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G R A N D   R A P ID S ,  M A R C H   27,1895. 

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if you w ant to build,

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

DEALERS  IN

WE  CAREY A  STOCK  OF  CAKE  TALLOW FOR  MILL  USB.

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

Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow,
Our  Plan
Saves  disputes  and  enables 
you to discount your bills. 
Saves book charges  and bad 
debts
Saves worry and loss of sleep. 
Wins  cash  trade  and  new 

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customers.

IF   N O T   S A T I S F A C T O R Y .  Y O U R   M O N E Y   B A C K .

GRAND  RAPIDS 

BRUSH  GOMP’Y.
MANUFACTURER  OF B R U S H E S   GRAND  RAPIDS, M U H

Our  Goods  are  sold  by  all  Michigan  Jobbing  Houses.

O Y S T E R S .

A n c h o r Brand.

Are the best.  All orders will receive  prompt  attention  at  lowest  market  price.

F .   J .   D E T T E N T H A L E R

S E K   Q U O T A T I O N S .

rhe  seas» m  is  nearly 
>ver.
We shall  close  this 
Department 
Saturday,  March  30.

Until  that date
We W ant 
Your  Orders

P U T N A M   C A N D Y   CO.

NO .  6 0 1
“ ““
Choice Creamery and  Dairy  Butter  Wholesale  Produce

M.  R.  ALDEN  &  CO. 

A  SPECIALTY.................................  

N orthern T rade supplied at  Lowest  M arket Prie* s.  We buy on  track at  point of 

shipm ent, or receive on consignm ent  PHONE  13 ■  .

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76  South  Division  Street, 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

S W E E T ’S   H O T E L

MARTIN  L.  SW EET,  Proprietor.

HENRY  D. and  FRANK  H.  IRISH,  H’grs.

Steam he»t in every room.  Electric tire alarms  throughout  the  house.  Other 

improvements and decorations will soon  make it  the  best  hotel in  Michigan.

AarouAm Water Gaue.

For the Boiler and Engine.  Are the  Engineers* Favorites.

85,000  P enbebthy Automatic I njectors In use, giving perfect satisfaction 
under ail conditions.  Oar Jet Pumps, Water Gages andiOil Cups are Unequalled.
P E N B E R T H Y   IN JE C T O R   C O .  DETROIT. 

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BEST  CHEAT*

M I X E D

TAKES  THE  LEAD  AND  IS 
ACKNOWLEDGED  THE

of the M anufacturers,

Ask your jobber for it or buy it direct 

CLEANEST,  BRIGHTEST  AND  BEST  SELLING

C A N D Y
A . B.  B ro o k s &  C o . GRAND  RAPIDS, Rich.
O ysters 
Fish

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FOR  THE  LENTEN  SEASON

IN  THE  MARKET.

Wholesale  Prices.

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THE  ACKNOWLEDGED  LEADER !

Telfer Spice Co.

SOLI)  ONLY  BY

Tea!
LEMONS Extra Choice and 

F an cy  r a t t i  a t  
Correct  Prices
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Tiie  cream  of  the  BEST  WHEAT 
ground 
the  Best  Mill  in  Michigan. 
Unequalled  for  Whiteness,  Purity  and 
Strength.  Agents wanted in every  town. 
Write us for prices and terms.

The Walsh DeRoo P liny  Go.,

in 

HOLLAND,  MICH.

HEROLD-BERTSCH  S H O t  CO.,

5 and 7 Pearl S t., 

Our  Line  for  1895  is

Greater  in  variety  and 

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

Your  inspection  is  kindly  solicited 

when in the city.

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

in  “Black Bottoms.”

Headquarters 

for  Wales-Goodyear 

R u b b e rs .

L.  C.  HAYDEN

PH O N E   540.

J.  M.  HAYDEN

“GET  ON  TO  THIS”

A n d   S to p   at  0 y   P e a r l  S t

AND  ASK  FOR 
’¡PRICES  ON
Mill  Hose 
Garden  Hose 
Machine  •  il 
A xle  Grease 
E mery 
Wheels and 
Emery  Cloth

Don’t forget to ask to see our VEGETABLE  SPRAYER.

J. M.  H A Y D E N   & CO.,  g r a n £ crha p i d s '
D o  Y ou

Sell  Soap

IF  YOU  DO,  WE  CAN  INTEREST  YOU.

ouR gil^B H G i  Will  Increase

Your Sales

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G ran d   R a p id s  S o a p   W o r k s

OR

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IN  D U L L   T IM E S

IN  GOOD  T IM E S

A T   A L L   T IM E S

AND  YOU  W IL L   W IN .

THE  MICHIGAN TRADESMAN  reaches  your  customers  E V E R T  WEEK.

Muskegon  Bakery  Crackers

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

Are  Perfect  Health  Food.

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

one can  be  best—that is  the original

fluskegon
Bakery
Butter
Cracker.

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

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Other
Great
Specialties
Are

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

A LW AYS
ASK
YOUR
GROCER
FOR
riUSKEGON 
BAKERY’S  
CAKES  and 
CRACKERS

United.  S ta te s   B alcing  Co.

LAWRENCE  DEPEW,  Acting  Manager,

M u s k e g o n , 

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Oyster Crackers
Are notv in season.  We manufacture j All Kinds
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A rich, tender and crisp cracker packed  in  1  lb.  cartoons 
Is  one  of  the  most  popular 

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

T ry  O ur

Handsome embossed packages, 
packed  2 doz. in  case

1  lb. $2.40 per doz.

2  lb.  $4.80  p er doz.

These  goods  are  positively  the  finest  produced  and  we 

I guarantee entire satisfaction.

N e w  Y o r k  B is c u it Co.,

S.  A. SEANS,  M a n a g e r,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

DESMAN

Commercial Aspect of the Bicycle.

W ritte n  fo r  Th b Tradesman.

The  local  cycle trade is,  at present, in 
a somewhat  demoralized  condition,  ow­
ing  to  the  immense  amount of competi­
tion  for  the size of  the city.  The great 
increase  in  the  number  of  firms  han­
dling wheels speaks  well for the  amount 
of business being done  in  this  line  and 
proves  that it  is  a  desirable business to 
engage in.

The  retail  dealer  works  under fewer 
restrictions,  by  far,  than  he did a  few 
years ago. 
It was formerly  the  custom 
to hold wheels strictly at  the  list  price, 
and an agent who was caught cutting the 
list on any of the three (previous to  1891 
there  were  but  three  recognized  high- 
grade wheels manufactured  in  America, 
and  one  of  these three was tabooed in a 
large  portion  of  the  conntry, 
leaving 
actually but two) high-grade  wheels was 
deprived  of  his  territory  immediately. 
The  same  kind  of  contracts  are  still 
made  with 
those  three  manufacturers 
but  they  are  winked  at  by  both agent 
and  principal.  Only one of them makes 
any pretense of enforcing  the  rule,  and 
this one does it by a method which  itself 
has no reference to the rule.  They give 
an agent a very  small  discount—20  per 
cent.  On a $100 wheel  this  would  give 
only  $20  profit,  ont  of  which he has to 
pay  freight,  and  he  also has to run  the 
risk of selling the wheel  on  time.  Con­
sidering,  also,  that,  if  he  sells  to  old 
riders  he  must  take  old  wheels  in ex - 
change,  it  leaves  but a small margin to 
do  business  on.  Then, 
to  make  him 
hustle,  the  manufacturer  increases  his 
discount if be shall  sell  a  certain  num­
ber  of  wheels.  The  idea  is that,  if he 
cuts the price with 20 per cent, discount, 
he wonld not make a living profit,  while, 
by the subsequent increase  of  discount, 
he  makes  a  fair  profit  on  his season’s 
work—if he shall sell the required  num­
ber  of  wheels.  A  man  handling  this 
wheel  in a small town  where there is  no 
competition might do fairly well,  as  the 
wheel  is  never,  under  any  circum­
stances,  jobbed;  but,  in  a  city  where 
competition is as strong as it is in  Grand 
Rapids,  he stands no show  at  all.  This 
is fully understood by  all  dealers  here, 
and, though the concern  claims  to  have 
its entire output already  placed  for  the 
season—something  in  the  neighborhood 
of 40,000 wheels,  both high and medium- 
grade—it  sent  an  agent  here  and  told 
him  to stay until he secured a represent­
ative.  Under the cireumstances,  it was 
no wonder that he stayed two weeks, and 
then  had  to  place the wheel with a firm 
having  no  experience  in  the  bicycle 
business.  This  same  man was heard to 
boast,  last  year,  that  he  could get any 
wheel made at half price or  less.  Doubt­
less the discount on his  new  acquisition 
has  opened  his  eyes  a  little.  His  last 
year’s claim was based on  the  fact  that 
he secured,  from large  hardware  dealers 
with whom he did business, two or three 
wheels for friends of his at 50  per  cent, 
discount.  They  were  cheap  wheels, 
listed  high—$150  to  $175—for  the  pur­

pose of giving a big discount and,  at  the 
same  time,  selling  them  for more than 
they were worth.

List price is no indication of the  value 
of a wheel.  The  standard  lines  all  list 
at $100 this year.  Several  firms are list­
ing  at  $110  and  $125  and  giving a dis­
count to correspond.  They  claim  as  an 
excuse  for  the  higher  list  that  their 
wheels are better than  others.  A  ques­
tion  is  in  order  here:  Why  cannot  a 
manufacturer  who  has  been  making 
wheels  for  fifteen  years  make  a better 
wheel than one who is  a  mere  stripling 
in comparison,  having  made  wheels  for 
not more than from three to seven years? 
The first has the  older  workmen,  better 
facilities and larger ideas.

There  are  two  manufacturers  in  the 
country  who are this year  trying  to  sell 
their  output  upon  past 
reputation, 
coupled  with  one  or  two  good  points. 
They  give  such  a  very  small  discount 
that their wheel is  shelved,  while  some 
other line is put to the front and pushed. 
One of them,  foreseeing  this, always  in­
sists upon an exclusive agency, and,  con­
sequently,  often  finds  it  hard  to  place 
any  at  all.  There  are  so  many  really 
good wheels upon  the  market  now  that 
almost  any  high-grade  can  be  pushed 
successfully, and so  the  one  giving  the 
most liberal terms does the business.

M o r r is J.  W h it e .

Growth  of the  Bicycle  Business.

W ritten  fo r The  Tradesman.

From  a  business  standpoint,  we  can 
but acknowledge that the wheel has come 
to  stay.  Of  this  we  have  abundant 
proof  in  the  phenomenal  and  unprece­
dented sale of bicycles  this  year.  1  am 
informed  by  the  dealers  and  manufac­
turers that the output will  be  larger  by 
50 per cent., aud,  in some cases, ever 100 
per cent., than last year. 
It  is  pleasing 
to note the number  of  ladies  who  have 
the ’cycle fever and  who  have  promised 
themselves  a  season  of  pleasure  with 
their new wheels. 
It is an excellent and 
healthy exercise for them.  There  are  a 
large number of first-class  wheels  in the 
local market  and  it  is  a  hard  thing  to 
choose the best,  as they are all good;  the 
only way to do is to  put  yourself  in the 
hands  of the honest dealer  (and they are 
all that)  and you will  come  away  satis­
fied,  and join  us  older  wheelmen,  who 
will gladly welcome you to the fold.  We 
hope that ail of the new  comers,  and  all 
who will do so of the older ones, will join 
the  League  of  American  Wheelmen,  as 
in  unity there is strength.  More anon.

W.  B.  F o l g e r , 

Local Gonsnl L.A.W.

Bicycle  Sundries.

Oar catalogue of bicycles  sundries and 
sporting goods,  with  discount  sheet,  is 
jnst  from the  printers. 
If  you  handle 
these goods, or think of  handling  them, 
we  can  save  you  money.  Drop  us  a 
postal card and we will  take pleasure in 
mailing you the catalogue.

S t tjd ley  &  B a r c l a y , 
Grand  Rapids.

N O .  6 0 1

REPRESENTATIVE  RETAILERS.

Grocer.

Adrian  Brink,  the  Grandville  Avenue 

Adrian Brink was born in  the  Nether­
lands, Dec.  11,  1849,  and  worked  at  the 
occupation  of  farmer  nntil  he  was  20 
years of  age,  when  he  removed  to  this 
country,  settling  with  his  father’s  fam­
ily in Grand Rapids.  On  arriving in the 
city he entered the  employ  of  the  Wid- 
dicomb  Furniture  Co.  as  an apprentice 
in  the cabinet  making  trade,  remaining 
with  that  establishment  ten  years. 
In 
1875  he  formed  a  copartnership  with 
Cornelius  Quint  and  opened  a  grocery 
store at 42 Grandville  avenue,  under the 
style of Brink & Quint.  Four years later 
his  brother,  William,  was  admitted  to 
partnership,  when  the  firm  name  was 
changed  to  Brink  Bros.  &  Quint,  and 
two years  later the business was removed 
to 34 Grandville avenue,  where  the  firm 
had erected a store  building, 22x100 feet 
in size,  carrying lines of dry  goods,  gro­
ceries,  crockery,  flour  and  feed,  wood, 
In 1892 Mr.  Quint  retired from  the 
etc. 
firm,  when  the  style  was  changed 
to 
Brink  Bros.,  and  this  week  Mr.  Brink 
purchased  the  interest  of .his  brother, 
William,  who will continue  the  business 
under the style of Brink’s Grocery.

Mr. Brink was married  April 15,  1870, 
to Miss Jane Quint,  by  whom he has  had 
twelve  children,  five  of  whom are  still 
living.  As April 15  marks  the  twenty- 
fifth anniversary of their marriage,  their 
friends  propose  to  commemorate 
the 
event  by  assisting  them  in  celebrating 
their silver wedding.

Mr.  Brink  has  been  a member of  the 
Spring  Street  Reformed  church  ever 
since he came to Grand  Rapids and  is  at 
present  a  trustee  of  the  Spring  Street 
Christian  school,  connected  with  the 
church.  He is a man of strictest integrity, 
having never failed or compromised with 
his creditors,  and  is universally regarded 
as  the  soul  of  honor,  his  word  being 
everywhere  considered  as  good  as  his 
bond.  He has the  respect of a large and 
constantly increasing  trade  and  is  held 
in  high  regard  by  all  with  whom  he 
comes in contact.

Organization  of Goss  Bed  Slat  Co.
The Goss Bed Slat Co.  has  been  incor­
porated with  a  capital stock  of  $5,000, 
all  paid in,  to conduct  the  manufacture 
of lumber and bed slats and  the  sale  of 
general  merchandise  at Wellston,  Man­
istee county.  The incorporators and  the 
number  of  shares  ($10  each)  held  by 
each stockholder are as follows:

Jo h n  M acfie...................................167
R.  G.  Macfie................................. 166
M arshall  G oss.............................. 167

The corporation is officered as follows:
President—John Macfie.
Vice-President 

and  Manager—Mar­

shall Goss.

Secretary and Treasurer—K. G. Macfie.
If yon want a nice new sait  for  Easter 
of  the  most  fashionable  cut  aud  from 
choice fabrics just in, call upon  Wm.  T. 
McKinley,  107  Ottawa  street,  Grand 
Rapids.

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G K A N D   R A P ID S ,  W E D N E S D A Y ,  M A R C H   2 7 ,  1 8 9 5 .

WANTED
Everybody in­
terested  in  pat­
ents  or  patent 
law  to  send  bis 
name;  in  return 
a  book  contain­
ing valuable  in­
formation  w ill 
be  sent  free  by 
mail,
L. V.  Moulton, 
Patent Att’y, 
Grand  Rapids, 

Mich.

■£ THE ACTIVE  POWERS# 

•a-INVEHTIVE '6ENIUS.

THE MICHIGAN IRUSIC0.. Gra» ws-

Makes a Specialty of acting’as

Executor of Wills, 
Administrator of  Estates, 
Guardian of ilinors and In­

competent Persons, 

Trustee or Agent

In the management of any  business  which  may 
be entrusted to it.
Any  information  desired  will  be  cheerfully 
furnished.
Lewis  H.  W ithey,  Pres.

Anton  G.  Hodenpyl,  Sec’y.

COMMERCIAL  CREDIT  CO.

6S  rtONROE  ST,

Reports on Individuals for the retail trade,house 
renters and professional men.  Also local agents 
for the Furniture Commercial Agency Co.’s“Red 
Book.”  Collections handled for members.

T e le p h o n e s   16 6   a n d   103 0

PR O M PT . 

CONSERVATIVE, 

SA PE. 

J .  W.  CHAMPLIN,  Pres.

W.  FRED   McBAIN, Sec.

M IC H IG A N

Fire & Marne Insnrance Co.

O rganised  1881.

DETROIT,  MICHIGAN.

B. J.  B U L L A R D
Rubber  Stamps

Manufacturer of

Badges,House Numbers.Door Plates, 
Shingle and Lumber Brands, Notary, 
Lodge & Society Seals, Hotel Checks
O ro u n d F io o r,  Grand  Rapids
58  P earl  S t. 

rTS COLUMNS

men who have selfish interests  to  serve, 
and being often framed  to  answer  some 
temporary  experimental  purpose, 
they 
neither  command  nor  deserve  the  re­
spect  that  is  due  to  wise  and  whole­
some enactments intended to guide public 
and private conduct.

No doubt,  the cause cf much  bad,  su­
perfluous  or  careless  legislation lies  in 
overestimating the  reasonable  functions 
of  that  branch  of  government. 
If, in 
any city,  a  number  of  barbers,  for  in­
stance,  desire  to  close  their  shops  on 
¡Sunday,  but  fear  that,  if  they  do  so, 
others  may  receive  part  of  the custom 
they relinquish,  the legislature is at once 
appealed to for a statute fixing a penalty 
on those who open their shops  at  all  on 
that day to serve  their  regular  custom­
ers. 
In  urging  its  passage,  arguments 
that tear logic up by the roots  are  made 
and  moral  considerations  that  have no 
force except  to  show  the  inconsistency 
of those who use them.

'TH'Vi!  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN".
right,  and  which  he  insists  must  be 
pilloried by  law  as a  pernicious  foe  to 
the  health  of  the  community.  This 
champion  of  dairymen  contends  that 
every other  product  of  the  bovine  an­
imal not derived from  its  milk  must  be 
true to name, but nothing  must  be  col­
ored yellow except  his  own  out-of date 
butter.  He  grudgingly  admits  the  re­
spectability and  legitimacy  of  oleo  and 
butterine,  and allows them the right to a 
place in the market provided he can  dic­
tate the  color  of  dress  to  be  worn,  the 
label to be  attached  as  a  brand  of  in­
feriority,  and  a  few  other  minor  hu­
miliating  conditions,  all  in  the  line  of 
certain negro-phobic legislation of a past 
generation.  The consumer who is to be 
affected  by  the  proposed  law  wonders 
why the color line  should  be  drawn  at 
all,  if  the  coloring  of  any  product  to 
make it appear  like  the  best  Is  prima 
fade proof of false pretense.  He fails to 
see culpability in the use of coloring ma­
terial to make oleo a thing  of  beauty  to 
attract buyers,  so long  as  the  dairyman 
has  no  conscientious  scruples  in  mas­
querading  his  December  butter  in  the 
artistic tint of the  yellow June  product.
In  the  light  of  such  persistent  at­
tempts by men  interested  in  the  manu­
facture of one food product to  persecute 
by law competitors whose goods  are  ad­
mitted by competent chemists to be in no 
way  injurious  to  health,  we  are  con­
fronted with an evil  that,  to  thoughtful 
men,  seems worse  than  the  disease  re­
formers  now seek to cure  by  legal  pen­
alties. 
If  our  future  legislatures  are 
forever to  be  the  battle  ground  where 
business men  must  be  on  the  alert  at 
each session to fight encroachments  of  a 
sleepless enemy  seeking  to  further  his 
hostile interests,  the whole theory of our 
Government  needs  an  overhauling.  So 
far as carrying on  business  under  these 
conditions is concerned,  we might as well 
go back again to the  times  of  our  fore­
fathers, surrounded as they were by sav­
age foes and obliged  to  be  prepared  in 
field or factory,  church or  home,  to  de­
fend by arms an assault sure to  come  at 
the most unexpected moment.

Thus, the State  legislature, as well  as 
Congress,  has  come 
to  be  the  place 
where arbitrary opinion seeks to enforce 
itself upon honest  dissent  by  power  of 
statute. 
It  Is, moreover,  the  Mecca  of 
cranks of every  degree, who, if they can 
get recognition in no  other way, dare ar­
rest  by  walking  on  the  grass.  Other 
cranks,  with  more  wisdom  and  more 
money, spend their  time  quietly  in  the 
third house,  where,  in the long run, they 
reap satisfactory profit.

Again,  because all cannot  agree  upon 
how  many  hours  shall  be  considered a 
working day, organized labor,  which  as­
sumes to dictate for all  labor,  organized 
or unorganized, not  only  asks  the  law­
making power to compel fellow  laborers 
to resign the  inalienable right of making 
contracts, but asks that employers,  also, 
shall  relinquish a similar right,  which is 
indispensable  to the safe  prosecution  of 
business.

2

The  False  and the True.

W ritte n  fo r T h e  Tradesman.

the 

The  present  fin  de  siecle seems to be 
peculiarly  an  age of reform.  The  proj­
ects  already  on  foot  to  ameliorate  the 
condition  of  the  human  race  through 
legislative action are legion.  From evils 
of uncommon magnitude that are univer­
sally  felt  and  deplored,  to  the  trifling 
inconvenience of endeavoring  to  looking 
around a high hat that keeps  bobbing  in 
front  of  one  at 
theater,  each 
advocate of retributive justice is anxious 
to use the cumbrous arm  of  the  law  to 
smite  the lilliputian gnat that insists  on 
disturbing  his  personal  serenity.  To 
such  an  extent  has  the  reform  craze 
struck legislative halls that no politician 
can hope for success in his career  unless 
he  carry  a  special  bee in  his bonnet in 
the shape  of  some  incipient  scheme  of 
class  legislation  which he believes,  and 
tries to convince others, is in the interest 
of the entire community.  The  result  is 
as one  might  expect—a  chaos  of crude, 
conflicting  and  unjust 
statutes,  ever 
ehanging form to suit  newer  views  of  a 
clamorous minor  constituency, or  as  of­
ten shorn of power either for good  or  ill 
by the fiat of a Supreme  Court  decision.
The theory of  our  republican  system 
is that the rights of  each  citizen  are  de­
termined and maintained by  the  expres­
sion of popular will through  the  legisla­
tive and  executive  departments  of  gov­
ernment,  subject  to  constitutional  re­
strictions  as  interpreted  by 
judicial 
authority.  But  theory  and  practice  do 
not always agree to live together; and  so 
our  statutes  have  not  always  reflected 
sober, careful popular judgment,  the  re­
sult  of  open  discussion,  but  rather  re­
semble a- Russian ukase. 
In one  respect 
this  comparison  is  imperfect.  We  can 
protest  individually  and  severally,  dis­
parage and denounce the motives that lie 
behind  such  arbitrary  action,  and—if 
we  have  money  enough—fight  it  to  a 
finish in the court of last resort,  with  no 
f e a r   of the knout or of exile;  but,  under 
our peculiar political methods,  we  have 
no assurance  that, when all is done, and 
a power mightier than the  member  from 
Podunk  has  paralyzed  one  feature  of 
partial  and  unjust  legislation,  another 
parliamentary ghoul may not be  lying in 
wait  to  worry  or  annoy  some  class  of 
business men who  are  quietly  pursuing 
their lawful avocations.

The conservative elements  of  society, 
though in  reason and justice the  weight­
ier, do not  always  prevail  in  determin­
ing the character of our legistation.  Too 
often they are precipitated, like  mud,  to 
the  bottom,  while  the lighter factors of 
our boasted civilization bob  around  like 
corks  on  the  surface,  appearing to ob­
servers to be  the  only  predominant  ob­
jects  on  the  scene  of  human  progress. 
Among  our  legislators there is occasion­
ally  one  who,  from  the  time  when  he 
reads his title clear to a railrord pass and 
a  biennial  guardianship  of  state inter­
ests,  begins  to  feel  his  bill-iary  duct 
swell 
to  enormous  proportions,  and 
whose ambition is fired to  link  his  name 
to posterity by one or more  “Thou  shalt 
not.”

Unlike the Jewish lawgiver,our modern 
statute  maker 
launches  upon  public 
laws  that  do  not  compare  with  those 
that  came  from  the  burning mountain, 
and which, to-day,  after ages  of  experi­
ence,  stand as models for justice and  ex­
cellence.  Being,  in part,  the result  of  a 
system of bargain and  intrigue  between

GOOD-WILL.

An  Asset  of  Very  Uncertain  Value.
The good-will  connected  with  the  es­
tablishment  of  any  particular  trade or 
occupation  is  the  advantage  or  benefit 
which it has acquired  beyond  the  mere 
value of the capital stock,  funds or prop­
erty  that  are employed  in  it,  in  conse­
quence of the  general  public  patronage 
and encouragement which it receives;  or 
on account of its local position or common 
celebrity;  or  of  reputation  for  skill  or 
punctuality; or from other incidental cir­
cumstances or necessities;  or  even  from 
ancient partialities or prejudice. 
It  is a 
valuable right and may be the subject  of 
contract,  and  as  such  has  led to much 
litigation. 
It  is  to some of the rules de­
veloped in cases lately  decided  that 'we 
would call attention, especially  of  those 
who  may  contemplate  the  purchase  of 
the business of another.
If  the  business  has  been  long  estab­
lished,  has a location  that  brings  trade, 
or has been  built up  by  one  who  could 
readily re-establish it and become a rival 
in the neighborhood,  and  the  purchaser 
desires or is paying for  the  continuance 
of his trade,  he should provide  by  writ­
ten contract for the sale  of the good-will 
as  well  as  the  conveyance  of  the  more 
tangible  assets;  and  also  for that other 
contingent of good-will,  the  restraint  of 
the seller from doing  a  like  business  in 
that locality,  at least  for a certain  num­
ber  of  years.  These  we  say should  be 
expressly provided for by  written  agree­
ment,  as  they  are  not  implied  by  the 
mere  purchase  of  the  business,  lease, 
etc.,  and parole evidence of the intention 
of the parties is not  admissible,  in  case 
of  legal  contest  arising.  Nor does the 
purchase  of  the  business and good-will 
preclude  the  vendor  from  starting  up 
with  new  stock  and  soliciting  his  old 
customers.  He  must  be  expressly  re­
stricted by contract.
One of the main  incidents of the good­
will  of  a  business  is  the  name  under 
which it has been conducted, and though 
there is no agreement the  buyer  can  use 
it,  but not so as  to  expose  the  seller  to 
any  liability  as  the  owner  of the busi­
ness, or as one of the persons with whom 
contracts would  be made; and if the con­
sent  to the continued use of the name be 
merely gratuitous, it  may be  withdrawn 
at any  time,  as  the  surname  is  not  an 
element of the good-will of  the business, 
but  the  purchase  of  the  good-will of  a 
person  deceased  does  not  include  the 
right to use the  name  of  the  deceased. 
The  good-will  of  partnership,  however, 
is between them a  part  of  the  property 
of the firm, and where it is dissolved,  on 
transfering  to  the others all his interest 
in his business and assets,  with  the  un­
derstanding  that  they are  to  succeed  to 
the  business  of  the  old  firm, such  sale 
carries with it  the  good-will.  The  firm 
name  here  is  part of the good-will, and 
the outgoing partner cannot  use  it  in  a 
like business in that  vicinity;  but where 
there were no tangible assets,  and  mere 
dissolution,  neither  had  a  right  to  the 
firm  name,  composed of their individual 
names, and each had the right  to  secure 
the  customers  of  the  old  firm.  On 
dissolution  of partnership  by  the death 
of  one, 
the  surviving  partners  may 
carry on the business at  the  same  place 
without  liability  to  account to the legal 
representative  of  the  deceased  for  the 
good-will of the firm and, where he joins 
in  the  sale  of  the  stock, fixtures, etc., 
without  words  of  limitation  he  cannot 
maintain an action for  the  value  of  the 
good-will or any portion of it.
The good-will of a business is property 
that  can be mortgaged or sold in connec­
tion wiib the business,  but  it  cannot  be 
sold by judicial sale or  otherwise  unless 
it be in connection with  the  sale  of  the 
business  on  which  it  depends. 
It  has 
been  held  that  the  name  of  a  paper 
printed on a  certain  plant  was  part  of 
the good-will,  and  where  the  plant  and 
good-will  of  the  business were sold un­
der mortgage  the  editor  was  restrained 
from publishing the paper  under the old 
name elsewhere in that locality.
The purchaser of  the  good-will  has  a 
right to rely upon the  representations of 
the  seller  concerning  its  value,  and 
where that was a part  of  the  considera­
tion  and  did  not  come  up to the repre-

The legislature  has  grown  to  be  the 
only place where wrongs are supposed to 
be righted, and  where  every  inequality 
of condition,  whether moral or  physical, 
can be reduced to its lowest terms.  And 
so the army  of  informers  besiege  these 
halls, where,  by  appealing  to  the  vari­
ous weaknesses of  members,  they  hope 
to set in  motion  punitive  statutes  that 
shall usher  in  tne  loug-delayed  millen­
nium.  At  present, the  cry  is  for pure 
food and pure drugs, and it  is  becoming 
quite a fad  among  people  who  absorb, 
from hearsay, information that has,  by a 
process  of  selection,  been  deprived  of 
the material element  of  fact.  There  is 
supposed to  be  a  strong  pressure  from 
the might of public opinion  in  favor  of 
some  stringent  law  that  shall  astonish 
everyone by its remarkable results.

The Ohio idea, after a  year  or  two  of 
blind  persistent  effort  to  harass  all 
classes of  retail  dealers,  leaving  manu­
facturing rogues to  pursue,  unmolested, 
their unlawful gains,  has  invaded  Mich­
igan  and,  with an oily persuasiveness, is 
seeking to extend its influence  on  mem­
bers and committees with  the  same  de­
lusive watchword  of  reform,  “Fro  bono 
•publico.”

As usual, the politico  farmer  is  in  it 
for the plaintiff, since he is,  by nature, a 
reformer of  other  people’s  manners,  as 
well as  products, though  his  own  may 
“smell to heaven.” 
(That  does  not,  of 
course, disturb his olfactories.)  But the 
sweet  oleo,  pure  and  guiltless  of  bad 
odor or association,  is  the Mordecai  that 
sits at his gate,  outraging  bis  sense  of

But this is not all. 

in the  heated  dis­
cussions engendered by diverse  interests 
we are liable to lose  sight  of  individual 
rights, guaranteed by a fundamental law 
we  are  all  bound  to  respect.  Thus, 
right  and wrong will,  in  time,  become 
mere abstract terms, standing  for  noth­
ing that is definite or permanent.  Every 
victory on such a field will  lead  to  more 
conflicts, because it will  carry  with it no 
more moral force than the  coup  de main 
that  succeeds  in  a  ward  caucus.  We 
shall then be  unable  to  distinguish  the 
false from the  true  when  all  questions 
concerning personal right are  to  be  set­
tled on such a low ethical basis.  A war­
fare waged on such lines  must,  of neces­
sity,  prove  a  war  of  extermination  so 
long as  one  selfish  purpose  appears  in 
antagonism  to  another. 
It  is  demoral­
izing to make the halls of our  legislative 
councils the theater  of  opposing  forces, 
and our representatives tools to work out 
schemes  of  personal  or  corporate  ag­
grandizement, to the injury of all classes 
that  are  too  weak  to  resist.  Besides, 
the mass of dead  or  obsolete  statutes  is 
increasing each  year  at  such  a  fearful 
rate that  they will,  in  time,  become  an 
avalanche to overwhelm the  life  of  our 
institutions,  leaving us buried,  as  Rome 
was in the ruin of her own jealousies.
S.  P.  W h it .ma.r s h .

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

3

One  who  buys 

sentations, the purchaser has the right to 
urge it in defense of  the  collection  of  a 
note given for the  purchase  money;  but 
ordinarily  when the  purchaser of a busi­
ness finds  there  is  no  good-will,  he  is 
without  remedy,  unless  he ¿can  show 
fraudulent representations of fact.
the  good-will  and 
name of a business is entitled  to  receive 
letters  and  telegrams  addressed  to  the 
firm name,  and  to the advantages result­
ing from business  transactions  proposed 
in them by customers of the old  firm.
Where one sold a saddlery and harness 
business with the agreement not to carry 
on  such  business,  it  was  held  that  he 
could not be restrained from selling  har­
ness  and  saddlery  at  a  general  store 
which he opened.  Nor does  such  agree­
ment prevent one from acting  as a sales­
man for another firm  in  the  same  line; 
nor from loaning the purchase  money  to 
another to engage  in  like  business. 
If 
he is a physician it does not  prevent  his 
attending a patient in extremes,  or  pre­
scribing 
for  a  few  persons  without 
charge; but he would  be  liable  in  dam­
ages if he should open  an  office by him­
self or with another person in  the  prac­
tice of medicine. 
*
The fact that the receipts  of  the  new 
business are as large as those of  the  old 
firm  does  not  of  itself  show  he  is  not 
damaged,  but the fact  that  the  other is 
doing a large business at  his  new  place 
and  the  buyer  has  little  trade  will  be 
taken as proof of loss.  Specific  damage 
must  be  shown,  otherwise  the  award 
would be merely nominal. 
It cannot  be 
shown  by  deducting  value  of  other 
items,  and  the  jury  would  not  be  re­
stricted to finding the value of  the  good­
will to be the  difference,  but  might  ex­
ceed  it.
In  the  contract  for  the  sale  of  the 
good-will  and  agreement  not  to  do  a 
similar business, the covenant should  be 
qualified, otherwise it is bad, as being un­
reasonable and contrary to public policy. 
Where  it  is  subject  to  some  qualifica­
tion,  either in  time  or  space,  then  the 
question is whether it is  reasonable,  and 
if  so,  it  is  good  in  law, 
the  point  to 
which the  attention  of  the  court  is  es­
pecially  directed  being  the  limits  of 
time  and  space,  and  the  protection  re­
quired  for  the  trade  of  the  purchaser, 
this latter requiring  the  examination  of 
the nature and extent of the trade.
The  Professional Beggar.

The  professional  beggar 

is  always 
asking  for  bread,  though  that  staff  of 
life may be among the least of his needs, 
but  it  is  shrewdly  supposed  by  him 
that no  man  will  refuse  a  hungry  man 
bread.  A Boston story is told  of  a  cer­
tain benevolent business  man’s  remark­
able experience with a hungry man.  The 
hungry  man  came  into  the  benevolent 
business man’s office,  told a  pitiful  tale 
of  starvation,  and  asked  for  enough 
money  to  get  a  meal.  “I  cannot  give 
you  money,”  said  the  business  man, 
•‘but I’ll give you a meal.”  Then he took 
one  of  his  business  cards,  wrote  on  it 
the name of the firm who keeps  the  res­
taurant  where  he  is  accustomed 
to 
lunch,  added the words,  ‘‘Fill this man’s 
order  to 
the  extent  of  25  cents  and 
charge  to  me,”  and  signed  his  initials. 
The  man  took  the  card  and  went  out. 
Later in the day the business  man  went 
over to the restaurant  and  was  greeted 
by the cashier with a broad grin.  “What 
is  it?”  asked  the  business  man.  “Oh, 
nothing,”  said  the  cashier,”  only  that 
tramp of yours came in here,  drank  fite 
beers and went off 1”

An attempt  is  making  in  Chicago  to 
prevent  married  women  from  holding 
If 
positions as  public  school  teachers. 
such a rule is adopted  another should be 
passed  making  bachelors  ineligible 
to 
all positions of public profit.

Money is a power,  both  for  good  and 
for  evil.  The  man  who  has  the  least 
amount of it has the least  temptation  to 
use it to his own injury.

Be wise and buy the Signal Five.

A  Talk  with  and  about  Business 

Women.

W ritte n  fo r T hk T radesman.

In these days when  we  hear  so  much 
about  woman  and  her  work,  it  would 
seem,  almost, as if  everything  had  been 
said that could  be,  profitably.  Risking 
the  contrary,  however,  I  wish  to  say 
something to the business  women  of  to­
day; and,  by “ business women,”  I  mean 
all classes who are  earning  their  living 
by daily  work.

