VOL. X II 

WHEN  DEAF  MUTES  WANT THE

S. C. W. CIGAR

Th*> DO THIS

NO.  6 0 8

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MAY  1 5 ,1 8 9 5  
Best  5  cent

CIGAR

Sold  by  all  Wholesale 
Druggists,  Confection­
ers  and  Grocers  travel­
ing  from  Grand  Rapid*, 
and the Manufacturer,

G.J.

GRAND  RAPIDS.

Heating  —  Plumbing

--------------IN THE  LINE  OF--------------

Steam, Hot Water or Hot Air. 

IN  ALL  ITS  PARTS.

S h e e t   M e ta l  W ork

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.

WEATHERLY  &  PULTE,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

T h e r e   a r e   t h o u s a n d s   of S I G N A L S ,
b u t   n o n e   so  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.  BUSHHAN,  Agent,

523 John S t., KALAMAZOO

C p i g i t i1 M

DETROIT,  MICH.

Mfrs. of  Window  Guards,  Weather  Vanes,  Roof 
Cresting, Wire  and  Iron  Fences, Bank  and Office 

,  Railing,  Stable Fixtures, Fire  Escapes, etc.

ARTISTIC  GRILLES of any de- 

sign me'1“, to order. 

Sutton  &  M u rp h y  Co.,

PHONE  1285=3  r.

State your wants and send for Catalogue,

-----------M ANUFACTURER  O F ------------

11 ii m ■ «

Mil. 991. IONIA SI., Gill RopiflS

Telephone  738.

Office  Fixtures, 
Store  Fixtures,  etc.

Barn Telephone  »059.
Office  Telephone  1055»
C P T T   T D I T V   Storage and 
o C v U i y l   I  I  Transfer Co.

Warehouse, 257-250  Ottawa  St.  Main OPce, 75 Pearl St.

rioving,  Packing,  Dry  Storage.

Expert Packers and Careful, CompetentMoversof ¡Household  Furniture.  Estimates  Cheerfully 

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

MANUFACTURER  OF

Crackers
•  Sweet  Goods

AND  FU LL  LIN E  OF

252  and  254  CANAL  ST.,  GRAND  RAPIDS I 93 an d   95  S o u th   D ivision  S tre e t,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

AftERICA’S GREATEST  RELISH!
Endorsed by medical f raternity.  For ta­
ble use  their delicious, creamy  flavor '
i_  never forgotten.  Cure  Dyspepsia, Indi­
gestion,  Sick  Headache,  Nervousness.
Sweeten the breath.  Sold by all dealers. 
ILL---1__*------ V...  t,__OaI.1  V... .,11 
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lithographed  cartons. 
In  handsomely 
Retail at 30 cents each.

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A m e r i c a n   P e p s i n   C r u c k e r   G o . 

DETROIT. 

S W E E T ’S   H O T E L

MARTIN  L.  SWEET,  Proprietor.

HENRY  D. and  FRANK  H.  IRISH, iTgrs.

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

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

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Ask Jobber for a 
sample order,  or

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

customers.

______ IF   N O T   S A T IS F A C T O R Y ,  Y O U R   M O N E Y   B A C K ._______

Absolute 

Tea!

:  THE  ACKNOWLEDGED  LEADER^
ITELFER  SPICE  CO.,

)LD  ONLY  BY

GRAND  RAPIDS,  Mich.

• 

S P E C I A L T IE S .

For the Boiler  and  E ngine.  Are  ths  E ngineers*  Favorites.

85,000 P e x b e r t h y  Automatic I n je c t o r s in  u se, eiv in t? p e rfe c t satisfactlO T  
u n d e r a ll co nditions.  O u r J e t  P u m p s, W a te r G ag es a n a  O il C u p s a r e  U n eq u alled ,
s . nd for 
D E T R O IT .
Cataloous* 

PENBERTHY  INJECTOR  CO. 

branch  factory  at WINDSOR« ONT* 

M ICH»

SPECIFY DAISY BRAND it is THE  BEST

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

M.  R.  ALDEN

ALDEN  &  LIBBY,

C.  H.  L IE B T

STRICTLY  FRESH  EGGS,
Choice Creamery and Dairy  Butter
A  SPECIALTY-----------------------*

Wholesale  Produce

Northern Trade supplied at Lowest Market Prices.  We buv on track at point of 

shipment, or receive on consignment.  P1IONE 1300.

C O N G R B S S

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C I G A R S

Congress  Cigars
CHOICEST AND HIGHEST GRADE  HAVANA  TOBACCO

ARE  MADE  BY  THE  BEST  CUBAN  WORKflEN  FROfl  THE

T h i s   B r a n d   of  C i g a r s   is  a  d e c i d e d   s u cc e ss, 

T r y   t h e m .   S e n d   a

s a m p l e   o r d e r   to  a n y   of t h e   f o l l o w i n g   J o b b e r s :
Hazel tin«* «fc Perkins Drug Co.  *  Ball-Barnhart Putman Co. 
Lemon <fc  Wheeler Co. 
I  M. Clark Grocery Co. 

Musselman Grocer Co.
Putnam Candy Co.

Olney <fc Judson Grocer Co. 
Worden  Grocer Co.
A. E. Brooks <fc Co

It  Has No Equal.

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We  know  it  because  we  sell  mo:
The  Jobber  sells  m ore!
The  Retailer  sells  m ore!
The  Consumer  buys  more!
The  Babies  cry  for  more,  and  more  mothers  write  us 
Gail Borden Eagle Brand Condensed Milk

stating  that  the

Is  unequalled  as  a  food  for  infants.

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It  Pays  to  Handle  Such  Goods 

For Quotations See Price Columns

Tanglefoot
SEALED  STICKY  FLY  PAPER

YOUR  CUSTOMERS  WILL  ALL  PREFER  IT.

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PRICES  FOR THE  REGULAR  SIZE.

Per Box..................   .........38 cents  Per Case............................
In 5 Case lots,  per  case.........S3  30 
In  10 Case lots,  per case.

.S3  40 
.  3  20

If you  are  particular about your  STICKY  FLY 

PAPER,  specify

TA N G LEFO O T
LI

5;-i x 9 inches

dows and Fine Booms.
a  case.

Particularly  adapted  for  Show  Win­
23 Double Sheets in a Box,  15 Boxes in 
Ketails for 25 cents a box.
Costs SI.75 per case.
Profit  nearly  115  per cent.
Will  be a  Good  Seller.

Order the largest quantity you can  use and get the 

BEST  DISCOUNT.

FOR  SALE  BY  ALL  JOBBERS.

m

if®.

GRAND RAPIDS, 

MICH. 

.

18 and 19 Widdicomb  Bid.

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

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

Correspondence Solicited.

RETAILS  AT  25  CENTS 

EACH,  COMPLETE.
A  convenient  £ 
bu. fruit package 
when  fillers  are 
removed.

FIVE  DOZEN  CRATES  COflPLETE  WITH  FILLERS  w ith 

your  Ad.  neatly  printed  on  each  crate,  delivered  at  7 % 1 1 ~ |  O O  
your  railroad  station  f o r .............................................

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MANUFACTURED  BY

CUnnER MFG. Co.

Cadillac,  flichigan.

YOL. XII.

QUAND  RAPIDS,  W EDNESDAY,  MAY  15,  1 8 9 5 .

NO.  6 0 8

DESMAN

INSURANCE  CO.

Organized

■88i

Detroit,  Mich.
Geo. W. Stowitts

REPRESENTING

DIBBLE  &  WARNER,  Mfrs.  Fine  Suspenders 
ORAND  RAPIDS  NECKWEAR  CO.,  nfrs.  of 
I shall be pleased to call on dealers in need  of 

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

anything in either of above lines.

155 Thomas st., Grand Kapids.

COMMERCIAL  CREDIT  CO.

65  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 bandied for members

Telephones  166  aed  1030

•ROM»T.  CONSaRVATIVe, 

J.  W.  CHAMPLIN.  Pres.

t i s i  

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,

\m m

Makes a Specialty of acting as

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

competent  Persons, 

Trustee or Agent

In the management of any  business  which  may 
be entrusted to It.
Any  Information  desired  will  be  cheerfully 
furnished.
Lewis  H.  W Ithey,  Pres.

Anton  G.  Hodenpyl,  Sec’y.

THE  INCOME  TAX  REHEARING.
Less than three  days were  devoted  in 
the Supreme Court  to  the  arguments  in 
the income tax cases,  when adjournment 
was taken to May  20, at which  time  the 
final decision will probably  be  rendered. 
What the decision will be is, of course,  a 
matter of conjecture,  and  will  probably 
remain so,  as the Court will not be apt to 
again permit  its  conclusions  to  be  an­
nounced  prematurely,  as  happened  in 
the first hearing.

It seems to be the  opinion  of  most  of 
those who watched the arguments closely 
that the decision  will be  against the con­
stitutionality  of  the  entire  law. 
It  is 
generally  conceded 
that  the  decision 
rests  entirely  upon  Justice  Jackson, 
whose absence made  the  tie  possible  in 
the  former  opinion.  His  antecedents 
and general  political  positions  are  un­
favorable to  the  law,  as  a  whole,  and 
especially  so  in  its  present  mntilated 
condition. 
In the  arguments  submitted 
for the  Government  there  was  nothing 
new that would seem sufficient to change 
his position.

Tne principal point urged  by  the  At­
torney-general Is that a  tax  on  rents,  as 
a  part  of  incomes, is not a tax on land. 
The  Government  did  not  try  to defend 
the equality of the tax,  but  claimed  the 
right to make exemptions as it should see 
fit.  The argument as to the precedent of 
the war tax and the illegality of the Gov­
ernment’s action at that  time,  if  such  a 
law  is  unconstitutional,  had  but  little 
weight.  The Government  seemed  to  be 
entirely indifferent as to  the  fate  of  the 
law  if  it  could not get a reversal on  the 
part declared unconstitutional.

The unpopularity of the law has stead­
ily increased  in  intensity  ever  since  its 
the 
adoption  and,  especially,  since 
former  decision  excepting 
rents  and 
its  promoters  would 
bonds.  None  of 
own  it  in  its  present condition. 
It has 
proved  such  a  mine  of  perplexity  and 
annoyance  in  the  Revenue  Department 
that the officials  are  heartily  sick  of  it; 
and if the result  of  this  opinion  should 
leave it still a law,  which,  after  all, is  a 
possibility, a strong  effort  will  be  made 
to secure its early repeal by Congress.

The Grain Market.

Wneat was  very  irregular  during  the 
week.  The  visible  decreased  3,500,000 
bushels,  when  a  much  smaller  amount 
was  looked  for,  which  caused a strong 
market.  Then there  were  rains  in  the 
winter  wheat  belt,  which  acted  to  de­
press the market.  The Government crop 
report  showed  a  gain  of  1)£  per cent, 
over April report, as April  showed  81.4. 
On  May  1  the  report  was  82.9,  which 
tended to depress the market.  On top of 
that came the report of  snow  and  frost, 
which made the shorts cover  and  raised 
the  market  to  near the top on this  crop 
year.  While foreign  markets do not keep 
in accord with  ours,  which  is  the  bear 
feature of it, and while  our  exports  are 
rather more than last  year,  they  do  not 
come up to general  expectation,  and our 
home  stocks  are  being  depleted as fast

now  as  was  predicted,  simply  because 
the grain is being taken from wheat cen­
ters,  as  country  elevators  have  none. 
Detroit is shipping  back to nearby mills, 
so  there  is  only  about  one-quarter  of 
what  there  was  last  year.  Report  has 
it that Chicago  shipped  100,000  bushels 
(o  St.  Louis  (rather  the  wrong  way). 
Wheat  should  move  eastward.  Then 
Chicago also sends  wheat to Toledo and, 
it is claimed,  to Detroit.  The  latter  we 
have no doubt about,  but it  matters not. 
The  great  quantity  of  wheat  that  lay 
dormant  in  Chicago  so  long  is  being 
moved out and when  the new crop comes 
along there will probably be  less  wheat 
visible  than  there  has  been  for  three 
years  past.  Local  receipts  are  very 
small,  although the mills  pay  65c,  with 
Detroit  only  67@67)£c.  One  of  two 
things  is  certain:  either  farmers  have 
not the wheat they are reported  to  have 
or  they  are  holding  for  higher  prices, 
which they may realize  should  anything 
happen  to  the  growing crop. 
If wheat 
does not look better and there is no more 
of  it  than  in  this  section,  the Govern­
ment crop estimate is too high.

Corn  ruled  very  strong  and  higher 
than last week,  although  it  was  only  a 
shade  weaker  the  last  day.  Receipts 
have  been  light  and  the  demand  from 
eastern dealers good.

Oats have been  contrary  to  what  has 
been the case of late, 
instead of  strong 
they have been  weak, and ruled  about lc 
less.

Receipts  during  the  past  week  have 
been:  wheat,  55 cars;  corn,  17 cars; oats, 
10 cars. 

C. G.  A.  Voigt.

The  Credit System a “Colossal Fraud.”
Gra nd  Ra pid s,  May  11—In  reading 
several  very able and interesting articles 
in your  paper  on  “The  Advantages  of 
the Cash System,” I discover  very  little, 
if any, allusion to the matter of  the  pos­
sibility or impossibility of maintaining a 
cash  system  under  present  conditions. 
The facts are, the peculiar system  under 
which business is being  done,  precludes 
the  possibility  of  doing  an  ideal  cash 
business.  Oar  financial  system  is  so 
constructed  and  operated  as  to  tend at 
all  times to restrict the necessary volume 
of money necessary for  circulation.  We 
cannot  successfully  do  a  cash  business 
with  a  money  adapted  only for a credit 
system.  We require a “cash”  especially 
adapted to an anti-credit system.
Scientifically  considered,  money  is  a 
title to a  value  produced  and  deposited 
in the market,  as the agency  or  medium 
through which  exchanges  of  values  are 
made,  be it represented by a corner  gro­
cery or  a  bank.  The  producer  surren­
ders his title to  snch value when  he  be­
comes  a  consumer.  Suppose,  however, 
the  market  or  his  trusted  agent  has 
transferred this value to some  one  upon 
credit—in other  words,  no  value what­
ever—how, then stands  the  relation  be­
tween  these  three 
industrial  factors? 
Are book accounts at a grocery  or  prom­
ises to  pay  at  a  bank  to  be  considered 
substantial  valnes with  which  to  re-im- 
burse honest  labor?  The  credit  system 
is a collosal  fraud  upon  mankind  from 
the business  of  a  peanut  stand  to  the 
affairs of the government of a nation.
O.  H.  Solla u.

You make a bad trade when  you sacri­

fice character for money.

As a result of the interference of  Rus­
sia  in  the  terms  of  the treaty  between 
Japan  and  China  the  former  has  con­
sented to forego  the  occupation  of  Port 
Arthur  and  the  possession  of territory 
west of Corea.  While  Japan is as much 
entitled to the possession of the territory 
she  has conquered as Russia  is  to  what 
she has so long been absorbing in Central 
Asia,  she has  probably  shown  excellent 
judgment  in  yielding.  Even  with  all 
the prestige she  has acquired  as  the  re­
sult of this  war  she  cannot afford to en­
ter the arena of  the  aggressive  nations, 
like  England  and  Russia.  She  is  wise 
enough to see that her best interests will 
be served by pushing the commercial  ad­
vantages  which  will  accrue  from  this 
treaty.  Chinese  trade  will  be  worth 
more  to  Japan  than  Chinese  territory 
and  the  early  completion  of  the  trans- 
Siberian  railway,  with  amicable  rela­
tions between Russia and  Japan,  will  be 
vastly  more  valuable  than  any  posses­
sions the latter could hold  in  the  coun­
try west of Corea.  The  commercial  sig­
nificance of the completion  of  this  road 
to all the countries  interested  in  north­
ern Pacific  trade,  including  the  United 
States, is greater than  is  generally  con­
sidered.

The convention of the National League 
of Musicians,  recently held  in Cleveland, 
passed a  resolution  that  in  future  non­
union musicians should be so  designated 
and the word “scab” should be expunged 
from the official  language  of  the  organ­
ization. 
If all labor  organization would 
adopt polite terras to designate those not 
in  sympathy  with  them  it would  mate­
rially lessen  the contempt their language 
engenders  in  polite  circles;  bat  the 
leaders appear to  think  that  foul  terms 
are necessary  to  engage  the  interest  of 
the ignorant they  are  trying  to  control. 
What they gain in this is  more  than  off­
set  by  the  loss  of  respect  they  cause 
among  decent people.

A  Chicagoan  named  Latta  recently 
purchased  from  a  curio  dealer iu New 
Orleans for $150 a rude collection  of  old 
postage stamps.  As  soon  as he reached 
home he regretted the  bargain  and  sent 
the  stamps  to  New  York  lor approval. 
Back came the cheerful information that 
one stamp alone  was  worth  $2,000,  and 
that  the  value  of  the  entire collection 
could  fairly  be estimated  at  $15,000!  It 
would  be  wise  for  people who have old 
stamps  to  ascertain  something  about 
their value before they sell in Chicago.

The sale of books by department stores 
at prices far below cost as  “leaders”  for 
trade has so badly demoralized  the  book 
business of the country that  it  has  been 
found  necessary  to  call a convention of 
the  National  Association,  to  be held in 
Brooklyn, Aug.  13 and 14, for the special 
purpose  of  devising  a  remedy  for that 
element of trade demoralization.

Connecticut has  passed  a  law  forbid­
ding the posting of bills  of  any  sort  on 
houses,  trees and rocks without the own­
er’s consent.

T H A J3E S M A JT.

C O M R A D E

Is  one  of the few 
Good  5  cent brands,  wmen 
i  
All sm okers  will 
Realize by giving them a trial•

^ 

I ed  w  ruhe.
F. E. Bushman,  Agt.
523 Jonn st.
I 
Kalamazoo

emon  s  W h e e l s  G o.

W h o l e s a l e   G r o c e r s

Grand  Rapids

The  New Clippers

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Are said to be among the finest  pro­
ductions of  this  year.  One  of  Bay
City’s  oldest  and  most  prominent 
wheelmen  recently  remarked,  after 
having tried his brother’s 20 lb. spec­
ial built Clipper, “M y----- runs like
an  ice  wagon,  compared  with  that 
Clipper.”  This blank wheel is  one 
of the best known  “record breakers” 
on  the market.  Our New Clippers 

Are  Built  Like  Bicycles.

We test our  wheels  on  the  road.  All OUR fac­
tory space is utilized in netting out Bicycles for 
those who KNOW a good thing when they see It. 
our office force and 90 per cent, of our workmen 
are practical riders.  We test our wheels by prac­

tical riders on the road.BICYCLE
CLOTHING

Of all descriptions

W e are  Exclusive 
Agents  for

Boston  Patent 
Pants Co.

BICYCLE SUNDRIES
BASE BALL and TENNIS GOODS
Agents Wanted

97 99-101 orno SI.

2

C om m ercial A sp ect o f th e  Bicycle.

W ritten fo r T b x  T radesman.

The 

twentieth  century 

is  already 
spoken  of  as  the  horseless  age.  While 
this may  be  patting  it  a  little  strong, 
there  is  some  foundation  for  the  idea 
that twenty or twenty-five years  hence  a 
horse will be  more  of  a  curiosity  than 
anything  else,  and  the  bicycle  will  be 
the main cause.  The  use  of  electricity 
will have  to be  combined with  the  live 
principles of the bicycle to make  it  pos­
sible to do  away  with  the  expense  and 
annoyances incident to owning  and driv­
ing an animal of  the  equine  persuasion; 
but the indications are that, so far as the 
practicability of combining  ball  bearing 
and  pneumatic  tires  with  electricity  is 
concerned, the problem has been  solved. 
An electric bicycle was exhibited  at  the 
World’s  Fair which  worked  very  satis­
factorily.  The machine will soon  be  on 
exhibition in  this city at  the  salesrooms 
of Adams & Hart,  the West Side carriage 
dealers,  who have seen  “the handwriting 
on the wall” and added bicycles  to  their 
line of “horse goods.”  Opportune  men­
tion might here be made that one  of  the 
largest  dealers  in  carriages  in  Grand 
Kapids have just  rented  a  store  in  the 
heart of the city and started  in the bicy­
cle business.  They all find it  profitable, 
for the reason that a bicycle  is  now  not 
only  a  necessity,  but,  as  Fashion  has 
smiled  upon this  method  of  locomotion 
and  has  put  her  stamp  on  the  wheel, 
many now own a “bike”  who  poohed  at 
the idea a year ago; especially is this true 
of  the  fair  sex,  whom  we  receive  with 
open  arms—of  course,  I  mean  figura­
tively speaking.

flattering 

Electric  carriages  built  on  the  prin­
ciples  of  the  bicycle  are already in use 
in some of the larger cities,  though they 
are now so costly  that  their  sale  is  not 
extensive.  Experimenting, with the end 
in view of  eventually  evolving  a  pneu­
matic tired ball bearing electric  carriage 
which will travel at  any  speed from two 
to thirty miles an hour at the pleasure of 
the  rider,  is  constantly  going  on  and 
very 
have  been 
achieved,  though  the  end  is  not  yet. 
Such  a  machine  will  do  entirely  away 
with  the  use  of  horses  for  pleasure 
vehicles,  and  the same  ideas can  be per­
fected for  use  in  heavy  traffic. 
In  the 
rural  districts  of  some  sections  of  the 
country,  steam  plows  and  cultivators 
have been in use for some time, aud when 
a few principles of  bicycle  construction 
have  been  applied,  together  with  elec- j 
tricity,  the  use  of  these will be univer­
sal.

results 

For individual locomotion  the  bicycle, 
as it is,  has already  usurped the place of 
the horse in every branch of life;  also in 
the  line  of  sport,  nearly  every driving 
club in the  country  having  lost  money 
last  year,  while  the  bicycle  race  meet 
promoters  made  money.  This  year, 
driving  clubs  all  over  the  country  are 
endeavoring to retrieve  their  lost  pres­
tige by securing bicycle races in additiou 
to their  regular  program.  An  example 
is  afforded in Grand Kapids, in the offer­
ing  by  the  local  driving  club of SI,000 
for the great Sanger-Johnsou race, which 
is to come off soon.  For  the good of  the 
sport  and  the  trade  in  this city it is to 
be hoped that they secure it.

One thing that has done  much  to  hin­
der the growth of cycling in this country 
is the abominable condition of  the  roads 
in  most  states.  This  same  thing  will 
interfere greatly with the use of vehicles

T H E  

whose  motive  power  is  in  themselves. j 
However,  “good  roads  bills”  are  being 
passed in nearly  every  state  legislature 
north of Mason and Dixon’s  line,  and  in i 
the future the country  highways may be 
passable.

The  man  who  establishes  a  bicycle 
livery in any town, large or small,  is  go 
ing  to  make  money  fast. 
In  Denver, 
Colorado,  where  the  streets  and  roads 
are  all  good,  a  bicycle  livery  recently 
started there has  almost  run  the  livery 
stables out of business.  In Grand Rapids 
are  two  tandems  which  are  rented  for 
S2.50 per day and $1 an evening, and  the 
demand for them is so  great  that  appli­
cation for their use has  to  be  made  two 
weeks  in  advance.  The  rent  of  single 
wheels,  when there  are  any  secondhand 
wheels to be found,  brings $1.50 per day. 
As  yet,, no  one  has  been  enterprising 
enough to start a cycle livery here.

The demand  for wheels is so great that 
the local dealers have almost  completely 
cleared out their stocks.  Even old solid 
tired safeties and ordinaries  which  have 
laid  in  basements  rusting  for  two  or 
three years have  been  brought  to  light 
and sold.

The manufacturers seem to  be  getting 
farther behind than ever on their orders, 
and  many  persons  who  have  ordered 
high-grade  wheels  have  to wait so long 
for  them  to  arrive  that  they  get  dis­
gusted and take  a  cheap  wheel  instead, 
preferring to do that, to  walking  or  rid­
ing  on  street  cars.  The outlook now is 
that  the  rush  will  continue until snow 
flies, as, once a person gets  “the  fever,” 
he rests not until he is the happy possess­
or of a wheel; and it is  the  regret  of  all 
connected with the trade that  they  can­
not supply the demand.

Mobbis J.  W h it e.

G rand  R apids  R etail  G rocers’  A sso­

ciation.

At  the  regular  meeting  of the Grand 
Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association,  held 
at  the  office  of  the Mic h ig a n T ra d es- 
man  on  Tuesday  evening.  May  7, 
Messrs.  Harris,  Wagner  and  Lehman 
were appointed a committee to  wait  up­
on  the  License  Committee  of  the Com­
mon Council, for the purpose of securing 
their  favorable  consideration  of 
the 
wishes of the Association  in  the  matter 
of license fees for the ensuing year.
A  considerable discussion followed on 
the  license  matter,  Mr.  Lehman  sum­
marizing  the  situation  in  the statement 
that, whiie Mayor Fisher was disposed to 
| treat  peddlers  with  great  consideration, 
to prevent their becoming city charges,  a 
cont'nuance of this  policy  for  any  con 
siderable time  would  place  the  grocers 
where they  would be compelled  to  draw 
their support from the poor  fund  of  the 
city.
The new rate card  promulgated by the 
Committee on  Trade  Interests  was  dis­
cussed at some length and approved.
The  matter  of  employing  a  regular 
Secretary,  to give his entire  time  to  the 
Association,  was  discussed  at  some 
length,  and,  on motion of Mr.  Brink,  the 
matter  was  made  the  special  order  of 
business for the next meeting.
There being  no  further  business,  the 
meeting adjourned.

The tea used in the  immediate  house­
hold of the emperor  of China  is  treated 
with the utmost care. 
It  is  raised  in  a 
garden  surrounded  by  a  wall  so  that 
neither man nor beast can  get  anywhere 
near the plants.  At the time of the har­
vest those  collecting  these  leaves  must 
abstain  from  eating  fish,  so  that  their 
breath may not  spoil  the  aroma  of  the 
tea;  they  must bathe three  times a day, 
and,  in  addition  to  these  precautions, 
they must wear gloves while  picking the 
tea for the Chinese court.

Use Tradesman Coupon Books.

A lso  a   F u ll  L in e  o f

Wading  Pants  and 

Boots.

HOSE

BELTING
PACKING

Everything in  Rubber

W e s t  M ich ig an   A g en ts

BOSTON  PATENT  BICYCLE  PANTS.

CANDEE 
RUBBER % 
GOODS

Large Stock 
Prompt  Shipment

4  flONROE  ST.

Grand  Rapids, flich.

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Spring &  Company,

IMPORTERS  AND  WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

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

HESTER’S  GODFATHER.

“Two  dollars  and  forty  cents!”  Hes­
ter said,  bitterly. 
It lay upon  the  table 
before her in a pile of pennies  and small 
pieces  of  silver,  and  over  it  bent  two 
faces,  Hester Wright’s and  her  mother’s; 
faces that  had  been  fair  and  beautiful, 
but  were  pallid  with  sorrow  and  the 
privations of two years of  grinding  pov­
erty.

Not all at once  had  they  fallen  down 
the slope from wealth  to want, although 
the first crushing blow  had thrown them 
far along  the  road.  From  a  luxurious 
home  to  a  small  one;  from  that  to  a 
boarding-house;  from  one  to  another, 
each poorer than the  last, to a  room in a 
tenement house,  until  they  were  at  last 
in  a  bare  cold  attic,  so  scantily  fur­
nished that the very emptiness was chill­
ing.  They  had,  at  last,  reached  the 
point where actual beggary or starvation 
stared them in the face.

“If we invest the  forty  cents  in  char­
coal,” Hester said,  in the  same  low, bit­
ter tone in which  she  had  first  spoken, 
“two  dollars won’t pay our  funeral  ex­
penses.”

“Hester!  Don’t,  dear!”  her  mother 
said,  in a voice full of sorrow,  but with­
out one echo of the ring that was  in  her 
daughter’s.  “Don’t!  God  will  not  de­
sert us!”

“People  do  starve!”  was  the  quick 
reply.  And then,  with a wail  indescrib­
able in her  voice,  she  cried:  “I  could 
bear  it alone! 
I could work,  starve, die! 
But to see you suffer is more  than  1  can 
endure.  My heart is breaking!”

She  threw  herself  into  her  mother’s 
arms as she spoke, sobbing violently.  A 
creature  of  impulse,  of  quick,  sudden 
change  of  mood,  she  wept  for  a  few 
moments,  and then stood  erect,  dashing 
back the tears.

“I  will  try  once  more,”  she  said. 
“Give me two  cents,  mother,  to  buy  a 
newspaper. 
I will answer  every  adver­
tisement.”

She took from a  closet a shabby black 
shawl  and heavily veiled  crape  bonnet, 
and began to put them on.

“My birthday, too!”  she said, present­
ly,  buttoning  her  well-worn  boots.  “I 
am 21 to-day!”

As she spoke,  there was a  knock  upon 
the door,  and a basket was  handed  in;  a 
shallow,  open,  round basket,  piled with 
flowers—roses  of  every  tint,  fragrant 
blossoms of various kinds,  buried in soft 
moss and tender green leaves.  Upon the 
top lay a  card.

“Harry!”  Hester said,  hot  tears  fall­
ing  upon  the  blooming gift that lighted 
up even that  dull room.  “Oh! he should 
not do  so!  Think  what  that  has  cost, 
and he works so hard!”

“He will never learn  economy,”  Mrs. 
Wright said,  gently;  “and  he  loves  you 
so well, Hetty.”

“Our one friend,”  the girl replied.
"Say, rather, your true lover!” said her 

mother.

me!”

“Though  he  has  good  cause  to  hate 

And kissing her mother tenderly, Hes­
ter  went  out,  down  the  narrow  bare 
staircase, into the street, where  a  sharp 
October wind brought  dreary promise of 
winter’s coming.  A  tall  handsome girl, 
whom  mean attire could not  render  vul­
gar,  she  bore herself, even in her heart­
sick misery, like  a  queen,  carrying  her 
shapely head with  unconscious  hauteur, 
that  lessened  materially  her  chance  of 
obtaining  work.  She  had  not  learned 
yet  to  humble  herself  in manner, even

though her heart burned  with  bitter hu­
miliation—the humility of shame.

Shame, because two  years  before,  her > 
father, who had  reigned as a millionaire, 
had been detected in fraudulent dealings 
that led  on and on through  the  mire  of 
dishonesty,  forgery,  misrepresentation 
and breach of trust,  till,  in a prison-cell, 
he committed  suicide.

In his ruin was involved that of others, 
and  the  greatest  sufferer  had  been  his 
ward,  Henry  Ashworth,  son  of  an  old 
friend who had left a  large estate in  the 
hands of Marcus Wright,  in trust for his 
only child.  For years,  Harry Ashworth 
had  been  one  of  Mr.  Wright’s  family, 
leaving his home only for school  or  col­
lege, and returning to it, naturally, after 
graduating in the law school,  to  assume 
a man’8 duties.

Utterly  unsuspecting, 

trusting  his 
father’s  friend  implicitly,  Harry  had 
never thought of  investigating  his  own 
affairs, even after  he  came  of  age,  and 
Mr.  Wright  made  a  show  of  settling 
them.

He had loved Hester from the time she 
was a child,  and their engagement caused 
no surprise in their social circle,  though 
two  people  more  unlike  could not well 
be found.

Hester, tall,  dark,  stately,  yet  impul­
sive,  was  quick-tempered, liable to  look 
on the gloomy side of life, quick to resent 
injustice,  loving,  yet  jealous  and exact­
ing.

Harry, a blond of the English type, was 
frank, joyous in  disposition, seeking  the 
brightness  of  all  things,  confiding  and 
tender—a lover,  once won, who could not 
be inconstant.

When the crash came, and he knew his 
entire  fortune  was  swept  away  by  the 
dishonesty of his guardian,  it was  Harry 
Ashworth who stood between Hester and 
her mother and the  world;  who  guarded 
them,  as far as possible,  from  the indig­
nation  of  friends  turned  to enemies, of 
those  who,  wronged  by  the  dead  man, 
came to pour out their vials of wrath upon 
the  innocent  widow  and  child. 
It  was 
Harry who saved a trifle  from  the wreck 
by claiming Mrs.  Wright’s  jewels,  pres­
ents from her relatives on  her  marriage. 
It was  Harry  who,  yielding  in all else, 
would not  give  up  his  right  to  protect 
Hester, but claimed her promise to be his 
wife,  steady  and  unmoved  by  her  pas­
sionate,  scornful  denunciations  of  her­
self, as her father’s child.

More fortunate than his  betrothed,  he 
had obtained  employment as a clerk in a 
lawyer’s  office,  and  had  a  salary  at his 
command  about  equal  in  amount to his 
tailor’s bills of previous  years.  Friends 
who  turned  from  Hester’s  appeals  for 
employment  pitied  the  “ victim” of  her 
father’s  frauds  and  extended  a helping 
hand to Harry.  Tet,  with  all  his love, 
all  his  generosity,  he  could  not  arrest 
that downward,  struggling  fall that  had 
carried his betrothed and  her  mother  to 
the very verge of  desperation.

