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LABOR  ORGANIZATIONS.

Observations of a  Noted  Local  Divine
Through the courtesy  of  Dr.  Dan  F. 
Bradley, pastor of  Park  Congregational 
church,  T h e T radesm an is permitted to 
make some  extracts  from  a  recent  ad­
dress on this  subject.  The  lecture  was 
interesting and  timely,  although  people 
who  have  had  actual  experience  with 
union  men  and  union  methods  would 
hardly agree with  its conclusions  in  all 
cases.

After tracing the  development of such 
organizations from  the  early  Greek  and 
Roman civilizations to the guilds  of  the 
middle ages, down  to  the  organizations 
as they  were  found  in  England,  when 
each mechanic had a  factory of his own, 
to the  modern  conditions,  when  capital 
owns the tools on which  labor is depend­
ent, he proceeds:

*

* 

* 

* 

Probably a large part of  the American 
people regard a trades  nnion  as  an  un 
mitigated  evil,  productive  only  of  vio 
lence  and  tyranny  and  disturbance  of 
trade. 
I am free  to  confess  that  up to 
within a  few  years  my  own  view  was 
that  of  the  majority—that  the  trade 
union  was bad and  only  bad.  My  idea 
of  the  banding  together  of  tradesmen 
was that which one  gains  from  reading 
Charles  Reade’s  "Put  Yourself  in  His 
Place,”  a wonderful book and one  which 
probably  represented  a  condition  of 
things which  actually  existed,  but  the 
impressions  from  which  must  not  be 
taken as a scientific solution of the prob 
lem and the last  word  to  be  said  upon 
the matter. 
It  will  be  seen  from  the  foregoing 
statements [definitions of  the  trades un 
ion in  the  Encyclopedia  Brittanica  and 
the platform  of  the  Knights  of  Labor] 
that  the  purposes  for  which  laboring 
men  organize  are  proper  and  praise 
worthy.  They  are  the  purposes  for 
which any order or grade  of  citizens  or 
ganize,  in their respective lines  of  busi 
ness  or  trade  or  social life;  and,  while 
among some  employers  there  is  intense 
prejudice against a  trades  union  on  ac 
count  of 
their  personal  experiences 
wherein the trades nnion has been tyran 
nical and  oppressive,  still,  the  growing 
sentiment among  the  largest  employers 
of  labor  is  turning  to be friendly to  the 
trades  union,  rather  than  hostile. 
It 
cannot be denied  that  the  organizations 
of labor have  accomplished much in  the 
way of benefiting not only their class but 
the entire fabric of society.

have rendered  is the  sifting  out  of  bad 
men and the  retention  of  only  the  best 
men in the order.  Now,  I am aware that 
many  unions have  utterly  failed in  this 
respect,  and I shall  speak of that further 
on;  but the example  of  such  onions  as 
the  Brotherhood  of  Locomotive  Engi­
neers,  for instance,  has made  that  order 
respected  throughout  the  land. 
It  has 
insisted upon  sobriety,  intelligence  and 
ability on the part  of  its  members,  and 
it seldom has to resort to a  strike  to  se­
cure any object which it seeks, because of 
the  conservatism  and  intelligence  and 
honesty of its membership;  and  no  true 
American  lover  of his  kind  can  fail  to 
feel a sense of pride in the  manhood and 
ability of its leader, Chief Arthur, whose 
good sense has done much  to  bring  that 
order  to  the  high  place  which  it  now 
holds  in  the  regard  of  this people. 
If 
the other labor unions had been possessed 
of  equally  capable  leadership,  and  had 
managed their  work  with  equally  good 
sense,  the labor  question of this country 
would practically  be settled.
It  remains  for me to point out some of 
the reasons why  the  cause  of  labor  has 
moved  on  so  slowly  and  why the prej­
udice  against  labor  organizations  has 
been  so  great  among  people,  like our­
selves,  whose  sympathies  are  entirely 
with the worker and  whose desire is that 
he  should  prosper  and  secure  his  just 
rights.  Among  these weaknesses of the 
labor organizations,  1  will  mention  first 
their carelessness in admitting to and re­
taining in  the order  unworthy  men. 
It 
has been said,  with too much  truth,  that 
the labor unions have had  too  great  an 
affiliation with the saloon.  Liquor is the 
laboring  man’s  curse,  and  the 
liquor 
power,  with  its  saloon  welcoming  the 
committees and officers of the union,  has 
done much to  weaken  the cause of labor. 
Many  a  strike  has  been  discnssed  and 
decided upon in the  passionate  moment 
when men talked over their beer or  their 
whisky.  The head has been  unsteadied, 
and the brain,  reeling from  the effects of 
liquor,  has  plunged  organization  after 
organization  into the midst of  a tremen­
dous  strike against capital,  where sober­
ness  and  good  sense  would  have made 
settlement  of  the  questions easy. 
It is 
too sadly  true that the leaders of  many a 
trades union have been men whose brains 
have 
perpetually  muddled  by 
whisky  or  beer.  And,  as  many  a 
good cause has lost the battle in the  con­
flict  of  arms and many a good ship gone 
to the bottom with its charge of preciou: 
souls through the drunkenness of the gen 
era!  or  of  the  captain, so many a right 
eons cause of the laboring man  has  been 
sacrificed  by 
the  drunkenness  of  its 
leader.  Of  all  things  that  need a eool 
head  and  a  clear  brain and a calm  and 
dispassionate judgment  is  the  question 
involving the wages,  on  the  one  hand, 
and the employers of labor, on  the  other 
hand. 
If the leader of the  wage-earners 
handicaps  himself  with  the  inebriating 
cup,  the battle is lost from  the  start. 
I 
think that the great leaders of labor,like 
Powderly and Arthur, have realized this. 
Great sympathizers  with  laboring  men, 
like Cardinal  Manning  and  John  Burns 
and  General  Booth, 
insisted 
that  if  laboring  men  would  succeed  in 
their  cause  they  must  be  sober—the 
saloon  is  their bitterest enemy.  Worse 
than  the  monopolist,  worse  than  the 
wrecker of railroads,  is the saloon,which 
first  steals  away  a  man’s  sense,  then 
steals away his liberty.
Another  reason  for  the  weakness  of 
labor  unions,  in  comparison  with 
the 
strength  which  they  might  have,  is  the 
resort  to  methods  which 
the  common 
sense of mankind has  decided  to  be  un­
fair. 
I will mention,  among  them,  the 
boycott.  The  boycott,  according to the 
Century dictionary,  is  "an organized  at­
tempt to  coerce  a  person  or  party  into I

compliance  with  some demand,  by  com­
bining to abstain,  and  compel  others  to 
abstain,  from having any  business or so­
cial relations with him or  it;  an  organi­
zation of persons or a company as a means 
of coercion or intimidation,  or of retalia­
tion of some act,  or  refusal  to  act  in  a 
particular  way.”  The  boycott  has  led 
labor  unions  into  attitudes  that  have 
been so unreasonable as to be ridiculous, 
and  when a cause comes to be ridiculous, 
it must fail. 
I have  been  told  that  the 
employer of  a  union  mechanic  was  re­
quired to  dismiss  him  from  service be­
cause he employed  a  non-union  man  to 
do some  trivial  thing  about  his  house. 
The  employes of a factory  struck by  or­
der  of  the  union  because  the  owner 
bought milk of a  man  who  bought  feed 
for his cows of  a  mill  which  had  been 
boycotted. 
I have,  myself,  been  served 
with a notice that I  must  not  subscribe 
for  a  certain  newspaper  because  that 
newspaper maintained in its columns the 
right of any  man to sell his  labor  where 
he  pleased.  The  great  American  Rail­
way Union  strike  last  summer  became 
ridiculous  because  it  ordered  men  to 
leave their work  on  railways  which  re­
fused  to  boycott  the  cars  of  a certain 
company  which had trouble  with certain 
of its employes.  The good  sense  of  the 
American  people will not  submit to  any 
such nonsense as the  boycott;  it will not 
suspend ail  its business  and  get  all  so­
ciety by the ears because an  employer of 
labor and his  employes  in  some  remote 
part of the country have a  dispute  as  to 
wages.  Still  less  will  it do it at the ar­
bitrary dictation of a committee.  Labor 
unions of this country will  fail  to  have 
the general sympathy of  the public when 
they resort to the boycott.  It might as well 
be understood,  first as last,  that the boy­
cott is a failure in America.  If the cause 
of a labor union is a  just  one,  not  only 
the  law,  but public opinion  will support 
it in a strike;  and a strike,  supported  by 
public opinion,  is bound  to  be  of  short 
duration.  The  public  has  no objection 
to a strike;  indeed,  it may be  questioned 
how  labor  unions  can  secure  for their 
members their rights except  by  the  last 
resort,  sometimes,  of  a  strike;  but  a 
strike should be the last resort; it should 
not be ordered until  every effort  to  con­
ciliate  and  arbitrate  has  been  made. 
When they have transferred  the  burden 
of defense  to  the  employer;  when  they 
have  aroused  public  opinion  in  their 
favor;  when they  have  done  what  they 
could to settle their grievance  peaceably 
—when 
out  upon  a 
strike their cause  is  bound  to  succeed, 
and  the  good  sense  of  the  community 
justifies  the'r  entire  course.  Bat  the 
boycott  goes  beyond  this—it  seeks  to 
compel  everybody  else  to  enlist  in  the 
fight which is none  of  theirs;  and  a  re­
sort to  the  boycott  means  alienation  of 
public opinion,  without which the  strike 
must fail.
Again,  the labor  unions have failed to 
secure the  sympathy  of  the  public  be­
cause of the  violence which has  so  often 
attended  their  efforts  to secure their de­
I  am  aware of the fact that the 
mands. 
unions  themselves  do  not  approve  of 
violence, 
their  members 
against it, theoretically;  but  practically, 
in  many  of  our  large  strikes,  violence 
has resulted by the connivance or silence 
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In  1894  there  were 
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In looking back over 
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The  speaker  then  proceeds  to  show 
that  the  unions  have  advanced  wages 
and kept down  undue  competition,  sum­
marizing the situation as follows:

in  every 

The  unions  have  served another use­
ful  purpose.  They  have  produced  a 
self-reliance and  self-control on the part 
of the men  who toil. 
I  shall  speak  fur­
ther on of the exceptions  to  this  and  of 
the  mistakes  of  the  labor  unions;  but, 
however  blunderingly  they  may  have 
reached 
their  object—and  all  prog­
ress 
line  of  human  ac­
tivity  seems 
to  be  accompanied  by 
blunders and mistakes—the labor unions 
have  produced  a  self-reliant  body  of 
working men such as  have never existed 
before  in  any  age  of  the  world.  To 
unite men together  in  a  common  inter­
est,  to  bring  before  them in their dem­
ocratic societies  plans  and  propositions 
of  great  significance,  to  discuss 
these 
plans and  work them  out  and  try  them 
in actual life,  has  been an  education for 
the laboring man of unspeakable benefit. 
Another service that the trades unions

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which there was  violence  succeeded. 
I 
am aware that it is the contention  of  the 
laboring men that the violence connected 
with  strikes  is  not  due  to  the  labor 
union. 
I  am  inclined to think that this 
is  in  part  true;  yet  I believe that were 
the labor unions to insist  upon  peaceful 
methods only,  there would be  little  vio­
lence.  Violence usually results from in­
terference with non-union  men  desiring 
to take the place of strikers.  Now,  that 
interference  in  itself  is  unlawful  and 
reprehensible.  The  right  of every man 
to  sell  his  labor,  whether  it  be union 
labor  or  non-union,  when  or  where he 
pleases,  is a right that in this age  of  the 
world 
to  gainsay.  When­
ever  strikers  or  labor  unions  interfere 
with employers  of  non-union  men  who 
are taking their places, they do an  illegal 
thing,  which  constitutes  itself a breach 
of the peace.  1  am  aware  how difficult 
it is for a man  who is striking for higher 
wages  as  against  a  reduction  to  see 
another man going in and taking  his  job 
while  the  question  is  still pending,  yet 
by  the  very  act of a strike the laboring 
man  relinquishes  his  job—he  has  no 
more claim upon  it; and he  certainly has 
no  right  to  interfere with another  man 
who  is  willing to take the job. 
In that 
case his battle has been  transferred from 
one  with  the  employer  to one with his 
fellow  worker:  it  is no longer a contest 
between  the  striker  and 
the  man  for 
whom  he  worked,  but  between 
the 
striker  and another laboring man  who is 
willing to work.  And  when  it comes to 
that,  public opinion  must  condemn  the 
striker,  or  our  democratic  institutions 
must be given  up  to  despotism.  As  be­
tween 
the  tyranny  of  a  mob  and  the 
tyranny of one man,  the community  will 
always choose the tyrauny  of  one  man. 
A hundred years ago it came to the ques­
tion  as  to  whether  France should obey 
Napoleon or whether it  should  obey  the 
fickle populace of Paris, 
it chose Napo­
leon,  and  society  will  so  choose every 
time. 
It  prefers  the orderly rule of the 
bayonet  to  the  uncertain  rule  of  the 
brickbat or the bludgeon.
Another defect of the  labor  unions  is 
their hostility to labor saving inventions. 
Their hostility has been continuous from 
the  first.  Hardly  a  new  machine  ap­
pears that it is  not  bitterly  assailed  by 
labor unions,  yet  the  inventions  always 
increase the amount of  men  employed— 
always  end  in  elevating  the  laboring 
man.  They  are  in  the  line  of  God’s 
great evolution of man to a  place of dig­
nity—they are the perfection of his tools 
—and the sight  of  a worker destroying a 
better tool, that he may continue  to  use 
a worse one, is one of the strange  things 
in  the  history  of  civilization.  When 
capitalists have to lock  up  and  guard  a 
new invention  for saving time and labor, 
for fear that a committee from the trades 
union  will come in and destroy  it,  it  is 
no wonder that you find  them prejudicial 
against labor unions.
But, in spite  of  these  defects  of  the 
labor unions, in spite of the mischief and 
misery  which  have  attended  some  of 
their  efforts,  I repeat 
that  the  general 
tendency has been toward  better  condi­
tions,  better wages and a more equal dis­
tribution of the  product  of  labor.  The 
success  of  labor  organizations  in  the 
future must lie in the line of clearer dis­
criminations as to what is right and what 
is wrong for the organizations  to  accom­
plish, and  to  a  better  conception  of  the 
rights and privileges of other  men;  of  a 
clearer notion  that  society  is  one;  that 
its capital, its labor—all its interests—are 
united and that society mustconserve the 
interests  of  all; 
that  a  house  divided 
against itself cannot stand;  that a trades 
union must seek its ends by peaceful meth­
ods only and  by methods which appeal  to 
the good sense of every member of society. 
It must realize that  men are not enemies, 
but brothers,  working  together  for  the 
common good; that the relation of capital 
to labor is  not  one  of war,  but  one  of 
mutual concession  and  mutual iuterest, 
and that the most  idle  and  futile  thing 
for labor to be engaged in  is  to  be  per­
petually denouncing capital  and seeking 
its overthrow.  With sober leaders,  with 
conservative management,  with  the  ele­
vation of conscientious  and high-minded 
men to the position of authority  and  in­
fluence in labor  organizations,  the  ends

to  be  attained  by  labor  will  certainly 
swiftly come.
The operation of modern  unionism,  ac­
cording to the experience  of  those  who 
have  come  into  practical  contact  with 
its  most  prominent  characteristics,  is 
somewhat  at  variance  with  some  of the 
conclusions  of  Mr.  Bradley.

The  statement  that  the  union makes 
the  workingman  more  independent  is 
not  in  accord  with  the  cardinal  princi­
ples  of  modern  unionism,  which insists 
on 
self-abnegation  of  the  individual 
for 
the  benefit  of  the  whole.  The 
leadership  of  these  bodies  is  delegated 
to  the  unscrupulous class,  which asserts 
itself  to  the  exclusion  of  the  better 
and  more  conservative  element.  The 
man  who  joins  a  union  ceases to be  a 
free  agent.  He  dare not  talk  with  his 
employer  as  an  individual  on  matters 
of  hours,  wages,  or  questions  affecting 
his  general  welfare.  Such  questions 
must be  relegated  to  the “ walking dele­
gate”  for  consideration,  negotiation and 
settlement.  He  must  take  heed  to  the 
behests  of  his  “council”  that  his  pat­
ronage  be  not  given  where  non-union­
ism  has  had  anything  to  do  with  pro­
duction—food,  clothing,  books,  news­
papers—perchance  the  seat at church or 
lecture  hall. 
Is  this  tyranny  condu- 
sive  to  independence?

to 

represent 

experience.  As 

The statement  that  unionism  tends to 
is  at  variance  with 
sift  out  bad  men 
intimated 
practical 
above,  the  men  who 
the 
unions  are  of  the  worst  element—walk­
ing  delegates,  grievance  committees, 
strike  committees  and  officers.  These 
men  are  intemperate  and unscrupulous, 
yet  are  put  to  the  front  to  represent 
the  best  thought  and  best  work  of  the 
unions.  That  the  union  tends  to make 
men  better  is,  by  experience,  demon­
strated 
fallacy.  The 
union 
an­
tagonism  to  employers, instead of co-op­
eration. 
It  incites  to  enmity  and  vio­
lence against non-union men and encour­
ages  the  violation  of  law. 
It  destroys 
self-respect and suppresses all  higher  as­
pirations. 
It  tends  te  socialism  and 
creates  anarchists.  Before  unionism 
is  a  factor  in  the  advancement  of  man­
kind  to  a  higher  level  it  must be great­
ly  modified.

a 
account  of 

be 
on 

exists 

The  Brotherhood  of  Locomotive  En­
gineers  is not  by any means a represent­
It  is  unique 
ative  labor  organization. 
in  that  its  conservative 
intelligence 
makes it co-operate  with  its  employers. 
The character of the service excludes in­
temperance. 
If  such  conditions  could 
obtain in other unions  they might be  all 
that is claimed for them,  but,  alas,  how 
far is the practical from the ideal!

A  statistician  in  the  employ  of  the 
German Government  three  years ago de­
termined to make a careful investigation 
of the superstition  regarding  Friday  as 
an unlucky day.  As a result  of  his  ex­
haustive labors be has  given the world a 
book of queer  tables  and  figures  which 
prove that it is Monday,  and not Friday, 
that is the most fatal or  unfortunate day 
in the week.  But all the maxims  to  the 
contrary  that  may  be  offered  will  not 
make Friday popular with those inclined 
to be  superstitious.  Superstitious  mur­
derers have  for a long time regarded Fri­
day as an unlucky day because  so  many 
of  them  have  been hanged on that day. 
But  it  should  be  remembered  that  the 
day on  which a murderer is hanged  is  a 
very  lucky  day  for  the  community  in j 
which the man lived and did  his murder- i 
ing.

8.  P.  Bennett  Ptiel i Ice  Go,
ALL  KINDS  OF  FUEL,

Mine Agents and Jobbers for

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

will be at Sweet’s Hotel,  Grand  Rapids, 
Thursday  and  Friday,  April  11  and  12, 
with  a  full  line  of  samples  iu  ready­
made  clothing  in  Men’s,  Youths’,  Boys’ 
and  Childrens’.  Fourteen years with
Michael  Kolb  &  Son,

Clothing  M anufacturers,

Rochester, N. Y.

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J.A.S.Vermer, Cash'r. It. Van Hof. Ass't Cash'r
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Interest Allowed on Time Deposits.
Solicits  the  Accounts  of  Herchants  and  Indi­

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E.  Crofton  Fox,  T.  .1.  O'Brien,  A.  ,T.  Bowne, 
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CARPET  LINING«, Etc.

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Written tor Thi Tr a d * shah.

It begins to look as if the  English  ad­
jective can’t get along much longer with­
out having another degree.  The positive 
was worn out long  ago;  comparisons are 
ever odious,  and the superlative is so de­
cidedly the worse for wear that the sales­
man,  particularly,  is on  the  lookout  for 
something  to  take  its  place.  Nobody 
would think  of  buying  sugar  which  is 
simply  good,  and  certainly  no  self-re­
specting grocer would  think  of  keeping 
such sugar  on  band;  but  there  will  be 
no  difficulty  in  finding where the sweet­
est sugar,  and,  so, the best,  is  sold,  and 
where no other kind  is  kept.  Hear  the 
grocer go on:

“Fine potatoes?  No sir,  not  fine,  but 
the finest  to be found  in the city!  They 
grew  to  order  and  anly  the  best were 
taken out  of  the  ground.  Those  beans 
small?  Why,  man,  it’s  evident that  you 
don’t know  beans!  You couldn’t  find  in 
any first-class grocery that  big old white 
bean,  if your soul  depended on it.  Yes, 
these  are  smaller,  but  you  get  about 
twice as much of the  nutritive quality of 
the bean  in this small kind  as you  had  in 
the  other.  Yes,  this  is  certainly  way 
ahead.  How many quarts did you say?” 
And, in regard  to  flour,  “Well,  no,  we 
don’t keep that brand.  It’s good—there’s 
no denying that;  but  we  keep  only  the 
very  best and  we haven’t had any of that 
for a long time.  You’ll find it in  almost 
any other store,  and we  haven’t  a  word 
to say against  it;  but,  if  you  want  the 
best  flour  that  a  mill  ever turned out, 
here it is!  Some flour is good for pastry, 
and  some  other  brands  are  good  for 
bread;  but  here’s  something  that  beats 
them all for both.  Try some  of  it  and, 
if you don’t find  it just as I tell you.  you 
needn’t pay for it.”

Everything is better  than the best and 
the grocer needs  a  hyper-snperlative  to 
express himself at all.

#  *  •

Other  lines  of  trade  are  feeling  the 
same  need.  A  dining  table  is  wanted 
and,  as matters are now, there is but one 
place  in  the  city  where  tables—real, 
genuine, up-to-date  tables,  yon  know— 
are  kept,  and  that  one  place  will  be 
found in the first  adv.  you  come  across 
in your daily paper, 
if a tooth needs at­
tention  the  only  first-class  dentist  in 
town is—well,  there are so many  of  him 
that  you  can’t  make  a  mistake  if  you 
take  the  first  one  you  come to.  Coal? 
Go  straight  to  What’s-his-name;  he  is 
the only one who gives full  weight, and, 
when you talk about  bottom prices,  he’s 
a basement and a cellar  below  any  bot 
to in price there  is in the  town.  Carpets 
you want?  Then go where  there  is  the 
greatest variety in quantity  and  quality 
—go  to  Wilton  &  Brussels’. 
I  heard 
Wilton say, in  the  street car, this morn­
ing,  that his house is ahead  of  anything 
in the United States.  Every tailor is the 
best one in town,  and  the  only  one  (ac­
cording to each one’s ipse dixit) who pre­
tends  to  have  his  work  done  on time. 
Every  milliner has the  only stylish  hats 
in her window;  and  every shoe dealer is 
positive that he  only  can  give  the  best 
shoe and the best fit at  the  lowest  price 
in the city.

Only a few of  the  many  dealers  have 
been  mentioned.  The  others  will  be 
found in  the  same* condition—the  best. 
They are all the best, and for that reason 
they are all experiencing  that  “long-felt 
want” of another  degree  to  express cor­

rectly their position  among  their  fellow 
dealers.  Who  will  help  them  in  their 
dilemma?

*  *  *

Of  course,  every  dealer  who  says, 
either in his adv. or out  of it,  that  he  is 
the only one in his particular line.knows 
he’s telling a whopper, and will  say with 
a laugh,  “You might  just  as  well say  it 
as strong as  you  know  how,  while  you 
are about it.”  The fact is,  we are all  so 
used to making it “as strong as we  know 
how,” that  simple  fact  has  become  too 
tame  for  every-day  use. 
I  sometimes 
wonder  what  the  result  would  be  if 
everyone should say just what be means, 
without any  embellishment  whatsoever, 
and with no attempt  to make a big story 
out of a tiny one. 
I should like to  hear 
a friend say that the fish he  caught  was 
really but a  small  one,  just  as I  would 
like to hear my grocer say that the cheese 
wasn’t  good  and 
that  I  would  find a 
much  better  one  at  another  grocer’s,  a 
door or two away.  I know  I should think 
the millennium was at band,and I should 
know that the man  was playing a joke on 
me.

It must be tiresome,  as  well  as monot­
onous,  to  be  always  at  the  top  of the 
heap;  and I  wonder  if  one  of  the  evils 
which poverty shuns is not  the necessity 
of having  the  best,  which  a  full  purse 
demands. 
I  wonder,  too,  how  it would 
seem to admit, once in a great  while,that 
the other store is actually as good as ours, 
and that the man  who  keeps  it  is—is— 
well,  almost  as  good a  fellow as we are. 
If we are not quite equal  to  that—“ we” 
seems a  little  easier  in  such  cases—we 
can make more use  of  the  positive;  and 
there is need enough of it.  A good thing 
will always stand on  its  merits  and  the 
comparative—a question,  almost always, 
of eyesight—can tell its own story;  and, 
if the time ever comes when the superla­
tive is dethroned and the  common,  ordi­
nary, every-day affair allowed to be what 
it was meant to be—“only that and noth­
ing more” —there will,  indeed,  be a great 
deal better living than there is now, and, 
so,  a great deal more comfortable  dying!

Rich a bd  Ma i.com  Strong.

The  eye  is  called  the  window  of  the 
soul.  The comparison  is  perfect  when 
you get struck in the eye, for then there’s 

a pane in it.Sap Buckets

A t  Bottom  Prices.

IS  IT  NOT  A  DANDY?

What!  You  don’t  see  how  it 

works ?

Why,  it’s  so  simple  you  can’t 

help it.

If  you’ll  only  step  in  a minute, 

we’ll show it  up.

J. M. H a y d e n  &

PHONE  5 4 0.

We  Pay  HIGHEST  MARKET  PRICES  in  SPOT  CASH  and  measure  Bark 

When  Loaded.  Correspondence  Solicited.

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  anv other company.
A. C. McGRAW  &  CO.’S RUBB*ER DEPARTMENT 
sell more pairs of rubbers daily than any other company.
We want consumers of rubbers to have the best there is,  and as money 
is hard to get—get your money's worth.
We want merchants to buy the  BOSTON  RUBBER  SHOE  CO.’S  RUB­
BERS of the exclusive rubber department of

K IiG B A W iC O .M nit

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

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STIMPSON  COMPUTING  SCALE

io and  12  Quarts IX  Tin  a t  $9 .8 0  per 

hundred while they last.

Office  Telephone  »055- 

Barn Telephone  1059.

C p n   T D I T V   Storage and 
I \ *   1  I   Transfer Co.

Warehouse, 257—259  Ottawa  St.  Main Of’ce, 75 Pearl St.

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

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

WANTBD.

moving,  Packing,  Dry  Storage.
B e a n s,  P o ta to e s ,  O nions.
MOSELEY  BROS.

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

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

26  28,  30 and  32  Ottawa  St.,  GRAND  RAPIDS, MICH.

The Bradstreet Mercantile Aiency.

The Bradstreet  Company, Props.

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

CHARLES  F.  CLARK,  Pres.

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

Grand  Rapids Office, Room 4, Widdieomb  Bldg.

HENKT  BOYCE, Snpt.

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

ABOUND  THE  STATE.

MOVEMENTS OF  MERCHANTS.

Milford—Enos  Welch  succeeds  W.  C. 

Grier in  the grocery business.

Morenci—Benjamin &  Fay  succeed  F.

Jos. 

E.  Benjamin in the grocery business.

Albion—G.  Scanola 

succeeds 
Perasso & Co.  in the fruit business.

Factoryville—Outwaler & Harmon suc­

ceed John Outwaler in general trade.

New  Lathrop—Jas,  Zeigler  succeeds 

Zeigler & Weinzierle in general  trade.

Nashville—Ingerson & Brattin succeed 
Putman Bros,  in  the hardware  business.
Perry—Watkins  &  Barrett  succeed 
Marshall & Spaulding  in  general  trade.
Owosso—F.  M.  Wheeler  has  sold  his 
hardware stock to F. C.  Achard, of Sagi­
naw.

Dexter—L.  L.  James  succeeds  R.  B. 
Honey in the drug and  wall  paper  busi­
ness.

Jonesville—D.  L.  Powers  succeeds  D. 
L.  Powers  &  Co.  in  the  clothing busi­
ness.

Lowell—W.  R.  Blaisdell  &  Co.  have 
sold their hardware  stock  to  Reuben  S. 
Quick.

Flint—Foote  &  Wolverton  succeed 
Foote  &  Phillips  in  the  boot  and shoe 
business.

Traverse  City—J.  F.  Hayden  has  re­
tired from the grocery  firm  of  Richard­
son & Co.

Jackson—A.  B.  Bolton &  Son  succeed 
Bolton  &  Pillsbury  in  the  undertaking 
business.

Dryden—Mrs.  Sarah E.  Randolph  suc­
ceeds  Randolph  &  Walker  in  the  mil­
linery business.

Negaunee—Henry  H.  Bregstone  has 
purchased  the  boot  and  shoe  stock  of 
Alexander Heyn.

Harbor  Springs—Claude  Wright  has 
purchased the grocery and  meat business 
of Wm. C. Cramer.

Iron Mountain—Hallberg  &  Osterberg 
have purchased the  bakery  and  grocery 
business of Alfred Wohl.

Benton Harbor—H. R. Elliott, formerly 
with J.  T.  Webber,  of Ionia,  will shortly 
occupy  a bazaar store here.

Menominee—Bottkol  Bros., 

grocers 
and  crockery  dealers,  have  dissolved, 
Geo.  Bottkol & Bro.  succeeding.

Laingsburg—Wm. Clark has purchased 
the Hibbard building  and will  occupy it 
with a grocery stock about May 1.

Cadmus—This town now  has  two gro­
cery stores,  Gander &  Stockwell  having 
put in a stock in the Waterman building.
Mt.  Pleasant—Morris  Seitner  has  re­
moved his dry goods  and  boot  and  shoe 
business from Breckenridge to this place.
Wacousta—H. D.  Rowland has sold his 
general stock to  Frank  C.  Brisbin,  for­
merly engaged in  trade at Ithaca, Berlin, 
etc.

Dearborn—D.  P.  Lapham,  dry  goods 
dealer,  has admitted his  son  to  partner­
ship,  under the style of  D.  P.  Lapham & 
Son.

Eaton  Rapids—Adams  &  Whitehead, 
bakers  and  grocers,  have  dissolved. 
The business will  be  continued by  S.  A. 
Whitehead.

Northport—Kehl  Bros,  have purchased 
the general  stock of  Thos.  Copp  &  Co., 
Limited,  and  will  consolidate the stock 
with their  own.

Hart—E.  S.  lloughtaiing  has  sold  his 
produce  business  to  Ed.  Comstock and 
W.  L.  Wheeler,  who  will  continue  the 
business uuder the style  of  Comstock  & 
Wheeler.  Mr.  Houghtaling  has  gone  to

Colorado,  in  hopes  the  dry atmosphere 
there will restore his  hearing.

Overisel—Dangremond  &  VanBrem- 
melem,  hardware  and  implement  deal­
ers,  have dissolved,  J.  K.  Dangremond 
continuing the business.

Flint—C.  D.  Ulmer  will  remove  his 
shoe stock a few doors south of his  pres­
ent location, putting a stock of  groceries 
in the store left vacant.

Marquette—F.  H.  Desjardins  &  Co., 
druggists,  have  merged  their  business 
into a stock company under the  style  of 
the T.  Coderre Pharmacal Co.

St. 

Mendon—H. C.  Clapp & Son have  sold 
their  drug  stock  to  Nelson  Hower and 
C.  L.  Ilasbrouck,  who have absorbed  the 
purchases into their own  stocks.

Ignace—E.  Bender  &  Co.  have 
opened  a  general  store. 
in 
their stock is a line of  boots  and  shoes, 
furnished by A.  C.  McGraw & Co.

Included 

Sears—The  Sears  Mercantile  Co.  has 
moved  its  stock  from  its  West Branch 
store to this place and contemplates put­
ting up a  new  store  building  this  sum­
mer.

Houghton—C.  A.  Mayworm has  added 
a two-story  addition  to  his  shoe  store. 
In March he placed a full  line  of  ladies’ 
shoes 
in  the  store  in  addition  to  the 
men’s stock.

Bay City—A.  H.  Rush,  who  has  been 
doing  business  in  this  city  under  the 
style of the  Bay  City  Fruit  &  Produce 
House,  has  discontinued  the  business 
and removed to Chicago.

Otsego—J.  D.  Woodbeck  has  pur­
chased the interest of Jas.  Carruthers  in 
the grocery firm of  Carruthers  &  Wood- 
beck and  will  continue  the  business  at 
the same location under  his  own  name.
Hart—C.  Sorenson  has  purchased  the 
dry goods,  boot  and  shoe  and  clothing 
stock of  C.  H.  Francis  and  moved  his 
grocery stock into the room  lately  occu­
pied  by  Francis,  consolidating  the  two 
stocks.

Traverse City—H. E.  Aldrich,  of  Cad­
illac, has entered  into  partnership  with 
Frank Eubeck  in the clothing and men’s 
furnishing goods business, and  the  firm 
will  hereafter  be  known  as  Aldrich  & 
Eubeck.

Flint—J.  E.  Burroughs  &  Co.  have 
filed  mortgages  aggregating  $29,000  in 
favor of  the  Citizens’  Commercial  Sav­
ings  Bank.  The  business will  be  con­
tinued  by  H.  C.  Spencer,  Cashier,  as 
trustee.

Traverse  City—J.  F.  Hayden,  who 
was  the  “Co.”  of  Richardson  &  Co., 
grocers,  has  sold  his  interest  to  Mrs. 
Ruby L.  Richardson and S.  J. Richmond. 
The business will be continued under the 
same style.

Hastings—Goodyear  Bros,  have  pur­
chased  the  implement  stock  of  Messer 
Bros. & Reynolds  and  leased  the  ware- 
room  occupied  by  the former firm, con­
necting it with their hardware and imple­
ment stores.

MANUFACTURING MATTERS.

Flint—John D.  Proctor  succeeds Proc­
tor Bros,  in the manufacture  of  wagons 
and carriages.

Ann  Arbor—Hunter  &  Murchey  suc­
ceed  Robt.  Hunter  in  the  foundry and 
machine shop business.

West Branch—The French Lumber Co. 
has paid out over $20,000 to  farmers  for 
logs during the winter.

New  Lathrop—Irving  E.  French  has 
rented the  New  Lathrop  flouring  mills 
of Jas. Yiets,  taking possession  April  1.

Galesburg—Alida  B.  Townsend  has 
sold her Interest in  the  Galesburg  grist 
mill  property  to  Samuel  Carson  for 
$2,700.

Detroit—The  Beals  &  Selkirk  Trunk 
Co.  has  filed  a  notice  in 
the  couuty 
clerk’s  office  of  an  increase  of  capital 
stock from $25,000 to $50,000.

Petoskey—Newberry  &  Thompson, 
who operated a shingle mill at this place 
and also at Conway,  have dissolved.  The 
business will  be continued  by  Austin  & 
Thompson.

Good Harbor—The  sawmill  of  Henry 
Schomberg  is  running  with a full crew. 
He will cut 3,000,000  of  hardwood,  also 
1,000,000  feet  for  Richard  Schomberg 
during the season.

Howard City—The  proprietors  of  the 
Coral chair  factory,  which was  recently 
burned,  will  locate  their  new  plant  at 
this  place, 
the  business  men  having 
guaranteed substantial  assistance  in  re­
establishing the enterprise.

Bay City—So far  as  known  wages  of 
mill  hands  will  rule  about  the same as 
last year,  being  a  reduction  of  10  to  15 
per cent., compared with  1892.  The new 
lumber yards and planing mills and  fac­
tories will afford steady employment to a 
large number of  men.

Alpena—Albert Pack has just closed a 
deal for the purchase of  the plant of the 
Huron Lumber Co., of this city, together 
with several  million feet  of  logs  in  the 
river.  Mr.  Pack  will  operate  this mill 
and also his own mill to their full extent 
for several years.  He  has  large  timber 
limits in the Georgian  Bay  country,  and 
also considerable timber in  this  section.
Muskegon—The  Thayer  Lumber  Co. 
will operate its mills here  this  summer. 
It was reported that they would complete 
their cut this season,  but  Mr.  Park  an­
nounces  that  the  company  will  not be 
able to  get  through  until  next  season. 
The corporation is  now  putting  in  log­
ging camps at Hungerford,  in  Newaygo 
county,  and will  bring  the  logs  here  by 
rail.  The  timber  is  estimated  to  cut 
about 25,000,000 feet.  The mills will be­
gin operations soon.

Belding (Banner)—W.  F.  Bricker  has 
received a letter from W.  H. Hellener, of 
Rossville,  111.,  with  whom  he  had  cor­
respondence a year ago relative to estab­
lishing  a  shoe  factory  here.  Mr.  Hel­
lener is looking for a location and is will­
ing to invest $10,000  of  his  own  money 
in  such  an  enterprise. 
In  canvassing 
the matter,  Mr.  Bricker informs us  that 
E.  H.  Deatsman,  now  of  Sunfield,  but 
who  expects  soon  to  be  a  resident  of 
Belding,  is willing to take $5,000 of stock 
and another gentleman in  Grand  Rapids 
a  like  amount. 
It  needs  only  $5,000 
more  pledged  to secure the  factory  and 
it is hoped  this  small  amount  will  not 
stand in the  way.

