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Three Things 
A re  Coming!

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G ß A is D   R A P ID S ,  M A Y   8,  1895

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ALDEN  &  LIBBY,

STRICTLY  FRESH  EGOS, 
9 h.?.'i?.c .r??mery and  Dairy Butter  W  i l O l C S H l C   P r O Q U C C
A  SPECIALTY

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their  own  with  the  ever-present

For  Sale  by  all  Jobbers of .Groceries.  Hardware and  Woodenware.

GRAND  RAPIDS WEATHERLY  &  PULTE,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

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Oi  all  the  past  and  by-gone  advertising  takes,  none  hold 

P I C T U R E   C A R D .

Other  “ fakes”  come  and  go,  and  their  whiskers  sprout,  turn 
gray  and  fall  out,  but  the  picture  card  ever  bobs  up  serenely, and 
when  it  comes  to  a

P I C T U R E   C A R D   a n d  
F A N   C O M B I N E D ,

W H Y --------

The  children  want  them,

The  old  folks  want  them— for  the  children,
Grandma  wants  one,
The  fat  man  needs  one,
The  dude  has  to  have  one.

And,  remember,  all  these  people  are  advertising  the  man  who 
gives  away  the  fans.

B U T   T H E Y   C O S T !

W E L L ,   I  S H O U L D   S A Y   N O T !

Just  see  our  late  samples  and  lead  the  procession  with  an  adver­
tising fan  on  circus  day.

A T radesm an
Com pany

Northern Trade supplied  at  Lowest Market Brie, s.  We bin  on  track at  point of 

shipment, or receive on consignment  PHONE  l.‘{On.

93  and  95  South  Division  Street, 

GRAND  RAPIDS  MICH

S W E E T 'S   H O T E L

MARTIN  L.  SWEET,  Proprietor.

HENRY  D. and FRANK  H.  IRISH, iTgrs.

Steam heit in every room.  Electric fire alarms  throughout  the  house.  Other 

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

SPECIFY DAISY BRAND H P  BEST

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  Mich.

Our  Plan

Saves  disputes  and  enables 
yon  to  discount  your bills. 
Saves  book  charges  and  bad 

debts.

Saves worry and loss of sleep. 
Wins  cash  trade  and  new 

customers.

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Steam, Hot Water or Hot Air. 

Sheet Metal  Work

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NO  FIRM  IN  THE STATE  HAS  BETTER  FACILITIES  OR  REPUTATION.  OUR

WOOD  MANTEL  GRATE,  GAS  AND  ELECTRIC  FIXTURE  DEPARTMENT

Is  pronounced  the  FINEST  IN  THE  COUNTRY,  East  or  West.

H EROLD=BERTSCH  SHOE  CO.,

5 and 7 Pearl S t.,

O ur  L ine  for  1895  is

Greater  in  variety  ami 

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

Your  inspection  s  kindly  solicited 

'V hen in the city.

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

:n  “Black Bottoms.”

Headquarters 

for  Wales-Goodyear 

I  ibbers.

Il  ! I AFT ENKAMP

ROLL  CAP

Made of Soft Steel  Sheets. 
Cheap as Shingles.  LAST 
FOUR  TIMES  AS  LONG.

W.c. HOPSON 4 CO.

Send for Catalogue.

T h e r e   a r e   t h o u s a n d s   o f  S I G N A L S ,  
b u t   n o n e   s o   g o o d   a s   t h e

“SIGNAL  FIVE”

A  Fine  Havana  Filler  Cigar  for  5  cents.

ED. W .RUHE Maker,

CHICAGO.

F.  E. BUSHIAN,  Agent,

523 John St.,  KALAMAZOO

It  would  make a  horse  laugh

To  see  how  some  merchants  persist  in  hanging  to  the 
pass-book  and  other  antiquated  charging  sj stems  when 
the  adoption  of the  Coupon  Book  System  will  curtail 
their  losses,  lessen  the  time  devoted  to  créait  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  held.  Are  you  willing  to  receive 
Catalogue  and  Price  List?  A   postal  card  will  bring 
them.

T r a d e s h a n   C o m p a n y

POINTS  OF  EXCELLENCE.
It is  made of  thoroughly  seasoned  material 

It  is  finished 
smooth inside  as  well  as outside.  The iron  ring head  is  strong 
and n**t  liable  to  break.  The  bails  are  fastened  to  the  iron 
ring,  where they  need  to  be fastened. 
It is simple in  construc­
tion  and  convenient  to  operate.  No  other  churn  is so m-arly 
perft ct as  The  Favorite.  Don’t  buy  a counterfeit.

SIZES  AND  PRICES.

ühurn - ga 
.burn 4gu 
iihum 7ga

3—  CO gal., to churn  It gals
4— 
¿5 gal., to churn  1C ga Is 

Write for discount.

O S T E R ia T E V E N S

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AGENTS  FOR  WESTERN  MICHIGAN.

GRAND  RAPIDS 

BRUSH GOMP’Y,
MANUFACTURER  OF B R U S H E S   «*

AND  RAPIDS. MICH

Our  Goods  are  sold  by  all  Michigan  Jobbing  Houses

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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Makes a Specialty of acting as

Executor ot Wills, 
Administrator of  Estates, 
Guardian of Hinors and In­

competent Persons, 

Trustee or Agent

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

Anton  O.  Hodenpyl,  Sec’y

S AND 7  PEAPL STREET.

G rand  R a pid s,  Mich., April 25,  18115.

By mutual consent the  firm  of  Leppink A Co. 
has this day been  dissolved.  All  accounts  due 
to above firm and all  indebtedness  will be paid 
to and by the new firm of  Leppink A Co.
II.  Le p p in k ,
F r ed P.  Him e s.

A copartnership has this day  been entered in­
to by 11. Leppink and John Hulst, under the firm 
name of Leppink A Co.

H.  L e p p in k ,
J ohn  H ulst.

The  Drug:  Market.

Acid—The  advance  in carbolic is well 
sustained by most  holders,  bat there are 
a few outside lots which can be bad  at  a 
fraction  under  the  general  quotations. 
Citric  continues  seasonably  active  and 
firm.  Other varieties  are  without  new 
feature  and  the  general  market  has  a 
steady undertone.

Alcohol—The market for grain has not 
improved and consumers claim to be able 
to  meet  their  wants  at  4c  per gal. less 
than cost of production  at  present  price 
of grain.

Balsams—Tolu  is  very  strong,  with 
stocks  light  and  closely  concentrated. 
The market is better supplied  with  Peru 
by recent direct arrivals,  which have  in­
fluenced  a  slightly  easier 
tendency. 
Further  arrivals  are  noted  of  copaiba, 
but they have had no effect on  the  mar­
ket, as the demand from  consumers  con­
tinues to absorb considerable stock.

Borax—Continues  in  fair  demand  at 

the decline noted last  week.

Cacao  Batter—There  is  no  change in 
the  condition  of  the  market  and  very 
little  interest  seems  to  be  manifest  in 
the auctions to take place in London and 
Amsterdam Tuesday.

Caffeine—The general quotation is $10, 
but in special  instances  that  figure  can 
be shaded for 9mall lots only.

Cassia  Buds—There 

is  a  moderate 

trade demand for small parcels.

Cocaine—Is quiet and easy,  with deal­
ers generally anticipating  a  further  de­
cline.

Cod Liver Oil—The tone of the market 
is slightly firmer under  the  influence  of 
continued strong  advices  from  primary 
sources.

INSURANCE  CO.

Detroit,  Mich.
organised 
Geo. W. Stowitts
DIBBLE  &  WARNER,  Mfrs.  Fine  Suspenders 
ORAND  RAPIDS  NECKWEAR  CO.,  Hfrs.  of 
I shall be pleased to call on dealers In need  of 

and  Braces.  East  Hampton, Mass.
Fine  Neckwear,  Grand  Rapids.

r epr e se n t in g

anything in either of above lines.

155 Thomas st., Grand Rapids.

COMMERCIAL  CREDIT  CO.

6s  nONROE ST.

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

Telephones  1(10  n i l   1030

»ROMPT,  OON8 IRVATIVB. 
J.  W.  CHAMPLIN,  Pres.
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«APS. 
W.  FRED  McBAIN, Sec.

FOR  RENT.

Three-story  and  basement  factory  building, 
size 50 x 150 feet.  West end  Pearl street bridge.
Water and Steam Power.
Full line of Wood Working Machinery, Bench­
Also other property  with  power for manufac­
Opera House Block.

es, Dry Kilns, etc.
turing purposes. 

WM.  T.  POWERS,

Ergot—The market is fiat and  lifeless.
Essential Oils—The  market is without 

important feature.

Gambler—Is stronger  and  more active 
for  both  consumption  and  speculation, 
the latter largely due to excited  markets 
abroad,  which  indicate  a  steadily  ad­
vancing tendency.

Gums—Refiners of gum  camphor  have 
not  changed  their  quotations,  and  the 
tone of the market is firmer, owing to ca­
bles received from  London of  an excited 
and advancing market  for  crude, with  a 
corresponding  improvement  in  refined. 
Some  of  the  principal  importers of for­
eign  have  withdrawn  from  the market, 
awaiting  farther  advices  from  abroad. 
Whole kino  has  been  further advanced.
Leaves—Coca continue to show an easy 
tendency under the influences heretofore 
noted.  Medium  grades  of  Tinnevelly 
senna are  moving  steadily  upward  and 
holders decline to  shade  full  quoted fig­
ures.  Short  Buchu  are  selling  fairly. 
Laurel are fractionally  higher in sympa­
thy with the primary  market.  Damiana 
are in better supply and lower.

Opium—The market  Is  entirely  with­
out animation,  and  lack  of  inquiry  has 
had a tendency to further depress values.
Quicksilver—Is  ruling  strong  at  the 
recent advance and a fair  business Is re­
ported within the range.

The Practical  Man.

Ever again,  by some  striking  proof  of 
its truth, the superiority of the practical 
man over the man  merely  theoretical  is 
brought home to our understandings.  It is 
is to him we turn in our difficulties;  it is 
to him  we turn in our diffifculties;  it is he 
who,  sometimes in  ignorance,  sometimes 
wilfully  transgressing  the  precepts  of 
the theorists, accomplishes  the  work  of 
the world.  What trade,  business or pro­
fession,  what  department  of  learning, 
does  not  teem  with  examples?  The 
sciences which have been monopolized by 
men who,  by  education,  their  profession 
and other circumstances, are notably im­
practical,  what a web of  useless,  not  to 
say childish,  theories  and  metaphysical 
speculation  has  been  woven  around 
In recent years  there  is  evident 
them. 
everywhere,  even 
in  our  schools  of 
higher educrtion,  a tendency  toward the 
simplifying  and  making  practical  all 
knowledge and  science.  The  most  fre­
quent and,  indeed,  the  strongest  objec­
tion  urged  against  the  trade  school  is 
that  it  lays  too  much 
importance  on 
theoretical knowledge.

Theory,  while  a  valuable  adjunct  to 
the  practical  mechanic,  does  not atone 
for  a  lack  of  acquired  skill. 
In  the 
decadence of the  apprenticeship system, 
theory can  never take  the place of years 
of toil  and  self-denial  in  gaining  prac­
tice. 
In  work  requiring  highly-skilled 
labor  the  home-trained  workmen  must 
give  way  to  the  foreign-trained. 
It  is 
positively  paiuful  to  contemplate  how 
some man  is  almost  useless  to  himself 
and to the world,  who has an abundance 
of  latent  useful  knowledge,  which,  if 
generously parceled  out among his prac­
tical neighbors,  would be of tbe  greatest 
value.  The successful  man of  to-day  is 
the intensely  practical  man.  His  every 
suggestion  has  worth;  the  speculative 
knowledge of the  theorist is not brought 
down from the clouds to the earth.  The 
theorist may for  a  time  dazzle  and  be­
wilder the unwary with his airy specula­
tions,  but he soon comes to grief with all 
his  glittering  generalities.  Less  to  be 
pitied is the bore who finds  his  theoreti­
cal knowledge  invaluable  for  conversa­
tional  purposes.  The  practical  man 
needs no encomiums.  Now  and  always 
he stands pre-eminent.

Bank Notes.

Ernest Ackenhausen  deposited  $1,000 
in the People’s Saving  Bank  of  Detroit, 
gave his  bankbook to Joseph  Lange,  and 
then  went  to  Cleveland.  Lange  drew 
out the money, sent $500 to Ackenhausen 
and  disappeared  with 
the  rest  of  it. 
Ackenhausen claimed that  his  signature 
upon the withdrawing check is a forgery, 
and  sued  the  Bank.  He  acknowledged 
that Lange had sent him $500,  and a jury 
in the Wayne Circuit Court  gave  him  a 
verdict for  the  other  $500.  The  Bank 
will  appeal.

Hon.  Edwin C. Nichols  succeeds V. P. 
Collier as President of the National Bank 
of Battle Creek.

Use Tradesman Coupon Books.

Quinine—Has  been  very  active  and 

strong,  with an upward tendency.

Seeds—The  market for all varieties of 
canary is  exceedingly  quiet  and  values 
continue easy.  Dutch caraway is lower, 
in sympathy with the  Holland  markets. 
No further important  movement in mus­
tard  has  occurred. 
It  is  said  that  the 
supply of Brown  in  California  is  prac­
tically  exhausted.  California  yellow 
seed is  momentarily  neglected,  but  the 
market is steady at  the  previous  quota­
tions.

The  Hardware  Market.

Trade is fairly good,  with prospects of 
continuance.  Prices have a  firmer  tone 
all around.

Wire Nails—Are  firm,  with  prospects 
of a slight  advance.  One  or  two  mills 
which  have  been  a  disturbing  element 
have been brought up  and  the  prospect 
is that better prices will rule.  We quote 
from mill 95@90c and from stock $1.20@ 
1.10.

Barbed  Wire—Notwithstanding  ad­
vances in other lines  and  in  everything 
which goes into barbed wire,  the market, 
at present, is weak,  but  no  change with 
jobbers has been noticed. 
It  is  not  be­
lieved that this  weakness  will  be of long 
duration.  There is no  change to note in 
prices, either at mill or from stock.

Screws—The  late  demoralization  has 
come to an  end  and  prices  are  firm  at 
85 per cent,  discount.

Glass—A new list has been  issued  and 
the discount changed, making au advance 
of  about  10  to  15  per  cent.  The new 
lists are not yet ready to  be  issued,  but 
soon  will be.

Wool  Twine—Is  firm  at  5@5)ic  per 

pound,  according to quantity.

Rope—Remains as  last  mentioned—5c 

for sisal and 9c for manilla.

Fishing  Tackle—There is a great scar­
city in hooks and flies in general  all over 
the country.  As the better hooks are all 
imported, everybody has been  short.

A Philadelphian who has  been visiting 
Jamaica  says  that  the  photographer of 
the party induced a group of native girls 
to pose for  him.  After  arranging  them 
to his satisfaction he prevailed upon  one 
of the other girls to take a  peep  through 
tbe camera.  What  she  saw  quite  as­
tonished her,  and she lost no time in  im­
parting to the  posers  the  fact  that  she 
had seen them standing  on  their  heads. 
Tbe effect was ludicrous.  When the pho­
tograph  was 
it  revealed  each 
maiden  frantically  clutching  her  skirts 
about  her  knees,  while  a  look of great 
distress appeared upon each black  coun­
tenance.

taken 

William Ulmer started  from  Bluffton, 
Ind.,  the other day for the oil fields  with 
a wagon loaded  with 720 quarts of  nitro­
glycerine. 
It is  surmised  that  he  man­
aged to upset the wagon,  but  nothing  is 
positively known  about  it,  except  that 
there was a tremendous explosion, which 
broke  all  the  window  glass  for  miles 
around.  A hole was found  in  the  road 
60 feet in diameter  and 15 feet deep,  but 
nothing has been  seen  or  heard  of  Ul­
mer, hia wagon or his team.

»I’HTl!  MICHIGAN  TEADESMAK,

2

ENGLAND’S  DECLINE.

America  Taking  the  World’s  Markets 

Away  from Her.

From present indications America will, 
in the near future, dominate  all the mar­
kets  of  the  world  in  the production of 
manufactured  goods.  The  old-time  su­
premacy of England is on the  wane,  aud 
even  in  England  itself  many  grades of 
American  goods,  particularly 
cotton 
goods, manufactured leather and iron are, 
sold more cheaply than the  native  prod­
uct.  America  has need of this  new  ex­
port business because her export of  food 
products has  declined,  and  she  has  not 
been  getting  as  much  money from other 
countries as she has been giving to them. 
The  enormous  increase  in  wheat  pro­
duction  in  the  Argentine  Republic and 
the large surplus  of  that  commodity  for 
export at low prices has resulted in  a de­
crease  in  the  exportation  of  American 
wheat.  This  Argentine  competition  is 
not a temporary one,  but is growing,  and 
is becoming more important  every  year. 
In addition to the decrease in  the  expor­
tation of American  wheat,  the  exporta­
tion  of  other  food  products  has  been 
seriously  affected.  At  the  same  time, 
there is a decrease in  the  exportation  of 
raw  materials.  While  it  is  true  that 
there  is  practically  no  change  in  the 
value of  manufactured  goods  exported, 
it is estimated that  the  average  decline 
in  the price  of the goods included under 
this head was not less than 15  per  cent., 
indicating,  of  course,  a considerable  in­
crease  in  volume,  although  on  a  lower 
basis of value. 
In view of  the  decrease 
in the exportation of  food  products  and 
raw  materials,  it  will  be  seen that any 
increase in the  exportation  of  manufac­
tured  goods  becomes  a  matter  of  great 
importance,  as  assisting  the  United 
States to maintain in their favor  the  an­
nual balance of trade.
The increase in the number of  articles 
exported indicates that  American  manu­
facturers are beginning to realize the im­
portance  of  an  export  outlet  for  their 
goods, and they  have  found  themselves 
able to compete with  England aud Euro­
pean countries in a  great  many  lines  of 
manufacture  which  have  not heretofore 
been  exported.  The  principal  articles 
of export which are now  largely  export­
ed from this country in competition  with 
European manufacturers, and which were 
not exported to any extent live years ago, 
may  be  enumerated  as  follows: 
Iron, 
barb wire  fence,  wire  uails, steel  rails, 
locomotives,  armor  plate,  agricultural 
implements, 
steel,  dry 
goods, paper, carpets, all  sorts of  cotton 
fabrics, aud  chemicals  like  sulphate  of 
copper, acid, etc.
in  certain  classes  of  tools  and  hard­
ware Americans, owing to the greater use 
of  machinery  and  larger  output,  have 
long stood pre-eminent.  Australian  aud 
South African doors  are  furnished  with 
American locks and  knobs,  and  we  fur 
nish as well  the  doors  themselves.  An 
infinite variety of hardware  used  in  the 
construction of dwellings is also shipped 
abroad in great quantities, and  you  may 
be  surprised  to  know  that  one  of  the 
very  best  markets  we  have  is  England 
itself.
Of  the  new  articies  of  export,  take 
barb wire fence,  for instance.  Five years 
ago the cheaper labor  of  England,  Ger­
many and  Belgium  made  it  impossible 
for American manufacturers  to  compete 
with  those  countries  in  supplying this 
article. 
In these five  years the superior 
genius  and  industry  of  the  American 
workmen have revolutionized the business 
of manufacturing wire  in  this  conntry, 
and  enables  us  to  supply  the  whole 
world  with  it.  We  have  beaten  Eng­
land, Germany and Belgium in their own 
markets.  We  have  driven  their  own 
manufacturers  out  of  the  export  busi­
ness.  Take the  next  article  mentioned, 
wire nails.  For years  German and  Bel­
gian  manufacturers  have  defied  compe­
tition.  They  have  undersold  the  Eng­
lishmen and controlled the  English  mar­
ket,  but we’ve learned how to make  wire 
nails.  Our inventors have given  us  ma­
chinery  superior  to  any  possessed 
in 
either  Germany  or  Belgium,  and  wire 
nails are  now  being  shipped  from  here 
to  every  part  of  the  world in  ever-in­
creasing quantities.

shoes, 

tools, 

I know of an order  for  20,000  kegs  of 
those nails.  We landed them in England 
cheaper  than  they  could  be made there 
and cheaper than they could be imported 
from  Continental  countries.  Now  look 
at the steel business.  We are  to-day ex­
porting American steel  rails  to  Cuba  in 
competition  with  German  and  English 
manufacturers,  and  our  manufacturers 
are  extending  their  inquiries  for  busi­
In 
ness  to  South  American  countries. 
this commodity tonnage is  the  principal 
question.  The  more  we  make, 
the 
cheaper we can make.  The  more we in­
crease our  output,  the  more  dangerous 
competitors we become  to  England  and 
Germany. 
It  is  only  a  matter  of time 
when we shall  control a large  portion of 
the  markets  of  the  world  in  this line. 
We export  locomotives.  American loco­
motives have been shipped  to  Brazil,  to 
Argentina,  and  even  to  Australia.  We 
manufacture them  here and ship them to 
those countries and  deliver  them  to  the 
purchaser there  set  up  on  the  rails  in 
running order,  at prices very much lower 
than the  English  or  Continental  manu­
facturers can name.  Armor  plate is an­
other thing that  we  have  begun  to  ex­
port.  You know, of course,  that  this is 
now being supplied by one  of  the  great 
American iron works to the Russian Gov­
ernment,  the order  having been taken in 
competition  with  the  most  celebrated 
English  and  European  makers.  Our 
business  in  the  manufacture  of  armor 
plate also depends considerably upon the 
question of tonnage,  and  as we continue 
to manufacture, the business is bound to 
increase.
We are particularly  successful  in  the 
exportation of  agricultural  implements, 
such as harvesters,  mowers and  headers. 
We are shipping  these  articles  in  great 
quantities to Russia  and to  South Amer­
ica,  and  our  orders  are  constantly  in­
creasing. 
It is only necessary,  in  order 
to  demonstrate  the  fact  that  our great 
competitors,  the British, fully appreciate 
the  competition  which  this  country  is 
now giving them,  to  quote  from  an  ar­
ticle in  the  London  Times.  1  don’t  re­
member  the  exact  date,  but  1  made  a 
memorandum of the  exact words.  They 
were as follows:  “Speaking at a meeting 
of the Council of the London Chamber of 
Commerce last week, Mr.  Bindloss made 
rather startling  reference  to  the divers­
ion  of  the  British  iron and  steel  trade 
to  other  countries.  Of  late  years  the 
United States bad  developed  their  own 
resources,  aud by a  heavy  tariff  had  so 
stimulated  production  that  they  could 
not only  supply themselves,  but severely 
interfere with  England  in  foreign  mar­
kets,  and he would not be surprised if by 
and  by they  threatened  competion  even 
in this country.”
The  competition  referred  to  by  Mr. 
Bindloss  has come  to pass, as great quan­
iron  have  been 
tities  of  American 
shipped to England itself,  and  contracts 
are  made  to-day  by  which  American 
manufacturers  uudertake  to  lay  down 
gas,  steam  and  water  pipes  iu  English 
warehouses at lower prices  than the Eng­
lishmen can meet.  Mind  you,  I  say  lay 
down in English  warehouses.
in the great gold  and  diamond  mines 
of ¡South Africa all  of the iron pipe  used 
is produced in America.  Why,  within  a 
few  weeks  a  single  consignment  of  a 
train load of twenty cars was  shipped  to 
Africa.  Nearly  all  of  the  gold-mining 
machinery  of  the  great  mines  of  the 
Transvaal is made  in  Chicago,  and  not 
many mouths  ago a steamer  was  loaded 
at New  Orleans with  machinery  for  Af­
rica. 
It was shipped  down  the  Mississ­
ippi River to that point.  Take  bar  iron 
as  another example; that is  the  iron  for 
blacksmiths’ use.  We are  shipping  that 
to  Japan  and  China  and  other  Eastern 
countries.  A  very recent  shipment  con­
sisted of 450 tons.  We  are shipping  cot­
ton  ties  and  hoop  iron  to  Bombay and 
Calcutta.  Bo  much  for  the  iron  busi­
ness.
Sulphate of copper  is  another  article 
which is very largely exported to  France 
and  Italy,  and  small  shipments  have 
been made to South Africa.  Not only  is 
the American  sulphate  of  copper  much 
cheaper  than  the  European  or  English 
product,  but  it  is  of  infinitely  better 
quality,  and promises to control the mar­
kets of the world.

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“Tole You So!” 

B

W h a t  did  w e   tell  y o u
ab ou t  S u gar?  C l e a r
I
ease  of “tole  y o u   so .” 
M an y o f  ou r  frien d s  m
acted on ou rad  vice an d
h a v e m ad e nice m o n e y
on  their*  p u rch a ses. 
H
W e   b elieve  it’s a good  H|
tim e  to b u y  y e t-S u q a r
is  ch eap   to-day,  v e r y
cheap.

But. ...Fruit Jars! 

Well,  they are “out of sight.”  Those who 
acted  on  our ■suggestions  have  reason  to  be
pleased.  Tliose  who  did  not  better  do  so  Hi
now,  and  oui
is,  DON’T  HUY.
They  are  too high—believe  they  will  be
lower.

advice 

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Judson 

Olney & 
_____Grocer
Co.

“C eresota” 

“ OOOD  THING—PUSH  IT ALONG.’

TH E   M ICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

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3

Do  You
Sell  Cheese?

If so, you,  of  course, 
aim  to get the best, but 
you  will 
“ miss  your 
aim11  unless you  get
J 
ID B A B

o

which  is  made  at  Mo- 
renci,  Lenawee  Co.,  in 
the center of the famous 
dairy section  of  Michi­
gan.

There  was  another article in the Lon­
don  Times  recently  which  pointed  out 
that  the  United  States  had  practically 
overtaken the United Kingdom as a coal- 
producing  country. 
Just  take  the  fig­
ures a moment.  You  will  see  that  in 
1870  the  United  States  produced  only 
one-third as much coal as  Great  Britain; 
at the end  of the next eleven years,  that
is,  in  1881, you will find that the product 
had increased to one-half  that  of  Great 
Britain.  To-day the  two countries have 
practically  come  abreast  of  each  other, 
and the result has been that  everywhere 
Great Britain has ceased to command the 
supremacy  which  she  formerly  enjoyed 
as  the  chief  coal-producing  country  of 
the world.  1 think it will be  a matter of 
some surprise to people to know that reg­
ular  shipments  of  coal  in  cargoes  are 
make to Liverpool for  gas  making  pur­
poses.  The United  States  produces the 
finest coal in the  world  for  making  gas. 
The  Englishmen  have  learned that,  and 
they  purchase  it  in  preference to their 
own product.  The Spanish and  English 
West Indies are supplied with coal  from 
the United States as  far  down  as  Gren­
ada,  one  of  the  most  southerly  of  the 
Windward group of islands  in  the  West 
Indies.  The mineral statistics show that 
the average value of the  coal  output  of 
the  United  Kingdom  in  1892  was  7 
shillings  and  3  pence,  and  in  1894,6 
shillings  and  9  pence  per  ton. 
In the 
United States the reported value  of  the 
output  of  bituminous  coal  for  several 
years past has not  averaged  much over 4 
shillings  and  3  pence  per  ton,  and  in 
some states the average has been  about 3 
shillings  and  6  pence.  Hundreds  of 
cargoes  of  coal  are  ordered  from  Eng­
land at prices considerably  in  excess  of 
those  at  which  the  same  coal could be 
bought  in  the  United  States,  the main 
reason being the fact that with free trade 
they are able to secure lower freights for 
coal-shipping, 
ves­
sels can obtain return cargoes.

because 

such 

The American workman  is more intel­
ligent, more industrious  and much  more 
productive.  He  is  also  much  more  in­
ventive than the workmen  of  any  other 
country.  Why,  you  go  into  a  factory 
to-day and you will see  something being 
done by hand,  and you go in  the  factory 
next week and  you will  find  that  some 
workman in the  factory  has  invented  a 
machine to do the work.  The machinery 
in American factories  is  largely  the  in­
vention of  the American  workman,  and 
the  improvements  on  the  original  ma­
chine are of his  invention.  He  will  go 
to work at his machine and in a day or  a 
week he will think of something that will 
make that work just a bit  easier,  or that 
will make it possible to run  his machine 
at a higher speed,  and to get more out of
it.  He will set himself to  thinking,  and 
shortly  he  has  an  improvement 
that 
maybe  doubles  his  producing  capacity. 
It is true, too,  that  he  is  not  seriously 
hampered  by  trades  unions,  as  is  the 
case in England. 
I know it is  generally 
understood  that  the  relations  between 
capital  and  labor  in  this  country  are 
strained.  The newspapers talk  about it 
and  the  Socialists  and  Anarchists  talk 
about it,  and the dissatisfied of  the  pop­
ulation lecture on it,  and try  to  drum  it 
into the  ears  of  their  fellow workmen, 
but  the  relations  of  the  employer  and 
employed here are infinitely  better  than 
they are  in  Great  Britain.  Why,  here 
was a case the  other  day  in  Fall  River, 
where  the  manufacturers,  without  even 
a  demand  being  made  upon  them,  re­
stored the  rate  of wages  paid  last  Au­
gust.  They  did  this  without  anybody 
asking them to. 
If there  had  been  any 
strained relations  it  is  not  likely  they 
would have done  it.

England is  actually  cursed  by  trades 
unionism.  A  very  good  illustration  of 
this fact is furnished by  the  shoe  strike 
in England,  where the prices to  be  paid 
to labor for  shoemaking  are  established 
by 
trades  unions.  This  strike  was 
brought  about by the desire of  the  Eng­
lish  manufacturers  to 
im­
in  or­
proved  American  machinery 
der  to  meet  American  competition, 
and 
the  workmen  declined 
to  use 
the  new  machinery  and  struck.  You 
don’t find  the  English workmen  invent­
ing machines to take  the  place  of  hand 
work.  They not only won't Invent them,

introduce 

I but won’t  permit  their  use  when  they 
are invented.  Before  this  strike  began 
the American  shoe  trade  had  for  some 
time been rapidly increasing in England. 
As with other manufactured articles, the 
commodity,  once  introduced,  took a firm 
hold.  By  striking,  the  workmen  there 
have given  the  American  manufacturer 
a  golden  opportunity,  which  he  has 
seized.  He  was  ready  for  the  strike 
with a big stock of  goods  already  there, 
and  he has  been  shipping  steadily  ever 
since.  Within  the  last  six  months  the 
shipment  of  shoes 
from 
the United States has been  large,  and  it 
is steadily growing.  There  is no reason 
why  the United  States  could  not  hold 
that market.  With their  improved  ma­
chinery and their superior  industry they 
can undersell the  natives.

to  England 

Tool  steel  is  one  of  the  articles  in 
which the  United  States  stands pre-em­
inent.  They produce the finest  steel  in 
the world,  and at a price whereby Amer­
ican  manufacturers  are  fully  able  to 
compete  with 
the  finest  English  and 
Continental products,  and  they  are  do­
ing it everywhere.
Dry goods  may  be  considered  a  new 
class of exports, and  a  rapidly  growing 
In nearly  all  classes of dry goods 
class. 
the United  States  is  gradually  increas­
ing  its  shipments  to foreign  countries, 
and is slowly  but  surely  displacing sim­
ilar fabrics  heretofore  manufactured  in 
and exported from England and the Con­
tinent  to  non-manufacturing  countries. 
I  was down in one of  the  South  Ameri­
can countries some time  ago  on  a  very 
different business than that of dealing in 
dry goods. 
It had not  entered  my  mind 
at  all,  but  I  happened  to  pass  a  dry 
goods store,  and saw on  the  stand  there 
some  goods  with  the  familiar  Nashua 
mill mark,  and on another pile I saw the 
word  “Merrimac.” 
1  went  into  the 
store  and  asked  the  man  where  they 
came from,  and he  said,  “They  are  im­
ported  here  from  Liverpool  and  Ham­
burg.”  I  immediately hired a dry goods 
expert,  and  we  looked  into  that  thing 
that very afternoon.  We  had the prices 
that  were  paid,  and  I  cabled  to  New 
York to get our prices on the same goods. 
1 found we  could  beat  them  about  two 
cents a yard, and I can tell you that from 
that day to this the dry goods business in 
Nashua  goods  in  that  country  has  be­
longed to America.
American  paper  is  another  article 
which  we  are  exporting  largely. 
It  is 
cheaper than any other  paper,  and  sev­
eral  of  the London and Liverpool news­
papers  are  printed  on  it.  Nearly  all 
Australian  and  many  South  American 
journals  use  it.  Significant  figures  are 
those showing the  exports  of  ten  years 
ago as compared with those of 1894.  Ten 
years ago  the  figures  were  $850,000;  in 
1894 they  were  $2,083,344.  The  reason 
for  this  is,  of  course,  we manufacture 
our paper from wood pulp,  and we  have 
plenty of wood and  we have  the  process 
down  finer  than  any  foreign  manufac­
turer.  We  have  better  machinery. 
Right here 1 might say that in the manu­
facture of  machinery  we  always  are  in 
the lead,  and the foreigner who thinks to 
compete with us by buying our machines 
finds that by the time he gets  them there 
and gets them set up they are back num­
bers in this country.  We have  invented 
something better,  something  faster,  and 
we beat him just the same.
Moquette  carpets  are  another  thing 
that we have  begun  to  export.  Ameri­
can moquette carpets  are  seriously chal­
lenging the English  article, and are sold 
so cheaply in England as to have brought 
about a heavy reduction  in  the  price  of 
the English Axminsters.  That  trade  is 
increasing rapidly, too.
A  very  much  larger  variety  of  all 
classes  of  merchandise  might  be  ex­
ported were it not for the discrimination 
in freights against  American shipments. 
This, as I stated before,  is  owing  to  the 
exclusion  by  our  tariff  of return cargo. 
The new tariff,  however,  has  either  re­
duced or removed the duty upon so many 
raw materials that, as  soon as the manu­
facturers have fully equipped themselves 
to take  advantage  of  the  new  order  of 
things,  this difficulty  should  be  largely 
overcome.  A  careful  study  of 
the 
world’s markets and a  comparison of the

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which  is a guarantee of quality.

W e   are  S o le  A gen ts 

for  the  ab o v e.

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JESS
JESS

THE  MOST  POPULAR  URANI)  OF

P L U G   T O B A C C O

In  Michigan  to-day, and  has only been on 
the market four months.  For sale only by

GRAND  RAPIDS

JESS
JESS
RINDGE. KflLMBflCH X CO.

12,  14  and  16  Pearl  St.

Manufacturers  and Jobbers of

B o o ts , S b o e s  & R u b b e rs

Agents  for the  Boston  Rubber  Shoe  Co.’s goods.

Now  is  the time  to  order  your  rubbers. 

They  will  be  higher  Oct.  1st. 
If you  place  your  order  with  us,  we  will  take  good  care  of you  and  give 
you the  best possible  terms  and  discounts,  and  guarantee  them  until  time 
of payment.  You do  not have  to  pay  for  them  any  sooner,  and  you  are 
more  sure  of having  your order tilled  complete  if given  now.  Light goods 
very  much  improved  in  style  and  quality.

Elwell—Taylor  &  Meyer  write  T h e 
T radesm an  that  they  have  purchased 
Phelps Bros’,  drug stock  only  and  that 
the  latter  will  continue  their  general 
merchandise business at the old  stand.

TTH K  MICmG-AJST  TRADESMAN.
Detroit—The  Lelaud,  Faulconer  & 
Norton  Co.  has  filed  a  notice  in  the 
county clerk’s office amending its articles 
by which its name is changed to  the  Le- 
land  «&  Faulconer  Manufacturing  Co., 
and its capital stock is increased  to $70,- 
000.

4

AROUND THE STATE.

M OVEM ENTS O F  M ERCHANTS.

BaDcroft—F.  A.  VanTuyl  has  opened 

a new grocery store.

Joppa—Wm.  Braden  succeds  Braden 

Bros, in general trade.

Alpena—Chas. Asselin  succeeds  J.  B. 

Elie in the grocery business.

Coldwater—Lowry &  Fenn  succeed  1. 

N. Shaw in the coal  business.

Gaylord—C.  W.  Bahel  has  sold  his 

drug stock to T.  B.  McArthur.

Hopkins—W. S. Campbell has sold  his 

grocery stock to L.  S.  Bookwalter.

Ubly—Chas.  McMillan succeeds  Grey- 

erbiebl & Murray  in general trade.

Lapeer—Salisbury & Dent  succeed Al­
fred Yosburgh in  the  grocery  business.
Carney—Chas. Swanberg succeeds Car- 
rigan & Swanberg in the  meat  business.
Paris—J.  L. Davenport succeeds J.  L. 
Davenport  &  Co.  in  the  grocery  busi­
ness.

Clare—Parrish  &  Wilson 

succeed 
Mason &  Wilson  in  the  millinery  busi­
ness.

Kalamazoo—Oscar D.  House  has  pur­
chased  the  grocery  business  of Peck  & 
Browne.

Detroit—Barnett  Bros,  succeed  Ben. 
Barnett  in  the  men’s  furnishing  goods 
business.

iron  Mountain—Louis  Stockley  suc­
ceeds K.  H.  Ingram as proprietor  of  the 
Ingram  Pharmacy.

Bancroft—F.  L. Convis  has  purchased 
a stock  of  groceries  in  Detroit  and  re­
moved to that city.

.

Brighton—E.  F.  Mills & Co.  have  pur­
chased  the  dry  goods,  shoe and  notion 
stock of E.  D. Alley.

Flint—J.  E.  Burroughs & Co.  are  suc­
ceeded by C. G.  Burroughs &  Co.  in  the 
flouring mill business. 

Gladstone—Weinig  &  Stenzel,  meat 
dealers,  have  dissolved,  Martin  Weinig 
continuing the business.

Saginaw—F. J.  Myer succeeds Geo.  A. 
Soyer in the wholesale and retail  liquor, 
tobacco and cigar business.

Ovid—H.  W.  Huntley  meat  dealer, 
has  added  a  line  of  groceries,  having 
purchased the W.  G. Cameron  stock as  a 
nucleus.

Saranac—Wilkinson  &  Co.  have  sold 
their  stock  of  harness  goods  to  E.  A. 
Rising, of Clarksville,  who  has moved  it 
to that place.

East Jordan—Chas.  Gay has purchased 
the  interest  of  M.  Muma  in  the  meat 
market business  and  will  continue  the 
business in his own name.

Alma—Caple  &  Hall,  hardware  deal­
ers,  will  soon  begin  the  erection  of  a 
handsome brick block,  two  stories  high, 
having a depth of 200  feet.

Zeeland—John  R.  Pruim  has  sold  his 
restaurant and confectionery  business to 
his son,  Ed. J. Pruim.  who will  continue 
the business at the  same location.

Muskegon—J. B.  Wallace  has  bought 
the  interest  of  Palmer  &  Moen  in the 
feed and flour store at 24 Pine street.  He 
will continue the  business  at  the  same 
location.

Midland—H.  P.  Whipple  has  sold  his 
stock of dry goods,  furnishing  goods and 
groceries to Trim & McGregor,  of  Ypsi- 
lanti,  who will continue  the  business  at 
the same location.

Dowagiac—A. L.  Larkin,  of  the  gro­
cery firm of Larkin  Bros.,  recently  sur­
prised  his  friends  by  announcing  his 
marriage,  which took  place last July,  to 
Miss Lois E.  Fletcher of 3t. Joseph.

St.  Johns—The sales made  by  the  re­
ceivers  of  the  Michigan  Mortgage  Co., 
Limited,  have  been  confirmed  by  the 
Circuit Court and  creditors  will  receive 
a dividend of 15 per cent,  in  a few days,
Allegan—Chas.  H.  Adams  has  pur­
chased 
the  Interest  of  the  late  A.  M. 
Sherwood in the furniture and undertak­
ing  business  of  A.  M. Sherwood & Son. 
The new firm will be known as Sherwood 
A Adams.

Manistee—C. D. Stanley has purchased 
the brick store building  belonging to the 
Dummer estate and has  leased  the  store 
for a term of  years  to  G.  A. Johnson & 
Co.,  who will take possession  about May 
20 with  their boot and shoe stock.

Kalamazoo 

(Telegraph)—The  mer­
chants of this  city  are  justly  indignant 
over  the  advent  of  a transient concern 
which advertises by handbills  to sell,  at 
ridicuously  low prices,  goods  of  a  very 
superior quality.  Concerns  of this kind 
are not uncommon in  the  smaller  cities 
and  in  nearly  every  case  advertise  to 
carry  very  heavy  stocks  of  A  1 goods, 
which, if submitted to  an  investigation, 
would  in  nearly  all  cases  stand  more 
than the usual  mercantile  cut  of  2  per 
cent.  ten.  Concerns  of  this  kind  are 
detrimental to a city,  because  the  goods 
sold are almost  invariably  of  a  shoddy 
variety,  and  it  is  because  of  this  fact 
that such apparent  bargains  can  be  of­
fered.  As  a  matter  of  fact  such  con­
cerns cannot buy at any lower rates than 
local merchants,  but have a  cheap  stock 
made  up  for  transient sales.  The pub­
lic should consider  that the articles they 
purchase  are  of  an  inferior  quality  to 
that offered  by home business  men  and, 
more than that,  that money  paid to such 
concerns  is  taken  away  from  the  city, 
when  by  patronizing  local  tradesmen 
who are taxpayers in the city, the money 
is  kept  at  home. 
It  is  an injustice to 
these home  dealers  that  such  concerns 
should  be  allowed  to  sell  their  cheap 
goods,  temporarily,  without paying  any 
tax or license to the city,  and  thus  com­
pete unfairly with  home  merchants  who 
pay taxes and contribute to  the  support 
of  the  city  and  the  upbuilding  of  the 
community.

M AN UFA CTU RING  M ATTERS.

Ewen—The Ewen Planing Mill Co. has 
merged its  business  into  a  corporation 
under the same style.

Holly—Lane Bros.,  wire  fence  manu­
facturers, are  succeeded  by  the  Cyclone 
Woven Wire Fence Co.

Remus—Henry Moiies  has  started  his 
sawmill  for  the  season.  He  has about 
3,000,000 feet of logs to cut at that point.
Standish—Norris’  sawmill  building  is 
in frame and  nearly  enclosed,  and  the 
machinery  is  being  placed  in  position, 
it is expected the mill will start the first 
of June.

Saginaw—The  Michigan Salt Company 
has reduced the  price  of  fine  salt  from 
60 to 55 cents, the reduction taking effect 
May  1.  The  Company  has  about 200,- 
000 barrels of salt on hand and as the ac­
tive manufacturing  season  has  arrived, 
stocks  will  continue 
to  accumulate. 
About seven-eights of the salt product is 
handled  by  the  Salt  Company.  Last 
year the salt  product  of  the  State  was 
3,485-,426 barrels.

Five large flour milling plants  of  Mil­
waukee  have  been  merged into a combi­
nation, or trust,  with the object of reduc­
ing expenses by doing away with Eastern 
representatives  and  traveling  agents. 
Only two plants are left out of  the  com­
bination. 
It  is stated that the output of 
the  mills  will  be  regulated  by  the  re­
quirements of the trade.

it is of interest to this  country  that  a 
probable result of  British  aggression  in 
Venezuela  and  Nicaragua  will  be  the 
boycotting  of  English  trade  by  all  the 
Central  American  republics.  Such  a 
movement would be to the  advantage  of 
American  trade.