We  read  a  great  deal about the “im­
pudent  shopgirl,” and usually the infer­
ence  is  a  general  one, 
including  the 
whole  army  of  saleswomen;  and  the 
talented ones—talented  and  valuable  in 
their lme—are enraged at the  inference. 
And we read of the “pretty  typewriter” 
—said in a way that infers  a  great  deal 
and makes the blood of the earnest, honest 
woman earning her living  that  way  boil 
with indignation at the slur.  And  so on 
through the  whole  category  of  women’s 
employment,  and  there  is  a  feeling  of 
downtroddenness 
in  our  hearts,  and 
sometimes one of bitter  discouragement, 
that we are so bravely trying to carry the 
burdens  which  used  to  be  considered 
man’s  alone,  and possibly by our efforts 
supporting some unfortunate  male  rela­
tive, should be constantly alluded to in a 
slighting manner.  True,  in the more ad­
vanced—I had almost said the more  civi­
lized—communities,  this  is  not  now  so 
common.  There is some of  it  still  left, 
however,  and  shall  we  look at it in an­
other  light  and  see  how  much  of  it is 
still  merited?  See  whether  or  no  the 
women  themselves—some  of  them—are 
not to blame for this state of  things,  for 
the  chagrin  and  mortification  brought 
upon 
the  more  cultivated  class  of 
women breadwinners?

There is no reason why the  mercantile 
talent  in  some  families  should  not  be 
transmitted  to  the daughters,  as  well as 
to the sons;  and where can you  point  to 
the  successful  merchant  who  did  not 
commence as clerk—or,  possibly,  porter 
—in  an  establishment  not  unlike  his 
own?  And the shopgirl  of  to-day  may 
be the  successful  business  woman  of  a 
decade  to  come.  But  the  successful 
business man  started  to  make  that  his 
life’s work and bent every energy  to  ac­
complish that aim; the girl,  however,  at 
least  in  a  majority  of  cases,  does  this 
work only as a makeshift  while  waiting 
for something better to turn up, or looks 
at it only as  a  way  to  make  her  living 
until the chance comes to marry.  There 
is,  therefore,  among many—1 might say 
most—of them an utter lack of  incentive 
for  the  best work, and  so careless serv­
ice is  the  result.  Did  it  once  suggest 
itself  seriously  to  this  class  that  they 
are working infinite  harm  to  their  sex, 
and could they be made to  see  that  this 
is really the case,  the  results  might  be 
different.  While  it  needs  no  example 
nowadays  to  illustrate  the  cause  for 
some of the slurs about shopgirls,  I wish 
to  note  an  instance  which  came  under 
my notice a short time since,  and  which 
largely prompted this article:

I  stepped*  into  a  fur  store  to  make 
some inquiries in regard  to  some  neces­
sary repairs upon my cloak.  Upon mak­
ing my business known to the  female—I 
could not name her lady—who came for­
ward,  I was both annoyed  and  disgusted 
at  the  impudent  manner  in  which she 
surveyed me from head to foot, evidently 
calculating upon the age of the  garment 
in question,  which,  it must be  confessed,

was not of the latest  cut.  With  a  hand | 
on  each  hip,  and  with  head  jauntily 
tipped, she flippantly vouchsafed,  “Well,  j 
I’m  afraid  [accent  on  the  afraid]  that I 
will cost you  about $—!”  After that air 
and manner,  it would not have made any 
difference if she had said the same  num- i 
ber of cents,  the  work  would  not  have 1 
been left there.  And  that  girl  had  not 
only been untrue to the trust of  her  em­
ployer,  who had  placed  her  behind  his 
counter to help  build  up  and  maintain 
his  business,  but  she  had  illustrated 
most thoroughly how one woman can  add 
to  the  contempt  in  which  some people 
hold  what  they  are  pleased  to call the 
“laboring classes.”

At another place,  where  gloves  were 
purchased,  the quiet,  ladylike manner of 
the saleswoman  was  so  agreeable,  and 
her  -efforts  to  please  so  genuine,  that 
there is where my gloves  will  be  bought 
in the  future. 
I  know  nothing  of  her 
employer—and  care  less—but  that  girl 
has  won  an  admirer  who  will  recom­
mend others to trade with her.

“But,”  I fancy a  salesgirl  says,  “you 
don’t  realize  all  the  provoking  things 
with which we have  to  contend—cranky 
customers,  domineering floorwalkers,  un­
reasonable  employers.”  1  think  I  do. 
Grant  these  things.  As  to  the  cranky 
customers,  you  are  paid  for your time, 
and  the  more  you  can  overcome  that 
same  crankiness,  the  more  valuable is 
your time to your employer; if he  is  un­
reasonable,  rest  assured that others will 
notice your worth and in  time  you  may 
be sought out by other and  more  appre­
ciative  people.  A  pleased  customer  is 
pretty apt to speak of these  matters  and 
in unthought-of channels are  carried the 
effects of welldoing.

it 

Now,  as  to  the  “pretty  typewriter.” 
Did  any  of  you  who  are  so  fond  of 
speaking  of  her  in  that way—including 
the  slur—ever  attempt  to  learn  ste­
nography? 
If  not,  try  it a little, and if 
you  do  not  agree  with  me  that the per­
son  who  successfully  grapples 
is 
worthy  of  some  slight  consideration, 
then  I will own I  am  wrong. 
If  brainy, 
a woman  is  fortunate;  if  handsome,  so 
much the better.  1 admit  that there are 
women stenographers who are a disgrace 
to their  profession  in  more  ways  than 
one;  but  how  many  more  are 
there 
whose  characters  are  above  reproach; 
who are faithful,  painstaking  helpers  to 
the men  who employ  them;  who  are  the 
finishers—if not the authors—of much of 
the good work sent out  by the  establish­
ment with which they  are connected.

1  would say a word in regard  to a sub­
ject wrongly viewed  by  too  many  busi­
ness  and  working  women. 
It  is  this: 
They do not dress appropriately for their 
work.  What would you  think,  my  sis­
ters, of a business  man,  clerk  or other 
wise,  who came  to  his  work  dressed  as 
for a social event?  You would promptly 
put him down  as a fool,  or  one  of  those 
nondescripts we call  “dudes,”  and  judge 
his  business  ability  accordingly.  Why 
should not the same criterion  be  applied 
to women?  In this age of tailor finished 
women’s apparel,  nothing  could  be more 
appropriate than  that style  of  dress  for 
the  business  woman.  Unobtrusive  in 
appearance,  easily  kept  in  order—what 
more could  be  asked  for  the  purpose? 
When I see a woman in a  store  or  office 
I  with her hair dressed as  for  an  evening 
reception, gown  any  degree  of  fanciful- 
ness short  of full  dress,  I  don’t wonder 
that  unpleasant  remarks  are  so  often

made.  Dress as you  choose  after  busi­
ness hours, but during those hours  dress 
appropriately. 
I  don’t  mean,  necessa­
rily,  mannishly;  your dress may be styl­
ish,  but  should,  above  all,  be  plainly 
made.

Women are,  as  yet,  but  beginning  in 
the  business  world,  and,  as  each  one 
adds to the dignity of  her work,  just  so 
much  the  sooner  will  the  time  come 
when  we shall hear no  more  the  odious 
innuendoes,  now,  happily,  growing  less.

J a q t j e l in e .

indp  DipypiR
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Of  \veli=known  reputation. 
You,  as  a  dealer,  cannot  af­
ford  to  a ssist 
th e   m anufac­
tu re r  to  experim ent.

The offer of a large  discount 
m eans a corresponding  reduc­
tion  in  th e   quality.

VVe handle only  w heels th a t 
th e   quality  has  been  proven 
by  long  and  continued  use.

Agents  w anted  in  unoccu­

pied  territo ry   for  th e
RAMBLER
FALCON

RICHMOND

and

FEATHERSTONE

W h eels

99-101  O tta w a   S tre et,

( i r a n d   Rapids.

WE  WANT

BEANS

them.

and  will  pay  highest  market  price  for 

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

L.  G.  DUNTON  Jt  GO.

Will  buy  all  kinds  of  Lumber— 

Green or Dry.

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

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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ABOUND  THE  STATE.

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

Davis—Davis  &  Mclunis  succeed  M. 

W.  Davis in general  trade.

Parma—Chas. .1.  Garoy  ‘-nneppds C.  R 

T o w n s e n d   in  g e n e ra l  tra d e .

Dexter—L.  L.  James  has  sold  his 

notion stock  to R.  H.  Honey.

Belleville—Cheesman &  Heglund  suc­

ceed C. Cody  in general trade.

Otsego—E.  J.  Rose  succeeds  Matthew 

Barton in the grocery business.

Tecumseh—Shurtz & Mitchell  succeed 

W.  W. Shurtz in the meat business.

Dowagiac—E.  S.  Howard 

succeeds 

Spooner & Smith in the meat business.

Byron—E.  E.  Kohler  has  purchased 
the hardware stock of  M.  D.  Comstock.
Nashville—Ingerson & Brattin  succeed 
Frank J.  Brattin in the tinware business.
Amasa—J.  T.  Gibson  has  purchased 
the  general  stock  of  M.  Gleason  & Son.
Kalkaska— U.  L. Pipp  &  Co.  succeed 
Pipp  Bros.  &  Co.  in the hardware busi­
ness.

Mt.  Pleasant—Donahue & Co.  succeed 
Leahy  &  Donahue  in  the  grocery busi­
ness.

Grant—A.  Eckerman, 

the  Muskegon 
druggist,  has opened a drug store at  this 
place.

Tekonsha—E.  E.  Abel  has  sold  his 
grocery stock to  F.  E.  Allen  and  F.  A. 
Granger.

Cheshire—H.  D.  Clarke  has  opened  a 
grocery stock in  one  end  of  the  cheese 
factory.

Owosso—A.  W.  Prindle  has  removed 
his  crockery  and  glassware  stock  to 
Howell.

Albion—Henry  Young  has  removed 
his grocery stock  from  Eaton  Rapids to 
this place.

Durand—The  DeCamp  Hardware  Co. 
has purchased the  stock  of  the  Durand 
Hardware Co.

Camden—Moon  &  Houtz,  dry  goods 
dealers,  have dissolved,  S.  W.  Houtz  & 
Son  succeeding.

Menominee—The drug stock  of  D.  D. 
Lewis  &  Son  has  been  closed  under 
chattel  mortgage.

Saginaw—Siebel  &  Bauer, 

jewelers, 
have  dissolved,  Herbert  S.  Siebel  con­
tinuing the  business.

Clare—Davy &  Co.  have  purchased  a 
lot and  will erect  a  new  store  building 
as soon as spring opens.

Chelsea—W.  P. Schenk &Co., clothiers 
and men’s furnishing goods dealers,  have 
filed articles of incorporation.

Capac—Springer  &  Jonas  Bros.,  gen­
eral  dealers,  have dissolved.  Springer  & 
Jonas continuing the business.

Farwell—Jas.  A.  McLellan  has 

re­
moved  his  grocery  stock  to  Sherwood, 
where he will continue business.

Jackson—Stimulated by  their  success 
in the grocery  business.  Hill  Bros,  have 
opened  a  meat  market 
in  connection 
with their grocery store.

Charlotte—J.  B.  Gibbons  has  pur­
chased the jewelry stock  of E. P.  Clark, 
who  has  purchased  a  new  stock  with 
which  to resume business at Hudson.

Muskegon—Howard  D.  Shaw 

Alpena—Jas.  McHarg,  meat  dealer, 
and Robert McHarg, grocer and boot and 
shoe  dealer,  have  consolidated 
their 
business under the style of McHarg Bros.
and 
Joseph  A.  Hitchcock  have  formed  a 
partnership aud  will open a new  grocery 
and bakery  under the firm name of Shaw 
& Hitchcock.  A store room in the Dear­
born block,  adjoining Geo.  G.  Burdick’s 
hat store,  has been  leased  and  the  erec-

]  in g   to   G e  H   P h e lp s ,  w h ic h   w as  clo se d   I 
by  c h a tte l  mortgage,  h eld   by  F .  P.  De- 
Arcy,  of Kalamazoo, is  being sold at auc­
tion.

Bay  City—The  Ueberoth  Crockery  & 
Wall Paper  Co.,  doing  business  at  this 
place  and  also  at Saginaw,  has reorgan­
ized  under  the  style  of  the  Ueberoth- 
Ellis Co.

Saginaw—The  stock  of  jewelry  and 
fixtures  of  J.  C.  Nerreter  &  Co.  have 
been  sold  to John  Hohei.sel  &  Son,  who 
will  move, the  stock  to  Owosso,  where 
they will resume business.

Belding—G.  B.  Sabin  has  purchased 
the interest  of  H.  S.  Campbell  in  the 
electric 
laundry.  Mr.  Campbell  has 
taken a position  with the  Ballou  Basket 
Works as traveling salesman.

Holland—A.  C.  Van  Raalte  and L.  A. 
Stratton  have  formed  a  copartnership 
under the style of Van  Raalte & Stratton 
for the purpose of embarking in  the  ag­
ricultural implement business.

Coloma—S.  B.  Ryno  succeeds  Dr.  W. 
Ryno & Bro.  in the drug,  stationery  and 
jewelry business.  Mr.  Ryno will imme­
diately  begin  the  erection  of  a  store 
building suitable for his purpose.

Cadillac—E.  J.  Morgan  has purchased 
a half interest in the hardware  stock  of 
John  M.  Cloud,  the  pioneer  hardware 
dealer at this place.  The firm will  here­
after be  known as Cloud & Morgan.

Muskegon—H.  S.  Robinson & Co.  have 
sold  the  stock  in  the  Economy  Shoe 
House  to  W.  E.  Thornton  and  G.  A. 
Contchie,  who will continue the business 
under the style of  Thornton & Coutchie.
Muskegon—The new wholesale grocery 
house to be started in the near  future  by 
Grant Hamlin and others will  be  located 
in the McCracken block, at the corner  of 
Western  avenue  and  Sixth  street,  near 
the new union  depot  and  the  Goodrich 
docks.

Ann Arbor—J.  F.  Schuh  recently  ut­
tered  three  chattel  mortgages  on  the 
hardware  stock  of  Schuh  &  Muehlig— 
one  in  favor  of  Mrs.  J.  F.  Schuh  for 
$2,700,  another  in  favor  of  Andrew 
Muehlig, of the firm, for $900, and a third 
in favor of Moses Seabaet for $200.  The 
White  Sewing  Machine  Co. 
thereupon 
attached the stock on a claim of $650.  A 
couple of days later,  the difficulties  were 
adjusted,  Mr.  Muehlig  buying  Schuh’s 
share of  the  hardware  bnsiness,  while 
Schuh will continue the  plumbing  busi­
ness.  Mr.  Schuh settled the White Sew­
ing Machine Co.’s claim,  and  the  sheriff 
accordingly released the  stock.  All'  the 
chattel mortgages  were discharged.

MANUKACTURING  MATTERS.

Ypsilanti--The Althea Toilet Co. has re­

moved from Detroit to this  place.

Hudson—Burk & Miles,  of  Waupako- 
neta,  Ohio,  have  started  a cigar  factory 
here.

Grape—Benj.  B. Williams has  sold his 
cheese factory to  Dunbar  &  Jenkins,  of 
Samaria.

Samaria—The Samaria Cheese Co.  suc­
ceeds D.  A.  Jenkins  in  the manufacture 
of cheese.

Detroit—The Welded Steel  Barrel  Co. 
has  filed  articles  of  association.  The 
capital stock is fixed at  $100,000, divided 
into 10,000 shares, of which 5,001 are paid 
in.  They are held  as  follows:  Alvinus

TU H:  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.
Wood  aud  Chas.  L.  Coffin,  2,500 
an-1 shares each;  Geo. H. Lothrop,  one share.
succeed

tion  of  an  addition  to  the  building will j B. 
! be  commenced 
I nex  will  be  lire  proof,  32x42  feet  in j 
| size.

immediately.  This 

P o rt  H u ro n — H ill

Bros.

ton.  He  operates  mills  at  different 
points  on  contract.  One  of  these  is 
Cram  &  Osborn’s  mill,  at  Sherman, 
where he is having 2,000,000  feet sawed.
Au Sable—A company has  perfected a 
preliminary  organization  here  for  the 
purpose of establishing a wood pulp fac­
tory  which  will utilize ail the  jack  pine 
in  this  region.  Local  capitalists  have 
taken hold of the project,  and  if  a  test 
of  the  pine  for  wood  pulp  purposes 
proves successful,  the  factory will be a 
go. 
It is expected  the  old  Potts  plant 
will be converted into a pulp  factory.

Saginaw—Col  A.  T.  Bliss  has  made 
some improvements at his Carrollton mill 
and it will be  ready  for  business  about 
April 1, as will also the  mill of the  Cen­
tral Lumber Co., of which he is the princi­
pal stockholder.  He  has been  receiving 
logs by rail from  Coleman and his booms 
are  about  full.  A  number  of  million 
feet of logs are piled  up on  the  railroad 
near Coleman and will  be  brought  down 
by rail as needed.  He will  also  receive 
12,000,000 to  15,000,000  feet  of  Canada 
logs,  aDd  possibly  8,000,000  feet  which 
have been cut in Canada by a son of Gen. 
R. A. Alger.

Muskegon—The Crescent  Manufactur­
ing Co.,  formerly  of  Detroit,  which was 
secured recently by the Muskegon Cham­
ber of Commerce to locate  here,  is  rap­
idly  getting  its factory and  grounds  In 
condition for operation.  The site is that 
formerly occupied  by the  Kirk  box  fac­
tory.  The pilings  are  in  for  the  main 
building,  engine beds  aud  boiler founda­
tions,  and  for  the  dry  kiln  foundation 
will be  put  in  shortly. 
It  is  expected 
that the factory  will be running  by  May 
1,  at the latest.  The company’s agent is 
up the river  buying  large  quantities  of 
timber used in the  manufacture  of  nail 
kegs,  which are  the company’s specialty.
Detroit—Some  months  ago  Parke, 
Davis & Company of this city commenced 
the  manufacture  of  anti-toxine,  the 
newly  discovered  diphtheria  and  con­
sumption  cure.  The  manufacture  of 
this  article  is  a  long  operation,  and it 
was  expected  at  the  time  it  was com­
menced that a supply would be ready for 
use about April 1.  March 15 the first ex­
periment  with  it  was  commenced.  A 
horse  was  inoculated  with  diphtheria 
germs  and  a  part  of  the drug injected 
into his blood. 
It will take several days 
to ascertain the effect  of  the  anti-toxine 
upon  him.  When 
this  is  seen  the 
chemists  will know  what stage  the  drug 
has attained and when  it  will  be  ready 
for use.

From   O ut  o f T ow n.

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

John Strabbing,  Hamilton.
H. E. Botsford, Dorr.
W. C.  Loomis, Charlesworth.
Rockafellow  Mercantile  Co.,  Carson 
Geo.  F. Cook,  Grove.
Twenty-eight union men have been in­
dicted by the grand jury in  New Orleans 
for  murder  in  the  recent  levee  trades 
union riots.

City.

P rin ts.

P.  Steketee  &  Sons have in stock and 
transit Harmony dark prints which they 
offer at the low price of 3% cents.

Ask  to  see  Gillies’  fine  New  York 
See  J.  P. 

Coffees. 
Visner, Agt.,  and make money.

It  costs  nothing. 

Use Tradesman Coupon Books.

P o rtla n U —G iiiiia , 

\  t-i.iy 

a re

s u c c e e d e d   by  the  P ortland F u rn itu re   Co.,  j 
incorporated.

Reading—Wm.  Taylor  has  invented  a 
new  cheese  case,  which  he  intends  to 
have patented.

Battle  Creek—Darwin  D.  Buck  suc­
ceeds  Buck  &  Hoyt  in  the manufacture 
of  spring  beds.

Sethton—The creamery  here, not  sat­
isfied with  the  outlook  for  butter,  will 
make cheese this season.

Fulton—James Griggs  and  E.  B.  Cod- 
man have begun the  erection  of  a  new 
cheese factory at this place.

Linden—Cram  &  Davenport  succeed 
Davenport  &  Henry  in the planing mill 
and handle factory business.

Traverse  City—The  Traverse  City 
Lumber Co.’s mill is running  night  and 
day  with full crews and is  idle  only  on 
Sundays.

Frankfort—Howard  Seeley,  who  was 
engaged in the  hoop, stave  and  heading 
business at  Beaverton,  has  removed  to 
this place.

Weidman—A  band saw is being placed 
in J. S. Weidman’s new sawmill, and the 
boilers and engine  for  the  planing  mill 
are on the ground.

Kalamazoo—The Model Casket Co. has 
been organized  with  a  capital  stock  of 
$10,000.  The  corporators  are O.  A.  La- 
Crone,  Walter H.  Lawson and Wm. O. C. 
Knapp.

Sheridan—J.  H.  Steers,  of  Northville, 
is  negotiating  for  the  purchase  of  the 
Davis  &  Rankin  creamery  plant  here, 
with a view to converting it into a cheese 
factory.

Slights—The sawmill of Kelly & Covell 
started  up Monday  for  the  longest  run 
in its  history.  They  will  cut  4,000,000 
feet,  about  double  the  amount  of  last 
year’s cut.

Ludington—Emery  D.  Weimer  has 
been  awarded  the  contract  to  furnish 
400,000 feet of white pine  timber for the 
harbor of Conneaut,  the timber  to be de­
livered on or before May 30.

Marquette—Flatt Bros, have purchased 
of  the  Duluth  South  Shore  & Atlantic 
Railway some timber  near  Sidnaw,  that 
was scorched last fall, and  will  make  it 
into board timber  immediately.

Elsie—The  Maple  River  Cheese  Co. 
will  begin  operations  for  the  season 
April 8.  The  company  has  engaged  as 
maker S.  C.  Hench,  who  made  cheese 
last  season  for  Jolliffe  Bros.,  at  Ply­
mouth.

Chesaning—Peet &  Burgess  have pur­
chased  the  Cold  Spring  creamery  and 
converted it into a  cheese factory.  This 
was one of the original  Davis  &  Rankin 
creameries,  only  two  or  three of which 
are still in operation  in this  State.

St. Joseph—The Interstate Power Com­
pany has been incorporated for  the  pur­
pose of utilizing the water  power  of  the 
St. Joseph River for  electrical  transmis­
sion to the manufacturing plants of South 
Bend,  Niles,  Buchanan  and  Berrien 
Springs, and of operating an electric rail­
way between South Bend and St.  Joseph.
Ludington—Albert  Vogel  during  the 
past four years has been  picking  up  all 
the desirable hardwood  tracts  he  could 
find  in  this  vicinity  and  in  the  back 
country, and is said now to be  the  larg­
est holder of such properties  in  Luding­

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5

GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

The style of the Grand Rapids Machine 
Co. has been  changed  to  the  West  Side 
Iron Works.

Willard Purchase succeeds Purchase* 
Van Allen  in the grocery  business  at  780 
South Division  street.

Chas.  R.  Young  has  opened a grocery 
store  at  the  corner  of  South Lafayette 
and Hall streets.  The Lemon & Wheeler 
Company furnished the stock.

The  H.  N.  Hall  Cabinet  Co.  has  re­
moved from 67 South  Front street to 286 
and 288 Canal street,  the former location 
of the Michigan Vapor Stove Co.

W.  A.  Stowe  has  removed his whole­
sale  paper  warehouse  from  22  South 
Ionia street to 100  Louis  street,  the  for­
mer  location  of  the  Tradesman  Com­
pany.

E.  M.  Devendorf has purchased the in­
terest of  Geo.  H.  Reeder  and  John  M. 
Fell in the Grand  Rapids Fur Co ,  dealer 
in furs at  158 and 160 East Fulton street. 
The business will  be continued by Julius 
and  E.  M.  Devendorf  under  the  same 
style.

W. J.  Kilpatrick,  confectioner  at  495 
South Division street,  has sold  his  busi­
ness to Ed.  W.  Wykes,  milk  dealer,  who 
will  still  continue  the  creamery  busi­
ness.  Mr.  Kilpatrick has opened a cigar 
and confectionery store at 65 South Divi­
sion street.  *

the 

Brink  Bros.,  dealers  in  general  mer­
chandise at  34  Grandville  avenue,  have 
dissolved  by 
the 
senior  partner,  Wm.  Brink.  The  busi­
ness will be continued by  the  remaining 
partner,  Adrian  Brink,  under  the  style 
of Brink’s Grocery.

retirement  of 

Lyman W.  Welch has  secured  an  op­
tion on the interest of Wm. S.  Earle in the 
Welch Folding Bed  Co.  and  proposes  to 
merge the business into a stock company 
under  the  same style. 
It is proposed  to 
place  the  capital  stock  at  $100,000,  all 
paid in,  and subscriptions to a portion of 
the stock are now open to investors.

Attention  is  directed  to 

the  cash 
prizes offered by the Retail  Grocers’  As­
sociation, elsewhere in this week’s paper, 
for the  best  series  of  contributions  on 
the subject of “Advantages of  the  Cash 
System.”  The  prizes  are  liberal  and, 
as  the  time  given  is  adequate,  The 
T r a d e s m a n   expects  the  responses  will 
be both numerous and  praiseworthy.

G ripsack  B rigad e.

J.  H.  Gibbons,  representing  the furni­
ture manufactory of Curtis & Son,  Char­
lotte,  is in  town  for a day or two.

Byron S.  Davenport has  purchased the 
handsome new residence at  123 Buekeye 
street  aad  will  take  possession  of  the 
house the latter part of  this week.

E.  F.  Funk,  Jr.,  formerly  with 

the 
Dick  Manufacturing Co., has gone on the 
road for the Elliott  Button  Fastener  Co. 
For the present he will coniine his  atten­
tion to the Chicago trade.

If any  of  T h e   T r a d e s m a n ’s  readers 
are in need of a traveling  salesman,  the 
want  can  be  supplied  by  applying  to 
Byron  S.  Davenport,  chairman  of  the 
Employment Committee of the  Michigan 
Knights  of  the  Grip.  Mr.  Davenport 
has on file about 30 applications  for  sit­
uations,  representing nearly all  lines.

The 5,000-mile mileage  book  questiou 
is yet unsettled,  as far  as  the  Michigan

roads  are  concerned.  The  passenger 
agents  who  met  at  Detroit  last  week 
put it off to some future meeting.  These 
books have  been  issued  in  some  states 
and are not very well thought of by  rail­
road men.  The  scalping  and manipula­
tion of passenger rates  are  now  largely 
done through the aid  of  mileage  books, 
and  to  extend  the  privileges  of  book- 
holders  would simply extend the chances 
for scalping.  The  interchangeable  fea­
ture of the 5,000-mile books  would,  it  is 
claimed,  add greatly to  the  trouble  and 
expense of the passenger accounting  de­
partment.  While the  traveling  men  of 
Michigan are working like beavers for  an 
extension of the  book  tickets,  railroads 
elsewhere  are  reducing  them.  Notice 
has  just  been  issued  by  the  Erie  and 
Lackawanna roads,  withdrawing mileage 
books  altogether.  The  mileage  book  is 
the  scalper’s  friend,  and  the  railroads 
are not at all inclined to help  the  scalp-
ers just now.

The present  troubles  in  Cuba  remind 
J.  A.  Gonzalez  of the exciting times on 
the  island  during  the  insurrection  of 
1867.  Mr.  Gonzalez  was  then  a  young 
man  and  belonged  to  one  of the oldest 
and  wealthiest  of  the  Cuban  families. 
His  sympathies  were  with  the  revolu 
tionists,  however,  and he became  an  ac­
tive  partisan, acting with the insurgents 
and holding a  command  in  their  army. 
The Spanish government  poured  troops 
into the island and,  after a few hotly con­
tested battles,  the  rebels  were  defeated 
and scattered  and  the  insurrection  sup­
pressed.  When the disasters  came,  the 
rebels, or at least such of them  as  were 
able, fled and Gonzalez,  with  the  assist­
ance of influential  friends, was concealed 
in  the  hold  of  an  American vessel and 
thus escaped the fury of the government. 
He landed in  New  York  in  midwinter, 
clad  in  the  lightest  of  Cuban  clothing, 
with  little  money,  few  friends  and  a 
stranger to the language of  the  country. 
He  fell  in  with  a  man  who  offered  to 
guide him to a clothing store  and  thence 
to a hotel,and the stranger robbed him of 
a portion of his money- and left him  at  a 
cheap  tavern.  After  a  few  days  the 
fugitive found  other  Cubans  and,  with 
the  assistance  of  friends  of his family, 
was  enabled  to  engage  in  business for 
himself.  He  has  never  returned to the 
island of his nativity,  but the  dispatches 
telling of the troubles now in  that  quar­
ter are deeply interesting to him  and  he 
hails the prospect of  the  annexation  of 
the  island  as  something  sure  to  take 
place eventually, and as a move that will 
be of  immense  advantage  to  the  island 
and  its  inhabitants,  freeing  it  from  the 
oppressive rule of the mother country.

Purely  Personal.

J.  M.  Peterson,  Purchasing  Agent  for 
the Buckley & Douglass Lumber Co.  and 
the  Manistee  &  Northeastern  Railroad, 
was in town  Monday.

Geo.  R.  Mayhew,  who  has  spent  the 
winter at Hot  Springs,  Ark.,  is  on  his 
way home.  He is spending  a  few  days 
with  his  physician  at  Ft.  Wayne  en 
route.

V.  L.  Tissera,  of  Colombo,  Ceylon, 
was the  guest  of  Frank  E.  Chase  and 
family  over  Sunday.  Mr.  Tissera  was 
the official  representative  of  Ceylon  at 
the  World’s  Fair.

J.  H.  Kenuedy,  who  has  been  in  the 
employ  of  the  Rockafellow  Mercantile 
Co.  (Carsou City)  for the past  ten years, 
has been  elected  Treasurer  of  that cor­

poration.  C.  R.  Culver  continues  as 
Secretary of the company.

A.  W.  Newark,  who  has  recently  re­
tired from the  Newark  &  Drury  Co., at 
Cadillac,  has  taken  the  management  of 
the Wexford  Lumber Co.,  whose  manu­
facturing  operations  are  at  Hoxevville, 
and  which owns and operates the Osceola, 
Lake & Wexford railroad.  Mr.  Newark 
has had several years’  experience  in  the 
lumber business and will  prove  a  valua­
ble accession  to the Wexford Co.
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T he  G rocery  M arket.

Sugar-- The market  is strong  and  in­
dications lead to the  belief  that  an  ad­
vance of 1-I6c will occur before  the  end 
of the week.  The market will  be  likely 
to rule a trifle  higher after April 1,  as on 
that date  an  advance of 3  cents  per  100 
occurs on all freight lines, with no differ­
entials.

Rice—Domestic goods  are  very  much 

firmer.

Corn Syrup—Advanced 2c  per  gallon, 
owing to advance on glucose.  Jelly  has 
advanced from the same cause.

Oranges—The California fruit is  right 
in  its  prime  now  and  is  being  taken 
readily, just as fast  as  it  can  be  boxed 
and loaded.  All  of the different varieties 
carry excellently and there  is little or no 
complaint  from  dealers  generally  that 
any loss is  sustained  by  wastage.  The 
solidity of the fruit and  prime  condition 
enable  retailers  as well  as jobbers to es­
timate  profits  pretty  closely  and name 
much  lower  prices  than  they  possibly 
could do were they  obliged to  repack  it.
It is safe  to  buy  liberally  at  present 
and  likewise  advisable,  for 
the  best 
quality of fruit will soon  begin  to  grow 
scarce  and,  on  the  wind  up,  culls  and 
everything  will  go  in  without  reserve. 
Catania  and  Sicily  granges  go  slow  in 
this market and there will  be no more  of 
them here as long as California stock can 
be  had.

Lemons—The arrivals at  the  different 
Eastern  ports  are  nearly  90,000  boxes 
short  of 
last  year’s  offerings  for  the 
month of March and,  consequently,  the 
somewhat high  prices  now  being  real­
ized are the legitimate  income  of  exist­
ing circumstances.  The fruit being offered
is extra fine  and  dealers  will  make  no 
mistake in buying  one  or  two  months’ 
supply as quickly as  possible,  as  goods 
that  are  free  from  frost will stand  up 
nicely.

Bananas—A strong  demand  begins  to 
be manifested and  the  season  may  now 
be said to  be fairly opened.  The whole­
saling of this item  will  be  more* central­
ized this season and,  if judgment  in  not 
overstocking  the  market 
is  observed, 
there will  be  fewer  gluts,  less  dissatis­
faction and more profit.  Prices are very 
reasonable  at  present,  considering  that 
all  the  fruit  comes through in Eastman 
heaters.

Foreign Nuts—Demand  weak  and  the 

buyer controls price to a large extent.

Dates—Owing to  limited  demand  and 
heavy arrivals,  prices have  slumped  }£c.
Oysters—The  regular  season  closes 
Saturday of this  week  and  most  of  the 
wholesalers will close  up their branch in 
this  department,  excepting  where  the 
fish  interest  is  one  of  the 
important 
factors.

There has recently been imported from 
the Argentine Republic  500,000  bushels 
of flaxseed.  Not  long  ago,  this  article 
was an extensive export  from  this coun­
try.

W an ts  C o lu m n •

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

B U SIN ESS  C H A N C E S .

TX 7A N TED -PA RTN ER WITH *2,S00 TO TAKE 
Vv  h alf interest in established hotel  business, 
paying handsom e profit. 
F ullest investigation 
courted.  Prompt action necessary.  S - F .  Sax- 
ton, Pom ona,  Mich._______________________73a
F o r  s a l e —n o t e   g in e n   n o v .  25,  is92,by 
Jo h n   Harwood, of W hite  Cloud.  A m ount 
of note,  $52 45  and  interest.  Tradesm an  Com- 
pany.  G rand  Rapids._____________________736
■ ORSALE—NEW SODA FOUNTAIN, TU FT’S 
■OR SALE—HOTEL AND LUNCH COUNTER 

at railroad ju n c tio n :  good  business in good 

make.  W ill sell for h alf price.  A ddress 243 

Plainfield avenue. G rand  Rapids,  Mich. 

location.  Apply  Lock  Box 10, M ilan.  Mich. 708 
m o   REN 1'—APRIL  1,  TWO  STORES,  EACH 
A   24 x  80.  One  has  now   been  occupied  by 
Wm.  N nngessor (undertaker and fu rn itu re deal­
er)  for the last ten  years.  Stores w ill  be rented 
together cir separately.  First-class location, 15, 
000  inhabitants. 
For  particulars  address  E. 
M ajor. 419 River St..  M anistee,  Mich. 
733 
\ \ T ANTED—A  LOCATION  FOR  A  GOOD 
Vv 
saw m ill, capacity 15 to 20 M  feet  daily,  to 
saw lum oer by  the M for  some  responsible  firm. 
For fu rth e r particulars apply to George English, 
Pompeii,  Mich. 

729

732

724

723

722

Mich. 

NLY DRUG STORE, WELL LOCATED AND 
doing  good  business.  Good  reasons  for 

selling.  C. A.  Wells, Avoca, Mich.________709

gain.  A ddress  A.  Eckerm an,  M uskegon, 

Fo r   s a l e —d r u g   b u s i n e s s   a t   a   b a r -
IilOR R EN T-STO RE CENTRALLY LOCATED 

on  Main  sheet,  Traverse  City,  Mich.  A d­

dress R. Y alom stein. 
1  OPPORTUNITY  - DOUBLE  STORE TO RENT, 
"  *  Will soon be  vacant; 
fine location  for gen­
eral  business;  never  been  vacant; 
town  of 
1,200;  com petition  lig h t;  m anufacturing  tow n 
in m idst of fine dairy  and  agricultural  country. 
A ddress Box 490  M lddleville, Mich. 
T IT  A N T E D -  PARTNER  (GENTLEMAN  OR 
I I  
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 ex 
cellent business and  is in control  of  nearly  the 
entire county  trade in  the dry goods line.  Don’t 
reply  unless  you  m ean  business.  A ddress No. 
719, care M ichigan Trade-m an. 