It is generally conceded that  the  pros­
pect of the payment of a large indemnity 
by China  to  Japan  has  been  the  great 
factor in the recent  decided  advances  in 
the price of silver.  The probability of a 
further influence  in  the  same  direction 
will aid the solution  of  the  silver  ques­
tion  by 
the  international  conference, 
should one be called, on  account  of  the 
removal of  the  great  disparity  between 
that  metal  and  gold,  which  is now the 
most serious factor in the problem.

I.  E.  DeGowiu, the  Cheboygan  grocer, 
was married last week  to  Miss  Eimball, 
of Ionia.

P R O D U C E   M A R K E T .

Apples—$1 @ $1.25 per bu.,  according to quali­
ty.  The demand is light  and  the supply is am­
ple.
Beans—Advancing  steadily, every  day noting 
a stronger position than the day  before.  Local 
handlers  are  holding  their  stocks  at $2.02 H @ 
$2.' 5, with  every  probability  of  an advance to 
$2.10 before the end  of  the  week.  A  carefully 
compiled table,  published  elsewhere  this week 
discloses a serious  shortage,  which  is likely to 
be felt before the close of the present season.

Butter— 10314c,  according  to  quality  Low 

grades are dull and slow sale.

Betts—Dry, 30c per bu.
Cabbage—35^50c per doz.
Celery—25c per doz.. according to quality.
Cranberries—3.50284 per  crate.
Eggs—11® 13c per doz.  The supply is amplest 
present, but the demand is very strong, owing to 
the high price of meat.'

Early Vegetables—Cucumbers,  $1.75  per  doz. 
Green Onions, 12c per  doz.  bunches.  Pieplant, 
8c  per  lb.  Radishes,  3  c  per  doz.  bunches. 
Spinach, 7fc per bu.

Lettuce—12lie per lb.
Onions—Dry stock is scarce, except poor stock, 
which is in ample supply.  Dealers  pay  55@6Gc, 
holding at  0@i5c.

Parsnips— 30@35c per bu.
Potatoes—The  market 

and 
quotations  are  gradually  advancing. 
Local 
handlers  a'e  of  the  opinion  thst  if  a  break 
does  not  occur  within 
the 
country  will  witness  no  break 
this  spring. 
Handlers pay 60c here and  5o@60c at the  princi­
pal outside buying points.

two  weeks, 

Sweet  Potatoes—$1.15  per  bu.  for  kiln dried 

strong 

is 

I.linois Jerseys.

A  HAIL  ORDER  TO  US  IS  SURE  TO 
BEGIN  A BUSINESS CONNECTION THAT 
WILL  SAVE  YOU  DOLLARS.

HENRY  J. V1NKEMULDER, 

Wholesale  Fruit  and  Produce,

445=447  S.  Division  St.

Rindge,
KaSmbach
&  Co.

12,  14  and  16 

PEARL  STREET.

RUBBERS

FALL  PRICES ON  RUBBERS,  20  per cent. 
ON  BOSTON,  20  and  21  per  cent,  on  BAY 
STATE,  FREIGHT  PREPAID.

The  above  discount  allowed  on  all  orders 

placed  and  filled  before  October  1st.

PRICES FROn  OCT.  ist.’QS.TO  MAR. 31st, 
’96,  both  inclusive:  BOSTON,  15  per  cent., 
BAY  STATE,  15  and  12  per  cent.

We want your business  and  will  take  good 
care of you.  We  carry  as  large a stock as any­
one, and keep all  the  novelties, such as PICCA­
DILLY  and  NEEDLE  TOES 
in  Men’s  and 
Women’s.

Our salesmen  will  call  on you in due time. 
Please reserve your orders for them.  Prices  and 
terms guaranteed as good as  offered by any firm 
selling Boston  Rubber Shoe Co.'s goods.

T H E   M I C E U G A N   T H A T ) ^ S M  A 1ST,

GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

J. E.  Henderson  succeeds  Steketee  & 
Baker in the  drug  business  at  61  West 
Leonard street.

Wm.  J.  Barden  has  opened  a grocery 
store  at  Howard  City.  The  Ball-Barn- 
hart-Putman Co.  furnished the  stock.

E.  A.  Yanderveen,  hardware dealer at 
36  West  Leonard  street,  has  sold  his
business to his  father, E.  Vanderveen. 

________________

John  Van  Winsheym  has  opened  a 
grocery  store at 471 Logan  street.  The 
stock  was  furnished  by  the Ball-Barn- 
hart-Putman Co.

Wm. Young has  removed  his  grocery 
stock from the corner  of  Seventh  street 
and Alpine avenue to the corner of Ninth 
street and  Alpine avenue.

Dykstra  &  Pater  have  opened  a gro­
cery store at the corner of Seventh street 
and  Alpine 
avenue.  The  Worden 
Grocer Co.  furnished the stock.

W.  J.  Boynton has  opened  a  grocery 
store  on  Lake  avenue,  just  east  of the 
gravel  road 
toll  gate.  The  Worden 
Grocer Co.  furnished the stock.

John H. Joldersma,  undertaker  at  73 
Grandville  avenue, 
is  succeeded  by 
Joldersma  &  Seginka,  Bucas  Seginka 
having  purchased  an 
the 
business.

interest 

in 

E.  E. Chapel,  formerly  engaged  in  the 
grocery business on Cherry  street  under 
the  style of Cole & Chapel,  has opened a 
grocery  store  at  Berlin.  The  Worden 
Grocer Co.  furnished the stock.

E.  G. Curtis,  who conducted  a  grocery 
business  at  Mt.  Pleasant for eight years 
and for a year was  engaged  in  the  gro­
cery trade at Stanton,  will  shortly re-en­
gage in the grocery business at the latter 
place.  The  Ball-Barnhart-Putman  Co. 
has the order for the stock.

The Foldingchair & Table  Co.,  doing 
business at the corner of Pearl and South 
Front streets, is closing out its stock and 
will  retire  from  business.  This  com­
pany did a fairly prosperous business  up 
to the time of its fire, two or  three  years 
ago,  when  it  suffered  a  severe  loss by 
reason  of  insufficient  insurance,  from 
which it has never been able  to  recover.
the  Retail 
Grocers’ Association,  which will  be  held 
at T h e T radesm an  office  this  evening, 
will probably be largely attended,  as  C. 
G.  A. Voigt is announced  to  deliver  an 
address  on  the  subject  of  the  rebate 
method of  handling  flour.  All  grocers, 
whether members of  the  organization  or 
not,  are  cordially  invited  to attend  the 
meeting.

The  regular  meeting  of 

F.  L.  Maguire,  who  has  just  closed  a 
successful food show at Milwaukee,  will 
come to Grand  Rapids  this  week  for  the 
purpose of  investigating  the  feasibility 
of conducting a good  show  here  during 
the first and second  weeks of  May.  Mr. 
Maguire has had  wide  experience  in  in­
augurating  and  managing  such  enter­
prises and  T h e  T radesm an  commends 
him to the business  public  as  a  gentle­
man  in  every  way  worthy of their con­
fidence.

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

Coffees. 
Visner, Agt.,  and make money.

It  costs  nothing. 

J.  M.  Hayden  is in  the  Southern  part 

of the State on business.

The  Drug  Market.

Acids—There is little to report beyond 
a continued  moderately  active  jobbing 
movement 
in  the  various  leading  de­
scriptions at prices indicating  steadiness, 
among sellers and  a  general  feeling  of 
confidence  on  the  part  of  consumers. 
The demand for citric  is  seasonably  ac­
tive,  with prices  well  maintained.

Balsam Peru—Has developed  a firmer 
undertone  and  sellers  have  advanced 
their views.

Bismuth  Preparations—Manufacturers 

announce a reduction of 10c per lb.

Caffeine—Further  business  has  been 
done from second hands at  88,  which  is 
now  the price  generally  asked.  Stocks 
of all  kinds are very  light.

Cassia  Buds—Are  held  firmly  under 
the influence of the  stronger  market  for 
silver,  and holders are indifferent sellers.
Cod Liver Oil—Continues to  reflect  an 
easier tendency,  owing  to  the  fact  that 
one holder is yet endeavoring  to  realize. 
Stocks  cannot  be  replaced  at  present 
quotations  and  later  on  a  reaction  is 
generally  expected.

Essential  Oils—The  only  features  of 
interest  are  stronger  markets  for anise 
and cassia,  largely due  to the advance iu 
silver.

Flowers—American saffron is 2c higher 
and  offered  sparingly  at  the  advance. 
The demand is  good. 
Insects  are  more 
active and firmer abroad,  with increased 
interest developing in this  country.

Gum Camphor—Has been  advanced by 

refiners and prices are 2c higher.

Leaves—Truxillo coca are in  good  de­
mand  and  firmer.  Huanuco  are  prac­
tically out of market  and  entirely  nom­
inal.  Short  buchu  are  steadily harden­
ing, especially the better grades.

Opium—Early  in 

Nitrate  of  Silver—Has  further  ad­
vanced in sympathy  with the  bar metal.
the  week  advices 
were  received  reporting  purchases  in 
Smyrna to the extent of about  300  cases 
for account of American  manufacturers. 
The markets have since  ruled  depressed 
and  weak  both  here and abroad,  the lat­
ter due chiefly to exceptionally favorable 
weather  for  the  growing  crop,  whieh 
bids fair to result in  an  unusually  large 
yield.  With such an  outlook  it  is  only 
natural  that buyers should be inclined to 
operate cautiously.

Quinine—The  very  strong  conditions 
previously  noted  still  prevail.  Domes­
tic manufacturers and agents for foreign 
makers report large orders at full  sched­
ule rates.

Saltpetre—The  arrival  of  the  Sindia 
from Calcutta,  with 2,542  bags,  has  not 
affected  the  market,  whieh  was  practi­
cally bare  of  stock  in  first  hands,  and 
with a continued active  jobbing  demand 
values have ruled firm.

Seeds—Canary 

is  quiet  and  steady. 
Hemp  and  Russian  are  scarce.  Dutch 
caraway  is advancing in Europe,  in  con­
sequence of which  American markets are 
a trifle stronger.
Prizes  for  Best  Article  on  the  Cash 

System.

The Grand Rapids Retail  Grocers’  As­
sociation offers  three cash  prizes—85,  83 
and  82—for  the  best  three  essays  on 
“Advantages of the Cash System.”  Com­
petition is open to  the  world  and  there 
is no limitation as  to  the  length  of  the 
articles,  the only  stipulation  being  that 
the contributions be in the  bands  of  the 
Secretary  (editor  of  T h e  T ra desm a n) 
by  May  1.  The  decision  of  the  Com­
mittee will  be announced at  the  regular 
meeting ot  the Association May 21.

SHORT  SUPPLY.

Stocks  on  Hand  Over  300,000  Bush­

els  Shy.

are, 

naturally, 

New  beans  will  cut  no  figure in  the 
market before Sept.  15—23  weeks  yet— 
and,  in  view  of  the  scarcity  of  stock, 
handlers 
enquiring 
whether there are enough  1894  beans on 
hand to meet the  consumptive  demands 
of  the  season.  The  solution  of such a 
problem requires  an  unusual  degree  of 
knowledge and discernment,  but  W.  T. 
Lamoreaux  is,  undoubtedly,  equal to the 
occasion,  in view of the large  amount of 
stock  handled by his  house  and  the  ac­
curate information he is able to  acquire, 
from inside sources,  concerning  the  re­
quirements of each  market.  Mr.  Lamo­
reaux  has  kindly  consented  to  permit 
T h e T radesm an to give  its  readers  the 
benefit  of  his  compilation,  which  is as 
follows:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

ESTIM ATED  DISTRIBUTIVE  DEMAND  IN  BUSHELS.

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

......................................................  172.5! 10
Boston 
New  England Cities  ..  ................................1 15.UU0
New  York City.................................... 
.172,000
< Hher New York Cities..  ...........................   34.500
Chicago............................................................. 172,500
58.500
Other Illinois Cities................. 
31.500
St. Louis  ...... 
 
 
Other Missouri  (  ¡ties 
20.000
Nebraska.......................... 
7.000
 
Alabama................ 
1,000
 
3.000
Arkansas..............  
.........  1.500
North  Dakota  ..............................  
South  Dakota 
I ooo
Washington, DC  ... 
2.000
Florida............................ 
2.000
Indiana.............................................................  20.000
Iowa.................................................................... 10.000
K ansas.........  ....... 
5.00'
Louisiana 
.  20,000
Maine................................................................  2.500
Minnesota 
Ohio 
±2.500
Pennsylvania.................................................  42,500
Tennessee........................................................  5.000
5,000
Texas 
 
Virginia...................................... 
5,000
 
Wisconsin 
12,500
Other States not  enum erated............... 
25.000
.......................981.000

 
................................ 
.................................................11.  o

Total  demand 

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

.... 

 

 

ESTIMATED  SUPPLY  ON  HAND.  IN  BUSHELS.

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

C anada...........................................................  02 500
Michigan........................................  
iitoooo
New  York 
...............................................   125.000
Miscellaneous 
50,000
Ell route 
............  ................... 
.  25.000
Foreign  (50/ 00 bags) 
175.000
 
California...................................  
. . .   25.000
Boston 
......................................................... 42.500
Chicago. 
 
 
32.500
30.000
New  Y o rk ................................................... 
...........667,500

Total estimated supply 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RECAPITULATION.

Total  estimated  requirements..................   931.000
Total estimated  supply............................   667.500
•Shortage......................................316,500

The  Cyclone  Emery  Wheel.

J.  M.  Hayden  &  Co.  have in transit a 
thousand  cyclone  and  vitrified  emery 
wheels,which will  be the largest stock  in 
Michigan.  Messrs.  Hayden  &  Co.  make 
a specialty  of  these  wheels  and  find  a 
great  demand  for  them,  many  of  the 
leading 
factories  having 
adopted them exclusively.

furniture 

Wants  Column,

745

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

Advertisements  will  be  inserted  under  this 
head for two cents a word the first insertion and 
one  cent a word  for each subsequent  insertion. 
No advertisements  taken for  less  than 25 cents. 
Advance payment.
IjlOR SALE  ONLY—A  GOOD  PAYING  RES- 
taurant.  Nice  locality.  Fair  trade.  A 
■ 
bargain.  Winans  &  Moore,  1  Tower  B’lk. 
Grand Rapids, Mich. 
IjTIGHTY  CENTS  WILL  BUY  *1  WORTH  OF 
inventorying 
■J  a  clean  stock  of  groceries 
about$5,000.  Terms,cash;  sales,$30,(00annually; 
strictl) cash store;  good  town  of  7,ot0 inhabl 
tauts  Address 738, care Mich. Tradesman.  738
F OR  SALE  OR  EXCHANGE—FOR  STOCK 
of  hardwire  or  groceries,  pretty  home  in 
Grand Rapids,containing eleven plea-ant ro  ms, 
gas, grate and marble mantel, good well and cis­
tern, also city water.  Valued »t $3/10.  Address 
No. 739, ea;e Michigan Tradesman. 
\ \ f  ANTED—TO  BUY  SECONDHAND  CASH 
V v  Register.  Must be in good condition.  Ad­
dress Via ent Mauro, 309  Perry St., Saginaw, W. 
S„ Mich,____________________________ 7 0
F or  sa l e- a  f ir t  class  h a rd w a r e
and implement  business  In thriving village 
in good farming community.  Address Brown & 
700
Sehler, Grand Rapids,  Mich. 

739

W ANTED—TO  BUY  GOOD SECOND HAND 
yang edger and two 5 > to  60  inch  circular 
saws.  Must be all right and cheap.  Address F. 
743
W. Clark, Copemish, Mich. 
F if t e e n  h u n d r e d dollars buys good 
livery and dray  line  doing  excellent  busi­
ness, consisting of  nine  good  horses, three sets 
double harness, two sets single harness, two pair 
light bobs, one  swell  box  cut er.  one  Portland 
cutter, two pair dray  sleighs,  two dray wagons, 
two double buggies  two  single  buggies,  robes, 
etc.,  new  two-story  barn,  25 x 50,  good  buggy 
sheds, and excellent well with force  pump  and 
hose, and two of the best lots  in  town,  This  Is 
the best location for livery  in  Northern  Michi­
gan.  no  competition.  Must  be  sold  at  once. 
Don’t write unless you mean business.  Address 
Lock Box 103, Copemish.  Mich. 
744
I lOR  SALE—STOCK  OF  DRUGS  AND WALL 
paper.  Best location and leading drug busi­
ness in hustling city of 4,000—just  the  place  for 
right  man.  Address  No.  41,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman.________________________   74’
W f  ANTED-PARTNER WITH 52/00 TO TAKE 
Tv  half interest in established hotel business, 
paying handsome profit 
Fullest investigation 
courted.  Prompt action necessary.  S.  F.  Sax-
ton, Pomona, Mich. 
'35
F OR SALE—NEW SODA FOUNTAIN, TUFT’S 
make.  Will sell for half price.  Address 243 
729
Plainfield avenue. Grand  Rapids, Mich. 
I ¡TOR SALE—HOTEL AND LUNCH COUNTER 
at railroad junction:  good business in good 
location.  Apply Lock  Box 10. Milan, Mich. 708
\ \ T  ANTED—A  LOCATION  FOR  A  GOOD 
"   sawmill, capacity 15 to 20 M  feet  daily,  to 
saw lumDer by the M for  some  responsible  firm. 
For further particulars apply to George English, 
Pompeii, Mich.___________________ 
"32
■ NLY DRLG STORE, WELL LOCATED AND 
doing  good  business.  Good  reasons  for 
709
selling.  C. A.  Wells, Avoca, Mich. 
■ OR  SALE-DRUG  BUSINESS  AT  A  BAR- 
gain.  Address  A.  Eckerman,  Muskegon, 
722
Mich. 
F OR RENT-STORE CENTRALLY LOCATED 
on  Main  stieet.  Traverse  City,  Mich.  Ad­
dress R. Yalomstein. 
723
/  OPPORTUNITY - DOUBLE STORE TO RENT, 
'  '   Will soon be vacant;  fine location for gen­
eral  business;  never  been  vacant;  town  of 
1,200;  competition  light;  manufacturing  town 
In midst of fine dairy and  agricultural  country. 
Address Box 490. Middleville. Mich._____ 724
TYTANTED -  PARTNER  (GENTLEMAN  OR 
I '  
lady)  with  *4,000  or  $5,001  cash,  to  take 
half interest in an  established  dry  goods  busi­
ness in a live, growing town.  Owner has an ex 
cellent business and is in control  of  nearly  the 
entire county trade iu the dry goods lint  Don’t 
reply unless  you  mean  business.  Address No. 
719, care Michigan Tradesman. 
719
F OR  SALE —TWO  COAL  STOVES  AT  $5 
apiece, and two at is apiece;  can  be seen  at 
100 Louis st  Trade>man  Company,  New  Blod­
gett building.____________ 
YirANTED—PARTNER TO  TAKE  HALF IN- 
* ' 
terest in my 75 tbl.  steam  roller mill  and 
elevator, situated on railroad;  miller preferred; 
good  wheat  country.  Full  description,  price, 
terms and inquiries given  promptly  by address­
ing  II. C.  Herkimer,  Maybee,  Monroe  county, 
Mich._______________________________ 7ii
STOCK  OF CLOTHING AND GENTLEMEN’S 
furnishing goods, to  trade  for  real  estate. 
Address No. 660, Care Michigan Tradesman. 660 
TF  YOU  WANT  TO  BUY  OR  SELL  REAL 
J.  estate, write me.  I can  satisfy  you.  Chas. 
E. Mercer, Rooms 1 and 2, Widdicomb  building. 
_________________________  

653

7i

¡MISCELLANEOUS.

720

727

Write for prices. 

N  ADVISABLE  SUBSTITUTE  FOR  THE 
carving steel is offered  to  dealers  and can­
vassers and big profits are assured by J. M. Hay- 
d' n & Co.. Pearl street, Grand  Rapids, Mich.742 
ANTED—MEN  TO  ORDER  ON  APPROV 
al  one of the  best  “ready  to  wear”  suits 
made at $13.50. any  style cut.  Strahan  &  Greu 
lich, 24 Monroe street, Grand Rapids. 
iGHEST  PRICES  PAID  FOR  RAW  FURS 
of  all  kinds,  by  Grand  Rapids  Fur  Co. 
OOKIXG  FOR  REAL  ESTATE  INVEST 
J  ments, or have  business  chances  for  sale? 
See  winans  &  Moore,  Room  1,  Tower  Block, 
Grand Rapids. 
\ \ T  ANTED— BUTTER,  EGGS,  POULTRY, 
11 
potatoes,  onion«,  apples,  cabbages,  etc. 
Correspondence  solicited.  Watkins  &  Smith, 
81-86 South  Division St.. Grand  Rapids. 
673 
VJ EARLY  NEW  BARLOCK  TYPEWRITER 
l a  
for  sale  at  a  great  reduction  from  cost 
Reason for selling, we desire another  pattern  of 
same make of machine, which  we  consider  the 
best  on the  market.  Tradesman  Company,  100 
Louis St., Grand  Rapids. 
\J|7ANTBD—EVERY  DRUGGIST  JU ST 
11  starting in business andevery one already 
started to use our system of poison labels.  What 
has cost you $15 you can now  get  for  $4.  Four 
teen  labels  do  the  work  of  113.  Tradesman 
Company.  Grand Rapids.

564

718

•SITUATIONS  WANTED,

Y7TTANTED—POSITION  AS  .SALESMAN  BY 
i t   young man of seven  years’  experience  in 
geueral  merchandise.  Good  window  trimmer 
and stock keet er.  Best of references.  Address 
Box AA, New Haven,  Mich 
EGISTERED  ASSISTANT  DRUG  CLERK 
wishes  position.  Best  of  references.  Ad­
730 
ANTED—SITUATION  BY  REGISTERED 
pharmacist.  Enquire  590 South Division 
rA N TE D  —POSITION  AS  TRAVELING 
salesman  In  grocery  line.  Address  L. 

dress Draw Box No. 4. Allegan.  Mich. 

street, Grand Rapids 

Murray, General Delivery, Grand Rapids.  721

737

734

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T H E   IM IC H IC -A JSr  T R A D E S M A N ,

Why  All  the  Workers  Are  Not  at 

Work.

Universal  prosperity  is  the  problem 
that it is the duty  of  the  wisest  states­
manship  and  the  most  beneficent  phi­
lanthropy  to  solve.  What  is  the  solu- i 
tion?

enterprises are conducted by  stock  com­
panies  composed  of  large  numbers  of 
small  stockholders.  When capital is de­
nounced and  vilified, as  is  too  often  the 
case, it is not the property  of  rich  men 
that is being spoken against,  but  the  ag 
gregated  savings  of  large  numbers  of 
persons  with small means.

The answer is  simple  enough—set all 
labor  to  work  at  fair  wages.  As  is 
seen, 
the  response  to  the  question  is 
plain and  simple;  but  how to  realize  it, 
how to bring about the  desired  result,  is 
something that has  not  been  explained.
it is easy enough to  say:  “Set  every-

But,  to get back to  the  original  ques 
tion  with  which this  discussion  started 
why are not all  the people  at work earn 
ing  wages?  It  would  be  well  in  thi 
case to seek information from two classes 
who,  perhaps,  ought  to  know  as  much
body to work;”  but  how  are  you  going I about  this  matter  as  any  others  can 
It is this part  of  the  problem , know.  These are the employers  and the 
to do it? 
If  their  actions  in  a  great
which  presents all  the difficulties. 
conceded that all wealth commences with 
many  cases  are  any  warrant  for  their 
labor.  Labor digs ores and  minerals out 
opinions, 
their  opinions  will  be 
of the earth and converts them into mer­
found expressive enough.
chantable  products.  Labor  cuts  trees 
out of the forests and converts  the  tim­
ber into articles of  value.  Labor  culti­
vates the fields,  and,  taking the products 
thus obtained,  manufactures  them  into 
articles of daily  necessity.  Labor  fishe 
the  seas  and  other  waters  and 
take 
therefrom  natural  products,  which  are 
converted into food and other  articles of 
use.

It  is j employes. 

then 

The employers  will generally be found 
seeking to secure the production of their 
goods at the least possible cost. 
In their 
efforts to reduce wages they  are  met  by 
the labor organizations, which are formed 
for the  purpose  of  keeping  up wages 
These organizations  endeavor  to control 
the labor supply and  to  prevent  all per 
sons not  members  from  working.  This 
act of prevention  sometimes  goes to the 
extent of violence to every  person  not 
member of the organization who seeks to 
work.  Most  of  the  labor  strikes  grow 
out of the efforts of the unions to exclude 
all unorganized labor from  employment 
The  employers  may  be  set  down as in 
favor of securing  labor  and  material  at 
the lowest prices  attainable,  without re­
gard to any other consideration.

From this it will  be  seen  that  labor, 
operating upon the products  of the field 
the forest,  the mine and the fishery, elab 
orates  wealth.  The  claim  that 
labor 
creates all  the  wealth  is  incorrect,  be 
cause,  if there  were  not  something  ex 
isting upon  which  labor can  work,  labor 
itself  would  be worthless.  Labor  does 
not  in  any  sense  create. 
It  does  pre 
cisely what the bee  does. 
It  elaborate! 
honey  and  wax  from  the  sweet  juices 
and the natural gums which exist  in  the 
flowers.  Labor  is just as  indispensable 
as is the material  on  which  it works, no 
more and no less.

But the notion that  no  other  element 
is  required,  save  the  natural  material 
and  the  labor  to  work  on it,  is wholly 
fallacious.  Labor can do  nothing  with 
out  tools,  and  to-day  the  term  “tools’1 
means great plants  of  machinery,  great 
systems of transportation and  great sup­
raw  material.  These  are
plies  of 
supplied  by  capital.  Without 
these 
labor would be  seriously  crippled,  and, 
by consequence,  the whole  state  of  soci­
ety would be  in  a  barbarous  and  back­
ward condition. 
It  all  means the differ­
ence between the log cabins  of  the  pio­
neers and the grand  cities  and  comfort­
able  homes  that  cover  the country. 
It 
means  the  difference  between  the com­
merce  carried  on  pack-animals  tracing 
the difficult paths worn through  the  for­
ests and mountains by wild animals  and 
the wild Indian,  and  the  great  railway 
routes gridironing the continent.

together  of 

the  gathering 

Thus it will be seen that,  after the first 
rude  beginnings,  capital  has had just as 
large a share in  the production of wealth 
as has labor, and it is  wrong  to  attempt 
to  teach  any  other doctrine,  because it 
would not be true.  Moreover,  this capi­
tal is not the  wealth of a  few  rich  men; 
it  is 
the 
means of many thousands of  people who 
ventured their earnings in stock company 
factories.  As  an  illustration,  the  fact 
was brought out,  a  few  days  ago,  in  a 
bearing before a committee of the Massa­
chusetts  Legislature, 
the  cotton 
mills  at  Fall  River,  in  that  State,  are 
owned  by  8,000  stockholders,  many  of 
whom are women.  And the fact remains 
that,  with  a  few  exceptions,  the great 
factories and  industrial  and  commercial

that 

As to the employes,  they  have  demon 
strated by the acts of their  labor organi­
zations that they desire to limit and keep 
down the number of the  working  people 
to such a point as  will produce  the high­
est wages.  They sedulously  oppose  the 
employment of any persons who  are  not 
members of their unions,  and  they  carry 
this opposition  to  such  an  extant  that 
it  sometimes  breaks  out  into  riot  and 
murder.

It is plain, then,  from the  information 
drawn from both the  employers  and  the
employes,  that there  is  a  large  number 
of  persons  who  do  net  belong  to  he 
labor  unions  and  who  are  willing  to 
work if they can secure the opportunity. 
They  would  not,  in  all  probability,  be 
allowed  to join  the  labor  organizations; 
but,  if they did.  they could  gain nothing 
by  it,  since  such  membership  would 
neither secure  for  them  employment  at 
the  union  rates,  nor  would  it  permit 
them to  work for less.  There  is  a  hope 
these  people outside  the  union  have  of 
some  enlargement,  and  that  is of being 
able to get  work at wages lower than the 
union  rate.  When  a  man’s  necessities 
are pressing upon  him for the support of 
his family,  less wages  are  vastly  better 
than  no  wages,  and,  therefore,  he will 
elect the former.

But nobody  has answered the  question 
why all the working population is  not or 
cannot  be  put  to  work  earning  wages. 
The answer  to  this  is  simply  that  the 
power  of  production  of  all  articles  of 
consumption  is greater than  the  demand 
for them, and if  every  factory  were  set 
to  work  on  full  time,  with  all its ma­
chinery in full operation,  and  every hu­
man  worker it could use in  full  employ­
ment,  the  time  would  soon come when 
the  markets  would  be  overstocked  so 
that prices would largely decline and the 
movements of goods be  greatly  checked.

Mills and factories are run for profit, and 
not for mere  theoretical  purposes  to  il­
lustrate  the  problems  of political econ­
omy;  consequently,  only  practical  oper­
ations can be  considered. 
In  obedience 
to  the  plainest  laws of trade,  whenever 
cost of  wages or  of  material  can  be  re­
duced, 
it  will  be,  and  all  combina­
tions to keep up the prices of  labor  and 
material  must fail, since no  combination 
can control the entire  market of labor or 
produce.

It  ought  to  be  remembered  that,  in 
obedience to another  law  of trade,  there 
Is only so much  money  available  to  be 
paid for  labor,  and,  therefore,  10,000,000 
men working for SI a day  each will earn 
no  more  money  than  would  5,000,000 
working for S2 each;  but, in  the  former 
case,  the  money would  be  more  widely 
distributed.  The notion of  the labor or­
ganizations is to limit the distribution of 
this money  to  the  fewest  persons  pos­
sible, so as to give each a large wage.  Is 
this  better  than to  distribute  it  among 
a  large  number,  and 
so  help  them 
all? 
Is it better to  pay  big  wages  to  a 
few and  permit the multitude  to starve?
If financial confidence were established 
in this country,  so that trades of all sorts 
were active and  speculation  rife,  many 
more men would be employed  than now, 
and,  in  consequence, 
there  would  be 
more prosperity.  Then there  is  always 
a chance that  the  crops  in  some  other 
part of the world may fail, and thus give 
the  American farmers an  opportunity to 
supply the deficiency.  True,  this would 
be  trading  on  the  distresses  of  other 
people;  but that is  an  important  factor 
in commerce of which  those  who  profit 
by  it never complain.
But the main thing  needed is to secure
restoration  of  financial  confidence.

Let  the  people  feel  that  their  finances 
are  not  to  be  dangerously  tampered 
with.  Let  them  be  assured  that  their 
commerce and  industries are  not  to  be 
disturbed by the wild  legislation of free 
trade theorists.  Let nothing be  done  to 
destroy the belief  that  the  Government 
is able and  willing to pay its  obligations 
in  sound  and  honest  money. 
If  this 
state of things could be established,  con­
fidence  would  be  restored,  and  at  an 
early day.

Then let everybody pray  for and work 
towards a restoration  of  financial  confi­
dence in the country.  That can do more 
than  anything  else  towards  restoring 
general prosperity. 

Radix.

Canned illuminating gas is the  coming 
thing.  A New York man has invented a 
way of putting it np so, and  it  threatens 
destruction  to  the  meter  and  the  gas 
company.  A  test  was  made  of  the in­
vention  a  few  days  since in Cleveland, 
and an expert who saw it reports  that  it 
works  in  an  entirely  satisfactory  man­
ner.  The  gas burned steadily  and  gave 
an  excellent  light.  The  material  from 
which  it  is  made  is  lime  and coal dust 
welded by electricity into a sort  of  dark 
brownish porous substance.  The  gas  is 
generated  by  placing  this  substance in 
water.

A  milk  dealer  in  San  Francisco  has 
been selling milk  from  a  herd  of  cows 
which  he bought  for 35  apiece,  knowing 
them to have tuberculosis in an advanced 
state.  The animals  have  been  ordered 
killed  and  the  milkman  is to  be prose­
cuted on a criminal charge.

Everyone smokes the Signal 5.

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7

Relations  of Metric to  TJ.  S.  Measures 

and  Weights.

The unit  of the  measure  of  length  is 
the metre, obtained  by dividing  the  dis­
tance  from  the  earth’s  equator  to  the 
pole into 10,000,000  parts.  Divisions  of 
units of measure or weight are  indicated 
by the prefix of  Latin  numerals;  multi­
ples by Greek.

1  meter= 1 0 decimeters (Dm)=100 cen­

timeters (Cm)=l,000 millimeters (Mm).

10  meters=l dekameter.
100  meters=l  hectometer.
1.000  meters—1  kilometer.
1  meter=39.37079 inches.
1  deeimeter=3.93708 inches.
1  centimeter=0.39371 inches.
1  millimeter=0.03937 inches.
1  inch—25.3995 millimeters.
1  cubic meter=35.31658 cubic feet.
1 cubic  centim eter of w ater  at  its  point 
(40  C)  weighs  1 

of  greatest  density 
gramme,  the  unit of  weight.
gram m es=l,000  m illigrammes.

1  gram m e=10 decigram m es=100 cenli- 

10  grammes=l dekagramme.
100  grammes=l hectogramme.
1.000  grammes=l kilogramme.
1  gramme=15.43234874  grains Troy.
1  grain Troy=64.799 milligrammes.
1  kilogramme—2.6803  pounds  Troy= 
1.000  cubic  centimeters  (Cc)=l cubic 
1  cubic centimeter=16.23 minims.
1  litre=33.81 

2.20462 pounds avoirdupois.
decimeter=l litre.

ounces=2.1135 
pints wine measure  (or 1.76  pints  impe­
rial measure)=61.027 cubic inches.
1  litre water weighs  1  kilogramme—1 
gramme  per 
litre—58.33  grains  per 
imperial 
wine gallon=70  grains  per 
gallon.

fluid 

The  “Careiessest Creatures.”

From  th e  P hiladelphia Press.

He  came  home  the  other  night  tired 
from  a  busy  day’s  work,  aud  his  wife 
waited till  he  had  got  his  overcoat  off 
and had sat down.
“Did you get that piece of silk I asked 
you to bring up to-night?” she asked, see­
ing he had not laid it before her.
“ Yes, dear; 1 left  it  out  there  in  the 
hall.’’
“Did you get the pins?”
“Yes, dear.”
“And the ribbon?”
“Yes.”
“And Bobbie’s shoes?”
“Yes.”
“And the whisk broom?”
“Yes.”
“And  a wick  for the kitchen lamp?” 
“Yes.”
“And some matches?”
“ Yes;  they  are  with  the  other  bun­
“And did you see that  man  about  the 
“Yes; it will be up on Monday.”
“And the man to see the  grate  in  the 
“Yes; he’s coming as soon  as  he  can.” 
“Did  you  see  Mrs.  Smith  about  the 
sewing society meeting?”
“She said she’d come.”
“And—and—oh,  yes,  did  you  get  a 
new shovel for the kitchen stove?”
“N—n—no,”  he  hesitated;  “I  forgot 
it.”
“ What!”  she  cried.  “What  did  you 
do that for?  You know we  needed  that 
shovel,  and  1 told you about it  the  very 
first  thing  when  you  went  down-town 
this  morning.  1  do  think  men are the 
most forgetful  and  careiessest  creatures 
that ever  lived.”  And  she  flopped  out 
to see about supper.

dles.”
coal?”

dining-room?”

We hear a  great  clamor  for  a  reduc­
tion of the price of bread,  but  very  iittle 
noise is made about  the size of a glass of 
beer.

No  practicable  machine  for  making 
people  fly  has  yet  been  invented,  but 
it is a a very easy  matter to make money
fly- 

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FOR  5 A L E   A T   H A LF  PRICE.
J. C. Mulberry, State  Agent for the Smith-llill 
Elevator Oo., Quincy. 111., has  received  instruc­
tions to sell the
Celebrated Sm ith'H ill Steam Pump
at less than half-price fora short time, to reduce 
stock.  Catalogues  on  application  to  Mr.  Mtil-' 
berry, Kortlander building, Grand Rapids.
Notice  of  Receiver’s  Sale.

In  accordance  with  an  o-der  of  the  Circuit 
Court for the County of Kent, State of Michigan, 
made on the ' 6th day of  March,  1895, I shall sell 
at public auction, to'the highest bidder for cssh. 
all of the real estate of the  late  firm  of  Bentley 
Bros. & Wilkins, consisting of  planing mill, saw 
mill and  foundry,  together  with  all  of  the  ma 
chinery used in  operating the  plant of said late 
firm.
The real estate consists of abont  five  acres  of 
land used in connection with said business  al  o 
a  house  and  lot  and  office  and  several  vacant 
lots.
In  case  I do  not  receive  a  cash  bid  of  nine 
thouB  nd dollars or more  for s-dd propertv, I am 
directed bv said Court to continue said sale until 
fu  ther order of the Court.
The sale will take place at the office of the late 
firm of Bentley Bros  & Wilkins, April 27th. 1895, 
at 10 o’clock  in the forenoon of  said day.

