  material  devel­
opment.  Now,  a  young  man’s  labor  or 
service to the  community  creates  wealth 
just in proportion  as his  service  is  use­
ful  to  the  community,  as it either saves 
or 
improves  upon  existing  methods. 
Commodore  Vanderbilt  saw,  I  think, 
thirteen different short  railway  lines be­
tween New  York and  Buffalo,  involving 
thirteen  different  managements,  and  a 
disjointed and  tedious  service.  Albany, 
Schenectady,  Utica,  Syracuse,  Auburn, 
Rochester, etc.,  were  heads  of  some  of 
these companies.  He  consolidated them 
ail,  making one direct  line,  over  which 
the Empire  State  express  flies  fifty-one 
miles  an  hour,  the  fastest  time  in  the 
world,  and a hundred  passengers  patron­
ize  the line where one  did  in  the  olden 
days.  He  rendered 
the  community  a 
special service which,  being followed  by 
others,  reduces the cost  of bringing food 
from the  prairies  of  the  West  to  your 
doors to a trifling sum  per  ton.  He pro­
duced,  aud is  every  day  producing,  un­
told wealth to the community  by  so  do­
ing, and the  profit  he reaped for himself

lawyer,  and 

taken 

Anton  G.  Hodenpyl,  Sec’y .

WANTED1—1
Everybody  in­
terested  in  pat­
ents  or  patent 
law  to  send  bis 
name;  in  return 
a  book  contain­
ing valuable  in­
formation  wi l l  
bersent  free  by 
mail.
L.  V.  Moulton, 
Patent Att’y, 
Grand  Rapids, 

Mich.

*  THE ACTIVE  POWERS* 

-«■INVENTIVE GENIUS.

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

Good
Bicycles........

was but as  a  drop  in  tbe  bucket  com­
pared with that which he showered  upon 
the State and the nation.

than 

is  owned  by  more 

Now,  in the olden days,  before  steam, 
electricity,  or  any  other  of the modern 
inventions which unitedly have  changed 
the  whole  aspect  of  the  world,  every­
thing  was «done  upon  a  smail  scale. 
There  was  no  room  for  great  ideas  to 
operate upon  a large  scale  and thus  pro­
duce great wealth  to  the  inventor,  dis­
coverer,  originator,  or  executive.  New 
inventions  gave  this  opportunity,  and 
many  large  fortunes  were made  by  in­
dividuals.  But in our day  we are rapidly 
passing,  if we have  not  already  passed, 
out  of  this  stage  of  development,  and 
few large  fortunes  can  now  be made  in 
any part of the  world,  except  from  one 
cause,  the rise in the value of real estate. 
Manufacturing,  transportation both upon 
the land and  upon the  sea,  banking,  in­
surance,  have  all  passed into the hands 
of  corporations,  composed  of  hundreds 
and  in  many  cases  thousands of share­
holders.  The  New  York  Central  Kail- 
road 
ten 
thousand  shareholders  between  New 
York  and  Buffalo; 
the  Pennsylvania 
Railroad  is owned  by  more  people  than 
the  vast  army  which  it  employs,  and 
nearly one-fourth of the  number  are the 
estates of women aud  children.  It  is  so 
with the great manufacturing companies; 
so with the  great  steamship  lines;  it  is I 
so,  as  you  know,  with banks,  insurance 
companies,  and, indeed, with all branches 
of  business. 
It  fs  a  great  mistake  for 
young men to say to themselves,  “Oh,  we 
cannot enter into  any  business.”  If any 
of you has saved as  high as $50  or  $100,
I  do  not  know  any  branch of busiuess 
into which you  cannot  plunge  at  once. 
You can get your certificate  of stock and 
attend the meetings of stockholders, make I 
your speeches  and  suggestions,  quarrel 
with the president,  and instruct the man­
agement of the  affairs  of  the  company, 
and  have  all  the  rights  and  influence 
of an owner.  Yon can  buy shares  in  any-! 
thing,  from  newspapers  to 
tenement 
houses; 
so  poorly |
is 
paid 
that 
i 
in 
advise < 
you  to  exercise  much  circumspection 
before  you 
invest.  As  1  have  said | 
to workingmen  and  to ministers,  college ! 
professors,  artists,  musicians  aud  physi- j 
cians  and  all  the  professional  classes: 
Do  not  invest  in any  business  concern 
whatever; the risks  of  business  are  not 
for such as you.  Buy  homes  for  your­
selves first,  and  if you have any  surplus, 
buy  another  lot  or  another  house,  or 
take a mortgage upon oje,  or one  upon a 
railway,  and let  it  be  a  first  mortgage, 
and  be satisfied  with  moderate  interest.
The  principal  complaiut  against  our 
industrial  conditions  of  to-day  is  that 
they cause great wealth to flow  into  the 
hands  of  the few.  Well,  of  the  very 
few,  indeed,  is  this  true. 
It  was for­
merly so,  as  1 have  explained,  immedi­
ately  after  the  new 
inventions  bad 
changed  the  conditions  of  tbe  world. 
To-day  it is not  true.  Wealth  is  being 
more  and  more  distributed  among  the 
many.  Tbe  amount  of  the  combined 
profits of labor and capital  which goes  to 
labor was never so great  as  to-day.  tbe 
amount going to capital never  so  small. 
While the earnings of capital have fallen 
more than one-half,  in many cases having 
been  entirely obliterated, statistics prove 
that the earnings of labor were  never  so 
high as they were previous  to  the  recent 
unprecedented  depression 
in  business, 
while the cost of living,  as you  all know, 
or perhaps you college young men do not 
yet  know  this,  the  necessaries  of life, 
have  fallen  in  some  cases  nearly  one- 
half.  Great  Britain has an income tax, 
and  our  own  country  is to be subject to 
this imposition for a  time.  The  British 
returns  show  that  during  the  eleven 
years from 1876  to  1887  the  number  of 
men  receiving  from  $750  to  $2,500 per 
year increased  more  than  21  per  cent., 
while the number receiving  from  $5,000 
to  $25,000  actually  decreased 
per
cent.

but 
capital 
these  days 

You  may  be sure,  gentlemau,  that  the | 
question of the distribution  of  wealth  is 
settling itself rapidly  under  present con­
ditions,  and settling  itself  in  the  right I 
direction.  The 
few  rich  are  getting | 
poorer,  and  the  toiling  masses  are  get­
ting richer.  Nevertheless,  a  few  excep- |

the 

cheapest 

tional men may yet  make  fortunes,  but 
these will be more moderate than  in  the 
past.  This may  not  be  quite  as  fortu­
nate for the  masses  of  the  people as is 
now  believed,  because  great  accumula­
tions of wealth in the bands of one enter­
prising  man,  who  still  toils  on,  are 
sometimes  most  productive  of  all  the 
forms of  wealth.  Take  the  richest man 
the  world  ever  saw,  who  died in New 
York some years  ago.  What  was  found 
in  his case?  Why  that,  with the excep­
tion of a small percentage used  for  daily 
expenses,  his entire  fortune  and  all  its 
surplus earnings  were invested in  enter­
prises  which developed  the  railway  sys­
tem of our  country,  which  gives  to  tbe 
people 
transportation 
known.  Whether the millionaire wishes 
it or not,  he cannot evade the law which, 
under  present conditions,compels  him to 
use his  millions tor the good  of  the  peo­
ple.  All  that  he  gets  during  the  few 
years  of  his  life is  that he may  live in a 
finer house,  surround  himself  with  finer 
furniture and  works  of«art which  may be 
added;  he  could  even  have  a  grander 
library,  more  ot  the  gods  around  him; 
but,  as far as I  have  kuown  millionaires, | 
the library is the least used  part  of  what I 
he would  probably  consider  “furniture” 
in  ail  his  mansion.  He  can  eat  richer  j 
food and drink richer  wines,  which  only 
hurt  him.  But  truly,  tbe  modern  mil­
lionaire is generally a  man of  very  sim­
ple tastes and even  miserly  habits, 
lie 
spends  little  upon  himself,  aud  is  the 
toiling  bee  laying  up  tbe  honey  in the 
industrial  hive,  which  all  the  inmates 
of  that  hive,  the  community 
in  gen­
eral,  will certainly enjoy.

It  is  the  same, 

Tbe bees of a  hive do  not  destroy  the 
honey-making bees,  but  the  drones. 
It I 
would  be  a  great  mistake  for  the  com­
munity  to  shoot  the  millionaires,  for 
they  are  the  bees  that  make  the  most 
honey,  and contribute  most  to  tbe  hive 
even after they  have  gorged  themselves 
full.  Here  is  a  remarkable  fact,  that 
tbe  masses of the  people in  any  country 
are  prosperous  aud  comfortable  just in 
proportion  as 
there  are  millionaires. 
Take Russia,  with  its  population  little 
better than serfs,  aud living at the  point 
of  starvation  upon  tbe meanest  poss’ble 
fare,  such  fare  as  none  of  our  people 
could or  would eat,  and you  do  not  find 
one millionaire in  Russia,  always except­
ing  the  Emperor  and  a  few nobles who 
own  tbe  land,  owing  to  their political 
system. 
to  great  ex­
tent,  in Germany.  There  are  only  two 
millionaires known to  me  in  tbe  whole 
German  Empire. 
In  France,  where the 
people are better off than in Germany, you 
cannot count one half dozen  millionaires 
in the  whole country, 
lu  tbe  old  home 
of our race,  Britain,  which  is  the richest 
country in all Europe— the richest coun­
try  in  the  world  save  one,  our  own— 
there are more millionaires  than  in  the 
whole of the rest of Europe,  and  its peo­
ple  are  better  off  than  in  any  other. 
You  come  to  our  own  land;  we  have 
more millionaires than in  all the  rest  of 
the  world  put  together,  although  we 
have not one  to  every  ten  that  are  re­
puted so.  1 have seen a list of supposed 
millionaires,  prepared  by  a  well-known 
lawyer  of  Brooklyn,  which  made  me 
laugh,  as  it  has  made  many  others.  1 
saw  men  rated  there as millionaires who 
could not pay  their  debts.  Many should 
have had a cipher cut  from their $1,000,- 
000.

The  inventions  of  to day  lead  to con­
centrating industrial  and  commercial  af­
fairs  into  huge  concerns.  You  cannot 
work the Bessemer  process  successfully 
without employing thousands of  men  on 
one  spot.  You  could  net  make  the 
armor for ships  without  first  expending 
seven millions of dollars,  as  the  Bethle­
hem  Company  has  spent.  You  cannot 
make a yard of  cotton  goods  in  compe­
tition  with the world  without  having  an 
immense factory  and  thousands  of  men 
and  women aiding in  the  process.  The 
great  electric  establishment 
in  New 
York succeeds because  it has spent  mil­
lions  and  is  prepared  to  do  its  work I 
upon a great scale.  Under such conditions 
it  is  impossible  but that  wealth  will  flow 
into the  hands  of  a  few  men  in  pros-1 
perous  times  beyond  their  needs.  But j 
out  of  fifty  great  fortunes  which  Mr.  | 
Blaine had made a list of,  he  found only

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WE  DON’T  CLAIM  to  handle  all  the  good  Bicycles 
made
BUT  WE  DO  CLAIM  to  handle the  most desirable 
lines in  the market.

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Grades.
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You  can  get  from  us  a  Full  Line  at  Manufacturers’ 
Prices.

We are the OLDEST  Bicycle and Sundry Dealers in Michigan 
and  know a good^ article  when  we  see it and  “push  it along.’’ 
Apply for Agencies at once.  Catalogues for the asking.

We are still  leader.; in Mill and  Fire Department 
Supplies  and  Agents for Candee  Rubber  Goods 
and  Spaldings’  Sporting  and  Athletic  Goods.

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one man  who  was  reputed  to  have  made 
a large fortune in manufacturing.  These 
are  made  from  real  estate  more  than 
from  all  other  causes  combined;  next I 
follow 
transportation,  banking.  The j 
whole manufacturing world has furnished 
but one reprobate  millionaire.

The only noble use  of  surplus  wealth 
is this:  That it be  regarded  as  a  sacred 
trust to be administered  by the possessor 
into whose hands it flows,  for the highest 
good of the  people.  Man  does  not  live 
by bread alone,  and  five  or  ten  cents  a 
day  more  revenue  scattered  over  thou­
sands would  produce  little  or  no  good. 
Accumulated into a  great  fund  and  ex­
pended  as Mr.  Cooper expended it for the 
Cooper  Institute  establishes  something 
that  will  last  for  generations. 
It  will 
educate the  brain,  the  spiritual  part  of 
man;  it furnishes  a  ladder  upon  which 
the aspiring poor may  climb,  and  there 
is no use  whatever,  gentlemen,  trying to 
help people who do not  help themselves. 
You cannot push anyone up a ladder un­
less be is  willing to  climb  a  little  him­
self.  When  you  stop  boosting he falls, 
to his injury.  Therefore,  I  have  often 
said,  and  1  now  repeat,  that the day  is 
coming,  and already  we see its dawn,  in 
which  the  man  who  dies  possessed  of 
millions of available wealth,  which  was 
free  and  in  his  hands  ready  to be dis­
tributed,  will die disgraced.  Of course,  1 
do not mean  that  the  man  in  business 
may not be stricken  down  with  his  cap­
ital  in  the  business,  which  cannot  be 
withdrawn,  for capital  is  the  tool  with 
which the business man  works  his  won 
ders and  produces  more  wealth.  What 
1  refer to is  the man  who dies  possessed 
of millions of securities  which  are  held 
simply  for  the  interest  they  produce, 
that he may add to his  hoard  of  misera­
ble  dollars.  By  administering  surplus 
wealth during life  great wealth  may  be­
come a great blessing to  the community, 
and the accupation of  the  business  man 
accumulating wealth  may  be elevated so 
as to rank  with  any  profession;  and  by 
this way may  he take rank even  with the 
physician, one of the  highest of our pro­
fessions,  because he,  too,  in a sense,  will 
be a physician,  looking  after and trying, 
not to cure,  but to prevent the ills of hu­
manity. 

A n d r e w   Ca r n e g i e .

for  examination. 

M an y   A re  C a lle d   b u t  F e w   A re  C h o sen .
At the examination session of the State 
Board  of  Pharmacy,  held  in  the  New 
Blodgett building,  in this city, last  week, 
about  seventy-five  candidates  presented 
themselves 
Several 
were rejected on  account  of  alleged  in­
formalities  in  their  application papers, 
so  that  the  regular  examination  was 
taken by only fifty-nine applicants, forty- 
three  being  candidates  for  registration 
as registered pharmacists  and sixteen  as 
candidates for registration  as  assistants. 
Only seventeen  succeeded  in  satisfying 
the Board as to their fitness,  nine as reg­
istered  pharmacists and  8  as  assistants. 
The  successful  candidates  were  as  fol­
lows:

REGISTERED  PHARMACISTS.

J.  A.  Howsor,  Saginaw.
£.  A.  Richards,  Saranac.
C.  G.  Meseroll, Jackson.
Wm.  Legate,  Grand Rapids.
H.  L.  La Bar,  Fife Lake.
J.  £.  Knapp,  Bay City.
A. £.  Fuller,  Richmond.
B. C.  Fisk,  Edwardsburg.
M. Y. Cook, Charlevoix.
ASSISTANTS.

£.  A.  Dunwell,  Plainwell.
N.  H.  Jones,  Detroit.
B.  M.  Billings,  Grand  Rapids.
G.  W.  Palmer,  Mt.  Pleasant.
C.  O.  Fountain,  Battle  Creek.
Chas.  James,  Detroit.
H.  H.  Tucker,  Saginaw.
W.  H.  Roberts,  Ishpeming.
The next  examination  session  of  the 
Board  will  be  held  at  the  Star  Island 
House,  near Detroit, June 24.

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made,  5c.

T hd 

Im p o r ta n c e   o f  C o m p e ten c y  

K e e p in g   B oo k s.

The 

lapse  of 

impracticable, 

importance  of  employing  com­
petent  persons  to  keep  the  books  of  a | 
business man is well  illustrated  by  the | 
ruling of the Court  of  Appeals  of  Ken­
tucky  in  the  recently  decided  case  of \ 
Macauley  vs.  Elrod,  which  was a suit for 
an accounting  between  the  owner  of  a 
theater  and  his agent and  book-keeper, 
running  through  a  period  of  several 
years, the owner  claiming  that  the  lat­
ter,  by  failing  to  make  proper  entries 
and omitting to make others,  showed the 
use of the former’s  money  to  a large ex­
tent,  for  which  he  should  be  held  to 
account.  Many  books  of  account,  or­
ders,  checks,  etc.,  were  included  in  the 
record,  and  a  system  of  book-keeping 
shown that rendered it  impossible to  ar­
rive at any  accurate  result.  The  owner 
first insisted that the other owed $15,000, 
but on investigation  reduced  the  claim 
to less than one-third that amount.  The 
matters  were  referred  to  a  Master  in 
Chancery,  fully  competent  to  state  re­
sults,  who  found  the  indebtedness  the 
other way.  After several  rehearings  be­
fore the chancellor  the  matter  came  be­
fore  the  higher  court,  which,  in  sub­
stance,  said:
Ordinarily one  undertaking  to  act  as 
book-keeper  and  treasurer  for  another 
will  be  held  to  show  a  correct  state­
ment  of  the  accounts and  made  respon­
sible  for  his  failure  to  do  so;  but  in  a 
case 
like  this,  where  the  neglect  and 
carelessness  of  the  employer  cause  the 
discrepancy,  or  aid  in  bringing  about 
a  state  of  things  that  renders  a  true 
accounting 
this  strict 
rule  of  responsibility  does  not  apply. 
The  large  claim  asserted  by  the  em­
ployer,  who  had  constant  access  to  the 
books,  after  such  a 
time, 
tends  to  show  that  he  knew  the  books 
gave  no  accurate  statement  of  the  ac­
counts,  and  that  he  was  the  recipient 
of  all  the  proceeds  to  which  he  was 
entitled.  His  own  estimate  of  the  re­
ceipts  and  the  indebtedness  of  book­
keeper  to  him  are  so  wide  of  the  mark 
as  to  show  that  his  own  mistakes  are 
greater 
alleged  against 
the  employe.  His  constant  access  to 
the  cash  drawer  and  his  withdrawal  of 
money,  often  without  even  making  a 
memorandum of the date or amount, show 
the loose  manner  in  which  the  business 
was  conducted,  and  the  loss,  if  any,  is 
to  be  attributed  as  much  to  the  care­
lessness  of  the  employer as to  the  want 
of  capacity  on  the  part  of  the  em­
ploye.  The  latter  was  not,  in  fact,  a 
book-keeper,  and 
this  bis  employer 
knew.  The  only  experience  which  be 
had bad originated  from the  attempt  to 
keep the books in question,  and no book­
keeper,  however expert, could have  kept 
an accurate account  of  the  business  as 
conducted  by  the  employer;  the  latter 
having  the  sole  right  to  the  proceeds, 
the  former  had  no  power,  even  if  he 
knew how,  to require  him  to  submit  to 
any regulation that  he  might  prescribe 
for the proper conduct  of  the  business. 
The employer had experience as  a  book­
keeper,  but with  his  knowledge  of  the 
manner 
in  which  the  accounts  were 
kept,  was as  careless  as  he  alleges  the 
employe was,  and no one reading his tes­
timony  ought  to  fix  liability  upon  his 
subordinate,  who was  in  fact a mere cus­
todian,  and not  one  to  receive  and  ex­
pend the moneys,  as if  he  had  superior 
control  of  the  funds.  This  court 
is 
asked to examine a list  of  accounts  too 
numerous  to  mention,  with  a  view  of 
testing the  accuracy  of  the  chancellor, 
who is an  able  and  expert  accountant, 
and  who has investigated  their  accounts 
on more than one  reference.  The chan­
cellor,  in  our*  opinion,  took  the  only 
equitable view of  these  claims,  it  being 
impossible to arrive at  any  accurate  re­
sult from the records  and  accounts,  and 
dismissed both the original  petition  and, 
the claim for settlement,  for  a  court  of 
equity should leave  such  matters  where 
it finds them.

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

A ROUND  TH E  ST A TE.

MOVEMENTS  QF  MERCHANTS. 

Detroit—Davis & Mclunis  succeed  M. 

W.  Davis in general trade.

East  Jordan—Win.  H.  Healey,  ha(d- 

ware dealer,  has assigned.

Edgerton—Kelsey  & Rector succeed F. 

Kelsey in general trade.

Hadley—Grant Stimson succeeds Stim- 

son Bros,  in general trade.

Lansing—The  Lansing  Fuel  Co.  has 

sold  its business to John  A.  Daley.

Sterling—Andrew  Peacock  succeeds 

Peacock & Redmond  in  general  trade.

Coleman—J.  H.  Dinwoodie  has  sold 

his jewelry stock to F.  A. Niggeman.

Traverse  City—J.  J.  Kurtz  has  sold 

his grocery stock to Schoolcraft & Co.

Jackson—Wm.  Sparks  succeeds  Rob­

bins & Sparks  in  the grocery  business.

Hadley—E.  J.  Hemingway  succeeds 
Tuuison & Hemingway  in general trade.
Nashville—Putman  Bros,  have  sold 
their hardware stock  tP  Brattiu  & lnger- 
soll.

Detroit—Adolph  W.  Blumberg  has 
sold  his crockery  business  to  Bernhard 
Berg.

Cass City—N.  Bigelow  &  Son  succeed 
Howe & Bigelow in  the  hardware  busi­
ness.

Manistee—R.  D.  Christiansen has  pur­
chased the bazaar stock of  Jans  Thomp­
son.

Quincy—C.  N.  Wilcox has removed his 
boot and  shoe stock from  Reading to this 
place.

Albion—Joy  & Owen succeed  Parsons 
implement 

&  Joy  in  the  agricultural 
business.

Concord—Brodock  &  McKenzie,  gro­
cers,  have dissolved,  Brodock & Co.  suc­
ceeding.

Cedar Springs—S.  A.  Nickerman  suc­
ceeds  W.  C.  Congdon  in  the  hardware 
business.

Memphis—Sweet  6   Reynolds  succeed 
Jas. D.  Sweet in the  hardware and  paint 
business.

Berrien  Springs—M.  K.  Feather  sue 
ceeds  Jas.  F.  Skinner  in  the  boot  and 
shoe business.

Cass City—Howe & Bigelow,  hardware 
dealers,  have  dissolved,  N.  Bigelow  & 
Son  succeeding.

Deciple—Skelton  &  Bartlett  succeed 
Preston W.  Bartlett  in  the  grocery  and 
drug  business.

Pontiac—Pauli  &  Nusbaumer  have 
purchased the boot and  shoe stock of El­
liott & Durrant.

Saginaw—The  Barrows Music Co.  suc­
ceeds  Barrows  &  Gregory,  dealers  in 
pianos and organs.

Hillsdale—Eccles,  Donaghy  <& Russell, 
undertakers,  have dissolved,  Donaghy  & 
Crane succeeding.

Jackson—Frank Bowen,  Secretary  of 
the Jackson Grocery Co.,  has severed his 
connection  with that house.

Shelby—M.  Kelly  succeeds  Kelly  & 
Field in the hat and cap and clothing and 
men’s furnishing goods  business.

Grand Blanc—A.  D.  Banker & Co.  are 
succeeded  by  Stuart  &  Maxwell  in  the 
hardware and  implement business.

Marengo—Frank  Reed  has  sold  his 
stock  of  general  merchandise  to  J.*C. 
Cooper,  who will continue  the  business.
Owosso—F.  H.  Chapell,  of  this  city, 
and  J.  W.  Hibbard,  of  Bennington, 
have formed  a co-partnership  under  the 
firm name of Chapell & Hibbard and  will 
do  a  wholesale  and  retail  business  in 
vegetables,  table  relishes  and  fruits,

will continue the manufacture  of  plant­
ers,  but  will  locate elsewhere if he can 
find a suitable pla*e.

Lelaud—The Leland  Lumber  Co.  will 
start  its  sawmill about April 1. 
It  will 
cut 1,000,000 feet  against  2,000,000  last 
season.

Holland—A. C.  Stewart  has  sold  out 
his  cigar  manufacturing  business  to 
Frank  Delater,  formerly  with  H.  Van 
Tongeren.

Saginaw—The  Michigan  Lumber  Co. 
is reported to have sold 4,000,000  feet  of 
hardwood  lumber  to  Eastern  parties. 
The price is not named.

Glen  Haven—D.  H.  Day will  start  his 
sawmill  as  soon  as  the  ice is out.  He 
will cut 2,500,000 feet,  mostly hardwood, 
with some hemlock.  His logs are nearly 
all in.

Albion—The Manning Harness Co.,  W. 
H.  Manning,  Manager, 
the 
Rousseau Harness Co.  in  the  wholesale 
manufacture  of  harnesses  and  the job­
bing of vehicles.

succeeds 

Grand  Ledge—Francis  Rawson  has 
purchased a half interest  in  the  marble 
and granite business of V.  N. & Roxie A. 
Pearsall.  The  new firm will  be  known 
as Pearsall & Rawson.

Detroit—John  S.  Sherman,  Edward G. 
Mumneny  and  George  H.  Harms  have 
filed articles of association of the Detroit 
Vapor Stove Co.  The capital  is $150,000, 
all  paid in.  The  corporation  will manu­
facture vapor stoves and  furnaces.

Kalamazoo  —  The  Kalamazoo  Reed 
Chair Co.  has  been  incorporated  with  a 
capital stock of $20,000—of  which $6,000 
is paid in—for the purpose of continuing 
on  an enlarged scale the  manufacture  of 
reed and rattan chairs  established a year 
ago by  Rickman  & Pratt.

Saginaw—Col.  A.  T.  Bliss has closed  a 
deal to cut 4,000,000 feet of deals  for  the 
export trade,  Canadians  being  the  pur­
chasers.  The  stock  will  be  cut  at  the 
Bliss  mill  here  from  logs  railed  from 
Midland  county.  Col.  Bliss 
is  well 
pleased over the contract and  says it  will 
net him $6 or $7 more a  thousand  than  if 
cut  into  ordinary  grades  and  piled  on 
dock  here.

Belding—A  cannery  promoter,  repre­
senting the  Hoosier  Canning  Machinery 
Co.,  of  Indianapolis,  Ind.,  generously 
offers to erect and equip a  complete  can­
nery  here for a  consideration  of  $6,500. 
As the grocers of the  place  realize  that 
most lines of canned goods  are  now  be­
ing  sold  below the  cost  of  production, 
their  advice  to  the  business  men  who 
might  otherwise  be inclined to invest in 
the enterprise is to let it alone.

Detroit—It 

is  reported  that  C.  M. 
Snedicor has nearly  concluded  arrange­
ments for  the  establishmeut  of  a  shoe 
factory  in  the  building  formerly  occu­
pied by the Black  Hardware  Co.,  at  the 
corner of Wayne and  Woodbridge streets. 
Mr.  Snedicor had  intended  removing  to 
some more western  city,  but  after  pros­
pecting through the  West he came  to the 
conclusion that Detroit  presented  better 
manufacturing facilities  than  any  other 
city visited.

Manistee—A lumbering  concern  here, 
«earing that beech could  be used  for saw 
haudles,  five or  six  years  ago  cut  up  a 
large quantity  and  held  it,  selling only a 
few thousand  feet annually.  They  have 
at last managed to dispose  of  the  whole 
of  it  to  a  New  York  concern  and it is 
now  going  forward  by  rail.  One  New 
York concern  has recently closed  a  con­
tract for 500,000 feet of hard maple to be

sawed  to order and shipped  by  rail,  and 
a western concern  is negotiating for 500,- 
000 feet rock elm to  be  Sawed  in  thick­
nesses from 2 to 4 inches.

have 

commenced 

Muskegon—Snyder  &  Straub,  candy 
manufacturers, 
to 
spread  out.  For  a  time  they  contem­
plated  moving into new quarters,  but ar­
rangements  were  finally  made  whereby 
they could  acquire the necessary  room  at 
their present location, 15,17, and 19 E.Clay 
avenue.  The  company  will  have  a 
new  office  and an elevator  running  from 
the  first  to  the  third  floor.  The  firm 
handles an average of  50,000  pounds  of 
candy  per mouth.

Petoskey—The Chicago & West  Michi­
gan  Railroad  Company 
is  getting  es­
timates for the building  of  a  new  dock 
here,  with a depth of  water  sufficient  to 
permit the  landing of the steamer Mani- 
tou,  which has  heretofore landed only at 
Harbor Springs, 
it is  probable that the 
road  yvill  be  extended  around  Little 
Traverse  Bay  to  Harbor  Springs,  and 
thence  northward  via  Cross  Village  to 
the  Straits.  Such  an  extension  would 
open  up a rich  hardwood country.

W ill  E x p lo it  th e   H a rris o n   T e le p h o n e  

in   th e   S o u th .

A Grand Rapids syndicate has secured, 
by  purchase,  a  deed  of  the  Harrison 
telephone  pateuts  for  Louisiana,  Mis­
sissippi  and Arkansas  and  will  proceed 
to  exploit  the  invention  and  establish 
local  exchanges  in  that  territory.  For 
the sake of handling  the work  more  ef­
fectively the syndicate has  been  merged 
into a corporation,  with  a  capital  stock 
of $100,000,  under  the  style  of  the  Mis­
sissippi Valley  Harrison  Telephone  Co., 
the stockholders  being T. Stewart White, 
Thomas Friant,  Harvey  J.  Hollister,  J. 
H.  P.  Hughart,  Ga  us  W.  Perkins,  Wm. 
T.  Hess,  F.  C.  Miller,  Jas.  D.  Lacey, 
J.  M.  Blakely  and  E.  A.  Stowe.  The 
officers  of  the  corporation  are  as  fol­
lows:

President—Thomas Friant.
Secretary—E.  A.  Stowe.
Treasurer—F.  C.  Miller.

PR O D U CE  M A R K E T

Apples—The  m arket is  nearly  Dare  of  stock, 
choice stock  of  any  kind  com m anding  $3 ® $4 
per bbl.

Beans—Still  advancing  and  likely  to go still 
higher, as stocks are concentrated In few hands. 
Local  handlers  pay $1.90 for  clean, hand-picked 
stock and holding at $2 in  car  lots  and $2.10 in 
sm aller quantities.

B utter—The  m arket  is  tum bling, dealers  be­
ing afraid to handle the ordinary grad  s offered 
except in a  hand-to-m outh  w ay.  Prices  range 
from  12 @ 16c, according to quality.

Cabbage—50c per doz.
Celery—25®3"c per doz., according  to  quality. 

Any of it is poor enough.

Cranberries—$3.50 per  crate.
Eggs—15316c  per  doz.,  but  m arket  on  the 

down  grade.

Lettuce—1214c  per lb.
Onions—Dry stock is scarce.  D ealers pay 50® 

60c, holding at 65@75c.
Parsnips—35c per bu.
Potatoes—The  spring  shipp'ng  season  w ill 
soon be in  full blast.  H andlers are now paying 
45 ®  5  c at tbe principal  buying points, and  the 
indications are th a t the price w ill not vary m uch 
from these figures for some  days.

Radishes—Hot house stock com m ands  30c  per 

doz. bunches.

Sweet Potatoes—Kiln dried  Jerseys  com m and 

$3 per bbl 

Illinois bring $2." 5.

Squash—H ubbard  brings  114c  per  lb.,  if  the 
quality is up to standard.  Poor stock sells at % 
01c.

W A N T E D .

Cabbage,  Onions,  Turnips,  Parsnips, 
Potatoes,  Beans and  Suu  Dried  Apples. 
if yon 
Any  quantity,  car load  or  less, 
have any stock to offer, write ns.

H e n r y   J .  V i n k e m u l d e r ,

445-447 S.  Division St.

I besides  manufacturing  sauerkraut  and 
horse radish.

Iron wood—J.  C.  & C.  M.  Bean,  dealers 
in  jewelry  and  musical  merchandise, 
have dissolved,  C.  M.  Bean  continuing 
the business.

Hart—H.  Marshall  has  sold his bakery 
business  to  Jacob  Eberhardt,  recently 
from Arthur,  111.,  who has  added  a  line 
of staple groceries.

Nashville—Dr.  John Ball is closing out 
his stock of drugs and books preparatory 
to removing to Lansing, where he intends 
to open  a drug store.

Frankfort—Baumgarth & Co.  have em­
barked in general  trade.  A.  C.  McGraw 
& Co.  furnished the boots and shoes,  the 
order being captured  by Frank  E. Chase.
Morenci—The Phillips  Hardware  Co., 
of Blissfield,  has closed out its  bankrupt 
stock of goods  here,  and  the  manager, 
Harry  Copman,  has  returned  to  Bliss- 
field.

Detroit—Wagner & Woodhouse, whole­
sale tobacco and cigar dealers,  have  dis­
solved.  The  business  will be continued 
under the  style  of  John  T.  Woodhouse 
& Co.

Midland—H.  P.  Whipple  has  pur­
chased  the general stock formerly owned 
by the  Cleveland  Woodenware  Co.  and 
will continue the  business  at  the  same 
location.

Woodland—C.  S.  McIntyre  has  pur­
chased  the interest of Dr.  Baughman  in 
the drug stock of Baughman  &  Co.  and 
will  continue  the  business  under  bis 
own name.

Traverse  City—Frank  Daniels  has 
leased the  store  adjoining  his  grocery, 
just vacated  by  W.  J.  Hobbs,  and  will 
put in a complete meat market,  which he 
will conduct on the cash system.

Flushing—Parris  &  Davis  have  pur- 
chassed  the stationery  and  musical  mer­
chandise stock  of  Hough  &  Bump  and 
the bazaar stock of  F.  H.  Niles and  will 
consolidate the stocks  and  continue  the 
business.

Muskegon—Moulton  &  Ridel,  whole­
sale commission  merchants  of  this  city, 
have  an  agency  in  Anderson,  Ind.,  in 
charge of  Frank  H.  Johnson,  formerly 
engaged in the retail grocery  business  in 
this city.

Albion—The  grocery  stock  of  F.  A. 
Young & Co.,  recently closed  on  chattel 
mortgage,  has been  purchased  by  F.  L. 
Crane,  who  will  consolidate  it  with  his 
own  and  move  both  stocks  across  the 
street 
the 
Dalrymple block.

into  the  store  building  in 

MANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

Wolverine—P.  E.  Hackett  has  put  in 
4,500,000  feet  of  logs  for  his  sawmill 
here.

Ravenna—J.  F.  &  A.  J.  Tibbets  suc­
ceed J.  F.  Tibbets  in  the  planing  and 
shingle mill business.

Cheboygan—G. C.  Dodd  &  Co.  expect 
to have their box factory  plant  here  in 
operation in  a few days.

West Bay  City—Kirchner  &  Uebber- 
oth  succeed  Weber,  Kirchner  & Co.  in 
the planing mill  business.

Thompsonville—The Fox Lumber Co.’s 
sawmill began  business  March  11.  The 
company will cut 300,000,000 feet of lum­
ber.

Adrian—S.  B.  Babcock  has  sold  his 
corn  planter  factory  building on South 
Winter  street  to  the  Cornell  &  Knapp 
Can Labeling Machine Co. for $3,000,  the 
purchasers to take  possession  about  the 
middle  of  May.  Mr.  Babcock  says  he

GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

Arthur Whipple  &  Go.  have  opened  a 
grocery store at Delton.  The Ball-Barn- 
hart-Putman Co.  furnished the stock.

Perry  &  Worden  succeed  Bradlee  & 
Worden  in  the  grocery  business  at  the 
corner of South Ionia and  Hall streets.

E.  F.  Snell has retired  from the fancy 
dry  goods  firm  of  F.  A.  Wurzburg  & 
Go., at 64 Monroe  street.  The  business 
will be continued  by  F.  A.  Wurzburg.

Mrs.  R.  H.  Brennau  has  purchased  the 
millinery stock  of  Adams  &  Co.,  at  90 
Monroe street,  and has  removed  her mil­
linery stock from 3 North Division  street 
to that location.