Hester bad  not  been  gone  more  than 
ten minutes,  and  Mrs.  Wright  was  still 
burying  her  misery,  for  the time, in the 
delight the flowers brought her, when she 
heard rapid  steps  coming up the narrow 
staircase,  and the door was opened quick­
ly to admit the girl again, flushed and ex­
cited.

“Mammal”  she  cried,  “did  you  ever 
know anybody named Godfrey Holborne? 
I seem to have some  recollection  of  the 
name.”

[Continued on page 8.]

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

Stock  at  Lowest  Market  Prices.

Spring &  Company.

“GET  OFF  THE  EARTH”

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

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  BE  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-DON’T  MENTR >N  IT !

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

V o ig t,  H e r p o l s h e i m e r   &  Co.

W h o le s a le   D ry  G o o d s,

G ra n d   R a p id s,  M ich.

5um m er Goods

O rg a n d ies,  C h a llies  W ^hite  G oods  (P er ­
c a les,  8 0   sty les)  L a w n s,  C repes,  S a tin  
S trip e  C repe  M osq u ito  N ets,  P a lm   F an s, 
F o ld in g   F a n s,  L ig h t  N e c k w e a r   for  L a ­
d ies  a n d   G en tlem en ,  in  B o w ,  T ec k   an d  
W in d so r   S h a p e s
COME  IN  AND  LOOK  AT  THEn.

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AROUND  THE  STATE.

MOVEMENTS OF  MERCHANTS.

Kalamazoo—John  C.  Cragin  succeeds 

Noah Dibble in the grocery business.

Allen—B.  F.  Joiner  has  removed  his 

general stock of goods to Salina, Kas.

Berlamont—Luce Bros,  are  succeeded 

by Tanner & Linton in general trade.

Kalamazoo—Phillips & Keef have sold 
their grocery business to  M.  H.  Harris.
Flint—D. D.  Freeman  is  succeeded  by 
David Anderson in the grocery business.
Detroit—Martin Brennan  has  sold  his 
grocery stock to John G. Gascon  &  Son.
Sand Beach—Chas.  E.  Pettit  succeeds 
Eugene Carey in the drug and cigar busi­
ness.

Lansing—Jos.  Baumgart  has  removed 
his clothing  stock  from  Detroit  to  this 
place.

Lowell—D.  E.  Murray  has  sold  his 
shoe  stock  to  Jas.  Anderson  and Clare 
Findlay.

Fenton—D.  J.  Bagley  succeeds  E.  E. 
Bagiey & Son in  the  tobacco  and  cigar 
business.

Lansing—Burnett  &  Claflin  are  suc­
ceeded  by  E.  J.  Darling  in the grocery 
business.

Stanton—G. G.  Hoit & Son succeed the 
Stanton Milling  Co.  in  the  flouring  mill 
business.

Entrican—Evans  &  Steere,  general 
dealers,  have dissolved, Arthur J.  Steere 
succeeding.

Ishpeming—Wm.  Mandley  has  pur­
chased  the  confectionery  business  of 
John Kjesboe.

Tecumseh—Schurtz  &  Mitchell  have 
discontinued  the  meat  business  and  re­
tired from trade.

Petoskey—C.  W.  Storm  succeeds  W. 
K.  Kilborn & Co.  in the  agricultural  im­
plement business.

Eaton  Rapids—Frank J.  Brainerd  will 
succeed  W.  D.  Brainerd  &  Co.  in  the 
drug business about June  1.

Petoskey—Gatch &  Williams  are  suc­
ceeded  by  Williams  &  Fry  under  the 
style of the Petoskey Cigar Co.

Menominee—The stock of J.  M. Smith, 
wholesale  and  retail  cigar  dealer,  has 
been attached by his creditors.

Albion—Keep  & Wilder,  lumber  deal­
ers,  have  dissolved.  The  business will 
be continued by Wilder & Son.

North Lansing—D.  C.  Hurd  has  sold 
his furnishing goods and  boot  and  shoe 
stock to Blumenthal & Baumgart.

Dundee—M.  R.  Fletcher  &  Co.,  gro­
cers  and  meat  dealers,  have  dissolved 
partnership and removed to  Tpsilanti.

Ishpeming—Lindberg  &  Beyerf meat 
dealers,  have  dissolved.  Gust  Beyer 
will  continue  the  business  in  his  own 
name.

Mount  Pleasant—Morris  Seitner  has 
removed his stock of boots and shoes and 
dry  goods  from  Breckenridge  to  this 
place.

Cheboygan—Geo. Greenwood  has  pur­
chased  Geo.  H.  DeGereaux’s  stock  of 
confectionery  and  will  add  a  line  of 
notions.

Lapeer—Moore,  Mapes  &  Carpenter, 
general  dealers,  have  dissolved.  The 
business will be  continued  by  Mapes  & 
Carpenter.

Bangor—W.  D.  Allen  has  sold  his 
drug stock toH.W.  Rodenbaugh,  former­
ly  engaged 
the  drug  business  at 
Breedsville.

Way land—C.  H.  Wharton  has  pur­
chased  the  meat market of J. C.  Yeakey 
and  will  continue  the  business  at  the 
same location.

in 

Allegan—O. R.  Johnson  has  sold  his 
grocery stock to  Chas.  S.  Ford  and  en­
gaged to travel on the  road for the Ionia 
Knitting Works.

Hart—E.  A.  Noret  has  sold  his  hard­
ware stock to J.  H.  Colby,  formerly  en­
gaged in the same  business  at  Rockford 
and Muskegon Heights.

Hastings—Phin  Smith  has  purchased 
the  F.  G.  Beamer  grocery  stock.  The 
only things Phin won’t buy  are  a  coffin 
and a tombstone for his own use.

Flint—Frank C.  Phillips  has  sold  his 
interest in the Foot & Phillips shoe store 
to Chas.  H.  Wolverton.  The  firm  name 
will hereafter be Foot & W olverton.

Detroit—Maurice  Downey,  boot  and 
hoe dealer at 299  Grand  River  avenue, 
has renewed  a  chattel  mortgage  on  his 
dock  in  favor  of  H.  P.  Baldwin, 2d  & 
Co.  for $356.

Petoskey—Dr.  W.  A.  Farnsworth,  si­
lent partner in the  drug  store  of  A.  E. 
Fisk,  has purchased  the  interest  of  his 
partner  and  will  continue  the business 
in his own name.

Bangor—H.  W.  Rodenbaugh,  formerly 
engaged in the drug business  at  Breeds­
ville,  has  purchased  the  W.  D.  Allen 
drug  stock  at  this  place  and  will con­
tinue the business at  the  same  location.
Big Rapids—Jas.  W.  Morton  has  been 
appointed receiver of the  clothing  stock 
of Will Pike,  at  Morley,  who  has  been 
closed  up  by an  obdurate  creditor.  Mr. 
Morton will sell the stock in a lump if he 
can.

Albion—J.  S.  Millard  &  Co.  have 
closed out their bazaar stock and  will re­
tire from trade.  Mr.  Millard  expects  to 
travel for a ladies’ and men’s  furnishing 
goods house.

Laingsburg—Gleason & Clark,  dealers
.  dry  goods  and  groceries,  are  suc­
ceeded  by  Mr.  Gleason.  Mr.  Clark  will 
shortly open a new grocery  store  in  the 
Hibbard  building,  which  be  has  pur­
chased.

Mackinac—L.  Pauly, 

formerly  en­
gaged in the drug business at St.  Ignace, 
has formed a  copartnership  with  James 
Gallagher  under  the  style  of  Pauly  & 
Gallagher for the  purpose  of  opening  a 
drug store at this place.

Eaton Rapids—Will E.  Hale and Amos 
McKinney have formed  a  copartnership 
under the style of  Hale & McKinney and 
will  consolidate  their  grocery  stocks 
about June l,  occupying the store build­
ing now occupied  by  W.  D.  Brainerd  & 
Co.

Detroit—H.  S.  Robinson  &  Co.  an­
nounce that they  propose  to  shortly  in­
crease  the  number  of  their  traveling 
men to eighteen.  They will  then  cover 
Michigan,  Ohio,  Indiana, Illinois, Minne­
sota,  Wisconsin,  Texas,  Oklahoma,  In­
dian Territory and Nebraska.

Kalamazoo—C.  E.  Powers  for  some­
time past a clerk for Olin,  White &  Olin 
and  formerly  of  Vicksburg,  has  pur­
chased the Farmers’ Sheds Grocery of  E. 
H.  Ranney.  Mr.  Ranney  has  taken  an 
interest in the  Dunkley  Celery  Co.  and 
will  devote  his  entire time  to that con­
cern.

Saginaw—Chief of Police Kain has had 
so  many  complaints  by  citizens  that 
licensed  peddlers  have  been  selling  to 
the  public  out  of  short  and  unlawful 
measures, that he  has  ordered  members 
of the force to keep a sharp  lookout  and 
run in any violators  they  may  capture. 
All unwholesome or damaged  vegetables 
will be confiscated when found.

MANUFACTURING MATTER8.

Lapeer—Henry Schlegel succeeds Mrs. 
Chas. Schlegel in  the  tannery  business.
Marshall—The Rice Creek Milling  Co. 
(N.  H.  Perrin,  proprietor)  is  succeeded 
by Bisbee & Perrin.

Saginaw—Simpson  «& Emery are erect­
ing  a  planing  mill  on  the  site  of  the 
Wiggins mill premises.

Saginaw, E. S.—McCormick Bros.,  who 
have  been  running  a  lumber  yard here, 
have  secured  additional capital and will 
soon remove the yard to the west side on 
the belt line tracks.

Standish—A  planing  mill  is  to  be 
added to the new sawmill outfit of James 
Norn.  The  sawmill  building  is 40x106 
feet,  two  stories,  and  the planing mill 
22x40,  one story.  The machinery is now 
being  placed  in  the  buildings  and 
the 
plant will start early in June.

lumbermen 

Marquette—The 

in  this 
section have generally a decided  opinion 
as to the  value of what lumber they have 
on hand,  and the delay  in  getting  down 
logs,  together  with  the  great  probabil­
ity  of  “hanging  up”  a  good  percentage 
of 
them,  has  not  tended  to  weaken 
prices any.

Manistee—Some of  the  sawmills  here 
are  so  full  of  orders  for  bills  that they 
have  been  compelled  to  refuse  to  saw 
any  more 
immediate  delivery. 
Some of the mills  are  not  in  position  to 
cut  special  bills  yet,  while  others  are 
not  willing  to  furnish  the stuff at going 
prices,  preferring  to  save  their bill logs 
until  later,  when  they  hope  for  better 
figures.

for 

Manistee—The  Manistee  &  Grand 
Rapids  Railroad  is  now laying track on 
the  extension  into  the  city  from  Filer 
City,  which has heretofore been  the  ter­
minus  of  the road.  There will be a de­
pot  and  docks  on 
river  oppo­
site  the Canfield office, and a switch into 
the Canfield & Wheeler mill  yard,  which 
will  give that firm a chance to ship both 
lumber  and  salt  by  rail  should  it  be 
deemed advisable.

the 

Hastings—Eugene Carpenter  failed  to 
fulfill his contract with the city to organ­
ize  a  stock  company  to  embark  in the 
manufacture  of  school  seats  and  opera 
chairs,  consequently  the  old  furniture 
factory  plant will remain unoccupied for 
the present.  N.  A.  Fuller  has  left  the 
disposal  of  the  property with Sylvester 
Greusel,  who will use his best endeavors 
to interest outside capital in  some  enter­
prise which can  use the  plant.

P ay   for  O vertim e.

“Say,”  said the office boy,  “1 think the 
boss  ought  to  give  me  a  bit  extra this 
week, but I guess he won’t.,’

“ What for?”  asked the  book-keeper.
“For overtime. 

I  wuz dreamin’ about 

me work all last night.”

A frican  Philosophy.

“ ’Casionally,”  said  Uncle  Eben,  “er 
young  man  seems  a  heap mo’ willin’ to 
spen’  money  on  valentines  fo’er  young 
lady dan he is ter  settle  de  grocery  bill 
after he marries  her.”

Messrs.  Goossen  Brothers,  grocers  at 
31 East Bridge street, know a good  thing 
when  they  see  it,  and  they  say  that 
Shaw’s  Name  File  Book,  in  connection 
with order slips, is right up to the times 
Write to 29  Canal  street  for  descriptive 
circulars.

Mr.  1.  J.  Cilley,  solicitor  of  patents 
since  1881,  has  removed  to  larger  and 
pleasant offices over 74 Monroe street.

Carcass 
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STICK CANDY.Cases

Bbls.  Palls.

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Leader..........................
Royal............................
Nobby  .........................
English  Rock..............
Conserves ....................
Broken Taffy...............
Peanut Squares............
French Creams............
Valley  Creams............
Midget, 3 0  lb. baskets..
Modern. 301b. 

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Palls
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Palls
Losenges, plain...............................................  854
printed...........................................   954
Chocolate Drops.......................................  11©12
Chocolate Monumentals...............................  19
Gum Drops.....................................................  6
Moss Drops......................................................   754
Sour Drops.....................................................  8
Imperials...................... 
9
Per Box
Lemon Drops................................................... SO
Sour Drops.......................................................50
Peppermint Drops........................................   .60
Chocolate Drops............................... 
...65
H. M. Chocolate  Drops................................   .75
Gum Drops.......................................... 
3a®SO
Licorice Drops.............................................. 1 00
A. B. Licorice  Drops.......................................75
Losenges, plain................................................ 60
 
65
Imperials.
...............60
Mottoes......................
............... 70
Cream Bar.................
...................55
Molasses  Bar............
.................50
Hand Made  Creams.
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Plain Creams............
..........6 0 ®  30
Decorated Creams__
.....................90
String  Rock..............
....................60
burnt Almonds.........
. ..9 0 ® 1   25 
Wlntergreen  Berries.
.................... 60

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No. 1, wrapped, 21b.  boxes.........................
No. 1, 
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California Seedlings—126,150,176,200, 216.
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3 75 
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Extra Choice, 3U).......................................... 4 00
Extra Fancy, 300  ......................................................   5  0 j
4  0J
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Extra Choice,  36 > 
.....................................   4  25
Fancy, 360............................. 
4  50
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Small bunches.....................................   1  25@1  £0

O T H E R   FO R E IO N   F R U IT S .

Figs, fancy  layers  16fc  ... 
“  80ft...
“  141b........
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Dates, Fard, 10-lb.  box......
“  501b.  “  -----

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Persian.  G.  M .50 lb box.

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California, soft  shelled
Braslls, new....................................
Filberts  ........................................
Walnuts, Grenoble........................
F rench.........   ..............
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Calif  No.  1 
Soft Shelled  Calif...........
Taoie  Nuts,  fancy.........................
choice.......................
Pecans. Texas, H.  P.,  ...................
Chestnuts.......................................
Hickory Nuts per  bu.,  Mich.........
Cocoanuts. full sacks 
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Butternuts  per  bu.........................
Black  Walnuts, per bu...................

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Fancy, H.  P.,Suns.........................
“  Roasted.............
Fancy, H.  P., Flags.......................
“  Roast jd ..........
Choice, H. P.,  Extras....................
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THE  MICEEIG-AISr  TRADESMAN,
of visits and  combats  between  the  two 
organizations.

GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

David  F.  Wolin  has  purchased  the 
boot and shoe stock of J.  M.  Peterson  at 
131 Stocking street.

John W.  Merrick has opened a grocery 
store at Conklin.  The Lemon & Wheeler 
Company furnished the stock.

A. Giddings has re-engaged in  the gro­
cery business at Sand Lake.  The Lemon 
Sc Wheeler Company furnished the stock.
The John N.  Compton  Furniture  Co., 
at 523 South Division street,  has uttered 
a chattel mortgage to  Henry  C.  Russell 
for $163.10._______________

J.  B.  VandenHoek  has  embarked  in 
the  grocery  business  at  1107  Fifth 
avenue.  The stock was furnished by the 
Lemon & Wheeler Company.

White B.  Randall,  of  Randall,  Argard 
& Co., boot and shoe dealers at 45 Mon roe 
street,  has  retired.  The  style  of  the 
company remains the same.

A. Ghysels has opened a  grocery  store 
at the corner of Turner and  West  Leon­
ard  streets.  The  Lemon  &  Wheeler 
Company furnished the stock.

The Lemon & Wheeler  Company  have 
opened a fruit department in  connection 
with  their  wholesale grocery  establish­
ment,  with F. J.  Parker in charge.

Church  Sc  Snyder,  dealers  in  wood 
working  machinery  and  engines  at  96 
South Division  street, have  dissolved,  I. 
R. Church continuing the business.

Henry J., Charles  and  William  Goos- 
sen  have  formed  a copartnership under 
the style of Goossen Bros, and purchased 
the  grocery  stock  of  Pettit Bros.,  at 31 
East  Bridge  street.  The  consideration 
was $1,248.37.

D.  R.  White  and  D.  H.  Armstrong 
have formed  a  copartnership  under  the 
style of White Sc Armstrong for  the pur­
pose of embarking in  the  jobbing  cigar 
business,  having secured  the  agency  of 
Cuscaden Sc  Safford, of Tampa,  Florida.
The  morning  market, which ceased to 
exist last November,  has  resumed  busi­
ness at the old stand—Louis  and  Fulton 
streets—and for the next six months that 
locality  will  have  peculiar  attractions 
for  the  retail  grocers  and  commission 
merchants  of  the  city.  A  couple  of 
weeks ago one lone  vegetable  wagon  in­
augurated  the  season,  but  on  Monday 
morning of this week the wagons had in­
creased to half a  hundred,  the  principal 
article of sale being rhubarb.
G ripsack  B rigade.

F.  M.  Tyler,  traveling  representative 
for the Howard Furnace  Co.,  sold  three 
furnaces to the M.  E.  church  at  Lapeer 
last week.

In response to the call  issued  by  T h e 
T radesm an of last week,  a considerable 
number of Grand  Rapids  traveling  men 
met  at  the  New  Livingston  Hotel  last 
Saturday morning for the  purpose of or­
ganizing  a  baseball  club.  Will  H. 
Pipp was elected President and  Manager 
and  J.  Henry  Dawley  Secretary  and 
Treasurer. 
to  meet 
again at North Park at 3 o’clock Saturday 
afternoon  (May  18),  at  which  time  an 
exhibition game  of  ball will  be  played 
and the  Manager  will  announce  his  se­
lections for  the  regular  nine.  As  soon 
as  a  little  preliminary  practicing  has 
been done,  a  challenge  will  be  sent  to 
the Detroit  Traveling  Men’s  Ball  Club, 
with a view to bringing about an exchange

It  was  decided 

Holland Times:  Our town had a  visit 
last Friday from  the  smallest  traveling 
man on the  road. 
It  was  C.  W.  Dier- j 
dorf,  representing the S.  C. W. Cigar Co., 
of Grand  Rapids.  The  gentleman,  who 
is only 44 inches high,  is  as  successful  a 
salesman as any big member of the craft. 
Mr.  Dierdorf is also an  expert  telegraph 
operator and  is  well  known  in  railroad 
circles.

Robt.  L.  Hall,  general  traveling repre­
sentative  for  the  Allen  B.  Wrisley Co., 
is jubilant over his  election to  the  posi­
tion  of  school inspector for the Seventh 
ward,  Detroit,  having  carried every pre­
cinct in the  ward,  receiving  a  majority 
of  308.  The  position  is  for four years 
and will give Mr.  Hall an  admirable  op­
portunity  to  acquaint  himself  with the 
educational methods of Detroit.

The  Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’ 
Association has paid the death  losses  of 
the late S. S.  McCamley and  the  late A. 
A.  King out  of  the  reserve  fund.  As­
sessment No. 3 has been  called,  payable 
on or before  June 10,  to  pay  the  death 
loss of the  late  T.  C.  Manchester,  who 
died  Feb.  14  of  oedema  of  the  lungs. 
Deceased joined the  Association  May 5, 
1876, and  was 69 years old at the  time of 
his death.

The Railway Committee of  the  House 
of Representatives  has  reported  favora­
bly  the  bill  known  as  “Substitute  for 
House Bill No. 580,  File 180,”  providing 
for the sale of interchangeable 1,000 mile 
mileage books, good over any road in the 
State.  Geo.  F.  Owen gave  the  matter  a 
boost  Saturday  by  obtaining  signatures 
to two petitions in  favor  of the bill—one 
from jobbers and  manufacturers and the 
other from local traveling men.

P u re ly   P ersonal.

Chas.  E.  Olney (Olney  Sc  Judson  Gro­
cer Co )  and family  have  returned  from 
Los Angeles, Cali.,  where they spent the 
winter  months.  They  will  proceed  to 
their summer home at Thompson, Conn., 
in about two weeks.

Cyrus Alsdorf,  senior  member  of  the 
drug firm of C. Alsdorf Sc  Son, druggists 
at Lansing, died  May 9 from  the  results 
of a disease  contracted  during  the  war. 
Deceased left  a  widow  and  three  chil­
dren, two sons and a daughter.

In  the  death  of  Theodore  H.  Hinch- 
man,  who passed  away  Saturday  at  the 
ripe age of 77 years,  Detroit  lost  one  of 
her noblest citizens and the  business  in­
terests of the State are deprived of one of 
their most prominent representatives.

C.  Shay,  for the past three years assist­
ant book-keeper for the Lemon Sc Wheeler 
Company,  has  gone  on 
the  road  for 
the Worden Grocer Co.  He is succeeded 
by D. J .  Huutley,  who for the past three 
years has served the  Lemon  &  Wheeler 
Company in  the capacity of billing clerk.
R.’ W.  Blake,  formerly engaged  in  the 
hardware  business  at  Kalamazoo,  was 
in town last week for the purpose  of  in­
vestigating  the  working  plans  of  the 
Commercial  Credit  Co.,  with  a  view  to 
establishing a similar  institution  in  the 
Celery City.

L.  Winternitz,  formerly  local  agent 
for Fermentum,  but  now  General  Man­
ager  of  the  Fermentum  Yeast Co., Chi­
cago,  was in town  several days last week 
and remained over Sunday to  renew  his 
many  acquaintances  among  the  trade. 
Mr.  Winternitz has  as  many  friends  to 
the square yard as any  man in the trade.

Chas.  R. Yisner, tea dealer at  25  West 
Leonard street,  will  be  married  May  30 
to  Miss  Sadie  M.  Stone,  the  ceremony 
taking  place  at  St.  James’  church at 9 
o’clock  a.  m.  under  the  direction  of
Father  Pulcher.  A  reception  will  be 
given the bride and groom  in  the  even­
ing  at  the  residence  of  Jos.  P.  Yisner, 
brother of the groom,  at his  residence  at 
331  Bates street.

A.  W.  Ferguson,  who has served R.  G. 
Dun & Co.  very  acceptably  in  this  field 
for several years in the capacity  of  local 
manager,  leaves  Saturday  for  Detroit, 
where he takes the position  of  assistant 
manager  of  the Detroit office.  Mr.  Fer­
guson came to this  office  as  chief  clerk 
and on the retirement of Mr.  McWhorter 
was promoted to  the  position  of  mana­
ger, in  which  position  he  has  developed 
a wonderful amount of executive ability, 
which  enables  him to stand  high  in  the 
ranks  of  the  Dun  agency.  He  carries 
with him to  Detroit  the  best  wishes  of 
the  business  public  with  which  he has 
been on intimate  terms  for  the  past  ten 
years.  His successor is L.  P. Witzieben, 
who has for some years  acted  as  mana­
ger of the Dun agency  at  Marquette.

F rom   O ut  o f Tow n.

Calls  have  beec  received  at  T h e 
T radesm an office during  the  past week 
from the following gentlemen in trade:

Eli Lyons, Altona.
W.  H.  Wheeler, Cedar Springs.
John Pikaart, Brookside.
M.  Y.  Wilson, Sand Lake.
Ask J.  P. Visner for  Edwin  J.  Gillies 
Sc Co.’s special  inducements on early  im­
port teas for June shipment.

PRODUCE  riARKET.

Asparagus—15c per doz. bunches.
Beans—While values  on  some  varieties  have 
settled a little more, there Is a  steadier  feeling, 
due to an increased inquiry  from  the  West  and 
Southwest.  The actual demand, however, shows 
but  a  slight  improvement,  except  for  export, 
which has enlarged a trifle.  From the fact that 
orders  slightly  below  quoted  rates  have  been 
turned down, there is a feeling in the trade that 
the bottom  has  been  touched,  at  least  for  the 
present.

Butter—All grades are in ample supply.  Choice 
dairy brings 14@.16c,  and factory creamery  is  in 
moderate demand at 19©20c.

Beets—Still  in  market,  but  buyers  can  have 

them at almost any price they choose to offer.

Cabbages—California stock is  about  ah  there 

is in market, commanding $1 per doz.

Cauliflower—$1.50 per doz.
Cheese—The market is in an abnormally  poor 
condition and prices havedecllned  fully »Ac  on 
fancy  goods  during  the  week.  The quality is 
irregular.

Celery—California stock, $1 per doz.
Cucumbers—50@75e per doz.
Eggs—lie per doz.
Honey—No change in values  and a  very quiet 
demand is the record in this department.  Small 
orders are being placed,  but  no  round  lots  are 
moving.

Onions—Home  grown  are  completely  played 
out, there having been no  offerings  of any con­
sequence during the past week.  Bermuda stock 
is  in  fair  demand  at  $1.60  per  bu.  and  green 
stock is in large supply at 6@8c per doz. bunches.
Potatoes—The market is  still  weaker  in price 
than a week  ago,  local  handlers  being  able  to 
purchase stock at 30@35c  per  bu.  Indiana  and 
Ohio  dealers  report  that  the  potato  season  is 
about over.

Pieplant—»Ac  per  lb.  The  market  is  fairly 
Radises—In  ample  supply, at  various  prices, 

glutted with stock.
depending on size and quality-.

Spinach—Sc per bu.
Strawberries—Tennessee stock is still coming, I 
but this week will be the big week  for  the  crop 
of Southern  Illinois,  which  is  large  in amount 
and  fine  in  quality.  Present prices are 10c per 
qt., and nothing but a  continuance  of  the pres­
ent cold weather would cause any  upward tend­
ency in the price. 
It  is  expected  that  berries 
from Southern Indiana will begin to arrive next 
week.

The third annual meeting of the Mich­
igan Wholesale Grocers’  Association will 
be  held  at  Bay  City,  convening  at  10 
o’clock in the morning. 
In  the  evening 
a  banquet  will  be  tendered the visitors
by  the grocers of the Saginaw  Valley.
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.

771

770

OK  SALE—DRUG STOCK, CONSISTING OF 
staple  drugs,  patent  medicines,  stationery, 
blank books, wall paper, etc., inventorying about 
$4,000. for one half cash and  two  years’ time  on 
balance.  Cash sales last year, $3,000.  Store  has 
steam heat, electric lights, hot  and  cold water— 
everything in first-class  shape—and  is  situated 
in best town In Upper  Peninsula, in  mining dis­
trict.  Reasons for selling, 111 health, necessitat­
ing a removal to a  warm  climate.  Address No. 
769. care Michigan Tradesman. 
769
F OR SALE—HOUSE AND  CORNER  LOT  ON 
finest  residence  street  in  Grand  Rapids. 
Lot  76x145  feet  in  dimensions,  with  alley. 
House on rear of lot, leaving room  for  mansion 
on  front  of  lot.  Price,  $9,001).  Terms,  $3,510 
cash:  balance  on  time.  Address  No  772  care 
Michigan  Tradesman. 
772
F or  sa le—good Stock  c lo th in g, dry
goods and boots and shoes, at 60 cents on the 
dollar.  Best stock  ever offered;  fine  location; 
will invoice about $5,000.  Address No. 770, care 
Michigan Tradesman 
F OR  SALK—a w ell se le c t ed stock of 
drugs and fixtures complete, located on good 
street in Grand  Rapids.  A  bargain, if  taken at 
once.  Address  Chas.  E.  Mercer,  ’phone  863,1 
and 2 Widdicomb block. 
House  a n d  lot  a n d  v a ca n t  lot  in
Grand Rapids for  sale  cheap  or  exchange 
for  grocery  stock.  Address  Box  lol,  Leslie. 
Mich_____ _________________________ 765
■  WILL  PURCHASE  GOOD,  LARGE  MER 
cantile  business, if  offered  cheap, for cash. 
General stock or boots and shoes preferted.  Ad- 
dress Box 700, Stanton. Mich.____________764
■ ELL-ESTABLISHED  DRUG  STAND  IN 
Grand Rapids to exchange for a drug stock 
to  move.  Will  bear  inspection.  Address  No. 
763
763, care Michigan Tradesman. 
F or  s a l e,  no  t r a d e- o n e o f t h e f in
est  drug  st'ires  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
F or  sa le  or  ex c h a n g e—h o te l  pr o p
erty  Good  location.  For  particulars  ad 
dress J. C. '■’racy, Custer, Mich. 
755
F o r  sa l e—a   f ir s t -class,  old esta b
llBhed meat market  in  county  seat of 4,000. 
Central Michigan,  cash  trade.  Will  sell half- 
interest or whole  Address G.B.C., care Michi­
gan Tradesman 
749
F or  sa le—t h e  m onhoe  saloon  a n d
grocery property;  best  location  in  Lexing 
ton.  Apply  to  Pabst  &  Wixson,  Lexington, 
Mich. 
YirANTED—PARTNER TO  TAKE  HALF IN- 
o  
terestln 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. 
I EIGHTY CENTS  WILL  BUY $1  WORTH  OF 
inventorying 
-2  a  clean  stock  of  groceries 
about $5/f0.  Terms,cash;  sales,$30/00annually; 
strictly  cash store;  good  town  of  7,0i0iuhabi 
tants  Address 738. care Mich. Tradesman.  738
■ ANTED—  PAIR  PLATFORM  SCALES, 
standard make, rapacity not less than 1,000 
pounds  Large  platform  preferred.  Address 
No  768, care Michigan Tradesman. 
768
|   ■  RAN1TE  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., 
81  South Division. 
761
MEN  TO SELL BAKING  POWDERIO 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. 
•  hemical Works, Chicago. 
1*7'ANTED—POULTRY,VEAL, LAMBS, BUT- 
I I  
ter  and  eggs  on  consignment.  Ask  for 
quotations.  F.  J.  Dettenthaler,  Grand  Rapids, 
Mich. 
U r r  ANTED—BUTTER,  EGGS,  POULTRY, 
I I   potatoes,  onions,  apples,  cabbages,  etc. 
Correspondence  solicited.  Watkins  &  Smith, 
81-86 South Division St., Grand  Rapids. 
673
■ ANTED—EVERY  D RU GGIST  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.___________________
W ANTED — SITUATION  BY  ASSISTANT 
pharmacist.  Good  references.  Address 
No.  62. care Michigan Tradesman. 
762
■ 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

SITUATIONS  WANTED.

MISCELLANEOUS.

760

757

711

751

6

HESTER’S  GODFATHER.

[Concluded from page 3.]

“He  was  your  godfather!  But  he 

went to Colorado years ago!”

there 

“Read that!” Hester said,  opening  the 
newspaper  in  her  band  to  point  out a 
paragraph, and  Mrs.  Wright read:
“If  Hester  Wright  will  communicate  with
Godfrey  Holborne,  247  L----  street,  she  will
learn something to her advantage.”
flashed  over  Mrs. 
long  a 

Wright’s  face  a  look  of  hope, 
stranger there.

Suddenly 

“I cannot recall  it  clearly,”  she  said, 
“but  your  father  told  me  something, 
years  ago,  about  some  money  Godfrey 
It  is  all  very 
Holborne  held  for  you. 
vague!  He  was  a  man  of  whom 
they 
said he turned everything he  touched  to 
gold.  Every  speculation  he made was  a 
success,  and  when  he  went  West,  his 
good luck  followed him.”

“I will go now—to-day!” Hester  cried, 
and  then  her  face  fell,  as  she  added, 
“ But, mother,  if he has money of father’s 
—it cannot honestly be mine.”
“ You  had  better  go, dear. 

I  wish  1 

could remember better!”

247 L-----street proved to be a private
residence; a house of magnificent propor­
tions,  furnished  with  taste and wealth, 
and  Hester  was  ushered  into  a  room 
filled with treasures of  art  and  beauty, 
while her card  was carried to the  master 
of the bouse.  He came to her at  once,  a 
fine-looking, portly  man  nearly  seventy 
years  old,  with  kindly  blue eyes and a 
pleasant smile.

“And  this  is  my  little godchild,” he 
said,  as he took  both  Hester’s  hands  in 
his  own.  “Dear,  dear!  You  were  in 
long clothes when I  saw  you  last.  And 
you  have  had  heavy sorrow.  1 did not 
know until yesterday,  or  I  should  have 
found your mother  before. 
I  have  just 
come from Europe.  You saw my  adver­
tisement?”