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John  D.  Rockefeller  announces  that 
the great ambition of his life is  to  accu­
mulate  a  fortune  of  $500,000,000.  The 
rest of us can now be easy, 
it looked as 
though he wanted the earth.
Grand  Rapids  Retail  Grocers’ Ass’n.
President—E. W h it e .
Secretary—E . A.  St o w e.
Treasurer—J .  G e o . L e h m a n .

SUGAR  CARD—GRANULATED.

654 cents per pound.
4l- pounds for £5 cents.
10  pounds for 50 cents.
20  pounds for SI.
Jackson  Retail  Grocers’  Association. 
President—P a u l  W.  H a e f n e r .
Secretary—W. H.  Porter.
Treasurer—J .  F .  II e l m e r .
5 cents per pound.
5 pounds for 25 cents.
11 pounds for 50 cents.
22 pounds for $1.
Ask J. P.  Visner for  Edwin  J.  Gillies 
& Co.’s special  inducements on early im­
port teas for June shipment.

SUGAR CARD—GRANULATED.

I'KODUCK  MARKET.

Asparagus—25c per doz. bunches.
Beans—Quiet  anil  dull,  the  market  having 
slumped off 2;.Je,  with  possibility  of  a  further 
decline.

Butter—Not  quite so  plenty as a week ago, al­
though  the  fresh  grass  is  sure to increase tin- 
supply in a few days.  Choice  dairy  brings  13@ 
10c,  with  no  established  price  for  low  grades. 
Creamery,  18@19c.

Beets—Dry, 25c per bu.
Cabbages — California  stock  is  beginning  to 

arrive,  commanding #1.50 per doz.

Cauliflower—$1.50 per doz.
Celery—California stock, $1  per doz.'
Cucumbers—#1 per doz.
Eggs—1 l@.12c per doz.
Onions—Home  grown  dry  stock  is  dull  and 
about played out, occasional sales being made at 
55@ti0p per bu.  Bermuda  stock  is in better de­
mand at $2.25 per bu.  Green  stock is meeting  a 
large demand, which is amply  supplied by local 
growers, at StSjlOc per doz. bunches.

Pieplant— lc per lb.
Potatoes—The  market  is  sick,  owing  to the 
cessation  in  the  demandat  the  principal con­
suming centers, due to the fact that the fanners 
in  Ohio  and  Indiana  arc  now  marketing  tin- 
stock they have  been  holding  for  #1.  Fearing 
they will  not  realize  their  anticipations,  they 
art* dumping their stocks at any  price  they  e.i.i 
get, which has caused a temporary  break in tin- 
market.  Whether  the  ground  lost  will  be  re­
gained and the price resume its former position, 
no one is qualified to predict with any-degree ot 
accuracy.  The  hot  weather is causing stock to 
sprout  considerably  and  from  now  on  tin- 
shrinkage will be  heavy,  so  that  even  though 
the market  should  revive  the  enhanced  price 
will only partially make up the loss.

Spinach—35c perbu.
Strawberries—The  indications  are  that  Ten­
nessee stock will  be  sold  very  low  before  tin- 
end of the week.  The warm weatheris pushing 
the crop on the market very rapidly and  all  re­
ports agree in the statement that  the  yield will 
be  unusually  large.  Handlers  offered  choice 
stock Monday at 12@15c  and  it  is  possible  tin- 
price will go to 8® JOc before the week is over.

Thos.  E.  Wykes

LIME,  SEWER  PIPE, 
FLOUR,  FEED,  Etc.

Any  quantities,  Wholesale  and  Retail. 

\' rite 

for prices.

45  S.  Oiviston  St.,  Grand  Rapids.

Pigeon—R.  Mitchell has  built  a  small 
sawmill near  this  place,  where  he  has 
nine  40-acre  tracts  of  timber,  500,000 
feet of pine  on  skids,  and  will  lumber 
1,000,000  feet  more  of  pine,  oak,  ash, 
elm and cedar.  He  is  building  a  tram 
road a  mile  long  for  log  hauling  pur­
poses.

Greenville-- At the  annual  meeting  of 
the  Bradley  Cigar  Co.,  held  April  30, 
Will H.  Bradley,  A.  Magee,  L.  W. Hyde, 
W.  B.  Burris  and  Geo.  S.  Kent  were 
elected directors.  The  directors  subse­
quently  elected  the  following  officers: 
President,  Will  U.  Bradley;  Vice-Presi­
dent, A. Magee; Secretary and Treasurer, 
L.  W.  Hyde.

Bay  City—Unless  some  other  parties 
purchase the Sage  &  Co.  sawmill  plant 
there is no likelihood that it will  be  op­
erated.  Mr. Sage  is too old to engage in 
the manufacturing business and his  sons 
are  engaged  in  other  lines  of  business 
and  have  no  intentiou  of operating the 
plant  again.  The  site  is  an  excellent 
one for a planing mill and factory.

Saginaw—The  Western  Telephone 
Construction  Co., of  Chicago,  has  pur­
chased over 100,000 telephone  poles here 
and on the Huron  shore.  The poles run 
from  25  to  80  feet  In  length  and  the 
prices paid  range from 75 cents  to  $13  a 
pole.  The  deal  represents  an  invest­
ment of  nearly  $200,000  and  this  com­
pany owns  about  all  of  the  poles  that 
were on the market in this  section of the 
State.

Homestead—The  Guelph  Patent  Cask 
conducts  manufacturing 
Co.,  which 
plants at Guelph,  Ont.,  and  Wolverine, 
Mich.,  has  purchased  10,000  acres  of 
hardwood  timber  in  this  vicinity  and 
will found a town six miles  north of this 
place,  giving it the name of Honor.  Ex­
tensive  sawmill  and  barrel  machinery 
wilt be put in,  and  in  all  probability  a 
general store will  be opened  as  soon  as 
the necessary  building  can  be  erected. 
E. T.  Henry is manager of the company’s 
operations in this locality.

Stupidity  in a  Beginner.

"Say,” said the new boy,  “there  ain’t 
these 

enough  berries  here  to  till  all 
boxes.”

The fruit dealer  came to see what was 
wrong.  He  picked up  one  of  the  filled 
boxes,  looked into it,  and then  under  it.
"No wonder,”  he said,  "You have got 

them upside down.”

Edward Tucker, a prominent merchant 
of Port Tampa,  Fla.,  got  a  dose  of  his 
own  medicine  the  other  night, 
it was 
not given according to law, but,  from all 
accounts, he got bis deserts.  He has been 
used to getting drunk  and going  home to 
abuse  his  wife.  He  received  several 
anonymous warnings,  but paid  little  at­
tention  to  them.  A  few nights ago his 
wife  was  heard  screaming. 
In  a  few 
minutes  a  number  of  meu  entered  the 
house, and  dragged  Tucker  to  the  out­
skirts  of  the  town.  Here  some women 
dressed in white caps took him  in  hand, 
bared his back, bound him to  a tree,  and 
thrashed  him  with  rawhides  until  his 
back  was  raw. 
it  is  said that some of 
Tampa’s most prominent women held the 
whips.

GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

Peter  Braam succeeds Braam  & Smith 
in the meat business at 699  South  Divis­
ion street.

W.  M.  Griffith succeeds M.  A.  (Mrs. I. 
F.) Griffith in  the boot aud shoe business 
at 40 Monroe street.

Mrs.  Ada Benedict  has  purchased  the 
millinery  stock  of  Mrs.  M.  B.  Keeler at 
450 South Division street.

J.  H.  Lowell &Co.  have  removed their 
hardware  stock  from  Wacousta  to  this 
city,  locating at 477 East street.

M. J.  Butler,  undaunted  by  fire,  has 
resumed  the  grocery  business  at  Sand 
Lake.  The Musselman  Grocer  Co.  fur­
nished the stock.

Frank  E.  Shattuck  and  G.  A.  Goul, 
whose general stocks were burned in the 
recent  fire  at  Sand  Lake,  have  re en­
gaged  in  the  grocery  business  at  that 
place.  TheOluey  &  Judson  Grocer  Co. 
furnished  both stocks.

Chas. W. Shedd, who has been engaged 
in the manufacture  of  pickles  and  pre­
serves  for  several years, has removed to 
Norfolk,  Va.,  where  he  has  made  ar­
rangements to embark in the pickle busi­
ness on a somewhat extensive scale.

The Commercial  Credit Co.  finds it ne­
cessary to use  more  floor  space  than  is 
available in its present  location and  has 
made arrangements for more commodious 
offices on the fifth  floor of the Widdicomb 
building.  The  change  of  location  will 
oecur about Sept.  1.

John  M.  Smith  and  John *Viergever 
have  purchased  the  grocery  stock  of 
James  M.  Robinson  at  220  Plainfield 
avenue,  and will  continue  the  business 
under the  style  of  Smith  &  Viergever. 
Mr. Robinson has purchased the  grocery 
stock of Wm. Z.  Hazlett at the  corner of 
Sweet street and Coit avenue.

Robt.  Gleason,  Edward  J. Jackoboise 
and A. H.  Waterson,  proprietors  of  the 
Grand Rapids Machine Works, at 36 Mill 
street,  have  purchased  the  West  Side 
Iron  Works  of  Jos.  Jackoboise,  leased 
his building and will continue  the  busi­
ness under  the  style  of  the  West  Side 
Iron  Works.  The  consolidation  gives 
the  new  concern  the  benefit  of  larger 
quarters  and  more  machinery,  which 
will  enable  it  to  increase  its  capacity 
very materially.

P u re ly   P ersonal.

Will  Berner, son of  the  late  John  F. 
Berner, the Luther  grocer,  was  in  town 
over Sunday,  the guest  of  Jimmy  Brad­
ford.

W.  F.  Bricker,  general  dealer at Beld- 
ing and Sunfield,  was in  town  last week 
and  placed  orders  for  two  Champion 
cash registers—one for each  store.

W.  H. Porter,  Secretary  of  the  Jack- 
son Retail Grocers’  Asssociation,  was  in 
town Saturday,  for the purpose of inves­
tigating the working plans  of  the  Com­
mercial  Credit  Co.,  having  established 
a similar organization under  the style of 
the Jackson Commercial Agency.

J.  H.  Lowell,  who  has  removed  his 
hardware  stock  from  Wacousta  to  this 
city,  was engaged in  trade  at the former 
place  twelve  years,  having  lived  in  the 
same township  fifty-five years.  So  well 
was he regarded by his friends and neigh­
bors that they presented him with a beau­
tiful gold-headed cane on the occasion of 
his removal from the place.

T H E   MICHZOAJST  TRADESMAN,
H.  B. Fairchild  (Hazeltine  &  Perkins 
Drug Co.)  went fishing on the  Fere Mar­
quette River May  1,  all  the preliminaries 
—except fish—having been  arranged  be­
forehand by  Thos.  Heffernan,  the  Bald­
win druggist.  Not meeting with extraor­
dinary success  Mr.  Fairchild  attem  ted 
to  buy  some  trout  of  a  man  whom  he 
found guarding a large  box  of  live  fish 
on the bank of the River.  The  sentinel 
disregarded  his  entreaties  and  it after­
wards transpired that  the  refractory  in­
dividual was a Fish  Commissioner,  who 
was seining trout for breeding  purposes. 
Since  then  it  has  been a standing joke 
around town that Mr.  Fairchild  tried  to 
bribe the Fish Commissioner to  sell  him 
some fish and the story is told, with vari­
ations, gaining  in  scope and  improbabil­
ity each time it is re. eated.

everybody wants to  stock up,  and,  when 
there are lots of  orders,  prices  advance. 
The prices realized  at the Montreal sales 
last week were not  extremely  high,  but, 
withal,  there  was  a  good  stiff  feeling. 
The  Freemona,  with  37,000  boxes  of 
lemons, is scheduled to sell  in  Montreal 
this week, and, as arrivals are light at the 
other ports,  it is expected that  the  vari­
ous Western  cities  will  be  well  repre­
sented and good prices  will  brobably  be 
realized, especially if  the  warm weather 
ruling at  present  continues  during  the 
week.  There is  considerable  complaint 
that  auction  offerings  do  not  average 
sound, a great many lines  showing more 
or less weakness.  A perusal of the local 
market  reports  on  another  page  will 
show  that  our  dealers  have  advanced 
their prices fully 50c per box all  around. 
All fruit now going out  to  the  retailers 
will  be repacked,  and be perfectly sound, 
and as prices  are  still  reasonable,  con­
sidering everything,  it  will  be  safe  to ! 
place fairly liberal orders.

5

Wants  Column•

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._________

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

764

765

Grand Rapids for  sale  cheap  or  exchange 
for  grocery  stock.  Address  Box  ltd,  Leslie. 
Mich.________________  

cantile  business, if  offered  cheap, for cash. 
General stock or boots and shoes preferred.  Ad- 
dress Box TOO, Stanton, Mich. 

House  a n d  lo t  a n d  v a ca n t  lo t  in
I  WILL  PURCHASE  GOOD,  LARGE  MER- 
WELL  ESTABLISHED  DRUG  STAND  IN 
F or  sa l e,  no  t r a d e—o n e o f t h e f in

Grand Rapids to exchange for a drug stock 
to  move.  Will  bear  inspection.  Address  No. 
763, care Michigan Tradesman. 

est  drug  stores  in  Grand  Rapids.  Clean 
stock, hardwood  fixtures, everything  first-class, 
at a bargain.  Stock and  fixtures  invoice about 
*1,000.  Reason for selling,  other business.  Ad 
dress No. 759, care Michigan Tradesman.  759
ANTED—A  GOOD  LOCATION FOR  FUR 
nishing and notion  store in town  of  from 
2,008 to 4,000, Southwestern  Michigan  preferred. 
Will purchase small stock  if  at  a bargain.  Ad 
dress 758, care Michigan Tradesman. 
758

For  sa le—sm all  d rug  stock  in  lo

cal option county and only stock in town  A 
snap for  the  right  party.  Reasons  for selling, 
other business.  Address Ipecac, care Michigan 
Tradesman. 

7gg

763

The  G rocery  M arket.

Sugar—The market  is  strong  and  ex­
cited,  two advances having occured Mon­
day,  aggregating  3-16c.  With  the  ad­
vance  of  last  week  the  market  is now 
5-I6c  higher  than  a  week  ago  and  the 
general opinion  among the trade appears 
to be that still higher prices may  be  ex­
pected,  some  predicting  that  the  New 
York  market  will  reach  a  5c  basis  by 
Jnne 1.  Other  believe  that  prices  will 
slump  off  during  June,  but  regain the 
ground lost by Aug.  1.

Cheesse—The manufacturers  and  job­
bers are holding the price  of  new  goods 
down to a low  level  for  the  purpose  of 
inducing  the  retailers  to  put  the price 
down to a shilling or 12c, on which basis 
it  is  believed  the  people  will consume 
large quantities of  cheese,  especially  in 
view of the high price of meat.

Canned  Goods—Chas.  W.  Shedd,  the 
pickle manufacturer,  was  in  Baltimore 
last  week  and  called  on  a  number  of 
vegetable canners.  He  found  the  can- 
ners,  as a class,  very  despondent,  owing 
to the  glutted  condition  of  the  market 
and  the  gloomy prospects  ahead.  One 
canner told him he  had  10,000  cases  of 
tomatoes  which he could  have  sold  last 
fall  for 70c,  but for which he is  now  of­
fered only 57c.  A large number  of  fac­
tories  have  gone  into  liquidation  and 
many more will not open their  doors  for 
business during the season  of  1895,  ow­
ing to the large amount of  goods  yet  on 
hand from the pack of  1894.

Bananas—The market has been bare of 
good fruit for  the  past  two  weeks  and 
prices  have  been  extremely  high,  al­
though at the same time our local  whole­
salers have made  but  very  little  profit, 
as  all  the  fruit  was  bought at  the  im­
porters’  sales. 
Friday  and  Saturday 
four cars came into this  market,  and,  as 
the  weather  was  extremely  warm,  it 
ripened the fruit very  fast.  During  the 
present  week 
there  will  be  plenty  of 
good  fruit  to  ship  out,  and,  as a great 
deal of it is ripe,  prices will be consider­
ably lower.  Outside  dealers,  in sending 
in orders from now  on,  should  instruct 
the shippers to send them fruit which  is 
somewhat  green;  otherwise  it  will  be 
liable to reach them in an  over-ripe  con­
dition, in  which  event  they  would  lose 
some of the profit they  might  otherwise 
enjoy.

Lemons—During the past  ten days the 
different auctions in  New York,  Boston 
and  New  Orleans  have  been  getting 
much better  prices.  The warm weather 
throughout  the  country  has  stimulated 
the demand  wonderfully,  and, as  usual,

Oranges—California  oranges  are  get­
ting so ripe that they do not stand  up  in 
a  satisfactory  manner.  Most  of  the 
fruit has to come forward in  iced  refrig­
erators,  and it takes but a  few  days’  ex­
posure to the warm air before  they  melt 
down  very  rapidly. 
In  consequence, 
Messinas,  which  stand  up  better,  are 
bringing  higher  prices.

Figs,  Dates and Nuts—Remain  steady, 
the demand being moderate.  Any dealer 
who  evinces  a  desire  to  buy in liberal 
quantities  will  be  able  to  get  current 
prices shaded considerably.

Candy—All  manufacturers 

report  a 
steadily  increasing  volume  of  business 
and that  the  factories  are  running  full 
time.  The  price  of  sugar  has  been 
slowly  advancing  a  sixpence  at a time, 
until confectioners have been  obliged  to 
tack J^c per pound to all staple mixtures 
and pan-work,  and it is possible  that  an 
additional  advance may  be  made  before 
the month is out. 
It all depends  on  the 
fluctuations of  sugar.

G rip sa c k   B rigade.

Geo.  T.  William,  formerly  with 

the 
Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co.,  has taken the 
position of  general  salesman  for  Mose­
ley Bros.

J.  P. Yisner, city  salesman  for Edwin 
J.  Gillies & Co.,  has  removed  from  the 
Eagle Hotel to the  corner  of  Bates  and 
Dolbee streets.

D.  G.  Crotty,  the  Muskegon  salesman, 
has  engaged  to  travel  in  this State for 
the R.  W.  Bell  Manufacturing Co.,  man­
ufacturers of  soap at Buffalo.

Geo. J.  Heinzelman,  traveling  repre­
sentative for Rindge,  Kalmbach & Co., is 
rejoicing over the advent of  a  new  girl, 
who arrived  at  his  house  last  week  to 
gladden the hearts of  her parents.

The  Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’ 
Mutual Accident Association  offers  $185 
in cash prizes to  the  members  securing 
the largest  number  of  applications  for 
new members before  July  1—$100 to  the 
person securing the largest  number  and 
$50,  $25  and  $10,  respectively,  to  the 
persons securing  the  next  largest  num­
bers.

W b a t Do Y ou S ay 7

J.  Boyer,  boots  and  shoes;  Peoples’ 
Credit Clothing Co.; Geo.  A. Powell, real 
estate;  Thompson  &  Co.,  grocers;  and 
others say that Shaw’s Name  File  Book 
for  keeping  accounts  is  unsurpassed. 
For  particulars  address  J.  C. Shaw, 29 
Canal street, Grand Rapids.

OR SALE  OR  EXCHANGE-HOTEL  PROP 
erty  Good  location.  For  particulars  ad 
dress J. C. Tracy, Custer, Mich.  ________755

stock  oi  groceries.  Address  No. 754. care 
Michigan Tradesman._____________  
751

FOR SALE  OR EXCHANGE—GOOD  CLEAN 
F or sa le—old est a b l is h e d   grocery

business on  best  business  street  in  Grand 
Rapids.  Stock and  fixtures  will invoice about 
*3,000.  Exceptional opportunity.  Long lease of 
store, if desired.  Stock clean aud well selected. 
Address No. 752, care Mich. Tradesman. 

F o r  sa le—a   f ir s t-class,  old-esta b

llsbed meat market  in  county  seat of 4,000. 
Central Michigan.  Cash  trade.  Will  sell half­
interest or whole.  Address G.B.C., care Michl- 
gan Tradesman._______________ 

,749

752

F or  sa le- t h e  m onroe  saloon  a n d

grocery property;  best  location  in  Lexing 
ton.  Apply  to  Pabst  &  Wixson,  Lexington, 
Mich.__________________ 

751
ANTED-PARTNER TO TAKE  nALF IN 
terest in my 75 bbl.  steam  roller mill  and 
elevator, situated on railroad;  miller preferred; 
good  wheat  country.  Full  description,  price, 
terms and inquiries given  promptly  by address­
ing  H. C.  Herkimer,  Maybee,  Monroe  county, 
Mich. 

estate, write me.  I  can  satisfy  you.  Chas 
E. Mercer, Rooms 1 and 2, Widdicomb  building.
_______________ 653

IF  YOU  WANT  TO  BUY  OR  SELL  REAL 
I EIGHTY  CENTS  WILL  BUY *1  WORTH  OF 

U  a  clean  stock  of  groceries  Inventorying 
about*5,060.  Terms,cash;  sales,*30,000annually; 
strictly cash store;  good  town  of  7,OCO lnhabi 
tants.  Address 738. care Mich. Tradesman.  738

7ii

MISCELLANEOUS.

761

766

767

768

ANTED -   PAIR  PLATFORM  SCALES' 
standard make, capacity not less than 1,000 
pounds.  Large  platform  preferred.  Address 
No  768, care Michigan Tradesman. 
OR  SALK —NO.  3  DETAIL  NATIONAL 
Cash Register, suitable  for  merchant, prac­
tically as erood as  new.  for  *100 cash.  Address 
Rogan. care Michigan Tradesman. 

ters.  Cost *25.  Will  sell for *10 cash  f.o.b. 
Grand Rapids  Address  Grover, care Michigan 
Tradesman. 

I  TOR SALE-PECK’S  LATEST CASH  REGIS- 
IX RANITE  AND  MARBLE  MONUMENTS, 

I  markers  and  all  cemetery  work.  Largest 
stock.  Write  us  about  what  you want and we 
will quote prices.  Grand Rapids Monument Co., 
813 South Division. 
EN  TO  SELL  BAKING POWDER TO  THE 
grocery trade.  Steady employment, experi­
ence unnecessary.  *75  monthly  salary and ex­
penses or com. 
If offer satisfactory, address at 
once, with particulars concerning yourself, U.S. 
Chemical works, Chicago. 
\\T ANTED—POULTRY,VEAL, LAMBS, BUT 
TV 
ter  and  eggs  on  consignment.  Ask  for 
quotations.  F.  J.  Dettenthaler,  Grand  Rapids, 
Mich. 
ANTED—BUTTER,  EGGS,  POULTRY, 
potatoes,  onions,  apples,  cabbages,  etc. 
Correspondence  solicited.  Watkins  &  Smith, 
81-86 South Division St., Grand Rapids. 

WANTED—MEN  TO  ORDER  ON  APPROV 

al  one of the  best  “ready  to  wear”  suits 
made at *13.50, any  Btyle cut.  Strahan  &  Greu- 
lich, 24 Monroe street, Grand Rapids. 
ANTED—EVERY  DRU G G IST  JU ST 
starting in business and every 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.___________________

760

673

727

757

SITUATIONS  WANTED.

No. 762, care Michigan Tradesman. 

pharmacist.  Good  references.  Address 

■ ANTED —SITUATION  BY  ASSISTANT 
■ ANTED—POSITION  BY  YOUNG  MAR 

ried man in grocery or general store, small 
town preferred.  Eight years’ experience in gro­
cery.  Capable  of  taking  charge  of  books and 
doing the buying.  Very best or references.  Ad­
dress No. 753, care Michigan Tradesman.  753

762

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TH E  M ICH ia^ISr  TRADESMAN.

ENGLAND’S  DECLINE. 
[concluded  from  page three.] 

price? of American  manufactured  goods 
with  those  of  other  countries  make  it 
clear that the door of our  export trade is 
only ajar,  but  American  enterprise  and 
American intelligence and push will  un 
doubtedly  throw  the  portal  wide  open 
and  give  to  the  United  States  the  su­
premacy  in  the  manufacture  of  nearly 
all  classes  of merchandise for shipment 
to non-manufacturing countries.
We  have  practically  driven  England 
out  of  Canada.  Canada  purchases  her 
manufactured goods from us.  Take iron 
products.  We  can  manufacture  them 
here,  and,  despite  a  very  heavy  duty, 
which 
is  meant  to  keep  them  out  of 
Canada,  we  can  lay  them  down  in  the 
Canadian  market  for  less  money  than 
they can  be manufactured  for  anywhere 
else in  the world.  Recently  a public in­
stitution  was  erected  in  Montreal,  and 
the municipality wanted to put  in  steam 
heat.  They  purchased  their  apparatus 
from a Chicago firm.
The prospect of America was  never  so 
bright as now,  and  manufacturers  have 
not been slow to  see  their  opportunity. 
Merchants in New York who are engaged 
in the export trade are daily in receipt of 
inquiries as to the possibility of exporta­
tion of new lines  of  goods.  The  manu­
facturers are asking the  cost  of  similar 
goods in other countries,  and are showing 
every desire to establish  an  export  out­
let.  With  a good export trade manufac­
turers become more  independent  of  the 
conditions  of  trade  in  this country,  as, 
when trade is bad here,  they  can  always 
turn  to their foreign market and  be sure 
of sufficient work to keep their  factories 
going,  while in good times  the  increased 
output required  to  care  for  the  foreign 
market reduces the cost  of  manufacture 
of  the  whole  product, 
it  being  well 
known  that  the  larger  the output the 
less the cost of the article manufactured— 
the tonnage question again.
Curiously enough,  our high tariff had a 
great deal to do with the development  of 
It fostered 
the  American  export trade. 
our  American  industries, 
it  enabled 
large profits on goods.  The  profits  were 
so  large  that  manufactories  sprang  up 
all  over  the  country.  Competition  was 
something  tremendous.  Then  followed 
the combinations of business, which  were 
inevitable.  Some people call them trusts 
and  denounce  them,  but  1 say they are 
inevitable.  Our  manufacturers  got  to­
gether  and  they  regulated  the  output. 
In  one  line  of  business,  for  example, 
they  closed  up  thirty  per  cent, of  the 
mills.  With the other  seventy per  cent, 
they  manufactured 
tons  and  tons  of 
goods  more  than  the  country 
itself 
would consume.  The logic of the  situa­
tion would have been for  them  to  make 
still further reduction in  the  production 
the  following  year.  That  would mean 
the closing down of  more  factories. 
In 
that dilemma they turned to the exporter. 
They  said  to  him:  “Here  we  have 
so many thousand tons of goods  that  the 
country cannot consume.  We can afford 
to  sell  those goods at exactly what they 
cost  us.  We  have  already  made  our 
profit.  See  what  you  can  do  for  us.” 
The exporter went into the foreign  mar­
kets.  He put those goods  down  at  cost 
price,  and  he  undersold 
the  foreign 
maker every time.  Well,  the result was 
that the manufacturers  saw  in  this  ex­
port trade a safety  valve,  and  they  fos­
tered it.  Then it suddenly dawned  upon 
them that there  was  a  great  possibility 
of profit in it,  too.  It was chiefly a ques­
tion of tonnage with  them.  They  could 
run  their  mills  and  their  factories  at 
their  full  capacity,  and  the  more they 
could  make  the  less  they  could  make 
things  for.  That is to say,  the  average
cost  of  production  was reduced, so that
they  could put  their  oversupply  in  the 
foreign  markets  and  sell  it  at  what 
would  have  been  actual  cost  with  a 
smaller  production  and  make  a  profit. 
And they have done  it.  They  are  con­
tinuing to do it,  and  are  doing  it  more 
and more. 
It is because of this  that  we 
are destined to dominate the  markets  of 
the world. 

T.  A.  Eddy.

The  successful  business  man  is  the 
one who is honest in all  his  transactions 
in  the commercial  world.

G inseng  C u ltu re  in  C orea.

The following interesting item  from 

gentleman  who  had  traveled  in  Corea 
was published in  the Boston Herald:

It  is, 
It 

the  national  production. 

At  about  eight  miles  out of Phajre 1 
arrived  at  a  little  village  on the Imjin 
River,  where I first came close enough to 
a  ginseng garden to  inspect it.  Ginseng 
is  a  drug  grown  in  large  quantities in 
Corea for  medical  use  chiefly. 
fact, 
rather hard to grow,  and  takes six years 
to arri ve at a stage  of  perfection. 
It  is 
very valuable, therefore,  and  has  to  be 
continually watched.  A ginseng  garden 
is  a  peculiar  looking  contrivance  of  a 
number of  low  sheds  and  a  high  plat­
form,  well  roofed  over  with  straw,  on 
which watchmen  are placed to guard the 
drug  plantations.  The  watchman  is 
given a pipe and kept  supplied  with  all 
the  smoking  material  he  desires,  but if 
he is caught sleeping while on duty he is 
put to death  at  once.  The  seed  of  the 
ginseng plant is sown in March,  and  the 
seedlings  are  planted out in beds raised 
a foot above the level of the surrounding 
soil,  bordered  with  upright  slats  and 
covered  or  protected  from  the  sun and 
rain  by sheds of reeds three or  four  feet 
high.  These sheds are well closed in ex­
cept on the  north  side,  where  they  are 
left more or less  open  according  to  the 
weather.  They are built in rows, allow­
ing just enough room  for  one  person  to 
walk  between  them. 
In  the  first  and 
second years  the  ginseng  plant  obtains 
only  two  or  three inches in growth and 
acquires  only  two  leaves. 
It  is  trans­
planted frequently  during this period  of 
its  progress.  By  the  fourth  year  the 
stem obtains about six  inches of growth, 
and  in  the  fifth  year  a strong,  healthy 
plant has  reached  maturity, 
it  is  not, 
however,  unusual  to  leave  it  in  the 
ground another year after this.  The cul­
tivation of  the  plant  is  entirely  in  the 
bands  of  a  few  privileged 
farmers, 
licensed  by the King,  whose privy purse 
is largely dependent upon  the  monopoly 
of this drug, 
in 1891 the  revenue  from 
this source was estimated by a very com­
petent  authority  to  be  over 468,000,000 
cash,  or about $500,000.
Professional  R ecognition  of  P h arm a­

c ists  in  th e   A rm y  a n d   N avy.

In the army of the United States  there 
are three ranks only for  the  pharmacist: 
that of private  in  the  hospital  corps  at 
$13 a month,  acting  hospital  steward  at 
$25 a month,  and hospital steward at $50. 
Hospital  steward  ranks  only as high  as 
ordnance  sergeant. 
In  contrast  to this, 
veterinary  surgeons  get  $100  a  month, 
stone-cutters and carpenters  $3.50 a day, 
chaplains $125 to $175 a month, assistant 
surgeons  $165  a  month,  and  surgeons 
from $250 to $625 a month. 
In the navy, 
the apothecary  ranks  only as a petty of­
ficer at $60 a month,  and  the  carpenters, 
sail-makers  and  gunners  even  outrank 
him and get from  $100  to  $150 a month.
in charming  comparison to this is  the 
high professional  position of pharmacists 
in European countries. 
In  the Austrian 
army the pharmacists rank  with the sur­
geons  and  assistant  surgeons,  running 
from  the  rank  of  lieutenant  to  senior 
lieutenant,  captain,  major,  lieutenant- 
colonel,  up to full  colonel. 
In  the  Ger­
man army,  the  service  is  arranged  in  a 
very  similar  manner, as  is  also  that of 
In the Italian  army  the rank 
Hungary. 
is  from  second  lieutenant  through  the 
various  grades  up  to  full  colonel. 
In 
both the French and Russian armies, the 
ranking is still  higher,  the highest  rank
of the apothecary  in each of them being
that of  major-general.  What  a contrast 
does our own service of the United States 
present!  In the civilized world the dila­
tory action of the United  States  is  only 
equaled by that  of  China  and  England. 
In the Japanese army the pharmacists re­
ceive  the  same  pay  and rank as second 
lieutenants,  first 
lieutenants  and  cap­
tains, the ranks being divided  into three 
grades.  They besides receive additional 
pay for special  duty.  Are  the  lives  of 
sick American soldiers less valuable than 
those of foreign countries?

CANDIES,  FRUIT8  and  NUTS 

The Putnam Candy Co. quotes aa follows: 

Standard,  per lb............  
“  H.H.................. 
Twist  .............. 
“ 

STICK  CANDY.Cases  Bbls.  Palls.
7
7
7

5 
6 
6 

Boston Cream................   814
Cut  Loaf......................................... 
Bxtra H  H.....................  8%

MIXED  OANDT. Bbls. 
Standard..................................... 5 
Leader.........................................5X 
Royal...........................................6 
Nobby.......................................... 7 
English  Rock............................. 7 
Conserves................................... 6% 
Broken Taffy...................baskets'' 
Peanut Squares................ 
7 
French Creams....................................... 
Valley  Creams............................. 
Midget, 30 lb. baskets...................................  8
Modern, 30 lb. 

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Palls
6%
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8
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7
8
12%

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Palls
Loaenges, plain............................................  8%
printed.........................................  9%
Chocolate Drops............................................  11
Chocolate Monumentals..............................   12
Gum Drops....................................................  6
Moss Drops....................................................  7%
Sour Drops....................................................  8
Imperials........................................ 
 
fancy—In 5 lb. boxes. 
Per Box
Lemon Drops................................................ SO
Sour Drops................................................... 50
Peppermint Drops.........................................60
Chocolate Drops.............................................65
H. M. Chocolate Drops................................. 76
Gum Drops............................................... 35©50
Licorice Drops............................................. 1 00
A. B. Licorice Drops.....................................75
Losenges, plain..............................................60
printed.........................................65
Imperials.......................................................60
Mottoes..........................................................70
Cream Bar..................................................... 56
Molasses Bar.................................................50
Hand Made  Creams..................................8C©90
Plain Creams............................................ B0@8O
Decorated Creams......................................... 90
String  Rock.................................................. 60
Burnt Almonds...................  ............... 90@1  25
Wlntergreen  Berries.....................................60

“ 

No. 1, wrapped, 2 lb.  boxes........................   34
No. 1, 
........................   51
No. 2, 
.........................  28

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CARAMELS.

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ORANGES.

California Seedlings—126,150, 176, 200,216.  -  2 75
200..........................  3 75
Messina  Oranges,  200.................................   3 CC

LEMONS.

Choice, 300...................................................
Extra Choice, 300  ........................................  4 0U
Extra Fancy, 300..........................................   450
Choice,  360  .................................................. 3 75
Extra Choice,  360  .......................................  4 00
Fancy, 360.....................................................  4 25
Extra  Fancy,  360, gilt packing..................   4 50

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that you will find in

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All  good  ones.
All  trade  bringers.
Sent  upon  receipt  of One  Dollar.

F R E D .   H O S S I C K ,

912  Main st., 

Carrollton, Mo.

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KENT  CO. 
SAVINGS  BANK

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

.Tno.  A. Covode, Pres.  H enry  I d em a. Vice-Pres. 
.l.A.S. V e r d ie r , Cash'r.  K.  V an  H o f, Ass'tCash’r
Transacts a General Banking Business.
Interest Allowed on Time Deposits.
Solicits  the  Accounts  of  flerchants  and  Indi­

viduals.
Directors—Jno. A. Covode,  I).  A.  Blodgett, 
I'..  Crofton  Fox,  T.  .1.  O’Brien,  A.  J.  Bowne, 
Henry Idema. J 110. \V.  Blodgett, A. G. Hodenpyl, 
.1. A. s.  Verdier.
DEPOSITS EXCEED  ONE MILLION  DOLLARS

Reeder Bros. 

Shoe Co.

State Agents for Lycoming Rubber Co.

IJVCOniNGS are our FIRST QUALITY 
KEYSTONES are our Second Quality

Large bnnehes. 
Small bunches.

OTHER FOREIGN  FRUITS.

“ 

Figs,fancy  layers  161b  ... 
“ 
“  301t...  .
“  141b.....
“  extra 
“  bags  ..........................
Dates, rard, 10-lb.  box......
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Persian.  G. M .50-lb
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"5@2 25 M iehiga i. and  to-d ty th •y s ami eco 11 1  to none
and aie is  well knt » 1 1 a an V.  A g rea manv of
25©I  50 till'  best retail  iner -haut
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made fr<1111  the  I’ll rest  1tuMht  aiI<1  OI tin best
style las s. and are the  1est fittilig go< ds i :  the
market. O ur  trad •  for the past nine ye: rs on
these go, ids has st< adilv ino •ease«1.
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Almonds, Tarragona.............................  ©
Ivaoa.....................................  ©
California,soft shelled 

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312
Braslls, new..........................................  ©  g
Filberts................................................. 
«10
Walnuts, Grenoble............................... 
«¡14
French..................................   ©
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Calif  No.  1 
Soft Shelled  Calif..................  ©13
Tabie Nuts,  fancy................................ 
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choice....................... 
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©  9 
Pecans. Texas, H.  P.,  ..................
8 ©11
Chestnuts......................................
Hickory Nuts per  bu., Mich.........
Cocoanuts, full sacks.................. '
Butternuts, per  bu........................
Black Walnuts, per bu..................

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Fancy, H.  P., Suns................................  © 5X
Fancy, H.  P„ Flags..............................   © 5*
»  ■>  Roagtjd.................  6© 6V4
Choice, H. P.,  Extras...........................   © 41*
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FRESH  MEATS.

B E E F .

Carcass...........
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Fore quarters.
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Loins No. 3....
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chucks............S*
Ribs--..................................................10  ©14
Hounds.............................. .......... 
51401 su
Plates....................................................3%@ 4

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Shoulders  ............................... 7
Leaf Lard.............................................  

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Spring lambs.........................................ip

MUTTON.

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Carcass.

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Which we guarantee to be eminently superior, 

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It will not contract or expand.
It is odorless, and absolutely waterproof.
It will resist fire.
It is  all  ready  to  lay  and  needs  no  coating or 

painting.

Write for our special low trade prices.

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  fllCH.

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Has proved the most satis­
factory of any Washer ever 
p’aced  upon  the  market. 
It is warranted to wash an 
ordinary  family  washing 
of
■oo  Pieces in One  Hour 
as clean as can be washed 
on the washboard.
Write for Catalogue and 
Trade Discounts.

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

CHARLES  F.  CLARK,  Pres.

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

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MICHIGAN.

T H E   N E W

with  which to provide for  ourselves that 
which  we  might  otherwise  obtain  and 
never pay  for.  Just  as  many  of  these 
will  be given  us  as  we  can  earn.  The 
merchants earn theirs.  Will  they  be ex­
pected to earn  yours  for  you? 
If  they 
do,  is it justice to them?  Some  of  them 
do,  whether they will  or  no.  Are  they 
who do adherents to the system  of  cash 
or of  credit?  Answer,  Mr.  Prosecutor.

Rex  Ronald  Ca se.

Lansing,  Mich.
The theory  that  the  moisture  in  the 
atmosphere has an important  relation  to 
such  nervous  diseases  as  epilepsy  is 
broached  with confidence. 
It  does  seem 
to  be 
that  in  comparatively  dry 
climates the worst forms  of  the  disease 
are rarer than in the localities where the 
air is heavily charged with  water  vapor.

true 

C Y C L E
S T E F
L A D D E R .

WRITE

MIRTH,  KRAUSE  i  GO.

MICHIGAN  STATE  AGENTS, 

for Catalogue.

Advantages of the  Cash  System.
[Entered in competition for  prizes  offered  by 

Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association.]

In correctly arguing the virtues of any 
one method of conducting a  business,  it 
is absolutely essential that it not only be 
judiciously  criticised  from  a “fore  and 
aft” standpoint,  but that it be compared, 
in a fair and unprejudiced  manner,  with 
the financial standing  and  prosperity  of 
business houses  using  other  methods of 
conducting  their  affairs.  We  cannot 
justly say that the cash  system is invari­
ably the means  of  bringing  wealth  and 
prosperity to all  manner  of  trades  and 
professions.  We  cannot,  on  the  other 
hand,  ignore its virtues,  for  that  would 
be even more unjust than in  the  former 
case.  Cash  vs.  Credit  is  not  unlike 
Jarndice vs. Jarndice,  with  which  Dick­
ens  has  to  do  in  his  story  of  “Bleak 
House,” not  only because  it was argued 
both pro and con for many,  many  years, 
but in so far that it was in reality  never 
decided until long  after  his  death.  So 
with Cash vs. Credit—it has  been lauded 
and  praised  on  the  one  hand,  while 
abused and  mistreated on the other.  Un­
til this great case,  for such it is, has been 
thoroughly tested,  we can only adopt the 
system or not, as it  appeals to us from  a 
successful business enterprise  here, or  a 
bankruptcy  there.  As  we  are not con­
cerned  with  the  “prosecution”  of  this 
system,  we  will  see  what  sort  of  a de­
fence we can make for it.

The first question is: 

Is it  looked  up­
on with favor in the eyes of the  law  and 
by our constitution?  The answer is that 
both our constitution and our  laws  echo 
and  re-echo  its  staunchness  and  ever­
lasting  merits. 
Is it looked upon  favor­
ably by the courts of justice and the  ma­
jority  of  business  men?  Never  has a 
system been more  loyally  courted  than 
this.  Can you adopt the system  of  cash 
and meet your bills as readily or more so 
than  when  governed  by  the  system  of 
credit?  Not  only  can  you  meet  your 
bills when due,  but you can pay cash  for 
them,  and charge the  profit  of  discount 
to your system of cash.  Will your trade 
be increased or diminished if you discon­
tinue  credit  and  cater  to  cash?  This 
seems to be the only point that the prose­
cution  have  any  hopes  of  sustaining. 
Will it bring them a verdict?  Let us see. 
They  say  that  long,  long  ago,  Simple 
(note right here  the  significance  of  his 
name) Simon,  when he  was  on  his  way 
to the Fair,  tried his utmost to  persuade 
the dealer in pies to give ¿im  credit; and 
when he found his pleading was in  vain, 
he boycotted the pieman entirely.  This, 
by the way, reminds me of the story once 
told me of a young man  who,  when  cen­
sured  by his  friend  for  leading  such  a 
dissipated  life,  and,  being  told  by him 
that  if  he  did  not  reform  immediately 
he would be ostracized by bis friends and 
the community at large,  replied:  “ What! 
ostracize me?  Why,  I'll ostracize  them.” 
Could he do it?  Then  could  our  prose­
cutor’s  heroic  Simon  boycott  our  cash 
merchants?
to 

return,  1  will  ask  what
prevented  Simon  from  eventually mak­
ing this purchase—and we have no record 
that  he  went  elsewhere  to  patronize a 
dealer who sold on credit—after he found 
that the pieman  was a  strict adherent  to 
the  cash  system?  The  fact  is  that  he 
had  (according to his  own  acknowledge­
ment) no money.  Well,  says  the  prose­
cution,  he certainly could  have returned 
home to his mother  and  induced  a  loan

Now, 

from  her  until  his  weekly  allowance 
should  fall  due,  if  such  he was accus­
tomed to receive, or could have borrowed 
the  necessary  penny  from  some  of  his 
playmates.  We reply that,  particularly 
in these days of financial  strife, nine men 
out  of  every  ’ten  will  find  this  a very 
hard matter to do,  although  they  secure 
their  indebtedness  by  some  chattel  or 
real  property  mortgage;  and  this  is  a 
fact  not  only  because  the wings of our 
American  eagles  have  been  “clipped,” 
but their property,  as a general rule,  has 
served them in this stead  before,  and  is 
tied up here and encumbered there.  And 
even  should  they  succeed  in  doing  so, 
again  we  find them  resorting to the sys­
tem  of  credit  and  taking  upon  them­
selves obligations which only the system 
of cash,  with  its  mighty  powers  of  de­
liverance,  can rectify.  So, in the case of 
Simon  and the  pieman,  we  find  a  man 
wanting  something  for  nothing.  Are 
they the kind of customers our merchants 
are  looking  for  and  for  whose  benefit 
they  are  expending 
their  well-earned 
money in advertising, so  that  they  may 
assist them not  only  in  calling their  at­
tention  to  something  that  they  would 
like to have,and have not,but in pointing 
out to them the inducements they are of­
fered if they  will  only  come  and  carry 
off  anything  they  want  from  their par­
ticular store? 
Is this  profitable?  What 
say you,  Mr.  Prosecutor?  Are  they  the 
people  that  our  merchants  dote  upon? 
Are they the people that  our  merchants 
can rely  upon  to  make  their  business  a 
successful one?