S.  A.  Morman  bid  in  the  property  at 
Wayland  formerly owned  by  the  Rudell 
Ice Cream Co., at  public sale  last  week. 
The  property  comprises  a  creamery 
plant  and  sufficient machinery to manu­
facture butter on  the  factory  creamery 
plan.

Geo.  H.  Remington  has  purchased  the 
grocery  stock  of F.  E.  Hartwell & Co.  at 
603 Cherry  street.  Mr.  Remington  was 
for many years engaged  in  the  grocery 
business  at  Fennville  and  during  1894 
occupied the position  of  bouse salesman 
for the Musselman Grocer  Co.

The  Drug  Market.

Gum opium is  very  firm  and  has  ad­

vanced.

Morphia is unchanged.
Quinine is steady.
Cocoainehas advanced.  Prime is now 

$6.55@6.75 per  ounce.

Salicylate soda has again declined.
Gum camphor is higher,  both  here and 

abroad.

Po.  sugar of milk has  advanced.
Cod liver oil  is  easier,  on  account  of 

offerings of surplus stock by jobbers.

Turpentine has  advanced.
Linseed oil  is  very  firm  and  another 

advance is probable soon.

Alcohol has advanced lc per gallon.

The  Grain  Market.

that 

Wheat closed about  lc  higher  than  on 
the  previous  week,  with  a  very strong 
undercurrent.  The  reason  for  the  ad­
vance  was 
the  Trade  Bulletin 
showed  a  decrease  during  February  of 
10,000,000 bushels; foreign offers were ad­
vanced;  exports  were  about  1,000,000 
bushels  more;  Northwestern  receipts 
were some lower—but,  most  of  all,  was 
the  Michigan  State  crop  report,  which 
claimed that there  would  be only 574,031 
bushels over from the crop  of  1894,  and 
that any  wheat  which  Michigan can  fur­
nish must come  from  the  preceding har­
vest  of  1893  and  1892;  and  as the 1892 
crop  of  wheat  is  not  sought  after  by 
millers,  they  will  have  to  depend on  the 
crop of 1893,  and  it appears that our pre­
dictions  come  true  that  wheat  will  be 
some  higher.  While  we  cannot  expect 
the  high  bull  prices,  a  reasonable  ad­
vance is in order.

Corn followed  wheat  and advanced  lc, 
while  oats  are  still  firmer.  When  the 
trade  expected  easier  prices  on 
this 
grain,  the opposite happened.

Receipts  of  grain  during  the  week 
were  109 cars of  wheat, 33 cars  of  corn, 
and 9 ears of oats.  This is  an unusually 
large  receipt  of  wheat.

C.  G.  A.  Voigt.

Signal Five cigar, alliroportedstock,5c.

E.  M.  Sly,  Manager  of  the  Petoskey 
Lime  Co.’s  store  and  lime  business  at 
Bay Shore,  was in town  over  Sunday.

H.  S.-Lawton  is  Acting  Secretary  of 
the Metal Stamping  and Spinning Co.,  in 
place of Frank A.  Werner,  who proposes 
to retire at the next annual  meeting.

Percy F.  Storrs,  formerly  book-keeper 
for the I.  M.  Clark Grocery Co., succeeds 
Frank  C.  Hawkins  as  book-keeper  for 
the Grand Rapids  Packing  &  Provision 
Co..

H.  Van  Tongeren, 

the  Holland  City 
cigar  manufacturer,  has 
incurred  the 
displeasure of the  cigar  makers’  union, 
which has placed a secret boycott  ou  his 
goods. 
If it proves  as  effective  as  the 
open  boycott on  the goods of G.  J.  John­
son,  the  Holland  City  gentleman  will 
find  himself  a  rich  man  some  of  these 
days.

Carey C.  Shay,  assistant  book-keeper 
for the  Lemon  & Wheeler Company,  will 
be married this evening  to  Miss  Fidelia 
Irene Brainerd  at the residence of Dr.  D. 
F.  Hunt,  218  Terrace  avenue.  Rev.  Dr. 
Jackson  will  perform  the  ceremony. 
Both  bride and groom are  well and favor­
ably  known to a  wide circle of acquaint­
ances,  who wish them much happiness.
Eugene  Carpenter  has  removed 

to 
Hastings, where the Common Council has 
voted him a bonus of $6,000 to embark in 
the manufacture of  school  desks  in  the 
plant of the defunct  Hastings  Furniture 
Co.  Before closing the deal  it  might  be 
well for the  people  of  Hastings  to  en­
quire into the record of Mr.  Carpenter in 
this and other communities  in  which  he 
has done  business.

Status  of the  Pure  Food  Bill.

There  is  considerable  speculation  at 
Lansing  over the  outcome  of  the  Brun- 
dage bill, otherwise  known  as  the  Pure 
Food  bill.  A public  hearing  was  given 
last Thursday evening,  at  which  time ar­
guments  were made by those in favor of, 
and those opposed to,  the measure.  The 
general  opinion  appears  to  be  that  the 
Committee on  Public Health will smother 
the bill or report  it  adversely,  but  Sena­
tor Bruudage insists that  it  still  stands 
some show of passing the Senate.

In  case  the  bill  does  not  pass,  the 
friends of the measure  propose  to throw 
all  their support  to  the  bill  abolishing 
the office of Food  Commissioner,  as they 
have no confidence in  the  ability  or  en­
ergy of the  present  Commissioner  to  do 
the  people  of  the State any  good  under 
existing laws.  Mr.  Storrs  has  promised 
to appoiut a live  man  for  Deputy  Com­
missioner  in  case  the  Bruudage  bill is 
enacted,  as the enactment of the measure 
carries  with it  an  annual  appropriation 
of $15,000—a  sum  sufficient  to  pay  the 
salaries  and  expenses  of a considerable 
number of hungry office seekers.

While there are some  good  features in 
the bill,  most of  its  provisions  are  out­
rageously  unjust to the  retail  trade,  and 
The  T r a d e s m a n   urges  its  readers  to 
communicate  with  their  Senators  and 
Representatives,  setting  forth  the desir­
ability of defeating  auy  measure  which 
is so utterly devoid the  elements of  fair­
ness and equity.

As  a  pillow  a  clear  conscience  will 
beat goose  feathers.
He  who accumulates  does  well,  but  he 
who preserves  better.
Measure the length  of  your  quilt  be­
fore endeavoring to stretch your legs.
Every  man’s  door  has  received  the 
knock  of  fortune  at  least  once.  Most 
failures were of those too lazy to  get  up 
and let her in.

T H E   M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N .
Law Points  on  Partnership.

Purely  Personal.

The use of the firm name  by  one  part­
ner without the consent of the  others  in 
indorsing his personal  note is not within 
the scope  of  the  partnership  business, 
and one who  loans  money  ( n  the  note 
with knowledge that it  was  the personal 
obligation of the  borrower  cannot  hold 
the firm.
Where a new firm is  formed by the ad­
dition of another member, a debt  of  the 
old firm,  not assumed  by the  new,  is  not 
enforcible  agaiust  it,  but  may  be  en­
forced against those  members  who  com­
posed the old firm.
Where each  member of a  firm  holds in 
his individual name an  undivided  inter­
est in  land  which is held  for  the  benefit 
of the firm and used for partnership pur­
poses,  it is subject to firm debts.
A  firm  whose members  own  equal un­
divided interests in  its  real  estate  may 
allow one member to  retire and  take  his 
portion of the real estate  as security  for 
a debt due him  from  the firm.
Where a firm allows one  member to re­
tire and  take  his  undivided  interest  in 
the  firm  real  estate  as  security  for  a 
debt due him from the firm,  the continu­
ing  members, 
in  adjusting  accounts 
among themselves, cannot treat sucn real 
estate  as  partnership  property  without 
satisfying his  lien.
When a new firm assumes the debts  of 
the  old  firm  which it succeeded in  busi­
ness,  and  afterward  allows  one  of  its 
members,  who was also  a member of  the 
old  firm,  to  retire  discharged  from  all 
liability for the firm  debts,  and  to  take 
part  of  the  firm  real  estate as  security 
for a debt due him  from  the  firm,  such 
real estate is  subject to the  debts of  the 
old 
firm  after  the  other  partnership 
property has  been exhausted.
Where a bank loans  money  to  a  firm, 
and  takes  the  firm  note  therefor, and, 
after the  creation  of  a  new  firm,  com­
posed of the same members and  another, 
accepts its notes  in renewal  with knowl­
edge that one of its  members,  who  was a 
member of the old  firm,  has  retired,  the 
renewal operates as a payment of  the old 
note,  precluding the  bank  from  recourse 
against the property of such retired mem­
ber. 
Eaton  Rapids  Merchants  Unite  to 
19—Eaton 
Rapids  business  men  have  joined  hands 
to  protect  themselves  against  poor-pay 
customers,  under the style  of  the Retail 
Merchants’  Protective  Association  ot 
Eaton  Rapids.  The  officers  of  the  or­
ganization are as follows:

Down  Dead-Beats.
R a p i d s ,  March 

E a t o n  

____

President—W.  D.  Brainerd. 
Vice-President—H.  C.  Minnie. 
Secretary—C.  T. Fairfield.
Treasurer—L.  T.  White.
The plan of the Association is for each 
member  to  prepare  a 
list  of  slow  ac­
counts and the amount of the  same  and 
present them to a committee  whose  busi­
ness it will be to endeavor to  collect  the 
amounts. 
If the committee is  unable  to 
accomplish this,  the names of  the  debt­
ors will  be placed ou  the dead-beat book, 
of which each  member  of  the  Associa­
tion  will have a copy,  aud  when  a  per­
son  asks for credit,  should  be be owing a 
brother merchant,  credit  to  him  will  be 
positively  refused  until  such  account 
is paid.
Some years ago a B.  M.  A.  was  organ­
ized here, and it was a success,  many  ac­
counts being collected  by  the  somewhat 
celebrated Blue Letter  collection  system 
which  merchants  were  unable to  realize 
anything from  in any othef way.
Other objects than collecting  poor  ac­
counts are to come  from the organization 
of this body of men.  They  will endeavor 
to induce  manufacturing  institutions to 
locate in our  midst  and  help  the  town
g e n e r a lly .____ ____________
From  Out of Town.

Calls  have  been  received  at  The 
T r a d e s m a n   office during  the  past week 
from the following gentlemen in trade: 

Frank Smith,  Leroy.
Geo.  Chantler,  Manistique.
H.  E.  Parmeiee,  Hilliards.
Carrington & North,  Trent.
J.  H.  Van  Den Bosch,  Lucas.
N.  F.  Miller,  Lisbon.
R.  J. Hyma,  Muskegon.
Petoskey Lime Co.,  Bay Shore.

Change In the Sugar Card.

The Committee  on  Trade  Interests  of 
the  Grand  Rapids  Retail Grocers’  Asso­
ciation promulgated  a  new  schedule  of 
prices on granulated  sugar  March  12,  as 
follows:

5 cents per pound.
5 pounds for 25  cents.
11  pounds for 50  cents.
22 pounds for $1.
Gillies’  fine New  York Coffees  are  on 

top.  J.  P Visner, Agt.

Wants  Column•

A dvertisem ents  w ill  be  inserted  under  this 
head for tw o cents a word the first insertion and 
one  cent a word  for each subsequent  insertion. 
No advertisem ents  taken for  less  th an  25 cents. 
A dvance paym ent.

B U SIN ESS  C H A N C ES. 

TT TA N T ED  -  PARTNER  (GENTLEMAN  OR 
v* 
lady)  w ith  $4,000  or  $5,000  cash,  to  take 
h alf interest in an  established  dry  goods  busi­
ness in  a live, grow ing town.  Owner has an e x ­
cellent business and is in control  of  nearly  th e 
entire county trade in the dry goods lin t.  D on’t 
reply  unless  you  mean  business.  Address No. 
719, care M ichigan Trade-m an. 

I  TOR  SA LE-D R U G   STOCK,  CLEAN  AND 

fresh.  New s h e lv in g . counters, showcases, 
soda fountain and  safe  The finest location in  a 
good business town.  Will sell at a big sacrifice. 
A ddress No. 685, care M ichigan Tradesm an.  685

719

711

71 r

OR  SALE — TWO  COAL  STOVES  AT  (5 
apiece, and two at $8 apiece;  can  be seen  at 
100 Louis st  T r a d e s m a n  C o m p a n y ,  New  B lod­
gett building. 

F OR  SALE — WELL ESTABLISHED  AND 

good-paying  tin  and  furnace  business  in 
Investiga­
this city.  Good reasons  for  selling. 
tion  courted.  P.  O.  Box,  547,  G rand  Rapids, 
Mich. 
715 49
TTTA N TED —PARTNER TO  TAKE  HALF IN ­
I' V 
terest in my 75 bbl.  steam  roller mill  and 
elevator, situated on railro ad ;  m iller p referre d ; 
good  w heat  country.  F ull  description,  price, 
term s and inquiries given  promptly  by address­
ing  II. C.  H erkim er,  Maybee,  M onroe  county, 
Mich. 

F OR SALE—TABLE  FACTORY.  LOCATED 

in a live town  of  2,(00  inhabitants  P lant 
includes  boiler  engine,  kilns, saw m ill and  nec 
essary m achinery to m anufacture tables or other 
lines of  fu rn itu re  Town  has  three  railroads, 
furnishing excellent shipping  facilities.  Plant 
cost $17,0 0 and  is well w orth  $10,000,  but w ill be 
sold for $5,000. ow ing to inexperience  of  owner. 
Address  No. »97, care  M ichigan  Tradesm an.  697

address  Box 185,  Sunfield,  Mich. 

stock, stationery,  shoes,  etc.  P articulars, 
702

f  lO R  SALE—A  W’ELL SELECTED  DRUG 
■ OR  SALE—A  FIRST-CLASS  HARDWARE 

and im plem ent business in thriving village 
in good farm ing com munity.  A ddress Brown & 
700
Sehler, G rand Rapids,  Mich 
GOOD  STOKE  BUILDING  AND  *»,U0O 
stock  general  m erchandise,  to  exchange 
For  particulars  ad­
for  farm   w orth  $5,0O>. 
dress No. 680. care M ichigan Tradesm an 
686 
7 5  ROCEKY  STOCK  FOR  SALE—INVOICING 
VT  about $7,000, in  a  hustling  tow n  of  8,000. 
Everything cash.  The  only grocery  th a t  made 
money last year.  Reasons, other irons.  Address 
No.  (.91. care  M ichigan Tradesm an. 

S t o c k   o f  c l o t h i n g  a n d  g e n t l e m e n ' s

furnishing  good;, to  trade  for  real  estate. 

A ddress No. 660. Care M ichigan Tradesm an. 660
I F   YOU  WANT  TO  BUY  OR  SELL  REAL 
J 
I  can  satisfy  you.  Chas. 
E.  M ercer,  Rooms 1  and 2, W iddicom b  building.

estate, w rite me. 

691

■ OR  SALK—A  SHOE  BUSINESS,  OR  HALF 

interest in ssm.e,  on  one  of  the  principal 
streets in G rand  Rapids.  New stock,  good trade, 
location  Al.  A ddress  No.  624  care  M ichigan 
Tradesm an. 

624

653

M I1 C K I.L A N K 0 0 8 .

718

T   OOKING  FOR  REAL  ESTATE 
INVEST- 
JLi  m euts, ■ r have  business  chances  for  sale? 
See AINANS  &  MOORE  Room 1, Tow er  B  oek, 
G rand Rapids. 

M_   EN  TO  SELL  BAKING  POWDER  TO THE 

grocery  trade.  Steady  em ployment,  ex­
perience unnecessary  $75  m onthly  salary  and 
expenses or commission. 
If offer is satisfactory 
address  at  once  w ith  particulars  concerning 
yourself  U.  S. Chemical  Works,  Chicago,  677  ■
TTTA N TED —BUTTER,  EGGS,  POULTRY, 
VV 
potatoes,  onions,  apples,  cabbages,  etc. 
Correspondence  solicited.  W atkins  &  Smith, 
81-86 South  Division St., G rand  Rapids. 
XTEARLY  NEW  BAR-LOCK  TY PEW RITER 
l x  
for  sale  at  a  great  reduction  from   cost 
Reason for selling, we desire another  pattern  of 
sam e m ake of m achine, w hich  we  consider  the 
best  on the  m arket.  Tradesm an  Company,  100 
Louis St., G rand  Rapids. 

673

564

■ TANTED—EVERY  D R U G G IS T   J U S T  

'  starting in business and every one already 
started to use our system  of poison labels.  W hat 
has cost you $15 you can now  get  for  $4.  F our 
teen  labels  do  the  w ork  of  113.  Tradesm an 
Company.  G rand Rapids.______________
SITU A TIO N S  W A N T E D . 

TTTA N TED —POSITION  AS  DRUG  CLERK, 
Yv 
by graduate in pharm acy.  Registered in 
M ichigan  and  W est  V irginia  Best  o f  refer­
ences.  A ddress  H.  J.  Thom pson, Ph.G.,  M an­
chester, Ohio. 

716

C5

T H E   M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N .
Dry Goods Price Current.

C H E C K IN G   G OLD  E X P O R T S.

Now that the  new  Government  bonds 
have been distributed,  both here  and  in 
London,  with  the  prospect of a gratify 
ing profit to their recipients at the  allot 
ment price,  and of one  still  more  grati 
fying  to  their  original  takers,  interest 
centers in the probable effect  of  the  op 
eration  upon  gold  exports  from  this 
country.  The syndicate who negotiated 
the  bonds  have  undertaken  to  reverse 
the  natural  course  of  things,  and  not 
only  to  supply  the  demand  for  remit 
tances to  Europe  without  shipping  gold 
thither,  but to bring the metal  this  way 
They have already imported several mil­
lions of it,  and  they  are  preventing  its 
export by selling bills of  exchange  at  a 
fraction  under  the  export  point.  That 
they can  keep on  doing  this  so  long  a 
the proceeds  of  the  bonds  sold  abroad 
hold out,  and  as  much  longer  as  their 
borrowing ability  will  permit,  is  indis­
putable;  and  they  evidently  calculate 
that,  before they have exhausted their re­
sources in this  respect,  they will  be  re­
lieved by the shipment of  the  approach­
ing summer’s crops.  They  have made  a 
large  contract,  but  they  are backed up 
by the patriotism,  as  well  as  by  the  in­
terest, of the entire native financial com­
munity,  and  if  they  succeed  only par­
tially,  they  will  have  rendered a valu­
able service to the country.

the 

In favor of the syndicate is  the  slight 
rise  in  the  rate  of interest of money in 
this  market,  due  partly  to a revival of 
trade  and  partly  to 
contraction 
caused by the recent redemptions of legal 
tender  notes.  So  long  as  these  notes 
had to be paid out again as  fast  as  they 
came  in—which  has  been  the  case  for 
the last year and more,  owing to  the  in­
ability of the Treasury to  meet  from  its j 
other receipts the demands  upon  it—this 
redemption  in gold procured  by  the  sale 
of bonds  was merely  a  roundabout  way 
of borrowing gold  with  which to  pay  ex­
penses,  and it did not  decrease  the  vol­
ume  of  currency  in  circulation.  The 
Secretary of the Treasury lately reported 
to the Senate that he had  reissued  since 
Jan.  1,  1893,  redeemed  notes  to  the 
amount of 8105,000,000.  Clearly,  if this 
sum  had  been  kept  locked  up 
in  the 
Treasury  vaults,  currency  would  have 
been  by  so  much the  scarcer,  money 
could  have  been  lent  at  higher  rates, 
aud  thus  the 
iuducement  to  send  it 
abroad in the shape of  gold  would  have 
been  lessened.  The  Secretary  now  de­
clares that his receipts from customs and 
internal revenue taxes  will,  for  the  rest 
of the  calendar  year,  more  than  equal 
his expenditures. 
If  he  is  right,  any 
further redemption  in gold of  legal  ten­
ders will  have  the  effect  of  restricting 
gold exports instead of facilitating them. 
Senator Gorman disputes the Secretary’s 
declaration,  and  asserts  that  the  defi­
ciency,  which has  been  so  mischievous, 
will continue to occur,  but  his  opinion, 
like the Secretary’s,  is  only  an  opinion, 
which  the  result  may  or  may not con­
firm.

The question,  however,  which  under­
lies that of the currency,  and  which is of 
far more importance  to  the  country, 
is 
whether or not  we are  going to maintain 
our credit with European money  lenders. 
For years  we have been  largely  depend­
ent  upon  foreign  capital  for the means 
of developing our natural  resources  and 
of increasing our  national  wealth.  Till 
within  a  few  years  past  we  have paid 
our creditors handsomely for their assist-

ance,  and  they  have  left  with  us  not 
only the original principal lent, but much 
of the income derived from  it.  Latterly 
their  losses  have  been  so  great,  espe­
cially in Western  railroad ventures,  that 
they  have  become  disgusted  with  the 
whole  business,  and  are  withdrawing 
their funds from them as fast as possible 
Instead of buying  new  American  bonds 
and  stocks,  they  are  selling  their  old 
ones,  and  instead  of  leaving  here  their 
income for reinvestment, they are taking 
it away largely in the shape  of gold.

is 

What the exact amount is of  our  total 
debt  to  European  investors statistics  do 
not show.  The excess  of  our  merchan 
dise exports over imports  is  often  cited 
as a proof that we  do  not  owe anything 
abroad,  but  that,  on  the  contrary,  Eu 
rope  owes  us,  but  this  is a conclusion 
not j ustified by the  facts  from  which  it 
is  drawn. 
If  every  country  having  an 
excess of exports over its imports  were 
creditor,  then, conversely, one having an 
excess  of  imports  over  exports 
debtor,  and Great Britain, whose imports 
annually  exceed  her  exports  by  some 
thing  like  8500,000,000,  should  by  this 
time be hopelessly  overwhelmed  by  her 
debts to  other  countries. -  The  truth  is 
that a nation’s exports and imports prove 
nothing whatever in  regard to  its  finan 
cial condition.  A  surplus  of its exports 
over its  imports  may  proceed  from  the 
demand  upon it for  the  payment  of  in 
terest on money borrowed and for the re 
payment of loans,  or  it  may  be  caused 
by  expenditures  abroad  of 
surplus 
wealth.  On the other hand, a surplus of 
imports  may  indicate,  as  does  that  of 
Great Britain,  the remittance to  a  coun­
try, in the shape of consumable commodi 
ties, of the income derived by its citizens 
from their  foreign  investments  or  from 
the  collection  of  their  foreign  debts. 
That Great Britain can annually consume 
commodities to the amount  of  8500,000,- 
000  more  than  she  produces  within her 
own territory,  and still have  a  consider­
able  sum  left  for  new  investments,  is 
the most convincing  proof of  the wealth 
of her citizens.  That  the United States, 
with  a  surplus  of  merchandise exports 
amounting in 1894 to 8150,000,000, should 
to  ship 
have  been  obliged,  besides, 
abroad  that  same  year  880,000,000 
in 
gold,  shows a state  of  comparative  pov­
erty and a  limitation of borrowing power 
which, justly, create uneasiness.

The discouragement of foreign  invest­
ments  in  this  country,  caused  by  the 
miscarriage of our  great  railroad  enter­
prises,  has  been increased  by  the  indif­
ference of Congress to the preservation of 
the national credit.  When  our  English 
creditors see,  as  they  have  seen  for  a 
year past,  both  Houses  of  Congress  by 
large majorities,  apparently inviting and 
promoting the bankruptcy of the national 
Treasury,  it  is wonderful  that  they  do 
not exhibit more alacrity than  they do in 
rescuing their property,  while they  can, 
from destruction.

It may indeed be  said  that,  so  far  as 
concerns  losses  by  investors  from  cor­
porate  mismanagement  and  dishonesty, 
Great Britain has had too  many of  them 
at home to be very squeamish  about  the 
risk  of  them here.  The year just ended 
has alone witnessed  over  one  thousand 
bankruptcies of British  joint-stock  com­
panies,  while even the Bank  of  England 
itself has  lately  suffered  from  the  dis­
honesty of its chief cashier to  the extent 
of  hundreds  of  thousands  of  pounds 
sterling.  Going  over  the  records  of

UNBLKACHED  COTTON8.

Clifton Arrow  B’nd  4*4 

A d ria tic ................... 654
A rgyle....................... 5
A tlanta A A .............. 6
A tlantic A ................S
H
“  
P ..............  5
“ 
D ................  6
“  
“  LL  .............. 4 *
Amory........................644
Archery  B a n tin g ...
Beaver Dam  A A ..  4>t
B lackstone 0 , 32__ 5
B lack Crow .............. 6
Black  Rock  .............  5*4
Boot, A L ..................  7
C apital  A ..................5 \
C avanat  V ................554j
C hapm an cheese c l. 3 44
C lifton  C R ................ 5Î4
C om et.........................554
D w ight S tar..............S ^IPeqnot
Clifton C C C ............   5 *  Solar

World W ide  6
“  L L ..................454
F ull Yard W ide....... 654
Georgia  A ................¿54
Honest W idth.
H artford A ..............  S
Indian H ead............   654
King A  A ....................654
King E C ...................   5
Lawrence  L L .........  4!4
M adras cheese cloth 654
N ew m arket  G .......  5
B  ........ 4 Vi
N  ........6
DD  ...  5

“ 
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N olbeR  
Our Level  B est.......6
Oxford  R  ................  6
654 6

.........5

BLEACHED  COTTONS.

¡Top of the  H eap.
A B C ......................... 854
Geo. W ashington...  8
A m azon....................... 8
Glen M ills...............   7
Arnsburg.................... 5
Gold  M edal................7V4
A rt C am bric............. RJ
Green  T icket...........84
Blackstone  A A___ 654
G reat P a lls ........ —   654
Beats A ll......................4
Hope...................... . .   654
B o sto n ... 
...............IS
J u st  Out
...  6 King  Phillip  .... 
...  754
...  5 *
OP.
..  7 H
...  5 54 Lonsdale C am bric..  9?i
...  754 Lonsdale............ @  654
..  6 M iddlesex......... ©  454
No N am e....................754
Oak V iew ................-6
Our O w n....................   554
Pride of the W est.. .11
R osalind.....................754
S nnilght....................454
Utica  M ills................854
N onpareil  ..10
V lnyard....................   854
-  
6
954

C harter  Oak 
Conway W ..
Clevelan d ...
D wight A nchor___  7
shorts  6
E dw ards....................6
Em pire.......................  7
Farw ell.....................  6*4
F ru it of the  Loom.  7V4
F itchvllle  .............   7
F irst P rize................ 6
F ru it o f the Loom 54.  654
F alrm ount................   454 W hite Horse
F u ll V alu e................ 5541 
Cabot..........................6 
F a r w e ll....................7 

“  Rock__
(D w ightA nchor
|

HAL F   BLEACHED  COTTONS.

“ 

CANTON  FLA N N EL.

Bleached. 
H ousewife  Q .... 
R .......

“  

U nbleached. 

H ousew ife  A ........... 654
.654
...6
...654
...7
.7 5 ,
...754
...754
...854
..  854954
..10
---¿“71
...11 
....21 
....1454
CARPET  W ARP.

654

•s*•  954 
. 10 
10)4 
..1154 
-.1254 
• •1354

..18
..17
.19

11 

“
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D R ESS GOODS.

Peerless,  w hite.. — 14541 Integrity  colored.
colored — 17  W hite S ta r.......   ..
Integrity 
“   colored
A tlantic, 45 in ... 

.................1854! 
325*
Serge, 45 in  3254
F F   ...
45  in   .
AA!  ...
A t.........
TC.........
MC. 
..

pacific  BAW.............1054
Hamilton  grey mix.1054 
1054 
15 
18 
20
.25 
.20

.  18*4 36 in. fancy
....3254 36 in.
...30
36 in.
..26 M) in. F lannels
“
...20 36 in.
...16
¿7 in.
“
ETS.
C orallne.........................19 00
W onderful 
(4 50
Schilling’s ...................... 9 00
B righton. . .  
4 75
...  9 00 
Davis  W aists 
Bortree’s .....................  9 00
G rand  R ap id s.......  4  50
A bdom inal..............15 00
N aum keag.............  .  7
B lddeford...............   5
Androscoggin 
.  7
Rockport 
..............  554
7*
A rm ory.....................  654lPepperweli
S tratford................... 16
Io n ic........................... 16
Holt 
is
Beaver J e a n .............17

COTTONADBH,
Moscow.  . 
__ 21
A lpha.........................21
D undee......................1254
K nnkerhill..............   12)4

CORSET  JEANS.

......... 

 

ood stock 

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

PRI]
Allen  dress goods..  45 
Turkey  r e d ...  454
1  robes................5
American indigo b’l  454 
sh irtin g ..  3t* 
delaines  4>4 
b’lk  w hite  454
..................  5
lo n g c lo th A .il 

A rnold 

B.  754 
C.  654 
gold seal T R 954 

“  
Bear Mill—
B 
D 

Stan’rd  A percaleiu 
8
7J4
C harter Oak fancies  354
Elberon solids----..  454
F ountain  red 
......... 754
c a rd in a l.  554 
G arner’s—
stand, ind.  b lu e.. 105, 
»«tines-... 
..  554
c a rd in a ls ..............   8
Flow er P ot............ 954
m ousseline...........  554
Del M arine M gs...  5
Q uaker style  .......554
Harmony  fancies  ..  454 
chocolates  4 
H am ilton fan cies...  454

“ 
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“ 
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“ 

Amosxeag A C A ..  ¡154
Conostoga 
............ 1 ■>
H am ilton N  ............   654
B B ............... 654
E R ...............654
B ..................754
B B ..............1054
A A ............. IO»

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Hamilton  R aven’tes  5 
sta p le s....  5 
tw ill  dran.  6 
dragon c’h  «54 
Im perial  solid cloth  5 
bine D G ..  654 
p’k, purple 554 

“ 
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Pacific— 

India tw ill and  tu r­
key red  robes....... 754
.......354
Lodi  fancy 
“  shirtings.......  334
M anchester fancies.  5 
m ourn.  5
„   “  
M artha W ashington
Indigo b lu e s ........454
turkey  re d ............ 654
fancies  ..................4v
1054
blk A w hite pis.  .  5
A v e n tin e ............. 5
fancie- blk, w hite  5 
solid  blk p rin ts ...  5 
fast color robes...  5\  
Bedford  cords  ...  754 
Passaic  fancies 
.  454 
“ 
clarion  rbs  5 
Peabody solid bl’k..  454 
“ 
solid  color  554 
Simpson’s m’ing fac  5 
“  
solid  bl’k  5 
crep o n ...  554
“ 
[NGS.
Im p e rial....................  314
Swift C C ..................  7
Sw ift n s . ..................  8
G alveston  B ............   8
Lenox........................ is
K im o n o ................... 17
S a le m .....___1........ 10
W arren......................1154

COTTON  D BIL L .

A tlanta,  D ................  644|Stark  A
B oot............................  6*   No  N am e ...
Clifton. E  
|T o p o f  H eap

7 
D E V IN E

8
754
9

Law rence, 9 o z.........12
No. 220. ...11
No. 280 —   8
E verett, b lu e ...........1054
brow n 
1054

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No. 250_  954

Otis, AX A ..................10

Amoskeag, blue 

“  B B ......  
..........954
“  CC....................... 854
...1154
9 o z .........1354
brow n .1154

“ 

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“  Persian dress  65« 
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Amoskeag  ...............   5
Lancaster,  sta p le ...  5
fa n c ie s __   6 
C anton ..  7
N orm andie  6
A FC.........854
L ancashire................  454
T eazle. . . 1054 
M anchester...............444
A ngola.. 1054 
M onogram ................  454
P ersian ..  7
N orm andie..............  854
A rlington s tap le__ 654
P ersian ......................   654
Arasapha  fa n c y __ 454
R enfrew  D ress......... 754
Bates W arwick dres  754IRoBemont..................654
ss
afanlüfi  ß  Q loin ■«in 411 a 
staples.  6
S latersv llle...............6
C entennial...............  1054
Som erset....................7
C rite rio n .................. 1054
Tacom a  ....................754
Cum berland stap le.  554
Toil  d u N o rd ...........854
C um berland............. 5
W abash .....................   754
E ssex ........................... 454
seersucker..  754
E lfin...........................  754
W arw ick..................  6
Everett classics.......854
W hittenden..............   8
E xposition..................754
heather  dr.  754 
G lenarle...................    654
Indigo b ine  9 
G lenarven...................654
W am sntta staples...  644
G lenw ood................... 754
W estbrook................ 8
H am pton........ 
Jobnson Chalon cl 
54 
W inderm eer............. 5
Indigo blue  954 
York  . . . .  
zephyrs__ 16

10
................644

....  6

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GRAIN  RAGS.

Amoskeag................. 12  I G eorgia .
S tark.................... 
..  1554  ................
A m erican..................12 
...............

THREADS.

Clark’s Mile E n d ....45
Coats’, J .  A P ...........45
H olyoke.....................2254

B arbour's.................. 95
M arshall’s  ...............90

No.

..38
6  ..
8 ... ...34
...35
10...
12...
...36

KNITTING  COTTON.

W hite.  Colored.

38 No.  14... ...3 7
39
16...
...38
40
...39
18...
41
20... ....40
CAMBRICS.

W hite.  Colored
42
43
44
45

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S later........................  344[E dw ards..................   344
W hite S tar..............   344  Lockw ood................... 354
Kid Glove  ...............   344 Wood’s .....................   3 *
N ew m arket..............   344lB runsw lck.............  344

B E D   FLANNEL.

Firem an....................27
Creedm ore............... 24
Talbot X XX.............30
N am e less................2754

T W .............................2254
F T .............................. 8254
J R F ,  X XX.............. 25
B nckeye.................... 8254

MIXED  FLANNEL.

Red A Bine,  plaid. .40
Union  R ................... 2254
W indsor................... 1854
6 oz W estern...........20
Union  B .................. 2254

N am eless.................. 344

Grey S R  W ............... 1754
W estern W  ............... I854
D R   P ..........................1654
F lash in g  X XX .........2354
M aaitoba................... 2354
N am eless..

DOMET  FLANNEL.

.  8 
.  854 
.10

CANVASS  AND  PA D D IN G .

Brown.

Black 
Slate
95á 
1054
1054 
1154
12
U54
125420
DUCKS.

Brown.
954
1054
1154
1254

Slate.
954
1054
1154
1254
Severen, 8 oz............   8
May land, 8 oz...........  9
G reenw ood. 754 01 
Greenwood, 8 o z...  1154 ! 
Boston, 8 o z.............. 10

Black-
1054
1154
12
20
W est  P oint, 8 o z__ 10
10 oz  ...12
“ 
Raven, lOoz...............12
1354
 
Stark 
Boston, 10 oz..............1254

1054
1154
12
20

954

“ 

WADDINGS.

W hite, d o t................20 
Colored,  d o t............ 19 

| Per bale, 40 do* 
|Colored  “ 

18  10
............  6  50

SILERIAS.

Royal.............. .........  1254
Red C ro s s ................ 754
L a c o n ia ....................9 54
Victory  0 ................   6

V ictory  J .................   7
M ................  8
K K ...........  1054
S...................1254

Cortlcelll  knitting, 
per 540Z  b a ll.........30

SEW ING  SILK .

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

2 
3 

No  1  Bl’k A W hite..  5
..5
..6
45 
40  I

tw ist,d o t.  37<4 
50 yd, doz  3754 
HOOKS  AND  ETES— PER  GROSS.
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No 2—20,  M  C. 
3-18, S C ..
COTTON  TAPE.
■i W hite A Bl’k.,12 
..15
4 
..18
6 
SAFETY  PINS.
...  28  IN08
NEEDLES— PER   M.

PINB.

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No  4 Bl’k A W hite..
“  8 
..9
“  10 
..10
|N0 4—15  J 1  354  .......40

[No  8 W hite A Bl’k.,20

A- Jam es 
...............
................1  401 Steam boat 
.............1
Crowely’s ................. 1  85 Gold  Eyed 
M arshall’s .................1  00| A m erican.................. 1
5—4 

TABLE  OIL  CLOTH.

15—4 ...1   65

6 - 4 ... 

.  1  75

COTTON T W INNS.