F o r   s a l e - d r u g   s t o c k ,  c l e a n   a n d
fresh.  New shelvi-’gs. counters, showcases, 
soda fountain and safe  The finest location in a 
good business town.  Will sell at a big sacrifice. 
Address No. 685, care M ichigan  Tradesm an.  685 
OR  SALE — TWO  COAL  STOVES  AT  $5 
apiece, and two at $8 apiece;  can  be seen  at 
100 Louis st  Tradesm an  Company,  New  Blod­
gett building. 
YYTANTED—PARTNER TO  TAKE  HALF IN- 
V V 
terest in my 75 bbl.  steam  roller m ill  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  H. C.  H erkim er,  Maybee,  Monroe  county, 
Mich. 
T710R  SALE—A  FIRST-CLASS  HARDWARE 
JO 
and im plem ent bnsiness'iti  thriving village 
in good farm ing com m unity.  A ddress Brown &
I Sehler, G rand Rapids,  Mich 
700
TOCK  OF CLOTHING AND GENTLEM EN’S 
furnishing  goods,  to  trade  for  real  estate. 

Address No. 660, Care M ichigan Tradesm an. 660
T 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. 

71 ’

719

711

653

M 14C 8L L A  N KOUS.

720

727

YYTANTED—MEN  TO  ORDER  ON  APPROV- 
7 V  al  one of the  best  “ ready  to  w ear”  suits 
m ade at $13.50, any  style cut.  Strahan  &  G reu 
lich, 24 M onroe street, G rand Rapids. 

Hi g h e s t   p r i c e s   p a i d   f o r   r a w   f u r s

.  of  all  kinds,  by  G rand  Rapids  F u r  Co. 

W rite for prices. 
T   OOKING  FOR  REAL  ESTATE 
INVEST- 
A J  m euts, nr have  business  chances  for  sale? 
See  W inans  &  Moore,  Room  1,  Tow er  Block, 
G rand Rapids. 
f  ANTED—BUTTER,  EGGS,  POULTRY, 
potatoes,  onions,  apples,  cabbages,  etc. 
Correspondence  solicited.  W atkins  &  Smith, 
84-86 South  Division St., G rand  Rapids. 

Ne a r l y   n e w   b a r -l o c k   t y p e w r i t e r

for  sale  at  a  great  reduction  from  cost 
Reason for selling, w e 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. 

564
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.________________

r a n t e d —e v e r y   d r u g g i s t  

673

718

SIT U A T IO N S   W A N T E D ,

street,  G rand R

pharm acist.  E nquire  590 South Division 

w ishes  position.  Best  of  references.  Ad- 

dress D raw  Box No. 4, Allegan,  Mich._____ 730

Re g i s t e r e d   a s s i s t a n t   d r u g   c l e r k
■ ANTED—SITUATION  BY  REGISTERED 
■ TA N T E D — POSITION  AS  TRAVELING 
■ TANTED—POSITION  AS  DRUG  CLERK, 

by graduate in pharm acy.  Registered in 
M ichigan  and  W est  V irginia.  Best  of  refer 
ences.  A ddress  H.  J.  Thom pson, Ph.G.,  M an­
chester, Ohio. 

salesm an  in   grocery  line.  A ddress  L. 

M urray, G eneral  D elivery, G rand Rapids 

s _________ 734

i d

716

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THE  MICHIGAN  THiLDESM^ISr.

6

ANNIE  DAHLMA.

G lim pse  o f  L ife  in  a   C hicago  D ep art­

m en t  S tore.

From  the Chicago Record.

Annie  Dahlma’s  daily  life was  bound 
about  with  fresh 
leather  straps  and 
trimmed with brass nails.
This is an age of specialties, and Annie 
Dahlma knew all  about  trunks,  valises, 
handbags and  “telescopes.”  At one  end 
of  her  little  world  was  a  row  of  large­
sized  Gladstone  bags  and  at  the  other 
there  was  a  barricade  of  “telescopes,” 
made from  stiffened canvas and  trimmed 
scantily  with 
leather.  The  prices  of 
these  ranged  from  27  cents  to  81.49, 
and  Annie  Dahlma  knew  them  so  well 
that,  awakening  in  the  night,  she could 
see them row upon row, and the prices ran 
through  her  head  whether  she  wanted 
to  think  of them  or  not—27,  34,  49,  65, 
and so  on  up  to  the  large  one,  “ very 
stoutly  built,  with  three  strnps,  as  you 
see,  and  it  will  hold  almost  as  much 
as  a  trunk.”
A  young  woman  who  finds  herself, 
day  after  day,  confined  to  the  small 
area  in  a  wilderness  of  “departments” 
must learn her work thoroughly  whether 
she  has  an  interest  in 
it  or  not.  By 
the  time  she  has opened the same trunk 
one hundred times  aud  called  attention 
to  the  depth  of  the  tray, 
the  handy 
compartment under  the lid,  the strength 
of  the  hoops  and  the  beauty  of  the 
general  finish,  that  trunk  has  become a 
companion,  if  not  a  friend.
The  valises  and  traveling-bags  along 
the  side-shelves  she  had  classified  by 
practice  until  she  knew  the  length  of 
the  fourth  one  from 
the  end  of  the 
taking 
second  shelf,  and,  before 
it 
down  to  show  to  the  customer,  she 
knew  the  quality  of  the  leather, 
the 
kind  of  lock  aud 
the  pocket  arrange­
ment  of  the  interior.  She  called  off 
prices  automatically  and  answered  the 
same  questions  over  and  over,  until, 
without realizing  it,  she  had fallen into 
a  parroty  way  of  talking,  the  same  as 
a  child  goes  through  a  catechism  of 
whose  meaning  it  has  not  the  slightest 
conception.
Yet her department in  the  great  store 
had  its  advantages.  She  could  walk 
forth  along  aisles  nearly 
back  and 
twenty-five  feet  long,  and  this  moving 
• about is not as tiring as  standing behind 
a small  counter  all  day.  Her  younger 
sister,  Louise,  who had charge of six feet 
of counter on the noisy tioor below, never 
had a chance to walk  around or sit down, 
and all  she  had  to  remember  was  that 
there  were  two  qualities of silk gloves. 
The Clancy girl,  who was  a  neighbor  oi 
the Dahlmas, sold  picture  books  in  the 
basement—nothing  but  picture  books. 
There were twelve  kinds of  books,  with 
a price and a speech  for each  kind.  She 
knew how to add aud multiply and make 
change,  and,  for  the  purposes  of  the 
great store,  her  business  education  was 
complete.  To any  one of these girls the 
department  100  feet  distant  from  her 
own was  an  unexplored  region.  Annie 
Dahlma had no  precise  information con­
cerning furniture or  wall  paper,  which 
departments  were  her  neighbors.  But 
she could detect sham alligator  from  the 
real  leather at twenty paces.
There  were  hundreds  of  cooped-up 
girls in the huge  store,  which  swarmed 
least  six  hours 
with  shoppers  for  at 
every  day.  As  a  rule,  they  were  too 
busy to meditate over  the fact  that their 
work cramped them, both as to space and 
opportunity.  Some  of  them  answered 
questions lazily  along  in  the  late  after­
noon,  but  most of them  kept their  good 
humor and did not fret because the floor­
walkers and  assistant  managers  kept  a 
sharp look-out to see that all  the  hurry­
ing,  undecided, overloaded  and flustered 
women  shoppers  received  prompt  and 
courteous attention.
To a stranger the  department  store  is 
a great buzzing hive,  a chaos of bargains 
stirred up with  a  stampede  of  bargain- 
hunters.  The  girls,  after  they  have 
been at work for a  week,  hear  no noises 
and  see  no crowds. 
In  all the  hubbub 
they hear only the  conversation  of  their 
own customers, just as the  telegraph op­
erator in a  room  with  a  hundred  other 
operators hears only the click of his own 
instrument.

trunks  and 

To Annie Dahlma one  day became like 
every  other  day—arrive  at  the store at 
8 a.  m.—time-card punched at the door— 
hurry to the cloak-room—report to  floor­
walker—open 
take  down 
valises for four hours—bell  for  lunch— 
half-hour’s recreation—back  to the little 
world  between  the  Gladstone  bags and 
the  “telescopes” —gong—rush  to  cloak­
room—out  into  the  fresh  air  with  the 
giggling  multitude—long  ride  home  in 
an overcrowded car,  and  perhaps  stand 
up all the way.
The floorwalker  was  a  self-contained 
young  man,  with  waving  topknot  and 
the  worried  look of the man in the  geog­
raphy who has the  world  on  his  shoul­
ders.  He had risen by sheer  merit  from 
the  dress  goods  department.  The  girls 
didn’t  like  him  but  they  regarded him 
with  seeming  awe  whenever  he spoke, 
and then,  when his back was  turned, ex­
changed  winks and  snickered.
It  was  this  floorwalker  who  one  day 
brought Mr. Charles Heimer through the 
mystic maze of departments,  and,  snap­
ping  his  fingers  briskly,  said.  “Here, 
trunks, show this gentleman a trunk.”
Annie came forward  and  Mr.  Heimer, 
a  big  blonde,  who  seemed  rather  em­
barrassed,  told  her  in  a choking  voice 
that  he  wanted to look at a trunk.  She 
began  throwing  back  lids  and  making 
speeches and he moved  slowly  after her, 
nodding  his head.
‘•Do you  want a trunk to  stand  rough 
travel?” she  asked.
“No, just something to  put my  clothes 
in.”
“ How do you like this for 87?”
“That’ll do,  I s’pose,” and  he  reached 
for his money.  Then she  asked  the  ad­
dress and he gave her a number  in  West 
14th  street.
“Why, 
that’s  within  two  blocks  of 
where 1 live,”  she said.
“Oh, I guess I’ve seen you  at  some  of 
those dances  up at the Concordia.”
"I  guess  you  haven’t,”  said  Annie, 
rather  sharply.  “I  don’t  go  to  those 
dances.”
“ Well, I —of course----”  Mr.  Heimer
was  not  a  conversationalist.  He  was 
merely an employe in a big  electrical ap­
paratus factory.
“ Why don’t  you  come  to  our  church 
fail?”  asked  Annie,  as  she handed him 
the receipt.  She spoke merely in the  in­
terest of a worthy cause.  As he  started 
away he said he would come  to  the  fair. 
And he did.

*   « 

*

Annie  Dahlma,  the  department  store 
girl,  in her dark working gown, with pen­
cil and pad of paper  in  hand,  repeating 
the  dimensions  of  Saratoga  trunks  to 
some  crotchety  customer  who  didn’t 
know  what he wanted,  and  Annie  Dahl­
ma,  in  her best  gown  and  ribbons,  sell­
ing flowers at the church fair,  were  two 
entirely different young  women.
Charley  Heimer had been impressed  by 
the  department  store  girl,  and  he  was 
more than impressed by  the  church fair 
girl.
He went to the church fair  because she 
had invited  him,  aud  be had not received 
any such invitations since coming to Chi­
cago,  at least not from a  girl  who d i d L ’t  
attend the Concordia dances.
¡She remembered  him and spoke to him. 
As she was selling flowers, of  course she 
had  a  right  to  speak  to  him,  whether 
they had  been introduced or not,  and,  so 
far  as  that  was  concerned,  she  would 
have spoken to him anyway.  He bought 
some flowers and she pinned them on his 
lapel.  He stood on  one  foot  and asked 
her to go  to  supper  with  him,  and  she 
consented in the interest of  church reve­
nues.

* 

* 

*

consisted  largely  of  grins  and  averted 
looks,  and  that  employe  381  seemed  to 
have no success in selling trunks and va­
lises to the blonde visitor.
Now, in  common  with  similar  estab­
lishments,  this  house  had  a strict  rule 
that  employes  must  not  devote  any  of 
their time during business  hours  to  the 
entertainment  of  friends,  and  so  when 
the blonde  visitor  had  been  there  four 
times,  to  the  certain  knowledge  of  the 
watchful  floorwalker,  employe  381  was 
supposed  to need a little discipline.
“I  must notify you,” said  he,  “that we 
can’t  have  young  men  coming  here  to 
talk to girls while they are at work.  Who 
was that fellow  that just left?”

headed old thing!”

“None of your  business!”
“Look here, young woman.  I’ll—”
“I  don’t  care  what  you  do—you red­
“I shall report you.”
“Go  ahead  and  report.  Do  as  you 
I  hope  I’ll  never  see  another 
I  s’pose  you’ve  found  an­

please. 
trunk!”
“ Humph! 
other job? ”
“No.”
“Oh, married!”
“Next week.  Get another girl to open 
your trunks.”
And that's how one person  of the fem­
inine persuasion solved the woman prob­
lem.

C Y C L E
STEF*
LA D D E R .

WRITE

HIRTH,  KRAUSE  &  CO.,

MICHIGAN  STATE  AGENTS, 

for Catalogue.

This is a borrowing age.  The  govern­
ment has to borrow money,  the  croakers 
are  borrowing  trouble  and  even  forty 
days of the spring are Lent.

Notice  of  Receiver’s  Sale.

In  accordance  w ith  an  order  of  the  Circuit 
Court for the County of K ent, State of M ichigan, 
made on the 16th day of  M arch,  1895,1 shall sell 
at public auction, to the highest bidder for cash, 
all of the real estate of the  late  firm  of  Bentley 
Bros.  & W ilkins, consisting of  planing m ill, saw 
m ill and  foundry,  together  w ith  all  of  th e  m a­
chinery used in  operating  th e  plan t of said late 
firm.
The real estate consists of about  five  acres  of 
land used in  connection w ith said business, a l'o  
a  house  and  lot  and  office  and  several  vacant 
lots.
In  case  I do  not  receive  a  cash  bid  of  nine 
thousand dollars or more  for said property, I am 
directed by said Court to continue said sale u n til 
fu rth e r order of the Court.
The sale w ill take place at th e office of th e late 
firm of Bentley Bros.  & W ilkins, A pril 27th, 1895, 
at  10 o’clock in the forenoon of  said day.

W. D. HAYES, Receiver.

Dated, Hastings, M ich.,  M arch 19th, 1895.

WALTER BAKER &  GO.

T he L argest M anufacturers  o f

PUBS,  HIGH  GRADE
C O C O A S  AND 

CHOCOLATES
on  th is  co n tin en t, 

have received

from   th e   g reat

HIGHEST  AWARDS
Industrial and Food
Europe and America.

EX P O SITIO N S

IN

U n lik e   th 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 
are  used  in   any  o f  th e ir  p reparations. 
T heir delicious
B R E A K FA ST  CO CO A

is absolutely pu re an d  soluble, an d  

costs less th a n  one cent a  cap.
SOLO BY 6B0CERS EVERYWHERE.

•ALTER BAKER & CO. DORCHESTER MASS.

H. M. Reynolds l Son

DEALERS  IN

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

Cor.  Louis  and  Campau  S ts. 

GRAND  RAPIDS

/  I  ultKITVRS 

Jrr* * c   s t e s t i*

slAP* 

. 

* r ? U R r o %  

Tr a d e sm a n  company.

GftAA'D RAPIDS.MICH.

How could  the  monster  emporium of 
trade,  with its train of delivery  wagons, 
its acres of floor  space  and  its  army  of 
employes,  know that a demoralizing love 
affair had sneaked into the trunk and va­
lise department.  The  red-headed  mon­
arch could not see with Annie’s eyes,  and 
so he did  not  know  that  all  the  brass 
knobs on the steamer trunks had changed 
into  purest  gold,  and  that  Cupid  sat 
smiling on top of the  barricade of “tele­
scopes.”  But he did know that occasion­
ally a blonde  young  man  came  to  the 
trunk and valise  department  and talked 
with employe 381;  that the  conversation

❖

Im porters and Jobbers of

T E A S - ^

2 i  LAKE  ST.,  CHICAGO,  ILL.

THE  MICHIGAN  TEADE8MAN.

7

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

Written tor Tan Tradesman.

Advices come from the West to the  ef­
fect that trouble is brewing  in  the  bak­
ing  powder  camp.  The  manufacturers 
have  not  only  got  on  their high heels, 
but  some  of  them  have mounted stilts 
and  are  lording  it  with  a mighty hand 
over  the traders  and  the  public  gener­
ally,  prices  for  the  article  being from 
fifteen cents a pound up.

I wonder if here isn’t  a  place  for  the 
Food Commissioner to step in  and  make 
things lively. 
If  a  quarter  of what has 
been said about baking powders  be  true, 
a good way to lower the heels  and  make 
the  stilts  so  many  reeds  is  to see how 
much alum and other such stuff  there  is 
in the compounds,  impose  a  heavy  fine 
and compel the making of a pure article. 
The  more  overbearing  a  manufacturer 
becomes, the greater the need of  cutting 
his comb, and the quicker done, the  bet­
ter.

•   *  *

“The great trouble with the  women of 
New York,”  said Dr.  Greer,  recently,  at 
a meeting in Cooper Union,  “ is  their de­
sire to get things as cheaply as possible.” 
As  a  result  of  this,  merchants  grind 
down  their  employes,  and,  in  order to 
meet the demand, adulteration  of  goods 
creeps in,  a false  standard  of  living  is 
set up,  and then everybody  lifts  up  his 
hands and wonders what  we are all com­
ing to.

If  this  “great  trouble”  could be  con­
fined  to  the  women  of  New York,  the 
rest  of  the  world could scowl a bit, and 
hope the time will come  when  the  New 
York  women  will  learn a thing or  two; 
but the fact is that the trouble is not con­
fined  to  New  York  and  the  women  of 
that  metropolis.  The  mania  for  the 
cheap  is  as  widespread  as  the  women 
themselves, and this mania—if call  it  so 
you must—is going to last as  long as  the 
cause producing it exists.

When John comes home  and  declares: 
“There, Susan!  There’s all the  money 1 
can  possibly let you have  for  the  week, 
and  I  do  hope you’ll make it go just  as 
far as you can,”  Susan takes the amount, 
whatever it be,  without  murmuring  and 
goes out to trade.  She feels  the spur  of 
necessity  and  that  bill,  be  it  great  or 
small,  is made to  do  double  duty.  She 
comes home tired to  death,  for  she  has 
walked to save car  fare,  and  with  com­
mendable pride shows  what can be done 
when it must be. 
It is all  very  well  for 
Dr.  Greer  to  say the  women  must  stop 
this race for the cheap;  but what has Dr. 
Greer  to  do  with  getting  stockings  for 
Tom and gloves for  Mary  and  shoes  for 
Marie and  a school dress for  Jennie  and 
provisions for the house,  the whole to be 
paid for out of that five dollar bill?  The 
problem 
is  easily  stated:  needs—not 
wants—on one side;  just  five  dollars  on 
the other. 
It’s the old  formula modified 
—steal  or  starve.  The  woman  doesn’t 
propose to do  either.  The  price  of  the 
goods must come down. 
It does, and the 
family are supplied  with  the  results  of 
adulterations and the sweat  shop.

I’ve lived in this world  too  long  to  be 
told  at  this  late day that a woman likes 
this beating down  process  and this  buy­
ing of the cheap. 
I  know  better.  Her 
heart  siuks  and  her  soul  revolts,  but 
when it is placed  before  her  as  a  duty, 
everything is thrust aside and  she comes 
forth conquering and to conquer.

I should like to watch  the  face  of  the 
average woman who has been forced into

this making a dollar go as  far  as  it  can 
be made to go,  when her husband says to 
her,  “Mary,  let’s change the  way  we’ve 
been  living  and not buy this cheap stuff 
any longer.  Here’s  820—better  take  85 
more—and  get  something  that’s  worth 
buying.  No  more sweat  shops  for us !” 
I can see the  gratitude  for  a  returning 
respectability as it looks out of her happy 
eyes, and I can hear her as she says with 
Simeon,  “Now lettest  thou  thy  servant 
depart in peace.”

Is there any danger of  the  early  com­
ing of such a  time?  To  my  mind  it  is 
here  already.  None  know  better  than 
do the majority of  women  that  there  is 
no  need  of  such  a  condition of things, 
and they  are  stopping  it  in  their  own 
sensible way.  When John  gives her 820 
a week for the house,  expecting her,  be­
sides, to include therein all her own per­
sonal  expenses,  and  spends  twice  or 
thrice  that  sum  for  his  own  pleasure,
her  womanhood  rebels.  She  will  earn 
her  own  money  and  free  herself  from 
what  she  abhors—this  soul-scorching, 
soul-warping  doiing-out  process  on  the 
part  of  her  lord  of  creation  and  the 
grinding her down to his ukase—and will 
spend her earnings in  her own way, too. 
She is working on  that line now, and she 
will make it a success;  and,  one of these 
days, Dr. Greer will  wake  up and  find— 
if he hasn’t  found  it  out  already—that 
the  “great 
in 
woman’s desire to get  things  cheap,  but 
in  woman’s  despairing  endeavor 
to 
make one dollar do the work of five.

trouble”  doesn’t 

lie 

R ic h a r d   Ma lc o m  S trok« .

The fruit of  prosperity  grows  on  the 

tree of industry.

Springtime finds the Signal Five at the 

front.

EATON, LYON 4 CO.

20 &  22  Monroe  St.,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

Hardware Price Cnrrent.

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AUGITBS AND BITS. 

These  prices are  for ccun buyert,  who 
pay promptly  and  buy in  full  packages.
dlB.
Snell’s  ..........................................................  
  To
Cook’s ................................................................  W
Jennings', genuine.......................................... 
25
Jennings’, im itation....................................... 50410
dls.
First Quality,8. B. Bronze.............................
D.  B. Bronze  .  ........................8550
S.B .S. Steel...................................  il 00
D .B. Steel......................................  6 50
13 00

BABBOW8. 

axes. 

bolts. 

.allroad.............................................  812 00 14  00
garden......................................................  oet  30 00
Stove....................   .....................................—  50410
Carriage new list  ............................................ 70410
Plow....................................................................40410
Sleigh shoe 
75
Well,  plain  ......................................................8 3  25
dls.
Cast Loose Pin, fig u red .................................. 
TO
Wrought Narrow, bright c « t Joint 40...........60410

BUCKETS.
BUTTS, CAST. 

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

dls.

Wrought Loose  Pin........................
Wrought  Table..............................
Wrought Inside Blind.................
Wrought Brass................................
Blind,  Clark’B................................ .
Blind,  Parker’s ...............................
Blind, Shepard’s 
.........................
BLOCKS.

Ordinary Tackle, list April  1893.

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

CRADLES.

OBOW BABB.

CAPS.

Cast Steel  ..
Ely’s M O... 
Hick’s  C .F
G. D .......
Musket  ..

CARTRIDGES.
Rim  F ire.....................................
Central F ire................................

CHISSLS.

Socket F irm er.............................
Socket Fram ing...........................
Socket Corner..............................
Socket Slicks..............................
Butchers’ Tanged Firm er........

COMBS.

Curry,  Lawrence’s ....................
HotchklBS......................................
White Crayons, per  gross.........

CHALK.

COPPER.

..  40 
..  40 
..  40 
75
.70410
.70410
70

70

50

per t>  4
per m 
“ 
.  “ 
.  “ 

65 
55
85
60

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

50
25

dis.

..............  75410
................75410
................75410
................75410
................ 
40

dis.

40
...............  
...............  
25
13Q12K dis. 10

“ 

Planished, 14 os cut to slse........ per pound 
14x52,14X56. 14x60 .........................  
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60.......................... 
Cold Rolled, 14x48............................................ 
Bottom s............................................................. 
Morse’s  Bit  Stocks......................
Taper and straight Shank.............
Morse’s Taper Shank......................

D BILLS. 

28
26
23
28
22
50
50
50

d lS .

ELBOWS.

DRIPPING PANS.
Small sizes, ser p o u n d .................
6Vi
06
Large sizes, per  pound.................
Com.4  piece, 6 I n .........................
.doz. net 
65
50
.........dll 
Corrugated.....................................
........ dls. 40410
Adjustable.......................................
EXPANSIVE BITS. 
Clark’s, small, Si8;  large, 126........................ 
30
25
Ives’, 1, 818:  2, 824;  3,830  ............................... 
Dlsston’s .......................................................60410-10
New American.............................................60410-10
Nicholson’s ................................................. 60410-0
Heller’s ..............................................................  
50
Heller’s Horse Rasps.......................................50410

p i l e s —New List. 

dls.

dlB.

GALVANIZED IBON.

28
17

dls.
dls.

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

12 

15 

18 
Discount, 70

14 
g a u g e s . 

 

N A IL S

MATTOCKS.

lo c k s— d o o r . 

MAULS.
MILLS.

MOLASSES GATES
Stebbln’s  P attern....  ................. 
Stebbln’s Genuine..................................
Enterprise, self-measuring...............

50
Stanley Rnle and  Level Co.’s........................ 
k n o b s—New List. 
55
Door, mineral, Jap. trimmings  —  
Door,  porcelain, jap. trim m ings................. 
55
56
Door, porcelain, plated trim m ings............. 
55
Door,  porcelvln, trimmings........................... 
TO
Drawer  and  Shatter, porcelain  ... 
dls.
Rnssell 4  Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new list  ..........  
55
55
Mallory, Wheeler  4   Co.’s .................  
 
55
Branford’s ........................................................ 
Norwalk’s .......................................................  
55
Adze Bye.............................  .........816.00, dls. 60-10
Hunt Bye....................................... 815.00, dls. 60-10
Hunt’s .........................  
............ 818.60, dll. 20410
dls.
Sperry 4  Co.’*, Post,  handled............... .
dls.
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s ................................
“  P. S. 4  W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleable«
•’  Landers,  Ferry 4  Cle rk’s ...........
..................................
“  Enterprise 
.........

50
40
40
40
30
dls.
60410
60410
30
Advance over  base,  on  both  Steel  and Wire, 
Steel nails, base.................................................. 1  20
1  20 
Wire nails, base.
Base 
60......................................................... Base
50...........................................................
10 
25 
40...........................................................
25 
30...........................................................
20......  ............................
35 
16....................................
45 
12....................................
45 
10...................................
50 
8................................................
60 
75 
7 4 6 ......................................................
90 
4.............................................................
1  20 
3............................................................
2................................................
1  60 
1  60 
Fine 3 ...................................................
65 
Case  10.................................................
75 
90 
75 
90 
10 
70 
80 
90

Finish 10..............................................
3 ...............................................
6 .....................................................................
Clinch! 10.............................................
8..............................................
6 .........................  
......................................
Barrel! %..............................................
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fan cy ..................................  Q50
Sclota Bench.................................................  60410
Sandusky Tool  Co.’s, fancy...........................  Q59
Bench, first quality........................... 
050
Stanley Rnle and  Level Co.’s  wood............ 
60
Fry,  Acme................................................ dls.60—10
Common,  polished................................... dls. 
70
dls.
60
Iron and  Tinned............................................. 
Copper Rivets and B ars............................ 
  50—10

btvets. 

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PLANES.

1
dls.

PANS.

 

PATENT PLANISHED IBON.

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

Broken packs vie per pound extra.

4041

HAKMBB8.

“ 
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“ 
“ 
“ 

HINGES.

hakobbs. 

HOLLOW  WAB3.

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS.

Maydole  4  Co.’s ........................... .............di» 
ä
í
Kip’s ............................................................ dis. 
Yerkes 4  Plumb’s ....................................  dis. 
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel...........................80c list  6
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steel  H and— 80c4041i'
Gate, Clark’s, 1 ,2 ,8 .................................. dla.8041*'
State............................................... per dos. net, 2  5>’.
Screw Hook  and  Strap, to 12  In. 4Vi  14  and
longer............................................................  
8 s
Screw Hook and  Bye, Vi...........................net 
i
%.............................net
“ 
& ........................   net  7-t
“ 
* ..............................net  7 s
“ 
Strap and T ................................................ dls 
f"
die.
.504;:
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track. 
Champion,  anti-friction................................  80* 1>
Kidder, wood tra c k ........................................  
v
Pots......................................................................60410
Kettles..............................................................   604!
Spiders  ......................................................... 
etA'c
Gray enameled.................................................. 40<slf
Stamped  Tin W are.................. ........new list
410
Japanned Tin W are........................................
410
Granite Iron W ain ........................new Us
40
W1BB GOODS.
Bilght........................................
Screw  Eyes..............................
Hook’s .......................................
Gate Hooks and Byes.............
LBVBLS.
Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s ....................... dls.7o
Sisal, Vi inch and la rg e r................................ 
6
Manilla.............................................................. 
9
dlS.
Steel and Iron..................................................  
80
Try and Bevels.................................................
M itre................................................................. 
20
Com.  Smooth.  Com.
8S> 50
2 60
2 70
2 80
2  90
8 00
All  sheets No. 18  and  lighter,  over 30  Inches 

Nos. 10 to  14..........................................83 50 
Nos. 15 to 17..........................................  3 50 
NOB.  18 to 21.......................................  4  05 
Nos. 22 to 24 ........................................   3 55 
Nos. 25 to 26........................................ 3  65 
No. 27................................  .................  3 75 
wide not less than 2-10 extra
List sect. 19, ’86  ........................................ dls. 
Silver Lake, White A .......................... 
Drab A .............................. 
 
White  js..................................  ‘ 
Drab B ....................................   “ 
White C....................................“

50
list 50
“ 55
50
55

SAND PAPSB.

SQUARES. 

SHEET IBON.

SASH  COBD.

“ 
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BOPBB.

 

Discount, 10.

SASH  WEIGHTS

dt«

dll.

dls.

s a w s . 

TRAPS. 

H an d ............................................ 

“ 
Silver Steel  Dia. X Cuts, per foot, —  
“  Special Steel Dex Z Cuts, per foot__  
“  Special Steel Dia. Z Cuts, per foot__  
“  Champion  and  Electric  Tooth  Z 
Cuts,  per  foot................................................. 

Solid Byes............................... ................ per ton 120
20
70
50
30
80
Steel, Game......................................................  80*10
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ....... 
51
Oneida Community, Hawley * Norton’s. .T-10  10
Mouse,  choker....................................... !5c per dos
Mouse, delusion...................  
11.25 per dos
WIRE. 
Bright Market............................................  .  75410
Annealed M arket.............................................7i 410
75
Coppered Market  ................... 
 
Tinned Market............................................... 
62Vi
Coppered  Spring  Steel................................... 
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized............................   2  20
painted.......................... 
l so
An  Sable...............................................dls 
40410
dls.  05
Putnam  ............................................ 
Northwestern.................................  
dls. 10410
dls.
wrenches. 
Baxter’s  Adjustable, nickeled 
so
Coe’s  G enuine....................... 
v>
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought............  7  410
Coe's  Patent, malleable...............................   7541b
so
Bird Cages 
.......................................... 
Pumps, Cistern.................................  
.. .7541  45
Screws, New L ist................................... 
80
Casters, Bed a  .d  Plate  ....... 
50410410
Dampers,  American.......... 
..........4  410
Forks, hoes, rakes  and all steel g o o d s..............70

MISCELLANEOUS. 

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

HOBBE NAILS.

d ll.

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F ie  TIN .

M ETALS,
26c
Pig  Large.................................. 
 
Pig Bars...............................................   . 
28c
5Vi
680 pound  casks............................................ 
Per pound.........................................................  
6
ViOVi.......................................................12Vi
The  prices  of  the  many  other  qualities  or 
solder in the market Indicated by nil vate brand» 
vary according to composition.

SOLDER.

ZINC.

 

TIN—MKLYN GRADE.

10x14 IC, Charcoal............................................ 8600
14x20 IC, 
10x14 IZ, 
14x20 IZ, 

Each additional Z  on this grade, 81.75.

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6 CO
7 50
7 50

5 25
6 25
6 25

TIN—ALLAWAY GBADN.

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

Bach additional X on this grade 81.50.

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5 25

 
 
 
 

14x20 IC, 
14x20 IZ, 
20x28 IC, 
14x20 IC, 
14x20 IX 
20x28 IC, 
20x28 IZ , 

BOO PING PLATES

“  Dean 
“ 
“ 
“  Allaway  Grade.................  
• 
“ 
“ 
BOILER SIZE TIN  PLATE.

........................   5  00
........................   6  00
.......................  10 00
4  75
 
“ 
5 71
9  50
“ 
 
“ 
...................  1150

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14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers, l 
14X60  X,  “ 

“ 9 

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Donnd 

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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.
firmed that  nothing  short  of  an  actual 
invasion of our soil would stir us  to  the 
fighting  point.  The  Latin-American 
officials realize that the worst  they  have 
to expect as a result of  an  insult  to  the 
American flag is a formal apology, which 
costs nothing;  hence  they  do  not  hesi­
tate to disregard American  rights when­
ever  they  see  fit,  and  our  flag  com­
mands no respect whatever among them. 
It is, indeed,  a wonder that  some  of  the 
more ambitious of the Spanish-American 
republics have  not  seriously  threatened 
to invade the United  States, and  we  are 
not sure that  the  Government  at Wash­
ington would even then feel  called upon 
to fight.

«

P chiganI iadesman 

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W EDNESDAY, M ARCH 27.
PARTY  GOVERNMENT.

no 

Every form of  government has,  as the 
French say,  the  defects  of  its  qualities. 
The representative form involves  the or­
ganization  of  political  parties,  and  is, 
consequently,  subject to those ills  which 
grow out of  an  excess  of  party  feeling, 
on the  one  hand,  and  an  exclusive  and 
oppressive system  of party management, 
on the other

should 

citizen 

if  it  is  true  that  parties  are  public 
necessities, 
be 
ashamed to declare himself a party  man. 
The independent in politics is,  it may  be 
suspected,  rather  too  much  inclined  to 
consider himself a superior  person.  He 
will tell you,  perhaps,  that  he  does  not 
“ belong” to any party, but holds himself 
free to exercise  his  individual  judgment 
under  all  circumstances.  But  suppose 
every  voter  asserted  and  exercised  the 
right  of  absolute  individual  independ­
ence  in  politics,  would  it  not  often 
happen that the most  popular  side  of  a 
question  would  be defeated by  the  inco­
herence of  its  supporters?  Government 
by  the  majority  can  only  be  secured 
through some organization  of the  major­
ity,  and when that has been accomplished 
the party exists.

In the next place,  it is quite clear  that 
the number of parties in any given coun­
try  should  be  small.  There  is  an  ap­
proach to disorganization and  the  chaos 
of  conflicting  individual  opinions,  pro­
portionate,  beyond a certain limit,  to the 
multiplicity  of  parties. 
It  should  al­
ways be possible to determine  the  ques­
tion of  responsibility;  but  when  repre­
sentation 
is  divided  among  a  number 
of  comparatively  small parties,  there is 
no sufficient sense of  responsibility  any­
where.  Administration under such con­
ditions  is  compelled  to  lean  upon  un­
stable  combinations,  and 
to  proceed 
upon  a  basis  of  concessions  and  com­
promises which deprive its policy of con­
sistency  and  force.  This  tendency has 
been  illustrated  by 
the  rapidity  with 
which  different  ministries  have  suc­
ceeded  each  other  in  the  history of the 
present French Republic. 
It is likely  to 
prove  a  source  of  danger  in  Germany 
also,  wiie; e,  for  a  long  time, the pres­
tige,  the  powerful  personality  and  the 
resourceful  genius of Bismarck  enabled 
him to  maintain  a  sufficient  legislative 
support,  despite  the  antagonisms  and

complexities of the situation with  which 
he had to deal.
,  In  Great  Britain  and  in  the  United 
States there have not usually been  many 
parties in the field.  Two parties, repre­
senting conflicting  theories  of  constitu­
tional construction,  have  existed  under 
the Government of this country from the 
first,  and one or the other  of  those  par­
ties has always  controlled  the  adminis­
tration  of  its  national  affairs.  They 
have undergone some  changes  of  name, 
they  have  from  time  to  time taken up 
“side  issues,”  and  neither of them  has 
been  perfectly  consistent;  but  hitherto 
they have been separated by  one  funda­
mental difference.  Just now the solidar­
ity of  both these organizations is  threat­
ened by a new issue, or rather  by  an  is­
sue  which  has  only  of  late  become of 
permanent  public  interest.  This  issue 
is  presented  by  the  currency question. 
There is,  naturally, not  a  little  anxiety 
as to what attitude  the  old  parties  will 
occupy in  relation to that question in the 
next  general  election,  but  it is observ­
able  that  the  ablest  and  most  conspic­
uous leaders on both sides are indisposed 
to  try  the  venture of a third party. 
In 
any event,  a third party  would  have  no 
other  raison  d’etre  than  the  currency 
question, and would have to  depend  up­
on a following that would be irreconcila­
bly divided in regard to other issues.