Again,  says  the  prosecution:  What 
will a poor man do when  he wants bread 
and butter and  has no money with  which 
to pay  for  it?  To  this,  I  affirm,  first, 
that  if  our  Government  ever  intended 
that our stores  should  answer  the  pur­
pose of public  houses  for  the  suppres­
sion of hunger,  thirst and  for  the  satis­
fying of the one  thousand  and  one  de­
sires and  fancies  of  our  many  million 
of American  citizens,  it would  have  in­
serted such a proviso among its statutes; 
and,  even  should  it  have  done  this,  1 
think it could  have been  carried  to  the 
Supreme Court of the United  States  and 
been proven to be unconstitutional, in so 
far that we are all  given  by  that  sacred 
instrument—which,  too,  was  formulated 
in the  days  when  hardships  and  priva­
tions were as thick  as  the  trees  of  the 
forest—the  right  to  a  lawful  and  un­
molested  possession  and  enjoyment  of 
our own legally acquired property.  The 
laws of our land and the customs adopted 
by our forefathers  have  formed  a  gov­
ernment  which  furnishes  the  working 
man  with many  more  luxuries  than  any 
other nation on  the  globe.  We  are  all 
placed on  the  American  soil with  fewer 
distinctions as to class, clan  and  to free­
dom  than any  other  nationality.  Why, 
then,  with  so  many  natural  blessings, 
and gifted with the true  sense  of  honor 
and  nobleness, all  to  be  inspired  and 
stimulated by our banner of freedom and
justice,  and  protected  as  we  all  are  by 
our unexcelled system  of  laws  and  the
good will of our countrymen,  can we  af­
ford to lose our freedom,  our  honor, our 
self-respect and—invariably  last, but  of 
great  concern—to  disturb 
the  placid 
waters of our conscience,  by placing our­
selves  under  financial  obligations 
to 
those with  whom  we  are  on  an  equal 
footing  and  to  whom  we  look  for  re* 
spect and  for  friendship.  Our  Govern­
ment has given us  the  Almighty  Dollar

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ENGLAND’S  COLLECTION  AGENCY.
The action of  the  British  authorities, 
in directing the  withdrawal  of  her  fleet 
from  the occupation of  Corinto upon the 
agreement of Nicaragua  to  pay  her  de­
mands,  justifies  the  prediction  of  Tue 
T radesm an  last  week  that  she  would 
not attempt to hold territory  permanent­
ly or entertain designs on the  Nicaragua 
canal inimical to, or  in  defiance  of,  the 
wishes  of  this  country.  There  is  no 
question  but  that  England  is  doing all 
she dares in  the  way  of  extending  her 
military  power  for  the  control  of  the 
trade of the world and that she is drawing 
her lines as closely as possible around this 
country;  but  altbougb  the  administra­
tion is so indifferent and although its rep­
resentative  at the English  court,  in  his 
lack of  “Americanism,”  appears  to  in­
vite to any degree of contempt of Ameri­
can claims and prestige,  there  is  in  the 
English mind so true an  appreciation  of 
the  real  sentiment  and  spirit  of  the 
American people that she will be careful 
to stop short  of  actual  antagonism.  Of 
course, she  could  not  resist  the  oppor­
tunity  to bully this country  a  little  and 
test  the  claims  of  the  Monroe doctrine 
by the precedent of a temporary  occupa­
tion,  but she is careful  to  stop  short  of 
the “thus far and no  farther.”

The troth of the  matter  is  that  Eng­
land, as a government, is essentially sor­
did.  Among  the  other  nations  of  the 
world  disagreements  occasionally  arise 
and,  when national honor  has  been  as­
sailed,  reparation  must  be  made by an 
apology.  Thus,  in  the  Allinnca  affair, 
an  apology  from  Spain  sets  ail  aright. 
It pecuniary  damages  are  claimed  they 
are actual damages  suffered  by  citizens 
and are such as the citizen  would  claim 
from  his  own  country  had  he  suffered 
similarly at her  hands.

Not so with England.  When  she  fan­
cies her national honor assailed,  the  sor­
did character of  the  government  imme­
diately comes into  prominence,  suggest­
ing 
the  stinging  rebuke  of  English 
greed  uttered by her late  poet  laureate, 
Tennyson:

that honor feels.”

“The  jingling  of  the  guinea  helps  the hurt 
Should  her flag be fired upon, or should 
she fancy some  disrespect  to  be  shown 
to her  representatives,  she  immediately 
sets the price, sends in her bill  and  pro- <

ceeds forthwith  to  prostitute  her  mag­
nificent navy to the work of collecting it.
Nicaragua  denies  the  justice  of  this 
claim as to its national character  on  the 
ground  that  she  had  never  recognized 
Mr.  Batch,  who was a saloon and brothel 
keeper at Greytown, as  a  representative 
of England.  His  entire  business  inter­
ests  were  not worth $1,000 and, as a pri­
vate citizen,  he could  not  claim  damage 
to more than that amount; but,  by  some 
pretense, he had obtained  credentials  as 
consul  for the English  Government  and 
nothing  but  the  guinea’s  jingle  could 
help the hurt.

England’s greed  in  this  instance  has 
caused her to overstep the  mark,  so  far 
as her interests are  concerned.  She has 
always enjoyed quite an  extensive  trade 
with all the Central American  republics. 
She will have lost the amount  of  the  in­
demnity many times over before the hos­
tility engendered dies out  sufficiently  to 
restore her trade to its former  condition.

IMPROVEMENTS  IN  THE  NAVY.
Congress,  at its last session, authorized 
the construction of two new  battle-ships 
of the largest type;  six  small  gunboats, 
at a cost  not  to  exceed  $175,000  apiece, 
and three torpedo boats.  This provision 
by Congress  permits  the  Navy  Depart­
ment  to continue the work of building  a 
modern navy, and the labor of preparing 
the plans for the new  vessels  is  already 
well under way.

The new.battle-ships  will,  in all prob­
ability,  he larger than  any of the  battle­
ships  now  being completed for the Gov­
ernment.  They  will  probably  exceed 
the Iowa,  the largest of the  vessels  now 
building,  by  abont  1,000  tons  in  dis­
placement, 
to  be 
utilized in providing a heavier armament 
than that to be given  the  Iowa  and  for 
greater coal capacity.

this  extra  tonnage 

The frequency with  which the Monroe 
doctrine  is  being  attacked by European 
countries  points  out  very  clearly  the 
wisdom of providing as soon  as  possible 
an adequate fleet of fighting ships.  With 
the two vessels recently  authorized,  the 
United  States  will possess six first-class 
battle-ships, 
two  second-class  battle­
ships,  two  armored  cruisers  and seven 
coast-defense  vessels.  While  this  is  a 
force of  seventeen  powerful  armor-clad 
vessels,  which  is  a  fleet more than suf­
ficient  to  cope  with  any  of  the Latin- 
American countries, or  any  of  the  sec­
ond-rate powers of  Europe,  still  we  are 
yet unprepared  to  properly  defend  our 
extended coasts, or protect  our  interests 
abroad,  from the  first-class  countries  of 
Europe,  such  as  Great  Britain, France, 
Russia  and  Germany. 
It  is,  therefore, 
to he  expected  that  Congress  will  con­
tinue  to  authorize  the  construction  of 
battle-ships until  our  fleet  is  equipped 
with a much greater  supply of such ves­
sels.

The six gunboats authorized by the last 
session of Congress  present  the most at­
tractive features of  the  new  naval  pro­
gramme. 
It is  intended  that  these ves­
sels shall be of  light  draft,  so  as  to  be 
able to enter  shallow  harbors  along  ihe 
Central  and  South  American  coast,  as 
well as be able  to  enter  and  ascend  the 
rivers  both  in  South  America  and  the 
China  station. 
In  order  to  economize 
coal as much  as  possible,  it  is  also pro­
posed  to  equip  the  new  gunboats  with 
ample sail power, so as to enable them to 
cruise with sails alone.

The coal bill has become a very serious

item of naval expenditure, and the Navy 
Department  feels  compelled  to  adopt 
everjr expedient which promises to reduce 
the cost of fuel.  With this end  in view, 
the Secretary of the  Navy  has  tried  the 
experiment of  sending colliers from  this 
country to meet the squadron cruising in 
the West Indies,  with the  result that the 
necessary fuel has been supplied at a cost 
of a little less  than  $4  per  ton,  whereas 
the cost of  purchasing  fuel  in  the West 
Indies would have amounted to about  $9 
per ton. 

___________ _____
UNREST  IN  BRAZIL.

Although  there  has  been  within  the 
past year a change of  administration  in 
Brazil,  and most of the people implicated 
in the  late rebellion  have  escaped  pun­
ishment. nevertheless, it  is  quite appar­
ent  that  all  is  not  well  in  the  South 
American republic.  Quite recently seri­
ous  rioting  was 
in  Rio  de 
Janeiro,  the  trouble  being of so grave a 
character as to  warrant  the  adoption  of 
extraordinary military  precautions,  such 
as confining the troops to  their  barracks 
and  holding  the  naval  forces  in  readi­
ness.  '  A conflict  occured  in  the  streets 
of  Rio  in  which  many  persons  were 
killed,  and a state of siege  was  declared 
in consequence.

reported 

It is also reported from  Rio de Janeiro 
that  the  present  government  distrusts 
the army,  aud relies mainly on the Eavy, 
which was the branch of  the  service but 
little depended  upon  during the Peixoto 
regime. 
It is feared that  the  army con­
templates a restoration  of  the  Ex-Presi­
dent to power by  a  coup  d'etat.  Owing 
to  the  dissatisfaction  in  the  army,  the 
government  has  been 
to 
strengthen the navy as much as possible, 
and that branch  of the service is now  as 
hostile to the army as it was  during  the 
memorable rebellion which kept Rio in a 
state of turmoil  for nearly a year.

compelled 

Although  very  nearly  a  year  has 
elapsed  since  the  collapse  of  the  De 
Mello rebel'ion,  the embers of the  insur­
rection still smoulder in the State of  Rip 
Grande do Sul,  and hut recently Admiral 
da Gama was  reported to have  gained  a 
victory there over the government forces.
It  is  clear  from  all  these  indications 
that another outbreak  is to be looked for 
in  Brazil  before  long,  and  this  time 
President Peixoto’s followers  will  prob­
ably  be  found  among  the  insurgents, 
while the government will  be  supported 
by  many  of  the  elements  which  were 
behind the De Mello outbreak.

In  the  investigation 

in  the  Illinois 
State Senate as to  the operation  and ef­
fect  of  the  Chicago  department  stores 
the  special  committee  summoned  the 
proprietors  and  managers  to  testify  in 
regard to the  peculiar  features  of  their 
business.  One  of  these  witnesses  was 
Frank H. Cooper, of  the  firm  of  Siegel, 
Cooper  &  Co.  Among 
the  questions 
asked Mr. Cooper were  the  cost  per  an­
num  of  the  firm’s advertising,  the  pay 
roll of the firm,  with the direction that it 
be produced, the  profits  of  the  firm  for 
the past  two  or  three  years,  the  gross 
amount of business,  and  the  amount  of 
taxes paid.  These questions  he  refused 
to answer,  with the exception of the last, 
which was  a  public  matter. 
In  conse­
quence of  this  refusal  Mr.  Cooper  was 
arrested and called before the bar  of the 
Senate,  where  he  presented  a  lengthy 
statement of his reasons  for  refusing  to 
answer  the  questions  as  to  the  firm’s 
private  business,  which  will  be  found

elsewhere  in  this  week’s  paper.  At  a 
caucus of Senators,  later,  it  was  voted, 
almost  unamiouBly, 
to  discharge  Mr. 
Cooper  from  custody  and  to  discharge 
the special  committee  whose  folly  had 
placed the Senate in so  ridiculous  a  po­
sition. 
It is possible,  sometimes,  to  get 
a few men together on  a  committee who 
will make such fools  of  themselves,  but 
that such questions should  be  asked  be­
fore an entire  Senate  is  almost  too  ab­
surd for belief.

The Cuban  war  promises  to  continue 
indefinitely, although little  is  known  of 
of  the  real  situation.  The  Spaniards 
continue to  report  petty  skirmishes,  in 
each of which  the  insurgents  are  badly 
beaten  and  prominent 
leaders  killed, 
while  passengers  on  steamers  coming 
from that country report severer engage­
ments  in  which  the  Spaniards  are  the 
principal sufferers.  They report a battle 
last week near  Bayamo,  in  which  2,000 
Cubans defeated 3,000 of the government 
troops,  with heavy loss to the latter.

The  Senate  has  passed  the  Johnson 
bill,  placing  building  and  loan  associa­
tions under  the  supervision  of  the Com­
missioner  of  Insurance.  While  it  is 
barely  possible  that  the  Commissioner 
of  Banking 
is  the  proper  official  in 
whose hands the building and  loan asso­
ciations should be placed,  yet the Senate 
bill is an advance over  the  present  lack 
of inspection and  supervision, and  it  is 
hoped  that  the  House  will  give  the 
Senate measure careful consideration.

The proposition is  seriously  discussed 
in  the  New  York  papers  requiring  all 
bicycles  to  be  provided  with  brakes. 
This  illustrates  the  stage  of  develop­
ment of the wheel as a  means of locomo­
tion  in  that  antiquated  burg.  Such  a 
requirement  in  Grand  Rapids  would  be 
considered only less absurd  than  to  re­
quire brakes on buggies.  Of  course,  no 
one should ride a wheel  in crowds before 
he knows  how to  manage  it,  any  more 
than  he  should  drive  a  baggy without 
suitable practice.

The cordage trust has put  into  opera­
tion a new plan  for controlling profits in 
its  field. 
Instead  of  a  combination  on 
the  prices  of  its  output, an  agency  or 
company has  been  formed  for  the  pur­
chase  of  all  the raw materials imported 
for the manufacture.  These will be sold 
only  to  members  of  the  trust  and  at 
prices  which  will  insure  fair profits to 
be divided among its members. 
It is not 
to  make  any  regulation  of 
proposed 
prices of manufactured  goods.

An outcome of the advance  in  leather 
by  the  leather  trust  will be an associa­
tion  of  shoe  manufacturers.  At  the 
meeting  when  this  action  was  decided 
upon an agreement  was  entered  into  to 
notify dealers that, to  enable the quality 
of goods to be kept up,  it will  be  neces­
sary to increase the price in  correspond­
ence with the increased cost of  material.

A  cargo  of  35,000  pounds  of powder 
has been sent from New York to Cuba to 
replace  that  stolen  by  the  insurgents 
from  the  magazine  of  an  iron  mining 
company in that island.  The  Spaniards 
will keep an eye on this shipment.

The Treasury report for  the  month  of 
April shows a deficit of  $8,704,854.  The 
deficit for the fiscal year to  date  is  $45,- 
247,006.

THE  INCOME  TAX  OUTLOOK.

According to the  advices from the Na­
tional  Capital  the  collections  actually 
made under  the  income  tax  law  up  to 
the present time have  been  inconsidera­
ble,  and the outlook  is  not  favorable  to 
an improvement in the  future.  The  op­
position to the law,  instead  of  diminish­
ing,  is  as  virulent as ever,  and the atti­
tude of the  Supreme  Court  towards  the 
measure  in  practically  granting  a  re­
hearing,  which  virtually  opens  up  the 
whole  question  of  its  constitutionality 
anew,  has  still  further  diminished  the 
chances of satisfactory  results  for  some 
time to come.

The  decision  of  the  Supreme  Court, 
announced some weeks ago,  left  the  ad­
ministration  of  the law in  a chaotic con­
dition.  The  exemption  of  rents  and 
bonds cut down  the  calculations  of  the 
Revenue Department, as  to  the  amount 
of  collections,  fully  one-half,  and  the 
agitation in favor  of a  rehearing,  which 
has practically been strengthened by the 
evident disposition of the  Supreme  Tri­
bunal  itself  to  permit  of the reopening 
of the whole question,  has  still  further 
upset the calculations of  the  officials  of 
the Government.

It is very apparent now that taxpayers 
will delay paying  the  income  tax  until 
the  Supreme  Court  has  again  passed 
upon the measure.  Justice Jackson,  who 
was absent from the bench on  sick leave 
when the first decision  was rendered, has 
now returned to  Washington  to  resume 
his duties, hence it is possible  that,  as  a 
result of a rehearing,  the law may be de­
clared  unconstitutional  and  the  collec­
tion of the tax entirely stopped.

The opposition which has developed to 
the law and the exemption  of  rents  and 
bonds have rendered its long continuance 
on  the  statute  books  impossible.  The 
interests which were most  urgent  in  its 
advocacy  will  now  turn  against  it  be­
cause of the exemption of  large  incomes 
derived  from  bonds  and  rents.  More­
over,  as  a  revenue  producer the law is 
entirely insufficient without  the taxation 
of incomes from bonds and rents, as even 
under the most  favorable  circumstances 
it could not be expected to yield half the 
amount calculated  upon  before  the  de­
cision  of  the  Supreme  Court  was  ren­
dered.

It is,  therefore, to  be  hoped  that  the 
rehearing prayed for may  be granted and 
the law declared  unconstitutional.  That 
would  be  the  most  convenient  and 
prompt disposition  of  the  problem,  es­
pecially  as it would prepare the way for 
the adoption of other legislation  looking 
to the  providing  of  additional  revenue 
without discouraging delays.

ONLY  USE  FOR  THE  LABEL.

The efforts of those who  are  trying  so 
persistently  to  advance  the  movement 
for the use of the union label in this city 
continue  unabated,  but,  in  spite of  all 
these efforts,  it  still  cuts  a  most  insig­
nificant figure in trade.  A  peculiar fea­
ture of the situation—or,  more properly, 
a too common feature—is that, when the 
labor agitators call upon the dealers who 
affect the use of the label,  an  interest  is 
manifested  which  greatly  encourages 
them and leads them to  believe  that  the 
label  movement  is  making  rapid head­
way;  but,  in the absence  of  the  ones  so 
immediately interested in keeping up the 
agitation,  because  their  prestige  and 
leadership  depend  upon it,  the  interest 
quickly dies out.  Of course,  there are  a

very few laboring men  who  are  careful 
to  see  that  the  “label”  is in its proper 
place,  but in  most  lines  the  manifesta­
tion of that interest is very seldom.

The reason for this is not far  to  seek. 
Unionism as a sentiment  is,  like beauty, 
no more than skin  deep  in  the  case  of 
the  great  majority  of  those  professing 
its  control.  This  fact  can  be  demon­
strated  by  anyone  who  will  take  the 
pains to talk with  any  large  number  of 
the more conservative and  intelligent  of 
those whose interests are not directly en­
gaged in its  propagation.

There is one thing  unfortunate  in  the 
practical  operation  of  unionism  which 
accounts for  the  organizations  doing  so 
many things  which  are  disapproved  by 
the  majority  of  their  members.  The 
spirit  of  unionism  is  so  active  in  the 
meetings that  measures will  pass which 
are  reprobated  by  a  majority  of  those 
present  in  separate  interviews.  This, 
in  conjunction  with  the  fact  that  so 
many of the  conservative  ones  are  not 
present,  accounts for the degree of  radi­
calism in their aetion which does  not ob­
tain in their  membership.  With  an  in­
terest  based  on  such  foundations  it  is 
only necessary for the  dealer  to  have  a 
label handy  to  meet  the  occasional  de­
mands  of a  purchaser  and,  more  espe­
cially, to keep  the  peace  with  the  agi­
tator when  they happen to call  on their 
rounds.  This is the only  significance of 
the union label in trade.

Armour  <& Co.  have published a  state­
ment of the accounts of  the  firm,  show­
ing  a  loss  in  the meat business of $73,- 
230.43 for the year ending Nov.  3,  1804, 
and a small gain for the part of 1895 now 
past.  The report does not, however,  an­
swer the question  asked by  the  Govern­
ment  as  to  whether  there  is  a  meat 
trust. 
It  is  hardly  conceivable  that  a 
trust could be formed of  only  four  firms 
that should control  one  of  the  greatest 
food  products  of the country.  There is 
this  to  say  about  it,  no such trust can 
exist any great length of time,  unless  in 
its operation it furnishes  its  commodity 
at prices nearly or quite as  low as would 
obtain  if  there  were  no 
trust.  The 
profits  must  depend  upon  economy  of 
management, instead  of enhancement  of 
prices,  or  open  competition  will  soon 
bring  an  end  to  its career.  Should  the 
maintenance  of a trust like this prove to 
be  possible,  the  question  will  be  sug­
gested as to what  extent  trust  methods 
may operate in our national economic ad­
ministration,  and, 
the 
economic  administration  of  the  world, 
for they are beginning,  as in the  case  of 
the  Standard  Oil  Company,  to  control 
their product in many other  countries.

fact, 

in 

in 

The Northern Steamship  Company,  of 
Hong Kong,  China,  has  put  three  new 
steamers into service on the line between 
Tacoma  and  Hong  Kong.  These  make 
six  in  the  line  and,  as  the capacity  is 
greater,  the  facilities  are  much  more 
than doubled.  This is  an  indication  of 
the  increased  trade  to  result  from the 
ending of the Eastern war.

Every available  British  vessel  in  San 
Francisco harbor is being  put  into  com­
mission for the transportation  to  Liver­
pool  of  the  200,000  tons  of wheat held 
for advance in that city,  and  forty  more 
vessels are on  the way to  engage  in  the 
same  work.  A  year  ago  Mission  Bay 
was crowded with idle  British  shipping.

T H E   M ICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

BREAD  AND  CRIME.

Germany is after the gamblers in grain, 
and the discussion there on  the  proposi­
tion to monopolize the trade  has brought 
out a curious fact,  which  may  apply  to 
trusts  and  deals  in  this country. 
It  is 
that crimes against property  increase  or 
decrease according to the  tiuctuations  in 
the price of bread.  The ratio of increase 
or decrease of criminal acts against prop­
erty compared with the  price of bread is 
one  in  every  100,000  inhabitants  for 
every six pennies,  more or less,  than the 
average  price. 
to  a 
moral  feature  which  is  of  weight with 
respect to the attempts  to fix legal limits 
for grain  speculations  as  carried  on  in 
this  country,  as  well  as  in  Germany. 
Gambling in bread is not good for people 
who need the bread.

¡Statistics  point 

John  Brodie,  of  Brooklyn,  has  $300 
worth of pennies  on  hand  in  his  office, 
and he is  anxious  to  part  with  them  at 
their face value, although some  of  them 
cost as  much  as  5  cents  apiece.  They 
are  all  of  the  1892  denomination,  and 
Mr.  Brodie has been engaged  in  making 
up the collection since April  1.  On  the 
morning of All  Fools’  Day a  friend  told 
him confidentially  that  the  1892  1-ceut 
issue had  been  recalled  by  the Govern­
ment  and  that  each  coin was  worth  8 
cents.  He acted on the  supposed  tip  at 
once,  and,  after much hustling among the 
groceries,  butchers’ shops and  saloons in 
Brooklyn  and  the suburbs,  got  enough 1- 
cent  pieces  together  to  till  two  large­
sized  baskets. 
It was  not  until  several 
days later that  be  realized  that  he  had 
been fooled._______________

roofs  of  stores,  etc. 

A  peculiar  substitute 

for  window 
glass,  known  as  “tectorium,”  is  stated 
to have been for some time  employed  in 
Austria, 
Italy,  Germany,  Switzerland 
and Russia as a  covering  for  hothouses, 
marquees,  verandas,  windows  of  fac­
tories, 
it  is  a 
special, insoluble,  bichromated gelatine, 
translucent  as  opal  glass  and  incorpo­
rated in wire gauze,  and  it is said  to  re­
fract the rays of the  sun. 
It  is  said  to 
possess the  translucency  of  opal  glass, 
and  to  be  flexible,  it  bending  without 
breaking, does not dissolve in  water, and 
is not injured  by  frost. 
It is a  bad  con­
ductor  of  heat,  and  becomes  stronger 
and stronger,  it is stated,  the longer it is 
exposed to  the  air. 
if  the  glass  is  as 
the  explanation,  builders will  soon  see 
through it.________________

The Supreme Court  of  Minnesota  has 
rendered  an  important  decision  to  the 
effect that the law  of  that  State,  grant­
ing  eminent  domain  to  telephone com­
panies,  is  proper  and  right.  The  suit 
was taken to the courts  by a farmer who 
objected to the erection  of poles in front 
of his premises.  This  confirms  the  de­
cision of the lower court  that  the  poles 
could  be  placed  anywhere  in  roads  or 
streets,  without compensation to owners, 
for  the  reason  that the  telephone  is  a 
public service.

The Detroit Tribune  proposes  as a so­
lution  of  the  currency  problem  a  plan 
that, at least,  possesses  the  elements  of 
novelty and simplicity. 
It is the coinage 
of a composite dollar, about the size of  a 
silver half  dollar,  to  be  composed  of  a 
mixture of gold and  silver,  in the proper 
proportions as  to  parity  of value.  The 
theory  is  that  the  depreciation  of  one 
metal must always be exactly made up by 
the enhancement in value of the other.

9
Those  in  a  position  to  know say the 
horrible condition of  affairs  in  Cuba  is 
not  yet  realized  by  the  outer  world. 
With the close of the sugar  season  next 
month there will  be  misery  and  famine. 
The sugar crop has  been  far  below  the 
average this year,  and all of  it  will  now 
be  subject  to 
the  new  United  States 
tariff on sugar. 
It means  much  loss  to 
the planters,  and  with the  beginning  of 
the  “dead season,”  lasting from the close 
of the sugar  season  until  next  Septem­
ber,  there  will  be  no  employment  for 
labor. 
It means idle hands—whites  and 
negroes.  Such  conditions  cannot  but 
add to the smoldering tires  of  the  rebel­
lion,  as a matter of fact,  but  the  act  of 
rebellion will  not make  the  poor  richer. 
Rebels, and  patriots,  and  loyalists,  suf­
fering  alike,  can  and  should get them­
selves together on a hard times  platform 
and  see  what  can  be  done,  outside  of 
shooting, to improve  business  and  make 
times easier.

An  observing  man  remarks  that  the 
figures  of  the  United  States  Treasurer 
make up one of the standing mysteries of 
the day.  We are all  the time said  to  be 
paying out more money  than  we receive, 
at the rate of millions a  month,  and  yet 
the general  balance in  the Treasury  does 
not  seem  to  vary  much,  having  been 
somewhere about  what  it  is  now  when 
the  “gold  reserve”  was  run  down 
to 
about its  lowest.  Alexander  Hamilton, 
who  devised  the  Treasury  system  of 
book-keeping,  would  seem  to  have  had 
some  such  notion of the office of figures 
as  Talleyrand  had  of  speech.  But  no 
matter  what  alarmists  may  say  about 
money,  it is safe  to  say  the  balance  of 
the United States«Treasury  will  always 
be all right.

That you can  learn  news  of  home  by 
going  aboard is  evidence,  by  the  revela­
tions  of  Japanese  papers  recently  re­
ceived  at  San  Francisco.  The  Japan 
Gazette of March  23,  notes  the  advance 
in  petroleum of from  1.90 yen to 2.25 yen 
per case,  and adds that the  rise followed 
the receipt of a cablegram  at  the  Yoko­
hama office of the Standard  Oil  Co.  As 
this was before  the  boom  began  in  the 
United States,  it would seem  to  indicate 
pretty  clearly  how 
the  advance  was 
manipulated in this country.

An electric locomotive of  a  new  type 
has  just been completed by  the  Baldwin 
Locomotive  Works 
for  experimental 
work in handling heavy  freight  and  for 
switching  in  Milwaukee. 
It  resembles 
the ordinary consolidation type  used  for 
heavy  freight  yard  work.  There  are 
four pairs of drivers,  fifty-six  inches  in 
diameter,  coupled  by  connecting  rods, 
the  end  ones  only  being  flanged.  The 
locomotive is provided  with four electric 
motors, of 250 horse power each, speeded 
to drive it at 35 miles per hour.

As  much  ado  is  made  over  the  ap­
pointment of Col.  R.  H.  McLean  as Com­
mander in Chief of the military forces of 
the Hawaiian Republic as would be made 
over almost any national appointment  of 
a  corresponding  character.  Yet  these 
forces  consist  of  an  army  of  only  700 
men and a militia of 1,500.

A prominent  New  York  lunch  room, 
known as Dolan’s, closed  recently  after 
a  career  of  twenty-six  years,  having 
earned its proprietor during that  time  a 
fortune of $800,000.  His original invest­
ment was $22.

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IO

THE  GAMBLER’S  END.

Dramatic  Incident Which  Occurred  In 

Utah in  1869.

As In the construction of the Union and 
Central Pacific  Railroads  their  junction 
drew near, two strange  spectacles might 
have been seen  upon different  points  of 
those  plains  of  Utah  which  then  pre­
sented so  melancholy, drear  and  desert­
like an appearance.  The advance of the 
Western line was being made by  a  great 
body of  Chinese.  There were  some  ten 
thousand of them,  and  they were so well 
drilled  that  their  work  of  laying  the 
rails  upon  the  previously  graded  road­
bed went forward with the precision and 
automatic  promptness  of  a  machine. 
They had worked on  the  Central  Pacific 
from  the  extreme  slope  of  the  Sierra, 
and  after  the  tremendous  engineering 
and construction difficulties of the moun­
tain  sections,  railroad  building  on  the 
level  bottom  of  the  Salt  Lake  Valley 
seemed mere child’s play to them.

Toward the last,  when both companies 
were straining every nerve  to  see which 
should reach Promontory Point  first, the 
Central  Pacific  force  actually  laid  ten 
miles of rails in one  day—a  feat unprec­
edented then, and, so far as my  informa­
tion  serves,  still  unsurpassed.  There 
was a considerable number  of white men 
on this side  also,  but  they  were  skilled 
workmen,  foremen,  bridge-builders, and 
so forth.

gamblers, 

Strict discipline was maintained in the 
Central Pacific  construction  camps,  and 
the  more  easily,  since  permission  to 
open  peripatetic  drinking-booths  was 
steadily  refused  to  all  applicants.  A 
different condition  of  things  existed  on 
the  Union  Pacific,  ¿ s  that  road  ad­
vanced bejond the settlement on its way 
westward, 
its  construction  camps  at­
tracted  some  of  the  most  lawless  and 
desperate  men  of  those  who  habitually 
hang  upon  the  selvages  of  civilization. 
There  were 
rumsellers, 
thieves,  bullies,  murderers  and  ruffians 
of every kind,  and  they were  absolutely 
unrestrained.  The  chief  attraction  to 
this  mercenary  crowd  was  the wages  of 
the  railroad  hands,  and  every  pay-day 
was the occasion of  orgies which  invari­
ably ended in fighting,  more or  less  pro­
miscuous, and  usually  several  murders. 
Justice,  however,  made  no  attempt  to 
control  or  administer  the  laws  upon 
these evil birds of  passage;  and  as  they 
generally  killed  one  another  during 
their  mad  outbreaks,  perhaps  it  was 
thought judicious  to  let  them  save  the 
Territory expense in this way.

In passing through the settled  regions, 
the men employed on the construction of 
the Union Pacific had given  a  good  deal 
of trouble,  being a pretty rough  lot,  in­
dependent  of  the  influences  exerted  by 
the  following  of  criminals  and  outlaws 
just  spoken  of. 
It  was the  practice  of 
these birds of prey to put up little towns 
of tents at  convenient  points,  and  then 
open saloons and gambling-hells.  These 
ambulatory  villages never remained long 
in one place,  but followed  the  construc­
tion  parties  as  closely  as  possible.  As 
the Utah Valley was traversed, the influx 
of  desperadoes  swelled,  and,  a  short 
time before the union of the two lines  at 
Promontory, the atmosphere  of  the  last 
of the gambling and drinking  camps  be­
came so preternaturally sultry that  even 
the  veterans  began  to  feel  nervous. 
The  place  had  received  the  suggestive 
and significant name of “Kill-Me-Quick,”

TH E  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

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To  the  Common  Sense  °f  the  Clerks  as  well  as  the  Mer­
chants.  The Clerks prefer the CHAMPION because it shows 
which  person  in  the  store  is  making  mistakes.  Therefore, 
they are  not blamed for the faults of others.

and the title was justified.  It was a rare 
event  for  any  dawn  to  break  in  that 
haunt of iniquity  without  bringing  into 
view three or four  stiff  forms  stretched 
on  the  scrubby  sage-brush  about  the 
tents.  No inquiry was ever  made  as  to 
how  they  met  their  death, nor  was  it 
thought worth while to give them decent 
burial.  The most that was  done  was  to 
hire 
some  particularly  out-at-elbows 
hanger-on to drag the bodies out into the 
open, and there they were left to the dis­
posal of  the  coyotes.  No  man’s  life  at 
“Kill-Me-Quick”  was  ever  worth  two 
minutes’  purchase,  for not only were pis­
tols  drawn  at  all  hours  of the day and 
night,  but  the  thinness  of  the  tents  in 
which every one lived invited  stray  bul­
lets,  which frequently found  unintended 
billets.  There were a few women  in the 
place,  and these were of the most desper­
ate  and  abandoned  kind;  even  quicker 
than the men with the  pistol  aud  knife, 
and  reckless  in  all  wfty9  beyond  con­
ception.

this  state  at 

Things  were  in 

the 
“ front” of the  Union  Pacific,  when,  in 
the  spring  of  1869,  the  writer  of  this 
sketch went from  San  Francisco  to  the 
place of junction in Utah, to witness the 
laying of  the  last  rail.  Arriving  some 
days before the ceremony, he was obliged 
to  make  many  odd  shifts  to  get to the 
foremost  construction-camp;  and  one 
day he found himself thrown into strange 
company,  the  only  other  passenger  on 
the  car  being  a  rough and determined- 
looking man,  who bad  with him two sin­
gularly  heavy  valises.  The  stranger 
was sociably inclined,  and  condescended 
to enter into conversation with the young 
man,  who, on his part,  welcomed the op­
portunity to study a  new  species. 
In  a 
few minutes,  the man of the  two  valises 
had  stated 
that  his  name  was  Bill 
Dresser;  that he was a gambler  “by pro­
fession,” and that he  was on  his  way  to 
“rig up” something,  over the thought of 
which he chuckled  several  times.  Now 
it must be said that Mr.  William  Dresser 
was not at all like the  Western  gambler 
described  by  Bret  Harte. 
lie  was  not 
smooth and  polished  and  cold,  with  the 
manuers of an exquisite and the eye of a 
rattlesnake.  He  did  not  wear  broad­
cloth  and  fine  linen,  he  exhibited  no 
diamonds,  his  hands  were  not  smooth 
and  white,  and  nobody  could  by  any 
possibility have mistaken  him for a gen­
tleman.  He  was 
rough- 
skinned,  with  a  scrubby  beard,  wore  a 
coarse and shabby suit of  clothes  aud  a 
rusty  soft  hat,  displayed  no  jewelry 
whatever, 
but  was  evidently  well 
“heeled,” that is to say,  he  carried  two 
big  navy  revolvers  at  his  belt  and  a 
knife  In  one  of  his  boots.  For a man 
who,  according to his own  account,  had 
killed  several  of  his  fellow-creatures 
without  the  least  compunction  or  re­
morse,  he  did  not  appear  formidable. 
Thousands  of  honest  farmers  wear  no 
more  innocent  expression  and  are  not 
more frank aud affable in  manner.  Per­
haps it was the fact  that  there  was  no­
body  for  him  to  talk  to  but  me  that 
loosened his tongue.  Perhaps it was his 
habit to distribute his confidences freely. 
My acquaintance with  him  was too briet 
to interest me upon this  point,  but 1 was 
perfectly content to hear all he was will­
ing to say.

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separated  into proper  columns.

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The careless  person  IMPLICATES only  HIM­
SELF,  and  NOT  everybody  in  the  store,  as 
with  other registering  systems.

livery essential  feature  of  the  CHAMPION  I 

Merchants desiring to inspect our Registers 
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trolled  by  the  Champion  Cash  Register  Com  ] our agents can call when in the dealer's vicinity, 
pany  Users  will  be  protected  and  infringe- 
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merits will not be allowed. 

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

«THE  M ICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,

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me to inquire what he had  there.  Here­
upon he laughed,  and said:

“ 1  guess  you’d  be  a long time iindin’ 
out that!  It’s guns!” and then he opened 
one of the valises and showed that it was 
filled  with  apparently  secondhand  re­
volvers.  1  must  have  looked  the  per­
plexity  1  felt  at  this  sight,  and  Bill 
Dresser was not the man to  leave a com­
panion in uncertainty.  He  proceeded to 
enlighten me  as  to  the  meaning  of  the 
phenomenon.

“Yer see,” he  began,  rather  thought­
fully, but with a candor to  inspire  confi­
dence,  “of  late,  these  yer  fellers  wot 
bucks the tiger hev’ got to be  uncommon 
rambunctious, 
the  railroad 
hands.  Yer^can’t win  the  leastest  pile 
olFn ’em without their pullin’ their  guns 
on  yer,  and  tho’  in  the  perfeshion  we 
hev’ to take chances, of course, this ever- 
lastin’ sbootin’ ’s kind  o’  wearin’  on  the 
narves.”

’specially 

this  I  assented, 

it  seemed  so 
obvious,  but  still  1  was  as  far  as  ever 
from perceiving the meaning  of  the  two 
valises full of “guns.”

To 

Mr. William Dresser proceeded:
“Now, mate,”  (by  this endearing term 
he  was  kind  enough  to  designate  the 
writer)  “I’ve  got  a  pardner,  which  hi9 
name is Jim Farley.  Jim’s cute, and  up 
to more tricks than  I  am, and ’twas  him 
that worked out this plant. 
It’s jest this 
way:  W’en  we  mark  down  a  railroad 
camp I go on ahead,  and strike  the  boys 
jest  before  a pay-day,  so’s to make sure 
that they’ll be out of cash.  Well, I open 
up the game,  and some on  ’em  drops  in 
and bangs round,  gloomy like.  Present­
ly  they  lets  me  know  ther’  ain’t  any 
I  sez,  cheerfully, 
money in the  camp. 
that this don’t make no differ. 
I ’m will­
in’  to  meet  the  boys  inore’n  half  way. 
Them  as  hasn’t  any  rocks  can  plank 
down their guns at an  agreed  valuation, 
and there we are—nothin’  to  hinder  the 
game.  The  boys  don’t  need  a  second 
askin’,  and I corrals all the  guns  in  the 
camp—see!  By  ’n’  by  pay-day  comes 
around,  and then  my  pardner  takes  up 
the runnin’,  sails into the  camp,  and col­
lars the shinplasters.  Just here’s where 
the fine work comes in.  Ef the boys had 
their  guns,  ten  to  one  they’d  till  my 
pardner  full  of  lead,  but  I’ve  drawn 
their teeth, yer see, and  so Jim has time 
to clear out with his  winnin’s before the 
crowd can  git cool enough to  organize  a 
lynchin’-party. 
It’s  an  all-fired  combi­
nation,  and works like a  charm.”

So saying, Bill  Dresser  beamed  upon 
me as though  he  had  been  relating  the 
most praiseworthy  and  philanthropic  of 
actions, and his eye so clearly  expressed 
confidence in my admiration that I really 
felt embarrassed at being  unable  to  en­
dorse  the  “combination”  heartily  and 
without prejudice.  But he  was  not  de­
pendent  upon  the  cold  charity  of  the 
world for approbation.  The  mere  sight 
of the  two  valises  tickled  him,  and  he 
could not touch one with  his  foot  with­
out breaking  into a guffaw.  Suddenly  a 
thought  struck  and  for  the  moment 
sobered him.  He  put his hand upon  my 
knee, and, dropping his voice a little, ob­
served,  feelingly:

“Mate, my  pardner and me’d rake in  a 
big pile e f ’t  weren’t  for  one  thing.  1 
can’t stand off old rye!  That’s  my weak 
point,  and it’s broken up no end o’ prom­
isin’ plants.  Some day”—here his gloom 
deepened—“I expect it’ll lead to my pass- 
in’ in my checks  prematoorly.”