W. D. HAYES. Receiver

Dated, Hastings. Mich.,  March 19th, 1895.
The Herchant’s Statistical
Fiemorandum a n d
Cash  Book.

Revised.  Improved  and  Copyrighted  by 

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Price, 

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WOODBINE,  IOWA.

The  Lycom ing  Rubber  Com pany, 
keep constantly on hand a 
full  and  complete  line  of 
these goods made from the 
purest  rubber.  They  are 
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we are  REEDER BROS’. SHOE CO.

Hardware Price Current.

 

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dlS.

AUGUBS AND BITS. 

----------------------------------------- ---------
These  prices are  for cash  buyers,  who 
pay  promptly  and  buy in  full  packages.
70
sneil’s 
...................................................... 
Cook’s ........................................................... 
40
Jennings’, genuine.................. 
25
Jennings’,  imitation  .................................. 5041Q
dis.
First Quality, S. B. Bronze............  ...........
D.  B. Bronze........................ t 5 50
8. B. 9. Steel...............................   il 00
D.B.Steel..................................   6 50
13 00

BABROWS. 

axis. 

bolts. 

allroad............................................ *12 00 14  00
Garden.................................................  net  30 00
dll.
Stove.  ...........................................................N1&10
Carriage new list............................... 
70410
Plow.  ........................................................... 10410
Sleigh shoe................................................... 
75
Well,  plain  ................................................. * 3 8j
dll.
Cast Loose Pin, figured................................ 
70
Wrought Narrow, uright cast ]olnt.40......... 60410

BUCKETS.
BUTTS, OAST. 

 

 

 

 

 

d ll .

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

HINGES.

HANGERS. 

HAKKBBS.
Maydole 4  Co.’s...............................................dii. 26
Kip’s.................................... 
dig. 
25
Yerkes 4  Plumb’s............................................ dis. 40416
. 30c list 60
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel..................  
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast  Steal  Hand__30c 40410
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2 ,3 ...............................dls.60410
State  ..........................................per doz. net, 2 50
Screw Hook  and  Strap, to 12 In. 4V6  14  and
longer.......................................................   3H
Screw Hook and  Eye, >6........................ net 
1C
%.........................net  8V4
“ 
X .........................net 
714
* .........................net  7v<
Strap and T .............................................dis. 
p*
Bam Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track... .5041C
Champion,  anti friction.............................   60410
Kidder, wood track.....................................  
40
Pots...............  
60410
Kettles............................. 
60410
Spiders  .........................................................6C410
Gray enameled  ............................................ 40410
Stamped Tin Ware...  .................. new list
410
Japanned Tin Ware.....................................
410
Granite Iron W are..................... new 11s
40
WIRE GOODS.
d is. 
Blight............................. .......
...-80 
Screw  Eyes...........................
—  80 
Hook’s ...................................
--•-80 
Gate Hooks and Ryes............
...8 0
LEVELS.
Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s..................... dls.7o
Sisal, Vi Inch and larger............................. 
6
Manilla......................................................... 
9
dis.
Steel and Iron 
80
Try and Bevels 
80
Mitre..............
20
Com.  Smooth.  Com.

HOLLOW WABE.
 

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS.

SHEET IRON.

SQUARES.

ROPES.

*5> 50
2 61
2 70

280
2 90
8 00
All  sheets No. 18  and  lighter,  over 30  Inches 

Nos. 10 to  14......................................*3  50 
Nos. 15 to 17  .............. 
3  50 
Nos.  18 to 21...................................   4  05 
Nos. 22 to 24 .....................................  3 55 
Nos. 25to 26.......................... 
...3   65 
No. 27................................................  3  75 
wide not less than 2-10 extra
List acct. 19. ’86  ..................................... dis. 
Silver Lake, White  A......................  

SAND PAPER.
SASH COBD.

 

 

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“  White  a ...............................   ‘ 
“ 
 
“  White C................................  “

Drab A....   .....................  
Drab B............................  

 

Discount, 10.

SASH WEIGHTS

 

H and 

TRAPS. 

Solid Eyes.......................... 
saws. 

..............per ion 120
dis.
“ 
.. 
20
...  70
Sliver Steel  Dla. X Cuts, per foot, 
“  Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot  ...  50
.  30
“  Special Steel Dla. X Cuts, per foot 
“  Champion  and  Electric  Tooth X
Cuts,  per  foot............................................  
30
Steel, Game...............................................    go4io
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ......................... 53
Oneida Community, Hawley * Norton’s. .7C-10  10
Mouse,  choker....................................15c per dos
Mouse, delusion............................... Ji.25 per dos
dis.
WIRE. 
Bright Market............................................   75410
Annealed Market.............  
7E410
Coppered Market  ...................  
75
Tinned Market............................................   g2V4
Coppered  Spring  Steel........... 
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanised..........................  2 20
painted...............................  1  so

dis.

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30
u»t so
55
so
“ 55

HORSE NAILS.

WRENCHES. 

dis. 05
dis. 10410
dll.

An  Sable......................................................... dis. 40410
Putnam.......................................... 
Northwestern..................................... 
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.................... 
so
so
Coe’s  Genuine............................................. 
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,........... 71410
Coe’s  Patent, malleable............................... 75416
MISCELLANEOUS. 
dll.
B irdcages.................................  
50
Pumps, Cistern....................................... 7541C45
Screws, New List.................................... 
80
Casters, Bed a  .d Plate........ 
...............50410410
Dampers, American.................. 
4(410
Forks, hoes, rakes  and all steel goods..............70

 

 

METALS,
PIG TIN.

ZINO.

Pig  Large....................................................  
Pig Bars.......................................................  
600 pound  casks........................................ 
Per pound....................................................   6
# © *.......................................................12*
The  prices  of  the  many  other  qualities  of 
solder fn the market Indicated by private brand* 
vary according to composition.

26c
28c
5*4

SOLDER.

TIN—MBLYN GRADE.

10x14 IC, Charcoal........................................■ 6 00
14x20 IC, 
........................................   6 OO
10x14 IX, 
7  50
 
14x20 IX, 
 
7 50

 
Each additional X on this grade, (1.75.

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10x14 IC, Charcoal......................................   5  25
5  25
14x20 IC, 
10x14 IX, 
6 25
14x20 IX, 
6 25

TIN—ALLA WAY GRADB.
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Bach additional X on this grade *1.50.

 
 
 

 
 
 

14x20 IC, 
14x20 IX, 
20x28 IC, 
14x20IC, 
14x20 IX. 
20x28 IC, 
20x28 IX, 

BOO PING PLATES

...-.....................  5  00
“  Dean 
“ 
............................   6 00
“ 
...........................  10 00
“ 
“ 
"  Allaway Grade................   4 75
 
“ 
‘ 
5 75
“ 
9  B0
“ 
 
“ 
“ 
.................  1160
BOILER SIZB TIN PLATE.

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14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers, 1 
14x60  x!  “  “  9 

« 

j por pound..— 

Q
9

70

50

65
65
85
00

Wrought Loose Pin.........................................  40
Wrought Table...............................................  40
Wrought Inside Blind...................................  40
Wrought Brass............................................. 
75
Blind,  Clark’s .............................................. 70410
Blind,  Parker’s............................................. 70410
Blind, Shepard’s 
78

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

Ordinary Tackle, list April  1892 ...............  

CBADLKS.

CHOW BABB.

Grain............................................................  

......................................... pert>  4

Cast Steel 
Bly’s 1-10...........................................per m 
Hick’s  C. F 
“ 
G. D .....................................................   “ 
Mnsket 
“ 

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

c a r t r id g e s.

Rim  Fire...................................................... 
Central  Fire.........   ...............................dis. 

56
as
dla.

dlS.

ohisbls. 

  75410
Socket Firmer...................................... 
Socket Framing...........................................  75410
Socket Corner....................... 
75410
 
Socket Slicks................................................75410
Butchers’Tanged Firmer............................ 
40

 

Curry,  Lawrence’s......................................  
40
Hotchkiss....................................................  
25
White Crayons, per  gross..............12Q12H dis. 10

COMBS. 

CHALK.
COPPER.

“ 

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

DRILLS. 

28
26
23
23
20
50
50
50

DRIPPING PANS.

KLBOWS.

EXPANSIVE BITS. 

Small sizes, ser pound  ................................. 
6tt
06
Large slses, per  pound....................... 
Com. 4  piece, 6 in ............................dos. net 
65
50
Corrugated............................................dis 
Adlnstable.............................................dis. 40410
dlS.
Clark’s, small, *i8;  large, *26...................... 
30
Ives’, 1, *18:  2, *24;  3,*30............................ 
25
Dlsston’s ..................................................60410-10
New American  .......................................60410-10
Nicholson's................................................60410- 0
Heller’s ......................................................... 
50
Heller’s Horse Rasps  ...................................50410
Nos.  16  to  20;  22  and  24;  25  and  26;  27
List 
16

piles—New List. 

GALVANIZED IBON.

dis.

15

12 

13
Discount, 70

14
GAUGBS.

lo c k s— DOOB. 

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s......
50
k n o b s—New List. 
Door,mineral,Jap.trimmings  ....  .
55
Door,  porcelain, jap. trimmings__
55
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings  .
56 
Door,  porcelvln, trimmings...........
56 
Drawer  and  Shutter, porcelain__
70
I.
dis.
Russell 4  Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new list
56 
Mallory, Wheeler  4  Co.’s................
56 
Branford’s ...................................... .
56
Norwalk’s .....................................
......................... 
55
MATTOCKS.
Adze Bye..................................... »16.00, dis. 60-10
Hunt Bye..................................... *15.00, dis. 60-10
Hunt’s .......................  
...........*18.50, dis. 20410.
dis.
50
Sperry 4 Co.’s, Post,  handled...................... 
dis.
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s...................................  
40
40
P. 8. 4  W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables.... 
Landers,  Ferry 4 Clark’s................. 
40
Enterprise 
.....................................  
so

HAULS. 
KILLS. 

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XOLASSBS SATES. 

dll.

dis.
dis.

• Base

NAILS

Stebbln’s Pattern.............................................  ... 60410
Stebbln’s Genuine......................................   60410
Enterprise, self-measuring........................... 
30
Advance over  base,  on  botn  Steel  and Wire.
Steel nails, base..............................................1  20
Wire nails, base.
...190 
60.......................
Base 
50.......................
1025
40.......................
30.......................
26 
20.........  ...........
85 
45 
16.......................
45 
12.......................
10................... .  .
50 
8.....................
60 
1*5................
75 
90
4..................
3....................... .
1  20 
2........................
1 60 
FlneS............... .
1  60 
Case 10..............
65 
8.........
75 
6............
90 
Finish 10...........
75 
90 
10 
70 
80 
90 
Barrell 1
1 75 
Ohio Tool Co.’1, fancy............................   ONI
Sclota Bench 
....................................   60410
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy.........................  050
Bench, first quality—  
©so
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s  wood....................  60
Fry,  Acme............................................ dls.60—10
Common, polished................................ dis. 
70
Iron and  Tinned.......................................... 
60
Copper Rivets and Burs.............................   50—10

 
PANS.

6.6.

PLANES.

r iv e t s. 

dll

d is .

 

PATENT PLANISHED IRON.

‘A” Wood’s patent planished. Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
"B” Wood’s pat.planished,Nos.26to27...  9 20 
Broken packs ho per pound extra.

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3.

NEW  LABOR  ORGANIZATION.

has 

T h e  T radesm an 

repeatedly 
shown  that  the  violent  conflicts which 
often grow out  of  labor  strikes  are  not 
wars of labor against capital,  but  of  la­
bor  against  labor—of  organized  labor 
against  unorganized  labor—and  it  has 
argued that if labor were wise,  it  would 
seek  to  consolidate  all  laborers  into  a 
great  organization  animated  by  a com­
mon purpose to secure the benefit  of  the 
whole.

It is now claimed that such  an  organi­
zation is in process of preparation.  The 
Chicago Times Herald reports that a new 
movement  is  on  foot  to  organize  the 
wageworkes  of  the  United  States  into 
one  great  central  union,  but at present 
the matter is in such  shape  that  it  can­
not be given to the public; but as soon as 
a little  more  headway is made a conven­
tion  will be called and a plan  of  organi­
zation adopted.

The general  object of the organization, 
so it is given  out,  will  be  the  improve­
ment  of  the  condition  of  the  wage­
workers of the country.  The details will 
be left to  the  convention.  One  of  the 
cardinal principles of the new union will 
be the elimination of the  strike  features 
of  ail  the  old  ones. 
In  place  of  the 
strike they will be able  to offer  concilia­
tion, and,  failing  in  that, remunerative 
employment at something  else.  By  tak­
ing up  the  surplus  labor  of  the  great 
cities  and  starting  it  into  productive 
employment, they  will  benefit  not  only 
the unemployed,  but  those  already  en­
gaged  in  every  line  of  productive  in­
dustry.  The  necessity  for  some  such 
movement  is  generally  recognized,  but 
the great difficulty is to get it  into  oper­
ation.  Experience  has  demonstrated 
that  little,  if  anything,  can  be  hoped 
from government aid.  The  only hope is 
from  organization 
co-operation 
among  the people who  will  be  benefited 
by the same.

and 

It is claimed that the new organization 
would  in  no  way  antagonize  the  old 
unions,  but  would  be  constructed  on 
such  a basis as to allow them  to  come in 
without disturbing their  own  autonomy 
and at an  insignificant  expense.  But  it 
will  likely  be  a  long  time  before  any 
such 
inaugu­
arrangement  will  be 
rated. 
It would  iuterfere  with dictators 
like  Debs  aud  knock  out  the  walking

delegates,  and  such  people  will  resist 
anything that deprives  them  of  an  op­
portunity  to  thrive  by  blackmail  and 
intimidation. 
Some  such  arrangement 
may be accomplished  in  the  future,  but 
not until the working classes  shall  gain 
wisdom enough  to  see  that  it  Is  their 
only  hope.  Peaceable  means alone can 
do them any good.  Violence that  is  not 
powerful enough  and  universal  enough 
to  overthrow  the  entire  government 
must surely end in failure  and  frightful 
disaster to those who undertake it.

T h e  T radesman  apprehends,  how­
ever, that the basis for such an organiza­
tion is too general and that  the interests 
are too greatly diversified and  too  much 
affected by  local  questions  and without 
enough definite practical objects  to com­
mand the interest of its membership.  A 
general  organization  of  this  kind,  to 
command  the  interests  of  labor  in  its 
present state of  intelligence,  must wage 
a warfare against a  common  enemy,  and 
that enemy  must be  capital.  When  the 
industrial millennium comes,  the enmity 
between  capital  and 
labor  will  have 
ceased,  and any  organization tending  to 
perpetuate that enmity is  a hindrance to 
the  final  settlement  of  all  these  ques­
tions.

TAXING  BACHBLORS.

There has been introduced in  the  Illi­
nois State Legislature a bill to  impose  a 
special tax on  bachelors  of  30  years  of 
age and over.  There are  many  wealthy 
bachelors  in  Illinois,  as in  other states. 
They are able to  support  families,  and, 
if they will not do it,  there  seems  to  be 
no  good reason why they should not pay 
for their  default.

In 

The  original  principle  that  from  the 
first has pervaded  and  governed  human
ociety is that the entire  social structure 
is founded on the family.  The state  be­
gins at the family,  and is,  indeed,  an ag­
gregation of families. 
In the idea of the 
family,  its male head supports the women 
and children,  while the males, as soon as 
they grow old enough to earn,  must con­
tribute to that support.  But  when  they 
shall have  gained  sufficient  standing  to 
take the positions  and earn the wages of 
men, they must in turn marry and found 
families  of  their  own. 
this  way 
fathers  were  relieved  of  the  charge of 
their  daughters,  who  were  honorably 
married and were enabled  to  take  their 
proper  places  in  maintaining the social 
fabric.
•But  as  wealth 
the 
hands  of  a  few,  and  the  manners and 
habits of the people  grew  more  luxuri­
ous,  because  there  is  always a tendency 
in  people of  moderate  means  to  imitate 
as  far  as  possible  the  manners  of  the 
wealthy,  the  impression  grew  in  force 
that only  people  who  were  pecuniarily 
well  off  could  afford  to  marry,  and so, 
under such circumstances, there  was  al­
ways a greater proportion of the  popula­
tion which avoided the ties of wedlock.

increased 

in 

This is the  invariable  accompaniment 
of the increase  of wealth,  the  operating 
cause,  chiefly through  the  cowardice  of 
the men,  being,  first,  that people who are 
not at least moderately rich cannot afford 
to  marry,  and  next  that,  through  the 
growth of luxury, many  men  become  so 
debauched  and 
that  they 
will do nothing  for  their  own  support, 
but  depend  for  subsistence  on  their 
friends, and often on  their  female  rela­
tives.  Thus many women  are  deprived 
of  proper  opportanities  to  marry,  and 1

inebriated 

others  feel  compelled  to  give  up their 
own advantage in order to support worth­
less  men.

Then there are the wealthly bachelors, 
who,  from motives of their own,  have al­
ways refused to  marry.  These  are  per­
sons  against  whom  the  Illinois  bill  is 
chiefly aimed.  They  ought  to  be  fined 
for  their  celibacy  upon  a sliding scale, 
in  proportion  to  their  wealth,  on  the 
grounds  that  they  are  not  doing  their 
duties  as  heads  of  families,  and  they 
must suffer for their wanton  and  willful 
failure.  But  the  money  arising  from 
these fines should  not  be  paid  into  the 
State treasury, to be lost  in  the  general 
summary,  but should  be  devoted  to  the 
support of needy  widows,  and old maids 
who have been  defrauded  of  all  oppor­
tunity  to  marry. 
It  seems to be a wise 
law, and certain it is that  the rich bach­
elors of  Illinois  are  kicking  vigorously 
against it.

CHANGING  TO  CHEESE.

The most notable feature of the month, 
so  far  as  the  cheese  business  is  con­
cerned,  is the large  number of  creamer­
ies which are being converted into cheese 
factories.  The change  does  not  appear 
to  be  peculiar  to  any  one  locality  or 
series of  localities,  but  is  common  all 
over the country, Iowa and Wisconsin be­
ing especially notable in this respect.

The reason for  the  change  is  easy  to 
determine,  being  due  to  the  fact  that 
cheese fared better last  season than but­
ter and also to the fact  that  the  outlook 
for butter, for the  season of  1895,  is  by 
no  means  encouraging,  while  the pros­
pect for a fair average  price  for  cheese 
is  certainly  very  good.  Carefully com­
piled statistics go to show that,  take  one 
year  with  another,  cheese  is  a  much 
more  stable  product  than  butter;  and 
while the price never goes  so  far  above 
the cost of production  as is the case with 
butter, it never goes down  so  far  below 
the  cost  of  manufacture. 
In  other 
words,  while the profit  is  not  so  great, 
proportionally, under  favorable  circum­
stances,  the loss is not so great  under an 
unfavorable turn of the market. 
It is to 
be hoped that the  changes  from  cream­
eries to cheese  factories  will  not  be  so 
numerous as  to  seriously affect the mar­
ket by disturbing the present  relation.

that 

The recent ministerial cricis at Madrii 
seems to have  been  precipitated  by  th< 
criticism  of  the  army  officers  by  th< 
press.  These  officers,  after  blustering 
talk of duels and engaging in  open  riot 
ing,  demanded 
the  Governmen 
should interfere with the  newspapers oi 
their  behalf. 
Instead  of  doing  so,  th< 
Government tried to suppress  the  disor 
ders among the officers,  failing in which 
on accoqpt of  the  sympathy  of  the  po 
lice,  the  ministers  resigned.  This lefi 
the task of restoring order to the military 
leader,  General  Campos,  who  appears 
to  be fully equal  to  the  emergency. 
I 
may be that the  press has carried its lib 
erty to the verge of license,  but  when  ii 
is remembered that  Spain  groans  undei 
the  burden  of  a  standing army at horn« 
of 80,000, of which there is a saying tha 
there are two officers to one private,  it is 
not af all strange that  the  press  shoulc 
voice the general  dissatisfaction  on  tha? 
account.  The thousands of  idle  officers 
—strutting,  swaggering  and  gambling 
about the capita)—are sufficient  to  keej 
the matter prominently  before  the  pub 
lie.

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

CUBAN  ANNEXATION.

Whatever  may  be  the  result  of  the 
present  Cuban  insurrection,  or  revolu­
tion,  if it amounts to that, it  seems  very 
probable 
that  eventually  Cuba  will 
achieve her independence and become an 
applicant for a place in the sisterhood of 
republics.  When it  is  remembered how 
serious a task Spain had  in  suppressing 
the former  rebellion,  while  the  inhabi­
tants were divided  by  factions  and  be­
fore there  was  so  great  cause  for  dis­
satisfaction as is given  by  the  atrocious 
economic system the island has since had 
to endure,  the  i robability  of  Cuban  in­
dependence in the  near  future  becomes 
strong, even if Spain  should  succeed  in 
restoring her authority in  this  instance.
relations  between 
Cuba and the United States form  a  con­
stantly strengthening  tie,  while  the  po­
litical connection with Spain,  on account 
of mismanagement and  misrule,  is  con­
stantly  weakening.  Through  American 
commercial relations the island is becom­
ing constantly  more Americanized. 
It is 
unnecessary  to  consider  annexation  by 
purchase when these changes must inevi­
tably bring about the  same  result with­
out the financial  outlay.

The  commercial 

A writer  in  the  North  American  Re­
view points out the  “Danger of  the  Fed­
eral Judiciary,”  predicting that Congress 
will eventually abolish the United States 
courts unless the  present system is over­
hauled and reformed.  People  who have 
had  experience  with  the  procedure  of 
the Federal courts  will  readily  coincide 
with the  conclusion  of  the  writer.  As 
now conducted,  they are  extortion shops 
of the most pernicious sort.  The iniqui­
tous fee system  stimulates  thousands  of 
arrests for no other purpose  than  to  in­
crease  the  incomes  of the officers of  the 
courts, and, once in the clutches of  a  U. 
S. court,  the victim must be  a  rich  man 
to  obtain  justice.  The  system  of  fees 
exacted by the clerks  is  outrageous  and 
oppressive.  The judges have a disagree­
able habit of not confining themselves  to 
the law,  but of  insisting  on  passing  on 
the  facts,  which  is the legitimate prov­
ince  of  the  jury. 
If  appeal  needs  be 
taken to the Appellate courts,  the victim 
Is appalled at the expense at  the  outset, 
even  the  printing  of the record being  a 
perquisite of  the  clerk,  yielding  him  a 
profit of 100 to 150 per cent. 
If  there  is 
any  legal  procedure  which  should  be 
simple and inexpensive,  it is  that of  the 
Federal  courts;  but,  unfortunately,  the 
present method is  a  combination  of  red 
tape, extortion, judicial caprice, and gen­
eral disgust on the part of litigants.

That trusts  organized .for  the  control 
of easily  established  industries  are  not 
likely to be permanently successful is in­
dicated  by  the  failure  of  the cordage, 
lead and whisky combines. 
In  such  in­
dustries  it  is  so  easy  to start factories 
whose projectors are  reasonably  sure  of 
selling  out  to  the  trust  that  it  is  not 
strange that demands of this  kind  upon 
the capital  of  such  corporations  should 
progress in an increasing  ratio  until  the 
organization succumbs.  A  trust,  to  be 
successful,  must,  at  least,  be  able  to 
know the amount of competition  it  is  to 
meet  within  a  given  time,  if it cannot 
control the product entirely.

New York exports of apples to  Europe 
during ’the  season  of 1894-95 amounted 
to 1,443,592 barrels,  against  168,706  bar­
rels during the preceding  season.

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A  SECOND  COURTSHIP.

The  Thursday  evening  meeting  was 
over.  Some one  had  opened  the  outer 
chapel  door,  and  a  stream  ot  cold  air 
flowed in  up to the corner where a group 
of  women  were  gathering  about  the 
stove.

“Nancy  Bell  ain’t  out  to-night, 

is 
she?”  asked one of  them,  a  stout good- 
natured woman in mourning.

Her  neighbor  had  a  sallow,  much 
wrinkled, complaining  face.  She  shook 
her  head  significantly, 
holding  her 
warmed  woolen glove against her cheek.
“I’ve heard  she was  failing  consider­

able lately,” continued the other.

“Ssh!  don’t speak so loud.  She hasn’t 
ever got up from the grip last winter.  1 
shouldn’t be surprised if she  didn’t  last 
long.  He don’t realize it, it  ain’t  likely 
—men ain’t apt to.”

An old  man  in  a  faded  brown  over­
coat, on the other side of  the stove,  stole 
silently away to the door. 
It  seemed  to 
Daniel Bell that it had  grown  colder  in 
the last hour.  The keen  air  smote  him 
as the women’s  words had done just now. 
He made his  way  out  to the shed where 
his horse was  tied,  turning  out  of  the 
path as he beard  others  coming  up  be­
hind him in  the  darkness.  He  did  not 
want to  speak  to  anybody.  He was  so 
slow  about unhitching that  Jim,  the  old 
horse, looked around at him in  surprise, 
and was dimly conscious  that something 
was wrong, as the two started off  on  the 
lonely drive together.

What  had 

those  women  meant  by 
speaking about Nancy  like  that?—as  if 
it  had  been  anybody? 
if  they’d  lived 
with her more’n forty years,  as  he  had, 
they  wouldn’t have talked  that way.

that  was  it. 

She  got  lonesome, 

Nancy had been pretty  sick;  he  knew 
that well enough—hadn’t he  taken  care 
of  her?—and  if 
there  was  anything 
peskier than the grip, he  didn’t want  to 
see it,  that’s  all.  Anybody  else  might 
have got discouraged  and  given  up.  but 
it took more than that to  get  the  better 
of Nancy.  She had weathered  it  as  she 
had weathered everything  else  that  had 
come along—she was smart,  Nancy  was.
It 
came hard on  her  to  have  the  boy  get 
married  and  settle  out  West. 
It  had 
been  hard  on  him, 
too;  but  he  had 
Nancy.  She was  always  fond  of  com­
pany around,  always had been.  Never’d 
been what you’d call  handsome, but  she 
was  so lively  and  quick,  and  had ways 
that would get around any man on earth. 
He  had  wondered  sometimes  bow  she 
came to take him,  he  was  so  slow;  but 
her mother used to  say—he  could  think 
just how she said  it—“Well,  Dan’l  may 
be slow,  but when he does  git anywhere, 
why,  there he is, right there, an’ he ain’t 
goin’  to leave!”

They jogged along the frozen road, the 
old  man  mechanically  pulling  on 
the 
reins.  More than forty years.  He could 
hardly remember  just  how  many;  what 
came  before  seemed  of  less  account. 
Why,  he couldn’t get on without  Nancy! 
She was a part of  him:  there  was  noth­
ing to be said about it, it was right there; 
just  Nancy.  He  couldn’t  get  along 
without her. 
It was no use talking.  He 
couldn’t.

The horse turned into the  yard  of  his 
own  accord.  Daniel  unharnessed  him 
with stiff fingers.  The  barn  was  warm, 
and had a  clean  dry smell.  Daniel  was 
careful  of  his  horses.  Jim reached his 
head up to the  old  man’s  shoulder,  and

he stood there a minute,  patting his neck 
heavily.

“I thought it was about  time  for  you, 
Dan’l,” said his wife,  as  he  opened  the 
sitting-room  door. 
ilhe  was  looking up 
at him  with her usual smile, but through 
the dazzling lamplight,  which  made  the 
room  swim  before  his  eyes,  it was not 
her face that he saw—it  was Nancy,  the 
wife of his yQuth.

M's.  Bell  was a pretty little old woman, 
whose cheeks still  wore a  little  of  their 
old-time color.  The softened look in her 
black eyes had not been there  in  earlier 
days.  She  was knitting  a  stocking, and 
as Daniel drew his chair to the other side 
of  the  table  and  opened  his  weekly 
paper, she glanced at him,  and  stifled  a 
sigh  as  she  returned  to  her  needles. 
When  Daniel  got  fairly  to  reading,  it 
was for all the rest of the  evening.  But 
Daniel  was not  reading.  He  was  using 
the  paper  as  a  cover  behind  which  to 
watch  his  wife;  the  feeble  back,  still 
held  upright  in  her  chair; 
the  cough 
choked  back  now  and  then;  the  busy 
hands.  Something  in  those  rheumatic 
hands as they  plied  the  yard  presently 
made him say,  hesitatingly:

“I  wouldn’t  do  any  more 

to-night, 

Nancy.”

“What say,  Dan’l?”
“I wouldn’t knit  any  longer  to-night, 

if I was you.”

“ Why, I want  to  get  these  stockings 
done. 
’Twon’t  be  long  ’fore  you  need 
’em.”  Her voice  was still brisk  and de­
cided.

“I guess I could make out to buy some 
at the store,  if  worse  come  to  worse,” 
suggested  Daniel,  with  a  faint-hearted 
attempt at pleasantry.

“ Well, 1 don’t intend you shall have to 
wear out any  slazy  boughten  stockings, 
while I  live!” she answered.

letters  on 

The  newspaper  rustled  in  Daniel’s 
the 
trembling  hand.  The 
printed  page  stared  at  him 
in  their 
blackness.  “ While I live!”  Everything 
struck  the  same  chord  to-night.  He 
breathed hard.  He was like a deaf mute 
who lacks the signs to put him  in  touch 
with life.  Even to  himself be could not 
It  was all summed up 
think  in  words. 
in  one 
to  move 
Heaven and  earth  to  keep  Nancy  with 
him a few years  longer.  He  brought an 
extra bedquilt from  the  press-room  ana 
laid it on the foot of  the bed, in case she 
should  (eel cold  in  the  night,  and  long 
after she had gone to sleep, and the house 
was still,  he lay awake, thinking—think­
ing about his wife.

inarticulate  feeling; 

Such an awakening,  such a vigil comes 
sometimes into a life,  to  stir  its  hidden 
springs of tenderness and turn them out­
ward into a wider channel.

It was Daniel’s regular custom to build 
the fire, and set the kettle boiling  before 
Nancy  got  up.  When  she  entered  the 
kitchen  next  morning,  she  found  not 
only a full wood box,  but a pile of fresh­
ly split kindlings,  and  a  brimming  pail 
of water standing in the sink.

“Why,  what  under  ’lection?”  she  ex­
claimed  to  herself;  “ brushed  up  the 
stove hearth, too—an’  if  he  ain’t  gone 
an’ ground up coffee enough for three  or 
four  days!  It  ain’t  so  good  when  it’s 
kep’.  Well,  I  sha’n’t  tell  him”—and 
after the old couple had  had  their  com­
fortable  breakfast  together,  and Daniel 
had said again,  “I wouldn’t do too much 
to-day, Nancy,” she remarked in a casual 
tone,  “It won’t take me  long  to  get  my 
I shan’t have to  stir  round
work done. 

IO

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

a great deal, I guess,  everything fixed so ! lenient  Daniel, 
handy.” 
“ thank  you.” 

It  was  her  way  of  saying  we think.”

I  pity the
The sight  of  Nancy  going  about  her | P°or man-  Ministers  ought  to  be  well 
fed,  to  keep  up,  so’s  to not grow spin- 
! dlin’.  They run more to brains.”

“She won’t, it ain’t likely. 

She  may  do  better’n j C Y C E B

household  work  in  her  usual  way had
something reassuring  in  it  for  Daniel. 
The  calming  routine  of  everyday 
life 
seemed to lift the dirturbing  atmosphere 
which  had  settled  oppressively  upon 
him,  and  he felt a sense  of  physical  re­
lief.  As they sat before the stove in the 
evening his face relaxed,  a  smile moved 
around  the corners of his  mouth,  and he 
now and then  dropped  the  back  of  his 
hand upon his knee  with a gentle slap.

“What you so  pleased  about,  Dan’l?” 

Nancy  finally inquired, one evening.

Daniel turned  toward  her  and laid his 

spectacles on the table.

“I was thinking about old times.  You 
remember  the  time  I  come  up  to  you 
after  singing-school  and  asked 
I 
should see you home,  an’  you  says,  ‘No, 
sir,  I can see  myself  home!’  an’  walked 
off,  an’ you hadn’t  gone  three  steps  be­
fore you fell right down  on  the  ice  ker- 
w1w.dk?'’

if 

Nancy’s  face  was  suddenly  flushed. 
“Remember?  1 sha’u’t forget  it  long’s  I 
live.  1  was  mortified  to  pieces! 
I did 
seem to hate to  have you come along an’ 
pick  me up—but I  never’d  ’a’ spoken  to 
you again if you  hadn’t!”

“ What’d  you  do  it  for,  then?” asked 

Daniel.

“I guess it was because I kinder wanted 
you for  comp’ny,  an’  didn’t  want  any­
body to know it.”

“Beats  all!”  said  Daniel  in some ad­
miration.  “Girls  are  queer  cretures, 
take ’em whichever way—so are women— 
most women,”  he added,  with  a touch of 
caution.

“ They’d have to be queer to be queerer 
’n men  folks,”  said  Nahcy.  “You  was 
a good deal  taken  up  with  Angeline Fos- 
kett,  too, ’bout that  time. 
I  don’t  deny 
she  was  pretty looking  with  those curls 
of hers.”

“Curls are well enough,” said her hus­
band,  “ but they  aren’t  very  substantial 
to get married on.  She  didn’t peter  out 
well.”  He took off the  stove-lid to  look 
at the tire,  and put another stick of wood 
on,  somewhat  to  Nancy’s  surprise,  for 
the temperature  of  the  room  had  been 
one of their points of  disagreement,  her 
own  enfeebled  frame  demanding  more 
heat  than  suited  her  more  robust hus- 
• band.

“Better  have  your  shawl  on,  hadn’t 
you?” he now remarked.  “I’ll get it  for 
you if you’ll tell me where ’tis.”

I can  get it.”

“It’s in my bedroom. 
“No,  you  sit  still.”  He  came  back 
with  it. 
It  was  a  pretty,  old-lady­
like shawl of  knit grey,  with a lavender 
border.  Daniel  did  not  put  it  around 
her—he would not have known how.  He 
stood holding it awkwardly in his hands. 
“Here ’tis.”

“Much obliged,  Dan’l,” said Nancy.  “1 
dun know what’s got  into  Dan’l,  to  act 
so,” she thought.

“I  heard to-day that Mr.  Johnson  was 

married,” began Daniel after a pause.

Mr.  Johnson  was the  Baptist minister. 
“Land sakes,  Dan’i!  Who to?”
“A girl  from the factory  at  Crawford, 

so they say. 

It may not  be so.”

Nancy knit energetically to the middle 
of her needle.  “Well,  she may be a nice 
enough  girl,  but  I’d  hate  to  board  at 
their house,” she declared.

“Oh, I  dun  know,”  replied  the  more

“I  don’t  know’s  Mr.  Johnson’s  so 
much that way as some,” suggested Dan­
iel.

“I’m  glad  we  don’t  go  to his church 
anyway.  When I hear  about  those  old 
ministers,  an’ what scary sermons they’re 
given 
to . preaching,  I  always  wonder 
what kind of livin’ their wives give  ’em. 
You  can’t  expect  any man to believe in 
goiug  to  Heaven  easy  when  he’s  got 
dyspepsy.”

“It  isn’t  everyone  that’s  got  your 

knack of cookin,” said Daniel.

“Weil,  you  was  always  a  good pur- 
It  makes  a  sight  of  dif- 

vider,  Dan’l. 
fer’nce.”

“It  ain’t  altogether  that,”  continued 
Dauiel,  now  waxing 
argumentative. 
“You  wan’t  never  put  to  it if comp’ny 
come  unexpected.  You  could  get up a 
tasty meal out of anything.  It’s a knack, 
’s 1 hold it—equal to the best. 
I haven’t 
forgot the first meal I had to your bouse. 
Seems’s if nothing  ever  tasted  so  good, 
hardly, as those flapjacks.  You was in a 
pink  calico—I  can  see  you  just as you 
was then.  You had a rose in  your  hair. 
It looked sweet as a peach.”

“You  don’t  say  you  remember  that 
dress?  I’ve  got  a  piece  of  it in a bed 
quilt now,”  said Nancy.

The sunlight  was  beginning  to  slant 
one winter afternoon when Nancy  had  a 
visitor. 
“Why,  came right in,  Mis’ Eld- 
ridge!” she exclaimed  to the  stout  good- 
natured  woman who had  inquired  about 
her  at  the  prayer  meeting,  “sit  right 
down.  You’ve  brought  your  work— 
that’s good.”

“ Mist’  Eldridge’s  gone  over  to  the 
Corners, so I thought I’d  stop  in  till  he 
comes  back.”  She  looked  Nancy  over 
with keen,  but not  unsympathetic, inter­
est, and decided that she was better thau 
she had expected to find her.

“I’m  glad  te  have somebody come in 
an’  bring the news,”  said  Nancy,  as  her 
caller folded her sewing  after  an  hour’s 
talk. 
“I ask Mist’ Bell,  but he don’t al­
ways remember.”

“When warm  weather comes  you’ll  be 
able  to  get  out  more,”  said  Mrs.  Eld- 
ridge.  “It’s proper cold!”