After the  settlement  of  the  currency 
question,  there  will still remain a ques­
tion of the utmost importance—the ques­
tion of industrial organization, of the re­
lation of capital to labor.  That  issue  is 
not  confined  to this country; it looms up 
as a portent of trouble in the  contempla­
tion  of  every  statesman in Europe.  No 
man can say what  the  end  will  be;  but 
the party  which stands  for  the  greatest 
degree of iudividuai  liberty,  compatible 
with the security and prosperity  of  soci­
ety,  will  receive  the  approval  of  the 
masses.  The Republican party  won  the 
moral support of the country  by  espous­
ing  the  cause  of  the  colored slave and 
precipitating  a  war  which  struck  the 
shackles  from  three  million  serfs. 
In 
the  meantime  a  new  species of slavery 
has arisen—the  bondage  of  the  worker 
to the tyrant of trades organization—and 
it remains to be seen  which  of  the  two 
great parties will  have  the  moral  cour­
age  to  espouse  the  cause  of  the white 
slave and establish, once for all,  the free­
dom  of  the  worker  to  labor  where  he 
pleases,  at  such  rate  and  under  such 
conditions as he may  elect,  without  in­
curring the ostracism and  antagonism of 
the  union.  Until  that  reform is accom­
plished, the right to life,  liberty and hap­
piness, vouchsafed  by  the  constitution, 
is a flimsy pretense and our boasted free­
dom a hollow sham.

DISRESPECT  TO  OUR  FLAG.

It may cause some surprise to the aver­
age American that a little  Spanish  gun­
boat should have  dared  to  fire  upon  a 
vessel flying the American  flag, yet such 
an incident is  by  no  means  uncommon. 
American vessels have been fired  on  be­
fore,  both in Cuban  and  Central  Amer­
ican waters. 
In  fact, our  neighbors  do 
not seem to hesitate to disregard  the  re­
spect  due  our  flag  whenever  they  see 
proper to do so.

The Spanish Government  and  the  lit­
tle  Lalin-American  republics  have  so 
often  insulted  the  flag  of  the  United 
States,  without  being  punished  for  it, 
that  the  impression  has  become  con­

cheap at the New England factories as in 
the  Soath.  The  factor  of  cheap labor 
has been an important  topic  in  the  dis­
cussion.  This is found  to  have  no  sig­
nificance,  although  there  are no regula­
tions as to hoars or age  of  children  em­
ployed.  The  low  grade  of  the  labor 
more than offsets any advantages in such 
regards.  ________________

SERIOUS  COMPLICATION.

has 

had 

The  bluster  which  followed  the  Al- 
liancia  affair  at  Washington  has  sub­
sided,  and  in  its  place  there  have  ap­
peared evidences  of  serious  uneasiness 
and  anxiety.  The  trouble  with  Spain 
and the dismissal  of the  Hawaiian  Min­
ister  have  dwindled  into  insignificance 
in the light  of  the  latter  developments 
in  Venezuela  and  Nicaragua.  This ap- 
parantly appears to be  the  view  of  the 
case  taken  by  the  Cabinet,  as  that 
body 
protracted 
meetings recently,  and  there  are  many 
evidences  that  the  administration 
is 
seriously disturbed over the international 
situation.

several 

The matters  now  occasioning  uneasi­
ness at Washington  are,  first,  England’s 
demand upon Nicaragua for the payment 
of an indemnity  because  of  the  expul­
sion last  summer,  from  Bluefields,  of 
Vice-Consul  Hatch.  This  demand  is 
coupled with the threat that if  the  pay­
ment  is  not  made  by  a  certain  date, 
forcible measures will  be  resorted  to  to 
compel payment.  These  forcible  meas­
ures will, of course, include the seizure of 
Bluefields.  The second cause of anxiety 
is  the  encroachments  of  Great  Britain 
upon Venezuelan territory, and the many 
evidences  of  ah  understanding  on  the 
part of  Great  Britain, Germany, France 
and  Belgium,  by which  a  simultaneous 
descent  will be made  upon Venezuela  to 
enforce either  territorial  claims  in  the 
case of  Great  Britain,  the  payment  of 
money due in the case of Germany, or the 
wiping out of a slight, as  in the cases of 
France and Belgium.

serious 

With four European  nations,  three  of 
which are first-class powers, threatening 
to invade South American territory, in vio­
lation  of  the  teachings  of  the  Monroe 
there  is  unquestionably  food 
doctrine, 
for 
reflection.  The  United 
•States will be compelled to  energetically 
protest; but, in the event  of  the  protest 
being disregarded,  how will  the  country 
maintain  its  contention  that  European 
powers must not invade American soil at 
any point?

The long and the short  of  the  matter 
is that, with  our  present  resources,  we 
would not be able  to  prevent  the  Euro­
pean  powers  from  invading  Venezuela 
should 
they  seriously  determine  upon 
doing  so.  The  United  States  Govern­
ment would not dare to submit  the ques­
tion to arbitration,  because  any  conten­
tion  based  upon  the  Monroe  doctrine, 
which  no  foreign  power 
recognizes, 
would  of  necessity  be  decided  against 
us.

Under the circumstances,  therefore,  it 
is not surprising that  the  foreign  situa­
tion should cause the  President  and  the 
Cabinet much anxiety.  Without a  large 
navy and ample  defensive  preparations, 
It will be impossible to uphold the teach­
ings of the  Monroe  doctrine  against  the 
first-class  European  powers.  The  doc­
trine  must,  therefore,  be  either  aban­
doned,  or  Congress  must  promptly  set 
about authorizing a really powerful navy 
and the  construction  of  adequate  coast 
and harbor defenses.

No doubt the Alliarwin  affair  will  be 
settled,  as all such  affairs have been set­
tled in the past,  by a formal  apology  by 
the  Spanish  Government.  The  officer 
of the gunboat which did the firing upon 
the American ship will not be  punished; 
in fact, it is far  more  probable  that  he 
will be promoted.

Were  we  to  demand  that  the  officer 
should  be  punished  for  his  offense  in 
firing upon the  American  flag,  and  put 
pressure upon the  Spanish  Government 
to compel such a  course,  the  officials  of 
neighboring  governments  would  prob­
ably be less ready to override  the  rights 
of  traveling  Americans  and  insult  the 
flag of the United  States.  No  first-class 
European power would  be  satisfied  with 
a mere apology for an insult  to  its  flag. 
The punishment of  the  offenders  would 
be insisted  on,  and  our  Latin-American 
neighbors  know  this  fact  so  well  that 
they  confine  their  insults  to  American 
citizens and their flag.

Another  evidence  of  the  dislike  in 
which the United  States  is  held  by  its 
neighbors is the action  of  Venezuela  in 
requesting Italy to arbitrate  in  the  dis­
pute with France.  The fact of the mat­
ter is that  our prestige  is  at  so  low an 
ebb in Central and  South  America  that 
the various  countries  situated  there  do 
not care particularly  to  trade  with  us, 
and resent  every  offer  of  mediation  in 
their disputes on our part as an uncalled- 
for interference.

It is,  therefore,  high  time  that  there 
should  be  a  change  in  our  policy  to­
ward  Latin-America,  and  we  might  as 
well begin with  the  Alliancia  incident. 
Let the Spanish Government be told that 
not only is an apology demanded,  but the 
punishment  of  the  commander  of  the 
gunboat which fired upon  the  American 
flag  as well. 
If  this  is  refused,  Cuba 
can  be  promptly  seized.  This  is  the 
reasonable  course  to  pursue;  but,  for 
heaven’s sake,  let  us have no more  arbi­
tration,  as  there is not one chance  in  a 
million that any one  could  be  found  to 
decide in our favor, no  matter what  the 
merits of the controversy might be.

The Legislature of  Massachusetts  has 
sent a committee to investigate  the pros­
pects of a removal of the cotton industry 
to the Southern states.  While no formal 
report has  been  made,  the  chairman  of 
the  committee  states  that  there  is  no 
reason for a  removal  of  the  present es­
tablishments.  Factories  for  the  manu­
facture  of  the  coarser  grades  may  be 
built  on  a  limited  scale,  but  this  will 
have no effect on the New England indus­
try.  The  committee  finds  that,  on  ac­
count of local rates on  railroads, there is 
no advantage in freights  on  any consid­
erable amount of cotton over the through 
rates to New England.  Coal, also,  is  as

BEN  A N D   MB.  MANNING.

R UBY  ANN CAPEN had almost made 
up her mind to have  some  butcher’s 
It was  the  butch­
meat for dinner. 
er’s  day,  and  any moment he might ap­
pear round the turn in the road  that  led 
to the village.

Any one would have  called  Abby Ann 
a very good-looking  woman as  she stood 
in the middle  of  the  kitchen  trying  to 
make  up  her  mind  absolutely as to  the 
meat.  She  was  tall  and  well  formed; 
she had an oval face,  with  what was gen­
erally described as “loads” of  light  hair 
twisted at the back of her head, and fall­
ing in a pretty looseness  about  her fore­
head.  Her mild blue eyes were pleasant 
to look at.  Still Abby Ann was 35 years 
old,  and unmarried.

In deprecating this fact her friends al­
ways explained that,  though  Abby  Ann 
was  real  handsome,  “ ’n jest as good as 
she could be,” the  men,  somehow, didn’t 
seem to take to her.  There  were people 
who  added  to  this  explanation  the  re­
mark that the men didn’t know anything, 
anyhow.

It gives me  pleasure  to  record  at  the 
beginning of this sketch  that at this mo­
ment Abby Ann  is  an  engaged  woman. 
As she stands there thinking  of meat for 
dinner, she is betrothed  to  James  Man­
ning,  who conducts the cheese factory on 
the Burnt River Road,  and  who  has  had 
one wife whom  be  has  buried  and  one 
wife whom he has  not  buried,  but  who 
has left the  Manning  home  because,  as 
she said,  she  “couldn’t stan’  it there an­
other  instant.”  This  was  felt  to  be  a 
vague explanation of  her  departure,  but 
it was all she ever vouchsafed to give.

It was generally  understood,  however, 
that she left  Mr.  Manning  for  the  pur­
pose  of  going  away with an agent for  a 
superior  kind  of  lamp chimney.  This 
agent had traveled  through  the  village, 
and had returned again  and  again  until 
Mrs. Manning had departed with him.

Under the circumstances  the  deserted 
husband had had no trouble in procuring 
a legal release from  his  wife.  When he 
had really “got his bill” he  immediately 
began to go home with  Abby Ann Capen 
from  all  evening  meetings,  and  to call 
upon her more and more often.

“Now,  I  tell  you  what  ’tis,”  said 
Abby’s mother to her daughter,  “I  ain’t 
got  one  grain  of  respect  for  any  man 
whose wife runs away from  him.”

“But, mother,” was the  response,  “he 
ain’t  to  blame  ’cause  Cynthy  went  off 
with that peddler.”

Mrs. Capen shook her head.
“You needn’t tell me,” she said.  “But 
if you  want him  to come here  courtin’  I 
ain’t  goin’ 
to  make  no  row.  You’ve 
be’n of age this  sometime,  and  you  c’n 
do’s you please;  but 1 ain’t no opinion of 
James Manning.  Jew say you was goin’ 
to bail the butcher?”

“I was thinkin’ of it.”
“You ain’t all  run  out  of  vegetables, 

be you?”

As she put  this  question  Mrs.  Capen 
turned round from  the  sink  where  she 
was washing out a few handkerchiefs and 
towels.  She looked over  her  glasses  at 
her daughter,  and  a  smile  came  to  her 
shrewd face as she looked.

“You needn’t get no  meat  on  my  ac­
count,” she  went  on.  “ I  c’n  git  ’long 
first  rate. 
I  always  did  like  baked 
p’taters  ’n’  cream.  They’re  real  satis­
fy in’ to me. 
’N’ pie ’n’  cake—I’m  doin’ 
all right.”

Abby  Ann  walked  up 

to  the  sink.

“I  d’know  how  ’tis,  mar,”  she  said; 
“ that  book  on  vegetarianism  reads  all 
right,  ’n’  I  did  make  up  my  mind  I 
never’d touch meat  again.  But  for  two 
or  three  days  I’ve  be’n  feelin’  so  all 
gone—1 didn’t know’s I was  fitted  to  be 
a vegetarian.  What do you think, mar?” 
Mrs.  Capen  was  “sudsin”’  a  towel 
up and  down  in  her  tub.  She  replied 
that she was sure  she  didn’t  know what 
Abby was fitted for,  but  she  knew  one 
thing she wa’n’t fitted for,  ’u’ that was to 
go over to the cheese factory on the Burnt 
River  Road  ’n’  live  with  James  Man­
ning.

“Oh,  mother,  how  awfully  down  on 

James you  be!”
Mrs.  Capen 

laughed.  She  began  to 
wring out her towel.  She said  it  would 
be  a  pity  if  mother  and  child  should 
both be in love with James.

The sound of wheels on  a  rough  road 

was now heard by both women.

“There’s the butcher.  You’ll  have to 

make up your mind about meat.”

Abby Ann snatched  up  a  shawl  from 
the table and put it on her  head  as  she 
ran into the yard.  She was just  in  time 
to signal to a  man  driving  a white-cov­
ered cart.

This man  immediately drove  up to the 

doorstep.

Abby Ann walked  hesitatingly  to  the 
back of  the  cart,  where  the  meat  was 
displayed.  She gave a little  shudder  as 
she looked at  it,  but  that “goneness”  of 
which she had spoken urged her on.

“I ’spose you  kill  all  your  own  crit­

ters, don’t you,  Mr.  Hill?”  she asked.

“Sartin’,” in a  jovial  tone;  “it  don’t 

hurt ’um hardly a bit.”

“It seems a pity to  take  life  when”— 
“Wall,”  hastily interrupted  Mr.  Hill, 
“you  wouldn’t  want  to  eat  ’um  alive, 
would  ye?  That’s  one  reason  why  I 
can’t  never  swaller  an  oyster—raw,  I 
mean.  I keep thinkin’ they’re swimmin’ 
round ia my stummick.  Was you 1 yokin’ 
for a piece to stew or to fry,  Abby Ann?” 
Before  she  could reply Abby Ann dis­
tinctly heard a growl  from  the  front  of 
the wagon.

“What’s that?” she asked quickly. 
“Shet  up,  won’t  ye?”  shouted  Mr. 

Hill.

He was not addressing this  remark  to 
the  woman  near  him,  but  to whatever 
had  growled.  He  now  turned  to  her 
and  said,  “ ’twas  a  thunderin’  dorg he 
was  taking  home  to  knock in the head 
for Squire Beals.

“That bull-terrier;  mebby you’ve seen 
It loves 
it,  though he ain’t had it long. 
to  fight better’n  it loves to eat. 
Its jest 
had  a  fight  with  a  beast twice  its size 
that was worryin’ the  Squire’s  cat. 
It’s 
all mangled up.  Squire told me to take 
it  home  ’n  make way with it.  Did you 
say you’d have a piece to stew?”

The butcher punched  his  grimy  fore­
finger into a chunk  of meat as he  spoke, 
and  remarked  that  there  was  a  piece 
“that would go grand in a smother.”

But  Abby  Ann  had  left his side and 

gone to the front of the wagon.

On  the  floor  under  the  seat,  and 
chained to it,  was lying  a  dark  brindled 
dog  with  blood  smeared  on  its  glossy 
side,  with a fragment of skin  torn  from 
its forehead,  and with a  bleeding  under­
lip.  He  gazed  with  red  eyes  at  the 
woman  who bent  toward  him,  her  fair

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face  breaking  into  a  tremor  of pity as 
she  looked.

Abby Ann  had  had  a  dog  when  she 
was a child,  a  big  Newfoundland,  who 
went  everywhere  with  her,  who  was 
her  dearest  beloved,  and  whom  in  the 
very recesses of her soul,  unbeknown  to 
her minister or to any one, she  expected 
to meet if  she should ever win a home in 
heaven.

Mr. Hill came round to her side. 
“ First-rate  specimen  of  the  bull-tar- 
appreciatively; 

he 

rier,” 
remarked 
“plucky’s all git out.”

“Are  you  goin’  to  kill  him?”  asked 

Abby  Ann.

“Sartain,”  said Mr.  Hill again.
Abby  Ann  was  silent for a long time. 
Her eyes were fixed on  the dog that  was 
going to his death because he had fought 
for  a  cat.  Perhaps  he  had  fought  on 
other occasions.  But  what of that?

She drew a long breath, shuddering  as 

she did  so.

Presently she put out her  hand a little 
way toward the dog.  She spoke gently. 

“Poor feller!”  she  said.
“ Look  out!”  cried  Mr.  Hill. 

“He 
don’t  snap at me ’cause he knows I ain’t 
afraid of him,  but”—

“1  ain’t  afraid  of  him  either,”  said 
“There!  Oh,  how  you 

Abby  Ann. 
have suffered,  ain’t  you?”

The dog reached  forward  stiffly  until 
his  nose  was  near  the extended  band. 
Then he gave one lick to the tips  of  her 
fingers.

Abby Ann turned to the butcher.
“I guess Squire Beals  wouldn’t care if 
you  left  the  dog  here,  would  he,  Mr. 
Hill?”

“Left him here?  The old Harry !  No,
I don’t think  he’d care,  but 1  ain’t  goin’ 
to do it,  all the same.  Ben  would  chaw 
you up in no time.”

“Is  his  name  Ben?  I  ain’t afraid of 
bein’ chawed up.  He  hasn’t  got  a  bad 
face.  He’s  sufferin’  now.  Ben,  don’t 
you  want to live  with  me?  Dear  Ben !” 
The terrier wagged the end of  his  tail 

and whined slightly.

The woman gave a soft little laugh. 
“Mr.  Hill,  you untie him,  will you?  If 
Mr.  Beals objects to  my  havin’  him  I’ll 
see about it myself.”

The butcher  stared  in  silence.  Then 
he found  his voice and  declared that  the 
animal in  his  wagon’d  got  to  be  killed, 
and  that  it  wa’n’t no kind of a woman’s 
dog.

After a little  talk  of  this  kind  Abby 
Ann  said  that  she  wasn’t  in  the  least 
afraid to loose the dog.

Whereupon  she  mounted  the  wagon, 
Mr.  Hill  protesting that  “if  she  got  bit 
he wasn’t goin’ to be responsible.”

There  was,  nevertheless,  admiration 
on his leather face when  his  companion 
persisted, saying that  she  couldn’t  bear 
to think of the dog as  going to be killed.
Ben instantly stood  up,  whining  with 
pain as he moved,  but  greeting  his  new 
friend  with  as  much  demonstration  as 
was possible for him  to display under the 
circumstances.

When  Abby  Ann  unhooked his chain 
from his collar she  inadvertently  grazed 
a raw place on his body  and he instantly 
snapped at her;  and then  he  licked  her 
hand  again  in  apology,  wriggling pite­
ously as he did so,  trying  to  assure  her 
that he hadn’t meant it,  and  that  it  was 
only the pain,  anyway.

The  woman  stepped  down  from  the 
wagon.  She  turned  and  held  out  her 
hand.

“Come, Ben;  you’re my dog now.”

Mr.  Hill  once  more  asserted  that  he 

should not be responsible.

Ben  stood  an 

instant,  dreading 

to 
move.  His  hurts  were  stiffening.  He 
looked from one to the other  of  the  two 
people  who  were  gazing  at  him.  He 
whined  again,  then  he made a leap and 
landed  at  Abby  Ann’s  feet,  where  he 
crouched,  and shivered,  and moaned.

She  bent  over  him,  murmuring  some 

unintelligible words.

“By George!” said Mr.  Hill with great 

emphasis.

“Abby Ann!” called a  voice  from  the 

door;  “ what you doin’?”

“Mr.  Hill  was  expectin’  to  kill  him, 
mar,” was the response,  “ but  I’m  goin’ 
to have him.”

Mrs.  Capen,  who  remembered  old 
Rover, 
the  Newfoundland,  and  who 
therefore had a weakness for  dogs,  now 
put  a  shawl  on her  head also and came 
out,  the March wind  whirling  her  shawl 
and her skirts in  the  most  disrespectful 
manner.

“Mercy sake!”  she cried.  “Why,  he’s 

all blood!”

“Mar.”  exclaimed the  daughter,  “jest 
think,  he  kinder  likes  me  already!  I 
sha’n’t let him go.  You  can’t  make  me 
let him go.”

The  glow  on  the  younger  woman’s 
face  was  beautiful  to  see.  Her  shawl 
had fallen  down  to  her  shoulders,  and 
the light hair was ruffling  in the wind.

Mrs. Capen  wisely  made no attempt in 
the direction  of  making  Abby  Ann  let 
him go.  She did not  intend  to  begin  at 
this late day to try to  control her daugh­
ter.

She told Mr.  Hill that  he  might’s  well 
tell  the  Squire  that  his  dog  wouldn’t 
trouble  him  no  more.  This  she  said 
when the attitude of affairs  had  been ex­
plained to her.

“If Ben goes to runnin’ back there Mr. 
Beals  ’ll  make  trouble,”  asserted  the 
butcher.  Then Abby Ann gave  her  sol­
emn word that she wouldn’t allow Bento 
run back.

Mr.  Hill was about to  climb up on  the 
seat when  he bethought  himself  that  he 
had  not  yet  sold  any  meat.  He  men­
tioned this fact to the two women.  Abby 
Ann said she had changed her mind;  she 
didn’t want any butcher’s  meat;  and the 
man drove away.

Mrs. Capen,  looking down  at  the  dog, 
assured  her  daughter  that  she  might 
reckon on having her hands  full  now  if 
she never did before.

Then the two  went into the house.
Ben trailed stiffly  along  behind  Abby 
Ann,  wbo  took  him  into the woodroom 
and shut  him  in  there.  She  presently 
joined him with  a roll  of  white  rags,  a 
dish of warm  water and  a  piece  of  cas- 
tile  soap.

Before she began  her  work,  however, 
she  brought  a  bowl  of milk and offered 
it to  her  guest.  Ben  lapped  up  a  few 
spoonfuls  and  then  drew  back.  He 
glanced up at her deprecatingly.

She sat down on the  floor  beside  him. 
Sometimes he growled  and  snapped,  but 
he  was  invariably  painfully  sorry  for 
such lapses,  and hurried to kiss the hand 
he had snapped at.

At  last  his  wounds were washed and 
bound  up  where  they  could  be bound, 
and Abby Ann tried to  leave  him  there 
for repose.  But he struggled  up  to  his 
feet and pushed so decidedly at the  door 
that she let him go with her.

He  lay  on  the  carpet  beside  her  all 
that afternoon; he  was  in  that  position

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But he did not  come  any  nearer.  He 
tried to take a particularly  easy position 
in his chair,  but he  had  a  strong  belief 
that if he should stretch  out his legs the 
dog would think they  were too near  and 
would bite them.

He  resumed  his  conversation  on  the 
subject of  his  old  flame  whom  he  had 
met at the grist mill.

He informed his present  flame  that  it 
had only been a  boy-and-girl  affair,  and 
that, notwithstanding all  that  had  hap­
pened  since,  he  had  never really cared 
for any woman until he  had  become  ac­
quainted with Abby Ann Capen.

“Oh,  Mr.  Manning!”  cried  Abby  Ann 
in  a  low  tone;  and the color rose again 
over her face.

“Fact,”  said  the  man.  “I  tell  you, 
you don’t know what ’tis when a man ac­
tually sees the only  woman  he  has  ever 
cared for.”

Naturally Abby Ann  did not know;  so 
she  said  nothing;  but  her  face  was  so 
lovely at the moment  that  Mr.  Manning 
rose  and  was  about  to  place  his chair 
near that of his companion.  He had for­
gotten  the  bull-terrier  who  was  lying 
with his head  extended  and  resting  be­
tween his paws.

Ben  grinned  and  the  lamplight  fell 
upon  his  shining  teeth  and  his  raised 
upper lip.  He growled also.

Mr.  Manning  retreated,  but  he  con­
trolled himself to such a  degree  that  he 
was able to exclaim  playfully:

“Good doggie!  1  ain’t  goin’  to  harm 

your mistress. 

I love her,  too.”

Ben did not immediately lower  his lip.
Possibly he  was  attempting  to  make  it 
known that he also had now met the only 
woman he had ever  loved.

Mr.  Manning  tried  various  topics  of 
conversation,  but  he did not  feel  at  his 
usual ease, and he  resented  the  way  in 
which his betrothed  would put her hand 
on the dog’s head.

The gentleman got upon his  feet to  go 

at a much earlier hour than  usual.

Abby Ann rose  to  accompany  him  to 
the  door,  and  Ben  rose  also,  whining 
somewhat  as  his  hurts  throbbed  with 
pain.

He kept close to his new  frind,  conse­
quently there was a very formal farewell 
between the lovers.

Mrs. Capen,  who  was  sitting  nodding 

11
This was the beginning of  Ben’s devo­
tion  to  Abby  Ann.  Perhaps  he  had 
never before known any  caressing  kind­
ness.  At  any  rate,  he  was  so grateful 
and  so  loving  that  Abby  Ann  did  not 
have the heart to  deprive  him of her  so­
ciety;  and,  indeed,  in two or three weeks 
she would have missed  him  as  much  as 
he would  have missed her.

He almost ceased to snap at  her  when 
she dressed his wounds, and he was even 
more  overwhelmed  with  repentance  on 
those occasions when he did snap.

It seemed as if he knew  that  she  had 
saved him from  being  “knocked  in  the 
head.”  At  any rate, he was profoundly 
aware  of  her  kindness  and  gentleness, 
and he had evidently never  before  been 
accustomed  to  human  intimacy,  though 
he had been  well fed.

And dogs value intimacy  with  human

over the kitchen stove,  heard this depar- j beT~~ ” 'th a pathetic intensity, 
ture and roused herself. 

“Your  beau’s  in  a  hurry,  ain’t he?” 
she asked,  as her daughter came into the 
room.  “I hope he  ain’t got  another girl 
anywhere. 
It’s  astonishing  what  the 
women find in that man.”

The terrier stood in the  middle  of  the | 
kitchen floor looking  at  the  two  as  the 
elder  woman  chuckled  over  her  own 
words.

He manifested such  a  decided  inclina­
tion  to  go  up  the  stairs  with  his new 
mistress that she let him go,  and  he  lay 
on a mat all night by her bed.

I  Abby  An„  liked  to  feel  Ben’s  warm
body lying at her feet; she liked  to  have 
him tracking her  everywhere  she  went, 
indoors  and  out;  she  liked  to meet the
steadfast gaze of his hazel eyes.

But Ben did not approve of Mr.  James 
Manning,  though  that  gentleman  pro- 
I fessed  an  extravagant  liking  for  him, 
and  brought  him  bones  and  other pro­
pitiatory offerings.  Ben  took  the bones 
and growled at the giver of them.

“First-rate  dog,”  said  Mr.  Manning, 
I contemplating  him  from  the  end of the

at  night  when  Mr.  James Manning ar­
rived to spend the evening.

When  Abby  Ann  rose,  Ben  rose also 
and advanced toward the guest with her. 
He advanced with much tribulation,  ow­
ing  to  his  wounds,  and he appeared to 
resent the handshake that ensued.

“What  beast’s  that?” asked  Mr. Man- 
ming  in  that  disrespectful  tone  which 
some people use in reference to dogs.

“It’s  a  dog,”  said  Abby  Ann  with 
more  crispness  than  she  usually  em­
ployed in  speaking.

“Oh!  Whose is it?”
“It’s mine.”
“Oh!”
Mr.  Manning  went  some  distance  to
which  to

chair

make his choice of 
sit.

The  conversation  did  not  begin very 

briskly.

Mr.  Manning was a tall man, his height 
seeming to be mostly in length  of  body. 
His  legs  had always  been bowed a little, 
and his pantaloons were  in the  habit  of 
swinging  about  his  ankles  in an unbe­
coming  manner.  He  had  a  high-fea­
tured  face,  and a way of pursing up his 
mouth after he had spoken that  was  ex­
tremely irritating to some people.

It  was  perhaps  a  little  curious  that 
Abby Ann had never until  to-day  found 
that trick of Mr. Manning’s mouth  to  be 
annoying.  The  man’s  voice  was  espe­
cially soft and ingratiating.  Among the 
men  of  his  acquaintance  it  was  often 
said  that  Jim  Manning’s  voice  was all 
that could ever make any  woman  marry 
him.

He sat now at the length  of  the  room 
and looked  over  at  his  companion  and 
at  the  four-footed  creature  beside  her. 
He was thinking that he had  never  seen 
Abby Ann so pretty as she was now.

He  crossed  his  legs  and remarked in 
his most honeyed tones  that  “he’d  b’en 
over to  mill  that  day  with some rye ’n’ 
in jin to grind, ’n’ he seen  one of  his  old 
flames.”

Here  he  gave  a slight laugh and then 

went on:

liked 

“It’s mighty odd how a man’ll stick to 
his  first  notions.  Now, I always had a 
notion  that  I 
light-complected 
women best, ’n’ I always shall.  Both  of 
my  wives  was  light-complected  ruther 
than dark; but they wa’n’t nigh so light’s 
you be.”

Abby  Ann 

blushed.  Her 

suitor 
noted  that  she  didn’t  look  more  than 
twenty-five  when  she  colored  in  that 
way.

He impulsively rose and sat down in  a 

chair nearer to her.

As he did so he heard a low growl.  He 
tried  to  smile.  He  pushed  his chair a 
few  feet  further  off  and  said  that  he 
s’posed the dog’s wounds made him  sav­
age.

“He  ain’t  savage  to  me,”  responded 
the woman.  She bent over  and  put  her 
hand  gently  on  Ben’s  bandaged  head. 
“I guess if you should come up  here  ’n’ 
not act as if you was afraid  he  wouldn’t 
growl.”

“Oh!” exclaimed Mr. Manning,  “I ain’t 
afraid a particle;  I ain’t  never  seen  the 
dorg that coul

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him ’cause he likes you,  Abby Ann.”

So  the  spring  months  went on.  Mr. 
Manning  and  Ben  maintained  the same 
attitude  toward  each  other,  and  their 
mutual friend grew more and  more  fond 
of  the  terrier.  She  expected to marry 
Mr.  Manning in  September,  and she was 
making tablecloths in the  very  presence 
of Ben,  who would have  torn  the  linen 
into  shreds  had  he known what it was.
Mrs. Capen was in the habit  of  saying 
that “that there  dog’d  he  pizened  ’fore 
he’d  been  a  month  on  the Burnt River 
Road, or she’d miss her guess.”

To those remarks Abby Ann  answered 
nothing,  but  if  Ben  were  within  her 
reach,  as he usually was, she  would  put 
her hand on him and he  would  turn  his 
head and  lick her wrist.

One evening it was getting to be nearly 
8  o’clock  and  Mr.  Manning  had  not 
come,  although this vras “his night.”

Mrs.  Capen  was  knitting  and  Abby 
Ann  was  hemming  a  tablecloth.  Ben 
was out for his evening exercise.

Mrs. Capen  had  just  remarked  “ that 
’twa’n’t human natur’  for  Jim  Manning 
to like that dog, though  he  did  pertend 
to,”  when, close to the outer door,  there 
was  heard  a  growl,  a shout,  and then a 
schuffle.

Both  women rushed—the younger one 
was the first to arrive  and  to  fling  open 
the door.

There was Mr. Manning,  not  literally 
foaming  at  the  mouth,  but giving that 
impression  to the beholder,  and  he  was 
ashen  in  color.  And 
there  was  Ben, 
with  a  firm  hold  on  the  man’s leg, or 
rather on the thick cloth of  his  trousers.
“Oh,  what’s the matter?”  cried  Abby 
“You jest take off that darn little  cuss 
of  a  dog!”  shouted  Mr.  Manning  in  a 
voice which was not in the least soft.

“Gracious!”  cried  Mrs. Capen,  a little 

Ann.

in the background.

“Ben!  what do you mean?  Come here, 
sir!  Come here  this  minute!”  cried  his 
mistress.

The  dog  did  not  immediately  obey. 
He  could not tell  her that in the dusk of 
the yard her lover had opened  hostilities 
by kicking at him.

“Take  the  cuss  off!”  again  shouted 
Mr.  Manning;  and  again  in  the  back­
ground  Mrs.  Capen,  now with a twinkle 
in her eye, cried,  “Gracious!”

Abby Ann approached still nearer  and 
took  hold  of  Ben’s  collar,  whereupon 
Ben loosened his teeth  and  immediately 
placed  himself  by  the  side  of his mis­
tress,  looking up at her and wagging  his 
tail as if to explain matters.

“ Won’t you  come  in,  Mr.  Manning?” 

now inquired A bby Ann.

The person thus  addressed was  trying 
to smooth his ruffled  plumage.  He  said 
he was in a  kind  of  a  hurry  now,  but 
he’d  call  the  next  afternoon.  And  he 
disappeared  rather  abruptly  into 
the 
darkness.

Mrs. Capen took this  occasion  to  call 
Ben a “good  doggie,”  and  she  went  to 
the  pantry  and  brought  a  couple  of 
doughnuts,  which she fed  to  the  terrier 
as if she were rewarding  him  for  some­
thing.

She looked furtively  at  her  daughter 
and saw a  flushed,  disturbed  face.  She 
wisely made no  remark.

Mr.  Manning came early the  following 
afternoon.  Mrs. Capen,  before  she  re­
tired from  the  room,  noticed  that  their 
visitor wore a new pair of trousers.

ning didn’t like Ben.

“’Tain’t  that,”  retorted 

the  other, 
“that darn—I mean  that  dorg don’t like 
me. 
I’ve been thinkin’  that you’d better 
make way with  him  ’fore  we  git  mar­
ried. 
’Tain’t safe to have such  a  critter 
’round.”

Abby Ann  drew  herself  up.  Ben,  at 
her feet, raised his  head  and  looked  at 
her.

“I  guess we won’t  talk  on  that  sub­
ject,”  she.  “I’m goin’ to keep my dog.”
“Be  you?”  Mr.  Manning  stood  up. 
“ Then I  must  say  that  our  engagement 
is broke,”  he said.

Abby Ann rose, and Ben  rose.
“All right,” said Abby  Ann.  “Let  it 
be broke,  then. 
I’d ruther have my dog 
than a man like you  any  time.  Perhaps 
it  would  be  as  well  for  all  concerned 
if  you  went  away  now,  Mr.  Manning. 
Ben,  he’s beginning to growl,  ’n’ mebby 
I  can’t  pull  him  off  another time.”

Here  Abby  Ann  laughed.
Mr.  Manning  departed.  His  former 
sweetheart  watched  him  from  the  win­
dow.  Ben placed his front paws  on  the
window shelf and also watched  him.

Ben’s  mistress  put  her  hand  on  his 
neck,  and  he  wagged  his  tail  and  as­
sured  her  that  she  would  never  regret 
the  choice  she  had  made.

It was at this moment that  Mrs. Capen 
entered the  room.  She  announced  em­
phatically that “of  all  the  dogs  she’d 
ever  known  that  bull-terrier  was  the 
best.”  And  she  brought  forward  an­
other doughnut.

Perhaps,  to  relieve  the  anxiety of the 
gentle  reader,  I  ought  to  relate  some­
thing  of  the  afterhistory  of  Mr.  Man­
ning. 
In  the  fall  of  that  year  the hus­
band of  Mr.  Manning’s  “old  flame”  and 
first  love  was  taken 
ill  with  pneu­
monia,  and  one  week  later  was  prov­
identially  removed  from  this  sphere, 
leaving  the  grist  mill  in  fee  simple  to 
his  widow.  At  the  urgent  solicitation 
of  Mr.  Manning  she  bestowed  the  grist 
mill,  the water  privilege  and  her  hand 
upon him.