Cotton Sail Tw ine. .28
C ro w n .......................12
D om estic..................1854
A n ch o r..................... 16
B risto l...................... 18
Cherry  V alley.........15
I X L — ...................1854
A labam a......................644
A lam ance..................6M
A u g u sta .................... 7*
A r sapha.....................6*
G eorgia......................6
G ranite 
....... ............
Haw  R iv er..............   5
Haw  J 
................•.  6

N a s h u a ...................... 14
Rising S tar 4-p ly ___17
8 -p ly .... 17
N orth  S ta r.................20
Wool Standard 4 ply 17 54 
P o w h a tta n ............... 16

T‘ 

M ount  P lea sa n t__ 654
O neida  ..............  
...  5
P ry m o n t..................  554
R andelm an...............  6
R iverside..................  554
Sibley  A ..................654
Toledo 
Otis ch e ck s...  —   7

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

PLA ID   O8NABURG 8

British financial  history,  -we meet a  long 
list  of  collapses  of  mining  companies, 
industrial 
companies,  building  com* 
panies,  banks,  and  bankers:  and  there 
was once a  time when  Mr.  Hudson,  the 
great  railway  king,  as  he  was  called, 
“cooked accounts  to  make  them  pleas­
ant”  in a  style  that  could  not  be  sur­
passed by the  most  dishonest  American 
railroad president.  At  this  moment  an 
eminent  London  financier,  Jabez  Bal­
four,  is a  fugitive  from  justice,  hiding 
himself  in  South  America,  because  of 
the swindles  he  perpetrated  a  year  or 
two ago,  and  the distress  caused  by  the 
failures of the City of Glasgow  Bank and 
of Overend,  Gurney & Co.  is  still  keenly 
felt  by  their  victims.  Nor 
is  Great 
Britain free from  the  silver  taint.  The 
bimetallist  party,  which,  as  openly  as 
that of free silver  in  this  country,  pro­
poses to  reduce debts,  wages,  rents,  and 
annuities  by  diminishing  the  value  of 
the money standard,  is  sufficiently  large 
and sufficiently respectable  to count as a 
factor  in  politics.  Only  last  Tuesday 
the Government did not  venture  to  join 
issue with them on the  question  of  con­
curring in the call proposed  by  the  Ger­
man Parliament for a fresh international 
monetary conference,  but allowed  a  mo­
tion committing it to such a step  to pass 
without a formal  vote. 
In  the  manage­
ment of their national  finances, however, 
the British are free from reproach.

Half  a  century  ago  the  Rev.  Sydney 
Smith, smarting  under  bis  losses  in  the 
bonds  of  the  State  of  Pennsylvania, 
which  were then  temporarily  in  default, 
expressed  very  vigorously in some letters 
to a London newspaper,  which  have  be­
come  classics,  the  sentiments  of  his 
countrymen  who  had  suffered 
in  like 
manner.  He wound  up by saying to his 
American  friends:  “Bull 
is  naturall 
disposed to love you,  but he loves nobody 
who  does  not  pay  him.  His imaginary 
paradise is some planet of punctual  pay­
ment,  where ready  money  prevails  and 
where debt and discount  are  unknown,” 
and he declared his  “fixed  intention  of 
lending no more money  to  free  and  en­
lightened republics,  but  of  employing  it 
henceforth 
in  buying  up  Abyssinian 
bonds and purchasing  into  the  Turkish 
fours or the Tunis 3
per  cent,  funds.” 
Succeeding generations have disregarded 
his  diatribe,  and  since  it  was  written 
millions  of  pounds  of  British  money 
have  been  swallowed  up  by  Turkey, 
Egypt,  Spain,  the  Confederate  States  of 
America,  and,  recently,  by  Argentina 
and Australia,  as  well  as  by  this  coun­
try.  The sufferers by  these  losses  will 
in  time forget them,  as they  have forgot­
ten  those  of  Sydney  Smith’s  time,  but 
while the smart continues  fresh  in  their 
memories  they  will  not  readily  expose 
their fingers again  to the  same  fire.  At 
the moment the  majority  of  our  politi­
cians of both  parties  seem to be  making 
every  effort  to  frighten  away  foreign 
capital  permanently,  and so long as  they 
continue 
in  this  course  we  shall  be 
menaced  with  gold  exports.

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

T h e   W h a t   o f   I t .

El!  In Minneapolis Commercial Bulletin.

it 

grows 

What  makes  a  country  town  grow? 
Location  and  good  management.  All 
country  towns  cannot'be  large  in  the 
very  nature  of  the  case.  But  a  good 
many townsthat are well  located  could 
be  made  larger  by  good  management. 
Country  towns should  make  themselves 
attractive.  This  is  just as important in 
a town  as in  a  city,  and  the  work  can 
be taken off the streets; a spirit of public 
interest can  be awakened that  will  take 
care  of  lawns  and  preserve  a  look  of 
regularity that will  please  the  eye.  An 
inviting town  will  grow,  not rapidly,  but 
it willgrow,  and this growth  will  count 
in ten years.
What  makes  a  store  business  grow? 
Intelligence behind  the counter and good 
management in the store.  A  store  busi­
ness  does  not  grow  under  competition 
with poor management.  There  must  in 
that case be alertness  and  good  buying, 
with  proper rules to  enforce‘in  selling. 
Some retailers spend a large part of their 
time in complaint.  This  is  folly;  busi­
ness  does  not  grow  because  a  man 
complains; 
because  he 
doesn’t complain.'  The  man  who thinks 
while his  neighbor is complaining 
isthe 
man  who  will  see business grow.  The 
man  who  works  is  the  man  who  suc­
ceeds.  And  it  is  important  to  have  a 
pleasing stock; it must be well arranged; 
as in the case of  the  country  town,  the 
lawn  must  be  kept  cnt  in  the  store if 
custom is desired.
What  makes  a  good  clerk?  Those 
qualities of sympathy that draw one per­
son to another without the'desire  to  act 
otherwise than  in the interest of the cus­
tomer,  who  trusts  to  one’s 'judgment. 
are  comparatively  * few  good 
There 
clerks.  A clerk  must study his business 
jnst as every man  should. 
It  is  not  an 
easy thing to be a successful clerk; there 
are all tastes to suit,  and  the  temper  of 
the clerk must be flexible.  When  a cus­
tomer wants  his way do  not  try* to  in­
duce him  in  another  direction;  let  him 
have his way  and he will  think  you  are 
a pleasing  clerk;  on  the  other  band,  if 
your counsel is  desired,‘give  it ’for  the 
best  interest  of  the  customer.  This 
course  will  bring  trade. 
It  is  a  good 
thing to know human  nature  to  an  ex­
tent when behind  the  counter.
What makes a merchant?  Those qual­
ities  that  build  a  firm  foundation  for 
truthfulness  and  right.  The  merchant 
who erects a  platform  of  trickery  will 
godown  with  the wreck,  because  such  a 
platform  has flaws in  it;  it  cannot  hold. 
But the platform  that is made  firm  from 
the bottom  up will carry  the weight of a 
growing business easily,  and there it will 
be supported for growth.  The best pays 
best,  and  that is why  the  best  business 
policy pays best. 
It should  be the  busi­
ness  of  every  merchant  to 
investigate 
and  find  what  that  policy 
is.  Every 
merchant who wishes  the  greatest  suc­
cess must make  himself  attractive,  and 
the  greatest  attractiveness  comes  with 
sincerity.  Some men can  look  well,  but 
when close to them  we  discover they are 
artificial.  The realness of a rose is never 
doubted  when once  its  perfume  is  felt. 
The  artificial  rose  is without  perfume, 
although in outline it may  resemble  the 
real.

Hardware Price Current.

These  prices are  for cash  b w y e rt,  who 
pay promptly  and  bay in  fall  packages.
Snell’a ....................................................................  
70
C ook's..................................................................... 
40
Jennings?, g e n u in e ................................... 
 
25
Jen n in g s’, im ita tio n ..........................................50410
d li.

AUSUB8 AND BITS. 

a x is. 

dlB.

F irst Q uality, 8. B. B ro n ie...............................

D.  B. B ronze.............................. C  5 50
8. B. 8. S teel....................................   i l  00
D .B . Steel.......................................   6 50
13 00

BABBOWS. 

It  Wouldn’t  Keep.

• 
* 

“It is plain,”  said  the  justice,  “that 
you stole the bog,  and  I  shall  send  you 
up for twelve months.”

’fo’  1 goes?”

“Jedge,  kin you gimme ’bout  on  hour 
“What for?”
“Well,  suh,  po’k  won’t  keep  in  dis 
weather en’  I  wants  ter go home en’  salt 
dat hog down!”

.allro ad ..................................................  112  00 14  00
g ard en .........................................................   n et  30 00

bolts. 

dig.

Stove.  .....................................................................50*10
Carriage new  lis t................................................. 75*10
P low ........................................................................ 40*10
Sleigh ahoe............................................................ 
75

BUCKETS.

W ell,  p l a i n ..........................................................* 3  25
d ll.
Cast Loose Pin, figured.............................  
70
W rought N arrow , bright c u t  jo in t 40...........60*10

BUTTS, OAST. 

 

T H E   M IC T H G A lS r  T R A D E S M A N ,

7

W rought Loose  P in .........................
W rought  T ab le................................
W rought In sid e B lin d ......., ..........
W rought B rass..................................
Blind,  Clark’s ..................................
B lind,  P arker’s .................................
B lind, Shepard’s 
...........................
BLOCKS.

O rdinary Tackle, list A pril  1802.

G rain ....................................................

CBADLEb.

OBOW  BABB.

CAPS.

Cast Steel

Bly’s MO 
H ick’s  C. F
G. D .......
M usket

Rim  F ire 
Central  F ire 

OABTBIDABS.
..................................
.............................

CHISELS.
Socket F irm e r.........................
Socket F ram in g .......................
Socket C orner...........................
Socket S lic k s...........................
B utchers’ Tanged  F irm e r__
COMBS. 

..  40
.  .  40 
...  40 
75
.70*10
.70*10
70

70

50

per 9> 

4

per m

65
55
35
60

56
25 

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

dis.

.. 
..  75*10 
...  75*19
------75*10
. . .   75*10 
40
.......  

dlB.

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

40
25

W hite Crayons, per  gross................ !2<&i2yi dis. 10

CHALK.

COPPEB.

“ 

P lanished, 14 o i cu t to size.........per ponnd 
14x52,14x56.14x60 ........................... 
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60...........................  
Cold Rolled, 14x48............................................... 
B o tto m s................................................  
 
d iS .

D BILLS. 

28
26
28
23
22

 

Morse’s  Bit  Stocks.......................  
.. 
 
Taper and straight S hank.............................. 
Morse’s T aper S h an k ........................... 
. . . .  

. 

50
  50
50

D B IPPIN S  PAMS.

Small sizes, *er p o n n d ......................................... 
Large sixes, per  p o n n d .....................................  

6 Vi
06

ELBOWS.

E X PA N SIV E B IT S . 

Com. 4  piece, 6 In .................................dos. n et 
65
50
C orrugated...................................................dis 
A djustable....................................................d ii.  40*10
Clark’s, sm all, t i 8;  large, 626.......................... 
30
Ives’, 1, *18:  2, *24;  3,*30................................. 
25
Dlsston’s .......................................................... 60*10-10
New A m erican............................................... 60*10-10
N icholson’s ..................................................... 60*10- 0
H eller’s ................................................................... 
50
H eller’s Horse Rasps  ........................................ 50*10

p il e s —New List. 

dis.

d is .

8ALVANIZKD IBON.

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

12 

13 

15 

D lsconnt, 70

14 
OAUexs. 

.. 

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

k n o b s—New List. 
Door, m ineral, jap. trim m in g s__  
................  
Door,  porcelain, jap. trim m ings 
Door, porcelain, plated trim m in g s ..............  
Door,  porcelain, trim m ings............................. 
D raw er  and  S hatter, p o rc e la in .................. 
Russell *  Irw in  Mfg. Co.’s new  list  ........... 
M allory, W heeler  *   Co.’s ................................  
B ranford’s ...........................................................  
N orw alk’1 ...........................................................  

LOCKS— DOOB. 

dll.

d li.

dlS.

28
17

so

55
55
55
55
70

55
55
55
55

MATTOCKS.

MAULS. 
mills. 

A díe B ye............................................*16.00, dis. 60-10
H unt B y e............................................*15.00, dis. 60-10
H unt’i   .........................  
............. *18.50, d li. 20* 10.
dis.
Sperry *  Co. ’1, P oit,  h a n d led .....................   . 
50
dis.
Coffee, P arkers  Co.’§.........................................  
40
P. S.  *  W. Mfg. Co.’s  M alleable!  ... 
49
................  
40
30
dig.
60*10
00*10
30

“ 
•*  L a u d en ,  F erry *  C1» rk’i  
“   E nterprise 
MOLASSES SATES 
8 te ’bin’s  Pattern 
Stebbin’s Ger nin e 
E nterprise, se lf-m easu rin g ............................. 

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

... 

 

N A IL S

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Base 

A dvance over  base,  on  both  Steel  and  Wire.

Base
lo
25
25
35
45
45
5;
till
75
90

Steel nails, Dase............................................................ 1 20
W ire nails, b a se ............................................................ 1 20
60................................................... 
50...............................................................  
40...............................................................  
30...............................................................  
20...............................................................  
16................... 
12...............................................................  
10............................................................... 
8...........  
7 * 6 .......................................................... 
4 .................................. 
3 .......................................................................... 
2.......................................................................... 
F in e 8 ................................................................ 
Case  10....................................................  
65
8....................................................  
75
6 .........  
90
 
F inish 10.................................................. 
75
90
8 ................................................... 
6 ..................................................  
10
Clinch; 10................................................. 
70
so
8........................................ 
6.................................................  
90
B arren X ................................................. 
175
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fa n c y .....................................   ®5 ’
Sclota  B ench....................................................   60*10
Sandusky Tool  Co.’s, fan cy .............................  £ 5 J
Bench, first q u ality .............................................  050
Stanley R ale and  Level Co.’s  w ood......................... 60
F ry,  A cm e....................................................dis.60—10
70
Common,  polished......................................dis. 
bi vetb. 
Iro n  and  T in n ed ................................................. 
60
Copper R lveti and B o n   ... 
.........................  50—10

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

planes. 

FANS.

d li.

dis.

 

PATENT PLANISH ED  IBON.

" A "  Wood’s patent planished. N oi. 24 to 27  10 20 
.  9 20 
“ B”  Wood’s  pat. planished,  Nos.  25 to 27 

B roken paoki vie per pound extra.

M aydole  *  Co.’s ...........................................dig. 
26
Kip’s .............................................................  dis. 
25
Yerkes *  Plum b’s .....................................   dis. 40*10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel............................ 30c list 60
Blacksm itn’s Solid Cast  Steel  H an d ... .30c40*10 
Gate, C lark’s, 1 .2 ,3 .................................... dls.dGAM
S tate.................................................. per dos. net, 2  50
Screw  Hook  and  Strap, to 12  in. 414  14  and
.............................................................  
3*4
1
Screw Hook and  Bye, f t .............................n et 
%  .......................   n et  8 vi
7^4
ii  ... — .............   n et 
* ..............................net 
7 vi
Strap and T ................................................   dig. 
y«

bin ess.

longer 

“ 
“ 

 

 

HAMSEBS. 

Pots  ...................
K ettles..............
Spiders  .............
Gray enam eled.

diS.
50*1C
Darn  Door  5 !cider Mfg. Co.,  Wood tra c t 
Champion,  a n tifric tio n ...............................     60*10
Kidder, wood tr a c k .................... 
40
HOLLOW  V A R S
■ Ö0Ä1 
.60 * 
6 *. 4-.UJ1
Stamped  Tin W are...  ......................new  list ï  &10
Japanned Tin W are........................................... i  *10
G ranite Iron W a re .........................new  lis 
40
Blight  .........................................................
........... 80
Screw  R yes................ 
...........................
.........80
Hook’s ................................  
.................
.........80
Gate Hooks and  Syas  ........................
_____ 80

HOUSE  PUBHISHIMO  HOODS.

w i n s   s o o d s .

d b

Stanley  Rule and Level  Co.’s ..............

LEVELS.

Sisal,  Vi Inch and larger 
..............................  
M anilla  ................  ...........................................  

SO PES.

SQUARES.
Steel an d   Iro n ...........................
Try and B evels.........................
M itre ...........................................

6
g
dis.

80
60
20

SHEET  IBON.

Com.  Smooth.  Com.
*5»  50
2  60
2  70
2  80
2  90
8  00
A ll  sheets N o. 18  and  lighter,  over 30  inches 

Nos. 10to  14  . . . ..................... ..............13  50 
Nos. 15 to  1 7 ..........................................   3  50 
Nos.  18 to 21.........................................   4  05 
Nos. 22 to  2 4 ...........................................355 
Nos. 25 to  2 6 ..........................................-j  65 
No. 27....................................................... 3  75 
w ide not less than 2-10 extra
SAND  P A P S B .
List a c c t .  10,  ’86 
..................................
SASH  COUD.
S ilv e r   Lake,  W hite  A .....................
Drab A ...........................
W hite  B .......................
Drab  B ............................
W hite C ....................

....... list
1
it
...  M

¿0
50
55
50
55

“  
“  
“  
“ 

Discount, 10.

SASH  W ElftHTb

 

 

dll.

dis.

saws. 

TBAPS. 

H a n d ............................................. 

Silver Steel  Dla. X Cuts, per fo o t,.... 
“ 
Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per fo o t.... 
“  Special Steel Dla. X Cuts, per fo o t.... 
“  Cham pion  and  E lectric  Tooth  X 
Cuts,  per  foot...........................................  

Solid Byes....................................................per ton 120
20
70
50
80
go
Steel, Game 
........................................................ 60*10
O neida Community, N ew honse’s ............ 
5)
O neida  Community, Hawley * N orton’s .. 7C-10  10
Mouse,  choker......................................15c per d o i
M ouse, delusion................................... 91.25 per dos
w ins. 
dis
Bright M arket.......................  
 
Annealed M arket....... ................. 
........
Coppered  M arket.....................................
Tinned M arket..............................
Coppered  Spring  Steel...........................
Barbed  Fence, galv an ised ...................
p a in te d .........................

75*:o62)S
2 3Ì.
1  9)
An  S able.................................................. d ii. 
40*10
aia.  06
P u tn am ................................................. 
N orthw estern.....................................  
dis. 10*10
dig.
B axter’s  A djnstable, n ickeled .......................  
so
Cue’s  G enuine 
•
Coe’s Patent A gricultural,  w rought..........   7  *10
75®!
Coe’s  Patent,  m alleable............................  
. 
di»
Bird Cages 
’•>
..................................  
Pumps. C istern.................. 
....................’5*1  *5
Screws. New  1 1st.................. 
.............so
. 
• ’asters.  Bad  a  d  P la t e ............
4  *10
Dampers,  A m erican 
Forks, hoes, rakes  and all steel goods 
...  70

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

MISCELLANEOUS. 

HOBSB NAILS.

WBENCHEB. 

75

“ 

. 

Si ICTA Ï.8,

Pie t i n .

5 »
0

2!

SOLDEE.

Pig  Large.............................................................
Pig  Bars........................................... .
ZINC.
•jait pound  casks.......   . 
.................. 
per  p ound........................................... 
Aitri..............................................
1 
Extra  W ip in g ............................................
1 ü>
the  many  utner  qualities 
The  prices  oi 
1 60
-•older in  the m arket indicated  by  n n ra te  bran 
v a r y   according to composition.
ANTIMONT.
Cookeon.......................................  
H alle»’«...................  
.. 
TIN— MEL UN SHADE
10x14IC ,C harcoal............................  
14x20 IC, 
10x14 IX, 
14x20 IX, 

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

per  pound

tí
t  6 0
6  0
7 0
7 0

“ 
“ 
“ 

Bach additional  X on this grade, 11.75 

“ 

. 

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

t i n — a l l a w a y   s h a d s .
“ 
. 
“ 
“ 

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

5  2
5  2
6  i
6  1

.... 

Bach additional  X on this grade 11.50.

14x20  IC, 
14x20 IX, 
20x28  IC, 
14X20 IC, 
“ 
14X20IX 
“ 
20x28  IC', 
“ 
20x28 IX , 
14x56 EX, fo r No. 8 B ollen, < 
1U60  X,  “ 

BorvwTKTfi  CUATVS
5  0
D ean 
“ 
6  0
......... 
O O
.................... 
’* 
4  75
"  Aliawsy  <->rade 
. 
.
’ 
5 7 ,
.
.
“ 
9  i
......... 
...............  U   SO
“ 
BOILBB  SIZE T IN  PLATE.
„
9
“   g 

- 
f per  ponnd 

” 
“ 
“ 
“  

« 

 

8

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

and others who do not embrace citizenship 
and cannot  be  controlled  by  the  politi­
cians.  They  are  considered  most unde­
sirable elements of  population,  and  it  is 
their coming that has  stimulated  an  ac­
tive opposition against  immigration.

M U N ICIPA L  IN D U ST R IES.

There is a strong prejudice—doubtless 
with a sufficient foundation—against  the 
municipal  exploitation of  industrial  en­
terprises.  such  as  gas and  electric  light­
ing,  or water  works,  on the part of large 
tax  payers  in  most of the  rapidly  grow­
ing cities of this country.  The question 
is  asked,  Why  is  it  that  such  enter­
prises  can  be,  and  are,  carried  on  by 
European  municipalities  with 
such 
economy and  thrift that large  profits  are 
realized  and  yet  the  idea  be  received 
with such  hostility by American  capital­
ists?  Certainly, if it was  supposed  that 
the plan  would  be followed  by  a  reduc­
tion  in  taxation there would  be  no  hesi­
tation in endorsing it.

What  constitutes the difference?  Is it 
that the old  world cities  are  in  advance 
of  the  new  in  administrative  develop­
ment?  In some  regards  this  is.  doubt­
less,  the case,  but the principal  reason  is 
not to  be looked for here,  but in  the dif­
ference in  the  industrial  conditions, es­
pecially 
stability 
of  these  conditions  in  Eastern  cities. 
Labor 
so  mo­
bile and fluctuating and so  dependent on 
artificial  surroundings,  and 
is, 
withal,  such an intimate relation between 
municipal politics  and the  labor  organi­
zations that there is  sufficient reason  for
concern  in  such  public enterprises.

this  country 

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there 

the 

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in 

is 

TH E  IN C R EA SE  IN   TH E  NAVY.
Although the Fifty-third Congress neg­
lected  to  make  any  additions  to  the 
navy in  the  way  of  new  vessels  at  its 
first session,  with  the  exception  of  au­
thorizing  three  torpedo  boats, 
it  has 
made, some amends  by  sanctioning  dur­
ing its second session as many  as  eleven 
vessels,  including  two  battle-ships,  six 
small sheathed  gunboats  of  light  draft 
and  three  torpedo  boats.  The  House 
actually  proposed to allow  three  battle­
ships  ana  twelve torpedo  boats;  but  the 
Senate would not agree to so great an  in­
crease  in  the  naval  estimates,  and  re­
duced the number of battle-ships by one, 
and substituted six  gunboats  and  three 
torpedo boats for the twelve torpedo boats 
provided  for in  the  House programme.

It  is  proposed  by  the  Navy  Depart­
ment  to  construct  the  battle-ships  re­
cently  authorized  on  very  much  the 
same plan  as the Iowa now  building,  al­
though  it  is possible  that  provision  will 
be made for  more  guns  by  slightly  in­
creasing the size of the vessels,  although 
the  draft  will  not  be  materially  aug­
mented,  owing  to  the  difficulty  which 
might be experienced  in  entering  some 
of the harbors along  our  coast.  An  ef­
fort  will  be made to give these new ships 
as powerful a battery as  that  placed  in 
tha 
latest  British  battle-ships  of  the 
Majestic  class,  although,  owing  to  the 
smaller coal capacity  to be  provided  for, 
the  American  «hips  will  be of  several 
thousand  tons less displacement than the 
British ships.

The  workman in  this city  will  talk  of | havfS of  armored  vessels> 

With  the completion of the two battle­
ships authorized,  the  United  States  will 
first-class
the  conditions  of  his  trade as he found 
I and  two  second-class  battle-ships,  two 
them  in  Denver a few days  ago  and  will 
armored  cruisers  and  six  coast-defense 
compare those with Pittsburg, perchance, 
vessels—sixteen ships in all.  This  is  a 
where  he  was  at  work  a  few  weeks 
very  respectable  fleet;  but  it  is  by  no
earlier,  and he is only  going to stay  here
means sufficient to  properly  protect  our 
until he can  find a  “softer  snap”  some-) extended coast line,  with  its  important
where  else. 
In  Glasgow,  when a work 
ports.  The entrance  of  the  Mississippi 
man secures a position, his principal am­
River  alone  would  require  a  powerful 
bition  is to make  it  permanent;  and  the 
squadron  of  battle-ships  to  defend  it; 
man  who  would  recklessly  throw* up  a 
| while the big ports of Boston,  New York 
position there and go  on  an  uncertainty 
and  Philadelphia  would  need  a  fleet 
to Sheffield  would  be accounted little bet­
double  the  size  of  the  present  total 
ter than  a lunatic.
strength of the navy  to  keep  off  an  en­
terprising enemy  like Great Britain.

Another  Japanese  army is reported to 
be mobilizing with  the  intention  of  de­
scending  upon  the  island  of  Formosa. 
This  may  lead  to  complications  with 
England,  as  the 
latter  power  has  all 
along insisted  that  the  island  should  be 
left alone.  But Japan is not in a temper 
to leave anything alone  just  at  present, 
and even  haughty  England  may find that 
she cannot dictate  the war policy  of  the 
victorious Japanese,  says an  expert dip­
lomat.  England  is  the  biggest 
island 
hunter on  the world,  and ought to be sat­
isfied  with  what  she  has;  but  it seems 
she is  still hunting Formosa.

One of the most notable  statesmen  re­
tiring with this  Congress  is  the  “Great 
Objector,” Holman. 
It  is stated that he 
retires poorer than  when he  entered  the 
service  of  the  Government,  thirty-five 
years  ago.  His  persistent  honesty  of 
purpose is  indicated  by this fact,  as  well 
as  by  the  title  he  acquired,  and  is at­
tested  by  all  who  know  him. 
It  is  a 
commentary  on  the  condition of politi­
cal  life in Washington if such a man can­
not  meet  his  necessary  expenses  and 
save something out of even 85,000 a year.

Quite an excitement  has  been  created 
in the British Parliament  by a statement 
in the Times to the effect that condemned 
animals  at Chicago are prepared and sent 
to  English  markets  after  the  inspector 
makes  his  rounds.  The  circulation  of 
such reports  in  France has  proved so ef­
fective 
in  securing  the  exclusion  of 
American  beef  from  that  country  that 
our English  friends must  needs try  what 
they can do in  the same line.

to 

A  freight  train  load  of  138  tons  of 
gold ore,  valued at  81.000,000,  was  sent 
from  Cripple  Creek 
the  smelting 
in  St.  Louis  recently.  This  is 
works 
said  to he the  most  valuable shipment of 
crude  ore  ever  made.  The  car  doors 
were left open  and  secrecy  as  to  their 
contents was  depended on  for  safety,  al­
though  a guard of three  men  with  short 
shot guns  was in  each car.

The record of performance for the New 
Jersey Arbitration  Board during the past 
two  years  is  the  compromising  of  one 
labor dispute. 
Inasmuch  as  the  Board 
receives 810  per  day  for  each  member 
while sitting,  and  a  large  number of sit­
tings have been  held,  the  Legislature  is 
considering the  advisability of repealing 
the act by which it is constituted.

Manchester,  England,  has,  through  its 
common council,  voted  81,000,000  for  a 
technical  school.  Manchester  is  one  of 
the  great  manufacturing  cities  of  the 
world,  and  it  proposes to remain so if en­
terprise  in  educating  artisans  and 
in 
building canals  to get  to  the markets  of 
the  worid will do it.

A committee ol  the  Chicago  Board  of 
Trade  has preferred  charges  before  the 
Railroad  and  Warehouse  Commission 
against thirteen of the principal elevator 
companies for dealing in  grain  in  viola­
tion of the law,  and asks that their licen­
ses as  warehouse men  be revoked.

The receivers of the  Gogebic  Consoli­
dated  Mines have  surrendered the leases 
of all but one of  them  to  their  owners, 
for the reason that the  coart  decided  it 
would not pay  to work them.

The honesty of a man  who  never  has 
money  to  pay  his  debts  need  not  be 
questioned.

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TO  R EST R IC T  IM M IGRATION.

For more than a  century  the  territory 
of the United States has been open to tb 
free  and  unrestricted  reception  of  the 
people,  who have  swarmed  hither  from 
every  country  on the globe. 
In all  that 
time many millions have  come  to  these 
shores,  and among them  were many good 
and  industrious  people, who  have made 
worthy and  useful  settlers  and  citizens 
They  helped  to build  up  a  vast  empire 
of  iudustry  in  the  wide  regions of the 
West,  and  to  these foreigners is  largely 
due  the  preservation  of  the  Union  in 
crushing  out  the  secession  movement 
during  the civil  war.

The 

incalculable  benefits  that  have 
inured to the country by this enormous in­
flux of foreigners,  which,  since  1861,  has 
amounted  to  more than  13,000,000,  have 
been  made  the  burden  of  many  great 
speeches  and  many  labored  newspaper 
articles,  but at  last there  is  a  sign  that 
the  foreign  invaders  are no longer wel­
come.  Leagues are formed to stop them, 
and legislation  is  being  devised  to  put 
obstacles in their  way,  and there is grow­
ing  up a great outcry against  them.

The  Immigration  Restriction  League, 
of Boston,  which  has taken  up  the  mat­
ter of reforming the  present  laws  relat­
ing  to  immigration,  proposes the enact­
ment  of  a  measure  providing  that  the 
head-money  collected  from  alien  passen 
gers  under  the  act  of  Aug.  3,  1882,  to 
regulate  immigration,  shall  be  810  in­
stead  of  SI,  as  provided  in  said  act as 
amended  by  the  act  of  Aug.  18,  1894, 
making appropriations  for  sundry  civil 
expenses,  and such  head-money  shall  be 
covered  into  the  Treasury,  as  provided 
in  said  last  mentioned  act,  which shall 
apply to all  persons  between  14  and  60 
years  of  age  who cannot both  read  and 
write the English language or some other 
language.

It  was natural  that  the  extraordinary 
influx of foreign population  would  con­
tinue to be  welcomed  until  it  ceased  to 
be  valuable  to  the  politicians.  Then 
came the first objection.  So  long  as  the 
immigrants  were from  the  British  Isles, 
Germany and Scandinavia they were wel­
come.  Those  people  readily  took  to 
the ways of the country and  became citi­
zens,  but in later years  the  immigration 
has been  largely  composed  of  Russians, 
Poles,  Hungarians,  Bohemians,  Italians

In an  English city the superintendence 
and  management of industrial enterprises 
cost relatively  very  much less than  here 
and  peculation  and  malfeasance  in office 
are very rare in comparison.  The reason 
to  he  found  in  the  more permanent 
conditions.  The  ambition  of  a  lifetime 
realized when  such  a  position  is  at­
tained  and the incumbent is not likely to 
let anything risk  his  losing  it. 
In  this 
country  he  is  constantly  anticipating  a 
change of location.  The  value  an  Eng- 
sh superintendent  attaches  to his posi­
tion  makes  him  willing to  accept a small 
alary.  The American superintendent is 
looking for the most he can  get,  regard- 
of  other  conditions.  The artificial 
stimulus of wages  by labor organizations 
and  the consequent  variation  and uncer­
tainty are much  greater  in this country. 
Then the intimate relations  between  the 
ward  heeler”  and  the  “walking  dele­
gate”  introduce  still  other  elements  of 
apprehension.

It is far from  T h e   T r a d e s m a n  to wish 
that  the  remuneration  of  labor  in  this 
country should  be on  the  same  basis  as 
in England,  and that would not  be a nec­
essary condition of  success in municipal 
enterprises,  but  until  there is  more  sta­
bility,  capital  will  hesitate  to advocate 
such undertakings.

The Board of Naval  Experts who,  some 
years ago,  prepared a general  plan  of the 
needs of the navy,  put the  total  number 
of  battle-ships  and  coast-defepse  ves­
sels required at forty. 
It  will  thus  be 
seen that  but a moderate  beginning  has 
been  made,  and  that  we are still a great 
way  removed  from  being  a  first-class 
naval power.  Of course,  no one expects 
that  the  United  States  should  have  as 
many vessels  as  Great  Britain.  Such  a 
force  would  be  unnecessary,  as  we 
possess  no  colonies  in  distant  parts of 
the world.  The size of our  fleet  should 
be limited  by the defensive needs of  our 
own coasts.

Of cruisers,  protected and unprotected, 
the United States  possesses  twenty-five, 
which  belong  to  the  new  navy.  All 
these vessels are  splendid  ships  and  as 
powerful as any vessels of  their  respec­
tive  classes 
in  other  navies.  These 
ships would aid materially  in  defensive 
operations;  but  they  could  not  be  de­
pended on to do the heavy fighting in op­
position to armored vessels.  It is, there­
fore,  evident  that  the  country must go 
on  building battle-ships until as many as 
the actual needs of  the  country  require 
are in readiness.

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9

A   CO M PLICA TED   C A SE.

She  was  a 

little  dressmaker  whom 
everybody respected,  but who, in spite of 
the fact that her family consisted of only 
one,  and  that  one  herself,  had  never 
climbed  the  hill  of  difficulty,  but  was 
forever at the foot.  She  had  ambitions 
and  ideals,  after  which  she  was perpet­
ually  striving  in  the  treadmill  methods 
of  a  struggle  for  daily existence.  She 
had  possibly  some  dreams  of  love,  but 
there  was  always  a  dismal  awakeniug, 
until she had come  to look  upon  her cir­
cumscribed area of life as the only camp­
ing-ground  fate  was  willing  she  should 
have.  So she made  herself  comfortable 
with  the material  at  hand,  and  tried  to 
think  herself happy  when  her four  walls 
were the boundaries of her world.

Contentment  came,  if  not  happiuess, 
and then  the disturbing element  of  love 
entered  into  her  domain  and  took  pos­
session.  At  least  she,  who  was  not 
familiar  with  the  dear  visage  of  love, 
mistook  the intruder for  the  winged god, 
and  bade him  welcome.  To  drop  meta­
phor,  she  was continually meeting a man 
upon  the  stairs  of  the  boarding  house, 
which  was her  Rialto, 
lie  was  a  lonely 
single mau  of  gentlemanly  appearance, 
but  to the eye of the initiated  he bore the 
unmistakable signs of dissipation.  Miss 
Lonsdale,  the little  dressmaker,  was  not 
initiated.  She  believed  him  to be suffer­
ing from  ill-health,  the result of despond­
ency,  and,  woman-like,  first  pitied,  then 
loved  him. 
tlis  name  was  Maurice Dun­
bar,  and  be told  her that his  family  had 
disowned  him  because he  was  poor.

ground Chat there  was  no  vacant  room. 
She would  have taken  her friend  in  and 
sat up all  night  that she might rest  well. 
There  was one other family,  but  on  the 
steps of their house  her heart failed her, 
and she turned  away  aud  went  back  to 
her  own  rooms,  where  she  could  not 
make any  impression  on  the  man  in  a 
drunken  sleep  within.  Then she walked 
the streets  until daylight,  wheu  she  fell 
senseless and  was  carried off  in  an  am­
bulance  to  one  of  the  hospitals,  where 
she remained  unknown  aud unclaimed.

She  was  ill  a  long  time.  After  that 
there was  a tedious  season  of  convales­
cence.  She  was  in  the  city  ward,  but 
everybody  was good to her,  and  took  an 
interest in  the  lonely  woman.  She  sent 
a note to her  husband  by  a  messenger, 
who  brought  back  word  that  the  house 
was  empty.  She  never  intended  to  go 
back  to him.  but  wauted  the  few  posses­
sions  she owned  to  make  her  comfoita­
ble.