Here  he  paused  and  fell  into  a  re­

stranger 

ductive mood,  which I did not  interrupt.
The most striking  point  in  this  man 
was  the  placid  unconsciousness  of  ab­
normality which  marked  his  easy  rela­
tion. 
It was evident that he  did  not  re­
gard himself as in any  respect  singular, 
nor did he think his occupation one to be 
ashamed of.  Living  wholly  with  those 
who did the same or worse, this was nat­
ural enough,  but 
law-abiding  people 
commonly make the  mistake  of  suppos­
ing that  lawless  people  fully  recognize 
their lawlessness.  Hence the  false  con­
ceptions of  black-browed,  saturine  des­
peradoes  to  be  found  in  fiction—creat­
ures  who  are  filled  with  remorse, rage 
and  despair.  Such  characters  do  not 
exist.  Your real  outlaw  may  no  doubt 
be  sullen  and  evil-tempered,  but  he  is 
quite  as  likely  to  be  debonair,  genial 
and cheery,  and to go through  the  world 
with a light  heart,  caring  only  for  the 
plaudits of men who hold the same views 
as  himself,  and  neither  comprehend­
ing nor troubling himself about  the  con­
demnation of that respectable element of 
society  which  he  ignores  or  mildly  de­
spises.  Bill  Dresser  was  a typical out­
law,  and  thoroughly  acclimated  to  his 
environments.  He  sincerely  took  pride 
in Jim  Farley’s  “combination,”  and  he 
saw no reason why  an  ordinary,  intelli­
gent 
should  not  share  his 
opinion.  He  was  a  decidedly  interest­
ing study, and  when,  in  answer  to  my 
questions,  he avowed an intimate knowl­
edge  of  the  game  called  “three-card 
monte,” and proceeded to  instruct me in 
the  mysteries  of  the  “joker,”  the  in­
struction  became  still  more  novel  and 
amusing. 
I  do  not  think  I  was a very 
apt scholar,  for really  the  only  impres­
sion  1  carried  away  was  a  conviction 
that whoever played  “three-card rnoute” 
in the hope and expectation  of  wiuning 
money  deserved  to  be  put  in  a lunatic 
asylum.  Yet, at  the  time,  and  indeed 
long  afterwards,  monte  players  so  in­
fested the Central and the  Union  I’acitic 
Railroads,  and  victimized  so  many  pas­
sengers, 
that  the  companies  found  it 
necessaay to  place  warning  placards  in 
every car,  besides doing  their  utmost  to 
keep  the  gamblers  off  the  lines.  Bill 
Dresser was quite proud  of  his  sleight- 
of-hand skill;  but he  did  not  try  to  in­
duce  me  to  bet,  and  1  have  sometimes 
thought  that  he  may  have had a vague 
feeling of disinclination to  tleece  one  to 
whom he had revealed  himself  so  fully.
As he intimated a purpose to introduce 
the  “combination” at the Central  Pacific 
front,  1 thought it my duty to inform the 
superintendent  of  construction  of  the 
plot, and when Mr.  Dresser  approached 
the camp,  he was politely  but  firmly  in­
vited to  go  somewhere  else.  1  did  not 
meet  him  again.  What  follows  was 
gathered  from  other  sources  and  by 
scraps  and  fragments. 
It  seems  that 
when he went back to  “KUl-Me-Quick,” 
he found his  partner  impatiently  await­
ing his return, Farley’s  immediate  pres­
ence at the East being required in the in­
terest of some  other  “plant” —no  doubt 
criminal—but  of  what  nature  1  never 
learned.  Before  leaving,  Bill’s  “pard­
ner” had to determine whether to let the 
joint capital  remain  in  Dresser’s  hands 
and be employed by him as usual in keep­
ing  the  gaming  house  in  operation,  or 
whether the game should be  closed  dur­
ing  his  absence.  Prudence  suggested 
the second course; avarice  supported the 
first.  Farley had no  fear  that  his  part­
ner would run away  with the funds,  and

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T H E   M ICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,

this fact spoke  rather strongly  for  Bill, 
since there are not  many  of  his  kidney 
who are above  temptation  and  superior 
to  opportunity.  What  Farley  did  fear 
was Bill’s addiction to “old  rye,”  for  he 
was  always  liable  to  get  on  what  he 
called a “jamboree,”  and  if  he  did,  the 
funds would eertainly  be  lost.  Dresser, 
however,  swore so solemnly  to  shun  the 
flowing bowl,  and represented so  strong­
ly the folly of  losing  a  golden  opportu­
nity for “raking in the shekels,” that his 
partner  at  length  forewent  his  better 
judgment,  and  decided  that  the  game 
should  be  kept  open.  This  settled, he 
took the train  for  the  East,  the  under­
standing  being  that  he  would  return  in 
two weeks at the farthest.

fell 

Frail  human  nature  is  so constituted 
that it  always  hankers  after  forbidden 
fruit;  and no sooner had  Jim Farley dis­
appeared,  than his partner  began  to  re­
flect upon the extent of  the  privation  to 
which he had pledged himself for no less 
a  period  than  fourteen  days.  For  the 
first twenty-four hours  his  good  resolu­
tions  were  bracing  enough to keep him 
in the path of  (comparative)  virtue;  but 
precisely  because  he  had  sworn  not  to 
touch  liquor,  the  craving  for  it  grew 
upon him,  until his  condition  was  truly 
pitiable.  Ue held  out,  notwithstanding 
the  cumulative  weight  of  his  tempta 
tions,  to the end of the first week.  Then 
he 
like  Lucifer—“never  to  rise 
again.”  This  was  no  ordinary  spree. 
The law  of  proportions  necessitated  its 
adaptation to the causes which  had  pro­
duced  it.  There  had been every reason 
for  abstaining 
from  drink,  therefore 
there  was  every  reason  for  drinking 
more heavily than ever when  he  did  be­
gin.  Bill Dresser  was  not  quarrelsome 
in his cups, or  he  would  certainly  have 
been killed during this  spree, for he was 
perfectly  reckless.  Uis  neighbor  birds 
of prey, of  course,  took  prompt  advan­
tage of his condition, 
lie bad closed his 
game,  but he saved nothing  by  that,  for 
he  immediately  proceeded  to  bet  upon 
all the other games in the camp.  As not 
one of these games was “square,”  it fol­
lowed that Bill lost his and his  partner’s 
capital rapidly;  but  this  did  not  check 
him.  He  was, 
truth,  in  the  state 
called “ fey” by the Scotch—that peculiar 
state in  which, death being  decreed,  the 
predestined  victim  is  supposed  to  be 
mysteriously impelled  to  carry  his  own 
doom into effect.  Ue drank  deeply,  and 
gambled  wildly,  until  the  day  before 
Farley  was  expected  back.  Then  he 
stopped  playing,  because  he  no longer 
possessed a dollar,  and he stopped drink­
ing  because  the  barkeepers  refused  to 
give him credit.  So  the  week’s  furious 
excitement  ended,  and  left  a  shaking, 
half-delirious, 
remorseful,  shame-bur­
dened wretch in  the place of  the  jaunty 
and self-confident Bill  Dresser.  Having 
now nothing else to do,  he  thought,  and 
though  his  thoughts  could  not,  In  the 
state of his system,  be healthy  or normal 
ones, they  none  the  less  led  him  to  a 
fixed  resolve,  which  be  proceeded  to 
carry out as soon as his  partner  arrived.
He  found  it  necessary  to  beg  a  stiff 
drink  of  whisky  before  facing  his  in­
jured friend,  for  he  was very  tremulous 
and  unnerved.  Of  course,  there was  a 
stormy scene;  in fact,  Farley was  beside 
himself with rage and disgust at his own 
folly in running  such  a  risk.  But  the 
thing  was  done,  the  bank  was  broken, 
and  the  veteran  gambler  had  seen  too 
to  have
many  ups  and  downs  not 

in 

achieved  a  certain  measure  of  philos­
ophy. 
In  short,  he  could  have  calmed 
down by  degrees  if  let  alone;  but  Bill 
Dresser’s  destiny  meant  otherwise. 
While  Farley was  still  in  tbe  stage  of 
white heat,  his partner  stood  up  before 
him, and spoke  thus:

“See  here,  Jim,  yer  can’t  feel  any 
worse  nor  1 do,  an’ yer can’t despise me 
worse  nor  1  despises  myself. 
Te’r’ 
robbed,  an’ in  the  meanest way, an’  I’m 
the dirty  thief.  Now,  ef  you woke  an’ 
found  a galoot goin’ through yer clothes, 
wouldn’t  you  shoot  him?  Well,  this 
’ere’s a par’lel case,  and  ye’r’ entitled to 
yer revenge.  Wot  1  say  is  for  you  to 
jest take me  out t’ th’ edge  of  the  sage­
brush and put a  ball  through  my  head. 
1  ain’t no good,  no ways,  an’  mebbe  ef 
you  don’t  do  it,  1  shall  light  out  that 
way myself.”

Jim Farley looked hard at  his partner, 

and after a moment replied:

“By thunder,  Bill,  you  do  deserve  to 

be wiped out!”

This 

“Well,”  returned  Dresser,  perhaps a 
little peevishly,  “ why don’t yer wipe me 
out,  then?”

irritated 

the  other  and  some­
how seemed to  put  him  on  his  mettle, 
and merely saying,  “Come on!  1 will!” 
he stepped from  the  tent  where  the  ex­
planation had been  made, and  strode  to­
ward  tbe  dreary  waste  of  sage-brush- 
covered plain  that  stretched  in  dismal 
flatness  all  around  the  camp.  Dresser 
followed, calmer and cooler than  before. 
They halted a  hundred  yards  from  the 
outermost  tent.  Farley  drew  his  re­
volver, examined it  carefully,  and  then 
asked his late  partner  if  he  had  “any­
thing to say—last words or  sech?”

Bill  Dresser  merely  shook  his  head. 
He  was  alone  in  the  world.  He  had 
nothing to bequeath,  and  nobody  to  be­
queath  it  to.  A  look  passed  between 
the two men;  a look of farewell,  forgive­
ness,  rancor and  shame  ali  mingled  to­
gether.  Farley  raised  his  pistol.  A 
sharp report followed,  and  a  man  hold­
ing a smoking revolver in his hand stood 
alone,  looking  down  at  something  that 
lay still enough at his feet.  Bill Dresser 
had  expiated  his  offense  as  far  as  he 
could.

Nothing  was  ever  done  against  Jim 
Farley,  who in due time  died  “ with  his 
boots  on.” 
If  any  reader  thinks  this 
story incredible 1 shall not be  surprised. 
Truth is  often  incredible,  and  this  re 
lation is true. 

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“ What  do  a  king  git?”  was  the  in­
quiry  propounded  to  Huckleberry  Finn 
by  his  colored friend,  Jim.  Huck’s  an 
swer was not very clear,  but it  is  doubt 
ful if there are many  persons who  know 
what European  royalty  receives  for  do­
ing  nothing.  Besides  having  all  his 
wants attended to and a large  number of 
palaces at  his  disposal,  the  Emperor  of 
Russia is said to  receive  $25,000  a  day; 
the Sultan of Turkey  receives  $18,000  a 
day;  the Emperor of  Austria  rejoices  in 
$10,000 a  day;  Emperor  William  has  to 
get along with $8,000  from  breakfast  to 
bedtime;  Queen  Victoria  has  $35,000  to 
spend  every  week.  The  President  of 
the United States receives a  trifle  under 
$1,000  a  week.  Considering  the  actual 
services rendered,  some  of  these people 
are probably a little overpaid.

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13

LIABILITY  OF  RAILWAYS.

How  Far  They  Must  Protect  Passen­

gers  Against  Injury.

From the Boot and Shoe Recorder.
The total  number  of  persons  carried 
annually by the railroads of this  country 
is  greatly  in  excess  of  the  population, 
but we are aware that while many  travel 
frequently and  far,  there are  many  also 
who never  stir  from  their  own  market 
town, or who even pass a lifetime on their 
native 1 eath.  The  liabilities  of carriers 
of passengers for personal injuries, while 
of  general  interest  to  the  public,  is  of 
special  importance  to  those engaged in 
commercial and industrial pursuits.  The 
almost  universal 
liability  to  injury  is 
best shown  by the  vast  number  of  acci­
dent policies issued in  this country year­
ly; and it also shows  that  many  do  not 
care to trust the  usual  course  of  litiga­
tion  for a recompense,  but prefer to  rely 
upon an express contract with  an  insur­
ance company, than on an implied contract 
with the railroad company.
The  legal  remedy  against  a  railroad 
company  for  personal  injuries  is but a 
development  of  principles  existing  at 
common law anterior to the  building  of 
extensive  systems  of  passenger  traffic; 
and  there  is  much  in common between 
this right and that of  recovery  for  per­
sonal  injuries  under  ordinary  circum­
stances,  varying mainly in the  degree  of 
care requisite on both sides,  and the fact 
that the relation between the carrier and 
customer is only  temporary,  while  it  is 
continuous  between  employer  and  em­
ploye.  The  mercantile  world  is,  how­
ever,  more interested in the liability  un­
der the former classification,  and  to  this 
we will confine our review of the subject 
in the present article.
Though not insurers of life  and  limb, 
such carriers are yet bound to the utmost 
care and  diligence.  They  must omit  no 
precaution  which  may  conduce  to  the 
passenger’s safety. 
In  consideration  of 
the payment of fare,  the  owners  of  the 
vehicle are bound  to  transport  the  pas­
sengers to the place of contemplated des­
tination safely.  Having  in all the emer­
gencies the conduct  of  the  journey,  the 
owners rest  under  every  obligation  for 
care,  skill and  general  capacity,  and  if 
from defect of any of these requisites in­
jury is done to  the  passenger,  the  per­
sons employed are  liable. 
In case of in­
jury carriers must show that their whole 
duty was performed,  and  that  the  acci­
dent  was  unavoidable  by  any  human 
foresight.  They  must  satisfy  the  jury 
on every point that  touches  the  passen­
ger’s  safety—roads,  carriages,  engines, 
and  management.  Whatever  human 
foresight can secure in  reference  to  the 
mode of conveyance—the inevitable risks 
of which,  of course,  the  passenger takes 
—they are responsible for,  supposing,  of 
course,  that there is no  fault on the part 
of the  passenger.  Though  a  carrier  is 
not  responsible  for  interior and hidden 
defects  which  a  thorough  and  careful 
examination  could  not  disclose,  and 
which could not  be  guarded  against  by 
the exercise of  sound judgment, yet it is 
not enough that this  vigilance  be  exer­
cised after the car or other appliance has 
come  into  the  carrier’s  possession. 
It 
must be shown that  the  materials  were 
tested at the shop before they were used. 
The company must  account  to  the  pas­
senger,  and it may look to the maker.
The carrier is bound to the most  exact 
care and diligence not only  in  the  man­
agement of the trains and cars,  but  also 
in  the  structure  and  care  of the track, 
and in all subsidiary  arrangements  nec­
essary to the  safety  of  the  passengers. 
The road must be well  built,  with  rails 
at  once  strong,  well 
laid  and  well 
fastened. 
Its viaducts, drawbridges and 
switches  must be of a good  kind  and  of 
the  most  improved 
inventions.  The 
company  must  employ  for  the  purpose 
not only engineers of competent skill and 
science,  but those engineers  must  adopt 
the best methods and the  best  materials. 
The road should be  protected,  either  by 
fences or  by  the  company’s  servants,  in 
some way,  from  danger  from  those  ob­
structions  which  prudence  should  sug­
gest as likely to get upon it, and  it  must 
have tracks sufficiently numerous to pre­
vent those accidents likely to  arise  from 
having  but  one  track.  One  object  of

railway travel is speed,  and certain  dan­
gers are  inseparable  in  procuring  this. 
There are fundamental risks, inseparable 
from the use of this sort of  road.  But it 
is  the  duty  of  the  company  to  reduce 
these to the smallest possible number.
The  highest  considerations of  public 
policy,  says the Supreme Court  of  Iowa, 
demand  that  there  be  no  relaxation  of 
the common  law responsibilities of  com­
mon  carriers.  The  experience  of  past 
generations,  and  the  trying  experience 
of  the  immensely  extended  commerce 
and trade of the present day, demonstrate 
the  necessity  and  wisdom  of firmly ad­
hering 
regulations. 
Those in  charge  of  railways  should  be 
steadily  admonished  of  the  high  moral 
and legal obligations resting upon  them. 
Appalling  losses  occur  with  alarming 
frequency, and are traced to the want  of 
due  diligence;  public  preservation  ren­
ders it necessary te  attach  heavy  penal­
ties to the carrier for the result  of  every 
act of negligence or want of diligence.
Such is the tendency of the best courts 
at the present day.

to  common 

law 

A curious settlement of curious people 
has  been  discovered  in  the  mountains 
near Delhi,  N.  Y.  There are  about  200 
of  them.  They  are  called  “Rushers,” 
and live  on  a  branch  of  the  Delaware 
river  called  the  Popple,  which  has  its 
rise in the mountians not far from Delhi. 
The colony  has  no  communication with 
the outside world,  and  far  up  the  steep 
and rocky  mountain  sides,  it  is  so  en­
trenched that its  existence  has  been  al­
most forgotten.  Nearly all of these peo­
ple  are  afflicted  with  some  deformity 
caused by intermarriage for many gener­
ations  and  lack  of  self-preservation  or 
care.  Their hair  is  unkempt  and  their 
faces are a deep  yellow  in  color.  They 
possess instinct rather than  intelligence, 
and even the faculty  of  speech  is  lack­
ing.  The history of this strange tribe is 
said to extend back  to  1700. 
It  is  said 
that a man named Shannon settled in the 
wilderness of  Sullivan  county.  He had 
three daughters, one of whom lived with 
an Indian hunter  named  Jacobs.  Shan­
non was killed,  and  his  two  remaining 
daughters joined the elder sister and  be­
came  polygamous  consorts  of  her  pro­
tector.  They raised a  large  family,  and 
these “Rushers”  are supposed to be their 
descendants.

It is  said that at one  of  the  suburban 
stations  along  the  line  of  the Reading 
Railroad an enterprising  soap  manufac­
turer  has  erected  a  factory  and  ware­
house.  Facing the railroad  is  the  large 
back window of the main salesroom. 
In 
this window one day,  a  few  weeks  ago, 
there  appeared to the riders on the early 
morning trains  a  very  pretty  girl,  who 
appeared  to  have paused in  the midst of 
her labor of washing the window  to  flirt 
with  the  travelers.  Nearly  every  male 
rider who saw her proceeded to flirt with 
her,  and the male riders on all the trains 
that passed during the day did the  same. 
In  fact,  she  has  been  flirted  with ever 
since,  although  most  of  the  regular 
riders have long  since  learned  that  the 
beautiful  young  girl  in  the  window is 
but  a  waxen  figure.  The  wax  woman 
was all right for the average drummer to 
flirt  with,  when  passing  by;  but  the 
smart  chap  who  suddenly  recollected 
that he had business in that village,  and 
waited around the factory  for  her  royal 
waxness to come out, is not done kicking 
himself yet.

Italy  proposes to make a trial of 5-cent 
telegrams, and is trying to  make  an  ar 
rangement  with  other  European  coun­
tries for a general reduction of rates.

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

other essential facts  necessary  to  show B A N   BANK

IN  THE  SLUMS,

“Slumming”  has  come  to  be  a choice 
diversion of certain sorts of pure minded 
and particularly pious  persons.  Having 
all their lives contemplated  things  only 
that were virtuous, chaste  and  perfectly 
lovely,  they become impressed with a de­
sire to visit the haunts of sin  and  to  in­
spect vice wholly naked and  unnamable, 
and to behold human misery  and  degra­
dation in their most revolting and shock­
ing aspects.

It is difficult to understand  how  those 
who delight in regarding beauty can ever 
desire to look upon  sights  that  are  hid­
eous  and  horrifyiBg,  and  quite as diffi­
cult is it to believe  that  persons  whose 
chief  happiness  is  in  the  practice  of 
moral purity and  virtue  can  love  to  get 
into an atmosphere of moral vileness and 
corruption and take  delight  in  witness­
ing exhibitions  of  unrestrained  and  un­
disguised  salacity. 
It  would  be  as  ex­
traordinary and unreasonable as  to  sup­
pose that the angels would wish  to  quit 
heaven for  periodic  excursions  through 
the  dreadful  abodes  of  damned spirits. 
However, slumming  has  been  practiced 
not  a  little by self-appointed  upholders 
of  piety  and  purity,  and  it is possible 
that it is one of the  peculiar  manifesta­
tions of modern virtue.

But the wretched people of  the  slums 
should not be wholly neglected, and they 
require  chiefest  of  all  the  attention  of 
the  sanitarian,  the  statesman  and  the 
philanthropist.  The  term  “slum” 
is 
from the argot,  the slang of  thieves, and 
it means a low and vile place where  peo­
ple resort.  Most  words  of  criminal  no­
menclature  are  derived  from  old,  and 
even  from  primitive, languages.  Those 
words  of  the  argot  which  are  not  San­
skrit and Gypsy,  are  from  the old forms 
of the European tongues, such as Gothic, 
Anglo-Saxon  and  the  like. 
is 
doubtless from the  Anglo-Saxon  “slim,” 
which  is  slime—a  slippery,  glutinous 
filth found in cellars,  sinks  and  sewers, 
places familiar to the  criminal classes of 
every  age.

Slum 

The  slums  pf  a  city  are  where  the 
poorest people live.  The  inhabitants  of 
such places are not wholly of the vicious 
and  criminal  classes. 
In  many  cases 
they  are  honest  and  virtuous working 
people who suffer from the terrible curse 
of poverty.  Being poor, they must crawl 
into the cheapest shelter  they  can  find, 
and,  being there, they  must  not  quarrel 
with their near neighbors, driven  to  the 
same cover by their necessities.

When crime and vice are rich,  as often 
they are,  they need not  hide  themselves 
from the law.  They can defy it,  and  so 
they  live  in  fine  houses, on fashionable 
streets,  and  roll  in  luxury.  Only  the 
criminals who are “out of luck,” and the 
wretched courtesans,  who drink only  the 
dregs of profligacy,  broken down  by  de­
bauchery and disease,  are  forced  to  the 
degradation  of  the  slums.  They  are, 
then,  not  places  for  fashionable  and 
prosperous  piety  to  seek  diversion  in; 
but besides that of the police,  they  need 
the attention of the  city’s  health  officer 
and the profound consideration of states­
manship and philanthropy.

The sanitarian must clean  up the  nox­
ious slime and purify the foul  air  which 
pervade those regions,  while  the  states­
man  and  philanthropist  must  inquire 
why it is that honest poverty  and  crimi­
nal poverty are forced  to  herd  together 
and to seek the  same  shelter.  Why  are 
the  worthy  and  the  good  driven  into

haunts  where  they  must  encounter  the 
infection of vice, as  well  as  the bacteria 
of  bodily  disease?  Can  the  innocent, 
forced to consort with the guilty,  and  to 
inhale an  atmosphere  charged  with  the 
effluvia of moral  putridity,  long  escape 
the  contamination  of  such  influences? 
What is to be the iot of  the  children  of 
the honest poor, brought up with the off­
spring of thieves and drabs? 
If a prison 
is a college of crime,  so  much  the  more 
are the slums of a great  city  hotbeds  of 
every moral abomination.

At last,  statesmanship is taking up the 
slums. 
It  is  high  time.  At  first  they 
were  left  wholly  to  the  police;  more 
lately 
the  public  health  officers  took 
them in charge,  and now  they  have  got 
into  Congress.  The  Fifty-second  Con­
gress enacted a bill  which  provides  that 
the Commissioner of Labor shall make  a 
full  investigation  relative  to  what  is 
know as the slums of cities of 200,000 in­
habitants  and  over,  as  shown  by  the 
eleventh census (of  1890).  The  investi­
gation  shall  relate  to  the  occupations, 
earnings, 
surroundings  and 

sanitary 

the condition of such localities, etc.  The 
sum of $20,000 was appropriated  to  pay 
the expenses of the service,  and  the  act 
was approved July 20, 1892.

The  United  States  Commissioner  of 
Labor has just issued his first report  un­
der the requirements of this  act. 
It is  a 
volume of 600 pages,  bound  in  the  con­
ventional  and unattractive style common 
to  Government  publications. 
Its  con­
tents  are  mostly  tables  of  statistical 
figures,  with none of the sensational nar­
ratives that would ordinarily  be  written 
about the slums of  great  cities.  Never­
theless,  some startling facts  can  be  ex­
tracted from the  prosy  array  of  figures 
with which the book is crowded.

There are tables of  statistics  showing 
the proportions of the  sexes  and  of  the 
children  and  adults  found  in the slums 
of the great cities of  the  Union.  There 
are set forth in the same condensed form 
the crimes and criminal facts concerning 
these people; the numbers of  them  that 
are  crowded  into  the  tenement  houses 
and  into  each  room;  the  lack of water 
supply, of baths aud of closets; the condi­
tion of filth in the balls and  the  squalor 
in the rooms, and then there  are  chemic­
al analyses  of  the  poisoned  atmosphere 
and  catalogues  of  the  various  sorts  of 
bacteria discovered in the  places  where 
the wretched people live.

All  that  is  required  is  to  invest the 
skeleton  tables  of  figures  with  human 
life; endow them  with  poverty;  picture 
all the men, women and children  of  the 
same  family,  or  of  several  families, 
sleeping in  the  same  room,  and  clothe 
them all  with  misery  and  inspire  them 
with desperation, to get a realistic idea of 
how people live in the degraded quarters 
of cities.  No imagination is  required  to 
fill up the picture; but all  that  is  neces­
sary  is  to  translate  figures  into words, 
and let them tell their own  story.

The  cities  embraced  in  the  scope of 
the act of Congress are, taken alphabetic- 
ally:  Baltimore,  Boston,  Brooklyn, 
Buffalo, Chicago,  Cincinnati,  Cleveland, 
Detroit, Milwaukee,  New  Orleans,  New 
York,  Philadelphia,  Pittsburgh,  St. 
Louis,  San  Francisco  and  Washing­
ton, 
all,  with  an  ag­
gregate population of  more  than  8,000,- 
000, or nearly one-eighth  of  the  people 
of  the  Union.  The  estimate  made by 
the investigations shows that the popula-

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tion of the slums of  those  sixteen  cities 
by the last census was  about  800,000,  or 
one-tenth  of  that  of  the  cities  them­
selves.  The  appropriation  of  820,000 
was not sufficient to secure the slum  sta­
tistics of all the cities, and only those  of 
the largest were attempted.  New  York, 
Chicago,  Philadelphia and Baltimore  are 
the cities chosen for  the  commencement 
of  the  work.  The  slum  population  of 
Baltimore is given at  25,000; of  Chicago, 
at  162,000;  of  New York,  at 360,000;  of 
Philadelphia,  at 35,000.

In New York  there  was  a  barroom  to 
each  200  persons;  yi  Philadelphia,  1  to 
870;  in  Baltimore,  1  to  229  persons; in 
Chicago,  1  to 200 people. 
the  slums 
the  proportion  of  barrooms  was  much 
greater than in the  other  districts.  The 
statistics  of  crime  show  that,  for  the 
whole  population  of  each  city 
there 
was,  in  Baltimore,  1  arrest to each  14 
persons; in Chicago,  1 to each 11 persons; 
in New  York,  1  arrest  to  every  18  peo­
ple,  and in Philadelphia  the  proportion 
was  1  to  18  also.  There  were  districts 
in Chicago where the  arrests  were  1  to 
every  4  people,  and  in  New  York 1 to 
every 6 people.

Many pages of  curious  facts  could  be 
extracted from this Government  book on 
the slums,  but  what  has  been  given  is 
enough  for  the  present.  The  most  im­
portant thing is that these facts concern­
ing a large proportion of  the  population 
have  been  put  in  an  official  form  and 
placed  in possession of Congress  and  of 
the public.  They  need  the attention of 
a  d ise and  beneficent statesmanship.

F rank Stow ell.

I>r.  W.  O.  Wilcox, of  a  San  Francisco 
medical college,  had au exciting time the 
other  day  with  a  morphine  fiend.  He 
was alone in bis office,  when a  wild-eyed 
man came in and demanded that the doc­
tor  should  give  him  a  “ shot”  of  mor­
phine.  The doctor saw at once that the 
man  was a slave of the drug and  ordered 
him  to  leave  the  office.  The  madman 
grabbed up a surgical  knife  from the ta­
ble, and  threatened  to  cut  the  doctor’s 
heart out  unless  his  demand  was  com­
plied  with.  Dr. Wilcox caught up a bot­
tle of chloroform  from  the table, and in­
stantly the madman sprang  at  him  with 
the  knife  uplifted.  The  doctor  caught 
his  arm  and  succeeded  in  holding  him 
until he  was  stupefied  with  the  chloro­
form,  when, as the easiest way of getting 
rid of him,  he gave  him  an  injection  of 
morphine.  When  he  came  to  himself, 
the fellow  was perfectly rational and dis­
claimed all knowledge of  his  assault  on 
the doctor,  for which he  begged  a thou­
sand  pardons,  and  took  his  departure. 
The doctor  escaped  with  only  a scratch 
from the knife and a badly cut coat.

Isaac Pitman,  the father  of  phonogra­
phy,  died  recently at the ripe age of 82. 
He was the original  inventor  of the  idea 
of  writing  with  the  simplest  possible 
characters,  strictly  according  to  sound. 
His first treatise on  the subject was pub­
lished in  1837, and the  value of his ideas 
was  at  once  widely  recognized.  He 
opened  an  institute  in  Bath,  Me.,  for 
teaching  the  art,  and  published  many 
subsequent  works.  His  system  was 
greatly improved in the later  editions  of 
his book,  largely as the  result of sugges­
tions made by members  of a correspond­
ence society,  which he organized.  Other 
phonographic  systems  have  since  been 
invented,  but  there  has  been small im­
provement upon the original Pitman.

Raising  Small  Potatoes.

Small  potatoes  count  for  little either 
in  or  out  of  their  jackets.  They  may 
have  absorbed  the  rains  of  spring and 
the sunshine of  summer,  and  made  the 
same demands  on  the  perspiration  and 
shoe  leather  of  the  cultivator as tubers 
that  would  fill  a  teacup  and  sell  at  a 
premium.  They  may  have  developed 
considerable top and given  the  farmer a 
lively hope that  when  he  marketed  the 
crop  he  could  pay  off an  old  mortgage 
or purchase  a  new  team.  Alas  for  his 
faith  and  his  mortgage  and 
the  con­
tinued vacancy in his pocket!  The small 
potato ruins them all.

Now, 

there  is  a  kind  of  so-called 
“small potato” that is causing not a little 
trouble and  disappointment,  nowadays, 
to their foolish or  unfortunate  growers. 
We  allude  to  that  rapidly  increasing 
class of  modern  gentry  who  are  being 
dumped  out  of  our  schools  and acade­
mies with the  profound  conviction  that 
the object of education  is to  escape per­
spiration,  secure a soft snap  with  a  sal­
ary,  and keep the old idea in  flannel that 
mechanics and artisans  are  unfortunate 
necessities.  There  are 
thousands  of 
these fools at large.  You may find them 
loafing  around  boarding  houses,  where 
the pie they eat is got on credit and their 
laundry bills are  eaten  by  mice  before 
they  are  paid.  They  hold  up the tele­
phone pole with  their  backs,  wear  out 
the seats of chairs,  and  hang  round  the 
post  office  for  a  letter  from  home  in 
which a fond  parent  may  have  inclosed 
a  85  bill.  So  long as they are the own­
ers  of  a  stomach  it  must  be  fed,  and, 
while the idea that the  object  of  educa­
tion  is  to escape toil  has lodgings under 
the  hat,  the  bands  decline  the  plow 
handle or the hammer.

In this matter-of-fact world such  ideas 
are  as  likely  to freeze  as a shorn  lamb 
would be at the North  Pole,  and  in  the 
stern task of  hewing out a  living  in  the 
quarry  of 
life  they - fail  as  a  feather 
would  in  squaring  a  block  of granite. 
These  unfortunates  are  not  necessarily 
vicious,  or lazy, or in need of lye to clean 
their morals.  They  would like to better 
their condition—if they could do so with­
out having to  “come  down”  to  manual 
or even to skilled labor.

Who  is  to  blame  for 

this  state  of 
In  nine cases out of ten society 
things? 
is the culprit. 
It  is  accepted  as  sound 
gospel  that  work  must  be  shunned,  if 
possible,  and that the  primary  object  of 
edncation  is  not  so  much  to carve out a 
brave,  honorable  and  useful  life,  as to 
secure a good position  where  the  salary 
exceeds  the  sweating.  Fed  from  this 
suckling bottle and nursed in this flannel, 
the result is simply logical—such  a  cow, 
such a  calf.  Go  where  you  will  in  this 
broad  land  and  you  will  find  some 
farmer regretting that, as soon as his boy 
has  graduated  and  raised  a  mustache, 
he has an aversion to the  wood  pile,  ob­
jects  to bending his back under a bag  of 
corn  and  keeps  from  a  plow  handle  as 
a matter of  conscience.  The  same  may 
be  observed  in  all  places  and  in  all 
trades,  the  school  being  used  as  a step- 
ladder  to  get  out  of  the  bole where  the 
majority  of mankind have to make boots 
and  shoes,  spin  cotton  and  perspire  at 
forges and in founderies.  We believe in 
education,  but not in the kind that spoils 
its scholars and  results  in  that  big  pile 
of  “small  potatoes”  where whatever  of 
verdure  there  may  be  in  the  top  has 
precious little of what is sound and good 
at the bottom.  The  modern  aversion  to 
work is in line with what I have said be­
fore—that  a  man ashamed of a bucksaw 
despises the man who uses it.

F r ed  Woodrow.

The Sun  — 
Draws  Water
You  Cun 
Draw  Trade

From  all  parts of  the  world  without apparent effort.

h rom  all  directions  almost as  easily if  you  handle  our 
Famous  Brands  of  Spring  and  Winter  Wheat Flour, 
our Celebrated  Feed and our well-known Specialties.^ 
IT  PAYS to buy where you can get EVERYTHING 

you  need. 

IT  PAYS  TO  BUY  OF  US.

BECAUSE  our goods  are continually  advertised  all 

over the State.

BECAUSE  people  KNOW them.
BECAUSE  people  W ANT  them.  What  people 

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Is  what the average dealer is  looking for.  When  he 
sells a customer goods  he  wants  the fact ot  realizing 
a profit and  getting a  duplicate  of  the  order to be a 
“sure thing ” 
In  selling goods  of  our  manufacture, 
you  take  no  chances—they  are  well  and  favorably 
known,  and  while  not  always  the  lowest  in  price, 
they are ever of  standard  quality  and  always  satis­
factory.

PUTNAM  CANDY  CO.
Pop  Corn  Goods!

Our  Balls are the Sweetest and  Best in the market. 
‘200  in  Box or 000 in  Barrel.

Penny  Ground  Corn  Cakes  in

and 

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Detroit,  rtich.

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Design  for  Suburban  Cottage.

The perspective  and  floor  plans  pre­
sented herewith will  doubtless appeal  to 
those of our  readers  who  are  interested 
in  cottages  which  can be built at a mod­
erate cost.  This design is of a character 
which renders it  suitable for erection  on 
a suburban  lot.  The  house contains  all 
the essentials of a home for a small  fam­

ily,  the  rooms  being  of  a  fair  size and 
well  arranged  for  their  use.  The  en­
trance from  porch is  through a vestibule 
into  the  hall  which  has  a  nook, a fire­
place  in  the  center  and  seats  on  both 
sides,  the  start  of the stairs is four feet 
wide and has a large  landing  with  seat 
in bay,  under stairs is a lavatory.  From 
the  hall  we  can  enter  either parlor or 
through two  doors  to  kitchen  or  dining

room.  A large opening  is  provided  for 
between parlor and  hall  which  has  fret 
work  overhead.  The  parlor 
is  15x16 
which  is  to  serve  as  a  general  living 
room,  there  is  also  nook  with  seat al­
lowed.
Between  parlor  and  dining-room  we 
have sliding doors.  The  dining-room  is

large  pautry  which 

small door between this closet and kitch­
en. 
is  provided 
with  cupboards,  flour  bins,  etc.  The 
kitchen is 11.6x14  in  size,  and  has,  be­
sides the large  pantry,  a  small  one  for 
tinware  and  stove  utensils.  There  are 
cellar stairs,  also rear stairs  to  the  sec­
ond  floor  which  can be dispensed with, 
and  by  taking  out  lavatory  the  cellar 
stairs can be put under the  main  stairs. 
The outside  entrance  to  the  kitchen  is 
through a lobby or vestibule.  Across  al­
most entire back part a seven  foot  porch 
is  provided.  On  second  floor  we  have 
four chambers  12x16.6,  10x10.6,  15.6x16 
and  9x14.  All  have  plenty  of  closets. 
The bath room is  5x14.  Stairs  are  pro­
vided to go into the  attic and one or two 
rooms can be finished off or  a  large  hall 
can be made of the same  to  be  used  for 
parties,  etc.  To  those who would  want 
an  extra  room  on  first  floor,  a change 
could  be  made,  so  that  by  taking  out 
passage, rear stairs, pantry  and  closets, 
a  dining-room  could be made of present 
kitchen, the pantry, etc., could be placed 
where porch and lobby is now and a kitch­
en  back  of  this. 
If  wanted  a chamber 
could be placed back  of  present  dining­
room which,  under the change suggested, 
would  be  the  sitting-room.  On  second 
floor another chamber could be  provided 
for by adopting these  changes.  The ex­
terior is  sided  first  story,  and  shingles 
second story,  which if preferred could be 
entire sided or shingled.

Cheap  Bread  at  Rochester.

There is rejoicing among purchasers of 
bread in the  city  of  Rochester.  Owing 
to  a  fight  between  large  grocers,  who 
have branch stores throughout the town, 
the price of bread has been reduced from 
5 cents to 1 cent per loaf at retail.  On  a 
recent  morning  the  price opened at 2)4 
cents,  but  before  sundown  the  bottom 
figure had been  reached. 
It  is  not  un­
likely  that  bread  will  be  sold  at  ten 
loaves  for  a  nickel  before  long.  The 
bakers’  price at wholesale  has  been  2)4 
cents per  loaf.

Everyone smokes the Signal 5.

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end  and  a  buffet at side.  We also have 
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Horseless  Carriages in  France.

From the London Queen.

Two  innovations  are likely to revolu­
tionize  road 
tours.  The  first  is  the 
horseless  carriage  and  the  second  the 
motor  cycle.  Already  for  the  first  in 
France prizes are offered, and  more than 
one  great  competition  has  taken  place 
for speed on long distance runs,  such  as 
from  Paris  to  Rouen.  The  Count  de 
Dion  is  the  aristocratic  patron  of  the 
“Voiture  Automobile,”  as  it  is  called, 
and  he  now  has  scores  of  adherents. 
No  law  in France  denies  the  right  of 
driving a locomotive over  any  highway, 
and  no  danger  flag  precedes  even  the 
traction engine of the steam roller.  The 
firm of Les Fils  de  Peugeot  Freres,  one 
of the largest firms of  carriage and cycle 
constructors  in  France,  has  its  hands 
full of orders,  and without  any  doubt  a 
tremendous  popularity 
is  in  store  for 
this easy and cheap mode of  locomotion. 
In a  few words  I  will endeavor  to  de­
scribe this carriage.
It is built of tubes,  which  are  encased 
in a light framework,  and  therefore  not 
seen.  These tubes are the  tanks to sup­
ply the water—not for  the  boiler,  for  a 
boiler there is not—but  for the cylinders 
direct.  That is to say,  the water is con­
ducted into two little  tubes  with  closed 
ends over petroleum oil  lighted wicks no 
larger  than  those  of  a  duplex  lamp. 
These  supply  steam  for  the  cylinders 
sufficient to drive a carriage for four peo­
ple,  weighing about 1,300  pounds,  at the 
rate of fifteen miles  an  hour  over  level 
ground,  and three or four miles  an  hour 
up gradients of an ordinary road  charac­
ter.  The engine  and  all  apparatus  are 
practically out of sight,  but  easy  of  ac­
cess for lubrication.  The  wicks  are  in­
closed in a little box with  doors  behind, 
and only need very  occasional  trimming 
—say once a  day.  A  few  minutes  suf­
fices to get up full steam.
The conducting or driving is regulated 
by a lever at the right hand of the “coach­
man.”  The  brakes  are  to  the  right of 
driver  and  left  of  driver’s  companion, 
and  another,  like  that  on  an omnibus, 
applied by the driver’s foot.  Steering  is 
much the same  as  a  cycle,  both  hands 
holding upright  handles.
The wheels are fitted with cycle spokes 
and have solid, vulcanite  tires.  The fit­
tings  of  the  interiors  of  those  I  have 
seen differ in  nowise  from  an  ordinary 
horse carriage,  but at  present  the  seats 
are generally facing each other,  which is 
a mistake,  1 think, as it only induces the 
occupants of the first  seat  to  constantly 
turn  around to see where they are going, 
besides qualifying them for a  stiff  neck. 
But  others  with  differently  arranged 
seats also exist.
The price of  these  carriages  so  far  is 
very high. 
It will come down  after  the 
novelty is worn  off.  For  a  carriage  to 
seat two, £173 is  asked;  for  the carriage 
just described, £324 to  £236;  for  a  Vic­
toria for  four,  £244;  for  a  phaeton  for 
four,  £240;  and for a break, £252.  Then 
one has to pay more for the hood and for 
all kinds of other  extras.  But  after  all 
is said that  can  be  said,  even  at  these 
prices the cost is  less  than  a  horse  and 
carriage,  with the  same  accommodation. 
For, after the first outlay,  there  is  little 
else  to  pay  for.  One  half-penny  per 
mile is all  the  cost  of  the  best  refined 
petroleum,  and the wear and tear  of  the 
whole affair, comprising  even  the  tires, 
is estimated  at not more  than  the  same 
amount per mile.

The Aleutian Indians are  not  affected 
in the cost of illuminating their  huts  by 
the advance in kerosene.  They  catch  a 
fish,  about the size of  a  herring,  which 
swims in countless millions in the waters 
about their islands.  These  fish  the  In­
dians hang up by their tails, and they be­
come stiff and hard  by  the  exposure  to 
the  weather.  Then 
through  the  long 
winter  the  fish  are  used  as  candles. 
When  an  Aleutian  Indian  wants  to il­
luminate his cabin he sticks one of  these 
fish into a crack in a board and touches a 
light to the nose.  Then  the  fish  begins 
to burn with a bright  and  steady  light. 
These natural candles  burn  right  down

T H E   M ICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

17

to the tail,  and bones  and  scales  are  all 
consumed. 
In  the rude churches where 
these  Indians  perform  their  religious 
ceremonies these fish may be  seen  stick­
ing up in long rows  before  the  services 
begin, and then they are  lighted  by  the 
medicine  man  and  burn  with  a steady 
glimmer.

One of the most extraordinary mechan­
ical wonders of the world is a clock built 
by  a  Russian  Pole  named  Goldfadon. 
He was at work upon it 2,000 days.  The 
clock represents a railway  station,  with 
all of its appointments and  details  care­
fully carried out.  On the  central  tower 
is a dial which  shows  the  time  at  New 
York,  London,  Warsaw  and  Pekin. 
Every quarter of an hour  the  station be­
gins to bustle, telegraph  operators  click 
their  machines,  the  stationmaster  and 
his  assistants  appear,  porters  bustle 
about  with  luggage,  and  a  miniature 
train dashes out of a tunnel on  one  side 
of  the  platform.  All  the  routine  of  a 
railway  station  is  gone  through,  after 
which the train disappears  into  another 
tunnel,  to  reappear  at the next quarter 
of an hour.

L.  G.  DUNTON  & CO.

W ill  buy  all  kinds  of  Lumber—  

Green or Dry.

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

Wholesale Shipper

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

Grand  Rapide,  Mich.

CARLOTS  AND LESS 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

MANI'FACTUKEKS  OP

BUGGIES.  SLEIGHS  3  WAGONS,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  HICHIGAN.

Esta b l ish e d  1865.

THE  GROCER’S SAFETY.  MADE  IN  2 SIZES ONLY.  FULLY WARRANTED.

Body 7 
ft.  long. 36 in. wide, drop tail  gate......................................................................... WO 00
Body 9‘4 ft. long, 38 in. wide, drop tail  gate..........................................................................  48 00

B e l k n a p ,   B a k e r   &   C o .

WHOLESALE  AND  RETAIL.

8 8 - 9 0 - 9 2   S.  D I V I S I O N   S T .

G R A N D   R A P I D S

JS IT  N O T  A  B E A U T Y ?