Sometimes  when  Abby  Ann  and  Ben 
are  out  walking  they  meet  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Manning  driving  in  the  old  ex­
press wagon  formerly  belonging  to  the 
present  Mrs.  Manning’s  first  husband. 
On  such  occasions  Ben  never  fails  to 
growl  and  show  his  teeth,  and  when 
the  wagon  has  gone  on  he  turns  to  his 
mistress and—well,  if ever a dog laughs, 
that bull-terrier  laughs  then—and Abby 
Ann joins him.

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THE  GROWTH  OF  CITIES.

The extraordinary growth  of  cities  is 
one of the remarkable features of modern 
civilization.  Of course, there have been 
great  cities  in  every  age  of the world, 
but never in the  proportion of  the  pres­
ent.  The  reason is  plain  enough.  The 
growing facilities for travel  enable  peo­
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former times and the charm  of  being  in 
a  crowd  is  so  great  that  it  is  impos­
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give it up. 
In  earlier times the difficul­
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country life gave the people  few  oppor­
tunities  to  get  to  town.  Now  all  is 
changed,  and  all  the  people  in a day’s 
travel of any center  of  population  may 
be  said  to  belong  to  it.  Thousands of 
people doing  daily  business  in  the  city 
reside  at  their  country  places  in  the 
environs,  and the daily shifting of whole 
suburban populations is one of  the  com­
monest features of modern  life.

The  next  addition  to  it  will  be  tbe 
daily outflow of laborers of all sorts from 
their  city  homes  to  work  in  country 
places  and  suburban  houses,  returning 
to the cities at night.  This sort of thing 
will go on until practically  there  will be 
no more country life, except in  the  case 
of  those  families  who  enjoy  the fad of 
suburban  residences.  All  the  impor­
tant processes of agriculture will be done 
by machinery,and but few mechanics will 
be  required  to  handle the mechanisms. 
Then but  little  muscular  labor  will  be 
required,  except  at  such  times  as  the 
gathering  of  the  crops,  when  flocks  of 
laborers will go down  from  the  cities  to 
work for a few days on the  farms.  And 
so  this  sort  of  thing  will  go  on  until 
there 
large 
population  living  in  the  country  dis­
tricts.

shall  be  no 

longer  a 

Of  all  animals,  man  is  the most gre­
garious, the most  disposed  to  assemble 
and live in crowds.  There is a sympathy 
in crowding together which  gratifies  all 
inferior natures.  Of  course, there are  a 
few self-sustained,  strong  natures  that 
repel  crowdship  and  avoid  it;  but  the 
masses of the people are otherwise.  And 
so they find in the city  not  only  excite­
ment,  but the sort of people  with  whom 
they are in sympathy,  and, having found 
it,  they take comfort  in  it.  Thus  come

together people who are alike in religion, 
in  manners  and  customs,  in morals,  in 
mind,  in physical development,  and even 
in crime.  There are cities in  which  the 
deformed  people  seem  to  get  together, 
and  in  every  city  the  criminal  classes 
are  all  more  or  less  associated.  The 
criminal  and  vicious  classes  all  know 
each other.

As has been said before,  the  possibili­
ties of being able to live  together  in cit­
ies were never so great as at present, and 
as by the increased and  improved means 
of travel people can live in cities,  where­
as it was formerly  impossible,  the  time 
will come  when  all  people  will  live  in 
cities.  Take the  case  of  the  American 
Negro.  Under  the  slavery  system  the 
Negroes were almost  wholly  engaged  in 
agriculture,  and  seldom  in  manufactur­
ing.  As  a  consequence, 
the  greatest 
numbers of them resided in  the  country 
districts.  But with freedom  they began 
to get  a  taste  of  the  gregarious  life  in 
cities,  and they are  increasing  their  ex­
perience as fast as they can.  The excite­
ment of cities  is  drawing  them  all 
the 
time, and the day will come when all will 
practically be absorbed in the  cities. 
If 
the Negroes  were not extremely conserv­
ative,  a virtue  which arises chiefly  from 
ignorance  and  aversion 
radical 
changes,  they  would  have  altered  their 
habits  much  more  rapidly  than 
they 
have;  but  the  transition  is  working  its 
effect, and will continue to do so.

to 

It is useless  to  tell  any  person  who 
wants to try the  excitements  of city  life 
that  cities  are  overcrowded.  They  be­
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the  more  people  there  will  be  to  have 
their wants supplied; the more  there  are 
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to be done.  And  so  they  reason.  Then 
tbe criminal  and  vicious  classes  reason 
that in a  crowd  there  will  be  a  greater 
market for their wicked arts,  and so they 
all crowd to the cities.
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instead  of  composing  a 
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TRADESMAN  COMPANY

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

'p H B Y   AI^L<  S A Y

"It's  as  good  as  S a p o lio ”  w h e n   th ey   try 
to  sell  y o u  
their  e x p erim en ts.  Y o u r  
o w n   good  sen se  w ill  tell  y o u   that  they 
are  o n ly   tr y in g   to  get  y o u   to  aid  their 
n e w   article.

W h o   u rges  y o u   to  k eep   S a p o lio  ? 

Is 
it  not  the  p u b lic ?   T h e   m a n u fa c tu r e r s  
b y   con stan t  an d   ju d icio u s  a d v ertisin g  
bring  c u sto m e r s  to  your*  stores  w h o s e  
v e r y   p resence  creates  a  d e m a n d  
for 
other  articles.

Nov.  18,1894
AND  W EST  M ICHIG 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
TRAVZRSE CITY.  CHARLEVOIX  AND  PETOSKKT.

7:30am  3:15pm
Lv. G rand  R ap id s.. 
Ar.  M anistee............   12:20pm  8:15pm
Ar. T raverse C ity__  
1:00pm  8:45pm
Ar. Charlevoix  __  
3:15pm  ll:lbpm
Ar.  Petoskey  .. 
3:45pm  11:40pm

T rains arrive from  north at  1:00  pm and  10:<0 

PARLOR  AND  SLEEPING  CARS.

Parlor  car 

leaves  for  (  hicago  1:25pm.  A r­
rives 
lo:25pm.  Sleeping  cars 
leave  for  c h ic a g .  11:30pm.  A rrive  from  Chi­
cago  6.25am.

from  Chicago 

•Every day.  Others week days  only.
D E T K O IT , 

oct- g9:-18-g4
L A N S I M i  &   N O R T H E R N   R .  R .
GOING  TO  DETROIT.

Lv. o ra u d   R apids.........  7:00am  1:20pm  5:25pm
Ar.  D etro it..................... 11:40am  5:3upm  10:10pm

pm.

RETUk NING  FROM  DETROIT.

Lv.  D etroit..............  
l:lopm   6:o0pm
Ar. G rand  R apids.........12:40pm  5:2Cpm  10:45pm

.  T :40am 

TO AND  PROM  SAGINAW, ALMA  AND  ST.  LOUIS.

Lv. G R  7:4oam  5:00pm  Ar.  G K  11:35am 10:45pm

TO  AND  FROM  LOWELL.

Lv. G rand R apids............   7:00am  1:20pm  5:25pm
Ar. from  Low ell................12:40pm  5:2upm  ............

THROUGH  CAR  SERVICE.

Parlor  Cars on all trains  between  G rand  Rap­
ids and  Detroit.  Parlor car to Saginaw on m orn­
ing train.

T rains  week days only.

GEO. D eHAVEN, Gen.  Pass’r Ag’t
M i c h i g a n  (T e k t r a l

“ Tie Niagara Falls Route.’*

(T aking effect  Sunday,  May 2:, 1894.) 

•Daily.  All others daily, except Sunday. 

A rrive. 
Depart.
10 20 d m ............D etroit  E x p re ss ............  7  00 a m
5  30 a in  ... .«A tlantic and  Pacific....... 11  20 p m
1  „Op m  ....... New  York E xpress  .........   6  00 p m
Sleeping cars  run on A tlantic  and  Pacific  ex 
press trains lo and from  Detroit.
Parlor  cars  leave  for  D etroit a t  7:00 a m ;  re 
turning, leave Detroit 4:35 p m ,a rriv in g  at G rand 
Rapids 10:20 p m.
D irect  commnnicatloH  m ade  at  D etroit  w ith 
all through  trains eesi  over  tbe  M ichigan Cen­
tral  Railroad  (Canada S outhern Division.!
A.  ALMqmsT, Ticket  Agent, 
Union  PassengerStation.

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

V V A t K K K  K a ilw a y .

e a s t w a r d .

tN o.  14 tN o.  10 tiNM.  1Ö v.Su
T ralus Le  ve
6 45am It  20am 3 25pm 1100pm
G’d  Rapids, Lv
7 40am 11 25 am 4 27pm 1235am
Ionia  ........... Ar
8 25am 12 11 pm 5 20pm 1 25am
St.  Johns  .. Ar
O w osso....... Ar 900am 1 20pm ö USpiii 3 10am
E.  Saginaw Ar 10 50am 3 45pm 8 00pm 640am
Bay City — Ar 11 3  an: 4 35pm 8 37pm 715am
Ar 10 05am 3 45pm 7 05pm 5 4i am
F lint
Pt.  H uron. Ar 12 05pm 5 50pm 8 50pm 730am
Pontiac  — .Ar 10 53am 3 05pm 8 25pm 5 37am
D etroit....... A t 11 50am 4 05pm 925pm 7 00am

WESTWARD.

“ 

“ 

For  G rand H aven  and  Interm ediate
Points  .................................................  *7:00’a. m.
For G rand  H aven and  M uskegon.......tl:i0  p. m.
“  Mil. and Chi.  +5.35 p. m.

“ 
fD 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   the  w est, 10:10 a.  m.  3:15 
p m   and 9:15 p .m .
E astw ard—No.  14  has  W agner  Parlor  Buffet 
car.  No. 18 Parlor  Car.  No. 82 W agner  Sleeper.
W estward — No. 11  Parlor Car.  No.  15 W agner 
P ailor Buffet car.  No. 81 W agner Sleeper.
^  

J ab. Ca m p b e l l . City T'cfcet A gent.

»Daily.

G ra n d   R ap id e  *   In d ia n a

TRA INS  GOING  N O RTH .

L eave g o in g  

North

T RA IN S  G O IN G   SO U TH

For Traverse City, Petoskey  an d  Saginaw__ 7:10a. m.
For Saginaw ...............................  ...........................o:00p.m.
For  Petoskey  and  Mackinaw............................ 5:25 p  m.
Leave going 
F or  Cincinnati........................................................ 7:25a.m .
For Kalamazoo and  Chicago............................. 2:15 p. m.
For  F o rtW ay n ean d   the  E ast.......................... 2:15p.m .
For C incinnati..................................................... *6:40  p. m.
For  Kalamazoo and Chicago..........................*11:40  p. m

South.

Chicago via G  R  & I  R. R.

Lv Grand R apids............ 7:25am   2:15pm   *11:40 p m
Arr  Chicago.....................2:40 p m   9:05 p m  
7:10 a m
2:15 p  m  tra in   has th rough  W agner  Buffet  P arlor 
Car and coach.
11:40 p m tra in  d aily,  through W agner Sleeping Car 
and Coach.
11:30 p m
Lv  Chicago 
A rr Grand Rapids 
7:20am
3:30  p  m  has through  W agner  Buffet  P arlor  Car 
11:30pm  tra in  daily, th ro  ugh  W agner  Bleeping  Car 

3:30 p m  
9:16pm  

8:50am 
2:60pm 

For Muskegon—Leave. 

M u s k e g o n , G r a n d   R a p i d s  St I n d i a n a .
9:50 a m
7:25  a m 
1:90pm  
1:15pm
( d t p m  
5:20 p m

From Muskegon—A rrive.

O .L. LOCKWOOD •
General Passenger and Ticket Agent.

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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

The Ice  Crop of Grand Bapids.

W ritten for the Tradesman.

King  Boreas  decided  to  take  a flying 
trip  South  this  winter.  He  went  to 
Grand Rapids  and  farther.  He  did not 
need to go duck-shooting  for  his health, 
nor  did  he  borrow  the  Violet,  or  any 
other naval vessel,  for his  use.  Though 
quiet  about  his  business,  he  made  his 
presence felt in diverse  ways, and  Flori­
da as well as Grand  Rapids  will long re­
member his visit.

Though  the  ravages  of  King  Boreas 
were  more  far-reaching  in  the  South 
than those of William the  Conqueror,  he 
created the finest ice crop here known in 
many a year. 
Indeed,  the  dealers  smil­
ingly declare they have never known such 
a harvest.

It often  happens  in  this  locality  that 
“ white” or “snow ice”  forms  the  upper 
layer  of  the  crop.  This  is  lighter  in 
weight,  melts  much  easier  and 
the 
amount of waste is large.  Then the cus­
tomers begin to kick.  They see their re­
frigerators  full 
the  morning,  and 
though the  day  it  is  not  hot,  the  cake 
dwindles  almost  to  a  shadow,  and  the 
waste  pipe  is  filled  with  such  a  dirty 
scum that  even  immaculate  Mrs.  Rorer 
would need to go into the scrubbing busi­
ness to clear up such a state of affairs.

in 

This  year,  the  ice  is  ten  to  twelve 
inches thick and  as  clear  as  crystal, so 
that artificial ice with  its  bubbles  of air 
lodged  within  is  left  out  in  the cold. 
Leaves and pebbles in it appear as  if im­
bedded in plate glass.

Within a few years, there  has  been  a 
great change in  the method of putting up 
ice.  Formerly, it  was  sawed  by  hand 
and packed in sawdust;  now, the snow- 
scraper cleans all the snow  from the ice, 
unless,  as this year, it is  put  up  before 
the snow comes.  The  field,  cleaned,  is 
marked into squares  and  then  cut  from 
one-half to two-thirds the  way  through 
by the repeated  operations  of  the snow­
plough.  Great blocks of the  ice  weigh­
ing sometimes fifty tons are pushed down 
the channel,  and  are  broken  along  the 
way by iron  bars  into  cakes  twenty-two 
inches square  which  weigh  a little  less 
than  two  hundred  pounds.  Near  the 
ice houses they  are lifted by means of an 
endless chain and deposited within, where 
they  are  packed  perfectly  solid.  The 
only sawdust  used  is  that  between  the 
walls of the houses.  The mass of  ice  is 
finally covered with a  layer  of  excelsior 
or straw.

Reed’s Lake can  boast of  having  done 
most  of  the  cooling  business  in Grand 
Rapids.  The ice  used  to  be  packed  in 
houses near the lake and drawn by teams 
into the city early in the morning.  This 
year,  only one company obtained its sup­
ply from this source, the remaining firms 
going  north  to  various  inland 
lakes. 
But,  wherever put  up,  it  is  brought  to 
the city by rail.  The  loading of cars by 
machinery is  wonderfully quick.  Eight 
cars,  each  capable  of  holding  twenty 
tons,  can be loaded in half an hour.  De­
livery wagons go to  the  central  stations 
and begin loading  for their  routes at six 
in the  morning.

No one need envy the driver of  an  ice 
wagon.  He has to stand any  amount  of 
not  only  discourtesy  but  downright 
abuse,  because  ice  is  so  deceptive  in 
weight.  A  housekeeper—or, 
rather, 
housetender—who  has  ordered  twenty 
pounds  will  come  out  and,  with hands 
raised in  holy  horror,  declare:  “There 
ain’t any twenty pounds  there,  and  I’m

not going to be  cheated  by  you  or  any­
one else. 
I  don’t  wonder  the  company 
want  you  around,  for  you  make  them 
rich.  You leave  such  a  piece  as  that, 
when I pay my  good  money,  and  a  big 
price  it  is,  too! 
It  doesn’t  weigh  ten 
pounds.  And aren’t  you afraid it’ll fall 
through the cracks of the walk?  I’m not 
going to  wear  myself  out  lugging  that 
little chunk in,  when it  will  hardly  last 
to the door. 
I’m going down  to  the  of­
fice,  I  am,  and  see  if  I  can’t  have  a 
straight  deal,  and  if  I  can’t  I’ll  go to 
somebody else!”  And so on and so forth. 
And this same customer would generally 
find she was receiving,  in  actual  weight, 
from five to ten  pounds  more  than  was 
called for in the contract.  Then there is 
a  little  extra  thrown  in  when  Bridget 
rushes  out  and,  with  arms  akimbo, 
pleads:  “Now,  darlint, just a  latel  pace 
more fer  me misthress’ ice cream!”

R E A D   OUR 

N E X T   W E E K ’S  

A D V E R T IS E M E N T

Grand  Rapids  needs  50,000  to  75,000 
tons of ice  for  her use in  summer.  One 
ice  man  has  doubled  this  winter  the 
amount  he  put  up  last year.  Another 
company has increased its  supply 15 per 
cent.  But these figures do not represent 
the amount actually sold,  for  there  is  a 
waste,  from  overweight,  shrinkage  and 
breakage, in the  neighborhood  of 50 per 
cent.  Even in  winter 10 to 15  per  cent, 
of  the  customers  continue  to  take  ice. 
Last year. Grand  Rapids  supplied a large 
amount of ice to  St.  Joseph,  Coldwater, 
Hillsdale, Kalamazoo and  Ann Arbor,  in 
this State,  besides to a  number of places 
outside,  going as far south as  Columbus, 
Ohio.

A year ago, there  were  four  ice  com­
panies besides the  Consumers’  Ice  Com­
pany,  formed at that  time by the consol­
idation  of  five  smaller  ones.  Now  the 
number  has  increased  to  nine.  Better 
and cheaper  ice  is  promised  customers 
than ever before.  This  business shows, 
as do many others,  how  what  is  first  a 
luxury to the few soon  becomes  a neces­
sity to the many.

One is here  reminded  of  the  story  of 
the invalid going South. 
It  was  almost 
an impossibility to get a piece  of  ice  on 
the  way.  At  last,  none  was to be bad. 
The  nurse  was  in  despair,  and the pa­
tient fretted herself into a  fever,  finally 
declaring  she  would  give  a  dollar  for 
even  a  tiny  piece!  An  enterprising 
Irishman  overheard  her  remark.  He 
hastily  left  the  car,  returning  imme­
diately  with  the  much-coveted  article. 
He  accommodated  his  fellow-travelers 
over and over again,  each time receiving 
his generous reward.  Finally,  when  he 
was asked once  more,  he  hesitated,  re­
treating  toward  the  smoker,  and  pain­
fully blurted out:  “I’m ’fraid  she  won’t 
kape if I take any more ice away, though 
I’d like ter ’blige yer!” 

Z. E. U.

A new  amalgan  has  been  discovered 
which is said to  be  a wonderful  substi­
tute for gold. 
It consists of ninety-four 
parts of copper to six parts of  antimony. 
The copper is melted  and  the  antimony 
added,  together  with a  little  magnesium 
and carbonate  of  lime,  to  increase  the 
density.  The  product  can  be  drawn, 
wrought and soldered  like  the  precious 
metal,  to which  it  bears  a  striking  re­
semblance when  polished.  The  cost  of 
manufacture is about 25  cents  a  pound.
“He  lies like  a tombstone  and  exag­
gerates like a gas meter,” is  a  statement 
which illustrates the  extreme  lengths of 
hyperbole. 

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mriCMâC:  TACTOPICê

P A  P C P   B O X   T  A  CTOOlE-e)

■ONE  MAMMOTH  PRINTING  PLANT.-

$250,000.00 spent  in  advertising. 

The best Goods in  the World tor the  Money.

THE LARGEST  SALE  OF ANY  TOILET  SOAP IN AMERICA. 

"t h e :  

s e n u i n e  

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BEWARE  OF  IMITATIONS.
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Unscrupulous Manufact­
urers and  Dealers, without 
sufficient  energy  to  push 
anything  original,  get  up 
imitations  to  deceive  the 
public,  and  try  to  make 
money off our  advertising 
efforts. 
Such  dishonest 
methods  will put  out  dis­
honest goods.

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We have  United  States 
Court  decisions  in  New 
Y ork  and  Philadelphia, 
and two  Circuit  Court  de­
cisions in Chicago, sustain­
ing our Trade  Mark 
“  Buttermilk,” 

and  we  are  after  others.
We  guarantee  every 
“ Buttermilk ” 

cake 
Soap, as well anything else  f  
we make.

of 

S O L D   BY  ALL JO B B E R S .

$200.00 REWARD
$100.00 REWARD 
$50.00  REWARD

FOR  PRO O F  T H A T   ANY  M ANU­
FA C T U R E R   H AS SO LD   IM IT A ­
T IO N S  AS A N D   FOR OUR  GO OD S
FOR  PRO O F T H A T   A  JO B B E R   H AS  SO LD   AN  IM I­

TA TIO N   A S  AND  FOR  OUR  GOODS.

FOR  PRO OF T H A T   A  D E A LER   H A S  SO LD   TO  C U S ­
T O M E R S  IM IT A T IO N S   AS  AND FOR  OUR  GOODS.

COSMO BUTTERniLK SOAP CO., CHICAGO.

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THE  MICHIGAN  TEA.EESAlA.ISr.

MONARCH  BICYCLES!

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F I V E

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18  to  2 5   p o u n d s  

P r ic e s

$ 8 5   to  $ 1 0 0
S e n d   for  C a t a l o g u e

MONARCHJCYCLE  COMPANY

FACTORY  AND  flAIN  OFFICE,  Lake  and  Halstead  Sts, 
RETAIL  SALESROOM,  280  Wabash  Avenue, 

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Grand  Rapids,  Hich.,  Agents,  ADAflS  &  HART,  12  W est  Bridge  St. 

Detroit  Branch,  GEO.  HILSENDEGEN,  Proprietor,  310  Woodward  Avenue

FOOD
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Because you  are  neither crazy  nor a  crank.  But try a free  dose of our  FOOD 
’Twill  build  up your business system.  Here  is  a 

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VSfhy  B u y   F lo u r   H ere,  F eed  T h ere 
A n d   S u n d ries  E ls e w here

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freight,  shortages and time?  Did you  ever figure  on  that?  BIG  SAV- 
Ia G  IN  FREIGHT,  no careless re-handling of  packages,  no  damaged 
goods.  Let’s figure together and  divide  the profits.

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EVAPORATED  CREAM

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

It cannot  be  compared  with  any unsweetened  milk  or  evaporated  cream 

in  flavor.

heretofore  offered.

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

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

NEW  YORK  CONDENSED  MILK  COflPANY

For Quotations  See Price Columns

OW N  THE  FIELD.

A ttitu d e  A ssu m ed   b y   th e   B ell  T ele­

p h on e  Co.

in 

“The Bell  Telephone Co.  created  and 
developed the  telephone business  of this 
country,”  remarked  a  representative  of 
the Bell  Company  to  T h e   T r a d e s m a n  
the other day,  “and we propose to act on 
the assumption that the field is ours  and 
that  we  are  entitled  to  all  the  emolu­
ments  due  the  originator of a new idea 
and the creator of a new business.”

those 

Such being the theory of the Bell  Com­
pany,  it  is  evidently  the  intention  of 
that corporation  to forestall competition 
by  reducing  rates  to  such  a point that 
competing companies cannot do business 
except  at  a  loss.  Wherever  no compe­
tition  appears,  the  old  rates  are  to be 
maintained,  but 
localities 
where competing  companies  attempt  to 
acquire or divide the telephone business, 
rates are to be made which will  prove to 
be an effectual barrier.  For  instance,  at 
Lafayette, Ind.,  the Bell Co.  reduced  the 
price  of  annual  service  to  $1 per year, 
but  the  business  public  insisted that it 
had  had  enough  of  the  Bell  Co.  and 
turned the telephone business of the city 
over to a rival  company.  The  situation 
in  this  State,  so  fai* as  T h e   T r a d e s ­
m a n ’s information goes,  is as follows:

Grand  Rapids — Long  distance  tele­
phones- will  be  reduced,  April 1,  from 
$100  and  $90  to  $80  and  $72.  Office 
’phones will be  reduced  from $50 to $48 
and  residence  ’phones  from  $40  to $36, 
with a minimum price of  $18  where  the 
subscriber is willing to go on a line with 
other  users. 
Subscribers  who  use  a 
large  number  of  ’phones,  like  railway 
companies, are made prices ranging from 
$20 to $30 per year,  while special private 
telephones have  been  reduced  from $10 
to $5 per year.
Three Rivers—The price on  Bell  tele­
phones has been reduced  one-fourth  on 
account of the new competition here.
St. Joseph—A few weeks ago  the  Gil- 
land  Telephone  Co.,  of  Chicago,  was 
granted  a  franchise  here,  and  was  to 
charge $24  a  year for  the  use  of  tele­
phones  in  business  houses.  The  Bell 
Company,  which  has  for  years  been 
charging $48 a year,  now announces that 
it will furnish them for  $18.  Still lower 
rates are expected.
Manistee—The  Michigan  Bell  Tele­
phone Co.  has notified its  patrons in this 
city that on and after  April  1  the  tele­
phone  rentals will  be  permanently  re- 
dueed to $36 and $24 per annum for busi­
ness  and  residence  telephones,  respec­
tively.
Traverse City—Manager  Barry,  of the 
Bell  Telephone Exchange,  has  returned 
from Detroit, whither he went in response 
to a call from the Michigan Bell Telephone 
Co.  He  announces  a  reduction  in  the 
cost of telephone service to $36  and  $24 
per  year,  for  business  and  residence 
telephones,  respectively.

T he  G rain  M arket.

reasons  was 

Contrary to all  expectation  the  wheat 
market has been  on  a continuous decline 
during the week,  instead  of an  advance, 
as could be reasonably  expected,  taking 
all the facts  into  consideration;  but  the 
market had on  one  of  those  erratic  fits 
which  caused  it  to  go  contrary  to  all 
known rules  in  the  trade.  One  of  the 
prominent 
that  no  one 
wanted to invest in  the  article  when  so 
many had tampered with it and got hurt. 
The  ruling  feeling  seems  to  be  to  let 
wheat alone,  although  everything points 
to  stronger  and  higher  prices.  When 
wheat  is  selling  at  country  points  at 
within I or 2 cents of  Detroit  or  Toledo 
prices,  it  shows  there is something rad­
ically  wrong and this state of affairs does 
not exist alone in this  locality but in the 
winter wheat  section  generally.  Proba­

TOGOE  MXCHXG^JST  THAJOEiBMAJ^i
bly one of the potent factors  for  depres­
sion  is  the  large  amount  of  visible, 
amounting to  76,000,000  bushels,  and  a 
new crop within fifteen weeks.  Our vis­
ible  should  decrease  2,000,000  bushels 
weekly from now until  the  new harvest, 
to get it down to a point  where  it  could 
be handled and not act  as  a  bugbear  to 
depress the market as it  has.  However, 
when lake navigation opens  up,  we  can 
expect to see the  mountain  of  wheat  in 
Chicago  diminish—that  is,  unless  all 
signs fail.

The demand for oranges caused by the 
failure of the Florida crop has  brought a 
supply  from  a  new  and  unexpected 
source.  Tri-weekly  shipments,  amount­
ing to six car  loads,  have  been  received 
from La Berea  Jalisco,  Mexico,  for  the 
St.  Louis  market.  These  oranges  are 
said  to  be  equal  in  flavor  to  either the 
Florida  or  California  fruit.  Material 
for boxes in which to ship has to be  sent 
to Mexico from this country.

*  *   *

Corn  has  remained  very  steady  and 

firm,  irrespective of wheat.

Oats  are  also  stronger,  although  the 
demand is hardly up  to  what  it  should 
be.  Why  oats  should remain so firm  is 
one of  those  peculiarities  of  the  trade 
which we cannot account for.

Receipts during the week  were 90 cars 
of  wheat,  which  is  another  unusually 
large  amount.  There  were  19  cars  of 
corn received  and five cars of oats.

C.  G .  A.  V o ig t .

CURRENT  COMMENT.

inspeetor, 

It  is  a  startling  commentary  on  the 
condition of municipal  government  that 
a grand jury should bring indictments at 
one  time  against  an 
four 
captains,  three  ex-captains  and a large 
number  of  subordinates  of the police of 
a great city like New York.  The sensa­
tion which would naturally  attend  such 
an  occurrence  is  forestalled,  in  great 
degree,  by  the  long  investigations and 
their  developments  which  have  pre­
ceded  it.  These  were men set apart  as 
guardians against crime.  That occasion­
ally one such should  fail in  his  trust  is, 
of  course,  to  be  expected,  but  when  so 
large a number,  including so many in re­
sponsible  positions,  are  overtaken 
in 
crime  themselves  it  is  reason  for  the 
gravest concern.

*  *  *

The fact that Congress,  in  the bill des­
ignating  the  basis  for  an  international 
silver conference,  confined it to  “any in­
ternational conference with a view to se­
curing internationally a fixity of relative 
value between gold and silver  as money, 
by means  of  a  common  ratio  between 
these metals,  with  free  coinage  at such 
ratio,” seems likely to interfere with  the 
probability of any conference, unless the 
President shall  use the authority,  which 
he undoubtedly has, to appoint delegates 
not  absolutely  committed  to  the  free 
coinage part of the  proposition.  Recent 
statements of the British  ministry  indi­
cate that that country  will  not join in  a 
conference  on  that  basis,  even  if  Ger­
many,  with whom the initiative  seems to 
be left,  should call one. 
It  seems a pity 
that the extremists should interpose such 
an obstacle to  the  conference  by insist­
ing on an a  priori  decision  of  the most 
important questions at issue.

*  * 

#
the 

On  account  of 

failure  of  ap­
propriations  the  State  University  and 
normal  schools  of  North  Dakota  will 
close April 1. 
It is  unfortunate  for  the 
educational interests of that State,  as the 
Legislature is not expected to meet again 
for two years.

*  *  *

The beet sugar  crop  of Europe is esti­
mated at 4,910,000  tons.  This  is  an in­
crease of 26  per  cent,  over  that of  last 
year and 43 per cenf.  over  that  of  two 
years ago.  Much ot  this increase is ow­
ing to the bounty  policy  of  the  Geiman 
government.

One day last week 138 diamond cutters 
were  landed  from  two  vessels at Ellis’ 
Island and detained for  violation  of  the 
contract labor law.  Of  this  number  53 
were  returned  to  Antwerp.  The  firms 
engaging them are liable to  heavy  fines. 

*  *  *

Nelson  Morris,  the  great  packer and 
exporter of  cattle,  denies the  statement 
made by  the French authorities that  the 
market  for  American  beef  was  merely 
nominal in that country.  He  states that 
the  trade  of  his company  and  of many 
others was extensive  and  very  satisfac­
tory  and  that  no  fault  had been  found 
with the inspection.  He ascribes the ex­
clusion of  American  cattle  to  the  jeal­
ousy of the French agriculturists.

*  *  *

According  to  the  British  reports the 
increase in the shipment  of  woolens  for 
the months of January  and  February  of 
this year is four times in  value  and  five 
times in quantity over the  same  months 
of last year.  The aggregate value of  all 
the  imports  reported  is  more  than  100 
per  cent,  increase  for  the  two  months 
and at the same rate will amount to $51,- 
500,000 for the year.

*  *  *

elsewhere. 

employment 

It is often told of Horace  Greeley that 
on  account  of  his  bad  writing  a  dis­
charged employe used his  notice  of  dis­
missal for a recommend, on which he  se­
cured 
T h e  
T r a d e s m a n  regrets to learn that a bit of 
bad wit has served a  similar  purpose  in 
the hands of a would-be employe of  T h e  
In the note  declining  his 
T r a d e s m a n . 
services the statement that T h e   T r a d e s ­
m a n   could  not  employ  him because  its 
“subscription  list was full” was thought 
to be rather a neat sarcasm. 
It  is  quite 
a surprise to learn that two  contempora­
ries  have  tried  the  gentleman  on 
the 
strength of the recommend (?)

PRO D U CE  M A R K E T .

Apples—$1 @ $1.50 per b u .,  according  to qual­
ity and variety.  T he offerings  are  so  few   that 
all lots w hich come in   are  snapped np  In  short 
order.

Beans—No higher than a week  ago, b ut firmer 
and stronger, w ith no  probability of  a break  in 
the  m arket, as  stocks  are  concentrated in   few 
hands.  Local  handlers  pay  $1.90  for  clean, 
hand-picked  stock,  holding  at  $2  in   car  lots 
and $2.10 In sm aller quantities.

B utter—10@16c  per  lb., according  to  quality. 
There is  a  scarcity of choice stock and an  enor­
mous surplus of low grade and  unm erchantable 
goods.

Beets—Dry, 30c per bu.
Cabbage—50c per doz.
Celery—25c per doz.. according to quality.
C ranberries—$3®3.50 per  crate.
Eggs—ll@ l2c per  doz.  T he  supply  is  large, 
but  the dem and is strong,  ow ing  to  large  con 
sum ption  consequent  upon  the  low  price  so 
early in  th e season.

Lettuce—121/»c per lb.  W eaker  and lower.
Onions—Dry stock is scarce, except poor stock, 
w hich is in am ple supply.  D ealers  pay  55@60c, 
holding a t :0@75c.

P arsnips—50c per bu.
Potatoes—The m arket is even  stronger than  a 
week ago and prices  have  jogged  up  about  5c 
per bu  The  shipping  dem and  from   Southern 
points is increasing dally and  reports  of  injury 
to potatoes in the pit are so frequent as  to  lead 
to the belief th a t  potatoes w ill  be  potatoes  be­
fore another  crop  is  harvested.  H andlers  pay 
S5@6(c  w ith still  higher prices in  prospect.
Radishes—Hot house stock com m ands  30c  per 
doz. bunches.
Sweet Potatoes—$1  per bu. for  Jerseys and 85c 
for Illinois stock.
Squash—Very scarce an d  hard to get, ow ing to 
th e large am ount of stock consum ed by decay.

1 7

CANDIES,  FR U ITS  an d   NUTS 
T he P utnam  Candy Co. quotes as follow s:

STICK  CANDY.

Cases 

Bbls.  Palls.

“ 
“ 

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

814

314
MIXED CANDY.

Bbls.
S tandard....................... ............... 5
Leader.............................
................... 514
Royal...............................
....................6
Nobby.............................
....................7
English  Rock................. .................... 7
Conserves....................... ............... 614
Broken Taffy................... .. baskets
Peanift Squares.............
7
French Creams...............
Valley  Creams...............
Midget, 30 lb. baskets...
“  __
Modern, 30 lb. 
FANCY--In bulk

“

5 
8 
6 

7
7
7
3
□
Palls
614
614
714
8
814
714
7
8
9
1214
..........  8

 

“ 

fancy—In 5 lb. boxes. 

Lozenges,  plain.............
printed..........
Chocolate Drops.............
Chocolate Monumentals
Gum Drops......................
Moss Drops......................
Sour Drops......................
Imperials.........................

Palls
........   814
.........  914
.........  11
.........  12
.........  5
.........  714
.........  8
.........  9
Per Box
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....................................................... 35® 50
Licorice Drops.......................................................1  00
A. B. Licorice  D rops..............................................75
LosengeB, plain...............................  
60
p rin te d ...................................................65
Im perials......................................................... 
60
M ottoes...................................................................... 70
Cream B ar................................................................. 55
Molasses  B ar............................................................50
Hand Made  Cream s........................................ 80@90
P lain C ream s.....................................................63@80
Decorated Cream s...................................................90
String  R ock..............................................................60
B urnt Alm onds............................................. 90@1  25
W lntergreen  B erries..............................................60

“ 

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

“ 
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3 
2 

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CARAMELS.
 
 
OBANOKS.

C alifornia Seedlings—126..................................   2  60
150, 176, 200, 216 ............   2  75
250..................................   2  50
Fancy  N avels—112................................................. 3  00
126...............................................  3  50
150,176, 200...............................  3  75

Choice stock. 25c per box less.

M essina  O ranges,  200.................................. 
3  20
Catanias—F lats, 100.............................................   1  50

LEMONS.

Choice,  300................................................
E x tra Choice,  300...................................
E xtra Fancy, 300....................................
Choice,  360  .............................................
E x tra Choice,  360  ...............................
Fancy, 360.................................................
E x tra  Fancy.  360, gilt packing.........

BANANAS.

“ 

Large b u n ch es........................................
Small b u n ch e s.........................................
OTHSB  FOBEION  FBUtTB.
Figs, fancy  layers  161b.........................
301b............................
“ 
“ 
14fi>............................
“  bags  ..................................................
Dates, F ard, 10-lb.  b o x .........................
“ 
...........................
Persian.  G. M.50-lb  bo x .......
“ 
“ 
1 lb Royals,  new .........................