One day  she  was  reading a newspaper, 
wheu  she saw her husband’s name among 
the killed  in  a  marine  disaster.  There 
could  be  no  mistaking  it,  tor  it  was  pe­
culiar  aud  the  description  justified  her 
fears—or shall  I  say  hopes?  For she had 
suffered  so much  that  she  could  shed  no 
tears  for him.  uor  canonize  him  as  some 
widows do their  departed  tyrants.  She 
was sorry  for his  wasted  life,  his desper­
ate death,  but  would  have felt herself in­
sincere  aud  hypocritical  to  mourn  for 
his  taking  off.  She  went  out  into  the 
world  the next day  aud  began  life  over 
again,  queen  of  two  hands.

*  #  *

Richard  Le.-ter,  lawyer and  politician, 
and  a  rising  man,  although  no  louger 
young,  sat alone  in  his  private office  one 
afternoon,  when  the door  opened  to  ad­
mit his confidential  clerk,  who said:

“A lady  to see  you,  sir,”  aud  at  the 
same time be laid  a  cheap  looking  card 
upon the lawyer’s desk. 

It read:

MRS.  MAURICE  DUNBAR,

Fashionable  Dressmaking. 

Rose  Terrace. 

;
:

‘‘Why,  Claude,” exclaimed  Mr.  Lester, 
“this  is  the  party  for  whom  we adver­
tised.”

“Same  party, 

sir,”  responded 

the 

clerk,  with  commendable brevity.

this 

“Well, 

is  remarkable.  But  by 
the  way,  Claude,  it  was  a  man,  not  a 
woman,  we  wanted.  What  does  she 
look  like?”

“ Widow,  sir.”
“Show her in.”
The  next  moment  a  slight 

figure, 
dressed  in  new  cheap black,  was ushered 
into the room, 
l'he  lawyer  rose to  meet 
her.  He asked brusquely:

“Are you the widow of  Maurice  Dun­

This seemed  perfectly  natural to  Miss 
Lonsdale,  for  she herself  looked on  pov­
erty as a disease or  crime,  and  shunued 
contact  with  the  more  fortunate  of  her 
fellowbeings.

They  were married,  and she soon found 
that  with  a  conjugal  complement  she 
was  a  complete  failure.  She  had  used 
her  burial  fund  as  a  marriage  dowry, 
and  while it lasted  they  lived on  the  fat 
of the land.  She  found  her husband had 
extravagant  tastes,  and  she  gratified 
them,  lie had no money,  so she  provided 
him  with all  she had,  aud  wheu  it  was 
gone,  went  back  to her dressmaking,  a 
profession  to  which  matrimony is always 
fatal.  She  was  absent-minded,  and 
nearly cut off a customer’s  ear  with  her 
fitting  shears.  She  no  longer  chatted 
and  beguiled the time of her  fashionable 
people  with  quaint  reminders  of  other 
customers.  They grew tired of  her  and 
took  their custom elsewhere.

It came out in  the  usual  way.  Love’s 
wings trailed in  the dust  and  were  de­
spoiled.  When  she  could  no 
longer 
maintain  him,  her husband  abused  her.
“ 1  made  you  a  lady  when  1  married 
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you,”  he said;  ‘  my  family 
yours,” and  he would  pose  dramatically 
like an injured  lord.

“I have no  fatniiy,”  she  would  answer 
in a tear-choked  voice,  “except you.  Be 
good  to  me,  Maurice,  and  1  will  do any­
thing  for  you.  You  need not lift  a fin­
ger; only  be gi od  to me.”

The disposition of a man to  whom such 
an appeal  is necessary  is  already  brutal­
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bad to worse,  gambled,  drank  and  ended  j 
by beating his  wife  aud  turning her out  J 
of doors.

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dure.  Mrs.  Dunbar  went to the house of 
one whom she had befriended to ask shel­
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“Yes,  sir.”
Her  voice  had  a  peculiar  resonance, 
acquired through  much  pain—the  clear, 
low  sweetness of her  hospital  tones  at­
tuned  to  the  ear  of  suffering.  There 
was nothing suppliant  in  them,  no alms- 
taking quality,  but  a  womanliness  that 
touched  the tough  heart  of  the  lawyer 
into a sympathetic vibration.  He looked 
at  her  with  interest,  and  excused  him- 
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crimped.  Her eyes looked  into  his with 
the truthfulness of a child.

“Pardon  me,”  he stammered;  then, re­
suming his cold  exterior,  demanded  her 
credentials.

She showed an  aptitude  for  business 
in the  promptness with which  she  pro­
duced  her  identification,  the  account  of 
her husband’s death  and  other  data  of 
importance.  No point  was  left  uncov­
ered.  She had come  prepared to  lay  im­
mediate claim to a fortune  left  to  Mau­
rice Dunbar,  by his uncle,  Maurice  Duu- 
bar,  who had lived for  the  past  twenty 
years in an inland town of British North 
America.

He was  not  on  good  terms  with  any 
member  of  his  family  excepting  Mau­
rice,  who  had  visited  him  some  years 
previous,  and  in  whose  favor  the  will 
had been made at that  time.

“ Had you ever  heard  your  late  hus­
band speak  of  this  uncle?”  the  lawyer 
asked among other questions.

“I  have  heard him speak of a relative 
from  whom  he  had  expectations,”  an­
swered  the  widow  guardedly,  “and  he 
once said that he would  be  benefited  by 
his  death,  and  that  he  had  the  same 
name.”

“The  name  is  a  common  one,  but  I 
shall  probably  have  other  applicants 
who  will  see  the  advertisement,  and 
must  not  make  any  mistake.  The con­
ditions of the bequest are unusual.  Have 
you any children?”

“No—thank  God,” 

the 
widow quickly.  She felt she had reason 
to be thankful in escaping that perpetua­
tion of moral obliquity.

answered 

“In the case  of  there  being  children 
the  money  would  belong  rightfully  to 
them.  The  will  makes  this  provision, 
but  adds  further  that  if  there  are  no 
children  the  widow  shall  be  the  next 
heir. 
In  the  event  of  death  or remar­
riage,  the whole sum reverts  to  charity, 
one  particular  institution  being  named 
as  beneficiary.”

“I shall not marry again,” asserted the 

widow.

the 

“Don’t  be  too  certain  of  that,”  re­
sponded 
lawyer;  “you  are  still 
young,  and at—” attractive,  he  was  go­
ing  to  say,  but  finally  concluded,  “at 
your  age  it  is  not  an impossibility.  1 
will see you again to-morrow.  Good-bye, 
madam,”  and  he  escorted  her  to  the 
door,  which he closed after her.

*  *  *

Within a month  the  money  had  been 
paid  to  her,  and the widow qAMaurice 
Dunbar,  who had put on  her  first  black 
in order to appear  decorous  at  the  law­
yers’  office,  moved into a  handsome  new 
house,  and  began  climbing  to  her  new 
ideals upon the fateful  fragments  of  her 
dead past.  She  hardly  recognized  her­
self 
in  her  new  role  of  a  successful 
woman  wbo  had  money  enough and to 
spare.  There  was  no  frivolity  in  her 
outlay.  Her home was a picture of com­
fort.  She  looked  up a poor woman  who 
had once assisted her in her dressmaking 
enterprises,  and  gave  her  an  elaborate 
order for modified  mourning.  She  made 
glad the waste places of many a life with 
her compassionate  help,  and  in  making 
others  happy,  found  her  own  greatest 
happiness.

One  man  came  to  her  for  help  and 
eomfort,  who  needed  the  sunshine  of 
life  and  could  find  it  only  in  her pres­
ence.  This was Richard Lester,  the suc­
cessful  lawyer.  He  had  met  his  fate

when  he  first  saw  Myra  Dunbar  and 
heard the tones  of  her  womanly  voice 
and  now  he  was  pleadiqg  with  her  to 
marry him,  to cast her  fortune  into  the 
lap of charity,  and receive ten-fold  from 
him.  She was afraid to tempt fate again, 
and put him off,  but  he  had  compelled 
her to acknowledge that this love was  no 
imposture,  but the  genuine  brand.  She 
was 
lonely,  and  so  was  he,  and  they 
were so congenial  and  looked  at  every­
thing with  the same eyes.  What she did 
not know  he could  easily  forgive!  And 
he would teach her—sweet  employment.
And  at  last  she  consented  to  a very 
quiet  wedding  and a long journey to for­
eign lands  where  under  a  new  heaven
their wedded life would  begin,  then-----

*  *  *

“A----- some one to see  you,  ma’am,”
announced the  rosy-faced  housemaid  of 
the widow,  one morning a few weeks  be­
fore the wedding  day.

“Some one on business,  Julia?”  asked 
Mrs.  Dunbar,  looking up  from the morn­
ing paper.

“Y-e-s’m.  I expect he wants help.  He 

looks kind of shabby.”

“He is not a gentleman?”
“I should say not,  ma’am,  and  he Ln’t 
a tramp exactly—kind of betwixt and  be­
tween.”

“I  will  see  him,”  said  Mrs.  Dunbar, 
and she laid aside her paper and left  the 
bright fire burning in  the  grate  a  little 
reluctantly. 
laid  aside  her 
mourning,  now that  she  was engaged  to 
another man,  and  wore a pretty breakfast 
gown  that  was  suitable  to  her  petite 
stature and most  becoming.

She  had 

When she entered  the  little  reception 
room  where the caller  waited,  she saw  a 
thin,  emaciated  man,  shabbily  dressed 
and bearing many  marks  of  privation— 
and she saw something else, a likeness in 
bis profile that set  her  heart  to  beating 
with an awful fear.  When  he  rose  and 
confronted  her  she  fell  back,  and with 
whitening lips gasped out the name:

“Maurice Dunbar!”
“Y es!  Maurice Dunbar returned  from 
the dead,”  was  the  cruel,  sneering  an­
swer.

Then she fainted and  mercifully knew 

no more.

*  *  *

Again,  Richard  Lester,  a  bowed  and 
miserable man,  was  seated  in  his  office 
alone in  the gloom and  depression of ap­
proaching night,  and of his own unhappy 
thoughts.  Before him was the one letter 
he had received from her  since the cruel 
necessity of parting had come upon them. 
It contained  the  ring  with  which  they 
had plighted their troth.  He had written 
a mad  and hasty reply,  in  which  he  had 
urged her to  fly  with  him,  and  offered 
her the devotion  of  a  lifetime,  and  she 
had come to him and rebuked  him with a 
broken  heart.

“Do not make it  harder  for  me,”  she 
said in that brief  final interview.  “You 
can do one thing to help me,  if  it  is  not 
wrong.  This  money  really  belongs to— 
to—my  husband,  but  I  think  God  has 
made me his almoner.  As long as he be­
lieves the money  to be  mine,  I  can  con­
trol  him  and  compel  him to live like  a 
gentleman,  and  perhaps  help  him  mor­
ally. 
If  he  has  it he  will go to instant 
ruin.  Will you help me keep the secret? 
He  shall  have  every  comfort,  but  he 
must take all at my hands.  Gan  you  do 
this  legally?”

No,  he could not,  but for  love  of  her, 
concluded to keep silence and let her be-

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lieve it was right.  So  he  pays  the  an­
nuity regularly and asks God 
forgive 
that irood  nr.  v  come.
him if he does 
A strange sequel to this was a  call  on 
one occasion from Maurice  Dunbar  him­
self,  who, well dressed and cared for, pre­
sented the appearance of  a  gentleman,  a 
moral  phase  of  development which was 
the effect of  his  wife’s  faithful  labors— 
at first from a  sense  of  duty,  but  later 
from a revision of the old  love.

“I have come,”  he said as  he  followed 
his card into the presence of  the lawyer, 
“to consult  you  upon  a  matter  of  im­
portance on  which  I  require  legal  ad­
vice.”

“He  has  heard  of 

the  bequest,” 
thought Lester with a  sudden  fear,  but 
aloud he  said  calmly,  “Please  state the 
circumstances  as briefly as  possible.”

And  he  listened  to  another  phase  in 
the  complicated  life  of  the  woman  he 
loved.

“I wish  to  inquire,”  proceeded  Mau­
rice Dunbar,  “whether a  man  who  mar­
ries under an  assumed  name  is  legally 
married or not?”

Kichard Lester made no  outward dem­
onstration of  a  great  joy  that  for  one 
moment filled his heart,  to  be  followed 
by a thrill of despair.

“Yes,”  he 

said  after  a  moment’s 
thought;  “yes,  by  the  law of  this  State 
a man who marries  under  any  name  is 
legally  married. 
I  assume,  then,”  con­
tinued the lawyer,  “that  you  are  inter­
ested in such a case?”
“I  am  personally 

interested.  The 
name  by  which  I  am  known,  Maurice 
Dunbar,  is not  my  own  name. 
I  have 
been  troubled  with  some  doubts.  My 
wife Is a lovely  Ghristain  woman,  and  I 
feared 1 had done her  a wrong in  marry­
ing her under a name  that was  assumed 
as a matter of convenience.  There is no 
disgrace attached to it,  but  when  I  re­
nounced  my  family  I  left  off  the  old 
name.  1 shall keep  the one 1 have until 
I die.”

He  paid  a  liberal  fee  and  left  the 
stunned  and  dazed  man  of  the law with 
another complexity to combat.

Kichard Lester  never  by  any  chance 
sees Mrs.  Dunbar,  whose  man  of  busi­
ness he remains;  nor does  he  know  that 
to her he  is  only  a  memory  associated 
with a certain  legal  transaction,  which 
she believes she  is  justified  in  keeping 
secret,  for she realizes that her  husband 
is weak,  and  his  present  goodness  en­
forced,  but she has saved  him  from him­
self, and is satisfied  with her reward.

It only remains now  for the  real  Mau­
rice Dunbar to appear and  elaim  his  in­
heritance,  which Richard Lester  will pay 
him dollar for dollar.  But that is a con­
tingency  which may never occur.

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store.”
“I’m so sorry,”  wailed the young  wife; 
“you see  I  haven’t  been  married  long, 
and  my  husband’s  mother  has  always 
cooked for him,  and  when  I  heard  him 
talking  in  his  sleep  about  a  jackpot  1 
thought I’d get one,  for he mentions it so 
often he must be  used  to  it.  Could  you 
tell me what they cook in it?”
“Greens,  ma’am,”  said  the grocer,  and 
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T H E   Z M I C H I O ^ I S r   T R A D E S M A N ,

C o m m e rc ial A sp e c t o f th e  B icy cle.

W r itte n  fo r   T h e Tb a d e sm a k.

As far as any  great  changes  are  con­
cerned.  methods of  bicycle  building,  at 
present,  are  at  a  standstill.  The  im­
provement which has prevailed since the 
safety made its appearance  in  America, 
in  1887,  reached  its  height  in  1894,  and 
though improvements  in  the  1895  lines 
are  apparent,  they  embrace  no  radical 
changes.

The standard  weight for a  roadster  of 
the coming season  seems  to  be  twenty- 
one  pounds—but  three  pounds  lighter 
than  last  season’s wheels.  This weight 
is mainly  the difference in  the  size  and 
construction  of  rims  and  tires.  The 
wood  rim  will  be  almost  universally 
used,  and the  one and  a  half  inch  tire 
will be in greater demand  than  the  one 
and three quarter  used  last season.  The 
wood rim is now considered  perfect  and 
s  included  in  the guarantee of the manu­
facturer with  as  much confidence as any 
other part.

in  this  country  in  1889. 

Tiremaking has reached  a stage  where 
further  improvement  in  the  matter  of 
resiliency  and  strength  seems 
impos­
sible.  The pneumatic  tire was  first  in­
troduced 
It 
was a very crude affair  and,  as  the  old 
ordinary  still  had  the  call  with  the 
“ push,”  not  much  attention  was  paid  to 
it. 
it  was  somewhat  improved  during 
the next two  seasons and,  as  the  safety 
displaced the  ordinary,  soon  proved  its 
superiority  over  the  solid  tires  used 
upon the former type of wheel.  As med 
thus  far,  it  was  an  awkward  thing  to 
handle and,  if  punctured  on  the  road, 
the  only  recourse  of  the  rider  was  to 
walk  to the  nearest  station  and  take  a 
train  home. 
Its  advantages  continue  to 
manifest  themselves,  however,  and,  in 
1892,  it was generally  adopted,  with rad­
ical improvements.  As  used  that  year, 
its tread on  nearly  all  makes was  about 
half  an  inch  thick  and,  consequently, 
ran  very  sluggishly.  There  was  also 
adopted,  that  season,  some  form  of  re­
pair outfit  which  could  be  used  on  the 
road.  Much  trouble  was  had  with  all 
makes of tires during that year aud  1893, 
but,  in  1894, tiremaking  was  reduced  to 
a science, and this year it is  simply  per­
fect. 
Instead  of  the  heavy  tire,  the 
1895 models  are  very  light  and.  at  the 
same  time,  astonishingly  strong.  They 
are scarcely  more than  an  eighth  of  an 
inch  thick  and  move  over  the  ground 
with an ease akin  to  flying.  They  can, 
without  bursting,  be  pumped  so  hard 
that not the slightest impression  is made 
upon  them  by the weight of  a  175-pound 
man.

Most  of  the  tires  are  of  the  double 
tube  variety,  though  there  are  three 
single  tube  tires  on  the  market.  One 
firm  manufactures  the  latter  kind  ex­
clusively;  another  makes  it  its  leader, 
though  furnishing  a  double  tube when 
desired.  Still another  prominent  manu­
facturer,  has  adopted a  single  tube tire 
for  1895,  in order to be able to  furnish it 
on demand.  All others  use  double  tube 
only.  As a rule,  this year,  the tubing is 
larger.

Bicycles,  as a whole, are much stronger 
than they  were last year,  while weighing 
a trifle less.  Weight  has  been  reduced 
where  it  was  not  needed  and  added 
where  it  would  strengthen  the  frame. 
Rigidity has  been  the main object sought 
and many  plans  have  been  adopted  to 
secure the desired end.  One of  the  best 
is the re-enforcing of the  joints  by  using

a thin  piece of tubing  brazed  to  the  in­
side of the frame  at  places where  there 
is  the  most  strain  in  riding.  Another 
extra rigid  frame is produced  by  insert­
ing a triangular  piece of tubing  into  all 
parts of the frame.

Lap brazing  is  being  used  extensively 
this  year 
in  various  modified  forms. 
This  does  away  with  the  heavy  joints 
attendant upon the  use  of  drop  forged 
connections. 
It is used in all  grades  of 
wheels,  from the highest  to  the  lowest, 
as are also  drop  forgings.  The  advan­
tage consists in  being able to  produce  a 
stronger wheel  for  the weight,  the  hol­
low  joints  being  so  light  as  to  allow 
more weight to  be added to  the  parts  of 
the wheel bearing the most  strain,  while 
the weight of the bicycle,  as  a whole,  is 
not  increased.  Lap  brazing  is  accom­
plished  by  spreading the end  of the tube 
which  is  to  be  brazed  to  another  and 
lining the open end  with a thin  piece  of 
tubing. 
It  is  then  fitted  to  the  other 
tube and securely brazed.  A  drop forg­
ing is  made by placing a heated  piece of 
steel upon a die accurately formed  to  fit 
the joint for which  the piece is intended. 
A heavy drop,  suspended  over the die at 
different  heights,  varying  according  to 
the size of  the  forging,  is  then  let  fall 
and  the  forging  is  completed  at  one 
blow.  The  piece  is  afterwards  bored 
out.  This  method  of  forging  relieves 
the steel of  the  burning  to which  it  is 
subjected  by  the  ordinary  method,  and 
which tends  to make the pieces brittle.

Some very high  frames are  being  used 
this year with  twenty-eight  inch  wheels. 
One firm gives buyers  a choice  of frames 
varying  from  nineteen  to  twenty-eight 
inches in  height.  The  peculiar  angles 
of the frame permit this without making 
a bad  looking wheel.  The  highest  can 
be  easily  ridden  by  an  ordinary  sized 
man.  The general  height of frames  will 
be twenty-three inches.

The utility of narrow handle  bars  has 
been recognized and eighteen inches will 
be  the  average.  With  the  hands  far 
apart,  the  position  is  less  easy,  as  is, 
consequently,  the guiding  of  the wheel. 
Somewhat lighter spokes are being used.
Ladies’ wheels have  received  particu­
lar  attention,  being  now  made  lighter 
than ever.  The fallacy  of  great  weight 
being  necessary  to  strength  in  ladies’ 
models  has been  completely  done  away 
with.  Altogether,  the  various  lines  of 
bicycles shown in  1895 are  calculated  to 
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M o r r is   J .  W h i t e .

T h in g s  Y o u   W a n t  S a id   o f Y o u r  S to re . 
“I can find everything  1  want  there.” 
“The store is so  light  and  everything 
so clean and neat that it is  a  pleasure to 
shop there.”
“The clerks are  so  attentive  and  yet 
they do  not  weary  you  unduly  if  you 
only wish to look around.”
“As a rule prices are as  low  there  as 
anywhere,  and  one  is  never  afraid  of 
getting victimized.”
“The proprietor and clerks  are always 
willing to rectify mistakes.”
“The clerks are so well  posted  that  I 
frequently make use  of  their  judgment 
in selecting goods and feel  safe in so do­
ing.”
“I never  fail  to  look  into  their win­
dows.”
“The proprietor must treat  the  clerks 
well and vice versa,  for  I  see  the  same 
faces year in and year out.”
“Every time I go down  town  I drop in 
to see what they have in that’s new.” 
“They have always treated me  so  fair 
and square that 1 don’t  like  to  go  else­
where even  if I can  save a  few cents  on 
a  bargain by so doing.”

There are 113 poisonous drugs sold, which  must all  be labeled as such,  with the 
proper antidote attached.  Any  label house will charge you  but  14  cents  for  250 
labels,  the smallest amount sold.  Cheap enough, at a glance,  but did you  ever  fig­
ure it out—113 kinds at  14 cents ?—815.82.  With  our  system you  get the same re­
sults with  less detail,  for less than one-third  the money.

Sent prepaid  to any  address,  when cash accompanies order, for 84.

Tradesman Company,

G r a n d   R a p id s ,  M ic h .

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

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The Conservation of Human Energy-
Civilization may be  regarded as an ex­
pression  of  the  conservation  of human 
energy. 
It is one of the  great  generali­
zations of  physical  science  that  energy 
can  neither  be  created  nor  destroyed 
within the sphere  of nature.  When  it is 
expended in one form  it assumes another 
It may be  transformed;  it cannot 
form. 
be annihilated. 
It may either  be  active 
or potential;  but the sum  total of energy 
in  the  physical  universe  is  a  constant 
quantity—that is to say,  a  quantity  that 
can be neither increased  nor  diminished.
Prof.  Balfour  Stewart  defines  energy 
as the power of doing  work,  and  he  as­
serts that,  “ with  the  trivial exception of 
tidal energy,  all  the  work  done  in  the 
world is due to the sun,  so that  we  must 
look to our  luminary as the great  source 
of  all  our  energy.” 
In  the  sphere  of 
human  nature,  however,  we  discover 
other sources of energy. 
It  is  true  that 
the animal strength of a  human  body  is 
derived from  food,  and that  food  cannot 
be  produced  without  the  action  of the 
sun’s  rays;  but  it  would  be  sheer  ma­
terialism to speak  of  the  power  of  the 
human  will as a  mere  transformation  of 
physical  energy.  Every  thought,  every 
emotion,  every volition,  may  result  in  a 
greater  or  less  consumption  of  tissue; 
but unquestionably  the  mind  brings  to 
the body a new source  of  energy.  So  it 
happens  that a man of feeble frame  may

achieve  renown  while  the  name  of  the 
strong  and  indolent  giant  is lost in ob­
livion.  The decisive  difference between 
them is intellectual or moral.

But this higher  form of  energy is  also 
susceptible  of  transformation.  One  of 
its expressions,  as we have said, is civili­
zation.  The energy of animals in a state 
of nature and of  men  in  a  condition  of 
savagery  is expended,  dispersed and lost. 
But  when  men  become  herdsmen,  when 
they  learn  the  uses  of  seeds  and  plant 
gardens and orchards,  when  they  build 
houses and  boats,  when,  in a  word,  they 
begin  to rule the forces of  nature by dis­
covering their laws,  their energy  is  con­
served  in  their works,  and so  their  lives 
enter  into  the  course  of  history.  The 
useful art practiced at the  village  stithy 
may seem a very  simple  one,  but  it  has 
played  an important  part in the develop­
ment of human society,  and  the hammer 
has  been  handed  down  from  father  to 
son,  from master  to  apprentice,  for  un­
counted centuries. 
It has become one of 
the permanent  possessions  of  our  race. 
It  is  the  conservatism  of the energy  of 
the  ancients.  And 
is  not  merely 
thought that lives  on  and  multiplies  it­
self.  A man leaves his work,  his energy, 
behind  him  transformed  into  palpable 
things of  use and  convenience. 
It is the 
heritage of his  children;  they  find  it  in 
the  cleared 
field  and  the  substantial

it 

homestead.  All property is  the  conser­
vation of somebody’s energy.

The most apt illustration of  this  prin­
ciple is afforded by money,  especially by 
coin.  The dollar in your pocket is made 
of metal  which  was dug from  the  earth, 
molded  and  stamped  by  human  labor. 
It  was  produced  by  the  exercise  of 
energy,  and  it  can  be  reconverted  into 
energy.  Yes;  it can  be converted  into a 
thousand  forms  of  energy.  A  miser 
might hide it away,  but at last  it  would 
find  its  way  back  to  business  and the 
stimulation  of  activity. 
It is a medium 
of  exchange,  a standard of value,  a unit 
of  account.  That it preserves the work­
ing  power  of  the  men  who  made it is 
plainly  seen  in  the  fact  that it is made 
over again from day  to day.  The  plow- 
boy,  the baker,  the butcher,  all  made  it 
in  their  turn  before it came  to you. 
It 
has  rewarded  many  a  long  day’s  toil. 
Think of it on its eventful  journey  from 
hand to hand and from house  to  house ! 
While all  property  is  a  conservation  of 
energy,  the  dollar  is  the  concentration 
of  all  the  forms  of  energy. 
It cannot 
buy  love,  nor  can  it create genius; but 
there is no home and no  employment  in 
which it does not serve some useful  end.
The  influence  of  inventions,  and  the 
changes  introduced  by  new  systems  of 
industrial organization,  do not  affect the 
principle  that  energy  survives 
its  re­
It may,  of course,  be  wasted;  or
sults. 

it may serve sometimes only a temporary 
purpose;  but  nearly  every  useful  pos­
session of the modern world  is the  result 
in great part of some ancient labor.  The 
inventor of a wheel was as  useful  as  the 
inventor  of  the  steam  engine,  and his 
work survives in  every  locomotive  that 
speeds  over  the  iron  rails to-day.  The 
wheel  has  never  gone  out  of  use,  and 
never  will.  All  our  machinery may be 
traced  back  to  ancient  workshops  and 
simple  appliances,  just  as  our  most 
transcendental  mathematics  rests at  last 
upon  the  multiplication  table and  ele­
mentary geometry.  F k a n k   S t o w e l l .

A n  O rig in a l  A d v e rtis e m e n t.

The Globe  Shoe  and  Clothing  Co.,  of 
Atlanta,  Ga.,  recently  placed  eight  mon­
keys in their  show  window.  Of the re­
sults  they  write  as follows:  “Our show 
window is  large  and the  ‘Darwinites’  are 
apparently happy and full  of  fun.  The 
immense  throng  at  our  window  every 
day  is evidence that  our monkey adv.  is 
one  of  the  greatest  we  ever had.  The 
throng is so immense morning,  noon and 
night that we have  a  special  policeman 
to make a passageway through  the  con­
tinued blockade.”

C o st  N o  O b ject.

Shoe Clerk—“What shall  I  mark  that 
new lot of shoes at?”
the  selling  price 
Employer—“Mark 
at $3.50.
cost 
Shoe  Clerk—“But 
they  only 
$2.75.”
Employer—“1 don’t care. 
I am selling 
off regardless of cost.”

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The  Retailer  sells  more !
The  Consumer  buys  more!
The  Babies  cry  for  more,  and  more  mothers  write  us 
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T H E   M IC H IG A N   T R A D E SM A N

ing up accounts.  Yes,  times are certain­
ly  brightening.”

More of the rank and file of the  human 
| army are  on duty,  and,  just  in  propor­
tion  as this goes on,  will  consumers  pay 
their  bills  and  retailers,  in  turn,  meet 
their  obligations.  A  healthy  reaction 
once set in,  prosperity  will  come  back to 
stay.

A straw showing which  way  the  wind 
blows  was noted  in  our  office  this  very 
morning.  Our collector,  Dunn—mighty 
good name,  too,  for a collector—came in, 
a few minutes  ago,  all  smiles.  “How’s 
that?” he asked,  placing a  receipted  bill 
for 820 on  the  cashier’s  desk.  “Seems 
to  me  somebody  said,  when  1 went out 
with  my  package of  bills  this  morning, 
that  I  should  have  my  labor  for  my 
pains.  That’s  one  you  said  I couldn’t 
collect.  There’s  another;  and  I  don’t
want  you  to  call  D-----   &  Co.  a  back
number  any  more.  Here’s  a  lot  I  ex­
pected  to get for the asking,  so  there  is 
nothing to brag of there.  But now I am 
going  to  give  you  cause  for  astonish­
ment,  and  there  you  have it—Wiggins’ 
bill  in  full  for  8138.17—and  when  he 
paid it he said  we weren’t -half  so glad to 
have it settled  as he  was.”  The bill had 
been running for  months and  the  house 
had  about  given  it  up,  but,  like  the 
steamer La Gascogne,  long overdue,  it is 
safe in  port,  telling  a  tremendous  story 
of  a  fearful  passage  over a stormy  sea. 
There are other bills not yet in  sight  of 
Fire  Island,  but there is  a  hopeful  feel­
ing that  they are all right and  that  they 
will be sighted soon.

*  *  #

T H E   BA CK   O PFIC E .

W ritte n  fo r Th e  Tradesman.

the  cobbler, 

“Ob,  1  suppose  it is possible for two 
of a trade to  agree—there  is  an  excep­
tion  to  every  rule—but,  as  a  general 
thing,  the  man  who  started  the  maxim 
down  the  ages  was  right.  Heinrich 
Blumenthal, 
is  always 
willing  to  do  whatever  he  can 
for 
Carl Schneider,  the tailor,  but  it  is  al­
together too much  to expect  the  cobbler 
to  do  much  towards  helping  another 
cobbler 
into  favor.  The  human  dog, 
like his  brute companion,  is  willing  that 
the  horse  should  enjoy  his  oats,  but 
when  another dog,  by accident or  by  de­
sign,  takes  even  a  sniff  at a long dis­
carded bone, there is  war to the  knife  at 
once. 
is  nature,  brute  and  human 
alike,  aud the tradesman  who finds it out 
early  and  governs  himself  accordingly 
will  shun  many  a  pitfall  into  which a 
more trustful  man  will  fall. 
*’Tis  true, 
’lispity,  and  pity ’tis ’tis true.’ ”

“Isn’t  the  tendency  of  that  sort of 

It 

thing as narrowing as it  is  mean ?”

“Oh,  that’s quite another  thing.  You 
were talking about two of a trade  agree­
ing.  They  never  do.  They  are  both 
after the almighty dollar,  and  they  are 
both  taking  the  ams  means  to get it. 
Heinrich would  be smart  to  go  aud  tell 
the other fellow  how  to  get  his  (Hein­
rich’s) dumpling which  he  hopes  to have 
for dinner,  wouldn’t he?  He never does, 
and he is like the rest of us.”

“But doesn’t the  practice have a tend­
ency,  in  the long run,  to  make  us  will­
ing to  bite off our own  noses?  And  what 
kind of a place would that be to  live  in, 
where  every  man  was  afraid  to  have 
soup for dinner,  lest  his  neighbor  get  a 
stray  whiff  which  a  chance  wind  may 
send over the fence?”

is  getting  over 

“A very  poor place, indeed.  And  that, 
my  friend,  is one of the  first  signs  that 
a  town 
its  baby  age. 
When  it gets over reaching for the  moon 
and  crying  for it—in other words,  when 
it is willing that someone else  shall  live 
and move and have his  being in  that par­
ticular neighborhood—the town  will  be­
gin to grow,  and not till then.”

In 

The  other  day  a  copy  of the Toledo 
Blade  strayed 
in  here,  aud  it  was  a 
pleasant thing to read  that Grand  Rapids 
has  the  reputation  of  being  a  town 
where  the  maxim  with  which  I started 
out is  proven  untrue. 
that  world 
known  furniture town  Blumenthal  helps 
the tailor,  and  better than that, he helps, 
in  the same  way,  his  brother,  the  cob­
bler; and,  wonderful to  relate,  he  is  in 
no  daDger  of  being  cheated  out  of  bis 
dumpling for dinner by his  fellowcrafts- 
man,  and,  moreover, 
same 
craftsman  be  not  so  fortunate  as  he, 
Heinrich  leaves  a  dumpling  or  two  at 
his  fellowtradesman’s door.  “Two  of  a 
trade  can  never  agree,” eh?  Let  us  be 
thankful  that  Grand  Rapids  got  over
that sort of baby talk years ago!

that 

lest 

*  *  *

One of the best  signs that the business 
world is getting over the financial  tooth­
ache  is  the  readiness  and  cheerfulness 
with which  business  men  speak  of  col­
lecting.  “Our collections this  year  are 
much better than  they  were a year ago,” 
says a leading commission  bouse.  “Col­
lections are  certainly  good,  considering 
the  condition  of  the  country,”  says  a 
leading  wholesale  grocer.  “Customers 
who  usually  discount  their  bills or pay 
at maturity manage,  as  a  rule,  to  meet 
bills with  usual  promptness, and  others, 
who are behind, are gradually straighten­

Here  is  a  wail  from  a  housekeeper, 
who wants to  know  what  in  the  world 
she is going to do,  to get wholesome food 
for her table. 
It  makes  no  difference 
what she wants nor  how much  she  pays 
for it,  it turns out to be  something  else, 
if  she  orders  coffee,  she  finds  that she 
has paid  for chicory and  peas.  The vin­
egar 
is  so  much  acid.  Codfish  which 
seemed  to be better than  usual  had  been 
treated  with boracic acid.  Baking  pow­
der—but the list is too long  and  it’s  too 
discouraging  to  talk  about.  There  is 
hardly a thing brought into  her  kitchen 
which hasn’t a cheat about it somewhere. 
What is she to do?  It is all very  well to 
say,  “Buy  only  where  you are sure  of 
getting what you order;” but  what  com­
fort is  there in that  when  the  dealer  is 
as  badly  cheated  as  the  housekeeper? 
There is  but one answer to  give and that 
is  that,  admitting  what  she  said  to be 
true,  there  is  still  less  chance  for the 
grocer  to  be  cheated  than  for  her,  and 
that,  if she knows  a reliable  dealer,  she 
had batter put her trust in him.

There is more than a hint here  for  the 
grocer.  The  country  is  full  of  people 
who are sick and tired of  being  cheated. 
Why isn’t it a good plan for the dealer to 
take every possible  opportunity  of prov­
ing  himself  that  reputable  dealer  for 
whom  the cheated  world is  on  the  look­
out,  and  prove  the  truthfulness  of  the 
adage,  “Honesty is the best policy?”

*  •   •

In spite of the generally  admitted  fact 
that politics are out of place  in  trade,  it 
is  plain  to be  seen,  by those who are  at 
all versed in  trade  journals,  that  more 
and more  the idea is gaining ground  that 
the business man should have work to do 
in the political management  of the coun­
try.  Theory  is  one  thing—and  without 
it  little  or  nothing  can  be hoped for— 
practice is quite another;  and  a  govern-

Only  L iv e  F ish  
M o ve  Up  S tr e a m !
And it is only the up-to-date merchant who suc­
ceeds;  and  he uses the up-to-date Cash  Register,
The  / - t  \  

Champion

•

THE KING OF ALL CASH REGISTERS 1

You  A s l r   Why It Is?