This is a “Leader" with  us and we arc selling lots of them.  Of course, we have larger and better Delivery Wagons for more money.
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TH E  M ICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,

starving 

rending  stories  of 
sewing 
women, do not  the  loud  announcements 
of the dealers,  “Finished  Garments  At 
Less  Than  the  Cost  of  the  Cloth,”  at 
once appear before the eyes?  Is not one 
the complement of  the  other?  There  is 
nothing  on  earth  so  cheap as flesh and 
blood,  for it never touches a limit of cost 
of production;  everything else does.
How can there be perennial bargains if 
wages and material  are  not  perpetually 
scrimped?  And,  as a  bargain  ceases  to 
be  a  bargain  to-morrow  if  not  at  less 
price  than  to-day,  so  must  wages drop 
lower and lower,  to meet the demand for 
cheaper wares.  In the political economy 
of the next generation  there  will be  one 
axiom  made  more  prominent  than  all 
others—“Cheap goods make cheap men.” 
Satan must surely rejoice  when  he  sees 
the whole world uniting in  the  one  cry, 
“Cheap!  Cheap!  Cheap!”
One  operator  in  coal  wants  the best 
customer  of  another  operator.  Every 
other  inducement  failing,  he  cuts  the 
price.  Then  the  other  retaliates.  The 
fight goes on and coal  is  sold  at  a  loss. 
The wages of the  miners are reduced,  as 
they are told, in obedience to the laws  of 
trade,  and  the  cutting  in  prices  goes 
merrily on its  way. 
Is  it  any  wonder, 
then, that the miner aud his  fellows  get 
together  and  demand  that  the  laws  of 
trade shall  so  adjust  themselves  that  a 
scant living,  at least, is assured to work­
men?  Why shall one dealer, whose busi­
ness ability is measured by his readiness 
to  undersell  his  competitors,  make  a 
standard of wages that means  a  lack  of 
the common  comforts of  life in one hun­
dred thousand homes?

The Demoralizing: Bargain  Counter*

Wm. H. Maher in Hardware.

The  ruling  spirit  in  the  mercantile 
world in these, the last days of the Nine­
teenth Century,  since Christ came to pro­
claim  the brotherhood of man,  is  Cheap­
ness,  and his throne is upon the  Bargain 
Counter.
Before  this  tyrant every interest must 
bow.  He exacts tribute  from  manufac­
turer, merchant, miner,  plauter,  farmer, 
salaried  official  and  wage  earner.  He 
has  even  become  the  controlling influ­
ence  in  national  politics  and  governs 
every school of political economy.

Campaigns  are  lost  or  won  upon  a 
mere question  of  figures, and parties vie 
with each other  in  promising  the  voter 
cheaper  products  at  special  bargain 
counters.
It  is  not  surprising  that  the  wage 
workers of the whole world are in a state 
of unrest bordering upon anarchy.  They 
see that the steady tendency  of  the  age 
is to lessen the cost of production.  They 
are  taught that all costs have a limit be­
yond which they may not go,  except  the 
cost  of  flesh  and  blood  as  paid  for  in 
wages.  These  must  decline to meet the 
prevailing cry for cheaper  products,  but 
there is no milestone to  mark  the  place 
where  they  may  say  “thus  far  and  no 
farther.”
There was a time when  consumers  de­
manded  good  goods  and  at  reasonable 
prices.  Employers could  then  pay  fair 
wages  for  a  fair  day’s  work,  and  mer­
chants paid tribute  to  quality,  knowing 
that price was  but  one  factor  in  a  sale. 
But,  less  than  a  generation  ago,  there 
came  into  trade ’ circles  a  new  class of 
manufacturers,  whose sole  idea  of  gain­
ing and holding trade was  by  undersell­
ing all competitors.  They ignored every 
question as to quality and  harped  solely 
upon their prices. 
If  the  buyer pointed 
to the inferior finish, the poor  workman­
ship,  the  doubtful  quality,  be  was  met 
with  but  one  answer—“Look  at  the 
price!”
Two classes of dealers welcomed  these 
new  producers,  those  who  saw greater 
profit  in  selling  inferior  goods  at  old 
prices, and another class who was able to 
foresee that “cheapness”  would  become 
the gospel of trade.  Both  classes  found 
the venture a paying one. 
In  one  place 
the  careless  or  confiding  customer  ac­
cepted  the  poorer  goods  at  the  same 
prices  he  had  been  paying  for  better 
wares.  The other stores  were  plastered 
over  with  notices  of  “ bargains,”  and 
people hastened there to do their buying.
The advent of the  “Cheap John”  man­
ufacturer, and  the  eagerness  of  people 
for  bargains,  compelled other producers 
to reduce their  prices  in  order  to  hold 
trade.  As the campaign proceeded, they 
cheapened the material, they slighted the 
workmanship  and  they  reduced  wages. 
Trade in every line  became a been  hunt 
for something lower priced,  in order that 
to-morrow’s  announcement  might  be 
lower than to-day’s.  This spirit has per­
meated every  branch  of  commerce,  and 
“bargains” are the one lodestone that at­
tracts ail sorts and conditions of  men  as 
well as women.
Wherever  the  bargain  counter  has  a 
home, it has monopolized the  talent  and 
brains of  all  concerned  in  its  manage­
ment.  But  where  can  one  go  and  not 
meet it?  It has its special organs in  the 
great Sunday papers,  and its  glaring  in­
vitations  to  those  who  worship  cheap­
ness are the controlling influence in Mon­
day’s  shopping.
Who  shall  be  so  foolish  as  to  rail 
against economy?  Is it  not  the  crown­
ing Christian  virtue?  Why shall not the 
workingman’s wife make her few dollars 
go to the farthest possible  length  in  her 
purchases?  The  answer  is  ready:  Be­
cause her keen scent after bargains is the 
controlling  influence  in  reducing 
the 
wages  of  her  husband  and  sons  and 
daughters. 
If  she  must  have  cheaper 
goods, these others must  do  their  share 
towards it by working for  less wages,  so 
that  the  wares  may  be  offered  at  less 
price than before;  and of  what  value  is 
it that the  wage  earners form  unions  to 
keep  wages at a higher level,  when their 
own  households  are  searching  the  col­
umns  of  the  Sunday  paper  for  lower 
priced goods?
When one reads the piteous and heart­

When a dry goods  dealer  advertises  a 
garment  a  few  cents under the price  of 
his  neighbor,  is  there  a  single woman 
who stops for a moment  to  consider  her 
sister in the garret who has  to  work  for 
less in order that this thing may be done? 
Is the saving made by the buyer a matter 
of actual concern to her?  It very  rarely 
is.  But, to produce  the  article  so  that 
it  could  be  sold  at  this  lower  price, 
women  went  hungry  to  their  wretched 
beds.
If one did not know that every bargain 
offered  meant  sorrow  to  wage  workers 
somewhere in this  wide,  wide  world,  if 
not at his very  doors,  he  might  rejoice 
that  so  much could be bought for so lit­
tle money.  But any  article  is  sold  too 
low when the man or woman  who  made 
it was not paid living wages.  And,  when 
the  wage  earner’s  purchasing  power  is 
reduced, every other interest  must,  nec­
essarily, suffer.
The gauge of the times is the condition 
of the wage earner.  Give him fair wages, 
increase  his  power  to  supply  himself 
with the comforts and even  the  luxuries 
of life,  and  his  demands  for  these  will 
accelerate the wheels of business in every 
line and bring  prosperous  times  for  all 
interests.
But  the  bargain  counter  must  have 
chea  er  goods. 
It  encourages  bank­
ruptcy. 
It offers a premium for inferior­
ity, but it increases its advertising space. 
Nothing is out of its line,  from  summer 
silks  to  mess pork,  from cooking ranges 
to  slate  pencils,  from  pianos  to  liver 
pills.
But, O ye bargain hunters,  how can ye 
close your ears and hearts to the despair­
ing cries of men  and  women  who  work 
from dawn till midnight and barely keep 
themselves in bread,  though bread is now 
so cheap!  Is it nothing to you that these 
toilers  are  without  joy,  without  hope? 
Only despair  is  theirs—only  a  dark  to­
day followed by a darker  and  more  hid­
eous to-morrow.  They  are the slaves of 
the modern Moloch, the Bargain Counter, 
that monster who  knows  no  mercy  and 
serves no God but Cheap John.

Co-education  is  likely  to  have a seri­
ous setback at Mount Union  College, Al­
liance,  Ohio.  Courting  has  become  so 
prevalent  among  the  students  that  the 
president says:  “It is said that matches 
are made in heaveD,  but I think a branch 
office  has  been  opened at  Mount  Union 
College.”

The Signal  Five  leads,  all  others fol­

low.

The Largest Manufacturers  of

PURE,  HIGH  GRADE

have received

on  this  continent, 

COCOAS AND 
CHOCOLATES
HIGHEST  AWARDS
Industrial and Food
Europe and America.

EX PO SITIO N S

from  the  great

IN

Unlike tlie D utch  Process 
no  Alkalies  or  other  Chemicals or Dyes 
are  used  in  any  of their  preparations. 
Their delicious
B R EA K FA ST  CO CO A

is absolutely pure and soluble, and 

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

«ALTER BAKER & CO. DORCHESTER, MASS

EM I,  LYON 4 CO,

20 &  22  Monroe  St.,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

Everything for the

Field  and Garden
Clover,  Medium  or  Mammoth,  Al- 
syke,  Allalfa  and  Crimson,  Timo­
thy,  Hungarian  Millet,  Peas  and 
Spring  Rye.  Garden  Seeds 
in 
bulk  and  Garden  Tools.

Headquarters 

for  Egg  Cases  and 

Fillers.

128  to  132  W.  Bridge  St.,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Michael  Kolb 

&  Son

W h o l e s a l e   C lo th ie r s

Rochester,  N.  Y.

Our  representative,  WILLIAM  CONNOR, 
of  Marshall,  Mich.,  will  be  pleased  to call 
upon  the  Trade  and  show  you  samples, if 
you will favor him with a line.

Mail orders promptly attended to.

CHICAGO 

N0T-,8’18M
AND  WEifT  MICHIGAN  K’Y.
GOING  TO  CHICAGO.

TO AND FROM MUSKEGON.

RETURNING  PROM  CHICAGO.

Lv. G’d Rapids.............7:15am  1:25pm *11:30pm
Ar. Chicago.................  1:25pm 6:50pm  *7:20am
Lv. Chicago...............   8:25am  5:00pm *11:45pm
Ar. G’d Rapids............ 3:05pm  10:25pm  *6:25am
Lv. Grand Rapids.......   7:25am  1:25pm  5:30pm
Ar. Grand Rapids........11:45am  3:05pm 10:25pm
TBAVZR8B CITY. CHARLEVOIX AND  PETOSKEY.
7:30am  3:15pm
Lv. Grand  Rapids .. 
Ar.  Manistee...........  12:20pm  8:15pm
1:00pm  8:45pm
Ar. Traverse City__ 
Ar. Charlevoix.......  
3:15pm  11:10pm
Ar.  Petoskey......  
3:45pm  11:40pm
pm.

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

PARLOR  AND  8LEEPINO  CARS.

Parlor  car  leaves  for  Chicago  1:25pm.  Ar­
rives 
from  Chicago  10:25pm.  Sleeping  cars 
leave  for  Chicago  11:30pm.  Arrive  from  Chi­
cago 6:25am.
»Every day.  Others week days only.
DETROIT, 

- Qct:2811884
LANSING  A  NORTHERN  R. R.
GOING TO DETROIT.

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

RETURNING  FROM  DETROIT.

Lv.  Detroit..................7:40am  l:10pmGC6:00pm
Ar. Grand Rapids....... 12:40pm  5:2Cpm  10:45pm
Lv. G R 7:40am 5:00pm  Ar. G R. 11:35am 10:45pm

TO AND PROM SAGINAW, ALMA AND ST. LOUIS.

TO AND FROM LOWELL.

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

THROUGH  CAR  SERVICE.

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

Trains  week days only.

GEO. DeHAVEN, Gen. Pasa’r Ag’t.

Michigan CYentral

“ Tie Niagara Falls Route.”

(Taking effect Sunday,  May 27,1894.) 

«Daily.  AH others daily, except Sunday. 

Arrive. 
Depart.
10 20Dm.........   Detroit  Express...........7 00am
5 30am ......«Atlantic and  Pacific.......11  20pm
1  50jp m ........New York Express.........  6 00 p m
Sleeping cars  run on Atlantic  and  Pacific ex 
press trains to aud from Detroit.
Parlor  cars  leave  for  Detroit at 7:00 a m;  re 
turning, leave Detroit 4:35 pm, 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.  A lmijuist, Ticket Agent, 
Union PasaengerStanon.

De t r o i t ,  g r a n d   h a v e n   a   Mi l ­
w a u k e e   Railway.
EASTWARD.
tNo.  14 tNo. 16 tNo.  18«No.

Trains Le  ve
G’d  Rapids, Lv 6 45am 1020am 3 25pm 1100pm
Ionia......... . Ar 7 40am 1125am 4 27pm 1235am
St. Johns  .. . Ar 8 25am 1217pm 5 20pm 125am
Owosso...... . Ar 900am 1 20pm 305pm 3 loam
E. Saginaw. . Ar 10 50am 3 45pm 800pm 6 40am
Bay City — . Ar 11 30am 4 35pm 8 37pm 715am
F lin t......... . Ar 1005am 345pm 7 05pm 5 40am
Pt.  Huron.. . Ar 1205pm 5 50pm 8 50pm 730am
Pontiac — .Ar 10 53am 305pm 8 25pm 5 37am
. Ar 11 50am 4 05pm 9 25pm 700am
Detroit......

WESTWARD.

“ 

“ 

For  Grand Haven  and Intermediate
Points...................................   ...... *7:00 a. m.
For Grand Haven and  Muskegon......tl :00 p. m.
“ 
“  Mil. and Chi..  +5.35 P. m.
tDaily except Sunday. 
Trains  arrive  from  the  east,  6:35 a.m.,  12:60 
p.m., 5:30 p. m.,  10:00  p.m.
Trains  arrive from  the  west, 10:10 a.  m.  3:15 
pm.  and 9:15 p.m.
Eastward—No. 14  has  Wagner  Parlor  Buffet 
car.  No. 18 Parlor Car.  No. 82 Wagner Sleeper.
Westward — No. 11 Parlor Car.  No. 16 Wagner 
Parlor Buffet car.  No. 81 Wagner Sleeper.

«Dally.

J ab. Ca m pb e ll, City T'ekel Agent.

Grand  Sapida  <5* Indiana. 

trains  soin*  north.

Leave ffolog 
North
For Traverse City, Petoskey and Saginaw__7:40 a. ir.
For S aginaw .......................................................... 5:00 p- *“
For  Petoskey  and  Mackinaw............................5:26 p  on.
Leave going 
For  Cincinnati........................................................7:26a.m .
For Kalamasoo and  Chicago.............................2:16 p. m.
For  Fort Wayne and  the  East.......................... 2:16 p.m.
For C incinnati.................................................... *6:40  p.m .
For  Kalamasoo and Chicago..........................*11:40  p. m

TRAINS GOING SOUTH.

South.

Chicago via G. R. & I. R. R.

Lv Grand Rapids.............7:26 am   2:16 pm   *11:40 pm
Arr  Chicago.....................2:40pm  9:06pm 
7:10am
2:16 p  m  train  has through  Wagner  Buffet  Parlor 
Car and coach.
11:40 p m train daily,  through Wagner Sleeping Car 
and Coach.
11 :S0 p m
Ly  Chicago 
Arr Grand Rapids 
7:20am
S 30  p  m  has through  Wagner  Buffet  Parlor  Car 
11  SO pm   train dally .thro ugh  Wagner  Sleeping  Car 

S .80 p m 
9:16 pm  

6:50a m 
2:60pm 

For Muskegon—Lea Ye. 

9ftuskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana*
9:60 a m
7:26 a m  
1:00pm 
I:16pm
V40  p m 
6:20 p m
O  L. LOCKWOOD*
General  Passenger and Ticket Agent*

From Muskegon—Arrive.

J 

TH E  M ICHIGAN  TRACDESM^JST.

Advantages  of the  Cash  System.
[Entered In competition for  prizes  offered  by 

Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association.]

In  discussing the advantages of a cash 
system  of  business  it  is  well  to  name 
them before proceeding to the discussion. 
The most  important  are  the  following: 
Absence  of  bad accounts,  the very much 
more simple requirements  of  book-keep­
ing,  the ability  to  dispense  with  a  col­
lector’s  services,  the  much  greater  vol­
ume of money handled, the great amount 
of  time  saved  and the holding of a cer­
tain amount of trade which  every  house 
must lose occasionally  through  disputed 
accounts.

Bad  accounts  are  a  natural  conse­
quence  of  the  credit  system  of  doing 
business.  They  are absolutely  unavoid­
able,  for the reason that regular  custom­
ers who have always  paid  promptly  oc­
casionally find themselves unable  to  pay 
immediately for something they  get,  and 
so ask for credit or a  short  extension  of 
time. 
It  is doubtful if there is a man in 
any  business  who  would  refuse  credit 
under such circumstances,  and especially 
as business is everywhere done on credit. 
Small accounts started innocently in this 
way are bound,  in a few  cases  at  least, 
to accumulate,  and,  if they are  not  ulti­
mately  disputed,  payment  is  deferred 
until the debtor either  thinks  his  cred­
itor can as  well afford to lose the amount 
as  he  can  to  pay  it; or, he becomes un­
able to pay it.  Either way it is a case of 
creditor “ whistling.”  When  a  business 
man calculates the profit he should  make 
upon  his  goods  in  order  to yield a fair 
return upon the  money  invested,  he  al­
lows  for  possible 
losses  of  this  kind 
when be fixes the prices of his goods.  A

narrow margin will not suffice either,  as, 
where a credit business is done at  all,  it 
must  be  dene  on  a  more  or  less large 
scale,  according to the size  of  the  busi­
ness in question.  This makes  the  price 
of  everything  higher  to  everybody and 
practically makes the  honest  portion  of 
the  community  pay  for the  support of, 
and the luxuries  enjoyed  by,  the  dead­
beats,  as  the  former  pay  the  prices 
which  enable the dealer to make a profit 
after deducting an approximate  percent­
age  of  loss  to  be sustained through the 
dead-beats;  the  latter  pay  nothing—if 
they can help it.

With a cash system of  doing  business 
any one could do the book-keeping.  The 
principal  things  to  be  kept would be a 
stock book and a bank  book  (checks  al­
ways being regarded as cash.)  No charg­
ing  a  man  up  with  what  he gets, and 
have  him  say,  the  next  time  you  see 
him,  that you charged it wrong; no  mak­
ing out statements or bills every week or 
month;  no  wasting of $ 8 and 8 8 in sta­
tionery and  stamps  every  day  in  drum­
ming  up  bad  accounts;  no  use  for  com­
mercial  credit  companies,  thus  saving 
membership  dues  and  commissions  on 
accounts  which  you  have  put  into their 
hands for collection; no  use  for  receipts 
or  bills,  and  no  use  for  a  collector  to 
collect the same. 
If  such a system were 
already  in  vogue,  no  change  from  a 
credit  system  being  required,  just  as 
much business  would be done, and every 
commodity  would  be  cheaper.  At  the 
same  time,  salaries  in  every  branch  of 
business  would  be  higher,  for  a greater 
volume  of  money  would  necessarily  be 
required  to  do  business;  with  money 
easy,  salaries  are  always  good.

it 

accounts,  much 

No  business  house  exists  (unless it be 
a  very  new  one)  which  has  not had the 
experience  of losing custom through dis­
puted  accounts  or 
through  pressing 
debtors  too  hard.  The trade lost in this 
way sometimes amounts to  thousands  of 
dollars  in  the  aggregate.  Such  losses 
cannot  be  looked upon with indifference 
by  the  wealthiest business houses.  But 
one  class  of  companies  is  exempt  from 
these  losses,  and  they  are  the ones who 
have  a  monopoly.  With  them 
is, 
“Pay,  or  you  can’t  have  something you 
can’t  get  along  without.”  With  no  dis­
less  money 
puted 
would  be  wasted 
fees, 
fewer “justices of  the  peace”  would  be 
sponging  on  business  men  for  a  living, 
all  the  time  wasted  in  discussion  over 
accounts could be more  profitably  used, 
and the expression,  “I  wouldn’t  buy  of 
that firm if they  were  the  last  house  on 
earth,” would be an obsolete  expression.
With everyone paying  cash  for  every­
thing, there would be no hoarding of gold 
to  force  bond issues by the Government, 
because  the  hoarding  would  not  result 
as  desired.  There  is  not  enough  gold 
in  the  world  to  supply  the  demands  of 
trade,  and  that  metal could not possibly 
be  used  as  a  unit.  With  silver  as  a 
unit, money could not  be  made  scarce— 
there  is  too  much  of  it.

in  attorneys’ 

With money plenty,  the  manufacturer 
could pay good wages, for he would have 
the  means  with  which  to  do  so.  His 
employes  paying  cash  for  what  they 
bought would enable retailers to do like­
wise  with  the  wholesale  houses. 
In 
short,  if  all  paid  cash,  money would  be 
kept flying,  and business would be lively; 
lively business makes profits large, large

1 9

profits make the money fly,  and  thus  we 
have the complete circle.  From this point 
of  view  the  cash  system  is  certainly 
most desirable. 

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

Is  the  Honest  Farmer  a  Delusion?
G r a n d   R a p id s ,  May  3—I  have been 
much amused at the  articles  which have 
recently appeared in your  paper relative 
to  the  illegality  of  the  so-called  “St. 
Joe” basket,  which is the common  meas­
ure used by both growers and  dealers  in 
the handling of fruits and vegetables. 
I 
aim to do the fair thing at  all  times  and 
under all circumstances,  but  I have been 
unable 
to  use  anything  but  bastard 
bushel baskets since  the  short  measure 
baskets came into general  use.  The rea­
son  for  this  is  that  the  growers have 
adopted as their standard the basket con­
taining seven-eights of a bushel  and,  so 
long as  the  dealers  and  consumers  put 
up with such imposition  and  dishonesty, 
the  growers  will find it very convenient 
to continue  their  present  policy  of  de­
ception and cheating. 
I  have had many 
years’ experience in  dealing  with  farm­
ers and fruit growers and I  am  frank  to 
admit that a more dishonest class of men 
never existed.  They appear  to  imagine 
that  all  men  are  trying  to  “do”  them, 
and that any subterfuges  they can resort 
to for the  purpose  of adding to their  in­
comes are legitimate—a sort of  “dog  eat 
dog” theory. 
I know of  preachers  even 
who buy bastard baskets for the purpose 
of marketing their products, yet the same 
men would brand as  dishonest the dealer 
who  advertised  to  give  24  pounds  of 
sugar for 81 and actually gave 21 pounds. 
Yet there  is  no  difference  between  the 
grocer who sells 24  pounds  and  delivers 
21 and the grower who sells a bushel and 
delivers seven-eights of  a  bushel!  It  is 
all very well to talk about  the  necessity 
of this reform, but I am  willing to stake 
my reputation as a  prophet on the state­
ment that, instead of  increasing  the size 
of  the  bushel  basket,  the  growers will 
gradually reduce the size  to  three-quar­
ters of a bushel! 

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T H E   MICMLGAN  TRADESMAN

The  Possibilities  of Our  Boys.

Character is either good  or  bad.  Lib­
erality  of  ideas,  justness  of  judgment, 
generosity of  heart,  tenderness  of  sym­
pathies, susceptibility of  feelings, integ­
rity, veracity and exactness are the lead­
ing  distinguishing  qualities  of  a  good 
character,  the  absence  of  these  is 
the 
requisite of a bad one.

Many psychologists contend that  char­
acter  is  pre-eminently  hereditary;  but 
our observation has been to the  contrary 
—environment is by far the most import­
ant  factor  in  developing  the mind into 
what  constitutes  character.  Environ­
ment is virtually all.  You may take  the 
most perfectly developed acoru, sprout it, 
and 
transplant  it  in  the  dry,  compact 
earth  of  a  public  highway,  to  be  run 
over and trampled down by  hundreds  of 
vehicles,  and  none  are  too  simple  to 
kuow the result; but,  if the  same  sprout 
be planted in rich,  loose and fertile  soil, 
and carefully protected  from  destructive 
influences while in its tenderness, it will, 
in  due  course,  develop into the mighty 
monarch of the forest,  unfolding its huge 
green  boughs  to  the  balmy breezes and 
defying the trivial influences that at  one 
time,  under  different 
circumstances, 
would  have  crushed  it  in  its  insignifi­
cance.  So  it  is  with  the  human  mind. 
The Spartans,  at one  time,  caused  their 
slaves to be made intoxicated  that  their 
youths  might  learn  from  observation 
(environment) the degradation  to  which 
inebriety  drags  the  human  being,  and 
profit  by  the  example.  How  far  they 
were  successful  we  can  better  know 
from the fact that, only  a  few  centuries 
later,  Grecian  wisdom,  Grecian arts and 
Grecian civilization shone forth in all-re-

splendent  beauty,  spreading 
its  bril­
liancy  over  the  then  entire  civilized 
world,  and standing out to-day with such 
perfectness as to cause  even  us  of  this 
gloriously  progressive  and  intellectual 
nineteenth century to  contemplate  them 
with admiration and reverence.  The de­
velopment of the mind  depends  entirely 
on  the  training  and  information  it  re­
ceives,  be the mind mediocre  or of  great 
innate  ability.  The acquisition and use 
of  information  constitute  mental  de­
velopment.  Now, if this acquisition and 
use  of  information  be of a refining and 
elevating  nature,  so  will  the  matured 
m'nd,  fed in  its immaturity in this man­
ner,  be  refined  and elevated. 
If the in­
formation  imparted  to  the  tender,  un­
formed mind be of a degrading influence, 
it will degrade it,  no  matter  what  may 
be 
inborn  capacity.  Did  not  the 
English  immediately  fall  slaves  to the 
use of tobacco?  How much more quickly 
is  an  evil  work  accomplished  when 
brought  to  bear  upon 
immature—nay, 
tender,  uninformed  minds,  having  no 
knowledge of  actions  themselves,  much 
less  of  the  consequences  of  actions? 
Would our boy learn the use of profanity 
if  he  never  had  occasion  to  hear 
it?. 
Hardly.  Would he learn the  use  of  to­
bacco  if  he  never  saw anybody smoke? 
Hardly.  Would  he  sit  around  bare­
footed,  filthy and idle,  if all  with  whom 
he was thrown in contact were  neat,  in­
dustrious and refined,  and  he  furnished 
with  the  necessaries  to  be  like  them? 
Agaiu,  we  are  constrained to answer— 
hardly.

its 

We  find  examples  of  boys  from  the 
most refined families—refinement and in­
tellect in both parents—bright and prom-

from 

ising  boys,  fall  into  bad  environments 
and are  carried  down  by  their  evil  in­
fluences.  How  much  stronger  Is  this 
principle  when  applied  to  the  tender, 
wholly undeveloped  mind,  to the  boy  of 
2 or 3 years  of  age?  He  may  have  the 
innate ability to learn  mathematics,  but 
if  taught  to  plow  and  hoe  from  early 
childhood  until  18 or 20 he is  very likely 
to continue  plowing  and  hoeing  to  the 
end of the chapter.  He may have innate 
refinement,  but,  if you teach him coarse­
ness and untidiness,  by example and pre­
cept, 
tenderest  babyhood  until 
tolerably well matured,  he  is  more  than 
likely  to  continue  just  as  you  have 
trained  him.  We have  a  most  striking 
and familiar example in the  hardy,  sys­
tematic,  methodical and  upright pilgrim 
fathers,  whose  sons  developed  into  the 
able,  determined and patriotic  heroes  of 
the  revolution,  as  contrasted  with  our 
present political and  social  leaders.  So 
we see very plainly and conclusively that 
environment  is  the  all-potent  factor  in 
developing  the  tender  mind and matur­
ing it into character;  and  that the possi­
bilities of our boys depend entirely upon 
their  babyhood  and  boyhood  training 
and surroundiugs.  The home should  be 
a home—not a prison,  nor  a  rendezvous 
for all  the  harum-scarum,  unprincipled 
boys  of  the  neighborhood.  And  right 
here  is  where  the  mother  steps in and 
holds the fate of the nation in her hands! 
On  her—and  what 
there  nobler, 
worthier and  more inspiring than  a  lov­
ing, devoted mother,  whose gray head is 
bowed with age, and worn  by  the  trials 
and  efforts  so  generously lavished upon 
the object  of her  devotion?—on  her  de­
volves the regeneration  of our twentieth

is 

century manhood. 
In her hands  lie  the 
reins with  which she may  guide  the  na­
tion to a higher,  nobler plane,  or sink  it 
into the deepest  vice  and  final  destruc­
tion.  When  she  draws  a  rigid  line of 
demarkation between the  present  social 
superficialities  and  true  home 
life— 
teaching her daughters the enervating in­
fluences of society,  and  its  shallowness, 
as  contrasted  with  a  pure,  industrious 
and devoted home-life, and molding them 
into  that  lovely  and  useful 
type  of 
womanhood, of which the  praises  of  all 
poets could express but  a  faint  idea  of 
the  admirable  qualities flowing through 
their  entire  being;  teaching  her  boys 
that  success 
is  obtained  only  by  the 
proper application,  and not  by  standing 
around  idly  “ waiting  for  something  to 
turn up”—then the  period  of  regenera­
tion will bud into its  dawn.  Now,  1  do 
not  want  to  be  construed  as  meaning 
that girls are to become  mere  household 
drudges—not one bit of it; but 1 do mean 
that they should be taught  the truer and 
higher ends  of  life,  that  they  may  not 
cater  to  whimsical  social  regulations, 
spending their time, energy and money— 
aye,  their  whole  lives—trying  to  keep 
“in touch with  society,”  but  that  they 
may turn  scornfully from its vast  empti­
ness  and  make  noble  women;  then  our 
boys will  have an  additional stimulus to­
wards developing into worthier manhood.
The home should be a  home,  pervaded 
throughout  by  system,  method  and  re­
finement,  and ruled by  love  and  tender­
ness,  yet  determination.  Let  the  boy 
learn that he has a shelter and  protector 
at home as long as the generous heart  of 
his dear old mother sends brightness and 
tenderness through her  precious cheeks;

It  Has No  Equal.

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The  Jobber  sells  m ore!
The  Retailer  sells  m ore!
The  Consumer  buys  more!
The  Babies  cry  for  more,  and  more  mothers  write  us 

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TH E   M ICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,
and, therefore, do not have  to  make  my 
good  customers  pay  for  what I lose on 
the  bad. 
I  can  afford  to  make  you  a 
close price,  for,  when  you  pay  me  the 
cash,  I can pay likewise for  all  my  pur­
chases and secure the same  advantages I 
offer  you.  Having  sold  nothing  on 
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learn  that  he  is  welcome  to  share  the 
fortunes of his old  home,  whatever  they 
be  and  however  severe  his  may  be. 
Teach  him—and  do  it  by  example  and 
tenderness—that his  highest  aim should 
be an honorable success,  but  that should 
he fail, his home is still  his refuge.  Let 
him gather about the  place all the lively 
fun that his young, playful and energetic 
mind may devise, and give  full  scope  to 
his  mental  and  physical  activities  that 
they may develop.  By no  means  dwarf 
his 
and  experimenting 
tendencies  by  a  continual  “don’t.” 
Teach him, above all  things,  to  be  true 
to himself;  that truth is the father of all 
virtues.  Let  nothing  at  home  be  too' 
sacred  for  him,  nothing  in  the  wide 
world too good for him;  give him  all the 
sugar  he  can  eat,  rather  than  develop 
one falsehood  in  his  tender  and  fertile 
mind, remembering  that whatsoever you 
sow,  or  cause  to  be  sewed  thereon,  is 
likely to  produce  until  the  end.  Raise 
him thus, mother,  and  he will  not  be  a 
burden  and  source  of  constant  anxiety 
to you in old age,  but,  on  the  contrary, 
a pride and  everlasting joy.  The  mem­
ory of the sweet and dear  old home days 
will go  down with  him  as  fresh  in  the 
sixties  as  in  his  most  joyous  boyhood 
hours;  his home ever as a  model for him 
to aspire to,  and the word “mother”  will 
follow  him,  with  all  its  precious  rela­
tions,  through  his  entire  life. 
In  her 
absence it will swell his bosom with that 
warm and  true  filial  devotion that lends 
such  strength  and  purity  to  character; 
in times of  adversity  and  temptation  it 
will be his  deepest  inspiration,  causing 
to surge through his veins the  noble res­
olution  that  he  would  rather  die  than 
bring  the  slightest  touch  of  worry  or 
shame to her dear, old,  loving heart,  and 
in the  days  to  come,  when  you  are  no 
more,  it will lend a halo and a sweetness 
to  his  life,  when  its  memories  at  twi­
light bud forth in all their  freshness,  an 
inspiration  that  will  lead  him  up  the 
rugged pathway  of  success,  even  to  the 
very pinnacle,  there to  stand  forth  peer 
to any,  surpassing  many, as  a  model  of 
perfect manhood, gracing  your  name,  a 
pride to his family  and  an  honor  to  his 
country. 
The  Advantages  of  the  Cash  System.
[Entered In competition  for  prizes  offered  by 
The  advantages  of  the  cash  system 
over those of the credit are numerous; in 
fact,  1 do not  believe,  after  long  expe­
rience  in  both lines, that the credit sys­
tem has the advantage over the cash in a 
single  instance.

Orand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association.]

S.  F.  Rea d.

Start at  the  beginning:  Mr.  X.,  the 
cash  man,  intends  going  into the retail 
grocery  business.  His  stock  is 
to  be 
purchased.  He goes  to  the  jobber  and 
tells him  he  wishes  to  purchase  a  bill 
of goods for  which  he  has  the  cash  to 
pay;  that,  unless  he  makes  very  close 
figures,  some  other  jobber  will  get  the 
bill.  My  word  for  it,  he buys a bill of 
goods very cheap.  On  the  other  hand, 
take Mr.  Y.,  who wishes to buy his open­
ing  bill  but  can  pay  only  one-half 
in cash.  He is,  therefore,  compelled  to 
ask an accommodation of the  wholesaler 
of  thirty,  sixty or  ninety  days,  as  the 
case may be.  He will  surely  pay  more 
for his goods than did Mr.  X.  As “Goods 
well bought are half  sold,” Mr.  X. opens 
his business with an  advantage.  He be­
gins  business  by  announcing:  “ 1  have 
only  one  way  of  doing  business.  My 
terms are spot  cash  to  one  and  all. 
I 
make no exceptions.  My reasons for de­
manding cash are several and will  result 
in saving money  both  for  you  and  me. 
In  the  first  place,  if  you pay me cash, 
there is no charge to be  made  and,  con- 
equently,  I  do  not  have  to  employ  a 
book-keeper.  1  make  no  bad  accounts

refuses 

Another  thing:  Mr.  X. 

to 
credit Mr. A.  in the presence  of  Mr.  B., 
Mr.  C.  and  Mr.  D.  Mr.  A.  is  worth 
$100,000  and  is  as  “good  as  gold.” 
Messrs. B., C.  and D. are men  whom Mr.
X.  is  desirous  of  selling  for  cash  but 
would not  be  willing  to  extend  credit. 
Had he sold Mr.  A. on  credit,  the others 
would be likely to ask  for  a  similar  ac­
commodation.  Upon a refusal from him, 
they would  more than likely take offense 
and spend their money elsewhere.  Hav­
ing seen that he refuses Mr. A.,  they  do 
not  even  ask  him  for credit, but spend 
all  their  cash  with  him,  knowing  full 
well that he is in a position to offer them 
cheaper prices than his  competitors.

Again,  the wholesale  grocer  or  manu­
facturer has a certain salable article that 
can be handled satisfactorily by only one 
man in a locality. 
It is one that  bears a 
good profit to the retailer  and  is  desira­
ble.  The  best  man  with whom to place 
it is naturally  sought.  The  two  men— 
cash  and  credit—both  possessing  the 
same business ability,  are taken into con­
sideration.  The cash man  will  invaria­
bly be given the preference,  because the 
jobber knows that he buys and  sells  for 
cash  and  will  pay for the goods as soon 
as they are delivered.

All business men have more confidence 
in him.  The banker  points  him  out  as 
the man  who never  borrows  but  always 
has money in the bank to his credit.

Mr.  X.  sells, 

to-day,  $50  worth  of 
goods.  At  night  he  has  the  $50  to  put 
in goods for  to-morrow’s  business.  Mr.
Y.  sells and  “puts in on the books.”  He 
must  needs  have  more  capital  than  Mr. 
X., or buy more goods  on  credit.  What 
is  more,  Mr.  X.  has  the  advantage  of 
Mr.  Y.  in  the  peace  of mind he enjoys. 
He goes home at night  with  no  business 
cares  on  his  mind.  He owes no one,  no 
one owes him. 
if  the  mill closes down, 
or  the  operatives  go  out on a strike, not 
one  of 
them  owes  him  a  cent.  They 
must  eat.  They  owe  the  credit  man 
around  the  corner.  They  have  a  little 
cash laid by for a rainy day. 
If  they  go 
to  the  credit  man  to  spend  it,  he  will 
surely  want  them  to  pay  something  on 
account.  This they cannot afford  to  do; 
therefore,  they will go to the man  whom 
they  owe  nothing. 
If  crops  fail,  the 
same thing.  The  credit  man has all the 
worry  and  does  all  the  losing; the cash 
man gets all the cash afloat.

The  first  sixty days after having been 
in business,  let the cash  grocer  take  an 
inventory.  Knowing  how  many  goods 
he  has  bought,  how  much  cash  he  has 
taken in  and  the  quantity  of  goods  re­
maining  unsold,  he can  easily  tell  the 
per  cent,  he  has  made.  Trying  this 
every  sixty  days  for  awhile,  he  soon 
finds  the  average  gain  on  sales.  At 
night he counts his  cash  and  knows  the 
result of the day’s business. 
If he finds 
be is  doing  a  losing  business,  he  must 
cut  down  expenses  or  close  his  shop, 
for,  if he  cannot  make  money  on  busi- 1 
ness  conducted 
in  this  manner,  he  is 
hopelessly lost under  the  credit  system. -

Monroe, La. 

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Wall  Paper,  with  us 
vegetable paste and poison­
ous  coloring, is  unsani­
tary, and to apply repeated 
ayers  is  uncleanly  and 

|  dangerous.
J  Kalsomine  is  tempor- 
s,  rubs  off  and

scales.

ALABAST1NE
forms a pure and permanent  coating and does 
not require to be taken  off  to  renew from  time  toi 
time.  Is a dry powder, ready for use* by adding; 
water.  Can  be  easily  brushed  on  by  any one-. 
Made in white and twelve fashionable tints.
ALABAST1NE is adapted  to  ail  styles of 
plain and relief decorating.
For Sale  by  all  First-Class  »’win  ¿Stealo.

Ma^ r d  ALABASTIHE 09.. Grand Ml "J
PRICE.  50 CT5. PER GALLON. 

BY  THE  BARREL.

One  gallon  covers  250  'square  feet 
on Tin or Iron  Rooting, or  100 square 
feet  on  Shingle  or  Board  Roofing, 
t too cl also for painting Smoke Stacks, 
Boilers,  Iron Fences, etc.
Anyone can apply  it  with  a white- 
I  wash  brush.  Water  and  Fire Proof. 
1  Stops  all  leaks  in  old  or  new roofs. 

Give it a trial.

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SOLD  BY  ALL  GROCERS.

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REDUCED  THE  LICENSES.

Saginaw  Grocers  Suffer Through Lack 

of Organization, 

rom  the Saginaw Evening News, April 30.
Peddlers,  groGerymen, sundried  fruits 
and  rotten  pickles,  all  tumbled  into  a 
‘Trilby”  mixture,  made  la9t  evening’s 
Council meeting interesting and peculiar 
and composed the salient  feature  of  the 
doings of  the  aldermen.  Everything  in 
the  Council  chamber  ran  like  newly 
oiled machinery  until  a  communication 
from the  Committee  on  Ordinances  was 
read,  recommending  a  reduction  of  the 
annual license fees  for  peddlers  to  S10 
for foot artists, 515 for one horse  and  55 
for each additional horse,  as against 510, 
525 and 530, the price  last  year.  Aider- 
man Lee opened  the  ball  by  explaining 
all points about the change without mak­
ing an argument.  Then came Alderman 
Laird,  with  about  the  same  argument 
he  used  last  year  relative  to  the  hard 
time the peddlers have  to get  along  and 
make  a  living.  Aldermen  Smart  and 
Fordney  took  him  up  on  some  of  the 
statements made and argued in  favor  of 
the grocerymen,  making capital  invested 
and taxes paid cut quite a big figure.
C. F.  Alderton, representing  the  retail 
grocers,  was heard and he  gave  the gro­
cers’ side of the story,  telling  how  they 
get  first  pick  at  the  supplies from the 
commission merchants and  the  peddlers 
have to take the leavings to  palm  off  on 
the public.  Then a peddler named  Ran­
dall spoke and said that the peddlers,  as 
a rule, buy the best goods obtainable and 
pay  the  same  prices  the  retailers do. 
Then,  after  telling  that $1 per day was 
the average profit  of  a  peddler,  he  told 
how he purchased some  pickles  recently 
of a certain  wholesaler  within  reach  of 
his voice; how the  wholesaler  demanded 
cash  payment;  and  how,  when 
the 
peddler found one barrel rotten  and  had 
to throw it into the river,  any  reduction 
in the price was refused.
Alderman  Smart  took  the  floor  and 
said  that  the  pickles  referred  to  were 
purchased at his  establishment  and  that 
he informed Randall  when  he purchased 
them  that  they  were  old,  second-class 
pickles and could not be  sold  to  the  re 
tail  trade.  Aldermen  Lemcke’s  eyes 
grew as big as  saucers  when  that  state 
ment came out and,  gaining the  floor,  he 
said he thought it time to  quit  watching 
the peddlers and throw a  searchlight  on 
the  wholesale  dealers  who  would  sell 
such rotten stuff knowingly to  peddlers 
He made  himself  ridiculous  by  advanc 
ing  the  idea  that  grocers  should  be 
licensed  to  compel  them  to  sell  good 
stuff  to  peddlers,  so  that  the  people 
would have no cause  to  complain  of  re­
ceiving  poor  goods.  After  Aldermen 
Krapf and Stingel had  exchanged  a  few 
love  taps  about  meat  wagon  peddling 
outside  the  city  Alderman  Biesterfeld 
said  that  peddlers  had  forced  undesir 
able goods on the people at his home.
Alderman Weale’s eyes twinkled when 
he  informed  the  Council  that  he had a 
strong-minded woman at  his  home  and 
was not afraid of  any forcing business at 
his  place.  Then  a  vote  was taken and 
the amount of  license fee reduced to cor 
respoud with the report of  the  Commit 
tee  by  vote  of  15  to 14.  Subsequently 
the amended  ordinance  was  passed  un 
animously and  the  i eddlers  triumphed.

Laziness  the  Enemy  of Trade.

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

It is curious  that  we  know  the  least 
about  many  things  which  are  most  fa­
miliar to us.  For instance,  ask  anyone 
with faculty in drawing to make a repre­
sentation of a hand and, unless especially 
artistic study has been made of that sub­
ject, 
the  result  will  be  a  pronounced 
failure.  Yet the  hand  is  about  as  fre­
quent an object of consideration  as  any­
thing  we  can  mention. 
It  i9  so  in the 
moral,  or immoral, qualities of character. 
It  is  so  with  the  quality  of  laziness. 
There  is,  perhaps,  no  other  quality so 
familiar  to  us  in  the  frequency  with 
which it is brought to our notice,  yet we 
really know less of it than of most  other 
qualities.  Perhaps  our  lack  of  knowl­

edge is partly caused by the fact  that  it j 
is not a pleasant subject  to  contemplate 
and  that we  instinctively  choose  to  let 
our  minds  dwell  on  pleasanter  ones. 
Whatever the cause it may be well to oc­
casionally  have  the  subject  brought to 
our attention.