“It was that that made  me  venture  to 
call,” Hester said,  all her  pride  of  bear­
ing  broken  by  this  geuial  reception. 
“You—you say you know our  troubles.” 
“Yes!  yes!  But  this  little  affair  of 
ours?  It  has  nothing  to  do  with  your 
father’s business.  He told you,  certainly 
he must have told  you,  of  your  invest­
ment with me.”

“No!  I know nothing about it!”
“So!  Well!  Well!  Why,  my  dear,  I 
have  held  some  money  of  yours  over 
twenty  years.  Did  you  never  hear  of 
your gold mine?”

“Never!”
“How  strange!  Perhaps  your  father 
forgot it!  It was just  after  the war  was 
over!  You were a baby,  and  on the day 
you were christened your  father  gave  a 
dinner party to some of his most intimate 
friends,  all gentlemen. 
I  was your god­
father, and I mentioned  to all the guests 
the occasion  for  the  dinner.  Gold  was 
very  scarce  in  those  days, very scarce, 
and held at a high premium.  So we,  the 
gentlemen who were invited  to  the  din­
ner, made our ehoice of  a gift for you in 
gold.  Dear!  dear!  how well I remember 
it all!  Your mother presided  at the din­
ner, but left us, after the  dessert, to our 
wine and cigars.  But  before  we  began 
to  smoke,  your  father,  at  my  request, 
sent for you.  You were  a  beauty  even 
then,  a queen  of babies.  While you sat, 
erect as a soldier,  in your father’s arms, 
we presented you with a silver cup, filled 
with gold coins,  five  hundred  dollars  in 
all.  But after you were  taken away the 
cap still stood upon the  table,  and  yonr 
father asked me to invest it for  you,  un-

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til  you  came  of  age.  He  made  some 
jesting allusion  to  my  success  in  busi­
ness, and exacted from me  a  promise  to 
hold  the  money,  ‘turn  and  twist’ it,  to 
use his own expression, and  return  it  to 
you only on  your  twenty-first  birthday. 
I accepted the trust,  taking the gold, and 
making a careful entry of  the date  upon 
which it was  to  be  returned.  And  this 
is the day!”

Hester’s voice trembled  as she said:
“This  morning,  Mr.  Holborne, 

I 
counted the money that stood between us 
and starvation,  and  it  was  two  dollars 
and  forty cents. 
I have tried in vain  to 
obtain  steady  employment,  since  my 
father’s death.  The mantle of his fault,” 
she  said,  with  a  ring of the old  bitter­
ness,  “ was supposed to be wrapped about 
me.  No  one  would  trust  me. 
I  pro­
posed,  far more in earnest  than  in  jest, 
to invest the forty cents in  charcoal  and 
end the tragedy by  a  deeper  one.  And 
now you tell me I have five  hundred dol­
lars all my own!”

“Bless the child!” cried the old gentle­
man,  “does she suppose 1 put the  money 
in  an  old  stocking  and  locked it up? 
Five hundred dollars!  No, no, my dear ! 
I  'turned and twisted’ it, as  your  father 
wished,  and  really,  I  took quite a com­
ical interest in watching it roll  itself  up 
and come out of  every  investment  with 
flying colors. 
I kept it  quite  by  itself, 
and  1  have  a  detailed  memorandum  to 
show  you,  if  you  wish,  precisely  how 
your christening  present  became  thirty 
thousand dollars.”

“ You are laughing at me!”
“No. 

I  am  quite  serious.  The  last 
twenty years have offered  great  chances 
for speculation, and you have  been  for­
tunate.  And  remember,  it  is  yours.  1 
know all. 
I can  speak  to  you  frankly, 
and I tell you this money is your  own,  a 
gift  from  friends.  Your  father  never 
held it in his  hands.  From  your  silver 
cup,  it went into my pocket!  Now! now! 
to  cry  over  your  good  fortune!  Poor 
child!  There,  cheer  up!  Bright  days 
are coming.”

“But,”  said  Hester,  smiling  through 
her  tears,  “surely  the  money  must  be 
yours.”

“Not a dollar, not a  cent  of  it!  It  is 
yours,  honestly  and  fairly.  And  now, 
tell me more of yourself.”

There was a long talk,  ending  in  Mr. 
Holborne’s  promise  to  call  upon  Mrs. 
Wright, and then Hester, with bank-bills 
that  took  her  breath  away,  “just  for 
present emergencies,” her  godfather  ex­
plained,  hurried home.

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wedding,  to give him a right  to  care  for 
Hester; and  Hester  who  resisted,  refus­
ing  to  burden  him.  But,  once  estab­
lished  in  what  Mrs.  Wright  tearfully 
called  “a home of their own, once more,” 
it  was  Hester  who,  biushingly  but 
bravely,  insisted  on the ending  of their 
long engagement; and there was  a  quiet 
wedding,  at which  Mr.  Holborne claimed 
a  godfather’s  right  to  give  the  bride 
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per pair on lower  grades of heavy shoes.
Manufacturers  have  made  up  ail  the 
stock they had  on  hand  and  prices  are 
now based on the present price of leather. 
They are buying from  hand to mouth,  to 
cover present  necessities  only.  Lighter 
goods are not affected so much by  the ad­
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sharp advance in sole  leather  has  made 
it  necessary  for  manufacturers  of  this 
class of goods to raise prices from 5 to 10 
cents per pair.  No jobbers can now pay 
these  prices  and  sell  goods  at  the  old 
prices.  Local jobbers are doing the best 
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they have to buy  to  replenish  stock,  as 
up to this time they have been paying all 
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cheaper?”

“How many stamps do  you  sell  for  a 
quarter?” she said to the stamp  cierk  at 
the post office.
‘‘Twenty-five one-cent  ones, or  twelve 
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“No, ma’am.”
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WEDNESDAY, MAY  15.

ARTS  THE  PEOPLE  ALW AYS  EIGHT?
The  expression, Vox populi, vox Dei— 
meaning  the  voice  of  the  people is the 
voice of God—is attributed  in  Camden’s 
“History  of  England,”  to  Simon  Mep- 
ham,  Archbishop  of  Canterbury,  as  the 
burden  of  a  sermon  preached  by  him 
when King Edward II,  of  England,  was 
dethroned  in  favor  of  his' son  Edward 
1 1 1.

The  second  Edward  was  a  weak- 
minded  king,  who  was  entirely  under 
the  influence  of  Piers  Gaveston, one  of 
the most corrupt men of that time.  The 
King became  extremely  unpopular  with 
his  barons,  and  was  hated by his wife, 
who, with her favorite,  Roger  de  Morti­
mer,  joined  in  a  plot  against  him  and 
effected his dethronement, the Queen and 
De  Mortimer  assuming  a  regency  over 
the kingdom during the minority  of  her 
son,  who  subsequently  became  Edward 
III. 
It was on the occasion  of  this  de­
thronement that  the  Episcopal  Primate 
of England preached  the  sermon  credit­
ing the dethronement to the English peo­
ple,  and declaring that the voice  or  ver­
dict of the people  was  the  judgment  of 
God.

It  is  not  intended  here to discuss the 
wisdom  or  godliness  of  the  revolution 
which dethroned a bad king and placed a 
selfish and unscrupulous  queen  and  her 
lover  on  the  throne; but it may tend to 
further  establish  the  nature  of  the  al­
leged divine verdict by  noting  that  the 
dethroned King,  who  had  been  impris­
oned,  was murdered in  his  cell,  as  has 
been charged,  by order of the  Queen and 
her favorite.  This incident has been  re­
lated partly to give the origin of  the  ex­
pression about the divinity of  the  popu­
lar decree,  and partly to introduce an in­
quiry as to whether the people’s  voice  is 
really invested with any divine qualities.
The expression, “Vox populi, vox Dei,” 
is  probably  very  much  older  than  the 
Fourteenth Century. 
It is as old as dem­
agogy,  and  that  is  pretty  nearly as old 
as the human  race.  Every  fair-spoken, 
oily-tongued fellow who has  been able to 
gain  the  popular  ear  has  been  accus­
tomed  from  the  earliest  time  to flatter 
the people who  were  foolish  enough  to 
second his selfish schemes, with  the  no­
tion  that  their  voice  was  the  voice  of 
God,  that  their  verdict  was  the divine 
will.  Nothing is more  common than for 
every demagogue who desires to  use  tha 
people  to  employ  such claptrap expres­

What is called the people—that is,  the 
mass of the people—is made up of a vast 
number of individuals,  each one of which 
has  his  own  notions  of  duty,  his own 
standard  of  right  and  wrong,  and  his 
own opinions on various  subjects  of  in­
terest. 
It is impossible to discover what 
is the  general  voice,  unless  the  people 
can be assembled and organized  in some 
particular cause  to  carry  out  some  de­
sign.  The  most  of  the  people  confine 
their thoughts to matters that most near­
ly concern their individual  interests and 
they  give  very  little  attention  to  sub­
jects of public duty  in  the  way  of  pol­
itics  or  patriotism,  until  they  are  spe­
cially drawn  to them.

This is true without  regard to  classes, 
those  who have the  largest  property  in­
terests at stake being conspicuous for the 
zeal and activity they  display  in  avoid­
ing public duties, such  as attendance on 
juries  and  military  service.  The truth 
is that  the  people  are  right,  but  their 
voice  possesses  divine  qualities  only 
when their leaders are  wise,  honest,  un­
selfish and patriotic.  When, on the con­
trary,  the  people  are  following  dema­
gogues and self-seekers,  then  the  popu­
lar  verdict  is  wrong,  because  it is dic­
tated by bad  men in the interest of selfish 
designs.

It is astonishing how  readily  the  peo­
ple,  people of education and intelligence, 
will listen to every sort  of  schemer  who 
tells them  a  flattering  tale.  They  will 
not only listen to him,  but they  will  be­
lieve  him,  and  they  prove  their  belief 
by  investing  their  money  in  it.  How 
often  has  been  witnessed  in  this  city, 
and in every city,  the spectacle of people 
pouring  out  their  money  upon  quack 
doctors and their quack medicines,  while 
the regular physicians are distrusted.  A 
slippery-tongued rascal can  at  any  time 
entice men  of  intelligence  into  dens  of 
thieves,  where they are robbed, when the 
commonest sort  of  prudence  should  be 
sufficient to warn them  of  their  danger. 
It  is  not  an  unusual thing for ignorant 
men to stop work,  listen to the harangue 
of some lazy demagogue and straightway 
a crowd is formed  which  soon grows into 
a mob,  ignorant of the  cause  for  which 
it  was  assembled,  but  ready  to do any 
bloody deed at the  bidding  of  some  un­
known  and self-appointed leader.

sions,  and  the  result  of  it  all  Is  that 
some of the  worst  men  the  world  ever 
saw were  popular  favorites.  The  most 
depraved of the Roman emperors and the 
most bloodthirsty of  the  leaders  in  the 
French revolutions have presented strik­
ing examples of this sort of  thing.

From this it will  be  seen that the mul­
titude is very often  wrong,  not  because 
of  any  lack of honesty, justice and gen­
eral goodness in  the  people  as  individ­
uals,  but  because,  without thinking for 
themselves,  they  allow  others  to  lead 
them,  and  these  leaders  are  often  the 
least  deserving  and  the  most  untrust­
worthy to be found.  People  are  too apt 
to hear with their  ears  and  not  to  con­
sider  with  their  minds  what  is  said. 
Nothing is so readily  believed  as  prom­
ises  of  benefaction,  promises  to  give 
something for nothing, promises to make 
everybody rich  and  happy  out  of  pure 
disinterested goodness.  These promises, 
and those who make them, ought to be re­
garded with the sternest distrust and the 
most active  suspicion;  but,  on  the  con­
trary, they are capable of deceiving even 
the very elect.

The reason for  this  is  simple.  Every

person is so selfish that he considers only 
himself,  and, 
in  his  desire  to  acquire 
benefits,  he  does  not  consider  that  the 
person  who  promises  benefactions  is 
even more selfish than is he  who  desires 
to receive them,  and so he  is  blinded  by 
his own covetousness.  When, then, men 
come with representations that,  in  order 
to  make  all  the  people  of  the  United 
States rich and happy,  all  that  is  neces­
sary for them to do is to assist  in  depre­
ciating  the  money  of  the  country,  it is 
not strange  that  such  doctrines  are  be­
lieved,  and thousands  and  hundreds  of 
thousands of people are carried  away  by 
the prospect of a  general  benefit.  They 
do not see how the great good is to be ac­
complished,  nor  do  they  inquire.  They 
have been  promised  grand  benefits,  and 
they seem to have  as  little  power  to  re­
sist the flattering but  unreasonable  pros­
pect as are those people who  are  enticed 
into  a  bunco  game  and  are  invariably 
robbed.  No man can honestly get some­
thing for nothing,  and the masses  of  the 
people will  only  become  poorer  by  fol­
lowing  the  leadership  of  charlatans, 
while the ingenious  speculators who  put 
up the job will alone profit by it.

The people are  right  only  when  their 
leaders are wise and  virtuous.  But when 
the  people  follow  false  prophets,  or 
abandon  themselves  to  the  enticements 
of  greed, 
they  are  sure  to  go  wrong. 
They  would  do  well  to  stop and think 
this thing over before they commit them­
selves to any dangerous course.

T h e  T radesm an  is  pleased  to  give 
place, in other pages of this  issue,  to  an 
excellent  address  by  Mr.  Wm.  Widdi- 
comb, recently  delivered  before  the  Y. 
M. C. A., of this city, on  the  mutual  re­
lations  of  employer  and  employe.  The 
speaker’s  practical  knowledge  of  the 
subject  from  the  standpoint  of  a  me­
chanical  workman,  up 
through  the 
grades  of  employer  and  manager  of  a 
great  industrial  establishment,  and  the 
lifelong  interest  he  has  taken  in indus­
trial and  economic  questions,  eminently 
qualify him as an authority on any phase 
of either  question. 
It  is  probable  that 
the problem will find  its  solution  along 
the lines Mr. Widdicomb suggests—profit 
sharing—and the adoption of  any  equit­
able system of profit sharing  necessarily 
sounds  the  death-knell  of unionism,  for 
the reason that trades  unionism  tyranny 
can  exist  only  where  the  exponents of 
the pernicious doctrine are able to create 
unnecessary  antagonism  between  em­
ployer and employe,  and  profit  sharing 
tends  to  bring  the two forces closer  to­
gether and dissipate  the  insidious  influ­
ence  of  the  walking  delegate. 
T he 
T radesm an commends a careful  perusal 
of Mr. Widdicomb’s address, as it  is  sel­
dom that so many plain  truths  are  told 
in  so  candid  a  manner within the com­
pass of a single address.

The  ship  canal  to  connect the Baltic 
with the North  Sea  is  to  be  opened  in 
June. 
If it  had been built by any  other 
nation than the Germans it  would be  re­
markable that its cost did not exceed the 
estimate,  $40,000,000,  nor  the  time  of 
building exceed that named,  eight years. 
It is sixty-one miles long,  200  feet  wide 
at  the  surface  and 85 at the bottom and 
its depth of 28  feet  is  sufficient  for  the 
largest  ships.

Spanish censorship  of  the  war  news 
from  Cuba  is  not  sufficient  to keep up 
* the  illusion  of  continued  Spanish  suc­

cesses. 
In  every  considerable  battle— 
and  such  are  quite  frequent—it  trans­
pires  that  the  Spaniards are the princi­
pal sufferers, notwithstanding the Cubans 
are  usually  less in number.  The insur­
gent leaders are  assuming  the  offensive 
and invading the provinces  under  Span­
ish control. 
In  a recent battle in Cama- 
guay the Cubans under  Gomez,  number­
ing  3,000,  defeated  4,500 Spaniards, in­
flicting great loss of life. 
It  is said that 
General Campos,  who  was  recently  sent 
to  the  Island  by  the  Spanish  govern­
ment, with the expectation that he  would 
make short work of the rebellion,  is much 
discouraged and wishes himself  well out 
of the affair.  .It  is  probable there is not 
much significance in the  report  that  the 
rebellion is likely  to  be  brought  under 
control  by the  bribing  of  the  insurgent 
leaders. 
It  is  probable  that  such  at­
tempts  have  been  and  are being made, 
but there is too much  American  patriot­
ism in Cuba for such attempts to  be  suc­
cessful.

The Y.  M. C.  A.  of  Grand  Rapids  re­
cently  inaugurated  a  series  of  discus­
sions on the labor  question,  announcing 
that  an opportunity would  be  given  to 
present  all  sides  of  the  controversy. 
Rev. Dan F.  Bradley  and  Mr.  Wm. Wid­
dicomb presented the  ethical  and  philo­
sophical phases of the  question  and  the 
advocates of the  strike  and  the  boycott 
were  given  all  the  latitude which  such 
blatant  demagogues  crave.  When  it 
came  time  for  the  non-union  workman 
(who  is  twenty  to  one  in  numerical 
strength  and  intelligence  as  compared 
with the union man) and the employer of 
labor to present  their sides  of  the ques­
tion,  the Y. M. C. A. abruptly announced 
that  the  discussion  was  closed—all  of 
which goes to show the  utter  unfairness 
of the man or men  who  inaugurated  and 
managed the controversy.  Had  the  dis­
cussion been placed in charge of  a  com­
mittee of walking delegates  it  conld not 
have  been  conducted  more  unfairly  or 
with greater  satisfaction  to  the  cohorts 
of unionism and rum.

T h e  T radesm an  is  in  receipt  of  a 
copy of “The Financial School  at  Farm- 
erville,” published by the Currency Pub­
lishing House,  178 Michigan St., Chicago. 
The book is in the line  of  Coin’s  Finan­
cial School, except  that  it  advocates  bi- 
metalism,  instead of  the  ultra  silverism 
of the latter  work. 
It  is  written  in  a 
readable and attractive style  and  in  the 
illustrations 
the 
there  is  not 
coarseness 
characteristic  of  Coin’s 
treatise.  The book  may  not  be  pushed 
to the extent of creating such a  furor  as 
Coin’s has  dene,  but  is  better  deserving 
of  public  recognition  from  the  stand­
point of literary merit.

found 

The recent financial crisis in Newfound­
land  and  the  depression  succeeding  it, 
added to the inclemency  of  that  region, 
have driven many  of  the  inhabitants  to 
emigrate  to  this  country.  There  were 
over  1,000  such  emigrants  during  the 
month of April.  The number is limited 
sufficient 
by  their  inability 
means to pay their  passage. 
It is stated 
that on the northern  shore there is great 
suffering every year,  and  many  actually 
die of starvation  before  the  ice  permits 
their  relief  by  fishing  vessels.  Those 
coming to this  country  are  desirable ac­
cessions,  as they are a frugal, industrious 
and hardy people.

to  raise 

THE  MICHIGAN  TBADE8MAN.

9

A  “Spade’s  a  Spade”

The  World  over.  W e  call  ’em  “ Spades.”

DEPARTMENT  STORES.

It is very generally  conceded  that  the 
department  store  has  come to stay;  and 
if it is a  fact  that  this  system  of  retail 
distribution is the most  economical, that 
the goods can  be sold at lower prices and 
still  yield  a  fair  profit,  it  is  useless  to 
contend against it—it  ought to stay. 
In 
their development in the great cities, these 
establishments are already so far beyond 
the experimental stage as to demonstrate 
their great profit and  their  permanence.
But there  are  features  of  the  depart­
ment store system,  as  carried on in most 
localities,  which  make  it  properly  the 
subject of severe  criticism  and  reproba­
tion.  This is, especially, the case in the 
methods  of  advertising  and  schemes  to 
catch the popular attention. 
It is a mat­
ter of observation that these stores flour­
ish most luxuriantly in  localities  where 
there is the largest  proportion  of a com­
paratively  ignorant  element in  which to 
build up trade.  The  regular  dealers  in 
special lines, located within the influence 
of this competition,  are subjected to con­
stant annoyance and anxiety, not so much 
on account of the  ability  of  such  stores 
to  undersell  on  the  average  of  their 
goods as on account of the  reprehensible 
means used to gain the  interest  and cus­
tom of the ignorant  classes  by  selecting 
standard lines as leaders and selling these 
goods so low as  to  demoralize  the  trade 
in such lines.  To illustrate:  Such a store 
in  this  city  is  now  displaying  lists  of 
prices on watch repairing at one-half the 
rates charged at any of the large number 
of reputable  jewelry stores in the imme­
diate neighborhood.  Of course, the class 
of custom  obtained  in this way is vastly 
different from most of that of the regular 
stores, but the  influence  of  such  quota­
tions is demoralizing  to  trade  and exas­
perating to  dealers.  As  an  illustration 
of the extent to which  such  methods are 
carried,  the  “Fair,”  one  of  the  largest 
and most sensational  of  the  department 
stores in Chicago, recently  celebrated its 
“anniversary” by  selling  many  lines  of 
goods so far  below  cost  that it was esti 
mated  that  its  losses—or  what  it  gave 
away—that  day  amounted  to more than 
$5,000.  Among  the  schemes  advertised 
was an  offer  to  give  $5  gold  pieces  for 
$4.75.  Files of people,  extending a long 
distance,  patiently waited  their  turn  to 
thus obtain something for nothing.  It is 
easy to imagine the class of people repre­
sented in such a line.

But this sort of bait is  not  frequently 
employed.  These  Ishmaelites  of  trade 
serve their purposes better  by  selecting 
snch lines as will  make  as  apparant  as 
possible  a  disparity  of  well-known  or 
easily-compared prices in  their favor, as 
against  the  best  known  dealers.  Such 
methods  are  peculiarly  adopted  to  the 
department store plan,  as  the  loss  sus­
tained on these leaders cuts but a small fig 
ure and is easily made up.

How  shall  such  competition  be met? 
The  problem  is  not  easy  of  solution, 
From  the  fact  that  such  concerns  can 
only prosper where there  is sufficient  of 
the more ignorant to be caught  by  their 
methods we may conclude that the spread 
of intelligence will be a remedy, but, un 
fortunately, that is very  slow  in  opera­
tion.  There  is  one  thing  the  sufferers 
should bear in mind,  however, the situa­
tion can never be  improved  by  attempt­
ing to meet the competition  with similar 
tactics.  A steady persistence  in  correct 
business  methcds  will,  eventually, out­
ride  such  interferences,  although  they

may  be  exasperating  and  discouraging 
while they  last.  Of course, T hk  T ra d es­
man  would not  wish to be understood as 
asserting that such methods  are  charac­
teristic of all  department stores.  There 
are many such operating  successfully on 
as correct business methods as  any,  and 
if all  were like them there would not  be 
nearly  so  much  said  about  the serious 
character  of  department  store competi­
tion.

NECESSITY  OF  FORTIFICATIONS.
The recent  complications  which  have 
arisen because  of  British  action  in  Ni­
caragua and  Venezuela  have turned  the 
attention  of 
the  military  authorities 
afresh to the  condition  of  the  country’s 
defenses. 
It is generally  admitted that, 
in  the  event  of  a  sudden  outbreak  of 
hostilities, none of the ports of the coun 
try could  be  properly  defended,  except 
New York.  Some  show  of  preparation 
for defense has been made in  the harbor 
of New York;  but, in  the  case  of  other 
ports, not a single modern battery exists, 
and the old forts have been  permitted to 
fall into decay,  until at the present  time 
not one of the guns mounted  in  them  is 
serviceable,  nor  are  there  accommoda 
tions for troops to garrison  them.

It is realized  that  it would  be  impos 
sible to remodel  the  defenses  and  con­
struct modern fortifications at the leading 
ports at short notice;  but,  while  making 
all the haste possible in securing modern 
forts, the War  Department  has  reached 
the conclusion  that  it  would  be well  to 
repair  the  old  fortifications  and  main­
tain  them  in  good  condition.  The  old 
forts,  if  put  in  repair,  would  accord 
some protection,  and many of them could 
be made available for modern armaments 
with a little remodeling.

The lack  of  forethought  exhibited  in 
allowing the old forts  to  decay  and  be­
come  worthless,  when  they  could  have 
been maintained in serviceable condition 
at  small  cost, 
is  extraordinary,  and 
proves  in  what  a  fool’s  paradise  our 
statesmen at Washington have  been  liv­
ing.  This neglect cannot be too soon re­
paired,  and,  although  the work  of  pro­
viding modern batteries and forts should 
be aetively pushed,  steps should  also  be 
be taken, as soon as an appropriation can 
be  secured, to  restore  such  of  the  old 
forts as can be repaired.

When the  late  Russian  loan  was  ne­
gotiated in  Paris  and  London  last  win­
ter,  the  Rothschilds  explained  to their 
co-religionists that  they  had  abandoned 
their boycott of Russia,  as  they  had  re­
ceived  satisfactory  assurances from  the 
new  czar  that  the  persecution  of  He­
brews should cease in his dominions.  In 
spite of  this a  ministerial  edict has  just 
been published ordering  a more rigorous 
enforcement of the stringent laws of 1893 
against  the  Jews,  and  forbidding them 
from visiting any of the health resorts in 
the Caucasus and the Crimea.

The  announcement  of  the  municipal 
census  of  New  York City gives Chicago 
the  opportunity  to  claim  first  place in 
population.  New York,  however,  is loud 
in denial of the correctness of  the  count 
and  claims  still  to be ahead of Chicago. 
This claim will not be possible very long.
It is reported  that  sardines  are  very 
scarce this year on  the  coast  of  France, 
Spain and  Portugal  and  the  catch  very 
small.  The  American  minnow  is  all 
right,  though.

Speaking  with  a 
dealer the other day, 
he  asked  us,  “How 
can you do better by 
us than  other  hous­
es?”  Simplest  rea­
son in the world—
WE  KNOW 

HOW!

Why  are  some 
men  better  Doctors

than others?  Some 
better  L a w y e r s ?  
Why does Mr. Stowe 
publish  a  b e t t e r  
trade paper than any 
other  in  Michigan? 
Simply  because “be 
knows how.”

That’s all there is 
to  it,  and  anyone 
who “knows  h o w ” 
knows a good  thing 
when they see it.

Here’s a “Good Thing!” ‘Push it along.”
Norton  Rolled  Oats,  18- 5s,
36- 2s,

Perfect in Quality.
Attractive in Appearance.
Reasonable in Price.
In fact,  an all-around “Winner.”
Include  a case in your next order.

$2.85
2.75

Olney & 

Judson 

Grocer 
Co.

‘QOOD THINQ—PUSH  IT ALONO.”

IO

T H  E   MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,

Id HIS 111.

From  the  Standpoint Of  One  Who  Has  Occupied  Both  Positions.*

You have  listened  to  addresses  upon 
the historical and ethical  phases  of  this 
subject;  also  from  the  position  of  the 
trades  union.  They  have  been  ably 
presented,  and 1 need  refer  to them only 
so far as may be required  to  make  clear 
some of my points.

1 shall consider this  subject  from  the 
simpler  standpoint  of  our  relation  to 
each  other  in  the  good  city  of  Grand 
Rapids—to  you,  as  young  men  who, 
by your connection  with the Y.  M. C. A., 
have  shown  a  desire  to  develop  your 
characters, and to me, as  having learned 
my trade here in this city and followed it 
with a fair degree of  success,  both  as  a 
skilled  mechanic  and  as  manager  of  a 
business;  and  of  the  moderate  success 
with which 1 have been favored, no share 
of  it  affords  me  more  satisfaction  than 
that  I  was  a  skilled  workman  in  my 
trade and that  that  skill  was  the  most 
important  element  in  my  success.  1 
mention this  that  you  may  understand 
the value of the higher skill and improve 
the facilities you have  through  this  As­
sociation.

It  has  been  assumed  that  employers 
and  workmen do, or should, occupy  a re­
lation  antagonistic  toward  each  other, 
the  assumption  being  based  upon  the 
hypothesis that labor is the  producer  of 
all  commodities;  hence,  if  there  is  a 
share that has been  separated  from  the 
proceeds of the sale of this  product  and 
accumulated  in 
the  shape  of  capital, 
labor has been deprived of that  much  of 
its reward.  This is the assumption.  1 can 
but take exception to  it  as  being  plaus­
ible only and think  it  is  not  supported 
by safe  facts.

We  will  not  discuss  this  theoretical 
view of our subject,  but will  take the re­
lation  which young men  should  bear  to 
it—you who wish  to  consider  the  ques­
tion from the standpoint of what is right 
—not so much from what seems theoreti­
cally exact,  as what is  best  for  us  here 
in our position  with  our  employers  and 
what should be  our  employers’  position 
toward us.  So my talk will take  up  the 
question  somewhat  from  my  own  per­
sonal experience; for  the  subject  itself 
compels a degree of self which I  can  but 
depreciate.

The  last  twenty-tive  years  have  wit­
nessed  a  great  change  in the economic 
and social conditions of  this  as  well  as 
of other  countries.  Especially  hag  this 
change affected the conduct of  manufac­
turing enterprises,  introducing  methods 
almost  revolutionary 
their  effect, 
since  a  comparison  of  manufacturing 
methods of a generation  ago  with  those 
existing  now  may  disclose  to  us  why 
these problems  which  trouble  employer 
and workman have appeared  and  are  so 
difficult of  solution.

In  the  days  of  my  youth  it  was ex­
pected that  the  young  man  should  ac­
quire his trade in all its  branches and fit 
himself  to  take  up any part.  1 worked 
at  all  the  different  parts  of  furniture 
making, getting a good knowledge of all. 
Now,  as  you  all  know,  a young man is 
placed where he masters  one  small  part 
only of a general trade,  as many men be-
♦Address by Mr. Wm. Widdicomb before Y.  M. 

in 

C. A.

ing given a piece of work as  the  charac­
ter of the work permits it  to  be  divided 
into. 
In my boyhood the system  of  ap­
prenticeship  permitted  and  encouraged 
an intimacy between employer and work­
men which  tended to a close personal  in­
terest.  The shops were  small,  employ­
ing but few workmen,  the  owner  work­
ing more or less with his men.  This  en­
couraged  a  development  of  broad  indi­
viduality  in  skillful  workmanship  that 
cannot now be  expected;  and  especially 
was this  valuable in promoting  pleasant 
personal relations between the  employer 
and  his workmen. 
I  can recall the larg­
est  furniture  establishment  in  Central 
New York,  in about the year 1850. which 
employed some forty men,  having  steam 
power and a small equipment of machin­
ery,  where all the single young  men  and 
the apprentices  boarded  in  the  families 
of the two  members  of  the  firm.  They 
were both  citizens  of  excellent  reputa­
tion,  occupying  prominent  positions  in 
the community,  the junior member being 
the mayor of the  city.

Under the impetus  manufacturing has 
received since those days conditions have 
so changed that, not  only  does  such  in­
timate relation no longer exist,  but  it  is 
doubtful whether it could be maintained, 
however  desirable  it  might  be.  These 
changes have been produced  by  the  ag­
gregation of capital and the introduction 
of  machinery—labor-saving  machinery, 
it  is  called,  which  it may be, in that  it 
permits a great  increase  in  production. 
Yet 1 fail to see that It has diminished the 
physical  labor  required from each work­
man,  as compared with  the manual  labor 
of earlier days.

The employment  of  large  amounts  of 
capital  has compelled a  system  of  man­
agement which is largely  responsible for 
the  loss  of  the  old-time  pleasant  ac­
quaintance between owner and workmen. 
No  employer  can  personally  know  the 
la.ge number  of  men  he  now  employs. 
There is no time,  even  if he wished to do 
so;  and there has grown up  a  system  of 
superintendents  and  foremen,  sub-con­
tractors  and  petty  bosses,  entirely  un­
known  in  former  days.  All  these  are 
barriers between employer and workmen, 
almost  insurmountable.  The  relation 
has to be delegated  from one subordinate 
to auother until,  when  the  workman  is 
reached,  there  may  be  such perversion 
and misunderstanding  that  no  amicable 
relation remains.  Antagonism even may 
replace it,  but there is no  possibility  for 
mutual consideration  of  differences  for 
mutual  adjustment.  1  can  but  think 
that this very aggregation of capital into 
immense  establishments  is  responsible 
for much of the  differences  which seem­
ingly  can  be  settled  only  by strikes on 
the  one  side  and lockouts  on  the other.
Within  a  very  few  years  after I had 
become an employer,  1  realized  the  dif­
ficulties  that  were  impending  if manu­
facturing  establishments  were  to  grow 
without  limit  to  their  size.  Not  only 
did 1 then apprehend  danger  because  of 
differences  with  the  workmen,  but  be­
cause they would tend to absorb or crush 
the smaller concerns in  the  competition | 
these larger corporations  would  develop 
among themselves.

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for  th e   a b o v e .

'W e  a r e   S o le  A g e n ts  

LM. Clark (tROGERYfio.

Do  You 
Sell  Cheese?

If so, you,  of  course, 
aim  to get the best, but 
you  will 
“ miss  your 
aim”  unless you  get
I E E A E

which  is  made  at  Mo- 
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the center of the famous 
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which is a guarantee of quality.