Because it tells you more about the receipts  and 
disbursements  of  the  Cash  and  Credit  transac­
tions at the close of the  day’s  business than  any 
other Cash  Register.

Every  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.

Merchants desiring to inspect our  REGISTERS  are requested to drop  us a card, 
It will cost 

so that one of our agents  may  call  when  in  the  dealer’s  vicinity. 
nothing to see the machine and have its merits explained.

MANUFACTURED  ONLY  BY

C H A M P IO N  

C a s h   R e g is t e r   C o .,

G R A N D   R A P ID S ,  M IC H«

It  too  often  happens  (if  that  is  the 
right word to use)  that  two or  three find 
it  necessary  to  do all the talking at  the 
association meetings, and  such a state of 
affairs is  not  always  conducive  to  best 
results.  The President of the Associated
Grocers  of  St.  Louis  has  something  to 
say  which should  be  carried  out  to  the 
letter:  “Personal  ambition  must  give 
way to the general  good.  Private  inter­
est must not prevent a union of strength. 
Men  who talk  without  saying  anything 
must  not  be  pushed  to the front.  Men 
of action,  men of brains,  men of courage, 
must control our affairs—men  who know 
what  they  have  come  for  and  know 
enough  to do it after they get there.”  It 
is altogether evident  that  the  President 
of this Association knows  how  to  make 
its members say  “Oh,” and it is safe,  on 
that account,  to predict  that  the  organi­
zation  will be a success.

R i c h a r d   M a l c o m   S t r o n g .

P ro p o se d   T o  E co n o m ize  o n   S h o es.
A curious  advertisement  appeared  in 
ome  of  the  morning  papers  the  other 
ay  to  the  effect that a one-legged  man 
muld hear of  something  to  his  advan- 
age  by  applying  at  a  certain  address, 
'hough not one-legged  myself,  recounts 
he writer,  I called there  and  found  the 
dvertiser to be a Grand  Army  man who 
iad  lost  a  leg.  Questioned  as  to  why 
ie had inserted the advertisement  which 
ttracted my attention,  he gave  this  ex- 
ilanation:
“My  idea,”  he  said,  “is to find a man 
rho  has  lost  a  leg.  You  notice  that 
ay  right  is  gone.  Now I pay eight dol- 
ars  a  pair  for  my  shoes,  and  I  wear 
bout five pair a year—that  makes  forty 
ollars.  And besides that,  1 wear a good 
aany  socks,  which  also  count  up con- 
iderably.
“You  can  readily see that if I cau  find 
,  man  who  has  lost  the other leg, and 
rears  the  same  size  shoe  that I do,  we 
an whack up,  and  by buying  our  shoes 
ogether  we  would make considerable.”

W A N T E D .

If  you  have  any  to  offer write us stating quantity and lowest price.  Send  us 

Beans.  Potatoes,  Onions.
M O SELEY   BROS.

sample of beans you have to offer,  car lots  or less.

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S E E   Q U O TATIO N S.

DO  YOU  W ANT  A  HAND  CART  ?

Carts  of  this  kind  are  grow ing  in  popular  favor  daily.  P ainters, Carpenters  Bill  Posters, 
M asons,  etc.,  find  th a t  they  are  ahead  of  anything  else  for  carrying  tools  and light m ater 
lal 
in th e orchard  or  garden.  Box easily adjust 
able  H andles on carts No. 0 are not bent.  Made also  w ith springs and third  wheel.  W iite for 
cataiogue  L A N S IN G   W H E E L B A R R O W   CO.,  Lansing, Mich.

Farm ers,  too,  use them   to  good  advantage 

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8  25

ment given up wholly  to the practical  is 
as bad as  the  other  extreme.  A whole­
some combination of the two seems to be 
the often expressed  desire;  and this  can 
be brought about  in no  surer  or quicker 
way than by sending to the national cap- 
itol more sound business  men.

There ought to be no  difficulty in find­
ing the  proper  legislative  material;  but 
it must not be  a  surprise  to  learn  that 
the successful business  man has  been  so 
narrowed by the exactions  of trade as  to 
make him unfit for the  broader duties  of 
statesmanship.  There  are  exceptions, 
but  the  man  who,  from  youth up,  has 
given his days and his nights to business 
will not be found scholarly  in thought— 
much less in speech—and so  will  be  un­
fit,  in a  great  degree,  to  cope  with  the 
questions  he  will  be  constantly  called 
upon to discuss in  the  halls of Congress. 
This very condition of  things,  however, 
should be looked  upon  as  a  result.  So 
far it has been  generally understood  that 
a business man  has,  and  wants,  nothing 
to do with politics;  but,  the moment it is 
found that he is needed there—as he  is— 
there will  be more attention given  by the 
business man to the  claims that  enlight- 
need citizenship lays  upon  him,  and  the 
realm of trade  will  become  so  widened 
as  to  make  him look  carefully  after  its 
claims and prepare for them.

Another fact may,  with  assurance,  be 
written down,  and that is that  the  busi-
ness  man,  narrow  as we  find him,  need 
not hesitate on  that  account,  to-day,  to 
assume  any  political  position  to which 
he  may  aspire.  The  country  has  not 
been  overwhelmed,  of  late,  with  over­
culture—“the superlative,”  as  Emerson 
might  possibly  call  it;  and,  with  that 
keen  insight  into  the  spirit  of  things, 
which that same  narrowness  has  sharp­
ened,  he will be found  the  man  for  the 
place  and  the  man  for whom  the place 
has long been  waiting.

*  *  *

It  begins  to  look  as  if  something of 
practical account is to be  the outcome of 
the association idea.  So long has the air 
been charged with  the  1-don’t-want-any- 
in-mine spirit that even the most fervent 
friends of the movement  have  oegun  to 
doubt  if  anything  will  come  of it.  Of 
late,  however,  there has been  a  clearing 
of the atmosphere and a  reaction has set 
in.  The social club  element  is  passing 
away  and  one of business benefit is tak­
ing its place. 
If this last  should prevail 
and  it becomes known that  “a feller can 
get a  kink or two there  which  will  help 
him  over  the  hard  places  in  his  busi­
ness,” every meeting  of  the  association 
will be crowded.  That is  what has been 
needed  all  along.  When  I go to  an  as­
sociation meeting just for the purpose of 
having a good time,  I shall derive no ben­
efit from  such  attendance;  but,  when  I 
go  for  the  purpose of finding new ways 
to  overcome  business  difficulties,  good 
results are sure to follow.

think 

A  good  many  years  ago,  the teachers 
of the district where I lived had  a  gath­
ering—an  “Institute,”  I 
they 
called it.  They seemed  anxious to settle 
the  question,  “How  shall  we  make  a 
child,  in reading,  say  *Oh,’  naturally?” 
Several papers were read  without  clear­
ing up the matter.  One  teacher thought 
that,  by  saying  the  sentence  over  and 
over until the child  caught  the idea,  the 
exclamation would be properly expressed. 
Finally, when everybody  felt like saying 
“Oh,”  with  “dear!”  after  it,  a  rough 
young schoolmaster from  the backwoods j

T H E   M IC H IG A N   T R A D E SM A N ,
said that there were several  ways  to  ac­
complish  the  purpose.  One was to  tire 
the child all out,  as he  was  that  blessed 
minute;  but  a  shorter  way,  and a much 
more effective one,  was  to jab  a pin  into 
him.  He hadn’t tried it yet but was con­
vinced,  from  his  own  personal  expe­
riences  in  that  direction,  that  the  pin 
would  have  the  desired  effect.  From 
that time on, there  were no  more papers 
read.  “We  ought”  gave  place  to  “I 
did,” aud  for  the  next  hour  there  was 
the liveliest teachers’  meeting  that  was 
held in  the district that winter.

S W E E T ’S   H O T E L

MARTIN  L.  SWEET,  Proprietor.

HENRY D. and FRANK H. IRISH, ITgrs.

Steam heat in every room.  Electric fire alarms  throughout  the  house.  Other 
improvements and decorations  will soon make it the best hotel in  Michigan.______

PER K IN S  &  HESS,

Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow,

DEALERS  IN

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to  sell  y o u  
th e i r   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
get  y o u   to  a id   th e ir
a r e   o n l y   t r y i n g   to 
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Is 
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T h e   m a n u f a c t u r e r s
it  n o t  th e   p u b l i c ?
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.

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I n te re s t  A llo w ed   o n   T im e   a n d   Saving* 

D ep o sits.

DIRECTORS:

Jno. A. Covode, D. A  Blodgett,  E. Crofton  Pox 
T. J.  O’Brien,  A. J . Bowne, 
Henry  Idema, 
J . A. S. V erdier
Jno.W .Blodgett,.!. A. McKee 

D ep o sits  E xceed  O n e  M illio n   D o lla rs,

R e g u l a r  M e e tin g  o f   th e  R e ta il  G r o c e r s ’

Association.

At  the  regular  meeting  of the Retail 
Grocers’  Association,  held  in  the  office 
of T h e   M i c h i g a n   T r a d e s m a n   Tuesday 
evening,  March  5,  Vice-President  Klap 
presided.

The  Committee  on  Essays  presented 

the following report:
To the Members of the  Retail  G rocers’  Associa­
tion:
We,  the  undersigned Committee on Es­
says,  beg leave to report is follows:
We  reccmmend that three  cash  prizes 
of  §5,  So  and  $2  be offered for the  best 
three  essays  on  “Advantages  of  the 
Cash  System;”  that  no 
limitation  be 
made as to the length of the articles,  and 
that competition be  open  to  the  world; 
that  the  articles  be  published  in  T h e  
T r a d e s m a n  as they  are sent in, and that 
entries close March  1,  and  that  the  de­
cision of the Committee be announced  at 
the  regular  meeting  of  the  Association j 
on May 4.

Respectfully submitted,

J .  J .  W a g n e r ,
P e t e r  S c h u it ,
H e n r y   J .  V in k e m u l d e k ,
Committee.

Mr.  VanAnrooy moved that the  report 
be  laid on the  table,  taking  the  ground 
that  the  retailers  in  the suburbs of the 
city can never accomplish the  cash  sys­
tem until the grocers ou the  main streets 
set the pace.
Mr.  Merrill  stated  that  he  had  con­
ducted  a cash  business  in  the  southern 
part of the city for a year and had  never 
lost a nickel by  bad debts.
Mr.  Goss favored  the  adoption  of  the 
report  on  the  ground  that  one  good 
pointer on  the  subject  would  be  worth 
all the articles cost.  He  moved that the 
motion  be amended to read,  to lay on the 
table until the  next  meeting,  at  which 
time it may  betaken  up  for  further  dis­
cussion.  Adopted.
On  motion,  it  was  decided  to  discon­
tinue  further  meetings  at  Elk’s  Hall, 
and  accept  the 
invitation  of  T h e  
T r a d e s m a n   to  hold  the  meetings  at 
that place hereafter.
Mr. Goss gave notice  that  at  the  next 
meeting he  would offer an  amendment to 
the  constitution  changing  the  time  of 
meeting from  Monday  evening  to  Tues­
day  evening.  He  moved  that  the  next 
meeting  be  held  ou  Tuesday  evening, 
March  19.  Adopted.
A  communication  was  received  from 
Boer & Bolt,  of Grand Haven,  relative to 
the price of Anchor  matches,  which  was 
accepted  and  placed on  tile.
The  following  resolution,  introduced 
by Mr.  Stowe,  was adopted,  on  motion of 
Mr.  Goss:
W h e r e a s —Representative Chilver has 
introduced  a  bill 
in  the  Legislature 
amending  the  charter  by  taking  the 
licensing of saloons and  peddlers  out  of 
the  hands  of  the  Common  Council and 
vesting it in the Board of  Police  &  Fire 
Commissioners;  therefore
Resolved—That  we  believe such meas­
ure to  be in the interest of  good  govern­
ment and municipal  reform  and that  we 
earnestly  request  our  Representatives 
and Senators to use their  influence to se­
cure  its enactment.
The Secretary  suggested  the  employ­
ment of a man to devote his eutire atten­
tion  to  the  office  of  Secretary,  with  a 
view to securing the membership and ac­
tive co-operation  of  every  retail  grocer 
in  the city,  so that  the  Association  may 
be  an  organization  of  commandiug 
strength and influence in the community.
The suggestion  was  well  received  and 
will  be taken  up  for  discussion  and  ac­
tion at some future meeting.
B.  S.  Harris  moved that it  be the sense 
of  the  meeting  that  the  present  sugar 
card  be continued,  which  was adopted.

On  motion  Mr.  Lehman,  the Secretary, 
was 
instructed  to  collect  such  of  the 
1894  dues  as  still  remain  unpaid,  and 
also  collect  one-half  of  the  1895  dues 
with as little delay as possible.

Mr.  Lehman  reported  a  balance  on 
hand  of  $235.42  aud  the  meeting  ad­
journed  to  meet  at  the  same  place on 
Tuesday evening,  March 19.

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

cigar. 

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B A D  DER.

WRITE

H1RTH,  KRAUSE  l  C0„

MICHIGAN  STATE  AGENTS, 

for Catalogue.

fi  N.  Reynolds  l  Son

DEALERS  IN

PURE  ASPHALT  ROOF  COATINGS 
ROOFING  MATERIAL of  all kinds 
HARDWARE  WRAPPING  PAPERS 
BUILDING  PAPERS 
CARPET  LINING*,  Etc,

Cor.  Louis  and  Campau  S ts. 

GRAND  RAPIDS

The Bradstreet Mercantile ápncy.

T h e   B r a d u tr e e t   C o m p a n y ,  P ro p « .

fceeutive Offices, 279,2S1,283 Broadway, N.T

C H A R L E S   P.  C L A R K ,  P re s

Offices  n the principal cities o f the United 
States.  Canada,  the  European  continent, 
A ustralia, and in  London.  England.

Grand  Bapids Office, Boom 4, Widdicomb Bldg.

H E N R Y   B O Y C E .  S a p t.

Michigan (Tentral

“  T'te Niagara Falls Route.”

(T aking effect  Sunday,  May 27,1894) 

«Daily.  All others dally, except Sunday. 

A rrive. 
Depart.
10 20 d m ............D etroit  E x p re ss..............7 0 0 a m
5  3 0 a m   __ «A tlantic and  Pacific........1,  20 p m
1  LOp m ....... New York E xpress  .........  6 00 p m
Sleeping cars  run on A tlantic  and  Pacific  ex 
press tralnB to  au d  from  Detroit.
Parlor  cars  leave  for  D etroit a t 7:00 a m ;  re 
turning, 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  th e  M ichigan Cen­
tral R ailroad (Canada Southern D ivision.)
A. AraquisT, Ticket Agent, 
Union PassengerStatlen.

CHICAGO

A N D   W E S T   M IC H IG A N   K ’Y.

GOING  TO  CHICAGO.

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

RETURNING  FROM  CHICAGO.

TO  AND FROM  MUSKEGON.

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

TRAVERSE C ITT.  CHARLEVOIX  AND  PKTOSKEY.

7:30am  3:15pm
Lv. G rand  Rapids .. 
Ar.  M anistee.............  12:20pm  8:15pm
1:00pm  8:45pm
Ar. T raverse C ity__  
Ar. C harlevoix......... 
3:15pm  lt:l0 p m
Ar.  P etoskey............  
3:45pm  11:40pm

T rains arrive from  north  at  1:00  pm and  10:00 

pm.

PARLOR  AND  SLEEPING  CARS.

Parlor  car 

leaves  for  t hicago  1:25pm.  A r­
rives 
from  Chicago  10:25pm.  Sleeping  cars 
leave  for  C hicag,  II :30pm.  A rrive  from   C hi­
cago  6.25am.

«Every day.  O thers week  days  only

DETROIT,

L A N SIN G   &  N O R T H E K N   K.  K .

GOING  TO  DETROIT.

Lv. G rand  R apids.........7:00am  1:20pm  5:25pm
Ar.  D etro it..................... li:40am   5:30pm  10:10pm

RETURNING  FROM  DETROIT.

Lv.  D etroit..................... 7:4'am  1:10pm  6:00pm
Ar. G raud  Rapids  .......12:40pm  5:21pm  10:45pm

TO  AND  PROM  SAGINAW ,  ALMA  AND  ST.  LOUIS.

Lv. G K  7:40am  5:00pm  Ar. G R  11:35am 10:45pm

TO  AND  FhO.M  LOWELL.

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

THROUGH  CAR  SERVICE.

Parlor  C arson  all  trains  between  G rand  Rap- 
Ids and  Detroit.  Parlor c ar to Saginaw on morn 
Ing train.

T rains  week days only.

GEO.  D e U A  VEN, Gen.  Pass’r  Ag’t

De t r o i t ,  g r a n d   h a v e n   &  m i l -

W A t  R E E   K ail w ay.

EASTW ARD.

tN o.  i4 tN o.  16 tN o.  ib •N o.
T ra in e e ;  ve
G’d  Rapids Lv
6 45am 1'  20am 3 25pm 1100pm
Ionia  .........
7  4 0 a m 11 25 am 4 27pm 1235am
.A r
3t.  Johns  .
. Ar S ;¿5am u   11pm 5 20pm 1 25am
OWGSbJ  ... Ar 9 OOarn 1 20pm ò 05 pin 3 10am
E.  Saginaw A r 10 50a.iL 3 45pm 8 UOpm 6 40am
. -Ar 11 3  an. 4 35pm 637pm 715am
Bay City 
F i l m .........
• Ar 10 <i5am 3 Jjpm 7 05pm 5 4‘ am
Ft.  H uron.
.A t 12U5pm 5 50pm 8 50pm 7 30am
P o n tia c __ .A t 10 53am 305pm 8 25pm 5 37am
D etroit....... A t 1 i 50am 4 05pm 925pm 7 00am

W ESTW ARD.

“ 

“ 

Points  ........................................... 

For  G rand  Haven  and  Interm ediate
*7:00 a.  m.
For G rand H aven  and  M uskegon...... t l  :GO p. m.
“  Mil. and C h i..  t»;35 P. m.

“ 
tD ally except  Sunday. 
T rains  arrive  from   the  east,  6:35  a.m .,  12:60 
p.m.  5:30 p. m .,  10:  <>  p.m.
T rains  arrive  from   tne  west, 10:10 a.  m.  3:15 
p m   and 9:15 p .m .
Eastw ard—No.  14  has  W agner  Parlor  Buffet 
car.  No. 18 Parlor  Car.  No. 82 W agner  Sleeper.
W estward — No.  11  Parlor Oar.  No. 15 W agner 
Parlor Buffet car.  No. 81  W agner Sleeper.

«Dally.

J as. C a m p b e l l , City T icket A gent.

B ra n d   R a p id s   St Indiana.

TRAINS  GOING  NORTH.

North

Leave going 
For Traverse City, Petoskey  and S aginaw .... 7:10 a . m .
For Saginaw ............................................................S:00p. m.
For  Petoskey  and  M ackinaw ...........................5:25 p  xn.
Leave going 
Sooth.
For  C incinnati...................................................... 7:25a .m .
For Kalamazoo and  Chicago............................2:16 p .m .
For  F ort W ayne an d   th e  E ast.........................2:16 p.m .
F o rC in c tn n a tl....................................................*5:40  p .m .
For  Kalamaxoo and C hicago......................... *11:40  p. m

TRAINS GOING  SOUTH.

C h ic ag o  v ia  6 .  R.  &  I.  R .  R.

2:15 p  m  tra in   has th ro u g h   W agner  Buffet  P arlo r 

11:40  p m tra in  d ally,  through W agner Sleeping Car 

Lv Grand R apids............ 7:25 a m   2:16 p m   *11:40 p m
Arr  Chicago.....................2:40 p m   9:05 p m  
7:10 a m
Oar and coach.
and Coach.
Ly  Chicago 
Arr Grand Rapids 
3:30  p  m  has th rough  W agner  Buffet  P arlor  Car 
11:30 p m  train  d aily .th ro  ugh  W agner  Sleeping  C ar 

S:30pm  
9:15 p m 

11:30p m
7:10 a  m

6:50am 
2:50pm 

For Muskegon—Lea*« . 

M u sk e g o n , G ra n d   R a p i d s  & I n d ia n a .
9:50 a m
7:25 a m 
1:00pm 
1 :16pm
5  20 p m
':40  p m  
O .L. LOCKWOOD*

Prom Muskegon—A rrive.

General  Passenger and  Ticket Agent.

Rnildings,  Portraits,  Cards 

and  Stationery 

H eadings, Maps, P lans  and  Patented 

A rticles.
T R A D E S M A N   CO., 

G rand Rapids, Mlcb.

EATON, LYON & CO,

20 &  22  Monroe  St.,

STATE  AGENTS  FOR

The  Lycoming  Rubber Company,
keep constantly on  band a 
full  and  complete  line  of 
these goods made from the 
purest  rubber.  They  are 
good style, good fitters and 
give  the  best  satisfaction 
of any rubber  in  the  mar­
ket.  Our  line  of  Leather 
Boots  and  Shoes  is  com­
plete  in  every  particular, 
also Felt Boots,  Sox,  etc.
Thanking you  for past favors  we  now 
await your further  orders.  Hoping  you 
wiil  give  oar  line  a  careful  inspection 
when  our  representative  calls  on  yon, 
we are  REEDRR BROS’. SHOE 0 0 .

TH E  M ICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

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T IM E   FO R   A C TIO N .

D ru g g is ts   A sk e d   T o  O p p o se 

th e   R ich ­

a r d s o n   Bill.

James Yernor,  of  Detroit,  member  of 
the Legislative Committee of  the  Michi­
gan  State  Pharmaceutical  Association, 
happened to be in  Lansing March 8 when 
Representative Richardson’s  bill  was re­
ported out of the Committee on State Af­
fairs,  and  he  thereupon  wrote  A.  S. 
Parker,  President of  the  Association,  as 
follows:

1 desire to  report a  condition  that  ex­
ists before the Legislature  that,  for  the 
honor of  the  pharmacists  of  Michigan, 
should call forth from them an  emphatic 
and indignant protest.

A bill was yesterday  reported  out  by 
the  Committee  on  State  Affairs  which 
places the pharmacists of  Michigan  in  a 
most disagreeable light  before  the  peo­
ple of the State,  and  which,  I  am  sorry 
to say,  was prepared  by a member of  the 
Legislature  who is  himself  a  registered 
pharmacist,  Dr.  Richardson,  of  Dundee.
The measure  calls  for  the  repeal  of 
that  portion  of  the  pharmacy  law  re­
quiring an annual  registration fee  of  $1 
to  provide  the  means  to  carry  on  the 
work of the Board  in its  examination  of 
candidates  for registration and  the pros­
ecution  of  offenders  under  the 
law. 
This feature  would  not be  improper pro­
vided the  funds  to  carry  on  the  work 
were furnished  by a State appropriation, 
as 
it  always  should  have  been,  but, 
knowing that it would be an impossibility 
to get such an appropriation,  the  framer 
of  the  bill  has  introduced  a  provision 
raising 
to  be 
charged  candidates 
to  $10, 
thus  placing  the  pharmacists  of  the 
State in the  ridiculous  position  of  per­
sons  who,  to  save  $1  a  year  for  them­
selves,  place  a  burden  of  $7  upon  an­
other,  and that other a young man  strug­
gling with all  his  powers to  enter  their 
ranks,  and who is  usually  far  from  able 
to stand  the extra dollars’ expense.  This 
young man  has  been the  pharmacist  ap­
prentice,  and  has  been  taught  by  the 
pharmacist  and  assisted  in  every  way 
possible to  fit  him  for  the  responsible 
position he has chosen for his life’s work; 
and yet this bill says,  in effect,  that  the 
pharmacists 
of  Michigan  are  mean 
enough to impose a  burden  of  $7  upon 
such a  young  man  for  the  purpose  of 
saving $1  a year for themselves.

the  examination 

fee 
from  $3 

I trust that  the  pharmacists  will  im­
mediately  vindicate  themselves  in  the 
eyes of the community  by  promptly  no­
tifying their representatives  at  Lansing 
that  the  bill  does  not  meet  their  ap­
proval.  Respectfully yours,

J a m e s   V e k n o k .

On  receipt  of  this  letter,  President 
Parker immediately  issued an address to 
the drug trade of the State,  as follows:

I desire to call  your  attention  to  the 
above  report  and 
the  necessity  of 
prompt action on  our  part  to  vindicate 
our  reputation  before  the  Legislature 
and the  people of the State of  Michigau. 
As  pharmacists  we have always felt that 
the expense of  the  Board  of  Pharmacy 
should have been  met by a  State  appro­
priation,  but,  failing in  that,  1 feel sure 
that we do  not  desire  to  return  to  the 
lamentable  condition  existing  before  a 
pharmacy law  was  enacted,  or  to  place 
the  burden of expense on the young men 
just  entering  our  ranks. 
I  trust  the 
pharmacists of each town  and  city  will 
at once unite in sending a  petition to the 
Legislature,  protesting against  the  pas­
sage  of  this  bill,  and  forward 
the 
same  to  their  representatives  before 
Tuesday next.  The bill  is known  as the 
Richardson  pharmacy  bill.  Yours  re­
spectfully, 

A.  8.  P a k k e b ,  Pres.

Representative Richardson had  a  bill, 
which was killed in  the  Committee,  re­
pealing the entire pharmacy  law.

W.  A. McGraw,  Manager of the rubber 
department of A.  C.  McGraw &  Co.  (De­
troit),  has returned from  Malden,  Mass., 
where  be  was  the  guest  of  H.  £.  Con­
verse,  of the Boston Rubber Shoe Co.

I 

The  Hardware  Market.

is  good.  Changes 

General  trade continues with  but little 
change.  The  uncertain  weather  has 
more  or  less  effect,  and,  in  many  in­
stances,  deters  purchases.  The dealers, 
however,  all look forward to a fair if not 
a good spring  trade. 
Intelligence  from 
manufacturers  reports  a  small improve­
ment in orders and  in  certain  lines  the 
demand 
in  market 
prices are few,  and,  in  wire nails, barbed 
wire and annealed  wire the  manufactur­
ers all claim recent  advances  are  firmly 
held,  and  they  hope  with the opening of 
spring the demand will  warrant  further 
increase of  price.  They  also  report  at 
this  time  as  being  fully  supplied with
orders to run them  into May, hence there 
does not seem any  reason why recent  ad­
vances should not hold.

Rope  makers  report  the  same  condi­
tion  and while  prices  on  sisal  and  ma- 
niila  are very low,  they do  not  look  for 
any  lower,  but rather anticipate getting 
better figures as spring advances.

Manufacturers  of  steel  goods  report 
more orders  in hand than  they  can  con­
veniently take care  of,  but  they  are  in 
hopes to be soon caught up.

Makers of  window  glass  are  holding 
meetings and are trying to  arrange some 
way out of the present  demoralized  con­
dition of the market.  All  going  into  a 
stock  company  is  at  present  suggested 
and they  are in hopes to carry it through. 
They have another  meeting  this  month, 
and,  if  successful,  we  may  look for an 
advance in price.

Sugar makers’  supplies are in good de­
mand,  and a scarcity  in  some  sizes  and 
kinds of sap pan iron  is already felt.

Orders are now being placed very  free­
ly  for screen doors and windows.  Prices 
are a little lower than last year.

Use  Tradesman  Coupon  Books.

P R O V IS IO N S .

The G rand Rapids  Packing  and Provision Co 

 

 

F O S E   IK  BARRELS.
 

auotes as follow s:
 
Mess................. 
Short c u t ............................................... 
 
E xtra clear pig, short  o 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.................................. 
S tandard clear, short cut. best................  

SAUSAGE.
Pork, lin k s................................
Bologna.................................. .
L iver...........................................
T o n g u e ......................................
B lood..........................................
Head c h e e se .............................
Sum m er......................................
F ran k fu rts.................................

LARD.

Kettle  R e n d e re d ...........
G ran g er.............................
Family.........................
C om pound.......................
Cottolene...........................
Cotosuet.............................
50 lb. Tins, j£C advance.
201b. pails,  *4c 
“  5£C 
10 lb. 
5 1b. 
“  Xc 
31b. 
'•  1  c 

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“
“

BE E P  IK  BARRELS.

Hams, av erag e20lb s..............................

E xtra Mess, w arranted 200  lb s.......................
E xtra Mess, Chicago packing.........................
Boneless, rum p butts.........................................
smoked  meats—Canvassed or Plain.
16 lb s..........................................
12 to 14 lb s .............  ................
p ic n ic .......................................................
best boneless...........................................
Shoulders.............................................................
B reakfast Bacon  boneless..............................
Dried beef, ham  p rices.....................................

“  
'* 
“ 
“ 

“  
“ 

DRV  SALT  MEATS.

Long Clears, h ea v y .............................................
Briskets,  m edium ..............................................

PICKLED  PIGS’  FEET.

H alf  b arrels........................................................
Q uarter barrels....................................................
K its ........................................................................

K its, honeycom b................................................
Kits, p re m iu m ...........  ......................................

TRIPE.

B U TTER IES.

“ 

Creamery,  ro lls..................................................
tu b s...................................................
D airy,  rolls..........................................................
tu b s.....................................................: ..

“ 

11  85
11  50
14 00
12  51
13  00
13  00
13  2,

5
6
8*46
6
10
754

6  50 
6  75 
9 50
■  »14 
.  9*4 
.10
.  6X 
•  8* 
6* 
.  8*
■  »X
•  6*  
.  6*
3 25 
.1  75 
..  90

75
(5

16
15
11
10*4

C A N D IE S,  FR U IT S  and  NUTS

T he P utnam  C andy Co. quotes as follow s:

STICK  CAHDT.

Cases 

Bbls.  Palls.

“  
“ 

Standard,  per  lb ............... 
H .H ...................... 
T w ist................... 
Boston  C ream .................... 
Cut  L oaf............................. 
E xtra  H  H .........................  

8ft
3*4 
MIXED GANDY.

Bbls.
S tandard...........................
L eader................................ ................5 *
R oyal.................................. ................ 6
N obby...............................
.................7
English  R ock.................. .................7
C onserves......................... .......................6%
Broken T affy.................... .. baskets
P eanut Squares................ .. 
7
F rench C ream s................
Valley  Cream s................
Midget, 30 lb. baskets...
M odern, 30 lb. 
....

“

“ 
FANCY--In  bulk

“ 

Lozenges,  p la in ...............
p rin ted ...........
Chocolate D rops..............
Chocolate M onum entals
Gum D rops.......................
Moss D rops.......................
Sour D rops.......................
Im perials...........................

5 
6 
6 

7
7
7
3
o

Palls
6*4
6*4
7*4
8
8*4
7*4
7
8
9
12*4
.......   8

Palls
....  8*4
.... 
9*4
....  11
....  12
.... 
5
...  7*4
....  8
.... 
9
Per Box

panct—In 5 lb. boxes. 

“  

Lemon D rops..........................................................50
Sour D ro p s............................................................. 50
Pepperm int D rops...................., ............................ 60
Chocolate D rops.................................................... 65
H. M. Chocolate  D rops........................................75
Gum D rops................................................... ...3o@50
Licorice Drops.......................................................1  00
A. B. Licorice  D rops............................................75
Losenges, plain.............................  ........................60
p rin te d ................................................. 65
Im perials................................................................. 60
M ottoes.....................................................................70
Cream B ar............................................................... 55
Molasses  B ar..........................................................50
H and Made  Creams.................  
80@90
Plain C ream s.....................................................60@80
Decorated Cream s................................................. 90
String  R ock........................................... ................. 60
B urnt Almonds.......................... 
90@1  25
W lntergreen  B erries............................................60

 

 

CABAMELS.

No. 1, w rapped, 2 lb.  boxes.............................  34
No. 1, 
.............................  51
No. 2, 
.............................  28

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“ 
“ 

3 
2 

ORANGES.

C alifornia Seedlings—126..................................   2  75
150,176, 200,216...........  3 00
250..................................   2  75
Fancy  N avels—112...............................................3  00
126...............................................  3 50
160,176, 200...............................  4  00
M essina  O ranges,  20U........................................3  20
C atanias—F lats, 100.............................................  1  75

Choice stock  25c per box less.

LEMONS.

Choice, 300..............................................................   2  75
E x tra Choice,  300..  .. .   ............................... 
3  25
Fancy, 300 
.................................. .........................  3  5j
Choice,  360  ............................................................  2  75
Fancy, 360...............................................................  3 50
C om m on.................................................................  2 50

BANANAS.

Large b u n ch es.........................................
Small b u n ch e s.........................................
OTHER  FOREIGN  FR U IT S.
Figs, fancy  layers  16ft.........................
“  SOft............................
14ft............................
“ 
...............................................
Dates, Fard, 10-lb.  b o x .........................
50-lb.  “ 
..........................
Persian.  G. M.50-lb  b o x ....... .
1 lb Royals,  new ........................

“ 
“ 
“ 
“  bags 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

ex tra 

N U TS.

“  
“ 
“ 

Almonds, T arragona.............................
Iv a c a .......................................
.,
C alifornia, soft  shelled 
BrasllB, new ............................................. .
F ilberts  ....................................................
W alnuts, G renoble, o ld ........................
F re n c h .......................................
C alif...........................................
Soft Shelled  C alif..................
Taoie  N uts,  fan cy ..................................
choice...................
Pecans. Texas, H.  P .,  ......................... .
C hestnuts................................................
H ickory N uts per  bu.,  M ich................
Conoanuts, fu ll sacks.............................
B utternuts  per  b u ..................................
Black  W alnuts, per bu...........................

“ 

PEANUTS.

Fancy, H.  P .,S u n s..................................
“  R oasted....................
F ancy, H.  P., F lag s................................
“   R oast¿d..................
Choice, H. P.,  E x tra s.............................
“  R oasted................

“ 
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“  

“ 
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”  

F R E S H   M E A T S.

BE E F.
Carcass.......................................
Fore  q u arters...........................
H ind q u a rte rs.........................
Loins No. 3................................
R ibs.............................................
R o u n d s ......................................
C h u c k s ..........................
Plates .........................................
FORK.
D resse d .....................................
L oins.........................................
Shoulders  ................................
Leaf L ard ..................................
MUTTON.

....  1  50 
75@1  25
12 
14 
11 
6% @ 7
a  e a s 
a7  h
a   i4 
,i3*ai4a» a 7 an aio 

ais ai3 
@14 @10* 
@ 96 a 7*

1  50 
4 00 
60 
60
a 5* 
ea tin 
a 6% 
6@ 6*4 
a 4* 
5 a  6

4  a 5 
5*4@   7*4
6* a  8* 
8  aio
e  aio
5  a  6
su a  s 
3xa «
5  a 5*i%
6%
8

C arcasB ..........................................................5*4@  8%
Lam bs..............................................................6  a  7
Oar case..............................................5* a  6

VEAL.

will be at Sweet’s Hotel,  Grand  Rapids, 
Thursday  and  Friday,  March 14 and 15, 
with  a  full  line  of  samples  in  ready­
made  clothing  in Men’s,  Youths’,  Boys’ 
and  Childrens’.  Fourteen years with
Michael  Kolb  &  Son,

Clothing  Manufacturers,

R ochester, N. Y.

WE  WANT

B E A N S

and  will  pay  highest  market  price  for 

them.

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

San Fails and Syrnp Cans.

N e t  P ric e   L ist.
Sap Pails per  100.

IC 
10 q u a rt__ $10 00 
.. . .  
12 
II  00 
....  13  75 
15 

“  
“ 
Syrup Cans per 100.

IX
13  25
14  25
16  50

1 g a llo n ....................  8  8  50
O ur goods  are  fu ll  size 
and are guaranteed not to 
leak.  T he  palls are m ade 
straight,  flaring 
alm ost 
enough  to  pack  conven­
iently. 
Send 
for  price 
list of general line of  Un­
ware.

WM.  BRUMMELER  &  SONS,
Pieced and Stamped Tinware.

M anufacturers and Jobbers of

P hone 640.

2 6 0   8.  I o n ia  S t.,  G R A N D   R A P ID S .

WALTER BAKER & GO.