The ravages of this arch  enemy  of  in­
dustry  are  potent  in every walk of life, 
but,  perhaps, in no other  Is  its  presence 
so frequently a determining factor in the 
problem  of  success  or  failure as in the 
pursuit  of  trade;  and,  perhaps,  in  no 
other  is  its  approach  more  insidious. 
The clerk who can go through  the  usual 
apprenticeship of a varying  trade  with­
out unconsciously contracting  the  habit 
of  loitering  or  consulting  his  indolent 
ease has in him the elements that, guided 
by  honesty,  will  insure  his  success  in 
any mercantile career. 
In the industrial 
or  manufacturing  trades  or  in  the  pro­
fession  there  is  the  constant  opportu­
nity  for  personal  effort  and  push  and, 
when there is a suspension of this effort, 
there  is  an 
Immediate  and  positive 
knowledge of the sin  on  the  part  of  the 
sinner.  Unfortunately,  in trade there is 
the element of  chance  which,  at  times, 
must  be  waited  upon.  The  customer 
may come at any moment  and  the  clerk 
or  merchant  must  be  ready  for  him, 
must be waiting for him,  and it is a most 
difficult matter to be thus  waiting  with­
out acquiring the waiting habit.  This Is 
the stumbling block which wrecks  many 
mercantile  ambitions.

is 

this  answer 

What  is  laziness?  The  common  an­
swer is a disinclination  to  work.  With 
the  ordinary  meaning  given  the  term 
“ work,” 
insufficient. 
Laziness is a disinclination to  effort,  es­
pecially to disagreeable  effort,  and  it  is 
in  this  last  attribute—the  tendency  to 
avoid the disagreeable—that  another pe­
culiar  dauger.  to  the  mercantile  greer 
manifests  itself.  Such  manifestations 
are liable in  a  hundred  different  direc­
tions.  Thus,  there  is  the  tendency  to 
delegate  duties  because  they  are  disa­
greeable.  This 
is  laziness.  The  mer­
chant  whose  clerks  know  that  he  is 
ready to do anything he  requires  of  any 
of them  commands a respect  and  obedi­
ence which go far to insure success.

There  are  varying  degrees  of  agree­
ableness on the part of customers.  There 
is, consequently,  the temptation  to  give 
personal attention to the most agreeable, 
who may, commercially,  be  of  the  least 
worth,  while the rougher customers,  who 
are perhaps those of most intrinsic worth, 
are turned over to subordinates.  This is 
laziness. 
In  the  matter  of  collections 
and settlement of  disagreeable accounts, 
whose 
to  be 
charged  to  this  same  sin,  there  is  a 
special temptation to shirk  or  procrasti­
nate,  which is also laziness.  In the light 
of  these  facts,  it  is  fair  to assert that 
laziness is peculiarly the enemy of trade.

is  usually 

existence 

Ra d ix.

There  is  a  fellow  somewhere  in  the 
country  who  represents  himseif  as  an 
agent  of  the  Mexican  government  for 
disposing of  600,000  acres  of  fine  land 
belonging 
to  that  government.  The 
Mexican  Minister  at Washington,  Senor 
Romero,  has been asked about  the  busi­
ness,  and he  says  that  the  man  Is  and 
must be a  fraud,  as his  government  has 
not authorized anybody to  sell  lands  in 
the United States, or in any  other  coun- 
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Price  15c.  and  25c.  per  Bottle.

An ordinary plate broken  in  two  and  mended  with  MAJOR'S 
CEMENT held  a  stone  weighing 300 pounds during the World's 
Columbian Exhibition at Chicago, 1893.

the sore to heal rapidly.

Then  you can eat, sleep, work and wash your hands.*  This bandage protects and allows 
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MAJOR'S  LEATHER  CEMENT  costs 15cents 
a bottle, and with  it ••invisible" patches  can  be 
put on shoes, so prolonging  their  wear.  Worth 
the price,  if you only use it  once.

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£  oz.  size,  15  cents,  $12.00 per gro.
Major’s Cement, 
1  oz.  size,  25  cents,  18.00 per gro. 
Major’s  Cement, 
Major’s Best Liq Glue,  1  oz. size,  10 cents, 
9.60 per gro. 
Major’s Leather Cem’t, 1  oz. size,  15  cents,  12.00  per gro. 
Major’s Leather Cem’t, 2  oz.  size,  20 cents,  18.00 per gro 
Major’s Rubber Cem’t, 2 oz. size,  15  cents,  12.00  per gro.

MAJOR'S  RUBBER  ('EMENT.  fur  repairing 
Rubber Boots, Shoes.  Rubber  Garments and  Bi­
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shoe for patching, which  will do as well as  new 
material.  Price  15  cents  per  bottle.  You  can 
also repair all  kinds of  garments  and umbrellas 
of different material  in the same way.

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or  by  mail  at  the  same  price.

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NEW  YORK CITY

TH E  M ICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

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Is  one  of the few  
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ED  W .  RUHE,

M aker,  C hicago 
E.  E.  Hushnian,  A g t. 
523 John st.

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THE  BACK  OFFICE.

Written ( o r  T h k  T r a d e s m a k .

There  are  always  two  sides  to every 
question,  and, after listening  attentively 
to what I think are  strong  objections  to 
the department store,  it  seems  but  meet 
and  right  to  hear  something  from  the 
other side. 
I didn’t care  to  call  on  the 
proprietor of “the  largest  establishment 
in the United States,” and hear  him  tell 
me that the  business  world  is  thinking 
and  that  new  ideas,  the  result,  are  at 
work, because I don’t think that the idea 
is new at all. 
I’ve  bought too many gro­
ceries on one  side  of  the  country  store 
and  too  many  dry  goods  on  the  other 
side to be told,  at this late  day,  that  the 
idea  is  something  new. 
I  have  heard, 
until I am  tired  of  it,  that  the  depart­
ment store is a fad  to  draw  custom,  and 
that  the  cheap  groceries—almost  given 
away—are  not  good  for  anything  else, 
because I  know,  in  the  first  place,  that 
goods that are good for  nothing  are  the 
worst thing in the world for  advertising, 
and I know,  too, that the  scramble  after 
the Almighty  Dollar  is  too  eager  to  be 
wasted upon a fad.  So,  when I met, not 
long ago,  an  intelligent  customer  fresh 
from  her  trade  with  the  department 
store,  I  asked  her  if  she  thought  she 
gained much in buying groceries  at such 
a place,  and whetticA  she thought  it  just 
the thing to desert her grocer with whom 
she had traded for years, for  the sake of 
encouraging the  new trade  octopus  that 
is fairly devouring the small dealer.

“Well,” she reasoned,  “the  gain  is  a 
matter  of  dollars  and cents,  and this  is 
the  way  the  question  stands  with  me: 
I’ve  been  wanting  some  codfish 
for 
weeks.  My  grocer  has  some  for  ten 
cents a pound, dirty and  black  and  with 
the skin on.  He says it’s the best in the 
market. 
I ordered some to-day, no bone, 
no  skin,  and  neatly  packed  in  a  box. 
There are  three  pounds  and  I  paid  22 
cents for  three  pounds—just  about  the 
amount  I  wanted.  Now,  strange  as  it 
may seem, I rather  pay 22 cents than 30. 
Another instance:  We  are  very  fond  of 
pineapple,  but don’t  feel  like  having  it 
very often because it costs so much; but, 
now that I can get it at  $2.06 a dozen  by 
the can,  we can have  all we  want.  And 
so I might go on, but  the  substance of it 
all  would  be  this:  I  have  come  home 
with  two  dollars  more  than  I  should 
have, had I bought  my  groceries  at  the 
corner.  This isn’t the  first  time  that  I 
have  bought  goods  at  the  department 
store, and my experience has been that I 
have  always  got  there  goods  that  are 
first class. 
I have  never  seen  anything 
that looks like a  low-grade  article,  and, 
so  long  as  I  can  purchase better goods 
there at a less price  than  I can get them 
for at the corner,  the  ‘oetopus’  you  talk 
about  is  going  to  have  my  trade.  So 
much for the quality and the price—now 
for something else. 
It  may seem a mat­
ter of no importance to you,  but,  after  a 
lady  has  got  through  with  dress goods 
and things of that  sort,  it’s  rather  nice 
to  step  into  another  part  of  the store, 
and, without taking off her  gloves or be­
ing obliged to look out  for her gown,  see 
all 
these  fine  groceries,  and  not  be 
waited on  by someone  who  should,  that 
very minute,  be putting on clean clothes. 
Now, careful attention is paid to all these 
things in the one store and  they  are  not 
looked  after  in  the  other;  and,  if  the 
grocer  doesn’t  want  the  ‘octopus’  to 
feed on him,  all he has to  do  is  to  fight 
the ‘octopus’  with his own weapons.

“Just take this one little instance for il­
I had seen in the down town 
lustration. 
stores these little  boxes  of  codfish,  and 
always  supposed  that,  if  we  pay  ten 
cents a pound for the whole fish, dirt and I 
skin and fins thrown in,  those neat boxes ! 
of clean white fish  would,  of  necessity,! 
be much more. 
I have tried,  more  than 
once,  to get that corner  grocer to keep it 
in  stock,  but  he has always put me off. 
The  fact  is  that  he  gets  his big black 
dirty fish for almost nothing and  sells  it 
for all he  dares  ask  for  it. 
I  think  it 
would be a  good  plan  for  the  ‘octopus’ 
to  squeeze  him  a  little  here and teach 
him a thing or  two  which  he  evidently 
doesn’t know.”

It is only a straw;  but,  if  the  depart­
ment  store  has  been  watching this and 
so found out which way  the  trade-winds 
are  blowing,  the  rest  of  the  trading 
world must  do  the  same,  or  suffer  the 
consequences.

Rich a rd  Ma i.com  Stkgng.

CURRENT  COMMENT.

in 

A canary bird,  which  is  as  good  as  a 
watchdog,  lives in a little store  on  Fifth 
It  is  one  of  the 
avenue,  New  York. 
class  of  petty  stores  where 
the  wife 
keeps  house 
the  rear  rooms  and 
watches the counter  in  the  front  room, 
while the husband  goes  out  to  work  at 
his trade.  As a rule,  the  customer does 
not  find  her  behind  the  counter.  He 
gives a loud cough, or rap, and she comes 
in from her  cooking,  wiping  her  hands 
on her apron to receive  his penjry or  his 
oickel. 
In this particular  store  you  do 
not  need  to  cough  or  rap.  As soon as 
you  put  foot  across  the  threshold  the 
bird sets up  a  loud,  shrill  twitter,  and 
keeps  piping  until  his  mistress  comes. 
This  wise  canary  is  11  years  old.  He 
was  silent  for  eight  years—noteless, 
twitterless;  then he  began  to  sing  like 
four and twenty blackbirds,  and  he  has 
been sounding bis warning ever since.

*  *  *

A story comes from Montreal to the ef­
fect  that  a  young  lady  organist  in  a 
church  was  captivated  with  the  young 
pastor  of  a  church  in  the  next  street, 
and was delighted to hear  one week that 
by exchange he was  to  preach  the  next 
Sunday in her  own  church.  The  organ 
was pumped by an obstreperous  old sex­
ton,  who  would  often  stop  when  he 
thought  the  organ  voluntary had lasted 
long enough.  This day the organist was 
anxious that all should  go  well,  and  as 
the service was about to begin  she wrote 
a note  intended  solely  for  the  sexton’s 
eye.  He  took  it,  and,  in  spite  of  her 
agonised beckonings, carried  it  straight 
to the preacher.  What was  that  gentle­
man’s 
astonishment  when  he  read: 
“Oblige  me  this  morning  by  blowing 
away till I give you the  signal  to  stop.” 
The note was signed “Miss Allen.”

•  •  •

A scientific  publication  recommends  a 
solution of sugar of lead and alum  in  an 
improved  process 
for  making  cotton 
goods waterproof,  but, according  to  au­
thorities of physiological chemistry, such 
goods  should  never  be worn next to the 
skin,  as  the  salts  of  lead  are absorbed 
with ease and are nearly all very poison­
ous.

*  • 

•

The hog killing industry of  the  coun­
try for the year ending March  1  reached 
an  aggregate  of  21,610,000  hogs,  for 
whieh were paid $932,000,000.

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Fifty-one  New  Members Received Dur­

ing  April.

Grand Rapids, May 3—1 beg  leave  to 
report the addition of  fifty-one  members 
of our list during the mouth of April,  as 
follows:

M. B. Divine,  Belding.
E. McDonald, Chicago.
Clarence Tuxbury,  Grand Rapids.
H.  F.  Nickerson,  lshpeming.
W. S. Shoaf,  Manistee.
C.  H. Hinman,  Battle Creek.
John M.  Fay,  Grand Rapids.
Eugene W. Cramer,  Ludington.
John Corrigan,  Mackinac Island.
Geo. U.  Haskall, Detroit.
Frank L. Palmer, Fort Wayne, Ind.
Horace B.  Rose, Grand Rapids.
Sydney E.  Slater, Chicago.
John A.  Cline, Ludington.
Frank Bassett, Milwaukee.
C. E. Hewitt, Detroit.
Wm.  M.  Tice,  Kalamazoo.
B. J. Robertson,  Breedsville.
Charles E. Morgan, Fremont.
H.  W.  Wolcott, Jackson.
Peter Baum, Saginaw.
Fred D.  Policy,  Lafayette,  Ind.
Louis Archer, Detroit.
Uriah Hoff master,  Traverse City.
John J. Closs, Detroit.
A. B. Scotten,  Indianapolis.
W. D. Bennett, Union City.
H. Earl Lanford, Bay City.
Otho W. Riebel, Toledo.
Clarence B.  Osgood,  Chicago.
S.  L. Mead, Detroit.
Eugene W. Crane,  Adrian.
John Tripp, Charlotte.
J. S.  Hirth, Grand Rapids.
H. B. Fournier, Chicago.
J. J.  Sullivan, Chicago.
W. E. Anthony, Detroit.
Frank P.  Dodge, Toledo.
Harry Mercer,  Detroit.
Wm. E. Cartier, Ludington.
Abe Sant,  Menominee.
H. F. Harbeck, Grand Haven.
John Coleman, Detroit.
James N. Riley, Ann  Arbor.
Edwin R. Johnson, Quincy, 111.
Alvin  L.  Greenwood,  Newton  High­
W. A.  Stowe, Milwaukee.
U. Grant Hamlin, Muskegon.
Frank J. Shively,  Traverse City.
Andrew A. French, Baltimore, Md.
G. E. Stewart,  Fairgrove.
In addition to the  above  active  mem­
bers,  we  have  received  one  additional 
honorary member—C. C.  Gilbert,  of Fre­
mont.
I have prepared and had printed a new 
form of application for honorary members 
which  simplifies  the  work  of  securing 
honorary  applications  very  materially. 
I shall be glad to send packages  of these 
blanks to any member who  will  interest 
himself in the matter.
I propose to inaugurate  an  aggressive 
campaign  against  delinquent  members, 
with a view to  bringiug  them  back  into 
the  fold,  and  during  the  next month I 
shall  send  every delinquent a statement 
of  his  account,  with  an  urgent  appeal 
that he pay up,  sign  a  health  certificate 
and again take  advantage  of  the  death 
indemnity  guaranteed 
to  members  in 
good standing.
The next meeting of the  Board  of  Di­
rectors  will  be  held  at 
the  Hudson 
House,  Lansing, 
the  first  Saturday  in 
June.  Ansther $2 death assessment will 
probably be ordered at that time.

lands,  Mass.

Geo.  F.  Owen, Sec’y.

Valuable  Contributions  to  the  Litera­

ture  of the  Cash  System.

At the regular  meeting  of  the  Grand 
Rapids Retail Grocers’  Association,  held 
March 19,  the following recommendation 
of the special Committee on  Essays  was 
unanimously adopted:
We recommend that three  cash  prizes 
of  $5,  $3  and  $2 be offered for the best 
three essays on “Advantages of the Cash 
System;”  that  no  limitation be made as 
to  the  length  of  the  articles,  and  that 
competition be open  to  the  world;  that 
the 
in  The 
T r a d e sm a n  as they are sent in; that  en­
tries close May 1; and  that  the  decision 
of  the  Committee  be  announced  at the

articles  be  published 

T H E   M ICHIGAN  TRADESM AN.
regular  meeting  of  the  Association  on 
May 21.

Respectfully  submitted,

J.  J.  W a g n er,
P e t e r Sc h uit,
Henry  J.  V in k em u ld er, 
Committee on Essays.
Up  to  May  1,  twelve  contributions 
competing for the  prizes  were  received 
by Secretary Stowe, as  follows:

1.  Mrs.  Anna McKee, Mt.  Morris.
2.  Geo.  Sehlinger, Saginaw,  W.  S.
3.  Frank T.  Lawrence, Grand Rapids.
4.  E. Alphonse Cloonan, St. Louis, Mo.
5.  O.  W.  Pettit, Grand Rapids.
«.  Thos.  Houghton, Jackson.
7.  E.  A. Owen,  Vittoria, Ont.
8.  Morris J. White, Grand  Rapids.
9.  Wm.  B.  Reily,  Monroe,  La.
10.  R.  R. Case,  Lansing.
11.  Simon Lieffers.  Eastmanville.
12.  W.  M. Gibbs, Fredonia,  N.  T.
All but the eleventh  and  twelfth  con­
tributions have appeared in T h e T r a d es­
man and these will be  published  in  the 
issue of next week.
A peculiar feature of the contest is the 
wide extent of  territory  covered  by  the 
contributors—eight being from Michigan 
and one each from New  York,  Missouri, 
Louisiana and Ontario.
So far as T h e  T radesm an’s  informa­
tion goes, this is the  most  complete  and 
valuable  collection  of  contributions  on

this  subject  ever  published,  and  the 
Retail Grocers’ Association is to  be  con­
gratulated on  its  enterprise  in  securing 
so  much  interesting  information  on  so 
important a topic.

Employer  and  Employee.

From the Street Railway Journal.
In the  disputes  concerning  wages  or 
management,  which  sometimes arise,  in 
even the best  regulated  companies,  be­
tween  officers  and  employes,  the  sym­
pathies of the public  are  nearly  always 
with  the  men.  There  is  evidently a 
tendency  to  regard  a  corporation, par­
ticularly  a  railway corporation,  in  the 
light of a public enemy which  is  always 
in the wrong in  its  public  and  internal 
affairs.  The same feeling is  exemplified 
in  legal  actions  before  a  jury where a 
railway  corporation  is  one  of  the  con­
tending  parties,  and  appears  to be one 
of the peculiarities of  human  nature  or 
of our modern civilization.  When a num­
ber  of  men  become  associated  for  the 
purpose of performing  a  public  service 
they seem, in the popular  mind,  to  lose 
their  identity,  together  with  some  of 
their rights  of  property  and  liberty  of 
action,  and are often  compelled  to  for­
feit many privileges which  each,  as  an 
individual,  certainly  possesses.  They 
are  thenceforth  considered,  not  as  in­
dividuals,  but as  a  greedy  corporation. 
In the treatment of  corporations,  espec-

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the  right 

regards 
the  cheapest  market, 

ially  as 
to  hire 
the 
labor 
in 
stockholder seems  to  have  disappeared. 
The expression  coined  by a well-known 
economist  to  cover  another  case,  “the 
forgotten man,” seems to suit him exact­
ly.  The  newspapers,  politicians  and 
boards of arbitration,  who  govern  their 
own affairs according  to  their own judg­
ment, try to coerce the  railway company 
in the management of their own business. 
The rights of A, B and C,  who  compose 
the company,  are not  considered.  They 
may  be  upright, 
law-abiding  citizens, 
Perhaps their entire property is invested 
in the railway,  and  they  are  dependent 
upon its earnings for support.  All  this 
makes no difference.  Their  existence is 
as completely lost sight of as if they had 
lived in a  prehistoric  age,  and the aver­
age juryman or other  citizen,  who might 
have  some  qualms  about  sand-bagging 
and  robbing  them  as  they  walk  the 
streets as individuals,  has  no  objection 
to “administering  a  rebuke”  to “a rich 
and grasping  corporation.”  Until  “the 
forgotten man”  is  occasionally  remem­
bered in our legislatures and halls of jus­
tice,  we are forced to be  skeptical of  his 
rights under our  laws,  even  though  his 
existence cannot  be  wholly  overlooked.
Frank  Wixom  succeeds  E.  Henry  as 
traveling representative for the Bancroft 
Cigar  Co.

tl)e  Unit tb  states  of America,

To

H E N R Y   K O C H ,   your  o l e r l c s ,   attorneys,  a g e r.j, 
s a l e s m e n   and  workmen,  and  all  claim ing  or 
holding  through  or  under  you,

Greeting :

j   it  has  been  represented  to  us  in  our  Circuit  Court  of  the  United  States  for  the  District  of
New  Jersey,  in  the  Third  Circuit,  on  the  part  of  the  ENOCH  MORGAN’S  SONS  COMPANY,  Com plainant,  that 
the  District 
it  has  lately  exhibited  its  said  Bill  of  Com plaint  in  our  said  Circuit  Court  of  the  United  States  for 
of  New  Jersey,  against  you,  the  said  HENRY  KOCH,  Defendant, 
therein 
complained  of,  and  that  the  said

to  be  relieved 

the  m atters 

touching 

ENOCH  MORGAN’S  SONS  COMPANY,

Com plainant,  is  entitled  to  the  exclusive  use  of 

the  designation  “ SA PO LIO ”  as  a  trade-m ark  for  scouring  soap.

tto iD ,  th e r e f o r e , „ do  strictly  command  and  perpetually enjoin you,  the  said  HENRY
KOCH,  your  clerks,  attorneys,  agents,  salesmen  and  workmen,  and  all  claim ing  or  holding  through  or  under  you, 
under 
that  you  do 
absolutely  desist  and  refrain  from  in  any  m anner  unlawfully  using  the  word  “ SAPOLIO,"  or  any  word  or  words 
substantially  sim ilar  thereto  in  sound  or  appearance,  in  connection  with 
the  m anufacture  or  sale  of  any  scouring 
soap  iiot  made  or  produced  by  or  for  the  Complainant,  and  from  directly,  or  indirectly,

the  pains  and  penalties  which  may  fall  upon  you  and  each  of  you  in  case  of  disobedience, 

By  word  of  mouth  or  otherwise,  selling  or  delivering  as 

“ SAPOLIO,”  or  when  “SAPOLIO”  is  asked  for,

that  which 
false  or  m isleading  m anner.

is  not  Com plainant’s  said  m anufacture,  and  from 

in  any  way  using 

the  word  “ SA PO LIO ”  in  any 

W itH fS S ,

[ s e a l ]

The  honorable  Melville  W.  F uller,  Chief  Justice  of 
the  City  of  Trenton, 
United  Stages  of  America,  at 
Jersey, 
the  year  of 
eight  hundred  and  ninety-two.

i6th  day  of  December, 

this 

in 

[ signed]

ROWLAND  COX.

Complainant's  Solicitor.

the  Supreme  Court  of  the 
in  said  District  of  New 
our  Lord,  one 
thousand,

S.  D.  O LIPH A N T,

Oerli

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TH E  M ICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

Drug  Department.

State  Board  o f P h arm acy.

On© Year—George  Gundrum,  Ionia.
Two Years—C. A. Bugbee, Charlevoix.
Three Years—8. E. Parkhill, Owosso.
Pour Years—F. W. R  Perry.  Detroit 
Five Years—A. C. Schumacher, Ann Arbor.
President— Pred’k W .R. Perry, Detroit.
8ecretary—Stanley E. Parkill, Owosso.
Treasurer—Geo. Gundrum, Ionia.
Coming  Meetings—Detroit  (Star  Island),  June  24; 
Lansing, Nov 5

_____________________________
M ichigan  State  Pharm aceutical  A ss’n. 
President—A. 8. Parker, Detroit.
Vice-President—John E. Peck, Detroit.
Treasurer—W. Dupont, Detroit.
Secretar—P. C. Thompson.Detroit.
Grand  Rapids  P harm aceu tical Society. 

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

.

Why  Should  a  Drug  Store  Be Loafers’ 

Headquarters?

It is a sad state  of  affairs,  but  never­
theless true, that in most small towns, or 
even  in  some  stores in cities, these uni­
versal  pests  seem 
to  exist.  Now  the 
question  arises,  how  do  they  (some  of 
them)  manage to attend  to  any  business 
of their own,  for many  of  them  you  do 
not  miss  from  your  place  of business 
from  early  morn  till late at night?  Ap­
parently they feel in duty  bound  to  en­
tertain each visitor who enters the store, 
whether or not they  have ever  seen  him 
before.  Now, 
there  is  a  difference be­
tween  the  loafer  and  the  friends  who 
come in to make a purchase  and  stop  to 
exchange a few social remarks; but if the 
latter come  too  often  without  purchas­
ing  and  stay  too  long,  it  will  not  be 
very long ere they  are  considered  loaf­
ers in the estimation of the public.

so 

frequent. 

Most  people  do not consider if  loafing 
if they stop to spend a few  hours  in  the 
front  part  of  your  store  to  watch  the 
passers-by, and it would not be if it were 
not 
Presently  comes 
another and then  another,  conversation 
is  entered  into,  and  sometimes  heated 
discussions are  the  result (in  fact,  that 
is what they come for,  never  coming  to 
buy,  for should  they  want  anything  in 
the  drug  line  they  will  go  to the next 
store),  and  soon  the  place  is  crowded.
In a country town  there  always  seem 
to  be  some  chronic  loafers,  who  think 
people,  both  customers  and  proprie 
tor, never get tired of seeing  their  faces 
and hearing  their  gossip,  which  is  any­
thing  else than entertaining  or  instruc­
tive.

Ofttimes men who have business places 
of their  own  will 
leave these places to 
spend  several  hours  with  some  kind 
friend  (druggist  friend,  of  course),  so 
termed by themselves,  but  never consid­
ering how much  they  cause  him to lose 
from customers  who  come  to  the  doors 
and pass on,  because of so  many loafers; 
and,  more  than  that,  not  once  in  ten
thousand times do these(so-called friends) 
loafers buy  where  they  loaf.  And  sel­
dom, if ever,  will ladies enter a store (es­
pecially a drug store) when there is a raft 
of  men  sitting  around,  like  skillpots 
around  a  pool  on  a  warm  spring day. 
Often they are  boisterous,  chewing  to­
bacco,  spitting and smoking, all which is 
very unpleasant to ladies.

People never think of  loafing in a doc­
tor’s or a lawyer’s office.  They transact 
their business in those places  and go  on 
their way rejoicing,  to  impose  on  some 
kind friend who has a  drug  store and  is 
dependent upon the patronage of the pub­
lic for support,  and not  upon  a few indi­
viduals, as most of  the  loafers  suppose. 
Of all professional men,  the  druggist  is 
the most consistent,  and  most  generally 
receives less thanks  and  gets  no  credit 
for his patience  and  consistency.  Peo­

for 

filled 

the  bottle 

every  whim  and  call; 

ple  think  you  are  under  obligations 
to  obey 
if 
a doctor is called in the  night he charges 
for  a  night  visit,  and  nothing thought 
of it;  but let a druggist  charge  25  cents 
for a night  call  for  an  ounce  of  syrup 
of ipecac,  when  the  customer  has  been 
having 
five 
cents,  ten  chances  to  one,  if you raise 
the price because you  have  been  called 
out of your nice, warm bed, and perhaps 
walked three or four  squares,  that  man 
will  never  put  his  foot  in  your  store. 
Consistency,  sympathy, charity, leniency 
and  many  other  good  qualities too nu­
merous  to  mention,  are  very  requisite 
for the druggist to beat his  way  in  this 
world of trials and  tribulations,  and  if 
he is pretty shrewd he will get  there,  if 
some  exterminator 
he  can  only  find 
which  will  eradicate  the 
the 
druggist’s greatest  enemy  from  a  busi­
ness standpoint. 

H it e  Watson.

loafer, 

A  Pharmaceutical  Romance.

From the  Pharmaceutical  Era.

the 

It was evening in San  Francisco.  The 
mellow  glow  of  the  tinted  shades  fell 
over an interior of tasteful magnificence. 
The house was  that  of  Jacob  Grogram, 
the well-known stock operator.
In a costly fauteuil,  before the fire, sat 
Clarissa  Grogram, 
idolized  only 
daughter  of  the  stern  old  speculator. 
Before the fire in  a  costly  fauteuil  also 
sat  young  Herbert  McSwiggen,  M.  D., 
one of the young physicians turned loose 
upon  the  community  among  the  last 
batch  from 
the  Toland  College.  The 
slender waist  of  Clarissa  was  encircled 
by  his  strong  right  arm,  and occasion­
ally she was shifted to the other knee.
They  were gazing thoughtfully into the 
fire,  which cracked cheerfully in  its  un­
assuming way.  Why did it crackle?  Ah, 
who  can  tell?  There  are  problems  in 
this  world  which,  far  reaching in their 
intensity, evoke from  the  depth  of  the 
inner  soul  doubts—vague, 
terrifying 
doubts, which-------   But we digress.
Suddenly Herbert tightened  his  clasp. 
Clarissa sighed.
“Oh,  Herbert,”  she  sighed,  “you 
mustn’t.  What would my paw say?”  and 
she hid  her  blushing  face  amid  the  re­
cesses of his ear.
“Nay,  dearest,”  said  he,  soothingly, 
“he would say naught.  Was he not once 
young himself?  And  what  if  he  has  a 
house on Van  Ness  avenue,  and  4  per 
cent,  bonds  and  things,  I  am  not  un­
worthy to claim the hand  of  Jacob  Gro- 
gram’s child.”
“But be calls you a—a---- ”
indignantly  demanded 
“A  what?” 
into  her 
Herbert  McSwiggen,  gazing 
deep, dark, soulful eyes.
“A sawbones,”  reluctantly replied the 
lovely girl.
"Ha!” shouted Herbert McSwiggen,  “a 
sawbones!  Oh,  would that he were here 
—would that I might  confront  him  and
_ _ _ _ _  W
At  this  moment  the  sound  of  Jacob 
Grogram’s  footfalls  without was  heard, 
then the fumbling of the paternal  latch­
key.  Herbert rose hastily,  but  not  un­
gracefully, 
throwing  Clarissa  over  the 
back of the chair as he did so, and, grab­
bing his ulster from  the  hatrack,  got  a 
running start for  the  back  door.  Clar­
issa heard bis  agitated  footsteps  as  her 
father  pursued  him  through  the  hall, 
then  the  whiz  of the  heavy  boot,  then 
the sound  of  her  lover’s  descent  as  he 
lightly fell on the other side of the  back 
fence.
The poor girl with a sigh of relief mur­
mured, 
“Saved!  saved!”  and  fainted 
away on the coal  scuttle.
Let us leave her there.
Two years have  passed  away.  Twice 
has the earth in its accustomed  pathway 
swung round the orb of day.  Twice  has 
the world had a head on it the  day  after 
New  Years.  Twice  has  it  swore  off. 
Twice  has  it  fallen  down.  Twice—but 
we digress.
Fortune  had  smiled  on  Jacob  Gro­
gram.  The fickle goddess danced lightly 
before him, beckoning  him  ever  onward 
with her golden  wand.  Deeper,  deeper

into  the  wilderness  she  went  on.  At 
last she led him into  the  tangled  thick­
ets.  Jacob got short on a  stock  that  be 
couldn’t fill, because it  was  all  in,  and 
because be hadn’t any money if it  hadn’t 
been in.
Jacob Grogram failed  to  keep up with 
the  procession.  He was ruined.
“If you please, give me a  box  of  Mc- 
Swiggen's Liver Pills.”
It was the voice of a young  sir!.  Her­
bert McSwiggen  looked  forth  from  his 
office at the rear  of  the  gorgeous  phar­
macy.  He was rich  now,  was  Herbert, 
and  famous.  “McSwiggen’s World  Fa­
mous Blood and Liver Pills” had brought 
him  wealth  and  fame.  But,  alas! 
they 
had not brought him Clarissa.
However,  it seemed that she  had come 
at last.
“Clarissa,” said he,  advancing toward 
her.
The fair girl  looked  upon him.
“ ’Tis he!”  she cried.
It another moment the  lovers  were  in 
each other’s arms,  but  the  box  of  pills 
was all broke up.
They  were  married.  Life  flew  on 
golden  wings  for  the  McSwiggenses. 
The vista of the years opened  out before 
them,  radiant,  golden,  peaceful  and 
pharmaceutical.
But a single cloud dimmed the  sky  of 
their  existence.  One  morning  Jacob 
Grogram did not come to breakfast.  Re­
peated knocks at his door failed to bring 
him forth.  The door was forced.  There 
lay  the  cold  form  of  what  was  once 
Jacob Grogram.
Herbert  approached.  He  saw  a  box 
lying on the  table and examined it.  He 
shook his  head.
Jacob  Grogram  had  taken  a  box  of 
McSwiggen’s pills.

What about the Michigan  peach  crop? 
Isn’t  it  nearly  time  to  hear that it has 
failed?

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Pll Hydrarg, (po. 80)..  @ 50
Piper Nigra, (po. 22)..  @ 1
Piper Alba, (po £5)__  @  3
Pllx Burgun...............   @  7
Plumb! A cet..............  10®  12
Pul vis Ipecac et opll. .1  io®l 20 
Pyrethrum,  boxes  H
A P. D.  Co., doz......  @1 25
Pyrethrum,  pv..........   20®  30
Quasslae....................  8®  10
Qulnla, S. P. A W.34*039X
S.  German__  27©  37
Rubla  Tlnctorum......  12®  14
SaccharnmLactlspv. 
16®  18
Salacln......................2 3002 50
Sangnls  Draconls......   40©  50
Sapo,  W......................  12®  14
,T  M.......................  10®  12
“  G.......................  ®  15

“ 

Seldllts  Mixture........  ©  20
Slnapls........................  @  18
“  opt__ ,............  ®  30
Snnff,  Maccaboy,  De
Yoes.......................  ®  35
Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes  ®  35 
Soda Boras, (po.7-9)..  7®  9
Soda  et Potass Tart...  24®  25
Soda Carb.................  1H®  3
Soda,  Bl-Carb............   3®  5
Soda, Ash.................... 3H®  4
Soda, Sulphas............   @  2
Spts. Ether C o...........  50®  55

“  Myrcla  Dom...........  @2 00
“  Myrcla Imp............  @2 50
•'  Vlnl  Rect.  bbl.
__7......................... 2 4502 55
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Strychnia Crystal.......1 4001 45
Sulphur, Subl..............2X@ 3
“  Roll..............  2  @ 2H
i nmanuuH............
Terebenth Venice.. ...  28® 90
Theobromae......... ...45  0
48
Vanilla.................. -.9 00016 00
Zlncl  Sulph........... ...  7© 8

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

Bbl.  Gal
70
65
45
81

“ 

paints. 

27
63
Linseed,  boiled.........  61 
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
strained...............   65 
70
SpbltsTurpentlne__  35 
40
bbl.  lb.
Red Venetian.............IX  208
Ochre, yellow  Mars__IX  304
“ 
Ber........IX  208
Putty,  commercial__2X  3X®8
“  strictly  pure......2H  3X03
Vermilion Prime Amer­
ican ..........................  
13015
68073
Vermilion,  English__ 
Green, Paris............. 
20X037
Green,  Peninsular...... 
13016
Lead,  red....................  5X06
“  w hite............... 5X06
070
Whiting, white Span... 
090
Whiting,  GUders’........ 
1 
White, Paris  American 
Whiting.  Paris  Eng.
cliff.......................... 
1  40
Universal Prepared  ..1  €001  15
No. 1 Turp  Coach__1  1001  30
Extra Turp.................16001 70
Coach Body............... 2 7503 00
No. 1 Turp Furn........1  0001  10
Eutra Turk Damar__1 5501  60
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 
Turp  .......................  
70075

VARNISHES.

R e a s o n a b le !

ACIDUM.

Acetlcum.......................  
8© 10
Benzolcum  German..  65©  75
Boraclc 
...................... 
15
Carbollcum.................. 
'«¡1(3 31
C itrlcum ....................... 
41® 44
H ydrocblor.................... 
9®  5
.....................  10® 12
Nltrocum 
O zallcum ......................   10®  12
20
Phosphorlum  d ll........  
Sallcyllcum...................  70® 75
Sulpburlcum— ...  .. 
IX®  5
Tannlcum ....................1  40®1  60
Tartarlcum ....................  30® 33

AMMONIA.

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

4®  6
6®  8
" 
-  bonas  ....................   12® 14
lorldum .....................  12® 14

Black..........................2 00©2 25
Brown.........................  80@1 00
Red.............................   45®  50
Tellow....................... 2 50©3 00

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

BAI«SAMUM.

Copaiba......................  45®  50
Peru............................  @3 25
Terabln. Canada  —   45®  50
Tolntan......................  40®  50

COBTNX.

Abies,  Canadian.................  18
Casslae  ...............................  }3
Cinchona Plava  .............  
  18
Buonymns  atropurp...........  30
Myrlca Cerlfera, po............   20
Prunus Ylrglnl....................  12
QulUala,  grd.......................   10
Sassafras  ............................  12
Ulmus Po (Ground  15)........  15

“ 
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XXTBACTUM. 
Glycyrrhlza  Glabra...
po .  ........
Haematox, 15 lb. box..
Is..............
V4s............
X»............
r KRRU
Carbonate Preclp........
Citrate and Quinta....
Citrate  Soluble...........
Ferrocy anldum Sol —
Solut  Chloride...........
Sulphate,  com’l.........
pure............

“ 

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

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

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

......  

FLORA.

roi.iA.

“ 

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“ 
“ 

“ 
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“ 
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SUMMI.

Barosma 
Cassia  Acutlfol,  Tin

...................  14®  30
nlvelly........  ..........  18®  25
Alx.  25®  30
Salvia  officinalis,  X*
and  Ha....................  12®  20
UraUrsl 
8®  10
..................  
Acacia,  1st picked—   ®  60
2d 
...  @ 40
3d 
....  ®  30
sifted sorts. . .  @  20
po.................  60®  80
Aloe,  Barb, (po. 60)...  50®  60 
"  Cape, (po.  20)...  @  12
®  50
Socotrl, (po.  60) 
Catechu, la, (He, 14 Xs>
16)............................  @  1
Ammoniac.................  55®  60
Assafcetlda, (po.40> 
35®  40
Bensomum.................  50®  55
Camphor*...................  44®  50
Buphorblum  po  ........  35®  lo
Galbanum...................  @2 50
Gamboge,  po..............  65®  80
Guaiacum. (po  35) —   ®  30
Kino,  (po  3  00).........  
03 00
Mastic  ... 
................  @  80
Myrrh, (po. 46)...........  @ 40
Opll  (po  ’3003  50)..2  f0®2  10
Shellac  .....................   40®  60
bleached-----  40®  45
Tr.sgacanth................  50®  80

“ 
hxbba—In ounce packages.

Absinthium.........................  25
Bupatorlum.........................  20
Lobelia................................   25
Majorum.............................   28
Mentha  Piperita.................  23
“  V lr.........................  25
Hue.......................................  80
Tanaoetum, V ......................  22
Thymus,  V..........................   25
Calcined, Pat..............   55®  60
Carbonate,  Pat...........  30®  22
Carbonate, K. A  M —   20®  25 
Carbonate, Jennlng5..  35®  36 

MASNXBIA.

OUSUM.

Cubebae.................... 1 6001  70
Bxechthltos..............   1  2001  30
Brlgeron...................1  20@1 30
Gaultherla................1  50@1  60
Geranium,  ounce___  ®
Gosslpll, Sem. gal......  60®  70
Hedeoma  ................. 1 25®1  40
Juniperl.....................   50®2 00
Lavendula.................  90@2 00
Llmonls.................... 1 30®1  50
Mentha Piper 
...........18503 00
Mentha Verid........... 1  80@2 00
Morrhuae, gal........... 1  25@1  31
Myrcla, ounce............  @  50
Olive.........................  90@3 00
Plcls Liquida, (gal. 35)  10®  12
Ricini.......................  88®  96
Rosmarini........... 
1  90
Rosae, ounce.............6 50®8 50
Succlnl.......................  40®  45
Sabina.......................  90@1  00
San tal  .......................2 50@7 00
Sassafras....................  50®  55
Slnapls, ess, ounce__  ®  65
Tlglll..........................  ©1  00
Thyme.......................  40®  50
opt .................   @1  60
Iheobromas...............  15®  20

“ 

POTASSIUM.

BICarb.......................  15®  18
Blohromate...............   11®  13
Bromide....................  40®  43
Carb...........................   12®  15
Chlorate  (po. 17@19)..  16®  18
Cyanide......................  50®  55
Iodide........................2 9O03 00
Potassa, Bltart, pure..  23®  25
®  15
Potassa, Bltart, com... 
Potass Nltras, opt......  8®  10
Potass Nltras.............. 
7®  9
Prusslate....................  45®  23
Sulphate  po...............   15®  18

RADIX.

Aconltum..................   20®  25
Althae.........................  22®  25
Anchusa....................   12®  15
  ®  25
Arum,  po................ 
Calamus............. 
20®  40
 
Gentlana  (po. 12)...... 
8®  10
Glychrrhlza, (pv. 15)..  16®  18
Hydrastis  Canaden,
(po. 35)..................  
©  30
Hellebore,  Ala,  po__  15®  20
Inula,  po....................  15®  20
Ipecac,  po..................1 30@l  40
Iris  plox (po. 35038)..  35®  40
Jalapa,  pr..................   40®  45
Maranta,  Xs..............  @  35
Podophyllum, po.......   15®  18
Rhei...........................   75@1  00
“  Cut......................  ©1  75
“  pv.......................  75@1  35
Splgella.....................   35®  38
Sanguinarla, (po  25)..  @ 20
Serpentario.................  50®  55
Senega.......................  55®  60
Slmllax, Officinalis.  H  @ 40 
M  @ 25
Sclllae, (po. 86)..........   10®  12
Symplocarpus,  Fcetl-
du8,  po....................  ®  35
Valeriana, Eng. (po.30)  @  25
German...  15®  20
lnglber a ................. 
18®  20
Zingiber  J...............  
18®  20

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SBMXM.
©  15
Anlsum,  (po.  20). 
14®  16
Aplnm  ( gravel eons).. 
4®  6
Bird, Is...................... 
Carol, (po. 18)............   10®  12
Cardamon.................. 1  00@1 25
Corlandrum...............   12®  14
Cannabis Sativa.........   4® 
5
Cydonlum..................   75® 1  00
Chenopodlum  ..........   10®  12
Dlpterlx Odorate  ......1  8002 00
Foenlculum...............  ©  15
Foenngreek,  po...... 
6®  8
L ini................. 
....  3X0 4
Lini, grd.  (bbl. 8X) ■ •  3H® 4
Lobelia.......................  35®  40
4©  5
Pharlarls Canarian—  
Rapa............................4X®  5
Slnapls  Albu............  
7©  8
r   Nigra..........   11©  12

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8PIBITU8.
Frumenti, W., D.  Co.. 2 0002 50
D. F. H......2 0002 25
.................1  2501  50
Jnulperla  Co. 0. T .... 1  6502 00
............1  7503 50
“ 
Saacharum  N.  B........1  9002 10
Spt.  Vini  Galli...........1  75@6 50
Vini Oporto............... 1  2502 00
Vini  Alba.................. 1  25®2 00

Florida  sheeps’  wool
carriage..................2 50Q2 75
Nassau  sheeps’  wool
oarriage  ...... .......... 
2 00
Velvet  extra  sheeps’
wool  oarriage.........  
1  10
Bxtra  yellow  sheeps’
carriage..................  
85
Grass sheeps’ wool car-
65
rlage................... 
75
Hard for  slate  use —  
Yellow Reef, for  slate 
use..........................  
140

STB UPS.