“ Well,  I  don’t  have to be out in it as 
some  do,”  answered  Nancy. 
“Mist’ 
Bell’s so savin’ of  my  steps.  He  won’t 
so  much  as  let  me  draw  a  bucket  of 
water from  the  well.  Don’t  make  any 
differ’nce what I want—kindlin’s or oven 
wood, or something from the press-room, 
there  ’tis.  1 don’t ever have to speak of 
a thing twice.”

No  girl  could  have  alluded  to  her 
lover’s roses or  bonbons  with  more  con­
cealed pride  than Nancy quoted her  hus­
band’s attentions.  “You’re  fortunate,” 
said Mrs. Eldridge, a little stiffly.

“I do’  know as I ought to spoken  as  I 
did,”  thought Nancy,  afterward.  “ Mist’ 
Eldridge  ain’t  a  very  easy  man  to  get 
along with.  1 hope she didn’t feel  bad.”
“ Where’s the old  backgammon  board, 
Nancy?”  was  Daniel’s  question,  soon 
after this visit.

“Up in John’s room,  Dan’l.”
“You haven’t forgot how to play,  have 

you?”

“Why, no,  I guess not.  I guess I could 
beat  you.”  This  she  proceeded  to  do,

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MICHIGAN  STATE  AGENTS, 

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IC 

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12  “ 
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IX
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Syrup Cans per 100.

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almost  straight,  flaring 
enough  to  pack  conven 
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Pieced and Stamped Tinware.

Manufacturers and Jobbers of

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Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

C H IC A G O  

—Nov- ls’18g
AND  WKST  MICHIGAN  R’l .  
GOING  TO  CHICAGO.

L RETURNING  FROM  CHICAGO.

Lv. G’d Rapids.............7:15am  1:25pm *11:30pm
Ar. Chicago...............   1:25pm  6:50pm  *7:20am
, 
-..............a :25am  5:00pm *11:45pm
Ar. G d Rapids............ 3:05pm  10:25pm  *6:25am
TO AMD FROM MUSKEGON.
Lv. Grand Rapids.......  7:25am  1:25pm  5:30pm
Ar. Grand Rapids....... 11:45am  3:05pm 10:25pm
Lv. Grand  Rapids..  7:30am  3:15pm
Ar.  Manistee...........  12:20pm  8:15pm
1:00pm  8:45pm
Ar. Traverse City.... 
Ar. Charlevoix........ 
3:15pm  11:10pm
Ar.  Petoskey.... 
3:45pm  11:40pm
pm.

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

TRAVERSE CITY. CHARLEVOIX  AND  PETOSKEY

PARLOR  AMD  SLEEPING  CABS.

Parlor  car  leaves  for  Chicago  1:25pm.  Ar 
rives 
from  Chicago  10:25pm.  Sleeping  cars 
leave  for  Chicago  11:30pm.  Arrive  from  Chi­
cago 6.25am.

•Every day.  Others week days  only.

DETKOIT,

Oct.  28,  1894
LANSING  &  NORTHERN  K, K.
GOING  TO  DETROIT.

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

RETURNING  FROM  DETROIT.

TO AND  FROM  SAGINAW, ALMA AMD ST.  LOUIS.

Lv.  Detroit...................   7:40am  1:10pm 6:00pm
Ar. Grand Rapids.........12:40pm  5:20pm 10:45pm
Lv. GR 7:40am 5:00pm  Ar. G R. 11:35am 10:45pm
Lv. Grand Rapids...........  7:00am  1:30pm 5:25pm
Ar.from Lowell..............12:40pm 5:20pm  ..........

TO AMD  FROM LOWELL.

THROUGH  CAR  SERVICE.

Parler  Cars on all trains  between  Grand Rap­
ids and Detroit.  Parlor car to Saginaw on morn­
ing train.

Trains  week days only.

GEO. DeHAVEN, Gen. Pass’r Ag’t

Michigan P entral

“ T ie Niagara Falls Route.’*

(Taking effect  Sunday,  May 27,1894.) 

•Daily.  All others daily, except Sunday.

Arrive. 
Depart.
10 20 0 m...........Detroit  Express........... 7 00am
5 30 a m ......»Atlantic and  Pacific.......ii  20 pm
1  o0p m  ......New  York Express.........  6 00 pm
Sleeping cars  run on Atlantic  and  Pacific ex 
press trains to and from Detroit.
Parlor  cars  leave  for  Detroit at 7:00 a m;  re 
turning, leave Detroit 4:35 p m. arriving at Grand 
Rapids 10:20 p m.
Direct  communication  made  at  Detroit  with 
all through  trains erst  over  the  Michigan Cen­
tral Railroad  (Canada Southern Division.;
A.  ALMquisT, Ticket Agent, 
Union PassengerStation.

DETROIT,  GRAND  HAVEN  &  MIL­

WAUKEE  Railway.
EASTWARD

tNo.  14 tNo.  16 TNo.  18 •No.

Trains Le  ve
G’d  Rapids Lv 6 45am li  20am 3 25pm 1100pm
Ionia ........
. Ar 7 40am 11 25am 4 27pm 1235am
St. Johns  . .Ar 8 25am 1217pm 5 20pm 1 25 am
Owossd--- Ar 900am 1 20pm 005pm 3 10am
E. Saginaw Ar lu 50um 3 45pm 800pm 64Qam
. Ar 11 » am 4 35pm 6 37pm 7 loam
Bay City 
.  . Ar 10 05am 3 45pm 7 65pm 5 4' am
Flint 
. Ar 12 05pm 5 50pm 8 50pm 7 30am
Pt.  Huron.
.Ar 10 53am 3 05pm 8 25pm 5 37am
Pontiac  ..
Detroit...... Ar 1150am 4 05pm 925pm 7 00am

WESTWARD.

“ 

“ 

For  Grand Haven  and Intermediate
Points  ....................................... ........*7:00’a. m.
For Grand  Haven and  Muskegon...... tl:00p. m.
“ 
“  Mil. and Chi..  t5.35P-m.
tDally except  Sunday. 
Trains  arrive  from  the  east,  6:35  a.m.,  12:50 
p.m.  5:3u p. m.,  10: *1  p.m.
Trains  arrive from  the  west, 10:10 a.  m.  3:15 
pm  and 9:15 p.m.
Eastward—No. 14  has  Wagner  Parler  Buffet 
car.  No. 18 Parlor Car.  No. 82 Wagner  Sleeper.
Westward—No. 11 Parlor Car.  No. 15 Wagner 
Parlor Buffet car.  No. 81 Wagner Sleeper.

»Daily.

J ab. Ca m p b e l l , City T*cket Agent.

South.

7:25a .m .

Grand  Rapids  St Indiana.

TRAINS  SOIH4  NORTH.

L eave g oin g 
For Traverse C ity, P etoskey  an d  S a g in a w ... ,7:10 a. m .
For S a g in a w ..................................................................5:00 p. m.
"or  P etoskey  and  M ackinaw........„ ...................5:25 p  m.
L eave going 

t r a i n s   g o  mo SOUTH.

North

For  C incinnati.................................................  
For K alam azoo and  C h icago.............................g :i 6 p. m.
For  Fort W ayne an d   th e  E a st............................ 2:15 p.m .
F orC in cln n a tl.......................................................... *5:40  p .m .
For  K alam azoo and C h icago........................  .*11 :40 p. m

 

Chicago via G. R. St I. R. R.

Lv Grand R apids..............7:25 a m   2:15 p m   *11:40 p m
Arr  C h icago.......................2:40 p m   9:05 p m  
7:10 a m
2:15 p  m  train  h a sth r o u g h   W agner  B uffet  P arlor 
Oar and coach.

11:40  p m tra in  d a ily ,  through W agner Sleep ing Car 

and Coach.
Lv  Chicago 
Arr Grand Rapid s 
3:30  p  m  hae  th rou gh   W agner  Buffet  P arlor  Car 
11:30 p m  train d aily .th ro u g h   W agner  Sleeping  Car 

3:80p m  
9:15 p m  

11:30pm
7:20 a m

6:50am 
2:50pm 

For M uskegon—L eave. 

Muskegon, Grand KapkU A Indiana«
9:50 a m
7:25  a m  
1:00pm  
1:15pm
* :4 0 p m  
5:20 p m

From M uskegon—Arrive* 

G eneral  P assen ger and  T icket Agent.

O .L. LOCKWOOD*

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1 1

greatly  to  Daniel’s  delight,  only  sur­
passed  when  he  himself  won  an  oc­
casional  victory.  The  old  couple  sat 
with the board on  their  knees,  ponder­
ing the moves,  or  flourishing  their  dice 
boxes in each other’s faces in excitement 
when  unexpected double sixes  made  the 
“ throwing  off”  from  the  “table” a close 
contest.  “Isn’t  there  tome  other game 
you  can  play  better’n 
this?”  asked 
Daniel,  when she had defeated him three 
times  in  succession. 
“There’s  a  new 
game  now;  they  call  it  Halma,  an’ it’s 
something like checkers. 
I’ll  ask about 
it,  an’  if it isn’t more’n fifty  or  seventy- 
five cents,  I’ll get it.”

He  brought  it  in  with him one night 
when he had  driven  over  for  the  mail, 
and  when  they  had  talked  it  over and 
read  the  directions,  he  took  another 
package from  his  pocket.  “And  here’s 
something for you.” 
If  he  had  been  a 
young  man  making  his  first present to 
his ladylove,  Daniel  could  hardly  have 
felt more awkward about  it.  He  began 
to untwist the ends  of  the  small  tissue 
paper parcel,  but abandoned the attempt 
and placed it in his wife’s lap instead.

“Why,  Dan’l !  Oh !—why Dan’l !  How 

handsome ’tis!”

It was a necktie of  pale  lavender  silk 

with very soft thick fringe.

“ If  ’tain’t  right,  we  can change  it.” 
Daniel  was anxiously  rubbiug  his  knee.
“I  guess  it  is  right—it’s  a  beauty. 

How come you  to?”

“I happened to think of it  when I  was 
in  t’  store,  an’  I went across  where  they 
keep  ’em.  The  girl  came  right toward 
me—I  know  who  she was—she  was one 
of Si Andrews’  girls,  over  t’the  Corners. 
Says I,  ‘I want to see the right  thing  for 
a lady with  white  hair.’ 
‘Oh,  for  your 
wife?’  says  she—she’s  a  quick-spoken 
girl—an’  she  showed  me  this  one. 
‘1 
know  this  will  be  right,’ she says,  ‘for 
I’ve seen her wear the same color  on  her 
bonnets,  and it’s very becoming.’  1 says 
to her,  ‘Young  woman,’ says I, ‘if you’re 
as  good-looking  when  you  get  to  that 
age, you’ll do  well.’ ”

“Dan’l !  Why,  the  awful !  Wha’  do 

you suppose she thought?”

“I don’t care what she thought.  Wait 
a  minute—I  ain’t  told  you  the  whole. 
‘You’ll do well,’ says 1.  She blushed up 
real  sort  o’  pretty;  an’  T  hope I shall,’ 
she says—just like that.”

though 

still  with 

“You’re a great one, Dan’l.”  His wife 
laughed, 
round 
shocked eyes.  She laid the tie  over  her 
knee,  and then held  it  up  to  the  light. 
“It’ll  be  beautiful  on  my  black silk— 
the  waist’s  plainer’n 
they  make  ’em 
now.”  No other thanks were  said,  and 
Daniel  was not conscious of needing any. 
Without,  it was snowing in  heavy flakes, 
which beat now and then  upou  the  win­
dow  panes,  but  the  two  within  were 
warm.

“What you say to driving  over  t’  the 
church sociable  to night?” was  Daniel’s 
inquiry a  few nights  later,  just as Nancy 
bad finished her work and drawn out her I 
“ 1  do’  know  as we get 
rocking  chair. 
out  often  enough. 
It’s  good  sleighin’, 
an’  we can’t count on  that very lopg.”

It took them twenty  minutes  or  more 
to decide whether they  would go,  Nancy 
more  than once saying that Daniel ought 
to have talked of it in  the  morning,  and 
given  her time to think about  it  without 
getting conflustrated. 
“But you  was al­
ways just like that,  Dan’l,” she declared. 
“Come  right  in  where  I  was  to  work 
with my sleeves rolled  up—‘Well,  ready

for  a  sleighride  to-night?’  you’d  say— | 
then, when  ’twas  all  fixed,  you’d  hang 
around as if you never was going to go.” 
“Guess that was because I liked  to see 
you that way,” said Daniel.  “You never 
looked  so  well  as  when  you  had  your 
sleeves rolled up.”

Nancy finally decided  to  go,  and  put 
her  head  out  of  the  bedroom  door  a 
moment  later.  “Don’t  look  like  snow, 
does  it?”  she  asked.  Daniel shook his 
bead.  “I  guess  I’ll  wear  my new bon­
net,” she said.

When she appeared in her new  bonnet j 
and the black silk  with the lavender  tie, 
Daniel  privately  thought  her  a  very 
handsome  old  lady.  “Got enough on?” 

“ Why yes, I guess so.”
“No, you  haven’t.”  Daniel  brought  a 
shawl  he  had  warmed at the stove,  and 
wrapped it around  her.  “I  ain’t  going 
to  take  any  girl  riding  an’  have  her 
ketch cold.”  He stooped down to button 
her  long  cloak  over  it.  “I  don’t  have 
rheum'tiz,” he  explained,  while  Nancy 
in her turn pulled the bow of  his  cravat 
out carefully.

tingle  of 

thought  of 

The air was so crisp and  cold, and  the 
starry sky soclear that the old couple felt 
a  youthful 
exhilaration 
at 
two-mile 
drive.  Daniel carefully helped his  wife 
in  aud  tucked  the  robes  about  her. 
“Feels comf’table,”sbe mumbled through 
her veil  and  the  muff  she  was  holding 
against her face;  and Daniel took hold of 
her band  a  moment,  pretending  to  ar­
range* the  robe.  They  were  heartily 
welcomed  at the sociable,  and there were 
several  who took occasion  to  whisper  to 
one  another  that  they  guessed  Nancy 
Bell  wasn’t failing so  much as they sup­
posed,  if  she  could  get  out  so far of a 
winter’s night.

the 

the 

“It  sort  o’  chirks  a  person  up to be 
amongst folks,”  said  Nancy,  on the way 
home.  “I was always fond of goin’.  An’ 
we seem to enjoy  it more than some.  D’ 
you notice how John Sheldon an’ his wife 
stayed tight together the whole evening? 
Well,  now,  what good’d they  get out  of 
goin’?  You want to  mix  up  with other 
folks more,  an’ then you have something 
differ’nt to tell  when you get home.” 

“That’s the way  you  used to do when 

you was a girl.”

“Why,  yes, that’s  the way.”
“Well, now,  I can tell you that used to 

make  me jealous,”  said Daniel.

“P-s-h-h! ”  said  his  wife,  giving  his 
knee a playful pinch—and this time Dan­
iel made  no  pretense  of  arranging  the 
robe.

Whether  these  husbandly  attentions 
acted as a tonic it is  impossible  to  say; 
but, as the  winter  advanced,  and  the 
snow still lay  rugged  and  broken,  but 
without  melting,  on  either  side of the 
roads,  some of Nancy’s energy seemed to 
come back.  She had  always been  “spry 
on her  feet,”  but this  “spryness,”  which 
had caused her to  attempt  many  unnec­
essary 
things,  had  lately  diminished. 
Now,  again,  her old  ways  claimed  her. 
Daniel,  coming  in  from  the  barn  one 
bleak  afternoon,  was  made  pleasantly 
conscious of the odor of waffles  before he 
opened  the  kitchen  door.  “So  this  is 
what  you’ve  been  up  to,  is  it?” he in­
quired,  with a sniff of anticipation.

“it seemed, as you  might  say, a  good 

day for waffles,” answered  Nancy.

“ Why didn’t you tell  me  you  was go­
I  could  have  helped 
(The waffle iron was  broken  and

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required an  ambitious  mind,  not  easily 
discouraged,  to manipulate it.)

“Oh,  I thought they’d taste better as a 

su’prise.”

Daniel washed  his  face  and  hands at 
the sink,  and held the towel far from him 
upon his outstretched hands, as a  man’s 
way is.  He  looked  around  the  room 
Since Nancy  had  grown  so  feeble  they 
had  taken 
their  winter  meals  in  the 
kitchen.  The table was primly laid,  with 
preserved peaches and shaved dried beef. 
Nancy,  with a  white  apron 
tied  about 
her waist,  was hovering  near.  With the 
impulse which  came  to  him  at the mo­
ment,  Daniel bent over and spoke in  her 
better ear—for this was not a thing to be 
said twice over:

“Nancy—you  know?—you  ain’t  give 

me a kiss this ever so long.”

Nancy bad the waffle platter poised up­
on her hands.  She stopped.  “ You ain’t 
asked me,  have you?”  said she, glancing 
over her shoulder at  him with a spice  of 
her old coquetry.

“ Well,  has a  man  got  to  ask his wife 
every  time,  after  he’s  lived  with  her 
more’n forty years?”

“ Why,  no,  not  as  1  know of.”  She 
tapped her foot upon the ground,  as  she 
might  have  done  forty  years  before. 
There was a soft flush  upon her old New 
England cheek.  Daniel kissed the pink 
est place,  and she reached up to bis other 
cheek and gave  it  a  quick  little  peck 
“There!  go  ’long  with  you! ”  she said 
“Bless God for  my  husband,” was  what 
it meant.

Later on,  there came a stretch of beau 
tiful days,  cold,  indeed,  but not with the 
deadening  cold  of  December.  “ Well 
who’d you  see up to town?” was Nancy’i 
question,  as  Daniel  came  in  at  dusk 
She shut her book over her  spectacles in 
anticipation of the  gossip  which  Daniel 
had grown in the habit of fringing home 
but,  as he  only  answered,  “Oh,  nobody 
in particular,” she looked for  her  place 
again,  a little disappointed.

Daniel set his boots  upon the footstool 
to dry,  and  thrust  his  feet into the slip 
pers Nancy had warmed for him.  “Let’s 
see—when’d we  hear  from  John  last?’ 
he asked,  presently,  in a reflective  tone 
“Two weeks ago,  come  Sat’day,”  was 

Nancy’s reply.

“I’ve been thinking—what’s  to hinder 
about 
that  visit  they  was  talking  of? 
You know they  wanted  you to come  for 
Christmas,  b u t’t wan’t so ’t you  could.” 
Nancy put on  her  spectacles  and then 
took them off again,  bolding them in  her 
hand bewildered.  She  bad 
lived  with 
Dan’l over forty years,  but she had never 
grown  used  to  his  sudden  ways  of an­
nouncement.  For a  slow  man,  it was  a 
little provoking.

“I’m fixed to  spare  the  money  now,” 
he weut on,  “an’  a  little  trip  will likely 
do you good.  That  namesake  of  yours 
’ll  be  wanting  to  see  how  her  grand­
mother looks.”

Nancy’s  heart  gave  a great  bound  at 
the thought  of  the  grandchild  she  had 
never seen,  little Nan,  whom  she longed 
to have upon  her knee;  but she said, hes­
itatingly—“But,  Dau’l—”

“ You’re fixed to go, ain’t  you?  Never 
heard of a  woman that  was ready to start 
off anywhere!”

“ Yes, I’m so 1 could go—though there’s 
things 1 ought  to  have  if  1  was going— 
but I can’t leave you, Dan’l.  We’re  get­
ting old  folks.  You wouldn’t get along.”
“I guess I can  get  Marindy  Peters  to 
come an’ cook for me,” suggested Daniel,

with a jocose twinkle in his eye,as though 
all had  not been told yet.

“ Well,  I’d be dreadful hard  put  to  it 
b’fore  I’d  let  you  eat  Marindy  Peters’ 
cookin’,”  said  his  wife,  with  decision; 
“shif’iess,  meachin’  cretur 
enough. 
B’sides, how’d I ever get there?”

“It’s easy gettin’  to Buffalo.  Put  you 

right on  board a sleeper—”

“Yes, an’ I shouldn’t sleep  enough  to 
pay for my ticket; I  should  be  so  afraid 
they’d  put  a  man  over  my  head.  No, 
Dan’l,  it’s real kind in you to think of it, 
but I can’t go off so far an’  leave  you—1 
can’t,  no way!”  She had risen  and  was 
agitatedly brushing the top of  the  stove 
with a turkey wing,  though  there  were 
no ashes on  it.

Daniel drew  a  ponderous  breath;  his 
little surprise was even  more  enjoyable 
than  he  had  anticipated.  “I  haven’t i 
said  1 was goin’  to be  left,  yet,”  he  re­
marked, slowly.

“ Why,  Dan’l!  you don’t mean—?”
“ 1 don’t  propose  to  let  you  get  lost 
alone  in  that  sleeper—tbat’d  never  do 
any way in  the world. 
I  guess  we  can 
manage to get there together, eh?  What 
you s’pose the boy’ll say to see  us  come 
u?  ’Twill  be  a  sort  o’  bridal  trip, 
won’t it?”

invisible  dust. 

The old man was  looking  at  her with 
deep  wells  of  tenderness  in  his  eyes. 
Nancy made a  step  toward him and put 
her hand up to his  coat  as  if  to  brush 
away 
Suddenly  his 
arms closed  around  her  and  held  her. 
He kissed her bent head  and  cleared his 
throat,  patting  her  worn  back  gently.
“I  got  a  good  wife  when  I  got  ye, 
Nanny,” was what he said at last.

His  wife did not  answer.  She  leaned 
against  him  and  slowly  stroked  his 
shoulder up  and  down  with  one  trem 
ulous hand.  She was crying.

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The Price of Champagne.

It  is  reported  from  France  that  the 
price of champagne will  be, if  anything 
higher  this  year  than  it  has been pre 
vious.  This 
is  somewhat  surprising, 
for  although  a  great  deal  of  money is 
spent on  the  manufacture  and  bottling 
of the wine, nevertheless its cost  of  pro 
duction  appears to be wholly out of  pro 
portion  to  the  charge  at which it is re 
tailed,  not only in American,  but also in 
French restaurants. 
In Paris,  you  must 
pay 12 francs, or $2.40,  for a  not  strictly 
first-class bottle of  champagne,  and  the 
same  wine  will  cost  at least $3 in New 
York.  Turning  to the bill of fare given 
in a little guide book to  Paris,  published 
in  1803,  the  most  expensive  champagne 
is quoted at $1.20 a bottle.  To  be  sure, 
Chambertin,  Volnay,  Pommard  and 
Nuits  were  only $l  per  bottle then.  A 
beefsteak  with  potatoes  was  20  cents; 
and  “ bouilli” garnished with  vegetables 
only  3  cents;  but  mutton  cutlets  were 
dear,  being cited at 20 cents apiece and a 
fried sole cost 40 cents, if the book  is  to 
be believed.  Be this as it may,  the value 
of the champagne produced in  France  is 
daily increasing. 
In the Department  de 
la  Marne  alone  it  has  increased  from 
$1,327,000  in  1844  to  over $6,000,000 in 
1891.  The  strangest  circumstance  con­
nected  with  champagne  is 
the 
French themselves have little  liking  for 
the  vintage  of  Epernay. 
In  fact,  the 
average Gaul rarely touches  “fizz,”  save 
on the occasions of  marriages,  birthdays 
and  grand  balls,  at  the  carnival  and 
sometimes  at  race  meetings.  At smart 
dinner  parties  this  vintage  is  never 
served,  being deemed  vulgar.  There  is 
an immense amount of champagne drunk 
at first-class  Paris  restaurants,  but  the 
consumers are for the most part  foreign­
ers—English,  Russians, Germans and es­
pecially Americans,  who, for some  unac­
countable reason,  dote on this  wine  and 
consider no feast complete without it.

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13

PHYSICAL BANKRUPTCY.

In youth  and  manhood  we  daily  per 
form a certain  amount  of  physical  and 
mental  labor.  Each  day  we  use  up  a 
portion  of  our  strength  in  discharging 
the duties that confront us, or  in  pursu 
ing  the  pleasures  we  crave,  and  at its, 
close  we  are  more  or  less  tired,  and 
gratefully  take  the 
rest  that  nature 
gives.  At the same time we feel that we 
are  by  no  means  exhausted,  and  if an 
emergency arises we  find  that  we  have 
a  reserve  of  strength  within us that en­
ables us to accomplish far heavier labors 
and sustain more  prolonged  efforts,  and 
then, after a little more rest,  are  as  well 
and strong as ever.

This  reserve  of  strength  it  is  which 
gives the sense of confidence,  of  elastic­
ity,  and superiority  to  little  ills,  which 
marks the man  of  robust  health,  and  it 
is by drawing upon it by excess of living 
faster  than  it can be  naturally  restored 
that manhood  is  shortened  and  old  age 
so often  prematurely entered.
If  a  man  would  regard  this  reserve 
with  as much concern  and  look  upon  it 
in  the  same  light  as  his  business  capi­
tal—if he would apply to the care  of  the 
former the same  principles  that  control 
him in the management of the  latter,  he 
would  prolong  his  days  and add to his 
physical and mental comfort.
For instance,  a  prudent  business  man 
always has some resources  in  reserve  to 
meet  unexpected  contingencies.  He 
knows  that  he  must  be  prepared  for 
changes  in  commercial  values  and  dis­
appointments  in  business  engagements. 
To continue a  sound,  healthy  business, 
he must have something to fall back upon 
if occasion demands.  His  daily  balance 
fluctuates more or  less,  but  its  bulk  is 
never  seriously  impaired  without caus­
ing much concern and  inciting measures 
for its  re-enforcement.  The  reserve,  if 
diminished  to any considerable extent,  is 
carefully  nourished  by  economy  of  ex­
penditure,  and soon  retrieves itself,  and 
then business goes on as before.
Analogous  conditions  prevail  in  the 
human system.  A healthy man uses up, 
as ordinary occasion demands,  a  certain 
amount  of  vital  strength 
in  the  pur­
suance  of  his  daily  duties;  his  rest  at 
night,  his food,  his  recreation,  serve  to 
make  good  the  loss  incurred,  and  his 
balance  of  health  remains  about  the 
same.  But now some accident or disease 
overtakes him;  his body’s  iDcome  is  cut 
off,  his appetite gone, his rest  disturbed, 
while fever,  pain,  and  anxiety  sap  his 
strength  and  rapidly  encroach upon his 
reserve  vitality.  Whether  he  recovers 
depends  upon the amount of  his  reserve 
force and the degree of the demand upon 
it. 
If he has not impaired  his  constitu­
tion by indulgences,  or  weakened  it  by 
too  close  application  to  business  and 
neglect  of  such  sanitary  principles  as 
tend to preserve his  vital  forces  intact, 
he will  be able to meet the drafts  drawn 
upon  him  by 
illness.  During  con­
valescence,  expenditure  of  force  is  as 
limited as  possible;  his  vital  income  is 
greater than his outgo;  his  reserve is in­
creased  day  by  day,  and  when  he  has 
fully recovered,  it has reached its normal 
condition of stability. 
If,  however,  his 
recovery  is  incomplete,  or from the na­
ture of his disability  impossible,  his  re­
serve force is permanently impaired, and 
he remains an invalid—his  body  capital 
is infringed beyond  repair.
It is essential,  then,  if stable  health is 
to be expected,  that provision  should  be 
made for  emergencies  that  are  as  sure 
to  arise  in  the  corporal  as  in the com­
mercial  system,  and  simply 
to  meet 
the requirements of the  day  is  not  suf­
ficient.
As  in  business  affairs  disaster  often 
follows  enlarged 
responsibilities  and 
greater risks,  which are  constantly  mak­
ing  inroads  upon  the  capital involved, 
so  vital  bankruptcy  is  imminent  when 
larger drafts are made  upon  the nervous 
force  than  are  consistent  with  its  daily 
gain. 
In  such  cases  nature  invariably 
foretells the coming danger and as clear­
ly points out the course to avoid it.
Immersed  in  business  transactions  or 
professional  pursuits, the individual who 
is overworking himself and  drawing  too 
lavishly  on  his  physiological  reserve 
neglects the  timely  warning.  He  takes 
pride in unremitting toil,  and  glories  in

business success and  enlarged  fields  for 
the display  of  his  powers.  His  wealth 
is increasing,  bis influence  is  extending, 
his political or  social  ambition  is  being 
gratified.  Whatever be the object he has 
in view,  whether goaded  by  necessity  or 
ambition,  he does not see how, just now, 
he  can  forego  it,  and he cannot be  con­
vinced  that  he  is  doing  more  than  he 
ought, since he is  still able  to do it,  for­
getting  that  the  limit of strength is  not 
ascertained  until the break occurs.
The goal to  which  he  first  aspired  is 
gained and  passed,  and  still  he  is  not 
content.  A  nervous  eagerness  to  ac­
complish more and more seizes upon him, 
and he  goes  on  until  some  one  of  the 
mishaps  that  are  inseparable  from  life 
befalls him.  Some -business misfortune, 
or  family  affliction,  or  trivial  disease 
makes an  unprepared-for  demand  upon 
his  physical  or  mental resources which 
he is unable to meet.  There Is  not  suf­
ficient  reserve  strength  to  meet  addi­
tional strain.  He  has been living at the 
limit  of  his  powers,  and  when  such 
troubles  as  would  ordinarify  be  over­
come assail him he can make no effectual 
resistance,  and  becomes a physical bank­
rupt.
Such  are  the  men  of  whose  sudden 
death we so frequently hear.  They have 
seemed  to  be  in  good  health,  and  of 
strong physique;  and,  while it is in part 
by  reason  of  their  strong  constitution 
that they  have  been  able  to  attain  the 
success that has marked  their  career,  it 
has  also  proved  the  indirect  cause  of 
their downfall, since  they  have  become 
so accustomed to have  their  drafts upon 
it honored that they have  been led to be­
lieve that they could  accomplish and en­
dure anything.  Apparently in the prime 
of life,  they seem in the rush of business 
at the height of  success,  when  they  are 
overcome  by  some  slight illness or acci­
dent,  and  their lives  are  endangered be­
fore it is realized that they are sick.

The first indication that a  man  is  en­
croaching upon his nervous strength and 
imprudently taxing  his  powers  is,  per­
haps,  extreme  restlessness  and unusual 
nervous irritability. 
Instead  of  regard­
ing the various occurrences of  life  with 
equanimity,  and making the best of what 
cannot  be  helped,  annoyances  that  at 
other times would  be  slightly  regarded 
or altogether ignored assume  formidable 
proportions;  even incidents  which  hith­
erto  afforded  pleasure  lose  their charm 
and add to his disquiet.  The  children’s 
noisy  frolic,  the  hum  of  conversation, 
the notes of merry music,  the  clatter  on 
the streets, annoy him.  Perhaps  he has 
sufficient  self-control  to  mask  his feel­
ings and present an  appearance  of  calm 
resignation,  and very  likely is quite  dis­
pleased with himself for his foolish petu- 
laocy.  The  effect  of  restraint  but  in­
creases the  internal  irritation,  and  the 
result is an outburst of temper over some 
trifling  circumstance,  of  which  he  is 
afterwards heartily  ashamed. 
In  other 
cases, 
instead  of  irritability,  there  is 
great  mental  depression;  success  does 
not cheer,  wealth  does  not  mitigate  the j 
fear of impending want.  He is distrust-1 
ful of himself  and  suspicious  of  every­
body.  His  mind  is  filled  with  gloomy 
forebodings, and however prosperous his 
affairs,  he is saddened  with the dread  of 
impending disaster.

When  a  man  who is actively engaged 
dreams  regularly  of  his  work,  or  the 
child at school of his studies,  he receives 
a  plain  warning  that  he  is  doing  too 
much,  and  that  the  excitement  of  the 
day is being continued into the night.
Sleep  now  begins  to  fail  him,  and 
when,  after hours of restless  tossing,  he 
sinks  into  fitful slumber, his rest is dis­
turbed  with dreams of business,  and the 
night is filled with  vivid glimpses of  his 
waking  cares.  His  appetite  becomes 
capricious,  be  thinks  the  cook  has  lost 
his  skill  or  is  indifferent  to his tastes, 
and from the food ingested results a feel­
ing  of  fullness  and  distress. 
the 
hurry  of  business,  he  takes  a  hasty 
breakfast,  works through  the day on im­
perfect snatches of food, and at night at­
tempts to  compensate  for  previous  de­
ficiencies  by  eating  an  excessive meal, 
when the stomach,  like  the  rest  of  the 
body, is wearied  and unable to  digest it.
Worry  and  anxiety  are  most  potent 
causes of  indigestion,  and  soon  the  in-

In 

BILL’S
BLOOD

RELATION  ALL  USE

Lily  White  Flour

Or would,  at least,  if you would keep  it  in 
the  store  so  they  could  get  it  when  they 
want it.

IT  SELLS  ITSELF

And when  a sack  is sold it IS  SOLD.  The custom­
er  doesn’t  come  back  for discounts because  of poor 
flour.  HE COMES BACK FOR ANOTHER SACK 
with  a smile  on  his  face,  joy in  his heart and  CON­
FIDENCE  in  YOU. 
Isn’t that smile and confidence 
worth  something? 

IT  MEANS  MORE  TRADE.

VALLEY CITY MILLING  CO.

MANUFACTURERS,

G R A N D   R A P I D S ,   M IC H .

P U T   ZJF*  I N   T I N .

I X L GOLDEN..........

AXLE  GREASE

K E E P S  A X L E S   BRIGHT.  K E E PS  A X L E S   COOL. 

N EV ER   GUMS.

Guaranteed  to  Give  Satisfaction.  Has  No  Equal.  Put  up  in  1=2=3  lb. 

Tin  Boxes,  rianufactured  by

«

Duck
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 fit and wearing qualities.  We 
are  also  headquarters  for  Pants,  Overalls  and  Jackets  and 
solicit  correspondence  with  dealers  in  towns  where goods of 
our manufacture are not regularly handled.
L a n s i n g   P a n t s   &  O v e r a ll  Co.,

LANSING,  1*1ICH.

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dividual is a  confirmed  dyspeptic.  Un­
der the frequent use of stimulants by day 
to continue the incessant  work  which his 
nervousness  compels,  and  narcotics  at 
night  to  induce  sleep, 
the  conditions 
quickly  deepen. 
If  by  this  time  some 
slight illness does not intervene, or some 
organic  degeneration  disclose  itself  to 
bring his career to a close,  he  begins  to 
realize  that  he  has  been living way be­
yond his  physiological  income;  that  his 
nervous expenditure has been out of pro­
portion to normal recuperation,  and that 
he has been draining  his  vital  forces  to 
such an extent that  little remains  of  his 
original capital.
If he is wise  he  will  now  pursue  the 
course that would suggest itself to a pru­
dent business man  whose financial affairs 
have lapsed into an analogous embarrass­
ing  strait.  The latter would curtail  his 
expenditures,  contract his  business  to  a 
limit commensurate with the capital that 
yet remains,  and  nourish  the  resources 
that are left,  until by prudence and zeal­
ous care,  not only is the impending crash 
averted,  but a sound basis laid for future 
operations.  A  long  period  of  rest,  an 
entire relief  from  business  and  profes­
sional cares,  a complete  relaxation  from 
nervous strain is  the  only  resource  for 
the physiological  bankrupt. 
If he takes 
it,  he may retrieve  his  shattered  forces; 
if not,  bis days  are  soon  numbered,  for 
he cannot live fast and live long.
The exercise of the mental  as  well  as 
the  physical  powers,  even  when  hard 
It  is 
pressed,  is  conducive  to  health. 
claimed  that  the  continuous  and  often 
laborious exercise of the mind is not only 
consistent  with a state of  mental  health, 
but  promotes  longevity.  A  man  may 
easily worry himself to  death,  but  hard 
work  of  mind or body, in  itself,  injures 
no one.  Work becomes harmful when it 
calls for haste and  strain to meet the ex­
igencies of  the  demand,  when  it  is  at­
tended  by  an  absorbing  singleness  of 
thought  upon  one  subject,  and  is  per­
sisted in  with such ardent enthusiasm as 
not to allow diversion to  other  subjects, 
and when the outcome  is  attended  with 
such  uncertainty  as  to  distress  and 
worry.
For those who are too absorbed to take 
the rest  and recreation needed,  or whom 
necessities compel  to  struggle  on  from 
year to year without a summer  break  in 
the monotony of their  lives,  the  reserve 
of strength is  soon  exhausted,  and  the 
age of decline begins.
Just when the prime of  life is  passed 
and the decline begins is not at any fixed 
age.  Of  those  who  start  in  life  under 
equal  conditions  of  robust  health,  and 
upon  whom  casual  sickness  falls  with 
even hand,  some will have finished  their 
career  in  half  the  time  to  which,  with 
care,  it might  have  been  prolonged,  or 
become old ere their fellows  reach  their 
prime,  and this because they  have  lived 
too  fast,  have  been 
too  prodigal  with 
their physiological capital.
there 
comes a time to every one who lives long 
enough when this reserve must be drawn 
upon. 
In youth and  lusty  manhood  the 
forces of the system,  in  full  and  gener­
ous play,  supply  vitality enough  for  all 
its  needs,  and  leave  in store a  fund  of 
strength  exuberant.
As years increase and the  “ big  manly 
voice,  turning  again  towards  childish 
treble,  pipes and  whistles in his  sound,” 
more niggardly  does nature  yield  fresh 
powers,  and  barely  grants  enough  for 
each day’s wants.  As  age  advances  to 
“second  childhood  and  mere oblivion,” 
the vital powers are well-nigh  quenched, 
and each succeeding day sees less reserve 
to  draw  upon.  Now  the  mind  begins 
slowly  to  fade  away;  a  last  fleeting 
glimpse  of  childhood  days 
awakens 
momentary thought;  a  passing  recogni­
tion seems to cause a smile; ideas of time 
and place all pass away, and, with the last 
uncertain  breath  and  feeble  throb,  the 
reserve has ceased to  be;  life  succumbs 
to age, and the account is closed.