T he L arg est M anufacturers  of

PURE,  HIGH  GRADE
COCOAS AND 
CHOCOLATES
HIGHEST  AWARDS

on  th is  co n tin en t, 

have received

from   th e   g reat

EXPOSITIONS

Europe and America.

IN

U n lik e  t h e  D u tc h   P ro c e s s  

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 u re an d  soluble, a n d  

costs less than one cent a  cup.
SOLD BY GROCERS EVERYWHERE.

WALTER BAKER &  CO.  DORCHESTER, M ASS

th a t 

th e   a m o u n t 

s u c h   c o m p e titio n  

S.  p .  W h it m a k s h .

fin d s  n ew   c la im a n ts   fo r  p u b lic   fa v o r  th a t 
in c re a s e  
le sse n  
a n d  
th e   v o lu m e   o f 
v a lu e   by  d iv id in g  
tra d e . 
W h ile   th e  o u tla y  
in v o lv e d   in   e a c h   tra ils - 
s a c tio n   is  s m a li.  th e   a g g te g a te   w ill  s a t­
is fy   a n y   good  a c c o u n ta n t 
th e   p r iv ­
ile g e s   a tta c h e d   d o   n o t  a lw a y s   p ay   a   s a t 
is fa c to ry   d iv id e n d   on 
in ­
v e s te d . 

T H E   M IC H IG A N   T R A D E SM A N .
to  the  wants  of  the  community  npon 
whose trade  he  depends  for"success  in 
business;  and a  considerable  portion  of 
his capital is  locked  up.'in  slow-moving 
or unsalable stock.  Later on,  he  begins 
to understand the true  market  value  of 
bis  “exclusive  sale”  privilege.  It is,  at 
first,  pleasaut  to  reflect  that  here  is  a 
good chance to increase trade by  putting 
in betimes a little extra work in distribut­
ing samples and  circulars,  and  quite  as 
comforting to feel .that  here  the  cutter 
can have no opportunity to break through 
and  steal  a  portion  of  his 
legitimate 
profits:  but,  when  revolving  years  have 
brought scores of such plans  to  the  test 
of experience, each  having  appealed  to 
his ambition to be a hustler,  he becomes, 
at last,  satisfied  that,  though  “peeshness 
ist peeshness,”  he is getting the butt end 
of the work  and the  feather  end  of  the 
reward.  The  conclusion  naturally  fol­
lows that,  while push is a good thing,  its 
force is poorly spent in chasing rainbows, 
even though each  bright  arc  may  have 
an  “exclusive sale”  attachment.

DO THIS

w h e n   th e y   w a n t  th e

l eaf an d  Dumb Men

BEST sc CIGAR

on  the market.

s. c.  w.

is sold  by all W holesale D ruggists,'C onfection­
ers and G rocers  traveling  f  om  G rand  Kapids 
Ask your Jobber to send you a sample w ith  next 
order or apply to

G.  J.  J O H N S O N ,

G R A N D   »-A PID 8, 

- 

WIICH

“ 1  have sent  for  you,  certainly,  doc­
tor;  still  I  must  confess  that  I  haven’t 
tiie  slightest  faith  in  modern  medical 
science.”  “Oh,  that  doesn’t  matter  in 
the  least.  You see a mule  has  no  faith 
in  tlte  veterinary  surgeon,  and  yet  he 
cures  him  all  the same.”

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

■

lu s  Lemnn.

(w rapped)

Doz 

Gro.
I oz.  $  9 0   10  20
I  20  12  6 0
2 ox. 
4 <>«.. 
2  OO  22  6 0
6 oz. 

3  OO  33  OO■'s  Vanilla

Wrapped)
Doz. 
oz. $  I  6 0

Gro. 
16  20
2  OO  21  6 0
2 oz. 
3  76  4 0   8 0
« oz. 
8 oz.  6  4 0   57  6 0
P la in   N. s.  w ith  
c o rk a c re w   a t se in e  
p ric e   If  p re fe rre d .
C o rre s p o n d e n c e

« n l 'r l l M l
flieh.

SEE LY   MFO.  CO.,  D etro it 

18
D ru g   D epartm en t*

S ta te   B o a rd   o f  P h a rm a c y *

One Year—George  Gundrum.  Ionia.
Two Years—C. A  Bugbee, Charlevoix.
ThreeYears—S. E. P a rk h ill, Owofso.
Four Years—F. W. R  Perry,  Detroit 
Five Years—
President— Fred’k W .R. P erry, Detroit.
Heeretary—Stanley E. Parkill, Owosso.
'’reasu rer —Geo. Gundrum, Ionia.
Com ing  Meetings—Detroit  (Star  Island),  June  21; 
Lansing, Nov 5.

H lc h ig a n   S ta te   P h a rm a c e u tic a l  A ss’ll. 
President—A. 8. Parker, Detroit.
VIce-President—John E. Peck, Detroit. 
Treasurer—W. Dupont,  Detroit.
8eoretav— F. C. Thompson. Detroit.

G ra n d   R a p id s   P h a r m a c e u tic a l S o ciety . 

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

E X C L U S IV E   SA L E S.

N o t  A lw a y s  S o  L u c ra tiv e   a s   T h ey  

A p p e a r.

W ritten  fo r Th e  Tradesman.

Business  rules  and  customs  every­
where are,  in  the  main,  founded  upon 
and justified by  the  average  experience 
of men  in all  lines of active trade.  Such 
as are  in  harmony  with  the  principles 
of equity survive  the  changes  that  are 
inevitable  in  commercial  progress,  and, 
though not authoritative, still control the 
various  methods  necessary  to  carry  on 
the world’s business.

Among  the  usages  of  trade,  when  a 
profitable  market 
for  manufactured 
goods  is  desired,  a  system  of  general 
agency is often  relied  on  to  secure  an 
active  demand.  Through  subagencies, 
judiciously distributed,  most of  the  ma­
terial  products of  to-day  reach  the  con­
sumer.  Whether  commissions,  salaries 
or profit  on  actual  sales  constitute  the 
means by  which  such goods  find  a  mar­
ket,  one thing  is  evident—that  is  that 
each  factor  in  this  distribution  should 
receive a fair equivalent for  his share of 
the work.  Therefore,  until  a demand  is 
permanently established,  the  control  of 
such distribution is  wisely  held  by those 
who 
the  enterprise.  These 
products,  if staple necessities,  are after 
wards thrown on  the  market for general 
competition,  and.  by  economy  in  proc­
esses  of  manufacture,  the  cost  is  less­
ened to the  public  and  all  persons  en­
gaged  in their distribution.

initiate 

Dealers 

in  small 

towns,  especially 
druggists,  often  find  themselves directly 
connected  with a similar system,  and not 
wholly to their  satisfaction.  The  goods 
are specialties and include an  almost in­
exhaustible list  of  proprietary  articles, 
medicinal and otherwise,  all of which tax 
effort  to the utmost to keep  them moving 
in  a reluctant market glutted with adver­
tised  novelties.  Th^se  that  are  best 
known  and universally called for become 
staple stock,  to he  replenished from job­
bers as often  as  need  requires,  and,  if 
one’s location  be far  enough  away  from 
the  remorseless  cutter,  a  satisfactory 
trade is the result.

But there is still a  large list of special 
preparations 
introduced  by  traveling 
salesmen,  who promise the  advantage of 
a local  agency to  the  druggist  giving  a 
trial order.  The  larger  the  order,  the 
more specious the promises to  stand  be­
tween him and  loss,  by  novel  advertis­
ing methods, each one claiming  that  his 
own  is better and more  certain  to  draw 
trade  than  those  of  competing  firms. 
And so the dealer,  who may  have a good 
local trade and  enjoy  the  confidence  of 
his  customers,  accepts  the  goods,  in­
dulging in the hope that  the  investment 
will prove profitable on account  of  such 
co-operation  and  the  guarantee  of  ex­
clusive  sale.  So,  In  time,  his  shelves 
become filled with a  line  of  goods  that 
were not  purchased with  any  reference

But,  for  all  this,  it  does  not  follow 
that the practice  of  placing  new  goods 
on the market through  special  agents  is 
had  business policy, or deserving of crit­
icism on the ground of its  being  an  un­
just  discrimmination  against  others  in 
the same  line  of  teade.  The  privilege 
offered 
is  a  legitimate  advantage,  for 
which  the  local  dealer  is  expected  to 
give  value  by  working  up  a  demand 
among his  customers.  Were  it  not  for 
the  fact  that,  in  accepting  too  many 
such  tempting  offers,  he  overrates  the 
limitations of a reasonable  demand  and 
everstocks with too  many competing va 
rieties,  the result would  be  more  favor­
able to his profit account.  But,  at  best, 
the advantage of exclusive  sale  is  short 
lived.  One may  succeed  in  creating  a 
demand  for an  article,  but  he  will  find 
that continued effort  will  be  required  to 
maintain it,  and  that a large part  of  the 
time  will  he  taken  up  booming  infant 
commercial  enterprises;  and,  even 
in 
spite of one’s  best  exertions,  the  fickle 
favor of the public is sure  to be arrested 
by  some  other  novelty.  While  “boom­
ing”  is a feature  common  to  every  line 
of  trade,  it  should  not  be  allowed  to 
usurp  more than  its  due  proportion  of 
the dealer’s  attention. 
In  case  articles 
placed  with  him  on  the  conditions  re­
ferred to  prove  slow  sellers,  the  prod- 
dings of  hustling  proprietors,  who  may 
know  nothing  of  the  reasons  therefor, 
increase his infelicity;  and,  if fairly suc­
cessful,  then  he  is  pestered  with  per­
sistent  and  untimely  solicitations  for 
larger and  more  frequent  orders,  until 
life becomes  a burden.

specialties 

Since  the  old  way  of 
to 

introducing 
the  public 
medicinal 
through a system of commission accounts 
with the retail dealer has  become almost 
obsolete,  the latter  is  compelled  to  take 
increased chances in that class  of  goods. 
As the market value of  such goods is  so 
easily  affected  by  the  whims  of  cus­
tomers,  not  even  the  advantage  of  ex­
clusive sale can overbalance the  risk  of 
loss and  clear the  shelves when  the  in­
evitable  falling  off  in  demand  reaches 
the zero limit.  The  wisest  method  for 
any one to pursue,  in accepting  offers  of 
salesmen  whose goods depend  for a mar­
ket almost entirely  on  the  personal  ef­
forts of the dealer,  is  to  weigh  the  risk 
of  unprofitable  competition  with  stock  i 
already having a fair demand.  The fact | 
should be borne in mind  that  each  year

Mail and  telegraph orders  receive  special  attention.

Signal  Five

B E S T   H A V A N A   F IL L E R   S c  C IG A R . 

M ANFFAOTFRED  BY

ED.  W .  RUHE,  47  Dearborn  S t.,  Chicago.

Represented  by  F  E  BUSHMAN.  523 John St.,  Kalamazoo,  Mich.

Wellauer  &  Hoffmann  Co.,
J .  A.  G onzalez,  M ichigan R epresentative, G rand Rapids.

TH E  IVCICHIGAJST  TRADESMAN.

1 9

Wholesale  P r i c e   Current•

A dvanced—Gum Opium. Cocoaine, Gum Camphor. Sugar  Milk, T urpentine. Alcohol 
D eclined—Salicylate Soda, Cod Liver Oil.

ACIDTJM.

A ceticu m .....................
Benzolcnm  G erm an  .
Boraclc 
........................
C arbollcum ................
C ltrlc u m ......................
H v d ro ch lo r..................
Nitro cum 
....................
O x allcu m ......................
Phosphorium   d ll.........
S alicylicum ..................
8ulphuricum ................
T a n n i c u m ............................. 1
T artaricum ..................
AMMONIA.

m  10
65®  75 
15
21@  31 
41®  44 
3® 
5
10®  12 
10®  12 
20
70®  75 
1£®   5 
40@1  60 
30®  33

Aqua, 16  d eg ................  
20  d e g ..............  

6
n 
8
bonas  ........................  12®  14
lOTldum......................   12®  14

4® 
6® 

B lack ........................................ 2 0002 25
8001  00
B row n.............r ............
45®  50
R ed.................................
Y ellow .......................... 2  5003  00

B ACC AB.

Cubeae (po  25).........
J n n lp e ru s ....................
X antnoxylum .............
BALSAM UM.
C opaiba.........................
P eru .................................
Terabin. C anada  . . . .
T o ln ta n .........................

20®  25
*  8®  10
25®  30

45®  50
@2  50
45®  50
35®  50

CORTBX.

Abies,  C anadian ......... .............  18
Cassine  ......................... .............  12
.  18
Cinchona F l a v a ............. . .  
Euonym us  atropurp.. .........  30
M yrica  Cerifera, po.  . .............  20
P funus V lrg ln l................. ............   12
Q uillala,  g rd ................ .............  10
............. .........  12
Sassafras  ............  
Ulmus Po (G round  15) .........  15

. 

EXTRACTUM.
G lycyrrhlxa  G labra...
p o .............
Hacmatox, 15 lb. b o x .
la ................
Vi*..............
H *..............
YKRBU

“ 
“ 
“  
“ 

Carbonate P reclp.........
Citrate and Q u in ta—
Citrate  Soluble............
Perrocyanldum  Sol —
Solut  C hloride.........
Sulphate,  com’l ...........
p u re ..............

“ 

FLOR A.

24®  25 
33®  35 
11®   12 
13®  14 
14®  15 
16®  17

®   15 
@3  50 
®   80 
®   50 
®   15 
2
®   7

.9® 

If
k rn lc a ...........................  12® 
V nthem is......................  18®  25
M atricaria 
18®;5

 

 
FOJ.1A.

larosm a 
......................  14®  80
Masala  A cutlfol,  Tin-
n lv e lly ...............•••••  18®  25
A lx.  25®  30
ialvla  officinalis,  14b
and  Via.......................   12®  20
JraU rsl 
...................... 
8®  10

“  

» 

e m a il.

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

®   60 
Vcaola,  1st  p ic k ed ... 
2d 
...  @  40
gd 
®   »>
... 
allied aorta...  @ 2 0
p o . . . . . .   . . . . .   60®  80
Uoe,  Barb,  (po. 60)...  50®  60 
“  Cape,  (po.  20)...  @  12
Boootrl, (po.  60)  @ 5 0
iatechu, la, (Via, 14 Ha,
16)............................. 
. «   1
—   5b@  60
tm m oniae 
50®  6
Iszafoatlda,  (po 50 
lensom um .................. 
*l@  5f
.’amphorae. 
442  50
.. 
Suphorblnm  po 
35® 
ly
lalbanum  
@2  50
• 
lam boge,  po 
.. -  65®  80
luaiacum ,  (po  35) —  
®
lino,  (po  2  50)...........  @2 50
M astic...........................  @  80
M yrrh,  (po  45)............... 
@   40
)pil  (po  3  30®3  50) . . tc  40@2  45
...............  40®   60
Shellac 
4  ®   45
i’ragucantb 
...............  50®  80

bleached  —  

“ 

herba—In ounce packages.

“ 

................ ...........  25
A bsinthium  
Lobelia......................... ...........   2f*
M ajortun..................... ...........  28
M entha  P ip erita....... ...........  
-¿H
............. ...........  25
R u e................  ............. ......... .  SO
.............  &
Tanacetnm ,  V ............
Thym us,  V 
...............
MAGNESIA.

V lr 

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

OLEUM.

A b sln th ln m .................... .2  5003 00
.  30®  50
Amygdalae, D ale . . .
. .8 0008  25
Amydalae. A m arae. 
1  99@2 GO
A n ls l..............................
1  80®2  00
A urantl  C ortex ........
.3  0003 20
Bergamll  .......................
60®  65
C a lip u tl............................
.  75®  80
O aryophylli...................
.  35®  65
C e d a r ................................
Chenopodli  ...................
@1  60
Clnnam onll 
.1 2501  49
.............
Cltronella 
@  45
.................
65
Conlum  Mac
Copaiba........................
80®  90

Cubebae.....................   1  25@1  35
Exechthltos  ..............   1  20®1  30
B rlg e ro n ............ ...........1  20@1  30
G a u lth e rla .................... 1  50®1  60
G eranium ,  ounce.  ...  @ 7 5
Gosalpll,  Sem. g a l.......  70®  75
Hedeoma 
......................1  25@1  40
J u m p e rl.........................   5002 00
L a v e n d u la ...................   90@2 00
L lm onla................ , . ...1 4 0 0 ’  60
M entha Piper 
............ 2  1P@8 OO
M entha  V erld............... 1  so@2 00
M orrhuae, g a l...............1  70@l  75
M yrcla, o unce..............   @  50
O liv e..............................   90@3 00
PlclB Liquida,  (gal. .35)  10®  12
H lc in l........................... 
68®  96
R oam arlnl............  
1  00
Rosae,  o u nce................. 6 5008 50
S ncclnl...........................  40®  45
S a b in a ...........................  9001  00
Santal  ........................... 2  5007 00
S assafras..... 
..............   50®  55
Slnapla, ess, o u nce__   @  65
T lglli..............................   @1  OS
T h y m e ...........................  40®  50
opt  ..................  @1  60
Theobrom as.......   .......   15®  20

“ 

POTASSIUM.

B IC a rb .........................   15®  18
b ic h ro m a te ..................  13®  14
B rom ide....................... 
40®  43
C arb................................  12®  15
Chlorate  (po. 17@19)..  16®  18
C yanide.........................   50®  55
Io d id e............................. 2  9003  00
Potassa, B itart,  p u re ..  23®  25 
Potassa, B itart, com ...  @  15
Potass  N ltras, o p t....... 
8®  10
Potass N ltraa................ 
9
7® 
P rn aalate.......................  28®  30
Sulphate  p o ..................  15®  18

RADIX.

A co n itu m .....................   20®  25
A lthae.............................  22®  25
A n c h u a a .......................   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)...................... 
Hellebore,  Ala,  p o __   15®  20
Inula,  p o .......................   15®  20
Ipecac,  p o ...................... 1  30® l  40
In s   plox (po. 35038)..  35®  40
Jalapa,  p r .....................   40®  45
Mar anta,  H a................  @ 3 5
Podophyllum , po.........  15®  18
R hel................................   7501  00
"  o u t.........................  @1  75
“   p v ...........................  7501  35
S p lg ella...........................  35®  38
Sanguinarla,  (po  25)..  @ 2 0
Serpentario.................. 
50®  55
3 e n e g a ...........................  55®  60
Slmllax, Officinalis.  H  ®   40 
M  @  25
Scillae, (po. 35)............   10®  12
Symploearpns,  Fosti-
dns,  p o .............. ........   @ 3 5
V aleriana, Eng.  (po.30)  @  25
G erm an...  15®  20
ln g lb e ra ....................... 
18® 20
Zingiber  J ...................... 
18® 20

“ 

“ 

exiuni.
Anlaum,  (po.  20). 
Q   15
A plum  (graveleona)..  14®  16
B ud, la ............................. 
4® 6
Carni, (po. 18).................  10®  12
C ardam on.......................1 
00@1 25
C orlandrum ....................   12®  14
Cannabis S ativa...........  4® 
5
Cydonlum .......................   7G@1 00
Chenopodio?: 
...............  10®  12
D lpterfx O dorate...........1 80@2  OO
F oeniculum ..................  @  15
Foenugreek,  p o ........... 
8
L i n i .......................... 
3Vi@ 
Lini, grd.  (bbl. 8Vi). ■  3>v@  4
........................  86® 40
Lobelia 
5
Phariarie C anarian —  
..  ........................   4Vi®  5
• spa 
Slnapla  A ltra............  
8
* 
N ig ra............   11®  12

4® 
7® 

6® 

 

SPIRITUS.

1 

“ 
“ 
“ 

Frum enti. W., D.  Co. .2  0U@i.  50
D.  F. R ........2  0C@2  25
 
J  uni perla  Co. O. T — 1  6502 00
...............1  7503  50
“ 
Saaoharura  N.  B ...........1 9002 10
Spt.  Vini  G alli.............. 1 7508  50
vini O p o rto ................  1 
Vini  A lba.......................1 

25@2 00
26@2 00

25®1 50

Floiida  sheeps’  wool 
carriage 
N assau  sneep*’  wool
carriage 
..........  
Velvet  extra  sheeps’
wool  carriage........... 
Extra  yellow  sheeps’
carnage 
.................. 
Grass sheeps’ wool car­
riage 
.......................  
H ard for  slate  u se—  
Yellow  Reef, for  slate 
u s e ..............................  

2  5002 75
2  00
1  10
85
65
75
1  40

SYRUPS.

Accacia 
..................................  50
Zingiber  ..................................  50
Ipecac............................'..........   60
Ferrl  Io d ..................................  50
A nranti  Cortes........................  50
R hel  A rom ...............................  50
Slmllax  Officinalis................   60
. . . .   50
S en eg a......................................  50
Sclllae.......................................   60
“  Co..................................   60
T o ia ta n ....................................   50
.  60
P runas  f l r f ........................ 

“  

“ 

TINCTURES.

 

“ 

“ 

A conitum   N apellls R ...........  60
* ...........  50
A loes.........................................   oo
and  m y rrh ....................  60
A rn ic a ......................................  50
A safcetlda.............................
Atrope B elladonna................   60
B enzoin.................  
60
0 
“  ,  CO...............................  50
S anguinaria.............................  50
B arosm a..................................   50
C antharides......... ..................   75
C apsicum ................................   50
Ca  dam on.................................  75
Co..........................  75
_  “ 
C astor......................................1 00
C atechu....................................   50
C in c h o n a ................................   50
Co..........................  60
C olum ba..................................  50
C o n lu m ....................................   so
Cubeba......................................  50
D ig ita lis..................................  50
E rgot.........................................  50
G e n tia n ....................................  50
Co................................  60
G u a lc a ......................................  50
am m on.....................  60
Z in g ib e r..................................  50
H yoscyam ns...........................  50
Io d in e.......................................   75
Colorless...................   75
F erri  C hloridnm .................   36
K in o .........................................   50
Lobelia.....................................   so
M yrrh.......................................   50
N ux  V om ica...........................  50
O p il...........................................  85
“  C am phorated..................  50
“  D eoaor........................... 2 00
A eranti C ortex.......................   50
Q u a ssia ....................................  50
R h a ta n y ..................................  50
R hel...........................................  so
Cassia  A cutlfol......................  50
C o............ ;.  50
S erp en tario .............................  50
Stram onium .............................  60
T o ia ta n ....................................  60
V a le ria n ..................................  50
V eratrnm V eride....................  50

“  
“ 

“ 

“ 

MISCELLANEOUS.

“  
“ 

* 
“ 

u  
ground, 

“ et Potass T .  55®  60

Æ ther, Spts  N it, 3 F . .  35®  38 
“  4 F . .   38®  40
A ln m e n .........................2K@  3
3® 
4®  

(po.
4
7).................................. 
A nnotto.........................   55®  60
A ntim oni, p o ................ 
5
A n tlp y rln ......................  @1  40
A ntifebrin.....................  @  %
A rgenti  N ltras, ounce  @  48
A rsenicum ...................  
5®  
7
Balm Gilead  B u d __  
38®  40
Bism uth  S.  N .............. 1  3001  40
Calcium  Chlor, Is, (Vis
12;  Hs,  14)................  @  11
C antharides  Russian,
p o ................................   @1  00
Capslci  F ructns, o f...  @ 2 6
p o ....  @  28
®   20
B po. 
Caryophyllns,  (po.  15)  10@  12
Cannine,  No. 40...........  @8 75
Cera  Alba, 8. 4  F .......   50®  55
Cera F la v a ....................  40®  42
Cocoas 
.........................   @  40
Cassia F ru c tn s............   @  25
C entrarla.......................   @  10
C etacenm .....................   @  40
C hloroform ..................  60®  68
aqnlbba..  @1  26
Chloral Hyd e r s t____ 1  2501  50
C ho n d ru a......................  20®   25
Cinohonldlne, P.  A  W  15®  20 
G erman  8Vi@  12 
Corks,  list,  dis.  per
65
.................... 
®  35
Creasotnm 
............... 
Creta,  (bbl. 75)....... 
2
@ 
5® 
5
p rep .............. 
** 
preclp..........  
“ 
9@ 
ll
“  R ubra  . . . .  
@ 9

cent 

“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

4

“ 

“  

C ro c u s.........................  
50@  55
C udbear.......................  
@  24
Capri S ulph ..................  5  @  6
D e x trin e .......................   10®  12
E ther S u lp h ..................  75®  90
Bmery,  all  num bers..  @
po  ....................  @  6
B rgotajtpo.)  40...........  30®  35
F lake  W hite................  12®  15
G a lla ..............................   @  23
G am bler......................... 7  @ 8
G elatin.  Cooper...........  @  6>
F ren ch ............   30@  50
Glassware  flint, by box 60.
Less than box  50.
«Blue,  B row n................  
9 a   u
“  W hite..................  18®  26
d ly e e rln a ......................  13®  20
G rana P aradisi.............  @  22
H nm alna.......................   25@  56
H ydraag Chlor  M ite..  @  75
...  @  65 1
“ Cor 
Ox Rubrtun  @  85 
A m m ontati..  @  95
U nguentum .  45®  55
H ydrargyrum ..............   @  60
Icnthyobolla,  A m .. 
..1  25@1  50
In digo.............................  750100
Iodine,  R esubl............ 3  80@3  90
Iodoform ...........................   @4 70
L u p u lin .............................  @2 25
L ycopodium ................   60®  65
M a c is.............................  70®  75
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy-
drarg Io d ....................  @  27
Llqnor Potass A rslnltls  10®  18
M agnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
M anilla,  s . F ................  60®  68

IK )...............................2V4®  4

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

,T 

8.  N. Y. Q.  <6

M orphia, S.  P.  A  W. 

1 95@2  20 
C.  C o.......................  1  85®2  10
M oschus  C anton... 
@ 4 0
M yrlstlca,  No  1 .........   65®  70
N ux Vomica, (po 20)..  @  10
Os.  Sepia.......................   15®  18
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D.
C o ................................   @2 00
P lels Llq, N.»C., Vi gal
doz  .............................  @2  00
Plels Llq., q u a r ts .......  @1  00
_   1 ‘ 
p in ts ...........  @  85
P ll H ydrarg,  (po. 80)..  @ 5 0
Piper  N igra,  (po. 22)..  @ 1
Piper Alba,  (po g5)__   @  3
P llx B u rg u n ..................   @ 
7
Plum bl A c e t................  10®  12
Pul vis Ipecac et opil.. 1  10@1  20 
Pyre thrum ,  boxes  H
& P. D.  Co., doz.......   @1 25
Pyrethrum ,  p v ............   20®   30
Q uasslae........................ 
8®  10
Q ulnla, 8. P. & W ...... 34«@39Vi
8.  G erm an___  27®  37
R nbla  T lnctorum .......   12®  14
16®   18
Saccharum L actlzpv. 
S a la d n .......................... 2 3002  50
Sanguis  D raconls.......   40®  50
.  12®  14
Sapo,  W .................... 
M ...........................  10®   12
“   G ...........................  @  15

"  

Seldlltz  M ixture.........  @  20
Slnapla...........................   @  18
“  opt.................   ®  SO
Snuff,  M accaboy,  De
V o e s ...........................  @  35
Snuff. Scotch, De. Voes  @  35 
6®  10
Soda Boras,  fpo.9-10). 
Soda  et Potass T a rt...  24®  25
Soda C arb.................... 
lVi®  2
Soda,  Bl-Carb..............  
3® 
.5
Soda,  A sh....................... 3Vi@ 
4
Soda, S ulphas..............   @ 
2
Spts. E ther C o ............   50®  55
“  M yrcla  D om .......   @2  00
“  M yrcla Im p .........  @2  50
••  V lnl  Rect.  bbl.
....7 ............................2  5302 63
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Strychnia  c ry s ta l...... 1 40@1  45
Sulphur, S u b l...............2H@  3
R o ll.................  2  @  2Vi
1 «UnthTlUUB..............
Terebenth V enice.. ...  28® 30
..45  @ 48
Theobrom & e...........
V an illa..................... ..9 00@16 00
... 
7® 8
Zlncl  S u lp h ............
OILS.

“ 

W hale, w in te r......... ..  70
so
Lard,  e x tra .............. . 
Lard, No.  1............... ..  42
Linseed, pure ra w .
..  59

Bbl.  Gal
70
85
45
62

“  

paints. 

Linseed,  boiled..........   62 
N eat’s  Foot,  w inter
s tra in e d .................. 
65 
Spirits T urpentine__   42 

65
70
47
bbl.  lb.
Red  V enetian................1H  2@8
Ochre, yellow   M ars__ 1%  2@4
B er.........IK   2®3
“ 
P utty,  com m ercial__ 2H  2K®3
“  strictly  p u re .......2Vi  2K@8
V ermilion Prim e A m er­
13015
ican  ............................... 
V erm ilion,  E n g lish __  
68072
Green,  P en in su lar.......  
13@16
Lead,  re d .......................   5K®6
w h ite ..................5H®6
@70
W hiting, w hite Span... 
@90
W hiting,  Gilders’ ......... 
1 
W hite, Paris  A m erican 
W hiting,  Paris  Eng.
c lif f ..............................  
l  40
U niversal Prepared  ..1  C0@1  15

“ 

VARNISHES.

N o.l  T u rp   C oach___1  1001  20
E x tra T u rp ...................160@1  70
Coach  B ody..................2  75@3  00
No. 1 T urp  F u rn .........1  0001  10
B utra T urk D am ar__ 1  55®1  60
Jap an   D ryer,  No.  1 
70075
T u rp ............................. 

Ml IHIB) ■  t

It is  now the season  to  buy for Spring Trade.

Sponges and

Chamois Skins,

We carry a full line.

In Sponges

Florida Sheep’s Wool.
Nassau  Sheej’s Wool,
Imitation  Sheep’s Wool,
Small  Sheep’s Wool,
No.  1  Grass,
No. 2  Grass,
No.  1 Slate or Reef,
No.  2  Slate or  Hardhead,

and a full and complete  line of 

Mediterranean Bath,

from  l£c each to 80c each and in assorted  cases.

Our Line of Chamois

is complete and prictes are right  for  first class  goods.

HflXELTINE 

i  

PERKINS 

DRUG 

GO.,

Manufacturing  Chemists,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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T H E   MlCHXGb4JNr  T RA DìiH M A NT

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.

A X L E   6 R E A S K  

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

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

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

Acme.
“ 

. 

A rctic.

Q ueen F lake.

45
>4 to.  ;ant>. 3  dos —  
75 
.. 
A-*». 
.............
..  1  00 
10
B u lt 
................................
55
u   ft> cans 6 doz  case—
A  tt>  “  4 doz  “  — ..  1  10
....... ..  2  00
“ 
1  #>  “  2 doz 
..  9  00
“ 
5  ft>  “  1  doz 
----
• • ■ ..  2  70
3  oz cans 6 doz  “ 
..  3  20
“ 
6  oz  ‘ 
4 doz 
...
..  4  80
“ 
9  oz  “  4doz 
----
“  — .  4  00
1  ft  “  2 doz 
..  9 00
“ 
ld o z 
5  lb  “ 
----
40
c a n s.......
Red Star,  A 
.. 
76
A 
“ 
.......
..  1  40
“ 
.......
l i  
T elfer’s,  M. Ib. cans,  do«. 
45
85
.. 
A lb . 
“
..  1  50
1 lb.  >
45
Our Leader,  A *b c a n s ..
.. 
75
A lb   ca n s...
.  1  50
llb c a n s   ...
B A T H   B R IC K .
2 dozen in  case.
English.........................
Bristol..................................
D o m estic..............................

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70
60

B L U IN G . 

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pints,  round  ...........
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“  No. 8, 
“  No. 5,
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8 oz...........

I os b a l l ................

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Gross
3 60 
6  75 
9  00
2  75
4  00 
8 00 
4  50
3  60 
6  80

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No  1 
No. 2 Carpet —  
No. 1 
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Parlor G em .......
Common W hisk 
Fancy 
W arehouse.......

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1  90
2 00 
2 IS 
2  50 
2 GO
85 
1 00 
2  85

B R U S H E S .

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“  10...........................  1  51.
“  16...........................i  t:
aloe Root Scrub, 2  ro w .... 
86
Rioe Root  Scrub, 8 row —   1  25
Palm etto,  goose....................  1  50

C A N D L E S.

Hotel, 40 lb. boxes.............. 10
Star,  40 
“ 
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Paraffine 
..............   ........... 16
WlCkiUK 
.................  ¿4

C A N N E D   G O O D S . 

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P is h .
Clams.
Little Neck,  i lb ...................1  20
2  l b .................1  90
Standard, 8 lb ......................... 2 25
Standard,  1 lb ........................  75

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Clam Chowder.
Cove Oysters.

21b.......................I S
Lobsters.
Star,  1  lb ................................2 45
2  lb ................................8 50
Picnic, 1 lb .............................. 2 00
21b.............................  2 90
M ackerel
stan d ard , 1 lb ......................  110
2  lb .......................2  10
M ustard,  2 lb ........................ 2 25
Tomato sauce,  2 lb ..............2  26
Soused, 2  lb ................  
.2 25
Columbia River, fia t............1  EU
ta ils ............1  65
Alaska, Red  ...........................1  30
p in k ............................1  20
Kinney’s,  flats.......................1  95

Salmon.
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Sardines.
A m erican  Vts....................4 A ©   5
.  .............w a  7
A s 
Im ported  Ms........................  @10
A s........................ 15®16
M ustard  Ml  .......................   6©7
Boneless 
............................. 
»2

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Brook  8, lb 

.  ......... 2 50

Trout.

T r a its .
Apples.

310. sta n d a rd ...............
York State, gallons  ... 
Ham burgh, 
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2  75

Apricots.

Cherries.

Live oak.......’ .
1  40
1  40
Santa  C raz....................
1  50
Lusk’s .............................
1  10
O verland  ....................
Blackberries.
85
F.  *   W ...........................
R ed..................................
©1  20
Pitted H amburgh
1  40
W h ite ............................
1  15
B rie ............................
Damsons, Egg Plum s and Green
Gages.
E rie ................................
1  35
1  25
C alifornia.....................
Gooseberries.
C om m on.......................
1  25
Peaches.
P ie ................................
1  10
1  50
M ax w ell.......................
S h e p a rd 's.....................
1  50
C alifornia.....................   160@1  75
Monitor 
....................
O xford ...........................
Pears.
D om estic........................
1  26
R iverside.......................
1  75
Pineapples.
Comm on........................ 1  00@1  30
Johnson’s  slic ed .........
2  50
g rated .........
2 75
B ooth's sliced..............
@2 5)
g rated ............
@2  75
Quinces.
C om m on.......................
1  10
Raspberries.
Red  ................................
95
Black  H am burg...........
1  40
Brie,  black  ..................
1  20
Straw berries.
L aw ren ce......................
1  25
H am b u rg h ....................
1  25
B rie.................................
1  20
T e rra p in ...........................
1  05
W hortleberries.
85
B lu eb erries..................
M eats.
Corned  beef 
.................. ___2  85
Roast beef 
...................... ....2   35
Potted  ham , A lb ........... ....1   25
“  A l b ............ ....  70
.  ..1  35
....  75
95

tongue,  A lb .......
A lb ....
chicken, A l b __ ... 

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Beans.

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Peas.

Corn.

Hamburgh  strin g less... 
....1   15 
....2   00
F ren ch  style.
L im as............. ....1   25
Lima,  g reen ...................... ....1   15
soaked.................. ___  70
Lewis Boston  B aked__ ....1   26
Bay State  B aked............
....1   25
W orld’s  F air  B aked___ ....1   25
Picnic B aked.................... ....  95
H am burgh .......................
.  .1  IS
Livingston  B d e n ........... ....1   00
P arity .........................  
..
....  90 
H oney  Dctv...................
. . . 1   25
M orning Glory 
__
S oaked .........."............... ...
75
Ham hnrgh  m arrofat 
.
....1   80
“ 
early Ju n e
...1   50
“ 
l  40
Cham pion Eng 
petit  pol«..
.1  40
fancy  sifted
“ 
...1   66
Soaked 
.............................
...  85
Harris stan d a rd ..............
...  75
VanCamp’s  m arro fa t... 
...1   10
early  June
. 1   30
A rcher's  Early  Blossom ...1  26
F ren ch ...........................
.  2  15
Mushroom*.
F rench  ......................... .
.19Q21
Pum pkin.
B rie .................................... ---- 95
Squash.
H u b b ard .........................
Succotash.
H am burg...........................
S oaked.................. ..........
Honey  D ew ......................
...1   40
B rie ....................................
...1  35
H an co ck ...........................
...  90
B xcelsior 
E clipse................................ . . .   90
H a m b u rg ..........................
... 1  25
G a llo n ................................ ...3  00

Tomatoes.
. . . .