About fifteen years  ago,  when  travel­
ing to  sell  the  goods  manufactured  by 
myself,  I  frequently  passed  the  then 
embryo town of Pullman and,  naturally, 
fell  into  a  discussion  of  the  merits  of 
what  was  planned  to  be  the finest  and 
most  complete  manufacturing  plant  in 
America.  1 then took  the  position  that 
it would develop  into a menace  to  other 
manufacturers and,  possibly,  a  curse  to 
the men  employed.  Much  surprise  was 
expressed at my radical views,  but  1  as­
serted it would crush competition  by  its 
very size and  that  its  capital  would  be 
satisfied  with  a  moderate  return  upon 
the investment;  that it was  far better  to 
have twenty small  establishments  in  as 
many different towns,  each  with its com­
plement of workmen,  owning  their  own 
homes, even  if they did not  have  all  the 
conveniences  which  were  to  be offered 
by this model town;  and 1 said with  em­
phasis that twenty  small  concerns,  each 
with a group of younger men growing up 
with  it  in  the  expectation  of some  day 
sharing  in  the  ownership  were  incon­
ceivably  preferable  for  this  American 
people to that great  corporation  with its 
army of paid employes obeying orders is­
sued from some  head  so  remote  that  it 
could not be recognized—and  1 have  had 
no reason  to change my  views  since,  for 
1 have continued to  look  with  alarm  at 
this  same  tendency  in  our  own  city’s 
manufacturing interests.

We must  admit  that,  however  objec­
tionable this system may  be,  it  is  with 
us,  and,  doubtless,  here  to  stay.  Then 
the problem is, how can the system  be so 
modified as to eliminate, so far  as  possi­
ble,  its pernicious features?

The  success  of  a  business  depends 
largely  upon the character and ability of 
its management, and if  the  management 
is  also  the  ownership,  then  the  more 
successful it  will be and the more nearly 
uniform  and  consecutive  will  be 
its 
methods.

I shall  have to advance  as  one  of  my 
theories that no business,  and especially 
no  manufacturing  business,  can  be  ef­
ficiently  managed  from  an  office  only. 
Understand me  correctly.  1  mean  that 
the manager must make his presence aud 
personality  felt  everywhere.  This  im­
plies that be must have a  thorough tech­
nical  knowledge  of  the  business,  with 
such broad business ideas as will furnish 
him,  not only ability to  grasp  important 
matters,  but  the  patience  and persever­
ance  required  to  consider  the  smallest 
details when pecessary.  The  manager’s 
knowledge must be so  thorough  that  he 
can know when the whole  establishment 
is working harmoniously  and  economic­
ally;  that  each  man  is  performing  his 
duty;  and,  what is still  more  important, 
that each man  receives  recognition  and 
approval—personally, 
if  possible—for 
duty well done.  From  this you  will  un­
derstand that the position  and  responsi­
bilities of  the  management  require  ele­
ments of character not often combined in 
one  man;  in  fact,  the  successful  man­
ager is in a degree  the  ‘'survival  of  the 
fittest,”  yet  this  is  a position to which 
every man should aspire.  The  manager 
holds the vital position in a manufactur­
ing establishment  and every man should 
appreciate that fact;  and,  whether he  be 
owner or not,  his share in the returns of 
the business should  be  in  proportion  to 
the success  he  attains.  That  the  pros­
perity  of  the  business  depends  largely 
upon him cannot be disputed, as evidence 
of same can be seen every day and every­

There are three  methods  of  adjusting 
the  relation  which  exists  between  em­
ployer and  workman  (capital and labor): 
Profit  sharing,  arbitration  and  strikes 
and lockouts. 
I give them  in  the  order 
in  which  they  commend  themselves  to 
me.

thoroughly 

I have never ceased  to  feel  a  certain 
regret  that  I  withdrew from the manu­
facturing  business,  as  it  bad  been  my 
ambition that 1 could some day introduce 
into my  business the  plan of  profit shar­
ing—not that I bad  then  any  apprehen­
sion  of  strikes  or disputes in the estab­
lishment,  for  in  all  my  business  expe­
rience 1  have  had  no  difference  of  any 
kind  with  the  workmen  1 employed. 
I 
have  always  been 
imbued 
with  the  idea  that  every  man  has  the 
God-given  right  to  toil  for  himself.  1 
could  realize that this was  not  practica­
ble for all  men,  yet  1 could  see  through 
a sharing of the profits  in  proportion  to 
the ability of  all  who  were  engaged  in 
producing those profits.  We  should  ap­
proach as near as  practicable to the con­
dition that each man  is  toiling  for  him­
self and that  through  profit  sharing  he 
is  to  receive  his  share in the results of 
his labor.  We are not of equal strength, 
either mentally or  physically.  The con­
ception that  ‘‘All men are born free and 
equal” is a glittering  generality,  a  mis­
leading  declaration.  We  are  neither 
free nor equal,  and we  must  be  content 
to  accept  such  of the  world’s opportun­
ities as our  ability  can  wrest  from  the 
chance that falls to us.  Chance,  or  for­
tuitous  circumstance,  has  much  to  do 
with  the  share  we  receive  here below. 
We all  confidently  hope  and  encourage 
ourselves  that  in  the  better  world  be­
yond there will  be a  more  equitable  ad­
justment.

Realizing that these  inequalities  were 
inevitable and bore so  heavily  upon  the 
many  who could not  attain  to  positions 
of eminence,  I could see in profit sharing 
a partial adjustment  of  this  inequality; 
for  the  man of exceptional talent or  pe­
culiar ability  for certain positions would 
devote  a  part  of  his  efforts  to  the im­
provement of the  share of him  who  was 
not so well equipped by nature,  and thus 
a  partial  solution  of  the  strained rela­
tion that seemingly  exists  between  cap­
ital and  labor would be accomplished.

My time is too brief to admit of an  ex­
tended explanation of the plan,  although 
much  of  it  is  simplicity  itself  and the 
relation  made  so  mutual  that  all  can 
concede its merits.

Capital receives the customary  rate  of 
interest upon its  investment  and  is  re­
sponsible for all losses.  The  balance of 
the profit is shared  by  all.  The  entire 
wage of each employer  being  considered 
as so much capital and added to the capi­
tal stock,  after paying  the  interest,  the

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where.  From this  it  follows  that  it  is 
both unjust and  unreasonable  to assume 
that the managing share  of  the  returns 
from  the  business  is  secured by depriv­
ing the workman of bis  just portion.  A 
recent writer has said,  ‘‘A good manager 
benefits the workman as  well as himself; 
any  attempt  to  get  along  without  him 
would  not  only  prevent  the manager’s 
share from coming into being,  but also  a 
portion of  what  the  laborer  himself  is 
accustomed  to receive.”  1 do  not say to 
you  that  every  man  can  succeed,  yet 
every  man  should  fit  himself to secure 
such share in  the management  of  affairs 
in this world as  the  ability granted him 
by nature will permit.

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balance of the profit  Is  divided  between 
the  combined  wage  and  capital  stock. 
It  was my idea—one  that  I  entertained 
with much confidence—that  this  combi­
nation  of  wage  earnings  and  capital 
would  not  materially  reduce  the  divi­
dends capital  have received. 
I felt posi­
tive  that  after  the  system  had  been 
given  time  to  become  understood  and 
appreciated,  the increased interest iu the 
prosperity of the company by all the men 
employed,  the  economies  practiced  by 
the  management (Now,  1 don’t mean the 
economies  which  come  from  reduced 
wages,  but  from  care  exercised),  the 
waste prevented,  would  meet  the  addi­
tional dividend.  This  'system  of  co-op­
eration  has  been 
in  operation  in  the 
great  manufacturing  establishment  of 
Proctor  &  Gamble,  of  Cincinnati,  for 
several years and has resulted in  all  the 
benefits  my 
in 
those days  when  it was a hope only.  Not 
long ago 1 met an employe of the Proctor 
&  Gamble  Co.,  and  I  know  you  would 
have  felt  your  heart  stirred,  as  was 
mine,  at his  enthusiastic  account  of  the 
working  of  this  profit  sharing  adjust­
ment of the relation of  the  workman  to 
invested capital.

imagination  pictured 

Fcr  our  next  method,  arbitration,  1 
cannot arouse in myself  very  much  en­
thusiasm  as  a  mode  of  settlement  of 
trade  differences.  The  very  word  im­
plies a pre-existent dispute  between  the 
interested parties, a  difference  that  was 
irreconcilable by the  parties  themselves 
and disinterested persons must be  called 
in  to  adjust  the contention.  When  the 
demands of the  one  and  the  refusal  of 
the other have reached such a  stage  that 
they cannot settle the matter satisfactor­
ily,  even  an  arbitration  must  be disap­
pointing,  as one of the disputing  parties 
must fail to get what  he  has determined 
are  his rights.

That  arbitration  cannot  permanently 
solve this problem of the relation of cap­
ital  to  labor  is  certainly  shown  in the 
failure to establish  legal  arbitration  for 
such  disputes  as  arise.  No  enquiry 
made uuder the prestige of State author­
ity has yet made a report  recommending 
arbitration—that is.  effective  arbitration 
or  compulsory  arbitration—at  least,  I 
have not found such  recommendation  in 
the limited reports  of  authorities  at  my 
command.  The celebrated English Com­
mission,  which I think sat  six  years,  is­
suing  some  thirty  volumes  of  reports, 
failed to make convincing or satisfactory 
recommendations, and,  finally,  rendered 
the opinion that  compulsory  arbitration 
was  not  practicable.  Without 
the 
strength  to  enforce  its  decree the vital 
point in an arbitration is lost.

I can  see one  admirable  object  which 
might be obtained by an arbitration com­
mission. 
It could  be  authorized  to  en­
quire into the  facts  which  enter  into  a 
strike or lockout and publish a fair state­
ment,  that the public may judge how far 
the disputants were justified in resorting 
to extreme  measures.  Public opinion  is 
a tremendous power with English speak­
ing people,  and,  when they have  correct 
facts upon  which to form their  opinions, 
the party receiving the  condemnation  of 
p ublic judgment will hesitate long before 
It will again invite the censure of  an  in­
dignant public.

My admiration of profit sharing  arises 
from the fact that when intelligently  ac­
cepted and honorably  acted  upon  noth­
ing will appear  that even  needs  arbitra­
tion. 
I admit that there are  certain  in-

dustries  that  preclude  profit  sharing, 
but, in such cases, the spirit  that  would 
make  profit  sharing  practicable  will 
bring the disputing parties  together  up­
on some common ground,  so that the dis­
pute  can  be  adjusted  before  it  ripens 
into the  implacable  stage  that  requires 
the interference of outside persons.  Av­
erage  human  nature  when  met  in  the 
spirit of conciliation will  seldom  fail  to 
respond  in like spirit.

We have yet before us the third method 
—the lockout or  strike.  My  friend,  Mr. 
Gill,  who  recently  addressed you,  gave 
statistics to show that  the  strike  was  a 
generally successful  recourse.  Not  that 
he advocated the strike,  but gave figures 
showing that,  when used,  it  proved  suc­
cessful in a  large  majority  of  cases.  1 
have  to  say  that,  in  my  opinion,  the 
strike  or  lockout  is  not  a  defensible 
method of settling trade  disputes  and  is 
not successful in  securing  a  permanent 
settlement. 
It is really a test of the rel­
ative strength of the two parties and not 
of the  justice  of  the  issue.  While  one 
may be. apparently,the victor,having won 
his point, the whole contest  can be  com­
pared only to a war;  like a battle at arms 
between states or races.  The vanquished 
side  is  not  convinced  that  its position 
was wrong because it lost the fight.  The 
victor is not  always  the  winner,  for  to 
him  may  be  left  such  loss of strength, 
and with the other party  such vindictive 
feeling,  that the  victory  bodes  no  good 
to either. 
It is well known that in trade 
disputes  the  losing  party  always  con­
soles itself in the face of defeat with the 
hope that the tight shall  be on again just 
as soon as a more  favorable  opportunity 
appears and he  shall have recovered  his 
forces for  a  better  showing.  A  settle­
ment leaving either party in  this mental 
and  physical  condition  has  no  perma­
nence  in it.

1 have always advocated  associated ef­
fort and  have been  forward  in  assisting 
such organized  work,  and  it  cannot  be 
denied that great benefits  can be derived 
from  such  union  of  interests,  whether 
trades  unions  or  business  associations; 
but my desire for union is  that  the  best 
results may be  obtained  by conservative 
use of the combined  wisdom,  more  than 
by resorting to the combined strength.  1 
have often expressed my  admiration  for 
the  self-denial  and  fortitude  displayed 
by  trades  union  members  when 
they 
deem the individual should suffer for the 
common welfare. 
It is the  noblest  trait 
of the Anglo-Saxon race,  and  it  grieves 
me that  the  finest  characteristic  of  our 
common race should be  used  to fight out 
a battle of brute force,  when  the  result 
might be attained by  wise  consideration 
and mutual conference of  the  interested 
parties.

I have said that I thought  the  lockout 
or  strike  the most objectionable method 
of all and that it should be  avoided. 
In 
support of my position I  would  cite  the 
present condition of the industrial forces 
in  the  Australian  States. 
In  that  far 
away region has been  enacted  by  about 
4,000,000 people in  the  past  twenty-five 
years a state and  industrial  government 
which gave scope for  many  modern  pe­
culiar  ideas;  a  government  adopting 
many  of  the  social  innovations;  indus­
trial  forces  that  resorted  to  the strike 
and lockout  on  the  least  provocation— 
and,  at times,  without  provocation,  for 
continued  success  intoxicated  the  vic­
tors.  The end finally  came  in  commer­
cial  ruin,  disorganized  trades  unions,

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Every  Wholesale  Grocer  in 
Grand  Rapids  and  the  State 
keeps this  Soap  in  stock,  and 
we want every  Retail Grocer to 
try one box  with  his  next  or­
der. 
lie will then use no other 
in his own  family, and will tell 
his  cust oners  that  it  is  the 
Best  Value  in  the  market.

starving  people—a  financial  wreck  so 
overwhelming that years and years must 
pass before recovery.

Organized  effort,  whether  in  trades 
unions or business  associations,  must be 
governed by  conservative  ideas,  and  in 
that  feature I can but think business as­
sociations display  more wisdom than the 
trades unions.  If the trades unions were 
under  conservative  control  we  should 
witness  less  strikes  and  more  real vic­
tory,  if the strike is ordered  as a last  re­
sort.

We all know that the  most  successful 
labor organization in  the  United  States 
is  the  Order  of Kail way Engineers. 
In 
that  great  body  there  is  not one strike 
per year. 
I might say  there  is  not  one 
once in two or three years.

Order  is  an  exemplification  of labor, 
strength and wisdom,  and,  if  the  three 
were combined,  strikes  would disappear 
and wisdom  would  accomplish  all  rea­
sonable  demands  upon  capital  and  the 
employer.  Men should be  in  control  of 
the union because of their special execu­
tive ability, not because  they  are  agita­
tors,  and in  business unions this  feature 
is kept in sight.  Observation has taught 
the business man that good  management 
is  crystalized  experience,  and  control 
should be given only to  those  who  have 
shown  special  wisdom  for  their part— 
not  because  they  can  talk  and  incite 
others.  Bill Nye said in a  recent  letter 
that  “This country is  slowly learning— 
very  slowly, 
too—that  the  man  who 
makes a brilliant speech  may not be  the 
ablest man  to  conduct  the  state  or  its 
finances.”  This  is  equally pertinent  in 
other affairs of  life.

There is one trait in  the  ownership  of 
capital  in  these  United  States which  I 
not  only  deplore  but  am  inclined  to 
strongly protest against,  and that is that, 
wheu a reasonable competence is secured, 
its  possessor  does  not retire from busi­
ness  and  make room for others. 
I  said 
that every man should aspire  to  a  share 
in  management  and  its  compensations; 
yet,  if every man who holds the  vantage 
ground  of  present management does not 
retire after a reasonable share  has  been 
secured for himself,  what  opportunity is 
there for others, or the younger men just 
appearing in the  business  arena?  This 
is one of the peculiar traits of  American 
character  and is responsible for much of 
the discontent that  prevails.  The  Ger­
man  and  French  races  do  these  things 
much  better  than  we  do.  A moderate 
competence  secured,  the  possessor  is 
expected to withdraw from the activities 
of life to the quiet enjoyment  of what he 
has and make  way for others,  that  they, 
too, may obtain a share.  Not  only  does 
this serve to  stimulate  every  man,  but 
the  community  is  benefitted.  Such  ex­
amples of modest enjoyment of  life  pro­
duce a degree of  tranquility  that  we  do 
not  have.  The  feeling  of  resentment 
that pervades our country at  the  specta­
cle  of  great  fortunes  accumulated  by 
men  still  in  control of the business that 
gave them what they  have, still  unsatis­
fied, is  something  very  discouraging  to 
the younger  generation.

For  many  years  we  have  enjoyed  a 
prosperity that supercedes all former ex­
perience. 
I  will  not  discuss its causes 
nor  the  decline  that  now  prevails. 
In 
my  opinion,  we  shall not witness a res­
toration  of  either the profits or wages of 
those years; and for this very reason  am 
I  the  more  forcibly  Impressed  for  the 
urgency  of  some  system  which  shall

Carnegie  has  said,  “There  are  but 
three generations between  shirt  sleeves 
and  shirt  sleeves.”  I have admired this 
bit  of  material  wisdom  and  thought  it 
original  with  him;  yet,  this  idea  pre­
vailed  in  somewhat  different  guise  500 
years  ago. 
I  was  startled  to  meet the 
same  thought in an industrial  history  of 
early  England, 
in  a  quotation  from  a 
folk  poem  of  that  early  time—Lange- 
land’s “Piers Plowman,’’ I think.  Even 
then  this  queston  of  capital  and  labor 
was a matter  of  grave  import,  and  the 
people of that day  realized  the  mutabil­
ity of all earthly things as a regulator  of 
fortune.  Men may pile up  fortunes, but 
nature’s  law—terrible  in  its  inevitable­
ness that all things shall pass  away  and 
new forms appear—does  its  stern  work 
here,  too.  The  exceptional  ability  that 
accumulates  a  fortune  is  seldom  trans­
mitted.  Nature’s law that  death,  decay 
and dissolution shall do their  work  can­
not be avoided. 
In the  working  of  this 
law does every young  man  with  energy 
and purpose find bis opportunity.

In a course of lectures delivered before 
the  young  men  of  an  Eastern city, one 
was upon the subject of the young man’s 
opportunity.  The lecturer, a resident of 
the  town, 
tad  been  a  student  of  the 
mutability of this world’s affairs and had 
made a record of the changes  within  his 
own  observation.  His  record  showed 
that in a period of fifty years 11 per cent, 
only of the original  owners  or  their  de­
scendants were still in possession  of  the 
business  or  capital  of  the  city.  This 
was an exceptionally  conservative  New 
England city,  where  the  vicissitudes  of 
fortune are not as severe as  the  average 
community will show. 
I  might  cite  yet 
another instance to show  that  no  young 
man is barred from a  place  in  the  busi­
ness community.

For some object,  which  I  do  not  now 
recall,  an enquiry  was  made  among  the 
leather manufacturers of Woburn, Mass., 
—the center of the shoe  leather  tanning 
business  of  the United States—to ascer­
tain  what  number  had  inherited  their 
businesses,  and it was found  that  every 
man engaged in the business had been in 
his youth a workman in  a  tannery.  Al­
most the same facts  are  to  be  found  in 
Gloversville and Johnstown,  New  York, 
the center of  the  glove  industry  of  the 
country.

You  young  men  should  study  these 
faets  and  feel  your  courage rise, for it 
is inconceivably better  that  you  should 
develop into the future manufacturers of 
this city than that they should  be  repre 
sented by  aggregations  of  capital,  con­
ducted  by  salaried  managers.  You 
should strive to accumulate capital, work 
to fit  yourselves  for  a  business  career, 
for men who  have  felt  the  pressure  of 
life are better fitted to  sympathize  with, 
and adjust the  problem  of,  capital  and 
labor.  Do not  denounce  capital  or  ex­
press  a  contemptuous  disregard  for  it, 
as it  is  the  vital  element  for  business 
success.

You gather from  what  I  say  that  my 
solution of this problem  is  that  mutual 
consideration and concession should pre-

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$3.20
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3.10

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SHE  USES

CONCORDIA

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Manufactured  by

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D E T R O I T ,   M IC H .

Our  interests  on  the  road  are  looked  after  by  the  following  competent 
and  experienced  salesmen,  for  whom  we  bespeak  the  courtesy  and  kind
consideration  of the  trade:

E.  Chase,  51  Charles  St., 
Grand Rapids,  Mich.
E.  P.  Waldron,  St.  Johns, 

Mich.
H.  C.  Liddiard,  (care  P.  W.
Van Antwerp, Sterling,Mich. 
J.  H.  Fildew, St. Johns, Mich.

A. S. Cowing,  403  Woodward 
Ave., Kalamazoo,  Mich.
F. J.  Doud, Albion, Mich.
E. J.  Mattison,  504  So.  Clay 
C.  V.  Cable,  New  Philadel­

St., Frankfort, Iud.
phia, Ohio.

GHASAMORRILLSCo.
¿-TEAS--

Importers and Jobbers of

ai  LAKE  ST.,  CHICAGO,  ILL.

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THE  MICHIG^.Tnv  1RA.DKSMA.JNr

vail;  that every man  should  endeavor to 
fit himself to fill higher positions.  Some 
may say this is optimistic,  visionary; yet 
it cannot be denied that these difficulties 
did  not  appear  in  this  country  in  the 
earlier  days  when  these  better  forces 
were at work.

terms. 

Grand Rapids Retail Grocers' Association.]

I have no confidence  in  any  state  aid 
or  state  interference,  and  think dismal 
failure  will  follow  such  socialistic  at­
tempts.  1 pin my faith  to individual ef­
fort—to you, young  men,  rather than  to 
regulation  of  capital  and  labor;  for  1 
would have the young  men  seek  to  get 
these  positions  and  capital  for  them­
selves and inaugurate  a  better  order  of 
things than we who are passing from the 
stage of life have done.
The  A d v an tag es  o f  th e   C ash  S ystem .
[Entered In competition  for  prizes offered  by 
I note the agitation in  T h e  Michigan 
T radesm an  of  the  advantages  of  the 
cash  system  over  the  credit  system, 
which is  the  system  we  are  all  using, 
more or less.  The majority of us  aim to 
sell goods or merchandise, or,  rather,  to 
dispose of the same so as to do as large a 
business as possible.  1 have  learned  by 
the credit system that it is a  very  small 
matter to dispose of  merchandise,  but it 
takes  a  keen business man to sell goods 
on credit and get pay for them  without a 
io3s of from 2  to 50 per cent,  and keep on 
good  terms  with  his  customers  at  the 
time of settlement. 
If you sell  for  cash 
you have the good  will  of  all  good  cus­
tomers;  with  dead-beats no one wants to 
be  on  good 
If  you  are,  the 
dead-beat is going to  take  advantage  of 
you,  sooner  or  later,  if  you  trust him. 
if  you  will  not  trust  bim,  he is going 
where he can get trusted;  and,  when  he 
can get no more credit,  be will come and 
pay you the cash and shun the man whom 
be owes, 
llow many of you see an occa­
sional customer who is owing  you  go  to 
your  neighbor  with  cash!  Why?  Be­
cause he owes you and does not owe your 
neighbor, 
llow  many  meicliauts  have 
gone to the wall  with  their  ledgers  full 
and  no  money  to  pay  their  creditors! 
Uow many are  to-day  struggling  for  an 
existence  on  account  of  credit!  Uow 
many are good-uatured as  they  turn  the 
leaves  of  the ledgers and see the figures 
staring them in the  face!  Uow  persist­
ently have they always to look and watch 
their chance to get a  small  old  account! 
They  are  compelled  to  take  anything 
they can get at  double  its  value.  Uow 
they must figure on  the bills coming due 
and  past  due  and  notes maturing with 
no funds to meet them. 
It  is  somewhat 
different  with  the  merchant  who  sells 
for cash.  He has the  money  in  his  till 
for the bills not due  when  they  mature; 
but he can discount them  from  1  to  8— 
yes,  sometimes  10—per  cent.  Did  you j 
ever  stop  to  figure  on 
the  difference 
there is between discounting  and paying 
interest?  There  may  be  a  few  people 
who have funds enough to  extend  credit 
and carry the  community  and  also  dis­
count  their  bills,  but  they are few and 
far between. 
If  you  sell  for  cash  you 
will  not  have  to  pay  lawyer’s and col­
lector’s fees;  you  will not be sick if  you 
look over  your  ledger;  you  will  not  be 
sick  when  the  agent  comes  to sell  you 
more goods,  and you will have no excuse 
to make to him for non-payment of bills; 
you can buy closer.  The  agent  will  al­
ways have some leader  for you which he 
will  not  be  afraid  to  sell  you.  His 
house will urge that he must sell you, he |

H opeful  B usiness  Indications.

F rom  th e  Iro n  Age.

districts, 

An  indication  of 

it  would  not  be 

improvement,  al­
though  it may be regarded  as  of  a  neg­
ative character,  is  the  stubborn  resist­
ance  to  further  concessions  which  is 
manifested by  many  manufacturers. 
It 
is no longer easy  to  induce  a  manufac­
turer to discount his bottom  price.  The 
limit of endurance has been reached, and 
the  gradual  increase  in  consumption 
forms at last a basis  on  which  to  rest  a 
stand for better  prices. 
If  this  is  once 
established so  that buyers are convinced 
of  it,  a  general  movement  to  stock  up 
may be  expected,  and  the  country  is  so 
bare  of  stocks  of  manufactured  goods 
that even a moderate impulse in  this  di­
rection cannot fail to exert a  mighty  in­
fluence along the whole  line.  The West 
is particularly  short of stocks,  as  shown 
by the urgent  demand  for  prompt  ship­
ment  whenever  orders  are  placed, 
and 
surprising 
at  any  day  to 
the  buyers  of 
find 
that  section  taking  all  kinds  of  goods 
their  old-time 
with  something  like 
vigor.  Reports from the  most  impover­
ished 
stricken  by 
drought iast year, state  that  the  people 
are bravely making preparations  for  the 
coming year’s battle with  nature’s forces, 
and that they have  every  reason  to  ex­
pect their labors  to  meet  with  success, 
if they do but fairly, other  parts  of  the 
West will  do  grandly,  and  heavy  busi- 
nhss  will  again rejoice tbe hearts of the 
managers  of  the  great  east-and-west 
lines of railroads.  But it is by no means 
an insignificant fact that the  earnings of 
some of the greatest of these systems are 
even  now  increasing.  The  opening  of 
spring has quickened the energies  of tbe 
people,  and  the  general  resumption  of 
outdoor operations  has  necessitated  the 
movement of much  material,  creating  a 
traffic that may continue  of  goodly  pro­
portions until the crop movement begins.
The best tea in Japan is raised  in  dis­
tricts where the snow  often  falls  to  the 
eaves  of the  houses.  Many  plants  will 
survive  under  such  snow  that  are  not 
hardy even in  the  Southern  States.  By 
the same rule some varieties of Japanese 
lilies  will survive Vermont  winters that 
are not hardy in Missouri.

sorely 

must  stop  at  your  place;  but  he  need 
not mind your credit  neighbor,  or  must 
not sell him to exceed a  certain  amount. 
You  can  do  justice  to  your customers, 
for  you  can  sell  them  more  for  their 
money.  The  consumer  can  make  his 
money go farther, and  when bis pay-day 
comes he need not pay out  his  last  cent 
and start  a  new  account  or  pay  for  a 
dead horse,  but he can look for bargains, 
which are always to be found at the cash 
stores.

The fact is, the cash system is the only 
true system for success,  not only  for the 
the  laborer, 
merchant,  but,  also,  for 
mechanic,  manufacturer, 
retailer  or 
wholesaler,  and the sooner we  start,  the 
better  for  all  concerned.  We  will  be
able to buy  cheaper,  sell  cheaper,  help 
the needy,  take  more  comforts  for  our­
selves and others,  the  poor  will  not  ai 
ways be in  debt,  the  merchant  will  be 
happy,  the physician will smile, the man­
ufacturer will be  contented,  the  laborer 
will have more money, the mechanic will 
have a bank account,  the printer  will be 
rejoicing,  the  farmer  will  have  money 
left after paying taxes,  the business man 
and wholesaler will have their capital at 
their  command, 
the  banks  will  have 
plenty of money in  case  of  hard  times, 
and  the lawyer—well,  he has all  the law 
to  himself  and  knows  how  to use it to 
bis  best  advantage.  Let  us  all  join 
hands  and  see  if  we  cannot  run  on  a 
cash basis,  and  we will  not  begrudge  it.

Simon  L ie f f e r s.

Kastman ville, Mich.

We

To  the  Common  Sense  of  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.

Our No. 9 Machine with lid open, exposing interior view, showing accounts as 

separated into proper  columns.

REMEMBER  THAT  WITH  THE

Cham pion

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

Every essential  feature  of  the  CHAMPION 
is  fully  protected  by  patents  owned  and  con­
trolled  by  the  Champion  Cash  Register  Com­
pany.  Users  will  be  protected  and  infringe­
ments will not be allowed.

I ¡^"Merchants desiring to inspect our Registers 
are  requested  to  drop  us  a card, so that one of 
our agents can call when in the dealer's vicinity. 
It will cost nothing to see the machine and have 
I its merits explained.

MANUFACTURED  ONLY  BY

Use Tradesman Coupon Books.

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

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,

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LOOKING  BACKWARD.

In te re stin g   A ntiquities  from   th e   Nine­

te e n th   C entury.

From  T h e  Michigan  T rad esm a n, June 10,1995.
Living as we do in the  advanced civil­
isation  of  these  closing  years  of  the 
twentieth century,  much  of  the  history 
of our ancestors, even as recent as a hun­
dred years ago,  would  seem  like  an  im­
probable dream were it not for the relics 
continually  being  brought  to  light,  re­
minding  us,  only  too  forcibly,  of  the 
crude barbarism of those by-gone days.

We herewith present impressions from 
some  old  printing  plates  recently  un­
earthed and brought to T h e T radesman 
office for identification. 
It  has  required 
no little amount  of  study  and  research 
to find the significance of  these  uncouth 
and  apparently  meaningless  “certifi­
cates,”  but  the  pains  taken  has  been 
well repaid in recalling many of  the  cu­
rious conditions of industry  obtaining at 
that time.  There  are  very  few  among 
the older inhabitants who will  recognize 
them or recall the yoke-like  servitude to 
which the lower classes of that time were 
subjected  by  the  many  organizations, 
two of which  used  these  plates  as  em­
blems.  They carry  us  back  to  the  pe­
riod immediately  succeeding the Spanish 
inquisition  and  including  the  exiles of 
Siberia,  the  Molly  Maguires,  the  Mor­
mon superstitions,  the  Clan-na-gael, etc. 
History tells us that in those  early  days 
every class  of  artisans  had  its peculiar 
emblem,  among  them  the  hod  carrier, 
the teamster, the milk  peddler,  the  boot 
black,  the  knight  of  the  cuspidor,  the 
dock walloper  and  the  coal  heaver  and 
including many other difficult avocations 
similarly requiring many  years  of  con-
stant application  in  their  acquirement. 
Our  illustrations  represent  two  among 
the many.

The first represents  what  was  known

as  the  cigar  makers’  union  and  was 
placed upon all  goods  manufactured  by 
the  adherents  of  that  soeiety.  The ig­
norant classes were  led  to  believe  that 
all  other  goods  not  protected  by  this 
stamp  were  poisonous  or  injurious  to 
health.  Those too intelligent  to be thus 
deceived were waited  upon by a commit­
tee  whose  business  it  was  to  terrorize 
them into using only  those  goods.  The 
penalty  for  refusing  to  do so was utter 
annihilation  from  the  business  world. 
The potency of the  label  was  frequently 
injured  in  the  minds  of  the  more  ig­
norant when it was found  that the  most 
vile  and  poisonous  goods  became  sud­
denly  “purified”  when  the  manufactur­
ers  joined  the  organization,  although 
they  bad  made  no  other  change in the 
method of manufacture.

The method of joining  these  organiza­
tions are said to have been  very curious. 
The candidate, after swearing allegiance, 
was compelled to kiss the left heel of the 
most  high  and  astute  shagnasty,  or 
ruler.  This was a  symbol of the part of 
the obligation  which  subjected  the can­
didate  to  absolute  and  unquestioning 
obedience  to  this  official  or  his  repre­
sentatives, called “ walking delegates.

It is difficult at this time to realize  the 
degree  of  subjection  to which the slaves 
of  these  organizations  were  brought. 
There were  many  under  the  yoke  who 
did not dare to taste a loaf of  bread  that

did not have an impression  of  the  great 
toe  of  the  grand  shagnasty.  Even the 
poor  old  lady  around 
the  corner  who 
baked  a  few  loaves  extra  to  sell  was 
obliged to pass the humiliating ordeal  of 
joining  the organization to enable her to 
procure a few impressions to put  on  her 
bread  unless  she  might  be  fortunate 
enough to find purchasers who preferred 
the bread without the coarse emblem and 
the  odor it suggested.