But,  guarded  as  it  may  be, 

P ie r r e S.  Sta rr,  M.  D.

The Cleveland Chamber  of  Commerce 
wants the Secretary of War  to  interfere 
with  the  lowering  of  the  level  of  the 
great  lakes  by  the  Chicago  drainage 
canal.

Opening1 of the  ’Cycling  Season. 
j
The ’cycling  interests  of  the  country i 
were never in a  more  flourishing  condi-1 
tion than they are to-day,  and  the stock­
holders  in  the  more  favorably  known 
’cycle  corporations  are  to  be  congratu­
lated.  The factories East  and  West  are 
all  running  on  full 
time  and  some 
of  them  are  working  a  double  force 
of men,  with the  wheels  running  night 
and day.

The  local  dealers  are  busy  men  and 
their  stores  are  crowded  with  visitors, 
many  of  whom  are  customers.  While 
innumerable wheels are being sold, many 
would-be  purchasers  bold  back  on  ac­
count of the price  demanded for the sta­
ple wheels.

Some good  wheels,  of  what  might  be 
called the second class, can be bought  at 
from $60 to $90,  but the average  rider  is 
not content with anything  less  than  the 
regulation  wheel, and yet the price, $100, 
staggers  him. 
If  an  accurate  estimate 
could be bad of the brain  matter  wasted 
every week by wheelmen who try to esti­
mate how  much  profit  the  ’cycle manu­
facturers  make  out  of  their  machines, 
some interesting statistics could be drawn 
up.

The  average purchaser of a  $100 bicy­
cle pays his money, takes his wheel home 
and then sits down and tries  to  compute 
its cost of manufacture.  His  estimates, 
however,  are  generally  based  upon 
weight, and bis natural deduction is that 
the average high-grade  wheel  must  cost 
the makers anywhere from $25 to $35.

’Cycling,  however,  is  a  close  corpora­
tion just now,  particularly  so  since  the 
formation of  the  Board  of  Trade.  Not 
nearly so much cutting is  being  done by 
makers and dealers  as  was the case last 
year,  although considerably more of it is 
indulged in than the  dealers  will admit. 
Where clubs purchase a lot of  wheels,  it 
is not difficult to secure a material reduc­
tion.

A well-known dealer was  asked point- 
blank the other day what it  cost  to mar­
ket the ’95 model ’cycle.  He hemmed and 
hawed  a  great  deal,  of  course;  said  a 
great deal about the  general  public  not 
understanding  the  enormous  expenses 
necessary to ’cycle manufacturing, and he 
then  admitted  that  the  present  wheel 
must cost the dealer from $65 to $75.  *
Another expert when seen said that the 
bare cost for the manufacture of a wheel 
could not be over $35.  “But remember, ’ 
said he,  “that figure does not include the 
local dealers’ profits or the cost of adver­
tising,  and  many  other  incidental  ex­
penses. 
I know one big firm which,  it is 
said,  estimates  its  advertising  at $20  a 
wheel.  So you see that  the manufactur­
ers’  profits are not nearly so large as one 
might suppose.  Still,  they  are not los 
ing any money and you don’t hear of any 
of them going into bankruptcy.”

It  is  said  the  manufacture  of  false 
tails for horses has reached so high a de­
gree of  perfection  that  the  counterfeit 
may  be  buckled  onto  the  stump  of  a 
docked horse and he will travel along be­
side a mate with a natural  long  tail,  de­
fying  detection.  Thus 
it  comes  that 
now  and  then  a  horse  appears  in  the 
morning with  a  docked  tail  and  in  the 
afternoon with one almost  sweeping  the 
ground.  This may  lead  to  leaving  the 
horse with its  handsome  natural tail on. 
Something like a  chain  and  ball  should 
be  fastened 
to  the  man  who  wilfully 
and cruelly deprives a  horse  of  its  tail.

Signal 1, 2,3,4, Five.

Muskegon  Bakery  BraGkers
Are  Perfect  Health  Food.

(United  States  B a k in g  Co.)

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

one can  be  best—that is  the original

riuskegon 
Bakery 
Butter 
’  Cracker.

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

Nine
Other
Great
Specialties
Are

M uskegon  T oast,
R oyal  F ru it  B iscuit, 
M uskegon  F rosted   H o n ey , 
Iced  C ocoa  H o n ey   Ju m b les, 
Jelly  T u rn overs,
G inger  S n ap s,
H o m e-M a d e  S n ap s, 
M uskegon  B ranch,
Mlik  L unch.

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

United.  S t a t e s   B a k in g   Co.

LAWBENCE  DEPEW,  Acting  Manager,

M u s k e g o n ,  

-  

M i c h •

It would  make a horse laugh

■  
Sr 

To see how  some  merchants  persist  in  hanging  to  the
pass-book  and other  antiquated  charging  systems  when 
the adoption of the Coupon  Book  System  will  curtail 
their losses, lessen  the  time  devoted  to  credit  transac­
tions, enable them to avoid  the  annoyances  incident  to
credit dealings and place their  business on  practically  a
cash  basis.  Over  5,000  Michigan  merchants  are  now 
using  our  Coupon  Books.  We  want 5,000 more cus­
tomers in the  same  field.  Are  you  willing  to  receive 
Catalogue  and  Price  List?  A  postal  card  will  bring 
them.

T r a d e sm a n  Co m pa n y

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

The  best  safeguard  against 

V A L U E   O P   A   B U B A L   P O P U L A T IO N .
labor 
troubles  is to keep as large a population 
as  possible  in  the country districts.  A 
man  who  owns  a  small farm can main­
tain  a  certain  independence  which  he 
can  never  have  in  a  city.  On  such  a 
farm  there  is  always  something which 
even the women and children can do, and 
then all the improvement which they put 
upon their home is permanent and inures 
to their  good.

Unfortunately,  there  is 

too  great  a 
tendency  on 
the  part  of  young  men 
raised in the country to remove to towns, 
where  they  fall  into  the  serious  and 
often desperate competition for life;  but 
this sort of thing is far  more  serious  in 
Europe than it is in  America, 
in  many 
cases  the  lands  in  its  agricultural dis­
tricts are owned not by the farmers,  who 
are  only  tenants,  but  by  great  land­
holders,  so  that  all  the  improvement 
put  upon  a  farm  goes  to the landlord. 
As  a  consequence,  the  country popula­
tion  is  not  bound  to  the  soil;  but  its 
younger members, preferring to be slaves 
in town to a perpetual  vassalage  to  the 
landowners,  lose  no  opportunity  to  get 
to the cities, so that those centers of pop­
ulation in Europe^re growing as rapidly 
as  do  the  American cities.  This is one 
of the wonders  of modern times.

United States Commercial  Agent  Geo. 
H.  Murphy,  resident  at  Luxemburg, 
gives  in  a  report  to  the  State  Depart­
ment some interesting particulars  of  the 
continued swarming of the country  pop 
ulation  to  the towns.  In central Europe 
every ambitious and active young  fellow I 
turns his eyes and feet  toward  the  city. 
Consequently,  in  every  great  city  the 
labor  market  is  glutted, the natural re-1 
suit being that wages of labor  keep  fall­
ing.  This  evil  is enhanced by the ever- 
increasing  employment  of  labor-saving 
machinery.  Moreover,  with the growth 
of  manufacturing,  the  competition  be­
tween the  manufacturers  themselves  in 
the markets where they  dispose  of  their 
products becomes more and  more intense 
and results in a further decline of prices. 
As a consequence,  manufacturers,  in  or­
der to avoid loss, are compelled to reduce 
cost  of  production, and this is most con­
veniently effected either by reducing  the 
wages  of  employes  or  by  introducing 
more labor-saving machinery.

By imprudently flocking into the great 
cities, the workingmen of central  Europe 
have placed themselves and  families in  a 
position of utter  dependence  upon  huge 
factories,  whose owners,  in order to com-

pete  successfully  with  the  owners  ¡of 
other  huge  factories,  are  compelled  to 
pay to those workmen who are  fortunate 
enough to find employment  wages which 
barely suffice to seeure for their  families 
the absolute necessaries of life.

Mr. Murphy  thinks that  the  policy  of 
the countries of central  Europe seems to 
be to extend and  inflate  their  manufac­
turing  industries 
indefinitely.  Their 
idea of national prosperity and happiness 
seems to  be  nothing  more  than  the  at­
tainment of the ability  to  export  manu­
factures and to import food. 
In support 
of this  policy,  in  many  cases,  the  gov­
ernments  of  different  central European 
States take from the  workingman an im 
port duty on his food,  in order to give  to 
the manufacturer an expert bounty.

A solid yeomanry has  always  been  the 
boast of England;  but a  country popula­
tion which does not  own the land,  but  is 
in  a  sort  of  serfdom  to  the landlords, 
must in  time  lose  patriotism  and  hope 
and  all  those  sturdy  qualities  which 
grow out of home-ownership.  The  man 
who owns a home,  be it ever so  humble, 
is tied to the soil  and  has  something  to 
fight for;  but when he is  called  to  fight 
for the property of a  lot  of  greatland- 
holders,  in  which  he  has no right,  title 
or interest,  it is not strange  that,  as  in­
telligence 
increases,  patriotism  will 
dwindle under such circumstances.

But the great point in  all  this  is  that 
the American people should  omit  no op­
portunity  to  acquire  ownership  of  the 
soil  of  their  own  country.  Every nran 
who is tied to the soil  by  ownership is  a 
patriot  by  the  simple  facts of the case. 
Every  industrious man  who owns a small 
farm is in a position to make himself  in­
dependent and to  assist in  keeping  up  a 
good  country  population.  The  greater 
the  number  of  farmers  in  the country, 
the  better  it  is  for  the  country.  The 
greater  the  population  of  cities, 
the 
greater  the  overstock  of  labor and  the 
more desperate the strife  of  labor  com­
petition. 

F rank  Stow ell.

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A  Chicago  mail  carrier refused to an-! 
swer a question  put to him by one  of  his 
superiors during the  lunch  hour,  alleg­
ing  that  he  was  off  duty  and was  not 
subject  to  orders.  He  was  suspended j 
for thirty  days  and  is  in a fair way to j 
lose his job.  He ought to have answered j 
the  question and then  put in a  claim fo r! 
overtime.

Springtime finds the Signal  Five at the | 

front.

Use Tradesman Coupon Books.

Standard  Oil  Co.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  HICHIGAN

D E A L E R S  IN

Illuminating  and 

lubricating

Naptha  and  Gasolines.

Office,  .Michigan  Trust  Bldg. 

Works,  Butterworth  Ave.

BULK  W O RK S  AT

GRAND  RAPIDS, 
BIG  RAPIDS, 
ALLEGAN,

MUSKEGON, 
GRAND  HAVEN, 
HOWARD  CITY,

MANISTEE, 
TRAVERSE  CITY. 
PETOSKEY.

CADILLAC, 
LUDINGTON, 
REED CITY,

Highest  Price  Paid  for

EMPTY  GflRBON  i  GASOLINE  BARRELS.

GRAND RAPIDS, 

MICH.

18 and  19 Widdicomb  Bid.

N.  B.  Cla r k,  Pres.
VV.  D.  Wa d e,  Vice-Pres.
C.  U.  Cla r k,  Sec’y  and  Treas.

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

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

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CONDENSED  fllLK  is  a  staple  article :  sold every­
where,  and  as  an  infant  food  lias  no  equal.
All  reliable  dealers  sell  it  and  it  is  a  good  stock  for 
jobbers  to  carry. 
Prepared  and  guaranteed  by  the

THE  NEW  YORK  CONDENSED  MILK  COMPANY

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and are allowed to have  no  will of their 
own.

But it so happens that  the  commercial 
trusts are large employers of labor,  and, 
being  monopolists,  they  cannot  endure 
any attempt at domination from the labor 
trusts.  Cheap labor is one  of the  requi­
sites  to  the  production  of  eheap prod­
ucts,  and the manufacturing  monopolies 
are  always  foremost  in  cutting  down 
wages.  Thus  arise  many  of  the  labor 
conflicts,  which  are  not  wars  of  labor 
against capital,  but wars of  labor  trusts 
against unorganized labor,  and,  as these 
wars often break out in lawless violence, 
the result is  that  the  disturbers  of  the 
peace  necessarily  arouse  all  the  force 
and power of the law  against  them,  and 
they are crushed into  submission  to  the 
law.

The  Older 
We  Grow

The L e s s  
We K now !

Any  organization  which  is  forced  to 
rely on violence to carry out  its  designs 
must surely fail, for the  people  will not 
submit  to  any  violent  impositions  or 
domination.  The  methods  of  the  com­
mercial trusts are  peaceful,  smooth  and 
unostentatious, and they easily gain con 
trol  of  the  country;  but  when  a  labor 
trust attempts to capture the country  by 
violence, all the power of the law  is  put 
in operation,  and the disturbers are sum 
marily crushed  out.

Is it not a  mistake  in  thinking  you  can  make the money you 

should, without a perfect system ?

Ihen  why not join  the majority i 

Thousands  of  Merchants  testify  that you  cannot.

It is not too late  Write  us.

¡very essential feature of the  CHAMPION  is  fully  protected 
by patents owned and controlled by the Champion Cash Reg- 
^ te r Company. 
I sers will be  protected  and  infringements 

ill not be allowed.

MERCHANTS  DESIRING  TO  INSPECT  o!?r  Registers  are 
requested to drop us a card, so that one of our agents can call 
it  will cost nothing to see the 
when in the dealer’s  vicinity, 
machine and have its merits explained. 

K

HANUFACTURED  ONLY  BY

i  Gosh Beisl GOIfllf

G R A N D   R A P I D S ,   M I C H .

Commercial Trusts  and  Labor  Trusts.
There are commercial trusts  and labor 
trusts.

A commercial  trust  is  the  combining 
of persons engaged in the  production  of 
some article of common use so as to drive 
out competition and secure a monopoly of 
that  branch  of  business.  Such  trusts, 
although  fordidden  by 
in  some 
states, command  such  enormous  capital 
that  they are able to defy  the  law,  and 
they carry on their operations in  all  the 
states. 
In the  production  of  many  ar 
tides the public  is wholly dependent on 
the trusts.

law 

The effect of  these  trusts  is,  first, 
destroy  all  competition.  By  means 
their  immense  aggregations  of  capital 
they  are  able  to  manufacture  cheaper 
than others,  and, if it be  necessary, they 
will sell at  a  loss,  so  that  at  any  cost 
they  drive  all  competitors  out  of  the 
market.  Thus it is that  the  people  are 
placed at the mercy of great monopolies 
whieh supply the necessaries of life, and 
since these articles in  many cases can be 
secured from no other source, the people 
must pay what is required of them.

But it must be said to the credit of the 
trusts that they have generally sold their 
products  at  moderate  prices.  This 
necessary,  first,  to  destroy  competition 
and  it is a wise  measure  to  secure  the 
largest  possible  consumption  of  their 
products.  Most  mercantile  men  know 
well enough that the masses of the people 
who are the  principal  consumers,  have 
only limited means which can  be devoted 
to their various needs.  When  prices  go 
up in any line,  the  people  must  econo 
mize in those articles,  or  in  other ways 
in order to make  their  funds  hold  out 
The trusts, realizing this  fact, have gen 
erally put  the  prices  of  their  products 
down to such  rates as the people can en 
dure.  Of course,  it is a serious thing for 
the people of  a  great  country  to  know 
the bread they eat, the oil  they  burn  in 
their  lamps,  the  sugar  they  consume 
and many other  articles  which  they  use 
in their daily life, are  all  controlled  by 
powerful corporations that can stop their 
supplies or raise the prices at will. 
It is 
a  serious  thing  to  know  that  all  the 
merchants in the country are subservient 
to  the  trusts,  which  dictate  prices  of 
their goods and mark out the territory in 
which they shall or shall not  sell. 
It  is 
hard to  realize  that  seventy  and  more 
millions of  free  people  are  the  virtual 
slaves of a  few great  commercial  corpo­
rations.  But it is true, nevertheless.

But there are also labor trusts.  These 
are  organizations  of  workingmen  who 
combine to  control  and  monopolize  the 
work  in  some  particular  industry,  and 
whose object is to drive  out  all  persons 
not members  of  their  organization  who 
wish to work,  and by that means destroy 
competition.  As  the. commercial  trust 
is at war  with  all  competing  merchants 
and manufacturers, so the labor  trust  is 
at war  with  all  competing  labor.  The 
labor  trust,  in  its  desire  to  secure  a 
monopoly of a  particular  sort  of  labor, 
does not care how many  working  people 
it may deprive of employment  and drive 
to starvation. 
It cares  only for  its  own 
members, and  is  bitterly  hostile  to  all 
competing  laborers.  Therefore,  where 
these labor trusts are  able  to  gain  con­
trol, they dictate  not  only  the  price  of 
wages,  but also what individuals may be 
employed and what  are  to  be  rejected.
In  such  cases,  en ■»loyers  of  labor  are 
wholly in subjection  to  their  employes,

The only hope of the  laboring  classe 
is in  absolute union of  the  entire  labor 
element  in  the first place, and in peace 
ful  methods  in 
the  second.  A  labor 
trust that embraces  the  entire  laboring 
population,  and  could  command  at  the 
polls the votes of  every  member,  would 
It  could  control 
be  a  power  indeed. 
many  state  legislatures  and 
fill  Con 
gress with its partisans. 
It  could  offer 
some  successful  and effective resistance 
to the commercial trusts by securing  leg 
slation against them,  and it  would  be  a 
powerful  factor  in  the  politics  of  the 
country.

But  such  a  state  of  things  will  not 
be realized so long as the working classes 
are  divided  into  bitter  and  hostile fac 
tions,  and their leaders are  demagogues, 
disturbers of  public  order  and  general 
agitators.  Division  is 
the  universal 
source  of  weakness  of  the labor cause, 
and,  while it exists,  failure is written on 
its face. 

Frank Stoweli..

Announcement is made of  a  remarka­
ble  discovery  of  a  means  of producing 
lluminating  gas  at  a  cost  which  may 
prove  to  be not more  than  7  cents  per 
000  feet  for,  it  is  claimed,  the same 
amount of light as is furnished  by  1,000 
feet  of  ordinary  gas. 
It  is now said to 
be used in a house in  New  York  and  to 
be in  every  way  practicable.  The  new 
illuminant is acetylene, the lowest gas in 
the  series  of  hydrocarbons,  which  are 
the foundation of organic  chemistry  and 
enter  into  the  composition  of  many of 
the most important products  of  coal  tar 
and petroleum. 
It is known  to chemists 
as C 2 H 2,  and  is  practically  pure  car­
bon vapor.

A letter carrier of  Youngstown,  Ohio, 
has been  discharged  for  improving  his 
vacation  by  organizing  a  union  of car­
riers in Canton.  The  Postoffice  Depart­
ment  several  years  ago  decided 
that 
trades unions  are  inimical  to the postal 
service and will not be  tolerated  among 
employes of the Department.

The Signal  Five  leads,  all  others  fol­

low.

REYNOLDS  REVERSED.

Verdict of the  Kent Circuit  Court  Set 

Aside.

The  judgment  rendered  against  Geo. 
H.  Reeder  &  Co.  by  the  Kent  Circuit 
Court for unpaid salary alleged to be due 
Patrick Reynolds has been  set  aside  by 
the Supreme Court.  The full test of  the 
opinion,  which  was  prepared  by  Judge 
Hooker, is as follows:
Plaintiff brought an action for the breach 
of  a  contract of employment.  The dec­
laration  alleged: 
“For  that  whereas, 
heretofore,  to  wit,  on  the  10th  day  of 
October, A.  D., 1892, at the city of Grand 
Rapids,  the said  plaintiff, at  the  defend­
ants’ request, entered into an  agreement 
with  the  said  defendants,  whereby  said 
plaintiff bargained to  work  for  said  de­
fendants as a traveling salesman  for  the 
term  of  one  year  from  the  10th  day of 
October,  1892,  and  said  defendants,  in 
consideration of such services,  agreed  to 
pay  said  plaintiff  for  his  said  services 
the sum of $800  a  year,  in  monthly  in­
stallments  of  $66.66  per  month.  And 
that whereas,  the  said  plaintiff  entered 
into the employment of the  said  defend­
ants  according  to  said agreement on  the 
said 10th day of October,  1892,  and faith­
fully  and  energetically  performed  his 
duty as such salesman  for  four  months, 
and that  said defendants on,  to  wit,  the 
18th day of February, 1893,  disregarding 
the  terms  of their said contract,  wrong­
fully and  unjustly discharged said plain­
tiff from  their  employment,  though  said 
plaintiff has been  willing and ready,  and 
now is ready,  to continue in said employ­
ment,  and  carry  out  his  contract  with 
said  defendants;  yet  said  defendants 
have refused,  and still  do  refuse,  to  al­
low said plaintiff to do so,  to his  damage 
$300; and therefore he  brings  suit.”  To 
sustain this count the following contract 
was offered,  and,  against  defendants’ ob­
jection and exception, received, viz.:
“Grand Rapids,  Mich.,  April  7,  1892. 
The  following,  made  this  10th  day  of 
October,  by and between the  two  under­
signed parties, is  fully  agreed  upon  by 
both.  October  10,  1892,  P.  Reynolds 
commenced the duty of  salesman  on  the 
road  for  Geo.  H.  Reeder  & Co.  for the 
term of one year from date,  for  the  sale 
of  $40,000  worth of their goods, consist­
ing of boots,  shoes,  rubbers,  felt  boots, 
socks,  and all goods dealt in by  the  said 
Geo.  H.  Reeder  & Co.,  that are shipped 
to and paid for by the said  P.  Reynolds’ 
customers.  He, the said Reynolds,  is  to 
receive $800 and his  necessary  traveling 
expenses while out on  the road for them. 
All mail orders received and  filled by the 
said Geo.  H.  Reeder & Co.  from the  ter­
ritory covered  by P.  Reynolds  are  to  be 
placed to the credit of his sales  account. 
He is to receive, in addition to the above- 
stated salary,  1 per  cent,  on  the  dollar 
on all goods  sold  by  him,  shipped  and 
paid for, over and  above  aforesaid  $40,- 
000. 
If his sales  at the end of  the  year 
are less than the said  $40,000, then 2 per 
cent,  on a dollar is to  be  deducted  from 
the amount of his salary  for  all  that  he 
shall fall short of $40,000 on sales.  Geo. 
H.  Reeder  &  Co.  P.  Reynolds.”  The 
case appears to have been tried upon the 
theory of the special count,  viz., that the 
contract was terminated  by  the  defend­
ants wrongfully and that the damage for 
the  month  was  $66.66,  the  amount  al­
leged to be  payable  monthly.  We think 
that this contract cannot be said  to  pro­
vide for monthly payments. 
It would be 
much more reasonable  to  say  that  pay­
ments were to be made upon orders taken 
or accepted,  if it can justly be  said  that 
anything was  payable before the expira­
tion  of  the  year.  To  hold 
that  the 
plaintiff was  entitled  to  one-twelfth  of 
$800 monthly  would ignore the  provision 
that 2 per cent,  on shortage was  to be de­
ducted  from  his  salary.  The  contract 
does not state the time  of  payment,  nor 
does  it  provide  for  paying  back  a de­
ficiency;  and,  unless  we  are  to  assume 
that  it  is  to  be  paid  monthly from the 
fact that it was  a  contract  for  personal 
labor,  or  from  the  fact  that  payments 
were  made  from  time  to  time,  there 
seems no reason that it  should  be  given 
a different construction  from  any  other 
contract providing  for  certain  work  by

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

one and payment thereof by another.  In 
such case  the  natural  inference  is  that 
payment  is to be made on completion  of 
the work.  The  brief  of counsel asserts 
that an oral contemporaneous agreement 
was made that  payment should be  made 
monthly,  etc.,  but we find no evidence of 
that,  and need not  discuss  the  value  of 
such evidence were it in the record.
As  to  the  construction  said  to  have 
been given by the parties,  by a course  of 
dealing under the  contract,  if  this  is  a 
contract,  so certain in its terms as to per­
mit  such  aids  to  the  construction  of  a 
writing, there  is  nothing  conclusive  in 
the conduct of the parties.  They  do not 
appear  to  have  made  monthly  settle­
ments, or  made  and  received  payments 
monthly.  Money  was  asked  and  fur­
nished at intervals,  and it  is  as  consist­
ent to  say  that  such  payment  was  con­
sidered  advancements  on  the  salary  in 
view of sales.  To our  minds,  the  most 
reasonable construction of this writing is 
that  the  plaintiff  was  to  be  paid  from 
time to time on the  basis  of  goods  sold 
and shipped,  but not beyond the  rate  of 
$800  per  annum  and  expenses.  The 
plaintiff was allowed to recover  the  sum 
of $66.23,  which the court  finds  his  due 
upon the basis of $800 a year.  This con­
tract was not admissible under the  spec­
ial count,  for it was a  radically  different 
contract from the one declared upon,  and 
counsel  did  not  choose  to  amend  his 
declaration  when 
the  objection  was 
made.  Hence there could  be  no  recov­
ery upon  that count,  for the  reason  that 
the  proof  did  not  support  it.  As  the 
findings of  fact and  law  show  that  the 
judgment was rendered upon  this  count, 
we have no alternative but  to  reverse  it 
and order a  new  trial.  Ordered  accord­
ingly.  The other justices concurred.
Hon.  Peter Doran appeared for Geo.  H. 
Reeder & Co. and Griffin,  McDonald &La 
Grou represented  the plaintiff.
The  Wheat Market.

Wheat  advanced  slightly  during  the 
past week,  which is partially due  to  the 
continued drought  in  the  winter  wheat 
belt.  However,  since  Saturday 
the 
drought has been  broken,  as  the  precip­
itation has been large all over the winter 
wheat belt.  We are unable  to  say  how 
much of a change this  will  make  in  the 
price of  wheat.  Many  dealers  look  for 
a decline in prices on  that  account,  but 
we can hardly  agree  with  them,  as  we 
believe  the  acreage  has  been  reduced 
fully  as  much  as  heretofore  reported. 
There  seems  to be  a  wide  difference  of 
opinion as to the condition  of  the  grow­
ing crop.  Some think  it  is  being  dam­
aged  by 
thawing 
weather  we  have  had  of  late.  Others 
think differently.  A few  days  of  warm 
sunny  weather  might  make  a  material 
change.

freezing  and 

Corn  advanced, 

in  sympathy  with 
wheat,  as is usual.  Had wheat  declined 
the same would have  probably been true 
It  depends  largely  upon  the 
of  corn. 
amount used  for  feeding  purposes. 
In 
this State  some  farmers  sell  their  corn 
and  oats  and  feed  their wheat instead. 
At present the outlook for  better  prices 
is certainly good.

the 

The oats market was very strong, owing 
to the fact that  600,000  bushels  of  cash 
oats were  sold  for  immediate  shipment 
via all  rail to New York at the  remarka­
bly  low  rate  of  10  cents per 100,  while 
the open rate is 20 cents  per  100.  Here 
is  a  plain  disregard  of  the  inter-state 
commerce law.  Grand Rapids and other 
points in this  section  are  compelled  to 
pay  on  the  basis  of  20  cents  per  100, 
while the large shippers in Chicago get a 
10 cent  rate.
During  the  past  week  the  receipts 
were as follows:  Wheat,  53  cars,  which 
was  a  little less  than the usual amount; 
corn, 28 cars,  which  is  a  large  amount; 
oats,  5 cars,  which is about normal.

C. G. A. Y oigt.

MEN  OF  MARK.

A. W.  Dodge,  President  of  the  Dodge 

Clothespin Manufacturing Co.

Alfred W.  Dodge was  born  in  Wayne 
county, New York, June 6,  1839,  remov­
ing  with  his  family  ten  years  later  to 
Woodstock,  Lenawee  county,  where  he 
varied the monotony of farm work by at­
tending school a few  months  each  win­
ter.  At the age of 19 he started out on a 
tour ef the Western States,  from  Minne­
sota to Missouri,  and in  the  latter  State 
was  employed  several  months  as  the 
manager  of  a  plantation  with  a  large 
number of slaves. 
In  the spring of 1860 
he  returned  to  Michigan  and  married 
Miss Ann  E. Drake, of Cambridge,  Len­
awee county,  by whom he has had  seven 
children,  all  living,  two  boys  and  five 
girls.  Five of the  children  are  married 
and he is the grandfather of  three  boys. 
For a year after he was married he culti­
vated  a  rented  farm,  subsequently  re­
turning  to  Saginaw,  where he worked a 
year in a sawmill.  He next followed the 
occupation  of  carpenter  and  joiner un­
til  1865,  when  he was laid up for a year 
with inflammation of the eyes. 
In  1866 
he removed to Gowen,  Montcalm county, 
where  he  purchased  a 
sawmill  and 
stocked it with  logs.  This  business  be 
conducted with varied success, low water 
mark  being  reached  in  1874,  when  he 
found  that  he  “lacked  $6,000  of  being 
worth  a  cent,”  as  he  expresses it. 
In­
stead of  abandoning  the  struggle,  how­
ever, he stood his ground until he wrung 
success from failure,  paid  100  cents  on 
the  dollar  and  was  able  to  clean  up 
$6,000 in cash.  With this money  he  re­
moved  in 1883 to Quincy,  Branch county, 
where he built a sawmill,  and,  in  com­
pany  with  others,  established  a factory 
for  the  manufacture  of  threshing  ma­
chines.  This  enterprise  proved  unre- 
munerative  and  he  sold  his interest in 
the  business  at  a  loss  and  removed to 
Morley in 1885,  where he began the man­
ufacture  of  clothespins  under 
the 
style  of  A.  W.  Dodge.  Two  years 
later 
into 
a stock company  under  the  style  of  the 
A.  W.  Dodge  Clothespin  Manufacturing 
Co.,  with a paid in capital of  $10,000,  all 
the stock being held  by  members  of  his 
own family. 
In November, 1893, he pur­
chased  the  clothespin  factory  of  the 
Shepherd  Manufacturing  Co.,  at  Shep­
herd,  which  he  has  since operated con­
tinuously under the  management  of  his 
son,  W.  H.  Dodge.  Two  machines are 
operated  in  each  factory,  each  with  a 
capacity  of  80  5  gross  boxes  per  day, 
making the combined output of  the  two 
factories 320 5  gross  boxes  daily.  Con­
sidering  that  the  Shepherd  plant  was 
purchased during the worst period of the 
panic,  Mr.  Dodge’s  success  in  keeping 
the  factory in constant operation is little 
less than remarkable.

the  business  was  merged 

to-day 

A singular  feature  of  the  clothespin 
business  is  the  gradual  reduction 
in 
prices which has taken place  during  the 
past  ten  years,  amounting  to  nearly  5 
per  cent,  a  year. 
In  other  words,  the 
price Mr.  Dodge is able to obtain  for  his 
clothespins 
is  28  per  cent, 
less than was the current  price  in  1885, 
when he first embarked  in  the  business. 
As  timber  is  no  cheaper  now than ten 
years ago,  the reduced price is felt in the 
reduction  of  wages,  in  lessened  profits 
and  in  the  curtailment  of  factory  ex­
penses so far as it is  possible  to  curtail 
them by systematizing every detail of the 
' business.

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Mr.  Dodge  has  been a member of the 
Masonic  fraternity 
twenty-one  years, 
but Las never  aspired to hold  any  office 
in the lodge, nor has he ever  allowed  his 
name to go before a political  convention, 
with  the  exception of a prohibition con­
vention,  where  the  nominee  stood  no 
show of election.  He  has  never  made  a 
dollar by speculation,the property he has 
managed to accumulate being due to thrift 
and  economy and not to  sudden  fluctua­
tions or lucky strikes, and the fact that he 
has doubled the capacity and output of his 
two  factories  during  the  hard times of 
the past two  years  speaks  well  for  his 
courage,  energy  and  business  shrewd­
ness.
Twenty-Five  Additions  During  March.
Grand Ra pid s,  April  1—The  follow­
ing  new  members  joined  the  Michigan 
Knights of the  Grip during the month of 
March:

F. Dela Claire,  Goshen,  Ind.
Wm.  A. Griffith, Brooklyn,  N.  Y.
Thos. C.  Stough,  Shreve, Ohio.
Albert Decker, Big Rapids.
O. C. Pope,  Mellersburgh,  Ky.
Jos.  Phillips, East  Saginaw.
Addison Brown,  Carroll,  Iowa.
F.  E.  Edmonds,  Grand Rapids.
John F.  Blair, Marinette, Wis.
Geo.  B. Lewis,  Grand Rapids.
J.  B. Cushman,  Greenville.
Geo. I.  Blowers,  Kalamazoo.
W. P.  Shanley,  Hammondsport,  N.  Y.
John B.  Burns, Three Rivers.
David O. Caldwell, Detroit.
James N. Mackin,  Bay City.
F.  D. Wintle,  Austin,  111.
F. J.  McGuire, New York City.
J.  H. Williams,  Chicago.
W.  B.  Hogue, Detroit.
W.  E.  Dockry, Big Rapids.
H.  A.  Cocks,  Kalamazoo.
Wm.  Montague Perritt, Chicago.
Geo. W.  Innes,  honorary, Pentwater.
W.  J.  Mosgrove,  honorary,  Edmore.
Geo. F.  Ow en,  Sec’y.

The  Telephone  Situation.

Manistee—Two  of  our  younger  lum­
bermen—James Dempsey,  Jr.,  and  Rob­
ert Babcock—have organized a new  tele­
phone company in this city and have  se­
cured  about  all  the  subscribers  to  the 
old company and many new  ones.  They 
have  put  the  rates  down  to  $24  for  a 
business  telephone  and  $15  for  resi­
dences  a  year,  as  against  $50  and  $35 
charged by the Bell Company.  Since the 
war  was  inaugurated  the  Bell  people 
dropped  to  $36  and  $24,  but  they will 
have to go lower than that if they expect 
to hold any business.
Muskegon—The  Bell  Telepeone  Co. 
has reduced its prices from  $48  and  $36 
to $36 and $30,  for  business  places  and 
residences, respectively.
Saginaw — The  Michigan  Bell  Tele­
phone Co.  announces a radical  reduction 
in  its  rates,  as  follows:  For  business 
houses per year,  $42; for business houses 
with  valley  connection,  $48;  for  resi­
dences, $30.  The  present  rates  are  as 
follows:  For business  houses,  $50;  for 
houses  with  Bay  City  connection,  $60; 
for residences, $40;  for  residences  with 
Bay City connection, $50.

“Who  Made  Your Show Cases?” 

is frequently asked at  the  new  store  of 
Appel Brothers,  on Monroe street.  Those 
cases take the  place  of  counters,  richly 
displaying  goods  from the  floor up, and 
the sixty-four  foot  line  of  them  is  ad­
mired by everybody.  A  merchant  from 
Fort Wayne,  Ind., saw them and  has  or­
dered duplicates from the  manufacturer, 
Heyman Company, of this city.
From  Out of Town.

Calls  have  been  received  at  The 
T radesm an office during  the  past week 
from the following gentlemen in trade:

E. G. Curtis,  Stanton.
J.  H. Steinberg, St. Ignace.
E.  E. Chapel,  Berlin.
J. H. Eppink, Lucas.

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Drug Department•

State  Board  of Pharmacy*

One Year—G eorge  Gundrum,  Ionia.
Two Y e ars—C- A. B ugbee, Charlevoix.
T h re e Y ears—8. E.  P a rk h ill, Owosso.
Four Years—F. W. R  Perry,  Detroit.
F ive Years—
P resident— Fred’k W .R. P erry, D etroit.
S ecretary—Stanley E. Parkill,O w osso.
T reasurer—G eo. Gundrum, Ionia.
C oining  M eetings—D etroit  (Star  Island),  June  24; 
Lansing, Nov 5.

Michigan  .S ta te   Pharm aceutical  Ass’n. 
President—A. 8. Parker, Detroit.
Vice-President—John E. Peck, D etroit.
T reasurer—W. Dupont,  Detroit.
S ecret*v—F. C. T hom pson.D etroit.
Grand  Rapids  Pharm aceutics 1 Society. 

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

How Jerry Made His  Place.

W ritten fo r Thk Tradesman.

He  wasn’t  much  to look at.  He  was 
short.  He  was 
thin.  His  checked 
trousers  bagged  at  the  knees,  and  a 
superfluous  amount  of  watch  chain 
showed.  But his Scotch  blue eyes looked 
at you squarely,  and  I  wish  you  could 
have seen  his walk.  You dyspeptics  who 
can’t eat pie crust,  and  feel  called  upon 
to give a dissertation  on the relative im­
purities of the different  kinds  of  Grand 
Rapids  water,  and  judge  them  all  as 
poor stuff;  you  who  think  the  world  is 
going  to  the  bad—it  would  have  done 
you  good  just  to  see  him.  A  dish  of 
liver  smothered  in  onions  would  have 
touched the  right  spot after such an  ex­
perience.  He walked from  head  to foot, 
with  a gait to catch  the  outbound  train 
being cried,  “All  aboard  for  Rockford, 
Cedar  Springs,  Howard  City  and  Big 
Rapids!”