...1  15

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G erm an Sw eet.................
P rem ium ...........................
B reakfast  Cocoa............

B aker’s.

C H E E S E .
A m boy...........................
A cm e..............................
L enaw ee........................
R iv e rsid e ......................
Gold  M edal..................
S k im ..............................
B rick..............................
B dam ..............................
L e id e n ...........................
L lm b n rg e r..................
P in ea p p le......................
R oquefort 
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Sap  Sago.......................
Schweitzer, Im ported.
dom estic  ....

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©20
©24
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C R E A M   T A R T A R .
Strictly  p u re......................... 
80
Toller’s  A bsolute................  
30
Grocers’ ................................15©25

C A TSU P.

CO U PO N   B O O K S.

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Blue Label Brand.
2  75
H alf  pint. 25 bottles  ... 
4  5u
P lat 
Q uart 1  doz bottles 
8  50
H alf pint, p er  d o z ................ 1  35
Plnt,2S  bottles  ......................4  50
Q uart, per  doz  ......................3  75

T rium ph Brand.

C L O T H E S   P IN S .

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

COCOA  S H E L L S .

351b  bags.........................   ©3
Less  q u a n tity ..................  @3A
P ound  packages............ 6<fc©7

C O F F E E .

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820 
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2 50 
8 00 
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4  00
5 00
6  00

O reen .

R ía

Santos.

F a ir.................................... .... 18
G ood.................................. ....19
P rim e......................................21
G olden...............................
...21
Peaberry 
......................... ...2 3
F a ir.................................... ...1 9
G ood..................................
...20
P rim e ................................ ....2 2
Peaberry  .........................
...2 3
Mexican  and Guatam ala.
F a ir.................................... ....21
Good.......................................2 2
F an cy ................................
.. ..24
P rim e................................
. . .  28
M ille d ....................................24
In te rio r.............................. ...2 5
Private G row th....................27
M an d eh lln g .....................
...28
Im ita tio n .........................
...26
A rabian __ .♦...................... .. .28

Maracaibo.

Mocha.

Java.

R o aste d .

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

P a c k a g e .

H c L a u g h lin ’s  X X X X   .  £2 80
B unola  ................................21  80
Lion, 60 or 100lb.  c a se ....  22  30 

E x tra c t.
75
Valley City  A  gross 
.  1  15
F elix 
H ummel’s, foil,  gross......... 1  65
“  ____ 2 85
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C H IC O R V .

B u lk ...........................................5
R ed.......................................  ...  7

C L O T H E S   L IN K S .

Cotton,  40 f t ...........per dos.  1  25
140
160
176
1  90
86
1  00

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60 f t ............. 
60 f t ............. 
7 0 ft............. 
80ft............. 
60 f t ............ 
7 2 « .......... 

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N.Y.Cond’ns’d Milk Co’s brands
G all B orden E ag le...............  7  40
C row n........................................6  25
D aisy..........................................5  75
Cham pion.................................4  50
M a g n o lia .................................4  25
D im e..........................................8  35

Peerless evaporated cream   6 76

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83 00 
8  1  books, per hundred 
3  50
8  2 
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5  00
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810 
820 
7 00
Above prices on coupon books 
are  subject  to  the  follow ing 
quanH ty discounts:
200 books or o v e r..  5  per  cent 
** 
500 
1000  “ 
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..10 
..20 

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denom ination  from  810  dow n.j
20 books.............................8  1  00
50 
2  00
100 
3  00
6  25
250 
500 
10 00
1000 
17  50

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500, any one  denom ’n .......83 00
1000,  “ 
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2000,  “  “ 
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Steel  punch 
75

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B utter.

Seymour XXX.......................
Seymour XXX, carto o n __
Fam ily  X XX.........................
Fam ily XXX,  cartoon .......
Salted XXX............................
Salted XXX,  cartoon  .......
K en o sh a.................................
Boston......................................
B atter  b ls c a lt......................
Soda,  XXX....................... .. .   5A
Soda, C ity......................... ....  7A
Soda,  D uchess................ .. . .   8A
Crystal W afer.................. — 10 A
Long  Island W afers 
S. Oyster  XXX................ ....  5A
City Oyster, x x x ............. ....  5A
F arin a  O yster......... — ....  6

.. ....11

Oyster.

Soda.

D R IE D   F R U IT S . 

D o m e stic . 

Apples.

Peaches.

Apricots..

S nndrled............................
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes 
C alifornia in  bags.........
Evaporated In boxes.  .. 
Blackberries.
In   boxes...........................
N ectarines.
70 lb. bags  .........................
25 lb. boxes........................
Peeled, In  b o x es....  ...
Cal. evap.  “ 
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“ 
In bags.........
C alifornia In bags.......
P itted  Cherries.
B arrels...............................
50 lb. b o x e s ......................
......................
25  “ 
Prunelles.
801b.  boxes....................
Raspberries.
In   barrels.........................  
501b. boxes.......................  
251b.  “ 
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Pears.

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Raisins.

6A
8
8A
9

»A
8
9
8A
6«

20
20 A
20A

Loose  M áscatele In Boxes.
2 c ro w n ..................................   3A
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4  “ 
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Loose M áscatele In Bags.
2  crow n.............. ........................3M
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F o re ig n .
Currants.

P atras,  b b ls......................  @4 A
Vostizzas, 60 lb.  cases........4M
25.1b.  boxes...............................5A
l|lb.  p ack ag es......................  6M

Schuit’s Cleaned.

Peel.

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

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25  “ 
Raisins.

O ndnra, 29 lb.  boxes. 
Sultana, 20 
V alencia. 30 

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Prunes.

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.  7

90x100  25 lb. bxs.  5A
80x90 
70x80 
6A
60x70 

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S ilv e r.............................

E N V E L O P E S .
XX rag, w hite.

No. 1, 6A  ...........................  81  3i
No  2. 6A 
1  in
No.  1, 6 ..................................  1  2b
No. 2, 6..................................  1  00

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M anilla, w hite.

6A  .........................................  
6 - - . 
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75
70

Coin.

M ill  No. 4 ............................. 

90
F A R IN A C E O U S   GOO D S. 

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

2 A

F arina.

Grits.

W alsh DeRoo  &  Co.’s .......   1  85
B arrels................................... 
G rits ..........................................  8A

Hominy.

 

2A

Lima  Beans.

D ried.................................  5©6A

M accaronl and Vermicelli.
Domestic, 12 lb. b o x ___ 
Im ported.......................10A@11

55

Pearl Barley.

S chum acher........................... 

8A

Peas.

G reen,  b u ............................   1  10
Split  per l b ......................... 

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Rolled  Oats.

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Schum acher, bbl................  84  65
’A b b l.............. 2 50
M onarch,  bbl 
....................  4  00
M onarch, A  b b l.....................2 18
Q uaker,  cases......................  320
Oven Baked..............................8 25

G erm an ............................ 
B ast In d ia ..................................  3 A

 

 

Sago.

W heat.

Cracked...................................  8

F IS H —S alt.

Bloaters.

Cod.

T&rmonth..............................  1  65

Georges cured....................  4
Georges genuine...............6
Georges selected...............  7
Boneless,  bricks • ■  ......... «X
Boneless,  strips...................6M©9

H alibut.
S m oked......................  

11©12

H erring
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H olland, w hite hoops keg 
75 
9 59
bbl 
N orwegian  ..........................   10 (0
Round, A bbl 100 lb s .........  2 30
..........  
1 20
Scaled....................................  
15

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M ackerel.

No. 1,  100 lb s .........................li  so
No. 1, 40 lb s ........................... 4  90
No. 1,  10 lb s ........................... 1  30
No. 2,100  lb s.........................10  no
No. 2,40  lb s..........................   4  3o
No. 2,10  lb s ..........................   1  15
Fam ily, 90 lb s........................
10  lbs  ....................

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Sardines.
Trout.

Russian,  kegs........................ 
55
No. 1,  A bbls., lOOlbs............4  75
No.  1 A bbl, 40  lb s ...............2  2C
63
No. 1, kits, 10 lb s................. 
No  1,8 lb  k its .................... 
53

W hltefish.

No. 1  fam ily
A bbls,  100 lb s .............87  10 3  50
“  -------   .  3  10  1  7J
A   “  40 
101b.  k its .....................  
50
8 lb. 
43
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M A T C H E S.

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Colum bia P arlor........................ 81 25
XXX S ulphur.............................   1 00
D iam ond  M atch  Co.’s  Brands.
No. 9  su lp h u r............................... i  65
Anchor  parlor 
......................l  70
No. 2 hom e 
..  ....................   l  lu
E xport  p arlo r.......   ............... 4  uo

F L A V O R IN G   .E X T R A C T S . 

Soudera*.

Oval Bottle, w ith corkscrew.
B estia the w orld for the money.

Regular
G rade
Lemon.

dos
2 oz  — 8  75 
4 oz  —   1  50

Regular
V anilla.

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

XX G rade 
Lemon.
2 oz.........81 5b
4 o z........  3 00

XX G rade 
V anilla.
2 oz.........81 75
4 oz.......... 3 50

J e n n in g s .

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1  20
2 os regular p an e l.  75 
2  00
4 os 
. ..1  50
3 00
6 oz 
.  .2 00
No. 3  ta p e r............1  35
2 00
No. 4  taper  ...........1  50
2  50
N o rth ro p 9«

Lemon.  V anilla.
1  10
1  75
1  20
2 25

2 oz 
3 oz 
2 oz regular  “ 
4 oz 
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1  20
“  
85 
“  
1  60
G U N P O W D E R  
Rifle—D upont’s.

K egs..................................... ...3   25
H alf  kegs........................... ...1   90
Q uarter  keg s.................... ...1   10
1  lb  ca n s............................. ...  30
A  lb  ca n s........................... ...  18

Choke Bore—D upont’s

K egs...................................
H alf  kegs.........................
Q uarter kegs..................
1 lb c a n s ............................

..4  25
..2   40
..  1  35
...  34

Eagle D uck—D upont’s.

Kegs  ..........................  
... ..11  00
H alf  k e g s ......................... ..  5  75
Q uarter k eg s..................... ..  3  00
1  lb  ca n s............................ .. 
60
Sage...................................... ...16
H ops...................................
...15
8
M adras,  5 lb. boxes.........
S. F ., 2, 3 and 5 lb. boxes.

IN D IG O .

H E R B S .

J E L L Y .
15  lb. p alls....................
©   32
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©   38
30  “  “ 
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©   68
L IC O R IC E .
P u re................................ ..... ...  SO
C alabria............................... ...  26
Sicily....................................
..  12
R oot...................................... ...  10

65
50

L Y E .

Condensed,  2 d o s............. ...1   20
4 doz  ................ 2  25

M IN C E   M E A T .

M ince m eat, 3 doz. in case.  2  7
. .2  .5
Pie Prep. 3  iloz.  In  case.

M E A SU R E S .
Tin, per dosen.
1  gallon 
................
81  75
H alf  g allon.......................
1  40
Q u a il..................................
70
45
P in t......................................
H alf  p i n t .........................
40
Wooden, for vinegar, per doz.
1 g a llo n ...............................
7  00
4  75
......................
H alf gallon 
Q u a r t..................................
3  75
P int 
.................................
2

M O LA SSES.
Blackstrap.
..................
Cuba Baking.
Porto R ltj

.................................
N«w O rleans.

sugar bouse 
O rd in ary .
Prim e 
Fancy
F a ir ......................................
Good  ................
E xtra good.........................
Choice 
.............................
Fancy
H alf  barrels 3c.extrs

14
16
20
30
18
22
27
32
40

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Medium

Barrel*, 1,200  co u n t... 
H alf bbl*, 600  co u n t.. 
Barrel*, 2,400  count. 
H alf bbl*, 1,200 count 

Small.

@4 (4)
©1 50
5 75
3 40

P I P * » .

Clay, No.  216.............................1 70
"  T. D. fu ll c o u n t............   70
Cob, No.  8 ......................... ...1  20

P O T A S H .

48 cans In case.

B abbitt’* ..............................
Penna Salt  Co.’* ................

4  00
3 00

R IC E .
Domestic.

Carolina b e a d ....................

5*4
No. 1.................... ....5
N o .2 ...................... ..4*4
.  3*4

Broken.................................

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Im ported.

Japan, No. 1........................
N o .2 .........................

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...5
5

P atn a.................................... ..  4*4

SPICK S.

Whole Sifted.

Allspice  ..................................   9*4
Cassia, C hina in m at*.........  9*4

 

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Pure G round In B ulk.

“  B atavia In bund — 15
Saigon In  roll*.........32
“ 
Cloves,  A m boyna................. 22
Z anzibar................... 11*4
“ 
Mace  B atavia..........................7u
Nutmegs, fa n c y ...................... 65
60
“  No.  1............... 
“  No.  2...........................5j
Pepper, Singapore, black — 10 
w h ite ...  .20
sh o t.......... ..................16
A llspice.....................................15
Cassia.  B atavia...................... 18
and  Saigon.25
S aig o n .......................35
Cloves,  A m boyna................. 22
Z anzibar....................18
Ginger, A frican ...................... 16
C ochin.......................20
Jam aica 
..................22
Mace  B atavia..........................65
M ustard,  Eng. and Trieste. .22
T rieste.......................25
Nutmegs, No. 2 ...................... 75
Pepper, Singapore, black — 16
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*  C ayenne....................20
Sage............................................20
‘‘Absolute” In  Packages.

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V4*
A llspice...........................   84 155
C in n a m o n ......................   84 1  55
Cloves...............................  84 155
Ginger,  J a m a ic a .......   84  1  55
A fric a n .............  84  1  55
M ustard...........................   84 1  55
P e p p e r............................. 
Sage....... . 
84

84 

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8A L   SO D A .

“ 

G ranulated,  bb ls...................   1V4
751b  cases.........   15i
Lump, bbls 
...........................  1*4
1*4

1451b  kegs. 

©13
4
80
4
4*4
9
8
4*4
30

S E E D S .
A n is e ...........................
Canary, Sm yrna.........
C ara w ay ......................
Cardamon, M alabar.. 
Hemp,  Russian
UCU1U)  UUDOJ
M ixed  Bird
M ustard,  w hite  .........
Poppy .............................
R a p e ....................... —
Cuttle  bone................
S T A R C H .
Corn.
20-lb  ooxe«....................
................
40-lb 
Gloss.
1-lb packages..................
3-lb 
.................. .......  5*4
................... .......  6X
6-lb 
40 and 50 lb.  boxes................  3X
.................. .. 
...  3 *
B arrel*—  

.......  5*

“ 
“ 

“ 

S N U F F .

Scotch, In  bladders.............. 87
Maccaboy  In ja rs ..................35
French Rappee, In J a r* .......43

SO D A .

SA L T.

Boxe* 
Keg*, English 

................................. -.5*4
................ ...4 *

“ 

Diam ond Crystal.
Cases, 24 3  lb. boxes......... l   1  60
2JS0
Barrels, 320  lb s..................
1152*4 lb b ag s.... 
4  00
“ 
3 75
lb  “ 
.. . .
605 
“ 
3  50
3010  lb  “ 
....
“ 
6*
B utter, 56 lb  bags..............
3 50
“  20141b bags  .............
2  50
“  280 lb  b b ls .............
“  224 lb 
.............
225
W orcester.
115 2*4-lb sacks.................... *4  <0
“ 
60 5-lb 
....................
.................... .  3  50
•* 
3010-lb 
...................... .  3 30
24  14 lb.  “ 
320 lb.  b b l............................. .  2  P0
8 lb  sacks......................... .  32*4
60
100 3-lb. sacks...................... .12  10
...................... .  1  90
60 5-lb. 
2810-lb.  sacks.................... .  1  75

linen ac k s................
Common G rades.

“  

W arsaw.

“ 

"  

“ 

Ashton.
Higgins

56 lb. dairy In drill  b ag s.. 
281b. 
.
56 lb. dairy In linen sacks.
56 W  dairy In linen  sacks
56  li>.  sack s.......
Saginaw  ..............................
M anistee.............. ...............

Common Fine.

Soiar Rock.

30
16
75
75
22
90
90

T H E   M IC H IG A N   T O t

t A r m a a n u r  a t *

2 1

S A L E R A T U S.

Packed 6Ò lbs. In box.

C hurch’* .................... ......... 3 30
DeLand’a .................... ...........3  15
D wight’s ......................
...........3 30
Taylor’s ....................
......... 3 00

S E E L Y ’S  EX TK ACTS.

Lemon.
1 Ste.  F. M.  $  90 doz.
2  “  N. 8.  1  20  •*
2 ,“  F.,M.  1  40  »

V anilla.
1 oz. F.  M.  1  50 doz.
2  ”  N .  S.  2 OO  “
2  «  F. M. 2  50  “

Ï10 20 gro 
12  60  “
14  40  “

16  20 gro 
21  60  “
25 50  •*

Rococo—Second Grade.

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

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

Lemon.
V anilla.

SO A P.

Laundry.

G.  R. Soap W orks Brands. 

“ 
“ 
“ 
Best G erm an Family.

Concordia, 100 %, lb. bars. .  3 50
5 box  lo ts..............3 35
10 box lots..............3 30
20 box lots..........3  20
60 l  ib.  b ars............ ................ 2  25
5 box  l o t s .................................. 2 15
25Jbox lo ts.....................................2 00
A llen B. W risley’s Brands.
Old Country,  80  1-lb  ...........3  20
Good Cheer, 601 lb ......................3 90
W hite Borax, 100  X-lb  ........3  65

Proctor & Gamble.

“ 

Concord....................................3  45
Ivory, 10  oz.............................6  75
6  oz........................       4  00
Lenox 
................................   3  66
M ottled  G erm an....................3  15
Town T a lk ...............................3  25

Dingman Brands.

Single box ...............................3  95
5 box lots, delivered...........3 85
10 box lots, d elivered.........3  75
Jas. S. Kirk A Co.’s  Brands. 

American  Fam ily, w rp d . .$3 33 
p la in ...  3 27
N.  K.  F airbank & Co.’s Brands.
Santa C laus...........................  3  91
Br jw n, 60 b a rs........................2  10
80  bars  ......................3  10

“ 
Lautz  Bros. &.Co.’s  Brands.

“ 

“ 

A cm e........................................ 3  65
Cotton O i l ...........................  6  00
M arseilles.................................1  00
M aster 
. . .   4 00
Thompson A Chute Co.'s Brands

... 

155

Silver  ...............................3 65
Mono 
....................................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 ap o llo , kitchen, 3  d oz...  2 40 

hand, 3 doz........... 2 40

" 

8U G A R .

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 which 
he  purchases  to  his  shipping 
point.¿including 20  pounds  for 
the w eight of the barrel.
81
Domino  ................................. M
81
Cut  L oaf.................................. 4
44
C u b es.........  ........................... 4
44
Powdered  ...............................4
k.9
XXXX  Pow dered................  4
06
G ranulated 
..........................4
06
F ine G ranulated..................  4
18
E xtra Fine G ranulated...  4
44
M ould  A .................................4
0600
Diam ond Confec.  A ...........  4
Confec.  Standard  A ...........4
8/
No.  ........................................   a
87
No.  2 
.....................................3
o7
No.  3......................................  3
8/
No.  4..............  
3
No.  5........................................3
81
75
No.  6........................................3
69
No.  7........................................3
62
No.  8........................................3
56SO
No.  9........................................3
No.  10.....................................   3
41
No.  11........................................3
37
No.  12....................................  3
25
No.  13................  
3
18
No.  14.................................. 
3

 

 

B arrels......................................18
H alf bbls.................................. 20

SY RU PS.

Corn.

Pure.Cane.

F a ir ...........................................   15
G ood.........................................   2o
Choice.......................................   25

T A B L E   SAU CES.

“ 

Lea A P errin’s, large  — ..  4  75
sm all.......   2 75
H alford, la r g e ........................ 3 75
sm all........................ 2 25
Salad Dressing,  la r g e ....... 4  56
sm a ll...... 2  65

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Japan—Regular.

TE A S.
F a ir ..............................
@17
G o o d .............................
@20
Choice........................... .24 @26
.32 @34
Choicest  .....................
D u s t............................. .10 @12
8UK CURED.
F a ir ..............................
@17
G o o d ............................
@20
Choice........................... 24 @2t
Choicest....................... .32 @34
D u st............................... .10 @12

BASKET  FIRED.

F a ir .............................. .18 @20
@25
Choice...........................
Choicest.......................
@35
@40
E xtra choice, w ire leaf
GUNPOWDER.
Common to  f a ll.......... .25 @35
E xtra fine to finest__ .50 @65
Choicest fan cy ............ .75 @85
©26
Common to  f a 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.

FOUNG HY80N.

ENGLISH  BREAKFAST.

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

TO BA CCOS.

F in e  C at.

P.  Lorillard A Co.’s Brands.
Sweet R usset............... 30  @32
,  30
T iger............................... 
D. Scotten A  Co’s Brands.
H iaw ath a.....................  
60
C u b a............................... 
32
R ocket........................... 
30
Spaulding A M errick's  Brands.
30
S terlin g .........................  
OA
Private Brands.
@30
B az o o .... 
.............
@27
Can  Can.........................
@25
Nellie  Bly  ...................24
@25
Uncle Ben.....................24
27
M cG lnty.......................
25
*4 bbls...........
C olum bia.........................
Columbia,  drum s  .........
Bang  U p...........................
Bang up,  drum s  ...........

“ 

P lu g -

Sorg’s Brands.

39

S p earh ead ....................
J o k e r ..................................  
Nobby T w ist........................ 
Scotten’s Brands.
K ylo.....................................  
H iaw atha............................  
Valley C ity ........................ 
Finzer’s Brands.
Old  H onesty......................  
 
Jolly T ar 
 
Lorlllard’s Brands. 
39
Climax  (8  oz., 41c)—  
Green T u rtle .....................  
27
Three  Black C row s... 
J. G.  Butler’s Brands.
Something Good......... 
38
O at of  S ight...................... 
W ilson;« M cCaulay’s.Brands.
Gold  Rope.........................  
Happy T hought........... 
37
M essm ate...........................  
No T a x ................................. 
Let  Go................................. 

27
40
25
38
34
40

30

24
43
32
31
27

S m o k in g .

Catlin’s  Brands.

K iln  d rie d ............................17@18
G olden  S h o w e r.....................19
H untress 
.............................   -26
M eerschaum 
.................29@3u
American Eagle Co.’s Brands.
M yrtle  N avy........................... 40
S tork....................................... 
30
G erm an .................................... 15
F ro g ..........................................32
Jav a,  *4s fo il.........................
B anner Tobacco Co.’s Brands.
B anner...................................... 76
Banner Cavendish— ......... 36
Gold Cut 
............................... 30

Scotten’s Brands.

W arp ath ...................................14
Houey  D ew ............................. 26
Gold  B lock............................. 30
F. F. Adams Tobacco Co.’s 

Brands.

P eerless.............................. 
Old  Tom ...................................18
S tandard.................................. 22
Globe Tobacco Co.’s Brands.

 

H andm ade......................

Leidersdorf’s Brands.

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

Spaulding A M errick.

.25
Tom and J e rry ...............
38
T raveler  C avendish...
.30
Buck H orn.  ..................
Plow  Boy........................ 30@32
16
Corn  C a k e ..................
V IN E G A R .
40 g r..................................
50 gr................................
(1 for barrel.

@8
@9

W E T   M U STA R D .

Bulk, per gal  ................
Beer mug, 2 doz In case

Y EA ST.

M agic............. 
............
W a rn e r's .......................
Yeast Foam  ..................
D iam ond__
Royal 

.. . .

30
1  75

.1  00
.1  00
.1  00
.  75
.  90

26

W O O D E N W A R E .

13  “ 
15  “ 
17  “ 

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
“ 
......................... 1  25
“ 
.........................  1  80
H ID E S   P E L T S   a n d   F U R S  
Perkins  A  Hess  pay  as  fol­
lows:
FURS.
M ink.................... 
40  @  1  25
70
30  @ 
C o o n .................... 
75  @  1  *5
Skunk.................. 
ijA 1111 K........................
15 @ 
R at S pring.........
18
08 @ 
Rat,  w in te r.......
11
03 @ 
08
Rat, fa ll..............
Red  F o x ............. 1  10 @  1  40
40 @ 
Gray F o x .,.........
6)
Cross F o x ........... 3  00 @  5  00
50 ©   1  00
B adger................
fO @ 
75
Cat, w ild.............
10 ©  
25
Cat,  h o u se.........
F is h e r ................ 5  00 @  6 00
L ynx.................... 1  on @  2  50
M artin, d r r k __ 2  00 @  3  00
M artin, paie, yel 1  00 ©   1  50
O tter.................... 5  00 ©   8  0j
W olf..................... 1  00 ©   2 00
B eaver................ 3  00 @  7  00
Bear....................1 15  00 @25  00
25
Opossum.............
Deer Skin, d ry ..
25
Deer skin, green
12*4
3  @4
G re e n ................
@  5
P art  C ured.........
5  @  6
F u ll 
.........
5  @  7
D ry.......................
3  @  4
Kips, green  -----
11  cu red .......
@  6
5  @  6
Calfskins,  green
cured
7  @  8*4
Deacon sk in s................10  @25

10 @ 
10 @ 
05 © 

RIDES.

** 

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No. 2 hides *4  off.
PELTS.

WOOL.

Shearlings.................. ..  5 @  20
..................... . .2 5 @  60
Lambs 
.  12 @15
W ashed..............
U n w a sh e d ................ .  8 @12
T a llo w ....................... .  3 @  4*4
Grease  butter  ......... . 
Switches 
G inseng 
... 
.2 00@2  25
G R A IN S  a n d   F E E D S T U F F ?

MISCELLANEOUS.

1 @  2
1*4@ 2

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

WHEAT.

50
5o

HEAL.

FLOUR  IN  SACKS.

No. 1  W hite (58 lb. test) 
No. 2 Red  (60 lb.  test) 
B olted....................................  1  40
G ranulated.................. 
1  65
•P atents.................................  1  95
•S tandards...........................   1  45
Bakers’.................................. 
l  t5
•G rah am ...............................  1  3u
Rye.........................................  
I  40
•Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour in bbls., 25c per bbl. ad-
ditional.
B ran .. 
316  50
Screenings ..............................14  uo
M iddlings.............................   7 50
No. 1  F e e d ..............................18 00
Coarse meal 
....................17  50
Car  lo ts...................................45
Less than  car  lo ts............  47
Car  lots  ..................................33*4
Less th a n  car lots  .............. 37
No. 1  Tim othy, car lots —  in  00
No. 1 
11 00

HAT
ton lots 

MILLSTUFFf*.

CORN.

OATS.

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F ISH   A N D   O Y STERS

p assu   Fisa.
 

....................  @  8
W hiteflsh 
Trout 
@ 8
Black B ass.............. 
15
H a lib u t,.........................  @12*4
Ciscoes or H erring  ...  @ 6
Blueflsh.........................  @12*4
Fresh lobster,  per lb .. 
20
10
...... 
Cod 
H addock.......................   @  8
No. 1 Pickerel 
.. 
© 8
P ik e ................................   @ 8
Smoked  W h ite ...........  @ 9
13
Red  Snappers............... 
Colum bia  River  Sal­
12*4
mon  ............................. 
M ackerel........................  18@25
S c a llo p s.......................  
1  50
.....................  
1  25
Shrim ps 
1  21
. 
Clams 
............... 
SHELL  ROODS.
Oysters,  per  li»>...........>  25@1  50
Clam* 
00

OYSTERS— IN CANS.

OYSTERS— IN  B U LK .

F. J .  D ettenthaler’s  Brands. 
33
F airnaven  Counts  .. 
F . J .  D.  Selects........... 
30
S ele cts........................... 
25
*3
F. J. D., Standards. 
. 
A nchors......................... 
20
S tan d ard s...................... 
18
F a v o rite ........................ 
15
S tandards  per gal.............. 1  10
A nchor Standards per gal 1  10
Counts, per g a l....................... 2  20
Selects 
......................  1  66
E x tra  Selects, per gal...........  1  75
New  York  C ounts.. 
___35
E x tra  selects.................. 
30
Selects 
^   ..................  27
....................  2’»
IX L stan d ard  
S tandards.  ................................. 22
M ed iu m s..................... 
-0
Standards, per  gal  ...............1  .0
IXL^Standaids,  per  g a l......1  20
E x tra   Sele  ts, per gal  .......1  90
Selects, per  al......................1  85

Oscar Allyn’s Brands.

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C R O C K E R Y   A N D   G L A S S W A R E

LAMP  BUHNERS.

 

 

 

 

LAMP  CHIMNEYS.—6  dOZ. ID bOX.

No. 0 S u n ................................................................  
40
4J
No. 1  “ 
.... 
...................................................... 
No. 2  “ 
6**
................................................................. 
T ubular 
 
f,0
Security.  No. 1........................................................  60
Security,  No. 2.......................................................  86
N utm eg.....................................................................  50
A rctic.........................................................................1  25
Per box.
i  75
No. 0 S u n ............................................................... 
.................................................................. i  88
No. 1  “ 
No. 2  “ 
.................................................................. a  70
No. 0 Sun, crim p to r, w rapped and labeled.. .2  10 
No. 1  “ 
...2   25
No. 2  “ 
.  .3  25
No. 0 Sun, crim p  top,  w rapped and labeled.  2  to
N ° -1 
-..2  80
.  .3  80
No. 2 

F irst quality.
“ 
“ 
“___   ‘ 
XXX Flint.
“ 
“ 

•' 
“ 

f  
“ 

“  
“ 

“ 
“ 

‘ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 

Pearl top.
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

No. 1 Sun, w rapped and  labeled  ...................   3  70
“ 
No. 2  “ 
....................  4  70
No. 2 Hinge,  “ 
....................4  gg

No.  1, Sun,  plain  b u lb .............................  ......... 3  40
No. 2, 
.........................................4  4u

F ire Proof—Plain Top.
“ 

“ 

“ 
La Bastle.

“ 

“ 

“ 

No. 1 Sun, plain bulb,  per doz.......................  
]  25
No. 2  “ 
...........................1  50
No. 1 crimp, per d o z............................................. ;  3*
............................................  1  «0
No. 9 
“ 
Rochester.

No.  1, lim e (65c d o z ).............................................3  50
No. 2, lim e (70c d o z ).............................................4  00
No. 2. flint  (80c doz)............................................   4  70

“ 

Electric.

 

 

 

M iscellaneous.

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.................................................  50
N utm eg.......  
 
15
Illum inator Bases..................................................1  00
Barrel lots, 5 doz  ............................. 
90
7 in. Porcelain Shades...........................................1  U)
Case lots,  12 doz......................................................  go

Mammoth Chim neys for Store  Lamps.

OIL  CAHS.

Doz. 
No.  3  Rochester,  li m e ......... 1  50 
No.  3  Rochester, flint. 
.. 1  75 
No.  3  Pearl top or Jew el gl’s .l  85 
75 
S o.  2  Globe Incandes. lim e...l 
No.  2  Globe Incandes. flint.. .2  00 
No.  2  Pearl glass..    ................2  10 

Box
4  20
4  80
5  25
5 10
5 85
6 00
Doz
1  gal  tin  cans w ith spout.................. ............  
1  t>0
1  gal  galv iron, w ith spout....... .......................2 00
2  gal  galv iron w ith  spout 
.........................3  25
3  gal  galv iron w ith snout...............................  4 50
5 gal  McNutt, w ith  spout................................  6  to
5  gal  E ureka, w ith  spout................................6 50
5  gal  E ureka w ith faucet..................................   7  00
.............................  ;a o
5  gal  galv iron  A  A W  
5  gal  Tilting  Cans,  M onarch...........................10 uO
5  gal  galv Iron N acefas.....  
....................  9 5j

Pum p Cans.

3  gal  Home R u le .... 
.........................................10  50
5  gal  Home R ule.................. 
......................... ,2  0o
3  gal  G oodenough...............................................12  00
5  gal  G oodenough 
............. 
..................13  50
10 50
...................................... 
5  gal  P irate  K ing 

LANTERN  GLOBES.
No. 0,  Tubular, cases  1  doz.  each.....................  45
“ 
No. 0, 
..................... 
45
......................  4y
No. 0, 
bbls 5 
No. 0, 
bull’s  eye, cases 1 doz ea ch . 1  25

2  “ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

LAMP WICKS.

 

 

No. 0,  per  gross.....................................................   20
No. 1, 
*
No  2, 
38
No. 3, 
65
Mammoth,  per doz................................................   75

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“ 

“ 
“ 

JELLY TUMBLERS—Tin Top.
24  “  “  bbl, 
6  “ 
1»  “  ”  bbl, 

1  65
•  doz (bbl  35).........   2i
“  box,  “  box  (box 00)__   1  8-J
“  doz (bbl 35)......... 
23

*4 Pints,  6 doz in box, per box  (box 00).  . 
*4 
*4 
*4 
B utter Crocks,  1  to 6 g a l ..............................  
Jugs,  *4 gal.,  per doz.........  ....... ...................  
1 to 4 gal., per g a l.................................... 
Milk Pans.  >4 gtu., per  d o s .................. 

STONEWARE—AKRON.
nt>
*4 gal. per  d o z.........................  60
70
07
60
72

...................... 
STONEWARE—BLACK GLAZED.

B utter CrocKs,  1  and 2 g a l............................ 
6*4
Milk Pans,  *4 gal.  per  doz..............................   66
rs

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O IL S .

BARRELS.

The S tandard Oil Co  quotes as follow s: 

 

 

E ocene........................... 
'*4
XXX W.  W.  Mich.  H eadlight.............8
N aptha...............................................................   @ 7
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Imperials cannot be surpassed tor purity  and  beauty of finish.
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ground 
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Unequalled  for  Whiteness,  Purity  and 
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finer  than 
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Tour  inspection  is  kindly  solicited 

when in the city.

Our representatives will  call  on  you 
early and will gladly show  you  through.
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in  “Black Bottoms.”

Headquarters 

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Rubbers.