50®3 00

90@2 00
0003 20

Absinthium................ 2 
Amygdalae, Dulc........  30®  50
Amyaalae. Amarae— 8 00®8 25
A nlsl............................1 
Aurantl  Cortex...........1 80@2 00
Bergamll  ...................3 
Cajlputl....................  60®  65
Caryophylll................  75®  80
Cedar.........................  35®  65
Chenopodll................  @1  60
Clnnamonll.................1 
dtronella...................  @  45
Conlum  Mac..............  85®  65
Copaiba......................  800390

35@1 40

Accacla...............................  50
Zingiber  .............................  50
Ipecac..................................  60
Ferrl Iod.............................  50
Aurantl Cortes....................  50
Rhei Arom..........................   50
Slmllax  OlBclnalls..............  60
....  50
Senega................................   50
Sclllae.............................   60
“  Co.............................   50
Tointan...............................  50
Pranas rlrg.....................   50

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TINCTUBBS.

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

p  

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

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

Co.............  50

Aconltum Napellls R.........   60
«m
Aloes...................................  60
and myrrh.................  60
Arnica............ ...................  50
Asaf cetlda............................  0
Atrope Belladonna..............  60
Benzoin...............................  60
Sangnlnarla.........................  50
Barosma................... ■.........  50
Cantharldes.........................  75
Capsicum............................  50
Ca damon............................  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
Hyoscyamns.......................  50
Iodine...................... 
  75
Colorless.......  75
Ferrl Chlorldum............  35
K ino...................................  50
Lobelia................................  50
Myrrh..................................  60
Nnx  Vomica.......................  50
Opll........................  
85
“  Camphorated...............   50
“  Deodor............................. 2 00
Anrantl Cortex....................  50
Gnassla...............................  56
Rhatany.............................   50
Rhei.....................................  50
Cassia  Acutlfol...................  50
Co..............  50
Serpentarla.........................  50
Stramonium.........................  60
Tolutan...............................  60
Valerian.............................  50
VeratrumVerlde.................  50

ammon........   60

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MISCELLANEOUS.

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‘ 
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¿Ether, Spts  Nit, 3 F ..  35®  38 
“  4 F ..  38®  40
Alnmen..................... 2X0 3

T‘ 
ground,  (po.

“ 
“ B po. 

et Potass T. 

7).............................  3®  4
Annatto.....................   40®  50
Antlmonl.po..............  4®  5
55®  60
Antipyrin..................   ©1  40
Antlfebrln..................  @  25
Argentl  Nltras, ounce  ©  53
Arsenlcnm.................  5®  7
Balm Gilead  Bud....  38®  40
Blsmnth  S.  N ............1  20® 1  80
Calclnm Chlor, Is, (Hs
12;  Xb.  14)..............  ©  11
Cantharldes  Russian,
po ............................  @1  00
Capslcl  Fructus, af.  .  ©  15
©  15
Caryophyllns, (po.  15)  10®  12
Carmine,  No. 40.........   ©8 75
Cera  Alba, S. A F ......  50®  55
Cera Flava.................  40®  42
Coccus.......................  ©  40
Cassia Fructus...........  ©  25
Centrarla....................  ©  10
Cetacenm..................   ©  40
Chloroform...............   60®  68
Squibb* ..  ©1  25
Chloral Hyd Ä st.......1  2501  50
Chondras..................   20®  25
Clnchonldlne, F.  A  W  ISO  20 
German 8HO  12
Corks,  list,  dls.  per
65
cent  ...................... 
Creasotnm.............. 
©  36
Creta, (bbl. 75)......  
©  2
“  prep.............. 
5®  5
9®  11
11  preclp.............. 
“  Rubra...............   ©  8
Croons......................  50®  55
Cudbear.....................   ©  24
Ouprl Sulph...............   5©   6
Dextrine....................  10®  12
Ether Snlph...............   750  SO
Emery,  all  numbers..  ©  8
po..................   @  6
Brgota.  (po.)  40 .........   30®  35
Flake  White..............  12®  15
Galla..........................  ©  23
Gambler.....................  7  0  8
Gelatin .Cooper.........  ©  60
French..........   30®  50
Glassware  flint, by box 80.
Less than box 70.
Glne,  Brown..............  9®  15
“  White...............   13®  25
Glycerins...................  13®  20
Grans Faradlsl...........  ©  22
Hnmnlns....................  26®  56
Hydraag Chlor  Mite..  ©  77 
“  Cor  —  
©  67
Ox Rnbrum  ©  87
Ammonlatl..  ©  97 
Unguentum.  45®  55
Hydrargyrum............   ®  65
Iehthyobolla, Am..  ..l 25®1 50
Indigo........................   7501 00
Iodine,  Resnbl..........3 8003 90
Iodoform....................  ®4 70
Lnpnlln......................  ©2 25
Lycopodium..............  60®  65
Macls.........................  70®  75
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy-
ararglod.................  ®  27
Liquor Potass Arslnltls  10®  18 
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
Manilla,  8 .F ..............  60®  63

1H)............................2H© 4

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L o n d o n   P u rp le
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G u m   C a m p h o r
T a r  C a m p h o r
C o p p e ra s
C arb o lic  A cid
C h lo rid e  L im e

W e  have  a full  stock and solicit your 
orders at Best Market  Prices.

H A Z B B T I N B  

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CO.

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T H H ;  A llU f c U .G A ..N   X Ü A X ) J i 8 JVLA_N'

GROCERY  PR IC E  CU RREN T.

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

CREAM  TARTAR.

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

CLOTHES  PINS.

Daisy .Brand.

COCOA  SHELLS.

5 gross boxes...  ..........40@45
351b  bags.....................   ©3
Less quantity...............   0 3 4
Pound  packages..........64 @7

“ S u p erio r.”

I  1 books, per hundred 
12 
8 3 
I 5 
110 
920

jptpH

Farina.
Grits.
Hominy.

FARINACEOUS  GOODS. 
115 lb. kegs................... 
2A

Walsh DeRoo  A  Co.’s ......  1  85
Barrels  ..  ...................  
  2a
Grits..................................  3 A
Dried............................  
55»

Lima  Beans.

55

Maccaronl and Vermicelli. 
Domestic, 12 lb. box.... 
Imported................... 10 A@11
Pearl Barley.
Empire................................ 3
2A
Chester........................ 
 
Green,  bu........................ 
l  10
2A
Spilt  per l b .................  
Schumacher, bbl..............  M  65
'A bbl...  ----   2 50
Monarch,  bbl  ..................  4 00
Monarch, A 'bbl...................... 2 13
Quaker,  cases.......................   3 20
Oven Baked............................. 3 25
German.............................   3
East India..........................   314
Cracked..............................  g

Rolled  Oats.

Wheat.

Sago.

“ 

FISH—Salt.

Bloaters.

Cod.

Yarmouth...............................   1 65
Georges cured.................  4
Georges genuine............ a
Georges selected............ 6
Boneless,  bricks............ 644
Boneless, strips................6£@S

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Halibut.
Smoked................... 
1I@12
Herring.
80 
Holland, white hoops keg 
bbl  10 ro
“ 
“ 
Norwegian.......................  11  00
Round, A bbl 100 lbs........  2 55
“  A  “  40  “  ........  1  30
Scaled..................................  13 A
No. 1,  100 lbs...........................12 00
No. 1, 40 lbs..............................5 50
No. 1,  10 lbs............................  1 25
No. 2,100 lbs...........................10 00
No. 2, 40 lbs............................  4 36
No. 2,10 lbs............................  1 15
Family, 90 lbs....................
10 lb....................

Mackerel.

Sardines.
Trout

Russian, kegs....................   55
No. 1, A bbls., lOOlbs........... 4 25
No. 1 A bbl, 40  lbs................... 1 95
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs.............. 
56
48
No  1, 8 lb  kits................. 
No. 1  family
A bbls, 100 lbs...........(6  25 3  15
14  “  40  “  ...........  2 80  1 60
101b.  kits..................  
78  48
8 lb.  “ 
..........  65  41
FLY  PA PER.

Whlteflsh.

“ 

Bonders’.

FLAVORING  EXTRACTS. 
Oval Bottle, with corkscrew. 
Bestin the world for the money.
Regular 
Grade 
Lemon, 

doa
2os  . . . J   75 
4 01--------   1 50

Regular 
Vanilla, 

do*
2 oz...... |l   20
4 ox........2 40
XX Grade 
Lemon.
2 oz.......11  50
4oz...... 3 00
XX Grade 
Vanilla.
2 oz.......91  75
4 OX........ 3 50

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Jennings.
Lemon. Vanilla 
2 ox regular panel.  75 
1  20 
4 01 
...150
2  00 
6 ox 
...2 00
3 00 
No. 3 taper.......... 1 35
2  00 
No. 4 taper.......... 1  50
2 50
N orthrop’s
Lemon/ Vanilla.
1  10
2 oz 
oval  taper 75
3 oz 
“  “ 
1 20
1  75 
85
2 oz regular “ 
1  20
4 oz 
“  “ 
1 60
2 25

GUNPOW DER 
Rifle—Dupont’s.

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
1 lb cans.................................34
Kegs  ..................................11  00
Half  kegs.............................5 75
Quarter kegs........................ 3 00
1 lb cans.
60
S a g e -Hops.
Madras,  5 lb. boxes.........  
56
S. F., 2, 3 and 5 lb. boxes.. 
50
15  lb. palls.................  ©  37
“ 
17  “ 
..............   @  45
30  “  “ 
................  ©  70
LICORICE
Pure.....................................   ao
Calabria...............................  25
Sicily...................................   12
Root.....................................  10
LYE.
Condensed, 2 dos...............1 20
4 dos...............2 25

INDIGO.

“ 
MINCE  MEAT.

JELLY.

Regular Size.

Per box.... 38c.  Per esse. .$3 40
In  5 case lots, per case__3 30
In 10 case lo s, percase__ 3 20
Retails, per box  ...............   25
Costs, per case...................  1

“Little Tanglefoot.”

P A R S E   SIZE.

25 dbl. shts. In box, pr. bx. $  38 
Per case of  10 boxes..........  3 40
25 double sheets In  box,
Case of 10 boxes................   1 25
Case of 20 boxes................  2 50

D W A R F SIZ E .

MATCHES.

Globe Match Co.’s Brands.

Columbia Parlor.................Cl 25
XXX Sulphur.....................   1 00
Diamond  Match  Co.’s  Brands.
No. 9  sulphur.......................1 66
Anchor parlor...................... 1 70
No. 2 home........................... 1 10
Export parlor.......................4 00

II  75 
1  40 
70 
45 
40 
dox.
7 00 
4 75 
3 75

Mince meat, 3 doz. In case 
Pie Prep. 3 doz.  in  case... 

MEASURES. 
Tin, per dosen.

1  gallon............................
Half  gallon......................
Q uait...............................
P int.........................  ......
Half  p in t.......................
Wooden, for vinegar, per
1 gallon............................
Half gallon......................
Q uart...............................
Pint- 
..............................

MOLASSES.
Blackstrap.
Sugar house............. —...
Cuba Baking.
Ordinary ..........................
Porto R ltj.
Prime...............................
Fancy....................... .
New Orleans.
Fair..................................
Good  ...............................
Extra good.......................
....................
Choice 
Half  barrels Sc.extra

a x l e  g r e a s e .
doz 
. . .   55
Jastor Oil...... ......  60
......  50
75
...... 
Frazer’s .........
.......   65
Mica  .............
Paragon  ■ •  • •

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

. 
‘ 

.. 

1  60

b a k i n g   p o w d e r

• 
A 
1 *>  “ 
Sun Light.

Acme.
45 
u  ID.  3tUlB. 3 do*---
75 
,  “  ...............
1 «0 
1 
...................
lib . 
10
8nlk.........Artici..........
55 
u   t  cans fl’doz  case..........
1  10 
H  #>  “  4 doz 
..........
2  00 
1   1b  “  2 doz  “ 
...........
9 00
5   lb  “  1 do*
Red Star, A »  cans..........  
2”
.........  .  ™
••  -•
1  40
.
“  4 doz. 
—
“  2 doz.  “  —
Van  Anrooy’s  Pure, 

5» lb. cans, 6  doz. case 
¡4 lb. 
i  lb! 
i,  lb. cans, 6 doz  case.
Wlb. 
1  lb. 
Teller’s,  14 lb. cans’ do* 
• 
“ 
“ 
• •  1
Our Leader, A *b cans....... 
a  

1  75 
“  4  doz.  “
3 30
“  2 doz.  •
«
,  S
14 lb. 
1 lb. 
J
Vi lb  cans 
iz  Ik»  c a n s .......... 1  50
l lb cans 

..
BATH  BRICK.
2 dozen In case.
English............... 
Bristol........................  
D o m e stic ......................................
Arctic, 4 o*  ovals............ £
So* 
pints,  round...... » ^

“ 
-.............S m
••  No. 2, sifting box • - -  2*5
“  ii0-3’ 
-BOO
“  No. 5, 
i o* ball  ■ . ..............   i  55
“ 
8 OZ............  6  80
It 

M exican Liquid, 4  oz...  £00

BLUING.  Gross

70
cr.

I! 
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BROOMS,
Ao. 2 Hurl....................
....................
No. 1  “ 
No. 2 Carpet.................
No. 1 
“ 
.................
Parlor Gem  .................
Common Whisk..........
Vane; 
...........
Warehouse............ —
b r u s h e s .
Stove, No.  1..................
“   10...............................
»  
« 
“  15...................
Sloe Koot Scrub, 2  row. 
Rice Boot  Scrub, 3 row. 
Palmetto, goose...... •••
CANDLES.
Hotel, 40 lb. boxes........
Star,  40 
.........
Paraffine  ......................
Wicklng  .....................

“ 

1 90
2 00 
2 15 
2 50 
2 50
85 
1  00 
2 85

1  25 
1  50 
1  75 
85 
1  25 
1  50
10
9
10
24

CANNED  GOODS. 

Plata.
Clams

U tU e N e C k .n b ;;.;;;;;.;;;!»

“ 

Clam Chowder.
Standard, 3 lb...............
Cove Oysters.
Standard,  lib ..............
21b..............
Lobsters.
Star,  1  lb......................
“  2  lb......................
Picnic, 1 lb....................
21b....................
•• 
Mackerel
Standard, 1 lb...............
2  lb..............
Mustard,  2 lb  ............
Tomato Sauce,  2 lb ......
Soused, 2  lb..............
Salmon.
Columbia River, flat —
“ 
rails  ...
Alaska, Red..................
pink..................
Kinney’s,  flats.............
Sardines.
American 
...............
A*...........  •
Imported  <41..............  •
......... .
Mustard  Ms..................
Boneless  ......................
Brook 3, lb

“ 
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“ 
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Troni.
Prulta.
Apples.

Apricots.

3 lb. standard 
fork State, gallons —  
Hamburgh,
Live oak.....................  
Santa Crus................. 
Lusk’s ......................... 
Overland..................  
Blackberries.
F. A  W ....................... 

.  80 
1  45
.2 45 
.8 50 
.2 00 
.2 90
.1  10 
.2  10 
.2 25 
.2 25 
.2 25
,1  80 
.1  65 
.1  30 
.1  201  9
©   4 @ 6 
©   9 
@ .3
e-21
2 50

1  40
1  40
1  50
1  40
85

Cherries.

Gages

Pears.

Red  ............................  ©1  15
White......................... 
1  40
Brie.......................... 
1  15
Damsons, Bgg Plums and Green 
1 no 
Erie...........................
California..................
1  06
Gooseberries.
1  10
Common....................
Peaches.
1  03 
Pie............................
1  40 
Maxwell....................
Shepard’s .................
1  40 
California..................
©1  55
Monitor  ....................
Oxford.......................
1 0 
Domestic....................
Riverside....................
1  25
Pineapples.
Common.....................1 U0@1  30
Johnson’s sliced........ 
2 50
2 75
grated........ 
Booth’s sliced............  ©2 5)
grated..........  @2 75
Quinces.
Common.................... 
1  10
Raspberries.
Red............................  
95
Black Hamburg.........  
1  40
Brie,  black  ...............  
1  10
Strawberries.
Lawrence..................  
1  25
Hamburgh................. 
1  25
Brie............................ 
85
Terrapin....................... 
8t>
Whortleberries.
Blueberries...............
85
Corned  beef  ...............
.2  15
Roast beef  .........................2 25
Potted  ham, «4 lb.....................1 25
“  <4 lb.................  70
tongue, A lb..................1 35
“ 
14 lb...........   75
chicken, 4  lb..........  95
Vegetables.

Meats.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

Beans.

“ 

“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Peas.

Corn.

Mushrooms.
Pumpkin.
Squasn.
Succotash.

Hamburgh  stringless..........1  15
French style....... 2 00
Limas 
...............1  25
Lima, green..............................1 15
soaked.....................   70
Lewie Boston Baked........... 1  25
Bay State  Baked......................1 a
World’s Fair  Baked........... 1  25
Picnic Baked.......................  95
Hamburgh......................... 1  15
Livingston  Eden...............1 00
Purity..................................  90
Hiuev  Dew..............................1 25
Morning Glory  .................
Sotked...............................  7t
Hamburgh  marrofat...........1  30
early June 
..1  50
Champion Bug.. 1  40
petit  pois__  
.1  40
fancy  sifted— l  65
Soaked.................................  gs
Harris standard...................  75
VanCamp’s  marrofat  ...... 1  lit
early June....180
Archer’s  Early Blossom 
.. 1  25
French......... ...................... 2  15
French...................... .....I 9@3i
Erie................................ 
  85
Hubbard........... ..................1  15
Hamburg................. ...........1 3
Soaked................— ............  so
Honey  Dew..............................l 30
Erie..........................................1 35
Hancock.............................
Excelsior..
Eclipse.................
Hamburg— ........................1  :o
Gallon.......................... .
c h o c o l a t e .
German Sweet...............
Premium.......................
Breakfast  Cocoa...........
CHEESE.
Amboy  ......................
Acme..........................
Jersey.........................
Lenawee....................
Riverside..................
Gold  Medal  ..............
Skim..........................
Brick..........................
Edam ........................
Leiden.......................
Llmburger  ................
Pineapple  ...... 
......
Roquefort
Sap Sago....................
Schweitzer, imported.
CATSUP.

99
049
©7
11
1  00 
20 ©15 
©24 
OK 
©18 
@24 
@14

Tomatoes.

domestic

Baker’s.

“ 

Blue Label Brand.

“ 

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

Triumph Brand.

CO FFEE
Green.
B e ,

Santos.

Fair..................._ .............18
Good.................................... 19
Prime.................................. 21
Golden.................................21
Peaberry............................. 23
Fair......................................19
Good....................................20
Prime.................................. 22
Peaberry  ............................ 23
Mexican and Guatamala.
Fair..................................... 21
Good.................................... 22
Fancy.................................. 24
Prime.................................. 28
M illed.................................24
Interior............................... 25
Private Growth...................27
Mandehllng........................28
Imitation............................ 25
Arabian............................... 28

Maracaibo.

Mocha.

Java.

Roasted.

Package.

To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add )4c. per lb. for roast­
ing and 15 per  cent,  for shrink­
age.
McLaughlin’«  XXX X ..  i 1  80
Bunola.............................  21 30
Lion, 60 or 100 lb.  case__ 21  80
Valley City )4 gross........... 
76
1  is
Felix 
Hummel’s, foil, gross......  1  65
“ 
....  2 86

RxtTHft

.... 

“ 

tin 
CHICORV.

“ 

CLOTHES  LINES.

B alk................................... 5
•ied................................ 
7
Cotton,  40 ft......... per do*.  1  25
140
1  60
176
I  90
86
1  00

“ 
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Jnte 
“ 
CONDENSED  MILK.

50ft.......... 
60 f t.......... 
70 ft.......... 
80 ft.......... 
60 t t .......... 
72 f f ........  

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“ 
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4 do*, in case.

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

Peerless evaporated cream  5 75 

COUPON  BOOKS.

“Tradesman.’

I  1 books, per hundred  ...  2 00
....2 5 0
• 2 
....8  00
• 3 
....800
• 5 
»10 
....  4 00
*20 
....  5 00

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Universal.

“
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“ 
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“ 
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“ 
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“ 
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.  13 00

..10 
.20 

I  1  books, per hundred 
8 50
... 
• 2 
... 
4 00
• 8 
5 00
... 
* 6  
....  6 00
*10 
•20 
7  00
Above prices on coupon books 
are  subject  to  the  following 
quantity discounts:
200books or over..  5 per  cent 
800 
1000 
COUPON  PASS  BOOKS. 
¡Can  be  made to represent any 
denomination  from 110  down. | 
20 books.........................f  1  00
50
2 00 
3 00 
100250
6 25 
500
10  00 
17 50
1000
600, any one denom’n ...... 13 00
.......5 00
1000,  “  “ 
“ 
2000,  “ 
.......8 00
Steel  punch....................... 
75
CRACKERS.

CREDIT CHECKS.

“ 
“ 

Butter.

Seymour XXX......................
Seymour XXX, cartoon......
Family  XXX......................
Family XXX,  cartoon........
Salted XXX......... ...............
Salted XXX,  cartoon  ........
Kenosha.............................
Boston..................................
Butter  biscuit....................
Soda, XXX.........................  514
Soda, City...........................   714
Soda,  Duchess......................814
Crystal Wafer............. 
10A
Long  Island W afers......... 11
8. Oyster  XXX......................514
City Oyster. XXX...................5 A
Farina  Oyster...................... 6

Oyster.

Soda.

DRIED  FRUITS. 

Domestic.

Apples.

“ 

Peaches.

Apricots.

Sundried......................... 
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes 
California In  bags... 7K@8
Evaporated In boxes.... 
Blackberries.
In  boxes.......................
Nectarines.
70 lb. bags.......................
251b. boxes..................... 
Peeled, In  boxes........... 
Cal. evap.  “ 
 
“ 
In bags  ......  
California in bags......  
California boxes........... 
Pitted Cherries.
Barrels..........................
50 lb. boxes...................
25 “ 
...................
Prunelles.
3i) lb.  boxes................... 
Raspberries.
In  barrels...................... 
601b. boxes.................... 
...................... 
251b.  “ 
Raisins.

 
Pears.

“ 

6v<
714 

8

9
14
9
8
64
714

9 A
22
22 A
22a

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

2 crown.............................   3A
8 
4 
2  crown..............................   3M
8 
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Foreign.
Curran ts.

Schuit’s Cleaned

Patras,  bbls...............   @4
Vostlzzas, 50 lb. cases..........4!
25 lb.  boxes.......................  5
1 lb.  packages 
................  514
Citron, Leghorn, 25 lb. boxes  1 
Lemon 
8
Orange 
10

Peel.
“ 
25 
25 “ 
“ 
Raisins.

“  “ 
“ 

Ondura, 29 lb. boxes..  © 6
Sultana, 20 
..  6 AO 8
“ 
Valencia, 30  “

California,  100-120 ..............4

Prunes.
90x100 26 lb. bxs.  5 A
80x90 
6A
70x80 
. 7
60x70 
7@10

“
“ 
“ 
Turkey.........................
Silver....................... 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

PICKLES.
Medium.
Barrel*, 1,900  coant... 
04 00
Half bbls, 600  coant..  O ' 50
Barrels, 2,400 coant. 
Half bbls, 1,200 count 
PIPES.
Clay, No.  216............................ l 70
Cob, No. 8.................................1 20

"  T.D. full count...........  70

Small.

3 £5

5 50

POTASH.

48 cans In case.

“ 
“ 

Babbitt’s ...............................  4 00
Penna Salt  Co.’s...................  3 0o

KICK.
Domestic.
Carolina head....................... 5X
No. 1.....................5
No. 2................... 4K
Imported.
No. 2.....................5
 

Broken.................................  3ft
Japan, No. 1......................... OK
Java.............................. 
 
Patna..................................   *K

“ 

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SPICKS.

Whole Sifted.

fcs

Allspice................................  OK
Cassia, China In mate........  9k
“  Batavia In band— 15
Saigon In rolls........32
“ 
Cloves,  Amboyna...............22
Zansibar................ 11K
“ 
Mace  Batavia......................70
Nutmegs, fancy...................65
“  No.  1.......................60
«  No. 2.......................55
Pepper, Singapore, black.... 10 
n 
“  white...  .20
shot.........................16
“ 
Pare Ground In Balk.
Allspice............................... }5
Cassia,  B atavia...............18
« 
and  Saigon.25
“  Saigon....................35
Cloves,  Amboyna...............22
“  Zansibar................. 18
Ginger, African...................16
”  Cochin....................20
-22
11 
Mace  Batavia......................65
Mustard, Bng. and Trieste.. 22
“  Trieste....... ............25
Nutmegs, No. 2
Pepper, Singapore, black— 16
•* 
“  white..... 24
“  Cayenne..................20
20
•‘Absolute” In Packages.

Jam aica............ 

Sage................  

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SAL.  SODA.

Allspice......................  84  156
Cinnamon...................  °4  1  55
Cloves....................... 
|4  1  m
Ginger,  Jamaica........  84  1 55
“  African...........  84  1  55
Mustard......................  84  1  55
Pepper.......................   84  155
Sage....... 
Granulated,  bbls................   1V4
751b  cases........  1%
Lump, bbls 
.......................  J54
1451b kegs..................IK
SEKDS.
S 1®
J
•
80
4
JK

Anise......................... 
Canary, Smyrna......... 
Caraway 
................... 
Cardamon, Malabar... 
Hemp,  Russian.........  
Mixed  Bird...............  
Mustard,  w h ite........
Poppy.........................
Rape ■. -...................... 
Cuttle  bone................ 
STARCH. 

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80

“ 

Klngsford's Corn.

“ 

Common Corn
“ 
Common Gloss
“ 
“ 

201-lb packages.................. 6/4
40 1-lb 
............ ••  6*4
Klngsford’s Sliver Gloss.
401-lb.  packages.................  GJi
6-lb. boxes...........  ............ 7)4
20-lb  boxes.........................  5)4
.  .....................
401b 
1-lb packages.................. 5
.......................  5
8-lb 
6 lb 
BX
 
40 and 50 lb. boxes..............  3k
Barrels.................. ............. SK
Scotch, In  bladders............37
Maccaboy. in jars...............35
French Rappee, In Ja rs---- 43
Boxes............................. . •. -5K
Kegs, English.......................

SNUFF.

SODA,

 

SALT.

Diamond Crystal.

 

“   

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

Cases, 24 3  lb. boxes........6  1  60
Barrels, 320  lbs...............   2 50
1152Klb bags ...  4 00
“ 
..  .  3 75
lb  “ 
«  Ml5 
“ 
3010  lb  “ 
....  3 50
65
“  20141b  bags..........   3 50
“  280 lb  bbls..........  2 50
“  2241b 
2 25
Worcester.
115 2K-lb sacks..............  -. 64 CO
“ 
60 5-lb 
..............  3
................3  50
3010-lb  “ 
22  14 lb.  “ 
...............   3 30
320 lb. bbl...............................  2 50
8 lb  sacks......................... 32K
linen acks...............   60
Common Grades.

100 3-lb. sacks......................... 62 10
60 5-lb.  “ 
28 10-lb. sacks.......................   1 75
56 lb. dairy In drill  bags...  30
281b.  “ 
16
56 lb. dairy In linen sacks..  75
56 lb. dairy In linen  sacks 
75 
56 lb.  sacks.......................   22
90
Saginaw 
......................... 
Manistee........................ 
90

Ashton.
Higgins.
Soiar Rock.
Common Pine.

“  •• 

1  90

“ 

 

 

T H E   M ICHIGAN  TRADESM AN.

09

lots.3 35
lots.3 30
lots.3 20

SALERATUS.

Packed 60 lbs. In box.

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

SEELY’S  EXTRACTS. 

Lemon.
1 os. P. M. 6  90 doz.  610 20 gro
2  “  N. S.  1  20  “ 
12 60  “
2 |“  F..M.  1  40  “ 
14 40  “
Vanilla.
1 oz. P. M.  1  50 doz. 
2  “  N. S.  2 00  “ 
2  “  P. M. 2 50  “ 
Lemon.
Vanilla.
SOAP.
Laundry.

2 oz...........75 doz..........  8 00  “
2 doz........  100 doz......10 50  •’

Rococo—Second  Grade. 

16 20 gro
21  60  “
25 50  •*

G.  It. Soap Works Brands. 

Concordia, 100 X lb. bars. ..3 50

“ 
“ 
“ 
Best German Family.

5 box 
10 box 
20 box 

601-lb. bars.........................2 25
5 box  lots...........................2  15
25wbox;lots............................2 00
Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.
Old Country,  80  1-lb...........3 20
Good Cheer, 601 lb.............. 3 90
White Borax, 100  X-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 A Gamble.

“ 

Dlngm&n Brands.

“ 

“ 

Single box.........................3 95
5 box lots, delivered......... 3 85
10 box lots, delivered........3 75
Jas. S. Kirk A Co.’s BrandB. 
American  Family, wrp d. .63 33 
plain...  3 27
N.  K.  Falrbank A Co.’s Brands.
Santa Claus.......................  3 90
Br jwn, 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  ................................ 400
Thompson A Chute Co.’s Brands

Savon Improved....
2  50
Sunflower.......................... 2  80
Golden................................ 3 25
Economical  ......................  2 25

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

“ 

8UGAR.

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,.lncluding 20  pounds  for 
the weight of the barrel.
Domino.............................  65 J8
Cut  Loaf............................5  18
Cubes................................ 4 81
Powdered.........................4 87
XXXX  Powdered..............  5 (6
Granulated  .  ....................  4 44
Fine Granulated...............   4 44
Extra Flue Granulated...  4 f 6
Mould A...........................   4  81
Diamond Confec.  A.........   4 44 •
Confec. Standard  A......... 4 37
No.  1.................................  4 25
No.  2 .................................4  i5
No.  3..................................4 25
No.  4.................................   4 25
No.  5.................................. 4 18
No.  6..................................4  12
No.  7.................................   4 06
No.  8.................................  4 00
No.  9........................ 
No.  10.................................  8 87
No.  11..................................3 81
No.  12................................   3 75
No.  13.................................   3 62
No.  14................................ 
3 44

SYRUPS.

Corn.

Barrels................................20
Half bbls.............................22
Fair.....................................  15
Good...................................   20
Choice..................................  25

Pure Cane.

TABLE  SAUCES.
“ 

Lea A Perrin’s, large........4 75
small......   2 75
Halford, large...................3 75
small...................2 25
Salad Dressing, larg e...... 4 55
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55 DO

TEAS.

jafam—Regular.

SUN CUBED.

BASKET  PIKED.

F air.................  .........  ©17
Good..........................   ©20
Choice.......................... 24 ©26
Choicest.......................32  ©34
Dust.............................10 ©12
F air............................  ©17
Good..........................  @20
Choice.......................... 24  @2e
Choicest.......................32  ©34
Dust.............................10 @12
F air............................. 18  @20
Choice........................   @25
Choicest.................... 
©35
Extra choice, wire leaf  @40
eUNPOWDiCH.
Common to fall...........25  ©35
Extra fine to finest.... 50  ©65
Choicest fancy............ 75 ©35
©26
Common to fair...........23  ©30
Common to fair...........23  ©26
Superior to fine............ 30  ©35
Common to fair...........18 ©26
Superior to  fine...........30  @40
Fair..............................18 @22
Choice......& ....... —  24  ©28
Best........ 
40  @50

oolong. 
IMPERIAL.

ENGLISH  BBEAKPAST.

YOUNG HYSON.

 

TOBACCOS.
Congress Brand.

 
Cigars.
Invincibles 
.................... 680 00
Imperials.............................  70 00
Perfectos...........................6J 00
Boquets  ...................  
Flue Cut.

24
23
20
19

 
P. Lorillard A Co.’s Brands.
Sweet Russet.................   @25
Tiger..........................  
30
D. Scotten & Go’s Brands.
60
Hiawatha..................  
32
Cuba.......................... 
Rocket....................... 
30
Spaulding & Merrick’s  Brands.
Sterling...................... 
30
Private Brands.
Bazoo............................  @30
Can  Can.........................  @27
Nellie  Bly....................24 @25
Uncle Ben.................... 24 @25
McGtnty.................... 
27
“  K b b ls........ 
25
Columbia...................... 
Columbia,  drums  ........ 
Bang  Up....................... 
........ 
Bang up,  drums 
Flog.
Sorg’s Brands.
Spearhead................. 
39
27
Joker......................... 
Nobby Twist................  
40
Scotten’s Brands.
25
Kylo...........................  
Hiawatha......... .........  
38
34
Valley City...............  
Finzer’s Brands.
4u
Old  Honesty.............. 
Jolly Tar.................... 
32
39
Climax (8 oz., 41c)—  
30
Green Turtle.............. 
27
Three  Black Crows... 
Something Good........ 
38
24
Out of  Sight........ 
Wilson ,<s McCaulay’s Brands.
Gold  Rope................. 
43
Happy Thought......... 
37
Messmate..................  
32
No Tax....................... 
31
Let  Go....................... 
27
Smoking.
Gatlin’s  Brands.

J. G. Butler’s.Brands.

LoriUard’s Brands. 

Scotten’s Brands.

Kiln  dried........................17@18
Golden  Shower................... 19
Huntress 
...........................26
Meerschaum  ...................29@80
American Eagle Co.’s Brands.
Myrtle Navy....................... 40
Stork  ...............................  30
German...............................15
Frog....................................32
Java,  Xs foil..................— 32
Banner Tobacco Co.’s Brands.
Banner.................................16
Banner Cavendish..............36
Gold Cut 
...........................30
Warpath..............................M
Honey  Dew.........................26
Gold  Block................  
30
F. F. Adams Tobacco Co.’s 
Peerless............................... 26
Old  Tom..............................18
Standard..............................22
Globe Tobacco Co.’s Brands.
Handmade...........................40
Rob  Roy..............................26
Uncle Sam.....................28@32
Red Clover...........................32
Tom and Jerry.....................25
Traveler  Cavendish........... 38
Buck Horn.......................... 30
Plow  Bov...................30@32
Corn  Cake  .........................16
40 gr.............................   ©8
50 gr............................  @9

Leldersdorf's Brands.

Spaulding A Merrick.

VINEGAR.

Brands.

61 for barrel.

WET  MUSTARD.
Bulk, per gal  ..................  
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
“  No. 1,  three-hoop  ...  1  35
“ 
13  “ 
90
“ 
1  25
15  “  ......  
17  “  ....................   1  80
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Palls, No. 1, two-hoop.. 
Bowls, U lnch....................
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YEAST.

PURS.

Magic................................. 1  00
Warner’s  ............................1  00
Yeast Foam  .......................1  00
Diamond 
.......... ............   75
Royal 
..........  90
HIDES  FELTS  and  FURS
Perkins  A  Hess  pay  as  fol­

lows:
m ins............
30 & 75
Coon.................
00 @ 1  15
Skunk...............
15 @ 18
Rat Spring........
08 @ 11
Rat,  winter......
03 @ C8
Rat, fall............
Red  Fox_____ 1  10 @ 1  6<)
40 @ C)
Gray Fox.,........
Cross Fox......... 3 00 @ 5 00
60 @ 1 00
Badger.............
fO @ 75
Cat, wild...........
10 © 25
Cat,  house.......
Fisher.............. 5 00 (ft C 00
Lynx................. 1  OH @ 2 50
Martin, drrk__ 2 00 @ 3 00
Martin, pale, yel 1  00 @ 1  50
Otter................. 5 00 @ 8 0J
Wolf...  ............ 1  00 © 2 00
Beaver.............. 3 00 @ 7 00
Bear.................. 115 00 @25 00
25
10 0
Opossum...........
25
10 0
Deer Skin, dry..
05 <L 12X
Deer Skin,’green
Green......................... 5X06X
7 06X 
Part Cured........
0   8
Full 
........
WA,© 8X 
Dry....................
@  6
5
Kips, green  ......
7 @ 8
“  cured.......
5X0 8
Calfskins,  green
9 ©10X
cured
10 @25
Deacon skins —

HIDES

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PHLTS.

WOOL.

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

Shearlings.................. 5 @  20
9* 0   75
Lamhs 
Washed..................... 8 @13
5 @11
Unwashed  .  ...
Tallow.......................  3X3 4K
Grease  butter  ...........  1  @2
Switches....................  IX© 2
Ginseng.....................2 0o@2 25
GRAINS and FEEDSTUFF« 

MISCELLANEOUS.

WHEAT.

No. 1 White (58 lb. test) 
No. 2 Red  (60 lb. test) 

PLOUR  IN  SACKS.

63 
t3

♦Patents............................  4 00
Second Patent.................  3  5j
Straight............................  3 30
Clear.................................  3  10
♦Graham..........................   3  30
Buckwheat.....................   4  50
Rye...................................   3 55
♦Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour in bbls., 25c per bbl. ad­
ditional.
Bolted...............................  2 40
Granulated................. 
2  65

MEAL.

FEED AND  MILL8TUFF8.

St. Car  Feed,  screened... 622 00 
St. Car Feed, unscreened.  21  50
No.  1 Corn and Oats  ......  21  00
No. 2 Special.................  20  51
Unbolted Corn Meal........  20 50
Winter Wheat  Bran  ......  15  ou
Winter Wheat Middllhgs.  18 00
screenings  ......................  14 00

Car  lots............................... 52
Less than  car lots...............54

CORN.

OATS.

Car  lots  ..............................34
Less than  car lots  ..........   -‘16

HAT.
No. 1 Timothy, car lots — 11  00 
No. 1 
ton lots........12 00

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FISH  AND  OYSTERS.

FRESH  PISH.

Whiteflsh  .................   © 7X
T ront.........................  ©  7X
Black Bass.................  12X@i5
Halibut,.....................  ©12X
Ciscoes or Herring—   @6
Blnefish......................  ©12X
18
Fresh lobster, per lb .. 
Cod.  ..........................  
10
Haddock....................   @ 8
No. 1 Pickerel............   @7
Pike...........................   @7
Smoked  White...........  ©  7
Red  Snappers............  
14
Columbia  River  Sal­
mon ......................... 
1*X
Mackerel....................   18@2o
Scallops......................
Shrimps  .................... 
Clams.........................
SHELL  GOODS.

Oysters, per  100......... 1  25@i  50
Clams. 
.  75©i  oo

1  £5

. 

OYSTERS—IN CANS.

F. J. Dettenthaler’s Brands. 
40
35
30
25

Falrhaven  counts —  
F  J. D.  Selects.........  
Selects....................... 
F. J. D., Standards..  . 

OYSTERS—IN  BULK.
Oscar Allyn's Brands.

New  York  Counts................. 40
Extra  Selects.......................   40
Selects....................................35
IX L Standards.......................30
Standards...............................25

4 20
4 80
5 25
5 10
5 85
6 00

CROCKERY  AND  GLASSWARE 

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First quality.
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No. 1  “ 
....................................................  45
No. 2  “ 
....................................................  65
Tubular...........................................................  50
Security.  No. 1...............................................  60
Security,  No. 2...............................................   88
Nutmeg...............................  
50
 
Arctic................................................. 
  1  25
Per box.
No. OSnn.......................................................   1  75
No. 1  “  ..........................................................1  88
No. 2  “  ......................................................... 2 70
No. 0 Sun, crimp top, wrapped and labeled... 2  10 
No. 1  “ 
...2 25
No.2  “ 
...3 25
No. 6 Sun, crimp top, wrapped and labeled.  2 60 
...2 80
No. 1 
No. 2  “ 
...8 80
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and  labeled....................3 70
“ 
No. 2  “ 
...................  4 70
Nc. 2 Hinge,  “ 
....................4  89
Fire Proof—Plain Top.
No. 1, Sun,  plain  bulb........................................ 3 40
................................... 4 40
“ 
No. 2,  “ 
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per do:.......................1  26
No. 2  “ 
....................... 150
No. 1 crimp, per do*....................................... 1  35
No. 2  “ 
........................................1  60
Rochester.
No. 1, lime (65c doz)............................................3 50
No. 2, lime (70c doz)............................................4 00
No. 2, flint (80c doz)......................................  4 70
No.2, lime (70c doz)........................................4 10
No.  2 flint (80c doz)................. 
4  40
Miscellaneous.
Doz.
Junior, Rochester................................ 
50
Nutmeg......  
 
15
Illuminator Bases............................................1 00
Barrel lots, a doz  ......................... 
90
7 in. Porcelain Shades......................................1 00
Case lots, 12 doz..............................................   90
Box

Mammoth Chimneys for Store  Lamps.

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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 lncandes. lime...l  75 
No.  2 (Lobe lncandes. flint.. .2 00 
No. 2  Pearl glass.................... 2  10 

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LANTERN  GLOBES.

Doz
1  gal  tin cans with spout........................  
  1  60
1  gal  galv iron, with spout.................................2 0O
2 gal  galv iron with spout  ........................... 3 25
3 gal  galv irou with spout.............  
4  50
5 gal  McNutt, with spout..................................  6 00
5 gal  Eureka, with spout..................................  6 50
5  gal  Eureka with faucet....................................7 00
5  gal  galv Iron  A  AW .....................................  i 50
5 gal Tilting  Cans,  Monarch............................10 00
5 gal  galv irou Nacefas.......................................9 5o
3 gal  Home Rule................................................ 10 50
5 gal  Home Rnle................................................ 12 00
3  gal  Goodenough............................................. 12 00
5 gal  Goodenough.............................................13 50
5 gal  Pirate  King  .........................................10 50
No. 0,.Tubular, cases 1 doz. each..................   45
“  2  “ 
No. 0, 
...................  45
No. O, 
40
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bbls 5 
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No. (), 
bull’s eye, cases 1 doz each. 1  25
No. 0,  per  gross..............................................  20
28
No. 1, 
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No  2, 
38
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No. 3, 
65
“ 
Mammoth, per doz.........................................   75
JELLY  TUMBLERS—Tin Top.
X Pints,  6 doz in box, per box (box 00)...-  1  60
24  “  “  bbl,  •*  doz  (bbl 35)........  20
X 
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X  “ 
18  “  “  bbl,  “  doz  (bbl 35).......  22
Butter Crocks,  1 to 6 gal........  .  ................  06
“  X gal. per doz......................  60
“ 
Jugs, X gal., per doz...........................   •  . 
70
07
“  1 to 4 gal., per gal..............................  
Milk Pans, X gat., per doz........................  
6u
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72

STONEWARE—AKRON.