He  told  his  story,  as  he  padded the 
dining table and  packed  the china ready 
for storage.

I  guess so! 

“Experience? 

I  drove  a 
wagon seven years for one  of the largest 
furniture factories here, an’ so I  learned 
to handle furniture.  Then  I was in  the 
packing  room  of  another  factory  for 
seven more  years.  You  have  to  know 
how,  you  better  believe,  to  pack some 
pieces of furniture.

“Two  years  ago,  when  business  was 
slack,  1  was told,  when  I  was  paid  one 
Saturday night,  that  my  services  would 
not be wanted any  longer. 
I came home 
pretty  blue—you can  bet  on  that;  but  I 
didn’t  say  a  word  to  anyone  at  home. 
Here I  was,  left without a cent, and with 
a wife and children  to  take  care  of.  1 
had  to  reason  with myself pretty lively 
for a spell.  Says  I,  ‘You’ve never been 
without  work  for  a  week  in your life, 
Jerry  McRae,  an’  you’ve  always  had 
enough to eat and a  place  to  sleep,  an’ 
this is a pretty  time  to  be  discouraged! 
You  better get a hustle on you!’

“So I slicked up an’  put  on  my  good 
clothes,  ate  my  supper  an’  went  down 
town to talk  with  some  of  my  friends, 
an’,  would  you  believe it,  before I came 
home,  I  had enough  moving on  hand to 
last nearly a week !

“Then I told my  wife whatl had done. 
She exclaimed (for  she  saw  the  danger 
signal ahead),  ‘But how ar’ you going  to 
do  it?  You  haven’t  any  horses,  you 
haven’t any  wagon—you  have  nothing!’ 
An’ I  knew  my  wife  was  right,  except 
she  had left out of account  a large  pair 
of hands and a willing spirit.  So I said, 
‘Just you wait and see.  My  name  isn’t 
Jerry McRae for nothing!’

“The next morning,  I went to  a  mem­
ber of the firm I’d just  been  working for 
an’  asked him  what he  would  charge  to 
rent me,  by the week,  a wagon an’ a team 
of  horses  that  I  knew 
they  weren’t 
using  an’  had  been  sent  to  pasture. 
Well,  Mr.  Brown, ,Mr.  White  and  Mr.

Gray talked the matter over together  an’ 
decided I could  have the use of  them  for 
$7  a  week.  That  meant  that  I  had to 
feed  and  take  care  of  them myself an’ 
hire  a  driver  besides.  1  kept  to work 
this way for several  weeks  an’  managed 
to make a little.

“I had relation  who  could  ’a’  helped 
me  a  good  deal,  bnt I don’t take  great 
stock  in  relation  at  such  a time.  So  1 
shut  my  month  an’  didn’t ask a favor, 
let alone a red cent from one of them.

“One  day  my  brother-in-law  was  at 
our house.  He is pretty well fixed.  He 
said,  ‘Say, Jerry, let me look at your  ac­
count  book.’ 
(I  had kept everything  in 
black and white).  He looked at it quite 
a bit,  not saying a word,  an’  I  wondered 
what  was  the  matter.  Then he looked 
up.

“You go along an’ pick out the kind of 
team  you  want  an’  have  you  a  wagon 
made.  When  a  man  holds  bis  head 
above  water  at  such  odds  as  this, it’s 
time things came his way.  You  can  go 
to-morrow morning’—an’ you  better  be­
lieve  I  did  ‘go 
to-morrow  morning,’ 
though it put me in debt just $500.

“And things have come my way.  Sur­
prising how people find me  out. 
I work 
for a family.  Pretty soon other families 
come  to  me. 
I  say  to  them,  ‘How did 
you  know  about  me?’  Then  they say, 
‘Mr. Jones said you had worked for  him, 
an’  that,  if  we  wanted  a good straight 
man  that  understood  his  business,  you 
were the man.’

“Now, I have leased  the  upper floor of 
just  the  building  I  wanted  down town, 
with the privilege of  taking  more  room 
when I need it. 
If I don’t get  the  grip 
or some other setback, even though times 
have  not  been  good,  I  shall be able to 
pay up my debt this  year.  To  be  sure, 
1 don’t give myself much  chance  to  get 
some meat on my bones,  but I  don’t  care 
for that. 
I don’t  see  why  people  come 
to  me  instead  of  to  older  and  better 
known men in the  business,  bnt  I  have 
my hands full  and am up to my  eyes  in 
work.”

Thus has one fellow  solved  the  labor 

problem. 

Z.  E.  U.

A Swedish engineer named Andree has 
proposed to the  Academy  of  Science  at 
Stockholm  a  plan  for  getting  to  the 
north  pole  in  a  balloon.  He  wants a 
balloon that can  carry  3,000  kilometers 
of  weight,  and  will remain in the air  a 
month. 
It is to be filled somewhere near 
the polar region, and must be,  in a meas­
ure,  dirigible.  M.  Andree  says  that  a 
balloon  such  as  he  wants can be made, 
and that Gabriel Yon, of Paris,  will  fur­
nish it for $10,000.  Gas  for the inflation 
of  the  balloon can be bought put  up  in 
cylinders under a pressure of  200  atmos­
pheres,  and can be used as wanted.  This 
seems one of the  most  hopeful  proposi­
tions for polar exploration  that  has  yet 
been made.

A novel method of rewarding  the  Jap­
anese troops for their services In the war 
against China has been resolved  upon by 
the  Japanese  Government. 
Instead  of 
being  presented  with  medals,  each 
soldier who has served in  the  campaign 
is to be given a watch, and the  Japanese 
war office has just entered into  contracts 
with  several  Swiss firms for a large sup­
ply  of  these  timepieces.  The presenta­
tion of the watches will be  made  by  the 
Mikado  when  he  reviews his victorious 
troops at the close of the war.

Be wise and buy the Signal Five.

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

Weigrht of the  Human Body.

A  physician  paints  out  that  several 
fallacies  are  common  in  regard  to  the 
weight  of  the  human  body.  The  man 
who congratulates himself on his gain of 
several  pounds  in  weight  over a given 
period may have no cause  for  rejoicing, 
for  he  may  be  under a delusion.  Very 
few persons, says this investigator,  have 
any correct idea of their own weight.  As 
a matter of fact,  the weight of the body is 
continuously changing,  owing to  innum­
erable influences.  On  a  warm day after 
breakfast  a  man  will  lose more than  a 
third of a pound  per  hour.  Seventy  per 
cent,  of the body consists of  water,  and 
its weight varies constantly.  The  infer­

ence to be drawn from the loss or gain  of 
a  pound  or  two  may  be  mistrusted. 
Fluctuations  of  a  few onnces are a sign 
that the body is in a healthy state.
Utility of a  Dead Language.

Customer—Fifty cents  for  filling  this 
prescription?  Why,  at  the  drug  store 
down the street they  charge  me  only  a 
quarter.
Druggist—That’s  all it’s worth at that 
store,  ma’am.  They  put  4  cents’  worth 
of  drugs  in  the  bottle  and  then  fill  it 
up  with water. 
I  put in the same drugs 
and  fill  tue  bottle  with  the  finest  aqua 
pura.  Thanks.  Anything  else?

The sheriff  advertises  those  who  will 

not advertise themselves.

Signal  Five

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MANUFACTURED  BY

ED.  W.  RL'HE,  47  Dearborn  S t.,  Chicago.

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

IT  IS------------Making a 
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D eaf and Dumb Men

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Every dealer should sell  them.
Extra Fine quality.
Lemon,  Vanilla,  Assorted  Flavors. 
Yearly sales increased by  their  use. 
Send trial order.

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on the market.

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Ask your Jobber to send you a sample with next 
order or apply to

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH,

(Wrapped)

Doz.  Gro.
1 oz.  9  90  10  20
2 oz.  1  20  12  60 
4 os.  2  00  22  80 
6 oz.  3  OO  33  OO
Seely’s  Vanilla
Doz.  Gro.
1 oz. $ 1  60  16  20
2 oz.  2  OO  21  60 
4 oz. 
It  75  40 80 
6 oz.  5  40  57  60
Plain  N. S.  w ith 
corkscrew at esma 
price if  preferred.
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T H E   M I C H I G A N   T R A H H S M  A  TST

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

ACIDUM.

Acetleum...................  
8@  10
Benzolcnm  German..  65®  75
Boraclc 
....................  
15
C&rbolicum .  .............  
¿1® 31
Cltricum.....................  41® 41
Hydrochlor...............   3®  5
..................  10® 12
Nltrocum 
Oxallcum....................   10® 12
Phosphorlum dll........ 
20
Salley Ileum.................   70® 75
Sulpnurlcum..............  1X@  5
Tannlcum..................1  40@1  60
Tartarleum...............   30®  33

AMMOKIA.

Aqua, 16  deg..............  4®  6
« 
20  deg..............  6®  8
fconas  ....................   12® 14
xorldum...................  13® 14

Ajnurrx.

Black..........................2 00®2 25
Brown.........................  80@1 00
Bed...............................  45® 50
Yellow.......................2 50©3 00

M C C il.

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

B ALB AHUM.

Copaiba.......................   45® 50
Peru............................  @2 50
Terabln. Canada  ....  45®  50
Tolutan........................  35® 50

OOBTBX.

Abies,  Canadian.................  18
Canslae  ...............................  12
Cinchona F lav a...........  ...  18
Euonymus  atropurp...........  30
Myrlca Cerlfera, po.............  20
Prunus Vlrglnl....................  12
Qulllala,  grd.......................   10
Sassafras  ............................  12
Glmus Po (Ground  15)........  15

BXT&ACTUM.

1  <• 
“ 
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Glycyrrhlsa  Glabra..  24®  26
po...........  33®  35
Haematox, 15 lb. box..  11®  12
14
is.....  13® 
Us....  14® 
15
54s....  16® 
17
m n c

Carbonate Preclp........  ®  16
Citrate and Qulnla—   @3 50
Citrate  Soluble...........  ®  80
Ferrooyanldum Sol —   ®  50
Solut  Chloride...........  @  15
Sulphate,  com’l ..............9®  2
pure.............  ®  *

•* 

n o s A .

Arnica.......................   12®  14
Anthemls...................  18®  25
Matricaria 
18©!5

....... 

r o iJ A .
............ 

 

Barosma 
Cassia  Acutlfol,  Tin-  __

14®  30
nlvelly..................     18®  25
Alx.  25® 30
_
and  K i....................   12®  20
8®  10

Salyla  officinalis,  M* 
UraUnd 
................... 

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Acacia, 1st picked—  

aUMHI.
©  60
  ©  40
ad 
“ 
“ 
 
«  8d 
....  ©  30
“ 
©  20
“ 
sifted sorts... 
"  p o ......  .....  60®  80
Aloe,  Barb, (po. 60)...  50®  60 
cape, (po.  20) ...  ®  12
Socotrl, (po.  60).  ©  50
Cateohu, Is, 04s, 14 Hi,
16)............................  ©  1
Ammoniac.................  66®  60
Assafoetlda, (po 50', 
50®  60
Bensomum.................  50®  55
Camphor»  .................  44®  50
Buphorblum  po  ........  35®  io
Galbanum...................  ®2 50
Gamboge, po..............  66®  80
Gualacum, (po  35) —   @  30
Kino,  (po  2 50).........   @2 50
Myrrh, (po. 46)...........  ©  40
Opll  (po  3 30®3 50)..2 35®2 40
Shellac  .....................   40®  60
bleached  ....  4G@  45
Ti.tgacanth................  50®  80

“ 
bxbba—In ounce packages.

Absinthium.........................  25
Bupatorlum.........................  20
Lobelia.................................  25
Majorum.............................   28
Mentha  Piperita.................  28
«  Y lr.........................  25
Bue.......................................  80
Tanaoetum, V......................  22
Thymus,  V..........................   26
Calcined, Pat..............  55®  60
Carbonate,  Pat...........  20®  22
Carbonate, K. A M— '  20®  25 
Carbonate, Jennings..  35®  36

MAOMBSIA.

OLBUM.

Absinthium............... 2 50®3 00
Amygdalae, Dole........  30®  50
Amydalae. Amarae___8 00®8 25
Anlsl........................... 1 90@2 00
Aurantl  Cortex...........1 80@2 00
Bergamll  ...................3  00®3 20
Cajlputi.................... 
60®  65
Caryophylll...............   75®  80
Cedar.........................  35®  65
Chenopodli...............   @1  60
Clnnamonll.................1  25® 1 40
Cltronella..................   ®  45
Conlum  Mac..............  86®  65
Copaiba......................  80®  90

Cubebae...........................l  25@l 35
Exechthltos..............  1  20@1  30
Erlgeron.................... 1  20® 1  30
Gaultherla................. 1  50® 1  60
Geranium,  ounce.  ...  @  75
Gosslpll, Sem. gal......  70®  75
Hedeoma  ...................1 25® 1  40
Jumper!.....................   50©2 00
Lavandaia.................  90®2 00
Llmonls...............   ... 1 40@l  60
Mentha Piper.............. 2 1P®3 00
Mentha Verld................. 1  80®2 00
Morrhuae, gal................. 1  70@1 75
Myrcla, ounce............   @ 50
Olive..........................  80@3 00
Plds Liquida, (gal..35)  10®  12
B ld n l....................... 
88®  96
Rosmarini..........  
1  00
Rosae, ounce............   6 50@8 50
Sucdnl.......................   40®  46
Sabina.......................  90®1  00
San tal  ....................... 2 50@7 00
Sassafras....................  50®  55
Slnapls, ess, ounce__  @  65
Tiglfi..........................  @1  00
Thyme.......................  40®  50
opt.................  ©1  60
Theobromas...............   15®  20

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POTASSIUM.
BICarb...  ................
Bichromate..............
Bromide....................
Carb..........................
Chlorate  (po.l7@19).
Cyanide....................
Iodide.......................
Potassa, Bitart, pure.
Potassa, Bitart, com..
Potass  Nltras, opt__
Potass Nltras............
Pressiate....................
Sulphate  po..............

.  15® 18
.  13® 14
40® 43
.  12® 15
.  16® 18
.  50® 55
.2 98@3 00
.  23® 25
@ 15
- 
8® 10
-  T@ 9
.  28® 30
.  15® 18

RADIX.

.  20® 25
Aconltum.................
.  22® 25
Althae.......................
.  12® 15
Anchusa...................
@ 25
Arum,  po..................
■  20® 40
Calamus....................
8® 10
Gentians  (po. 12)__
.  16® 18
Glychrrhlza, (pv. 15).
Hydrastis  Canaden,
@ 30
(po. 35)..................
.  15® 20
Hellebore,  Ala,  po...
.  15® 20
Inula, po..................
Ipecac, po..................1  30®i  40
Ins plox (po. 35®38)..  35®  40
Jalapa,  pr..................   40®  45
Maranta,  14*..............  @  35
Podophyllum, po........  15®  18
Rhel.............................   75@1 00
“  cut....................  @1 75
“  pv.......................  75@1  35
splgella......................  35®  38
Sanguinarla, (po  25)..  @ 20
Serpentarla...................  50® 55
Senega.........................  55® 60
Slmllax, Officinalis.  H  @ 40
M  @  25
Sdllae, (po. 85)............   10® 12
Symplocarpus,  Poeti
dus,  po....................  © 3 5
Valeriana, Eng. (po.30)  @  25
German...  15®  20
lnglber a ...................  
18® 20
Zingiber  ]................... 
18® 20

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Anlsum,  (po. 2 0 ).....  O  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
Cydonlum....................  7501 00
Cnenopodlum  ............   10® 12
Dipteri! Odorate...... 1  80®2 00
Foenlculum..................   © 15
Foenugreek,  po.........  
6®  8
L ini............................. sy,® 4
Lini, grd.  (bbl. 8)4).  3)4© 4
Lobelia.........................  85® 40
5 
Pharlarla Canarian.... 
4®
5 
Rapa..........................   4)40
8
Slnapls  Albu...............  7®
Nigra...........  11®  12

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BFIRITUS.
Frumenti, W..D.  Co. .2 00®2 50
D. F. R...... 2 00®2 25
1  25®1  50
 
Junlperls  Co. O. T....1  66®2 00
« 
1 75®3 50
Saacharum  N.  B........1  90®2 10
Spt.  Vini  Galli........... 1  75©6 50
Vhil Oporto.................... 1 25@2 00
Vini  Alba....................... 1  25®2 00

 

sroM&xs.

Florida  sheeps’  wool
carriage....................... 2 50®2 75
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 se.......................... 

2 00
1  10
85
65
75
1  40

STRUTS.

A ccada...............................  50
Zingiber  .............................   50
Ipecac..................................  60
Ferri Iod.............................   50
Aurantl Cortes....................  50
Rhel  Arom..........................   50
Slmllax  Officinalis..............  60
....  50
Senega................................   50
Sdllae..................................  50
“  Co.............................   50
Toiatan...............................  50
Prunus  flrg.........................  50

“ 

“ 

TIKCTUBBB.

“ 

“ 

*‘ 

“ 

“ 

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

Aconltum  Napellls R  . 
...  60
F...
...  50
Aloes.............................
...  60
and myrrh...........
...  60
Arnica..........................
. .  50
Asafcetlda.....................
...  0
Atrope Belladonna__  .
...  60
Benzoin.........................
...  60
“  Co....................
...  50
Sanguinarla..................
...  50
Barosma.......................
...  50
Cantharldes....   ...........
...  75
Capsicum.....................
. ..  50
Ca  demon......................
...  75
Co..................
...  75
Castor...........................
...1 00
Catechu.......................... ...  50
Cinchona...................  
 
50
Columba.............................  50
Conlum...............................  50
Cubeba................................  50
Digitalis.............................  50
Ergot...................................   50
Gentian...............................  50
“  Co............................  60
Gualca................................  50
“ 
Zingiber.............................   50
Hyoscyamus.......................  50
Iodine..................................  75
Ferri 
K ino...................................   50
Lobelia................................  50
Myrrh..................................  50
Nux  Vomica.......................  50
Opll.....................................  %
"  Camphorated...............   50
“  Deodor..........................2 00
Aurantl Cortex....................  50
Quassia...............................  50
Hhataiiy.............................   50
Rhel.....................................  50
Cassia  Acutlfol...................  50
Co..............  50
Serpentarla.........................  50
Stromonium........................   60
Tolutan...............................  60
Valerian.............................   50
Veratrum Veride.................  50

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

ammon.........  60

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UrsCKLLAKBOUS.

“ 

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©

* 
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2Bther, Spts  Nit, 3 F ..  35®  38 
“  4 F ..  38®  40
Alumen..................... 2)4© 3

* 
ground,  (po.

et Potass T. 

7).............................   3®  4
Annatto......................  56®  60
Antimoni, po..............  4®  5
55®  60
Antipyrin..................   @1  40
Antlrebrln..................  @  25
Argenti  Nltras, ounce  @  51
Arsenicum.................  5®  7
Balm Gilead  Bud__  38®  40
Bismuth  8.  N............ 1 20@l  SO
Calcium Chlor, Is, (Ha
12;  >4*1  14)..............  ©  11
Cantharldes  Russian,
po............................  @1  00
Capsid  Fructus, af...  @ 26
“ po....  ©  28
“ B po.  @ 20
Caryophyllus, (po.  15)  10®  12
Carmine, No. 40.........   @8 75
Cera Alba, 8. A F ......   50®  55
Cera Flava.................  40®  42
Coccus.......................  @  40
Cassia Fructus...........  Q  25
Centrarla....................  Q  10
Cetaeeum...................  ©  40
Chloroform................  60®  68
Squibb* ..  ®1  25
Chloral Hyd Crst........1  26®1  50
Chondrus...................  20®  25
Clnohonldlne, P.  A  W  15®  20 
German 8HO  12 
Corks,  list,  dls.  per
cent  ......................
Creasotum...............  
Creta, (bbl. 76).........  
“  prep.................
"  precip......... .
“  Rubra..............
Crocus......................
Cudbear...........
Cuprl Sulph...............   5
Dextrine....................  10®
Ether Sulph..............
Emery,  all  numbers.

po...................  ©  6
'  1.)  40.........   80®  35
Flake  White..............  12®  15
Galla..........................   @  23
Gambler..................... 7  ®  8
Gelatin,  Cooper.........   Q  60
French...........  30®  50
Glassware  flint, by box 60.
Less than box  50.
Glue,  Brown..............  9®
White................  18®
Glyoerlna...................  13®  20
Grana Paradisi
22 
55 
Humului....................  25®
Hydraag Chlor  Mite..  ©
75 
@  (5 
@  85 
@  96 
45®  55
Hydrargyrum............   @  60
Ichthyobolla, Am..  ..1  25@1 50
Indigo........................   75@1 00
Iodine,  Resnbl...........3 80®3 90
Iodoform....................  ®4 70
Lupulln......................  @2 25
Lycopodium..............  60®  65
M ads.........................  70®  75
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy-
drarg Iod.................  @  27
Liquor Potass Arslnltls  10®  12
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
Mannla,  8. F ..............  60®  68

“  C or 
Ox Rubrum
Ammonisti..
Cnguentum.

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

11 
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Morphia, S. P. A W.  1 95@2 20 
C.  Co....................  1  85@2  10
Moschus Canton........  @ 40
Myrlstlca, No  1 ........  66®  70
Nux Vomica, (po 20)..  @ 10
Os.  Sepia....................  15®  18
Pepsin Saac, H. A P. D.
Co............................  @2 00
Plcls Llq, N.»C., H gal
doz  .........................  ®2 00
Plds Llq., quarts......  @1  00
pints.........   ©  85
Pll Hydrarg, (po. 80)..  @ 50
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
AP. D.  Co., do*......   ©125
Pyrethrum,  pv...........  20®  30
Quasslae....................  8®  10
Qulnla, S. P. A W......34H@39H
8.  German__  27©  37
Rubla  Tinctorem......   12®  14
Saccharum Lactls pv. 
16®  18
Salacln...................... 2 30®2 50
Sanguis  Draconls......   40®  50
Sapo,  W......................  12®  14
,T  M.......................  10®  12
“  G.......................  ®  15

“ 

Seldlltz  Mixture........
© 20
Slnapls.......................
18
@
“   opt..................
30
®
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  De
Voe’s ....................... @ 35
Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes @ 35
8® 10
Soda Boras, Cpo. 9-10).
Soda  et Potass Tart... 24® 25
Soda Carb.................
1H® 2
Soda,  Bi-Carb............
3® 5
Soda, Ash.................. 3H@ 4
Soda, Sulphas............ @ 2
50® 55
Spts. Ether C o...........
“  Myrcla  Dom......
@2 00
“  Myrcla Imp........  ®2 50
••  VIni  Beet.  bbl.
....7 ........................2 54@2 64
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Strychnia Crystal......1 40@1 45
Sulphur, Subl............ 2>4@ 3
w   Roll............ 2  @ 2H
iuuarmuB............
Tamarinds................. 
8®  10
Terebenth Venice.. ...  28® SO
Theobromae......... . .  45  @ 48
Vanilla.................. ..9 00@16 00
Zlncl  Sulph........... ...  7® 8

OILS.

Whale, winter........ ..  70
Lard,  extra............ ..  60
Lard, No.  1............ ..  40
Linseed, pure raw  ...  59

Bbl.  Gal
70
65
45
82

 

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paiwts. 

Linseed,  boiled.........  62 
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
strained...............  
65 
SplrltsTurpentlne__  42 

65
70
47
bbl.  lb.
Rad  Venetian..............ix   2®3
Ochre, yellow  Mars__ lx   2®4
Ber........lx   2@3
“ 
Putty,  commercial__254  2H@3
“  strictly  pure......2H  2X®3
Vermilion Prime Amer­
ican ................. 
  13@15
Vermilion,  English__ 
68®72
13®16
Green,  Peninsular......  
Lead,  red....................  5X@6
“  w hite............... 5X®6
Whiting, white Span...  @70
Whiting,  Gilders’........  @90
White, Paris  American 
1 
Whiting,  Paris  Eng.
cliff.......................... 
1  40
Universal Prepared  ..1  C0@1  15
No.l Turp  Coach__ 1  10@1  20
Extra Turp................ 160@1  70
Coach  Body............... 2 75@3  00
No. 1 Turp Furn........1  00@1  10
Eutra Turk Damar__1  56@1  60
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 
70@75
Turp......................... 

VABNISHBB.

HAZELTINES PERKINS 

0° DRUG CO. «4

In  a d d i t i o n   to  a  full  s t o c k   of  R e g u l a r  
L i n e s ,  w e   h a v e ,   u n d e r   o u r   S p e c i a l  
T r a d e - m a r k s , t h e  f o l l o w i n g   S y r i n g e s  
w h i c h   w e   c a n  
r e c o m m e n d   to  o u r  
c u s t o m e r s   a s   b e in g   m a d e   u p   of  t h e  
v e r y   b e st  m a t e r i a l s  a n d  so ld   a t  l o w e r  
p ric e s.

B u l b   S y r i n g e s

No.  4, Valley  City  Syringe,  pasteboard  box,  2  II.  R.  Pipes. 
Max  Syringe,  pasteboard box,  3 H.  R.  Pipes.
Max Syringe,  wood box,  3  H.  R.  Pipes  in rack.
Crook’s Syringe, pasteboard  box, single bulb,  3  metal  Pipes. 
Henry Syringe,  pasteboard box,  3  metal  Pipes.
Valley City Syringe, wood box, 4  H.  R.  Pipes.

F o u n t a i n   S y r i n g e s

Grand River, pasteboard box, 3  II.  R.  Pipes.
Valley City, pasteboard box, 3  II.  R.  Pipes, with irrigator. 
Valley City, wood box,  4  II. R.  Pipes.

C o m b i n a t i o n   F o u n t a i n   S y r i n g e   a n d
H o t   W a t e r   B o ttle

Valley City, wood box,  ñ  H.  R. Pipes.
Grand River, pasteboard box,  3  H.  R.  Pipes.

HAZELTINE  5  PERKINS  DRUG  GO.,

MANUFACTURING CHEMISTS,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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

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 
It is impossible to give  quotations  suitable for all conditions of  purchase, and those 
going to press  and are an accurate  index of  the local  market. 
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.

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

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

BAKING  POWDER. 

Acme.
- 
“  ................ 

Queen Flake.

!4 ID.  sans. 3  do*.... 
45
A 'b. 
"
1  “  .................1 »
1lb.  • 
Sulk...................................   10
Arctic.
55
u  id  cans 8 doz  case.............  
ib “  4 doz  “ 
........... 1  10
L4 
1 
............2  00
ft “  2 doz  “ 
5  ft  “  1 doz 
“ 
.........   9 00
3  oz cans 6 doz  “ 
.........   2  70
6  oz  “  4 doz  “ 
............®  2?
9  oz  “  4doz 
.........   *  80
“ 
............4  00
1 
ft “   2 doz  “ 
5 
lb “  1 doz  “ 
...........   9 00
Red Star, V4 lb cans........... 
40
A ft  “ 
“ 
........... 
»6
.. 
l ft  “ 
...........   1  40
45 
Teller’s,  A lb. cans, do*. 
14»>.  “ 
“ 
®
“ 
-.150
lib .  ■ 
.. 
Our Leader, A -b cans......   45
ys lb  cans........ 
75
*» 
1 lb cans......... 1  50
“ 

BATH  BRICK.
2 dozen In case.

BEIJING. 

English  .............................   80
Bristol.................................. 
Í”
Domestic.............................   6,J
Gross
Arctic, 4 o*  ovals..............3 60
“ 
..............6  To
“  pints,  round...........9 00
«  No. 2, sifting box...  2 75 
«  No. 3, 
“   —  <00
“  No. 5, 
...8  00
“ 
i os ball  .................  4 5c
“ 
Mexican Liquid, 4 oz........3 60
“ 
8 oz...........6  80

8o* 

“ 

“ 
BROOMS.

40.2 H ail.......................... 1  00
.......................... 2 00
No. 1  “ 

Parlor Gem.........................» £
Common Whisk................. 
8.
.................  1 OC
Fancy 
Warehouse.........................2 85

* 

BRUSHES.

“ 
“ 

“ 
« 

Stove, No. 1.......................18J
10....................   1  N
15.....................1  7Í
Rloe Root Scrub, 2  row—   8£
Rice Root Scrub. 3 row....  1  2£
Palmetto, goose.................  1  50

CANDLES.

Hotel, 40 lb. boxes.............   10
Star,  40 
9
Paraffine  .......................... 10
W lcklng..............................24

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CAMMED  GOODS.

“ 

« 
Clam Chowder.
Cove Oysters.

Elsta.
Clams.
Little Neck,  1 lb................1  20
2 lb................1  90
Standard, 8 lb...................... 2 %
Standard,  1 lb....................   80
21b.....................145
Lobsters.
Star,  1  lb..........................2  45
“  2  lb.......................... 8  50
Picnic, lib ...........................2 00
21b...........................2 90
“ 
Mackerel.
Standard, 1 lb..................... 1  10
2  lb.................... 2 10
Mustard,  2 lb ......................2 25
Tomato sauce,  2 ib .............2 25
Soused, 2 lb......................... 2 25
Columbia River, fiat........... 1  80
tails...........1 es
Alaska, Red— ...................1 so
pink......................... 1 20
Kinney's,  flats.................... 1  95
Sardines.
American  A*.................  © 4
As..................  @ 6
Imported  Ms....................  @9
Ms....................  013
Mustard Ms......................  @7
Boneless......................

Salmon.
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

Brook 8, lb........

Trout.
Fruits.
Apples.
3 
lb. standard......
Fork State, gallons.... 
Hamburgh,  “ 
....

.2  50

90 
2 75

Pears.

Gages.

Apricots.
1  40 
Live oak.....................
1  40 
Santa Crus 
.............
1 50 
Lusk's........................
Overland............ .
1  10
Blackberries
85
F. A  W.......................
Cherries.
m  15
Red............................
Pitted Hamburgh
White........................  
i  w
1  15
Brie.......................... 
Damsons, Egg Plums and Green 
Erie  ..........................
1  00 
1 (6
California...................
Gooseberries.
1  25
Common....................
Peaches.
1  10 
Pie............................
1  50 
Maxwell....................
1  50
Shepard’s ...................
California.................... 180@1  75
Monitor 
...................
Oxford.......................
Domestic....................  
1  15
1  40
Riverside.................... 
Pineapples.
Common.....................1  00©1  30
Johnson’s  sliced........ 
2 50
grated........ 
2 75
Booth’s sliced............  ©2 5)
grated...........  ©2  75
Quinces.
Common.................... 
1  10
Raspberries.
95
Red  ............................ 
1  40
Black  Hamburg.........  
1  10
Erie,  black  ...............  
Strawberries.
1  25
Lawrence................... 
Hamburgh................. 
1  25
Erie............................  
85
Terrapin.......................  
80
Whortleberries.
Blueberries...............  
85
Corned  beef  ......................2  15
Roast beef  .........................2 25
Potted  ham, A lb.....................1 25
.  “  Mlb.................   70
tongue, A lb..................1 35
“  A lb ............  75
chicken, A lb ..........  95
Vegetables.

Meats.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

Beam.

“ 

" 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Peas.

Com.

Hamburgh  strlngless..........1  15
French style.......2 00
Limas..................1  25
Lima, green..............................1 15
soaked.....................   70
Lewis Boston Baked........... 1 25
Bay State  Baked......................1 25
World’s Fair  Baked........... 1  25
PicnlcBaked.......................   95
Hamburgh.......................  .1  15
Livingston  Eden.....................i 00
Purity..................................  90
Honey  Dew..............................1 25
Morning Glory
Soaked...............................  75
Hamburgh  marrofat...........1  30
early June  .  ...1  SO
Champion Bng..l  40
petit  pois........... 1  40
fancy  sifted....l  65
Soaked.................................  g5
Harris standard...................  75
VanCamp’s  marrofat..........1  10
early Jane.......1  SO
Archer’s  Early Blossom.... 1  25
French....................... 
  2 15
Mushrooms,
French......................  
19©2i
Pumpkin
Erie.................................. 
85
Squash.
Hubbard...................................1 15
Succotash.
Hamburg...................
Soaked __
Honey  Dew
Erie..........................
Tomatoes.
Hancock...................
Excelsior__ ............
Eclipse.................
Hamburg— .............
Gallon............................... ....3  00

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CHOCOLATE. 

Baker’s.

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

23
45

..

CHEESE.
Amboy.......................
Acme..........................
Lenawee....................
Riverside...................
Gold  Medal 
Skim..........................
Brick..........................
Edam.........................
Leiden.......................
Llmburger  ...............
Pineapple..................
Roquefort..—. ...........
Sap Sago....................
Schweltser, Imported.
domestic  ....

“ 

CREAM  TARTAR.

. . .   30
Strictly  pure........... 
Teller's Absolute..............  30
Grocers’............................ 15©25

CATSUP.

“ 

Blue Label Brand.
.. 

2 75
Half  pint, 25 bottles 
Pint 
...........4 50
Quart 1 doz bottles 
...........8 50
Half pint, per  doz..............1  35
Pint, 25 bottles....................4 50
Quart, per  d o z ...................3 75

Triumph Brand.

CLOTHES  PINS.

5 gross boxes................ 40©45

COCOA  SHELLS.

35 Ib  bags......................  ©3
Less quantity...............   @334
Pound  packages..........6A@7

COFFEE.
Green.
R1&

Santos.

Fair.....................................18
Good................................... 19
Prime................................. 2i
Golden................................21
Peaberry  ............................23
Fair.................................... 19
Good...................................20
Prime.................................22
Peaberry  ............................23
Mexican and Guatemala.
Fair.................................... 21
Good...................................22
Fancy................................. 24
Prime................................. 23
Milled................................24
Interior.............................. 25
Private Growth..................27
Mandehllng.......................28
Imitation........................... 25
Arabian..............................28

Maracaibo.

Mocha.

Java.

Roasted.

To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add Ac. per lb. for roast­
ing and 15 pier  cent,  for shrink­
age.
M cLaughlin’s  XXXX  .  £2 30
Bunola  ...... 
21  80
Lion, 60 or 100 lb.  case....  22 30 

Package.

 

 

Extract..

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

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tin 
CHICOBV.

Balk.
Red..

CLOTHES  LINES.

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

*•
«
«
Jute
“

...perdo*.  1  25
1  *C
1  61
1  75
1  91
85
1  or

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CONDENSED  M ILE. 

4 do*, in case.

c o r  PON  BOOKS.

“Tradesman.’ 
books, per hundred

“Superior.” 
i books, per nundred

..  5 no
.  2 50 
. .  3 00 
..  3 50 
..  4 00 
..  5 00 

..  6 00

Universal 

“
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“ 
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“ 
“ 

..10 
,80 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

I 1  books, per hundred  ..  (3 00 
8 50
.... 
• 2 
... 
*8 
4 00
*5 
5 00
... 
...  6 00 
*10 
*20 
7 00
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 (10  down. |
20 books........................ (  1  00
 
50 
100 
250 
500 
1000 
500, any one denom’n ......(3 00
.......5 00
1000,  “ 
“ 
“ 
2000,  “ 
....... 8 00
Steel  punch 
............   75
CRACKER8.

CREDIT  CHECK8.

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Batter.

Seymour XXX......................
Seymour XXX, cartoon......
Family  XXX.....................
Family XXX,  cartoon........
Salted XXX......... ...............
Salted XXX,  cartoon  ........
Kenosha.............................
Boston..................................
Batter  biscuit....................
Soda, XXX.........................  5A
Soda, City...........................   7A
Soda, Dnchess....................8A
Crystal Wafer...........  ........10 A
Long  Island Wafers  .........11
8. Oyster XXX...................  5 A
City Clyster. XXX..............  5A
Farina  Oyster....................6

Oyster.

Soda.

DRIED  FKCIT8. 

Domestic.

Apples.

9

6 A

Peaches.

Apricots.

Sundrled,.......................  
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes 
California In  bags..  ..  7A@8A 
Evaporated In boxes.  .. 
Blackberries.
In  boxes..................
Nectarines.
70 lb. bags.......................
25 lb. boxes.....................
Peeled, In  boxes...........
Cal. evap.  “ 
...........
“ 
In bags........
California In bags  __
California boxes............
Pitted Cherries.
Barrels..........................
ands
50 lb. boxes..................
...................
7 40 26 “ 
Prunelles.
6 25
5 75 80 ib.  boxes..................
4  50
Raspberries.
4 25 In  barrels.....................
3 35 50 lb. boxes....................
......................
Raisins.

9
14
9
8
61*
714

94
22
S2 4
22A

26 lb.  “ 

Pears.

“ 

“ 

Loose Muscatels in Boxes.
“ 
.............................  4
......................  5
“ 
Loose Mnscatels In Bags.
“ 

2  crown  ........................   3A
8 
4 
2  crown..................
.................
8 
Foreign.
Currants.