The  second  emblem  represents  what

the 

was known as  the  painters  and  decora­
tors’  union,  a more recent  organization, 
dating back to a short time after the peo­
ple ceased using old newspapers on their 
cabin  walls.  This  would  be  compara­
tively unimportant,  as  the  organization 
was insignificant,  were it  not  combined 
with the emblem of a much older organi­
zation,  known  as 
typographical 
union.  This  will  be  seen  in the lower 
left hand corner. 
It is curious  that  the 
operation of the rules of unionism  made 
it  necessary  to  thus  use the emblem of 
the society making the labels for  others, 
so  that  all  except  the  printers’  labels, 
were  double  barreled.  This  organiza­
tion is said to have been the father of all 
the  other  industrial  “ unions.” 
It was 
ODe of the most peculiar  associations do­
ing  business  at  that time.  Without in­
corporation,  capital  stock,  liabilities  or 
visible assets of any kind,  it at  one  time 
took charge of many of  the  large  news­
papers  and  publication  enterprises  in 
the world,  including  the  great  publish­
ing  house  supposed  to  be  run  by  the 
Government.  All  such  periodicals  and 
publications under their supervision car­
ried this emblem at the head of their  ed­
itorial column—that is, the  column  sup­
posed to be used by the editorial  staff  to 
express  its  unbiased  and 
individual 
opinion  on  matters  of  great public im­
port—but,  necessarily,  it  soon  lost  its 
meaning  aud  strength  of  argument, 
when it became known that  each  article 
had to be passed upon by the  most  high 
shagnasty;  otherwise,  utterances  not  in 
aecord  with  the  ideas  of  the  “gang” 
might appear and the publication  would 
be cut from  the  list  and  the  individual 
who,  unfortunately,  owned  it,  and  did 
nothing but furnish the brains to keep it 
in existence and the money to pay the bills 
would  be  obliged  to  take  charge  of  it 
himself and  publish it with people called 
“rats,”  who did not  belong  to  the  asso­
ciation  and,  probably,  derived 
their 
name from their natural  instinct  to  flee 
from sinking ships.

To those whose  memories  carry  them 
back to the closing years  of  the  rule  of 
these societies it seems  like an  improba­
ble dream.  They were  halcyon days for 
the botch, the bum and the loafer, as the 
badge of superior workmanship could be 
secured  by  anyone  who  had  the  price 
and the “inflooence”  with the most high 
shagnasties. 
It is only recently that the 
country  has  fairly  recovered  from  the 
bad  effects  of  such  conditions  on  the 
younger  generation, 
in  destroying  all 
for  superior  workmanship
ambition 

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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-

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From all  directions  almost as  easily if you  handle  our 
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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  WANT  them  What  people 

want they BUY.

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

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THE  MICHIGAJSr  TRADESMAN,

when it was so easy to become  a  trusted 
member  of 'the  gang. 
It bad its advan­
tages, however,  in stimulating inventive 
genius to  produce  the  machines  which 
have so greatly  relieved  the  burdens  of 
the overworked world of that  day.

We are grateful for the opportunity of 
thus recalling the  curious  conditions  of 
the  past  by  the  loan of these old relics 
of the dark ages.  We should be pleased, 
however,  to have  the  owner  call  at  his 
early convenience and claim them, as the 
responsibility of caring for such valuable 
relics is too great.

O ne-M an  P ow er.

Spurgeon  used  to  say  that  the  best 
committee  consisted  of  three  members, 
with two of  them  sick.  Whatever  may 
be the number of those  associated  for  a 
definite  purpose,  there  is  usually  one 
who leads, either by  his superior  ability, 
or by his  skill  in  manipulation.  When 
more than one such man is found  in  the 
same organization,  their energies  will  be 
expended  in  the contest for supremacy, 
and the result  will  be  nothiug but  con­
fusion.  Where no man leads,  no  useful 
work  is  done.  Where  one  man  leads, 
there are great possibilities both for good 
and evil.  He may  accomplish  the  most 
abominable  things,  and  yet  the  public 
may be unable to locate  the  responsibil­
ity.  The same skill  which  enabled  the 
leader  to  bring  to pass what he  desired 
will often  enable  him  to  hide  the  ma-
chinery by which he works his will.

In either case the public is the sufferer, 
and sometimes without  any  redress, 
in 
the  effort  to  find  a  remedy  various 
schemes  have  been  devised.  The tend­
ency  now  is toward a one-man power in 
all  cases  where the same individual  can 
compass the entire  work  of  his  depart­
ment  in  his own plan, 
if several kinds 
of special knowledge are necessary,  such 
unification is impossible. 
In  that  case, 
however,  it is comparatively  easy  to  lo­
cate the blame by  the work in  which the 
mistake or misconduct occurred.
If  one  man  is in charge of any enter­
prise,  with  control  of  forces necessary 
for  success,  he  can  be  justly  held ac­
countable for all  results.  If his position 
is held  by direct vote of the  people,  the 
power to  reward  or  punish  is  in  their 
hands. 
If he is  appointed  by  a  higher 
official,  himself amenable to  the  people, 
the way to redress is only  a  step longer. 
The special danger of  one-man  power  is 
in the possibility of great  harm  through 
incompetence  or  dishonesty  before  the 
remedy of removal  can  be  applied;  but 
this  danger  menaces  the  people  under 
any system,  and  must continue  so  to  do 
until our power  to  discern  character  is 
wonderfully  increased,  as  well  as  the 
ability  of  well-meaning  men  to  resist 
severe temptation. 

'R a d ix.

P E R K IN S  &  H E SS,

DEALERS  IN

Hides, Furs, Wool  & Tallow,
/S I T  N O T  A. B E A U T Y ?

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

WE CABBY A  STOCK OP CAKE  TALLOW POB  MILL USB.

This is a “Leader" with us and we are selling lots of them.  Of course, we have larger and better Delivery Wagons for more money.

WE  CARRY  A  FULL  LINE- _ Carriages,  Harness,  Pumps,  Wind  Mills,  Plows,  Harrows, Wheel Cultivators, Grain  Drills, 

Page Fencing, BICYCLES and other things too numerous to mention.  Prices right.

A D A M S   &  H A R T ,  1 2   w .  B r i d g e   s t .
B e l k n a p ,   B a k e r   &   C o .

WHOLESALE  AND  RETAIL.

V e h ic le s   of  A ll  G ra d e s .

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

Es t a b l ish e d  1865.

.  BUGGIES,  SLEIGHS  X  WAGONS,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  niCHIGAN.

H a r n e s s e s ,  H a r r o w s ,  
P l o w s ,  C u ltiv a to r s .

AND  A  LULL  LINE  OF SMALL  inPLEflENTS  AND  REPAIRS.

Prompt attention to Mail and Telegraph Orders.  Prices right.  Write for 

Catalogue.  Telephone  104.

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

Body 7 
ft. long, 36 in. wide, drop tail  gate...................................................................$10 00
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"ITHDEC  M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N .
London  sales  the  prices  realized  were 
above the parity of quotations here.
Cream  Tartar—Crude  material 

These cuts represent theJNewest and Latest

1 7

$30  PER  TEAR.

U nform   L icense  F ee  for  B otb  P ed d lers 

a n d   H u ck sters.

At  the  regular  meeting  of the Grand 
Rapids  Common  Council,  held  Monday 
evening,  the uniform license fee long ad­
vocated by the Grand Rapids  Retail Gro­
cers’  Association  was  adopted  and  for 
the next fiscal year,  at  least,  both  fruit 
peddlers  and  vegetable  hucksters  will 
pay  the  same  fee—$30  per  year—with 
the privilege of handling  either  fruit  or 
vegetables, or both.  This innovation was 
introduced by Aid.  G.  H.  DeGraff,  chair­
man of the Committee  on  Licenses,  and 
was ably supported by  Aid.  0.  A.  Ball, 
the  only  alderman  speaking  against  it 
being  the  so-called  “peddler’s  friend,” 
Aid.  Shaw,  who made  a  few  incoherent 
remarks  derogatory  to  the  business  of 
the  grocer  and  those  who  championed 
his  interests.  On  final  vote  only  two 
negative  responses  were recorded—Aid. 
Shaw and Saunders.

Aid.  DeGraff  subsequently  introduced 
a resolution prohibiting  the  Mayor from 
issuing  permits,  except  on  the  recom­
mendation of the Committee on Licenses, 
which was also adopted.

This places the  license  matter  in bet­
ter shape than it  ever  has  been  before, 
and will enable the police department  to 
enforce  the  ordinance  much  more effec­
tively and with much less annoyance than 
has been the case under  the  dual license 
fees and the  intermeddling  of the Mayor 
by  the  issuance  of  indiscriminate  per­
mits.

T h e T radesm an congratulates  the re­
tail  grocers  of  Grand  Rapids  on  the 
lessened number of  peddlers with which 
they  will  have  to  contend  during  the 
year to  come.

The  D rug  M arket.

Alcohol—Values  have  recovered  to 
the extent of 8c per  gallon,  the  general 
quotations having been  advanced  in  ac­
cordance  with  the  figures named in our 
Price  Current.  The  advance  is  said to 
be  wholly  due  to  the  higher prices for 
grain  and  to the fact that the competing 
distillers are still unable to reach a satis­
factory settlement of their  differences.

Balsams—The  jobbing  demand 

for 
copaiba  is  quite  active.  Tolu  is  very 
strong  and  efforts  are  being  made  to 
further  concentrate  stocks. 
Peru  is 
somewhat easier.  Canada fir is dull and 
weak.

Beans—Angostura  tonka  are  higher. 
The advance is due to  the  fact  that  the 
bulk of the stock in first hands  has  been 
taken  for  consumption,  and  the  small 
lots remaining  are closely  concentrated. 
The stronger feeling  is  also  stimulated 
by  the  confirmation  of previous reports 
that the new crop  will be very small, and 
there  is  every 
indication  that  prices 
are tending toward  a  still  higher  basis.
Blue Vitriol—Continues in fair request 
for  home  consumption,  but  the  export 
demand is rather slow.  Prices, however, 
are well sustained, particularly for prime 
quality.

Borax—Consumers’ wants are sufficient 
to absorb the bulk of receipts and  values 
remain fairly steady.

Cacao Butter—Is easier, owing to lower 
figures realized  at  the  London  and Am­
sterdam  auctions,  and  prices  for  bulk 
have declined.

Colocynth Apples—Trieste are in good 
demand  and  strong 
in  sympathy  with 
advices from primary  sources of advanc­
ing markets and the fact that at  the  last

is 
steadily advancing abroad and one of the 
leading  manufacturers  has  advanced 
quotations.

Cuttlefish Bone—Prime Trieste  is  very 
selling 

for  consumption  and 

active 
freely.

Flowers—Are moving chiefly  in  small 
lots,  the  only  quotable  change  being  a 
decline in Alicante saffron.

Gambler—Continues strong and active.
Gums—A further arrival  of  200  boxes 
Curacoa  has  been  taken  for  shipment 
abroad on private terms,  and as  none  of 
the recent receipts remain here  the  spot 
market  is  unchanged.  Asafetida  is  in 
abundant  supply,  and  as  the  demand 
usually decreases  at  this  season  of  the 
year prices are tending in buyers’  favor. 
Camphor is higher,  German refiners hav­
ing  advanced  their  quotations  2d.,  in 
consequence of which American handlers 
have raised their prices 2c.

Lycopodium—Is  meeting with  a  good 
seasonable  demand  and  a  fairly  active 
business is in progress.

Opium—There  is  a  continued lack of 
animation,  owing  to  scarcity  of orders 
and values seem to favor buyers, particu­
larly  in  a  jobbing  way.  The  failure, 
several  weeks ago, of a Philadelphia op­
erator had a tendency to check  business, 
the  trade  being  disposed  to  await  de­
velopments,  but later  information  indi­
cates that the bulk  of  his  holding  were 
hypothecated  to  bankers  who  hesitate 
about forcing sales and  thereby  causing 
a loss.  Crop  indications  continue to fa­
vor an abundant yield,  but as May is  the 
most precarious month for  the  maturing 
of  the  plants it is not yet safe to predict 
the result.

Paris  Green—The  manufacturers  an­
nounced  an advance  of  5c  per  lb. Mon­
day,  making the present price as follows:
2514 cents in arsenic kegs or casks.
26  cents in kegs, 100 to 175 lbs.
27!4 cents in 14, 28 and 56 lbs  iron  cans or bxs.
2714 cents in 2 to 5 lbs. paper boxes.
28  cents in 1 lb. paper boxes.
30  cents in 14 lb. paper boxes.
32  cents in H lb. paper boxes.
Terms,  payable  July  1, 1895  Discount, 6 per 
Rebates, to purchasersof 5,000to 10,000 lbs.,2c; 
Quinine—Is  strong  and  a  continued 
good  consuming  business  is in progress. 
The  Amsterdam  sale 
last  Thursday 
shows  a  further  improvement  in  the 
price of bark.

cent, per annum for unexpired  time.
2,000 to 5,000 lbs., 14c.

Roots—Jalap is weaker.  Orris is with­

out quotable  change.

Seeds—If  anything,  a  slightly  better 
feeling is  prevading  the  market  for  ca­
nary.  Caraway  is lower abroad and  the 
views  of  American  holders  are  corres­
pondingly depressed.  Late reports from 
California concerning  the  exhaustion  of 
stocks  of  brown  mustard are now prac­
tically confirmed.  The new crop of Cori­
ander  promises  to  be  the  largest  on 
record.

Sponges—The  market 

is  without 
change or  new feature, no  fresh  adviees 
having  been  received  from  the  Florida 
fisheries. 

___________

Representative  Hoyt’s  bill,  amending 
the  hawkers  and  peddlers 
law’s  was 
given immediate  effect  in  the  House  of 
Representatives, and will  now become  a 
law as soon as  Governor  Rich  signs  it. 
The bill repeals  the  present  State  law, 
and places the whole matter of  licensing 
in  the  hands  of  the  township  boards, 
rendering it necessary  for  a  peddler  to 
have a license in  every  township  where 
he goes.

Use Tradesman Coupon Books.

Street Sailors

For  Ladies  and  Misses,  in  Black,  White, 
Brown, Navy and Ecru.

MYSTIC.

NEWPORT.

MARVEL.

Fancy Braid, per doz............................. $3 50
Union Milan, per doz.............................6 00
Fine  Milan, per doz 
............................9 00

Send your ordersto

P O R T E R S °F M ILLfN E(?r

G R A N D   R A P ID S .

Mr.

Thomas

IS  NOT  A  riUSICIAN,  BUT-----

THE  BEST  FIVE CENT CIGAR

IN  THE  COUNTRY.

ED.  W.  RUHE,  MAKER,
F. E. BUSHMAN, AQl., 523 J0Hn SI., KALAMAZOO

CHICAGO.

R1NDGE, KALMBACH  \ CO.

12,  14  and  16  Pearl  St.

Manufacturers and Jobbers of

B o o ts,  S h o e s  &   R u b b e r s

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 filled complete if given now.  Light goods 
very much improved in style  and quality.

16

‘T H E   M i c h i g a n   t k a d e s m a s t .

when it was so easy to become  a  trusted 
member  of'the  gang. 
It had its advan­
tages,  however,  in stimulating inventive 
genius to  produce  the  machines  which 
have so greatly  relieved  the  burdens  of 
the overworked world of that  day.

We are grateful for the opportunity of 
thus recalling the  curious  conditions  of 
the  past  by  the  loan of these old relics 
of the dark ages.  We should be pleased, 
however,  to have  the  owner  call  at  his 
early convenience and claim them, as the 
responsibility of caring for such valuable 
relics is too great.

O ne-M an  P ow er.

Spurgeon  used  to  say  that  the  best 
committee  consisted  of  three  members, 
with two of  them  sick.  Whatever  may 
be the number of those  associated  for  a 
definite  purpose,  there  is  usually  one 
who leads, either by his superior ability, 
or by  his  skill  in  manipulation.  When 
more than one such man is found  in  the 
same organization,  their energies will  be 
expended  in  the contest for supremacy, 
and the result  will  be  nothing but  con­
fusion.  Where no man leads,  no  useful 
work  is  done.  Where  one  man  leads, 
there are great possibilities both for good 
and evil.  He may  accomplish  the  most 
abominable  things,  and  yet  the  public 
may be unable to locate  the  responsibil­
ity.  The same skill  which  enabled  the 
leader  to  bring  to pass what he  desired 
will often  enable  him  to  hide  the  ma­
chinery by  which he works his will.

In either case the public is the sufferer, 
In 
and sometimes without  any  redress. 
the  effort  to  find  a 
remedy  various 
schemes  have  been  devised.  The tend­
ency  now  is toward a one-man power in 
all  cases  where the same individual  can 
compass the entire  work  of  his  depart­
ment  in  his own plan. 
If several kinds 
of special  knowledge are necessary, such 
unification is impossible. 
In  that  case, 
however,  it is comparatively  easy  to  lo­
cate the blame by  the work in  which the 
mistake or misconduct occurred.
If  one  man  is in charge of any enter­
prise,  with  control  of  forces necessary 
for  success,  he  can  be  justly  held ac­
countable for all  results.  If his position 
is held  by direct vote of the  people,  the 
power to  reward  or  punish  is  in  their 
hands. 
If he is  appointed  by  a  higher 
official, himself amenable to  the  people, 
the  way to redress is only  a  step longer. 
The special danger of  one-man  power  is 
in the possibility of great  harm  through 
incompetence  or  dishonesty  before  the 
remedy of removal  can  be  applied;  but 
this  danger  menaces  the  people  under 
any system,  and  must continue  so  to  do 
until our power  to  discern  character  is 
wonderfully  increased,  as  well  as  the 
ability  of  well-meaning  men  to  resist 
severe temptation. 

* Ra d ix.

P E R K IN S  &  H E SS,

DEALERS  IN

WE CAREY A  STOCK  OP  CAKE  TALLOW FOR  MILL USB.

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

Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow,
I T  N O T  A  B E A U T Y ?
FOR 
ONLY 
$35

/s
FOR
ONLY
135

Tills is a “Leader” with us and we are selling lots of them.  Of course, we have larger and better Delivery Wagons for more money.

Page Fencing, BICYCLES and other things too numerous to mention.  Prices right.

WE  CARRY  A  FULL  LINE» .Carriages,  Harness,  Pumps,  Wind  Mills,  Plows,  Harrows, Wheel Cultivators, Qrain  Drills, 
A D A M S   & 
B e l k n a p ,   B a k e r   &   C o .

HART,  12 

B r id g e

WHOLESALE  AND  RETAIL.

V e h ic le s   of  A ll  G ra d e s .

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

E st a b l ish e d   1K65.

.  BUGGIES,  SLEIGHS  X  WAGONS,

ORANO  RAPIDS,  niCHIOAN.

GRAND  RAPIDS.

H a r n e s s e s ,  H a r r o w s ,  
P l o w s ,  C u ltiv a to r s .

AND  A  FULL  LINE  OF SMALL  IflPLEflENTS  AND  REPAIRS.

Prompt attention to Mail and Telegraph Orders.  Prices right.  Write for 

Catalogue.  Telephone  104.

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

Body 7 
ft. long, 36 In. wide, drop tail  gate...................................  
Body 9% ft. long, 38 in. wide, drop tail  gate................................... . 

. 
. . .   $10 Ob
................. .... .  48 00

TEDE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.
London  sales  the  prices  realized  were 
above the parity of quotations here.
Cream  Tartar—Crude  material 

These cuts represent the'Newest and Latest

1 7

Street Sailors

For  Ladies  and  Misses,  in  Black,  White, 
Brown, Navy and Ecru.

$30  PER  TEAR.

U nform   L icense  F ee  for  B oth  P ed d lers 

a n d   H u ck sters.

At  tbe  regular  meeting  of the Grand 
Rapids  Common  Council,  beld  Monday 
evening,  the uniform license fee long ad­
vocated  by tbe Grand Rapids  Retail Gro­
cers’  Association  was  adopted  and  for 
tbe next fiscal year, at  least,  botb  fruit 
peddlers  and  vegetable  hucksters  will 
pay  the  same  fee—830  per  year—with 
the privilege of handling  either  fruit  or 
vegetables, or both.  This innovation was 
Introduced by Aid.  G.  H.  DeGraff,  chair­
man of the Committee  on  Licenses,  and 
was ably supported by  Aid.  O.  A.  Ball, 
the  only  alderman  speaking  against  it 
being  the  so-called  “peddler’s  friend,” 
Aid.  Shaw,  who made  a  few  incoherent 
remarks  derogatory  to  the  business  of 
the  grocer  and  those  who  championed 
his  interests.  On  final  vote  only  two 
negative  responses  were recorded—Aid. 
Shaw and Saunders.

Aid.  DeGraff  subsequently  introduced 
a resolution prohibiting  the  Mayor from 
issuing  permits,  except  on  tbe  recom­
mendation of the Committee on Licenses, 
which was also adopted.

This places the  license  matter  in bet­
ter shape than it  ever  has  been  before, 
and will enable the police department  to 
enforce  the  ordinance  much  more effec­
tively and with much less annoyance than 
has been the case under  the  dual license 
fees and the  intermeddling  of the Mayor 
by  the  issuance  of  indiscriminate  per­
mits.

T h e  T radesm an congratulates  the re­
tail  grocers  of  Grand  Rapids  on  the 
lessened number of  peddlers with which 
they  will  have  to  contend  during  the 
year to  come.

The  D rug  M arket.

Alcohol—Values  have  recovered  to 
tbe extent of 8c per  gallon,  the  general 
quotations having been  advanced  in  ac­
cordance  with  the  figures named in our 
Price  Current.  The  advance  is  said to 
be  wholly  due  to  the  higher prices for 
grain  and  to the fact that the competing 
distillers are still unable to reach a satis­
factory settlement of their  differences.

Balsams—The  jobbing  demand 

for 
copaiba  is  quite  active.  Tolu  is  very 
strong  and  efforts  are  being  made  to 
further  concentrate  stocks. 
Peru  is 
somewhat easier.  Canada fir is dull and 
weak.

Beans—Angostura  tonka  are  higher. 
The advance is due to  the  fact  that  the 
bulk of the stock in first hands  has  been 
taken  for  consumption,  and  the  small 
lots remaining  are closely  concentrated. 
The stronger feeling  is  also  stimulated 
by  the  confirmation  of previous reports 
that the new crop will  be very small,  and 
there  is  every  indication  that  prices 
are tending toward  a  still  higher  basis.
Blue Vitriol—Continues in fair request 
for  home  consumption,  but  the  export 
demand is rather slow.  Prices,  however, 
are well sustained, particularly for prime 
quality.

Borax—Consumers’ wants are sufficient 
to absorb the bulk of receipts and values 
remain fairly steady.

Cacao Butter—Is easier, owing to lower 
figures realized  at  the  London  and Am­
sterdam  auctions,  and  prices  for  bulk 
have declined.

Colocynth Apples—Trieste are in good 
demand  and  strong 
in  sympathy  with 
advices from primary  sources of advanc­
ing markets and the fact that at  the  last

is 
steadily advancing abroad and one of the 
leading  manufacturers  has  advanced 
quotations.

Cuttlefish Bone—Prime Trieste is very 
selling 

for  consumption  and 

active 
freely.

Flowers—Are moving chiefly  in  small 
lots,  the  only  quotable  change  being  a 
decline in Alicante saffron.

Gambler—Continues strong and active. 
Gums—A further arrival  of  200  boxes 
Cnracoa  has  been  taken  for  shipment 
abroad on private terms,  and as  none  of 
the recent receipts remain here  the  spot 
market  is  unchanged.  Asafetida  is  in 
abundant  supply,  and  as  the  demand 
usually decreases  at  this  season  of  the 
year prices are tending in buyers’  favor. 
Camphor is higher, German refiners hav­
ing  advanced  their  quotations  2d.,  in 
consequence of which American handlers 
have raised their prices 2c.

Lycopodium—Is  meeting with  a  good 
seasonable  demand  and  a  fairly  active 
business is in progress.

Opium—There  is  a  continued lack of 
animation,  owing  to  scarcity  of orders 
and values seem to favor buyers, particu­
larly  in  a  jobbing  way.  The  failure, 
several  weeks ago, of a Philadelphia op­
erator had a tendency to check  business, 
the  trade  being  disposed  to  await  de­
velopments,  but later  information  indi­
cates that the bulk  of  his  holding  were 
hypothecated  to  bankers  who  hesitate 
about forcing sales and  thereby  causing 
a loss.  Crop  indications  continue to fa­
vor an abundant yield, but as May is  the 
most precarious month for  the  maturing 
of  the  plants it is not yet safe to predict 
the result.

Paris  Green—The  manufacturers  an­
nounced  an advance  of  5c  per  lb. Mon­
day,  making the present price as follows: 
25% cents in arsenic kegs or casks.
26  cents in kegs, 100 to 175 lbs.
27% cents in 14, 28 and 56 lbs  iron  cans or bxs. 
27% cents in 2 to 5 lbs. paper boxes.
28  cents in 1 lb. paper boxes.
30  cents in % lb. paper boxes.
32  cents in M lb. paper boxes.
Terms,  payable  July  1, 1895  Discount, 6 per 
Rebates, to purchasers of 5,000 to 10,000 lbs., 2c; 
Quinine—Is  strong  and  a  continued 
good  consuming  business  is in progress. 
last  Thursday 
The  Amsterdam  sale 
shows  a  further 
improvement  in  the 
price of bark.

cent, per annum for unexpired  time.
2,000 to 5,000 lbs., %c.

Roots—Jalap is weaker.  Orris is with­

out quotable  change.

Seeds—If  anything,  a  slightly  better 
feeling is  prevading  the  market  for  ca­
nary.  Caraway  is lower abroad and  the 
views  of  American  holders  are  corres­
pondingly depressed.  Late reports from 
California  concerning  the  exhaustion  of 
stocks  of  brown  mustard are now prac­
tically confirmed.  The new crop of Cori­
ander  promises  to  be  the  largest  on 
record.

Sponges—The  market 

is  without 
change or  new feature, no  fresh  advices 
having  been  received  from  the  Florida 
fisheries.

Representative  Hoyt’s  bill,  amending 
the  hawkers  and  peddlers 
law’s  was 
given immediate  effect  in  the  House  of 
Representatives,  and will  now become  a 
law as soon as  Governor  Rich  signs  it. 
The bill repeals  the  present  State  law, 
and places the whole matter of  licensing 
in  the  hands  of  the  township  boards, 
rendering it necessary  for  a  peddler  to 
have a license in  every  township  where 
he goes.

Use Tradesman  Coupon Books.

NEWPORT. 

MARVEL.

Fancy Braid, per doz.............................$3 50
Union Milan, per doz............................. 6 00
Fine  Milan, per doz 
............................  9 00

Send your ordersto

G R A N D   R A P ID S .

Mr.

Thomas

IS  NOT  A  nUSICIAN,  BUT-----

THE  BEST  FIVE CENT CIGAR

IN THE  COUNTRY.

ED.  W.  RUHE,  MAKER,
F. E. BUSHMAN, Agl.. 523 MU SI., U Z O O

CHICAGO.

RINDGE, KALMBACH X CO.

12,  14  and  16  Pearl  St.

Manufacturers and Jobbers of

B o o ts,  S h o e s  &   R u b b e r s

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.

1 8

D r u g D  opart m ent.

State Board of Phamacy.

;

O ne Y e a r- G e o rg e   G u n d n im ,  I o n ia .------> 
Tw o Y e ars—C. A. B ugbee, C harlevoix.
T hreeY ears—8. E. P a rk h ill, Owosso.  ^
F o u r Y ears—F. W . R   P e rry ,  D e tro it 
F iv e Y ears—A. C. S ch u m ac h er, A nn A rbor.
P re s id e n t—F red ’k  W  .R. P e rr y , D e tro it.
S e c re ta ry —S ta n ley  E. P a rk ill, O wosso.
T re a s u re r—G eo. G a n d ru m , Io n ia .| 
ZD
C o m in g   M eetings—D e tro it  (S ta r  Isla n d ),  J u n e   24; 
L an sin g , Nov 5.

Michigan  State  Pharm aceutical  Ass’n. 
P re sid e n t—A. 8. P a rk e r, D etro it.
V ice-P resident—Jo h n  E. P eck, D e tro it.
T re a su re r—W . D upont,  D e tro it.
8 e c re ta v — F. C. T h o m p so n . D e tro it.
Grand  Rapids Pharm aceutical Society. 

P re sid e n t, Jo h n  E. P eck ; S e cretary , B. S ch ro u d er.

THE  BACK  OFFICE.

W ritte n  f o r Thx T rades mam.

The yearly wail has again  begun about 
the increase of tbe cities  and  the  conse­
quent  depletion  of  tbe  country.  For 
some  reason  or  other  tbe  minute  tbe 
farm boy gets big enough and old enough 
to take care of himself,  that minute sees 
him  pack  his  valise  and  start  for  the 
city.  For  the  same  reason  the  boy in 
the village gets tired of that sort  of  life 
and starts  for  tbe  town;  and  farm  and 
village  can’t  understand  what  a  boy 
wants to  leave a good home for and go to 
the city,  where,  for  the  hardest  kind  of 
hard  work  and  “none  too  extra fare,” 
with little or nothing  for  pay,  he  man­
ages  to  keep  body  and  soul  together. 
“There isn’t one of  ’em  that  expects  to 
get rich,  an’ what under  the sun there is 
to  coax  ’em  there  an’ keep  ’em there,” 
the average farmer, for the  life  of  him, 
can’t  see. 
It  wasn’t  so  when  he  was 
young.  Hear  him:  “Great  Scott!  In 
them  days  a  day  in  taown  was all the 
farm boy could stand,  an’  all  a  farmer 
had ter do when the boy got obstrup’r’us 
an’ oneasy was ter jist  take ’im to taown 
an’ turn ’im loose fer a day ertew.  That 
settled ’im an’  ever  arter  nobody  never 
heered *im peep ’baoat livin’  ’n  taown!”
I  don’t  know  all  the  reasons  why a 
farm boy  makes  up  his  mind  that  the, 
farm is  no  place  for  him;  but  I  know 
some of them,  and one  of  the  first  rea­
sons is the great longing  the boy has for 
a little money.  All the  cash  that comes 
to the farm goes into his  father’s wallet, 
and, moreover, it stays there. 
It doesn’t 
make any difference what extra work the 
boy does, he never gets  any  pay  for  it. 
He  may turn the  grindstone for a  dozen 
new scythes, until his  backbone is a col­
umn of pain;  but that is  only  a  part  of 
his regular,  happy-go-easy  life and  isn’t 
worth  mentioning.  He  and  the  hired 
man may dig potatoes  from the rising of 
the  sun  until  the  going  down  of  the 
same;  the  hired  man  is  paid  his  well- 
earned stipend,  but  the  boy  doesn’t  get 
anything,  although at  sundown  his  hoe 
has  done  an  equal  share  of  the work. 
The only difference  between  the  two  is 
that,  when the day’s  digging is over,  the 
hired  man  rests  and  the  boy,  with his 
back feeling as if it  had  been  sawed  in 
two,  is  sent  after the cows, with the in­
junction not to let the  grass  grow under 
his  feet.  Of  course,  the  boy  does  his 
share of the milking.  Then he feeds the 
pigs  and  fills  the wood box, and then, if 
he has any  vitality left and wants a game 
of "barn tick,”  ten chances to one, he is 
told to “put up that ball  and  go  to  bed, 
so  ’s  to  be  up  bright  an’  early  in the 
niornin’  an’  ready  fer  work.”  How  a 
ten-cent  piece  shining  on  that  boy’s 
palm would brighten  matters;  and  what 
a hot, dull,  stupid place  the  town would 
be  if  the  boy  could  see  enough  of  its 
hardships to make the  farm  and  its  not

1 know several other first-class reasons 
that  are  sending the boys  to the city  in 
droves,  and  the  wonder  to  me  is  that 
more of them didn’t  start  cityward  long 
ago. 
I  can  say this  for  the  comfort  of 
the farmer—that any time when he stops 
thinking  that  his  herds  and  his  flocks 
are  of  more  importance  than  his  chil­
dren,  and  governs  himself  accordingly, 
he can’t hire  his  boys to leave the farm, 
any more  than he  can make up his mind 
to leave it himself.

*  *  *

“ Whenever,”  says 

the  Commercial 
Tribune,  “ we see a boastful, ostentatious 
man who imagines he has  a mortgage  on 
the  world  because  he  has accumulated 
wealth,  we feel like pitying him.”