T S 15  M IC H IG A N   T R A D E SM A N ,
the country of the Arabs with  the  olive 
branch of peace as its only weapon.  The 
dagger of competition is unsheathed, and 
the business man must  use it  or  fall  in 
the fight. 
It is the  dishonesty  and  cor­
ruption of the times  which  pervade  the 
entire  community  from  top  to  bottom, 
affecting  politics,  administration,  cor­
porations and individuals.
This doleful state of  affairs  is  empha­
sized by daily observation.  Malfeasance 
in office, embezzlement of  public  funds, 
bank defalcations,  thieving  by  cashiers 
and handlers of money  in  trust,  are  por­
trayed in every issue of the  daily  press. 
Of course,it should be understood that in 
these depressed times much of the preva­
lent villainy of persons holding responsi­
ble positions is induced by  the  stress  of 
various circumstances in  which  individ­
uals are involved.  But  such  rascalities 
were  all  too  prevalent 
in  prosperous 
times.  For  years  they  have  evinced a 
lamentably low moral tone in  the  official 
and  business classes.  The evil has been 
accentuated,  it  is  regretable  to say,  by 
the leniency,  not to use a  harsher  term, 
of our judiciary.
Altogether,  there is  not  a  sufficiently 
high  moral  standard,  as  affecting  busi­
ness,  prevailing in this country,  and  the 
tendency  is  to  a  worse  condition  even 
than now prevails.  There  needs to be  a 
revival of  old-fashioned business  honor. 
It  has  come to this that we must have a 
change in this respect or the whole  busi­
ness  fabric  will  topple  to  destruction. 
Already our dishonest,  fraudulent  meth­
ods in respect  to  corporate  management 
have discredited us  abroad,  and  Ameri­
can securities are rattling home to be re­
deemed.  This  is one of the more impor­
tant elements in  the prevailing  business 
and  financial  depression. 
It  is  with­
drawing  European  capital 
from  this 
country at a rapid rate,  and  forcing  re­
demption of securities  on  many  of  our 
own capitalists who are just now  poorly 
equipped for the ordeal, 
ft  is  paralyz­
ing enterprise in the  extension  and  im­
provement of railway properties  and the 
larger  industries.  Such  has  been  the 
impairment of the faith of our own  peo­
ple in the integrity of men who have  the 
management  of  our  corporations  and 
their securities,  that it is now  nearly im­
possible to float new issues,  and  thus de­
velopment is  at  a  standstill,  and  thou­
sands  are deprived  of  employment  and 
forced  to  beggary  and  led  into  crime. 
The evil of dishonesty is  working out its 
dire results,  and the wisdom of  the  pre­
cept,  “Honesty is the best policy,”  is  be­
ing illustrated.
The main cause  of  the  evils  here  re­
cited is an overweening  greed  for money 
to satisfy an extravagant  way  of  living. 
The  people  at  large have an  insane de­
sire for  the  indulgencies  which  money 
affords.  They  want the  power,  elegan­
cies,  pleasures,  and social position  which 
come  of  wealth.  The  common  people, 
and  the  smart  ambitious  though 
low 
minded and  vulgar  people,  have imbibed 
the notion that each can  become a prince 
of  fortune  if  be  make  sufficient effort. 
This passion  for money,  and  all  that  it 
implies,  has  become  so  strong as to de­
throne  conscience  and  reason, 
leading 
men  to  have  a  contempt  for  anything 
that does not lead to wealth.  This is the 
trouble which is afflicting  the  American 
people  to-day,  debauching  politics,  of­
ficial  life,  business, and  even,  it is to  be 
feared,  the judiciary  and the  clergy.  A 
reform of moral  sentiment  and  purpose 
must be wrought  among  the  masses,  or 
the nation  will go to  destruction,  under­
mined  and  disintegraded by corruption, 
as  have  several  of  the  nations  of 
It  is  to  be hoped that there is 
history. 
yet sufficient moral salt in  the  nation  to 
save 
influence 
should be  speedily  and  incessantly  ap­
plied in order to check  the present rapid 
tendency toward decay and death.

it,  but  its  renovating 

21  LAKE  ST.,  CHICAGO,  ILL.

22

D is h o n e sty   th e   N a tio n ’s   P e ril.

From  the Northwestern  Lumberman.

Anybody  who has been but a casual ob­
server  of  events  in  this  country  must 
have  been  forcibly  impressed  with the 
recent  growing  tendency  to  dishonesty 
and downright villainy in politics, official 
life,  corporate responsibility and private 
business obligations.  There  may  be  as 
many  honest  men  in  all these relations 
to-day as at any period  of  the  country’s 
history,  but it looks as if there  were cer­
tainly  an  augmenting  number  of  rank 
rascals.
This is seen,  first,  in the almost entire 
lack  of  honesty,  honor  and  patriotism 
among politicians,  the men  who run  the 
political machinery,  from  the  township 
organizations  to  state and national  con­
ventions.  Politics has  become a word  to 
which  nobody  but  an  ignoramus  or  a 
sophisticated office seeker  attributes auy 
element but that of dishonesty and fraud. 
It means a scheme  of.  designing  men  to 
get the offices and thereby  the chances to 
deceive and rob the people. 
In the older 
days of the republic men  who sought of­
fice claimed and  were accorded  some  de­
gree of honor,  and  sense  of  responsibil­
ity to their constituencies.  They  were to 
a  large  degree,  at  least,  actuated by a 
patriotic desire  to  acquit  themselves  so 
as  to  be  considered  patriotic  citizens, 
with a good name to  preserve  and  hand 
down to  posterity.  Probably  that  feel­
ing  and motive are somewhat rife in  the 
rural communities  at  the  present  time; 
but  in  the  larger  cities if any of  it  re­
mains,  it is neither  conspicuous nor  em­
phatic.  Men now seek  office  “for  what 
there is in it”  to  them,  and  with  small 
regard to the good of  their  constituents. 
They connive and combine to get the sup­
port  of the worst  elements  in  the  com­
munity,  because  those  elements  repre­
sent the greatest number of votes.  They 
cajole and fool the ignorant, the debased, 
and the vietims of demagogy for the sake 
of votes, and the selfish  partisans among 
the so-called better  classes fall  into  line 
so as to be on the winning side.  Officials 
thus  elected  cannot  be  expected  to ad­
minister public affairs with  much  refer­
ence to anything but their own selfish in­
terests.  It  cannot be expected that they 
will be much  better than  their  constitu­
encies.  The effect of this debased  motive 
in politics is to  prostitute  legislation  to 
partizan ends,  which are usually those of 
compromise with cliques  which conspire 
to rob the people and fatten the conspira­
tors. 
It also enables  a  lot  of  mediocre, 
or low  grade,  unprincipled  men  to  get 
into  office,  and  thus  the body politic is 
permeated  with dishonesty  and,  what  is 
almost  as  bad,  brainless, conscienceless 
incompetency.
Corporate villainy,  of  course,  follows 
such  a  condition  of  legislative and ad­
ministrative  affairs.  Officials  getting 
and holding office for  “what  there  is  in 
it,”  are ready to do  the  bidding  of  cor­
porations for a consideration.  Since this 
is a dangerous procedure, legislators cul­
tivate  deceit,  craft,  and  dark,  labyrin­
thine ways to confound justice or throw it 
off the trail.  Corporations,  knowing the 
men with whom they must deal,  fall into 
dishonest,  rascally  methods  in  order  to 
secure  their  ends.  Knowing  that  the 
legislators are out for stuff,  corporations 
resort to bribery and corruption  in order 
to shape legislation to suit their schemes. 
In this way  these two important elements 
in  the  community  become  brother  ban­
dits,  and thus are bound to  stand togeth­
er  against  the  common danger  of being 
detected and punished;  for the wheels of 
justice,  though  mostly  of  slow motion, 
and  sometimes  propelled  by  a  feeble 
power,  have never yet  wholly  ceased  to 
revolve,  and it  sometimes  happens  that 
public  corruptionists  are  caught  and 
ground to powder.
In plain, every-day  business  life,  the 
filth of politics and the rottenness  of the 
big corporations have  dripped down and 
spread  abroad so that strictly honesi and 
honorable methods are the exception and 
not the rule,  as  they  should  be.  Com­
petition inspires business  men  to  deeds 
of  downright  dishonesty,  to lying,  brib­
ery  and robbery in  order  to  keep  pace 
with their rivals. 
It  has come to this,  it 
seems, that business  cannot  be  done  at 
a profit on strictly honest  principles, any 
more than a troop  could  travel  through  -

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little  station  until  it  was 
around  the 
I  do  not  remember  to 
ready to  leave. 
have ever heard a  more  welcome  sound 
than  the  whistle  of  that  train,  after 
I 
spending  an  hour  in  silent  misery. 
reached  my  hotel  in  the  city  shortly 
after midnight,  but  could  not  sleep. 
I 
had  learned on  the train  that I  had  been 
to  an  insane asylum  ball,  and  I  was as 
mad as a hornet.
“The  next  morning  the  young  men 
came around to the hotel  and  apologized, 
and now they are the  best  friends  1  have 
in  that city.”

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hERuUlESPQwuEk

Excellent  Advice  to  Salesmen.

to  note, 

and  wonderful 

if  a  chauge  of  employers 

Charles S. Macnalr  In  “ Self  Instruction  in  Practical
Bus iness Qualifications."
it is  in the power of any clerk or sales­
man  to draw and  retain,  by his pleasant, 
straightforward  aud  affable  manner,  a 
circle of customers for  his  exclusive  at­
tention,  studying  systematically to build 
up a connection,  as it  were,  for  himself. 
This line of customers become,  in  time, 
attached to him,  so  much  so  that  they 
will  look  for  him and  will be waited on 
by no one else. 
In  fact,  they  will often 
patiently  wait,  or  call  again,  to  obtain 
the services of their favorite salesman  or 
clerk; 
this 
strange  connection  will  invariably  fol­
low their favorite clerk from one store to 
another, 
is 
deemed  advisable.  This  connection, 
drawn  to you by your polite courtesy and 
straightforward dealing while in  the em­
ploy of others,  is worth more  than  capi­
tal,  and is often a powerful  lever  which 
may,  at times,  be  judiciously  turned  to 
your profitable  advancement,  command­
ing  high  wages,  or  a  partnership,  or, 
again,  fits you to start  business  on  your 
owu account,  all done  without the aid  of 
capital.  Deceive  your  customers,  and 
you lose for your employer not only their 
patronage,  but their  iuttueuce,  which  is 
indeed  a  serious  loss  to  the  concern. 
Above all things,  keep  things  in  order, 
aud  everything 
its  proper  place. 
When  customers  are  scarce  busy  your­
self fixing things up  ready  and  conven­
ient  to  receive  them.  Replenish  your 
string boxes  and  wrapping  papers,  put 
your shelves, counters or  show  cases  iu 
order.  There are hundreds of little odds 
and ends to do.  A  diligent clerk can al­
ways find  useful and profitable  work  for 
spare  time.  Hunt  and  look  up  prices 
and price lists; study and make  yourself 
conversant with the trade price lists  and 
discounts.  This  desire  to  profitably 
turn  to  account  spare  time  will  meet 
with  ample  reward,  and  will  pay  you 
with compound  interest on acquiring  in 
dustrious habits alone; at the  same  time 
you  rise 
in  the  estimation  of  those 
around you  and become important.  You 
know  the  condition  of  the  stock,  ami 
where to put your  band  on  everything. 
You  are  intelligently  enlightened,  and 
cau  speak  of  the  quality  or  quantity, 
sizes and kinds that sell and  give  satis­
faction;  you  become  a reference to con­
sult  as  to  the  condition  of  the  stock— 
what is required  to  replenish  and  keep 
the stock  up to the times and demands  of 
the public.  All  this  acquired  informa­
tion  not  only  establishes  confidence  in 
yourself,  but  commands  the  confidence 
and  respect  of  your  fellow  salesmen, 
customers and employer.

in 

T H S   D R U M M ER 'S  D A N CE.

Peculiar  Experience  of a  Well-known 

Traveling  Man.

* Speaking of  practical  jokes,”  said  a 
drummer at one  of the  hotels  the  other 
night,  “ I  was  the victim  of  one  of  the 
most embarrassing 1 have  heard  of  for  a 
long time. 
It was  daring  my  first  trip 
South,  and,  not  being familiar  with  the 
people  in  that  part  of  the  country,  1 
thought  1  had  found  a  really  sociable 
place  when three young  ‘swells’  of  the 
town  with  whom 1 had  been  talking  the 
evening before invited me to go with them 
to a dance that was to be given  at  a  fe­
male seminary a few miles from the city.
1  bad  been  away  from  home  for  some 
time,  and,  not having had the pleasure of 
being in  the company of  young  ladies,  1 
was fairly delighted  at the idea of spend­
ing a pleasant evening.

felt 

simply  horrified. 

“ 1 told  them  1 would  be pleased  to go, 
and, 
after  hurried  preparation,  we 
started.  The young men  laughed  at the 
idea of  my paying  anything  toward  the 
carriage  hire,  and  1  felt  that I had never 
been  in  the company of  a  more  hospita­
ble set of men.
“When  we  arrived  at  the  place  the 
dance had already  begun.  We  left  the 
carriage  in  care  of  a  negro  man  and 
entered  the ballroom.  Of  course,  1  felt 
very  strange  at  first  among  so  many 
strangers,  but  my  companions  seemed 
to feel quite at home,  and  insisted that 1 
should  meet some of the young  women at 
once.  One of the young men  took  me by 
the arm and  led me across  the  room  to 
where  sat  a  young  woman  who  was 
rather  pretty  and  had  an  extremely 
neat appearance.
“Alter  receiving  an  introduction  to 
her  1  sat  down  and  started  conversa­
tion  Soon  she  was  talking  at  an  as­
tonishingly rapid rate.  1  became  rather 
interested 
in  the  girl,  but  was  very 
much surprised to learn that she was the 
twentieth daughter of a wealthy  farmer. 
At  last she began to  talk  and  laugh  so 
loudly  that 1  began to  feel  a  little  em­
barrassed,  and asked her if  she  did  not 
want to dance.  She  was on  her  feet  iu 
an  instant,  and  we  had  danced  a  few 
steps,  when she  suddenly  yelled  out at 
the  top  of  her  voice: 
‘Don’t!  Don’t! 
Ob, don’t hold me so  tight.  1 am full of 
dynamite,’ and  she  uttered  a  yell  that 
made the cold  chills  run  up  and  down 
my  back.
“I turned her loose in  an  instant,  and 
stood 
like 
swearing when the  other  people  in  the 
room only  laughed and  went on dancing. 
1 did  not  know  what  to  do.'  1  knew  1 
had done  nothing 1 should not have done, 
intentionally,  at least,  but  1  started  up 
to her  with an apology,  when one  of  my 
companions  came  up  with  a  young 
woman on his arm.  He gave me  an  in- 
tioduction  to  her,  and  asked  me  if  1 
would  not dance the  next  set  with  her. 
1 did  not  feel  like  dancing  a  bit,  but 
there was no way of getting out  of it,  so 
1 told him  1 would.  While we  were  sit­
ting  waiting 
the  next  dance 
she told  me she had  been  married  four­
teen 
times  and  had  1,000  children  at 
home.  1 thought she  was just  trying  to 
joke me,  and asked her where  she  lived. 
She said she  lived  in  heaven.  1  knew 
something was  wrong  with  her,  and  1 
made  up  my  mind  right  there  that  1 
would not dance with  her.  1  asked  her 
to  excuse  me  a  moment,  and  without 
waiting  for  a  reply  rushed  across  the 
room toward the door.  1 thought  to my­
self that if 1 ouce  got  on  the  outside  1 
would  never  attend 
‘swell 
dance’  in  Kentucky.
“ 1  had  got  within  a  few  feet of the 
door  when  an  old  woman  ran  up  and 
threw  her  arms  around  my neck.  She 
yelled out that 1  was  her  lost  son,  who 
ran away  from  home 400 years ago. when 
1 was a mere child.  1 tried  to  tear  my­
self  away  from  the  woman,  and 
she 
fainted at my feet.  1  made  a  dart  for 
the door,  and  when  1  reached  the thresh­
old  1 looked  back  and  saw  several  per­
sons  carrying  her  otf  the  Hour.  1  was 
dazed.  1 expected  to  be  arrested  every 
moment. 
1  saw  a  man  outside  and 
asked him if there  was not  a  train  leav­
ing  that  place  soon.  He  said  there 
would  be  one'  going  to  Louisville  in 
about an hour, and  1  concluded  to  wait

another 

for 

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POWDER, FUSE, CAPS.

KNOWN  TO  THE  A R T S.

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A.  Austin.  93 Jefferson Ave.,  Detroit, 
J.  J.  Post & Co..  Cheboygan,
Popp & Wolf. Stginaw,

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

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

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GOTHAM  GOSSIP.

News  from  the  Metropolis---Index  of 

Special  Correspondence

the  Markets.

N e w   Y o r k ,  March  9—The  coffee mar­
ket has developed  no  particularly  inter­
esting features during the  week,  prices 
remaining about the same,  while the  de­
mand,  as perhaps is natural at  this  sea­
son,  is rather light,  for it is claimed that 
March 
is  not  a  good  “eofifee month.” 
Fair Kio No.  7  is  held  at  16%c.  Mild 
sorts are firm and holders  make  no  con­
cessions.  Malang  Javas  can  be  pur­
chased from 21@23c and fancy  sorts,  28 
@30c.
Sugar shows higher rates on all grades 
of  refined,  except  one  or  two 
lower 
brands, granulated showing quite a good 
deal  of  firmness,  and  it  is  anticipated 
that another advance  will occur  shortly.
The tea market is not altogether  satis­
factory to either buyer  or  seller;  prices 
are  “ragged”  and,  while plenty of good 
tea  can  be purchased,  there is a consid­
erable  quantity  of  cheap  stuff  at  all 
prices.  Dealers are in a  sort of  waiting 
mood and the aspect of things  meantime 
is very dull.
Molasses is well  held  and  the  market 
is very firm.  Holders are very confident 
and  purchasers  are  paying  full  quota­
tions  to  secure  supplies.  N.  O.  open 
kettle goods are worth  from  28@30c  for 
fair,  to 36@38c  for  prime,  and  36@39c 
for choice.
Syrups,  like molasses,  are  doing  well, 
and are at a point where a profit is shown. 
is  firm  and  holders  are 
The  market 
well satisfied  with the outlook.
Rice continues firm,  as noted  for  some 
time past.  Both  foreign  and  domestic 
are selling at full rates and holders show 
no disposition  whatever to make  conces­
sions.  Japans  are  scarce  and  particu­
larly firm.
The spice market shows a good deal of 
firmness and buyers are  not  waiting  for 
lower rates, as they seem to  realize  that 
the bottom  has  been  touched  and  that 
the turn is now upward.
Canned goods are continuing to do bet­
ter and,  with a more confident feeling all 
around,  it  is  hoped  that  there  will be 
some approach  to a fairly decent market. 
Orders  are for  small  lots,  but  they  are 
numerous.  However,  the wonder is that 
they  are  not  even  more  frequent,  as 
prices are so low  as  to  almost  ensure  a 
profit to those who buy now.
Foreign green  fruits,  lemons, oranges, 
bananas, grapes  and  pineapples, are  all 
doing better,  and  for  lemons  there  is  a 
tendency toward higher  rates.  Bananas 
are  meeting  with  a  very good demand. 
The stock of pineapples is light.
For domestic green fruits there is a good 
demand and  apples  are  selling  at  good 
figures  if  sound.  The  range  is  all the 
way from $3@6,  as to variety.
Butter is exceedingly  dull  and  prices 
have taken another tumble,  so  that  20c 
may be called the outside  figure for  best 
Elgin, Penn., or State.  The under grades 
are correspondingly depressed, for,  when 
the  best  can  be  purchased  for 20c,  the 
“baser metal” goes begging.
Eggs are in better supply  and  already 
the  fall  has  been  mighty.  While  the 
quotation is 20c for the best,  this  is  cer­
tainly  the  outside  price,  unless  in  the 
ease  of  near-by  strictly  fresh  stock. 
Western,  18@20c.
Cheese  is  doing  better.  The demand 
grows stronger,  although  so far for only 
the very best grades.  There  is  scarcely 
anything  doing  in  an  export  way  and 
what is being  shipped  is  mainly  of  the 
poor sorts—fart or wholly skimmed.
Jobbers report an even  distribution  of 
goods,  with a  fair  trade. 
It is not to be 
expected that we shall have  a  boom—no 
need of it—but a better  feeling  prevails 
and every day adds confidence.  The gro­
cery trade is one  of  the  solidest  in  this 
city,  both wholesale and retail,  and  fail­
ures have been  very few  during the long 
months  which have passed since the hard 
times struck us.
Whatever grip or influenza may be, it is 
tolerably certain that the doctors  of  this 
town are in wholesome  dread  of  it.  and 
believe  in  heroic  treatment.  There  is 
not  the  slightest  relation  between  the 
treatment of one physician  and  another, 
and people who get tired of fighting grip

with  one  doctor  very  often  change  to 
another,  to find themselves in  the hands 
of a man whose  ideas  are  diametrically 
opposed  to  the  one  who first had their 
case  in  charge.  There  are  only  a few 
points in common, such as  heroic  doses 
of  quinine,  phenacitine,  Dover’s  pow­
ders,  iron and similar trifles  upon which 
the  physicians  are  apparently  agreed. 
The  man  who  gets  over  an  attack  of 
grip in three weeks  may  escape  without 
the loss of  his  limbs,  but  the  effect  of 
powerful  drugs  upon  the  stomacn 
is 
nearly always serious.  One  of  the most 
noted  physicians in New York  said  yes­
terday that  the  stomach  specialists  in- 
varibly  had  a  boom  in  their clientage 
after the grip season,  which  practically 
ends in April.  He added that  if  a  man 
who  had  the  grip  would go to bed and 
stay in a room of  even  temperature  for 
two  weeks,  he  would  be  cured  more 
easily than  by taking  all the medicine in 
the world,  and the recovery  would  also 
be more speedy  than that effected  by the 
average physician.

Gripsack  Brigade.

J.  E.  Raup,  of  Constantine,  who  re­
cently  traveled  for  the  Chicago  Spice 
Co.,  has  taken  the  position  with  the 
Jackson  Grocery  Co.  recently  vacated 
by F.  E.  Maxon,  who resigned on account 
of poor health.

E.  H.  Smith,  who has represented Geo. 
C.  Wetherbee  &  Co.  (Detroit)  in Central 
Michigan  for  several  years,  has  severed 
his  connection  with  that  house.  He  is 
at present at his home in Jackson, caring 
for  his  sick  family.

Geo.  W.  Jenks, of  Fenton,  the  popu­
lar  “essence”  man  who  represents 
Seeley  Manufacturing  Co.,  of  Detroit, 
is taking  a  vacation  on  account  of  his 
and  Mrs.  Jenks’  health.  They  will 
travel through  the  South  and  West  to 
California.  His  territory  will  be  cov­
ered  by  H.  W.  Hakes,  of  Lowell,  dur­
ing  his  absence.

W.  F.  Bowen  (Ball-Barnhart-Putman 
Co.)  recently 
left  his  clothing  grip  at 
Manton by mistake and  had it forwarded 
to him  at Cadillac  by  the 
In 
the interval,  another  guest  at  the  hotel 
deposited in the  gripsack,  evidently  by 
mistake,  certain  articles  of wearing ap­
parel  which  Bowen  disclaims,  although 
some of the boys  insist  that he protests 
too much.

landlord. 

At  the  regular  monthly  meeting  of 
Post E,  held at  Elk’s Hall  last  Saturday 
evening,  the  report  of  the  Executive 
Committee  was  accepted  and  adopted 
and the  Committee  discharged. 
It  was 
decided to bold  a  social  session  on  the 
occasion  of  the  next  monthly  meeting, 
thd second  Saturday  evening  in  April. 
Chairman  Lawton  appointed  Geo.  W. 
Stowitts, E.  A.  Stowe and Chas.  I.  Flynn 
to serve as the Committee on  Relief  un­
til the annual  meeting in December.

While driving from Northport to Trav­
erse  City  last  Tuesday,  E.  E.  Wooley 
purchased  a  couple  of  dead  wild  cats 
which  had  been  killed  by  a trapper of 
the former place.  The  animals weighed 
22  pounds  apiece  and  Wooley  was  the 
hero of the hour so long as  the  denizens 
of  Traverse  City  were  permitted to be­
lieve that the cats had  been  slaughtered 
by the intrepid traveler.  The arrival  of 
correct intelligence from  Northport  dis­
pelled  the illusion and from that time on 
Mr.  Wooley was  regarded  with  no  more 
respect  than  any other bright salesman.
Willis P.  Townsend writes:  “I am  un­
der lasting obligations to Geo.  L.  Thurs­
ton and  T h e   T r a d e s m a n   for  the  gra­
tuitous  advertising  given  me  several 
weeks ago in  relation  to  the  Vanzolen- 
burg  cracker  episode.  As  over  1,500

people  have spoken to  me  in  regard  to 
the  article,  I  naturally  conclude  that 
the paper must  have about  15,000  circu­
lation.  As  near  as  I can  estimate  the 
advertising advantage of the article,  1 am 
ahead  about  $90,  although  some  of my 
friends  insist  that I ought  to  send  Mr. 
Thurston my check  for  $100.  The  only 
thing  1  regret  in  connection  with  the 
matter is that Mr.  Thurston  still  insists 
on  handling the cheapest grade of  crack­
ers he can find in the  market—so  cheap, 
in  fact,  that they  are in  great demand  at 
all G.  A.  R.  meetings on account of their 
resemblance  to  the  hard-tack  of  war 
times.  Mr.  Thurston  keeps his cracker 
barrel on the outside of the  counter  and 
generously  offers  a  basin of crackers to 
those of his  customers  who  have  come 
such  a  long  distance  that  they  have 
grown  hungry  on  the  way. 
I  notice, 
however,  that a man has  to be very  hun­
gry  or  very  drunk  to  respond  to  Mr.
Thurston’s  invitation.”

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugar—An advance of  l-16c  last  Fri­
day  was  followed  by  another  advance 
of the same amount Monday.  The  mar­
ket  is  strong  at  the  advance  and  still 
higher quotations are  by  no  means  un­
expected  by some  authorities.

Provisions—Pork  is about 50c per bbl. 
higher.  Hams have advanced  J^c.  Lard 
is stronger.

Rolled  Oats—The  market  is  a  little 
stronger.  The  trade  has  been  puzzled 
by a quotation of $3.40,  but  an  explana­
tion  of the quotation  is found  in the  dis­
covery  that a considerable  portion  of the 
oats is not  oats  at  all,  but  wheat.  As 
wheat costs 50c for 60 pounds,  whiie oats 
cost 32c for 30 pounds,  the reason  for the 
sophistication is plainly  disclosed.

Oranges—Navels  have  advanced  25@ 
40c per box at the coast,  according to the 
different grades,  and  orders  for  prompt 
shipment  are  not  accepted  by  the  for­
warding exchanges,  but  each  is executed 
in rotation  as originally tiled.  Seedlings 
move  quite  freely,  but  no  advance  in 
price has  taken  place  yet,  as  it  is  de­
sired  that the  trade  may  crowd  them  a 
little harder and,  by  leaving  them  as  a 
low  priced  article,  they  will  probably 
take  with  dealers  at 
large.  Messina 
and Catania fruit seems to be finding the 
way  to  Western  markets  more  freely 
and,  being cheaper than the navels, meets
with ready sale.

Dates—The  market  is  firm  at  quota­
tions,  but no advance is  looked  for,  as  a 
great  many  of  the  largest dealers have 
laid  in their stocks,  and  large  sales will 
be  the  exception instead  of the  rule  in 
the majority of future sales.

Figs—Such dealers as had a good stock 
on hand last week are  in  good  luck,  as 
prices  advanced  fully  lc  per pound on 
all grades at the  New York sales.  They 
have been very low for two  months  and 
the  advance  was  not  altogether  unex­
pected by  those  who  kept  track  of  the 
market

Lemons—The  fancy  grades  have  ad­
vanced fully 50c per  box and  prices gen­
erally  have  stiffened  up.  Good  stock 
which is bright colored  and  uniform  in 
size and style of packing  and  free  from 
frost 
is  a  good  purchase  at  present 
prices.  There  is  a  good  supply  in  the 
hands  of  local  wholesalers  and  anyone 
in need of  fruit  can  get  just  what is de­
sired at  most favorable  figures.

Corn Syrup—Declined  lc  on  account 

of manufacturers  being  overstocked.

ice 

Oysters—The 

in  the  bays  has 
nearly  all  drifted  out  aud  ail  the stock 
needed  can  be  obtained  at  fair  prices. 
The largest dredging boats  have  “pulled 
off,”  as the demand is not  large  enough 
to warrant  them  in  working  when  the 
season is so  nearly  over.  The  demand 
will be  fairly  good  during  the  present 
month if  the weather remains  cold,  but 
present  prices  will  probably  be  main­
tained  from  now  on,  as  all  the  stock 
will  have to  come in  by  express  at  an 
additional  cost of about 20c per gallon.

WHILE  THE  MARKET 
IS  ADVANCING  ON

BARREL PORK 
P R O M S
LARD

INE, Etc.

ASK  US  FOR  QUOTA 
TIONS  ON  ANYTHING 
IN  OUR  LIN E  BY  TE L­
EPHONE, MAIL OR TEL­
EGRAPH.

WE  ARE  VERY  BUSY 
BUT  WE  ARE  ALWAYS 
READY  FOR  BIG  D E­
MANDS.

BEEF AND
ION 00.

71  Canal  St. 
GRAND  RAPIDS
Telephone  1254

Note  L o w e r  P rices  on

O Y S T B R S »

Daisy Brand, Favorites, per can..................... $
Daisy Brand, Standards, per c a n .............
Daisy Brand, selects,  per  c a n .........................
Solid Brand,  Standards, per c a n .....................
Solid B rand, E.  F., per c a n ...............................
Solid B rand, Selects, per c a n ...........................
Solid B rand,  E xtra selects, per c a n ...............
Standards, per  gal 

....................................   1

Oysters fine and w ell filled.
Tne Queen Oyster Pails at bottom prices.

14
16
18
SO
24
26
05

boiled cider, very  fine :

Mrs. W ithey’s Home Made Jelly, m ade  w ithi
30-lb.  p a il.................. '............................................ 
65
50
iO-lb. pail  ..............................................  
17-lb.  p ail................................................................ 
45
40
15-lb. pail.................................................................  
1  q u art Mason  Jars, per  doz.........................   1  40
1  pints  Mason  Jars, per  d oz...........  ...........  
95
Mrs. W ithey’s Condensed M ince M eat,  the 

best made.  P rice per  case  ..........................240

 

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.................................................
51b. cans, per  d oz..................................   .........
P int Mason Jars, per  d o z..................................
Q uart Mason Jars, per  doz  .............................
Maple Syrup,  pint Mason Jars, per  doz
Maple Syrup, q uart Mason Jars, per  d o z__
Maple Syrup, tin, gallon cans, per  doz.........
Peach M arm alade, 20-lb p ails...........................

66* 6 % 

1  40 
3  50
1  40
2  25
1  40
2  25 
9  00 
1  00

EDWIN  FALLAS,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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  B A I  MD  LUMBER  CO.

GRAND RAPIDS, 

MICH.

18 and 19 Widdicomb  Bid.

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

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

Correspondence Solicited.

//*£_  S il£ f*  
iftaiS aid $a£h

pose. 

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

Diamond Crystal Salt

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

D IA M O N D   C R YSTAL  S A L T   C O ., 

S T   C L A IR ,  M IC H  

D o  You  K n o w

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I

That  we  are  Manufacturers of Overalls,  ¡Shirts,  etc.? 
That our line of Gents’  Furnishings is complete? 
That it will pay you  to  see  our new Satin  Fleurettes, 
Tela-Vela  Ducks,  Percales,  Ginghams and  Prints?
Voigt,

l s h ci m e r

H  orpo 

A-  C o .

W  h o l e s a l e

D R Y   G O O D S ,  N O T I O N S ,  E tc. 

G r a n d   R a p id s ,  M ic h .

A B S O L U T E   T E A .

T h e   A c k n o w l e d g e d   L e a d e r .

TELFER  SPICE  CO,

M)LI>  ONLY  BY

it  H A N D   R A P I D S ,  

R I C H .

FOR  THE  LENTEN  SEASON

Oysters, Fresh and Salt Fish

W holesale  Prices
PHONE  1001. 

106  CANAL  STREET

OSCAR  ALLYN

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

Nine
Other
Great
Specialties
Are

M uskegon  Toast,
Ro \ al  F ru it  Biscuit, 
M uskegon  F ro sted   H oney, 
Iced  Cocoa  H oney  Jum bles, 
Jelly  T u rn o v ers,
G inger  Snaps,
H om e-M ade  Snaps, 
M uskegon  B ranch,
Mlik  Lunch.

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

United  States  Baking  C o .

LAW RENCE  DEPEW ,  A cting  Manager,

M u s k e g o n ,

M ic h

j

ABOVE  ARE  CUTS  OF  LACE  CAPS  W HICH 
WE  W ILL  HAVE  IN  STOCK  ABOUT  MARCH 
10th,  RANGING  IN  PRICE  FROM
$2  tO  $4.50

We also have  15  numbers  of  Men’s  and  Children’s  Fancy  Outing Caps 

from $1.75  to $4.50.

Outing Shirts,  36  inches  long,  from  $2.25  to  $6  per dozen.

WHOLESALE  DRY  G00D8 

P.  Steketee &  Sons
Muskegon  Bakery  Crackers

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

( U n ite d   S t a t e s   B a k i n g   C o .)

Are  Perfect  Health  Food.

There  area great  many  Butter  Crackles  >»11  the  Market—only 

one  can  be  best—that is  the original

o

iTuskegon
Bakery
Butter
Cracker.

N E W   W A T E R

No. 88—ENGRAVED  WATER  SETS.

2-3 doz. Sets in bbl.  By the  Bbl  50c.  per Set. 

Bbl. 35e.

Open Stock, 55c. Set.

Try  one  Assorted  Package  of NEW   REGENT 

WATER  SETS.

W r i t e   for

C o lo r e d   I ll u s t r a t i o n s

No. 319—RUBY  WATER  SET. 

Favorite Po ka Dot—always in dem and. 

Per doz. Sets, $12.  Bbl. 35c.
Open Stock, $1.13 per Set.

12  Sets  in  Four  D ifferent  Styles  and  Colors 
SPECIAL  PRICE,  $9.80, per doz.  Bbl. 35c

W E   H A V E   A

V A R I E T Y   O F   S T Y L E S

H.  LEO N A R D  &  SO N S, Grand  Rapids

The Daijton CompiJling Seale

it Sells  Because  of Its

Money-Making  Featilres.

W A R N I N G   !

The trade are hereby  w arned against using any infringem ents on  W eigh­
ing  and  Price  Scales  and  Computing  and  Price  Scales,  as  we  w ill  protect 
our rights and the rights of our general  agents  under  Letters  P atent  o f  the 
Culled States issued in  1881.1885,1-  6, 1888.  P-91,1893  and  18W.  And  we  w ill 
prosecute all infringers to the full  ex ten t  of  the  law.  T he sim ple  using  of 
Scales th a t infringe upon our patents makes  the  user  liable  to  prosecution, 
and  the  im portance  of  buying  and  using  any  other Computing and Price 
Scales than  those m anufactured  by  us and bearing our nam eaud  date  of pat 
ents and thereby  incurring liability to prosecution is  appareut.  Respectfully
THE  COMPUTING  SCALE  CO.

SEE  WHAT  USERS  SAY:

K IEF  &  MEANWELL,

STAPLE  &  FANCY  GROCERIES,

No  19  Huron  St.

Y p s i l a n t i.  Mich..  Dec.  25,  1894.

Messrs.  Hoyt & C'o.. Dayton, O.
G e n t l e m e n —We have been using two of the  D ay to n "  Computing  scales, 
one G rocer's platform  counter and one Tea scale a little over three m ouths.  We are  satisfied  th at 
the i' e n m i e s  it saves will  pay for the scales in  six months.
W hen  the scales arrived we had ten five-pound packages of sugar tied up, wiiich we had weighed 
on  a pair of Howe scales th a t had only been in  use  since  last  April.  We  w ere  surprised  to  find 
upon re-w eighing them  on the Computing scales  we had  given away seven cents o r o u r   p r o m t  on 
fifty  pounds of granulated sugar, and th a t means nearly fifty cents lost on  every  barrel  of  granu­
lated sugar  sold.
We could not  lay  this to the carelessness of our clerks, as we have only one, and he is on  the de 
livery wagon m o-t of the time,  taking and delivering orders w hile we are putting  up the goods.
We both considered ourselves careful in w eighing before, but we are more  so  now,  and  instead 
of givi'  g chuck down weight, and at the same time giving away  our  profits, w e  still give fu ll six ­
teen ounces to the pound, and pocket our profits.
We would sooner think of partinu  w ith our safe now. than we w ould  w ith the Com puting scales.
Yon  are at liberty to use this letter if it w ill assist you to make anv  more  sales  and  at  th e  same 
tim e help some poor fellow sufferer put  his  egitim ate  profits  in  h'is  own  pocket  rather  than  to 
divide them  w ith his custom ers, for groceries are  being  sold  so  close  now  days  th at  w e  cannot
»fford to divide the profits.

Very truly yours,

K IEF  &  MEANWELL.

For  further information drop a postal  card

HOYT & COM PANY,  D ayton,  O hio