LAMP WICKS.

1  “ 
STONEWARE—BLACK OLAZED.

Butter Crocks, 1  and 2 gal.............................  6X
Milk Pans, X gal. per  doz........................  

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OILS.
BARRELS.
 

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Eocene.......................  
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XXX W.W.  Mich.  Headlight................ 
9-4
Naptha.....  ...........................................  @1*X«
Stove Gasoline.............................. 
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Cylinder................................................8i  @39
Engine.................................................. 13  @24
9X
Black,  winter........................................ 
9
Black, summer......................................  
Eocene.................... 
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XXX W. W. Mich. Headlight................ 
OX
Scofield, Shurmer  A  Teagie  quote  as  follows:
Palacine...........................................................12
Daisy White.....................................................H
Red Cross, W W  Headlight............................  9X
Naptha.........................................................  11)4
Stove Gasoline................................................11)4
Palacine...........................................................10
Red Cross W W Headlight............................... OX

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TH E  M ICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,

DEPARTMENT  STORES.

Why  They Are  Driving  Smaller  Trad­

ers  Out of Business.

A committee of the Illinois Legislature 
Is investigating the department stores  of 
that State on the following points:

1.  That,  by reason of  the operation  of 
large stores under one  management  and 
offering for sale and selling  all  kinds  of 
merchandise under  one roof, other prop­
erty-owners  and  tradesmen  are  greatly 
injured  and  the  value  of  property  de­
preciated.
2.  That  in  such  stores  many  minors 
are employed,  thereby  preventing  adult 
persons  from  being  employed  in 
the 
usual and  proper  occupation  for  which 
adults should be employed.
3.  That the managing  and  conducting 
of large stores is injurious to  public mo­
rality and causes general and widespread 
injury in various ways.

Frank H. Cooper, of  Siegel,  Cooper  & 
Co., of Chicago,  was  recently  summoned 
before  the  committee  to  answer  such 
questions  as  might  be  put  to him.  He 
refused  to  answer  any  questions,  but 
produced  a  written  statement,  setting 
forth the  department  store  side  of  the 
question,  which  he  was  permitted  to 
read.  The paper was as follows:

If 1 may be  permitted  to  express  my 
views on  the resolution known as Senate 
resolution No. 43,  under  which  this  in­
vestigation is now being held, 1 would say 
that it  is well  known  to  all  the  mem­
bers  of  the  Senate  that  all stores con­
ducted in towns and  villages  and  small 
cities  carry  a  miscellaneous  stock  of 
merchandise suited to the wants of  their 
community and have stocks  of  merchan­
dise on  hand  comprising  groceries,  dry 
goods,  clothing,  hardware,  boots  and 
shoes, hats and caps, fancy goods and all 
such other articles  as  the  proprietor  of 
such a store may desire to deal in.
The department stores  in  large  cities 
are conducted  on  the  same  principle  of 
keeping  a  miscellaneous  stock  of  mer­
chandise on hand suitable to the wants of 
that  community  in  which they conduct 
their  business  and  endeavor  to acquire 
trade  by  offering  the  greatest  induce­
ments  to  the  public  in  selling goods at 
the lowest possible prices.
It is almost axiomatic that every man’s 
success is made by overcoming  others  in 
the same business.  Success  is  simply  a 
process  of  eliminating  others  from  the 
contest.  Whether  it  be  a  merchant,  a 
lawyer, a physician or artist, success fol­
lows  those  who  have the  ability, 
the 
knowledge and judgment and  give  close 
attention  to their work and follow it out 
to its logical  end.  Every  business  man 
strives to succeed,  and the world is full of 
failures  simply  because  the  many  in 
their endeavors fail to  exercise  that  as­
siduity of purpose, closeness of attention 
or  ability  to  conduct  a  business which 
their more  successful  competitors  have 
brought to hear.  Siegel,  Cooper  &  Co., 
from a humble  beginning,  have  worked 
their  way up to the  standard of success, 
and the field  is  free to every merchant to 
reach that standard by close  attention to 
business,  fair  dealing  and  giving  the 
best goods for the least money.
When I came to America,  at the age of 
22, I started to work at 35 a week.  With­
out  friend  or  favor  I  have  fought my 
way  to  the  top,  and  so  have  Messrs. 
Siegel,  Keim  and  Brennan,  who  all 
started as cash-boys.  The  same  way  is 
open to all,  and will remain  open unless 
our lawmakers should see fit to crush en­
terprise, perseverance and all that which 
commends success.
Siegel, Cooper  &  Co.,  who  conduct  a 
large business under one roof and occupy 
the largest floor space of  any  one  retail 
house  in  the  world,  are enabled to un­
dersell the  smaller  dealers,  for  the  fol­
lowing  reasons:
1.  Having  large  available  resources, 
they can and do  buy  their  merchandise 
for cash in large lots.
2.  Buying  for  cash  enables  them  to 
take advantage of all the  discounts,  also 
of  the  forced  sales  which  occur  from 
time to time.
3.  The  entire  business  being  con­
ducted under one management eliminates

in  various  ways 
numerous  expenses 
which fall upon the smaller retailer.
4.  By selling  goods  for  cash  only  no 
bad debts are made,  and  the  money,  be­
ing taken in daily,  is  being  turned  over 
again and  again.
5.  In  this  way  the  stock  of  Siegel, 
Cooper & Co.  is turned  over from  ten  to 
twelve times a year, thus  preventing the 
accumulation of bad  stock,  shopworn or 
out-of-style  goods,  while  the  smaller 
merchant often turns his stock  but  once 
a year and thus  accumulates  lots of  bad 
stock.
6.  By turning over stocks often a small 
profit on each transaction is  sufficient  to 
show profitable results at the end  of  the 
year,  and by so  doing  both  the consum­
ers and the community at large, as well as 
the house  conducting  the  business,  are 
benefited.
It is well known to  all of  you that the 
smaller the business the  larger  must  be 
the percentage of profit  necessary to  de­
fray  the  expenses.  We  claim  that  the 
so-called department  store  in  a  city  as 
large as Chicago is an absolute necessity, 
for without it the customer living in  the 
suburbs,  wishing  to  buy,  *say,  a dozen 
different  articles,  would  be  obliged  to 
chase all over  town  to  twelve  different 
stores,  perhaps located on  twelve  differ­
ent streets,  the one several  blocks  away 
from the other,  so that such  a customer, 
who can now secure these twelve various 
items in an hour or  two,  would  require 
maybe  two  days  to do  the  same  thing. 
This would entail loss  of  time,  a  great 
deal  of  worry  and  a  waste  of  shoe 
leather.
We admit  readily  that  on  account  of 
having to compete with large department 
stores the smaller  specialty  houses  can­
not  secure  as  large  a  percentage  of 
profits  as  they  formerly  did,  and in so 
far these stores  suffer  by  said  competi­
tion.  But is not the public  at  large  the 
gainer?
To  illustrate:  The  committee  read  to 
me the complaint of  thirty-nine  photog­
raphers,  who state that  they cannot turn 
out  the  same  class  of work at the same 
price  as  Siegel,  Cooper  &  Co.  These 
thirty-nine photographers  are  therefore 
sufferers  to  the  extent  of  having 
to 
compete with superior work at a reduced 
price,  but is not the community  at  large 
the great gainer?  In  one  word,  we  in­
crease  the  buying  capacity  of a dollar, 
and hence lay claim to being public bene­
factors.
It  cannot  be  successfully  maintained 
that  Siegel,  Cooper  &  Co.  have in  any 
manner in the management of their busi­
ness injured owners  or  tradesmen or  in­
jured  or  depreciated  the value of prop­
erty.  On  the  contrary, 
the  establish­
ment of the store of Siegel, Cooper & Co. 
has  greatly  enhanced  the  value  of  the 
property  m  its immediate neighborhood 
and enabled the city,  county and state to 
derive  a  larger  amount  of  taxes  than 
heretofore.  Nor can  it  be  successfully 
contended that the establishment of such 
a  store  prevents  adults  from  being em­
ployed,  for it is a fact that  with  the  ex­
ception of  cash-girls  and wrappers,  who 
constitute  but  a  minor  portion  of  the 
help of the store, nearly  all  the  rest  of 
the employes are of age.
1 regard  the institution  of large stores 
supplying  a  good  article  at a low price 
as a more genuine philanthropy than en­
dowments inspired through fear of death 
to secure a select corner in Heaven.

Women  Have  Rights in  Chicago.
Miss Lotto Ott, a Chicago young woman, 
was  called  into  Judge  Hanecy’s  court, 
the other morning,  as a  juror,  her  name 
having  been  drawn  from  the poll lists. 
Miss Ott said she knew she  would not be 
accepted  as  a  juror,  as  she  had  read 
about other  women  being  called  in,  as 
she was,  and  discharged;  but  when  the 
court excused her, she  demanded the fee 
which is paid to men  who  are  called  as 
jurors  and  for  any  reason  are excused 
from service.  This was 32, representing 
one  day’s  pay  and  mileage  from  her 
home to the court and back again.  Judge 
Hanecy said she was entitled  to  pay  the 
same  as  men,  and  she  received  the 
money and  went away prepared  to  do  a 
little shopping before she returned home. 
She was just as happy as a  man  who es­
capes from jury duty and gets pay for it. '

SMITH-HILL  ELEVATORS

Electric,  Steam  and  Hand  Power. 
PRICES  LOW. 
riECHANISM  SIMPLE.
NOT  LIABLE TO  GET  OUT  OF  REPAIR.
Call and  see  me  or  telephone  1120 and  I will 
accompany enquirer to dozens of local  users  of 
our elevators. 

J.  C.  HULBERRY,  Agent. 
Kortlauder Building, Grand Rapids,  .Micli.

8,  P.  Bennett  Filel&Ice  Cn
ALL  KINDS  OF  FUEL.

Mine  Agents  and  Jobbers  for

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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BRANDS — ALL  AT  LOWEST 

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IMPORTERS  AND  WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

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

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

Stock  at  Lowest  Market  Prices.

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That's the way some people talk.  Others make you feel that way.

“GET  OFF  THE  EARTH”
DO  YOU  SELL  DRY  GOODS?

If so, you have a mission to perform.  That is, to keep people  good-natured and satisfied,  and 

at the same time do yourself a good turn.

CAN  IT  HE  DONE?

We say yes, and have the goods that will do the  business.  The  latest  always  on hand and  of 

the kind that makes buyers every time.

PRICES-DONT  MENTION  IT!

We are way down to RED  ROCK.  None can beat us on that score.

V  oigt,  H e r p o lsh e im e r   &  Co.

Wholesale  Dry  Goods,

G ran d   R apids,  M ich.

T H E   M ICHIGAK  TRADESMAN.

Business  Is  Business.

An interesting insight into the ways of 
the ultra new woman  was  furnished  by 
the testimony in a London court of  Mrs. 
Beauclerk,  a  stock  broker.  Mrs. Beau- 
clerk  testified  that she employed her hus­
band  in her office,  but that she dismissed 
him  from  her  employ  last  August,  be­
cause  of  certain  derelictions  of  duty. 
Whenever she went out she used  to  lock 
the door of her private  office.  “Do  you 
mean  to  say.”  asked  the  solicitor-gen­
eral,  “that if you saw the  man  you  had 
sworn to honor and obey  writing in your 
private  room  you  would  be  so  hard­
hearted  as  to  say:  ‘Out  you go?’ ”  “1
should,  certainly,”  was the answer.  “If 
a  wife has  a  perfectly  no-account  hus­
band  to  support,  she  should  have  the 
right to put him out.”

D ru g g ists.

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Unfortunate  Affair  for  Port  Huron 
A drug rate war has  been  inaugurated 
in Port Huron  and patent  medicines  are 
being  sold  at  less  than  actual  cost  at 
wholesale.  The reason for  this  is  that 
a grocer added a patent medicine depart­
ment  to  bis  business  and  made  great 
cuts in prices on everything in that line. 
To  offset  this  every  druggist  in  Port 
Huron made a still greater  cut,  and  are 
now selling many medicines at  less than 
half the former  price.

Massachusetts  cotton  manufacturers 
have restored wages to the scale  existing 
before the  reduction  in  August  of  last 
year.

Commercial Aspect of the Bicycle.

Written for T i l  Tradesman.
One of the most necessary  features  of 
a  good  selling  bicycle  is  a  good,  prac­
ticable  tire.  A  good  machine  with  a 
poor tire will not run easily, or  else  the 
owner  will  be  continually  having  trou­
ble with his  tire—one  or  the  other. 
In 
the former case the  disadvantage will be 
the  result  of  a  heavy,  sluggish  tire. 
•Some tire makers still  manufacture tires 
with thick treads.  No  reason  is  appar­
ent unless the fabric used is not  of  good 
enough quality to permit of  a  light  con­
struction.  Still  others  make  and  put 
upon the market, year after  year,  a  tire 
which is not able  to  stand  two  months’ 
usage.  These tires are made  of  no  bet­
ter  stuff  than  those  with  the  sluggish 
running qualities and  generally  have  to 
be  replaced  after  being  ridden  a  short 
time. 
In judging of the merits of  a  tire 
by  the  wearing  qualities,  a  road  tire 
should never be compared  with  a  racing 
tire.  Racing  tires  are  always  made  of 
the best material at  the  command of the 
bicycle manufacturer,  although  the  ma­
terial  used  depends  largely  upon  who 
the  latter  is.  A  racing  tire  will  wear 
well if put to the use for which  it  is  in­
tended,  but if used on the road  it is sub­
jected to many abuses which  its delicate 
fabric  was  not  intended  to  withstand. 
Many racing tires  are  used  on  the  road 
by  careful  riders  with  no  bad  results, 
but the percentage of those which do not 
suffer  from  this  riding  is  very  small, 
when compared  with the whole.  A road 
tire is  always  made  stronger  than  the 
racing tire of the same  pattern, in  order 
to withstand the rough roads with which 
it will  be  brought  in  contact,  although 
it is not made of any  better  goods. 
It is 
made  very  light,  as  a  general  rule,  its 
weight being measured by the ounce,  in­
stead of the  pound, although the lightest 
ones  are,  necessarily, 
those  made  of 
the  very  best  material.  The  greater 
width of the road tire  also  adds  materi­
ally to its wearing  qualities,  as  there  is 
more surface to  bear  the weight  of  the 
rider.
The  question  of  whieh  is  the  most 
serviceable  pattern  of  tire,  the  single 
tube  or  double  tube,  has  been  pretty 
thoroughly  decided  by  the  demand for 
the  two  styles.  Nine-tenths  of  all  the 
wheels  put upon  the  market  are  fitted 
with  double  tube  tires.  These  are  al­
most  all  of  the  “clincher”  pattern, 
though one or two of  them  are  laced  or 
cemented.  The preference  is due to the 
ease with which a permanent  repair  can 
be  made  on  a  double  tube  tire.  The 
inner tube  is  the  one  which  has  to  be 
patched and.  when the repairs  are  com­
pleted,  it  is  invisible  and  at  the same 
time the tire is just  as good as it was be­
fore it was damaged.  A  single tube tire 
is very easily repaired, if  the  damage  is 
small;  but, in case of  a  large  cut,  it  is 
impossible to fix  it  on  the  road.  As  a 
general thing,  it is impossible to fix it  at 
all  if  a  cut  an inch or more is made,  as 
the only  way to repair  such  a  cut  is  to 
cement a large piece of canvas on the in­
side  of  the  aperture.  As  single  tube 
tires  are  necessarily  made  endless  and 
seamless, they cannot be  opened  up  for 
the  purpose  of  inserting  such a patch. 
But  one  manufacturer  of  bicycles  has 
ever used the single tube tire exclusively 
on his  wheels,  although  one other is this 
year supplying a single tube  tire  of  su­
perior  make  when  ordered.  The  firm 
which at first supplied only  a single tube 
is now fitting a double tube  clincher tire 
to its wheels when so ordered.  One man­
ufacturer of tires only  confines his prod­
uct solely to the single tube variety.  An­
other makes  onlf a double tube tire,  but 
the remainder all make any  kind  of  tire 
wanted  by  any  bicycle  manufacturer. 
The  demand  for  double  tube  tires  is 
greater this year than ever  before.
When the wood rim came into favor,  it 
was  thought  that  the  single  tube tires 
would  gain  the  ascendancy  over  the 
other variety,  because  no  feasible  plan 
was known for using  a  clincher  tire  on 
that kind of  a  rim.  The  cemented  and 
laced inner tube tires are at  a  disadvan­
tage,  when compared with the clinchers, 
for the reason that in removing the inner 
tube  of this kind  of  tires it is  liable  to 
stick to the canvas casing which lines the 
In removing  a  tube
rubber tire proper. 

when it is in this condition, it is liable to 
be torn  or  damaged  beyond  repair. 
In 
case  of  a  clincher  tire,  the inner tube 
may be carefully pulled out after the tire 
is  taken  off  the  rim  and  opened  up. 
Various devices have been  brought  into 
use,  however,  which  have  made  the 
clincher  tire  a  success  with  the  wood 
rim.  They  are  attached  with  buttons 
and wires,  by  making the  point  of  con­
nection very near the  center of  the  rim, 
or  by  making  a  double  clinching  ar­
rangement,  thus  distributing  the  strain 
upon the rim, instead  of  bringing  it  all 
on one portion.  The latter  two  are  the 
least bungling and make the neatest con­
nections.
For racing wheels,  the single tube  tire 
is  undoubtedly  the  favorite  among the 
“Crack-a-Jacks,”  as the flyers are called. 
It can  be made the lightest and most  re­
silient, and at the same  time  sufficiently 
strong  to  answer  all  purposes.  When 
one of them gives out,  the  manufacturer 
whose wheel it is on,  or  the  tire  manu­
facturer,  will  replace  it  without charge 
to the rider, so it makes no difference  to 
him  anyway.  This  kind  of  light  tires 
should never be placed on a wheel which 
is to be used on the road.
Some of the single  tube tires are made 
self-healing.  The  ideas  are  good,  but, 
as yet, they are in a very imperfect state 
of development.  A small  puncture  will 
heal readily,  with  the  kind  of  material j 
used  in  one of  the tires,  but a large one | 
will not.  A cut  invariably means a new 
tire.  Several  puncture-proof  tires  and 
self-healing  tires  have  been  put  upon 
the market,  but none  of  them  have  yet 
shown  enough  merit  to  make  them  ex­
tensively  used.  A  puncture-proof  tire 
has the same objections as  the  old  style 
thick tread ones, and has  no  advantages 
sufficient to repay the rider  for  the  loss 
of  resiliency.  Several  of them  were  on 
the market last year,  but  they  have  all 
been retired.
The question of a non-slipping tire has 
been considered at length,  as  one of  the 
greatest  evils  a  cyclist  has  to  contend 
with  is  wet,  slippery  pavements  in  a 
city.  No effective antidote  for  slipping 
has  yet  been  introduced,  although  the 
corrugated tire  has  some  merit. 
It  re­
duces the danger of  slipping very  much, 
although it is by no  means  a  sure  safe­
guard.  A  corrugated  tire has,  also,  the 
advantage of a smaller  wearing  surface, 
and, consequently,  less friction. 
It also 
throws less mud when being used on  wet 
pavements.
The one and  one-half  inch  tire  is  al­
most exclusively used this season  on  all 
It  helps  to  reduce 
kinds  of  wheels. 
weight,  but it has to be inflated  so  hard, 
to  prevent  the  rim  from  touching  the 
ground when any slight  inequalities  are 
passed over, that it is very uncomfortable 
for rough riding.  On  a  very  hard  road 
it is  the  best,  if  the  road  is  perfectly 
smooth,  for it presents  less wearing sur­
face.  On a soft  road,  however,  the inch 
and  three-fourths  tire  is  immeasurably 
superior. 
It rides over  a sandy piece of 
road instead  of  plowing  through  it. 
It 
can  be ridden a little soft without  injur­
ing it, and without  allowing  the  rim  to 
touch  the  ground. 
It will absorb twice 
the vibration of  a  small  tire,  which  is 
one of the main points of  comfort.  The 
original purpose  of  the  pneumatic  tire 
was to absorb vibration.  Prior  to its in­
troduction, spring frames,  spring  forks, 
saddles,  and  other  various  kinds  of 
“springs” were  in  use,  making  it  nec­
essary to  build  heavy,  awkward wheels. 
It was the vibration in  the  small wheels 
of the safety bicycle that  kept  the  ordi­
nary in favor so long  after  its  introduc­
tion.  Large numbers of  the  best  riders 
in the country never  rode  a  solid  tired 
safety at all,  prefering  the  old  ordinary 
to the excessive  vibration  in  the  small 
wheeled vehicle.  The air  tire was what 
permitted the discarding of  so many  un­
necessary parts of the  bicycle,  thus  giv­
ing the present light, enjoyable means of 
locomotion. 

Morris  J.  Wh it e.

Cairo,  Egypt,  is  to  have  an  electric 
street  railway  next  year,  and bids have 
been made for  a  trolley  line  from  that 
city 
to  the  pyramids.  A  Frenchman 
proposed to build an elevator  to  the  top 
of the great pyramid,  but his proposition 
was not considered.

Drake's  pS ss  Graham  Flour

Is an All-Wheat  Flour,  which  is  claimed  by all  who have used  it to be a superior article. 
DEALERS—If you want a Graham  Flour  that  will  make customers out of all who buy  it, 
send for sample and prices.  Manufactured only by

O .  D R A K E   &   SOiV, 

A r m a d a ,  M ich .

PROPRIETORS  ARilADA  ROLLER  MILLS.

W e s t  M ic h ig a n   A g e n ts

A lso  a   F u ll  L ine  of

Wading  Pants  and 

Boots.

HOSE

BELTING
PACKING

Everything in  Rubber

Large Stock 
Prompt  Shipment

4  nONROE  ST.

Grand  Rapids,  ITich.

BICYCLE
CLOTHING

Of all descriptions

W e  are  Exclusive 
Agents  for

Boston  Patent 
Pants Co.

BICYCLE  SUNDRIES
BASE BA LL and TEN N IS GOODS
Agents  Wanted

Mr.  Business flan
You may be thinking of a hie
want son]ie out-door exercise
You’re  the  fellow
Who has worked yourself  al
in an oitiico, and live too far
to enjoy walking,

We are laying  for

You.  We can suggest  a  remedy  that  will 
be valuable to you.  Buy a

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GOTHAM GOSSIP.

News  from  the  Metropolis- - -Index of 

the  Markets.

Special  Correspondence
New York, May 4—J.  H.  Mohlman  & 
Go.  have  the  sympathy  of  the  trade in 
the destruction of the new building  they 
had just occupied.  They  moved in  Fri­
day  and  on  Monday  night  the  whole 
building  collapsed  and  took  fire.  The 
insurance companies deny  any  liability, 
claiming that the building took fire  after 
the fall and that it was to the  fall  alone 
that  the  fire  was  due.  A long lawsuit 
over the  matter  is  in  order.  The  loss 
amounts to some $200,000.

The  coffee  market  seems  to  have  a 
streak  of  “upwardness”  this  week  and 
holders are  mighty  firm.  While  quota­
tions are  not  exactly  higher,  they  give 
every evidence of  soon going  up  a  peg, 
and those who are  here  to  buy  are  not 
waiting.  The invoice value of No. 7 Kio 
coffee to-day is 16c, at  which  price  it  is 
freely  taken.  Mild  coffees  are in about 
the  same  position  as  a  week  ago,  but 
there is, certainly, a firmer  feeling—per­
haps due to the general  impression  that 
everything is tending upward.
Refined  sugar  has  had  a  tremendous 
impulse  given  it  during  the  week and 
sales have been  larger  than  for  a  long 
time.  There is a lull at the moment, but 
buyers are still sending  in  excellent  or­
ders  and  the  refiners  have  their  hands 
full to meet the demand  without  loss  of 
time.

Teas  show  no  animation  whatever. 
Any sort of taste  can  be  suited  at  any 
sort  of  price.  Trade  is  light  and  the 
m arket presents no new features.

Syrups show a much firmer tone, owing, 
probably,  in some degree, to  the  feeling 
in  sugar,  and  buyer  are  taking  a  good 
deal  of  interest  in  the  situation.  This 
is for best  grades.  Lower  qualities  are 
not wanted and are  hard  to  dispose  of. 
Molasses  shows  more  animation,  also, 
and buyers  are  taking  hold with  a will 
for this  season  of  the  year.  Prime  to 
choice  New  Orleans  molasses  is  worth 
from 22@31c  for centrifugal and 29@32c 
for open  kettle.
The canned goods  market  remains  in 
about the same condition that  has  char­
acterized it for some time.  There  is  no 
particular change to chronicle  in  prices. 
Tomatoes  show  a  slight  improvement. 
Some  quite 
large  parcels  of  cheap 
peaches have been moved.  Not  much  is 
doing  in  the  way  of  future  contracts. 
Some offers of goods are reported to have 
been made  which  show  no  profit  what­
ever  to  the  packers. 
It  is strange that 
they will go on doing  this  sort  of  busi­
ness. 
It  is  simply  dishonest.  New 
York State gallon apples are worth  $2.50 
@2.60; standard tomatoes, 62%e; peaches, 
$1.15@1.22%  for  standard  all  yellow. 
Prospects are excellent for  big  crops  of 
everything in this part of the country.
Receipts  of  really  first-class  butter 
have  not  been  large,  nor  has  the  de­
mand been active.  The  trade  is  of  an 
everyday character.  Nineteen  cents  is 
the  top  price  for  either  Elgin  or  New 
York.
For new cheese  the  feeling  is  one  of 
suspended  animation.  Nothing  worthy 
of mentioning is being transacted.  Quo­
tations  are  very  low,  8c  being  the  ex­
treme.
The lemon market has been one  of  ac­
tivity all the  week.  Although  rates  at 
the moment are a shade  lower  it  is  not 
thought  they  will  remain  so  long,  and 
every indication is toward  higher  prices 
for foreign fruits of all descriptions.
There is a slow trade is bean and peas. 
Choice pea beans,  1894  crop,  are  worth 
$2@2.05.  Marrow, $2.50@2.55.
The  Grain  Market.

Wheat has held  very  firm  during  the 
week.  Receipts  in  the  winter  wheat 
markets have been  extremely  small—so 
small  that  the  country  elevators would 
not  sell  or  make  any  offers,  because 
there is no wheat  moving;  so  they  pro­
pose to hold on  for  higher  prices.  The 
spring  wheat  movement  has  been quite 
liberal;  in fact, above the  corresponding 
time last year,  but nowhere near the cor­

responding time two  years  ago;  but it is 
all absorbed by  the  Northwestern  mill­
ers.  Some which has  been purchased at 
low ebb  is  being  moved  out.  Our  ex­
ports are about the same as  last  season, 
but  hardly  up  to  what  they  were  two 
years ago,  and foreigners are still of  the 
opinion 
that  they  will  be  able  to  get 
American  wheat  at  less  than  ruling 
prices.  May be they will,  but the condi­
tion does not favor that conclusion.  The 
visible  is  about  1,000,000  bushels  less 
than last year at this time and it will de­
crease faster,  as the decrease in  receipts 
is large.  Detroit has only  one-third  the 
amount she had last year, or only 524,000 
bushels  against  1,824.000  bushels  last 
season,  which shows the scarcity of win­
ter wheat.

Receipts 

Corn has been weak,  so  has  oats,  and 
we look for lower prices.in these cereals.
the  past  week  here  were 
wheat, 79 cars;  corn, 24 cars;  and oats,  1 
car,  which  is  more  than  the  average 
amount received of wheat  and  corn,  and 
a very small amount of oats.

C. G. A. Voigt.

The  D.  &  M.  Change  Time.

The summer time card of the D., G. H. 
& M. Railway is  now  in  effect.  Trains 
to and from the  East  run  on  the  usual 
time.  Two  trains  have  been  added  to 
the Grand Haven service  and  trains  de­
part for the West at 8:40 a.  m.,  1  p.  m., 
5:35  p.  m.,  7:40  p.  m.  and  10:05 p.  m. 
This is the best  route  to  take  for  Mil­
waukee and Chicago.  Berths  on  steam­
ers  are  assigned  passengers  at the  city 
office, 23 Monroe street.

J a s.  Campbell,, City Ag’t.

Simple  Method  of  Testing  Milk  for 

Water  Adulteration.

A  very  simple process for testing  the 
amount  of  water  in  milk  is  to  mix  1 
ounce of plaster  paris  with enough milk 
to form a stiff paste and then  allow  it  to 
stand.  With milk of  1.030 specific grav­
ity  and  a  temperature  of  60 deg. F., it 
will harden in ten hours;  if 25  per  cent, 
of water is present,  in  two  hours;  if  50 
per cent.,  in one  and  one-half  hours;  if 
75 per cent.,  in 30 minutes.  Heat should 
not be applied. 

J. DeBoe.
Grand  Rapids  Boys to  Play  Ball.
Grand Rapids, May 4—Noting in The 
Tradesman of  this  week  that  the  De­
troit traveling men have organized a base 
ball club, it occurs to  me  that  we  must 
not be outdone  by  our  Detroit  brethren 
and I hereby call a meeting of all  Grand 
Rapids traveling men,  without  regard  to 
their ability as ball players, to be held at 
the parlors of the  New  Livingston,  Sat­
urday,  May 11,  at 10:30 a. m.  Come one, 
come all! 

J. Henry Dawley.

One  Way to  Increase  Trade.

A  live  Pennsylvania  retailer  enlists 
the services of all the boys in  his  region 
by offering a $75 bicycle to  the  boy  who I 
sends  to  his  store customers whose pat­
ronage  aggregates 
two 
months.  Blanks are provided the young­
sters and persons  buying  in  each  one’s 
favor has the  amount  of  the  purchases 
punched  out  by  the  clerk  and  by  him 
also  signed.  This  is  a  bright  scheme 
and  ought  to  be  a  trade  winner  from 
start to finish.

the  most 

in 

From  Out of Town.

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

P.  M.  Cleveland & Son, Nunica.
P.  B.  Sharp,  Byron  Center.
O.  R.  Johnson,  Allegan.
W.  H.  Porter,  Jackson.
Crandall  &  Gregg,  Luther.
Frank  Hamilton,  Traverse  City.
Sid  V.  Bullock,  Trufant.

T H E   MICHIG^JSr  TRADESMAN

The  population  of  France  would  re­
main about stationary if it were  not that 
there is a considerable immigration from 
the adjoining  countries.

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Pork, links..
Bologna......
Liver..........
Tongue ......
Blood _____
Head cheese
Summer......
Frankfurts..
LABD.
Kettle  Rendered...  ...........
Granger.............................
Family................................
Compound..........................
Cottolene... 
...  ................
Cotosuet................................
50 lb. Tins, fee advance.
20 lb. palls, He 
10 lb.  “  %c 
51b.  “  Xc 
31b. 
l c  

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BEEF  IN  BABBBLS.

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Extra Mess, warranted 200 lbs..................
Extra Mess, Chicago packing.....................
Boneless, rump butts...................................
smoked  meats—Canvassed or Plain.
Hams, average 20 lbs...................................
16 lbs...................................
12 to 14 lbs...........
picnic...............................................
best boneless....................................
Shoulders....................................................
Breakfast Bacon  boneless..........................
Dried beef, ham prices................................
Long Clears, heavy......................................
Briskets,  medium........................................
Half  barrels................................................
Quarter barrels............................................
Kits.............................................................
Kits, honeycomb........................................
Kits, premium............................................
Creamery,  rolls...........................................
tubs...........................................
Dairy,  rolls.................................................
tubs.................................................

DBT  SALT  MEATS.

PIC K L E D   FIG S ’  FE E T .

butterine.

TR IPE.

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10  00

6 50 6 15 
10-10kion
9
9
11
6k

.3 00 
. 1  65 
..  90
75
65

17
16.12
Ilk

THE  TRADESMAN 

Has  a  FIELD  of  its  own.

MAT'S iy

Advertisers get RESULTS.

E g g s  W a n t e d !

Prices quoted  on application.

N O T E   L O W   P R IC E S

On following goods:

 

 

 

Mrs. Wlthey’s Home Made Jelly, made  with 
boiled cider,  very  fine.  Assortment con­
sists  of  Apple,  Blackberry,  Strawberry,
Raspberry and Currant:

30-lb.  pail.............................................  
  CO
iO-lb. pall........................................................  45
17-lb.  pail.......................................................  40
15-lb. pail........... 
37
1  quart Mason  Jars, per  doz............   ......   l  40
1  pints  Mason  Jars, per  doz.....................   1  00
Per case, 3 doz.  In  case................................ 2 85
Mrs. Withey’s Condensed Mince Meat,  the 
best made.  Price per  case  ......................  2 40
Mrs.  Withey’s balk mince meat:
40-lb. pail, per  lb...........................................   6
25-lb. palls, per lb..........................................   6k
12-lb. pails, per lb..........................................  6k
2-lb. cans, per doz............................ .............  1  40
5 lb. cans, per  doz.............................   ........3 so
Pint Mason Jars, per  doz..............................1  25
Quart Mason Jars, per doz  .........................2 00
Pure Sweet Cider, in bbls., per gal..............  12k
Pure Sweet Cider, in less quantities, per gal  14 
Maple Syrup, pint Mason Jars, per  doz. 
1  40
Maple Syrup, quart Ma-on Jars, per  doz__  2 25
Maple Syrup, tin, gallon cans, per doz........  9 00
Peach Marmalade, 20-lb pails......................1  00
Peach Marmalade In pt  Mason jars, pr dz..  120 
No  1 Egg Crate  Fillers, best  in  market,  10
sets in case, No. 1 Case  included..............  1  25
No.  1  Egg Crates with fillers  complete........ 
33
Special prices made on ICO Crate lots.

EDWIN  FALLAS,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

LIMITED.

SAQINAW,  E.  S.

Japan   T e a s  for  1895.

Ad vices  from  Japan  are  to  the  effect  that early 
picked  Teas open  up  at an  advance of four cents per 
pound  over last season,  and that indications  all point 
to higher  prices on  all  grades over former years.

We have on  hand  1200  J  chests Japan  Teas,  near­
ly all  of our own  importation,  which  we offer  to  the 
retailers of Michigan  at  prices  that  will  move them 
rapidly, if the matter receives their earnest considera 
tion.  Samples and prices cheerfully mailed.

Values»-14 c.  up to 35c,

Mtlskegon  Bakery  Crackers

(United  States  B aking  Co.)

Are  Perfect  Health  Food.

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

one can be  best—that is  the original

fluskegon 
Bakery 
Butter 
C racker.

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

Nine
Other
Great
Specialties
Are

Muskegon  Toast,
Ro^al  Fruit  Biscuit, 
Muskegon  Frosted  Honey, 
Iced  Cocoa  Honey  Jumbles, 
Jelly  Turnovers,
Ginger  Snaps,
Home-Made  Snaps, 
Muskegon  Branch,
Mlik  Lunch

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

United.  S ta te s   B a k in g   Co.

LAWRENCE  DEPEW,  Acting  Manager,

DID  YOU  NOTICE

S

ON  Y O U R   C R A C K E R S ?

EARS’ 
UPERIOR 
EYMOUR

T h a t   is  w h a t   it  m e a n s —  

“ THE  ACKNOWLEDGED  LEADER 

OF  CRACKERS! ”

THEY

Originated in  MICHIGAN 
A re Made in  MICHIGAN 
A re  Sold in  MICHIGAN

And  all  over the  World.

The  New  York  Biscuit Co.,

Successors  to  WM.  SEARS  &  CO.,

Muskegon,

Mich,

Grand  Rapids,  flieh.

MONARCH  BICYCLES!

A b s o lu te ly   the 
B est  that  M o n e y  
Can  P r o d u c e
L I G H T  
•  S T R O N G  
S P E E D Y  

H A N D S O M E

F I V E

M O D E L S
W  eight

18  to  2 8   p o u n d s  

Prices

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

MONARCH  CYCLE  COMPANY

FACTORY  AND  I*1AIN  OFFICE,  Lake  and  Halstead  Sts, 
RETAIL  SALESROOM,  280  Wabash  Avenue, 

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U l l I U x l l J l / i

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Grand  Rapids.  /Jith„  Agents,  ADAHS  &  HART,  12  W est  Bridge  St.

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

The  D ayton  C om puting  5 ca le!

It  Sells 
Because  of 
M oney
Its 
X la k in  o*r-—'
Beat tires/

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For  further  information 

drop  a  postal  card- to

Warning;!

The  trade  are  hereby  warned against using 
any infringements on 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  t6. 1888,1891,1893 and 
1894.  And  we  will  prosecute  all  infringers  to 
the full  extent  of  the  law.  The simple  using 
of Scales that infringe  upon  our  patents makes 
the  user  liable  to  prosecution,  and the  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  Computing  Scale  Co.

See  What  Users S a y :
Office of  CHICAGO  LUMBERING  CO.

Manistique, Mich., Apr. 2,  1895. 

Messrs.  Hoyt  &   Co.,  Dayton, O.

Gentlemen:  We bought three  Standard Mar­
ket Scales and two Tea Scales of you, Feb.  n th , 
for our two stores, and have  thrown out ail our 
other scales, and had these in constant use ever 
since.

We are  very  much  pleased  w ith  them  and 
think  THEY  HAVE  SAVED  US  ABOUT  $5.00 
PER  DAY,  or  nearly the cost  of  them,  by  this 
time. 

Yours  truly,
THE  CHICAGO  LUMBERING  CO. 

Per C. S.  Hill.  Manager.

T h e  C O M P U T IN G  S C A L E  CO., D a y  ton , O h io
THE  BEST 

ON  EARTH MEAKINS' WHITE GRANITE WARE REDUCED

PRICES

NEW  IDEAL  SHAPE.  Original  Assorted  Crates.

94

8  42

NO.  141910,  IDEAL  SHAPE 
Orig.  Asstd.  Cte., Alfred  rieakins’ W 
6 doz 5 inch  Plates..
30 doz 7 inch  Plates..
2 do»  S inch  Plates..
6 only 6 inch  Bakers 
6 only 8 inch  Bakers
6 only 24s Bowls......
12 only 30s Bowls. 
.
12 only 30s B o w l s . .
12 only Os Open  Chambers..
6 only 9s Covered Chamber
12 only tl inch Scollops........
12 only 7 inch Scollops........
12 only 8 inch Scollops........
6 doz 4 inch Fruit Saucers.
4 doz Individual B utters...
15 set handled  St. Denis Tea 
15 set handled Hensball Tea 
21 set unbundled St. Denis '1 
34 only Oyster Bowls.  30s...
6 pairs 9s Ewers and  B:
6 only  9 inch Dishes..
6 only 10 inch Dishes..
6 only 11 inch Dishes..
Crate and Cartag

3 00
4  SO 
94
1  13 
1  09

7  13 
1  13

Total.

70

NO.  15
hite  Granite.  Original  Assorted  Crate,
8 2 52  I  5 doz 5 inch  Plates.................8  42
2 doz 0 inch  Plates__
12 20 
1  40  12 doz 7 inch  Plates__
2 doz 8 inch  PI ides................. 
47 
2 doz 7 inch Plates.  Soup
85 
6 doz 4 inch Fruit  Saucer
47 
75 
2 doz Individual  Betters.
2  only
3 only 
3 00
6 only 
94 
6 only 
~ only
113 
1  69 
only 
1  68
onlj 
6 only
12 onl
13 only 
13 onl.
6 onl; 
3 only 
3 onl 
2 onl

8 inch  Dishes
9 inch  D ishes
10 inch  Dishes
11 inch  Dishes
12 inch  Dishes 
14 inch  Dishes 
3 inch Scollops
5 inch Scollops
6 inch Scollops
7 inch Scollops 
s inch Scollops 
9 inch Scollops
7 inch Covered Dish
8 inch  covered Dishes 
Sauce  Boats...
Pickles.............
7 inch Casserol
8 inch Casserol
> inch 1

¿red Butters  3

1  13 
1  69
2 81 
3  94

1  13 
1  69

1  13
2 50

168,  IDEAL  SHAPE
Alfred  Meakins’  W hite  Granite  Ware.
82  10  2 only Teapots, 24s.............. ..  3 00
1  04  4 only Sugars.  24s..................   2  53
3 only 6s Jugs........................   3  38
7  32 
Jugs...........2 25
6 only 12s 
1  40 
1  22 
3 only 24s 
J u g s ..........  1  31
J ugs.........  1  1 3
1  68 
6 only 30s 
91
38  6 only 36s  Jugs........................ 
1#  6 only 21s Bowls...................... 
94
75
28 
1 8  only 30s Bowls..................... 
85  12 only 36s Bowls....................  
63
1  12  6 only prs. 9s Ewers A Basins  7*4H
70  6 only Covered Chambers 9s.  4  50
99  13 only Uncov'd Chambers 9s.  3 4*» 
66  101» set hdld. St.  Denis Teas.. 
37!
38  10>2 set hdld.  Daisy  Teas....... 
37!<
set nnhdld. St.'Denis Teas  31!
94  31 
Crate and Cartage.......

T o ta l................... 

-  I

1  13 
1  69
1  13 

“ SUMMERTIME,”  English  Dec.  Semi-Porcelain

PENCIL  OR  BROWN  COLOR.
NO.

13116,  “ SU nnERTIM E’ 

Assorted  Crate.

1  13 
33

1  13 
63
3 57
2 25
3 00 
3  96 
3  94 
6 62 
2 50

4 doz 5 in Plates__
2 doz 0 in Plates__
12 doz 7 in Plates__
2 doz 8 in Plates.... 
6 doz 4 in Fruits..., 
6 doz Ind. B utters.. 
V i doz  9 in Dishes.. 
!i doz 10 in Dishes.. 
!a doz 12in Dishes.. 
l-Odoz 14 in Dishes.. 
2 doz 3 in Bakers... 
M doz 7 in Bakers...
doz 8 in Bakers... 
V i doz 0 in  Scallops. 
M doz 7 in  Scallops. 
V i doz 8 in  Scallops.
V i  doz 12 Jugs..........
V i doz 24 Jugs..........
!i doz 30 Jugs..........

. 

51  83 04 
62  1  24
73
8  76 
84 
1  68 
34
. 
2 04 
. 
23
1  38 
.  1  &5 
68 
.  2 03 
1  01
.  3 38 
.  4  73

79  1  58

V t doz Sauce Boats.. 
V i doz Pickles..........
1  doz Cov'd Dishes. 
h i doz  B. A  B. Plates 
Vi doz Cov'd Butters
V i doz 24 Sugars.......
Vi doz Creamers 
... 
18 doz Teas...............
2 doz Coffees..........
3 dozSOOyst'r Bowls 
Crate  aud Cartage.

1  80 
1  35  - 
5 49  5 
1  80 
4 05  2 
3  04  1 
1  26 

90  16 
1  05  2 
90  2

DO 
60 
03

63 
20 
10 
70 
2 50
863  79

1  13 
1  35

1  38 
1  35

1  02 
1  35

100  PIECE  DINNER  SET
open siock. $6.25

A ll  t h e s e   g o o d s   in  O p e n   S t o c k   at  s l i g h t   a d v a n c e .

H. LEONARD & SONS, Grand Rapids

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