As this  is  a  free country,  there  is  no 
law against the indulgence of  the  above 
compassionate regard,  but we can assure 
our friend of  the  Northwest  that  little 
benefit will accrue from it aside from the 
gratification which the feeling  itself  en­
genders.  Certainly,  the  object  of  com­
miseration referred to wants  none  of  it, 
and,  to be candid about it, 1  see  no  rea­
son  why  he  should.  Tears  and  years 
ago, when he was making his money, his 
finger nails were  just  as  dirty  as  they 
are now, and bis English was  jnst as ex­
ecrable as it  is  to-day.  Money  was  his 
object and he has it—any quantity  of  it. 
He started without a penny in the world.
He  says  (without  the  full  conscious­
ness  of  the  truth  he  utters):  “Long 
ter fust’twas  rewt hog ’r die  an’  th’  an- 
imile’s alive  yit.  Yis,  sir,  I’m  a  self- 
made man—frum th’ craown  o’  m’  head 
ter th’ sole o’ m’ feet, ev’ry inch  on  me; 
an’ ef a m an’s  goin’  ter  git  anythin’  in 
this world, he’s got ter be a  hog  an’ dew 
some tall rewtin’, uaow I tell  yerl  W’y, 
w’en I started”-----

And the wearisome story is  told  again 
of the  days  and  nights  of  unremitting 
toil, until the first hundred dollars or the 
first  thousand  were  earned  and  saved 
and  added  to;  and  more  hard  work 
earned more  money, which  was  saved— 
always  “ work” and “money”  and  noth­
ing else.  He has  gained,  in  his  estima­
the  whole  world  in  gaining  his 
tion, 
money. 
Is  it  any  wonder  that  he  has 
forgotten what be has  lost  and  so brags 
of  his  possessions?  Is  it  any  wonder 
that the heavy watch chain with  its  tre­
mendous seal festoons his  vest;  that the 
big  diamond  flashes  from  his  ample 
shirt front,  and that  his  fat  fingers  are 
hooped  with  gold?  He  earned  it—let 
him have the credit  of  it;  and  if,  some­
times in his boastings,  he  makes  it  too 
apparent that in all  his gettings  he  has 
not got understanding,  let  us  remember 
that tbe habits of a lifetime  are clinging 
to  him, and  that  “long  ter  fust  ’twas 
rewt hog ’r die,”  and  that  “ th’  animile 
’s alive yit!”

Rich a rd  Max.com Strong.

Why  He  Was Advanced.

A  business 

firm  once  employed  a 
young  man  whose  energy  and grasp of 
affairs soon led tbe management  to  pro­
mote him over a faithful and trusted em­
ploye.  The old  clerk  felt  deeply  hurt 
that  the  younger  man  should  be  pro­
moted  over him,  and  complained  to  the 
manager.
Feeling that this was a case that  could 
not  be  argued,  the  manager  asked  the 
old  clerk  what  was  tbe  occasion of all 
the noise in front of their building.
The clerk went  forward  and  returned 
with  tbe  answer  that  it  was  a  lot  of 
wagons going by.

THE  MZCHIG^JSr  TRADESMAN.
too burdensome work seem  like  a  Para­
dise in comparison!

The  manager  then  asked  what  they 
were  loaded  with,  and  again  the  clerk 
went  out  and  returned,  reporting  that 
they were loaded with  wheat.
The manager then sent him to ascertain 
bow many  wagons there were,  and he re­
turned with tbe answer  that  there  were 
sixteen.  Finally  he  was  sent  to  see 
where they  were from  and  he  returned 
saying  they  were  from  the  city  of Lu- 
cena.
The manager then asked the  old  clerk 
to be seated, and sent for  the young man 
and said to him:
“Will you see what is  the  meaning  of 
that rumbling noise in front?”
Tbe  young  man  replied: 
“Sixteen 
wagons  loaded  with  wheat.  Twenty 
more will pass tomorrow.  They  belong 
to  Romero  &  Co.,  Lucena,  and  are on 
their  way  to  Marchena,  where wheat is 
bringing $1.25 per bushel for hauling.”
The  young  man  was  dismissed,  and 
the  manager,  turning  to  the old clerk, 
said:
“My  friend,  you  see  now  why  the 
younger man  was promoted over you.”

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W h o le s a le   P rice  Current•

Advanced—Carbolic Acid, Gum Camphor, Cod Liver Oil, Alcohol. 

Po. Opium, Turpentine._________________

Declined—Gum Opium,

ACID UK.

Acetlcum...................
Benzoicum  German..
Boraclc 
....................
Carbollcum..............
d trlc u m ...................
Hydrochior................
Nltrocum 
.................
Oxallcum...................
Phosphorium dll..........
Salicylicum...............
Sulphurlcum......... .
Tannlcum.................. 1
Tartarlcum................
AM M ONIA.

8@   10 
65®  75 
15
22®  a
41®  44 
3®
10®   12 
10®  12 
20
70®  75 
IX® 
40®1  60 
30®  33

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Aqua, 16  deg................   4®  6
6®  8
Car Donas  .....................  12® 14
Chiorldum...................  12® 14

20  deg................  

A N IL IN B .

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

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

BA LSA M U H .

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

CO BTBX.

Abies,  Canadian.................  18
Casslae  ...............................  12
CinchonaFlava  .................   18
Buonymus  atropurp...........  30
Myrlca Cerlfera, po.............  20
Prunus Vlrglnl....................  12
Qulllaia,  grd.......................   10
Sassafras  ............................  12
Ulmus Po (Ground  15)........  15

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BXTRACTUM
GlycyTrhlsa  Glabra..
po.........
Haematox. 15 lb. box
Is..............
Vis............
X*...........
FX B B U
Carbonate Preclp......
Citrate and Qulnls —
Citrate  Soluble  ........
Ferrocyanldum Sol —
Solut  Chloride  ........
Sulphate,  com’l  ........
pure............

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

®  15 
@8  50 
®  80 
®  50 
®  15 
.9®  2
®  7

FL O R A .

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

F O M A .

Barosma 
Cassia  Acutifol,  Tin-

...................  14®  30
nlvelly....................   18®  25
“  Alx.  25®  30
and  Vis....................  12®  20
8®  10

Salvia  officinalis,  X*
UraUrsl 
................... 

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Acacia, 1st  picked.... 

Q  60
....  ®  40
2d 
3d 
....  ®  30
Q  20
sifted sorts... 
po.................  60®  80
Aloe,  Barb, (po. 60)...  50®  60 
"  Cape, (po.  i n . . .  ®  12
Socotrl, (po.  80).  ®  50
Catechu, Is, (Xs, 14 X>,
16)............................  ®  1
Ammonias.................  55®  60
Assafostlda, (po.40) 
35®  40
Bensomtun.................  50®  55
Camphors..................   48®  52
Bupnorblum  po.........   35®  lo
Gal ban 
...................  ®2 50
Gamboge, po..............  65®  80
Gualacum, (po  85)....  ®  30
Kino,  (po  3  00)..........  @3 00
Mastic  ....  ................  ®  80
Myrrh, (po. 45)...........  @  40
Opll  (po  3 10®3 30)..1  90@2 00
SheUao......................  40®  60
bleached......   40®  45
Tr.agacanth................  SO®  80

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H3BBA—In ounce packages.

Absinthium.........................  25
Bupatorlum.........................  20
Lobelia.................................  26
Majorum.............................   28
Mentha  Piperita.................  28
“  V Ir.........................  26
Rue...... ................................  80
Tanaoetum, V......................  22
Thymus,  V ...,....................   25

KAensiA.

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

o w n .

Absinthium................ 2 50@3 00
Amygdalae, Dulc........  30®  50
Amydalae. Amarae —  8 00@8 25
A nlsl.........................   1  90@2 00
Aurantl  Cortex........   1  80@2 00
Bergamll  ...................3 00@3 20
Cajfputt.................... 
60®  65
Caryophylli...............   75®  80
Cedar.........................  35®  65
Chenopodll...............   @1  60
Cinnamon!!............   .1 35®l  40
Cltronella...................  @  45
Conlum  Mao..............  35®  65
Copaiba......................  80® J90

Cubebae..................  
l 60@1  7t
Exechthltos..............  :  20@l 30
Brlgeron.................... 1  20@1  30
Gaultheria..................l  50®1  60
Geranium,  ounce.  ...  @ 75
Gosslpll, Sem. gal......  80®  70
Hedeoma  .................  l  25@l  40
Jumperi.......................   50®2 00
Lavendula..................   90®2 00
Llmonls...................... l  30©! 50
Mentha Piper...............l  85®3 00
Mentha Verid............. 1  80®2 00
Morrhuae, gal............. 1  40® 1 50
Myrcla, ounce...............   @ 50
Olive............................  80@3 00
PIels Liquida, (gal..85)  10®  12
R ld n l....................... 
88®  96
Rosmarini........... 
l  op
Rosae, ounce............   6 50®8 50
Succlnl.......................  40®  45
Sabina.......................  90®i  oo
San tal  ....................... 2 50®7 00
Sassafras.  .................  50®  56
Slnapls, ess, ounce__  @  65
Tiglfi..........................  ®i  00
Thyme.......................  40®  60
opt  ...............   @1  60
15®  20
Theobromas.............. 
POTASSIUM.
BiCarb....................... 
is®  18
Bichromate...............   11®  13
Bromide....................  40®  43
Carb............................  12®  15
Chlorate  (po. 17019)..  16®  18
Cyanide.....................   50®  55
Iodide.......................  2 96@3 00
23®  25 
Potassa, Bltart, pure. 
Potassa, Bltart, com...  @ 15
Potass Nltras, opt___ 
8®  10
7®  9
Potass Nltras............. 
Prusslate.................... 
.5®  28
Sulphate  po.............. 
is®  18

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Aconltum..................   20®  25
Althae.........................  22®  25
Anchusa....................  12®  15
Arum,  po....................  ®  25
Calamus..................  
20®  40
Gentians  (po. 12)...... 
8®  10
Glychrrbtzs, ipv. 15).  16®  18
Hydrastis  Canaden,
(po. 35)..................   @  3ii
Hellebore,  Ala,  po 
. 
15®  20
15®  20
Inula,  po..................  
Ipecac,  po................   1  30@l  40
Iris  plox (po. 35@38) 
35®  40
Jalapa,  pr..................   40®  46
Mar&nta,  V(s................   @ 35
Podophyllum, po...... 
15®  18
Rhei............................  75@1  00
“  cut.....................   @1  75
“  pv.......................  75@1  35
Splgelia....................  35®  38
Sanguinaria, (po  25).  @ 20
Serpentaria...............   50®  55
Senega.....................  
55®  60
Slmllax, Officinalis.  H  @ 40
M  @  25
Sclllae, (po. 85)..........   10®  12
Symplooarpus,  Foetl
...  @ 35
Valeriana, Bng.  (po.30)  ®  25
German...  15®  20
Ingiber a ................. 
18®  20
18®  20
Zingiber  ] ...............  
SBMXK.
..  © 1 5
Anlsum,  (po. 20).. 
Aplum  (graveleons)..  14®  16
Bud, Is.....................  
4®  6
Carni, (po. 18)............   10®  12
Cardamon........................l  00@1 25
Corlandrum..............   12®  14
Cannabis Satira.........   40 
5
Cvdonlum..................   7501 00
Cnenopodlum  ...........  10®  12
Dipteri! Odorate........ 1  80®2 00
Foenlcnlum...............   ®  15
Foenugreek,  po......... 
8®  8
3Vt@ 4
L ini.................. 
Lini, grd.  (bbl. 8Vi). ..  3Vi®  4
Lobelia.......................  85®  40
Pharlarls Canarian.... 
4®  5
Rapa............................4X0  5
Slnapls  Albu............   7®  8
r   Nigra...........  11®  12

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

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BFIBITUS.
Frumenti, W.,D.  Co..2 00@2 50
D. F. R...... 2 00®2 25
1  25®1  50
 
Junlperis  Co. O. T ....1  6502 00
“ 
1  75®3 50
Saacharum  N.  B........ 1 9002 io
Spt.  Vini  Galli........... 1  75@6 50
Vini Oporto.................... 1  25®2 00
Vini  Alba....................... 1 25@2 00

 

Florida  sheeps’  wool
carriage..................2 50@2 75
Nassau  sheeps’  wool
carriage  ................. 
2 00
Velvet  extra  sheeps’
wool  carriage.........  
1  10
Extra  yellow  sheeps’
carriage..................  
85
Grass sheeps’ wool car­
riage  ....................... 
65
75
Hard for  slate  use—  
Yellow Reef, for  slate 
use.......................... 
1  40

A ccada...............................  50
Zingiber.............................   50
Ipecac__.'............................  60
Ferri Iod.............................   50
Aurantl  Cortes....................  56
Rhel  Arom..........................   50
Slmllax  Officinalis..............  60
....  50
Senega................................   50
Sclllae................................  50
50
Tom ta n ...............................  50
50
Prunas  rlrg.................... 

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TIN CTU RES.
Aconltum Napellls R. 
F.
Aloes..........................
“  and myrrh........
Arnica.......................
Asafoetlda..................
A trope Belladonna....
Benzoin......................
“  Co.................
Sangulnaria...............
Barosma....................
Cantharides...............
Capsicum..................
Ca damon..................
Co...............
Castor........................
Catechu....................
Cinchona...................
Co............ ...
Columba....................
Conlum......................
Cubeba.......................
Digitalis....................
Brgot.......................... .
Gentian..................... .
“  Co..................
Gualca.......................
ammon...........
“ 
Zingiber.....................
Hyoscyamus...............
Iodine..........................
“  Colorless..........
Ferri  Chiorldum.........
K ino...........................
Lobelia........................
Myrrh..........................
Nux  Vomica...............
°RU,Camphorated..............
“  Deoaor........................ 2
Aurantl Cortex..............
Quassia.........................
Rhatany.......................
Rhel..............................
Cassia  Acutifol............
Co.........
Serpentaria..................
Stromonlum..................
Tolutan.........................
Valerian..................  
.,
Veratrum Veride...........
MISCBLLANZOUB.

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¿Ether, Spts  Nit, 3 F..  35®  38 
“  4 F ..  38®  40
Alumen....................... 254® 3

T‘ 
ground,  (po.

7).............................  3®  4
Annatto......................  40®  50
Antlmonl, po..............  4®  5
et Potass T.  55®  60
Antlpyrin..................   @1  40
Antlfebrln............  ...  @  25
Argentl  Nltras, ounce  @  53
Arsenicum................. 
5®  7
Balm Gilead  Bud__ 
38®  40
Bismuth  8.  N............ 1  20@1  80
Caldum Chlor, Is, (Xs
10;  *8,  12)..............  @  9
Can tharides  Russian,
po............................  @1 00
Capsid  Fructus,af...  ®  15
* 
po  ...  @  15
1  B po.  @  15 
Caryophyllns, (po.  15)  10®  12
Carmine,  No. 40.........   ®8 75
Cera Alba, B .6 F ......   80®  56
Cera Flava.................  400  42
Coccus.......................  O  40
Cassis Fructus...........  @  25
Centraria....................  Q  10
Cetaceum..................   Q  40
Chloroform...............   80®  63
squibbi..  @1  25
Chloral Hyd Crzt........1  15® l  30
Chondrus..................   200  26
Clnohonldlne, F.  A  W  15®  20 
German 3X0  12 
Corks,  list,  dls.  per
cent  ......................
65 
Creasotum..............
O  36 @  2 
Greta,  (bbl. 75)......
5®
prep.............. 
5®  5
9®
preclp.............. 
9®  11 
8
..  @
Rubra........ 
Crocus.....................   50®  55
Cudbear......................  @ 24
CuprlSulph...............   5®   6
Dextrine....................  10®  12
Ether Sulph...............   75®  90
Bmery,  all  numbers..  @  8
po..................   @  6
Ergots, (po.)  40.........   80®  35
Flake  white..............  12®  15
UUiB..........................
Gambler.....  .............
Gelatin,  Cooper.........
Glassware  flint, by box 80. 
Less than box 70.
Glue,  Brown............
15
18®
"  White...............
25
Glycerins..................
13® 20
Grana Paradisi..........
sa
H tannins....................
55
2sS
Hydraag Chlor  Mite. 
@ 17
“  Cor ...
67
0
Ox Rubrum
® 87
Ammonisti..
97
0
Unguentum. 45® 55
Hydrargyrum............
® 65
Ichthyobolla, Am..  ..1 25®1  50
Indigo.........................  75® 1 00
Iodine,  Resubl...........3 80®3 90
Iodoform....................  @4 70
Lupnlln......................  @2 26
Lycopodium..............  60®  66
M ads.........................  70®  75
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy-
drarglod.................  @  27
Liquor Potass Arslnltls  10®  12
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
Mannla,  S. F ..............  60®  M

0  
7  ® 8
O 60
French........... 30® 50

IX)............................*X@  4

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S.  N. Y. Q.  A

Morphia, S. P. A W.  1 85@2  10 
C.  Co....................  1  75@2 00
Moschus Canton........  @  40
Myristlca, No  1 ........  66®  70
Nux Vomica, (po 20)..  @ 10
Os.  Sepia....................  16®  18
Pepsin Saac, H. A P. D.
Co............................  @2 00
Plcis Llq, N.kC., X gal
doz  .........................  ®2 00
Plds Llq., quarts......   @1 00
pints.........   @  85
„ „  “  
PII Hydrarg, (po. 80)..  @ 50
Piper Nigra, (po. 22)..  @ 1
Piper Alba, (po g5)....  @  3
Plix Burgun...............   @  7
Plumbl A cet.............. 
io@  12
Pul vis Ipecac et opll.. 1  10@1  20 
Pyrethrum,  boxes  Q
A P. D.  Co., doz___  @1 25
Pyrethrum,  pv...........  20®  30
Quasslae....................  8®  10
Qulnla, S. P. A W......34*@39V4
S.  German....  27®  37
Rubia  Tlnctorum......  12®  14
Saccharum Lactls pv. 
16®  18
Saladn.......................2 30@2 50
Sanguis  Draconls......  40®  50
Sapo,  W......................  12®  14
a  M....................  10®  12
G  . . ..................   @ 15
Seldlltz  Mixture......   @  20
Slnapls.....................   @  is
,r  opt..................   ®  30

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Snuff,  Maccaboy,  De
Voes.................  ...  @  36
Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes  @  35
Soda Boras, (po. 7-9)..  7®  9
Soda  et Potass Tart...  24®  25
Soda Carb......... . 
IX®  2
Soda,  Bl-Carb............   3®  5
Soda, Ash..................  3 X©  4
Soda, Sulphas................  @ 2
Spts. Ether C o...........  50®  56
“  Myrda  Dom......  @2 00
“  Myrda Imp........  @2 50
“  Vlnl Rect. bbl... 
2 53
“ 
2 68
“  Vi bbl. 
2 61 
“  10 gal. 
“  5 gal. 
2 63
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Stnrchnla Crystal......1 4001 45
Sulphur, SubI............ 2?*@ 3
„  
‘  Roll..............2  @ 2X
Tamarinds................. 
8®  10
Terebenth Venice......  28®  30
Theobromae..............45  @  48
Vanilla.................9 00016 00
Zlnd  Sulph...............   7®  8
Bbl.  Gal
__   , 
Whale, winter..........   70 
70
65
Lard,  extra.................  60 
Lard, No.  1.................  40 
45
Linseed, pure raw  ...  59 
61
Linseed,  boiled.. 
61 
(3
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
strained..................  65  n
Spirits Turpentine ...  34 
40

OILS.

. 

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paints. 

bbl.  lb.
Red Venetian..............1M  2®8
Ochre, yellow  Mars__Iff  2@4
Ber........1M  2®3
“ 
Putty,  commerdal__2X  2Vi@3
“  strictly  pure......2X  2K@3
Vermilion Prime Amer­
  13®15
ican ................. 
 
Vermilion.  English__ 
68@72
Green, Paris.............  
20Vi@27
Green,  Peninsular......   13® 16
Lead,  red.................... 5X@6
“  w hite................5X®6
Whiting, white Span...  @70
Whiting,  Gliders’........  @90
1 
White, Paris  American 
Whiting.  Paris  Eng.
cliff.......................... 
1  40
Universal Prepared  . .1  00@1  15
No. 1 Turp  Coach__1  10®1  20
Extra Turp............... 16001  70
Coach Body.............. 2 7503 00
No. 1 Turp Furn.......1 00®1  10
Eutra Turk Damar__1 55@1  60
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 
Turp......................... 
70075

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C O .

PROPRIETORS,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich•

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T H K   M I C H I G A N   T K A  I ) k h M  A 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.......... ..........   *u
Telfers Absolute.............. 
30
Grocers’............................ 15©25

CLOTHES  PINS.

Daisy  Brand.

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COCOA  SHELLS.

5 gross b o x e s ............40@45
35 lb  bags......................  ©3
Less quantity................  03)4
Pound  packages..........6MO?
COFFEE.
Green.
„ , 
RlR
Pair...................— ........... 18
Good.................................  19
Prime..................  
  ¿j
Golden............... ... . .. ” ..'21
Peaberry  ............................23
Santos.
..................................  19
Good.......................  
29
Prime.................. 
22
Peaberry  .................  
...23
Mexican and Guatemala.
Pair.......................................
Good.............................. 
¿2
Fancy................. 
 
. . ” 24
Maracaibo.
Prime...............  
03
M ined....................
Java.
Interior..........................  
35
Private Growth...................27
Mandehling........................28
Mocha.
Imitation............. 
25
Arabian..................... 
2S
Roasted.

Piiflnigft.

To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add Ac. per lb. for roast 
ing and 15 per  cent,  for shrink­
age.
McLaughlin’s  XXXX.  £1  39
Mon. en or 100 lb.  case__  21  30
Arbuckle.........................   21  30
Jersey......................7 7   21  30
/alley City A  gross’
Hummel’s, foil,  gross 

tin 

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“ 

CLOTHES LINES.

cSOiJfc.......
Red...............
Cotton,  40 ft......
50ft......
60 ft......
70 ft......
80ft......
60ft..  ..
72ft-....
4 dos. in ease.

“ 
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“ 
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Jute 
“ 
CONDENSED .MILK.

7
. per dos.  1  2t
140
1  60
1 75
1  90
86
1  00

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N.Y.Cond’ns’d Milk Co’s brands 
Gail Borden Eagle............   7 40
Daisy  ..........  
5 ^
Champion  ........................   4  50
Magnolia 
.........................  4 25
lime
3 35

 

AXLE GREASE.
doz
A urora......... .......   55
60
Jastor OH.............. 
Diamond................   50
Frazer’s  ............... 
75
Mica  ............. .  ..  65
..  - ■.......   56
Paragon 

RAKING  p o w d e r .
Acme.
}.  ;&us. 3  doc—
“  ............ 

A   102 'b. 

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

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“ 4  doz  “ 
“ 2  doz  “ 
“ 1 do*  “ 
A lb  “ 
1 ft  “ 
Sun Light

8olk...........Arctic............. 
10
u  l> cans 6'doz  case......... 
55
14 2> 
...........  I  15
1  D 
...........2
5  1b 
.........
can*.........
Red Star, M 
“ 
.........
........
“ 
•j, lb. cans, 6 doz. case. . .
H lb.  “  4 doz.  *  —
1  60
1 
lb.  “  2 doz.  “  -----
Van  Anrooy s Pure.
85
u lb. cans, 6 doz. case......  
A lb.  “  4  doz.  “ 
......   1  65
45 
lb.  “  2 doz.  “
X 
Teller’s,  14 lb. cans, do*
95 
14 lb.  “  
«• 
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“ 
llb-
1 50
45
V4 lb cans........   <5
-« 
1 lb cans 
•* 
...  .  1  50

Our Leader, 14 -b cans..... 

BATH  BRICK.
2 dozen In case.

BLUING.  Gross

English...............................  80
Bristol..................................  ™
Domestic.............................  80
Arctic, 4 o*  ovals  ............ 3 60
“ 
8o* 
..............6 75
pints,  round...........  9 00
“  No. 2, sifting box...  2 75 
«  No. 3, 
...4  00
,!  No. 5, 
...8  00
“  x o* ball  .................4 50
Mexican Liquid, 4 oz........  3 60
8 oz.........   6  80
“ 

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“ 
BROOMS,

“ 

Ao. 2 Hurl..........................1  90
»0. 1  “  ................ 2 JO
» 0.1 
....................... 2 50
Parlor Gem.........................2 60
Common Whisk  ...............   S5
Penny 
.................  100
Warehouse...........  ...........2 85

1 
BRUSHES,

Stove, No.  1  ......................  125
“  10.......................  1  50
“  15.......................1  75
Sloe Root Scrub, 2  row ....  85
Sloe Root  Scrub, 3 row....  1  25
Palmetto, goose.................  1  50
Hotel, 40 lb. boxes  ...........  10
............   9
Star,  40 
Paraffine  ..........................10
WiCklng  ...... ................... 24

CANDLES.

•> 
• 

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CANNED  GOODS.

nan.
Clam*

“ 

“ 

Little Neck,  lib ................ l  20
••  2 lb.................l 90
Clam Chowder.
Standard, 3 lb.....................2 25
Cove Oysters,
Standard,  1 lb....................   80
21b....................145
Lobsters.
Star,  1  lb........................... 2 45
“  2  lb........................... 8 50
Picnic, 1 l b ........................ 2 00
21b......................... 2 90
“ 
Mackerel.
Standard, 1 lb..................... 1  10
2  lb....................2 10
Mustard,  2 lb  ....................2 25
Tomato Sauce,  2 lb
Soused, 2 lb .........................2 25
Salmon.
Columbia River, fla t.........1  go
“ »alls  ____   1  65
Alaska, Red 
.................l  30
pink  ....................... i 20
Kinney’s,  flats  — ............l  9
Sardines.
American  las  ...............   © 4
As.................  © 6
imported  14s....................  © 9
As  ...................  ©13
Mustard  Ms......................  © 7
21
Boneless  ......................... 
Brook 8, lb 
....................2 60

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Tront.
F ruits.
Apples.

3 lb. standard........... 
fork State, gallons—  
Hambnrgh,  “
Apricots.
Live oak................... 
Santa Crux  ...............  
Lusk’s ............. 
Overland  .................  
Blackberries.
F. A  W  ...................... 

l  50

90
3 00

l  40
1  40
l  to
85 i

Cherries.

Pears.

Gages.

1 on1  05
1
1  0 .) 
1  40 
1  40 
@1  55

Red  ............................  ©i  n
White......................... 
l  40
Brie.......................... 
1  15
Damsons, Egg Plums and Green 
Erie..........................
California..................
Gooseberries.
Common 
..................
Peaches.
Pie............................
Maxwell....................
Shepard’s .................
California..................
Monitor.....................
Oxford.......................
1 0 
Domestic....................
Riverside.................
1  25
Pineapples.
Common.....................l  oo©l  30
Johnson’s  sliced
2 50 
grated........
2 75 ©-* 5) 
Booth’s sliced............
grated...___
©2 75
Quinces.
1
Common....................
Raspberries.
Red............................
95 
Black  Hamburg.........
1  40 
Erie, black  ...............
t  10
Strawberries.
Lawrence..................
1  25 
Hamburgh.................
1  25 
Brie.........................  .
85
Terrapin.......................
Whortleberri es.
Blueberries...............
Corned  beef  ...............
Roast beef  ...................
Potted  ham, A lb__
“  14 lb...........

85
2 15 
2 25 
1  25 
70
tongue, A lb............ l  35
** 
A lb ...........  75
chicken, Mlb.. 
Vegetables.

Bleats.

“ 
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“ 
‘ 

“ 
“ 

Beans.

“ 
“ 

Peas.

Corn.

soaked 

Hambnrgh  stringless......... l  15
French style.......2 00
Limas................. j  ¿5
Lima, green.........................115
“ 
..............|
Lewis Boston Baked........... 1 25
Bay State  Baked...................... 1 25
World’s  Fair  Baked........... 1  25
Picnic Baked.......................  95
Hambnrgh.......................... 1 x5
Livingston  Eden.....................1 00
p a rity .................................   go
Honey  Dew..............................1 25
Morning Glory
Soaked..............................    75
Hambnrgh  marrofat...........1  go
“ 
early June  .  ...1  50
“ 
Champion Eng..X  40
“ 
petit  pois............1  40
“ 
fancy  sifted....l  65
Soaked 
.............................   05
Harris standard...................  75
VanCamp’s  marrofat  ........1  10
early Jan e.......ISO
Archer’s  Early Blossom  ...1   25
French  ............................... 2  15
Mushrooms.
ia©ai
French..................... 
Pumpkin.
Brie.................. 
 
on
 
Squash.
Hubbard........... ..................  X5
Succotash.
Hamburg..................... 
j 3
8oaked..................... 
go
Honey  Dew..........................  st
Brie........ 
x  35
Hancock.............................   so
Excelsior..........................   g:
Eclipse. 
15
Hamoarg............................ 1
Gallon 

Tomatoes.

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CHOCOI.UK 
Baker’s.
German Sweet...............
Premium.................
Breakfast  Cocoa__
CHEESE.
Amboy......................
Acme.....................
Jersey............
Lenawee........
Riverside___
Gold  Medal...
Skim..............
Brick..............
Edam............ .
Leiden...........
Llmbnrger  ...
Pineapple  ......  
Roquefort
Sap Sago.........
Schweitzer, Imported. 

....

domestic 

Blue Label Brand.
......
Triumph Brand.

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

“ 

LARGE  SIZE

DWARF SIZE.

25 dbl. shte. in box, pr. bx. f  38 
Per case of  10 boxes........... 3 40
25 double she°ts ln  box,
Case of 10 boxes....................   1 25
Case of 20  boxes....................  2 50
COMBINATION  CASE.
5 boxes Large  Decoy I 
12 boxes Dwarf Decoy ( 

. .83  40

MATCHES.

Globe Match Co.’s Brands.

Columbia Parlor.....................81 25
XXX Sulphur.........................   1 00
Diamond  Match  Co.’s  Brands.
No. 9  sulphur...........................i 05
Anchor parlor.......................... 1 70
No. 2 home.............................   j jo
Export parlor....................... 4 00

MOLASSES. 
Blackstrap.
Sugar house.............. ....
Cuba Baking.
Ordinary.......................
Porto Bit j.
Prime..........................
Fancy........... 
—
New Orleans.
F air...............................
Good  ............................
Extra good....................
Choice 
.......................
Fancy...
Half  barrels 3c.extra

2 00  California,  100-120........ 
“ 
“ 
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Prunes.
4
90x100 25 lb.  bxs . 5A
80x90 
.. 0U
0A
71 x80 
60x70 
7
Silver.........................  7©io

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Lima  Beans.

FARINACEOUS GOODS. 
Farina.
1151b. kegs........... 
2A
Grits.
Hominy.

Walsh DeRoo  &  Co.’s ......  1  85
Barrels  ..  ...................»...  2a
Grite..................................  3$
5%
Dried.
■

Macearon! and Vermicelli.
Domestic, 121b. box__  
Imported................... 10A@U
Pearl Barley.
Empire...................... ........  3
Chester.

2A
Green,  bu................
1  10 2A
Split  per lb ..............
Rolled  Oats
Schumacher, bbl......... 
34  05
„  
A bbl.............. ? 50
Monarch,  bbl  ............ 
4 00
Monarch, A  bbl...........•? ,3
Quaker,  cases...................  3 20
Oven Baked......................... 3 25
____ 
German......................... 
Bast India.................... 3^
Cracked.............................   3

Wheat.

Peas.

Sago.

“ . 

3

FISH—Salt.

Bloaters.

Cod.

Yarmouth...........................  1  55
Georges cured.................  4
Georges genuine............ 5
Georges selected............   0
Boneless,  bricks............   ev
Boneless, strips............   6%©8
Halibut.
Smoked.............. 
11©12
Herring
Holland, white hoops keg 
80 
“ 
“ 
..   ** 
bbl  10 ro
Norwegian............................  u  no
Round, A bbl 100 lbs........  2 55
q  “  M  “  40  “  ......   1  30

. 

Mackerel.

“ 

S ° -1’ JS9J bs.........................  12 00
No. 1, 40 lbs............................  5 50
No. 1,  10 lbs....................;  1  75
No. 2,100 lbs......  
10 no
No. 2, 40 lbs......................’  4 35
No. 2,10 lbs  ....................  1  15
Family, 90 lbs........
10  lbs ......
Sardines.
Tront.

Russian, kegs.................... 
55
No. 1, A bbls., 1001 bs............4 25
No. 1 V bbl, 40  lbs................... 1 95
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs..............  
5«
No  1,8  lb  k its ................ 
48
No. 1  family
A bbls, 100 lbs...........16 25 2 50
A  “  40  “  ...........   2 80  I 25
101b.  kits 
................  78  41
8 lb.  “ 
35
9

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FIT  PAPER.

Whlteflsh.

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65 

94

Regular Size.

Per box....38c.  Percsse.  *3 40
Tn  5 case lots, per case__ 3 30
In 10 case lo‘s. per case__ 3 20
“Little Tanglefoot.”
Retails, per b o x ............... 
25
Costs, per case................7   l  75

“Superior.”