3A

Gall Borden Eagle__

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

Soudera*.

Regular
Grade
Lemon.

do*
2 O*  --- (  75
4 o*---- 1  50

Regular
Vanilla.

do*
2 OZ..... (1  20
4 OS..... 2 40
XX Grade 
Lemon.
2 oz........*1 50
4 oz.........3 00
XX Grade 
Vanilla.
2 oz........*1 75
4 oz.........3 50

“ 
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Jennings.
Lemon. Vanilla
2 os regular panel.  75 
1  20 
4 os 
...1  50
2  00 
...2 00
3 00 
6 o* 
No. 3 taper  .........1 35
2 00 
2 50
No. 4 taper...........1  50
N orthrop’*
Lemon.*; Vanil la.
1  10
oval taper  75 
1  75
“  1 20 
“ 
85 
.1 20
“ 
“ 1 '60 
2 25
GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.

2 oz 
3 oz 
2 oz regular-“ 
4 oz 

HERBS.

Choke Bore—Dupont’s

Eagle Duck—Dupont’s.

Kegs....................................3 25
Half  kegs  .......................... 1  90
Quarter  kegs.....................1  10
1 lb cans.............................   30
A lb  cans............................  18
Kegs....................................4 25
Half  kegs........................... 2 40
Quarter kegs......................1  35
I lb cans.............................   34
Kegs  ...................... !  ...... 11 00
Half  k eg s.........................5 75
Quarter kegs......................3 00
1  lb  cans............................  60
Sage....................................15
Hops................................... 15
Madras, 51b. boxes.........  
55
S. F., 2, 3 and 5 lb. boxes.. 
50
15  lb. palls.................  ©  37
“ 
17  “ 
..............   @  45
30  “  “ 
................  ©  70
LICORICE.
Pore.....................................   30
Calabria...............................   26
Sicily..................... 
12
Root —  ...............................   10
LYE.
Condensed, 2 do*.............. 1  20
4 do*  ..............2 25

INDIGO.

JELLY.

“ 
MINCE  MEAT.

 

Peel.

Citron, Leghorn, 251b. boxes  12 
Lemon 
8
10
Orange 

25  “ 
25  “ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
Raisins.
Ondura, 29 lb. boxes 
“ 
Sultana, 20 
Valencia. 30  “ 

© 5 
6A© 6
4A

Prunes.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

California,  100-120 ..............  3A
90x100 25 lb. bxs.  5 A
80x90 
70x80 
6A
60x70 

“ 
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Turkey........................
Silver ......................... 
ENVELOPES.
XX rag, white.

.6
.  7
10A

No. 1. 6A........................   SI  35
1 in
No. 2. 6A 
No. 1. 6............................ 
1  2b
No. 2, 6........ 
1  00

Manilla, white.

6A  ...................................  
.................................... 
Mill  No. 4......................... 
FARINACEOUS  GOODS.

Coin.

75
70
90

115 lb. kegB.

Farina.
Grits.

2A

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

Walsh DeRoo &  Co.’s ......  1  95
Barrels 
  2A
Grits..................................   3A
Dried............................  
5*

Lima  Beans.

55

Pearl Barley.

Maccaroni and Vermicelli.
Domestic, 12 lb. box__ 
2 00
Imported....................10 A@11
3 00
6 25
10 00
17 50

Empire....  .........................3
Chester...........  .................. 2A
Green,  bn........................  1  10
SpHt  per l b .................  
2A

Peas.

Rolled  Oats.

“ 

Schumacher, bbl...............  *4 65
A bbl............   2 50
Monarch,  bbl 
...............   4 00
Monarch, A  bbl..................2  13
Quaker,  cases...................  3 20
Oven Baked.........................3 25

Sago.

German.............................   3
East India..........................   3 A
Cracked.............................   3

Wheat.

FISH—Salt.

Bloaters.

Cod.

Tarmouth..........................   1  65
Georges cured.................  4
Georges genuine............ 6
Georges selected............   7
Boneless,  bricks............ 6J£
Boneless, strips................6M@9

Halibut.

“ 

Herring.
“ 
“ 

“  A  “  40  “ 
Mackerel.

11@12
Smoked.......................  
80
Holland, white hoops keg 
bbl  101 o
Norwegian  .....................   11 00
Round, A bbl 100 lbs.......   2 55
.......    1  30
Scaled...............................  13A
No. 1,  100 lbs...................... 11  fl
No. 1, 40 lbs.............................4 &
No. 1,  10 lbs............................  1 30
No. 2,100 lbs...........................lo no
No. 2, 40 lbs............................  4 30
No. 2,10 lbs............................  1 15
Family, 90 lbs....................
10  lbs .................

“ 

Sardines.
Trout.

RnBSlan, kegs...................  %
No. 1, A bbls., 1001 bs........... 4
No. 1 A bbl, 40  lbs..............2 05
No. 1, kits, io lbs.............. 
to
No  1,81b  kits.................  
52

Whltefish.

No. 1  family
A bbls, 100 lbs...........*8  <0 3 71
A  “  40  “  ...........   3 25  1 7
101b.  kits..............  ..  9.1  50
8 lb.  “ 
...................  80  43
MATCHES.

Mince meat, 3 doz. In case.  2 75 
Pie Prep. 3 doz.  In  case— 2  15 

MEASURES.
Tin, per dcien.

1  gallon  ..........................  *1  75
Half  gallon......................  1  40
Q uait............................... 
70
P int......................... 
45
Half  p in t...... ................. 
40
Wooden, for vinegar, per doz.
1 gallon............................  7 00
Half gallon......................  4  75
Q u art.......... ..................   3 75
Pint 

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

 

 

 

MOLASSES.
Blackstrap.
sugar house............... 
Cuba Baking.
Ordinary............... 
 
Porto Rltj.
Prime............................... 
Fancy  . 
-----.... 
Fair...... ........................... 
Good  ...............................  
Extra good........................ 
Choice 
........................... 
Fancy... 
........................ 
Half -barrels 3c.extra

N«w Orleans.

14
16
20
80
18
22
27
32
40

i

Peerless evaporated cream  5 75

cScbnit’s Cleaned.

Globe Match Co.’s Brands.

Columbia Parlor......... ....Î1  25
XXX Sulphur..............
..  1 OC
®4A Diamond  Match  Co.’s Brands.
-  4% No. 9  sulphur.............. ■  1  66
Anchor parlor.............
.  5A No. 2 home.................
......1  10
-  6£ Export parlor............
......4 0C

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

2 1

PICKLES.
Medium.

Small.

Barrels, 1,200 coant...  @4 00 
Half bbls, 600  count..  © ’ 50
Barrels, 2,400 count. 
5 75
Half bbls, 1,200 count 
3 40
PIPES.
Clay, Ho.  216....................... 1  70
“  T.D. full count...........  70
Cob, No. 8............................1  20

POTASH.

48 cans In case.

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

RICE.
Domestic.

Carolina head.....................   &*4
«  No. 1......................5
“  No. 2.....................4K
Broken...............................   3*4
Imported.
Japan, No. 1............ 
  &*4
“  No. 2......................... 5
......................................*
Patna..................................   4h

SPICES.

Whole Sifted.

Allspice...............................  j}>4
Cassia, China In mats........  9*4

“  Batavia in bund. ...15
“ 
Saigon in rolls........32
Cloves,  Amboyna...............22
Zanzibar.................11H
“ 
Mace  Batavia.....................70
Nutmegs, fancy..................35
“  No.  1....................... 80
“  No. 2....................... 55
Pepper, Singapore, black — 10 
“  white...  .20
shot......................... 16

“ 
Pure Ground in Bulk.
Allspice...............................
Cassia,  Batavia..................1»
u 
and  Saigon.25
“  Saigon.................... 35
Cloves,  Amboyna................22
“ 
Zanzibar................18
Ginger, African..................13
K  Cochin.................... »0
Jam aica................22
“ 
Mace  Batavia.....................65
Mustard, Bng. and Trieste..22
“  Trieste.....................25
Nutmegs, No. 2 ............. 75
Pepper, Singapore, black— 16
“  white.......24
“ 
“ 
Cayenne................20
Sage....................................20
“Absolute” In Packages.

» 

Ms  Hs
Allspice......................  84  155
Cinnamon............ 
  84  1  55
Cloves.........................  84  155
Ginger,  Jam aica......  84  1 55
“  African...........  84  1  55
Mustard.....................   84  1  55
Pepper.......................  84  155
Sage................... .  ....  84
Granulated,  bbls................   1J4
751b  cases........  154
.......................
Lump, bbls 
1451b kegs............    1M
SEEDS.

SAL  SODA.

Anise.........................  @43
Canary, Smyrna.........  
4
Caraway...... ............. 
•
Cardamon, Malabar... 
80
Hemp,  Russian.........  
4
Mixed  Bird................ 
4tf
Mustard,  white.........
Poppy .........................
Rape .......................... 
Cuttle  bone...............  
STARCH. 

4*
30

“ 

“ 

 

k in g s f o k d ’b c o r n.

“ 

Common Corn
“ 
Common Gloss.
;; 

20 1-lb packages.................... ¡j*4
6M
401.1b 
 
k in g s f o r d ’s s il v e r  o l o ss.
40 1-lb.  packages 
................654
6-lb. boxes..........................‘M
20-lb  boxes..........................   6
40-lb 
........ ................5X
Mb packages.......................   554
8-lb 
....................... bm
40 and 50 lb. boxes..............  354
Barrels................................   3*4
Scotch, In  bladders.............37
Maccaboy. in jars................35
French Rappee, in Jars...... 43
Boxes................................... 5H
Kegs, Bngllsh.......................*54

SNUFF.

SODA,

SALT.

Diamond Crystal.

 

 

“ 

Butter, 56 lb bags............  

Cases, 243  lb. boxes........8 1  60
Barrels, 320  lbs...............   2J50
“ 
115 2*4 lb bags  ...  4 00
“ 
lb  “  __   3 75
GO 5 
“ 
3010  lb  “ 
....  3 50
65
“  20141b bags.................  3 50
“  280 lb  bbls...........   2 50
2 25
“  224 lb 
 
Worcester.
1152*4-lbsacks.............. 
-84 (0
 
3 75
60 5-lb 
“ 
3010-lb  “ 
3  50
 
22  14 lb.  “ 
....................  3 30
3201b. bbl...............................  2 50
81b sacks......................32*4
linen acks...............   60
Common Grades.

100 3-lb. sacks......................... 12 10
60 5-lb.  “ 
28 10-lb. sacks.......................   1 75
56 lb. dairy In drill  bags... 
30
281b.  “ 
“  -• 
16
56 lb. dairy In linen sacke..  75
75 
56 ib. dairy in linen  sacks 
56 1l.  sacks....................... 
22
Saginaw.......................... 
90
Manistee 
.......................  
90

Ashton.
Higgins.
Soiar Rock.
Common Fine.

Warsaw.

1  90

“ 

 

 

SALERATUS.

Packed 60 lbs. In box.

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

SEELY’S  EXTRACTS. 

810 20 gro
12 60  “
14 40  “

16 20 gro
21 60  “
25 50  “

Lemon.
1 oz. F. M.  8 90 doz. 
2  “  N. S.  1 20  “ 
2 i“  F.M.  1 40  “ 
Vanilla.
1 oz. F. M.  1  50 doz. 
2  “  N. S.  2 00  “ 
2  “  F. M.  2 50  “ 
Lemon.
Vanilla.
SOAP.
Laundry.

Rococo—Second  Grade. 

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

G. R. Soap Works Brands. 

“ 
“ 
“ 
Best German Family.

Concordia, 100 % lb. bars. ..3 50
5 box  lots..........3 35
10 box lots..........3 30
20 box lots.......3  20
601-lb. bars..........................2 25
5 box  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  54-lb.........3 65
Concord...............................3 45
Ivory, 10  oz.........................6 75
6  oz........................... 4 00
Lenox...............................  3 65
Mottled German.................3  15
Town Talk.......................... 3 25

Proctor & Gamble.

“ 

Dlngman Brands.

“ 

“ 

Single box...........................3  95
5 box lots, delivered......... 3  85
10 box lots, delivered........3  75
Jas. S. Kirk & Co.’s Brands. 
American  Family, wrp d ..83 33 
plain...  8 27
N.  K.  Falrbank & Co.’s Brands.
Santa Claus.......................  3 99
Brjwn, 60 bars.....................2 10
80  bars  ...................3  10

“ 
Lautz Bros. A.Co.’s Brands.

Acme...................................3 65
Cotton Oil.............................6 00
Marseilles.............................4 00
Master 
4 00
Thompson & ChuteCo.’s Brands

.......  

 

Mono?.......................................3 30
Savon Improved....................  2 50
Sunflower.....................  
2 80
Golden...................................   3 25
Economical  .......................  2 25

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

“ 

 

SUGAR.

Below  are  given  New  York 
prices on sugars, to  which  the 
wholesale  dealer  adds  the  lo­
cal freight  from  New  York  to 
your  shipping  point,  giving 
you  credit  on  the  invoice  for 
the  amount  of  freight  buyer 
pays from the market  in which 
he  purchases  to  his  shipping 
point,including 20  pounds  for 
the weight of the barrel.
Domino...................................84 81
Cut  Loaf................................  4 81
Cubes................................ 4 44
Powdered..........................4 44
XXXX  Powdered..................   4 69
Granulated 
....................  4 06
Fine Granulated....................  4 06
Extra Fine Granulated...  4  18
Mould  A.................................. 4 44
Diamond Confec. A..........4 06
Coufec. Standard  A------- 4 00
No.  1...............................   3 87
No.  2........  ......................  3 87
No.  3................................   3 87
No.  4................................   3 87
No.  5................................ 3 81
No.  6.................................3 75
No.  7................................   3 69
No.  8.................................3 62
No.  9.......................   ...... 3 56
No.  10.................................  3 50
No.  11.................................3 44
No.  12...............................  3 37
No.  13.................................3 25
No.  14.............................  
3  18

SYRUPS.

Corn.

Barrels............................... 20
Half bbls............................ 22

Pure Cane.

Fair.....................................  15
Good...................................   20
Choice..................................  25

TABLE  SAUCES.
“ 

Lea & Perrin’s, large.........  4 75
small........   2 75
Halford, large.................. 3 75
small.................. 2 25
Salad Dressing, larg e......4 55
•’ 
small......... 2 65

“ 
•• 

BASKET  FIRED.

j a p a n —Regular.

TEAS.
@17
F air..........................
@20
Good.........................
Choice....................... 24 @26
Choicest.................... .32 @34
D ust......................... .10 @12
SUN CURED.
@17
F air..........................
@20
Good........................
Choice....................... 24 @26
Choicest.................... .32 @34
Dust.......................... .10 @12
F air.......................... .18 @20
@25
Choice.......................
@35
Choicest....................
Extra choice, wire leaf @40
GUNPOWDER.
Common to  fail........ .25 @35
Extra fine to finest.  . .50 @65
Choicest fancy......... .75 @85
@26
Common to  fair....... .23 @30
Common to  fair........ .23 @26
Superior to fine......... .30 @35
rOUNG  HTSON.
Common to fair........ .18
Superior to  fine........ .30 @40
ENGLISH  BREAKFAST.
F air........................... 18  @22
Choice.................. «•  24  @28
Best...........................40  @50

IMPERIAL.

OOLONG.

TOBACCOS.

F lu e Cut.

 

P. Lorillard & Co.’s Brands.
Sweet Russet............... 30  @32
Tiger  ...............  
30
D. Scotten & Co’s Brands.
Hiawatha..................
Cuba.  .......................  
32
Rocket........................  ,  30
Spaulding & Merrick's  Brands.
Sterling — ...............  
30
Private Brands.
Bazoo.........................  @30
Can Can.....................   „
Nellie  Bly................... 24  @25
Uncle Ben.  ................24  @25
McGlnty....................  
27
25
*4 bbls.........  
Columbia...................... 
Columbia,  drums  ........ 
Bang  Up  --................... 
Bang up,  drums 
........ 
P lu g .

“ 

 

24
2d
‘fl*
la

39

Scotten’s Brands.

Sorg’s Brands.
Spearhead.................
Joker  ......................
Nobby Twist...............
Kvlo.................
H iaw atha........
Valley City  —  
i Brands.
Finzer’s
Old  Honesty..............
Jolly Tar....................  ,
Climax (8 oz., 41c) —
Green Turtle..............
Three  Black Crows...
38
Something Good—
Out of  Sight..............
Wilson.«* McCaulay’s Brands.
Gold  Rope...................... 
Happy Thought.........  
37
Messmate.......................  
No Tax............................ 
Let  Go............................ 

j. G. Butler’s.Brands. 

Lorlllard’s Brands. 

Smoking.

Gatlin's  Brands.

Scotten’s Brands.

Kiln  dried....................... 17@18
Golden  Shower..................19
Huntress  ........................
Meerschaum  ...................2S>@30
American Eagle Co.’s Brands.
Myrtle Navy....................... 40
Stork  ...............................  30
German...............................15
F rog....................................32
Java, *68 foil.......................32
Banner Tobacco Co.'s Brands.
Banner.................................¿6
Banner Cavendish..............36
Gold Cut 
...........................30
Warpath..............................14
Honey Dew......................... 26
Gold  Block......................... 30
F. F. Adams Tobacco Co.’s 
Brands.
Peerless................ 
26
Old  Tom..............................18
Standard............................. 22
Globe Tobacco Co.’s Brands.
Handmade...........................40
Rob  Roy..............................26
Uncle  Sam.....................28@32
Red Clover...........................32
Tom and Jerry.....................25
Traveler  Cavendish........... 38
Buck Horn.......................... 30
Plow  Boy......................30@32
Corn  Cake  ......................... 16
40 gr.............................   @8
50 gr............................  @9

Leidersdorf’s Brands.

Spaulding & Merrick.

VINEGAR.

 

81 for barrel.

43
32
31
27

WET  MUSTARD.
Bulk, per g a l..................  
30
Beer mug, 2 doz In case...  1  75 
WOODEN WARE.
Tubs, No. 1.......................... 5 75
“  No. 2........................   4 75
“  No. 3...........................4 00
1 25
Palls, No. 1, two-hoop.. 
“  No. 1,  three-hoop__  1  35
Bowls, 11 Inch....................
13  “  ....................  
“ 
90
15  “  .....................1  25
“ 
“ 
17  “ 
.....................  1  80

4 70
4 10

13 50

CROCKERY  AND  GLAnSWARE

LAMP BURNERS.

‘ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
‘ 

“ 
“ 

LAMP CHIMNEYS.— 6 dOZ. in bOX.

First quality.
“ 
“ 
XXX Flint.
“ 
“ 

No. 0 Sun.......................................................   40
No. 1  “ 
.................................................  43
No. 2  “  ..............................................  
...  65
Tabular................................... 
50
 
Security.  No. 1..............................................  60
Security,  No. 2..............................................  80
Nutmeg...........................................................  60
Arctic...........  ................................... 
 
I S
Per box.
No. 0 Sun.......................................................1 75
No. 1  “  ......................................................  1  88
No. 2  “  ........................................................ 2 70
No. 0 Sun. crimp tor, wrapped and labeled.. .2  10 
No. 1  “ 
...2 25
No. 2  “ 
.  .3 25
No. 0 Sun, crimp  top, wrapped and labeled.  2 60 
’• 
No. 1 
...2 80
No. 2  “ 
...3 80
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and  labeled..................  3 70
“ 
No. 2  “ 
.................  4  70
No. 2 Hinge,  “ 
..................   4  88
Fire Proof—Plain Top.
No. 1, Sun,  plain  bulb..............................  
No. 2,  “ 
................................... 4  40
“ 
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb,  per doz......................  1  25
No. 2  “ 
.....................   1  50
No. 1 crimp, per doz......................................  1  35
No. 3 
....................................  1  60
“ 
Rochester.
No. 1, lime (65c doz)............................................3 50
No. 2, lime (70c doz)............................................4 00
No. 2, flint (80c doz)...........................  
No.2, lime (70c doz)............................. 
No.  2 flint (80c doz)........................................... 4 40

Pearl top.
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
La Bastle.

Electric.

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

 

 

3 40

 

 

 

 

Doz.
Junior, Rochester.............................. 
50
N ut meg......  
15
Illuminator Bases................................................ 1 00
Barrel lots, 5 doz  ...........................................   90
7 In. Porcelain Shades.......................................... 1 00
Case lots, 12 doz.............................................  90
Box
4 20
4  80

Mammoth Chimneys for Store Lamps.

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

5 25
5 10
5 85
6 00

Miscellaneous.

“ 
“ 
“ 

Pump Cans.

LANTERN  GLOBES.
“ 
“ 

Doz
1  gal  tin cans with spout............................ 
1 60
1  gal  galv iron, with spout................................2 00
2 gal  galv iron with spout  ...........................3 25
3 gal  galv iron with spout..........  ..............   4 50
5 gal  McNutt, with spout.................................  6 60
5 gal  Eureka, with spout.................................  6 50
5 gal  Eureka with faucet.................................   7 00
5 gal  galv iron  A  & W 
.........................  «50
5 gal  Tilting Cans,  Monarch.......................10 00
5 gal  galv Iron Nacefas.... 
.................  9 5 j
3  gal  Home Rule...............................................10 50
5 gal  Home Rule..........................................  i2 00
3 gal  Goodenough.............................................12 00
5 gal  Goodenough  ..........................  
..................................   10 50
5 gal  Pirate  King 
No. 0,  Tubular,  cases 1 doz. each..................  45
No. 0, 
46
No. 0, 
40
No. 0, 
bull’s eye, cases 1 doz each. 1  25
LAMP WICKS.
No. 0,  per  gross.............................. .........
“ 
No. 1, 
..........................................
“ 
No  2, 
.........................................
“ 
No. 3, 
.........................................
Mammoth, per doz...................................
JELLY  TUMBLERS—Tin Top.
*4 Pints,  6 doz  in box, per box (box U0)..
doz (bbl 35) ..
24  “ 
*4 
6  “  “  box, “  box (box 00)..
*4 
*4 
la  “ 
doz  (bbl 35)..
STONEWARE—AKRON.
Butter Crocks,  1 to 6 gal..................
“ 
*4 gal. per doz..................
Jugs, *4 gal., peruoz..............................
“  1 to 4 gal., per gal..........................
Milk Pans, *  ga«., per d o z .................
“ 
.....................
8
Butter Crocks, 1  and 2 g a l.....................
8
Milk Pans, *4 gal. per  doz.......................

1  “ 
STONEWARE— BLACK GLAZED.

“  bbl, • 
“  bbl, “ 

1  65 
.  21 1  80 
23

“  2 “ 
bbls 5 “ 

3e65

“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

 
 

 
 

06
60
70
07
60
72
6*465
73

• • 1

OIL CARS.

OILS.
BARRELS.

The Standard Oil Co  quotes as follows:

........... 

FROM TANK WAGON.

9*4
@  «*4@36
@21
12
10

.................  
Eocene........ 
XXX W. W.  Mich.  Headlight................
Naptha.................................................
Stove Gasoline......................................
Cylinder............... 
.......................
Engine...  .............................................13
Black,zero  test.....................................
Black,  15 cold test................................
Eocene.................... 
8
.................... 
XXX W. W. Mich. Headlight...............  
5*4
Scofield, Shurmer  & Teagle quote  as  follows:
Palaclne........................................
Daisy White..................................
Red Cross, W W  Headlight..........
Naptha...........................................
Stove Gasoline.............................
FROM TANK WAGON,
Palaclne...........................   ......
Red Cross W W H eadlight.........

7
84
8
6

BARRELS.

PURS.

YEAST.
Magic..................................1  00
......... ................ 1  00
Warner’s 
Yeast Foam  .......................1  00
Diamond...... 
.........   75
90
. .  ■• 
. . . .  
R o v a l 
HIDES  PELTS  and  FURS 
Perkins  A  Hess  pay  as  fol­
lows:
40 @ 1 25
Mink.................
75
30 »
Coon  ...............
60 @ 1 15
Skunk...............
15 @ 18
Rat Spring........
08 @ 11
Rat,  winter......
03 @ C8
Rat, fall............
Red  Fox__  ... 1 10 @ 1 60
40 @ 6)
Gray Fox.,.......
Cross Fox......... 3 oo 0 5 00
50 @ 1 00
Badger......... ....
ro @ 75
Cat, wild...........
25
10 0
Cat,  house.......
Fisher.............. 5 00 @ 6 00
Lynx................. 1 00 @ 2 50
Martin, drrk__ 2 00 @ 3 00
Martin, pale, yel 1 00 @ 1 50
Otter................. 5 00 @ 8 Oj
Wolf.................. 1 00 © 2 00
Beaver.............. 3 00 @ 7 00
Bear............— 15 00 ®-io 00
10 @ 25
Opossum...........
25
10 0
Deer Skin, dry..
05 © 12*4
Deer Skin, green
Green....................  ■ ■  3  @4
Part Cured...............   @5
Full  “ 
Dry..............................  5 @7
Kips, green  ...............  4  @5
*•  cured.................   5 @6*4
Calfskins,  green......  6*4®  8
cured........ 8  @ 9*4
Deacon skins............. lo  @25

.................  5*40  6*4

HIDES.

" 

No. 2 hides *4 off.
PELTS.

 

MISCELLANEOUS.

Shearlings...................  5 @  20
Lambs 
......................25  @  75
WOOL.
Washed.. 
................ 12 @15
Unwashed  .. 
8  @12
Tallow.......................   3 @4*4
Grease  butter  ...........  1  @2
Switches...............   - 
l*i@ 2
Ginseng 
......2 0002 25
GRAINS and FKED8TUFF8
No. 1 White (58 lb. test) 
53 
No. 2 Red  (60 lb. test) 
53
FLOUR  IN  SACKS.
♦Patents............................  3 25
Second Patent.................  2 75
Straight............................  2 55
Clear...............  ..............   2 35
♦Graham..................... . 
2 50
Buckwheat......................  4 30
Rye...................................   3 25
♦Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.Flour In bbls., 25c per bbl. ad­
ditional.
Bolted...............................  2 30
Granulated...............  
2 E5
St. C«r  Feed,  screened... 820 00 
St. Car Feed, unscreened.  19 50 
No.  1 Corn and  Oats 
...  19 00
No. 2 Special.................  18  50
Unbolted Corn Meal........  18 50
Winter Wheat  Bran  ......  16 uo
Winter Wheat Middlihgs.  17  00
Screenings  ......................  14 00
Car  lots.............................   48
Less than  car  lots..........  51
Car  lo ts ............ ................ 34*4
Less than car lo ts ............37
No. 1 Timothy, car lots 
No. 1 

HAY
ton lots 

FEED  AND  MILL8TUFF8

.  1«)  00 
11  00

MEAL.

CORN.

OATS.

“ 

F18H  AND  OYSTERS 
FRESH  FISH.
WhlteflBh 
.................  @8
Trout 
.......................  @8
Black Bass........ 
15
Halibut,.....................   @12*4
Ciscoes or Herring —   @6
Bluefish......................  @12*4
Fresh lobster, per lb .. 
20
Cod........................... . 
10
Haddock.......................   @ 
No. 1 Pickerel............... 
© 
Pike............................  @8
Smoked White...........  @9
13
Red  Snappers............  
Columbia  River  Sal­
12*4
mon ......................... 
Mackerel......................  18@25
1  50
Scallops...................... 
Shrimps 
..................  
1  *5
Clams.....................   • 
1  2J
SHELL  GOODS
Oysters, per  ioo........1  25@1  50
Clam*. 

75@1 00

OYSTERS— IN CANS.

25
20
18
15

OYSTERS— IN  BULK.

F. J. Dettenthaler’s Brands. 
33
28
*3

Fairnaveu  Counts —  
F. J. D.  Selects.........  
Selects............................ 
F. J. D., Standards.... 
Anchors..........................  
Standards.......................  
Favorite.........................  
Standards, per gal.............1  00
Anchor Standards per gal 1  10
Counts, per gal.................. 2 20
Selects  “ 
’•  ....................  1 4G
Extra Selects, per gal........  1  75
New York  Counts................. 35
Extra  Selects...............  
..30
«Selects  .................................. 25
IX L Standards.......................2«)
Standards...................... 
  18
Mediums................................. 2U
Standards, per  gal....................1 00
IXL Standards,  per gal.......1  10
Extra  Sele  ts, per gal  .......1  90
elects, per gal.........................1 85

Oscar AUyn’s Brands.

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

CURRENT  COMMENT.

It has been remarked that, considering 
the  great  output  of  watches  in  the 
United  States,  to  say  nothing  of  the 
large number  imported,  it  might  seem 
that by this time about everybody  in  the 
country  ought  to  be  supplied  with  a 
watch.  A wholesale dealer accounts for 
the continued  absorption  of watches  by 
pointing to the continued growth  of  the 
population,  and to the fact  that  a larger 
proportion of  the  population  than  ever 
before  now  carry  watches.  A  good 
watch can now be bought at a  low price, 
and almost  everybody  nowadays,  wher­
ever he lives  and  whatever  his  calling, 
carries a watch.  One of the  first  things 
an  immigrant  does  after  he  begins  to 
earn  money  is  to  buy  a  watch.  He 
wants  to  be  on  time  when  the  voting 
commences.

*  *  *

People  who  saw  Chicago  during  the 
World’s Fair saw a great  many things on 
wheels.  Watering carts  on wheels were 
sprinkling dust  into  mud.  Hufiin  men, 
and candy men,  and soft  drink men,  and 
restaurants  giving  late  meals  on 
the 
streets at  night were all  on wheels  and 
ready for business.  Now Chicago boasts 
a  laundry  on  wheels.  A  large  furni­
ture van containing a  stove,  a  washing 
machine  and  a  water  tank  goes  to  a 
house,  collects  articles,  washes  and 
rough dries them,  and then  moves  on  to 
the  next  place  on  the  route. 
It  is  a 
family affair;  the husband acts  as  driver 
while the wife does the  rest.  This  may 
do well  until the anarchists,  who are op­
posed to clean shirts, jump  on the wash­
ing and do it up.

*  

*  

*

The business of the railroads  is  being 
watched just now much closer than usual, 
because it  is  generally  recognized  that 
the condition  of  business with  them  is 
not only an  indication  of  the  condition 
generally,  but also shows  whether or not 
they will  soon again  be large  buyers  of 
supplies and rolling stock. 
It  is,  there­
fore,  gratifying'to  know  that  most  rail­
roads are doing a better business now than 
for some time past,  and that there is a de­
cided tendency shown by the roads to in­
crease their orders for supplies.  Several 
large  orders  have  been  given  for  cars 
recently,  and  there  is  every  indication 
that railroad business and  railroad  buy­
ing have passed their lowest ebb, and will 
now grow steadily better.

*  

*  

*

In a recent address, Rev.  Dr.  Bradley, 
of this city,  paid a  tribute  to  the  mod­
ern  business  man  substantially  as  fol 
lows:  During the feudal  ages  and until 
comparatively  modern 
times  tne  pro- j 
fession of arms absorbed  the  genius and 
intellect  of 
the  world.  The  great 
men  were the  military  leaders.  Subse­
quent to this period,  in the  development 
of modern civil liberty and  popular gov­
ernment, the world’s intelligence was  in 
statesmanship.  A  few  of 
the  great 
statesmen,  like Gladstone and Bismarck, 
are still living.  To-day it would be con­
sidered absurd for a man of  brains  to go 
into the army,  and men  of  great  genius 
cannot be found in modern politics.  The 
great leaders are in  the  business world. 
They are the organizers and managers of 
the  great  industries  and  corporations 
which are doing such service  in  advanc­
ing  modern  civilization  and  improving 
the conditions of social life—the Depews, 
Rockefellers and Carnegies.

*  *  *

The  basis  on  which  the  electrical

workers’ strike was  settled  through  the 
efforts of the  board  of “arbitration,”  or, 
more properly,  the board of conciliation, 
was the granting of the eight hour day at 
the date first proposed by the contractors. 
Thus the  result  of  the  original  strike, 
though aided by a large  number of sym­
pathetic  ones,  was  absolute 
failure. 
The strike leaders claim a victory in that 
the unions were recognized in  the settle­
ment.  This  recognition  was  the  same 
that was accorded them before  the  trou­
ble, nothing more.

*   #  

*

The  experiment  of  employing 

the 
needy  who  are  willing  to  work  in  the 
cultivation  of  the  vacant  land  around 
Detroit last year was  so  successful  that 
the New York  Charities  Conference will 
try the plan in that city.
*  *  *

A movement is on  foot  to  essablisb  a 
factory  in  Amesbury,  Mass.,  for  the 
manufacture  of  the  cheaper  grades  of 
carriages.  The event  is worthy  of  note 
in that it will be the first in  the  East  to 
use the methods  and  system  that  have 
made  the Western  factories  so  success­
ful.

*  *  *

New  York,  Philadelphia,  Buffalo and 
other 
cities  have  been  extensively 
swindled by the sale  of  “Persian  rugs” 
which took  prizes  at  the World’s  Fair. 
It is said that  such  sales  in  New  York 
have amounted to over $100,000.

*  

*  

*

“I am frequently struck with the  way 
the  words  ‘woman’  and 
‘lady’  have 
changed  places,”  said  a  gentlewoman, 
recently.  “It  is  difficult to imagine cir­
cumstances  in  which  I  would describe 
myself  other  than  as a woman,  but  my 
cook came home after an adventure  in  a 
railway  accident the other day,  and said: 
‘I  was  the  only  lady  in  the  car.’ ” 
“Woman” is the last  thing  God  created 
and remains to-day the best thing  in  the 
world. 
If  one  who  works  for  wages 
wants to be called “lady,”  which  means 
nothing,  instead  of  “ woman,”  which 
means  half  of  creation,  let the worker 
have her way, and when word  comes  by 
way of the kitchen that the  “ wash lady” 
wishes to see the “ woman of the house,” 
let the woman see her and smile sweetly. 

*  *  *

It  must  be  that  things  are decidedly 
lively in the interior of this round earth. 
Volcanoes  which  for  years  have  been 
supposed  to  be  extinct  have  recently 
been in a state  of  eruption,  earthquake 
shocks  have  been  experienced  where 
none were ever felt before,  and immense 
tidal waves have swept the  ocean,  doing 
great damage to  shipping. 
It  might  be 
just as well for the  scientists  who  have 
been  studying  Mars  and  other  distant 
planets  to  turn 
their  attention  to  our 
own  little  globe  and  find  out  what all 
this  trouble  means.  The  people  who 
own  the  earth  should  get  onto  this. 
Somebody who has the inside is  organiz­
ing  strikes.

*  *  *

The continental nations  of  Europe are 
decidedly  getting  “badly  left”  in  con­
nection  with  the  changes  of  meridian, 
hour and  calendar.  Thus,  a  few  years 
ago,  when  Italy,  Spain,  Austria  and 
other  southeastern  countries  of  Europe 
adopted the mean time  and  meridian  of 
Greenwich  as  their  standard  hour,  it 
meant  a  loss  clean  and  clear  of  from 
four to twelve hours to each of the coun­
tries in  question.  And  now  that  Nich­
olas  II  is  about  to  introduce  the  Gre-

You  Can  Hold  Up

washing  as  a  good  example  for  others  if  you  use

OAK-LEAF  SOAP.

It does the work  easily, does it better, and does it quicker. 
It’s  all 
soap—no acids, no starch, no marble dust, nothing  to injure—every­
thing to help.  Washes equally  well in hard or soft water.  Ask  the 
grocer for it. 
W h o le s a le   A g e n ts , G ra n d   R a p id s.

O LN EY   A  JU D S O N   G R O C E R   C O .,

THE  TRADESMAN 

Has  a  FIELD  of  its  own.

THUS  1 Y

Advertisers get  RESULTS.

B icycles !

In Strictly  HIGH  GRADE  Wheels we  have  the 

Famous Monarch

Line at $85  and  $ 100.  And  the

Outings

At $85.  Our SPECIAL

“ Planet Jr.”

Wheel  at  S73  beats  them  all—at  that  price. 
Then we have the

Featherstones

At from $40 to $65.  Call and see  us.  Special 
attention given to mail orders.

ADAMS  &  HART

12  West  Bridge St.

GRAND  RAPIDS.

Of  well-known  reputation. 
You,  as  a  dealer,  cannot  af­
ford  to  assist  the  manufac­
turer  to  experiment.

Tlie offer of a large  discount 
means a corresponding  reduc­
tion  in  the  quality.

We handle only  wheels that 
the  quality  has  been  proven 
by  long  and  continued  use.

Agents  wanted  in  unoccu­

pied  territory  for  the

R AM BLER
FALCON

RICHMOND

and

FEATH ER STO N E

W heelsM ill

99-101  O ttaw a  Street, 

Grand  Rapids.

NEARLY  100  DEALERS.

In  the  State  of  Michigan  alone  are 
handling our wheels.  These dealers 
have  signed  contracts since January 
1st,  1895.  We  have  renewed  oon- 
tracts with all our ’94 customers.