50-lb.  “ 

ex tra 

“  
“ 

“ 

NUTS.

“  
“ 
“ 

Almonds, T arragona.............................
Iv a c a .......................................
.,
California, soft  shelled 
Brazils, new .............................................
F ilb e rts .....................................................
W alnuts, Grenoble, o ld ........................
F ren ch .....................................
C alif...........................................
Sott Shelled  C alif..................
Tam e  N uts,  fa n c y ..................................
c h o ic e ................................
Pecans. T exas, H.  P ..............................
C hestnuts.................................................
H ickory N uts per  bu.,  M ich...............
Cocoannts, fu ll sack s............................
B utternuts, per  b u .................................
Black  W alnuts, per bu......................... .

“  

FBANUTS.

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

“ 
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“ 
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FR ESH   MEATS. 

BEEF.

Carcass.................................................
Fore  q u arters.................................... .
H ind quarters..................................
Loins No. 3 .........................................
R ibs......................................................
R o u n d s................................................
Chucks  .................................... .......... .
P la te s .......................   .........................

FOBK.

D ressed...........................................
L oins....................................................
Shoulders  ................................ ..........
L eaf L a rd ........................................... .

3  00
3  50
4 00 
3  GO 
3  25
3  50
4  00
...  t  50 
75®1  25

13
14 
12
614 

®   7a 6 a 5 

@7  H

3   14 
1314314 
313 
3   7H 
@10 a 
3  
312 
@13 
31014 
@  9 
8  @11

4 00

3   5H 
6 3   614 
3   514 
6 3   614 
@  4M 
5@  6

6  a 8 
5  a 6
7  @  o
9  @11
9  a n  
5 H @   614 
314®   5 
3J4@   4

o  @  si* 
714 6 
8

C a rc a ss.........................................................7  @ 8
L am bs.............................................................   @

MUTTON.

Carcass................................ .....................514  @  6

VEAL.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,

18
D r u g   D e p a r t m e n t•

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

One T ear—George  G undrom,  Ionia.
Two Years—C. A  Bugbee, C harlevoix.
ThreeYears—S. E.  Parkhill, Owosso.
Four Years—F. W. R  Perry,  Detroit 
F ive Years—
P resident— Fred’k W .R. P erry, D etroit.
Secretary—Stanley E. P&rkill, Owosso.
T reasurer—Geo. Gundrum, Ionia.
Ooraing  M eetings—Detroit  (Star  Island),  June  24; 
Lansing, Nov 5.

M ichigan  Stnte  P h arm aceu tical  Ass’n.
P resident—A. 8. Parker, Detroit.
V ice-President—John E.  Peck, D etroit.
Treasurer— W. Dupont,  Detroit.
Becretav—F. C. T hom pson. Detroit.
G rand  R apids  P h a rm a c e u tica l Society. 

W ritten for  T h e T radesman.

President, John E. Peck; Secretary, B. Schrouder#
W HY  BLAME  THE  DRUGGIST? 
“Good evening,  Doctor!”  And in blew 
my friend.  Doctor Starkey,  icicles on his 
mustache,  his great  fur  coat  a  mass  of 
snow—the incarnation of  the  storm rag­
ing outside my comfortable quarters.

“Rather a bad night for you to  be out, 
isn’t it?”  I asked,  pushing  him  a  chair 
near the register.

“Yes, but doctors  have little choice as 
to weather,  or time either,  for  that  mat­
ter,”  replied he.  “ How long before you 
close up?” he enquired.

“ Not  for  an  hour  yet,”  1  answered, 

glancing at my watch.

With  that  be  handed  me  a paper he 
had taken from his pocket, saying,  “Will 
you please till this  prescription  at  once, 
and James will call for it long before the 
hour’s up?  Place an  exact copy of  it in 
the  box,  beneath  the  powders,  and  do 
not fail  to have it ready, as  it  is  impor­
tant. 
I’ve  a  long cold drive before  me; 
I’m  going into the country  and  may  not 
get back  until  morning.  Good  night.” 
And,  bowing  to  mutual  friends  seated 
near,  with  whom he was well acquainted, 
he passed out into the  darkness.

Excusing  myself  to  the  loungers,  I 
stepped  behind  the  prescription  case, 
turned  the gas high  and  spread  out  the 
It  read  as  follows: 
formula before me. 

Kx.  Potass. N itratis grs.  xii.
Ipecac Pulveris grs. viii.
M orphia Sulph. grs.  xx.

F iat pul vis in ehartulas decim. dividendus. 
sk.na—One pow der every hour as directed.
My involuntary long-drawn  whistle at­
tracted the attention  of  my visitors,  as I 
carefully held the paper nearer  the light 
and scanned it  closely.

St a r k e y , M.D.

“Step here a  moment,  Mr.  Halstead” 
(addressing  the  eldest  of  my  visitors) 
“and  pass your opinion on this.”

He  came  forward  and  looked  at  the 
paper carefully.  After  a moment’s hes­
itation,  he said,  “ Well,  I  would not dare 
to send  that prescription out of my store, 
unless the physician  who wrote it carried 
it in person.”

“Rut  you heard him say that  it  is  im­
portant,  and  that  his  servant  will  call 
for it soon,”  said  I.

“ Yes,  1 heard  him say  that,  but  it  is 
now doubly important  that you treat the 
doctor’s twenty grains as an error.  You 
and 1 both know that  each of those pow­
ders,  as  prescribed,  would  contain  two 
grains  of  morphia,  which,  given  every 
hour to an adult—well!”  (with  a  signifi­
cant shrug of the shoulders)  “there’d  be 
‘death in the pot’ sure,  and  probably be­
fore the doctor’s return.  One  fourth  of 
a grain is the usual dose of morphia, you 
know;  and  evidently  this  patient  has 
some kind of fever.  Here  is  a  case  de­
manding  your  best  judgment,  and  you 
will be censured if you do not use it.”

“The  man  has  certainly  blundered,” 
said I.  “I have it!” I suddenly exclaimed. 
“I will take the responsibility  of  chang­
ing  that  twenty  grains  of  morphia  to

I  want  you 

three grains, and,  with that change only, 
I will put up the  ten  powders  and  will 
say  nothing. 
to  see  me 
weigh it out,  that I  may  call  you  for  a 
witness,  if  necessary.  You  see  the  fix 
I’m in. 
I  couldn’t  find  Doctor  Starkey 
now if the life  of  his  patient  depended 
on  it;  and,  although  I  might  hold  the 
prescription,  visit the  family  and  make 
explanations—well,  either  horn  of  the 
dilemma, would  injure  the  doctor  and, 
besides,  might prove fatal to the patient. 
At all events,  I  must  protect  the  good 
name of my friend.”

numbering 

I accordingly carefully copied the orig­
inal  prescription, 
both 
alike, and  folded  and  placed  the  exact 
copy in the box beneath the powders,  re­
serving the original to be placed  on  file, 
on the margin of which I wrote with ink, 
in parenthesis,  “Morphia sulph. changed 
to grs.  ill.”

Doctor Starkey’s servant, James,  came 
before my hour for closing,  as the doctor 
had  said  lfe  would.  Upon  questioning 
him regarding the patient, I learned that 
it  was  the  16-year-old  daughter  of  a 
wealthy gentleman living  in the suburbs 
of the city,  and  that she was supposed to 
be dangerously  ill.

I retired that night  with  a  clear  con­
sciousness of having performed my duty. 

*  *  *

Amid  the  noise  of  the  warring  ele­
ments,  the furious pull  of  my  nightbell 
brought me to the door of  my  residence, 
where  the  terrified  and  angry  counte­
nance of Doctor Starkey  confronted  me. 
As  be  stepped  inside,  I  closed the door 
and glanced  at  the  clock. 
It  was  half 
past  one.  He  was  about to speak but I 
motioned  him  to  follow  me  across  the 
hall and into my private office.  Drawing 
a chair for my visitor, to  which  he  paid 
no attention,  1 seated  myself in front  of 
him. 
I saw  that  he  was  fearfully  ag­
itated,  as he stood  lcoking me angrily in 
the face.  He was the first to speak.

“Merciful  heavens, Harvey, what have 
you or I done this night!”  he  exclaimed. 
“One of us will  be  held  responsible  for 
the death of Miss Langworthy!  My God! 
I fear 1 can’t save her!”  and his clenched 
hands trembled  with despair.  “I  found 
her in a deep sleep when  I got there, the 
first  sleep  she  has  had  for  forty-eight 
hours,  from  which  condition  it  seemed 
impossible to arouse her. 
In my trepida­
tion and  anxiety  I  suspected  an  error; 
yet the  peculiar  petechia  from  morphia 
was absent,  and the profuse perspiration 
and condition  of  the  pulse  were in  her 
favor. 
I  looked  at  the copy of my pre­
scription. 
It  reads,  ‘Morphia  sulph., 
twenty grains!’  Here it  is,  sir,  to  con­
front you.  Twenty  grains!  Enough  to 
kill  three or  four  persons!  Now,  what 
do  you  say to that?  Do you know,  pos­
itively,  whether you copied my  prescrip­
tion correctly, or who has made this fear­
ful mistake?  And  if I did  write twenty 
grains,  would you  not,  as  a  competent 
druggist,  know  it meant death to divide 
that into ten powders and give one every 
hour?  You,  sir,  must bear the responsi­
bility! 
I  could  not  have  made  such  a 
serious blunder!  As I say,  I  made  inef­
fectual eiforts to  arouse  my  patient. 
I 
then informed  the nurse,  without  excit­
ing  suspicion  or  comment,  that  it was 
necessary  to give her some  strong  coffee 
at  once.  She  quickly prepared it and  I 
succeeded in administering a  cup  and  a 
half  before  leaving  the  house.  Now, 
I want you to go right back with me, and 
we will walk her about  the room, if pos­

sible.  Fortunately,  James  lost his  way 
in the storm and did not deliver the med­
icine to the nurse until  nearly midnight, 
or the patient would have been past help, 
or had  I been detained  until  morning,  I 
should  have  found  her  dead!  But  she 
has already taken two of  those powders, 
which  means  she  has  swallowed  four 
grains of morphia!”  And  the  man,  still 
standing, reached  forward  and  grasped 
my arm like a vise,  awaiting my reply.

He had spoken  ro  rapidly  and  disor­
derly that 1  had  had  no  opportunity  to 
utter  a  word.  Now,  as  he paused,  his 
eyes  dilated  and  fixed  piercingly  on 
mine,  as if he  would read my  very  soul, 
I said:  “ Hear  me,  Doctor.  Probably  no 
one is really  blamable.  But  let  me  say 
to  you,  first,  to  relieve  your  wretched 
anxiety,  that Miss  Langworthy  will  not 
die  from  the  effects  of  the  medicine, 
whatever  else  may  happen.  She  has 
taken  only  about  three-fourths  of  one 
grain of morphia,  instead of four, accord- 

[Continued on page 22.)

D eaf and Dumb Men

when they want the

BEST sc CIGAR

on the market.

s .  c .  w .

is sold by a il Wholesale Druggists,'Confection­
ers and.G rocers  traveling  from  G rand  Rapids 
Ask your Jobber to send you a sample w ith next 
order or apply to

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

GRAND  RAPIDS. 

- 

MICH.

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

Doz.  Grò. 
l o s .  $  90  10  20
8 oz.  1  80  18  60
4 ox.  8  00  88  80
6 oz.  3  OO  33  00

LEMOfl

ßt/O&eJL

Doz.  Gro. 
1 oz. $ 1  SO  16  80
8 oz.  8  00  81  60
« oz.  3  76  40  80
6 oz.  5  40  57  60
P la in   N. S.  w ith  
corkscrew  a t sam e 
p rice If  p re fe rred .
C orrespondence

S olicited
riich.

SEELY  MFG.  CO.,  Detroit 

will be at Sweet’s Hotel,  Grand  Rapids, 
Thursday  and  Friday,  March 28 and 29, 
with  a  fall  line  of  samples  in  ready­
made  clothing  in Men’s, Youths’, Boys’ 
and  Childrens’.  Fourteen years with
Michael  Kolb  &  Son,

Clothing  Manufacturers, 

______________ Rochester, N. V.
J jT  f C   HEADACHE
T~> TT> 
r   J l i O l Y   O  
POWDERS
Pay tbe best profit.  Order from your jobber

Making a 
Name-----

WHEREVER SOLD.

THE  BEST  5c.  CIGAR 
EVER  PUT  IN  A  BO X !

WELLIUER l  HOFFMANN (¡0.

MILWAUKEE,  W 1S.
Wholesale  Distributors.
J.  A.  GONZALEZ,

Michigan  Representative

Signal  Five

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

MANUFACTURED  BY

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

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

Mail and  telegraph orders receive  special  attention.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,

19

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S.  N. Y. Q.  <fe

Morphia, S.  P. A W.  1 95®2 20 
C.  Co......................  1  85@2  10
Moschus  Canton........   @ 4 0
Myrlstlca, No  1 .........  65®  70
Nux Vomica, (po 20)..  @ 1 0
Os.  Sepia......................  15®  18
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D.
C o..............................   @2 00
Plcls Llq, N>C., M gal
doz  ...........................  @2 00
Plcls Llq., q u a rts.......  @1  00
p in ts..........   @  85
Pll Hydrarg,  (po. 80)..  @ 5 0
Piper  Nigra,  (po. 22)..  @ 1
Piper Alba,  (po g5)__   @  3
Pllx Burgun.................  @  7
Plumbl A cet...............   10®  12
Pul vis Ipecac et opll. .1  10@1  20 
Pyrethrum,  boxes  H
4 P . D.  Co.,doz.......  @125
Pyrethrum,  pv............  20®  30
8®  10
Quasslae...................... 
Qulnla, S. P. & W .......34K@39M
S.  German__   27®  37
Rubla  Tlnctorum.......  12®  14
SaccharumLactlspv. 
16®  18
S aladn.........................2 30@2  50
Sanguis  Draconls.......  40®  50
Sapo,  W ........................  12®  14
,T  M.........................   10®  12
“  G.........................   @  15

“ 

@ 20
Seldllts  M ixture........
18
Slnapls..........................
Ö
30
“  opt....................
®
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  De
Voe’s .........................
® 35
Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes @ 35
8® 10
Soda Boras,  ipo.9-10).
Soda  et Potass T art... 24® 25
Soda Carb................... 1M@ 2
3® 5
Soda,  Bl-Carb.............
Soda,  A sh.................... 3M@ 4
@ 2
Soda, Sulphas.............
50® 55
Spts. Ether C o ............
@2 00
“  Myrcla  Dom.......
@2 50
“  Myrcla Im p........
**  Vlnl  Rect.  bbl.
....7 ...........................S1  54@2 64
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Strychnia Crystal.......1 40@1  45
Sulphur, Subi............. 2&@ 3
Roll...............  2  @  2M
8® 10
Tam arinds............. ... 
Terebenth Venice.. ...  28® 30
Theobrom ae.......... ...45  @ 48
Vanilla.................... . .9 00@16 00
Zincl  Sulph............ ... 
7® 8

OILS.

Whale, w inter...........   TO 
Lard,  extra.................  60 
Lard, No.  1.................  40 
Linseed, pure raw —   59 

Bbl.  Gal
70
65
45
82

“ 

65
70
47

taints. 

Linseed,  boiled..........   62 
N eat’s  Foot,  w inter
65 
s tra in e d ..... ............ 
Spirits T urpentine__   42 
lb.
bbl. 
Red  V enetian............... 1 £  
2@8
Ochre, yellow  M ars__ 13£ 
2@4
“ 
B er......... 1 *   2@8
Putty,  com m ercial__ 2%  2M@3
“  strictly  p u re ....... 2M  2)4 @3
V erm ilion Prim e A m er­
ican ..............................  
13@15
V erm ilion,  E n g lish __  
68®72
Green,  P eninsular.......  
13@16
Lead,  re d .......................   5>4@6
w h ite ..................5)4@6
W hiting, w hite Span... 
@70
W hiting,  G liders’......... 
@90
W hite, Paris  American 
1 
W hiting.  Paris  Eng.
c l if f ..............................  
1  40
U niversal Prepared  ..1  C0@1  15

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VARNISHES.

No. 1  T urp  C oach___ 1  10@1  20
E xtra T u rp ................... 160@1  70
Coach  B ody..................2 75@8 00
No. 1 T urp  F u rn ......... 1  00@1  10
E u tra T urk D am ar__ 1  56®1  60
Jap an   Dryer,  No.  1 
T u rp ............................. 
70@75

W h o l e s a l e   P r i c e   C u r r e n t •

A dvanced-N itrate Silver.

Declined—Lard Oils, Gum Opium.

AC1DUM.

Acetlcum ....................
Benzolcum  German..
Boraclc 
......................
Carbollcum  .  ............
Cltrlcum ....................
Hydrocbior.................
Nltrocum 
...................
Oxallcum .....................
Phosphorlum  d ll........
Salley Ile u m ..................
Sulphurlcum...............
Tannlcum.....................1
Tartarlcum .................
AMMONIA.

8@   10 
65®  75 
15
21®  31 
41®  41 
3®  5
10®   12 
10®   12 
20
70®  75 
144®  5 
40®1  60 
30®  33

Aqua, 16  deg.................. 
20  deg..................  

4®  6
“ 
6®  8
bonas  ......................   12®  14
iorldum .....................  12® 14

ANILINE.

Black..................................2 00©2 25
Brown.......... .................   80@1 00
lU d..........................  «@ M
Yellow...............................2  SO®3 00

BACCAB.

Cnbeae  (po  25)...........  
20® 25
Junlperus.......................  8® 10
Xantnoxylum...............   25® 30

BALBAMU*.

Copaiba..........................  ®© 50
Peru............... .............. 
,_®3 "X
Terabln. Canada  .... 
45®  a0
T olutan..........................  55® 50

CORTEX.

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

EXTRA CTUM.
Glycyrrhlsa  G labra...
“ 
po.........
Haematox, 15 lb. box..
“ 
Is............
“  Ms...........
“  MB...........
Carbonate Preclp........
Citrate and Qulnla.  .
Citrate  S o lu b le........
Ferrocy anldum Sol —
Solnt  Chloride............
Sulphate,  com’l ..........
pure..............

m a n

" 

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

®  15 
@3 50 
®  80 ®  50 
®  15 
.9®  2
a   7

FLO R A .

A rnica.........................   12®  14
A nthem ls....................   18®  *
18® :5
Matricaria 

........ * 

F01.1A .

Barosma 
Cassia  Acutifol,  Tin-

.....................  14®  30
nlvelly......................  18®  j*
AJx.  25®  30
„
and  Mb......................   12®  20
8®  10

Salvia  officinalis,  Mb 
TJraTJral 
..................... 

“  3 

“ 

e u M M i.

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
•« 

®  80
Acacia, 1st  picked—  
®  40
2d 
.... 
8d 
®  30
.... 
®  20
sifted sorts... 
p o ...................  60®  80
Aloe,  Barb, (po. 60)...  50®  60
“  Cape, (po.  20)...  @ 1 2
Soootrl,  (po.  60) 
@ 5 0
Catechu, Is, (Ms, 14 Mb,
16)............................. 
®  1
Ammonlae..................   55®  60
50® 6
Assafcetida, (po 50; 
Bensomum..................   50®  55
Camphors» 
<4® 50
Euphorblum  po  ........   35®  lo
Galbannm....................   ®2 50
Gamboge,  po...............  65®  80
Guaiacum,  (po  85)  ...  @ 3 »
Kino,  (po  2 50)..........   @2  50
M astlo.........................   @  80
Myrrh, (po. 45)............  @  40
Opll  (po  3 30@3 501. .2  35@2 40
40®  60
Shellac  ...................... 
4  @ 15
bleached  —  
T ragacanth............... 
50®  80

“ 
hbbba—In ounce packages.

Absinthium ...........................  25
Eupatorlum ...........................  20
Lobelia....................................  26
M ajorum................................  28
Mentha  Piperita...................  28
“  V lr...........................   25
Bue..........................................   80
Tanacetum, V ........................  22
Thymus,  V .............................  25

M AGNESIA.

Calcined, P at...............  55®  60
Carbonate,  P at............  20®  22
Carbonate, K. 6   M —   20®  2b
Carbonate, Jenning5..  35®  36

OLSTTM.

Absinthium ..................2 50@3 00
Amygdalae, Dulc........   30®  50
Amydalae. Amarae— 8  00@8 25
A nlsl..............................1 90@2 00
Aurantl  Cortex............1 80@2 00
Bergamll  .....................3  00@3 20
Cajlputl...................... 
60®  65
Caryophylll.................  75®  80
C ed ar...........................   35®  65
Chenopodll.................  @1  60
Clnnam onll..................1  £5®1 40
Cltronella....................   @  45
Conlum  Mac...............   SB®  65
Oopnlba........................  80®  90

Cubebae.........................l  25®l 35
Bxechthltos...............   1  20® 1  30
Brlgeron....................... 1  2G@1 30
G aultherla....................1  50@1 60
Geranium,  ounce.......  @  75
Gosslpli,  Sem. gal.......  70®  75
Hedeoma  .....................1  25®1  40
Jum perl.......................   50®2 00
L avendula..................  90®2 00
Llm onis.................. 
1  40@i  60
..........  2  10@3 00
Mentha Piper 
Mentha Verld 
...........1  R0@2 00
Morrhuae, gal 
......... 1  70®1  75
Myrcla, ounce.............   ®  50
Olive............................   90@3 00
P lds Liquids, (gal. .35)  10®  12
R lclnl......................... 
88®  96
Roemarini............ 
1  00
Rosae,  ounce.............   6 50@8 50
Succlnl.........................   40®  45
Sabina.........................   90®1  00
Santal  ......................... 2 50®7 00
Sassafras......................  50®  56
Slnapls, ess, ounce....  @  65
Tlglfi............................   @1  00
Thym e.........................   40®  50
o p t..................  @160
Theobromas.................  15®  20

r‘ 

PO TASSIUM .

BICarb...  ...................  15®  18
Bichrom ate.................  13®  14
Bromide...................... 
40®  43
Carb............................    12®  15
Chlorate  (po. 17®19)..  16®  18
Cyanide........................  50®  55
Iodide............................2  90@3 00
Potassa, Bltart,  pure..  23®  25 
Potassa, Bltart, com ...  @  15
Potass  Nltras, opt....... 
8®  10
Potass Nltras...............  
7®  9
Prusslate......................  28®  30
3ulphate  po.................  15®  18

R A D IX .

A conltum ....................   20®  25
Althae...........................  22®  25
A nchusa......................  12®  15
Arum,  po......................  @  25
Calamus........................  20®  40
Gentlana  (po. 12)....... 
8®  10
Glychrrhlsa, (pv. 15)..  16®  18 
Hydrastis  Canaden,
(po. 35)....................  
@  30
Hellebore,  Ala,  po__   15®  20
Inula,  po......................  15®  20
Ipecac,  po......................1  30@l 40
Iris  plox (po. 35®38)..  35®  40
J&lapa,  p r....................   40®  45
Maranta,  Mb...............  @  35
Podophyllum, po........   15®  18
Bhei................................  75@1 00
“  cu t........................  @1  75
“  pv.........................   75@1  36
Splgella.........................   35® 38
Sanguinarla,  (po  25)..  @ 2 0
Serpen tarla..................   50®  55
Senega.........................  56®  60
Slmilax, Officinalis.  H  @ 4 0  
M  @  25
Sdllae, (po. 85)..............  10® 12
Symplocarpus,  Foeti-
  @  35
Valeriana, Bng.  (po.30)  ®  25
German...  15®  20
Ingiber a .....................  
18® 20
18® 20
Zingiber  j ..................... 

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

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S IM S N .
Anlsum,  (po.  20). 
..  ®  15
Aplum  (graveleons)..  14®  16
Bird, is ........................... 
4® 6
Carol, (po. 18)...............   10® 12
Cardamon..........................1  00@1 25
Corlandrum...................  12®  14
Cannabis Satlva..........  4® 
5
Cydonium......................  75@1 00
Chenopodlum  ..............  10® 12
Dlpterlx Od orate  ....... 1  80@2 00
Foenlculum............... 
O  15
Foenugreek,  po 
8
6® 
L in l.........................  
3W@ 
Linl, grd.  (bbl. 3M  ■  3»@  4 
Lobelia. . .  
35®  40
5
4® 
Pharlarls Canarian 
P a p a .............................  4M®  5
Slnapls  Albu............ 
7® 
8
N igra...........   11®  12

* 

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SPIR 1TU 8.
Frumentl, W., D.  Co  .2 0U®2  50
D. F. R .......2 00@2 25
1  25®1  50
 
Junlperls  Co. O. T — 1  65@2 00
** 
1  75®3  50
Saacharum  N.  It......... 1  90@2 10
Spt.  Vinl  G alll............ 1  75@6 50
Vlnl Oporto...............  1  25@2 00
Vlnl  Alba......................... 1  25@2 00

 

SFONSBS

Florida  sheeps'  woul 
carriage. 
Nassau  sheeps'  wool
carriage  .................. 
Velvet  extra  sheeps’
wool  carriage.......... 
Extra  yellow  sheeps'
carriage  ..................  
Grass sheeps’ wool car­
riage  ......................... 
Hard for  slate  use  ... 
Yellow Reef, for  slate 
u s e ............................  

2  50®2 75

2 00
1  10
86
65
75
1  40

STRUTS.

 

A o cad a........................  
50
Zingiber  ................................  50
Ipecac.....................................   60
Ferri  Iod................................  50
Aurantl  Cortes......................  50
Rhel  Arom.............................  50
Slmilax  Officinalis...............   60
....  50
Senega...................................   50
ScUlae.....................................  50
“  Co................................  50
T o iatan ..................................  50
Prunas  flrg...........................  50

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TINCTURES.

“

66 

TP 

“ 

“  

Co.............   60

Co.............  75

Aconltum  Napellls R ..........  60
Kfl
Aloes.......................................... 60
and  m yrrh....................   60
A rn ica.....................................  50
Asafcetlda..............................   0
A trope Belladonna.................  60
Bensoln..................................  60
„ 
Co.............................  50
Sanguinarla...........................  50
Barosm a..................................  50
Cantharldes.............................  75
Capsicum..............................   50
Ca damon..............................   75
„   “ 
Castor...........................................1 00
Catechu....................................  50
C inchona..............................   50
„  
Columba................................  50
C onlum ..................................  50
Cubeba...................................   50
D igitalis................................  50
Ergot.........................................  50
G entian..................................  50
Co................................   60
G ualca...................................   50
Z ingiber..................................  50
Hyoscyamus.........................   50
Iodine.......................................  75
Ferri 
K in o .........................................  50
Lobelia.....................................  50
M yrrh.....................................  50
Nux  Vomica...........................  50
O pll...................................  
 
"  Camphorated.................  50
“  Deodor................................ 2 00
Aurantl Cortex........................  50
Q uassia...................................   50
R h atan y ..................................  50
Rhel..........................................  50
Cassia  Acutifol......................   50
Co.................  50
Serpentarla.............................  50
Stromonlum...........................  60
T olutan..................................  60
V alerian..................................  50
VeratrumVerlde....................   50

Colorless.......  75
Chlorldum.....   35

ammon.........  60

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MISCELLANEOUS.

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“ 

f‘ 
ground, 

¿Ether, Spts  Nit, 8 F ..  35®  38 
“  4 F ..  38®  40
A lum en.......................   2M@ 3

cent  ...............................  

(po.
7)................................ 
3®  4
A nnatto........................  56®  60
Antlmonl, po............... 
4®  5
55®  60
et Potass T. 
A ntlpyrln....................  @1  40
Antlrebrln....................  @  25
Argentl  Nltras, ounce  @  51
Arsenicum..................  
5®  7
Balm Gilead  Bud__  
38®  40
Bismuth  S.  N ............. 1  30@1  40
Calcium Chlor, Is, (Ms
12;  Mb* 14)...............  @  11
Cantharldes  Russian,
p o ..............................   @1  00
Capsid  Fructus, a f...  ®  26
“ po ....  @  28
®  20
“ B po. 
Caryophyllus,  (po.  15)  10®  12
Carmine,  No. 40..........   @3 75
Cera  Alba, S. & F .......  50®  56
Cera Flava..................   40®  42
Coccus  .......................   @  40
Cassia Fructus............ 
Q   25
Centrarla......................  @  10
Cetaceum....................   Q   40
Chloroform.................  60®  68
squlbbs..  @1  26
Chloral Hyd Crst........ 1  2o@l  50
20®  25
Chondrus 
Ctnchonidlne, P.  6   W  15®  20
German  3M@  12 
Corks,  list,  dls.  per
@  35
Creasotum ...............  
@  2
Crete,  (bbl. 75)......... 
“  prep.................... 
5®  5
9®  11
“  preclp...............  
“  Rubra.................  ®  3
Crocus........................ 
50®  55
Cudbear.......................   ®  24
Cupri Sulph.................  5 ®   6
D extrine......................  10®  12
Ether Sulph.................  75®  90
Emery,  all  numbers..  @
p o ....................  @  6
Brgota, (po.)  40..........  30®  35
Flake  W hite...............  12®  15
G alla.............................  @  23
Gambler.......................   7  @ 8
Gelatin,  Cooper..........   @  60
French............  30®  50
Glassware  flint, by box 60.
Less than box  50.
Glue,  Brown...............  
9®  15
“  W hite.................  18®  26
G lycerins....................   13®  20
Grans Paradisl............  @  22
Humulus......................  25®  56
Hydraag  Chlor  Mite..  @  75
**  C o r__   @ 6 5
Ox Rubrum  @  85 
@  95
Ammnnlatl. 
Unguentum.  45®  55
Hydrargyrum.............   @  60
Ichthyobolla, Am..  ..1  25®1  50
Indigo...........................  75@1 00
Iodine,  Resubi............3 80@3  90
Iodoform......................  @4  70
Lupulln........................  @2 25
Lycopodium...............  60®  65
M arts...........................  70®  75
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy-
ararg lo d ...................  @  27
Liquor Potass ArslnltlB  10®  12 
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
Mannla,  S. F ...............   60®  6>

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

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It  is  now the season  to  buy for Spring Trade.

S p o n g e s  and.

In  S p o n g e s

* 

C h a m o is S k in s .

We carry  a full line.

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,
Mediterranean Bath,

and a full and complete line of 
from  l^c each to 80c each and in assorted cases.

O u r  L in e  o f  C h a m o is

is complete and prices are right  for  first-class  goods.

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HBIELT1NE  1 

PERKINS  DRUG  GO..

M a n u fa c tu r in g   C h e m is ts ,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

GROCERY  PRICE  CURRENT.

The prices quoted in this list are for the  trade only, in such quantities as are usually purchased by retail  dealers.  They are prepared just before 
going to press  and  are an accurate  index of  the local  market. 
It is impossible to give  quotations  suitable for all conditions of  purchase, and those 
below are given  as  representing  average  prices  for average  conditions of  purchase.  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 LE  GREASE.
Aurora  ....................  55 
Jastor Oil...............  
60 
Diamond..................   50 
Frazer’s  ................. 
‘5 
Mica  ................  
65 
.................  55 
Paragon 

doz  gross
6 £0
700
5  50
9 00
.50
b  00

BA KIN G   PO W D ER , 

acm e.
>%  id.  ;aus.3  doz....
v»>-, 
,  “ .............
1  “  ..................
lib .  1 
» a ll....................................
Arctic.
<4 1b cans 6 doz  case........
.........
^  lb  “  4 doz  “ 
1  ib  “  2 doz  “ 
.........
1 doz  “ 
5  ib  “ 
.........
Queen Flake.
.........
3  oz cans 6 doz  “ 
.........
6  oz  '•  4doz  “ 
.........
9  oz  “  4 doz 
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1  lb  “  2 doz 
“ 
.......
.........
ldoz  “ 
5  lb  “ 
Red Star, !%  Ib  cans
..........
44 
“ 
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lib   “ 
Teller’s, K lb. cans,  do*.
“  •
54 lb.  “ 
1 lb.  '
Our Leader,  *% -b cans.  -
44 lb  cans.......
1 lb cans. . . .
BATH  B R IC K .
2 dozen In case.

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45 
75 
1  60 
10
55 
1  10 
2  00 
9 00
2  70
3  an
4  SO 
4  00 
9 00
40 
75 
1  40 
45 
35 
1  50 
45 
75 
1  50

BLUING.
Arctic, 4 o*  ovals—

E nglish.................................
Bristol.....................................  "J
......................................  w
Gross 
.  3 60
“ 
So*  “ 
pints,  round........... 9  00
“ 
“  No. 2, sifting box...  2 75
“  no. 3, 
• ••<¡*
“  No. 5, 
...  8 00
l o* bail  ...................  4  50
“ 
Mexican Liquid, 4 oz........   3 60
“ 
8 oz..........   6  80

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¡So. 2 Hurl............................   1  90
so. i  ■ 
..............................*55
No. 2 Carpet...........................*  ¡5
......................... 2  50
No. 1 
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Parlor Gem............................. * 50
Common W hisk..................  
85
Fancy 
1  ou
Warehouse.............................2  85

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b r u s h e s .

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Stove, No.  1.........................  1  ®
“  10.........................   1  St.
“  15........................... 1  7E
Sloe Root Scrub, 2  row....  86
Rice Root  Scrub, 3 row .  ..  1  26
Palmetto,  goose..................   1  50

CANDLES.

Hotel, 40 lb. boxes..............   19
Star,  40 
3
Paraffine  ...............................13
Wlcking 
...............................¿4

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CANNED  GOODS. 

F ish.
Clam*.

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Little Neck,  1 lb .................... 1 20
1 90
“  2  lb ...............  
Clam Chowder.
Standard, 31b...............  
.  2 25
Cove Oysters.
Standard,  1 ID......................  80
2 lb ....  ..............1  45
Lobsters.
Star,  i  ib................................2 45
2  lb ................................8 50
Picnic, 1 lb.................... 
2  00
2 l c ...........................   2 30
Mackerel
Standard, 1 lb .........................1 10
2  ib .........  ...........2  10
Mustard,  2 lb ....................  .2  25
Tomato Sauce,  21b...............2 35
Soused, 2 lb ............... 
.2 25
Salmon.
Colombia River, Oat..............1 80
“  «all*  ...........1  65
»•sw«  Red 
.................... 1  9>

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Im port'd  *%*
Mustard
Boneless

3 lb. standard.........
fo rk  State, gallons. 
Hamburgh,  11

21 

.2 50

90 
2  75

Apricots.

Pears.

Gages.

1  40 
Live oak.
1  40 
Santa  Crux
1  50 
Lusk’s ........
Overland —
t  10
Blackberries
85
F. A  W ...........................
Cherries.
©1 I»
Red..............................
Pitted Hamburgh
1  40 
White 
.......................
1  15
Erie  ....................
Damsons, Egg Plums and Green 
1  00 
Erie  .............................
1  05
California..............—
Gooseberries.
1  25
Common......................
Peaches.
P ie ...............................
1  10 
1  50 
M axw ell......................
1  50
Shepard’s ....................
California....................  160@1  75
....................
Monitor 
Oxford 
....
Domestic...................... 
1  1
Riverside...................... 
1  40
Pineapples.
Common....................... 1  00@1  30
2 50 
Johnson's  sliced
2 75 
grated........
Booth’s sliced.............
@2 51 
grated............
@2 75
Quinces.
Common......................
1  10
Raspberries.
Red  ..............................
95 
Black  Hamburg..........
1  40 
Î 10
Brie,  b la c k .................
Strawberries.
Lawrence....................
1  25 
Ham burgh..................
1  25 
Erie...............................
85 80
T errapin.........................
Whortleberries.
85
Blueberries.................
Meats.
Corued  beef 
.................
...2   15 
...2 25 
....................
Roast beef 
Potted  ham, *4 lb ..........
...1  25 70
“ 
ii lb ............
tongue, Hi lb ................135
14  lb ............   75
chicken, 1% lb ........... 
95

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Beans.

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Peas.

Corn.