6  1 books, per  hundred 
12 

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2 5(1
3 00 
8 50
4 00
5 00
6  00

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7 7 1 7 7 ...........
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Universal ”
• 1  books, per hundred 
33 00
! 5 
s so
5 00
Sin 
..  6 00
JTO 
Above prices on coupon books 
are  subject  to  the  following 
quantity discounts:
26o books or over..  5  per «er 
500 
loot* 
COUPON  PASS  BOOKS, 
lean  be  made to represent any 
denomination  from $10  down. 1 
TO books.......................  I 1  00
2  00 
100  “ 
3 00 
250  “ 
6 25 
500  “ 
10  00 
1000  “ 
17 50
CREDIT  CHECKS,
600, anpone denom’n ....
S3 00 
1000,  “ 
‘I 
5 00 
“ 
2000,  “ 
8 00
Steel  punch 
CRACKERS.
„ 
Seymour XXX..............
Seymonr XXX, cartoon 71
Family  x n r .................
Family XXX.  cartoon__
Salted XXX.......................
Salted XXX,  cartoon  ...
Kenosha 
.......................
Boston.........................711
Butter  biscuit...  ........7!
Soda, XXX........................   514
Seda, City...................   
7a
Soda,  Duchess..................  gu
Crystal Wafer......................jou
Long  Island Wafers...........11
S. Oyster  XXX, , ...................5a
City Oyster. XXX...................ba
Farina  Oyster.......................

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Oyster.

Butter.

Soda.

DRIED  FRUITS. 

g*.
7«. 

Domestic.
Apples.

Apricots.

Snndrled,........................... 
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes 
California in  bags.......7A@8
Bvaporated ln boxes__
Blackberrles.
In  boxes.......................
Nectarinos.
70 Ib. bags  .....................
251b. boxes.................9
Peeled, in  boxes........... 
Cal. evap.  “ 
 
...7 

Peaches

ln bags 
Pean.

“ 

California in bags..... 
California boxes........... 
Pltted Cherrles.
Barréis..........................
501b. boxes ................
25“ 
................. .
Prunelles.
Raspberrles.
In  barréis...................
501b. boxes.........
..................
251b.  “ 
Raisins.

ib.  boxes........

14
 
8
e>
71

2  Crown.

Loose  Muscatels ln Boxes.
2 crown.............................   3 a
.............................   4
Loose Muscatels in Bags.
.................  3*
.................  3*
Foreign.
Currants.
Patras,  bbls........  ........  ©gu
Vostizzas, 50 lb.  cases  ......  3%
25 lb.  boxes........................   5
1 lb.  packages 
ju
Citron, Leghorn. 251b. boxes  ’2
Lemon 
8
Orange 
1©

Schuit’s Cleaned.

........... 

Peel.

“ 
25  “ 
25  “ 
“ 
Raisins. 
Ondnra. 29 lb. boxes 
“
Sultana, 20 
Valencia. 30  “

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© 6 
6A& 8

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

Bouden*.

XX Grade 
Vanilla.
2 oz......81  75
4 oz...... 3 50

“ 
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Jennings.
Lemon. Vanilla
2 oz regolar panel.  75 
1  20 
4 0« 
...150
2  00 
60s 
...2  00
8 00 
No. 3 taper.......... l  35
2 00 
No. 4  taper...........1  50
2 50
N orthrop’«
Lemon.- Vanilla.
oval taper  75 
1  10
“  120 
r r e
*• 
1  20
2 25
“  1  60 
“ 

2 oz 
3 oz 
2 oz regular  “
4 oz 

85 

GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.

Quarter  kegs.....................1  10
1  lb cans.............................   30
A lb  cans............................  18

Choke Bore—Dupont’s

Quarter kegs......... ............1  35
lib  cans.............................   34

Eagle Dnck—Dupont’s.

HERBS.

INDIGO.

Quarter kegs......................8 00
1  lb cans............................  go
Sage.
Hops.
Madras,  51b. boxes.........
3. F., 2, 3 and 5 lb. boxes.. 
JELLY.
15  lb.  palls............... 
  ©
%  7, 
 
2
 
30 
............  @
LICORICE.
Pure.....................................
30
  £5
Calabria...................... 
sioiiy.......................................12
Root.....................................   jo
lye
Condensed, 2 dos.............. 1  20
4 dos...............2 25

“ 
MINCE  MEAT.

 

i&siiSÍ

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

MEASURES.

1  gallon  ............... .........81  75
Half  gallon........... .........  1  40
Q uait........  ......... .........  
70
P int....................... .........  
45
Half  pint  .......................  
40
Wooaen, for vinegar, per do*.
l gallon................. .........   7 00
Half gallon...........
........  4  75
in a r t.................... .........   3 75
PlD t 

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

. . .  

2

©4 00

PICKLES.
Meal am.
Barrel!, 1,800 count... 
Half bbls, 600  oonnt..  O- 50
Barrel!, 8,400 count. 
Half bbls, 1,800 oonnt 
PIPES.
Clay, No.  816............................ l 70
«  T.D.fnU count...........  70
Cob, No. 8....................  ...  180

Small.

3 £5

5 50

POTASH.

48 Cana in case.

Babbitt’! ........................   4  00
Penna Salt  Co.’a..................   3 00

RICE.
Domeatlc.

Carolina bead.....................   5)4
“  No. 1...................... 5
“  No. 8......................4*
Broken...............................   %
Japan, No. 1..........................6)4
“  No. 8...........................5
Java.......................... — 6
Patna.............. ....... ......... 
4X

Imported.

SPICKS.

Whole Sifted.

“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

Allaplee...............................  9)4
Cassia, China In matt........  9>4
Batavia In bnnd — 15
Saigon In rolls........38
doves,  Amboyna...............88
Zanslbar................ 11H
Mace  Batavia.....................70
Nutmegs, fancy..................W
No. 1.....................«0
“  No. 8.....................65
Pepper, Singapore, black — 10 
" 
“  white...  .80
shot.......................16
" 
Pure Ground In Bulk
15
Allspice.............................  „
Cassia,  B atavia.............. 18
and  Saigon.85
<• 
“ 
Saigon................... 35
doves,  Amboyna...............22
••  Zanslbar.................18
Ginger, African..................16
"  Cochin................... 8o
Jam aica................ 82
« 
Mace  Batavia..................... 66
Mnstard, Bng. and Trieste..82
Trieste................... 86
Nutmegs, No. 2 .................. 75
Pepger, Singapore, bUw3k— 16
“  Cayenne.................20
Sage..............-----------------80
•’Absolute” In Packages.
Ms 
Allspice......................  84
Cinnamon............. 
  84
doves.........................  84
Ginger,  Jamaica........  84
“  African  .........   84
Mustard......................  84
Pepper.......................   »4
Sage...................  
••••  84
Granulated,  bbls.................  ltt
Lump, bbls 

.*■

“ 

“ 

SAL  SODA.
751b  cases.
.......
1451b kegs...
SEEDS.
Anise.......................
Canary, Smyrna......
Caraway.................
Cardamon, Malabar.
Hemp,  Russian.......
Mixed  Bird..............
Mustard,  white.......
Poppy.......................
Rape........................
Cuttle  bone..............
STARCH.

41430

Klngsford’s Corn.

 

“ 

Klngsford’s Silver Gloss.

Common Corn
* 
 
Common Gloss
“ 
“ 

801-lb packages.................... 614
401-lb 
...................614
401-lb.  packages...................6%.
6-lb. boxes....—  
......   714
80-lb  boxes.........................  654
40-lb 
514
1-lb packages.......................  5
8-lb 
.......................5
6-lb 
6K
 
40 and 50 lb. boxes..............  3)4
Barrels................... ............  3)4
Scotch, In  bladders............37
Maccabo;. In jars...............35
French Rappee, In Jars  — 43 
Boxes  ..................................6W
Kegs, Bngllsh 
.....................4£

SNUFF.

SODA,

 

SALT.

Diamond Crystal.

 

 
 

“ 

65

 
 

Cases, 843  lb. boxes........8  1  60
Barrels, 380  lbs................  2 50
115214lb bags....  4 00
lb  “ 
....  3 75
60 5 
3010  lb  “ 
....  3 50

“ 
“ 
•* 
11  20141bbag8.................   3 50
“  880 lb  bbls...........   2 50
“  284 lb 
...........   2 85

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

Worcester.
115 214-lb sacks........................<4 (.0
“ 
60 5-lb 
3010-lb 
82 14 lb.  “ 
3301b. bbl...............................  2 50
8 lb sacks...................3214
linen acks..........  60
Common Grades.

3?E
3 50
3 30

WftT8ftW.

100 3-lb. sacks......................... 18 10
60 5-lb.  “ 
2810-lb. sacks........................  1 75
30
56 lb. dairy In drill  bags... 
881b.  “ 
16
.. 
Ashton.
56 lb. dairy In linen sacks..  75
Higgins.
56 lb. dairy In linen  sacks 
75
Soiar Rock.
56 lb.  sacks.................  
Common Fine.
Saginaw...................... 
Manistee 

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

28
90

1  90

on

“ 

“ 

 

 

8ALERATUS.

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 oz. F. M. 8  90 doz.  *10 80 gro
2  “  N. S.  1 80  *■ 
12 60  “
2
14 40  “
F. M.  1  40  “ 
Vanilla.
1 oz.  F. M.  1 50 doz. 16 20 gro
2  “  N.  S.  2 00  “ 
21 60  “
2  “  F. M. 2 50  “ 
25 50  •*
Lemon.
Vanilla.

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

Rococo—Second  Grade. 

SOAP.
Laundry.

G. R. Soap Works Brands. 

“ 
“ 
“ 
Best German Family.

Concordia, 100 M lb. bars... 3 50
5 box lots....... 3  35
10 box lots.......3 30
20 box lots.......3 20
601-lb. bars.......................2 25
5 box  lo ts....................... 2 15
25.box.lots......................... 2 00
Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.
Old Country,  80  1-lb...........3 20
Good Cheer, 601 lb............ 3 90
White Borax, 100  X-lb........3 65

•  Proctor A Gamble.

“ 

Concord............................. 3 45
Ivory, 10  oz....................... 6 75
6  OZ.........................4 00
Lenox...............................  3 66
Mottled German................3  15
Town Talk.........................3 25

Dingman Brands.

“ 

“ 

Single box......................... 3 95
5 box lots, delivered......... 3 85
10 box lots, delivered........3 75
Jas. S. Kirk A Co.’s  Brands. 
American  Family, 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  b a rs................. 3 10
Lautz Bros. AICo.’s Brands.
Acme.................................3 65
Cotton Oil..........................6 00
Marseilles..........................4 00
Master 
.  ................4 00
Thompson A Chute Co.’s Brands

......  

TEAS.

JAPAN—Regular.

SUN CUBED.

BASKET FIRED.

F air...........................   ©17
Good..........................   @20
Choice.......................... 24  @26
Choicest.......................32  @34
Dust............................ 10  ©12
F air............................  @17
Good..........................  @20
Choice..........................24 @2C
Choicest....................... 32  @34
Dust............................. 10 @12
F air............................. 18 @20
Choice.......................  @25
Choicest....................   @35
Extra choice, wire leaf  @40
Common to  fall........... 25 @35
Extra fine to finest___ 50 @65
Choicest fancy.............75 @85
@86
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
F air..............................18 @22
Choice.................. —  24  @28
Best..............................40 @50

OOLONG. 
IMPERIAL.

ENGLISH BREAKFAST.

70UNG HYSON.

g u n p o w d e r .

TOBACCOS.
Congress Brand.

Cigars.

Invincibles  .................... 880 00
Imperials...............................  70 00
Perfectos__  . 
.............6 > 00
Boquets 
.....................   55 00
Signal  Five........................35 10
Comrade 
.....................  35 00
Mr.  Thomas 
................... 35  CO

Edw. W. Rube’s Brands.

Mne Cut.

 

P. Lorlllard A Co.’s Brands.
Sweet Russet.................   @85
Tiger..........................  
30
D. Scotten A Co’s Brands.
60
Hiawatha................... 
Cuba........................ 
32
Rocket....................... 
30
Spaulding A Merrick’s  Brands.
Sterling...................... 
30
Private Brands.
Bazoo............................  @30
Can Can.........................  @27
Nellie  Bly................. 24  @25
Uncle Ben..................84  @25
McGlnty....................  
87
85
“  V4 bbls.........  
Columbia...................... 
Columbia,  drums......... 
Bang  Up....................... 
Bang up,  drums 
........ 
Plug.
Sorg’s Brands.

84
83
80
19

Spearhead...................... 
Joker.............................. 
Nobby Twist.................... 
Scotten’s Brands.
Kylo................................ 
Hiawatha........................ 
Valley City....................  
Finzer’s Brands.
Old  Honesty................... 
•Jolly Tar......  
.............. 
Lorlllard’s Brands.
Climax (8 oz., 41c)_____ 
Green Turtle..................  
87
Three  Black Crows... 
Something Good..'.... 
38
Ont of  Sight................... 
Wilson a McCaulay’s Brands.
Gold  Rope...................... 
Happy Thought.........  
37
Messmate.......................  
No Tax............................ 
Let  Go............................ 
Catlln’s  Brands.

J. G. Butler’s, Brands. 

Smoking.

39
87
40
85
38
34
4«
38
39
30

84
43
32
31
87

“ 

SUGAR.

»liver..................................3 66
Mono..... 
........................   3 30
SavonJImproved  ...............  2 50
Sunflower.......................... 2 80
Golden  ...............................3 25
Economical....................... 2 85
Scouring.
Sapolio, kitchen, 3  doz...  2 40
hand, 3 doz......... 2 40
Below  are  given  New  York 
prices on sugars, to  which  the 
wholesale  dealer  adds  the  lo­
cal freight  from  New  York  to 
your  shipping  point,  giving 
you  credit  on  the  Invoice  for 
the  amount  of  freight  buyer 
pays from the market  in which 
he  purchases  to  his  shipping 
point, Including 20  pounds  for 
the weight of tne barrel.
Domino.............................  #5 31
Cut  Loaf............................   5 31
Cubes...................................4 94
Powdered..........................   5 09
XXXX  Powdered..............   5 18
Granulated.................. 
Fine Granulated................  4 68
Extra Fine Granulated...  4 75
Mould A.............................. 4 94
Diamond Confec.  A..........   4 64
Confec. Standard  A.........4 5 ’
No.  1.................................  4 37
No.  2 ................................. 4 37
No.  3.................................. 4  37
No.  4.................................  4 ¿7
No.  5.................................. 4 31
No.  6.................................. 4 85
No.  7.................................. 4 19
No.  8.................................. 4  12
No.  9.......................  
 
No.  10.................................. 4 00
No.  11..................................3 94
No.  12.................................  3 87
No.  13.................................. 3 75
No.  14................................  3 56

 

 

 

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

SYRUPS.

Corn.

Pure Cane.

F air.....................................  15
Good...................................   80
Choice..................................  25

TABLE  SAUCES.
“ 

Lea A Perrin’s, large____  4  75
small......   2 75
Halford, large...................3 75
small...................2 25
Salad Dressing, larg e...... 4 56
2 S5
*' 

“ 
" 

small 

4 82

4 06

Scotten’s Brands.

Kiln  dried.....................   1?@18
Golden  Shower  ..................19
Huntress 
...........................86
Meerschaum  ...................29@30
American Eagle Co.’s Brands.
Myrtle Navy....................... 40
Stork  ................................   30
German...........................   .15
Frog....................................32
Java, Hs foil.......................32
Banner Tobacco Co.s Brands.
Banner.................................16
Banner Cavendish..............3b
Gold Cut 
...........................3o
Warpath..............................14
Honey  Dew.........................86
Gold  Block.........................30
F. F. Adams Tobacco Co.’s 
Brands.
Peerless................ 
 
86
Old  Tom..............................18
Standard....................... 
82
Globe Tobacco Co.’s Brands.
Handmade......................... 40
Rob  Roy..............................26
Uncle Sam.....................28@32
Red Clover...........................38
Tom and Jerry.................... 25
Traveler  Cavendish........... 38
Buck Horn.......................... 3u
Plow  Boy......................30@32
Corn  Cake  ......................  16
40 gr.................. 
  @8
50 gr............................  @9

Spaulding A Merrick.

Leidersdorfs Brands.

VINEGAR.

 

•1 for barrel.

WET  MUSTARD.
Bulk, per g a l..................  
30
Beer mug, 2 doz In case...  1  75
Magic...................................1 00
Yeast Foam  ........................1  00
Diamond..........................  
75
Eurek*......  
1  fO
.................  1 00
Yeast  Cream 

YEAST.

THE  MICHIGAN  T t t A  TTr a R iv r  a t s t.

21

CROCKERY  AND  GLASSWARE

 

 

 

 

 
 

“

ai 

“ 

u 

“ 
u 

..........................2  25
* 

lamp chimneys.—6 doi. in box".

First quality.
“ 
ii 
XXX Flint.
“ 
*< 
Pearl top.
“ 
“ 
“ 
*• 

LAMP  BUBNBBS.
an
No. 0 Sun.............................................  
No. 1  “  ..................................... 
No. 2  “  ........................ 
 
65
Tabular...................................... 
50
Security.  No.  1..........................  
go
Security,  No.  2......................  
so
 
Nutmeg................................................... "   50
Arctic...............................................................   25
„  
Per box.
No. 0 Sun.......................................................   j  75
No. 1  “  ............................................  
i  as
No. 2  “ ......................................................... a to
No. 0 Sun, crimp top, wrapped and labeled.. .2  10
» °-l  ‘ 
No. 2 
9  05
No. C Sun, crimp top, wrapped and labeled.  2 60 
NO. 1 
o fiO
„   „ _ 
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and  labeled...............  
3 70
“ 
No. 2  “ 
.........  
4 70
No.2 Hinge,  “ 
.................!  4  8i
Fire Proof—Plain Top.
No. 1, Sun,  plain  bulb........................   ........3 40
“ 
No. 2,  “ 
.........................."V...4 40
_  
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb,  per doz......................  1  25
No. 2
1  50
No. 1 crimp, per dos............... 
1  35
.................................... !  1  60
No-a 
__ 
Rochester.
No. l, lime (65c doz).......................  
35«
No. 2, lime (70c doz)......................................4 00
No. 2, flint (80c doz)...................'4  70
_  
No.2, lime (70c doz)................. 
4  in
No.  2 flint (80c doz).................  . . . . . . . " “ '"440
Miscellaneous.

“ 
La Bastle.

Electric.

“ 

“ 

•• 

ii 

Junior, Rochester...............
Nutmeg..............  .................... MI-WI*.*.” "   15
Illuminator Bases............................... 
"1  no
Barrel lots,5 doz  ........................."H I.
90
7 in. Porcelain Shades..............II'**'............1  no
Case lots, 12 doz......................IIIIIII. II.........  90
Box
4 20
4  cm
5 25
5  10
5 ss
5 00

Doz. 
No. 3 Rochester,  lim e........  1 50 
No. 3 Rochester, flint............ 1  75 
No.  8 Pearl top or Jewel gl’s.l  85 
> 0.  2 Globe incandes. lime... 1  75 
No. 2 Giobe Incandes. flint.. .2 00 
No. 2  Pearl glass.................... 2  10 

Mammoth Chimneys for Store Lamps.

o il   ca m s.

. 

“ 
“ 
“ 

Pump Cans.

LAMTEBM  GLOBES.
“ 
’ 
“  m u ..........

1  gal  tin cans with spout..........................  
j
1  gal  galv iron, with spout...............  
2 00
2 gal  galv iron with spout  ................ 
3 25
3 gal  galv iron with spout.............  .1......  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
.  1  50 
5 gal  Tilting  Cans,  Monarch........
10 50 
5  gal  galv iron Nacefas__
9 00
in 50
3 gal  Home Rule............................. 
5 gal  Home Rnle...........................................i2 00
3 gal  Goodenough.................... 
'  1200
5 gal  Goodenough  ............   .II.. 
II......... 13«,
5 gal  Pirate  King  ............................. I  III .  10 50
No. 0,  Tubular, cases 1 doz.  each.................   45
“  2  “ 
No. 0, 
45
N0. 0, 
bbis 5  “ 
No. 0, 
hull’s eye, cases 1 doz'each 11  25
LAMP WICKS.
No. 0, per  gross.......................
....................... 
No. 1, 
...........  2«
..............................................  $
No. 3, 
Mammoth, per doz................................... 
^
X Pints,  6 doz in box, per box (box 00)...  1  60
doz  (bbl 35)........  20
H  “  6  “  “  box,  “  box (box 00) 
1  80 
X  “  18  “  “  bbl,  “  doz  (bbl 35)....
22
Butter Crocks,  1 to 6 gal.............................
.......  60
“ 
“  % gal. per doz............ . . . . .
Jugs, )4 gal., per dos...............................  ..
..........  
. 
70
“  1 to 4 gal., per gal..............................
...............  
07
Milk Pans, a gal., per doz.......................
........  60
“ 
...........  7*
Butter Crocks, 1  and 2 gal........................  
gu
Milk Pans, )4 gal. per  doz..........  ............   45
79

“ 
“ 
JELLY  TUMBLERS—Tin Top.
24  “  “  bbl, 

.............
1  “ 
STONEWABB—BLACK GLAZED.

STONEWABB— AKRON.

........ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

* 

“ 
OILS.
BARRELS.

The Standard Oil Co. quotes as follows:

FROM TANK WAGON.

Eocene.......................  
................. 
11
9*
XXX W.W.  Mich.  Headlight................ 
Naptha....  .........................................  
@1114
Stove Gasoline......................................   @11M
Cylinder................................................ gj  @39
Engine...................................................13  @24
Black,  winter........................................ 
9)4
Black, summer......................................  
9
Eocene....................  
8VS
 
XXX W. W. Mich.  Headlight...............  
644
Scofield, Shurmer  A  Teagle  quote  as  follows:
Palatine.......................................................... 12
Daisy White.................................................... 11
Red Cross, W W  Headlight............................  9A
Naptha................................................  
11)4
Stove Gasoline................................................lijj
Palatine............................................................ 9u
Red Cross W W Headlight............................  6X

FROM TANK WAGON,

BARRELS.

 

 

WOODEN WARE.

Tubs, No. 1.......................... 5  75
“  No. 2...........................4
“  No. 8.........................  4 00
Palls, No. 1, two-hoop.. 
1 25
..  1  35
“  No. 1,  three-hoop 
Bowls, 11 Inch..............
“ 
13  “ 
................... 
90
“  15  “  .....................  1  25
“  17  “ 
...................   1  80
HIDES  PELTS  and  FURS
Perkins  A  Hess  pay  as  fol 

lows:
PURS.
Mink.................  
40  @  1  25
Coon................. 
75
30  @ 
60  ©  1  15
Skunk...............  
Rat Spring........ 
15  © 
18
08  @ 
11
Rat,  winter......  
Rat, fall............  03  @  C8
Red Fox_____  1 CO  @  1 60
Gray Fox.,........  40  @ 
6)
Cross Fox.........   3 00  © 5 00
Badger.............. 
50  @  1 00
Cat, wild........... 
75
fO  © 
Cat,  house........ 
10  @ 
25
Fisher.............  5  00  @600
Lynx................   1  00  ©  2 50
Martin, drrk__,2 00  ©  3 00
1  @ 1  50
Martin, paie, yel  1
1  @ 8 00
Otter.................  5
I  (£ 2 00
Wolf.................1
>  0 7 00
Beaver..............  3
Bear.................  15
1  @25 00
Opossum...........
@ 25
Deer Skin, dry..
@ 25
Deer skin, green
© m
.  6 @7
@7)4
7 @  8
■ a  8V4
5 @  6
@ 8
.  7V4@  9
.  9*@11
.10 @25

HIDES
Green ....................
Part Cured............
Full  “ 
............
Dry.........................
Kips, green  ...........
“  cured............
Calfskins,  green...
cured...
Deacon skins.........
No. 2 hides % off.
PELTS.

“ 

.  5 0   20
.10 0   30

.  8  @13 
5  @11 
40  @75

Washed .. 
Unwashed  ... 
Old  Wool.

MISCELLANEOUS.

T a llo w ...........................  3)4©  4)4
Grease  butter  ............   1  @ 2
S w itch es.....................   1h @  8
Ginseng 
.  ...............  2 0o@2 25
G R A IN S  an d   FK K D H TU FF8

WHEAT.

No. l W hite (58 lb. test) 
No. 2  Red  (60 lb. test) 

65 
05

FLOUB  IN  SACKS.

'P a te n ts ................................    4  01
Second  P a te n t....................  3  53
S traight................................   3  30
C lear......................................  3  10
'G ra h a m ..............................   3  30
........................  4  50
B uckw heat 
Rye............................. 
3  55
'S u b ject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour in bbls., 25c per  bbl. ad ­
ditional.

 

 

MEAL.

B olted....................................  2 40
G ranulated.................. 
2  65

FEED AND  MILLSTUFPS.

St.  Car  Feed,  screen e d ...122  00 
St. Car Feed, unscreened.  21  50 
No.  1  Corn and  Oats 
...  21  00
No. 2 S p e c ia l....................  20  50
U nbolted Corn M eal.........  20  50
W inter W heat  Bran  .......   15  00
W inter W heat M iddllhgs.  16  00 
S c re e n in g s.........................   14  00

co BN.

Car  lo ts................................... 54
Less than  car lo ts................56

OATS.

Car  l o t s ..................................34)4
Less than  car lots  ............  37

No. 1 Timothy, car lots__10 00
No. 1 
ton lots........11  00

“ 

FISH  AND  OYSTERS. 

FBESH  FISH.
White fish 
.................  @ 7)4
T rout........................   @  754
Black Bass.................  12)4015
Halibut,.....................   @12)4
Ciscoes or Herring__  @ 6
Bluefish......................  @12)4
Fresh lobster, per lb.. 
18
Cod 
..........................  
10
Haddock....................   @ 8
No. 1 Pickerel............   @ 7
Pike............................  @7
Smoked White..........   @7
14
Red Snappers............  
Columbia  River  Sal­
mon ......................... 
12)4
Mackerel....................   18@25
Scallops......................
Shrimps  ............... . 
Clams.........................
SHELL  GOODS.

Oysters, per  100......... 1  25@l  50
Clams. 
.  75@)  00

1  25

OYSTERS— IN CANS.

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

Falrhaven  Counts__ 
F .J . D.  Selects.........  
Selects....................... 
F. J. D., Standards.... 

t l » . w  DUPLICATES OF
J f ^ W lN G S & T Y P E  FORM *,
T radesman Co.,  grand rapidsmich.

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GRAND  RAPIDS, 
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D A M , OHIO

OLD  BOGGS  AMD  HIS  GIRL.

Purchase  of a  Wedding  Outfit  at  the 

Company  Store.

I  was  standing  in  front  of  the  Pine 
Mountain Lumber Company’s store,  situ 
ated on the upper waters of the  Cumber 
land, when old man Boggs came  up from 
the sawmill on the bank of the river  and 
approached  me  with  some  degree  of 
doubt,  I thought,  in  bis  manner.  See 
ing no one else around,  be became easier, 
and greeted me pleasantly.

“How  are you,  Mr. Boggs?” I said, in 
return  to  his  salutation.  “Fine  day 
Any news up the mountain?”
“ I’m  tollible  like,  I  reckon,”  he  re 
sponded. 
“Nothin’  happenin’  our  way 
—much.  But that ain’t  what  I  want  to 
talk  to  you  about. Colonel,”  he  added 
relapsing  into  the  manner  of  doubt  j 
thought I had observed at first.
“ Well,  what is it?  Any  shooting  go­
ing on, or liable to?”
“Reckon not.  Most  uv  the  boys  has 
gone  down  to  Looisville  for  witnesses 
ag’in’  them  moonshiners,  and  things  is 
restin’ some.”
He  came  up  quite  close  to  me  and 
looked over hi9 shoulder to be sure there 
was no one in  bearing  distance,  except 
myself.
“Air you a married man,  Colonel?” he 
asked in a whisper.
“I  am  not  so  fortunate,”  I  admitted 
with as much gallantry of manner and as 
pretty a candor as if a dozen women  had 
been there.
“Then I reckon you ain’t  much  know 
in’ on sich things as havin’ yer  gals  get 
tin’ married?”

“Hardly,” I confessed with a smile. 
“Anyhow,”  he  said  resignedly,  “you 
air old enough to be,  and  I  want  you  to 
gimme a lift.”
“How do you mean?” I inquired in sur 
prise.
“Don’ git  skeert,”  he  grinned.  “It’s 
only my gal, Susan.”
“Oh,” I said in a tone of relief;  “she’s 
going to get married,  is she?”
I  want  ter  git 
“Kinder  that  away. 
some  weddin’  fixin’s,  and  I don’t want 
ter git ’em frum tbe.young  feller  in  the 
store.  Won’t you fix ’em up fer me?” 
“Certainly,” and we went in.  “By the 
way,” I inquired,  “is Susan  your  oldest 
daughter?”

“No;  she’s the youngest.”
“Isn’t  that  rather  cutting  the  others 
out?”
“I  reckon  not,”  he  laughed. 
“You 
see,  they take after mq,  and  I  didn’t git 
spliced till I  was  past  40.  Susan  takes 
after  her  mammy;  she got me afore she 
was 20.”
He laughed again,  and 1  laughed  with 
him,  and  threw  out  several  pieces  of 
dress goods on the counter.
“I suppose you want something white,”
I said,  spreading  the  goods  out  so  he 
could see the effect  “That will  be very 
nice for a  bride.”
“What’s the tax on it?” he asked, with­
out touching it, showing that  he was not 
versed in dry goods.
“Two bits a yard.”
“Geemently  gosh.  Colonel!”  he  ex­
claimed,  starting  back.  “I  can’t  afford 
no sich goods as that.  Silks and  satings 
ain’t fer  we’uns.  Hain’t  you  got  some 
calico?”
“Plenty  of  it,”  I said, and  I  dumped 
an armful down on the counter.
“What’s this  wuth?”  he  asked,  pick­
ing out a bright yellow  pieee,  with a red 
vine trailing through it.
“That’s ten  cents  a  yard, and  it will 
only take ten yards for the pattern.” 
“That’s  a  dollar,  ain’t  it?”  he  in­
quired after a  moment’s  mental  calcula­
tion.

had  a  weakness  for  yaller. 
matches her freckles, she says.”
it aside.
shoes.”
hazard my judgment again.

“Exactly.”
“Gimme  that,  Colonel.  Susan  alius 
It  kinder 
I cut off the amount called for and laid 
“Now,”  he  said,  “show  me  some 
“What  kind?”  I  asked,  not  caring  to 
“How do they run in price?”
“From $1.50 up.”
“That’s  purty  steep  fer  a  gal  that’s 
been  useter  goin’  bar’footed, I reckon,” 
he  mused;  “but  a  gal  don’t git hitched

s.
I E

EATON, LYON & CO.

GRAND  RAPIDS.

20 &  22  Monroe  St.,
Reeder Bros. 

Shoe Co.

State Agents for Lycoming Rubber Co.

LYCOniNGS are our FIRST QUALITY 
KEYSTONES are our Second Quality

Nine years ago these goods were not known in 
Michigan, and to-day they stand second to none 
and are as well known as any.  A great many of 
the best retail merchants in  Michigan and Indi 
ana think they are the  best  goods  made,  being 
made from the  Purest  Rubber  and  on the  best 
style lasts, and are the  best  fitting goods in  the 
market.  Our trade  for  the  past  nine years on 
'hese goods has steadily increased.
OUR  LEATHER  LINE  is  full  and  complete: 
also an elegant line  of  FELT  BOOTS  and  SOX 
or fall.
See our salesmen—it  will  pay you to examine 
amples.

REEDER  BROS.  SHOE  CO.

QRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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

WHITE

BIRTH,  KRAUSE  i  60.,

MICHIGAN  STATE  AGENTS,

for Catalogue.

“Ain’t 

astonishment. 

every  day,  and  1  s’pose 1  kin stand it. 
Jim’ll have to bny  ’em  fer  her  anyhow 
atter  this.  Lemme  have  one  nv  them 
pa’r at SI.50.”
“What size?”
“About  sevens,  I  reckon,”  he  said. 
“Six is her size in summer  time,  but git- 
tin’ married  is makin’  her kinder proud, 
and shesays she’s goin’ to wearstockin’s; 
so, you see. Colonel,  we’d better git ’em a 
size bigger ter ’low for the extry.”
I picked out a pair of  number  sevens, 
neat,  bnt  not  gaudy,  and laid them be­
side the calico.
“Now,” I said, getting  ready  to  show 
him a few other  articles for a trousseau, 
“ what else?”
“What else is thar to git?” he asked in 
guileless 
that 
enough  weddin*  fixin’s  fer  any  gal? 
Them cost $2.50, didn’t  they?”
“Yes, but  I  thought  she  might  want 
something else, perhaps.”
That  remark  didn’t  begin  to express 
all  that  was  in my mind,  but it was the 
best I could do under the  circumstances.
“Likely she does,” he replied, “but it’s 
Jim’s  turn  to  do  the buyin’  now. 
I’ve 
done my sheer.”
“When  is  the  wedding?”  I inquired, 
as I wrapped up the trousseau 1 had sold 
him.
“It’s  done  tuck,”  he  answered,  as 
though surprised at my question.
“I don’t understand what  you  mean,” 
1 said.
“The  weddin’s  over,”  he  explained. 
“It tuck place yistiddy.”
“But what are you getting these things 
for now?” I asked,  more astonished than 
ever.
“Caze,  now’s the time,” he said with a 
short  laugh.  “You  don’t  reckon  I  was 
goin’ to git all  these  yer  weddin’  fixin’s 
aforehand,  and  run  the  resk uv havin’ 
the  whole  shootin’  match  flash  in  the 
pan,  do  you?  Jim’s  stiddy  and  shore 
footed, but Susan gits to steppin’  mighty 
high  and  actin’  frisky  when  she’s got 
good  clo’s  onto  her  back.  She  takes 
atter her mother, Susan does.”
I hadn’t a  word  to say, of  course,  but 
as  Mr. Boggs started out 1 handed him a 
bolt of blue ribbon, and told him to  give 
it  to  the  bride  with  my  compliments, 
without knowing  exactly  whether  blue 
ribbon  matched  yellow calico with a red 
vine trailing through it or not.