All  our  Agents  can  testify  to  the 

Merits  of  our New 

Clippers

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23

gorian  system  into the  Russian Empire, 
his subjects will  have,  in  that  case,  an 
infinitely greater grievance than  those of 
King Humbert and  of  Emperor  Francis 
Joseph;  for, instead of  merely  losing  a 
few hours,  they will  be  docked  no  less 
than thirteen  days—that  being  the  ex­
tent to which Russia is  behind  the  time 
of  western  civilization. 
If  Russia  at­
tempts to  make  up  the  time  lost,  she 
may get off the  track.  There  is  danger
in going too fast.

*  *  #

The Napoleonic revival  influences  the 
most  trivial  fashions,  even  those  for 
china  and table linen,  and the violet,  al­
ways  in  fashion, 
is  given  additional 
vogue  by  the  fact  that  it  was the Em­
peror’s favorite flower.  For this  reason 
it  is  seen  on  all  the  fragile  porcelain 
used at  Napoleon  teas,  and  its  color  is 
on  the  icing  of  the  dainty little cakes 
that are offered you,  where sometimes an 
“N”  of  candied  violets  is  seen  on  the 
white icing.  Tea clothes and doilies are 
embroidered  in  white  and  gold,  with 
bees  and  an  eagle,  or  with  the  empire 
torch  and  wreath.  At  a recent charity 
fete the tea,  the chocolate and the  coffee 
were poured by the  Empress  Josephine, 
or  Mme.  Recamier,  or  Mme.  de  Stael. 
Genuine First Empire relics were shown, 
and  there  were  offered  for  sale  photo­
graphs and casts of Napoleon.  This may 
eventually lead to  Napoleon’s  snuff  box 
and his grand way of changing wives.

*  

*  

*

A  sale  of  eight  sections  of  mining 
lands  in  the  Rainy  River  country  has 
been  made  to  a  syndicate  for  $250,000. 
The  land  has  no  value  except  for  its 
gold.

*  

*  

*

Judge  Tuley,  of  the  Chicago  courts, 
has  just  made  a  decision  that,  if  sus­
tained on appeal,  will be  far-reaching  in 
its effects.  Suit  was  brought to recover 
money  advanced  on  margins  and  lost 
through failure to meet the decline.  The 
action was based on the  ground  that the 
transaction  was  gambling,  a  view  in 
which the court coincided and gave judg­
ment for the plaintiff. 
If this  should be 
supported  on  appeal, 
the  methods  of 
dealing in margins will  need  to be mate­
rially revised.

*  

*  

*

A  Pennsylvania  judge  recently  sen­
tenced a chicken  thief to ten years in the 
penitentiary  for  stealing  $10  worth  of 
chickens,  and two bank men  who  looted 
a bank out of $112,000 to one year.  When 
the chicken thief saw  that,  he  wept  be­
cause  he  had  not  robbed  a  bank. 
It 
would not have helped him.  Bank  rob­
bing  is  generally  forgiven  if  the bank 
robber  stands  well  in  the  community, 
has  accommodated  directors  and  does 
his  robbing  in  a  gentlemanly  manner. 
To rob a hen roost is a  fowl  proceeding, 
and  the  chicken  thief  cannot implicate 
others in his guilt in any  way.

It is said,  while  Mrs.  President Cleve- 
and  was  out  shopping with a friend in 
Washington recently she bought a number 
of feminine articles at  a  big  dry  goods 
store.  The  ladies  were  attended  by  a 
dapper young knight of the  scissors  and 
tape,  who apparently  knew them.  After 
the  purchases  were  made,  Mrs.  Cleve­
land said to the clerk:  "Of  course,  you 
know  where to send  these?”  referring  to 
her  purchases.  The  dry  goods  clerk 
looked  a  little  pained,  but  happily re­
plied:  “ My,  yes!  Why, I have met yon 
at two of your receptions, you know.”

OANDIBS,  FRUITS  and  NUTS 
The Putnam Candy Co. quotes aa follows:

STICK  CANDV.Cases

Standard,  per lb............
“  H.H..................
Twist  ..............
“ 
Boston Cream.................  8V4
Cut  Loaf.........................
Extra H  H...........  . 
...  314

Bbla.  Palla. 

6 

7

MIXED  CANDY. Bbla.
Palla
Standard.......................................5
6*
Leader.......................................... 5H
6V4
7*3
Royal............................................6
Nobby...........................................7
English  Rock.............................. 7
«H
Conserves....................................6H
7*7g
Broken Taffy....................baskets
Peanut Squares................. 
“  7
9
French Creams.............................
1ÏV4
Valley  Creams.............................
Midget, 30 lb. baskets..............................   ..  s
Modern. 30 lb. 

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

“ 
fancy—In bulk

 

** 

fancy—In 5 lb. boxes. 

Palls
Losenges, plain............................................   8H
printed.........................................   9H
Chocolate Drops............................................  11
Chocolate Monumentals...............................  12
Gum Drops....................................................   5
Moss Drops....................................................   714
Sour Drops....................................................   8
Imperials......................   ..............................  9
Per Box
Lemon Drops...............  
SO
Sour Drops......   ............................................. 50
Peppermint Drops........................................... 60
Chocolate Drops.............................................. 6"
H. M. Chocolate Drops........................................ 75 I
35@50
Gum Drops....................... 
Licorice Drops..............................................1  00
A. B. Licorice Drops........................ 
75
Losenges, plain................................................60
printed........................................... 65
Imperials.........................................................60
Mottoes............................................................70
Cream Bar........................................................55
Molasses Bar..................   ...........—   ...........50
Hand Made  Creams.....................   .........80<a9o
Plain Creams........................................... 6 )@S0
Decorated Creams........................................... 91'
String  Rock.................. .... .............................' 0
Burnt Almonds 
..............  90@1  25
Wlntergreen  Berries...........  .........................60
No. 1, wrapped, 2 lb.  boxes.........................  3«
53
No. 1, 
No. 2, 
2F
California Seedlings—126.............................   2 #
150, 176, 2 0, 216......... «75
250.............................   2 50
Fancy Navels—112..........................................3 0u
126........................................  3 50
150,176, 200...............................  3 75

CARAMELS.
 
 
ORANGES.

........... 

“ 
“ 

3 
2 

“ 
“ 

 
 

Choice stock. 25c per box less.

 

 

 

 

“ 

... 

“  50-lb.  “ 

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

*t 
“  extra 
“  bags 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Messina  Oranges,  200 ..................................  3 00
Catanias—Flats, 100.......... 
1  50
LEMONS.
Choice, 300....................................................
Extra Choice, 300  ................................... •••  3 10
Extra Fancy, 300...........................................  4 0 1
Choice,  360  ...................................................
Extra Choice,  360  ........................................  3 i5
Fancy, 360 ......................................................  3 50
Extra  Fancy,  360, gilt packing..................   4 00
BANANAS.
Large bunches.................... 
1  3
Small bunches.....................................  75@1  25
OTHER  FOREIGN  FRUITS.
13
Figs, fancy  layers  161b.....................
14
“  SOfc.......................
“  141b........................
12
6V4 
• ........
a   7 
Dates, Fard, 10-lb.  box.....................
©  6 
...........
a   5 @7  H
Persian.  G. M .50-lb  box.
lib  Royals, new........  ..........
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Almonds, Tarragona.........................
•••
Braslls, new.......................................
Filberts  ............................................
Walnuts, Grenoble, old....................
French................................
Calif...................................
Soft Shelled  Calif..............
Table Nuts,  fancy............................
choice..........................
Pecans. Texas, H.  P .,......................
Chestnuts...... ................ 
...........
Hickory Nuts per  bu., Mich............
Cocnannts, fnll sacks.......................
Butternuts  per  bu............. 
.......
Black  Walnuts, per bu......................
«   a*
Fancy, H.  P„ Suns.........:'• ..............
6*.  bVt
“  Roasted................
<1  5S
Fancy, H.  P., Flags..........................
“  Roasted....................  6*  6V4
Choice, H. P.,  Extras...........................  A   V*
“  Roasted.................  5 1.6
F R E S H   M E A T S .

Ivaca........... 
California, soft  shelled

“ 
“ 
“ 

PEANUTS.

“ 
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“ 

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“ 

NUTS.

“ 

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Hind quarters...
.....

BEEP.

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...... 5t%@ 6)4
....  3V4<a  5

PORK.

MUTTON.

VXJLL.

......5  @ 5ü
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...... 
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8

...... 7  © 8
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......5V4  ©  8

Leaf Lard.........
Caroftfffi 
.....
Tiftmbfl  ..............

Carcass............

4  00

them.

WE  WANT

Pay the best  urn tit  Order

HEADACHE
POWDERS

and  will  pay  highest  market  price  foi 

BEANS P E C K ’S

_ emon X  W heeler Go.

m
BARREL  SWINGS.
This  is a convenience no  grocer  can 
afford  to be  without. 
It  keeps sugar and 
other stuff under the  counter  out  of  the 
way  and  free  from  dust  and  dirt,  and 
saves  covers. 
It  will  swing  a  barrel of 
sugar  with  perfect  ease. 
Telegraph 
name,  Swing.  Price, each, Si.
UNSINi  «HESiLBmBI  BO,

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

Lansing,  Mich.

W h o l e s a l e  G rocers

Grand  Rapids

HEROLD=BERTSCH  SHOE  CO.,

5  and  7 Pearl St.,

Our  Line  for  1895  is

Greater  in  variety  and 

liner  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  \our eje on  our Oil  Grain  line 

in  "Black  Bottoms.”

H e ad q u arters 

Rubbers.

fur  W ales-Goodyear 

T   j  

WHEN  WE  SAY  PURE,  WE  MEAN  MADE  EN=

r C t ^   TIRELY  OF  SUGAR.

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V .   CHEAP.

-f  _   a) 

¥ Z   WHEN  SUGAR  ,S  SO

IT  DOES  NOT  PAY 
to  buy  Adulterated 
You  can  always  get  the  PURE  and the  BEST  S A   A   7V
through  Jobbers  or  direct,  made  by 

-A.  m. X   ▼ M M .
5  and  7 South  Ionia S t.
A ,   J S .   B r O O K S   e t   L O   GRAND  RAPIDS,  nich.

J.  Brechting
(D IM 1

A R C H IT E C T ,  79  W o n d e r ly   B ld g .  [ ^ : ^ u a onJ

IN  G O O D   T I M E S

A T   A L L   T I M E S

N  D U L L   T I M E S

N o t  E x t r a v a g a n tl y   b u t   J u d i c i o u s l y .

A N D   IO U   W IL L   W IN .

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN  reaches  your  customers  E VERY  WEEK.

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GOTHAM GOSSIP.

News  from  the  Metropolis--- Index  of

the  Markets.

S pecial  C orrespondence

N e w   Y o r k,  March  30—The  month 
goes out with a  feeling  of  better  cheer 
among  the  grocery  jobbing  trade  than 
prevailed a month  ago,  and,  as  tbe  sea­
son advances,  this  sentiment  is  intensi­
fied.  Returning salesmen bring in  good 
reports and orders from  out of town  are 
numerous.
Coffee  during  the  week  has  hardly 
maintained the firm position  it  has  held 
so long.  Not that prices have  really de­
clined,  but  holders  show a  little  more 
disposition  to  meet  buyers.  The 
in­
quiries  have  not  been  numerous,  and 
there seems to be  an  opinion  prevailing 
that we shall soon see  lower  quotations.
Sugar  has  been  decidedly  dull,  and 
jobbers and  brokers  have  had  a  sort  of 
holiday.  The  demand  for  granulated 
has been quiet,  and prices  are weak.
The tea trade  is  more  promising  and 
during the week quite a  number of sales 
have transpired.  Blacks  and  Pingsueys 
are in the lead.
Rice  is  firm,  both  foreign  and  do­
mestic.  Dealers are  firm  and  make  no 
concession to  effect  sales.  “Take  it  or 
leave  it”  seems  to  be  the  sentiment. 
Prime to choice domestic, 5@5%c; Japan, 
3%@4Jic.
There  is  a  better  feeling  regarding 
spices and  the market shows a decidedly 
hardening tendency.  Reports of scarcity 
and  increased  cost  at  points  of supply- 
are  generally  confirmed. 
Sales  have 
been made of 150  tons  of  pepper  to  ar­
rive.
In molasses orders have  come  in  in  a 
fairly  satisfactory  manner  and  dealers 
generally are quite pleased with the  out­
look.  Real good  grocery  quality  is  es­
pecially firm and it is  a  matter  of  some 
difficulty to find it at ail.
Syrups meet with  a  demand  sufficient 
to prevent any accumulation  and  quota­
tions  are  firmly  adhered  to.  Good  to 
prime, 16@19c.
Canned goods meet with continued  ac 
tivity.  Orders,  while  numerous,  are 
chiefly  for  small  lots.  Alaska  salmon 
have  advanced  2}£c  per  dozen  for  red 
fish.
The  butter  market  is  firm.  Strictly 
fancy fresh creamery is scarce and quota­
tions have advanced.  Lower  grades re­
main about as before.
Trading in cheese is somewhat lessened 
this week,  although for  tbe  best  grades 
there exists a pretty  good  demand.  On 
the  Majestic,  which  sailed  Thursday, 
were 2,000 Wisconsin full  cream  cheese, 
early  made,  which  the  holders  had 
grown tired of carrying any longer  here. 
May they  be more successful abroad!
This  season  has  seen,  so far, a fairly 
firm  market  for  eggs.  Receipts  have 
been pretty  well  absorbed.  Best  stock 
of Western,  12@12Kc-

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugar—The  market  continues  strong, 
with every indication of enhanced prices 
before long.  Should the Cuban  crop  be 
much curtailed by the revolution and the 
unfavorable  season,  the  United  States 
will  have to take a  large  percentage  of 
European  beet  sugar. 
That  would 
greatly aid in reducing  the  present  im­
mense surplus which hangs  so  threaten­
ingly over the market  and  has  been  re­
sponsible for so much of  the  depression 
in  prices  which  prevailed  during  the 
past  winter.  Another  strong  point  in 
the  situation  is  the  prospect  that  the 
sowings  of  beets  for  the  coming  cam­
paign will  be  considerably  reduced. 
It 
is by no means certain  that  the  German 
Government  will  increase  the  export 
bounties, and,  if an increase  is  allowed, 
it is pretty sure to be accompanied  by  a 
provision compelling a reduction  in  tbe 
production.  The German farmers them­
selves appear  to  appreciate  the wisdom 
of reducing the beet  crop,  and  they will 
be the more easily induced to  adopt  this 
course by the fact that wheat  and  other

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

grains  are  now materially  higher  than 
they were  last  year,  and,  therefore,  will 
afford  a  better  margin  to  the  farmers 
than beets  at  last  season’s  low  prices. 
While  the  outlook  of  a  smaller  pro­
duction is  promising,  the  prospect  for 
an  increased  consumption  is  also  good. 
Owing  to  the  severe  weather  of 
the 
past  winter,  stocks  in  jobbers  and  re­
tailers’ hands have been permitted to run 
low  everywhere;  hence,  now  that  good 
weather has returned, there is every rea­
son to expect a general replenishing. 
It 
is also likely that the fruit  crops  of  the 
earning summer  will  be  large,  and  this 
fact alone will call for a  very  considera­
ble consumption of  sugar.

Beans—The  fever  has  struck  dried 
California  limas,  in  consequence  of  the 
short crop last season on  account  of  the 
drought.

Tickles—Seldom has  the  market  gone 
so low or the  business  been  so  unsatis­
factory as during the past  winter and as 
is  the  case  at  present.  Packers  must 
get rid of their stocks  in  order  to  have 
their casks and vats for  new stock when 
offered  next  fall.  As  a  consequence, 
unusually low prices are made  by  those 
who have on hand stock  which  has  been 
out  of  the  brine  for  any  considerable 
length of time.

Lemons—It seems to be  the  universal 
opinion  among  Western  fruit  dealers 
that now is tbe time to lay in the bulk of 
speculative stocks. 
In  preceding  years 
such purchases have not  been  made  un­
til  about  the  last  week in April or first 
week of May, and it,  therefore,  seems  a 
little strange to the New York brokers to 
have  so  many  orders  in  band  at  this 
time.  The  recent  sales  have  been  no­
ticeable for  the  activity  displayed,  and 
the fruit  has  brought  prices  which,  in 
comparison  with March sales in previous 
years,  seem  high.  Brokers  are  unan­
imous in the belief that April  sales  will 
be spirited and that still better prices for 
the importers will be  realized,  but there 
are some who do not  look  at  the  condi­
tion in the same light and who will defer 
buying  summer  stock  until  the  usual 
time,  in order to buy at lower prices than 
have been paid  by  recent  buyers. 
It  is 
very  safe,  however,  to  secure  a  fairly 
good supply at this time,  as  the  quality 
of the fruit offered  is  excellent  and  the 
better  weather  will,  necessarily, stimu­
late the demand.

Oranges—There is no fault to be found 
with  the  quality  of  the  California  or­
anges now coming in and dealers report a 
strictly  growing  demand.  The  Navels 
and Seedlings are at the height  of  their 
glory  and  in  a  few  weeks  the  Medi­
terranean Sweets will begin to come  for­
ward,  followed  closely  by  Malta  Bloods 
and St.  Michaels.  Growers  on  the coast 
have every  reason  for  feeling  satisfied 
and content with  the  manner  in  which 
their fruit is  carrying  and  selling,  and 
they are sure of finding a balance on  the 
right side of their bank books at the  end 
of  the  season’s  business.  A  few  more 
Messinas  have reached  our  market,  but 
it  will  be  found  necessary  to  crowd 
them,  in order to  work  them  off  in  ad­
vance  of  the  larger  amount  of  better 
fruit which will be  offered.  Prices  this 
week will average about the same as last, 
although orders for round lots  may  per­
haps be shaded just a trifle.

Bananas—To-day our market  is rather 
bare of what may be  termed  good  ship­
ping  fruit,  but  there  are  two cars due 
Wednesday and more  later in  the  week,

so  it  is  not  unlikely that orders can  be 
executed  with  a  reasonable  degree  of 
promptness.  Everything 
at  present 
seems to indicate that  the  season’s busi­
ness in  bananas will  be of  good  volume, 
and, as warm weather is  close  at  hand, 
prices will soon be lower.

Dates—The recent slump  in prices has 
resulted  in  a  better  and  increased  de­
mand and goods are moving quite freely, 
some dealers buying  and  placing in cold 
storage until needed later in  the  season.
Figs—The demand is not large at pres­
ent and the trade is buying only  In  small 
lots,  as their needs require.  Box  stock 
bolds steady at last week’s  prices  while 
Naturals, or bag stock,  has  weakened  a 
little.

Candy—Manufacturers in this  line  re­
port  that  their  business,  in  harmony 
with other lines,  already feels the  impe­
tus of renewed activity, and  the  feeling 
is  predominant  that  the  coming season 
will be the commencement of  an  era  of 
larger sales, better profits,  and,  in  fact, 
a return of  the  prosperous  business  of 
former years—a  consummation  desired, 
which,  let it be hoped,  may  soon materi­
alize. 
It  means  much  to  the  army  of 
workers dependent on  this  business,  in 
the  way  of  better  wages  and  steadier 
employment.  The  two  will  result  in 
helping out those engaged in  other  lines 
—the grocer, butcher, clothier,  etc.,  for, 
with steady incomes, comes the  desire to 
live  better  and  to  enjoy  more  of  the 
luxuries of life.  We are all more or less 
dependent on each other  and  our  inter­
ests are intermingled and  what  proves  a 
blessing to the individual will in a meas­
ure benefit us all.  The men whose capi­
tal  has  been  employed  may  hope once 
more to receive a dividend,  and,  as these 
men  are  usually  liberal,  open-hearted 
people,  they  will not hesitate in sharing 
it with those  whose  brawn  and  muscle 
have contributed in  bringing  about  this 
condition.

Gripsack  Brigade.

Secretary Owen is sending out  mimeo­
graph letters to those  members of the K. 
of G.  who are in arrears  for dues and  as­
sessments,  with  excellent  results.  The 
communication is prefaced  with  a  brief 
summary  of  the numerical and financial 
condition of the organization.

The  last  social  party  of  the  season 
given  under  the auspices of Post E will 
be held at Elk’s Hall, Saturday  evening, 
April  13.  Progressive  pedro  will  rule 
from 8 to 10 o’clock and dancing will fol­
low from 10 to 11:45  o’clock.  Choice re­
freshments  will  be  served  during  the 
course of  the  evening. 
It  is  especially 
desired that every member of the Post be 
present,  accompanied by lady  or  ladies.
The  mortuary  fund  of  the  E.  of G. 
amounted to  $1,550  on  the  date  of  the 
last  report.  Sinoe  that  time  Secretary 
Owen has sent $150  to  Treasurer  Frost, 
making  the  total  amount  in  the  fund 
$1,700.  Proofs  of death of two deceased 
members,  now  going  the  rounds  of  the 
Board of Directors,  will reduce  the  fund 
to $700, so that another death will reduce 
it  below  the  $500  limit  and necessitate 
another assessment.
Another  death  has  occurred  in  the 
ranks of the E. of  G.—Frederick  Miller, 
who committed suicide by hanging at 524 
Grand River avenue,  Detroit,  March  21. 
Deceased had been out of  work  for some 
weeks  and,  it  is  supposed,  committed 
self-murder in a fit of despondency.  De­
ceased  was in good  standing with the E. 
of G.  and  also  carried  $2,500  insurance 
in the Enights and Ladies of Honor, pay­
able to his wife and son.

The Merchants’ National Bank  of Bat­
tle Creek has surrendered  its charter and 
re-organized as a State  bank  under  the 
style of the Merchants’ Savings  Bank  of 
Battle  Creek,  the  change  taking  place 
April  1.  The  officers  are  as  follows: 
President,  A.  W.  Wright,  of  Alma; 
Vice-President,  Frank  Turner;  Cashier, 
Scott  Field;  Assistant  Cashier,  Fred 
Wells.

The most  discouraging  feature  of  the 
woolen manufacture  is  the  cancellation 
of a large  portion  of  the  orders  which 
had  been  placed.  Various  reasons are 
given  for this,  but the most prominent is 
that the goods  are  being  more  cheaply 
furnished by English  manufacturers un­
der the reduced tariff.

PROVISION 8.

754754
5*
5540*
654

PORK  IN  BARRELS.

5 
8
8%
6 
6
10

The Grand Rapids  Packing  and Provision Co 

12 85
12 50
15 oo
is 50
14  00
13  75
14 10

quotes as follows :
Mess,.....................................................  
Short c u t.........................................,... 
Extra clear pig, short cut...................... 
Extra clear, heavy................................
Clear, fat back....................................... 
Boston clear, short cut..........................  
Clear back, shortcut.............................  
Standard clear, short cut. best.............. 
SA U SA SB.
Pork, links..... .................... .
Bologna..................................
Liver...........   .........................
Tongue .................................
Blood....................................... .
Head cheese.........................
Summer..................................
Frankfurts............................
LARD.
Kettle  Rendered.................
Granger.............................
Family...............................
Compound..........................
Cottolene.............................
Cotosuet.........................
50 lb. Tins,  %c advance.
201b.  pails, He 
34c 
101b.  “ 
51b.  “  %c
3 lb. 
'• 
1  c 
Extra Mess, warranted 200 lbs......................6 50
Extra Mess, Chicago packing.......................  6 75
Boneless, rump butts.....................................  9 50
s m o k e d   m e a t s—Canvassed or Plain.
Hams, average 20 lbs....................................
5*54
16 lbs.....................................
9*IOI4
12 to 14 lbs............................
picnic................................................
754
best boneless.....................................
854
Shoulders.....................................................
Breakfast Bacon  boneless.................. ;___
854
Dried beef, ham prices................................
1054
DRY  SALT  MEATS.
Long Clears, heavy.........................
•  654 6*
Briskets,  medium..........................
PICKLED  P ie s ’  PEST.
Half  barrels...................................
.3 00 
Quarter barrels...............................
.1  65 
K its....................... ........................
..  90
Kits, honeycomb...........................................  
75
Kits, premium.........   .............. .............. 
(5
Creamery,  rolls.............................................. 17
tubs...............................................16
Dairy,  rolls......   .......................................... 12

BEEP  IN  BARRELS.

tubs................................................... 11%

BUTTBRINE.

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TRIPE.

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FAREWELL TO  TIE  OYSTER.

We announce  the  close  of  the  oyster 
season for the spring of 1895.  We thank 
our many customers for  their  patronage 
and  shall  hope  to  have  them  with  us 
again  next  fall. 
In  the  meantime  we 
beg leave to call  their  attention  to  our 
other seasonable goods,  as follows:
Mrs. Wlthev’s Home Made Jelly, made  witho
boiled cider, very fine:
30-lb.  pall......................  
65
iO-lb. pall.......................................................   50
17-lb.  pall......................................................   45
15-lb. pall...... .................................................  40
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  ca se ......................2 40

 

 

 

 

Mrs. Withey’s bulk mince meat:
40-lb. pall, per  lb...........................................   6
25-lb. pails, per lb..........................  
6J4
10-lb. pails, per lb..........................................  6%
2-lb. cans, per doz..........................................  1  40
lb. cans, per  doz.....................................3 50
5 
Pint Mason Jars, per  doz............................. 1  40
Quart Mason Jars, per  doz  .........................2 25
Maple Syrup, pint Mason Jars, per doz. 
1  40 
Maple Syrup, quart Mason Jars, per doz....  2 25
Maple Syrup, tin, gallon cans, per  doz........  9 00
Peach Marmalade, 20-lb palls  ......................  1  00

 

EDWIN  FALLAS,

Grand  Rapids,«Mich.

The  Brownies

IN  MICHIGAN.

Always  alive  to  the  interests  of  our  many  friends  and  patrons, we  have 
secured  the  services  of  Palmer  Cox’s  famous  band of  fantastic  little  peo­
ple,  and  now  offer  to  the  Trade

DAINTY  LITTLE  CAKES 
in  the  form  of  “ BROWNIES.”
Their  richness  and  delicate  flavor  commend  them  for  family  use,  and 
they  will  entertain  the  little  ones  for  hours.  As  a  decided  novelty  they 
are  a  success  and  their  popularity  is  rapidly  becoming  established.
Every  dealer  should  order  a  trial  box  and  receive  a  package  of

“ BROWNIE  DOLLS”  FREE,
to  give  away  to  his  customers.
From  the  “ POLICEHAN”  to  the  “ CHINAHAN,”  we  have 
them   all.

T H E   N E W   Y O R K  
B I S C U I T

G ra n d   R a p id s,  M ic h •
BROWN.  HALL  &  CO.,  MODUl’iS Of BUGGIES. SLEI6HS ond WR60NS

ESTABLISHED  1865.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.

The Grocer’s Safety.  Made in 2 sizes only.  Fully W arranted.

Body, 7 ft.  long. 30 in. wide, drop tailgate.................................  
Body, 914 ft.  long, 36 in. wide, drop tail gate...................  .....................................  

..........  

WO 00
...............   48 00

........ ..........' £ ' " |

i: IffatSa&L <so£f'  haufe'i
jj  Diamond Crystal Salt  i:

:;  The general public are recognizing m ore and m ore every day the desirability  of pure J r 
::  salt.  The result  is  a   largely  increased  dem and for  Diamond Crystal Salt.  Of course  : [
: | you  aim   to  handle  the  best  goods  in  every branch of  the trade.  W hy  not in  salt? J *

4 >  is now packed so the grocer  can  handle  it  a t  a profit  equal to th at m ade on inferior  4 ,
I , goods.  Abie these greatly reduced prices: 
<,
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4 1
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4 »
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4 1
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Diamond Crystal is m uch lighter  th an   com m on  salt,  and the 2%, 4,  and 7 lb. bags  < ►
4 > are about  th e sam e  size  as  3, 5,  and  10  lb.  bags  of  the  ordinary  product.  Diamond 4 •
4 > Crystal is  purer, stronger, and  goes  farther.  The  bags  are  handsom e, and  m ade  o f < ►
4 1 the  very  best  m aterial—saving  waste  from   broken  bags. 
4 *
\ \ D I A M O N D   C R Y S T A L   S A L T   C O . ,   S T .   C L A I R ,   M I C H .   <1

l!iO '£% bags  In  a barrel, (a  S3.00 
»5 4 
@  a.73 
^  a. 50 
40 7 

For other sizes in proportion see price current  on  another page. 

«  « 
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R 1 N D G E ,   K A L M B A C H   &  CO.,

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

4 

flANUFACTURERS  AND JOBBERS  OF
H 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.

M o y n e ”

NAVEL ORANGES

Are head  and shoulders  above  any 
other  variety in  this  market.

“Sunny  Slope99 

Seedlings

Are  a close second.  We don’t claim  to  handle the 
c h e a p e s t   stock, but pride  ourselves on quality.

JPUTNA.M  

CCO,

A
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The safest, speediest and most effective 
cure  for  dull  times  is  the  liberal  use  of 
printers’ ink.  The business man who  keeps 
himself  before  the  public,  controls  the 
magnet  which  attracts 
trade.  Reward 
follows  those  possessing  the  courage  to 
buffet the t.de of adverse circumstances.
Let the line  of  trade  with  which  you 
are identified know that you are still at the 
old stand and ready for patronage.  If you 
have  anything  new,  let  the  printer  help 
you make it known.

A
PNACAEA
FOR
DULL
TIMES
T r a d e sm a n  C o m pa n y
CHAS.A.MORRILL 5 Co.

We  are  experts  in  all  branches  of  Typography 
and  Engraving.  Long  established, excellent facilities, 
perfect  equipment  and  bottom  prices  for  the  best 
class  of  work.  You  can  rely  on  our  promptness.

GRAND  RAPIDS

A
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Importers and Jobbers of

TEAS

21  L A K E   ST.,  CHICAGO,  ILL.

The  D ayton  Com puting  Scale!

ZA

B ecause  of 
Its M oney- 
M a k i n g  
Features!

For  further  information

drop  a  postal  card  t o ..........

HOYT & Company,
Open Stock  Prices

Warning;!

The  trade  are  hereby  warned against using 
any infringements an Weighing and Price Scales 
and  Computing and  Price  Scales,  as  we  will 
protect  our rights and  the  rights of  our general 
agents  under  Letters  Patent  of  the  United 
States issued in  1881.1885,1-E6,1888, 1>91,1893and 
1894.  And  we  will  prosecute  all  infringers  to 
the full  extent  of  the  law.  The simple  using 
of Scales that infringe  upon  our  patents makes 
the  user  liable  to  prosecution,  and the  impor­
tance  of  buying  and using'any other  Comput­
ing  and  Price  Scales  than those manufactured 
by us and bearing our name and date  of patents 
and thereby incurring liability to  prosecution is 
apparent.  Respectfully,

The  Com puting  Scale  Co.

See What  Users S a y :

Office of the CUMMER LUMBER CO., 

Manufacturers of L u m b e r,  La th  &  Sh in g l es 

Mercantile Department.

Cadillac, Midi.. Feb. 28, 1895. 

Gentlemen —  In  regard 

Messrs. Hoyt & Co.,  Dayton, O.:
to  your  Computing 
Scale,  we  can  say:  We  have  had  one  in  our 
store for  ihree years and are well  satisfied  with 
it.  We have not had  occasion  to have it adjust­
ed yet, and it is  just  as  accurate  and  quick  as 
when we put it in.  We  cheerfully  recommend 
the  Seale  to  anvone  having  merchandise  to 
weigh out.  We believe it  has  saved  us  several 
times its cost. 
Per Ed.  G. snider,  Mgr.  Mercantile  Dept.

CUMMER  LI MBER  CO. 

Yours very truly,

D ayton, O hio.

W e  have  a  few  Crates  like  this. 

They  open  up  in  nice  shape.

A  FEW STAPLES. 

Best  White  Granite

Chambers,  uncovered. 
Chambers,  covered----

.per doz.. S3 40 
.per doz.,  5  10

CHALLENGE  ASSORTMENT

WHITE  IRON  STONE CHINA

W ARRANTED  NOT  TO  CRAZE.

45
.28 

Made by the largest  and  oldest  factory  in  the  country.  Not seconds or 
th ird s   but  regular Black Stamped  Domestic  White  Granite.  Shipped  from 
factory.  You will find the largest sizes and  lowest  prices in this assortment. 
Sold only in this assortment.
53  75 
15 Sets Handled Cups and 
3  60 
8 doz. 7 in.  Dinner Plates
1  48 
4 doz. 5 in.  Pie Plates............................
1  68 
6 doz.  Fruit  Saucers---- 
..............
56 70 
1  doz. 4  in.  Bound Scollops, full measure,
1  doz. 5 in. Round Scollops, full measure.
1  86 
2 doz. 6 in.  Round Scollops, full measure.
3  60
2 doz. 7 in.  Round Scollops, full measure.
1 doz. 8 in.  Bound Scollops, full measure.
1  doz. S in.  Round Scollops, full measure.
‘i doz.  9 in.  Meat  Dishes,  full measure. 1U 
1 doz.  10 in.  Meat  Dishes, full measure.  121 
i.„  doz. U  in. Meat  Dishes, full measure, 131
11 doz. 12 in.  Meat  Dishes, full measure.  14'
doz.  ' I,  pint Creamers. 7c  eac h ...............
12 doz. 2*4  pint  Creamers. 9c  each.............
1 doz. 4  pint  Pitchers,  16c each...............
doz. 5'j  pint l’itdhers. 35c each...............
T doz. I  pint  Bowls, f ‘.c each...................
2 doz.  I 'j  pint  Bowls, 7c  each..................
1 doz. 2  pint Bowls. 8c  each......................
1 doz. 7 in.  Baker, full measure.  8 in.. 7c i 
1 doz. 8 in.  Baker, full measure.  9 in., 11c
1  doz. 9 in.  Baker, full measure.  10 in.. 14c
2 doz. I1-,  pint  Footed Oyster Bowls, 7c each 
i,; iloz. Large Covered (  hembers. 31c each  .. 
»; doz.  L arge Wash  Bowls and  Pitchers. 59c e
Cask and  cartage............................

per set. 
per doz.
........ 37 c. per doz.
per doz.
e each.......per doz.
each........ per doz.
each  . 93c  per doz. 
h. 1 30 per doz.
__ per doz.
.per doz. 
93c per doz.
.  1  34 per doz.
1  77 per doz.
2  35 per doz. 
78 per doz.
... 1 12 per doz. 
... 1 90 per doz. 
.. .3 00 per doz.
per doz.
... ,80c per doz. 
per doz.
__  
per doz.
__ 
per doz.
per doz. 
.... 
..  85c  per doz.
3 75 per doz. 
..  5 92 per doz.

6 ' in.. 6c
8>4  in.,  lit 
914  in..  15c each 
10;! in.. 19c each 
|i  in., 8c each 
‘4  in.,  lie each .. 
5c euch . 
Me each .

1  34
89 
1  18
39 
56 
•  90 
1  50 
65 
1  60 
1  00
90 
1  30 
1  72 1  70
1  87
2  90 
2  00

aeh..........
each.........
each.........

6o  Day  Price,  $4 4 .16.  10  Day  Price,  $4 3 .0 0 .

Ewers and Basins,  9s...............
Ewers and Basins,  12s----- —
Scallop  Nappies. 6s...................
Scallop  Nappies, 7s...............
Scallop  Nappies, 8s..................
Cups and Saucers,  handled... 
Cups and Saucers,  unhandled.

. per doz.. 58 08 
per doz.,  7  25 
.per doz.. 
95 
.per doz..  1  25 
. per doz..  1  75 
per set,  42*¿0 
..per set. 35'.c

MADDOCK’S  ROYAL  VITREOUS 

SEMI-PORCELAIN  THIRDS.

 

 

.. 

61 

98 

$1  48

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

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

......................5  37 
45 
53 
 
53 
24 
16 
 

4 doz. 5 in.  Plates. 
5 doz. 6 In.  Plates................................ 
15 doz. 7 in.  Plates 
4 doz. 8 in.  Plates 
2 doz. 7 in.  Plates, deep. 
6 doz. Fruits. 
6 doz. Individual Blitters............... 
3 only 8 in.  Dishes........................ 
3 only 9 in. Dishes  ..........................  
6 only 10 in.  Dishes....... 
 
6 only 12 ill. Dishes.............................. 
44 
24 only 4 in.  Bakers 
................... 
57 
6 only 5 in. Scallops............................ 
62 
6 only 6 in. Scallops 
81 
3 only 8 in. Scallops..........................   1 46 
6 only 8 in. Covered  Dishes............  3  90 
6 only 8 in. sq.  Casseroles..... ........  4  39 
6 only Boats..  ........................  
 
 
4 only Pickles................................... 
98 
4 only .1 ugs,  12.....................................  1 92 
4 only .Tugs, 30.........................  
 
4 only Jugs. 36........................ 
 
4 only t 'overed Butters and Drs----  2  93 
6 only Sugars,  24..... 
...................2  19 
6 only ('reams. 24. 
......................  
98 
12 only Bowls, 30..............................  
24 only Oatmeals................................... 
24 only Footed Bowls, 30.....................  
36 sets Teas............................................. 
6 sets Coffees....... 
('rate and cartage............ 

2 25
7 05
2 44
1 06
1  44
96
81  20
35
46  73
122
1  14
33
40
37
1  95
2 30
1 30 65
33
65
98 33
81 27
93
1  10
49
65
57 
1 14
1 30
65 
65  11 70
......................   ,  76 
2 28
2 50
*50 74

 
 

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