Hamburgh  stringless..........1  15
French style.........2 00
Limas.....................1 25
Lima, green...........................115
soaked..........................  70
Lewis Boston Baked.............1 25
Bay State  Baked....................1 25
World’s  Fair  Baked.............1 25
Picnic Baked.........................   95
Ham burgh..............................1 15
Livingston  E d e n .................. 1 00
P u rity .....................................  90
Honey  Dew.......................... 1  25
Morning Glory 
..........
Soaked.................................. 
75
Hamfcnrgh  m arrofat.............1 30
early June  .  ...1 50
Champion Eng. .1  40
petit  pols........... l 40
1  65
fancy  sifted 
Soaked....................................  g5
E&rri s standard....................   75
VanCamp’s  m arrofat........... 1 10
early Ju n e.........180
Archer’s  Early Blossom. ...1  25
F rench....................................2 15
Mushrooms.
French  ............................ 19©2l
Pumpkin
E rie...........................  
85
Squash.
H ubbard................................. 1 15
Succotash.
Hamburg................................. 1 3
Soaked__  
80
Honey  Dew 
.......................1  30
E rie ......................................... 1 35
Hancock................................   90
Excelsior  . . . —.— ...............   9o
Eclipse............................ 
90
Hamburg..... ...........................1  25
G allon.........................— ..3 00

Tomatoes.

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CHOCOLATE.

Baker’s.

German Sweet.................... 
Premium............................. 
Breakfast  Cocos...............  

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Medal 

CH EESE.
1  H
.......... 
12 »
Lenawee...................... 
1>V4
Riverside..................... 
.............
(49
>*¡u.............................. 
11
arica....................... 
Edam............................ 
uo
Leiden.........................  
20
©!5
Limburger  ..........  ... 
Pineapple....................   ©24
R ounefort..... ...........  
©85
s»: z  k-CP 
^ ‘.’O
»chweitser, Imported.
domestic  ....  ©14

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37
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CREAM   TARTAR.
Strictly  pure........................ 
Telfer s  Absolute...............  
Grocers’......................  
CATSUP.

30
30
  15©25

•• 

Blue Label Brand.
.. 
2 76
Half  pint, 25 bottles 
4 5o
. . . .  
Pint 
Quart 1 doz bottles 
.  .. .8 50 
Triumph Brand.
Half pint, per  doz...............1  35
Pint, 25 bottles......................4 50
Quart, per  doz  ....................3 75

CLOTHES  PIN S.

5 gross boxes..................40©45

COCOA  SHELLS.

351b  bags........................  ©3
Less  quantity.....  .........  ©31%
Pound  packages...........64i@7

COI PON  BOOKS.

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6  1 books, per  bnndred. 
6 2
6 8
6 5
610 
620 
6  1 books, per  hundred 
6 2 
6 3 
6  5 
610 
620

"Superior.”

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2  00
2 50 
8  00
3 00
4  00
5 00
2 50
3 00
3 50
4 00
5 00
6 00

CO FFEE.
G reen.
Rift

Santos.

F air........................ ................18
Good...................................... 10
Prim e.................................... 21
Golden...................................21
Peaberry  .............................. 23
F air........................................19
Good......................................20
Prim e....................................22
Peaberry  .............................. 23
Mexican and Guatamala.
F air........................................21
Good......................................22
Fancy.................................... 24
Prim e....................................23
M illed...................................24
Interior.................................25
Private Grqwth................... 27
Mandeb lin g ........................ 28
Im itation..............................25
Arabian.................................28

Maracaibo.

Mocha.

Java.

R oasted.

To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add 14c. per lb. for roast 
Ing and 15 per  cent,  for shrink 
age.
M cL aughlin’s  XXXX..  £2 30
Bnnola  ..............................  21  80
Lion, 60 or 100 lb.  case__   22  30

Package.

E xtract.

Valley City  44 gross...........  
75
1  15
Felix 
Hummel’s, foil,  gross............i 65
“ 
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CHICOBV.

Bulk........................................  5
R ed....................................   ..  7

CLOTHES  LINES.

60 ft.,

’OtKJß,  SU f t . .
53 ft..
70 ft..
60 ft..
60 ft.
72 ft  .

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M 

. per do*.  1  25 
. 
1 40
1  60
1 75
1 90
86 

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CONDENSED  M ILK . 

4 do*. In case.

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

Peerless evaporated cream  5 75

U n iv ersal  ’

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63 00
6  1  books, per hundred 
6 2
3  50
4 00
6 3 
5 00 
6 5 
610 
.  6  007 00
620 
Above prices on coupon books 
are  subject  to  the  following 
quantity discounts:
200 books or over..  5  per  cent 
500 
“ 
1000  “ 
COUPON  PASS  BOOKS. 
|Can  be  made to represent any 
denomination  from 610  down. | 
20 books...........................6100
50
00 
3  00 
100
6 25 
250
500
10 00 
17 50
1000

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.20 

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C RED IT  CHECKS.

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Butter.

500, any one denom’n .......13 00
1000,  “  “ 
.......5 00
2000,  “ 
....... 8 00
“ 
Steel  punch..................
CRACKERS.
Seymour XXX...............
Seymour XXX, cartoon
Family  XXX.................
Family XXX,  cartoon.
Salted XXX..................
Salted XXX,  cartoon  .
Kenosha 
....................
Boston............................
Butter  biscuit..............
Soda,  X X X ...........................  5*4
Soda, City..............................   744
Soda,  Duchess........................844
Crystal Wafer  ...................... 1044
Long  Island Wafers 
S. Oyster  XXX......................  544
City Clyster. XXX..................  544
Farina  Oyster......................  6

Oyster.

........ 11

Soda.

D R IE D   FRUITS. 

D om estic.

Apples.

9

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6’4

PeacheF.

Apricots.

Snndried,.........................  
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes 
California In  bags........7 44 @844
Evaporated In boxes.  . 
Blackberries.
In  boxes__  
....
Nectarines.
70 lb. bags  ...................
25 lb. boxes...................
Peeled, In  boxes..........
Cal. evap.  “ 
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“ 
In bags........
California In bags.......
California boxes..........
Pitted  Cherries
Barrels...........................
50 lb. boxes...................
26  “ 
...................
Prunelles.
80 lb.  boxes..................
Raspberries.
In  barrels......................
501b. boxes....................
......................
251b.  “ 
luscaielb lu Box-: 344

Pears.

614

9*

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Loose Muscatels In Bags.
.................................... 3J
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2  crown 
3 

354

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F oreign
Currants.

Patras,  bbls........   .........  @444
Yostizzas. 6 ’ lb.  rnsps  .......   4*4
25;ib.’ boxes.............................544
1.1b.. packages  .....................6%

SChuit’s Cleaned.

Peel.

Citron, Leghorn. 25 lb. boxes  12 
Lemon 
8
Orange 

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25  “ 
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25 
Raisins.

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

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644© 8
444

Prunes.
California,  100-120 ...............   3%
90x100 25 lb. bxs.  544 
80x90 
..  6
644
70x80 
.  7
60x70 
1044

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Turkey........   ...............
.........................  
Silver 
ENVELOPES 
XX rag, white.
No. 1, 644.......................  
No. 2.644 
............  
No. 1,6.............  
No. 2 ,6 .... 

Manilla, white.

644 
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6............................................ 

61  35
1  1«
12b
100

75
70

Coin.

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

90
FARINACEOUS  GOODS. 

115 lb. kegs.

Farina.

Grits.

244

Hominy.
..................... 

Walsh DeRoo  &  Co.’s .......  1  85
  244
Barrels 
G rits ........................................  344
Dried..........   .................   5@544

Lima  Beans.

Maccaron! and Vermicelli.
Domestic, 12 lb. box__  
Imported......................1044@11

55

Pearl Barley.

Schum acher...................... 

3&

Peas.

Green,  bu..........................   1  10
Split  per l b ................... 
244

Rolled  Oats.

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Schumacher, bbl...............   $4  65
’44 b b l...........   2 50
Monarch,  bbl 
.................  4  00
Monarch, 44  bbl........................ 2 13
Quaker,  cases.........................   3 20
Oven Baked................................ 3 25

Sago.

Germ an................................  3
East India.............................  344
Cracked.............................  .  3

Wheat.

F IS H —Salt.

Bloaters.

Cod.

Yarmouth..................................  1 65
Georges cured..................   4
Georges genuine..............6
Georges selected..............7
Boneless,  bricks............. 64i
Boneless,  strips...............  6%©9

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Herring
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44  “  40  “ 
Mackerel.

Halibut.
Smoked....................  
11©12
80 
Holland, white hoops keg 
in to
bbl 
Norwegian  .........................  11 00
Round, 44 bbl 100 lbs........   2 55
.......... 
1 30
Scaled.................................. 
15
No. 1,  100 lbs....................... 11  50
No. 1, 40 lb s..........................4  90
No. 1,  10 lbs........................   1  30
No. 2,100 lbs....................... 1« no
No. 2,40 lbs.........................  4  30
No. 2,10  lbs........................   1  15
Family, 90 lbs......................
10  lbs ...................
Russian,  kegs...................:.. 
55
No. 1,  44 bbls., 1001 bs...........4  50
No.  1 44 bbl, 40  lbs..............2  C5
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs...............  
to
52
No  1,8 lb  kits................... 

Sardines.
Trout.

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J4  iiUJs,.  I0t. 10s 
*>  “  ........  
4» 
10 lb.  kits..................  
817). 
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i8  (i  3  75
3 25  17.
9 
50
80  43

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WATCHES.

Globe Match Co.’s Brands.
..  1  00

Columbia Parlor...................31 25
XXX Sulphur......... 
Diamond  Match  Co.’s  Brands.
No  y  niipnnr......................... 1 if
Anunur p&riur........................1 70
No. 2 home..............................1 10
Export  parlor........................4  00

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

Souders’.

“ 10

Regular 
Grade 
Lemon.

do*
2 os  . . . 6   75 
4 01  ....  1  50

Regular 
Vanilla.

do*
2 oz.......61  20
4 oz.........2 40
XX Grade 
Lemon.
2 oz....... 61  50
4 oz.......  3 00
XX Grade 
Vanilla.
2 oz....... 61  75
4 oz.........3 50

Jen n in g s.
Lemon. Vanilla 
2 os regular panel.  75 
130
...1  50 
4 0* 
“ 
60* 
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.. .2 00 
No. 3  taper 
.......135 
No. 4  taper............1  50 
N o rth ro p ’s
2 oz  oval taper  75 
3 oz 
1 20 
“ 
85 
2 oz regular  “
4 oz 
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1 60 

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G UNPOW DER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.

Lemon.  Vanilla.

200
2 50

2 00
3 00

1 10
1 75
1 20
2 25

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

Choke Bore—Dupont’s

Eagle Duck—Dupont’s.

60

H ERBS.

IN D IG O .

Kegs............................................11 00
Half  k e g s .................................. 5 75
Quarter kegs...............................3 00
1  lb  cans..............................  
Sage.........................................15
Hops........................................15
Madras,  5 lb. boxes.......... 
55
50
S. F., 2, 3 and 5 lb. boxes.. 
15  lb. palls...................  @  34
“ 
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................  ©   49
30  “  “ 
.................   @  10
LICO RICE.
Pure.........................................  30
Calabria..................................  26
Sicily.......................................  18
Root.........................................  10
LYE,
Condensed, 2  do*................ 1  20
4 do*  ...............2 25

JE L L Y .

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M INCE  M EAT.

Mince meat, 3 doz. In case.  2  75 
Pie Prep. 3  doz.  In  case— 2 75 

MEASURES.
Tin, per dosen.

1  gallon..............................   61  75
Half  gallon.......................   1  40
Q n a it.................................. 
70
P in t.....................................  
45
Half  p i n t .......  ................ 
40
Wooden, for vinegar, per do*.
1 gallon...................... 
 
7  00
Half gallon........................  4  75
Q u art..................................  3 75
P int 

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N«w O rleans.

Cuds Baking.
Porto »ill-.
 

;U Sar HuU«t 
... 
Urdlusry 
Prime 
 
Fancy 
 
F a ir.....................................  
Good  ....... 
Bxtn. good.........................  
Ciiuiue 
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  
F a n c y ... 
............................ 
Half -barrels Sc.extra

¡4
¡6
20
80
18
22
27
32
40

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

Small.

0 4  CO 
0 2   50
5 75 
3  40

Clay, No.  216...........................1 70
«  T. D. full count............  70
Cob, No.  3  .............................1  20

PO TASH .

48 cans In case.

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Babbitt’s ............................   4  00
Fenna Salt  Co.’s...............   8  00

R IC E .
Domestic.
Carolina head...................— 5*4
No. 1.......................5
No. 2........................ 4*4
Broken..................................   3*4
Imported.
Japan, No. 1........................... 6*4
No. 2.......................5
Java...................... ........ ... 
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Patna......................................  4*4

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SPICES.

Whole Sifted.

Allspice..................................  8*4
Cassia, China In m ats.................  9*4

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Pure Ground in Bulk.

Batavia In bund— 15
Saigon In rolls.........32
Cloves,  Amboyna................. 22
Zanzibar.............. .'..11*4
Mace  Batavia........................70
Nutmegs, fancy.....................65
“  No.  1.........................80
“  NO. 2.........................5a
Pepper, Singapore, black— 10 
fc 
w hite...  .20
shot........................... 16
“ 
Allspice...................................I®
Cassia,  Batavia.....................18
and  Saigon.25
>< 
Saigon......................35
“ 
Cloves,  Amboyna..................22
•*  Zanzibar................... 18
Ginger, A frican.....................16
*•  Cochin....................  20
Jam aica...................22
“ 
Mace  Batavia........................65
Mustard,  Bng. and Trieste..22
“  Trieste...................... 25
Nutmegs, No. 2 .....................75
Pepper, Singapore, black — 16
,r   w hite.......24
“  Cayenne....................20
Sage.........................................20
•’Absolute” In Packages.Ug 
^g
Allspice........................  84  1  56
Cinnamon....................   84  1  55
CloveB...........................   84  1  55
Ginger,  Jam aica.........  84  1  55
A frican............  84  1  55
Mustard........................  84  1  55
Pepper..........................  84  155
Sage?..... 

...................  84

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SAL  SODA.

“ 

Granulated,  bbls................  1*4
751b  cases........   124
Lump, bbls 
................  1M
1451b  kegs................  1*4

“ 

SEEDS.
A nise..........................
Canary, Smyrna........
Caraw ay....................
Cardamon, Malabar..
Hemp,  Busslan.........
Mixed  B ird...............
Mustard,  w hite........
Poppy .........................
R ap e...........................
Cuttle  bone...............
STARCH.

Corn.

@13

80
4
4*4
98
4*4
80

“ 

“ 
“ 

20-lb  boxes........................... .  6
........................... ■
40-lb 
Gloss.
.  5*4
1-lb packages........................
.  6*4
8-lb 
.......................
........................ •  5*
6-lb 
40 and 50 lb. boxes............. .  3%
Barrels.................................. .  3*4
Scotch, In  bladders............ .37
Maccaboy  In jars............... .35
.43
French Rappee, In Ja rs...
B oxes................................... ..5*»
Kegs, English...................... • ■4M

SNUFF.

SODA,

SALT.

“ 

Diamond Crystal.
Cases, 24 3  lb. boxes........ 8  1  60
2150
Barrels, 320  lbs.................
4  00
1152*4 lb bags.... 
“ 
3  75
lb  “ 
....
60 5 
“ 
.... 3 50
3010  lb  “ 
“ 
65
Butter, 56 lb  bags.............
“  20141b bags.............. 3 50
“  280 lb  b b ls ............
2
2 25
“  2241b 
............
Worcester.
115 2*4-lb Backs.................... 14 (0
...................
3 ?
“ 
60 5-lb 
.................... 3  50
“ 
3010-lb 
...................... 3 30
22  14 lb.  “ 
3201b. bbl............................. 2 50
8 lb  sacks......................... 32*4
60
100 3-lb. sacks...................... •2  10
..................... .  1  90
60 5-lb. 
28 10-lb. sackB................... .  1  75
30
56 lb. dairy In drill  bag».. 
16
281b. 
•
75
56 lb. dairy in linen sacks.
7Ö
56 lb. dairy In linen  sacks
22
56  1l.  sacks.......................
Common Fine.
Saginaw  ..  ......................
90
90
Manistee  ...................... 
-

linen acks................
Common Grades.

Ashton.
Higgins.

Soiar Rock.

Warsaw.

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

T T T T T   M I C H I G A N  

'T & A IX ttB É lU L S r*

SALERATCS.

Packed 60 lbs. in box.

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

3  00

 

SEELY’S  EXTRACTS. 

810 20 gro
12 60  “
14 40  “

IS  20 gro
21 60  “
25 50  •*

Lemon.
1 oz. F. M.  $ 90 doz. 
’■ 
2  “  N. S.  1 20 
2 a“  P. M.  1 40  “ 
Vanilla.
1 oz. F. M.  1  50 doz. 
2  •’  N.  S.  2 00  “ 
2  “  P. M.  2 50  “ 
Lemon.
Vanilla.
SOAP.
L aundry.

Rococo—Second  Grade. 

2 oz...............75 doz.......   8 00  “
2 doz........   1  00 doz.......10 50  *'

G.  R. Soap  Works Brands. 

Concordia, 100 24 lb. bars... 3  50
5 box  lots............. 3 35
10 box lots.............3 30
20 box lots......... 3  20

“ 
“ 
“ 
Best German Family.

60 l ib. bars................................2 25
5 box  lots..................................2 15
25 box lots...................................2 00
Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.
Old Country,  80  1-lb............3 20
Good Cheer, 601 lb .................... 3 90
White Borax, 100  24-lb..............3 65

Proctor & Gamble.

“ 

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

Dingman Brands.

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

Jas. S. Kirk A Co.’s  Brands. 

“ 

“ 

American  Family, w rp d ..83  33 
plain...  3  27
N.  K.  Fairbank A Co.’s Brands.
Santa Claus.  ......................  3 9)
Brjwn, 60 bars...........................2 10
80  bars  .................... 3  10

“ 
Lautz Bros. A.Co.’s Brands.

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

3  65

... 

 

 

S ilv e r.....................................   3  66
M o n o ........................................3  30
Savon Im proved....................2  50
S u n flo w er...............................2  80
G olden......................................3  25
Econom ical  .........................  2  25

Scouring.

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

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

“ 

SUGAR.

Below  are  given  New  York 
prices on sugars, to  w hich  the 
w holesale  dealer  adds  the  lo­
cal freight  from   New  York  to 
your  shipping  point,  giving 
you  credit  on  the  invoice  for 
the  am ount  of  freight  buyer 
pays from the m arket  In w hich 
he  purchases  to  his  shipping 
point, including 20  pounds  for 
th e weight of the barrel.
D om ino....................................84 81
Cut  Loaf. 
...........................  4  81
C u b e s......................................  4 44
Powdered 
...............................4  44
XXXX  P ow dered.................  4 o9
G ranulated 
.......................  4  06
F ine G ranulated..................   4 06
E xtra Fine G ran u lated ...  4  18
M ould  A  ..............................   4  44
D iam ond Confec.  A ............  4 06
Confec. S tandard  A .........  4  Oo
................   3  87
................ 3  o7
..  3  87
................3  öl
................  3  75
.............. 3  69
................   3  62
.......  3  56
..  3  50
...  3  41
..  3 37
...  3 2d
3  18

.  3..................
................ ......... 
.  4 
..............
5 
.  7....................
.  8..................
.  9..................

No.  10....
No.  11....
No.  1 2 ...
No.  13.  ..
No.  1 4 ...

Barrels...
Half bbls.

SYKUFS.

Corn.

Pure Cane.

20
...  22

F a ir.................................  
I5
Good.......................................  20
C hoice.......................................   28

 

TA B LE  SAUCES.

“ 

Lea A Perrin’s, la r g e .........4  75
sm all.......   2  75
H alford, la r g e ......................3  75
sm all..................  •  2 25
Salad Dressing, large  .  ...  4  56
*' 
sm all.......2  65

“ 

T E A S .

JAPAN—Regular.

SUN CUBED.

BAl-KET  TUBED.

F a i r ................................   @17
G o o d ...............................  @20
Choice........................  . .24  @26
Choicest  ........................32  ©34
D ust 
..............................10  @12
F a i r ................................   @17
G o o d ..............................   @20
Choice.............................. 24  @26
Choicest...........................32  @34
D u st............ ................... 10  @12
F a i r ................... 
. 1 8   S-5
Choice...............   ........  
<&~5
Choicest.......................  
@35
E xtra choice, w ire leaf  @40
GUNPOWDER.
Common to  f a il............ 25  @35
E x tra fine to finest.  .. 50  @65
Choicest fan cy .............. 75  @85
@26
Common to  f a i r .........23  @30
Common to  fa ir............ 23  @26
Superior to fin e..............30  @35
Common to  Fair.............18  @26
Superior to  fine............ 30  @40
F a ir ..................................18  @22
Choice..................... ♦.  24  @28
B e st................................. 40  @50

ENGLISH  BREAK?AST.

y o u n g HYSON.

IMPERIAL.

o olong. 

TO BA CCOS.

F tn e  C u t.

P. Lorillard A Co.’s Brands.
Sweet R usset..................30  @32
30
T iger............................... 
D.  Scotten A  Co’s Brands.
60
H iaw ath a...................... 
C u b a............................... 
32
R ocket........................... 
30
Spaulding A M errick’s  Brands.
S terlin g .........................  
30
Private Brands.
B azoo.............................  @30
Can  Can.........................   @27
N ellie  B ly...................... 34  @25
Uncle Ben.......................34  @25
M cG inty.......................  
37
35
*4 bbls...........  
C olum bia.........................  
Columbia,  drum s  ......... 
Bang  U p............. 
Bang up,  drum s 
......... 

“ 

 

 

34
23
f*
19

F la g .

Finzer’s  Brands.

Sorg’s Brands.
Spearhead  ..  ..............  
39
37
...................... 
Joker  . 
40
Nobby T w ist.................. 
Scotten’s Brands.
Kylo................................ 
35
H iaw atha......................  
38
34
Valley C ity .................. 
Old  Honesty 
4*
............. 
“
Jolly Tar 
................ 
39
Climax  (8  o z.,4 1 c).... 
Green T u rtle................ 
30
27
Three  Black C row s.. 
Something G ood......... 
38
34
Out of  S ight................  
W ilson.« McCaulay’s  Brands.
43
Gold  Rope.................... 
Happy T h o u g h t........... 
37
32
M essm ate...................... 
N o T a x ........................... 
31
Let  Go........................... 
37

j .  G.  B utler’s.Brands.

Lorillard’s Brands. 

S m o k in g .

Catlln’s  Brands.

K iln  d rie d ........................... 17@18
G olden  S h o w e r.....................19
H untress 
............................... 26
M eerschaum  ...................... 29@30
American Eagle Co.’s Brands.
M yrtle  N avy........................... 40
30
Stork  .................................. 
G erm an .................................... 15
Frog  . 
32
Jav a,  *ss foil  .........................32
B anner Tobacco Co. s  Brands.
B anner  ............... 
16
B anner C avendish................ 36
Gold Cut 
............................... 30

 

 

 

 

Scotten’s Brands.

W a rp a th ...................................14
Honey  D ew ............................. 26
Gold  B lock..............................30
F. F.  Adams Tobacco Co.’s 

Brands.

Peerless.................................... 36
Old  T om ...................................I®
32
S tan d ard ........................... 
Globe Tobacco Co.’s Brands.
H andm ade.................. 
40

L eidersdorfs Brands.

Rob  Roy...................................36
Uncle  Sam ................   ■ • -28@32
Red clo v er............................... 32

Spaulding A Merrick.

Tom and Je rry ........................ 25
Traveler  C avendish............. 38
Buck Horn — ........................3u
Plow  B o /..........................30@32

V IN E G A R .
40 g r..................... 
 
50 g r.............................. 
II  for barrel.

@8
@9

W E T   M U STA R D .
Bulk, per g a l .....................  
30
Beer m ug, 2 doz in ca se...  1  75
5 75 
4  75 
4  oO 
1  25 
1  35
90 
1  25 
1  80

W O O D E N  W A R E .
Tubs, No. 1 ............................
“  No. 2 .............................
“  No. 3.............................
Pails, No.  1, two-hoop..
“  No. 1,  three-hoop —
Bowls, 11 In ch .......................
........................
“ 
........................
“ 
“ 
........................

13  “ 
15  “ 
17  “ 

YEAST.

... 

.... 

Magic..................................... 1  00
Warner’s ..............................1  00
Yeast Foam  .........................1  00
Diamond 
..........  75
no r a! 
°0
H ID ES  PELTS  and  FURS 
Perklps  A  Hess  pay  as  fol­
lows:
FURS.
40  @  1 25
Mink................... 
Coon  ................. 
30  @  70
60  @  1 15
Skunk................. 
15  @  18
Rat Spring........  
Rat.  w inter....... 
"8  @  11
“3  @ 
Rat, fail.............  
18
Red  Fox. . . .. .. .   1  to  @ 14"
Gray Fox.,........  
40  @  6)
Cross Fox..........  3 00  @ 5 0"
50  @  1 00
Badger...............  
Cat, wild............ 
f0  @  75
Cat,  house........  
10  @  25
Fisher  ...............   5  00  @ 600
Lynx....................  1 on  © 2  50
Martin, di rk ___ ,2 00  ©  3 00
Martin, pale,  yel  1 00  @  1  50
Otter...................   5 00  ©  8  0j
W olf...................... 1 00  ©  2 00
Beaver................  3 00  ©  7  00
Bear..................... 15 00  ©25 00
Opossum............ 
10  ©  25
Deer Skin, d ry .. 
in  @  25
Deer skin, green  05  @  12*4
G reen......................... •  3  @4
@ 5
Part Cured................. 
Full 
5 
Dry.............................. 
5 
K ips,green....................4 @ 5
“  cured...................  5 @ 6*4
Calfskins,  green  ....  6*4©  8
cured........   *4©  9
Deacon skins........  
in  @25
No. 2 hides *4 off.
PELTS.

HIDES.

“ 

“ 

 

 

MISCELLANEOUS.

SHearlingb....................... 5 @  20
Lambs 
........................25  @  75
WOOL.
W ashed................. 
12  @15
Unw ashed.................... 8  @12
Tallow ..........................  3 ©  4*4
Grease  butter  ... —   1  @ 2
Switches  .............  
1*4@  2
...  2 0f@2 25
Ginseng 
GRAINS and  FEEDSTUFF*
E3
No. 1 White (58 lb. test) 
No. 2 Red  (60 lb. test) 
53
FLOUR  IN  SACKS.
»Patents..............................   3 25
Second P atent...................  275
Straight..............................  2  55
Clear............... ....................  2 35
»Graham.............................  3  50
buckwheat  ......................  4  20
Rye.......................................  3 25
»Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour in bbls., 25c per bbl. ad­
ditional.
Bolted................................ 
2 30
Granulated................ 
3 :5
FEED  AND  «IILLSTUFFS 
St. Cnr  Feed,  screened.. .8  0 00 
St. Car Feed, unscreened.  9  50 
No.  1 Corn and  Oats 
.  19 00
No. 2 Special...................  18  50
Unbolted Corn Meal........   18 5
Winter Wheat  Bran  .......  16 oO
Winter Wheat Middllhgs.  17  00 
screenings  ........................  14 oo
Car  lots..............................  47
Less than  car  lots.......  
50
Car  l o t s .................... ...........34*4
Less than car l o t s ............3/
No. 1 Timothy, car lots 
No. 1 

HAY
ton lots 

.  in  oo 
11  00

MEAL.

CORN.

OATS.

“ 

FISH  AND  OYSTERS
FRESH  PISH
Whitehall 
..................  @ 8
T r o u t......................... 
@ 8
Black Bass........  
15
H alibut,.......................   @13*4
Ciscoes or Herring—   @  6
Blueflsh 
.................  @12*4
Fresh lobster, per lb . 
20
Cod 
............................. 
10
Haddock...................... 
©  8
No. 1 Pickerel.  ... 
@ 8
Pike..............................  @ 8
Smoked  W hite...........   @  9
Red  Snappers.............  
13
Columbia  River  Sal­
mon ........................... 
13*4
Mackerel........................  18@25
Scallops.......................  
1  50
Shrimps 
1  “6
.................... 
........................ 
Clams 
1  2j
SHELL  GOODS
Oyster«,  per  loo........ 1  35© 1  60
Cl«m> 

OYSTERS—IN CANS.

OYSTERS— IN  BULK.

F. J. Dettenthaler’s Brands. 
33
Falrnaven  Counts—  
F . J. D.  Selects..........  
28
Selects.........................  
25
*3
F. J. D., Standards  ... 
20
Anchors.......................  
13
Standards.................... 
Favorite......................  
15
Standards, per gal..............1  00
Anchor standards per gal 1  10
Counts, per gal....................2 20
Selects  “  *•  ....................   1  40
Extra  Selects, per gal........  1  ¡5
New  York  Counts...............-..35
Extra  selects................. 
.30
Selects 
35
IX L standards......................... 2o
Standards.................................. 18
Mediums.................................... 20
Standards, per  gal..............1  00
IXL Standards,  per  gal..... 1  10
E xtra  Sele  ts, per gal  .......1  90
Selects, per  al.................... 1  85

Oscar Allyn’s Brands.

 

75@1 oo

21

CROCKERY  AND  GLASSW ARE 

LAMP  BURNERS.

No. 0 S u n ................................................................
NO. 1  “ 
.................................................................
No. 2  “ 
...
.......................................................  
T u b u la r.............................................................
Security.  No. 1......................................................
Security,  No. 2......................................................
N utm eg...................................................................
A rctic....................................................... 
...........

LAMP  CHIMNEYS.—6  dO l.  in  bOX.

No. 0 Sun. 
No. 1  “ 
.

Sun, crim p top, w rapped and labeled.. 

F irst quail

Sun, crim p  top, w rapped and labeled.

XXX F lint.

Pearl top.

Sun, w rapped and  labeled
Hinge,  “ 

“ 

“

F ire Proof—Plain Top. 
! Sun,  plain  b u lb .......................

La Bastie. 
Sun, plain  bulb,  per doz.

1
1 crimp, per doz

Rochester.

1, lim e  (65c d o z )......................
2, lim e  (:oc d o z )....................
2, flint  (S0c doz).......................

Electric.

i, lim e  (70c d o z ) ....................
2 flint  (80c d o z )...................
M iscellaneous.

No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.

No.
No.
No.

No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
©
@  7
No.
No.
No.
No.‘
No.

..  60 
..  80 
..  50 
..1  25
■ box 
1  75 
88

.2  10 
.2  25 
.3  25
2  60 
.2  8b 
.3  80

.3 70 
4  70 
.4  88

.3  40 
.4  40

1  25 
.1   50 
.  1  35 
1  60

.3  50 
.4  00 
4  70
.4  10 
..4  40
Doz.
50
15
.1  00 
90 
1  00 
90

Box 
4  20
4  80
5  25 
5  10
5  85
6 OO
Doz 
1  tO 
.  2  00 
.  3  25 
4  50 
.  6 tO

. 10  00 
.  9 5j

.12  OO 
.13  50 
10 50

Ju n io r, R o c h e ste r.................................
N u tm e g .... 
...............................................
Illum inator B ases.................................................
Barrel lots, 5 doz  .................................................
7 in. Porcelain shades.........................................
Case lots,  12 doz....................................................
Mammoth Chim neys for Store  Lamps.

Doz.
No.  3  Rochester,  lime  . . . .   1  50 
No.  3  Rochester, flint. 
-.1  75 
No.  3  Pearl  top or Jew el g l's .l  85'
No.  2  Giobe lucandes.  lim e...l  75 
No.  2  Giobe lucandes. flint.. .2  oo
No.  2  Pearl glass....................... 2  10

OIL  CANS.

1  gal  tin cans w ith sp o u t................ 
.
1  gal  galv  iron,  w ith spout..................
2  gal  galv iron w ith  spout 
............
3 gal  galv iron w ith spout....................
5 gal  .McNutt, w uh sp o u t.....................
5 gal  E ureka, w ith spout.....................
5  gal  E ureka w ith faucet.....................
.............
5  gal  galv iron  A  A  W 
5  gal  Tilting  Cans,  M onarch..............
5  gal  galv iron N acefa s.... 
.......

Pum p Cans.

3  gal  Home  Rule.....................................
5  gal  Home R ule.....................................
3  gal  G oodenough..................................
5  gal  G oodenough  ..............  
.....
5  gal  P irate  King 
...........  .............

No. 0,  Tubular, cases  1  doz.  each ....................
No. 0, 
2  “ 
.................
bbls 5  “ 
No. 0, 
....................
bull’s eye. cases 1 doz each.
No. 0, 

LANTERN  GLOBES.
“ 
•’ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 

LAMP  WICKS.

No. c,  per  gross.................................................
................................
.................. 
No. 1, 
.......
...................................... 
No  2, 
No. 3, 
........................................................
Mammoth,  per d oz................................................

” 
“ 
“ 
JELLY  TUMBLERS—Tin Top.
24  “
0  “
la  *•

‘  doz  (bbl  35)___ ..  21
“  bbl,
“  box,  *‘  box  (box 00) __ 1  80
’■  bbl,
“  doz  (b b l3 5 ).... . 
23

Y* 

“

“ 

STONEWARE—AKRON.
*4 gal. per  d o z... 

B utter Crocks,  1 to 6 g a l.........................
“ 
.  —
Jugs,  *4 gal., per doz..............................
•‘  1 to 4 gal., per g a l..............................
..........
Milk Pan»,  *  giu.. per  do* 
....................
“ 
STONEWARE—BLACK  GLAZED.
..............

B utter CrocKS,  1  and 2 g a l..............
Milk  Pans,  *4 gal.  per  doz —  

1  “ 

“ 

- 

6*4
65
79

O IL S .
BARRELS.

The Staudard Oil Co  quotes as follows: 

E ocene........................... 
....................
XXX W .W .  Mich.  H eadlight..................
N aptha.....  
.............................................
Stove G asoline.............................................
C ylinder.........................................................
E n g in e ...  ....................  ........... ................ 13
Black, zero  te st...........................................
B lack,  15 cold te st......................................

8
©   7 
©   8*4 
@36 
©21

12
10

FROM TASK WAGON.
E ocene..... ..........................................  
XXX  W. W.  Mich. H eadlight.................. 
Scofield, Shurm er  A  Teagle  quote  as  follow s:

 

•■>*4

BARRELS.

P alacine.....................................................................16*4
Daisy W hite...........-................................................  9*4
Red Cross, W W  H eadlight................................   8
N aptha  ....................................................
Stove G asoline.......................
PROM TANK WAGON,
P alacine............................................................. 
Red  Cross W W  H eadlight............  

8*4
 
......... ... -  6

 

J

8

T r a d e s m a n  Co.,  grand  r a pid s mich.

Q O

W H Y  BLAM E  THE  DRUGGIST?

[Concluded from page 18.] 

ing to your account of the time  since the 
medicine  reached  the  house.”  At  this 
point  Doctor  Starkey  drew  an  intense 
sigh of relief,  and  was  about  to  speak, 
when  I  motioned  him  not  to interrupt 
me.  “You hold  in your  band  an  exact 
copy of the prescription  you  ordered me 
to place in the box;  but,  as  I  saw  that 
there  was  an  unintentional  error  that 
would prove fatal should  1  fill  your  or­
der,  I took  the  liberty  of  changing  the 
amount of morphia to three grains.  Our 
friend  Halstead  saw  me  weigh  it,  the 
powders  thoroughly  triturated,  finished 
and placed in the box.  Let me say that, 
from whatever cause,  the  error  itself  is 
wholly  yours,  as  your  original  copy, 
which 1 have on file,  will  show;  and,  in 
the use  of  my  best  judgment,  both  re­
garding  the  patient  and  in  screening 
your  error  from  the  public,  I  deserve 
your  heartfelt  gratitude  instead  of  ex­
ecrations.  The  public  would  censure 
and criminate you if  they could,  as  they 
would myself had 1 overlooked  your  er­
ror or evaded what was clearly  my duty. 
I took our friend Halstead into my confi­
dence and consultation,  that there should 
be a competent  witness  of my act in  the 
case.  The secret is  safe  in  our  hands, 
whatever  may  occur.  1  inferred  from 
the  other  ingredients  in 
the  powders 
that there was a fever prescribed for and, 
consequently,  made no other changes.”