W.  J.  L ampton.

He  W as  a  Close  Buyer.

“Mr.  Putterby,  my  old-time  neighbor 
of forty years ago,  was  what  we  call  in 
the country  close  fisted,”  said  the  man 
from the rural districts.  “He could drive 
the  closest  bargain  of  any  one  i  ever 
met,  and could keep house with the least 
buying.  One of our  coins in  those days 
was the old silver  12}£-cent  piece,  vari­
ously called ‘ninepence,’  ‘York shilling,’ 
and ‘bit,’  according  to  the  part  of  the 
country you were in,  and  it was  the  ex­
istence of this  coin  that  enabled him  to 
make a crowning  triumph in the way  of 
a close trade.
“A farm boy came along one day  with 
a  load  of  pumpkins  which be was ped­
dling about the  village  at  a cent apiece. 
Mr.  Putterby,  after  examining  them, 
thought  he  would  invest,  but  half  a 
pumpkin was all that he  cared to buy.
“ ‘But a whole pumpkin is only a cent,’ 
said the boy.  ‘How are you going to pay 
me for half  a one?’
“ ‘The easiest thing in the world,’  said 
Mr.  Putterby,  and so a  pumpkin  was cut 
and he took one of the  halves  under  his 
arm and handed the boy a shilling.  ‘Now 
give me  the  twelve  cents  change,’  and, 
taking  the  twelve  coppers  from the as­
tonished bo>,  he  walked  away  with  the 
purchase.”

The Erie Canal boats  are  idle,  so  far 
this season,  as a result  of rate cutting in 
grain  carrying  by  the  railroads.  The 
railroads are carrying at lower rates than 
the cost would be to the canal men.  The 
result of the competition is  likely  to  be 
disastrous to boat owners.

The Sloss Iron and  Steel  Co.,  of  Bir­
mingham, Ala.,  has  sold  100  tons of pig 
iron  in  Liverpool,  England. 
It  is  ex­
pected that other orders will follow.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,

A. T. BLISS, Pres't. 

MAX  HEAVENRICII, Treas. 

DUNCAN  Y.  STEWART, Sec’y.

LIMITED.

SAGINAW,  E.  S.

Japan  Teas for  1895.

Advices  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  £ chests Japan  Teas, near­
ly all of our own importation, which  we offer  to  the 
retailers of Michigan  at  prices  that  will  move tnem 
rapidly, if the matter receives their earnest considera 
tion.  Samples and prices cheerfully mailed.

Values=-i4 c  up to 35c.

DID  YOU  NOTICE

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

UPERIOR

\■EARS’

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

“THE  ACKNOWLEDGED  LEADER 
OF  CRACKERS! ”

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CHICAGO 

AND  WEST  MICHIGAN  R’Y.
GOING TO CHICAGO.

TO  A N D  PROM   M U 8 K E S 0 N .

RETURNING FROM  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
7:30am  3:15pm
Lv. Grand  Rapids .. 
Ar. Manistee...........  12:20pm  8:15pm
Ar. Traverse City__ 
1:00pm  8:45pm
Ar. Charlevoix........  3:15pm  ll:10ipm
Ar. Petoskey.......  
3:45pm  11:40pm
pm.

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

T R A V ER SE C IT T . CH A R LEV O IX  AND  PETO SK EY .

PA R L O R   A N D   S L E E PIN O   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, 

?-ct28’.188<

LANSING & 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.

T O  AND  FROM  8A S IN A W , ALM A  AND  ST.  LO U IS.

Lv. Detroit.....................7:40am l:10pmoc6:00pm
Ar. Grand Rapids.........12:40pm 5:3Cpm  10:45pm
Lv. GR 7:40am 5:00pm  Ar. GR.11:35am 10:45pm
Lv. Grand Rapids...........7:00am  1:20pm 5:25pm
Ar. from Lowell............. 12:40pm 5:20pm  ..........

TO  AND  PROM  LO W ELL.

THROUGH  CAR  SERVICE.

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

Trains  week days only.

GEO. DbHA VEN, Gen. Pass’r Ag’t.

Michigan(Tentrai

“  Tie Niagara Falls Route.’*

(Taking effect  Sunday,  May 27,1894.) 

EA STW A RD .

WACKEE Railway.___________

«Dally.  All others daily, except Sunday. 

Arrive. 
Depart.
10 20 d m...........Detroit Express........... 7 00am
5 30 a m ......»Atlantic and  Pacific.......11  20 pm
1  50pm........New York Express.........   6 00 p m
Sleeping cars  run on Atlantic  and  Pacific ex 
press trains to and from Detroit.
Parlor  cars  leave  for  Detroit at 7:00am;  re 
taming, leave Detroit 4:35 p m, arriving at Grand 
Rapids 10:20 p m.
Direct  communicatloH  made  at  Detroit  with 
all through  trains erst  over  the  Michigan Cen­
tral Railroad (Canada Southern Division.)
A. ALMquisT, Ticket Agent, 
______________Union PassengerStaHon.
D etr o it,  g r a n d  h a v e n   a  m il-
tNo.  14 tNo. 16 tNo.  18 •No.
Trains Lt ave
G’d  Rapids,  Lv
6 45am
Ionia...........Ar
7 40am
8 25am
St.  Johns— Ar
9 00am 
Owosso........Ar
E. Saginaw..Ar
1050am
11 30am 
Bay (Sty......Ar
1005am
F lin t...........Ar
12 05pm
Pt.  Huron...Ar
10 53am 
Pontiac....... Ar
1150am
Detroit.........Ar
W ESTW A R D .
For  Grand Haven  and intermediate
Points  ...........................................*8:40 a. m.
For Grand Haven and  Muskegon...... tl:00 p. m.
“ 
“  Mil. and Chi..  t5 35 p. m.
For Grand Haven, Mil. and Chi........  *7:40 p. m
For Grand Haven and Milwaukee__+10:05 p. m.
tDaily except Sunday. 
Trains  arrive  from  the  east,  6:35 a.m.,  12:50 
p.m., 5:30 p. m.,  10:ju  p.m.
Trains  arrive from  the  west. 6:40  a,  m.  8:15 
a. m. 10:10 a. m.  3:15  p m.  and 7:05 p. m.
Eastward—No. 14  has  Wagner  Parler  Buffet 
car.  No. 18 Parlor Car.  No. 82 Wagner Sleeper.
Westward— No. 11 Parlor Car.  No. 15 Wagner 
Parlor Buffet car.  No. 81 Wagner Sleeper.

1020am 
1125am 
1217pm 
1 20pm
3 45pm
4 35pm 
345pm
5 50pm 
305pm 
4 05pm

1100pm 
1235am 
125am 
3 10am
6 40am 
715am 
5 40am 
730am 
537am
7 00am

3 25pm
4 27pm
5 20pm 
605pm 
8 00pm
6 37pm 
705pm 
850pm 
8 25pm 
925pm

»Dally.

J a s . C a m p b e l l , City Ticket Agent.

“ 

“ 

Grand  Rapids  St Indiana.

T RA IN S  S O IN S   N O RT H .

L e a v e  g o in g  

N o rth

T H E Y

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.,

Grand  Rapids,  flieh.

T R A IN S  S O W S   SO U T H .

F o r T ra v e rse  C ity , P e to sk e y   a n d  S ag in aw . ...7 :1 0 a . ir-
F o r S a g in a w ................................................................ 5:00p-  r   .
F o r  P eto sk ey   a n d   M ackinaw ............................. 6:26 p   m .
L eav e go in g  
S o u th .
F o r  O ln e ln n a tl........................................................... 7 :2 6 a .m .
F o r K alam am oo an d   C h ic a g o ........................... 2:16 p.  m .
F o r  F o rt W a y n e a n  d  th e   E a s t............................ 2:16p .m .
F o r C in c in n a ti........................................................*6:40  p .m .
F o r  K alam azoo an d  C h ic ag o ...........................*11:40  p .m

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

Lv G ran d  R a p id s............. 7:25 a m   2:15 p m   *11:40 p m
A rr  C h ic a g o ...................... 2 :4 0 p m   9 :0 5 p m  
7:10 a m
O ar a n d  coach.

2:15 p  m   tr a in   h a s th ro u g h   W a g n er  B uffet  P a rlo r 

11:40 p  m  t r a i n  d a ily ,  th ro u g h  W a g n er S le ep in g  C ar 

an d  C oach.
L y  C hicago 
A rr G ran d  R a p id s 
3:30  p  m   h a s   th ro u g h   W a g n e r  B uffet  P a rlo r  C ar 
11:30 p m   tr a in  d a ily  .th r o  u g h   W a g n e r  S leeping  C a r

3:30p m  
9:16 p m  

11:30p m
7 :t0 a m

0:50am  
2:60pm 

F o r M uskegon—Le a r e  

7:25  a m  
l:0 0 p  m 
*:40 p  m

F rom  M uskegon—A rriv e.

9:50 a  m 
1:15 p m  
6:20 p m  
O .L. LOCKWOOD*

G en eral  P a sse n g e r an d   T ic k e t A gent.

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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

GOTHAM GOSSIP.

the  Markets.

Newe  from  the  Metropolis— Index  of 
Special  Correspondence
N ew  Yo k e,  May 11—Freeman & Shaw 
and the Houghton Packing Co.,  both  big 
firms  in  the  canning  business at Balti­
more,  announce  that  they  will  retire 
from  the  trade.  This  is  a straw which 
shows how  the  business  has  been  over­
done  within  the  past  few  years.  Yet 
there appears to be no let-up in the num­
ber  of  new  factories  which  are  being 
erected. 
It  is  only  by  experience  that 
some things can  be learned.
Jobbing grocers report a good distribu 
tive  trade  and  feel  that they have very 
little to complain of.  The weather is in 
tensely warm and vegetation is  progress 
ing  wonderfully.  Not  in  many  years 
have we heard so favorable reports  from 
the fruit districts, and a short  ride  from 
the  city  in  any  direction  discloses  the 
trees almost  bending beneath their loads 
of  blossoms. 
It  is  surely  going to be 
great  fruit  year—unless  the  bugs  < 
some species of pests interfere.
The  markets,  as  a  rule,  offer  few 
points of interest.  Coffee  remains  in al 
most exactly the same  position  that  has 
characterized  it  for  three  weeks.  The 
demand is of an everyday character  and, 
while holders are talking of  better  rates 
very  soon,  they  are  not betting any on 
the  rise.  There are  afloat  of  Rio  502, 
541 bags, against 416,059 bags  last  year, 
No.  7  is  worth  16c.  Mild coffees show 
some animation and the  trade  has  been 
very  fair  all  the  week.  Quotations, 
while not  preceptibly  higher,  are  firmly 
adhered to.
Refined sugar remains  very strong,  but 
the  demand  has  slackened  somewhat. 
Buyers  are  not  disposed  to  load  up te 
any great extent, preferring  to  let  mat 
ters take their own course.
There  is  a  good  regular  demand  for 
rice,  but not much buying ahead.  Stocks 
are pretty much  controlled by two firms. 
Foreign rice is firm and the  market  may 
soon take a turn upward.
Spices are in steady request and prices 
are firm.
Molasses  and  syrups  hold  their  own 
and buyers are  not  complaining  of  cur­
rent quotations at all.  The firmness pre­
vailing in the sugar  market  is  reflected 
in the market for these staples.
There is a fair trade  in  canned  goods 
all along the  line. 
In  some  things  the 
market is pretty well  cleaned  up.  New 
Jersey  tomatoes  are  firmer and there  is 
decidedly  less  pressure  to  make  sales. 
Corn is irregular, both  as  regards  offer­
ings and the price thereof.
The hot weather is having  a  very  de­
teriorating  effect  on  butter  and  much 
that  is  coming  is  “somewhat  fluid.” 
Still, arrivals are not  large  and  the  de­
mand  for  really  first-class  stock is suf­
ficient 
to  take  care  of  what  comes. 
Eighteen cents is about the top figure for 
best Western or State.
The  cheese  market  is  demoralized. 
New  arrivals  show  effects  of  the  hot 
wave and the price has gone down to 5% 
@7c.  There is a quantity of  full  cream 
cheese  here  that  will not bring over 3c.
It is flat, stale  and  mighty  unprofitable.
Eggs are dull at 13%c for Western and 
14c for nearby.  Hot weather  is  playing 
havoc with arrivals  in  this  line, as well 
as in butter and  cheese.
Foreign fresh  fruits, lemons,  oranges, 
pineapples,  bananas, etc.,  are  selling  at 
good rates  and  the  demand  is  sufficient 
to keep the  market  pretty  well  cleaned 
up.  A  few  California  fruits  are  here, 
cherries selling on the streets for 30@S5c 
per lb.
Peas and beans are dull  and  the  mar­
ket shows no animation whatever.  Choice 
pea beans, crop of 1894, 82@2.05.
As  showing  the  rapidity  with  which 
cocoa  is  growing  in  favor,  the  amount 
imported during the nine  months ending 
March was 20,061,876 lbs., against 12,373,- 
769 lbs.  last  year.  Cocoa  has  come  to 
stay.  So has  beer,  the  consumption  of 
which  shows  a  marvelous  increase. 
It 
is likely that water will hold  its own for 
bathing,  but as  a beverage  its  days  are 
numbered.
Watermelons  came  last  year  May  21. 
This season we shall have none  for  four 
weeks yet.

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugar—All grades  have  sustained  an 
advance  of  fully  J^c  during  the  past 
week.  The causes which have produced 
the advance are the very ones which T h e 
T radesm an has  reviewed on several oc 
casions  in  predicting  what  has  taken 
place.  They  are,  firstly,  the shortage in 
the  Cuban  crop,  compared  with  early 
calculations,  and,  secondly,  the decrease 
in  sowings  of  beets  in  Europe  for  the 
coming  campaign.  With  a  prospect for 
diminished  supplies,  the  fact  has  been 
developed that, as  a result of low prices, 
the consumption has increased  consider­
able;  while  grocers and jobbers,  fearing 
to be caught with heavy stocks  on  a  de­
clining market,  have followed a hand-to- 
mouth policy; hence the advance brought 
about by the  evidence  that  consumption 
was overtaking supplies  has  caught  the 
distributive trade without  supplies,  and 
is  forcing  them  into  the  market  at the 
materially higher level  of  values  which 
has  been  established.  The  market  is 
still strong and excited and every indica­
tion points to higher prices, even so con­
servative  authority  as  Willett  &  Gray 
predicting that refined grades  are  likely 
to go fully lc higher than  present  range 
of  values.  Licht,  the  great German au­
thority,  verifies his previous estimates as 
to short sowings in Europe.

Bananas—The  local  market  will  be 
well supplied this week with  good  ship­
ping  stock.  The  weather  is  so  much 
cooler that the fruit now enroute  is sure 
to arrive in good condition  and, as  there 
are several cars due to arrive  during  the 
week, it is certain that all orders  can  be 
filled promptly  and  that  prices will  be 
reasonable.

Lemons—The  extreme  warm  weather 
which  has  ruled  during  the  past week 
has  been  instrumental  in  causing  the 
lemon market to  be in a  ferment.  Each 
of the auction sales has witnessed higher 
prices  and  three-fourths of  the  dealers 
have been anxious to get  in  to  save  the 
extra advance which  seemed  more  than 
probable.  At the sale of  the  Frecmona, 
at  Montreal,  Thursday, the 37,500  boxes 
brought considerable more  than  import­
ers  expected.  Had 
the  weather  con­
tinued warm,  all the  purchases—even at 
the figures realized—would  have  proved 
profitable for those who  made  them,  but 
the  weather  has  turned  a  great  deal 
cooler during  the  past  three  days  and 
has rather put a  damper  on  the  enthu­
siasm concerning higher prices.  Should 
it continue  during the  present  week,  it 
s more than probable that prices will go 
back  fully  50c  per  box. 
If  they  do, 
such  dealers  as  have  not  already  pro­
vided themselves with stock  will  be  the 
winners by buying, for we can reasonably 
expect hot weather very  soon  now,  and 
with it  lemons  will  advance  50c@$1.50 
per box.

Oranges—There are still a few Califor­
nia seedlings to  come  forward,  and  the 
Southern exchanges are making very low 
prices,  in order to close them out.  They 
are  so  ripe,  however,  that  they  melt 
down  very  rapidly,  and  two-thirds  of 
them are coming  forward in  iced  refrig­
erators,  which,  although it adds  30c  per 
box  to  the  original cost,  is cheaper and 
far better than to lose  50c  by  shrinkage 
in  transit.  Mediterranean  sweets  are 
now  about  ready  for  market  and  the 
fancy grades are being  quoted at $1.75 f. 
o.  b.  the coast,  which would  make  them 
cost $2.65 in carloads,  f. o.  b.  this  mar­
ket,  without  taking  into  consideration

the possibility of some  decay,  and ‘fruit 
will probably sell at about $3.

Pineapples—Beginning  to  come  for 
ward in good quantities and,  while  none 
of  the  fruit  yet received in this market 
has proven to  be  above  the  average 
quality, it is expected that better  grades 
will  soon  be  offered  and  it  is believed 
prices will be very reasonable.
Grand  Rapids Retail  Grocers’ Ass’n. 
President—E. White.
Secretary—K. A. Stow*.
Treasurer—J.  Geo. L ehman.

SUGAR  CARD—GRANULATES.

554 cents per pound.
4yt pounds for 25 cents.
10  pounds for 50 cents.
20  pounds for tl.
Jackson Retail Grocers’  Association. 
President—P a u l   W.  H a e f n b r .
Secretary—W. H.  Porter.
Treasurer—J. F.  Helm er.
When  the  cigarette  enters  the mouth 

the brains go out of the head.
I  OFFER  YOU

Cabbage and Tomato Plants, 200 plants
in  box, per box...................................$  75
Green Onions, per doz...........................  
12
Round Radishes, per doz....................... 
15
Long Radishes, per doz..........................  25
Asparagus, per  doz................................  30
Pie Plant, per  bush................................ 
50
Spinach, per bu...................................... 
60
Lettuce, per lb........................................ 
12
Lemons, per box..........................$4 00® 4 50
Bananas, per  bunch....................  1  50© 2 00

Soliciting your Mail  Orders, I am 

Very respectfully,

445-4-47 3. DIVISION ST., 

GRAND RAPIDS.  MICH.

The Dry Goods Market. 

American  indigos  and  shirtings  ad­
vanced  J£c per yard May 10.
All  makes of cottons  and  prints, cam­
brics and plain satines are up 5 percent.
Sweaters are not very  plentiful, 25 and 
50c grades being sold  far ahead of orders.

E g g s   W a n t e d  I

Prices quoted  on application.

 

 

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On following goods:

N O T E   L O W   P R IC E S
Mrs. Withey’s Home Made Jelly, made  with 
boiled cider,  very  fine.  Assortment con­
sists  of  Apple,  Blackberry,  Strawberry, 
Raspberry and Currant:
30-lb.  pall....................................................... 
70
zO-lb. pall  .............................
pa»............................................................«
15-lb. pall...... . 
37
  40
1  quart Mason  JarB, per  doz!!
1  pints Mason  Jars, per  doz.............1 0J
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 bulk mince meat:
40-lb. pail, per  lb.................... .......................  g
«u
25-lb. palls, per lb................................. 
12-lb. palls, per lb............................... *........   g3
2-lb. cans, per doz............................... . . . . . 
1  40
5 lb. cans, per  doz.............................. 
350
Pint Mason Jars  per  d o z ..................I  25
Quart Mason Jars, per doz  .  ............. 
’  ”   2 00
!  12y, 
Pure Sweet Cjder, in bbls., per g
l
Pure Sweet Cider, In less quantities, per gal  14 
Maple Syrup, pint Mason Jars, per  doz 
1  40
Maple Syrup, quart Mason Jars, per  doz__  2 25
Maple Syrup, tin, gallon cans, per doz......  9 00
Peach Marmalade, 20-lb pails 
...........1  00
dz..  120 
-------------------------------  1 25
33

10
No. 1 Egg Crates with fillers  complete........ 

Special prices made on ICO Crate lots.

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EDWIN  FALLAS,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

nifTffjDJAiCs 

.ç— 

.

<»Yeulrox  Tradesman company.

C ftA .V n  PAP/DS.M 1CH.

- 

HEROLD-BERTSCH  SHOE  CO.,

5 and 7 Pearl St.,

Our  Line  for  1895  is

Greater  in  variety  and 

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

Your  inspection  s  kindly  solicited 

when in the city.

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

in  “Black Bottoms.”
Rubbers.

Headquarters 

for  Wales-Good year 

You  Can  Hold  Up

Your  washing  as  a  good  example  for  others  If  you  use

OAK-LEAF  SOAP.

It does the work  easily, does it better, and does It quicker. 
It’s  all 
soap—no acids, no starch, no marble dust, nothing to Injure—every- 
thing 
,nflr *9 help*  Washes equally well in hard or soft water.  Ask  the
grocer for it.
Wholesale Agents, Grand Rapids.

OLNEY &. JUD SO N   GROCER CO.,

S B B D S  -  P o t a t o e s  -

kinds  FIELD  SEEDS,  Clover,  Timothy.  Hungarian,  Millet,  Buck­
ie“^ ^ v i’eldPeas, Spring Rye, Barley, Etc.  Buy  and  sell  Potatoes,  Beans,  Seeds, 
Lggs, Etc.  Car lots or less.
„  
If you wish to buy or sell write us.

? GG  CRATES  and  EGG  CRATE  FILLERS.

, u 

M oseley Bros.

Jobbers SEEDS,  BEANS,  POTATOES,  FRUITS.

26-28-30-32  OTTAWA  STREET

ey 

all say

“It's  as  g o o d   as  SAPOLIO,”  w h e n   th ey   try  to  sell  > ou 

th eir  e x p e r im e n ts.  Y o u r  o w n   g ood   se n se   w ill  tell 

y o u   th a t  th e y   are  o n ly   try in g   to  g et  y o u   to  aid  th eir

n e w   a rticle.

W h o   u rg es  y o u   to  k eep   SAPOLIO? 

Is  it  not  th e 

p u b lic?  T h e  m a n u fa ctu rers,  by  c o n sta n t  an d   ju d ic­

io u s  a d v ertisin g ,  b rin g   c u sto m e rs to  y o u r  sto res  w h o s e  

v e r y   p r e se n c e   c r e a te s  a  d em a n d   for  o th er  a rticles.

Wall  Paper,  with 

its 
vegetable paste and  poison­
ous  coloring,  is  unsani­
tary, and to apply repeated 
layers  is  uncleanly  and 
dangerous.

Kalsomine  is  tempor­
ary,  rots,  rubs  off  and

g g p   ALABASTINE

forms a pure and permanent coating  and does, 
not require to  be taken  off  to  renew from  time  to> 
Is a dry powder, ready for use by adding; 
time. 
water.  Can  be  easily  brushed  on  by  any one: 
Made  in  wnite and twelve fashionable tints.
ALABASTINE is adapted  to  all  styles, of 
plain and relief decorating.
For Sale by all  First-Class  Paint Dealers.
Ma;s.y<b“red  ALABASTINE GO.. Grand RGPit.«
MMWMMMMMIMMMMWMMVm smSMMVM

Ask yoor paint dealer for

s 
AM W W W Vwwmvwwwvw,'.

Card of Tints

HERCULES POWDER

S trongest and S afest Explosive
POWDER, FUSE, CAPS,

KNOWN  TO  TH E  ARTS.

Electric  Mining  Goods,
AND  ALL  TOOLS  FOR  STUMP  BLASTING.

FOR  SALE  BY  TH E

HERCULES  POWDER  COMPANY, 
Cu3ra.lri.0ga. B uilding, 

C L E V E L A N D , 

O H IO .

CHE  GREAT STUMP AND  ROCK

H E R C U L E S ,
ANNIHILATOR.

C h a s. A . C o y e

M ANUFACTURE R OF

HORSE, WAGON and 
BINDER COVERS.

ii  PEARL  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.

Michael  Kolb 

&  Son

W h o le s a le   C lo th iers

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.

J UST THINK

of the  ECONOMY!

25  cents  buys  enough  (one  box)

A N T I S E P T I C

To clean and disinfect the walls and ceilings  of 

a room and make it look as though 

newly papered.

Comes  ready  for  use.  Hakes  no dirt.  Cleans 
Window  Shades and  Kalsomine.  For  Drug­
gist, Dry Goods, Hardware and Grocery trade.

THE  GREATEST  DISINFECTANT—

Z E N O E E U M

Sheep Dip, Hen Dip, Vermicide. 

ous—but is safe.  Ask for prices and details. 
For sale by all Jobbers.

Is not poison­

The A.H.ZennerCo.

98  Shelby  St.,  Detroit, Mich.

MANUFACTURERS AND JOBBERS OF

PIECED & STAMPED TINWARE

We make a Specialty  of 

Tin and Copper Wash  Boilers. 

Write for our New Price List.

260 S. IQNifl ST.. GRAND RIPIDS

GRAND  RAFID8 

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

Our  Goods  are  sold  by  ali  Michigan  Jobbing  Houses.

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

Foster, Stevens & Co., Grand Rapids, 
A. Austin, 93 Jefferson Ave., Detroit, 
J. J. Post & Co., Cheboygan,
Popp & Wolf, Saginaw,

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

S E E   Q U O TATIO N S.

ON  EARTH MEflKINS' WHITE GRANITE WARE.

THE  BEST 

REDUCED
PRICES

‘SU nnER TiriE,”  English  Dec.  Semi-Porcelain.

PENCIL  OR  BROWN  COLOR.

no.  13116.  “ SUnnERTiriE.”

Assorted Crate.

14 doz Sauce Boats...  1  80 
Vt doz Pickles............  1  35
1 doz Cov'd Dishes..  5 49 
34 doz B. A: B. Plates.  1  80 
34 doz Cov'd Butters  4 05
34 doz 24 Sugars.........3 04
14 doz Creamers 
....
18 doz Teas.................
2 doz Coffees............
3 doz300yst"r Bowls 
Crate  and Cartage.

100  PIECE  DINNER  SET, 
Open  siock,  $6.25

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NEW  IDEAL  SHAPE.  Original  Assorted  Crates.

NO.  141910,  IDEAL  SHAPE.

NO.  15 
Origiual  Assorted  Crate,

12 20
1  40 12 doz 7 inch  Plates 

2 doz 6 inch  Plates..............
......
47  J 2 doz 8 inch  Plutes...............
2 doz 7 inch Plates.  Soup__
85
47
6 doz 4 inch  Fruit Saucers...
40
2 doz Individual Betters......
63
2 onlv  s   inch  Dishes...........

Orig. Asstd. Cte. Alfred Meakins’ White Granite. 
6 doz 5 inch  Plates..
20 doz 7 inch  Plates..
2 do* 8 inch  Plates..
6 only 6 inch  Bakers 
0 only S inch  Bakers
0 only 24s Bowls......
12 only 30s Bowls.......
12 only 30s Bowls......
12 only Os Open  Chambers 
6 only 9s Covered Chain b<
12 only 0 inch Scollops__
12 only 7 inch Scollops__
12 only 8 inch Scollops__
6 doz 4 inch Fruit Saucer;
4 doz Individual Butters.
15 set handled St.  Denis T<
15 set handled Hensball Tt 
91 set unhandled St. Denis 
34 only Oyster Bowls.  30s.
6 pairs 9s Ewers and  Bast
6 only  9 inch Dishes.......
0 only 10 inch Dishes........
0 only 11 inch Dishes........
Crate and Cartage...
Total.................

168,  IDEAL  SHAPE.
Alfred  Meakins’  White  Granite  Ware.
61
52
70
61
91
70
...  1  59
61
... 
28
94
... 
75
19
... 
63
94
...  3 00
3 00  ! 3 onlv  9 inch  Dishes........... 1  13
JS . ...  4 50
2 25  1 6 oniv 10 inch  Dishes........... 1  69
94
94  1 6 only 11 inch  Dishes........... 2 25
...  1  13
3 onlv 12 inch  Dishes__
1  13
2 SI
...  1  69
3 only 14 inch  Dishes.......... 3 94
1  69
28
1  68  112 onlv 3 inch Scollops...........
66
19
6 only 5 inch Scollops...........
75
76
US. ... 
37‘2  5 63  112 oniv 6 inch Scollops...........
94
5 62  ! 13 only 7 inch Scollops.......... 1  13
37}
as. ... 
27}
Te IS. 
6 62  113 onlv S inch Scollops........... 1  69
1  50  1 6 onlv 9 inch Scollops.. . . . 3 25
... 
75
..  7  13
3 57
3 only 7 inch Covered Dishes 3  94
IS .
...  1  13
ft»  1 3 only s inch Covered  Dishes 4 53
..  1  09
2 onlv Sauce 
1  50
1  13  j 3 onlv Pickles.......................
I  13
2 50  ' 2 onlv 7 inch Casseroles....... 4  50
— ... 
j 3 onlv 8 inch Casseroles....... 5 06
¥58 72  1 3 only 5 inch Covered Butters 3 38
A l l

...*  42 Î 2 52  I 5 doz 5 inch  Plates............... 1  42 $210 2 onlv Teapots, 24s  .............. 3 00
50  j
51  $3 04 
4 doz 5 in Plates....
... 
!  04
4 only Sugars.  24s................. 2 53
84
2 doz 6 in Plates__
02  1  24 
3 onlv  6s Jugs...................... 3 38
7 32
85  j „
73  8  76 
12 doz 7 in Plates.... 
6 oniv 12s Jugs...................... 2 25
1  40
1  13  j  1
1  22
3 only 24s Jugs..................... 1  31
33
! doz 8 in Plates.... 
84  1  08 
1  68
6 onlv 30s  Jugs....................
56
1  13
6 doz 4 in Fruits.... 
2 04 
34 
. 
6 onlv 36s  Jugs......................
47
94
38
. 
23 
6 doz Ind. B utters.. 
1  38
6 onlv 21s Bowls....................
94
47
16
28 18 only 30s Bowls....................
68 
.  1  35 
1  13  V
4 doz  9 in Dishes.. 
85 12 onlv 36s Bowls....................
63 
1
.  2 03 
4  doz 10 in Dishes.. 
¿3
1  01 
6 onlv prs. 9s Ewers it Basins 7  13 3 57  I  ;
112
.  3 38 
1  13 
4 doz 12 in Dishes. 
70
6 only covered chambers 9s. 4 50
.  4 73 
99 13 only Uncov'd Chambers 9s. 3 00
3 00  i  1
-6doz 14 in Dishes.
79 
66 101» set hdld. St. Denis Teas..
37! i   3  96  I
. 
79 
2 doz 3 in Bakers.., 
1  58 
as 10». set hdld. Daisy  Teas......
37!2  3  94  1  j
i doz 7 in Bakers..
45
.  1  25 
31! 6 62  j  *
94 31 
set unhdid. St.Denis Teas
1  13
Crate and Cartage......
J,
.  2 03
4 doz 8 in Bakers..
____   I  j
I  69
1  13
Total....................
$61  99  t:
4 doz 7 in  Scallops..  1  35
60
i  y
7 .
%
1 doz 8 in  Scallops..  2 01
2 doz 12 Jugs............  2  70
28
2 doz 24  Jugs............  1  38
■  M
75
84
14
2 doz 30 Jugs............  1  35
56
S I i g h t

in O p e n   S t o c k   a t

t h e s e   g o o d s

07 
1  02 
1  35 
79 
67

> ats.__

2 50 

H. LEONARD & 50N5, Grand Rapids
The  D a y to n C om puting  Scale!

It  S ells 
B ecause  of 
Its M oney-
M aking
Features!

For  further  information

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

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. 1885,1-86,1888,1691,1893 and 
1834.  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 W hat Users S a y :

Office of  CHICAGO  LUMBERING  CO.

Manistlque, Mich., Apr. 2, 1895. 

Dayton Computing Scale Co.:

Gentlemen:  We bought three Standard flar- 
ket Scales and two Tea Scales of you, Feb.  nth, 
for our.two stores, and have thrown out all our 
otherscales, and had these in constant use ever 
since.

We^are  very  much  pleased  with  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.

The C O M P U T IN G  S C A L E   CO., Day ton, Ohio