Long  before  I  had finished speaking, 
Doctor  Starkey  had  become  calm  and 
taken the chair I had placed for him.  As 
I ceased speaking,  he  grasped  my  hand 
with both of his,  and  begged a thousand 
pardons  for  his—as  it  proved—unwar­
ranted  anger  toward  me,  and,  bidding 
me good night,  hastened  to  the  bedside 
of his patient,  without asking  me  to  ac­
company  him.

*  *  *

It was the evening  of  the  second  day 
after  my  stormy  interview with Doctor 
Starkey  before  1  saw  him  again.  He 
came into my  store  at the  usual hour  of 
closing  and,  with  a  pleasant, 
though 
a  somewhat  crestfallen,  appearance, 
grasped my hand.  1 was egotistic enough 
to think that 1  understood  my  business 
quite  as  well  as  he did his,  and,  know­
ing that I had been in the right and he in 
the wrong,  I harbored him no ill-will and 
had forgiven his  turbulent  imputations. 
After  enquiring  if  we  were  alone,  he 
opened conversation by saying:

“My  nearly  fatal  mistake  was  most 
fortunately  changed  to  a happy ending 
by your thoughtful—I must  say  skillful 
—care  for  both  my patient and myself, 
as  without  the  supervening  sleep  and 
rest  after  the  weary  wakefulness,  the 
brain must  have  given  way  and  death 
been  the  result. 
I  do  not now wonder 
that she slept so  soundly  and  perspired 
so freely,  but  in  my  excitement  at  the 
time  I  mistook  all  the  symptoms  for 
those  of  an  overdose  of  morphia,  and 
overlooked the pulsations  of  the  heart, 
which  was  performing  its  duty  faith­
fully.  Miss  Langworthy  is  now  fairly 
convalescent,  and,  most  fortunately  for 
me,  no  suspicion  of  an accident in  the 
case exists,”  at  which  he  seemed  espe­
cially gratified.  Then,  taking  from  his 
pocket  a  physician’s  vade  meeum,  in 
which he often kept  copies  of  prescrip­
tions—especially  those  which  might  be 
carried  out  of  the  city—he  continued: 
“I have discovered the  key  to  my  mis­
take.  And  I  recollect  that, once before 
in my practice, I made  the same kind  of

T H E   M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N ,
error in writing, but that time discovered 
it before it  left my hands.  On the day I 
left  the  prescription  for  Miss  Lang­
worthy with  you,  while  in  my  office  a
man from the village of M-----called for
me to prescribe for a  case  of  fever  and 
ague.  1  complied  at once,  writing this: 

WHAT  W E  SAY  IS  TRUE

And everybody should  know  that  the BOSTON  RUB­
BER  SHOE  CO. is  the  largest  rubber  factory  in  the 
world.
A.  C. McGRAW  &  CO.’S RUBBER DEPARTMENT 
is their largest cust< mer.
THE  BOSTON  RUBBER  SHOE  CO.  manufactures 
the best rubbers in the world.
A. C. McGRAW  &  CO.’S RUBBER DEPARTMENT 
sell the best rubbers in the world.
THE  BOSTON  RUBBER  SHOE  CO.  makes  more 
pairs of rubbers every day than any other company.
A. C. McGRAW  &  CO.’S RUBBER DEPARTMENT 
sell more pairs of rubbers daily than any other company.
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BERS  of the exclusive rubber departm ent of

Q uinia  di-sulph.
F erri Bicarb, a. a. grs.  xx.

Mix and divide into six  powders.
Take one pow der daily.
“This  was written  (or,  rather,  copied, 
also)  in this book in my hand, and,  while 
it was yet before  me,  remembering  that 
1 was  to  leave  a  prescription  for  Miss 
Langworthy  with  you  that  evening,  I 
wrote  the  one  beneath  it  for her,  and, 
while still answering  questions from  my 
ague patient,  with the  twenty  grains  of 
quinine impressed upon my  mind,  I  af­
fixed the same quantity  to  the  morphia, 
and  then  copied  and folded the paper  1 
gave you in the  evening,  never  looking 
at it again! 
It has taught me a lesson in 
psychology  which  I  shall  never  forget, 
and  to  which,  I am of  the belief,  many 
accidents  are  due,  for  impressions  of 
names and figures are  more  particularly 
imprinted  upon  the  brain  than  almost 
any other objects or words and re-appear 
unconsciously.”

Thus  ended  my  first  and  last  expe­
rience  with  Doctor  Starkey  in  this  re­
gard,  and the  friendship  cemented  then 
has  lasted for a generation.

1  leave the reader to answer  the  ques­
tion at the  head  of  this  recital—“Why 
Blame the  Druggist?”

F r a n k  A.  H o w ig .

A  C. McGBAW  &  GO, Detroit

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LESALE 1

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THE  MICHIO^N  TRADESMAN,

PORTER  TO  PARTNERSHIP. 

Afraid of Work.

Progress of  a   Clerk  Who  Was  Not 
A n  Old M erchant in  Hardware.
When one has  something  very  impor­
tant on bis mind, how he dislikes to open 
up the subject  to  the  party  most  inter­
ested. 
I had said to myselt that the first 
thing I did in  the  morning  would  be  to 
speak to Mr. Ely  about  Fisher’s  offer  to 
go into business;  but,  when  the morning 
came, I found numberless excuses to  put 
off the discussion from  time to time, and 
it was evening before 1 was  able to open 
the subject with him.
“So Fisher thinks of opening a store in 
Germantown,  does  he?”  said  Mr.  Ely, 
when I finished my story.

“Yes, sir.”
“Do  you 
think  a  store  would  pay 
there?”
“I  did  not  think  so  at  first,  but the 
more I have looked into  the  matter,  the 
better prospect I see of success.”

“Have you any figures?”
“Yes;  there are now at  the  settlement 
something like one hundred  and  twenty 
families; 
there  are  sixty  families  of 
farmers at  that  end  of  the  county who 
would  find  it  more  convenient  to go to 
Germantown  than  to  come  here,  and  1 
think their trade could be  secured there; 
but with the trade  of  one  hundred  and 
fifty  families  we  ought  to  sell  at least 
$2,000 a month, and, at the figure at which 
goods are sold here, that would be a gross 
profit of $400 a month, or about  $5,000  a 
year.”
“How much capital do you  figure  will 
be necessary?”
“I think $4,000 would be  stock enough 
to start with.”
“Has Fisher that much loose?”
“He said he could raise  whatever  was 
needed.”
“Very well;  suppose  you  send Fisher 
word  to  come  up  here  and  1  will  then 
make you both a proposition.”
Fisher came up the next  day  and,  af­
ter some  preliminary  conversation,  Mr 
Ely came to the business on hand.
“Mr.  Fisher,  Mark  tells  me  you had 
some notion of opening  a  store  down  at 
Germantown?”

“Yah,  dat 1st so.”
“Have  you  estimated  what  amount 
would  be  necessary to stock a store like 
that?”

him.”

“Oh, lots of dings,  I s’hose.”
“1 mean the amount of money?” 
“ Monish?  Oh,  dat  ist  all ridt; I finds 
“Mark says it will take $4,000.”
ist 
“Four  tousand!  Great  shiminy, 
dat so?”
“It will  take fully that; my stock here 
will  inventory  $11,000. 
If  you  open 
such a store as you ought to  have  there 
you  will  need  at  least  $5,000 worth  of 
goods.”
“Five  tousand?  You  push  him  up 
pimeby you say $10,000.”
“No.  I  began  here with $2,000,  but 
could  have  made  more  money  if I had 
had a better stock,  and  competition  was 
nothing to speak of.”
I looked at Fisher to see  what  he  was 
going  to  say  about  the  capital. 
I had 
looked the matter over pretty  thoroughly 
and was satisfied that a store  in  the  set­
tlement, with Fisher’s influence  to  back 
it,  would do a good  and  profitable  busi 
ness.
“You  tinks  $4,000,  eh,  Marks?”  he 
asked, turning to me.
“Yes,  I think that would  be  enougl 
“Four tousand!  Dat  ist a  pig  bile 
My face cleared up.
“Well,  Fisher,”  said Mr. Ely,  “ 1  sent 
for  you,  to  make a proposition,  but be 
fore  I  make  It  I  would like to know1 
you could raise $8,000.”
never saw dat mooch monish!”

“Eight  tousand!  Mine  cootness, 
“You couldn’t raise that much?”
“1 not say dat; maype.”
“Very  well; then I  will make a propo­
sition.  My  brother-in-law  is  the  attor­
ney  for  the  new  railroad  through this 
country and tells me it will come through 
Germantown.”

monish, aber I dinks 1 finds him.”

“I know dat,” said Fisher.
“You know  it?  How?”
“1 gif dose mens'mit de  shains  $2,000 
“You bribed the surveyors, eh?”

to goom dat vay.”

No.  For why? 
“Well,  what 1 want to  say  is  this: 

“No, for I not gif dem dat  monish dill 
der roat ist goom.”
“Well, it seems you knew  all about it. 
Of course,  with a station  there  and  rail­
road communication,  a store will soon  be 
started by someone  if  you  do  not  start 
one.”
I owns  all  dat  land 
und vill nodt zell him.”
I 
am  ready  to sell  you and  Mark an inter­
est in this  store  here  and  then  build  a 
store  in  Germantown.  1  will  manage 
the business here and  Mark and you  can 
run the Germantown store.  We will put 
all the profits-together and divide accord­
ing to capital.”
My standing in  the  community  imme­
diately seemed to advance.  As a clerk I 
was of no  particular  account,  but  as  a 
young merchant my advice  was of  value 
and my  society  desirable. 
It  was  very 
flattering to a  young  fellow,  but  I  was 
too busy to enjoy it to any  great  extent.
Putting up a store in a new  country is 
not much like  erecting one of  the  hand­
some buildings one sees in  the city.  We 
had no cellar to  dig  and  there  were  no 
bricks  to  lay  except  for  the  chimney. 
The  main  timbers  were  laid  on sawed 
logs set on  end  and  in  thirty  days  our 
room was ready  to  be  occupied.  Some­
one had to go  to  New  York  again;  Mr. 
Ely could not get away,  Fisher  was  not 
posted,  and so the choice  fell on me.
I don’t know  which  was  the  happier, 
Fisher or I,  when we were ready to open 
up.  The next morning,  we would throw 
open  the  doors.  That  section  of  the 
country had been flooded  with  handbills 
in English and German  and we wondered 
how much trade would come to us.
“Never you mind,  Marks,” said Fisher, 
•if  de  Yarmans  ton’t  bay lifely,  1 sent 
em pack to old goonthry. ”
But  the  Germans  did  “ bay  lifely.” 
Our opening day was  a  grand  occasion. 
It was the custom of the country to have 
free whisky and our barrel of that article 
was  pretty  well  patronized;  but  our 
helves showed that trade had been good, 
dreamed that night that  my  name  was 
Stewart.

M ore  Truth  Than F an cy.

•John,”  said  a  furniture  dealer,  the 
other  day,  to  the  mover  whom  he had 
summoned,  “this  bedroom  set  is  sold, 
but  it  is  not  to  be  delivered  just yet. 
Move it out of the salesroom at  once  and 
store it somewhere till 1 want it.”
“ What’s the use of moving  it  till  you 
send  it  up to me?”  asked the purchaser 
idly.  “Why don’t yon leave  it  where  it 
is?”
The  salesman  uttered  a  queer  little 
laugh and  said:
“ It is evident  that you  were  never  in 
the furniture business, or  you would not 
ask that question.  If I should  mark that 
set ‘sold’ and leave it here  in  the  sales­
room  in  plain  sight  it  would probably 
loose us several good sales.”

“How so?”  asked the purchaser.
“It illustrates a universal  weakness of 
human  nature,”  laughed  the  salesman. 
“Everybody  wants  what  he  can’t  get, 
and there is nothing  quite  so  attractive 
to the average buyer as a piece  of  furni­
ture that somebody else  has  bought  be­
fore he came around. 
If I left  that bed­
room set out marked ‘sold,’ half  a  dozen 
persons would  say  before  night  that  it 
was  exactly  the  set  they  wanted,  and | 
when they heard there were no duplicates 
they  would  fuss  around  enviously  and 
nothing else in the  establishment  would 
satisfy them.
“Eventually they  would go  off discon­
tentedly and  buy  elsewhere,  though  the 
chances  are  that  if  there  was no ‘sold’ 
tag on the  set  none  of them  would give 
it more than  a  passing  glance,  while  a 
fair  proportion  of them  would purchase 
other sets. 
It  is  a  little  human  weak­
ness,  that’s all.
“So  arises  one  of  the  tricks  of  the 
trade.  When a  dealer  sells  a  piece  of 
furniture of which he has  no  duplicates 
he  hustles  it  out  of  the  salesroom  as 
quick as  he  can,  let  it  lose  him  othei 
trade.  But  when  she  sells  a  piece of 
which  he  has  duplicates  he  puts  a  big 
‘sold’  tag  on  it  and  leaves  it  in  open 
sight as long as  possible  for  a  bait  for 
others.”

Wholesale Shipper

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THE  REYNOLDS  IHPROVED  TRUCK.

This truck w,.i  «« .0—  

.»  au.y.w   u>  me  wauts  of  Merchants.  We
make them to  fit elevators or scales,  an d   th u s do away  with  tra n sfe rin g   from truck 
to elevator or scales,  and  vice versa.
The front wheels being casters, the truck  will  turn in its  own  length  and [can 
be  run on elevator or scales from  any angle.  The wheels are so large  in  diameter, 
and so much of the weight of the load comes directly over them,  that one  man  can 
carrv twice as much on it as upon  any other truck made; and  instead  of  the  ordi­
nary rigid  rest in  front, there  are  two caster wheels, the operator can turn truck  in 
any direction  withgreat ease.  22  sizes in stock.
LANSING  WHEELBARROW  GO., Lansing.  Mich.
The  finest,  best  colored, 
thinnest skinned “Navel” 
to  be luid.
Cost  a  little  more,  but 
they  are  worth  it. 
Handled  in  Grand  Rapids 
by

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8 p e d a l  Correspondence
New   Yoke,  March  23—A  larger vol­
ume of trade has  been  done  during  the 
past week and dealers are generally well 
contented  with  the  outlook.  A  good 
many  out-of-town  buyers  are  here and 
the  great  jobbing  houses present a very 
animated appearance.  On all hands  are 
seen indications of increased activity and 
there  is a feeling that it is going to  last, 
too.
Down on Vesey street the big  store  of 
Callanan  &  Kemp  is  decorated  with 
national  colors  from  top  to  bottom  in 
celebration  of  their  50th  anniversary, 
and the concern bids fair to  live  to  be  a 
hundred.  The changes wrought around 
Vesey street by the widening  of  College 
Place will  give  the  down-town  patrons 
of  the  grocery  trade  some elegant new 
stores and they are  needed  in  this  sec­
tion  fully  as  much  as  in  the  up-town 
district.  As there are no big  bazaars  in 
the lower parts  of  the  city  the  grocers 
stand less competition from them and can 
do business to better  advantage.
Prices are fairly firm  all  around,  with 

here and there an exception.

The coffee market is just now in rather 
a waiting mood.  There  are few sales of 
importance and the brokers are enjoying 
the  warm  sunshine  on  the  south  side, 
while waiting for the tide which they are 
sure will  be a rising one.  Fair  Rio  No.
7 is  worth  16%c.  Stock  afloat,  444,608 
bags.  Mild coffees are steady  but  there 
is hardly as much firmness as a fortnight 
ago.  Some fair sales have been recorded, 
including one of 2,600 bags  of  unwashed 
Caracas.  The  latter  is worth from 18@ 
19c.
Holders of molasses are  not  especially 
anxious  to  dispose of their stocks.  The 
market  is  firm  and  buyers  who  make 
present purchases will probably  do  bet­
ter than to wait.  Prime  to  choice  New 
Orleans,  33@38c.  Fair  to good, 28@32c.
Syrups  are  fairly  firm  and  there  is 
sufficient demand to prevent  any  undue 
accumulations.  Prime  to  choice,  18@ 
22c.
Rice is one of the firmest things  in the 
whole range of the  market  and  there  is 
great confidence felt in the future of  the 
article.  Some recent  arrivals  of foreign 
were quickly disposed  of,  although  the 
quantity was very considerable.
The  refined  sugar  market  is  one  of 
some  uncertainty  and  the  fluctuations 
are numerous  but  not  large  enough  to 
be worth mentioning.  The  usual  run of 
trade prevails.
The tea market  remains  in  the  same 
passive condition as for some time.  Not 
a thing of interest has occurred.

Canned  goods  are  selling  well,  al­
though most of the orders are  for  rather 
It is evident  that  stocks  on 
small lots. 
the shelves of  retailers  are  in  need  of 
immediate  replenishment  and  the  bro­
kers are feeling quite encouraged over the 
chances  of  success.  There  are  ample 
stocks of two  thing—corn  and  tomatoes 
—and packers of  these,  who  are,  also, 
the chief holders, are hoping  for  a  turn 
upward  mighty  soon.  There have been 
no changes worth  mentioning.

The foreign green fruit trade  has been 
rather  disappointing  during  the  week 
and holders are not  in an exultant frame 
of mind.  Lemons and oranges  are  said 
to be selling at prices showing  no  profit. 
The  latter  fruit  seems  to  be  in  good 
supply.
Butter is firmer and,  with a scarcity  of 
first-class stock,  there  has  been  an  ad­
vance on Elgin to20%c. Lower grades are 
dull and yet there is a little  firmer  feel­
ing than last week. 
It cannot  last long, 
however,  if the weather keeps warm.

Eggs  are  in  ample  supply  and  are 
pretty  well  taken  care  of.  They  are 
worth 12}£@13 cents  for Western.  The 
market is uacertain.
Cheese is in fair demand and  the  mar­
ket is in good shape.
It  caused some comment  among  deal­
ers to learn from  a  newspaper  clipping 
tha.<  (Qrand  Rapids  is,  probably, 
the 
great  't center for the shipment of beans 
in tho country.  No figures of the town’s j 
consumption  are  given,  so  Boston will

probably continue to take  the  medal  in 
mat respect.
The  recent  development  of  strength 
shown in  wheat,  cotton and corn has had 
a good influence and  the  mercantile  re­
ports all speak  of  substantial  gains  in 
trade from all parts of the country.
G rand  R apids  R etail  G rocers’  A sso ­

ciation .

At the regular  meeting  of  the  Grand 
Rapids Retail Grocers’  Association,  held 
at the office of  T h e  Mic h ig a n  T r a d es- I 
man,  Tuesday evening,  March 19,  Presi­
dent White presided.
Geo.  H.  Remington,  grocer  at  603 
Cherry  street,  applied  for  admission in 
the Association and was accepted.
A verbal communication  was  received 
from Mr. C. G. A. Voigt,  stating  that  he 
was unable to be  present  to  discuss the 
rebate method of  selling  Hour,  but  that 
he would surely  attend the next meeting 
and address the members present on that 
subject.
Adrian Brink moved that each member 
present bring  five  additional  grocers  to 
the next meeting, and that  the Secretary 
be requested to  extend  a  hearty  invita­
tion to all grocers in the city to  listen  to 
Mr. Voigt’s address.  Adopted.

On motion of Mr. Goss,  Sections 1 and 
2,  Article 9, of the By-Laws were amend­
ed, providing  for  meetings  on  Tuesday 
evenings,  instead of Monday evenings, as 
heretofore.
Mr.  Goss  suggested  that  the Associa­
tion renew  the 'agitation  of  the  general 
adoption of the cash system.

Mr. Brink seconded the suggestion.
G. S. Clark  stated  that,  in his experi­
ence,  the  main  objection  to  the  credit 
system was that all cash customers imag­
ined that they  were  paying  the bad bills 
as well as their own.  He had conducted 
a  strictly  cash  business  in  his  grocery 
store for fourteen months and was so well 
satisfied with the change that  he  would 
not go back to  the  old  way.  He  found 
that  he  did  not  have  to  cut prices on 
goods to do a cash business.
The  discussion  was  then  dropped, 
without  definite  action  being 
taken 
thereon.
It was reported that the  Standard  Oil 
Co.  proposed  to  place  thirty  peddling 
wagons in the city and sell oil exclusively 
to consumers.  No one was able  to  con­
firm the report, although several  grocers 
had heard such a rumor.
On motion of Mr. Klap  an  Emergency 
Committee was appointed  by  the  Presi­
dent, as follows:

Pettit.
Gaskiil.

First Ward—A. Brink, C. Stryker.
Second Ward—A.  Buys, A.  D.  Fisher.
Third  Ward—H.  M.  Lies veld,  O.  W. 
Fourth Ward—J. J. Wagner,  J.  Frank 
Fifth Ward—Peter Scbuit, G. S. Clark.
Sixth Ward—John Ley, John Seven.
Seventh Ward—E.  White,  B.  VanAn- 
rooy.
Eighth  Ward—Jos.  Rademaker,  E. C. 
Jenkins.
Ninth Ward—Homer Klap,  John  Roe- 
sink, Jr.
Tenth Ward—B. S.  Harris,  E.  J.  Car­
rel.
Eleventh  Ward—Millard  P.  Hedges, 
D. E.  Munshaw.
Twelfth  Ward—B.  Doyle,  Geo.  H. 
Cobb.
The report of the Committee on Essays 
was taken up and adopted in the  follow­
ing form:
We recommend that three  cash  prizes 
of  $5,  $3  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  May  1,  and  that  the  de­
cision of the Committee  be announced  at 
the regular  meeting  of  the  Association 
on May 21.
There  being  no  further  business  the 
meeting adjourned.

The workingman becomes a  slave only 
when  be  quits  work  by  order  of  men 
who are not working.

The agitator is never happy  unless  he 

has something to agitate.

T he  H ardw are  M arket.

General  trade—Has  been  very  good. 
The bright weather has had a very favor­
able effect  and  buyers  have  been  more 
willing  to  make  purchases  for  their 
spring wants. 
It  is  quite  evident  that 
prices have reached bottom and  that  the 
dealer who buys now  is  not  taking  any 
chances of further declines.

Barbed Wire—Is in  good  demand  and 
the mills are finding it difficult to get out 
their March shipments on time.  The re­
cent advance is firmly  held and,  if trade 
continues as  good  as  now,  we  need not 
look for any lower prices.

Wire Nails—The  demand  is large  and 
prices firmly held.  Most of the mills  re­
port their being from a week  to ten days 
behind on their orders.  We quote $1.20 
from stock, 95c at mill.

Window Glass—Notices of an  advance 
of 10 per cent, in window glass are being 
sent  out  by  the  manufacturers,  which 
indicate  that  the  ruinoas  prices  which 
have prevailed will  not  continue.  Job­
bers  are  falling into line and by April  1 
we look to  see  the  advance  general  by 
both makers and dealers.

Bolts—The  manufacturers  have  had 
another  meeting and advanced the price 
5 per cent.  Jobbers at present  have  not 
changed their discounts.

Rope—Sisal  and  manilla  rope  are  in 
good condition.  Manufacturers  are  full 
of  orders  and  have  withdrawn the low 
prices quoted by them in  February.  We 
quote sisal at 5c and manilla at 8@9c.

tools, 

Agricultural 

screen  doors, 
window  screens,  garden  hose  and  al' 
seasonable goods are moving very freely. 
Dealers  are  looking  for  a good trade in 
this line of goods.

Gas Pipe—The  new  list,  which  went 
into effect in February,  is now  used gen­
erally by the trade.  It shows an advance 
of about 5 per  cent.

Shot—Shot  manufacturers  have  ad­
vanced their prices 5 cents a bag and  we 
now  quote  $1.15  at  factory  and  $1.25 
from  stock.  Many  orders  are  being 
placed for  early  shipment,  in  anticipa­
tion of further  advances.

Fishing Tackle—Orders  are now  being 
filled  and  dealers  who  have  not  pur­
chased  are  beginning  to  do  so,  as  the 
fishing season is near at  hand.

T he D ry G oods  M arket.

Taffeta  Moire, which  sold  so  largely 
last year, is again on  the  market,  much 
improved,  three  inches  wider and  sold 
at the same price;  among new goods also 
shown 
this  month  are  Toile  delaine, 
satin  surah,  Selwygn  suitings,  Danish 
down, art novelty crepe, drape de Yinnie.
Percales are  piece  dyed  in  red, navy 

and wine.

Cotton goods,  printed  and woven,  are 
about the same  in  price.  They  have  a 
ready sale.

Unbleached cottons are a trifle higher. 
Some of the  makes  have  advanced  J^c, 
although Grand  Rapids jobbers are  still 
selling at about the old prices.

Lawrence L. L. is quoted at  3%c by  a 

few houses.

T he  D ru g  M arket.

Opium is weak and lower,  on  account 
of  favorable  reports  from  the  growing 
crops.

Morphia is unchanged.
Quinine is steady.
Nitrate silver has advanced, on account 

of higher prices for  bullion.

Lard oils have declined.

A   G ood  T hing.

Messrs.  Studley  &  Barclay,  of 

this 
city, report that sales of  their "S  «&  B” 
bicycles 
largely  exceed  expectations. 
They seem to fill a long  felt want  for  a 
high grade wheel at a medium price, 
if 
they have no agent  at  your  place,  drop 
them a line and they will  be  pleased  to 
furnish information in regard  to  it  and 
quote you prices  which will interest you.

POTATOES  WANTED.

And Cabbage, Onions, Turnips, Parsnips, 

Beaus  and  Sun  Dried  Apples.

Any  quantities.  Corres­

pondence solicited.

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

445-447 S. Division st.

P R O V IS IO N S .

 

 

7*5*
5*0*
6H

56
8*6
6
10

The Grand  Rapids  Packing  and Provision Co 

12 25
12 50
15 00
13  50
14  00
13  75
14  10

quotes as follows :
p o r e   in  b a r b e l s .
M ess,........................................................... 
Short c u t ...........................................  
 
Extra clear pig, short o u t........................ 
Extra clear,  heavy  ...............................
Clear, fat  back........................... 
 
Boston clear, short c u t............................. 
Clear back, shortcut................................  
Standard clear, short cut. best...............  
SAUSAGE.
Pork, links.............................
Bologna....................................
Liver.........................................
Tongue  ....................................
Blood.......................................
Head cheese...........................
Summer....................................
Frankfurts...............................
LARD.
Kettle  Rendered..................
G ranger........ .......................
Family  ...............................
Compound.............................
Cottolene................................
Cotosuet.................................
50 lb. Tins, * c  advance. 
201b. pails, He 
“  %c 
10 lb. 
5 lb. 
“  %c 
3 lb. 
••  1  c 
Extra Mess, warranted 200  lbs........................6 50
Extra Mess, Chicago packing.........................   6 75
Boneless, rump butts........................................   9 50
sm o k e d   m e a t s—Canvassed or Plain.
Hams, average 20 lbs.......................................
16 lbs.......................................
12 to 14 lbs...............................
picnic....................................................
best boneless.....................................
Shoulders..........................................................
Breakfast Bacon  boneless.............................
Dried beef, ham prices...................................
DRT  SALT  MEATS.
Long Clears, heavy...........................
Briskets,  medium.  ..........................
PICKLED  PIGS'  FEET.
Half  barrels.......................................
Quarter barrels...................................
K its.....................................................
Kits, honeycomb................................................ 
Kits, prem ium ................................................... 
Creamery,  rolls................................................... 16
tubs....................................................15
Dairy,  rolls...........................................................II
tubs.......................................................... 10*

9*
10
78*
63£
8*
10*

•.  6*
3 00 
.1  65 
..  90
75
85

BEEF  IN  BARRELS.

BUTTERINB.

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TRIPE.

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N o te   L o w e r   P r ic e s   o n
m  O Y S T E R S   #
Daisy Brand, Favorites, per can....................$  14
Daisy Brand, Standards, per can..................  
16
Daisy Brand, selects, per  can .......................  
22
18
Solid Brand, Standards, per can.................... 
Solid Brand, E.  F., per can............................. 
20
Solid Brand, Selects, per can.......................... 
24
Solid Brand,  Extra Selects, per can.............. 
26
..................................  1  06
Standards, per gal 
Extra Standards, per  gal  ..............................   1  10

boiled cider, very fine:

Oysters fine and well filled.
The Queen Oyster Pails at bottom prices. 
Mrs. Withey's Home Made Jelly, made  with!
65
30-lb.  p ail............................................................ 
20-lb. pail  ...........................................................  
50
17-lb.  pail.........................................  
45
 
40
15-lb. pail.................... 
 
1  quart Mason  Jars, per  doz.......................  1  40
1  pints  Mason  Jars, per  doz........................ 
95
Mrs. Withey’s Condensed Mince Meat,  the 

best made.  Price per  c a s e ........................2 40

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mrs.  Withey’s bulk mince meat:
40-lb. pail, per  lb................................................
25-lb. palls, per lb ..............................................
10-lb. pails, per lb.............................................
2-lb. cans, per doz.............................  ..............
5 lb. cans, per  doz............................................
Pint Mason Jars, per doz................................
Quart Mason Jars, per  doz  ...........................
Maple Syrup, pint Mason Jars, per  doz
Maple Syrup, quart Mason Jars, per  doz__
Maple Syrup, tin, gallon cans, per  doz.........
Peach Marmalade, 20-lb palls  ........................

66*
6*1  40 
3 50 
1  40
2 25
1  40
2 25 
9 00 
1  00

EDWIN  FALLAS,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Standard  OH  Co., Duck

GRAND  RAPIDS,  HICHIGAN

D E A L E R S   IN

Illüniinating  and  LUbrißating

Naptha  and  Gasolines.

Office, Michigan  Trust  Bldg. 

Works,  Butterworth  Ave.

BULK  WORKS  AT

GRAND  RAPIDS, 
BIG  RAPIDS, 
ALLEGAN,

MUSKEGON, 
GRAND  HAVEN, 
HOWARD  CITY,

MANISTEE, 
TRAVERSE  CITY. 
PETOSKEY.

CADILLAC, 
LUDINGTON, 
REED CITY,

Coats and Kersey
Pants

We  manufacture  the  best  made  goods  in  these  lines  of 
any  factory  in  the  country,  guaranteeing  every  garment  to 
give  entire satisfaction,  both  in  tit 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 sin g   P a n ts  &  O verall  Co.,
“ J e S S ”   what  you  want.

L A N S IN G ,  n iC H .

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 
“JESS,”  is  a  club  shaped  plug,  2x12,  spaced  for  3 cuts and shows a 
It  weighs  16  ounces to the plug and the 
good  margin  to  the  retailer. 
consumer gets full  value for his money.  We  propose  to  push  it  to  the 
I 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 want and 
have been looking lor.

Highest  Price  Paid  for

EMPTY  GRRBON  &  GASOLINE  BARRELS. Mill GfOCfif ft.  '  Gli WlS, II.

.

l í e
IfftitS a£Jj $a£t

is  last being recognized by everybody as the best  salt for  every pur­
pose. 
It’s  made from  the  best  brine by  the  best  process  with  the 
best  grain.  You  keep  the  best  of other  things, why not  keep the 
best  of  Salt.  Your customers will appreciate it  as  they appreciate 
pure sugar, pure coffee, and  tea.

Diamond Crystal Salt

Being free from all chlorides  of calcium  and magnesia, will  not  get  damp  and 
soggy  on  your hands. 
Put  up  in  an  attractive and salable manner.  When 
v o u r  stock o f  salt is low, try a small supply of "the salt that's all salt."  Can be 
obcair  _ from jobbers ar i  dealers.  For prices, see price current on other page. 
For other information, at ’dress

DIAMOND  C R Y S T A L  S A LT  CO.,  S T   CLA IR,  MICH___

GRAND RAPIDS, 

MICH.

18 and 19 Widdicomb  Bid.

N.  B.  Cla r k,  Pres.
W.  D.  Wa 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- 
,'on of 1895.

Correspondence Solicited.

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

12,  14,  16  Pearl  St„  GRAND  RAPIDS,  niCH.

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

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

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

W e  Pay  HIGHEST  MARKET  PRICES  in'?SPOT  CASH  and  JTeasure  Bark 

W hen  Loaded.Correspondence  Solicited.

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54 doz. 4 piece Sets..................
3  doz. 4 in . N appies, rd .........
1-6 doz. S in.  Nappies, rd .......
1-6 doz.  W ater B ottles.............
1-6 doz. Oil  Bottles, grd. stpr.
1-6 doz.  Mo.  Cans....................
1-6 doz- T ankard Jugs. 
gal
1-12 doz.  Sqat Jugs,  ' i  gal___
1-12 doz. Claret  J u g s ............
3  doz. T u m b lers....................
54 doz.  P ick les.........................
1-6 doz. tall Celeries................

OFBI BOWL

TCMB I.Kit, 

t|OAU  VITCHRR.

15018,  STRAWBERRY  AND  FAN,  ASSORTED  GLASSWARE.

5» doz.  4 piece  Se's.
% doz. P itchers.......
3  doz. Tum blers  ...
14 doz. 8 in.  N appies.
2  doz. 4 in.  N appies......................
1-12 doz  8 in. Ftd. open B o w ls.,. 
1-12 doz. 9 in. F td .o p en  B o w ls...

.84 00 
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#2 00 1 <0 
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54 doz. 7 in.  P la te s .........................
5  doz.  Salts and  Peppers...............

Less 10 per  ce n t.......

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2  50  1-12 doz. 8 in.  Ftd. open fid. Bowls  2 50 
1  20  1-12 doz.  9 in.  Ftd. open fld. Bowls  3 50 
38  1-0doz. 9 in. slial.  flarod  B ow ls..  2 25 
67  1-6 doz. 10 in.  shal.  flared  Bowls.  2  75
34  1-6 doz.  10 in.  Salvers......................  4 00
50  1  doz.  Toothpicks.........................  
45
75  1  doz.  Rd. Salts andtPeppers___ 
70

Pkg

Less 10 per cent.

$12  98 
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*11  69

H. LEONARD & 50N5,Grand Rapids 
The  D a y to n   C om puting  S ca le!

I t  S o ils  
Hecause of 
Its M oney- 
M a k in g  
Features!

For  further  information 

drop  a  postal  card  to

Warning!

The  trade  are  hereby  w arned against using 
any in tritivem en'so  i Weighing and Price Scales 
and  Computing and  Price  Scales,  as  we  will 
protect  our rights ai  d  the  rights of  our general 
agents  under  Letters  Patent  of 
the  United 
States issued  in  tssi.  1885  I  6.1888  l  91.’893and 
1844.  And  we  will  prosecute  all  infringers  to 
the full  ex ten t  of  th e  law.  T he simple  using 
of Scales th at  infringe  upon  our  patents m akes 
the  user  liable  to  prosecution  and  the  im por­
tance  of  buying  and using  any other  Comput­
ing  and  Price  Scales  than  those m anufactured 
by  us and  bearing our nam e  and  date  of patents 
and  thereby incurring liability to  prosecution is 
apparent.  Respectfully.
The  Computing  Scale  Co.

See  W hat  Users S a y :

Office of the (  1  M U HR  LI  MBER. CO., 

M anufacturers o f  L u m b e r,  Lath  & Sh in g l es 

M ercantile D epartm ent.

Cadillac.  Mich.,  Feb. 28, 1895. 

G entlem en  —  In  regard 

Messrs,  lloyt & Co.,  Dayton, O .:
to  your  Computing 
Scale,  we  can  say:  We  have  had  one  in  our 
store  for  three years and are well  satisfied  w ith 
it.  We have not had  occasion  to have it ad ju st­
ed yet. and it  is  just  as  accurate  and  quick  as 
when  we put it in.  We  cheerfully  recom mend 
the  scale  to  anyone  having  m erchandise  to 
weigh out.  We believe it  has  saved  us  several 
times Its cost. 
Per  Eil. 

Snider.  Mgr.  M ercantile  Dept.

c u m m e r   Lu m b e r   c o .

Yours very truly,

HOYT  &  COMPANY,  Dayton,  Ohio

